| 00:00 | | | | | | | 00:00Christine Tobin guides Alyn Shipton through the jazz-oriented repertoire of Joni Mitchell.(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00Susan Sharpe introduces music, including Handel, Purcell, Schumann, Kreisler and Larsson.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe introduces music, including Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Bach and Frescobaldi.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe introduces music, including Vaughan Williams, Tallis and Mendelssohn.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe presents music by Beethoven, Veracini, Handel, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Haydn.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe presents music by Salieri, Mozart, Berwald, Glick, Haydn, Grieg and Handel.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe presents music including Enescu, Mozart, Muthel, Prokofiev, Nielsen, Chopin.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Scarlatti, CPE Bach, Van Noordt, Stravins and Bacewicz.
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| 07:00 | 07:00Rob Cowan with music to discover, rediscover and lift the spirits. With a Winter Waltz.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music, news and the occasional surprise. Including a Winter Waltz.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents wide-ranging music from Elgar to Ellington. Including a Winter Waltz.
| 07:00With Rob Cowan, who shares his personal choice of music. Including a Winter Waltz.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents a refreshing choice of music, including a Winter Waltz.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents music, news and the occasional surprise, including a Winter Waltz.
| 07:00Presented by Martin Handley, who shares his personal choice of music. With a Winter Waltz.
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Ravel: Piano Trio.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Purcell, Schubert, Poulenc, Bach and Clemens non Papa.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Shchedrin, Reicha, Weelkes, Bach, Couperin, Strauss, Liszt.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Tallis and Mahler.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Kabalevsky, Verdi, Loesser, Bernstein, Laskovsky and Monza.
| 10:00Including from BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff: Haydn: Cello Concerto in C; Symphony No 101.
| | 10:00Iain Burnside presents a piquant take on Christmas and its music. With Kate Williams.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5With Donald Macleod. Overture, Op 12. Clarinet Concerto No 1. Sonata (Alruna, Wo0 15).(R)
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod explores Spohr's work in Vienna, where he befriended Beethoven.(R)
| 12:003/5With Donald Macleod. Jessonda - Overture and excerpts; Violin Concerto No 8.(R)
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod considers how Spohr laid the musical foundations for other composers.(R)
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod considers some of the radiant music from Spohr's last years.(R)
| 12:15Tom Service travels across the English Midlands taking a snapshot of music making.
| 12:001/2Celebrating Christmas around Europe. Concerts from Vienna, Nuremberg, Tallinn and Dublin.
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| 13:00 | 13:00With Fiona Talkington. David Fray in Schubert: Impromptus, Op 90; 6 moments musicaux.
| 13:001/8Ingrid Fliter (piano) and Meta4 perform music by Beethoven and Schumann.
| 13:002/8Tai Murray, Maxim Rysanov and Anreas Brantelid. Bruch, Mendelssohn and Dobrinka Tabakova.
| 13:003/8Tai Murray (violin), Andreas Brantelid (cello) in Mendelssohn, Korngold and Shostakovich.
| 13:004/8Soprano Elizabeth Watts performs Schubert's Fruhlingsreise and Barber's Hermit Songs.
| 13:00Catherine Bott presents highlights from a concert featuring the ensemble La Fenice.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/5BBC SSO in Christmas works by Arnold, Rutter and John Williams. Plus Ravel, Tchaikovsky.
| 14:202/5From Manchester: BBC Philharmonic/Juanjo Mena in Saint-Saens, Mozart and Haydn.
| 14:003/5BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Bax, Alan Bush, Vaughan Williams, Warlock and Finzi.
| 14:154/5Louise Fryer presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Semele. Plus BBC Performing Groups. 14:171/2Louise Fryer presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Semele.
| 14:005/5BBC Philharmonic in music by Pierne and Bartok. Plus Handel Operas 2009: Semele (Act 3). 14:022/2Louise Fryer presents Act 3 of Semele, starring soprano Rosemary Joshua.
| 14:00With Fiona Talkington. David Fray in Schubert: Impromptus, Op 90; 6 moments musicaux.
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| 15:00 | | | | | | 15:00Lucy Duran presents Malian duo Amadou and Mariam in concert in London's Kentish Town.
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| 16:00 | | | 16:00From All Saints' Church, Swanton Morley, with the Choir of Gonville and Caius College.
| | | 16:00Alyn Shipton talks to Italian pianist Stefano Bollani about his varied recording career.
| 16:00From All Saints' Church, Swanton Morley, with the Choir of Gonville and Caius College.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
| 17:00Presented by Sean Rafferty. With conductor John Wilson and pianist Julius Drake.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty presents a Christmas special from the Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House.
| 17:00With Sean Rafferty. La boheme at the Royal Opera House and pianist Garrick Ohlsson.
| 17:00Presented by Sean Rafferty. With composer Howard Goodall and the Vienna Piano Trio.
| 17:00Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 17:002/2Celebrating Christmas around Europe, with concerts from Munich, Warsaw and Prague.
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| 18:00 | | | | | | 18:00From the Metropolitan Opera, James Levine conducts Joseph Calleja as the poet Hoffmann.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Robin Ticciati debuts with the SCO, conducting music by Henze, Mahler and Brahms.
| 19:00The Takacs Quartet begin a cycle of all Beethoven's quartets at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
| 19:00Takacs Quartet in Beethoven: Quartets in G, Op 18 No 2; F minor, Op 95; B flat, Op 130.
| 19:00Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Christian and Tania Tetzlaff (violin/cello) in Schumann, Mozart.
| 19:00The BBC SO under Martyn Brabbins in music by maverick American composer George Crumb.
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| 20:00 | | | | | | | 20:00Powerful classic play set in the early 1960s, centring on the reunion of an Irish family.
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| 21:00 | 21:151/4Philip Dodd and guests on the contested reputation of German dramatist Bertolt Brecht.
| 21:152/4Matthew Sweet talks to new Dr Who producer Steven Moffat and film director James Cameron.
| 21:153/4Anne McElvoy and guests re-assess the reputation of philosopher Bertrand Russell.
| 21:154/4Rana Mitter discusses Moliere's The Misanthrope and re-assesses Jean-Paul Sartre.
| 21:15With Ian McMillan. Featuring new writing from award-winning comedian Matthew Holness.
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| 22:00 | 22:001/5With Donald Macleod. Overture, Op 12. Clarinet Concerto No 1. Sonata (Alruna, Wo0 15).(R)
| 22:002/5Donald Macleod explores Spohr's work in Vienna, where he befriended Beethoven.(R)
| 22:003/5With Donald Macleod. Jessonda - Overture and excerpts; Violin Concerto No 8.(R)
| 22:004/5Donald Macleod considers how Spohr laid the musical foundations for other composers.(R)
| 22:005/5Donald Macleod considers some of the radiant music from Spohr's last years.(R)
| 22:10Judith Kampfner explores Jackson Pollock's domestic world. 22:303/3Ivan Hewett interviews young French composer Bruno Mantovani at his home in Paris.
| 22:00Cultural historian Richard Weight explores how we decide what is tasty. 22:45Poetry, prose and music on the theme of parks. Readings by Greta Scacchi and Henry Goodman(R)
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| 23:00 | 23:001/5Jonathan Keates focuses on Handel's early years spent in Italy.(R) 23:15Jez Nelson presents widely feted group Trio VD in a gig at the Seven Arts Centre in Leeds.
| 23:002/5Ellen T Harris explores some of Handel's relationships - social and professional.(R) 23:15Fiona Talkington presents some of her favourite tracks of 2009.
| 23:003/5Donald Burrows asks what Handel's manuscripts tell us about his working practices.(R) 23:15Fiona Talkington presents music from Kate Rusby, Deolinda and Paul O'Dette.
| 23:004/5Derek Alsop explores ways in which Handel related his music to the texts he was setting.(R) 23:15Max Reinhardt joins Fiona Talkington to select seasonal music.
| 23:005/5Suzanne Aspden on Handel's uncanny ability to absorb musical and cultural influences.(R) 23:15Charlie Gillett introduces a session by New Zealand seven-piece band Fat Freddy's Drop.
| | 23:45Kevin LeGendre talks to guitarist John Scofield, a former sideman to Miles Davis.
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