BBC Four Sunday, 10 December Find out what's on TV.
Click here to open BBC iPlayer Not in the UK? Click here to read our guide on how to watch BBC iPlayer from abroad.- 4:45am
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 6:30am
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 10:30am
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 2:30pm
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 6:30pm
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 7:58pm
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 8:00pm
Leonard Bernstein at the BBC
50 years of great archive performances and interviews of the iconic composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, some unseen since their original broadcast, including music from West Side Story, Elgar's Enigma and Beethoven.
- 9:00pm
Marin Alsop Remembers... Leonard Bernstein
As part of the BBC's Bernstein night, acclaimed conductor Marin Alsop shares her own experiences of the legendary West Side Story composer. It was as a nine-year-old girl that Marin first saw Bernstein, and from that moment she knew she wanted to be a conductor. Here she talks about eventually becoming a student of Bernstein's, why he is such a significant figure in the world of music and how he ultimately helped inspire her to achieve her dreams.
- 9:15pm
Omnibus
A Portrait of Leonard BernsteinAn Omnibus special examining the career of composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Featuring interviews and footage of Bernstein's most memorable performances.
- 10:10pm
Omnibus
Leonard Bernstein's West Side StoryPrizewinning account of how a classic recording was made. In September 1984, in a New York recording studio, West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein conducted a complete performance of his 1957 musical for the first time. Omnibus cameras covered the five hectic and exhilarating days of rehearsing and recording to make this documentary.
- 11:40pm
Bernstein on Mahler
The Little Drummer BoyLeonard Bernstein celebrates the 125th anniversary of the birth of composer Gustav Mahler with a musical essay that explores the roots of Mahler's inspiration. Featuring soloists Janet Baker, Christa Ludwig, Edith Mathis, Lucia Popp and Walton Groenross and the London Symphony, Israel Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras.
- 1:05am
Bernstein on Mahler
Des Knaben WunderhornLeonard Bernstein conducts the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in a complete performance of Gustav Mahler's song cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn, recorded during a public performance in Tel Aviv. With soloists soprano Lucia Popp and baritone Walton Groenroos.
- 2:00am
The Levin Interviews
Leonard BernsteinBernard Levin talks to composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, who has written everything from song cycles to symphonies but is probably best known as the creator of `West Side Story'.
- 2:30am
10 Best Bernstein
Ten of Leonard Bernstein's most popular and enduring works are celebrated by those whose lives they have touched, with personal insights and performances from the composer himself.
- 3:30am
Omnibus
A Portrait of Leonard BernsteinAn Omnibus special examining the career of composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Featuring interviews and footage of Bernstein's most memorable performances.
- 4:25am
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.