Humphrey Carpenter talks to horn player Michael Thompson, a musician equally at home in new music and in period performances, who is as enthusiastic about Bach and Brahms as he is about Berkeley and Birtwistle.

Music includes at 5.50 Rachmaninov's Russian Rhapsody played by Dmitri Alexeev and Nikolai Demidenko (pianos); at 6.00 Dvorak's Festival March performed by the Polish National RSO under Antoni Wit; and at 6.45 Beethoven's Cello Sonata in C, Op 102 No 1, performed by Anner Bylsma (cello) and Jos van Immerseel (fortepiano).