It's Never Too Late to Learn

Janacek Overture: Jealousy BRNO STATE PO/FRANTISEK JILEK
7.10* Hummel Introduction, theme and variations JOHN WILLIAMS (oboe)
BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA /
VOLKER W AGENHEIM
7.25* Chausson Poeme AUGUSTIN DUMAY (violin)
MONTE CARLO PO/MANUEL ROSENTHAL
7.40* Liszt, orch Tchaikovsky
Concerto in the Hungarian Style CYPRIEN KATSARIS (piano) PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA/
EUGENE ORMANDY
8.0 World Service News
8.10 Poulenc Le Bal masque THOMAS ALLEN (baritone) NASH ENSEMBLE
8.29* Mozart Sonata in F (K 46e) JEAN-JACQUES KANTOROW (violin) MARI FUJIWARA (cello)
8.34* Chaminade Flute Concertino
JAMES GALWAY
RPO/CHARLES DUTOIT
8.40* Nielsen Little Suite, Op 1 NEW STOCKHOLM CO/ ESA PEKKA SALONEN Records

Nino Rota Concerto for strings IMUSICI
Copland Clarinet Concerto GEORGE MACDONALD
NORTHERN SINFONlA OF ENGLAND/ STEUART BEDFORD
Ginastera Sonata
EDUARDO FERNANDEZ (guitar)
Tchaikovsky Concert Fantasy in G, Op 56
DIMITRIS SGOUROS (piano) LPO/WALTER WELLER
Prokofiev Ballet: Le Pas d'acier USSR MINISTRY OF CULTURE SO/ GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY Records

(piano) Brahms Six Pieces, Op 118 Dohnanyi Four Rhapsodies, Op 11 BBC Wales

Haydn Quartet in c minor, Op 17 No 4 Beethoven Quartet in B flat, Op 18 No 6 BBC Manchester (R)

A selection of works by the American composer George Gershwin , who died 50 years ago today. Overture: Strike Up the Band BUFFALO PO/MICHAEL TTLSON THOMAS An American in Paris CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA/ RICCARDOCHAILLY Rhapsody in Blue LOS ANGELES PO/LEONARD BERNSTEIN (piano) interspersed with songs performed by FRED AND ADELE AFAIRE and BILLIE HOLIDAY, piano pieces and song transcriptions played by the composer himself, and excerpts from Porgy and Bess performed by members of the original cast. Records

Introduced by Peter Clayton

In the last discussion of the season Michael Billington (in the Chair) talks with Christopher Cook Richard Cork and Gillian Reynolds. This week's subjects: Jonathan Demme 's film Something Wild; The Old Goat Gone, a radio play by Ted Whitehead (Radio 3, yesterday); the Jacob Epstein retrospective at the Tate Gallery; The Perpetual Orgy by Mario Vargas Llosa ; Serious Money by Caryl Churchill at Wyndham's Theatre. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

Fifth of six programmes Four Album Leaves, Op 28 Lyric Pieces, Op 38 played by DANIEL ADNI BBC Wales

The autobiography of the American novelist Ellen Glasgow (1874-1945), arranged in three parts by Judith Chernaik
Read by Margaret Robertson

'With the sardonic twist of circumstance, so prevalent in human affairs, I had no sooner learned how to live than the threat of death struck me.'

A Night at the Chinese Opera Opera in three acts Words and music by Judith Weir
(BBC commission: first broadcast performance)
Kent Opera's production direct from the Everyman Theatre,
Cheltenham Chao Lin goes to a performance of a Yuan dynasty play and assumes that, since the first part closely mirrors his life so far, the rest must describe his destiny. But his careful precautions against what he imagines to be his fate lead him to do the one thing he never intended to do.
KENT OPERA ORCHESTRA led by SUSIE MESZAROS conducted by ANDREW PARROTT Act
8.0* During the Interval: Judith Weir talks with Michael Oliver.
8.15*Act2

A sequence of poetry inspired by the title of one of Rudyard Kipling 's collections of short stories, compiled by PATRIC DICKINSON.
Read by Elaine Claxton , Denys Hawthorne and Martin Jarvis Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT (R)

A Night at the Chinese Opera Act 3
BBC Pebble Mill

Commemorative works and laments from the French Baroque.
SARAH CUNNINGHAM (viol) RICHARD CAMPBELL (viol) mitzi MEYERSON (harpsichord) Marais Tombeau pour M de Lully
Sainte-Colombe Tombeau les regrets
Sainte-Colombe Ie Fils Tombeau pour Sainte-Colombe Ie Pere
Louis Couperin Tombeau pour M de
Blancrocher Marais Tombeau pour
M Meliton; Chaconne in G

A selection of EMILE ZOLA 'S letters translated by JOANNA RICHARDSON Read by Michael Deacon
Zola's literary ferocity was for once tamed by the balm of L'Estaque in the South of France, where, in the summer of 1877, he was writing Le Bien public. 'This will be a gentler work,' he claimed; 'I am deliberately writing for schoolgirls.'
Producer PETER KAVANAGH (R)

Music from Thailand for piphat and mahori ensembles, played by members of FONG NAAM
(Given earlier this evening in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, in association with the South Bank
Board. Next concert tomorrow & 40pm)