Paul Guinery introduces two hours of new releases.
J C Bach Symphony in B flat for wind
Consortium Classicum
7.11 Sgambati Suite in B minor
Ruggero Ruocco (piano)
7.30 Grieg Symphonic Dances, Op 64
Royal Stockholm PO/
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
7.59 Eustache du
Caurroy Fantasy on the carol 'Il estoit unefillette' Andre Isoir (organ)
8.08 Maxwell Davies
Five Carols
Boys of King's College, Cambridge/
Stephen Cleobury
8.17 Haydn
Trio in D (HXV 16) Tuija Hakkila (flute)
Mikael Helasvuo (cello) Anssi Karttunen
(fortepiano)
8.36 Britten Four Sea
Interludes (Peter Grimes ) from Leonard Bernstein 's last concert of 19 August 1990, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

9.05 Record Review continues with Richard Osborne.
Building a Library:
Massenet's opera Wertlter by John Steane. David Nice sorts through the last two years' issues of Tchaikovsky's complete ballet The Nutcracker.
10.35 Record Release
Tchaikovsky
Transformation Scene from David Nice 's preferred version of The Nutcracker
10.58
Marc-Antoine Charpentier Messe de minuit sur les noëls
Soloists
Schola Cantorum Boston
Boston Camerata/ Joel Cohen
11.30 Karel Janovicky on Chant du Monde's series
Praga: recordings from the archives of Czech Radio.
12.38 Honegger
String Quartet No 2
Martinu Quartet. Records Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury
(9.05-10.35 repeated Wednesday 2.00pm)

The second of four recitals by Gyorgy Pauk (violin) and Peter Frankl (piano) Sonata in A (K305) Sonata in F (K376)
1.40 Interval Reading
1.45 Sonata in Efht (K302)
Sonata in B flat (K378)

"Some part of my poore labours have found favour in the greatest part of Europe and been printed in the eight most famous cities beyond the seas.... (John Dowland :
A Pugrime's Solace, 1612) The first of 12 programmes of English consort music.
Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman and Mark Caudle
New London
Consort/Philip Pickett

The third of seven programmes looking back over the career of Sir Georg Solti. presented by Natalie Wheen in conversation with Sir Georg.
3: The Golden Ring
Including interviews with Birgit Nilsson , Norman Bailey ,
Sir Edward Downes , Josephine Veasey and Lord Harewood, and extracts from
Das Rheingold , Siegfried, Der Fliegende Hollander,
Tristan und Isolde, Die
Meistersinger, Lohengrin and Parsifal, and the Immolation Scene from
Gotter dämmerung with Birgit Nilsson (sop) and the Vienna Philharmonic.

with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Ray Abbott

Christopher Cook reviews some of the highs and lows of the past year's offerings in cinema, gallery, theatre and bookshop, with Richard Cork ,
Paul Bailey , Michelene Wandor and Philip Dodd.
Producer Mike Greenwood

Verdi's opera recorded earlier this month at the opening night of La Scala's season in Milan with Luciano Pavarotti in the title role. Sung in Italian.
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan conductor Riccardo Muti
Acts 1 and 2 8.15 F J Lamport discusses Schiller's drama Don Carlos and its operatic treatment by Verdi and his librettists.
8.35 Acts 3 and 4

John Updike reads his own story, set in East Anglia in 1986. "There was the heron, sailing out of the woods towards them. against the wind, held, indeed, motionless within the wind, standing in midair with his six-foot wingspread an angel." Producer Martin Jenkins

Eric Le Sage (piano)
Debussy Arabesque No 1 Suite: Children Corner
Schumann Carnaval

A concert by the Elvin Jones Jazz Machine recorded in July in the Royal Concert Hall, introduced by Kenny Mathieson. who also talks to Elvin Jones. Coltrane's Mister Day, Alabama and Afro-blue and a traditional number, Doll of the bride, are played by Elvin Jones (drums), Ravi Coltrane and Sonny Fortune (reeds),
Willie Pickens (piano) and Andy McKee (bass).