presented this week by Andrew Lyle. Including:
7.10 Boccherini Oboe
Quintet in A (G434) Sarah Francis
Allegri String Quartet
7.35 Haydn
Symphony No 21 in A
Philharmonia Hungarica/ Antal Dorati
8.00 Stravinsky Ebony Concerto
Michael Collins (clarinet)
London Sinfonietta/Simon Rattle
8.30 Victor Herbert Cello
Concerto No 2 in E minor
Lynn Harell ; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/ Neville Marriner

Brahms
Introduced by Susan Sharpe. Scherzo (FAE Sonata) Josef Suk (violin)
Julius Katchen (piano) Two Songs, Op 91
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo) Nils-Erik Sparf (viola) Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Sonata in F minor, Op 34b (after Piano Quintet, Op 34) Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky (pianos). Records Producer Alan Hall

Gershwin
An American in Paris
New York PO/Michael Tilson Thomas
10.22 Debussy Violin Sonata Joshua Bell (violin)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
10.37 Honegger
Le vol sur VAtlantique Bratislava SO/Adriano
10.48 Ives Qu'il m'irait bien; EMgie; Chanson de Florian Roberta Alexander (sop) Tan Crone (piano)
10.58 Milhaud
A Frenchman in New York
Boston Pops Orchestra/ Arthur Fiedler
11.23 Bernstein
La bonne cuisine
Roberta Alexander (sop) Tan Crone (piano)
11.34 Kreisler Aubade provencale; Chanson Louis XIII et Pavane; La Précieuse Oscar Shumsky (violin) William Wolfram (piano)
11.45 Puccini
Act 2 Intermezzo; Sola, perduta, abbandonata; Fra le tue braccia amore (Manon Lescaut)
Renata Tebaldi (soprano) Mario del Monaco (tenor)
Orchestra of the Santa Cecilia Academy, Rome/Francesco Molinari-Pradelli. Records

David Mellor introduces recordings of the Romanian-bom pianist
Dinu Lipatti , who died in his early thirties.
Producer Patrick Lambert

live from St John's, Smith Square, London.

Marjana Lipovsek (mezzo) Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert Raste Krieger! Jager, ruhe von derjagd! Ave Maria

Mahler Das irdische Leben; Wo die schonen Trompeten blasen; Ich ging mit Lust; Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt

Strauss CaciEe; Allerseelen; Ich trage meine Minne; Ruhe, meine Seele; Wie soRten wirgeheim sie halten

conductor Richard Bemas Ursula Oppens (piano) Virginia Kerr (soprano) Sibelius Scene with Cranes Ligeti Piano Concerto Ian McQueen Judith 's Doubt and Resolve
Vaughan Williams
Symphony No 5 in D

Andre Isoir plays organs by Grenzing, Ahrend and Joseph Gabler.
Concerto in D minor
(BWV596) (after Vivaldi); Meine Seele erhebet den Herrn (B WV 648); Mit
Fried' und Freud' ichfahr' dahin(BWV616);
Concerto in A minor
(BWV593) (afterVivaldi); Herr Gott nun schleuss den Himmel auf (BWV 617); Concerto in C (BWV 595) Records

with Stephen Johnson , whose guest is the conductor Franz Welser -Most.
Producer Sarah Devonald

conductor John Adams
An all-American concert live from the Barbican
Hall, London.
Peter Lieberson
Raising the gaze
Tod Machover Song of penance (first European performance)
Paul Silverthorne (viola) John Adams Chamber
Symphony (first UK performance)
8.30 Jerry Miller chairs a discussion from New York comparing the positions of Crumb and Adams in the American music scene.
8.50 George Crumb
Ancient voices of children Christine Whittlesey (sop) Sam Pay (treble)

Thorn Gunn was recently awarded the Forward Prize for his first collection of poetry in a decade, The Man with Night Sweats. Over the next four nights, he reads a selection of poems, beginning tonight with three about friends who died from Aids. Producer Fiona McLean

(piano)
C P E Bach Sonata in A (Wq 48 No 6) (Prussian) Brahms Capriccio in G minor, Op 116 No 3; Intermezzo in E, Op No 6; Capriccio in D minor, Op 116 No 7
Beethoven Sonata in E, Op

La Nuit
Natalie Dessay (soprano) National Orchestra and Chorus of the He de
France/Jacques Mercier Record

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall are joined in the studio by guitarist
Billy Jenkins who provides some contrived musical links.
Producer Sarah Devonald

There is no doubt that the music of Byrd, Gibbons and Tomkins marked a golden age of English church music, and the sound of angelic choirboys soaring among the stained glass has become as quintessentially English as cricket and tea-drinking. But recent research suggests that a more virile sound may be appropriate, as Paul McCreesh explains in introducing this concert given in St Alban 's,
Highgate in Birmingham, with his Gabrieli Consort and Players.

Except in Scotland. As broadcast this afternoon on R5