Presented by Penny Gore .
7.02 Byrd Mass for four voices
Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips
7.30 Howells Concerto for
String Orchestra
BBC SO/Andrew Davis
8.00 Bach Canonic
Variations on "Vom
Himmel hoch "(BWV769) Peter Hurford (organ)
8.10 Stravinsky Chorale Variations after Bach's
"Vom Himmel hoch
Toronto Festival Singers CBC SO/The Composer.
8.45 Gorecki Totus tuus
Prague Philharmonic Choir, conductor John Nelson
Producer Piers Burton-Page

Delalande Symphonies pour les soupers du Roi Jean-Francois Paillard Chamber Orchestra

9.12 Artist of the Week: Wanda Wilkomirska (violin) Kreisler Tambourin
Chinois; Midnight Bells Antonio Barbosa (piano)

9.22 Delius La Calinda LPO/Handley

9.26 Bruckner Ecce Sacerdos Magnus CBSO Chorus and Wind Ensemble/Simon Halsey

9.33 Monluszko Overture: The Fairy Tale Polish National RSO, conductor Witold Rowicki

9.47 Schubert Impromptu No 2 in A flat Claudio Arrau (piano)

9.56 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat (BWV1051) English Concert/Pinnock

10.13 Copland El Salon Mexico Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Antal Dorati

10.24 Ramirez Agnus Dei (Misa Criolla) Jose Carreras (tenor) Bilbao Choral Society conductor Jose Luis Ocejo

10.29 Mozart Symphony No 40 in G minor (K550) Hanover Band/Roy Goodman

10.58 Howells Take him, earth, for cherishing King's College Choir, Cambridge/Cleobury

11.07 Composer of the Week: Panufnlk Hommage a Chopin (mvts 4 and 5) Karen Jones (flute) London Musici/Stephenson

11.14 Chopin Variations on "La ci darem la mono" Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

11.31 Artist of the Week: Wanda Wilkomirska (violin) Wieniawskl Violin Concerto No 2 (Finale) Warsaw National PO/ Witold Rowicki

11.38 Handel Scherza infida (Ariodante) James Bowman (countertenor) King's Consort/Robert King

11.49 Stravinsky Divertimento (The Fairy's Kiss) London Sinfonietta/Chailly.

(Discs)

Impromptu No 2 in F sharp. Op 36; Polonaise in C sharp minor, Op 26 No 1; Three Waltzes, Op 64; Study in F minor, Op posth; Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor, Op 31
William Howard (piano)

BBC Philharmonic conductor Fedor Glushchenko
Boris Berezovsky (piano) Elgar Polonia
Paderewski Fantasia on Polish Airs, Op 19
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor
(Given last month at the Norwich Festival as part of BBC Radio on Show, in association with Royal Mail)

In November 1631, when
Venice was declared free of the plague, thanks with a mass were offered in St Mark 's Basilica where
Monteverdi was director of music. Was some of his surviving music composed for the occasion?
Music by Monteverdi,
Scarlni, Rovetta. Usper. Marini and Fantini is performed by the Taverner Consort, Choir and Players/Andrew Parrott.

conductor Jiri Starek
Martlnu Partita
Suk Meditation on an Old Czech Hymn (St Wenceslas)
Shostakovich, arr Barshal Chamber Symphony, Op 110a

Christopher Cook reviews the Welsh National Opera's new production of Massenet's Cinderella and talks to playwright Tony Kushner whose second part of Angels in America opens at the National Theatre in London.
Producer Adrian Washboume

Beaux Arts Trio
Haydn Piano Trio in A (HXV18)
Dvorak Piano Trio in E minor, Op 90 (Dumky)

by Slawomir Mrozek , one of this century's outstanding Polish dramatists.
In this compelling and bizarre play, Mrozek suggests that. "Killing is an art for all, an art for the masses. "
With Yossi Zivoni (violin) Judith Pearce (flute)
Translated by Ralph Manheim Director Martin Jenkins

Andrew Kurowski presents a report from this year's Warsaw Autumn.
Andrzej Krzanowski Con Vigore
Musica Viva Ensemble
Dresden/Jurgen Wirrmann Ryszard Szeremata SY99 Message for tape
Bettina Skrzypczak String Quartet
Wilanow Quartet
Lidia Zielinska Little
Atrophic Symphony Polish Radio NSO
(Katowice)/Antoni Wit Producer Philip Tagney

BBC Philharmonic conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Ravel, arr Tortelier Trio in A minor

Nigel Osborne presents a recording of a concert given last Tuesday at St Luke's Church, Chelsea, of music largely influenced by the Orthodox Church.
Elysian Singers, conductor Matthew Greenall
Holst Singers, conductor Stephen Layton
Schola Cantorum of Oxford, conductor Jeremy Summerly

Gorecki: Three Lullabies

Kedrov: Svyatiy Bazha

Tchaikovsky: Otche Nash

Stravinsky: Otche Nash; Bogoroditse Dyevo

Bruckner: Three Motets

Nigel Osborne: Scenes from a Bare Mountain

Gorecki: Miserere