with Paul Guinery.
7.03 Purcell Praise the Lord. 0 Jerusalem (Z46) Choir of Christ Church
Cathedral, Oxford
English Concert, conductor Simon Preston
7.10 Howells
Sarum Sketches
Margaret Fingerhut (piano)
7.20 Finzi Clarinet Concerto
David Campbell (clarinet) BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Grant Llewellyn
7.50 Purcell
They that go down to the sea in ships (Z57)
Choir of Christ Church
Cathedral, Oxford
English Concert/Preston
8.00 The Great
Thanksgiving
By the middle of the 15th century, masses based on both sacred and profane pre-existing melodies became the norm in western Europe, as Paul Guinery and the Rev Alan Walker discover on their journey through 2,000 years of Christian music.
8.28 Suk
Serenade for strings
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Grant Llewellyn Producer Piers Burton-Page

Pianist and librettist
Stephen Pruslin takes a look ahead at the week's programmes on Radio 3.

Reznicek Overture: Donna
Diana
Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Willi Boskovsky
9.09 Warlock An Old Song Northern Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
9.25 Mozart Six German
Dances (K567)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
9.37 Gershwin An
American in Paris
Chicago Symphony
Orchestra/James Levine
9.56 Haydn Sonata in E minor (H XVI 34) Emanuel Ax (piano)
10.11 Vaughan Williams
Suite for viola and orchestra
Frederick Riddle (viola)
Bournemouth Symphony
Orchestra/Norman del Mar
10.20 Ippolitov-lvanov
Greater Doxology (Vespers, Op 43)
Chamber Choir "Lege Artis", conductor Boris Abalyam
10.28 Respighi Fantasia Slava
Geoffrey Tozer (piano)
BBC Philharmonic/Downes
10.39 Donizetti Vien , Leonora (La Favorita)
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (bar) Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Ion Marin
10.46 Artist of the Week:
Jacques Thibaud (violin) Saint-Saens Havanaise ,
Op 53
Tasso Janopoulo (piano)
11.00 Beethoven
Symphony No 1 in C Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra/Kurt Masur
11.34 Henri Rabaud
English Suite No 3
Rheinland-Pfalz State
Philharmonic/Leif Segerstam
11.44 Composer of the Week: Taverner Gloria ('Western Wind Mass)
Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips
11.53 Ives Three Places in New England Orpheus CO
Producer Edward Blakeman Discs

Ivan Hewett looks at number symbolism in the music of Buxtehude, and, as a major exhibition of the work of Yves Klein opens, looks back to the "happenings" of the 1960s. Repeated from yesterday 5.45pm

Sing Your Own Song How many composers actually sing their own songs? Ian Burnside talks to Richard Rodney Bennett who sings and accompanies himself in a selection of his own songs, including a new one written specially for the programme. Producer Adam Gatehouse

David Huckvale looks at the Edwardian taste for the Far East, with musical excerpts by Amy Woodforde-Finden , Albert Ketelby and others. Producer Anthony Sellors

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) BBC Philharmonic/ Yan Pascal Tortelier
Faure Suite: Pelleas et
Melisande; Ballade in F sharp, Op 19
Ravel Piano Concerto for the left hand
Sibelius Symphony No 1 in E minor

Andrei Gavrilov (piano) Schubert Impromptus
(D935): No 3 in B flat; No 2 in A flat; No 4 in F minor Ravel Gaspard de la nuit Prokofiev Sonata No 8, Op84
A Classic Arts production

conductor Jun'lch Hirokami
Tabea Zimmermann (viola) Mozart
Overture: Don Giovanni
Stravinsky Concerto in D for strings
Britten Lachrimae, Op 48a Schubert Symphony No 3 in D

Richard Coles investigates the work of novelist Tim Parks
, already acclaimed as one of the finest writers in English, and ponders the continuing British love of eccentricity.
Producer Sarah Barnett

Quartet in A minor, Op 132 Petersen Quartet
Last Monday's BBC Lunchtime Concert

by Arthur Wing Pinero, adapted by Stephen Wyatt. In this role-reversing comedy three girls are brought up as boys by their eccentric mother, Lady
Castlejordan. It's a man's world - until they fall in love.
Original music by Errollyn Watlen Director Nandita Ghose

Christopher Fox introduces a concert reflecting the Fairest Isle theme.
Alison Wells (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arturo Tamayo Michael Mullen (bl961)
Godspeed (first performance) Richard Barrett (bl959) Vanity (first performance) Sylvano Bussotti Due voci (La Fontaine)

Brian Wright introduces one of Handel's finest celebratory oratorios. The story is taken from the Bible and follows the career of Judas Maccabeus , leader of the Jews, who routs the invading Syrians and establishes Judaea as an independent nation.
Handel Judas Maccabeus
Lisa Saffer (soprano)
Patricia Spence (mezzo)
Brian Asawa (countertenor) Guy de Mey (tenor)
Leroy Kromm (baritone) David Thomas (bass)
UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus Philharmonia Baroque
Orchestra/McGegan. Discs Producer Gautam Rangarajan