with Andrew McGregor.
7.05 Mozart, arr Vienna Flautists Adagio and Allegro (K594) Vienna Flautists
Songbook Series:
7.32 Wolf Italienisches
Liederbuch Nos 9-12
Felicity Lott (soprano) Peter Schreier (tenor)
Graham Johnson (piano)
7.44 Strauss Till
Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Vienna SO/Josef Krips
8.05 Milhaud
Suite: Scaramouche
John Ogdon and Brenda Lucas (pianos)
8.18 Tallis
Motet: Spem in alium
Winchester Cathedral Choir
Winchester College Quiristers Vocal Arts/David Hill
8.43 Mozart Horn Concerto
No 4 in E flat (K495)
Hermann Baumann (horn) St Paul CO , conductor
Pinchas Zukerman Discs

Christopher Page looks at another of Taverner's most famous works, the Missa:
Western Wynde, performed by the Tallis Scholars, conductor Peter Phillips. Discs

with Piers Burton-Page , including at approximately
9.45 Wilfred Josephs
Concerto for Light Orchestra BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth
9.55 Dvorak Serenade in D minor for wind, Op 44 Orpheus CO
10.20
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G (BWV 1048)
CPE Bach CO, conductor
Hartmut Haenchen
10.30 Artist of the Week:
Jacques Thibaud (violin) Beethoven Sonata in A, Op 47 (Kreutzer)
Alfred Cortot (piano)
11.00 Saint-Saens The
Assassination of the Duke of Guise, Op 128
Musique Oblique Ensemble
11.20 Florent Schmitt
Kermesse-Valse (L'Eventail de Jeanne)
BBC SO/Robert Ziegler
11.40 Bantock Celtic
Symphony
Royal Philharmonic/Handley Interspersed with settings of Housman's A Shropshire Lad.

Repeated from yesterday 11.30pm

BBC Philharmonic conductor Sachio Fujioka
Rimsky-Korsakov Overture: May Night
Lyadov The Enchanted Lake Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, Op 45

Radio Q & A 2.05 In the News 2.25 Something to Think About: Infant
Assemblies 2.40 Music
Workshop: Music Course 3 Orpheus

BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor David Atherton
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello) Musorgsky Night on the Bare Mountain
Stravinsky Symphony in C Dvorak
Cello Concerto in B minor

Andrew Green begins a four-part series exploring the best of Britain's amateur choirs, as heard at the Choir of the Year competition.

Featuring Hallmark of Harmony, Shannon Express and the all-female White Rosettes.

Rick Wakeman of the rock band Yes is one of the world's foremost synthesiser players. Tommy Pearson pays him a visit and hears how he and his engineers use the instrument to create their own world of sounds.

from Cardiff with Nicola Heywood-Thomas
. Producer Gwawr Owen

Troilus and Cressida
Walton's only full-length opera comes to the Royal Opera House in a new production by Opera North, the first for nearly 20 years. Lyrical and romantic, the opera focuses on the love between Troilus and Cressida, which drives the story to its tragic conclusion. Sung in English. Presented by James Naughtie.

Opera North Chorus
English Northern Philharmonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Act
8.15 Edith Sitwell - Behind the Facade
Naomi Lightman searches the poetry and the life to discover enduring qualities behind the oddities and extravagances.
8.30 Act 2
9.15 Interval
"The better the poem, the better the music!" (Walton) Humphrey Burton looks at the genesis of Troilus and Cressida, in conversation with Lady Walton, including letters between Walton and his librettist
Christopher Hassall , read by Bob Peck and Christopher Fairbank.
9.35 Act 3
Sponsored by the Peter Moores Foundation

Tonight Chris Nicholson talks to historian of science
Simon Schaffer about the microscope.
Final programme tomorrow 9.30pm

A selection of Chopin's piano music played by Nelly Ben-Or . Discs

Into the Night Christopher Cook is prompted by a new book by Al Alvarez to look to the night skies and investigate how artists and writers respond to the night. Producer Abigail Appleton

Arleen Auger in Concert The soprano, who died in 1993, is heard in a recital recorded at Pebble Mill six years earlier, with Dalton Baldwin (piano) Schumann Widmung ; Roselein; Er ist's; Des
Sennen Abschied; Kennst du das Land?: Singet nicht in Trauertonen
Schubert Fruhlingsglaube; Der Schmetterling; Nacht und Traume; Liebe schwarmt auf alien Wegen; Erster Verlust ; Gretchen am
Spinnrade
Strauss Das Rosenband;
Mohnblumen; Die Zeitlose;
Efeu; Freundliche Vision;
Herr Lenz
Producer Jeremy Hayes
Repeated tomorrow at 12 noon

Let's Make a Story 1.30
Music Box 2.00 Ghostwriter