With Andrew McGregor. Rossini Overture: The
Silken Ladder
6.10 Stravinsky Ballet: The Firebird
7.05 Purcell Sound the trumpet, beat the drum (Z335)
7.35 Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song
8.05 Masse Ninette est jeune et belle (Camaval de Venise) (La Reine Topaza)
8.42 Monteverdi Magnificat a 7 (Vespers) Discs

Honegger Rugby Toulouse Capitole
Orchestra/Michel Plasson
9.08 Beethoven Violin
Sonata in F, Op 24 (Spring) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
9.34 Gade Symphony No 4 in B flat
Stockholm Sinfonietta , conductor Neeme Jarvi
Discs

With Mary Miller.
Artist of the Week:
Catherine Bott (soprano)
John Clerk of Penicuik Dic mihi saeve puer
Concerto Caledonia
10.14 Dutilleux Myst ère de l'instant
BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk
10.50 Strozzi Lagrime mie Catherine Bott (soprano) Paula Chateauneuf
(theorbo)
11.00 Ravel L'Enfant et les sortilèges (excerpt) Soloists
Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Ernest Ansermet
11.30 Schoenberg String Quartet in D (1897) La Salle Quartet

Presented by Gillean McDougall. orch Salnt-Saens
Abendlied, Op 107 No 6 Detroit SO, conductor
Neeme Jarvi
Schumann Fantasiestucke ,
Op 88
Borodin Trio orch Shostakovich Cello
Concerto in A minor
Alexander Baillie (cello)
BBC Scottish SO, conductor
Markus Stenz
Rpt

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00 Bristol Lunchtime Concert: Bartok Plus
With Chris de Souza.
William Dazeley (baritone) Julius Drake (piano)
Bartok Five Songs, Op 16
Liszt Die drei Zigeuner
Dvorak Gypsy Songs, Op 55
Kurtag Three Old Inscriptions, Op 25
Bartok Three Hungarian Folk Songs
(A Classic Arts production)

2.00 The BBC Orchestras
BBC Symphony Orchestra Conductor Alexander Lazarev
Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony (Rpt)

Fairest Isle
3.00 Mining the Archive: The Emigres
Continuing the series featuring composers from the Continent who made
Britain their home. This week, Bernard Keeffe introduces music by Matyas Seiber and Andrzej Panufnik.

Fairest Isle
4.20 Turns of the Century
An audio lexicon of the great English comedy performers. Peter Nichols celebrates Kenneth Williams.

4.30 Music for the Mughal Court
Imrat Khan (sitar) plays the traditional raga Bilaskhani Todi, attributed to Bilas Khan, a musician at the 16th-century court of the Moghul emperor.

Caroline Swinburne travels to Bathurst Island, off Australia's northern coast, to meet the Tiwi people and hear about the central role played by music in contemporary Aboriginal life.

With Andrew Green.
Hoist St Paul 's Suite
6.03 Berlioz Nocturne for two voices
6.30 Bach Cantata No
211: Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (Coffee) Producer Ray Abbott

From the Free Trade Hall, Manchester.
Conductor Libor Pesek
Howard Shelley (piano)
Beethoven Piano Concerto
No 3 in C minor
8.10 A Family Affair
Antonin Dvorak was Josef Suk's patron, adored teacher and father-in-law. Jonathan Swain examines how Suk, in his Asrael Symphony, came to terms with the death within 15 months of both his father-in-law and his beloved wife.
8.30 Suk Symphony in C minor (Asrael)

What exactly do cinematographers do? What compromises have to be made? And how do they transform emotion into light? Colin Ford interviews another leading exponent of the art.

Peter Holman presents the first in a series reinterpreting British operas from 1710-1810.
Pepusch The Death of Dido
Pepusch wrote his opera in miniature in 1716, one of a series of all sung English masques which he composed for the Drury Lane theatre in London (at that time in direct competition with the Haymarket). The opera is heard in a new studio recording, made for Radio 3.
Orchestra of Opera Restor'd. conductor Peter Holman
Producers Fiona Shelmerdine and Kenneth Richardson

In Memory of Luigi Nono The final edition from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Tonight's programme is a further tribute to Luigi Nono, a leading avant-garde composer and fervent socialist who died in 1990. Tonight, Irvine Arditti and the Arditti Quartet are centre-stage in Nono's Madrigal for Many Wayfarers and his introspective spiritual journey Fragments-Silence. Introduced by Stephen Pratt. Nono La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura Andre Richard (sound diffusion)
Mauriclo Kagel Quartet No 2
Wolfgang Rihm
Duomonolog James Dillon Quartet No 2 Nono Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima
Producer Paul Hindmarsh