With Jonathan Swain.
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A (K622)
Franklin Cohen (clarinet) Cleveland Orchestra/
Christoph von Dohnanyi
7.33 Dvorak String Quartet in F, Op 96 (American) Melos Quartet
8.04 Britten Holy Sonnets of John Donne ; Urn
Mitternacht
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Graham Johnson (piano)
8.33 Strauss Symphonic Interludes (Intermezzo) Detroit SO/Neeme Jarvi

Shostakovich's Piano
Quintet in G minor by William Mival. Jan Smaczny and Peter Paul Nash discuss new releases of orchestral music from the classical period.
Revised repeat tomorrow 11.15pm
10.15 Record Release
Michael Haydn Symphony in B flat (P9)
London Mozart Players, conductor Matthias Bamert
10.31 Vorisek Symphony in D
Scottish CO, conductor Charles Mackerras
11.00 Mozart Piano
Concerto No 17 in G (K453) Concerto Kbln, director Andreas Staier (piano)
11.32 Haydn Symphony No 86 in D
CBSO/Simon Rattle
Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert Discs
E-MAIL: record.review@bbc.co.uk

Playwright David Hare 's choices range from
Beethoven's Symphony No 7 and Berlioz's La mort de
Cleopatre to film music by Miles Davis and Mike Figgis.
A Ladbroke Radio production

Andrew Jones explains how counting the number of rings in 6,000-year-old trees found in Irish peat bogs could provide clues to climatic change.

Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra
A concert from the Royal Academy of Music Ligeti festival. Elgar Howarth conducts the academy's symphony orchestra in Ligeti's Atmosphères and Lontano, plus Macabre Collage, Howarth s arrangement of music from Ligeti's opera Le grand macabre. Presented by Sarah Beck , with contributions from
Ligeti himself.

From St Giles ,
Cripplegate,
London.
Philip Mead (piano)
Duke Quartet Ives 's Concord Sonata did most to win him recognition as an American genius. The first sonata depicts "outdoor life in Connecticut villages", while the serene first string quartet began life as music for a church service.
Piano Sonata No 1; String Quartet No 1 (From the Salvation Army)
3.55 Ives in His Place
The Amount to Carry:
Charles Ives on Wall Street
Michael Oliver examines
Ives's career in insurance and asks whether he kept it separate from composing.
4.10 Piano Sonata No 2
(Concord)
The Ives Weekend continues tomorrow at 1.00pm
# The new season on radio: page 24

With Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Discs

Presented by Ivan Hewett. Kurt Weill 's Love Life is revived by Opera North, and medieval Spain comes to London in the form of the Cantigas de Santa Maria from the court of King Alfonso the Wise.
Producer Antony Sellors
Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm

Janacek's opera based on the play by Karel Capek tells the story of Emilia Marty.
Bom 337 years ago as Elina Makropulos, she has kept her youth thanks to a strange elixir invented by her father. Now the potion is wearing off. Sung in English.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, conductor David Robertson
Act

James Woodall explores the writing and literary world of Karel Capek : playwright, journalist, novelist, essayist and short-story writer, a central figure of the Czech cultural revival in Prague between the wars and the inventor of the term "robot"
7.40 Act 2
8.15 The Met Opera Quiz
8.45 Act 3
Texaco supports the Metropolitan Opera Radio Network, which is broadcast on R3 through the EBU * The new season on radio: page 24

Critic Peter Kemp and poet Sarah Maguire select January's book of the month.
Producer Abigail Appleton

The first of two programmes of recorder music spanning five centuries, recorded at
Leominster Priory during a short visit to Britain by this celebrated Amsterdam quartet. Introduced by Judith Roles.
Anon Saltarello
Andreas de Silva Motet.
0 virgo benedicta
Victoria Motet: Virgo sancta Katherina
Cabezon Diferencias sobre la gallarda milanesa J C Bach Quartet in C
Meyering Sitting Ducks A Classic Arts production
Next programme tomorrow 5.00pm

Concluding Philip Mead 's personal exploration of the 20th-century solo piano repertoire.
6: Invention
Including works by Cowell, Bolcom, Bartok and Nancarrow, introduced by Stephen Montague. Philip Mead (piano)
A Magenta Music International production

Brian Morton talks to saxophonist lain Ballamy about his various projects and introduces a set by his group the Hungry Ants, with Richard Fairhurst (piano), Steve Watts (bass) and Tom Giles (drums). Music on CD includes part of Stefan Winter 's suite The
Little Trumpet.
12.30 The Hi-de-Ho Man
Alyn Shipton presents the fourth of a six-part profile of black American singer and bandleader Cab Calloway, including recollections from trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Rpt Impressions producer Derek Drescher