With Andrew McGregor.

Vanhal String Quartet in A

6.30 Dvorak Symphonic Variations

7.05 Saint-Saens Two Choruses, Op 68

7.32 Elgar Overture: Cockaigne

8.05 Croft Suite: The Twin Rivals

8.32 Bliss Cello Concerto

With Catriona Young.
Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite
9.11 Chopin Polonaise in A flat. Op 53
9.19 Allegri Miserere
9.31 Schumann
Humoreske, Op 20 Discs

With Chris Wines.
Artist of the Week:
Boris Berezovsky (piano) Liszt Etude d'exécution transcendante No 8 (Wilde Jagd)
10.06 Charpentier Acteon (excerpts)
10.16 Onslow String
Quintet in C minor (Bullet)
10.42 Bartok Contrasts
11.00 Liszt Etude d'exécution transcendante
No 9 (Ricordanza)
11.11 Berg Three
Movements (Lyric Suite)
11.17 Mozart Al desio, K577
11.25 Strauss Five Piano
Pieces, Op 3

With David McGuinness.
Muffat and Son
Georg Muffat Suite in G (Laeta poesis)
Gottlieb Muffat Suite No 1 in C (Componimenti musicali) Toccata No 6 in F
Georg Muffat Sonata No 4 in E minor (Armonico tributo) Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm

With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 New series
We Must Get Together Some Time
Gordon Stewart introduces
three programmes of operatic excerpts in which characters get together to agree, disagree, further the plot or to hold it up with needless bickering.
1:
All's fair in love and war as a formidable cohort of people fight through life in music from Monteverdi to Wagner.
Producer David Gallagher
2.00 Carmina Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 76 No 5
Berg String Quartet, Op 3 Schubert String Quartet in D, D887
3.30 The BBC Orchestras
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Osmo Vanska
Ernst Kovacic (violin) Klami Overture: The
Cobblers on the Heath
(Nammusuutareit)
Beethoven Violin Concerto in Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World)

Julian Gregory Chemistry experiments with the chemical soup that gives life to music, discovering some interesting recipes for success.

Nicola Heywood Thomas celebrates the achievements of Welsh
National Opera as it nears its 50th birthday, Including Gounod Rondo of the Golden Calf (Faust)
6.03 Haydn Piano Trio in C minor, H XV 13
6.30 Delius Overture: Over the Hills and Far Away Producer Gwawr Owen

The last opera from the partnership of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal explains how the penniless Count
Waldner sets about saving his family's fortunes by finding a wealthy suitor for his daughter Arabella. He starts by disguising his other daughter - Zdenka - as a boy to reduce the competition, Introduced by Chris de Souza. Sung in German. Arabella's suitors: Mandryka's servants:
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conductor Mark Elder
Act

The artist Frederic Leighton was a figure of great distinction in Victorian society. As a notable president of the Royal
Academy, his sensuous paintings were widely admired, but his private life became a matter of speculation. Tim Barringer visits Leighton's exotic
London house and talks to art historians Liz Prettejohn and Christopher Newall about the ideals and ambitions that fired his life and work. Reader Keith
Drinkel.

A portrait of Jerusalem. Divisions
Michael Kustow examines the antagonisms in Jerusalem today, which started when Abraham favoured his son Isaac
(ancestor of the Jews) over Ishmael (ancestor of the Arabs). He asks if this story of division could become a model of reconciliation, with views from Palestinian and Israeli academics and James Fenton 's powerful poem about hatred and holiness, Jerusalem, read by Ben Kingsley.
Final programme tomorrow 9.30pm

Love and war in foreign lands: Martin Sherman 's new play has the ingredients of a classic drama, It's Cairo in 1942 and suspicion is running rife as the Germans approach. Tony Palmer reports on the opening night of Some Sunny Day. Meanwhile, love and confusion abounds in Woody Allen 's latest film Mighty Aphrodite. Night
Waves assesses the career of Hollywood's maverick genius.
Producer Ann Marie O'Callaghan

With Paul Guinery.
4: Johann Mayrhofer and Johann Michael Vogl
Overture: I steal alone through the woods (The Friends of Salamanka) Memnon, D541
Cantata for the Birthday of the Singer Johann Michael Vogl (The Spring Morning), D666
Introduction and Variations in E minor, D802
Repeated from last Thursday

With Digby Fairweather. A first broadcast for Mark
Lockheart's new group, Matheran.