With Andrew McGregor. Byrd Lamentations
Clerks of the Choir of New College, Oxford, conductor Edward Higginbottom
6.16 Brahms Symphony No 2 in D BBC NO of Wales, conductor George Hurst
7.05 Mozart Flute Quartet No 3 in C, K285b
Philippa Davies (flute), Nash Ensemble
7.32 Humperdinck The Royal Children Bamberg SO, conductor Karl Anton Rickenbacher
8.05 Kodaly Evening BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury
8.25 Stravinsky Petrushka (1911) Cleveland Orchestra , conductor Pierre Boulez

With Peter Hobday.
Hoist Fugal Concerto
William Bennett (flute), Peter Graeme (oboe), ECO, conductor Imogen Hoist
9.08 Handel Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op 3 No 5
Academy of St Martin, conductor lona Brown
9.19 Musorgsky Lullaby ; Balearic Song
Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), Semion Skigin (piano)
9.27 Chopin Etudes, Op 10 Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Discs

With Stephanie Hughes.
Lambert, ed Philip Lane Overture for piano duet
Peter Lawson and Alan MacLean
10.04 Vaughan Williams Concerto Grosso for string orchestra
LSO, conductor Bryden Thomson
10.21 Artist of the Week: Wynton Marsalis (trumpet)
Tomasi Trumpet Concerto
Philharmonia, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
10.36 Grieg Three songs
Barbara Bonney (soprano), Hakan Hagegard (baritone), Gothenburg SO, conductor Neeme Jarvi
10.48 Mozart Piano Trio in G, K496 Beaux Arts Trio
11.20 Walton, arr Matthews Suite: Battle of Britain
Academy of St Martin, conductor Neville Marriner
11.44 Lambert The Rio Grande
Sally Burgess (mezzo), Jack Gibbons (piano),
English Northern Philharmonia, conductor David Lloyd-Jones

4: Spontini, Josephine and Julia
The Paris that greeted Spontini on his arrival in 1803 was a very different city from the one in which Cherubini had settled in 1786. An epic decade had gone before him, presided over finally by Napoleon.
Spontini found an influential friend in the empress-in-waiting,
Josephine Bonaparte , who helped him score his first success with the opera La
Vestale, which took the city by storm Graham Fawcett introduces highlights of this operatic blockbuster set in republican Rome.
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, conductor Riccardo Muti Discs
Repeated next Thursday at 11.30pm

Rossini completed this, his 32nd opera, in 1821, and the premiere was conducted by the famous violinist Paganini, who took over at the dress rehearsal when the first violinist/conductor suffered an apoplectic fit. The opera is a melodrama in two acts, with the full title Matilde of Shabran, or Beauty with a Heart of Iron. Written on a grand scale with lots of sub-plots, the story tells how Corradino, a confirmed misogynist, is tamed by Matilde, the strong-willed daughter o a deceased friend. This performance was given in August at the Rossini opera festival in Pesaro, Italy. Sung in Italian.
Prague Chamber Chorus, Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, conductor Yves Abel

(died 14 November 1946)
Seven Spanish Popular Songs
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)
JAZZ WEEK

Marsalis on Jazz
Improvisation
With Natalie Wheen.
Wynton Marsalis demonstrates how to improvise on Happy Birthday, and high-school students take their first steps at learning improvisation.

Sean Rafferty talks to Sean Doran , who was recently appointed as the new artistic director of the Belfast
Festival at Queen's.
5.45 Prokofiev Adagio, Op 97 No 10; Waltz, Op 102 No 4 Barry Douglas (piano)
6.00 Bach Prelude and Fugue in F sharp ("48", Bk 2)
Davitt Moroney (harpsichord)
6.10 Part Festina Lente
I Fiamminghi, conductor Rudolf Werthen
6.45 David Diamond Rounds
Seattle SO, conductor Gerard Schwarz producer David Byers
JAZZ WEEK

This saxophonist was commissioned by Radio 3 and Northern Arts to write two works for a combination of jazz and string quartets. Geoffrey Smith introduces the first performance, which took place at the Appleby Jazz Festival in June, with the composer (alto sax), Steve Melling (piano), Jeremy Brown (double bass),
Stephen Keogh (drums) and the Lyric Quartet. The quartets also played separately - the Lyric Quartet performed music by Ross Edwards and Michael Nyman. During the interval, Peter King talks to Geoffrey Smith about his career and the new direction that it is taking. Producer Derek Drescher
ARABIC SEASON

Exploring deserts in reality, myth and imagination.
The Great Indian Desert
The great Indian (or Thar) desert is famous for its Rajput warrior dynasty. But as Martin Buckley discovers, the world's most populous desert also has a strong sense of its contemporary cultural identity, and in particular a lively musical life.

Rinaldo Alessandrini directs his virtuoso vocal ensemble Concerto
Italiano in Monteverdi madrigals -
40 uninterrupted minutes of passion, delirium, madness, bloodshed and drama. Anthony Rooley introduces a concert recorded last August at the Edinburgh International Festival. Producer Svend Brown

As David Hockney 's latest exhibition Putting You in the Picture opens in Manchester, Hermione Lee investigates recent developments in his work. Paul Heritage reflects on the legacy of one of the most significant French playwrights of recent years, Bernard-Marie Koltes. Plus medieval morality in Stratford - first-night news as Kathryn Hunter and Marcello Magni of the innovative Theatre de Complicité take on Everyman.
Producer Edwina Wolstencroft

Percy Grainger was fascinated by Scandinavia. Penelope Thwaites and Andrew Lyle explore the Scandinavian influence, with music including The Merry Wedding and Father and Daughter from a new recording conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.
Repeated from last Thursday
JAZZ WEEK

With Digby Fairweather. The conclusion of the concert featuring the Bob Berg Quartet.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Choral Evensong from Salisbury Cathedral.
Repeated from yesterday 4.00pm
2.00 Tibor Varga Festival
Orchestra/Tibor Varga. Music by Bach, Shostakovich and Telemann
3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Workshop 3.20 Let's Move 3.40 Words Alive 3.55 First
Steps in Drama 4.10 Drama
Workshop 4.30 Infant History 4.40 Standard Grade English
5.00 Sequence