With Andrew McGregor.
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat
Jos van Immerseel (fortepiano), Tafelmusik, director Bruno Weil
6.43 Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No 3
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
7.05 Handel Suite No 4 in E minor
Paul Nicholson (harpsichord)
7.32 Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1 Stephen Hough (piano)
8.05 Trad, arr Meyer/O'Connor College Hornpipe
Mark O'Connor (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Edgar Meyer (double bass)
8.30 Rimsky-Korsakov/Liadov/
Borodin/Glazunov String Quartet on B-La-F (Belaiev)
Shostakovich Quartet

With Peter Hobday.
Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Northern Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
9.12 Tallis Spem in Alium
Taverner Consort and Choir, director Andrew Parrott
9.23 Bach By the Waters of Babylon, BWV653. Ton Koopman (organ)
9.30 Haydn Symphony No 101 in D (Clock)
Orchestra of the 18th Century, conductor Frans Bruggen Discs

With Mairi Nicolson.
Rossini Overture: The Italian Girl in Algiers
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
10.09 Haydn Piano Sonata in G, H XVI 40. Alfred Brendel
10.23 Hahn Trois Rondels :
Le Jour
London Schubert Chorale, conductor Stephen Layton Le Printemps
Felicity Lott (soprano) La Nuit
London Schubert Chorale, conductor Stephen Layton
10.32 Artist of the Week:
Patrick Gallois (flute) Poulenc Sextet. Pascal Roge (piano),
Maurice Bourgue (oboe), Michel Portal (clarinet), Amaury Wallez (bassoon), Andre Cazalet (horn)
10.35 Falla El Amor Brujo BBC Philharmonic, conductor Martyn Brabbins
11.15 Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor. BBC Philharmonic, conductor Vassili Sinaisky

With Peter Paul Nash.
Copland Symphony No 2 (A Short Symphony)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
William Schuman Symphony No 10 (American Muse)
St Louis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm

CD Pick of 1996 Michael Oliver presents the second of five programmes featuring outstanding opera discs issued this year, with comments from Hugh Canning and Andrew Clements. Britten Peter Grimes
Recorded last year after concert performances marking the opera's 50th anniversary, this new version brings the number of commercial recordings the work has had to four - the most of any postwar opera.
London Symphony Chorus, City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Discs

Shostakovich Piano Quintet. Op 57 Ida Levin and Catherine Manson
(violins), Judith Busbridge (viola),
William Conway (cello), Peter Evans (piano) Repeat

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Paul Hoskins ,
Jane Atkins (viola)
Hindemith Der Schwanendreher

Dance Rhythm
Tommy Pearson continues his week-long examination of dance by looking at jazz and tap.

With Geraint Lewis , including Mathias A Dance Overture
LSO, conductor David Atherton
5.25 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on "Greensleeves
New Queen's Hall Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth
5.30 Ludford Ave Cuius Conceptio Cardinall's Musick, director Andrew Carwood
5.40 Howells King David Janet Baker (mezzo), Martin Isepp (piano)
6.05 Britten A Ceremony of Carols Choir of St John's College,
Cambridge, Marisa Robles (harp), conductor George Guest
6.30 Bach Prelude and Fugue in B (-Well-tempered Clavier", Bk 2) Tatiana Nikolaeva (piano)
6.40 Mozart Oboe Quartet in F, K370 Lothar Koch (oboe), Brandis Quartet Producer Gwawr Owen

Rodney Slatford introduces the fourth of five concerts given last month at Manchester's Berlioz/Dutilleux
Festival. This concert was given at the Royal Northern College of Music. Susan Bullock (soprano), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier Berlioz Overture: Waverley Dutilleux Le Mystere de I'lnstant
Berlioz La Mort de Cleopatre Dutilleux Symphony No 1 Final concert tomorrow 7.30pm

Ever since the 1942 publication of his pioneering study of American literature On Native Grounds,
Alfred Kazin has played a vital part in America's cultural debate. Tonight, he and presenter Russell Davies discuss his work-in-progress, God and the American Writer.

Piano Concerto in G
Pascal Roge , Montreal Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit Disc

Martin Luther Anniversary
Chris de Souza introduces the second of four programmes recorded last month to mark the 450th anniversary of the death of the father of the Reformation. Organist Graham Barber performs chorales from
Bach's Clavier-Ubung III and settings of Ein ' Feste Burg 1st Unser Gott by Pachelbel, Buxtehude and Hanff, on the organ of St Marylebone Parish Church, London.
Producer Lindsay Kemp
Repeated tomorrow 2.15pm

Beyond Two Cultures?
George Steiner challenged the Edinburgh Festival to include science alongside arts events, but the notion of two cultures remains a potent cliche. What can the disciplines learn from each other? Does contemporary society overrate the arts at the expense of science, or has the pendulum swung the other way? Humphrey Carpenter and guests debate the issues before an audience.
Producer Julian May

Bartok Hussar
Liszt Academy Chamber Choir.
Budapest SO, conductor Antal Dorati Arabian Song: Transylvanian Dance
Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman
(violins)
Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm Nos 2, 5 and 6. The composer (piano) Kodaly Nights in the Mountains
Gyor Girls' Choir conductor Miklos Szabo
Jesus and the Traders
Hungarian Radio and TV Chorus conductor Janos Ferencsik
Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
Chicago SO, conductor Fritz Reiner Repeated from last Thursday

With Digby Fairweather. Following on from Tuesday and Wednesday nights' concerts, Harry "Sweets"
Edison talks about trumpets and jazz.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Choral Evensong from St Alban's Cathedral.
Repeated from yesterday 4.00pm
2.00 Soprano Ellen van Lier and pianist Oleg Maisenberg perform songs by Schubert
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