With Penny Gore.
Mozart Violin Concerto No 4 in D, K218 Maxim Vengerov ,
Rotterdam Philharmonic, conductor Valery Gergiev
7.05 Weber Overture: Euryanthe
Philharmonia, conductor Neeme Jarvi
7.16 Larsson,Concertino, Op 45 No 5 Ib Lanzky-Otto (horn), Stockholm Phlharmonic Chamber Ensemble
7.32 Schubert Violin Sonata in D, 0384
Fabio Biondi (violin),
Olga Tversakaya (fortepiano) 8.05 Handel Ah! Che Troppo Ineguali
Anne Sofie von Otter (soprano), Musica Antiqua Kbln , director Reinhard Goebel
8.39 Glazunov Piano Concerto No 2 in B
Stephen Coombs ,
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins

With Catriona Young.
Haydn Overture: II Mondo delta Luna Vienna Concentus Musicus, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
9.05 Poulenc Chansons Gaillardes
Jose van Dam (baritone),
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
9.17 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 3 in E flat
Emil Gilels , Philharmonia, conductor Lorin Maazel
9.35 Mozart Symphony No 33 in B flat, K319
Vienna Philharmonic, conductor James Levine
Discs

With John Toal.
Artist of the Week:
Michala Petri (recorder)
Bach Sonata in E flat, BWV1031 Keith Jarrett (harpsichord)
10.13 Saeverud Incidental Music:
Peer Gynt
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Braithwaite
10.35 Martinu Serenade No 3
Members of the Prague CO
10.42 Bridge Phantasie Quartet Maggini Quartet
10.54 Britten Missa Brevis
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, conductor Richard Marlow
11.15 Alfven Swedish Rhapsody No 2 (Upsala)
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, conductor Neeme Jarvi
1125 Grieg Incidental Music: Peer Gynt Eva Knardahl (piano)
11.39 Huristone Variations on a Swedish Air
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Braithwaite

With David Fallows.
Orfeo (Act 3)
New London Consort, director Philip Pickett
Nisi Dominus ; Audi Coelum
(1610 Vespers) the Sixteen, director Harry Christophers
T'Amo, Mia Vita ; E Cosi a Poc'a Poco Torno Farfalla
Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm

Paul Silverthorne (viola), John Constable (piano)
Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D821
Saxton Invocation, Dance and Meditation
Schumann Marchenbilder , Op 113

With Susan Sharpe , including Verdi Bella Figlia dellamore (Rigoletto) Amelita Galli-Curci (soprano),
Beniamino Gigii (tenor), Louise Homer (contralto), Giuseppe de Luca (baritone), New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conductor Giulio Setti
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor Dinu Lipatti , Philharmonia, conductor Alceo Galliera
Sibelius String Quartet (Voces Intimae) Sibelius Academy Quartet Producer Peter Thresh Discs
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From the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Introit: Epiphany Responsary (Marlow) Processional Hymn: As with Gladness (Dix)
Responses (Smith)
Psalms 41, 42, 43 (Marlow after
Mendelssohn, Wesley, Verdi, Brahms) First Lesson: Isaiah 9, w2-7
Magnificat for double choir, Op 164 (Stanford)
Second Lesson: 1 John 1, wl-7
Nunc Dimittis for double choir (Hoist) Anthem: Thou Must Leave Thy Lowly Dwelling (Berlioz)
Hymn: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise (St Edmund)
Organ Voluntary: Von Himmel Hoch , BWV606 (Bach)
Director of music Richard Marlow.
Organ scholar Andrew Lamb. Repeated Friday 1.00am

Tommy Pearson explores the origins of the orchestra. Who was the first composer to write for an orchestra, and is the make-up of such a group always the same?Repeat

With Natalie Wheen , including
Stenhammar Piano Sonata No 1 in C (Romance) Mats Widlung
5.30 Saint-Saens Serenade d'Hiver
Lamentable Consort
Producer Andrew Lyle

Fiona Talkington introduces the first of eight concerts from the Wigmore Hall, London. Michael Chance (countertenor), Julius Drake (piano)
Tippett Songs for
Ariel Butterworth A Shropshire Lad
(excerpts)
Anthony Powers High Windows

Eight programmes of recordings made by London dance bands in the 1920s and 1930s.
1: Dancing in the Dark
Carroll Gibbons (piano) and the Savoy Orpheans , the resident band at the Savoy Hotel, with vocalists Anne Lenner , Jack Plant and George Melachrino.
Producer John Thomley

Conductor Bernard Haitink ,
Andras Schiff (piano)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat,
K595
Shostakovich Symphony No 4

Geoffrey Hosking , professor of Russian history at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, meets five British people who have travelled often and widely in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. 3: William Butler , professor of comparative law at the University of London, on attempts to transform the Russian judicial system and its effects on commercial life.

Including Rimsky-Korsakov's overture to his opera The Golden Cockerel and Glinka's Capriccio Brillante.

lain Burnside introduces the British broadcast debut of the 23-year-old German baritone Stephan Genz. He is accompanied by Roger Vignoles in a recital of songs by Schubert.
Fischerweise; Der Jungling und der Tod; Sehnsucht, 0879; Wie
Ulfru Fischt ; An den Mond, D193; An die
Laute; Der Fischer; An Mignon;
Rastlose Liebe ; Hoffnung, D295; Prometheus; Der Schiffer Producer Adam Gatehouse
Repeated next Monday 3.45pm

Cornwall used to be culturally starved, but the Hall for Cornwall, a new music and theatre venue, will open this year in Truro and there may soon be a university in Penzance. Modern Cornish poets and dramatists are making their mark.
Patrick Wright considers the cultural dynamics of the county. Producer Julian May

Excerpts from Candide and The Lark. Repeated from New Year's Day

Dave Gelly introduces more music from Stan Tracey 's 70th birthday concert, recorded last month. For details see Tuesday

With David Cornet.
1.00 Anna Pusar Jeric (soprano), Sabine Walter (mezzo), Slovenian Chamber Choir, Consortium
Musicum, Slovenian Radio and TV Choir and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Anton Nanut Mahler
Symphony No 2 (Resurrection)
3.00 Schools
3.00 Time and Tune 3.20 Together
3.40 Dance Workshop 4.00 A Time to Move 4.20 Scottish Resources
4.40 Talking Points
5.00 Sequence