With Andrew McGregor.

Purcell Incidental music: The Fairy Queen, Z629 - Tafelmusik, director Jeanne Lamon

6.30 Tchaikovsky String Quartet No 1 in D, Op 11 - Borodin Quartet

7.05 Rossini Overture: Otello - National Philharmonic, conductor Riccardo Chailly

7.30 Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor - Mirijam Contzen, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ion Marin

8.05 Liszt Waltz from Gounod's "Faust" - Earl Wild (piano)

8.28 Glazunov Piano Concerto No 1 in F minor - Stephen Coombs, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins

Catriona Young begins a series of Mendelssohn piano concertos. Bridge Sir Roger de Coverley English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Benjamin Britten
9.05 Mendelssohn Piano Concerto in A minor (1822)
John Ogdon , Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
9.32 Villalobos Cor Dulce, Cor Amabile
Corydon Singers, conductor Matthew Best
9.38 Offenbach, arr Rosenthal Suite: Gaîté Parisienne
Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa
Producer Tony Cheevers Discs

With Nick Morgan.
Stravinsky Pastorale
Boston Symphony Chamber Players
10.03 Artist of the Week:
Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
Beethoven Piano Sonata in D, Op 28 (Pastoral)
10.25 Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello
Vera Beths (violin), Anner Bylsma (cello)
10.46 Kempff Arcadian Suite Munich Symphony Orchestra, conductor Werner Andreas Albert
10.58 Vivaldi Concerto in D, RV95
(La Pastorella)
Marion Verbruggen (recorder),
Paul Goodwin (oboe), John Holloway (violin), Dennis Godburn (bassoon), John Toll (harpsichord)
11.10 Poulenc Concert Champetre Ton Koopman (harpsicord),
BBC SO, conductor Serge Baudo
11.35 Schubert Piano Sonata in F minor, D625 Wilhelm Kempff
Producer Nick Morgan

(1875-1937)
Roger Nichols follows Ravel's quest for the perfect work through his early Prix de Rome cantatas, his songs and piano duets. Excerpts from
Ravel's letters and contemporary correspondence are read by Christian Rodska.
Cinq Mélodies Populaires Grecques Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conductor Georges Pretre Sur I'Herbe
Gerard Souzay (baritone), Dalton Baldwin (piano) Noël des Jouets
Denise Duval (soprano), the composer (piano) Les Bayaderes
Chorus and Orchestra of the Sorbonne, conductor Jacques Grimbert Chansons Madecasses
Jennie Tourel (soprano) with ensemble Overture: Sheherazade
Ingryd Thorson and Julian Thurber (piano duet)
Producer Paul Hindmarsh
Repeated next Monday 11.30pm

From St John's, Smith
Square, London.
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano) Brahms Auf dem Kirchhofe;
Spanisches Lied: Unbewegte, Laue Luft : Dein Blaues Auge ; Der Jager; Von Ewiger Liebe
Berlioz La Mort d'Ophelie Berg Four Songs, Op 2
Quilter Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind Dunhlll The Cloths of Heaven
Find Fear No More the Heat of the Sun
Horder Under the Greenwood Tree
Howells King David
Repeated Sunday 6.30pm

The second of 13 programmes from the 1996 season.
Christine Brewer (soprano),
Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder
Wagner Overture; Venusberg Music (Tannhauser)
Strauss Four Last Songs Dvorak In Nature's Realm
Bax Spring Fire Repeat

Songs by Schubert.
Repeated from last Wednesday

Russell Davies examines the recording career of saxophonist Lester Young.
4: Detention Barrack Blues Repeat

Introductions
Tommy Pearson talks to
Roderick Swanston about the prelude and its many different forms.
Producer Christina Pritchard WEB SITE: http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/music_machine/

With Jeremy Nicholas , including
Korngold Overture: Much Ado about Nothing
North West German Philharmonic, conductor Werner Andreas Albert
6.05 Vitali, arr Respighi Chaconne in G minor
Jascha Heifetz (violin),
Richard Elsasser (organ)
6.30 Reid Piano Concerto No 2 in A flat
Rena Kyriakou , Berlin Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Carl-August Bunte Producer Andrew Mussett
E-MAIL: intune@bh.bbc.co.uk

From the Cathedral of St
Laurence in Lugano,
Switzerland, this concert marks the beginning of a new European
Broadcasting Union initiative - an annual series of early music concerts from across Europe, In this performance, music by Monteverdi is set in the context of vespers for the feast of Saint Laurence as it would have been celebrated in Monteverdi's time. The Choir of Swiss Radio,
Lugano, the Sonatori della Gioiosa
Marca and the Concerto Palatino are directed by Diego Fasolis.

Five specially commissioned stories in which Frederic Raphael describes how we spend and lose money.
1: LSD. A fortune moves from Italy to Great Britain in a suitcase.
Producer Duncan Minshull

An orchestration of Tchaikovsky's opening Season, plus winter warmers by Howells and Morley, and Sibelius's cantata The Origin of Rre.
Discs

Penny Gore introduces a recital of music for cello and piano played by Louise Hopkins and Alexander Mazdar. Mendelssohn Variations
Concertantes. Op 17; Cello Sonata No 2 in D. Op 58
Producer Nigel Wilkinson
Repeated tomorrow 2.30pm

Berlin Report
The second of two special editions in which Mark Russell and Robert Sandall
visit Berlin to check out the vibrant alternative music scene.
Tonight, they try out the scrap-metal percussion collection of Einsturzende Neubauten, get a Nubian drum demonstration from Mahmoud Fadl , and discuss improvisations with guitarist Caspar Brotzmann and Eastern bloc dub with Bad Phish.
Producer Philip Tagney
MUSIC DETAILS: see BBC1 Ceefax page 652

Orfeo (Act 1); Deus in Adjutorium; Dixit Dominus ; Nigra Sum (1610
Vespers); Ahi, Comm'a un Vago Sol Repeated from last Monday

This week, Dave Gelly traces the history of the saxophone, from its beginnings in music hall to its elevated status today. See tomorrow's radio choices for more details.
Producer Terry Carter

With David Cornet.
1.00 Julian Rachlin (violin), Swiss-
Italian Radio Orchestra/Muhai Tang Salnt-Saens Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor
3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Box 3.15 Something to Think About 3.30 The Song Tree
3.45 Stories and Rhymes 3.55 Together Stories 4.10 Singing Together 4.30 Hopscotch 4.45 Scottish Resources 7-9
5.00 Sequence