With Andrew McGregor. Victoria Vexilla Regis
Westminster Cathedral Choir, conductor James O'Donnell
6.11 Schumann Symphony No 1 in B flat (Spring)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Tadaaki Otaka
7.05 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks
English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
7.45 Goedicke Konzertstuck in D
Stephen Coombs (piano),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins
8.05 Wagner Overture: The Flying Dutchman
Cleveland Orchestra, conductor George Szell
8.35 Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488
Melvyn Tan (fortepiano),
London Classical Players, director Roger Norrington
With Peter Hobday
Mozart Church Sonata in C, K263
Peter Hurford (organ),
Amsterdam Mozart Players
9.06 Telemann Suite Burlesque (Der Getreue Music-Meister)
Eduard Melkus and Eleanor Sloan
(violins)
9.13 Chopin Two Nocturnes, Op 55 Maria-Joao Pires (piano)
9.27 Bach Cantata No 211:
Schweigt Stille Plaudert Nicht (Coffee Cantata)
Edith Mathis (soprano), Theo Adam (bass), Berlin Chamber Orchestra, conductor Peter Schreier (tenor) Discs
With Mary Miller.
Artists of the Week: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Rebel Le Cahos (Les Elemens) Director Ton Koopman
10.08 Lutoslawski Paroles Tissees
Louis Devos (tenor), Polish National RSO, conducted by the composer
10.23 Schubert Piano Sonata in A, D664 Andras Schiff
10.48 Bach Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor, BWV1067
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, director Ton Koopman
11.11 Debussy Le Martyre de St Sebastien (Symphonic fragments)
Philharmonia, conductor Guido Cantelli
11.33 Mozart Vesperae Solonnes de Confessore, K339
Barbara Schlick (soprano), Elisabeth von Magnus (alto), Paul Agnew (tenor), Matthijs Mesdag (bass), Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Orchestra, director Ton Koopman
Leo Black examines Pfitzner's German qualities.
Cantata: Von Deutscher Seele (excerpt) - Agnes Giebel (soprano), Hertha Topper (alto), Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Otto Wiener (bass), Bavarian Radio Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Joseph Keilberth Gretel, Erna Berger (soprano), Michael Raucheisen (piano)
Overture: Das Katchen von Heilbronn - Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by the Composer Leierkastenmann
Arno Schellenberg (bass), Michael Raucheisen (piano)
Symphony in C - Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by the Composer An die Mark
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Wolfgang Sawaiiisch
Repeated next Tuesday 11.30pm
Conductor Warwick Stengards , Frederick Kempf (piano), Stephen Farr (organ)
Massenet Ballet music (Le Cid)
Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor
Widor Symphony No 3 in E minor
Repeated from yesterday 10.00pm
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Tadaaki Otaka ,
Steven Isserlis (cello) Mathias In Arcadia
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor Repeat
How can music have a physical effect on the deepest structures in the body? Tommy Pearson visits the Tomatis Centre in London to hear about a way of using music to heal. With the centre's director Alex Smith and singer Benjamin Luxon. For details see yesterday
With Humphrey Carpenter, including
5.30 Rossini String Sonata No 6 in D
Leningrad Orchestra for Ancient and Modem Music, conductor Eduard Serov
6.05 Ives The Alcotts (Piano Sonata No 2) (Concord) Easley Blackwood
6.12 Nielsen Violin Concerto
Cho-Liang Lin, Swedish RSO, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Linda Ormiston introduces a recital from the Queen's
Hall, Edinburgh, given by the Grieg
Trio. Their programme includes a late Mozart trio, an early work by Beethoven and, between them, a trio based on Irish folk tunes, written for an American by a Swiss composer. Mozart Piano Trio in G, K564
Martin Trio on Irish Folk Tunes
8.20 News from North Britain
Five new short stories from Scotland.
4: A Gap in Her Life by Ruth Thomas. Rose is a quiet woman, widowed early in life and destined always to be introduced to the dullest of single men by her friend and determined rescuer Ellen. So when Rose attends one of Ellen's drinks parties and finds herself steered towards a clutch of men in hand-knitted jumpers, she has to make a bid for escape. Read by Martha Leishman.
8.40 Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor.
Op 1 No 3
Five generous helpings of the food of the southern states of America, served nightly by Russell Davies.
According to one observer, the only thing that glues the deeply divided South together is the bland cornmeal mush known as grits. Russell Davies locates the grits capital of the world in South Carolina, discovers the secrets of cornbread straight from the skillet, and enters a heated debate: how do you fry a runnin', scratchin', corn-fed chicken?
(Next programme tomorrow 9.15pm)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductor Jean-Yves Ossonce , Stephen Coombs (piano)
Faure Masques et Bergamasques Massenet Piano Concerto in E flat
From Evita to Woody Allen 's forthcoming Everyone Says I Love You, the musical film is enjoying something of a comeback. This week's new release, Grace of My Heart, is set in the late fifties, the golden age of American pop, and features music written by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach. But what makes a successful marriage between music and film? Tony Palmer looks at the tricky relationship between sound and celluloid. Plus Verdi in the townships - Amanda Hopkinson reports from South Africa on one man's mission to integrate European opera with the traditions of African singing. She talks to the composers, singers and writers attempting to create a new form of opera for contemporary African culture.
Producer Nicki Paxman
Christopher Marshall introduces the first version of Dichterliebe, and the Piano Concerto.
Repeated from last Tuesday
Digby Fairweather introduces a concert given by Norma Winstone , with John Horler (piano) and Tony Coe (saxophone), recorded last year in the Jersey Arts Centre.
With John Shea.
1.00 Mahler Symphony No 8
(Symphony of a Thousand) Soloists, choirs, German SO/Vladimir Ashkenazy
2.25 Marina Meshcheriakova
(soprano), Valery Gerasimov (piano) Opera arias by Gluck, Verdi and Tchaikovsky and songs by Rachmaninov
3.25 Branko Robinsak (tenor), Slovenian Radio and Television
SO/David de Villiers Dusan Bavdek Kniga Slik (The Picture Book) Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2 in C minor (Little Russian)
5.00 Sequence