With Fiona Talkington.

Considering the confusion of Babel and the harmony of Pentecost.

Eisler An den Kleinen Radioapparat - Roswitha Trexler (soprano), Jutta Czapski (piano)

7.04 Corsican chant Veni Creator Spiritus - Ensemble Organum, director Marcel Peres

7.10 Kim Helweg Variations on Chick Corea's "La Resta", Op 6 - Thorson and Thurber (pianos)

7.29 Ellington Creole Love Call - Comedy Harmonists, Emil Gerhardt (piano)

7.33 Schutz An den Wassern zu Babel - Oxford Camerata, Laurence Cummings (organ), conductor Jeremy Summerly

7.40 Bach Church Cantatas: Bach Cantata No 34: O Ewiges Feuer, O Ursprung der Liebe - Anna Reynolds (alto), Peter Schreier (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass), Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra, director Karl Richter

8.00 By the Waters of Babylon
The story of exile is familiar to many in London. In the first of nine programmes, the Rev Alan Walker visits the Italian Roman Catholic community in Clerkenwell Road.

8.10 Eisler Die Romische Kantate (Cantatas in Exile) - Roswitha Trexler (soprano), Volker Metz (viola), Siegfried Arnold (cello), Klaus Stockel, Wolfgang Bilfinger, Helmut Hofmann and Heinz Christoph (clarinets), director Max Pommer

8.19 Soler Versos para "Te Deum" - Nicholas Jackson (organ)

8.35 Sviridov Prayer: Sacred Love; A Verse of Repentance (Tsar Teodor Ioannovich) - Holst Singers, director Stephen Layton

8.46 Juan Bermudo Veni Creator - Spiritus Nicholas Jackson (organ)

8.48 Hoffman/Nelson/Goodhart/Ager Auf Wiederseh'n, My Dear - Comedy Harmonists, Emil Gerhardt (piano)

With cellist Julian Lloyd Webber.

Brahms Academic Festival Overture
LPO, conductor Adrian Boult
9.13 Anon, arr Brahms German folk songs: Erlaube Mir; Wach Auf; In
Stiller Nacht; Abschiedslied Vienna
WU Choir, conductor Johannes Prinz
9.23 Rosenmüller Suite in C (Student Music) (excerpts) The King's Noyse
9.31 Schubert Impromptu in G flat, D899 No 3 Clifford Curzon (piano)
9.37 Bach Double Concerto in D minor, BWV1043 Rachel Podger (violin), Academy of Ancient Music, director Andrew Manze (violin)
9.52 Grainger English Dance BBC
Philharmonic, conductor Richard Hickox
10.00 Artist of the Week:
Imogen Cooper (piano)
Schumann Der Arme Peter, Op 53 No 3 Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
10.06 Prokofiev Symphony No 1 (Classical) Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Claudio Abbado
10.20 Composer of the Week:
Handel Te Deum in D (Queen Caroline) James Bowman (countertenor), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Michael George (bass), Choir of New College, Oxford, The King's Consort, director Robert King
10.33 Arnold Little Suite No 2
City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
11.04 Barber Summer Music
Vienna-Berlin Ensemble
11.16 Berlioz Overture: Le Corsaire
LSO, conductor Andre Previn
11.26 Handel Haec Est Regina Virginum Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Musica Antiqua Kbln , director Reinhard Goebel
11.40 Elgar Enigma Variations CBSO, conductor Simon Rattle Producer Piers Burton-Page E-MAIL: bksm@bbc.co.uk

Repeated from yesterday 5.45pm
SCHUBERTIAD

Schubert Songbook is commissioning a series of songs to texts that
Schubert set himself. This programme features the first of these, from
Carlos Miranda. He talks to
Gordon Stewart about the song, which is performed by countertenor
Marco Lazzara and trumpeter James Watson , with the composer at the piano. Producer Adam Gatehouse
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductor Emilio Pomarico
Webern Passacaglia
Carter Variations for Orchestra
Messlaen LAscension

John Dowland 's First Book of Songs became one of the most popular collections of its day. Robert Spencer and Michelene Wandor introduce a selection, tracing the influences on Dowland's style, his career as a composer, lutenist and poet, and approaches to interpreting his works. Producer Kate Botton. Repeated Tuesday 4pm

William Lyne recently celebrated 30 years as director of London's Wigmore Hall. During the interval of this concert, he talks to Graham Johnson. Felicity Lott (soprano), Robin Blaze
(countertenor), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Matthias Gome (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
Britten Canticle: Abraham and Isaac
Mahler Ich Atmet' eine Linden Duft ;
Liebst Du urn Schonheit; Ich Bin der
Welt Abhanden Gekommen
Faure Les Roses d'lspahan Emil Paladllhe Psyche
Hahn D'une Prison; Tyndaris Chabrier L'lsle Heureuse
Poulenc C; Fetes Galantes
Wolf Anakreons Grab ; Fruhlings ubers Jahr; Ganymed; Epiphanias

Delhi, city of ghosts and government, stretches back to the dawn of Indian civilisation. Time and again it has been overrun (the Turks, the Moguls, the British....), time and again rebuilt, each new city designed to surpass the last. Between them the nine cities of Delhi tell the story of India. Jatinder Verma takes a personal voyage around Delhi's former glories and confronts modern Delhi, the ninth city, rapidly forgetting its past and in danger of having no future. Producer Mohit Bakaya
The India Season continues with Sunday Play: The Red Oleander at 7.30pm

Schubert String Quartet in G, D887 Last Monday's BBC Lunchtime Concert
INDIA SEASON

By Rabindranath Tagore , translated by Bishaka Ghose and adapted for radio by Tanika Gupta.
A king counts out the gold his miners have given their lives for. Then, a beautiful girl comes to the mine.
Music composed and performed by Harjinder Boparai. Director Nandita Ghose The India Season continues with the series
Young Indians, starting tomorrow at 9.35pm

In Memoriam. In the final programme tracing Russia's choral tradition, Brian Wright introduces works by Stravinsky and Prokofiev, and a performance of a service for the departed sung in medieval Russian chant. His guest is Fr Michael Fortounatto.
Stravinsky Requiem Canticles Susan Bickley (contralto),
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), New London Chamber Choir, London Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen
Nikolai Roslavets Three Dances
Mark Lubotsky (violin),
Julia Bochkovskaya (piano)
Chant Panikida Fr Michael Fortounatto
(celebrant), Moscow Orthodox Male
Voice Choir, director Anatoly Grindenko Roslavets Nocturne Mark Lubotsky (violin), Julia Bochkovskaya (piano)
Prokofiev Cantata: Alexander Nevsky Marjana Lipovsek (mezzo),
Paris Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Semyon Bychkov Producer Kate Bolton

English Folk Songs
In the last of three programmes of English folk songs, Georgina Boyes comes up to date, showing that traditions are flourishing. Repeat

Building a Library
Revised repeat from yesterday 9am

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Handel Pastor Fido
Savaria Vocal Ensemble, Capella Savaria/Nicholas McGegan
3.35 Saar RSO/Roman Kofman.
Gotz Rustig (violin) Bach, arr Webem Ricercar a 6 (Musical Offering) Berg Violin Concerto
Brahms Symphony No 3 in F
5.00 Sequence