With Penny Gore.

Brahms Serenade No 1 in D - Paris Orchestral Ensemble, conductor Armin Jordan

7.05 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - New Queen's Hall Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth

7.22 Framjaix Petit Quatuor pour Saxophones - Aurelia Quartet

7.32 Humperdinck Overture No 2: Die Heirat wider Willen - Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Karl Anton Rickenbacher

8.05 Zelenka Hipocondrie a 7 Concertanti in A - Camerata Bern

8.18 Vorlsek Variations in B flat, Op 19 - Radoslav Kvapil (piano)

8.41 Sibelius En Saga - Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

With
Catriona Young. Smetana Vysehrad (Ma Vlast) Czech Philharmonic, conductor Rafael Kubelik
9.16 Elgar Chanson de Nuit; Chanson de Matin
Nigel Kennedy (violin), Peter Pettinger (piano)
9.23 Britten Preludes and Dances
(The Prince of the Pagodas)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor Uri Segal Discs

With Nicola Heywood
Thomas, from the Brunswick
Room at the Guildhall, Bath, including a performance, broadcast live, from cellist Steven Isserlis.
Radio 3 Artist of the Week, pianist Imogen Cooper , plays Beethoven's Sonata in D, Op 10 No 3. And at 11.00
Bath International Music Festival
Chris de Souza introduces a live broadcast of a concert from the Guildhall's Banqueting Room in Bath, featuring the winner of the 1996 Leeds International Piano
Competition, llya Itin.
Chopin Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat, Op 61; Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op 30 No 4
Messlaen Le Baiser de I'Enfant Jesus
(Vingt Regards sur I'Enfant Jesus) Prokofiev Sonata No 8

Songs, Cantatas and Dances With Nicholas Anderson.
Pastoral revels in Arcadia
Italian Cantata: Arresta il Passo
(Aminta e Fillide)
London Handel Orchestra, director Denys Darlow
Repeated next Tuesday 11.30pm

Conductor Tomasz Bugaj , Anthony Goldstone (piano)
Marschner Overture: Der Vampyr
Weber Konzertstuck in F minor, Op 79 Hoffmann Symphony in E flat

Spotlight on Sarah Walker
The mezzo Sarah Walker , one of Britain's best-loved singers, talks to lain Burnside about her life and career and plays a selection from her recordings, including Handel's Hercules, Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and French and English songs. Repeated from yesterday 10pm

A concert given at the 1995 Utrecht Early Music Festival. Rene Jacobs conducts performances of two Italian cantatas and a rare dramma per musica by Bach.
A Scarlatti Su le Sponde del Tebro Vivaldi Cessate , Omai Cessate
Bach Der Streit zwischen Phoebus und Pan
Susan Gritton (soprano),
Andreas Scholl (countertenor), James Taylor (tenor),
Kurt Azesberger (baritone), Peter Lika (bass),
Academy of Ancient Music, Berlin, conductor Rene Jacobs

John Dowland 's First Book of Songs - published 400 years ago - became one of the most popular and successful collections of its day. Robert Spencer and Michelene Wandor introduce a selection of songs, tracing the influences on Dowland's style, his career as a composer, lutenist and poet, and approaches to interpreting his works in recent years.
Repeated from Sunday 2.30pm

Fretwork
Verity Sharp explores the history and repertoire of the viol consort with the group Fretwork.

With Geoffrey Baskerville. News, weather and music, including
5.30 Handel Sonata in B minor,
Op 2 No 1
Palladian Ensemble
5.47 Barber Medea 's Dance of Vengeance (Cave of the Heart) Atlantic Sinfonietta, conductor Andrew Schenk
6.05 Telemann Overture-Suite in C
(Hamburger Ebb und Fluth) (excerpt) Musica Antiqua Koln , conductor Reinhard Goebel
6.35 Salnt-Saens Piano Concerto
No 5 in F (Egyptian)
Pascal Roge , Royal Philharmonic, conductor Charles Dutoit
Producer David McGuinness

Paul Guinery introduces the fourth in a series of five recitals from the Turner Sims Hall ,
Southampton. I Fagiolini, director Robert Hollingworth
Monteverdi Altri Canti d'Amor
D'lndia Dispietata Pietate
Gesualdo Itene , 0 Miei Sospiri
Castello Sonata in D minor for Violin and Continuo
Monteverdi Chiome d'Oro; Gira il Nemico Insidioso; Hor ch'el Ciel e la Terra
8.20 The Music
Five stories from the recent collection of short stories by James Hamilton-Paterson , all of which are based around the theme of music.
4: The Dell. A young flute player discovers the relationship between water and music. Read by Roger May.
8.40 Monteverdi Audi Coelum;
Pulchra Es
Castello Sonata in D minor
Palestrina Duo Ubera Tua
Lassus Osculetur Me
Monteverdi Gloria
INDIA SEASON

2: The Backwards-Forward View. For the second of his conversations with young Indian novelists, Noah Richler travels to Delhi and meets Mukul Kesavan
, whose novel Looking through Glass follows the fortunes of a photographer who falls from a train and through history to 1942, the time of the Quit India movement and India's subsequent independence.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductor Elgar Howarth
Debussy Prélude a I'Apres-Midi d'un Faune
Alasdair Nicolson Breakdance
Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1919 version)

Richard Coles explores the cultural role of the dog and examines the way man's best friend has been represented by writers down the ages. Plus a report from the new
Glyndebourne production of Manon Lescaut , which was Puccini's first international success.
Producer Mohit Bakaya

Rodney Milnes explores the life and music of the leading composer of 20th-century Viennese operetta.
2: Affairs of State. Today love takes a back seat in Friederike and the Tsarevich, with roles taken by Lucia Popp , Jerry Hadley , Richard Tauber and Helen Donath.
Repeated from last Tuesday

Like many blues singers in the thirties Blue Lu worked with great jazzmen in her backing band. In her case, they were also friends and family, and she tells Alyn Shipton how she and her husband - Cab
Calloway's guitarist Danny Barker - shared an apartment with legends like Henry "Red" Allen and drummer Paul Barbarin.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Haydn String Quartets A series in which leading ensembles perform Haydn's finest quartets. String Quartet in G minor, Op 20 No 4
Tatrai Quartet String Quartet in D, Op 20 No 4 Vermeer Quartet
1.50 Orchestral Concert
Webem Symphony for Nine Instruments Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 1 Ensemble Contrechamps Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3
Dmitri Alexeev , Suisse Romande
Orchestra, conductor Armin Jordan
3.00 Schools
3.00 Playtime 3.15 Time to Move
3.35 Let's Make a Story 3.50
History (9-11) 4.10 In the News
4.30 CSYS English
5.00 Sequence