With Andrew McGregor.
Boccherini Flute Quintet in C, G439 Jean-Pierre Rampal , Regis Pasquier
(violin), Bruno Pasquier (viola), Roland Pidoux and Mathilde Sternat (cellos)
6.18 Delius Autumn (North Country Sketches) Ulster Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley
7.05 Canteloube Trois Bourrees
(Songs of the Auvergne)
Frederica von Stade (mezzo),
RPO, conductor Antonio de Almeida
7.32 Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
8.05 Delibes Bell Song (Lakme) Amelita Galli-Curci (soprano), unknown orchestra
8.35 Strauss Oboe Concerto
Richard Woodhams ,
Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch Editor Andrew Lyle

Peter Hobday continues his survey of Handel's concerti grossi and embarks on the Saint-Saens symphonies. Walton Overture: Scapino
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Litton
9.08 Handel Concerto Grosso in D, j Op 6 No 5 Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood
9.23 Milhaud Scaramouche
Philippe Corre and Edouard Exerjean (pianos)
9.32 Saint-Saens Symphony in A (cl850)
I French National Radio Orchestra, conductor Jean Martinon
Producer Tony Cheevers Discs

From Cardiff, with Geraint Lewis.
This week's programmes feature new recordings of choral music by Mendelssohn. William Mathias's
Landscapes of the Mind and a group of five Haydn symphonies. There's a I strong Russian flavour to the week j commemorating 80 years of the ; October Revolution of 1917 with historic recordings by Radio 3's Artist of the Week, Evgeny Mravinsky , a daily song by Rachmaninov, and contributions from famous Russian pianists born before 1917.
Mendelssohn Psalm 91: Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen
Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, conductor Christopher Robinson
10.05 Mathias Laudi
New Philharmonia, conductor David Atherton
10.15 Haydn Symphony No 88 in G La Petite Bande, conductor Sigiswaid Kuijken
' 10.40 Ravel La Vallée des Cloches
(Miroirs) Martin Roscoe (piano)
10.45 Trad, arr Britten La Belle Est au Jardin damour, Eho! Eho!; Quand J'Etais chez Mon Pere
Ian Bostridge (tenor),
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
10.50 Chopin Introduction and Polonaise Brillante in C, Op 3 Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)
11.00 Mozart Rondo alia Turca
(Piano Sonata in A, K331) Sergei Rachmaninov
11.05 Artist of the Week:
Yevgeni Mravinsky (conductor)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique)
Leningrad Philharmonic
11.50 Rachmaninov At Night in My Garden, Op 38 No 1; To Her, Op 38 No 2 Joan Rodgers (soprano), Howard Shelley (piano)
11.55 Rachmaninov Polka Italienne
Sergei and Natalie Rachmaninov (pianos)
Producer Gwawr Owen
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

(1902-83)
Behind the Facade
Facade was initially badly received by the critics, but the entertainment which the English composer devised with poet Edith Sitwell became one of his most popular and enduring works. Sandy Burnett explores the many versions Walton made of the music, and some of his other masterpieces. 1: Fanfare - from Oldham to Oxford Polka (Fagade) Constant Lambert
(speaker), ensemble conducted by the Composer
Litany Choir of Trinity College,
Cambridge, director Richard Marlow Crown Imperial CBSO, conductor Louis Fremaux
Facade Edith Sitwell and Peter Pears (speakers), English Opera Group
Ensemble, conductor Anthony Collins Producer Brian Jackson
Repeated next Monday 11.30pm
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

From St John's, Smith Square, London.
Nash Ensemble,
Lucy Shelton (soprano/speaker), conductor Martyn Brabbins
Berg Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op 5
Dallapiccola Due Liriche di Anacreonte Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire Repeated Saturday 1pm

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Strauss Don Juan
Conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D
Thomas Zehetmair (violin)
Shostakovich Symphony No 5 Conductor Mark Wigglesworth

Repeated from yesterday 12.15pm

Scandinavia - Norway
In the first of four programmes from Norway, Tommy Pearson talks to Mona Levin , editor of Listen to
Norway, the journal of the Norwegian Music Information Centre.
Producer Christina Pritchard
E-MAIL: music.machine@bbc.co.uk

English National Opera's new musical director Paul Daniel joins
Sean Rafferty today as Tim Albery 's new production of From the House of the Dead by Janacek opens at the London Coliseum. Music includes
Mozart's Symphony No 29 in A, K201 and Bizet's Jeux d'Enfants.
Producer Nicki Paxman

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle, Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Introduced by Chris de Souza.

Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin

Szymanowski Symphony No 4 (Symphonie Concertante)

Stravinsky Four Norwegian Moods

Borodin Symphony No 2 in B minor

The first of four readings by Ian Gibson from his new biography of Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali first met the great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca when they were fellow students in Madrid.

The featured instrument is the new two-manual instrument built by the Canadian firm Letoumeau for Pembroke
College, Oxford. David Titterington returns to the chapel where he was organ scholar to give a programme of Baroque and contemporary music from North America.
Anon Suite (Livre d'Orgue du Montreal) Barry Cabena Trio Sonata, Op 265 Dan Locklair Rubrics IV and V
Next programme Thursday 30 October 9.25pm

If You Go Down to the Woods Today lain Burnside explores the influence that forests, woods, glades and trees have had on poets and composers.
Producer Chris Marshall. Rptd tomorrow 4pm

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall introduce a studio session by sampler-collagist Marie Goyette playing her Short Cuts (cut-ups of famous composers' music). Producer Philip Tagney
MUSIC DETAILS: see BBC1 Ceefax page 652

With
Gerard McBurney. Kamarinskaya; Cradle Song; Bolero; Travelling Song (A Farewell to St Petersburg); Overture; Antonida's
Cavatina; Rondo; Polonaise; Chorus of the Poles; Duet (A Life for the Tsar) Repeated from last Monday

With Dave Gelly. This week's programmes mark John Dankworth 's 70th birthday, which he celebrates with a concert featuring Cleo Laine and the Generation Band, co-led by Dankworth and his son Alec.
Producer Terry Carter

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Celebrity Recital Galina Gorchakova (soprano),
Larissa Gergieva (piano). Songs by Glinka, Dargomizhsky, Rimsky-Korsakov,
Balakirev, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky
2.15 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2 in C minor (Little Russian)
3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Box 3.15 Something to
Think About 3.30 The Song Tree 3.45 Radio Showcase 3.50 Stories and Rhymes 4.00 Together Stories 4.15 Music for Dance 4.30 Hopscotch
4.45 Scottish Resources 7-9
5.00 Sequence