With Andrew McGregor.
Couperin Concert No 10 in A minor
(Les Gouts Reunis) Charivari Agréable
6.11 Strauss Four Last Songs
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor George Szell
7.05 Faure Elegie Jacqueline du Pre (cello), Gerald Moore (piano)
7.32 Mozart Violin Sonata in E minor, K304 Isaac Stern ,
Yefim Bronfman (piano)
8.05 Haydn Overture: Die Feuerbrunst Haydn Sinfonietta of Vienna, conductor Manfred Huss
8.36 Beethoven Symphony No 1 in C RPO, conductor Rene Leibowitz

With Peter Hobday.
Mozart Divertimento in D, K136
Hagen Quartet
9.13 Bach Suite No 2 in B minor,
BWV1067 Linde Consort , director Hans-Martin Linde (flute)
9.32 Mozart Ch'io Mi Scordi di Te?
K505
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Steven Lubin (fortepiano), Academy of Ancient
Music, director Christopher Hogwood
9.42 Handel Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 6 No 6
Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood Discs

With Geraint Lewis.

Mendelssohn Mitten, Wir im Leben Sind - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, conductor Christopher Robinson

10.10 Mathias Vistas - New Philharmonia, conductor David Atherton

10.25 Panufnik Concerto Festivo - BBC NOW, conductor Howard Williams

10.40 Rachmaninov Daisies, Op 38 No 3 - Joan Rodgers (soprano), Howard Shelley (piano)

10.50 Britten Night Covers up the Rigid Land - Ian Bostridge (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

10.55 Medtner Fairy Tale in A, Op 51 No 3 - The Composer (piano)

11.00 Artist of the Week: Conductor Yevgeni Mravinsky
Shostakovich Symphony No 6 - Leningrad Philharmonic

11.30 Debussy Les Tierces Alternees; La Puerta del Vino (Preludes) - Martin Roscoe (piano)

11.35 Haydn Symphony No 89 in F - La Petite Bande, conductor Sigiswald Kuijken

Behind the Façade With Sandy Burnett.
2: En Famille - with the Sitwells in London and Italy
Facade: Suite No 1
London Philharmonic, conductor Jan Latham-Koenig The First Shoot
London Collegiate Brass, conductor James Stobart
Viola Concerto
Lars Anders Tomter , English Northern Philharmonia, conductor Paul Daniel Repeated next Tuesday 11.30pm

Haydn Plus
The sixth of eight concerts given last year in St George's, Brandon Hill , Bristol, based around the chamber works of Haydn. Introduced by Chris de Souza. London Winds attrib Haydn Octet in F
Jonathan Dove Figures in the Garden Mozart Serenade in C minor, K388 Repeat

BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Vasili Sinaisky , Lydia Mordkovitch (violin)
Szymanowski Concert Overture; Violin Concerto No 1
Shostakovich Symphony No 8

If You Go down to the Woods Today lain Burnside explores the fascination that forests, woods, glades and trees have exerted over poets and composers.
Repeated from yesterday 10pm

Scandinavia - Norway
Tommy Pearson visits the Concert Hall in Oslo to find out about
Norway's best-known ambassadors of classical music - the Oslo Philharmonic. He meets members of the orchestra and its management and also speaks to the orchestra's principal conductor, Mariss Jansons.

With this year's Aldeburgh October Festival concentrating on Haydn and Britten, Sean Rafferty talks to Donald Mitchell , chairman of the Britten Trustees , about the relationship between the two composers. He also meets Philip Langridge , who talks about Schubert's Winterreise, which he is currently tackling for the first time in a series of concerts around the country. With the opening of two exhibitions to celebrate his 60th birthday, painter Tom Philips reveals his fascination with abstracting the shapes of musical instruments and talks about his portrait of Harrison Birtwistle. Music includes Barber's
Adagio for Strings, Britten's Missa Brews, and Mozart's Flute Concerto in D at approximately 5.35.

From the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham, introduced by Chris Wines.
Anya Alexeev (piano)
Gubaidulina Chaconne
Medtner Two Fairy Tales, Op 20; Four Fairy Tales, Op 26
Prokofiev Tales of an Old
Grandmother, Op 31; Suggestions Diaboliques, Op 4
8.10 More of a Coup Than a Revolution Looking ahead to this Friday's evening of programmes from St
Petersburg, historian Orlando Figes , on the streets of the city, tells the story of October 1917 as thew Russian Revolution unfolded.
See also Friday 5pm
8.30 Rachmaninov Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op 42; Preludes, Op 32 No 5, No 12; Moments Musicaux Op 16 No 3, No 4
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

In the second of four readings from his new biography of Salvador Dali, Ian Gibson recalls how the painter met his muse. Sexually repressed, Dali was partially liberated in the twenties by Gala, then the wife of the French poet Paul Eluard. But this Russian-born artistic adventuress, described by one contemporary as a "sibyl of the Steppes", would exact a terrible price for helping Dali to overcome his inhibitions.

The last of three programmes juxtaposing music by Stravinsky with more recent works.
Sarah Walker (mezzo), Martin Roscoe (piano),
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Martyn Brabbins
Stravinsky Fireworks; The Faun and the Shepherdess; Capriccio
Lynne Plowman Blue (first broadcast performance)
Stravinsky Circus Polka

In From the House of the Dead,
Janacek condensed Dostoevsky's novel about a prison camp into some of his most intense and dramatic music. Richard Coles reports as Tim Albery 's new production opens at
English National Opera. Biographer
Graham Robb uncovers the forgotten work of Victor Hugo. Hugo wrote his first tragedy at 14, and, as well as such classics as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables, his prolific output included war poetry, opera, rhapsody and drama. Producer Rob Ketteridge

With Gerard McBurney. Today's programme includes the first of Glinka's musical postcards from his holidays in Spain.
La Jota Aragonesa USSR SO, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov Nocturne in E flat
Olga Tverskaya (fortepiano)
The Night Review Boris Christoff
(bass), Alexander Lahinsky (piano) A Life for the Tsar (excerpts)
Boris Christoff (bass), Belgrade
Opera Chorus, Lamoureux Orchestra, conductor Igor Markevitch Repeated from last Tuesday

With Dave Gelly. John Dankworth 's 70th birthday celebrations continue at Wavendon with more music from
Cleo Laine and the Alec and John
Dankworth Generation Band.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Bavarian RSO, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch Bruckner Symphony No 6 in A
2.00 Christoph Berner (piano)
Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor,
D53 7 Schumann Symphonic Studies
3.00 Schools
3.00 Playtime 3.15 Time to Move
3.35 Let's Make a Story 3.50 Drama Workshop 4.10 In the News 4.30 Hop, Skip and Jump 4.45 Eadar Eisdeachd
5.00 Sequence