With Andrew McGregor , including
Mozart Idomeneo: Ballet Music No 1
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Grant Llewellyn
6.15 Tchaikovsky Overture: Hamlet New Philharmonia, conductor Antal Dorati
7.03 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in B flat, Op 12 No 6
Pavlo Beznosiuk, Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
7.32 Chabrter Lied; Toutes les Fleurs Felicity Lott (soprano),
Graham Johnson (piano)
8.05 Beethoven Overture:
Prometheus
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
8.40 Bantock Celtic Symphony Royal Philharmonic, conductor Vernon Handley

With Peter Hobday.
Prokofiev Symphony No I in D (Classical)
Philharmonia, conductor Efrem Kurtz
9.14 Johann Strauss (son), transcr Webern Waltz: The Gypsy Baron Berlin Soloists,
Philip Moll (harmonium),
Elisabeth Leonskaya (piano)
9.23 Handel Concerto Grosso in B minor, Op 6 No 12
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
9.35 Saint-Saens Symphony No 2 in A minor
Tapiola Sinfonietta , conductor Jean-Jacques Kantorow Discs

Stephanie Hughes follows the trail to Britten through Haydn's pupil Pleyel. Haydn Missa Brevis in F, H XXII 1 Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Simon Preston
10.15 Pleyel Sonatina No 3 in F Martin Souter (square piano) 10.25 Paganini Introduction and Variations (Di Tanti Palpiti) Maxim Vengerov (violin), Itamar Golan (piano) 10.37 Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
The Composer (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Leopold Stokowski
11.03 Bax Tintagel Ulster Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson
11.19 Artists of the Week:
Chilingirian Quartet
Elgar String Quartet in E minor, Op 83
11.47 Britten Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor), Michael Thompson (horn), Roger Vignoles (piano)

With Geoffrey Baskerville. For two years Dussek was Kapellmeister to Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, and he followed his employer from one battlefield to another, playing, drinking and generally living the good life. His Concerto for Two Pianos was premiered the night before the prince's death at the battle of Saalfeld in October 1806.
Concerto in B flat for Two Pianos, Op 63 Frantisek Maxian and Jan Panenka , Czech Philharmonic, conductor Zdenek Chalabala
Piano Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 61 (Elegie Harmonique)
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm

From the Wigmore Hall, London.
Leopold String Trio:
Marianne Thorsen (violin), Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola), Kate Gould (cello)
Mozart Divertimento in E flat, K563 TICKETS: phone (0171) [number removed]

To celebrate Halloween, Susan Sharpe invites listeners' requests for music on the theme of ghosts, witches and things that go bump in the night.
Producer Brian Jackson Discs
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From Chelmsford Cathedral
Introit: God Be in My Head (Philip Wilby )
Responses (Reading)
Office Hymn: O for a Thousand Tongues (Arden)
Psalms 142 and 143 (Cherubini arr Deffel, Stainer)
First Lesson: Proverbs 22, vv l-16
Canticles: Westminster Service (Howells)
Second Lesson: 1 John 2, vv 22-end
Anthem: Nearer My God to Thee (Horbury)
Organ Voluntary: Improvisation sur le Te Deum (Tournemire, reconstr Durufle)
Master of the music: Graham Elliott
Assistant master of the music: Neil Weston.

With the publication of the second part of her autobiography,
Doris Lessing explains how her passion for music has shaped her life. And, to continue this week's look at dance and music, choreographer Richard Alston tells presenter
Humphrey Carpenter why he has chosen pieces from Rameau to Britten for his company's new triple bill at the Royal Northern College of Music. Tonight's music includes Shura Cherkassky 's recording of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 27 No 1.

A concert of operatic music from Mozart's Vienna, ending with Der
Schauspieldirektor, his comic opera about the trials and tribulations of a travelling opera company. Before it, music by Mozart's friends and contemporaries, some of whom may have influenced him.
Laura Claycomb and Christiane Oelze (sopranos), Jamie MacDougall
(tenor), Jeremy White and Michael John Pearson (basses), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Ivan Fischer
Storace Overture: Gli Equivoci
Gazzaniga Introduzione e Scena (Don Giovanni )
Paisiello Ma Dov 'eri Tu Stordito (II Barbiere di Siviglia)
Mozart Misera , Dove Son! K369
Salieri Overture: Prima la Musica e
Poi le Parole
Martin Y Soler Pace Caro Mio Sposo (Una Cosa Rara)
Mozart Vorrei Spiegarvi , Oh Dio,
K418; Dite Almeno , in Che Mancai, K479; Der Schauspieldirektor Second concert next Wednesday

Radio Poems
Five specially commissioned poems blending words and sound. 3: Once Upon a Zoo By Lavinia Greenlaw.

BBC Singers, conductor David Hill
Rheinberger Mass for Double Chorus Bruckner Du Bist Wie eine Blume;
Das Edle Herz
Cornelius So Weich und Warm
Mahler Ich Bin der Welt Abhanden Gekommen

Penny Gore introduces a recital by the Rogeri Trio.
Mozart Trio in C, K548
Rachmaninov Trio Elegaique in G minor Producer Nigel Wilkinson Repeated tomorrow 4pm

Life on the Edge. Love them or loathe them, the suburbs have become central to British culture.
Patrick Wright goes in search of suburban muses and examines the future of life on the edge. Producer Matthew Dodd
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Behind the Façade With Sandy Burnett.
Four Songs after
Sitwell Jill Gomez (soprano), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Belshazzar's Feast
Benjamin Luxon (baritone), London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Georg Solti
Repeated from last Wednesday

Continuing the week of jazz guitar music. Over two programmes,
Campbell Burnap presents a selection of great jazz guitarists on record.
1: Pioneers and Swing Stars. Featuring Eddie Lang , Django Reinhardt , Charlie Christian and Freddie Green.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Prague Spring Festival Czech PO/Viadimir Valek, Vaclav Hudecek (violin), Jaroslav Tuma (organ)
Respighi Roman Festivals
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Saint-Saens Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ)
2.35 Mozart Piano Sonata in F, K280; Adagio in B minor, K540 Mitsuko Uchida
3.20 Budapest Festival Orchestra/Ivan Fischer
Liszt Tasso
Mahler Symphony No 6
5.00 Sequence