With Richard Osborne.
Puccini Nessun Dorma (Turandot) Jose Cura (tenor), Philharmonia, conductor Placido Domingo
7.07 Schubert Impromptu in G flat, D899 No 3
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
7.14 Milhaud La Création du Monde
Victor Chamber Orchestra, conductor Leonard Bernstein
7.31 Grainger Country Gardens (1950 version) CBSO, conductor Simon Rattle
7.35 Beethoven Piano Concerto No
2 in B flat Yevgeni Kissin ,
Philharmonia, conductor James Levine
8.05 Schumann Liederkreis , Op 24 Thomas Hampson (baritone), Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano)
8.26 Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2
Maxim Vengerov , LSO, conductor Mstislav Rostropovich

David Nice compares the available recordings of Musorgsky's opera Boris Godunov. David Huckvale reviews new orchestral releases, including works by Strauss,
Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Bartok.

Strauss Dance Suite after Francois Couperin
Kenneth Sillito (violin),
Stephen Orton (cello), Kathryn Stott (piano), Academy of St Martin in the Reids, conductor Neville Marriner
10.45 Stravinsky Faun and Shepherdess Lucy Shelton (soprano), Cleveland
Orchestra, conductor Oliver Knussen
10.57 Bartok Dance Suite
Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer

Chris de Souza explores the latest batch of recordings from Dutton
Laboratories, including Mozart from Thomas Beecham , Berlioz from
Serge Koussevitzky , and Mahler from Bruno Walter. Discs
Producers Clive Portbury and Susan Kenyon E-MAIL: record.review@bbc.co.uk
DISC DETAILS: see BBC1 Ceefax page 651

Michael Berkeley 's guest this week is novelist, columnist and biographer AN Wilson , whose novels include The
Sweets ofPimlico, Who Was Oswald
Fish?, Scandal and The Vicar of Sorrows.
Wilson has also written biographies of Tolstoy, Milton, and Belloc and, most recently, a controversial study of St Paul. His musical choices range from sacred music by Haydn and Bruckner to orchestral works by Shostakovich, Bartok and Stanford. Executive producer Wendy Thompson

From St John's, Smith Square, London.
Endellion Quartet,
Juanita Lascarro (soprano)
Webern Slow Movement (1905); Five Movements, Op 5
Schoenberg String Quartet No 2 Repeated from Monday

Janos Starker
A fundamental refusal to compromise his artistic principles, a forthright manner and a controversial performance style have been among the most striking features of the great Hungarian-born cellist Janos Starker's career. In the second of three programmes, the LSO's principal cellist Moray Welsh talks to Starker, friends and colleagues about these and other aspects of an unconventional career, which included spells as an orchestral principal under Antal Dorati and Fritz Reiner and has seen him become one of the world's most highly regarded teachers. Music includes:
Mendelssohn Variations Concertantes, Op 17
Gyorgy Sebok (piano) Bruch Kol Nidrei
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Antal Dorati
Strauss Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (excerpt)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner
Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor
St Louis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin

Sandy Burnett presents the fourth of six programmes showcasing outstanding young musicians. Today's programme includes 20th-century works for clarinet, virtuoso music for harpsichord, and one of this century's most imposing cello sonatas. Poulenc Clarinet Sonata
Stravinsky Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet
Francaix Theme and Variations Elaine Cocks (clarinet),
Rebecca Woolcock (piano)
Bach Toccata in E minor, BWV914
Scarlatti Sonatas: in B minor, Kk87; in A. Kk114; in A Kkll3
Naji Hakim Toccata
Tien Yang (harpsichord)
Elliott Carter Cello Sonata
Alasdair Tait (cello),
Jeremy Young (piano)
During the interval, Alison Prain talks to Glyn Russ , administrator of the Early Music Network Young Artists' Competition.

With Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Discs
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In the sixth of eight programmes, Paul Oliver argues that recorded evidence suggests that the relationship between jazz and blues needs to be reconsidered. He introduces examples of jazz accompaniments to blues singers by Freddie Keppard , Punch Miller and Odell Rand.
Repeated Friday 12.30am
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

From the House of the Dead
Janacek's three-act opera after
Dostoyevsky, recorded earlier this month in the London Coliseum and sung in David Pountney 's English translation.
Chorus and Orchestra of English
National Opera, conductor Paul Daniel

William Fong (piano)
Beethoven Variations in C minor, woo 80
Mozart Adagio in B minor, K540 Busoni Sonatina super Carmen

Conductor Tadaaki Otaka , Minoru Nojima (piano)
Yoshimatsu Threnody for Toki Kaneko Tristesse
Takemitsu Star-Isle
Matsumura Piano Concerto No 2

In the last of four programmes, Steve Jones explores the 19th century, when Darwin published the Origin of Species, Strauss wrote his decadent music, and JJ Thompson discovered the electron.
Producer Julia Durbin
E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk

With Brian Morton and Alyn Shipton. Tonight, excerpts from a concert given by the Charles Lloyd Quartet earlier this week at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Lloyd plays tenor sax, with Bobo Stenson (piano), Anders Jormin (double bass) and Billy Hart (drums). Lloyd talks to Alyn Shipton about his career, one of the highs being the remarkable quartet he was in during the 1960s with Keith Jarrett (piano), Cecil McBee (bass) and Jack DeJohnette (drums). Music on CD comes from recent releases by the individual members of this group. Producer Derek Drescher

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Jazz from Bulgaria With Version Acoustique
1.55 Vespers from Kiev Moscow
Patriarchate Choir/Anatoli Gridenko
3.05 Vivaldi Flute Sonata in C, RV55 (II Pastor Fido) Mauro Giuliani Grand Duo Concertant. Op 52
Matej Zupan (flute), Janko Setinc
(harpsichord), Milos Mlejnik (cello), Klara Tomljanovic (guitar)
3.45 Motets by Giovanni Paolo Colonna Arte Musica , Milan/
Francesco Cero (organ)
4.35 German SO/Vladimir Ashkenazy, Juanita Lascarro (soprano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), RIAS Chamber Chorus Peter Ruzicka Inseln , Randlos
Mahler Symphony No 4
6.00 Sequence