With Andrew McGregor.

Gavin Bryars Sub Rosa - Gavin Bryars Ensemble

6.14 Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole - London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kent Nagano

7.03 Vieme Kyrie (Messe Solennelle) - Westminster Cathedral Choir, Joseph Cullen and Andrew Reid (organs), director James O'Donnell

7.32 Grieg Holberg Suite - National Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Willi Boskovsky

8.05 Canteloube Bajlero (Songs of the Auvergne) - Frederica von Stade (soprano), Royal Philharmonic, conductor Antonio de Almeida

8.43 Liszt Les Preludes - Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Zubin Mehta

With Peter Hobday.

Liszt Transcendental Studies Nos 1-4 - Jorge Bolet (piano)

9.18 Mozart Symphony No 36 in C (Linz) - Vienna Philharmonic, conductor James Levine

With Mary Miller.
Artist of the Week:
Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Puccini 0 Mimi, Tu Piu Non Tomi
(La Boheme)
Welsh National Opera Orchestra, conductor Carlo Rizzi
10.06 Balbastre Sonate en Quatuor No 3
Concerto Rococo
10.20 Sounding the Century:
Gottfried von Elnem Concerto for
Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Alexander Titov
10.42 Bizet Au Fond du Temple Saint (The Pearl Fishers)
Thomas Hampson (baritone),
Welsh National Opera Orchestra, conductor Carlo Rizzi
10.49 Schelling Suite Fantastique Ian Hobson (piano),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins
11.28 Warlock Capriol Suite Nash Ensemble , conductor Martyn Brabbins
11.44 Maxwell Davies Farewell to
Stromness
Allan Neave (guitar)
11.50 Mozart Soave sia il Vento
(Cosi Fan Tutte)
Thomas Hampson (baritone), Concertgebouw Orchestra , conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3: Medieval Romance
The popularity of Manon and Werther, among others, has encouraged audiences to associate Massenet with operas set in the 18th century, but he set many more of his works in the Middle Ages - witness today's excerpts from Le
Jongleur de Notre Dame, Le Cid and Griselidis, the latter being a particularly touching family drama. Presented by Rodney Milnes.
Discs Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm

I From the Adrian Boult Hall ,
I Birmingham. The opening recital in this series is given by the pianist Gordon Fergus-Thompson . Brahms Three Intermezzi, Op 117
Chopin Barcarolle in F sharp, Op 60 Rachmaninov Prelude in E flat, Op 23 No 6; Etude-Tableau in E flat minor, Op 39 No 5
Scrlabln Etude, Op 8 No 11; Vers la Flamme, Op 72
Doors open at 12.30pm, and admission is free - no ticket required

National Tree Week begins today, and Susan Sharpe invites listeners' requests on the theme of forests, woods and trees.

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From Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.
Introit: Christ Is Our Cornerstone
(Rawsthorne)
Responses(Rose)
Psalm 119, wl45-end (Garrett, Wilton, Garrett, Atkins)
Office Hymn: Around the Throne of God a Band (Solothurn)
First Lesson: Hosea 11, wl-11
Canticles: Stanford in C
Second Lesson: Matthew 12, wl-21
Anthem: I Saw the Lord (Stainer)
Hymn: Crown Him with Many Crowns (Diademata)
Organ Voluntary: Toccata from the Plymouth Suite (Whitlock)
Organist and master of the choristers Ian Tracey. Assistant organist Ian Wells Repeated tomorrow lam

Sean Rafferty talks to pianist Eric Parkin about the paradoxical figure of composer Arnold Bax and plays music including Stravinsky's take on tango and Lotte Lenya's take on Kurt Weill. Plus at 5.40 viola player Yuri Bashmet's performance of Bruch's Kol Nidrei.

Voices at the Wigmore Hall
The first of eight recitals from London's Wigmore Hall features mezzo-soprano Ann Murray in a programme of music inspired by her native Ireland. She is accompanied by Steuart Bedford
(piano). Presented by lain
Burnside. Beethoven , arr Moore Two Irish Songs Berlioz Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Moore
Rletf Four Songs to Poems by WB Yeats Barber Three Songs to Poems by James Joyce ; Nuvoletta

Eight programmes of recordings made by London dance bands in the 1920s and 1930s.

Carroll Gibbons (piano) and the Savoy Orpheans, the resident band at the Savoy Hotel, with vocalists Anne Lenner, Jack Plant and George Melachrino.
(Repeat)

BBC 75th Anniversary Concert
Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius live from St ram s cathedral.
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo). Philip Langridge (tenor),
Alastair Miles (bass), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST with BBC2
+ Brian Kay 's Concert of the Week: page 50
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Pastiche artist or architectural genius? The great romantic houses of Sir Edwin Lutyens are reassessed, including his extraordinary Castle Drogo. Presented by Susan Marling.

Gyorgy Ligeti's arrangements of the Hungarian and Romanian folk songs he heard as a boy in Transylvania.
(See also tomorrow 9.45pm)

Penny Gore presents a recital by pianists Artur Pizarro and Stephen Coombs. Mozart Sonata in D, K448
Saint-Saens Variations on a Theme of Beethoven, Op 35 Repeated tomorrow 4pm

Bernard-Marie Koltes was one of the most innovative French writers of the eighties. Tony Palmer discusses the first major British production of his work as his last play, Roberto Zucco , opens tonight at the RSC's The Other Place in Stratford. Plus a look at a new generation of women artists in the light of a new exhibition in Manchester called Some Kind of Heaven, which explores how far the artists share common influences and themes.
Producer Fiona Bailey

3: Wagnerisms
Guntram (excerpt)
Hungarian State Orchestra/Eve Queler Salome (excerpt)
Lyon Opera Orchestra , conductor Kent Nagano
Repeated from last Wednesday

Digby Fairweather presents a studio set by the Harry Beckett Quintet.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Bavarian RSO/Mariss Jansons, Truls Mork (cello).
Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1919) Haydn Cello Concerto in C, H Vllb 1 Shostakovich Symphony No 5
2.40 Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments BBC SO/Elgar Howarth
3.00 Schools
3.00 Time and Tune 3.20 Together
3.40 Dance Workshop 4.00 Radio Showcase 4.05 Primary Geography
4.20 Scottish Resources: 10-12
4.40 Talking Point
5.00 Sequence