With Stephanie Hughes , including
Handel Concerto Grosso in C
(Alexander's Feast)
English Baroque Soloists, director John Eliot Gardiner
6.45 Faure Masques et Bergamasques
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
7.04 Gorecki Totus Tuus
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, conductor Stephen Cleobury
7.51 Chopin Polonaise in C minor, Op 40 No 2
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
8.05 Ravel, arr Grainger La Vallee
: des Cloches (Miroirs)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle
8.44 Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio
Espagnol Saito Kinen Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa Editor Andrew Lyle

Peter Hobday continues his survey of Schumann chamber music.
Beethoven The Creatures of Prometheus (excerpts) Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado
; 9.21 Schubert Der Musensohn; , Wandrers Nachtlied , 0224
Matthias Gome (baritone),
. Andreas Haefliger (piano) i 9.25 Schumann Piano Trio No 1 in D : minor, Op 63 i Artur Rubinstein (piano),
Henryk Szeryng (violin), Pierre Fournier (cello) Producer Tony Cheevers Discs

Mark Rowlinson 's selection this
; week includes celebrated recordings by Jascha Heifetz , who died ten
, years ago this month, and two more performances from the Masterprize competition.
Elgar Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town) Philharmonia, conductor John Barbirolli
10.14 Artist of the Week:
Jascha Heifetz (violin)
Wieniawski Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor
RCA Symphony Orchestra, conductor Izler Solomon
10.32 Wagner Albumblatt Cyprien Katsaris (piano)
10.40 Masterprize:
Victoria Borlsova-Ollas Wings of the Wind
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Philip Ellis
10.52 Schubert The Shepherd on the Rock Nancy Argenta (soprano), Erich Hoeprich (clarinet), Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)
11.04 Shostakovich String Quartet No 8 Rosamunde Quartet
11.25 Ravel Tzigane Jascha Heifetz (violin),
Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor Alfred Wallenstein
11.36 Haydn Symphony No 100 in G (Military)
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Harry Christophers Producer Paul Hindmarsh
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

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Piers Burton-Page presents a week of programmes in celebration of Goehr's 65th birthday, with contributions from the composer himself. Goehr's music is not easy to define in terms of style and schemes. He is against formal compositional systems, yet his music is steeped in the traditions of the past. 1: Measuring Time
Cello Sonata, Op 45
Alexander Baillie , Andrew Ball (piano) Sing, Ariel (excerpts)
Lucy Shelton , Eileen Hulse and Sarah Leonard (sopranos), ensemble, conductor Oliver Knussen
Piano Trio, Op 20 Orion Trio
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
Repeated next Monday 11.30pm

From St John's, Smith Square, London.
Florestan Trio: Susan Tomes (piano), Anthony Marwood (violin), Richard Lester (cello)
Haydn Piano Trio in F sharp minor, HXV26
Ravel Piano Trio in A minor
Repeated Saturday lpm

Conductors Gunther Herbig and Van Pascal Tortelier , Kathryn Stott (piano) Mozart Symphony No 36 in C (Linz) Ravel Piano Concerto in G
Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E

Repeated from yesterday 12.15pm

The Big Divide
Roger Scruton 's book The Aesthetics of Music makes a case against pop music. He thinks it is dangerous and argues that if young people were to listen to an equal dose of classical music, they would grow up to be more balanced individuals. Tommy Pearson examines the evidence.
Producer Verity Sharp
E-MAIL: musicmachine@bbc.co.uk

Did Dickens like Christmas carols, the music of Mendelssohn, Chopin or Schumann? Sean Rafferty explores the musical taste of our great man of letters. And this week, shop owners from Terence Conran to Tim Waterstone reveal the CD they would like for Christmas. Music includes Prokofiev's Symphony No 1 (Classical), with new releases at 7.00. Producer Erika Wright

Humphrey Carpenter presents an evening dedicated to the memory, music and ideas of Sir Isaiah Berlin, who died on 5 November. Friends and colleagues discuss his contribution to the life of the mind in Britain through a brilliant academic career, a great gift for friendship and an uncanny ability to bring the history of ideas to life.
7.40 Schubert Piano Sonata in A, D959
Alfred Brendel
8.00 Some Sources of Romanticism
The Lasting Effects
The final Mellon Lecture delivered by Sir Isaiah Berlin in 1965 in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
8.35 Mozart Don Giovanni (Act 2 Scene 5)
Conductor Otto Klemperer
8.55 Michael Ignatieff talks about the great Russian writers who influenced Isaiah Berlin.
9.05 A Fire at Sea
Ivan Turgenev 's drama translated and introduced by Isaiah Berlin.
9.23 Humphrey Carpenter talks to
Isaiah Berlin's literary executor Henry Hardy and to academics, philosophers and friends and asks whether future generations will catch the vibrancy and breadth of what has been called one of the most illustrious intellectual adventures of this century.
9.45 Beethoven String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131 Busch Quartet
9.55 Sir Isaiah Berlin
Producer Neil Trevithick

In Praise of Heine
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Heinrich Heine 's birth, Susan Sharpe presents the first of two programmes of settings of the great German poet. Anna Ryberg (soprano), Geoffrey Duce (piano), Stefan Loges (baritone), Alexander Schmalcz (piano). Producer Adam Gatehouse
Repeated tomorrow 4pm

With Mark Russell and Robert Sandall
, including a studio session from sampler duo Furt (
Richard Barrett and Paul Obermeyer ), with Ute Wassermann (extended vocals) and Friedrich Gauwerky (cello) performing deconstructions of songs from Schubert's Winterreise.
Producer Philip Tagney

(1891-1964)
1: Let's Do It. With recordings of the period, Paul Guinery tells the story of Porter in the 1920s.
Discs Repeated from last Monday

Richard Niles presents a week of programmes featuring the BBC Big Band. Tonight, Jamaican jazz piano legend Monty Alexander joins conductor Barry Forgie and the band for a concert set recorded at the Eden Court Theatre, Inverness. Producer Bob McDowall

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Piano Recital Frederic Chiu plays music by Mendelssohn, Chopin and Prokofiev
2.35 Bach Cantata No 10: Meine
Seele Erhebt den Herrn
Soloists, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Gustav Leonhardt
3.00 Song Recital
Marianne Skjerping (soprano) and Erling R Eriksen (piano) perform works by Valen, Wolf, Strauss and Grieg
4.10 Montreal SO, conductor
Charles Dutoit. Ignat Solzhenitsyn (piano) Ravel Alborada del Gracioso Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor
5.00 Sequence