With Andrew McGregor , including Charpentier Messe de Minuit
Choir and Orchestra of Les Musiciens du Louvre, director Marc Minkowski
6.28 Locatelli Concerto in F minor,
Op 1 No 8 1 Musici, director Felix Ayo
7.04 Bridge Sir Roger de Coverley ASMF, conductor Neville Marriner
7.32 Schumann Konzertstuck in F for
Four Horns Philharmonia, conductor Christian Thielemann
8.05 Johann Strauss (son) Waltz:
1 Accelerations Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Carlos Kleiber
8.33 Albeniz, orch Arbos Suite: Iberia Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Antal Dorati I Editor Andrew Lyle

With Peter Hobday. This week,
Beethoven symphonies and Toscanini recordings. j Rossini Overture: William Tell
NPO, conductor Riccardo Chailly
9.13 Smetana Vltava (Ma Vlast) NBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arturo Toscanini
9.25 Haydn Nottumo No 8 in G, H II 27
Marten Root (flute),
Michael Niesemann (oboe),
Mozzafiato, L'Archibudelli
9.38 Cherubini In Paradisum
Chorus Musicus Köln,
Das Neue Orchester , conductor Christoph Spering
9.45 Beethoven Symphony No 1 in C
Philharmonia, conductor Herbert von Karajan
10.10 Weber Adagio in E flat; Rondo in B flat
Piet Honingh and Harry Bijholt
(clarinets), Adriaan van Woudenberg and Iman Soetman (horns),
Brian Pollard and Robert Berkhout (bassoons)
10.18 Haydn Te Deum in C
Namur Chamber Choir, La Petite
Bande, director Sigiswald Kuijken
Producer Tony Cheevers

Joan Sutherland
A daily series in which leading artists talk revealingly about their music-making and careers to Joan Bakewell. Today Dame Joan Sutherland talks about her upbringing in Australia and her arrival in London in the austere, postwar fifties.
! Producer Gwawr Owen

With Richard Baker. When Bach was appointed Kantor at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, he was only the third choice for the job. He submitted his Cantata No 22 for his application. Over the next quarter of a century, he rowed frequently with the Town Council, wrote prodigious j quantities of church and other music, became renowned across Europe as a a composer and organist, and produced 13 children. He often reused secular music in a sacred context, as in the Epiphany section
I of the Christmas Oratorio. Producer Andrew Lyle

Bruce Wood explores the music of Germany's first great composer.

Schutz's early life, from his student days in Venice to his marriage ten years later, including some of his Italian madrigals and his sumptuous polychoral German psalm settings. The programme also includes music by his leading German contemporaries, Schein, Scheidt and Praetorius.
(Repeated next Monday 11.30pm)

From St John's, Smith Square, London.
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Wind Ensemble, director Anthony Halstead
Mozart Serenade in B flat, K361 Repeated Saturday 1pm

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Schubert Overture in B flat
Conductor Nicholas Kraemer
Britten Four Sea Interludes
Conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Britten Sinfonia da Requiem Conductor Mark Wigglesworth
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor Conductor Tadaaki Otaka , Olivier Charlier (violin)

Repeated from yesterday 12.15pm

These You Have Loathed
Verity Sharp talks to pianist Rolf Hind and discovers which pieces of music he would cheerfully throw on the fire. Producer Kerry Chapman

As a prelude to Twelfth Night tonight, Sean Rafferty investigates the traditions associated with this time of year. Music includes some of last year's top recordings as well as harpsichordist George Malcolm in Poulenc's Concert Champetre with lona Brown directing the ASMF at 5.30. Producer Helen Garrison

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Introduced by Geoffrey Baskerville. Conductor Osmo Vanska ,
Grigory Sokolov (piano)
Sibelius The Wood Nymph
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor
Glinka Kamarinskaya
Shostakovich Symphony No 1

Novel Concerns
Valentine Cunningham presents a guide to contemporary English fiction. 1: Who Speaks for the Present?
Who dares command a fiction, tell a story? A look at the problem of voice. Producer Julian Hale

Alfred Schnittke wrote a movement for piano quartet to partner and complete Mahler's piece. They are both played here by members of the Borodin Quartet and pianist Ludmilla Berlinsky.

Presenting Bernarda Fink lain Burnside presents the Argentinian-born soprano making her Voices debut in a specially recorded programme.
Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano)
Schumann Liederkreis , Op 39 Brahms Five Songs, Op 94
Wolf Die Kleine , Die Zigeurerin Waldmadchen , Producer
Adam Gatehouse Repeated tomorrow 4pm

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present a mix of musical styles, including a studio session from
Steve Arguelles (drums) and Benoit Delbecq (samplers) improvising excursions into ambient techno.
Producer Philip Tagney

In the first of five programmes this week on 20th-century American art songs, Brian Morton introduces settings of Walt Whitman - love songs, satires, diaries and memories of the Civil War. Composer Ned Rorem talks about his cycle War Scenes. Ives Walt Whitman
Thomas Hampson (baritone), Craig Rutenberg (piano) Rorem War Scenes
Donald Gramm (bass), Eugene Istomin (piano)
Rorem 0 You Whom I Often and Silently Come
Cynthia Haymon (soprano), Warren Jones (piano) Marder To a Stranger Robert White (tenor),
Samuel Sanders (piano)
Burleigh Ethiopia Saluting the Colours Thomas Hampson (baritone), Craig Rutenberg (piano)
John Adams The Wound Dresser
Sanford Sylvan (baritone),
Naoko Tanaka (violin), Chris Gekker (trumpet), Orchestra of St Luke's, conducted by the Composer Repeated from last Monday

Digby Fairweather is joined by Michael Garrick to pay tribute to trumpeter Shake Keane. Producer Terry Carter

With Penny Gore.
1.00 Schubert Winterreise Lois
Marshall (mezzo), Anton Kuerti (piano)
2.25 Hidas Adagio for Strings Hungarian Radio Orchestra/ Gyorgy Lehel
2.35 Beethoven Symphony No 1 in C Finnish RSO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste
3.15 Rachmaninov Suite No 1
(Fantaisie Tableaux) Jeroen and Maarten van Veen (pianos)
3.40 Dvorak Serenade for Strings Slovenicum CO/Uros Lajovic
4.10 Verdi Stabat Mater : Te Deum Spanish Radio Choir, RTVE SO/ Sergiu Commissiona
5.00 Sequence
Including Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)
Danish RSO/Michael Schonwandt
5.40 Boccherini Guitar Quintet in E flat, G266
Cuartetto Martin i Soler,
Joachim Ruiz Asumendi (guitar)