With Andrew McGregor, including:

Brahms Four Songs for Women's Voices - RIAS Chamber Choir, conductor Marcus Creed

6.20 Chopin Two Nocturnes, Op 48 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

7.04 Barber Ballade, Op 46 - Leon McCawley (piano)

7.32 Respighi Fountains of Rome - Oslo PO, conductor Mariss Jansons

8.05 Lehar Waltz: Gold and Silver - Halle Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli

8.35 Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin (Tatiana's Letter Scene) - Inessa Galante (soprano), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conductor Neeme Jarvi

With Peter Hobday.
Cherubini Overture:
Anacreon NBCSO , conductor Arturo Toscanini
9.11 Faure Ballade in F sharp,
Op 19 Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
9.26 Ravei Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarme Suzanne Danco (soprano), Members of the Suisse Romande
Orchestra, conductor Ernest Ansermet
9.38 Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica) NBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arturo Toscanini Discs

Joan Sutherland
A daily series in which leading artists talk revealingly about their music making and their careers to Joan Bakewell. Today
Dame Joan Sutherland talks about the range of her repertoire, from The Beggar's Opera to songs by Noel Coward.

In 1900, Louis Vierne became organist at Notre Dame in Paris, beating 500 other applicants for the post with one of his organ symphonies and a fine Solemn Mass in a city renowned for the skill and social position of its organists.
Vierne's career was dogged by poor eyesight and, during a period of treatment in Switzerland,
Marcel Dupre took over - the two men never spoke to each other again. But Vierne died as he would have wished, at the console of his beloved instrument during a recital. The programme includes recordings of Vierne playing the Notre Dame organ.

Bruce Wood explores the music of Germany's first great composer. 3: War and Sudden Death.
Throughout the 1630s, the horrors of the Thirty Years' War profoundly affected Schutz's professional life, and he also suffered a crushing series of personal losses. Yet his creativity was undiminished. Bruce Wood explores the music he composed for the funerals of his friends, some of his sacred music for the small forces which were all a war-torn country could muster, and organ music by his talented pupil, Matthias Weckmann.
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm

From the Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham, the first of six concerts of the music of Shostakovich and Tippett, introduced by Chris Wines.
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Shostakovich Piano Sonata No I
Tippett Piano Sonata No 3
Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue No 24

Admission: free, no tickets required. Doors open at 12.30pm

With Susan Sharpe.
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From the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Introit: Epiphany Responsory (Marlow) Processional Hymn: As with Gladness (Dix, descant Willcocks) First Reading: Genesis 15, wl-16 Ecco Virgo Concipiet (Sweelinck)
Second Reading: Exodus 2, wl-10
Hodie Christus Natus Est (Sweelinck) Third Reading: Isaiah 42, wl-12
Hymn: Let All Mortal Flesh (Picardy) Angelus ad Pastores Ait (Sweelinck) Fourth Reading: Romans 10, w5-18 In Illo Tempore (Sweelinck)
Fifth Reading: St Matthew 2, wl-12 Ab Oriente (Sweelinck)
Hymn: 0 Worship the Lord (Was Lebet, descant Marlow)
Gaude et Laetare (Sweelinck)
Organ Voluntary: Christum Wir Sollen Lobe Schon , BWV611 (Bach)
Director of music Richard Marlow.
Organ scholars Thomas Blunt and Mark Williams.

Cirque du Soleil returns to Britain with a new show, and Sean Rafferty goes in search of favourite circus music from Stravinsky to Fucik. Including Satie's Parade performed by the LSO, conductor Antal Dorati , at 5.40.

Voices at the Wigmore Hall lain Burnside presents the fifth of eight vocal recitals from London's Wigmore Hall. Russell Braun (baritone), Carolyn Maude (piano)
Loewe Der Zauberlehrling , Op 20 No 2; Tom der Reimer , Op 135a; Erlkonig, Op 1 No 3
Wolf Ich Liess Mir Sagen; Heb'auf Dein Blondes Haupt ; Sterb' Ich; Hoffartig Seid Ihr , Schones Kind; Geseele, Woll'n Wir Uns in Kutten Hullen ; Nun Lass Uns
Frieden Schliessen ; Benedeit die Serge Mutter ; Ein Standchen Euch zu
Bringen (Italian Songbook) Debussy Fetes Galantes Strauss Schlichte Weisen

Eight programmes of pre-war recordings by London dance bands. 5: Who's Been Polishing the Sun? With songs from Jack Hulbert , Jack Buchanan , Sam Browne , Hildegarde Hutch , Jack Cooper ,
Jessie Matthews , and the Swingtette. Repeat

From the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, introduced by Linda Ormiston.
National Youth Choir and Orchestra, conductor Christopher Seaman
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 2 (London)
8.20 The NYO at 50
Six musicians talk about being part Of the NYO. Revised repeat
8.40 Hoist Suite: The Planets

Novel Concerns
3: Sin City. The programme descends into the grim reality of the post-imperial city to find out whether this is the proper stuff of fiction.

The seventh of 14 programmes. Malcolm Binns (piano)
Haydn Piano Sonata in D, H XVI 51 Bartok Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs
Haydn Piano Sonata in G, H XVI 39 Next programme Wednesday 9.15pm

Don DeLillo , one of the most ambitious contemporary writers of fiction, offers an underground history of America in his novel Underworld.
Patrick Wright and guests discuss DeLillo's diagnosis of American history. The programme also examines ways in which contemporary writers are reinvigorating the poetry of elegy. And Tom Morris reports from Turkey, continuing this week's series on international arts festivals. Producer Rob Ketteridge

Brian Morton introduces songs by Richard Hundley , Theodore Chanter , Laurie Anderson , Ned Rorem ,
Copland, John Musto and Barber. Repeated from last Wednesday

Digby Fairweather presents a studio set from the Anthony Kerr Group.

With Penny Gore.

1.00 Archives Recordings from Hungarian radio.

Liszt Paraphrase on Verdi's "Rigoletto" - Gyorgy Cziffra (piano)

Bartok For Children (excerpts) - The Composer (piano)

Dohnanyi Ruralia Hungarica - The Composer (piano)

Kodaly The Aged - Hungarian Radio Choir/Gyorgy Lehel

Dohnanyi Serenade in C - Denes Kovass (violin), L. Barsanyi (viola), K. Botvay (cello)

Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor - Dezso Ranki

Dohnanyi Suite in F sharp minor - Budapest SO/Tamas Vasary

3.20 Mozart Piano Concerto No 15 in B flat - Dubravka Tomsic, Slovenian SO/Anton Nanut

4.00 Homeman Overture: A Hero's Life - Danish NRSO/Michael Schonwandt

4.20 Bartok Rhapsody No 1 - Zoltan Takas (viola), Finnish RSO/ ans Bister

4.40 Boccherini String Quintet in B flat, G477 C- uarteto Martin i Soler

5.00 Sequence Including music by Kodaly, Jeno Hubay and Goldmark

5.10 Leo Weiner Divertimento No 2 - Franz Liszt CO/Janos Rolla

5.35 Farkas Overture: Sly Students - Hungarian RSO/Gyorgy Lehel