With Richard Osborne.

Grainger (arr for Stokowski) Early One Morning; Handel in the Strand - BBC Philharmonic, conductor Richard Hickox

7.11 Schutz Freue Dich des Weibes Deiner Jugend - Weser-Renaissance Bremen, director Manfred Cordes

7.16 Liszt Hymne de l'Enfant a Son Reveil (Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses) - Leslie Howard (piano)

7.24 Schutz Vier Hirtinnen, Gleich Jung, Gleich Schon - Weser-Renaissance Bremen, director Manfred Cordes

7.31 Grainger Youthful Suite - BBC Philharmonic, conductor Richard Hickox

7.58 Ireland Sextet - Peter Nichols (clarinet), Miles Hewitt (horn), Kate Bailey and Kiera Lyness (violins), Daniel Lyness (viola), Spike Wilson (cello)

8.29 Schutz Die Erde Trinkt fur Sich - Weser-Renaissance Bremen, director Manfred Cordes

8.33 Sibelius Symphony No 7 - Lahti Symphony Orchestra, conductor Osmo Vanska

9.00 Building a Library
Bruce Wood compares the currently available recordings of Monteverdi's Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. Peter Paul Nash and Chris de Souza discuss new releases, including Mozart from Colin Davis, Beethoven from Mitsuko Uchida, and Liszt's Faust Symphony from Ivan Fischer.
(Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm)

10.15 Record Release
Mozart Serenade in E flat, K375 - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis

10.41 Bax The Garden of Fand - Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor David Lloyd-Jones

10.59 Arnold Flute Sonata, Op 121 - James Galway, Phillip Moll (piano)

11.16 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 in C - Mitsuko Uchida, Bavarian Radio SO, conductor Kurt Sanderling

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Michael Berkeley 's guest today is
Claire Tomalin , former literary editor of the New Statesman and The
Sunday Times and an award-winning biographer whose subjects have included Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft , Katherine Mansfield and, most recently, Jane Austen. Her musical choices include classic recordings of keyboard music by Bach and Beethoven, songs by Schumann and Duparc, and the ebullient waltz scene from Act 2 of Eugene Onegin. Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm

Christine Schafer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Wolf Spanish Songbook (selection)

Berlioz Zaide

Bizet Guitare

Saint-Saens Guitares et Mandolines

Roussel Le Bachelier de Salamanque, Op 20 No 1

Falla Seguidilla

Wolf Spanish Songbook (selection)

(Repeated from Monday)

Roderick Swanston talks to six leading performers of early music. 4: As founder and director of the Taverner Choir, Consort and Players, Andrew Parrott has long enjoyed a' reputation as one of Britain's leading conductors of Baroque music and an advocate of performing Bach's choral music with one voice to a part. But he also conducts symphony orchestras and operas and works in the field of contemporary music.
Including choral music by Machaut, Gabriel!, Bach and Handel, plus excerpts from Judith Weir 's opera A Night at the Chinese Opera.

There is an international dimension to Stephen Pratt 's final selection of highlights from the 1997 workshops. The string quartet Mayibuye by David Kosviner blends western and South
African traditions, and New Zealander
Scott Kennedy French evokes the sounds of Japan in his Lacrymosa. There is also an extended workshop session, directed by Roger Marsh , devoted to Manchester-based
Mark Hewitt 's string piece Reliquary for Christopher Tye.

With Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Discs
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A six-part series telling the story of South African jazz over the last 50 years.
5: Water from an Ancient Well
From his early days spent playing strict-tempo for ballroom dancing to his current status as an international star, Cape Town pianist
Abdullah Ibrahim looks back over his career and talks about exile, Ellington and life in South Africa today. Repeated Friday 12.30am

Live from the Met: II Trovatore
From the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. In Verdi's tale of revenge and mistaken identity, a count and a troubadour in 15th-century Spain are rivals for the love of Leonora. They fight a duel, and Leonora, believing the troubadour has been killed, vows to enter a convent. Sung in Italian. Introduced by Peter Allen.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, conductor Simone Young Parts 1 and 2 7.40 The Met Opera Quiz
William Livingstone puts listeners' questions to Linda Fairtile , Patrick Smith and William Weaver.
8.10 Parts 3 and 4

Concluding the series of experimental radiophonic features. The Human Voice
As an antidote to Valentine's Day, an updated version of Jean Cocteau 's classic monologue, translated by Anthony Wood. Harriet Waiter stars as the abandoned woman speaking to her ex-lover on the phone, with electronic sound composition by Robin Rimbaud (scanner). Producer Susan Roberts

The llth programme in a 14-part series coupling Haydn sonatas with some of Bartok's major piano works. John Bingham (piano)
Haydn Piano Sonata in A, H XVI 30 Bartok Two Elegies
Haydn Piano Sonata in C, H XVI 50 Next programme 28 February

Joe Zawinul (keyboards),
Victor Bailey (bass), Gary Poulson (guitar), Paco Sery (drums), Manolo Badrena (percussion/vocals)
Brian Morton introduces a concert which the group gave last year in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. When
Zawinul left his native Austria for
America in 1959, he went straight into the top division, touring with Maynard Ferguson and Dinah
Washington and, in 1961, beginning a nine-year association with Cannonball Adderley. He also worked with Miles Davis , on the trumpeter's fusion album In a Silent Way. Weather Report, the jazz-rock band he formed in 1970 with saxophonist Wayne Shorter , changed the sound of the music for a whole generation by emphasising electric instruments. The Joe Zawinul Syndicate incorporates African rhythms and tonal qualities as well as the synthesiser sounds associated with him.
Producer Dave Batchelor

With Penny Gore.
1.00 Prague Chamber PO/Jiri
Belohlavek, Peter Bild (piano) Lukas Hurnik Compounds Kozeluch Piano Concerto Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor
2.20 Mozart String Quartet in G, K387 Orford Quartet
3.00 Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E Finnish RSO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste
4.15 Schumann Konzertstuck for
Four Horns Calgary PO/Mario Bernardi
5.00 Johann Rosenmuller Sonata a 3 Musica Florea
5.25 Robert Kajanus Rhapsody No 1 Finnish RSO/Leif Segerstam
5.40 Suppe Overture: Poet and Peasant Slovenian RTVSO/Marko Munih
6.05 Gyorgy Rankl Divertimento Bela Kovacs (clarinet), Concentus Hungaricus
6.15 Bruckner Three Motets
Sokkelund Choir/Martin Schuldt Jensen
6.30 Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 in C, K467 John O'Conor , National
SO of Ireland/Alexander Anissimov