Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Brahms Song of Destiny, Op 54 Stuttgart Gachinger Kantorei , conductor Helmut Rilling
7.20 Chopin 24 Preludes, Op 28 Louis Lortie (piano)
7.59 Mateo Flecha El Fuego (Las Ensaladas)
Christopher Robson (countertenor), Andrew King (tenor),
Michael George (baritone), Simon Grant (bass), New London Consort, conductor Philip Pickett
8.11 Andre Previn Sallie Chisum
Remembers Billy the Kid; Vocalise Barbara Bonney (soprano), Sado Knudson (cello), Andre Previn (piano)
8.26 John Adams Shaker Loops Ensemble Modern, conductor Sian Edwards
9.00 Building a Library
Bryce Morrison compares the currently available recordings of Schumann's Humoreske in B flat,
Op 20. Robert Philip and David Huckvale discuss new orchestral releases of works including
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream from Frans Bruggen , Mahler Symphony No 9 from Pierre Boulez , Sibelius Symphony No 5, and music by Niels Gade , Horneman and Max von Schillings.
Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm
10.15 Record Release
Mendelssohn Overture: A
Midsummer Night's Dream
Orchestra of the 18th Century, director Frans Bruggen
10.29 Homeman Gurre Suite
Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Owain Arwel Hughes
10.48 Gade Symphony No 4 in B flat Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Christopher Hogwood
11.12 Schillings Seemorgen
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Stefan Soltesz
11.27 Sibelius Violin Concerto
Stephanie Gonley ,
Gran Canaria Philharmonic , conductor Adrian Leaper
Producers Clive Portbury and Susan Kenyon E-MAIL: record.review@bbc.co.uk
DISC DETAILS: see BBC1 Ceefax page 651

Michael Berkeley's guest this week is actor John Sessions, whose stage, film and television appearances have included The American Napoleon, In the Bleak Midwinter, Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Tom Jones.
Last Christmas, he created a stir when he appeared on Private Passions as his alter ego 112-year-old percussionist Manfred Sturmer. Today he appears as himself. His choices range from two late works by Beethoven and Brahms, a movement of Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto, extracts from Wagner's Ring and Puccini's Turandot and vocal music by Schubert and Mose Allison.
(Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm)

Nelson Goerner (piano)
Mozart Piano Sonata in D, K576
Chopin Three Mazurkas, Op 59 Chopin 12 Etudes, Op 10 Repeated from Monday

In the second of three concerts, the Joyful Company of Singers are joined by the Fine Arts Brass Ensemble.
Schutz Ich Freu Mich Des (Psalm 122) Bach Singet dem Herrn ein Neues Lied, BWV225
Berkeley Music from Chaucer; Love Is Strong as Death; At the Round Earth's Imagined Comers
Scheidt Courantes and Canzonas
Schutz Alleluja , Lobet den Herren (Psalm 150)

National Youth Orchestra of Scotland
Kirsteen McCue presents the first of three programmes celebrating the silver jubilee of the Aberdeen International Youth Festival.
Conductor Bramwell Tovey , Michael Thompson (horn)
Hoist Suite: The Perfect Fool
Musgrave Horn Concerto
Elgar Symphony No 1 in A flat Producer Helen Munro

With Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Discs
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In the 1950s, traditional jazz was under threat of extinction. With the establishment of Preservation Hall in New Orleans in 1961, the music was saved and many musicians were thrown a lifeline which enabled them to play again. The hall has not only kept going but become very profitable. In a six-part series, Michael Pointon considers the achievements of Preservation Hall.
3: St Peter Street Stomp. When Alan and Sandra Jaffe were appointed to run the hall, matters were put on a more businesslike footing. Repeated Fnday 12.30am

Uve from the Met: L’Elisir d'Amore
From the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.
Luciano Pavarotti heads the cast in Donizetti's comedy about the lovelorn village boy Nemorino, who turns to Dr Dulcamara'a magic love potion to try to win his beloved Adina. Sung in Italian.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, conductor Maurizio Benini
Actl
7.40 An Italian Festival Summer
Joanne Watson explores the very different opera festivals of Verona, Pesaro and Macerata.
8.10 Act 2
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Six lectures in which leading figures reflect on the most powerful forces for cultural and political change at the end of the century.
4: What's the Difference?
Writer Walter Mosley considers the 20th century's record on race relations and in particular the black American experience. An important figure in contemporary American writing, Mosley is creator of the Easy Rawlins crime novels, including Devil in a Blue Dress. Introduced by Paul Boateng MP, who discusses the lecture with Walter Mosley and chairs a question-and-answer session with the audience in the Purcell Room on London's South Bank.

The last programme in the series coupling Haydn sonatas with some of Bartok's major piano works. Boris Berman (piano)
Bartok Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (Mikrokosmos, Book 6) Haydn Sonata in E flat, H XVI 52 Producer Misha Donat

Alyn Shipton presents the first of two programmes of highlights from the 1997 festival and talks to some of the musicians taking part.
Milt Jackson (vibes) and Hank Jones (piano) were joined by Ray Drummond (bass) and Mickey Roker (drums) for a rousing set in the Market Hall. They were followed by trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and his band.
Producer Derek Drescher

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Chopin Two Nocturnes Op 27; Two Nocturnes, Op 37; Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52; Fantasy in F minor, Op 49 Dubravka Tomsic (piano)
2.30 Leo Brouwer Guitar Concerto
No 3 (Concerto Elegiaco) Georgy Vassilev , Geneva Chamber
Orchestra, conductor Thierry Fischer
3.00 Strauss Hymnus , Op 34 No 2 Danish Radio Choir, conductor Stefan Parkman
3.10 Schubert Symphony No 9 in C (Great)
Irish National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kasper de Roo
4.00 Franck Organ music, played by Joris Verdin
4.30 Arthur Meulemans String Quartet No 2; Piano Quintet Stijn Kolacny (piano)
5.00 Chopin Scherzo No 4 in E, Op 54 Dubravka Tomsic (piano)
5.10 Bruhns Hemmt Eure Tranenflut
Ricercar Consort
5.30 Rlmsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol Netherlands Radio
Orchestra, conductor Richard Dufallo
6.00 Handel Aria No 6 (Nine German Arias) Jane Pastorkova (soprano), Musica Florea
6.10 Rheinberger Hom Sonata in E flat, Op 178
Martin van der Merwe ,
Huib Christiaanse (piano)
6.30 Bizet L'Arlesienne: Suite No 1
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, conductor Marko Munih