Stephanie Hughes with news, weather, travel and music including:

Haydn Symphony No 83 in G minor (The Hen) - Philharmonia Hungarica, conductor Antal Dorati

6.52 Rossi Spargete sospiri (Un Peccator Pentito) - Les Arts Florissants, director William Christie

7.03 Beethoven Overture: The Creatures of Prometheus - London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington

7.56 Trad O Waly, Waly - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Andreas Martin (lute)

8.05 Stravinsky Fireworks - Chicago SO, conductor Pierre Boulez

8.40 Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture - Russian SO, conductor Veronika Dudarova

Peter Hobday features early Mozart symphonies and recordings by Yevgeni Mravinsky.
Mozart Symphony No 19 in E flat, K132 ASMF, conductor Neville Marriner
9.19 Gershwin, transcr Helfetz It
Ain't Necessarily So; Tempo di Blues (Porgy and Bess) Gil Shaham (violin), Akira Eguchi (piano)
9.25 Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela
Leningrad Philharmonic, conductor Yevgeni Mravinsky
9.34 Moeran Cello Concerto Raphael Wallfisch , Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conductor Norman Del Mar
10.05 Weill Suite: The Threepenny Opera London Sinfonietta, conductor David Atherton Producer Tony Cheevers

James Galway
Joan Bakewell talks to James Galway about his upbringing in Belfast, his early experiences playing the penny whistle and the violin, his apprenticeship as a piano tuner, and how he became known as "the man with the golden flute". Producer Gwawr Owen

Venice
The most serene republic of Venice has a tradition of glorious music. At the start of a week-long survey,
Peggy Reynolds takes a ride through 500 years of Venetian musical history and encounters composers including Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Offenbach and Faure.
Producer Piers Burton-Page

(1811-86)
David Huckvale follows Liszt on his travels through Europe, beginning in Switzerland, where he eloped with his lover, revisited the scenes of William Tell 's fight for freedom, and met the revolutionary Richard Wagner. La Chapelle de Guillaume Tell (Annees de Pelerinage) Leslie Howard (piano)
Three Songs from "Wilhelm Tell" Andras Molnar (tenor),
Hungarian State Orchestra/Korodi
Val/ée d'Obermann (Annees de Pèlerinage)
Jorge Bolet (piano)
Uber Allen Gipfeln 1st
Ruh Brigitte Fassbaender (soprano), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Au Lac de Wallenstadt (Annies de Pelerinage)
Leslie Howard (piano)
Au Bord d'une Source (Annies de Pelerinage)
Jorge Bolet (piano)
Les Cloches de Geneve (Ann6es de Pelerinage)
Leslie Howard (piano) Producer John Thornley
Repeated next Monday 11.30pm

From St John's, Smith
Square, London.
Augustin Dumay (violin), Jian Wang (cello) Kodaly Duo, Op 7
Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello
Repeated Saturday lpm

Conductor Osmo Vanska, Timothy Hugh (cello)

Elgar The Wand of Youth: Suite No 2
Holst Invocation
Shostakovich Symphony No 1
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme
Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish)

Repeated from yesterday 12.15pm

In Conversation with ... Douglas Adams
This week Tommy Pearson talks to four celebrity guests about an album that has played an important role in their life. Today, he discusses the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with author Douglas Adams. Producer Christina Pritchard

Sean Rafferty talks to choreographer Bill T Jones and listens to the results of a fascinating partnership between the medieval ensemble the Orlando
Consort and the jazz group the Perfect Houseplants. Including works by Palestrina and Poulenc, plus a performance of Grieg's Piano
Concerto in A minor at around 6.30. Producers Helen Garrison and Brian Jackson

From the Royal Festival Hall, London, introduced by Humphrey Carpenter.

Paul Crossley (piano), Claire Briggs (horn), Annie Oakley and Huw Ceredig (percussion), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle

Boulez Rituel - In Memoriam Madema

8.00 Reflections of Messiaen

Roger Nichols talks to Peter Hill and Robert Sherlaw Johnson - two of Olivier Messiaen's pupils - about working with Messiaen, the influences on him and the composer's thoughts on his contemporaries.

8.20 Messiaen Des Canyons aux Etoiles

A Poem for Ireland
In a week including St Patrick's Day, five Irish poets read a selection of works. Today, Paula Meehan presents some of her own new work. Producer Chris Spurr

Pianist Miceal O'Rourke and members of the London Mozart Players perform rarely heard chamber music by Field. Producer Claire Rogers

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present a mix of musical styles and influences.
Producer Andrew Kurowski
MUSIC DETAILS: see BBC1 Ceefax page 652

Bill Lloyd explores the lives and works of two important American romantics.
1: A Vase of Fair Outline but Empty (Emerson)
MacDowell To a Wild Rose
(Woodland Sketches, Op 51) Moura Lympany (piano)
Hanson Impromptu in E minor Brian Preston (piano)
MacDowell In a Haunted Forest
(Suite No 1)
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, conductor Howard Hanson
Hanson Lux Aeterna
Susan Gulkis (viola),
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gerard Schwarz
Mac Dowell Piano Concerto No 1 in A minor
Donna Amato , London Philharmonic, conductor Paul Freeman
Repeated from last Monday

Presented by Digby Fairweather.
The Umo Jazz Orchestra was formed in 1975. Performing at the Barbican in November 1997 as part of the Finnish Cultural Season, they were joined by two guest soloists. Tonight John Surman renews his association with the orchestra.
Producer Terry Carter

With Donald Macleod.

1.00 The Dufay Collective perform 17th-century English music including Tobias Hume The Spirit of Gambo, Dowland Frog Galliard, Ravenscroft The Three Ravens, and songs and instrumental music by Campion, Morley and Farnaby

2.30 ORF SO/Peter Guth. Music by Johann Strauss (son)

3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Box
3.15 Something to Think About
3.30 Song Tree
3.45 Radio Showcase
3.50 Stories and Rhymes
4.00 Together Stories
4.15 Music for Dance
4.30 Hopscotch
4.45 Scottish Resources 7-9

5.00 Bizet L'Arlesienne: Suite No 2 - RTV Slovenia SO/Marko Munih

5.10 Liszt St Francis of Paule Walking on the Water (Legends)

5.20 Handel Floridante (Act 2, excerpts) - Catherine Robbin, Nancy Argenta and Ingrid Attrot (sopranos), Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, conductor Alan Curtis