Petroc Trelawny with music to start the day and news and views from the arts world, including reaction to a new Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Pit in the Barbican Centre, London. Music includes Gershwin's Cuban Overture at 6.05, Schubert's Gretchen am
Spinnrade sung by Barbara Bonney after the news at 7.00, and violin music by Bach played by Nigel Kennedy at 8.05.

Peter Hobday features Brahms's late piano music, Britten canticles and recordings by Julius Katchen. Brahms Six Pieces, Op 118 Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
9.22 Britten Canticle No 4: The
Journey of the Magi
James Bowman (countertenor), Peter Pears (tenor),
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), the Composer (piano)
9.33 Delius Brigg Fair Halle Orchestra. conductor Vernon Handley
9.53 Mozart Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466
Julius Katchen ,
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, conductor Karl Munchinger

Vladimir Ashkenazy
As a child, Vladimir Ashkenazy used to spend all his money on concert tickets, indulging his passion for orchestral concerts. He talks to Joan
Bakewell about how, in his early thirties, he started conducting for fun. and about his subsequent associations with major orchestras such as the Cleveland, the Philharmonia, the Concertgebouw, and the Berlin Radio Symphony.
Including excerpts from symphonies by Sibelius and Tchaikovsky.

Patronage
With Donald Macleod. For over 40 years, Haydn worked for the Esterhaza family, composing and organising operas, puppet shows and every kind of instrumental music. It was a remarkably productive partnership, giving Haydn the freedom to experiment and develop his talents to become one of the greatest composers in Europe. Including excerpts from:
Haydn Philemon and Baucis Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta, conductor Manfred Huss
Haydn Symphony No 60 in C (II Distratto)
Philharmonia Hungarica, conductor Antal Dorati
Boccherini String Quintet in E, G275 I Musici

With Misha Donat.
Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op 34,
Kalman Berkes (clarinet), Eder Quartet Was Zieht zu Deinem Zauberkreise ;
Klage; Das Veilchen im Thale; Er an Sie Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone). Hartmut Höll (piano)
Konzertstuck in F minor, Op 79 Alfred Brendel (piano),
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight

Penny Gore introduces the second of six concerts of French music given by the City of London Sinfonia last year in the Church of St Giles,
Cripplegate, London.
Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Canteloube Chut , Chut: Pastourelle;
Lou Coucut (Songs of the Auvergne) Ravel Deux Melodies Hebraïques Dutilleux Les Citations
Ravel Cinq Melodies Populaires Grecques
Milhaud Le Boeufsurle Toit
Repeat

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductors Grant Llewellyn and Tadaaki Otaka , Olivier Charlier (violin) Mozart Overture: Cosi Fan Tutte
Britten Four Sea Interludes (
Peter Grimes )
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
Grace Williams Sea Sketches
Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor

A weekly series in which Piers Lane looks at the world of the piano. Repeated from yesterday 10pm

Another guest joins John Sessions to dissect operatic triumphs and disasters, contrasting examples of opera at its best and at its worst.

Metro Goldwyn Mayer 's 1925 silent film Ben-Hur came to define the term
"epic movie". This weekend the film is screened on London's South Bank with live accompaniment of a modern score. Sean Rafferty talks to its composer Carl Davis about his approach to the music. Music on disc includes Mozart's Eine Kleine
Nachtmusik at 6.35.

Beethoven the Revolutionary The BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra and chief conductor Osmo
Vanska continue their Beethoven cycle. Tonight, in a concert given in February at Glasgow's City Hall, the fourth and fifth symphonies are juxtaposed with a neoclassical concerto by Stravinsky and Webern's pointillist symphony.
Introduced by Geoffrey Baskerville in conversation with Osmo Vanska and Jonathan Del Mar.
Alexei Lyubimov (piano)
Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat Stravinsky Concerto for Piano, Wind, Timpani and Double Basses Weber Symphony. Op 21
Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor Next programme Monday 7.30pm

Boxing Clever
The fourth of five conversations about the state of British television.
Today's guest is James Baker , head of programming at BSkyB.

An early symphony by Giovanni Battista Sammartini , who has come to be known as the father of the symphony. I Giovani di Nuova
Cameristica. director Daniele Ferrari

Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights of a concert given last month at the Wigmore Hall, London, of sensuous music for church and chamber by Monteverdi and his contemporaries. The performers are I Fagiolini. Producer Lindsay Kemp Repeated tomorrow 4pm

How far is today's debate about biotechnology and the ethics of science undermined by a tale of gothic horror 200 years old? Paul Allen discusses Frankenstein's
Footsteps, in which Jon Turney argues that Mary Shelley 's monster and other images of science in arts and media profoundly influence today's discussion of genetics. Plus first-night news from the opening of Sebastian Barry 's play Our Lady of Sligo at the National Theatre.
Producer Miriam Newman

Digby Fairweather traces the neglected American heritage of West Coast traditional jazz from 1940 to the present day.

With Geoffrey Baskerville.
D Scarlatti Sonata in F, Kk6
Ton Koopmann (harpsichord)
A Scarlatti Gia Lusingato Appieno Christine Brandes (soprano). Arcadian Academy, director Nicholas McGegan
D Scarlatti Sonatas in D. Kk414;
Kk415 Andreas Staier (harpsichord) A Scarlatti Dixit Dominus II
Nancy Argenta (soprano), Ashley Stafford (alto), Stephen Varcoe
(bass), English Concert and Choir, director Trevor Pinnock
D Scarlatti Sonata in D minor, Kkl41
Sergio Assad , Odair Assad (guitars) Repeated from last Thursday

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Netherlands Radio CO/Ernest Bour. Maurits Rosman (violin), Peter Doberitz (cello), Jacob Bogaart (piano) Mendelssohn String Symphony No 10 in B minor
Beethoven Triple Concerto in C: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor
2.30 Poulenc Cantata: La Figure Humaine Danish National Radio
Choir, conductor Stefan Parkman
3.30 Vieme Preludes, Op 38 Antoine Reboulot (piano)
4.15 Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor Naum Grubert. Brabant
Orchestra/Thomas Sanderling
5.00 Brahms Five Choral Songs, Op 104 Danish National Radio Choir, conductor Stefan Parkman
5.10 Mozart Concertone in C. K190
Ryo Terakado (violin). La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken (violin)
5.40 Walther Organ Concerto in A minor Jan Vladimir Michalko