Petroc Trelawny with music, news and the latest from the arts world, including a review of Hal Prince 's production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein 's musical Show Boat. which opened in London last night.
Music includes Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F. BWV1 04 7 played by the English Concert directed by Trevor Pinnock at 6.45; after the
7.00 arts news, Massenet's
Meditation (Thais) played by Joshua Bell and the Royal Philharmonic; and leading up to 8.00, Brahms's
Rhapsody in E flat, Op 119, No 4 performed by Radu Lupu.

With Peter Hobday.
Bach Flute Sonata in E, BWV1035
Barthold Kuijken (flute),
Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord), Wieland Kuijken (cello)
9.15 Vivaldi Gloria , RV589
Sylvia McNair (soprano),
Elisabeth von Magnus (mezzo), Marjana Lipovsek (contralto), Arnold Schoenberg Choir,
Vienna Concentus Musicus, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
9.43 Beethoven Piano Sonata in F minor, Op 57 (Appassionata) Emil Gilels
10.10 Honegger Cello Concerto Maurice Marechal ,
Paris Conservatoire Concert Society Orchestra, conducted by the Composer

John Lill
John Lill is well known as an interpreter of Beethoven's piano works, all of which he had memorised by the time he was 14. Today, he talks to Joan Bakewell about his lifelong passion for
Beethoven and describes how he brings a fresh approach to pieces he has been playing for 40 years. He also explains the spiritual link he feels with the composer.

Operatic
Heroines Rosina. French playwright
Beaumarchais created an unusual heroine in the character of Rosina, who appears in his trilogy of plays The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro and The Guilty Mother.
Rosina uses all her cunning to outwit several men in the course of the action. In The Barber of Seville, she is pursued by Count Almaviva and her guardian Dr Bartolo; in The
Marriage of Figaro, she is married to the Count and pursued by Cherubino; and in the final Beaumarchais play, she introduces her illegitimate child. The programme features excerpts from The Barber of Seville by Rossini and Paisiello, and from The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart.

With Stephen Johnson.
In the Steppes of Central Asia
Gothenburg SO, conductor Neeme Jarvi String Quartet No 1 in A Borodin Quartet
Repeated next Wednesday 12 midnight

Chamber Music from Manchester
Rodney Slatford introduces a recital by pianist Piers Lane featuring virtuoso transformations of Italian songs by Liszt, a famous Mozart aria and a ballet by Stravinsky.
Liszt Three Petrarch Sonnets
Chopin Variations on Mozart's "La ci darem la Mano"
Stravinsky Three Movements from Petrushka

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductors Tadaaki Otaka and Martyn Brabbins , Steven Isserlis (cello) Takemitsu Winter
Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations Britten Gloriana
Eigar Symphony No 2 in E flat

From the Chapel of King's
UlLCollege. Cambridge.
Introit: God's Grandeur (Leighton) Responses (Leighton)
Psalms 142, 143 (Leighton)
First Lesson: Proverbs 8, wl, 6-11
Canticles: Magdalen College Service (Leighton)
Second Lesson: John 17, wl2-26
Anthem: Let All the World (Leighton) Hymn: Most Glorious Lord of Life (Dunoon)
Organ Voluntary: Martyrs, for Organ Duet (Leighton). Director of music Stephen Cleobury. Organ scholars Robert Quinney and Benjamin Bayl.

Sean Rafferty talks to composer
Anne Dudley , who won an Oscar last month for her work on the film The
Full Monty. Music includes works by Bach and Debussy, and Bernstein's Symphonic Dances for West Side Story at about 6.30

Beethoven the Revolutionary The BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra and conductor
Osmo Vanska continue their Beethoven symphony cycle. Tonight, a concert of extremes, bringing together two very different mature works - one for orchestra, one for solo piano. Presented by Geoffrey Baskerville in conversation with Osmo Vanska and Alfredo Perl.
Beethoven Piano Sonata No 29 in B flat (Hammerklavier) Alfredo Perl (piano)
Beethoven Symphony No 8 in F Final concert tomorrow 8pm

First and Last Words
Taking Shape, Where Poetry Began Michael Schmidt introduces poems which were the first of their kind, from
Caedmon to Ezra Pound. Readers are
Melissa Sinden and Russell Dixon.

Custer LaRue (soprano),
Chris Norman (flutes, bagpipe),
Mary Anne Ballard (treble and bass viols), Mark Cudek (cittern, bass viol), Larry Lipkis (bass viol, recorder). Ronn McFarlane (lutes)
The American ensemble plays court and traditional music from
Renaissance Scotland.

A weekly series in which pianist Piers Lane gives an introduction to the world of the piano and its players. presenting classic recordings by eminent artists and recordings specially made for the programme. The Next Turn after Ellis Island
Rachmaninov Prelude in G minor,
Op 23 No 5
Josef Hofmann
Czerny Variations on a Theme of Rode. Op 33 (excerpt) Vladimir Horowitz
Brahms Rhapsody in G minor, Op 79 No 2 Artur Rubinstein
Mozart Rondo in A minor, K511
Rudolf Serkin
Strauss, arr Tausig Die Nachtfalter Jorge Bolet
Producer Chris Wines. Repeated tomorrow 4pm

When his lover Paul Verlaine tried to shoot him, Rimbaud became notorious throughout Paris. Soon after, he turned his back on literature for a wandering life of exploration and gunrunning. The fascination for this story has recently overshadowed discussion of his writing, but as his seminal work Illuminations is published in a new English translation, Laura Cumming asks if Rimbaud the poet deserves reappraisal. Plus news from tonight's world premiere of Stephen Poliakoff 's Talk of the City. Set in the 1930s, the play evokes the golden age of the radio. A reporter is at its opening at the RSC in Stratford. Producer Julian May

Part 2 of Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames at this year's Cheltenham International Jazz Festival.

With Jonathan Swain.
Study, Op 42 No 5
Yevgeni Kissin (piano) Symphony No 3 (The Divine Poem) New
York PO, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli Repeated from last Wednesday

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00 Fergal Caulfield (organ), Irish NSO/Takuo Yuasa

Dupre Organ Symphony in G minor

Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor

2.10 Glinka Sextet in E flat - David Mata (violin), Jensen Horn-Sim Lam (viola), Suzana Stefanovich (cello), Christopher Filler (double bass), Mariana Todorova (violin), Tamara Stefanovich (piano)

2.40 Poulenc Mass in G minor - Elmer Iseler Singers/Elmer Iseler

3.00 Schools
3.00 Time and Tune
3.20 Together
3.40 Dance Workshop
4.00 Alphabet Time
4.10 History 9-11

4.35 Field Rondo in A flat - Eckart Selheim (piano), Collegium Aureum, conductor Franzjosef Maier

5.00 Liszt Grandes Etudes de Paganini No 2 - Matti Raekallio (piano)

5.05 Mozart Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat, K417 - James Sommerville, CBC Vancouver Orchestra/Mario Bernardi

5.45 Martinu La Revue de Cuisine - Ensemble of the Festival of Sound