Petroc Trelawny with music to start the day and arts news, including a review of the new Welsh National
Opera production of Boris Godunov starring Willard White. Music includes Handel's Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 3 No 1, after the news at 6.00; Vaughan Williams's Flos Campi performed by Philip Dukes
(viola) and the Northern Sinfonia after the arts news at 7.30; and lbert's Divertissement performed by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at 8.05. Producer Brian Jackson

With Penny Gore.
Haydn Notturno No 2 in F, H II 26 Members of Mozzafiato and L'Archibudelli
9.09 Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat, Op I No 1 Chung Trio
9.43 Watton Symphony No 1 LPO, conductor Adrian Boult Producer Tony Cheevers

Melvyn Tan
The modern pianos of today are distant relations of their 18th-century ancestors. But Melvyn Tan has built a prolific career performing on the fortepianos of the 18th and 19th centuries. He talks to Joan Bakewell about what attracted him to the instrument and reveals how an air hostess was responsible for getting him a place at the Menuhin School. Producer Lyndon Jones

Shakespeare
Everyday this week, Peggy Reynolds unravels the plot line of a Shakespearean drama and introduces music associated with it.
1: Romeo and Juliet
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life.
Including excerpts from:
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet: Suite No 2
Oslo Philharmonic/Mariss Jansons Berlioz Romeo and Juliet
Paris Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim Gounod Romeo and Juliet
Soloists, Toulouse Capitole
Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson Producer Piers Burton-Page

(1678-1741)
Today, Vivaldi is one of the most popular of all composers, a reputation that was matched in his own lifetime when he published his first set of concertos in 1711. Andrew Manze introduces music from the violinist's first international successes together with other works from his early years. Including:
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 4 No 8 Monica Huggett , Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood Trio Sonata in G minor, Op 1 No 1 London Baroque
Concerto in B minor for Four Violins, Op 3 No 10 Freiburg Baroque
Orchestra/Thomas Hengelbrock Producer Lindsay Kemp
Repeated next Monday 12 midnight

Takacs Piano Trio
From St John's, Smith
Square, London.
Schubert Adagio in E flat, D897 (Notturno)
Dvorak Piano Tno No 3 in F minor, Op 65 Repeated next Saturday lpm

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Tadaaki Otaka , Tasmin Little (violin) Strauss Don Juan
Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor Lladov Baba-Yaga
Glazunov Symphony No 1

Jeremy Sams presents operatic delights familiar and unfamiliar, taking as his launching pad an idea from Saturday's Opera on 3. The Devil You Know. Mephistopheles and other inhabitants of the nether regions, both serious and comic.

The Indian Subcontinent
This week Verity Sharp takes a look at aspects of the music of India and Pakistan. Today, she investigates the sarangi - a fretless, bowed stringed instrument. Producer Christina Pritchard

Sean Rafferty looks at Monsters of Grace, the new piece by Philip Glass and director/designer Robert Wilson, which is part of the Barbican's
Inventing America season. Based on 13th-century Persian poetry, it puts singers into the pit, stereoscopic animation on stage, and the audience in 3-D glasses. Bach's
Double Violin Concerto leads up to
6.00, and Mllhaud's Saudades do Brasil leads up to 7.00 and the first of this week's new releases.
Producer Paul Frankl. Monsters of Grace is reviewed in Night Waves. Tuesday 10.45pm

From the Royal Festival Hall, London, introduced by Natalie Wheen.
A continuation of the Ligeti series which combines his music with seminal masterpieces of this century.
Roland Pontinen (piano), Monika Groop (soprano), Philharmonia, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Debussy Iberia
Ligeti Piano Concerto

8.20 Ligeti in His Own Words
Ligeti talks to Anthony Burton about his compositional development.

8.40 Ravel Sheherazade
Ligeti Melodien
Ravel La Valse

(Next concert Wednesday 7.30pm)

Role Play
The first of five conversations in which
Michael Billington talks to actors and singers about their experiences of playing the same character in theatrical and operatic productions. Tonight, Joan Rodgers and Andrea Gascoigne on the Governess in Henry James 's Turn of the Screw. Producer Fiona McLean

Vesselina Kasarova
In the first of two programmes, lain Burnside presents the Russian mezzo-soprano Vesselina Kasarova in her sellout recital recorded last week in London's Wigmore Hall. Friedrich Haider (piano)
Schubert Fischerweise ; Der Jungling an der Quelle; Standchen, D889;
Nacht und Traume; Auf dem Wasser zu Singen; Im Fruhling; Im Abendrot; Romance in F minor (Rosamunde); Der Wanderer an den Mond; An
Mein Herz
Producer Adam Gatehouse
Repeated tomorrow 4pm

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

Digby Fairweather spends the week looking at Count Basie as his orchestra make their first appearance in the UK for 22 years. Today, the early small-group days.

With David Byers.
"To regain my composure," said Berlioz, "I'll think of another
Weimar resident, a greatly talented man who wrote masses and beautiful septets, a severe pianist - in a word, Hummel!"
Piano Concertino in G (2nd mvt) Howard Shelley ,
London Mozart Players
Military Septet in C, Op 114 (Finale) Capricorn
Introduction, Theme and Variations in F, Op 102 Lajos Lencses (oboe),
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neville Marriner
Septet in 0 minor, Op 74
Melos Ensemble of London
Repeated from last Monday

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 New Helsinki Quartet
Stravinsky Three Pieces Puumala
String Quartet Sibelius String Quartet in D minor
2.30 Poulenc Sinfonietta
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernardi
3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Box 3.15 Something to Think About 3.30 The Song Tree
3.45 Radio Showcase 3.50 Stories and Rhymes 4.00 Together Stories
4.15 Music for Dance
4.30 CPE Bach Trio Sonata in A for
Flute, Violin and Continuo, Wql46 Les Adieux
4.45 Gideon Klein Piano Sonata
Ed Spanjaard
5.00 Johann Gottlieb Naumann
Concerto in B flat
Gerald Hambitzer (harpsichord), Concerto Koln
5.20 Sibelius En Saga
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
5.40 Haydn Sonata in B minor, H XVI 32
Harald Hoeren (fortepiano)