Petroc Trelawny with music to start the day and arts news. Music includes Ravel's Bolero at 6.05,
Mozart's Piano Sonata in C minor,
K457, performed by Alfred Brendel at
7.05, and Handel's Salve Regina at
8.05 sung by Arleen Auger.

With Penny Gore.
Weber Overture: The Ruler of the Spirits
Russian National Orchestra, conductor Mikhail Pletnev
9.06 Beethoven Piano Trio in G, Op 1 No 2
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), Itzhak Perlman (violin), Lynn Harrell (cello)
9.38 Shostakovich Symphony No 5 New York Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Bernstein

Melvyn Tan
During the 19th century, the fortepiano developed at an astonishing rate. Fortepianist Melvyn Tan talks to Joan Bakewell about some of the instruments he plays and why they are appropriate to particular areas of his repertoire.

ShakespearePeggy Reynolds unravels the plot line of a Shakespearean comedy and introduces music associated with it.
2: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Here will be an old abusing of God's patience - and the King's English! Including excerpts from:
Nicolai The Merry Wives of Windsor Bavarian State Radio Orchestra, conductor Robert Heger Verdi Falstaff
Soloists, Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor Carlo Maria Giulini
Salieri Falstaff
Soloists, Guido Cantelli Orchestra of Milan, conductor Alberto Veronesi
Vaughan Williams Sir John in Love Soloists, Royal Philharmonic, conductor Meredith Davies

"There is nothing so diverting as a pretty young nun ... beating time with all the grace and precision imaginable." (Charles de Brosses, 1739)
Despite his international reputation as a composer, Vivaldi spent much of his life teaching the orphaned girls of the Ospedale della Pieta, turning their orchestra into one of Vienna's greatest crowd-pleasers.
Andrew Manze introduces some of the music he wrote for them.
Sonata al Santo Sepolcro , RV130 Purcell Quartet
Stabat Mater , RV621
Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Ensemble 415, director Chiara Banchini
Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro , RV169
L'Europa Galante, director Fabio Biondi
Gloria in D, RV589
Soloists, Taverner Choir and Players, conductor Andrew Parrott
Repeated next Tuesday 12 midnight

French Connections
Water Sprites
Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano) Debussy Estampes; Hommage a Haydn
Ravel Menuet sur le Nom d'Haydn; Une Barque sur I' Ocean (Miroirs); Gaspard de la Nuit Repeat

Ulster Orchestra
Conductors Vernon Handley ,
Jan Latham-Koenig and Andrew Mogrelia , Chantal Juillet (violin) Hindemith Symphonic
Metamorphosis of Themes by Weber Strauss Metamorphosen
Weill Concerto for Violin and Wind
Ensemble
Dvorak Legend in G minor, Op 59 No 3 Glazunov Symphony No 4

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 Repeated from yesterday 10pm

The Indian Subcontinent
Verity Sharp looks at the issue of gender in the music of the Indian subcontinent and discovers how female instrumentalists are beginning to make their mark in a traditionally male-dominated culture.

Sean Rafferty talks to guitarist Leo Kottke , and John Tomlinson looks forward to the Brighton Festival performance of Musorgsky's
Boris Godunov. Music includes Schubert's
Unfinished Symphony and Ravel's Violin Sonata in G, broadcast just before 7.00.

Linda Ormiston introduces the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under its principal conductor Joseph Swensen in a concert given last month in Glasgow's City Hall. The concert contrasts the fire of Haydn's last two symphonies with some pastoral British tranquillity.

Robin Williams (oboe), Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Joseph Swensen

Haydn Symphony No 103 in E flat (Drum Roll)

Leighton Veris Gratia

Holst Invocation

Haydn Symphony No 104 in D (London)

Role Play
Five conversations in which
Michael Billington talks to actors and singers about their experiences of playing the same character in theatrical and operatic productions.
2: Kristine Ciesinski and Sara Kestelman talk about Lady Macbeth.

Debussy String Quartet, Op 10 Michael Finnissy Nobody's Jig
Haydn String Quartet in D minor, Op 103 (Unfinished)

In Einstein on the Beach, Philip
Glass and Robert Wilson produced one of the landmark operas of the century. Now, their latest collaboration, Monsters of Grace, combines 13th-century spiritual verse with 21st-century technology. Richard Coles reports from tonight's opening. And he also looks back on the legacy of another generation of artistic innovators as writers and performers meet for the Allen
Ginsberg Memorial Event and the South Bank's poetry library puts on an exhibition of the work of Kenneth
Patchen, one of the key figures in the poetry jazz movement of the fifties and author of more than 40 volumes of poetry and prose. Producer Julian Hale

Count Basie Week
Digby Fairweather talks to
Grover Mitchell , director of the Count Basie
Orchestra, about the Basie legend and the band's quest to keep this unique music alive.

With David Byers.
"For some time it seemed as necessary a tradition to begin your career with the Philharmonic Society (of London) by playing a Hummel concerto as it became the fashion and test of a prima donna to make her first venture as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust. "(MB Foster, 1912) String Quartet in C, Op 30 No 1 Delme Quartet
Piano Concerto in A minor
Stephen Hough ,
English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson Repeated from last Tuesday

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Netherlands Radio
Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Ernest Bour
Wagner Siegfried Idyll Beethoven Piano Concerto No I in C Haydn
Symphony No 31 in D (Hornsignal)
2.20 Handel Violin Sonata in A minor, Op 1 No 4
Tomaz Lorenz ,
Jerko Novak (guitar)
3.00 Schools
3.00 Playtime 3.15 Time to Move
3.35 Let's Make a Story 3.50
Drama Workshop 4.10 In the News Special Edition
4.30 Rudolf Escher String Trio Ronald Hoogeveen (violin), Zoltan Benyacs (viola),
Dmitri Ferschtman (cello)
5.00 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue William Tritt (piano), Hamilton Philharmonic, conductor Boris Brott
5.25 Berio Folk Songs Jean Stilwell (mezzo), Canadian Chamber
Ensemble, conductor Raffi Armenian
5.50 Gesualdo Ave Dulcissima Maria
Monteverdi Choir , conductor John Eliot Gardiner