Petroc Trelawny with music to start the day and news from the arts world. Including at 6.35 Mozart's
Violin Concerto No 3 in G played by Christian Tetzlaff and the German
Chamber Philharmonic; at 7.30
Brahms's Academic Festival Overture performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Daniel Barenboim ; and at 8.05 Rossini's La Danza from Soirees Musicales sung by tenor Carlo Bergonzi.

With Penny Gore.
Beethoven Leonora Overture No 2
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
9.15 Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat, Op 11 Beaux Arts Trio
9.33 Josef Strauss Waltz :
Dorfschwalben aus Osterreich Vienna Philharmonic/Krauss
9.41 Prokofiev Symphony No 5 Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Herbert von Karajan

Melvyn Tan
Melvyn Tan talks to Joan Bakewell about some of the musicians with whom he has collaborated during his career as one of the world's leading fortepianists.

Shakespeare Peggy Reynolds unravels the plot line of a Shakespearean comedy and plays music associated with it. 4: A Midsummer Night's Dream
III met by moonlight, proud Titania! Including excerpts from:
Mendelssohn Incidental music: A
Midsummer Night's Dream Rotterdam Philharmonic, conductor Jeffrey Tate
Purcell The Fairy Queen
Soloists, English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Britten A Midsummer Night's Dream Soloists, City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Lampe Pyramus and Thisbe Soloists, Opera Restored, director Peter Holman

"Vivaldi is an old man with a prodigious fury for composition." (Charles de Brosses, 1739)
Until the end of his life, Vivaldi continued his dual activities as director of the orchestra at the Ospedale della Pieta and international opera composer. Andrew Manze introduces some of the music he composed for a visit to Venice by the Prince of Poland in 1740 and investigates his shadowy relationship with the singer Anna Giraud. Including:
Concerto in C, RV558
Academy of Ancient Music, director Andrew Manze
Concerto in D minor, RV540
Luca Pianca (lute), Enrico Onofri
(viola d'amore), II Giardino Armonico Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera Emma
Kirkby (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Simon Preston Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight

Jane's Minstrels
Gumey Ludlow and Teme Bax Elegiac Trio
Smyth Four Songs

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Tadaaki Otaka ,
Paul Watkins (cello), Martin Roscoe (piano) Uadov The Enchanted Lake
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme (original version)
Glazunov Symphony No 7
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor

The Piano and Childhood
Introduced by Piers Lane. Kathryn Stott (piano)
Schumann Melodie (Album for the Young)
Bartok For Children (Volume 2, selection)
Kabalevsky A Sad Little Tale (Children's Pieces)
Tchaikovsky Album for the Young (excerpts)
Kabalevsky Snow Storm (Children's Pieces)
Schumann Winterzeit 1; Winterzeit 2
(Album for the Young)
Lutoslawski Folk Melodies
Prokofiev Music for Children, Op 65 (excerpts)
Debussy Children's Corner Repeated from yesterday 10pm

The Indian Subcontinent
Verity Sharp investigates the vocal traditions of the ghazal and qawwali.

With this year's Chelsea Flower
Show under way, Sean Rafferty looks at plants and their musical associations, with music by Ravel, Mozart, Britten and Strauss.

C National Orchestra of Wales
From St David's Hall, Cardiff, a gloriously rich programme of British music.
Conductor Mark Elder ,
Paul Watkins (cello), BBC National Chorus of Wales Ladies' Voices
Butterworth A Shropshire Lad Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor
8.10 Herschel and the Solar System Patrick Moore and guests discuss the life of astronomer William Herschel , the man who, from the garden of his home in Bath, discovered the planet Uranus and began to change our thinking about God's divine planetary engineering. Herschel the composer's work can also be heard. With Francis Ring , chairman of the Herschel Society. Repeat
8.30 Hoist Suite: The Planets
+ See Brian Kay : page 42

Role Play
The fourth 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, Donald Maxwell and Denis Quilley on Falstaff.

Early Music Young Artists' Showcase 98
Chris de Souza introduces the third of four concerts from this year's event, given earlier this month at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Chapelle du Roi are directed by Alistair Dixon in music by Fernando de las Infantas , Alonso Lobo and Jean Richafort that might have been heard at the funeral of Philip II of Spain.
Repeated tomorrow 4pm

Paul Allen reports from Liverpool, where the Tate Gallery reopens this week with an exhibition surveying the development and influence of perhaps the most radical 20th-century art movement - cubism. And he talks to Patrick McCabe , author of The Butcher Boy, about his new novel, Breakfast on Pluto, in which a juvenile transvestite finds himself embroiled in IRA politics. Plus first-night news from
Glyndebourne, where the new season opens with a new production of Cosi Fan Tutte by Graham Vick. Producer Abigail Appleton

Count Basie Week
Digby Fairweather introduces the Count Basie Orchestra in concert at
London's Ronnie Scott 's club, their first date in the UK for 22 years.

With David Byers. Not realising that he was listening to Hummel play,
John Field cried out, 'You're either the Devil or Hummel!"
Bassoon Concerto in F
Klaus Thunemann ,
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
Piano Concerto in A flat
London Mozart Players, director Howard Shelley (piano) Repeated from last Thursday

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth Elgar Polonia
Panufnik Sinfonia Mystica
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz Stanislaw and Anna
2.20 Schumann Dichterliebe
Kevin McMillan (baritone), Michael McMahon (piano)
3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Workshop 3.20 Let's Move! 3.40 Words Alive! 3.50
First Steps in Drama 4.05 Listen and Write
4.30 Schumann Vogel a/s Prophet (Waldszenen): Traumerei (Kinderszenen)
Ralf Gothoni (piano)
4.35 Bruckner Ave Maria; Christus
Factus Est; Locus Iste Sokkelund Choir, conductor Morten Schult Jorsen
5.00 Buxtehude Toccata and Fugue in F, BuxWV156
Ludger Lohmann (organ)
5.25 Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Yuri Egerov ,
Utrecht Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Zinman