With Humphrey Carpenter.

6.35 Brahms Sonata in E flat, Op 120 No 2 - Kim Kashkashian (viola), Robert Levin (piano)

7.05 Purcell It Is a Good Thing to Give Thanks - James Bowman (countertenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Michael George (bass), Choir of New College, Oxford, the King's Consort, director Robert King

7.30 Elgar Sonatina - Peter Pettinger (piano)

8.45 Mozart Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat, K495 - Dennis Brain, Philharmonia, conductor Herbert von Karajan

Rossini Overture: Semiramide - La Scala PO, conductor Riccardo Chailly

9.15 Faure, arr Casais Apres un Reve - Mischa Maisky (cello), Pavel Gililov (piano)

9.19 Corelli, arr Barbirolli Oboe Concerto in F - Anthony Camden, City of London Sinfonia, conductor Nicholas Ward

9.29 Schubert Divertissement sur des Motifs Originaux Francais (3rd mvt) - Yaara Tal and Andreas Groethuysen (piano duet)

9.40 Massenet The Last Sleep of the Virgin - CBSO, conductor Louis Fremaux

9.45 Composer of the Week: Ives
Country Band March - Eastman Wind Ensemble, conductor Donald Hunsberger

9.50 Monteverdi Ave Maris Stella (1610 Vespers) - Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, London Oratory Junior Choir, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner

10.00 British Film Composers: Richard Addinsell
Warsaw Concerto - Martin Jones (piano), Royal Ballet Sinfonia, conductor Kenneth Alwyn

10.10 Britten Film music: Night Mail - Nigel Hawthorne (narrator), Nash Ensemble, director Lionel Friend

10.15 Vaughan Williams Film music: Forty-Ninth Parallel - RTE Concert Orchestra, conductor Andrew Penny

10.17 Bach Ich Wunschte Mir den Tod (Cantata No 57) - Arleen Auger (soprano), Bach Ensemble, conductor Helmuth Rilling

10.35 Tchaikovsky Andante Cantabile - ASMF, conductor Neville Marriner

10.42 Tolstoy Waltz in F - Imogen Cooper (piano)

10.45 Prokofiev, arr Palmer The Ball (War and Peace) - Philharmonia, conductor Neeme Jarvi

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Violinist Joshua Bell talks to Joan Bakewell about his career, which took off when he made his concerto debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at 14.

(Revised repeat)

With Ivan Hewett.

This week, a preview of Gavin Bryars's eagerly awaited new opera Dr Ox's Experiment and a visit to the Royal Scottish Academy's new Alexander Gibson Opera School.

Penny Gore introduces a recital given by the young British pianist Leon McCawley as part of the International Piano Series at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank.

Mozart Piano Sonata in C, K330

Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor, D784

Schumann Kreisleriana

Liszt Rhapsodie Espagnole

Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Vienna Concentus Musicus and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir in sacred works dating from the beginning and end of Mozart's life.

George Pratt joins Chris Wilson on a trip to the Cite de la Musique in Paris for a tour of the museum's collection of lutes and a visit to an international conference on the lute's colourful history in western music.

A series exploring the recorded legacy of the great singers.

Peter Maxwell Davies introduces recordings of soprano Mary Thomas, for whom he wrote a number of his works.

One hundred great 20th-century works of art.

First performed in 1944, this dance work captured the spirit and zeal of the previous century. With contributions from critic Judith Mackrell.

Anthony Burton introduces vocal and choral music first performed in 1922.

Nielsen Springtime in Funen - Inga Nielsen (soprano), Peter Gronlund (tenor), Sten Byriel (bass), Danish National Radio Choir and Orchestra, conductor Leif Segerstam

Faure L'Horizon Chimerique - Gerard Souzay (baritone), Dalton Baldwin (piano)

Milhaud Catalogue de Fleurs - Irene Joachim (soprano), Ensemble conductor Maurice Franck

Delius Requiem - Rebecca Evans (soprano), Peter Coleman-Wright (baritone), Waynfiete Singers, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox

The sixth of 20 monthly documentaries surveying the range and diversity of 20th-century music. How have composers in the classical tradition responded to a musical soundscape increasingly dominated by pop?

With Steve Reich, Judith Weir, Michael Torke, Laurie Anderson, Michael Finnissy, Ned Rorem and Michael Daugherty. Narrated by Samuel West.

Repeated from yesterday 12 noon

By Martyn Wade, starring Simon Russell Beale as Benjamin Britten and Julian Wadham as Peter Pears.

It is 50 years since the first Aldeburgh Festival, and this new play about the life and work of Benjamin Britten explores his professional and personal passions. The play focuses on the foundation of the festival and, through it, the nature of his interest in the young people who played roles in the first performances of some of his operas.

Jeremy Summerly presents a programme including a performance of Elgar's cantata Caractacus to commemorate the centenary of the work's commission for the Leeds Festival.

Leeds Festival Chorus, BBC Philharmonic, conductor Simon Wright

Parry My Soul, There Is a Country; Lord, Let Me Know Mine End (Songs of Farewell) Rodolfus Choir, conductor Ralph Allwood

Six programmes exploring the richly varied folk music traditions of the United States, presented by Tony Seeger.

Building a Library
(Revised repeat from yesterday 9am)

With Donald Macleod.

1.00 Brahms Song of Destiny; Nanie; Symphony No 2 in D - Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra/Yoav Taimi

2.05 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 13 (Pathetique) - Mi-Joo Lee

2.25 Milhaud Suite: Globetrotter - CBC Vancouver Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernardi

2.45 Bartok Violin Concerto No 2 - Guy Braunstein, Saarbrucken RSO, conductor Marcello Viotti

3.25 Sari To the Memory of Bartok - Hungarian State Orchestra, conductor Howard Williams

3.55 Sibelius Symphony No 2 - Estonian RSO, conductor Peeter Lilje

5.00 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in F minor - Vancouver SO, conductor Sergiu Comissiona

5.40 Bach Double Concerto in D minor, BWV1043 - Lucy van Dael (violin), La Petite Bande, director Sigiswald Kuijken (violin)