Stephanie Hughes with arts news and music, including Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik performed by members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor
Pinchas Zukerman , at 6.30; the Polonaise from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin played by the Leningrad Philharmonic after the 7.00 news; and Bach's
Brandenburg Concerto No 3 played by the English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock , leading up to the
8.00 news.

With Peter Hobday.
Mozart Overture: Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail
Tafelmusik, conductor Bruno Weil
9.05 Sweelinck Fantasia in D
Glenn Gould (piano)
9.15 Alfven Swedish Rhapsody No 3 Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Niklas Willen
9.42 Bizet Variations Chromatiques Glenn Gould (piano)
9.56 Nielsen Symphony No 2 (The Four Temperaments) San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conductor Herbert Blomstedt

John Williams
John Williams talks to Joan Bakewell about the diversity of the guitar repertoire, about some of the music which has been commissioned for him, and about the broad range of cultures from which his repertoire has been drawn.

Sound Stories in New York
Choreographer George Balanchine arrived in New York in 1933 to lead a brand-new ballet company - the American Ballet. The company had been founded not only to establish and nurture essentially American dance, but also to foster a ballet repertoire there and an audience to appreciate it. Donald Macleod tells the story of Balanchine's first decade in New York, including excerpts from:
Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Johann Strauss (son) Die Fledermaus Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice
Marilyn Home (soprano),
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conductor Georg Solti
Stravinsky The Fairy's Kiss Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Oliver Knussen

Geoffrey Baskerville explores the secretive world of Roman Catholicism after the Reformation in England. Byrd Fantasia a 6 Capriccio Stravagante , director Skip Sempe
Tailis Videte Miraculum
Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, director Christopher Robinson Byrd Susanna Fair
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley
Tallis In Jejunio et Fletu Theatre of Voices, director Paul Hillier
Byrd Pavan and Galliard in G minor (Sir William Petre )
Laurent Stewart (harpsichord)
Byrd Mass for Four Voices (Agnus Dei) Hilliard Ensemble
Tallis Blessed Are Those That Are
Undefiled
Tallis Scholars, director Peter Philips Byrd Benedicta et Venerabilis;
Alleluia; Post Partum William Byrd Choir, director Gavin Turner
Byrd Why Do I Use My Paper, Ink and Pen? I Fagiolini,
Concordia Byrd Wedded to Will Is Witless London Early Music Group, director James Tyler
Repeated next Tuesday 12 midnight

Mozart in the City
The fifth of eight programmes of Mozart string quartets recorded in a variety of historic London venues as part of this year's City of London
Festival. Introduced by Lucie Skeaping. Chilingirian Quartet
String Quartets: in E flat, K160; in F, K168; in C, K465 (Dissonance)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductor Osmo Vanska,
Jennifer Koh (violin)
Sibelius The Oceanides; Symphony No 6
Berg Violin Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral)

Baudelaire Settings lain Burnside looks at some of the song composers who came under the spell of French poet Baudelaire. Repeated from yesterday 10pm

Animals and Music
Tommy Pearson talks to musicologist Roderick Swanston about how composers have featured birdsong in their music or have been inspired by it.

Michael Chance joins Sean Rafferty as he looks forward to a busy summer. Rachmaninov's Vocalise comes before 6.00, and Haydn's
Harpsichord Concerto in D leads up to
7.00, with Trevor Pinnock directing the English Concert.

Chris Wines introduces a concert from this year's Aldeburgh Festival. Peter Serkin (piano),
Heleen Hulst (violin), Fred Sherry (cello), Tim Lines (clarinet)
Stravinsky The Soldier's Tale (Suite) Charles Wuorinen Cello Variations III
(first broadcast)
Takemitsu Between Tides
Peter Ueberson The Ocean Which Is
Neither East nor West (first broadcast) Oliver Knussen Prayer Bell Sketch (first broadcast)
Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op 114

Taking the Waters
With Kathleen Griffin.
2: Karlovy Vary - the Aristocratic Spa Repeat

Conductor Peter Maxwell Davies ,
Deborah Jacob (soprano), Kathryn Stott (piano)
Maxwell Davies Suite: The Devils; Piano Concerto (first broadcast)

As this month's moon approaches its final quarter, Richard Coles explores the pervasive influence of moonlight on the arts, from Shakespeare to
Pinter and from Coleridge to Turner. He keeps to the romantic theme with discussion of a new biography, The Hidden Wordsworth - Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy, which claims to unpick Wordsworth's own carefully created public image with political, poetic and sexual revelation. Plus more contemporary tales of art and politics in Bill Buford 's weekly letter on cultural life across the Atlantic.
Producer Rob Ketteridge

With Digby Fairweather. The first of three concert nights featuring saxophonist Scott Hamilton with Roy Williams (trombone) and the Brian Lemon
Quartet. Brian Lemon (piano), Dave Cliff (guitar), Simon Woolf
(double bass), Allan Ganley (drums)

2: Literary Connections
Solitary Hotel, Op 41 No 4
Thomas Allen (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano) Music for a Scene from Shelley
Detroit SO. conductor Neeme Jarvi
Medea's Dance of Vengeance (Medea) Atlantic Sinfonietta, conductor Andrew Schenck
A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map Robert DeCormier Chorale ,
Symphony of the Air, conductor Vladimir Golschmann
Sure on This Shining Night, Op 13 No 3 Cheryl Studer (soprano), John Browning (piano)
Violin Concerto Joshua Bell ,
Baltimore SO, conductor David Zinman Repeated from last Tuesday

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Irish NSO/Kaspar de Roo,
Janis Vakarelis (piano) Mozart Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491 Mahler Symphony No 1
2.20 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor, Op 95
New Helsinki Quartet
2.45 Schumann Kreisleriana
Martina Filijak (piano)
3.35 Uros Krek Koncertini Diptihon Milos Mlejnik (cello), Slovenian PO, conductor Janos Kovacs
4.00 Dukas La Péri Netherlands RPO, conductor Jean Fournet
4.30 Bach Brandenburg Concerto
No 2 in FCBC Vancouver Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernardi
4.50 Weber Clarinet Concertino in E flat Hannes Altrov , Estonian State SO, conductor Paul Magi
5.00 Rosenmuller Sinfonia No 5
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists
5.10 Prokofiev Symphony No 1 in D (Classical) RTE Concert Orchestra, conductor Wayne Marshall
5.35 Szymanowski Songs of an Infatuated Muezzin Alison Pearce
(soprano), Krakow PO, conductor Jerzy Katlewicz