Stephanie Hughes with arts news and music, including Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn performed by the Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy , at
6.30; Schubert's Impromptu in G flat, D899 No 3, played by pianist Maria Joao Pires at 7.30; and Lutoslawski's Variations on a Theme of Paganini played by the French pianists Antoinette and Claire Cann after the 8.00 news.

With Peter Hobday.
Mozart Overture: Der Schauspieldirektor Tafelmusik, conductor Bruno Weil
9.05 Bach Fantasy in G minor, BWV917
Glenn Gould (piano)
9.09 Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV988
Glenn Gould (piano)
9.48 Nielsen Symphony No 3 (Espansiva)
Pia-Maria Nilsson (soprano), Olle Persson (baritone), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

John Williams
All his life, guitarist John Williams has been involved with causes such as Amnesty International and CND.
Today he talks to Joan Bakewell about the importance of politics in his life and how much his political beliefs have influenced his music-making.

Sound Stories in New York
Carnegie Hall is one of the world's most prestigious and best-loved concert halls. It celebrated its centenary in 1991. Today's tour around the Big Apple looks at the musicians and music-making that made the 1940s so special for the hall, and includes Heifetz playing
Bach, Barbirolli conducting Schubert and Toscanini conducting
Beethoven, as well as appearances by Woody Herman and legendary pianist Solomon.

Geoffrey Baskerville explores the roles of Tallis and Byrd in the early development of English song.
Tallis The Eighth Tune (Tallis Canon) Theatre of Voices, director Paul Hillier
Byrd In Nomine No 5 for Five Viols Michael Chance (alto), Fretwork Byrd Christ Rising Again Hilliard Ensemble ,
London Baroque, director Paul Hillier Tallis Felix Namque No 1
Lars-Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) Byrd Though Amaryllis Dance in Green Hilliard Ensemble, London
Baroque, director Paul Hillier Tallis Ecce Tempus Idoneum Clerkes of Oxenford, director Robert Woolley
Tallis Mass for Four Voices (Sanctus) Hilliard Ensemble
Byrd What Pleasure Have Great Princes Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley Tallis If Ye Love Me
Tallis Scholars, director Peter Phillips Repeated next Wednesday 12 midnight

Mozart in the City
The sixth 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, Endellion Quartet String Quartets: in B flat, K159; in A, K169; in D. K499 (Hoffmeister)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductors Osmo Vanska and Alexander Titov ,
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
Musorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain
Sibelius Symphony No 7
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor
Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor Sibelius Valse Triste

Live from Westminster Cathedral.
Introit: Intende Voci Orationis Meae (Elgar)
Office Hymn: Sol, Ecce Lentus Occidens (plainsong)
Psalms 61 and 66 (plainsong)
New Testament Canticle: Colossians 1, vv l2-20 (Gratias Agamus Deo Patri) (in Falsibordone)
Responsory: Custodi Nos, Domine (plainsong)
Homily: Mgr Keith Barltrop.
Magnificat for Double Choir (Stanford)
Motet: Ave Maria (Mendelssohn)
Organ Voluntary: Toccata (Stanford)

As Trevor Nunn 's new production of Oklahoma! hits the South Bank,
Sean Rafferty is joined by Maureen Lipman , who plays Aunt Eller. Music includes works by Monteverdi and Schumann, and, at 6.40, Neeme Jarvi conducts the Gothenburg SO in Sibelius's Tapiola.

Cheltenham Festival 1998
The second of three concerts in which Alfred Brendel plays all of Beethoven's piano concertos. Alfred Brendel (piano), Valdine Anderson (soprano),
Warsaw Sinfonia , conductors George Benjamin and Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2 in Bflat Benjamin A Mind of Winter
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor

Taking the Waters
Five programmes this week in which Kathleen Griffin visits European spas. 3: Lake Balaton - the Revolutionary Spa. The largest lake in Central
Europe, where, in the mid-19th century, writers and artists met to plot against the Hapsburg Empire. Repeat
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Stockhausen's seminal work is played by the Danish RSO, conductors Bruno Madema , Michael Gielen and the Composer.

With Piers Lane.
The Piano and Dance
Weber, arr Tausig Invitation to the Dance Benno Moiseiwitsch
Bach English Suite No 2, BWV807 (Bourrees) Ivo Pogorelich
Brahms Hungarian Dance No 5
Yaara Tal and Andreas Groethuysen Chopin Polonaise in A flat, Op 53 Shura Cherkassky
Chopin Mazurka in B minor, Op 33 No 4 Ignaz Friedman
Chabrier Bourree Fantasque Allan Schiller
Schulz-Evler Concert Arabesque on "The Blue Danube"
Josef Lhevinne
Producer Chris Wines. Rptd tomorrow 4pm

Bizet's opera Carmen remains one of the most popular in the repertoire, with one of the most intriguing female leads. Laura Cumming explores the many faces of Carmen as a new production transplants her to the 21st century as queen of the cyber chicks. Plus news from the world premiere of The Peony Pavilion, a 22-hour-long piece of Kunju opera about a beautiful woman and her dream lover written by the man described as the Shakespeare of China, Tan Xianzu. It is being performed in New York in its entirety for the first time for modern audiences, who are encouraged to chat, eat and drink tea. Producer Nicki Paxman

With Digby Fairweather. Part two of Scott Hamilton and Roy Williams with the Brian Lemon Quartet in concert at Berkhamsted Jazz.

3: Wartime Encounters
Commando March; Adagio for
Strings; Excursions, Op 20 (excerpt); Night Flight: Cello Concerto

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Organ Music Including works by Johann Xaver Nauss ,
Ellas Bronnemuller and Johann Speth , plus: Jiri Ignac linek Preambulum in C Jan Jansen Seger Toccata and Fugue No 4 in E Peter van Dijk Jan Raas Four Improvisations Corelli La Follia
Jan Jansen
2.00 Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor Finnish RSO, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
2.40 Liszt Années de Pèlerinage (Book 1) Matti Raekallio (piano)
3.25 Schnittke 12 Verses of Penitence Danish National Radio
Choir, conductor Stefan Parkman
4.15 Hummel Trio for Two Violins and Cello Viktor Simcisko and Alzbeta Plazkurova (violins), Jozef Sikora (cello)
4.30 Respighi Trittico Botticelliano Winnipeg SO, conductor Kazuhiro Koizumi
5.15 Beethoven Horn Sonata in F,
Op 17 Arvids Klisans, Ventis Zilberts (piano)
5.25 Mozart Symphony No 38 in D, K504 (Prague) Finnish RSO, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste