Stephanie Hughes with arts news and music, including Hoist's suite Beni Mora at 6.30, a Bach prelude and fugue performed by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett at 7.05, and Lensky's aria from Tchaikovsky's
Eugene Onegin sung by Sergei Larin at 7.30.

With Peter Hobday.
Mozart Overture: Die Zauberflote
Tafelmusik, director Bruno Weil
9.07 Scarlatti Sonatas: in D, Kk430; in D minor, Kk9; in G, Kkl3
Glenn Gould (piano)
9.14 Alfven A Legend of the Skerries Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Niklas Willen
9.33 Tippett The Heart's Assurance Martyn Hill (tenor), Andrew Ball (piano)
9.53 Nielsen Symphony No 5 New York Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Bernstein

John Williams
Guitarist John Williams talks to Joan Bakewell
about some of the achievements of his diverse career and about his aims for the future.

Sound Stories in New York
Donald Macleod 's final postcard from the Big Apple tells the story of the New York Philharmonic's move from Carnegie Hall to a specially built new home in the city's Lincoln
Center. Philharmonic Hall opened in 1962 with a glitzy gala concert - and it has seen moments of great celebration and national tragedy.
Today's music includes excerpts from: Mahler Das Lied von der Erde
Ernst Haefliger (tenor). New York Philharmonic, conductor Bruno Walter
Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor Bernstein West Side Story Mahler Symphony No 7 New York Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Bernstein

Geoffrey Baskerville concludes his look at two great 16th-century English composers with some monuments, some miniatures and two melancholy farewells.
Byrd, arr Stokowski Earl of Salisbury Pavan
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leopold Stokowski Byrd Fantasia in A minor
Ton Koopman (harpsichord) Tallis Salve Intemerata Virgo
Tallis Scholars , director Peter Philips Byrd Come Woeful Orpheus
Hilliard Ensemble , London Baroque, director Paul Hillier
Byrd Praeludium and Ground Capriccio Stravagante. director Skip Sempe
Tallis Te Lucis ante Terminum
Theatre of Voices, director Paul Hillier
Byrd Ye Sacred Muses
David James (countertenor), London Baroque
Repeated next Friday 12 midnight

Mozart In the City
The last of eight programmes of Mozart string quartets, recorded at this year's City of London Festival and introduced by Lucie Skeaping. Chilingirian Quartet,
Louise Williams (viola)
String Quartet in F, K158; String Quintet in G minor, K516

Jennifer Vyvyan
The English soprano who died in 1974 at the age of only 49 was a hugely versatile artist, but she was most closely associated with the music of the Baroque and that of her contemporaries, especially Benjamin Britten. Gordon Stewart presents archive recordings of Jennifer Vyvyan in repertoire ranging from Handel to Britten and including some 19th-century songs. Producer Peter Tanner

Repeated from yesterday 10pm

Animals and Music
Music can have quite a dramatic effect on the behaviour of some animals. Tommy Pearson investigates with the help of vet Nigel Taylor and a collection of four-legged friends.

"Fourth tenor" Jose Cura talks to
Sean Rafferty as he prepares to sing the role of Don Jose in the City of London Festival concert performance of Carmen. Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italien leads up to 6.00, and Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat is played before 7.00.

Cheltenham Festival 1998
The last of three concerts in which
Alfred Brendel plays all of Beethoven's piano concertos.
Alfred Brendel (piano), Warsaw Sinfonia, conductor Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach
Beethoven Symphony No 1 in C Lutoslawski Funeral Music
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor)

Taking the Waters
The last of five programmes in which Kathleen Griffin visits European spas. Le Touquet - the Star Spa. The seaside playground of the rich and famous. Repeat

Music by the 15th-century composer with a flair for acrostics, performed by the Bornus Consort and Ensemble Ars Nova de Varsovie. Discs

Presented by Verity Sharp. Tonight, monumental and meditative works by pioneer and recluse Giacinto Scelsl (1905-88), specially recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers, conductor Martyn Brabbins. Scelsi Ohoi ; Hymnos; Chukrum; Konx-Om-Pax
Plus Andrew McGregor reviewing recent CD releases of new music. Producer Philip Tagney

The second of five programmes in which jazz guitarist and composer
Pat Metheny talks to Ian Carr about his career.
While he was still with the Gary Burton Quartet, Metheny recorded two ECM albums under his own name, one of which was Watercolors with keyboard player Lyle Mays. Metheny recalls how he came to leave the Gary Burton Quartet in 1977 and how he formed his own group with Mays.
Repeated from Saturday 6pm

With Humphrey Burton. 5: Barber in Later Life
Must the Winter Come So Soon?;
I Should Never Have Been a Doctor; Goodbye, Erika (Vanessa)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conductor Dmitri Mitropoulos Piano Concerto
John Browning , Cleveland Orchestra, conductor George Szell
The Senate in Rome; Oh Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away (Antony and Cleopatra)
Westminster Choir,
Spoleto Festival Orchestra. conductor Christian Badea
In the Hot Depth of This Summer (The Lovers)
Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra. conductor Andrew Schenck
Repeated from last Friday

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Mozart // Re Pastore (concert version)
Oliver Baumont (harpsichord), Radio France Philharmonic. conductor Leopold Hager
3.05 Nielsen Flute Concerto
Petri Alanko ,
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
3.25 Klami Kalevala Suite
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mikko Franck
4.00 Alessandro Scarlatti
St John Passion
Basle Madrigalists,
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis String Ensemble, director Fritz Naf
5.05 Kodaly Cello Sonata Miklos Perenyi.
Jeno Jando (piano)
5.25 Milton Barnes Three Folk
Dances
Moshe Hammer (violin), Valerie Tryon (piano)
5.40 Vivaldi Oboe Sonata in C minor, RV53
Branko Mihanovic ,
Visnja Mazuran (harpsichord), Tin Mrsic (cello)