Petroc Trelawny with music and arts news, including a review of last night's performance by the New York Ballet at London's South Bank
Centre. Music includes Uadov's
Eight Russian Folk Dances at 6.30, Walton's overture Portsmouth Point at 7.00, and Mozart's Bassoon
Concerto at 7.40, performed by Danny Bond with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music.

With Peter Hobday , featuring
Prokofiev symphonies and recordings by conductor Serge Koussevitzky. Gounod Petite Symphonie
St Paul Chamber Orchestra, conductor Christopher Hogwood
9.22 Grieg Violin Sonata No 3 in C minor, Op 45 Augustin Dumay , Maria Joao Pires (piano)
9.47 Prokofiev Symphony No 5 Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Serge Koussevitzky

Andras Schiff
In the last of this week's programmes, Hungarian pianist
Andras Schiff talks to Joan Bakewell about Mozart and the special pleasures and challenges that his music offers to the interpreter.

Musical Diaries
Donald Macleod looks at some of the great diarists of the musical world. 5: George Templeton Strong. George Strong was a New York lawyer with a keen interest in music. He began keeping his journal in 1835. It gives a vivid insight into the musical life of 19th-century New York at a time when it was changing from a small town into a sophisticated metropolis. Including excerpts from: Weber Oberon
Philharmonia, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch Handel Messiah (excerpts) English Concert, conductor Trevor Pinnock
Paganini Caprice in A minor Itzhak Perlman (violin)
Mozart Don Giovanni (excerpts) Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras

Chris de Souza completes his portrait with an examination of the achievements of Handel's last decade, with excerpts from the Music for the Royal Fireworks,
Theodora and The Triumph of Time and Truth.
Repeated next Friday 12 midnight

Nicola Heywood Thomas introduces a recital given last April in St David's Hall, Cardiff. Lowri Blake (cello),
Iwan Llewelyn Jones (piano) Faure Cello Sonata No 1
Schumann Three Romances, Op 94 Martinu Cello Sonata No 2

Another chance to hear last
Wednesday's Prom.
Barbara Bonney (soprano),
Jard van Nes (mezzo), City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, conductor Mark Wigglesworth Messiaen Et Exspecto
Resurrectionem Mortuorum
Mahler Symphony No 2 (Resurrection)

Chris de Souza introduces more recorded gems of early music, including songs from medieval Spain, theatre music by Charpentier, and a sinfonia by JS Bach's oldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.
Producer Lindsay Kemp

By Steve May. Episode 8 For details see Monday

Humphrey Carpenter introduces one of Tippett's most popular works - the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli - and Dvorak's symphonic poem The Golden
Spinning Wheel, which illustrates a popular Czech legend about a king who falls in love with a girl at a spinning wheel.

Wit and irony mingle in Stravinsky's neoclassical game of cards, and the game of chance which is politics is exposed in Shostakovich's powerful symphony. As the centrepiece, a rediscovered concerto by the 18-year-old Britten which he put aside but did not destroy. From the Royal Albert Hall , London. Tasmin Little (violin), Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Royal Philharmonic, conductor Daniele Gatti
Stravinsky Jeu de Cartes
Britten Double Concerto (first London performance)
7.50 To Russia with Love
Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears made a number of visits to the Soviet Union, either on gruelling concert tours or on holiday - they even spent Christmas in Moscow one year. These visits cemented their relationship with cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Pears kept detailed diaries on their travels, and they paint a vivid picture of these two very different Russians and of what it was like to be a musician under the random brutality of the Soviet system.
8.10 Shostakovich Symphony No 5 Repeated Tuesday 2pm

Designs for Living
Susan Marling presents the last of five programmes about architecture. What is the future of domestic architecture? Will it be low-tech, green houses and a return to basic materials, or will the architectural pursuit of the ever lighter, more transparent box mean that high-tech solutions prevail? Architects predict what will happen in the 21st century. Repeat

Bach's BWV933-8 set of preludes, performed by Angela Hewitt (piano).

From the Royal Albert Hall , London. Some of the most lavish ceremonial music of all time is featured in this re-creation of the festivities of Ascension Day, 1600, when the annual symbolic marriage of Venice to the Adriatic Sea was celebrated.
Choir of the King's Consort, the King's Consort, conductor Robert King
Venetian music by Andrea and Giovanni Gabriel !, Monteverdi, Gussago, Viadana, Guami and Massaino.

The last of five programmes in which jazz guitarist and composer
Pat Metheny talks to Ian Carr about his career. Tonight, Metheny talks about his collaborations with drummer Roy Haynes , saxophonist
Joshua Redman and guitarist John Scofield. "I just love John so much and we've been friends for more than 20 years. In the late eighties, he suddenly went from being one of the best players - a great player - to one of the major musicians of our time."
Pat Metheny also brings the story of his own group up to date. Repeated from Saturday 6pm

With Adrian Thomas.
5: "The best melody I have ever managed to write." In the 1920s and 30s, Szymanowski moved towards the neoclassicism of Stravinsky, although his natural lyricism and warmth infuse the lean and sinewy textures of both the Stabat Mater and the second violin concerto.
Stabat Mater
Stefania Woytowicz (soprano),
Krystyna Szczepanska (alto), Andrzej Hiolski (baritone), Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Witold Rowicki
Violin Concerto No 2
Thomas Bowes (violin), Ulster
Orchestra, conductor Takuo Yuasa Mazurka, Op 62 No 1 The Composer (piano) Repeated from last Friday

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Claude Delangle (saxophone), French National Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Milhaud Le Train Bleu Betsy Jolas
Lumor Dukas La Péri; Symphony in C
2.35 Bartok Violin Sonata No 2 lldiko Ban, Katalin Varadi (piano)
2.55 Wolf String Quartet in D minor Ljubljanski Godalni Quartet
3.45 Goldmark Overture: In Italy Hungarian Radio Orchestra, conductor Geza Oberfrank
3.55 Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World) Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Schonwandt
5.00 Sauget The Cicada and the Ant CBC Vancouver Orchestra, conductor Daniel Swift
5.25 Rachmaninov Rhapsody on Theme of Adrienne Krausz (piano),
Hungarian State Orchestra, conductor Zsolt Hamar