Petroc Trelawny presents music and arts news, including a look at an exhibition focusing on Picasso's ceramics. Music includes Ravel's
Daphnis and Chloe Suite No 2 performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn , at
6.10; Vivaldi's Bassoon Concerto in F, RV485, performed by Alberto Grazzi and the English Concert, director
Trevor Pinnock , at 7.20; and Wagner's Overture: The Flying Dutchman performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Daniel Barenboim , at 8.50.

With Penny Gore.
Holbome Four Dances
Basle Ricercare Ensemble
9.09 Weber Piano Sonata No 2 in A flat. Op 39 Emil Gilels
9.39 Vllla-Lobos Bachiana Brasileira
No 2 Royal Philharmonic, conductor Enrique Batiz
9.59 Handel Chandos Anthem No 10:
The Lord Is My Light Lynne Dawson (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor), the Sixteen Choir and Orchestra, conductor Harry Christophers

Steven Isserlis
Joan Bakewell talks to cellist Steven Isserlis
about his exploration and extension of the cello repertoire.
Music includes Woldemar Bargiel 's Adagio in G. DANUBE WEEK

A Journey down the Danube With Donald Macleod.
4: Budapest is one of the finest riverside capitals, but the banks of the Danube, as it traverses the great Hungarian plain, have often been the scene of bloody battles. Music includes: Trad, arr Berlioz Rakoczy March
Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra, conductor Matyas Antal
Bartok Kossuth (excerpt) San Francisco SO , conductor Herbert Blomstedt
Kodaly Psalmus Hungaricus Tamas Daroczy (tenor), Choirs of Hungarian Radio and Television, Budapest
Schola Cantorum, Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Georg Solti Plus traditional music played by Hungarian and Rumanian ensembles.

With Misha Donat.
4: The Bach Revival
Prelude and Fugue in E minor,
Op 35 No 1 Murray Perahia (piano) Capriccio in E minor, Op 81 No 3 Busch Quartet
Elijah (excerpts) Elly Ameling and Renate Krahmer (sopranos),
Annelies Burmeister and Gisela Schröter (contraltos), Peter Schreier
(tenor), Theo Adam (bass), Leipzig Radio Chorus,
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch Prelude and Fugue in G minor,
Op 37 No 1 Peter Hurford (organ) Variations Sérieuses, Op 54 Alfred Brendel (piano)
Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight

Voices at the Wigmore Hall Sally Burgess (mezzo), Ian Burnside (piano)
Chabrier Villanelle des Petits
Canards; Les Cigales; Romance de I'Etoile; L'lle
Heureuse Duparc Phidyle ; Chanson Triste; La Vie Antérieure
Debussy Chansons de Bilitis
Strauss Begegnung; Hat Gesagt - Bleibt's Nicht Dabei , Op 36 No 3;
Mahler Wo die Schonen Trompeten Blasen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Strauss Zueignung , Op 10 No 1 Repeat

BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier,
Alfredo Perl (piano)
Chausson Soir de Fete
Mozart Piano Concerto No 25 in C. K503
Ravel Daphnis and Chloe: Suite No 1 Hindemith Dances from "Das
Nusch-Nuschi"; Suite: Tuttifantchen
Mozart Symphony No 41 in C, K551 (Jupiter)

Return of the series celebrating chamber music. For many years, the Paris Conservatoire commissioned leading composers to write test pieces for the annual woodwind competitions. The composers also sat on the jury to hear how their music fared. Penny Gore traces the history of the flute and clarinet awards and introduces a selection of the pieces, including works by Faure, Messiaen, Françaix and Debussy. With Emma Johnson (clarinet), Gary Arbuthnot (flute) and Ian Brown and Simon Crawford Phillips (piano). Producer Nigel Wilkinson

Investing in the Future
Tommy Pearson finds out how this year's Proms attracted an audience of younger listeners with a special Blue Peter 40th birthday Prom. He talks to some of the people behind the idea and finds out how the concert went down with the audience.

As the 80th anniversary of the end of the First World War approaches,
Sean Rafferty explores the impact of war on composers and the broader artistic community. Music includes George Butterworth 's rhapsody A
Shropshire Lad and Brttten's response to the pity of war, Sinfonia da Requiem.
DANUBE WEEK

From the Art Deco concert hall in Budapest's Liszt
Academy. Humphrey Burton introduces orchestral music by three very different Hungarian giants.
Barnabas Kelemen (violin), Budapest Symphony Chorus (female voices), Hungarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Tamas Vasary Bartok Two Pictures
Ligeti Violin Concerto
8.20 In Memory of Liszt Nicola Barranger visits the Ferenc
Liszt Memorial Museum in Budapest.
8.40 Liszt Dante Symphony
DANUBE WEEK

From the Donau to the Duna
With George Szirtes.
4: The Pest district of Hungary's capital.

Return of the series celebrating early music, with part of a concert from this year's York Early Music Festival. Introduced by Lucie Skeaping. Emma Kirkby (soprano),
Academy of Ancient Music, director Andrew Manze (violin)
Geminiani, after Corelli Concerto Grosso No 5 in G minor
Handel Piangero la Sorte Mia (Giulio Cesare )
Wassenaer, attrib Pergolesi/Ricciotti Concerto Armonico No 5 in B flat
Geminiani, after Corelli Concerto Grosso No 6 in A
Handel Gentle Morpheus, Son of Night (Alceste)
Producer Mark Rowlinson

Jonathan Swift - ironic promoter of eating children, controversial clergyman, successful lover and failed politician - is the subject of a highly personal new study by the acclaimed biographer Victoria Glendinning. She talks to Paul Allen about the English writer who became an Irish national hero.

And has Pablo Picasso's work in ceramics been unfairly neglected? Paul Allen discusses the Royal Academy's new exhibition on Picasso's work in clay.

Brecon 98
An interview with drummer Jake Hanna.

Piano Sonata 1 X 1905 (From the Street); Songs of Hradcany Castle (excerpts); Sinfonietta

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Finnish RSO/Paavo Berglund, Randi Stene (contralto), Helsinki University Male Voice Choir Sibelius The Oceanides
Brahms Alto Rhapsody
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4 in F minor
2.10 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor. Op 13 (Pathetique)
Geoffrey Lancaster (fortepiano)
2.30 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor, Op 59 Australian Quartet
3.10 Matti Rautio Suite: The Blue
Heron Finnish RSO/Kari Tikka
3.35 Bartok Rhapsody No 1
Zoltan Takacs (violin), Finnish RSO, conductor Hannu Bister
3.35 CPE Bach Six Sonatas
Bratislava Chamber Harmony
4.25 Haydn Symphony No 73 in D (La Chasse) Bratislava RSO, conductor Ludovit Rajter
4.50 Astor Piazzolla Adios Nonino
Montreal Musica Camerata
5.10 Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: The
Tale of Tsar Sultan Queensland SO, conductor Vladimir Verbitsky
5.45 Beethoven Ah! Perfido
Rosamund Illing (soprano),
Melbourne SO/Herbert Esser