Stephanie Hughes with arts news and music, including at 6.30 Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite No 2 played by the Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Lorin Maazel ; at 7.20 Buxtehude's Sonata in G for Two
Violins, Viola da Gamba and Basso Continuo, BuxWV253; and after the
8.00 news Dvorak's Two Waltzes played by the Vlach Quartet.

With Peter Hobday.
Schumann Overture: Hermann and Dorothea Philharmonia/Riccardo Muti
9.10 Villa-Lobos Bachiana Brasileira
No 5 (1st mvt) Bidu Sayao (soprano), ensemble, conducted by the Composer
9.17 Poulenc Aubade The Composer (piano), Walter Straram Orchestra, conductor Walter Straram
9.36 Couperin Troisieme Lecon de Tenebres Judith Nelson and Emma
Kirkby (sopranos), Jane Ryan (cello), Christopher Hogwood (organ)
9.47 Dvorak Symphony No 8 in G London Philharmonic, conductor Constantin Silvestri

Charles Mackerras
In 1947, on a visit to Prague, Australian conductor Charles Mackerras went to see a production of Janacek's Katya Kabanova. He talks to Joan Bakewell about "the most momentous evening of my life" and his subsequent devotion to Czech music.

Women Writers
With Peggy Reynolds.
2: Fanny Bumey. Fanny Bumey's father was a composer, and she mixed with theatrical people and went to fashionable concerts. As
Keeper of the Queen's Robes she saw performances by many an eminent musician, and she also enjoyed the music of the lively pleasure gardens. All of these things found their way into the diary she kept for 60 years, and into her famous novel Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World. Music includes:
Charles Bumey Comet Voluntary Gerald Gifford (organ)
Handel Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 3 No 1 (1st mvt)
Academy of St Martin in the Reids, conductor Neville Marriner
Stanley Concerto in D, Op 2 No 1 (3rd mvt) Parley of Instruments, conductor Roy Goodman
Haydn Symphony No 101 in D
(Clock) (2nd mvt) London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington

"Visit from Brahms - a genius" was the note that Robert Schumann made in his diary following his first meeting with Brahms. But Brahms came to owe a great deal to the support of Schumann. Chris de Souza explains how Brahms honoured the debt.
Ave Maria; Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor
Repeated next Tuesday 12 midnight

From Studio 1, Broadcasting House, Belfast, the third of four lunchtime concerts introduced byJohnToal.
Joachim Trio: Rebecca Hirsch (violin), Caroline Dearnley (cello), John Lenehan (piano)
Haydn Piano Trio in C, H XV 21
Dvorak Piano Trio No 3 in F minor, Op 65

Ulster Orchestra
Conductors Vernon Handley and Takuo Yuasa , Thomas Bowes (violin) Brahms Tragic Overture Parry Elegy for Brahms
Brahms Serenade No 2 in A
Szymanowski Violin Concerto No 2 Schumann Symphony No 3 in E flat (Rhenish)

Cityhopper. lain Burnside packs his bags for a round trip to the world's great cities in song.
Repeated from yesterday 10pm

Designs on the Cello
Composer John Woolrich talks to Verity Sharp about his new cello concerto for Steven Isserlis and leads a composition workshop for composers recently selected by the Society for the Promotion of New Music to write a new piece for a cello duo.

With Sean Rafferty , including a report from Adelaide as Jeffrey Tate conducts the first ever Australian production of Wagner's Ring cycle. Other music includes Vivaldi's
Autumn from The Seasons at 5.40 and Rlmsky-Korsakov's Suite: The Tale of Tsar Saltan at 6.35.

From the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, continuing a season of chamber recitals. Tonight, two virtuosos come together to make a sensational duo. Roscoe and Donohoe perform an all-Russian programme full of exoticism, glitter, melody and panache. Introduced by Linda Ormiston.

Peter Donohoe and Martin Roscoe (pianos)

Tchaikovsky, transcr Rachmaninov Sleeping Beauty

Rachmaninov Suite No 1 (Fantasie: Tableaux)

8.20 Adultery and Other Diversions: Ghosts
The third of four interval programmes in which novelist Tim Parks reads from his new collection of essays which vividly - and often controversially - cast an eye on contemporary mores.

8.40 Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

Magnum at the Millennium
2: The Man with a Gun. A look at half a century of war photography by members of the Magnum agency.

Conductor Oliver Knussen, Vaidine Anderson (soprano)

Berg Suite: Lulu

Classical and pop, living and long gone: composers, musicians and individual works have been subjected to censorship around the world. As the magazine Index on Censorship launches a special edition, Smashed Hits: Banned Music of the World,
Richard Coles explores the history of music censorship and its existence today.
Producer Lawrence Pollard

Alyn Shipton presents the first of two programmes featuring Carol Kidd in performance at this year's Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival.
Carol Kidd (vocals), Phil Bancroft (tenor sax/soprano sax), Fraser Speirs (harmonica), Nigel Clark (acoustic guitar), Dave Milligan (piano), Ronnie Rae (double bass), Mike Bradley (drums)

Roger Nichols surveys the music of Debussy's last ten years. Today, he introduces music from 1910.
Iberia (Images) CBSO, conductor Simon Rattle
Trois Ballades de Francois Villon Camille Maurane (baritone), Lamoureux
Orchestra, conductor Jean Fournet
La Plus que Lente
French National Radio Orchestra, conductor Jean Martinon
Preludes (Book 2):
Brouillards Noel Lee (piano)
General Lavine - Eccentric
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
La Terrasse des Audiences
Walter Gieseking
Feux d'Artifice Krystian Zimerman Repeated from last Tuesday

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Music by Oswald von Wolkenstein
performed by the Augsburg Ensemble for Early Music
2.10 Shostakovich Cello Concerto
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Wen-Sinn Yang ,
Bienne Orchestral Society, conductor Grzegorz Novak
2.40 Naumann Concert in B flat
Gerald Hambitzer (harpsichord), Concerto Koln
3.00 Schools
3.00 Playtime 3.15 Time to Move
3.15 Let's Make a Story 3.50 Drama Workshop 4.10 In the News: Topical Roundup 4.30 Hop, Skip and Jump
4.45 Eadar Eisdeachd
5.05 Musorgsky Softly the Spirit Flew up to Heaven
Petteri Salomaa (baritone), llmo Ranta (piano)
5.15 Bach Concerto in E, BWV1053
Angela Hewitt (piano),
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernard !
5.40 Frescobaldi Messa della
Madonna (Fiori Musicali ) (excerpts)
Liuwe Tamminga (organ)
5.50 Glinka Kamarinskaya
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ludovit Rajter