Stephanie Hughes with arts news and music, including at 6.30 Bach's Violin Concerto in A, BWV1052 performed by Ruggiero Ricci and the City of London Ensemble; at 7.20 Haydn's Scherzando No 3 in D performed by Emmanuel Pahud
(flute) and the Berlin Haydn Ensemble; and after the 8.00 news Weber's
Overture: Abu Hassan performed by the LSO, conductor Charles Mackerras.

With Peter Hobday.
Rossini Overture: Semiramide
London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington
9.13 Mozart Dans un Bois Solitaire,
K308 Barbara Bonney (soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
9.17 Lully Chaconne (Acis et
Galatee) Monique Zanetti (soprano), Les Talens Lyriques, director Christophe Rousset
9.22 Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos
Jacques Fevrier and the Composer, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conductor Georges Pretre
9.42 Charpentler Te Deum Le Concert Spirituel, conductor Herve Niquet
9.52 Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Leonid Kogan ,
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conductor Constantin Silvestri

Charles Mackerras
The Australian conductor continues his conversation with Joan Bakewell and today speaks of the early days of authentic performance and his pioneering work on Handel's music. Including the first recording of the original orchestration of Music for the Royal Fireworks.

Women Writers
With Peggy Reynolds.
3: The Brontes. When Charlotte,
Emily, Bramwell and Anne Bronte were children, they made up stories and wrote them down in miniature books. The plan was that they would all become famous, writing fiction as romantic as that of their favourite novelist, Sir Walter Scott. It did not quite work out like that for Bramwell, but it did for the sisters. Music includes:
Berlioz Overture: Rob Roy Royal
Scottish NO, conductor Neeme Jarvi Herrmann Wuthering Heights (excerpt) Pro Arte Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
Korngold The Death of Emily Bronte NPO, conductor Charles Gerhardt
Trad Scottish, arr George Fox Bonny Wee Thing Sydney McEwan (tenor), Gerald Moore (piano)
Emily Bronte 's Wuthering Heights is broadcast on Friday on Radio 2 at 9.15pm

A great deal of Brahms's music was inspired by his personal relationships. Chris de Souza continues his analysis of the expression of these relationships in Brahms's music.
String Sextet No 2 in G, Op 36; Wiegenlied, Op 49 No 4
Repeated next Wednesday 12 midnight

New Generations
Fiona Talkington introduces a season of recitals from the wigmore Hall, London, featuring leading young soloists and ensembles. This recital is given by an up-and-coming Russian virtuoso. Constantin Lifschitz (piano)
Haydn Sonata in D, H XVI 19 (Divertimento)
Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit
Chopin Mazurka in A minor; Ballade No 2 in F, Op 38

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductors Thomas Dausgaard and Tadaaki Otaka ,
Aleksander Madzar (piano) Smetana Vltava (Ma Vlast)
Prokofiev Montagues and Capulets; Morning Dance; Romeo and Juliet; Death of Tybalt (Romeo and Juliet); Piano Concerto No 3
Brahms Symphony No 1 in C minor More Brahms at 8.50pm tonight

From Portsmouth Cathedral. ntroit: Blessed Be Thou, 0
Lord God (How)
Responses (Walsh)
Office Hymn: Most Holy Lord (plainsong, mode 2)
Psalms 92 and 93 (Hopkins, Archer) First Lesson: Micah 4, wl-7
Canticles: Dyson in D
Second Lesson: Matthew 19, wl6-22
Anthem: They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships (Sumsion)
Hymn: Praise the Lord, Ye Heavens (Austria)
Organ Voluntary: Sonata No 5 in C minor (Guilmant) (1st mvt) Organist and master of the choristers David Price. Assistant organist David Thorne.

Sean Rafferty invites singer Patricia Rozario to pick some highlights from 21 years of the Huddersfield
Contemporary Music Festival. Music includes Mozart's A Musical Joke at
5.35 and Prokofiev's Piano Concerto
No 1 at 6.40.

The Royal Concert
From the Royal Festival Hall, in the presence of Prince Edward.
Joan Rodgers (soprano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Mark Wigglesworth
Tippett The Rose Lake
Strauss Four Last Songs
8.30 Book of the Month
One time teacher, cobbler and poultry farmer, Robert Frost became the most influential American poet of the century, though his reputation remains controversial. In his new biography, Jay Parini traces the various stages of Frost's colourful life, from his boyhood in San Francisco through his years in Britain to his triumphant return to America in 1915 and the assumption of the role of national poet. Robert Frost: a Life is reviewed by the American poet Dana Gioia.
8.50 Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor

Magnum at the Millennium
3: My Face Is Your Fortune. Magnum photographers consider their achievements in producing portraits of the century's celebrities.

Dvorak wrote his Violin Sonatina for his children to play, Beethoven composed a piano trio movement to encourage a little girl's musical studies, and Janacek's Mladi is a nostalgic reflection of youth. Penny Gore introduces a programme inspired by childhood, including a performance of the Dvorak work by Philippe Graffin (violin) and Stephen Coombs (piano). Producer Nigel Wilkinson Repeated tomorrow 4pm

Of all the great Italian painters,
Caravaggio seems to speak most immediately to the modern world.
The most intensely religious painter of his day, his works also reveal a strong, disturbing personality.
Poussin was to think he had come into the world to destroy painting, and he continues to exert a powerful fascination on our own century. Laura Cumming reassesses his life and work in the light of two new studies. And art and subversion meet again as Ewan McGregor plays the disruptive student suspended from art school in a new production of David Halliwell 's Little Malcolm and the Battle against the Eunuchs. Night Waves reports from tonight's opening in London. Producer Anthony Denselow

The Great American Songbook
More from the Carol Kidd concert.

Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien
(excerpts); Jeux; Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarme; La Boite à Joujoux (excerpts); Syrinx Repeated from last Wednesday

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Jean Guillou (organ) Mendelssohn Organ Sonata in F minor, Op 65 No 1 Franck Piece Heroique
Plus music by Bach and Guillou
2.20 Paganini Sonata Concertanta in A, Op 61 Tamaz Lorenz (violin), Jerko Novak (guitar)
2.45 Mozart Horn Concerto No 1 in D, K412 James Sommerville , CBC Vancouver Orchestra/Mario Bernardi
3.00 Schools
3.00 Time and Tune 3.20 Together
3.40 Dance Workshop 4.00 EAL Dance 4.20 Scottish Resources
10-12 4.40 Talking Points
5.00 Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Winnipeg SO, conductor Kazuhiro Koizumi
5.25 Francaix Serenade
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, conductor Raffi Armenian
5.40 Fesch Concerto in E, Op 5 No 6 Jed Wentz and Marion Moonen (flutes), Manfredo Kraemer (violin), Musica ad Rhenum
5.50 Telemann Recorder Sonata in F
(Der Getreue Music-Meister) Camerata Kbln