Stephanie Hughes with arts news and music, including at 7.30
Borodin's unfinished Symphony No 3 in A minor played by the Toronto SO, conductor Andrew Davis ; at 7.20
Handel's Oboe Concerto in G minor, HWV287, played by Frank de Bruine and the Parley of Instruments; and after the 8.00 news an old American song set by Copland and performed by Willard White.

With Penny
Gore. Handel , orch Eigar Overture in D minor Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn
9.07 Biber The Nightwatchman
Simon Grant (bass), New London Consort, director Philip Pickett
9.18 Shostakovich Suite: Hamlet
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
9.41 Bach Preludes and Fugues Nos 21-24 ("48", Book 1)
Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)
10.04 Stravinsky Jeu de Cartes Philharmonia, conductor Herbert von Karajan

Five Saints
With Donald Macleod.
5: Nicholas. The life of Nicholas of Bari was filled with miracles, from those surrounding his conception and birth to those he performed as a priest.
He became bishop of Myra (in modern Turkey) and, as one account reveals, "from the minute the saint became a priest, one can hardly keep count of the virtue and goodness he spread about him, of the nights spent at his devotions, days of fasting, steadfast goodwill and his prayers for all." The cult of Nicholas gradually became one of the most important in the Catholic world; his special sympathy with sailors and with children became widely celebrated, and eventually he became synonymous with giving presents to children at Christmas time. Even his name evolved - to
Santa Claus. Music includes:
Britten St Nicholas (excerpts)
Harry Briggs (treble), Anthony Rolfe
Johnson (tenor), Choir of St George 's Chapel, Windsor, Corydon Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Matthew Best
Langlais Legende de St Nicholas (Suite Folklorique) The Composer (organ)
Haydn Mass in G (St Nicholas) (excerpt) Nancy Argenta (soprano), Catherine Robbin (mezzo), Michael Schade
(tenor), Alastair Miles (bass), Choir and Orchestra of the English
Concert, director Trevor Pinnock

To complete his look at the work of French composer Josquin des Prez, Jeremy Summerly introduces music from Josquin's last years in France, including a performance of the Missa Pange Lingua in a new recording by the North Sea Project, director Matthew Vine.
Repeated next Friday 12 midnight

Emma Johnson (clarinet), Martin Roscoe (piano)
Saint-Saens Clarinet Sonata in E flat,
Op 167
Stravinsky Three Pieces for Clarinet Rachmaninov, arr Johnson Vocalise Milhaud Suite: Scaramouche
Poulenc Clarinet Sonata

BBC Philharmonic
Conductors Matthias Bamert , Yan Pascal Tortelier and Charles
Mackerras, Janos Starker (cello) Wagner, arr Stokowski Wotan 's
Farewell: Magic Rre Music (Die Walkure) Strauss Don Quixote
Mozart Symphony No 38 in D, K504 (Prague)
Wagner, arr Stokowski Tristan und Isolde - Symphonic Synthesis

Repeated from yesterday 10pm

Unusual Instruments
Verity Sharp concludes her week-long look at unusual instruments with the ondes martenot, an electronic instrument that was particularly favoured by the French composer Olivier Messiaen.

Sean Rafferty 's guests tonight include the distinguished South
American pianist Clara Rodriguez , who is appearing in a musical story called Liszt in Petticoats in London.
Music includes Albeniz's Iberia at
5.35, and, before 7.00, Strauss's
Mozartian Piano Trio No 1, which he wrote when he was just 13.

BBC Philharmonic
The first in a season of concerts in which the BBC Philharmonic performs Rachmaninov's three symphonies from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. This concert was given last Saturday. Conductor Vassily Sinaisky , Dmitri Sitkovetsky (violin)
Prokofiev Russian Overture
Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1
Rachmaninov Symphony No 1 in D minor

Private View
Nicholas Ward Jackson explores the contemporary art world. Tonight, he talks to sculptor Richard Wentworth about the exhibition Thinking Aloud. Devised by Wentworth, the show brings together a bizarre collection of art objects and artefacts, including paintings by Churchill, a wooden mole trap, a tally stick from the Bank of England, and works by Gilbert and George and Rachel Whiteread.

Six Songs to Poems by Gellert Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Hertha Klust (piano)

Huddersfield 98
The annual festival of new music in Huddersfield is under way again, this time celebrating its 21st year. Verity Sharp introduces highlights from a group of concerts given by international artists and ensembles and Ivan Hewett takes a look at how the festival has come of age.
Luis de Pablo Segunda Lectura (first UK performance) Nuove Sincronie, conductor Renato Rivolta
Simon Holt A Book of Colours
Rolf Hind (piano)
James Dillon Hyades (first performance) Soli-Tutti, conductor Denis Gautheyrie Producer Andrew Kurowski

A Portrait of Jaco Pastorius
Programmes in which Charles Shaar Murray tells the remarkable story of bass player Jaco Pastorius.
2: Liberty City. After years of obscurity in Florida, Pastorius sends shock waves through the music world with his debut album. With Herbie Hancock , Joni Mitchell , Wayne Shorter , Joe Zawinul and the Pastorius family. Repeated from Saturday 6pm

Brahms's involvement with Clara
Schumann and her family continued throughout his life. Chris de Souza looks at some of the music that resulted from that relationship, telling how, near the end of his life, Brahms consciously wound up his musical affairs.
Alto Rhapsody; Violin Sonata No 1 in G, Op 78; 0 Welt, Ich Muss Dich Lassen, Op 122 No 11 Repeated from last Friday

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto
No 1 in B flat minor; Symphony No 4 in F minor Vladimir Ovchinikov (piano), Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Antoni Wit
2.20 Messiaen Le Merle Noir
Oleg Vichnevssy (flute), Irina Kozina (piano)
2.45 Undberg Aura
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
3.40 Strauss, arr anon Suite: Der Rosenkavalier Quebec Music Conservatory Orchestra, conductor Raffi Armenian
4.05 Wagner Die Walkure (excerpt) Marja Tyrkko (soprano), Jorma Huttvnen (tenor),
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jossi Jalas
4.25 Beethoven Violin Sonata in A, Op 12 No 2 Salvatore Accardo , Michele Campanella (piano)
5.00 Francesco Durante Concerto
No 6 in A Concerto Koln
5.15 Bach Concerto in D minor, BWV1052 Glenn Gould (piano), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ernest MacMillan
5.50 Geminiani Concerto Grosso No 4 in B minor Concertino, Tasmanian
Symphony Chamber Players