Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including Tchaikovsky's Suite in G (Mozartiana) performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor
Michael Tilson Thomas , and the Ballades, Op 10 by Brahms played by Emil Gilels (piano).

With Peter Hobday. Balakirev Islamey
Julius Katchen (piano)
9.09 Liszt Les Préludes
London Philharmonic, conductor Bernard Haitink
9.25 Beethoven Cantata on the Accession of Emperor Leopold II
Judith Howarth (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Jose van Dam (bass), Corydon Singers and Orchestra, conductor Matthew Best
9.49 Brahms Piano Trio No 1 in B, Op 8 Josef Suk (violin), Janos Starker (cello), Julius Katchen (piano)

Ivo Pogorelich
Pianist Ivo Pogorelich talks to Joan Bakewell about his controversial interpretations, which have polarised musical opinion across the world for twenty years. With excerpts from:
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor
Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor

With Richard Baker.
3: Esther. A Jewish orphan who became queen to Persian emperor Xerxes, Esther, together with her cousin and guardian Mordecai, played a crucial role in protecting her people from a potential massacre planned by the emperor's adviser Haman. Her courage is commemorated each year in the Jewish feast of Purim. Music includes:
Handel Esther (exceprts) Linda Russell (soprano),
Mark Padmore (tenor),
Michael George (bass), the Sixteen Choir and Orchestra, conductor Harry Christophers Bloch Baal-Shem Robert Zimansky (violin), Christoph Keller (piano)

3: Wolf and the Theatre
Although Wolf completed only one opera - Der Corregidor - he started work on another - Manuel Venegas - and had a host of ideas for other possible operatic subjects. He was convinced that the lyric theatre was his vocation. Jeremy Sams presents a selection of Wolf's theatrical music, including excerpts from the fragmentary Manuel Venegas and from the symphonic poem
Penthesilea, inspired by the poetic drama of Heinrich von Kleist.
Manuel Venegas (excerpts) Josef Protschka (tenor),
Mitsuko Shirai (mezzo), Wurttemberg Chamber Choir, Hartmut Höll (piano) Penthesilea (excerpts) Paris Orchestra , conductor Daniel Barenboim
Der Corregidor (excerpts)
Doris Soffel (mezzo), Werner Hollweg (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gerd Albrecht

A concert given on Sunday in the Waterfront Hall, Belfast, by the Leopold String Trio:
Marianne Thorsen (violin), Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola) and Kate Gould (viola).
Beethoven String Trio in C minor, Op 9 No 3
Leo Weiner String Trio No 1 in G minor, Op 6

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Wagner Suite: Der Meistersinger von Numberg Conductor Mark Wigglesworth Strauss Four Last Songs Janice Watson (soprano), conductor Mark Wigglesworth Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E Conductor Tadaaki Otaka

From Westminster
Cathedral.
Introit: Veni, Sancte Spiritus (Victoria)
Deus in Adiutorium
Office Hymn: Veni, Creator Spiritus (Plainsong/Durufle)
Psalms 125 and 126 (Plainsong)
New Testament Canticle: Colossians 1, wl2-20 (Plainsong)
Reading: 1 Corinthians 2, wl-10 Responsory: Spiritus Paraclitus (Plainsong)
Homily: the Rt Rev Mgr George Stack Magnificat Octavi Toni (Tallis)
Motet: Dergeist Hilft , BWV226 (Bach) Organ Voluntary: Fantasia super
"Komm Heiliger Geist", BWV651 (Bach) Master of the music James O'Donnell.
Organist Andrew Reid.

Sean Rafferty with news from the arts world and music including
Alfredo Casella 's colourful orchestral showpiece Paganiniana, Op 65, and Shostakovich's Piano Trio No 1 played by the Chung Trio.

Chris de Souza introduces a concert given on Saturday in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, by the touring
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under their conductor Neeme Jarvi, with Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet). Rossini Overture: The Thieving Magpie
Arvo Part Concerto Piccolo on BACH
Hummel Trumpet Concerto Nielsen Symphony No 4 (Inextinguishable)

Living Ideas
In the third programme of the series offering an insight into how modern philosophers work and how they relate to thinkers from the past,
Jonathan Ree , a leading interpreter of modern European philosophy who teaches at Middlesex University, talks about Heidegger's philosophy of art and examines in particular why Heidegger rejected traditional approaches to art criticism.

The 17th-century English composer William Lawes wrote no madrigals, yet his viol consorts are full of the passionate and changeable expressiveness of the vocal music of his time. Anthony Rooley introduces the fruits of an experiment in which the Consort of Musicke create vocal works from Lawes's extraordinary and beautiful instrumental compositions. Repeat

Remembrance of Things Past Murray Perahia remembers the running order of a Bach keyboard suite by using the acronym ACSOG - allemande, courante, sarabande, other and gigue. The 18th-century dance styles were a potent source of inspiration for the keyboard music of the period, but as Piers Lane explains, later composers found inspiration in them too. Music includes:
Bach English Suite No 3 in G minor, BWV808 Murray Perahia (piano) Producer Chris Wines
Repeated tomorrow 4pm

Though numerous books and articles have been published on his life and work, WB Yeats remains one of the most elusive and paradoxical characters in literary history. Auden saw him as great and silly, and both characteristics emerge strongly in George's Ghosts, a new book by acclaimed biographer
Brenda Maddox. She joins Patrick Wright to discuss her account of Yeats's last decades, when he married a young Englishwoman, made contact with "Instructors" from an unseen world, and produced some of his greatest and most disturbing verse. Producer Zahid Warley

In San Francisco
Trombonist Turk Murphy continued to play traditional jazz in San Francisco for four decades. Alyn Shipton remembers his great band with trumpeter Leon Oakley , pianist Pete Clute and singer Pat Yankee.

With Susan Sharpe.
12.05am Beethoven Overture:
Egmont
12.15 Kuhlau Sonatina in C, Op 59 No 3
12.25 Holmboe Symphony No 7
12.50 Padre Davide da Bergamo
Sonatina in F; Elevazione in D minor
1.00 Two Beethoven symphonies played by the Berlin Philharmonic under Furtwangler: Symphony No 5 in C minor; Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)
2.30 Wolf Morike Lieder
2.50 Dohnanyi Passacaglia , Op 6
3.00 Schools
3.00 Time and Tune 3.20 Together
3.40 Dance Workshop 4.00 EAL Playtime 4.20 Counting Time
4.30 Pijper Piano Concerto
4.50 Rosenmiiller Benedicam
Dominum
5.10 Hummel Trio for Two Violins and Cello
5.30 Abel Symphony in B flat, Op 10 No 2