Penny Gore with arts news and music, including Mozart's Piano Sonata in C, K309 played by Christoph Eschenbach , Bax's
Roscatha with the Ulster Orchestra, conducted by Bryden Thomson , and Duparc's Chanson Triste sung by Jessye Norman.

With Peter Hobday.

Poulenc Ranges pour Rire - Elly Ameling (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)

9.13 Walton Viola Concerto - William Primrose, Philharmonia, conducted by the Composer

9.36 Poulenc Banalites - Gilles Cachemaille (baritone), Pascal Roge (piano)

9.47 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 3 in D (Polish) - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur

Salvatore Accardo
Accardo talks to Joan Bakewell about the importance of chamber music in his life and describes how he is fulfilling an ambition to play the great string quartets. With music by Albenlz, Brahms and Schubert.

Five Crusaders
With Donald Macleod.
Rinaldo and Armida - Christian knight and Saracen sorceress - are the protagonists of Tasso's huge poem Gerusalemme Liberata. There are over a hundred separate operas on the subject - most of them utterly forgotten. Music includes:
Vivaldi Overture: Armida al Campo d'Egitto
Gluck Le Perfide Renaud Me Fuit
(Armide)
Lully, arr d'Anglebert Les Sourdines (Armide)
Rossini D'Amor al Dolce Impero (Armide)
Jommelll Caro Mio Ben (Armida Abbandonata) eeminiani The Enchanted Forest (Act 5)

With Daniel Snowman.
Living Dangerously. By the First
World War, Puccini was the most famous living Italian opera composer. Learning from contemporaries as varied as Debussy, Stravinsky and Lehar, he tried his hand at a Viennese-style operetta - La Rondine - and wrote an operatic triptych about death: the veristic melodrama
II Tabarro; a mystical transfiguration, Suor Angelica ; and a quickfire comedy about a disputed will, Gianni Schicchi.
Repeat

Chris de Souza introduces a recital by the Auer Quartet given on Tuesday at the Bath International Festival.
Haydn String Quartet in E flat, Op 50 No
Sibelius String Quartet in D minor, Op 56 (Voces Intimae)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductor Osmo Vanska,
Kathryn Stott (piano) Sibelius Karelia Suite
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 6 Britten Piano Concerto
Sibelius Symphony No 6

Repeated from yesterday 10pm

With Sean Rafferty. Music includes Ravel's Valses Nobles et
Sentimentales and Chopin's Ballade No 4 in F minor. PUSHKIN AND ST PETERSBURG

Paul Allen discusses today's shortlist for the Turner Prize. He also talks to philosopher and zoologist
Michael Ruse , whose new book of Mystery of Mysteries explores how the science of evolution may be a social construction - an apparently objective analysis profoundly influenced by cultural concerns. Producer Tony O'Shaunessy

Alyn Shipton talks to English singer, Norma Winstone one of the most individual voices in jazz, equally at home scat-singing with Kenny Wheeler 's big band or interpreting the gentle ballads of her recent album Manhattan in the Rain.

With Susan Sharpe.

12.05am Schumann, transcr Liszt Widmung

12.10 Brahms Neue Liebeslieder, Op 65

12.30 Delius, arr Fenby Intermezzo (Fennimore and Gerda)

12.35 Rubbra Trio in One Movement

1.00 Brahms Symphony No 1

1.45 Schutz Magnificat

1.55 Gabrieli Cadenza Quarta

2.00 Bach Partita in D minor, BWV1004

2.25 Jarnefelt Kanteletar

2.30 Sibelius Two songs

2.35 Khachaturian Piano Concerto

3.15 Haydn The Creation (excerpt)

3.20 Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op 56a (St Antoni Chorale)

3.35 Chopin Scherzo No 2

3.45 Bartok Violin Sonata No 1

4.20 Madetoja Dance Vision

4.30 Alma Mahler-Werfel Five Lieder

4.50 Hasse Cleofide (excerpt)

5.00 Buxtehude Praeludium in F, BuxWV145

5.05 Durante Concerto No 1 in F minor

5.20 Wolf-Ferrari Two Intermezzi (Il Gioielli della Madonna)

5.35 Fouquet Solitude for Two Cellos