Penny Gore with arts news and music, including Jacqueline du Pre's celebrated recording of the Haydn Cello Concerto in Dwith John
Barbirolli and the London Symphony Orchestra, and Pascal Roge playing piano music by Debussy.

With Stephanie Hughes. Nielsen Pan and Syrinx
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Herbert Blomstedt
9.10 Mozart Violin Sonata in E flat, K302
Szymon Goldberg , Radu Lupu (piano)
9.23 Liszt Rapsodie Espagnole Emil Gilels (piano)
9.37 Debussy Khamma (Legende Dansee) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
9.58 Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219 Szymon Goldberg , Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Walter Susskind

Felicity Loft
With Joan Bakewell. Soprano Felicity Lott is a celebrated interpreter of mélodies. Today, she talks about her interest in French song, her love of the language itself, and the influence of French culture on other nations.
With music by Delage, Debussy and Britten.

Five Publishers
With Richard Baker.
One of the longest-established music publishing businesses in the world, Breitkopf and Hartel can trace its roots to early-18th-century Leipzig. In the following centuries, a combination of business and artistic acumen has enabled the company to survive European and world wars. Music includes:
CPE Bach Sonata in D minor, Wq51 No 4 Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord) Beethoven Mass in C, Op 86 (excerpt) Susan Dunn (soprano), Margarita Zimmermann (mezzo), Bruno Beccaria (tenor), Tom Krause
(baritone), RIAS Chamber Choir,
Ernst Senff Chamber Choir, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
Schubert Symphony No 9 in C (Great) (excerpt)
Orchestra of the 18th Century, conductor Frans Bruggen
Wagner Prelude, Act 3: Lohengrin Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Georg Solti

Anthony Burton continues his chronological survey with music from Stravinsky's early years in France, including the neo-Bachian Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments and the composer's own fervent recording of the Symphony of Psalms.

Overture and Parasha's Song (Mavra)
Tatiana Kravtsova (soprano), Netherlands Wind Ensemble, conductor Thierry Fischer
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
Paul Crossley (piano), London Sinfonietta/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Pas de Deux (Apollo)
Orchestra of St Luke's, conductor Robert Craft
Symphony of Psalms
Festival Singers of Toronto, CBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the Composer

Ileana Ruhemann (flute), Julius Drake (piano)
Faure Fantaisie , Op 79
Saint-Saens Romance, Op 37 Widor Suite, Op 34 Dutilleux Sonatine
Poulenc Flute Sonata Repeat
PUSHKIN AND ST PETERSBURG

BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Vassily Sinaisky , Dmitri Alexeev (piano)
Rachmaninov Symphony No 1 in D minor
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3
Shostakovich Symphony No 6
See tonight's Performance on 3 at 7.30pm
PUSHKIN AND ST PETERSBURG

With Gerard McBurney. 3: Pushkin in Love
Something of a Casanova, Pushkin in his romantic poetry has inspired music ranging from song settings by Glinka to cabaret numbers.

From Southwell Minster.
Introit: 0 Nata Lux de Lumine
(Tallis). Responses (Shephard)
Office Hymn: 0 Love Divine (Cornwall) Psalms 47, 48, 49 (Walmisley,
Goss, Walmisley, Blow, Ashfield)
First Lesson: 2 Chronicles 14, w2-end
Canticles: Gray in F minor Second Lesson: James 3
Anthem: I Saw the Lord (Stainer)
Organ Voluntary: A Fantasy, Op 39 (Darke)
Organist and rector chori Paul Hale Assistant organist Philip Rushforth

Sean Rafferty meets Sarah Rothenberg , director of The St Petersburg Legacy at the Barbican Centre. Music includes works by Eigar and Prokofiev.
PUSHKIN AND ST PETERSBURG

Chris de Souza introduces the third of four concerts which the St
Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra is giving this week. Tonight's programme, given on Sunday in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, is conducted by Alexander Lazarev , with Dmitri Aleexev (piano).
Tchaikovsky Festival Coronation
March; Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor Shostakovich Symphony No 11 (The Year 1905)
Last concert Friday 7.30pm
Pi ISHKIN AND ST PETERSBURG

The Golden Gate
By Vikram Seth.
3: A cat reacts to competition For details see Monday

The music of Russian exile Nikolai
Medtner (1880-1951) is proving increasingly popular with pianists and audiences alike. Piers Lane looks back on the life and career of this composer/pianist, with recordings by Medtner himself and by some of his more recent converts. Medtner Skazki , Op 34 Nos 2 and 3 Boris Berezovsky (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in F minor, Op 57 (Appassionata)
Nikolai Medtner (piano) Medtner Danza Festiva
The Composer (piano)
Medtner Sonata Reminiscenza
Mark-Andre Hamelin (piano) Producer Chris Wines
Repeated tomorrow 4pm

No other artist painted himself with quite the same obsessive frequency as Rembrandt, and many of his self-portraits offer an intriguing insight into the development of his art and character. As Rembrandt by Himself opens at the National Gallery in London, Laura Cumming discusses this unique visual autobiography.
Plus a report by Susannah Clapp on tonight's opening of Chekhov's revealing early play Platonov, performed by the Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg. Producer Zahid Warley

Alyn Shipton introduces the second part of the Three Baritone
Saxophone Band in concert at Ronnie Scott 's, with music reminiscent of Gerry Mulligan.
Ronnie Cuber , Charles Davis and Gary Smulyan (baritone saxes),
Dennis Irwin (double bass), Joseph Farnsworth (drums).