With Edward Seckerson.

Brade Turkische Intrada - Hesperion XX, director Jordi Savall

6.03 Vivaldi Concerto in D, RV208 (Il Grosso Mogul) - Fiona Huggett (violin), European Community Baroque Orchestra

6.19 Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D667 (Trout) - Clifford Curzon, Amadeus Quartet

7.02 Beethoven Incidental music: The Ruins of Athens, Op 113 - Vienna Philharmonic/Claudio Abbado

7.07 Haydn Piano Trio in G, H XV 25 (Gypsy) - Alfred Cortot, Jacques Thibaud (violin), Pablo Casals (cello)

7.20 Bartok Kossuth - San Francisco SO, conductor Herbert Blomstedt

7.42 Liszt Capriccio alla Turca from Beethoven's "The Ruins of Athens" - Leslie Howard (piano)

7.51 Dinicu, arr Mondvay The Lark - I Salonisti

8.02 Korngold Suite: The Sea Hawk - National Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Charles Gerhardt

8.18 Mozart Violin Sonata in E minor, K304 - Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim (piano)

8.28 Puccini Vogliatemi Bene (Madam Butterfly) - Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Jussi Bjorling (tenor), Rome Opera Orchestra, conductor Gabriele Santini

8.33 Balakirev Islamey - Julius Katchen (piano)

8.41 Griffes The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan - RCA Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Gerhardt

Mendelssohn Trumpet Overture
London SO. conductor Claudio Abbado
9.13 Gabrieli Canzon Duodecimi Toni a 10 The Wallace Collection, conductor Simon Wright
9.17 Beethoven Rondo a Capriccio in G, Op 129 (Rage over a Lost
Penny) Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
9.24 Ernest Tomlinson English Folk Dances (Suite No 1) Slovakian RSO, conducted by the Composer
9.39 Janequin Le Chant des Oiseaux A Sei Voci
9.45 Gossec Symphony in D, Op 5 No 3 (Pastorella) London Mozart Players, conductor Matthias Bamert
10.00 Orff Ufdem Anger (Carmina Burana) Shinyukai Choir, Berlin PO, conductor Seiji Ozawa
10.14 Chaminade Autumn, Op 35 No 2 Moura Lympany (piano)
10.22 Alan Langford Overture: The Two Worlds Royal Ballet Sinfonia, conductor Gavin Sutherland
10.30 Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Theme Howard Shelley (piano), BBCPO, conductor Matthias Bamert
10.56 Byrd Walsingham ; Gypsies' Round Charivari Agréable
11.06 Hoist Dives and Lazarus Holst
Singers, director Stephen Layton
11.11 Vaughan Williams Rve
Variants of "Dives and Lazarus'
Northern Sinfonia/Richard Hickox
11.22 Mozart Adagio in B minor, K540 Alfred Brendel (piano)
11.36 Giles Swayne Three
Shakespeare Songs BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury
11.42 D'lndy Jour d'Ete a la Montagne
Radio France Philharmonic, conductor Marek Janowski
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine

As the major festival English
Originals opens at the Barbican, Ivan Hewett discovers a renewal of interest in English folk music, until recently obscured by the huge popularity of Celtic music. Plus talk on how record companies will have to change to survive in the next millennium.
See also Late Junction, tomorrow, 10.15pm Producer Jessica Isaacs

Brass at Symphony Hall
Petroc Trelawny presents highlights from the Open Brass Band
Championships held last weekend in Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Music includes the winning performance of the new set work Dove Descending by Philip Wilby.

In the second of his three-part examination of the music of Chopin Charles Rosen discusses the effects of revolutionary 19th-century Europe on Chopin's style. With the help of illustrative examples on the piano he explores Chopin's place among his contemporaries, including
Schumann, Liszt and Bellini. Producer Kerry Chapman
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Composer and conductor Carl Davis talks about tenor Placido Domingo. Producer Paul Hindmarsh
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

87: Henry Moore : Atom Piece
An examination of the work of Henry Moore , who was inspired to become a sculptor after hearing a talk on Michelangelo at Sunday school in Yorkshire.
Producer Fiona McLean
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Natalie Wheen introduces music first performed in 1968. Birtwistle Punch and Judy (Prologue) Berio Sinfonia (3rd mvt)
Pousseur Jeu de Miroirs de Votre Faust
Barraque Portail de la Terreur (Le Temps Restitue)
Zimmermann Cello Concerto "En forme de Pas de Trois"
Producer Edward Blakeman

Yves Bonnefoy
With Anthony Rudolf. Yves Bonnefoy is undisputedly the foremost French poet of his generation. Although an atheist, his works possess an intense spiritual quality and have won him prestigious literary accolades, including the Prix Goncourt. From his Paris apartment overlooking
Montmartre he gives a deeply felt meditation on why poetry is so necessary today, accompanied with readings from his poetry. Producer Michael Nangta

Repeated from yesterday 12 noon
SHAKESPEARE FOR THE
MILLENNIUM

By William Shakespeare. Radio 3's Shakespeare season continues with the Bard's magical comedy. Introduced by Richard Eyre.
Music composed and performed by Robin Rimbaud. Director Susan Roberts
* BBC Radio Shakespeare cassettes and CDs of Hamlet, Julius Caesar. Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night and Henry IV, Part One are available now

A Requiem for Michael
The first of an occasional series of choral music by 20th-century composers. Tonight Paul Guinery is joined by conductor Paul Spicer to introduce music by Herbert Howells , including a new recording of his choral masterpiece Hymnus Paradisi , composed in 1938 as a requiem for his son Michael.
A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song Joan Rodgers (soprano),
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox Requiem (extracts) Rnzi Singers, conductor Paul Spicer
Hymnus Paradisi Joan Rodgers
(soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson
(tenor), BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox
Take Him , Earth, for Cherishing Corydon Singers/Matthew Best Producer Paul Hindmarsh

John Scott (organ), BBC Concert
Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth Kenneth Leighton Dance Suite No 1; Organ Concerto; Passacaglia, Chorale and Fugue

The BBC Singers, conducted by Bo Holten , perform three choral settings of St Francis of Assisi's great hymn in praise of creation. Featuring the music of Jorgen Jersild , Bernhard Lewkovitch and Walton. Repeat

With Jonathan Swain.

Handel The Triumph of Time and Truth

3.25 Dohnanyi Suite in F sharp minor, Op 19

3.55 Chopin Ballade in F minor, Op 52

4.10 Coulthard, orch Michael Conway Baker Four Irish Songs

4.20 Francaix 11 Variations on a Theme by Haydn

4.40 Schumann Introduction and Allegro Appassionato, Op 92

5.00 Homeman Overture: Aladdin

5.15 Piazzolla Histoire du Tango

5.30 Ravel Sonatine

5.40 Tchaikovsky Suite: Swan Lake