With Penny Gore, including 6.00 Debussy
Suite Bergamasque Pascal Roge (piano)
6.40 Mendelssohn String Symphony No 7 in D minor English String Orchestra, conductor William Boughton 7.03 Purcell Sweeter than Roses Emma Kirkby
(soprano), Anthony Rooley (lute) 7.45
Beethoven Horn Sonata in F, Op 17 David Pyatt , Martin Jones (piano) 8.10 Komgold Suite: Much Ado about Nothing London Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Andre Previn 8.45 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in FOregon Bach Festival Chamber Orchestra, conductor Helmuth Rilling

With Donald Macleod.
4: Vivaldi and Opera. Vivaldi was a latecomertothe colourful and risky world of Italian opera, yet he claimed to have written 90 operas, some of them at extraordinary speed. His relationship with the singer Anna Giro added a personal element to his theatrical ventures.
Sinfonia in F, RV703 (Bajazet) (1st mvt) L'Arte dell 'Arco/Christopher Hogwood Guardia in Quest' Occhi (Ottone in Villa) Nancy Argenta (soprano),
Collegium Musicum 90, conductor Richard Hickox
Agitata a Due Venti (Griselda) Emma Kirkby (soprano), Brandenburg Consort, conductor Roy Goodman
Sinfonia in G (II Farnace) L'Arte dell ' Arco, director Christopher Hogwood
Ferma, Teodosio (L 'Atenaide)
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Brandenburg Consort, conductor Roy Goodman
L 'Incoronazione di Dario (Act 2, Scene 1 7) Michel Verschaeve (baritone), Nice Baroque Ensemble, director Gilbert Bezzina Violin Concerto in C minor, RV761 (Amato Bene) Frederico Gugliemo , L'Arte dell' Arco, director Christopher Hogwood
Se in Campo Armato (Catone in Uttica) Emma Kirkby (soprano), Brandenburg Consort, conductor Roy Goodman

Ronan Bennett. The author's new novel is set in 17th-century Halifax. Today he talks about social intolerance and attempts by the wealthy merchants of west Yorkshire to regulate the behaviour of the poor.

With Peter Hobday. Rimsky-Korsakov Dubinushka USSR Academic SO, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov 10.11
Krommer Octet-Partita in F, Op 57Wind Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe 10.30 Bloch Poems of the Sea
Malmo SO, conductor SakariOramo 10.44 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 9, Op 103 Yefim Bronfman 11.09 Stravinsky Mass Gregg
Smith Singers, Columbia Symphony Winds and Brass, conducted by the Composer

Impressions from a Country
Continuing the focus on Bohemian composers. Flbich Impressions from the Country BBCSO, conductor Jiri Belohlavek
Novak Piano Trio in D minor, Op 2 7 Nash Ensemble
Janacek On the Overgrown Path (Book 2) Radoslav Kvapil (piano)
Smetana Tabor; Blanik (Ma Vlast) Czech PO, conductor Charles Mackerras

Paul Allen introduces a recital from the 1998 York Early Music Festival. Labyrinto, a leading viol consort from Italy, perform a sequence of Renaissance love songs and madrigals in transcriptions for viols by composers including Cipriano de Rore ,
Orlando di Lassus and Andrea Gabrieli.

BBC Philharmonic
Novak Overture: Lady Godiva Conductor Libor Pesek Beethoven Piano Concerto
No 4 in G Naum Grubert, conductor Vassily Sinaisky Wagner Prelude and Liebestod
(Tristan und Isolde) Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World) Conductor Vassily Sinaisky

Metamorphoses. Why do some composers make piano transcriptions of their own music? Piers Lane explores this repertoire in a specially recorded session featuring Martin Roscoe. Music includes: Haydn Adagio in G (after 2nd mvt of Piano
Trio, H XV22) Brahms Theme with Variations (after String Sextet, Op 18) Liszt Sonetto
4 7 del Petrarca (Annees de Pelerinage Bk 2) Producer Chris Wines

As a series of concerts opens at St John's, Smith Square, Sean Rafferty talks to the composer Anthony Payne about the influence of Sibelius on British composers. Music in the programme includes at 5.35 Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 2 performed by the New York Philharmonic directed from the keyboard by Leonard Bernstein ; and Beethoven's Overture: Zur Namensfeier played by the Vienna
Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado.

Janacek came to London at the invitation of Rosa Newmarch for a concert of his chamberworks at the Wigmore Hall on Thursday 6 May 1926. This concert recreates the original intended programme, including the Piano
Concertinowhich was dropped at the last minute from the London concert of 1926. String Quartet No 1 (KreutzerSonata)Jhe Lindsays Violin Sonata Ernst Kovavcic , Radoslav Kvapil (piano)
8.10 Twenty Minutes: an Excursion of Mr Janacek David Huckvale tells the story of Janacek's London visit, with readings from his letters and diaries.
8.30 Mladi (Youth) London Winds: Phillipa Davies (flute/piccolo), Gareth Hulse
(oboe), Michael Collins (clarinet), Michael Harris (bass clarinet), Robin O'Neill (bassoon), Richard Watkins (horn)
Pohadka (Tale) Christopher van Kampen (cello), Radoslav Kvapil (piano)
Capriccio Radoslav Kvapil (piano), Peter Cropper and Ronald Birks (violins), Robin Ireland (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet), Richard Watkins (horn), Robin O'Neill (bassoon)

Paul Allen talks with emergency physician
Frank Huyler , whose new book The Blood of Strangers recounts intimate and strange encounters in the world of emergency medicine. This week's series on Marxism continues with its impact on the cinema.

Verity Sharp presents further selections of music from around the globe.

Campbell Burnap and Alyn Shipton review the month's s second crop of new CDs.

With Jonathan Swain.

12.05am Biber Sonata No 1 a 8 (Sonatae Tam Aris quam Aulis Servientes)

12.10 Noskowski The Steppes

12.30 Naumann Harpsichord Concerto in B flat

12.45 Fetis Gloria (Messe des Solennelles Majeurs)

1.00 Ravel Daphnis and Chloe: Suite No 2
Lalo Symphonie Espagnole
Saint-Saens Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ)

2.35 Cesti Qual Profondo Letargo (Orontea)

2.45 Liszt Ballade No 2 in B minor

3.00-5.00 Schools
3.00 Music Workshop
3.20 Let's Move!
3.40 Words Alive
3.55 First Steps in Drama
4.10 Listen and Write
4.30 Alphabet Time
4.40 Higher Still English

5.00 Tchaikovsky Christmas Eve (Les Caprices d'Oxane)

5.10 Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante

5.20 Schickhardt Flute Sonata in C

5.30 Taubmann Malinconia

5.50 Corelli Violin Sonata in E minor, Op 5 No 8