With Penny Gore.
6.05 Wagner Siegfried /dy/< Northern Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
6.35 Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra BBC SO, conductor Andrew Davis
7.10 Schumann Papillons, Op 2 Max Levinson (piano)
7.50 Weber, orch Berlioz Introduction to the Dance Berlin Philharmonic. conductor Herbert von Karajan
8.00 Wientawski Polonaise No 1, Op 4 Maxim Vengerov (vioiin), !tamarGotan (piano)
8.50 Haydn Te Deum in C, HXX/llc 2 English Concert Choir and Orchestra. director Trevor Pinnock
William Boyce has some claim to be the outstanding English composer of the mid-18th century. Donald Macleod presents five programmes this week in a chronological study of his music, accompanied by Garard Green reading from the Memoirs of Dr Boyce by Boyce's contemporary Sir John Hawkins.
Spring Gardens Evelyn Tubb (soprano). Frances Kelly (triple harp)
Turn Thee unto Me Choir of New College, Oxford, director Edward Higginbottom Symphony No 8 in D minor Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
Peleus and Thetis (excerpts) Soloists, Opera Restor'd, director Peter Holman
The first of five programmes this week in which the poet Sarah Maguire, recently poet-in-residence at the Chelsea Physic Garden, talks about her new poem, Umbrellularia californica.
With Peter Hobday, featuring
Shostakovich's symphonies and performances by Regine Crespin.
JC Bach Overture; La Clemenza di Scipione Hanover Band, conductor Anthony Halstead
10.13 Rave) Snenerazade Regine Crispin (soprano), Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Ernest Ansermet
10.30 Haydn Fantasia in C, H XW/ 4 Alfred Brendel (piano)
10.36 Bartok Cantata Profana
John Aier (tenor), John Tomlinson (bass),
Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra. conductor Pierre Bou!ez
10.56 Shostakovich Symphony No.1 National Symphony Orchestra. conductor Mstislav Rostropovich Producer Arthur Johnson
Lucie Skeaping presents a week of vocal and instrumental music spanning 600 years of European musical history, featuring Europe's finest early music performers recorded in some of Yorkshire's most historic locations. Today's programme begins with theatre music by Purcell from The Fairy Queen and Timon of Athens and ends with Handel's Concerto Grosso in D, Op 6 No 5, and the aria Sweet Bird (L'Allegro). The ensemble Florilegium and Julia Gooding (soprano) were recorded in Beverley Minster. In between is a sequence of madrigals and instrumental pieces from 15th-century Italy and 17th-century England, performed by the ensembles Mala Punica, Virelai, the Rose Consort of Viols and the Consort of Musicke.
Stephanie Hughes presents the Trio Fontenay in a concert given in the Wigmore Hall, London.
Haydn Piano Trio in D. H XV 24
Schubert Piano Trio No 1 in B flat, D898
Rossini Overture; William Tell - Conductor Mark Wigglesworth
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor - John Lill (piano), conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Bizet L'Arlesienne: Prelude; Minuet; Adagietto (Suite No 1); Intermezzo (Suite No 2); Carillon (Suite No 1) - Conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2 in C minor (Little Russian) - Conductor David Atherton
Ancient Greece and its mythology have supplied opera with some of its most dramatic and terrifying plots. Graeme Kay explores music from Handel to Henze and discovers that modern Greece also has a role to play.
Sean Rafferty talks to Anthony Holden about his new biography of Shakespeare. Music includes at 5.30 Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488, with Howard
Shelley and the London Mozart Players, and at 6.10 Rachmaninov's Vocalise with the St Petersburg PO/ Mariss Jansons. Plus after 7.00 Saint-Saens's violin concertos as recommended in Radio 3's Disc of the Week.
Stee/andGoM. The second concert in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's cycle of Rachmaninov symphonies, given on Saturday in Glasgow's City Halt.
ArturPizarro (piano), BBC Scottish SO, conductor Osmo Vanska
Webem Passacag/ta, Op 1 Scriabin P/ano Concerto
Rachmaninov SympnonyNo 2f'n Fm<nor Next programme !n the series Friday 12th November 8pm
Artur Pizzaro plays a selection of Alexander Scriabin's Mazurkas for piano.
The writer Jonathan Raban has just sailed from Seattte to the Alaska panhandle. Paul Alien discusses Raban's fascination with the open sea and talks to poet
Paul Mu !doon about what he describes as "the end of the poem".
Verity Sharp explores the music of Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who died in 1997. She begins with Khan's 1992 recording, Love Has No Destination. Plus electro-acoustic music by David Behrman and early 16th-century Bohemian polyphony sung by the Hithard Ensemble.
Alyn Shipton introduces a session by tenor saxophonist Alan Skidmore and his quartet. Skidmore is one of Britain's leading interpreters of the music of John Coltrane. The quartet also features Steve Melling (piano), Arnie Somogyi (bass) and Stephen Keogh (drums).
With Susan Sharpe.
12.05am Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op 56a
12.25 Bach Violin Concerto in E, BWV1042
12.40 Huet Fantasia
12.50 Faure Messe Basse
1.00 Mozart String Quartet in D. K575
Smetana String Quartet in E minor (From My Life)
Brahms String Quintet No 2 in G, Op 111
2.30 Dohnanyi Sympnonic Minutes
2.40 Kadosa Suite No 1
2.50 Karlowicz To a Sorrowful Girl; In the Snow
3.00-5.00 Schools
3.00 Music Box
3.15 Something to Think About
3.30 The Song Tree
3.45 Stories and Rhymes
4.00 Find Out
4.15 Maths Challenge 2
4.30 Hopscotch
4.45 Scottish Resources 7-9
5.00 Doppler Souvenir de Prague
5.15 Bardos Ave Maria
Kodaly Psalm 150
Remenyi Auction, Ping Pong
5.25 Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op 22
5.40 Chausson Poeme
