With Martin Handley.
Grieg Holberg Suite
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
6.40 Hoist Wind Quintet in A flat, Op 14 Elysian Wind Quintet
7.10 Handel, arr Beecham Amaryllis Suite RPO, conductor Yehudi Menuhin
7.35 Ibert Deux Interludes
Sue Ann Kahn (flute), Curtis Macomber (violin), Susan Jolles (harp)
8.00 Borodin, arr Rimsky-Korsakov Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)
Toronto Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davis
8.25 Bach Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV1041 Jaap Schroder, Academy of Ancient Music, directorChristopherHogwood

With Donald Macleod.
A Life for the Tsar (excerpts)
Sofia National Opera Chorus, Sofia Festival Orchestra, conductor Emil Tchakarov

Lavinia Greenlaw. The writer
Lavinia Greenlaw continues hertalks about life in the Essex village featured in her first novel.

With Peter Hobday.
Grainger The Warriors Philharmonia
Orchestra, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
10.24 Ibert Flute Concerto
Marcel Moyse , orchestra conducted by Eugene Bigot
10.42 Stravinsky Four Russian Peasant Songs Gregg Smith Singers, director Gregg Smith
10.48 Shostakovich Symphony No 12
(The Year 191 7) Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Mravinsky

Rlsor Festival of Chamber Music
Today's concert given by the musicians of Norway's Risor Festival on tour at the Wigmore Hall in London features performances by Swedish trumpeter Hakan Hardenberger and the Risor Festival Strings. Honegger Intrada for trumpet and piano Stravinsky Suite: The Soldier's Tale Martinu La Revue de Cuisine
Edvard Fllflet Braein Adagio for string orchestra (1953)
Honegger Symphony No 2

Paul Lewis (piano)
Busoni Elegy No 7 (Berceuse Elegiaque); Elegy No 6 (Erscheinung)
Liszt Unstern: Sinistre, Disastro; Sposalizio (Annees de Pelerinage, Book 2); La Lugubre Gondola No 2
Busoni Elegy No 3 (Meine Seele Bangt und Hofft zu Dir)
Bach Concerto in the Italian Style, BWV971

(See also Friday 1pm)

Ulster Orchestra
Smetana Symphonic Poem: Richard III , Op 11 Conductor Leos Svarovsky Balassa A Day-Dreamer's Diary conductor John Lubbock
Bartok Piano Concerto No 2
Dmitri Alexeev , conductor John Lubbock Kodaly Dances from Galanta Conductor TakuoYuasa
Dvorak Symphony No 8 in G Conductor TakuoYuasa

lain Burnside presents a recital by Polish contralto Jadwige Rappe , known here for her deep burnished tone in Wagnerian roles. She reveals another side of her vocal personality in a recital of songs by Brahms, Beethoven, Moniuszko and Dvorak recorded earlierthis month at the National Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw. Jadwige Rappe (contralto), Ewa Poblocka (piano) Producer Clive Portbury

Sean Rafferty with guests, arts news and music, including at 5.35 Schubert
Sonatina in D, D384; at 6.00 Brahms
Intermezzo in A, Op 118 No 2; and at 6.45 Prokofiev Suite: The Love for Three
Oranges.

Alyn Shipton introduces a concert given by the Grand Union Orchestra in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, earlierthis year.
Now the Dragon's Hour was composed by Tony Haynes , the orchestra's director, with lyrics by Li Yan , Rukhsana Ahmad ,
David Bradford and Colin Sell. It tells of the Great
Silk Road, the ancient trade route that has linked China with the west for thousands of years. The narrator imagines her unborn child asking about the world. She answers with a series of stories describing places, people and incidents along the route.
Besides the usual instruments, the score draws on more exotic sounds. During the interval, the composer Tony Haynes talks about the work's conception. Brenda Rattray , Lucy Rahman ,
Richard Scott and Stephen Douse (voices), Miao Xiao Yun (pipa and ruan),
Bajuji Shrivastav (sitar and dilruba), Yousuf Ali Khan (tabla and dholak), Grand Union Orchestra, directed by the Composer.
Tony Haynes Now the Dragon's Hour

Richard Cole discusses the powerful group of mentors, eccentrics and geniuses celebrated in Noel Annan's The Dons and asks whether today's academics aspire to Annan's view of an intellectual elite. Cole also talks to William J Mitchell about his vision of e-topia and the way e-mail and the internet are reshaping our sense of the city. Plus a review of the new film Onegin.

Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou 's work has been described as "dark and brooding, redolent of red wine and the salty brine of the sea, at once plaintive and erotically lyrical". Fiona Talkington introduces excerpts from her music for the film
Eternity and a Day. Plus music from the Russian Orthodox Church sung by the choir of Moscow's Danilov Monastery.

Tenor saxophonist Tommy Whittle leads his quartet in a session specially recorded for Jazz Notes and talks to Alyn Shipton about his life and work.

With Susan Sharpe.

12.05am Telemann Recorder Sonata in D minor

12.15 Forster Dulcis Amor Jesu

12.25 Haydn Symphony No 99 in E flat

12.45 Francaix Happy Paris

1.00 Leonarda Sonata Prima a 4 (Opera Decima Sesta)

Telemann Quartet in G minor

Anon, arr Alfonso the Wise Cuncti Simus Concanentes; Istampitta Ghaetta; Two Cantigas de Santa Maria

Wolf-Ferrari Two orchestral intermezzi (The Jewels of the Madonna)

Wagner, orch Felix Mottl Wesendonk Lieder

2.10 Liszt Annees de Pelerinage, Book 1 (Suisse)

3.00-5.00 BBC Schools
3.00 Playtime
3.15 Time to Move
3.35 Let's Make a Story
3.50 Drama Workshop
4.10 Together Stories
4.30 Hop, Skip and Jump
4.45 Sgeul an Orain

5.10 Einojuhani Rautavaara Canticum Mariae Virginis

5.20 Szymanowski Masks, Op 34

5.45 Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music