Mozart Overture: The Impresario

5.10 Morawetz Overture on a Fairy Tale

5.20 Bartok Mikrokosmos (excerpts)

5.35 Couperin Treizieme Concert a Deux Violes (Les Gouts Reunis)

5.45 Nicola and Anna Mattels Passages in Imitation of the Trumpet

With Penny Gore.

Rossini String Sonata No 1 in G

6.35 Schubert Duo in A, D574

7.00 JC Bach Sinfonia Concertante in F

7.40 Saint-Saens Septet in E, Op 65

8.00 Cherubini Overture: Anacreon

8.45 Glazunov Mazurka-Oberek in D

With Donald Macleod.
Many of Respighi's orchestral works written for the concert hall were eventually used for ballet presentation. His typical admiration for other composers is also well represented in the ballet music.

Bach, arr Respighi Passacaglia in C minor - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre Monteux

Respighi Gli Uccelli (The Birds) - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

La Boutique Fantastique (excerpt) - National Philharmonic, conductor Richard Bonynge

Suite: Belkis, Queen of Sheba - Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Geoffrey Simon

The poet and novelist talks about her new project.

With Stephanie Hughes.

Debussy, orch Ravel Danse - Boston SO, conductor Serge Koussevitzky

10.10 Schubert Music for Rosamunde, D797 - Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gunter Wand

10.31 Debussy Etudes, Book 2 - Maurizio Pollini (piano)

10.56 Musorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition - Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Serge Koussevitzky

With Tommy Pearson.

The three greatest composers of Hollywood's heyday were probably Korngold, Franz Waxman and Bernard Hermann. Between them they bestrode the golden era of film-making, when each studio had its own orchestra and when stars included Errol Flynn, Douglas Fairbanks and Greta Garbo. Today the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Robert Ziegler play some of the great scores by these three giants, including music from films such as Sunset Boulevard, Citizen Kane, Vertigo, A Place in the Sun and The Sea Hawk.

Countertenor Michael Chance, viola da gamba player Richard Campbell, theorbo player Nigel North and harpsichordist Maggie Cole perform music by Purcell, including Music for a While. Plus an excerpt from Monteverdi's opera L'Incoronazione di Poppea and Handel's Cantata: Lungi da Me Pensier Tiranno. (R)

Chausson Poeme de l'Amour et de la Mer - Amanda Roocroft (soprano), conductor David Atherton

Messiaen Turangalila-Symphonie - Peter Donohoe (piano), Cynthia Miller (ondes martenot), conductor Mark Wigglesworth

Lucie Skeaping celebrates the tercentenary of the publication of Corelli's ground-breaking Violin Sonatas, Op 5, with violinist Andrew Manze, who also performs some of them with harpsichordist John Toll.

Sean Rafferty with guests, arts news and music, including at 5.40 Parry's Lady Radnor's Suite played by the English String Orchestra under William Boughton; at 6.05 Handel's Oh Ruddier than the Cherry (Acis and Galatea) sung by Michael George (bass) with The King's Consort directed by Robert King; and at 6.40 Borodin's Symphony No 3 in A minor played by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic under Gennadi Rozhdestvensky.

The English Concert re-creates the atmosphere of Zimmerman's Coffee House in Leipzig in the early 18th century with a programme of music by Bach and his contemporaries, recorded earlier this week in the Wigmore Hall, London.

Pamela Thorby (recorder), Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Rachel Podger (violin), William Carter (lute), Nicholas Parle (harpsichord), English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)

Telemann Suite in A minor for recorder and strings

Bach Concerto in C for two harpsichords, BWV1061; Sonata in G for violin and harpsichord, BWV1019

Weiss Le Tombeau sur la Mort de M Comte de Logy

Bach Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor, BWV1067

Louis Lortie (piano)
Ravel Le Tombeaude Couperin

South African playwright Athol Fugard has worked internationally as author, director and actor, though in the past his work often met official opposition in his homeland.

Paul Allen talks to him about the changing role of theatre in South Africa and about Johannesburg's Market Theatre revival of The Island, as it opens in London. Set in the notorious Robben Island maximum security prison, the play concerns the men and women who were incarcerated there in the fight for democracy.

Sarah Walker presents a portrait edition of Danish composer Poul Ruders, including interviews with the composer himself and with other musicians who know his music well. Plus performances given in Oxford at his 50th birthday concert in October.

William Purvis (horn), Rebecca Hirsch (violin), Duncan Prescott (clarinet), Rolf Hind (piano)

Poul Ruders Vox in Rama; Three Letters from an Unknown Soldier; Throne; Three Tiny Pieces for Three Great Friends; Horn Trio