With Penny Gore.

Pergolesi Salve Regina in A minor - The King's Consort, director Robert King

6.45 Copland Old American Songs (Set 1) - Willard White (bass), Graeme McNaught (piano)

7.15 Schumann Introduction and Allegro Appassionato in G, Op 92 - Rudolf Serkin (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy

7.45 Stravinsky Scherzo Fantastique - New York Philharmonic, conductor Pierre Boulez

8.05 Beethoven Overture: Egmont - Vienna PO, conductor Claudio Abbado

8.50 Weber Invitation to the Dance - Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Herbert von Karajan

Palestrina remains a mysterious figure in many ways. It is still not clear in which year he was born, but what is beyond doubt is his greatness as a composer of sacred music. Donald Macleod begins his survey of the composer's life and work.

Tota Pulchra Es - Hilliard Ensemble

Motet: Tribulationes Civitatum - Westminster Cathedral Choir, director James O'Donnell

Motet: Dum Complerentur - Choir of New College, Oxford/Edward Higginbottom

Missa pro Defunctis (Requiem Mass) - Chanticleer. Producer Lyndon Jones

The actress and director Janet Suzman prepares for a new production of The Cherry Orchard.

With Stephanie Hughes, featuring Beethoven piano concertos and recordings by the German tenor Fritz Wunderlich.

Saint-Saens Le Rouet d'Omphale - RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham

10.16 Schubert Die Forelle; Fruhlingsglaube; Heidenroslein - Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Hubert Giesen (piano)

10.24 Moeran String Quartet No 2 - Vanbrugh Quartet

10.42 Haydn The First Day (The Creation) - Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Walter Berry (bass), Vienna Singverein, Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Herbert von Karajan

10.51 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 in C - Stephen Kovacevic, BBCSO, conductor Colin Davis

This week the pianist Imogen Cooper talks to Humphrey Burton about the music she prefers to perform, and about some of her BBC archive recordings, including a treasured recital of Schubert given at the Cheltenham Festival with baritone Wolfgang Holzmair.

Haydn Piano Sonata in C, H XVI 60

Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor, D 784

Mozart Piano Concerto No 25 in C, K503 - ECO, conductor Simon Rattle

Thomas Ades Traced Overhead

Stephanie Hughes presents a concert from the Wigmore Hall, London.

Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Schumann Mignon; Der Nussbaum; Auftrage; Die Lotosblume; Standchen; Kartenlegerin

Brahms Four Serious Songs, Op 121Â

Dvorak Gypsy Melodies, Op 55

This week featuring Haydn and Bruckner symphonies.

Berio Requies - in Memoriam Cathy Berberian - Conductor Charles HazlewoodÂ

Haydn Symphony No 43 in E flat (Mercury) - Conductor Charles Hazlewood

Schoenberg Cello Concerto - Robert Cohen, conductor Leos Svarovsky

Nancarrow Piece No 2 for small orchestra - Conductor Charles Hazlewood

Bruch Kol Nidrei - Robert Cohen (cello), conductor Leos Svarovsky

Bruckner Symphony in F minor (Study Symphony) - Conductor Leos Svarovsky

How does a character sing in an opera, when they are singing already?

With Sean Rafferty. Music includes at 5.00 Saint-Saens's Danse Macabre played by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit; at 5.35 Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 2 played by Yefim Bronfman with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen; and at 6.35 Haydn's Symphony No 77 in B flat performed by the Northern Chamber Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Ward.

A concert given earlier this month in the Waterfront Hall, Belfast.

Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano), Ulster Orchestra, conductor Dmitri Sitkovetsky

Strauss Don Juan

Bernstein Symphony No 2 for piano and orchestra (The Age of Anxiety)

Stravinsky Petrushka

RIAS Chamber Choir, director Marcus Reed

Brahms Five Songs, Op 104

Isabel Hilton discusses The Mark of the Angel by American writer Nancy Houston. Set in France (where the book has become a bestseller) the story revolves around a young German woman who falls in love with a Jewish instrument-maker in the 1950s.

Plus a review of Sam Mendes's much anticipated first film American Beauty.

Radio Tarifa does not exist - but if it did, this is the kind of music it would play. Verity Sharp plays tracks from the two Radio Tarifa albums where "Spanish meets Moorish meets contemporary African meets European medieval".

Singer Ian Shaw joins celebrated American pianist and composer Cedar Walton for the first part of their 1999 London Jazz Festival concert at the Purcell Room. The programme is introduced by Alyn Shipton, who also talks to Ian Shaw about this Anglo-American collaboration.

With Jonathan Swain.

12.05am Durrante Harpsichord Concerto in B flat

12.20 Chopin Nocturne in D flat, Op 2 7 No 2

12.30 Bach Prelude and Fugue in G, BWV902a

12.45 Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)

1.00 A young performer recital, featuring works by Clarke, Martinu, Bodorova, Taffanel, Kofron, Jeanjean, Schumann and Francaix

2.05 Schubert String Quartet in G, D887

2.50 De la Rue Pourung Jamais

3.00 Music Box 3.15 Something to Think about 3.30 The Song Tree 3.45 Stories and Rhymes 4.00 Revisewise 4.30 Hopscotch
4.45 Scottish Resources