Exploring the earliest surviving pieces and traditions from Egypt, Milan and Gaul, and tracing their musical influences and legacy. With Ian Stewart, Jeremy Summerly, Mary Berry, Donald Greig and Valentine Cunningham.

Questioning the theory of music as a branch of mathematics and recalling the practice of handing down the musical elements of the Mass by oral communication - from Gregorian chant to early polyphony in the Winchester Troper. Including Mozarabic and Old Roman chants for the Eucharist. With David Wulstan, Jonathan Thorpe and Adrian Jack.

7.30 Seventh Century

8.30 Eighth Century

8.35 Ninth Century

9.15 Tenth Century

With Donald Macleod. At the age of 16 Haydn was homeless and unemployed in Vienna. It would be ten years before he found a permanent job and another three before he eventually began his association with the Esterhazy family.

Symphony No 1 in D - Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood

Symphony No 6 in D (Le Matin) (1st mvt) - ASMF, conductor Neville Marriner

Baryton Trio No 64 in D - Esterhazy Baryton Trio

Symphony No 72 in D - Hanover Band, director Roy Goodman

With Stephanie Hughes, featuring Berlioz orchestral works and songs, plus recordings conducted by Charles Munch.

Berlioz Overture: Waverley - LSO, conductor Colin Davis

10.16 Michel de la Barre Suite XIII in D (1722) - Nancy Hadden (flute), Lynda Sayce (theorbo), Erin Headley (viola da gamba), Lucy Carolan (harpsichord)

10.26 Berlioz La Mort de Cleopatre - Jessye Norman (soprano), Paris Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim

10.50 Saint-Saens Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ) - Berj Zamkocjian (organ), Boston SO, conductor Charles Munch

In five programmes this week Geoff Baskerville introduces music for the concert hall inspired by music from various folk traditions. Today's works derive their inspiration from English folk music.

Copland Hoedown (Rodeo)

Holst St Paul's Suite

Grainger Mock Morris; Danish Folk Music Suite - BT Scottish Ensemble, director Clio Gould (violin)

Traditional Fair Margaret and Sweet William; Gypsen Davy (collected in Tennessee and Virginia) - Baltimore Consort

Copland Ballet: Appalachian Spring - BT Scottish Ensemble/Clio Gould (violin)

Britten Suite on English Folk Tunes: A Time There Was, Op 90 - BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox

From the Wigmore Hall, London.

Chantal Juillet (violin), Pascal Roge (piano)

Ravel Violin Sonata

Franck Violin Sonata in A

Haydn Symphony No 49 in F minor (La Passione) - Director Elizabeth Layton

D'Albert Piano Concerto No 2 in E - Piers Lane, conductor Martyn Brabbins

Bruckner Symphony No 5 in B flat - Conductor Yoav Talmi

Chronicling the legend of Orpheus and his lute on the operatic stage in music from the old world of Josquin des Prez, via Palestrina, Monteverdi, Vivaldi and JS Bach to the turbulence of twentysomething Beethoven. Including examples of the instrumental In Nomine from John Taverner's model to the fantasias of Henry Purcell. With Michael Burden and Cyril Ehrlich.

4.15 17th Century

5.35 18th Century

Literary critic Peggy Reynolds explores the themes of some well known operas by composers as diverse as Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and Rossini.

Sean Rafferty's guests include pianist Kathryn Stott and contralto Catherine Wyn-Rogers. Music includes at 5.35 Mozart's Violin Concerto No 2 in D, K211, played by Gidon Kremer with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; at 6.05 Poulenc's Sonata for horn, trombone and trumpet played by Alan Civil (horn), John Wilbruhan (trumpet) and John Iveson (trombone); and at 6.40 Debussy's Sonata for flute, viola and harp performed by Aurele Nicolet (flute), Nobuko Imai (viola) and Naoko Yoshino (harp).
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Reflecting on the enjoyment of performance - from a swansong by Schubert to symphonies by Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms and Bruckner, and the revolutionary music-drama of Wagner.

Also including fugues and variations on the chromatic theme B.A.C.H.

With John Thornley, Anthony Payne and Lewis Foreman.

From the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.

Nicholas Daniel makes his London conducting debut and also directs John Woolrich's new oboe concerto.

Ian Bostridge (tenor), Britten Sinfonia, conductor Nicholas Daniel (oboe)

Mozart Divertimento in D, K136

Ireland Minuet for strings (A Downland Suite)

Walton Passacaglia from Henry V

Finzi Dies Natalis

8.40 Twenty Minutes: Keepers: 1
The first of five programmes in which Tim Marlow talks to keepers, curators and museum directors on site, surrounded by the objects in their care.
Dr Irving Finkel, assistant keeper of Western Asiatic antiquities at the British Museum, whose collection includes 120,000 clay tablets with inscriptions from the Sumerian and Babylonian civilisations.

9.00 John Woolrich A Litany (first London performance)

Strauss Metamorphosen

"What then, is time? If no one asks me, know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks me, I do not know." (St Augustine, fifth century). Like St Augustine we all intuitively comprehend time - but can we define it?

Following the threads of philosophy, theology, physics, language and everyday experience, John Drinkwater unravels the fabric of this invisible dimension.

Unscrambling the network of musical cross-references that characterise the Twentieth Century from Russian
Stravinsky to American Stravinsky and beyond to the nineties. Including pieces influenced by plainchant such as the mediaeval sequence Dies Irae. With Julie Brown.

Isabel Hilton discusses a new take on an old question - just what is essentially American about American art? As American art critic Wanda Corn publishes a major new study of art between the wars, the programme explores the role early 20th-century artists played in defining the emerging identity of modern America.

Verity Sharp introduces music by Howard Skempton, Graham Fitkin and Simon Jeffes with the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

Georgina Born, Geoffrey Smith and Roderick Swanston consider the story of music so far and where it might be heading. They also discuss Robert Saxton's work in progress - a radio opera, The Legend of the Wandering Jew, commissioned by Radio 3, with excerpts specially recorded for tonight's programme by the BBC Singers under Stephen Cleobury. The complete work is scheduled for future broadcast on Radio 3.

With Susan Sharpe.

12.05am Mahler Ruckert Lieder

12.30 Reutter Ecce Quomodo Moritur Justus

12.50 Satie, orch Milhaud Jack-in-the-Box Pantomime

1.00 Weber, reconstr Mahler Die Drei Pintos - German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Radio Chorus, conductor Mario Bernardi

2.30 Fasch Sonata in D minor

2.55 Paul Siefert Benedicam Dominum

3.10 Brahms Piano Trio in C, Op 87

3.40 Mielck Finnish Suite, Op 10

3.55 Dohnanyi Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song

4.05 Kresimir Baranovic Gingerbread Heart

4.25 Cavalli Combattimento di Ninfe e Satiri (La Calisto)

4.35 Wieniawski Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor

5.00 Weber Overture: Der Freischutz

5.15 Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

5.40 Ravel Daphnis and Chloe: Suite No 2

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