With Tommy Pearson, including:

Mozart Piano Sonata in E flat, K281 - Christoph Eschenbach

6.50 Grainger Shepherd's Hey - Brass of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

7.00 Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream - London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado

7.45 Zavareti Concerto in C minor, Op 1 No 4 - Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, conductor Gottfried von der Goltz

8.00 Holst St Paul's Suite - English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Yehudi Menuhin

8.20 Schumann Marchenbilder, Op 113 - Philip Dukes (viola), Sophia Rahman (piano)

Debussy planned and abandoned many operatic projects, but only one came to fruition - "Pelleas et Melisande".
Today Donald Macleod examines how the work came to be written and explores some of Debussy's other dramatic works, including the ballet "Khamma" and the exotic mystery play "Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien".

Pelleas et Melisande (excerpts) - Francois le Roux (tenor), Maria Ewing (soprano), Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado

Khamma - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly

Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien (excerpt) - Leslie Carron (narrator), Ann Murray (mezzo), Sylvia McNair (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas

Simon and Gerard McBurney continue work on their theatrical meditation on the life of Shostakovich.

With Jonathan Swain.

Walton Johannesburg Festival Overture - New York Philharmonic/Andre Kostelanetz

10.14 Arnold Three Shanties, Op 4 - Prague Wind Quintet

10.21 Mozart Laut Verkunde Unsre Freude, K623 (Masonic Cantata) - Hans-Peter Blochwitz (tenor), Andreas Schmidt (bass), Male voices of the Leipzig Radio Choir, Staatskapelle Dresden, director Peter Schreier

10.34 Bach Partita in G, BWV829 - Andras Schiff (piano)

10.55 Stravinsky Apollon Musagete - Camerata Academica Salzburg, director Sandor Vegh (violin)

With Graeme Kay.

Debussy Prelude a l'Apres-Midi d 'un Faune - Conductor Valery Gergiev

Schubert Symphony No 5 in B flat - Conductor John Eliot Gardiner

Haydn Symphony No 90 in C - Conductor John Eliot Gardiner

Webern Passacaglia - Conductor John Eliot Gardiner

Lucie Skeaping introduces a recital of Haydn string quartets given by the Sorrel and Brodsky quartets last June as part of the 1999 City of London Festival.

Haydn String Quartet in E flat, Op 50 No 3; Introduction and Sonata No 2 (The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross); String Quartet in D, Op 71 No 2

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Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht - director Elizabeth Layton

Medtner Piano Concerto No 2 - Nikolai Demidenko (piano), conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk

Rachmaninov Symphony No 3 in A minor - Conductor Jun'ichi Hirokami

Andrew Manze explores virtuoso transcriptions and arrangements for the violin, including Paganini's Moses Fantasy (after Rossini) played by Yehudi Menuhin, Leila Josefowicz playing Ernst's extraordinary transcription of Schubert's song Erlkonig, Jascha Heifetz playing Waxman's Carmen Fantasy, Maxim Vengerov in variations on The Last Rose of Summer and a rare chance to hear Schumann's accompaniment to one of Bach's solo violin sonatas.

With Sean Rafferty.

Music includes at 5.00 Debussy's L'Isle Joyeuse played by pianist Maurizio Pollini; at 5.30 Vivaldi's Stabat Mater performed by Michael Chance (countertenor) with the English Concert directed by Trevor Pinnock; and at 6.10 Enescu's Romanian Rhapsody, Op 11 No 1, played by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Neeme Jarvi.

Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert given last month at York University.

Michael Collins (clarinet), BBCPO, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

Franck Symphony in D minor

Weber Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor

Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber

Settings of poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke.

Hindemith Six Chansons after Rilke - Netherlands Chamber Choir, director Uwe Gronostay

Knussen Four Late Poems and an Epigram of Rainer Maria Rilke, Op 23 - Lisa Saffer (soprano)

Laura Cumming and guests discuss the National Gallery's exhibition Seeing Salvation, which looks at the way Christ has been represented in western art over 2,000 years. And Norwegian writer Linn Ullman talks about present day Oslo and the Brooklyn of the 1930s as featured in her novel Before You Sleep.

Verity Sharp introduces the Gayan Uttejak Society of Budapest playing traditional music from Amygdala - a place that exists only in the imagination - while Wajahat Khan plays the rarely heard raga Gaoti on the sarod with tabla player Sukhvinder Singh.

Campbell Burnap joins Alyn Shipton for a roundup of new and reissued jazz CDs.

With Jonathan Swain.

12.05am Elgar The Wild Bears (The Wand of Youth: Suite No 2)

12.10 Bach Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor, BWV1056

12.30 Mozart String Quartet In C, K465 (Dissonance)

1.00 Britten Four Sea Interludes (Peter Grimes)

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

Elgar Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma)

2.00 Beethoven Variations in C minor, Wo080

2.10 Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 49

2.30 Natra Harp Sonatine

2.45 Nielsen Symphony No 4 (Inextinguishable)

3.25 Durante Concerto No 2 in G minor

3.35 Reincken Was Kann Aus Kommen an fur Not

3.55 Abel Symphony in A, Op 10 No 6

4.10 Mozart Violin Concerto No 4 in D, K218

4.35 Marazzoll O Mortal, Se Corri Appresso

4.45 Alfven Swedish Rhapsody No 1 (Midsummer Vigil)

5.00 Nielsen Pan and Syrinx, Op 49

5.05 William Lawes, arr Memelsdorff and Staler Why So Pale - Bid Me but Live (Love's Votary); Tune upon a Jig; Kemp's Jig (John Playford's Dancing Master)

5.20 Clerambault Apollon et Doris

5.35 Bach, arr Busoni Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565

5.45 Lili Boulanger D'un Soir Triste