With Penny Gore.

6.05 Bach English Suite No 3 in G minor, BWV808 - Andras Schiff (piano)

6.35 Brahms Viola Sonata in E flat, Op 120 No 2 - Kim Kashkashian, Robert Levin (piano)

7.00 Milhaud L'Apotheose de Moliere - New London Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp

7.30 Bax Sonata for flute and harp - Emily Beynon (flute), Catherine Beynon (harp)

8.00 Boccherini Symphony in E flat - Neuss German Chamber Academy, conductor Johannes Goritzki

8.35 Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra - ASMF, conductor Neville Marriner

Monteverdi wrote his last operatic masterpiece at the age of 75, having survived the plague and war which swept across Italy in the 1630s. In the last of this week's five programmes Donald Macleod examines the stories surrounding The Coronation of Poppea and plays excerpts from three different recordings.

L'Incoronazione di Poppea (excerpts) - Guy de Mey, Gerd Turk and Christoph Homberger (tenors), Concerto Vocale, director Rene Jacobs, Sylvia McNair, Dana Hanchard and Bernarda Fink (sopranos), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), English Baroque Soloists, director John Eliot Gardiner, Arleen Auger and Della Jones (sopranos), Gregory Reinhardt (bass), City of London Baroque Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox

The film screenwriter Howard Schuman continues work on his three projects.

With Stephanie Hughes.

Holst Brook Green Suite - English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Imogen Holst

10.13 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 13 (Pathetique) - Annie Fischer

10.33 Holst Double Concerto - Emanuel Hurwitz and Kenneth Sillito (violins), ECO, conductor Imogen Holst

10.49 Franck Symphony in D minor - Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Carlo Maria Giulini

Graeme Kay presents the last of this week's performances from some of the great Austro-German music festivals.

Brahms Du Mein Einzig Licht; Des Abends Kann Ich Nicht Schlafen Geh'n; Schoner Augen Schone Strahlen; Ich Weiss Mir'n Maidlein Hubsch und Fein; Es Steht ein' Lind'; In Stiller Nacht, zur Ersten Wacht (German Folk Songs, Nos 37-42) - Juliane Banse (soprano), Olaf Bar (baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Bach Partita No 1 in B flat, BWV825 - Murray Perahia (piano)

Buxtehude Jubilate Domino, BuxWV64 - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Members of the Basle Consort

Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D66 (Trout) - Members of the Hugo Wolf Quartet, Alois Posch (double bass), Christoph Berner (piano)

Chris de Souza introduces another recital in the series featuring the music of the Scandinavian and Baltic regions, given at St George's, Bristol, last December.

Mikhail Kazakevich (piano)

Stenhammar Late Summer Nights, Op 33

Sibelius Humoresque; Polonaise (Pensees Lyriques, Op 40); Nocturne, Op 24 No 8; Piano Sonata, Op 12

Walton Coronation March: Orb and Sceptre - Conductor Martyn Brabbins

Walton Violin Concerto - Elizabeth Layton, conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk

Holst Beni Mora; Ballet Suite: The Perfect Fool - Conductor Rumon Gamba

Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5 - Conductor Rumon Gamba

Musica Contexta perform Palestrina's Lamentations in the Baroque surroundings of St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, London.

With Sean Rafferty.

Music includes at 5.10 Prokofiev's Suite: The Love of Three Oranges performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra under Arthur Fiedler; at 6.00 Satie's Je Te Veux played by pianist Pascal Roge; and at 6.40 Lully's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (excerpts) performed by Le Concert des Nations directed by Jordi Savall.

From the Ulster Hall, Belfast.
A concert for St Patrick's Day, broadcast with BBC Radio Ulster and RTE's Lyric FM.

Fionnuala Hunt (violin), Aisling Drury Byrne (cello), Hugh Tinney (piano), Ulster Orchestra, conductor Thierry Fischer

Sean O'Riada Nomos No 1: Hercules Dux Ferrariae

Stanford Irish Concertino for violin, cello and orchestra (first performance)

8.30 Twenty Minutes: Philosophical Inquiries: 3: Self-Determination
Talks by distinguished thinkers.
Professor Brendan O'Leary, one of the leading lights at the London School of Economics, discusses the relationship between nationalism and liberalism.

8.50 Philip Cogan Piano Concerto in C, Op 5

Harty With the Wild Geese

Paul Allen explores the life and legacy of Rasputin, the semi-literate monk who has fascinated the world since his murder at the Yusupov Palace and who exerted such bizarre power in pre-revolutionary Russia. Plus a look at the latest work by Turner Prize-winning sculptor Tony Cragg, which is currently on show at the Tate in Liverpool.

A BBC Invitation Concert given especially for Hear and Now earlier this month at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London, featuring new works by Thierry Escaich and Pascal Dusapin, a work for wind quintet by Ligeti, and recent works by Joby Talbot, Simon Emmerson and Philip Sheppard performed on a five-string electric cello.

Philip Sheppard (electric cello), BBC Singers, Endymion Ensemble/Simon Joly

Thierry Escaich Ad Ultimas Laudes (first UK performance)

Joby Talbot Falling

Pascal Dusapin Umbrae Mortis (first UK performance)

Philip Sheppard Penitential Psalm; The Diver in the Crypt

Ligeti Six Bagatelles for wind quintet

Simon Emmerson Five Spaces

Dusapin Dona Eis (first UK performance)

With Susan Sharpe.

12.05am Knudage Riisager Little Overture

12.15 Crusell Sinfonia Concertante in B flat

12.45 Naumann Symphonie a Grand Orchestre de l'Opera Cora

1.00 Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral)

1.50 Schumann Arabeske in C, Op 18

1.55 J.C. Bach Quintet in F, Op 11 No 3

2.05 Lully Plainte d'Armide (Les Amours Deguises)

2.15 Marais Suite No 2 in G

3.00 Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor

3.40 Mozart Violin Sonata in G, K301

3.55 Schumann Dichterliebe, Op 48

4.35 Faure Nocturne in E flat minor, Op 33 No 1

4.50 Strauss Intermezzo: Traumerei am Kamin

5.00 Haydn Symphony No 27 in G

5.15 Biber Scordatura Sonata for two violins and basso continuo

5.30 Kaspar Forster Vanitas Vantitatum (Dialogus de Divite et Paupere Lazaro)

5.40 Grieg Evening in the Mountains (Lyric Pieces, Op 68 No 4)

5.50 Abel Symphony in E flat, Op 10 No 3