With Penny Gore.

Gershwin Lullaby - Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, conductor Erich Kunzel

6.35 Beethoven Piano Sonata in A flat, Op26 - Wilhelm Kempff

7.00 Vivaldi Concerto in C, RV180 (Il Piacere) - Il Giardino Armonico, director Giovanni Antonini

7.35 Holst St Paul's Suite - ECO, conductor Yehudi Menuhin

8.00 Telemann Suite: Don Quichotte - ASMF, conductor Neville Marriner

8.35 Haydn Sinfonia Concertante in B flat, H 1105 - Ryo Teraokado (violin), Patrick Beaugiraud (oboe), Marc Vallon (bassoon), La Petite Bande, director Sigiswald Kuijken

After a shaky start to his musical training on a famously out-of-tune piano, Sibelius took up the violin. Today Donald Macleod considers two works which highlight the composer's passion for the instrument.

Violin Concerto (1903 version) (excerpt) - Leonidas Kavakos, Lahti SO, conductor Osmo Vanska

String Quartet, Op 56 (Voces Intimae) - Gabrieli Quartet

The actor, director and writer Steven Berkoff continues work on his new play.

With Stephanie Hughes.

Smetana Two Polkas (Memories of Bohemia) - Andras Schiff (piano)

10.16 Purcell But Death Alas!... When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido and Aeneas)
- Janet Baker (mezzo), St Anthony Singers, ECO, conductor Anthony Lewis

10.26 Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song - Julius Katchen (piano), London Philharmonic, conductor Adrian Boult

10.52 Berlioz Les Troyens (Act 5, Scene 2) - Ambrosian Opera Chorus, LSO, conductor Alexander Gibson

11.06 Bizet Incidental Music: L 'Arlesienne - St Paul CO, conductor Christopher Hogwood

Piers Lane introduces more performances from the piano festival, given in the Blackheath Concert Halls, London.

Balakirev Impromptu on the Theme of Two Preludes by Chopin - Vladimir Ovchinnikov (piano)

Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade - Artur Pizzaro and Stephen Coombs (piano duet)

Finzi Eclogue - Piers Lane (piano), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth

Leighton Five Preludes (first performance) - Stephen Coombs (piano)

Saint-Saens Wedding Cake (Caprice Valse in A flat, Op 76) - Frederic Chiu (piano), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth

John Toal introduces a recital given last January in the Waterfront Hall, Belfast.

Robert Plane (clarinet), Philip Dukes (viola), Sophie Rahman (piano)

Mozart Trio in E flat, K498 (Kegelstatt)

Kurtag Homage to Schumann

Francaix Trio for viola, clarinet and piano

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Debussy Prelude a l'Apres-Midi d 'un Faune - Conductor Guido Ajmone-Marsan

Mozart Piano Concerto No 25 in C, K503 - Michael Roll, conductor Grant Llewellyn

Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica) - Conductor Grant Llewellyn

Ravel Daphnis et Chloe: Suite No 2 - BBC National Chorus of Wales, conductor Mark Wigglesworth

From Chester Cathedral.

Introit: In Pace in Idipsum (Sheppard).

Responses (Byrd).

Psalms 108, 109 (Turle, Barnby Rimbault, Battishill, Higgins).

First Lesson: Genesis 32, vv 3-30.

Office Hymn: O Kind Creator, Bow Thine Ear (Audi Benigne).

Canticles - for Five Voices (Tallis).

Second Lesson: Galatians 6.

Anthem: Quemadmodum Desiderat Cervus (Taverner).

Hymn: There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (Cross of Jesus).

Organ Voluntary: Master Tallis's Testament (Howells).

With Sean Rafferty.

Music includes at 5.45 Moncayo's Huapango played by the RPO under Enrique Arturo Diemecke; at 6.00 Purcell's Symphony from The Indian Queen performed by the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood; and at 6.40 Francaix's Concertino played by Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) with the Montreal SO under Charles Dutoit.

From the Wigmore Hall, London.

Karl Amadeus Hartmann's second quartet is surrounded by the first of Haydn's Salomon quartets and Schumann's homage to Haydn and Beethoven.

Zehetmair Quartet

Haydn String Quartet in C, Op 74 No 1Â

Hartmann String Quartet No 2

8.20 Twenty Minutes: Against Oblivion: 1: Hart Crane and Charlotte Maw
Poet and critic Ian Hamilton champions some of the lost poets of the last century.
Hart Crane and Charlotte Maw are perhaps best remembered for having committed suicide, but both poets wrote great work which has been unfairly neglected.

8.40 Schumann String Quartet in F, Op 41 No 2

A programme of Rossini songs performed by Felicity Lott (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo) and Graham Johnson (piano).

Philip Dodd presents first-night news from tonight's premiere of Harold Pinter's new play Celebration. Plus a report from New York on one of the year's most important exhibitions - the Whitney Biennial.

Verity Sharp introduces Pendulum by bass player Eberhard Weber and songs from Ethiopian singer Aster Aweke, including Tizita (Memories).

Alyn Shipton explores a new CD box set of Wynton Marsalis recorded live at the Village Vanguard, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year.

With Susan Sharpe.

12.05am J Strauss (son), arr Schoenberg Emperor Waltz

12.15 Beethoven Piano Sonata in A flat, Op 110

12.35 Mozart Flute Concerto in D, K314

1.00 Astor Piazolla and his band recorded in the Teatr Colon, Buenos Aires in 1983
Piazzolla Fugay Misterio; Adios Nonino; Concerto for bandoneon, piano, strings and percussion; Vardarito; Verano Porteno; Mother of Pearl Concerto

2.10 Daquin Le Coucou; Rondeau; La Melodieuse

2.15 Gassman Stabat Mater

2.25 Stadlmayr Ave Maris Stella

2.35 Mozart Variations on "Ah! Vous Dirai-Je, Maman", K265; Vorrei Spiegarvi, O Dio, K418

3.00-5.00 BBC Schools
3.00 Time and Tune
3.20 Together: an Assembly for Schools
3.40 Dance Workshop
4.00 Singing Together Celebrate!
4.20 Scottish Resources 10-12
4.40 Talking Points

5.00 Faure Nocturne in A flat, Op 33

5.05 Piazzolla Primavera Portena; Histoire du Tango

5.25 Coste Andante and Polonaise

5.35 Debussy Prelude a l'Apres-Midi d'un Faune

5.45 Axel Ingellus Morning Song

5.50 Brahms Intermezzo in A, Op 118 No 2