With Penny Gore.

Finzi Romance, Op 25 - Guildhall String Ensemble, director Robert Salter

6.35 Faure Trio in D minor, Op 120 - Golub Kaplan Carr Trio

7.00 Mozart Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K191 - Danny Boyd, Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood

7.30 Beethoven Piano Sonata No 26 in E flat, Op 81a (Les Adieux) - William Kempff

8.00 Locatelli Introduttione Teatrali in D, Op 4 No 1 - Raglan Baroque Players, director Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin)

8.20 Ravel Piano Concerto in G - Krystian Zimerman, London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez

This week Donald Macleod explores Gerald Finzi's life and music, with contributions from Stephen Bayfield, author of a recent pioneering biography of the composer.

As I Lay in the Early Sun, Op 13 No 3 - Ian Partridge (tenor), Clifford Benson (piano)

I Said to Love (Op 19b) - Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)

Grand Fantasia and Toccata, Op 38 - Peter Katin (piano), New Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley

My Spirit Sang All Day (Op 17) - Choir of Queen's College, Cambridge, conductor Rupert Jordan

Dies Natalis - Wilfred Brown (tenor), ECO, conducted by Christopher Finzi

In Years Defaced (Op 19a) - Martyn Hill (tenor), Clifford Benson (piano)

The poet Simon Armitage talks about his project teaching poetry and creative writing to graduate students at an American university in Iowa City.

With Jonathan Swain.

This week featuring string quartets and quintets by Mendelssohn, plus recordings conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos.

Mozart Overture: Idomeneo - English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner

10.11 Mendelssohn String Quartet in E flat (1823) - Bartholdy Quartet

10.36 Fanny Mendelssohn Die Fruhen Graber, Op 9 No 4: Fruhling, Op 7 No 3 - Susan Gritton (soprano), Eugene Asti (piano)

10.42 Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos

A five-part survey of the past and present of one of America's s greatest orchestras in performance with some of its regular conductors. Presented by Geoffrey Smith.

Mozart Overture: Don Giovanni - Conductor Fritz Reiner

Stravinsky The Fairy's Kiss Conductor Fritz Reiner

Mozart Symphony No 25 in G minor, K183 - Conductor Georg Solti

Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms - With the Chicago Symphony Chorus, conductor Georg Solti

Elliott Carter Allegro Scorrevole - Conductor Daniel Barenboim

Fiona Talkington introduces this week's recital from the Wigmore Hall, London.

Thomas Quasthoff (baritone), Justus Zeyen (piano)

Brahms Nine Lieder, Op 32

Liszt Three Petrarch Sonnets; Die Loreley; Es Muss ein Wunderbares Sein

(Repeated Saturday 1pm)

Grieg Peer Gynt; Suite No 1, Op 46 - Conductor Grant Llewellyn

Glazunov Symphony No 1 in E - Conductor Tadaaki Otaka

Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor - Tasmin Little, conductor Grant Llewellyn

Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra - Conductor Tadaaki Otaka

Michael White explores the recorded legacy of the Festspielhaus at Bayreuth in Bavaria, where worshippers converge every summer to pay homage at the shrine of 'their beloved Wagner'. The theatre, originally a temporary structure, has been improved and strengthened over the years and has remained the home of Wagner performances ever since 1876.

With Humphrey Carpenter.

Music includes at 5.05 Ravel's Alborada del Gracioso (Miroirs) performed by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit; at 6.05 Szymanowski's Langsamer Satz played by the Carmina Quartet; and at 6.40 Vivaldi's Guitar Concerto in D, RV230 (originally for violin), transcribed and performed by John Williams with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra conducted by Janos Rolla.

The second concert in the BBC Philharmonic's Sibelius cycle, given on Saturday in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.

BBC PO, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

Sibelius Lemminkainen's Return (Lemminkainen Suite); Symphony No 4, Symphony No 2

A recital of piano music by Busoni, including a Finnish folk song for piano duet performed by Joseph Banowetz and Ronald Stevenson.

Isabel Hilton talks to Booker Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, whose new novel When We Were Orphans is set in England and Shanghai during the 1930s. And the passions and prejudices of one of the most brilliant and savage writers of the last century are discussed as The Selected Letters of Rebecca West are published.

Verity Sharp introduces late-night listening, including Maquam Huzam played on the oud by Munir Bashir from Iraq, plus piano music by Morton Feldman.

Roland White's radio review: page 52

From the Concorde Club in Edinburgh, Alyn Shipton introduces one of Britain's very newest bands, the acoustic quartet led by guitarist Jim Mullen. Also in the line-up are pianist Gareth Williams, bassist Mick Hutton and drummer Gary Husband.

With Susan Sharpe.

12.05am Rachmaninov Prelude in C minor, Op 23 No 7

12.20 Haydn Piano Sonata in D, H XVI 33

12.35 Rachmaninov Caprice Bohemien, Op 12

1.00 Mozart String Quartet in E flat, K428

Janacek String Quartet No 1 (Kreutzer Sonata)

Borodin String Quartet No 2 in D

2.15 Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1

2.35 Sibelius Six Impromptus, Op 5

3.00 Music Box

3.15 Something to Think About

3.30 The Song Tree

3.45 Stories and Rhymes

4.00 Tales from Europe

4.30 Hopscotch

4.45 Scottish Resources 7-9