With Penny Gore.

Faure Messe Basse - Arlette Steyer (soprano), Marie-Claire Alain (organ), Audite Nova Vocal Ensemble of Paris, director Jean Sourisse

7.00 Liszt Tarantella - Jorge Bolet (piano)

7.45 Nielsen Little Suite, Op 1 - Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ulf Schirmer

8.00 Brahms Waltzes, Op 39 Nos 1, 2,5, 6,10,14,15 - Dinu Lipatti and Nadia Boulanger (pianos)

8.40 Offenbach, arr Rosenthal Gaffe Parisienne (excerpts) - Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa

With Donald Macleod.

Suite: Cupid and Psyche - RTE Sinfonietta, conductor Kenneth Alwyn

Polka; Waltz - Peter Lawson (piano)

Film Music: Nicholas Nickleby - RLPO, conductor Barry Wordsworth

Red Roses and Red Noses; The Expulsion from Paradise; Come On Algernon - Felicity Lott (soprano), Peter Lawson (piano)

Patrick Barlow, the actor, writer and founder of the National Theatre of Brent, talks about his latest project - adapting Tim Bowler's novel Midget as a TV film.

With Stephanie Hughes.

Handel Organ Concerto in F, HWV295 (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale) - Simon Preston, English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock

10.19 Haydn Symphony No 104 in D (London) - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis

10.48 Verdi Non Ti Cruciar.... Dove Guardi (Otello, Act 2) - Leonie Rysanek (soprano), Jon Vickers (tenor), Tito Gobbi (baritone), Florindo Andreolli (tenor), Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Tullio Serafin

11.08 Bartok Suite: The Miraculous Mandarin - Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Antal Dorati

Christopher Cook ends his survey of musical responses to Shakespeare's plays with some of the most stirring music in the repertoire.

Walton, arr Mathieson Suite: Henry V - BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Paul Bateman

Liszt Hamlet - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk

Smetana Richard III - BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Christian Gansch

Verdi Macbeth (Act 4, excerpt) - Christopher Maltman (baritone), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Kok

Shostakovich King Lear

Berlioz Overture: King Lear - BBC PO, conductor Vassily Sinaisky

In the last of this week's concerts for Holy Week from London's Temple Church, Australian vocal group the Song Company perform a programme of music inspired by the image of the Mother at the Cross, including works by Hildegard of Bingen, Obrecht, Brumel, Victoria and Gesualdo.

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat - Conductor Peter Maxwell Davies

Bax Concertante for piano left hand - Margaret Fingerhut, conductor Vernon Handley

Stravinsky Ballet: Petrushka (1947 version) - Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

Julian Joseph continues his series of profiles of major jazz artists with performances from the BBC jazz archives. For over 30 years drummer Art Blakey led the most enduring and creative hard-bop outfits in the history of jazz, providing a springboard for generations of young soloists and composers.

Julian Joseph introduces a concert from 1985 given by the Jazz Messengers at Ronnie Scott's in London, when the band included Terence Blanchard (trumpet), Donald Harrison (alto sax), Jean Toussaint (tenor sax), Mulgrew Miller (piano) and Lonnie Plaxico (bass).

(Today's featured recording of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers is available on a BBC CD from early May)

With Sean Rafferty.

Music includes at 5.45 Mendelssohn's Capriccio Brillant in B minor, Op 22, played by Stephen Hough (piano) with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Lawrence Foster; at 6.00 Saint-Saens's Danse Macabre performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Lorin Maazel; and at 6.40 Sibelius's Karelia Suite played by the Halle Orchestra under John Barbirolli.

Huw Tregelles Williams introduces a performance of Bach's St John Passion. Nicholas Kraemer conducts the BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales in a performance given earlier this month in St David's Hall, Cardiff.

Catherine Bott (soprano), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Jeremy Ovenden (tenor), Matthew Hargreaves (bass), Mark Stone and Nico van der Meel (tenors), BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, conductor Nicholas Kraemer

Bach St John Passion, BWV245

The stage has traditionally offered writers a platform for dissent, but as cultural debate in general changes character, is political theatre dead and buried? Paul Allen investigates the new politics of the theatre with writers, directors and actors.

Verity Sharp and Sarah Walker present highlights from last weekend's State of the Nation festival at London's South Bank Centre, which included new works by Tansy Davies, Joseph Phibbs, Bryn Harrison and Geoffrey Hannan performed by the London Sinfonietta, and new electronic music from Sonic Arts. The festival also featured workshops and discussions on writing music for dance and the catwalk, and on the art of free improvisation.

With Jonathan Swain.

12.05 Musorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain

12.15 Chopin Ballade No 2 in F, Op 38

12.30 Pachelbel Aria Quinta in A minor (Hexachordum Apollinis)

12.40 Johann Ernst Bach Ode on the 77th Psalm "Das Vertrauen der Christen auf Gott"

1.00 Shostakovich Symphony No 7 (Leningrad) - Slovak Radio SO/Ladislav Slovak

2.20 Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K581

2.55 Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante in E flat, Op 22

3.10 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 3 in D (Polish)

4.00 Dvorak Piano Trio in E minor, Op 90 (Dumky)

4.35 Parry I Was Glad

4.45 Glazunov Saxophone Concerto in Eflat

5.05 Massenet Werther's Aria (Werther)

5.10 Mozart Divertimento in B flat for wind ensemble, K186

5.20 Madetoja Dance Vision (Night Revels)

5.30 Jan van Gilse String Quartet

5.40 Armas Jarnefelt Korsholma