(1778-1837) In the first of this week's five programmes devoted to Hummel, Donald Macleod explores the early years of the composer who was taught by Mozart, Haydn and Salieri, was a friend of Beethoven and Goethe, and who was the dedicatee of Schubert's last three piano sonatas. Potpourri in G minor, Op 94 (Fantaisie)
Garfield Jackson (viola), Ulster Orchestra, conductor Howard Shelley
Grand Sonata in A flat for piano duet, Op 92 Christian Ivaldi and Noel Lee
For the Sake o' Somebody Christine Cairns (mezzo), Scottish Early Music Consort Flute Sonata in G, Op 2 No 2 (Finale) Lise Daoust , Carmen Picard (piano) Producer Andrew Lyle (R)

Director Ken Loach 's new film Bread and Roses focuses on the stories of Mexican migrant labourers bravingthe raw capitalism of Los Angeles. Today he describes the birth of the idea and his reluctance to have anything to do with the United States. Producer Tim Dee

With Stephanie Hughes. This week featuring Bartok string quartets and recordings by Georg Solti.
' Mozart March in D, K335 No 1
Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
10.10 Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat, K454 Georg Kulenkampff , Georg Solti (piano)
10.34 Kodaly Suite: HaryJanos LPO, conductor Georg Solti
10.57 Bartok String Quartet Nol
Pro Arte Quartet Producer Tony Cheevers

This week's programmes presented by Tommy Pearson focus on three recent international youth and amateur music festivals-the Royal Northern College of Music's International Wind Festival and Festival of Brass from Manchester, and the fifth World Symposium on Choral Music from Rotterdam. Today's programme features the Murray State UniversityWind Band under Denis Johnson and the Fodens
(Courtois) Brass Band - who are currently national champions - under
Nicholas Childs. Plus music from vocal ensembles - the Talla Vocal Ensemble from Finland performing Jukka Unkola 's new folk song suite Mieliteko, and the Cantus Girls' Choir under Pamela Cook performing Nigel Osborne 's Songs fora Bare Mountain. Producer Paul Hindmarsh

Stephanie Hughes introduces this week's recital from the Wigmore Hall, London. Dorothea Roschmann (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
Schubert Nachtstuck ; Nacht und Traume; Auf dem Wasserzu Singen
Faure Clairde Lune ; Le Secret;
Les Berceaux;Au Cimetière; Fleur Jetée
Brahms Unbewegte Laue Luft; Sapphische Ode; Therese; Von Waldbekrantzer Hohe Repeated next Saturday lpm

Continuing the cycle of Beethoven symphonies.
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grieg Peer Gynt: Suite No 1 Conductor Grant Llewellyn
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring Conductor Mark Wigglesworth
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor
Tasmin Little, conductor Grant Llewellyn
Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor Conductor Grant Llewellyn

In honour of Shakespeare's birthday yesterday, Michael White explores the wide-ranging influence of the Bard on the world Of opera. Producer Bill Lloyd

Sean Rafferty meets the Soweto String
Quartet, who set the studio alight with their eclectic mix of African rhythms and classical styles. Other music includes at
5.45 Ewald's Brass Quintet No 1 in B flat minor, Op 5, played by the Centre City Brass Quintet; at 6.10 Bruch's Romance, Op 85, played by Gerard Causse (viola) with the Lyon Opera Orchestra under Kent Nagano; and at 6.50 Mozart's Symphony No 23 in D performed by the English Concert under Trevor Pinnock.

A concert given last week in London's Wigmore Hall by one of Britain's most distinguished baritones. Thomas Allen (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Ireland If There Be Dreams to Sell
Purcell, arr Britten Music fora While; Let the Dreadful Engines (Don Quixote ) Britten Winter Words
Hoist Three Vedic Hymns
Michael Head The Estuary
Rebecca Clarke The Seal Man; Eight o'Clock
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs Silence

Richard Coles talks to Michael Hardt about his provocative new book Empire, which has been described as a communist manifesto for the 21st century. He also discusses acclaimed stage director Deborah Warner 's first film The Last September, based on the novel by Elizabeth Bowen and set among the Anglo-Irish aristocracy of the twenties.

Verity Sharp introduces more late-night listening, including Iegor Reznikoff's Liturgie Fondamentale performed in the Abbey of Fontenay and Matt Molloy's song Morning Thrush.

With Jonathan Swain.
Tchaikovsky Dumka , Op 5912.15 Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minori2.55 Brahms
Hungarian Dance No 11 in A minorl.00 Bach, transcr Busoni Ich Ruf zu Dir Herr
Jesu Christ , BWV639 Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Chopin Nocturne in F sharp, Op 15 No 2; Prelude in D minor, Op 28 No 24 1.45 Marcel Grandjany
Rhapsody 1.55 Schubert Symphony No 9 in C (Great) 2.45 Vierne Clair de Lune, Op 53 No 5 2. 55 Debussy Images Book
3.15 Kraus Symphony in C 3.25 Mozart
Flute Quartet in D, K2853.40 Abel Pieces for viola dagamba 3.55 Heinichen Se Mai, Tirsi, Mio Bene (Clori e Tirsi) 4.20 lbert Little Suite 4.45 Sauguet La Nuit 5.05
Strauss Don Juan 5.20 Chopin Nocturne in D flat, Op 2 7 No 2 5.30 Rameau
Symphonies and Dances 5.50 Rimsky- Korsakov Overture: May Night