With Tommy Pearson.

Gershwin Lullaby - Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, conductor Erich Kunzl

6.45 Rimsky-Korsakov Overture: May Night - Scottish NO, conductor Neeme Jarvi

7.00 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E, Op 8 No 1 (Spring) (The Four Seasons) - Trondheim Soloists, director Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)

7.45 Saint-Saens Africa - RPO, conductor Andre Previn

8.00 Telemann Concerto in D for three trumpets, two oboes and strings - English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock

8.25 Dvorak Serenade in E for strings, Op 22 - LPO, conductor Christopher Hogwood

Five programmes this week in which Donald Macleod sorts out fact from fiction in the life and works of Isaac Albeniz in the light of a new biography. Did the composer really stow away as a boy on an Atlantic steamer? Today's programme ends with the first book from Albeniz's masterpiece, Iberia.

Pavana-Capricho in E minor, Op 12; Bajo la Palmera (Cantos de Espana) - Alicia de Larrocha (piano)

Concierto Fantastico in A minor, Op 78 (orch Trayter) - Aldo Ciccolini (piano), RPO, conductor Enrique Batiz

Iberia, Book 1 - Alicia de Larrocha (piano)

Five programmes in which Brendan Kennelly, professor of modern literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and a bestselling poet in Ireland, delves into his notebooks and journals to describe his work in progress, Guff.

With Stephanie Hughes. This week featuring Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos 18-22 and recordings by August Wenzinger.

Telemann Conclusion in B flat (Tafelmusik, Production III) - Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, director August Wenzinger

10.08 Mendelssohn Two Songs Without Words Murray Perahia (piano)

10.14 Erlebach Overture-Suite in C - Gustav Scheck (recorder), Scheck-Wenzinger Chamber Music Circle

10.23 Mozart Piano Concerto No 18 in B flat, K456 - English Chamber Orchestra, director Murray Perahia (piano)

10.53 Marais Sujet Diverisifie in G (Book 1, 1686) - August Wenzinger (viola da gamba solo), Eduard Muller (harpsichord), Hannelore Muller (viola da gamba continuo)

11.02 Strauss Metamorphosen - Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler

Some of the greatest composers have written for the ballet, most prominently Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. David Bintley, director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, presents a week of programmes tracing some of the highlights of this rich but often neglected repertoire.

Today the BBC Concert Orchestra under Barry Wordsworth perform excerpts from Herold's La Fille Mal Gardee, Adam's Giselle, Delibes's Coppelia, Messager's Les Deux Pigeons and Massenet's Le Cid.

Stephanie Hughes introduces this week's recital from the Wigmore Hall, London.
Canadian pianist Louis Lortie comes to the Wigmore Hall in an all-Schubert programme.

Schubert Four Impromptus, D899; Wanderer Fantasy in C, D760

(Repeated next Saturday 1pm)

This week featuring Vaughan Williams's symphonies.

Bridge Suite: The Sea - Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

Ravel Piano Concerto for the left hand - Peter Donohoe, conductor Peter Maxwell Davies

Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony (Symphony No 1) - Sarah Leonard (soprano), Paul Whelan (bass), Huddersfield Choral Society, conductor Martyn Brabbins

Michael White celebrates the opening of the new season at Glyndebourne with recordings of some of its greatest moments.

With Sean Rafferty, whose guests include early music group the Palladian Ensemble.

Music includes at 5.05 Verdi's Overture: Luisa Miller played by the BBC Philharmonic under Edward Downes; at 5.40 Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending played by Pinchas Zukerman (violin) with the ECO under Daniel Barenboim; and at 6.05 Ethel Smyth's Overture: The Wreckers played by the SNO under Alexander Gibson.

Another chance to hear one of the highlights from last year's Proms. This highly acclaimed performance of Bernstein's Wonderful Town is a witty story about two sisters from Ohio who come to the Big Apple in search of fame and fortune.

London Voices, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conductor Simon Rattle

(R)

The second of two programmes this week featuring film music by Alan Rawsthorne.

BBCPO, conductor Rumon Gamba

Rawsthorne, arr Gerard Schurmann Suite: Burma Victory; Suite: Captive Heart

In conversation with Jonathan Bate - author of a new ecological reading of English literature The Song of the Earth - poet Robert Crawford and geographer Stephen Daniels, Lynda Nead discusses how prose and poetry over 300 years have reflected and shaped our sense of the natural world. And in the first of a week-long series on Britain's lesser known museums, Night Waves explores Kilmartin House, Argyll.

Fiona Talkington begins a month of late-night music for May with Flemish dances and Christopher Fox's A-N-N-A Blossom Time.

With Jonathan Swain.

Bo Holten Nordic Suite

12.15 Grieg, orch Hans Sitt Four Norwegian Dances, Op 35

12.35 Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1

1.00 Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20

1.30 Durufle Requiem

2.15 Dupre Concerto in E minor, Op 31

2.35 Bach Trio Sonata in D minor, BWV527 7

2.50 Handel Piangero la Sorte Mia, Si Crudele (Giulio Cesare )

3.00 Music Box

3.15 Something to Think About

3.30 Le Club

3.45 Stories and Rhymes

4.00 EAL Let's Make a Story

4.15 Together Stories

CPE Bach Flute Concerto No 1 in A minor, Wq 166

4.55 Paganini Sonata in C minor for violin and guitar

5.05 Ibert Trois Pieces Breves

5.15 Gershwin An American in Paris

5.35 Ravel, arr Kain Pavane pourune Infante Defunte

5.45 Debussy Images, Book 2