With Penny Gore .
Beethoven Piano Sonata in E, Op 14 No 1 Alfred Brendel
6.30 Rimsky-Korsakov Quintet in B flat for flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn and piano Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano), Munich Residenz Quartet
7.00 Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068 Thurston Dart (harpsichord continuo), Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
7.40 Jose Evangelista Airs d'Espagne I Musici de Montréal /Yuli Turovsky
8.40 Part Summa
BBC Singers, conductor Bo Holten
8.45 Bizet Suite: Carmen
LPO, conductor Carlo Rizzi

With Donald Macleod.
2: Associations with Three Great
Contemporaries: Rikard Nordraak ,
Bjornsterne Bjornson and Henrik Ibsen
The influence on Grieg of three writers: the composer's guilt at Nordraak's early death, texts for Grieg to set, incidental music that has outlived the play, and some projects that came to nothing.
Humoresques, Op 6 Gerhard Oppitz (piano) The First Meeting, Op 21 No 1 Barbara Bonney (soprano),
Gothenburg SO , conductor Neeme Jarvi
Lyric Piece, Op 12 No 8 Peter Katin (piano) Three orchestral pieces (Sigurd Jorsalfar ) Ulster Orchestra, conductor Paul Mann En Svane, Op 25 No
Barbara Bonney (soprano),
Gothenburg SO , conductor Neeme Jarvi Peer Gynt (excerpts) Gothenburg SO , conductor Neeme Jarvi (R)

Andy Goldsworthy continues work on two monumental limestone sculptures in France's Haute-Provence.

With Stephanie Hughes.
Nielsen Overture: An Imaginary Journey to the Faroe Islands Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Myung-Whun Chung
10.16 Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor Pierre Fournier , Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Walter Susskind
10.35 Debussy Chansons de Bilitis
Maggie Teyte (soprano), Alfred Cortot (piano)
10.44 Dvorak Serenade in D minor, Op 44 London Baroque Ensemble/Karl Haas
11.09 Ravel Piano Concerto for the left hand Alfred Cortot , Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conductor Charles Munch

Aldeburgh Archive
Humphrey Carpenter continues his selection from the BBC archive of vintage recordings of past Aldeburgh Festivals.
Britten Overture: The Building of the House Chorus of East Anglia Choirs,
ECO, conducted bytheComposer(1967) Mozart Piano Sonata in G, K283 Sviatoslav Richter (1966)
Attrib Purcell When Night Her Purple Veil
Had Softly Spread Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), members of the Alberni Quartet , Benjamin Britten (piano) (1965) Tchaikovsky The Seasons (excerpts) Sviatoslav Richter (1966)
Schubert The Shepherd on the Rock Heather Harper (soprano),Thea King
(clarinet), Benjamin Britten (piano) (1972) Scriabin Piano Sonata No 9 Sviatoslav Richter (1966)

A recital given last September at the BT
Waterfront Studio in Belfast.
Sarah Cunningham (viola da gamba), Malcolm Proud (harpsichord)
Marais Suite in G, Book 5 No 2
Bach Viola da Gamba Sonata No 2 in D, BWV1028
Marais Suite in E minor, Book 5 No 7 (R)

BBC Philharmonic
Musorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Brahms Violin Concerto in D Augustin Dumay , conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier Nielsen Symphony No 2 (The Four Temperaments)
Conductor Barry Wordsworth

My Kind of Song: Simon Russell Beale
lain Burnside talks to Shakespearean actor Simon Russell Beale about the songs and singers that have a particular significance for him. He trained as a singer and recently had the opportunity to display his singing voice in the Royal National Theatre's production of Bernstein's Candide.

As a new production of Nixon in China opens at English National Opera,
Sean Rafferty talks to its director Peter Sellars and its librettist Alice Goodman about
John Adams 's minimalist masterpiece. Music includes at 5.35 Dvorak's
Romance in F minor, Op 11, played by violinist Gil Shaham with the Orpheus
Chamber Orchestra; at 6.10 Berlioz's La Mortd'Ophelie performed by Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) and Myung-Whun Chung (piano); and at 6.40 Bach's English Suite
No 3 in G minor, BWV808, played by pianist Wilhelm Kempff.

Bath Festival
Kirsteen McCue introduces a concert given last week in Wells Cathedral. Gillian Callow (cor anglais), Gayle Hunnicutt (narrator),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins
Copland Fanfare for the Common Man MacMillan The World's Ransoming Copland Lincoln Portrait
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances

Dmitri Alexeev (piano)
Rachmaninov Preludes

Richard Coles profiles New York's ground-breaking performance art company The Wooster Group as they prepare to launch a new season at the refurbished Tramway in Glasgow with House/Lights, a radical reinterpretation of a text by Gertrude Stein. Their first original piece for radio, Racine's Phedre, is broadcast on Radio 3 next Sunday.

Fiona Talkington 's selections for late-night listening include summer music from
Kremerata Baltica and tangos from Finland.

With Susan Sharpe.

Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 25

12.25 Bach Prelude (Violin Partita No 3 in E, BWV1006)

12.35 Bruckner Motets: Ave Maria; Christus Factus Est; Locus Iste

12.45 Rossini Quartet No 1 in F

1.00 A recital given by La Stagione, Frankfurt, directed by Michael Schneider (recorder).
Telemann Recorder Concerto in A minor; Sonata Polonaise in A minor; Flute Concerto in D; Concerto in E minor for recorder and flute

1.55 Bach Cantata No 51: Jauchzet Gott in Allen Landen

2.15 Mozart Three Marches, K408

2.25 Sibelius Piano Sonatina in B flat, Op 6 7 No

2.35 Strauss Tod und Verklarung

3.00 Playtime

3.15 Time to Move

3.35 Let's Make a Story

3.50 Drama Workshop: Victorian Dramas

4.10 The Song Tree

Smetana Vltava (Ma Vlast)

4.50 Vaughan Williams Romance

5.00 Palestrina Stabat Mater

5.10 Purcell Overture and Air: Hornpipe; Air: Fairest Isle; Chaconne (King Arthur)

5.25 Poulenc Suite: Les Biches

5.45 A. Gabrieli Qui la Dira

5.55 Witte Waltzes