With Tommy Pearson.
Tallis Spemin Alium Choir of King's College, Cambridge, director Stephen Cleobury

6.10 Debussy String Quartet, Op 10 Hagen Quartet

7.00 Handel Keyboard Suite in B flat, HWV 440 Keith Jarrett (piano)

7.40 Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings, Op 47 BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis

8.20 Telemann Concerto in B flat
Musica Antiqua Koln, director Reinhard Goebel

8.45 Maxwell Davies Overture: Mavis in Las Vegas BBC PO, conducted by the Composer

This week Donald Macleod examines five significant periods in the life and work of Tchaikovsky.

Tchaikovsky's studenthood at the St Petersburg Conservatoire, his early career as a teacher in Moscow, a holiday in Moscow, his meeting with Balakirev - and his first major success.
None but the Lonely Heart (Six Songs) Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass), Zlatina Ghiaurov (piano)
The Storm Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Symphony No 1 in G minor (Winter Daydreams) (Scherzo)
Russian National Orchestra, conductor Mikhail Pletnev
Souvenir de Hapsal, Op 2 Nos 2 and 3 Viktoria Postnikova (piano)
Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Geoffrey Simon

The actress and playwright Carole Hayman travels to India, a trip which inspires her latest fiction.

With Stephanie Hughes.
This week featuring orchestral music by Weber and vintage recordings by the Budapest Quartet.

Stravinksy Fireworks, Op 4 Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez

10.11 Dvorak String Quartet in F, Op 96 (American) Budapest Quartet

10.35 Suk Fantastic Scherzo Czech PO, conductor Charles Mackerras

10.46 Liszt Tarantella Jorge Bolet (piano)

10.57 Weber Symphony No 1 in C Queensland Philhrmonic Orchestra, conductor John Georgiadis

Artist In Focus: Kyung-Wha Chung
Humphrey Burton talks to the Korean violinist Kyung-Wha Chung and introduces a selection of her performances from the BBC archives.
Dvorak Four Romantic Pieces, Op 75: No 2 With Itamar Golan (piano)
Stravinsky Violin Concerto
With the LSO, conductor Andrfe Previn Kodaly Duo , Op 7
With Myung-Wha Chung (cello)
Walton Violin Concerto With the BBCSO, conductor James Loughran

Stephanie Hughes introduces a recital from the Wigmore Hall in London.

Trio Jean Paul

Martin Trio on Popular Irish Melodies

Beethoven Piano Trio in G, Op 1 No 2

(Repeated Saturday 1pm)

This week featuring symphonies by Shostakovich.
Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

McCaldin Fanfare for a Celebration

Shostakovich Festival Overture

Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Weber

Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat - Martin Roscoe

Shostakovich Symphony No 1 - Conductor Vassily Sinaisky

Legends: John Tomlinson
Michael White talks to the great bass-baritone and plays recordings of some of his major roles, including music by Wagner,
Mozart and Musorgsky. 1

With Sean Rafferty.
Music includes at 5.40 Copland's Clarinet Concerto played by Benny Goodman with the Columbia Symphony Strings conducted by the Composer; at 6.00 Purcell's Overture: King Arthur performed by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta under Ronald Thomas; and at 6.40 Beethoven's Violin Sonata in A, Op 12 No 2, played by Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis (piano).

Live from the St Magnus Festival, a concert given at the Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall, Orkney.

Priya Mitchell (violin), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. conductor Martyn Brabbins

Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage: Violin Concerto in E minor

8.40 Twenty Minutes: Book of the Month
An extended review of one of this month's most significant new publications.
Linda Grant discusses SY Agnon's Only Yesterday, published in English for the first time.

9.00 Maxwell Davies Symphony No 7 (first performance)
Conducted by the Composer

Isabel Hilton examines the way in which contemporary artists and performers are extending traditional boundaries in their exploration of the themes of decay and death. Plus a report from Venice, where David Chipperfield and Zaha Hadid are among the architects representing Britain at the International Biennale of Architecture.

Verity Sharp presents music by Hawaiian slack-key guitarist Leonard Kwan, traditional Catalan song from Barcelona and chamber music by Arvo Part.

With Jonathan Swain

Johann P Krieger An die Einsamkeit

12.20 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor

1.00 A recital given last year at the Wigmore Hall, London, by Andreas Scholl (countertenor) and Markus Markl (harpsichord).
Purcell Music for a While (Oedipus); Sweeter than Roses (Pausanias)
John Blow Tell Me No More (Amphion Anglicus)
Bach Brunnquell Aller Guter, BWV445; Kommt, Seelen, Dieser Tag, BWV4 79
Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel Bist Du Bei Mir
Bach Prelude and Fugue in F, BWV880 (The Well-Tempered Klavier)
Handel Nel Dolce Tempo (Italian Cantata No 35)

1.35 Bach Chaconne (Partita in D minor, BWV1004)

1.50 Brahms String Quintet No 2 in G, Op 111

2.20 Rautavaara Ballet Music: The Temptations, Op 47 (excerpts)

2.35 Mozart Concerto in E flat for two pianos, K365

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

Handel Violin Sonata in A minor. Op 1 No 4

4.45 Tchaikovsky Marche Slave, Op 31

5.05 Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage

5.15 Faure Nocturne in E flat, Op 33 No 1

5.30 Mozart Divertimento in D, K205

5.55 Byrd O Lord, How Vain