Adagio for Strings
5.10 McCauley Five Miniatures
5.25 Rosenmuller Magnificat
5.40 Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)
5.50 Fenby Overture: Rossini on Ilka Moor

With Penny Gore.
6.10 Schubert Ballet: Rosamunde
(excerpts)
6.35 Verdi String Quartet in E minor
7.00Rameau Overture: Castor et Pollux
7.40 Dussek Piano Sonata in Fsharp minor. Op 61
8.20 Damase Trio for flute, harp and cello
8.35 Tchaikovsky Suite: The Nutcracker

Donald Macleod examines Gesualdo's final years and his influence on 20th-century composers, including Stravinsky.
Tristis Est Animae (Tenebrae Respones for Maundy Thursday) Deller Consort
Stravinsky Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa ad CD Annum Columbia SO, conducted by the Composer
Stravinsky Tres Sacrae Cantiones di Gesualdo John Alldis Choir, conductor John Alldis
Resta di Darmi Noia; Al Mio il Ciel Si Fa Sereno; Den Come in Van Sospiro I FebiArmonici , director Alan Curtis
Miserere; Benedictus (Responsaria for Holy Week) Hilliard Ensemble

Choreographer Noel Wallace adapts the Stravinsky ballet Petrushka as a modern parable and decides to dance in it - the first time in a public venue for five years.

With Jonathan Swain.
Debussy La Mer
Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor Erich Leinsdorf
10.29 Beethoven Violin Sonata in G, Op 96 Zino Francescatti , Robert Casadesus (piano)
10.56 Strauss Couperin Dance Suite Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Erich Leinsdorf

George Bernard Shaw 5: Critic and Crusader
Humphrey Carpenter looks at Shaw's reputation as a critic and the music he defended against the opposing views of fellow critics, such as Ernest Newman.
Hermann Goetz Symphony in F, Op Ulster Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth Strauss Elektra (excerpt)
RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham Mozart Requiem , K626 (excerpt)
Galway Baroque Singers, RTE Concert
Orchestra, conductor ProinnsiasO'Duinn

From the Djanogly Hall in Nottingham, a concert given last month in a series evoking the spirit of Byron, Liszt and the early Romantics.
With readings by Samuel West.
Joan Rogers (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Schumann Die Tochter Jephtas, Op 95 No 1; An den Mond, Op 95 No 2
Mendelssohn Keine von der Erde Schonen; Schlafoser Augen Leuchte
Liszt The Sad Monk
Schumann The Fugitives
Liszt S'il Est un Charmant Gazon; Oh! Quand Je Dors; Comment, Disaient-Ils; Enfant, Si J'Etais Roi; Es Muss ein Wunderbares Sein
Schumann Fair Hedwig
Liszt Es War Einmal ein Konig; Kling Leise, Mein Lied; Die Lorelei

BBC Philharmonic
Wagner Overture: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Conductor Charles Mackerras Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 in G
Christian Blackshaw , conductor VassilySinaisky
Schubert Symphony No 9 in C (Great) Conductor VassilySinaisky

Blue Peter's Simon Thomas and Matt Baker present a music series for younger listeners. Today, music written with elephants in mind by Salnt-Saens and Stravinsky, and John Adams 's A Short Ride in a Fast Machine.

Earl Hines. This week the spotlight falls on pianist and bandleader Earl "Fatha" Hines, who rose to fame in the twenties alongside the great Louis Armstrong. Hines's ever-evolving piano style paved the way for modern jazz pianists such as Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk. Julian Joseph presents classic recordings and excerpts from a 1975 interview in which Hines recalls his eventful ten-year residency at the Grand Terrace Ballroom in Chicago.
Four new Jazz LegendsCDs are available from Monday 6 November from music outlets

With Humphrey Carpenter , who is joined in the studio by the Melos Quartet. Music in the programme includes at 5.35
Vivaldi's Concerto in G minorfortwo violins, cello and strings, RV5 78; at 6.05 Geoffrey Bush 's Overture: Yorick; and at
6.30 Hoist's Egdon Heath, Op 4 7.

The Maid of Orleans
Sean Rafferty introduces Wexford Festival Opera's new production of Tchaikovsky's The Maid of Orleans. Sung in Russian, the opera tells of Joan of Arc's heroism and her infatuation with Lionel, a Burgundian knight, which proves to be her undoing.
Wexford Festival Opera Chorus, National
Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, conductor Daniele Callegari
Tchaikovsky The Maid of Orleans Acts land 2
9.30 Interval: Beckett on Screen
Richard Coles talks to Neil Jordan and other directors involved in the ambitious Beckett
Film Project about the challenges of translating Samuel Beckett 's work to film.
9.55 Acts 3 and 4

Sarah Walker introduces the first broadcast of Colin Matthews 's latest large-scale piece, Continuum, performed by Cynthia Clarey (mezzo) and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group under Simon Rattle at a concert given at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, last month.

With Jonathan Swain.

Crusell Dance of the Bayaderes (The Little Slave Girl)

12.10 CPE Bach Concerto in E flat for harpsichord and fortepiano, Wq47

12.25 Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1945)

1.00 Crusell's three-act opera The Little Slave Girl.

2.00 Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

2.50 Szymanowski Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin, Op 42

3.00 Lassus Motet: Exurgat Deus

3.05 Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor

3.30 Debussy Des Pas sur la Neige (Preludes, Book 1)

3.40 Haydn Symphony No 6 in D (Le Matin)

3.55 Weber Overture: Der Freischutz

4.05 Cambini Trio, Op 45 No 1

4.20 Handel Return, O God of Hosts

4.30 Bach Aria Variata alia Maniera Italiana in A minor, BWV989

4.50 Grieg Letzer Fruhling, Op,33 No2

5.00 Beethoven Fantasia in C minor for piano, chorus and orchestra

5.20 Wolf Italian Serenade

5.30 Sibelius Six Impromptus for piano, Op 5

5.45 Crusell Introduction and Variations on a Swedish Drinking Song, Op 12