Waltz: Voices of Spring
5.15CPE Bach Quartet in G forflute, viola and continuo, Wq95 5.35 Vivaldi Concerto No 9 in D, RV230 (L 'Estro Armonico, Op 3)
5.45 Kunzen Overture: Gyrithe

With Tommy Pearson.
Poulenc Suite pour piano Pascal Roge
6.45 Alblnonl Oboe Concerto in B flat
Anthony Robson , Collegium Musicum 90, director Simon Standage
7.00 Pycard Gloria
Gothic Voices, director Christopher Page
7.45 Vaughan Williams Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"
LPO, conductor Bryden Thomson
8.00 Rachmaninov Vocalise Lynn Harrell (cello), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
8.40 Khachaturian Spartacus: Ballet Suite No 3 Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi

4: OldPoland. Donald Macleod explores Szymanowski's music of the 1920s, inspired by the "unheard-of suggestive force - primeval, eternal and primitive" of Polish traditional music.
Mazurka, Op 50 No 1
Joanna Domanska (piano) Ballet: Harnasie (excerpts)
Warsaw National Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Witold Rowicki , Warsaw State Opera House Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Bohdan Wodiczko Stabat Mater
Elzbieta Szmytka (soprano), Florence Quivar (mezzo), John Connell (bass), City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle

Ian McEwan is at work on his latest novel called - he thinks - An Atonement, set in 1940 on the retreat to Dunkirk.

With Stephanie Hughes.
Sibelius The Oceanides, Op 73
Helsinki PO, conductor Leif Segerstam
10.18 Stravinsky Pastorale
Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Ensemble
Intercontemporain, conductor Pierre Boulez
10.20 Britten String Quartet No 2 Amadeus Quartet
10.49 Rachmaninov Etudes-Tableaux , Op 39 Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)

China Week
A week of programmes that contrast works by contemporary Chinese composers with music from the west inspired by China. The programmes feature performances by a younger generation of Chinese artists. Today Christopher Cook reflects on how some composers respond to the mysteries of night and the natural world. 4: Night and Nightingales
Stravinsky The Song of the Nightingale BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor 01 iver Knussen
Yl Jlanquan Birds Returning to the Woods Gan Shanshi (gaohu)
Schubert Nacht und Traume Guang Yang (mezzo), IngridSurgenor(piano)
Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht Macau
Chamber Orchestra, conductor Yuan Fang Weir Natural History Dawn Upshaw
(soprano), BBCPO, conductor Mark Elder

Susan Sharpe introduces another instalment of lain Burnside's Century Song project from this year's Bath International Music Festival. Today's concert - Europe Sings the Blues - features songs from
1920 to 1939, performed by Mary Plazas , Robert Burt and William Dazeley. The next concert in the series can be heard at the same time next Thursday. (R)

BBC Philharmonic
Weber Overture: Der Freischiitz Conductor Simon Wright Mahler Symphony No 6 Conductor Paavo Jarvi

Blue Peter's Simon Thomas chooses some tracks for younger listeners, including a rain dance by a native American, some music portraying a gracious swan, and a classic big band track, Chattanooga Choo Choo.

San Marco. Lucie Skeaping presents the first of an occasional series from Venice in which she explores the great history of music-making in the city. Today she visits the basilica of St Mark's and finds out about the important role it has played in Venetian musical life. The programme includes music by Johannes Ciconia , Francesco d'Ana, Adrian Willaert , Andrea and Giovanni Gabriell and Claudio Monteverdi.
Producer Chris Wines

With Sean Rafferty , who this week celebrates the centenary of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Music includes at
5.35 Handel's Trio Sonata in G minor, Op 2 No 6, performed by Europa Galante; at
5.45 Gretchaninov's Snowflakes, Op 4 7, played by the Russian State Symphonic
Capella conducted by Valeri Poliansky ; and at 6.40 Mozart's Piano Concerto No 8 in C, K246, performed by Zoltan Kocsiswith the Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra.

John Eliot Gardiner's year-long millennium Bach cantata pilgrimage returns to London and the thrilling acoustic of the Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich. The aim of this musical odyssey is to perform the cantatas on the liturgically appropriate days for which Bach composed them.
These four dramatic cantatas about the frailty of man and the mercy and faithfulness of God are for the Twenty-First Sunday after Trinity.
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Joanne Lunn (soprano), Paul Agnew (tenor), Gotthold Schwarz (bass), conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Bach Cantatas: No 109: Ich Glaube , Lieber Herr, Hilf Meinem Unglauben!; No 38: Aus Tiefer Not Schrei Ich Zu Dir; No 98: Was Gott Tut, Das 1st Wohlgetan; No 188: Ich Habe Meine Zuversicht

Laura Cumming investigates the changing nature of girlhood experience, as a major exhibition on the theme - Girl- opens at the New Art Gallery, Walsall.

Fiona Talkington 's late-night listening includes more from Salif Keita in concert and new tracks from Michelle Makarski and the Orient House Ensemble.

With Susan Sharpe.
Mozart Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
12.15 Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2
12.40 Cavalli Plainsong Antiphon and Magnificat
1.00 Brahms Tragic Overture; Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op 56a Nielsen Symphony No 6 (Sinfonia Semplice)
2.10 Pederson Motets: Ad Te Levavi
Oculos Meos; Laudate Dominum de Coelis
2.20 Bach Cello Suite No 5 in C minor,
BWV1011 2.50 Schubert Impromptu No 2 in Aflat, D935

3.00 Stories and Rhymes
3.15Numbertime
3.30 Words Alive!
3.45 Listen and Write
4.05 Megamaths
4.20 Maths Challenge
4.35 Maths Challenge
4.50 Fiream-Faram