With Fiona Talkington.

Berlioz Overture: Les Francs-Juges

6.30 Boieldieu Warp Concerto in C

7.10 Franck Les Djinns

7.40 Auber Rondo for cello and orchestra

8.00 Haydn Symphony No 2 in C

8.15 Gordon Jacob Divertimento for harmonica and strings

8.50 Dohnanyi Rhapsody No 1 in G minor, Op 11

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On the 100th anniversary of Verdi's death, Dennis Marks presents a day of music and speech programmes celebrating the genius of Italy's greatest opera composer.

9.00 Introduction
Oberto (excerpt)

9.15 Nabucco (excerpts)

9.40 I Due Foscari (excerpts)

10.00 CD Review
With Andrew McGregor. Including 'Building a Library', in which Michael Oliver recommends a version of Verdi's Otello.

10.45 Essential Verdi
Hilary Finch and Mark Eider select Verdi masterpieces.

11.30 Macbeth (excerpt)

11.45 Stiffelio (excerpts)

12.10pm Verdi the Private Man
Roger Parker investigates Verdi's private life.

12.40 La Traviata (excerpts)

1.05 Un Ballo in Maschera (excerpt)

1.30 Simon Boccanegra (excerpts)

2.00 Verdi and the Theatre of Politics
Dennis Marks explores Verdi's fascination with politics.

2.30 Don Carlos (Act 4, Scene 1)

3.00 BBC SO Live from Parma
Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces

4.00 Verdi Voices
Rob Cowan goes in search of the great Verdi interpreters on record.

5.00 Verdi and Boito
A dramatisation by Jules Mascarenhas.

5.25 Falstaff (final scene)

6.00 Opera on 3: Live from the Met: Aida
Verdi's 1871 masterpiece, a classic tale of doomed love, set in ancient Egypt.
Verdi: Aida
Act 1

6.40 Interval: The Grande Boutique
Edward Blakeman explores Verdi's turbulent relationship with the Paris Opera.

7.10 Aida: Act 2

7.50 Met Opera Quiz
Steven Blier puts listeners' questions to Ben Cameron, Cori Ellison and Christopher Purdy.

8.10 Opera Snaps: With Rodney Milnes.

8.15 Aida: Act 3

8.50 Interval: Talking to Gotham
A series in which Miles Warde interviews leading figures from New York's cultural life. Today he talks to writer, photographer and film director Gordon Parks.

9.15 Aida: Act 4

With Susan Sharpe.

Mozart Duo in G, K423

Prokofiev Quintet in G minor, Op 39

Schumann Three Romances, Op 94

Mozart Quintet in E flat, K452

2.15 Dvorak Stabat Mater, Op 58

3.35 Strauss, arr anon Suite: Der Rosenkavalier

3.55 Hugo Alfven Midsummer Vigil

4.10 Donizetti Sinfonia in G minor

4.20 Bach Praeludium and Fughetta, BWV902

4.35 Czerny Brillant Polonaise, Op 296

5.00 Bach Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV1041

5.10 Hellendaal Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op3 No.1

5.20 Mozart Divertimento in E flat, K166

5.30 MacDowell Hexentanz, Op 17 No 2

5.40 Addinsell Warsaw Concerto

5.50 Arnold Little Suite No 1, Op 80

Writer and director Lou Stein's "sound diary" draws on a month spent with his dying mother. Against the Kafkaesque background of a hospital ward it tells of a son's inner experience at his mother's bedside during her battle with cancer.

Excerpts from CS Lewis's "A Grief Observed" read by Julian Glover.

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present another in a series of special programmes from Dingwalls in London. With live performances from the Biny Jenkins Blues Collective, Sotex and former Pere Ubu-front man David Thomas.

Tonight's concert, recorded at London's Pizza Express last year, features Panamanian-born pianist Danilo Perez and his trio.