With Penny Gore.
Handel Concerto Grosso in B minor, Op 6 No 12 Col legium Musicum 90, director Simon Stand age
6.45 Beethoven Romance in Fforviolin and orchestra, Op 50 David Oistrakh , Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Eugene Goossens
7.00 Schumann Toccata in C, Op 7 Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
7.45 lbert Escales Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
8.00 Elgar Five Intermezzos for wind quintet Athena Ensemble
8.50 Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien LPO, conductor Leopold Stokowski

Charles Gounod led a life tormented by religious scruples, and the issue of church ortheatre, sacred or profane, is writ large in his music. Today Donald Macleod considers some of the compositions which contrast these aspirations.
Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod, arrGamley) Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Wandsworth Boys Choir, National Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Kurt Herbert Adler L 'Arithmetique
Felicity Lott (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo), Graham Johnson (piano) Kyrie and Gloria (St Cecilia Mass)
Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Laurence Dale (tenor), Jean-Philippe Lafont
(baritone), French Radio Chorus, French Radio New Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Georges Pretre
La Reine de Saba (ballet music)
Ulster Orchestra, conductorTakuoYuasa Chanson de Magali (Mireille)
Mirella Freni (soprano), Alain Vanzo (tenor), Toulouse Capitole Choir and Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson

Writer Colin Thubron is struggling to write about a travel writerwith writer's block.

With Jonathan Swain.
Rachmaninov Elegie (Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op 3)
Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
10.11 Tchaikovsky Voyevoda USSR Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov
10.24 Bach Domine Deus ; Qui Tollis (Mass in B minor) Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Peter Schreier (tenor), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Herbert von Karajan
10.35 Strauss Es Gibtein Reich (Ariadne aufNaxos) Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Rudolf Kempe
10.42 Tchaikovsky Fatum
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi

Cheltenham Festival
A concert from the Pittville Pump Room, presented by Chris de Souza. Vanbrugh Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet in A, Op 18 No 5 Gerald Barry Six Marches (first performance)
11.50 Twenty Minutes: Dear Sarah Bernhardt
2: A Dialogue of Drama and Love. The
20th-century French writer continues her conversation with the spirit of the dead actress. With Eileen Atkins and Vanessa Redgrave.
12.10 Schubert String Quartet in G, D88 See also tomorrow, 11am

A concert given in Belfast last year by the Joachim Piano Trio. Introduced by John Toal. Smetana Piano Trio No 2 in G minor, Op 15
Shostakovich Piano Trio No 2, Op 67

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Mozart Symphony No 15 in G, K124 Conductor Christian Gansch
Haydn Cello Concerto No 2 in D, H Vllb 2 Mischa Maisky , conductor Osmo Vanska Haydn Symphony No 31 in D (Homsignal), Conductor Alexander Polianichko
Strauss Horn Concerto No 1 David Flack , conductor Alexander Polianichko
Beethoven Symphony No 2 in D
Conductor Alexander Polianichko

lain Burnside presents Canadian baritone Nathan Berg with pianist Julius Drake in a specially recorded recital of songs by Schubert, including An Silvia, An den Mond,
ImAbendrot, Willkommen undAbschied and three Gesange aus Wilhelm Meister.

This evening the BBC Philharmonic perform live from Manchester and Sean Rafferty discusses the cultural role of the orchestra in the North West with members of the orchestra and with conductor
Gianandrea Noseda. Plus news from the arts world and a selection of music.

Riccardo Muti conducts a cast which includes some of the leading Mozart singers of today in a production of the composer's comic masterpiece, recorded live at the Vienna Opera.

Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Muti
Acts 1 and 2

8.30 Twenty Minutes: The Figaro Letters
Graeme Fife imagines the contents of letters dropped and discovered in the darkling garden of the final act of Mozart's opera. The letters play a significant role as the characters discover their true selves.

8.50 Acts 3 and 4

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Verity Sharp presents music inspired by religious conviction and uncertainty from places as far apart as 12th-century Spain and 21st-century Ireland.

With Susan Sharpe. Wagner Prelude, Act 1:
Lohengrin 12.15 Leo Weiner Serenade in F minor, Op 3 12.45 Vagn Holmboe Brass Quintet No 1, Op 79
1.00 A concert of 17th-century music from Bohemia and Slovakia. Capricornus Sonata a 3 Schmeizer Balleto a 4 in G
(Fechtshule) Otradovic 0 Svatem Vaclavu (Lied Zu Ehren des Heiligen Wenzel) Bezdruzic Motet: Maria Kron Biber Harmonia Romana Otradovic Dixit Dominus; Laudate Pueri Dominum ;
Magnificat Anonymous Ave Potentissima Carissimi Dixit Dominus 2.05 Ludwig Thuille Sextet in B flat, Op 6 2.35 Theo Flury Improvisation on Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor 2.50 Schubert Rosamunde (Incidental Music) 3.20
Scriabin Piano Concerto in Fsharp minor
3.50 Srul Irving Glick Divertimento
4.10 Gounod Airdes Bijoux (Faust) 4.20 Erwin Schulhoff Duo for violin and cello
4 35 Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso, Op 66
4.50 Handel Solitudini Amate ; Aure Fonti Ombre Gradite (Alessandro) 5.00 Glinka, compl Shebalin Symphony on two Russian themes 5.15 Mozart Concerto fragment in Eflat, K370b 5.30 Clara Schumann
Pièces Fugitives, Op 15 5.45 Toivo Kuula The Hiisa Slaves Entice, Op 20 No 5
5.55 Stanford The Haven, Op 12 7 No 4