With Martin Handley.
Mendelssohn Jauchzetdem HerrnAlle
Welt, Op 69 No 2 Dresden Kreuzchor, director Roderich Kreile
6.25 Bach Overture (Partita) in B minor in the French Style, BWV831 Andras Schiff
7.00 Dvorak The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op 109 London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Istvan Kertesz
7.30 Suk Serenade for string orchestra, Op 60rpheus Chamber Orchestra
8.00 Stravinsky Ode (Elegiacal Chant) London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
8.40 Purcell Celestial Music Did the Gods
Inspire Gillian Fischer (soprano), James Bowman (countertenor), Rogers Covey -Crump and Charles Daniels (tenors), Michael George (bass), the King's Consort, director Robert King

Stephanie Hughes presents highlights from recent concerts around Europe, beginning this week with a live all-Sibelius concert from Lahti in Finland given by the Sinfonia Lahti Chamber Ensemble, featuring the string trios in A major and G minor, a sonatina and Dance Intermezzo for piano, and the piano trio Loviisa. Plus music from festivals in Edinburgh, Bruges and Amsterdam.

10.05 Cherubini Overture: Medee
Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, conductor Lawrence Foster

10.25 Shostakovich Jazz Suite No 2 (Suite for variety orchestra)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev

10.45 Britten Canticle No 4: Journey of the Magi David Daniels (countertenor), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

11.30 Shostakovich Symphony No 9 Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev Producer Andrew Lyle
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Ian Hewett hears about the Ulster
Orchestra's new initiatives, including a piece by Belfast-born Deirdre Gribbin to be given its first performance on Friday. Dennis Marks discusses a new book about the Kirov company in St Petersburg, and Richard Bernas looks at the links between music and surrealism.
See Tuesday9.30pm and Friday 7.45pm

Another chance to hear last Monday's recital from the Wigmore Hall in London. Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), John Lenehan (piano)
Faure Elegie for cello, Op 24
Brahms Cello Sonata No 1 in Eminor, Op 38 MacMillan Cello Sonata No 2(R)

Wilhelm Backhaus
Piers Lane presents a selection of BBC archive recordings of Mozart and Beethoven piano music by German-born pianist Wilhelm Backhaus.

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Percy Grainger and Cyril Scott , two of the " Frankfurt Five", feature in today's programme, alongside the Royal Artillery Band playing music by Sousa , and Richard Rodney Bennett 's theme and waltz from the film Murder on the Orient Express.

Conductor Mark Elder takes a controversial journeythrough the canon of what can be described as "second-rate music": that body of music which, according to some critics, fails to achieve greatness and yet still represents undeniably good work. Guests include Roderick Swanston ,
Maggie Faultless, Julian Philips , Jonathan Keates , Mary Warnock , Fiona Maddocks.

By William Shakespeare. A new production of the comedy that sparkles with the verbal sparring of two reluctant lovers in a world where nothing is what it seems. Introduced by Richard Eyre.
Music composed and performed by Simon Oakes and Adam Woters. Directed by Sally Avens

Mozart's Requiem at King's College A concert recorded earlier this year at King's College, Cambridge, featuring a performance of Mozart's Requiem in the recent performing edition by Richard Maunder. Introduced by Paul Guinery.
Nancy Argenta (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo), James Gilchrist (tenor), Neal Davies (baritone),
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, BBC Philharmonic, conductor Stephen Cleobury
Haydn Te Deum in C, HXXIIIc 2
Mozart Exsultate, Jubilate, K165 Mozart Requiem in D minor, K626

Another chance to hear London Winds, directed by clarinettist Michael Collins , in a performance first broadcast as part of the Brave New Worlds series from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh last year.
Bartok, arr Gordon Davies Romanian Dances
Stravinsky Three Pieces for solo clarinet Nielsen Wind Quintet, 0p43(R)

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present a unique mix of musical styles.

With Jonathan Swain. Rachmaninov
Etude-Tableau in E flat minor, Op 39 No 5
12.10 Brahms String Sextet No 2 in G,
Op 3612.50 Marais Tombeau pour M de Lully 1.00 Szymanowski Stabat Mater Ravel Daphnis and Chloe: Suite No 2 Rachmaninov The Bells, Op 35
2.15 Palestrina Motet: Fundamenta Ejus
2.25 Schumann Liederkreis , Op 39
2.50 Endre Szervanszky Clarinet
'Serenade 3.10 Dohnanyi Suite: Ruralia Hungarica , Op 32b 3.35 Thuille Sextet in B flat for piano and wind quintet, Op 6
4.05 Bruhns Cantata: Jauchzet dem
Herren Alle Welt 4.20 Anthoni Van Noordt
Psalm No 64.30 Tartini Violin Concerto in D minor, D454.50 Delibes Bell Song (Lakme) 5.00 Martinu Ballet Suite: La Revue de Cuisine
5.15 Gyorgy Orban Cor Mundum
5.25 Schubert, arr Prokoflev Waltzes
5.35 Marjan Mozetich Violin Concerto