With Tommy Pearson.
Haydn Symphony No 36 in E flat Cologne CO, conductor Helmut Muller-Bruhl
6.40 Lebrun Oboe Concerto No 1 in D minor
Bart Schneemann (oboe), Netherlands Radio CO, conductor Jan Willem de Vriend
7.00 Pierne Introduction and Variations on a Popular Round Adolphe Sax Quartet
7.30 Charpentier In Circumcisione Domini: Dialogus inter Angelum et Pastores II Seminario Musicale, director Gerard Lesne
8.00 Glazunov Concert Waltz No 1 in D
Philharmonia, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov
8.40 Barber Essay No 1
Detroit SO, conductor Neeme Jarvi

3: New Directions
With Donald Macleod and Christopher Hogwood. By 1719, Italian opera was in fashion in London, and the Royal Academy of Music was founded to present operas to the London public. Handel was engaged as one of the composers, and up until
1728 the Academy flourished with Handel producing some of his best operas. Alcina (excerpts) Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano), City of London Baroque Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV351 The King's Consort, director Robert King Concerto Grosso in G minor, HWV324 Academy of Ancient Music, director Andrew Manze

The poet Kate Clanchy talks about the relationship between herwriting life and herwork as a teacher.

With Rob Cowan.
Strauss Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat
Dennis Brain , Philharmonia, conductor Wolfgang Sawall isch
10.24 Rossini 0! Che Muso!; PerLui Che Adoro(L'ltalianainAlgeri)
Conchita Supervia (mezzo), Nino Ederle (tenor), Vincenzo Bettoni (bass),
Carlo Scattola (bass), orchestra conducted by Angelo Albergoni
10.33 Schumann Fantasie in C, Op 17 Benno Moiseiwitsch (piano)
11.02 Listener Request:
Wleniawski Violin Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor, Op 14 Michael Rabin , Philharmonia, conductor Adrian Boult

Oxford Chamber Music Festival
With Petroc Trelawny.
Janacek String Quartet No 1 (Kreutzer Sonata) Jan Soderblom ,
Renaud Capugon (violin), Henning Kraggerud , (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Bartok Contrasts
Chen Halevi (clarinet), Isabelle Faust (violin), Stephen Kovacevich (piano) Kodaly Duo (Finale) Renaud Capugon (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Dvorak Piano Trio No 4 in E minor, Op 90
(Dumky) Renaud Capugon (violin), Natalie Clein (cello), Melvyn Tan (piano)

A recital recorded last week at
Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.
Raphael Oleg (violin), Artur Pizarro (piano) Bartok Violin Sonata No 1
Schubert Violin Sonata in A, 0574

Ulster Orchestra
Today's programme, introduced by Louise Fryer , follows composer John Field 's travels from Dublin, where he was born, to Russia, where he spent several years. Harty With the Wild Geese Conductor Thierry Fischer
Field Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat
RonanO'Hora, conductor TakuoYuasa
Glazunov Chopiniana
Conductor Takuo Yuasa
Tchaikovsky Suite No 3 in G Conductor Andrew Mogrelia
Glazunov Concert Waltz No 2 in F Conductor Andrew Mogrelia

Live from Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. Introit: Give Us the Wings of Faith to Rise (Bullock). Responses (Radcliffe). Psalms 147-150 (Barnby, Attwood, Walmisley, Stanford). Office Hymn: Glory to Thee, 0 Lord (Love Unknown). First Lesson:
Ecclesiasticus 44, wl-15. Canticles: Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense
(Leighton). Second Lesson: Revelation 19, w 6-10. Anthem: 0 How Glorious Is the Kingdom (Harwood). Hymn: Ye Holy Angels Bright (Darwall's 104th). Organ
Voluntary: Incantation pour un Jour Saint (Langlais). Master of the choristers and organist Ian Tracey. Assistant organist and choral conductor Ian Wells.

Sean Rafferty visits the Wexford Opera
Festival on the south-east coast of Ireland for a live broadcast from St Iberius Church.

Wexford Festival
Dvorak's The Jacobin, live from the Theatre Royal in Wexford, where Wexford Festival
Opera is celebrating its 50th birthday. This comic story of village life, complete with its fair share of misunderstandings, was close to the composer's heart. Wexford Festival Opera's new production is directed by Michael McCaffrey and sung in Czech. Before the performance, Sean Rafferty talks to Jan Smaczny about the opera.
Wexford Festival Opera Chorus, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Belarus, conductor Alexandre Voloschuk
Act
8.40 Twenty Minutes: An Uneasy
Relationship Colm Toibin talks about Henry James , who remained uneasy about his Irish background throughout his life.
9.00 Act 2
9.40 Twenty Minutes: Opera in Ireland Sean Rafferty talks to some Wexford visitors about the opera world in Ireland as it is now and how it might be in the future.
10.00 Act 3

Songs from the Faroe Islands from Eivor Palsdottir and the Aria from Bach's
Goldberg Variations arranged for string trio by Sitkovetsky. With Verity Sharp.

With Jill Anderson.

Mahler Adagietto (Symphony No 5)

12.10 Janacek Piano Sonata I.X. 1905 (From the Street)

12.25 Schubert Sonata in A minor, D821 (Arpeggione)

12.45 Raltlo The Maids at the Headlands

1.00 Mahler Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen; Symphony No 4

2.15 Schumann Kinderszenen, Op 15

2.35 JB Vanhal Double Bass Concerto in Eflat

3.00-5.00 BBC Schools
3.00 Together
3.15 First Steps in Drama
3.30 Words Alive
3.45 Numbertime Mental Maths
4.00 Megamaths Mental Maths
4.15 Listen and Write
4.35 Time and Tune
4.55 Programme Preview

5.00 Verdi Ella Giamai M'amo... Dormiro Sol nel Manto Mio Regal (Don Carlo)

5.15 Schubert Impromptu in B flat, Op 142

5.30 Bax Legend

5.45 Hellendaal Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op 3 No 2