With Penny Gore.
Grieg Holberg Suite Trondheim Soloists, conductor Bjarne Fiskum
6.40 Handel Chandos Anthem No 4: 0 Sing unto the Lord a New Song
Lynne Dawson (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor), the Sixteen Choir and Orchestra, conductor Harry Christophers
7.00 Hoist Piano Quintet in A minor, Op 3 Elysian Wind Quintet, Anthony Goldstone (piano)
7.35 Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No 1 in A m/norYo-Yo Ma, French National Orchestra, conductor Lorin Maazel
8.00 Medtner Sonata Tragica in C minor, Op 39 No 5 Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
8.45 Mendelssohn String Symphony No 6 in EflatConcerto Koln

Donald Macleod introduces the next two composers to join Balakirev's circle: the respected scientist and part-time musician Alexander Borodin and the teenage Rimsky-Korsakov, who quickly replaced the feckless Musorgsky in his mentor's affections.
Borodin The Beautiful Fisher Girl
Boris Christoff (bass),
Maud-Martin Tortelier (cello), Alexander Tcherepnin (piano) Rimsky-Korsakov Sadko
Russian State Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov
Musorgsky The Outcast Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), Semion Skigin (piano) Borodin Symphony No 1 in E flat BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins

With Rob Cowan.
Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 3
NBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arturo Toscanini
10.14 Handel Die Ihraus Dunklen
Gruften, HWV208; KunftigerZeiten Eitler Kummer, HWV202
Hermann Prey (baritone), Eduard Melkus (violin), Leonard Hokanson (piano), Marcal Cervera (viola da gamba)
10.24 Tchaikovsky String Quartet No 1 in D, Op 11 Borodin Quartet
10.53 Schubert Der Einsame , D800; Romanze (Rosamunde) Hermann Prey (baritone), Leonard Hokanson (piano), Karl Engel (piano)
11.01 Janacek Taras Bulba
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vaclav Talich

With the final of this prestigious biennial competition taking place on BBC2 this Sunday, Stephanie Hughes introduces more highlights from this year's semi-finals. Today, pianists Robert Scamardella, Michael McHale, Colin Davis, Andrew Shirtliff and Sarah Tandy perform music by Bach, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Liszt and others.

Anthony Herschel Hill Litany

Liapunov Transcendental Etude No 12 (Lesghinka)

Bach French Suite No 5 in G, BWV816

Prokofiev Sonata No 2 (2nd mvt)

Rachmaninov Variations on a theme of Corelli

Bach/Busoni Chaconne in D minor

Andrew Shirtliff Etude de Concert No 1

Cecilia McDowall Shades of Solace

Liszt Ballade No 2 in B minor

Live from the Eighteenth Century
A concert given last year at the Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle upon Tyne. Soprano Mhairi Lawson and the Avison
Ensemble recreate one of Charles Avison 's 18th-century subscription concerts, including a newly discovered work by Francesco Scarlatti and music by Handel, Geminiani and by Avison himself. Introduced by Stephanie Hughes.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales Conductor Mark Wigglesworth Presented by Sarah Walker.
Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished)
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K622 Martin Frost
Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral)

Liz Barker and Matt Baker introduce music from Europe, America and China.

Exiles. For centuries composers and artists have been forced to leave their native lands to build a new life elsewhere. lain Burnside follows the journeys of Kurt Weill , Erich Korngold and a host of others, as they set off for pastures new.

Petroc Trelawnywith music and arts news.

BBC Symphony Orchestra - On Tour In Australia
The Victorian Arts Centre was the venue for the BBC Symphony Orchestra's concert in Melbourne earlierthis month. Paul Guinery presents the programme, and takes a tour round the historic city. Felicity Lott (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra; Four Last Songs
Brett Dean Dispersal (BBC co-commission) Stravinsky Suite: Firebird (1945)

Patrick Wright talks to Francis Fukuyama , the controversial theorist who in 1989, with the Eastern bloc crumbling around him, suggested that we had reached "the end of history". In his new book, Our
Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution, he argues that the most significant threat from biotechnology is "the possibility that it will alter human nature and thereby move us into a 'posthuman' stage of history."

Mark Russell connects music from Mali with AlexeyChiswick's Vibraphonia and with Sidsel Endreson and Bugge Wesseltoft. Plus John Sheppard 's delight, some blue Mundy and a little Byrd in the hands of Davitt Moroney.

With Jonathan Swain. Ravel String
Quartet in F12.35 Bach Harpsichord Concerto No 1 in D minor, BWV1052
1.00 Solo lute music by John Dowland and music fortenor and lute by Henry Lawes , Michel Lambert , Francesco Negri and others performed by Paul O'Dette (lute) and Nigel Rodgers (tenor). Recorded in 1980 and in 1985. 2.05 Beethoven Piano
Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor)
2.45 Touchemoulin Sinfonia in B flat

3.00 Something to Think About
3.15 Let's Move 3.35Time to Move
3.55 Stories and Rhymes 4.10 Playtime

Overture: Die Schone
Melusine 4.40 Durante Concerto per quartetto No 6 in A 4.50 Vierdanck
Sonata a 4 5.00 Joseph Kainz Concerto in C for harpsichord, two oboes and continuo
5.10 Sibelius Valse Triste 5.15
William Baines Glancing Sunlight (A Last Sheaf): Pictures of Light 5.25 Philippe Gaubert
Pour un Clair Matin (Trois Aquarelles) 5.40 Telemann Sonata in A (Der Getreue Music-Meister) 5.50 Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville