Donald Macleod explores Tchaikovsky's compulsion to write for the stage, despite achieving only infrequent success.
Natalya's Arioso (Oprichnik, Act 1)
Inessa Galante (soprano), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Lensky's Aria (Eugene Onegin, Act 2)
Neil Shicoff (tenor), Orchestre de Paris, conductor Semyon Bychkov
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom (Kyrie Eleison, Hymn of the Cherubim, Credo, Our Father, Blessed Is He Who Comes) Leningrad Glinka Academy Choir, director Vladislav Tchernouchenko
Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty, Act 2 (excerpts) Kirov Orchestra, conductor Valeri Gergiev

With Rob Cowan.
Corelli arr Leonard La Follia Joseph Szigeti (violin), Andor Foldes (piano)
10.14 Verdi Gia nella Notte Densa....
Venga la Morte! (Otello, Act 1)
Maria Caniglia (soprano), Giacomo Lauri -Volpi (tenor), Rome Opera Orchestra, conductor Dino Oliviero
10.25 Weber Symphony No 1 in C, Op 19 Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Otmar Suitner
10.48 Verdi Vanne ; La Tua Meta Gia Vedo ... Credo in un Dio Crudel (Otello, Act 2) Paul Schoffler (bass-baritone), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler
10.54 Igor Stravinsky Duo Concertante Joseph Szigeti (violin), the Composer (piano)
11.11 Verdi Otello , Act 4 (conclusion) Herva Nelli (soprano), Nan Merriman
(mezzo) Ramon Vinay (tenor), Giuseppe Valdengo (baritone), NBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Arturo Toscanini
11.25 Milhaud, arr Levy Saudades do Brasil No 7 (Corcovado) Joseph Szigeti (violin), Kurt Ruhrseitz (piano)

Artist in Focus: Heather Harper
Humphrey Burton talks to soprano
Heather Harper about her involvement in the first performance of Britten's War
Requiem at the new cathedral in Coventry in 1962, and in the gala opening concert of Snape Maltings concert hall in Suffolk.
Handel Ode for St Cecilia's 's Day (excerpt)
With Peter Pears (tenor), English Chamber Orchestra, East Anglian Choirs' Chorus, conductor Benjamin Britten
Beethoven ElegischerGesang , Op.118 With Janet Baker (mezzo),
John Mitchinson (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Martin String Quartet Britten War Requiem (excerpts)
With Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), John Cooper (organ), Coventry Festival Chorus, Melos
Ensemble, CBSO, conducted by Meredith Davis and the Composer

Chris de Souza introduces a recital recorded last month as part of this year's Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Vanbrugh Quartet Britten Phantasy Quartet, Op 2
Prokofiev String Quartet No 1, Op 50 Bax Oboe Quintet

BBC Philharmonic - Prokofiev in Concert The Prokofiev season concludes. Presented by Sarah Walker.
Shostakovich Film Score: The Man with a Gun
Kabalevsky Piano Concerto No 3, Op 50 (Youth) Kathryn Stott , conductor VassilySinaisky
Prokofiev Ballet: The Tale of the Stone Flower, Acts 3 and 4 Conductor Gianandrea Noseda

With Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson. (R)

Eric Dolphy. Julian Joseph profiles the composer and multi-instrumentalist who was born 75 years ago today. Selections include Gazzelloni from his 1964 masterpiece Out to Lunch, recorded four months before his death aged 36.

With Sean Rafferty

BBC Philharmonic
Conductors Martyn Brabbins and Peter Maxwell Davies share the programme for the opening concert of this year's
St Magnus Festival on Orkney, live from the Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall. Presented by Piers Burton-Page .
Maxwell Davies Maxwell 's Reel, with Northern Lights
Conducted by the Composer
Eigar Cello Concerto in E minor
Paul Watkins , conductor Martyn Brabbins
8.20 Twenty Minutes: Summer Orchestra By Esther Tusquets , translated by Margaret Jull Costa and read by Claire Skinner. An adolescent girl longs to be as sophisticated as her parents, but a family holiday is to change her aspirations forever.
8.40 Maxwell Davies Orkney Saga No 3 Simon Butterworth (alto saxophone), conducted by the Composer
Prokofiev Suite No 1: Romeo and Juliet Conductor Martyn Brabbins

Ian Rankin takes Richard Coles on a tour of Edinburgh's dark corners. Producer Stephen Hughes

George Russell 80th Birthday Special
Veteran jazz composer/conductor George Russell leads a big band featuring trumpeters Stanton Davis and Palle Mikkelborg , trombonist Dave Bargeron , saxophonist Andy Sheppard and guitarist Mike Walker , in a concert recorded at the Barbican in London.