Presented by Louise Fryer, including the first in a series of Haydn keyboard concertos.

7.00-8.00: Tallis Spem in Alium
Volans White Man Sleeps Kronos Quartet

8.00-9.00: Kreisler Praeludium and Allegro in the Style of Gaetano Pugnani
Haydn Keyboard Concerto in F, H XVIII 3

Rob Cowan presents some of his favourite recordings. Features include music played with minimum introduction so that it may be heard without preconceptions; contrasting critical views; and the recommendation of a bargain CD release.

Music includes:

Schumann Overture: Genoveva - London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington

Mendelssohn Prelude and Fugue in G, Op 37 No 2 - Marie-Claire Alain (organ)

Haydn La Fedelta Premiata, Act 2 (finale) - Soloists, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra conductor Antal Dorati

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F, BWV1047 - Prades Festival Orchestra, conductor Pablo Casals

Copland El Salon Mexico - Dallas SO, conductor Eduardo Mata

Glazunov Salome's Dance: Salome - USSR SO, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov

Plus the version of Beethoven's Violin Concerto recommended by Martin Cotton in yesterday's CD Review at 9.30am.

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Michael Berkeley's guest is the BBC's World Affairs Editor, John Simpson. His musical choices include operas by Purcell, Berlioz and Britten, a cantata by Prokofiev and a Romanian folk dance by Bartok.

Catherine Bott presents highlights from the Young Artists' Competition at the York Early Music Festival. Featuring Ensemble Arcadia (Israel), II Vero Modo (UK), the Maresienne Consort (UK), Savadi (Switzerland) and Ensemble Fidicinium (Germany).

Stephanie Hughes presents a piano recital given last June at the Royal Festival Hall by Murray Perahia.

Bach Partita No 6 in E minor, BWV830

Beethoven Piano Sonata in E, Op 109

Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958

The first of two programmes marking the 30th anniversary of W.H. Auden's death.

Simon Russell Beale introduces a selection of Auden's poems from the late 1930s, with musical settings of his work by Benjamin Britten and Lennox Berkeley.

Brian Kay opens the postbag for his new request show.

Music includes: Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride - Prague SO, conductor Jiri Belohlavek

Sweelinck Magnificat - Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, conductor Tim Brown

Mahler Liedereines Fahrenden Gesellen (excerpts) - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Karl Engel (piano)

Grieg Overture: In Autumn - RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham

Mosolov The Iron Foundry, Op 19 - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly

Haydn Piano Sonata in C, H XVI 50 - Alfred Brendel

Schubert Der Musensohn, D764 - Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Phyllis Spurr (piano)

Prokofiev Russian Overture, Op 72 - Philharmonia, conductor Neeme Jarvi

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Tom Service presents an interview with New York pianist and writer Charles Rosen. Plus A Tale of Four Houses by Susan Gilbert and Jay Shir, a book that charts the history of four of the world's most influential Opera houses.

by Richard Wagner.

Scottish Opera's new production of Wagner's Ring cycle was recorded last month at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre and is broadcast here over four consecutive nights.

In the prologue to the drama, the hunchbacked Nibelung dwarf Alberich steals the Rhinegold from the Rhinemaidens and forges a ring of limitless power. Introduced and described by Donald Macleod.

Scottish Opera Orchestra, conductor Richard Armstrong

In the 1930s and 40s, African-American dancer/choreographers Katherine Dunham and Pearl Primus went on research trips to the Caribbean and Africa respectively, in order to rediscover their dance heritage. Dancer and writer Thea Barnes explores their work and its legacy.

With Donald Macleod.

Stravinsky Ode (2nd mvt) - Cleveland Orchestra conducted by the Composer

Hindemith String Quartet No 6 (3rd mvt) - Danish Quartet

Bartok Concerto for Orchestra - Chicago SO, conductor Georg Solti

Weill I'm a Stranger Here Myself (One Touch of Venus) - Ute Lemper (soprano), Berlin RIAS Chamber Ensemble, conductor John Mauceri

(Repeated from Monday)

With John Shea.

Schubert Mass No 6 in E flat, D950

1.50 Grieg Piano Sonata in E minor, Op 7

2.10 Franck Violin Sonata in A

2.40 Messiaen L'Ascension

3.05 Poulenc Figure Humaine

3.25 Kodaly Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song (The Peacock)

3.55 Berwald String Quartet in E flat

4.15 Rimsky-Korsakov Overture: May Night

4.20 Dvorak Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

4.30 Liszt Les Preludes

4.50 Beethoven Overture: Konig Stefan

5.00 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G, BWV1048

5.10 Handel Va Tacito e Nascosto (Giulio Cesare in Egitto)

5.20 Wagrowca Three organ pieces

5.25 Bruhns Wohl Dem, Der den Herren Furchtet

5.30 Ciglic Harp Concertino

5.45 Gluck Overture: Iphigenie en Tauride

6.00 Bizet Habanera (Carmen)

6.05 Gesualdo, arr Maxwell Davies Peccantem Me Quotidiae; O Vos Omnes

6.15 Mozart Serenade in C minor, K388

6.35 Weber Clarinet Concerto No 2 in E flat