With Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Schumann Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op 102 Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Benjamin Britten (piano) Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 25
Lang Lang , Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim
8.00-9.00: Bach Cantata No 36: Schwingt FreudigEuch Empor Sibylla Rubens
(soprano), Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass), Collegium Vocale , director Philippe Herreweghe Brahms Hungarian Dances Evgeny Kissin (piano)

Rob Cowan presents some of his favourite recordings, together with regular features, including The Innocent Ear, and a Bargain Hunter CD recommendation. Plus music from the vintage artist featured on this week's CD Masters. Music also includes:
J Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, arr Bach Concerto in G, BVVV592 Anton Heiller (organ) Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Op 53 Marian Anderson (contralto), San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre Monteux
Rebecca Clarke String Quartet Movement Flesch Quartet
Balakirev Tamara Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Thomas Beecham
Monteverdi Lamentod 'Arianna Consort of Musicke, conductor Anthony Rooley Khachaturian Violin Sonata No 1
David Oistrakh , Vladimir Yampolsky (piano) Email your comments to: cowancollection@bbc.co.uk

Anthony Burton introduces the annual international celebration from the European Broadcasting Union.
Belgium From the Carmelite Church in Ghent, Collegium Vocale and the Ricercar Consort, directed by Philippe Pieriot , perform motets by Michael Praetorius.
1.05 Finland From the Kallio Church in Helsinki, Juha Uusitalo (baritone) and pianist Jouko La ivuori perform music by Messiaen, Sibelius, Knussen and Debussy.
2.00 Germany Music by Rimsky-Korsakov and Respighi, and excerpts from Handel's Messiah performed by the Saarbrucken RSO, conductor Arthur Post.
3.00 Estonia From the Niguliste Church in Tallinn, Jaan-EikTulve directs Vox Clamantis in Gregorian chant and music by Arvo Part.
4.00 Russia Orchestral music forthe
Russian winter by Tchaikovsky and others, performed in the Russian Radio Concert
Studio by the Moscow Chamber Orchestra conducted by Vladislav Bulakhov.
5.00 Czech Republic Czech Baroque and classical music played on the 18th-century organ at the Church of St Simon and St Jude in Prague by Petr Rajnoha , with trumpet soloist Marek Zvolanek.
6.00 United Kingdom
As part of the 75th anniversary season of the BBC Symphony Chorus (chorus master Stephen Jackson ), Andrew Davis conducts Berlioz's retelling of the childhood of Christ, performed earlierthis month at Westminster Cathedral. Presented by Paul Guinery Berlioz L 'Enfance du Christ
Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis

By John Arden. Based on the Memoirs and Confessions of Captain Ashe, John Arden 's new play charts the picaresque journey of a gentleman vagabond Irishman over three continents, searching for "the main chance". From his early days among the impoverished Irish gentry in 1787 to his exile in France in 1815, Thomas Ashe experiences life as clerk, tradesman, teacher, plagiarist, sailor, murderer, embezzler, impersonator, explorer, political propagandist, hackjournalist, blackmailer, writer, lover, and soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Until eventually he has to confront the full force of the government's wrath.
Producer/Director Roland Jaquarello

Martin Wainwright profiles
Yevgeni Zamyatin , who was in Newcastle during the First World War building ice-breakers forthe Russian navy. His experiences gave rise to two surreal, satirical novellas and influenced his later dystopian masterpiece We. A foreunner of Huxley and Orwell, on returning to the Soviet Union, Zamyatin was dubbed "the Englishman". He died in exile in Paris in 1937. Producer Merilyn Harris

With Donald Macleod.
Let's Do It (Night and Day); I'm a Gigolo;
I've a Shooting Box in Scotland ;
Ballet: Within the Quota;
Let's Do It; Let's Misbehave (Paris);
What Is This Thing Called Love? (Wake Up and Dream);
Fifty Million Frenchmen (excerpts) Repeated from Monday

With John Shea.
Beethoven Piano Sonatas: in B flat, Op 22 Sviatoslav Richter (1968); in A flat, Op 26 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1982)
1.45 Visee Theorbo Suite in A
2.00 Huygens Pathodia Sacra (excerpts)
2.10 Spohr Duo in Ffortwo violins, Op 148
2.25 Brahms Chorale-Prelude : Es 1st ein
Ros Entsprungen, Op 122 No 8
2.30 Madetoja Suite: The Ostrobothnians
2.50 Grieg Five Lyric Pieces
3.00 Dvorak In Folk Style, Op 73 (excerpts)
3.15 Brahms Symphony No 1 in C minor
4.00 Rosenmiiller Sonata Quarta a 3
4.10 Quantz Trio Sonata in E flat
4.20 Crusell Introduction and Variations on a Swedish Drinking Song, Op 12
4.30 Liszt Three Concert Studies, No 2 (La Leggierezza) 4.35 Milhaud, arr
Kain Scaramouche 4.45 Bach Chorale Prelude:
VorDeinen Thron Tret'lch, BWV668
4.50 Torelli Concerto a Quattro in Forma Pastorale per il Santo Natale , Op 8 No 6
(Christmas Concerto) 5.00 Sainte-Colombe Viola da Gamba Prelude in E minor
5.05 Mozart Soave Sia il Vento (Cosi Fan Tutte) 5.15 Martland Three Carols
5.25 Schumann Overture: Genoveva
5.35 Handel Theme and Variations in G minor for harp 5.40 Lully Plainte d'Armide (Ballet: Les Amours Deguises)
5.45 Marais Tombeau pour M de Lully (Suite in B minor, Book 2 No 5) 5.55 Nenov The Holy One 6.00 Tchaikovsky Overture: Hamlet 6.15 Ravel Tzigane 6.30
Vieuxtemps Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor