This week Penny Gore explores works inspired by the myth of the Greek poet/musician Orpheus and his doomed wife, Euridice.
7.00-8.30: Monteverdi Toccata and Prologue: L'Orfeo, Act 1 Catherine Bott (soprano: La
Musica), New London Consort, director
Philip Pickett Cannabich , arr Mozart Receuil des Airs du Ballet Orphee, K284e Les Adieux
Bax Elegiac Trio Lorna McGhee (flute), Ashan Pillai (viola), Alison Nicholls (harp)
8.30-10.00: Gluck Overture; Orpheus's
Lament (Orfeo ed Euridice, Act 1) Derek Lee Ragin (alto: Orfeo), Monteverdi Choir , English
Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner Auric Suite: Orphee Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Adriano Monteverdi
L'Orfeo,Act3 SoniaPrina (soprano: Speranza), Ian Bostridge (tenor: Orfeo), Mario Luperi (bass: Caronte), European Voices, Les Sacqueboutiers, Le Concert d'Astree, director Emmanuelle HaTm

With Rob Cowan. This weekfeaturing Beethoven cello sonatas and recordings by Artur Rodzinski. Beethoven Cello Sonata in F, Op 5 No 1 Janos Starker, Gyorgy Sebok (piano)
10.23 Purcell Thou Tun 'st This World
(St Cecilia's 's Day Ode: Hail, Bright Cecilia)
Simon Woolf (treble), Tiffin Choir, Ambrosian Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
10.27 Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: Scheherazade Josef Fuchs (violin), Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Artur Rodzinski
11.10 Hindemith Sonata for four horns American Horn Quartet
11.26 Listener request:
Lincke Wer leichtes, frisches, frohes Blut (Frau Luna ) Maria Tiboldi (soprano), Willi Brokmeier (tenor), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Werner Schmidt-Boelcke
11.28 Beethoven Variations on Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen from Mozart's Die
Zauberflote, WoO46 Andre Navarra (cello), Joseph Benvenuti (piano)
11.40 Listener request:
Handel Organ Concerto in D minor, Op 7 No 4
Karl Richter (organ) and his chamber orchestra

1/5. Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783) in Dresden. This week Donald Macleod explores the mid-18th-century Neapolitan genre of opera seria and the cities and courts outside Italy where its composers flourished. Hasse Cleofide (1731) (excerpts)
Rheinische Kantorei , Capella Coloniensis , conductor William Christie
Producer Piers Burton-Page Repeated Sunday 12 midnight

Violinist Isabelle Faust and pianist
Florent Boffard play a concert of Beethoven and Faure, recorded attheWigmore Hall in London. Presented by Stephanie Hughes.
Beethoven Violin Sonata in F, Op 24 (Spring) Faure Violin Sonata No 1 in A, Op 13

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
This week Petroc Trelawny presents performances by Radio 3 New Generation
Artists past and present, beginning with pianist Paul Lewis , who was in at the first year of the scheme in 1999-2000 and is also the soloist in tonight's Performance on 3 at 7.30. Faure Suite: Dolly
Poulenc Sinfonietta
Conductor Richard Hickox
Mozart Piano Concerto No 25 in C, K503
Paul Lewis (piano), conductor Joseph Swensen Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat Conductor Christian Gansch

Tommy Pearson explores the art of the movie title sequence from the 1950s onwards.
ADDRESS: Stage and Screen, Room 220. Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive. Glasgow G12 8DG email: stageandscreen@bbc.co.uk

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, interviews and news from the arts world.

Sarah Walker introduces a recital by British pianist Paul Lewis , recorded last month at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Chopin Barcarolle in F sharp, Op 60
Busoni Seven Elegies: No 2 (All'Italia); No 1 (Nach der Wendung )
Scriabin Five Preludes, Op 74
Busoni Seven Elegies: No 5 (Die Nachtlichen) Chopin Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52
Beethoven Piano Sonata in E minor, Op 90; Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 111

Francesco Pomarico (oboe), conductor Emilio Pomarico
Castiglioni Morceaux Lyriques

In 1979 smallpox became the first disease to be "eradicated". Yet the virus still survives in laboratories around the world and, with the threat of biological warfare ever present, sits at the heart of a profound ethical debate: do we have the right to destroy a living organism? Paul Allen investigates. Producer Emily Jones

Shaheera Asante returns as guest presenter with a live session from Swedish and Senegalese duo Ellika and Solo. Plus Galician bagpiper Susan Seivane and music from 18th-century Japan.

2/5. Soirées Musicales. Donald Macleod explores the world of the Parisian salon, a world that Saint-Saens inhabited with ease. Romance in F, Op 36; La Cloche;
Le Chant de Ceux Qui S'en Vont sur la Mer; Tarantelle, Op 6; Guitare; Une Flute Invisible;
Grasselette et Maigrelette; Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor, Op 61 Repeated from Tuesday

With Louise Fryer.

Schubert An die Musik, D547; Liebesbotschaft, D957 No 1; La Pastorella, D528; Litanei, D343; Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D821; String Quartet in A minor, D804 (Rosamunde)

2.10 K. Forster Beatus Vir; Dulcis Amor Jesu

2.30 A. van Noordt Psalm 24

2.40 Vivaldi Dixit Dominus in D, RV595

3.10 Fodor Piano Sonata in F sharp, Op 2 No 2

3.25 Mozart Violin Concerto No 4 in D, K218

3.50 Suppe Overture; Poet and Peasant

4.05 Verdi Tardo pergli Anni, e Tremulo (Prologue to Attila)

4.10 Tucapsky In Honorem Vitae

4.20 Sweelinck Psalm 23

4.30 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat, BWV1051

4.45 Strozzi Beg l'Occhi Bel Seno Costume de Grandi

4.50 Diepenbrock Berceuse (La Chanson d'Eve)

5.00 Schubert Gesangder Geistern uberden Wassern, D714

5.10 Liszt Les Preludes

5.25 Debussy Images Oubliees

5.40 Willaert A la Fontaine du Prez

5.45 Pasquini Pastorale

5.50 Bizet Pres des Remparts de Seville (Seguedille) (Carmen)

5.55 Berlioz Overture: Beatrice et Benedict

6.00 Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat, H Vlle 1

6.20 Brahms Symphony No 2 in D