With Martin Handley. Featuring over the next six days the ground-breaking string quartets of Haydn's Op 33. Music also includes:
7.00-8.00: Crecquillon Andreas Christi Famulus
Tallis Scholars, director Peter Phillips
Haydn String Quartet in B minor, Op 33 No 1
Quatuor Mosaiques
Sibelius Scenes Historiques: Suite No 1, Op 25 Norwegian Radio Orchestra, conductor Ari Rasilainen
8.00-9.00: Beethoven Piano Sonata in G, Op 79
Richard Goode
Arnold Symphony No 5
City of Birmingham SO, conducted by the composer

With Rob Cowan. Regularfeatures include The Innocent Ear and a Bargain Hunter
CD recommendation. Plus the recording of Beethoven's Bagatelles recommended in yesterday's CD Review. Music also includes:
Bach Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV903 George Malcolm (harpsichord) Webern Im Sommerwind Dresden
Staatskapelle, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli
Spohr Concertante in G, WoO.13 Pierre Amoyal (violin), Marielle Nordmann (harp), Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, conductor Armin Jordan Scheidt Canzon super ONachbar Roland Vienna Concentus Musicus, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Musorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition Chicago SO, conductor Rafael Kubelik
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Michael Berkeley 's guest is actress
Jenny Agutter , who began her career as a child star, memorably in The Railway Children and Walkabout. Since then she has appeared on stage, in films such as An American Werewolf in London, and recently as the spymistress Tessa in the TV series Spooks and as Jane Clark in The Alan Clark Diaries. Her musical passions range from Monteverdi and Schutzto Bernstein.

Early Music in Ireland
From musical fragments gleaned from medieval manuscripts in the libraries of Trinity College, Dublin, to the all-but-lost world of the virtuoso players of the wire-strung harp, Lucie Skeaping takes a look at the music of the past in Ireland.

Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert given earlierthis year at the Styriarte Festival in Austria. Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Clemens Hagen (cello), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Nicholas Harnoncourt
Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op 52 Beethoven Triple Concerto in C Beethoven Symphony No 8 in F

3/4. Architect Daniel Libeskind , who in his youth had a promising career as a concert pianist, explores the place of music in his spiritual life. The designer of the Jewish
Museum in Berlin and of the Freedom Towerto be built at New York's Ground Zero, Libeskind considers music's power in affirming national identity and discusses its place in helping people to come to terms with horrific events in history. His music choices include piano works by Chopin, YehudiMenuhin playing Bloch's
Violin Concerto and the remarkable sound of traditional Inuit singing games. Producer Michael Surcombe

Brian Kay opens another postbag of listeners' requests, including Janet Baker's 1963 recording of Tippett's A Midsummer Marriage, Radu Lupu playing the first of Brahms's Rhapsodies, Op 79, and Emma Kirkby in Bach's Cantata No 51: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen. Plus listeners' responses to Sounding the Soul and its exploration of spiritual themes in music.
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Pierre Boulez talks to Tom Service;
Jerrold Northrop Moore explores the rural landscape of Elgar's Worcestershire; and with English National Opera's new production of Berlioz's The Trojans coming up, a look at the first UK production of the Opera in 1935. Producer Jeremy Evans

Edinburgh International Festival 2004
Britten's powerful setting of the Roman Mass forthe Dead, interspersed with anti-war poems by Wilfred Owen. A performance given earlier this month in the Usher Hall. Presented by Christopher Cook.
Britten War Requiem
Olga Guryakova (soprano), Mark Padmore
(tenor), Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Edinburgh Festival Chorus, National Youth Choir of Scotland National Boys Choir, Paragon Ensemble, conductor Garry Walker , BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Man Volkov

Written and performed by Lemn Sissay.
Fostered as a baby and brought up in care from the age of 11, Lemn Sissay has spent most of his adult life searching for his family. SomethingDark is a poetic retelling of this dramaticjourney. With music by Jim Parris. Producer Shabina Aslam

2/4. Uganda. Zeinab Badawi continues her journey through the countries connected by the Nile. In 1862 British explorer John Hanning
Speke claimed to have found the source of the White Nile when he saw a huge river leaving the then unnamed Lake Victoria in Uganda. What led to this claim, and what have Ugandans then and now made of the discovery? Producer ZahidWarley

1/5. Faure was a master of the smaller forms when what counted was opera and ballet. But at the age of 65 he produced what he felt was his masterpiece, the opera Penelope. Presented by Donald Macleod. RepeatedfromMonday

With Jonathan Swain.

Flor Peeters Missa Festiva, Op 62; Organ Concerto, Op 52

2.10 Mudarra Claros y Frescos Rios

2.15 Bach Lute Sonata in G minor, BWV1001

2.30 Lassus Omnes de Saba Venient

2.35 Giaches de Wert Ascendente Jesu in Naviculam

2.40 Hummel Viola Sonata in E flat, Op 5 No 3

3.00 Vaughan Williams A London Symphony (Symphony No 2)

3.45 Elgar, arr Passmore Salut d'Amour

3.50 Francoeur, arr Trowell Cello Sonata in E

4.00 Bacewicz Suite for chamber orchestra

4.10 Szymanowski Polish Dances

4.20 Tchaikovsky Tatyana Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin)

4.30 Carulli Guitar Concerto in A

4.50 Tobias Piano Sonatina in C minor

5.00 Schubert Overture in D, D556

5.05 Sibelius Spring Song, Op 16

5.15 Brahms Two Motets, Op 29

5.25 Prokofiev Nocturne, Op 43 No 2

5.30 Gal Serenade for strings, Op 46

5.50 Bersa Sunny Fields

6.10 Schumann Kinderszenen, Op 15

6.25 Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219 (Turkish)