Presented by Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00 8.30 : Handel Sonata in G minor, HWV346b Lynn Harrell (cello), Igor Kipnis (harpsichord) Aranes Chacona : la Vida Bona Capella Reial, Hesperion XXI, director Jordi Savall
Barber Intermezzo (Vanessa)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Marin Alsop
8.30 10.00 : Weber Piano Concerto No 2 in E flat Nikolai Demidenko ,
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
Falconiero Battaglia de Barabasso Verno de Satanas Hesperion XXI, director Jordi Savall
Schumann String Quartet in A minor, Op 41 No 1 Zehetmair Quartet

4/5. As well as being a virtuoso pianist, Clementi was world-famous as a piano maker and teacher.
Donald Macleod looks at his relationship with two of his pupils, JB Cramer and John Field , and introduces one of his sonatas played on a Clementi piano.
Adagio Sostenuto in F (Gradus ad Parnassum) Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
Piano Sonata in A, Op 2 No 4 Carlo Grante Piano Concerto in C
Felicja Blumental, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, conductor Leopold Hager
Piano Sonata in D, Op 25 No 6 Peter Katin (period piano)
Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight

Across the Divide
3/4. More music from last year's City of London Festival, featuring works by Britten and Shostakovich. Presented by Petroc Trelawny . Louise Winter (mezzo),
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano) Britten Winter Words
Shostakovich Spanish Songs
Britten Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac

BBC Philharmonic
Stephen Hough makes an appearance for the second time this week: today he plays the grandest of Rachmaninov's piano concertos. Presented by Warwick Thompson. Stephen Hough (piano), conductor Gianandrea Noseda
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor
Shostakovich Symphony No 5

A Jamaican rumba, a musical argument and John Williams 's music from the film ET the Extra-Terrestrial are all in today's instalment of the series for younger listeners. Presented by CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson.

Vivian Dunn conducts the Band of HM Royal
Marines in Vaughan Williams 's English Folk Song Suite. Plus music by Robert Farnon , Al Coney and Carlo Martelli , and the Bournemouth
Municipal Orchestra conducted by Dan Godfrey.

Sean Rafferty keeps listeners informed on developments in music and the arts.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
In this concert, recorded last week at the Lighthouse, Poole, principal conductor Marin Alsop is back at the helm of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. The programme opens with Graham Fitkin 's energetic and driving piece Metal, written in 1995 while Fitkin was composer-in-association with the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in celebration of the reopening of that orchestra's concert hall after refurbishment. Presented by Verity Sharp. Paul Lewis (piano)
Graham Fitkin Metal
Mozart Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466 Mahler Symphony No 5

Psychologist Steven Pinker talks to Philip Dodd. Pinker is one of the foremeost thinkers in the world today, and has written a series of acclaimed books on language and the mind. The most recent, The Blank Slate, has created controversy by arguing that intellectuals have persistently denied the existence of human nature for political reasons that do not stand up to scrutiny. Producer Phil Tinline

A celebration of St Patrick's Day with traditional and contemporary music from Ireland, including tracks by De Danann , Sharon Shannon and Roger Doyle. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Five First Nights
5/5. After much speculation and mounting excitement among the press and public, Verdi's penultimate opera, Otello, opened at La Scala, Milan, in February 1887, and proved a supreme expression of his lifelong worship of Shakespeare. Donald Macleod presents excerpts. Repeated from Friday at 12 noon