Presented by Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op 33 Handel Dopo Notte (Ariodante, Act 3)
8.00-9.00: Delius Summer Night on the River Monteverdi Beatus Vir (Selva Morale)

With Rob Cowan. Including some of the Domenico Scarlatti keyboard sonatas recommended in yesterday's CD Review.

Plus:

Vivaldi Lauda Jerusalem, RV609 - Margaret Marshall (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo), John Alldis Choir , ECO, conductor Vittorio Negri

J. Strauss (son) Egyptian March. Op 335 - Anima Eterna Orchestra, conductor Jos van Immerseel

Telemann Flute Quartet in A minor, TWV 43 a3 - Music Antiqua, Koln, conductor Reinhard Goebel

Harsanyi Le Tourbillon Mecanique - Ebony Band

Bruckner Symphony No 8 in C minor (Scherzo) - Linz Bruckner Orchestra, conductor Dennis Russell Davies

Tchaikovsky Amid the Din of the Ball Glinka Will I Forget? - Karia Urb (soprano), Heiki Matlik (guitar)

Dvorak Concert Overture: Otello - Berlin PO, conductor Claudio Abbado

Verdi A Brani, a Brani, O Perfido (Luisa Miller) - Elina Souliotis (soprano), Rome Opera Orchestra, conductor Oliviero de Fabritis

Chausson Poeme - Yehudi Menuhin, Paris Symphony Orchestra, conductor Georges Enescu

Skalkottas Four Images - BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Nikos Christodoulou

Haydn Mass in B flat, H XXII 7 (Kleine Orgelmesse) - Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Hansj Grgen Scholze (organ), Leipzig Radio Choir, Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Neville Marriner

Rachmaninov Preludes: in G, Op 32 No 5; in G minor, Op 23 No 5 - Geza Anda (piano)

MacHugh, arr Graettinqer I'm in the Mood for Love - Ebony Band

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Dancer, choreographer, and Scottish Ballet's artistic director, Ashley Page, shares his musical passions with Michael Berkeley. They include Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Weill, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Brian Eno and King Crimson.

A live programme from the 85th Gottingen Handel Festival in Germany. Lucie Skeaping talks to festival director Nicholas McGegan and presents music from members of the cast of this year's opera production, Atalanta. Producer Les Pratt

Takacs Quartet
Stephanie Hughes presents a concert given at the Wigmore Hall earlier this month.
Haydn String Quartet in C, Op 76 No 3 (Emperor) Bartok String Quartet No 2, Op 17 Borodin String Quartet No 2 in D

1/2. The history of the BBCSO during the Second World War, when it was evacuated to secret locations, first in Bristol and then in Bedford, to carry on its work. Narrated by Stephen Johnson. Producer Lyndon Jones The BBCSO returns to Bedford for a commemorative concert in Performance on 3, Wed at 7.30pm

Another selection of listeners' requests, including a vintage recording of Beethoven's Kreutzer
Sonata played by violinist Arthur Grumiaux and pianist Clara Haskil ; a tribute to horn player Ifor James , who died last year, in a performance of Franz Strauss 's first Horn Concerto; and part of Elgar's Symphony No 2 in E flat from the BBCSO under Adrian Boult , recorded during the Second World War. Send in your requests by: PHONE: [number removed]0300 email via www.bbc.co.uk/radio3 Address: for All. BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YO

A tribute to Estonian composer Arvo Part , who is 70 in September. And presenter Tom Service profiles the colourful and complicated life of Philip Heseltine (better known under his composer's pseudonym of Peter Warlock ), as a new collection Of his letters is published. Producer Jeremy Evans

BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Brett Dean (viola), conductor Rumon Gamba Australian composer Brett Dean performs his own viola concerto at a concert given last month. Weill Kleine Dreigroschenmusik
Brett Dean Viola Concerto (BBC Commission: first performance)
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, Op 45

In a rural pub in Hungary, the regulars are looking forward to the annual funfair and the prospect of a visit by a famous football team - real diversions from the only constant one of alcohol. Instead,
Nick, a stranger, triggers mayhem, capturing the heart of the landlord's daughter and provoking intense jealousy in Turnip, her "fiance". The little world of Ergacs is turned upside-down. By Zoltan Egressy , translated and adapted by Ryan Craig from a literal translation by Katalin Trencsenyi.
Director Anastasia Tolstoy

Fhe curse of Macbeth, one of the most ll-starred plays in theatrical history, played ts part in one of the bloodiest ever riots in the United States. On 10 May 1849, US militia killed 23 and wounded over 100 people at the Astor Place Opera House in New York. Was this just the unhappy climax of a long-standing feud between two actors? Tim Pigott-Smith traces the events, examining the tensions between nations and the antagonisms between classes in a city ripe for reform. Producer Merilyn Harris

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
1/5. Donald Macleod looks at the influence on Handel of his patrons during his stay in Rome beginning in 1707. Repeated from Monday at noon

Presented by Louise Fryer. Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Vergine 2.30 Kilar Choral Prelude 2.45 Dvorak Piano
Trio in E minor, Op 90 (Dumky) 3.20 Chopin Nocturne in G, Op 37 No 2 3.30 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K364 4.00 Marais Plainte 4.05 Palestrina Missa Sine
Nomine 4.20 Wassenaer Concerto Armonico No 5 in 8 flat
4.30 Brahms Geistliches Wiegenlied , Op 91 No 2 4.40 Haapalainen Overture: Lemminkainen 4.45 Schubert Gesang der Geistern Ober den Wassern 5.00 Tartini Violin
Concerto in D minor, D45 5.15 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 3 5.20 Frescobaldi Toccata Quarta 5.25 Monteverdi AltriCantid'Amor 5.35 Bartok From the Diary of a Ely:
Chromatic Invention (Mikrokosmos) 5.40 Dvorak Overture: King and Charcoal Burner 5.45 Puccini Ouando M'en Vo (La Boherne) 5.50 Grandjany Rhapsodie pour la harpe
6.00 Gershwin Lullaby 6.10 Zarzycki Polish Suite, Op 37
6.35 Moniuszko The Orphaned Zosia: To the Niemen
River: Dumka 6.45 Karlowlcz Song of Eternity, Op 10 No 3