Presented by Penny Gore . Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1 Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Georg Solti Bach Partita No 1 in B flat, BWV825 Richard Goode (piano) Saint-Saens Danse Macabre , Op 40 Alan Loveday (violin), Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
8.30-10.00: Gershwin Rhapsody No 2
Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, director Wayne Marshall (piano) Krommer Partita in E flat Nachtmusique, director Erich Hoeprich
Debussy La Mer Lucerne Festival Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado

With Jonathan Swain.
Elgar Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town) New York PO, conductor Leonard Bernstein
10.15 Handel Trio Sonata in F, Op 2 No 4
Frans Bruggen (recorder), Alice Harnoncourt (violin), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (cello), Herbert Tachezi (harpsichord)
10.30 Ravel Piano Concerto in G Columbia SO, director Leonard Bernstein (piano)
10.50 Bax Symphony No 5 Royal Scottish
National Orchestra, conductor David Lloyd-Jones
11.35 Mahler Five Ruckert Songs
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Leonard Bernstein (piano)

3/5. Humphrey Burton continues his survey of Bernstein's music for Broadway, with excerpts from the satirical operetta
Candide (1956) and incidental music for The Lark (1955), his earlier collaboration with the playwright Lillian Hellman. Guests include poet Richard Wilbur who wrote many of Candide's lyrics, and Denis Ouilley , who played the title role in Candide in the first London production. Repeated from yesterday at 12 midnight
Humphrey Burton on Bernstein: page 121

French Mélodies
2/4. John Toal presents another recital from
Belfast devoted to French song, marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ernest Chausson.
Gilles Cachemaille (baritone), Pascal Roge (piano) Saint-Saens L'Attente; Guitares et Mandolines; Aimons-Nous; Danse Macabre
Chausson Chanson d'Ophélia; Serenade Italienne; Nocturne; La Caravane Inert Chansons de Don Quichotte
Poulenc La Grenouilliere; Voyage a Paris; Hotel; Allons Plus Vite; Rosemonde; Quatre Poemes de Apollinaire

BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers
Presented by Tommy Pearson. Barber Adagio for strings Conductor Andrew Davis
Bernstein Missa Brevis
Simon Baker (countertenor), BBC Singers, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Sibelius Symphony No 5
Conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2
Paul Lewis , conductor Kazuski Ono
Bernstein Symphony No 3 (Kaddish)
Jamie Bernstein (speaker), London Oratory School Schola, BBC Symphony Chorus, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Humphrey Burton on Bernstein: page 121

Live from Queen's College, Oxford.
Introit: I Was Glad (Purcell). Responses: Leighton. Psalms: 6,7, 8 (Turle, Barnby,
Battishill, South). First Reading: Isaiah 43, vv1-7. Office Hymn: The Pleasures of the World He Spurned (Deus Tuorum Militum). Canticles: Second Service (Leighton). Second Reading: Matthew 10, vv28-39. Anthem: What Love Is
This of Thine (Leighton). Final Hymn: Who Are These, Like Stars Appearing (All Saints). Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV545 (Bach). Organist Owen Rees. Organ scholar Tom Wilkinson.

Sean Rafferty music, guests and arts news.

Bernstein Season
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor, Man Volkov , continue Radio 3's retrospective of the music of Leonard Bernstein with a concert recorded last week in Edinburgh's Usher Hall. Presented by Tommy Pearson in conversation with Bernstein's biographer, Humphrey Burton. Anne Akiko Meyers (violin), BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Man Volkov Bernstein Ballet: Facsimile
Gershwin An American in Paris
Bernstein Serenade (after Plato's Symposium) Bernstein Symphonic Dances (West Side Story) Humphrey Burton on Bernstein: page 121

Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Lee Santana
(theorbo) and Steve Player (guitar) demonstrate their virtuoso approach to improvising around music from 17th-century Italy.
Johann Kapsberqer Arpegiata; Toccata;
Capona; Kapsberger; Canarios; Calascione; Villa diSpagna

Journalist Christopher Hitchens is as famous for his fusillades against figures as various as Henry Kissinger , Bill Clinton and Mother Teresa as he is for his more recent support for George Bush 's war against terror. He talks to Philip Dodd about his life and work. Producer Kirsty Pope

Phantasm play viol pieces from Elizabethan England, Italian duo Polaris weave electronic soundscapes, and young American band
Chatham County Line revive old-time country music. Introduced by Shaheera Asante.

4/5. With Humphrey Burton.
For full listing see tomorrow's repeat at 12 noon

Presented by Jonathan Swain.
A recording from the BBC Archives of a recital given by pianist Moura Lympany , who died earlier this year. Scriabin Piano Sonata No 7 Op 64 (White Mass)
Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Op 36
1.30 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 2 in G
2.15 Carniolus Missa super Adesto Dolori Meo
2.35 Froberger Toccata V 2.45 Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor 3.10 Hoist Suite: The Planets
4.00 Norman Two Charakterstucke for piano, Op 1
4.15 Bach Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV1041
4.30 Arriaga Erminia 4.45 Chopin Mazurka in E minor, Op 41 No 2 G Gabrleli Sonata for three violins and basso continuo 4.50 Handel Oboe Sonata in C minor, Op 1 No 8
5.00 Borodin Overture: Prince Igor 5.10 Prokofiev
Scythian Suite, Op 20 5.30 Madetoja Dance Vision, Op 11
5.40 Benoit Entr 'acte and Valse (Charlotte Corday)
5.45 Franck Le Chasseur Maudit 6.05 Janequin La Chasse
6.10 Groneman Flute Sonata in G 6.25 Forster Dulcis Amor Jesu 6.35 Fasch Overture a due chori in B flat