Presented by Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Liadov Polonaise , Op 49 (In Memory of Alexander Pushkin) BBC Philharmonic, conductor Vassily Sinaisky Kraus Sinfonia con Fugato per la Chiesa Concerto Koln Wagner
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla (Das Rheingold) Philharmonia, conductor Otto Klemperer
Handel, arr Mozart Musette (Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 6 No 6) The English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock Glinka Introduction and Polonaise (A Life for the Tsar) Bolshoi Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Alexander Lazarev Philip Hayes Piano Concerto in A
David Owen-Norris (square piano), Sonnerie
8.30-10.00: Weber, arr Liszt Polonaise
Brillante (L'Hilarite) Louis Lortie (piano), Hague Residentie Orchestra, conductor George
Pehlivanian Mendelssohn Tema con Variazioni; Scherzo in A minor; Capriccio in E minor, Op 81 Nos 1-3 Eroica Quartet
Handel Acis and Galatea, Part 2 (excerpt)
Claron McFadden (soprano), John Mark Ainsley and Rogers Covey-Crump (tenors),
Michael George (baritone), the King's Consort, director Robert King Dyson Concerto da Chiesa
Bournemouth SO, conductor David Lloyd-Jones

With Rob Cowan.
Suppe Overture: Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conductor Paul Paray
10.10 Listener request: Warlock Youth Vaughan Williams Youth and Love Finzi It Was a Lover and His Lass
Gurney Sleep
Janet Baker (mezzo), Martin Isepp (piano)
10.25 Listener request: Poulenc
Suite: Les Biches London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Anatole Fistoulari
10.45 Handel Suite in G minor, HWV432 Wanda Landowska (harpsichord)
11.00 Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World) Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conductor Paul Paray
11.35 Handel Suite in D minor, HWV447 Gisela Gumz (clavichord)
11.45 Roman Drottningholm Music (excerpts) Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, director Nils-Erik Sparf (violin)

4/5. Widespread misconceptions surround Vaughan Williams and his music. The most commonplace images suggest a tweedy old gent, absorbed by a water-colourist's eye for the gentle beauty of the English landscape. Yet works such as Flos Campi, which are superficially pastoral, in fact are suffused with the ardent longing of the Song of Songs.
Vaughan Williams 's only oratorio, Sancta Civitas, received its first performance during the General Strike of 1926, and can be read as a fervent appeal for a more humane civil society. Donald Macleod assesses the stature of these works within the Vaughan Williams canon. Flos Campi Philip Dukes (viola), Northern Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Sancta Civitas Philip Langridge (tenor), Bryn Terfel (baritone), Choristers of St Paul's
Cathedral, London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox
Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight

BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize
4/5. More contestants come under the scrutiny of the judges at the New Theatre, Cardiff. With lain Burnside and Humphrey Burton.
BBC Singer of the World Heats is on BBC4 tonight at 8.30pm

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra With Louise Fryer.
Debussy Printemps
Conductor Han Volkov
Rachmaninov Symphony No 3 in A minor Conductor Alexander Titov

Today's selection for younger listeners includes Danny Elfman 's theme from The Simpsons and a dance for skeletons by Saint-Saens. With Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson.

This week featuring short pieces by Cyril Watters and Frederick Curzon , Eric Coates conducting the Queen's Hall Light Orchestra in a vintage recording of his own Summer Days, and Louis Levy and his Gaumont British Symphony performing a selection of music from 1937 movies.

Sean Rafferty with music, guests and arts news.

Belshazzar
One of Handel's finest, most remarkable, but least-performed oratorios, Belshazzar, is a work on an imposing scale - dramatic, passionate, full of fine choruses and solos - which the composer himself described as "very grand and uncommon". Catherine Bott introduces this performance, recorded a few days ago at London's Cadogan Hall .
BBC Singers, The King's Consort. conductor Robert King

The economist Amartya Sen talks to Robert Hanks about the argumentative tradition in India and how it has shaped her rich scientific and literary Culture. Producer Kirsty Pope

The extraordinary playing of button accordionist Norbert Pignol , and The Night's Music from
Bartok's Out of Doors suite played by pianist Rolf Hind. Plus, a cappella singing from Georgia and from the English folk trio Coope, Boyes and Simpson. With Verity Sharp.

5/5. Berlioz the Opera Composer
Donald Macleod and Berlioz authority David Cairns look at Berlioz's three operas.

With Louise Fryer. Gounod Overture: Mireille Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Balakirev Tamara 2.00 Bach
Violin Partita in D minor, BWV1004 2.25 Schoenberq Suite, Op 25 2.40 Brahms, orch Schoenberq Piano Quartet No 1, Op 25 3.25 Brahms Vier Gesange , Op 32 3.35 Dvorak
The Golden Spinning-Wheel 3.55 Mozart Divertimento in E flat, K166 4.10 D Scarlatti Piano Sonata in E, Kk46
4.15 Couperin Treizième Concert a deux violes
4.25 Schubert Overture in D, D556 4.30 Weber Grand Duo Concertant, Op 48 4.50 Trad, arr Scheurer
Aargauerlied 5.00 D Scarlatti Piano Sonatas: in B flat, Kk202, and D minor, Kk64 5.05 Chopin Polonaise in A, Op 40 No 1 5.10 Dubois Quartet for flutes 4.15 Debussy
Chansons de Bilitis 5.25 Glazunov Lyric Poem in D flat, Op 12
5.35 Francaix L'Heure du Berger 5.45 Puccini Sola ,
Perduta, Abbandonata (Manon Lescaut) 5.50 Sibelius, arr Taubmann Malinconia , Op 20 6.05 Skerl Serenade for strings 6.20 Bo Hotten In Nomine 6.25 Ravel String Quartet