This week, as Charles Mackerras celebrates his 80th birthday, Penny Gore surveys his 50-year recording career. Plus Handel orchestral music, occasional music, and Haydn and the horn.

7.00-8.30:

Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride - LPO/Charles Mackerras

Dvorak Rondo in G minor, Op 94 - Steven Isserlis (cello), Stephen Hough (piano)

Brahms Sacred Lullaby, Op 9 No 2 - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Nils-Erik Sparf (viola), Bengt Forsberg (piano)

8.30-10.00:

Handel Water Music: Suites No 2 in D; Suite No 3 in G - The English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock

Chopin Fantasy in F minor, Op 49 - Peter Katin (piano)

Haydn Symphony No 13 in D - Hanover Band, director Roy Goodman

Presented by Jonathan Swain. This week featuring Poulenc piano works and recordings by soprano Galina Vishnevskaya.
Villa-Lobos Aria (Bachianas Brasileiras No 5) Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Cello ensemble
10.07 Poulenc Trois Mouvements Perpétuelles Francis Poulenc (piano)
10.12 Musorgsky, orch Shostakovich Songs and Dances of Death Galina Vishnevskaya
(soprano), Gorki State PO/Mstislav Rostropovich
10.35 Igor Stravinsky Concerto in D
Svizzera Italiana Radio and TV Orchestra conducted by the composer
10.47 Poulenc Les Soirées de Nazelles
Paul Crossley (piano)
11.14 Listener request: Strauss Tod und Verklarung LSO/Karl Bohm
11.39 Verdi Libera Me (Requiem) Galina
Vishnevskaya (soprano), State Academy Chorus, Moscow PO/Igor Markevitch

1/5. Early Years. The young Brahms was clearly destined for greatness, but his early career was helped along by a series of significant friendships. Donald Macleod traces his journey from jobbing pianist to rising star.
Meine Liebe ist griin, Op 63 No 5 Cornelia Kallisch (mezzo), Gabriel Dobner (piano)
Clarinet Sonata in F minor, Op 120 No 1 (4th mvt) Richard Stoltzman , Richard Goode (piano) Hungarian Dances, Nos 1, 3 and 10 London
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi Violin Sonata in G, Op 78 (1st mvt)
Pinchas Zukerman , Daniel Barenboim (piano) Four Ballades, Op 10 Stephen Hough (piano) Producer Chris Taylor Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight RT DIRECT: Brahms Masterworks (40 CDs) is available for E35.00 including p&p. To order please send cheque, payable to Selections, to: [address removed] or phone: [number removed] (national rate) quoting [number removed], or visit www.selections.com/rtdirect

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, presented by Stephanie Hughes.
Prazak Quartet
Haydn String Quartet in G minor, Op 74 No 3 (Rider) Borodin String Quartet No 2 in D

BBC Philharmonic and BBC Singers Touring Japan
This week featuring highlights from the BBC
Singers' tour of Japan this year and, today and tomorrow, from the BBC Philharmonic's
Japanese tour of 2004, plus orchestral music with links to Japan through composers and performers. Presented by Graeme Kay. Takashi Yoshimatsu Chipak Conductor Sachio Fujioka
Peter Maxwell Davies Orkney Wedding Conducted by the composer
James MacMillan Laudialla Vergine Maria BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury Fitkin Circuit
With Kathryn Stott and Noriko Ogawa (pianos), conductor Jason Lai
Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor Conductor Gianandrea Noseda

Presented for younger listeners by Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson. Featuring today a peanut vendor, a hornpipe and 76 trombones.

Antonio Pappano, the Royal Opera's musical director, talks with Edward Seckerson about his meteoric rise, the art of Georghiu and Alagna, the role of the conductor, and Placido Domingo 's late blossoming as Wagnerian heldentenor. Including music from La Boheme, Tosca and Tristan und Isolde.
ADDRESS: Stage and Screen, Room 220, Broadcasting House. Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow G12 8DG email: stageandscreengbbc.co.uk

Sean Rafferty presents an update of arts news, studio guests and a selection of music.

A week of concerts celebrating the 80th birthday (on Thursday) of conductor Charles Mackerras, who is in conversation with Donald Macleod. This performance of Idomeneo was a BBC Prom in 1991.

Welsh National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras

Mozart Idomeneo, Re di Creta

French music for remembrance, including Jean Langlais 's Chant de Paix and Duruf le's Pie Jesu from the Requiem, and Klezmer Madness! from David Krakauer and Socalled. Plus the Tord
Gustavsen Trio recorded at this year's London Jazz Festival. With Fiona Talkington.

2/5. Donald Macleod introduces music from the best-known of Alwyn's film soundtracks.
Punting Scene (Film score: The History of Mr Polly ); Suite: Odd Man Out (excerpts); Finale (Symphony No 1); Lyra Angelica Repeated from Tuesday at 12 noon

With Jonathan Swain.

Beethoven Variations on Ich bin der Schneider

Kakadu, Op 121a

Schubert Piano Trio in B flat, D898

2.03 Bach Lute Sonata in G minor, BWVIOOI

2.19 Palestrina Agnus Dei

2.27 Elqar Violin Concerto in B minor

3.16 Kreisler String Quartet in A minor

3.47 Horovitz Music Hall Suite

3.58 Zlatic Three Symphonic Dances

4.10 Mozart Flute Quartet No 1 in D, K285

4.25 Mendelssohn Three Etudes, Op 104

4.33 Haydn Symphony No 22 in E flat (Philosopher)

4.53 Forster Sonata a 3

5.00 Byrd Pavana Lachrimae

5.07 Tallis Spem in Alium

5.16 Mortelmans Lyrisch gedicht voor klein orkest

5.28 Schoenberg Galathea; Mahnung (Cabaret Songs)

5.37 Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat, Op 70 No (Allegretto)

5.42 Guerrero Prado Verde y Florido

5.47 Chopin Nocturne in F, Op 15 No 1

5.53 Debussy Nocturnes

6.16 Warlock Serenade for Strings

6.23 Josquin des Prez Miserere

6.39 Touchemoulin Sinfonia in C