Presented by Penny Gore . Music in today's programme includes:
7.00 8.30 : Debussy Rapsodie Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais), Julius Drake (piano)
Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes Eduard Brunner (clarinet), Oleg Maisenberg (piano), Borodin Quartet
8.30 10.00 : Schubert String Quartet in C minor, D703 (Quartettsatz) Takacs Quartet
Vaughan Williams Oboe Concerto
Neil Black , English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim
Mozart Piano Sonata in A, K331
MitsukoUchida

With Rob Cowan.

Bizet Les Pecheurs de Perles (excerpt) Giordano Andrea Chenier (excerpt) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ferenc Fricsay

10.13 Dittersdorf Symphony in C (La Prise de la Bastille) Concerto Koln

10.35 Listener request: Chopin Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor. Op 58 Murray Perahia

11.04 Schubert Symphony No 5 in B flat Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt

11.34 Schoeck Lebendig begraben, Op 40 (excerpt) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Rieger

4/5. The Renaissance saw a renewal of interest in Classical poetry as well as a blossoming in contemporary writing.
Lassus set both ancient and modern poetry to music. Presented by Donald Macleod and Jeremy Summerly.
Dulces Exuviae (Dido's Lament)
Huelgas Ensemble, director Paul van Nevel Lagrime di San Pietro Emma Kirkby and Evelyn Tubb (sopranos),
Mary Nichols and Cathy Cass (altos),
Joseph Cornwell and Andrew King (tenors),
Richard Wistreich (bass), Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley
Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight

3/4. Ian Bostridge (tenor) and Graham Johnson (piano) perform Schubert's great song cycle Die Schone Mullerin in the Assembly Rooms in Bath, introduced by Sarah Walker.

Schubert Die Schone Mullerin, D795

BBC Philharmonic
Presented by Louise Fryer. Karlowicz The White Dove
Conductor Gianandrea Noseda
Dvorak Piano Concerto in G minor
Rustem Hayroudinoff , conductor Gianandrea Noseda
Karlowicz Symphony in E minor (The Revival) Conductor Gianandrea Noseda

Today Brian Kay 's selection of light classics includes Waldteufel's Skaters Waltz, featured artist John Rutter in some arrangements of traditional songs and one of his own Christmas carols, and Richard Hickox conducting the Northern Sinfonia in Roger Quilter 's suite Where the Rainbow Ends.
Plus a couple of sleigh rides and some lively dance music from the 16th century.

Sean Rafferty introduces a selection of music and talks to his studio guests. Plus a round-up of news from the arts world.

British Music Focus
Andrew McGregor introduces the complete incidental music for The Wasps by Ralph Vaughan Williams , originally composed for a 1909 production of Aristophanes's play at
Cambridge University. Tonight's performance is the first broadcast performance of a new edition of the play, translated and adapted by David Pountney. Presented by Andrew McGregor.
Henry Goodman (Procleon and other voices), Richard Suart (bass: chorus leader and priest), Chorus of Wasps, Halle Orchestra , conductor Mark Elder
Vaughan Williams The Wasps

Isabel Hilton presents a detailed examination of a classic work of culture whose influence still resonates today. Producer Phil Tinline

By Rhiannon Tise.
Andrew is haunted by the memory of a woman he once loved. His longing leads him on a bizarre search of the surreal to find the lost memories and discarded moments of their life together.

Verity Sharp plays music of ecstasy from desert Dhoad Gypsies of Rajasthan, and Naji Hakim 's organ piece Le Tombeau d'Olivier Messiaen from Blackburn Cathedral.

5/5. Despite circumstances that would have crushed most people, works of sublime beauty continued to flow from Mozart's pen throughout his final decline. Donald Macleod enjoys some of the keyboard music of Mozart's last years.
Der Fruhling, K597 (excerpt); Piano Trio in E, K542; Sehnsucht nach dem Fruhlings, K596; Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat, K595
Repeated from Friday at 12 noon

With Louise Fryer.
Paderewski, arr Maksymluk Nocturne in B flat. Op 16 No 4
1.06 Mendelssohn Concerto in D for violin and strings
1.27 Dvorak, arr Duczmal String Quartet in F, Op 96
(American) 1.52 Szymanowski Six Kurpian Songs 2.09 Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: The Tale of Tsar Saltan 2.32
Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor. Op 34 3.13 Schumann Symphony No 4 in D minor 3.44 Elgar March: Pomp and Circumstance in D, Op 39 No 13.51 Mas! Come InsulFronte Fu Preso Narciso Florentia De Pom Amor Me 4.04 Groneman Sonata in D for two flutes 4.19 Handel Concerto a Due Cori No 1 in B flat, HWV332 432 Van Bree Concert Overture in B minor 4.43 Donizetti Edgar 's Aria (Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3) 4.51 Grieg Norwegian Peasant Dances, Op 72 (excerpts) 5.00 Benoit Overture: Charlotte Corday
5.10 Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin , Act 3 Scene 2 (closing scene) 5.24 Chopin Polonaise in A flat, Op 53 (Eroica)
5.32 Bacewlcz Partita for orchestra 5.46
Gottfried Berg Thus I Paint, Donna Bianca 5.48 Britten Sinfonia da Requiem, Op 20 6.10 Mozart Wind Serenade in C minor, K388 6.35 Haydn Symphony No 8 in G (Le Soir)