Presented by Martin Handley.
7.00-8.00: Handel Overture: Musick for the Royal Fireworks Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
Chopin, orch Francaix Preludes, Op 28: No 16 in B flat minor; No 17 in A flat
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Karl Anton Rickenbacher
8.00-9.00: Borodin Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim
Elgar Introduction and Allegro, Op 47 Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner

With Rob Cowan. Music includes:
Gabrieli Canzon Septimi Toni No 2 Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Cleveland Brass Ensemble Handel Sonata in B flat, Op 5 No 7, HWV402 Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Brahms, arr Schoenberg Rondo alia Zingarese (Presto) (Piano Quartet in G minor, Op 25) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Robert Craft
Schumann Zwolf Lieder , Op 35 (excerpts) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)
Chopin Douze Etudes , Op 25 (excerpts) Guiomar Novaes (piano)
Bach, arr Reger Prelude and Fugue in B flat, BWV866 (Well-Tempered Klavier) Rosalinde Haas (organ)
Bax Tintagel Minnesota Orchestra, conductor Neville Marriner
Palestrina Incipit Oratio (Lamentations of Jeremiah, Bk2) Regensburg Cathedral Choir, conductor Hans Schrems
Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 in A (Italian) Marlboro Festival Orchestra, conductor Pablo Casals
Mozart Konstanze ! Konstanze! (Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail)
Stuart Burrows (tenor), London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor John Pritchard
Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWVI068 Camerata Academica Salzburg, conductor Sandor Vegh
Beethoven Ah Perfido! Op 65
Eileen Farrell (soprano), Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conductor Max Rudolf
Delibes Prélude; Andante et Valse; Csardas (Coppélia) Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Ernest Ansermet

Michael Berkeley meets the actor, comedian and singer manque Alexander Armstrong , whose choices include Stanford's Nunc Dimittis
(in which he sings the bass solo), Bach, Beethoven and Richard Strauss.

Music of the Mediterranean
Catherine Bott is ajoined in the studio by Professor Martin Cunningham of University
College Dublin to present a concert given by the French ensemble Kadin Sarkilari in February. The music is a fascinating mix of medieval songs and instrumental pieces from the Mediterranean.

Stephanie Hughes introduces a recital given at the Barbican in London by Finnish soprano Karita Mattila with pianist Martin Katz. Barber Hermit Songs
Toivo Kuula , Erkki Melartin , Oskar Merikanto , Leevi Madetoja Finnish Songs
Wolf In dem Schatten meiner Locken; Alle gingen, Herz, zur Ruh; Bedeckt mich mit Blumen; Sagt, seid Ihr es, feiner Herr?
Granados La Maja y el
Ruisenor Turina Poema en Forma de Canciones

3/4. The painter Ray Richardson talks to Robert McNab about the music he listens to while working and how it relates to the images he creates.

Christopher Cook presents the third instalment of the Proms Ring cycle live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Christoph Eschenbach conducts a concert performance of the recent Chatelet production of Wagner's Siegfried. It took Wagner 16 years to complete but the result is a brilliant and powerful score in which the young Siegfried discovers his true identity, wins back the all-powerful ring and falls in love with the Valkyrie, Brunnhilde.

Orchestre de Paris, conductor Christoph Eschenbach

5.30 Interval Feature: The John Tusa Interview
Another chance to hear an interview in which the late Gyorgy Ligeti discussed his involvement with the European avant-garde and the place of the composer at the start of the new millennium.

6.30 Act 2

7.50 Twenty Minutes: Now You See Me, Now You Don't
Richard Foster brings together the scientific, the magical and the social to illuminate the elusive secrets of invisibility.

8.10 Act 3

A series in which John Tusa, managing director of the Barbican Centre, talks to leading creative figures about their work. His guest this week is Gyorgy Ligeti. Show more

1/8. Christopher Dearnley plays music by Herbert Howells.

1/5. With Donald Macleod. As I Walked Out One
Evening: Chamber Concerto No 1; The Country of the Stars; String Quartet No 6; Nox Rptd from Mon

With John Shea. Handel The Ways of Zion Do Mourn,
HWV264; Dixit Dominus, HWV232 Soloists, Bavarian Radio Chorus. Berlin Akademie fur Alte Musik/Howard Arman
2.14 CPE Bach Concerto in F for two harpsichords, Wq46
2.38 Tchaikovsky Don Juan 's Serenade, Op 38 No 1; It Was Early in Spring, Op 38 No 2; At the Ball, Op 38 No 3; 1 Bless You. Forests. Op 47 No 5 2.51 Strauss An Alpine
Symphony 3.42 Meulemans When the Brook Is Chanting; Menuet; Mazurka Triste; Wals; Vernal Wanderings
4.01 Mozart 12 Variations, K265 (Ah! Vous Dirai-Je, Maman)
4.13 Franck Offertoire in E flat 4.20 Danlel-Lesur Le Cantique des Colonnes 4.33 Bozza Jour d'Ete a la
Montagne 4.44 Kuula South Ostrobothnian Dances. Op 17
4.53 Debussy Danse (Tarantelle Styrienne) 5.00 Squire Tarantella, Op 23 5.04 Brahms Waltzes, Op 39: No 11 in B minor; No 12 in E, Op 39 5.08 Franqaix Huit Danses
Exotiques 5.18 Blockx Flemish Dances 5.32 Grieg Four Norwegian Dances, Op 35 5.51 Britten Choral Dances
(Gloriana) 6.00 W Lawes Why So Pate? H Lawes Bid Me But Live 6.18 Respighi Antique Airs and Dances: Suite No 3
6.37 Paderewski Menuet Célèbre in G. Op 14 No 1
6.42 Debussy Minstrels (Preludes Bk 1, No 12)
6.45 Prokofiev Symphony No 1 (Classical)