With Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Torelli Concerto in D St James 's Baroque Players, conductor Ivor Bolton
Ives General William Booth Enters into Heaven Donnie Ray Albert (baritone). Dallas Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Litton
Mozart Exsultate, Jubilate, KV165 Miah Persson (soprano), Swedish CO/Sebastian Weigle
8.30-10.00: Kreisler La Gitana
Joshua Bell (violin), Paul Coker (piano) Handel Concerto Grosso in G, Op 6, No I Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. director Nicholas McGegan
Massenet Suite No 4 (Scenes Pittoresques)
Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra/John Eliot Gardiner

With Rob Cowan. Featuring French tone poems and recordings by the Festival Quartet.
Berlioz Royal Hunt and Storm (Les Troyens)
RPO, Beecham Choral Society/Thomas Beecham
10.13 Bach Jauchzet Gott in alien Landen, BWV51 Edith Mathis (soprano), Munich Bach Orchestra, conductor Karl Richter
10.33 Brahms Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 25 Festival Quartet: Szymon Goldberg (violin),
William Primrose (viola), Nikolai Graudan (cello), Victor Babin (piano)
11.17 D'lndy Le Camp de Wallenstein
Orchestre Philharmonique des Pays de Loire, conductor Pierre Dervaux
11.28 Nardini Violin Sonata
Ida Haendel, Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
11.47 Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Paris Symphony Orchestra/Rene Leibowitz

1/5. A Charmed Childhood. Donald Macleod looks at the formative years of Felix Mendelssohn , who grew up in a wealthy, privileged environment. The composer's musical talent was nurtured by his parents and a series of distinguished teachers, and he had already written an impressive number of accomplished works by the age of 16. Seven Characteristic Pieces, Op 7 No 7: Leicht undluftig Benjamin Frith (piano)
String Symphony No I Concerto Koln Bogy's Aria (Die beiden Padagogen)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass-baritone), Munich Radio Orchestra, conductor Heinz Wallberg Octet in E flat. Op 20
Royal String Quartet, Psophos Quartet
Producer Emily Kershaw Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight RT DIRECT: The Best of Mendelssohn (2 CDs) is available for r4.00 including p&p. To order please send a cheque, payable to [address removed] or call the orderline on [number removed] (national rate), or visit www.selections.com/rtdirect Quote Ref [number removed]UK delivery only

Live from London's Wigmore Hall, a recital by French-Israeli pianist Jonathan Gilad in music by Mozart and Chopin.
Presented by Stephanie Hughes. Jonathan Gilad (piano)
Mozart Piano Sonata in F, K332
Chopin Ballades: No 1 in G minor, Op 23; No 2 in F, Op 38; No 3 in A flat, Op 47; No 4 in F minor, Op 52

Shakespeare and Friends
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
This week's programmes feature music written for and inspired by the works of Shakespeare and other literary giants. Presented by Louise Fryer. Beethoven Overture: Coriolan
Conductor Joseph Swensen
Walton, arr Muir Mathieson Poem for Orchestra: Hamlet and Ophelia Conductor Richard Hickox Glazunov Violin Concerto in A minor
With Lesley Hatfield, conductor Walter Weller Debussy, compl and orch Roger-Ducasse Incidental music: King Lear Conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts) Conductor Martyn Brabbins
Bernstein Symphonic Dances (West Side Story) Conductor Eric Stern

As part of the Royal Opera House's In Conversation series. Edward Seckerson talks to the great bass-baritone John Tomlinson about some of the more recent roles in his long and distinguished Career.
Address: Stage and Screen, [address removed] email: [email address removed]

Sean Rafferty presents music and arts news.

Listen Up!
A concert given by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at Liverpool
Philharmonic Hall, featuring a new work by Joby Talbot. Plus a look at how the orchestra is preparing as the city gears up to become
European Capital of Culture in 2008, and a feature on how women are making inroads into the traditionally male-dominated brass section. And there's another episode of Alexander McCall Smith 's story La's Orchestra Saves the World. Presented by Petroc Trelawny .
Alison Balsom (trumpet), Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Joann Faletta Adams A Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Joby Talbot Trumpet Concerto (first performance) Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

Poet Paul Muldoon talks to Isabel Hilton about his latest collection of poetry, Horse Latitudes, which includes a sonnet sequence that takes the reader from post-Agreement Ireland to George W Bush 's America. Producer Fiona McLean

New tracks from Icelandic composer Johann Johannson mixed with harpsichord music by Handel. Plus a glimpse at the sombre electronic-inspired world of Luigi Nono. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

2/5. Donald Macleod explores Davis's work in the early 1950s, including Take Off,Swing Spring, Miles Ahead, Song 1 and So What. Repeated from Tuesday

Presented by Louise Fryer.
Mozart String Quartet in C, K465 (Dissonance)
Schumann Papillons , Op 2 Mozart Piano Concerto No 13 in C, KV415 Maria McGarry (piano), Callino Quartet
2.14 Vivaldi Gloria in D, RV588 2.41 Alpaerts Suite:
James Ensor 3.04 Haydn The Seven Last Words of Our
Saviour on the Cross, H XX 1c 3.35 Lassus Missa Osculetur Me 3.59 Abel Symphony in E, Op 10 No 14.10 Naumann Harpsichord Concerto in B flat, C1137 4.25 JM Bach
Come Let Us Praise the Lord 4.31 Wassenaer Concerto Armonico No 1 in G 4.43 Scrlabin Nocturne for the left hand, Op 9 No 2 4.50 Carmichael, arr Hurst A Country Fair 5.00 Borodin Overture: Prince Igor; No Sleep, No Rest (Prince Igor) 5.17 Lipinski Great Fantasy on themes from Bellini's I Puritani 5.37 Jadln Piano Sonata in E flat, Op
5.55 Parac Symphony 6.13 Martucci Notturno , Op 70 No 1
6.20 Verhulst Gruss aus der Fernen
6.27 Skjavetlc Oh, When I Am So Far from You; Death Is the End 6.31 Byrd The Calliard Jig: 0 Mistress Mine, I Must
6.39 Hoist Ave Maria
6A6 Dohnanyi Symphonic Minutes, Op 36