Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch . Music includes'
7.00-8.30: Verdi Grand March (Aida) Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, conductor Erich Kunzel Faure Pavane , Op 50
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Beethoven Overture: Coriolan
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, conductor David Zinman
8.30-10.00: Sibelius Three Pieces
Tempera Quartet
Haydn Symphony No 50 in C
Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Thomas Fey
Widor Toccata (Symphony No 5 in F minor) Simon Preston (organ)

With Jonathan Swain.
Franck Symphony in D minor
Czech PO, conductor Charles Munch
10.37 Vivaldi Concerto in B flat, RV579 (Concerto Funebre) Concerto Italiano, director Rinaldo Alessandrini
10.46 Ravel Tzigane
Ginette Neveu (violin), Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Munch
10.57 Vivaldi Concerto in F, RV574 Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
11.10 Haydn String Quartet in C, Op 33 No 3 (Bird) Smetana Quartet
11.30 Martinu Symphony No 6 (Fantaisies Symphoniques)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Munch

5/5. Donald Macleod introduces two towering masterpieces of Beethoven's piano oeuvre, written in 1809 amid the chaos and upheaval of the occupation of Vienna by Napoleonic forces. Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 81a (Les Adieux) Stephen Kovacevich
Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor)
Wilhelm Kempff , Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Ferdinand Leitner
Repeated on Thursday at 12 midnight

The last of this week's concerts from the Sage Gateshead, presented by Petroc Trelawny.
Bengt Forsberg (piano)

Grieg Rotnamsknut (Slatter, Op 72)

Nilsson Les Cloches de la Nuit

Nielsen Chaconne, Op 32

Sibelius Romance in A (Ten Pieces, Op 24; Reverie, Op 58 No 1; The Shepherd, Op 58 No 4; Capriccietto, Op 76 No 12; Piano Sonata in F, Op 12)

BBC Singers and BBC Philharmonic A New Song
Presented by Martin Handley. Beethoven Overture: Fidelio
Conductor Vassily Sinaisky
Taverner Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas Elspeth Brooke Gloria and Hallelujah
Judith Bingham In Nomine
Conductor Stephen Cleobury Bruckner Symphony No 6 in A Conductor Edward Downes

Jaco Pastorius
Julian Joseph reflects on the career of electric bass player Jaco Pastorius. One of the brightest jazz stars of the 1970s and a member of Weather Report. Pastorius later underwent a reversal of fortunes and died in 1987 at the age of 35. Producer Keith Loxam
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Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, with studio guests and a round-up of news from the arts world.

The internationally renowned baritone
Simon Keenlyside is the second of 50 artists to perform in the year-long Festival of Song which runs throughout 2007 at
London's Wigmore Hall. Tonight's programme features works by Debussy, Poulenc, Ravel,
Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Brahms and Richard Strauss.
Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

Matthew Sweet meets novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi , who wrote My Beautiful
Laundrette, and whose latest screenplay, Venus, is a comedy about an ageing actor
(Peter O'Toole ) and his traumatic encounters With youth. Producer Phil Tinline

4/6. Ian is joined by poet and critic Mark Ford to discuss the vexed question of poetic form - should the apprentice poet let their verse range free, or explore the creative restrictions of strict form? With tips and advice from leading poets Tom Paulin, Wendy Cope and Michael Rosen.
Producer Aasiya Lodhi

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present a selection of new alternative music releases, and a studio session by A Hawk and a Hacksaw, the Albuquerque-based duo of Jeremy Barnes (drums/ accordion/vocals) and Heather Trost (violin).

Billy Bang Quintet
Jez Nelson presents a performance by the Billy Bang Quintet, recorded at the Vision Festival in New York, an annual event showcasing the best of the city's progressive jazz scene. The acclaimed violinist is joined for this barnstorming set by trumpeter James Zollar , pianist Andrew Bemkey , bassist
Todd Nicholson and Newman Taylor Baker on drums. This programme features music additional to the first broadcast. October 2006. (Revised rpt)

Presented by John Shea. Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice Poulenc Concerto With Teres Lof and Johan Ullen (pianos) Ranqstom Autumn Song Liszt Mephisto Waltz No I Alfven legend of the Skerries Swedish Radio SO, conductor Andreas Hanson 2.14 Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34 2.56 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 10 No 13.13 Stravinsky Concerto in D (Basle Concerto)
3.26 Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade 4.10 Juon Fairy Tale in A minor, Op 8 4.16 Howells Take Him , Earth, for Cherishing 4.25 Byrd Browning 4.29 Purcell Let All
Mankind the Pleasure (Dioclesian) 4.32 Chopin Rondo a la Mazur in F. Op 5 4.41 Monluszko Mazurka (Jawnuta)
4.47 Handel Quartet in G, Op 5 No 4 5.00 Britten Les Illuminations 5.22 Schubert Phantasy in C. D934
5.48 Norman Andante Sostenuto 5.58 Sibelius, arr
Taubmann Canzonetta , Rondo of the Lovers (Kuolina)
6.02 Hoist Ave Maria 6.08 Stanford Songs of the Sea,
Op 916.29 Vivaldi Trio Sonata in D minor, Op 1 No 12, RV63 (La Folia) 6.38 Schumann Introduction and Allegro Appassionato , Op 92 6.55 Bo Nilsson Arctic Air