Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Vivaldi Overture: L'Olimpiade Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, conductor Thomas Hengelbrock Smetana Vltava (Ma Vlast)
RCA Victor SO, conductor Leopold Stokowski Handel Concerto Grosso in B minor, Op 6 No 12 Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor lona Brown
8.30-10.00: Mozart, arr Mayer Andante and Rondo in D Albrecht Mayer (oboe), Mahler CO, conductor Claudio Abbado
Sibelius Hostkvall Soile Isokowski (soprano), Helsinki PO, conductor Leif Segerstam
Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole SWR Stuttgart RSO, conductor Sergiu Celibidache

Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Mozart Oboe Concerto in C, KV314 Academy of St Martin in the Fields, director Heinz Holliger (oboe)
10.21 Rossini Mi Lagnero Tacendo; Les Amants de Seville Jennifer Larmore (mezzo),
John Aler (tenor), Steven Kimbrough (baritone), Dalton Baldwin (piano)
10.30 Elgar Serenade in E minor for strings
Sinfonia of London, conductor John Barbirolli
10.45 Bach Chorale Prelude: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV713 Peter Hurford (organ)
10.59 Elgar, orch Jacob Organ Sonata in G Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley
11.17 MacDowell Fireside Tales, Op 61 James Barbagallo (piano)
11.31 Strauss Oboe Concerto Heinz Hollinger , Cincinnati SO, conductor Michael Gielen

3/5. After 20 years in Mantua, Monteverdi found himself without a job when his employer, Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga , died. Though he became director of music at St Mark's in Venice, he continued writing music for the Mantuan court. Presented by Donald Macleod.
TirsieClori Les Arts Florissants/William Christie Con Che Soavita, Labbra Odorate ; Ohime, Dove il Mia Ben Emma Kirkby and Judith Nelson
(sopranos), Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Catherine Bott (soprano), Andrew King (tenor), John Mark Ainsley (narrator),
New London Consort, director Philip Pickett Volgendo il Ciel John Potter (tenor),
Parley of Instruments, director Peter Holman

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Wit and Wisdom
2/4. The Polish-based Royal Quartet continues this week's exploration of Haydn's chamber music with two works illustrating his complete mastery of the medium. Recorded at Cardiff University's concert hall. Introduced by Louise Fryer.
Haydn String Quartets: in F minor, Op 20 No 5; in G minor, Op 74 No 3 (Rider) Royal Quartet
2.00 The Lucerne Festival
Including Renaissance choral music from the 2006 Easter Festival. Presented by Louise Fryer. Weber Overture: Der Freischutz
Mozart Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat, K595
Maria-Joao Pires , Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Emmanuel Krivine
Byrd Ne Irascaris Domine Hilliard Ensemble Varese Arcana
Bartok Piano Concerto No 3
Helene Grimaud , South West German RSO, conductor Sylvain Cambreling Tye Mass for five voices
Tallis Salvator Mundi ; 0 Nata Lux; 0 Sacrum Convivium Hilliard Ensemble
Ravel Piano Concerto in G
Strauss Till Eulenspiegel
Helene Grimaud (piano), South West German RSO, conductor Sylvain Cambreling

Sean Rafferty presents music and arts news.

A concert of music performed by the Hilliard
Ensemble, followed by a performance of James MacMillan 's Quickening on a text by Michael Symmons Roberts. Presented by Geoffrey Smith. Hilliard Ensemble
James MacMillan Here in Hiding Shery ngham Ah! Gentle Jesu
Jonathan Wild Two Pieces (The Cloud of Unknowing)
Josquin des Prez Ave
Maria Trad , arr Komitas Sarakans (Armenian Sacred Chants); Ov Zarmanali ; Hays Hark Nviranc Ukhti; Sirt in Sasani; Surp, Ter Zorutheanc City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Symphony Youth Chorus, BBC Philharmonic, conductor James MacMillan
James MacMillan Quickening

Repeated from 12 noon

Michael Foot will probably be best remembered for his troubled years as leader of the Labour Party in the 1980s. But he has also had one of the longest. cultured and most fascinating political lives of our era - from attacking appeasement in the 1930s to writing about the work of Hazlitt and HG Wells. His new biographer Kenneth 0 Morgan discusses his legacy with Philip Dodd. Producer Horatio Clare

3/4. Pianist Mitsuko Uchida begins tonight's programme with Debussy's Pour lesArpeges
Composes, the 11th in the second book of Etudes. introduced by Geoffrey Smith.

Paulin on Blake
3/4. Tom Paulin presents his third essay on Blake, focusing on America, the Zeitgeist of Blake's vision, and his powerful attraction to the mysterious free nation. Producer Kate Bland

Experimental singer Sidsel Endresen with electronics guru Jan Bang in a performance at the Punkt festival in Kristiansand last year. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Presented by John Shea. Mahler Symphony No 8
(Symphony of a Thousand) Prague Philharmonic Choir, KOhn Mixed Choir, Boys' Choir from St Barvo Cathedral,
Sacramentskoor Breda , Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly 2.28 Dowland Prelude; Mrs Winter 's Jump; Mr Dowland 's Midnight; The Lady Clifton's Spirit 235 Mendelssohn Three Etudes, Op 104 2.43 Debussy String Quartet in G minor, Op 10 3.07 Respiqhl Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No 2 3.26 Rachmaninov Variations on a Theme of Corelli 3.47 Svendsen Carnival in Paris
4.00 Sermisy Cinq Chansons 4.10 Berwald Septet in B flat
4.32 Novak V Tatrach , Op 26 4.50 Grainger Hill-Song No 2
4.55 Glazunov Gavotte in D, Op 49 No 3 5.00 Vivaldi Concerto in C for two trumpets, RV537 5.07 Chopin
Impromptu in A flat, Op 29 5.11 Sibelius Spring Song. Op 16
5.20 Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music 5.34 Anon 18th century Pastorella in G; Sonatas: in D; in G; in C
5.47 Dubois Chant Pastoral 5.52 Elgar Froissart
6.05 Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor 6.30 Bartok The Miraculous Mandarin 6.48 Handel II Pastor Fido