Sean Rafferty 's music selection today includes songs from the great Schubert cycles in both classic and new recordings, and, shortly after
6.00, Maurice Ravel's Boléro. Opera director Nicolette Molnar chooses one piece from Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte to represent the work's central theme. Her production opens tonight at the English
National Opera. And conductor Richard Hickox illustrates his passion for the music of Vaughan Williams and introduces his own version of the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis as he embarks on a series of concerts to mark the composer's 125th birthday.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY