Sean Rafferty celebrates National Poetry Day by inviting six poets - including Charles Causley ,
Gillian Clarke , Matthew Sweeney and Ruth Padell - to choose settings of their poems. Graham Johnson pays particular attention to word-setting in today's comparison of songs by Schubert and the people he influenced. There is news of David
Bintley's new ballet Edward II, with music by John McCabe , and Rafferty's selection of evocative music continues with Rossini's
Overture; The Barber of Seville, the cello arrangement of Faure's song
Après un Reve, Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus, and, at a little after 5.30, Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio
Espagnol played by the London
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Mackerras.
See also 10.45pm