Mendelssohn Scherzo
(A Midsummer Night's
Dream): Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/ Charles Mackerras
7.05 Durufle
Four Motets on Gregorian Themes: Corydon
Singers/Matthew Best
7.14 Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks
ECO/Colin Davis

7.35 Offenbach
Overture: La belle Helene
Philharmonia Orchestra/ Neville Marriner
7.43 Mozart
Piano Concerto No 6 in B flat (K 283)
ECO/Murray Perahia (piano)
8.04 Schumann
Fantasy Pieces, Op 73
Richard Stoltzman (clarinet) Richard Goode (piano)
8.14 Johann Strauss (son) Emperor Waltz
Vienna SO/Robert Stolz Records

From the final years of the 16th century, Portugal was ruled by the Spanish, but local culture was not suppressed, and many composers flourished.
Cardoso Missa Regina caeli
Coehlo Tento do primeiro torn
Taverner Choir and Consort/Andrew Parrott Records

Five programmes celebrating the ensemble's 25th anniversary.

Mozart Divertimento in E flat (K 113)

Mendelssohn Octet for Strings, Op 20

Ravel Introduction and Allegro

with Peter Paul Nash.

Ten concerts from
Seiji Ozawa 's second decade as Music
Director of the Boston SO. Berlioz
L'Enfance du Christ (tenor) (mezzo)
New England Conservatory Chorus; BSO/Seiji Ozawa (WCRB Boston recording) Series producer John Evans

Paul Allen chews the fat (of the white whale) and samples an Inuit speciality: seal casserole in its own intestines. Producer Julian May

with Paul Guinery.
Haydn Symphony No 10 in D: Philharmonia
Hungarica/Antal Dorati Reger String Quartet No 4 in Eflat: Reger Quartet Poulenc Les chemins de l'amour: Felicity Lott (sop) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Mozart Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat (K 595) Artur Schnabel LSO/Barbirolli Records

(baritone)
Oleg Boshnyakovich (piano) Tchaikovsky A Tear
Trembles, Op 6 No 4; No, only he who has known, Op 6 No 6, The Fearful Minute, Op 28 No 6;
Reconciliation, Op 25 No 1; The Nightingale, Op 60 No 4; I Opened the Window, Op 63 No 2 Exploit: Op 60 No 11
Again, as before, alone, Op 73 No 6: Don Juan 's Serenade, Op 38 No 1 Rachmaninov The
Dream, Op 8 No 5; She is Lovely as the Noon, Op 14 No 9; Oh, no, I beg you, forsake me not, Op 4 No 1 Sing not to me, beautiful maiden, Op 4 No 4; When yesterday we met. Op 26 No 13; Christ is Risen, Op 26 No 6: In the Silence of the Secret Night, Op 4
No 3; He took all from me, Op 26 No 2; Fragment from Musset, Op 21 No 6 (In association with Opera Now magazine)

Ted Hughes reads poems by Emily Dickinson , who died in 1886 having written nearly 2,000 poems, of which only six were published in her lifetime.
Producer Matt Thompson

Alfred Brendel (piano) Rotterdam PO/Benzi
Brahms Piano Concerto
No 2 in B flat, Op 83 (NOS Hilversum recording)

Michael Oliver visits places associated with the composer Charles Ives. Producer Alan Hall

A celebration of the Eucharist for the First Sunday after Easter, recorded in Trinity
Cathedral, Trenton, USA.
Albright: Chichester Mass; Old Testament Reading: Job 42, vv 1-6; Psalm 33 (Episcopal Plainsong); New Testament Reading: Revelation 1, vv 9-19; Anthems: O Light, from Age to Age (Sowerby); Draw us in the Spirit's tether (Friedell); Hymn: Look There (Albright); Postlude: Toccata from Revelations (Daniel Pinkham ). Celebrant the Rt Rev Mellick Belshaw.
Guest Preacher the Rt Rev John Spong. Organist Thomas Goeman. Princeton
Singers/John Bertalot.

by William Shakespeare. Based on the First Folio, with additions and amendments from the Second Quarto.
Music Patrick Doyle , with John Powell
A Radio 3/Renaissance Theatre Company co-production
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Images: BBC SO

String Quartet No Hanson Quartet