Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps BBC Philharmonic/Nicholas Braithwaite

BBC Concert Orchestra/ Ashley Lawrence

Concerto for piano duet and string orchestra
Rhondda Gillespie and Robert Wetherburn (piano) BBC Concert Orchestra/ Malcolm Arnold

Rhapsody: A Shropshire Lad

Suite for String Orchestra BBC Concert Orchestra/ Ashley Lawrence

Springtime in Angus (Suite: The Three Elizabeths)
BBC Concert Orchestra/ Charles Groves

Waltz Fantasy (Alice in Wonderland)
BBC Concert Orchestra/ Ashley Lawrence

There is a willow grows aslant a brook BBC Concert Orchestra/ Norman Del Mar

Dance Suite No 3

Romania for Orchestra

Overture: Street Corner
BBC Concert Orchestra/ Ashley Lawrence

Waldteufel Skaters' Waltz

Rhapsody in G minor, Op 79 No 2

Diogenio Bigaglia Sonata in A minor

English Dances (Set 2)

Album for the Young (excerpt)

Premiere Rapsodiefor clarinet and orchestra

Punschlied; Trinklied

Strauss Das Diner (Le bourgeois gentilhomme)

No 6 in B flat for recorder

Oratorio (Part 5)

Duo in E flat for viola and cello (WoO32)

Concerto No 2 in G minor

of the Spheres, Op 235

Introduction and Allegro

Greensleeves to a Ground

The Jewels of the Madonna

In 1589, William Byrd was invited by his fellow
Catholic and neighbour Lord Petre to provide music at Ingatestone Hall during the Christmas period. Four centuries later, we return to the Great Chamber to explore the same repertory in the same Tudor surroundings. Music by Byrd and contemporaries is interspersed with Elizabethan Catholic verse. Caroline Trevor (alto) Rose Consort of Violas
Reader Cormac Rigby

Peter Porter introduces poetry from the BBC Sound
Archives. Today, two
W H Auden programmes, including a recording of "Look Stranger" from 1936 and "Journey to Iceland" from 1961.

Maria-Joao Pires (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 in G

Symphony No I in C minor

The ninth of 12 programmes features consort music by William Brade from collections published in Hamburg and Berlin. Parley of Instruments/ Peter Holman and Mark Caudle ; New London
Consort/Philip Pickett

(soprano)
Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
In a recital from last year's Edinburgh International Festival, the American soprano performs songs by Mendelssohn, Grieg,
Strauss, Berg and Barber.

conductor
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Artur Pizarro (piano)
Mendelssohn Overture:
The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) Rachmaninov Piano
Concerto No 2 in C minor Sibelius Symphony No 2 inD

Rabbi Julia Neuberger reflects on the overlap of the Jewish and Christian traditions in the work of Jewish composers.
Copland In the beginning Bernstein CMchester Psalms
Schonberg Friede auf Erden BBC Singers conductor Simon Preston
Reader Garard Green

by William Shakespeare.
With and
A blast of winter sunshine as the world is turned upside-down in this magical tragi-comedy of love, music and madness.

Lorna Anderson (soprano) Donald Maxwell (baritone) Edinburgh Festival Chorus BBC Scottish SO, Leopold Hager

Howard Riley
The British pianist introduces a series of recordings in which he plays solo as well as on two and three pianos by multi-tracking. Each piece contains written material as a basis for improvisation.

by Steve Reich.
London Symphony Orchestra/
Michael Tilson Thomas Record