Class in Britain Today

Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla
BBC Scottish SO/En Shao
7.06 Debussy Prelude a l'après-midi d'unfaune BBC Welsh SO/
Alexander Rahbari
7.18 Dvorak Overture:
The Noonday Witch
BBC Welsh SO/Mark Elder
7.31 Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor Peter Katin (piano)
BBC Scottish SO/En Shao
8.02 Tchaikovsky
Fantasy Overture: Romeo andjutiet
8.22 Musorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures from an Exhibition
BBC Scottish SO/ Jerzy Maksymiuk

Schubert Overture:
Rosamunde
9.16 Artists of the Week:
Nash Ensemble
Saint-Saens
Pianists; Fossils; The
Swan; Finale (Carnival of the Animals)
9.24 Abel
Symphony No 5 in C
9.33 Composer of the Week preview: Rachmaninov
Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 3 No 2
9.39 Dukas
L'Apprenti sorcier
9.52 Bach
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (BWV 582)
10.06 Haydn, arrDittrich Eight Zngarese (H IX 28)
10.16 Quitter
Three English Dances
10.24 Schubert
Adagio in Eflat
10.37 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 4 in F minor
11.19 Anon
Surrexit de Tumulo;
Agnus Dei ; Fa Fa Mi Fa
11.26 Beethoven, arr
Bellison Variations on 'La ci darem la mano'
11.38 Rossini
L'ltaliana in Algeri (Act 1, sc 10-13)

In the second of two programmes on early Spanish music,
Christopher Page and Jose Carlos Cabello look at the musical tradition of El
Escorial from the time of Philip II onwards. Producer Kate Bolton

Philip French quarries gems from the BBC Sound Archives. This week, the critic Desmond MacCarthy reflects on "tears" in life and literature.

BBC Scottish SO/ Jerzy Maksymiuk
Nikolai Demidenko (piano) Musorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain Lutoslawski
Livre pour orchestre
2.00 Interval Reading
2.05 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor Sibelius Symphony No 7 in C

David Roblou (harpsichord) Anon My Lady
Wynkfyld's Rownde Aston A Hornpype
Byrd Prelude, Pavan and Galliard (Sir William Petre ) Tomkins A sad pavan for these distracted times
Byrd 0 Mistress Mine

Lady Susanna Walton and Brian Kay (speakers) Nash Ensemble conductor Andrew Parrott
Hindemith Kleine Kammermusik for wind quintet, Op 24 No 2 Schoenberg Suite for seven instruments, Op 29
4.20 Interval Reading
4.25 Walton Facade

Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) Isaac Stem (violin)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Mozart Trio in F (transcribed from Divertimento, K439b) Reicha
18 Variations and a Fantasy, Op 51 (on a theme from 'Le Nozze di Figaro Discs

Denis McCaldin investigates the virtuoso chamber orchestra in the 20th century, with contributions from
Quintin Ballardie , Douglas Boyd , Paul Crossley ,
Peter Maxwell Davies ,
Julian Fifer , Christopher Hogwood , Neville Marriner ,
Roger Norrington and Paul Sacher. Producer Edward Blakeman
(A new series. The Virtuoso Chamber Orchestra, begins Friday 2.00pm)

conductor Andrew Davis
Schubert Overture: Die
Freunde von Salamanka
Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 2
Haydn Symphony No 91 in Eflat

A golden bracelet with a king's face, a goblet of glass like stilled water, a promise to a servant, and a monk's scroll. Four elements in Adam Thorpe 's new play about Eadburgh, the wicked queen of legend.
Music Mia Soteriou
Director Jeremy Mortimer

Stjohn Passion BBC Singers
Jane Marshall (oboe)
Gareth Newman (bassoon) Anthony Moffat (violin) Martin Bradshaw (cello) John Alley (organ) conductor Bo Holten

(piano)
Bach Toccata in D (BWV 912)
Nielsen Chaconne, Op 32 Beethoven 32 Variations in C minor (WoO 80) Busoni Toccata

To end a month of programmes celebrating the 50th anniversary of the SPNM, Matthias Bamert conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in three SPNM-selected works.
Andrew Simpson Montage
Nicholas Simpson A strangeness how remote
James Clarke Maailma
with Alison Wells (soprano) and James Holland (percussion).
Introduced by Chris de Souza in conversation with the composers.