with Piers Burton-Page.

Including at approximately:

7.20 Sibelius Overture in F minor - London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble/Christopher Larkin

7.40 Barber Capricorn Concerto - Eastman-Rochester Orchestra/Howard Hanson

8.00 Haydn Symphony No 52 in C minor - Esterhazy Orchestra/David Blum

8.40 Rossini, arr Respighi La boutique fantasque (excerpts) - Toronto SO/Andrew Davis.

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A sonorous mass setting in the context of the chants for the feast of the Ascension, on which the composer based his music.

Missa Viri Galilaei - La Chappelle Royale Ensemble Organum/Philippe Herreweghe.

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Presented by Susan Sharpe.

Glinka Polonaise (A Life for the Tsar) - USSR SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov

9.50 Rachmaninov Fantaisie-Tableaux , Op 5 (Suite No 1) - Ingryd Thorson and Julian Thurber (pianos)

10.15 Stavinsky Ode - Cleveland Orchestra/The Composer

10.25 Tchaikovsky None but the lonely heart, Op 6 No 6 - Paata Burchuladze (bass) Ludmilla Ivanova (piano)

10.30 Mendelssohn Songs without Words, Op 67 Nos 4-6 - Daniel Barenboim (piano)

10.40 Raff Separation; Reunited in Death (Symphony No 5 in E) - London Philharmonic/Bernard Herrmann

11.10 Loewe Hochzeitlied, Op 20 No 1 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar) Jorg Demus (piano)

11.15 Mozart Divertimento (KV439b No 1) - Karl Leister and Walter Seyfarth (clarinets) Manfred Preis (basset horn)

11.30 Litolff Piano Trio in D minor (Andante and Scherzo) - Mirecourt Trio

11.40 Tchaikovsky Fantasy-overture: Romeo and Juliet - Cleveland Orchestra/Lorin Maazel

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Boris Berezovsky (piano)

The first in the Spring series live from Studio One, Pebble Mill.

Medtner Sonata Tragica in C minor, Op 39 No 4

Richard Strauss Five Pieces, Op 3

Ravel La Valse

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(Revised rpt of Saturday 9.05-10.35am)

Ireland The Forgotten Rite - Halle Orchestra/John Barbirolli

Ireland Mai-Dun - London Philharmonic/Bryden Thomson.

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Recorded in Washington National Cathedral, USA.

Introit: For Easter Day (David Koehring); Hymn: Christ is alive (Truro, arr Dirksen); Responses (Douglas Major); Phos Hilaron: Tone I (Plainsong); Psalm (Tonus Peregrinus, with handbells); First Lesson: Micah 7, vv 7-15; Canticles: Sowerby in E minor; Second Lesson: I Corinthians 15, vv 30-41; Christ the Lord is risen today (Rorem); Anthems: Come ye faithful (Baker); Christ Our Passover (Dirksen); Hymn: The Lord of Life (Gelobt sei Gott); Postlude: Grand Choeur Dialogue (Gigout).

(In association with Radio America)

Music, news and arts events with Andrew Green, whose guest in the soprano Elly Ameling.

(The Treasure Seeker)
Franz Schreker's opera about art and sexuality, set in medieval Germany, in a performance from the 1992 Holland Festival.
Sung in German.
Netherlands Radio Chorus and Philharmonic
Orchestra conductor Edo de Waart

Prologue; Acts 1 and 2

8.45 Peter Franklin reviews Christopher Hailey's new critical biography of Franz Schreker, the first full-length study in English of the composer and his music.

9.05 Acts 3 and 4; Epilogue

Six Variations on an original theme, Op 20 - David Starobin (guitar)

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In this evening's programme Night Waves examines the role of the hero, taking popular cinema as a starting point.

The third of six programmes exploring the solo piano, piano trio and string quartet repertoire which makes up Haydn's mature chamber music.

Piano Trio in E flat minor (HXV31) - Andras Schiff (piano) Yuuko Shiokawa (violin) Steven Isserlis (cello)

Piano Sonata in C minor (H XVI 20) - Andras Schiff (piano)

String Quartet in C, Op 76 No 3 (Emperor) - Takacs Quartet