Witness to Change

John Ansell Overture: Plymouth Hoe - BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Ashley Lawrence

7.08 Holst Oriental Suite, Beni Mora - BBC Philharmonic, conductor Edward Downes

7.26 Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E Flat - Haken Hardenberger (trumpet), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Elgar Howarth

7.41 Elgar Enigma Variations - BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conductor Grant Llewellyn

8.13 Tchaikovsky Symphonic Fantasia: Francesca da Rimini - BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conductor Tadaaki Otaka

8.37 Brahms Variations on a theme by Haydn - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Andras Ligeti

Chadwick Jubilee
(Symphonic Sketches)
9.14 Artist of the Week: James Bowman
(countertenor)
Handel Eternal Source of Light Divine (Birthday Ode for Queen Anne)
9.18 Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
9.33 Hoist Jupiter (The Planets)
9.41 Faure Fantaisie , Op 79
9.47 Sibelius Karelia Suite, Op 11
10.04 Dvorak String Quartet in F, Op 96 (American)
10.32 Bernstein Three
Dance Episodes (On the Town)
10.43 Britten I Know a Bank (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
10.48 Shostakovich
Prelude in C; Fugue in D (from Op 87)
10.58 Glenn Gould
So You Want to Write a Fugue
11.05 Composer of the Week preview:
Komgold Violin Concerto Op 35
11.28 Purcell My Beloved Spake
11.40 Britten Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Christopher Page looks at some new interpretations of music from the Middle
Ages and the Renaissance. Producer Kate Bolton

In the third of four programmes, Michael van Straten visits the Chelsea Physic Garden and talks to the curator, Sue Minter. Producer Rosemary Hart

conductor Matthias Bamert Tasmin Little (violin)
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor
Schubert Symphony No 9 in C (Great)
(Given in Central Hall, York University)

20th-century choral music to celebrate American Independence Day.
BBC Singers, conductor Simon Joly
Margaret Phillips (organ) J S Smith, arr Stravinsky The Star-Spangled Banner
Dudley Buck Concert
Variations on "The Star-Spangled Banner" Copland Lark ; In the Beginning
Ives Crossing the Bar;
Variations on "America" Roy Harris Symphony for Voices
William Albright David 's Songs (first broadcast performance)

Petr Messiereur and Jan Kvapil (violins)
Jan Talich (viola)
Evzen Rattay (cello)
Mozart String Quartet in D (K575)
Mendelssohn String
Quartet in A minor, Op 13

conductor Richard Bernas Fiona Kimm (alto) John Casken
Mahaml Dreaming
Mahler Kindertotenlieder Goehr Symphony in One Movement

A programme of virtuoso 14th-century music performed by the New
London Consort, director Philip Pickett.

by Martyn Wade, beginning a season repeating plays with classical themes.

What happens if an author gives instructions for his work to be destroyed when he dies? The likely answer is an unholy row involving literary executors, members of the family and other interested parties. It was even so in 19 BC in Brundisium, southern Italy, at the deathbed of Publius Vergilius Mara, alias Virgil.

Janacek
The Lord's Prayer, for tenor, chorus, organ and harp
Eugen Suchon
Symphonic Fantasy on BACH, for organ, strings and percussion
Janacek Glagolitic Mass Livia Aghova (soprano) Jadwiga Rappe (mezzo) Peter Straka (tenor) Peter Mikulas (bass)
Elmar Scholter (organ) Vladimir Haas (harp)
Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gerd Albrecht

(piano)
Rachmaninov Etudes-Tableaux, Op 39
Ginastera Piano Sonata Nol

The International Rostrum of Composers meets each year in May at the UNESCO building in Paris.
Christopher Marshall, the BBC's delegate, makes his selection from last year's offerings.

Esa-Pekka Salonen (Finland): Floof: Songs of a Homeostatic

Michel Gonneville (Canada): Chute/Parachute

Thierry De Mey (Belgium): Frisking

Tapio Tuomela (Finland): The Ladder of Escape

Bettina Skrzypczak (Switzerland): String Quartet No 2

Jan Van De Putte (Netherlands): In Hora Mortis