Presented by Anthony Burton. Bach Orchestral Suite
No 4 in D (B WV 1069)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/ Thomas Hengelbrock
7.22 Debussy, orch Koechlln Khamma
Finnish Radio SO, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
7.44 Handel Laudate Pueri
Sylvia McNair (soprano) Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner
8.04 Prokofiev Violin
Concerto No 1 in D
Joshua Bell (violin)
Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit
8.28 Telemann Alster
Overture (Suite in F) Collegium Musicum 90/ Simon Standage
9.00 Building a Library Mahler's Symphony No 9 by Bernard Keeffe. Lionel Sawkins reviews new releases of mainly baroque music.
10.10 Record Release
Boccherinl Cello Sonata in B flat
Anner Bylsma and Kenneth Slowik (cellos)
Bob van Asperen (fortepiano)
10.28 Clerambaurt L'Amour pique par une abeille
Nancy Argenta (soprano) Sarah Cunningham (viola da gamba)
Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord)
10.45 Couperln Douzième Concert a deux violes
(Les Goûts Reunis) Wieland Kuijken and Kaori Uemura (gambas)
10.55 Rameau Suite: Platee
Raglan Baroque Players, director Nicholas Kraemer
11.15 Reissues
Lyndon Jenkins has been listening to historic reissues of English music, including scenes from Britten's
Peter Grimes conducted by Reginald Goodall and Elgar's Dream of Gerontius with the tenor Heddle Nash.
11.40 Britten Folk-song arrangements
Peter Pears (tenor)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert . Discs

In a second programme on the art and science of instrument-making, George Pratt visits a firm of organ builders in their
Nottinghamshire workshop. Producer Kate Bolton

Peter Porter introduces poetry from the BBC Sound Archives. Today, T S Eliot reading Gerontion, Journey of the Magi and Fragment of an Agon at Harvard University in 1933. Producer Fiona McLean

David Mellor explores the recorded legacy of great artists of the past. Leopold Stokowski
Between 1912 and 1941, Stokowski turned the Philadelphia into the first world-class orchestra, leaving classic, pioneering recordings of Romantic and 20th-century music. But his years in Philadelphia were not at all easy.
Producer Nick Morgan. Discs

A concert continuing the BBC festival of music by John Tavener , from St Giles in the Barbican, London.
BBC Singers conductor Simon Joly Christopher Bowers -Broadbent (organ) lain Simcock (handbells) John Tavener Thunder
Entered Her; The Lamb; The Tyger; Mandelion; Responsorium in memory ofAnnon Lee Silver ; Song for Athene (BBC commission - world premiere); God Is with Us

with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Tim Thome. Discs

This week Ivan Hewett talks to David Fallows about the importance of the 15th-century composer Josquin Desprez and takes a look at John Tavener , whose 50th birthday is celebrated in the current BBC festival Ikons. Producer Fiona Sheimerdine

Concertino in B flat
Laszlo Hara (bassoon)
Tapiola Sinfonietta, conductor Osmo Vanska. discs

Elektra, an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal after Sophocles.
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor
James Levine

by Snoo Wilson.
Doctor Johnson is only up to the letters A and B in his dictionary, his wife's demands for opium and punch are exhausting him, and drops in his ears have set an orchestra jangling in his head ...
Music by Lou Glandfield , sung by the Raoul Goby Consort with Martin Nelson (baritone)
Director Ned Chaillet
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Continuing the BBC's festival of music by John Tavener. Eileen Hulse and Patricia Rozario (sopranos)
Thomas Randle (tenor) Rolf Hind (piano)
New London Children's Choir
Hoist Singers
City of London Sinfonia, conductor Martyn Brabbins John Tavener Sixteen Haiku ofSeferis; Palintropos;
Celtic Requiem

Nod Knowles introduces the second of three programmes of music recorded at the 1993 festival in Crawley. To pay tribute to the great
Eric Dolphy , David Jean Baptiste (alto sax and bass clarinet) assembled a nine-piece band. Joining him are Orphy Robinson (vibes), Rowland Sutherland (flute), Ed Jones (tenor and soprano sax), Tony Kofi (alto sax), Byron Wallen (trumpet), Nicky Yeoh (piano),
Mario Castronari (bass) and Winston Clifford (drums). Producer Derek Drescher