Renaissance Music
Andrew Lyle presents a Palm Sunday edition including some of Purcell's most sombre anthems.
7.03 Beethoven
Overture: Leonore No 3
7.15 Reger Wie schon leucht't uns der
Morgenstem, Op 40 No 1
7.35 Purcell Lord, / can suffer Thy rebukes (Z136)
7.40 Schubert
Rondo in A (D438)
8.00 The Great Thanksgiving The Rev Alan Walker continues his survey of music for the Mass.
8.40 Purcell Funeral
Sentences on the Death of Queen Mary II
(Z27, Z17b, Z58b)
Producer Piers Burton-Page
with actor John Nettles.
Verdi: Spring (Sicilian Vespers) - Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra, conductor Antonio de Almeida
9.10 Pachelbel: Canon in D - Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd
9.18 Saint-Saens: Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix (Samson et Dalila) - Marilyn Horne (mezzo), Monte Carlo PO, conductor Lawrence Foster
9.25 Bach: Concerto in A minor (BWV 1055) - Simon Dent (oboe d'amore) South West German CO/Vladislav Czarnecki
9.41 Faure: Madrigal, Op 35 - Sabine Vatin (piano) Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner
9.46 Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Op 10 - Armenian PO, conductor Loris Tjeknavorian
10.07 Artist of the Week: Christian Lindberg (trombone)
Mozart Variations on "Ah! vous dirai-je maman" - Roland Pontinen (piano)
10.17 Butterworth: Rhapsody, A Shropshire Lad - English String Orchestra, conductor William Boughton
10.28 Hummel: Octet, Partita in E flat - Wind Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
10.42 Composer of the Week: Byrd
Laudibus in sanctis - Cambridge Singers, conductor John Rutter
10.53 Nielsen: Springtime on Funen - Soloists, Swedish Radio SO and Choir, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
11.11 Telemann, arr Lindberg: Concerto in C minor - Christian Lindberg (alto trombone), New Stockholm Chamber Orchestra/Okko Kamu
11.20 Berlioz: Reverie et caprice, Op 8 - Guillermo Figueroa (violin), Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
11.30 Schumann: Kinderszenen - Daniel Barenboim (piano)
11.49 Smetana: Sarka (Ma Vlast) - VPO/James Levine
11.59 Beethoven: Christ on the Mount of Olives, Op 85 (excerpts) - Soloists, Temple Choirs Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy
(Discs)
Repeated from yesterday 5.45pm
The Lure of the East lain Burnside explores some British songs with an oriental flavour.
Purcell, Our Contemporary? Michael Berkeley talks to musicians, British and foreign, about Purcell's place in the musical pantheon, the ways in which his music remains unique and his influence on composers today.
Thomas Zehetmair (violin) Tabea Zimmermann (viola) BBC SO/Bernard Haitink Beethoven
Overture: Coriolan
Mozart Sinfonia
Concertante in E flat (K364) Bruckner
Symphony No 7 in E
See also Good Friday 7.30pm
(clarinet)
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
Debussy Premiere rapsodie Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor, Op 120 No 1
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor George Hurst Paul Watkins (cello) Wagner Prelude: Die
Meistersinger von Nurnberg Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor
Brahms Symphony No 2 in D Given on Friday in the Brangwyn Hall , Swansea
Do you end with a bang, a whimper or Humphrey Bogart heading off into the mist of an airfield in Casablanca?
Humphrey Carpenter turns up his collar and sets off in search of the perfect ending, from the golden sunsets of the silver screen to the grand operatic finale.
Producer Louise Swan
Pamela Frank (violin)
Stephen Prutsman (piano)
Brahms Sonata in G, Op 78 Janacek Violin Sonata
Last Monday's Lunchtime Concert
Martin Lynch 's stirring and poignant drama charts the dreams of three young men as they prepare to sacrifice everything for the sake of defeating fascism in the Spanish Civil War.
Half a century later they feel disappointment and despair as they face up to the uncomfortable realities of Thatcher's Britain.
Guitarist Sean O'Brien Director Michael Quinn
The last edition of the programme in its present format.
On 28 April a new and longer programme for contemporary music will be launched for Friday evenings, called Hear and Now. Tonight,
Stephen Plaistow , who remembers the first Music in Our Time on 26 March 1965, looks back over the last 30 years and resurrects some classic moments from the programme's archive. With studio guests Howard Skempton and Julian Anderson.
Producer Andrew Kurowski
Brian Wright introduces a concert given last month in the Barbican.
Bach Mass in B minor
Lynne Dawson and Lorna Anderson (sopranos) Derek-Lee Ragin (countertenor)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Michael George (bass) Tallis Chamber Choir
English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Frans Briiggen Producer Tim Thome
