Running the Country: Next Steps

Presented by Paul Guinery.

7.02 Plainchant Mass XI (Orbis factor)

7.11 Leos Janacek Otcenas

7.30 Thomas Morley La Girandola; II Lamento; La Caccia

7.35 Philippe de Vrtry Se je chant

7.40 Bartok Rhapsody No 2

7.53 Trad. Georgian Shen khar venakhi

8.00 Josef Suk Mass in B flat (Krecovicka)

8.25 Smetana From Bohemia's Woods and Fields; Vltava (Ma Vlast)

8.50 Purcell Plung'd in the confines of despair

A preview of the Radio 3 week with clarinettist and conductor Antony Pay, who features in A Celebration of the Clarinet on Tuesday.

Wagner Overture: The Mastersingers
9.15 Trad The Seeds of Love; Blow Away the Morning Dew
9.27 Susato Pavane (La Battaille)
9.32 Ireland A Downland Suite
9.51 Dowland, trans Harle What If I Never Speed?; Sorrow Stay
9.57 Vivaldi Concerto for two trumpets (RV537)
10.06 Turina La Procession del Rocio
10.14 Brahms Intermezzos in B minor, E minor and C, Op 119
10.25 Bach Motet: Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf
10.34 Arnold Guitar Concerto
11.03 Scheibe Sinfonia a 4 in B flat
11.12 Tchaikovsky Valse - Scherzo, Op 34
11.18 Strauss Four Last Songs
11.42 Composer of the Week
Beethoven Twelve Contredanses (Wo014)
11.55 Prom Artist of the Week: Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Dvorak Rondo in G minor
12.05 Walton Variations on a Theme by Hindemith

(Discs)

From the Aldeburgh Festival.

Chairman Guy Woolfenden and team captains David Owen Norris and Daryl Runswick are joined by Germaine Greer and Denis Quilley.

A Classic Arts production

If you've 'eard the East a-callin'
Iain Burnside presents British composers' settings of poems from the Far East.

Andrew Green looks at the history of British music-printing - from moveable type to computers - and at the social, economic and critical effects of music publishing.
(Rpt)

Boulez Conducts the LSO
The first of three concerts in the LSO's Pierre Boulez 70th birthday celebration series, given at the Barbican Hall, London, in March.
Kyung-Wha Chung (violin)
Boulez Figures, Doubles, Prismes
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Bartok Violin Concerto No 2

Christopher Page evokes the sounds of medieval Paris, visiting Notre Dame, Saint German-des-Pres, and other places where music flourished.
(Rpt)

Imogen Cooper (piano)
Brahms Seven Fantasies, Op 116
Schumann Humoreske , Op 20
5.00 Misha Donat reads from E T A Hoffmann's novel The Life and Opinions ofMurrtheCat
5.05 Schumann
Kreisleriana, Op 16 Rpt

Nearly five years after Tortelier's death at the age of 76, his disciple, Raphael Sommer, presents a reminiscence of the virtuoso cellist who was such a huge personality that he became a household name. With contributions from his nephew, French conductor Serge Baudo; long-standing friend Patrick Chatelin; French composer Henri Dutilleux; Finnish cellist Arto Noras; and violinist Yehudi Menuhin.

Leclair Deuxième
Recreation de Musique Rpt

Producer Jessica Isaacs
Repeated from yesterday 9.00am

From the Royal Albert Hall, London, continuing the Proms Mahler cycle with the radiant Fourth Symphony.
Christiane Oelze (soprano) BBC SO/Andrew Davis

Beethoven Overture: The Creatures of Prometheus
Sir Michael Tippett Symphony No 2

8.15 Tippling with Alma
James Woodall talks to Gustav Mahler's biographer, Henri-Louis de la Grange, whose personal memories of Mahler's wife began with this femme fatale's surprising appetite for sherry.

8.35 Mahler Symphony No 4 in G

By Martyn Wade.
Starring Hugh Ross as the composer, Janet McTeer as Joy Finzi, and Anna Massey as Finzi's mother

A portrait of one of England's most underrated composers, Gerald Finzi (1901-1956). Poetry was often the inspiration for Finzi's elegiac and beautiful music, which captures the spirit of the English countryside. Having decided to become a composer at the age of 11, it was his marriage to a truly exceptional woman that gave him the confidence to pursue his chosen profession.

Clifford Benson (piano)
Theresa Finzi (violin)

[The three starring actors' details are omitted from this billing in error - taken from 1996 repeat]

Introduction and Allegro Appassionato
Ronald Brautigam (piano) Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra/Marcello Viotti

Duncan Druce investigates over 30 recordings of Smetana's String Quartet No 1 (From My Life), ranging from the recording by the legendary Bohemian Quartet in 1928, to the present day. He shows how the intense personal nature of the work has evoked widely differing responses. A Cavendish production