With Anthony Burton.
Faure Suite: Masques et bergamasques
BBC Philharmonic, conductor
Yan Pascal Tortelier
7.18 Lotti Crucifixus
Gabriell Jubilate deo
Joseph Cullen (organ) Choir of Westminster
Cathedral, conductor James O'Donnell
7.29 Weber Bassoon
Concerto in F
Yoshiyuki Nakanishi (bassoon)
London Mozart Players, conductor
Nicholas Cleobury
7.48 Villa-Lobos String Quartet No 17
Latin American Quartet
8.10 Donizetti Ah! tardai troppo; 0 luce di quest' anima (Linda di Chamounix) Ruth Ann Swenson
(soprano)
London Philharmonic, conductor Nicola Rescigno
8.18 Bach French Suite
No 2 in C minor, BWV 813
Angela Hewitt (piano)
8.36 Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet
Russian SO, conductor
Mark Gorenstein

Mozart's Symphony No 29 in A, K201 by Richard Osborne. David Fallows on new releases of Renaissance choral music.
Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm

Busnois Gaude coelestis domina
Clerks' Group, conductor Edward Wickham
10.23 Josquin 0 virgo prudentissima
A Sei Voci , conductor
Bernard Fabre-Garrus
10.31 Gibbons A selection of fantasias
Paul Nicholson (organ) Red Byrd Fretwork
10.51 Tallis Lamentations of Jeremiah
Theatre of Voices, conductor Paul Hillier

BBC Radio Classics is a series devoted to performances from the BBC archives issued commercially by Carlton Classics. Roderic Dunnett explores some of their offerings of English music, including symphonies by Vaughan Williams.
Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert Discs
E-MAIL: record.review@bbc.co.uk

Michael Berkeley 's guest is distinguished broadcaster and anthropologist David Attenborough , whose television series such as Life on Earth, The Living
Planet, Life in the Freezer and The Private Life of Plants have enthralled viewers across the world.
His choices range from choral music by Handel,
Tomkins and Monteverdi to
Britten's rendering of Balinese gamelan music in The Prince of the Pagodas, an orchestral song by Mahler and a jazz number by Duke Ellington.
A Classic Arts production
Attenborough in Paradise is on Easter Monday at 6.00pm on BBC2

Yehudi Menuhin at 80
The second of two programmes in which Lord Menuhin - in conversation with Lyndon Jenkins - looks back over his long career as a solo violinist, chamber music player and conductor. Today's programme focuses on Menuhin the chamber music player and conductor with music by Bach, Boyce, Mozart - 11 seraglio, sung in English - Schubert,
Mendelssohn, Delius and Elgar.

In the second of eight specially extended programmes,
Tommy Pearson explores music for woodwind with Albion Wind.

A concert given last year to mark the 50th birthday of Edward Gregson.
Henry Herford (baritone) Manchester Boys' Choir RNCM Wind Orchestra, conducted by the Composer Gregson Suite: The Sword and the Crown
Metamorphoses
Missa brevis pacem Rpt

With Geoffrey Smith.
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Ivan Hewett celebrates Easter with a special edition from Jerusalem. Producer Anthony Sellors
Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm

Bridge Phantasy Trio in C minor
Dvorak Piano Trio No 3 in F minor

Philip Glass's s space-age celebration of the spirit of discovery and exploration, the curiosity and courage which have inspired humankind's greatest endeavours throughout the ages. Commissioned by the New York Metropolitan Opera for the 500th anniversary in 1992 of Columbus's voyage to the New World, Glass's opera "spans time, distance and the galaxy, moving variously between past, present and future, our universe and those we can only imagine".
Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, conductor
Dennis Russell Davies
Prologue; Act 1

Joanne Watson investigates the current state of opera across the Atlantic with contributions from directors of opera companies throughout America.

With Edward Downes.

Texaco supports the Metropolitan Opera Radio Network, which is broadcast on R3 through the EBU

Written and performed by Nigel Charnock. A man stumbles into a radio studio and confesses to the listener that he has committed a crime. Is it a crime of passion, has he got a weak heart, did he love two people or is he making the whole thing up? And there's somebody knocking at the door!
Music composed by Nicholas Skilbeck
Director Kate Rowland

This popular choir, led by the Rev Bazil Meade , was joined by saxophonist Steve Williamson and his band for a concert last January in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London. The concert is introduced by Alyn Shipton , who talks during the interval to the Rev Bazil Meade about the choir's history. Producer Derek Drescher