Formula Iteration 6.15
Modern Art: the Art Market and the Avant Garde 6.35
Assignment 103

With Paul Guinery.
Gombert Missa tempore paschali
7.40 Chopin Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52
7.53 Bach Church Cantatas:
Bach Cantata No 67: Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ
8.14 Great 40 Days
On each of the next six
Sundays, a chance to hear one of Messiaen's visions of the risen life - Les Corps glorieux.
Messlaen Force et agilité des corps glorieux (Les Corps glorieux)
8.20 Ives The Celestial
Country
Producer Antony Pitts

With Philip Dukes.

Berlioz Overture: Le
Corsaire
9.13 Charpentier Medee (excerpts)
9.21 Faure Clair de lune, Op 46 No 2; Lydia, Op 4 No
9.27 Artist of the Week:
Charles Groves (conductor) Coates Suite: London Again
9.42 Hoist This have I done for my true love
9.48 Falla Neighbours'
Dance; Dance of the Miller's Wife (ThreeCornered Hat)
9.52 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E, RV269 (The Four Seasons: Spring)
10.07 Orff Carmina burana
(excerpts)
10.28 Mozart Rute Quartet in A, K298
10.40 Scriabin Piano
Concerto in F sharp minor
11.15 Schirtz Danketdem
Herm (Psalm 136)
11.22 Composer of the Week:
Debussy La Danse de Puck; Minstrels (Preludes, Bk I)
11.29 Hummel Trumpet Concerto in E flat
11.52 Bridge Enter Spring Producer Piers Burton-Page

Repeated from yesterday 5.45pm

The third of five programmes exploring the current relationship between American and British poetry through the work of poets who have crossed the Atlantic. Today, Simon Armitage talks to
Julie O'Callaghan in Dublin - where she has been living since leaving Chicago 20 years ago - and Fred D'Aguiar in Florida, where he is currently teaching creative writing.

Michael Oliver introduces the opening concert from the Sibelius Symphony
Weekend at the Barbican
Hall in London. These four concerts - recorded over the last three days - feature the complete seven-symphony cycle by one of the greatest Nordic composers.
Cho-Liang Lin (violin)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Neeme Jarvi Symphony No 7; Violin Concerto in D minor; Symphony No 3 Recorded last Friday
Next concert Thursday 7.30pm

Handel's contemporaries have left countless colourful reports about both his character and music.
George Pratt and Jonathan Keates introduce a selection of anecdotes and accounts about the composer by 18th-century writers, performers, critics and audiences.
Producer Kate Bolton

In the second of three programmes, the Earl of Harewood introduces a concert given by the Chilingirian Quartet. During the interval,
Patrick Nuttgens introduces the work of Walter Brierley. Mendelssohn String
Quartet in F minor, Op 80 Schnlttke String Quartet No
Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op 59 No 1 (Rasumovsky)
A Philip Titcombe production

Tomorrow's live relay of Cav and Pag marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most respected opera companies in the world.
Chris de Souza traces the eventful history of WNO from amateur beginnings in a used-car showroom to the current controversy over
Cardiff's new opera house. Contributors include past and present general and musical directors and international singers and critics.
Producer Gautam Rangarajan See also tomorrow 7.10pm

Sonatine; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Gaspard de la nuit
Gwendolyn Mok (piano) Rpt

Another chance to hear this production of Louis
MacNeice's classic radio parable play, first produced in 1946. When Roland, the youngest of seven sons, sets off in the well-worn footsteps of family tradition, his journey brings him to the Dark Tower that has loomed perilously over his family for generations. Now Roland must make a crucial decision - a choice between blind obedience or free will - to confront "the evil that never dies".
Music by Philip Hammond performed by the Renaissance Singers
Director Michael Quinn Rpt

Jeremy Summerly talks to John Tavener about his meditation on the earthly life and return of Christ.
Tavener We shall see Him as He is (Ikon of the Beloved) Soloists
Britten Singers
Chester Festival Chorus
BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, conductor Richard Hickox
Trad The Easter Canon of St John Damascene
Russian Patriachate Choir, conductor Anatoly Grindenko
Producer Antony Pitts

The cumbia - the loping, duple time from Colombia's Caribbean coast - is the country's celebrated national rhythm and made its name in Britain selling a famous brand of coffee!
Toto la Momposina is the undisputed queen of the traditional cumbia. In this programme, she tells
Jo Shinner about her life and work.
An Angell Sound production

Building a Library
Including a comparison of recordings of Barber's
Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Revised repeat from yesterday
9.00am