5.55 Maths: Curve
Sketching 6.15 Modern Art: Semiotics and Visual Art
6.35 Assignment 103

With Paul Guinery.
7.02 Great 40 Days
One of Messiaen's seven visions of the risen life.
Messiaen Subtilité des corps glorieux (Les Corps glorieux)
7.10 Chant and polyphony for the Easter season
7.29 Bach Church Cantatas:
Bach Cantata No 87:
Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten
7.55 Trad Hangong qiuyue (Chinese)
8.05 Ives Psalm 67
8.11 Smyth Serenade in D
8.49 Sweelinck Tanto tempore vobiscum Producer Antony Pitts

Pianist Martin Roscoe with a prelude to the week on Radio 3.

I From the Old Ship I Hotel, a programme presented as part of the 1996 Brighton Festival with live contributions from harpsichordist Jane Chapman. Also including at approx':
9.03 Handel Acis and Galatea (excerpts)
9.15 Vaughan Williams
Quick March (Sea Songs)
9.20 Walton Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
9.30 Honegger Pastorale d'ete
Composer of the Week:
9.45 Clara Schumann
Piano Trio in G minor
(Scherzo)
10.40 Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
11.25 Arnold A Sussex
Overture
11.45 Britten Four Sea
Interludes (Peter Grimes ) Producer Piers Burton-Page

Repeated from yesterday 5.45pm

Six programmes in which Michael Billington talks to actors about key roles. 2:
Max Warren Mitchell and Timothy West discuss the patriarchal character of Max in Harold Pinter 's play The Homecoming, first performed at the RSC in 1965.

Chilingirian Quartet
Stephen Orton (cello)
Schubert String Quartet
Movement in C minor, D703 Tippett String Quartet No 5 Schubert String Quintet in C, D956

The ways in which people prepared for and accepted death in the Middle Ages and Renaissance are markedly different from our own time. Christopher Page and Claire Preston discuss this. with reference to requiems, relics, monuments, memorials, miraculous cures and resurrection.
Producer Kate Bolton

The last of three programmes recorded in 1995 during the season commemorating the centenary of the birth of Jim Ede. Stephen Plaistow introduces a concert given in the University Concert Hall by the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Janos Rolla - with violinist Gyorgy Pauk as soloist.
Haydn Symphony No 49 in F minor (La Passione)
Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219
Dvorak Serenade for strings Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C sharp minor

A Portrait of Clara Schumann
Widow of one of the finest
Romantic composers, Clara Wieck Schumann -who died 100 years ago this month - was an outstanding interpreter of Robert Schumann 's music and a composer herself. As an influential piano teacher of lasting reputation, has she succeeded in transmitting the authentic sound of Schumann's music?
Jonathan Dobson assesses her legacy and growing reputation in discussion with Ruth Byrchmore , Joan Chissell , Sophie Fuller ,
Jerrold Northrop Moore and Jeremy Siepmann. The programme includes musical illustrations by some of Clara's most oustanding pupils and archive interviews. Reader Elaine Pyke. Producer Judith Bumpus
See also 7.30pm and Monday 12 noon

(piano)
Haydn Piano Sonata in G, H XVI 40
Brahms Piano Sonata in F minor, Op 5

David Pownall - winner of the 1995 Sony Gold Award for his play Elgar's Third - returns to the theme of composers with a fascinating look at the complex relationship between the "young eagle" Johannes Brahms and his devoted mentors Robert and Clara Schumann.
Pianist Terence Allbright Director Martin Jenkins

As part of Choir Works' continuing Elgar season,
Brian Wright introduces the first of a planned trilogy of oratorios. The Apostles tells the story of the 12 men chosen by Jesus to take his message to the world. One betrays him, another denies him and, at the Ascension, the Apostles are left to preach the coming of the Kingdom. Elgar The Apostles
Goldsmiths Choral Union
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Producer Antony Pitts

In the last of three programmes, the Prasit Thawon Ensemble play
Sumran Dontri. Introduced by Donald Mitchell. Rpt

Building a Library
The keyboard works of Francois Couperin and a selection of new releases of contemporary music. Revised repeat of yesterday
9.00am

With Donald Macleod.
1.15 Mozart Die
Zauberflote conducted by Riccardo Muti at La Scala,
Milan, with Andrea Rost, soprano (Pamina) and Paul Groves , tenor (Tamino)
4.15 17th-century instrumental music
5.00 Sequence