With Andrew McGregor.
Prohotiev Overture on Hebnen' Themes
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemb!e
6.17 Schubert Symphony <Vo 6 <n C Roya!Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Nikoiaus Harnoncourt
7.05 Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue. Op S7 No 4
Tat!ana N!ko!aeva (piano)
7.32 Debussy La Mer
Roya! Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor R!ccardoCha!!!y
8.05 Mende)ssohn Overture:
The Heondes fHngat's Cave) London Classical P!ayers, conductor Roger Norrington
8.20 Bu/td/ng a f.tbrafy - Best of the Buncn:
Bach Sf -/ohn Pass/on Excerpts from the version chosen by George Pratt
8.35 Bartok Ptano Concerto Mo 2
AndrasSch iff, Budapest Festival Orchestra.conductor ivanFischer

With Penny Gore.
Rameau Les; Res Les Sauvages (Les Indes Galantes)
Orchestra of the 18th Century, conductor Frans Bruggen
9.13 Haydn Piano Trio in D, H XV 24 Beaux Arts Trio
9.27 Loewe Die Lotosblume
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Cord Garben (piano)
9.30 Milhaud Symphony No 1
Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson

(Discs)

With Stephanie Hughes.
Artist of the Week: Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor
French National Orchestra, conductor Lorin Maazel
10.22 Sibelius: Two Partsongs, Op 65 Jubilate Choir, conductor Astrid Riska
10.30 Larsson: Pastoral Suite, Op 19 Helsinki SO, conductor Okku Kamu
10.43 Telemann Die Nacht (Die Tageszeiten, Part 4) Johannes Mannov (bass), Freiburg Vocal Ensemble, Freiburg Collegium Musicum, conductor Wolfgang Schafer
10.57 Haydn Symphony No 101 in D (Clock)
La Petite Bande, conductor Sigiswaid Kuijken
11.30 Strauss Der Rosenkavalier (Act 1, Closing Scene)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Christina Ludwig (mezzo), Philarmonia, conductor Herbert von Karajan

Chris Wines looks at the last years of Amy Beach's fife, with contributions from the composer's biographer Adrienne Fried Block. 5: Summer in New Hampshire fwe tmprowsattons
Michel Legrand (piano)
CaMdo (excerpt)
Mark Peskanov (violin). Carter Brey (cello), Christopher O'Riley (piano) Pastorale
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
Repeated next Friday 11.30pm

Given last month in St George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol. Ian Bostridge (tenor). Julius Drake (piano)
Poulenc Tel Jour, Telle Nuit
Britten Winter Words; French Folk Songs

Players and staff of the BBC
Symphony Orchestra revea! what they !ove and bathe about orchestra! life on stage and off. Followed by E)gar Pomp and Circumstance March Mo 3 rn C m/nor B8C Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis

Andrew Manze introduces chamber cantatas for Eastertide by Tetemann. Repeated from yesterday 10.00pm

Leo Black looks back at BBC recordings of the music of Johannes Brahms, who died 100 years ago yesterday. There are also songs by Schumann, who encouraged Brahms more than anyone, and by the composers of the Second Viennese School - Schoenberg, Berg and Webern - who acknowledged their deep debt to Brahms. The singers are Thomas Hemsley, Doris Soffel, Robert Titze, Norma Procter, Pamela Bowden, Margaret Price, Jennifer Eddy, Janet Baker and Anne Collins. Variations on an Original Theme, Op 21 No 1
Andre Tchaikovsky (piano) Two Songs. Op 91
Anne Collins (mezzo), Peter Schidiof (viola), Paul Hamburger (piano) Other accompanists include Roger Vignoies , Ernest Lush, Steuart Bedford and James Lockhart. Plus a chance to hear Brahms speak and play the piano.
Producer Tim Thorne

Sarah Walker returns to Warwick Castle in search of domestic music-making from the Victorian era. In the music room, she talks to the house supervisor, Janet Pinn.

With Andrew Green, including:

Haydn The Heavens are Telling (The Creation) - Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists. conductor John Eliot Gardiner

5.45 Kreisler Tambourin Chinois - Henryk Szeryng (vioiin), Charles Reiner (piano)

6.05 Beethoven Variations on 'Rule Britannia'. WoO 79 - Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)

6.40 Brahms Variations on a Theme of Haydn (St Antoni Chorale) - Houston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Christoph Eschenbach

From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Conductor Paul Daniel, John Gushing (clarinet)
The highlight of tonight's concert promises to be the world premiere of James MacMillan's new clarinet concerto.
Schubert Overture: Rerrabras
MacMillan Clarinet Concerto (Ninian) (first performance)
8.25 Book of the Month
The first of 12 monthly programmes in which a leading writer or critic reviews a new publication.
Christopher Hitchens discusses Noam Chomsky - a Life of Dissent by Robert F Barsky.
8.45 Nielsen Symphony No 5

The last programme of the series asks how masks can be used in our culture today. Sir Peter Hall discusses the masks of his own productions.

Arias from Mozart operas arranged for wind instruments by Rainer Schottstadt and Steve Martiand.

Sarah Waiker introduces a concert from the State of the Mahon weekend at London's South Bank Centre and talks to the composers. Joe Cutter Sat s Sax
A)ma Bethany Stars: Seas: Chasms
10.30 A discussion on the business of getting new music performed.
10.45 Sam Hayden 77me <s Money Django Bates Food for P/anMon: Some More Upsets: Mfsptaced Swans; t. 'Après-Midi de M Du<y
NicoieTibbeis (soprano saxophone). Human Chain, London Sinfonietta. conductor Markus Stenz
11.40 Electronic music, including Summer at Giverny by Nye Parry. Producer Phi)ip Tagney

A BM tbf Freedom, 1777-82
With Richard Wigmore.
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D<scs Repeated from !ast Fnday

With David Cornet.

Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans
Judith...Gloria Banditelli (mezzo)
Holopherne...Judit Nemeth (soprano)
Abra...Maria Zadori (soprano)
Ensemble Vocai Savaria, Capella Savaria/Nicholas McGegan

2.40 Lutoslawski: Paganini Variations - Konstantin Bogino and Pavali Jumppanen (pianos)
Szymanski: Clarinet Quintet - Kari Kriiku, Silesian Quartet
Gade: String Sextet in E flat, Mandelring Quartet, Hariold Schlichtich (viola), Xenia Jankovic (cello)

3.40 Schubert, Chopin and Liszt - Nelson Goerner (piano), Urzula Kryger (mezzo), Katarzyna Jankowska (piano)

4.30 Dan Grigore (piano), Berlin RSO/Lawrence Foster
Beyer: Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in minor (Scottish)

6.00 Sequence