With Paul Guinery.
Rutti Songs of Love
Cambridge Singers,
Veronica Henderson (cello), director Ian Moore
7.44 JC Bach Symphony in C, V46 Hanover Band, director Anthony Halstead
7.54 Schirtz Surrexit Pastor Bonus,
SWV469 Dresden Kreuzchor, Capella Fidicinia , director Rudolf Mauersberger
8.00 JC Bach Symphony in C, V46 (alternate version)
8.10 Askell Masson Meditation
Ian Quinn (organ)
8.20 Uth/12th-century chant Officium Peregrinorum Ensemble Organum, director Marcel Peres Producer Antony Pitts
With Sandy Burnett and Charles Haziewood.
Composer of the Week:
Haydn Overture to an English Opera London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington
9.08 Johann Strauss (son) Waltz: Greetings to Covent Garden
LSO, conductor John Georgiadis
9.16 Chopin Waltzes , Op 64: No 1 in D flat, (Minute); No 2 in C sharp minor Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
9.22 Handel Water Music:
Suite No 1 (excerpts)
Academy of St Martin in the Reids, conductor Neville Marriner
9.32 James Paisible The Queen's Farewell
David Gordon The Queen's Farewell Stomp London Oboe Band, director Paul Goodwin
9.42 Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
BBC SO, conductor Andrew Davis
9.58 Chabrier Menuet Pompeux ;
Scherzo-Valse (Pieces Pittoresques) Kathryn Stott (piano)
10.09 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G BWV1049 English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
10.25 Delius On Hearing the Rrst Cuckoo in Spring Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conductor Norman Del Mar
10.33 Orff Imperatrix Mundi; Primo Vere (Carmina Burana)
Anthony Michaels-Moore (baritone), Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Vienna Boys' Choir, Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Andre Previn
10.51 Tchaikovsky April; May (The Seasons) Angela Brownridge (piano)
10.59 Rautavaara Isle of Bliss
Helsinki Philharmonic, conductor Leif Segerstam
11.11 Artist of the Week:
Peter Pears (tenor)
Trad, arr Britten Lincolnshire Poacher; Sweet Polly Oliver ; The Ploughboy Benjamin Britten (piano)
11.19 Verdi, arr Herrlinger/Giampieri Concert Fantasy on "Rigoletto" Sabine Meyer (clarinet), Zurich Opera Orchestra, conductor Franz Welser-Most
11.34 Schubert Impromptu in B flat, D935 No 3 Alfred Brendel (piano)
11.46 Bach Komm Jesu , Komm, BWV229 Monteverdi Choir and Friends, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
11.56 Debussy, orch Biisser Printemps Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
Producer Piers Burton-Page E-MAIL:bksm@bbc.co.uk
Repeated from yesterday 5.45pm
SCHUBERTIAD
Gone Fishing. Gordon Stewart looks at some Schubert songs with an angling theme.
Producer Adam Gatehouse
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Main Nicolson introduces the first of two concerts given this weekend in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. Nikolai Demidenko (piano), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Richard Hickox
Grainger March; Rustic Dance (Youthful Suite)
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor
Grainger Country Gardens
Delius, arr Fenby Suite: Hassan Grainger The Warriors See also tomorrow 7.30pm
The third programme in the monthly series on the history of dance, with Jeremy Barlow and Michelene Wandor. Musicians and Dancers. Until the 19th century, dance instructors were also musicians, playing the fiddle as they taught. Dancing and playing have since diverged, but dance can still tell us a great deal about musical performance. Producer Kate Bolton
Repeated Tuesday 4.00pm
John Bird presents the last of five concerts exploring chamber music based on a carnival theme.
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), Ian Brown and Susan Tomes (pianos), Nash Ensemble , conductor Lionel Friend Faure Dolly Suite
Michael Berkeley Entertaining Mr Punch Poulenc Le Bal Masque
Richard Rodney Bennett Commedia 1 Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals
Producer Wendy Thompson
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Tony Harrison at 60
To mark Tony Harrison 's 60th birthday on Wednesday,
Michael Kustow explores the work of one of Britain's most versatile and challenging poets. He came to national attention with his controversial poem v, whose themes of cultural and social division, family, love, death and the fragility of culture echo through all of his work. Director Sir Richard Eyre , composer Richard Blackford , designer Jocelyn Herbert and other artists evoke his poetry. Actors Sian Thomas , Barrie Rutter and Greg Hicks perform excerpts from his plays, and Harrison reads his own poems. Other Harrison poems, read by the poet, will appear between programmes through the week. Producer Michael Kustow
Paul Meyer (clarinet), Eric Le Sage (piano)
Schumann Fantasy Pieces, Op 73
Stravinsky Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo
Debussy Estampes for Piano
Brahms Clarinet Sonata in E flat,
Op 120 No 2
Last Monday's BBC Lunchtime Concert
By Brian Friel. Molly Sweeney has been blind for almost 40 years, but now the gift of sight may become available. Against her better judgement, she is urged to grasp the opportunity ...
Music played by Sean McGuire Director Roland Jaquarello
To mark Russian Orthodox Easter Day, Choir Works begins a series of four programmes tracing Russia's rich and distinctive choral tradition.
1: Passion and Resurrection. The sonorous singing of the Russian Orthodox church continued throughout the country's turbulent history despite periods of censorship and persecution. With
Jeremy Summerly and composer Ivan Moody. Anon Of Thy Mystical Supper
Moscow Patriarchate Choir, conductor Anatoli Grindenko
Paschal Hymns from St Sergius Monastery, Zagorsk
Ivan Moody Passion and Resurrection (first broadcast)
Micaela Hasiam (soprano), Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor), Stephen Charlesworth (baritone), Jane Cawardine and Robert Salter
(violins), Claire Finnimore (viola), Helen Binney (cello), Chris West
(double bass), Richard Home (bells), BBC Singers, conductor Ivor Bolton Producers Michael Emery and Kate Bolton
With Paul Balmer.
Sinai. The second of two programmes encounters the Bedouin music of the Sinai Desert, which has changed little since the time of Moses. With
Bedouin poetry read by Bias Shehadeh. Producers Peter Windows and Judy Caine
Building a Ubrary
Revised repeat from yesterday 9.00am
With Irina Kirillova.
1.00 Russian Easter Vespers
Recorded in the New Church of Christ the Saviour, Moscow. Tens of thousands of Russians celebrate
Easter Day, led by Patriarch Alexis of Moscow and All Russia, in the year of the 850th anniversary of the founding of Moscow. Choir of the Holy Trinity St Sergius Monastery and Theological Academy/Archimandrite
Matthew Marmyl , Alexandrov Choir of the Russian Ministry of Defence/Colonel Ukhov
2.30 Giovanni Pacini Saffo
Wexford Festival Opera Chorus,
National SO of Ireland/Maurizio Benini
5.00 Sequence
