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Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068 - Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood

6.26 Dvorak Hussite Overture - Czech Philharmonic, conductor Vaclav Neumann

7.04 Grainger Ramble on Love - Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)

7.32 Walton Music for Children - London Philharmonic, conducted by the Composer

8.05 Mozart L'Amero, Saro Costante (Il Re Pastore) - Lucia Popp (soprano), Munich Radio Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin

8.44 Liszt Totentanz - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit

Peter Hobday continues his sequence of Beethoven symphonies and introduces recordings by the American pianist Leon Fleisher.
CPE Bach Symphony in G, Wql82 Nol
English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
9.12 Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Leon Fleisher , Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa
9.32 Brahms Liebeslieder , Op 52 Nos 1-7
Benita Valente (soprano),
Marlena Kleinman (contralto), Wayne Conner (tenor), Martial Singher (bass), Rudolf Serkin and Leon Fleisher (piano duet)
9.45 Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral) Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner

Neville Marriner
Joan Bakewell talks to Sir Neville Marriner
about his continuing relationship with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which he formed in 1959, and his belief that the only way to hold together the best instrumentalists in the country is to give them freedom.

Richard Baker tells the stories behind 1,000 years of great music. Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, was tone deaf but was so determined to make hers the most magnificent court of her time that money was no obstacle to buying in musicians from all over Europe. She patronised opera and theatre, and employed a number of foreign musicians at court, notably the Italians Paisiello, Galuppi and Cimarosa. Yet the traffic was not all one-way. Many serf composers went to Italy to be trained, and, returning to their homeland, they began the first stirrings of a Russian School.

With Susan Sharpe.
2: The Homesick Exile
During his years of musical experimentation in Paris, Martinu began to return to his Czech musical roots, an unfulfilled obsession that never left him.
Duo for Violin and Cello
Turovsky Duo
Suite: Spalicek
Brno State Philharmonic,
Eva Podarilova (piano), conductor Charles Mackerras Repeated next Tuesday 11.30pm

The Beethoven Cello Sonatas
The second of five programmes in which pianist Roger Vignoles introduces and plays Beethoven's cello sonatas with five different cellists. The programmes also include sonatas from the 20th century. Rebecca Gilluver (cello), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Britten Cello Sonata, Op 65
Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor,
Op 5 No 2 Repeat

BBC Philharmonic
Conductors Van Pascal Tortelier,
Libor Pesek and Vassily Sinaisky Howard Shelley (piano)
Strauss Death and Transfiguration Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor

An A-Z of Song lain Burnside goes on a whistlestop tour of the alphabet in song. Repeated from yesterday 10pm

Jazz Plus
How do you give a label to a piece of music like Gershwin's Porgy and Bess? Is it classical, is it jazz, or is it neither of these? Verity Sharp talks to Ben Markland about how composers this century have mixed jazz with classical music.

"'Will you walk a little faster?', said the whiting to the snail."
Sean Rafferty continues his exploration of the music behind Alice in Wonderland. And Peter Donohoe reveals his passion for Brahms as he prepares to perform the mighty Piano Concerto No 1 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.

Dufay Collective
From Studio 7, New
Broadcasting House, introduced by Rodney Slatford. The Dufay Collective are at the forefront of the younger generation of early music specialists and are best known for their cross-over work between medieval and ethnic/folk music. Viva la Spagna. Music from the Cancionera Musicale de Palacio (Palace Songbook), probably compiled between 1500 and 1520 for use at the court of the Catholic monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella.
8.10 The Dell
A short story by James Hamilton -
Paterson, read by Roger May. A young flautist discovers the relationship between water and music. Repeat
8.30 Concert, part 2

Living Ideas
A five-part series in which leading philosophers offer their appreciation of great thinkers. 2: Machiavelli. Quentin Skinner, one of today's leading historians of political thought, argues that
Machiavelli still has a great deal to teach us about the importance of civic participation in guaranteeing our individual freedom.

Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk , Per Salo (piano)
Lutoslawski Venetian Games
Norgard Concerto in Due Tempi (first broadcast)
Stravinsky Symphony in C

One hundred years to the day since Zola published his famous letter,
J'Accuse, Richard Coles re-examines the notorious Dreyfus affair. Zola's letter attacked the imprisonment of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish-French army captain falsely accused of treason amid forgery, intimidation and a vicious, anti-Semitic press campaign. And Anthony Julius , lawyer and author of a controversial attack on the anti-Semitism of TS Eliot, delivers the first of this week's three specially commissioned Letters to Zola.
Producer Abigail Appleton

Bruce Wood explores the music of Germany's first great composer.
2: Lion Rampant. The 1620s found Schutz already at the height of his creative powers and serving as musical director of the most important choral foundation in Protestant Germany. Today's programme includes music from his Cantiones Sacrae, part of his oratorio The Resurrection Story, and some brilliantly colourful pieces from his Symphoniae Sacrae, Book 1. Repeated from last Tuesday

Digby Fairweather is joined by Steve Voce to review some new CDs.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Strauss Alpine Symphony
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leif Segerstam
2.15 Sigtenhorst Meyer Piano
Sonata No 2, Op 23 David Kuijken
2.35 Holmboe Benedictus Domino
Danish National Radio Choir, conductor Stefan Parkman
3.00 Schools
3.00 Playtime 3.15 Time to Move
3.35 Let's Make a Story 3.50 Drama Workshop 4.10 In the News Special Edition 4.30 Hop, Skip and Jump
4.45 Anns a' Bhad
5.00 Sequence Music by Saint-
Saens, Part and Sweelinck, plus:
5.05 Britten Simple Symphony
Young Danish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Gunnar Tagmize 5.40 Mendelssohn Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kazuhiro Koizumi