With Paul Guinery.
Plainchant Lumen ad Revelationem
Gentium; Adorna Thalamum Tuum Pro Cantione Antiqua
7.08 McCabe Siberia (Mangan Triptych) BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury
7.16 Rachmaninov Polka de WR
Shura Cherkassky (Duo-Art piano)
7.21 Nicolas Gombert Magnificat Octavi Toni Henry 's Eight, director Jonathan Brown
7.34 William Schuman New England Triptych BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Litton
7.50 McCabe Visions (Mangan Triptych) BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury
8.00 Bach Cantata No 14: War Gott
Nicht mit Uns Diese Zeit
Peter Hinterreiter (treble), Marius van Altena (tenor), Max van Egmond
(bass), Tolz Boys ' Choir, King's
College Choir, Leonhardt Consort , director Gustav Leonhardt
8.19 Gombert In Illo Tempore
Henry's Eight, director Jonathan Brown
8.25 Robert Schumann Arabesque in C, Op 18 Emil Gilels (piano)
8.32 McCabe Motet (Mangan Triptych) BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury
8.43 Le Fleming Nunc Dimittis
Oxford Pro Musica Singers, St Cecilia Players, director Michael Smedley Producer Antony Pitts

Fiona Talkington and her guest preview the Radio 3 week.

Doreen Carwithen Overture: ODTAA - LSO, conductor Richard Hickox

9.12 Beethoven Variations on Three Irish Songs - lli Mustonen (piano)

9.20 Trad, arr Canteloube Bailero (Songs of the Auvergne) - Frederica von Stade (mezzo), RPO, conductor Antonio de Almeida

9.27 Pierne Theme and Variations on a Popular Round - Fairer Sax

9.35 Raff Four Pieces, Op 85 - Yuko Nishino (violin), Philharmonia, conductor Yondani Butt

9.52 Schubert, arr Liszt Soirees de Vienne - Leslie Howard (piano)

10.00 Bach, arr Mowat Brandenburg Concerto No 3 - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

10.09 Elgar The Dream of Gerontius (Finale, part 1) - Kim Borg (bass), Sheffield Phiiharmonia Chorus, Ambrosian Singers, Halle Choir and Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli

10.28 Composer of the Week: Lalo

Rapsodie - Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra, conductor Antonio de Almeida

10.40 Albinoni Concerto in C for Two Oboes, Op 9 No 9 - Anthony Robson and Catherine Latham, Collegium Musicum 90, director Simon Standage

10.52 Holst Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda (Group 3) - Netherlands Chamber Choir, Manja Smits (harp), conductor John Alldis

11.05 Josef Strauss Waltz: Music of the Spheres - Vienna PO, conductor Willi Boskovsky

11.23 Balfe Excelsior - Robert Tear (tenor), Benjamin Luxon (baritone), Andre Previn (piano)

11.30 Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor - Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conductor Bruno Walter

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With Ivan Hewett. This week a book on Verdi, a festival of improvisation and a new piece for the virginals. Producer Tony Sellors
Repeated tomorrow 4pm

Introduced by Penny Gore.
Pascal Roge (piano), Ysaye Quartet
Faure Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op 15
Krawczyk String Quartet No 2
Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44

On the eve of Candlemas, in a specially extended edition,
Christopher Page , Andrew Carwood and David Skinner introduce a reconstruction of the feast as it might have been heard in Hampton Court Palace, London, in 1541. The Cardinall's Musick and the Choir of the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace, director Carl Jackson , perform Packe's Nunc Dimittis,
Ludford's Missa Videte Miraculum and Taverner's Christe Jesu. Producer Kate Bolton
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

A personal selection from the recorded legacy of the great singers of our century. Elisabeth Soderstrom introduces tenor Jussi Bjorling. Anon Sommargladje (excerpt) Bjorling Male Quartet
Mlllocker Ich Hab Kein Geld (Der Bettelstudent)
Orchestra, conductor Nils Grevillius Verdi Ingemisco (Requiem)
NBC Symphony Orchestra/Toscanini Puccini Nessun Dorma (Turandot) Orchestra, conductor Nils Grevillius
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

A weekly series exploring 20th-century works of art and their creators. This programme looks at Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

A long-term series exploring the works first performed in each year of this century. Anthony Burton presents three works from the year 1940. Copland Our Town
LSO, conducted by the Composer Shostakovich Piano Quintet Elisabeth Leonskaya (piano), Borodin Quartet
Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra
ASMF, conductor Neville Marriner
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

The second of 20 monthly documentaries surveying the range and diversity of 20th-century music. With the social and technological developments of the last 50 years, has the role of the composer developed or deteriorated? Samuel West looks at the composer's changing role in society. Producer Andrew Kurowski

Repeated from yesterday 12 noon

Thomas Dunne is an Irish Catholic superintendent, fiercely devoted to the British crown. Incarcerated in a Wicklow asylum, he is trapped between his need to remember and the urge to forget his past life, which threatens to engulf him. Sebastian Barry 's play was first performed at the Royal Court in 1995. Music by Matthew Scott Director Hilary Norrish

Northern Exposure
In the third of this five-part series dealing with the choral music of the Nordic and Baltic countries, Jeremy Summerly follows in the footsteps of MacNeice and Auden in pursuit of the idea of North.

Jewish Cantors
Two programmes in which Alex Knapp explores the Ashkenazy tradition of music for the synagogue, reflected in recordings of the last 100 years.
1: The Golden Age (1900-45)
Prayers for the feast-days of the Jewish liturgical year. Producer John Thomley

Building a Ubrary
Revised repeat from yesterday 9am

With Penny Gore.
1.00 Dvorak Stabat Mater Ana Pusic-Jeri (soprano), Eva Novsak-Houska (mezzo), Jurij Reja and Branko Robinsak (tenors), Franjo Petrusanec, Juan Vasle and Josip Lesaja (basses), Slovenian RTCO, Obala Male Choir, Radio Belgrade Male Choir,
Slovenian RTVSO/Marco Munih
2.30 Schumann Phantasiestucke , Op 12 Adrian Oetiker (piano)
3.00 Schubert Rosamunde (Overture; Intermezzo; Ballet music)
Finnish RSO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste
3.30 Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished) National Arts Centre Orchestra/Franco Mannino
4.00 Biber Scordatura Sonata
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists
4.20 Mozart Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491 Dubravka Tomsic, Slovenian RTSO/Anton Nanut
5.00 Sequence: Locatelll Concerto for Four Violins Simon Standage, Agata Sapiecha, Mana Dudzuk and Mania Papuzucka (violins), II Tempo Ensemble 5.15 Mozart String Quartet in D, K575 Tartini Quartet 5.40 Dohnanyl Symphonic Minutes Hungarian Radio Orchestra, conductor Tamas Vasary