With Humphrey Carpenter , including Grieg Lyric Suite Gothenburg SO, conductor Neeme Jarvi
7.15 Beethoven Piano Sonata in F minor, Op 57 (Appassionata) Alfred Brendel
8.15 Tallis Nine Tunes for
Archbishop Parker's Psalter
Tallis Scholars, director Peter Phillips
8.23 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Sinfonia of London, conductor John Barbirolli

From the Dorking Halls,
Surrey, a special edition from the home of the Leith Hill Music
Festival. Guest musicians include countertenor James Bowman , the King's Consort - and director Robert King - and the popular brass quartet Tubalate. Including
9.15 Purcell Be Welcome Then,
Great Sir
9.35 Sousa, arr Werden The Thunderer
Trad, arr Forbes Scarborough Fair Trad, arr Hinchey Boogie-Woogie Tuba Boy
Sherwin and Maschwitz, arr Smalley A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
9.55 Dowland His Golden Locks
Time Hath to Silver Turned
Purcell Rondeau (Abdelazer)
Dowland Can She Excuse My Wrongs?
10.15 Bach Air on a G String
Handel Yet I Can Here That Dulcet Lay
10.30 Paul Mitchell-Davidson A
Chorus of Inner Voices
Schifrin, arr Smalley Mission Impossible
10.45 Hoffman Schlage Doch (Cantata No 53)
Vivaldi Nunc Jubilare (Clarae Stellae) Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
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Vladimir Ashkenazy
With Joan Bakewell. Though he now spends a lot of time conducting,
Vladimir Ashkenazy 's reputation was first established as a pianist capable of performing a vast repertoire. He was born in Gorky and studied at the Moscow Conservatoire but then defected from Russia in pursuit of artistic and political freedom. Ashkenazy reveals his feelings about his return to Russia 26 years later and how he coped with the harsh words said against him during his exile. With works by Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart and Sibelius. Revised repeat

With Ivan Hewett. Pianist Imogen Cooper talks about her forays into the rich repertoire for piano trio. Plus the unique sounds of Pham Van Ty and the Ca Tru Thai Ha Ensemble of Hanoi, who are here for a festival of Vietnamese culture.
Producer Jessica Isaacs

Felicity Lott (soprano), Olaf Bar (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Wolf Italian Songbook

Re-created sounds of the Italian
Baroque.
Roncalli Sonata in C
Jakob Lindberg (Baroque guitar)
Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances
Suite No 3 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Today is Easter Day in the Greek Orthodox Church, and the festive celebrations involve an ancient and distinctive tradition of singing praises to God. Michelene Wandor and her guests David Melling and Alexander Lingas look at the history of this exotic sound world, with hymns and chants sung by the Greek Byzantine Choir, director Lycourgos Angelopoulos. Producer Kate Bolton
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

A weekly series exploring the recorded legacy of the great singers of our century. Sir Humphrey Maud introduces Peter Pears. With music by Britten, Schubert and Schumann.

One hundred great 20th-century works of art.

The architect Walter Gropius was founding director of the Bauhaus, the famous school of architecture and design that flourished in Germany in the 1920s and was later closed down by the Nazis. Sir Terence Conran and Frank Whitford reflect on Gropius's ideas, achievements and influence.

A long-term series exploring works first performed in each year of this century. Anthony Burton introduces works first heard during the Festival of Britain in 1951. George Lloyd Overture: John Socman
Alan Rawsthorne Piano Concerto No 2
Vaughan Williams The Pilgrim's Progress (Act 1, Scene 2)
Benjamin Frankel Violin Concerto in Memory of the Six Million (excerpt)
Britten Billy Budd (Finale of Act 1)

A new monthly series invites leading commentators on the century to give their views on the landmark events that have changed the way we think and act. In the first programme, Manuel Castells, author of The Information Age and professor of sociology and city and regional planning at the University of Berkeley, California, talks to Peter Conrad about the wave of libertarianism in the sixties, the creation and collapse of Communism, and the impact of the technological revolution on how we pass information around the globe.

Repeated from yesterday 12 noon

Richard Eyre 's acclaimed Royal
National Theatre production of David Hare 's Skylight comes to Radio 3.
In the 1980s, married entrepreneur Tom Sergeant had a brief affair with his assistant Kyra. Now his wife is dead and Kyra is a teacher in the East End. During a long night, Tom and Kyra try to explore what happened to them and to find new meeting grounds between them.
They are still in love, but can there be any future for them as a couple? David Hare 's play Amy's View is currently running to great acclaim in the West End.
Director Janet Whitaker

In the first of three programmes featuring French music, Brian Wright is joined by Lionel Sawkins to explore the repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries, including two canticles by Lalande and Charpentier, motets by Rameau and Lully and plangent music for viols by Marais and Sainte Colombe.
Lully Te Deum Le Concert Spirituel, conductor Herve Niquet
Lalande Cantique Quatrième (Sur le Bonheur des Justes)
Charpentier Cantique de Zacharie Rameau In Convertendo
Les Arts Florissants, director William Christie

David Fanshawe spent ten years exploring and recording the endangered music of the Pacific islands. In the second of three programmes, he delves into his archive to unearth songs and dances from Micronesia.

Building a Library
Revised repeat from yesterday 9am

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Musica Antiqua Praha Rigatti Dixit Dominus Grandi Motet Bone
Jesu Schmelzer Sonata a 5 in D
2.00 Bratislava Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Ludovit Rajter , Aladar Mozi (violin), Milan Telecky (viola)
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K364
Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: Tale of Tsar Saltan
Schubert Symphony No 3 in D
3.30 Julius Rontgen Serenade for Seven Wind Instruments in A
Viotta Ensemble
4.00 Beethoven Piano Sonata in A flat, Op 110 David Kuijken (piano)
4.30 Roussel Symphony No 3 Utrecht Symphony Orchestra. conductor Jean Fournet
5.00 Telemann Trumpet Concerto in D Friedemann Immer , Musica Antiqua Kbln, director Reinhard Goebel
Mendelssohn Four Heine Lieder
Kevin McMillan (baritone), Michael McMahon (piano)
5.30 Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor, D759 (Unfinished)
Netherlands Radio Chamber
Orchestra, conductor Ernest Bour