1 Stephanie Hughes with music and ; arts news, including a report from the i Huddersfield Festival on Tan Dun 's opera Marco Polo. Music includes
Strauss's Horn Concerto No 2 at 6.30, , Ravel's Alborada del Gracioso after
7.00, and Beethoven's Overture: The j Creatures of Prometheus at 8.25.

With Penny Gore, featuring music from I Book 1 of Bach's 48 preludes and fugues and vintage performances by conductor Herbert von Karajan.
Mozart Six German Dances, K600 Vienna Mozart Ensemble, conductor Willi Boskovsky
9.12 Bach Preludes and Fugues
Nos 1-4 ("48") Edwin Fischer (piano)
9.30 Biber Sonata a 6 in B flat (The Peasants' Churchgoing) New London Consort, director Philip Pickett
9.38 Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216 Salzburg Camerata Academica, director Augustin Dumay (violin)
10.03 Sibelius Rondino , Op 68 No 1 Marita Viitasalo (piano)
10.07 Sibelius Tapiola Philharmonia , conductor Herbert von Karajan Producer Tony Cheevers

Barbara Hendricks
With Joan Bakewell. American lyric soprano Barbara Hendricks celebrates her 50th birthday this month. Born in Arkansas, USA, the daughter of a Methodist minister and a teacher at an elementary school, she studied chemistry and maths at university. But a chance opportunity to study at the Aspen Summer Music Festival changed her life dramatically. With music by Bach, Gluck, Gershwin and Mozart.
Producer Johannah Smith
Joan Bakewell 's Questionnaire: p23

Five Saints
With Donald Macleod.
1: Cecilia. Yesterday was the feast day of St Cecilia, the most famous saint to be associated with music.
Adopted in the late 15th century as patron by various guilds of musicians, she has been the inspiration for composers through the ages. Cecilia was martyred for her Christian faith; one lurid account of her death tells how she was placed in a boiling bath for a night and a day, then, as she was still alive, her tormenters tried to cut off her head and finally left her to bleed to death over three days. j Including:
Handel Ode for St Cecilia's Day
(excerpt) Felicity Lott (soprano), English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
Gounod St Cecilia Mass (Agnus Dei) Irmgard Seefried (soprano), Gerhard Stolze (tenor). Czech Chorus and PO, conductor Igor Markevitch
Britten Hymn to St Cecilia The
Sixteen, director Harry Christophers Flnzl For St Cecilia
Philip Langridge (tenor), London
Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox
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French composer Josquin des Prez was the most famous musician of his time. His innovations in harmony, texture and form helped to create the musical language of the High
Renaissance. Jeremy Summerly introduces music from Josquln's early years, including a performance of the Missa Ami Baudichon performed by Capella Alamire , director Peter Urquhart. Producer Lindsay Kemp
Repeated next Monday 12 midnight

Wigmore Hall Chamber Series
From the Wigmore Hall,
London, introduced by Stephanie Hughes.
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Bach Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV1004; Sonata No 3 in C, BWV1005 Repeated Saturday lpm

BBC Symphony Orchestra
This week featuring Strauss tone poems. Conductors Pinchas Steinberg and Andrew Davis , Artur Pizarro (piano)
Wagner Good Friday Music (Parsifal) Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor
Strauss Aus Italien

Ruth Mackenzie , general director of Scottish Opera, introduces a selection of operatic highlights.
Choruses. Excerpts from Puccini's Tosca and Britten's Peter Grimes.
Producer Gautam Rangarajan

Unusual Instruments
This week, Verity Sharp looks at some of the more extraordinary musical instruments that composers have written for over the centuries.
Today, she investigates the glass harmonica, which, although unusual, is associated with such eminent composers as Gluck and Mozart. Producer Christina Pritchard.
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Sean Rafferty begins a week interviewing authors who have used music in their novels by talking to Bernard MacLaverty about Grace Notes. Music includes Elgar's
Cockaigne Overture at 5.40 and pieces by Brttten and Bach.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

The LSO reach the final staging post of their epic journey through the orchestral works of Shostakovich.
Tonight's concert opens with his
"last will and testament", the Suite on Poems of Michelangelo, and the series ends by completing the cycle of Shostakovich's 15 symphonies: as well as quoting Rossini and Wagner, the Symphony No 15 looks back over the composer's previous symphonies.
Tigran Martirossian (baritone), London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mstislav Rostropovich Shostakovich Suite on Poems of Michelangelo; Symphony No 15

Private View
The return of the Postscript series in which Nicholas Ward Jackson explores the contemporary art world. Today, he visits the studio of Gilbert and George as they prepare for a new exhibition in Naples. The Italian show will be the first time all the recent New Testamental Pictures have been seen together. As they talk about the forthcoming show, Gilbert and George describe their working practices as glimpses of their latest work emerge. Producer Sean Walsh

Terzetto in C, Op 74
Members of the Vlach Quartet

Edith Mathis
The second of two programmes featuring the great German soprano Edith Mathis , recorded last September at London's Wigmore Hall. Edith Mathis (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano) Schumann Widmung ; Der
Nussbaum; Die Lotosblume; Lied der Suleika; Lied der Braut 1; Lied der Braut 2; Im Westen (Myrthen); Der
Arme Peter; Jasminenstrauch; Roselein, Roselein!; Marienwurmchen;
Fruhlingslusl; Die Blume der
Ergebung; Erstes Grun ; Er Ist's Repeated tomorrow 4pm

The Deutsche-Amerikanische
Freundschaft was active for little more than a year in the early 1980s, but the German duo behind it were extraordinarily productive, and their impact on electronic music was deep and lasting. Drummer Robert Gorl and vocalist Gabi Delgado talk to presenters Robert Sandall and Mark Russell about their work.
Producer Ekene Akalawu

Alyn Shipton presents a survey of British jazz pianists. Producer Terry Carter

Piano Sonata in C, Op 1; FAE Sonata in C minor (excerpt); Serenade No 1 in D (excerpts)
Repeated from last Monday

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Brahms Trio Haydn Piano Trio in G, H XV 25 (Gypsy Rondo) Brahms Piano Trio No 1 in B, Op 8
2.00 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 1 in G minor (Winter Daydreams) Slovak SO/ Pavel Semetov
3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Box 3.15 Something to Think About 3.30 The Song Tree
3.45 Stories and Rhymes 4.00
Primary Geography 4.15 Music for Dance ,4.30 Hopscotch 4.45 Scottish Resources 7-9
5.00 Lassus Exsurgat Deus; In Hora Ultima Currende , Concerto Palatino/ Erik van Neve
5.10 Emil Homeman Aladdin
Overture Danish NSO/Michael Schonwandt
5.30 Kraus Symphony in C minor
(Symphonie Funebre) Concerto Koln