With Humphrey Carpenter , including featured pianist Howard Shelley. Mozart Te Deum Laudamus,
K141/666J6\z Boys' Choir, European Baroque Soloists, conductor Gerhardt Schmidt-Gaden
6.30 Britten Canticle No 1: My Beloved Is Mine Philip Langridge (tenor), Steuart Bedford (piano)
6.45 HK Andrews Ah, See the Fair
Chivalry Worcester Cathedral Choir, director Donald Hunt
7.00 Balakirev Tamara
BBC Philharmonic/Vassily Sinaisky
7.30 Bach Toccata , Adagio and Fugue in C, BWV564 Christopher Herrick (organ)
8.00 Purcell My Beloved Spake, Z28 James Bowman (countertenor),
Charles Daniels (tenor), Robert Evans and Michael George (basses), Choir of New College, Oxford, King's Consort, director Robert King
8.45 Byrd 0 Mistress Mine Sophie Yates (virginals)
Followed by: Grainger 0 Mistress Mine Polyphony, conductor Stephen Layton
Rossini Overture: La Cambiale di
Matrimonio Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
9.09 Bgar Salut damour Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conductor Norman del Mar
9.13 Motley, after Marenzio Fyer , Fyer! Ford There Is a Ladie
Greaves Come Away, Sweet Love Amaryllis Consort, conductor Charles Brett
9.21 Arnold Cornish Dances
LPO, conducted by the Composer
9.35 Milhaud Les Songes, Op 237 Stephen Coombs and Artur Pizarro (pianos)
9.41 Massenet Revons, C'Est I'Heure
Felicity Lott (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo), Graham Johnson (piano)
9.46 Ravel La Valse CBSO, conductor Simon Rattle
10.00 Mid-Programme Feature - Ensembles:
Grainger Harvest Hymn Penelope Thwaites , Wayne Marshall ,
John Lavender and Rhonda Gillespie (pianos) Bach, arr Laycock Chorale , Prelude and Fugue Rascher Saxophone Quartet
10.10 Dvorak String Quartet in G, Op 106 (3rd mvt) The Lindsays
10.16 Hummel Piano Concerto in B minor (3rd mvt) Stephen Hough , ECO, conductor Bryden Thomson
10.32 Wolf Italian Serenade
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
10.40 Handel, orch Goossens
Messiah (excerpts) Soloists, RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
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Leonard Slatkin
Joan Bakewell talks to American conductor Leonard Slatkin. Revised repeat
Ivan Hewett analyses the identity crisis in English music. And, if music be the food of love, our chefs d'amour season and stir. Producer Jessica Isaacs
A recital given last November in the Wigmore Hall, London. Takacs Quartet,
Andreas Haefliger (piano)
Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D667 (Trout)
Bartok String Quartet No 1
Dvorak Piano Quintet in A, Op 81
Christopher Page evokes the spiritual fervour of the Middle Ages through the lives of some forgotten female saints and mystics. Anthony Rooley discovers that, for Handel. music was the love of food.
Producer Kate Bolton. FACTSHEETWEB PAGE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/factsheets E-MAIL: [address removed]
Vladimir Ashkenazy introduces recordings of music by Richard Strauss and Johann Strauss made by soprano - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Producer Mark Rowlinson
57: Laurence Olivier : Henry V. The century's greatest actor, producer of definitive filmed Shakespeare and iconic Englishman ... ten years after his death, what is Olivier's cultural legacy? By carefully cutting the theatre text of Henry V, he created a film of patriotic wartime propaganda which still colours our ideas of the Bard. But is it more
Olivier than Shakespeare? And how strong is his influence on British theatre? With the help of Sir Peter Hall and others, Centurions reassesses the career of a man who was once told, "You are England." Producer Lawrence Pollard
Natalie Wheen introduces works first performed in 1965, a year where she discovers a perfect musical confusion. Dutilleux Métaboles
Bastille Opera Orchestra, conductor Myung-Whun Chung Ives Symphony No 4 (4th mvt)
New York Schola Cantorum, American SO, conductor Leopold Stokowski Sylvano Bussotti La Passion selon Sade (excerpt)
Cathy Berberian (soprano) Boulez Eclat
Ensemble InterContemporain, conductor Pierre Boulez
Stravinsky Variations (Aldous Huxley in Memoriam) London Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen
Zimmermann Die Soldaten (excerpt)
Stuttgart Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Bernhard Kontarsky Producer Edward Blakeman
Howard Barker , one of Britain's most uncompromising and controversial playwrights, discusses his work for stage and radio, with excerpts from his plays and poetry and contributions from Juliet Stevenson and Kenny Ireland. Presented by Ian McDiarmid. Producer Michael Fox
Repeated from yesterday 12 noon
Brian Kay introduces a performance of Rachmaninov's Vespers given by the BBC Singers, conductor David Hill.
Juliet Stevenson heads the cast in Howard Barker 's latest play for radio. Three women and a sick old man sit in a ruined palace, preparing themselves for a forthcoming war.
Their little household is changed for ever with the arrival of a perfidious courier.
Music by Elizabeth Parker Director Richard Wortley
In the first of two short recitals, the American harpsichordist plays a suite of dances and characteristic pieces by the 18th-century French composer Jacques Duphly. Repeat See also tomorrow 9.25pm
Barb Jungr concludes a two-part introduction to the vocal music of Iran with a survey of Iranian popular music through the 20th century.
Conductor Fedor Gluschenko
Gerald Barry Ramboys Arvo Part Festina Lente
Barry Diner Part Fratres
Bo Holten directs the BBC Singers in sacred music from the 16th century: a mass by John Merbecke and two motets by Osbert Parsley. Repeat
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Dvorak Oratorio: Saint Ludmilla - Livia Aghava (soprano), Marta Benackova (contralto), Jozef Kundiak and Tomas Cerny (tenors), Peter Mikulas (bass), Prague Philharmonic Chorus, Prague Symphony Orchestra, conductor Petr Altrichter
3.05 Dane Skerl Symphony No 8 - Slovenian Philharmonic, conductor En Shao
3.20 Mozart String Quartet in G, K387 - Orford Quartet
4.10 Poulenc Sinfonietta - Vancouver Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mario Bemardi
5.05 Verdi Eri Tu (Un Ballo in Maschera) - Gaetan Laperriere (baritone), Trois Rivieres Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gilles Bellemare
5.20 Schubert 11 Landler, D366 - Ralf Gothoni (piano)
5.30 Mozart Piano Trio in C, K548 - Orlando Trio
