With Edward Seckerson.
6.00 Palestrina Stabat Mater a 8 Taverner Consort, director Andrew Parrott
7.00 Suk Serenade for Strings Czech Philharmonic, conductor Jiri Belohlavek
7.45 Tallis Lamentations of Jeremiah
8.00 Tallis Lamentations of Jeremiah II
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, director Stephen Cleobury
8.30 Poulenc Organ Concerto Ian Tracey , BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Handel, transcr Elgar Overture in D minor London Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Slatkin
9.10 Hofstetter, attrib Haydn Serenade (String Quartet in F) Delme Quartet
9.14 Paul Ladmirault Variations on a Bagpipe Theme Isobel Beyer and Harvey Dagul (piano duet)
9.20 Pasculli Grand Concerto on Themes from Verdi's "I Vespri Sicilian;" Philippe Magnan (oboe), I Musici de Montreal, conductor Yuli Turovsky
9.34 Reger Morning Song
Netherlands Chamber Choir, conductor Uwe Gronostay
9.37 Jelly Roll Morton Kansas City Stomp; Fingerbreaker
Morton Gunnar Larsen (piano)
9.44 Elgar Cockaigne Overture
BBCSO, conductor Andrew Davis
10.00 Mid-Programme Feature - English Song:
Morley It Was a Lover and His Lass Julianne Baird (soprano), Ronn McFarlane (lute)
Vaughan Williams Linden Lea Thomas Allen (baritone), John Constable (piano) Parry 0 Mistress Mine Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano)
10.06 Gurney, orch Flnzi Under the Greenwood Tree; Orpheus; Sleep; Spring Christopher Maltman (baritone), BBC Scottish SO, conductor Martyn Brabbins
10.17 Glazunov Spring Royal
Scottish NO, conductor Neeme Jarvi
10.34 Harris Faire Is the Heaven;
Bring Us, 0 Lord God BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury
10.44 Janacek The Fiddler's Child
Czech PO, conductor Jiri Belohlavek Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
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The Labeque Sisters
Joan Bakewell talks to piano duo Katia and Marielle Labeque. Revised repeat
Ivan Hewett visits London's newest opera venue - Wilton's Music Hall - and previews the opening performance there of Weill's Silbersee, translated by Rory Bremner.
Producer Jessica Isaacs
From the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge.
Hymn: Ride On, Ride On in Majesty
Readings: Job 6, w2-9, 12-13
No Worst, There Is None (Hopkins)
Gospel: Mark 14, w32-50 (plainsong) Almighty and Everlasting God (Gibbons) Tristis Est Anima Mea (Kuhnau) Hymn: Lord Jesus, Think on Me
Reading from The Love of God and Affliction (Simone Weil )
Gospel: Matthew 27, wll-26 (plainsong)
Morning Prayers (Philip Moore )
By the Rivers of Babylon (Robin Orr ) Vinea Mea Electa (Poulenc)
Hymn: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (descant: Guest)
Readings from Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward (John Donne )
Lamentations 1, wl2-13; 3, w4-21
Gospel: John 19, wl6-42 (plainsong) Prayers in Time of Distress and Evening Prayers (Philip Moore )
Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude 0 Mensch, Bewein' dein'
Sunde Gross , BWV 622 (Bach)
Director of music Christopher Robinson. Organ student lain Farrington.
Cello Sonata in E minor, Op 38 Mstislav Rostropovich , Rudolf Serkin (piano)
In Search of Tristan. The tragic love story of Tristan and Isolt has inspired countless retellings in poetry and prose, as well as music from the Middle Ages to Wagner. In the final edition of the series, Christopher
Page goes in search of Tristan along the windswept coasts of Cornwall.
Producer Kate Bolton. FACTSHEET WEB PAGE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/factsheets
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Pianist Barry Douglas talks about soprano Renata Tebaldi. Producer Mark Rowlinson
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
63: Virginia Woolf: The Waves. Melissa Murray analyses one of Virginia Woolf's finest books. Producer Cherry Cookson
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Anthony Burton introduces music first performed in 1926. Walton Overture: Portsmouth Point
LPO, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Janacek Concertino Rudolf Firkusny (piano), Members of the Bavarian RSO, conductor Rafael Kubelik
Sibelius Tapiola BBC Scottish SO, conductor Osmo Vanska
Falla Harpsichord Concerto Luis Vidal, Members of the Teatre Lliure
CO, conductor Josep Pons Villa-Lobos Choro No 10
BBC Singers, New World SO, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
Producer Philip Tagney
Anna Chen presents a unique profile of one of the century's most famous yet least understood icons which examines Ono as a radical art-feminist and attempts to uncover the myths and prejudice surrounding her work as an artist, musician and performer. The programme is based on exclusive interviews with Yoko Ono and with the artists and writers who have worked with her since the sixties.
Producer Lance Dann
Repeated from yesterday 12 noon
Brian Kay introduces a 20th-century French edition in which the BBC
Singers are conducted by Stephen Jackson in a psalm setting by Milhaud and three Latin motets by Pierre Villette. They are joined by baritone Graham Titus , the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor
John Poole in a rare performance of Ennend Bonnal's Poemes Franciscains.
Producer Lindsay Kemp
By Michael Hastings. With
John Sessions as John Reith , Samuel West as Charlie Bowser , Keeley Hawes as Muriel, and Tracy Wiles as Maysie.
Michael Hastings 's play explores the triangular relationship between the future founder of the BBC, his fiancee Muriel and his best friend Charlie. with Timothy Bateson , David Collings , Hugh Dickson , Derek Waring , Jenny Lee ,
Christopher Wright , Brian Parr and Louisa ffolkes. Original music by Barrington Pheloung. Director Peter Kavanagh Repeat
Barry Wordsworth conducts a final selection of British ballet music.
Walton Façade: Suite No 1
Addison Carte Blanche: Ballet Suite
Bemers, arr Douglas Suite: The Triumph of Neptune
Ritmo: the Music of Latin America
Mike Gonzalez concludes the series exploring the varied ethnic musical traditions of Latin America.
6: The Tango
William Byrd 's setting of the Old
Testament text is performed with other Lenten motets by Byrd and with some of his consort and keyboard works. BBC Singers, conductor Bo Holten , Fretwork, Sophie Yates (virginals), Patrick Ayrton (organ)
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Berlioz Romeo et Juliette:
Dramatic Symphony
Markella Hatziano (mezzo), Kenneth Tarver (tenor), Markus Hollop (bass), Slovakian Philharmonic Chorus,
Italian RSO, conductor Eliahu Inbal
2.35 Weiss Suite in D minor
Konrad Junghanel (Baroque lute)
3.10 Harry Somers Suite Jennifer Swartz (harp), National Arts Centre Orchestra, conductor Victor Feldbrill
3.35 Arriaga String Quartet No 1 in D minor Moscow Quartet
4.10 Chopin Six Mazurkas Sana Villerusa (piano)
4.40 Bartok Two Pictures, Op 10 Finnish RSO/Leif Segerstam
5.20 Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat,
K378 Valdis Zarins , leva Zarina (piano)
5.30 Beethoven 32 Variations in C minor, WoO 80 Irena Kobla (piano)
