With Edward Seckerson.
Bach Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor,
BWV1067 English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
6.44 Handel Organ Concerto in F, BWV295 (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale) Bob van Asperen ,
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
7.00 Schubert Klavierstucke , D915
Andras Schiff (piano)
8.34 Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Joshua Bell , Royal Philharmonic, conductor Andrew Litton

Wagner Overture: The Rying Dutchman New York Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Bernstein
9.13 Marcello Concerto No 6 in G
(La Cetra)
Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood
9.19 Mozart Rondo alia Turca (Piano Sonata in A, K331) Moura Lympany
9.23 Franz Waxman Romanian
Rhapsody No 1 Mark Kaplan (violin), Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, conductor Lawrence Foster
9.26 Locke Ayre (Broken Consort Suite No 1 in G minor)
Anon The Saint Turned Sinner
City Waites
9.32 Elgar Romance in D, Op 62 Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), John Lenehan (piano)
9.39 Walton Suite: The Wise Virgins LPO, conductor Bryden Thomson
10.00 Mid-Programme Feature - Ancient Airs and Dances:
Anon La Douceurs; Je Chevauchoie
I'Autrier Dufay Collective
10.06 Buonamente Gagliarda Seconda Palladian Ensemble
10.16 Rossini Una Voce Poco Fa
(The Barber of Seville)
Maria Callas (soprano), Philharmonia, conductor Tullio Serafin
10.23 JC Bach Grand Overture in D,
Op 18 No 3 Netherlands CO, conductor David Zinman
10.40 Frei Jacinto Piano Sonata in D minor Felicija Blumental
10.45 Alwyn Symphony No 4 (2nd mvt) LSO, conductor Richard Hickox Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
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Joan Bakewell meets bass John Tomlinson
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Ivan Hewett looks at the influence of painter Vassily Kandinsky as a major exhibition of his work opens at the Royal Academy of Art. Plus a report from Venice on the latest news in the troubled history of the Fenice Theatre. Producer Jessica Isaacs

Catalan viola da gamba virtuoso Jordi Savall and Dutch harpsichordist Ton Koopman come together for a rare recital given last December at the Wigmore Hall. Their programme mixes Baroque music from Germany and France: a gamba sonata and a harpsichord toccata by Bach, and atmospheric and humorous pieces by the French composers
Louis Couperin , Ste Colombe and Marin
Marais, including the latter's famous variations on Les Folies d'Espagne.

A portrait in words and music of conductor John Barbirolli in his centenary year, with Andrew Green. 2: Building a Sound: Manchester, London and Rome. In 1943,
Barbirolli received a telegram inviting him to become permanent conductor and artistic director of the ailing
Halle Orchestra in Manchester. On his return from New York, he found just a handful of players and very little money. But after just three months of non-stop auditions, he had built a brand new orchestra whose remarkable musical fortunes he cherished until his death in 1970. Andrew Green introduces newly restored Halle performances from the fifties and excerpts from opera recordings - Verdi's Otello and Puccini's Madam Butterfly.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Dr Martin Stephen , high master of Manchester Grammar School, introduces recordings made by tenor Nicolai Gedda of music by Musorgsky, Bach and Puccini.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

65: Ezra Pound: the Cantos. Ezra
Pound's epic work, on which he worked for most of his adult life, is one of modernism's great monuments. Pound is considered among the most influential poets of the century, and one of the most notorious - his Fascist sympathies and notorious war broadcasts for the enemy led to his imprisonment in Pisa. Professor Marjorie Perloff, poet Charles Bernstein and critic and poet Clive Wilmer reassess the work and shifting reputation of Ezra Pound. Producer Paul Quinn
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Music from 1946, with Ivan Hewett. Martin Petite Symphonie Concertante Meredith McCracken (harp), David McGuinness (harpsichord),
Linda Cochrane (piano), BBC Scottish SO, conductor Rumon Gamba
Webem Cantata No 1, Op 29 Christiane Oelze (soprano), BBC Singers, Berlin PO, conductor Pierre Boulez Ives Central Park in the Dark
(Contemplations) New York PO, conductor Leonard Bernstein
Cage Ophelia Margaret Leng Tan (piano) Stravinsky Symphony in Three
Movements BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Stefan Asbury Producer Ekene Akalawu

John Carey , Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford, assesses the state of his subject in today's universities. He begins with a history of the subject, tracing its birth back to 18th-century Scotland via modern greats at Oxford, with its heyday between the wars in Cambridge.
Since those heady days, many regard the subject as being in a state of decline, attacked on all sides by theorists, creative-writing courses and cultural studies. Professors George Steiner and Frank Kermode regret the fragmentation of the discipline, while Hermione Lee and her contemporaries are more optimistic. Producer Kate Whitehead

Repeated from yesterday 12 noon

Tennessee Williams's semiautobiographical "memory play" revolves around a mother's struggle to find a gentleman caller for her crippled and emotionally vulnerable daughter.
Music by Matthew Scott. Executive producer Susan Loewenberg. Director Gordon House

Piano Sonata No 7, Op 83 Maurizio Pollini

Brian Kay introduces a selection of choral works to celebrate spring. Haydn Spring (The Seasons)
Barbara Bonney (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor),
Andreas Schmidt (baritone), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Moeran Songs of Springtime (excerpts) Finzi Singers, director Paul Spicer Britten Spring Symphony Elizabeth Gale (soprano),
Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Martyn Hill (tenor), Southend Boys' Choir, London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox

Two major chamber works by veteran American composer Elliott Carter recorded last year at his 90th-birthday concert at the Barbican Centre, London.
Arditti Quartet, Ursula Oppens (piano) String Quartet No 5; Piano Quintet

Conductor Charles Mackerras
Wagner Overture: Die Meistersinger von
Nurnberg Janacek Suite: The Cunning Little Vixen; Sinfonietta

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Choral works by Brahms
2.10 Haydn Violin Concerto in G
2.35 Julius Rontgen Theme and Variations, Op 17
2.45 Mahler Symphony No 5
4.00 Chopin Scherzo No 2 in B flat, Op 31
4.20 Buxtehude Toccata in F, BuxWV156
4.25 Patrick Cardy Virelai
4.45 Brahms Hungarian Dances for Piano Duet
5.05 Haydn Symphony No 8 in G (Le Soir)
5.30 Gaspard Fritz Violin Sonata, Op 2 No 4
5.40 Charles-Louis Mion Suite: Nitetis