Petroc Trelawny with music and arts news, including a report from Birmingham on a community performance of Philip Glass's opera Satyagraha about Gandhi. Music includes at 6.10 Vivaldi's Oboe
Concerto in C, RV449; at about 7.15 Lennox Berkeley's Serenade for Strings; and an aria from
Offenbach's La Belle Helene sung by Roberto Alagna (tenor).

With Peter Hobday.
John Foulds April-England
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
9.08 Corelli Concerto Grosso in C,
Op 6 No 10
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, conductor Nicholas McGegan
9.21 Copland Suite: Billy the Kid New York Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Bernstein
9.42 Mozart Horn Concerto No 1 in D,
K412 David Jolley ,
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
9.52 Rubbra Symphony No 8
(Homage to Teilhard de Chardin) BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Richard Hickox
10.17 Corelli Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 6 No 11 La Petite Bande, director Sigiswald Kuijken

Emma Johnson
Clarinettist Emma Johnson regularly performs and records music by British composers. She talks to Joan Bakewell about why the characteristics of the British personality have been such a rich source of inspiration to so many composers. With music by Malcolm Arnold , Gerald Finzi and Michael Berkeley.

By Royal Appointment With Richard Baker.
4: The Early 20th Century. The dominant figure in this programme is the most distinguished composer to date to have held the post of Master of the King's Music, Edward Elgar. arr Elgar God Save the King Philharmonic Choir, LSO, conducted by the Composer
Elgar Nimrod (Enigma Variations) Chicago SO, conductor Georg Solti Elgar Imperial March
LSO, conductor Malcolm Sargent
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 LSO, conductor Arthur Bliss
Elgar The Spirit of England (excerpt) Felicity Lott (soprano), London Symphony Chorus, Northern
Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox Elgar Symphony No 2 (2nd mvt) London Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Watford Davies Solemn Melody Christopher Herrick (organ)

With Geoffrey Smith. Duke Ellington, who was born 100 years ago today, composed and recorded prolifically in the late fifties. He saluted
Shakespeare in his suite Such Sweet
Thunder, wrote the soundtrack to the film Anatomy of a Murder, gave
Tchaikovsky and Grieg the Ellington treatment, and paid his respects to Elizabeth II in The Queen's Suite. And in 1963 he contributed to the civil rights movement with the musical My People.

Nicola Heywood Thomas introduces a recital given last year in St David 's Hall, Cardiff by Lowri Blake (cello) and Iwan Llewellyn-Jones (piano).
Faure Cello Sonata No 1 in D minor, Op 109
Schumann, arr Gendron Three Romances, Op 94
Martinu Cello Sonata No 2 Repeat

BBC Philharmonic
Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No 1
Conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier ,
Kathryn Stott (piano)
Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No 2 in D; Symphony No 3 in C
Conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Maurizio Pollini. Piers Lane presents a profile of Maurizio Pollini , the great Italian pianist. The programme includes tracks from some of Pollini's classic recordings as well as a specially recorded performance of Schumann's heartfelt and romantic
Fantasy in C.
Repeated from yesterday 10pm

His father was a butler in the White
House. He started to play the piano when he was seven, and he became the most important composer in the history of jazz. Edward Kennedy
"Duke" Ellington was born 100 years ago today. Sean Rafferty celebrates his centenary with the saxophonist and composer John Surman. With music by Ravel, Tchaikovsky and Grieg.

From the Royal Festival Hall, London, a concert continuing me endless Parade season. Music by Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle - two composers from the Manchester group who are both in their sixties - is preceded by a short, punchy opener by Thomas Ades.
Michael Berkeley has arranged two love scenes from Birtwistle's imaginative opera to a text by Russell Hoban , The Second Mrs Kong , to form a concert suite for three singers and orchestra. The
Maxwell Davies piece is his taut fifth symphony, completed on the Orkney island of Hoy in January 1994 and premiered at that year's BBC Proms. Valdine Anderson (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo), Peter Bronder (tenor),
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins
Ades These Premises Are Alarmed
Maxwell Davies Symphony No 5
8.05 Anglophiles
Foreign-born artists and thinkers choose their favourite examples of British achievements in the postwar arts. With Philip Dodd.
8.25 Birtwistle/Hoban, arr Berkeley Love Cries (The Second Mrs Kong )

The Ring of Words
Derek Alsop explores what makes a great musical setting by looking at five case studies that reflect gems of British literature from the last 500 years and richness of musical treatment from our own century.
4: Valiant for Truth. Words from John Bunyan
's The Pilgrim's Progress as set for chorus by Vaughan Williams.

Three Poetic Polkas, Op 8 Andras Schiff (piano)

Interpreting Handel. Robert Hollingworth
looks at some of the best Handel recordings of recent years. Producer Lindsay Kemp Repeated tomorrow 4pm

In death, composer Bela Bartok travelled from New York to Budapest; Prince Lasa of Serbia toured his country's contested territories. While they were alive, the two men may have had little in common, but like other European leaders and heroes in the post-Communist era, both made journeys posthumously, when they were exhumed and reinterred. In The Political Lives of Dead Bodies, anthropologist Katherine Verdery examines the forces that have inspired these exhumations.
Paul Allen discusses her findings and also reports on a major exhibition of the work of Victor Pasmore at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool.

A Duke's Legacy
Alyn Shipton invites author Claire Gordon , producer George Avakian and bassist Jimmy Woode to recall key points in Duke Ellington's life.

With Donald Macleod.
12.05am Szymanowski Prelude in C sharp minor
12.25 Sibelius Masonic Ritual Music
12.50 Uthander Divertimento No 1
1.00 Ewa Kupiec (piano), Polish Radio Orchestra, conductor Wojciech Rajski
Rossini Overture: The Thieving Magpie Liszt Piano Concerto No 2 in A
Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor
2.10 Eckhard Menuet d'Exaudet with Variations
2.30 JC Bach Quintet in F, Op 11 No 3
2.40 Hummel Trumpet Concerto in E flat
3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Workshop 3.20 Let's
Move! 3.40 Words Alive! 3.55 First
Steps in Drama 4.10 Listen and Write
4.30 Rameau Pieces de Clavecin
(Book 2)
4.55 Hans Gal Serenade for Strings
5.15 Ludwig Thuille Sextet in B flat
5.45 Marais Tombeau pour M de Lully
5.50 Cavalli La Calisto (Act 1 Sinfonia)