With Edward Seckerson.
6.03 Copland Quiet City
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Mase (trumpet),
Stephen Taylor (cor anglais)
6.30 Monteverdi Audi Coelum
Nigel Rogers and Ian Partridge
(tenors), director Jurgen Jiirgens
7.45 Bach Harpsichord Concerto in A, BWV1055
Robert Woolley , Purcell Quartet
8.15 Bellinatl Jongo
Simon Dinnigan (guitar)

Today's programme visits the Isle of Wight
International Oboe Competition and comes from the Priory Bay Hotel.
There are live performances by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta Wind
Quintet and by the Tagore String Trio and Richard Simpson , who play Mozart's Oboe Quartet in E. Music on disc includes:
Handel Overture (Music for the Royal Fireworks) King's Consort, conductor Robert King
Delius Dance Rhapsody No 2 Royal Philharmonic, conductor Eric Fenby
Sullivan 0 Gladsome Light (The
Golden Legend) Ely Cathedral Choir, conductor Paul Trepte
Gliere The Red Poppy (excerpts) BBC Philharmonic, conductor Edward Downes
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
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Richard Bonynge
The Australian conductor talks to
Joan Bakewell.
Revised repeat

Ivan Hewett asks how politics have influenced music in Cuba since the revolution 40 years ago, as the Barbican hosts the UK's largest ever Cuban arts festival. Plus the furore over who should succeed Wolfgang Wagner as director of the Bayreuth Festival. Producer Jessica Isaacs

Chris de Souza introduces a recital given in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, by the cellist Lynn Harrell and pianist Bruno Canino.
Stravinsky Suite Italienne
Beethoven Cello Sonata in C, Op 120 No 1
Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor

Orchestral Set No 2
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Charles Bornstein

Natalie Wheen continues her series celebrating five of the major North
American orchestras with the second of two programmes on the Philadelphia Orchestra. Tradition and Innovation. From its early recordings and its groundbreaking performance of the soundtrack to Disney's Fantasia to the cybercast of a recent concert on the net, the Philadelphia has been at the forefront of technology. Today's programme explores how the orchestra is tackling problems thrown up by the increasingly competitive musical and media environment. With contributions from players, staff and board members, and recordings from the orchestra's 99 years of musical activity.

Michael Berkeley talks about the contralto Kathleen Ferrier.
Producer Mark Rowlinson
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69: Anna Akhmatova : Requiem The long poem by Russian poet
Akhmatova (1889-1967) is discussed by writer Zinovy Zinik , poet
Sarah Maguire and friend Tania Litvinova. Producer Lucy Willmore

Ivan Hewett introduces music first performed in 1986. Steve Martiand
Re-mix Steve Martland Band
Brian Femeyhough Mnemosyne Harrie Starreveld (bass flute)
Steve Reich New York Counterpoint Roger Heaton (clarinet) Gavin Bryars Sub Rosa Gavin Bryars Ensemble
Franco Donatoni Refrain
Nieuw Ensemble conductor Ed Spanjaard
Birtwistle Mask of Orpheus (excerpt)
Ian Dearden (sound diffusion),
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Producer Ekene Akalawu

According to fellow Scottish writer
Allan Massie , Erik Linklater was "the best Scottish novelist between
Stevenson and Spark". Allan Massie introduces this centenary re-evaluation of the author of Private
Angelo and Juan in America. Producer Mike Lloyd

Repeated from yesterday 12 noon

Stephen Poliakoff 's haunting play questions how the newly emerging
BBC responded to the growing crisis in Europe in the late thirties. In
Broadcasting House, the Variety and Talks departments join forces in a humorous but deeply poignant attempt to inform listeners about events in Europe. A radio version of the acclaimed RSC stage production, written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff.
Music by Jason Carr
Director Stephen Poliakoff

Brian Kay introduces performances of a mass Puccini composed four years before his first opera and one of Vivaldi's best-known choral works.
Vivaldi Gloria in D, RV589
Jennifer Smith and Nancy Argenta (sopranos), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto), Choir of the English
Concert, English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
Puccini Messa di Gloria Dennis O'Neil (tenor), Alan Opie
(baritone), Henry Waddington (bass), BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales/Nicolae Moldoveanu. Producer Lindsay Kemp

Zoe Mather (piano)
Ravel Menuet sur le Nom de Haydn; Menuet Antique: A la Manière de
Borodine; A la Manière de Chabrier;
Serenade Grotesque: Prélude; Ma Mere I'Oye (arr Charlot) Repeat

Another programme featuring the works of Roberto Gerhard.
Conductor Matthias Bamert , Olivier Charlier (violin)
Gerhard Violin Concerto: Epithalamion

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Harpsichord music by Gesualdo, Valente, Tartaglino and Mayone.
1.30 Vocal music by the 16th-century Flemish composer Hubert Waelrant and his Italian contemporary Andrea Gabriel ).
1.50 Handel Royal Fireworks Music
2.15 Mendelssohn Piano Concerto
No 2 in 0 minor
2.40 Clara Schumann Scherzo in D minor, Op 10
2.45 Rautavaara Five Sonnets of Orpheus, Op 9
3.00 Purcell Dido and Aeneas Ann
Monoyios and Shari Saunders
(sopranos), Jennifer Lane (mezzo),
Russell Braun (baritone), Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra/Jeanne Lamon
3.55 Rinck Variations on "Herr Jesu"
4.00 Britten Canadian Carnival, Op 19
4.15 Bruhns Paratum Cor Meum
4.30 Nielsen Little Suite, Op 1
4.45 Uthander Rondo for Rute and Fortepiano, Op 8
5.00 Giovanni Gabdell Canzon Prima la Spiritata
5.05 Forqueray La d'Aubone
5.10 Music from the songbook of Anna of Cologne
5.15 Pergolesi, arr Verhoef La Serva Padrona (excerpts)
5.30 Verdi Eri Tu (Un Ballo in Maschera)
5.40 Francaix Variations on a Theme by Haydn
5.50 August Enna Overture: The Match Girl