With Edward Seckerson , including:
Bach Prelude in C minor (Suite BWV99 7)
6.45 Ravel Sonatine 7.00
Warlock Serenade to Frederick Delius on His 60th
Birthday 7.30 Britten Diversions
8.00Torke Run 8.30 Ibert Escales

Verdi Overture: Nabucco BBC
Philharmonic, conductor Edward Downes
9.10 Brahms Rhapsody in G minor, Op 79 No 2 Daniel Adni (piano)
9.30 Quitter Suite: Where the Rainbow Ends Northern Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
9.45 Noël Coward / Went to a Marvellous
Party; Mad Dogs and Englishmen Noël Coward, Peter Matz (piano), Carl Hayes and His Orchestra
10.00 Vaughan Williams Prelude on an Old Carol Tune Munich Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Douglas Bostock
10.10 Molter Concerto Pastorale
CPE Bach CO, director Hartmut Haenchen
10.25 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 in G
Alfred Brendel , Vienna Philharmonic , conductor Simon Rattle
11.00 Schutz Alleluja , Lobet den Herren Orchestra and Choir of the Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Peter Goodwin
11.10 Messiaen Dieu parmi Nous (La
Nativité du Seigneur) Gillian Weir (organ)
11.20 Heinichen Pastorale per la Notte delta Nativitate ChristiCPE Bach Chamber
Orchestra, director Hartmut Haenchen
11.45 Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky
(excerpts) London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn Producer Sarah Devonald

Ivan Hewett debates whetherthe new spiritualism in music is the genuine article. Plus a report from Argentina on People's
Opera at the Teatro Colon. Producer Jessica Isaacs

Chris de Souza introduces a concert given last month at St George's Brandon Hill, Bristol, by the Bach Ensemble and their director, Joshua Rifkin.
Bach Overture in D (Suite No 3, BWV1068); Oboe Concerto in E flat (reconstr Rifkin from BWV49, BWV169 and BWV1053); Sonata in G for two violins and continuo
(reconstr Rifkin from BWV1027 and BWV1039);
Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D, BWV1 050

The writer Marina Warner discovers some
French connections in the archive, including Ravel's fascination with childhood and fairy tales. Music includes Ravel performing his Pavane pourune
Infante Défunte (reproduced from piano rolls), plus two recordings conducted by Pierre Boulez during his time as principal conductor of the BBC Symphony
Orchestra: Sheherazadewith Heather
Harper (soprano), recorded at the BBC 50th Anniversary Concert, and part of a 1973 broadcast of L 'Enfant et les Sortilèges. Producer Declan McGovern
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Elijah Moshinsky talks about the tenor Jon Vickers. Producer Paul Hindmarsh

99: Alfred Hitchcock : Rear Window Producer Ned Chaillet
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Ivan Hewett introduces music first performed in 1989.
Kagel Osten
Tuur Insula Deserta
Kurtag Officium Breve
Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony No 4 Judith Weir Distance and Enchantment
Benedict Mason Lighthouses of England and Wales
Producer Anthony Sellors

Peter Kislinger presents an introductory portrait of the Viennese writer Karl Kraus (1874-1936) whose masterpiece The Last Days of Mankind can be heard on Radio 3 on consecutive nights this weekend. Producer Piers Burton-Page . See Sunday Play: The Last Days of Mankind, 10pm

Rptd from yesterday 12 noon

(piano) Beethoven Sonata in C, Op 2 No 3
(R) See also 12 midnight
SOUNDING THE MILLENNIUM

Live from Ely Cathedral, Stephanie Hughes presents the spectacular final concert in the series celebrating the musical heritage of the past 1,000 years. The old and the new are combined in a programme which includes the first performance of a new work by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Beethoven's monumental final symphony. Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Catherine
Wyn-Rogers (mezzo), Paul Charles Clarke (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (bass),
Philharmonia Chorus, Ely Cathedral Choir, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Simon Rattle.
Also broadcast on BBC2.
Haydn Te Deum in C
Oliver Knussen Two Organa
Mark-Anthony Turnage About Time (BBC commission, first performance)
Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral) Brian Kay: page 58

By Karl Kraus.

The First World War continues to wreak its destruction on the subjects of the Hapsburg Empire both physically and mentally. Their reaction to living in an increasingly surreal world is to retreat into unreality.

(piano)
Beethoven Sonata in C minor, Op 13 (Pathetique)
Schumann Fantasy in C, Op 17; Blumenstuck, Op 19 (R)

With Jonathan Swain.
1.00 Music in memory of Gustav Ernesaks who died in 1993. VeljoTormis Forget Me Not (In Memoriam Gustav Ernesaks) Emesaks Tavern Scene (The Coast of Storms) Eduard Tubin The Nightsong of the WandererWagner Pilgrims' Chorus (Tannhauser)
2.25 Stravinsky Petrushka (1911)
3.00 Bach French Suite No 5 in G,
BWV816 3.15 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 1153.55 Mozart Symphony No 26 in E flat 4.05 Lehar Lippen Schweigen (The Merry Widow)
4.15 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor 5.00 Ponchielli Capriccio
5.10 Roussel Suite: La Festin de
I 'Araignee 5.25 Abel Cello Sonata in A
5.35 Schubert 11 Landler, D366
5.50 Faure, orch Jon Washbum Messe Basse