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With Penny Gore.

6.10 Vaughan Williams Silent Noon (The House of Life) - Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

6.45 Boccherini Cello Concerto No 6 in D - Anner Bylsma (cello), Concerto Amsterdam, conductor Jaap Schroder

7.00 Medtner Russian Round Dance (A Tale), Op 58 No 1 - Dmitri Alexeev and Nikolai Demidenko (pianos)

7.30 Strauss Prelude: Capriccio - Raphael Ensemble

8.00 Gluck Che Faro senza Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice) - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Roger Norrington

8.45 Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No 1 in A - Monte Carlo Philharmonic, conductor Lawrence Foster

Contributors

Presenter:
Penny Gore

With Donald Macleod.

Throughout his life Respighi was dedicated to the music of the past, arranging ancient Italian lute and keyboard pieces for the symphony orchestra and using themes from Gregorian chants in his music.

Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No 1 - Sinfonia 21, conductor Richard Hickox

Vetrate di Chiesa (excerpt) - Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Geoffrey Simon

Concerto Gregoriano (excerpt) - Pierre Amoyal (violin), French National Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit

Impressione Brasiliane - Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Geoffrey Simon

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Stephanie Hughes.

Haydn Symphony No 94 in G (Surprise) - Boston SO, conductor Serge Koussevitzky

10.27 Debussy Etudes, Book 1 - Maurizio Pollini (piano)

10.46 Loewe Meine Ruh Ist Hin, Op 9 No 2 - Edith Mathis (soprano), Cord Garben (piano)

10.49 Schubert, completed Newbould Symphony No 7 in E - Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes

With Tommy Pearson.

Today, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Barry Wordsworth explore music from some great European films. Including Prokofiev's music for the famous Eisenstein epic Alexander Nevsky, Honegger's music for Napoleon and Shostakovich's score for The Gadfly. Plus Nino Rota's evocative score for Fellini's La Strada, the haunting harmonica music from Ennio Morricone's score for Once upon a Time in the West, and two of Maurice Jarre's most famous scores for David Lean films - Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson
Musicians:
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Barry Wordsworth

Petroc Trelawney presents a recital given last year in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

Michael Collins (clarinet), Boris Berezovsky (piano)

Schumann Fantasiestucke, Op 73

Weber Grand Duo Concertant, Op 48

Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor, Op 120 No 1

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Contributors

Presenter:
Petroc Trelawney
Clarinettist:
Michael Collins
Pianist:
Boris Berezovsky

Bizet L'Arlesienne: Suites 1 and 2 (excerpts) - Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

Duparc Lenore - Conductor Tadaaki Otaka

Poulenc Gloria - Melanie Armistead (mezzo), Swansea Philharmonic Choir, conductor Graeme Jenkins

Milhaud Le Boeuf sur le Toit

Saint-Saens Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ) - Jane Watts (organ), conductor Graeme Jenkins

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor:
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Conductor:
Tadaaki Otaka
Mezzo:
Melanie Armistead
Singers:
Swansea Philharmonic Choir
Conductor:
Graeme Jenkins
Organist:
Jane Watts

Sean Rafferty with arts news, music and guests, including the prize-winning 24-year-old composer Oscar Bettison, whose latest commission, Hour Tree, is premiered at St John's Smith Square on Wednesday. Music includes at 5.45 Mozart's Rondo in D for piano and orchestra, K382 played by Murray Perahia and the English Chamber Orchestra; at 6.05 Matthias's Let the People Praise Thee, O
Lord sung by Christ Church Cathedral Choir conducted by Stephen Darlington with organist Simon Lawford; and at 6.45 Poulenc's Flute Sonata played by Jennifer Stinton with pianist Scott Mitchell.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty
Guest:
Oscar Bettison
Flautist:
Jennifer Stinton
Pianist:
Scott Mitchell

From London's Barbican Hall.
Ittai Shapira (violin), English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Yuri Bashmet (viola)

Schubert Symphony No 5 in B flat

Stamitz Symphonie Concertante in D for violin and viola

8.20 Twenty Minutes: Book of the Month
An extended review of one of the month's most interesting new books. The
16th-century artist Caravaggio was controversial in his day, and his life and work have continued to provoke debate. In M, a new biography that reads more like a thriller than traditional art history, Peter Robb presents a story of drink, sex, riots, murder - and great painting.

8.40 Britten Lachrymae (Reflections on a Song of John Dowland)

Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K364

Contributors

Violinist:
Ittai Shapira
Musicians:
English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor/Violist:
Yuri Bashmet
Presenter (Twenty Minutes):
Peter Robb

With American Beauty about to open in Britain, Sam Mendes talks to Richard Coles about the different challenges of directing for stage and screen. Though at 34 Mendes must be weary of the press headline "wunderkind", he has already been tipped for an Oscar for his first film American Beauty, and Hollywood is at the feet of the British director.

(See also Front Row, Thursday 7.15pm on Radio 4)

Contributors

Interviewer:
Richard Coles
Interviewee:
Sam Mendes

With Alyn Shipton.

Another chance to hear the first of three programmes this week in tribute to trumpeter Kenny Baker, who died last month and whose band supplied the music for Alan Plater's jazz reminiscences Beiderbecke and All That Jazz. The band were recorded in the Hull Truck Theatre during the 1999 Hull International Festival.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Alyn Shipton

With Susan Sharpe.

12.05am Wassenaer Concerto No 6 in E flat

12.20 Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage

12.30 Franck, arr Rampal Flute Sonata

1.00 Zelenka Six Lamentations for Holy Week

2.00 Faure Nocturne in E flat minor, Op33 No 1

2.10 Francaix Bassoon Concerto

2.35 Britten Five Flower Songs

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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