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With Tommy Pearson, including:

6.20 Satie Six Gnossiennes Aldo Ciccolini (piano)

6.45 Rimsky-Korsakov Sadko - BBC NOW, conductor Vassily Sinaisky

7.05 Boccherini Quintet in B flat, Op 39 No 1 - Ensemble 415

7.30 Mozart Horn Concerto No 3 in E flat, K447 - Barry Tuckwell, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner

8.00 Bach Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV1043 - Catherine Mackintosh and Elizabeth Wallfisch, the King's Consort, director Robert King

8.45 Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps - Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson

Berlioz was not a man of half measures. He felt his passions with an overwhelming ferocity, and his feelings for women were the inspiration behind many of his greatest compositions. Today Donald Macleod explores Berlioz's relationships with women and their influence on his work.

Nocturne - Francoise Pollet (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Goran Sollscher (guitar)

Symphonie Fantastique (excerpt) - Bastille Opera Orchestra, conductor Myung-Whun Chung

Nuits d'Ete - Katarina Karneus (mezzo), BBC PO, conductor Vassily Sinaisky

La Captive (Reverie) - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Torleif Thedeen (cello), Cord Garben (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Stephanie Hughes.

Dvorak Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op 46 No 8 - Czech Philharmonic, conductor Karel Sejna

10.10 Couperin Les Barricades Mysterieuses; L'Anguille: La Bandoline (Pieces de Clavecin) - Gyorgy Cziffra (piano)

10.20 Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments - Endymion Ensemble, conductor John Whitfield

10.30 Ravel Sonatine - Gyorgy Cziffra (piano)

10.43 Dvorak Symphony No 6 in D - LSO, conductor Istvan Kertesz

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes

Five programmes this week in which Humphrey Burton talks to cellist Yo-Yo Ma about his life and approach to music.
Yo-Yo Ma - who was born in France - talks about the powerful hold that the country and its music exert on him.

Bach Cello Suite in D, BWV1012

Saint-Saens The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)

Faure Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 117 - With Kathryn Stott (piano)

Lalo Cello Concerto in D minor - With BBCPO, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

Faure Romance in A, Op 69 - With Kathryn Stott (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Humphrey Burton
Cellist:
Yo-Yo Ma

Iain Burnside seeks out the real Berlin - from Frederick the Great's opera house Unter den Linden and the cabaret world of the Weimar Republic to the present day. Including songs by Friedrich Hollander, Franz Waxman, Kurt Weill and Schoenberg sung by Marlene Dietrich, Ute Lemper, Jessye Norman and HK Gruber.

Contributors

Presenter:
Iain Burnside
Producer:
Clive Portbury

Sean Rafferty presents arts news, guests and music, including the Brodsky Quartet playing live and talking about new music they have commissioned to accompany Beethoven's Op 18 quartets. Music includes at 5.35 the final trio from Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier performed by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo) and Teresa Stich-Randall (soprano) with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan; at 6.00 Poulenc's Trois Mouvements Perpetuels played by pianist Pascal Roge; and at 6.35 Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks played by the King's Consort under Robert King.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty
Musicians:
The Brodsky Quartet

A concert given earlier this week in the Royal Festival Hall, London. Donald Runnicles, music director of the San Francisco Opera, makes his London debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The programme includes the Lyric Symphony by the unfairly neglected Viennese Romantic Alexander Zemlinsky. The symphony is based on seven love poems by the Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore.

Bryn Terfel (baritone), Anne Evans (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Donald Runnicles

Wagner Siegfried Idyll

Mozart Symphony No 39 in E flat

Zemlinsky Lyric Symphony

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Baritone:
Bryn Terfel
Soprano:
Anne Evans
Conductor:
Donald Runnicles

Richard Coles investigates the impact Chardin's paintings are likely to have on today's viewers, as a major exhibition of the artist's work opens in Britain to celebrate the 300th anniversary of his birth. Diderot described the paintings of Chardin as being "significantly magical as to drive one to despair". And in the second of this week's series of recommendations for World Book Day, A.S. Byatt nominates a foreign writer she believes deserves a wider British readership.

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Coles
Guest:
A.S. Byatt

Alyn Shipton presents the first of two sets this week from the Jazz Cafe in London by organist Barbara Dennerlein and her trio. Munich-born Dennerlein has revitalised the Hammond organ tradition in jazz, and tonight she plays music from her new album Outhipped.

Contributors

Presenter:
Alyn Shipton
Organist:
Barbara Dennerlein

With Susan Sharpe.

12.05am Salzedo Chanson dans la Nuit

12.10 Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K581

12.45 Milhaud, arr Timothy Kaln Scaramouche

1.00 Vivaldi Concerto in C, RV88; Oboe Sonata in C minor, RV53; Cantata: All' Ombra di Sospetto, RV678; Violin Sonata in C minor, RV5; Cantata: Lungi dal Vago Volto, RV680; Concerto in G minor, RV107

2.15 Brahms Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108

2.35 Prokofiev Suite: Lieutenant Kije

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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