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With Penny Gore.

Eduard Strauss Greeting valse on English Airs - London Symphony Orchestra, conductor John Georgiadis

6.10 Haydn Variations in F minor, HXVII 6 (Un Piccolo Divertimento) - Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

7.00 Boccherini Symphony in F, Op 35 No 4 - Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood

7.20 Tippett Piano Sonata No 1 - Murray Perahia

8.00 Stravinsky Danses Concertantes - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

8.30 Bach Viola da Gamba Sonata in G minor, BWV1029 - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Kenneth Cooper (harpsichord)

Contributors

Presenter:
Penny Gore

With Donald Macleod.

In order to improve his chances of being elected king of Poland, Augustus the Strong (elector of Saxony) converted to Catholicism. But his Lutheran subjects were not required to follow the royal precedent, and two of Augustus's court composers - Johann David Heinichen and Jan Dismas Zelenka - provided music for the royal chapel.

Pisendel Sonata in C minor (Largo; Allegro) - Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, director Gottfried von der Goltz

Heinichen Beatus Vir - Jorg Durmuller and Scott Weir (tenors), Musica Antiqua Koln, director Reinhard Goebel

Zelenka Lamentations for Maundy Thursday - Michael Chance (countertenor), Michael George (bass), Chandos Baroque Players

Heinichen Lamentatio I: Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae - Jorg Durmuller (tenor), Musica Antiqua Koln, director Reinhard Goebel

Zelenka Repons: Velum Templi Scissum Est (Responsoria Pro Hebdomada Santa) - Ensemble Vocal de Nantes, director Philippe Couvert

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Jonathan Swain.

Stravinsky Ebony Concerto - Benny Goodman (clarinet), Columbia Jazz Combo, conducted by the Composer

10.16 Granados Escenas Romanticas - Alicia de Larrocha (piano)

10.42 Copland Clarinet Concerto - Benny Goodman, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the Composer

11.00 Dvorak Romantic Pieces, Op 75 - Gil Shaham (violin), Orli Shaham (piano)

11.15 Villa-Lobos Viola Quedrada (Cancoes Pipicas Brasileiras) - Teresa Berganza (mezzo), Juan Antonio Alvarez Parejo (piano)

11.20 Bernstein Prelude, Fugue and Riffs - Benny Goodman (clarinet), Columbia Jazz Combo, conducted by the Composer

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

Today Tommy Pearson visits London's Royal Academy of Music, whose students perform chamber music from Mozart to Hindemith and their own jazz compositions. Plus highlights from the Royal Academy's recent 14th International Composer Festival Part in Profile, which placed the music of Estonian composer Arvo Part in the context of works by his compatriots, his contemporaries and by the composers he admires, and which featured the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra under renowned Estonian conductor Neeme Jarvi.

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson
Musicians:
Students of the Royal Academy of Music
Musicians:
Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Neem Jarvi

Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier, Janice Watson (soprano), Valerie Hartmann-Claverie (ondes-martenot), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), Huddersfield Choral Society

Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole

Poulenc Gloria

Messiaen Turangalila Symphony

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Soprano:
Janice Watson
Ondes-martenot player:
Valerie Hartmann-Claverie
Pianist:
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Singers:
Huddersfield Choral Society

From Peterborough Cathedral.

Introit: Agnus Dei (Morley). Responses (Ebdon). Psalms 65, 66, 67 (Smart, Atkins, Bairstow). First Lesson: Exodus 4, vv 1-23. Office Hymn: Servant of God (Cultor Dei). Canticles: Daniel Purcell in E minor. Second Lesson: Hebrews 11, vv 32-40. Anthem: Insanae et Vanae Curae (Haydn). Hymn: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Rockingham, descant Gower). Organ Voluntary: Fugue from Sonata (94th Psalm) (Reubke).

Contributors

Master of the Music:
Christopher Gower
Organist:
Mark Duthie
Organist:
Thomas Moore

With Humphrey Carpenter. Music includes at 5.35 Chaconne in G minor attributed to Vitali played by Sarah Chang (violin) with the ECO; at 6.00 Berlioz's Overture: Benvenuto Cellini performed by the Dresden Staatskapelle under Colin Davis; and at 6.35 Shostakovich's Four Waltzes for flute, clarinet and piano played by the Nash Ensemble.

Contributors

Presenter:
Humphrey Carpenter

Leonidas Kavakos joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Berg's Violin Concerto in a concert from the Philharmonie in Cologne.

Leonidas Kavakos (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis

Turnage Silent Cities

Berg Violin Concerto

7.50 Twenty Minutes: Four Chekov Comedies: 2: Boys
Alistair McGowan reads the second of this week's four comedies by Chekov.

8.10 Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor

Contributors

Violinist:
Leonidas Kavakos
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Reader (Twenty Minutes):
Alistair McGowan

Trio for flute, cello and piano - Yossi Arnheim (flute), Marcel Bergman (cello), Irit Rub-Levi (piano)

Three Czech Dances - Radoslav Kvapil (piano)

Contributors

Flautist:
Yossi Arnheim
Cellist:
Marcel Bergman
Pianist:
Irit Rub-Levi
Pianist:
Radoslav Kvapil

Sarah Dunnant investigates how forms of fundamentalism have become some of the most influential forces in global culture and talks to Karen Armstrong, whose new book examines the rise of fundamentalism in the world's major religions. Plus first-night news from the old Gainsborough Film Studios, once the home of Hitchcock and now the site of an ambitious new production of "Richard II" starring Ralph Fiennes.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sarah Dunnant
Interviewee:
Karen Armstrong

With Jonathan Swain.

JPE Hartmann Blomstre Som en Rosengard

12.10 Leif Segerstam Impressions of Nordic Nature No 4

12.25 Grieg Lyric Pieces, Op 43

12.45 Rautavaara Anadyomene

1.00 A recital of organ music by Bach, Schumann, Gigout, Widor, Durufle and Janos Palur.

2.10 Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished)

2.35 Glinka Piano Trio in D minor (Pathetique)

2.50 Caldara Dunque, Giasone Ingrato (Medea in Corintho)

3.05 A Scarlatti Toccata per Cembalo d'Ottava Siete

3.25 Handel Overture: Il Pastor Fido

3.40 Horneman Overture: Aladdin

3.50 Bruckner Symphony No 3 in D minor

4.45 Verdi Per Me Giunto (Don Carlos)

5.05 Handel Water Music: Suite No 2 in D, HWV 349

5.15 CPE Bach Quartet in D, Wq94

5.35 Haydn Cello Concerto No 1 in C

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

BBC Radio 3

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