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With Penny Gore.

Tallis Lamentations - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury

6.45 Medtner Sonata Reminiscenza, Op 38 No 1 (Forgotten Melodies) - Geoffrey Tozer (piano)

7.00 Falla Suite Populaire Espagnole - Leila Josefowicz (violin), John Novacek (piano)

7.35 Bach Orchestral Suite No 1 in C, BWV1066 - Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman

8.05 Mozart Flute Quartet in C, K285b - Nash Ensemble of London

8.50 Hindemith Trauermusik - San Francisco SO/Herbert Blomstedt

Contributors

Presenter:
Penny Gore

The first of five programmes this week in which Donald Macleod explores the music of Lord Berners.

Trois Morceaux - RLPO/Barry Wordsworth

Lieder Album (1913-18) - Felicity Lott (soprano), Peter Lawson (piano)

Fantaisie Espagnole - RLPO/Barry Wordsworth

Le Poisson d'Or; La Dispute - Peter Lawson (piano)

The Man with the Moustache - English Northern Philharmonia, conductor David Lloyd-Jones

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod
Producer:
Piers Burton-Page

With Stephanie Hughes.

This week featuring Haydn's Symphonies Nos 100-104 and recordings by Tito Gobbi.

Bernstein Overture: Candide - Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by the Composer

10.10 Verdi Di Provenza il Mar (La Traviata, Act 2) - Tito Gobbi (baritone), Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Walter Susskind

10.16 Haydn Symphony No 100 in G (Military) - Philharmonia Hungarica, conductor Antal Dorati

10.41 Shostakovich Preludes, Op 34: Nos 7-10 - Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano)

10.48 Verdi Povero Rigoletto ...Si Vendetta, Tremenda Vendetta (Rigoletto, Act 2)
Gilda Maria Callas (soprano)
Rigoletto Tito Gobbi (baritone)
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, conductor Tullio Serafin

11.10 Bartok Dance Suite - NYPO, Conductor Pierre Boulez

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes
Producer:
Tony Cheevers

Shakespeare's plays have intrigued and inspired musicians for over 400 years, and the sheer breadth of his work has allowed composers to respond in a wide variety of ways. This week, as a run-up to Radio 3's Shakespeare Day next Sunday, Christopher Cook explores this variety in five different areas.

Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream - BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Christian Gansch

Purcell Hush, No More, Be Silent All; A Dance for the Followers of Night (The Fairy Queen) - Christopher Maltman (baritone), BBC Concert Orchestra/Nicholas Kok

Mendelssohn Nocturne (A Midsummer Night's Dream) - BBCSO/Tadaaki Otaka

Berlioz Queen Mab Scherzo (Romeo and Juliet) - BBCSO, conductor Tadaaki Otaka

Smetana Macbeth and the Witches - Ashley Wass (piano)

Massenet Prelude et Divertissement: La Tempete (Orchestral Suite No 3) - BBCNOW, conductor Christian Gansch

Sibelius Suite: The Tempest (exes) - BBC Scottish SO, conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk

Tippett Suite: The Tempest - Nash Ensemble, conductor Martyn Brabbins

Contributors

Presenter:
Christopher Cook
Producer:
Anthony Sellors

Chris de Souza presents the first of five concerts for Holy Week from Temple Church in London. Today award-winning chamber ensemble the Private Music perform sacred and instrumental music, including works by Purcell, Locke, Biber and Buxtehude.

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Musicians:
The Private Music

With Sean Rafferty.

Music includes at 5.40 Tchaikovsky's Variations in A on a Rococo Theme played by Yo-Yo Ma (cello) with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Lorin Maazel; at 6.00 Stravinsky's Circus Polka played by Martin Jones (piano); and at 6.40 Haydn's Symphony No 6 in D (Le Matin) performed by the ECO under Pinchas Zukerman.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

A concert given on Saturday at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, concluding the BBC Philharmonic's Sibelius Cycle.

Pekka Kuusisto (violin), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Leif Segerstam

Sibelius Symphony No 6; Violin Concerto; Andante Festivo; Symphony No 7

Contributors

Violinist:
Pekka Kuusisto
Musicians:
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Leif Segerstam

Sinister Svengalis have pulled the strings behind the scenes in a host of books, plays and films, but how does the dubious central character of a Victorian bestseller open a window on to the fears and anxieties of its own century and our own? Isabel Hilton talks to Daniel Pick, whose book Svengali's Web explores a history of fascination and prejudice. Plus the first of a week-long selection of arts sites on the internet.

Contributors

Presenter:
Isabel Hilton
Interviewee:
Daniel Pick

Verity Sharp introduces music for Holy Week from the Eton Choir book and historic harmonies from Albania, including Richard Davy's unique setting of the St Matthew Passion and some of the latest sounds in Welsh folk music from the band Fernhill and Singer Julie Murphy.

Contributors

Presenter:
Verity Sharp
Producer:
Antony Pitts

With Jonathan Swain.

Tchaikovsky Christmas Eve (Cherevichki)

12.10 Arensky Suite No 1 in F for two pianos, Op 15

12.25 Groneman Flute Sonata in D

12.40 Crusell Bassoon Concertino in B

1.00 Mozart String Quartet in D minor, K421

Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 76 No 5

Beethoven String Quartet in A minor, Op 132 Hagen Quartet

2.40 Sibelius Symphony No 2

3.20 Paul Juon Cello Sonata No 2

3.55 Sweelinck Motet

4.05 Bach Keyboard Concerto No 4 in A, BWV1055

4.20 C.P.E. Bach Sonata for two flutes, two clarinets and two horns

4.35 Mozart Symphony No 116 in C

4.50 Klami Serenade Joyeuse

5.00 Beethoven Overture: Leonore No 3

5.10 Cesti Silandra, Anima Cara (Orontea)

5.15 Bach Aria Variata alia Maniera Italiana in A minor, BWV989

5.30 Piazzolla Prelude, Fugue and Divertimento

5.50 Abel Symphony in D, Op 10 No 5

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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