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With Penny Gore.

Delius A Song before Sunrise - LPO, conductor Vernon Handley

6.35 Bizet Jeux d'Enfants - Katia and Marielle Labeque (piano duet)

7.15 Saint-Saens Septet in E flat, Op 65 - Nash Ensemble

7.45 Mozart String Quartet in D, K155 - Hagen Quartet

8.00 Shostakovich Festive Overture - Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi

8.45 Bach Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV1060 - Rachel Podger, Academy of Ancient Music, director Andrew Manze (violin)

Contributors

Presenter:
Penny Gore

With Donald Macleod.

Ballet: Luna Park - RTE Sinfonietta, conductor Kenneth Alwyn

Trois Petites Marches Funebres - Peter Lawson (piano)

Caprice Peruvien - RTE Sinfonietta, conductor David Lloyd-Jones

Trois Chansons - Felicity Lott (soprano), Peter Lawson (piano)

Suite: The Triumph of Neptune (excerpts) - LPO, conductor Thomas Beecham

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Stephanie Hughes.

Leoncavallo Prologue: I Pagliacci - Tito Gobbi (baritone), Royal Philharmonic, conductor Alberto Erede

10.14 Haydn Nocturne in C, H II 25 - Marten Root (flute), Michael Niesemann (oboe), Mozzafiato, L'Archibudelli

10.26 Verdi A Tal Colpa E Nullo il Pianto.... O Dolcezze Perdute! O Memorie.... (Un Ballo in Maschera) - Maria Callas (soprano), Tito Gobbi (baritone), Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, conductor Antonino Votto

10.40 Chopin Three Nocturnes, Op 9 - Maria Joao Pires (piano)

10.57 Haydn Symphony No 101 in D (The Clock) - New York Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Bernstein

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes

With Christopher Cook.
Shakespeare defined the nature of love in many of its different forms, and his lovers have haunted music.

Wagenaar Overture: The Taming of the Shrew - BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth

Cole Porter I Hate Men; Were Thine That Special Fate (Kiss Me Kate) - Lisa Milne (soprano), Christopher Maltman (baritone), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Kok

Flnzi Let Us Garlands Bring (Five Shakespeare Songs) - Christopher Maltman (baritone), BBC Scottish SO, conductor Martyn Brabbins

Berlioz Nuit Paisible et Serene (Beatrice et Benedict) - Lisa Milne (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Stephen Barlow

Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet (original version) - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk

Prokofiev Balcony Scene: Death of Juliet (Romeo and Juliet) - BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

Contributors

Presenter:
Christopher Cook

In the second concert in this week-long series from the Temple Church, London, Chris de Souza introduces Joglaresa in a programme of music and storytelling from the Crusades as seen by all sides involved - from Richard the Lionheart to Usamah Ibn Munqidh.

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Musicians:
null Joglaresa

This week featuring some of Stravinsky's orchestral music and Beethoven's symphonies.

Bridge Two Poems - Conductor Lionel Friend

Stravinsky Symphony in C - Ian Wilson

Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? - Gerard McChrystal (alto sax), conductor John Lubbock

Bridge Suite for strings - Conductor Nicholas Braithwaite

Beethoven Symphony No 1 in C - Conductor Howard Shelley

Contributors

Musicians:
Ulster Orchestra
Conductor:
Lionel Friend
Saxophonist:
Gerard McChrystal
Conductor:
John Lubbock
Conductor:
Nicholas Braithwaite
Conductor:
Howard Shelley

With Sean Rafferty.

Music includes at 5.05 Ives's Country Band March played by the New England Orchestra under James Sinclair; at 5.40 Mozart's Oboe Quartet in F, K370, performed by Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Peter Cropper (violin), Robin Ireland (viola) and Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello); and at 6.40 Milhaud's La Creation du Monde played by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

Tommy Pearson introduces the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in a concert from London's Barbican Hall in a programme of three early 20th-century masterworks from France and Russia.

Barry Douglas (piano), National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Ravel Valses Nobles et Sentimentales

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3
8.20 Twenty Minutes: Anatomy of a Speech Two programmes in which writers and performers reflect on the power of Shakespeare's language. 1: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinited variety. How does this great description of Cleopatra affect our view of the queen?

8.40 Stravinsky Ballet: The Firebird

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson
Musicians:
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Conductor:
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Pianist:
Barry Douglas

Richard Coles hears from Berlin, where Harrison Birtwistle's opera The Last Supper is having its world premiere tonight. He also discusses Ant Noises - new work from the artists of the ground-breaking Sensation exhibition. Can the artists live up to the exhibition's reputation? And with a huge new leisure complex about to open at Birmingham's Spaghetti Junction, Night Waves examines how the junction itself has become iconic.

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Coles

With Jonathan Swain.

Barber Adagio for Strings

12.10 Poulenc Figure Humaine

12.30 un Boulanger Nocturne

12.40 Ernst Mielck Finnish Suite

1.00 La Colombina perform music for Holy Week, including works by Victoria, Manuel Cardoso and Juan Pujol.

2.00 Brahms Four Chorale Preludes, Op 122

2.15 Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor

2.50 Bloch Visions et Prophecies

3.05 Hans Huber Cello Sonata No 4 in B flat, Op 130

3.30 Bach Keyboard Concerto in E, BWV1053

3.50 Mozart Don Giovanni (excerpts)

4.20 Sibelius Pensees Lyriques

4.40 Grieg Two Elegiac Melodies, Op 34

4.50 Rossi Rimanti in Pace for five voices

5.00 Rosario Bourdon Elegiac Poem

5.05 Jakob Walther Sonata No 10 (Imitatione del Cuccu)

5.10 Pergolesi Violin Concerto in B flat

5.25 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 13 (Pathetique)

5.45 Gluck Ballet Music (Paris e Helena)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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