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With Tommy Pearson.

Schumann Arabeske in C major, Op 18 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

6.30 Brahms Sonata for Viola and Piano in E flat major, Op 120 No2 - Kim Kashkashian (viola), Robert Levin (piano)

7.30 Debussy Dance sacree et Danse profane - Skaila Kanga (harp), Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble

7.40 Dag Wiren String Quartet No 3 in D minor, Op 1 - Lindsay String Quartet

8.00 Dvorak Carnival Overture - Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner

8.15 Glinka Valse-fantasie in B minor - Victor Ryabchikov (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson

With Donald Macleod. Despite his ardent Spanish nationalism and his feeling for the colours, rhythm and history of Spanish music, Albeniz wrote not a single note for the national instrument of Spain - the guitar. This has not prevented guitarists from adopting some of his better known pieces written for the instrument on which he was a virtuoso - the piano.

Prelude; Zortzico (Espana), transcr Katona - Peter and Zoltan Katona (guitars)

Rumores de la Caleta (Recuerdos de Viaje, Op 71) - Arturo Benedetto Michelangeli (piano)

Granada; Cataluna; Sevilla; Cuba (Suite Espanola No 1, Op 47) - Alma Petchersky (piano)

Iberia, Book 3 - Ricardo Requiejo (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Stephanie Hughes.

Schubert Grazer Galopp in C, D925 - Andras Schiff (piano)

10.08 Gibbons In Nomine a 5 (This Is a Record of John) - Alfred Deller (countertenor), Deller Consort, Viol Consort of Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, director August Wenzinger (treble viol)

10.18 Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 in C, K467 - Andras Schiff, Camerata Academica Salzburg, conductor Sandor Vegh

10.46 Poulenc Suite Francaise (after Gervaise) - French National Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit

10.59 Bach Cello Suite in D, BWV1012 - August Wenzinger

Contributors

David Bintley, director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, presents five programmes exploring highlights of the ballet repertoire.

Today's programme focuses on the heyday of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, which changed the face of ballet for ever at the beginning of the 20th century, when Stravinsky, Ravel and Debussy were leading a similar revolution in the world of music.

BBC Philharmonic, conductor Paavo Jarvi

Debussy Prelude a l'Apres-Midi d'un Faune

Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1919 version); Suite: Pulcinella

Ravel Daphnis et Chloe: Suite No 2

(See Performance on 3 tonight at 7.30pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
David Bintley
Musicians:
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Paavo Jarvi

Chris de Souza introduces the first of two concerts given earlier this week as part of the festival of Haydn's music at the Royal Pump Room, Leamington Spa.

John McCabe (piano)

Haydn Fantasia in C, H XVII 4; Sonata in C, H XVI 50; Variations in F minor, H XVII 6 (Un Piccolo Divertimento); Sonata in E flat, H XVI 52

(See also tomorrow 1.00pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Pianist:
John McCabe

Lucie Skeaping investigates the varied music making which was going on in a typical German town around 1685 - the year that Johann Sebastian Bach was born. Music includes the popular fare of the town's musicians and guilds, private music making in homes, the public music of the church and a special kind of music written to be heard from the top of the town walls.

Contributors

Presenter:
Lucie Skeaping
Producer:
Chris Wines

Sean Rafferty investigates the macabre life of medieval poet and criminal Francois Villon. Music includes at 5.10 Monteverdi's Laetatus Sum performed by the Gabrieli Consort and Players under Paul McCreesh; at 6.40 Leo Weiner's Serenade, Op 3, performed by the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Georg Solti; and at 7.00 Kreisler's Liebesleid (transcr Rachmaninov) played by Freddy Kempf (piano).

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London.
Valery Gergiev conducts the Kirov Orchestra in a concert given as part of the orchestra's Diaghilev series.

Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

8.10 Twenty Minutes: The Building of Bankside: 1: The Architecture of Power
The first in a new series examining the transformation of a disused London power station into a major museum of modern art - Tate Modern.
Ricky Burdett, former director of the Architecture Foundation, traces the progress of the building and celebrates the work of the original architect, Giles Gilbert Scott.

8.30 Prokofiev Suite: The Prodigal Son; Scythian Suite

Contributors

Musicians:
Kirov Orchestra
Conductor:
Valery Gergiev
Presenter (Twenty Minutes):
Ricky Burdett

Isabel Hilton talks to Chinese poet and novelist Ha Jin, who moved to America in 1989 and who won the National Book Award with his first full-length novel, Waiting. The story, set in sixties China, explores the demands of Communism and traditional values on a man seeking divorce from his illiterate peasant wife.

Plus another feature in this week's series on Britain's less well known museums.

Contributors

Presenter:
Isabel Hilton
Interviewee:
Ha Jin

With Jonathan Swain.

Brahms Hungarian Dances

12.10 Dvorak Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

12.20 Suk A Fairy Tale Suite (Raduz and Mahulena)

12.50 Szymanowski Sheherazade

1.00 Mendelssohn Incidental Music: A Midsummer Night's Dream; Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor; Symphony No 4 in A (Italian)

2.25 Sarasate Carmen Fantasy

2.35 Boccherini Quintet No 3 in B flat

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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