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Borodin String Quartet No 2 in D - Borodin Quartet
6.30 Weelkes O How Amiable Are Thy Dwellings - Oxford Camerata, conductor Jeremy Summerly
7.02 Abel Symphony in C, Op 17 No 4 - Hanover Band, director Anthony Halstead
7.15 Karg-Elert Five Miniatures - Johannes Matthias Michel (harmonium)
8.02 Martinu Serenade No 2 - Prague Chamber Orchestra
8.38 Grieg Holberg Suite - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Brahms Academic Festival Orchestra - Scottish CO, conductor Charles Mackerras
9.10 Schubert Standchen; An Silvia - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)
9.20 Philip Lane Pantomime - Royal Ballet Sinfonia, conductor David Lloyd-Jones
9.35 Rameau La Danse (excerpts) - Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
9.45 Pichi Symphony in D (Diana) - London Mozart Players, conductor Matthias Bamert
10.15 Trad, arr Barbirolll An Elizabethan Suite - BBCSO, conductor John Barbirolli
10.30 Bach Cantata No 85: Ich Bin ein Guter Hirt - Soloists, Gachinger Kantorei, Stuttgart, Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra, conductor Helmuth Rilling
10.50 Ireland London Pieces - Eric Parkin (piano)
11.00 Arnold Fantasy, Op 114 - Grimethorpe Colliery Band, conductor Elgar Howarth
11.20 Carl Davis On the Beach at Night Alone - Willard White (bass), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
11.30 Hummel Septet Militaire in C, Op 114 - Nash Ensemble
12.00 Wagner Prelude, Act 1 Overture: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg - NYPO, conductor Leonard Bernstein
As a major festival devoted to works inspired by impresario Sergei Diaghilev opens, Ivan Hewett explores whether there is a still a place in the modern world for old-fashioned music dictators. Plus a report on the background to today's controversial performance by the Vienna Philharmonic under Simon Rattle at the site of the Mauthausen concentration camp.
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Piers Lane presents the first of two programmes focusing on the English pianist Clifford Curzon with exclusive material from the BBC archives.
Schubert Moment Musical in A flat, D780 No 2
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor) With the BBCSO/Pierre Boulez
Liszt Berceuse
Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D667 (Trout) (4th mvt) With the Amadeus Quartet, J Edward Merrett (double bass)
(Clifford Curzon is featured in the BBC Legends series. CDs are available now from music outlets.)
Roger Savage and guests reflect on the religious climate of early 18th-century Germany and on how Lutheran ideas, music and liturgy infiltrated and influenced Bach's output.
The first of a major new monthly series in which John Tusa, managing director of the Barbican Centre, talks to leading creative figures about their work. His guest today is the English painter Howard Hodgkin, who has described his paintings as "representational pictures of emotional situations".
Rptd from yesterday 12 noon
By Yasmina Reza. Translated by Christopher Hampton.
When Serge buys an expensive modern painting, the reaction of his friends tests their friendship to the limit.
Music specially composed by Stephen Warbeck and played by Steve Buckley (alto sax), Django Bates (piano) and Tim Harries (double bass)
A new series in which John Tusa, managing director of the Barbican Centre, talks to leading creative figures about their work. His first guest is the painter Howard Hodgkin. Show more
Trois Paraphrases Gregoriennes, Op 5; Symphony No 1
Jane Watts (Von Beckerath organ of St Andreas, Hildesheim)
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Paul Guinery presents a musical portrait of the Choir of New College, Oxford, in conversation with Edward Higginbottom, director of music at New College since 1975. The main work in the programme is a recording of a large-scale psalm setting, De Profundis, by the 18th-century French composer Jean-Joseph Mondonville. Plus motets and anthems by Josquin, Byrd, Philippe de Monte and Herbert Howells.
Georgina Ferry concludes her series exploring scientific developments in a cultural context.
More and more scientific images and terminology are becoming absorbed into contemporary culture, and artists continue to interpret scientific ideas. But what do we gain from this synthesis?
Conductor Paul Mann, Alban Gerhardt (cello)
Bridge Oration (Concerto Elegiaco)
Schumann Symphony No 2 in C
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