With Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Rachmaninov, transcr Volodos Andante (Cello Sonata, Op 19)
Arcadi Volodos (piano)
Vivaldi Cello Concerto in C minor, RV401
Christophe Coin, Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood
8.00-9.00: Grieg Anitra's Dance; Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt)
Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Beethoven Piano Sonata in E minor, Op 90 Stephen Kovacevich
9.00-10.00: Berwald Symphony No 3 (Sinfonie Singuliere)
Swedish RSO, conductor Roy Goodman

With Jonathan Swain. Szymanowski Songs of the Infatuated
Muezzin Barbara Zagorzanka (soprano), Orchestra of the Polish National Opera, conductor Robert Satanowski
10.14 Strauss Don Quixote
Paul Tortelier (cello), Leonard Rubens
(viola), RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham
10.55 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in Eflat, K364 Thomas Brandis (violin),
Giusto Cappone (viola), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Karl Bohm
11.27 Szymanowski Stabat Mater
Elzbieta Szmytka (soprano), Florence
Quivar (mezzo), John Connell (bass), City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle

3: Friends and Champions: Part 2
Donald Macleod continues his exploration of Elgarthrough people who knew him, by looking at his friendships with his editor, August Jaeger, his biographer William H Reed , and pioneering record producer Freddy Gaisberg.
The Challenge of Thor (Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf) Brian Rayner Cook
(bass), London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley
The Kingdom, Part 1 Margaret Marshall (soprano). Felicity Palmer (mezzo), Arthur Davies (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson
(baritone), London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox Violin Sonata in E minor (3rd mvt)
William Bouton , Leonore Hall (piano) Triumphal March (Caractacus)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Charles Groves
Repeated on Tuesday at 12 midnight

Golden Sonatas
Violinists Andrew Manze and Rachel Podger perform an Italian Baroque programme of dazzling virtuosity, with cellist
Alison McGillivray and harpsichord player Gary Cooper. Introduced by Sandy Burnett. Vivaldi Trio Sonata in C, RV60
GB Fontana Sonata for violin and bass
(Oppostl641)
Turini Sonata No 1 (Madrigals, Book 1) Corradini Sonata (La Sfondrata)
Corelli Trio Sonata in A minor, Op 1 No 4 (R)

Martin Handley introduces a concert given last month, in which former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Alexander Melnikov plays a much-loved Romantic piano concerto. Plus a chance to hear Ravel's evocative fairy-tale score.

Ravel Suite: Ma Mere l'Oye - Conductor Richard Hickox
Rossini Overture: II Barbiere di Siviglia - Conductor Alexander Titov
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor - Alexander Melnikov, conductor Alexander Titov
Shostakovich Symphony No 5 - Conductor Alexander Titov

Live from Douai Abbey with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Introit: Laudate Dominum (Christopher Brown ).
Responses: Timothy Brown. Psalms 142 and 143 (Barnby, Turle). First Reading: Ecclesiastes 11. Office Hymn: 0 Blest
Creator of the Light (Mode 8). Canticles: David Willcocks. Second Reading:
2 Timothy 2, W14-26. Anthem: Thou Hast Made Me (Lennox Berkeley). Final Hymn: Light of the Minds That Know Him (Genevan Psalter 1542). Organ Voluntary: Acclamations (Suite
Medievale) (Langlais). Director of music Timothy Brown. Organ scholars Nicholas Collon and James McVinnie.

With Petroc Trelawny.
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Recorded at the Barbican Hall, London.
The London Sinfonietta presents an 80th birthday concert for Gyorgy Ligeti.
Michael Thompson (horn), Isabelle Faust (violin), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), London Sinfonietta, conductor George Benjamin

Ligeti Romanian Concerto (first UK performance); Piano Concerto; Hamburg Concerto; Violin Concerto

(Ligeti's music is featured again tomorrow in Performance on 3 at 7.30pm)

A performance of Schumann's Etudes Symphoniques for piano. (R)

Jonathan Miller and John Gray join Philip Dodd to discuss the value of Christianity beyond God. Producer Anthony Denselow

Shaheera Asante profiles three styles of African music: log drumming from Uganda, the Baarskeerdersbos Orkes from South
Africa's Afrikaaner community, and classic highlife from Ghana, recorded during the revolutionary times of the early 80s.

With Donald Macleod.
Clouds Susan Graham (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano) Eagles Louisville Orchestra, conductor Gerhardt Zimmermann
String Quartet No 4 Emerson Quartet Cor Anglais Concerto (excerpt)
Thomas Stacy , Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Michael Palmer
Psalm 142 (Cycle of Holy Songs)
Phyllis Curtin (soprano), accompanied on the piano by the Composer Repeated from Thursday

With Louise Fryer. Wilhelm Kempff plays works by Schubert and Brahms.
2.10 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor 2.55 Britten Sacred and Profane
3.10 Guy Bovet Improvisations surun
Theme de Samuel Ducommun 3.25 Anon Dance Suite from Vietorisz Codex
3.30 Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219 (Turkish) 4.00 Bach Toccata in D, BWV912 4.15 Huygens Con la Candida Man; Gia Ti Chiesi un Sospir; A Dispetto de' Venti (Pathodia Prof ana)
4.20 Camiolus Pater Noster; Ave Verum Corpus 4.30 Frescobaldi Canzon
Seconda a 4 4.35 Mozart Variations on Ah! Vous Dirai-Je, Maman, K265
4.45 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 2
5.00 Uuno Klami Helsinki March
5.05 Jonel Perlea String Quartet
5.25 Satie En Habit de Cheval 5.30 Franck
Elevation in A 5.40 Reger Ach Herr , Strafe Mich Nicht 5.55 Verdi Giovanni D'Arco
(Sinfonia) 6.05 Rimsky-Korsakov Concerto in B flat for trombone and military band
6.15 Prokoflev Symphony No 3
6.50 Sibelius Lemminkainen 's Return
(Lemminkainen Suite)