This week Penny Gore features music associated with Napoleon, declared Emperor of the French 200 years ago this month, and recordings of oboist Heinz Holliger , who is 65 on Friday.
7.00-8.30: Griffes The White Peacock Buffalo PO, conductor JoAnn Falletta Paganini Sonata NapoleoneinEflat, Op 31 Salvatore Accardo (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Charles DutoitGinastera Danzas Argentinas, Op2 Martha Argerich (piano)
8.30-10.00: Mozart Oboe Concerto in F, K313 Heinz Holliger , Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Kenneth Sillito Berlioz Sara la Baigneuse Les Elements, Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michael Plasson
Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto in G minor, Op 80 Philippe Graffin ,
Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Michael Hankinson
With Rob Cowan.
Featuring Chopin waltzes and mazurkas and recordings by Felix Weingartner.
Chopin Waltzes in E flat, A flat and E, Opp Posth Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli , Georges Cziffra and Claudio Arrau (pianos)
10.08 J Strauss (son) Waltz: Voices of Spring, Op 410 British SO, conductor Felix Weingartner
10.15 Schmelzer Balletto Primo diZingari Ars Antiqua Austria, director Gunnar Letzbor (violin)
10.25 Chopin Mazurkas, Opp 6 and 24 (excerpts) Charles Rosen (piano)
10.37 Mozart Symphony No 39 in E flat, K543 RPO, conductor Felix Weingartner
11.04 Chopin Waltzes: in B minor, Op 69 No 2; in D flat, Op 70 No 3 Artur Rubinstein (piano)
11.12 Listener request: Beethoven Mass in C, Op 86 Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano), Monica Sinclair (contralto), Richard Lewis (tenor),
Marian Nowakowski (bass), Beecham Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Thomas Beecham
1/5. My Father's Song. Donald Macleod marks the death of Charles Ives 50 years ago this week with a look at his life and music. Ives grew up in Danbury, Connecticut, surrounded by the band music of his father. Many of his works preserve these memories of his childhood.
The Pond: Remembrance
San Francisco Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
Variations on America (orch Schuman)
Bournemouth SO, conductor Jose Serebrier
Tom Sails Away
Thomas Hampson (baritone), San Francisco SO/Michael Tilson Thomas
Symphony No 3 (The Camp Meeting)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Violin Sonata No 4 (Children's Day at the Camp Meeting)
Glenn Dicterow (violin), Israela Margalit (piano)
The Things Our Fathers Loved
Thomas Hampson (baritone), San Francisco SO/Tilson Thomas
(Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight)
Live from the Wigmore Hall in London.
As part of the Saint-Saens Festival taking place in London, Fiona Talkington presents cellist and director of the festival
Steven Isserlis with pianist Pascal Devoyon , playing Saint-Saens's two cello sonatas: No 1 in C minor, Op 32, and No 2 in F, Op 123.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Volkov in Focus
Lawrence Power (viola), conductor Nan Volkov 1/5. All this week Petroc Trelawny throws the spotlight on the BBC SSO's chief conductor, Han Volkov. Born in Israel in 1976, Volkov became the youngest conductor ever to lead a BBC orchestra when he took up the post last year. Rameau Suite: Dardanus
Debussy La Mer
Berlioz Harold in Italy
Music for younger listeners, with CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson.
John Bucchino
One of the hot composing talents of the current New York cabaret scene joins Edward Seckerson to perform and discuss his songs, including Grateful, which was recorded by Art Garfunkel , his one-act musical LavenderGirl and his latest album, On Richard Rodgers ' Piano. ADDRESS: Stage and Screen, Room 220, [Address Removed] email:[Address Removed]
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, interview and news from the arts world.
BBC Philharmonic:
RNCM International Cello Festival
Piers Burton-Page presents a concert given last week at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall as part of the Royal Northern College of Music's festival devoted to the cello.
Tchaikovsky Lensky 's Aria (Eugene Onegin )
Mischa Maisky (cello), conductor VassilySinaisky Kokkonen Cello Concerto
Arto Noras, conductor VassilySinaisky Krzysztof Penderecki Concerto Grosso
Frans Helmerson , Lluis Claret and Claudio Bohorquez (cellos), conducted by the composer Beethoven Triple Concerto in C Cho-Liang Lin (violin), Ralph Kirshbaum (cello),
Imogen Cooper (piano), conductor Vassily Sinaisky
Paul Allen and guests discuss Bad Education, the new film from Pedro Almodovar. Producer Mohit Bakaya
Verity Sharp presents early recordings of the tango and excerpts from American/Brazilian artist Arto Lindsay 's new album Salt. And featured all this week, computer music from the 1950s and 60s, including tonight the very first computer-synthesised piece from 1957.
2/5. LaFenice. Donald Macleod looks at the history of Venice's 18th-century opera house, La Fenice. With music by Verdi, Cavalli, Verdi,
Rossini, Stravinsky and Handel. Rptd from Tuesday
With Jonathan Swain.
Beethoven String Trio in D, Op 9 No 2
Schnittke String Trio Koppel String Trio
Dohnanyi Serenade, Op 10 Gefion Trio
2.30 Liszt Legendes
2.45 Mahler Symphony No 8 (Symphony of a Thousand)
4.05 Muffat Violin Sonata
4.15 Meder Wie murren denn die Leut
4.30 Godard Berceuse de Jocelyn
4.35 Wilbye Adew, Sweet Amarillis
Vivaldi Concerto Grosso in A minor, RV522) (L 'Estro Armonico)
4.50 Telemann Recorder Sonata in D minor (Essercizii Musici)
5.00 Schumann Overture: Genoveva
5.10 Sibelius Song of the Earth, Op 93
5.25 Suk Elegie, Op 23
5.35 Mozart Fantasy in C minor, K396
5.45 Verrijt Flammae Divinae, Op 5 (excerpts)
6.00 Tchaikovsky Overture: Hamlet
6.15 Bach Concerto in C minor for oboe and violin, BWV1060
6.30 Moniuszko Gypsy Dance (Jawnuta)
6.35 Martinu Czech Dances
6.50 Wagner The Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walkure)