Presented by Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00 8.30 : Weber Concertino in E flat, Op 9 Sabine Meyer (clarinet), Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Herbert Blomstedt
Brahms Scherzo in E flat minor, Op 4 Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Brade Die wolriechende Violen; Ein schottisch Tanz Hesperion XX director Jordi Savall
8.30 10.00 : Handel Trio Sonata in F Op 2 No 4 London Baroque
Glazunov Spring, Op 34
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Weber Piano Concerto No 1 in C
Peter Rosel , Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Herbert Blomstedt
With Rob Cowan.
Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor
Daniil Shafran , Anton Ginzburg (piano)
10.15 Haydn Symphony No 91 in E flat Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Eugen Jochum
10.40 Debussy La Damoiselle Elue
Bidu Sayao (soprano), Rosalind Nadell
(contralto), Pennsylvania University Women's Chorus, Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy
11.00 Listener request: Scarlatti Sonatas: in G, Kk454 and Kk455, and in F minor, Kk466 and Kk467 Christian Zacharias (piano)
11.20 Prokofiev Symphony-Concerto, Op 125 Daniil Shafran (cello),
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
2/5. Donald Macleod looks at the relationship between Clementi and three great composers of his time, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. Piano Sonata in B flat, Op 24 No 2 Nikolai Demidenko
Symphony in B flat, Op 18 No I London Mozart Players, conductor Matthias Bamert
Piano Sonata in G minor, Op 34 No 2 Christopher Czaja Sager
Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight
Across the Divide
1/4. This week's series features works by Britten and Shostakovich performed at last year's City of London Festival. Introduced by Andrew McGregor. Brodsky Quartet
Britten String Quartet No 3
Shostakovich String Quartet No 12
More Russian music, with Warwick Thompson.
Kabalevsky Overture: Colas Breugnon - Conductor Grant Llewellyn
Liadov Baba-Yaga; The Enchanted Lake; Kikimora - Conductor Rumon Gamba
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor - Stephen Hough, conductor Richard Hickox
Borodin Symphony No 2 in B minor - Conductor Vassily Petrenko
Stravinsky Scherzo a la Russe - Conductor Grant Llewellyn
More musical discovery for younger listeners, with Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson. Including an investigation into what a well-tempered piano is, and an interview with a typewriter.
Briqitte Fassbaender lain Burnside goes to the opera house in Innsbruck to talk to the Intendantin, the great German mezzo Brigitte Fassbaender , who reminisces about her career on the recital platform and operatic stage. Includes music by Kurt Weill , Wolf, Mahler and Schubert.
Sean Rafferty with a selection of music and a round-up of news from the arts world.
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, the orchestra continue their ongoing concert series - A Generous Spirit:
Mendelssohn the Musician - with a programme celebrating Mendelssohn's triple role of composer, conductor and pianist. They perform two of his lesser-known works alongside masterpieces by his idols Bach and Mozart. Presented by Louise Fryer.
Directors Richard Lester and Robert Levin (period piano)
Mendelssohn Sinfonia No 10 in B minor
Bach Keyboard Concerto in D minor, BWV1052
An interview with film director, playwright and author David Mamet , who talks to
Richard Schickel about his Pulitzer Prize-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross and his brand-new Faustus prior to their broadcast premieres in Drama on 3 later this month.
Symphony No 38 in D, K504 (Prague)
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 2 in D minor
Portraits of the composer's friends and family. Ian Brown (piano)
Turnage True Life Stories
The new edition of the Oxford Companion to
Philosophy, edited by Ted Honderich , is due to be published next month. Isabel Hilton and guests discuss some of its 300 new entries. Producer Hilary Dunn
Tracks from Ry Cooder 's breakthrough album Chicken Skin Music (1976), plus music from the Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band and from
Matmos. And a chance to hear Billy Cobham 's
A Funky Kind of Thing - a collision of drums and electronics. With Fiona Talkington.
Five First Nights
3/5. Verdi's Les Vêpres Siciliennes uses a bloody uprising in 12th-century Palermo as the background for a bitter clash of love and duty. Donald Macleod presents excerpts. Repeated from Wednesday at 12 noon
With John Shea. A Scarlatti Lamentazioni per la
Settimana Santa del Cavalier 2.55 Grieg Evening in the Mountains; At Your Feet (Lyric Pieces, Book 9); Summer Evening; Gone; Remembrances (Lyric Pieces, Book 10)
3.10 Chedeville Sonata for two flutes, Op 8 (L'Allemande)
3.25 Rozycki Anheli 3.45 Lipinski Violin Concerto in A
4.05 Jarzebski Sentinella 4.05 Bach Orchestral Suite
No 2 in B minor, BWV1067 4.30 Verdi Ah, la Paterna Mano (Macbeth) 4.30 Stainov Ballad: Horsemen 4.40 Haydn Symphony No 4 in D 4.55 Brahms, orch Schmelinq
Hungarian Dance No I 5.00 Chopin Nocturne in G, Op 37 No 2 5.05 Farkas Harpsichord Concerto 5.25 Kreek
Psalm 104; Blessed Is the Man 5.30 Godard Berceuse de Jocelyn 5.35 Ravel Un Grand Sommeil Noir; Rêves
5.40 Martin Five Ariel Songs 5.50 Bersa Idyll, Op 25b
6.00 Griffes Three Tone Pictures, Op 5 6.10 Ravel Piano Trio 6.35 Kapsberqer Seconda Arpeggiata
6.40 Monteverdi Vespro delta Beata Vergine (excerpts)
