Presented by Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Kodaly Dances from Galanta Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Elgar La Capricieuse, Op 17
Gil Shaham (violin), Rohan de Silva (piano)
Zelenka Lamentations of Jeremiah (excerpt) Michael Chance (countertenor), Chandos Baroque Players
Tchaikovsky Polonaise (Eugene Onegin, Act 3) French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Paavo Jarvi
JCF Bach Sonata in G for violin, viola and keyboard London Baroque
8.30-10.00: Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1 (transcr for piano) Murray Perahia
White Lamentations of Jeremiah (excerpt) Tallis Scholars , director Peter Phillips
Prokofiev Cinderella Suite No 1, Op 107 Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Presented by Rob Cowan.
Vivaldi Violin Concerto in C, RV178
Louis Kaufman , Winterthur Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Clemens Dahinden
10.10 Mendelssohn Song without Words, Op 102 No 3; Caprice in A minor, Op 33 No 1 Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
10.20 Ravel Vocalise en Forme de
Habanera Teresa Berganza (mezzo), Dalton Baldwin (piano)
10.25 Piston Violin Concerto No 1 Louis Kaufman (violin), LSO, conductor Bernard Herrmann
10.50 Palestrina Lamentations for Holy
Saturday Tallis Scholars, conductor Peter Phillips
11.00 Mendelssohn Piano Sonata in E, Op 6 Murray Perahia (piano)
11.25 Debussy La Mer Lucerne Festival Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
11.55 Traditional, arr Kreisler Londonderry Air Louis Kaufman (violin), Paul Ulanowsky (piano)
4/5. At the Centre of Public Life
Elgar was a private man, most comfortable in the Worcestershire countryside.
Donald Macleod explores how Elgar was reluctantly thrust to the forefront of public life by his music. Intermezzo No 3 (Five Intermezzos for wind ensemble) Athena Ensemble
Soldiers' Chorus; Caractacus's Lament
(Caractacus) Peter Glossop (baritone), Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Charles Groves Coronation Ode
Teresa Cahill (soprano),
Anne Collins (contralto), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Gwynne Howell (bass), Scottish National Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Alexander Gibson Ballet. The Sanguine Fan (excerpt)
LPO, conductor Bryden Thomson Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight
Celebrating Mozart
3/4. Stephanie Hughes presents a concert by Mozart specialists the Artis Quartet of Vienna, joined at LSO St Luke's in London by violist Lawrence Power.
Mozart String Quartet in C, K465; String Quintet in E flat, K614
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers
Presented by Graeme Kay.
Barber Overture: The School for Scandal
Conductor Fabio Mechetti
Bernstein Suite: On the Waterfront
Conductor Christopher Austin Stravinsky Symphony in C Conductor llan
Volkov Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Steven Osborne (piano), conductor llan Volkov Keith Tippett The Monk Watches the Eagle Julie Tippetts (vocals), BBC Singers, Apollo
Saxophone Quartet, conductor Keith Tippett
Brian Kay presents a selection of light classics.
Sean Rafferty keeps listeners informed on developments in music and the arts.
4/5. Joan Bakewell talks to
Professor Harry Kroto , Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, about the nature of his beliefs.
Producer Norman Winter
Easter at King's
Louise Fryer introduces the King's Singers in a concert live from King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
Gesualdo Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday
Conductor David Porcelijn
Jeff Hamburg David : Five Psalms for wind orchestra
There are race riots in London as a result of asylum seekers from the continent fleeing religious persecution: not a description of current events but of 16th-century England. Paul Allen and guests discuss Thomas More - Shakespeare's "banned" play, written in collaboration with Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle - which the Royal Shakespeare Company are reviving in Stratford-upon-Avon. Producer Phil Tinline
Fiona Talkington presents James MacMillan 's Kiss on Wood for violin and piano, the Burgundian Cadence singing Robert Hugill 's settings of poems by Carl Cook , and music for
Maundy Thursday from 17th-century Provence.
5/5. Muzio Clementi became a founding member and director of the second oldest concert society in the world, the London (now the Royal)
Philharmonic Society. Donald Macleod narrates. Repeated from Friday at 12 noon
Presented by John Shea.
Dvorak Stabat Mater , Op 58
2.25 Brahms String Sextet No 2 in G, Op 36
3.05 Gershwin Piano Concerto 3.40 Beethoven Violin Sonata in G, Op 30 No 3 3.55 Bax Hardanger
4.00 Grieq Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
4.10 Eccard Cui Pia Contigit 4.15 Kuula The Bride Arrives
4.20 Marie, arr C Arnold La Cinquantaine Ghys, arr
Hansen Gavotte Louis XIII (Amaryllis) Saint-Saens, arr
Klugescheld My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice (Samson et Dalila)
4.25 Handel Return, 0 God of Hosts (Samson)
4.35 Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise , Op 22
4.50 Granados La Maja y el Ruisenor 5.00 Wagner Good Friday Music (Parsifal) 5.10 Orff In Trutina (Carmina Burana) Schubert, transcr Liszt Die Forelle 5.15 Anon The Gentle Lamb 5.25 Anon Canto di Lanzi Venturieri; Canto di Lanzi Sonatori di Rubechine: Canto di Lanzi Venturieri : Canto dei Capi Tondi : Carro delta Morte 5.35 Rosenmuller Sinfonia Quinta 5.45 Krupowlcz Miserere
6.00 Pf itzner Symphony No 2 6.15 Erkel Duo Brillant
6.35 Karlowicz Stanislaw and Anna of Oswiecim