Presented by Penny Gore . Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Bach Cantata No 68: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt Barbara Schlick (soprano),
Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Accentus Chamber Choir, Limoges Baroque Ensemble, director Cristophe Coin (violoncello piccolo) Poulenc Flute Sonata
Emily Beynon (flute), Andrew West (piano) Handel Va Tacito e Nascosto (Giulio Cesare)
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
8.30-10.00: Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor Cristophe Coin, Champs Elysees Orchestra, conductor Philipe Herreweghe Sibelius Symphony No 7 San Francisco SO, conductor Herbert Blomstedt
Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Elgar Salut d'Amour, Op 12 Halle Orchestra conductor Leslie Heward
10.05 Francis Poulenc Tel Jour Telle Nuit
Pierre Bernac (baritone) accompanied by the composer (piano)
10.20 Listener request:
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 1
Eileen Joyce (piano), Arthur Lockwood (trumpet), Halle Orchestra , conductor Leslie Heward
10.40 Mozart Adagio in C, K580a Paul Goodwin (cor anglais), Terzetto
10.50 Poulenc Eight Polish Songs
Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Dalton Baldwin (piano)
11.00 Berlioz Le Spectre de la Rose; Absence (Les Nuits d'Ete) Maggie Teyte (soprano), LPO, conductor Leslie Heward
11.10 Schoeck Cello Sonata Johannes Goritzki. David Levine (piano)
11.35 Haydn Symphony No 91 in E flat
Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mogens Woldike
11.55 Poulenc Les Chemins d'Amour Yvonne
Printemps (soprano), unnamed orchestra conducted by Marcel Cariven
5/5. In the final year of Monteverdi's life, the opera that is now regarded as his masterpiece was produced in Venice: L'lncoronazione di
Poppea. Donald Macleod introduces extracts from this highly original work of ruthless ambition, love, lust and struggle for power. L'lncoronazione di Poppea (excerpts)
Sylvia McNair (soprano: Poppea),
Dana Hanchard (soprano: Nero), Anne Sofie von Otter (soprano: Octavia/Venus), Francesco Ellero d'Artegna (bass: Seneca), Mark Tucker (tenor: Lucan), Marinella Pennicchi (soprano: Cupid/ Damigella), English Baroque Soloists, director John Eliot Gardiner
Repeated on Thursday at 12 midnight
Representing Self
4/4. The Atrium Quartet perform a recital at the National Museum and Gallery of Wales in Cardiff. Presented by Christopher Cook.
Shostakovich String Quartet No 7 Op 108 Tchaikovsky String Quartet in F, Op 22
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Presented by Sandy Burnett. Webern Passacaglia, Op 1 Conductor ErricoFresis
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2
Marc-Andre Hamelin , conductor Andrew Litton Haydn Symphony No 82 in C (The Bear)
Bach Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV1041 Rachmaninov Vocalise
Stravinsky Apollon Musagete
Director Elizabeth Layton (violin)
John Serry and Julian Joseph
John Serry is a pianist and writer whose work in the 1970s and 80s has influenced many of the UK's jazz stars. As part of the programme's fifth birthday celebrations, Julian Joseph performs piano duets with John Serry , recorded before an invited audience at the Floral Hall of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Sean Rafferty with a selection of music and news from the arts world. Including:
6.00-6.50 BBC Singers at Six
Live from St Giles Cripplegate at London's
Barbican. As a prelude to tonight's
Performance on 3, the BBC Singers, conducted by Stephen Cleobury , perform choral music by Strauss and Bruckner. Presented by Warwick Thompson.
BBC Symphony Orchestra
I Live from the Barbican.
The great American soprano Christine Brewer joins the BBCSO for Strauss's operatic settings of poems by Friedrich Holderlin. Presented by Christopher Cook. Christine Brewer (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Donald Runnicles Strauss Drei Hymnen , Op 71
7.55 Twenty Minutes: The Eyes of the Statue By Camara Laye , formerly of Guinea. A young girl battles through undergrowth that seems intent on swamping the city. Will nature be triumphant? Read by Adjoa Andoh. Part of a series of readings for Radio 3's Africa season.
8.15 Bruckner Symphony No 8 in C minor
Paul Allen and guests consider the history of British silent cinema. Producer Aasiya Lodhi
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present an eclectic mix of musical styles.
Bobby Previte with Charlie Hunter and DJ Logic Drummer Bobby Previte , who emerged from the forward-looking New York scene of the 1980s, is joined by Charlie Hunter , who plays bass and solo lines simultaneously on a hybrid eight-string guitar, and turntable master DJ Logic, to play a blend of funk, jazz and hip-hop. And Mark Morris reports on the increasing use of turntables in jazz. Presented by Jez Nelson.
With Louise Fryer. Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1 Mahler Das Lied von der Erde 2.25 Hummel Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 87 2.45 Mozart Concerto in C for flute and harp, K299 3.20 Bach English Suite No 2 in A minor, BWV807
3.45 Handel Incidental music: The Alchemist
4.00 Tessier In a Grove Most Rich of Shade (A Musical Banquet) 4.05 Hellendaal Cello Sonata in D, Op 5 No 2
4.20 Forster Vanitas Vanitatum 4.30 Rheinberger Tempo Moderato sopra il Magnificat (Organ Sonata in A minor, Op 98) 4.35 Anon, arr Shoujounlan Joyous Light 4.40 Balaklrev Islamev , Op 18 4.50
Glinka Kamarinskaya 5.00 Auber Overture: Le Cheval de Bronze
5.05 Verdi La Forza Del Destino (excerpt) 5.20 Chopin Mazurka in E minor, Op 41 No 2 Moniuszko Mazurka (The Gypsies) 5.30 Lisinski Mazurkas in F; E flat and B flat
5.35 Kocsar Waterfall 5.40 Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia 5.45 S Rossi Barechu ; Odekha Ki'anitani; Yitgadal 6.00 Ravel Piano Concerto in G 6.20 Bartok Four Dialogues 6.25 Berwald String Quartet in G minor