Presented by Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00 8.00 Duruf le Quatre Motets sur des
Themes Grégoriens, Op 10 Poulenc Oboe Sonata
8.00 9.00 : Prokofiev Symphony No 1 (Classical) Puccini Crisantemi

With Rob Cowan. Including the recording of Janacek's Taras Bulba recommended in yesterday's CD Review. Plus:
Schubert Overture in E minor, D470 LPO, conductor Raymond Leppard Schiitz Veni Sancte Spiritus Cantus Colin , Musica Fiata
Mondonville Sonate en Symphonie, Op 3 No 3 Les Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Mark Minkowski Gluck Decidesti il Suo Destin; 0 Tu la Cosamia Piu Cara (Iphigenie en Aulide, Act 2) Boris Christoff (bass), Philharmonia, conductor Jerzy Semkow Adams 40% Swing (Road Movies)
James Ehnes (violin), Andrew Russo (piano)
Haydn Symphony No 99 in E flat Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Rafael Kubelik Duparc Chanson Triste Sine Bundgaard, Danish Radio Sinfonietta, conductor Matthias Pintscher Bernardus van Bree Allegro Moderato for four string quartets Hague Residentie Orchestra, conductor Ferdinand Leitner
Faure Elegie , Op 24
Pierre Fournier (cello), Ernest Lush (piano)
Nielsen, arr Ketting Paraphrase on Nearer, My God, to Thee RLPO, conductor Douglas Bostock Bartok Romanian Folk Dances
Eudice Shapiro (violin), Ralph Berkowitz (piano) Elgar Three Songs, Op 59 Robert Tear (tenor), CBSO, conductor Vernon Handley
Bach French Suite No 4 in E flat, BWV815 Tatiana Nikolaeva (piano)
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Anna Ford , journalist and news presenter, reveals her musical passions to Michael Berkeley. These include works by Bach,
Mozart, Schubert and Tarrega, and songs by the Gershwin brothers and the McGarrigle sisters.

Bach to the Future
Lucie Skeaping takes a look at how contemporary composers continue to seek inspiration in the music of earlier times.

Verbier Festival 2004
From last summer's festival in the Swiss Alps,
Thomas Quasthoff prefaces his recital by sharing with Stephanie Hughes his thoughts on how to perform Schubert's most demanding of song cycles. Thomas Quasthoff (baritone), James Levine (piano) Schubert Winterreise , 0911

2/4. Spain. John Williams looks at the playing of the virtuosos Andres Segovia and his contemporary Regino Sainz de la Maza, for whom Rodrigo composed the Concierto de Aranjuez. He explores works of Tarrega and Llobet and the traditional Spanish music that was adapted for the guitar.

This week's requests includes a vintage recording of Schubert's F minor Fantaisie for piano duet, played by Sviatoslav Richter and Benjamin Britten, one of Paganini's guitar guartets, and Finzi's serene Eclogue for piano and orchestra. Send in your requests by Phone: [number removed] Email via [email address removed]
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An extraordinary new production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde opens in Paris this week, promising to deliver fresh insight into Wagner's operatic masterpiece. Tom Service talks to director Peter Sellars, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and video artist Bill Viola. Meanwhile in London, a new play, Tristan and Yseult, opens at the National Theatre. Psychologists and philosophers explain why the Tristan myth has endured so strongly since the Middle Ages and is still relevant today. And leading musicians talk about their make-or-break career decisions.

Sacred music for the period from Holy Week to Pentecost by some of the giants of 16th-century music. Louise Fryer introduces this concert, recorded in St James's Piccadilly, in London.

BBC Singers, conductor Peter Phillips

Victoria Surrexit Pastor Bonus

Lassus Surrexit Pastor Bonus

Tallis Lamentations of Jeremiah Byrd; Tristitia et Anxietas; Victimae Paschali

Victoria Ardens Est Cor Meum

Palestrina Motet and Mass: Dum Complerentur Dies Pentecostes

Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey to write an investigative piece about troubling events in the mysterious, snow-shrouded city of Kars - a place haunted by the silences of its own history. This spectacular novel by Orhan Pamuk evokes the spiritual fragility of the non-Western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, and its fury.
Dramatised by James Friel and translated by Maureen Freely.

(Orhan Pamuk is a guest on Night Waves on Thursday at 9.30pm)

Oscar Niemeyer 's buildings have come to symbolise modern Brazil, inspired, he says, by the curves of Rio and the women of Copacabana beach. British architect David Adjaye looks at his career.

Ciaudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
1/5. Monteverdi wrote the world's first operatic masterpiece - L'Orfeo. Donald Macleod raises the curtain on Monteverdi's dramatic music.
Repeated from Monday at 12 noon

With Jonathan Swain. Biber Missa Bruxellensis Muffat
Sonata No 5 in G (Armonico Tributo) Bach Magnificat in D, BWV243 2.30 Nielsen Violin Concerto 3.10
Weber Rondo Brillante in E flat, Op 62 3.15 Berwald Septet in B flat
3.40 Beethoven Symphony No 2 in D 4.10 Haydn Piano Sonata in E flat, H XVI 38 4.20 Handel Sorge net Petto
(Rinaldo) 4.25 Eisner Polonaise in E flat 4.30 WleniawsKi Légende, Op 174.40 Glinka Sousanine 's Aria (
Ivan Sousanine ) 4.45 Saint-Saens Scherzo , Op 87 5.00 Bach Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV546 5.10 Biber Sonata No 1 in C (Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes)
5.15 Handel Al Lampo dell'Armi (Giulio Cesare in Egitto)
5.20 Bartok Little Piano Pieces (excerpts) 5.30 Kutev Herman 5.35 Schumann Arabesque in C 5.45 Mozart Symphony No 32 in G, K318 5.55 Chopin Polonaise in B flat, Op 71 No 2 6.00 Paderewski, arr
Wiechowicz Lieder , Op 18 (excerpts) 6.10 Vladiqerov Improvisation and Toccata, Op 36 6.25 Pintaric Fantasia and Pastorella in B flat 6.30 Schubert Symphony No 5 in B flat