Presented by Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Buxtehude Violin Sonata in E minor, BuxWV258 John Holloway , Jaap ter Linden (viola da gamba), Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) Brahms Clarinet Sonata in E flat,
Op 120 No 2 Sabine Meyer , Lars Vogt (piano)
8.00-9.00: Bach Cantata No 106: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus Tragicus)
Yoshikazu Mera (alto), Gerd Turk (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass) Japan Bach Collegium, director Masaaki Suzuki Chopin Scherzo in E, Op 54 Artur Rubinstein (piano)
With Rob Cowan.
Including the recording of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater recommended in yesterday's CD Review.
Other music includes:
Ernest Tomlinson Concert Jig (Silverthorn Suite) - RPO, conductor Barry Wordsworth
Brahms Es ritt ein Ritten All' mein' Gedanken (German Folk Songs) -
Stephen Genz (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Mozart Oboe Quartet in F, K370 - Pierre Pieriot (oboe), Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Max Lesueur (viola), Janos Scholz (cello)
Bach Cantata No 132: Christi Glieder, ach bedenket - Maureen Forrester (alto), Oscar Shumsky (violin), orchestra conducted by Brian Priestman
Schumann Nachtstucke, Op 23 - Emil Gilels (piano)
Colin Matthews Pluto, the Renewer - RPO, conductor Owain Arwel Hughes
Saint-Saens Bacchanale (Samson et Dalila) - NBC SO, conductor Leopold Stokowski
Traditional, arr Dougherty Blow Ye Winds; Shenandoah - William Warfield (baritone), Otto Herz (piano)
Stravinsky Concerto in D - Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, conductor Dennis Russell Davies
Piazzolla Fugata for two guitars, string quartet and double bass - Daniel Storer (double bass), Katona Strings, Carducci Quartet
Chapf Mi Tio Se Figura (El Rey Que Rablo) - Montserrat Caballe, symphony orchestra conducted by Eugenio M Marco
Ravel Bolero - Champs-Elysees Orchestra, conductor Pedro de Freitas Branco
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Theologian and historian Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch shares his musical passions with Michael Berkeley , including works by Ravel, Weill, Samuel Wesley , Vaughan Williams and Tippett.
The 17th-century Jesuit missions in Bolivia produced some lively and flamboyant vocal and instrumental music, some written in the local Chiquito language. Ashley Solomon , founder and director of the group Florilegium, talks to Lucie Skeaping about their recent recording project in South America, including works by the Italian missionary Domenico Zipoli and by indigenous people.
Heinrich Schiff (cello), Hagen Quartet
Stephanie Hughes presents a concert recorded last year at the Schwetzingen Festival in Germany. Mozart String Quartet in B flat, K589 Schubert String Quintet in C, D956
3/4. Britain. The creation of the British 20th-century guitar repertoire was largely due to
Julian Bream and the way he worked with many composers to create new works for the instrument. John Williams introduces Bream's recordings of works by Walton, Britten and Arnold and discusses his own collaborations with such composers as Stephen Dodgson and Richard Harvey. He also takes a look at Stanley Myers's Cavatina, one of the most widely known of all guitar pieces.
Today's selection of listeners' requests includes Smetana's autobiographical string quartet, From My Life, one of Liszt's Mephisto Waltzes and part of Handel's first oratorio, 11 Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno.
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Lorin Maazel , better known as a conductor than as a composer, whose opera based on George Orwell 's 1984 is due to open at the Royal Opera House in May, and opera director Robert Lepage talk to Tom Service about the possibilities that
Orwell's novel presents on the operatic stage. And conductor Ingo Metzmacher , whose declared passion is to turn contemporary music into accepted repertoire, talks about radical concert-programming. Producer Jeremy Evans
Recent performances from around Europe of choral and vocal music from the England that 17th-century dramatist Ben Jonson knew.
Presented by Sarah Walker. Including songs by William Cornyshe , Henry Purcell and Jonson's colleague Robert Johnson.
By Ben Jonson. Wealthy Volpone pretends to be old and infirm. This attracts greedy Venetians to his bedside, anxious to be included in his will. Shakespeare's works apart, Jonson's brilliant comedy is the most performed and influential play of the English Renaissance. and Music by Mia Soteriou , performed by Mia Soteriou and Steve Bentley-Klein Producer/Director Peter Kavanagh
In a remote jungle settlement in Guyana, 25 years ago, almost a thousand people and their leader, Jim Jones , killed themselves. Guyanese poet Fred D'Aguiar travels to Jonestown to talk to writers and artists and people who knew Jones and the settlement in order to discover the legacy of this extraordinary tragedy.
Music composed and performed by Guyanese flautist Keith Waithe Producer Julian May
1/5. Donald Macleod goes in search of the real Albeniz. Repeated from Monday at 12 noon
With John Shea.
Biber Vespro della Beata Virgine
2.20 Beethoven Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 31 No 3
2.40 Schumann Symphony No 1 in B flat (Spring)
3.15 Strauss Suite in B flat for 13 wind instruments
3.40 Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme
4.00 Fux Laudate Dominum
4.05 Bach Keyboard Concerto No 4 in A, BWV1055
4.20 Verdi Patria Oppressa! (Macbeth)
4.25 Brahms Intermezzo in A, Op 118 No 2
4.35 Milhaud Suite: Le Voyageur sans Bagages, Op 157b
4.40 CPE Bach Heilig, Heilig, Wq217
4.50 Beethoven Overture: Coriolan
5.00 Reutter Ecce Quomodo Moritur Justus
5.05 Handel Overture: Alcina
5.10 Kodaly Adagio
5.15 Liszt Liebestraume
5.25 Hidas Adagio
5.35 Henninq Akk Mon Min Vei
5.40 Bacewicz Krakowiak
5.45 Chopin Polonaise No 6 in A flat, Op 53
5.50 Victoria O Regem Coeli
5.55 Buxtehude Prelude in G minor, BuxWV149
6.00 Fasch Lute Concerto in D minor
6.15 Hidas Harpsichord Concerto
6.30 Haydn Symphony No 104 in D (London)