Presented by Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Schubert Overture: Die Zauberharfe Ireland Sarnia
8.00-9.00: Franck Violin Sonata in A
Mendelssohn Mailied (Sechs Lieder: Im Freien zu singen, Op 41) Bridge Enter Spring
With Rob Cowan. Including a chance to hear one of Haydn's Op 76 quartets from the CD recommended in yesterday's CD Review. Plus: Josef Strauss Dorfschwalben aus Osterreich Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner
F Couperin Musete de Choisi; Musete de Taverni David Munrow (recorder),
Christopher Hogwood (harpsichord)
Mendelssohn Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op 60 (excerpts) Uwe Hellman (tenor),
Thomas Hampson (baritone), Rene Pape (bass), Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt Janiewicz Divertimento Polish Chamber
Orchestra, conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk
Kevin Volans String Quartet No 1 (White Man Sleeps) Kronos Quartet
Kodaly Dances from Galanta
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Artur Rodzinski
Sweelinck Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Her Andre Isoir (organ)
Wolf-Ferrari Suite: The Jewels of the Madonna ASMF , conductor Neville Marriner
Schubert An Sylvia , D891 Heinrich Schlusnus (baritone), Sebastian Peschko (piano)
Brahms Die Mainacht, Op 43 No 2 Heinrich
Schlusnus (baritone), Sebastian Peschko (piano) Bach, arr Kempff Es ist gewisslich an der Zeit,
BWV307; Wachetauf, ruftunsdieStimme, BWV645 Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
Enescu Decef , Op 14 Bucharest Virtuosi
Chamber Orchestra, conductor Horia Andreescu Email your comments to: cowancollection@bbc.co.uk
Ceramicist Gordon Baldwin joins Michael Berkeley to discuss his musical passions, which include works by Britten, John Adams and Philip Cashian , and music from Japan, Central Asia and India.
Beqona Olavide
The virtuoso psaltery player talks to
Lucie Skeaping about her revival of this almost extinct instrument, about her fascination with the three cultures of medieval Andalusia, and about playing and singing with her band Mudejar. Producer Steve Portnoi
A concert given at Wigmore Hall in London last month. Presented by Stephanie Hughes. ASMF, director Joshua Bell (violin) Vivaldi The Four Seasons
Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence, Op 70
1/2. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Tenor Mark Padmore talks to Tom Robinson about the vocal mastery of German bass-baritone FiSCher-Dieskau. Producer Alan Hall
Today's selection of listeners' requests includes a flute concerto by Bach, part of the Romantic fairy-tale opera Undine by Albert Lortzing , and a new recording of a symphony by the 19th-century British composer Alice Mary Smith. Send in your requests by PHONE: [number removed]0300 email via www.bbc.co.uk/radio3 Address: 3 for All, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YO
Politicians, pollsters and the electorate are gearing up for the final election push this week. But how might music be affected by Thursday's result? Is enough being done to foster musical appreciation and talent? As a nation, are we properly investing in our musical future? Tom Service debates music policy with representatives from the political parties and with leading British musicians. Producer Paul Frankl
London Sinfonietta
Pierre Boulez conducts a concert recorded at last summer's BBC Proms. Presented by Ian Skelly. Catrin Wyn-Davis (soprano), Hilary Summers
(mezzo), Toby Spence (tenor), Tigran Martirossian (bass), BBC Singers, Ensemble Intercontemporain, conductor Pierre Boulez
Stravinsky Saucers (Four Russian Peasant Songs) (a cappella version); Les Noces
Starring Derek Jacobi, the acclaimed Sheffield Theatres production of Friedrich Schiller's play in a new translation by Mike Poulton. King Philip II of Spain holds on to power through the terror of the Inquisition and his spies. His son Don Carlos seeks his father's trust yet hides his feelings for his father's wife, Elizabeth of France, to whom he was betrothed before Philip married her. The court watches and listens.
Count Lerma Roger Swaine Music composed by Adam Cork
Producers Richard Bannerman and Neil Gardner Directors Michael Grandage and Andy Jordan
Staging a classic: page 16
1/5. Donald Macleod explores the life and works of the composer dubbed the "wife of Haydn", perhaps because of the similarity of his style to that of his contemporary. Rptd from Monday at 12 noon
With Jonathan Swain. Beethoven SymphonyNo 9in Dminor (Choral) 2.10 Bach Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor, BWVIOOI
2.25 Kozeluch Organ Sonata (La Chasse) 2.45 Suk Mass in B flat 3.10 Chopin Four Ballades 3.45 Saint-Saens Oboe Sonata in D, Op 166 4.00 Strauss Waltz: By the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op 314 4.10 Lehar Meine Lippen , sie kussen so heiss (Giuditta) 4.15 Hungarian tradition Bride's Dance Brahms Hungarian Dances (excerpts) 4.30 Weber Grand Duo
Concertant, Op 48 4.40 Grieg Triumphal March (Sigurd
Jorsalfar) 5.00 Saint-Saens Mon Coeur S'ouvre (Samson etDalila) 5.05 Massenet Elegie-Me'lodie 5.10 Liszt Sonetto 123 di Petrarca 5.15 Le Jeune 0 Seigneur, J'espars Jour et Nuit 5.20 Mozart Duos (Die Zauberflote) 5.35 Wagner
Good Friday Music (Parsifal) 5.40 Schoenberg Friede auf Erden, Op 13 5.50 Stenhammar Four Stockholm Poems, Op 38 6.05 Wagner Prelude: Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde) 6.20 Benoit 0 Sacrum Convivium
6.25 Merikanto Summer Night Waltz: Summer Night Idyll
6.30 Nielsen String Quartet No 1, Op 13
