This week Sandy Burnett explores the polonaise, and all of Handel's music for Acis and Galatea.
7.00-8.30: Tchaikovsky Polonaise (Eugene Onegin ) Handel Sorge il Di (Aci, Galatea e
Polifemo) Chopin Polonaise in C sharp minor,
Op 26 No 1 Gershwin, orch Rose Overture: Strike Up the Band Strauss Wiegenlied, Op 41 No 1
8.30-10.00: Handel Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
(excerpt) Vieuxtemps Ballade et Polonaise, Op 38 Verdi Ballet: The Four Seasons (Les Vêpres Siciliennes)

With Rob Cowan. Featuring Handel's keyboard suites and recordings by Paul Paray.
Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra, conductor Paul Paray
10.10 Handel Suite in A, HWV426 Ottavio Dantone (harpsichord)
10.25 Campra Te Deum Veronique Gens
(soprano), Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (countertenor), Douglas Nasrawi (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), Le Concert Spirituel, conductor Herve Niquet
11.00 Bizet, ed Guiraud L'Arlésienne: Suite No 2 Detroit SO, conductor Paul Paray
11.15 Handel Suite in F, HWV427 Murray Perahia (piano)
11.25 Wagner Siegfried Idyll Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conductor Paul Paray
11.40 Listener request: Schoenberg Four Songs, Op 22 Cornelia Kallisch (mezzo), South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Heinz Holliger

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Vaughan Williams in the 1920s
1/5. In 1919 Ralph Vaughan Williams , nearly 50, was demobilised from the British Army, in which, as a medical orderly, he acquired a "vivid awareness of how men died". Then began a prolific decade of work, in which the expressive range of his music expanded, and his compositions explored new depths of visionary, mystical ardour. Donald Macleod looks into this hugely significant period for one of Britain's greatest composers. Down Ampney (Come Down, 0 Love Divine)
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Christopher Allsop (organ), director Richard Marlow String Quartet No I Maggini Quartet
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner 0 Clap Your Hands (Psalm 47) Corydon Singers and Orchestra, conductor Matthew Best
Producer Lyndon Jones Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight

Live from London's Wigmore Hall, presented by Fiona Talkington . Jerusalem Quartet
Haydn String Quartet in B flat, Op 76 No 4 (Sunrise) Dvorak String Quartet in F Op 96 (American)

BBC Philharmonic
This week's programmes feature Russian symphonies. With Louise Fryer.
Arensky Overture: The Dream on the Volga Shostakovich Suite: The Golden Mountains
Conductor Vassily Sinaisky
Ravel Piano Concerto in G Christian Blackshaw , conductor Gianandrea Noseda
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4 in F minor Conductor Van Pascal Tortelier

Today Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson take younger listeners on three musical trips to
Spain. Plus music from the film The Incredibles.

Thirty years ago Ted Chapin, now the president of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organisation, was a stage-struck student who got himself a job as gofer on Stephen Sondheim's revolutionary new musical Follies. He talks to Edward Seckerson about the experience, illustrated with excerpts from the original Broadway cast recording.
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An update of news from the arts world, with studio guests and a selection of music, with Sean Rafferty.

London Symphony Orchestra
Renee Fleming (soprano),
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), conductor Andre Previn
Andre Previn celebrates his 75th birthday year with a gala concert featuring a starry line-up of soloists and the orchestra for whom he was principal conductor throughout the 1970s. Given last week at the Barbican in London. Presented by Sandy Burnett.
Korngold, arr Russ Suite: The Sea Hawk Ravel Concerto for piano (left hand)
Andre Previn Tango , Song and Dance Strauss Four Last Songs
Ravel Daphnis and Chloe: Suite No 2

Do spy novels offer radical insights into the real politics normally hidden from ordinary people? Or are they just conspiracy theories given the stamp of fiction? Isabel Hilton talks to novelist
Henry Porter , among others, to unmask the real culture of espionage writing. And as part of the BBC's series A Picture of Britain, Beryl Bainbridge casts her eye over a piece of Britain that has
Shaped her imagination. Producer Jerome Weatherald

Verity Sharp with a selection that includes music for the Swedish nykelharpa, both in its pure form and coupled with the organ playing of Gunnar Idenstam. Plus the Cretan folk musician Vasilis Skoulas and a sinfonia by Bernardo Pasquini played by the early music group Arcadia.

2/5. Berlioz's Religious Music. Although Berlioz is perhaps best known for his secular music, his religious music includes the Requiem of 1837, the 7e Deum of 1849 and the oratorio L'Enfance du
Christ of 1850-54. Donald Macleod and David Cairns discuss his religious output.

With Louise Fryer. Shostakovich Four Monologues, Op 91; A Foreword to My Complete Works and a Brief Contemplation with Respect to This Foreword, Op 123; Six Songs, Op 62
1.30 Mozart Piano Trio in G, K5641.50 Wagner, orch
Mottl Wesendonk-Lieder 2.15 Schubert Piano Sonata in B flat, Op 960 2.55 Dohnanyi Suite in F sharp minor, Op 19
3.25 Brahms Cello Sonata in E minor, Op 38
3.50 Rachmaninov Romance and Waltz 3.55 Glinka Kamarinskaya 4.05 Elgar Severn Suite, Op 87
4.20 Handel Se Pieta di Me Non Sentir (Giulio Cesare )
4.30 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in G minor, RV315 (The Four Seasons) (Summer) 4.40 Mozart String Quartet in D, K155 4,50 Schoeck Zwei Klavierstücke, Op 29
5.00 Debussy Prélude a I'Apres-Midi d'un Faune
5.05 Kreisler Berceuse Romantique , Op 9 5.10 Lassus Jubilate Deo; to Ti Voria; Tristis Est Anima Mea
5.20 Bach Sarabande (Cello Suite No 3 in C, BWV1009)
5.25 D Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas in E minor and E major, Kk263 and 264 5.35 Weber Wie nahte mir der Schlummer; Leise, Leise, fromme Weise (Der Freischutz)
5.40 Ravel Pavane pour une Infante Defunte 5.50 Geijer A Selection of Songs 6.05 Hummel Clarinet Quartet in E fiat 6.30 Chopin Waltz in A minor, Op 34 No 2
6.40 Dvorak Suite in A. Op 98b