Presented by Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00 8.30 : Schumann Arabeske, Op 18 Nelson Freire (piano) Telemann Concerto in B flat,
TWV52:B1 Matthias Maute and Sophie Lariviere (recorders), Arion, director Jaap ter Linden Ravel Ballet: Ma Mere I'Oye Cincinnati SO, conductor PaavoJarvi
8.30 10.00 : Schumann Piano Sonata No I in F sharp minor, Op 11 Leif Ove Andsnes
Reger Eine Ballettsuite Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leif Segerstam
Dvorak Five Bagatelles, Op 47 Takacs Quartet
With Rob Cowan.
Brahms Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor, Op 38 Janos Starker, Gyorgy Sebok (piano)
Hear You Calling Me
Listener request: Handel 0 Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me? (Semele, Act 2)
Sullivan The Lost Chord John McCormack (tenor), unnamed orchestra and conductor
Canticum pro Pace
Soloists, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, conductor Ton Koopman
A Dream of Spring
Schumann Sanger 's Trost, Op 127 No I (sung in English) John McCormack (tenor), unnamed pianist
Suite No 2 in C New
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Antal Dorati
Friend O'Mine
Russell Poor Man's Garden
John McCormack (tenor), Edwin Schneider (piano)
Masquerade Suite
New York PO, conductor Leopold Stokowski
2/5. Donald Macleod considers visions and visionaries, and how in the 20th century mystical ideas in art and music expanded to include a Celtic element. He begins with John Browne , a shadowy but remarkable contributor to the 15th-century Eton Choirbook. John Browne Stabat luxta
Tallis Scholars, director Peter Phillips Howells Hymnus Paradisi (excerpt)
Julie Kennard (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley
Lennox Berkeley Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila, Op 27 Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto), BBC NOW, conductor Richard Hickox
Bantock Celtic Symphony RPO, conductor
Vernon Handley Repeated on Monday at midnight
Vogler Spring Festival
1/4. Music recorded during the May Bank Holiday at St Columba's Church in Drumcliffe, County Sligo, where each year artists-in-residence the Vogler Quartet are joined by guest musicians at the spot where Irish poet WB Yeats is buried. Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Schumann Marchenerzahlungen , Op 132
Sharon Kam (clarinet), Guy Ben-Ziony (viola), Martin Helmchen (piano)
Brahms String Sextet in G, Op 36 Vogler Quartet, Guy Ben-Ziony (viola), Guy Johnston (cello)
Bernarda Fink (mezzo), European Union Youth Orchestra, conductor John Eliot Gardiner Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole; Shéhérazade
Walton Symphony No I Rptd from Wednesday 24 August
James Bowman
Ian Burnside talks to James Bowman about the history and development of the countertenor voice, from the early exponents of the 1930s to the present, including Alfred Deller , David Daniels and Andreas Scholl.
With Petroc Trelawny.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Featuring British composer Thomas Ades 's new violin concerto, specially written for tonight's soloist. Presented by Martin Handley.
Anthony Marwood (violin), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Thomas Ades Beethoven Overture: Namensfeier Stravinsky Suite: Pulcinella
Thomas Ades Violin Concerto (first UK performance)
By William Boyd. Playful? Grumpy? Kindly? Bitter? - What do we really know about the once grand man of letters who lives in a flat near Hyde Park and feasts on tinned mandarins with condensed milk? Well, perhaps he'll tell us if he's in the right mood. Read by Oliver Ford Davies and Harry Myers. Abridged and produced by Duncan Minshull.
8.15 Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat
Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. Presented by Louise Fryer.
Tippett Dance, Clarion Air - BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury
David Home Splintered Instruments - Nash Ensemble, conductor Martyn Brabbins
Tippett Four Songs from the British Isles; Over the Sea to Skye - BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury
Elliott Carter Mosaic - Nash Ensemble, conductor Martyn Brabbins
Tippett, arr Bowen Suite: The Tempest - Mark Padmore (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), Nash Ensemble, conductor Martyn Brabbins
Marc-Andre Hamelin plays a selection from Albeniz's piano collection Iberia.
3/5. Donald Macleod tells of Weber's struggles against anti-German sentiment.
(Repeated from Wednesday at 12 noon)
With Susan Sharpe. Corellt Trio Sonata in A, Op 3 No 12
Sehmelzer Sonata XIII in F (Sacro-Profanus Concentus Musicus) Muffat Sonata No 5 in G (Armonico Tributo)
Corelll Trio Sonata in D, Op 4 No 4 Blber Partita in E flat
(Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa) 1.50 CPE Bach Oratorio. Die AuferstehungundHimmelfahrtJesu, Wq240 3.03 Beethoven Piano Sonata in F minor, Op 2 No 3^4 Strauss Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (excerpts) 3.59 Chopin Nocturne in B,
Op 9 No 3 4.05 Pachelbel Motet: Gott ist unser Zuversicht
Geminiani Concerto Grosso in G minor (after Corelli, Op 5 No 5)
4.18 Purcell The History of Dioclesian (excerpts)
Haydn Symphony No 92 in G (Oxford)
4.52 Huygens Que Ferons-Nous: Graves Tesmoins de Mes Delices: Vous Me I'Aviez Bien Dit (Pathodia Sacra et Profana Occupati)