Presented by Martin Handley.
7.00-8.00: Liszt Les Preludes LSO, conductor Antal Dorati Poulenc Mass in G The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
8.00-9.00: Szymanowski Romance in D, Op 23 Ulf Hoelscher (violin), Mikhail Rudy (piano)
Brahms Variations and Fugue on a theme of Handel, Op 24 Andras Schiff (piano)
With Rob Cowan. Including some of the Tippett orchestral recordings recommended on yesterday's CD Review. Other music includes: Humperdinck The Shepherd's Farewell
(Shakespeare Suite No 2) Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Karl Anton Rickenbacher A Scarlatti Son Tutta Duolo ; Rugiodose, Odorose Tito Schipa (tenor), orchestra conducted by Dino Olivieri Haydn Piano Sonata in F; H XVI 23 Yevgeni Koroliov (piano)
Bizet Te Ergo Quaesumus (Te Deum)
Angela Maria Blasi (soprano), Munich Symphony Orchestra, conductor Hans Rudolf Zobeley Vivaldi Et in Terra Pax Hominibus (Gloria)
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), The King's Consort, conductor Robert King
Mozart String Quartet in E flat, K428 Guarneri Quartet
Strauss, arr Leinsdorf Interludes (Die Frau ohne Schatten) Philharmonia, conductor Erich Leinsdorf
Debussy Reflets dans I'Eau (Images) Paul Jacobs (piano)
Tord Gustavsen IGN Tord Gustavsen Trio Schumann Tragodie, Op 54 No 3
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Irwin Gage (piano) The Third Programme, a documentary about the birth of the Third Programme in the 1950s, is on BBC4 tonight at 9.20pm
Michael Berkeley talks to Patrick Leigh Fermor , who celebrates his 90th birthday this year.
Famous for his wartime exploits on Crete, he became one of the finest travel writers of his generation. His musical choices include Victoria, Couperin, Berlioz, Debussy and Irving Berlin.
Made in Britain: Made in Exeter
4/8. Catherine Bott visits Exeter to explore the musical and literary history of the cathedral.
The programme also includes a feature on the musical associations of Thomas Hardy 's Wessex.
Presented by Stephanie Hughes.
The American soprano Renee Fleming in a rare recital appearance at the Barbican in London. Her programme includes songs by Henry Purcell , George Crumb , Andre Previn , Alban Berg and Robert Schumann.
Loyd Grossman visits Benjamin Britten's former home, the Red House in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, where he produced some of his finest works. Still very much alive with the spirit of the composer, the house is now a major centre for Britten research and performance.
More listeners' requests, including an intensely personal setting of the mass by the Swiss composer Frank Martin, George Dyson's charming Children's Suite and the first of Rachmaninov's four piano concertos.
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With Tom Service. In Charles Mackerras 's 80th birthday year, a profile of the conductor seen through the eyes of those most closely associated with him, including Janet Baker and Edinburgh Festival director Brian McMaster. Plus the story of a new opera, A Shetland Odyssey, which unites the Tete a Tete opera company with the knitters and spinners of Shetland. Producer Jeremy Evans
The pianist plays Rachmaninov and Medtner.
Starring David Tennant and Samantha Spiro, with an introduction by Richard Eyre.
Shakespeare's delightful comedy sparkles with the verbal sparring of the two reluctant lovers in a world where nothing is quite what it seems.
John Tusa ends his five-year series of interviews with 52 of the world's great artistic minds with an investigation into the origins of creativity itself. Contributors include Bernardo Bertolucci ,
Harrison Birtwistle , Bill Viola , Simon McBurney , Merce Cunningham and Frank Auerbach. Producer Philip Sellars
1/5. Primarily known as a composer for films,
William Alwyn had a long and prolific career. Donald Macleod explores the wealth of Alwyn's music. Rhapsody for piano quartet; Divertimento; Overture to a Masque; Concerto Grosso No I Repeated from Monday 12 noon
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