This week Penny Gore celebrates a wealth of Finnish musical talent and explores six early Mozart string quartets. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Avison, after Scarlatti Concerto Grosso No 12 in D Cafe Zimmermann Strauss Cacilie, Op 27 No22
Karita Mattila (soprano), Berlin PO, conductor Claudio Abbado
Mozart String Quartet in D, K155 Amadeus Quartet
JJ Walther Violin Sonata No 10 in G (Imitatione del Cuccu) (Scherzi, 1676) Reinhardt Goebel (violin), Thierry Maeder (harpsichord)
Sibelius Finlandia, Op26 Helsinki PO/Otto Kamu
8.30-10.00: Schubert Piano Sonata in A, D664 Maria Joao Pires
Bach, orch Schoenberg Prelude and Fugue in E flat, BWV552 (St Anne)
Los Angeles PO/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Mozart Symphony No 29 in A, K201 ECO/Benjamin Britten

This week Jonathan Swain features vocal music by Ravel and recordings by Josef Krips. Gounod Salut, Demeure (Faust, Act 3)
Helge Roswaenge (tenor), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Josef Krips
10.06 Haydn Symphony No 94 in G (Surprise) Vienna PO, conductor Josef Krips
10.29 Maurice Ravel Deux Mélodies Hébraïques Madeleine Grey (soprano) accompanied by the composer (piano)
10.34 Mozart Don Giovanni , Act I (excerpt) Soloists, Vienna PO, conductor Josef Krips
10.50 Suk Six Pieces, Op 7 Pavel Stepan (piano)
11.18 Ravel Ballade de la Reine Morte d'Aimer;
Manteau de Fleurs; Rêves
Mady Mesple (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)
11.29 Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird Philharmonia, conductor Josef Krips
11.52 Ravel Trois Beaux Oiseaux de
Paradis Elly Ameling (soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano)

1/5. Benjamin Frankel wrote over 100 film scores and a considerable quantity of concert music. Donald Macleod looks at his music of the 1940s and 50s, when he started to establish his reputation. I'm Not in Love (Film: Night Beat) Christine Norden (singer) and orchestra conducted by the composer On the March (Youth Music, 1st mvt) Northwest Chamber Orchestra, conductor Alun Francis Violin Sonata No 1, Op 13 Max Rostal Concert Overture: May Day
Queensland Symphony Orchestra, conductor Werner Andreas Albert
Prelude (Film: The Prisoner) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Carl Davis String Quartet No 4 Nomos Quartet
Producer Deborah Preston
Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight RT DIRECT: Frankel's Music for the Movies, featuring his classic scores for The Importance of Being Earnest; The Curse of the Werewolf: The Night of the Iguana: Trottie True: The Years Between and Footsteps in the Fog, is available on CD for £12.99 including p&p. To order please send a cheque, payable to Selections, to: Selections, [address removed], or phone: [number removed](national rate) quoting [text removed], or visit [web address removed]

Live from Wigmore Hall in London.
Stephanie Hughes presents a recital by the Kopelman Quartet from Russia.
Schubert String Quartet in E flat, D87
Tchaikovsky String Quartet No 2 in F, Op 22

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
This week Martin Handley features some of the most popular piano concertos. Ravel Alborada del Gracioso
Conductor Richard Hickox
Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor Marc-Andre Hamelin , conductor Takuo Yuasa Rota La Strada
Respighi The Fountains of Rome Conductor Richard Hickox

Music for younger listeners, presented by Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson. Including the Colonel Bogey march and the king of boogie-woogie piano, Albert Ammons.

Ed Seckerson looks at the plight of the immigrant through the musicals "Rags", "The Immigrant",
"Ragtime" and "Fiddler on the Roof" and discovers that one thing unites them all - tradition!

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Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, with guests and news of the arts world.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a concert given by the Northern Sinfonia from the Sage Gateshead. Truls Mork (cello), Northern Sinfonia, director Thomas Zehetmair
Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1
Mozart Symphony No 35 in D, K385 (Haffner)

1/4. BBC Singers, conductor Bob Chilcott David Macintyre
Ave Maria Healey Willan How They So Softly Rest
Ysaye M Barnwell Wanting Memories

Philip Dodd talks to one of Latin America's greatest hopes for the Nobel Prize for
Literature, Carlos Fuentes. Producer Fiona McLean

Fiona Talkington with the unclassifiable sounds of Clogs and the Books, currently on tour together in the UK, music for theorbo by Kapsberger and tracks from Finland's Varttina.

2/5. With Donald Macleod.
Arne Where the Bee Sucks (The Tempest): Under the Greenwood Tree (As You Like It); Come Away Death (Twelfth Night); Rise, Glory, Rise (Rosamond); Artaxerxes (excerpts)
Boyce Ode for St Cecilia's Day: See Fam'd Apollo and the Nine (first part)
Repeated from Tuesday at 12 noon