Presented by Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Palestrina Surge, Arnica Mea
Westminster Cathedral Choir, conductor James O'Donnell Holst St Paul's Suite City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox Purcell My Beloved Is Mine Soloists, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Brandenburg Consort, conductor David Hill Cole Porter Solomon Elizabeth Welch and orchestra conducted by Ray Noble Mozart
Ballet Music (Idomeneo) Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood
8.30-10.00: Bruch Swedish Dances, Op 63 Set 2 Wuppertal SO, conductor George Hanson Handel Solomon , Act 3
Soloists, Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner

With Rob Cowan.
Gluck Don Juan , Act 4 (excerpts) Simon Preston (harpsichord), ASMF, conductor Neville Marriner
10.09 Vaughan Williams Six Studies in English Folk Song Reginald Kell (clarinet), Brooks Smith (piano)
10.20 Schubert Mass No 6 in E flat, D950 Soloists, Vienna State Opera Chorus,
Vienna PO, conductor Claudio Abbado
11.19 Brahms Trio in A minor, Op 114
Reginald Kell (clarinet), Anthony Pini (cello), Louis Kentner (piano)
11.44 Debussy Prelude a I'Apres-Midi d'un Faune NBC SO, conductor Arturo Toscanini
11.54 Benjamin Jamaican Rumba
Reginald Kell (clarinet), Brooks Smith (piano)

5/5. Edward Elgar came from relatively humble beginnings - his father was a piano tuner and shopkeeper. But it wasn't long before he became a famous establishment figure, regularly rubbing shoulders with royalty. Donald Macleod charts the rise of this most English of composers. The Wagon (Passes) (Nursery Suite) Ulster Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson
March of the Mogul Emperors (Crown of India);
Coronation Ode Soloists, Scottish National Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Alexander Gibson
Triumphal March (Caractacus) London Symphony Chorus and SO, conductor Richard Hickox Repeated on Thursday at 12 midnight

Schwarzenberg Schubertiade 2005 4/4. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch .
Schubert, completed Britten Gretchen im
Zwinger, D564 Dorothea Roschmann (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
Schubert String Quartet in G, D887Hagen Quartet

BBC Symphony Orchestra Presented by John Shea.
Mozart Overture: Idomeneo Conductor Christian Gansch
Goldschmidt Mediterranean Songs Mark
LeBrocq (tenor), conductor Cristian Mandeal Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor
Alban Gerhardt , conductor Philippe Auguin Brahms Symphony No 3 in F Conductor Christian Gansch

Today's show includes music from West Side Story, a trip to Mars and music for fairies, presented for younger listeners by Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson.

Gil Scott-Heron
Julian Joseph and James Wylie discuss the music of writer, poet, composer and pianist Gil Scott-Heron . Producer Keith Loxam
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Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, with studio guests and news from the arts world.

Christopher Cook presents a concert of American classics given by the Northern
Sinfonia and conductor David Lockington , in which clarinettist Richard Stoltzman brings his jazz background and breathtaking technique to works for clarinet by Copland and Bernstein.
Richard Stoltzman (clarinet), Northern Sinfonia, conductor David Lockington John Adams Shaker Loops Copland Clarinet Concerto Bernstein Clarinet Sonata
Copland Appalachian Spring

Janecek In the Mists
Imogen Cooper (piano)

5/5. Another public figure reflects on one of the analects of Confucius, and considers whether it has anything to teach the modern world.

Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood talks to Matthew Sweet about her new book of Short Stories, The Tent. Producer Zahid Warley

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present an eclectic mix of musical styles and influences.

Chick Corea and CD Roundup
One of the most influential jazz pianists of the last half-century, Chick Corea , talks to Jez
Nelson in the studio and plays a session using his signature Fender Rhodes keyboard, with saxophonist Tim Garland and Egyptian percussionist Hossam Ramzy. Plus the pick of the latest jazz releases on CD. Producer Robert Abel

With Susan Sharpe.
BBC Proms 2005: Berlioz Overture: Le Corsaire
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor Janine Jansen , BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Roger Norrington
1.38 Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A
2.18 Dubois Messe de Manage (excerpts)
2.35 A Stradella L'Anime del Purgatorio
3.17 Fesch Concerto in D, Op 5 No 1
3.25 Kunzen Symphony in G minor 3.45 Morawetz
Oboe Sonata 4.01 Lundvik Like an Apple Tree in Bloom Frumerie The Lament Malmfors Hans und Grethe; The Willows Berg Thus I Paint, Donna Bianca 4.12 Squire Tarantella 4.16 Falla Ritual Fire Dance (El Amor Brujo)
4.20 Hellendaal Concerto Grosso in E flat, Op 3 No 4
4.33 Moscheles Prelude No 1 in E, Op 73 4.34 Livadlc
Scherzos: in E; in A flat minor 4.39 Gorczycki Litaniae de Providential Divina 4.51 Fontana Sonata Undecima for cornet, violin and continuo 5.00 Wilbye Adew , Sweet Amarillis 5.02 Flnzi White-Flowering Days, Op 37
5.06 Van Hoof Symphony No 1 in A 5.39 Chausson
Poeme, Op 25 5.54 Shostakovich Festive Overture, Op 96
6.01 Monluszko Polonaise (The Countess)
6.05 Beethoven.transcr Liszt Adelaide, Op 46
6.22 Lolli Sonata in B flat
6.26 Schubert, An Emma , D113c; Des Madchens Klage , 0191
6.33 Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488