This week Sandy Burnett looks at musical travels and Mozart's serenades and divertimentos.
Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Cherubini Overture:
Medea Robert Johnson Come Hither That You Love; Tell Me, Dearest Bach , after A Marcello Concerto in D minor, BWV974
8.30-10.00: Handel Concerto Grosso in D, Op 6 No 5 Mozart Divertimento in E flat, K196e Liszt Venezia e Napoli (Annees de Pelerinage: Italie)
This week Jonathan Swain features the medieval Cantigas de Santa Maria and recordings by pianist Alicia de Larrocha.
Granados Los Requiebros; Quejas o la Maja y el Ruisehor (Goyescas) Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
10.18 Anon Cantigas de Santa Maria (excerpts) Russell Oberlin (countertenor/bells), Joseph ladone (lute), New York Pro Musica, director Noah Greenberg
10.28 Mozart Violin Concerto No 1 in B flat, K207 Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, director Monica Huggett (violin)
10.50 Albeniz Rondeha ; El Albaicfn (Iberia) Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
11.05 Arriaga String Quartet No 3 in E flat Sine Nomine Quartet
11.33 Anon Cantigas de Santa Maria (excerpts) Teresa Berganza (mezzo); Studio der friihen Musik, director Thomas Binkley
11.50 Soler Piano Sonatas: No 84 in D; No 89 in F Alicia de Larrocha
1/5. Naples. Donald Macleod explores Rossini's association with Naples, where, helped by the impresario Domenico Barbaia, the composer produced nine operas.
Elisabetta, Regina d'lnghilterra (Sinfonia; end of Act 1) Soloists, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, LPO, conductor Giuliano Carella
Ah, Non Potrian Resistere (Le Nozze di Teti e di
Peleo) Cecilia Bartoli (soprano), Venice La Fenice Choir and Orchestra, conductor Ion Marin
Ricciardo e Zoraide, Act 2 (excerpt) Soloists,
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor David Parry
Producer Megan Jones Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight
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Live from Wigmore Hall in London.
Presented by Stephanie Hughes.
Olaf Bar (baritone) and Melvyn Tan (piano) perform a selection of songs by Mozart, Schoenberg and Haydn.
BBC Symphony Orchestra
This week Graeme Kay focuses on music from Scandinavia.
Stenhammar Excelsior! Op 13 Conductor Mario Vengazo Skalkottas Four Images
Conductor Nikos Christodoulou
Piano Concerto No 2 Geoffrey Douglas Madge , conductor Nikos Christodoulou
Alfven Midsummer Vigil (Swedish Rhapsody No 1) Conductor Mario Vengazo
Music for younger listeners presented by Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson. Featuring a haunting Miserere by Allegri, and Charles Williams 's Devil's Galop.
1/2. Edward Seckerson profiles the great American songwriter. Includes "God Bless America", "Everybody's Doing It" and "Blue Skies".
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Martin Handley presents a selection of music, with guests and news of the arts world.
BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Presented from the Barbican in London by Christopher Cook.
Martin Robertson (saxophone), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Joseph Swensen Sibelius En Saga
Mark-Anthony Turnage Your Rockaby
Nielsen Symphony No 4 (Inextinguishable) RPS/Radio 3 Listeners' Award: page 119
String Quartet Brodsky Quartet
Matthew Sweet visits Dodford in Gloucestershire to explore one of the last surviving cottages built as part of the Chartist movement, which in the mid-19th century campaigned for social and economic reform and who planned to settle workers on smallholdings where they could be self-sufficient. Producer Fiona McLean
Fiona Talkington with songs from Palestine by Reem Kelani and old songs from the Yemen rearranged by Israeli producer Idan Raichal.
Plus a new recording of Messiaen's mystical Les Corps Glorieux, performed by organist Timothy Byram-Wigf ield at Windsor Castle.
2/5. Foreign Culture. With Donald Macleod.
Cats' Duet (LEnfant et les Sortilèges) Soloists, French Radio National Orchestra, conductor Lorin Maazel Alborada del Gracioso (Miroirs) Vlado Perlemuter (piano) Asie (Shéhérazade)
Maria Ewing (soprano), CBSO, conductor Simon Rattle Overture: Sheherazade New York PO, conductor Pierre Boulez How's Your Mug? (L'Enfant et les Sortileges) Soloists, LSO, conductor Andre Previn Chansons Madecasses
Jessye Norman (soprano), Michel Debost (flute), Renaud Fontanarosa (cello)
Repeated from Tuesday at 12 noon
Presented by John Shea. Beethoven Violin Sonata in F, Op 24 (Spring) Mendelssohn Piano Sonata in E, Op 6 Beethoven Violin Sonata in A Op47 (Kreutzer) 2.26
Bartok Violin Concerto No 12.49 Schoenberg Suite , Op 25
3.03 Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits 3.12 Bach Viola da Gamba Sonata No 2 in D, BWV1028 3.26 Lie Symphony in A minor 4.00 Wilms Rondo (Sonata for two pianos, Op 31)
4.09 Vivaldi Concerto da Camera in C, RV87 4.17 Mozart Vado , Ma Dove , K583 4.22 Dobrzynski, arr Wilkomirski Andante and Rondo alia Pollacca 4.34 Borodin, ed Glazunov Symphony No 3 in A minor 4.53 Liszt
Mazeppa (Transcendental Studies) 5.00 Jarnefelt Lyric Overture 5.11 Clemens non Papa Os Loquentium
5.15 Palestrina Gloriosi Principes Terrae 5.18 Berwald
Fantasia on two Swedish Folk Songs 5.27 Puccini E Lucevan le Stelle (Tosca) 5.31 D'lndia Crud'Amarilli 5.35 Weber
Divertimento Assai Facile, Op 38 5.47 Kabalevsky Colas Breugnon (excerpts) 6.06 Janacek String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters) 6.32 Gershwin Porgy and Bess (excerpts) 6.44 Wiren Serenade for Strings, Op 11