Presented by Penny Gore . Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Herold Overture: Zampa NBC SO, conductor Arturo Toscanini Schubert Piano Trio in B flat, D28
Vienna Haydn Trio Dvorak Slavonic Rhapsody, Op 45 No 3 Detroit SO, conductor Antal Dorati
8.30-10.00: Delibes Variations on a Slavonic Theme (Coppelia) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Herbert von Karajan
Beethoven Variations on Six National Airs, Op 105 Olli Mustonen (piano) Haydn Sinfonia
Concertante in B flat, H 1105 Patrick Beaugiraud (oboe), Marc Vallon (bassoon), Ryo Teraokado (violin), Hidemi Suzuki (cello), La Petite Bande , director Sigiswald Kuijken
With Rob Cowan.
Stravinsky Le Chant du Rossignol
Dresden PO, conductor Herbert Kegel
10.24 Purcell Love 's Goddess Sure Was Blind Norma Burrowes (soprano), James Bowman and Charles Brett (countertenors), Robert Lloyd (bass), Early Music Consort of London, conductor David Munrow
10.49 Zoltan Szekely String Quartet New Zealand String Quartet
11.19 Anon, 18th century Hungarian Dances Ars Antiqua Austria, director Gunar Letzbor (violin)
11.30 Bartok Divertimento Leipzig Radio
Chamber Orchestra, conductor Herbert Kegel
4/5. Arrigo Boito. The librettist with whom Verdi produced his later operas Otello, Falstaff, and a much revised Simon Boccanegra was
Arrigo Boito , who was also a composer in his own right. Donald Macleod explores the relationship between the two men.
Reconciliation scene (Simon Boccanegra , Act 3) Piero Cappuccilli (baritone), Nikolai Ghiaurov (bass-baritone), Milan La Scala Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
Credo in un Dio Crudel. ... Se Inconscia, Contro Te, Sposo, Ho Peccato (Otello, Act 2)
Cheryl Studer (soprano), Denyce Graves (mezzo), Placido Domingo (tenor),
Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), Bastille Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Myung-Whun Chung
Falstaff, Act 1 (excerpt) Enrico Facini and Anthony Mee (tenors), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Anatoli Kotscherga (bass), Berlin PO, conductor Claudio Abbado Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight
Celebrating Mozart: Mozart and Schumann at the Piano
3/4. Introduced from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, by Petroc Trelawny.
Simon Crawford-Phillips and Philip Moore (pianos) Mozart, ed Beyer Prelude and Fugue in C minor, K426
Mozart, compl Beyer Larghetto and Allegro in E flat
Schumann Andante and Variations in B flat, Op 46 Mozart Sonata in D, K448
BBC Philharmonic, BBC Singers
British Symphony Series: James MacMillan Presented by Sandy Burnett.
Philips Ascendit Deus; Ave Jesu Christe ; Ecce
VicitLeo BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Layton James MacMillan Into the Ferment
BBC Philharmonic conducted by the composer Purcell My Heart Is Inditing BBC Singers, St James Baroque Players, conductor Stephen Layton James MacMillan Piano Concerto No 2
Wayne Marshall , conducted by the composer Purcell / Was Glad BBC Singers, St James
Baroque Players, conductor Stephen Layton
Purcell Chaconyin G minor St James Baroque Players, conductor Stephen Layton
For younger listeners, Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present voices that sound like trumpets, a piano that sounds like a butterfly and a trumpet that sounds like a bumble bee.
Light music by losif Ivanovici, Bob Haymes and Henry Mancini , plus Charles Wildman 's Vienna Concerto, introduced by Brian Kay.
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, with studio guests and the latest arts news.
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Mark Edler conducts Mahler's majestic
Third Symphony. This monumental work is a hymn to the world of nature, from the awakening of primeval life in the vast first movement to the affirmation of life in the final exultant moments. Presented by Martin Handley. Birgit Remmert (mezzo), Manchester Boys Choir, Halle Youth Choir, Halle Choir (women's voices), Halle Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder Mahler Symphony No 3
Philip Dodd discusses The Overwhelming, a new play by JT Rogers at the National Theatre in London about an American caught up in the troubles in Rwanda in the early 1990s. Producer Fiona McLean
To anticipate the London African Music Festival, which starts tomorrow, music from Kanda Bongo Man. Plus Ingram Marshall 's Patience performed by guitarist Benjamin Verdery , and the sounds of the gamelan fused with Western instruments. With Fiona Talkington.
5/5. With Donald Macleod.
Don Fernando de las Infantas Quasi Stella Matutiana Westminster Cathedral Choir, conductor James O'Donnell Bartolome de
Escobedo Credo (Missa Philippus Rex Hispaniae) Westminster Cathedral Choir, conductor James O'Donnell Alonso Lobo Versa Est in Luctum
Tallis Scholars, conductor Peter Phillips Victoria Missa pro Defunctis Tallis Scholars, conductor Peter Phillips Repeated from Friday
With Susan Sharpe.
Mozart in May: Mozart Symphony No 40 in G minor, K550; Piano Concerto No 17 in K453 Anne Oland ;
Concerto in E flat for two pianos, K365 Marie Rorbech and Niklas Sivelov , Danish National SO, conductor Thomas Dausgaard 2.28 Schumann Dichterliebe, Op 48
2.57 Brahms Variations on a theme by Haydn, Op 56a (St Anthony) 3.16 Stenhammar String Quartet No 2 in Cminor. Op 143.46 Raitio Ballet: Waterspout, Scenes land2
4.10 Bach Wer nur den lieben Gott lasst walten, BWV691a
4.15 Bruhns Wohl dem, der den Herren furchtet
4.23 Telemann Trio No 7 in F for recorder and viola da gamba (Essercizii Musici) 4.31 Rodriqo Three Spanish Compositions 4.44 Karlowicz When Spring Arrives
4.52 Grieg Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (Lyric Pieces, Op 65 No 6) 5.00 Moniuszko Overture: Verbum Nobile
5.05 Vivaldi Concerto Grosso in A minor, RV522 (L'Estro Armonico) 5.16 Cavalli No Ho Piu Core (Giasone, Act 3)
5.24 Buus Ricercare 5.32 Stenhammar Fantasia in B minor, Op 11 No 3 5.37 Malecki The Wood Pigeon, the Forest and the Maiden 5.53 Wagner Siegfried-Idyll
6.12 Faure La Bonne Chanson, Op 61
6.35 Haydn Symphony No 99 in E flat