Presented by Sandy Burnett.
7.00-8.30: Bartok Rhapsody No 1
Janos Starker (cello), Gyorgy Sebok (piano) Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks
The English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock Vauqhan Williams Overture: The Wasps LSO, conductor Andre Previn
8.30-10.00: Faure Dolly Suite, Op 56
Laurence Fromentin and Dominique Plancade
(piano) Mozart Serenade in C minor, K388 Wind Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Alexander Schneider J Strauss (son) Waltz: Fruhlingsstimmen, Op 410 Rita Streich (soprano), Berlin RSO, conductor Kurt Gaebel
Featuring British film music and recordings by the pianist Marcelle Meyer. With Jonathan Swain.
10.00 Arthur Bliss The World in Ruins (Things to Come) LSO conducted by the composer Benjamin Britten The Night Mail (excerpt) GPO Film Unit. conducted by the composer
10.08 Chabrier Idylle (Piece Pittoresque No 6) Poulenc Mouvements Perpétuels Marcelle Meyer (piano)
10.17 Arthur Bliss Suite: Things to Come LSO conducted by the composer
10.34 Grieg, completed Rontgen String Quartet in F Raphael Quartet
11.06 Constant Lambert Suite: Anna Karenina National Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Bernard Herrmann
11.19 Couperin Pieces de Clavecin (excerpts) Marcelle Meyer (piano)
11.35 Walton Prelude: Richard III
National PO, conductor Bernard Herrmann
11.46 Bach Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV903 Marcelle Meyer (piano)
1/5. The Hungarian composer and pianist Bela Bartok was born into a time of political turmoil. During his formative years, he was caught up in a surge of nationalism that gripped his homeland and informed much of his early work. But, as Donald Macleod discovers, it wasn't long before another influence was to transform his career. If I Climb the Rocky Mountains (Eight Hungarian Folk Songs) Julia Hamari (mezzo), Ilona Prunyi (piano)
Kossuth Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer
Two Portraits Chantal Juillet (violin),
Montreal SO, conductor Charles Dutoit Seven Sketches, Op 9b Nos 1, 2 and 4 JenoJando (piano)
String Quartet No 1 Takacs Quartet Producer Deborah Preston Repeated Sunday 12 midnight
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Since winning the chamber music prize at the Paris Conservatoire, Trio Wanderer have toured the world to unanimous acclaim. Fiona Talkington presents today's concert live from Wigmore Hall in London. Trio Wanderer
Haydn Keyboard Trio in G, HXV25 (Gypsy Rondo) Brahms Piano Trio in B, Op 8 (revised 1889 version)
Russian Symphonies
Performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, presented by Sarah Walker.
Bach/Skrowaczewski Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV538 (Dorian) Conductor Leonard Slatkin Gounod AhlJe Veux Vivre (Romeo et Juliette)
Offenbach Conduisez-Moi vers Celui Que
J'adore (Robinson Crusoe) With Amelia Farrugia (soprano), conductor Alexander Briger Shostakovich Symphony No 4 Conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present a selection of music, including Offenbach's beautiful Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann and the jazzy Trombone Concerto by Nathaniel Shilkret.
Edward Seckerson visits Ghostlight Records in New York, rapidly becoming one of the major labels for Broadway cast albums. including numbers from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Hair, Spelling Bee and a preview of Patti LuPone 's new solo album.
ADDRESS: Stage and Screen, Room 220, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow G12 8DG email: stageandscreen@ibbc.co.uk
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, with guests and arts news.
Two 20th-century orchestral works and Judith Weir 's song cycle for soprano and orchestra. A concert recorded last month at City Halls, Glasgow. Anu Komsi (soprano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Stefan Solyom Sibelius En
Saga Judith Weir Natural History
Shostakovich Symphony No 5
Piano Sonata in A minor, K310 Martin Roscoe
Isabel Hilton marks Architecture Week with the first in a week-long series of letters from architects and writers imagining the city in 2056. Plus an interview with Michael Gove about his book Celsius 7/7.
Fiona Talkington presents songs by Juana Molina and Jolie Holland , a 1963 banjo recording by Hobart Smith , and Piece for Violin and Piano by Morton Feldman.
2/5. With Donald Macleod.
Suite No 1, Op 28 No 1; The Cloud Messenger, Op 30 Repeated from Tuesday
With Jonathan Swain.
Offenbach Les Roses du Bengale Chopin Six Posthumous Waltzes
Rossini Waltz in E flat Leoncavallo Valse Mignonne in F; Valse Mélancolique in E minor J Strauss (Son) Waltz:
Roses from the South, Op 388 Marco Sollini (piano), Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, conductor Roman Zeilinger
2.03 Sollva La Testa di Bronzo
4.00 Dubois Messe de Manage (excerpts)
4.21 Purcell The Married Beau (excerpts)
4.34 Fesch Concerto in G minor for two flutes, Op 5 No 2
4.43 Dufay Gaude Virgo Mater Christi
4.51 Pesenti Dal Lecto Me Levava Anon La Stangetta
Ambrosio Rostiboli Gioioso Cara Se Non Fusse la Speranza
5.00 Hammerschmidt Suite in C 5.13 Perqolesl Violin
Concerto in B flat 5.26 Brahms Es ist das Heil uns kommen her; Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein reines Herz, Op 29 5.38 Erkel Duo Brillant 5.55 Elqar To Her beneath Whose Steadfast Star 6.01 Horneman Overture: A Hero's Life 6.15 Mlelck Concert Piece, Op 9 6.42 Strauss Was erblicke ich? (Daphne) 6.51 Saint-Saens Odelette, Op 162