Presented by Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Scarlatti Sonata in D, Kk491 Murray Perahia (piano)
Shostakovich Overture (String Quartet No 2, Op 68) Emerson Quartet
Telemann Overture (Suite in A minor, TWV55 a2) Maurice Steger (recorder), Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
8.30-10.00: Paganini Introduction and Variations on Dal Tuo Stellato Soglio
Vadim Repin (violin), Alexander Markovich (piano) Mozart Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K191
Matthew Wilkie , Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Sandor Vegh
Bax Tintagel London Symphony Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli
With Rob Cowan.
Caroso Laura Soave Paul O'Dette (lute),
John Holloway (violin), Nigel North (bass lute)
10.08 Respiqhi Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No 2 Philharmonia Hungarica, conductor Antal Dorati
10.29 Chopin Waltzes, Op 64 Moura Lympany (piano)
10.39 Handel, arr Beecham Love in Bath Use Hollweg (soprano), RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham
11.27 Boesset Divine Amaryllis Besard Airs de Cour (selections) Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Paul O'Dette (lute)
11.39 Rawsthorne Piano Concerto No I Moura Lympany , Philharmonia, conductor Herbert Menges
4/5. Ca'Rezzonico. One of Venice's most imposing statements of affluence and artistic achievement is the Ca' Rezzonico on the Grand Canal. Since 1935 the palace has been the home of the Museum of 18th-century Venice, and amid its treasures Donald Macleod celebrates an age of splendour, profligacy and destitution, as witnessed by the many composers who visited Venice.
Hahn Sopra I'Acqua Indormenzada Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Poulenc Concerto for two pianos (1st mvt)
Sylviane Deferne and Pascal Roge , Philharmonia, conductor Charles Dutoit
Vivaldi Piccolo Concerto in G, RV443 Sebastien Marq , Ensemble Matheus , director Jean-Christophe Spinosi Liszt Venezia e Napoli (excerpt) Leslie Howard (piano)
Gounod Venise Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Wagner Tristan und Isolde, Act 2 (excerpt)
Waltraud Meier (soprano), Siegfried Jerusalem (tenor), Berlin PO, conductor Daniel Barenboim Mendelssohn A Venetian Gondola Song Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Porter We Open in Venice (Kiss Me, Kate)
Soloists, Ambrosian Chorus, London Sinfonietta, conductor John McGlinn
Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight
Wyastone Leys Festival
3/4. Jamie Owen continues this week's series of concerts from Wyastone, Monmouthshire. Kopelman Quartet
Shostakovich String Quartet No 7 Op 108 Stravinsky Three Pieces for string quartet Miaskovsky Quartet No 13, Op 86
Witches and Fairies
BBC Philharmonic
Presented by John Shea.
Mendelssohn Incidental music: Midsummer
Night's Dream (excerpts)
Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Bax Sinfonietta
Conductor Vernon Handley
Eric Fogg The Seasons
Leeds Festival Chorus, conductor Simon Wright Bax In the Faery Hills (Eire) Conductor Vernon Handley
James MacMillan The Confession oflsobelGowdie Conducted by the composer
Brian Kay introduces more light music gems, including r/iree Folk Dances by Rutland
Boughton and Four Old Fusspots by Trevor Duncan , as well as music by Coates, Quilter and George Scott-Wood .
Sean Rafferty presents music and arts news.
Leeds International Piano Competition 2006
Jve from Leeds Town Hall, Sarah Walker ntroduces highlights from three days of jemi-final recitals in which 12 budding concert pianists compete for up to E75,000 prize money and prestigious engagements. Leon McCawley , a prizewinner in the 1993 competition, joins Sarah Walker to offer his expert opinion on the competitors and their chosen pieces.
The two finals will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 tomorrow evening beginning at 7.30 and on Saturday evening at 6.30pm. The winner will be announced at 10.45 on Saturday
Artist Richard Wilson got himself shortlisted for the Turner prize by filling a gallery with sump oil. He talks to Matthew Sweet about his new work, which involves boring holes into black cabs and making caravans spin in the air.
Verity Sharp presents a varied mix of music spanning seven centuries.
5/5. Donald Macleod and Brian Morton talk about Shostakovich's preoccupation with death in his later works.
0 Delvig, Delvig (Symphony No 14); Viola Sonata; Love; Separation; Immortality (Suite on Verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti , Op 145a) Repeated from Friday
With Susan Sharpe. Constantinescu Concerto for
Orchestra Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219 (Turkish) Beethoven Symphony No2 2 in Cristina Anghelescu (violin), Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, conductor Chia-Hong Drapal Liao 2.25 Strauss Piano Sonata, Op 5
2.50 Verdi Giustizia ! 0 Sire; Soccorso alia Regina!; Pieta! Perdoniper la Rea Che Si Pente (Act 3); Scene and Aria: Tu Che le Vanita Conoscesti del Mondo (Act 4) (Don Carlo )
3.15 Respighi Vetrate di Chiesa 3.40 Veljo Tormis St John's Day Songs 3.57 Albicastro Concerto a 4, Op 7 No 2
4.06 Abel Symphony in D, Op 10 No 5 4.15 Groneman Flute Sonata in G 4.24 Farnaby A Maske, MB 24 31;
Fantasia, MB24 12 4.30 Anon 17th century Pastorale in G
4.34 Brahms Four Pieces, Op 119 4.48 Schubert Die Geselligkeit (Lebenslust), D609 4.51 Berlioz Overture:
Beatrice and Benedict 5.00 Rimsky-Korsakov Sleep My Beauty (May Night) 5.03 Glazunov Elegie in D flat. Op 17
5.12 Schoenberg Friede auf Erden, Op 13 5.21 Thomas
The Minstrel's Adieu to His Native Land 5.29 Ravel Trio in A minor 5.43 Bach, arr Busoni Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565 5.52 Rameau Nouvelles Suites de
Pieces de C lavecin ou Seconde Livre 6.14 Fischer Nun komm, derHeiden Heiland 6.31 Forster Sonata a 7
6.37 Vanhal Concerto for two bassoons