Presented by Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Rossini Overture: The Thieving Magpie Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
Bouzignac Te Deum
Les Arts Florissants, director William Christie Faure Romance in A, Op 69 Thomas Demenga (cello), Thomas Larcher (piano)
8.30-10.00: Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
D Scarlatti Harpsichord Sonata in D, KkV9 Sophie Yates
Glinka Three Dances (A Life for the Tsar) Moscow Tchaikovsky RSO, conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev

Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Parry / Was Glad Chorus and Orchestra of the 1953 Coronation, conductor William McKie
10.10 Handel Violin Sonata in D, Op 1 No 13 Mischa Elman , Joseph Seiger (piano)
10.26 Debussy Rapsodie
Marcel Mule (saxophone), Paris Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Manuel Rosenthal
10.37 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2 (Moonlight) Rudolf Serkin
10.54 Eric Coates Saxo-Rhapsody
Sigurd Rascher (saxophone), orchestra conducted by the composer
11.04 Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D
Mischa Elman , LSO, conductor John Barbirolli
11.39 German Welsh Rhapsody Scottish
National Orchestra, conductor Alexander Gibson

5/5. Donald Macleod introduces a vintage recording of Das Lied von derErde, conducted by one of the composer's greatest champions, Bruno Walter , and the monumental slow movement that ends Mahler's last completed symphony, not heard in public until a year after his death.
Das Lied von derErde Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Julius Patzak (tenor), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Bruno Walter
Symphony No 9 (final mvt) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
Repeated on Thursday at 12 midnight

A concert of Venetian songs from the Wigmore Hall, London presented by Stephanie Hughes. Joyce DiDonato (soprano), Julius Drake (piano) Rossini La Regata Veneziana
Michael Head The Gondolier; St Mark 's Square; Rain Storm (Three Songs of Venice)
Faure Mandoline ; En Sourdine; Green; A Clymene; C'est I'
Extase Hahn Sopra I'Acqua Indormenzada ; La Barcheta; L'Avertimento; La Biondina in Gondoleta;
Che Pecal; La Primavera (Venezia - Chansons en Dialecte Venetien )

German Traditions
BBC Philharmonic
Presented by Sarah Walker.
Mendelssohn Im Grunen; Die Nachtigall; Ruhetal; Jagdlied (Irn Grunen, Op 59)
BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury Brahms Double Concerto in A minor
With Mirijam Contzen (violin), Daniel Muller-Schott (cello)
Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) Conductor Gianandrea Noseda
Strauss Oboe Concerto With Jennifer Galloway Wagner Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde) Conductor Stamatia Karampini

Slim
Gaillard Julian Joseph , in conversation with writer and broadcaster Bob Sinfield , explores the life and music of singer and comic variety artist Slim "Bulee" Gaillard. Producer Keith Loxam
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With Sean Rafferty.

Martin Handley presents a concert, recorded at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, given by the Halle under their music director Mark Elder. The concert opens with Dvorak's Hussite Overture, and the orchestra is then joined by celebrated pianist Louis Lortie to play Beethoven's Emperor concerto. The concert ends with Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 2, a tribute to Little Russia
(a Tsarist Russian name for Ukraine) that draws on Ukrainian folk songs.
Louis Lortie (piano), Halle Orchestra , conductor Mark Elder
Dvorak Hussite Overture
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor) Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2 in C minor (Little Russian)

4/4. BBC Singers, His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, conductor Stephen Cleobury Scheidt In DulciJubilo
Marini Canzon Octava
Hammerschmidt 0 Ihr lieben Hirten; Alleluia! Freuet euch

Why are people fascinated by writers' graves, birthplaces, houses or fictional landscapes? Matthew Sweet goes on a tour of some of Britain's literary hotspots to discover when this particular form of tourism began and why it persists today. Producer Philippa Ritchie

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present a studio session by a Hawk and a Hacksaw, the Albuquerque-based duo of Jeremy Barnes (drums, accordion, vocals) and Heather Trost (violin).

Jez Nelson selects highlights from studio sessions recorded exclusively for the programme in 2006. The line-up includes music by British composer and bandleader
Mike Westbrook , trumpeter Tom Arthurs , top British improvisers Paul Dunmall and Veryan Weston , and legendary US pianist Chick Corea.

With John Shea. Smetana Ma Vlast Chopin Piano
Concerto No 1 in E minor With Havard Gimse Nielsen
Symphony No3 (Sinfonia Espansiva) Soloists, Stavanger SO, conductor Niklas Willen 2.36 Martinu Clarinet Sonatina
2.47 Duruf Requiem, Op 9 3.29 Ravel Introduction and Allegro 3.40 Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker (Act 2)
4.23 Handel He Shall Feed His Flocks: Rejoice Greatly, 0
Daughter of Sion (Messiah) 4.33 Mozart Symphony No 16 in C, K128 4.47 Telemann Flute Concerto in D
5.00 Bach Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in Eflat, BWV998
5.13 Chopin Impromptus: in F sharp, Op 36; in G flat, Op 51
5.23 Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride 5.31 Haydn Quartet in C minor, Op 17 No 4 5.49 Gombert Benedicto Mensae 5.59 Forster 0 Quam Dulcis 6.06 Nielsen Overture: Maskerade 6.11 Weber Quintet in B flat for clarinet and strings, Op 34 6-35 Faure Nocturne in A flat, Op 33 6.42 Bach Violin Concerto in E, BWV1042
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