Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Strauss Morgen , Op 27 No 4 Felicity Lott (soprano), Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Mendelssohn String Symphony No 3 in E minor Concerto Koln Milhaud Scaramouche
Stephen Coombs and Artur Pizarro (pianos)
8.30-10.00: Chopin Grande Valse Brillante in E flat, Op 18 Murray Perahia (piano)
Handel Concerto Grosso in D, Op 3 No 6 Collegium Aureum
Saint-Saens Wedding Cake - Caprice-Valse, Op 76 RPO, conductor Andre Previn
New series Landscapes. lain Burnside presents the first in a new topical music series. This week's theme marks a major new Renoir exhibition at the National Gallery. Today's music includes works by Liszt, Monteverdi, Schubert, Weber, Ravel, Grofe, Chabrier, and: Messiaen L'Alouette Calandrelle (Catalogue d'Oiseaux No 8) Hakan Austbo (piano) Vaughan Williams In the Fen Country LPO, conductor Bernard Haitink
Ibert Tunis-Nefta (Escales) Lamoureux
Concerts Orchestra, conductor Yutaka Sado Debussy Nocturnes London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Rafael Friihbeck de Burgos Haydn String Quartet in B flat, Op 76 No 4 (Sunrise) Amadeus Quartet
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Michael Berkeley 's guest is mountaineer
Stephen Venables , whose musical choices include pieces by Rameau, Bach and Eigar.
In today's programme, Lucie Skeaping traces the revival of the viol consort in the 20th century and discusses this with Ian Gammie from the English Consort of Viols. Music includes works by John Jenkins , Gibbons, Purcell and Christopher Tye. Producer Rebecca Bean
Simon Russell Beale introduces a selection of WH
Auden's poems interwoven with musical settings by Britten, Lennox Berkeley , Henze and Bernstein.
PaulBunyan
New series 1/10. In the first of a ten-part series focusing on Benjamin Britten 's operas, John Evans , an expert on the composer, talks to distinguished interpreters of the operas about performances and recordings with which they are closely associated, and about the problems and pleasures of performing Britten. This week Francesca Zambello discusses Britten's first attempt at writing for the stage, the opera Paul Bunyan , which he wrote in America in the 1940s in collaboration with WH Auden. See also 9.30pm
I Live from Ely Cathedral. Introit: I Have Done
What Was Mine to Do (Cecilia McDowall ).
- Responses: Paul Trepte. Psalms: 93, 94
(Hurford, SS Wesley). First Lesson: Exodus 3, vv1-6. Office Hymn: 0 Blest Creator of the Light. Canticles: St Martin's Service (
Cecilia McDowall ). Second Lesson: John 12, vv27-36a. Anthem: 0 Give Thanks (SS Wesley). Organ
Voluntary: Allegro (Symphony No 6 in C minor, Op 42 No 2) (Widor). Assistant organist
Jonathan Lilley. Director of music Paul Trepte.
Aled Jones talks to conductor
Dessislava Stefanova of the London Bulgarian Choir about the music of her homeland. Plus another selection of amateur choirs who want to Sing to the Nation. Producer Chris Taylor
The brutal world of London gangland in the 1890s is brought vividly to life in an innovative new musical created by writer Mike Walker and composer Mike Woolmans.
Also featuring Paul Richard Blqqin , Joseph Kloska , Emma Noakes and Salkat Ahamed
Producer Toby Swift
Marking the centenary of the birth of WH Auden, the poet Paul Farley sets out on a journey across the North Pennines. Following an itinerary suggested by Auden in an article for American Vogue in 1954, he investigates how this once thriving mining area exerted a powerful influence over the young Auden and how it continued to resonate in his poetry. Producer Aasiya Lodhi See also tomorrow night at 11pm
The Truth about Love
RT CHOICE Derek Jacobi and Juliet Stevenson launch this new programme of words and music with readings on the theme of love. The unpresented sequence includes some of the great love poetry - Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, Philip Larkin 's Arundel Tomb and Auden's poems Lullaby and Oh Tell Me the Truth about Love - with classical music related to the theme.
Producer Jessica Isaacs EMAIL: wordsandmusic@bbc.co.uk For details of the music and verse heard in this programme, visit www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wordsandmusic from Saturday
Lucie Skeaping talks to the harpsichordist
Robert Woolley and music editor
Dr Richard Jones about Froberger's style and influences.
Presented by John Shea.
Fanny Mendelssohn Caecilie
Britten The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
Boulanger Les Sirenes
Grieg Blegnet, Signet; Ave Maris Stella; The Great White Flock
Lanqe-Muller Madonna Songs, Op 29
Britten Hymn to St Cecilia
1.55 Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride
2.02 Dvorak Trio in E minor, Op 90 (Dumky)
2.33 Bruckner Symphony No 6 in A
3.27 Vierne Clair de Lune, Op 53
3.38 Debussy Images, Bk 1
3.53 Lipinski Allegro (Violin Concerto No 3 in E minor)
4.09 Bach Trio Sonata No 3 in D minor, BWV527
4.23 Brahms, arr Squarcia Three Hungarian Dances
4.32 Haydn Te Deum in C, HXXIIIc 1
4.40 Liszt Tarantella, S162
4.50 Dvorak Carnival Overture
5.00 Saint-Saens Allegro Appassionato in C sharp minor, Op 70
5.06 Vivaldi Sonata in C, RV779
5.20 Nielsen Pan and Syrinx
5.29 Schierbeck In Denmark I Was Born
5.34 Sibelius Suite Champetre
5.41 CPE Bach Keyboard Sonata No 1 in A minor, Wq49 No 1
5.53 Haydn Symphony No 8 in G (Le Soir)
6.18 Groneman Concerto in G
6.26 Strauss Auf Stillem Waldespfad, Op 9 No 1
6.32 Beethoven Adagio, WoO 33
6.39 Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op 33
