Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Korgnold Military March
Hamburg State PO, conductor Ingo Metzmacher Scarlatti Piano Sonatas: in G minor, Kk450; in B flat, Kk544 and Kk545 Andras Schiff
Beethoven Contredanses Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Lorin Maazel
8.30-10.00: Delius in a Summer Garden Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy
Chopin Nocturne in B, Op 62 No 1 Claudio Arrau (piano)
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat, BWV1051 Marlboro Festival Orchestra, conductor Pablo Casals

With Jonathan Swain.
J Strauss (son) Waltz: Vienna Blood, Op 354 Chicago SO, conductor Fritz Reiner
10.11 Brahms Two Rhapsodies, Op 79 Mikhail Rudy (piano)
10.28 Diepenbrock Elektra (excerpts) Hague Residentie Orchestra, conductor Hans Vonk
10.38 1 bert Entr'acte
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute), Lily Laskine (harp)
10.43 Brahms Piano Sonata No 3 in F minor, Op 5 Julius Katchen
11.18 R Strauss Was willst du, fremder Mensch? (Elektra) Inge Borkh (soprano: Elektra), Paul Schoeff ler (baritone: Orestes) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner
11.41 Brahms Four Pieces, Op 119 Emanuel Ax (piano)

4/5. Forging the Ring. Donald Macleod follows the composer's 25-year struggle with the creation of his epic Ring cycle.
Siegfried's Funeral Music (Gotterdammerung) Munich PO, conductor Sergiu Celibidache Tannhauser (excerpt)
Choir and Orchestra of the German State Opera, Berlin, conductor Daniel Barenboim
Good Friday Music (Parsifal) Placido Domingo (tenor), Kurt Moll (bass), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conductor James Levine
Im Treibhaus (Wesendonk Lieder) Margaret Price (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla (Das Rheingold) Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), Oda Balsborg
(soprano), Hetty Plumacher (alto), Ira Malaniuk
(contralto), Set Svanholm (tenor), George London (baritone), Eberhard Wachter (bass-baritone), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Georg Solti
Repeated at 8.45pm
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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert The Power and the Glory
The third concert in a series featuring Brahms's chamber music recorded at St George's, Bristol. Beethoven Allegretto in B flat, Wo039 Brahms Piano Quartet No 2 in A, Op 26
2.00 BBC National Orchestra of Wales - a Celebration of St David's Day
Featuring composers and performers from Wales. Grace Williams Ave Maris Stella
BBC Singers, conductor John Poole
Vauqhan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Conductor Lesley Hatfield
Grace Williams Violin Concerto
With Nick Whiting , conductor Jason Lai Mathias Invocation and Dance
Conductor Jac Van Steen
Guto Puw Oboe Concerto (BBC Commission) With David Cowley , conductor Garry Walker Hoddinott A Contemplation upon Flowers
Gail Pearson (soprano), conductor Richard Hickox Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor
Llyr Williams , conductor Owain Arwel Hughes Grace Williams Penillion
Conductor Owain Arwel Hughes

With Sean Rafferty.

Mark Elder conducts the Halle in Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka based on a grotesque puppet show given at a St Petersburg Shrove Tide carnival. In contrast, the orchestra is joined by a young cast of soloists for a performance of Mozart's unfinished Mass in C minor.
Susan Gritton (soprano), Tove Dahlberg (mezzo), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Henry Waddington (bass), Halle Choir and Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder Stravinsky Petrushka
Mozart Mass in C minor, K427

Repeated from 12 noon

Tonight Philip Dodd and his guests discuss one of the great books of world literature:
Cervantes's Don Quixote. Producer Anthony Denselow

4/4. Petroc Trelawny presents a sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Violinist Maxim Vengerov is joined by viola player Lawrence Power to begin tonight's programme with the second movement of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K364.

What Are Friends for?
4/4. "The playground of today is the republic of tomorrow". Professor Justin Champion ponders the notion of friendship in the 21st century. EMAIL: theessay@bbc.co.uk

Verity Sharp presents Appalachian bluegrass from guitarist Tony Rice , Debussy piano music performed by Mitsuko Uchida and traditional Bosnian song from Ilijaz Delic and Mostar Sevda Reunion.

With John Shea.
Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488
Joanna MacGregor , Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, conductor Susanna Malki
1.26 Svendsen Symphony No 2 in B flat, Op 15
2.01 Palestrina Missa in duplicibus minoribus II
2.36 Narvaez Los Seys Libros del Delphin de Musica
2.53 de Wert Giunto a la Tomba
2.59 Rachmaninm Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op 42
3.16 Brahms, arr Duczmal Sextet in B flat, Op 18
3.54 Hammerschmidt Suite in G minor/G for gambas (Ester Fleiss) 4.04 Grainger Four Folk Songs
4.15 Dukas Villanelle
4.23 Telemann Trio No 4 (Essercizii Musici)
4.33 Chopin Fantasie-lmpromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66
4.39 Komorowski Kalina 4.43 Wagner Pilgrims Chorus (Tannhauser) 4.49 Weber Overture: Der Freischutz
5.00 Kyurkchiyskl Prayer for two works after paintings of Vladimir Dimitrov 5.06 Svendsen Festival Polonaise, Op 12 5.15 Schumann Wehmut ; Im Walde (Liederkreis, Op 39 Nos 9 and 11) 5.20 Verdi Patria oppressa (Macbeth)
5.27 Mendelssohn Overture: Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt 5.40 Bach Sonata No 1 in G minor, BWV1001 (Presto)
5.43 Pachelbel Magnificat
5.49 Crusell Introduction et Air Suedois
6.00 Nielsen String Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 13
6.29 Solnltz Sinfonia in A, Op 3 No 4
6.41 Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor, K310