Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Lanqqaard Two Tone Pictures Danish National RSO, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Copland Have Mercy on Us, 0 My Lord; Sing Ye Praises to Our King
Corydon Singers, conductor Matthew Best
8.00-9.00: Chapi Prelude: El Tambor de Granaderos Madrid Community Orchestra, conductor Miguel Roa
Haydn Piano Sonata in E flat, H XVI 49 Emanuel Ax
9.00-10.00: Richard Shepherd Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem
Martin Ings (trumpet), David Halls (organ), Choir of Salisbury Cathedral, director Richard Seal Smetana Richard III
Bavarian RSO, conductor Rafael Kubelik

In the wake of the local government elections, politics and the nature of leadership top this week's agenda. Music includes Beethoven's
Coriolan overture, excerpts from Shostakovich's incidental music to King Lear, and works by Verdi and John Adams.

Michael Berkeley talks to actor
Kenneth Cranham , well-known for his appearances on screen, where he has appeared in TV detective series such as Kavanagh QC and Dalziel and Pascoe, as well as dramas including Rome, The Lavender List and The Line of Beauty. On stage he has appeared in West End productions of Joe Orton 's Entertaining Mr Sloane and Loot, and Pinter's The Birthday Party, and he was also cast as the giant logger Paul Bunyan in Francesca Zambello 's production of Britten's operetta for the Royal Opera House. His musical choices include works by Britten, Prokofiev and Mozart, as well as some jazz and blues pieces.

Catherine Bott considers music from the collection of birthday odes written for Queen Mary by her Composer-in-Ordinary, Henry Purcell , from 1689 to 1694.

Chi-chi Nwanoku hosts a selection of listeners' requests and a celebrity musical request for a vintage recording by Australian soprano
Margherita Grandi , chosen by Roger Neill of Music Preserved. Producer Lyndon Jones
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Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne Charles Hazlewood visits the heart of Handel's
London at St James's, Piccadilly, to explore the composer's Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne. He is joined by soloists lestyn Davies
(countertenor), Rebecca Outram (soprano) and Michael George (bass), together with a small chorus and his period ensemble Harmonieband.

World-renowned award-winning conductor Paul Hillier joins Aled Jones to talk about his career on the international choral scene. From Perotin to Part, his wide-ranging passion for music is explored through recordings by the Hilliard
Ensemble, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Theatre of Voices and Ars Nova.

A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind and becomes patient zero in a contagion of blindness that sweeps through a city. The authorities isolate the blind in a mental asylum. Blind thugs take over. When all are blind, all the rules change. What it is to be human must change. Written by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago and translated by Giovanni Pontiero. Adapted by Matt Thompson.
Producer/Director Matt Thompson

A personal memoir of the Second World War in which playwright Peter Nichols explores the strange, chilling, now almost comical recordings of Nazi swing band Charlie and his Orchestra. Producer Pete Arkin

A Dante Sequence
Works inspired by Dante's journey into the underworld in The Divine Comedy, including translations of Dante by Elizabeth Barrett
Browning and Benedict Flynn , poems by Auden, Beckett and Eliot, and music by Liszt, Messiaen and Salvatore Sciarrino.
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For details of the music and verse heard in this programme, visit www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wordsand music

A look at the background to the 1707 Act of Union, which abolished separate parliaments for England and Scotland, with a flavour of the musical outpourings that accompanied its inception.

Haydn The Creation Yuko Kamahora (soprano: Gabriel/Eva), Shigehiro Sano (tenor: Uriel), Kazunori Kubo (baritone: Raphael/Adam), Choir of Tokyo College of Music, NHK Symphony Orchestra, conductor Junichi Hirokami
2.47 Liszt Concerto Pathétique in E minor 3.07 Beethoven Piano Trio in G, Op No 2 3.38 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV351 4.01 Schnizer Sonata No I in C, Op
4.14 Pezel Intradas 1-3 (Turmmusik) 4.20 Llndberg
Gammal Fabodpsalm Fran Dalarna 4.24 Lysenko Fantasy on Two Ukrainian Themes 4.32 Nielsen Folketone , Op 3 No 1
4.35 Tchaikovsky Andante Cantabile (String Quartet No 1 in D, Op 11) 4.42 Orff In Trutina (Carmina Burana) 4.44
Glinka Valse Fantasie in B minor 4.53 Glazunov Mazurka in F sharp minor, Op 25 No 2 5.00 Schmelzer Sonata XII (Sacroprofanus Concentus Musicus) 5.05 Lassus Hort zu ein newe Gedicht; Ein guten Raht; Im Mayen 5.15 Forster Sonata a 3 in B flat 5.22 Bach Allegro (Concerto in C, BWV1055) 5.27 Soderman Three Songs (Idyll and Epigram) 5.33 Dela Violin Sonatine 5.45 Nielsen
Overture: Maskerade 5.50 Weber Aufforderung zum Tanz, Op 65 6.00 Palmgrem Overture: Cinderella
6.05 Rossini Non Piu Mesta (La Cenerentola)
6.09 Lipinski Variations on a Theme of Rossini's La
Cenerentola (Cinderella) 6.24 Prokofiev Cinderella: Suite No 1 6.52 Alpaerts Salomes Dans van de Zeven Sluiers