Access to Maths: Starting Countdown

Presented by Richard Osborne.
Telemann Concerto in E
Sarah Francis (oboe d'amore)
Graham Mayger (flute) Elizabeth Watson (viola d'amore)
London Harpsichord Ensemble
7.23 Schubert Symphony No 2 in B flat
Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Muti
8.02 Arensky String
Quartet No 2 in A minor Raphael Ensemble
8.30 Kodaly Variations on a Hungarian Folksong (The Peacock)
London Philharmonic, conductor Franz Welser-Most
9.00 Building a Library Schoenberg's Gurrelieder by Peter Paul Nash.
Stephen Johnson on new releases of Polish music.
10.15 Record Release
Panufnik String Quartet No 2 (Messages)
Chilingirian Quartet
10.38 Tadeusz Baird
Goethe-Briefe Andrzej Hiolski (baritone) RTV Choir and Symphony Orchestra (Cracow), conductor Jan Krenz
10.54 Bacewicz String Quartet No 3
Wilanow Quartet
11.15
Reissues Patrick O'Connor explores some early recordings of musicals from the New York stage to some Rodgers and Hammerstein rarities.
11.40 Noel Coward Sail Away (excerpt)
Elaine Stritch , Patricia Harty , James Hurst , Grover Dale.
Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert. Discs

In the second of two programmes marking the 350th anniversary of Monteverdi's death,
Timothy Carter and George Pratt visit San Marco,
Santa Maria della Salute and the Scuola Grande di
San Rocco in Venice. Producer Kate Bolton

Sweet Secrets. Polish cookery writer Mary Pininska talks to Andrzej Blikle , whose family holds a secret paczki doughnut recipe.
Producer Penny Lawrence

Chopin performances specially recorded for the Polish season.
Polonaise in D minor, Op 71 No 1; Polonaise in C minor, Op 40 No 2;
Mazurkas: in E minor, Op 17 No 2; in C, Op 24 No 2; in A flat, Op 41 No 4; Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 45; Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66
Benjamin Frith (piano)

conductor Jean-Claude Casadesus
Cyprien Katsaris (piano) Honegger Pacific
Ravel Piano Concerto in G

Anthony Rooley ends his survey of Monteverdi's madrigals with the eighth book. Performed by the Consort of Musicke.
Series producer Graham Dixon

Strauss in Weimar
Kenneth Birkin introduces music which Richard
Strauss conducted at concerts in Weimar between
1889 and 1894. Smetana Festival Overture
Czech Philharmonic
Orchestra/Karel Sejna Liszt Totentanz
Jeno Jando (piano)
Budapest Symphony
Orchestra/Andras Ligeti
Mozart Symphony No 41 in C (Jupiter) (1926 mono recording)
Berlin State Opera Orchestra/ Richard Strauss
Humperdinck Die
Wallfahrt nach Kevlaar Jacqueline Fox (mezzo)
Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor) BBC Singers
Hans von Bulow Des SangersFluch
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Simon Joly Strauss Tod und
Verkldrung
(1944 mono recording)
Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by The Composer

with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Tim Thome. Discs
REQUESTS: for a programme on 18 December of music composed. played and inspired by Fats Waller , to Jazz Record Requests, Broadcasting House. London W1A 1AA.

Monteverdi Edition
In celebration of the 350th anniversary of Monteverdi's death, Ivan Hewett looks at the state of research into his music and current performance trends. Plus a report from the Monteverdi conference at Mantua. Producer Fiona Shelmerdine

Toccata in B flat, Op 11 No 2; Sonata in A, Op 33 No 1; Sonata in B minor, Op 40 No 2
Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)

Fortune, Virtue and Love battle it out in Monteverdi's last opera, set in the decadent twilight years of the Roman Empire: Nero is infatuated with Poppea and will admit no obstacle to their passion.
Last night's performance of Pierre Audi's new production at the Amsterdam Music
Theatre is presented by Donald Macleod. Sung in Italian.
Les Talents Lyriques Orchestra, conductor Christophe Rousset Act
8.45 Pierre Audi and Christophe Rousset talk about their collaboration on this production.
9.05 Acts 2 and 3 SEE THIS WEEK page 16

Brian Morton introduces recordings of Polish groups from the 35th annual festival held last month in Warsaw. Featuring the Simple Acoustic Quartet, the Kuba Stankiewicz
Quartet, Ewa Bern and friends, Milosc, and the Tomasz Stanko Group. Producer Derek Drescher