Maths Access: Countdown to Trig

with Anthony Burton.
Weyse Symphony No 1 in G minor
Royal Danish Orchestra/ Michael Schonwandt
7.25 Villa-Lobos Carnaval das Criancas (Children's Carnival)
Marcelo Bratke (piano)
7.42 Bach Mass in A (BWV 234)
Barbara Bonney (soprano) Birgit Remmert (contralto) Olaf Bar (baritone)
RIAS Chamber Choir
CPE Bach Chamber
Orchestra/Peter Schreier
8.15 Mllhaud Scaramouche
Emma Johnson (clarinet) Julius Drake (piano)
8.27 Mendelssohn String Symphony No 8 in D Concerto Koln

Strauss's s Arabella by John Death ridge.
Jonathan Keates on new baroque releases.

Matteis Suite in F (Book 4) Arcadian Academy
10.22 F
Couperin Allemande ; Musete de choisi, Musete de tavemi (Livre de clavecin, Book 3) Smithsonian Chamber
Players/Kenneth Slowik
10.36 Biber Violin Sonata
No 3 (Salzburg, 1681) Romanesca
10.51 Scarlatti De tenebroso lacu
Gerard Lesne (alto)
Veronique Gens (soprano) II Seminario Musicale

Robert Cowan chooses the best of the latest batch from DG Double - the most recent two-for-the-price-of-one reissues series.
11.40 Berlioz La Damnation de Faust (Part 1)
Richard Verreau (tenor)
Elisabeth Brasseur Choir
Lamoureux Orchestra, conductor Igor Markevitch Producers Patrick Lambert and Clive Portbury Discs
Revised rpt Wednesday 3.00pm

For the aristocracy in the 18th and early 19th centuries, Harmoniemusik was the equivalent of the gramophone, providing wind-band arrangements of operas, ballets and symphonies, as well as a wealth of new repertoire. George Pratt and Martin Harlow explore the tradition in Europe, with music by Myslivecek and Krommer and transcriptions of Beethoven, Rossini and Weber.

Jeremy Musson walks around one of the finest examples of Restoration domestic architecture, in conversation with Simon Murray.

New series
Roderick Swanston asks nine leading practitioners of early music to put away their treatises and reveal the personal element in their music-making.
1: Sir Charles Mackerras first startled music-lovers in 1959 with his performance of the Fireworks Music using the gargantuan wind band Handel had in mind.
With excerpts from:
Handel fireworks Music
Pro Arte Orchestra (1959) Handel Messiah
Janet Baker (mezzo) Ambrosian Singers
English Chamber Orchestra (1966)
Mozart
Symphony No 39 in E flat Prague Chamber Orchestra (1988)
Mozart Cos! fan tutte
Soloists
Edinburgh Festival Chorus Scottish CO (1988)
Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral) Soloists
Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra (1991)
Producer Nick Morgan Discs

with Geoffrey Smith.

(Discs)

Ivan Hewett looks at Bachanalia, a new listener's guide to the Prelude and Fugues of Bach, and talks to Stephen Pruslin about the differences between Haydn and Mozart.
(Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm)

From St Giles, Cripplegate, London

Conductor Roger Vignoles (piano)
Fiona Cameron (soprano) Nobuko Imai (viola)
Ensemble of BBC Symphony Orchestra Players

Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik for wind quintet; Das Marienleben 1-4; Viola Sonata, Op 11 No 4; Das Marienleben 13-15

Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano) plays a selection from Book 1 of the Well-Tempered Klavier.
(Discs)

(See also Tuesday 10.30pm)

Johann Strauss s sparkling operetta featuring singing, flirting, partying and tax-collecting, all lubricated with a liberal amount of champagne. Sung in German and presented by Peter Allen.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera/Hermann Michael

Act 1

7.20 Trouser Rotes with Cori Ellison.
The Italian Ideal
The second of Will Crutchfield's occasional series on the operatic voice.

7.45 Act 2

8.35 The Opera Quiz
Edward Downes questions Martin Bernheimer, Cori Ellison and David Hamilton.

9.00 Act 3

(Texaco supports the Metropolitan Opera Radio Network which is broadcast on R3 through the EBU)

In the first of six Radio 3/RSA lectures given before an invited audience at the Royal Society of Arts, Lord Gowrie, Chairman of the Arts Council of England, talks about his attitude to subsidising the artistic life of the country. The lecture is introduced by John Tusa.

Kathryn Stott (piano)
No 13 in C minor, Op 48 No 1; No 2 in E flat, Op 9 No 2; No 10 in A flat, Op 32 No 2; No 21 in C minor (1837)

Brian Morton is joined in the studio by B.J. Cole, who talks about his music and plays his pedal steel guitar.