with Anthony Burton. Robert Volkmann
Serenade No 2 in F
Neuss Chamber Academy/ Johannes Goritzki
7.16 Debussy Sonata Aurele Nicolet (flute) Nobuko Imai (viola)
Naoko Yoshino (harp)
7.35 Telemann Overture in D for three oboes and strings (TWV 55)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/ Gottfried von der Goltz
8.00 Copland Three
Moods; Midday Thoughts; Proclamation
Leo Smit (piano)
8.13 Bach Three Schubler
Chorale Preludes: Wer nun den lieben Gott lasst walten; Meine Seele erhebt den
Herren; Ach bleib bei uns,
Herr Jesu Christ (BWV 64 7-9) Martin Souter (organ)
8.25 Dvorak Serenade in E for string orchestra
Prague Chamber Orchestra

Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances by David Nice. Sarah Walker on new releases of contemporary music, including works by Holloway, Schnittke and Gubaidulina.

Reich Three Movements
LSO/Michael Tilson Thomas
10.32 Barry Piano Quartet; Swinging Tripes and Trillibubkins; Triorchic Blues Nua Nos
Noriko Kawai (piano)
10.51 Adams Chamber
Symphony
London Sinfonietta/ The Composer

In the late 50s and early 60s the American label
Everest was synonymous with high-fidelity recordings. Vanguard Classics have reissued some on CD and Jonathan Swain has been listening to them.
11.40 Strauss Don Juan
Stadium SO of New York/ Leopold Stokowski
Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert Discs
Revised rpt Wednesday 3.00pm

Christopher Page introduces the second programme tracing early settings of English poetry. After the thin stream of songs in the 14th century came a flood of carols and part-songs around 1500, marking the dawn of the Golden Age of English music.
Producer Kate Bolton

2: Hacking In
Peter Preston writes to
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
, the journalists who were responsible for uncovering Watergate.
A Unique Broadcasting production

Last of the series in which the Austrian baritone
Wolfgang Holzmair sings all three of Schubert's great song-cycles in performances recorded last year. 3: Winterreise with Imogen Cooper (piano) Recorded last November in the Wigmore Hall, London
Series producer Adam Gatehouse

play a selection of Spanish music arranged for two guitars. Discs

Roderick Swanston asks nine leading practitioners of early music to put away their treatises and reveal the personal element in their music-making. 4: Philip Pickett 's exuberance in concert and on record reflects his origins as a brass player - "We like a good blow!" he explains. But now he's as keen to put across the forgotten, almost alien world view that underpinned music from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. With excerpts from
Telemann Concerto in D
Susato
Dances (Danserye, 1551)
Schutz Intermedium III: The
Shepherds (The Christmas Story)
Anon Hopping down in Kent Ciconia Una panthera Anon Homo quo vigeas
(Carmina Burana)
Anon Tempus est iocundum (Carmina Burana)
Biber The Peasants' Church
Procession
Monteverdi Orfeo (Act III)
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F (BWV 1046)
Producer Nick Morgan Discs

with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Discs

This week Ivan Hewett talks to guitarist John Williams , and to Estonian conductor
Paavo Jarvi about his latest appointment, and looks at a new book on the life of Georgian England's greatest composer -
George Frideric Handel. Producer Fiona Shelmerdine Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm

Onsiow String Quartet in E flat

The Saturday opera takes a break from the New York Met to visit
Geneva's Grand Theatre for a performance of Verdi's biblical-style epic - a melange of love, war, mad kings, poisoned queens, broken idols and hanging gardens worthy of Hollywood. Nabucco... GREGORY YURISICH (bar)
Ismaele ...VALENTIN PROLAT (tenor)
Zaccaria
ROBERTO SCANDIUZZI (bass)
Abigaille ELIZABETH CONNELL (sop)
Fenena VIOLETTA URMANA (sop)
Abdallo JAN MARTIN (tenor)
Anna .....CLAUDIA PALLINI (sop) Chorus of the Grand
Theatre, Geneva
Suisse Romande Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi Acts 1 and 2 8.10 Stendhal in Italy
"La Scala is the general salon of the city of Milan; there is no society excepting at this theatre." Alex Jennings reads an account of a visit the French author made in 1816 to La
Scala, in an adaptation by Frank Felsenstein.
8.40 Acts 3 and 4

As a tribute to Peter Cook , there's another chance to hear his comic portrayal of Sir Arthur Streeb Greebling in this five-part series presented by Christopher Morris. Renowned as a statesman, scholar and tycoon but also suspected of chicanery and gleeful inhumanity, Sir Arthur reveals why he bought the BBC Concert Orchestra. A Talkback production

A chamber work by one of the discoveries of last year's Symphonic Steppes season. Valentin Silvestrov
Cello Sonata
Ivan Monighetti (cello)
Alexei Lubimov (piano) Discs
FAIREST ISLE

This group led by John Williams (baritone saxophone) is an innovative combination of jazz septet and classical wind septet. The line-up includes Dick Pearce (trumpet), Phil Lee
(guitar) and members of the English Serenata.
Alyn Shipton introduces a recording from last October's concert at the Phoenix Arts
Centre, Leicester, featuring On the Four Winds, a new extended composition by Neil Ardley. Other pieces are by Duke Ellington, Gil Evans , Oliver Nelson and John Williams. During the interval Alyn Shipton talks to Neil Ardley and John Williams about their work.
Producer Derek Drescher