Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Martinu Concerto for oboe and small orchestra
Ivan Sequardt (oboe) Czech PO, conductor Vaclav Neumann
7.21 Schumann Piano
Quintet in E flat
Menahem Pressler (piano) Emerson Quartet
7.53 Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
8.17 Trad Italian music from the time of Leonardo
Da Vinci (1452-1519) Sirinu
8.34 Dvorak The Water
Goblin
Czech PO, conductor Jiri Belohlavek

Jerrold Northrop Moore compares available recordings of Schumann's Carnaval, a kaleidoscopic cycle of musical cryptograms which have become popular mainstays of the Romantic piano repertoire. David Nice on new releases of 20th-century orchestral music, including Shostakovich's cello concertos from Truls
Mork.
Revised repeat tomorrow 11.15pm

Copland Symphonic Ode - Seattle SO, conductor Gerard Schwarz

10.37 Rachmaninov Etudes-tableaux, Op 33: No 2 in C; No 6 in E flat minor; No 9 in C sharp minor - Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

10.48 Shostakovich The Limpid Stream (Act 2) - Royal Stockholm PO, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Leo Black has been listening to some great string quartets from the past, including the Hollywood Quartet and the Smetana Quartet in works by Dvorak and Janacek. Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert Discs
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Ken Russell , the film director who brought
Women in Love, The Music Lovers and Tommy to the big screen and Oliver Reed to Radio 3 drama, shares his musical tastes with Michael Berkeley. His selection is surprisingly eclectic, and ranges far beyond the composers whose lives he has dissected for film and television.
A Ladbroke Radio production

Are some of Britain's finest archaeological jewels hidden in a field in Shropshire? Andrew Jones examines how hi-tech techniques are being used in tandem with the more traditional trowel and sieve to demystify Roman life.

New Zealand National
Youth Orchestra
David Gallagher introduces the first of eight programmes celebrating young orchestras from across the world.
Gary Brain and Isaiah Jackson conduct the orchestra in music from both hemispheres.
Producer David Gaiiagher

Carol Smith (soprano)
Madeleine Mitchell (violin) Andrew Ball (piano) Strauss Morgen Ives Sunrise
Vaughan Williams Two English folk songs
Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor

BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor Christopher Adey Raphael Wallfisch (cello) Duparc Lenore
Korngold Cello Concerto (Deception)
Kodaly Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song (The Peacock)

Geoffrey Smith introduces vibrant and varied tracks chosen by listeners. Producer Alan Hall Discs
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Presented by Ivan Hewett.
This week: The Unanswered
Question: an examination of the life of Charles Ives as a prelude to the BBC's Ives Weekend at the Barbican: a look behind the scenes at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden: and how the opera house in Barcelona is being restored to its former glory.
Producer Jessica Isaacs
Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm The Charles Ives Weekend begins Friday 7.30pm

Mozart's opera of seduction, murder and revenge, one of his three collaborations with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte
. Don Giovanni (Don Juan ) is a Spanish nobleman who prides himself on his amorous exploits and gets his manservant Leporello to keep a running tally in a book: 640 in Italy, 230 in Germany, 100 in France, 91 in Turkey and 103 in Spain. Today's adventures, however, will see the libertine finally punished. Sung in Italian.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera,
New York, conductor
James Levine
Act
8.05 The Met Opera Quiz
8.35 Act 2
Texaco supports the Metropolitan Opera Radio Network which is broadcast on R3 through the EBU

Steve Jones presents an edition of the programme that bridges the gap between art and science.
Producer Deborah Cohen

Philip Mead 's personal exploration of the 20th-century solo piano repertoire is grouped into six themes. 1: Night
Including works by Charles Griffes , Bela Bartok and Benjamin Britten , introduced by Stephen Montague.
Philip Mead (piano)
A Magenta Music International production
Next programme Monday 10.25pm

Last year, the Creative Jazz Orchestra toured for the Contemporary Music Network, giving performances of compositions by Nikki lies, including The Printmakers, a suite paying tribute to the music and lives of five women in jazz. Alyn Shipton introduces the concert this eight-piece orchestra gave in the Purcell Room,
London, last February, and during the interval talks to Nikki lies about her career as a pianist, accordionist, clarinettist and composer. Producer Derek Drescher