5.55 Gender and Consumption
6.15 The Faust Legend
6.35 Assignment 103

With Richard Osborne.
Haydn Symphony No 97 in C Cleveland Orchestra, conductor George Szell
7.32 Pizzetti String Quartet No 2 in D Lajtha Quartet
8.11 Verdi Macbeth (Act 4, Scene 3, excerpt)
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone),
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. conductor James Levine
8.18 Rubinstein Piano Concerto No 4 in D minor
Shura Cherkassky (piano),
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy

Rodney Milnes compares available recordings of Leoncavallo's
I pagliacci. Richard Wigmore reviews new releases of chamber music, including in his survey versions of string quartets from Haydn's opus 33 collection by the Lindsay Quartet and Quatuor Mosafques , further quartets by Arriaga performed by the Guarneri Quartet, the Beethoven Cello Sonatas and instrumental works including
Variations on "See, the conqu'ring hero comes", WoO 45 and on Bei
Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen, WoO 46 performed by Raphael Wallfisch and pianist John York , and and the Vienna Sextet's reading of Brahms' String Sextet No 1 in B flat.
Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm

Dvorak Miniatures. Op 75a Members of the Vienna String Sextet
10.31 Beethoven Cello Sonata in D, Op 102 No 2
Raphael Wallfisch (cello), John York (piano)
10.54 Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 33 No 5 (How Do You Do?) Quatuor Mosaiques

Stephen Plaistow has been listening to the second instalment of BMG/Melodiya's Russian Piano
School series, a survey of great 20th century Russian pianists from the elegant styles of performers like
Yelena Bekman-Shcherbina . via the Lisztian fireworks of Grigory Ginzburg. to more recent and familiar names including Tatyana Nikolayeva and Vladimir Ashkenazy. Discs
Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert E-MAIL: record.review@bbc.co.uk

Michael Berkeley meets composer and conductor Oliver Knussen , one of the artistic directors of the Aldeburgh Festival, which celebrates its 50th anniversary next year. For Knussen, music is a very public passion, but his private listening reveals a selection of surprising and eclectic enthusiasms, with excerpts from music by Tchaikovsky, Berlioz and Musorgsky to Perotin and Ravel.
Executive producer Wendy Thompson

Roderick Swanston asks six leading performers of early music to reveal the personal element in their music-making. 3: Anner Bylsma
Unlike many of his colleagues, Anner Bylsma has never forsaken his beloved cello for the podium, and his views on conductors are extreme This has left him free to explore a bigger range of music than almost any other period-instrumentalist; from the early
Baroque to Brahms and Bruckner. The programme includes excerpts from Beethoven Serenade in D for string trio, Op 8
Boccherini String Quintet in D, Op 29 No
Kraft Cello Concerto in C
Mendelssohn Cello Sonata in B flat,
Op 45
Servais Souvenir from Baden
Gade String Octet in F, Op 17 Discs

The fourth programme in a six-part series of masterclasses in which leading professional musicians offer advice to up-and-coming performers on staple pieces in the repertoire. Andrew Watkinson , leader of the Endellion
Quartet, offers advice to the Miro
Quartet from the Royal Academy of Music on Beethoven's String Quartet in A, Op 18 No 5.
Producer Nigel Wilkinson

Peter Dixon (cello), Paul Janes (piano), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Martyn Brabbins
In the second of two progammes,
Sarah Walker introduces the work of four young composers from the final concert of this year's Young Musician of the Year composers' workshop. The BBC Philharmonic spent a week in February preparing 12 new pieces of chamber and orchestral music selected from over a hundred entries, working closely throughout with the composers and their workshop leaders. The workshop culminated in two concerts conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
David Hackston Cello Concerto
Andrew Hamilton ... with inviolable voice
Thomas Walton Blitzkrieg
Cheryl Frances-Hoad Concertino for cello, piano and percussion
BBC Young Musician events are presented in association with Lloyds Bank pic

George Butterworth 's orchestral rhapsody
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder
Rpt

Geoffrey Smith introduces another selection of vibrant and varied jazz tracks chosen by listeners across the country.
Producer Alan Hall Discs
ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests. BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House. London W1A 4WW
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Ivan Hewett presents the programme that examines current musical issues.
This week, a preview of a new collection of works for piano students; composers talk about their settings of works by A E Housman to celebrate the poet's centenary; and a look at Jessica Duchen 's new book about
Hollywood film composer Erich Korngold.
Producer Jessica Isaacs
Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm

The second of Monteverdi's three surviving operas was first performed in 1640 and based on the last 12 books of Homer's Odyssey. Returning home from a 20-year absence fighting in the Trojan wars, Ulysses has to fight another battle. His estranged wife
Penelope is beseiged by suitors who are after his throne, and to win her back, Ulysses disguises himself as a beggar. Sung in Italian, and recorded at the Grand Theatre in Geneva.
Chorus of the Grand Theatre Geneva,
Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Michel Corboz

The last of six discussions in which
Mark Lawson and his guests uncover the social, ethical and cultural hinterland behind the issues of the week.
Producer Edwina Wolstencroft

Sonata for solo violin
Performed by Gyorgy Pauk. Rpt

Chris Parker introduces the first of three programmes of music recorded during the Bath Festival Jazz
Weekend. This week, highlights from German pianist Joachim Kiihn 's solo recital at the Guildhall, and a concert given by saxophonist
Julian Arguelles 's Octet, which included
Portuguese pianist Mario Laginha. The Octet's concert - given at the Pavilion - featured the first performance of Arguelles's suite for the festival, commissioned by Radio 3. During the interval, Chris Parker talks to both Joachim Kuhn and Julian Arguelles about their music.
Producer Derek Drescher
Another recording from the Festival can be heard next week

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Heinrich Schiff (cello), Till Fellner (piano)
Schubert Violin Sonata in A, D574;
Sonata in A minor, D821 (Arpeggione); Piano Trio in B flat, D898
2.30 Patrick Gallois (flute),
Saarbrucken Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Serge Baudo
Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage
Reinecke Flute Concerto in D
Debussy Syrinx
Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A
4.00 Malcolm Bilson (fortepiano)
Beethoven Sonatas: in F minor, Op 2 No 1; in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2 (Moonlight); in A, Op 101
5.00 Sequence