5.55 Child Abuse
6.15 The Political Imagery of Queen Elizabeth I
6.35 Assignment 103

With Anthony Burton.
Hindemith Overture to "The Flying
Dutchman", as Played at Sight by a Second-Rate Spa Orchestra at the Spring at Seven O'Clock in the Morning
Kocian Quartet
7.12 Bach Oboe d'Amore Concerto in D, BWV1053
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, director Anthony Robson (oboe d'amore)
7.34 Erkki-Sven Tuur String Quartet Duke Quartet
7.52 Hermann Goetz Psalm 137
Stephanie Stiller (soprano),
North German Radio Choir and Philharmonic, conductor Werner Andreas Albert
8.15 Britten Three Divertimenti
Sorrel Quartet
8.28 Haydn Symphony No 102 in B flat
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Claudio Abbado

Richard Osborne compares available recordings of Strauss's symphonic poem Don Quixote. Jonathan Freeman -Attwood reviews new releases of late-
Baroque choral music, including
French cantatas from Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, cantatas by Scarlatti and Hasse from Robert King and the King's Consort, and the latest volumes in two competing cycles of the complete Bach cantatas - from Ton Koopman and Masaaki Suzuki. Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm

Hasse Salve Regina
James Bowman (countertenor), The King's Consort, director Robert King
10.33 Bach Cantata No 106:
Gottes Zeit 1st die Allerbeste Zeit
Aki Yanagisawa (soprano),
Yoshikazu Mera (countertenor), Gerd Turk (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass), Japan Bach Collegium, director Masaaki Suzuki
10.55 Clerambault Le Soleil, Vainqueur des Nuages
Mireille Delunsch (soprano), Les Musiciens du Louvre, director Marc Minkowski

David Huckvale has been listening to some classic film scores from the golden age of the cinema in reissues of original soundtracks. His selection includes anthologies of music by Korngold and Bernard Herrmann and the complete soundtracks of North by Northwest by Herrmann and Ben Hur by Miklos Rosza.
Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert Discs
E-MAIL: record.review@bbc.co.uk

Michael Berkeley 's guest this week is writer and broadcaster Nigel Rees , who is host of Quote Unquote and compiler of the famous Graffiti series. His musical choices include excerpts from John Gay 's The Beggar's Opera, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin , a Mozart piano concerto, a Mendelssohn overture and Henry Wood 's orchestral transcription of Rachmaninov's Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 3 No 2.
Executive producer Wendy Thompson

Conductor Simon Rattle's name is synonymous with that of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, but over the years he has worked with many other orchestras in this country and abroad. Michael Birkett presents an eight-part series looking at some of these collaborations.
1: The Early Years
Including excerpts from the 18-year-old Rattle's performance as soloist and director in Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Wind; some of his earliest commercial recordings with the Nash Ensemble and Northern Sinfonia; and one of his performances with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Contributors include John Carewe ,
Martin Campbell-White , John Willan and Simon Rattle himself.
Producer Martin Cotton

Tommy Pearson hosts a fast-moving and entertaining music quiz in which teams of students from eight university music departments around the country battle it out to become
Department Score Champions 1996. To arrive at the final, teams will need to possess an encyclopedic knowledge of both popular and classical music and be able to identify lost chords and music played backwards and upside down. And they even perform their own triple concerto!
1: Birmingham v Cardiff
From the Concert Hall at Cardiff
University.
Producer Andy Cartwright

Aberdeen International Youth Festival
David McGuinness presents the first of three programmes from this summer's Aberdeen International Youth Festival which complete the series.
Among a gathering of over 800 young musicians, dancers, actors and artists from around the world was the Baden-Wurttemburg Youth Wind Ensemble and conductor Felix Hauswirth , who perform in this programme.
Hindemith Symphony in B flat
Henze, arr Wengler Ragtimes and Habaneras
Bernstein Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
Ives , arr Elkus Old Home Days
H Owen Reed Suite: La Fiesta Mexicana

Geoffrey Smith introduces another selection of jazz tracks requested by Radio 3 listeners.
Producer Alan Hall Discs
ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW Fax: (0171) [number removed]

Weekly magazine programme presented by Ivan Hewett about topical issues in the world of music. This week, a new biography of Schubert and a focus on English song - is it underrated? Producer Tony Sellors
Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm

The Finals Part 2. Howard Goodall introduces the last three finalists at Leeds Town Hall as the competition reaches its climax and the pianists join Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to perform their concertos. During the interval, lain Burnside charts the progress of tonight's soloists through the week of semi-final recitals.The winner will be announced before
Through the Night begins at 1.00am. SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST with BBC2

Michael Rosen 's weekly insight into the world of poetry includes reviews of new collections and an interview with Brian Patten , who once claimed that "poetry is the monster hiding in the child's dark room". This week's reassessment is of the work of the Objectivists, an alliance of mainly
American left-wing experimental poets in the 1930s that included Louis Zukofsky
. His stripped-down verse was described as "electric shorthand".

Conductor Gordon Downie ,
Jane Manning (soprano) Stockhausen Kreuzspiel
Stravinsky Three Songs from William Shakespeare
Downie Forms 3
Elliott Carter Sonata for Flute, Oboe,
Cello and Harpsichord
Berio Circles for Female Voice, Harp and Two Percussionists

This pianist and composer was commissioned by Radio 3 to write Bar Utopia, with a text by Helen Simpson. Alyn Shipton introduces a recording of the first performance, given at the 1995 Bath Festival by the Westbrook Orchestra. The group included vocalists Kate Westbrook and John
Winfield, cellist Stanley Adler , trumpeters Noel Langley and James McMillan , and saxophonists Peter Whyman and Alan Wakeman. The programme also includes Westbrook's compositions Checking In at Hôtel le Prieure, South from Toulouse and Music Is. During the interval,
Alyn Shipton talks to him about his work. Repeat

With Donald Macleod.

1.00 Igor Oistrakh (violin), I Virtuosi di Santa Cecilia/Massimo Freccia

Brahms Violin Concerto in D; Symphony No 4 in E minor

2.30 Michael Kieran-Hardy (piano)

Szymanowski Variations on a Polish Folk Song, Op 10

Scriabin Vers la Flamme, Op 72

Liszt Sonata in B minor

3.30 Soile Isokoski (soprano), Peter Stein (narrator), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Claudio Abbado

Haydn Symphony No 104 in D (London)

Beethoven Incidental music: Egmont

5.00 Sequence