Presented by Anthony Burton , including
Baguer Symphony No 16 in G London Mozart Players , conductor Matthias Bamert
7.18 Dohnanyi Piano Quintet in C minor, Op I
Schubert Ensemble of London
7.49 Beck Symphony in G minor, Op 3 No 3
La Stagione, Frankfurt, conductor Michael Schneider
8.10 Arnold Brass Quintet Center City Brass Quintet
8.24 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K364
Rainer Kussmaul (violin), Wolfram Christ (viola),
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra , conductor Claudio Abbado

Stephen Plaistow compares available recordings of Chopin's waltzes.
Georgina Born reviews new releases of contemporary music, including Arvo Part's Litany, Valentin Silvestrov 's
Symphony No 5, Harrison Birtwistle 's Earth Dances from Christoph von
Dohnanyi, and works by Mark-Anthony Turnage and the late Toru Takemitsu. Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm

Turnage Dispelling the Fears Hakan Hardenberger and John Wallace (trumpets), Philharmonia, conductor Daniel Harding
10.37 Takemitsu Dreamtime
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Tadaaki Otaka
10.53 Silvestrov Postludium
Alexei Lubimov (piano),
German Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Robertson

Bernard Keeffe has been listening to the latest reissues on the BBC Radio
Classics label. These include Sibelius and Nielsen from Barbirolli, works by Zemlinsky, Shostakovich, Boughton, Bliss and Tippett, and, to celebrate his 75th birthday, a double CD of Malcolm Arnold conducting his own music.
11.40 Arnold Rve Blake Songs, Op 66 Pamela Bowden (contralto), BBC Northern Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert Discs
E-MAIL: record.review@bbc.co.uk

Michael Berkeley 's guest this week is novelist Paul Bailey , former literary fellow of the Universities of Newcastle and Durham, recipient of the EM Forster Award, and author of bestsellers including Peter Smart 's Confessions, Old Soldiers,
Trespasses, Gabriel's Lament and Sugar Cane. A frequent broadcaster on Radio 3, his musical passions include excerpts from Le Nozze di
Figaro, Don Carlos and Wozzeck, and instrumental music by Brahms, Schubert and Dvorak.
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. Michael Birkett presents an eight-part series looking at some of these collaborations.
5: London Sinfonietta
Michael Birkett explores Rattle's relationship with the orchestra, which stretches back to the mid-seventies.
The music comes from a concert which the Sinfonietta gave in 1984, and there are some jazz encores from 1987. With comments from Sinfonietta members and management and from Simon Rattle himself.
Birtwistle The World Discovered
Stravinsky Requiem Canticles Cynthia Buchan (mezzo),
Willard White (baritone), BBC Singers Birtwistle Three Movements with Fanfares
Tippett Concerto for Orchestra
The Simon Rattle series Leaving Home is on Sundays at 9.00pm on Channel 4

A fast-moving and entertaining quiz contested by teams of students from eight university music departments around the country.
The First SemHinal: Cambridge v Cardiff Four teams have made it this far, but now quizmaster Tommy Pearson has new challenges for them, involving operatic channel-hopping and a round intriguingly entitled "Muzak in a Pig
Farm". The teams from Cambridge and Cardiff meet in the Faculty of Music
Concert Hall at Cambridge University.

The second of six programmes showcasing a wide-ranging collection of musical talent, presented by Sandy Burnett. This week, two contrasting ensembles, and some Baroque vocal music.
Nyman Songs for Tony (1st mvt) Claude Pascal Quartet
Malarky Saxophone Quartet
Purcell Not All My Torments; If Music Be the Food of Love; Sweeter than
Roses
Handel Cantata: Vendendo Amor
William Missin (countertenor), Anna Holmes (baroque cello), Steven Devine (harpsichord)
Beethoven String Quartet in F minor, Op 95
Belcea Quartet
During the interval, John Wilson from the Royal Northern College of Music talks with student Mary Proctor about accompanying on the piano.
A concert given last Sunday in the National Portrait Gallery, London. For details of remaining concerts, phone (0171) [number removed]

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

Weekly magazine exploring topical issues in the world of music.
Ivan Hewett looks at how performance ideals have changed down the centuries and traces Jewish threads through classical music. Producer Jessica Isaacs
Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm

Bellini's opera of love, jealousy and self-sacrifice, set in ancient Gaul.
Norma, a Druid priestess, has had two children by the Roman proconsul
Pollione. Now abandoned by him for a younger priestess named Adalgisa, Norma is ready to incite her fellow Gauls to rebel against the Roman invaders - and to kill her children rather than see them sent as slaves to Rome. Sung in Italian, and recorded last June at the Opera Bastille, Paris.
Paris National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Carlo Rizzi

Sir John Drummond hosts a six-part series in which he meets leading architects in the field of the arts and celebrates their visions and achievements.
3: The Holes in the Ground
The words "opera house" seem to have an odd effect on politicians and planners. How do architects square the varied interest groups? With Sir Michael Hopkins on Glyndebourne, Colin Ross on Edinburgh's Festival
Theatre, and Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones on Covent Garden.

Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115 Emma Johnson (clarinet), Delme Quartet Repeat
THE THIRD AT 50

Listeners recall moments of lasting significance from the Third Programme or Radio 3. Today, Brian Sewell remembers listening to a performance of King Lear on the Third Programme in 1949 and hearing his examination set book brought vividly to life by Donald Wolfit.
Producer Judith Bumpus

This British guitarist, who has been described as a musical anarchist, calls his regular group the Voice of God Collective. It includes Huw Warren
(piano/accordion), Steve Watts (bass) and Martin France (drums). For their concert last March in London's
Purcell Room , they joined forces with the Fun Horns of Berlin, a group founded ten years ago with Volker Schlott
(alto/soprano sax), Thomas Klemm
(tenor sax), Jorg Huke (trombone) and Rainer Brennecke (trumpet). The concert is introduced by Alyn Shipton , who talks to Billy Jenkins about his music during the interval. Producer Derek Drescher

With Donald Macleod.

1.00 A jazz concert given by Anders Kjellberg Floating Action

2.00 Pianist Yevgeni Kissin performs music by Bach, Schumann, Beethoven and Liszt

3.25 Music by Monteverdi, Schein, Schutz and Praetorius, performed by the Hallenser Madrigalists, the Berlin Trombone Quintet and conductor Andreas Gopfert

4.50 The Haffner Trio plays music by Haydn, Kodaly and Brahms

6.00 Sequence