With Jonathan Swain.

Schubert Nachtgesang im Walde - South German Vocal Ensemble, Marie-Luise Neunecker Horn Ensemble, conductor Rolf Beck

7.11 Poulenc Sinfonietta - French National Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit

7.41 Victoria Veni, Sancte Spiritus; Dum Complerentur - Choir of Westminster Cathedral, conductor James O'Donnell

7.53 Ravel Violin Sonata in G - Vadim Repin, Boris Berezovsky (piano)

8.12 Bruckner Abendzauber - Marcus Krause (baritone), South German Vocal Ensemble, Marie-Luise Neunecker Horn Ensemble, conductor Rolf Beck

8.21 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2 in C minor - Russian National Orchestra, conductor Mikhail Pletnev

Bryce Morrison compares available recordings of Ravel's Miroirs. Richard Wigmore reviews new releases of classical orchestral music, including Mozart's Posthom Serenade from Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music, woodwind concertos by JC Bach, and symphonies by Michael Haydn , Johann Vanhal and Franz Beck.
Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm
The chosen version of Miroirs is broadcast
Friday 7.30am

Beck Sinfonia in D, Op 10 No 2 Northern Chamber Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Ward
10.24 Mozart Ballet Music: Idomeneo
Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood
10.50 Vanhal Symphony in A minor Concerto Koln

Gerard McBurney selects the best of recent reissues of Russian music on Melodiya, Russian Disc and Revelation, including
Yevgeni Mravinsky conducting Shostakovich, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky conducting Prokofiev, and Yevgeni Svetlanov conducting Rachmaninov. Discs
Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert E-MAIL: record.review@bbc.co.uk
DISC DETAILS: see BBC1 Ceefax page 651

Another chance to hear Sir Isaiah
Berlin, the man described as Britain's most famous living thinker, in conversation with Michael
Berkeley about his favourite music. As well as discussing his musical tastes, Berlin recalls witnessing the Russian Revolution first-hand and meeting such remarkable individuals as Igor Stravinsky. His music choice includes works by Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart.
Repeat

A six-part exploration of the material world presented by Hannah Andrassy.

"I'd have fur boots and a brown fur wrap/And brown fur knickers and a big fur cap."

Six programmes in which Humphrey Burton traces the history of the Philharmonia Orchestra.
2: Enter Karajan
The partnership between the Philharmonia and Herbert von
Karajan was to put both orchestra and map. This programme includes contributions from Gareth Morris , Hugh Bean , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Sidney Sutcliffe and the late Walter Legge. Strauss Don Juan
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K297b (1st mvt)
Sidney Sutcliffe (oboe), Bernard Walton (clarinet), Cecil James (bassoon), Dennis Brain (horn)
Debussy De I'Aube a Midi sur la Mer (La Mer)
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A (1st mvt)
Strauss Der Rosenkavalier (excerpt) Johann Strauss (son) Kunstlerleben Bartok Concerto for Orchestra (5th mvt)

In the third of six programmes, David Campbell is joined by pianist Ronan O'Hora and five students from the Welsh College of Music and Drama to play and discuss the finer points of Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34.

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Andrew Davis , BBC
Symphony Chorus (women's voices) Holst Suite: The Planets Repeat

Geoffrey Smith introduces another selection of vibrant and varied 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 in which
Ivan Hewett and guests explore current issues in the world of .music. Today, he looks forward to one of 1997's big anniversaries with a preview of an innovative series of concerts devised by violinist Gidon Kremer to mark Schubert's bicentenary. The
BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrate the music of Witold Lutoslawski.
Plus a look at the new film Shine - a biographical drama about Australian piano progidy David Helfgott - and a discussion about psychoanalysis and music.
Producer Matias Tarnopolsky Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm See also Friday 7.30pm

An opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica. Puccini's masterpiece about young love and death in a Parisian garret brings together two rising opera stars, Patricia Racette and Marcello Giordani
. Sung in Italian.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, conductor Nello Santi
Acts 1 and 2 7.30 The James Naughtie Interview British baritone Anthony Michaels -Moore is making his debut at the Met in this production of La Bohème. He talks with James Naughtie about his career so far and about this latest development.
8.00 Act 3
8.25 Bohemian Paris
Christopher Prendergast explores the Parisian background to Puccini's setting. "A district bordered on the north by cold, on the west by hunger, on the south by love, and on the east by hope." Such was an anonymous 19th-century geographer's definition of Bohemia, both a geographical quarter and a state of mind, its boundaries defined as much by lifestyle as by location. The run-down Left Bank gave 19th- and 20th-century Europe a potent cultural reference point.
8.50 Act 4
Texaco supports the Metropolitan Opera
International Radio Network, which is broadcast on Radio 3 through the EBU
BROADCAST GUIDE: For a free copy of the Met Broadcast Guide, send an sae 14 x
23cm to Met Broadcast Guide, [address removed]

Professor Steve Jones attempts to quantify risk in art and science. He considers how artists and scientists approach risk, the part it plays in their work, and how close we are to a user-friendly "riskometer".

Alyn Shipton introduces a double bill recorded at last year's festival. American trumpeter Tom Harrell performs with a new sextet featuring Bob Berg (tenor sax), Steve Turre
(trombone), David Berkman (piano), Larry Grenadier (bass) and Billy Hart (drums). For the second concert. 27-year-old Joshua Redman - one of today's most exciting tenor saxophonists - is joined by Peter Bernstein (guitar), Peter Martin
(piano), Christopher Thomas (bass) and Brian Blade (drums).
Alyn Shipton talks to Joshua Redman and Bob Berg between sets. Producer Derek Drescher

With David Cornet.
1.00 Jaako Ilkaa Kuusisto (violin), Odense Symphony Orchestra, conductor Janos Furst
Nielsen Violin Concerto
Brahms Violin Concerto in D
2.15 Jazz from Toronto A set from the Mike Murley Quintet
3.50 Choral Concert from the 1995 European Symposium on Choral
Music given by the Moran Chorus, director Naomi Faran , the Cologne
Music School Chorus, director
Volker Hempfling , and the Helsinki University Chorus, director Matti Hyokki
4.20 Sibelius Symphony No 4
Rotterdam Philharmonic/Simon Rattle
6.00 Sequence