With Anthony Burton.
William Brade Cornish Dance;
Irish Dance; Scottish Dance
Matthew Locke Suite No 1 in D minor
(For His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts)
His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts, Timothy Roberts (harpsichord), Raphael Mizraki (percussion)
7.14 Bloch Schelomo
Anne Gastinel (cello),
Lyon National Orchestra, conductor Emmanuel Krivine
7.38 Vaughan Williams It Was a Lover and His Lass; Nocturne; Joy, Shipmate, Joy; Dirge for Fidele Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
7.50 Dvorak Romance in F minor
Gil Shaham (violin), Orpheus CO
8.03 Britten Hymn to St Cecilia
Finzi Singers, conductor Paul Spicer
8.15 Beethoven Piano Concerto No
5 in E flat (Emperor)
Gerhard Oppitz , Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Marek Janowski

Martin Cotton compares the available recordings of Schoenberg's Variations for Orchestra. Roderick Swanston and Jan Smaczny discuss new orchestral releases, including Christian Thielemann 's recording of Beethoven's Fifth and Seventh Symphonies,
Mendelssohn from Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic, Dvorak from Myung-Whun Chung and the Vienna Philharmonic, Holst from the New Queen's Hall Orchestra and Roy Goodman , and Elgar from
Georg Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic.
Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm

Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Myung-Whun Chung
10.54 Blacher Variations on a Theme of Paganini
Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Georg Solti
11.10 Hoist Suite: The Planets
Ladies of the New Queen's Hall
Chorus, New Queen's Hall Orchestra, conductor Roy Goodman Discs
Producers Clive Portbury and Susan Kenyon E-MAIL: record.review@bbc.co.uk
DISC DETAILS: see BBC1 Ceefax page 651

Michael Berkeley 's guest is actress Juliet Stevenson , whose choices include Bach's St Matthew Passion, Britten's Turn of the Screw. Strauss's Four Last Songs, Bonnie Raitt singing I Can't Make You Love Me, and Jennifer Warnes in Leonard Cohen 's hit, Famous Blue Raincoat. Repeat

Richard Fawkes meets five people who bring to life great musical events and celebrities of the past.

In her first radio interview, soprano Elisabeth Parry fondly recalls performing alongside Kathleen Ferrier in Gluck's Orpheus et Eurydice and Britten's The Rape of Lucretia during the 1947 Glyndebourne season.
Parry also remembers the practical jokes played by the company on Peter Pears and other illustrious cast members during rehearsals and performances of Albert Herring.

William Kapell Remembered
The second of three programmes in which Annette Morreau explores the short life of William Kapell , the first virtuoso pianist born and trained in America. The programme includes performances with William Primrose and unreleased recordings of Schubert lieder with Maria Stader , plus comments from Anna Lou Dehavenon , Jack Pfeiffer , Robert Mann and Eugene Istomin.
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner
Brahms Viola Sonata in F minor, Op 120 No 1
William Primrose (viola)
Schubert Impromptu in A flat, D935 No 2; Im Fruhling; Du Bist die Ruh; Nur Wer die Sehnsucht Kennt , 0817; Die Forelle
Maria Stader (soprano)
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor
Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, conductor William Steinberg Repeat

The seventh of eight programmes. National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, conductor Christopher Seaman
Elgar Enigma Variations
Strauss Symphonia Domestica
Discs

Matyas Seiber 's arrangement of lute pieces by Jean-Baptiste Besard , played by the Guildhall String
Ensemble, director Robert Salter.

With Geoffrey Smith.
Producer Felix Carey Discs

Ivan Hewett looks at the Berlin cabaret of the 1930s through the eyes of artist George Grosz ; compares the sound of the modern piano with an 1851 model; and examines a reworking of an 18th-century opera set in Barbados. Producer Jessica Isaacs
Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm

Bizet's opera was staged at the Met in a spectacular new production by Franco Zeffirelli earlier this season, and the production's original cast has been reassembled. It stars Waltraud Meier , in a rare excursion out of the German repertoire, as the tragic gypsy temptress; and Placido Domingo , in a role with which he has been closely associated throughout his career. Sung in French.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, conductor James Levine
Actl
7.30 Life before Carmen
Graham Fawcett discovers that ancient cultures and fascinating women haunted the stories of Merimee, the operas of Bizet, and both of their lives long before either worked on Carmen. Readers
Janet Maw and Christopher Scott.
7.55 Act 2
8.45 The Met Opera Quiz
Presenter William Livingstone invites opera experts Ben Cameron , Albert Innaurato and Speight Jenkins to tackle questions sent in by listeners.
9.05 Acts 3 and 4 Texaco supports the Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network, which is broadcast on Radio 3 through the EBU

Michael Rosen presents a weekly insight into the world of poetry. Tonight an interview with Jamie McKendrick , whose collection The
Marble Ry is published this month.

New series
The first of seven programmes for Holy Week in which Harry
Christophers conducts soloists from the Sixteen and principals from the Symphony of Harmony and Invention in seven cantatas entitled Membra
Jesu Nostri by Dietrich Buxtehude. Each programme begins with a reading by Alan Howard of a Metaphysical poem. Tonight he reads Ben Jonson 's A Hymne to God the Father, and the Buxtehude cantata is entitled Ad Pedes.
Producer John Bickley
Next programme tomorrow 3.00pm

Richard Niles introduces the BBC Big Band, conducted by Barry Forgie , in concert at Cork Opera House in the Republic of Ireland. They are joined by guest soloists Bobby Watson (alto saxophone) and Clark Terry (flugel) in a programme of classic big band repertoire from the past 30 years. As well as arrangements and compositions by both guests, there are also pieces by Francy Boland , Bob Florence , Bob Brookmeyer and Ernie Wilkins. British jazz vocalist Claire Martin is also featured with the BBC Big Band in a set from the festival's opening concert. Producer Bob McDowall

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Schubert Schwanengesang Andrezej Hiolski (baritone).
Jerzy Marchwinski (piano) Piano Sonata in B, D575 Sviatoslav Richter
2.15 BBC Concert Orchestra:
Polish Fantasy The third of four programmes. Conductor
Barry Wordsworth Kabalevsky Overture:
Colas Breugnon Karlowicz Stanislav and Anna Wiechowicz The Hop
Dance Szymanowski Symphony No 1
3.15 Musica Aeterna Bratislava. directed by Peter Zajicek , perform music by Sammartini, Alessandro Scarlatti , Locatelli and Bach
4.20 Britten String Quartet No 3 Endellion Quartet
4.45 Patrick Genet (violin), Suisse Romande Orchestra. conductor Alexander Lazarev
Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol Glazunov Violin Concerto in A minor
Sibelius Symphony No 2
6.00 Sequence