With Anthony Burton.
Telemann Overture-Suite in C
(Hamburger Ebb und Fluth) The
King's Consort, director Robert King
7.26 Schubert Piano Sonata in E minor, D566 Martino Tirimo
7.51 Handel Cantata: Pensieri
Nottumi di Filli Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), Musica Alta Ripa
8.00 Wagner Forest Murmurs (Siegfried)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conductor James Levine
8.10 Biber Serenade in C (Der Nachtwachter)
Peter Harvey (baritone), Purcell Quartet
8.22 Mendelssohn String Symphony No 8 in D (orchestral version with wind) Amsterdam New Sinfonietta, conductor Lev Markiz
9.00 Building a Library
Brian Morton compares the available recordings of Gershwin's Piano
Concerto in F. Martin Cotton reviews new orchestral releases, including Bruckner's Symphony No 9 from
Riccardo Chailly , Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde from Giuseppe Sinopoli , Strauss's Alpine Symphony from Seiji Ozawa , and the latest offering in Osmo Vanska's Sibelius cycle. Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm
10.15 Record Release
Bach, orch Webern Ricercar a 6 (A Musical Offering, BWV1079)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
10.24 Strauss An Alpine Symphony Vienna PO, conductor Seiji Ozawa
11.15 Reissues
Bruce Wood has been listening to the latest batch in Archiv's reissue series, Codex. It includes music of the Gothic era from David Munrow and the London Early Music Consort, Schutz's Psalms of David,
Monteverdi's Orfeo from August Wenzinger, and Blber's Mystery
Sonatas from Eduard Melkus. 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 this week is Douglas Adams, author of the hugely successful Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series of books. His choice includes George Malcolm playing Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, vocal music by Mozart, Berlioz, Britten and Ligeti, and Randy Newman's Faustian exhortation, Relax, Enjoy Yourself.

(Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm)

The first of eight programmes celebrating musical personalities from the past.
Constantin Silvestri - Passion and Romance in a British Seaside Town
In 1961, the Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestra appointed a recently defected Romanian as principal conductor. Eight years later, Constantin Silvestri was dead, aged 55, but his Latin fire, combined with night-long study of Romantic scores, left an indelible impression on concertgoers and record-buyers. Among them was a young David Mellor , who returns to Poole to find Silvestri's flame burning bright in the memories and music-making of friends and colleagues from those days. Music includes:
Shostakovich Symphony No 10 (3rd mvt) Romanian RSO
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor (Waltz) Philharmonia
Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade The Young Prince and the Young Princess (piano duet)
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Silvestri Veloce London Schubert
Players, director Nicholas Miller
Elgar Overture: Alassio (In the South) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor Constantin Silvestri
Producer Nick Morgan Discs

Concluding the series in which
Sir George Christie traces the history of the celebrated festival in conversation with James Naughtie.
New Beginnings. On 28 May 1994, a brand-new opera house opened its doors at Glyndebourne exactly 60 years after the first house opened in 1934. Sir George Christie talks about how the new house became so successful. Featuring excerpts from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro,
Janacek's The Makropulos Case, Rossini's Ermione and Handel's
Theodora, and with contributions from Graham Vick and Andrew Davis
Producer Adam Gatehouse
Postponed from 6 September

With Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Discs
ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
FAX: (0171) [number removed]

In the first of four programmes telling the story of big-band leader Sun Ra , Jez Nelson remembers Ra's early days. Including the first recordings of Ra's Outer Space Arkestra.
Producer Lyn Champion. Postponed from 6 September. Repeated Friday 12.30am

Concluding the Saturday series of repeats of lunchtime concerts given in St John 's, Smith Square, London. This performance was given in 1996. Gyorgy Pauk (violin), Ralph Kirshbaum (cello), Peter Frankl (piano)
Mozart Piano Trio in C, K548
Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor, Op 1 No 3
Repeat See also Monday lpm

A heady musical brew for the traditional Last Night festivities at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Some of the season's themes are here - Brahms, Britten and folk song - with a fanfare from John Adams and a choral work by Judith Weir. Wayne Marshall is an exuberant performer on organ and piano, and there are soprano solos from Anne Evans, a leading Wagnerian. The first half is also broadcast on BBC2; the second on BBC1.

Anne Evans (soprano), Wayne Marshall (organ/piano), BBC Singers, Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis

Handel Coronation Anthem No 1: Zadok the Priest

Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn (St Anthony Chorale)

Judith Weir Sanctus (first UK performance)

Messiaen Transports de Joie (L 'Ascension)

Wagner Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)

(Simultaneous broadcast with BBC2)

8.35 My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen
Natalie Wheen investigates the British art of celebratory speech-making.

9.00 John Adams Fanfare for Orchestra

Gershwin Variations on "I Got Rhythm"

Britten Irish Reel (Village Harvest) (first London performance)

Weber Leise, Leise (Der Freischutz)

Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D

Henry Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs

Arne Rule Britannia! (Alfred)

Parry, orch Elgar Jerusalem

(Simultaneous broadcast with BBC1)

(See also Radio 2 7.30pm)
(See Brian Kay: page 38)

Kevin Jackson presents the third in a five-part magazine series for promiscuous readers. Today he seeks short cuts through Gibbon's
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Michael Holroyd reflects on the loneliness of the long-distance biographer. And novelist Nicholson Baker contributes to a feature on footnotes.

A musical farewell by Beethoven.
Beethoven Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 81a (Les Adieux) Edith Vogel

Concluding this summer's season of recordings from the BBC jazz archive, a concert given in 1991 by the Mike Gibbs Big Band featuring the American guitarist John Scofield.
Geoffrey Smith talks to Mike Gibbs during the interval. Repeat

With Donald Macleod.

1.00 Jazz with the Dig d'Diz Trio

2.25 Gelders Orchestra/Christopher Lyndon-Gee, Lucy Shelton (soprano)
Matthijs Vermeulen Symphony No 7
Igor Markevitch Lorenzo II Magnifico
Sibelius Symphony No 4

3.50 Hamish Milne (piano)
Bach, transcr Busoni Fantasia and Fugue in A minor
Schumann Presto Passionato
Liszt Rapsodie Espagnole

4.20 Benedek Istvanffy Missa Dedicata al Santo Benedetto
Purcell Hail, Bright Cecilia
Szilvia Hamvasi and Noemi Kiss (sopranos), Peter Barany and Zoltan Gavodi (countertenors), Peter Drucker (tenor), Istvan Kovacs and Pal Benko (basses), Ensemble Orpheo/Gyorgy Vashegi

6.00 Sequence