With Anthony Burton.
Mozart Divertimento in E flat, K166
Ensemble Zefiro
7.15 Schutz Zweierlei Bitte Ich, Hen; Mein Herz 1st Bereit; Lobet den
Herrn, Alle Heiden (Symphoniae Sacrae II)
La Capella Ducale , Musica Fiata , director Roland Wilson
7.30 Nielsen Chaconne , Op 32 Peter Seivewright (piano)
7.44 Bellini Son Vergin Vezzosa; Qui la Voce Sua Soave ... Vien Diletto (I Puritani)
Sumi Jo (soprano), English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Giuliano Carella
7.58 Byrd The Queen's Alman;
Hugh Ashton 's Ground; Pavan and Galliard a 6 Capriccio Stravagante , director Skip Sempe (harpsichord)
8.10 Brahms, orch Schoenberg Piano Quartet in G minor
Houston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Christoph Eschenbach

Patrick O'Connor surveys the available recordings of Offenbach's operettas. Robert Philip reviews new cycles of the Brahms symphonies from
Charles Mackerras and the Scottish Chamber
Orchestra and Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Berlin Philharmonic. Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm

Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op 56a Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
10.35 Brahms Symphony No 3 in F Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras

The latest in the two-for-the-price-of-one format is a series from Warner
Classics called Ultima. Robert Cowan has been exploring the first batch, including the Elgar symphonies from Andrew Davis , Sibelius symphonies from Jukka-Pekka Saraste , and Tchaikovsky symphonies from Kurt Masur. 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 Timothy Garton Ash , an eminent commentator on European politics. In the 1980s, he chronicled the break-up of Communism in central Europe, and his most recently published book,
The File, tells how he found himself marked down by the Stasi as a British spy during the Cold War. His musical choices have a very personal significance, ranging from ancient Polish sacred music to Schubert's
Erlkonig and Smetana's Vltava. Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm

Vellinger Quartet
Haydn String Quartet in F sharp minor, Op 50 No 4
Schoenberg String Quartet No 3 Repeated from last Monday

The sixth of eight programmes in which David Mellor celebrates musical personalities from the past. Too Many Teachers? Never!
Clifford Curzon would have been 90 this year, but he would probably still have been studying, listening, practising, and learning from his predecessors, colleagues, rivals and proteges. This documentary portrait of a perfectionist includes contributions from his son Fritz Curzon, Nina Milkina, Murray Perahia, Raymond Leppard, violinist Paul Robertson of the Medici Quartet (who played with Curzon just before his death in 1982) and Callum Ross. Curzon and his wife, harpsichordist Lucille Wallace, are heard talking, and Curzon plays:
Liszt Petrarch Sonnet 104 (Annees de Pelerinage)
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor (excerpt)
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Anatole Fistoulari
Schubert Piano Sonata in D, D850 (2nd mvt)
Dvorak Piano Quintet in A (3rd mvt) Vienna Philharmonic Quartet
Mozart Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466 (Finale)
English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Benjamin Britten
Lili Boulanger Cort ège; D'un Matin de Printemps
Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Brahms Intermezzos: in E flat, Op 117 7 No 1; in E flat minor, Op 118 No 6 Producer Nick Morgan

Traditional music played on the end-blown Japanese flute by Yoshikazu Iwamoto.

Paul Spicer presents the last of five masterclasses given earlier this year as part of the fourth National Young Musicians Chamber Music Festival in Halifax. The Athenaeum Quartet
Ensemble from the Royal Scottish
Academy of Music and Drama work on the first movement of Beethoven's
Septet in E flat, Op 20. They discuss interpretation and technique with violinist Peter Cropper. Producer Steve Portnoi

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]

In the second of eight programmes, Paul Oliver looks at how blues singers are classified, particularly the all-embracing title of "classic blues".
What does it mean? How did it come into general use? And is it adequate to describe so broad a range of singers as Ma Rainey , Edith Wilson ,
Lizzie Miles , Gladys Bentley and Eva Taylor ? Repeated Friday 1.30am

String Quartet in A minor, Op 132 Carmina Quartet Repeat
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Martinu's surrealist opera Julietta (The Book of Dreams) in David Pountney 's new English translation and production for Opera North, from the Grand
Theatre, Leeds. Based on a play by Georges Neveux , it is set in a land where nothing is what it seems.
Micha, a young travelling bookseller, is haunted by the memory of a girl he once heard singing in a small seaside town. He returns to search for her and finds himself in a world that has no memory at all. Martinu captures his fantastic adventures in music bubbling over with rhythmic punch and beautiful melody. Presented by Natalie Wheen.
Other roles played by Alan Oke (tenor).
Frances McCafferty (mezzo). Adrian Clarke
(baritone). Jonathan Best and Richard Angas (basses) and Debra Stuart (mezzo) Chorus of Opera North,
English Northern Philharmonia, conductor Steuart Bedford
Acts 1 and 2 8.50 Virtual Reality
Natalie Wheen explores the strange hallucinatory realm of Martinu's operatic masterpiece.
9.05 Act 3

Michael Rosen concludes the series by talking to poet Simon Armitage , whose collection CloudCuckooLand has just been published.

Recently discovered pieces by the late 17th-century composer played on the baroque guitar by William Waters.

With Brian Morton and Alyn Shipton. Featuring the Collective Quartet from New York, with Jeff Hoyer (trombone), Mark Hennen (piano), William Parker (double bass) and Heinz Geissen
(drums). Canadian trumpeter Ingrid Jensen talks about her career. Music on CD comes from pianist
Keith Tippett and his wife, singer Julie, and from Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko and his septet playing the music of Krzysztof Komeda.
Producer Derek Drescher

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Jazz Vincent Artaud Quartet
1.50 French Organ Music Michel Bourcier Messiaen Messe de la Pentecote Jean-Louis Florentz
Laudes Jehan Alain Three Dances
3.05 Chamber Concert Conversations
Galantes Guillemain Sonata No 3 in D minor Marais Suite in F Rameau
Concerto No 5 in D minor (Pieces de Clavecin en Concert) Couperin La
Piemontoise (Les Nations) Boismortier Sonata in D minor, Op 51 No 4
Guillemain Sonata in A, Op 12 No 4
4.15 Geza Anda Prize Concertos played by prizewinners of the 1997 piano competition with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra/Marcello Viotti
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 in G
Corrado Rollero Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Yuka Imamine
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Roustem Saitkouliv
6.00 Sequence