With Humphrey Carpenter , including
7.03 Bizet Carmen Suite No 1
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin
7.30 Bach Concerto in D minor for
Two Violins, BWV1043
David and Igor Oistrach (violins) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Sir Eugene Goosens
8.03 Dukas The Sorcerer's
Apprentice Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy
8.40 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Boston Pops Orchestra, Earl Wild (piano), conductor Arthur Fiedler
Producer Edwina Wolstencroft

With Anthony Burton.
9.00 Building a Library
Anthony Burton compares the currently available recordings of Faure's Requiem. Peter Paul Nash reviews new orchestral recordings, including Mahler's Symphony No 4 from Simon Rattle , and the Schumann symphonies from John Eliot Gardiner.
Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm
10.15 Record Release
Schumann Konzertstuck in F for
Four Horns
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et
Romantique, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
10.35 Prokofiev Sinfonia Concertante
Truls Mork (cello),
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Paavo Jarvi
11.15 Reissues lain Burnside reviews some recent reissues of vocal recordings from the forties and fifties, including gems by artists such as Kathleen Ferrier ,
Nan Merriman , Giuseppe di Stefano , Aksel Schiotz and Gottlob Frick.
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 Lady Antonia Fraser whose bestselling historical biographies include
Mary, Queen of Scots; Cromwell, Our Chief of Men: King Charles II and The Six Wives of Henry VIII.
Antonia Fraser is a passionate opera-lover, and her choices today include excerpts from the operas of Mozart, Gluck, Donizetti, Wagner, Verdi and Janacek.
Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm

Romanesca: Andrew Manze (violin), Nigel North (chitarrone), John Toll (harpsichord)
Phantasticus: a celebration of the 17th-century Italian avant-garde, with music by Giovanni Paolo Cima , Dario Castello , Alessandro Piccinini ,
Giovanni Viviani and Biagio Marini. Repeated from Monday

The last of eight programmes showcasing some of the world's best young orchestras. Kirsteen McCue introduces the European Union Baroque Orchestra, recorded on their recent trip to Glasgow's Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and the Academy's own new music ensemble, on their visit to Edinburgh's Musica Italia festival. Berio Folk Songs Academy Now! conductor Richard Jeffcoat
Quantz Flute Concerto No 29 in G Handel Water Music: Suite in G
Rameau Suite: Dardanus
Rachel Helliwell (flute), European Union Baroque Orchestra, conductor Roy Goodman

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

Much has been said about the African and European strains in jazz, but the American Indian element, although pervasive, has largely been ignored. In this three-part series, Ian Carr looks at the work of musicians with Indian blood in their heritage and assesses the importance of their contributions to the music. In the first programme, he concentrates on trombonist Kid Ory. saxophonist
Frankie Trumbauer , trumpeter Bubber Miley and composer Duke Ellington. Producer Derek Drescher
Repeated Friday 11.30pm

Live from the Met:
Die Meistersinger von Nümberg
From the Metropolitan Opera House. New York. Otto
Schenk's lively production of Wagner's comedy set in 16th-century Nuremberg. Hans Sachs , a shoemaker and poet, helps Walther, an impetuous young Franconian knight with revolutionary artistic ideas, to learn the skills necessary to win a song competition and marry the girl of his choice.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, conductor James Levine
Act
6.25 Behind the Scenes at the Met
The weekly live relays from the Metropolitan Opera in New York are broadcast not only on radio stations in the United States and Canada but also in many European countries. Paul Guinery talks to the people responsible for the transmissions, including presenter Peter Allen , and asks what it is like to go live across two continents.
7.00 Act 2
8.00 The Met Opera Quiz
William Livingstone puts questions to Stuart Hamilton , Terrence McNally and Charles Osborne.
8.35 Act 3

As our private and public experiences and our work and entertainment are reshaped by the internet and the remote control, Michael Kustow asks if live theatre will survive and what we would lose if it did not. In the digital age ahead, will Dionysus, god of theatre and wine, stand up to the mighty computer mouse?

In the second of five programmes, The Language of Theatre, he looks at the changes in the basic grammar of theatre language - space, time and the actor. Fiona Shaw talks about the immediacy of acting, Deborah Warner about refreshing theatre in unorthodox spaces, and Simon McBurney about our loss of the present moment in an age of consumerism.

Themes from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess transcribed by Jascha Heifetz. Gil Shaham (violin),
Akira Eguchi (piano) Disc

A concert featuring Kenny Wheeler 's quartet playing music from his Angel Song LP, one of 1997's most critically and popularly acclaimed albums. Ian Dury and Brian Priestley are in the studio to air their opinions on some new releases. There is news from Denmark about the Jazz
Par - the jazz world's equivalent of the Booker Prize - and on the eve of Herbie Hancock 's birthday, pianist
Julian Joseph plays live in the studio as a tribute to the keyboard giant whose inspired playing set him on the path to a career in jazz.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Marta Ptaszynska Concerto
Grosso Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished); Symphony No 9 in C (Great) Erika Dubasiewicz and Piotr Kuasny (violins), Sinfonia Varsovia/Yehudi Menuhin
2.30 Beethoven String Trio in E flat, Op 3 No 1 Milan Tedla (violin), Zdenek Husek (viola),
Frantisek Tannenberger (cello)
3.30 Nielsen Flute Concerto
Petri Alanko,
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
4.00 Jose de la Vega Suite Galante Spanish Brass Ensemble
4.20 Mozart Symphony No 38 in D, K504 (Prague)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
5.00 Bizet L 'Arlesienne: Suite No 2
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, conductor Marko Munih
5.30 Bach Suite in A minor, BWV818a Wolfgang Gluxam (harpsichord)