With Humphrey Carpenter.
6.40 Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 76 No 1
Amadeus Quartet
7.20 Beethoven Cello Sonata in D, Op 102 No 2
Paul Tortelier , Eric Heidsieck (piano)
8.10 Mozart Vorrei Spiegarvi , Oh Dio, K418 Christine Schafer
(soprano), Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado
8.35 Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Howard Shelley (piano),
Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson Producer Edwina Wolstencroft

With Richard Osborne.
9.00 Building a Library
Peter Paul Nash compares the currently available recordings of Britten's War Requiem. Bryce Morrison reviews recent piano releases, including Prokofiev sonatas from Mikhail
Pletnev, Rachmaninov preludes from John Lill and music by Federico Mompou from Artur Pizarro. Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm
10.15 Record Release
Mompou Canco i Dansa No 9 Artur Pizarro (piano)
10.22 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 7
Mikhail Pletnev
10.44 Rachmaninov Preludes,
Op 23: No 9 in E flat minor; No 10 in G flat John Lill (piano)
10.52 Glazunov Chopiniana
German Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
11.15 Reissues
Patrick O'Connor explores recent reissues of great French singers, including Ninon Vallin , Germaine Lubin , Charles Friant and Marcel Journet , ending with an unusual disc of Wagner excerpts sung in French. 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 Frances Partridge , who, at the age of 98, is the last living member of the Bloomsbury Group of writers, artists and intellectuals, characterised by Dorothy Parker as "couples who are really triangles and live in squares". Partridge herself was at the centre of a celebrated romantic melee involving Lytton Strachey , the ill-fated Dora Carrington and her future husband Ralph Partridge - a situation only resolved after the tragic deaths of Strachey and Carrington. Music has always been central to Frances Partridge 's life, and today she reveals some of her own particular favourites.
Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm

Takacs Trio
Schubert Adagio in E flat, D897 (Nottumo)
Dvorak Trio No 3 in F minor, Op 65 Repeated from Monday

The last of three programmes featuring Britten's church parables is this performance recorded at last year's BBC Proms of the composer's The Prodigal Son.
City of Birmingham Touring Opera, Birmingham Contemporary Music
Group, conductor Simon Halsey Repeat

Six programmes in which Edward Seckerson talks to great opera singers about how they approach the challenge of playing major operatic roles. In the first programme, Philip Langridge talks about portraying
Titus from Mozart's La Clemenza di
Tito and the title role in Britten's
Peter Grimes.
Producer Martin Cotton

Toys. Grant Llewellyn introduces and conducts the first of three concerts aimed at the younger music lover, given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. This concert celebrates the appearance of toys in music, with works by Rossini and Leopold Mozart.

With Geoffrey Smith.
Producer Derek Drescher Discs
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The last of four programmes in which Russell Davies explores the history of jazz in France, a country where it has flourished and where visiting musicians have received a warm welcome.
Round Midnight. Struggling to maintain its jazz identity, France founds its own national jazz orchestra. Even when local inspiration fails, Paris maintains its old reputation as a generous host to jazz of all styles. Producer David Perry
Repeated Friday 11.30pm

Der Freischutz
Italy's greatest opera house - La Scala , Milan - presents one of Germany's greatest operas. Weber's spooky love story brims with wonderful tunes and amazing orchestral sounds and offers deep psychological insights. Saturated as it is with the atmosphere of the Germanic forests, Der Freischutz virtually invented German romanticism - not surprisingly, both Wagner and Mahler adored it. But its appeal has always been a lot broader than that: Berlioz and Debussy worshipped it too.
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala,
Milan, conductor Donald Runnicles

The third of six experiments in creative radio.
The Night Stairs. So many feet have passed up and down the flight of stairs that runs from the monks' dormitory to the transept of Bristol
Cathedral that the stone looks like the waves of the sea. Joining the monks on parallel night journeys on all kinds of staircases are an astronomer, a stairmaker, a political prisoner, a nightwatchman, an old soldier, a police night squad, a tower block chorus, a historian, and the Cistercian monks of Caldey Abbey. Repeat

Introduced by Anthony Burton. Conductor Martyn Brabbins , Claron McFadden (soprano) Maxwell Davies In Nomine
Birtwistle Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments
Stravinsky Two Poems of Konstantin Bal 'mont; Three Japanese Lyrics
Goehr Quintet (Five Objects Darkly)

With Jez Nelson. The first of two programmes recorded live at the jazz weekend of the Bath International
Music Festival and featuring Paul Rutherford's Iskrastra. This free-music orchestra, gathered together for the first time in nearly ten years, is home to 19 of Europe's leading improvisers, including saxophonists Evan Parker and Trevor Watts , pianists Howard Riley and Keith Tippett , and drummer Louis Moholo. A live session from another of the weekend's performers is also featured, plus news and views from the festival.
Producers Lyn Champion and Steve Shepherd

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Early music performed by Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Jordi Savall (viola da gamba) and Rolf Lislerand (theorbo). Works by Giulio Caccini , Juan Hidalgo , Sebastian Duron and Jose Marin plus
Ortiz Diego Folias y Romanescas Tobias Hume Pavan ; Harke, Harke; A
Soldier's Resolution Gaspar Sanz Espanolettas y Canarios Tarquinio Merula La Ciaconna (excerpts)
2.35 Szymanowski String Quartet No 1 Silesian Quartet
2.50 Schubert Symphony No 1 in D, D82 Saarbrucken RSO/Marcelle Viotti
3.30 Grieg Piano Sonata in E minor Ilkka Paananen (piano)
3.50 Eigar Cello Concerto in E minor Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary PO, conductor Mario Bernardi
4.20 Arensky Suite No 2 (Silhouettes) James Anagnoson , Leslie Kinton (pianos)
4.35 Horatio Parker A Northern
Ballad Albany SO/Julius Hegyi
5.00 Gemlniani Sonata in A, Op 1 No Pierre Pitzi and Mary Jean Bolli (viola da gambas), Luciano Contini (archlute), Augusta Campagne (harpsichord)
5.10 Clara Schumann Prelude and Fugue in B flat Angela Cheng (piano)
5.25 Bach Orchestral Suite No 4 in D, BWV1069
La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken
5.45 CPE Bach Variations in D minor on "La Folia"
Andreas Staier (clavichord)