With Humphrey Carpenter , including Sibelius Incidental music: King
Christian // (Nocturne; Elegy; Musette) Iceland Symphony Orchestra, conductor Petri Sakari
7.30 Bach English Suite No 1 in A, BWV806
Murray Perahia (piano)
8.15 Schumann Liebeslied , Op 51 No 5; Singet Nicht in Trauertonen, Op 98a No 7
Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Richard Goode (piano)
8.55 Bernstein Overture: Candide
London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the Composer Producer Edwina Wolstencroft

The last of the current series, presented by Jonathan Swain.
9.00 Building a Library
Chris de Souza considers the currently available recordings of Saint-Saens's Carnival of the Animals. Peter Paul Nash and Geoffrey Smith discuss new orchestral releases.
Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm

Rossini Overture: William Tell
Warsaw Sinfonia, conductor Yehudi Menuhin
10.29 Mozart Symphony No 13 in F, K112
Vienna Concentus Musicus, director Nikolaus Hamoncourt
10.46 Haydn Sinfonia Concertante in Bflat
Douglas Boyd (oboe), Matthew Wilkie (bassoon), Marieke Blankestijn (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Roger Norrington
11.08 Krommer Clarinet Concerto in E flat, Op 36
Sharon Kam , Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra, conductor Jorg Faerber
11.31 Beethoven Symphony No 8 in F Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, conductor Charles Mackerras
Producers Clive Portbury and Susan Kenyon E-MAIL: record.review@bbc.co.uk
DISC DETAILS: see BBC1 Ceefax page 651

Today, Michael Berkeley talks to Amanda Holden, librettist, translator and founding editor of the Viking Opera Guide. She has recently provided a new translation of Madam Butterfly for Raymond Gubbay's spectacular Royal Albert Hall production, and the libretto for Mark-Anthony Turnage's new opera The Silver Tassie for English National Opera. Her musical choices range from chamber music by Mozart, Schumann and Debussy to John Adams's Violin Concerto and Ethel Merman singing an Irving Berlin classic.
Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm

Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
Brahms Ballade in B, Op 10 No 4; Intermezzo in B flat, Op 76 No 4;
Intermezzo in B minor, Op 119 No 1 Schubert Piano Sonata in A, D959 Repeated from last Monday

David Mellor explores the recorded legacy of great artists of the past in conversation with distinguished figures from the musical world today. Rachmaninov's battles for recognition as a composer have been won, but tastes have changed enough for his once unassailable status as a performer to be questioned. Stephen Kovacevich never heard him play, but on the evidence of Rachmaninov's numerous recordings he still thinks he is one of the finest pianists of all time, displaying a quality that cannot be measured or taught. With excerpts from recordings featuring Rachmaninov.

Liszt Concert Etude No 2 (Gnomenreigen)

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No in F sharp minor (excerpt) - Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor (excerpt) - Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Leopold Stokowski

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor (excerpt) - Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Eugene Ormandy

Schubert Impromptu in A flat, D899 No 4

Schumann Carnaval, Op 9 (excerpt)

Johann Strauss (son), arr Tausig Valse Caprice (Man Lebt Nur Einmal)

The second of six programmes in which pianist lain Burnside goes into the rehearsal room to find out how different artists build up a performance. This week, his collaborator is British cellist Paul Watkins
, with whom he rehearses a Beethoven cello sonata.

Andrew Manze introduces the second of three programmes of pieces by some of the most innovative figures in the early history of the violin and performs them with fellow members of Romanesca: Nigel North (theorbo/guitar) and John Toll (harpsichord/organ). This week's composers include Mannelli,
Berardi, Veracini, Lonati and Marini.

Geoffrey Smith introduces more listeners' requests.
Producer Derek Drescher Discs
ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
FAX: (0171) [number removed]

The third of five programmes in which jazz guitarist and composer
Pat Metheny talks to Ian Carr about his career. This programme concentrates on Pat Metheny 's longtime working relationship with keyboard player Lyle Mays : "There's something about the way we play together. We have a thing, and neither of us can explain what it is, but it was there the first time we played." Metheny also discusses his work with singer Joni Mitchell , saxophonist Michael Brecker and percussionist Nana Vasconcelos. Repeated Friday 11.30pm

Tristan und Isolde
By Wagner. The world's second-greatest love story (after Romeo and Juliet) in one of the greatest of all operas. The Irish princess Isolde, whose healing powers are legendary, has nursed back to health Tristan of Brittany, the knight who killed her fiance. Now Tristan has been sent to bring her to be bride to his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall, but Tristan and Isolde find themselves drawn to each other. And then there is the mysterious love potion ...
Chorus and Orchestra of Bavarian
State Opera, conductor Zubin Mehta

Two works which draw their inspiration from two millennia of Scottish traditional music. The ancient Celtic lament inspires Sally Beamish 's Between Earth and Sea for flute, viola and harp, and the pipes and fiddle Ronald Stevenson 's piano quartet Alma Alba.

Presenter Joan Bakewell is joined by Australian poet Les Murray, scientist Professor John Durrant , theologian the Rev Angela Tilby and historian Theodore Zeldin.
ADDRESS for questions: The Brains Trust, BBC North, Manchester M60 1SJ

Tonight, trumpet legend
Arturo Sandoval in concert with the BBC Big Band, conductor Barry Forgie. The set includes material from his latest album, Hot House, in which he returns to the musical roots of his native Cuba. Concert producer Bob McDowall. Jazz on 3 producers Lyn Champion and Steve Shepherd

With Donald Macleod.
1.15 Bavarian RSO/Lorin Maazel, Yevgeni Kissin (piano) Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet: Suite No 2; Piano Concerto No 2 Bartok Suite: The
Miraculous Mandarin
2.45 Haydn Divertimento in D, H ll 22 German Chamber Virtuosi, director Margaret Adorf (violin)
3.20 Erik Tulindberg String Quartet No 3 Ostrobothnian Quartet
3.40 Mendelssohn Symphony No 2 in B flat (Lobgesang) Annegeer Stumphuis and Young-Hee Kim (sopranos), Matthias Bleidom
(tenor), Netherlands Radio Chorus and Philharmonic/Edo de Waart
4.40 John Thomas Grand Duet
Myong-Ja Kwan and Hyon-Son La (harps)
4.55 Malcolm Forsyth Sketches from Natal CBC Vancouver
Orchestra/Mario Bernardi
5.15 Rosenmuller Confitebor Tibi
Domine Johanna Koslowsky and Maria Cristina Kiehr (sopranos),
David Cordier (countertenor), Gerd Turk and Wilfried Jochens (tenors), Stephen Schreckenberger (bass), Cantus Koln/Konrad Junghanel
5.45 Ravel Tzigane Rita Cepurcenko (violin), Prague SO/Elli Jaffe