With Humphrey Carpenter , including Victoria Ascendens Christus in Altum
Choir of St John's College,
Cambridge, conductor George Guest
6.45 Sokolov Lord. Now Lettest Thou Thy Servant Depart in Peace Nicolai Gedda (tenor),
Paris Russian Orthodox Cathedral
Choir, conductor Eugen Evetz
7.00 Barber Violin Concerto Gil Shaham
, LSO, conductor André Previn
8.00 Haydn Piano Trio in E flat, H XV 22 Beaux Arts Trio

Radio 3's popular Sunday-morning host returns with a special live broadcast from Austrian radio's new cafe-studio in Vienna, previewing the events of the coming week and visiting musical landmarks in the city, including Mozart's Figaro house, Haydn's base at the Esterhazy Winter Palace, the State Opera, the cathedral and the Danube itself. The programme includes the unmistakeable sound of the Vienna Boys' Choir, plus:

Strauss Fanfare for the Vienna Philharmonic - Locke Brass Consort, conductor James Stobart

Johann Strauss (son) Waltz: Morning Papers - Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Willi Boskovsky

Schubert Piano Quintet in A, 0667 (Trout) (4th mvt) - Amadeus Quartet, Emil Gilels (piano)

Mozart Overture: The Marriage of Figaro - Vienna PO, conductor Claudio Abbado

Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 - Gyorgy Cziffra (piano)

Kodaly Dances of Galanta - Budapest Festival Orchestra/Ivan Fischer

Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral) (Finale) - Soloists, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna PO, conductor Leonard Bernstein

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This week, Ivan Hewett takes a look at the grand institutions and the less well-known activities that make up the musical life of Vienna. He goes behind the scenes at the Vienna
State Opera, talks to members of the Vienna Philharmonic, surveys the thriving contemporary music scene with HK Gruber , and, with Balint Andras Varga , head of promotion at Universal Edition, he assesses the influence of Vienna's weighty cultural past on present-day musicians. Plus a trip round the wine bars of Vienna to investigate Schrammelmusik. Producer Jessica Isaacs

Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert from the newly opened Schoenberg Centre in Vienna. Christine Whittlesey (soprano), Kontrapunkte Ensemble, conductor Peter Keuschnig
Schoenberg, arr Webem Chamber Symphony No 1
1.25 The Lighter Side of Schoenberg Schoenberg is best known as the pioneer of atonality. Hugh Wood uncovers another side to his work.
1.35 Mahler Piano Quartet Webem Six Lieder, Op 14
Gustav Mahler Fruhlingsmorgen (Lieder und Gesange) Alma Mahler
AnsturmGustav Mahler Ich Atmet' einen
Linden Duft (Ruckert-Lieder)
Alma Mahler
Der Erkennende Franz Schreker
Der Wind Johann Strauss , arr Schoenberg Kaiser-Walzer

Return of the early-music magazine. This week, Christopher Page explores Vienna's role as a melting pot of cultural styles from east and west; discovers the enchanted world of the Austro-Hungarian marionette theatre through the music of Haydn and Mozart; and evokes the sounds that would have echoed through Austria's monasteries in the Middle Ages. Producer Kate Bolton
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Hugh Scully introduces recordings made by tenor Richard Tauber.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

36: Poet Rainer Maria Rilke 's Duino
Elegies are reassessed by Michael Hoffman. Reader Ronald Pickup.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Anthony Burton looks at 1953.
Gottfried von Bnem The Trial (Scene 5) Max Lorenz (tenor), Vienna
Philharmonic, conductor Karl Böhm Berg Altenberg Lieder Nos 4 and 5 Juliane Banse (soprano), Vienna PO , conductor Claudio Abbado
Kodaly Wish for Peace - the Year 1801 Kodaly Chorus of Debrecen, conductor Gyorgy Gulyas
Karl Amadeus Hartmann Symphony No 6 Bavarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Rafael Kubelik
Bax What Is It Like to Be Young and Fair? Bristol Bach Choir, conductor Glyn Jenkins
Britten Gloriana (Act 3, Scene 1)
Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National
Opera, conductor Charles Mackerras Producer David Stevens

Repeated from yesterday 12 noon

Continuing the Danube celebration.
Dennis Marks goes in search of the diverse roots - and routes - of Vienna's cultural history, in the company of its artists, intellectuals, composers, cooks and Capuchins. Producer Daniel Snowman

From the Brucknerhaus in Linz, introduced by Humphrey Burton.
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Herbert Blomstedt
Honegger Symphony No 3 (Liturgique)
8.10 Unz - Past and Present
Nicola Barranger investigates Hitler's plans to retire to Linz, his home town, as well as the happier story of how
Mozart came to write his Linz Symphony.
8.30 Bruckner Symphony No 3 in D minor (1873 version)
Danube Week resumes tomorrow at 11am

John Berger's novel, dramatised for radio by the author, Simon McBurney and Mark Wheatley.

A couple separated for 17 years travel across Europe to their daughter's wedding in Italy.

with Tim McMullan, Simon McBurney, Kathryn Hunter, Richard Hope, Hannes Flaschberger, Marcello Magni, Velibor Topic, Susan Henry, Matthew Scurfield, Mick Barnfather, Aoife Patarot, Helene Patarot and Annabel Arden.

(Repeat)

The first of four programmes in which Michael Ormiston explores the music of Siberia.

Conductor Oliver Knussen , Tabea Zimmermann (viola) Goehr Viola Concerto

Music by Grieg, Mozart, Dvorak, Shostakovich, Faure and Byrd.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Taverner Choir, Bruce Dickey (cornett)/Andrew Parrott (organ)
Janequin, Morales, Josquin masses
2.10 Debussy Rondes de Printemps (Images) Bratislava RSO/Ludovic Rajter
2.25 Bliss Cello Concerto Shauna
Rolston, Edmonton SO/Uri Mayer
3.20 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 111 Richard Raymond
4.00 Bizet Parle-Moi de Ma Mere!
(Carmen) Lynne Fortin (soprano), Richard Margison (tenor), Quebec SO, conductor Simon Streatfield
4.10 Britten Overture: Canadian
Carnival Edmonton SO/Uri Mayer
4.25 MacDowell Suite for Large Orchestra Eastman-Rochester
Orchestra/Howard Hanson
5.30 Bizet L'Arlesienne: Suite No 1
Slovenian RSO/Marko Munih
5.50 Faure Nocturne in B flat, Op 37 Stephane Lemelin (piano)