With Humphrey Carpenter, including:

Copland Our Town - St Louis SO, conductor Leonard Slatkin

6.38 Haydn Symphony No 46 in B - Tafelmusik, conductor Bruno Weil

7.03 Grieg Overture: Peer Gynt - Halle Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli

7.37 Respighi Fountains of Rome - Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Muti

8.03 Kreisler, arr Rachmaninov Liebesfreud - Sergei Rachmaninov (piano roll)

8.11 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 3 in D - Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer

8.48 Grainger The Lads of Wamphray - RNCM Wind Orchestra, conductor Clark Rundell

With Andrew McGregor , who plays some of this month's new releases.
Sarah Walker reviews recent recordings of chamber music by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Tchaikovsky.
10.00 Argentinian tenor Jose Cura discusses his new recording of Saint-Saens's opera Samson and Delilah as well as his forays into the lighter repertoire of Argentinian songs. Radio 3's Disc of the Week:
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Midori, Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado
11.00 Building a Library
David Mellor recommends a version of Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra , followed by music by Hoist and Bax. Producers Clive Portbury and Susan Kenyon WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview E-MAIL: cdreview@bbc.co.uk
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Michael Berkeley 's guest this week is Julia Neuberger , Britain's first woman rabbi. Now chief executive of the King's Fund Institute, she is closely involved with major heaithcare issues and has written several books on the subject. Her musical choices range from operas by Bellini and Halevy to sacred music by Salomone da Rossi and Haydn and songs by Schumann and Tom Phillips.
Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm

Gyorgy Pauk (violin), Ralph Kirshbaum (cello), Peter Frankl (piano)
Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat, Op 11 Shostakovich Piano Trio No 2, Op 67 Repeated from Monday

Michael White picks some highlights from Radio 3's schedule over the last week.
Producer Svend Brown

The History of Deutsche Grammophon The second of six programmes celebrating the centenary of the Deutsche Grammophon record label.
Sound in the Darkness: 1933-45
Deutsche Grammophon did not escape the economic catastrophe that engulfed Germany in the 1920s and the company struggled to avert bankruptcy. The thirties saw a recovery from this perilous position, but Nazi influence on the company grew: as it now admits, this chapter of its history does not reflect well on Deutsche Grammophon. By 1941, the company had released a version of Bach's St Matthew Passion with Aryanised words, and had acceded to Gestapo instructions forbidding them to produce recordings of Jewish artists. Stephen Johnson looks into this dark period in the company's history, examining the extent of the collaboration with the Third Reich but also detailing acts of individual courage by employees who hid recordings of Jewish artists to save them from destruction.
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Janice Forsyth is in the chair for 45 minutes of diverting conversation as Raymond Leppard , Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson tackle questions from a studio audience. Producer Svend Brown

With Geoffrey Smith.
Producer Derek Drescher Discs
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The second of three programmes in which Helen Mayhew explores the career of jazz legend Nina Simone.
Singing for Civil Rights. Nina Simone played a powerful part in the campaign for civil rights in America during the sixties, writing some of the hardest-hitting protest songs, including Mississippi Goddam;
Young, Gifted and Black: and Four Women. She became the voice of the movement, alongside
Martin Luther King , Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X. She talks candidly about the part she played and her eventual rejection of the country she fought so hard to improve. The period had an enormous impact on her music and her emotions, which all poured into her improvisational performances.
Broadcaster and writer Darcus Howe talks about the impact of her work. Other guests include Maya Angelou , John Fordham and Dianne Reeve.
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Dalibor
Smetana's tale of music, love, patriotism, murder and cross-dressing. David Pountney 's new production was one of the hits of this year's Edinburgh International Festival, a rare chance to hear what has been called a Bohemian Fidelio. Sung in Czech, Introduced by Linda Ormiston.
Chorus and Orchestra of Scottish
Opera, conductor Richard Armstrong

The last of six programmes in which Professor Steve Jones assesses the legacy of Charles Darwin 's Origin of Species.
Hybrids. When two unlikely bedfellows combine, is the result a uneasy mishmash which is neither fish nor fowl? Or are such hybrids exciting products of rigorous and dynamic fusion? Professor Steve Jones looks at hybridisation as it takes place in the arts and in science: from music and cookery to genetic modification and cross-breeding in nature. He investigates the mechanisms by which these variations come into existence and concludes the series with the startling question: is it possible for evolution to continue for ever - or not?
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SOUNDING THE CENTURY

A recital of Hungarian music for two pianos and percussion, given in May in the Crucible Studio, Sheffield.
Peter Hill and Benjamin Frith (pianos), Tom Greenleaves and Matthew Rich (percussion)

Ligeti Sonatina for Piano Duet
Kurtag Games
Ligeti Monument
Bartok Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion

A gig by tenor and soprano saxophonist Ravi Coltrane as part of his first visit to the UK to perform music from his first album as leader.
Despite an impeccable jazz pedigree - he is the son of John Coltrane and his keyboardist wife Alice - Ravi did not become involved with jazz until his early twenties. He has since toured and recorded with a variety of leaders - including Geri Allen , Steve Coleman , Joanne Brackeen and Graham Haynes - and has developed a personal, understated approach to his instruments. Tonight, he is joined by Ralph Alessi on trumpet,
Darryl Hall on bass, Steve Hass on drums and Andy Milne on piano.
Producers Lyn Champion and Steve Shepherd

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Viktor Tretyakov and Mikhail Bereznity (violins), Yuri Bashmet (viola), Natalia Gutman (cello), Vassily Lobanov (piano)
Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor, K478 Shostakovlch Piano Quintet, Op 57 Brahms Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 25
2.40 Brahms Klavierstucke, Op 116 Yevgeni Kissin (piano)
3.00 Antoine Dauvergne Les Troquers Mary Saint-Palais and Sophie Marin-Deg (sopranos), Nicolas Rivenq (baritone), Jean-Marc Salzmann (bass), Capella Coloniensis , director William Christie (harpsichord)
4.00 Faure Suite: Pelleas et
Melisande CBC Vancouver Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernardi
4.15 Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral) Sancta Cecilia Virtuosi, conductor Salvatore Accardo
5.10 Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante , Op 22 Janina Fialkowska (piano),
Kitchener-Waterloo SO/Armenian