With Humphrey Carpenter , including Chopin Trois Nouvelles Etudes Louis Lortie (piano)
6.30 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat New London Consort, director Philip Pickett
7.15 Sibelius Piano Trio (Loviisa)
Yoshiko Arai (violin), Seppo Kimanen (cello), Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)
7.43 Dvorak Hussite Overture
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Witold Rowicki
Producer Vanessa Nuttall

With Andrew McGregor , who introduces some of the month's newest releases. Jeremy Sams reviews recent song discs, including music by Mozart, Grieg, Poulenc and Gershwin.
10.00 Joanna MacGregor discusses her new record label, Sound Circus.
The first three CDs feature an eclectic mix of music by composers including Nikki Yeoh , John Cage and Django Bates.
Radio 3 Disc of the Week:
Bach Christmas Oratorio (Part 1) Monika Frimmer (soprano),
Yoshikazu Mera (countertenor),
Gerd Turk (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Japan Bach Collegium, director Masaaki Suzuki
11.00 Building a Library
William Mival recommends a version of Haydn's Symphony No 100 in G (Military).
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 is joined by Gillian Moore, recently appointed artistic director of the London Sinfonietta and a pioneer of innovative educational work with British orchestras and ensembles, particularly on London's South Bank. Her choices reflect her strong commitment to contemporary music, and include works by Birtwistle, Turnage and Ligeti, as well as Purcell and Burt Bacharach.

(Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm)

Wigmore Hall Chamber Series
Stephanie Hughes introduces the London debut of mezzo Lorraine
Hunt, who is accompanied by Roger Vignoles (piano) in songs by Handel, Mahler's Ruckert-Lieder and songs from her native America.
Repeated from Monday

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

Ulster Youth Orchestra
Return of the series showcasing some of the world's best young orchestras. The first of four programmes features a five-year-old orchestra which has become an important part of Northern Ireland's music scene. Their programme includes the first performance of a newly commissioned work by Ian Wilson inspired by the cliffs of Moher in Co Clare, and Shostakovich's tenth symphony, which incorporates a four-note theme derived from the composer's initials.
Conductor Gunther Bauer-Schenk
Ian Wilson Between the Moon and the Deep Blue Sea
Shostakovich Symphony No 10 Producer Terry Black

Natalie Wheen presents the first of four masterclasses. In this programme, the great Austrian soprano Gundula Janowitz advises aspiring singers from European
Union Opera on the performance of German lieder.
Producer Adam Gatehouse

With Geoffrey Smith.
Producer Derek Drescher Discs
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A Portrait of Jaco Pastorius
Concluding the series in which Charles Shaar Murray tells the remarkable story of bass player Jaco Pastorius.
4:Crisis.After five turbulent years as a superstar with Weather Report, Pastorius goes it alone. But his musical triumphs are quickly followed by mental breakdown and personal tragedy. With contributions from Joe Zawinul , Wayne Shorter ,
Don Alias and the Pastorius family. Producer Steve Shepherd Repeated Friday 11.30pm

Live from the Met:
The Marriage of Figaro Mozart's timeless comedy, in a new production by Jonathan Miller , launches this winter's season of Radio 3 relays from the New York Metropolitan Opera. In the household of the lecherous Count Almaviva, Figaro's sassy bride-to-be and fellow servant Susanna pioneers one of the best methods of dealing with sexual harassment from an employer.
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor James Levine
Actl
7.25 New series
New York Stories
Throughout the century, the bright lights of New York have attracted some of the world's finest writers, and our own time is no exception. In a nine-part interval series of specially commisioned works for Radio 3, novelists, essayists and playwrights who have moved to New York present portraits of the city through fiction and non-fiction.
7.45 Act 2
8.40 The Met Opera Quiz
Martin Bernheimer puts listeners' questions to Fr Owen Lee , Bridget Paolucci and Christopher Purdy.
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9.05 Acts 3 and 4 Texaco sponsors the Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network, which is broadcast on Radio 3 through the EBU.
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Michael Rosen introduces his weekly look at the world of poetry, including an interview with American poet August Kleinzahler. Producer Fiona McLean

As a postscript to this evening's broadcast of The Marriage of Figaro, Jonathan Dove conducts wind soloists from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in his
Serenade, which draws on ideas and motifs from Mozart's opera.

Tonight, trumpeter Kenny Wheeler joins the BBC Big Band in a concert recorded at the Gardener Arts
Centre, University of Sussex,
Brighton. The concert includes the premiere of Ian McDougall 's new suite No Passport Required, commissioned by the Canadian Council of Arts. Canadians
McDougall and Wheeler were fellow members of the Johnny Dankworth Orchestra in the early sixties, and, while Ian McDougall returned to
Canada, Kenny Wheeler remained in Britain, working with Joe Harriott and Ronnie Scott and increasingly on the free scene with the likes of Mike
Gibbs and John Stevens. Norma
Winstone, another long-term Wheeler associate, performs as guest vocalist. Also tonight, Jez Nelson rounds up November's best jazz releases, and on the eve of the re-release of one of Miles Davis 's most notorious recordings, the programme revists Bitches Brew 29 years on. Producers Lyn Champion and Steve Shepherd

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Saarbrucken RSO/Peter
Oundjian, Corrado Rollero (piano)
Beethoven, orch Weingartner String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 (Serioso)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 9 in E flat, K271 Bizet Symphony in C
2.50 Nlcolai Mass in D Irena Baar
(soprano), Mirjam Kalin (contralto),
Branko Robinsak (tenor), Marko Fink (bass), Slovenian Chamber Choir and RSO/Marko Munih
3.20 Granados 12 Spanish Dances, Op 37 Angela Hewitt (piano)
4.20 Wleniawskl Violin Concerto
No 2 in D minor Piotr Plawner, Warsaw Sinfonia/Grzegorz Nowak
5.00 Biber Sonata No 12 in C
Collegium Aureum
5.20 Mendelssohn Incidental music:
A Midsummer Night's Dream Danish National RSO/Michael Schonwandt
5.45 Kuhnau Biblical Sonata No 5
(Gideon, the Saviour of Israel) Luc Beausejour (organ)