Petroc Trelawny talks to
Leonard Slatkin about his first experience on the rostrum as his series Discovering Music is launched on Radio 3. Music includes Vivaldi's Concerto in C for
Two Trumpets.

With Peter Hobday.

Bruch Swedish Dances, Op 63 Nos 1-7 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur

9.11 Liszt Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat - Geza Anda, Philharmonia, conductor Otto Ackermann

9.32 Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhom (Nos 1-7) - Lucia Popp (soprano), Andreas Schmidt (baritone), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Leonard Bernstein

10.03 Mendelssohn Violin Sonata in F minor, Op 4 - Shlomo Mintz, Paul Ostrovsky (piano)

David Willcocks
David Willcocks first went to King's College, Cambridge, as an organ scholar in 1939. He returned there after military service in the Second World War and in 1957 was appointed director of music. He talks to Joan Bakewell about these happy and fulfilling years, with music by Britten Williams. and Vaughan Williams.

Castles and Palaces
With Donald Macleod.
2: Versailles. Versailles set the standard for royal residences in the 17th and 18th centuries and reflected the glory and power of the French king Louis XIV. His daily activities were run with military precision and were often accompanied by music. Including excerpts from: Lully Alceste
La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du
Roy, conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire Lalande Music for the King's Supper La Simphonie du Marais, director Hugo Reyne
Coupedn Royal Concert No 4 in E minor Ensemble, director Sigiswald Kuijken Lalande Regina Coeli Ex Cathedra, director Jeffrey Skidmore
Rousseau Le Devin du Village
Louis de Froment Chamber Orchestra

The Young Bach
With Kirsteen McCue. In search of a job worthy of his talents, the 20-year-old Bach walked the 260 miles from Arnstadt to the north
German city of Lubeck. He did not get the job, but the experience inspired him to ever greater musical heights. Toccata in D minor, BWV913 Pierre HantaT (harpsichord) Pedal-Exercitium, BWV598
Ton Koopman (organ)
Cantata No 131: Aus der Tiefe Rufe
Ich, Herr, zu Dir
Soloists, Ghent Collegium Vocale, director Philippe Herreweghe
Passacaglia in C minor, BWV582 Ton Koopman (organ)
Repeated next Tuesday 12 midnight

Ysaye Quartet
Haydn String Quartet in B flat. Op 76 No 4 (Sunrise)
Debussy String Quartet in G minor Repeat

BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier,
Kathryn Stott (piano),
Alison Hagley (soprano), Chester Festival Chorus
Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor
Poulenc Gloria
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor

Christmas with Gerald Finley.
Canadian baritone Gerald Finley introduces and sings his favourite Christmas songs in conversation with lain Burnside. He chooses a mixture of perennial hits, such as The Three Kings and White
Christmas, as well as some unusual numbers. One such is the song about 17 girls who asks their mother each Christmas for a new sister - until they overplay their hand one year and ask for twins, at which point their mother cancels the deal.
Including music by Wolf, Grieg,
Poulenc and Sterndale-Bennett, plus Irving Berlin's White Christmas. Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)
Producer Adam Gatehouse
Repeated Monday 10pm

English Folk Music
Collectors and Transcriptions. Much of our knowledge of English folk music is due to the efforts of collectors. Verity Sharp takes a look at their work. Was it all beneficial?

Sean Rafferty continues his investigation into the current and historical use of Christmas carols.
His studio guest is writer
Helen Matheopoulos , who has published a second book about the lives of famous opera divas. Music ranges from Dufay to Delius, and, at about
6.30, there is a performance of Poulenc's Le Bal Masque by baritone Wolfgang Holzmair.

Chris de Souza introduces a concert given last Friday at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham.
Rosemary Hardy (soprano),
Peter Hill and Benjamin Frith (pianos) Delbos Primavere
Ravel Histoires Naturelles
Emmanuel Chansons
Bourguignonnes (excerpts)
Messiaen Chants de Terre et de
Ciel; Visions de rAmen

Reading Around
Kevin Jackson unravels the stories behind classic works of European literature.
2: Luis Vazde Camoes : The Lusiads
First published in 1572, The Lusiads recounts Vasco de Gama's pioneering voyage to India and is widely regarded as the greatest epic poem of the Renaissance. In Victorian Britain,
Camoes was much admired for the imperial theme of his verse and the romantic adventures of his own life, but our century has been more supicious of the poetry of empire. Kevin Jackson examines changing interpretations of the epic and its powerful place in Portuguese culture. He talks to Landeg White , who recently published the first new translation of The Lusiads into
English for almost 50 years, and finds out why generations of Portuguese schoolchildren have turned to this poem in search of pornography.

Conductor Nicolae Moldoveanu
Kodaly Summer Evening
Panufnik Symphony No 3 (Sinfonia Sacra)

Turgenev's classic A Month in the Country anticipated Chekhov in its lyrical exploration of love and ennui. Richard Coles reports on tonight's opening at the RSC of a new version in English by acclaimed Irish playwright Brian Friel. And Bill Buford of the New Yorker delivers his regular letter on cultural life across the Atlantic. Producer Lawrence Pollard

Alyn Shipton presents more from the celebration of Antonio Carlos Jobim , led by the composer's son Paulo with the Jobim-Morelenbaum Quintet.

Presented by Misha Donat in conversation with the composer. Holiday Overture
American Composers' Orchestra, conductor Paul Dunkel
String Quartet No 1 Composers' Quartet
Repeated from last Tuesday

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 The Bach Family
JS Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068 La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken CPE Bach String Quartet No 2 in D Les Adieux CPE Bach Concerto for Two Harpsichords, Wq46 Alan Curtis and Gustav Leonhardt ,
Collegium Aureum JS Bach Aria Variata in A minor, BWV989
Wolfgang Gluxam (harpsichord) JS Bach Violin Concerto in E,
BWV1042 Sigiswald Kuijken (violin), La Petite Bande JS Bach Seven
Chorale Preludes from Klavier-Ubung III Scott Ross (organ)
2.55 Grieg Cello Sonata
Ivan Kucher , Tetiana Arsenicheva (piano)
4.20 Marais Suite No 2 in G for Two
Viols Susie Napper and Margaret Little (viols)
5.15 Bach Concerto in D minor, BWV1052 Angela Hewitt (piano), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernardi
5.50 Glazunov Concert Waltz No 1
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, conductor Kazuyoshi Akiyama