With Humphrey Carpenter , including Rossini Overture: La Gazza Ladra London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington

Trio in E flat, K498
(Kegelstatt) Janet Hilton (clarinet), Nobuko Imai (viola),
Roger Vignoles (piano)

Etude in G flat, Op 10 No 5
Ignaz Jan Paderewski (piano)

Sonata No 8 in G, Z797
Purcell Quartet

Symphonic Minutes
BBCPO, conductor Matthias Bamert

Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2 (Moonlight) Ignaz Jan Paderewski

Musorgsky, orch Rimsky-Korsakov Khovanshchina (Introduction) - Oslo PO, conductor Mariss Jansons

Mazurka in B flat minor,
Op 24 No 4
Ignaz Jan Paderewski (piano)

Polovtsian Dances (Pnnce
Igor) Gothenburg Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi Producer Mark Rowlinson

With Andrew McGregor , who introduces some of the month's newest releases. William Mival reviews recent recordings of chamber music by Beethoven,
Schubert, Schumann and Janacek.

Summerly, conductor of the Oxford Camerata, who have made many highly acclaimed discs of Renaissance choral music for Naxos.
Radio 3 Disc of the Week:
Musorgsky Boris Godunov
Kirov Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev

David Huckvale recommends a version of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. Producers Clive Portbury and Susan Kenyon
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Michael Berkeley 's guest this week is comedy actor Brian Rix , who for many years delighted British audiences with his performances on stage and screen in the famous Whitehall farces. Lord Rix has recently retired as chairman of Mencap, Britain's largest disability charity, after 30 years of vigorous campaigning for the rights of disabled people. His musical choices in this programme reflect aspects of his long and distinguished career. Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm

Sophie Daneman (soprano), Eugene Asti (piano)
Schubert Fruhlingsglaube ; Die Vogel; Im Fruhling; Die Mutter Erde ; Suleika 1 Berg Seven Early Songs
Mendelssohn AufFlugeln des
Gesanges, Op 34 No 2; Die Liebende Schreibt , Op 86 No 3; Wenn Sich
Zwei Herzen Scheiden , Op 99 No 5; Neue Liebe, Op 19a No 4; Nachtlied, Op 71 No 6 Repeat

Adrian Jack expands on a series of intervals in 12 programmes.
12: Tierce de Picardie. The series ends on a happy note. Producer Antony Pitts
For details of music used in the series, write to: The Harmonic Series, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House. London, W1A 1AA

Relive the highlights of the festive offerings on Radio 3 as Michael White makes his own choice of the Best of 3. Producer Svend Brown

A series showcasing some of the world's best young orchestras. In this afternoon's programme, Kirsteen McCue introduces three young orchestras playing in Scotland. Each orchestra brings music from their own country.
Walton Overture: Portsmouth Point
East Sussex Youth Orchestra, conductor Colin Metters
Bernstein Overture: Candide
Barber Adagio for Strings
Hovhaness Symphony No 2 (Mysterious Mountain)
USA Midwest Young Artists' Senior Orchestra, conductor Allan Dennis Thomas Wilson St Kentigern Suite Royal Scottish Academy Chamber Orchestra, conductor Leon Spierer

Natalie Wheen presents a series of masterclasses. In the first of two programmes, mezzo Marilyn Home advises singers from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Producer Adam Gatehouse

With Geoffrey Smith.
Producer Derek Drescher Discs
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Russell Davies presents a 52-part history of jazz, from its earliest stirrings until the millennium.
1: A Century of Jazz. Despite its haunting swing and busy urban presence, jazz is difficult to define precisely. In this introductory programme, Russell Davies sets the scene and features some notable jazz oddities.
Producer David Perry
Repeated Friday 11.30pm

Live from the Met: Die Fledermaus
Johann Strauss (son)'s perennially popular operetta is set in fun-loving, 19th-century
Vienna. Eisenstein is due to report to prison but stops off at a party at Prince Orlofsky's on the way. The prison governor, out to collect his charge, locks up the wrong man, but the mistake cannot be revealed as the man was in his slippers with Eisenstein's wife at home. Sung in German.
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Patrick Summers
Act
7.25 Naked Beauties
In the concluding part of his exploration of the cigar as a cultural icon,
Andrew Jefford considers the pleasures of smoking cigars. He talks to cigar lovers and old-time rollers in Havana and visits some of the latter-day smoking dens and clubs in Britain.
7.50 Act 2
8.50 The Met Opera Quiz
Thor Eckert Jr puts listeners' questions to Stephan A Brown , David Hamilton and Richard Woitach.
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Joan Bakewell chairs the discussion programme, originally launched in 1941 on BBC Radio's Home Service, in which leading minds in the fields of art, science, religion and philosophy debate important intellectual issues. With novelist AS
Byatt, historian Theodore Zeldin , mathematician Prof Ian Stewart , and theologian the Very Rev Tom Wright. Producer Amanda Hancox
ADDRESS for questions: The Brains Trust, BBC North, Manchester M60 1SJ

Works for viola, including the first performance of a piece by the Scottish composer David Home , given in recital in 1995 at London's Wigmore Hall.
Nobuko Imai (viola),
Roger Vignoles (piano)
Home Stilled Voices (first performance) Maxwell Davies The Door of the Sun
Takemltsu A Bird Came Down the Walk

Wayne Shorter , arguably the greatest saxophonist in contemporary jazz, revisits his Blue Note repertoire for the first time in twenty years. In this concert, recorded last year at the Lincoln Center in New York, he presents new arrangements of his landmark tunes like Ju Ju, Angola and Speak No Evil and premieres
Dramatis Personae, a new work for jazz orchestra and strings.
Producers Lyn Champion and Steve Shepherd

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Bavarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Dmitri Kitaienko Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World)
Prokofiev Suite: Romeo and Juliet
Stravinsky The Firebird: Suite No 2 (1945 version)
2.55 Beethoven String Quartet in G, Op 18 No 2 Bartok Quartet
3.30 Kodaly Cello Sonata, Op 8 Csaba Onczay
4.15 Dohnanyl Suite in F sharp minor West Australian Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Jorge Mester
5.00 Hummel Trumpet Concerto in E flat Geoffrey Payne , Melbourne SO, conductor Michael Halasz