With Humphrey Carpenter, including Tchaikovsky Festival Coronation March - Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi

6.30 Beethoven Variations on "Ein Madchen Oder Weibchen", Op 66 - Mischa Maisky (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)

7.00 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 13 (Pathetique) - Stephen Kovacevich

7.45 Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1 - New York Philharmonic, conductor Kurt Masur

8.00 Gunther Schuller Suite - Reykjavik Wind Quintet

8.40 Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Ulster Orchestra, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

8.55 August Wenck Variations on "O Du Lieber Augustin" - Peter van Dijk (organ)

With Andrew McGregor , who introduces some of the month's newest releases. Simon Heighes reviews recent recordings of Baroque choral music by Bach, Telemann, Scarlatti and Rameau.
10.00 An interview with record producer Andrew Keener , who reveals what goes on behind the scenes. Radio 3 Disc of the Week:
Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, conductor David Zinman
11.00 Building a Library
Stephen Johnson recommends a version of Debussy's Prélude a I'Apres-Midi d'un Faune.
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Michael Berkeley 's guest this week is Gita Mehta , author of three bestsellers including the historical saga Raj and the hypnotic tales of A River Sutra. Her most recent book is
Snakes and Ladders: a View of Modern India, and she has also produced and directed documentaries for British, American and European television. Her choices reflect her wide musical interests, from Indian music to Haydn and Nina Simone. Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm

Nikolai Demidenko plays Chopin's celebrated set of 24 Preludes and a selection of Etudes-Tableaux by Rachmaninov.
Repeated from Monday

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

Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra
Concluding the series showcasing some of the world's best young orchestras. Earlier this year, one of the top youth orchestras in the United States celebrated its 40th birthday with a tour of England and Ireland, playing music from back home. Even Stravinsky, whose Firebird suite rounds off their
Nottingham concert, lived in Hollywood for the last 30 years of his life. Greater Boston Youth SO, conductor David Commanday Gershwin, arr Robert Russell Bennett Porgy and Bess - Symphonic Picture
Ives The Unanswered Question
Joseph Schwantner Aftertones of Infinity
Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1919 version)
Producer David Gallagher

Concluding the series of masterclasses introduced by Natalie Wheen. American mezzo Marilyn Home advises aspiring 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. 2: Out of Africa. Since black
Americans have been such a powerful presence in jazz from its earliest days, musicians have frequently emphasised the music's
African roots. After all, the ancestors of these people were shipped from there to America as slaves. But what exactly do we mean when we talk about the African roots of jazz? Repeated Friday 11.30pm

Uve from the Met: Katya Kabanova Radio 3's winter season of operas from the New York
Metropolitan Opera House continues with Janacek's searing masterpiece Katya Kabanova. Janacek champion Charles Mackerras conducts, and Catherine Malfitano stars in the title role of the loving and impulsive
Katya, "so gentle", Janacek said, "that if the sun shone fully on her she would melt". But can this tender nature survive the cold and oppressive society which envelopes Katya, and which is epitomised by her tyrannical mother-in-law Kabanicha?
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras Acts 1 and 2 7.45 The Met Opera Quiz
Cori Ellison puts listeners' questions to Carolyn Abbate , Ken Benson and Ben Cameron.
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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. Guests in this programme are historian Theodore Zeldin , theologian the Rev Angela Tilby , mathematician Prof Ian
Stewart, and visual arts professor Ludmilla Jordinova.
Producer Amanda Hancox
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Petersen Quartet,
Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
Beethoven String Quartet in C minor, Op 18 No 4
Schumann Kinderszenen
Mozart Piano Quartet in E flat, K493

Conductor Martyn Brabbins
Taylor Conflict and Consolation for Wind Ensemble
Colin Matthews Quatrain for Wind, Brass and Percussion

Tonight, a concert given in October at Ronnie Scott 's club in London by the Joe Zawinul Syndicate. Keyboards maestro Joe Zawinul - the man who turned Miles Davis onto electric keyboards and founded pioneering jazz-rock group Weather Report - makes a triumphant return to the UK with the latest incarnation of his
Syndicate, featuring Victor Bailey on bass, Garry Poulson on guitar,
Manolo Badrena on percussion and Kirk Covington on drums. The programme also includes interviews with Zawinul and with another jazz maverick, pianist Matthew Shipp.
Producers Lyn Champion and Steve Shepherd

With Donaid Macleod.
1.00 Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gerd Albrecht ,
Anatol Ugorski (piano)
Scriabin Piano Concerto No 1
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor
2.45 Bach Singet 'dem Herm ein Neues Lied, BWV225
Italian-Swiss Radio Choir, conductor Diego Fasolis
3.15 Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini Quebec Conservatory Orchestra, conductor Raffi Armenian
3.50 Haydn Symphony No 73 in D (La Chasse)
Bratislava Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Ludovit Rajter
4.30 Schubert Symphony No 4 in C minor (Tragic) Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ondrej Lenard
5.05 Brahms String Quartet No 1 in C minor Enrico Ragazzo and Paolo Zordanazzo (violins), Abril Somer (viola),
Giuseppe Barutti (cello)