With Edward Seckerson.
Thomas Ades Darknesse Visible
The Composer (piano)
6.40 Sibelius Lemminkainen and the Maidens of Saari
Los Angeles PO, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
7.00 Pfitzner Prelude, Act 1: Palestrina
German Opera Orchestra, conductor Christian Thielemann
7.35 Bartok The Miraculous Mandarin
LSO, conductor Georg Solti
8.00 Mozart Ave Verum Corpus in D, K618
Vienna Boys' Choir, Vienna Chorus, Chamber Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper, conductor Uwe Christian Harrer
8.40 Lambert The Rio Grande
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth.

With Andrew McGregor , who plays some of this month's newest releases.
9.30 Building a Library Colin Lawson recommends a version of Vivaldi's 12
Concerti Grossi , Op 3 (L "EstroArmonico).
10.35 Geoffrey Smith reviews new releases of orchestral music, including
Dvorak's Symphony No 8 in G played by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Bruckner's
Symphony No 9 in D minor played by the Berlin Philharmonic under Gunter Wand , Mahler's Symphony No 4 played by the RPO under Daniele Gatti , Hartmann's
Symphonies No 1 and No 6 played by the London Philharmonic under Leon Botstein and Steinberg's Symphony No 1 played by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under NeemeJarvi.
11.00 An interview with composer
Sally Beamish , whose concertos forviola, cello and oboe have just come out on the BIS label. She describes how her experiences as a professional viola player have informed her approach to composition.
11.30 Radio 3's Disc of the Week:
Dvorak String Quartet in E flat, Op 51 Takacs Quartet
Producers Clive Portbury and Andrew Lyle
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Today Michael Berkeley talks to Victoria Glendinning , famous for her bestselling biographies of celebrated literary women-Elizabeth Bowen , Edith Sitwell , Vita
Sackville-West and Rebecca West. Her musical choices range from choral music by Handel and Britten to a Chopin Etude and Mahler's Symphony No 1 via Cole Porter and the Beatles.
Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm

With Stephanie Hughes. Another chance to hear Monday's recital from the Wigmore Hall. Endellion Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet in D, Op 18 No 3; String Quartet in C, Op 59 No 3 (Rasumovsky)(R)

With Humphrey Carpenter , including: Chavez Toccata
Dusseldorf Percussion Ensemble
Schumann Frauenlieben und-leben
Kathleen Ferrier (alto), John Newark (piano) Khachaturian Cello Concerto
Raphael Wallfisch ,
London Philharmonic, conductor Bryden Thomson.
Producer Christina Pritchard. ADDRESS: Listeners' Choice. BBC Birmingham, B5 7QQ. PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL: listeners.choice@bbc.co.uk

With Geoffrey Smith.
Producer Felix Carey. ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London, W1A 4WW FAX: [number removed]
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SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Russell Davies presents a history of jazz. 50: Speak Slowly, Please. Jazz has been the accidental Esperanto of music - but how strong are the accents in which the language is spoken? Producer David Perry

Live from the Met: Lucia dl Lammermoor Donizetti's opera launches the 60th season of live broadcasts from the New
York Metropolitan Opera. Ruth Ann
Swenson steps into the shoes of a string of operatic greats - from Patti and Melba to Callas and Sutherland - as Lucy Ashton (Lucia), madly in love with herfamily's deadly enemy, Edgardo, Laird of Ravenswood.
Chorus and Orchestra of the New York
Metropolitan Opera/Edoardo MCiller Act
6.15 Wonderful Town
In the first often conversations with key figures of the New York music scene, Miles Ward goes to Carnegie Hall.
6.40 Act 2
7.20 The Met Opera Quiz
Martin Berheimerputs listeners' questions to Stephen A Brown , Father Owen Lee and Terrence McNally.
7.45 Act 3
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Karl Kraus 's masterpiece tells the story of man's inhumanity to man across the whole canvas of the First World War. The original 15-hour play has been distilled into a four-hour kaleidoscopic montage of scenes with over 100 characters and depicts the decline of a corrupt, hypocritical society into the brutality and desperation of war-the only thing surviving being hypocrisy.
The one voice of sanity - Kraus the Grouse -is increasingly drowned, first by the patriotic madness and then the unreality of war.Music from the First and Second
Viennese Schools echoes the play's sombre theme -the break-up of diatonic harmony echoing the collapse of civilisation. Translated by Robert David MacDonald. Adapted by Giles Havergal. Director Giles Havergal. Producer Dave Bachelor See part 2 tomorrow 10pm for cast details

For their last show of the nineties, Robert Sandall and Mark Russell select listeners' suggestions of outstanding non-mainstream music of the past decade.

Jez Nelson makes a trip to the Free Music Festival in Berlin, run by the FMP label.
Featured in tonight's programme are Cecil Taylor , Peter Brotzmann , Tony Oxley and William Parker. Producer Steve Shepherd

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00 Schubert, arr Mahler String Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden)

Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 1; String Quartet No 13

2.30 Strauss Suite: Der Rosenkavalier

2.50 Handel Figlia Mia, Non Pianger No! (Tamerlano, Act 3)

3.00 Bach Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV1041

3.10 Tobias Motet: Wer Will; Ostern Vorspiel

3.20 Beethoven Piano Sonata in A flat, Op 110

3.40 Dohnanyi Symphonic Minutes, Op 36

4.00 Espinal Tout Esforciez Avrai Chante Souvent

4.10 Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice

4.30 Stravinsky Ballet: Orpheus

5.05 Scheidt Hymnus Christe, Qui Lux Es et Dies

5.15 Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 49

5.45 Glazunov Lyric Poem in D flat, Op 12