With Fiona Talkington.

Mozart Variations on "Unser Dummer Pobel Meint", K455 - Andras Schiff (piano)

6.30 Dvorak String Quartet in F, Op 96 (American) - Skampa Quartet

7.00 Bach Partita No 1 in B flat, BWV825 - Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)

7.35 Beethoven Trio for piano, clarinet and cello, Op 11 - Emmanuel Ax (piano), Richard Stolzman (clarinet), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

8.10 Stravinsky Ragtime - Toni Koves (cimbalom), Columbia CO, conducted by the Composer

8.30 Korngold Violin Concerto - Gil Shaham, LSO, conductor Andre Previn

With Andrew McGregor, who plays some of this month's newest releases.

9.30 Building a Library
David Owen Norris recommends a version of Schumann's Piano Sonata in F sharp minor.

10.35 Simon Heighes reviews new releases of Baroque choral music, including Handel's Dixit Dominus conducted by Marc Minkowski, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with Andreas Scholl (countertenor) and Barbara Bonney (soprano), Graun's Christmas Oratorio and Cecilia Bartoli's Vivaldi album.

11.00 An interview with conductor Colin Davis about his new recordings of Dvorak's Symphony No 8 in G and No 9 in E minor (From the New World) with the LSO.

11.30 Radio 3's Disc of the Week: Field Piano Concerto No 3 in E flat - Andreas Staier (fortepiano), Concerto Koln, conductor David Stern

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Michael Berkeley's guest today is the art historian John Richardson, who is currently working on the last two volumes of his monumental biography of Picasso. He has recently published The Sorcerer's Apprentice, a colourful account of his life in Provence with the eccentric art collector Douglas Cooper and their friendship with major 20th-century figures such as Picasso and Matisse. His musical choices include a film score lyric performed by Hitler's favourite singer, a little-known opera by Rachmaninov, an extract from Stravinsky's ballet Apollon Musagete and an aria from Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Another chance to hear Monday's recital from the Wigmore Hall, London.

Alfredo Perl (piano)

Beethoven Piano Sonatas: in B flat, Op 22; in F sharp, Op 78 (A Therese); in E flat, Op 81a (Les Adieux)
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Humphrey Carpenter introduces listeners' requests, including:

Mackenzie Nautical Overture: Britannia - English National Philharmonia, conductor David Lloyd-Jones

William Lloyd Webber Missa Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae - Choir of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford, Voces Sacrae, Peter Parshall (organ), conductor Judy Martin

Bruch Scottish Fantasy, Op 46 - David Oistrakh (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jascha Horenstein

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Bernard MacLaverty selects some of the highlights from the past week on Radio 3.

With Geoffrey Smith.

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In today's programme in the series on the legendary pianist and band leader Count Basie, Alyn Shipton talks to Harry "Sweets" Edison about saxophonist Paul Gonsalves, who was recruited to the Basie band in 1946. Four years later Basie reduced his band to an octet, as Clark Terry recalls, before rebuilding it into his so-called New Testament Band.

The most popular of operatic double bills - "Cav and Pag" - combines in one evening Mascagni and Leoncavallo's sordid tales of jealousy, treachery and brutal death to the accompaniment of music bursting with unbridled Italian passion.

Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana - Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera, conductor Carlo Rizzi

7.50 Wonderful Town
Miles Warde talks to Joseph Polisi, director of New York's Juilliard School of Music.

8.20 Leoncavallo Pagliacci

Chamber music by the most famous of all verismo composers, Puccini, including a performance of Foglio d'Album by pianist Tan Crone.

Joan Bakewell chairs the first programme in a new series. Joining her to discuss challenging questions sent in by listeners are historian Theodore Zeldin, philosopher Jonathan Glover, mathematician Ian Stewart and theologian Angela Tilby. Questions can be sent to: The Brains Trust, [address removed] Email: [email address removed]

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present an eclectic mix of musical styles, including performances of improvised sound scapes by Newcastle-based duo :zoviet*france.

Dutch saxophonist Yuri Honing is without doubt one of the most exciting players to emerge on the European scene in recent times. Having worked together for five years, the trio of Honing, bassist Tony Overwater and drummer Joost Lijbaart have achieved a level of interaction that borders on telepathy. As well as performing original compositions, the band offers radical reworkings of songs by pop artists ABBA, Bjork, the Police and Prince.

With Jonathan Swain.

Vagn Holmboe String Quartets: No 13, Op 124; No 14, Op 125; No 15, Op 135

2.00 Bartok Dance Suite

2.15 Mahler Symphony No 2 (Resurrection)

3.45 Let Stants String Quartet No 2

3.55 Mieczyslaw Karlowicz Episode from "Maskarade" Op 14

4.20 Laszlo Lajtha Three Nocturnes, Op 34

4.50 Johann Heinrich Schmelzer Sonata

5.00 Suk A Tale of a Winter's Evening, Op 9

5.15 CPE Bach Concerto in E flat for harpsichord and fortepiano, Wq4 7

5.40 Domenico Cimarosa, arr Arthur Benjamin Oboe Concerto in C minor

5.50 Dvorak Legend No 4 in C, Op 59