With Fiona Talkington.

Rameau Quatrieme Concert (Pieces de Clavecin en Concert) - Sigiswald Kuijken (violin), Wieland Kuijken (viola da gamba), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)

6.35 Weber Grand Duo Concertant, Op 48 - Michael Collins (clarinet), Kathryn Stott (piano)

7.00 Arne Cantata: Delia - Emma Kirkby (soprano), London Baroque, director Charles Medlam

7.40 Stanford Irish Rhapsody No 5 in G minor - Ulster Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley

8.00 Francaix L'Heure du Berger - Gaudier Ensemble

8.45 Jim Hiscott Dancing on the Wings of Fire - The Composer (button accordion), Winnipeg SO, conductor Bramwell Tovey

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

9.30 Building a Library
William Mival recommends a version of Beethoven's Triple Concerto in C, Op 56.

10.35 Stephen Johnson reviews new releases of Russian orchestral music, including Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances and Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor and music by Glazunov, Alexander Tcherepnin and Vladimir Dukelsky.

11.00 An interview with pianist Angela Hewitt, who talks about her Bach recordings, including her latest release, the Goldberg Variations.

11.30 Radio 3's Disc of the Week: Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor - Truls Mork, CBSO, conductor Simon Rattle

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Michael Berkeley's guest today is television journalist and newscaster John Suchet, who is also the author of The Last Master, a three-volume fictional biography of Beethoven. His musical choices include two Beethoven excerpts - a late string quartet and a vocal quartet from Fidelio - as well as music by Wagner, Verdi and Canteloube. Plus Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five playing Ory's Creole Trombone.

(Repeated tomorrow at 6.30pm)

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

Bernarda Fink (contralto), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Schumann Mignon; Der Nussbaum; Auftrage; Die Lotosblume; Standchen; Kartenlegerin

Brahms Four Serious Songs, Op 121

Dvorak Gypsy Melodies, Op 55

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Humphrey Carpenter introduces listeners' requests, including:

Bolcom Violin Sonata No 2 - Maria Bachmann, Jon Klibonoff (piano)

Balfe Excelsior - Benjamin Luxon (baritone), Robert Tear (tenor), Andre Previn (piano)

Tubin Symphony No 6 - Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi

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Michael White selects some of the highlights from the past week on Radio 3.

With Geoffrey Smith.
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In the series of programmes on the legendary pianist and band leader Count Basie, who died in 1984, Alyn Shipton talks to John Williams, Butch Miles, Grover Mitchell and vocalist Carmen Bradford about Basie's final years. Plus a look at Basie's work with Tony Bennett and Ella Fitzgerald, his small-group recordings with Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen and his two-piano recordings with Oscar Peterson.

Half farce, half romance, Richard Strauss's three-act opera to a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal is set against the opulent backdrop of 18th-century Vienna. The plot concerns the love triangle between the Knight of the Rose, an aristocratic older woman Octavian and the beautiful Sophie.

Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera, conductor James Levine
Act 1

7.15 Theory and Practice
In a story specially commissioned by Radio 3 and BBC Music Magazine, novelist Candia McWilliam explores the differences between a musician and a singer. Do they have a future together? Read by Siriol Jenkins.

7.30 Wonderful Town
In another of his explorations of the New York musical scene Miles Warde visits David Brown, the director of the extraordinary Marble Hill Collegiate Choir.

7.45 Act 2

8.45 The Met Opera Quiz
William Livingstone puts listeners' questions to Lotfi Mansouri, William Weaver and Brian Zeger.

9.15 Act 3

Author Louis de Bernieres, scientist Steven Rose and theologian Eamon Duffy join Joan Bakewell to discuss challenging questions sent in by listeners.

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Walking the Dog (from Shall We Dance) - Hollywood Bowl Orchestra/John Mauceri

Lullaby - Manhattan String Quartet

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Jez Nelson introduces tonight's concert from inspirational Swedish player Esbjorn Svensson with his trio, EST. The group, featuring Svensson on piano alongside Dan Berglund (bass) and Magnus Ostrom (drums), have a truly inventive take on the classic piano trio, and their current release, From Gagarin's Point of View, has amazingly reached the Top 20 of the Swedish Charts.

With Jonathan Swain.

Mahler Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen; Symphony No 5

2.30 Bach Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV903

2.40 Corelli Sonata da Chiesa in G minor, Op 1 No 10

2.50 Pierre de la Rue Missa Sancta Job

3.30 Prokofiev Cello Sonata, Op 119

4.00 Hannikainen Piano Concerto

4.35 CPE Bach Quartet in G, Wq95

4.50 Bach Air (Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068)

5.05 Pettersson Evening Land

5.20 Mozart Piano Sonata in C, K545 (arr Grieg for two pianos)

5.35 Bartok Rhapsody No 1

5.45 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in F minor