With Edward Seckerson.

Poulenc Melancolie - Eric Parkin (piano)

6.25 Strauss Metamorphosen - Vienna PO, conductor Simon Rattle

7.00 Beethoven Overture: Leonore No 3 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur

7.35 Elgar Overture: In the South (Alassio) - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor Constantin Silvestri

8.00 David Raskin Film Music: Forever Amber - New Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by the Composer

8.30 Orff Carmina Burana (Part 3) - Arleen Auger (soprano), Jonathan Summers (tenor), John van Kesteren (baritone), Southend Boys' Choir, Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Muti

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

9.30 Building a Library
David Fanning recommends a version of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, Op 120.

10.35 Patrick O'Connor reviews new releases of opera, including Rossini's Otello with Bruce Ford, Tomas Breton's La Dolores with Placido Domingo, Britten's Paul Bunyan conducted by Richard Hickox and a disc of bel canto cantatas and songs, La Potenza d'Amore.

11.00 An interview with conductor Ingo Metzmacher, who talks about his championing of less well known works, including the symphonies of Karl Amadeus Hartmann.

11.30 Radio 3's Disc of the Week: Haydn Mass in G minor, H XXII 6 (Missa Sancta Nicolai) Lorna Anderson (soprano), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo), Mark Padmore (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Collegium Musicum 90, conductor Richard Hickox

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Michael Berkeley's guest today is John Cale, the classically trained musician from a Welsh mining village who went to New York, founded the Velvet Underground with Lou Reed and became the leading attraction in Andy Warhol's Factory. Since splitting with Reed he has worked as a record producer and composer, writing the music for films and ballet. His musical choices range from the Beach Boys and Beck to Villa-Lobos, Roy Harris's Symphony No 3 and part of John Cage's notorious 4'33" performed by Frank Zappa.

(Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm)

Another chance to hear Monday's recital from the Wigmore Hall, London, introduced by Stephanie Hughes.

Imogen Cooper (piano)

Mozart Fantasia in C minor, K475

Beethoven Piano Sonata in F, Op 10 No 2

Brahms Seven Fantasies, Op 116

Humphrey Carpenter introduces listeners' requests, including:

Weir Scotch Minstrelsy - Neil Mackie (tenor), John Blakely (piano)

Miaskovsky Cello Concerto in C minor, Op 66 - Marina Tarasova, Moscow New Opera Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Samoilov

Purcell Funeral Sentences for the Death of Queen Mary (1695) - The King's Consort, director Robert King

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

With Geoffrey Smith.

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Brian Morton explores the strange relationship between jazz, the creative process and mind-altering substances.

There are no jazz songs celebrating heroin, but it became associated, perhaps over-associated, with the bebop revolution and is implicated in the early loss of dozens of musicians, including Charlie Parker.

Shostakovich's tale of adultery, murder and suicide was immediately popular with audiences, but a hostile article in the government newspaper Pravda caused the opera to be withdrawn, not to return to the stage for nearly 30 years.

Katerina is bored with her marriage, so she begins an affair with a workman, Sergei. Her father-in-law finds out, and Katerina decides that the best way to keep him quiet is to lace his mushrooms with rat poison.

Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera, conductor Valery Gergiev

Acts 1 and 2

8.15 The Met Opera Quiz
Theo Eckert Jr puts listeners' questions to Alison Ames, Carl Ellison and Michelle Krisel.

8.45 Acts 3 and 4

Brian Kay on Shostakovich: page 51

Author and playwright Frederick Raphael and cultural anthropologist Marilyn Strathern join Joan Bakewell to discuss challenging questions sent in by listeners.

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Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present a unique mix of musical styles.

Jez Nelson presents a concert given at London's Pizza Express by Vietnamese guitarist Nguyen Le. He is joined by bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons and Mino Cinelu on drums.

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00 Spohr Sextet in C, Op

1.40 Martinu Sextet, H224

Brahms String Quintet No 2 in G, Op 111; Sextet in B flat, Op 18 (excerpt) - Vienna String Sextet

2.25 Dvorak Stabat Mater

3.50 Bach Violin Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV1004 (excerpt)

4.05 Handel The Alchemist (Incidental Music)

4.20 Strauss Suite in B flat, Op 4

4.45 Dela Sonatine

5.00 Debussy, orch Busset Printemps

5.15 Franck, arr Rampal Flute Sonata

5.50 Rachmaninov, orch Cailliet Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 3 No 2