With Edward Seckerson.

Suppe Overture: Pique Dame - Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner

6.25 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K297b - LPO woodwind principals, London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras

7.00 MacCunn Overture: The Ship o' the Rend - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins

7.40 Arnold Cornish Dances - London Philharmonic, conducted by the Composer

8.00 Pfitzner Prelude, Act 3: Palestrina - Orchestra of Deutsche Oper, conductor Christian Thielemann

8.25 Bruch Scottish Fantasy - Cho-Liang Lin (violin), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin

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

9.30 Building a Library
John Deathridge recommends a version of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman.

10.35 David Huckvale reviews new releases of music by Richard Strauss and Korngold, including Strauss's Sinfonia Domestica from Vladimir Ashkenazy, the Violin Concerto and Violin Sonata from Sarah Chang, a disc of Strauss operatic heroines from Julia Varady, and recordings of Korngold's film and orchestral music.

11.00 An interview with Ted Perry, founder of Hyperion records, about the state of the recording industry and the part that independent labels have to play.

11.30 Radio 3's Disc of the Week: Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1 - Pieter Wispelwey, Australian Chamber Orchestra, conductor Richard Tognetti

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Michael Berkeley's guest today is John Calder, founder of one of the few independent publishing houses still operating in Britain today and the publisher of Samuel Beckett and other distinguished authors. A keen opera lover, his musical choices include excerpts from Handel's Alcina, Gluck's Alceste, Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and Birtwistle's Gawain, plus one of Webern's Five Orchestral Pieces and songs by Beethoven and Schubert.

(Repeated tomorrow 1.00pm)

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

A programme of songs by Strauss, Ravel and Duparc.

Juanita Lascarro (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
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Humphrey Carpenter introduces listeners' requests, including:

Shostakovich String Quartet No 4 - Borodin Quartet

Dittersdorf Double Bass Concerto in E - George Hortnagel, Wurttemburg Chamber Orchestra, conductor Jorg Faerber

Strauss Burleske - Byron Janis (piano), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner

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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.

Did jazz musicians play better when they were stoned, or strung out, or straight? Is jazz unfairly linked with drugs? And how did the arrival of rock 'n' roll change things?

Two Portraits, Op 5 - Chantal Juillet (violin), Montreal SO, conductor Charles Dutoit

Hungarian Sketches - Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer

The first part of James Levine's eagerly awaited version of Wagner's Ring cycle tells of Wotan's overweening ambition and the disastrous consequences that follow from his refusal to let go of the golden ring which brings him the total power he craves.

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

(Wagner's Der Fliegende Hollander is on Thursday at 7.20pm)

In the last programme of the current series the physiologist Frances Ashcroft and historian Theodore Zeldin join Joan Bakewell to answer listeners' questions.

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Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present eclectic sounds, plus an interview with ex-Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder.

Jez Nelson introduces performances given at the Midlands Art Centre in Birmingham by British guitarist Billy Jenkins's Suburbia project. The ten-piece line-up, which features Martin France on drums and Mark Lockheart on saxes, forms a hybrid which crosses between string quartet, rock band and jazz quintet. With tunes like The Perfect Lawn and Hello, I'm Your New
Neighbour the music continues Jenkins's fascination with suburban life.

With Susan Sharpe.

Penderecki De Profundis

Grazyna Bacewicz Violin Concerto No 7; Music for Strings, Trumpet and Percussion

Shostakovich Symphony No 9

3.15 BST Szervanszky Clarinet Serenade

3.40 BST Trad, coll Bartok Three folk songs from Gyergyo; Bagpipe tunes

3.45 BST Kodaly Sonata for solo cello, Op 8

4.15 BST Brahms Motets: Es Ist das Heil Uns Kommen Her; Schaffe in Mir, Gott, ein Reines Herz

4.30 BST Tchaikovsky Fatum, Op 77

4.50 BST Faure Elegie, Op 24

5.00 BST Chopin Scherzo in E. Op 54

5.10 BST Szymanowski String Quartet No 2

5.25 BST Anthon van der Horst Reflexions Sonores, Op 99

5.50 BST Primoz Ramovs Woodwind Quintet