With Edward Seckerson.

Rautavaara Fiddlers - Ostrobothnian CO, conductor Juha Kangas

6.25 Steffani Stabat Mater - Soloists, Netherlands Bach Society Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Gustav Leonhardt

7.00 Pierne Overture: Ramuntcho - Lorraine Philharmonic/Jacques Houtmann

7.35 Piston Violin Concerto No 1 - James Buswell, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, conductor Theodore Kuchar

8.00 Bliss Introduction and Allegro - London Symphony Orchestra/the Composer

8.55 Tchaikovsky Dances (Oprichnik) - Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conductor Colin Davis

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

9.30 Building a Library
Simon Heighes recommends a version of Bach's Mass in B minor, BWV232.

10.35 Hilary Finch reviews new releases of chamber music by Poulenc, Shostakovich, Hindemith, Fritz Kreisler and Nino Rota.

11.00 An interview with director of the Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood, who talks about the ensemble's recordings of English Renaissance choral music, including the William Byrd Project.

11.30 Radio 3's Disc of the Week
Schreker Symphonic Interlude: Der Schatzgraber - BBC Philharmonic, conductor Vassily Sinaisky

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Michael Berkeley's guest today is theatre director Phyllida Lloyd, who divides her time between theatrical and operatic productions. She has directed plays at the Bristol Old Vic, the Manchester Royal Exchange, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, and operas for Opera North, ENO and the Paris Opera. Her production of Poulenc's Dialogue des Carmelites for ENO won rave reviews last year, and she has just directed a new production of Britten's Gloriana. Her musical choices include excerpts from the above operas and from Verdi's Requiem, part of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Fiona Shaw reading from Alice in Wonderland and jazz pianist Fats Waller performing Please Take Me Out of Jail.

(Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm)
(See Shakespeare Day tomorrow from 12 noon)

Humphrey Carpenter introduces listeners' requests, including:

Martinu Bergerettes - Jacqueline Hartley (violin), Martin Loveday (cello), Caroline Clemmow (piano)

Jim Parker A Londoner in New York - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, director Philip Jones

Glazunov The Sea - Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi

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Stacey Kent presents more music and news from the current jazz scene.

Today's programme features UK bassist Gary Crosby, who tries his hand at the Jazz Line-Up Music Test.

Geoffrey Smith presents more listeners' requests for jazz favourites.

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The continuing series celebrating Ornette Coleman's 70th birthday. Today Alyn Shipton investigates Coleman's classical compositions and performances, including Gunther Schuller's Abstractions from 1961, Coleman's own wind quintets and his major symphonic work Skies of America recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra. And composer Howard Shore describes working with Coleman on the film score for Naked Lunch.

The New York Metropolitan Opera season ends with the climax of the Ringcycle, in which the thread of fate that joins the past with the future finally snaps. After the murder of her lover Siegfried, Brunnhilde sacrifices herself by riding her horse into the flames of his funeral pyre. This lifts the curse, causing the final destruction of the gods and the dawning of a new age.

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

Act 1

7.05 Surviving Wagner
Three female heroines from the Ringcycle speak frankly about their characters. 3: The Afterlife of Gibichung Princess. A proto-Wagnerian monologue by Graeme Fife, with Abigail McKern as special investigator Gutrune. (R)

7.40 Act 2

8.45 The Met Opera Quiz
Martin Bernheimer puts listeners' questions to Ken Benson, Terrence McNally and Brian Zeger.

9.25 Act 3

(Texaco sponsors the Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network which is broadcast on Radio 3 through the EBU)

The series of programmes in which Sir John Drummond examines the state of opera in Britain since the Second World War.

Today he examines opera from the point of view of a composer (Harrison Birtwistle), a director (David Pountney) and a conductor (Paul Daniel).

(R)

Jez Nelson introduces tonight's concert given at the Vortex by Evan Parker (saxophone), Steve Beresford (piano), Louis Moholo (drums) and John Edwards (bass), who are joined by fiery Dutch drummer Han Bennink.

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00 Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Gunter Wand

2.05 Weiss Suite in D minor

2.25 Rosenmuller Beatus Vir Qui Timet Dominum

2.40 Ravel La Valse

2.55 Ravel Miroirs

3.25 Handel Floridante (Act 1, excerpts)

3.55 Purcell, arr Memelsdorff/Staier Toccata in A; The Plaint a Ground in A minor

4.05 Stravinsky Ragtime; Eight Instrumental Miniatures

4.20 Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor

4.45 Paganini Duetto Amoroso

5.00 Durante Concerto per Quartetto No 3 in E flat

5.20 JC Bach Quintet in D, Op 11 No 6

5.45 Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music