With Fiona Talkington.

Borodin String Quartet No 1 in A - Borodin Quartet

6.45 Michael Haydn Trumpet Concerto in D - Maurice Andre, Munich Chamber Orchestra, conductor Hans Stadlmair

7.02 Haydn Symphony No 3 in G - Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood

8.02 Martinu Serenade No 3 - Prague Chamber Orchestra

8.10 Stravinsky Petrushka (excerpts) - Cleveland Orchestra./Pierre Boulez

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

9.30 Building a Library
Iain Burnside recommends a version of Stravinsky's ballet Les Noces.

10.35 David Huckvale reviews new releases of orchestral music, including recordings of Dvorak's Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World) from the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado and from the Prague Symphony Orchestra under Libor Pesek, Bruckner from Georg Tintner, Bruch from Richard Hickox and Brahms's Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor with Danish pianist Nikolaj Koppel.

11.00 An interview with violinist David Harrington, who talks about his recording career with the Kronos Quartet and about the forthcoming release of the quartet's new album Caravan.

11.30 Radio 3's Disc of the Week: Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique) - Kirov Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev

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Michael Berkeley's guest today is American author Donna Leon, who has just published Friends in High Places, the latest in her much acclaimed series of crime novels featuring the Italian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti. Donna Leon lives in Venice, where she teaches at the American University, and Italian Baroque music features high on her list of musical choices today, along with works by Mozart, Bellini and Verdi.

(Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm)

Stephanie Hughes presents last Monday's concert from the Wigmore Hall in London.

Louis Lortie (piano)

Schubert Four Impromptus, D899; Wanderer Fantasy in C, D760

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Humphrey Carpenter introduces listeners' requests, including:

Williams March: The Blue Devils - London Palladium Orchestra/Richard Crean

Harry Partch Eight Hitchhikers' Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California - John Schneider (baritone/adapted guitar)

Delius Appalachia (American Rhapsody) - Daniel Washington (baritone), Welsh National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras

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Claire Martin presents a roundup of what is happening on the jazz scene, including a feature on Dutch singer/songwriter Fleurine.

With Geoffrey Smith.
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The first in a series of four programmes profiling alto saxophonist Lee Konitz.

Lee Konitz made his first recording on the alto sax before Charlie Parker had died, but he was never overwhelmed by Parker's highly influential style on the instrument. Now in his mid-seventies, Konitz is as prolific as ever. He talks to Ray Frensharr about his distinguished career.

A production of Lully's opera given last year in Caen.

The goddess Venus is so outraged at the beauty of Psyche - a mere mortal - that she sends her son, Cupid, to make Psyche fall in love with a monster. But things do not go as Venus plans....

Les Arts Florissants, conductor William Christie

Schoenberg, transcr Webern Chamber Symphony, Op 9 - Arditti Quartet, Stefan Litwin (piano)

Webern Rondo - Emerson Quartet

Conductor Jiri Belohlavek, Dagmar Peckova (mezzo)

Zemlinsky Three Movements from "Das Glaserne Herz"; Maeterlinck Songs, Op 13

Strauss Suite: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

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

Today John Drummond and key figures from the world of opera reflect on the achievements of opera companies over the past half-century and discuss their prospects for the future.
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(Next Saturday John Drummond begins a new six-part exploration of the world of the orchestra)

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

For more than 15 years Paul Rogers has been giving solo bass concerts, and he is an in-demand player in a range of settings, including playing with Louis Moholo's Spirits Rejoice Dedication Orchestra and with Mujician and Tapestry alongside Keith Tippett. He also regularly appears in duo with Paul Dunmal and with the Sophia Domancich Trio. Now resident in France, he continues his large-ensemble work with the French National Jazz Big Band.

With Jonathan Swain.

Chopin Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 45; Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Op 35 (Funeral March) - Ivo Pogorelich (piano)

Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit - Ivo Pogorelich (piano)

Schumann Toccata in C, Op 7

Chopin Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor, Op 39

2.05 Mahler Symphony No 1

3.00 Ernest Pingoud The Face of the City

3.25 Kuhlau Sonata in A minor, Op 85 (Grande Sonate Concertante)

3.55 Liebermann Suite on Six Swiss Folk Songs

4.10 Cherubini Requiem Mass No 1 in C minor

5.05 Liszt Fantasies on Hungarian National Anthems

5.15 Wassenaer Concerto No 5 in F minor

5.25 Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini

5.50 Gesualdo Ave Dulcissima Maria