With
Edward Seckerson. Telemann Double Concerto in A minor for recorder, viola dagamba and string orchestra
6.30 Gade Novelette No 1 for string orchestra
7.00 Monteverdi Lamento d'Arianna
7.30 Grieg Holberg Suite
8.00 Mozart Overture: Don Giovanni
8.40 Strauss Don Juan
Full details of Momingon 3s music are posted at www.bbc. co.uk/radto3/playlists a few days before transmission

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

9.30 Building a Library: Nick Morgan searches among the available recordings of Shostakovich's Symphony No 4 to find one suitable for the library shelves.

10.30 Geoffrey Smith reviews new piano recital discs, including some by pianists
making their recording debuts.

11.00 An interview with cellist, soprano and now record label owner Lowri Blake, who discusses the pros and cons of performers setting up their own companies - and how to sing and play the cello at the same time.

11.25 Radio 3's Disc of the Week: Schumann String Quartet in A, Op 41 No 3 Eroica Quartet
Producers Andrew Lyle and Mark Lowther
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DISC DETAILS: call the Radio 3 Information Line on [number removed] or consult Ceefax, BBC1, page 651

Michael Berkeley 's guest is Shropshirebased figurative artist John Napper , who spent the waryears as a war artist in the Far East and afterwards lived for many years in France. His paintings are on display in major collections, including the British Museum and the Fitzwilliam
Museum, the Courtauld Institute in London, and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. His musical choices range from English, French and Spanish music to
Bach, Respighi, Sibelius and the Beatles. Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow at 6.30pm

Another chance to hear last Monday's recital of music for flute and piano given at the Wigmore Hall in London. Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Eric Le Sage (piano)
Beethoven Serenade in D, Op 41 Prokofiev Flute Sonata, Op 94 (R)

Humphrey Carpenter introduces this week's selection of listeners' requests, including: Ysaye Sonata No 2 in A minor for solo violin (Obsession) Maxim Vengerov
Schubert Trio in Eflat, D897 (Notturno) Trio Fontenay
Russo Street Music - a Blues Concerto
Corky Siegel (harmonica/piano),
San Francisco SO, conductor Seiji Ozawa
Producer Christina Pritchard. ADDRESS: Listeners' Choice, BBC Birmingham, B5 7QQ. PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL: listeners.choice@bbc.co.uk

Stacey Kent looks at what's on in the UK this week and discusses the latest CD releases with reviewer Brian Morton.
Producer: Keith Loxam.
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With Geoffrey Smith.
Producer Felix Carey. ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London. W1A 4WW FAX: [number removed]
E-MAIL: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk

Central Avenue Sounds
In another programme in his series about the jazz capital of the West Coast. Alyn Shipton talks to saxophonist
Buddy Collette , who remembers growing up with Charles Mingus and the Woodman brothers, and how they revolutionised the local scene. He and Marl Young also recall their battle to integrate the black and white ! LA musicians' unions to open up studio work to black players.

The freezing garret, Mimi's knock at the door, the delivery of the most famous of all cafe bills, a mournful farewell to an old coat and Mimi's tragic death in the "season of flowers" - Puccini's portrayal of bohemian life in Paris is the stuff of operatic legend.

During the interval Rodney Milnes continues his series Opera Snaps - a sideways glance at each of this season's Met operas.

Puccini La Boheme
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Steven Crawford
Acts land 2

7.30 Interval: Talking to Gotham
The last in a series in which Miles Warde interviews figures from New York's cultural life. Today he talks to author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Jimmy Breslin.

8.00 Act 3

8.25 Interval: The Met Opera Quiz
Brian Zeger puts listeners' questions to Martin Bernheimer , Cori Ellison and SpeightJenkins.
8.40 Opera Snaps
8.50 Act 4

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Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat, Wo039 Saint-Saens Piano Trio No 2 in E minor, Op 92 (R)

A series of programmes in which
Joan Bakewell talks to celebrities about what they believe and why.
3: James MacMillan, composer (R)

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

Roswell Rudd and Steve Lacy
Tonight's programme features a quartet led by soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and trombonist Roswell Rudd in performances given at the Empty Bottle Club in Chicago. It was Steve Lacy who first championed the soprano sax, and it was this that established him as a major voice in modern jazz. Roswell Rudd is a veteran of saxophonist Archie Shepp 's ensembles and those oftrumpeter Bill Dixon. Hewasa founder member of the New York Art
Quartet. Bassist Jean-Jacques Avenel and drummer John Betsch complete the line-up. Producers Steve Shepherd and Kathryn Willgress