With Penny Gore. Frederick the Great Flute Concerto No 3 in C Patrick Gallois ,
CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra, conductor Peter Schreier
6.40 Hovhaness Suite , Op 96 Marvin Rosen (piano)
7.00 Saint-Saens LeRouetd 'Omphale, Op 31 Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
7.45 Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Takacs Quartet
8.00 Cherubini Overture: Anacreon
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Otto Klemperer
8.50 Eisler Suite No 2, Op 24
Ensemble Modern, conductor HK Gruber

Donald Macleod looks at Byrd's work as a publisher of music during his career and how he managed to secure a monopoly for the publishing and printing of music.
Though Amaryllis Dance in Green; Lullaby; Christ Rising; Haec Dies; Sellingers Rownde ; Great Service (Morning)

Hilary Mantel is at work on a biographical memoir of Polish playwright Stanislawa Przybyszewska. Stanislawa's life was tragic and short: she died aged 34, frozen, starving and addicted to morphine in the depths of the Polish winter of 1935.

Brahms Hungarian Dance No 3 in F Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler
10.08 Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 5 No 2 Gregor Piatigorski , ArturSchnabel (piano)
10.33 Bizet Me Voila Seule ... comme
Autrefois (Les Pécheurs de Perles, Act 2) Pierrette Alarie (soprano), Lamoureux Orchestra, conductor Pierre Dervaux
10.41 G Gabrieli Canzon Duodecimi Toni Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Chicago Brass Ensemble
10.46 Brahms Symphony No 3 in F Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler

Artists in Focus: Takacs Quartet
Humphrey Burton continues his exploration of the work of one of the world's finest string quartets, with recordings from the BBC archives.
Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op 135 Bartok String Quartet No 3
Dvorak Piano Quintet in A, Op 81 With Andreas Haefliger (piano)

Music and Art: Rubens and the Glory of Flemish Painting. Christopher Cook presents another concert in this special series from the Wallace Collection in London, inspired by the building's many fine works of art. Today Andrew Manze
(violin), William Carter (lute) and Susanne Heinrich (viola da gamba) perform 17th-century chamber music from the Low
Countries by Petersen, Schenk, Schop and others. The pictures mentioned in today's programme can be seen on the Radio 3 Website atwww.bbc.co.uk/radio 3

BBC Symphony Orchestra
A concert from the orchestra's 1998 tour of the USA with conductor Andrew Davis.
Presented by Sandy Burnett.
Ravel Valses Nobles et
Sentimentales Strauss Four Last Songs
With Felicity Lott (soprano)
Debussy Prélude a I'Après-midi d 'un Faune Stravinsky Symphony in three movements Bernstein Symphony No 2 (The Age of Anxiety) James Tocco (piano), conductor Leonard Slatkin

Italian Baroque Opera
The first of four weekly programmes in which Nicholas Anderson explores the riches of Baroque opera. Today he turns his attention to Italy and introduces excerpts from Handel's Agrippina and Vivaldi's Tito Manlio.

Andrew McGregor presents a selection of music and introduces a roundup of the latest news from the arts world.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A performance of Stephen Sondheim 's Roman farce, recorded at the 2001 Covent Garden Festival. Hero is in love with Philia, but she has been sold to Captain Miles Gloriosus. Slave Pseudolus needs to fix up the match in order to gain his freedom. With the BBC Big Band conducted by David Charles Abell. Presented by Edward Seckerson.
Proteans: Mark Fredrick. Nigel Richards. Mark Stobbart. Courtesans: Jacqui Boatswain. Caroline Fitzgerald. Sharon Eckman. Anita Pashley , Rosemary Forbes Butler. Yona Dunsford

in an extended interview, Richard Coles talks to JG Ballard about nearly 50 years of writing. Author of Empire of the Sun,
Crash, and Super-Cannes, he reflects on the tag of "surrealist", the early reception of his writing by the sci-fi community, and the extent to which his short stories serve as prototypes for his later novels. (R)

Another chance to hear one of this year's late-night Proms.
Hans Werner Henze's 75th birthday was celebrated in a wide-ranging programme which also commemorated the composer Iannis Xenakis, who died in February.
Christopher Gillet (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), London Sinfonietta Chorus, London Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen

Bach, arr Stravinsky Chorale Variations on Vom Himmel Hoch

Stravinsky Canticum Sacrum

Xenakis Polla Ta Dhina

Kenneth Hesketh Circling Canopy of Light

Hans Werner Henze Symphony No 1

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With Jill Anderson.
Bridge Suite: The Sea
12.25 Vaughan Williams Quick March (Sea Songs)
12.35 Beethoven Clarinet Trio in B fiat, Op 11
1.00 Nielsen Symphonies: No 2 (Four
Temperaments); No 4 (Inextinguishable)
2.10 Rebel Les Elemens: Simphonie Nouvelle
2.35 Schumann Liederkreis , Op 39
3.00 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor 3.40 Debussy La Mer
4.05 Vivaldi Concerto VIII in A minor,
RV522 4.15 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F, BVW1047
4.35 Lars-Erik Larsson Songs of the Naked Trees, Op 7
4.50 Giustini Suonata X in Fminor
5.00 Borodin Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor) 5.10 Leslie Pearson Dance Suite (after Arbeau) 5.20 Schickard Rute
Sonata in C 5.30 Vivaldi Nulla in Mundo
Pax Sincera, RV630
5.40 Nino Rota Bassoon Concerto