With Tommy Pearson. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Verdi Ballet music: II Trovatore Philharmonia, conductor
Charles Mackerras Telemann Overture-Suite in E flat (La Lyra) Concerto Amsterdam, director Frans Bruggen
8.00-9.00: Ravel La Valse Boston SO, conductor Bernard Haitink Haydn Piano Sonata in C, HXVI 50 Andras Schiff
Full details of Morning on 3's music are posted at www.bbc. co.uk/radio3/playlists on the day of transmission
PHONE: [number removed] email: morningon3@bbc.co.uk Address: Morning on 3. BBC Radio 3.
Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA

Andrew McGregor plays the latest releases.
9.30 Building a Library: Richard Morrison compares the currently available recordings of Elgar's Cello Concerto.
10.15 A round-up of recent reissues.
10.45 Catherine Bott reviews recent recital discs, including French arias from Natalie Dessay and Eva Urbanova in Italian repertory.
11.15 The Ysaye Quartet talk about their recorded repertoire and their philosophy.
11.45 The Listening Booth: Listeners may choose from the list of new CD releases on the programme website .
12.30 Disc of the Week: Mahler, arr Erwin Stein Symphony No 4 (chamber version) (excerpt) Smithsonian Chamber Players, Santa Fe Pro Musica, conductor Kenneth Slowik www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview
PHONE: [number removed] email: cdreview@bbc.co.uk Text: [number removed] Disc details are posted on the website and on CEEFAX. BBC1, page 651

How Opera Arrived in the New World
The first of two programmes about the early history of opera in Latin America. Lucie
Skeaping explores the state of music in the New World from before the Spanish colonisation until 1701, when opera was first performed in Peru. see tomorrow at ipm

Martin Taylor plays a selection of Valentine-flavoured jazz tracks, and performs live in the studio.

With Geoffrey Smith.
ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House. London W1A 4WW Fax: [number removed] email: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk

The Village Vanguard
2/4. Brian Priestley continues to explore the history of one of New York's most famous jazz venues. Today he focuses on some of the influential albums that have been recorded there, including those by Bill Evans , John Coltrane and Dexter Gordon. Contributors include the record producers Orrin Keepnews and Michael Cuscuna and jazz writers Nat Hentoff and Ira Gitler.

Funeral of a Bell-Ringer
The life and legacy of Essex-born bell-ringer Bernard Mann is depicted in this audio portrait, intertwined with an ambient account of the casting of a new bell at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Producer Nina Perry

Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies
Sarah Walker presents a concert of music by Harrison Birtwistle , given by the BBC Philharmonic last May.
Birtwistle Bach Measures Conducted by the Composer The CryofAnubis; Exody Conductor James MacMillan
Plus Peter Maxwell Davies's Naxos
Quartet No 3 in its first performance, given by the Maggini Quartet last October.

With Louise Fryer.
Schuman George Washington Bridge; Concerto on Old English Rounds
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4 in F minor
2.30 Boccherini String Quintet No 2 in Eflat
2.50 Lucic Missa Jubilaris 3.20 Mozart
Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488
3.45 Beethoven Rondo in C. Op 51 No 2
3.50 Haydn Symphony No 6 in D (Le Matin)
4.10 Tobias Vivit 4.15 Handel Dances:
Terpsichore 4.30 Rossini Languir per una Bella (L "Italiana inAlgeri) 4.35 Beethoven, arrSedlak Overture: Fidelio 4.40
Hakanson Brusala 4.45Addinsell Warsaw Concerto
5.00 Kreisler Praeludium and Allegro in the Style of Pugnani 5.05 Abel Symphony in E, Op 10 No 1 5.15 Claude le Jeune Doucete, Sucrine, Toute de Miel 5.20 Anon Salterello
5.25 Grieg Symphonic Dance, Op 64 No 4
5.35 Chopin Prelude in C sharp minor,
Op 45 5.40 Bizet L 'Arlesienne: Suite No 1
6.00 Liszt Ave Maria, D839 6.05 Bach
Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor, BWV1041
6.15 Mozart Quintet in E flat for piano and wind, K452
6.40 Hannikainen Rural Dances, Op 39