With Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Liszt Les Preludes Dvorak Love Songs, Op 83
8.00-9.00: Maxwell Davies MissaParvula Prokoflev Piano Concerto No 1

With Rob Cowan. Regularfeatures include The Innocent Ear and a Bargain Hunter
CD recommendation. Music also includes: Howells Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, conductor Christopher Robinson Schnittke Suite in the Old Style
Vadim Gluzman (violin), Angela Yoffe (piano)
Josef Strauss Waltz : Mein Lebenslauf ist Lieb und Lust, Op 263 Vienna PO/Clemens Krauss Saint-Saens La Nuit, Op 114
Natal ie Dessay (soprano), He de France
Vittoria Regional Choir, He de France National Orchestra, conductor Jacques Mercier David Diamond This Sacred Ground
Erich Parce (baritone), Seattle Girls' Choir,
Northwest Boychoir, Seattle Symphony Chorale and Orchestra, conductor Gerard Schwarz Email your comments to: cowancollection@bbc.co.uk

Michael Berkeley 's guest is the young Kent and England cricketer Ed Smith. His musical passions include Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.

Sacro-Profanum: Music for the Altar and for the Table
Catherine Bott presents a concert recorded earlier this month at the York Early Music
Festival, given by the Swiss-based Ensemble
415, directed by Chiara Banchieri. With sacred and secular pieces by Biber and his 17th-century contemporaries Schmelzer and Meder.

Cheltenham Festival: Andras Schiff
Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert given by Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff at
Cheltenham Town Hall earlierthis month. Bach French Suite No 4 in E flat, BWV815 Bartok Suite: Out of Doors
Beethoven Piano Sonata in A, Op 101
Bach English Suite No 6 in D minor, BWV811

3/4. From the organ of Blackburn Cathedral, Wayne Marshall looks at the major organ composers of the 20th century, focusing specially on Olivier Messiaen.

Brian Kay plays more listeners' requests, including Mendelssohn's Octet in Eflat,
Op 20, written when the composer was 16. Plus Handel's Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from the oratorio Solomon; Faure's serene Cantique deJean Racine; and a recording of Delius's Irmelin Suite, arranged by Beecham. Send in your requests by PHONE: [number removed] Email via www.bbc.co.uk/radio3
Address: Three for All, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ

Verity Sharp introduces performances by past and present Radio 3 New Generation Artists. Liszt Les Jeux d'Eau à la Villa d'Este (Années de Pelerinage, Année 3) Simon Trpceski (piano) Beethoven String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 (Serioso) Artemis Quartet
Miyoshi Conversation-Suite Colin Currie (marimba)
Finzi To Lizbie Brown (Earth and Air and Rain) Traditional, arr Vignoles Lowlands Keel Trade Winds
Head The Estuary Jonathan Lemalu (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Chopin Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52 Alex Slobodyanik (piano) Saariaho Sept Papillons Claudio Bohorquez (cello)
Chausson Andante and Allegro
Schubert DerHirtaufdem Felsen, D965
Ailish Tynan (soprano), Martin Frost (clarinet), Niklas Sivelov (piano)

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by John Shea.

Rebecca Nash (soprano), Louise Winter (mezzo), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Pinchas Zukerman (violin), BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis

Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor

8.25 Twenty Minutes: The Way of the Mass
Roderick Swanston traces the progress of the musical setting of the mass from a purely liturgical function to an independent life in the concert hall, where composers such as Delius, Janacek and Britten have used the form to make quite new, original and sometimes secular musical statements.

8.45 Dvorak Mass in D, Op 86

(Pinchas Zukerman appears in the Proms Chamber Music concert tomorrow at 1pm)
(Andrew Davis also conducts the Prom on Thursday at 7.30pm)
(This concert is televised on BBC4 at 7.30pm)

In Prague, Ivan Hewett relates how a handful of gifted figures rescued Czech culture from oblivion, startingwith language and myth, and culminating in great novels, symphonies and operas. But national identity soon became a political and controversial matter as Czechs fought amongst themselves about what defined their nationhood. With contributions from the writer Ivan Klima , conductor Charles Mackerras , and historian Miroslav Hroch. Producer Jessica Isaacs

1/5. Donald Macleod explores Grieg's involvement in Norwegian nationalism and its effect On his creativity. Repeatedfrom Monday

With Jonathan Swain. Nlvers Le Premier Livre d'Orgue (excerpts) (with plainchant verses) Desmarets De
Profundis Collasse Pange Lingua; Lauda Jerusalem
2.10 Mllhaud Violin Concerto No 2
2.40 Jenner Trio in E flat 3.05 Reger Ach Herr , strafe mich nicht. Op 110 No 2 3.25 Brahms Rhapsody in G minor, Op 79 No 2 3.30 Dvorak Symphony No 8 in G
4.05 Kreteter Praeludium and Allegro 4.15 Fesch Concerto in B flat, Op 10 No 2 4.25 Schutz Ich bin eine rufende Stimme; 0 lieber Herre Gott wecke uns auf
4.30 Mozart Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat, K417 7
4.45 Kroll Banjo and Fiddle 4.50 Ranta Finnish Folk
Dances. Op 51 5.00 Lully Plainte d'Armide (Les Amours
Deguises) 5.05 A Scariatti Concerto Grosso No 1 in F minor
5.15 Ravel, arr Maganini Pavane pour une Infante Défunte
5.20 Madetoja Dance Vision, Op 11 5.30 Schubert Du bist die Ruh, D 7 76 5.30 Smetana Sonata Movement in E minor 5.45 Mozetlch Fantasia sul un Linguaggio
6.00 Moniuszko The Orphaned Zosia; The Fiddler
6.10 Du Mont 0 Salutaris Hostia 6.15 Rossini Sonata a Quattro No 5 in E flat 6.30 Karlowicz Violin Concerto in A