Presented by Martin Handley. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Chabrier Souvenirs de Munich:
Quadrille on themes from Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner
Pierre Barbizet and Jean Hubeau (piano duet) Mozart Symphony No 24 in B flat, K182 Vienna PO, conductor James Levine
8.30-10.00: Handel Nisi Dominus
Diana Montague (mezzo), John Mark Ainsley
(tenor), Simon Birchall (bass), Westminster Abbey Choir and Orchestra, conductor Simon Preston Gluck, arr Wagner Overture: Iphigenie en Aulide Philharmonia, conductor Otto Klemperer

Presented by Rob Cowan. Including The
Innocent Ear and a recommendation for a Bargain Hunter CD, plus a chance to hear Bruckner's Symphony No 9 in D minor as recommended in yesterday's CD Review. Wolf-Ferrari Danza Napolitana (The Jewels of the Madonna)
Philharmonia, conductor Charles Mackerras Mozart Rondo in D, K485 Lili Kraus (piano) Simpson February (The Months) Sonnerie Locatelli Violin Concerto in D, Op 3 No I Roberto Michelucci , I Musici
Dvorak Slavonic Dances, Op 46 Nos 1, 2, 6 and 8 Alfred Brendel and Walter Klien (piano duet) Zach Harp Concerto in C minor
Marielle Nordmann , Orchestre d'Auvergne, conductor Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Beethoven Mephistos Flohlied , Op 75 No 3 Musorgsky Song of the Flea
Kim Borg (bass), Erik Werba (piano) Czerny Variations (La Ricordanza) Alexis Weissenberg (piano)
Reger Three Six-Part Choruses, Op 39 Danish
National Radio Choir, conductor Stefan Parkman

Michael Berkeley meets Charlie Higson , co-star with Paul Whitehouse of The Fast
- Show, creator of memorable comic characters such as Ralph (in the Ted and Ralph sequences) and Swiss Toni, and the author of three books in the popular Young Bond series, dealing with the adventures of a teenage
James Bond. A keen music lover, his choices range from Wagner and Messiaen to Philip
Glass, Cesaria Evora and music from Mexico.

Battle Music
Lucie Skeaping presents a programme exploring compositions with a battle theme. Seventeenth-century composers were fascinated by warfare and it is believed that the Thirty Years' War is what fired the imagination of Biber in his Battalia. Also featured are works by such composers as Schmelzer, Scheidt and Janequin. Producer Rebecca Bean

The Radio 3 Sofia Gubaidulina Weekend continues with a performance by the Royal String Quartet, live from St Giles
Cripplegate in London.
Gubaidulina String Quartet No 3
Haydn String Quartet in G minor, Op 74 No 3 (Rider)
Gubaidulina String Quartet No 4

This week's selection of listeners' requests includes the third of Beethoven's Leonora overtures, Elgar's Nursery Suite and the Four Dance Episodes from Copland's ballet Rodeo.
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The Radio 3 Sofia Gubaidulina Weekend continues with a live performance from LSO St Luke's in London. Presented by John Tusa.
Ekaterina Semenchuk (mezzo), Nicholas Hodges (piano), Guildhall Wind Ensemble, Guildhall
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mikhael Agrest Gubaidulina Introitus: Hour of the Soul

Aled Jones returns for 2007 and reviews the best choral CDs of last year, joined by the editors of BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone.
He also explores more upbeat styles of singing. Plus Mid-Winter Songs by American composer Morten Lauridsen on an eagerly awaited new CD from Stephen Layton 's Polyphony.

Peter Straughan 's dark comedy, inspired by Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and produced in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare
Company as part of the Complete Works Festival. In a run-down apartment block in Istanbul, Lutz is in hiding. He's preparing to seize power in his former state - just as soon as he's allowed.
Performed by members of the RSC ensemble.
Music composed by Adrian Lee , performed by the composer and George Hadjineophytou Producer/Director Jonquil Panting

Pigment Envy
In 1990 Public Enemy released an album called Fear of a Black Planet. Enclosed with critics' copies was a controversial pamphlet: The Cress Theory of Color Confrontation and Racism. The effect was like a small bomb going off. Harry Allen was responsible for that little pamphlet. "White people don't have to worry about racism," he explains, "because they have black people to do that for them." Producer Miles Warde

1/5. Early Years. With Donald Macleod.
Meine Liebe ist griin, Op 63 No 5; Clarinet
Sonata No 1 (fourth mvt); Hungarian Dances Nos 1, 3 and 10; Violin Sonata No I (first mvt); Four Ballades, Op 10 Repeated from Monday

Presented by Louise Fryer. Geoffray Maria Triptique
GrieqAve Maris Stella Lange-MullerMactonnasange, Op 65 Poulenc Ave Verum; Salve Regina Orvad Audi Caelum Nystroem Three Visions about the Sea Holmboe
Hay-Making near the Sea Schierbeck In Denmark I Was Born Nielsen , arr Schuldt-Jensen So Bright Are the Leaves in the Grove Anon In the Deep Quietness of the Forest Trad, arr Schuldt-Jensen Deep River
Danish National Choir, conductor Morten Schuldt-Jensen
2.13 Bruckner Symphony No 4 in E flat (Romantic)
3.19 Kania Sonata in G minor 149 Mozart Four Minuets, K601
4.00 Fasch Lute Concerto in D minor 4.15 Bach Prelude in A minor, BWV922 4.21 Demersseman Italian Concerto in F, Op 82 No 6 4.33 Kuyper Der Pfeil und das Lied; Marien Lied; Ich Komme aus dem Sonnenland, Op 17
4.41 Bree Concert Overture in B minor 4.52 Walpurqis Sinfonia (Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni) 5.00 Madetoja Overture, Op 7 5.09 Messiaen 0 Sacrum Convivium
5.13 Enna Five Piano Pieces 5.26 Sorkocevic, arr Matusic Symphony No 3 in D 5.34 Handel Trio Sonata in G, Op 5 No 4
5.47 Bernhard Wohl dem, den der Herrn furchtet
5.53 Bach, arr Tausig Toccata and Fugue in D minor,
BWV565 6.01 Muffat Violin Sonata 6.13 Gal Serenade, Op 46 6.29 Geijer Piano Quartet in E minor