Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Beethoven Overture: King Stephen Cleveland Orchestra , conductor George Szell
Crusell Introduction and variations on a Swedish Drinking Song Kullervo Kojo (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Handel Keyboard Suite No 2 in F, HWV427 Garrick Ohisson (piano)
8.30-10.00: J Strauss (son) Waltz: Artist's Life, Op316 Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, conductor Felix Slatkin
FX Dusek Symphony in C Czech Chamber Philharmonic, conductor Vojtech Spurny
Chabrier Espaha Orquesta Sinfonica de la Radio Television Espanola, conductor Igor Markevitch

Presented by Jonathan Swain.
CPE Bach Oboe Sonata in G minor, Wq135 Heinz Holliger , Christiane Jaccottet
(hammerklavier), Thomas Demenga (cello)
10.12 Elgar Symphony No 2 in E flat
Halle Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli
11.10 Poulenc Quatre Petites Prières de Saint Francois d'Assise Male voices of The Sixteen, director Harry Christophers
11.19 Schumann Three Romances, Op 94
Heinz Holliger (oboe), Alfred Brendel (piano)
11.35 Ewald Symphony for brass Netherlands Brass Quintet
11.49 Elgar Sospiri New Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli

5/5. In the final year of Monteverdi's life, the opera that is now regarded as his masterpiece was produced in Venice: L'lncoronazione di Poppea. Donald Macleod introduces extracts from this highly original work of ruthless ambition, love, lust and struggle for power. L'lncoronazione di Poppea (excerpts)
English Baroque Soloists, director John Eliot Gardiner
Repeated at 8.45pm

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Wit and Wisdom
4/4. Louise Fryer presents the last in this week's series of recitals from Cardiff University's concert hall featurwing chamber music by Joseph Haydn. Today a chance to sample
Haydn's rarely performed song output, some of which he is said to have sung to his own accompaniment on society occasions.
Susan Bickley (mezzo), lain Burnside (piano)
Haydn Canzonettas set 1; Piano Sonata in B flat, HXVI 41; The Spirit's Song, H XXVIa 41; Lieder fur das Clavier: Die zu spate Ankunft der Mutter, H XXVIa 12; Lob der Faulheit, H XXVIa 22; Das Leben ist ein Traum, H XXVIa 21
2.00 The Lucerne Festival
Further performances from last year's festivals in Lucerne. Presented by Louise Fryer. Mozart Masonic Funeral Music, K477
Collegium Vocale, Ghent, Orchestre des
Champs-Elysees, conductor Philippe Herreweghe Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat
Maurizio Pollini (piano), Lucerne Festival Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
Two songs, Op 91 Ingeborg Danz (mezzo),
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Graham Johnson (piano) HK Gruber Hidden Agenda (first performance) BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer
Rachmaninov Suite No 1: Fantaisie-tableaux, Op 5 Guher and Suher Pekinel (pianos)
Bruckner Symphony No 4 in E flat (Romantic) Lucerne Festival Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado

With Sean Rafferty.

French music influenced by children begins tonight's concert presented by Geoffrey Smith. , London Philharmonic Orchestraconductor Emmanuel Krivine
Katarina Karneus (mezzo), London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Kazushi Ono Fauré DolIV Suite
Ravel Pavane pour une Infante Défunte; She'herazade
Sibelius Symphony No 2

Repeated from 12 noon

Ian McMillan hosts the weekly cabaret of new writing and performance. This week the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter
Jed Mercurio , author of Bodies, discusses his latest book, Ascent, a gritty retelling of the launch of the Sputnik. Producer Aasiya Lodhi

Still regarded as one of the greatest soloists and innovators in jazz, Charlie Parker made hundreds of recordings so which are the essential items for a jazz collection? Alyn Shipton explores Parker's work from his earliest big band days to his premature death. Producers AlynShipton and Simon Poole

Jez Nelson presents a performance by Sister Maj's Blouse, recorded at the 2006 Manchester Jazz Festival. A stellar line-up of Scandinavian jazz musicians pay tribute to the influential Swedish composer and saxophonist Borje Fredriksson , who died in 1968 and is little known outside his own country. Pianist Bobo Stenson , bass player Palle Danielsson and drummer Fredrik Noren were his last rhythm section and, after his death, Bobo was entrusted with his scores. Here they're re-united with a saxophonist, Joakim Milder , whom he greatly inspired.

Presented by John Shea. Stephan Musik Wrorchesterin einam satz Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra Orchestre National de France, conductor Ingo Metzmacher 2.29 Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat, Op 1NO 13.00 Schubert Variations E minor, D802 3.14 Mozart Symphony No (6 in C, K128
3.28 Hummel Rondo in B minor, Op 109 3.37 Haydn
Symphony No 104 in 0 (London) 4.04 Ravel Valses Nobles et Sentimentales 4.16 Lassus Gratia Sola Dei 4.24 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E, RV269 (Spring) (The Four Seasons)
4.33 Handel Where'er You Walk (Semele) 4.38 Grleq Aase 's Death (Peer Gynt: Suite No 1) 4.42 Gershwin Lullaby 4.51 Wagenaar Overture: Fruhlingsgewalt
5.00 Beethoven Overture: Coriolan 5.07 CPE Bach
Cantata: Heilig, Heilig, Wq217 5.14 Bull The King's Hunt, MB19125 5.19 Paclus Overture: King Charles' Hunt
5.26 Hellendaal Concerto Grosso in E flat, Op 3 No 4
5.40 Pallavicino Cor Mio , deh Non Languire (II Sesto Libro de Madrigali a Cinque Voci) 5.44 Sibelius Serenade No 2 in G minor, Op 69b 5.53 Strauss Die schweigsame Frau
5.58 Clara Schumann Prelude and Fugue in B flat, Op 16 No 2
6.03 Brahms Double Concerto in A minor for violin and cello
6.36 Dvorak String Quartet in F Op 96 (American)
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