Entertainment

07:00

Breakfast

Ian Skelly starts the day with a refreshing choice of music. Including 7.00, 8.00 News

09:00

News; CD Review

With Andrew McGregor. 9.30 Building a Library: William Mival makes a personal recommendation from recordings of Rachmaninov's Symphony No 2 in E minor. Hilary Finch talks about new releases and reissues of operatic and vocal music by Musorgsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. 11.40 Disc of the Week. Vivaldi: Teuzzone. Le Concert des Nations, conductor Jordi Savall

12:15

Music Matters; News

Tom Service explores John Adams's and Alice Goodman's opera The Death of Klinghoffer as English National Opera prepares for its London stage premiere, and composer Christopher Fox talks about his piece Roger Go to Yellow Three, created in partnership with vocal ensemble the Clerks and a team of scientists. Also discussed is a new book on the life of Charles Munch, a composer and performer admired by Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy

13:00

The Early Music Show

Catherine Bott visits Lincoln to explore what it would have been like to be in a cathedral choir in the days of the `Father of English Music' William Byrd, and asks whether the life of a 16th-century chorister was so different from that of a 21st-century one

14:00

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert R

Introduced from London's Wigmore Hall by Fiona Talkington. The Elias Quartet performs Webern's youthful Langsamer Satz before being joined by Leon Fleisher in Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34. Leon Fleisher (piano), Elias Quartet. Webern: Langsamer Satz. Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34

15:00

Saturday Classics

The fourth and final edition in which journalist Simon Heffer chooses favourite music from the British Isles, including orchestral works by Hubert Parry, John Ireland, Grace Williams, Frank Bridge and Lennox Berkeley, plus songs by Edward Elgar and Roger Quilter, and choral music by Michael Tippett. The programme ends with George Dyson's cantata Sweet Thames Run Softly

17:00

Opera on 3: Live from the Met

Donizetti's Anna Bolena, direct from New York. Anna Netrebko portrays the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king, in the composer's tragic two-act opera. She sings one of the all-time greatest mad scenes as Henry VIII abandons her and takes up with Jane Seymour, previously her lady-in-waiting. Ekaterina Gubanova sings Jane, and Ildar Abdrazakov is Henry VIII. Presented by Margaret Juntwait and Ira Siff. Anna Netrebko (soprano: Anna Bolena), Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo: Giovanna Seymour), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass: Enrico VIII), Tamara Mumford (contralto: Smeaton), Stephen Costello (tenor: Lord Riccardo Percy), New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Marco Armiliato

20:45

Jazz Record Requests

Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' requests from the world of jazz

21:45

The Wire

Zurich, by Pearse Elliott. A poignant drama about two life-long friends, one of whom has been in a wheelchair since he was 21, who set off to see their favourite band AC/DC in the Swiss city. With Conleth Hill (Paul), Patrick FitzSymons (Aidan), Victoria Inez Hardy (Verity) and Gerard McDermott (Doctor). Music by Brendan Ratliff (Drama)

22:30

Hear and Now

The second of two programmes celebrating one of Britain's greatest living composers, Jonathan Harvey. In music ranging from unaccompanied voices to full orchestra, Harvey explores his deep interest in different spiritual traditions, devising ever-new sound worlds that are yet rooted in ancient fundamentals. Recorded last week at the BBC's Total Immersion weekend at the Barbican and presented by Tom Service in conversation with Paul Griffiths. Jonathan Harvey: Tranquil Abiding; Songs of Li Po. Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo), Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, conductor Richard Baker. Come Holy Ghost. BBC Singers, conductor David Hill. Body Mandala; Messages. BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins. Sound Intermedia (sound projection)

00:00

Jazz Library R

Another chance to hear Alyn Shipton in conversation with American swing jazz trombonist, bandleader and composer Bob Brookmeyer, who died in December 2011. They select highlights of his recorded work, ranging from his pioneering small group playing with Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz to his big band contributions to the Mulligan Concert Jazz Band. The pair also discuss Brookmeyer's New Art Orchestra, and reissues of such classics as Traditionalism Revisited

01:00

Through the Night

With Jonathan Swain. Haydn: Trio No 7 in G for keyboard and strings, H XV 41; Trio No 5 in G minor for keyboard and strings, H XV 1. Zsolt Balog (harpsichord), Daniel Papp (violin), Gyorgy Deak (cello). 1.33 Beethoven: Symphony No 2 in D, Op 36. 2.06 Haydn: Keyboard Variations in A, H HXVII 2; Trio No 10 in A for keyboard and strings, H XV 35; Symphony No 73 in D (La Chasse). 3.01 Elgar: Variations on an original theme (Enigma). 3.32 Chopin: Sonata in G minor for cello and piano, Op 65. 4.03 Purcell: Trumpet Suite. 4.11 Saint-Saens: Danse macabre, Op 40 transcr for two pianos. 4.18 Albicastro: Concerto a 4, Op 7 No 2. 4.27 Bruhns: Wohl dem, der den Herren furchtet. 4.35 Schubert: Overture: Fierrabras, D796. 4.44 Glinka: Trio Pathetique in D minor for clarinet, bassoon and piano. 5.01 Schubert: Overture in D, D590 (In the Italian Style). 5.09 Wolf: Italian Serenade for string quartet. 5.17 Nystroem: Three Visions about the sea. 5.29 Soler: Fandango in D minor for keyboard, R146. 5.41 Obradors: From Canciones Clasicas espanolas. 5.55 Kraus: Symphony in C, VB139. 6.09 Schumann: Piano Sonata No 1 in F sharp minor, Op 11. 6.38 Bach: Suite No 2 in B minor for orchestra, BWV1067