with Andrew McGregor. Music, news, weather and headlines from the arts world.

Donizetti
"A Prodigious Madness" 2: Furtive Tears, 1832-1833
Extracts from Ugo, Conte di Parigi, L'Elisir d'Amore and UFurioso all' isola di
San Domingo, with casts including Janet Price, Kathleen Battle and Luciano Pavarotti.
Jonathan Adams reads from the composer's letters.

Respighi
Fountains of Rome
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra conductor Edo de Waart
10.17 Stephen Dodgson Duo
Rohan de Saram (cello) Anthea Gifford (guitar)
10.40 Dittersdorf
The Peasants turned into
Frogs
(Symphony after Ovid's Metamorphoses) Prague CO/
Bohumil Gregor
11.06 Debussy Songs of Bilitis
Claire Bloom (narrator)
Linda Chesis and Kathleen Nester (flutes)
Sara Cutler and Janet Paulus (harps)
Elizabeth Difelice (celeste)
11.26 Frank Michael
Beyer Greece Berlin Radio Symphony
Orchestra conductor Edo de Waart

conductor Takuo Yuasa
Philip Martin (piano) Schubert, arr Liszt Wanderer Fantasy Brahms
Symphony No 4 in E minor

Endellion Quartet:
Andrew Watkinson and Ralph de Souza (violins) Garfield Jackson (viola) David Waterman (cello) Beethoven
String Quartet in C minor, Op 18 No 4
String Quartet in F, Op 59 No 1 (Rasumovsky)

Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Roussel
RéPonse d'une epouse sage Amoureux separes Ode à un jeune gentilhomme Voeu
Flammes
Massenet
Elégie
Crepuscule
Sonnet matinal
Vous aimerez demains
Adieu
Debussy
Chansons de Bilitis

Ballet Suite No 1 (Mary Queen of Scots)
Ulster Orchestra/ James Lockhart
Aubade (Study No 4) Paraphrase on Mary,
Queen of Scots (Study No 5) The Composer (piano) Clarinet Concerto
Janet Hilton (clarinet) Ulster Orchestra/ James Lockhart

(harpsichord)
Chambonnieres
Pavane in G minor
(L'entretien des dieux) Louis Couperin
AUemande, Courante,
Sarabande and Passacaille in G minor
Rameau Les soupirs
L'Entretien des Muses
Les Tourbillons
Les Cyclopes

Mike Westbrook 's work as a composer ranges from opera, ballet and a saxophone concerto to extended compositions for jazz orchestra and shorter pieces for trio.
In the first of eight programmes, Geoffrey Smith talks to
Mike Westbrook about his early days in Plymouth and London, and about his first album, Celebration, which was recorded in the late
60s.
Producer Derek Drescher

Anthony Burton 's guest on today's edition is Andrew Davis , Chief Conductor of the BBC
Symphony Orchestra (who conducts this evening's Prom at 7.30pm). Plus news, travel and weather.
Producer Fiona Sheimerdine

live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Pascal Roge (piano)
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra conductor Andrew Davis
Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony is the most quintessentially "English" of symphonies. A serene meditation inspired by Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, it was first performed at a Prom during the Second World War.
Ravel's dark-hued Concerto for the Left Hand was written for the disabled
Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein. It is played tonight by Pascal Roge, considered one of the finest interpreters of 20th-century French piano music.
Faure Pavane
Ravel
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Elena Firsova
Augury (BBC commission, first performance)

8.25 The Christian Agnostic
Stephen Johnson considers Vaughan Williams's "faith" as expressed through his music.

8.45 Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5 in D

by James Joyce.
The second instalment of a 16-part adaptation.
Reader Norman Rodway

Gloria Banditelli and Guillemette Laurens
(mezzos)
Ensemble 415/ Chiara Banchini
Vivaldi
Concerto in C (RV 114) Concerto in D (RV 564) Serenata: La Gloria e
Imeneo (RV 687)

Suk
Ditty; Sentimental self-parody on a street song
(Lullabies); Symphony No 2 in C minor (Asrael)