with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Couperin
Suite de symphonie en trio (Les Nations)
Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
7.45 Balakirev
Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor, Op 1 Malcolm Binns (piano) English Northern
Philharmonia, conductor David Lloyd Jones
8.00 Mendelssohn
Overture for wind instruments, Op 24 LSO/Claudio Abbado
8.35 Falla Four Dances
(The Three Cornered Hat) Montreal SO/Dutoit. Discs

presented by Alain Frogley. The two "heirs and rebels" in the English musical tradition were friends from their student days in the 1890s until Holst's death in 1934, as their correspondence reveals.
With Timothy West as Ralph Vaughan Williams and Edward Petherbridge as Gustav Holst.
1: Toward the Unknown Region Vaughan Williams
In the Fen Country
New Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult
Holst Somerset Rhapsody Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult
Vaughan Williams
Is my team ploughing (On
Wenlock Edge) Ian Partridge (tenor)
Music Group of London
Holst Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda (Group 2) Royal College of Music
Chamber Choir (women's voices); Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/David Willcocks
Holst
Dirge for two Veterans Baccholian Singers
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, conductor Ian Humphris Vaughan Williams
Dirge for two Veterans (Dona Nobis Pacem)
London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson Producer Andrew Lyle

conductor Yan Pascal
Tortelier
Igor Oistrakh (violin) Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D
Bartok
Concerto for Orchestra

The first of three short programmes to accompany the Proms this week, featuring the soprano Karita Mattila , who sings in tonight's Prom.
Mozart In quali eccessi ... Mi tradi quell' alma ingrata (Don Giovanni ) Canteloube Bailero
(Songs of the Auvergne) Academy of St Martin , conductor Neville Marriner Discs

Nicholas Anderson presents the second of six programmes marking the fortieth anniversary of Nikolaus Harnoncourt 's
Vienna Concentus Musicus.
Monteverdi Toccata (Orfeo) Legrenzi
Sonata a 4 (La Cetra)
Vivaldi Oboe Concerto in C (RV449) Monteverdi II combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Vivaldi Bassoon Concerto in E minor (RV484) Concerto in G minor (RV157)

The last of five programmes comprising a selection of Corelli's sonatas and the complete Concerti da chiesa performed by Ensemble 415's re-creation of the composer's own orchestra. Discs

If play is interrupted,
Radio 3 will revert to a music schedule
England v Australia
The Fourth Cornhill Test.
Commentary from
Headingley after lunch on the fifth and final day.
(Morning coverage on Radio 5)

A selection of music on disc.

BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Alexander Lazarev
Karita Mattila (soprano) from the Royal Albert Hall, London. At the Proms tonight and tomorrow, a mini-Grieg celebration to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth.

Stravinsky Petrushka (1911 version)
8.10 Grieg at Troldhaugen Richard Baker visits the composer's house.
8.30 Grieg Solveig's Song; Solveig's Lullaby; A Swan; I Love You
Tchaikovsky Suite No 3 in G

(Simultaneous Broadcast with BBC2 television)

The theme of the second week of Radio 3's summer season of features is
American literature. To begin the week, the first of four programmes in which Tim O'Grady visits America to find the cream of its young writers.
From the Sea Tim O'Grady talks to Mark Richard , once a fisherman and a private eye, now writing on the Virginian coast.

Mark Ponthus (piano) Boulez 12 Notations Piano Sonata No 3

In the first of six programmes,
Robert Cushman presents a personal view of musicals, with songs from original cast recordings, some familiar, some less well known.
1: Everything Old Is New Again A BML production

Fetes Champêtres Sara Stowe
(soprano/harpsichord)
Matthew Spring (vielle/guitar) Corrette Suite in C
Couperin Les moissonneurs; Les longueurs- tendres; La bersan; Les baricades misterieuses
Borjon de Scellery Dans ces pres; Je ne puis me défendre; J'aymerois mieux mon berger
Borde Il est tout travers; Guillot dit a Guillemette; J'ai six foi dans la plaine; Pierrot dit a Madeleine; Ton ton
Corrette Tes yeux me font le guerre; Quand on trouve; Les moutons paissent l'herbe; Dans notre société