Culture and Belief: Bodin and Sovereignty

Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride - BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Jiri Starek

7.07 Schubert, arr Liszt Fantasy in C (Wanderer) - Philip Martin (piano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Takuo Yuasa

7.30 Haydn Symphony No 86 in D - BBC Philharmonic, conductor Elgar Howarth

7.55 Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme - Robert Cohen (cello) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk

8.15 Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World) - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Takuo Yuasa

Charles Hazlewood explores the week ahead at the Royal Albert Hall , including interviews with the pianist Barry Douglas and with radio announcer Sue Sharpe on the pitfalls of live presentation, and a feature on the youth orchestras taking part in this season's Proms.
Producer Alan Hall

Introduced by Richard Osborne.
Grainger
The Immovable Do; Mock Morris ; Handel in the Strand; Irish Tune from County Derry
Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestra, conductor Frederick Fennell
9.38 Elgar
Piano Quintet in A minor Nash Ensemble
10.18 The Orlando Consort sings music from the 13th-century Worcester Fragments
10.23 Britten A
Midsummer Night's
Dream, Act 1 (excerpt) James Bowman
(countertenor)
Lilian Watson (soprano) Della Jones (mezzo)
Henry Herford (baritone) Trinity Boys' Choir
City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
10.48 The Hilliard
Ensemble sings music by the shadowy 15th-century English composer Walter Frye.
11.02 Kenneth Leighton
Alleluia Pascha Nostrum
Raphael Wallfisch (cello) Peter Wallfisch (piano)
11.17 Purcell Praise the Lord, 0 My Soul, and All that Is Within Me
Soloists, Choir of New College, Oxford
King's Consort, director Robert King
11.28 Vaughan Williams Symphony No 8 in D minor
Philharmonia, conductor Leonard Slatkin. Discs Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury

George Pratt paints a "Period Portrait" of the violinist
Catherine Mackintosh.

A light-hearted sequence with the emphasis on pastiche, including a movement from Respighi's suite The Birds. Discs

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Radio 3 will revert to a music schedule
England r Australia
Ball-by-ball commentary on the third day's play after lunch in the Fifth Cornhill
Test at Edgbaston by Brian Johnston , Jonathan Agnew , Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Neville Oliver. With expert comment from Fred Trueman and David Lloyd. Scorer Bill Frindall.
(Morning coverage on Radio 5) Including
3.45-4.00 Your letters answered
The commentators answer some of the points raised by listeners' letters.

A selection of music on disc.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mark Wigglesworth.
Maria Ewing brings her famous portrayal of Salome to the Proms, in the company of two powerful orchestral scores.

Strauss Tod und Verkldrung, Op 24
Salome (closing scene)

8.15 Hidden Agenda
Gerard McBurney discovers a coded message of resistance to Stalinist tyranny in the finale of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony.

8.35 Shostakovich Symphony No 5 in D minor

by Robert Ferguson.
S remembers everything.
He makes his living on the stage exploiting his gift. How does this affect his personality? What would happen if his brain filled up? This play is based on the case study The Mind of a Mnemonist by the Russian neurologist A R Luria. The author, Robert Ferguson , is a prolific playwright and translator, who now lives in Oslo.
LYNDAM GREGORY, RACHEL ATKINS
JAMES TELFER
Director Alan Drury

Geoffrey Smith introduces another concert from the archives, featuring the great American drummer Buddy Rich , who died in 1987. The band was recorded in the Lewisham
Concert Hall in 1983, only eight weeks after Rich had had major heart surgery. Ellington
In a mellow tone
Menza Groovin'hard
Gillespie Hooking it Plestrup New Blues
Rogers/Hart Manhattan Porter Love for sale
In the interval, part of Roy Plomley 's interview with Buddy Rich for Desert Island Discs in 1981. Styne
Don't rain on my parade M Rich Last light Trad Time will tell
Lennon/McCartney Norwegian Wood
Monk Round Midnight Gershwin
Suite: Porgy and Bess Bernstein
Suite: West Side Story Zawinul Birdland