Animal Physiology:
Swimming and Flying

Vivaldi Concerto in C
(RV558)
7.12 Giaches de Wert
Qual musico gentil
7.23 Mozart Piano
Concerto No 21 in C (K467)
7.54 Turina Serenata. Op 87
8.04 Debussy La Puerta del vino; Les Fees sont d'exquises danseuses (Preludes, Book 1)
8.12 Alwyn Naiades
8.26 Haydn Concerto in G for Lire organizzate (H VII 2)
8.43 Janacek Suite:
The Cunning Little Vixen Producer Patrick Lambert

Jeremy J Beadle talks to Sir John Drummond about the forward-looking centenary season of the Henry Wood Proms and interviews some of this week's artists and composers, including Dmitri Sitkovetsky , Peter Maxwell Davies and John Casken.
And Rory Bremner offers his preview of the week ahead. Producer Jessica Isaacs
Repeated tomorrow at 7.00pm

With Anthony Burton.
Mendelssohn Symphony No 5 in D minor (Reformation) German SO, Berlin/ Vladimir Ashkenazy
10.00 Carissimi Historia di
Jepthe Cantus Colin , director
Konrad Junghanel (lute)
10.25 Nicholas Maw
Piano Trio
Monticello Trio
11.00 Mozart Serenade in E flat (K374h)
Mozzafiato, director
Charles Neidich (clarinet)
11.35 Hlndemlth Mathis der Maler (fourth tableau)
Countess Helfenstein
TRUDELIESE SCHMIDT (mezzo)
Hans Schwalb
WILLIAM COCHRAN (tenor)
Mathis
...DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (bar) Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Rafael Kubelik
Producer Clive Portbury Discs

Sir Alastair Morton , co-chairman of Eurotunnel and chairman of the National
Youth Orchestra of Great
Britain, burrows into his music collection with Michael Berkeley. His choices include John
Rutter's For the Beauty of the Earth and Stravinsky's The Firebird.
A Ladbroke production

This week Simon Rae talks to the American poet
August Kleinzahler at his home in San Francisco.
Producer Tim Dee

In four programmes, Dame Janet Baker talks to Brian Kay about her remarkable career, from first successes in Yorkshire to the responsibilities of being an international star.
1: The Life
With contributions from Martin Isepp, John McCarthy, Sir Charles Mackerras and Rodney Milnes, and music from some of Janet Baker's many recordings, including songs by Vaughan Williams, Schubert and Wagner, arias by Bach, Gluck and Handel, Frauenliebe und -leben by Schumann, a scene from Maria Stuarda by Donizetti and Britten's Phaedra.
A Classic Arts production

conductor Clark Rundell
Saint-Saens Overture:
Orient et occident
Grainger The Power of Rome and the Christian
Heart; The Lads of Wamphray Wengler Versuche uber einen Marsche

In the final programme, concert pianist
Malcolm Binns coaches 21-year-old Anthony Zerpa-Falcon , a fourth-year student at the Guildhall School of Music, in Uszt's devilish Mephisto Waltz No 1 (The Dance in the Village Inn).
Producer John Thornley

With Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall
Discs

Howard Goodall presents a second series of the music forum. This week, Evelyn Glennie , Roger Coull and Owain Arwel Hughes take questions from listeners and an audience in Uppingham Theatre. A Ladbroke production

Vanessa Latarche (piano)
Mendelssohn Andante and Rondo capriccioso, Op 14 Bach Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor (BWV 903)
Mendelssohn Fantaisie in E minor, Op 16 No 2 Bach Capriccio on the departure of his most beloved brother (BWV 992) Mendelssohn Fantasia in F sharp minor, Op 28
A Classic Arts production

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Colin Carr (cello)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley

Elgar, orch Gordon Jacob Organ Sonata No 1 in G

Walton Cello Concerto

8.30 Twentieth-Century Masterworks
This Proms season, Steve Martland takes a composer's-eye view of six pieces which are firmly part of this century's orchestral repertoire. He begins with Vaughan Williams's Symphony No 6 with the help of tonight's conductor, Vernon Handley.

8.50 Vaughan Williams Symphony No 6

Opening a new season of innovative and experimental drama, Nigel Anthony and Cathy Tyson star in David Halliwell 's offbeat allegory, in which a run-of-the-mill jazz musician sudddenly finds inspiration.
His unlikely source is a bird that sings Charlie Parker improvisations outside his window. But what will happen if the bird stops or disappears?
Music by Graham Collier
Art Themen (alto saxophone) John Horler (piano)
Trevor Tomkins (drums) Jeff Clyne (double bass) Director Peter Kavanagh

Brian Morton introduces a recording of a concert given last March in the Adrian
Boult Hall , Birmingham, by two bands, both led by drummers. From America, the Gerry Hemingway
Quintet and from Britain, the Steve Arguelles Band. During the interval, Brian Morton talks to Gerry Hemingway about graduating from rock 'n' roll and Jimi Hendrix , his 12 years with Anthony Braxton and the formation of his own quintet.