Maths: Maxima and Minima

Boccherini Octet in G
(G470) (Nottumo)
7.18 Rodrigo Invocation y Danza
7.26 Rachmaninov
Fantasy: The Rock
7.40 Bach Prelude and Fugue in E flat minor
(BWV 853) ("48", Book I)
7.50 Krommer Partita in B flat, Op 45 No 1
8.13 Mahler
Rheinlegendchen
(Des Knaben Wunderhom)
8.17 Dvorak String
Serenade in E, Op 22
8.45 Monteverdi Ecco vicine, o bella tigre; Eccomi pronta ai baci (Madrigals, Book 7)
8.52 Heinichen Concerto in F (S231)
Producer Patrick Lambert

Jeremy J Beadle finds out about some of the music and musicians appearing in the second week of the Proms. James Bowman and Robert King swap ideas about Purcell;
Judith Bingham talks about her shipboard ghost story Salt in the Blood; and Hans Werner Henze discovers a Shakespearean world of fantasy in his Eighth Symphony.
Producer Peter Thresh
Repeated tomorrow at 7.00pm

Michael Berkeley talks to actress Patricia Hodge , whose choice of music is as diverse as her career, reflecting school assembly, the stage and cinema: Quitter and Weill,
Morricone and Mahler.
A Ladbroke production

In the last programme of the series, Sean O'Brien talks to Simon Rae about the political influences in his early work and reads from his forthcoming collection, Ghost Train. Producer Morag Massey

The Concert Hall
In the second of four programmes, Dame Janet talks to Brian Kay about her time on the concert platform, from the intimacy of lute songs to working with conductors such as Klemperer, Boult, Bernstein and Barbirolli. With contributions from David
Willcocks, Delia Jones and Evelyn Barbirolli and music by Mendelssohn, Handel, Campion, Bach, Martini, Gounod, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar.
A Classic Arts production

L'Ecole d'Orphee
David Petersen Sonata
No 5 in G minor
Johannes Schenck
Sonatina No 5 in A; Capriccio No 6 in C Servaas de Konink
Suite in G
Rpt

Anna Markland presents the first of four programmes featuring outstanding performances from the past two series of Radio 3's platform for young artists. Producer Jessica Isaacs

With Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall
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Howard Goodall tests the wit, knowledge and opinions of well-known musicians. In this programme, recorded earlier in the summer at
Chetham's School of Music, Manchester, Murray McLachlan , Catherine Bott . and John Harle answer questions from listeners and members of the audience.
A Ladbroke production

Lynsey Marsh (clarinet) Zoe Solomon (piano) Weber Grand Duo
Concertant, Op 48
Mendelssohn Clarinet
Sonata in E flat
Schumann Fantasiestucke ,
Op 73
A Classic Arts production

From the Royal Albert Hall London.

Boris Pergamenschikov (cello)
Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Alexander Lazarev

Rimsky-Korsakov Suite: The Golden Cockerel

Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme

8.25 Conversations with Drummond
Sir John Drummond talks to Richard Osborne about the place of new music in the Proms and the mechanisms of commissioning new work.

8.45 Harrison Birtwistle Endless Parade

Shostakovich Symphony No 6

A radio opera on the theme of Orpheus by Mike Walker and Mia Soteriou , drawing on the traditions of Monteverdi and Gluck.
When Randall's daughter disappears, he goes searching through London's Thamesside.
Catherine Bott (soprano) Paul Agnew (tenor) Simon Grant (bass)
Music by Mia Soteriou performed by the New London Consort, conductor Philip Pickett Rpt

On the anniversary of Van Gogh 's death, the Hagen Quartet play some of Dvorak's song transcriptions. Discs

Geoffrey Smith introduces a recording of the American singer's acclaimed Festival Hall concert of October
1993, when she was accompanied by Geri Allen (piano), Dave Holland
(bass) and Jack DeJohnette (drums). As well as her own compositions, Betty Carter sings standards like
Sometimes I'm Happy,
Lover Man , Lullaby of the Leaves and If I Should Lose
You. During the interval, she talks to Geoffrey Smith about her long career which began in the Detroit clubs in 1946.