5.55 Popular Culture in Britain
6.15 Women and Music
6.35 Leisure: the Growth of Soccer and Organised Sport

David Cornet presents eight programmes of recordings from
Europe's premier music festivals, concert halls and recital rooms.
Torelli Sinfonia in D for four trumpets and strings
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Valek
7.11 Handel Suite in D minor, HWV 428
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
7.33 Beethoven March in D, WoO 24
Rotterdam Conservatory Symphonic Band, conductor George Wiegel
7.42 Durante Magnificat
Balthasaar Neumann Chorus,
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, conductor Thomas Hengelbrock
7.55 Shostakovich Piano Trio No 2, Op 67
Trio Europa
8.24 Mozart Symphony No 38 in D, K504 (Prague)
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. conductor Tibor Varga

Each week during the Proms season, Stephen Johnson looks ahead to the performances at the Royal Albert Hall, talking to featured artists and composers and offering a chance to win tickets to forthcoming concerts. Today, Dawn Upshaw reveals her fondness for the songs of American musicals; Christian Lindberg rehearses Dominic Muldowney's new trombone concerto; and Nicholas Kenyon explores the thinking behind the Chamber Proms.

Address: Proms News Competition [address removed] Competition Hotline [number removed].

(Repeated tomorrow 7.00pm)

Humphrey Burton shares some of the pleasures of his half-century of record collecting.
9.30 A personal selection of recent budget CD releases.
10.00 A weekly anthology of favourite 78s and LPs that have been remastered on CD.
Haydn Symphony No 100 in G (Military)
RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham Schubert Piano Trio in B flat, D898
Jacques Thibaud (violin), Pablo Casals (cello), Alfred Cortot (piano)
11.00 Personal memories of musicians with whom Humphrey Burton has worked closely on television. Today. Kiri Te Kanawa is featured in songs by Walton and Strauss and in arias from Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Gounod's Faust. Puccini's Manon Lescaut and Bernstein's West Side Story. Producer Chris Marshall

Robert Cowan presents the first in a new magazine series about the classical music recording business - current issues including politics and finance, the stars and backroom people, techniques and output. This week's contributors include Norman
Lebrecht, who discusses his new book
When the Music Stops, and Julian Lloyd Webber , who talks about the recently released CD of music by his late father. Andrew Cornall investigates the ideas behind the new Argo series. Producer Martin Cotton

In the first of nine programmes featuring performances by the great tenor, Michael Oliver goes back to Domingo's Spanish roots with a Spanish operetta, or zarzuela. Torroba Luisa Fernanda
Written to a libretto by Federico Romero and Guillermo Fernandez
Shaw, the work is set in the time of Queen Isabella II in the mid-19th century. The heroine is being courted by a rich landowner named Vidal, but is in love with Javier. a young man who has risen from humble origins to be a colonel in the royal hussars.
Luisa Fernanda VERONICA VILLAROEL (sop)
Javier PLACIDO DOMINGO (tenor)
Vidal Hernando JUAN PONS (bar)
Chorus of Madrid Polytechnic University, Madrid Symphony Orchestra, conductor Antoni Ros Marba Discs
Next Saturday, Placido Domingo takes the title role in Verdi's Emani

This summer's series travels to
Canada and Australia as well as all over the British Isles, includes the Radio 3 debut of the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, and features music from Haydn to James MacMillan. Today's concert features an orchestra of young musicians from 25 countries. Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra
Conductor Herbert Blomstedt
Hindemith Symphony: Mathis der Mater Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E

With Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Discs

Of all 20th-century composers, Kurt Weill most convincingly combined composing operas and music theatre. Patrick O'Connor examines Weill's music from the interpreters' point of view, with the voices of Weill and his widow Lotte Lenya and some of his other foremost interpreters, including Margo Lion , Suzy Solidor and Ernst
Busch from the 1930s, and from our own time Teresa Stratas , Shirley Verrett and Sting. Producer Nick Morgan
See also tomorrow 7.30pm

In collaboration with the Royal Opera's Verdi Festival, the Proms present an outstanding cast in one of Verdi's greatest operas in its revised five-act version, sung in Italian, from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Musically both bold and tender, it vividly explores the battle between freedom and oppression on the political stage and in the personal lives of its players.
Royal Opera Chorus. Orchestra of the Royal Opera House/Bernard Haitink Acts 1 and 2 7.35 Why Do We All Hate Philip So? Was King Philip II of Spain too conscientious to appeal to the likes of Schiller and Verdi? Novelist Adrian
Mourby explores why some monarchs are loved by history and others loathed. The words of the real and operatic Philip are read by Peter Jeffrey and the testimony of those who knew the king by Cyril Shaps and Alice Arnold.
7.55 Act 3
8.40 Conducting Verdi
"Ah, these conductors are a veritable scourge!" (Verdi, 1871)
Verdi had strong ideas about everything - including how his works should be conducted. Daniel Snowman talks to
Edward Downes. Mark Elder and Bernard Haitink about how they approach Verdi's operatic scores.
9.00 Acts 4 and 5 ♦ See Music: page 58

Steve Jones explores the arts and sciences of the senses.
4: A Sense of Timing
From the intricacies of a Liszt piano etude to the hidden complexities of a train timetable.

A Tribute to Charles Fox
For many years. Charles Fox presented Jazz Today and Jazz in Britain and a range of documentaries on Radio 3. He was also a writer, poet and critic. On the fifth anniversary of his death. the Simon Swarbrick Quartet (pianist Julie Lewis , violinist Simon Swarbrick. bass player Rodney Teague and drummer Steve Bolton ) gave the first performance of their Jazz Today Suite in the Dorchester Arts Centre, with their guests Chris Batchelor (trumpet) and Julian Nicholas (saxophones).
Christopher Logue read a selection of poems by Charles Fox. Brian Morton introduces a recording of the concert and is joined in the studio by Nod
Knowles, Ian Carr and Victor Schonfield to discuss the many talents of Charles Fox and his importance to jazz. Producer Derek Drescher

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Tchaikovsky Ballet: The
Nutcracker French Radio Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Aldo Ceccato
2.30 Chamber music played by Asako Urushihara (violin) and Barry Snyder (piano). Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Schubert Fantasy in C. D934 Beethoven Violin Sonata in A, Op 47 (Kreutzer)
3.45 A programme of early German music from Lassus to Schutz given by Cantus Colin , directed by Konrad Junghanel
5.00 Sequence