With Andrew McGregor.
Handel Concerto Grosso in C
(Alexander's Feast)
6.24 Beethoven Triple Concerto in C
7.05 Handel Sinfonia: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)
7.32 Strauss Madchenblumen , Op 22 Nos 1-4
8.05 Scheibe Sinfonia in D (Der Tempel des Ruhmes)
8.47 Stravinsky Scherzo fantastique

Bach Concerto in C minor, BWV 1060
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord), Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood (harpsichord)
9.15 Beethoven Piano Sonata in B flat, Op 106 (Hammerklavier) Maurizio Pollini (piano) Discs

With Chris de Souza.
Theodorakis Ode to Zeus
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston
Pops Orchestra, conductor John Williams
10.05 Proms Artist of the Week:
Andras Schiff (piano)
Bach Concerto in E, BWV 1053 Chamber Orchestra of Europe
10.25 Goldschmidt Psalm 120
Endrik Wottrich (tenor), Berlin Radio SO, conducted by the composer
10.30 Reger Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Bach
Andras Schiff (piano)
11.05 Goldschmidt Psalm 124
Endrik Wottrich (tenor),
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer See also 7.00pm
11.10 Schumann Symphony No 3 in E flat (Rhenish)
BBC SO, conductor John Pritchard
11.45 Franck Chorale No 2 in B minor
Francis Grier (organ)

With Brian Morton.
4: Weill and Lotte Lenya
For Kurt Weill , Lotte Lenya was the most important thing in the world,
"right after my music"; but she also became the chief interpreter of his songs and guardian of his legacy. Denn wie man sich bettet
(Mahagonny)
Lotte Lenya with chorus and orchestra The Seven Deadly Sins (excerpts) Lotte Lenya (singer) and ensemble, conductor Wilhelm Briickner -
Ruggeberg
Surabaya-Johnny (Happy End)
Lotte Lenya with the composer (piano) Bilbao Song (Happy End)
Ute Lemper, RIAS Sinfonietta, conductor John Mauceri
Matrosen-tango (Was die Herren Matrosen sagen, Happy End)
Gabriele Ramm (mezzo), Pro Musica
Cologne, Koenig Ensemble, conductor Jan Latham-Koenig
Complainte de la Seine
Teresa Stratas (soprano), Richard Woitach (piano)
Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm

With Sandy Burnett.
1.00 New series Slava!
No Russian opera seems complete without its patriotic chorus, but the national consciousness also permeates the genre in more subtle ways. Perhaps more than any other nationality, Russian opera composers have chosen to draw upon the works of their native writers. In this four-part series, John Allison investigates the literary roots of Russian opera and explores how composers turned words into musical theatre.
1: Pushkin - from Boris to Mazeppa Producer Gwen Hughes
2.00 Mendelssohn
String Quartets: in A minor, Op 13; in E flat, Op 12
String Octet in E flat, Op 20
3.30 Preoccupations
Leading musicians reveal matters close to their hearts. This week,
Jon Kimura Parker boldly goes where no pianist has gone before.
3.35 The BBC Orchestras
BBC NO of Wales
Conductor David Atherton ,
Martin Roscoe (piano)
Tchaikovsky Polonaise (Eugene Onegin ); Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor; The Nutcracker (Act 2)

Nashville
Sarah Walker looks at how to forge a career path in country music and finds out that there is more than one road to the top. Repeat

With Geraint Lewis.
Poulenc L 'Embarquement pour Cythere Pascal Roge and Jean-Phillippe Collard (pianos)
5.40 Mozart Non temer. amato bene.
K505
Margaret Price (soprano), London Philharmonic/James Lockhart
6.03 Liszt Paraphrase on "Rigoletto" Shura Cherkassky (piano)
6.30 Mathias Summer Dances
Fine Arts Brass Ensemble
Producer Gwawr Owen

The dynamic new partnership of Yakov Kreizberg and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra continues the revival of interest in the music of Berthold Goldschmidt with an early prize-winning work, from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Mendelssohn's ever-popular and lyrical violin concerto provides a sharp contrast to Shostakovich's starkly dramatic evocation of the 1905 Russian revolution, written in the shadow of the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. Christian Tetzlaff (violin),
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yakov Kreizberg
Goldschmidt Passacaglia (first UK performance)
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor

Piers Burton-Page talks to
Yakov Kreizberg about tonight's Prom, his work at the Berlin Comic Opera and his future plans with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

(The Year 1905)

The songs of Robert Burns. The Musical Museum
Burns's role as songwriter and collector was greatly influenced by his two principal editors, James Johnson and George Thomson , who between
1787 and 1818 published the majority of his songs. Kirsteen McCue considers the part played by two very different characters.

Recordings of the famous pianist from piano rolls made in 1905 and 1913. Eugen d'Albert Scherzo in F sharp, Op 16 No 2
Liszt Valse Impromptu, S213
Beethoven Rondo in G, Op 51 No 2

From the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Dawn at Dusk
One of the most versatile and talented of a new generation of American singers performs works ranging from opera to show songs.
Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Fred Hersch (piano), London Sinfonietta, conductor Eric Stern
Including
Bernstein Lonely town; I feel pretty; Somewhere
Copland Laurie 's Song (Tender Land) Weill Lonely House
Sondheim What more do I need?
Rodgers and Hart Manhattan; It never entered my mind: Why can't I?; I could write a book
Weill The Saga of Jenny Rodgers and Hart Nobody's heart; Little girl blue
Gershwin Someone to watch over me
Rodgers and Hart A twinkle in her eye Blitzstein I wish it so Sondheim There won't be trumpets # See This Week: page 8

Paul Guinery presents more music written by Haydn in his final years.
Cantata: Lines from the Battle of the Nile
String Quartet in G, Op 77 No 1 Trumpet Concerto in E flat Repeated from last Thursday

With Digby Fairweather. Tonight, the music of Bobby Hackett ,
Louis Armstrong 's favourite cornettist.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Choral Evensong from Blackburn Cathedral
Repeated from yesterday 4.00pm
2.00 Saar Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Stern Mozart
Symphony No 35 in D (Haffner)
Bottesini Concerto for two double basses Ikka Emmert and Martin
Dobner (double basses) Sibelius Symphony No 1
3.15 Madrigals by Monteverdi, performed by Complesso Utrecht 1993, conductor Stephen Stubbs
4.15 Vienna Chamber
Philharmonic/Stefan Vladar (piano) Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor
5.00 Sequence