With Andrew McGregor.
Strauss Waltz Suite No 2 (Der Rosenkavalier, Act 3)
Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Armin Jordan
6.37 Prokofiev Violin Sonata, Op 94a Maxim Vengerov (violin), Itamar Golan (piano)
7.05 Barber Agnus Dei
Joyful Company of Singers, conductor Peter Broadbent
7.32 Mozart Horn Concerto No 1 in D,
K412
Philharmonia, director Barry Tuckwell (horn)
8.05 Elgar Overture: Froissart
RPO, conductor Charles Mackerras
8.35 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto
No 4 in G minor
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano), Philharmonia, conductor Ettore Gracis
Editor Andrew Lyle

This week concluding the complete cycle of Beethoven piano sonatas. Beethoven Piano Sonata in A flat,
Op 110
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
9.21 Brahms Double Concerto in A minor
Itzhak Perlman (violin),
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello),
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Bernard Haitink
Producer Tony Cheevers Discs

Stephanie Hughes presents a week of programmes exploring the diversity of 20th-century Australian music and celebrating the artistry of conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky.
Shostakovich Funeral-Triumphal Prelude
RPO, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
10.05 Respighi // tramonto
Janet Baker (mezzo), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
10.21 Gibbons Lord of Salisbury Pavan and Galliard
Glenn Gould (piano)
10.28 Proms Artist of the Week:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor) Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements
London Symphony Orchestra
10.52 Perotin Veni creator spiritus Hilliard Ensemble
11.00 Tippett Piano Sonata No 1 Paul Crossley (piano)
11.23 Richard Meale Symphony No 1 Graeme Koehne Powerhouse: Rumba for Orchestra
Adelaide SO, conductor David Porcelijn Producer Paul Kildea

(1685-1759)
Like many composers, Handel saw himself primarily as a creator of opera. He wrote nearly 50 during his career - from his early days in Hamburg to the peak of his success in London in the 1720s and 30s. Many disappeared quickly from public view, but in recent years their rediscovery has restored them to their deserved place on the operatic stage. This week,
Anthony Burton is joined by five guests to discuss different aspects of Handel's operas. 1: Countertenor James Bowman shares the singer's view, with excerpts from Alcina, Orlando, Ottone and Giustino.
Producer Gwen Hughes
Repeated next Monday 11.30pm

With Sandy Burnett.
1.00 Proms Chamber Music 1996
Philip Mead plays a panorama of 20th-century American piano music in this concert, which looks forward to a day of American music at the Proms next Sunday. Ives looks back to Bach and points the way forward in his sonata "made mostly as a joke to knock the molly coddles out of their heads". Then Copland picks up on all things new in his rugged and lean-textured variations, while for
Barber, lyricism is still a potent force in his romantic yet undeniably modern sonata. And Stephen Montague provides a thrilling finale of shimmering romantic textures and clusters of sound. Introduced by Susan Sharpe. Ives Three-Page Sonata Copland Variations
Barber Sonata. Op 26 Montague Paramell 5a

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti , Uto Ughi (violin)
Webem Passacaglia, Op 1
Dvorak Violin Concerto in A minor
Prokofiev Symphony No 5

Spotlight on Marilyn Home
The American mezzo talks to lain
Burnside about her life and career, and introduces some of her most distinguished recordings. Repeat

In this six-part series, bassist
Ray Brown talks to Alyn Shipton about a career that has included collaborations with almost all the giants of the genre; from Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington to
Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson. After a childhood in Pittsburgh, he toured the Deep South with Snookum Russell before going to New York in 1945, where he found a job immediately with Dizzy Gillespie.
Producer Derek Drescher

Music Exams
Tommy Pearson begins a user's guide to the business of music examinations.
1: The Associated Board of the Royal Schools Of Music Repeat

With Andrew Green , including
5.25 Schubert Moments musicaux in C, Op 94 No 1, D780 John O'Connor (piano)
5.45 Ravel Trois chansons
Cambridge Singers, conductor John Rutter
6.03 Sibelius Karelia Suite
Halle Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli
7.03 Swann A Word On My Ear Sarah Walker (mezzo), Roger Vignoles (piano) Producer Andrew Mussett

A chance to hear live Trevor
Pinnock's critically acclaimed performances of Haydn and Mozart from the Royal Albert Hall , London. Tonight, he programmes one of Haydn's great late masses - with its warlike word-painting - two Mozart symphonies, and Haydn's programmatic madrigal related to The Creation.
Susan Gritton (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Gerald Finley (baritone),
English Concert Choir and Orchestra, conductor Trevor Pinnock
Mozart Symphony No 23 in D, K181 Haydn Mass in C (In Time of War)
8.25 Haydn in His Time
Denis McCaldin investigates how
Haydn was seen by his contemporaries.
8.45 Haydn The Storm
Mozart Symphony No 41 in C, K551 (Jupiter)

Andrew Green recreates the life of London concert halls which have long since disappeared. 1: St James 's Hall
The dingy and uncomfortable
St James 's Hall had a superb acoustic, attracting musicians from Joseph Joachim and Clara Schumann to
Dvorak and Tchaikovsky. Charles Dickens also pulled the crowds. Producer Fiona Shelmerdine

Introduced by Penny Gore . Priya Mitchell (violin), Andrew West (piano)
Prokofiev Five Melodies, Op 35a Faure Violin Sonata in A, Op 13 Producer Nigel Wilkinson
Repeated tomorrow 2.30pm

Robert Sandall and Mark Russell meet
Brian Eno and find out why he thinks recent computer advances mean that listening to recorded music will never be the same again. Producer Ekene Akalawu

With Brian Morton.
1: Weill and Georg Kaiser
Der Protagonist (Pantomime 1); Der Zar lasst sich photographieren (excerpt); String Quartet, Op 8 Repeated from last Monday

With Digby Fairweather.
A week of music from the all-British
Appleby Jazz Festival 1996. Tonight, the duo of Phil Lee (guitar) and Martin Speake (saxophone). Producer Terry Carter

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Danish Radio Concert
Orchestra/Jan Wagner Gade Overture: Echoes from Ossian Nielsen Clarinet
Concerto Niels Thomsen (clarinet) Nielsen Pan and Syrinx
2.30 Violinist Vadim Gluzman and pianist Angela Yoffe perform music by Hindemith. Franck, Dvorak and Sarasate
3.30 Slovenian Radio-Television
Symphony Orchestra/John Neschling Mozart Overture: Die Zauberflote
Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor
John-Louis Steuerman (piano) Mahler Symphony No 1
5.00 Sequence