With Andrew McGregor.
Merbecke Ave Dei patris filia Cardinall's Musick, director Andrew Carwood
6.16 Martucci Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat minor
Carlo Bruno (piano), La Scala
Philharmonic, conductor Riccardo Muti
7.05 Castello Sonata duodecima
His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts
7.39 Herbert Cello Concerto No 2 in E minor
Yo-Yo Ma (cello), New York
Philharmonic, conductor Kurt Masur
8.05 Gershwin, arr Rose Overture: Strike Up the Band
Buffalo Philharmonic, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
8.32 Schubert Rondo Brillant in B minor, D895
Yehudi Menuhin (violin),
Hepzibah Menuhin (piano)

Dvorak Scherzo capriccioso London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Istvan Kertesz
9.12 Dvorak Bagatelles , Op 47
Liviu Casleanu and Michal Kurkowski
(violins), Christian Brunnert (cello), Dennis Russell Davies (harmonium)
9.31 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 111
Annie Fischer (piano) Discs

With Stephanie Hughes.
Britten Russian Funeral March
London Brass Virtuosi, conductor David Honeyball
10.10 Boyce Symphony No 1 in B flat Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood
10.23 Mendelssohn Concerto No 1 in E for two pianos
Brenda Lucas and John Ogdon ,
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
10.54 Proms Artist of the Week:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor) Howells Stabat mater
London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
11.03 Stuart Greenbaum Ice Man
Glenn Riddle (piano)
11.17 Altenburg Concerto in D New York Trumpet Ensemble
11.23 Janacek, arr Zitek/Sediacek The Diary of One Who Disappeared Philip Langridge (tenor),
Brigitte Balleys (contralto), Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado

Anthony Burton and guests explore aspects of Handel's operas - works which spanned the whole range of his composing career and are now re-emerging on to the operatic stage. 2: Jonathan Keates considers how
Handel's operas fit in with the rest of his output and how his style developed over the four decades during which he composed them. With excerpts from Rodelinda, Floridante and Scipione. Repeated next Tuesday 11.30pm

With Sandy Burnett.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Guido Ajmone-Marsan , Olivier Charlier (violin)
Debussy Prélude a I'apres-midi d'un faune
Beethoven Violin Concerto in 0 Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 in A (Italian)

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 from yesterday 10.15pm

Continuing the series in which leading musicians reveal matters close to their hearts. This week, tenor
Mark Tucker remembers the sights, sounds and tastes of childhood visits to Venice.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductor Takuo Yuasa
Haydn Symphony No 73 in D (La Chasse)
Bruckner, ed Novak Symphony No 4 in E flat (Romantic) (1874 version)

Music Exams
Tommy Pearson investigates the business of music examinations.
2: Guildhall School of Music and Drama
With contributions from the people behind the organisation and students from Loughborough. Repeat

With Geoffrey Baskerville.
Trad, arr Valls Sephardic Songs
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Jean-Claude Gerard (flute), Oscar Ghiglia (guitar)
6.03 Prokofiev Suite: Semyon Kotko Scottish NO, conductor Neeme Jarvi
6.17 Brahms Piano Quartet in A, Op 26 (Adagio)
Artur Rubinstein (piano), Guarneri Quartet
6.30 Handel Anthem for the Foundling Hospital
Soloists, Choir of Christ Church
Cathedral, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Simon Preston
7.03 On the eve of the Aberdeen
International Youth Festival, the studio guests are director Nicola Wallis and some of the 800 participants from 16 countries.
Producer David McGuinness

Mark Wigglesworth gives his first Prom as music director of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Orchestral excerpts from one of Wagner's most approachable operas are followed by an epoch-making Schoenberg symphony in its full orchestral version. The programme, from the Royal Albert Hall , London, is completed by a great 19th-century concerto written by Brahms - whose music Schoenberg deeply admired. Stephen Hough (piano), BBC NO of Wales, conductor Mark Wigglesworth Wagner Suite: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 1 (1922 version)
8.15 The Flesh Made Word
Five writers consider the relationship between religion and language and the problems of putting faith into words. 2: R S Thomas
The retired Anglican priest and Nobel Prize-nominated poet asks how the religious imagination can best express awe, reverence and meaning using the structures and sounds of poetry. He illustrates his talk with quotations, including readings from his own poems.
8.35 Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat

The capital's vanished concert venues. 2: Vauxhall Gardens
Andrew Green revisits the spot where - in their 18th-century heyday - the Vauxhall Gardens attracted tens of thousands each summer to stroll its walkways, sample its cuisine and enjoy performances from leading musicians of the day.

Introduced by Donald Macleod. Timothy Roberts (fortepiano)
Dussek The Sufferings of the Queen of France
Soler Sonata No 16 in E flat
Clementi Sonata in F minor, Op 13 No 6
Repeat

The first of three programmes about design.
A Paradise of Pinnacles
Perpendicular was the climax of the Gothic style. Characterised by strong vertical lines, shallow arches and decorative fan vaulting, it coincided with the emergence of the English state in the years 1330 to 1530. Joe Mordaunt Crook , Professor of Architectural History at the University of London, visits five outstanding examples and reveals the men who built and paid for these miracles of structural engineering and the society this style expressed. Reader Samuel West. Repeat

With Brian Morton.
2: Weill and Bertolt Brecht (1) Ballad of Mack the Knife (The
Threepenny Opera); Mahagonny
Songspiel: Das Berliner Requiem ; Oi Musik
Repeated from last Tuesday

With Digby Fairweather.
A week of music from the all-British
Appleby Jazz Festival 1996. Tonight, the Steve Melling Trio.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 French NO/Yevgeni Svetlanov Miaskovsky Symphony No 25
Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony
2.15 Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) Chopin Three Mazurkas, Op 59;
Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op 63 No 3 Alkan Concerto (12 Etudes, Op 39)
3.30 Victor Garcia (baritone), Anna Kratsova (piano). Songs by Morales, Ginastera, Mozart and Rossini
4.20 Songs by Monteverdi, performed by Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini
5.00 Sequence