5.55 Women's Studies: Sisters in Crime
6.15 Bodin and Sovereignty in 16th-century France
6.35 Arts Foundation Course: Sullivan

Jonathan Swain presents the third of eight programmes of recordings from Europe's premier music festivals, concert halls and recital rooms.
Vivaldi Concerto in G minor, RV155 Sonatori della Gioiosa Marca , conductor Andrew Parrott
7.12 Zipoli, arr Gothoni Aria Ralf Gothoni (piano)
7.18 Stenhammar String Quartet in F, Op 18
Zetterqvist Quartet
7.53 Schubert Am Russe. D160; An die Entfemte, Der Fischer
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (piano)
8.03 Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor
Janos Starker (cello),
French Radio Philharmonic , conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev
8.35 Mozart Piano Sonata in B flat, K333
Till Fellner (piano) Producer Peter Thresh

Weekly magazine looking ahead to the Proms events at the Royal Albert Hall, talking to featured artists and composers and offering a chance to win tickets to forthcoming concerts.
Today, Stephen Johnson explores the themes of creation and re-creation with Director of the Proms Nicholas
Kenyon, and Geoffrey Smith talks to Leonard Slatkin and Sally Burgess about the continuing celebration of American music. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies previews his new symphony - the sixth - with thoughts on the nature of symphonic composition, and William Christie anticipates his performance of Handel's Semele with Les Arts Florissants.

Competition Phone: [number removed] Address: Proms News Competition, [address removed]

(Repeated tomorrow 7.00pm)

Humphrey Burton shares some of the pleasures of his half-century of record collecting, beginning with a personal selection of recent budget CD releases.
10.00 A weekly anthology of favourite 78s and LPs that have been remastered on CD.
Brahms Violin Concerto in D
Fritz Kreisler (violin), London
Philharmonic, conductor John Barbirolli
11.00 Personal memories of musicians with whom Humphrey Burton has worked closely on television in a career stretching back 40 years. Today, Georg Solti conducts Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra with the LSO. Plus excerpts from Wagner's Gotterdammerung and Verdi's La traviata. Discs

Robert Cowan with the magazine series about the classical music recording business, exploring current issues including politics and finance, the stars and back-room people, techniques and output. This week, contributors include Anthony Payne , who blind tastes recordings of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21 in C,
K467. Symphony Hall in Birmingham is scrutinised in a regular feature about recording venues. Also featured is a report on the second-hand market, and a discussion of the comparative merits of large and small record labels. Among Robert Cowan 's other guests is the esteemed record producer Paul Myers. Producer Martin Cotton

The third of nine programmes featuring performances by the great tenor, presented by Michael Oliver. In recent years, Domingo has spent time between his singing engagements pursuing a second career as a conductor, with appearances at the Vienna State Opera and the New York Metropolitan Opera. This programme features a performance only possible in the recording studio - Domingo conducts and sings simultaneously.
Johann Strauss (son) Die Fledermaus An operetta in three acts to a libretto by Carl Haffner and Richard Genee.
The action is set in Vienna and tells of a practical joke played by Dr Falke on his friend Gabriel von Eisenstein - a revenge for one played by Falke a few years earlier. Sung in German.
Bavarian Radio Chorus, Munich Radio
Orchestra/Placido Domingo Discs
Next Saturday, Domingo sings in Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalita

The first chance in Britain to hear the SBS Radio and Television Youth
Orchestra from Sydney, Australia, with soloist Simon Tedeschi (piano). Conductor Giuseppe Giglio Puccini Preludio sinfonico
Poulenc Piano Concerto
Conductor Matthew Krel
Respighi Ballet: Belkis, Queen ofSheba Shostakovich Symphony No 9

Geoffrey Smith introduces another selection of vibrant and varied jazz tracks chosen by listeners. Producer Alan Hall Discs
ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests. BBC Radio 3. Broadcasting House. London W1A 4WW Fax: (0171) [number removed]

Harpsichordist, pianist and conductor George Malcolm will be 80 next year. One of the most quietly pre-eminent figures in British postwar musical life, he conducted at the Proms last Saturday for the first time since 1977. Andrew Green talks to him about his long career.

The second of five programmes in which pianist Roger Vignoles introduces and plays Beethoven's cello sonatas with five different cellists. The programmes also include sonatas from the 20th century. Rebecca Gilluver (cello), Roger Vignoles (piano) Britten Sonata, Op 65
Beethoven Sonata in G minor, Op 5 No 2

The first of three youth orchestras in this year's Proms is a cosmopolitan group of talented musicians from around Europe. Strauss's dramatic portrait of a hero is almost an opera without voices. Elgar's variations are deftly drawn characterisations of his friends. The Sibelius symphony, a vast Nordic tone picture, is conducted tonight by one of the composer's most celebrated interpreters.
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.

European Union Youth Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis

Strauss Don Juan

Elgar Enigma Variations

8.25 Poetry Proms
In the first of four occasional programmes, Seamus Heaney - winner of last year's Nobel Prize for Literature - reads from The Spirit Level, his first collection for five years, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

8.45 Sibelius Symphony No 2

Second in a six-part series in which author Tibor Fischer meets writers and explores the work which stocks the shelves of bookshops around the world. This week, Tibetan nationalism, the best of New York, and horror in Russia.

This American pianist and composer - who died last June aged only 48 - was probably best known for his work with Roberta Flack and James Brown and as the musical director for James Taylor. But the main thrust of his recent work was in the field of jazz. For his 1995 British tour, he assembled an all-star band that included Randy Brecker (trumpet), Michael Brecker (tenor sax), Marty Ehrlich (bass clarinet/flute), Robin Eubanks
(trombone), Peter Washington (bass), Peter Erskine (drums) and Don Alias (percussion).
Chris Parker introduces a recording of the concert Grolnick gave at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
During the interval, he talked to him about his diverse career.
Repeat

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Jazz vocalist and instrumentalist
Boris Urbanek in concert with Ivan
Myslikovjan (alto saxophone)
2.00 Sonatas by Bach, Beethoven. Schubert and Wieniawski. Balint
Szekely (violin), Olivier Lattion (piano)
3.00 Iko Miva (piano), Bulgarian
National Radio Symphony Orchestra. conductor Milen Natchev Beethoven
Egmont Overture; Piano Concerto No 1 in C; Symphony No 5 in C minor
5.00 Sequence