With Penny Gore.
Elgar Wand of Youth: Suite No 1 Welsh National Opera Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
7.05 Telemann Overture-Suite in B flat
(Burlesque)
Collegium Musicum 90, conductor Simon Standage
7.32 Strauss Romance in F
Heinrich Schiff (cello),
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur
7.42 Handel Sinfonia: Saul
English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
8.05 Arriaga Overture: Los esclavos felices
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
8.32 Respighi Brazilian Impressions Philharmonia, conductor Geoffrey Simon Editor Andrew Lyle

This week featuring Tchaikovsky chamber music.
Ravel Rapsodie espagnole
Chicago SO, conductor Fritz Reiner
9.17 Tchaikovsky Sextet in D minor, Op 70 (Souvenir de Florence)
Yuri Bashmet (viola), Natalia Gutman (cello), Borodin Quartet
9.51 Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No 4 in G
BBC SO, conductor Andrew Davis Producer Tony Cheevers Discs

Each morning this week, Paul Guinery rings up the curtain with a theatrical overture; includes one of Bach's "48" played by Sviatoslav Richter ; explores some rarely heard Romantic piano concertos: and examines the versatility of organist Simon Preston. Wolf-Ferrari Overture: La dama boba
ASMF, conductor Neville Marriner
10.09 Proms Artist of the Week:
Simon Preston (organ)
Franck Choral No 1 in E
10.24 Bach Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV 857 ("48") Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
10.32 Diepenbrock Hymne Emmy Verhey (violin),
The Hague Residentie Orchestra, conductor Hans Vonk
11.37 D'Albert Piano Concerto No 2 in Piers Lane (piano), BBC Scottish SO, conductor Alun Francis
Producer Paul Guinery

The Years in Paris
(1882-1971)
As a prelude to Stravinsky Day at the Proms, Stephen Walsh examines some of Stravinsky's earlier scores. In this week's programmes he looks at how Parisian audiences and musicians reacted to the composer's latest offerings - from the pagan Russian rituals of Petrushka and The Rite of Spring to the refined neoclassical style of his octet.
Today's programme features works premiered in the season 1910-11: The Firebird Suite (original 1910 version), Fireworks: Fantasy for Orchestra and Petrushka (Suite). Producer Peter Thresh
Repeated next Monday 11.30pm

With Sandy Burnett.
1.00 Proms Chamber Music 1996
Cross-currents of Spanish and French music in a programme which sets Falla's chamber concerto alongside atmospheric instrumental and vocal works by Ravel and Chausson. Falla is a Proms-featured composer in this 50th anniversary year of his death and Ravel was a composer he much admired during his years in Paris before the First World War. Two Proms soloists - Sally Burgess (mezzo, 10 August) and Nicholas Daniel (oboe/director, 14 August) join forces with pianist
John Lenehan and the Haffner Ensemble, a lively young group of wind and string players. Introduced by Susan Sharpe. Ravel, arr Jones Le Tombeau de Couperin
Chausson Chanson perpétuelle
Falla Concerto for harpsichord and five instruments
Ravel Trois poemes de Stephane Mallarme
2.05 The BBC Orchestras
BBC NO of Wales
Conductor David Atherton ,
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Michael Thompson (horn)
Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville
Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings
Mozart Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat,
K417
Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish)
3.45 Voices
Tenor Ian Bostridge performs songs by Schumann, Brahms and Wolf, accompanied by pianist Julius Drake. Repeat
4.30 First Bass
Second in a six-part series in which 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 Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald , In the late 1940s, he was a regular in Dizzy Gillespie's groups and composed One-Bass Hit and Ray's Idea. He went on to work with Milt Jackson. Kenny Clarke and John Lewis in a group that was the forerunner of the Modern Jazz Quartet.

New Orleans
Sarah Walker begins her week in the Crescent City by taking a buggy trip. She discovers music on every street corner and ends her morning with a traditional jazz brunch. Repeat

Natalie Wheen with news, comment and music including
Nancarrow Studies for player-piano Joanna MacGregor (piano)
6.03 John Adams , arr Odom Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Netherlands Wind Ensemble, conductor Stephen Mosko Producer Chris de Souza E-MAIL: intune@bbc.co.uk

Opera or oratorio? Both, probably, and certainly one of Handel's most richly dramatic scores. The fateful story of the vain heroine of Greek tragedy includes Semele's show-stopping arias Endless pleasure, endless love and Myself I shall adore. This concert performance is conducted by a leading interpreter of early music, who, this evening, brings his own world-famous ensemble to the Royal Albert Hall , London for the first time.
Chorus and Orchestra of Les Arts
Florissants, conductor William Christie
Act
7.25 Semele: an English Opera?
Derek Alsop examines the problem of how to classify what Handel's first biographer defined as an English opera called an oratorio.
7.45 Act 2
8.30 Congreve's Final Years
William Congreve 's last and his most often revived play - The Way of the World - was written in 1700 and. initially, coolly received. Peter Holland explores the reasons for the silence of his last 30 years and why this was punctuated by a libretto on the theme of Semele.
8.50 Act 3

Four programmes in which Philip Dodd explores the love affair between art and music in the 20th century. 1: The New Century
How painting and sculpture have come to aspire to the condition of music. Repeat Next programme tomorrow 9.45pm

With Mark Russell and Robert Sandall.
Producer Ekene Akalawu

Like many composers, Handel saw himself primarily as a creator of opera. 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. Repeated from last Monday

With Digby Fairweather.
Barbara Thompson talks about her role as both performer and composer. Producer Terry Carter

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Tokyo Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131
Schubert String Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden)
2.20 Currende Consort/Erik van
Nevel. Profane motets by Lassus and madrigals by Philippus de Monte
3.00 Cyprian Katzaris (piano), Plovdiv Philharmonic/Gueorgui Dimitrov Mozart Overture: Der
Schauspieldirektor: Piano Concerto No 12 in A, K414 Ravel Piano Concerto in G Bernstein Symphonic Dances (West Side Story)
5.00 Sequence