With
Penny Gore . Stravinsky Divertimento (The Fairy's Kiss)
St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yuri Temirkanov
7.05 Dvorak Overture: Othello
Czech Philharmonic, conductor Libor Pesek
7.32 Blavet Concerto in A minor
Musica Antiqua Koln, director Reinhard Goebel
8.05 Carissimi Cantata: Cosi volete, cosi sara
Agnes Mellon (soprano), Concerto Vocale, director René Jacobs
8.21 Rachmaninov Russian Rhapsody Dmitri Alexeev and Nikolai Demidenko
(pianos)
8.32 Orff, arr Wanek Carmina burana Mainz Wind Ensemble, conductor Klaus Rainer Scholl

Mozart Church Sonata in C, K263
Peter Hurford (organ),
Amsterdam Mozart Players
9.06 Trad Dance tunes from John
Playford's "The English Dancing Master"
Dufay Collective
9.16 Tchaikovsky August (The Seasons) Victoria Postnikova (piano)
9.20 Tchaikovsky String Quartet in F, Op 22
Borodin Quartet Discs

With Paul Guinery.
Walton Overture: Hamlet
Academy of St Martin, conductor Neville Marriner
10.04 Proms Artist of the Week:
Simon Preston (organ)
Poulenc Organ Concerto
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Atherton
10.28 Bach Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor, BWV 849 ("48") Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
11.23 Bortkiewicz Piano Concerto
No 1 in B flat
Stephen Coombs (piano),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk

The Paris Years
Stephen Walsh continues his examination of the audience reaction to some new works by Stravinsky. Today's programme features work presented during the 1913-14 season: Scherzo fantastique;
Pribaoutki: Song of the Nightingale: Suite: Pulcinella (excerpts)
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm

With Sandy Burnett.
1.00 Manchester Summer
Recitals
In the fourth of ten concerts, Rodney Slatford introduces the Florestan
Piano Trio: Anthony Marwood (violin), Richard Lester (cello) and Susan Tomes (piano).
Mozart Piano Trio in E, K542
Schumann Piano Trio in D minor,
Op 63
2.00 Midweek Choice:
(0171) [number removed]
With Sandy Burnett. Ring in with your request by lunchtime to hear it today. Also including
Boieldieu Overture: The Caliph of Baghdad
Munich Radio Orchestra, conductor Kurt Redel
Korngold String Quartet No 1 in A Chilingirian Quartet
Vaughan Williams An Oxford Elegy John Westbrook (speaker),
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Jacques Orchestra, conductor David Willcocks
Producer Peter Thresh Discs
WRITTEN REQUESTS:
Midweek Choice. BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
Fax: (0171) [number removed]
E-MAIL: midweek.choice@bbc.co.uk
4.00 Choral Evensong
I From the Chapel of Eton
College, sung by members of the 1996 Eton choral course.
Introit: Like as the hart (Howells) Responses (Howells) Psalm 37 (Goss, Day)
First Lesson: 2 Samuel 5, w 1-10
Office Hymn: Through all the changing scenes(Ravenshaw)
Canticles: Howells in G
Second Lesson: Luke 23, w 44-56
Anthem: Ave verum corpus (Raminsh) Hymn: Lord, Thou has brought us (Ellers)
Organ Voluntary: Sarabande (Howells) Director of music Bruce Pullan.
Organist Stephen Disley. Repeated tomorrow 1.00am

New Orleans
Sarah Walker boards the Mississippi steam-boat The Natchez for an evening of steam organs and Dixieland jazz. Repeat

Presented by Jeremy Nicholas , including
Suppe Overture: The Jolly Robbers London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
6.03 Ernst Fantaisie brillante ... sur
Otello de Rossini
Ruggiero Ricci (violin),
Radio Luxembourg Orchestra, conductor Louis de Froment
Producer Andrew Mussett

A kaleidoscope of musical nationalities and periods in this season's first Prom by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: an overture with Scottish resonances, one of the most popular German Romantic piano concertos and a significant post-war English symphony frame two Proms premieres by Chinese-American composer Tan Dun. He draws his inspiration from natural sounds, including the audience.
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Lars Vogt (piano), Stephen Richardson (bass), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins

MacCunn The Ship o' the Rend

Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor

7.50 When East Meets West
Brian Morton explores how Oriental culture has interacted with Western musical thought this century. With contributions from composers Tan Dun and Chou Wen-Chung.

8.10 Conductor Tan Dun
Tan Dun On Taoism; Orchestral Theatre II: Re

8.55 Perfect Pitch
Learned or inherited, is perfect pitch a help or a hindrance? The ability to identify any pitch is given to only a tiny minority of even the most accomplished musicians.
Mark Russell talks to those who have it and asks if it is not too late for him to learn this musical magic.

9.15 Conductor Martyn Brabbins
Walton Symphony No 2

Four programmes in which Philip Dodd explores the love affair between art and music in the 20th century. 3: Collaborations
From Picasso and Satie to Hockney and Stravinsky, many artists have loved to work with composers and musicians. What drives them to collaborate?
Repeat
Final programme tomorrow 9.20pm

A selection of portraits of 20th-century artists in poems by Paul Eluard set to music by Francis Poulenc. Gerard Souzay (baritone), Dalton Baldwin (piano)

Best known for his dramatic poem In
Parenthesis, based on his experiences as a private soldier in the trenches of the First World War, David Jones left a treasure-house of major poems and paintings, including The Anathemata, hailed by W H Auden as the finest long poem of this century. Jeremy Hooker charts a course with poetry, music and archive through the expansive imagination of David Jones. Repeat

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 onto the operatic stage.
3: David Alden discusses the drama and characterisation in Handel's operas and uncovers a comic vein.
With excerpts from Ariodante, Amadigi and Tamerlano.
Repeated from last Wednesday

Digby Fairweather introduces the authentic sound of the Chris Blount New Orleans Jazz Band.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 La Petite Band/Sigiswald Kuijken. Vocal and instrumental music by Lully, Charpentier, Rebel and Rameau
2.40 Francois Salque (cello), Alexandre Tharaud (piano) Kodaly Sonata, Op 8 Schumann Fantasiestucke , Op 73 Debussy Sonata
3.40 Alfonso the Wise Cantigas de Santa Maria performed by Sinfonye
4.30 Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Ernest Ansermet Falla El amor brujo; La vida breve (excerpts)
5.00 Sequence