With Penny Gore.
Ravel String Quartet in F New Helsinki Quartet
7.05 Chopin Three Waltzes, Op 64 Jean-Bernard Pommier (piano)
7.32 Tchaikovsky Overture in F
Russian NO, conductor Mikhail Pletnev
8.05 Purcell 0 sing unto the Lord, Z44 Susan Hemington Jones (soprano), Julian Podger and Charles Daniels
(tenors), Peter Harvey and Christopher Purves (basses), Gabrieli Consort and Players, director Paul McCreesh
8.32 Beethoven Violin Sonata in G,
Op 30 No 3
Olivier Charlier (violin), Brigitte Engerer (piano)

Nielsen Piano Pieces, Op 3 - Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

9.08 Tchaikovsky String Quartet in E flat minor, Op 30 - Borodin Quartet

9.47 Bartok Hungarian Sketches - Chicago SO, conductor Fritz Reiner

(Discs)

With Paul Guinery.
Respighi Overture: Belfagor BBC Philharmonic, conductor Edward Downes
10.04 Proms Artist of the Week:
Simon Preston (conductor)
Walton Set me as a seal upon thine heart: Litany: Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis
Westminster Abbey Choir, Christopher Herrick (organ)
10.26 Bach Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor, BWV 887 ("48") Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
10.37 Strauss Symphonic Interludes: Feverish Journey; Waltz Scene (Intermezzo)
Rotterdam Philharmonic, conductor Jeffrey Tate
11.26 Balakirev Piano Concerto No 2 in E flat
Malcolm Binns (piano),
English Northern Philharmonia, conductor David Lloyd-Jones

The Paris Years
Stephen Walsh considers some of the important music which Stravinsky introduced to Parisian audiences during the 1922 season.
Sleeping Beauty: Renard; Mavra; Symphonies of Wind Instruments (original 1920 version)
Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm

With Sandy Burnett.
1.00 Slava!
No Russian opera seems complete without a chorus of peasants extolling the virtue of their homeland, but the national consciousness also permeates the genre in less obvious ways. Perhaps more than any other nationality, Russian opera composers have chosen to draw upon the works of their native writers. In this four-part series, John Allison investigates the literary roots of Russian opera and explores how composers turned words into musical theatre.
3: The influence of Ostrovsky,
Dostoevsky and Bryusov. Including excerpts from Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden and Prokofiev's The
Gambler and The Fiery Angel.
2.00 Nikolai Demidenko
(piano)
Clementi Sonata in B flat, Op 24 No 2 Weber Sonata in A flat, Op 39
2.45 The BBC Orchestras
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Richard Bernas , Marco Rizzi
(violin), Fiona Kimm (soprano) Verdi Overture: Luisa Miller
Busoni Violin Concerto in D
Scelsi Chukrum (first UK performance) Berio Folk Songs
4.05 Fancies and Consorts
Music for viols by Matthew Locke and Richard Mico , performed on period instruments by Phantasm: Laurence Dreyfus (treble viol), Wendy Gillespie (treble/tenor viols), Jonathan Manson (tenor viol), Markku Luolajan-Mikkola (bass viol). Introduced by Laurence Dreyfus.

New Orleans
Sarah Walker finds out about the traditions of New Orleans marching bands and jazz funerals. Repeat

Sean Rafferty talks to conductor
Nicholas Braithwaite about Come the Revolution, a series of BBC summer invitation concerts being given by the Ulster Orchestra. His other guest is Helen Henson , who talks about the Ulster Youth Orchestra.
Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Netherlands Wind Ensemble, conductor Richard Dufallo
5.30 Stemdale Bennett A Stroll through the Meadows (Piano Concerto No 5) Malcolm Binns (piano), Philharmonia, conductor Nicholas Braithwaite
6.10 Copland Four Dance Episodes from "Rodeo"
Detroit SO, conductor Antal Dorati
6.35 Bridge Sir Roger de Coverley New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Braithwaite Producer David Byers

A first appearance at the Proms for Russia's newest orchestra - a virtuoso band founded by pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev. Russian music dominates tonight's programme from the Royal Albert Hall, London, from Lyadov's richly atmospheric fairy-tale tone poems to a forthright and inspiring Shostakovich symphony written soon after the death of Stalin. Michael Collins plays Mozart's concerto on the basset clarinet, the instrument for which it was intended.

Michael Collins (basset clarinet), Russian National Orchestra, conductor Mikhail Pletnev

Lyadov Baba-Yaga; The Enchanted Lake; Kikimora

Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K622

7.50 What's in a Name?
Gerard McBurney investigates the web of ciphers, initials and allusions in Shostakovich's tenth symphony.

8.10 Shostakovich Symphony No 10

Philip Dodd presents the Sony Award-winning final part of his exploration of the love affair between art and music in the 20th century. 4: Cartoons
An extraordinary history of the surreal and intimate marriage of animation and music, featuring Chuck Jones , creator of What's Opera Doc?, Jeremy Irons , Tim Rice and a tribute to Carl Stalling. Repeat

Suite d'un gout étranger (excerpts) Jordi Savall (bass viol),
Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Hopkinson Smith (theorbo) Discs

Two of this year's Proms themes meet as the creation is followed by paeans of praise in a setting of the Te Deum. Rameau's overture shows the whole of the process of creation, and Rebel depicts chaos with an astonishing opening chord. Then the first of this season's settings of the ancient liturgical text in one of Rameau's grandest motets - at the summit of a sumptuous and thrilling tradition of French Baroque choral music.
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Ciaron McFadden and Guillemette Laurens (sopranos), Simon Berridge and Rodrigo del Pozo (haute-contres), Andrew King and Nicholas Robertson (tenors), Nicolas Cavallier and Nicolas Riveng (basses), St James's Singers and Baroque Players, conductor Ivor Bolton

Rameau Overture: Zais; Motet: In convertendo

Rebel Chaos (Les Elemens)

Charpentier Te Deum

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. 4: Conductor Nicholas McGegan - responsible for many Handel revivals - talks about sounds, harmonies and the performing of Handel operas today. Including excerpts from
Orlando, Giustino and Radamisto. Repeated from last Thursday

With Digby Fairweather. And, in tonight's edition, Benny Green pays tribute to one of the all-time jazz greats, Ella Fitzgerald.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Choral Evensong from the Chapel of Eton College
Repeated from yesterday 4.00pm
2.00 Dirk Noyen (flute), Belgium Radio Philharmonic, conductor
Hubert Soudant Smetana Vltava (Ma vlast) Mozart Flute Concerto in G, K313
Debussy Prelude a I'apres-midi d'un faune Meulemans Fir Symphony
3.30 Ravel Introduction and Allegro Andreja Mali (harp), William Dowdall
(flute), Romain Guyot (clarinet), Parisii Quartet Brahms Quintet for piano and strings in F minor, Op 34
Barry Douglas (piano), Vanbrugh Quartet
5.00 Sequence