5.55 Creative Management: Innovation
6.15 Bodin and Sovereignty in 16th-century France
6.35 Europe of the Regions

David Cornet presents the fourth of eight programmes of recordings from Europe's premier music festivals, concert halls and recital rooms.
Falconieri Passacaglia I'Eroica
Hesperion XX. director Jordi Savall
7.08 Glazunov Gavotte, Op 49 No 3; Barcarolle, Op 22 No 1 Stefan Lindgren (piano)
7.18 Nielsen Clarinet Concerto
Eddie Daniels (clarinet), Rotterdam Philharmonic. conductor Paavo Jarvi
7.43 Gluck Oh del Mio Dolce Ardor
(Paride ed Elena)
Cecilia Bartoli (soprano), Gyorgy Fischer (piano)
7.49 Glazunov String Quartet in A minor Patrick Swedrup and Peter Olofsson (violins), Tony Bauer (viola), Lars Frykholm (cello)
8.22 Saint-Saens Etude en Forme de
Valse, Op 52 No 6
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
8.30 Eddie Daniels Improvisation The Composer (clarinet)
8.35 Haydn Piano Concerto in G, H XVIII
Barbara Moser (piano),
Austro-Hungarian Orchestra, conductor Adam Fischer

A 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. This week, Stephen Johnson celebrates the centenary of Roberto Gerhard with the help of Meirion Bowen and the composer Hugh Wood. John Eliot Gardiner talks about his forthcoming performance of Beethoven's Leonore. And John
Woolrich discusses his new oboe concerto, a Proms commission.

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(Repeated tomorrow 6.00pm)

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.
Wolf Italian Serenade
Budapest Quartet Sibelius Tapiola
Boston Symphony Orchestra. conductor Serge Koussevitsky
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor
Solomon (piano), Halle Orchestra, conductor Hamilton Harty
11.00 Personal memories of musicians with whom Humphrey Burton has worked closely on television in a career stretching back 40 years.
Today, Colin Davis conducts excerpts from Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte,
Puccini's Tosca and Berlioz's Les
Troyens. Discs

Robert Cowan with the magazine series about the classical music recording business, exploring current issues including politics and finance, techniques and output, the stars and the people behind the scenes. This week's contributors include Michael
Tanner, who blind tastes recordings of Beethoven's String Quartet in F minor, Op 95. Daniella Ganeva talks about her first experience of making a CD. The Story of the CD continues with a look at editing and remixing. And a report from Tanglewood investigates retailers and artists. Among
Robert Cowan 's other guests is Quita Chavez , formerly editorial consultant to Gramophone magazine. Producer Martin Cotton

Michael Oliver presents the fourth of nine programmes featuring recorded performances by the great tenor.

Saint-Saens Samson et Dalila
The Old Testament story offers a superb role for a heroic tenor. Shorn of his hair, and so of his strength, the mighty hero of Israel manages with one last effort to bring the roof crashing down on the Philistines - and on himself. Libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire. Sung in French.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Opera-Bastille, Paris, conductor Myung-Whun Chung

(Next week, Domingo sings the role of Nemorino in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore)

Bedfordshire County Youth Orchestra James MacMillan conducts this orchestra - with soloists from the Philharmonia - in his own work Into the Ferment, inspired by a Robert Burns poem about a whisky-tasting party. The orchestra's regular conductor Michael Rose takes over the rostrum for the rest of the programme, directing the ensemble in Kodaly's Variations on a Hungarian
Folk Song (The Peacock) and, to round things off, Debussy's seascape La Mer. Introduced by Tommy Pearson , who talks to James MacMillan ,
Michael Rose and members of the orchestra.

With Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Discs
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Will Virgil Thomson be remembered as a critic or as a composer? In his centenary year, Michael Oliver seeks the views of Thomson's friends, admirers and detractors. Producer Ray Abbott

The third of five programmes in which pianist Roger Vignoles introduces and plays Beethoven's cello sonatas with five different cellists, together with sonatas from the 20th century. Alexander Baillie (cello), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in A, Op 69 Schnittke Sonata (1978)

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Britain's premier youth orchestra presents a striking programme linking the Old World and the New. Stravinsky's ballet - a pagan ritual in music of startling modernity - provoked a scandal in the Paris of 1913. America salutes the French capital in Gershwin's upbeat cityscape, and Edgar Varese greets America with a massive sound-sculpture, here receiving its first performance at the Proms.

Sally Burgess (mezzo), National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, conductor Paul Daniel

Varese Ameriques

Gershwin But Not for Me: How Long Has This Been Going On?; Slap That Bass; Someone to Watch over Me; The Lorelei; An American in Paris

8.35 Stravinsky Remembered
In the months following Stravinsky's death 25 years ago, his wife Vera and some of his closest friends and colleagues recorded their recollections of the man and his music in conversation with John Amis.

8.55 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

(Simultaneous Broadcast with BBC2)

Third in a six-part series in which author Tibor Fischer meets writers and explores the work which fills the shelves of bookshops around the world. This week, ghosts in Singapore's stockmarket; the German preoccupation with the corpse; and the trail of the European detective story.

This influential American jazz pianist rose to fame in the early sixties with John Coltrane. Geoffrey Smith introduces a concert Tyner gave in May 1994 at the Royal Festival Hall, in which he played solo and with his 15-piece big band including Billy Harper (tenor sax), Steve Turre (trombone), John Clarke (French horn) and Jerry Gonzalez (percussion). During the interval, Geoffrey Smith talks to McCoy Tyner about his experiences with John Coltrane. Repeat

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 A jazz concert featuring Rita Marcotulli (piano) and Palle Danielsson (double bass)
2.00 Loire Philharmonic/Hubert Soudant Jon Leifs Three Images Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 1
Alexander Mogilevsky (piano) Bruch
Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Vadim
Gluzman (violin) Weber Clarinet
Concerto No 1 in F minor Michel Portal
(clarinet) Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations Jian Wang (cello)
3.30 Choral works by Bortnyansky, Leontovych, Lysenko and Shostakovich. Ukrainian Children's
Chorus/Mikola Katsal
5.00 Sequence