5.55 American Conversations: Julian Bond
6.15 Montaigne and Political Authority
6.35 The Rational Amusement

David Cornet presents the fifth of eight programmes of recordings from Europe's premier music festivals, concert halls and recital rooms.
Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in D,
BWV1068
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, conductor Thomas Hengelbrock
7.28 Reger Silhouette in F sharp, Op 53 No 3; Bunte Blatter, Op 36; Aus Meinem Tagebuch, Op 82; Humoreske, Op 143 No 10 Mats Jansson (piano)
7.43 Gluck, arr Viardot/Saint-Saens Amour, Viens Rendre a Mon Ame
(Orfeo ed Euridice)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), CO of Europe, conductor Herbert Blomstedt
7.50 Beethoven Piano Trio in D,
Op 70 No 1 (Ghost)
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Heinrich Schiff (cello),
Christian Zacharias (piano)
8.18 Reger Folk Song Arrangements (1899, excerpts)
Swedish Radio Choir
8.30 Saint-Saens Allegro
Appassionato in C sharp minor, Op 70 Stefan Lindgren (piano)
8.36 Sibelius Suite: Pelleas and Melisande (excerpts)
Rotterdam Philharmonic, conductor Paavo Jarvi
Producer Peter Thresh

A magazine previewing 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, conductor Daniel Harding looks forward to his Proms debut; the New York Philharmonic's concerts are anticipated by their conductor Kurt Masur and Thomas Stacy, soloist in Ned Rorem's cor anglais concerto; members of the Philharmonia Chorus prepare for their performance of Bruckner's Te Deum; and Andrew Davis brings Lulu from Glyndebourne for a semi-staged production.

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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.
Beethoven Overture: Fidelio
Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler
Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Karl Bbhm
11.00 Personal memories of musicians with whom Humphrey Burton has worked closely on television in a career stretching back 40 years.
Today, a musical profile of Benjamin Britten as composer, with excerpts from Noye's Fludde and Peter Grimes as well as The Building of the House and Hymn to St Cecilia. Britten also accompanies tenor Peter Pears in songs by Schubert and some of his own folk-song arrangements.

Robert Cowan with the magazine series about the classical music recording business. This week's contributors include composer Steve Martland , who blind-tastes recordings of Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
. Abbey Road Studio No 1 is examined in a regular feature about recording venues: The Story of a CD continues with a look at packaging; and a feature on the difference between live and recorded music includes comment from Roger Norrington. A discussion looks into the grey area of contracts, image-moulding and being tied to one company. Among Robert Cowan 's other guests is John Willan.

Michael Oliver presents the fifth of nine programmes featuring recorded performances by the great tenor. Donizetti L'Elisir d'Amore
This rustic comedy - to a libretto by Felice Romani - tells how the devotion of the simple peasant Nemorino to his beloved Adina eventually triumphs, thanks to the help of a couple of bottles of Bordeaux supplied by the quack Dulcamara. Sung in Italian.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conductor John Pritchard
Next week, Domingo sings in Gomes's // Guarany

The first of two transatlantic trips in this series visits Canada to spotlight the Quebec Music Conservatoire Orchestra, whose programmes always include at least one French-Canadian piece. Conductors Gilles Auger and Raffi Armenian
Tchaikovsky Marche Slave
Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber
Hetu Le Tombeau de Nelligan (first UK broadcast)
Nielsen Symphony No 3 (Sinfonia Espansiva)

With Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall Discs
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Is the music of Roger Sessions "a passing disease from which we shall one day recover" (Winthrop Sargeant ) or "profoundly moving, inspired and visionary" (Andrew Porter )? In conversation with Sessions' pupils and friends in the composer's centenary year, Michael Oliver asks whether his music can survive its reputation. Producer Ray Abbott

The fourth of five programmes in which pianist Roger Vignoles introduces and plays Beethoven's cello sonatas with five different cellists, together with music from the 20th century.
Heinrich Schiff (cello), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in C, Op 102 No 1 Lutoslawski Grave
Henze Serenade for solo cello
Debussy Sonata

The BBC Symphony Orchestra's new principal guest conductor gives his first Prom with the orchestra from the Royal Albert Hall , London, featuring music by three Czech master composers.
Martinu's rarely heard Mass is flanked by Dvorak's response to the timeless words of the Te Deum and by the thundering sonorities of Janacek. One of Mozart's late, great concertos acts as a contrasting centre point.
Judith Howarth (soprano), Ivan Kusnjer (baritone), Richard Goode (piano), BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Jiri Belohlavek
Dvorak Te Deum
Mozart Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat, K595
8.30 Royal Albert Hall
A look behind the scenes at this great building and at its personalities and audiences in its 125th anniversary year. The programme also looks forward to the hall's future in the 21st century.
8.50 Martinu Field Mass
Janacek Sinfonietta
SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST with BBC2

Fourth in asix-part series in which author Tibor Fischer meets writers and explores the work that fills the shelves of bookshops around the world. This week, women's writing in India; the oral poetry of famine in Ethiopia; and literary vultures in Hollywood.

Brian Morton introduces a concert given last year in the Adrian Boult Hall , Birmingham, by two bands led by drummers. From America, the Gerry Hemingway Quintet are joined by Michael Moore (reeds),
Wolter Wierbos (trumbone), Ernst Reijseger (cello) and Mark Dresser (double bass). From Britain, the Steve
Arguelles Band are joined by Julian Arguelles (alto saxophone), Stuart Hall (violin/guitar), Huw Warren (accordion) and Steve Watts (double bass). During the interval, Brian Morton talks to
Gerry Hemingway about his graduation from rock 'n' roll and Jimi Hendrix , his 12 years with Anthony Braxton , and the formation of his own quintet. Repeal

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 A jazz concert featuring the Bobe Stenson Trio
2.10 French Radio Philharmonic/
Marek Janowski Smetana Overture:
The Bartered Bride; Ma Vlast
(excerpts) Dvorak Symphony No 8 in G
3.30 Concerto Italiano and director
Rinaldo Alessandrini perform works by Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti
5.00 Sequence