With Penny Gore.
Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals
7.05 Grieg Overture: In Autumn
7.19 Lassus Madonna Mia , Pieta; 0
Occhi, Manza Mia , Cigli Dorati !
7.32 Debussy, orch Busser Printemps
8.05 Rebelo Lauda Jerusalem
8.32 Michael Haydn Symphony in B flat, P9

With Catriona Young.
Boyce Symphony in A, Op 2 No 2
Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
9.07 Byrd Mass for Four Voices
Tallis Scholars, director Peter Phillips
9.29 William De Fesch Flute Concerto in D, Op 5 No 4
Jed Wentz (flute), Musica ad Rhenum
9.37 Milhaud Le Boeufsurle Toit
Lyons Opera Orchestra, conductor Kent Nagano Discs

With Mary Miller.
Monteverdi Zefiro Toma
Concerto Italiano, director Rinaldo Alessandrini
10.05 Schubert, arr Liszt Soirées de Vienne No 6
Yevgeni Kissin (piano)
10.12 Menotti Errand into the Maze Atlantic Sinfonietta, conductor Andrew Schenk
10.27 Vaughan Williams The Vagabond Bryn Terfel (baritone),
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
10.40 Proms Artist of the Week:
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Rossini // Viaggio a Riems (excerpt) Soloists, Berlin Philharmonic 10.50 Rameau Suite: Les Boreades (excerpt)
Orchestra of the 18th Century, director Frans Bruggen
11.10 Tcherepnin La Princesse Lointaine
Russian National Orchestra, conductor Mikhail Pletnev
11.20 Berg Chamber Concerto Isaac Stem (violin), Peter Serkin
(piano), LSO, conductor Claudio Abbado

With Philip Brady. 3: Absent Friends
Brahms was one of the most enthusiastic supporters of the 19th-century revival of interest in Baroque and pre-Baroque music. His debt to Bach, Handel and Schutz is unmistakeable in many works. Prelude and Fugue in A minor Kevin Bowyer (organ)
Motet: Es 1st das Heil, Op 29 No 1 Trinity College Choir, director Richard Marlow
Chorale Prelude: Est 1st ein Ros'
Entsprungen, Op 122 No 8 Kevin Bowyer (organ)
Motet: Warum 1st das Licht, Op 74 No 1 Trinity College Choir, director Richard Marlow
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op 24
Julius Katchen (piano)
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm

With Fiona Talkington.
1.00 Manchester Summer
Recitals
In the seventh of ten concerts, Rodney Slatford introduces Manchester-based pianist Andrew Wilde.
Haydn Sonata in E flat, H XVI 52 Schumann Kinderszenen
Chopin Barcarolle in F sharp, Op 60
2.00 Midweek Choice:
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With Fiona Talkington. Ring in with your request by lunchtime for a chance to hear it today. Including Ewald Symphony for Brass
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble Beethoven Piano Sonata in F, Op 10 No 2
Annie Fischer
Strauss Die Liebe der Danae
(excerpts)
Halle Orchestra , conductor John Barbirolli
Producer Peter Thresh Discs
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4.00 Choral Evensong
From St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Introit: Prevent Us 0 Lord (Byrd) Responses (Lloyd)
Office Hymn: Te Lucis ante Terminum (arr Tallis)
Psalms 136 - 138 (Atkins, Lang, Ley) First Lesson: Ecclesiasticus 44, w 1-15
Canticles: Collegium Regale (Howells) Second Lesson: Matthew 25, w 1-13
Anthem: Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice
(Finzi)
Hymn: 0 for a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Thalben Ball)
Organ Voluntary: Fugue sur le Theme du Carillon des Heures de la
Cathédrale de Soissons (Durufle) Master of music
Timothy Byram Wigfield.
Assistant organist Peter Blackhouse. Repeated tomorrow at 1.00am

The String Family
Tommy Pearson talks to cellist Julian Lloyd Webber about his career. Repeat

Linda Ormiston 's final visit to the 50th
Edinburgh International Festival, with guests from the Fringe and music including
Rameau Les Fetes d'Hebe (excerpt) Orchestra of the 18th Century, conductor Frans Bruggen

From St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh. The last of three concerts from the Edinburgh Festival's three-week-long survey of all Haydn's quartets. Introduced by Geoffrey Baskerville.
Lindsay Quartet
Haydn String Quartets: in F minor, Op 55 No 2 (Razor); in B flat, Op 55 No 3

Gluck Iphigenie en Tauride (excerpt) Lyons Opera Orchestra, conductor John Eliot Gardiner

Tonight, the first of two Proms by the world-renowned Berlin Philharmonic, whose strength and depth of sound is ideally suited to the richly resonant music of Brahms. The hard-won first piano concerto and first symphony were the triumphant results of the composer's deeply felt convictions about continuing and revitalising the great German tradition.

Radu Lupu (piano), Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado

Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor

8.20 The Berlin Philharmonic and the New Berlin
Ivan Hewett explores the artistic and economic climate of Germany since reunification and discovers the importance of the Berlin Philharmonic within the new greater state.

8.40 Brahms Symphony No 1 in C minor

My Kind of Song
The baritone Stephen Varcoe introduces songs which have been important to him over the years. Including
Musorgsky Lullaby (Songs and Dances of Death) Kim Borg (bass)
Finzi Wonder (Dies Natalis) Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Grainger Shallow Brown
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
Elgar Where Corals Lie (Sea Pictures) Janet Baker (mezzo)
- and a few surprises.
Repeated next Monday 3.45pm

Christopher Cook presents a critical history of British ballet. With directors Dame Ninette de Valois , Sir Anthony Dowell , Norman Morrice and Monica Mason , and choreographers and dancers David Bintley ,
Jonathon Burrows , Richard Alston , Christopher Gable and Pamela May. Repeat

With Jonathan Swain.
3: Marching with Mahler
Three Orchestral Pieces, Op 6 Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Herbert von Karajan Three Wozzeck Fragments Renée Fleming (soprano),
New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conductor James Levine
Repeated from last Wednesday

With Digby Fairweather.
Lammas, a group fusing Celtic and jazz music, recorded in concert at this year's Bath international Festival.

With David Cornet.
1.00 Steven Isserlis (cello), Frankfurt RSO/Eiji Oue Tavener The Protecting Veil Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
2.40 Naples Academic Quartet Haydn The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross
3.30 Andreas Haefliger (piano), French National Orchestra/Claus Peter Flor Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 in C minor, K467 Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E
5.00 Sequence