With Andrew McGregor.
Handel Suite No 3 in D minor,
HWV428
Murray Perahia (piano)
6.17 Respighi Fountains of Rome London Philharmonic, conductor Carlo Rizzi
7.05 Mendelssohn Overture: A
Midsummer Night's Dream Royal Philharmonic, conductor Thomas Beecham
7.32 Biber Battalia a 10 Purcell Quartet
8.05 Bach, orch Stokowski Sheep May Safely Graze BBC Philharmonic, conductor Matthias Bamert
8.42 Mozart Oboe Quartet in F, K370 The Lindsays, Nicholas Daniel (oboe)

With Penny Gore

Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit Martha Argerich (piano)

9.23 Brahms Drei Gesange , Op 42 Swedish Radio Choir, conductor Eric Ericson

9.33 Verdi String Quartet in E minor Hagen Quartet

(Discs)

From the Town Hall,
Cheltenham, with Chris Wines.
Elgar Introduction and Allegro Halle Orchestra , conductor John Barbirolli
10.15 Hugh Wood Quintet for
Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Cello and Piano
London Music Group
10.23 Hoist Ye Little Birds, Op 12 No
City of Birmingham Symphony
Chorus, conductor Simon Halsey
10.25 Brahms Trio in A minor, Op 114 Janet Hilton (clarinet),
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello), Peter Frankl (piano)
10.52 Proms Artist of the Week:
Nicholas McGegan (conductor) Handel Scherza Infida (Ariodante)
Lorraine Hunt (soprano),
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
11.04 Stevens Fantasia on Giles Famaby's "His Dream"
Jeremy Filsell (piano)
11.29 Alwyn Symphony No 1 London Philharmonic, conducted by the Composer

"Between ourselves, the best thing of all is the combination of the surprising and the beautiful."
Stephanie Hughes looks at some of the musical experiments that reflect the composer's maxim that "art demands of us that we shall not stand still".
Bagatelle in C, Op 119 No 7 Melvyn Tan (fortepiano) Opferlied, Op 121b Jean Rigby (mezzo),
Corydon Singers and Orchestra, conductor Matthew Best
Variations in F, Op 34
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Bundeslied, Op 122
Ambrosian Singers, members of the London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
Fantasia in G minor, Op 77 Artur Schnabel (piano) An die Feme Geliebte
Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Heinrich Schmidt (piano)
Anon, attrib Beethoven Malzel 's Canon, WoO 162
Vienna Academy Chamber Choir, conductor Xaver Mayer
Repeated next Tuesday 11.30pm Tomorrow's programme is at 10am

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Mark Wigglesworth , Stephen Hough (piano)
Mozart Symphony No 39 in E flat, K543
Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat

Pianist lain Burnside introduces and accompanies soprano
Catrin Wyn-Davies in a recital given last
Tuesday at London's Wigmore Hall. Wolf Fruhling ubers Jahr;
Das Verlassene Magdlein ; Blumengruss; Gleich und Gleich; Anakreons Grab: Erstes Liebeslied eines Madchens
Barber Hermit Songs, Op 29 (selection) Copland Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson (selection)
Repeated from yesterday 10pm

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductor Martyn Brabbins
Wagner Lohengrin (Preludes to Acts 1 and 3) Haydn Symphony No 99 in E flat

This year, the York Early Music
Festival marks its 20th anniversary. George Pratt and his guests look back over two decades of summer music-making in this historic city, with highlights from past festivals and a taste of this year's events. Repeated from Sunday 2.50pm

Ceremonial Music
Tommy Pearson goes back in history to look at the music that was composed for the royal courts.

With Geoffrey Baskerville , including
6.30 Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915 Kathleen Battle (soprano), Orchestra of St Luke's, conductor Andre Previn
7.00 Victoria Ave Maris Stella
The Sixteen, director Harry Christophers Producer Svend Brown

The final concert in this series of celebrity piano recitals from Studio One, Birmingham, is given by Dutch pianist Ronald Brautigam. He made his debut performance in Amsterdam in 1979 and has since appeared with all the major orchestras in the Netherlands. Beethoven Piano Sonata in B flat, Op 22
Schubert Piano Sonata in A, D664
8.20 A Medical History
It's where the name Bedlam originated and is celebrating 750 years of treating the mentally ill. A historical look at the changing attitudes to psychiatric illness, the treatments, and some of the more colourful patients at the Bethiem
Royal Hospital, now merged with the Maudsley. The programme features contributions from medical and social historians, plus an interview with historian Roy Porter , who has just co-written a book on the subject.
8.40 Schubert Two Scherzos, D593 Beethoven Piano Sonata in F minor, Op 57 (Appassionata)
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Five programmes in which Michael Billington talks to actors about key roles in the repertoire.

When Hedda Gabler opened in London in 1891, the Daily Telegraph critic wrote, "What a horrible story! What a hideous play!" Alexandra Gilbreath and Harriet Walter reveal the challenge of playing the passionate, destructive character of Hedda.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Christopher Seaman
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 2 (London)

Spielberg: Hollywood's brightest star or a big kid responsible for the dumbing down of cinema? As the sequel to Jurassic Park, Lost World, is released and a new biography hits the bookshelves, Richard Coles assesses Steven Spielberg 's contribution to the world of film.
Producer Mohit Bakaya
+ Ten things every Steven Spielberg fan ought to know: page 41

With Catherine Bott. 2: Barcelona
Anon Stella Splendens New London Consort
El Cant de la Sibilla (excerpt) Gisela Bellsola (soprano), Obsidienne Los Set Goyts; Cuncti Simus ; Mariam
Matrem Virginem; Los Set Goyts Alia Francesca
Barcelona Mass (Gloria; Sanctus; Agnus Dei) Obsidienne
Ad Mortem Festinamus
New London Consort
Repeated from last Tuesday

Digby Fairweather is joined by Blow the Fuse originator and bandleader
Deirdre Cartwright to review new jazz CDs from the fusion end of jazz music.

With David Cornet.
1.00 Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 77 No 1 Franz Schubert Quartet String Quartet in F, Op 77 No 2 The Lindsays
1.50 Danish National Radio
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ulf Schirmer , Joshua Bell (violin) Bent Sorensen Symphony
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D
Nielsen Symphony No 5
3.25 Caroline Palmer (piano) Mompou Impresiones Intimas Falla Fantasia Betica 3.55 Berlin Philharmonic/Wojiech
Michniewski, Jadwiga Rappe (contralto) Karl Hartmann Symphony No 1
Franck Symphony No 1 in D minor
5.00 Sequence