With Andrew McGregor , including Chopin Scherzo No 4 in E, Op 54 Tamas Vasary (piano)
6.15 Strauss Prelude: Capriccio Raphael Ensemble
7.05 Vivaldi Recorder Concerto in C,
RV444 Peter Holtslag , English
Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
7.32 Stravinsky The Faun and the Shepherdess Sarah Walker (mezzo), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Mark Wigglesworth
8.05 Wagner Overture: The Flying
Dutchman London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington
8.43 Ravel Bolero
New York PO, conductor Kurt Masur
With Penny Gore .
Handel Suite No 5 in E, HWV430
Murray Perahia (piano)
9.09 Dowland Awake, Sweet Love;
Come, Heavy Sleepe
Martyn Hill (tenor), Emma Kirkby (soprano), Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley
9.17 Mozart Serenade in C, K204
Vienna Concentus Musicus, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt Discs
With Susan Sharpe. Uadov Polonaise
USSR Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov
10.06 Chopin Ballade No 3 in A flat, Op 47 Kathryn Stott (piano)
11.00 Mendelssohn Rondo Capriccioso Kathryn Stott (piano)
11.12 Proms Artist of the Week:
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Bach Chaconne (Partita in D minor, BWV1004)
11.28 Lutoslawskl Concerto for
Orchestra BBCSO, conductor Andrew Davis
With John Thornley.
4: Musical reflections of the women in Bartok's life - violinist Stefi Geyer ; Klara Gombossy , a forester's daughter whom he met while collecting folk songs in Slovakia; and his two wives, Marta Ziegler and Ditta Pasztory. If I Climb the Rocky Mountains (Hungarian Folk Songs) Julia Hamari (mezzo), Ilona Prunyi (piano) String Quartet No 1 Vegh Quartet
Portrait of a Girl (Sketches for Piano) Gulsin Onay
In Vivid Dreams (orch Kodaly) Julia Hamari (mezzo),
Hungarian State Orchestra, conductor Janos Kovacs
New Hungarian Folk Song; Chromatic Invention (Mikrokosmos) The Composer and Ditta Pasztory-Bartok (pianos) Door 7 (Bluebeard's Castle)
London Philharmonic, conductor Georg Solti
Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm
A four-part survey of some of the many ways composers have taken
Shakespeare's plays as the basis for music. In the first programme, Peter Conrad sets out the Shakespearean framework by introducing stage versions of Romeo and Juliet by, among others, Berlioz, Bellini, Gounod, Prokofiev and Leonard Bernstein.
Producer Piers Burton-Page
Another chance to hear Sunday's concert, in which a long-standing Proms tradition is given a new twist. This year's performance of Beethoven's ninth is given on period instruments.
Luba Orgonasova (soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Gordon Gietz (tenor), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Schubert Stabat Mater in G minor; Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern, D714; Psalm 23; Hymnus an den Heiligen Geist
Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral)
(piano)
Scarlatti Sonatas: in A minor, Kk3; in D, Kk29; in G minor, Kk8; in C sharp minor, Kk247; in A, Kk24 Debussy Preludes (Book 1) Repeat
MIT. Tod Machover of the media laboratory at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in Boston is a composer of operas with a difference. Tommy Pearson talks to him about the future of the art-form and finds out about his latest project, The Brain Opera. Repeat
With Sean Rafferty , including
5.30 Puccini Intermezzo (Manon Lescaut, Act 3)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
6.05 Mozart Symphony No 24 in B flat, K182
Prague Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
6.30 Sibelius Scenes Historiques: Suite No 1
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
7.20 Delius Summer Night on the River Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
Producer David Byers
Live. A first Proms performance of Shostakovich's intense settings of folk poetry is the centrepiece of a scintillating all-Russian programme at London's Royal Albert Hall. It marks the return to the Proms, after his brilliant debut last year, of the charismatic conductor Valery Gergiev, who brings his own orchestra from the Maryinsky Theatre in St Petersburg.
Marina Shaguch (soprano), Larissa Diadkova (mezzo), Yevgeni Akimov (tenor), Kirov Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev
Tchaikovsky Overture: Romeo and Juliet
Shostakovich From Jewish Folk Poetry
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherezade
Arch Tait introduces a story by one of the leading new Russian writers. Victor Pelevin 's work uses satire, fantasy and the grotesque to portray the chaos in a world trying to fuse old Soviet bureaucracy with new capitalist freedoms.
8.45 Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
Michael Rosen examines four very different historical attempts at moulding the minds of the young.
3: Little Hitlers. "If we wish to raise heroes, then we will have to expose our children early enough to the concepts of war and heroism," rang the battle cry from the National
Socialist Teachers Association. No other state so comprehensively overturned the world of children's literature and education as the Nazis in their 12-year Reich. Repeat
Keith Puddy (clarinet), Hugh Bean
(violin), Lionel Handy (cello), Shelagh Sutherland (piano) Hindemith Quartet Repeat
Boredom is a recent invention. Julia Eisner talks to historians, composers, biographers and poets about this peculiar modern state. With Michael Holroyd , John Wells , Denise Riley , Kevin Volans and Jonathan Keates. Repeat
Paul Guinery surveys Brahms's vocal and choral output.
Es 1st das Heil Uns Kommen Her,
Op 29 No 1
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, director Richard Marlow
Three Quartets, Op 64
Edith Mathis (soprano),
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Peter Schreier (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Karl Engel (piano)
String Sextet No 1 in B flat, Op 18 Amadeus Quartet, Cecil Aronowitz (viola), William Pleeth (cello) Repeated from last Thursday
Campbell Burnap concludes his survey of trombonists by exploring recordings from the past 25 years, including Carl Fontana , Bill Watrous , Albert Mangelsdorff and Ray Anderson.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Choral Evensong from the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge, with the BBC Philharmonic
Repeated from yesterday 4pm
2.00 Bombay Mark Tully introduces the first of four concerts, each from a different Indian city, as part of the 50 anniversary of independence celebrations. Tonight's concert comes from Bombay and features flute player Hari Prasad Chaurasia.
3.30 Laurent Lorcia (violin), Katia Skanavi (piano) Janacek Violin Sonata Franck Violin Sonata
4.20 Just'a 5 Quintet
Victor Ewald Symphony No 2 Enrique Crespo Five Works
5.00 Sequence
