Stephanie Hughes with music and arts news, including a preview of this year's Cheltenham Festival. Music includes Palestrina's polychoral
Stabat Mater after the news at 6.00; Mozart's Violin Concerto No 2 in D.
K211, played by Henryk Szeryng with the New York Philharmonic, conductor Alexander Gibson , at about 7.30; and Chabrier's Suite Pastorale played by the Vienna
Philharmonic, conductor John Eliot
Gardiner, after the arts news at 8.20.

With Peter Hobday.
Wagner Overture: Rienzi Philharmonia , conductor Otto Klemperer
9.12 Haydn String Quartet in F minor, Op 20 No 5 Hagen Quartet
9.34 Malcolm Arnold Rute Sonata
Judith Pearce , Ian Brown (piano)
9.42 Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488 Marguerite Long , Paris SO, conductor Philippe Gaubert
10.08 Haydn String Quartet in A, Op 20 No 6 Kodaly Quartet

Margaret Price
Joan Bakewell talks to soprano
Margaret Price about her concert career and how one misjudgement could have ruined it. Music includes an aria by Handel, part of Ravel's Sheherazade and the singer's favourite recording.

five Novelists
With Peggy Reynolds.
5: James Joyce. The Irish novelist studied singing and loved opera.
Music permeates all his work, from The Dead and A Portrait of the Artist to Ulysses and the great river music of his final masterpiece, Finnegans Wake. Including excerpts from: Verdi Esultate! (Otello) John O'Sullivan (tenor)
Flotow Ach so Fromm (Martha)
Roberto Alagna (tenor),
LPO, conductor Richard Armstrong Meyerbeer 0 Beau Pays de la Touraine (Les Huguenots) Joan Sutherland (soprano), New Philharmonia, conductor Richard Bonynge
Mozart La Ci Darem la Mano (Don Giovanni ) London Concert Artists Berio Chamber Music
Cathy Berberian (soprano), ensemble Plus the voice of Joyce himself.
INVENTING AMERICA

With Humphrey Burton. 5: Barber in Later Life
Must the Winter Come So Soon?; I Should Never Have Been a Doctor; Goodbye, Erika (Vanessa)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conductor Dmitri Mitropoulos Piano Concerto
John Browning , Cleveland Orchestra, conductor George Szell
The Senate in Rome; Oh Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away (Antony and Cleopatra)
Westminster Choir,
Spoleto Festival Orchestra, conductor Christian Badea
In the Hot Depth of This Summer (The Lovers)
Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andrew Schenck
Repeated next Friday 12 midnight

Mozart in the City
The fourth of eight programmes featuring Mozart quartets recorded in a variety of historic London venues. Introduced by Lucie Skeaping. Endellion Quartet
String Quartets: in A, K464; in B flat, K458 (Hunt)
Next programme Tuesday lpm

Rudolf Serkin
Pianist Rudolf Serkin , who died in 1991, was part of the large exodus of musicians from central Europe to the United States in the 1930s which so enriched American musical life. Serkin did so as both performer and teacher. He was a frequent and welcome visitor to Britain, and in this programme of concert recordings, Paul Guinery introduces Serkin playing music by Reger, Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven.
Producer Peter Tanner

Repeated from yesterday 10pm

Technology
Verity Sharp explores the latest developments in music creation and distribution on the internet.

Richard Rodney Bennett joins Sean Rafferty to talk about a forthcoming concert with John Harle in the Ironmongers Hall as part of the City of London Festival, including music by Britten, Sondheim and Bennett himself. Music in this programme includes Mozart's Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216, before
6.00; and Stravinsky's Petrushka at about 6.30.

From Bad Kissingen, Germany. The BBC
Symphony Orchestra and their principal guest conductor visit a beautiful spa town in northern Bavaria.
Conductor Jiri Belohlavek , Andras Schiff (piano)
Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides
(Fingal's Cave)
Dvorak Piano Concerto in G minor
7.50 Fantasia on a Favourite Waltz
By William Boyd. Hamburg in the 1940s. She walks in the streets and he plays the piano. One day he gives her a musical score - a sign of greatness to come? Read by Haydn Gwynne. Repeat
8.10 Brahms Symphony No 1 in C minor
INVENTING AMERICA

With Ian Peacock.
Jim Carrey's new film, The Truman Show, features a man whose entire life is a 24-hour, live television show. Is this a metaphor for America itself, which increasingly lives through the TV? In this surreal programme inspired by Baudrillard, we meet a Texan rancher who argues that television violence is part of American heritage, a Californian raw-meat enthusiast who feels the real America has moved on to the internet, and a New York presenter who only makes television about television.

Pianists Joanna MacGregor and Eric Parkin play blues music by Nancarrow, Copland and Erroll Gamer.

The Bath Festival's recent contemporary music weekend focused on the string quartet. Verity Sharp talks to composers and performers and introduces four works played by the Arditti Quartet. Thomas Ades Arcadiana
Jonathan Harvey String Quartet No 3 Luca Francesconi String Quartet
No 3 (Mirrors) (first UK performance) Akira Nishimura String Quartet No 3 (Avian) (first UK performance) Producer Philip Tagney

Repeated from Saturday 5.30pm

With Roderick Swanston.
Symphony in F, Wql83 No 3; Quartet inG, Wq95;Heilig. Wq217; Symphony in D, Wql83 No 1 Repeated from last Friday