Stephanie Hughes presents music, views and arts news, including a review of the new production of Simon Boccanegra at Glyndebourne. Music includes Elgar's Three
Bavarian Dances performed by the Bournemouth SO, conductor
Norman Del Mar , at 6.10; Bizet's
L'Arlesienne Suite No 2 played by the Paris Orchestra, conductor Semyon Bychkov , at 7.30; Cherubini's aria
Non So Piu Cosa Son from Mozart's
The Marriage of Figaro sung by Veronique Gens (soprano) with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Ivor Bolton , at 8.05; and Malcolm Arnold 's exuberant Four Scottish Dances, played by the Philharmonia, conductor Bryden Thomson , at 8.30. Producer Joanne Whitworth

With Peter Hobday , featuring Nielsen's symphonies and recordings by pianist Glenn Gould.
Mozart Overture: Idomeneo
Tafelmusik, conductor Bruno Weil
9.05 Bach, after Marcello Concerto in D minor, BWV974 Glenn Gould (piano)
9.16 Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat, Op 47 Beaux Arts Trio, Samuel Rhodes (viola)
9.44 Bach Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV903 Glenn Gould (piano)
9.55 Nielsen Symphony No 1 Danish State Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Thomas Jensen Producer Tony Cheevers

John Williams
Segovia, the Spanish guitar virtuoso. said of John Williams that "a prince of the guitar has arrived - God has laid a finger on his brow". Since his debut in London's Wigmore Hall in 1958 at the age of 17, John Williams has been delighting audiences around the world. The range of his work has been enormous, and he talks to Joan Bakewell about his life and career.
Producer Lyndon Jones

Sound Stories In New York
This week, Sound Stories visits the world's most exciting city and takes a look at its history through the music that has made it so special. Today, Donald Macleod looks at the 1920s and the extraordinary life of the flamboyant Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld , father of the famous revues, the Ziegfeld Follies. Music includes excerpts from Showboat and The Student Prince, and the singing voices of Julie Andrews ,
Michelle Pfeiffer , Thomas Hampson and Beverly Sills. Producer Kevin Bee

Geoffrey Baskerville introduces two very different characters who lived in the dangerous and unpredictable world of 16th-century England.
Tallis The Third Tune (Why Fum'th in Fight)
Theatre of Voices, director Paul Hillier Byrd Lullaby
Jacqueline Fox (mezzo), Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley Tallis Lamentations of Jeremiah
(excerpts)
Tallis Scholars , director Peter Philips Byrd The Carman's Whistle Skip Sempe (harpsichord)
Byrd Mass for Three Voices (Kyrie; Gloria) Hilliard Ensemble
Tallis Gaude Gloriosa Dei Mater Clerkes of Oxenford, director David Wulstan Producer David McGuinness
Repeated next Monday 12 midnight

From St John's, Smith
Square, London.
Stephen Kovacevich (piano) Brahms Ballade in B, Op 10 No 4;
Intermezzo in B flat, Op 76 No 4;
Intermezzo in B minor, Op 119 No 1 Schubert Piano Sonata in A, D959 Repeated Saturday 1pm

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductors Osmo Vanska and Jerzy Maksymiuk , Elisabeth Batiashviii (violin) Elgar Froissart Overture
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5 Haydn Violin Concerto in C Sibelius Symphony No 5

With Jeremy Sams.
Island Magic. Naxos, Tahiti and Robinson Crusoe's island are just some of the isolated pieces of land featured in operas by Strauss,
Bernstein, Offenbach and others.

Tommy Pearson is joined by the quartet Tintagel to discover how animals - both domestic and exotic
- were a source of inspiration for medieval composers.
Producer Christina Pritchard
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Sean Rafferty previews the Grange
Park opera festival in Hampshire and the unusual pairing of the Royal
Ballet with the Hochhausers at the London Coliseum. Music includes
Grainger's Bridal Lullaby, Tasmin
Little playing Spiegel im Spiegel by Part and, before 7.00, Prokofiev's suite Lieutenant Kije.

Cheltenham Festival 1998
The first of three concerts given this week in which Alfred Brendel plays all of Beethoven's piano concertos. Alfred Brendel (piano), Warsaw Sinfonia , conductor Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 in C Michael Berkeley Gethsemani
Fragment for Strings
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 in G
Next concert Wednesday 7.30pm

Taking the Waters
Kathleen Griffin begins a week-long exploration of the European spas where the royal, the rich and the artistic flocked for purging, purification and pleasure.
1: Cheltenham - the Musical Spa Repeat

Music for three cellos by this largely forgotten German composer
(1783-1860), performed by Anner Bylsma , Kenneth Slowik and Steven Doane. Discs

French poet Charles Baudelaire cast a long shadow over music and literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, lain Burnside looks at some of the song composers who came under his spell, including
Faure, Duparc, Debussy and Berg. Producer Adam Gatehouse
Repeated tomorrow 4pm

With Mark Russell and Robert Sandall .
Saxophonist John Lurie - the quintessential bohemian hipster with a voice to die for - is in session. With him are two of his
Lounge Lizards - Mauro Refosco on percussion and Calvin Weston on drums.
Producer Ekene Akalawu

With Digby Fairweather. Jazz news and reviews with Dave Gelly , including books on Chet Baker and Billy Strayhom.
Producer Terry Carter

With Humphrey Burton.
1: The Making of Barber. "I was meant to be a composer, and will be, I'm sure ... Don't ask me to try and forget this unpleasant thing and go play football.... Please." (A letter from the nine-year-old Barber to his mother)
A Slumber Song of the Madonna Cheryl Studer (soprano), John Browning (piano) Serenade for Strings Symphony of the Air, conductor Vladimir Golschmann
Dover Beach The Composer (baritone), Curtis Quartet
Overture: The School for Scandal
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Zinman
Symphony No 1
St Louis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Repeated from last Monday

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Jean-Paul Dessy (cello), Boyan Vodenicharov (piano) Faure Elegie
Debussy Cello Sonata Lekeu Cello Sonata
3.00 Mahler Symphony No 3 Encarnacion Vazquez (mezzo),
Chorus and Children's Chorus of the National School of Music, Mexico, University of Mexico Philharmonic, conductor Ronald Zollman
4.45 Caldara Dunque , Giasone Ingrato
Gerard Lesne (alto),
II Seminario Musicale
5.15 Shostakovich Piano Concerto
No 2 Patrik Jablonski ,
Polish Radio Orchestra of Warsaw, conductor Wojciech Rajski
5.50 Schubert, orch Guiraud Marche Militaire in D, 0733 No 1
Camerata Bern, conductor Thomas Furi