Petroc Trelawny with music including Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine performed by the Choir of New
College, Oxford, conducted by Edward Higginbottom at 6.10; Mendelssohn's String Symphony No 10 in B minor played by the Orpheus Chamber
Orchestra at 7.30; and pianist Alicia de Larrocha performing two dances from Falla's Three-Cornered Hat at 8.05.

With Penny Gore.
Vaughan Williams Concerto
Accademico Yehudi Menuhin (violin), LPO, conductor Adrian Boult
9.18 Debussy Cello Sonata Maurice Gendron (cello), Jean Francaix (piano)
9.30 Stravinsky Faun and Shepherdess Mary Simmons (mezzo),
CBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
9.40 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 1 in G minor (Winter Daydreams) Russian National Orchestra, conductor Mikhail Pletnev

French conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier talks to Joan Bakewell about music in Manchester and his work with the BBC Philharmonic as their principal conductor. With music by Messiaen and Dutilleux.

Historical Figures
Profiles of five world-historical figures from different epochs, with some of the music they have inspired.
4: Napoleon Bonaparte. Corsican bandit or inspired general?
Statesman or dissolute hedonist?
Democrat or self-aggrandising opportunist? Napoleon might even have been the dedicatee of Beethoven's Eroica. Music includes:
Gossec Hymn to the Statue of Liberty Toulouse Capitole Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson Haydn The Creation (finale) Vienna Singverein, Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Herbert von Karajan
Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (finale) (Eroica) London Classical
Players, conductor Roger Norrington Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture
Vienna State Opera Chorus,
Vienna Philharmonic , conductor Lorin Maazel

With Adrian Thomas.
4: Tatra Melodies. From 1922,
Szymanowski was a regular visitor to Zakopane in the Tatra Mountains of southern Poland. There he encountered the music of the Goral highlanders, whose melodies inspired his instrumental music and saturated his vivid ballet score, Harnasie. Mazurka, Op 50 No 13 The Composer (piano)
String Quartet No 2 Silesian Quartet Suite: Harnasie (Highland Robbers) Andrzej Bachleda (tenor), Warsaw
Grand Theatre Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Bohdan Wodiczko
Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight

Cheltenham Festival 1998
Introduced by Chris Wines. Florestan Trio
Janacek Romance for Violin and Piano
Schubert Piano Trio in E flat, D929

Another chance to hear Tuesday's early-evening Prom.
Kyoko Takezawa (violin), Paul Agnew (tenor), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Eigar Overture: Froissart
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor
Julian Anderson The Stations of the Sun (first performance)
Vaughan Williams A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No 3)

Glenn Gould and the Canadians
Piers Lane looks at some of the pianists that have emerged from Canada since the death of Glenn Gould.
Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 10 No 1 Glenn Gould
Schumann Four Albumblatter
(Bunte Blatter) Louis Lortie
Chopin Etude in C minor, Op 10 No 12 (Revolutionary) Jon Kimura Parker
Chopin, transcr Liszt The Maiden's Wish Janina Fialkowska
Ravel Une Barque sur I'Ocean (Miroirs) Andre Laplante
Messiaen Les Sons Impalpables du Rêve (Preludes) Angela Hewitt
Hamelin Etude No 9 d'apres Rossini The Composer
Producer Chris Wines

By Steve May. Episode 3 For details see Monday

Humphrey Carpenter takes a look at the thriving European summer music festival scene, with recommendations for those seeking musical holiday highlights. Haydn's Cello Concerto in C leads up to the news at 6.00.

From the Royal Albert Hall , London. Roger Norrington conducts one of this country's great orchestras in two masterworks of the 19th-century symphonic repertoire. Beethoven's fourth symphony is all energy and sharpness, while
Brahms's fourth glows with strength and lyricism. Philharmonia, conductor Roger Norrington
Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat
7.35 Perfect Symmetry
Mathematician Ian Stewart argues that although symmetrical objects and music are pleasing to the eye and ear, the world would be a very dull place if symmetry were not broken.
7.55 Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor
Repeated Monday 2pm

Choice Grenfell
Maureen Lipman re-creates monologues, sketches and songs originally written and performed by the great comedian Joyce Grenfell.
Featuring In the Train, in which a chatty American chorus girl remembers the kindness of an English actor whose funeral she has just attended; and Tristram, who finds God, to the despair and embarrassment of his liberal parents. Two Christian
Scientists, written by Joyce Grenfell and Virginia Graham , is set to music by Denis King. Repeat

David Roblou gives a recital on a harpsichord from around 1740 by the Flemish maker JD Dulcken.
Telemann Overture No 1 in G minor
Mozart Suite in the Style of Handel, K399
JC Bach Gavotte in C minor
JS Bach Fantasia in C minor, BWV906

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Thirty years old, but ever young, the London Sinfonietta presents a typically adventurous programme: Adams's witty clarinet concerto, the challenging wildness of Rihm's Hunted Form, and a classic work by Ligeti to celebrate his 75th birthday.
Michael Collins (clarinet), London Sinfonietta, conductor Markus Stenz

Ligeti Chamber Concerto
Rihm Gejagte Form
Adams Gnarly Buttons

Alyn Shipton and Campbell Burnap review the best new CDs.

4: Underworlds. Roger Savage introduces excerpts from: Hippolyte et Aricie
Les Arts Florissants, director William Christie
Les Paladins
La Grande Ecurie at la Chambre du Roi, conductor Jean-Claude Maigoire Castor et Pollux
Les Arts Florissants, director William Christie
Repeated from last Thursday

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Milan Turkovic (bassoon), Rotterdam PO/John Mosterd Bartok Transylvanian Dances
Mozart Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K191 Haydn Symphony No 31 in D (Hornsignal)
1.45 Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34 Philharmonic Quartet, Peter Toperczer (piano)
2.25 Beethoven Piano Sonata in A flat, Op 110 David Kuijken
2.45 William Brade New Selected
Brawls Hesperion XX/Jordi Savall
3.40 Phil Nimmons Trumpet Concerto Dan Warren , Kitchener-Waterloo SO, conductor Raffi Armenian
4.15 Gade Novelettes in F
Concerto Rotterdam
4.40 Bach Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor, BWV1056 Angela Hewitt , CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernardi
5.05 Durante Concerto No 4 in E minor Concerto Koln
5.25 Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op 52 Gelders Orchestra, conductor Georges Octors
5.45 Cima Sonata in D minor
Hannan/Tilney/Thielman Trio