With Humphrey Carpenter , including 6.30 Finzi Dies Natalis John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Corydon
Singers, conductor Matthew Best
7.15 Villa-Lobos Choro No 1
Pepe Romero (guitar)
8.00 Hummel Trumpet Concerto in E flat Wynton Marsalis , National Philharmonic, conductor Raymond Leppard
8.50 Parry I Was Glad
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, conductor Stephen Cleobury
Eric Coates London Suite Royal
Liverpool PO, conductor Charles Groves
9.18 Composer of the Week: Handel Eternal Source of Light James Bowman (countertenor),
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), the King's Consort, director Robert King
9.22 Ravel Menuet Antique Claude Helffer (piano)
9.29 Francaix Suite: L'Horloge de Flore John Anderson (oboe), Philharmonia, conductor Simon Wright
9.46 Grainger Shallow Brown John Shirley-Quirk (baritone). Ambrosian Singers, ECO, conductor Benjamin Britten
9.52 Verdi Dell'lnvito Trascorsa e Gia
I'Ora (La Traviata) Soloists, Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Carlos Kleiber
10.00 Ten o'Clock Feature: Wind Music:
Praetorius Bransle Gentil
Byrd Pavane for the Earl of Salisbury Praetorius Courante; Spring Dance The Fairer Sax
10.05 Farkas Ancient Hungarian Dances Thurston Clarinet Quartet
10.13 Palsible Queen 's Farewell;
Queen's Farewell Stomp (arr Gordon) London Oboe Band, conductor Paul Goodwin
10.19 William Lloyd Webber Serenade for Strings City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
10.33 Guilmant Grand Choeur in D
Francis Jackson (organ)
10.41 Verdi Te Deum (Four Sacred
Pieces) Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Robert Shaw Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
Yan Pascal Torteller
French conductor Van Pascal Tortelier talks to Joan Bakewell. Revised repeat
With Chris de Souza.
Strings Attached. An introduction to Brahms's radiant second symphony, Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble MP on why politicians have always envied music's power to persuade, and the Rev Alan Walker picking up themes of exile and return in a Kurt Weill premiere.
Voicebox: Phone [number removed] to register your opinions on the Proms
Cheltenham Festival 1998
Chris Wines introduces a recital given last Sunday in the Pittville Pump Room by Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski.
Bach Overture in the French Style in B minor, BWV831
Bartok Fourteen Bagatelles, Op 6 Szymanowski Metopes, Op 29
Bach French Suite No 5 in G, BWV816
The first of this year's youth orchestra Proms includes a new celebratory fantasy from Scotland with echoes of Gaelic bagpipes and a "curious folk song" called The Crabfish, a powerful concerto, and a symphony of fantastic visions which takes up the Proms theme of magic and mystery.
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Peter Donohoe (piano), National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, conductor Jun'ichi Hirokami
Rory Boyle Capriccio (first London performance; first broadcast)
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3
3.55 Russia's France
Professor Tony Briggs explores the fascination of France for the Russian imagination. Russia imported French classicism in the 18th century, entering into a cultural marriage of convenience only broken off when Alexander Pushkin established the independence of the Russian muse.
4.15 Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
The Athena Ensemble play a selection of Elgar's youthful music for wind.
With this year's BBC Proms season featuring many of Elgar's greatest orchestral works, David Owen Norris conducts an investigation into Elgar the virtuoso orchestral composer.
How did this Worcester piano tuner's son who learnt his craft at the great choral festivals and did not write a symphony until he was 50 ever become an orchestral composer at all? With contributions from Elgar experts, lovers and performers both British and American, including Jerrold Northrop Moore, Anthony Payne, Diana McVeagh, Michael Kennedy, Colin Matthews, Stephen Banfield and Leonard Slatkin - who conducts Elgar's Symphony No 2 at the Proms on 11 August.
Repeated from yesterday 12 noon
The unperformed final act of Weill's trenchant biblical drama The Eternal Road is given its Proms premiere at the Royal Albert Hall, London. At its heart is the age-old conflict between war and peace, tellingly contrasted with the innocence of a child's view of heaven in the finale of Mahler's symphony.
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Matthias Bamert
Weill Propheten (The Eternal Road) - Finchley Children's Music Group, BBC Symphony Chorus
8.15 Art and Denial
Lawyer and author Anthony Julius considers whether there is an inherent conflict between Jewishness and artistic creativity.
8.35 Mahler Symphony No 4 - Janice Watson (soprano)
(Repeated Wednesday 2pm)
By David Pownall , with Michael Maloney , Joss Ackland , Eleanor Bron and Richard Griffiths. Alessandro Stradella,
though a musical genius, is banished by Pope Innocent XI for his notorious philandering. But when he crosses the Doge of Venice he finds his music may be the only thing between him and a bloody end. with Carolyn Jones , Iwan Thomas , Sarah Rice and Alison Pettitt. Director Peter Kavanagh
The second of four concerts given as part of the BBC Singers' series earlier this year at St John's, Smith Square.
The Chapels Royal of Charles II and James II
BBC Singers, His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, London Baroque Soloists, conductor Stephen Cleobury
Blow The Lord Is King Lawes Zadok the Priest
Locke Music for His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts; The Lord Hear Thee; I Will Hear What the Lord God Will Say Humfrey 0 Give Thanks unto the Lord Blow Behold, O God Our Defender;
Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened
Purcell They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships
Locke How Doth the City Sit Solitary Humfrey The King Shall Rejoice
The second of two programmes in which Barb Jungr looks at the little-known music of Ethiopia.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Berlioz Grande Messe des
Morts Daniel Galvez-Vallejo (tenor), Radio France Chorus, French NO, conductor Charles Dutoit
2.30 Haydn Sonata in D, H XVI 33 Istvan Lentos (piano)
2.45 Tchaikovsky Serenade in D Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, conductor Hannu Koivula
3.20 Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor Naum Grubert , Brabant Orchestra, conductor Thomas Sanderling
3.50 Boccherini Guitar Quintet in C, G453 Moscow Quartet, Miguel Trapiyaga (guitar)
4.45 Strauss Prelude: Capriccio Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, conductor Antoni Ros-Marba
5.05 Telemann flute Quartet in E minor Arion Ensemble
5.30 Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
5.40 Wolf Intermezzo
Ljubljanksi Godalni Quartet
