Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including Bach's Concerto in C for Three Harpsichords, BWV1064, performed by Kenneth Gilbert , Trevor Pinnock and Lars Ulrik Mortensen with the English Concert at 6.15; Wagner's Overture: The Flying
Dutchman performed by the Chicago SO, conductor Daniel Barenboim , at
7.45; and Grieg's Wedding Day at Troldhaugen played by the BBC Scottish SO, conductor
Jerzy Maksymiuk , after the 8.00 news.

With Peter Hobday , featuring
Prokofiev symphonies and recordings by conductor Serge Koussevitzky. Prokofiev Symphony No 1 in D (Classical) Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Herbert von Karajan
9.16 Dvorak Bagatelles, Op 47
Livia Casleanu and Michal Kurkowski
(violins), Christian Brunnert (cello), Dennis Russell Davies (harmonium)
9.36 Bizet Overture in A
Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
9.51 Grieg Violin Sonata No I in F, Op 8 Augustin Dumay ,
Maria Joao Pires (piano)
10.17 Copland El Salon Mexico Boston SO, conductor Serge Koussevitzky
Producer Arthur Johnson

Andras Schiff
Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff is one of the most sought-after performers of his generation, famous for his interpretations of Bach, Mozart,
Beethoven and Schubert. In the first of this week's programmes, he tells Joan Bakewell about his early years. Producer Martin J Smith

Musical Diaries
Donald Macleod looks at some of the great diarists of the musical world. 1: Vincent and Mary Novello. The
Novellos set out in 1829 on a Mozart pilgrimage, visiting people and places associated with the great composer. They kept a journal, a chaotic jumble of scrap paper, unnumbered, unbound and tied together with ribbon, and jotted down in the stagecoach as they travelled from place to place. The journal was rediscovered after the Second World
War, jammed in the drawer of a house in Italy. Including excerpts from: Mozart String Quartet in D minor, K421 Emerson Quartet
Mozart Symphony No 36 in C (Linz) Prague Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
Haydn The Seven Last Words Amadeus Quartet
Mozart, compl Siissmayr Requiem Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood Producer Tony Sellors

(1685-1759)
"Handel from Hanover, a man of the vastest genius and skill in music that perhaps has lived since Orpheus' was how Viscount Percival described
Handel in 1731. His enduring greatness has assured him a place as one of the masters of the Baroque era. Chris de Souza begins his survey of Handel's works by looking at his early years in Halle and Italy and his first visit to London. Including excerpts from Almira, Rinaldo and Dixit Dominus.
Producer Lyndon Jones
Repeated next Monday 12 midnight

From the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, continuing the Proms series of lunchtime concerts. Adventures and anniversaries are reflected in a sparkling programme for wind ensemble, including a specially commissioned work by John Woolrich, whose music whistles, whirrs, rustles, creaks and shines.
London Winds, director Michael Collins

Ligeti Six Bagatelles
John Woolrich The Iron Cockerel Sings (first performance)
Barber Summer Music
Janacek Suite: Mladi

(Repeated Saturday 1pm)

Another chance to hear last
Thursday's Prom. Philharmonia, conductor Roger Norrington
Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor

Leslie Howard plays music for the opera transcribed for the piano by Liszt.

Patrick O'Connor takes operatic requests.
Producer Peter Tanner
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Continuing the 12-part serial by Steve May about four musicians fresh out of college who form a radical and somewhat unlikely quartet and find out how hard it is to cut it in the world of professional music. Episode 5
Music by Steve May , performed by Adam Walters (horn), Paul Sharman (trumpet).
Marie Lloyd (clarinet) and Charlotte Eksteen (cello) Director Eoin O'Callaghan

It is 50 years since the Amadeus Quartet first played together. This week, the surviving members of the quartet hold their tenth summer school at the Royal Academy of Music in London, culminating with a showcase concert at the Wigmore Hall this Saturday.
Humphrey Carpenter hears how they pass on their advice to new generations of string quartets. Music includes
Mozart and Dvorak and, at about
6.35, Poulenc's Organ Concerto played by Maurice Durufle.

From the Royal Albert Hall , London. Handel's oratorio celebrates the glories of peace and prosperity in a musical triptych of the life of the biblical King Solomon. His piety, wisdom and statesmanship are displayed in lavish, expansive music.
Gabrieli Consort and Players, conductor Paul McCreesh
Act
8.00 The Golden Age
A look at the circumstances in which
Handel composed Solomon. With Simon Heighes.
8.20 Act 2
9.15 The Resh Made Word
Poet Les Murray describes how both poetry and religion can work like a rear-view mirror in which you can occasionally catch glimpses of God.
9.35 Act 3

Designs for living
Five programmes exploring some of the century's greatest houses.
1: Charles Rennie Mackintosh 's Hill
House. Presented by Susan Marling. Reader David Jessel. Repeat

Reconstructions of Scottish airs.
Geminiani Auld Bob Morrice
Palladian Ensemble
Maxwell Davies Kinloche His Fantassie
The Fires of London

Alyn Shipton presents a two-part concert by sax and flute legend Frank Wess and the Gene Harris Quartet. Producer Terry Carter

Etude, Op 4 No 3: Concert Overture; My Evening Song, Op 5 No 3; Variations on a Polish Folk Theme; Penthesilea Repeated from last Monday

With Donald Macleod.

1.00 Chamber Recital
Raphael Oleg (violin), Sonia Wider-Atherton (cello), Jean-Claude Pennetier (piano)

Schubert Piano Trio in E flat, D929

Chausson Piano Trio in G minor, Op 3

Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 49 (2nd mvt)

2.35 Pierre de la Rue Missa De Sancto Job - Orlando Consort

3.20 Mendelssohn Symphony No 5 in D (Reformation) - Calgary PO, conductor Mario Bernardi

3.50 Hummel Viola Sonata in E flat, Op 5 No 3 - Michael Gieler, Lauretta Bioomer (fortepiano)

4.10 Ludwig Thuille Sextet in B flat, Op 6 - A Korean sextet

4.45 Martinu La Revue de Cuisine - Ensemble of the Festival of Sound

5.00 Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1 - Janina Fialkowska (piano)

5.30 Brahms Academic Festival Overture - Bratislava RSO/Ondrej Lenard

5.50 Handel Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 3 No 1 - Olev Ainomae (oboe), Elar Kuiv (violin), Estonian RCO/Paul Magi