Petroc Trelawny with music and arts news, including a review of Wayne Sleep's performance in Dash at the London Coliseum. Music includes
Strauss's Horn Concerto No 1 played by David Pyatt with the Britten Sinfonia , conductor Nicholas Cleobury , at 6.30; Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik played by the Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi , at 7.30; and Schubert's Auf dem Wasser zu Singen performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) and Gerald Moore (piano) at 8.05.

With Peter Hobday.
Mozart Six German Dances, K509 Murray Perahia (piano)
9.11 Prokofiev Symphony No 7 Berlin PO, conductor Seiji Ozawa
9.44 Stravinsky Pastorale; Tilimbom Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Ensemble Intercontemporain, conductor Pierre Boulez
9.49 Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Chicago SO, conductor Fritz Reiner

Dmitri Sltkovetsky
Dmitri Sitkovetsky talks about his arrangement for chamber orchestra of Bach's Goldberg Variations, and about his recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin.

With Richard Baker.
At the age of two-and-a-half, Saint-Saens sat at the piano, and, at five, he was playing sonatas "with excellent precision".
Including excerpts from:

Mozart Piano Sonata in C, K545 - Maria Joao Pires

Wagner Lohengrin (Prelude to Act 3) - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor - Murray Perahia, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Bernard Haitink

Saint-Saens Symphony No 1 in E flat - Vienna SO, conductor Georges Pretre

Elgar and His Muses
Michael Kennedy explores Eigar's youthful response to the music of Wagner and introduces two contrasted works inspired by his holidays in Bavaria and Wales. Overture: Froissart
LPO, conductor Adrian Boult
From the Bavarian Highlands London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox Introduction and Allegro Sinfonia of London, conductor John Barbirolli Repeated next Tuesday 12 midnight

Amanda Roocroft (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Haydn Cantata: Berenice, Che Fai Schubert Suleika I; Die Abgebluhte Linde; Heimliches Lieben; Gretchen am Spinnrade Britten On This Island Repeat

Another chance to hear last
Friday's Prom.
Tasmin Little (violin), Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Royal Philharmonic, conductor Daniele Gatti
Stravinsky Jeu de Cartes Britten Double Concerto
(first London performance)
Shostakovich Symphony No 5

Paul Guinery presents eight programmes in which the BBC Singers explore the glories of 400 years of choral music.
3: / Got Rhythm. A bird's-eye view of the great American choral tradition - from the primitive shape note hymns of 18th-century composers like
William Billings and Supply Belcher through the eccentricities of Charles Ives to the edges of Broadway in the music of Gershwin, Weill and Porter. BBC Singers, David Knotts (piano), conductor Ronald Corp Gershwin Summertime
Copland Old American Songs
Belcher The Jointly All the Harpers Round
Billings While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
Ives Psalm 67
Weill Train to Johannesburg Barber Reincarnations
And music by Bernstein, Schuman and Thompson.

By Steve May. Episode 10For details see yesterday

Sean Rafferty reflects on how
England's second city has benefited from the legacy of Simon Rattle as he leaves his post as conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. The programme includes music from the orchestra as well as works by composers from Willaert to Vaughan Williams , plus a performance of Strauss's stirring tone poem Death and Transfiguration by the London Philharmonic, conductor
Klaus Tennstedt , at about 6.30.

"It really is a new world, isn't it?", said Elgar of his first symphony. It begins this season's cycle at the Royal Albert Hall , London of all three of his symphonies and is contrasted with one of the great romantic cello concertos and a moving homage to the dead of Katyn in Poland.
Yo-Yo Ma (cello), BBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Panufnik Katyn Epitaph
Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor
8.20 Gossip from Giggleswick
Of Edward Elgar 's friends, Charles William Buck - a Yorkshire doctor - was one of the most influential. For
50 years, he shared the composer's disappointments and rejoiced in his triumphs. Using the rich legacy of their letters, Kenneth Shenton explores a friendship which thrived as much on their mutual love of the great outdoors as it did on music, with composer and doctor both revelling in gossip from Giggleswick.
8.40 Elgar Symphony No 1 in A flat Repeated Thursday 2pm

Private View
Five programmes this week in which Nicholas Ward-Jackson explores the contemporary art world. In the second programme, he talks to
Gillian Wearing about life after the Turner Prize. Recorded on the streets of London, Wearing talks about her ongoing fascination with the city's public spaces and private lives. The programme contains new audio works by her. Repeat

Music by Dufay and Josquln performed by the Hilliard Ensemble.

A journey into the heart of one of the National Gallery of London's most famous paintings. "I've been coming to look at this for 30 years," says one visitor, "and I don't know why it moves me so much." Nor do the critics, nor do we. For the last 100 years of its 500-year history, Van Eyck's secular masterpiece, a double portrait of a richly dressed couple, sometimes called The Amolfini
Marriage, has pleased, puzzled and polarised critical and public opinion. Radio 3 goes through the mirror into the heart of a masterpiece. With Jack Klaff as Van Eyck. Repeat

Belderbecke and All That Jazz
The second of three selections from
Alan Plater 's concert with the Kenny Baker Band.
For details see yesterday

Chris de Souza examines a blossoming period in Handel's career, with excerpts from the Water Music, Julius Caesar , the Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne and the anthem As Pants the Hart. Repeated from last Tuesday

With Donald Macleod.

1.00 Paris: Song of a City
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, conductor Sergiu Comissiona, Francois-Rene Duchable (piano), Leo van Doeselaar (organ)
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor
Saint-Saens Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ)
2.05 Debussy Estampes
Jean-Francois Heisser (piano)
2.20 Franck Piano Quintet in F minor,
Bartok Quartet, Imre Rohmann (piano)
3.40 Melartin Karelian Scenes, Op 146 No 6
Finnish RSO, conductor Jorma Palas
3.50 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor
Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Anton Nanut
4.50 Salzedo Variations sur un
Theme dans le Style Ancien, Op 30
Mojca Zlobko (harp)
5.10 Forqueray Suite
Kafi Hamalainen (harpsichord)
5.25 Lalo Two Aubades
CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
5.35 Dukas Variations, Interlude and Finale on a Theme by Rameau Jean-Francois Heisser (piano)