Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including Nicola Matteis 's
Bizarria all'Umor Scozzese performed by the Palladian Ensemble at 6.02; Maxwell Davies 's An Orkney
Wedding with Sunrise played by the Scottish CO, conducted by the Composer, at 6.07; Mozart's Sonata in D for Piano Duet, K381, performed by Martha Argerich and Alexandre Rabinovitch at 7.10; and Stravinsky's Fireworks performed by the Montreal SO, conductor Charles Dutoit , leading up to the news at 8.00.

With Peter Hobday.
Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner
9.06 Tchaikovsky Valse-Scherzo in C, Op 34
Oleg Kagan (violin), Vassily Lobanov (piano)
9.15 Stravinsky Ragtime London Sinfonietta, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
9.21 Prokofiev Ivan the Terrible
Liubov Sokolova (mezzo), Nikolai Putlin (baritone), Kirov Orchestra Chorus, Rotterdam Philharmonic, conductor Valery Gergiev

Dmitri Sitkovetsky
Dmitri Sitkovetsky talks to
Joan Bakewell about his decision to leave
Russia and about the musical heritage he brought with him. With music by Prokofiev and Shostakovich.
See also 5.00pm

Child Prodigies
With Richard Baker. Benjamin Britten was born on 22 November, the day dedicated to music's patron saint -
Cecilia. As soon as he could walk and talk, he would go to the piano, and at the age of five he began to compose - though at first it was just the look of all the dots and dashes on the paper that pleased him. Music includes: Britten Simple Symphony (excerpt) ECO, conducted by the Composer Bridge The Sea (excerpt) Ulster
Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley Britten Four French Songs Jill Gomez (soprano), CBSO, conductor Simon Rattle
Britten Rhapsody Endellion Quartet

Elgar and His Muses
With Michael Kennedy. Some of Elgar's most personal music is to be found in his partsongs, like Owls, which he composed for his daughter Carice. His friends Sydney and Frances Colvin suggested that he compose a requiem for the fallen in 1915, and in return he dedicated the cello concerto - his final completed masterpiece - to them. Pleading, Op 48 No 1
Robert Tear (tenor), CBSO, conductor Simon Rattle
Deep in My Soul, Op 53 No 2
Finzi Singers, conductor Paul Spicer Falstaff (Two Interludes) Northern Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
For the Fallen (The Spirit of England) London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox Cello Concerto in E minor Paul
Tortelier, LPO, conductor Adrian Boult Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight

Chamber Music from Manchester
Andrew Ball (piano)
Haydn Piano Sonata in A, H XVI 26 Webern Variations, Op 27
Brahms Piano Sonata No 1 in C, Op 1 Repeat

Another chance to hear last
Tuesday's Prom.
Yo-Yo Ma (cello), BBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Tadaaki Otaka Panufnik Katyn Epitaph
Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor
Elgar Symphony No 1 in A flat

Mere Bagatelles? Piers Lane explores the world of piano miniatures and discovers that some of the best things come in small packages. Beethoven Bagatelles, Op 126 Nos 1 and 2 Alfred Brendel
Faure Improvisation; Allegresse; Nocturne (Pieces Brèves. Op 84) Kathryn Stott
Mompou Six Charms Stephen Hough Brahms Capriccio; Intermezzo (Seven Fantasies, Op 116) Imogen Cooper Mendelssohn Elegy; Spring Song: The Shepherd's Complaint (Songs without Words) Vladimir Horowitz
Scriabin Three Preludes from Op 16 Irina Zaritskaya
Producer Chris Wines

By Steve May. Episode 11 For details see Monday

Sean Rafferty talks to Proms Artist of the Week Dmitri Sitkovetsky about his career as a violinist and now principal conductor with the Ulster Orchestra. He also talks to Neil
Hannon about the Divine Comedy's new pop album Fin de Siècle, mixing razor-sharp lyrics with lush orchestrations and choral voices.
Music includes Bach's motet Geist
Hilft Unsrer Schwachheit Auf,
BWV226, Brahms's Rhapsody No 2 in G minor, and, at about 6.35,
Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 1.

The glories of the British orchestral tradition are explored tonight at the Royal Albert Hall in Walton's stirring portrait of the youthful warrior king, Robert Simpson 's rousing concerto, a pioneering work by John Foulds (a younger contemporary of Elgar) and Elgar's own masterly variations - still the enigma they were a century ago. Piers Lane (piano), Joyful Company of Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth Walton Suite: Henry V
Robert Simpson Piano Concerto
7.45 Who Was John Foulds ?
Malcolm MacDonald profiles the English composer (1880-1939) who spent much of his life in France and India.
8.05 Foulds Three Mantras
Elgar Enigma Variations

Private View
Nicholas Ward-Jackson explores the contemporary art world. In the fourth programme, he talks to Ilya and Emilia Kabakov as they race against time to install their Palace of Projects inside London's Roundhouse. With a light touch and dark humour, the Palace contains 67 rooms which house fictitious characters dreaming and scheming their way to the end of the century. Repeat

As a prelude to tonight's late-night Prom, piano music by Debussy inspired by the sounds of the gamelan.

A spectacular late-night
Prom at the Royal Albert Hall with magnificent music and dance from the Javanese royal courts, and cross-cultural music by Alec Roth for The Tempest to mark the 20th anniversary of the arrival of a Javanese gamelan in London.
Dancers and musicians from STSI
Surakarta South Bank Gamelan Players

Alyn Shipton marks the 25th anniversary of club owner
Eddie Condon 's death with Dan Morgenstein , Red Balaband and Bob Wilber.

Chris de Souza looks at Handel's shift of emphasis from opera to oratorio in the late 1730s, with music including Messiah (excerpt), Concerto Grosso in D, Op 6 No 5, and Israel in Egypt (excerpt). Repeated from last Thursday

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Paris: Song of a City
Philippe Cassard (piano) Debussy Pagodes; Jardin sous la Pluie
(Estampes); Images Oubliées; Feux d'Artifice Hahn Matinée Parisienne
Auric La Seine au Matin Tansman
Rond-Point des Champs-Elysees Satie Je Te Veux Ravel Valses
Nobles et Sentimentales
2.10 Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor Finnish RSO, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste
2.50 Britten Five Flower Songs Camerata Chamber Choir, director Michael Bojesen
3.00 Spohr Nocturne for Wind Instruments and Turkish Band
Octophoros/Paul Dombrecht
3.35 Ippolitov-lvanov Caucasian
Sketches Edmonton SO/Uri Mayer
4.10 Bach Orchestral Suite No 1 in C, BWV1066 La Petite Bande, conductor Sigiswald Kuijken
4.40 Melartin Marionettes Suite
Karoly Garam (cello),
Jorma Rahkonen (violin), Finnish RSO, conductor George de Godzinsky
5.05 Kodaly Cello Sonata, Op 4 Miklos Perenyi (cello), Jeno Jando (piano)
5.30 Schumann Introduction and Allegro Appassionato , Op 92
Ivan Palovic (piano), Bratislava RSO, conductor Ondrej Lenard
5.45 CPE Bach Sinfonia in D
Mary Utiger and Hajo Bass (violins), Christina Kyprianides (cello), Andreas Staier (harpsichord)