Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain performed by pianist Alicia de Larrocha and the London Philharmonic, conductor
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos , at 6.30; Handel sung by baritone Bryn Terfel at 7.05; and Mozart's Overture: The Marriage of Figaro played by the Philharmonia, conductor Carlo Maria
Giulini, at 8.05.

With Peter Hobday.
Walton Facade: Suite No 1 New York Philharmonic , conductor Andre Kostelanetz
9.11 Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K622 Erik Hoeprich ,
Orchestra of the 18th Century, conductor Frans Bruggen
9.40 Monteverdi Six madrigals from Book 1 Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley
9.55 Bach Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV54 Gustav Leonhardt (organ)
10.06 Weill Suite: The Threepenny Opera Philharmonia , conductor Otto Klemperer

Thomas Allen
Baritone Thomas Allen talks to Joan Bakewell
about his operatic career, which came as something of a surprise to a young singer expecting to earn his living in the world of oratorio.

Classical Heroines
With Peggy Reynolds.
"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless tower of Ilium?" Helen of Troy was the most beautiful woman in the world. She was fought over and adored, and was the cause of war and bloodshed including the ten-year siege of Troy, which ended in its complete destruction. Music includes: Gluck Paride ed Elena (excerpts) Soloists, La Stagione , conductor Michael Schneider
Offenbach La Belle Helene (excerpt) Soloists, Toulouse Capitole
Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
Strauss Die Aegyptische Helena
(excerpt) Soloists, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conductor Antal Dorati
Boito Mefistofele (excerpt) Soloists, LSO, conductor Julius Rudel

2: Benvenuto Cellini (Act 2) "The male dancers amused themselves by pinching their female partners ..."
Roger Nichols unearths further problems for Berlioz in the staging of his opera Benvenuto Cellini.
Repeated next Tuesday 12 midnight

Introduced by Nicola Heywood Thomas. Bingham Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet in C minor, Op 18 No 4
Shostakovich String Quartet No 3, Op 73

Another chance to hear last
Friday's Prom.
Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Ulster Orchestra, conductor Dmitri Sitkovetsky
Rodion Shchedrin Four Russian
Songs (Concerto for Orchestra No 5) (BBC commission; first performance) Berlioz Les Nuits d'Ete
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4 in F minor

Paul Guinery presents eight programmes in which the BBC Singers explore the glories of 400 years of choral music.
4: The Bach Family. The amazing
Bach family was one of the greatest - and longest - of all musical dynasties: a sprawling network of composers and organists which dominated German church music for 400 years. Johann Sebastian was the most famous member of the family, but this programme also includes pieces by five of his relatives.
BBC Singers, Stephen Farr (organ), conductor Stephen Cleobury
JS Bach , attrib Telemann Jauchzet dem Herm, alle Welt
Johann Bach
Sei Nun Wieder Zufrieden JCFBach Wachet Auf
Plus music by JM Bach , JC Bach and JL Bach.

A Musical Offering
Tommy Pearson and George Pratt try to solve some of Bach's puzzles. Repeat

Sean Rafferty investigates plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Hubert Parry at this year's Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester. Music includes Parry,
Donizetti's String Quartet No 13 in A before the news at 6.00 and Saint-Saens's Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor before the arts news and new CD releases at 7.00.

Conductor Leonard Slatkin brings his own new piece - "a spatial welcome for orchestra" - to the vast auditorium of the Royal Albert Hall. Energy and flair also feature in a virtuoso concerto by fellow American Joseph Schwantner and in Elgar's towering symphonic masterpiece - by turns restless, ebullient and elegiac.

Evelyn Glennie (percussion), Islington Music Centre Children's Choir, Philharmonia, conductor Leonard Slatkin

Slatkin: Housewarming (first European performance)
Schwantner: Percussion Concerto

8.10 Memories of Elgar
Elgar's godson Wulstan Atkins talks to Brian Kay. (Revised repeat)

8.30 Elgar: Symphony No 2 in E flat
(Repeated Friday 2pm)

Novel Concerns
With Valentine Cunningham.
2: Bad Girls. How the daughters of Virginia Woolf and Angela Carter set out to undo patriarchal narrative. Repeat

The 16th-century composer and poet Thomas Whythome was one of the first Englishmen to write an autobiography, revealing many details of the life of a private musician in the time of Elizabeth I.
In the first of two programmes,
Robert Hardy reads from Whythorne's book - in which he travels in Europe and meets with disappointments in love - and Red Byrd perform a selection of his partsongs. Producer Lindsay Kemp
Second programme tomorrow 10.15pm

When William Faulkner became a Nobel laureate in 1949, he was both an outcast and a hero to the American Deep South. His greatest novels preyed upon the innermost values of a white society that still believed in its own supremacy. His family disowned him, yet his stance on race was ambivalent, even reactionary. Diane Roberts travels to Mississippi to investigate this man of contradictions. She talks to his nephew, to the award-winning writer Fred D'Aguiar , and to Professor
Henry Louis Gates about Faulkner and his literary legacy. Repeat

Alyn Shipton introduces the first of two excerpts from a concert given by the Dutch Swing College Band as part of the 1998 Wigan Jazz Festival. Bob Kaper (clarinet/alto sax),
Michael Varikamp (trumpet),
Bert Boeren (trombone), Fred McMurray (piano), Adrie Braat (double bass), Bob Dekker (drums)

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 from last Tuesday)

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00 Ireland NSO, conductor Kasper de Roo, William Dowdall (flute), Andreja Malir (harp)
Mozart Concerto in C for Rute and Harp, K299
Beethoven Symphony No 8 in F

2.00 Granados 12 Spanish Dances, Op 37 Angela Hewitt (piano)

3.10 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique) Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Marko Munih

3.55 Bach Wenn Wir in Hochsten Noten Sein, BWV641 Ligita Sneibe (organ)

4.00 Norbert Moret Organ Concerto Guy Bovet, Neuchatel CO, conductor Valentin Raymond

4.35 Berio Folk Songs Jean Stillwell (mezzo), Canadian Chamber Ensemble, conductor Raffi Armenian

5.10 Spohr Duet in F, Op 148 Vilmos Szabadi and Miklos Szenthelyi (violins)

5.30 Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 2 in D minor Lucille Chung, Laval SO/Jean-Francois Rivest