With Humphrey Carpenter , including Strauss Morgen , Op 27 No 4 Felicity Lott (soprano),
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
7.00 Ireland A London Overture
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli
8.00 Victor Ewald Brass Quintet No 2, Op 6
Stockholm Chamber Brass
8.50 Puccini Crisantemi
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly Producer Mark Rowlinson

Edward Seckerson presents a summer season of acclaimed recordings.
Korngold Film music: The Sea Hawk National Philharmonic, conductor Charles Gerhardt
9.08 Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19 (4th mvt) Truis Mork , Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
9.19 Handel Giulio Cesare (excerpts) Jennifer Larmore (mezzo),
Concerto Koln, director Rene Jacobs
9.29 Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K581 (1st mvt)
Anthony Pay, Members of the St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
9.40 Harris Symphony No 3 New York Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Bernstein
9.59 Chopin Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52
Murray Perahia (piano)
10.10 Rodgers and Hart I Didn't Know What Time It Was
Dawn Upshaw (soprano), ensemble, conductor Eric Stern
10.17 Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50 (2nd mvt)
Itzhak Perlman (violin), Lynn Harrell (cello), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
10.49 Eigar Repent and Be Baptised (The Kingdom)
Benjamin Luxon (bass),
London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin
11.00 Blind Tasting: Fona Talkington invites Sian Edwards and Andrew
Davis to listen to three recordings of Bach's Italian Concerto without knowing who the performers are.
11.30 Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue in C, Op 87 No 1 The Composer (piano)
11.34 Wagner Die Walkure (end of Act 3)
Hans Hotter (bass-baritone), Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Georg Solti Producer Nick Morgan

Michael Berkeley 's guest this week is Jenny Uglow , editor of The
Macmillan Biographical Dictionary of Women and author of outstandingly successful biographies of George Eliot , Elizabeth Gaskell and, most recently, the painter Hogarth. Her musical choices range from sacred music by Purcell, Haydn and Poulenc and instrumental works by Handel, Beethoven and Schubert to street music from the black South
African townships.
Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm

Proms Chamber Music 98
Vellinger Quartet , Piers Lane (piano) Purcell Chacony in G minor; Fantasia No 7 in C minor
Eigar Piano Quintet in A minor, Op 84 Repeated from Monday

Conductor Edward Downes
Respighi Pines of Rome

Today at the Royal Albert Hall, London, a celebration of the British choral tradition. Throughout the afternoon, some of the country's finest choirs from widely differing traditions - church, college, choral society and barbershop - present the distinctive music which has made them famous.

Joyful Company of Singers, Ex Cathedra, conductor Peter Broadbent
Tallis Spem in Alium.

2.45 Joyful Company of Singers, conductor Peter Broadbent
Poulenc Cantata: Un Soir de Neige.
Jonathan Harvey Forms of Emptiness, Grainger Brigg Fair, Irish Tune from County Derry.
Vaughan Williams Valiant for Truth

3.30 City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus, Members of the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conductor Simon Halsey Trad Praise the Lord
Judith Weir Storm (first London performance)

3.55 In Quires and Places
Chris de Souza traces the origins of the British choral tradition.

4.15 Ex Cathedra, Liz Kenny (lute), David Ponsford (chamber organ), conductor Jeffrey Skidmore
Charpentier Le Reniement de St Pierre Monteverdi Madrigals
Thomas Jennefelt Villarossa

5.00 Shannon Express, conductor Graham Davies
Various Barbershop songs: Harmony; Wonderful Day medley; Wonderful World; I'll Walk with God; New York, New York; Softly as I Leave You; Love Me and the World Is Mine; The Robert E Lee

5.30 Choir of New College, Oxford, conductor Edward Higginbottom
Taverner Mater Christi
Tallis Lamentations I
Stanford Coelos Ascendit Hodie
Bruckner Christus Factus Est
Martin Agnus Dei

6.15 Huddersfield Choral Society, conductor Martyn Brabbins
Parry I Was Glad
David Matthews Vespers (excerpts)
Elgar Te Deum and Benedictus Choral Day continues at 8pm

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Early Schubert dances performed by the CO of Europe and Gidon Kremer , and Mozart's Fantasy in C minor, K475, played by pianist Alfred Brendel.

Humphrey Lyttelton tells the story of the British jazz revival. In the third of four programmes, Britain falls in love, first with skiffle, then with trad jazz. Repeated Friday 11.30pm

Choral Day
The climax of Choral Day: a 1,000-strong massed choir raising the roof of the Royal
Albert Hall in one of the great classics of the 20th century in its original version with pianos and percussion - a thrilling marriage of ancient Latin text and brilliantly spiky music. Judith Howarth (soprano),
John Graham-Hall (tenor), Rodney Gilfry (baritone), Massed Choirs, John Alley , Stephen Betteridge , Elizabeth Burley and Ian Watson (pianos), Joseph Cooper ,
Kevin Earley , Giles Harrison , Graham King , Martin Owens , Stephen Quigley ,
Diggory Seacome , Chris Thomas and Matthew Turner (percussion), conductor Terry Edwards Orff Carmina Burana

Novelist Tibor Fischer opens a literary window on the world. This programme asks if Juden Fuchs should be considered a novelist or a transcriber.
Plus Ken Wiwa on the short story as a medium of protest; Swedish books revealing Swedish angst; and Sappho's sisters: contemporary Greek poetry.

Josef Suk 's impressions of summer, played by pianist Margaret Fingerhut.

Conductor Martyn Brabbins ,
Mark O'Keeffe and Angela Whelan (trumpets),
Lawrence Cherney (bass oboe) Gavin Bryars The Sinking of the Titanic (first orchestral performance) Mark-Anthony Turnage Dispelling the Fears
Bryars The East Coast (first broadcast)

Tonight, a concert from one of the giants of contemporary jazz, Michael Brecker. Brecker emerged on to the jazz/fusion scene in the 1970s, initially with the ground-breaking Dreams and later in the highly successful Brecker Brothers band.
For this concert, recorded at the Barbican in July, he plays in an all-star New York quartet.
Producers Lyn Champion and Steve Shepherd

With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Pianist Christian Zacharias plays Schubert piano sonatas and his own transcriptions of Schubert lieder
2.35 Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34 Sine Nomine Quartet, Philippe Bianconi (piano)
3.15 Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor Berne SO/Dmitri Kitaenko
4.00 Beethoven Cello Sonata in A,
Op 69 Jong-Young Lee , Keum-Bong Kim (piano)
4.25 Shostakovich Accompaniment to a Film Scene Tallin CO/Olari Elts
4.45 Forqueray Pièces de Viole (excerpts)
Susanne Pumhosl (harpsichord)
5.05 Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise in E flat, Op 22 Jon Nakamatsu (piano)
5.42 Bach Clavier-Ubung III (excerpts) Scott Ross (organ)