Petroc Trelawny with music and arts news, including a review of the Royal Opera's performance of Verdi's Luisa Miller at the Edinburgh Festival last night, followed by the overture to the opera performed by the BBC
Philharmonic, conductor Edward Downes. Other music includes
Leopold Mozart 's Toy Symphony performed by the Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Herbert von Karajan , at
6.10; Mendelssohn's Rondo Brillant in E flat performed by Stephen Hough and the CBSO at 7.10; and Strauss's Accelerations Waltz performed by the Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Carlos Kleiber , leading up to the news at 8.00.

With Penny Gore, featuring Faure piano music and vintage performer Antal Dorati.
Gounod Ballet Music (Faust)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
9.18 Faure Romances sans Paroles, Op 17 Pascal Roge (piano)
9.26 Ysaye Poeme Elegiaque Chantal Juillet (violin),
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
9.43 Faure Ballade , Op 19 Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
9.58 Schumann Tragodie , Op 64 No 3 Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Irwin Gage (piano)
10.03 Haydn Symphony No 72 in D Philharmonica Hungarica , conductor Antal Dorati
Producer Tony Cheevers

This week, Joan Bakewell talks to Russian pianist Yevgeni Kissin.
Today, Kissin talks about his early years, with recordings from his Moscow debut in Schumann's Abegg Variations and from the concert that launched his career at the age of 12, including Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor.

The Vienna String Sextet complete their survey of Mozart string quintets in the last of their Queen's Hall recitals. Introduced by Linda Ormiston.
Mozart Adagio and Allegro, K594; String Quintet in C minor, K406
11.40 Colin Bell Invites
What Art Form Best Expresses
Emotion? Each of the performing arts is capable of appealing to our emotions, whether it be an evening at the ballet, a great concert or a theatrical performance. On that basis, Colin Bell and guests muse on the different emotional appeals of the arts.
12.00 String Quintet in E flat, K614

Proms Chamber Music 98
From the Victoria and Albert
Museum, London, continuing the Proms series of lunchtime concerts.
This week, a piano recital exploring aspects of mystery and the great beyond in music "out of this world". The centrepiece is Thomas Ades 's own work of "arabesques, chorales and cantilenas".
Thomas Ades (piano)
Couperin Les Baricades Mystérieuses Falla Pour le Tombeau de Paul Dukas
Messlaen Pièce pour le Tombeau de Paul Dukas
Stanchinsky Canon No 3
Thomas Ades Traced Overhead
Couperin Pieces de Clavecin (Ordre No 25)
Oliver Knussen Prayer Bell Sketch (first London performance) Janacek In the Mists

Another chance to hear last Friday's concert.
Sergei Aleksashkin (bass), Howard Shelley (piano),
Leeds Festival Chorus, Huddersfield Choral Society, BBC Philharmonic, conductor Vassily Sinaisky

Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture
Szymanowski Symphony No 4 (Sinfonia Concertante)
Shostakovich Symphony No 13 (Babi Yar)

(Repeat)

Patrick O'Connor takes operatic requests.
Producer Peter Tanner
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How Do Composers Make Money? Verity Sharp takes a look at how composers are commissioned to write music and finds out how the notes they have written are transformed into hard-earned cash.
She talks to Nicholas Kenyon , director of the BBC Proms, and to composer Judith Bingham. Repeat

Soprano Christine Schafer talks to
Sean Rafferty about the challenge of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, which she performs at the Proms on Wednesday evening. Music includes Tatiana Nikolaieva playing
Shostakovich; the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, singing
Stanford; and, before the arts news at 7.00, Jean-Philippe Collard playing Salnt-Saens's Piano Concerto No 5 - the Egyptian - with the Royal
Philharmonic, conductor Andre Previn.

A welcome return to the Proms for a great Russian Orchestra and a debut for the son of the conductor in a popular Russian concerto. Tchaikovsky's brilliant score sets the tone and Stravinsky contributes a vivid story of magic and mystery in a kaleidoscope of virtuoso orchestral colour. From the Royal Albert Hall.

Sasha Rozhdestvensky (violin), St Petersburg Philharmonic, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2

8.25 Dancing for the Ballets Russes
Ballerina Irina Baronova talks to Christopher Cook about the period in which she was coached by the great choreographer Mikhail Fokine in roles including Stravinsky's Petrushka.
This was in the 1930s, when Diaghilev had died, and the repertoire of the Ballets Russes was being maintained by the impresario Colonel de Basil.

8.45 Stravinsky Petrushka (1947)

(Repeated Wednesday 2pm)

The Poems and Songs of Bertolt Brecht
Famous as one of the major playwrights of the 20th century, Bertolt Brecht is now seen as perhaps Germany's greatest modern poet. In five programmes this week, Adrian Mitchell looks at Brecht poems and songs. The readers include
Maria Friedman and Harold Pinter.
1: Of Poor BB. A look at the early poems. Repeat

A concert given last year in the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, as part of the Swansea Festival of Music and Arts, by soloists of the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra: Wolfgang Redik and Verena Stourzh (violins), Georg Hamann and Valeria Soltesz (violas), and Rezso Pertorini and Janos Zsoldos (cellos).
Schubert String Quintet in C, D956 Strauss Sextet (Capriccio)
Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht , Op 4

Legends of Swing
Alyn Shipton recalls the career of one of the greatest living spirits of jazz, Benny Carter. Producer Terry Carter

Conductor Vassily Sinaisky Shchedrin Symphony No 2

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Jerzy Godziszewski (piano) Szymanowski Preludes, Op 1;
Variations on a Polish Folk Theme in B minor; Etudes, Op 33; Sonata No 3, Op 36
2.15 Gassmann Stabat Mater
Capella Nova Graz/Otto Kargl
2.40 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Christian Zacharias, Beethoven Academy, conductor Jean Caeyers
3.15 Elgar Enigma Variations Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
4.00 Bach Cantata No 51: Jauchzet
Gott in Allen Landen Susanne Ryden (soprano), Robert Farley (trumpet), European Union Baroque Orchestra. director Roy Goodman
4.25 Haydn Violin Concerto in G Aladar Mozi,
Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pavol Bagin
5.05 Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks (arr for two pianos)
James Anagnosen and Leslie Kinton (pianos)
5.20 Hellendaal Sonata No 2 in D
Jaap ter Linden (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Ageet Zweistra (cello)
5.35 Bruckner Ave Maria; Christus Factus Est; Locus Iste Sokkelund Choir, conductor Morten Schuldt Jensen