Petroc Trelawny introduces a review of David Pountney 's new Scottish
Opera production of Smetana's Dalibor at the Edinburgh Festival. Music includes the famous duet Au Fond du
Temple Saint from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers with tenor Jussi Bjorling and bartone Robert Merrill at 6.00; violinists Jeanne Lamon and Linda
Melsted and Tafelmusik playing
Bach's Double Concerto, BWV1043, on period instruments at 7.30; and the Overture to Wagner's Die,
Meistersinger played by the London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington , after the news at 8.00.

With Penny Gore.
Gounod Ballet Music: Faust
ASMF, conductor Neville Marriner
9.18 Faure Nocturnes: in B minor,
Op 97; in E minor, Op 99; in F sharp minor, Op 104
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
9.32 Georg Muffat Sonata No 2 in G minor (Armonico Tributo)
Peter Holman (harpsichord), Parley of Instruments, director Roy Goodman
9.45 Faure Nocturnes: in E minor,
Op 107; in B minor, Op 119 Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
9.59 Smetana Tabor; Blanik (Ma Vlast) Czech PO, conductor Rafael Kubelik

Soprano Barbara Bonney talks to Joan Bakewell about teaching and her conviction that only by passing on today's experiences can the future of singing be assured.

Librettists
With Donald Macleod.
5: Hugo von Hofmannsthal was an immensely cultured Viennese whose poetry and prose writings would ensure his reputation quite apart from his celebrated if sometimes difficult partnership with Strauss. Music includes excerpts from Strauss's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Salome,
Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, Josephsiegende, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Arabella.

With Stephen Johnson. Weill, Brecht and Eisler go to America, first in satirical vision, then in reality as refugees. In New York and Hollywood, Eisler writes film music and musical postcards of exile. During his final years in East Berlin, he composes the Serious Songs, a highly charged reflection on life and death.
Weill Prologue; Sloth (The Seven Deadly Sins) Gisela May (mezzo), Peter Schreier and Hans-Joachim
Rotzsch (tenors), Gunther Leib
(baritone), Hermann Christian Polster (bass), Leipzig Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Herbert Kegel
Weill The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Act 2, Finale)
Jenny Smith and Anja Silja (sopranos), Pro Musica Vocal Ensemble,
Cologne Radio Orchestra, conductor Jan Latham-Koenig
Eisler Fourteen Ways of Describing Rain Ensemble Recherche
Eisler An die Uberlebenden;
Uber die Dauer des Exils
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Aribert Reimann (piano) Eisler Serious Songs
Gunther Leib (baritone),
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gunther Herbig
Repeated next Friday 12 midnight

Manchester Summer Recital
Raphael Ensemble
Britten Phantasy Quintet
Vaughan Williams Phantasy Quintet Dvorak String Sextet in A, Op 48 Repeat

Another chance to hear Tuesday's Prom.
Lorraine Hunt (mezzo), Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

John Adams Slonimsky's Earbox
Mahler Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen
Sibelius Four Leminkainen Legends

Mischa Maisky (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)
Variations on Handel's "See the Conqu 'ring Hero Comes ", WoO 45

Chris de Souza introduces more early music recordings, including
17th-century German song from countertenor Andreas Scholl , Tallis sung by the Clerkes of Oxenford, and Couperin performed by harpsichordist Christophe Rousset.

In Conversation with ... Lisa I'Anson. Tommy Pearson discusses the Young Disciples' Road to Freedom with Lisa I'Anson. Repeat

Sean Rafferty hears how the opera singers of the future are nurtured by British Youth Opera, whose 1998 season opens this week with productions of Mozart's Cosi Fan
Tutte and Puccini's La Boheme. The
Overture to Wagner's Rienzi precedes the 6.00 news, and Pierne's Konzertstuck for Harp and Orchestra is performed before 7.00.

The virtuoso players of the Chicago Symphony urcnestra and their music director
Daniel Barenboim return to the Royal Albert Hall for their second Prom to revel in the challenges of three masterworks: Strauss's fleet-footed tone poem, Berg's intensely coloured pieces, and Tchaikovsky's heart-rending final symphony. Strauss Till Eulenspiegel
Berg Three Pieces for Orchestra
7.40
Tchaikovsky Stephen Johnson reassesses
Tchaikovsky's last and greatest symphonies in the light of new ideas about the composer's life and personality and a new understanding of late tsarist Russia.
8.00 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique)

Role Play
Five conversations in which Michael Billington talks to actors and singers about their experiences of playing the same character in theatrical and operatic productions.
5: Josephine Barstow and Katharine Schlesinger on Salome. Repeat

Music by Mozart and Strauss, including the first Waltz Sequence from Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier played by the Scottish National
Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi.

I A late-night concert from the Royal Albert Hall. The choral resonances of differing national traditions, spiced with a political dimension, combine in music from
Great Britain, Hungary and Poland. Choristers of Guildford Cathedral,
BBC Singers, director Jane Glover Britten Voices for Today
Kodaly Evening; Matra Pictures Elgar There Is Sweet Music; The Fountain
Szymanowski Kurpian Songs
Parry Lord, Let Me Know Mine End (Songs of Farewell)

Russell Davies presents a four-part history of jazz under Communism.
1: Two Revolutions. In 1917, a coup d'etat in St Petersburg marked the end of tsarist rule in Russia. In the same year, the Original Dixieland
Jazz Band made the first jazz record, in New York. The fates of jazz and Communism were to be linked for the next 70 years or more. Repeated from Saturday 6pm

With David Byers.
Come Away, Death! Op 60 No 1
Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jorma Panula
Kullervo Leaves for the War; Kullervo's Death (Kullervo)
Helsinki University Chorus, Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Luonnotar
Soile Isokoski (soprano), Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Tapiola
Royal Philharmonic, conductor Thomas Beecham

(Repeated from last Friday)

With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Cavalli Giasone
Concerto Vocale, director Rene Jacobs
5.00 Arnold Brass Quintet No 1 HoViHoLoHoff Brass Ensemble
5.10 Ravel String Quartet in F Bartok Quartet
5.40 Andrea Gabrieli
Aria della Battaglia Theatrum Instrumentorum, director Stefano Innocenti