With Humphrey Carpenter , including Elgar Imperial March
BBC Philharmonic/George Hurst
6.20 Hoist The Perfect Fool
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, conductor Charles Mackerras
7.00 Schubert Piano Sonata in A, D664
Christian Zacharias
8.20 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
LPO, conductor Bryden Thomson Producer Mark Rowlinson

Edward Seckerson presents a summer season of acclaimed recordings.
9.02 Puccini Drinking Song
(La Rondine) Angela Gheorghiu
(soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor), London Voices, LSO, conductor Antonio Pappano
9.06 Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
(3rd mvt) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner
9.15 Purcell Come Ye Sons of Art
(excerpt) Timothy Wilson (countertenor), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Taverner Choir and Players, conductor Andrew Parrott
9.21 Brahms Horn Trio in E flat,
Op 40 (4th mvt)
Aubrey Brain (horn), Adolph Busch (violin), Rudolf Serkin (piano)
9.31 Peterson-Berger Like Stars in the Heavens, Op 5 No 3
Stenhammar The Wanderer,
Op 26 No 1 Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
9.39 Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor (3rd mvt)
LSO, conductor Andre Previn
9.56 Schumann Fantasy in C, Op 17 (1st mvt) Yevgeni Kissin (piano)
10.10 Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Ekaterina Izmailova
......................GAUNA VISHNEVSKAYA (soprano)
Shabby peasant ................ROBERT TEAR (tenor) LPO, conductor Mstislav Rostropovich
10.22 Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor, Op 84 (2nd mvt)
Stratton Quartet, Harriet Cohen (piano)
10.34 Bernstein Suite: On the Waterfront New York Philharmonic, conducted by the Composer
11.00 Blind Tasting:
Fiona Talkington invites composer Gavin Bryars and singer Jean Rigby to listen to and compare notes on three recordings of Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice without knowing who the performers are.
11.30 Mahler Symphony No 9 (4th mvt) Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Herbert von Karajan Producer Nick Morgan

Michael Berkeley 's guest this week is crime writer Michael Dibdin , whose new book, A Long Finish - the latest in his popular mystery series featuring the Italian detective Aurelio Zen - is published this month. His choices range from vocal music by Dufay, Palestrina and Vivaldi to Britten's Cello Symphony and a vaudeville by Charles Dibdin , an 18th-century British composer who may have been a distant ancestor. Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm

Proms Chamber Music 98
1848! An entertainment in words and music inspired by the year of revolutions, when Berlioz began his Memoires and Duparc was born.
Louise Winter (mezzo), Clifford Benson (piano), Samuel West (speaker) Repeated from Monday

David Mellor explores the recorded legacy of great artists of the past. William Bennett , one of this country's best known flautists, talks about some of the great players of the French flute school.
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F (2nd mvt) Marcel Boyse (flute),
Evelyn Rothwell (oboe), orchestra, director Adolf Busch (violin) Bach Flute Sonata in E flat, BWV1031
Rene le Roy , Kathleen Long (piano)
Hanson Serenade for Flute, Harp and Strings Fernand Dufrene (flute), French Radio Orchestra, conductor Andre Jolivet
Debussy Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute), Pierre Pasquier (viola), Lily Laskine (harp)
Mozart Flute Concerto No 2 in D. K314
Marcel Moyse , orchestra, conductor Eugene Bigot Producer Clive Portbury

The final concert from this year's festival - a performance of Rossini's vibrant Petite Messe Solennelle.
Kym Amps and Christine Bunning
(sopranos), Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Mark Tucker (tenor), George Mosley (baritone), Combattimento, Richard Egarr (harmonium), David Roblou (fortepiano), director David Mason (fortepiano)

With Geoffrey Smith. Producer Derek Drescher
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Russell Davies presents a four-part history of jazz under Communism.
2: Jazz Militant. After the collapse of the Hitler-Stalin pact, jazz in the Soviet Union became not only acceptable but patriotic. But with the onset of the Cold War, it once again fell out of favour, as it did in the newly annexed countries of eastern Europe. Repeated Friday 11.30pm

Sacred and secular music by Monteverdi and his contemporaries. I Fagiolini, Lucy Russell and Jonathan Sparey (violins), Tom Finucane
(theorbo), director Robert Hollingworth Monteverdi Altri Canti d'Amor d'lndia Dispietata Pietate
Gesuaido Itene , 0 Miei Sospiri
Castello Sonata in F for Two Violins
Monteverdi Gira il Nemico Insidioso;
Hor che'l del e la Terra
Castello Violin Sonata in D minor
Lassus Osculetur Me
Monteverdi Gloria a 7 Repeat

Tonight at the Royal Albert Hall , the talented young players of the European Union Youth Orchestra scale a Straussian mountain with guest conductor
Vladimir Ashkenazy and showcase the winning work in the recent Masterprize competition to find powerful new orchestral pieces. As a contrast, they explore the sound world of Berg's lush late-romantic songs.
Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano),
European Union Youth Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
Andrew March Marine a travers les
Arbres
Berg Seven Early Songs
8.00 Forty Years On
Vladimir Ashkenazy talks to Stephanie Hughes.
8.20 Strauss An Alpine Symphony SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST with BBC2
Repeated Thursday 2pm
♦ Radio Times classical CD offer, p38: Roland White review, pl25

Novelist Tibor Fischer looks at world literature. In this programme: Hans Magnus Ensensberger as publisher, a literary tour behind the tourist facade of Prague, a publishing dream turned nightmare in Budapest, and bedtime stories from Poland.

Brindisi Quartet. Double Exposure
Barber Adagio (String Quartet, Op 11) Adam Gorb Violin Sonata
(first performance)
Chausson Concerto in D for Violin, Piano and String Quartet

Summit Conference. The second in the monthly series of concerts recorded in June at the New York
Knitting Factory Festival features ex-Coltrane bass player
Reggie Workman and his band. And, 30 years on, Brian Priestley remembers Albert Ayler 's seminal New Grass.
Producers Lyn Champion and Steve Shepherd

With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Finnish RSO/David Shallon, Tabea Zimmermann (viola) Berlioz Overture: Beatrice and Benedict
Walton Viola Concerto
Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra
2.10 Lars-Erik Larsson Pastoral Suite
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernardi
2.40 Purcell Dido and Aeneas Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, conductor Jeanne Lamon
3.45 Britten Piano Concerto
Robert Leonardy, Saarbriicken RSO, conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
4.15 Beethoven Wellingtons Sieg Octophoros/Paul Dombrecht
4.40 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue William Tritt (piano), Hamilton
Philharmonic, conductor Boris Brott
5.05 Buxtehude Nun Freut Euch
Lieben Christen G'Mein, BuxWV210 Mireille Lagace (organ)
5.15 Schoeck Violin Concerto in B flat
Bettina Boller, Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andreas Delfs Producer Peter Thresh