Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including after 6.00 Ravel's Piano Trio; before 8.00 Beethoven's
Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 31 No 3 played by Stephen Kovacevich ; and after the news at 8.00 orchestral music from Nielsen's opera Maskarade.

With Stephanie Hughes , featuring
Copland symphonies and recordings by pianist William Kapell. Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1 Wiliam Kapell (piano)
9.11 Monn, transcr Schoenberg Cello Concerto in D
Yo-Yo Ma, Boston Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa
9.29 Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini William Kapell (piano),
Philharmonic Society of New York, conductor Arthur Rodzinksi
9.52 Revueltas Homage to Lorca
Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
10.06 Copland Organ Symphony
Simon Preston , Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin Producer Tony Cheevers

Philip Langridge
Over the past 30 years
Philip Langridge has established himself as a singer of international renown. In the first of this week's conversations he talks to Joan Bakewell about his early years. Music includes Handel, Vaughan Williams and Rameau. Producer Arthur Johnson

Rve Sailors
With Richard Baker.
1: Noah. Life at sea has always been a challenge, yet the romantic image of the sailor is an enduring one.
Richard Baker profiles five seafarers, beginning with the first of them all. Music includes:
Binge Sailing By New London
Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp
Donizetti Overture: II Diluvio Universale
Belgian Radio and TV Orchestra, conductor Silvano Frontalini
Horovitz Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo (excerpt)
King's Singers and Ensemble
Britten Noye's Fludde (excerpt) English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
Stravinsky Catalogue of the Animals (The Flood) Peter Hall (speaker), London Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen
Alan Ridout History of the Flood King's Singers
Montsalvatge Noah's Ark Benita Meshulam (piano)
Malipiero String Quartet No 6 (Noah's Ark) Venice Quartet Producer Piers Burton-Page

(1857-1934)
Elgar and His Muses
Michael Kennedy charts the course of Eigar's life and work through the circle of friends who encouraged him and the landscapes that inspired him. Today the focus is on Elgar in the 1890s and his wife Alice.
Imperial March, Op 32 London
Philharmonic, conductor Adrian Boult Contrasts, Op 10 No 3; Rosemary Northern Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Serenade for Strings, Op 20 Sinfonia of London, conductor John Barbirolli Salut damour, Op 12 Nigel Kennedy (violin), Peter Pettinger (piano)
Sea Pictures, Op 36 Janet Baker
(mezzo), London Symphony Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli
Repeat

Stephanie Hughes presents another concert of Proms chamber music from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Today the last quartets of Nielsen and Beethoven are played by the Endellion Quartet. Nielsen String Quartet in F, Op 44
Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op 135

(Repeated Saturday 1pm)

Another chance to hear last
Wednesday's Prom, which included a birthday tribute to Alun Hoddinott. Louis Lortie (piano),
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor
Tadaaki Otaka Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival
Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Alun Hoddinott The Sun, the Great
Luminary of the Universe
Franck Symphony in D minor

My Other Aria
Peter Porter presents familiar operatic characters in some of their less well known arias, with music from
Don Giovanni , Samson and Delilah, Turandot and The Marriage of Figaro. Producer Alan Hall

Humphrey Carpenter 's guests tonight include Osmo Vanska , who conducts tonight's Prom. After 5.30 Chausson's Poeme is performed by violinist Zino Francescatti , and after the 6.00 news pianist Nikolai Demidenko plays
Bach's chorale prelude Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland in the transcription by Busoni.
Producer Brian Jackson

James MacMillan 's concerto shares the bill with Sibelius's powerful tone poem and Nielsen's last symphony in a concert recalling the excitement of the orchestra's
Nielsen cycle earlier this year. Raphael Wallfisch , (cello),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. conductor Osmo Vanska
Sibelius Pohjola 's Daughter
James MacMillan Cello Concerto
8.30 The First Musical
Postmodernists
"With this symphony, we've got the first postmodernistic piece." That was Danish scholar Jorgen I Jensen 's view of Nielsen's Symphony No 6.
Postmodernism may be the musical flavour of the 1990s, but where were its roots? Peter Paul Nash investigates.
8.50 Nielsen Symphony No 6 (Sinfonia Semplice)

Sleeping on a Volcano
Five personal European views on the legacy of 1848. From the first stirrings of unrest in the spring of 1848 Europe realised it was in the throes of revolution. Jacques Darras contemplates the artistic legacy of the Parisian uprisings and considers the events which marked last year's 150th anniversary.
Repeat See also 10.45pm

Strauss Serenade for 13 Wind
Instruments, Op 7
Mozart Serenade in E flat for Wind
Octet, K375 Repeat

The Sublimest of Poems
An exploration of revolutionary Europe in 1848. This was the revolution when artists really did man the barricades and helped to make what the French poet Lamartine called "the sublimest of poems". With contributions from Tom Nairn ,
John Deathridge , George Gomori ,
Christopher Prendergast , Laszlo Peter , Jonathan Sperber and Tim Blanning. Repeat

Alyn Shipton visits the New Orleans Jazz Festival in Ascona, Switzerland, and meets several of its stars, including Johnny Varro 's Swing
Seven and former Louis Armstrong vocalist Jewel Brown. Plus Dave Gelly's
jazz news. Producer Terry Carter

12.05am Franck Nocturne

12.10 Brahms Piano Pieces, Op 119

12.25 Matti Rautio Ballet Suite: The Blue Heron

Sibelius Fire on the Island; The Bells of Berhall Church

12.45 Heino Eller Three Pieces (Five Pieces for Strings)

1.00 Schubert played on a fortepiano: Six Moments Musicaux, D780; Three Pieces, D946

1.55 Mozart Durch Zartlichkeit und Schmeicheln (Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail)

2.00 Franck Symphony in D minor

2.40 George Muffat Toccata Undecima in C minor (Apparatus Musico Organisticus)

2.50 Mozart Symphony No 23 in D

3.00 Ruth Watson Henderson Missa Brevis

3.15 Morawetz Clarinet Sonata

3.25 Mielck Concert Piece, Op 9

3.50 Giles Farnaby, arr Howarth Fancies, Toyes and Dreames

4.00 Telemann Sonata in F minor (Der Getreue Music-Meister)

4.15 Moeschinger Wind Quintet on Swiss Songs

4.40 Glinka Sing Not Thou Beauty; Adel

4.45 Glazunov Saxophone Concerto

5.00 Beethoven Overture: Egmont

5.05 Debussy L'Isle Joyeuse

5.15 Diepenbrock En Sourdine

5.15 Sweelinck Variations on "Mein Junges Leben Hat ein End"

5.25 Matteis and anon Passages in Imitation of the Trumpet

5.35 Wagner Overture and Venusberg Music (Tannhauser)