Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including after 6.00 Mozart's Piano Sonata in C, K330, played by Maria Joao Pires ; after the news at
7.00 Vivaldi's Concerto in F, RV544
(The World Turned Upside Down) performed by Chrisophe Coin (cello) and II Giardino Armonico, Milan, director Giovanni Antonini ; and after
8.00 Janacek's Suite: The Cunning
Little Vixen with the Prague Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jiri Behlohlavek. Producer Paul Franki

(1902-83)
Walton leapt to fame in the twenties as the most precocious composer of his generation, but after the war his reputation languished, and critics said that the creative spark of his youth had dimmed. During this week's five programmes
Humphrey Burton seeks to prove the critics wrong. 1: Walton the Entertainer
Walton's first success was the entertainment Facade, which marked the beginning of a lifelong relationship with stage and screen. Music includes excerpts from Facade,
Troilus and Cressida, The First Shoot and his last opera, The Bear. Producer Adam Gatehouse

Martin Parr
A daily series in which artists talk about their current work. In five programmes this week photographer Martin Parr talks about the work he is doing capturing images of the English summer for a new book. Today he selects favourite recent photographs from the summer so far. Producer Hannah Andrassy

With Stephanie Hughes , featuring
Byrd's The Great Service and English anthems. Plus recordings by harpsichordist Wanda Landowska. Musorgsky Dawn on the Moscow
River (Prelude, Act 1: Khovanshchina) Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Mravinsky
10.11 Byrd Venite ; Te Deum (The Great Service) Tallis Scholars , director Peter Philips
10.26 Scarlatti Sonatas: in G, Kkl24; in D minor, Kkl41; in C, Kkl59; in G, Kk259
Wanda Landowska (harpsichord)
10.37 Byrd Benedictus (The Great Service) Tallis Scholars , director Peter Philips
10.47 Shostakovich A Spin through Moscow: Ballet (Moscow,
Cheryomushki) Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly Producer Tony Cheevers

Edinburgh International Festival 1999
Linda Ormiston introduces the last of three recitals from the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, featuring the complete Beethoven violin sonatas.
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Christian Zacharias (piano)
Beethoven Sonata in G, Op 30;
Sonata in A minor, Op 47 (Kreutzer)
11.55 Festival Insights
Continuing the series of lively conversations and public discussions involving some of the major figures appearing at this year's festival.
12.15 Beethoven Sonata in G, Op 96

Pierrot Angry with the Moon Stephanie Hughes presents a chamber concert from London's
Victoria and Albert Museum featuring Debussy's late sonatas and Faure's radiant late piano trio.
Philippe Graffin (violin), Paul Watkins (cello), Pascal Devoyon (piano)
Debussy Cello Sonata; Violin Sonata Faure Piano Trio, Op 120 Repeated Saturday lpm

A chance to hear Sunday's afternoon Prom concert of French music.
Leon McCawley (piano), Emily Beynon (flute), New London Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp
Offenbach Gaite Parisienne (excerpts) Faure Pavane
Honegger Pacific 231 (Three Symphonic Movements)
Franck Symphonic Variations
Chabrier Fete Polonaise (Le Roi malgré Lui)
Poulenc, orch Berkeley Flute Sonata Mllhaud Le Boeuf sur le Toit

Peter Porter explores the dramatic device of the letter in opera. Including excerpts from Britten's The Turn of the Screw; Verdi's Macbeth, La Traviata and Falstaff; and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin , with the most famous letter scene of them all.
Producer Alan Hall

Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio by the New York minimalists Bang on a Can All-Stars. Music includes
Andreas Scholl 's moving account of Vivaldi's Stabat Mater , and Strauss's Oboe Concerto performed by the former American GI for whom it was written, John de Lancie. Producer Tim Prosser
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Tonight's Prom features one of the key works of the 20th century in a semi-staged performance. Debussy's great operatic masterpiece tells the story of two half-brothers, Golaud and Pelleas, who struggle to possess the mysterious Melisande, with tragic results.
Debussy Pelleas et Melisande
Glyndebourne Chorus, London
Philharmonic, conductor Andrew Davis Acts 1, 2 and 3 8.40 The Pelleas Phenomenon
Roger Nichols explores how the finde-siècle symbolism of Maeterlinck's play and Debussy's music struck a chord which has continued to resonate through 100 years.
9.00 Acts 4 and 5

Veterans
The first of five programmes this week in which Christopher Hitchens meets four great nonconformists. 1: Eugene McCarthy
Today the independent Democrat whose anti-Vietnam War stance during his 1968 presidential campaign came very close to unsettling America. In conversation with Christopher Hitchens , he remembers his battles with the Kennedys, his Communist-witch-hunting namesake and the brutal police assault on the Chicago Democrat convention. Repeat

Winner of the Sony Award for Best Feature, this programme from the Between the Ears series focuses on the shock of sudden redundancy. People who have undergone this trauma talk about its impact on their lives. Most describe a similar pattern of surprise, anger, disorientation and humiliation. It is a moment when a relationship is summarily cut short, and it comes out of the blue.
Reporter Hannah Andrassy. Repeat

Alyn Shipton introduces the first of two sets featuring the Annie Whitehead Experience recorded at the 1997 Kingston-upon-Hull International Jazz Festival.
Trombonist Annie Whitehead is joined by Dutch keyboard player
Jasper van't Hof, guitarist Ian Maidman and drummer Liam Genockey. Producer Terry Carter

With Susan Sharpe.

12.05am Mozart Overture: La Clemenza di Tito

12.10 Strauss An dem Baum Daphne (Daphne)

12.25 Weismann Horn Concertino

12.45 Avison Concerto Grosso No 2 in G (after Domenico Scarlatti)

1.00 A concert of 19th-century Spanish dance music performed by the Ensemble de Madrid. Including music by Jose White, Valentin Zubiaurre, Sebastian de Iradier, Frederico Chueca, Manuel Saumell, Ignacio Cervantes, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri and Juventino Rosas.

2.00 Gombert Motet: Tulerunt Dominum Meum

2.15 Ravel Piano Concerto in G

2.45 Mozart Variations in C on "Ah, Vous Dirai-je, Maman", K265

2.55 Kokkonen Taydellisyyden Maassa

3.10 Maasalo Chanson damour, Ricordanza

3.20 Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Op 36

3.45 JCF Bach Trio in C for Keyboard, Flute and Violin

3.55 Blister Variations on "Stort Tranen uyt, Schreyt Luyde, Weent en Treurt"

4.05 Jeney Bird Tempting

4.15 Faure Dolly Suite, Op 56

4.25 Stravinsky Petrushka

5.00 Tchaikovsky Polonaise (Eugene Onegin)

5.10 Haydn Piano Sonata in D, XVI 33

5.25 Handel Violin Sonata in A minor, Op 1 No 4

5.35 Francaix Happy Paris

5.45 Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice