With Fiona Talkington.
CPE Bach Sonata in G, Wql39 Margit-Anna Suss (harp)
6.35 Sainte-Colombe Concert No 42 for two viols (Dalain) Jordi Savall , Wieland Kuijken
7.00 Bach Chorale Preludes: Machs mit
Mir, Gott, nach DeinerGut, BWV95 7a; Werde Munter Mein Gemute , Peter Hurford (organ)
7.30 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat Stephen Kovacevich , BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis
8.00 Vivaldi Concerto in A minor, Op 3 No 6 (L'Estro Armonico) Catherine Mackintosh (violin), Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
8.10 A Scarlatti Cantata: Su le Sponde del Tebro Kathleen Battle (soprano), Wynton Marsalis (trumpet), Orchestra of St Luke's, conductor John Nelson
Offenbach Overture: La Belle Helene
Vienna SO, conductor Bruno Weil
9.20 Stravinsky Suite No 2 Orpheus CO
9.25 Matthew Locke Broken Consort in C
Palladian Ensemble
9.45 Sebastian Knupfer Die Turteltaube Lasst Sich Horen The King's Consort, conductor Robert King
9.55 Auric Cinq Bagatelles Duo Crommelynck
10.00 Liszt Mazeppa Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Herbert von Karajan
10.25 Delius Summer Evening
RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham
10.30 Bach Cantata No 76: Die
Himmel Erzahlen die Ehre Gottes (Part 1) Soloists, Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Orchestra, conductor Ton Koopman
10.55 Mozart Piano Sonata in G, K283 Mitsuko Uchida
11.10 Arthur Foote Pizzicato; Adagietto (Suite for Strings) Indianapolis SO, conductor Raymond Leppard
11.25 Vaughan Williams Symphony No 2 (A London Symphony)
LPO, conductor Adrian Boult Producer Fiona Shelmerdine
As the musical world moves into its summer schedule, Graeme Kay presents the first of eight programmes previewing some of the highlights of the international festival calendar, plus reviews of special events. This week's programme includes poetry and music from the BBC Proms and a report on a remarkable operatic project in Finland involving three composers. Producer Mark Lowther
Cheltenham Festival 2000
Chris de Souza introduces a recent recital from this year's festival in which organist Gillian Weir performs Messiaen's last great organ work, Le Livre du Saint
Sacrement, in Gloucester Cathedral.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Adrian Boult.
Drawing exclusively on BBC recordings, Anthony Burton presents a portrait of some of the great conductors who have shaped the BBC Symphony Orchestra since its formation in 1930. Today he considers the role of its first principal conductor, Adrian Boult.
Holst Ballet: The Perfect Fool (1944)
Smetana Vltava (Ma Vlast) (1941)
Berg Wozzeck (excerpt) (1934)
Beethoven Overture: Prometheus (1943)
Elgar Overture: In the South (Alassio) (1944)
Adrian Boult is featured in the BBC Legends series. CDs are available now from music outlets.
Bach on Record
Anthony Burton surveys the recording history of Bach's ever popular violin COnCertOS. Producer Lindsay Kemp
A monthly journey through the literatures of Europe. 4: The Netherlands. Today writer Julian Evans turns his attention to the Netherlands. Most other European literatures operate in the shadow of one or more major national and often international figures. So how do today's Dutch novelists feel about a cultural heritage dominated instead by painters? Indeed, is there such a thing as Dutch literature at all, given the national capacity for assimilation? ProducerTomAlban
Rptd from yesterday 12 noon
From the Royal Albert Hall , London. Bach- like chorales and Handelian choruses are juxtaposed with lyrical arias in Mendelssohn's dramatic and powerful oratorio relating the story of the conversion and mission of the apostle Paul. It is the first of many works this season exploring the theme of music inspired by religion. Peter Coleman-Wright (baritone), Susan Gritton (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), London
Symphony Chorus, Houston Symphony
Chorus, BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, conductor Richard Hickox Mendelssohn St Paul (Parti)
8.40 Interval: Silent Reading, Silent
Writing Professor Gillian Beer reflects on whether literature can ever represent silence, drawing on poetry and prose from Keats, Coleridge and Henry James to Elaine Feinstein and Tony Harrison.
9.00 Mendelssohn St Paul (Part 2)
By Howard Barker. The Bishop of Albertina, a tiny state in old Europe, has proposed to Rocklaw, the town's intellectual, that all undesirables should be put together and carried off on a Ship of Fools. But Rocklaw is plagued by jealousy when his wife follows her lover on board.
Music by Elizabeth Parker. Director Richard Wortley (R)
The Manchester-based ensemble is featured here in four of the works they commissioned in the early nineties Michael Ball Serenade for Seiklos Richard Rodney Bennett Saxophone
Quartet
Andrew Keeling Wrestling with Angels Graham Fitkin Stub (R)
With Jill Anderson.
Poulenc Litanies a la Vierge Noire; Gloria; Ballet: Les Biches - Orchestre National de France/Georges Pretre
2.20 Dohnanyi String Quartet No 2, Op 15
2.50 Bartok Four Hungarian Folk Songs
3.00 Rautavaara Regular Sets of dements
3.15 Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor
3.45 Vivaldi Concerto in A minor for two violins, RV522
3.55 Pierre Fevrier Le Besoin d'Aimer
4.05 Grieg Peer Gynt: Suite No 1
4.20 Duarte Trio
4.30 Mozart Piano Sonata in A, K331
4.50 Sibelius Suite Champetre, Op 98b
5.05 Donizetti, transcr Liszt Valse-Caprice on Themes from "Lucia di Lammermoor"
5.25 Nicolas de Grigny Kyrie; Dialogue; Fugue
5.40 Mozart Marten Alter Arten (Die Entfuhrungaus dem Serail)
5.50 Liszt Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat (1st mvt)