Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela Leopold Stokowski and his Symphony Orchestra
Vivaldi Laudate Pueri, RV602 Margaret Marshall and Felicity Lott (sopranos), John Alldis Choir , English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Vittorio Negri
8.00-9.00: Purcell Incidental music (Abdelazar) Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood Beethoven Ah! Perfido, Op 65
Charlotte Margiono (soprano), Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
9.00-10.00: Hoist Ballet music: The Golden Goose
English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Imogen Holst Bach Partita No 1 in B flat, BWV825 Glenn Gould (piano)

Guest presenter Mary King explores music in print, manuscripts, the oral tradition and improvisation in honour of the 550th anniversary of one of the world's oldest printed books - the Mainz Psalter. Music includes:
Gregorian chant from the monks of the Benedictine Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos in Spain, directed by Ismael Fernandez de la Cuesta.
Bach The Musical Offering, BWV1079 Vienna
Concentus Musicus, director Nikolaus Harnoncourt Plus works by Charles Tournemire and Keith Jarrett. Email: burnside@bbc.co.uk

Joan Bakewell shares her musical passions with Michael Berkeley. They include a Mozart symphony, the finale of Schumann's Piano Concerto, Janacek's Intimate Letters string quartet, and the finale of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical, Oklahoma!

Lucie Skeaping explores the history of the sackbut and its use as an ensemble instrument in Europe. Music includes pieces by Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Lassus, Scheidt and Locke. Andrew Gourlay meets trombonist and sackbut player Simon Wills for a potted history and demonstration of the instrument. Producer Les Pratt

Chi-chi Nwanoku presents listeners' favourites, which this week include two musical train rides, courtesy of Villa-Lobos and Philip Glass, a trip round Le Gay Paris with jaunty flaneur Jean Françaix, and music from Schubert and Elgar.
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From the Three Choirs Festival at Gloucester
Cathedral. Introit: Holy Is the True Light (Harris).
Responses: Sumsion. Office Hymn: Glory to Thee, My God, This Night (Tallis's Canon). Psalm: 59 (Barnby). First Reading: Isaiah 11, vvlO-12. Canticles: Blair in B minor. Second Reading: 2 Corinthians 1, w1-22.
Anthem: Give unto the Lord (Elgar). Final Hymn: Fill Thou My Life (Richmond). Organ Voluntary: Fugue,
Sonata on the 94th Psalm (Reubke). Robert Houssart (organ), combined Cathedral Choirs of Gloucester,
Hereford and Worcester; conductor Andrew Nethsingha.

Presented live from the Royal Albert Hall , London, by Andrew McGregor. Four years on and the Proms' first Ring cycle reaches its climax and conclusion with Gotterdammerung. On the death of Siegfried, Brunnhilde ignites his funeral pyre and plunges into the flames, redeeming them both by her love. Wotan and the other gods are immolated in the flames that destroy Valhalla. As the gold is returned to the Rhinemaidens, the curse of the ring is finally lifted. Wagner Gotterdammerung: Prologue and Act 1
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Donald Runnicles Music choices: page 114
6.05 Interval: The Reconciler
An investigation into the life and legacy of one of the 20th century's most influential and radical spiritual leaders, Brother Roger of Taize. By bringing together divided Christians and pioneering a new style of Church music, Brother Roger led a quiet revolution in postwar Europe. His murder in 2005 was mourned by millions. Mike Ford finds out why. Producer Helen Grady
7.05 Wagner Gotterdammerung: Act 2
8.20 Interval: Everything's OK
Poignancy is mixed with touching observation in this short story by Romanian writer Daniela Crasnaru. Well-known musical conductor Gheorghe Iliu 's international travels from concert to concert are punctuated by a series of curious telegrams from his family back home. Read by Bill Nighy.
8.50 Wagner Gotterdammerung: Act 3

Magic. Linked to the Proms theme of Shakespeare, Nicholas Farrell and Miriam Margolyes conjure up words on magic by Shakespeare, Pushkin and Martin Feinstein , Chaucer. Derek Walcott and Keats.
The power, people and signs of magic, and magic landscapes, tables and spells, both dark and light, are accompanied by the music of Wagner, Mendelssohn, Tippett and others.
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Lucie Skeaping presents an appraisal of Gluck's magnum opus Orphee et Eurydice in which, with librettist Calzabigi and choreographer Angiolini, he created a new world - even a new underworld - on the opera stage. First performed in Vienna in 1762, this work is arguably one of the most influential operas of all time. Recordings include performances by Janet Baker , James Bowman , Derek Lee Ragin and Bernarda Fink. Producer Les Pratt

Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky , Op 78
1.38 Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2
2.05 Haydn Symphony No 92 in G (Oxford)
2.32 Machaut Ploures Dames, Ploures Vostre Servant
2.42 Schubert String Quartet in G, D887
3.36 Musorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
3.59 Ravel Sonatine 4.12 Falla Siete Canciones Populares Espanclas 4.25 Liszt Hungarian Royal Song
4.31 Tippett Dance, Clarion Air
4.36 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis 4.50 Byrd Goodnight Ground in C for keyboard, MB2742 5.00 Blockx Flemish Dances
5.13 Thomas The Minstrel's Adieu to His Native Land for harp
5.21 Rameau Symphonies and Dances
5.37 Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216
6.01 Bach Little preludes for keyboard, BWV939-42
6.05 Beethoven String Quartet in C minor, Op 59 No 3 (Razumovsky)
6.16 Hammerschmidt Suite for winds in G minor/G (Ester Fleiss) 6.30 Chopin Impromptu in A flat, Op 29
6.35 Ligeti Six Bagatelles for wind quintet
6.46 Svendsen Overture: Carnival in Paris