Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Gluck Dance of the Spectres and the Furies (Don Juan )
II Giardino Armonico , director Giovanni Antonini Frank Bridge Threads
Britten Sinfonia, conductor Nicholas Cleobury
8.00-9.00: Brahms Rhapsody No 2 in G minor, Op 79 Emanuel Ax (piano)
Howells Sanctus (Hymnus Paradisi)
Claire Rutter (soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor), Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Hill
9.00-10.00: Haydn String Quartet in B minor, Op 33 No 1 Ebene Quartet
Stravinsky Scherzo Fantastique BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Mark Elder

Sitting in for lain Burnside, Jeremy Sams conjures up music of magic and enchantment. Schubert Overture: Die Zauberharfe
Bartok Suite: The Miraculous Mandarin Plus works by Weber and Handel. EMAIL: burnside@bbc.co.uk

Michael Berkeley meets the actor and comedian
Alexander Armstrong , star of TV shows such as Beast and TLC. Armstrong nearly became a professional singer, and his choices include Stanford's Nunc Dimittis sung by the choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, an aria from Bach's St Matthew Passion, Beethoven's
Seventh Symphony and Strauss's TillEulenspiegel.

Edinburgh International Festival 2007
Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert. recorded earlier this month at Greyfriar's Kirk, of madrigals from the sixth book by Monteverdi, given by Concerto Italiano under director Rinaldo Alessandrini. Producer Rebecca Bean

Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces requests for piano music by Beethoven and Chopin, and Messiaen's organ music from Notre-Dame. This week's guest requester is conductor Vladimir Jurowski.
ADDRESS: Radio 3 Requests, BBC Wales, CF 5 2YO
Phone: [number removed] (calls from a land line cost no more than 8p per min) EMAIL: radio3requests@bbc.co.uk

From the Priory Church, Edington, Wiltshire, during the 2007 Festival of Music within the Liturgy. Introit: Come, Holy Ghost, Our Hearts Inspire (Grayston Ives ) (first performance). Responses (Plainsong). Office Hymn: Aeterna Christi Munera (Plainsong). Psalms: 11, 91 (Cooke, Martin). First Reading: Jeremiah 31, vv1-9. Canticles: Gray in F minor. Second Reading: Mark 10, vv46-52. Anthem: 0 Worship the Lord
(William Hayes ). Final Hymn: Thy Hand, 0 God, Has
Guided (Thornbury). Organ Voluntary: Fantasia super Komm Heiliger Geist. BWV 651 (Bach). Conductors Andrew Carwood , Matthew Martin and Jeremy Summerly. Organist Ashley Grote.

Presented live from the Royal Albert Hall by Tom Service. Tonight's concert explores music written in the shadow of world events.
Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony was composed at the height of the Second World War. while Britten's Four Sea Interludes, which punctuate his opera Peter Grimes , were first performed in 1945. Martinu's
Fourth Piano Concerto was written in 1956, a time of Soviet suppression, while he was in permanent exile from his Czech homeland and, according to the composer, describes a restless search for the meaning of life.
Ivo Kahanek (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jiri Belohlavek
Britten Four Sea Interludes (Peter Grimes ) Martinu Piano Concerto No 4 (Incantation)
8.15 TWenty Minutes: Tempo
Concert pianist and writer Susan Tomes considers matters of pace in musical performances.
8.35 Prokofiev Symphony No 5
This Prom is also broadcast on BBC4 and is repeated on Wednesday 5 September at 2.30pm on Radio 3

Thomas Malory 's great work of Arthurian literature Le Morte d'Arthur survives in two forms: a manuscript produced by scribes and a printed edition by Caxton that influenced generations of readers. The original manuscript disappeared for nearly 500 years before its rediscovery in the Warden's bedroom at Winchester College. Professor David Wallace traces the histories of the two versions and considers the different stories they tell about the times in which they were made and the times in which they were read. With readings by Andrew Motion. Producer Paul Ouinn

A Traveller's Path, A sequence of poetry and music exploring the idea of the journey. Melanie Kilburn and Joe Dunlop read a selection from Tennyson, Plath, Baudelaire and Wordsworth, with archive readings from John Betjeman and Philip Larkin.
Music includes Nielsen's Helios Overture, Vaughan Williams 's Songs of Travel and Ligeti's Lux Aeterna. EMAIL: wordsandmusic@bbc.co.uk
For details of the music and verse heard in this programme, visit www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wordsand music

Conductor Andrew Carwood talks to Catherine Bott about the Council of Trent's demand for simplicity in liturgical music, and its effect on the development of polyphony in the mid-16th century. Palestrina's musical mastery and his skill at word setting came to the fore despite the Council's strictures, Producer Steve Portnoi

Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Dvorak In Nature's Realm Poulenc Un Soir de Neige Messiaen Cinq Rechants Danish National Vocal Ensemble/DR, conductor Stephen Layton
1.39 Sibelius Suite: Lemminkainen
2.25 Dvorak Piano Concerto in G minor
3.05 Sullivan Symphony in E (Irish)
3.42 Haydn Arietta and 12 variations, H XVII 3
4.00 Brahms Variations on a theme by Haydn, Op 56
(St Anthony) 4.18 Vivaldi Cello Concerto in E minor, RV409
4.31 Hue Phantasy 4.38 Monteverdi Confitebor Tibi Domine 4.51 Liszt Csardas Macabre
5.00 Bozza Jour d'Ete a la Montagne
5.11 Tinel Overture: Polyeucte 5.29 Marcello Concerto in D minor 5.38 Strauss Maria Theres ... Hab' mir's gelobt, ihn lieb zu haben (Der Rosenkavalier, Act 2).
5.43 Grleq Love Poem, Op 43 No 5; March of the Trolls,
Op 54 No 3: Nocturne, Op 54 No 4 5.53 Palmqren Exotic March 5.59 Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor. Op 1 No 3
6.29 Josquin Desprez Coeurs Desolezpar Toute Nation; Qui Belles Amours 6.36 Kodaly Suite: Hary Janos