| 00:00 | 00:00Catherine Bott on the Italian composer, who once drew 30,000 people to an organ recital.(R)
| | | | | | 00:00Lucie Skeaping talks to musicologist Ian Gammie about the life of Charles Burney.(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces music by Donizetti, Mozart, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Beethoven, Ravel, Lalo, Shostakovich, Schubert and Haydn.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces music by Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Campra, Glazunov and Mozart.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces music by Jongen, Reger, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Telemann and Suk.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces music by Bruckner, Marais, Grieg, Wagner, Haydn and Telemann.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Rachmaninov, Bartok, Franck, Dvorak, Fornerod and Grieg.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe introduces music, including Nielsen, Elgar, Brahms, Poulenc, Schumann.
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| 07:00 | 07:00Rob Cowan introduces music by J Strauss II, Shostakovich, Janequin, Bach and Beethoven.
| 07:00Rob Cowan introduces music by Clementi, Schubert, Francaix, Wagenaar, Ravel and Mozart.
| 07:00Rob Cowan introduces music by Mozart, Bach, Handel, Chopin, Gershwin and Monteverdi.
| 07:00Rob Cowan introduces music by Purcell, Bruch, Smetana, Stanford, Part and Myslivecek.
| 07:00Rob Cowan introduces music by Suppe, Gershwin, Handel, Mozart, Bach and Puccini.
| 07:00With Martin Handley. Including works by Purcell, Bizet, Bach and Brahms.
| 07:00With Martin Handley. Including music by J Strauss II, Marais, Kodaly, Vivaldi, Rachmaninov
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including works by Godowsky, Salieri, Mozart and Rameau.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Sarah Walker introduces music by Wagner, Rossini, Milhaud, Schuller, Bach and Tchaikovsky.
| 10:00Sarah Walker with music by Beethoven, Messiaen, Barber, Morley, Philips, Byrd and Nielsen.
| 10:00Sarah Walker introduces music by Copland, Ravel, Lutoslawski, Bach and Rachmaninov.
| 10:00Sarah Walker introduces music by Brahms, Gulda, Bach, Porter, Bartok and Beethoven.
| 10:00Sarah Walker introduces music by Haydn, M Berkeley, Elgar, Handel, Gibbons and Mozart.
| | 10:00Mary King sits in for Iain Burnside and explores the world of left-handed musicians.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Although Bruckner's symphonies exude power and confidence, he was neurotic and obsessive.(R)
| 12:002/5In Bruckner's Vienna the supporters of Brahms and Wagner were implacably opposed.(R)
| 12:003/5Te Deum, Bruckner's favourite of his works, and the 7th Symphony, a monument to Wagner.(R)
| 12:004/5Bruckner's epic 8th Symphony caused a spate of 'revision mania' to follow in its wake.(R)
| 12:005/5Including Bruckner's Symphony No 9, on which he laboured but failed to finish before death(R)
| 12:15Normal Lebrecht with recordings by classical artists that look ill-advised in hindsight.(R)
| 12:00Michael Berkeley talks to author Kiran Desai, whose musical choices include Bach.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Alina Ibragimova (violin) and Huw Watkins (piano) perform Debussy, Messiaen and Prokofiev.
| 13:001/4Highlights from the Mananan Festival 2008. Including music by Finzi, Smyth and Piazzolla.
| 13:002/4Music from the 2008 Mananan Festival, including Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Vivaldi and Simcock
| 13:003/4Music from the 2008 Mananan Festival, including Schumann, Grieg and Mozart.
| 13:004/4Music from the 2008 Mananan, including Prokofiev, Franck and Simcock.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping delves into the riddles that lie behind Bach's the Art of Fugue.(R)
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping explores the troubled life of British composer Dr John Bull and his music.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Another chance to hear a Prom featuring works by Vaughan Williams, Bruch and Strauss.(R)
| 14:00Another chance to hear a Prom featuring music by Liverpool-born composer Kenneth Hesketh.(R)
| 14:00A repeat of a Prom, with Beethoven's Symphony No 1 and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.(R)
| 14:00A repeat of a Proms Ethel Smyth celebration, with her Concerto for Horn and Violin.(R)
| 14:00A repeat of a Prom inspired by rustic dances. Including Brahms's Violin Concerto.(R)
| 14:00Alina Ibragimova (violin) and Huw Watkins (piano) perform Debussy, Messiaen and Prokofiev.
| 14:00Chi-chi Nwanoku presents listeners' requests, including Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
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| 15:00 | | | | | | 15:003/3Lucy Duran travels to Shanghai to find out what remains there of traditional Chinese music
| 15:00From Worcester Cathedral.
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| 16:00 | | | | | | 16:00Claire Martin talks to jazz composer and performer Django Bates.
| 16:00Organist James O'Donnell performs Messiaen's Messe de la Pentecote.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Presented by Petroc Trelawny. With conductor Yakov Kreizberg and violinist Carolin Widmann
| 17:00An Edinburgh 2008 preview, including the Belcea Quartet and tenor Anthony Dean Griffey.
| 17:00WIth Petroc Trelawny. Featuring Kristjan Jarvi, Graham Vick, Paul Nilon, Stephen Montague.
| 17:00With conductors Leonard Slatkin and Gianandrea Noseda, and Jane Asher on BBC TWO's Maestro
| 17:00Soprano Gweneth-Ann Jeffers and pianist Simon Lepper discuss their Messiaen Prom.
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| 17:00Hakan Vramsmo and Julius Drake join Stephen Johnson to explore Schubert's song-cycle.
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| 18:00 | | | | | | 18:30Featuring the scheme's first jazz pianist and composer, Gwilym Simcock.
| 18:30Verity Sharp with performances by Eduard Kunz, Martin Helmchen and the Aronowitz Ensemble.
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| 19:00 | 19:30The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Stefan Solyom in works by Bach and Ethel Smyth.
| 19:00The Netherlands Philharmonic perform works by Wagenaar and Dvorak.
| 19:301/2A performance of Messiaen's L'Ascension and Stravinsky's Violin Concerto.
| 19:30The Ulster Orchestra in music by Irishmen Howard Ferguson and Charles Villers Stanford.
| 19:00The Royal Philharmonic perform a concert featuring works by Chen Yi and Rachmaninov. 19:452/3Roy Palmer explores Vaughan Williams's intense love of the folksong Dives and Lazarus.
| 19:00Featuring works by Gershwin, Stravinsky, Bernstein, Gwilym Simcock, Jason Yarde. 19:45By Truman Capote. An old friend is due for lunch at the apartment of New Yorker Mrs Chase.(R)
| 19:30The BBC SO in Sibelius and two world premieres by Michael Berkeley and Stuart McRae.
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| 20:00 | 20:15By Katherine Mansfield. An excerpt from the story of two former lovers meeting again.(R) 20:35With Rachmaninov, orch Wood. Wood: Prelude in C sharp minor. Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2.
| 20:05Tom Goodman-Hill reads from Joseph Roth's novel Rebellion, set in Berlin after World War I 20:25German violinist Julia Fischer features in Brahms's Violin Concerto in D.
| 20:25Pierre Boulez, Tristan Murail and George Benjamin, recall their studies with Messiaen. 20:45The Prom concludes with George Benjamin's Ringed by the Flat Horizon and works by Ravel.
| 20:25Matthew Sweet discusses the portrayal of Victorian entertainment in fiction and on screen. 20:45The Prom concludes with a peformance of Smetana's Vltava and Dvorak's Symphony No 8.
| 20:05The Prom concludes with Vaughan Williams's Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus.
| 20:05Featuring a work by Gershwin and a new composition by Gwilym Simcock.
| 20:30By Leonard Woolf. An English novelist visiting Ceylon falls in love with a prostitute. 20:50Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Elgar's Enigma Variations.
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| 21:00 | | 21:15Ken Hollings explores the world's ultimate think tank, the RAND Corporation.(R)
| 21:45Tom de Waal takes a journey up the Bosphorus to present a portrait of Istanbul.(R)
| 21:45Paul Muldoon and other poets offer personal assessments of the Irish poet's work.(R)
| 21:10A round-up of this year's BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers' Competition.
| 21:00A thriller about a mother who believes her husband is plotting to kill their baby.(R) 21:45The BBC Scottish SO in Per Norgard's Concerto in due tempi for orchestra.
| 21:30American writer and satirist Joe Queenan traces the history of cunning through the ages.
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| 22:00 | 22:00German mezzo-soprano Brigitte Fassbaender discusses her life and work. 22:451/3Featuring violinist Julia Fischer, who is heard in a selection of music by Bach.
| 22:15The King's Singers celebrate their 40th anniversary year with an Anglo-French programme.
| 22:302/3Featuring violinist Julia Fischer, who is heard in a selection of music by Mendelssohn.
| 22:303/3Featuring violinist Julia Fischer, who is heard in a selection of music by Mozart.
| 22:00An America-focused Prom, with works by Torke, Adams, Bernstein and Ellington.
| 22:30Highlights of concerts from the 2007 BMIC Cutting Edge Series, with music by Larry Goves.
| 22:15A selection of literature and accompanying music.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/3Contrasting future worlds in novels from the 1880s - by Edward Bellamy and William Morris. 23:15WOMAD 2008 highlights, including a ceilidh with the Sharon Shannon Big Band/Shane McGowan.
| 23:30Music including Swedish ram's horn, Madagascan xylophones and singer Monica Vasconcelos.
| 23:002/3Looking at HG Wells and Aldous Huxley's questioning whether can science mend broken dreams 23:15Music including early American rhythm 'n' blues and early electronic music by Daphne Oram.
| 23:003/3The threat of nuclear/environmental holocaust, explored by writers such as Neville Shute. 23:15Music including Japanese boogie-woogie, John Cage's Quodlibet and Lo Cor de la Plana.
| 23:30A chance to hear a set from US jazz-funk fusion group Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood.
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