Entertainment

07:00

Breakfast

Music, news and the occasional surprise, presented by Rob Cowan. Including 7.00, 8.00 News. 7.30, 8.30 News Headlines

10:00

Classical Collection

With Sarah Walker. J Strauss (son): Kunstlerleben. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Carlos Kleiber. 10.10 Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op 28. North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Erich Kleiber. 10.25 Chopin: Polonaise-fantaisie, Op 61. Maurizio Pollini (piano). 10.39 Copland: Four Dance Episodes (Rodeo). London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer. 11.00 Group of Three. Anderson: Saraband; Blue Tango; The Waltzing Cat. St Louis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin. 11.10 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5. Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Mravinsky

12:00

Composer of the Week: Bernstein; News R

Donald Macleod examines how Bernstein's seemingly perfect life as a loving husband and father, an exceptional musical talent and electric personality, was jeopardised by bad times. Leonard Bernstein: Take Care of This House (1600 Pennsylvania Avenue). Frederica von Stade (mezzo), National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer. Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra. Clamma Dale, Rosalind Elias, Nancy Williams, Neil Rosenshein, John Reardon, Donald Gramm (soloists), National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, conducted by the composer. Three Meditations from Mass for Cello and Orchestra (excerpt). Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the composer

13:00

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Former BBC New Generation Artist Llyr Williams (piano) performs Beethoven and Ives at the Edinburgh Festival. Joining him are violist Jane Atkins and Juliette Bausor on the flute. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 13 in E flat, Op 27 No 1. Ives: Piano Concerto No 2 (Concord Mass., 1840-1860)

14:20

Afternoon on 3 R

Jonathan Swain presents another chance to hear a Prom first broadcast on Thursday September 2. Francois-Xavier Roth directs a mainly French-flavoured programme beginning with a suite by Rameau and a selection of Canteloube's folk-song settings. The title of Argentinian composer Martin Matalon's new work translates as Lines of Flight and relates to a technique in drawing where added lines produce depth and perspective in a picture. The concert ends with a version of Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition orchestrated by Proms founder Henry Wood. Presented by Louise Fryer. Anna Caterina Antonacci (soprano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Francois-Xavier Roth. Rameau: Suite: Dardanus. Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne (selection). Martin Matalon: Lignes de fuite (first UK performance). Musorgsky arr Wood: Pictures at an Exhibition. Followed by highlights from last year's City of London Festival, including Grieg: Violin Sonata No 2 in G. Jennifer Pike (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano). Hassler: Grand Gigue, Op 31. Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

17:00

In Tune

A selection of music, plus news from the arts world. Including 5.00, 6.00 News (Dance)

19:30

BBC Proms 2010

Presented live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, by Katie Derham. The Romantic spirit of bicentenary composer Schumann hovers over the central works of this concert. Framing them are Schubert's tantalisingly `unfinished' symphony, and what is arguably Mozart's darkest masterpiece. Finghin Collins (piano), Dorothea Roschmann (soprano), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gianandrea Noseda. Schubert: Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished). Schumann: Introduction and Allegro appassionato in G, Op 92. 8.15 Twenty Minutes. Park Life. Poet Anjum Malik walks in the footsteps of Lowry through Buile Hill Park in Salford. 8.35 Schumann orch Robin Holloway: Reliquary: Scenes from the life of Mary Queen of Scots enclosing an instrumentation of Robert Schumann's Gedichte der Konigin Maria Stuart, Op 135 (BBC commission, first performance). Mozart: Symphony No 40 in G minor

21:45

Tracking the Aryans

Historian Bettany Hughes uncovers the troubled story of the search for the ancient Aryans. Nowadays associated with the Nazi ideology of a blond blue-eyed master race, the term Aryan was once used to refer to the speakers of a prehistoric language from which the modern Indo-European Language family is descended (including, among others, English, German, Latin, Greek, Farsi and Hindi). But the name's origins lie in the ancient texts of Bronze Age Iran and North India. Archaeologists on the remote borders of Siberia and Kazakhstan have recently uncovered a series of unexpectedly sophisticated prehistoric settlements. Within, they have discovered unusually complex burial rituals and the earliest known chariots in the world. Bettany travels to the Siberian Steppe to the ancient circular fortified town of Arkaim to find out whether this Steppe culture could be the origin of the Aryans of Iran and North India, and what it can reveal about the origin of Indo-European languages

22:30

New Generation Artists

Beethoven: Cello Sonata in F, Op 5 No 1. Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)

23:00

The Essay R

Poet Jeremy Hooker recalls his early life on the south coast, looking across to the Isle of Wight, in wartime. The sea and sky were fascinating, and dangerous, and the land fractured, revealing remnants of earlier creations and their stories. Out of these the poet was himself made. Hooker considers other poets of the south country, Tennyson and Thomas Hardy, whose work has a Victorian melancholy that he resists in his own writing (Arts)

23:15

Late Junction

Malian blues from Lobi Traore and Senegalese blues from Nuru Kane, plus more cinema soundtrack excerpts, featuring music from 2001, Chappaqua and L'Eclisse. With Max Reinhardt

01:00

Through the Night

Presented by Susan Sharpe. Sibelius: Suite: Karelia, Op 11. RTE National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arild Remmereit. 1.18 Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85. 1.47 Bach: Sarabande (Suite No 3 in C for cello solo, BWV1009. 1.51 Bartok: Four Old Hungarian Folk-songs; Concerto for Orchestra, Sz116. 2.37 Mozart: Piano Trio in B flat, K502. 3.01 Purcell: Pavane in G minor Z752; Chaconne (Chacony) in G minor, Z730. 3.09 Reger: Motet: Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht, Op 110 No 2. 3.27 Henryk Gorecki: Concerto-Cantata for Flute and Orchestra, Op 65. 3.47 Beethoven: Ten variations in G on Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu, Op 121a. 4.05 Merikanto: Scherzo for Orchestra. 4.16 Bach: Toccata in D for keyboard, BWV 912. 4.27 Josquin des Prez: La deploration de Johan Okeghem. 4.33 Borodin: Symphony No 3. 4.51 Verdi: Rigoletto (paraphrase de concert for piano), S 434. 5.01 Grieg: In Autumn. 5.13 Barnes: Three Folk Dances. 5.18 Rore: Vaghi pensieri. 5.23 Sibelius: Six Ipromptus, Op 5. 5.39 Chausson: Chanson Perpetuelle, Op 37. 5.47 Vivaldi: L'Autunno, RV293. 5.59 Mozart: Ten Variations on Unser dummer Pobel meint for piano, K 455. 6.15 Rimsky-Korsakov: Suite: Tsar Saltan, Op 57. 6.37 Anon: El piove. 6.45 Alessandrescu: Symphonic sketch: Autumn Dawn. 6.54 Grithe: Illusion