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Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain. 
 
9.30 
Take part in today's musical challenge: identify a piece of music played in reverse. 

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the architect and broadcaster Maxwell Hutchinson. Maxwell was a practising architect for many years and in 1989 became the youngest-ever President of RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Architects. He's become one of the foremost broadcasters on architecture, presenting series on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Two, Channel Four and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio London. At one point Maxwell considered becoming a musician and has written three musicals and a Requiem Mass. In the last few years Maxwell has been ordained and is currently a curate at a church in Essex. As well discussing his work, his music and his life, throughout the week Maxwell will be sharing some of his favourite classical music.

10.30
Music on Location: Prague
Sarah explores the two Mozart operas that were premiered in the city: Don Giovanni and La clemenza di Tito.

Double Take
Sarah explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two interpretations of Triana from Isaac Albeniz's piano collection Iberia (Book 2) by Spanish pianists - Alicia de Larrocha and Rafael Orozco.
 
11am
Sarah's Proms Artist of the Week is the conductor, Nicholas McGegan. McGegan has been hailed as "one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation" (The Independent) and has been director of the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale for over 30 years. McGegan has also devoted much of his time to opera; he was Artistic Director of the Göttingen Handel Festival for 20 years and Principal Guest Conductor at Scottish Opera in the 1990s. As a guest conductor he's worked with orchestras around the world including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony, Halle, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. During the week Sarah will be featuring McGegan's recordings of Haydn's Symphony No.57, Mozart's Piano Concerto in F major, K459 with Melvyn Tan, and excerpts from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Alessandro Scarlatti's Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia. McGegan is also a flautist and Sarah's chosen his recording of CPE Bach's Flute Quartet in D, Wq.94, with Catherine Mackintosh, Anthony Pleeth and Christopher Hogwood.

C.P.E. Bach
Flute Quartet in D major, Wq.94
Nicholas McGegan (flute)
Catherine Mackintosh (viola)
Anthony Pleeth (cello)
Christopher Hogwood (fortepiano).