BBC Music July 2011

Pick of the Proms We take a look at the highlights of this year's programme and talk to some of the big names performing including pianist Emanuel Ax and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham

Stephen Hough James Naughtie talks to a very modern virtuoso about the irrelevance of memorising music and the importance of blogging

Diary of a Prommer Our deputy editor braves the rain and heads to the Royal Albert Hall to document a day in the life of a Prommer


Anton Bruckner Stephen Johnson takes a look at the complex and challenging character of the Austrian composer Plus on your free CD Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 9 and Parry's Elegy for Brahms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis

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