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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.鈥�
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Take part in today's musical challenge: can you remember the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?

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鈥疨resident鈥痮f RIBA, the鈥疪oyal Institute of British Architects.鈥疕e's become one of the foremost broadcasters on architecture, presenting series on 大象传媒 Two, Channel Four and 大象传媒 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 by composers including Brahms, Ravel and Elgar.

10.30
Music on Location: Prague
Sarah spends the week exploring the classical music connections found in the city of Prague, beginning with Bed艡ich Smetana's tone-poem Vy拧ehrad - a portrait of the city's castle, the seat of the earliest Czech kings which towers over the River Vltava.

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)鈥痑nd 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 G枚ttingen 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, 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony, Halle, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra.鈥疍uring 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.

Purcell
Dido and Aeneas: excerpt
Dido: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano)
Belinda: Lisa Saffer (soprano)
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan (conductor).