8.30 am Music critics Joanna Lee and Ken Smith on a number of performances in Barcelona: the Symphony Orchestra's Mahler 5 under its Music Director Ludovic Morlot; Parsifal at the Teatre de Liceu; and Elim Chan conducting the OBC in Prokofiev's 5th. And they report on the opening of the Epidarus Festival in Athens with the Greek National Opera's Madama Butterfly

9.10 am Conductor Stephane Deneve on his upcoming concerts with the HK Phil that show his special affinity for the music of his native France, and what a passionate advocate of  21st century music he is