With Sandy Burnett.
1.00 Proms Chamber Music 1996
Cross-currents of Spanish and French music in a programme which sets Falla's chamber concerto alongside atmospheric instrumental and vocal works by Ravel and Chausson. Falla is a Proms-featured composer in this 50th anniversary year of his death and Ravel was a composer he much admired during his years in Paris before the First World War. Two Proms soloists - Sally Burgess (mezzo, 10 August) and Nicholas Daniel (oboe/director, 14 August) join forces with pianist
John Lenehan and the Haffner Ensemble, a lively young group of wind and string players. Introduced by Susan Sharpe. Ravel, arr Jones Le Tombeau de Couperin
Chausson Chanson perpétuelle
Falla Concerto for harpsichord and five instruments
Ravel Trois poemes de Stephane Mallarme
2.05 The BBC Orchestras
BBC NO of Wales
Conductor David Atherton ,
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Michael Thompson (horn)
Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville
Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings
Mozart Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat,
K417
Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish)
3.45 Voices
Tenor Ian Bostridge performs songs by Schumann, Brahms and Wolf, accompanied by pianist Julius Drake. Repeat
4.30 First Bass
Second in a six-part series in which bassist Ray Brown talks to Alyn Shipton about a career that has included collaborations with almost all the giants of the genre, from Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington to Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald , In the late 1940s, he was a regular in Dizzy Gillespie's groups and composed One-Bass Hit and Ray's Idea. He went on to work with Milt Jackson. Kenny Clarke and John Lewis in a group that was the forerunner of the Modern Jazz Quartet.