With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Friday Chamber Music
Jean-Marie Leclair at the Concert Spirituel
Nicholas Anderson presents the second of three programmes featuring music by Leclair and his contemporaries.
Aubert Simphonie No 5 in F Leclair Violin Concerto in A,
Op 10 No 2; Sonata a trois in D, Op 2 No 8
Mouret Cantemus Domine
Julia Gooding (soprano) Peter Harvey (bass) Rachel Brown (flute)
Richard Campbell (bass viol) Paul Nicholson (h'chord) Collegium Musicum 90, director Simon Standage (violin)
A Regent Records production
2.05 The BBC Orchestras
BBC Philharmonic conductor Sachio Fujioka Bruckner Symphony No 1 (Linz version)
3.00 New series
The Prom Archive
A series of vintage Prom performances to celebrate the festival's centenary. This week, Susan Sharpe explores the earliest
Promenade concerts in the archives - all conducted by their founder,
Sir Henry Wood. From 1936, there's a programme of Schubert and Mozart featuring soprano
Elisabeth Schumann , and from 1942
John Ireland's Epic March - a wartime commission by the BBC.
Producer Susan Kenyon
4.20 FAIREST ISLE
Turns of the Century An audio lexicon of great
English comedy performers. Robert Cushman celebrates the work of Tony Hancock.
4.30 Music of Madagascar
Another chance to hear the winner of this year's Sony
Gold Award in the specialist music category. After hearing the Hira Gasi festivals of Tana, capital of Madagascar. Cris Cheek travels across country in pick-up trucks and dugout canoes to record the strange and still almost unknown yodelling music called kamaky and the exuberant serenades of the south east coast, accompanied by some virtuoso football whistling.