With Sandy Burnett.
1.00 New series
Proms Chamber Music 1996
The Arditti Quartet launches the first-ever series of Proms lunchtime chamber concerts, from the Britten Theatre at the Royal College of Music, London. Taking up the Proms theme of creation, Beethoven's elemental fugue and Dutilleux's vision of the immensities of space flank a new work by Elliott Carter , who today receives the Royal Philharmonic
Society's gold medal for a lifetime's distinguished musical achievement. Introduced by Susan Sharpe.
Beethoven Grosse Fuge in B flat. Op 133
Carter String Quartet No 5 (first London performance) Dutilleux Ainsi la nuit....
2.10 The BBC Orchestras
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Thierry Fischer , Alison Wells and Deborah Miles-Johnson
(sopranos), Fair City Singers
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture and complete incidental music
Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)
3.50 Zelenka
Virtuoso chamber music by one of the most idiosyncratic composers of the Baroque.
Sonata V: Sonata VI
Gail Hennessy and Mark Radcliffe (oboes), Ursula Leveaux (bassoon), Peter McCarthy (double bass), Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo),
Timothy Roberts (harpsichord)
4.30 Lester Leaps In
Russell Davies concludes his series examining the recording career of Lester Young , the tenor saxophonist whose nimble, poetic style pointed the way for the bebop revolution. 6: Fine and Mellow Producer David Perry