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The first of seven programmes exploring the harp repertoire.
Rossini Andante and Variations
PETER LUKAS GRAF (flute) URSULA HOLLIGER (harp) Caplet Divertissement No 2 (a 1'espagnole)
NICANOR ZABALETA (harp) Debussy Sonata
JAMES GALWAY (flute) GRAHAM OPPENHEIMER (viola); MARISA ROBLES (harp). Records

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Lukas
Harp:
Ursula Holliger
Viola:
Graham Oppenheimer
Viola:
Marisa Robles

Curtain Up!
Beggings, borrowings and stealings from the opera. Prokofiev/Heifetz March (The Love of Three Oranges)
HIDEKO UDAGAWA (violin) PAVEL GILILOV (piano)
Bizet/Shchedrin Ballet suite: Carmen
LOS ANGELES CO/SCHWARZ Verdi/Johann Strauss (son) Quadrille, Op 272
VIENNA PO/ABBADO. Records

Contributors

Violin:
Hideko Udagawa
Piano:
Pavel Gililov

Haydn Symphony No 12
PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA.
ANTAL DORATI
Rosza Theme and Variations
CO; JASCHA HEIFETZ (violin) GREGOR PIATIGORSKY (cello) Beethoven Sonata in D, Op 10 No 3
EMIL GILELS (piano)
Brahms Clarinet Quintet LENER STRING QUARTET
CHARLES DRAPER (clarinet) Reger Wohl denen die ohne Tadel leben
BERND WEIKL (baritone)
MARTIN HASELBOCK (organ) Bach Sei Lob und Ehr dem hochsten Gut (BWV 117) SOLOISTS; GACHINGER KANTOREI, STUTTGART
WURTTEMBERG CO/
HELMUTH RILLING. Records

Contributors

Violin:
Jascha Heifetz
Cello:
Gregor Piatigorsky
Piano:
Emil Gilels
Clarinet:
Charles Draper
Baritone:
Bernd Weikl
Baritone:
Martin Haselbock
Unknown:
Helmuth Rilling.

Michael Hall and studio guest Peter Donohoe discuss the week ahead.
George Eisler talks about the significance of childhood to Berg and Mahler. And news from Anthony Rooley on The Judgments of Paris rejudged.
Producers JANE WALKER and GRAHAM SHEFFIELD

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Hall
Unknown:
Peter Donohoe
Talks:
George Eisler
Unknown:
Anthony Rooley
Producers:
Jane Walker

led by BEN BUURMAN conducted by TAKUO YUASA
DONG SUK KANG (violin) Schumann Overture:
Genoveva Rory Boyle Winter Music Wieniawski Violin Concerto No 2
Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 2 BBC Scotland

Contributors

Conducted By:
Takuo Yuasa
Unknown:
Genoveva Rory Boyle

LEVON CHILINGIRIAN (violin)
CLIFFORD BENSON (piano) ECO WIND ENSEMBLE
Howard Ferguson Violin Sonata No 1. Op 2
Richard Rodney Bennett Three Romantic Pieces for solo piano
(BBC commission)
Howard Ferguson Violin Sonata No 2, Op 10
1.10 Interval Reading
1.15 Mozart Serenade in B flat for 13 wind instruments (K 361) BBC Pebble Mill (R)

Contributors

Piano:
Clifford Benson
Unknown:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Violin:
Howard Ferguson

JULIAN BREAM and JOHN WILLIAMS (two guitars)
Giuliani Variazioni concertanti, Op 130
Brahms, arr Williams Theme and Variations PetrassiNunc(1971) Lawes Suite in D
Weiss Tombeau de M Comte de Logy Rodrigo Tonadilla (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Williams
Guitars:
Giuliani Variazioni
Unknown:
Weiss Tombeau
Unknown:
Logy Rodrigo Tonadilla

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Tonight the Proms rerun an operatic competition of 1701, with the audience as jury. The sopranos Emma Kirkby, Evelyn Tubb and Sarah Pendlebury sing Venus, Pallas and Juno respectively in each of the settings. Mercury and Paris are sung by bass David Thomas and tenor Howard Crook (Purcell), tenor Paul Agnew and baritone Stephen Varcoe (Weldon) and tenors Andrew King and Rufus Muller (Eccles).

Consort of Musicke Concerto Koln led by Werner Ehrhardt, directed by Anthony Rooley
Daniel Purcell The Judgment of Paris (staged)

7.50 Nicholas Kenyon talks with Anthony Rooley, Peter Holman and Professor Curtis Price about the original competition of 1701 and the composers involved.

8.15 John Weldon The Judgment of Paris (staged)

9.05 John Jacob examines the myth of the Judgment of Paris and looks at some of the paintings it has inspired, with Richard Jenkyns, Nicholas Penny and Alistair Smith.

9.30 John Eccles The Judgment of Paris (staged) (In association with Virgin Classics)

(See David Gillard, right)

Contributors

Venus:
Emma Kirkby
Pallas:
Evelyn Tubb
Juno:
Sarah Pendlebury
Mercury (Purcell):
David Thomas (bass)
Paris (Purcell):
Howard Crook (tenor)
Mercury (Weldon):
Paul Agnew (tenor)
Paris (Weldon):
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Mercury (Eccles):
Andrew King (tenor)
Paris (Eccles):
Rufus Muller (tenor)
Musicians:
Consort of Musicke Concerto Koln
Orchestra leader:
Werner Ehrhardt
Musical Director/Interviewee:
Anthony Rooley
Interviewer:
Nicholas Kenyon
Interviewee:
Peter Holman
Interviewee:
Professor Curtis Price
Producer (Interval Talks):
Michel Petheram
Presenter (Interval Talk):
John Jacob
Speaker (Interval Talk):
Richard Jenkyns
Speaker (Interval Talk):
Nicholas Penny
Speaker (Interval Talk):
Alistair Smith

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