Adrian Edwards presents his choice of music, with news, weather and traffic headlines.
Rameau
Entree: The Incas of Peru Divertissement: The Savages (Les Indes galantes)
Phani...ISABELLE POULENARD (sop)
Les Arts Florissants/ William Christie
conductor Leopold Hager Beethoven
Symphony No 2 in D
Peter Baxter looks back at the events of the inaugural World Cup.
1.30 County Scoreboard
1.40 Commentary
3.45 County Talk with Graeme Fowler , Nick Cook and Simon Hughes.
4.00 Commentary
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
James O'Donnell (organ)
London Philharmonic Orchestra/Klaus Tennstedt
The London Philharmonic, now resident on the South Bank, celebrates its sixtieth anniversary this year. For tonight's Prom, its distinguished Conductor Laureate Klaus Tennstedt conducts a popular programme of excerpts from Wagner operas, and James O'Donnell (who made his Prom debut last year as director of the Westminster Cathedral choir) plays two great showpieces of the organ repertoire.
Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565)
Liszt Prelude and Fugue on BACH
Wagner Overture and Venusberg Music (Tannhauser); Overture: Rienzi
8.35 The London Philharmonic at 60
Jon Tolansky looks back on 60 years of music-making, with contributions from artists past and present.
8.55 Wagner Siegfried's Rhine Journey; Siegfried's Funeral March (Gotterdammerung); Overture: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
by James Joyce.
The ninth instalment of a 16-part adaptation.
Readers Stephen Rea and James Greene.
Keith Harvey (cello)
Anthony Goldstone (piano) Beethoven Sonata in G minor, Op 5 No 2 Czerny Rondeau concertant. Op 135
In the early seventies, composer and pianist Mike Westbrook began to diversify. As he tells Geoffrey Norris in the third of eight programmes, he was involved with travelling shows and a circus before working at the National Theatre on the revue Tyger, based on the works of William Blake. Then it was back to the Big Band for
Citadel/Room 315.
William Schuman
Carols of Death
Copland Inscape
Schuman Symphony No 9 (The Ardeatine Caves)