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7.00 Gade Echoes of Ossian
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Jerzy Maksymiuk
7.30 Schubert Fantasy in C (D934)
Adolf Busch (violin)
Rudolf Serkin (piano)
8.00 Tchaikovsky Marche slave
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conductor Antal Dorati
8.30 Haydn Symphony No 102 in B flat
Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conductor David Josefowitz.
(Discs)
The chamber music, presented by Michael Oliver.
Piano Trio in C minor, Op 66
Guarneri Trio
String Quartet in D, Op 44 No
Melos Quartet. Discs
presented by Susan Sharpe.
Lully Marche pour la ceremonie des Turcs
Le Concert des Nations, director Jordi Savall
10.05 Boleldieu Overture:
La Dame blanche
Paris Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre Stoll
10.15 Delalande Te Deum
Veronique Gens, Arlette Steyer and Sandrine Piau (sopranos)
Francois Piolino and Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenors) Jerome Correas (bass) Les Arts Florissants, conductor William Christie
10.35 Satie Gnossiennes Nos 4-6
Pascal Roge (piano)
10.45 Berlioz
Le vieil hiver (La Damnation de Faust) Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis
10.50 Saint-Saens Le rouet d'Omphale
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
11.00 Rameau Formons les plus brillants concerts (Platee, Act 2) Jennifer Smith (soprano) Les musiciens du Louvre, conductor Mark Minkowski
11.10 Francaix Serenade for small orchestra
Cleveland Sinfonietta, conductor Louis Lane
11.20 Marais La reveuse
Jordi Savall (bass viol)
Pierre Hantai (harpsichord) Rolf Lislevand (theorbo)
11.25 Ravel
Introduction and Allegro Nash Ensemble
11.35 Davaux Symphonie concertante, mêlée d'airs patriotiques
Werner Ehrhardt and Andrea Keller (violins) Concerto Koln.
(Discs)
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The opening recital I of the season, recorded in the Concert Hall of New Broadcasting House, Manchester. Brindisi Quartet
Mozart String Quartet in G (K156) Webem
Five Movements, Op 5
Bridge
String Quartet No 4
Second of two programmes. Fugue in G minor (BWV1000)
Suite in E flat
(BWV1006a) Goran Sollscher (guitar)
from All Saints'
Church,
Margaret Street , London.
Introit: Round me falls the night (Day)
Responses: Plainsong Psalm 31 (Plainsong)
First Lesson: Ezra 10, 1-19 Office Hymn: 0 Blest creator of the light (Lucis creator) Canticles: Howells in B minor
Second Lesson: Romans 9, w 14-29
Anthem: Welcome, sweet and sacred feast (Finzi)
Hymn: Sing praise to God who reigns above (Palace Green); Ave Maria (Elgar) Organ Voluntary: Canzone, Op 65 (Reger).
Director of Music Harry Bramma. Assistant
Organist Nicholas Luff.
Richard Baker presents a special French edition to celebrate Bastille Day. Producer Hugh Warwick
conductor Dennis Russell
Davies
Debussy Iberia
Elliott Three Occasions
Variations for Orchestra
Ian Ousby continues his four-part exploration of travel-writing in the 18th century. 3: The Hon John Byng , Viscount Torrington with Benjamin Whitrow.
John Buller turned to the songs of 12th-century
Provençal troubadours in his large orchestral piece Proenca, a BBC commission in 1977. More recently, in Towards Aquarius, Buller has explored another sort of time travel, driving the ensemble ever forward by accelerating pulsations from a tape.
Towards Aquarius Lontano, conductor
Odaline de la Martinez
Proenca Sarah Walker (mezzo)
Timothy Walker (electric guitar)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder
(Butler's 1993 Prom commission 'Bacchae Metres' next Monday evening)
Third of four programmes marking the composer's 150th anniversary.
Penelope Thwaites (piano) Grieg Four Norwegian Dances: Spring Dance,
Op 17 No 3; Bridal Song, Op 17 No 6; I Know a Little Maiden, Op 17 No 16; Cow Bells, Op 17 No 22; Piano Sonata in E minor, Op 7 7Slatter, Op 72
Valentine Cunningham reviews The Mountain Giants by Pirandello at the National Theatre, and talks to Christopher Ricks about his new book on the art of Samuel Beckett.
Producer Judith Bumpus
The ensemble plays the third of six programmes of chamber music. Presented by Antony Pay.
Schubert Adagio and Rondo in F (D487); Quintet in A (D667) (Trout)
Except in Scotland. As broadcast
9.00-10.25am on R5