Exodus: The Jewish
Diaspora

with Piers Burton-Page .
7.10* Bizet Suite: The Fair Maid of Perth
Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Ernest Ansermet
7.40* Balfe I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls (The Bohemian Girl)
Joan Sutherland (soprano)
London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor
Richard Bonynge
8.00* Vivaldi
Concerto in C (RV556) (Per la Solennita di San Lorenzo)
Dresden State Orchestra, conductor Vittorio Negri
8.40* Bliss
Suite: Things to Come National Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor
Bernard Herrmann
Discs

Richard Langham Smith continues his journey through Faure's cycle of Barcarolles, with Vlado Perlemuter , who recalls how, as a young student, he met Faure in the 1920s.
4: Barcarolles and Bonbons
Barcarolle No 5 in F sharp minor, Op 66 Viado Perlemuter (piano)
Barcarolle No 6 in E flat, Op 70
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
Sicilienne, Op 78 Lowri Blake (cello)
Caroline Palmer (piano) Dolly Suite
Robert and Gaby Casadesus (pianos)
Impromptu in D flat, Op 86 Ursula Holliger (harp) Barcarolles: No 7 in C sharp minor, Op 74; No 8 in D flat, Op 96
Vlado Perlemuter (piano) Barcarolle No 9 in A minor, Op 101
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano). Discs

conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Tasmin Little (violin)
John Pickard The Flight of Icarus
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor
Nielsen Symphony No 5

Richard Hickox conducts
Purcell Chacony in G minor
Richard Hickox Orchestra
Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin City of London Sinfonia Discs

A sequence of 18th-century music including a movement from Mozart's Serenade in D (K250) (Haffner). Discs

If play is interrupted,
Radio 3 will revert to a music schedule
England v Australia
Ball-by-ball commentary on the first day's play after lunch in the Fifth Cornhill
Test at Edgbaston by Brian Johnston , Jonathan Agnew and Neville Oliver. With expert comment from Fred Trueman and David Lloyd. Scorer Bill Frindall.
(Morning coverage on Radio 5) Including
3.454.00 County Talk Peter Baxter discusses some issues of the cricket season with Nick Cook ,
Graeme Fowler and Mark Nicholas.

Music on disc.

The first of tonight's two Proms from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins
Sophie Rolland (cello)

Britten Pas de Six (The Prince of the Pagodas)
Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor
8.00 Music for Children or Private Confessional?
David Nice talks about Prokofiev's Symphony No 7, a product of his final years.
8.20 Judith Weir Music Untangled
Prokofiev Symphony No 7 in C sharp minor

She was known as Kiki and personified the carefree bohemian lifestyle of 1920s Paris.
Muse and mistress of Man Ray, toast of artists and writers, Kiki's unconventional lifestyle is evoked as George Melly revisits her haunts in Paris and discovers why she was the uncrowned queen of Montparnasse.

Psalm 86
Psalm 148
Britten Singers, John Alley (organ), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
(Discs)

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
The second of tonight's Proms is a feast of popular Vivaldi and Boccherini performed by a long-established Italian ensemble.
I Virtuosi di Roma, director Angelo Stefanato

Vivaldi Piccolo Concerto in C (R V443) - Maria Teresa Palermo (piccolo)
Oboe Concerto in C (RV451) - Augusto Loppi (oboe)
Boccherini Cello Concerto in B flat (G482) - Rocco Filippini (cello)
Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E minor (RV277) (Il favorito) - Angelo Stefanato (violin)
Concerto in B minor for four violins and cello (RV580) - Angelo Stefanato, Grazia Raimondi, Santi Interdonato and Fulvio Leofreddi (violins), Rocco Filippini (cello)

(Simultaneous Broadcast with BBC1 television)

Seven Early Songs
Mitsuko Shirai (mezzo) Hartmut Höll (piano)
Schliesse mir die Augen beide (first setting)
Jessye Norman (soprano) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Four Songs, Op 2
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone)
Aribert Reimann (piano) Altenberg Lieder
Margaret Price (soprano) London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
Schliesse mir die A ugen beide
Jessye Norman (soprano) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Concert aria: Der Wein
Jessye Norman (soprano) New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor
Pierre Boulez. discs

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