Montaigne and Political Anarchy

Beethoven
Overture: Prometheus
BBC Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
7.06 Rachmaninov
The Rock
BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Owain Arwel Hughes
7.22 Grieg Piano
Concerto in A minor
Pascal Devoyon (piano) BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Jiri Starek
7.54 Smetana
Tabor (Ma Vlast)
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conductor Tadaaki Otaka
8.07 Rachmaninov
Symphony No 1 in D minor
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conductor Tadaaki Otaka

Charles Haziewood asks
Witold Lutoslawski about the British premiere of his Symphony No 4 and two conductors look ahead to their Proms engagements:
Mariss Jansons , visiting the Royal Albert Hall with the Oslo Philharmonic, and Robert Ziegler with the Matrix Ensemble.
Producer Alan Hall

Introduced by Richard Osborne.

Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op 18 No 1 - Kodaly Quartet

9.53 Rameau Suite in G minor - Wanda Landowska (harpsichord) (1934 mono recording)

10.04 Verdi Don Carlo, Act 1 sc 2 (conclusion) - Boris Christoff (bass) Tito Gobbi (baritone), Rome Opera Orchestra, conductor Gabriele Santini

10.19 Widor Piano Quartet in A minor, Op 66 - Ames Piano Quartet

10.51 Verdi Don Carlo, Act 3 sc 2 - Aprile Millo (soprano) Michael Sylvester (tenor) Vladimir Chernov (baritone) Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass) Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor James Levine

11.13 Moncayo Huapango - Xalapa Symphony Orchestra, conductor Herrera de la Fuente

11.23 Beethoven, transcr Liszt Symphony No 5 in C minor - Leslie Howard (piano)

(Discs)

Period
Portait Melvyn Tan introduces his own selection of music and talks about his career, in conversation with George Pratt.

Third of a series of programmes of French chamber music. Not by Les Six, but by other composers whose music was often heard in the Paris of the 1920s.
3: Charles Koechlln (1867-
1950)
Horn Sonata
Barry Tuckwell (horn)
Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Discs

If play is Interrupted, Radio 3 will revert to a music schedule
England v Australia
Ball-by-ball commentary on the third day's play after lunch in the Sixth Cornhill Test at The Oval by Brian Johnston , Jonathan Agnew , Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Neville Oliver. With expert comment from Trevor Bailey and Vie
Marks. Scorer Bill Frindall. (Morning coverage on Radio 5) Including
3.45-4.00 Your Letters
Answered. The commentators answer some of the points raised by listeners' letters. Producer Peter Baxter

A selection of music on disc.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
National Youth Chamber Orchestra, conductor Stephen Kovacevich
David Pyatt (horn)

Former BBC Young Musician of the Year David Pyatt makes his solo Proms debut in one of the most demanding concertos in the horn repertoire.
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Strauss Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat
8.10 Wir Lachen Doch!
What makes the Germans laugh? Andrew Sachs finds out more from political satirist Henning Venske.
8.30 Webern Concerto for nine instruments, Op 24
Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor

In Tina Pepler 's play, Jonas, a robber of garden gnomes, has a recurring dream. He is running with a precious blue glass object. He also has a vision of the sun god Apollo, who gives him a quest to fulfil: a quest that will release Guinevere, his favourite gnome, from stone and his wife from the television.
Music by John Telfer , sung by Katrine Roberts
Director Shaun MacLoughlin

An archive recording of Charles Fox introducing a concert given by this legendary baritone saxophonist with his American Concert Big Band in the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, in 1988 as part of the Glasgow Jazz Festival. Mulligan Sun on the stairs;
A gift for Dizzy;
Out back of the barn;
42nd and Broadway;
Absent friends (don't go away);
With a smile on your face
Bassman/Washlngton
I'm getting sentimental over you
Carmichael
Georgia on my mind
During the interval, Gerry Mulligan talks to Charles Fox about his long career.
Mulligan The Flying Scotsman; I never was a young man; Bweebida bobbida; Walk on the water; Song for Strayhorn; K-4 Pacific Elllngton/Strayhorn Satin doll

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