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Paul Guinery introduces an edition including unfamiliar sacred music from Brazil's foremost composer. Krommer
Partita in F, Op 57
Budapest Wind Ensemble
7.15 Villa-Lobos Alleluia
(Magnificat)
Elizabeth McCormack (mezzo) Corydon Singers and Orchestra/Matthew Best
7.25 Elgar Suite No 1: The Wand of Youth
RLPO/Vernon Handley
8.15 Brahms/Schumann/ Dietrich Violin Sonata
(FAE)
Franco Gulli (violin)
Enrica Cavallo (piano)
8.35 Villa-Lobos Bendite sabedoria
Corydon Singers, conductor Matthew Best
Producer Piers Burton-Page
Humperdlnck Overture: Konigskinder
9.11 Mozart Three
German Dances (K605)
9.18 Composer of the Week: Debussy Marche écossaise sur un thème populaire
9.27 Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
9.44 Artists of the Week: The Sixteen
Teixeira Te Deum (excerpts)
9.56 Tchaikovsky Marche slave
10.06 Bach Trio Sonata in G (BWV530)
10.20 Dragonetti Concerto in A
10.37 J Strauss (son), transcr Schoenberg Emperor Waltz
10.56 Kodaly Variations on a Hungarian Folksong (The Peacock)
Producer Edward Blakeman. Discs
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Joshua Rifkin brings his stylish, slimmed-down approach to Bach to the Proms.
Bach St Matthew Passion
John Elwes (tenor) as the Evangelist, Stephen Varcoe (bass) as Christus
Nancy Argenta, Susanne Ryden and Rachel Platt (sops) Steven Rickards and Ricard Bordas (countertenors) Mark Padmore (tenor) Christopher Foster (bar) Christian Hilz and Jeremy White (basses)
Bach Ensemble
St James's Baroque Players/Joshua Rifkin
Part 1
(Part 2 is at 1.40pm)
The music quiz revisits this year's Bath Festival where chairman Guy Woolfenden and experts David Owen
Norris and Daryl Runswick are joined by Bel Mooney and Paul Jesson.
A Classic Arts production
Tony Robinson tells the story of Scheherazade against a back-drop of Rimsky-Korsakov's music. Scheherazade's new husband is a mad old king with the habit of marrying in the morning and chopping his wife's head off in the afternoon, but this one has a plan for survival.
A Ladbroke Radio production
From an early age,
Messiaen's Christian faith inspired him to write music of joy and hope. To end Radio 3's season celebrating his music, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Joly , play a little-known tone-poem, written when Messiaen was in his 20s: Le Tombeau resplendissant.
Series producer Antony Pitts
Bach St Matthew Passion
Part 2
Richard McMahon (piano) Hindemith Piano Sonata
No 3 in B flat
Haydn Piano Sonata in C (H XVI 50)
conductor Gunter Wand
Schubert
Symphony No 3 in D
4.25 Interval Reading
4.30 Brahms Symphony No 2 in D
Sarah Walker (mezzo)
Malcolm Martineau (piano) Poulenc
Four Apollinaire Songs Enescu Chansons de
Clement Marot
Brttten Cabaret Songs Williamson Invocation
Berio Sequenza III
Cage The Wonderful Widow of 18 Springs; Aria with concert
Berberian Stripsody
Lyndon Jenkins surveys performances of Cesar Franck 's Symphony in D minor in recordings stretching back over 60 years, conducted by such luminaries as Stokowski,
Monteux, Beecham, Boult and Dutoit.
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Cristina Ortiz (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
Rimsky-Korsakov Skazka
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2
8.45 Philidor's Defence
Jon Speelman examines the relationship between music and chess as he delves into a world of strategy, harmony and passion.
9.05 Prokofiev Symphony No 5 in B flat
Marin Sorescu's play, adapted for radio by Richard Crane, and starring John Hurt, continues the-short Terrible Tyrants season of despot dramas.
Romania is in crisis. The Turkish army has reached the Danube. The "enemy within" is destroying the fabric of the state. Will Prince Vlad's domestic policy pull the country together? Two impaled victims, a Christian and a Muslim, assess his chances.
Beggars: Steve Hodson , Keith Dnnkel , Annette Badland and Peter Gunn
Policemen: Philip Anthony , Jonathan Tafler and Steve Hodson
Director Faynia Williams
Brian Wright presents a performance from the 1985 Proms season of Steve Reich
's cantata for the nuclear age The Desert Music
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Peter Eotvos
