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7.05 Vaughan Williams In the Fen Country New Queen's Hall
Orchestra/Barry Wordsworth
7.25 Kodaly
Intermezzo for string trio Domus
7.32 Keyboard Compendium: Bach Partita No 6 in E minor (BWV 830)
Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
8.05Takemitsu
Sayonara
Shin-yu Kai Choir, director Shin Sekiya
8.32 Philip Glass Brass Sextet
London Gabriel Brass
Ensemble, conductor
Christopher Larkin
8.47Elgar
Serenade for strings
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Discs

3: The Challenge of Greatness Wolf had a supreme literary sensibility and a musical genius that could do justice to the greatest lyric poetry. Today's programme includes his settings of Goethe and of the greatest German poet of his own century, Morike.
Presented by Leo Black.

Susan Sharpe plays requests with a Bradford connection, talks to students and organisers of a composition project with the BBC Philharmonic, and celebrates Bradford's most famous musical son,
Frederick Delius. Including
10.10 Delius
La Calinda
10.20 Svendsen
Festival polonaise
10.43 Delius Violin
Sonata No 3
11.00 Messiaen
Méditation No 8
(Meditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinite )
11.25 Delius
Songs of Sunset Producer Chris de Souza
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Joan Rodgers (soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano)

Tchaikovsky Last night, Op 60 No 1; To forget so soon; Behind the window, Op 60 No 10; Cradle Song, Op 16 No 1; Was I not a blade of grass? Op 47 No 7; It was in the early spring, Op38 No2

Berg Seven Early Songs

Schoenberg Five Cabaret Songs

The last programme of classic early music recordings considers the rise of the period-instrument orchestra in the 1970s. Anthony Burton introduces performances directed by. amongst others, Trevor Pinnock ,
Alan Hacker and Christopher Hogwood , and recalls the beginning of the influential Harnoncourt/Leonhardt Bach cantata cycle.
Series producer Lindsay Kemp

In his biography of Handel, Jonathan Keates called
Julius Caesar "one of those works which, whatever is done to it, refuses to lie down'. Now he examines what singers like Janet Baker and Joan Sutherland and conductors like Rene Jacobs and Sir
Charles Mackerras have done with the composer's operatic masterpiece.

from All Saints'
Church,
Margaret Street , London.
Introit: Jesu, grant me this, I pray (Whitlock)
Responses (plainsong) Psalms 113 and (plainsong)
First Lesson:
Wisdom 3, wl-9 (RSV) Office Hymn: 0 God thy soldiers crown and guard (Deus tuorum militum) Canticles:
Wood in E flat, No 2
Second Lesson:
Luke 21, w5-19 (RSV)
Anthem:
0 quam gloriosum (Byrd) Hymn: Let our choir new anthems raise (St John Damascene )
Anthem: Save Us, 0 Lord (Bairstow)
Organ voluntary:
Fantasia in G. BWV
(Bach)
Director of Music:
Harry Bramma
Assistant Organist: Nicholas Luff

Pupils of the Arthur Terry School in Sutton Coldfield have had a week to research questions on the clarinettist Emma Johnson. Today,
Emma arrives at the school.

Live from the Darlington International Summer
School in Devon, with Natalie Wheen.
Producer Gwen Hughes

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
A tribute to Sir Malcolm Sargent, one of the conductors most closely associated with the Proms.
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo) Moura Lympany (piano) BBC SO/Vernon Handley

Ireland: A London Overture
Lennox Berkeley: Four Poems of St Theresa of Avila
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor

8.45 Interval
Lyndon Jenkins recalls some visits by Sir Malcolm Sargent to the Proms.

9.05 Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5 in D

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The second of two programmes in which violinist Catherine
Mackintosh and fortepianist Geoffrey Govier perform violin sonatas by Mozart and his contemporary Joseph Martin Kraus.
Kraus Sonata in C
Mozart Sonata in E minor
(K304)

Fraser Harrison records the history of the American West.

Jill Anderson introduces music by Grieg.
Wedding Day at
Troldhaugen, Op 65 No 6 (Lyric Pieces); Ballade in G minor, Op 24
Margaret Fingerhut (piano) Violin Sonata No 1 in F, Op8
Krzysztof Smietana (violin) John Blakely (piano)
At the Cradle, Op 68 No 5; To Spring, Op 43 No 6;
Elegie, Op 38 No 6; Little Brook, Op 62 No 4 (Lyric Pieces)
Margaret Fingerhut (piano)