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Music, news and weather with Andrew McGregor , and a chance to win tickets for a Mahler Prom.
Including at approximately
7.05 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F
7.16 Brahms Ballade in B,
Op 10 No 4
7.32 Part Spiegel im spiegel
8.05 Handel Handbook:
Handel Trio Sonata in E
(HWV 394) (Dresden)
8.25 Schubert DerJungling an der Quelle (D300);
Abendlied (D382); Stimme der Liebe (D412)
8.32 Strauss Horn
Concerto No 1 in E flat
Discs

Introduced by Mark Rowlinson.
Trois marches militaires
(D733)
Paul Badura-Skoda and Jorg Demus (piano duet) Freiwilliges Versinken (D700)
Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Graham Johnson (piano) Piano Quintet in A (D667) (Trout)
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) Members of the Alban Berg Quartet
Georg Hortnagel (double bass) Rpt

With Paul Guinery, including:

Mozart, arr Johnson Rune sanft (Zaide) - Emma Johnson (clarinet) Julius Drake (piano)

10.05 Artist of the Week: Ian Partridge (tenor)
Finzi Oh, fair to see - Stephen Roberts (piano)

10.20 Noel Coward London Morning (excerpts) - London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Geoffrey Corbett

10.45 Gordon Jacob Serenade - Bournemouth Wind Quire, director Ian Lowes

11.25 Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 5 in F (Egyptian) - Anthony Goldstone (piano) BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson

BBC Concert Orchestra Rptd from yesterday 11.30pm

With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Friday Chamber Music
Jean-Marie Leclair at the Concert Spirituel
Nicholas Anderson presents the second of three programmes featuring music by Leclair and his contemporaries.
Aubert Simphonie No 5 in F Leclair Violin Concerto in A,
Op 10 No 2; Sonata a trois in D, Op 2 No 8
Mouret Cantemus Domine
Julia Gooding (soprano) Peter Harvey (bass) Rachel Brown (flute)
Richard Campbell (bass viol) Paul Nicholson (h'chord) Collegium Musicum 90, director Simon Standage (violin)
A Regent Records production
2.05 The BBC Orchestras
BBC Philharmonic conductor Sachio Fujioka Bruckner Symphony No 1 (Linz version)
3.00 New series
The Prom Archive
A series of vintage Prom performances to celebrate the festival's centenary. This week, Susan Sharpe explores the earliest
Promenade concerts in the archives - all conducted by their founder,
Sir Henry Wood. From 1936, there's a programme of Schubert and Mozart featuring soprano
Elisabeth Schumann , and from 1942
John Ireland's Epic March - a wartime commission by the BBC.
Producer Susan Kenyon
4.20 FAIREST ISLE
Turns of the Century An audio lexicon of great
English comedy performers. Robert Cushman celebrates the work of Tony Hancock.
4.30 Music of Madagascar
Another chance to hear the winner of this year's Sony
Gold Award in the specialist music category. After hearing the Hira Gasi festivals of Tana, capital of Madagascar. Cris Cheek travels across country in pick-up trucks and dugout canoes to record the strange and still almost unknown yodelling music called kamaky and the exuberant serenades of the south east coast, accompanied by some virtuoso football whistling.

Presented by Julian Gregory. Producer Mark Rowlinson

With Richard Baker , including Gretry Overture: Zemire et Azor
6.03 Chopin Berceuse in D flat, Op 57
6.30 Franck Symphonic Variations
Producer Ray Abbott

From the Royal
Albert Hall. London.
The centenary season, including a host of exciting new works and a complete Mahler cycle, opens tonight with the vast Symphony of a Thousand.
Mahler Symphony No 8
Julia Varady , Yvonne Kenny and Amanda Roocroft
(sopranos)
Jane Henschel and Jean
Rigby (mezzos)
Kim Begley (tenor)
Anthony Michaels-Moore (baritone)
Carsten Stabell (bass) BBC Symphony Chorus Philharmonia Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
Choristers of St Paul's
Cathedral, Westminster
Abbey and Westminster Cathedral
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Parti
8.30 Robert David
MacDonald explores the appeal of the Faust legend to Goethe and Mahler, and James Naughtie talks to Andrew Davis about the Eighth Symphony.
8.50 Part 2
SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST with BBC2

5: Madam Butterfly
Mark Elder, Graham Vick , Bonaventura Bottone and Susan Bullock plot Lt
Pinkerton's fatal seduction of Madam Butterfly against the sumptuous textures of Puccini's Act 1 love duet. Series producer Nicki Paxman

Sarah Walker and Robert Ziegler profile two contrasting approaches to the art of composition.
John Casken 's new Violin
Concerto, commissioned for this season's Proms and premiered next Wednesday, is placed in the context of his mainly orchestral output.
11.25 The composing partnership of Ben Morison and Simon Opit is revealed in interview and by studio recordings of VIII- piano and string quartet (1988/ 94) and 11 - viola, piano, violin and cello (1992). Producer Alan Hall
FAIREST ISLE

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