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With Penny Gore, including a chance to win tickets for a Mahler Prom, and at approximately
7.05 Smetana Overture:
The Bartered Bride
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leopold Stokowski
7.15 Paganini Sonata concertata
Monica Huggett (violin) Richard Savino (guitar)
7.32 Britten Hymn to St Cecilia
The Sixteen, director Harry Christophers
7.48 Svendsen Romance in G, Op 26
Academy of St Martin, director Kenneth Sillito
(violin)
8.05 Bach Partita No 1 in B flat (BWV 825)
Glenn Gould (piano)
8.35 Haydn Symphony No 88 in G
Orchestra of the 18th
Century/Frans Bruggen Discs

Contributors

Conductor:
Leopold Stokowski
Violin:
Monica Huggett
Guitar:
Richard Savino
Director:
Harry Christophers
Violin:
Kenneth Sillito
Piano:
Glenn Gould

Vocal inspiration to Beethoven's heart, presented by Paul Guinery. Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin? (Fidelio)
Christa Ludwig (mezzo) Philharmonia Orchestra , conductor Otto Klemperer Fur Elise (Wo059)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Three Goethe Lieder, Op 83 Olaf Bar (baritone)
Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Piano Trio in E flat, Op 70 No
Itzhak Perlman (violin) Lynn Harrell (cello)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Rpt

Contributors

Presented By:
Paul Guinery.
Unknown:
Christa Ludwig
Conductor:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor:
Otto Klemperer
Piano:
Alfred Brendel
Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons
Violin:
Itzhak Perlman
Cello:
Lynn Harrell
Piano:
Vladimir Ashkenazy

With Chris de Souza, including songs by Ives sung by Elise Ross.
10.05 Prom Artist of the Week: Heinrich Schiff (cello) Sibelius Malinconia , Op 20 Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)
10.15 Copland Suite: Billy the Kid
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Lukas Foss
10.45 Schumann Cello
Concerto in A minor
Heinrich Schiff (cello) Berlin PO, conductor
Bernard Haitink
11.05 Bach Singet dem Herrn (BWV 225)
BBC Singers/John Poole
11.20 Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op 114
Sabine Meyer (clarinet) Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
11.50 William Schuman
Newsreel
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Lukas Foss

Contributors

Sung By:
Elise Ross.
Cello:
Heinrich Schiff
Cello:
Sibelius Malinconia
Piano:
Elisabeth Leonskaja
Conductor:
Lukas Foss
Cello:
Heinrich Schiff
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink

With Susan Sharpe.
FAIREST ISLE
1.00 British Opera Matinee
Britten The Turn of the Screw
A new governess arrives at Bly to take charge of two angelic children, but soon she is plunged into a twilight world of ghostly characters and innocence corrupted. Britten took his inspiration from
Henry James 's novella. Presented by Humphrey Carpenter.
Aldeburgh Festival Chamber Ensemble, conductor
Steuart Bedford Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Unknown:
Henry James
Presented By:
Humphrey Carpenter.
Quint:
Philip Langridge(tenor)
The Governess:
Felicity Lott (sop)
Miles:
Sam Pay (treble)
Flora:
Eileen Hulse (sop)
Mrs Grose:
Phyllis Cannan (mezzo)
Miss Jessel:
Nadine Secunde (sop)

Sarah Connolly (mezzo)
Simon Haram (saxophone) Scott Mitchell (piano)
Eisler Hollywood Elegies (excerpts)
Muldowney In a Hall of Mirrors; In Paris with You (The Good Person of Sichuan)
Schoenberg Brettl-Lieder (excerpts) Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Connolly
Unknown:
Simon Haram
Piano:
Scott Mitchell
Unknown:
Schoenberg Brettl-Lieder

Live from the Edinburgh Festival, with Linda Ormiston. Including
Dvorak Festival March, Op 54
6.03 Telemann Concerto in G for flute, chalumeau, oboe and two double basses
6.45 Bruckner Overture in G minor
Producer David McGuiness

Contributors

Unknown:
Linda Ormiston.
Producer:
David McGuiness

From the Royal
Albert Hall, London.
Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch
Bach, orch Stokowski Ein ' feste Burg; Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 538)
Bernard Rands Canzoni per Orchestra
8.05 Into the Garden
For the past 45 years the gardens of Bramdean
House have been open to the public eight days a year under the National Gardens
Scheme. The current owner
Victoria Wakefield , whose mother created the garden, gives Hugh Walters a guided tour.
8.25 Brahms Symphony No 2 in D
Philadelphia Orchestra sponsored by Cigna Insurance

Contributors

Conductor:
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Unknown:
Stokowski Ein
Unknown:
Bernard Rands Canzoni
Unknown:
Victoria Wakefield
Unknown:
Hugh Walters

In the last of a series of three masses, the Hilliard Ensemble performs Jacob Obrecht 's Mass, based on the chant and written in the late 15th century.
David James (countertenor) Rogers Covey-Crump and John Potter (tenors)
Gordon Jones (baritone) A Magenta Music International production

Contributors

Unknown:
Hilliard Ensemble
Unknown:
Jacob Obrecht
Unknown:
David James
Tenors:
John Potter
Baritone:
Gordon Jones

T J Reed. Professor of German at the University of Oxford, celebrates the Romantic Goethe, whose profound feeling for individuality spread far beyond the poetic self to identify with the passions and politics of figures in drama and the novel and which finally found space for itself in the ordered world of classicism and science.
Rpt

BBC Concert Orchestra conductor Peter Maxwell
Davies Haydn
Symphony No 101 in D "Clock'
Maxwell Davies
A Spell for Green Corn; The MacDonald Dances
Jonathan Carney (violin)
Repeated tomorrow at 12 noon

Contributors

Conductor:
Peter Maxwell
Conductor:
Davies Haydn
Unknown:
Maxwell Davies
Violin:
Jonathan Carney

BBC Radio 3

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