Brecht's Songs
With Andrew MacGregor, including a chance to win tickets for a Mahler Prom and at approximately
7.05 Robert Johnson Where the Bee Sucks; Hark! Hark! the Lark
Emma Kirkby (soprano) David Thomas (bass) Anthony Rooley (lute)
7.09 Weber Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor, Op 73
Charles Neidich (clarinet)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
7.46 Ravel La valse
Montreal Symphony Orchestra/Charles Dutoit
8.05 Elgar La capricieuse, Op 17
Sarah Chang (violin) Sandra Rivers (piano)
8.23 Adam De vos nobles aieux (Si j'etais roi)
Sumi Jo (soprano)
English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Richard Bonynge
8.38 Stravinsky Violin Concerto
Cho-Liang Lin (violin)
Los Angeles PO, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
(Discs)
David Owen Norris explores the composer's chamber music.
Cello Sonata in D, Op 58 Steven Isserlis (cello)
Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)
Piano Quartet in B minor, Op 3
Domus
From Cardiff, with Nicola Heywood Thomas , including at approximately
10.00 Prom Artist of the Week:
Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
Dellbes The Maids of Cadiz
10.05 Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain
10.30 Dvorak Song to the Moon (Rusalka)
10.45 Debussy Violin
Sonata
11.00 Mayr Caro albergo, in cui felice; Dio d'amor, che il sen m'accendi (I Baccanalia di Roma)
11.15 Beethoven
Symphony No 7 in A
Repeated from yesterday
11.30pm
With Paul Guinery.
FAIREST ISLE
Rutland Boughton The Immortal Hour
First of the choral dramas composed in 1914 for the bizarre operatic festival at Glastonbury - Boughton's own Bayreuth. This Celtic folk parable, the story of a fairy princess who adopts and later deserts the land of mortals, is one of the landmarks of British operatic history.
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Alan G Melville
Discs
Lynsey Marsh (clarinet)
Anthony Marwood (violin) Louise Hopkins (cello) Thomas Ades (piano)
Stravinsky Tango , Waltz and Ragtime (The Soldier's Tale)
Per Norgard Lin
Soproni Musica da camera No 2 (Capricorn Music) Ades Catch
A Classic Arts production Rpt
Ervin Schulhoff Piano
Concerto; Double Concerto for flute and piano Bettina Wild (flute)
Aleksander Madzar (piano)
German Chamber Philharmonic , conductor Dennis Russell Davies
Another Byte
With all its complexities. does computer music have soul? Mike Edwards asks if it is so easy to make music that the work of musicians will be devalued.
Rpt
Live from the Edinburgh
International Festival. Linda Ormiston presents music reflecting this year's programme and some of the best of the Fringe. Including
Handel Zadok the Priest
Choir of Westminster Abbey English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
6.03 Gershwin The Man I
Love
Billie Holiday (singer)
6.30 Haydn String Quartet in B minor, Op 33 No 1 Emperor Quartet
Producer Svend Brown
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Vadim Repin (violin) Sydney Symphony Orchestra, conductor Edo de Waart
Berlioz Overture: Beatrice et Benedict
Schoenberg Pelleas and Melisande
7.55 Conversations with Drummond
In his penultimate conversation with Richard Osborne, Sir John Drummond talks about the place of the Proms in the BBC.
8.15 Beethoven Violin Concerto in D
4: Music
Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell leave the city for the silent north and the remotest of farmhouses.
With Dr Gudmundur Emilsson
, Head of Music at
RUV, the Icelandic national broadcasting company. Rpt
For details see Bank Holiday Monday
Final programme tomorrow
9.35pm
Music for three voices and three basset horns, sung by Camille van Lunen ,
Myra Croese and Peter Dijkstra , with the Stadler Trio, interspersed with basset horn trios.
Discs
From the Royal
Albert Hall , London.
Nancy Gustafson (soprano) John Tomlinson (bass) Premiere Ensemble, conductor Mark
Wigglesworth Shostakovich Symphony No 14
Two writers with tales from abroad....
Hamlet in the Wild West
Julian Barnes describes thespian adventures in the American heartland.
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Rich
Christopher Hope remembers high living in an Alpine hotel.
BBC Concert Orchestra conductor Peter Maxwell
Davies
Ursula Leveaux (violin)
Haydn Symphony No 102 in B flat
Maxwell Davies Strathclyde Concerto No 8
Repeated tomorrow at 12 noon
