With Andrew McGregor.
Trad Corsican chant: Laeta devote
Ensemble Organum, conductor Marcel Peres
6.11 Brahms Symphony No 2 in D Philadelphia Orchestra. conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch
7.05 Vivaldi Concerto in D, Op 12 No 3 Bologna Municipal Theatre Orchestra, conductor Angelo Ephrikian
7.32 Moeran Serenade in G
Northern Sinfonia. conductor Richard Hickox
8.05 Chopin Etudes, Op 10: Nos 10-12
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
8.35 Hindemith Cello Concerto
Heinrich Schiff (cello), Philadelphia Orchestra , conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch
Faure/Messager Souvenir de Bayreuth Kathryn Stott and Martin Roscoe (piano duet)
9.05 Britten Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Boyd Neel String Orchestra, conductor Boyd Neel
9.29 Brahms Feldeinsamkeit , Op 86 No 2; Auf dem See, Op 59 No 2
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)
9.36 Beethoven Piano Sonata in E, Op 109
Artur Schnabel (piano) Discs
With Chris de Souza.
Proms Artist of the Week:
Andras Schiff (piano)
Bach Concerto in F, BWV 1057 Chamber Orchestra of Europe
10.15 Schumann Symphony No 4 in D minor
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor John Pritchard
10.45 Franck Chorale No 3 in A minor lain Quinn (organ)
11.00 Sibelius The Wood Nymph Lahti Symphony Orchestra, conductor Osmo Vanska
11.25 Mozart Quintet in E flat for piano and wind, K452 Andras Schiff (piano), Heinz Holliger (oboe),
Elmar Schmid (clarinet), Radovan Vlatkovic (horn),
Klaus Thunemann (bassoon)
With Brian Morton.
5: Weill and American Writers
Kurt Weill 's move to Broadway did not stop him from trying to find librettists who sympathised with his musical objectives. Today's programme features works that Weill composed with librettos by Paul Green , Langston Hughes and Elmer Rice , Maxwell Anderson and Ogden Nash.
Johnny Johnson (excerpts)
Chorus, orchestra, conductor Samuel Matiowsky
Street Scene (excerpts)
Anne Jeffreys (soprano), Brian Sullivan (tenor), original cast, orchestra, conductor Maurice Abravanel
Cry the beloved country (Lost in the stars)
Todd Duncan and Inez Matthews
(singers), original cast, choir, orchestra, conductor Maurice Levine
Speak low (One touch of Venus) the composer (voice/piano) Repeated next Friday 12 midnight
With Sandy Burnett.
1.00 Bristol Lunchtime Concert
Presented by Chris de Souza . Bartok Plus
A second chance to hear a series of lunchtime concerts from St George's Brandon Hill, Bristol, featuring the chamber music of Bela Bartok and other Hungarian composers. Artur Pizarro (piano) Bartok Piano Sonata
Kodaly Dances of Marosszek Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor
Repeat
2.00 The New Europe: City of London Sinfonia
The last of six concerts given by the City of London Sinfonia celebrating the music from three countries which recently joined the European Union - Austria, Finland and Sweden.
Introduced from St Olave's, Hart
Street by Penny Gore.
City of London Sinfonia Soloists Mozart Divertimento in F, K253
Bergman Mana (first UK performance) Berwald Septet in B flat
3.00 Mining the Archive George Malcolm
Sandy Burnett explores the many facets of George Malcolm 's extraordinary musical life: choirmaster, conductor, harpsichordist and teacher. He hears from Stephen Cleobury and Ian Partridge about Malcolm's "continental" sounding choir at Westminster Cathedral - for whom Britten wrote his Missa brevis - and from Andras Schiff about his inspired teaching methods. There will be an opportunity to hear Malcolm both as a harpsichordist and pianist. Including Britten's Missa brevis,
Malcolm's Boogie Woogie and Quem vidistis pastores, Purcell's Sweeter than Roses, Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 5 and piano music by Haydn.
Producer Peter Thresh
Nashville
To end her week in the Music City, Sarah Walker takes a tour of the celebrated country music Hall of Fame to discover the city's rich musical history. Plus some of the gossip and stories behind the lives of the stars. Repeat
With Andrew Green.
Rossini, transcr Liszt La Danza Francois René Duchable (piano)
6.03 Arnold English Dances
Queensland Symphony Orchestra. conductor Andrew Penny
6.50 Schubert String Quartet in C minor, D703 (Quartettsatz) Lindsay Quartet
Producer Andrew Lyle
From the Royal Albert Hall , London. Three masterworks by composers who were all close friends of tonight's conductor.
Rostropovich gave the world premiere of Lutoslawski's Novelette and the first performance in Vienna of Peter Grimes. This is the 90th anniversary of Shostakovich's birth and his fifth symphony is one of the most powerful of the century.
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mstislav Rostropovich Lutoslawski Novelette
Britten Four Sea Interludes; Passacaglia (Peter Grimes )
8.15 A Hidden Agenda
Gerard McBurney discovers a coded message of resistance to Stalinist tyranny in the finale of Shostakovich's fifth symphony.Repeat
8.35 Shostakovich Symphony No 5
The songs of Robert Burns.
Vive I'amour et vive la bagatelle
Burns's songs are now very much part of Scotland's cultural fabric, but how well have they fared in the two centuries since his death? Kirsteen
McCue listens to settings from Weber to the Whistlebinkies.
Sarah Walker introduces the first performances of two pieces by Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg - recorded at last month's Aldeburgh Festival - and Karlheinz
Stockhausen's Stimmung, recorded last week at the Cheltenham Festival.
Lindberg Arena II: Engine
London Sinfonietta/Markus Stenz Stockhausen Stimmung
Stephen Montague (sound diffusion), Singcircle, director Gregory Rose
Producers Jeremy Hayes and Chris Marshall
Paul Guinery presents music written by Haydn in his final years. Hungarian March
Les Philharmonistes de Chateauroux, conductor Janos Komives
Autumn (The Seasons)
Barbara Bonney (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor),
Andreas Schmidt (bass), Monteverdi Choir ,
English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Benedictus (Mass in B flat) (Harmoniemesse)
Erna Spoorenberg (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto). Alexander Young (tenor), Joseph Rouleau (bass), Academy of St Martin/Guest
String Quartet in D minor, Op 103 Amadeus Quartet
Repeated from last Friday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Concentus Vocalis Vienna, Bach
Ensemble/Joshua Rifkin Leopold I
Hymnus de dedicatione ecclesiae: A selection of motets Biber Requiem in A
2.30 French NO/Jerzy Semkov Penderecki Sonjud Jakob
Szymanowski Violin Concerto No 1 Krzysztof Jakowicz (violin)
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor
4.00 Young musicians from Korea perform music by Bach, Schubert and Beethoven
5.00 Sequence
