With Andrew McGregor.
C P E Bach Quartet in G, Wq95
6.25 Beethoven Symphony No 2 in D
7.05 Mozart Symphony No 31 in D, K297 (Paris)
7.32 Part The Beatitudes
8.05 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G
8.35 Suk Fantasy in G minor, Op 24
Beethoven Bagatelles , Op 33 Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
9.17 Strauss Befreit , Op 39 No 4; Allerseelen, Op 10 No 8
Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
9.26 Sibelius Symphony No 3 London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Robert Kajanus Discs
Stephanie Hughes celebrates the 110th anniversary of Liszt's death.
Liszt Funerailles (Harmonies poetiques et religieuses) Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
10.14 Lutoslawski Chantefleurs et chantefables
Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Los Angeles PO, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
10.34 Giovanni Gabrieli Sonata pian e forte
London Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble, conductor Andrew Parrott
10.39 Rawsthome Piano Concerto No 2
Geoffrey Tozer (piano), LPO, conductor Matthias Bamert
11.07 Proms Artist of the Week: Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
Berlioz Overture: Le Corsaire
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
11.17 Boydell String Quartet No 2 Vanbrugh Quartet
11.32 Alfred Hill Symphony No 6 in B flat (Celtic)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conductor Wilfred Lehmann
Anthony Burton and guests explore aspects of Handel's operas - works which spanned the whole range of his composing career and are now re-emerging on to the operatic stage.
3: David Alden discusses the drama and characterisation in Handel's operas and uncovers a comic vein.
With excerpts from Ariodante, Amadigi and Tamerlano.
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm
With Sandy Burnett.
1.00 Manchester Summer
Recitals
In the third of ten concerts, tenor
Martyn Hill and guitarist Craig Ogden offer a taste of the exotic. Introduced by Rodney Slatford.
Britten Songs from the Chinese
Sculthorpe From Kakadu for Guitar Tippett Songs for Achilles
Schumann Two Venetian Songs
(Myrthen, Op 25)
(0171) [number removed]
With Sandy Burnett. Ring in by lunchtime for a chance to hear your request today.
Arne Rise, Glory, Rise (Rosamond) Emma Kirkby (soprano),
Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
Berlioz Vous soupirez, madame? (Beatrice et Benedict)
Sylvia MacNair (soprano), Catherine Robbin (mezzo), Lyon Opera
Orchestra, conductor John Nelson
Mendelssohn Concert Piece in F,
Op 113
Victoria Soames (clarinet), Roger Heaton (basset horn), Julius Drake (piano) Arriaga Symphony in D minor Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
Taneyev The Earth Is Trembling (At the Reading of a Psalm)
Yurlov State Choir, USSR SO, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov Producer Peter Thresh Discs
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From St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London, sung by the BBC Singers.
Introit: King of Glory (Walford Davies ) Preces (Barry Rose )
Psalms 121, 122, 150 (Rose, Thalben-Ball, Davies)
First Lesson: 1 Chronicles 29, w 10-20
Office Hymn: Fill Thou my life (Arden) Canticles: Wood in F
Second Lesson: Revelation 4
Responses (Jackson)
Anthem: Te Deum (Davies) Hymn: When All Thy Mercies (Contemplation)
God Be in My Head (Davies)
Organ Voluntary: Toccata beorma (Thalben-Ball)
Director of music James Whitbourn.
Organist David Goode. Repeated tomorrow 1.00am
Music Exams
3: Trinity College of Music
Tommy Pearson looks at the college's classical music exams and also at the Rock School exams, which the institution endorses. Repeat
With Natalie Wheen , including
Henry Hall A Set of Lessons for the Harpsichord
Jane Chapman (spinet)
6.03 Tchaikovsky, transcr Liszt Polonaise from "Eugene Onegin" Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
6.30 Copland El salon Mexico
Detroit SO, conductor Antal Dorati Producer Verity Sharp
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Russia dominates the BBC National Orchestra of Wales's second Prom with Rachmaninov's late-Romantic symphony and Shostakovich's sharp-edged concerto. Before that, the Proms premiere of a piece of whirlwind orchestral virtuosity written for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and welcomed into its repertoire since the first performance in 1991.
Steven Isserlis (cello), BBC NO of Wales, conductor Mark Wigglesworth
John Pickard The Flight of Icarus (first London performance)
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1
Five writers consider the relationship between religion and language. 5: Yasmin Alibhia-Brown
The Ugandan-born Asian Muslim writer and journalist describes the cultural and spiritual confusion that arises from being fluent in four languages but at home in none of them. She talks about the search for self, about assimilation, and about rediscovering her Asian identity.
8.45 Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor
The history of London concert venues. 3: John Banister and Thomas Britton
Andrew Green pays tribute to two men recognised as 17th-century pioneers of the modern public concert.
Banister's music-house offered "seats and small tables, alehouse fashion".
Britton's concerts were seen by some as cover for seditious meetings or magical pursuits.
Songs by Cole Porter and Duke Ellington interspersed with sonatas by Alessandro Scarlatti played and sung by A Man , a Woman and a Double Bass. Repeat
The second of three programmes about design.
The Baroque in England
A national style, or the expression of a cosmopolitan culture? Jeremy Black visits some of the architectural landmarks usually associated with the drama and spectacle of the Baroque. He also investigates the political, religious and cultural cross-currents in 17th-century Europe that gave birth to an English baroque. Reader Samuel West. Repeat
With Brian Morton.
3: Weill and Bertolt Brecht (2)
The Threepenny Opera (Act 1); Vom Tod im Wald; Der Lindberghflug (excerpts)
Repeated from last Wednesday
With Digby Fairweather.
A week of music from the all-British Appleby Jazz Festival 1996. Tonight, trumpeter Dick Pearce leads his new quartet in a two-part concert. Part 2 tomorrow
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Roger Muraro (piano), French
Radio Philharmonic/Yuri Ahronovitch Liszt Totentanz Koechlin Ballade
Chopin Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op Posth Musorgsky , orch Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
2.10 French Baroque music, performed by Heikoter Scheggert
(recorder), Heineke van der Velden (viola da gamba) and Zvi Meniker (harpsichord)
2.50 Music by Tartini, Ysaye, Bloch and Saint-Saens
Yonothan Gandelsman (violin), Janna Gandelsman (piano)
4.05 Janne Thomsen (flute), Francois-Frederic Guy (piano). Music by Bach, Hindemith and Schubert
5.00 Sequence
