With Andrew McGregor.
Beethoven Violin Sonata in F, Op 24 (Spring)
Maxim Vengerov (violin), Itamar Golan (piano)
6.44 Respighi Fountains of Rome LPO, conductor Carlo Rizzi
7.05 Mozart Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat, K495
Ab Koster (horn), Tafelmusik, conductor Bruno Weil
7.32 Bach Partita No 1 in B flat,
BWV 825
Glenn Gould (piano)
8.05 Verdi Overture: The Force of Destiny
La Scala PO, conductor Riccardo Muti
8.45 Prokofiev Symphony No 1 in D (Classical)
Montreal SO, conductor Charles Dutoit
Stravinsky Fireworks
LPO, conductor Charles Mackerras
9.04 Beethoven Bagatelles , Op 126 Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
9.24 Bizet Symphony in C
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Discs
With Stephanie Hughes. Hindemith Trauermusik
Yuri Bashmet (viola), Moscow Soloists
10.11 Proms Artist of the Week:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
Glazunov Incidental music: The King of the Jews (Acts 1 and 2) Russian State Symphony Cappella and Orchestra
10.33 Zipoli, arr Ginastera Toccata Alberto Portugheis (piano)
10.42 Bruch Romance, Op 85
Rainer Moog (viola), Rhenish PO, conductor Wolfgang Balzer
10.50 Prokofiev Russian Overture
Philharmonia, conductor Neeme Jarvi
11.09 Carl Vine Piano Sonata
Michael Kieran Harvey (piano)
11.27 Bach, orch Stokowski Komm , susser Tod
Sydney SO, conductor Robert Pikler
11.38 Strauss Notturno
Linda Finnie (mezzo), Scottish NO, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Anthony Burton and guests explore aspects of Handel's operas.
5: Desmond Shawe-Taylor talks about Handel's contemporaries and cultural life in 18th-century London. Including excerpts from Acis and Galatea, Flavio and L 'Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato.
Repeated next Friday 12 midnight See also 7.00pm
With Sandy Burnett.
1.00 Bristol Lunchtime Concert
Bartok Plus
Gyorgy Pauk (violin),
Roger Vignoles (piano)
Beethoven Violin Sonata in C minor,
Op 30 No 2
Bartok Violin Sonata No 2 Repeat
Andrew Manze introduces the second programme from this summer's
Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music at St James's Church, Piccadilly,
London. This week, Hesperion XX are the visitors from Spain, performing
17th-century songs and instrumental music including some of Hume's eccentric Musicall Humors, Tonos humanos by the Spaniards Hidalgo and Marin, and the Canzonetta spirituale sopra la nanna by Merula. Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp), Jordi Savall (viola da gamba). Producer Lindsay Kemp
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Edinburgh Festival,
Sir John Drummond presents the first of four programmes of recordings from the BBC archives. Today's programme features highlights from the early years, including
Beethoven Overture: the Consecration of the House
Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Otto Klemperer
Brahms Liebeslieder , Nos 7-12
Irmgard Seefried (soprano), Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Julius Patzak
(tenor), Horst Gunter (bass-baritone), Clifford Curzon and Hans Gal (pianos) Beethoven String Quartet in C, Op 59 No 3 (Rasumovsky) (1st mvt) Hungarian Quartet
Bartok Suite, Op 14 Geza Anda (piano)
Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral)
Soloists, Edinburgh Royal Choral Union, RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham Producer Svend Brown
Music Exams
5: Examination Day
Tommy Pearson follows two students through the experiences of taking their Grade 6 examinations. Repeat
With Anthony Burton , including
Johann Strauss (son) Overture: Die Fledermaus
LPO, conductor Franz Welser-Most
6.03 Bliss Conversation
Nash Ensemble
6.30 Mozart Serenade in G, K525
(Eine kleine Nachtmusik)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Producer Ekene Akalawu
Rene Jacobs makes his Proms debut as early music director in a concert of Baroque music from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
The programme opens and closes with Bach - his suite for strings, with its timeless Air on a G String, and his most taut and concise choral work. In between, there is expressive and thrilling music from one of Handel's once-neglected operas.
Maria Bayo and Susan Gritton (sopranos), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Jamie MacDougall (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass), Choir of New College, Oxford, Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Rene Jacobs
Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV 1068
Handel Giulio Cesare (excerpts)
The New Testament includes countless descriptions of sung praise to God, as well as quotations of sung texts like the Magnificat.
Jeremy Summerly and guests discuss why the notion of praising God through song has had such enduring appeal. They focus on the Magnificat and Te Deum, settings of which can be heard throughout this season of Proms.
8.25 Bach Magnificat in D, BWV 243
The history of London concert venues. 5: Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace burned down 60 years ago this November. From the famous site in Sydenham, Andrew Green examines how such an apparently unsuitable venue for music - vast and boomy - became one of the nation's musical shrines.
Albert Roussel Joueurs de flute, Op 27 Peter-Lukas Graf (flute), Michio Kobayashi (piano)
Jehan Alain Deux dances a Agni Yavishta
Thomas Trotter (organ)
Ravel Ouverture de féerie
(Sheherazade)
Stephen Coombs and Christopher Scott (pianos) Discs
The Calcutta Drum Orchestra is a unique group of musicians - rooted in tradition but highly innovative - who perform on various north Indian drums to produce music of the utmost rhythmic intricacy. Pandit Shivkumar Sharma is a master of extended improvisation on the santoor - a form of dulcimer - and he is accompanied at the Royal Albert Hall , London, by tabla player
Anindo Chatterjee , whose role is that of time-keeper. Pandit Shivkumar Sharma (santoor), Pandit Anindo Chatterjee (tabla). North Indian classical drum music: Devotion; Parant; Happiness North Indian classical santoor music with tabla accompaniment.
With Brian Morton.
5: Weill and American Writers
Johnny Johnson (excerpts); Street Scene (excerpts); Cry the Beloved
Country (Lost in the Stars); Speak Low (One Touch of Venus) Repeated from last Friday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Sibylla Rubens (soprano), Sabine Czinezel (contralto),
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass), Ghent Collegium Vocale/
Philippe Herreweghe Bach Mass in F, BWV 233; Cantata No 105: Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht; Mass in G, BWV 236
2.30 Young musicians from Korea play music by Brahms and Enescu
3.40 Jean-Philippe Vivier (clarinet) and Pascal Godart (piano). Music by Weber, Brahms, Denisov and Francaix
4.35 Bax Tintagel BBC NO of Wales/Vernon Handley
5.00 Sequence
