With Penny Gore.
Franck Violin Sonata in A
7.05 Infante Trois Danses Andalouses
7.32 J H Roman Concerto Grosso in B flat
8.05 Telemann Gulliver Suite
8.32 Rossini Overture: The Silken
Ladder
8.44 Ervin Schulhoff Hot-Sonata
Editor Andrew Lyle
* Face Behind the Voice: page 8
This week, featuring Bach's violin concertos.
Bach Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV1041 - Yehudi Menuhin , Paris Symphony Orchestra, conductor George Enescu
Donizetti Favorita del Re... Spirito Gentil (La Favorita, Act 4) - Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Orchestra of the Teatro Communale, Bologna, conductor Richard Bonynge
9.24 Villalobos Bachiana Brasileira No 4 - Cristina Ortiz (piano)
9.39 Debussy, orch Capiet Suite: Children's Corner - Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
(Discs)
(1770-1827)
"There is nothing smaller than our great folk, but I make an exception in favour of archdukes".
Paul Guinery introduces a week of programmes exploring Beethoven's ambivalent attitude to his aristocratic patrons, on whom he depended for financial and artistic support. Proud of his musical abilities, he refused to play the courtier and yet his greatest desire was to enter imperial service. Piano Sonata in E flat, WoO 47 No 1 Emil Gilels (piano)
Fliesse, Wonnezahre, Fliesse! (Cantata on the Accession of Emperor Leopold II) Bodil Arnesen (soprano), Berlin RSO, conductor Karl Anton Rickenbacher
Variations on "Quant' e Piu Bello" from Paisiello's "La Molinara", WoO 69
Olli Mustonen (piano)
Piano Trio in C minor, Op 1 No 3 Beaux Arts Trio
Producer Patrick Lambert
Composer of the Week returns tomorrow at the usual time, 12 noon
- The first of Radio 3's morning broadcasts from the Queen's
Hall is given by the young Danish baritone Boje Skovhus and pianist Helmut Deutsch. Their programme includes Schumann's Liederkreis, Op 24 and songs by Schubert and Strauss. Presented by Brian Morton.
1: The Hole in the Ground
Colin Bell reflects on the highs and lows in the development of the opera house in Edinburgh and reviews some of the sites considered.
With Sandy Burnett.
The piano duo of Peter Donohoe and Martin Roscoe explore the Proms theme of re-creation in a programme of musical transcriptions and reworkings. Grieg embellishes Mozart, Ravel deorchestrates Debussy, Lutoslawski joins the list of composers who have had a go at that famous Paganini theme, and Grainger adds even more spice to Gershwin, Introduced by Susan Sharpe.
Mozart, arr Grieg Fantasia in C minor, K475
Debussy, arr Ravel Nuages; Fetes (Nocturnes)
Lutoslawski Variations on a Theme of Paganini
Grainger Fantasy on Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess"
Conductor En Shao,
Torleif Thedeen (cello) Hoist Egdon Heath
Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor
Ives Symphony No 2
My Kind of Song
Sir David Attenborough talks to lain Burnside about his favourite songs. Repeat
Bass player Ray Brown talks to Alyn Shipton about his long and varied career. In the third of six programmes, he talks about working in the late forties with Charlie Parker. He goes on to recall touring with his then wife Ella Fitzgerald.
From the Printed Page
Kit Hesketh-Harvey begins a week of programmes exploring music publishing by talking to classical and pop music publishers about what they do and why they are needed. Is the sale of copyright really a Faustian pact with the Devil, or are music publishers kind and angelic types only interested in the composer's welfare? Producer Julia Eisner
Andrew Green with news, comment and music including
Purcell Sonata No 9 in F, Z810 (Golden) Purcell Quartet
6.03 Respighi Circuses (Roman Festivals)
Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Muti
6.45 Mendelssohn Baal , We Cry to
Thee (Elijah)
Huddersfield Choral Society, Liverpool Philharmonic, conductor Malcolm Sargent Producer Ekene Akalawu E-MAIL: intune@bbc.co.uk
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Tonight, a Proms debut for a new Spanish orchestra of young players who revel in the sounds of their own country. Ravel re-creates the obsessive insistence of the dance, and Rodrigo revisits the elegant spring palace of the kings of Spain. Gerhard - whose centenary falls this year - contributes a chilling, impressionistic setting of Camus's story La Peste.
Narrator Michael Pennington.
John Williams (guitar), BBC Singers and Symphony Chorus, Spanish National Youth Orchestra, conductor Edmond Colomer
Gerhard The Plague
Dr Alison Sinclair looks at the founding father of the Spanish avant-garde, the writer Ramon Gomez de la Serna.
8.35 Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez Ravel Boléro
Four highlights of the series which illuminated the history and significance of cultural phenomena. 1: DogsRepeat
Beethoven and His Contemporaries
Paul Hindmarsh introduces the second of four programmes given last May in the Crucible Theatre as part of the Sheffield Chamber Music Festival.
Janet Hilton (clarinet), Bernard Gregor -Smith (cello) and Yolande Wrigley
(piano) perform works by Weber and by English-born French composer and cellist Georges Onslow , whose chamber music was influenced by Beethoven.
Weber Seven Variations from
"Silvana", Op 33
Onslow Cello Sonata in C minor,
Op 16 No 2
Repeated tomorrow 2.25pm
Robert Sandall and Mark Russell introduce a studio session which brings together Japanese turntablecollagist Otomo Yoshihide with Steve Beresford on keyboards and pocket trumpet.
Producer Philip Tagney
The Paris Years
In the wake of the Proms Stravinsky Day, Stephen Walsh examines some of Stravinsky's earlier scores and looks at how Parisian audiences and musicians reacted to the composer's latest offerings. Today's programme features works premiered in the season 1910-11: The Firebird,
Fireworks and Petrushka. Repeated from last Monday
Richard Niles presents a week of programmes featuring the BBC Big Band. Tonight, they are joined by guest musical director and arranger
Rob McConnell - probably best known for his work as leader of the Toronto-based Boss Band. The session features the solo talents of alto saxophonist Nigel Hitchcock. Producer Bob McDowall
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Beethoven Triple Concerto in C Mila Georgieva (violin), Hristo Tanev (cello), Ani Stoicheva (piano),
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Milen Natchev
2.30 Concilium Musicum and director
Paul Angerer perform works by emperors Leopold I and Ferdinand III
3.45 Erich Hobarth (violin), Imre Rohmann (piano) Scarlatti Eight keyboard sonatas Bartok Rhapsody No 2; Sonata No 1
5.00 Sequence
