With Penny Gore.
Massenet Suite No 4: Scenes
Pittoresques
Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
7.05 Honegger Pastorale d'Ete Lausanne CO, conductor Jesus Lopez-Cobos
7.15 Josquin Praeter Rerum Seriem Tallis Scholars , director Peter Phillips
7.32 Handel Concerto Grosso No I in B flat minor
Les Musiciens du Louvre, director Mark Minkowski
8.05 Medtner Russian Round-Dance
(A Tale)
Dmitri Alexeev and Nikolai Demidenko
(pianos)
8.32 Howells Phantasy Quartet, Op 25
Britten Quartet
Bach Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV1058
Viktoria Mullova (violin), Mullova Ensemble
9.11 Britten Les Illuminations
John Mark Ainsley (tenor),
Britten Sinfonia , conductor Nicholas Cleobury
9.35 Villa-Lobos Bachiana Brasileira
No 2
Cincinnati SO, conductor Jesus Lopez-Cobos Discs
With Nicola Heywood Thomas. Albeniz Navarra
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
10.05 Mozart Andante in C, K315
Konrad Hunteler (flute), Orchestra of the 18th Century, conductor Frans Bruggen
10.10 Proms Artist of the Week:
Judith Howarth (soprano)
Strauss Capriccio (final scene) BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Jane Glover
10.30 Paradis Sicilienne in E flat
Jacqueline du Pre (cello), Gerald Moore (piano)
10.35 Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Tasmin Little (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
10.50 Elgar Ave Verum Corpus Worcester Cathedral Choir, conductor Donald Hunt
10.55 Gigout Grand Choeur Dialogue Wayne Marshall (organ)
11.00 Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor
BBC NO of Wales/Rudolf Barshai
11.50 Meyerbeer Ombres Legeres (Dinorah)
Sumi Jo (soprano), Monte Carlo
Philharmonic, conductor Paolo Olmi
With Paul Guinery.
Overture: The Consecration of the House
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur
String Quartet in A minor, Op 132 Smetana Quartet
Repeated next Friday 12 midnight
With Sandy Burnett.
1.00pm Bristol Lunchtime Concert Bartok Plus
Introduced by Chris de Souza . Kocian Quartet
Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 20 No 4 Dohnanyi String Quartet in D flat, Op 15 Repeat
2.00 Music Restored
In the second of three programmes,
Graham Dixon introduces a service to commemorate the departed, sung in early Russian chant by the Moscow
Orthodox Church Male Choir under their conductor Anatoly Grindenko. The celebrant was Fr Michael Fortunatto and the recording took place in the Russian Orthodox Cathedral, London in 1993. Repeat
3.00 Mining the Archive
Edinburgh International Festival
Sir John Drummond presents the third of four programmes celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Edinburgh
Festival with recordings from the BBC archives. Today's programme remembers Lord Harewood's time as director, including the extraordinary visits of Czech National Opera in 1964 and Shostakovich in 1962. Smetana Dalibor (Act 2, finale) Alena Mikova (soprano), Vilem Pribyl (tenor), Prague NO, conductor Jaroslav Krombholc
Janacek In the Mist
Rudolf Serkin (piano)
Nono Sul Ponte di Hiroshima
Dorothy Dorow (soprano), Richard Lewis (tenor), LSO, conductor John Pritchard
Debussy Nocturnes
Edinburgh Choral Union, LSO, conductor John Pritchard
Tchaikovsky Cradle Song; Not a Word My Friend; None but the Lonely Heart Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Mstislav Rostropovich (piano)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 14 in E flat, K449
Rudolf Serkin (piano), ECO, conductor Alexander Schneider
Villa Lobos Bachiana Brasiliera No 5
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Ensemble of eight cellos
From the Printed Page
Kit Hesketh-Harvey looks at the future of the music publishing industry. What are the implications of publishing on the internet? Is it a development that enthuses publishers at all? Plus the new relationship between composers, record labels and publishers. Is piling into bed together the only way forward for classical music publishing?
With Anthony Burton.
5.30 Zelenka Sonata No 3 in B flat
Ensemble Zefiro
6.03 Mozart Exsultate , jubilate, K165 Barbara Bonney (soprano), English Concert, conductor Trevor Pinnock
6.43 Hindemith Concerto for woodwind, harp and orchestra Czech Philharmonic , conductor Jiri Belohlavek
Producer Verity Sharp
From the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Beethoven Leonore
The central arena of the Royal
Albert Hall becomes a massive stage for this performance of the original version of Beethoven's opera Fidelio, the story of the intrepid Leonore and her rescue of her husband, a political prisoner in solitary confinement.
Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre
Révolutionnaire et Romantique, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Acts 1 and 2
Beethoven only ever completed one opera - but in several different versions over the course of a decade or more.
Peter Branscombe investigates
Leonore and draws some conclusions about Beethoven's operatic preoccupations.
David McGuinness presents some recent Scottish premieres and talks to Craig Armstrong and Michael Boyd about their collaboration on a multimedia orchestral piece for
Glasgow's Mayfest. Dick Lee Sextet
Hebrides Ensemble
Karsten Fundal Figure and Ground Study I
Ursula Smith (cello)
John McLeod Piano Sonata No 3
Murray McLachlan (piano)
Craig Armstrong 20 Movements for
Orchestra
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Cecilia Weston ,
Colette Ruddy (mezzo),
Michael Boyd (interviews),
Marius de Vries (programming) Producer David McGuinness
The Paris Years
Stephen Walsh concludes the week with a look at some of the music
Stravinsky introduced to Parisian audiences in 1923: L 'Histoire du Soldat (excerpts); Les Noces (version for four pianos and percussion); Octet
Repeated from last Friday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Motets by Charpentier, performed by Le Parlement de Musique, conductor Martin Gester
2.30 Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time - Anthony Marwood (violin), Romain Guyot (clarinet), Robert Cohen (cello), Philippe Cassard (piano)
3.15 Christian Poltera (cello), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Micha Damev-Lefterov
Golovin Symphony No 3
Martin Ballade
Franck Symphony in D minor
4.35 Organ music by Bach, performed by Karl Jussila
5.00 Sequence