With Penny Gore.
Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade New York Philharmonic, conductor Yuri Temirkanov
7.05 Finzi Eclogue
Howard Shelley (piano), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
7.32 Dvorak Overture: My Homeland Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor Andre Previn
8.05 Mendelssohn String Symphony No 6 in E flat
Concerto Koln
8.18 Hahn La Jour; La Paix; Les Etoiles; Le Souvenir davoir Chante
(Rondels)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
8.32 Herschel Sonata in D, Op 4 No 4 Invocation, director Timothy Roberts (harpsichord) Editor Andrew Lyle
Featuring Chopin piano concertos and sonatas.
Tchaikovsky Polonaise; Waltz (Eugene Onegin )
London Philharmonic, conductor Leopold Stokowski
9.10 Mozart Ach Ich Fuhl's, Es 1st
Verschwunden (Die Zauberflote) Edith Mathis (soprano), Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Herbert von Karajan
9.15 Chopin Piano Sonata No 1 in C minor, Op 4
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
9.39 Haydn Horn Concerto No 1 in D Hermann Baumann (horn), Concerto Amsterdam, conductor Jaap Schroder Producer Tony Cheevers Discs
Piers Burton-Page's selection this week includes some light music starters and curiosities from
Switzerland.
Armstrong Gibbs Dusk (Fancy Dress Suite)
New London Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp
10.07 Proms Artist of the Week:
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) Brahms Sonata in G, Op 76 Alexis Weissenberg (piano)
10.34 Handel Laudate Pueri, HWV 237
Sylvia McNair (soprano), Monteverdi Choir,
English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
10.53 Spohr Nonet in F, Op 31 Kerberos Ensemble
11.24 German A Gypsy Suite BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth
11.41 A sequence of works by Tallis
Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Robert Woolley (organ), conductor Christopher Robinson
11.52 Sibelius Serenade , Op 69 No 1 Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Dresden State Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn
Producer Piers Burton-Page
(1885-1935)
With Jonathan Swain.
1: Finding a Voice
From late romantic to early modernist. Seven Early Songs
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (piano) Four Songs, Op 2
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Aribert Reimann (piano) Altenberg Lieder, Op 4
Juliane Banse (soprano), Vienna PO, conductor Claudio Abbado
Producer Alan Hall
Repeated next Monday 11.30pm
With Fiona Talkington.
1.00 Proms Chamber Music 1996
From the Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, introduced by Susan Sharpe. The classical wind ensemble was at the height of its popularity in Haydn's time. A century later, Dvorak also fell under the spell of writing for the ensemble. Oslo Philharmonic Wind Soloists
Haydn Divertimento in C, H II 7
Dvorak Serenade in D minor, Op 44 Haydn Divertimento in F, H 1123
2.00 The BBC Orchestras
BBC Symphony Orchestra Conductor Gunther Herbig. Uto Ughi (violin)
Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphoses Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor
Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)
3.45 Voices lain Burnside introduces a recital on the theme of youth by Roderick Williams (baritone) and David Wickham (piano). Repeated from last Wednesday
4.30 First Bass
Bass player Ray Brown talks to Alyn Shipton about a career that has included collaborations with almost all the jazz giants. In the fourth of six programmes, Brown talks about his membership of Oscar Peterson 's classic trio of the fifties with guitarist Herb Ellis. The trio also accompanied such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.
Junk Week
To make music requires creativity enough, but what about those musicians who invent their own instruments as well? Luke Cresswell kicks off this week's programmes with a look at the world-famous group Bow Gamelan. Producer Graham Frost
With Natalie Wheen , including Byrd John Come Kiss Me Now Gary Cooper (virginals)
6.03 Thalberg Fantasy on Mozart's "Don Giovanni", Op 14 Cyprien Katsaris (piano)
6.30 Balakirev Tamara
Philharmonia, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov Producer Ekene Akalawu E MAIL: intune@bbc.co.uk
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. In their second concert at this year's Proms, the Oslo Philharmonic introduce a work by Alfred Janson which is new to the Proms but a regular item in the orchestra's own repertoire. Janson comes from a background infused with jazz and classical music, and the threads of popular music - particularly folk music - are picked up again in Dvorak's most enduring symphony and in Bartok's symphonic study - a unique sound world of exotic and eerie effects.
Oslo PO, conductor Manfred Honeck
Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
8.00 Poetry Proms
Simon Armitage, Glyn Maxwell and Jon Stallworthy read new Icelandic poems and works by Louis MacNeice.
8.20 Janson Interlude (first UK performance)
Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World)
A week-long Keats reassessment.
Marina Warner on La Belle Dame sans
Merci. Repeat
Beethoven and His Contemporaries
Paul Hindmarsh introduces the third of four programmes given last May in the Crucible Theatre as part of the Sheffield Chamber Music Festival. The
Lindsays and friends perform two rarities: marches for piano duet by Beethoven and a string quartet by his friend (and pupil of Mozart) Johann Nepomuk
Hummel. Beethoven Three Marches, Op 45 Peter Hill and Benjamin Frith (piano duet)
Hummel String Quartet in G, Op 30 No 2 Lindsay Quartet
Repeated tomorrow 2.40pm
A Week with Distended Record
Collections: Mixing It, the Diary
Edition. After last month's interview with Brian Eno , Mark Russell and Robert Sandall decide to generate some music of their own.
Producer Ekene Aklawu
Paul Guinery introduces a week of programmes exploring Beethoven's ambivalent attitude to his aristocratic patrons, on whom he greatly depended for financial and artistic support.
Piano Sonata in E flat, WoO 47 No 1
Fliesse, Wonnezahre, Fliesse! (Cantata on the Accession of Emperor Leopold II) Variations on "Quant e Piu Bello" from Paisiello's "La Molinara", WoO 69 Piano Trio in C minor, Op 1 No 3 Repeated from last Monday
With Digby Fairweather. Tonight, a reassessment of vocalese, the art of singing lyrics to an existing solo line. Producer Terry Carter
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Jeunesses Musicales World
Orchestra/Antonio Pappano Dukas
The Sorcerer's Apprentice Berlioz Les Nuits d'Ete Sibelius Symphony No 2
2.30 Soprano Ana Camelia Stefanescu performs songs by Mozart, Schumann and Tchaikovsky, accompanied by Andreiana Rosca (piano)
3.45 The Daedalus Ensemble perform Venetian and Florentine sacred music from the 15th and 16th centuries
5.00 Sequence