With Penny Gore.
Dussek Piano Concerto in G minor
Andreas Staier (piano), Concerto Kbln
7.05 Copland Prairie Journal (Music for Radio)
St Louis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin
7.18 Humperdinck Romanze; Blauveilchen; Entsagung Olaf Bar (baritone),
Helmut Deutsch (piano)
7.32 Elgar Incidental music: Grania and Diarmid
Jenny Miller (soprano),
LPO, conductor Bryden Thomson
8.05 Bach Concerto in F in the Italian
Style, BWV971
Andras Schiff (piano)
8.32 Faure Ballade in F sharp Kathryn Stott (piano), BBC PO, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Szymanowski Violin Concerto No 2 Thomas Zehetmair (violin), City of Birmingham SO, conductor Simon Rattle
9.21 Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor
Claudio Arrau (piano), LPO, conductor Eliahu Inbal rases
With Jonathan Swain.
3: Marching with Mahler
Lush sentimentality hand-in-hand with stark brutality.
Three Orchestral Pieces, Op 6
Berlin PO, conductor Herbert von Karajan Three Wozzeck Fragments
Renee Fleming (soprano), New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conductor James Levine
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm Next programme tomorrow 12 midday
From the Queen's Hall,
Edinburgh.
Renee Fleming (soprano), Helen Yorke (piano)
Songs by Schubert and Schumann.
11.45 Festival Stooshies
2: Tantrums, Tiaras and Tutus Colin Bell finds out about the personalities and characters who added colour and controversy to the Edinburgh International Festival.
12.05pm Four American rarities and songs by Faure and Turina.
With Fiona Talkington.
1.00pm Manchester Summer Recitals
In the sixth often concerts, Rodney Slatford introduces the Manchester-based Sorrell Quartet, who perform music by the young Benjamin Britten as well as one of Mendelssohn's best-known quartets.
Britten Three Divertimenti (1936); Alia Marcia (1933)
Mendelssohn String Quartet in E minor, Op 44
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Telemann Suite in A minor (Overture) New London Consort, director Philip Pickett
Glazunov Five Novelettes, Op 15 Lyric Quartet
Liszt Mephisto Waltz No I (Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke)
Gyorgy Cziffra (piano)
Producer Peter Thresh Discs
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4.00 Choral Evensong
From the Priory Church,
Edington, Wiltshire, as part of the 1996 Festival of Music within the Liturgy.
Introit: In Manus Tuas (Byrchmore) Responses (Streeting)
Office Hymn: Cor Area (mode iii) Psalm 106 (Parry, Tranchell)
First Lesson: 2 Samuel 19, w 8b-23 Antiphon: Videte Manus Meas (mode iii) Canticles: Gray in F minor
Second Lesson: Acts 4, w 23-31 Anthem: Strengthen Ye the Weak Hands (Harris)
Hymn: Lead, Kindly Light (Alberta)
Manus Suae Fecerunt Me (Byrchmore) Organ Voluntary: Marcia from Symphony No 3 (Widor)
Conductors David Trendell , Jeremy Summerly and Peter McCrystal. Organist Peter Barley.
Repeated tomorrow 1.00am
Junk Week
Luke Cresswell travels to Birmingham to see two of the most exciting new groups in the field of home-made instruments. Arc's ethereal music is inspired by the elements, and Blissbody boast the biggest saxophone in the world.
Linda Ormiston visits the fringe and samples the musical delights of the 50th Edinburgh International Festival, with guests and music. Including Brahms Intermezzi , Op 117 7 Emil Gilels (piano)
From St Cuthbert's Church, the second of three concerts sampling the Edinburgh Festival's three-week-long survey of all Haydn's quartets. Introduced by Geoffrey Baskerville.
Mosaiques Quartet
Haydn String Quartets: in E flat, Op 20 No 1; in B minor, Op 33 No 1; in A, Op 20 No 6
Marjana Lipovsek (mezzo), Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado
In their second Prom, the New York Philharmonic present two peaks of the concerto and orchestral repertoire, from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Anne-Sophie Mutter, one of the world's most sought-after violinists, plays Brahms's monumental concerto, and the programme ends with one of this century's great ballet scores.
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), New York Philharmonic, conductor Kurt Masur
Brahms Violin Concerto in D
8.10 An exploration of the meteoric career of Anne-Sophie Mutter. With contributions from the violinist herself as well as from fellow musician Gyorgy Pauk and critic Edward Greenfield ,
David Huckvale learns what factors have shaped her career, finds out about her current activities, and asks what challenges still lie ahead.
8.30 Prokofiev Suite: Romeo and Juliet
Continuing the week-long reassessment of Keats. Tonight, Dannie Abse on anaesthetics and aesthetics in the work of Keats.
Repeat
Thomas Hampson (baritone), Wolfram Rieger (piano)
Mahler Kindertotenlieder
Producer Adam Gatehouse
From the Usher Hall,
Edinburgh.
Linda Ormiston introduces a concert from the Hanover Band's series featuring Haydn's Paris symphonies and some of his lesser-known vocal works.
Nuccia Focile (soprano),
Katarina Karneus (mezzo), Toby Spence (tenor), Hanover Band, conductor Charles Mackerras
Haydn Symphony No 85 in 6 flat (La Reine); Pieta di Me, H XXVb 5; Symphony No 87 in A
With Paul Guinery. Gloria (Mass in C)
Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre
Révolutionnaire et Romantique, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
An die Hoffnung, Op 94 Hermann Prey (baritone), Leonard Hokanson (piano)
Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 81a (Les
Adieux)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
An die Feme Geliebte, Op 98 Olaf Bar (baritone),
Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Repeated from last Wednesday
With Digby Fairweather.
Some recent books are reviewed, including the jazz diaries of Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Jean-Claude van den Eyden
(piano), Orlando Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op 18 No 1
Brahms Piano Quintet in F, Op 34
2.15 South German Radio Chorus,
Stefan Johannes Sleicher (organ)
Dvorak Mass in D Bruckner Motets
3.30 Anatoli Krastev (cello), Bulgarian NRSO, conductor Deyan Swavic
Respighi Fountains of Rome Sibelius Symphony No 1 Saint-Saens Cello Concerto in A minor
5.00 Sequence
