With Andrew McGregor.
Palestrina Motet: Regina Coeli
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, director Timothy Brown
6.09 Roussel Le Festin de I'Araignee BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
7.05 Johann Strauss (son) Waltz: On the Beautiful Blue Danube
Alexander Schneider Quartet
7.32 Weber Concertino in E flat
Charles Neidich (clarinet),
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
8.05 Vivaldi Concerto in C for Two
Trumpets, RV537 English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
8.49 Bernard Herrmann Concerto
Macabre (Hangover Square) David Buechner (piano),
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conductor James Sedares
With Penny Gore.
Beethoven Overture: Leonore No 1
Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Herbert von Karajan
9.11 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto
No 3 in D minor
Vladimir Ashkenazy ,
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andre Previn Discs
With Nicola Heywood Thomas. Sibelius Serenade
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
10.05 Wagner Suite: Die
Meistersinger von Numberg
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Guido Ajmone-Marsan
10.25 Bruckner Abendzauber
Markus Krause (baritone),
South German Vocal Ensemble, Marie-Luise Neunecker
Horn Ensemble, director Rolf Beck
10.30 Proms Artist of the Week:
Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
Schubert Piano Sonata in B flat,
D960
11.10 Marais Charivary (Suite in D) Spectre de la Rose
11.25 Berlioz Les Nuits d TEte
Delia Jones (mezzo),
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Brad Cohen
Alwynne Pritchard and John Adams discuss the composer's first opera, President Nixon's visit to China, and the "trickster" element in Adams's music, revealed in the manic humour of his Fearful Symmetries. The Chairman Dances
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conductor Edo de Waart
News Has a Kind of Mystery (Nixon in China, Act 1)
James Maddalena (baritone), Orchestra of St Luke's, conductor Edo de Waart
Fearful Symmetries
Orchestra of St Luke's, conducted by the Composer
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm
Simon Haram (saxophone), Emily Beynon (flute), Eryl Lloyd Williams and Elizabeth Burley (pianos)
Rodney Bennett Saxophone Sonata Poulenc Flute Sonata
Dave Heath Coltrane
Dutilleux Flute Sonatine
Koechlin Epitaphe de Jean Harlow Repeat
Another chance to hear Monday's concert.
Suzie LeBlanc (soprano), Elisabeth von Magnus (contralto), Mark Padmore (tenor),
Klaus Mertens (bass), Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Orchestra, conductor Ton Koopman
Bach Cantata No 214: Tonet Ihr Pauken!; Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G, BWV1049; Motet: Jesu, Meine Freude; Cantata No 21: Ich Hatte Viel Bekummernis Repeat
From the Guards' Chapel,
Wellington Barracks, London.
Introit: Afferentur Regi Virgines (Bruckner)
Hymn: Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus (Morning Light)
Responses(Rose)
Psalm 78, w 39-73 (Goss, Gant) First Lesson: Isaiah 8, wll-18
Hymn: 0 Strength and Stay (Genevan Psalm 12)
Canticles: Stanford in B flat
Second Lesson: Ephesians 2, wl-10 Anthem: Lord, Thou Hast Been Our
Refuge (Vaughan Williams) The National Anthem
Hymn: The Day Thou Gavest (St Clement) Brass Voluntary: Sonata from "Die Bankelsangerlieder" (Anon)
Organist and master of the choir Andrew Gant. Assistant organist
Martin Hogben. With the Musicians of the Coldstream Guards.
Repeated tomorrow lam
Summing Up Sounds. Verity Sharp meets synthesiser wizard
Martin Russ , who conjures up spellbinding sound textures.
With Jeremy Nicholas , including Famon Peanut Polka
Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
5.44 Domenico Scarlatti , arr
Tommasini Good-Humoured Ladies
Concert Arts Orchestra, conductor Robert Irving
6.05 Mendelssohn Cornelius March
Rupert Gough (organ)
6.35 Famon Prelude for Harmonica and Orchestra
Tommy Reilly , orchestra, conducted by the Composer Producer Andrew Mussett
From the Royal Albert Hall, London, a characteristically bold programme from the BBC
Symphony Orchestra and their chief conductor Andrew Davis. The music draws together the clarity of Prokofiev and the warmth of Strauss in his rhapsodic portrait of a hero's life.
Plus one of the season's major Prom commissions from one of the most original of contemporary composers - lannis Xenakis, who is 75 this year.
John Lill (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Xenakis Sea-Change (BBC commission; first performance)
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3
7.50 New series Albertopolis In the first of four interval programmes exploring the area in London now known as Albertopolis, Professor Steve Jones visits the Hall of the Arts and Sciences, better known as the Royal Albert Hall. E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk
8.10 Strauss Ein Heldenleben
The Distribution of Distress. In the third of five lectures, Professor Patricia J Williams looks at the juxtaposition of race and class and their interaction in society. First broadcast on Radio 4
The third of four short sequences this week of Debussy songs and piano music performed by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano), Dawn Upshaw (soprano) and James Levine (piano).
The first of this year's late-night concerts from the Royal Albert Hall, London, introduces a Proms theme of the meeting of folk and traditional cultures with Western "art" music.
Joanna MacGregor (piano), Ensemble Bash
Trad, arr Ensemble Bash Yaa Yaa Kole
Steve Reich Music for Pieces of Wood
Cage Sonatas 2 and 5 for Prepared Piano
Orphy Robinson Suite d'Lorenzo
Cage Sonatas 14 and 15 for Prepared Piano
Frederic Rzewski Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
Django Bates The Catering Trade (first London performance)
Cage Sonatas 7 and 12 for Prepared Piano
Trad, arr Paulinus Bozie Kumpo
With Stephanie Hughes.
It Must Be, Out with the Purse, WoO 196; Overture: The Consecration of the House; Trio in G, WoO 37: Agnus Dei (Mass in C); Incidental music: King Stefan (excerpts)
Repeated from last Wednesday
Digby Fairweather introduces highlights from the Appleby Jazz Festival. This concert was given last Wednesday by Tim Garland and his new quartet.
With David Cornet.
1.00 Berlin Philharmonic/Nikolaus Harnoncourt Brahms Overture:
Academic Festival; Variations on a Theme of Haydn (St Antoni Chorale); Symphony No 1 in C minor
2.25 Sacred music by Dandrieu and Nivers performed by Capella Regis , director Jean-Yves Hameline , Michel Bouvard (organ)
3.25 BNRSO/Stefan Nedialkov, Ingrid Jakoby (piano) Weber
Overture: Oberon Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor
4.15 Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D667 (Trout) Takacs Quartet, Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
5.00 Sequence
