With Andrew McGregor. Wagner Siegfried Idyll
London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington
6.19 Bridge Enter Spring
BBCSO. conductor Charles Groves
7.05 Rachmaninov Great Doxology (Vespers) Corydon Singers, conductor Matthew Best
7.32 Sibelius Finlandia
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, conductor Andrew Davis
8.05 Dvorak Slavonic Dances , Op 72 Nos I and 2 Russian National
Orchestra, conductor Mikhail Pletnev
8.36 Haydn Symphony No 90 in C Tafelmusik, director Jeanne Lamon Editor Andrew Lyle
Penny Gore begins a season of Nielsen orchestral music.
Nielsen Pan and Syrinx
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
9.11 Schumann Drei Phantasiestucke ,
Op 111 Shura Cherkassky (piano)
9.22 Purcell Funeral Sentences for the Death of Queen Mary
Taverner Consort and Choir, conductor Andrew Parrott
9.34 Ravel Piano Trio in A minor
Joshua Bell (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) Producer Arthur Johnson Discs
With Chris de Souza.
Proms Artists of the Week:
The King's Singers Stanley Wilson Gibberish; To a Lady
Seen from a Train
10.05 Debussy Premier Trio in G Joachim Trio
10.30 Gervaise, arr Hultmark Pavane; Branle Gai; Branle de Bourgogne; Branle Simple; Allemande Chaconne Brass
10.36 Mozart Symphony No 39 in E flat, K543 Austrian RSO, conductor Heinrich Schiff
11.05 Josquin Benedicta Es, Regina Celorum The King's Singers
11.11 Duparc Aux Etoiles
Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
11.18 Tormis Piispa Ja Pakana The King's Singers
11.28 Hindemlth Piano Sonata No 1
Bernard Roberts
Producer Ray Abbott
(1892-1955)
1: Honegger Discovers Paris
Graham Fawcett traces the musical life of the Swiss composer born in Le Havre who settled in Paris during the Great War and, as one of "Les Six", found himself part of the brave new world of painting, poetry, drama and music which took the French capital by storm after the Armistice.
Clarinet Sonatine Michel Arrignon , Pascal Devoyon (piano)
Pastorale d Ete Lausanne CO, conductor Jesus Lopez-Cobos Pâques a New York Fusako Kondo
(mezzo), Ludwig Quartet
Violin Sonata Dong-Suk Kang, Pascal Devoyon (piano)
Interlude (La Mort de Sainte Almeenne) RTL Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leopold Hager Sept Pieces Breves
Annette Middelbeek (piano) Le Roi David (excerpts)
Henri Doublier (narrator), Elizabeth Brasseur Chorale , Paris Opera Orchestra, conductor Serge Baudo
Producer Alan Hall
Repeated next Monday 11.30pm
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Stephen Kovacevich (piano), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Vasili Sinaisky
Maxwell Davies Sails in St Magnus I (BBC commission; first performance) Conducted by the Composer
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 in C
Shostakovich Symphony No 8 Repeated from Friday
Sara Stowe (soprano) and the Rose Consort of Viols perform a selection from Orlando Gibbons's First Set of Madrigals and Motetts of 1612.
Asix-part series in which
Alyn Shipton traces the history of the Blue Note record label and talks to some of those who defined its sound, including reissues producer Michael Cuscuna and sound engineer Rudy Van Gelder. In the opening programme, he remembers the label's founder Alfred Lion and the Van Gelder home in Hackensack, where the first records were made.
Producer Brian Morton
Repeated Friday 12.30am
Words for Music
Kyrie, Sanctus,
Magnificat Tommy Pearson asks why the Latin texts have been set to music more often than any other words. Repeat
With Andrew Green , including
Poulenc Sonata for Piano Duet
Pascal Roge and Jean-Philippe Collard
6.10 Vivaldi Nisi Dominus , RV608 Michael Chance (alto), English
Concert, conductor Trevor Pinnock
6.45 Bach Prelude and Fugue in E flat, BWV552 (St Anne) Ton Koopman (organ) Producer Andrew Mussett
A major Proms retrospective of the music of Bartok begins tonight with a rare chance to hear the full version of his ballet The Wooden Prince. From the same Hungarian roots comes Haydn's skilful symphony, which incorporates stagecoach horn calls. The centrepiece is Mozart's evergreen Clarinet Concerto.
Paul Meyer (clarinet), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Robertson
Haydn Symphony No 31 in D (Hornsignal)
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K622
8.30 Will the Real Bela Bartok...
According to those who knew him, Bartok was both tall and short, warm and abrasive, amusing and humourless. Bartok the man is recalled by Yehudi Menuhin, Andor Foldes, Joseph Szigeti and Bartok's family and friends.
8.50 Bartok The Wooden Prince
(Repeated Wednesday 2pm)
Dr Polly Rewt explores the issues raised by Professor Patricia J Williams in her lectures The
Geneology of Race - Towards a Theory of Grace.
Producer Constance St Louis
Horn Sonata Dennis Brain (horn), Noel Mewton-Wood (piano) Repeat
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Andrew Sparling talks to composer Richard Barrett , whose two favourite composers have suffered from being labelled "difficult". Now in their fifties,
Anthony Braxton and Brian Femeyhough are classic figures. One from free jazz, the other classically trained, both are inspired by Schoenberg and write music of real passion and sonic beauty. Femeyhough Carceri d'lnvenzione III Ensemble Contrechamps, conductor Emilio Pomarico
Braxton Composition No 156
The Composer (contrabass clarinet), Peter Niklas Wilson (double bass) Braxton Composition No 96
Ensemble, directed by the Composer Femeyhough Adagissimo Arditti Quartet
Shaker Loops
Christian Zeal and Activity
Negative Love (Harmonium, part 1) Repeated from last Monday
With Digby Fairweather. All this week, music from the Don Weller Big
Band's concert given last week at the Appleby Jazz Festival. Producer Terry Carter
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Great Pianists Piano roll recordings including Godowsky, Hoffman, Paderewski and Cortot
1.50 Polish Radio Orchestra/Wojciech Rajski, Eric Terwilliger (horn)
Weber Overture: Oberon
Strauss Horn Concerto No 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 3 in D (Polish)
3.10 Pianist Young-Lan Han plays works by Paderewski, Prokofiev, Balakirev and Albeniz
3.30 Menuhin Festival Piano Quartet Kahn Quartet in B minor, Op 14
Schumann Quartet in E flat, Op 47 Mozart Quartet in E flat, K493
5.00 Sequence
