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With Penny Gore, including
Locatelli Concerto Grosso in E flat.
Op 7 No 6 (II Pianto d'Arianna) Concerto Koln
7.05 Dvorak Waltzes , Op 54: No 1 in A; No 4 in D flat
Delme Quartet
7.32 Stradella Sonata in D
Crispian Steele-Perkins (natural trumpet), Tafelmusik, director Jeanne Lamon
8.05 Chabrier Espana
Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa
8.15 Vivaldi Concerto in G minor (Per l'Orchestra di Dresda)
Peter Hanson (violin), Peter Holtslag and Catherine Latham (recorders), Paul Goodwin and Lorraine Wood
(oboes), Alberto Grazzi (bassoon)
8.51 Hoist A Fugal Concerto
Duke Dobing (flute), Christopher Hooker (oboe), City of London
Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox

Contributors

Unknown:
Dvorak Waltzes
Director:
Jeanne Lamon
Conductor:
Seiji Ozawa
Violin:
Peter Hanson
Violin:
Peter Holtslag
Violin:
Catherine Latham
Unknown:
Paul Goodwin
Oboes:
Lorraine Wood
Oboes:
Alberto Grazzi
Flute:
Christopher Hooker
Conductor:
Richard Hickox

With Catriona Young.
Mozart Serenade in D, K286
Vienna Mozart Ensemble, conductor Willi Boskovsky
9.18 Dowland Come Ye Heavy States of Night
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley
9.23 Stenhammar Serenade in F
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Catriona Young.
Unknown:
Mozart Serenade
Conductor:
Willi Boskovsky
Soprano:
Emma Kirkby
Director:
Anthony Rooley
Director:
Stenhammar Serenade

Edinburgh International Festival With Mary Miller.
Vivaldi Gloria in D, RV589
Monteverdi Choir , conductor John Eliot Gardiner
10.40 Artist of the Week:
Thomas Hampson (baritone) Copland The Little Horses
St Paul Chamber Orchestra, conductor Hugh Wolff
10.44 Schubert Impromptu in A flat, D935 No 2
Maria-Joao Pires (piano)
10.52 Breton La Verbena de la
Paloma (excerpt)
Madrid Comunidad Chorus, conductor Antoni Ros Marba
10.57 Mahler, arr Berio Five Early Songs
Thomas Hampson (baritone),
Philharmonia, conductor Luciano Berio
11.31 Billings Chesterfield His Majesties Clerkes, conductor Paul Hillier
11.35 Barber Dover Beach
Thomas Hampson (baritone), Emerson Quartet
11.44 Liszt Après une Lecture de Dante (Annees de Pelerinage) Jorge Bolet (piano)
Producer David McGuinness

Contributors

Unknown:
Vivaldi Gloria
Conductor:
Monteverdi Choir
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Baritone:
Thomas Hampson
Conductor:
Hugh Wolff
Conductor:
Schubert Impromptu
Piano:
Maria-Joao Pires
Piano:
Breton La Verbena
Conductor:
Antoni Ros Marba
Baritone:
Thomas Hampson
Conductor:
Luciano Berio
Conductor:
Paul Hillier
Baritone:
Thomas Hampson
Piano:
Jorge Bolet
Producer:
David McGuinness

With Michael Oliver.
2: The American Years: 1939-42
Young Apollo
Peter Donohoe (piano), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle
Mazurka Elegiaca
Clifford Curzon and the Composer (pianos)
Sinfonia da Requiem New Philharmonia, conducted by the Composer Scottish Ballad
Peter Donohoe and Philip Fowke (pianos), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle
Repeated next Tuesday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Oliver.
Piano:
Peter Donohoe
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Conductor:
Mazurka Elegiaca
Conductor:
Clifford Curzon
Unknown:
Peter Donohoe
Conductor:
Simon Rattle

Another chance to hear last Wednesday's concert. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor Andrew Davis are soon off to the Salzburg Festival with an atmospheric piece by George Benjamin, which opens this concert. They also continue the Proms' Bartok theme with his fiery Violin Concerto No 2.

Viktoria Mullova (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis

Benjamin Ringed by the Flat Horizon

Bartok Violin Concerto No 2

Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

Contributors

Violinist:
Viktoria Mullova
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Andrew Davis

Edinburgh International Festival
Linda Ormiston and guests capture the flavour of this year's festival and play some music from the BBC archives. Including Schumann Etudes Symphoniques (selection)
Geza Anda (piano)
5.45 Bellini La Sonnambula (excerpt) Maria Callas (soprano),
Milan La Scala Orchestra, conductor Antonino Votto
6.30 Shostakovich Five Satires
Galina Vishnevskaya (singer), Mstislav Rostropovich (piano) Producer David McGuinness

Contributors

Piano:
Geza Anda
Soprano:
Maria Callas
Conductor:
Antonino Votto
Singer:
Galina Vishnevskaya
Piano:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Producer:
David McGuinness

The spirit of Brahms hovers over this fascinating programme at the Royal Albert Hall - he conducted all three featured works in Vienna in 1873-4. The OAE use period instruments to enhance the sonorities of Beethoven's festive overture, Mendelssohn's colourful setting of Goethe's poetry describing ancient Druid rituals, and Berlioz's unique fusion of symphony and concerto.
Thomas Zehetmair (viola), Patricia Bardon (mezzo), Paul Charles Clarke (tenor), Thomas Hampson (baritone), Neal Davies (bass), Choir of the Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Mark Elder
Beethoven Overture: Zur Namensfeier
Mendelssohn Cantata: Die Erste Walpurgisnacht
7.45 The Flesh Made Word
The fourth of five interval talks on religion and language. Religious historian and ex-nun Karen
Armstrong discusses the dangers of trying to put God into words. She admits that, because "human beings are animals who speak", we are doomed to keep trying.
8.05 Berlioz Harold in Italy Repeated Monday 2pm

Contributors

Viola:
Thomas Zehetmair
Mezzo-soprano:
Patricia Bardon
Tenor:
Paul Charles Clarke
Baritone:
Thomas Hampson
Bass:
Neal Davies
Conductor:
Mark Elder

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. The tremendous vitality and originality of the British new music scene is demonstrated by a programme of works from the 1990s. They are performed by one of the leading contemporary music ensembles.
Michael Thompson (horn), London Sinfonietta, conductor Markus Stenz
Oliver Knussen Two Organa
Simon Bainbridge Landscape and Memory
Harrison Birtwistle Ritual Fragment
George Benjamin Three Inventions
Thomas Ades Living Toys

Contributors

Horn:
Michael Thompson
Conductor:
Markus Stenz
Unknown:
Thomas Ades

With John Thornley.
2: The influence of Hungarian folk song and the sounds of the countryside.
Rhapsody No 1
Joseph Szigeti (violin), Bela Bartok (piano)
Three Village Scenes Camerata Singers,
New York Philharmonic, conductor Pierre Boulez
Piano Concerto No 2
Zoltan Kocsis , Budapest Festival
Orchestra, conductor Adam Fischer Repeated from last Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
John Thornley.
Violin:
Joseph Szigeti
Piano:
Bela Bartok
Conductor:
Pierre Boulez
Unknown:
Zoltan Kocsis
Conductor:
Adam Fischer

Sweet and Sour. After the glorious swing piano of Earl Hines , Teddy Wilson and Jess Stacey in the thirties came the shock of bebop pioneers such as Thelonius Monk and Bud Powell. Campbell Burnap revisits the classic recordings.

Contributors

Unknown:
Earl Hines
Unknown:
Teddy Wilson
Unknown:
Jess Stacey
Unknown:
Bud Powell.

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Silesian Quartet Janacek String Quartet No 1 Szymanowski String Quaret No 2 Bartok String Quartet No 4
2.05 Traditional Music from Poland
Music from the Polish highlands performed by the Kyczera Band and the Detva Band
3.25 Beethoven Overture: Leonora
No 3; Piano Concertos: No 1 in C; No
3 in C minor Shanghai SO/Renato Palumbo, Sequeira Costa (piano)
5.00 Sequence

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Piano:
Sequeira Costa

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