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With Penny Gore, including
Smetana Overture; Polka; Furiant;
Skocna (The Bartered Bride) Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi
7.05 Grieg Two Norwegian Airs Norwegian Symphony Orchestra, conductor lona Brown
7.32 Beethoven Piano Sonata in F.
Op 10 No 2 Vladimir Ashkenazy
8.05 Debussy, orch Ravel
Sarabande; Danse St Paul Chamber Orchestra, conductor Hugh Wolff
8.19 Telemann Concerto in E minor
Frans Bruggen (recorder),
Franz Vester (transverse flute), Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra,
Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord), conductor Andre Rieu
8.50 Chopin, arr Feuermann Polonaise Brillante in C, Op 3
Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano) Editor Andrew Lyle

Contributors

Unknown:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Conductor:
Hugh Wolff
Unknown:
Frans Bruggen
Unknown:
Franz Vester
Harpsichord:
Gustav Leonhardt
Conductor:
Andre Rieu
Unknown:
Feuermann Polonaise Brillante
Editor:
Andrew Lyle

Catriona Young features Shostakovich concertos this week.
Sibelius Lemminkainen and the Maidens (Legends)
Los Angeles PO, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
9.17 Beethoven Piano Sonata in E flat, WoO47 No Emil Gilels
9.28 Beethoven Seufzer eines Ungeliebten und Gegenliebe, WoO 118
Peter Schreier (tenor), Andras Schiff (piano)
9.34 Shostakovich Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings
Yevgeni Kissin (piano), Vasili Kan (trumpet), Moscow Virtuosi, conductor Vladimir Spivakov

(Discs)

Contributors

Presenter:
Catriona Young
Producer:
Tony Cheevers
Musicians:
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Pianist:
Emil Gilels
Tenor:
Peter Schreier
Pianist:
Andras Schiff
Pianist:
Yevgeni Kissin
Trumpeter:
Vasili Kan
Musicians:
Moscow Virtuosi
Conductor:
Vladimir Spivakov

With Chris de Souza.

Lambert Suite: Merchant Seamen - BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Carl Davis

10.15 Proms Artist of the Week: Roger Norrington (tenor)
Schutz Eile Mich, Gott, zu Erretten - Goldsbrough Ensemble

10.20 Monteverdi Hor Ch'el Ciel e la Terra - Schutz Choir, conductor Roger Norrington

10.32 Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments - Finnish RSO, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

10.43 Borodin String Quartet No 2 in D - Borodin Quartet

11.13 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K297b - Sian Davies (oboe), Nicholas Carpenter (clarinet), Peter Kane (horn), Patrick Milne (bassoon), Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conductor Roger Norrington

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Producer:
Ray Abbott
Musicians:
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor:
Carl Davis
Tenor:
Roger Norrington
Musicians:
Goldsbrough Ensemble
Singers:
Schutz Choir
Conductor:
Roger Norrington
Musicians:
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Musicians:
Borodin Quartet
Oboist:
Sian Davies
Clarinettist:
Nicholas Carpenter
Horn player:
Peter Kane
Bassoonist:
Patrick Milne
Musicians:
Bournemouth Sinfonietta

(1809-1847)
Roger Nichols traces Mendelssohn's relations with Britain through the ten visits he made here between 1829 and 1847. Symphony No 1 in C minor (1st mvt) Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Herbert von Karajan
Three Fantasies, Op 16 Martin Jones (piano)
Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde
(excerpts) Helen Donath (soprano), Hanna Schwarz (contralto), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Benno Kusche (bass), Munich Radio
Orchestra, conductor Heinz Wallberg Capriccio Brillant in B minor Stephen Hough (piano),
CBSO, conductor Lawrence Foster
Overture: The Hebrides
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
Producer Chris Marshall
Repeated next Monday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Nichols
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Piano:
Martin Jones
Soprano:
Helen Donath
Contralto:
Hanna Schwarz
Contralto:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Baritone:
Benno Kusche
Conductor:
Heinz Wallberg
Conductor:
Capriccio Brillant
Piano:
Stephen Hough
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Producer:
Chris Marshall

From the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, a matinée musicale re-creating one of the famous concerts hosted by Rossini in Paris in the 1850s. Singers Katarina Karneus (soprano) and William Dazeley (baritone) are joined by pianists Artur Pizarro and lain Burnside for a concert of surprise works by Mozart, Chopin, Liszt and Rossini himself, including excerpts from his witty Sins of Old Age. Introduced by Susan Sharpe.

Contributors

Soprano:
Katarina Karneus
Baritone:
William Dazeley
Pianists:
Artur Pizarro, Iain Burnside
Introduced By:
Susan Sharpe.

Another chance to hear last Tuesday's concert.
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 Die Erste Walpurgisnacht
Berlioz Harold in Italy

Contributors

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

Asix-part series in which
Alyn Shipton looks at the history of the Blue Note record label and talks to those who defined its sound.
5: In the latter part of the sixties, the Blue Note catalogue was poised sometimes uneasily between commercial funk and hard bop and a flirtation with the avant-garde. Alyn Shipton considers how the two halves were reconciled.
Repeated Friday 12.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Alyn Shipton
Unknown:
Alyn Shipton

With Natalie Wheen , including
Purcell Dance selection (Indian Queen) Parley of Instruments, director Roy Goodman
6.00 Bizet Au Fond du Temple Saint (Pearl Fishers)
Roberto Alagna (tenor).
Bryn Terfel (baritone), New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conductor James Levine
6.25Peter Sculthorpe Port Essington Australian Concert Orchestra
Producer Ekene Akalawu

Contributors

Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Director:
Roy Goodman
Tenor:
Roberto Alagna
Baritone:
Bryn Terfel
Conductor:
James Levine
Producer:
Ekene Akalawu

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Glyndebourne makes its annual visit to the Proms with an effervescent comic opera by Rossini. It is based on a real-life Count Ory, a philandering medieval Don Juan, who sets out to seduce the beautiful Adele disguised first as a hermit and then as a nun.

Rossini Le Comte Ory

Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic, conductor Andrew Davis

Act 1

8.10 The Thieving Magpie?
Richard Osborne ponders Rossini's reputation as a relentless self-borrower.

8.30 Act 2

Contributors

Singers:
Glyndebourne Chorus
Musicians:
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Count Ory:
Marc Laho (tenor)
Raimbaud:
Ludovic Tezier (baritone)
Countess Adele:
Annick Massis (soprano)
Tutor:
Julien Robbins (baritone)
Isolier:
Diana Montague (mezzo)
Dame Ragonde:
Jane Shaulis (mezzo)
Speaker (The Thieving Magpie?):
Richard Osborne

In the first of four conversations with the best of India's newest generation of young authors, Noah Richler travels to Kerala in southern India and meets Arundhati Roy, whose first novel, The God of Small Things, has already caused a sensation in literary circles.

(Repeat)

Contributors

Unknown:
Noah Richler
Unknown:
Arundhati Roy

The fifth of 11 programmes inviting musicians to introduce their favourite pieces. Peter Nelson introduces two electronic works by Stockhausen -
Gesang der Junglinge and Mikrophonie II. He is joined by composer
Rolf Gehlhaar , who was for some years Stockhausen's personal assistant. Producer David McGuinness

Contributors

Introduces:
Peter Nelson
Unknown:
Rolf Gehlhaar
Producer:
David McGuinness

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Great Pianists The ninth of 12 programmes of piano-roll recordings. Tonight a selection of pieces performed by Ferruccio Busoni
2.00 I Musici Gelosi perform chamber works by Bonporti, Leclair, Forqueray, Bach, Tartini and Telemann
3.30 Erno Dohnanyi SO/Gyorgy Bashegyi, Izabella Simon (piano)
Haydn Symphony No 26 in D minor (Lamentatione) Mozart Piano
Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491
Haydn Symphony No 83 in G minor (La Poule)
5.00 Sequence

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Ferruccio Busoni
Unknown:
Musici Gelosi
Unknown:
Erno Dohnanyi

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