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With Penny Gore, including Strauss Till Eulenspiegel
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur
7.05 Musorgsky St John 's Night on the Bare Mountain
Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi
7.32 Tartinl Violin Sonata in G minor
(Devil's Trill) Locatelli Trio
8.05 Rossini Overture: The Italian
Girl in Algiers Hanover Band, director Roy Goodman
8.17 Schubert Impromptu No 2 in E flat, D946 Alfred Brendel (piano)
8.47 Britten Choral Dances from
"Gloriana" Martyn Hill (tenor),
Thelma Owen (harp), Holst Singers, conductor Hilary Davan Wetton Editor Andrew Lyle

Contributors

Conductor:
Kurt Masur
Conductor:
Musorgsky St John
Conductor:
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Director:
Roy Goodman
Piano:
Alfred Brendel
Tenor:
Martyn Hill
Harp:
Thelma Owen
Conductor:
Hilary Davan Wetton
Editor:
Andrew Lyle

Catriona Young features Debussy's orchestral works this week.
Debussy, orch Biisser Printemps
Montreal SO, conductor Charles Dutoit
9.18 Giovanni Gabrieli Sonata
Pian e Forte Taverner Players, conductor Andrew Parrott
9.25 Dvorak Terzetto in C
Members of the Chilingirian Quartet
9.43 Kodaly Dances of Galanta St Paul Chamber Orchestra, conductor Hugh Wolff
Producer Arthur Johnson Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Catriona Young
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Conductor:
Giovanni Gabrieli Sonata
Conductor:
Andrew Parrott
Conductor:
Dvorak Terzetto
Conductor:
Hugh Wolff
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

With Chris de Souza.

Scriabin Prelude in B, Op 16 No 1 Noemy Belinkaya (piano)

10.03 Proms Artist of the Week: Maxim Vengerov (violin)
Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso - Israel PO, conductor Zubin Mehta

10.30 Mozart Violin Sonata in A, K305 - Maxim Vengerov, Itamar Golan (piano)

10.44 Poulenc Le Bestiaire - Stephen Roberts (baritone), Nash Ensemble

10.50 Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor, K310 - Mihaela Ursuleasa

11.25 Sibelius Violin Concerto - Maxim Vengerov, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Producer:
Ray Abbott

(1813-1901)
In each programme this week,
Humphrey Burton takes a different opera by Verdi and looks at it from the point of view of a different practitioner from the opera world. Today he talks to writer, actor and libretto translator
John Wells about Verdi's early opera Giovanna d'Arco and introduces excerpts from it starring Montserrat Caballe and Placido Domingo. Producer Adam Gatehouse
Repeated next Monday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Burton
Unknown:
John Wells
Unknown:
Placido Domingo.

From the Victoria and Albert
Museum, London. Joan
Rodgers (soprano) and Roger Vignoles (piano) celebrate the beguiling art of song from the delicate and dramatic lieder of Schubert and Liszt to the witty French folk songs of Britten. Introduced by Susan Sharpe.
Schubert An Silvia; An den Mond;
Die Abgebluhte Lindes ; Die Manner Sind Mechant; Nacht und Traume;
Gretchen am Spinnrade
Liszt Die Loreley; Es Muss ein Wunderbares Sein ; S'll Est un
Charmant Gazon; Oh, Quand Je Dors Britten Le Roi S'en Va-T'en Chasse;
II Est Quelqu'un sur Terre; La Belle Est au Jardin d'Amour; Fileuse;
Quand J'Etais chez Mon Pere Producer Edward Blakeman

Contributors

Piano:
Roger Vignoles
Introduced By:
Susan Sharpe.
Unknown:
Abgebluhte Lindes
Unknown:
Wunderbares Sein
Unknown:
Quand Je Dors
Unknown:
Britten Le Roi
Producer:
Edward Blakeman

Junior Prom: Wet Wet Wet!
From the Royal Albert Hall , London. Water rules our lives: we drink it, we wash in it, we sail on it. Tony Robinson explores the world of water in music with a programme full of surprises. New London Children's Choir, BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Hall
Unknown:
Tony Robinson
Conductor:
Ronald Corp

From the Lake District
Tommy Pearson begins a week from the Lake District in Cumbria. He remembers one of the area's most famous sons, poet William Wordsworth , and looks at how some of the ideas of Romanticism were taken up in music. Repeat WEB ADDRESS: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music_machine/

Contributors

Unknown:
Tommy Pearson
Unknown:
William Wordsworth

With Andrew Green , including Billy Mayerl Marigold Susan Tomes (piano)
5.45 Brahms Hungarian Dances Nos 3 and 10 LSO, conductor Neeme Jarvi
6.15 Ravel Sheherazade
Janet Baker (mezzo), Philharmonia, conductor John Barbirolli
6.50 Boyce Trio Sonata No 5 in D Parley of Instruments, director Peter Holman
Producer Ray Abbott

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Green
Unknown:
Billy Mayerl Marigold
Piano:
Susan Tomes
Conductor:
John Barbirolli
Director:
Peter Holman
Producer:
Ray Abbott

Two massive works of this century make a uniquely powerful combination. Stravinsky constructs a monumental sound-sculpture in his retelling of an ancient Greek myth, and Bartok exploits all the virtuosic potential of the orchestra in one of his most famous works.
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Stravinsky Oedipus Rex
Orphei Drangar

Contributors

Unknown:
Stravinsky Oedipus Rex
Unknown:
Orphei Drangar
Oedipus:
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Jocasta:
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo)
Creon:
Alan Opie (baritone)
Messenger:
Alan Opie (baritone)
Shepherd:
Jon Runar Arason (tenor)
Tiresias:
Ronnie Johansen (bass)

In October 1940, Bartok left his native Hungary for the United States. That was the last time he saw his homeland: he died in New York five years later. In 1988, his remains were returned for an emotional reburial, and the journey was recorded in a diary by the composer's son. Reader David Suchet.

Contributors

Reader:
David Suchet.

A further five-part series in which Andrew Green remembers London concert halls of the past.
1: The Rotunda at Ranelagh Gardens "So fashionable," said
Horace Walpole , "that you can't set your foot without treading on a Prince or Duke of Cumberland."
Producer Fiona Shelmerdine

Contributors

Unknown:
Horace Walpole
Producer:
Fiona Shelmerdine

In the second of two programmes celebrating the music of the great 14th-century Florentine composer and poet Francesco Landini , who died 600 years ago, Red Byrd perform a selection of his ballatas and madrigals.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

Contributors

Unknown:
Francesco Landini
Unknown:
Red Byrd

The seventh of 11 programmes inviting musicians to introduce their favourite pieces. Peter Nelson is joined by Professor Wilfrid Mellers to consider the 1960s and electronic music's journey into mainstream cultural life. With music by Alvin Lucier , Frank Zappa , John Lennon and Steve Reich.
Producer David McGuinness

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Nelson
Unknown:
Professor Wilfrid Mellers
Music By:
Alvin Lucier
Music By:
Frank Zappa
Music By:
John Lennon
Music By:
Steve Reich.
Producer:
David McGuinness

With David Cornet.
1.00 Great Pianists The eleventh of 12 programmes of piano-roll recordings. Tonight a selection of pieces performed by Emil von Sauer , Arthur de Greef ,
Arthur Friedheim and Alexander Siloti
1.50 French NO/Riccardo
Muti Faure Incidental music: Pelleas et
M&isande Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished) Musorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
3.15 Northern Encounters The first of several concerts this week from a Toronto festival of music from
Scandinavia and Canada. The combined choirs of Danish National
Radio and Swedish Radio and the Elmer Iseler Singers from Toronto perform with their respective conductors. Brahms Fest- und
Gedenkspruche Veljo Tormls St John's Song Gorecki Miserere
4.05 Tema Quartet Halffter String Quartet Agusti Coma I Alabert
Cuatro Melosias Sefardies Conrado del Campo String Quartet No 5 (Caprichos Romanticos)
5.00 Sequence

Contributors

Unknown:
David Cornet.
Unknown:
Emil von Sauer
Unknown:
Arthur de Greef
Unknown:
Arthur Friedheim
Unknown:
Alexander Siloti
Unknown:
Muti Faure

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