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With Catriona Young.
Purcell Chacony in G minor, Z730 English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
9.07 Kodaly Dances of Marosszek St Paul Chamber Orchestra, conductor Hugh Wolff
9.22 Handel Chandos Anthem No 1:
0 Be Joyful in the Lord
Lynne Dawson (soprano),
Ian Partridge (tenor), Michael George
(baritone), Sixteen Choir and Orchestra, conductor Harry Christophers
9.42 Debussy Jeux New Philharmonia, conductor Pierre Boulez Discs

Contributors

Unknown:
Catriona Young.
Unknown:
Purcell Chacony
Director:
Trevor Pinnock
Conductor:
Hugh Wolff
Soprano:
Lynne Dawson
Soprano:
Ian Partridge
Tenor:
Michael George
Conductor:
Harry Christophers
Conductor:
Pierre Boulez

With Chris de Souza.
ScrlaWn Prelude in G flat, Op 16 No 3 Noemy Belinkaya (piano)
10.03 Bach, arr Maxwell Davies Preludes and Fugues: in C sharp,
BWV848; in C sharp minor, BWV849 Aquarius, conductor Nicholas Cleobury
10.17 Proms Artist of the Week:
Maxim Vengerov (violin)
Sarasate Caprice Basque Itamar Golan (piano)
10.25 Strauss Lied der Freundschaft
BBC Singers men's voices, conductor Stephen Cleobury
10.30 Beethoven Violin Sonata in F, Op 24 (Spring)
Maxim Vengerov , Itamar Golan (piano)
10.53 Strauss Hymne , Op 34 No 2 Margaret Feaviour (soprano),
Judith Harris (mezzo), Neil Mackenzie (tenor), Stephen Charlesworth (baritone), BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury
11.04 Debussy Pour le Piano Mihaela Ursuleasa
11.18 Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Maxim Vengerov , Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado

Contributors

Unknown:
Maxwell Davies
Conductor:
Nicholas Cleobury
Violin:
Maxim Vengerov
Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury
Unknown:
Maxim Vengerov
Piano:
Itamar Golan
Piano:
Strauss Hymne
Soprano:
Judith Harris
Tenor:
Neil MacKenzie
Baritone:
Stephen Charlesworth
Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury
Unknown:
Maxim Vengerov
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado

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 theatre and opera director Sir Richard Eyre about the psychology of Verdi's middle-period opera La Traviata and introduces excerpts from the recording of Eyre's own production which starred Angela Gheorghiu.
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Burton
Director:
Sir Richard Eyre
Unknown:
Angela Gheorghiu.

Another chance to hear Saturday's concert.
Judith Howarth (soprano), Louis Lortie (piano), City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus,
BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, conductor David Atherton

Poulenc Gloria

Ravel Piano Concerto in G

Rachmaninov Symphony No 1 in D minor

Contributors

Soprano:
Judith Howarth
Pianist:
Louis Lortie
Singers:
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
Singers:
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Musicians:
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor:
David Atherton

Sung by members of the Eton Choral Course at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.
Introit: Thou Wast, 0 God (Tallis) Hymn: Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones
Psalms 113 and 116 (Camidge, Edwards)
New Testament Canticle (Woodward) Anthem: Warum 1st das Licht
Gegeben (Brahms)
Magnificat a 12 (Victoria) Salve Regina (Victoria)
Organ Voluntary: Ciacona in E minor (Buxtehude)
Director of music Ralph Allwood. Organist Stephen Disley. Repeated tomorrow lam

Contributors

Organist:
Ralph Allwood.
Organist:
Stephen Disley.

With Natalie Wheen , including Cole Porter Miss Otis Regrets Ella Fitzgerald and friends
6.05 Michael Torke Bright Blue Music
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Zinman
6.45 Lefebure-Wely Sortie in E flat Christopher Herrick (organ) Producer Ekene Akalawu

Contributors

Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Unknown:
Ella Fitzgerald
Conductor:
David Zinman
Unknown:
Christopher Herrick
Producer:
Ekene Akalawu

Two of this year's Proms anniversary composers are combined in a concert at the Royal Albert Hall of works which draw on traditional German chorales.
Mendelssohn's fervent Symphony No 5 in D (Reformation) is matched by Brahms's deeply felt German Requiem - a wholly personal vision of mourning and consolation inspired by biblical texts chosen by the composer himself.

Solveig Kringelborn (soprano), Peter Mattei (baritone), Philharmonia Chorus, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Claus Peter Flor

Mendelssohn Symphony No 5 in D (Reformation)

7.30 Brahms Yesterday, Today and Forever
Roderick Swanston looks at Brahms's German Requiem and his search for the musical universal.

7.50 Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem

Contributors

Soprano:
Solveig Kringelborn
Baritone:
Peter Mattei
Singers:
Philharmonia Chorus
Singers:
BBC Symphony Chorus
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Claus Peter Flor
Presenter (Brahms Yesterday, Today and Forever):
Roderick Swanston

A five-part series in which Andrew Green remembers London concert halls.
3: The Oxford. "Certainly the most magnificent Music Hall in London", where once Millie Hylton brought the house down with "Rowdy-Dowdy
Boys" and "the Sisters Tilley created something of a sensation by their high-kicking in skirts".

Contributors

Unknown:
Millie Hylton

The final late-night Prom begins with a flourish on the Royal Albert Hall organ with Mozart's fugal Fantasia in F minor, K608.
Then, the seductive wind sonorities of his Serenade in B flat, K361 - a perfect night-time work, effortlessly lyrical and inventive.
Thomas Trotter (organ),
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Wind Ensemble, conductor Simon Rattle
Mozart Fantasia in F minor, K608;
Serenade in B flat, K361 (Gran Partita)

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Trotter
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Conductor:
Mozart Fantasia

With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Schoenberg Prelude, Op 44
Stravinsky Jeux de Cartes Schnittke Cantata: Faust Soloists, Berlin Radio Chorus and SO/Mikhail Yurovsky
2.10 Cristofori Quartet Boccherlni Piano Quartet in F minor, G259
Strauss Arabian Dance; Liebeslieder Guinjoan Self-Parafrasis on Arabian Dance and Liebeslieder by Strauss Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor, Op 25
3.30 1997 International Early-Music Summer Academy A concert given at Wilanow Palace in Warsaw of music from Berlin at the time of Frederick the Great. CH Graun Cantata: Mit
Lied, Lebst Du Noch den Schwachen Quantz Trio Sonata in C for Flute, Recorder and Continuo CPE Bach
Passionlied, Wql94 No 23 Fasch Psalm 5 Nichelmann Die Nacht
Telemann Cello Sonata in D Quantz Flute Concerto in G; Die Verliebte
Verzweiflung Sack Denk Ihn Hinaus Kimberger Minuets 1 and 2; Polonaise for Harpsichord Telemann Funeral Music for a Sweet-Singing Canary Kai Wessel (countertenor), Piotr Kusiewicz (tenor),
Maigorzata Wojiechowska (Baroque flute), Martin Hublow (recorder), Simon Standage and Agata Sapiecha (violins), Agnieska Rychlik (viola), Jaap ter Linden
(cello), Lilianna Stawarz (harpsichord)
5.00 Sequence

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Liebeslieder Guinjoan Self-Parafrasis
Piano:
Strauss Brahms
Unknown:
Kai Wessel
Tenor:
Piotr Kusiewicz
Tenor:
Maigorzata Wojiechowska
Flute:
Martin Hublow
Unknown:
Simon Standage
Violins:
Agata Sapiecha
Violins:
Agnieska Rychlik
Cello:
Lilianna Stawarz

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