With Humphrey Carpenter , including
6.00 Dufay Apostolo Glorioso Binchois Consort, conductor Andrew Kirkman
6.50 Saint-Saens Le Rouet d'Omphale French NRO, conductor Jean Martinon
7.30 Bach Cantata No 170:
Vergnugte Ruh ', Beliebte Seelenlust James Bowman (countertenor), the King's Consort, conductor Robert King
8.20 Mozart Piano Concerto No 16 in D,
K451 English Chamber Orchestra, director Murray Perahia (piano)
From St Mary s Centre, Chester.
The programme visits the Chester Summer Music Festival for the first time. Live music is provided by cabaret duo Barbara Rearick and Richard Rodney Bennett , and by guitarist Craig Ogden with mezzo Claire Bradshaw. Music on disc includes Vivaldi's Concerto in C for Two Trumpets, Tchaikovsky's Bluebird Pas de Deux arranged by Stravinsky, and Chabrier's Espana.
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Thomas Hampson
With Joan Bakewell. American baritone Thomas Hampson decided on a professional musical career after he was introduced to German lieder by a nun. He has since recorded extensively from a repertoire of unparalleled breadth.
Revised repeat. See also 7.30pm
Chris de Souza uncovers the magic and mystery of the Proms, and guests Timothy West and Paul Bailey ask: who needs the Proms, and which comes first - words or music?
Penny Gore presents a concert given last March at the Wigmore Hall, London, by the Takacs Quartet.
Beethoven String Quartet in F minor, Op 95
Bartok String Quartet No 4
Dvorak String Quartet in E flat, Op 51
Conductor Harry Christophers, David Pyatt (horn),
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Haydn Symphony No 103 in E flat (Drum Roll)
Mozart Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat, K495
Handel Coronation Anthems: Zadok the Priest; Let Thy Hand Be
Strengthened; The King Shall Rejoice; My Heart Is Inditing
A personal selection from the recorded legacy of the great singers of our century. Michael Schmidt introduces recordings made by Frank Sinatra.
One hundred great 20th-century works of art.
29: Graham Greene : Brighton Rock Graham Greene 's masterpiece, first published in 1938, is a study of evil, sin and the "appalling strangeness of the mercy of God". Producer Anne Bristow
Continuing the series exploring works first performed in each year of this century. Natalie Wheen finds clarity, emotion and wit in the music of 1982. Mark-Anthony Turnage Night Dances London Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen
Ingram Marshall Fog Tropes Chamber Ensemble, conductor John Adams
Kevin Volans White Man Sleeps
(excerpt) The Composer and Robert Hill (harpsichords),
Margriet Tindemans (viola da gamba), Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion)
John Adams On the Dominant Divide
(Grand Pianola Music) London
Sinfonietta, conducted by the Composer Sofia Gubaidulina Offertorium
Gidon Kremer (violin),
Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
Producer Edward Blakeman
Karol Szymanowski 's rarely heard opera King Roger is a fascinating web of philosophical, musical and cultural threads. Szymanowski blends aspects of his earlier homoerotic novel Efebos (written in the manner of Plato's Symposium) with Mediterranean history - religion and politics in 12th-century Sicily - and the Polish obsession with the figure of the Sun Christ. With contributions from Szymanowski experts Teresa Chylinska , Stephen Downes , Jim Samson and Alistair Wightman , Adrian Thomas unravels the genesis of this most ecstatic of Szymanowski's works, which receives its long-awaited Proms debut this evening.
Producer Andrew Kurowski. See also 7.30pm
Repeated from yesterday 12 noon
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
In his operatic masterpiece King Roger, filled with richly exotic music, Proms featured composer Szymanowski reached far beyond his Polish roots to the warmth of the Mediterranean. Set in medieval Sicily, the opera concerns the conflict between the church and a Pan-like shepherd preaching a pagan creed of love and beauty.
Szymanowski King Roger - City of Birmingham Chorus, Youth Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle
(Repeated Tuesday 2pm)
(See also tomorrow 12 noon)
A new play for radio by the Booker Prize-winning writer James Kelman. Four men talk late into the night about art, life and rock 'n' roll. With an introduction by Douglas Gifford.
Director Kenneth Glenaan
The first of fourconcerts given as part of the BBC Singers' series earlier this year at St John's, Smith Square. 1: The Chapelle Royale of Louis XIVLouis XIV was obsessed by music, both in daily life and court ritual.
Tonight's programme includes some splendid examples of the Grands
Motets which adorned the services in chapel at Versailles, enhancing the majesty of the king and underlining his God-given authority. BBC Singers, St James 's Baroque Players, conductor Ivor Bolton Du Mont Pulsate Tympana Lully Anima Christi
Charpentier Missa Assumpta Est Maria
Lalande Beati Omnes; Passacaille
(L 'Amour Flechy par la Constance); Regina Coeli
Producer Michael Emery. See also Tuesday 4pm
Barb Jungr introduces a two-part series on the little-known music of Ethiopia. This week, choral music from the Coptic church, wordplay from the azmaris, or troubadours, and Tigrean armpit percussion.
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Igor Ozim (violin), Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Samo Hubad
Dvorak Carnival Overture
Beethoven Romance in G
Dvorak Violin Concerto in A minor
1.55 Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat James Campbell , Orford Quartet
2.20 Hellendaal Sonata VI Jaap ter Linden (cello), Ton Koopman
(harpsichord), Ageet Zweistra (cello)
2.30 Handel Ballet Music from
Alcina English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
3.05 Bruckner Ave Maria; Christus Factus Est; Locus Iste Sokkelund
Choir, conductor Morten Schuldt
3.20 Mendelssohn Symphony No 1 in C minor
Calgary Philharmonic, conductor Mario Bernardi
4.00 Ravel Violin Sonata
Peter Oundjian , William Tritt (piano)
4.20 Prokofiev Suite: Romeo and Juliet (3rd mvt)
Saarbrilcken Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Myung-Whun Chung
4.35 Weber Grand Duo Concertant
Jozef Luptacik (clarinet), Pavol Kovac (piano)
5.15 Mion Suite: Nitetis
Arion Ensemble
5.45 Ruppe Duetto in F
Wyneke Jordans and Leo van Doeselaar (piano duet)
