Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including Rameau's Overture: Les Paladins performed by the New Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor
Raymond Leppard at 6.10; a Chopin polonaise played by Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) at 7.30; and the Polovtsian March from Borodin's Prince Igor performed by the Kirov Orchestra , conductor Valery Gergiev at 8.05.
With Penny Gore, featuring Debussy chamber music and vintage performances by Yehudi Menuhin.
Ives, orch Schuman Variations on "America" Philadelphia Orchestra. conductor Eugene Ormandy
9.08 Bach Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor, BWV1041
Yehudi Menuhin , Paris Symphony
Orchestra, conductor George Enescu
9.25 Debussy String Quartet in G minor Budapest Quartet
9.52 Saint-Saens Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ) Gaston Litaize , Chicago SO, conductor Daniel Barenboim
Yan Pascal Tortelier is one of Britain's leading conductors - the principal conductor of the BBC Philharmonic and the Ulster Orchestra. In this first programme, he talks to Joan Bakewell about his upbringing in one of the most famous musical households in France. Music includes excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations and Saint-Saens's Piano Trio performed by members of the Tortelier dynasty.
(See also 7.30pm)
Historical Figures
Profiles of five world-historical figures from different epochs, with some of the music they have inspired.
1: Joan of Arc. Including excerpts from: Verdi Giovanna d'Arco
LSO, conductor James Levine
Tchaikovsky The Maid of Orleans
Inessa Galante (soprano), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conductor Neeme Jarvi Rossini Giovanna d'Arco
Teresa Berganza (soprano),
ECO, conductor Marcello Viotti
Honegger Joan of Arc at the Stake Soloists, Czech Chorus, Prague SO, conductor Serge Baudo Producer Piers Burton-Page
(1882-1937)
With Adrian Thomas.
1: Young Poland
When a group of musicians calling themselves Young Poland in Music put on a concert of their music in Warsaw in February 1906, Polish music was rejuvenated. Etude, Op 4 No 3
Witold Malcuzynski (piano) Concert Overture
BBCPO, conductor Vassily Sinaisky My Evening Song, Op 5 No 3 Teresa Zylis-Gara (soprano), Jerzy Marchwinski (piano)
Variations on a Polish Folk Theme
Janina Fialkowska (piano) Penthesilea
Roma Owsinska (soprano), Polish State Philharmonic, conductor Karol Stryja Producer Andrew Kurowski
Repeated next Monday 12 midnight
Proms featured composer Szymanowski and the theme of magic and mystery set the tone for a series of live lunchtime concerts from the Victoria and Albert Museum,
presented by Susan Sharpe. Tasmin Little (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano)
Bartok Six Romanian Folk Dances
Szymanowski Myths
Ravel Violin Sonata in G
(Repeated Saturday 1pm)
Another chance to hear the opening concert of the 1998 season.
Berlioz The Damnation of Faust - BBC Singers, New London Children's Choir, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
(Repeated from last Friday)
Patrick O'Connor takes operatic requests.
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A 12-part serial by Steve May. Fresh out of college, four musicians forge a radical and somewhat unlikely quartet.
Music by Steve May , performed by Adam Walters (horn), Paul Sharman (trumpet),
Marie Lloyd (clarinet) and Jadie Carey (cello) Director Eoin O'Callaghan
With Humphrey Carpenter. Music includes works by Tchaikovsky and Handel, and, at about 6.30, the Boston Pops Orchestra play the Intermezzo from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann.
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
"My people are American, my time is today." In the first of several Proms tributes to George Gershwin in his centenary year, his most celebrated piano hit is paired with Ravel's exuberant jazz-inspired concerto. Aspects of America also feature in the film music of Bernstein and an exciting symphony by Hindemith.
Louis Lortie (piano), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Bernstein Suite: On the Waterfront
Ravel Piano Concerto in G
8.15 Paul Whiteman and the Rhapsody
John Fordham traces the links between the Paul Whiteman Band and the music of George Gershwin, which reached its climax in the premiere of Rhapsody in Blue in New York in 1924.
(See also Wednesday 10.30pm)
8.35 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Hindemith Symphony in E flat
(Repeated Wednesday 2pm)
Choice Grenfell
A five-part entertainment compiled by and starring Maureen Lipman , re-creating monologues, sketches and songs by Joyce Grenfell. Repeat
Lowri Blake introduces a programme featuring herself on vocals and cello and Peter Buckoke on double bass.
John Keane 1M6
Julian Jacobson Stop to Think - Tango Song
John Cage The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs Schnittke Hymn II
Sally Groves Sticky Fingers; Winter Words
Dominic Muldowney Golden Moments
Conductor Alun Francis.
David Dorward Symphony No 2 (BBC commission: first performance)
Alyn Shipton , John Dankworth and Dave Gelly pay tribute to Benny Green. Producer Terry Carter
Roger Savage introduces scenes from Mais, Zoroastre and Castor et Pollux.
Repeated from last Monday
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Cavalli Vespers - Barbara Borden, Emily van Evera (sopranos), Rodrigo del Pozo (countertenor), Gerd Turk, Mark Padmore, Markus Brutscher (tenors), Harry van der Kamp, Peter Zimpel (bass), Concerto Palatino, instrumentalists/Bruce Dickey
2.10 Beethoven 32 Variations in C minor, WoO 80 - Irena Kobla (piano)
2.25 Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor - Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, conductor Ernest Bour
3.00 JC Bach Quintet in D - Musica Petropolitana
3.20 Handel Sonata in C, Op 1 No 7 - Hannan/Tilney/Thielman Trio
3.30 Krasa Kammermusik - John Snjiders (harpsichord), Nieuw Ensemble, director Ed Spanjaard
3.45 Ligeti Lux Aeterna - Danish National Radio Choir, conductor Stefan Parkman
4.05 Klami Piano Concerto No 1 (A Night in Montmartre) - Ralf Gothoni, Finnish RSO, conductor Kari Tikka
4.20 Bartok Two Pictures, Op 10 - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leif Segerstam
4.40 Schubert 16 German Dances, D783 - Ralf Gothoni (piano)
5.00 Mozart Overture: Don Giovanni - Bratislava RSO, conductor Ondrej Lenard
5.30 Mozart Symphony No 31 in D, K300 (Paris) - Utrecht Symphony Orchestra, conductor Hubert Soudant
