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, Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including Faure's Masques et Bergamasques performed by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at 6.45; Purcell's verse anthem My Beloved Spake performed by the Gabrieli Consort , director Paul McCreesh , at
7.10; and Prokoflev's Classical
Symphony played by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Claudio Abbado , at 7.45.

Contributors

Unknown:
Gabrieli Consort
Director:
Paul McCreesh
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado

With Penny Gore, featuring
Monteverdi madrigals and vintage performances by Henry Wood. Telemann Concerto in F
Musica Antiqua Koln , director Reinhard Goebel (violin)
9.08 Mozart Piano Trio in G, K564 Fontenay Trio
9.26 Rachmaninov, orch Respighl Etude-Tableau No 1 (La Mer et les Mouettes)
London Philharmonic, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
9.35 Monteverdi Second Book of Madrigals, Nos 9-11 Consort of Musicke, director Anthony Rooley
9.43 Grainger, orch Wood Handel in the Strand Queen's Hall Orchestra, conductor Henry Wood
9.47 Mozart Trio in E flat, K498 (Kegelstatt) Nash Ensemble
10.07 Gershwin An American in Paris
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, conductor Felix Slatkin
Producer Nick Morgan

Contributors

Unknown:
Musica Antiqua Koln
Violin:
Reinhard Goebel
Conductor:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Director:
Anthony Rooley
Unknown:
Wood Handel
Conductor:
Henry Wood
Conductor:
Felix Slatkin
Producer:
Nick Morgan

Emma Kirkby British soprano Emma Kirkby has been at the forefront of the early music scene for over two decades.
The purity of her voice set the standard for authentic performance from the very beginning - before early music became fashionable. She talks to Joan Bakewell about her introduction to early music and how she decided to give up teaching classics for a career in singing. Producer Gautam Rangarajan

Contributors

Soprano:
Emma Kirkby
Unknown:
Joan Bakewell
Producer:
Gautam Rangarajan

The first of five concerts this ! week, from theQueen's Hall .
Linda Ormiston introduces the first of two programmes in which
Andras Schiff explores the piano works of Schumann.
Arabeske in C, Op 18;
Davidsbundlertanze, Op 6
11.40 Key Notes
Lynne Walker , who has edited the Edinburgh Festival's printed programmes for the past six years, relates the trials and tribulations of getting to press on time. With a string of anecdotes, including contributions from a conductor, a composer and a previous editor, she looks between the lines to find the key to a successful printed programme.
12.00 Blumenstuck, Op 19; Symphonic Studies, Op 13

Contributors

Unknown:
Queen'S Hall
Introduces:
Linda Ormiston
Unknown:
Andras Schiff
Unknown:
Lynne Walker

Proms Chamber Music 98
From the Victoria and Albert Museum , London, continuing the Proms series of lunchtime concerts.
This week, music in exile - to console and divert - from the elegant declamations of Scarlatti for Queen
Christina of Sweden to the mellifluous strains of Fede for James II of England. Catherine Bott (soprano), London Baroque, director Charles Medlam Gasparini Cantata: Quanto Sei
Corelll Trio Sonata in G, Op 1 No 9 Fede Bellezze Voi Siete; Sei por Dolce; Sonata in D minor
Scarlatti Cantata: Correa Nel Seno
Amato

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Museum
Director:
Charles Medlam

Another chance to hear last
Wednesday's Prom.
Thomas Allen (baritone), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Heinrich Schiff
Haydn Symphony No 70 in D; Dice Benissimo (La Scuola di'Gelosi); Un Cor Si Tenero (II Disertore)
Gluck Overture: Alceste; Dieu Qui Me Poursuive (Iphigenie en Tauride); Tu
Décides Son Sort (Iphigenie en Aulide) Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)

Contributors

Baritone:
Thomas Allen
Conductor:
Heinrich Schiff

Gypsy Music
The music of different Gypsy tribes is coloured by the wealth of folk styles they have encountered on their travels around the globe. Tommy Pearson talks to Iren Kertesz and George Weigand about how a nomadic lifestyle has affected Gypsy music. Repeat

Contributors

Talks:
Tommy Pearson
Unknown:
Iren Kertesz
Unknown:
George Weigand

Sean Rafferty discusses the influence of German poet and dramatist
Friedrich Schiller and introduces music based on his work, including Rossini's famous overture to William Tell.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Rafferty
Dramatist:
Friedrich Schiller
Unknown:
William Tell.

Music for monarchs - from an extravagant outdoor display on the River Thames in the Water Music to the golden pomp and ceremony of a coronation in Westminster Cathedral in Zadok the Priest via the great 18th-century courts of Germany and Italy.
Emma Kirkby (soprano),
Charles Daniels and Mark Padmore (tenors), Matthew Hargreaves (baritone),
Andrew Manze (violin), Choir of New College, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood Handel Coronation Anthem No 3: The
King Shall Rejoice
Bach Violin Concerto in E, BWV1042 Handel Suite: Water Music
8.25 Handel In the Strand, Vivaldi on the Phone
Mark Russell looks at the history of Baroque music since the Baroque with the help of Brian Eno and Nicholas McGegan.
8.45 Handel Coronation Anthem No 1:
Zadok the Priest
Vivaldi Nulla in Mundo Pax; Concerto in F, RV571
Handel Sing unto God Repeated Thursday 2pm

Contributors

Unknown:
River Thames
Soprano:
Emma Kirkby
Soprano:
Charles Daniels
Soprano:
Mark Padmore
Baritone:
Matthew Hargreaves
Violin:
Andrew Manze
Director:
Christopher Hogwood
Unknown:
Mark Russell
Unknown:
Brian Eno
Unknown:
Nicholas McGegan.

Poets'Fan Mall
Following the example of WH Auden's Letter to Lord Byron, five poets read a verse letter to a poet from the past whom they admire.
1: Tom Paulin reads his letter to John
Clare called The Writing Lark. Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Paulin

Two programmes in which
Alyn Shipton celebrates the work of Ken Colyer , who died ten years ago.
Sonny Morris and Chris Barber recall the formation of the Crane River Jazz
Band and the first band Colyer led under his own name.
Producer Terry Carter

Contributors

Unknown:
Alyn Shipton
Unknown:
Ken Colyer
Unknown:
Chris Barber
Producer:
Terry Carter

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00 Beethoven String Quartets: in B flat, Op 18 No 6; in E flat, Op 74 (Harp); in B flat, Op 130 - Keller Quartet

2.35 Rontgen Theme and Variations - Wyneke Jordans and Leo van Doeselaar (pianos)

2.45 Buxtehude Gelobet Seist Du Jesu Christ, BuxWV189; Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland, BuxWV211; In Dulci Jubilo, BuxWV197; Nun Bitten Wir den Heiligen Geist, BuxWV208; Ein Feste Burg, BuxWV184 - Bernard Lagace (organ)

3.00 Chopin Polonaise in E flat minor, Op 40 No 2 - Aldo Ciccolini (piano)

3.05 Karlowicz Returning Waves - Polish NRSO/Gregorz Fitelberg

3.25 Pekiel Missa Pulcherrima - Camerata Silesia, Julia Gembalski (organ), conductor Anna Szostak

3.55 Gerber The Old Farmer's Almanac - Enescu PO/Winston Dan Vogel

4.40 Liszt Fantasy on Halevy's "La Juive" - Karoly Mocsari (piano)

5.00 Fux Laudate Dominum - Ursula Weiss and Ulli Engel (violins), Pierre Pitzl (viola da gamba), Michael Kitzinger (organ), Graz Capella Nova /Otto Kargl

5.05 Hummel Viola Sonata in E flat, Op 5 No 3 - Michael Gieler, Lauretta Bloomer (fortepiano)

5.30 Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Op 36 - Frederic Meinders

5.55 Diepenbrock Celebritat - Robert Holl (bass-baritone), Rudolf Jansen (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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