Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including Debussy's Cello Sonata performed by Mstislav Rostropovich and Benjamin Britten (piano) at 6.15; Dvorak's Slavonic Rhapsody played by the Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi, at 7.15; and Lutoslawski's Variations on a Theme of Paganini played by pianists Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire at 8.00.
With Penny Gore.
Vivaldi Concerto in F, Op 10 No 1 (La Tempesta di Mare) II Giardino Armonico, director Giovanni Antonini (recorder)
9.06 Rachmaninov, orch Respighi Etude-Tableau No 3 (Marche Funebre) - London Philharmonic, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
9.14 Mozart Piano Trio in B flat, K502 - Willi Boskovsky (violin), Nikolaus Hubner (cello), UN Kraus (piano)
9.37 Monteverdi Second Book of Madrigals, Nos 15 and 16 - Concerto Italiano/Alessandrini
9.42 Dvorak Symphonic Variations - Queen's Hall Orchestra, conductor Henry Wood
10.02 Ligeti Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet - Vienna-Berlin Ensemble
10.14 Strauss (son) Waltz: An der Schonen Blauen Donau - Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera Chorus/Willi Boskovsky
Week
Emma Kirkby
Soprano Emma Kirkby talks about her recordings with the Academy of Ancient Music - another legendary group on the early music scene with whom she has sung for over two decades. Music includes Mozart and Haydn arias.
I The third of five concerts this I week, broadcast from the Queen's Hall. The Vienna String Sextet gives the first of three concerts featuring the complete string quintets of Mozart.
Mozart String Quintet in B flat,
K174; Fantasy fora a Musical Clock, K608 (arr Rudolf Leopold )
11.40 Vienna String Sextet
Brian Morton looks at the style, character and unique musical ability of today's recitalists the Vienna String Sextet. The programme includes a portrait of leader Erich Hobarth , a master of period instruments who also leads the highly regarded Mosaiques Quartet and the Vienna Concentus Musicus.
12.00 Mozart String Quintet in D, K593
The Early Years
With Andrew McGregor. 2: 1891-4
"The opera is sure to fail.... it's the way things are. All first operas by young composers fail, and for a good reason!" (Rachmaninov)
Elegiac Trio No 1 in G minor, Op 6 Borodin Trio
Aleko (excerpts)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi
O Mother of God, Vigilantly Praying Russian State Symphony Cappella, conductor Valery Poliansky The Rock
Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
Repeated next Wednesday 12 midnight
Another chance to hear last
Sunday's Prom.
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo), Michael Chance (countertenor),
Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais/oboe), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Mozart Symphony No 25 in G minor, K183
Diana Burrell Dunkelhvide Manestraler
Tavener The Hidden Face
Beethoven Symphony No 2 in D
I From St Mary's Cathedral, 1 Edinburgh.
Introit: Abendlied (Rheinberger) Responses (Leighton)
Psalms 98-101 (Garratt, Russell, Ouseley, Brewer)
First Lesson: Ezekiel 34, w7-16
Office Hymn: Ave Maris Stella (Monteverdi)
Canticles: Magdalen Service (Leighton)
Second Lesson: Mark 1, w29-39 Anthem: Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (Hoist)
Hymn: 0 Jesus, I Have Promised (Wolvercote)
Organ Voluntary: Finale from Sonata No 7 (Rheinberger)
Master of the music Timothy Byram -Wigfield. Acting assistant organist Stuart Nicholson.
Sean Rafferty presents arts news, conversation and music, including excerpts from Khachaturian's ballet Gayaneh and Schubert's Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished), which leads up to a selection of new releases at 7.00.
Heralded by Beethoven's stirring overture, Shostakovich's dramatically pro-Soviet Third Symphony comes to the Proms for the first time. There is drama, too, and consolation in a new symphonic fantasy by the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho and in the powerfully lyrical piano concerto by Brahms.
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Stephen Kovacevich (piano), London Symphony Chorus, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Osmo Vanska
Beethoven Overture: Fidelio
Shostakovich Symphony No 3 (The First of May)
8.10 The Conductor Talks
Conducting is the most elusive of art forms. In an interval series of three interviews with conductors appearing at the Proms, Anthony Burton tries to find out how a conductor goes about his job. In this programme, he talks to the Finnish musician Osmo Vanska, chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
8.30 Kalevi Aho Rejoicing of the Deep Waters (first UK performance)
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor
(Repeated Friday 2pm)
Poets' Fan Mail
Five poets read a verse letter to a poet from the past they admire. 3: Glyn Maxwell writes to Edward Thomas. Repeat
The Gabrieli Quartet play early chamber music by Britten.
Another chance to hear TS Eliot's exploration of time, eternity and the Christian faith, read by Paul Scofield. Written between 1935 and 1942, these four meditations have long been regarded as a pinnacle of 20th-century poetry. Paul Scofield fulfilled a personal ambition in recording them. With specially commissioned music by Stephen Faux played by cellist Nick Parry. Repeat
Alyn Shipton talks to Jamaican pianist Monty Alexander about his early musical experiences and about how West Indian musicians and culture influenced his unique approach to jazz.
3: Les Troyens (The Fall of Troy) Roger Nichols investigates the neglected first part of The Trojans. Repeated from last Wednesday
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 The Historic Organs of Naples and Venice Music by Bree,
Frescobaldi, Bonelli, Woordhouder, Wenck, Piazza, Lucchesi, Mozart, Galuppi and Petrali
1.50 Cherubini Requiem Mass No 1 in C minor Belgrade Radio Choir, Slovenian Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Marko Munih
2.30 Arensky Suite No 3, Op 33
(Variations) James Anagnoson and Leslie Kinton (pianos)
3.00 Strauss Suite: Der Rosenkavalier
Spanish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sergiu Comissiona
3.25 Ives Piano Sonata No 2
(Concord, Mass.: 1840-60) Louise Bessette
4.10 Kajanus Funeral March
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Atso Almila
4.20 Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20 Alcan and Quebec Quartets
4.55 Hildegard of Bingen 0 Virgo ac Diadema Purpurae Regis Sequentia,
Cologne Ensemble for Medieval Music
5.15 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K364 Valery Oistrakh (viola), Santa Cecilia Virtuosi , director Igor Oistrakh (violin)
5.50 Kaspar Forster Vanitas
Vanitatum Mona Spagck (soprano), David Cordier and Wilfred Jochens
(tenors), Harry van der Kamp (bass), La Capelle Ducale , Musica Fiata , director Roland Wilson (violin)
