Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including Stanford's The Bluebird performed by Oxford Camerata, conductor Jeremy Summerly , at 6.05; Copland's
Clarinet Concerto performed by its dedicatee, Benny Goodman , with the Columbia SO at 6.15; Britten and Lennox Berkeley's Mont Juic suite of Catalan dances played by the ECO, conductor Steuart Bedford , after the 7.00 news; and Rossini's Overture: An Italian Girl in Algiers performed by the Hanover Band, conductor Roy Goodman , after the 8.00 news.
With Penny Gore.
Boyce Symphony in D minor, Op 2 No 8
Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
9.11 Chopin Two Waltzes, Op 64 Dinu Lipatti (piano)
9.15 Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in D minor
Arthur Grumiaux , New Philharmonia, conductor Jan Krenz
9.42 Handel Chandos Anthem No 5:
I Will Magnify Thee
Lynne Dawson (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor), the Sixteen Choir and Orchestra, conductor Harry Christophers
10.05 Chopin Waltz in A flat, Op 42 Dinu Lipatti (piano)
10.10 Muffat Sonata No 5 in G
(Armonico Tributo)
Parley of Instruments, directors Roy Goodman and Peter Holman
Tomorrow night, French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet features in the Last Night of the Proms. Today, he talks to Joan Bakewell about his appearance there and his plans for the future, with music by Rachmaninov and Chopin.
Siren Voices
With Richard Baker.
5: Violet Gordon Woodhouse was a rich and brilliantly talented musician who became the first person ever to be recorded playing the harpsichord. Including: attrib Purcell Gavotte in G
Haydn Sonata in D, H XVI 37 (3rd mvt) Scarlatti Sonata in D, Kk29
Bach Italian Concerto (3rd mvt)
And music by Saint-Saens, Delius and Ethel Smyth.
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5: Love. Jan Smaczny looks at how Janacek was inspired late in life by his love for a much younger, married woman.
String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters) Prazak Quartet
Intimate Sketches (excerpts) Marian Lapsansky (piano)
The Cunning Little Vixen (excerpt)
Bratislava Children's Choir, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Charles Mackerras Repeated next Friday 12 midnight
Manchester Summer Recital
Guido Schiefen (cello), Alfredo Perl (piano)
Beethoven Cello Sonatas: in G minor,
Op 5 No 2; in D, Op 102 No 2
Another chance to hear Monday's Prom. Czech Philharmonic, conductor Charles Mackerras
Janacek Suite: The Cunning Little Vixen: Taras Bulba
Mahler Symphony No 1
Chris de Souza introduces more early music recordings, including works by Frescobaldi, Fayrfax and Bach and a rude song by Lassus. Producer Lindsay Kemp
In at the Deep End - the Big Mix Tommy Pearson joins a team of CD marketing people and tries to catch a few eyes and ears with his CD. Repeat
Three hundred years ago, the Palace of Whitehall was destroyed by fire. To mark this anniversary, the RIBA Heinz Gallery is putting on an exhibition. Sean Rafferty investigates the story and introduces music associated with the palace and with Tudor Westminster. Other music includes works by Dunstaple and Debussy, and the Berlin Philharmonic, conductor
Semyon Bychkov , play Tchaikovsky's Serenade in C at 6.30.
The acclaimed partnership of Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe makes a welcome return to the Proms with Beethoven's heaven-storming mass - a grandly universal and intimately personal statement of his beliefs.
Ruth Ziesak (soprano), Bernarda Fink (contralto), Herbert Lippert (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Beethoven Missa Solemnis
Living Ideas
A five-part series in which leading philosophers offer their appreciation of great thinkers.
5: Emmanuel Levinas.
Dr Simon Critchely defends the modern French-Jewish philosopher whose work was profoundly marked by the Holocaust and by the Nazism of his philosophical hero, Heidegger.
Critchely argues that Levinas offers a moving and valuable account of the respect we owe each other as unique individuals. Repeat
By Faure for piano and harp solo. Paul Crossley (piano), Marisa Robles (harp)
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Dominic Richards (piano),
Royal College of Music 20th Century Ensemble, director Edwin Roxburgh Ravel, arr Boulez Frontispice (first UK performance)
Luke Bedford Sick Paradise (first performance)
Colin Matthews Hidden Variables
Richard Causton The Persistence of Memory
Tristan Murail Disintegrations
Messiaen Couleurs de la Cite Celeste
Russell Davies presents a four-part history of jazz under Communism.
2: Jazz Militant. After the collapse of the Hitler-Stalin pact, jazz in the Soviet Union became not only acceptable but patriotic. But with the onset of the Cold War, it fell out of favour. Repeated from Saturday 6pm
With Stephen Johnson. Weill, Brecht and Eisler go to America, first in satirical vision, then in reality.
Weill Prologue; Sloth (The Seven Deadly Sins) Gisela May (mezzo), Peter Schreier and Hans-Joachim
Rotzsch (tenors), Gunther Leib
(baritone), Hermann Christian Poister (bass), Leipzig Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Herbert Kegel
Weill The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Act 2, Finale)
Jenny Smith and Anja Silja (sopranos), Pro Musica Vocal Ensemble, Cologne Radio Orchestra, conductor Jan Latham-Koenig
Eisler Fourteen Ways of Describing Rain Ensemble Recherche
Eisler An die Uberfebenden;
Uber die Dauer des Exils
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Aribert Reimann (piano)
Eisler Serious Songs Gunther Leib (baritone), Berlin Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Gunther Herbig Repeated from last Fnday
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Berlin SO/Michael Schonwandt, Lilya Zilberstein (piano) Nielsen
Symphony No 5 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor
2.20 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 (Serioso) Cailin Quartet
3.00 Bernard van der Sigtenhorst Meyer
Piano Sonata No 2 David Kuijken
3.20 Fritz Brun Symphony No 2
Bern SO, conductor Dmitri Kitaenko
4.15 Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 in C, K467 Kalle Randalu , Estonian State SO/Peeter Lillje
4.45 Juan Cirigliano El Sonido de la Ciudad Montreal Musica Camerata
5.20 Wassenaer Concerto Armonico
No 2 in B flat Combattimento
Consort/Jan Willem de Vriend
5.30 Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn Slovenian RSO/Samo Hubad
5.50 Bach Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV535 Scott Ross (organ)
