Penny Gore with arts news and music, including after 6.00 Poulenc's Elegy performed by Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos); after 7.00
Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D821 with Misha Maisky (cello); and after 8.00
Jacques Aubert 's Concerto for Strings (Le Carillon) played by Collegium Musicum 90, director Simon Standage.
With Peter Hobday , featuring Buxtehude cantatas and vintage performances by the pianist Maria Yudina.
Buxtehude Sonata in G, BuxWV271 Musiqua Antiqua Koln , director Reinhard Goebel (violin)
9.08 Nielsen Overture: Helios, Op 17 Danish National Radio Symphony
Orchestra/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
9.22 Stanford Fantasy No 2 in F
Thea King (clarinet), Britten Quartet
9.37 Buxtehude Mein Gemut Erfreuet
Sich, BuxWV72Amsterdam Baroque
Orchestra, director Ton Koopman (regal)
9.48 Stravinsky Serenade in A Maria Yudina (piano)
9.58 Shostakovich Symphony No 9 USSR SO, conductor David Oistrakh Producer Nick Morgan
Imogen Cooper
In the first of this week's conversations with Joan Bakewell , the British pianist Imogen Cooper discusses her early career. She began learning at the age of four, and by the time she was 12 she was studying with Jacques Fevrier and Yvonne Lefebure at the Paris Conservatoire.
Studies continued in Vienna with Jorg Demus and Alfred Brendel , with whom she recorded Mozart's concertos for two and three pianos. Producer David Jackson
Double Portraits
With Peggy Reynolds.
1: Gainsborough and the Linleys
In the Dulwich Picture Gallery there is a portrait of two young girls in a sunny landscape. The girls are both as charming today as they must have been in 1772 when Thomas
Gainsborough set out to paint this portrait of Elizabeth and Mary, the gifted daughters of his good friend the musician Thomas Linley. Music in today's programme includes:
JC Bach Oboe Concerto No 2 In F
Anthony Robson , Hanover Band, conductor Anthony Halstead
Herschel Sonata in D, Op 4 No 4
Invocation, director Timothy Roberts (harpsichord obbligato)
Handel Father of Heaven (Judas Maccabaeus) Kathleen Ferrier
(contralto), London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult
Thomas Linley In Thousand Thoughts of Love and Thee Invocation
Producer Anthony Sellors
(1891-1953)
1: Other Worlds
In the first of this week's programmes
Gerard McBurney looks at how the strange Ukrainian idyll of Prokofiev's childhood provided the composer with inspiration and material throughout his life. From childhood memories to
Stalin's socialist propaganda, stories and myths run deep through his music. Symphony No 1 in D (Classical) Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Claudio Abbado
Visions Fugitives The Composer (piano) Semyon Koto (Acts 1 and 4 excerpts)
Chorus and Orchestra of All-Union
Radio, conductor Mikhail Zhukov
Five Melodies, Op 35: No 1
Carole Farley (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano) Producer Matthew Edgar
Stephanie Hughes presents the first of eight lunchtime Proms chamber music concerts given in the lecture hall of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Poems of Light
Drawing its inspiration from the Proms themes of late and last works and The Ascent of Man, this first concert explores the fantasies and premonitions of four great pianist/composers nearing the ends of their lives.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Mozart Adagio in B minor, K540
Liszt En Reve; La Lugubre Gondola; Nuages Gris
Scriabin Sonata No 10
Debussy Etudes Nos 10, 11 and 5
Another chance to hear last Friday's broadcast of Tippett's original and visionary oratorio The Mask of Time. Claron McFadden (soprano), Felicity Palmer (mezzo), Robert Tear (tenor), Steven Page (bass), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Tippett The Mask of Time
Distinguished poet Peter Porter presents music and thoughts relating to the representation of poets on the operatic stage. He chooses excerpts from Puccini's La BOhème,
Wagner's The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte and Purcell's The Fairy Queen. Producer Alan Hall
Sean Rafferty considers the work of WH Auden and Benjamin Britten at the GPO Film Unit in the thirties. Music includes the Courtly Dances from
Britten's Gloriana and Mozart's Piano
Concerto No 5 in D, K175, played by the English Chamber Orchestra, director Daniel Barenboim (piano). Producer Elizabeth Funning
Rameau's last opera, never performed in his lifetime, begins this year's Proms focus on great French music. The work is a tale of love triumphant, and is told in a succession of dramatic and seductive arias and exuberant, alluring orchestral dances.
Acts 1 and 2
European Voices, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor Simon Rattle
(Andrew Duncan Interviews Simon Rattle: page 16; Brian Kay: page 34)
8.00 Ill Winds
An exploration into the myths and legends surrounding the Sirocoa, the Mistral and the Marmattan - harbingers of chaos, illness and disruption. People from as far afield as New Zealand, Africa, North America and Europe recall their experiences of coming face to face with some of nature's ill winds.
8.20 Acts 3 And 4
Contemporary American Poets
Michael Schmidt introduces a series of readings by leading contemporary poets from America.
1: Rita Dove and Mark Doty
Dove was the first African-American poet laureate of the US. Her work is suffused with a quiet humanity. Doty, forceful and inventive, was the winner of the 1995 TS Eliot Prize.
Producer Pauline Hams
Anna Chen examines the work of Yoko Ono and uncovers the myths and prejudices surrounding her work as artist, musician and performer. Producer Lance Dann Repeat
Forty-five years ago in New York,
Riverside Records cut its first modern jazz session. Within a short time the independent label had transformed itself into one of the most significant of all jazz record companies. Producer and founder Orrin Keepnews looks back on his label's history in the first of two conversations with Alyn Shipton. Producer Terry Carter
12.05am Wagner Siegfried Idyll
12.20 Mozart O, Wie Will Ich Triumphieren, K384 (Die Entfuhrung)
12.25 Stants String Quartet No 2
12.45 Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
1.00 Schubert Sonata in A, D664; 12 Grazer Waltzes, D924; Four Impromptus, D899; Impromptu in A flat, D935 No 2
2.05 Cavalli Sonata a 8
2.15 Fux Missa pro Gratiarum Actione
2.45 Beethoven Waltz in F, Op posth
2.55 Ravel, arr Gillet Piece en Forme de Habanera
3.00 Leoncavallo Prologue: I Pagliacci
3.05 Mascagni Voi Lo Sapete, O Mama (Cavalleria Rusticana)
3.15 Enescu Violin Sonata No 2 in F minor
3.35 Norgard Wie ein Kind
3.50 Fesch Concerto in E, Op 5 No 6
4.10 Bartok Hungarian Folk Songs
4.15 Visee La Menetou de MF Couperin
4.25 Ravel String Quartet in F
5.00 Mozart Overture: The Impresario
5.05 Beethoven Die Schlacht bei Vittoria, Op 91 (Battle Symphony)
5.20 Krek Piccolo Concertino
5.30 Bach Trio Sonata in D minor, BWV527
5.45 Stobaeus Two motets
5.50 Mozart Abendempfindung, K523
