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Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including after 6.00
Cherubinl's String Quartet No 2 in C played by the Quartetto David; after
7.00 the Hoist Singers perform
Gretchaninov's Now the Powers of Heaven; and after 8.00 Bach's Violin Concerto in E, BWV1042, is played by Jeanne Lamon and Tafelmusik.

Contributors

Played By:
Jeanne Lamon

Beethoven Abroad
Presented by Misha Donat.
3: Russia (2). Music with a Russian connection, including a violin sonata dedicated to Tsar Alexander I and a string quartet written for the Russian ambassador to Vienna.
Violin Sonata in G, Op 30 No 3 Itzhak Perlman ,
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Variations on "Schdne Minka", Op 107 No 7
Wolfgang Shulz (flute),
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
String Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2 (Razumovsky)
Alban Berg Quartet

Contributors

Presented By:
Misha Donat.
Unknown:
Tsar Alexander
Unknown:
Itzhak Perlman
Piano:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Flute:
Wolfgang Shulz
Piano:
Rudolf Buchbinder
Unknown:
Alban Berg

With Peter Hobday.
Faure La Chanson d'Eve, Op 95 Janet Baker (mezzo),
Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
10.30 Schumann String Quartet in F, Op 41, No 2 Melos Quartet
10.53 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto
No 2 in C minor
Eileen Joyce ,
London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Erich Leinsdorf

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Hobday.
Unknown:
Janet Baker
Piano:
Geoffrey Parsons
Unknown:
Eileen Joyce
Conductor:
Erich Leinsdorf

Mozart 1784
Geoff Baskerville presents music written by Mozart during 1784. In Vienna, Mozart's music was attracting attention even when it was not being played by the composer himself. The clarinettist Anton
Stadler proudly advertised his performance of "a great wind piece of a very special kind."
Serenade in B flat for 13 wind instruments, K361 (Gran Partita);
Piano Concerto No 18 in B flat, K456
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Andras Schiff (piano/director), members of the BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra,
Osmo Vanska (clarinet/director)

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Baskerville
Piano:
Andras Schiff

Another chance to hear last Sunday's Prom, which featured an all-British programme from an American conductor who has made this music his own. Following the Proms theme of late and last works, Vaughan Williams's final symphony is the astonishing product of his mid-80s and Britten's song-cycle is a masterpiece of pared-down late style.

Joshua Bell (violin), Louise Winter (mezzo), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin

Elgar Introduction and Allegro

Walton Violin Concerto

Britten Phaedra

Vaughan Williams Symphony No 9

Contributors

Violinist:
Joshua Bell
Mezzo:
Louise Winter
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin

Live from the Brompton Oratory, London.
Organ Prelude: Ave Man's Stella (Dupre) Deus in adjutorium (plainsong)
Psalms 109, 112, 121, 126, 147
(plainsong)
Hymn: Ave Maris Stella (Dupre/plainsong) Magnificat (Part)
Motets: 0 Salutaris Hostia; Tantum ergo (Laloux)
Antiphon: Salve Regina (Poulenc) Organ Voluntary: Paraphrase -
Carillon (L'Orgue Mystique, No 35) (Tournemire)
Director of Music Andrew Carwood.
Organist Patrick Russill.

Contributors

Unknown:
Maris Stella
Organist:
Andrew Carwood.
Organist:
Patrick Russill.

Sean Rafferty delves into the life and times of the impresario
Johann Heidegger on the 250th anniversary of his death. Music includes at about
5.35 Glazunov's Piano Concerto No 2 played by Stephen Coombs with the BBC Scottish SO; and at about 6.40 the Seven Magnificat Antiphons by Arvo Part.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Rafferty
Unknown:
Johann Heidegger
Played By:
Stephen Coombs
Unknown:
Arvo Part.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. On the anniversary of the death of Richard Strauss, the orchestra of the German state where he made his home make their Proms debut in a programme including the poignant Four Last Songs, a pioneering symphony and a brilliant tone poem.

Soile Isokoski (soprano), Bavarian State Orchestra, conductor Zubin Mehta

Strauss Don Juan; Four Last Songs

7.45 A Light Garmisch
David Huckvale visits the sumptuous villa in Garmisch which Strauss built with the proceeds from Salome and used as a refuge from the world until his death there in 1949. He meets the composer's grandson and plays the composer's piano.

8.05 Strauss An Alpine Symphony

(Repeated Wednesday 15 September 2pm)

Contributors

Soprano:
Soile Isokoski
Musicians:
Bavarian State Orchestra
Conductor:
Zubin Mehta
Presenter (A Light Garmisch):
David Huckvale

The Other Beckett
The third of four programmes celebrating the fiction and poetry of Samuel Beckett. Christopher Ricks reads from and comments on Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable, the three works which make up Beckett's central work of fiction, the Trilogy.

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Beckett.
Unknown:
Christopher Ricks

Giles Swayne 's eagerly awaited new work for the 75th anniversary of the BBC Singers - a follow-up to his piece entitled Cry - deals with creation in reverse: the impact Man has had on the world. Robin Tyson (countertenor), Philippa Davies (flute),
Frances Kelly (baroque harp), David Miller (theorbo),
Stephen Betteridge (celesta), Pedro Carneiro (marimba),
BBC Singers, Endymion Ensemble, conductor Stephen Cleobury Giles Swayne Havoc (BBC commission, first performance)

Contributors

Unknown:
Giles Swayne
Unknown:
Robin Tyson
Flute:
Philippa Davies
Flute:
Frances Kelly
Harp:
David Miller
Unknown:
Stephen Betteridge
Unknown:
Pedro Carneiro
Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury
Conductor:
Giles Swayne Havoc

At Brecon
Alyn Shipton introduces a scintillating set of chamber jazz performed by the duo of guitarist Martin Taylor and double-bassist Niels Henning Orsted-Pedersen at the Theatr Brycheiniog during last month's Brecon Jazz Festival.

Contributors

Introduces:
Alyn Shipton
Guitarist:
Martin Taylor
Double-Bassist:
Niels Henning Orsted-Pedersen
Unknown:
Theatr Brycheiniog

With Susan Sharpe.

Daniel Auber, arr Liszt La Muette de Portici - Gyorgy Cziffra (piano)

12.10am Massenet Werther's aria (Werther) - Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, conductor Andras Mihaly

12.15 Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat, K378 - Valdis Zarins, Ieva Zarina (piano)

12.35 Strauss Burleske in D minor - Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernardi

1.00 Beethoven String Quartet in B flat, Op 130 - Voces Quartet

1.40 Kuhlau Sonatina in C, Op 59 No 3 - Folmer Jensen (piano)

1.50 Haydn Violin Concerto in G, H Vila 4 - Aladar Mozi

2.15 Sibelius We Praise Thee, Op 23 No 6a; Song of My Heart, Op 18 No 6 - Finnish Radio Chamber Choir

2.20 Uuno Kalmi Kulevala Suite, Op 23 - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

3.00 Wagner Senta and Dutchman duet (The Flying Dutchman) - Branka Stilinovic (soprano), Tomislav Neralic (bass)

3.20 Kraus Sinfonie in E flat - Concerto Koln

3.45 Sweelinck Variations on "Mein Junges Leben Hat ein End" - Geert Bierling (organ)

3.55 Vivaldi Concerto in D minor, Op 2 No 11 - Tafelmusik Baroque Orch

4.05 Kuhnau Suonata Sesta: Jacobs Tod und Begrabnis - Luc Beausejour (harpsichord)

4.20 Mozart Romanze (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) - Slovenian RTV Symphony Orch/Alexander Pitamic

4.30 Joaquin Nin Seguida Espanola - Henry-David Varema (cello), Heiki Matlik (guitar)

4.40 Rodrigo Three Spanish Compositions - Goran Listes (guitar)

4.50 Kunzen Overture: Erik Ejegod - Danish Radio Concert Orchestra

5.00 Kraus Symphony in C - Concerto Koln

5.10 Beethoven 32 Variations in C minor, Wo080 - Irene Kobla (piano)

5.30 Christoph Bernhard Missa "Durch Adams Fall" - CBC Vancouver Orchestra, conductor Jon Washburn

5.45 Bach Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor, BWV1056 - Angela Hewitt (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Susan Sharpe

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