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With Penny Gore.
Mozart Nine Variations in D on a Minuet by Duport, K573
6.30 Dvorak Serenade in D minor, Op 44
7.00 Boccherini Symphony in D
7.50 Vivaldi Lauda, Jerusalem, RV609
8.00 Wiren Serenade for Strings, Op 11
8.35 Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin

Contributors

Unknown:
Dvorak Serenade
Unknown:
Wiren Serenade

Donald Macleod begins this week's series on the life of Franz Liszt by exploring his Hungarian background and looking at some of the people who were important influences during his youth.

12 Grandes Etudes (1837): No 4 in D minor - Leslie Howard (piano)
Beethoven, transcr Liszt Symphony No 5 in C minor (1st mvt) - Glenn Gould (piano)
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in F minor - Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Rscher
Piano Sonata in B minor - Martha Argerich

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald MacLeod
Producer:
Lyndon Jones

Film director Peter Greenaway is lighting the towers of Bologna in Italy in a display of light and sound and illuminating the fagades of its Piazza Maggiore with texts which retell the story of the city to its Citizens. Producer Nicola Barranger

Contributors

Director:
Peter Greenaway
Producer:
Nicola Barranger

With Stephanie Hughes. This week featuring concertos by Shostakovich and recordings by Hugues Cuenod.
Trad Spiritual: My Lord, What a Mornin' Hugues Cuenod (tenor)
Delannoy Philippine Complainte de
J'Homme-Serpent Hugues Cuenod (tenor), Orchestra conducted by Maurice Jaubert
10.13 Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 1 EvgenyKissin, Vladimir Kafelnikov (trumpet), Moscow Virtuosi, conductor Vladimir Spivakov
10.35 Mozart Divertimento in E flat, K252 Amadeus Winds
10.46 Monteverdi Ardo e Scoprir; Chiome d'Oro Hugues Cuenod and Paul Derenne
(tenors), Ensemble, director Nadia Boulanger
10.54 Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1
Leonid Kogan , Moscow State PO, conductor Kirill Kondrashin Producer Nick Morgan

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes.
Unknown:
Hugues Cuenod.
Conducted By:
Maurice Jaubert
Unknown:
Vladimir Kafelnikov
Conductor:
Vladimir Spivakov
Conductor:
Mozart Divertimento
Unknown:
Monteverdi Ardo
Tenors:
Paul Derenne
Unknown:
Leonid Kogan
Producer:
Nick Morgan

Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music Lucie Skeaping introduces a week of highlights from this year's festival, starting today with three of Bach's cantatas and one of his very last works.
Cantata No 51: Jauchzet Gott in Allen Landen Desiree Rancatore (soprano),
Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini
Concerto in C minor for two harpsichords, BWV1060
Olivier Baumont and Davitt Moroney
Cantata No 199: Mein HerzSchwimmt im
Blut; Cantata No 82: Ich Habe Genug
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Gottfried von der Goltz

Contributors

Unknown:
Jauchzet Gott
Unknown:
Olivier Baumont
Unknown:
Davitt Moroney
Soprano:
Emma Kirkby
Unknown:
Gottfried von Der Goltz

From the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Stephanie Hughes presents the first of this year's series of eight Proms chamber concerts.

Rosemary Hardy (soprano), Philippa Davies (flute), Ian Brown (piano), Nash Ensemble

Steven Stucky Partita-Pastorale after JSB (BBC commission, first performance)

Copland Duo; As It Fell upon a Day

Weill Frauentanz

Copland Sextet

(Repeated Saturday 22 July 6.30pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes
Soprano:
Rosemary Hardy
Flautist:
Philippa Davies
Pianist:
Ian Brown
Musicians:
Nash Ensemble

Another chance to hear last Friday's Prom. Evgeny Kissin (piano), Christine Brewer (soprano), Louise Winter (mezzo), David Kuebler (tenor), Nicolai Putilin (baritone), Simon Preston (organ), BBC Singers,
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Copland Fanfare for the Common Man
Bach, orch Stokowskl Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor
Janacek Glagolitic Mass (R)

Contributors

Piano:
Evgeny Kissin
Piano:
Christine Brewer
Soprano:
Louise Winter
Tenor:
David Kuebler
Tenor:
Nicolai Putilin
Baritone:
Simon Preston
Conductor:
Andrew Davis

With Sean Rafferty. Music includes at
5.40 Howells's Three Dances for violin and orchestra, Op 7; at 6.00 Chopin's Mazurka in F sharp minor, Op 59 No 3; and at 6.30 Tartini's Cello Concerto in A .

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Rafferty.

From the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Chinese composer Julian Yu pays tribute to ' "the greatest composer of all" in a work specially commissioned for this year's Bach anniversary. Plus a tantalising new work by composer/conductor George Benjamin.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/George Benjamin
Debussy Prélude a I 'Apres-Midi d 'un Faune i Julian Yu Not a Stream but an Ocean
(BBC commission, first performance) Messiaen Oiseaux Exotiques
7.50 Twenty Minutes: Silence and Music Messiaen's Oiseaux Exotiques ends with a written out silence to be performed by the musicians and experienced by the listener. Roger Savage explores ways in which silence is part of the essence of music.
8.10 George Benjamin Palimpsest Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird Repeated Wednesday 2pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Hall
Unknown:
Julian Yu
Conductor:
George Benjamin.
Unknown:
Julian Yu
Music:
George Benjamin

Kevin Kenner (piano)
Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 45; Waltz in A flat, Op 42; Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor, Op 39; Nocturne in B, Op 62 No 1;
Four Mazurkas, Op 67; Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op 44 (R)

Contributors

Piano:
Kevin Kenner

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. The first of this season's Late Night Proms features the most famous of this country's collegiate choirs.

Benjamin Bayl (organ), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, conductor Stephen Cleobury

Schutz Singet dem Herrn

Allegri Miserere

Gibbons O Clap Your Hands

Tye Omnes Gentes

Howells Psalm Prelude, Setl 1 No 1

Jonathan Harvey I Love the Lord

James MacMillan A New Song

Leighton Fantasy No 6 (Toccata on Hanover)

Purcell Jehovah, Quam Multi Sunt Hostes Mei

Giovanni Gabridi Timoret Tremor

Bach Motet: Lobet den Herrn BWV230

(Repeated Sunday 30 July 11.45pm)

Contributors

Organist:
Benjamin Bayl
Singers:
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury

With Jill Anderson.

Wagner, transcr Liszt Isolde's Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)

12.25am Haydn Symphony No 6 in D (Le Matin)

12.50 Schubert An die Musik; Die Mutter Erde

1.00 Liszt Funérailles (Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses)
Tanguy Sonate Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 8

1.55 Glazunov The Seasons

2.35 Schein Diletti Pastorali (excerpts)

2.55 Prokofiev Symphony No 7

3.25 Szymanowski String Quartet No 1

3.45 Mendelssohn Viola Sonata in C minor

4.15 Alfven Swedish Rhapsody No 1 (Midsummer Vigil)

4.25 Pierre Mercure Pantomime

4.35 Strauss Die Gottin im Putzzimmer

4.50 Tchaikovsky Jurisprudence March (Marche Solennelle)

5.10 D'indy Le Camp de Wallenstein

5.20 Pfitzner Symphony No 2

5.50 Vivaldi Sinfonia in B minor, RV169 (Al Santo Sepolcro); Sinfonia in E flat, RV130

Contributors

Presenter:
Jill Anderson

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