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With Penny Gore.
Schumann Piano Trio No 2 in F, Op 80 Beaux Arts Trio
6.45 Bridge Summer
ASMF, conductor Neville Marriner
7.00 JC Bach Sextet in C English Concert
7.40 Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat, H Vile 1 Wynton Marsalis ,
ECO, conductor Raymond Leppard
8.05 Debussy Suite Bergamasque Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
8.50 Adams Lollapalooza New World
Symphony, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas

Contributors

Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Wynton Marsalis
Conductor:
Raymond Leppard
Conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas

Today Donald Macleod traces the course of Liszt's stardom and how it led to a meeting with Marie d'Agoult, the married woman with whom he had a tempestuous affair and eloped to Switzerland and Italy.
Liebestraum No 3 (O Lieb, So Lang Du Lieben Kannst) Claudio Arrau (piano)
Annees de Pelerinage, Book 1 (Switzerland) Lazar Berman (piano)
Apres une Lecture de Dante (Annees de Pelerinage, Book 2) Alfred Brendel (piano)
Vergiftet Sind Meine Lieder
Thomas Hampson (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Gretchen (A Faust Symphony)
Berlin PO, conductor Simon Rattle

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod

With Stephanie Hughes.
Clerambault Sotte Vanité (Fables de La Fontaine) Hugues Cuenod (tenor), Albert Fuller (harpsichord)
10.08 Honegger Pastorale d'Ete Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
10.18 Boismortier Diane etActeon
Hugues Cuenod (tenor), R Brink (violin), Alfred Zighera (viola da gamba),
Daniel Pinkham (harpsichord/director)
10.33 Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2
John Ogdon , Royal Philharmonic, conductor Lawrence Foster
10.54 Stravinsky Auction Scene (The
Rake's Progress, Act 3) Hughes Cuenod (tenor), La Scala Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
11.01 Beethoven String Quartet in C minor, Op 18 No Turner Quartet
11.24 Bach Peter 's Denial of Christ (St
MatthewPassion) Hugues Cuenod (tenor), Vienna Academy Chorus, Vienna State Opera Orchestra/Hermann Scherchen

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes.
Harpsichord:
Albert Fuller
Harpsichord:
Honegger Pastorale
Conductor:
Michel Plasson
Conductor:
Boismortier Diane
Viola:
Alfred Zighera
Harpsichord:
Daniel Pinkham
Unknown:
John Ogdon
Conductor:
Lawrence Foster
Tenor:
Hughes Cuenod
Tenor:
La Scala
Unknown:
Bach Peter

Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music
Lucie Skeaping introduces the second of this week's programmes of highlights from this year's festival, focusing today on reconstructions of lost Bach works.
Concerto in C minor for oboe and violin, BWV1060 KatharinaArfken(oboe), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, director Gottfried von der Goltz (violin)
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565 Andrew Manze (violin)
Cello Suite in E flat, BWV1010
Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba)
Orchestral Suite No 4 in D, BWV1069
(early version) Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, director Gottfried von der Goltz

Contributors

Violin:
Gottfried von Der Goltz
Violin:
Andrew Manze
Viola:
Paolo Pandolfo
Director:
Gottfried von Der Goltz

Beethoven Plus
Andrew McGregor presents the first of a nine-part series of recitals from the City of London Festival featuring the complete
Beethoven violin sonatas, given last month in Goldsmith's Hall, London.
Mark Kaplan (violin), Yael Weiss (piano)
Beethoven Violin Sonata in A, Op 12 No 2 Schubert Rondo Brillant in B minor, D895 Beethoven Violin Sonata in D, Op 12 No 1 See tomorrow lpm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Violin:
Mark Kaplan
Violin:
Yael Weiss

Another chance to hear Saturday's Prom.
Miah Persson (soprano), Magdalena Kozena (mezzo), Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Paul Agnew (tenor), Nicolas Teste (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque
Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Bach Orchestral Suite No 4 in D, BWV1069; Cantata No 24: Ein Ungefarbt Gemute;
Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F, BWV1046; Cantata No 185: Barmherziges Herze der
Ewigen Liebe; Magnificat in D, BWV243 (R)

Contributors

Soprano:
Miah Persson
Soprano:
Magdalena Kozena
Contralto:
Nathalie Stutzmann
Tenor:
Paul Agnew
Tenor:
Nicolas Teste
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner

The tenor Robert Tear introduces a selection of his favourite singers and songs - from Kathleen Ferrier and Nicolai Ghiaurovto
Barbara Streisand and the Kinks. Producer Clive Portbury

Contributors

Tenor:
Robert Tear
Unknown:
Kathleen Ferrier
Unknown:
Nicolai Ghiaurovto
Unknown:
Barbra Streisand
Producer:
Clive Portbury

With Sean Rafferty. Music includes at 5.40 Sibelius's Karelia Suite played by the Halle Orchestra under John Barbirolli ; at 6.00
Matteis's Ground after the Scotch Humour performed by the Palladian Ensemble; and at 6.40 Finzi's Five Bagatelles (arr
Ashmore) played by Richard Stoltzman (clarinet) with the Guildhall String Ensemble under Robert Salter.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Rafferty.
Unknown:
John Barbirolli
Played By:
Richard Stoltzman
Unknown:
Robert Salter.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Tonight's Proms showcases youth and high promise for the future in an ambitious new work combining the talents of four composers and a host of young performers.

Joanna MacGregor (piano), Ensemble Bash, Aref Durvesh (tabla), New Century Strings, Bolton, conductor Paul Payton, Choir of Finchley Children's Music Group, conductor Nicholas Wilks, Junior Guildhall Ensemble, conductor Cameron Sinclair, BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Andrea Quinn

Scry (BBC commission, first performance):

Gary Carpenter Prologue, Interludes and Finale

Peter McGarr Cloudspell Seasons

Alec Roth Earth and Sky (text by Vikram Seth)

Nitin Sawhney Urban Prophecies

7.35 Interval: Winning Scores
Sarah Walker reports on the Guardian/BBC competition for budding young composers and plays the top three entries.

8.05 Copland El Salon Mexico

Ravel Piano Concerto in G

Bernstein Symphonic Dances (West Side Story)

(Repeated Thursday 2pm)

Contributors

Pianist:
Joanna MacGregor
Tabla player:
Aref Durvesh
Musicians:
Ensemble Bash
Musicians:
New Century Strings, Bolton
Singers:
Choir of Finchley Children's Music Group
Musicians:
Junior Guildhall Ensemble
Musicians:
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor:
Paul Payton
Conductor:
Nicholas Wilks
Conductor:
Cameron Sinclair
Conductor:
Andrea Quinn
Reporter (Interval):
Sarah Walker

Theatre composer Gary Yershon assesses the importance of Pushkin for contemporary poets and novelists in post-Communist Russia and beyond and looks at the historical development of his literary reputation. With Vladimir Ashkenazy, Professor A. Briggs, Elaine Feinstein, Natalia Rubinstein and Lev Loseff, and poetry read by Ralph Fiennes. (R)

Contributors

Presenter:
Gary Yershon
Producer:
Susan Roberts
Interviewee:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Interviewee:
Professor A. Briggs
Interviewee:
Elaine Feinstein
Interviewee:
Natalia Rubinstein
Interviewee:
Lev Loseff
Reader:
Ralph Fiennes

With Jill Anderson.
Vivaldi Concerto in G minor, RV577 (Per I 'Orchestra di Dresda
12.15 Strauss Four Last Songs
12.40 Beethoven Piano Tno in G, Op 121a (Kakadu Variations)
1.00 Hasse Overture: Arminio Zelenka Capriccio in F WF Bach Sinfonie in F Buffardin Flute Concerto in E minor Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
1.45 Goldberg Sonata in Cminor 2JX) Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2

2.30 Villa-Lobos String Quartet No 7
3.10 Ferdinand David Trombone Concertino in E flat
3.30 Rosenmuller Magnificat
3.50 Schubert Symphony No 5 in B flat
4.25 Gershwin An American in Paris

4.50 Vivaldi Spring (The Four Seasons)

5.00 Praetorius Meine Seele Erhebt den Herren (Deutsches Magnificat)
5.20 Elgar Serenade for Strings
5.35 Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet

Contributors

Presenter:
Jill Anderson
Songs:
Beethoven Piano Tno
Unknown:
Arminio Zelenka Capriccio

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