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With Penny Gore.

Lope de Vega Lamento de Belisa - Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Hesperion XX, director Jordi Savall

6.15 Granados Piano Trio, Op 50 - Beaux Arts Trio

7.15 Schubert Symphony No 3 in D - Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch

7.40 Bohme Sextet in E flat minor, Op 30 - Fine Arts Brass Ensemble

8.00 Wiren Concert Overture No 1 - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, conductor Thomas Dausgaard

8.10 Tchaikovsky Serenade Melancolique, Op26 - Maxim Vengerov (violin), LSO, conductor Mstislav Rostropovich

Contributors

Presenter:
Penny Gore

(1685-1750). 1: Keyboard Music. Two hundred and fifty years after his death the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is still perceived as the foundation stone of western classical music, In the first of this week's five programmes Donald Macleod explores Bach the keyboard player and composer. Italian Concerto in F. BWV971 Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
English Suite in G minor, BWV808 Glenn Gould (piano)
Goldberg Variations, BWV988 (excerpts) Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)
Preludes and Fugues: in D; in D minor
(Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1); in F; in F minor (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2) Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Producer Kerry Chapman (R)
See Morning Performance 11.30am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Harpsichord:
Trevor Pinnock
Piano:
Glenn Gould
Harpsichord:
Christophe Rousset
Piano:
Sviatoslav Richter
Producer:
Kerry Chapman

Wendy Ramshaw launched hercareerwith a collection of jewellery, which featured in Vogue in 1970. Since then herwork has mutated into street furniture-functional sculpture with ajeweller's eye for detail. This week she discusses the creative process behind a vast and intricate screen she is making for a Canary Wharf courtyard. Producer Mary Ward Lowery

Contributors

Unknown:
Wendy Ramshaw
Producer:
Mary Ward Lowery

With Stephanie Hughes. This week featuring Beethoven's late piano sonatas and recordings by Felix Weingartner.
Beethoven March in Ffor military band, WoOl8 London Baroque Ensemble, director Karl Haas
10.08 Strauss Waltz: Fruhlingsstimmen, 0p410 British Symphony Orchestra, conductor Felix Weingartner
10.15 Beethoven Piano Sonata in A, Op 101 Maria Yudina
10.35 Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp William Bennett (flute),
Roger Tapping (viola), leuan Jones (harp)
10.52 Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish) Royal Philharmonic Society Orchestra, conductor Felix Weingartner Producer Nick Morgan

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes.
Unknown:
Felix Weingartner.
Director:
Karl Haas
Conductor:
Felix Weingartner
Unknown:
Maria Yudina
Harp:
William Bennett
Conductor:
Felix Weingartner
Producer:
Nick Morgan

Bach and Beyond
Bach is the most widely imitated composer in history. With the exception of a couple of decades after his death, he has been an inspiration and model to composers the world over, as lain Burnside discovers. Bach, arr Bantock Sleepers Awake
(Cantata No 140: WachtetAuf, Ruft Uns dieStimme) BBC Philharmonic, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Bach, arr Mahler Suite BBC Scottish SO, conductor Susannah Malki
Stravinsky Concerto in E flat (Dumbarton Oaks) BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Enrique Diemecke Bach, arr Hoist Gigue in G
BBCPO, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No 2
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Alun Francis Producer Anthony Sellers

Contributors

Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin
Conductor:
Susannah Malki
Conductor:
Enrique Diemecke
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin

Live from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Stephanie Hughes presents the second of this year's series of eight Proms chamber concerts. Today's recital features Tatyana Komarova's virtuoso showpiece.
Lars Vogt (piano)

Brahms Ballades Op 10: Nos 1 and 2
Komarova Theme and Variations
Schumann Album for the Young, Op 68 (excerpts)
Liszt Ballade No 2 in B minor

(Repeated Saturday 29 July 1pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes
Pianist:
Lars Vogt

Talkingduringthe Opera. Michael White investigates the role of speech in opera - when the singing stops and only the spoken word will do. Examples range from witty repartee in Offenbach to climactic
Shouting in Strauss. Producer Gautam Rangarajan

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael White
Producer:
Gautam Rangarajan

With Sean Rafferty. Music includes at 5.00 Faure's Les Djinns performed by the
Monteverdi Choir under John Eliot Gardiner; at 5.35 Janacek's Suite: The Cunning Little Vixen (arr Talich) played by the Vienna Philharmonic under Charles Mackerras; and at 6.00 Leoncavallo's Vesti la Giubba (I Pagliacci) performed by Mario del Monaco (tenor) with the Orchestra of the Santa Cecilia Academy, Rome, under Alberto Erede.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sean Rafferty

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Sullivan's centenary is celebrated at the Proms with a rare chance to hear a reconstruction of the "lost" cello concerto and works by those of his contemporaries he most admired.

Paul Watkins (cello), BBC SO, conductor Charles Mackerras

Sullivan Overture: Macbeth; Cello Concerto (reconstr Mackerras)

Schubert Rosamunde: Ballet Music I and II

8.20 Twenty Minutes: More Matter: 2: On the Edge and Car Talk
Selections from the collected essays of John Updike.

8.40 Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Schumann Symphony No 4 in D minor

(Repeated Friday 2pm)

Contributors

Cellist:
Paul Watkins
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Charles Mackerras
Author (More Matter):
John Updike

With Jill Anderson.

John Bull Why Ask You?

12.10 Wassenaer Concerto No 1 in G

12.20 Mozart Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491

1.00 Emma Bell (soprano), and Malcolm Martineau (piano) perform songs by Arne, Pelham Humphrey, Schubert, Strauss and Poulenc.

1.55 Margaret Sutherland Concerto for strings

2.10 Franck Symphony: in D minor

2.50 Stanford Fantasia and Toccata

3.10 Bach Violin Partita in E, BWV1006

3.30 Handel Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne: Eternal Source of Light Divine

3.55 Kraus Symphony in C minor (Symphonie Funebre)

4.20 Beethoven Variations in C minor, Wo080

4.35 Handel Sonata in B flat, Op2 No 3

4.45 Schreker Fantastic Overture, Op 15

5.05 Strauss Horn Concerto No 1 in E flat

5.20 Corelli Sonata da Chiesa in G minor, Op 1 No 10

5.45 Liszt Fantasia on Two Themes from "Le Nozze di Figaro"

Contributors

Presenter:
Jill Anderson

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