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With Tommy Pearson

Heinichen Concerto in G - Musica Antiqua, Koln, director Reinhard Goebel

6.40 Sibelius Serenade No 1 in D - Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Staatskapelle Dresden, conductor Andre Previn

7.00 Bozza Andante and Scherzo - Aurelia Saxophone Quartet

7.40 Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat, Op 11 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Itzhak Perlman (violin), Lynn Harrell (cello)

8.10 Liszt, arr Doppler - Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 Chicago SO, conductor Georg Solti

8.45 Hasse Salve Regina in A - Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Musica Antiqua, Koln, director Reinhard Goebel

Contributors

Presenter:
Tommy Pearson

With Donald Macleod.

As a film composer under the director Lewis Milestone, Copland enjoyed unprecedented editorial control over the music included in his films. This freedom must have seemed a distant memory when a decade later Senator McCarthy invited him to appear before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Music for Movies
St Louis Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin Piano Fantasy John Jensen
The Dodger (Old American Songs, Set 1)
Thomas Hampson (baritone), St Paul Chamber Orchestra, conductor Hugh Wolff

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod
Subject:
Aaron Copland
Musicians:
St Louis Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin
Pianist:
John Jensen
Baritone:
Thomas Hampson
Musicians:
St Paul Chamber Orchestra
Conductor:
Hugh Wolff

With Jonathan Swain.
Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
10.13 Praetorius Six Bransles (Dances from Terpsichore) New London Consort, director Philip Pickett
10.20 Marenzio Madrigal: Solo e Pensoso I Piu Deserti Campi La Venexiana
10.27 Delius Summer Night on the River RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham
10.35 Schumann Carnaval
Sergei Rachmaninov (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Director:
Philip Pickett
Conductor:
Thomas Beecham
Conductor:
Schumann Carnaval
Piano:
Sergei Rachmaninov

Edinburgh International Festival 2000 From the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, introduced by Sandy Burnett.
Paul Lewis (piano), Leopold String Trio Mozart Piano Quartet in E flat, K493
Beethoven Piano Sonata in G, Op 31 No 1
12.00 Interval Talk: Hacker
Ilk Alan Hacker is in Edinburgh to conduct Jossi Wieler 's acclaimed production of Handel's opera Alcina. Lynne Walkertalks to him about his career.
12.20 Beethoven String Trio in G, Op 9 No 1 Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor, K4 78

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sandy Burnett.
Piano:
Paul Lewis
Unknown:
Ilk Alan Hacker
Unknown:
Jossi Wieler
Unknown:
Lynne Walkertalks

Another chance to hear last Friday's Prom. Christian Lindberg (trombone),
BBCSO, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste Sibelius En Saga Berio SOLO
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathétique) (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Christian Lindberg
Conductor:
Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Unknown:
Saga Berio

"Cupid, the Slyest Rogue Alive". In the first of four programmes which look at different aspects of love as portrayed in early vocal music, Catherine Bott explores love's idyll and courtly love. Including music by Purcell, Ockeghem and Monteverdi. Producer Christina Pritchard

Contributors

Music:
Catherine Bott
Producer:
Christina Pritchard

With Humphrey Carpenter. Music includes at 5.40 Mendelssohn's String Symphony No 12 in G minor performed by the English String Orchestra under William Boughton ; at 6.00 Ravel's Menuet Antique played by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Pierre Boulez ; and at 6.45 Musorgsky's St John's Night on the Bare Mountain played by the LSO under Claudio Abbado.

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter.
Unknown:
William Boughton
Conducted By:
Pierre Boulez
Unknown:
Claudio Abbado.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Celebrations for Pierre Boulez's 75th birthday continue with a performance of his "versicles and responses for an imaginary ceremony" dramatically laid out across the concert platform. Plus a symphony by Mahler in which he journeys from earth to a radiant vision of heaven.

Janice Watson (soprano), LPO, conductor Mark Wigglesworth

Boulez Rituel: In Memoriam Bruno Maderna

7.30 Twenty Minutes: Performing Art
The fifth in a series of eight postcards from the Victoria and Albert Museum exploring the shared worlds of art and music. Today Christopher Cook talks to Helen Clifford about a Bottger coffee pot dating from 1750.

7.50 Mahler Symphony No 4

(Repeated Wednesday 23 August 2pm)
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Contributors

Soprano:
Janice Watson
Musicians:
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Mark Wigglesworth
Presenter (Twenty Minutes):
Christopher Cook
Speaker:
Helen Clifford

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
The versatile BBC Singers continue the Proms theme of man's relationship with God in a late-night all-American survey of widely differing settings of the Psalms, and centenary composer Copland's account of the dawn of creation.
Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Robin Tyson (countertenor), David Goode (organ), Helen Tunstall (harp), Colin Currie, Julian Warburton and Timothy Gunnell (percussion), BBC Singers, conductor Stephen Cleobury

Copland In the Beginning

Billings Lamentation over Boston

Ives Psalm 54; Psalm 90

William Schuman Carols of Death

Bernstein Chichester Psalms

Contributors

Mezzo:
Sarah Connolly
Countertenor:
Robin Tyson
Organist:
David Goode
Harpist:
Helen Tunstall
Percussionist:
Colin Currie
Percussionist:
Julian Warburton
Percussionist:
Timothy Gunnell
Singers:
BBC Singers
Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury

With Jill Anderson.

Weber Overture: Peter Schmoll

12.15am Barber Summer Music, Op 31

12.25 Beethoven Violin Sonata in A, Op 30 No 1

12.50 Telemann Trio Sonata in F

1.00 A concert given last year in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland conducted by Colman Pearce.

Weber Overture: Der Freischutz

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor Oxana Yablonskaya (piano)

Copland Symphony No 1 Falla The Three-Cornered Hat: Suite No 1

2.20 Granados Three Spanish Dances, Op 37

2.30 Mozart Symphony No 35 in D (Haffner)

2.50 Antonin Lehmann Mass No 1 in D minor

3.35 Telemann Paris Quartet No 6 in E minor (1738)

3.55 Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini

4.30 Purcell Rejoice in the Lord Alway (Bell Anthem)

4.50 Dohnanyi Pierrette Fatyla - Keringo

5.05 Beethoven Variations on "Quant'e Piu Bello" from Paisiello's opera "La Molinara", Wo069

5.15 Perl Uccidimi Dolore!

5.25 Tartini Cello Concerto in A

5.45 Grieg Triumphal March (Sigurd Jorsalfar)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jill Anderson

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