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With Edward Seckerson.
CPE Bach Sonata in G minor, Wql35 HansjorgSchellenberger(oboe), Margit-Anna Suss (harp), Klaus Stoll (violone)
6.50 D Scarlatti Sonata in G, Kkl24 Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)
7.10 Lawes Consort Suite a 5 in G minor
Phantasm
7.35 Mozart Symphony No 33 in B flat English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
8.30 Grainger Power of Love (Danish Folk Songs) Danish National RSO, conductor Richard Hickox
8.40 Nielsen Springtime in Funen
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Seckerson.
Harp:
Klaus Stoll
Unknown:
Scarlatti Sonata
Harpsichord:
Christophe Rousset
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Esa-Pekka Salonen

As part of this year's Edinburgh
International Festival the programme comes live this week from The Hub,
Edinburgh. With music from the Hilliard Ensemble, the Scottish Flute Trio with guitarist Alan Neave , plussomeof
Scotland's finest traditional musicians with a selection from their sell-out concert programme Work, Sex and Drink. Producer Fiona Shelmerdine

Contributors

Guitarist:
Alan Neave
Producer:
Fiona Shelmerdine

Graeme Kay meets young composer
Joe Duddell , who was commissioned to write a new work for the Proms Chamber Music concerts. Plus news of the first instalment of Scottish Opera's new Ringcycle at the Edinburgh Festival and how the life of an Olympic runningchampion has been turned into an opera in Finland. Producer Mark Lowther

Contributors

Unknown:
Graeme Kay
Unknown:
Joe Duddell
Producer:
Mark Lowther

A concert given at the Wigmore Hall in September 1998 by three of Austria's most distinguished musicians.
ZehetmairTrio: Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Heinrich Schiff (cello), Till Fellner (piano) Beethoven Cello Sonata in D, Op 102 No 2
Webem Sonata Movement for cello and piano; Three Little Pieces forcello and piano, Op 11 Schubert Rondo Brillant in B minor, 0895; Piano Trio No 1 in B flat, D898 (R)

Contributors

Violin:
Thomas Zehetmair
Cello:
Heinrich Schiff
Piano:
Till Fellner
Unknown:
Schubert Rondo Brillant

The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Colin Davis. Drawing exclusively on BBC recordings, Anthony Burton considers the impact in the late 1960s of Colin Davis. Stravinsky Petrushka (excerpts) (1968) Musgrave Clarinet Concerto With Gervase de Peyer (1969)
Beethoven Cantata on the Death of Joseph // (excerpt) With Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Yvonne Newman (alto), David Barrett (tenor). Michael Langdon (bass), BBC Chorus and Choral Society (1970) Producer Chris Wines

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Davis.
Unknown:
Anthony Burton
Unknown:
Colin Davis.
Unknown:
Stravinsky Petrushka
Clarinet:
Musgrave Clarinet
Unknown:
Beethoven Cantata
Soprano:
Kiri Te Kanawa
Soprano:
Yvonne Newman
Tenor:
David Barrett
Tenor:
Michael Langdon

Christopher Cook talks to violinist Monica Huggett about her career in the vanguard of Baroque performance and introduces her own recordings, as well as some of those which moulded her, including one of Janet Baker singing Bach's Cantata No 82: Ich Habe Genug. Producer Michael Surcombe

Contributors

Talks:
Christopher Cook
Violinist:
Monica Huggett
Unknown:
Janet Baker
Producer:
Michael Surcombe

In the week of a rare performance at the Proms of Franz Schmidt's 1938 oratorio about the Apocalypse, Peter Kislinger charts Austria's decline between the wars from Hapsburg glory to Hitler's pawn. With contributions from Andrew Barker, Thomas Gayda, Ray Monk and Olga Neuwirth. Reader David Timson.
Producer Piers Burton-Page
See also BBC Proms 2000 7pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Franz Schmidt
Unknown:
Peter Kislinger
Unknown:
Hapsburggloryto Hitler
Unknown:
Andrew Barker
Unknown:
Thomas Gayda
Unknown:
Ray Monk
Reader:
Olga Neuwirth.
Reader:
David Timson.

Michael Berkeley 's guest today is the novelist Ronald Blythe , whose semi-fictional portrait of an East Anglian village. Akenfield, won the Heinemann Award on its publication in 1969. Repeated from yesterday 12 noon

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Ronald Blythe

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
A first at the Proms for Franz Schmidt's mighty oratorio on the theme of the Apocalypse. Embracing a whole world of musical sound from pastoral innocence to earth-shattering power, the biblical story reaches its climax with St John's warning that his vision of the Last Judgement will indeed come to pass.

Christiane Oelze (soprano), Cornelia Kallisch (mezzo), Stig Andersen and Lothar Odinius (tenors), Rudolf Hartmann (baritone), Laszlo Polgar(bass), Timothy Bond (organ), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Franz Welser-Most

Schmidt The Book with Seven Seals

(Brian Kay's Prom of the Week: page 37)

Contributors

Soprano:
Christiane Oelze
Mezzo:
Cornelia Kallisch
Tenor:
Stig Andersen
Tenor:
Lothar Odinius
Baritone:
Rudolf Hartmann
Bass:
Laszlo Polgar
Organist:
Timothy Bond
Singers:
BBC Singers
Singers:
BBC Symphony Chorus
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Franz Welser-Most

By August Strindberg. translated and adapted by Eivor Martinus. In the 150th year after his birth, the sex-war dramas of August Strindberg still resonate in today's world of genetic mapping and DNA headlines. A mother knows her own child, but the seed of doubt about paternity can poison a father's mind beyond repair.
Ronald Pickup is the Captain, and Cheryl Campbell his wife in Strindberg's searing drama from 1887.
Produced and directed by Ned Chaillet (R)

Contributors

Adapted By:
Eivor Martinus.
Unknown:
Ronald Pickup
Unknown:
Cheryl Campbell
Directed By:
Ned Chaillet
The Captain:
Ronald Pickup
Laura:
Cheryl Campbell
Bertha, their daughter:
Eleanor Moriarty
DrOstermark:
Tom Mannion
The Pastor:
Christopher Good
Margaret, the nurse:
Eve Pearce
Nojd, a servant:
Ben Crowe
The Captain's batman:
Paul Panting

Isabel Hilton explores books that people are reading and talking about elsewhere in the world. This week John Burnside explores the world of Spanish poet Antonio Machado ; prize-winning Argentinian writer Leopoldo Brizmela talks about his novel Inglaterra; and an interview with Brazilian writer and actor AugUStO Boal. Producer Mary Price

Contributors

Unknown:
Isabel Hilton
Unknown:
John Burnside
Unknown:
Antonio MacHado
Talks:
Leopoldo Brizmela
Unknown:
Augusto Boal.

Another chance to hear last Monday's late night prom. A stimulating mix of baroque and contemporary as Bach's fascinating and closely-worked late fugues, based on a single theme, are intercut with quirky and intense miniatures by the Hungarian composer Kurtag- a great admirer of Bach. Keller Quartet
Bach The Art of Fugue, BWV1080 (excerpts) Kurtag Works for string quartet (R)

With Jonathan Swain.

A concert given in March 1998 by Radio Latvia Chorus directed by Sigvards Klava.

Reger Motets: Ach, Herr, Strafe Mich Nicht; O, Tod, Wie Bitter Bist Du; Cantata: O Haupt Voll Blut und Wunden

Messiaen Motet: O Sacrum Convivium; Louange a l'Eternite de Jesus (Quatuorpourla Fin du Temps)

1.50 Respighi Church Windows

2.15 Pachelbel Canon and Gigue in D

2.20 Telemann Concerto in A minor for recorder, viola da gamba, strings and continuo

2.45 Mozart String Quartet in B flat, K458 (Hunt)

3.15 Franz Krommer Clarinet Concerto in E flat, Op 36

3.35 Brahms Hungarian Dances: Nos 1, 11, 13, 1 and 8

3.50 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in F minor

4.15 Marcel Tournier Images, Op 35

4.25 Bizet L'Arlesienne: Suite No 1

4.50 Glinka Kamarinskaya

5.00 Kodaly Cello Sonatina

5.10 Moszkowski Valse in E, Op 34 No 1

5.30 Bartok Rhapsody No 1

5.45 Cirigliano El Sonido de la Ciudad

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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