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With Penny Gore.
Handel Keyboard Suite in F. HWV427 Murray Perahia (piano)
6.10 Beethoven Quintet in Eflat for oboe, three horns and bassoon Wind Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
7.30 Dvorak Slavonic Rhapsody in A flat, Op45No3 Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Paavo Berglund
7.45 Debussy Estampes Claudio Arrau (piano)
8.00 Weber Overture: Euryanthe Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Herbert von Karajan
8.10 Parry Twelve Short Pieces Erich Gruenberg (violin), RogerVignoles (piano)

Contributors

Piano:
Murray Perahia
Unknown:
Dvorak Slavonic Rhapsody
Conductor:
Paavo Berglund
Piano:
Claudio Arrau
Conductor:
Herbert von Karajan
Violin:
Erich Gruenberg

In five programmes this week
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Kurt Weill. Today he compares Weill's American and his German work, and how his experience in America led him back towards the Jewish faith.
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (One Touch of Venus) Ute Lemper (soprano), RIAS Chamber Ensemble, conductor John Mauceri
Song of Ruth (Eternal Road) Lotte Lenya (soprano)
Johnny's Song (JohnnyJohnson)
Thomas Hampson (baritone), London Sinfonietta, conductor John McGlinn
Tchaikovsky and Other Russians (Lady in the Dark) Danny Kaye
The Saga of Jenny (Lady in the Dark) Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
Four Walt Whitman Songs
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), Robert Schumann CO, conductor Marc-Andreas Schligensiepen September Song (Knickerbocker Holiday) Walter Houston

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Kurt Weill.
Conductor:
John Mauceri
Soprano:
Lotte Lenya
Baritone:
Thomas Hampson
Conductor:
John McGlinn
Unknown:
Danny Kaye
Baritone:
Wolfgang Holzmair

With Jonathan Swain.
Scriabin Eight Etudes, Op 42 Joseph Villa (piano)
10.20 Hoist Fugal Concerto, Op 40 No 2
Nicholas Fiore (flute), Stanley Wood (oboe), Hart House Orchestra, conductor Boyd Neel
10.29 Haydn String Quartet in F minor. Op 20 No 5 Quatuor Mosaiques
10.55 Scriabin Piano Sonata No 4. Op 30 Andrei Gavrilov (piano) 11.04 Vivaldi Concerto in D minor, Op 3
No 11 Toronto CO, conductor Boyd Neel
11.15 Scriabin Piano Sonata No 5, Op 53 Sviatoslav Richter

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Flute:
Nicholas Fiore
Flute:
Stanley Wood
Conductor:
Boyd Neel
Piano:
Andrei Gavrilov
Conductor:
Boyd Neel

A rebroadcast of last Friday's Prom.
Alfred Brendel (piano), David Titterington (organ), Berlin Radio Choir, BBCSO, conductor Ingo Metzmacher
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor
Henze Symphony No 9(R)

Contributors

Piano:
Alfred Brendel
Piano:
David Titterington
Conductor:
Ingo MetzmacHer

Julian Joseph looks at the career of the virtuoso French violinist Stephane Grappelli, who rose to fame in the 1930s alongside Django Reinhardt in the Quintet of the Hot Club of France. Julian Joseph is joined by Coleridge Goode, who recorded with Grappelli both in the Quintet and in a group led by pianist George Shearing.

Music from the archive includes a concert given by Grappelli's trio in 1983, featuring guitarist Martin Taylor and bassist Jack Sewing.

Contributors

Presenter:
Julian Joseph
Guest:
Coleridge Goode

With Sean Rafferty. Music includes at
5.05 Debussy's Reflets dans I'Eau images Book 1) played by pianist Pascal Roge ; at
5.45 Komgold's Suite: Much Ado about Nothing performed by the LSO under Andre Previn ; and at 6.4S Eigar's
Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town) played by the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Georg Solti.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Rafferty.
Pianist:
Pascal Roge
Unknown:
Andre Previn
Conducted By:
Georg Solti.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Valery Gergiev conducts the World Orchestra for Peace - the creation of the late Sir Georg Solti - in a programme which contrasts Shostakovich's anguished wartime symphony with the timeless ebb and flow of Debussy's seascapes.

World Orchestra for Peace, conductor Valery Gergiev.

Debussy La Mer

7.30 Twenty Minutes: The South: 9
The last in a series of programmes in which writers discuss what the south means to them.
David Malouf gives an antipodean view of the south.

7.50 Shostakovich Symphony No 7 (Leningrad)

(Also broadcast on BBC2)
(Repeated on Friday 15 September at 2pm)
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Brian Kay's Prom of the Week: page 38

Contributors

Musicians:
World Orchestra for Peace
Conductor:
Valery Gergiev
Speaker (Twenty Minutes):
David Malouf

Sarah Walker presents a concert given earlier this week at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival. Delia Jones (soprano),
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Grant Llewellyn
Julian Philips Strange Seas
John Metcalf Museum of the Air
James MacMillan The World's Ransoming Peter Maxwell Davies Stone Litany.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Walker
Soprano:
Delia Jones
Conductor:
Grant Llewellyn

With Jonathan Swain.

Haydn Symphony No 99 in E flat

12.30 Beethoven Piano Sonata in F sharp, Op 78

12.40 Durante Concerto per quartetto for strings No 3 in E flat

12.50 Puccini Non la Sospiri le Nostra (Tosca)

1.00 Haydn L'Anima del Filosofo (Orfeo ed Euridice)

3.10 Spohr Concerto in B minor for two violins, Op 88

3.35 Chopin Nocturnes: in C sharp minor, Op posth; in E flat, Op 9 No 2; Mazurka in C minor, Op 30 No 1; Waltzes: in D flat, Op 64 No 1 (Petit Chien); in C sharp minor, Op 64 No 2; in A flat, Op 42 (Grand Waltz)

3.55 Ravel La Valse

4.10 Bach Harpsichord Concerto in A, BWV1055

4.25 Jardanyi Fantasy and Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song

4.35 Kodaly Hary Janos (excerpts)

4.45 Glinka Capriccio Brillante on the theme of "Jota Aragonese"

5.00 Berlioz Overture: King Lear

5.20 Byrd Lullaby

5.30 Schubert Gesang der Geistern uberden Wassern, Op 167

5.40 Stravinsky Instrumental Miniatures for 15 instruments

5.50 Strauss Love Scene (Feuersnot)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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