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With Fiona Talkington.
CPE Bach Flute Concerto in A, Wql68
6.40 Kodaly Matra Pictures
7.35 Walton Symphony No 2
8.00 J Strauss (son) Waltz: Memories of Covent Garden
8.40 Richard Rodney Bennett Suite Française
8.50 Pierne Theme and Variations on a Popular Round

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington.
Unknown:
Richard Rodney Bennett

Stephanie Hughes presents some of the best music from recent concerts and festivals around Europe. Plus arts news from the Sunday papers with former Today editor, Cathy Packe.
Bach Violin Concerto in A minor,
BWV1041 Viktoria Mullova (violin), IIGiardinoArmonico, director Giovanni Antonini
9.15 Musorgsky, arr Shostakovich Overture: Khovanshchina
Avanti!, conductor Paavo Berglund
9.20 Mozart Variations on "Unser
DummerPobel Meint", K455 Christian Zacharias (piano)
9.35Smetana Ma Vlast (excerpts) Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer
10.05 Music from the Elizabethan Era
Hesperion XXI, director Jordi Savall
10.20 Barber Toccata Festiva
Thomas Trotter (organ), BBC Concert
Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Cleobury
10.40 Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor, K478 Alfred Brendel (piano), Katherine
Gowers (violin), Douglas Patterson (viola), Adrian Brendel (cello)
11.25 Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor, D759 (Unflnished) North German RSO, conductor Gunter Wand Producer Andrew Lyle.

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes
Editor:
Cathy Packe.
Director:
Giovanni Antonini
Conductor:
Paavo Berglund
Piano:
Christian Zacharias

A new series for the summer season in which Graeme Kay presents news, views and previews from the Proms and other festivals across the globe. Today composer James MacMillan and librettist
Michael Symmons Roberts collaborate on the new BBC commission Birds of Rhiannon, to be given its first performance on Thursday. And how education and workshops are playing an increasing role in many British festivals, a live studio performance from one of the groups featured at this year's Dartington Summer School. Plus reports from Wales, Scandinavia and the USA.

Contributors

Unknown:
Graeme Kay
Unknown:
James MacMillan
Unknown:
Michael Symmons Roberts

Another chance to hear last Monday's recital from the Wigmore Hall in London. Presented by Stephanie Hughes.
Petra Lang (mezzo), Charles Spencer (piano) Brahms Lieder , Op 69 (excerpts): Ach, Mir Fehlt (Klage I); 0 Felsen, Lieber Felsen (Klage II); Vom Strande ; Uber die See; Madchenfluch
Wolf Morike Lieder (excerpts):
Selbstgestandis; Ein Stundlein Wohl vor Tag: Begegnung; Lebe Wohl ;
Das Verlassene Magdlein ; Storchenbotschaft Strauss Wie Sollten Wir Geheim Sie
Halten (Lieder aus Lotusblattern, Op 19); Allerseelen (Lieder aus Letzte Blatter ,
Op 10); Lob des Leidens (Lieder, Op 15); Befreit (Lieder, Op 39); Kling! (Lieder, Op 48)(R)

Contributors

Presented By:
Stephanie Hughes.
Presented By:
Petra Lang
Piano:
Charles Spencer
Piano:
Brahms Lieder
Unknown:
Lieber Felsen
Unknown:
Vom Strande
Unknown:
Ein Stundlein Wohl
Unknown:
Lebe Wohl
Unknown:
Das Verlassene Magdlein
Unknown:
Letzte Blatter

Benno Moiseiwitsch
Piers Lane presents the first of two programmes about the Odessa-born pianist, today featuring Moiseiwitsch's 1956 performance of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2 in C minorwith the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent.

Contributors

Conducted By:
Malcolm Sargent.

Brian Kay presents the first in a brand new weekly series of programmes celebrating the wide and varied genre of light music. Today's programme includes works by Robert Farnon , Gershwin and Don Gillis , plus Richard Addinsell 's Warsaw
Concerto played by Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) with the Montreal Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit.

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Kay
Unknown:
Robert Farnon
Unknown:
Don Gillis
Unknown:
Richard Addinsell
Played By:
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Conducted By:
Charles Dutoit.

Another chance to hear programmes from the series commemorating the centenary of Giuseppe Verdi 's death. Opera critic
Rodney Milnes talks to the conductor Mark Elder about the dark horse of Verdi's mature masterpieces, Simon Boccanegra. (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Giuseppe Verdi
Talks:
Rodney Milnes
Conductor:
Mark Elder
Unknown:
Simon Boccanegra.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall.
The music of Verdi takes centre stage at the Proms this year. Tonight's programme displays the great range of Verdi's operatic personality, from political pomp and ceremony to intimacy and great tragedy. Presented by John Shea.
Veronica Villarroel (soprano), Dolora Zajick (mezzo), Leah-Marian Jones (mezzo), Carlo Ventre (tenor), Vassily Gerello (baritone), Alexander Anisimov (bass), Alastair Miles (bass), Halle Choir, Leeds Festival Chorus, London Symphony Chorus, Halle Orchestra , conductor Mark Elder

Verdi Overture: Nabucco; II Trovatore: Act 1 Scene 2; Don Carlos: Act 4 Scene 1;

8.45 Twenty Minutes
Roderick Swanston discusses the popularity of Verdi in his centenary year with Hilary Finch and Ashutosh Khandekar.

9.05 Verdi Aida : Prelude to Act 1; Aida: Act 2 (complete)

(Proms tickets and CD offer: page 42)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Shea
Soprano:
Veronica Villarroel
Mezzo:
Dolora Zajick
Mezzo:
Leah-Marian Jones
Tenor:
Carlo Ventre
Baritone:
Vassily Gerello
Bass:
Alexander Anisimov
Bass:
Alastair Miles
Singers:
Halle Choir
Singers:
Leeds Festival Chorus
Singers:
London Symphony Chorus
Musicians:
Halle Orchestra
Conductor:
Mark Elder
Presenter (Twenty Minutes):
Roderick Swanston
Guest (Twenty Minutes):
Hilary Finch
Guest (Twenty Minutes):
Ashutosh Khandekar

By Harold Pinter. Another chance to hear last Autumn's celebration for
Harold Pinter 's 70th Birthday, in which Pinter himself plays Andy. A man is on his death bed but where is his loving family?
Music by Elizabeth Parker. Directed by Janet Whitaker (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold Pinter.
Unknown:
Harold Pinter
Music By:
Elizabeth Parker.
Directed By:
Janet Whitaker
Andy:
Harold Pinter
Bel:
Sara Kestelman
Ralph:
John Shrapnel
Maria:
Jill Johnson
Jake:
Douglas Hodge
Fred:
Harry Burton
Bridget:
Indira Varma

With Louise Fryer. Verdi Cortigiani Vil
Razza Dannata (Rigoletto) 12.10 Brahms String Quintet No 2 in G, Op 11112.40
Debussy Jeux 1.00 Verdi Quattro Pezzi Sacn
1.40 Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor,
Op 104 2.20 Bruckner Symphony No 4 in E flat (Romantic) 3.20 Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20 3.55 Stobaeus Du Bist MeineZuversicht 4.05 Respighi Suite: Ancient Airs and Dances, No 2 4.20
Salamone Rossi Keter 4.30 Kuula Wedding March, Op 3b No 2 4.40 Smetana Vltava (Ma Vlast) 4.50 Enna Overture: The Match Girl 5.00 Van Bree Concert Overture in B minor 5.10 Kuffner Clarinet Quintet in B flat 5.25 Ravel Trois Chansons
5.40 Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Fryer.
Unknown:
Verdi Cortigiani Vil
Unknown:
Razza Dannata
Unknown:
Rossi Keter

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