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With Penny Gore.
Monteverdi Non M'e Grave il Morire Concerto Italiano, director Rinaldo Alessandrini
6.35 Haydn Symphony No 6 in D (Le
Matin), HI 6 English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Pinchas Zukerman
7.00 Dvorak Prague Waltzes Prague Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jiri Belohlavek
7.30 Beethoven Quintet in E flat for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon Peter Donohoe (piano),
Netherlands Wind Ensemble
8.00 Ravel Alborada del Gracioso
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
8.45 Mendelssohn Rondo Brillant in Eflat, Op 29 Stephen Hough (piano),
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Lawrence Foster

Contributors

Director:
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Conductor:
Pinchas Zukerman
Conductor:
Jiri Belohlavek
Piano:
Peter Donohoe
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Conductor:
Mendelssohn Rondo Brillant
Piano:
Stephen Hough
Conductor:
Lawrence Foster

One recurring source of inspiration to McCabe has been landscape, both real and imagined. Today Donald Macleod and John McCabe conclude their series of conversations with an examination of how these influences manifest themselves in his music.
January Sonatina
David Campbell (clarinet) Cloudcatcher Fells
Britannia Building Society Band, conductor Howard Snell
Symphony No 4 (Of Time and the River) BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vernon Handley

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
John McCabe
Clarinet:
David Campbell
Conductor:
Howard Snell
Conductor:
Vernon Handley

With Rob Cowan.
Wagner Prelude (Tristan und Isolde, Act 1) Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Erich Leinsdorf
10.16 Haydn Piano Sonata in Eflat, H XVI 52 Alfred Brendel
10.39 Roussel Sinfonietta , Op 52 I Musici
10.48 Sarti Lungi dal Caro Bene (Armida e Rinaldo) Monteverdi Oblivion Soave (L 'Incoronazione di Poppea) Bononcinl Pupille Nere (II Trionfo di Camilla)
Ezio Pinza (bass), Fritz Kitzinger (piano)
10.59 Debussy, arr Leinsdorf Preludes and Interludes (Pelleas et Melisande) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Erich Leinsdorf

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
Erich Leinsdorf
Unknown:
Alfred Brendel
Unknown:
Roussel Sinfonietta
Musici:
Sarti Lungi
Unknown:
Caro Bene
Unknown:
Bononcinl Pupille Nere
Bass:
Ezio Pinza
Bass:
Fritz Kitzinger
Unknown:
Leinsdorf Preludes
Conductor:
Erich Leinsdorf

Christopher Cook examines how the national spirit is evoked by traditional dance in the work of five composers from the eastern end of Europe.
Chopin Mazurkas: in A minor, Op 17 No 4; in G sharp minor, Op 33 No 1; in C, Op 67 No 3; in A flat, Op 59 No 2
Szymanowski Mazurkas, Op 50 Nosl, 2, 13 Ashley Wass (piano)
Borodin Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor) BBC Philharmonic, conductorVassily
Sinaisky Kodaly Dances from Galanta BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, Op 45 BBC Scottish SymphonyOrchestra, conductor OsmoVanska

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Conductorvassily:
Sinaisky Kodaly Dances
Conductor:
Barry Wordsworth

Another chance to hear Wednesday's early evening concert from the Royal
Albert Hall , presented by Donald Macleod. Emanuel Ax (piano), BBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Mahler, arr Britten What the Wild Flowers Tell Me
Christopher Rouse Seeing (first European performance)
Mahler Symphony No 5 (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Hall
Presented By:
Donald MacLeod.
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin

Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Julian Joseph introduces recordings by the American multi-instrumentalist and composerwhose eclectic and unorthodox approach earned him a unique place in the history ofjazz. Highlights include excerpts from the albums Rip, Rig and Panic and The Inflated Tear, plus sessions with Charles Mingus and British pianist StanTracey.

Contributors

Unknown:
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Introduces:
Julian Joseph
Unknown:
Charles Mingus

Live from the Royal Albert Hall.
Louise Fryer presents the first of a pair of concerts contrasting English and French music, featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Richard Hickox in his first Proms season as the orchestra's principal conductor.

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Richard Hickox

Rubbra Symphony No 4

Ravel Piano Concerto in G

8.30 Twenty Minutes: The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope
By "Saki". Read by Simon Russell Beale.

8.50 Elgar Symphony No 2 in E flat

(Repeated next Tuesday at 2pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Fryer
Musicians:
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Pianist:
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Author (The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope):
'Saki' [H.H. Munro]
Reader (The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope):
Simon Russell Beale

Freedom of the City
Jez Nelson presents an hour of non-stop music from the Radio 3-sponsored
"Freedom of the City" festival recorded at London's Conway Hall in May this year. With music from saxophonists
Evan Parker and John Butcher , percussionist Eddie Prevost , pianist Varyan Weston , guitarist John Russell and many others. Producers Steve Shepherd and Kathryn Willgress

Contributors

Unknown:
Evan Parker
Unknown:
John Butcher
Pianist:
Eddie Prevost
Pianist:
Varyan Weston
Guitarist:
John Russell
Producers:
Steve Shepherd
Producers:
Kathryn Willgress

With Louise Fryer. Verdi Rigoletto
2.55 Dauvergne Ballet 3.10 Glazunov Suite in A: Scenes de Ballet, Op 52
3.45 Kuhnau Biblical Sonata No 2 in G minor for harpsichord
4.00 Hedrik Andriessen Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Kuhnau
4.25 Salamone Rossi Gia del Volto
(seconda parte); Cor Mio Deh Non Languire 4.35JohannNaumann
Symphonie a grand orchestre de 'opera "Cora" 4.50 Dvorak Prague Waltzes
5.05 Robert Wilkinson Salve Regina
5.20 Bach Partita No 1 in B minor for solo violin, BWV1002 5.35 Kurpinski Two
Huts 5.45 Gesualdo Miserere Mei, Deus

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Fryer.
Harpsichord:
Hedrik Andriessen
Unknown:
Robert Wilkinson Salve Regina

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