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With Penny Gore.
Berlioz Overture: Waverley
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davies
6.45 Vivaldi Cantata: Cessate, Omai Cessate , RV684 Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Ensemble 415, director Chiara Banchini
7.10 Chabrier Espana , Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
7.30 Beethoven Piano Sonata in G, Op 79 JohnLill
8.00 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in BWV1047MusicaAntiqua, Koln, director Reinhard Goebel
8.35 Tchaikovsky Suite: The Sleeping Beauty Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor James Levine

Contributors

Conductor:
Colin Davies
Unknown:
Omai Cessate
Unknown:
Andreas Scholl
Director:
Chiara Banchini
Director:
Chabrier Espana
Conductor:
Michel Plasson
Unknown:
Bach Brandenburg
Director:
Reinhard Goebel
Conductor:
James Levine

Donald Macleod discovers how Poulenc became one of a group of young French composers known as Les Six, and how he received a commission from harpsichordist Wanda Landowska to write a harpsichord concerto.

Chanson a Boire The Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers
Cocardes Francois le Roux (baritone), French National Orchestra Soloists, conductor Charles Dutoit
Concert Champetre George Malcolm (harpsichord), Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Iona Brown
Trio Maurice Bourgue (oboe), Amaury Wallez (bassoon), Pascal Roge (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Harpsichordist:
Wanda Landowska
Conductor:
Harry Christophers
Baritone:
Francois le Roux
Conductor:
Charles Dutoit
Harpsichord:
George Malcolm
Oboe:
Maurice Bourgue
Bassoon:
Amaury Wallez
Piano:
Pascal Roge

With Rob Cowan.
Tchaikovsky Introduction; Melodrama; Dance of the Jesters (The Snow Maiden) USSR Academic Symphony Orchestra; conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov
10.18 Ravel Sheherazade Suzanne Danco
(soprano), Suisse Romande
Orchestra, conductor Ernest Ansermet
10.33 Haydn String Quartet in C, Op 33 No 3 (Bird) Smetana Quartet
10.53 Reger Symphonic Prologue to a Tragedy, Op 108 Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leif Segerstam

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
Yevgeni Svetlanov
Soprano:
Suzanne Danco
Conductor:
Ernest Ansermet
Conductor:
Leif Segerstam

Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music Today Lucy Skeaping focuses on countertenor Michael Chance , the festival's artist in residence, who performs sacred music by Schutz,
Buxtehude and JC Bach with the Purcell
Quartet, and a Purcell anthem with bass Peter Harvey , the Choir of Westminster Abbey and the St James's Baroque
Players conducted by James O'Donnell.
There is also a chance to hear the stirring sound of shape-note music from 18th-century New England, performed at a concert in St James's Church, Piccadilly, by Vermont-based choir Northern Harmony undertheir director Larry Gordon

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Chance
Bass:
Peter Harvey
Conducted By:
James O'Donnell.
Director:
Larry Gordon

Another chance to hear last Friday night's concert from the Royal Albert Hall. Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano),
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Richard Hickox
Rubbra Symphony No 4
Ravel Piano Concerto in G
Eigar Symphony No 2 in E flat (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Hall.
Piano:
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Conductor:
Richard Hickox

Andrew McGregor talks to Roy Hudd about music hall songs and such artists as Marie Lloyd , Harry Champion, Harry Lauder and Rorrie Forde.

Contributors

Talks:
Andrew McGregor
Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Unknown:
Marie Lloyd
Unknown:
Rorrie Forde.

Double bassist Duncan McTier and pianist James Lisney perform music by Hertl,
. Gliere and Faure live in the studio, and Judith Weir and Andrew Parrott discuss their collaboration on the arrangement of Weir's Missa del Cid to be performed at this evening's late-night Prom. Plus news of what's happening in the arts world. Presented by Humphrey Carpenter.

Contributors

Bassist:
Duncan McTier
Pianist:
James Lisney
Pianist:
Judith Weir
Pianist:
Andrew Parrott
Presented By:
Humphrey Carpenter.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Sandy Burnett.
Inger Dam-Jensen (soprano), Tasmin Little (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins

Berlioz Overture: Le Corsaire

Stuart MacRae Violin Concerto (first performance)

7.45 Twenty Minutes: Poetry Proms
Jo Shapcott presents the second in a series of poetry readings given at the Serpentine Gallery in London. Tonight David Harsent and Kate Clanchy.

8.05 Britten Les Illuminations

Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra

(Repeated Monday at 2pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Sandy Burnett
Soprano:
Inger Dam-Jensen
Violinist:
Tasmin Little
Musicians:
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins
Presenter (Twenty Minutes):
Jo Shapcott
Poet/Reader (Twenty Minutes):
David Harsent
Poet/Reader (Twenty Minutes):
Kate Clanchy

Ajourneythrough the literatures of Europe. Portugal. Another chance to hear Julian Evans 's report on today's writers in Portugal. He talks Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago about the effect on Portugese literature of the physical and emotional situation that arises from having your back to Spain and your face to the sea. (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Evans
Unknown:
Jose Saramago

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Tonight's concert features Judith Weir 's setting of texts about Spanish hero El Cid , heard in a new arrangement bytonight's conductor Andrew Parrott.
Simon Callow (narrator), Emily Van Evera (soprano), Deborah Miles-Johnson
(mezzo), Paul Agnew (tenor), Christian Hilz (bass), New London Chamber Choir, London Mozart Players, conductor Andrew Parrott
Beethoven Adagio and Allegretto (The Creatures of Prometheus)
Judith Weir , arr Parrott Missa del Cid
Haydn Mass in B flat, H XXII 13 (Creation)

Contributors

Unknown:
Judith Weir
Unknown:
El Cid
Conductor:
Andrew Parrott.
Narrator:
Simon Callow
Narrator:
Emily van Evera
Soprano:
Deborah Miles-Johnson
Tenor:
Paul Agnew
Tenor:
Christian Hilz
Conductor:
Andrew Parrott
Unknown:
Judith Weir

With Louise Fryer. Geminiani Concerto in D,
Op 7 No 1 12.10 Mozart Symphony No 39 in E flat, K543 12.40 Brahms Schicksalslied, Op 541.00 Bach Capriccio Sopra la Lontananza del Suo
Fratello Dilettissimo, BWV992; Viola da Gamba Sonata No 2 in D, BWV1028; Partita in A minor, BWV1013; Viola da Gamba Sonata No 1 in G, BWV1027;
Recorder Sonata in E minor, BWV1034
2.15 Charpentier Mass No 12.25 Rautio Piano Concerto No 2 2.50 Ravel Sonata for violin and cello 3.10 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 1 in G minor (Winter
Daydreams) 3.55 Rachmaninov Pieces for Four Hands, Op 114.10 Albicastro Motet: Coelestes Angelici Chori
4.30 Visee Suite in C minor for theorbo
4.40 Hellendaal Cello Sonata, Op 5 No 1
4.50 Bach, arrTausig Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565 5.05 Sandstrom April and Silence 5.15 CF Abel Praeludium , Adagio and Allegro
5.25 Schumann Drei Fantasiestucke for clarinet and piano, Op 73 5.40 Milhaud Suite: The Globetrotter, Op 358

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Fryer.
Unknown:
Abel Praeludium

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