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With Penny Gore .
Ambroise Thomas Overture: Mignon Detroit SO, conductor Paul Paray
6.30 Bach Orchestral Suite No 1 in C, BWV1066 The English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
7.00 Offenbach Overture: Die Rheinnixen Philharmonia, conductor Antonio de Almeida
7.50 Stradella Sonata in D for trumpet and strings Crispian Steele-Perkins , Tafelmusik, director Jeanne Lamon
8.00 Falconieri Battaglia de Baraboso, Yerno de Satanas La Real Camara, director Emilio Moreno
8.10 Schubert String Quartet in C minor, D 703 (Quartettsatz) Smetana Quartet

Contributors

Unknown:
Penny Gore
Conductor:
Paul Paray
Director:
Trevor Pinnock
Conductor:
Antonio de Almeida
Unknown:
Crispian Steele-Perkins
Director:
Jeanne Lamon
Director:
Emilio Moreno

With Donald Macleod. 3: Leipzig
Collegium Musicum. In 1729 Bach became director of the Collegium
Musicum. This gave him the opportunity to perform music without either church or scholastic restrictions.
Bute Sonata No 1 in B minor, BWV1030 (Presto) William Bennett ,
George Malcolm (harpsichord)
Schweigt Stille , Plaudert Nicht , BWV211 (Coffee Cantata) Emma Kirkby (soprano), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), David Thomas (bass), Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood Harpsichord Concerto in E, BWV1053 Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, director Ton Koopman (harpsichord)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
William Bennett
Harpsichord:
George Malcolm
Harpsichord:
Schweigt Stille
Harpsichord:
Plaudert Nicht
Soprano:
Emma Kirkby
Tenor:
David Thomas
Harpsichord:
Christopher Hogwood
Harpsichord:
Ton Koopman

With Jonathan Swain.
Poulenc Ballet: Les Biches
Ambrosian Singers, Philharmonia, conductor Georges Pretre
10.40 Britten And Do You Prefer the Storm? (Peter Grimes , Act 1 Scene 1) Peter Pears (tenor), James Pease
(baritone), Royal Opera House Orchestra, conducted by the Composer

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Conductor:
Georges Pretre
Unknown:
Peter Grimes
Tenor:
Peter Pears
Tenor:
James Pease

Edinburgh International Festival
Live from Queen's Hall, Sandy Burnett introduces a concert by tenor Jonas Kaufmann and pianist Helmut Deutsch. Schumann Lust der Sturmnacht; Erstes Grun; Sehnsucht Nach der Waldgegend; Wanderung; Frage; Stille Tranen Liszt Three Petrarch Sonnets

11.40 Twenty Minutes: Tom Murphy at the Hub
A conversation with some of the artists at this year's Edinburgh International
Festival. Today Andrew McKinnon speaks to Irish writer Tom Murphy.

12.00 Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op 22
Strauss Heimliche Aufforderung; Ich Trage Meine Minne; Traum Durch die
Dammerung; Wozu Noch, Madchen, Soil Es Frommen; Breit uber Mein Haupt; Wie Sollten Wir Geheim Sie Halten

Contributors

Introduces:
Sandy Burnett
Tenor:
Jonas Kaufmann
Pianist:
Helmut Deutsch
Unknown:
Tom Murphy
Unknown:
Andrew McKinnon
Unknown:
Tom Murphy

Another chance to hear last Tuesday night's concert from the Royal Albert Hall.
Vadim Repin (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov

Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D
Liadov The Enchanted Lake
Musorgsky, orch Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

(R)

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Violinist:
Vadim Repin
Conductor:
Yevgeni Svetlanov

Live from St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. Introit: Ave Maria (Stravinsky). Responses (Rose). Office Hymn: For Mary, Mother of the Lord (St Botolph). Psalms 147, 149 (Stanford, Walmisley). First Lesson:
Isaiah 61. Magnificat (Arvo Part). Second Lesson: Galatians 4, wl-7.NuncDimittis (Part) (first performance). Anthem: Salve Regina (Howells). Hymn: Sing We of the Blessed Mother (Abbot's Leigh). Organ Voluntary: Final (Symphony No 2)
(ES Barnes). Organist and master of the music Matthew Owens. Assistant organist Simon Nieminski.

Contributors

Music:
Matthew Owens.
Organist:
Simon Nieminski.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Tonight the latest work from Esa-Pekka Salonen, inspired by his time in America, is performed for the first time in this country, alongside a selection from Mahler's beguiling songs based on popular 16th- and 17th-century German folk songs and Sibelius's two dramatic final symphonies.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Katarina Karneus (mezzo), Dietrich Henschel (baritone),
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Esa-Pekka Salonen Foreign Bodies (first UK performance)
Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn
(excerpts)

8.20 Twenty Minutes: Slow: 2: Gardening
Prize-winning gardener and author of the best-selling "Tulip", Anna Pavord describes the importance of time in creating and enjoying a garden.

8.40 Sibelius Symphony No 6; Symphony No 7

(Repeated next Monday at 2pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Fiona Talkington
Mezzo:
Katarina Karneus
Baritone:
Dietrich Henschel
Musicians:
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Composer:
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Presenter (Twenty Minutes):
Anna Pavord

Another chance to hear Robert McNab 's reconstruction of French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine 's extraordinary journey across a bombed-out Europe - described in a hallucinatory way in Celine's trilogy
Castle to Castle, North and Rigadoon- as he fled to Germanyjust before the end of the Second World War, having sided with the Vichy regime during the occupation. (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert McNab
Unknown:
Ferdinand Celine

Following tonight's Finnish Prom, Fiona Talkington , introduces a version of Rnlandia which Sibelius would never have dreamt possible, tracks from the new dance album from JPP and from Jaco Pastorius 's album Word of Mouth, and sampled mouth music from phh!k-Canadian duo Peter Hannan and Henry Kucharczyk.

Contributors

Introduces:
Fiona Talkington
Unknown:
Jaco Pastorius
Unknown:
Peter Hannan
Unknown:
Henry Kucharczyk.

With Jonathan Swain. Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV543
12.15 Beethoven Violin Sonata in Eflat, Op 12 No 3 12.30 Wagner Siegfried Idyll
12.50 Telemann Sonata in A (Der Getreue Music-Meister) 1.00 Sweelinck Christe Qui Lux Es et Dies Scheidemann Chorale preludes Praetorius Durch Adams Fall 1st Ganz Verderbt Scheidemann Chorale preludes Weckmann Magnificat secundi ton/1.40 Imantis Zemzaris Marvel Pieces
2.00 Cherubini Requiem Mass No 1 in C minor2.50 Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 in C, K4673.15 Brahms Trio in Eflat, Op 40 3.45 Schubert Impromptu No 4 in A flat, D899 3.55 SL Weiss Lute Suite in D minor 4.20 Dvorak Song to the Moon (Rusalka) 4.30 Liszt Scherzo and March
4.45 Vivaldi Concerto in F, RV293
(Autumn) (The Four Seasons) 5.00 Mozart Four Minuets, K601 5.10 Sweelinck Ballo del Granduca 5.25 Debussy Estampes
5.40 Kabalevsky Violin Concerto, Op 48

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.

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