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With Martin Handley.
Handel Haec Est Regina Virginum , HWV235
6.05 Liszt Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude (Harmonies POétiques et Religieuses)
7.00 Musorgsky Prelude, Actl:
Khovanschina (Dawn on the Moscow River)
7.40 Haydn Symphony No 65 in A
8.00 Offenbach Overture: La Belle Helene
8.10 Poulenc Clarinet Sonata

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Handley.
Unknown:
Regina Virginum

Live from the Arts Centre, Kuhmo.
Stephanie Hughes samples the summer festival life of Finland. Plus recordings by two of the artists appearing in this year's Proms. Music includes:
Rossini Overture: William Tell
Santa Cecilia Academy, conductor Myung-Whun Chung
9.30Janacek Violin Sonata
Augustin Dumay (violin),
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
10.00 A live recital by the Silesian Quartet of works by composers associated with the music publisher and great patron of Russian music, Mitrofan Belyayev , including music by Glazunov, Borodin,
Rimsky-Korsakov and Liadov.
10.40 Mozart Symphony No 40 in G minor, K550 Avanti, conductor Juhani Kangas
11.30 Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin
(excerpts) Soloists, Mariinsky Theatre Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev
12.10 Berlioz Harold in Italy Yuri Bashmet (viola), Mariinsky Theatre
Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev E-mail your comments to: sunday.live@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes
Conductor:
Myung-Whun Chung
Piano:
Alexandre Tharaud
Music:
Mitrofan Belyayev
Conductor:
Juhani Kangas
Conductor:
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin
Conductor:
Valery Gergiev
Conductor:
Berlioz Harold
Conductor:
Valery Gergiev

Beecham at the Proms
In the first of three programmes featuring famous performances at the Proms,
Hilary Finch explores recordings made by Thomas Beecham , including Sibelius's Symphony No 7, recorded in 1954.

Contributors

Unknown:
Hilary Finch
Unknown:
Thomas Beecham

In the week of his 85th birthday light music legend Robert Farnon talks to
Brian Kay about his life and work. Musical examples include Farnon's JumpingBean and Westminster Waltz and a recording from the 1940s of "the Guv'nor" playing trumpet in the Happy Gang.

Contributors

Talks:
Robert Farnon
Unknown:
Brian Kay

Sarah Walker examines the complex personality and creative process of Manuel de Falla, whose compositions are featured in this year's Proms season as part of the theme of music inspired by Spain. Working in the aftermath of Spain's defeat in the Spanish-American War, Falla was looked to as a nationalist voice in the country's cultural regeneration of the early 20th century. But while his love of Andalusian folk music and popular song found favour at home, his leanings towards Debussy and Stravinsky brought harsh criticism and by the end of the 1930s the combination of his Catholic faith and left-wing sympathies had forced him into exile.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sarah Walker
Producer:
Felix Carey

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
The Nation's Favourite Prom returns this year with some more popular classics, and songs and arias reflecting on this year's Hispanic and Old Testament themes. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Denyce Graves (mezzo), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gianandrea Noseda

Bernstein Overture: Candide

Gershwin Songs Trad Spirituals

Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue

7.50 Twenty Minutes: Standing to Attention
A look at when and why we stand up: standing and waiting, standing and listening, on parade or at the Proms.

8.10 Bizet Habanera: L'Amour Est un Oiseau Rebelle; Seguidilla: Pres des Ramparts de Seville (Carmen)

Saint-Saens Bacchanale; Mon Coeur S'ouvre a ta Voix (Samson et Dalila)

Ravel Bolero

(Repeated Wednesday 2pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Petroc Trelawny
Mezzo:
Denyce Graves
Pianist:
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Musicians:
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Gianandrea Noseda

The Bogus Woman
By Kay Adshead. Performed by Noma Dumezweni. In the autumn of 2000, Kay Adshead shocked Edinburgh Festival audiences with her searingly truthful account of the experiences of a young woman seeking asylum in Britain, In this BBC Radio 3 production, the writer and director have worked with sound designer Leon Chambers to provide a dramatic soundscape in which actress
Noma Dumezweni can convincingly play all the parts in the Story. Director Lisa Goldman

Contributors

Unknown:
Kay Adshead.
Unknown:
Noma Dumezweni.
Unknown:
Kay Adshead
Designer:
Leon Chambers
Unknown:
Noma Dumezweni
Director:
Lisa Goldman

Listening to the River. In a collaboration between composer Christopher Wood and documentary maker Simon Evans , sounds of the River Medway are interwoven with recordings of interviews with people who live and work along the river, exploring and developing the patterns and musicality inherent in localised accents and speech.

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Wood
Unknown:
Simon Evans

Kitchen Motors. Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present further highlights from the Kitchen Motors weekend of Icelandic alternative music at the ICA in London.
Tonight, Slowblow's dreamy ballads, the robot kitsch of Apparat Organ Quartet and the euphoric electronica of Mum.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Russell
Unknown:
Robert Sandall

With Susan Sharpe. Beethoven Overture:
Leonora No 312.20 Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 65 12.50 Toivo Kuula
South Ostrobothnian Dances Nos 1- 5
(Op 17) 1.00 Mozart Missa Solemnis in C, K337Beethoven Christus am Olberge, Op 85 2.10 CF Abel Pieces for viola da gamba 2.25 Ludwig Thuille Sextet in B flat for piano and wind, Op 6 2.55 Schubert Piano Sonata in D, D850 3.35 A Mahler Die Stille Stadt; Laue Sommernacht ; Bei DirlstEs Traut ; Ich Wandle unterBlumen; In Meines Vaters Garten 3.45 Bruch Kol
Nidrei 4.00 Brahms Tragic Overture
4.15 Durante Concerto per quartetto for strings No 4 in E minor 4.25 Vaughan
Williams Serenade to Music4.40 Brahms Rhapsody in G minor, Op 79/Vo24.50 Dvorak Carnival Overture 5.05 Ireland
I Have Twelve Oxen; The Trellis 5.15 Britten Variations and Fugue on a theme by Purcell 5.35 Smetana Sonata movement in E minor 5.45Telemann Overture
(Tafelmusik) 5.55 Bach Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, BWV14 7 (arr for two harps)

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Unknown:
Laue Sommernacht
Unknown:
Bei Dirlstes Traut
Unknown:
Ich Wandle
Unknown:
Bruch Kol

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