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With Penny Gore.
Mozart Quintet in E flat for piano and winds, K452 Murray Perahia (piano), Neil Black (oboe), Thea King (clarinet),
Anthony Halstead (horn), Graham Sheen (bassoon)
6.35Saint-Saens Suite for orchestra
Paris Orchestral Ensemble, conductor Jean-Jacques Kantorow
7.05 Prokoflev Sinfonietta , Op 48 Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, conductor Alexander Lazarev
7.35 Lennox Berkeley Divertimento , Op 18 LPO conducted by the Composer
8.10 Turina Tres Danzas Andaluzas, Op 8 Martin Jones (piano)
8.35 Balakirev Tamara Philharmonia, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov

Contributors

Piano:
Murray Perahia
Piano:
Neil Black
Oboe:
Thea King
Clarinet:
Anthony Halstead
Horn:
Graham Sheen
Conductor:
Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Conductor:
Prokoflev Sinfonietta
Conductor:
Alexander Lazarev
Conductor:
Lennox Berkeley Divertimento
Piano:
Martin Jones
Conductor:
Yevgeni Svetlanov

In the late 1930s and 1940s, Bliss composed much dramatic music, including three ballets, several film scores, and an opera co-written with JB Priestley. During the Second World War, Bliss wanted to contribute to the musical life of the country in a practical way and he offered his services to the BBC, where he became director of music 1942-4. It was a difficult period in his life as the war separated him from his wife and children, who had remained in America.
Music for Strings Northern Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Prologue; The Players: Dance of the Four Knights (Checkmate) English Northern
Philharmonia, conductor David Lloyd-Jones Adam Zero (excerpt) English Northern
Philharmonia, conductor David Lloyd-Jones Madeleine's aria (The Olympians, Act 2) Yvonne Barclay (soprano), Ian Storey (tenor), BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins String Quartet No 2 Delme Quartet

Contributors

Unknown:
Jb Priestley.
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
David Lloyd-Jones
Conductor:
Adam Zero
Conductor:
David Lloyd-Jones
Soprano:
Yvonne Barclay
Soprano:
Ian Storey
Conductor:
Martyn Brabbins

With Rob Cowan.
Purcell Man That Is Born of Woman
Choirof Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, English Concert, conductor Simon Preston
10.12 Mozart Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat, K595 Clifford Curzon , Bavarian RSO, conductor Rafael Kubelik
10.44 Listener Request: Gomes Di Sposo , di Padre le Gioie Serene (Salvator Rosa)
Cesare Sepi (bass), Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Rome, conductor Alberto Erede
10.51 Debussy Cello Sonata
Gaspar Cassado (cello), Mme G von Mendelssohn Gordigiani (piano)
11.02 Dvorak A Hero's Song
Czech PO, conductor Bohumil Gregor

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
Simon Preston
Unknown:
Clifford Curzon
Conductor:
Rafael Kubelik
Unknown:
Gomes Di Sposo
Bass:
Cesare Sepi
Conductor:
Alberto Erede
Cello:
Mme G Von
Piano:
Mendelssohn Gordigiani
Conductor:
Bohumil Gregor

Artist In Focus - Graham Johnson
Graham Johnson talks of the role of the pianist in an ensemble with singers, and the piano's emergence from the subservience of "accompanying".
Examples from his recordings include a sequence of songs from Italian Song-Books with Arleen Auger (soprano); Schubert songs with Anthony Rolfe
Johnson (tenor); Gipsy songs by Brahms with Ann Murray (mezzo); Finzi songs to Hardy texts with John Shirley-Quirk
(baritone); and Schumann's Liederkreis, Op 39with Margaret Price (soprano).

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Johnson
Talks:
Graham Johnson
Soprano:
Arleen Auger
Unknown:
Anthony Rolfe
Unknown:
Ann Murray
Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk

Chris de Souza introduces a concert recorded last year at St George's Bristol: a selection of sacred and secular songs for male-voice choir performed by the Boyan Ensemble of Kiev. Valentina Ivanenko (soprano), Igor Ishchak (male soprano),
Vassily Savenko (bass-baritone), Boyan Ensemble of Kiev, Yuri and Volodimir Kuratch (conductors)

Contributors

Introduces:
Chris de Souza
Soprano:
Valentina Ivanenko
Soprano:
Igor Ishchak
Bass-Baritone:
Vassily Savenko
Conductors:
Volodimir Kuratch

Another chance to hear Saturday's Prom. Presented by Louise Fryer.
Melanie Diener (soprano), Paula Rasmussen (mezzo), Robert Gambill (tenor), Eike Wilm Schulte (bass), BBC Symphony Chorus, Los Angeles PO, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

Shostakovich Symphony No 2 (October)
Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral)

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Fryer
Soprano:
Melanie Diener
Mezzo:
Paula Rasmussen
Tenor:
Robert Gambill
Bass:
Eike Wilm Schulte
Singers:
BBC Symphony Chorus
Musicians:
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Another programme in the series from the Three Choirs Festival in which Lucie Skeaping introduces a concert from Worcester Cathedral.
The Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips, perform music by Byrd, Palestrina and Purcell.

Contributors

Presenter:
Lucie Skeaping
Musicians:
The Tallis Scholars
Directed by:
Peter Phillips

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Yan Pascal Tortelier ends his term as principal conductor of the BBC Philharmonic with Stravinsky's riotous ballet score. The programme opens with Debussy's gently ethereal nocturnes, followed by one of Mozart's popular concertos performed by the renowned classical interpreter, Richard Goode. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Richard Goode (piano), BBC Singers (women's voices), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

Debussy Nocturnes

Mozart Piano Concerto No 17 in G, K453

8.20 Twenty Minutes: Performing Art
Christopher Cook spotlights treasures of the Victoria and Albert Museum that reflect this year's Proms themes. This week he's joined by Marjorie Trusted to compare two ivory sculptures of Abraham and Isaac.

8.40 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

(Repeated next Thursday 2pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Petroc Trelawny
Pianist:
Richard Goode
Singers:
BBC Singers (women's voices)
Musicians:
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Presenter (Twenty Minutes):
Christopher Cook
Guest (Twenty Minutes):
Marjorie Trusted

Accordion music by VI adislavZolotaryov, string quartets by Laszlo Vidovsky and jazz meets folk in a collaboration between trombonist Annie Whitehead and concertina player Alistair Anderson. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Contributors

Unknown:
Laszlo Vidovsky
Unknown:
Annie Whitehead
Unknown:
Alistair Anderson.
Presented By:
Fiona Talkington.

With Susan Sharpe.
Mozart Trio in E flat, K498 (Kegelstatt)
12.30 Brahms Four Songs, Op 17
12.45 Faure Dolly Suite , Op 56
1.00 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor; Symphony No 1 in G minor (Winter Daydreams) 2.15 Lars-Erik
Larsson Nine Songs to Poems by Hjalmar Gullberg , Op 35 2.40 Messiaen Verset pour la Fête de la Dedicace 2.50 Bach Partita No 2 in D minor for solo violin,
BWV1004 3.15 Hummel Rondo Brillant in A for piano and orchestra, Op 56
3.35 Kodaly Suite: HaryJanos
4.00 Brahms, orch Schmeling Hungarian Dance No 1 4.10 Ravel Violin Sonata in G
4.25 Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio
Espagnol 4.45 Handel Quartet in G,
Op 5 No 4 5.00 William Baines Paradise Gardens 5.15 Heino Eller Five Pieces for strings (excerpts) 5.25 Jacopo Peri
Uccidimi Dolore ! 5.45 Bach Sonata No 4 in E minor, BWV528

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Unknown:
Faure Dolly Suite
Unknown:
Hjalmar Gullberg
Unknown:
Messiaen Verset
Unknown:
Hummel Rondo Brillant
Unknown:
William Baines
Unknown:
Heino Eller
Unknown:
Jacopo Peri
Unknown:
Uccidimi Dolore

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