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With Penny Gore. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Schubert Standchen , D889; An Silvia , D891 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) Sibelius The Bard Iceland SO, conductor Petri Sakari
Elgar Overture; To the Children (The Starlight Express) Derek Hammond-Stroud (baritone), LPO, conductor Vernon Handley
8.30-10.00: Poulenc Concerto fortwo pianos Frank Braley and Eric le Sage, Liege PO, conductor Stephane Deneve Vivaldi Concerto in G, RV577 (per /'Orchestra di Dresda)
The English Concert, conductor Trevor Pinnock

Contributors

Unknown:
Schubert Standchen
Unknown:
An Silvia
Baritone:
Gerald Moore
Conductor:
Petri Sakari
Baritone:
Derek Hammond-Stroud
Conductor:
Vernon Handley
Pianos:
Frank Braley
Conductor:
Stephane Deneve Vivaldi
Conductor:
Trevor Pinnock

With Rob Cowan. This week featuring Schumann song cycles and recordings by the Vegh Quartet. Listener request: Ravel Piano Concerto in G Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli , Philharmonia, conductor Ettore Gracis
10.23 Schumann Liederkreis , Op 24 Hermann Prey (baritone), Leonard Hokanson (piano)
10.46 Finzi Clarinet Concerto in C minor, Op 31 Andrew Marriner , Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner
11.16 Brahms String Quartet in A minor, Op 51 No 2 Vegh Quartet
11.48 Vivaldi, arr Mills Concerto in C for two trumpets, RV537 Canadian Brass

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Unknown:
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Conductor:
Ettore Gracis
Conductor:
Schumann Liederkreis
Baritone:
Leonard Hokanson
Unknown:
Andrew Marriner
Conductor:
Neville Marriner

Live from the Victoria and Albert Museum , London. The Silk Road Ensemble turns to the more intimate side of its repertoire, including pieces for solo pipa, sheng, kemanche and string quartet.
Presented by Stephanie Hughes.
Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Silk Road Ensemble With traditional music from China and Kyrgyzstan, plus:
Jia Da Qun The Prospect of Colored Desert Debussy Cello Sonata
Kayhan Kalhor Gallop of a Thousand Horses Repeated on Saturday at 12 noon

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Museum
Presented By:
Stephanie Hughes.
Cello:
Silk Road
Unknown:
Jia Da Qun

Presented by Sarah Walker.
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, conductor Roger Norrington
Smetana Vysehrad ; From Bohemia's Woods and Fields; Vltava (Ma Vlast) Mahler Symphony No 1
Repeated from Saturday 7 August

Contributors

Presented By:
Sarah Walker.
Conductor:
Roger Norrington
Conductor:
Smetana Vysehrad

Reprise: Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Another chance to hear Edward Seckerson marking the 30th anniversary, last year, of the death of Noel Coward , in conversation with Sheridan Morley. With vintage recordings of Gertrude Lawrence and Coward himself in Private Lives and The Stately Homes of England, and a wartime song banned by the BBC.

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Seckerson
Unknown:
Noel Coward
Unknown:
Sheridan Morley.
Unknown:
Gertrude Lawrence

Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Valery Gergiev brings soloists from the Kirov Opera to his first Prom with the BBCSO. The mythical Witches' Sabbath is the theme both of Musorgsky's original version of Night on the Bare Mountain and of Act 3 of Rimsky-
Korsakov's exotic opera-ballet Mlada. And afterthe interval, Stravinsky's ballet of pagan sacrifice. Presented by Tommy Pearson.
Olga Savova (mezzo), Avgust Amonov (tenor), Apollo Voices, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Valery Gergiev
Musorgsky St John 's Night on the Bare Mountain (1867 version)
Rimsky-Korsakov Mlada, Act 3
8.25 Twenty Minutes: The Warm Russian South Russian novelist and broadcaster
ZinovyZiniktravelsto Koktebel in eastern Crimea, to visit the home of the poet and painter Maximilian Voloshin who, through the early years of the 20th century, created an open house for artistic refugees of all colours and persuasions fleeing revolution and turmoil.
8.45 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring Repeated on Wednesday 25 August at 2.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall
Presented By:
Tommy Pearson.
Presented By:
Olga Savova
Conductor:
Valery Gergiev
Conductor:
Musorgsky St John
Unknown:
Maximilian Voloshin

Wittgenstein in Ireland
In 1949 Ludwig Wittgenstein moved to Ireland to finish writing his Philosophical Investigations -the work that would dominate the philosophical landscape of the rest of the century. Jonathan Ree travels to the west of Ireland in Wittgenstein's footsteps. Producer Kerry Chapman

Contributors

Unknown:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Unknown:
Jonathan Ree
Producer:
Kerry Chapman

Fiona Talkington plays music by Norwegian band Cucumber, and across the week, Anthony Rooley and the Pre-Raphaelite Singers sing madrigals by the Victorian close-harmony wizard Robert Lucas Pearsall.

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington
Unknown:
Anthony Rooley
Unknown:
Robert Lucas Pearsall.

of the Week: Beethoven
2/5. Donald Macleod investigates the relationship between Beethoven and his most illustrious pupil, patron and friend, Archduke Rudolph , son of Emperor Leopold 11 1 of Austria. Repeated from Tuesday at 12 noon

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Archduke Rudolph

Presented by John Shea.
Danish Radio Young Chamber Group Competition
3/7. More highlights from the first round of the competition, held in February, including performances of Mozart, Ibert, Kuhlau, Bach, Piazzolla, Dutilleux and Beethoven.
2.20 Dvorak The Golden Spinning-Wheel 2.40 Dupre Organ Concerto in E minor, Op 313.05 Poulenc Mass in G
3.20 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring 3.55 Hildegard of Bingen 0 Clarissima Mater 4.05 D'Espinal Touz Esforciez Avrai Chante Souvent 4.10 Morley Fantasie: Knights of the Lute Dowland Pavan; Earl of Derby his Galliard
4.20 Leonarda Sonata Prima a 4 (Op 16) 4.30 Cestl
Castissimi Amori (Orontea) 4.35 Mozart Serenade in G, K525 (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) 4.50 Schubert Overture in D, D556 5.00 Bach Trio Sonata in D minor. BWV527
5.10 Lassus Three Motets 5.15 Pachelbel Ana Quinta
5.25 Purcell Pavane and Chacony in G minor 5.35 Barber Adagio for Strings 5.45 Rachmaninov, arr Cailliet Prelude in G minor, Op 23 No 5 5.50 Chopin Ten Preludes from Op 28 6.05 Tchaikovsky Serenade in C, Op 48
6.40 Bach, orch Schoenberg Prelude and Fugue in Eflat, BWV552(StAnne)

Contributors

Presented By:
John Shea.
Unknown:
Clarissima Mater
Unknown:
Touz Esforciez
Unknown:
Avrai Chante Souvent
Unknown:
Eine Kleine

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