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Presented by Penny Gore . Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Haydn Andante and Variations in Fminor Alfred Brendel (piano)
Gershwin Catfish Row Alexis Weissenberg (piano), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa
8.30-10.00: Gibbons Pavane and Galliard in A minor (Lord Salisbury) John Toll (harpsichord) Beethoven Triple Concerto in C, Op 56
Renaud Capugon (violin), Mischa Maisky
(cello), Martha Argerich (piano), Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana , conductor Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky
Vivaldi Concerto in F for multiple instruments, RV574 Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner

Contributors

Presented By:
Penny Gore
Piano:
Alfred Brendel
Piano:
Alexis Weissenberg
Conductor:
Seiji Ozawa
Violin:
Mischa Maisky
Cello:
Martha Argerich
Conductor:
Svizzera Italiana
Conductor:
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky
Unknown:
St Martin
Conductor:
Neville Marriner

With Rob Cowan.
Beethoven Wellingtons Sieg , Op 91 Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conductor Hermann Scherchen
10.17 Schumann Kerner-Lieder , Op 35 Nos 1-5 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), GiintherWeissenborn (piano)
10.33 Listener request:
TchaikovskyString Quartet inD, Op 11 Vegh Quartet
11.02 Schumann Kerner-Lieder ,
Op 35 Nos 6-12 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gunther Weissenborn (piano)
11.23 Lalo Symphonie Espagnole, Op 21 Henri Merckel (violin), Pasdeloup Concert Orchestra, conductor Piero Coppola

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Unknown:
Beethoven Wellingtons Sieg
Conductor:
Hermann Scherchen
Conductor:
Schumann Kerner-Lieder
Unknown:
Schumann Kerner-Lieder
Baritone:
Gunther Weissenborn
Violin:
Henri Merckel
Conductor:
Piero Coppola

Edinburgh International Festival 2004 Measha Brueggergosman (soprano), JJ Penna (piano)
A concert given yesterday at Queen's Hall by the award-winning young Canadian soprano. Introduced by Sandy Burnett.
Ravel Cinq Mélodies Populaires Grecques Debussy Chansons de
Bilitis Duparc L 'invitation au Voyage; La Vie Antérieure; Au Pays ou se Fait la Guerre
Mahler Das irdische Leben; Wo die schonen Trompeten blasen; Urlicht (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Copland Emily Dickinson Songs

Contributors

Piano:
Jj Penna
Introduced By:
Sandy Burnett.
Unknown:
Bilitis Duparc
Unknown:
Copland Emily Dickinson

Presented by Sarah Walker.
Anda-Louise Bogza (soprano), Peter Straka (tenor), Ivan Kusnjer (baritone),
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Jiri Belohlavek
Janacek Sinfonietta
Dvorak The Spectre's Bride Repeated from Sunday 8 August

Contributors

Presented By:
Sarah Walker.
Soprano:
Anda-Louise Bogza
Soprano:
Peter Straka
Tenor:
Ivan Kusnjer
Conductor:
Jiri Belohlavek
Conductor:
Janacek Sinfonietta

My Kind of Song: Joss Ackland
Joss Ackland , veteran actor of stage and screen, is lain Burnside's guest this week. His musical choices include works by Canteloube, Strauss, Charles Trenet , Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim.

Contributors

Song:
Joss Ackland
Song:
Joss Ackland
Unknown:
Charles Trenet
Unknown:
Cole Porter
Unknown:
Stephen Sondheim.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Pianist Alfred Brendel makes his last Proms appearance and his farewell to live broadcasts. To mark the occasion, the BBC have commissioned settings of Brendel's own poetry by his close friend Harrison Birtwistle. Presented by Rob Cowan.

William Dazeley (baritone), Alfred Brendel (piano), Philharmonia, conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi

Brahms Symphony No 3 in F

8.05 Twenty Minutes: An Absurd Profession
Piers Burton-Page talks to Alfred Brendel, pianist and poet, about music and imagination, virtuosity and nightmares.

8.25 Birtwistle Three Brendel settings: There Is Something between Us; A Sheep Addressed Me as Follows; As the Unnamed Awoke (BBC Commission; first complete performance)

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor)

(Repeated on Tuesday 31 August at 2.30pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Rob Cowan
Baritone:
William Dazeley
Pianist/Interviewee (Twenty Minutes:
An Absurd Profession): Alfred Brendel
Musicians:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor:
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Interviewer:
(Twenty Minutes: An Absurd Profession): Piers Burton-Page

Harrison Birtwistle
From the Victoria and Albert Museum , London. Harrison Birtwistle talks to Andrew McGregor about his life and music, and introduces performances of his chamberworks by soprano Amy Freston and the Contemporary Consort ofthe Royal College of Music.
Refrains and Choruses for wind quintet;
Nocturnes (The lo Passion) for clarinet and string quartet; Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker for soprano and cello

Contributors

Unknown:
Harrison Birtwistle
Unknown:
Albert Museum
Talks:
Harrison Birtwistle
Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Soprano:
Amy Freston
Unknown:
Lorine Niedecker

With John Shea.
Handel A selection of Italian cantatas and duets
Monteverdi Lamento d'Arianna; Pur Ti Miro, pur Ti Gotto (L'Incoronazione di Poppea)
Vivaldi Cantata: Cessate Omai Cessate, RV684 (Utrecht Early Music Festival 2003)
2.10 Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
3.05 Debussy Suite: Bergamasque
3.20 Beethoven String Quartet in E flat, Op 74 (Harp)
3.55 WF Bach Flute Duet No 6 in G
4.10 Vivaldi Sinfonia in C. RV709 (Dorilla in Tempe)
4.15 D Scarlatti Keyboard Sonata in E, Kk46
4.20 Nielsen Serenata in Vano
4.25 Frumerie Pastoral Suite, Op 13b
4.40 Paganini Duetto Amoroso
4.50 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 6
5.00 JS Bach Motet: Komm, Jesu, komm! BWV229
5.05 Huet Fantasia (A Varietie of Lute Lessons)
5.15 Albeniz Cordoba (Cantos de Espana, Op 232 No 4)
5.25 D Scarlatti Keyboard Sonata in C sharp minor, Kk247
5.30 Raltio The Maidens on the Headlands
5.35 Palestrina Magnificat Primi Toni
5.45 Kalman Two Lovely Eyes (The Circus Princess)
5.50 Dvorak Romance in F minor, Op 11
6.05 Gesualdo, arr Maxwell Davies Two motets
6.10 Scriabin Nocturne for the Left Hand, Op 9 No 2
6.20 Mozart String Quintet in G minor, K516

Contributors

Presenter:
John Shea

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