Presented by Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Haydn Divertimento in C, H IV 1 Jean-Pierre Rampal and Wolfgang Schulz (flutes), Gilbert Audin (bassoon)
Arnold March: The Padstow Lifeboat, Op 94 Grimethorpe Colliery Band, conductor Elgar Howarth Busoni/Bach Chaconne (Partita in D minor, BWV1004) Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
8.30-10.00: Vivaldi Concerto in C, RV537 Hakan Hardenberger and Reinhold Friedrich
(trumpets), I Musici Barber Agnus Dei Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, director Richard Marlow Delius Brigg Fair Halle Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder
With
Rob Cowan. Smetana Three Salon Polkas, Op 7 AndrasSchiff (piano)
10.14 Robert Johnson (c 1583-1633) Incidental music: The Tempest:
Macbeth Catherine Bott and Julia Gooding (sopranos), Joseph Cornwell (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Parley of Instruments, director Peter Holman (virginals)
10.22 Hindemith Mathis der Maler NBC
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Guido Cantelli
10.51 Verdi Macbeth , Act 1 (excerpt) Leonie Rysanek (soprano: Lady Macbeth), Leonard Warren (baritone: Macbeth), Jerome Hines
(bass: Banquo), Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Erich Leinsdorf
11.10 Smetana Polka-Rhapsody: Vision of a Ball Vera Repkova (piano)
On the Seashore (A Reminiscence) Claudius Tanski (piano)
11.21 Monterverdi Magnificat (Vespro della Beata Vergine) Robert Shaw Chorale , NBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Guido Cantelli
11.47 Smetana Sketch for the Scene Macbeth and the Witches Vera Repkova (piano)
2/5. Donald Macleod examines the opera that transformed Gluck's international standing, and looks at the radical re-working Gluck undertook for performances in Paris, in which the lead role was given to a tenor, as the Italian castrato voice had already fallen out of fashion in France.
Orfeo ed Euridice (excerpts) Derek Lee Ragin (countertenor), English Baroque Soloists, director John Eliot Gardiner Orphee et Eurydice (excerpts)
Marion Harousseau (soprano: L'Amour), Mireille Delunsch (soprano: Eurydice), Richard Croft (tenor: Orphee), Les Musiciens du Louvre, director Marc MinkOWSki Rptd on Monday at 12 midnight
City of London Festival: Odes and Icons 1/12. This year the City of London Festival celebrates the seminal music of the 20th century. Today's concert, given last month in St Giles Cripplegate, features Susan Bickley in songs by three composers who all had a significant influence on music at the beginning of that century. Catherine Bott presents.
Susan Bickley (soprano), lain Burnside (piano) Strauss Waldseligkeit : Wiegenliedchen; In goldener Fulle; Ach, was Kummer, Qual und Schmerzen (Op 49)
Mahler Five Ruckert Lieder
Weill Barbara Song ; Seerauber Jenny : Surabaya Johnny: Schickelgruber
HMS Pinafore
Maida Vale Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
Sullivan Overture: The Yeoman of the Guard
Sullivan, arr Mackerras Suite: Pineapple Poll Sullivan HMS
at 7.30pm For full cast list see Saturday
Spotlight on Renee Fleming
The great American soprano Renee Fleming joins lain Burnside to introduce a selection of her recordings, ranging from operatic arias by Dvorak, Verdi and Andre Previn to songs by Rachmaninov and Duke Ellington.
With Sean Rafferty.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. BBC National Orchestra of Wales's first Prom of the season opens with a brand-new work. The all-English programme also includes Britten's early song-cycle, and the original version of Vaughan Williams's London Symphony. Presented by Chris de Souza. Susan Gritton (soprano), BBC National
Orchestra of Wales, conductor Richard Hickox
Michael Berkeley Concerto for Orchestra (BBC commission, first performance)
Britten Quatre Chansons Françaises
7.40 Twenty Minutes: Escape to Bohemia
When a youthful Bernard Kops stumbled across a yellowing copy of Arthur Ransome 's Bohemia in London he found an escape route from the war-torn East End to the sinful paradise of Soho.
8.00 Vaughan Williams A London Symphony
(Symphony No 2) (original version) Rptd tomorrow 2pm This Prom is shown on BBC4 at 7.30pm
The Berlin Conference, 1884, was the meeting when the European colonial powers, with Russia and America, formalised the so-called Scramble for Africa and divided the continent's interior among themselves. Needless to say, not a single African was among the delegates.
Frances Stonor Saunders examines the consequences of this meeting and explores the nature of discussions that are dictated by diplomacy.
Verity Sharp with music by improviser and composer Django Bates, an excerpt from Geoff Smith's soundtrack for The Cabinet of Dr Caligari performed on microtonal hammered dulcimers, and an 18th-century French harpsichord piece by Bodin de Boismortier.
3/5. Donald Macleod presents a selection of well-known songs from some of Cole Porter 's lesser-known musicals. Rptd from Wednesday at 12 noon
With John Shea.
Telemann Overture-Suite in G: Les Nations Anciennes et Modernes Handel Organ Concerto in G minor, Op 4 No Vivaldi Recorder Concerto in C minor, RV441
Haydn Organ Concerto in C, H XVIII I CPE Bach Organ Concerto in A, Wg29 2.22 Vivaldi Concerto Grosso in B minor, RV580 (1st mvt) (L'Estro Armonico)
2.27 Mozart Piano Sonata in A, K331 2.47 Waqner
Overture: Venusberg Music (Tannhauser) 3.09 Gorecki Flute Concerto-Cantata 3.30 Gerber The Old Farmer's Almanac 4.11 Kornowicz Waiting 4.20 Dubut, ed
Lindberq Lute Suite in D minor 4.27 Blow Peaceful Is He and Most Secure 4.30 Handel, ed Dart Oboe Sonata in B flat 4.36 Verdi Alia Vita Che T'Arride (Un Ballo in Maschera, Act 1) 4.39 Liszt Reminiscences on Bellini's Norma 4.52 Glinka Kamarinskaya 5.00 Brahms Six
Quartets for chorus and piano, Op 112 5.11 JS Bach, attrib WF Bach Organ Prelude in D, BWV925 5.13 A Scarlatti Harpsichord Toccata in F 5.19 Couperln Douzieme Concert a deux violes (Les Gouts Reunis)
5.28 Beethoven Ah! Perfido, Op 65 5.41 Kunc Triptych. Op 40 5.53 Dutsch Overture: The Croatian Girl
6.06 Duparc Extase 6.09 Arensky Suite No 2, Op 23 (Silhouettes) 6.27 Sibelius Symphony No 5
