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Presented by Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Bach, arr Stokowski Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565 Czech PO, conductor Leopold Stokowski Vauqhan Williams Norfolk Rhapsody No I New Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult Vivaldi Violin Concerto in D, RV234 (L'lnquietudine) Viktoria Mullova, II
Giardino Armonico , conductor Giovanni Antonini
8.30-10.00: Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat, H Vile 1 Maurice Andre , LPO, conductor Jesus Lopez-Cobos Traditional , arr Chapman The Three Ravens Cambridge Singers, director
John Rutter Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Stephen Hough , Dallas Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Litton

Contributors

Presented By:
Sandy Burnett.
Conductor:
Adrian Boult Vivaldi
Conductor:
Giardino Armonico
Conductor:
Giovanni Antonini
Unknown:
Maurice Andre
Conductor:
Jesus Lopez-Cobos Traditional
Piano:
John Rutter Rachmaninov
Unknown:
Stephen Hough
Conductor:
Andrew Litton

With Rob Cowan.
Smetana Concert Fantasy on Czech Folk Songs Vera Repkova (piano)
10.12 Ghedini Concerto dell' Albatro Ben Grauer (narrator), Mischa Mischakov (violin), Frank Miller (cello), Artur Balsam (piano), NBC
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Guido Cantelli
10.41 Smetana In Bohemia; In the Salon; Before the Castle (Dreams) Frantisek Rauch (piano)
10.56 Schubert Symphony No 2 in B flat NBC SO, conductor Guido Cantelli
11.21 Smetana The Hen; Three Polkas (Czech Dances) Stefan Askenase (piano)
11.36 David Bedford The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (excerpt) Robert Powell (narrator), Mike Oldfield (guitar),
David Bedford (various instruments)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Piano:
Vera Repkova
Narrator:
Albatro Ben Grauer
Narrator:
Mischa Mischakov
Violin:
Frank Miller
Cello:
Artur Balsam
Conductor:
Guido Cantelli
Piano:
Frantisek Rauch
Conductor:
Guido Cantelli
Piano:
Stefan Askenase
Piano:
David Bedford
Narrator:
Robert Powell
Guitar:
Mike Oldfield
Guitar:
David Bedford

3/5. Gluck regarded his opera Alceste as one of his greatest achievements. He was keen to impress audiences in both Vienna and Paris and, as with Orfeo ed Euridice, he wrote two versions to accommodate his audience's tastes. Donald Macleod introduces excerpts from the French version and takes a look at the third and last of the trilogy of Gluck's so-called reform operas.
Alceste (excerpts) Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo: Alceste), Paul Groves (tenor: Admetus), Dietrich Henschel (baritone: Grand Priest of Apollo), Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists, director John Eliot Gardiner
Paride ed Elena (excerpts) Magdalena Kozena (mezzo: Paris), Susan Gritton (soprano: Helen), Carolyn Sampson (soprano: Amore), Gillian Webster (soprano: Pallas Athene),
Gabrieli Consort and Players, director Paul McCreesh Repeated on Tuesday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Introduces:
Donald MacLeod
Tenor:
Paul Groves
Baritone:
Dietrich Henschel
Unknown:
Monteverdi Choir
Director:
John Eliot Gardiner
Unknown:
Magdalena Kozena
Soprano:
Susan Gritton
Soprano:
Carolyn Sampson
Soprano:
Gillian Webster
Unknown:
Gabrieli Consort
Director:
Paul McCreesh

City of London Festival: Odes and Icons 2/12. Presented by Catherine Bott from
Goldsmith's Hall, London. Pianist Peter Donohoe performs the music of two great 20th-century Russian composers/pianists.
Rachmaninov Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 3 No 2; Ten Preludes, Op 23
Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 7 Op 83

Contributors

Presented By:
Catherine Bott
Pianist:
Peter Donohoe

Susan Gritton (soprano), BBC National
Orchestra of Wales, conductor Richard Hickox Michael Berkeley Concerto for Orchestra Britten Quatre Chansons Françaises
Vaughan Williams A London Symphony (Symphony No 2) (original version) Repeated from yesterday at 7pm

Contributors

Soprano:
Susan Gritton
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams

Live from Eton College Chapel with this year's Second Eton Choral Course.
Introit: May the Grace of Christ our Saviour
(David Nield ). Responses: Radcliffe. Psalms: 104 (Stanford). First Reading: Hosea 6, vv1-6. Office Hymn: Jesu! the Very Thought Is Sweet (The Rosy Sequence). Canticles: Philip Radcliffe. Second Reading: Luke 15, vvll-end. Anthem:
Make Me, 0 Lord, Thy Spinning Wheele Compleat (Judith Bingham : first performance). Hymn: Come Down, 0 Love Divine (Down Ampney). Organ
Voluntary: Psalm Prelude, Set 2 No 1 (Howells). Director Ralph Allwood. Organist Luke Bond.

Contributors

Unknown:
David Nield
Unknown:
Judith Bingham
Organist:
Ralph Allwood.
Organist:
Luke Bond.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Continuing the Proms theme of the sea, with Thea Musgrave's recent set of Turneresque seascapes. Presented by Sandy Burnett.

Stephen Hough (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Osmo Vanska

Thea Musqrave Turbulent Landscapes

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor

8.05 Twenty Minutes: Plato and the Musicians
Cultural historian and former rock musician Gary Lachman explores Plato's influence on Nielsen, and examines how some forms of music continue to play a subversive role in society.

8.25 Nielsen Symphony No 4 (The Inextinguishable)

(Repeated tomorrow at 2pm)
(This Prom is shown on BBC4 at 7.30pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Sandy Burnett
Pianist:
Stephen Hough
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Osmo Vanska
Presenter (Twenty Minutes):
Gary Lachman

New series 1/4. Thea Musgrave
At the Royal Albert Hall , London, Thea Musgrave talks to Christopher Cook about her music and introduces performances by the Contemporary Consort of the Royal College of Music. Impromptu No 1 for flute and oboe; In the Still of Night for viola;
Serenade for flute, clarinet, viola, cello and harp

Contributors

Unknown:
Thea Musgrave
Unknown:
Albert Hall
Talks:
Thea Musgrave
Unknown:
Christopher Cook

Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
This year's first Late Night Prom, presented by Catherine Bott.
Luba Orgonasova (soprano), Wilke te
Brummelstroete (mezzo), Robert Murray (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass), Monteverdi Choir , English
Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner Haydn Insanae et Vanae Curae; Symphony No 90 in C; Mass in D minor, H XXI1 11 (Missa in Angustiis) (Nelson Mass)

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall
Presented By:
Catherine Bott.
Soprano:
Luba Orgonasova
Tenor:
Robert Murray
Bass:
Alastair Miles
Bass:
Monteverdi Choir
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Conductor:
Haydn Insanae

With John Shea.

Christopher Herrick plays organ music by Pachelbel, Mozart, Beethoven, Mozart and Liszt.

1.50 Bertouch The Lord, the God of Hosts, Has Spoken

2.16 Mosonyi Festival Music

2.27 Prokofiev Symphony-Concerto, Op 125

3.03 Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Op 36

3.23 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique)

4.10 Verhulst At the Departure, Op 26 No 4; The Ring, Op 26 No 5

4.16 Weiss Prelude, Toccata and Fugue in G minor

4.23 Couperin Treizieme Concert a deux violes (Les Gouts Reunis)

4.33 Sweelinck De Tien Geboden Gods

4.39 Bach Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV225

4.53 Mozart Overture: Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail

5.00 Schubert Ave Maria, D839

5.04 Josquin des Pres Inviolata, Integra et Casta Es

5.10 A. Scarlatti Toccata in D minor

5.16 Naumann Piano Concerto in B flat

5.30 Walters Divertimento for Strings

5.46 Ravel Violin Sonata in G

6.04 Saint-Saens Valse Mignonne in E flat, Op 104; Septet in E flat for trumpet, piano and strings, Op 65

6.25 Brahms, arr Rubbra Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, Op 24

6.53 Kalman Peter's song (Graf Mariza)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Shea

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