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Presented by Penny Gore . Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Nielsen Overture: Helios Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Esa Pekka Salonen -Severac Ménétriers et
Glaneuses (Cerdana) Jordi Maso (piano) Berwald Reminiscences of the Norwegian Mountains Danish National SO, conductor Thomas Dausgaard Hoist Hammersmith
European Winds, conductor Geoffrey Brand
Liszt Aux Cypres de la Villa d'Este II (Annees de Pèlerinage, Annee3) Stephen Hough (piano)
8.30-10.00: Dvorak String Quartet Movement in F Panocha Quartet Mozart Piano Sonata in C minor, K457 Ronald Brautigam Copland Ballet: Appalachian Spring (original version, 1944) Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra , conductor Hugh Wolff

Contributors

Presented By:
Penny Gore
Conductor:
Esa Pekka Salonen
Piano:
Jordi Maso
Conductor:
Thomas Dausgaard
Piano:
Stephen Hough
Unknown:
Ronald Brautigam Copland
Conductor:
Paul Chamber Orchestra
Conductor:
Hugh Wolff

With Jonathan Swain.

Gade Overture: Echoes of Ossian - Danish National Radio SO, conductor King Frederik IX

10.15 Bizet Je Vais Danser en Votre Honneur.... Non! Tu Ne M'aimes Pas! (Carmen, Act 2) - Grace Bumbry (soprano), Jon Vickers (tenor), Paris Opera Orchestra, conductor Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos

10.30 Rawsthorne Theme and Variations - Peter Sheppard Skaerved and Christine Sohn (violins)

10.47 Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish) - Orchestra of the 18th Century, director Frans Briiggen

11.29 Szymanowski Notturno e Tarantella, Op 28 - Ida Haendel (violin), Adela Kotowska (piano)

11.40 Wagner Ein Schwert verheiss mir der Vater.... Wintersturme wichen dem Wonnemond (Die Walkure, Act 1) - Jon Vickers (tenor), Gre Brouwenstein (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Erich Leinsdorf

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

3/5. Today Donald Macleod looks at the works
Dohnanyi wrote in Budapest during the interwar years, including his Sextet and the symphonic Ruralia Hungarica.
Concert Etudes, Op 28 Nos 2,5 and 6 Markus Pawlik (piano)
Pastorale on a Hungarian Christmas Song, Op 18 Martin Roscoe (piano)
Sextet (3rd and 4th mvts) Endymion Ensemble Ruralia Hungarica
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Matthias Bamert
Repeated on Tuesday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Ruralia Hungarica.
Piano:
Markus Pawlik
Piano:
Martin Roscoe
Conductor:
Matthias Bamert

St Magnus Festival
2/4. Linda Ormiston introduces a concert given in Stromness Town Hall as part of Orkney's midsummer festival.
Hebrides Ensemble, conductor Tom Seligman John Bevan-Baker Duo for oboe and cello
Britten Phantasy, Op 2
Nigel Osborne Balkan Dances and Laments Mozart Oboe Quartet in F K370

Contributors

Introduces:
Linda Ormiston
Conductor:
Tom Seligman
Conductor:
John Bevan-Baker Duo

John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Philharmonia
Baroque Orchestra, conductor Nicholas McGegan Rameau Suite: Les Paladins
Handel Where'er You Walk (Semele);
Waft Her, Angels; His Mighty Arm (Jephtha) Rameau Chaconne; Prelude and Air:
Lieux Funestes ; Recitative andAriette: Ou Suis-Je ?... Hâtons-Nous, Courons a la Gloire (Dardanus) Handel Water Music: Suite No 1 in F
Repeated from Tuesday 2 August

Contributors

Tenor:
John Mark Ainsley
Conductor:
Nicholas McGegan
Unknown:
Lieux Funestes
Unknown:
Ou Suis-Je

From Worcester Cathedral during the Three Choirs Festival. Introit: Christus Factus Est
(Bruckner). Responses: Tomkins. Psalms:
23,24 (Tomkins, Thalben Ball). First Reading: 2 Kings 4, vv18-37. Canticles for five voices (Tallis). Second Reading: Luke 20, vv27-40. Anthem: Loquebantur Variis Linguis (Tallis).
Hymn: How Shall Sing That Majesty (Third Mode). Organ Voluntary: Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV562 (Bach). Combined Cathedral Choirs of Worcester, Hereford and Gloucester, director Adrian Lucas. Organist Christopher Allsop.

Contributors

Organist:
Adrian Lucas.
Organist:
Christopher Allsop.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Award-winning Korean composer Unsuk Chin's song cycle snagS and Snarls, with words from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, receives its European debut tonight. Presented by Christopher Cook.
Christiane Oelze (soprano), Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kent Nagano

Weber Overture: Der Freischutz

Unsuk Chin snagS and Snarls (first European performance)

8.10 Twenty Minutes: The Adverb
Paul Farley presents another in the series of literary performances, recorded in front of a live audience at Cadogan Hall, in which leading writers choose their favourite writings and read their own specially commissioned work on the Proms' themes of the sea and fairy tales.

8.30 Bruckner Symphony No 6 in A

(Repeated on Monday 22 August)

Contributors

Presenter:
Christopher Cook
Soprano:
Christiane Oelze
Musicians:
Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Kent Nagano
Presenter (Twenty Minutes:
The Adverb): Paul Farley

2/4. Uganda. Zeinab Badawi continues her journey through the countries connected by the Nile. In 1862 British explorer John Hanning
Speke claimed to have found the source of the White Nile at the then unnamed Lake Victoria in Uganda. What led to this claim, and what have
Ugandans then and now made of the discovery? Part 3 is broadcast tomorrow at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
John Hanning

Late-evening listening with Verity Sharp , including ceremonial music from Indonesia's Batak musicians, pieces by William Byrd and the Blind Boys of Alabama, and and bansuri flautist Ronu Majumdar plays Raag Bhairav with Durga Prasad on the Hindustani drum called the pakhawaj.

Contributors

Unknown:
Verity Sharp
Unknown:
William Byrd
Unknown:
Blind Boys
Unknown:
Ronu Majumdar
Unknown:
Raag Bhairav
Unknown:
Durga Prasad

With Louise Fryer.

Marking the 50th anniversary year of the death of Enescu, recordings of his orchestral and chamber works from the archives of Romanian Radio.

Enescu Romanian Poem, Op 1; Symphony No 1 in minor

2.04 Graeme Koehne To His Servant, Bach, God Grants a Final Glimpse: the Morning Star

2.08 Haydn Variations on the Hymn Gott erhafte

2.16 Beethoven String Trio in E flat, Op 3

2.58 Hummel Rondo Brillant in A, Op 56

3.19 Brahms Serenade No 1 in D, Op 11

4.06 Frescobaldi Toccata Quarta (Il Secondo Libro)

4.11 Huyqens Cognovi Domine; Quomodo Dilexi; Erravi, Domine

4.21 Magi House of Wind

4.30 Franck Prelude, Fugue and Variation

4.42 Glazunov Chant du Menestrel, Op 71

4.47 Liszt St Francis of Assisi Preaching to the Birds (Legends)

5.00 Avison, after D. Scarlatti Concerto Grosso No 2 in G

5.13 CPE Bach Piano Sonata in E minor, Wq 59 No 1

5.22 Cavalli Plainsong Antiphon and Magnificat

5.41 Villa-Lobos Guitar Prelude No in minor

5.45 Delius Prelude: Irmelin

5.51 Tormis Spring Sketches

5.34 Enescu Violin Sonata No 3, Op 25 (dans le Caractere Populaire Roumain) (2nd and 3rd mvts)

6.12 Ravel Piano Concerto in G

6.36 Kodaly Suite: Hary Janos

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Fryer

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