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Presented by Penny Gore . Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Gershwin Overture: Girl Crazy BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal
Tortelier Strozzi Salve Regina Maria Christina Kiehr (soprano), Concerto Soave
Martin Trio on Irish Popular Melodies Grieg Trio
8.30-10.00: Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488 Clara Haskil , Vienna SO, conductor
Paul Sacher Martin Three Christmas Songs
Elly Ameling (soprano), Pieter Ode (flute), Frank Martin (piano) Debussy La Mer Lucerne Festival Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado

Contributors

Presented By:
Penny Gore
Conductor:
Yan Pascal
Unknown:
Salve Regina Maria Christina
Unknown:
Clara Haskil
Conductor:
Paul Sacher Martin
Soprano:
Elly Ameling
Soprano:
Pieter Ode
Flute:
Frank Martin
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado

With Rob Cowan.

Wagner Overture: Tannhauser - Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Yevgeni Mravinsky

10.14 Chausson Les Temps des Lilas - Nan Merriman (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano)

10.19 Shostakovich String Quartet No 7 Op 108 - Fine Arts Quartet

10.32 Mozart Symphony No 36 in C, K425 (Linz) - Columbia SO, conductor Bruno Walter

10.59 Verdi Falstaff, Act I Part 2 - NBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arturo Toscanini

11.16 Rubbra Soliloguy, Op 57 - Raphael Sommer (cello) LSO, conductor Vernon Handley

11.31 Shostakovich String Quartet No 8, Op 110 - Borodin Quartet

11.53 Montsalvatge Cancion de Cuna para Dormir a un Negrito (Canciones Negras) - Nan Merriman (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano)

Contributors

Presenter:
Rob Cowan
Alice Ford:
Herva Nelli (soprano)
Meq Page:
Nan Merriman (mezzo)
Mistress Quickly:
Cloe Elmo (mezzo)
Nanetta:
Teresa Stich-Randall (soprano)
Ford:
Frank Guarrera (baritone)

3/5. Donald Macleod tells more tales of the skulduggery in 19th-century court life: Weber's struggles against anti-German sentiment, and tense relations with his colleagues in Dresden. Missa Sancta in G (Jubelmesse)
Elisabeth Speiser (soprano), Helen Watts (mezzo), Kurt Equiluz (tenor), Siegmund Nimsgern (bass), Werner Keltsch Instrumental Ensemble, director Gerhard Wilhelm
Invitation to the Dance Alexander Paley (piano) Overture: Der Freischutz
Philharmonia, conductor Neeme Jarvi
Repeated on Tuesday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Soprano:
Elisabeth Speiser
Soprano:
Helen Watts
Tenor:
Kurt Equiluz
Director:
Gerhard Wilhelm
Piano:
Alexander Paley

Mary Nelson (soprano), Victoria Simmonds
(mezzo), Methodist College Belfast Girls' Choir, Ulster Orchestra, conductor Thierry Fischer
Mendelssohn Incidental music: A Midsummer
Night's Dream
Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor Repeated from Saturday 13 August

Contributors

Soprano:
Mary Nelson
Soprano:
Victoria Simmonds
Conductor:
Thierry Fischer

From St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, sung by members of the 2005 Charles Wood Summer School.
Introit: Hail, Gladdening Light (Wood).
Responses: Clucas. Psalms: 147, 148, 149 and 150 (Stanford, McWilliam).
First Reading: Isaiah 53, vv1-9.
Canticles: New College Service (Howells). Second Reading: John 1, vv29-34.
Anthem: 0 Vera Digna Hostia (Tarik O'Regan ). Hymn: 0 Christ the Same (Londonderry Air). Organ Voluntary: Rhapsody No 3 (Howells). Director of music David Hill.
Organist John Robinson.

Contributors

Unknown:
Tarik O'Regan
Organist:
David Hill.
Organist:
John Robinson.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
In their second appearance at this year's Proms the Cleveland Chorus and Orchestra perform Beethoven's dramatic and highly personal setting of the Mass. Presented by Sarah Walker.

Emily Magee (soprano), Yvonne Naef (mezzo), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Franz-Josef Selig (bass), Cleveland Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Franz Welser-Most

Beethoven Mass in D (Missa Solemnis)

Contributors

Presenter:
Sarah Walker
Soprano:
Emily Magee
Mezzo:
Yvonne Naef
Tenor:
Jonas Kaufmann
Bass:
Franz-Josef Selig
Singers:
Cleveland Chorus
Musicians:
Cleveland Orchestra
Conductor:
Franz Welser-Most

1/2. The Philadelphia Convention, 1787
In the first of two programmes about important historic meetings, Frances Stonor Saunders looks at what happened at an important milestone in American and world history. It was a gathering, according to one historian, of "the well-bred, well-fed, well-wed, and well-read". But it was also the meeting that resulted in the drafting and adoption of the American Constitution. Producer Kirsty Pope
Another The Meetings of Minds is broadcast tomorrow at 8.35pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Frances Stonor Saunders
Producer:
Kirsty Pope

Fiona Talkington plays music by Turkish musician Mercan Dede and trumpeter Jon Hassel , and looks ahead to UK tours from Tuvan thrash band Yat Kha and pianist Christian Wallumrod.

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington
Musician:
Mercan Dede
Unknown:
Jon Hassel
Unknown:
Yat Kha
Pianist:
Christian Wallumrod.

With Jonathan Swain.

Suchon Elegy and Toccata Bella Fate and the Ideal

Moyzes Piano Concerto

Albrecht Suite for Big Orchestra

2.08 Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht, Op 4

2.37 Verdi Messa da Requiem

4.00 Beethoven Piano Sonata in G, Op 79

4.11 Mozart Divertimento in D , K136

4.25 Carniolus Virgines Prudentes: O Beata Trinitas, Te Invocamus

4.30 Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No 3

4.50 Manfredini Symphony in E minor

5.00 Hummel Overture in B flat, Op 101 No 1

5.07 Martinu Variations on a Slovak Theme

5.18 Puccini Chrysanthemums

5.24 Soyka Chromatic Concert Etudes, Op 9 No 4

5.33 Gounod Salut, Demeure Chaste et Pure (Faust)

5.38 Benes Music for JS

5.54 Bach Sarabande (Cello Suite in C, BWV1009)

5.59 Debussy The Little Shepherd (Children's Corner)

6.02 Mahler Das Knaben Wunderhorn (excerpts)

6.16 Quantz Flute Duet from Op 2

6.25 Donizetti Sinfonia in G minor

6.32 Hummel String Trio in G

6.47 Hellendaal Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 3 No

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Swain

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