Presented by Sandy Burnett.
7.00-8.30: Puccini 0 Mio Babbino Caro (Gianni Schicchi) Hummel Octet-Partita in E flat Ravel La Valse
8.30-10.00: Humperdlnck Overture: Hansel and Gretel Debussy Sonate en Trio
Beethoven Fantasia in C minor, Op 80
With Jonathan Swain. Featuring Paul Sacher commissions and recordings by Gottlob Frick. Stravinsky Concerto in D
Halle Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli
10.14 Bach Capriccio in E, BWV993 Rudolf Serkin (piano)
10.26 Mozart Die Entfuhrung auf dem Serail (Act 3, excerpt) Gottlob Frick (bass), RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham
10.30 Mozart Die Zauberflote (Act 2, excerpt) Gottlob Frick (bass), Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Otto Klemperer
10.39 Schubert Violin Sonata in A, D574
David Oistrakh , Paul Badura-Skoda (piano)
11.04 Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin (Act 3, excerpt) Gottlob Frick (bass), Berlin Symphony Orchestra, conductor Wilhelm Schuchter
11.11 Roussel Bacchus et Ariane: Suite No Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Karel Ancerl
11.29 Carl Orff Die Kluge (excerpt)
The composer (speaker), Gottlob Frick (bass), Philharmonia, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch
11.35 Bartok Divertimento
Zimbler Sinfonietta , conductor Lukas Foss
1/5. Five First Nights: La Bohème
On 1 February 1896, La Bohème opened at La Scala in Milan, with Toscanini conducting and Cesira Ferrani as Mimi. It would be Puccini's first great success. With Donald Macleod.
Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Herbert von Karajan
Che Gelida Manina; Mi Chiamano Mimi : 0 Soave Fanciulla (Act 1); Ouando M'en Vo (Musetta's
Waltz-Song) (Act 2); Marcello! Finalmente (Act 3) Sono Andati ? (Act 4)
Producer Piers Burton-Page Repeated Sunday 12 midnight RT DIRECT: Puccini's Madama Butterfly (2 CDs) with Victoria de Los Angeles, Giuseppe di Stefano and Tito Gobi and the Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni is available for E9.00 including p&p. To order please send a chegue, payable to Selections, to: [address removed] or phone: [number removed] (national rate), or visit www.selections.com/rtdirect. Quote ref: [number removed]
2/8. Live from Cadogan Hall, London.
A newly-forged musical partnership journeys through centuries of duet songbooks.
Presented by Stephanie Hughes.
Kate Royal (soprano), Christine Rice (mezzo), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Purcell Let Us Wander Not Unseen; My Dearest, My Fairest: What Can We Poor Females Do?; Sound the Trumpet
Mendelssohn Abschied der Zugvogel; 0 sah ich auf der Heide dort; Gruss; Herbstlied
Gounod D'un Coeur Qui T'aime: Fleurs des Bois Chausson La Nuit; Reveil
Brahms Die Schwestern; Sommerabend:
Liebestreu; Weg der Liebe 1; Weg der Liebe 2; Phanomen; Walpurgisnacht
This Prom is repeated on Saturday 29 July at 12pm
Northern Sinfonia, conductor Thomas Zehetmair (violin) Ligeti Ramifications
Schumann Symphony No 4 in D minor Brahms Violin Concerto in D
Repeated from Friday
Another chance to hear Edward Seckerson 's
75th-birthday tribute to Stephen Sondheim. ADDRESS: Stage and Screen, Room 220, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive , Glasgow G12 8DG email: stageandscreen@bbc.co.uk
Sean Rafferty presents music and arts news.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. Christopher Cook presents tonight's programme, starting with Haydn's wake-up call for dozing audiences and ending with Brahms's mighty first piano concerto. George Benjamin 's vibrantly coloured new work has been praised for its "Middle-Eastern flavours and whiff of honky-tonk".
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Robertson Haydn Symphony No 94 in G (Surprise) George Benjamin Dance Figures (first performance)
8.15 Twenty Minutes: Piano War Horses
From the 19th century onwards, the piano concerto seems to grow bigger, bolder and self-important. Writer and pianophile Harriet Smith surveys select stables in search of the Piano War Horse.
8.35 Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor
This Prom is repeated on Thursday 27July at 2pm
Composer George Benjamin talks to Christopher Cook and plays excerpts from Dance Figures. Catherine Bullock and Juliet Jopling (violas), perform Viola, Viola.
Verity Sharp with Manu Chao 's latest production project: the Algerian artist Akli D. Plus a session recorded in Tokyo by the An Chang Project.
2/5. With Donald Macleod.
Strings in the Earth and Air: Symphony No 1;
Agnus Dei: Violin Concerto Repeated from Tuesday
With John Shea.
Fruhling Piano Quintet in F sharp minor, Op 30
Beethoven String Quartet in C, Op 59 No 3 (Razumovsky) Kirsten Karlshoj (piano), Henschel Quartet
2.09 Gesualdo Miserere
2.20 Nielsen Symphony No 6 (Sinfonia Semplice)
2.56 Sibelius Thirteen Pieces, Op 76
3.17 Wolf-Ferrari Suite Concertino in F, Op 16
3.38 Mozart Piano Trio in C, K548
4.01 Rossini Overture: The Silken Ladder
4.07 Chopin Variations on Non Piu Mesta from Rossini's La Cenerentola
4.12 Saint-Saens Mon Coeur S'ouvre (Samson et Dalila)
4.19 Paganini Violin Sonata No 3 in C (Centone di Sonate, Op 64)
4.24 Champagne Danse Villageoise
4.29 Schubert Violin Sonata in A, D574
4.52 Ibert Trois Pieces Breves
5.00 Delius, arr Beecham The Walk to the Paradise Garden
5.10 Beethoven Cavatina (String Quartet in B flat, Op 130)
5.18 Ravel Oiseaux Tristes (Miroirs)
5.22 Priull Cor Mio, Deh Non Languire
5.27 Sor Introduction and Variations on Mozart's O Cara Armonia, Op 9
5.36 Stanford When Mary thro' the Garden Went, (Eight Partsongs, Op 127 No 3)
5.39 Elgar Nimrod (Variations on an Original Theme) (Enigma)
5.44 Franck Prelude, Fugue et Variation in B minor
5.53 Mozart Divertimento in E flat, K166
6.06 Tchaikovsky Suite No 4 in G (Mozartiana)
6.30 Hummel Piano Trio in F, Op 22
6.44 Maurice Tableaux de Provence
