Presented by Sandy Burnett. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Handel Chaconne in G, HWV435
Bach Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV1043 Grainger Green Bushes
8.30-10.00: Soler Fandango Ravel Boléro Purcell Come Ye Sons of Art Away, Z323
With Rob Cowan.
Grieg Old Norwegian Romance with Variations, Op 51 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Thomas Beecham
10.19 Bellmann Three Songs Aksel Schiotz (tenor), Banjo-Lasse (lute), Jorn Grauengaard (guitar)
10.28 Kokkonen Cello Concerto
Arto Noras, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Paul Freeman
10.51 Grieg String Quartet in G minor, Op 27 Guarneri Quartet
11.24 Elgar Variations on an Original Theme
(Enigma) NBC SO, conductor Arturo Toscanini
4/5. Donald Macleod talks to musicologists
Heward Rees and Rhiannon Mathias about some of the ways in which Williams's music emerges from the Welsh landscape in which she lived. Severn Bridge Variation BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jac van Steen Sinfonia Concertante
Huw Watkins (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Baldur Bronimann
My Last Duchess
Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano) Rhosyn Duw
BBC Singers, conductor Ronald Corp Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight
West Cork Chamber Music Festival
3/4. Sean Rafferty presents the third of this week's programmes from Bantry House, where flautist Sharon Bezaly and the Asch Trio come together for a performance of Mozart's reflective flute quartet. The Polish violinist,
Patrycja Pietukowska , who will be heard today in the Brahms piano quartet and in conversation with Sean Rafferty , makes her Irish debut at this year's festival.
Mozart Flute Quartet in G, K285a Sharon Bezaly (flute), Asch Trio
Brahms Piano Quartet in A, Op 26 Patrycja Pietukowska (violin),
Diemut Poppen (viola), Emanuelle Bertrand (cello), Konstantin Lifschitz (piano)
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, conductor Colin Davis
Stravinksy Symphony in Three Movements Janacek Taras Butba
Sibelius Pohjola 's Daughter; Symphony No 7 Repeated from Saturday
Brian Kay 's selection of light music includes: Harlequin's Flirtation by Louis Mordish, Cockney Capers by Peter Crantock and excerpts from Scenes from the Humber by Anthony Hedges.
Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and news of current events in the arts world.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. A new piano concerto from Royal
Philharmonic Society Music Award winner
James Dillon , a composer whose music has a direct and expressive impact; Sibelius's fairy-tale tone poem, of which the composer said "In no other work have I revealed myself so completely"; and Stravinsky's magic folk-tale ballet, which ends the concert. Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch .
Noriko Kawai (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor, conductor llan Volkov Sibelius En Saga
James Dillon Andromeda (BBC commission: first performance)
7.50 Twenty Minutes: The Adverb
Ian McMillan continues the series of literary performances recorded in front of an audience at Cadogan Hall. This week the author William Fiennes presents a selection of his favourite writings on music, and some of his own, too.
8.10 Shostakovich The Firebird
This Prom is repeated on Thursday 24 August at 2.15pm
On the eve of the announcement of the Caine Writing Prize winner, and as part of the Africa Lives on the BBC season, poet and playwright Gabriel Gbadamosi investigates the role of the book in sub-Saharan Africa. He talks to Cyprian Ekwensi , at 84, one of Africa's oldest living writers, and examines a new generation of young writers who are reaching new readers, both within and outside Africa. Producer Fiona Ledger
Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London, Penny Gore presents a late-night celebration for the 70th birthday of one of the founding fathers of American Minimalism, including some of his signature scores from the early 1970s, and ranging from the intriguing sound of just four hands clapping together, to the massed effects of nine percussionists, voices and organ. The programme concludes with the Ghanaian-inspired work that put this American master on the musical map.
Percussionists: Richard Benjafield ,
Antoine Bedewi , Joby Burgess , Andrew Cottee (organ), Colin Currie , Owen Gunnell , David Jackson , Adrian Spillett , Sam Walton
Rowland Sutherland (piccolo), Synergy Vocals
Steve Reich Clapping Music; Nagoya Marimbas; Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ; Drumming
5/5. America. With Donald Macleod. Requiem Canticles;
Symphony in Three Movements;
The Rake's Progress Repeated from Friday
With John Shea.
Krassimir Kyurkchiyski Bulgarian Madonna; Prayer (Two Works after Paintings of Vladimir Dimitrov - -the Master); Piano Concerto (In Memory of Pancho Vladigerov ); Concerto for Orchestra (1976)
2.12 Tallis Spem in Alium 2.21 Daniel-Lesur Suite Medievale 2.36 Debussy Douze Etudes 3.19
Grieg Holberg Suite 3.41 Haydn Keyboard Trio No 18 in A. H XV 18
4.01 Rossini Overture: William Te«4.12 D Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata in E, Kk46 4.16 Vivaldi Lute Concerto in D
4.27 Morley Hard by Crystal Fountain 4.30 Dittersdort Symphony No 3 in G 4.49 Francaix Gai Paris
5.00 Chopin Nocturne in D flat, Op 27 No 2
5.06 Strauss Es gibt ein Reich (A riadne auf Naxos)
5.13 Ravel, arr Bernard Gillet Pièce en Forme de
Habanera 5.17 Rore Vaghi Pensieri 5.21 Mozart, arr
Gunther Weiqelt Adagio in B flat, K4115.28 Norman, arr Niklas Willen Andante Sostenuto 5.38 Palestrina Salve Regina 5.43 Bach, arr Samuel Feinberq Largo (Trio
Sonata in C, BWV529) 5.53 Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain 6.17 Ravel Introduction and Allegro
6.28 Vladigerov Sonatina Concertante, Op 28
6.47 Halvorsen Norwegian Rhapsody No I in A minor