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Presented by Penny Gore .
7.00-8.30: Handel Sinfonia, Act 1: Samson Glinka Capriccio Brilliante
Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No I in A
8.30-10.00: Liadov Scherzo Hoist Brook Green Suite
Sweelinck Meinjunges Leben hat ein End

Contributors

Presented By:
Penny Gore

With Rob Cowan , featuring Bartok chamber music and performances by soprano Lotte Lehmann. Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 in D (Carnival in Pesth) LSO, conductor Antal Dorati
10.14 Beethoven Komm , 0 Hoffnung (Fidelio, Act 1) Lotte Lehmann (soprano), Berlin State Opera Orchestra, conductor Manfred Gurlitt
10.21 Bartok Violin Sonata (1903)
Andre Gertler , Diane Andersen (piano)
10.49 Clemens Non Papa Job Tbnso Capite
The Brabant Ensemble, conductor Stephen Rice
10.59 Dukas La Péri National Orchestra of Monte-Carlo Opera, conductor Louis Fremaux
11.20 Strauss Sie atmet leicht....In den schonen Feierkleidern (Ariadne auf Naxos)
Lotte Lehmann (soprano), Berlin State Opera Orchestra, conductor Hermann Weigert
11.29 Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20 Strings of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arturo Toscanini

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan
Soprano:
Lotte Lehmann.
Conductor:
Antal Dorati
Conductor:
Beethoven Komm
Soprano:
Lotte Lehmann
Conductor:
Manfred Gurlitt
Unknown:
Andre Gertler
Piano:
Diane Andersen
Conductor:
Stephen Rice
Conductor:
Louis Fremaux
Conductor:
Strauss Sie
Soprano:
Lotte Lehmann
Conductor:
Hermann Weigert
Conductor:
Mendelssohn Octet
Conductor:
Arturo Toscanini

1/5. Donald Macleod begins this week's programmes by looking at the key relationship in Robert Schumann 's life - with his wife Clara. Furchtenmachen (Kinderszenen) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Abegg Variations, Op 1 Michel Dalberto (piano)
Piano Sonata No 1 in Fsharp minor, Op 11 Leif Ove-Andsnes (piano) Blumenstuck, Op 19
Michel Dalberto (piano)
Producer Kerry Clark Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight
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Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Robert Schumann
Piano:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Piano:
Michel Dalberto
Piano:
Leif Ove-Andsnes
Piano:
Michel Dalberto
Producer:
Kerry Clark
Sung By:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Piano:
Christoph Eschenbach

6/8. Live from Cadogan Hall, London.
Stephanie Hughes presents La Simphonie du Marais in their Proms debut, reviving the music of Lully and his contemporaries, and lifting the curtain on the intimate world of music devised for Louis XIV's private entertainment. La Simphonie du Marais, director Hugo Reyne Marais Suite No 5 in E minor (Pieces en Trio, 1692) (excerpts)
Anne Philidor Recorder Sonata in D minor (1712) La Barre Suite No 1 in C minor (Pieces en Trio, 1694)
Marais Allemande and Tombeau pour Mr de Lully (Suite in G minor, Pièces de Viole, Bk 2, 1701) Lully Sommeild 'Atys, 1676
Marais Caprice (Suite No 5 in E minor, Pieces en Trio, 1692)
This Prom is repeated on Saturday 26 August at 12 noon

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Philidor
Unknown:
Marais Allemande
Unknown:
Lully Sommeild

Janine Jansen , European Union Youth Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
Schnittke (K)ein Sommernachtstraum
Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219 (Turkish) Shostakovich Symphony No 4 Repeated from Saturday 12 August

Contributors

Unknown:
Janine Jansen
Conductor:
Vladimir Ashkenazy

Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Periods of historical turmoil drive tonight's Prom. Berlioz's red-hot overture unmasks the tyrannical treatment of political prisoners in the Middle Ages, and James MacMillan 's haunting piece is a reguiem for a woman caught up in the witch-hunts of the Scottish Reformation. Elgar's wistful Edwardian symphony, written amid the tensions that led to the Great War, ends the concert. Presented by Louise Fryer. London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis Berlioz Overture: Les Francs-Juges
James MacMillan The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
8.15 Twenty Minutes: It Must Be Witchcraft
In 1662 Isobel Gowdie made a series of confessions for which she became known as "Queen of the Scottish Witches".
Gary Lachman , writer and ex-member of Blondie, examines the case that inspired
James MacMillan 's The Confession of Isobel Gowdie.
8.35 Elqar Symphony No 2 in E flat Also broadcast on BBC4
This Prom is repeated on Tuesday 5 September at 2pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall
Unknown:
James MacMillan
Presented By:
Louise Fryer.
Unknown:
James MacMillan
Unknown:
Isobel Gowdie
Unknown:
Gary Lachman
Unknown:
James MacMillan
Unknown:
Isobel Gowdie.

Rana Mitter recalls how Chinese society and culture were turned upside down by the Maoist rejection of Confucian values, as she travels from Oufu, Confucius's birthplace, to Beijing, witnessing his rehabilitation as a possible solution to China's dilemmas. Producer JuliaAdamson

Contributors

Unknown:
Rana Mitter

Verity Sharp introduces new tracks from Cologne-based Niobe, a haunting modern re-working of a Henry Purcell funeral anthem and specially recorded performances from Neuneue, Marlui Miranda and a group of Mehinako Indians from the Upper Xingu, Brazil.

Contributors

Introduces:
Verity Sharp
Unknown:
Marlui Miranda

With Jonathan Swain. Beethoven Piano Sonatas: in C minor, Op 13 (Pathetique); in C, Op 53 (Waldstein); in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2 (Moonlight); in F minor, Op 57 (Appassionata) Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
2.17 Borodin, arr Sargent Notturno (String Quartet No 2 in D, 3rd mvt) 2.25 NowowiejsKI Three Songs. Op 56 (The Bialowieza Forest Folder) 2.47 Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish) 3.27 Schubert 12 Ecossaises, D299 3.33 Nielsen Wind Quintet, Op 43 4.00 Balakirev Overture on Russian Themes 4.09 Sjoblom Kaipun - Valse a la Russe 4.13 Gesualdo, arr Maxwell Davies Peccantem Me Quotidiae; 0 Vos Omnes 4.22 Vivaldi Recorder Concerto in C minor, RV4414.33 D Scarlatti Sonata (La Chasse)
4.36 Haydn Symphony No 4 in D 4.51 Beethoven Seven Variations in C on God save the King, Wo078
5.00 Herbert Moonbeams (The Red Mill)
5.04 Schoenberq Galathea and Mahnung (Brettl-Lieder)
5.12 Imants Zemzaris The Light Springs
5.19 Obrecht Salve Regina 5.24 Chopin Scherzo No 3 in C sharp, Op 39 5.32 Mozart Cosi Dungue Tradisci, K432
5.38 Sor Introduction and Variations on Mozart's 0 Cara Armonia, Op 9 5.47 Jarnefelt Kanteletar
5.53 Dvorak String Quartet in F, Op 96 (American)
6.17 Debussy Petite Suite 6.30 Poulenc Sextet
6.47 Kisielewski Suite: Fun Fair

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Ronald Brautigam
Unknown:
Sargent Notturno
Unknown:
Sjoblom Kaipun
Unknown:
Herbert Moonbeams
Unknown:
Schoenberq Galathea
Unknown:
Jarnefelt Kanteletar

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