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Presented by Penny Gore . Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Sullivan Overture: HMS Pinafore Piazzolla Libertango Boyce Sonata No 5 in D
8.30-10.00: Arne Overture No 7 in D
Gershwin Preludes
Vivaldi Oboe Concerto in C, RV447

Contributors

Presented By:
Penny Gore
Unknown:
Piazzolla Libertango Boyce

With Rob Cowan.
Trad, arr Canteloube La Pastoura als Camps; Ba'ilero; L'Aïo de Rotso (Songs of the Auvergne) Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Lamoureux Concerts Orchestra, conductor Jean-Pierre Jacquillat
10.10 Bartok Rhapsody No 1, Sz94c
Janos Starker (cello), Gyorgy Sebok (piano)
10.21 Schumann So wahr die Sonne scheinet. Op 37 No 12; Unterm Fenster , Op 34 No 3; Familien-Gemalde, Op 34 No 4
Lotte Lehmann (soprano), Lauritz Melchior (tenor), orchestra conducted by Bruno Reibold
10.29 Hoist Suite: The Planets New England Conservatory Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor William Steinberg
11.16 Hahn L'Enamourée; Infidélité
Lotte Lehmann (soprano), Paul Ulanowsky (piano)
11.23 Bartok Serbian Dance; Hungarian Song 2; Sorrow; Teasing Song; Romanian Whirling Dance (Forty-Four Duos, 1931) Sandor Vegh and Alberto Lysy (violins)
11.32 Copland Appalachian Spring (1945 Suite) LSO, conductor Antal Dorati

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
Jean-Pierre Jacquillat
Cello:
Gyorgy Sebok
Unknown:
Unterm Fenster
Soprano:
Lotte Lehmann
Soprano:
Lauritz Melchior
Conducted By:
Bruno Reibold
Conductor:
William Steinberg
Soprano:
Lotte Lehmann
Soprano:
Paul Ulanowsky
Unknown:
Sandor Vegh
Violins:
Alberto Lysy
Conductor:
Antal Dorati

2/5. Clara Wieck and Schumann were eventually married in 1840. That same year. Schumann turned his attention to writing songs - and at a staggering rate. Donald Macleod tells of the Schumanns' early days together, with music from the "year of song".
Widmung (Myrthen, Op 25 No 1) Dietrich Fischer -Dieskau (baritone), Christoph Eschenbach (piano) Myrthen, Op 25 Nos 20-26
Lynne Dawson (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)
Frauenliebe und -Leben, Op 42
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo) Irwin Gage (piano) Zwolf Gedichte aus Liebesfruhling, Op 37 Nos 1-6 Stella Doufexis (mezzo) Oliver Widmer (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Clara Wieck
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Dietrich Fischer
Baritone:
Christoph Eschenbach
Soprano:
Lynne Dawson
Soprano:
Ian Partridge
Piano:
Julius Drake
Unknown:
Brigitte Fassbaender
Piano:
Irwin Gage
Unknown:
Stella Doufexis
Baritone:
Oliver Widmer
Piano:
Graham Johnson

Edinburgh International Festival
The eminent Trio Wanderer from France makes its Edinburgh Festival debut at the Queen's Hall, playing three masterpieces of the piano trio repertoire. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch . Trio Wanderer
Haydn Piano Trio in C, H XV21
Mozart Piano Trio in B flat, K502
Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50

Contributors

Presented By:
Sara Mohr-Pietsch

My Kind of Song - Sir Peter Hall
The theatre and opera director talks to lain
Burnside about his long and varied career. His choice of recordings includes Ella Fitzgerald , Frank Sinatra , Judy Garland , Janet Baker , Kirsten Flagstad and Noël Coward.

Contributors

Song:
Sir Peter Hall
Unknown:
Ella Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Frank Sinatra
Unknown:
Judy Garland
Unknown:
Janet Baker
Unknown:
Kirsten Flagstad

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
The pan-European Mahler Youth Orchestra returns to the Proms in a programme of works by Strauss, Chausson and Shostakovich. Presented by Edward Seckerson.

Susan Graham (mezzo), Mahler Youth Orchestra conductor Philippe Jordan

Strauss Don Juan

Chausson Poeme de l'Amour et de la Mer

7.50 Twenty Minutes: How She Brought the Novel from Moscow
Lesley Chamberlain tells the story of Constance Garnett, the first translator of Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Turgenev, who more than anyone introduced English readers to the great Russian novels.

8.10 Shostakovich Symphony No 6

(This Prom is repeated on Thursday 31 August at 2.30pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Edward Seckerson
Mezzo:
Susan Graham
Musicians:
Mahler Youth Orchestra
Conductor:
Philippe Jordan
Presenter (Twenty Minutes):
Lesley Chamberlain

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Expect the unexpected as Austrian composer and "chansonnier" HK Gruber returns to the Proms. Codes and a riddle based on a tone-row are the subject of his newest work Hidden Agenda, and John Wayne, Superman, and Batman all make an appearance in the text of his Frankenstein!! Choral works by Weill and Eisler complete the programme. Presented by Verity Sharp.

Daniel Norman (tenor), Daniel Hyde (organ), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor HK Gruber (chansonnier)

HK Gruber Hidden Agenda

Weill Kiddush

Eisler Liturgie vom Hauch, Op 21 No 1

Weill Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen (Berlin Requiem)

Eisler Uber das Toten, Op 21 No 2

Weill Legende vom toten Soldaten (Berlin Requiem)

Eisler Ferner Streiken: 50,000 Holzarbeiter, Op 19 No 1

HK Gruber Frankenstein!!

(This Prom is also broadcast on BBC4)

Contributors

Presenter:
Verity Sharp
Tenor:
Daniel Norman
Organist:
Daniel Hyde
Singers:
BBC Singers
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
HK Gruber

With Jonathan Swain.
A concert of 15th- and 16th-century choral and instrumental works performed by the Tallis Scholars under Peter Philipps , and La Fenice, directed by Jean Tubery.
2.19 Vaughan Williams A London Symphony (Symphony No 2) 3.04 Ravel Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
3.17 Brahms, arr Duczmal Sextet in 8 flat, Op 18
3.55 Mozart Piano Trio in C, K548 4.14 Rossini String Sonata No 5 in E flat 4.29 Gluck Dance of the Furies
(Orphée et Euridice) 4.33 Vanhal Symphony in A minor
4.52 Beethoven Overture in C, Op 115 (zur Namensfeier)
5.00 Haapalainen Overture: Lemminkainen
5.08 Schubert Fantasy in C, D760 (Wandererfantasie)
5.29 Gibbons What Is Our Life? 5.33 Gibbons The Silver Swan 5.35 Purcell Sonata No 9 in F, Z810 (Golden)
5.43 Byrd In Fields Abroad 5.49 Chopin Ballade No 3 in A flat, Op 47 5.56 Stenhammar Spring Night
6.05 Kaski Symphony in B minor, Op 16 6.31 Grieg Andante con Moto in C minor 6.42 JE Bach Ode on Psalm 77: Das Vertrauen der Christen auf Gott

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Peter Philipps
Directed By:
Jean Tubery.
Directed By:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Gluck Dance

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