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Presented by Penny Gore . Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Humperdinck Overture: Hansel and Gretel T Linley (son) Overture: The Duenna Shostakovich Three Fantastic Dances, Op 5
8.30-10.00: Fucik The Bear with the Sore Head Granados The Maiden and the Nightingale Gaubert Pièce Romantique

Contributors

Presented By:
Penny Gore
Unknown:
Head Granados

With Rob Cowan.
Rossini Overture: La Cenerentola Chicago SO, conductor Fritz Reiner
10.08 Prokofiev Cinderella , Act I (excerpts) USSR RTV SO/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
10.18 Bela Bartok Violin Sonata No 2, Sz85 Joseph Szigeti , Bela Bartok (piano)
10.39 Suk Fantastic Scherzo, Op 25
Prague RSO, conductor Vladimir Valek
10.54 Schubert Der sturmische Morgen; Tauschung; Der Wegweiser (Winterreise)
Lotte Lehmann (soprano), Paul Ulanowsky (piano)
11.02 Bartok Contrasts, Sz116
Michel Portal (clarinet), Laurent Korcia (violin), Jean-Eff lam Bavouzet (piano)
11.21 Mozart Symphony No 35 in D, K385 (Haffner) Cleveland Orchestra, conductor George Szell
11.42 Wagner Love duet (Die Walkure, Act 1)
Lotte Lehmann (soprano), Lauritz Melchior (tenor) Vienna PO, conductor Bruno Walter

Contributors

Unknown:
Rob Cowan.
Conductor:
Fritz Reiner
Conductor:
Prokofiev Cinderella
Violin:
Bela Bartok
Unknown:
Joseph Szigeti
Piano:
Bela Bartok
Conductor:
Vladimir Valek
Conductor:
Schubert Der
Soprano:
Lotte Lehmann
Soprano:
Paul Ulanowsky
Clarinet:
Michel Portal
Clarinet:
Laurent Korcia
Conductor:
George Szell
Conductor:
Wagner Love
Soprano:
Lotte Lehmann
Soprano:
Lauritz Melchior
Conductor:
Bruno Walter

5/5. in 1848, as revolutions swept Europe,
Schumann managed to evade military action and carried on composing in Dresden as chorus master for various choirs and even fulfilling his ambition to write an opera. With Donald Macleod. Sommerlied (Funf Romanzen und Balladen, Op 146 No 4) London Schubert Chorale, conductor Stephen Layton
Genoveva, Act 2 Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur
Mignon (Album fur die Jugend, Op 68 No 35) Angela Brownridge (piano) March, Op 76 No 2
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Requiem fur Mignon, Op 98b
Brigitte Lindner and Andrea Andonian (sopranos), Mechthild Georg (alto),
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone),
Dusseldorf SO, conductor Bernhard Klee
Repeated on Thursday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Funf Romanzen
Conductor:
Stephen Layton
Conductor:
Kurt Masur
Piano:
Angela Brownridge
Piano:
Sviatoslav Richter
Unknown:
Brigitte Lindner
Sopranos:
Andrea Andonian
Sopranos:
Mechthild Georg
Baritone:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Conductor:
Bernhard Klee
Genoveva:
Edda Moser (soprano)
Golo:
Peter Schreier (tenor)
Drago:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Margaretha:
Gisela Schroter (mezzo)

Presented by Martin Handley.
Christian Tetzlaff (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jiri Belohlavek Schumann Overture:
Manfred Beethoven Violin Concerto in D
Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish) Repeated from Tuesday 15 August

Contributors

Presented By:
Martin Handley.
Conductor:
Jiri Belohlavek
Violin:
Manfred Beethoven

Oliver Nelson
Stacey Kent explores the arrangements and music of American saxophonist Oliver Nelson. Although Nelson eventually moved to Los
Angeles and composed in a more commercial vein he is still remembered for his work with singer Nancy Wilson and many others. Nelson's album Blues and the Abstract Truth has just been voted one of the "100 jazz albums that shook the world" by a leading UK Jazz Magazine. Producer Keith Loxam
RT DIRECT: Oliver Nelson Live from Los Angeles (1 CD) is available for £9.99 including p&p. To order please send a cheque, payable to Selections, to: [address removed], or phone: [number removed] (national rate), or visit www.selections.com/rtdirect. Quote ref: [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Oliver Nelson
Unknown:
Stacey Kent
Unknown:
Oliver Nelson.
Singer:
Nancy Wilson
Producer:
Keith Loxam
Unknown:
Oliver Nelson

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Tonight's Prom begins with Magnus Lindberg's architecturally inspired new work, with Mendelssohn's fresh and original violin concerto and Sibelius's soaring fifth symphony completing this wide-ranging programme. Presented by Sarah Walker.

Nikolaj Znaider (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Magnus Lindberg Sculpture (first UK performance)

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor

8.30 Twenty Minutes: Talking Proms
Sarah Walker presents the latest news and views from the current Proms season.

8.50 Sibelius Symphony No 5

(Also broadcast on BBC4)
(This Prom is repeated on Friday 8 September at 2.00pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Sarah Walker
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Violinist:
Nikolaj Znaider
Conductor:
Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Magnus Lindberg
Following the UK premiere of Sculpture,
Lindberg talks to Andrew McGregor about his music and introduces performances of his Piano Jubilees and Steamboat BillJr performed by Sarah Thurlow (clarinet) and Sarah Suckling (cello) from the Royal College of Music
Contemporary Consort, and himself at the piano.

Contributors

Unknown:
Magnus Lindberg
Unknown:
Andrew McGregor
Clarinet:
Sarah Thurlow
Clarinet:
Sarah Suckling

Jez Nelson presents the World Saxophone Quartet, recorded live at the London Jazz
Festival in 2005, together with trombonist Craig Harris , Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Lee Pearson (bass and drums) and featuring their acclaimed arrangements of Jimi Hendrix. With items additional to the first broadcast. (Revised rpt)

Contributors

Unknown:
Craig Harris
Unknown:
Jamaaladeen Tacuma
Bass:
Lee Pearson
Unknown:
Jimi Hendrix.

With Jonathan Swain. Haydn Symphony No 78 in C minor Britten Les Illuminations, Op 18 Mozart Symphony No 29 in A, K201 Gombert Benedicto Mensae
2.16 Daniel-Lesur Suite Medievale 2.30 R
Murray Schafer Minnelieder 2.58 Regerfanfasyon Wachetauf , ruft uns die Stimme, Op 52 No 2 3.18 Bach Orchestral
Suite No 4 in D, BWVI069 3.37 Strauss Suite in B flat, Op 4
4.01 Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride
4.08 Norman Zwei Charakterstucke , Op I
4.19 Frangaix 11 Variations on a Theme by Haydn
4.31 Bizet L'Arlesienne, Suites No I and 2 (excerpts)
4.53 Liszt, transcr Paderewski Hungarian Rhapsody No 10 in E (Preludio) 5.00 Granados, arr Chris Paul
Harman The Maiden and the Nightingale 5.06 Jarnefelt The Sound of Home 5.17 Sibelius Romance in D flat
(Pieces for piano, Op 24 No 9) 5.21 Sweelinck Psalm 110: Le Toutpuissant a Mon Seigneur et Maistre 5.29 Wilbye
Draw on. Sweet Night 5.34 Wagner, transcr Liszt Isolde 's Liebestod 5.42 Elgar Serenade for Strings, Op 20
5.53 Abel Pieces 6.09 Britten Variations and Fugue on a theme by Purcell 6.26 Byrd The Battle (excerpts)
6.32 Beethoven Wellingtons Sieg (Battle Symphony)
6.47 Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Swain.
Unknown:
Murray Schafer Minnelieder
Unknown:
Regerfanfasyon Wachetauf
Unknown:
Strauss Suite
Unknown:
Norman Zwei Charakterstucke
Unknown:
Chris Paul
Unknown:
Liszt Isolde

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