Programme Index

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Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Arvo Part Summa
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Paavo Jarvi
Handel Violin Sonata in E, Op 1 No 15
Itzhak Perlman (violin), David Garvey (piano) Schubert Liebeslauschen
Philip Langridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
8.30-10.00: Hoist St Paul's Suite St Paul Chamber Orchestra, conductor Christopher Hogwood Balakirev Islamey Lang Lang (piano) Purcell The Plaint
Alfred Deller (countertenor), Wieland Kuijken
(viola da gamba), William Christie (harpsichord)

Contributors

Conductor:
Paavo Jarvi
Violin:
Itzhak Perlman
Violin:
David Garvey
Tenor:
Philip Langridge
Tenor:
Graham Johnson
Conductor:
Christopher Hogwood
Conductor:
Balakirev Islamey
Piano:
Lang Lang
Unknown:
Alfred Deller
Viola:
Wieland Kuijken
Harpsichord:
William Christie

Presented by James Jolly.
Aaron Copland Statements London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer
10.19 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Vladimir Horowitz , RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner
10.58 Mahler Four Ruckert Lieder Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Leonard Bernstein (piano)
11.20 Steve Reich Music for a Large Ensemble Steve Reich and Musicians
11.37 Gershwin An American in Paris Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, conductor Felix Slatkin

Contributors

Presented By:
James Jolly.
Unknown:
Vladimir Horowitz
Conductor:
Fritz Reiner
Piano:
Leonard Bernstein
Piano:
Steve Reich Music
Unknown:
Steve Reich
Conductor:
Felix Slatkin

1/5. Casting the Die - Dvorak the Opera Composer Presented by Donald Macleod.
At Dawn, As I Merrily Pursued a Slender Gazelle (Armida)
Milada Subertova (soprano), Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vaclav Jiraceck Dramatic Overture
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Libor Pesek The King and the Charcoal Burner (excerpts)
Jitka Svobodova (soprano), Drahomira Drobkova
(mezzo), Rene Tucek (baritone), Miroslav Kopp (tenor), Dalibor Jedlicka (bass), Prague National Theatre
Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Josef Chaloupka The Water Goblin, Op 107
Berlin PO, conductor Simon Rattle
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Contributors

Presented By:
Donald MacLeod.
Soprano:
Milada Subertova
Conductor:
Vaclav Jiraceck
Soprano:
Jitka Svobodova
Soprano:
Drahomira Drobkova
Baritone:
Rene Tucek
Baritone:
Miroslav Kopp
Bass:
Dalibor Jedlicka
Conductor:
Josef Chaloupka
Conductor:
Simon Rattle

BBC Proms Chamber Music
Introduced live from Cadogan Hall in London, presented by Penny Gore . One of the great tenors of our time brings a very personal contribution to the centenary celebrations for composer Elizabeth Maconchy.
Philip Langridge (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano) Schumann Liederkreis , Op 24
Maconchy Four Shakespeare Songs Britten Winter Words, Op 52 Repeated on Saturday at 2pm
2.00 BBC Proms 2007
Another chance to hear last Saturday's concert, introduced by Alexandra Wilson.
Alexander Kobrin (piano), National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, conductor Mark Elder
Aaron Jay Kernls New Era Dance (first UKperformance) Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 1
Shostakovich Symphony No 7 (Leningrad)
3.45 From Wigmore Hall, London Introduced by Louise Fryer. Psophos Quartet
Mozart String Quartet in D, K499 (Hoffmeister) Ravel String Quartet in F EMAIL: afternoonon3Jibbc.co.uk

Contributors

Presented By:
Penny Gore
Unknown:
Elizabeth MacOnchy.
Tenor:
Philip Langridge
Tenor:
David Owen Norris
Piano:
Schumann Liederkreis
Introduced By:
Alexandra Wilson.
Piano:
Alexander Kobrin
Conductor:
Mark Elder
Conductor:
Aaron Jay Kernls
Introduced By:
Louise Fryer.

Presented live from the Royal Albert Hall in London by Martin Handley. Baritone Matthias Goerne joins one of Germany's leading orchestras and its new chief conductor in a programme spanning four generations of Austro-German composers.

Matthias Goerne (baritone), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Paavo Jarvi

Weber Overture: Oberon

Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn (excerpts)

8.25 Twenty Minutes: The First BBC Prom
The first BBC Prom was broadcast 80 years ago tonight, after the BBC took over the concerts. Radio historian Sean Street explores the significance of this moment, meets Proms director Nicholas Kenyon and Jenny Doctor, editor of a new history of the Proms, and trawls through the first-night reviews and other comment in the press.

8.45 Brahms, arr Schoenberg Piano Quartet in G minor

(This Prom is also broadcast on BBC4 and is repeated on Radio 3 on Tuesday 21 August at 2pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Martin Handley
Baritone:
Matthias Goerne
Musicians:
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor:
Paavo Jarvi
Presenter (Twenty Minutes):
Sean Street
Guest (Twenty Minutes):
Nicholas Kenyon
Guest (Twenty Minutes):
Jenny Doctor

The BBC Proms at 80
1/3. Roderick Swanston reflects on changing tastes in the programme planning of the annual Proms festival, drawing on the memoirs of past controllers William Glock and John Drummond. EMAIL: theessay@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Roderick Swanston
Unknown:
William Glock
Unknown:
John Drummond.

Introduced by Jonathan Swain.
A concert recorded in Copenhagen in March. Beethoven String Trio in C minor, Op 9 No 3 Schoenberg String Trio, Op 45
Strauss Piano Quartet in C, Op 13 Niklas Sivelov (piano). Aristos Trio
2.25 Svendsen Symphony No 2 in B flat
3.01 Schubert Piano Sonata in D, D850
3.39 Haydn Symphony No 102 in B flat
4.04 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in D, Op 3 No 9, RV230
4.12 Dupre Variations on Adeste Fideles
4.21 Ravel Tzigane
4.31 Howells Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing
4.40 Kraus Symphony in C, VB139
4.53 Bourdon Elegiac poem for cello and orchestra
5.00 Bach Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV1041
5.14 Byrd Walsingham (Have With You To Walsingham), MB78 5.23 Westlake Winter in the Forgotten Valley
5.36 Trad Hungarian Dances (Locse Virginals Book)
5.40 Brahms Tragic Overture, Op 81
5.53 Klsielewski Suite: Fun Fair
6.06 Mozart Symphony No 38 in D. K504 (Prague)
6.35 Strauss Suite in B flat, Op 4

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jonathan Swain.
Piano:
Niklas Sivelov
Unknown:
Bourdon Elegiac
Unknown:
Byrd Walsingham
Unknown:
Strauss Suite

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