Music includes:
7.00-8.00: Albeniz Catalonia
RTV Symphony Orchestra, conductor Igor Markevitch Handel Arrival of the Queen ofSheba (Solomon) Taverner Players, conductor Andrew Parrott
8.00-9.00: Haydn Piano Concerto in F H XVIII 7 Mikhail Pletnev , German Chamber Orchestra Saint-Saëns Romance in C, Op 48
Olivier Charlier (violin), members of Paris Orchestra, conductor Jean-Jaques Kantorow
9.00-10.00: Garcia de Zespedes Convidando Esta la Noche
Harp Consort, director Andrew Lawrence-King Copland El Salon Mexico Dallas SO, conductor Eduardo Mata
Sitting in for lain Burnside, Jeremy Sams introduces lesser-known works by great composers, including:
Brahms's Vier Gesange, Op 17 and Debussy's La Boite aJoujoux. Plus music by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Handel.
Today Michael Berkeley talks to the political columnist Simon Heffer , who writes for the Daily Mail. His choices include works by Hoist, Parry, Butterworth, Vaughan Williams and George Lloyd , as well as part of the Prelude to Wagner's Gotterdammerung.
Vivaldi at the Opera. Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from a July concert recorded at the Abbey of Saint Michel-en-Thierache in Picardie, France. The Accademia Bizantina and music director Ottavio Dantone are joined by contralto Sonia Prina for a programme of orchestral works and arias by Antonio Vivaldi , whose operas are not his best-known works. Featuring lovely arias from La Silvia, Teuzzone and La Verita in Cimento, plus two of the composer's less famous concertos. Producer Les Pratt
Chi-chi Nwanoku presents listeners' favourites. ADDRESS: Radio 3 Requests. BBC Wales, CF 5 2YQ
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From St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh, during the Edinburgh International Festival. Introit: Lord, Make Me an Instrument (
Peter Aston ). Responses: Martin Neary Psalms: 70,71 (Talbot, Turle). First Reading: John 6, vv51-58.
Office Hymn: The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare (Surrey). Canticles: The Amarillo Service (
David Ashley White ). Second Reading: Luke 12, vv49-56. Anthem: Festival Te Deum (Mathias). Final Hymn: Songs of Praise the Angels Sang (Northampton). Organ Voluntary: Fanfare (Four Extemporisations) (Percy Whitlock ). Organist and Master of the music Simon Nieminski , Assistant organist Duncan Ferguson.
Presented from the Royal Albert Hall , London, by Sarah Walker. This evening's concert includes Shostakovich's intensely personal
Tenth Symphony, and Bernstein's music from West Side Story.
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, conductor Gustavo Dudamel
Shostakovich Symphony No 10
7.15 Twenty Minutes: Venezuela - El Sistema Fiona Talkington explores the success of the Venezuelan system that uses classical music to rescue children from social and spiritual poverty.
7.35 Bernstein Symphonic Dances (West Side Story) Plus Latin-American works to include:
Ginastera Suite: Estancia
Arturo Marquez Danzon No 2 Moncayo Huapango
This Prom is also broadcast on BBC4 at 7.30pm and is repeated on Radio 3 on Wednesday 29 August at 2pm
India and Pakistan 07
Five international authors write about members of the same family living in their countries: the Midwest of the USA, Nairobi, Karachi, Shanghai and Bradford.
The members are descended from the same maternal grandmother who crossed the border from India into Pakistan in 1947. Bora Bistrah means "pack your bags" - everything, including the kitchen sink. Music by Arun Ghosh and singer Ebere links the stories.
Producer/Director Shabina Aslam
Authority
The satirist and broadcaster Armando lannucci selects poetry, prose and music around the theme of authority, spanning gods, kings, the state and parents; and encompassing anarchy, rebellion and disobedience. Including Pope's Essay on Man and extracts from Milton's Paradise Lost, Primo Levi 's If This Is a Man and Orwell's Shooting an Elephant, with music by Britten, Respighi, Joni Mitchell and Copland's Lincoln Portrait narrated by Margaret Thatcher. EMAIL: wordsandmusic@bbc.co.uk
For details of the music and verse heard in this programme, visitwww.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wordsandmusic
Lucie Skeaping explores the history of the sackbut.
Music includes pieces by Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Lassus, Scheidt and Locke. Andrew Gourlay visits the home of trombonist and sackbut player Simon Wills.
Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Guido Morini Prooemium (Vivifice Spiritus Vitae Vis, Lodi); Como sencza la Vita; Effuderunt Aquas Nubila (I Pars) Anon Tarantella della Carpinese Morini Est Enim in Ilia Spiritus
Intellegens (II Pars) Marco Beasley Lu Passariello Morini Et Requiescet super Eum Spiritus Domini (II Pars) Beasley
Tarantella Prima, Siconna e Terza Morini Effundam Spiritum Meum (III Pars) Anon Canto per Montevergine; La Bella Noeva Marco Beasley (vocals), Ensemble Accordone , Helikon Chorus t51 Bruckner Symphony No 3 in D minor 2.48 Pejacevic Piano Quintet in B minor, Op40 3.15 Rimsky-Korsakov Salieri 's Aria (Mozart and Salieri) 3.23 Dvorak Symphony No 7 in D minor
4.00 Gallot Pieces de Lute in F minor 4.11 Pachelbel Der Herr ist Korag 4.15 Kozeluch Pastorale in G 4.20
Mozart Abendempfindung , K523425 Borodin Nottumo (String Quartet No 2 in D) 433 Copland Hoe Down (Rodeo) 4.37 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 3 in E flat 4.52 Slbellus Rakastava
5.00 Pacius Overture: King Charles's Hunt 5.07 Bach Largo (Trio Sonata in C, BWV529) 5.17 Handel Oboe Sonata in B flat, HWV357,, Flammende Rose , Zierde der Erden, HWV210
5.28 Tromboncino Gentil Donna ; S'il Dissi Mai; Non
Peccando Altri Ch'el Core 536 Enescu Romanian RhapsodyNo I in A, Op 11 No 15.49 Dobrzynski Andante and Rondo alia Pollacca
6.00 Chopin Nocturnes: in F, Op 15 No 1; in C minor, Op 48 No 1
6.13 Pfitzner Venus Mater , Op 11 No 4; Verrat, Op 2 No 7
6.21 Molique Sonata, Op 57 6.42 Wagner Prelude and Liebestod: Tristan und Isolde