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7.00-8.30: Schubert Rondo in A, D951
Maria Joao Pires and Ricardo Castro (pianos)
ETA Hoffmann Overture: The Merry Musicians Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Lothar Zagrosek Victoria 0 Quam Cloriosum
The Sixteen, director Harry Christophers
8.30-10.00: Handel Concerto Grosso in B minor Op 6 No 12
Academy of Ancient Music, director Andrew Manze Nadia Boulanger Pie Jesu
Bernadette Greevy (mezzo), BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer
Nielsen Dance of the Cockerels (Maskarade) Danish National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Thomas Dausgaard

Contributors

Unknown:
Schubert Rondo
Unknown:
Maria Joao Pires
Pianos:
Ricardo Castro
Conductor:
Lothar Zagrosek
Director:
Harry Christophers
Director:
Andrew Manze
Unknown:
Bernadette Greevy
Unknown:
Nielsen Dance
Conductor:
Thomas Dausgaard

With Sarah Walker.
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Swiss Romande Orchestra, conductor Ernest Ansermet
10.17 Bach/Gounod Ave Maria (Meditation)
Tchaikovsky Valse Sentimentale (Six Pieces. Op 51 No 6) Rimsky-Korsakov Flight of the Bumble Bee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Pierre Fournier (cello), Lamar Crowson (piano)
10.25 Beethoven Septet in E flat, Op 20 Melos Ensemble
11.05 Debussy La Cathédrale Engloutie (Preludes, Bk 1) Pascal Roge (piano)
Messiaen Apparition de I'Eglise Eternelle Gillian Weir (organ)
11.23 Schoenberg Verlkarte Nacht Orpheus Chamber Ensemble

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Walker.
Conductor:
Ernest Ansermet
Unknown:
Tchaikovsky Valse Sentimentale
Cello:
Pierre Fournier
Cello:
Lamar Crowson
Piano:
Pascal Roge
Unknown:
Gillian Weir

Introduced by Penny Gore .
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Edinburgh International Festival 2007
A recital from the Bank of Scotland Queen's Hall Series. Kate Royal (soprano), Christine Rice (mezzo), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Schumann Herbstlied ; Erste Begegnung; Sommerruh Mendelssohn Auf Flugeln des Gesanges;
Venezianisches Gondellied ; Pagenlied; Der Mond Gounod D'un Coeur Qui Taime, Fleur des Bois Chausson La Nuit; Reveil
Brahms Die Mainacht; Unbewegte, laue Luft; Lerchengesang; Standchen
Dvorak When My Scythe Was Whetted; Ere We Part; The Modest Lass; The Captive; Wedding Song (Moravian Duets)
2.30 BBC Proms 2007
Another chance to hear the Prom from Saturday 25 August, introduced by Donald Macleod.
Tenebrae (women's voices), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Bernard Haitink
Waqner Prelude and Good Friday Music: Parsifal Debussy Three Nocturnes
Debussy, orch Rudolf Escher Six Epigraphes Antiques Waqner Prelude und Liebestod: Tristan und Isolde
4.00 From Wiqmore Hall , London Tokyo Quartet
Schubert String Quartet in G, D887

Contributors

Introduced By:
Penny Gore
Soprano:
Christine Rice
Piano:
Roger Vignoles
Piano:
Schumann Herbstlied
Unknown:
Venezianisches Gondellied
Introduced By:
Donald MacLeod.
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink
Unknown:
Rudolf Escher
Unknown:
Wiqmore Hall

Presented live from the Royal Albert Hall , London, by Donald Macleod. Following last night's all-Viennese programme,
Daniel Barenboim and the Vienna Philharmonic perform works by Eastern European composers.
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim
Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
8.05 Twenty Minutes: Thirsting for Music
Paul Bailey , in conversation with those who knew and have written about Mihail Sebastian , tells the story of this angelic witness who harnessed music to overcome the horrors of wartime Romania.
8.25 Ligeti Atmospheres
Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No 1 Kodaly Dances of Galanta Music choices: page 120

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Daniel Barenboim
Conductor:
Daniel Barenboim
Conductor:
Bartok Music
Music:
Paul Bailey
Unknown:
Mihail Sebastian

Kwame Kwei-Armah makes an emotional journey through Freetown, in Sierra Leone, to discover how the slave trade has influenced a generation of writers and if the memory of slavery is still alive in a country that has passed through colonial independence and bloody civil war. Producer Mark O'Brien

Contributors

Unknown:
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Producer:
Mark O'Brien

Presented by John Shea. A sequence of music with a featured Proms performer leading the way. Daniel Barenboim, the subject of this week's programmes, conducts the Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra in excerpts from Wagner's Die Walkure.

Contributors

Presenter:
John Shea
Conductor:
Daniel Barenboim
Singers:
Bayreuth Festival Chorus
Musicians:
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Only a Monkey Shaved
1/3. Steve Jones , professor of genetics at University College, London, takes WS Gilbert's line "Darwinian man, though well behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved" as his starting point to explore what the latest scientific findings reveal about the differences and similarities between man and the apes. Producer Deborah Cohen

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Jones
Producer:
Deborah Cohen

Presented by John Shea.
Vivaldi All'Ombra di Sospetto. RV678 (excerpts); Allegro
(Concerto in D minor after Bach's arrangement of Vivaldi's Concerto No 8 from L'Estro Armonico)
1.05 Astorga Che Fai, Che Pensi, e Che Riso/vi?
1.20 D Scarlatti Sonata in D, Kk478
1.24 Mancini Quanto Dolce e Ouell'Ardore
1.36 Caldara Allegro (Cantata: il Giuoco del Ouadhglio); Ritornello (Dafne); Augeletti, Zefiretti (Dafne) 1.45
Prokofiev Symphony No 7 2.17 Brahms Violin Concerto in D
2.55 Messiaen Premiere Communion de la Vierge; Regard des Anges: Regard de I'Eglise d'Amour (Vingt Regards sur I'Enfant Jesus) 3.25 Salnt-Saens Piano Trio No 1 in F
3.55 Szymanowski Veni Creator 4.07 Bozldar Kunc
Triptych for cello and orchestra. Op 40 4.19 Nardelli Three pieces for guitar 4.28 Chopin Preludes, Op 28 (excerpts)
444 Grieg Two Lyric Pieces: Evening in the Mountains; At the Cradle 4.53 Handel Aria: Mi Lusingail il Dolce Affetto(Alcina)
5.00 Rossini Overture: William Tell 5.11 Fux Eine musikalische Beschreibung der Belagerung Wiens durch die Turken anno 1683 (Turcaria) 5.24 Chopin Preludes, Op 28 (excerpts)
5.34 Devienne Trio No 2 in C 5.44 Sarasate
Zigeunerweisen, Op 20 5.53 Beethoven Piano Sonata in E minor, Op 90 6.06 Bacewicz Violin Concerto No 4
6.31 Mozart Piano Quartet in E flat, K493

Contributors

Presented By:
John Shea.

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