07:00
20 July 2004
Penny Gore continues her tour of French orchestral suites and introduces some settings of Petrarch.
Music includes, from 7.00am
Roussel: Suite in F, Op 33
Orchesre National de l'ORTF
Liszt: Pace non trovo from Three Petrarch Sonnets
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor)
John Wustman (piano)
Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite No 2
Orchestre National de Lyon, Emmanuel Krivine (conductor)
From 8.30am
Brahms: Quintet for strings No 1, Op 88 in F major
Amadeus Quartet, Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Monteverdi: Cosi di ben amar (Petrarch Sonnet CCVII)
The Consort of Musicke
Ligeti: Lontano
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Christian Sinding: Symphony no 4 - Rhapsody for Orchestra 'Frost and Spring'
North German Radio Philharmonic
David Porcelijn (conductor)
10:00
20 July 2004
With Jonathan Swain.
G Gabrieli: Canzon 7i toni
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Karl Munchinger (conductor)
Canzon 1i toni
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner (violin/director)
Listener request
Wordsworth: 3 Wordsworth Songs, Op 45
Alexander Young (tenor)
Allegri String Quartet
Barber: Symphony No 2, Op 19
New Symphony Orchestra
Samuel Barber (conductor)
G Gabrieli: Magnificat
Lausanne Vocal Ensemble
Lausanne University Choir
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Michel Corboz (conductor)
O magnum mysterium
Winchester Cathedral Choir
Martin Neary (conductor)
Hodie Christus natus est
Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
John Iveson, Stephen Saunders, David Purser (trombones)
Richard Gowman (organ)
Dr Bernard Rose (conductor)
Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor, Op 84
John Ogdon (piano)
Allegri String Quartet
G Gabrieli (arr Kazandjiev): Canzon 7i toni a 8; Canzon 4i toni a 15; Canzon 12i toni a 10
Sofia Soloists
Vassil Kazandjiev (conductor)
12:00
Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
Part 2
With Donald Macleod.
After completing his musical education at the Leipzig Conservatory, Grieg went to Copenhagen, the cultural capital of Scandanavia, where he met and was influenced by the Danish composer Niels Gade. A few years later he was encouraged to throw off that influence, forge a style of his own and write music that would bring honour to Norway by two very nationalistic men, his distant cousin Ole Bull and his friend Rikard Nordraak.
Jeg elsker Dig (I love you), Op 5 No 3
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano)
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Sonata for Piano, Op 7
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
Concert Overture, Op 11
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Humoresques, Op 6
Einar Steen-N?kleberg (piano)
Funeral March for Rikard Nordraak
London Symphony Orchestra
Per Dreier (conductor)
13:00
Cheltenham Festival 2004
20 July 2004
Chris de Souza introduces performances from the Pittville Pumproom given as part of this year's Cheltenham International Festival of Music. Today the Belcea String Quartet feature Mozart and are joined by clarinettist Michael Collins for a new piece by Colin Matthews.
Mozart: Duo in G, K 423
Colin Matthews: Little Berceuse (world premiere)
Mozart: String Quartet in F, K 590
Belcea Quartet
Michael Collins (clarinet)
14:00
The Nation's Favourite Prom
Another chance to hear Saturday's Prom featuring two overtures chosen by the public. The popular classics continue with favourite arias and Rachmaninov's delightful variations. The Prom culminates with a bang (or two) thanks to Tchaikovsky!
Presented by Martin Handley.
Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone)
Louis Lortie (piano)
Halle Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)
Mozart: Overture 'The Marriage of Figaro'; Non piu andrai (from The Marriage of Figaro); Madamina, il catalogo e questo (from Don Giovanni)
Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden (from A Village Romeo and Juliet)
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
Rossini: Overture 'William Tell'
Gounod: Le veau d'or (from Faust); Vous qui faites l'endormie (from Faust)
Boito: Son lo spirito che nega (from Mefistofele)
Tchaikovsky: Overture '1812'
16:00
Class War
Iain Burnside doffs his cap at all those upper-class toffs as he surveys the vexed world of class consciousness and snobbery. Includes songs by composers as varied as Jacques Brel, Noel Coward, Campion, Blow, Wolf, Poulenc, Walton, and Lord Berners.
17:00
20 July 2004
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world.
19:30
Prom 6 part 1
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Richard Strauss' epic symphony scales the heights and Liszt's Romantic concerto dazzles with drama and virtuosity in this colourful programme which opens with a new work by Chinese-American composer Zhou Long, who describes it as 'a tribute to the Chinese artists and intellectuals of the 20th century'.
Presented by Penny Gore.
Continues at 8.35pm, after Twenty Minutes.
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
Zhou Long: The Immortal
(BBC World Service commission: world premiere)
Liszt: Piano Concerto No 2
20:15
Trespass
In this new story by Julian Barnes, Geoff thinks he can impress Lynn by taking her hiking, with all the right equipment and know-how. Then things go wrong in the ferns at Froggatt Edge
Read by David Thorpe.
Producer Duncan Minshull.
20:35
Prom 6 part 2
Live from the Royal Albert Hall. Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) and the BBC SO/Leonard Slatkin conclude tonight's concert with Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony.
21:30
Zhou Long
From the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Following the world premiere of his new work, The Immortal, in tonight's Prom, Zhou Long talks to Andrew McGregor about his music and introduces performances of his chamber works.
Dhyana, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Su (Tracing Back) for flute and harp
Five Maskers, for brass quintet
Musicians from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
22:15
20 July 2004
At the heart of tonight's programme is The Prince of Music and the Priests of Nothingness, a sequence of 15th century English choral music performed by the BBC Singers conducted by Bo Holten and joined by shakuhachi player Clive Bell, recorded at this year's Spitalfields Festival.
Also tonight, music from Keith Jarrett and the latest collaboration between Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, The Equatorail Stars .
Presented by Fiona Talkington.
00:00
Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944)
3: The Opera Writing Years
Ethel Smyth's first two operas, Fantasio and Der Wald were very much in the German tradition. She found the inspiration in Britain for her third opera, The Wreckers, on a holiday to the Scilly Isles. It's probably her best known opera, and is the first work on which she collaborated with one of the most personally and professionally influential people in her life, Henry Brewster.
After the first World War Smyth's attitude to opera changed and she moved towards lighter subjects. The Boatswain's Mate, a comedy, was written in 1913-14 and followed by Fete Galante and her last opera, Entente Cordiale, described as a post-war comedy.
In this morning's programme Donald Macleod traces the line of development through these six operas with the help of the conductor and Smyth enthusiast, Odaline de la Martinez.
Prelude to Act 1, The Wreckers
BBC Philharmonic
Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)
Excerpt from Act 2, The Wreckers
Anne-Marie Owens (mezzo soprano)
Mark Justin (tenor)
Peter Sidhom (baritone)
BBC Philharmonic
Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)
Mrs. Water's Aria from The Boatswain's Mate
Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano)
The Plymouth Festival Orchestra
Philip Brunelle (conductor)
Two Interlinked French Melodies and Interlude from Entente Cordiale
Light Symphony Orchestra
Adrian Boult (conductor)
01:00
20 July 2004
Part One
With Jonathan Swain.
1.00am
From the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2003
Trinity Baroque, directed by Julian Podger, perform madrigals and motets by Byrd and de Monte
2.20am
Barber: Adagio for string orchestra
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
2.25am
Abel: Pieces for viola da gamba
Rainier Zipperling (viola da gamba)
2.40am
Faure: Nocturnes in B minor, Op 97; F sharp minor, Op 104
Stephane Lemelin (piano)
2.50am
Bach: Jesu, meine Freude - motet, BWV 227
Danish National Radio Choir
Stefan Parkman (conductor)
3.10am
Dvorak: Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 'From the New World'
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gerd Albrecht (conductor)
3.50am
Hummel: Trio in E flat major, Op 12
The Hertz Trio
4.10am
Galilei (arr Segovia): 6 Pieces
Andres Segovia (guitar)
4.15am
Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor 'per l'Orchestra di Dresda'
Cappella Coloniensis
Hans-Martin Linde (conductor)
4.25am
John B Escosa: Three Dances
Julia Shaw and Nora Bumanis (harps)
4.35am
Schumann: Fantasiestucke, Op 73
Claudio Bohorquez (cello)
Marcus Groh (piano)
4.45am
Georges Auric (arr Philip Lane): Suite from The Lavender Hill Mob
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
4.50am
James Nares: Introduction and fugue in E flat major
Richard Coulson (organ)
5.00am
CPE Bach: Sinfonia No 2 in B flat major
Camerata Bern
5.10am
Nicolas Gombert: Musae Jovis a6
BBC Singers
Bo Holten (conductor)
5.15am
Hendrik Andriessen: Premier Choral
Johan van Dommele (organ)
5.25am
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 24 in F sharp major, Op 78
Heinrich Neuhaus (piano)
5.35am
Donizetti: Sinfonia in G minor
05:00
20 July 2004
Part Two
5.10am
Nicolas Gombert: Musae Jovis a6
BBC Singers
Bo Holten (conductor)
5.15am
Hendrik Andriessen: Premier Choral
Johan van Dommele (organ)
5.25am
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 24 in F sharp major, Op 78
Heinrich Neuhaus (piano)
5.35am
Donizetti: Sinfonia in G minor
Bratislavska Komorna Harmonia
5.45am
Anthon van der Horst: La Nuit, Op 63 No 1
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Eric Ericson (conductor)
5.55am
Grieg: 2 Elegiac melodies, Op 34
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
6.05am
Chopin: Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52
Valerie Tryon (piano)
6.15am
John Corigliano: Elegy
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
6.25am
Debussy: Sonata in G minor
Peter Oundjian (violin)
William Tritt (piano)
6.35am
Mozart: Symphony No 35 in D major, K 385, 'Haffner'
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Bjarte Engeset (conductor)
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