07:00
31 July 2004
Presented by Martin Handley.
Music includes, from 7.00am
Geoffrey Bush: Overture, Yorick
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)
Mozart: Concerto in E flat, K 365
Friedrich Gulda, Chick Corea (pianos)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
From 8.00am
Mussorgsky orch Rimsky-Korsakov: Night on the Bare Mountain
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Mariss Jansons (conductor)
Verdi arr Toscanini: String Quartet
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Andre Previn (conductor)
09:00
Sir Richard Eyre
The award-winning film and theatre director Sir Richard Eyre makes his personal choice of music and looks ahead to the forthcoming week of Proms. There's music by Prokofiev from Eisentstein's film Alexander Nevsky, Berlioz' Queen Mab, inspired by Shakespeare, piano playing from Murray Periah and Alfred Brendel, and music from Art Tatum and Charles Trenet.
Prokoviev: The Battle on the Ice
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Eduardo Mata (conductor)
Bach: Concerto No 5 in F minor
Murray Perahia (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra
Berlioz: Scherzo: Queen Mab
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor)
Elgar: Where Chorals Lie
Janet Baker (Mezzo), Halle Orchestra,
John Barbirolli (conductor)
Verdi: La Traviata (extract)
Violetta ...... Angela Georghiu
Germont ...... Leo Nucci
Alfredo ...... Frank Lopardo
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Georg Solti (conductor)
Schubert: Impromptu in G flat major
Alfred Brendel, piano
Maxwell Davies: Lullaby for Lucy
Choir of St Mary's Cathedral
Mozart: Fantasia in C minor
Ivan Moravec, piano
Ives: The Unanswered Question
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
Adams: Harmonielehre
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
Ravel: String Quarte (extract)
Alban Berg Quartet
Walton: Set me as a seal upon your heart
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Stephen Darlington (conductor)
Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
12:00
Chamber Prom 2
Recorded at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Another chance to hear Pinchas Zukerman and colleagues from the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Toronto, where he is Music Director. They perform a chamber music miniature by the youthful Franz Schubert and Mozart's most extended, superbly eloquent quintet written in that prolific summer of 1788, just before his final three symphonies.
Presented by Stephanie Hughes.
Pinchas Zukerman (violin)
Jessica Linnebach (violin)
Donnie Deacon (violin/viola)
Jethro Marks (viola)
Amanda Forsyth (cello)
Schubert:String Trio in B-flat Major, D 471
Mozart: String Quintet in C Major, K 515
13:00
How Opera arrived in the New World
In the first of this weekend's two programme's about Opera's arrival in Latin America, Lucie Skeaping explores the development of music in the New World from before the Spanish colonisation of c.1514 until 1701, when the first opera was premiered in Peru.
14:00
Performing Janacek: Mark Elder
The third in a series of programmes celebrating the 150th anniversary of Leos Janacek's birth, in which Ivan Hewett talks to eight distinguished Janacek interpreters - conductors, directors and singers - about their approach to performing Janacek.
Today the conductor Mark Elder discusses Janacek's last great choral work, the Glagolitic Mass.
15:00
31 July 2004
Highlights from last weekend's WOMAD Festival in Reading, including the performance from the Siam Tent by Culture Musical Club, a fifteen-piece traditional taarab orchestra from the island of Zanzibar.
Introduced by Lucy Duran.
16:00
31 July 2004
Highlights from the 4th BBC Jazz Awards, from the Hammersmith Palais, London. Join Claire Martin and Ian Shaw to hear this year's winners from over 10 categories, and live performances from the cream of the world's jazz stage.
17:00
31 July 2004
With Geoffrey Smith. Request your favourite jazz cut by E mail: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk
18:00
Lullaby of Birdland: The George Shearing Story
31 July 2004
3/4. What was the basis of the famous 'Shearing Sound'? In this programme George Shearing deminstrates to Alyn Shipton how vibes player Marge Hyams and guitarist Chuck Wayne were vital to his hits such as Autumn Leaves. He also explores baroque sounds with Gary Burton, and begins his partnership with the great Mel Torme.
18:30
31 July 2004
Offering their unique brand of complementary therapy, this week Kit and the Widow invite Catherine Bott into the studio to cast off the straitjacket of early music, and to perform with David Owen Norris some songs from her celebration of London in song.
19:00
Prom 20 part 1
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Two Russian greats go head to head tonight in the second concert from Mariss Jansons, recently honoured with a Royal
Philharmonic Society Award, and his new orchestra. Shostakovich's fiery and challenging concerto is juxtaposed
with Tchaikovsky's profound and dramatic last symphony.
Presented by Stephanie Hughes.
Programme notes, composer and artist profiles and "now playing" information for each main evening Prom are available on LiveText via Dab radio and Freeview.
Continues after Twenty Minutes.
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Mariss Jansons (conductor)
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1
19:45
31 July 2004
Stephanie Hughes, meets Mariss Janson and Gidon Kremer from tonight's concert, discusses the world of Tchaikovsky's symphonies with David Nice, and looks forward to the coming week of Proms.
20:05
Prom 20 part 2
Presented by Stephanie Hughes, live from the Royal Albert Hall. The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Mariss Jansons conclude tonight's concert with Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6.
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons (conductor)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6
21:15
31 July 2004
The Woman with Fork and Knife Disorder
By Jackie Kay.
Irene Elliot has a cutlery disorder which sprung up on her quite suddenly in the house she shares with her daughter. Struggling with her adolescence, Mary Ann hates everything about her mother - blaming her for the day her father took a machete to his marriage and walked out.
Now everything is tense. The cutlery's mixed up, and Mary Ann is turning into her father.
Irene ...... Siobhan Redman
Mary Ann ...... Julie Austin
The Doctor ...... Clive Russell
With music and the voice of the cutlery composed by Scanner
Directed in Manchester by Susan Roberts
22:00
Prom 21
Out Here to Swing!
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
The internationally renowned resident orchestra from New York's Lincoln Center, fronted by virtuoso trumpeter and musical dynamo Wynton Marsalis, makes a welcome return to the Proms with a late-night celebration of the irresistible rhythms and roof-lifting riffs of the Golden Age of Swing.
Presented by Geoffrey Smith.
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
Wynton Marsalis (trumpet/director)
00:00
Summer Festivals
4/5. Sarah Walker introduces a Hear and Now joint promoted concert, in which the Arditti Quartet gives the UK premieres of Richard Barrett's faux departs and Brett Dean's Eclipse; and the quartet is joined by pianist Ian Pace for Elliott Carter's Quintet for piano and string quartet.
01:00
31 July 2004
Part One
With John Shea.
1.00am
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski conducts the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, recorded on 31st May 2002 at Grzegorz Fitelberg Concert Hall
Mozart: Symphony No 40 in G minor, K 550
Bruckner: Symphony No 4 in E flat major, 'Romantic'
2.30am
Jacques Gallot: Suite in F minor
Jakob Lindberg (lute)
2.45am
Matthew Locke: Fantazie; Suite in A minor
Pedro Memelsdorff (recorder)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
3.00am
Carniolus: Missa super Adesto dolori meo
Madrigal Quintett Brno
Roman Valek (leader)
3.25am
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger: Frosoblomster (Flowers from Froson Island) Book 2
Johan Ullen (piano)
3.50am
Johan Halvorsen: Norwegian Rhapsody No 1 in A minor
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)
4.00am
Bach: Flute Sonata in A major, BWV 1032
Bart Kuijken (flute)
Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)
4.15am
Haydn: She never told her love, H 26a 34
Sarah Walker (mezzo soprano)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
4.20am
Carl Friedrich Abel: Symphony, Op 10, No 2
La Stagione Frankfurt
Michael Schneider (conductor)
4.30am
Grieg: String Quartet in F major
Vertavo Quartet
4.45am
Kuhlau: Sonata in F major, Op 52, No 1
Folmer Jensen (piano)
05:00
31 July 2004
Part Two
John Shea concludes this morning's programme.
5.00am
Karol Rathaus: Prelude and Gigue in A major, Op 44
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice
Joel Stuben (conductor)
5.05am
Chopin: Ballade No 3 in A flat major, Op 47
Valerie Tryon (piano)
5.15am
David Wikander: V?ren ar ung och mild (Spring is young and mild); Kung Liljekongvalje (King Lily of the Valley)
Swedish Radio Choir
Gustav Sjokvist and Stefan Skold (conductors)
5.20am
Glazunov: Chant du menestrel, Op 71
Shauna Rolston (cello)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5.25am
Richard Strauss: Largo, Op 3, No 3
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
5.35am
Gomidas Vartabed: Der Voghormya (Hymn of Supplication)
Trad: Horjam (Requiem melody)
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano)
Elmer Iseler Chamber Orchestra
Raffi Armenian (conductor)
5.45am
Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture - May Night
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5.50am
Hummel: Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 87
Tobias Ringborg (violin)
Ingegard Kierkegaard (viola)
John Ehde (cello)
H?kan Ehren (double bass)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
6.10am
Alessandro Scarlatti: Toccata in G
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)
6.20am
Corelli: Sonate da Chiesa in C minor, Op 1, No 8
London Baroque
6.25am
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 8 in C minor, Op 13, 'Pathetique'
Steven Osborne (piano)
6.45am
Ravel: La Valse
Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bruno Maderna (conductor)
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