07:00
5 September 2004
Presented by Martin Handley.
Music includes, from 7.00am
Guerrero: Duo Seraphim
His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts
Westminster Cathedral Choir
James O'Donnell (conductor)
Boccherini: Guitar Quintet No 7 in E minor
Narciso Yepes (guitar)
Melos Quartet
From 8.00am
Bach (arr Helga Thoene): Chaconne from Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
Christoph Poppen (violin)
Hilliard Ensemble
Haydn: Symphony No 60 in C major, 'Il Distratto'
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
09:00
5 September 2004
Rob Cowan introduces some surprises and treasures from his record collection. Regular features include The Innocent Ear, and Rob's recommendation for a Bargain Hunter CD.
Schubert: Standchen (Zorgend leise), D920
Diana Eustrati (contralto)
Michael Raucheisen (piano)
Berlin Motet Choir
Monteverdi: O beatae viae
Carolyn Sampson, Rebecca Outram (sopranos)
Members of The King's Consort
Tchaikovsky: Suite No 3 - Theme and Variations
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Carl Schuricht (conductor)
Samuel Barber: Third Essay for Orchestra
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta (conductor)
Weill: The Threepenny Opera - Pirate Jenny
Marianne Faithfull
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Dennis Russell Davies (conductor)
12:00
5 September 2004
Michael Berkeley's guest today is the Scots journalist Ian Jack, editor of the influential literary magazine Granta. His musical choices reflect his wide interests, with traditional music from Northern Britain and India, songs by Schubert and Jerome Kern, a Beethoven violin sonata and Bix Beiderbecke playing Singin' the Blues.
13:00
5 September 2004
Lucie Skeaping presents a concert from York Minster as part of The Sixteen's annual choral pilgrimage. This year, the choir's director Harry Christophers has chosen a programme of Portuguese and Italian music, including Lotti's divine Crucifixus and Scarlatti's Stabat Mater.
14:00
Susan Chilcott
Sean Rafferty presents a tribute to the soprano Susan Chilcott, who died a year ago. Includes contributions from her friend and accompanist, the pianist Iain Burnside.
Music includes excerpts from Britten's The Turn of the Screw and Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades, and she is accompanied by Iain Burnside in songs by Strauss, Prokofiev, Haydn, Schubert, Ralph Vaughan-Williams and Dominic Argento. The programme ends with Berg's 7 Early Songs.
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Walter Weller (conductor)
15:30
Sounding the Soul
In a new series, four leading thinkers explore the spiritual essence of music.
This week Rabbi Julia Neuberger, the first woman to take charge of her own synagogue, considers the role of music in affirming her religious identity, in coping with grief, and as a metaphor for the pattern of our lives. Her musical choices include the singing of tenor Joseph Schmidt, Brahms's Requiem, and Schubert's song Der Wanderer D489/D493.
16:00
5 September 2004
More letters and requests from Radio 3 listeners, including Victoria's Responsories for Tenebrae, Bruch's haunting Kol Nidrei, and a complete performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 9. Plus Brian's final visit to the Proms archive. Vote online for your favourite performance from the 1990s.
17:45
New Generation Artists
In a series of programmes running through the Proms season, BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists past and present are featured in recordings made specially for Radio 3. Presented by Verity Sharp.
Debussy: Sonata for cello in D minor
Claudio Bohorquez (cello)
Martin Helmchen (piano)
Beethoven: 6 Bagatelles Op 126
Ashley Wass (piano)
Minoru Miki: Time for Marimba
Colin Currie (percussion)
18:30
Prom 67 part 1
The renowned Berliner Philharmoniker returns to the Proms for the first of two concerts under the baton of its British Chief Conductor.
Joining them for the annual Proms performance of Beethoven's final symphonic masterpiece are Rattle's former choir and an international team of soloists. In the first half, a landmark work which was premiered by tonight's orchestra back in 1928.
Presented by Andrew McGregor.
Continues after Twenty Minutes.
Programme notes, composer and artist profiles and 'now playing' information for each main evening Prom are available on LiveText via DAB radio and Freeview.
Christiane Oelze (soprano)
Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano)
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
John Relyea (bass)
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra, Op 31
18:55
The Emotion Machine
What are emotions? Why do we have them? Why does music spark them off?
Marvin Minsky, the 'father of artificial intelligence' (and a big fan of Beethoven) talks to Chris Maslanka about his compelling new theory of human emotions.
19:15
Prom 67 part 2
Part 2: Tonight's Prom from the Berliner Philharmoniker/Sir Simon Rattle concludes with Beethoven's Symphony No 9 in D minor, 'Choral'. Presented by Andrew McGregor.
20:55
The Don
By Jeff Young.
Inspired by Cervantes' Don Quixote, The Don is a gentle dreamer, disheveled and battered by too many years spent in life's shadows. Through the function suites, pubs and wedding dos of northern England, The Don, played by the incomparable Bill Nighy, staggers forever in pursuit of his imaginary lover Dulcie - his muse, his ideal 'lady', with his neighbour Sancho in tow.
The Don ...... Bill Nighy
Sancho ...... Danny Webb
Priest ...... Sam Kelly
Receptionist ...... Rosie Cavaliero
Barber ...... Deka Walmsley
Steve ...... Declan Wilson
Landlady ...... Elizabeth Bell
Lad ...... Oliver Jackson
Dulcie ...... Clara Sanabras
Music composed and performed by Harvey Brough
Lyrics by Jeff Young
Mike Outram (guitar)
22:15
Andy Kershaw in the Axis of Evil
Andy concludes his musical tour of the 'Axis of Evil' with a visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Escaping the clutches of government minders, he uncovers a vibrant underground music scene, visits the little known and sensitive provinces of Kurdistan and Bandar-Abbas, and attends an illegal rave in north Tehran.
00:00
Erich Korngold (1897 - 1957)
1. Childhood
Erich Korngold's childhood was one of incredible precocity. Having begun composition at the tender age of six, by the time he was eleven he had produced a piano sonata in which the daring harmonies and inventions impressed no less a figure than Mahler.
He studied with Alexander von Zemlinsky and before he had even reached his teens had produced further works of such genius that his father Julius, the music critic of an influential Austrian newspaper, arranged for them to be printed at his own expense. He then distributed them to influential luminaries in Germany such as Richard Strauss, Engelbert Humperdinck and the conductor Artur Nikisch. Having received a universally complimentary response from them, the stage was set for his son's glittering career as a composer.
With Donald Macleod.
Excerpt from The Adventures of Robin Hood
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
William Stromberg (conductor)
(arr B Forsberg) Marietta's Lied from Die Tote Stadt, Op 12
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano)
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Kjell Lysell (violin)
Ulf Forsberg (violin)
Nils-Erik Sparf (viola)
Mats Lidstrom (cello)
Don Quixote's Dreams of Heroic Deeds (Don Quixote)
Alexander Frey (piano)
Piano sonata No 1
Geoffrey Tozer (piano)
Der Schneemann (Act 1)
BBC Philharmonic
Matthias Bamert (conductor)
01:00
5 September 2004
Part One
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00am
The Blessing of Europe
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Debora Beronesi (alto)
Joseph Calleja (tenor)
Benno Schollum (baritone)
The European Choir and Symphonietta
Manfred Honeck (conductor)
[recorded 9 May 2004 at St. John's Cathedral Valletta Malta]
Haydn: Te Deum, H23c2) in C
Mozart: Laudate Dominum from Vesperae solennes de confessore in C K3339
Franck: Panis Angelicus
Rossini: Cuijus Animam - Petite Messe Solonelle
Schubert: Ave Maria, D839
Mozart: Mass in C major, K317 'Coronation '
1.55am
Bach: Lute Partita in C minor, BWV997
Konrad Junghanel (lute)
2.15am
Beethoven: Sonata No 31 in A flat, Op 110
Andre Tchaikovsky (piano)
2.35am
Britten: Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge, Op 10
The Royal Academy Soloists
Clio Gould (director)
3.05am
Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op 5
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Edo de Waart (conductor)
3.45am
Judith Weir: String quartet
Silesian Quartet
4.00am
Grieg: Psalms No.3 'Jesus Kristus er opfaren' & No.4 'I himmelen, Op 74
Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Grete Helgerod (conductor)
4.15am
Franck: Pastorale en mi majeur, Op 19
Joris Verdin (organ)
4.25am
Alphons Diepenbrock: Puisque l'aube grandit
Christa Pfeiler (mezzo-soprano)
Rudolf Jansen (piano)
4.30am
Rossini: Overture - La Gazza ladra
Oslo Philharmonic
Nello Santi (conductor)
4.40am
Schumann: Toccata in C major, Op 7
Anton Kuerti (piano)
4.45am
Xavier Montsalvatge: Self-paraphrasis
Christo Barrios (clarinet)
Lila Gailing (piano)
4.50am
Offenbach: The Doll's Song (The Tales of Hoffmann)
Tracy Dahl (soprano)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
05:00
5 September 2004
Part Two
Susan Sharpe concludes this morning's programme.
5.00am
John Ansell: Nautical Overture
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
David Measham (conductor)
5.05am
Weber: Andante and Rondo Ungarese in C minor, Op 35
Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
5.15am
Dowland: Thou mighty God; When David's life; When the poore criple (A Pilgrim's Solace)
Ars Nova
Bo Holten (director)
5.24am
Byrd: Content is rich
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
The Rose Consort of Viols
5.30am
Saint-Saens: Oboe Sonata in D, Op 166
Roger Cole (oboe)
Linda Lee Thomas (piano)
5.45am
Julius Rontgen: Symphony
Roberta Alexander (soprano)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)
6.05am
Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine, Op 11
The European Symphonieta
Manfred Honeck (conductor)
6.10am
Brahms: Trio in E flat major, Op 40
David Pyatt (horn)
Gordon Nikolitch (violin)
Leon McCawley (piano)
6.40am
Ernst Linko: Piano Concerto No 2, Op 10
Raija Kerpo (piano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor)
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