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Tuesday 26th July 2005

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07:00

Morning on 3

26 July 2005

With Sandy Burnett.

From 7.00am

Stravinsky: Suite italienne
Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
Péter Nagy (piano)

Arnold: A Grand, Grand Overture (Op.57)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Antheil: A Jazz Symphony
New World Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

From 8.30am

Krommer: Octet-Partita, Op 57
Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble

Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Sz 116
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)

Cage: In a Landscape
Alexei Lubimov (piano)

10:00

CD Masters

26 July 2005

With Rob Cowan.

Campian: Never Love Unless You Can; If Thou Longst So Much to Learn; Oft Have I Sighed; Fain Would I Wed a Fair Young Man

Rosseter: Prelude; Galliard; Almain
Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
Robert Spencer (lute)

Bruch: Symphony No 2 in Fm, Op 36
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Kurt Masur (conductor)

Holborne: Countess of Pembroke's Paradise
Anon: Sir Philip Sidney's Lamentation
Alfonso Ferrabosco I: Pavin
R Johnson: Allemayne
J Johnson: Allmaine
Eugen Dombois (lute)

Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits, Intermezzo, My Pretty Bess; Burlesca, Epitaph on John Jayberd of Diss
Robert Anderson (bass-baritone)
Mendelssohn Choir
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
William Steinberg (conductor)

Hummel: Septet in Dm, Op 74
Judith Mendenhall (flute)
Rudolph Vrbsky (oboe)
Robert Routch (horn)
Caroline Levine (viola)
Lisa Lancaster (cello)
Julius Levine (double bass)
Beth Levin (piano)

Neusidler: Preambel; Welscher Tanz, Wascha mesa; Der Judentanz;
Moritz, Landgrave of Hessen: Pavane

Hans Leo Hassler: Canzon
Konrad Ragossnig and Jürgen Hübscher (lute)

morning | afternoon | evening

12:00

Composer of the Week

Robert Simpson (1921 - 1997)

Part Two

Robert Simpson was in many ways a maverick figure, and yet also a man of great humility who spoke very freely of his debt to other composers. Donald Macleod discusses these aspects of Simpson's character and work with writer and broadcaster Stephen Johnson.

Symphony no 3
2nd movement: Adagio
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)

String Quartet No 6
Delmé String Quartet
Galina Solodchin and John Trusler (violin)
John Underwood (viola)
Jonathan Williams (cello)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

City of London Festival 2005

26 July 2005

As part of the celebration of this year's City of London Festival, Fiona Talkington presents a performance of Stravinsky's ground-breaking work of music theatre, The Soldier's Tale. The performance comes from Wilton Music Hall, London's last music hall left standing and intact.

Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
The Soldier ...... Anthony Marwood
Narrator ...... Walter van Dyk
Devil ...... Iain Woodhouse

14:00

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 9 Part One

Tommy Pearson presents another chance to hear last Friday's Prom. The Philharmonia Orchestra and principle conductor Christoph von Dohnányi are joined by the young soloist Christian Tetzlaff in Mozart's folk-inspired Violin Concerto No 3. Followed by Mahler's heart-rending fifth symphony, written for his wife as an expression of their love.

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 in Gm, K216
Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp m

Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnanyi (conductor)

16:00

Voices

Voices from Venice

Iain Burnside puts on his gondolier's outfit and glides through the canals of La Serenissima in search of songs that recall the city of Canaletto, Vivaldi and the Doges. With music by Gounod, Schumann, Reynaldo Hahn, Richard Rodgers, Benjamin Britten, Giovanni Croce and the music hall star, Billy Merson.

17:00

In Tune

26 July 2005

Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and keeps us up to date with what's happening in the arts world. Email: in.tune@bbc.co.uk

morning | afternoon | evening

19:30

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 15 Part One

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Fairy tales open and close this Prom, with Lyadov's trilogy of folk-infused tone poems and Stravinsky's ballet inspired by Hans Christian Andersen. Oliver Knussen's settings of four Walt Whitman poems contrast with a new dark and wild orchestral piece from leading German-born composer Detlev Glanert.

Presented by Christopher Cook.

Lyadov: Baba-Yaga; The Enchanted Lake; Kikimora
Oliver Knussen: Whitman Settings
Detlev Glanert: Theatrum bestiarum (BBC commission, world premiere)
Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss

Claire Booth (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Storgĺrds (conductor)

20:30

Twenty Minutes

Tales from Russia

Philip Bullock looks at the pagan roots of traditional Russian folk practice, how it managed to survive for many centuries after Christianisation and the artistic outpourings which it inspired.

20:50

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 15 Part One

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Fairy tales open and close this Prom, with Lyadov's trilogy of folk-infused tone poems and Stravinsky's ballet inspired by Hans Christian Andersen. Oliver Knussen's settings of four Walt Whitman poems contrast with a new dark and wild orchestral piece from leading German-born composer Detlev Glanert.

Presented by Christopher Cook.

Lyadov: Baba-Yaga; The Enchanted Lake; Kikimora
Oliver Knussen: Whitman Settings
Detlev Glanert: Theatrum bestiarum (BBC commission, world premiere)
Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss

Claire Booth (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Storgĺrds (conductor)

21:45

BBC Proms Composer Portraits

Detlev Glanert

One of the most prominent composers of the Henze school - German composer Detlev Glanert, whose music is revered for being highly expressive and steeped in human relevance - introduces a selection of his highly acclaimed chamber music, including his Four Piano Fantasies based on four different dreams, and talks to Andrew McGregor.

Sonata for Violin and Piano
Four Fantasies for solo piano: No 3 and No 4
Serenade for Cello and Piano

Musicians from Trinity College of Music
Tau Way (piano)
Vera Landwing (violin)
Diego Carneiro (cello)

22:30

Late Junction

26 July 2005

Fiona Talkington with music from the Malagasy guitar of Modeste Hughes, tracks from The Sultans of Squeeze - John Kirkpatrick and Chris Parkinson's new album, and Moon Shines at Night by duduk maestro Djivan Gasparyan.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)

Part Three

Gluck regarded his opera Alceste as one of his greatest achievements. He was keen to impress audiences in both Vienna and Paris and, as with Orfeo ed Euridice, he wrote two versions to accommodate his audiences' tastes. Donald Macleod introduces extracts from the French version and takes a look at the last of the trilogy of Gluck's so-called 'reform operas'.

Extracts from:

Alceste
Alceste ...... Anne Sofie von Otter
Admetus ...... Paul Groves
Grand Priest of Apollo ...... Dietrich Henschel
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (director)

Paride ed Elena
Paris ...... Magdalena Kozená
Helen ...... Susan Gritton
Amore ...... Carolyn Sampson
Pallas Athene ...... Gillian Webster
Gabrieli Consort and Players
Paul McCreesh (director)

01:00

Through the Night

26 July 2005

26 July 2005

With John Shea.

1.01am
Ensemble Zimmermann with Jaap ter Linden
Albicastro, Henricus (c.1660-c.1730): Concerto in D, Op 7, No 8

Leo, Leonardo (1694-1744): Concerto for cello and strings in D

Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von (1644-1704): Pars III in Am

Vivaldi, Antonio (1665-1741): Concerto for cello and orchestra in Cm, RV 401

Muffat, Georg (1653-1704): Fasciculus II - Sperantis gaudia
Jaap ter Linden (cello)
Ensemble Zimmermann

2.00am
Messemaeckers, Henri Jr. (1824-?): Grande Marche funčbre
Arthur Schoondewoerd (fortepiano)

2.10am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Symphony No 3, Op 55 in E flat major, Eroica
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

3.00am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Selected Lyric Pieces
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

3.25am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): String Quintet No 2 in G, Op 111
Members of Wiener Streichsextett

3.55am
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857): Overture in D
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

4.00am
Ibert, Jacques (1890-1962): Cinq Piéces en Trio
Trio Sfida

4.10am
Chopin, Frederic (1810-1849): Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor, Op 39
Annie Fischer (piano)

4.15am
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974): Three Rag-Caprices, Op 78
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Daniel Swift (conductor)

4.25am
Gershwin, George (1898-1937): I got plenty o' nuttin'; Bess, you is my woman now, Porgy and Bess
Porgy ...... Georg Ots (baritone)
Estonian Radio Variety Orchestra
Peeter Saul (conductor)

4.30am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Symphony No 35 in D, K385), Haffner
Hungarian Radio Orchestra
András Ligeti (conductor)

4.50am
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872): Triolet, The Kitten and The Reason
Urszula Kryger (mezzo soprano)
Katarzyna Jankowska-Borzykowska (piano)

5.00am
Kelemen, Milko (b.1924): Variations for piano
Ivo Pogorelic (piano)

5.10am
Manchicourt, Pierre de (1510-1564): Nunc enim si centum lingue sint, Antwerp 1547
Corona Coloniensis
Peter Seymour (conductor)

5.15am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Sarabande from Suite for cello solo No 1 in G, BWV 1007
Jaap ter Linden (cello)

5.20am
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921), arr. R. Klugescheid: My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice Cantabile from Samson and Delilah
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello)
William Tritt (piano)

5.25am
Herbert, Victor (1859-1924): Monbeams a serenade from the 1906 operetta The Red Mill, originally for voice and orchestra
Symphony Nova Scotia
Boris Brott (conductor)

5.30am
Raffaelli, Josip (1767-1843): Introduction and theme with variations in A
Vladimir Krpan (piano)

5.40am
Albert, Heinrich (1604-1651): Musikalische Kürbishütte song cycle for three voices and basso continuo from Musicalische Kürbshutte... Geschrieben und in drei Stimmen gesetzt, Königsberg 1645
Cantus Cölln
Musica Alta Ripa
Konrad Junghänel (lute/conductor)

5.50am
Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924): Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

5.55am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Keyboard Sonata in C sharp minor, Hob XVI/36, recorded in 1991
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

6.14am
Berwald, Franz (1796-1868): String Quartet No 2 in Am, 1849
Bernt Lysell (violin)
Per Sandklef (violin)
Thomas Sundkvist (viola)
Mats Rondin (cello)

6.30am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Un grand sommeil noir, Ronsard ŕ son âme & Ręves
Olle Persson (baritone)
Bengt-Ĺke Lundin (piano)

6.40am
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936): Barcarolle in D flat, Op 22, No 1
Stefan Lindgren (piano)

6.45am
Noskowski, Zygmunt (1846-1909): Excerpts of Ballet music from A Hut out of the Village
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Miroslaw Jacek Blaszczyk (conductor)




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