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Friday 19th August 2005

August 2005
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07:00

Morning on 3

19 August 2005

With Penny Gore.

From 7.00am

Barber: Adagio for Strings
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

Handel: Italian Cantata: Armida abbandonata
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Francois Fernandez, Mira Glodeaunu (violin)
Les Basses Réunis

Gounod: Petite Symphonie for Wind Instruments
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

From 8.30am

Schubert: Ländler D790
Richard Goode (piano)

Holst: A Fugal Overture
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 21 in C, K467
Salzburg Camerata
Geza Anda (piano/conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

19 August 2005

With Jonathan Swain.

Webern: Quartet (1905)
Quartetto Italiano

Messiaen: Eclairs sur l'Au-Delŕ
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

Brahms: Quartet in Am, Op 51, No 2
Quartetto Italiano

morning | afternoon | evening

12:00

Composer of the Week

The German Organists (1560 - 1750)

Towards Bach

Donald Macleod reaches the final stage in his ramble through two centuries of German organist/composers, including the greatest of them all, JS Bach.

Bruhns: Praeludium in Em
Piet Kee (organ)

Bruhns: Mein Herz ist bereit
Max Van Egmand (bass)
Ricercar Consort

Lübeck: Praeludium und Fuge in Gm
Helmut Walcha (organ)

Böhm: Suite in Eb; Praeludium in Gm
Gustav Leonhardt (clavichord/harpsichord)

JS Bach: Prelude & Fugue in B flat m
Andras Schiff (piano)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Edinburgh International Festival 2005

19 August 2005

Stephanie Hughes introduces a recital recorded at the Queen's Hall.

Haydn: String Quartet, Op 50, No 1 in B flat
Schoenberg: String Quartet No 2 in F sharp m
Beethoven: String Quartet, Op 132, in Am
Lisa Milne (soprano)
Belcea Quartet

14:45

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 35 Part One

From the Royal Albert Hall, presented by Warwick Thompson.

In its second Prom of the season, the BBC Concert Orchestra acknowledges this year's sea theme with highlights from Constant Lambert's wartime film score and Stanford's celebration of Britain's glorious naval past. The rarely performed violin concerto by long-neglected black composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Elgar's beloved orchestral variations, completes this feast of British music.

Lambert: Merchant Seamen - suite
Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto
Stanford: Songs of the Sea
Elgar: Enigma Variations

Philippe Graffin (violin)
Mark Stone (baritone)
The London Chorus (men's voices)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

16:30

Jazz Legends

Milton Nascimento - Programme One

Julian Joseph paints a profile of Brazilian born singer and pianist Milton Nascimento, whose work spanned the 1960s through to the 1990s, including a milestone album with saxophonist Wayne Shorter.

17:00

In Tune

19 August 2005

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and keeps us up to date with what's happening in the arts world.

morning | afternoon | evening

19:00

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 47 Part One

From the Royal Albert Hall, presented by Tommy Pearson.

Tippett champion Sir Colin Davis continues this year's centenary celebrations with a work the composer described as a birth to death piece - a lyrical journey from first to last breath. Complementing this, after the interval, Beethoven's symphony Eroica, which culminates in a great celebration of human life.

Tippett: Symphony No 4
Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat,
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

19:35

Talking Proms

19 August 2005

Live from the Proms box, Tommy Pearson continues the weekly series of news, views and features on the current season, including a look at Statues in the Park.

19:55

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 47 Part Two

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Sir Colin Davis conducts the London SO in a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No 3 in E flat, Eroica.

21:15

The Europe of the Mind

Part 3 - Eastern Promise

Historian and author Misha Glenny travels to the heart of the old Ottoman Empire, Istanbul, to explore Europe's next phase of expansion - admitting Turkey to the most powerful Christian club in history, the EU. We follow the fall of the mighty Ottoman Empire and the rise of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's modern Republic. Can Turkey cross over to the West?

22:00

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 48

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Emotion and drama combine in this programme of music for strings, from Stuart MacRae's new cello concerto, which sets heroism and imperfection against each other, to Shostakovich's eloquent tribute to the victims of fascism and war.

Presented by Christopher Cook.

Elgar: Serenade for Strings
Stuart MacRae: Hamartia (Cello Concerto) London premiere
Nicholas Maw: Life Studies - Nos 3, 6 and 8
Shostakovich, arr R Barshai: Chamber Symphony, Op 110a (from String Quartet No 8)

Li-Wei (cello)
Scottish Ensemble
Clio Gould (director/violin)

23:30

Jazz on 3

Carla Bley

Jez Nelson presents the last in a short season repeating the most popular concerts of the year, as decided by a listener poll. This week, a performance by New York jazz composer and pianist, Carla Bley. In 2004, she made a rare visit to the London Jazz Festival along with her Lost Chords band, including Steve Swallow on bass guitar, Andy Sheppard on saxophone and Billy Drummond on drums.

01:00

Through the Night

19 August 2005

19 August 2005

With Louise Fryer.

1.00am
An all-Mozart concert given by the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zoltán Kocsis, recorded at the New Concert Hall in the Palace of Arts, Budapest on 8 January 2005.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Symphony No 25 in Gm, K183

1.27am
Rondo concertante in B flat, K269
Barnabás Kelemen (violin)

1.35am
Rondo (Concert rondo) in E flat, K371, compl. Kocsis
László Gál (horn)

1.41am
Concert aria Ch'io mi scordi di te? Non temer, amato bene, K505
Andrea Rost (soprano)
Zoltán Kocsis (piano)

1.52am
Concert aria Bella mia fiamma...Resta, O cara, K528
Andrea Rost (soprano)
2.04am
Andante in C, K315
Anita Szabo (flute)

2.10am
Rondo in C, K373
Barnabás Kelemen (violin)

2.16am
Symphony No 40 in Gm, K550

2.49am
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz (1664-1704): Missa Sancti Henrici (1701)
James Griffett (tenor)
Michael Schopper (bass)
Herbert Metzger (organ)
Regensburger Domspatzen
Collegium Aureum
Georg Ratzinger (conductor)

3.26am
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Fantasia in Gm, from Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
Leo van Doeselaar (organ)

3.37am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Recorder Concerto in Cm, RV441
Michael Schneider (recorder)
Camerata Köln

3.48am
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883): Prelude and Isolde's Liebestod - from Tristan & Isolde
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Frübeck de Burgos (conductor)

4.05am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Polonaise No 2 in E flat m, Op 26, No 2
Aldo Ciccolini (piano)

4.12am
Lepnurn, Hugo (1914-1999): Emakeel (Mother Tongue)
Estonian National Male Choir
Hille Poroson (organ)
Ants Soots (conductor)

4.19am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Impromptu No 4 in A flat, D899
Arthur Schnabel (piano)

4.27am
Kókai, Rezsö (1906-1962): Recruiting Suite
Hungarian Radio Orchestra
András Kórodi (conductor)

4.46am
D'Indy, Vincent (1851-1931): 3 Chants - from Six Chants Populaires Français, Op 90
Elizabeth Poole (soprano)
Stuart McIntyre (baritone)
BBC Singers
Ronald Corp (conductor)

4.54am
Paganini, Nicolo (1782-1840): Perpetuum Mobile, Op 11, No 2
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Nello Santi (conductor)

5.00am
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945): Dance suite, Sz 77
Erzsébet Tusa (piano)

5.16am
Ligeti, Gyorgy (b. 1923): Six Bagatelles
Carion

5.28am
Goldmark, Károly (1830-1915): An die Georgina, Op 46, No 2
Katalin Szökefalvy-Nagy (soprano)
Klára Körmendy (piano)

5.33am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Piano Concerto No 1, S124, in E flat
Alfredo Perl (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

5.54am
Weiner, Leó (1885-1960): Divertimento No 2, Op 24, in Am
Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra
János Rolla (leader)

6.10am
Csemiczky, Miklós (b.1954): Ave Maria
Kodály Chorus of Debrecen
Lajos Antal Szúcs (conductor)

6.17am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Mazurka, L67; 2 Arabesques, L66
Anita Szabó (flute)
Béla Horváth (oboe)
Zsolt Szatmári (clarinet)
György Salamon (bass clarinet)
Pál Bokor (bassoon)
Tamás Zempléni (horn)
Péter Kubina (double bass)

6.27am
Farkas, Ferenc (1905-2000): Harpsichord Concerto
Anikó Horváth (harpsichord)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Adám Medveczky (conductor)

6.46am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 27 in G
Budapest Strings
Károly Botvay (director)




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