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Thursday 19th July 2007

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07:00

Breakfast

Rob Cowan

Including from 7.00am

Schubert: Rondo in D for piano duet, D608
Martha Argerich, Alexander Rabinowitsch (piano)

Salzedo: Divertimento
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

Clara Schumann: 3 Romances, Op 11 No 2
Susanne Grützmann (piano)

From 8.30am

Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko, Op 5
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Kees Bakels (conductor)

Biagio Marini: Canzon nona a doi Chori
Akademia
Francoise Lasserre (conductor)

Mendelssohn: O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden
Brigitte Balleys (contralto)
Frieder Lang (tenor)
Gilles Cachemaille (bass)
Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir

10:00

Classical Collection

19 July 2007

With Sarah Walker.

10.00am
Stravinsky: Agon
London Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
RCA 09026 688652

10.26am
Dowland: Lachrimae Tristes
Fretwork
Christopher Wilson (lute)
VIRGIN VC 5450052

10.30am
Dowland: Lachrimae Antique
Kronos Quartet
Wu Man (zhong ruan and da ruan)
NONESUCH 7559794572

10.35am
Dowland: Lachrimae Amantis
John Potter (tenor)
Stephen Stubbs (lute)
John Surman (bass clarinet)
Maya Homburger (violin)
Barry Guy (double bass)
ECM 4652342

10.41am
Reich: Triple Quartet
Smith Quartet
SIGNUM SIGCD 064

10.57am
Barsanti: Sonata in C
Frans Bruggen (recorder)
Anner Bylsma (cello)
Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)
TELDEC 4509 936692

11.06am
Brahms: Klavierstucke, Op 118
Helene Grimaud (piano)
WARNER 2564608052

11.30am
Gliere: The Red Poppy Suite.
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Hermann Scherchen (conductor)
WESTMINSTER WGD 2001 (LP)

morning | afternoon | evening

12:00

Composer of the Week

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Return to the Soviet Union

Almost a decade after the October Revolution, Prokofiev returned to his homeland as an honoured guest of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. As Donald Macleod discovers, this homecoming marked his gradual return from voluntary exile to permanent residence in his birthland.

The Love for 3 Oranges (March)
London Symphony Orchestra
Antal Dorati (conductor)

L'enfant prodigue (excerpt)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln
Michael Jurowski (conductor)

Sonata for 2 violins (2nd mvt)
Eugene Drucker, Philip Setzer (violins)

Romeo and Juliet (Act 1, Sc 2)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

Alexander Nevsky (The Battle on the Ice)
London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

13:00

Afternoon on 3

Cheltenham Festival and BBC Proms

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Cheltenham Music Festival 2007

3/8. In a programme of music particularly apposite to the countryside in which this performance took place, Radio 3's New Generation Artists continue their series of concerts given in the Pittville Pump Room as part of this year's Cheltenham Festival. Tenor Andrew Kennedy joins the Aronowitz Ensemble.

Gurney: Ludlow and Teme
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge
Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor, Op 84

2.30pm BBC Proms 2007

Another chance to hear Antonio Pappano conduct the Santa Cecilia ensembles.

Emma Bell (soprano)
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Colin Lee (tenor)
Ildar Abdrazakov (bass)
Swingle Singers
Chorus and Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome
Antonio Pappano (conductor)

Berio: Sinfonia
Rossini: Stabat mater

4.15pm From Wigmore Hall, London

Pianist Louis Lortie.

Wagner, trans. Liszt: Overture (Tannhauser)
Liszt, rev. Lortie: Grosses Konzertsolo; Concerto Pathetique

17:00

In Tune

19 July 2007

Sean Rafferty talks to Artistic Director Gavin Henderson and organist Martin Baker. Plus pianist Helen Reid and clarinetist Julian Bliss perform live in the studio.

morning | afternoon | evening

19:30

BBC Proms 2007 live

Prom 8 Part 1

Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

The BBC Philharmonic's Chief Guest Conductor makes a welcome return to the Proms with music from his native Russia and bordering Estonia. Arvo Part's elegy to Britten is followed by Rachmaninov's glittering and virtuosic glance back to Paganini.

Nelson Goerner (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Part: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

20:05

The Adverb

Fred D'Aguiar

Ian McMillan presents a series of literary performances recorded in front of an audience at London's Cadogan Hall.

His guest is poet and novelist Fred D'Aguiar, who selects his favourite writings on the Shakespearean theme of 'the search for home', and introduces his own specially commissioned piece on the same theme.

20:25

BBC Proms 2007 live

Prom 8 Part 2

In the second half of tonight's Prom, Vassily Sinaisky conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Gliere's epic Third Symphony, which depicts the exploits of the 12th century mythical hero Ilya Murometz.

BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Gličre: Symphony No 3 (Ilya Murometz)

22:00

Jazz File

The Caribbean Connection

Programme 2

Soweto Kinch explores the relationship between jazz in the West Indies and today's generation of Anglo-Caribbean players.

Soweto traces the story of the musical heirs of Joe Harriott and Harold McNair, in particular the Jazz Warriors. He hears from Courtney Pine, Bammi Rose, Gary Crosby and Jason Yarde about the renaissance in Anglo-Caribbean jazz, and looks at how Tomorrow's Warriors and Jazz Jamaica grew out of the active London jazz scene of the 1980s.

22:30

Artist Focus

Antonio Pappano

With Ian Skelly. A sequence of music with a featured Proms performer leading the way. Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini.

23:00

The Essay

Life, But Not As We Know It

A biologist, a writer and a philosopher each explore their fascination with the notion of extraterrestrial intelligence and what such a discovery could mean for the future of humanity.

3/3. Philosopher Nick Bostrom explains why he believes that the discovery of aliens would be a disaster for the future of humanity and lead to the end of civilisation as we know it.

23:15

Late Junction

19 July 2007

Verity Sharp introduces the extraordinary sound of metrical psalm singing from the Isle of Lewis, a tiny piano prelude by Howard Skempton alongside Spirit Talk Mbira's Zimbabwean thumb pianos, and more from Irish fiddler Martin Hayes's sell out concert at the 2007 Bath International Festival.

01:00

Through the Night

19 July 2007

19 July 2007

With Jonathan Swain.

1.01am
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904): Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104
Truls Mork (cello)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
André Previn (conductor)
1.42am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Symphony No 4 in F minor
Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

2.25am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Mass in B flat Missa Sancti Bernardi von Offida (Heiligmesse)
Lucy Crowe (soprano)
Alexandra Sherman (mezzo)
James Edwards (tenor)
Matthew Rose (bass)
BBC Singers
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

3.00am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Quintet in E flat for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, K452
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Kari Krikku (clarinet)
Albrecht Meyer (oboe)
Jonathan Williams (horn)
Per Hannisdal (bassoon)

3.23am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Introduction and Allegro appassionato, Op 92
Ivan Palovic (piano)
The Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

3.40am
Touchemoulin, Joseph (1727-1801): Sinfonia in C
Neue Düsseldorfer Hofsmusik

4.00am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Trio No 6 for transverse flute, viola da gamba and continuo (Essercizii Musici)
Camerata Köln

4.08am
Stradella, Alessandro (1644-1682): Toccata
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

4.12am
Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725): Toccata per cembalo in D minor
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

4.18am
Obrecht, Jacob (1450-1505): Salve regina
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Paul van Nevel (conductor)

4.24am
Anon 15/16th century Milan: La Stangetta
Ensemble Claude-Gervaise
Gilles Plante (director)

4.25am
Cara, Marchetto (c.1470-c.1525): Se non fusse la speranza
Ensemble Claude-Gervaise
Gilles Plante (director)

4.27am
Förster, Kaspar Jr (1616-1673): Sonata (ca 1660)
Il Tempo
Agata Sapiecha (violin/director)

4.34am
Vanhal, Johann Baptist (1739-1813): Symphony in A minor
Capella Coloniensis
Hans-Martin Linde (conductor)

4.52am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Fantasie in C
Canadian Brass

4.54am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Allegro (Concerto in C, BWV 1055)
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet)
Colm Carey (organ)

5.00am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Fantasy on Szozat
The Hungarian Radio Orchestra
Arpad Joo (conductor)

5.10am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Hungarian Dance No 11 in D minor
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Valerie Tryon (piano)

5.13am
Infante, Manuel (1883-1958): Three Andalucian Dances
Aglika Genova, Liuben Dimitrov (piano)

5.28am
Falla, Manuel de (1876-1946): Spanish Dance No 1 (Molto Ritmico) from La Vida Breve
Eolina Quartet

5.32am
Falla, Manuel de (1876-1946): Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)
Monika Leskovar (cello)
Ivana Svarc-Grenda (piano)

5.36am
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757): Sonata in G, K104
5.41am
Sonata in G, K105 (Allegro)
Virginia Black (harpsichord)

5.47am
d'India, Sigismondo (c.1582-c.1629): Quasi tra rose e gigli
5.50am
Fiume, ch'a l'onde tue
5.56am
Crud'Amarilli
The Consort of Musicke

6.00am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Piano Sonata quasi una fantasia in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2 (Moonlight)
Aldo Ciccolini (piano)

6.16am
Diepenbrock, Alphons (1862-1921): Clair de lune
Roberta Alexander (soprano)
Rudolf Jansen (piano)

6.19am
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924): Clair de lune
Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)

6.23am
Bruch, Max Christian Friedrich (1838-1920): Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 26
Roland Orlik (violin)
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice
Marek Pijarowski (conductor)

6.49am
Alfvén, Hugo (1872-1960): En bat med blommer (A boat with flowers), Op 44
Peter Mattei (baritone)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck (conductor)




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