Wednesday 25th July 2007

07:00

Breakfast

Rob Cowan

From 7.00am

Bach: Concerto in C minor (after Marcello), BWV 981
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

Waldteufel: The Skaters Waltz
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Arturo Toscanini (conductor)

Adolphus Hailstork: Nocturne
Maria Jette (soprano)
VocalEssence Ensemble Singers

From 8.30am

Handel: Trio Sonata in E minor
William Bennett, Trevor Wye (flute)
George Malcolm (harpsichord)

Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat
Byron Janis (piano)
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Kyril Kondrashin (conductor)

Gluck: Melodie (Orpheus et Euridyce)
Isaac Stern (violin)
Alexander Zakin (piano)

10:00

Classical Collection

25 July 2007

With Sarah Walker.

10.00am
Rossini: Overture (La gazza ladra)
London Classical Players
Roger Norrington (conductor)
EMI CDC 754 091 2

10.11am
Donizetti: Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore, Act 2)
Jussi Björling (tenor)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Tor Mann (conductor)
BLUEBELL ABCD 092

10.16am
Bach: Sonata No 4 in C minor, BWV 1017
James Ehnes (violin)
Luc Beausejour (piano)
ANALEKTA AN 29829

10.34am
Berlioz: Grande messe des morts, Op 5
Léopold Simoneau (tenor)
New England Conservatory Chorus
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch (conductor)
RCA 82876 66373 2 (2 CDs)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) and Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

PartThree

Donald Macleod introduces two of Alessandro's cantatas and sonatas by Domenico.

D Scarlatti: Sonata in D, Kk535
Ralph Kirkpatrick (harpsichord)

A Scarlatti: Cantata (Hor che de Febo)

Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Chandos Baroque Players

D Scarlatti: Sonatas: in A minor, Kk175; in C, Kk159
John Williams (guitar)

A Scarlatti: Cantata (Ombre tacite e sole)
David Daniels (countertenor)
Arcadian Academy
Nicholas McGegan (conductor/harpsichord)

13:00

Afternoon on 3

Cheltenham Festival and BBC Proms

1.00pm

Lunchtime Concert

6/8. Cheltenham Festival 2007

Bach, arr. Liszt: Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542
Beethoven: Sonata No 28 in A, Op 101
Franck, arr. Bauer: Prelude, Fugue and Variation in B minor, Op 18
Rachmaninov: Selection of Five Preludes, Op 23
Prokofiev: Sonata No 7 in B flat, Op 83
Gershwin: Three Preludes

Boris Giltburg (piano)

2.30pm

BBC Proms 2007

Another chance to hear Thierry Fischer make his Proms debut as principal conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, with a programme spanning 150 years of French music.

Henri Dutilleux: The Shadows of Time
Ravel: Piano Concerto (Left Hand)
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

Roger Muraro (piano)
Choristers from Eton College Chapel Choir
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

4.00pm

From Wigmore Hall, London

Chausson: Andante and Allegro for clarinet and piano
Poulenc: Sonata for clarinet and piano
Ravel: Oiseaux tristes; Alborada del Gracioso (Miroirs)
Debussy: Premiere rapsodie for clarinet and piano

Martin Frost (clarinet)
Roland Pontinen (piano)

17:00

In Tune

25 July 2007

Sean Rafferty talks to Nina Stemme and Robert Gambill, ahead of the Glyndebourne Tristan und Isolde revival, and to violinist Chloe Hanslip.

19:00

BBC Proms 2007 live

25 July 2007

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Christopher Cook.

American music from the 1940s dominates this concert in which the Bournemouth orchestra appears with its New York-born principal conductor. Barber's lyrical concerto, featuring the Canadian virtuoso James Ehnes, and Copland's magnificent symphony, whose last movement features his famous Fanfare for the Common Man, were both first heard in the UK at the Proms. The concert begins with music originally intended for Beethoven's operatic hymn to freedom Fidelio.

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No 3
Barber: Violin Concerto, Op 14

James Ehnes (violin)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor)

19:45

Twenty Minutes

Proms Talk Live

Proms Talk: Christopher Cook goes behind the scenes of the evening's Proms concert and talks to some of the participants.

20:05

BBC Proms 2007 live

25 July 2007

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Christopher Cook presents the second half of the evening's Proms concert.

Copland: Symphony No 3

James Ehnes (violin)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor)

21:15

Meetings of Minds

Fifth Pan-African Congress

Frances Stonor Saunders explores meetings which had huge significance beyond their four walls.

1/3. Fifth Pan-African Congress: Manchester October 1945

The Manchester meeting put the issue of African independence firmly on the political agenda. Attended by intellectuals and future leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah and Hastings Banda, it brought together a group of revolutionaries who went on to change the world.

22:00

BBC Proms 2007 live

25 July 2007

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Susan Gritton leads a cast of outstanding British soloists in this late night Proms concert featuring Richard Hickox leading his choir and period instrument forces in Schubert's sixth and last mass, prefaced by Hummel's florid offertory setting.

Hummel: Alma Virgo
Schubert: Mass in E flat, D950

Susan Gritton (soprano)
Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano)
Mark Padmore, James Gilchrist (tenor)
Matthew Rose (bass)
Collegium Musicum 90
Richard Hickox (conductor)

23:30

Late Junction

25 July 2007

Fiona Talkington's late-night listening mix includes a song from Baaba Maal, rumba flamenca from Grupo Macarena and Northumbrian pipe tunes from Kathryn Tickell.

01:00

Through the Night

25 July 2007

25 July 2007

Susan Sharpe introduces music, beginning with a concert recorded at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in 1970.

1.00am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): String Quartet in E minor, Op 59, No 2 (Rasumovsky)
1.36am
String Quartet in B flat, Op 130
Juilliard String Quartet

2.20am
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875): Symphony in C
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Othmar Maga (conductor)

2.56am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 25
Rian de Waal (piano)
Joan Berkhemer (violin)
Michel Samson (viola)
Nadia David (cello)

3.36am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47
Judy Kang (violin)
Orchestre Symphonique de Laval
Jean-François Rivest (conductor)

4.11am
Liadov, Anatoly (1855-1914): The Enchanted Lake, Op 62
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Dmitri Kitaenko (conductor)

4.19am
Dowland, John (1563-1626): Thou mighty God; When David's life; When the poore criple
Ars Nova
Bo Holten (director)

4.30am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Harmonies du soir (No 11, Etude d'Execution transcendante, S139)
Max Pauer (piano)

4.39am
Bruhns, Nicolaus (1665-1697): Wohl dem, der den Herren furchtet
Greta de Reyghere, Jill Feldman (soprano)
Max van Egmond (bass)
Ricercar Consort

4.47am
Dobrzynski, Ignacy Feliks (1807-1867): Overture (Monbar, czyli Flibustierowie)
Sinfonia Varsovia
Grzegorz Nowak (conductor)

5.00am
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179): O vis aeternitatis (Responsorium)
Sequentia

5.08am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Variations serieuses for piano, Op 54
Antonia Geiger-Eichorn (piano)

5.19am
Liebermann, Rolf (1910-1999): Suite on six Swiss folk songs
Swiss Chamber Philharmonic
Patrice Ulrich (conductor)

5.31am
Anonymous (12th century English): The milde lomb
Sequentia

5.42am
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868): William Tell Overture
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Roman Zeilinger (conductor)

5.53am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): La valse for two pianos
Claire Ouellet, Sandra Murray (piano)

6.06am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): La mer
Orchestre National de France
Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)

6.35am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 99 in E flat
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Guido Ajmone Marsan (conductor)