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Monday 30th July 2007

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07:00

Breakfast

30 July 2007

Including from 7.00am

Mozart: Rondo concertante in B flat for violin and orchestra
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Alexander Janiczek (director/violin)

Couperin: Troisieme lecon de tenebres
Sophie Daneman, Patricia Petibon (sopranos)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie (conductor)

Beethoven: Andante in F for piano (Andante favori)
Alfred Brendel (piano)

From 8.30am

Louis Milandre: Piece in D for viola d'amore and continuo
Concerto Caledonia

Purcell: From rosy bow'rs
Catherine Bott (soprano)
Mark Levy (bass viol)
David Roublou (harpsichord)

Smetana: Vltava (Ma vlast)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Eliahu Inbal (conductor)

10:00

Classical Collection

30 July 2007

With Sarah Walker.

10.00am
Saint-Saens: Overture (La Princesse Jaune)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch (conductor)
EMI CZS 575477-2 (2-CD set)

10.06am
Bach: Orchestral Suite No 1 in C, BWV 1066
La Petite Bande
Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)
DHM GD77008 (2-CD set)

10.30am
Janacek: String Quartet No 1 (Kreutzer)
Janacek Quartet
SUPRAPHON SU 3460-2 111

10.49am
Tchaikovsky: The Voyevoda, Op 78
USSR Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
MELODIYA 74321 40066-2 (2-CD set)

11.01am
Britten: Sacred and Profane, Op 91
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67140

11.17am
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A, Op 47 (Kreutzer)
Maxim Vengerov (violin)
Alexander Markovich (piano)
TELDEC 9031 74001-2

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12:00

Composer of the Week

Frank Martin (1890-1974)

Donald Macleod visits his home

Frank Martin was born in Geneva in September 1890, and died in Holland in 1974. He was very much a modern European and a resolutely individual composer, independent of the musical ideologies and schools of the past century. Donald Macleod visits his home in Naarden, Holland, now a museum to his life and work, and meets his widow Maria Martin.

Piano Quintet (1st mvt)
Iain Burnside (piano)
Britten-Pears Ensemble

Quatre Sonnets a Cassandre
Barbara Rearick (mezzo-soprano)
Iain Burnside (piano)
Britten-Pears Ensemble

Mass for Double Choir
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)

Trio on Irish Folk Tunes (excerpt)
Grieg Trio

13:00

Afternoon on 3

Proms Chamber Music and 1940s American Music

1.00pm BBC Proms Chamber Music

Presented by Christopher Cook, live from Cadogan Hall, London. Conductor Stephen Layton and his vibrant young choir explore the creative interplay of words and music in a programme which focuses on settings of Shakespeare, Blake and Auden.

Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)

Vaughan Williams: O mistress mine; Willow, Willow; Come away Death (Shakespeare)
Britten: Old French Chorale; The Shepherds Carol (Auden)
Tavener: The Tyger; The Lamb (Blake)
Bo Holten: Spring; Night (Blake)
Jaakko Mantyjarvi: Come Away Death; Lullaby; Double, Double Toil and Trouble; Full Fathom Five (Shakespeare)
Frank Martin: Full Fathom Five (Shakespeare)
Vaughan Williams: Full Fathom Five; The Cloud Capped Towers; Over Hill, Over Dale

2.00pm BBC Proms 2007

Another chance to hear a Prom originally broadcast last week. The Bournemouth Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop perform a concert dominated by American music from the 1940s.

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

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

3.30pm From Wigmore Hall, London

Presented by Penny Gore.

Ligeti: Sonata for viola solo
Antoine Tamestit (viola)

Haydn: Quartet in G for strings, Op 54 No 1
Dvorak: Quartet No 10 in E flat, Op 51
Wihan Quartet

17:00

In Tune

30 July 2007

Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world.

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19:30

BBC Proms 2007 live

Prom 23. Part 1

Presented by Rob Cowan, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Esa-Pekka Salonen makes a welcome return to the BBC SO to conduct a programme with French connections. Ravel's homage to early French dance forms is followed by Salonen's thrilling new Piano Concerto, which begins with an imaginary French court dance.

Yefim Bronfman (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Esa-Pekka Salonen: Piano Concerto (BBC co-commission; European premiere)

20:30

Twenty Minutes

This Green Plot

Michael Dobson takes his exploration of the history of outdoor Shakespeare productions into the realms of the amateur theatre company, where low budgets and high ambition vie in a search for the spirit of England as embodied in the Bard.

20:50

BBC Proms 2007 live

Prom 23. Part 2

The second half of tonight's Proms concert, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in excerpts from Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet.

21:45

The Lebrecht Interview

Emmanuelle Haim

Norman Lebrecht talks to one of the most prominent pioneers in early music.

Conductor Emmanuelle Haim discusses her progression from vocal coach to conductor, the forming of her hand-picked Baroque music ensemble Le Concert d'Astree, her championing of rare Handel operas and her outspoken views on authenticity in performance.

22:30

Artist Focus

Anne Sofie von Otter

With Jonathan Swain. A sequence of music with a featured Proms performer leading the way. Anne Sofie von Otter begins the programme with songs by Schumann.

23:00

The Essay

Under the Influence Part 1

Three contemporary poets talk about poets whose work has influenced their own.

1/3. Anne Stevenson is now in her seventies and for all her writing life TS Eliot has been a constant presence. It is not his religious thinking, nor his striking imagery that influenced her, but rather the rhythms of Eliot's verse.

23:15

WOMAD festival

At the End of Womad

Andrew McGregor winds up Radio 3's on-site coverage of the WOMAD festival at Charlton Park, Wiltshire.

Highlights include mesmerizing Portuguese fado singer Mariza, the gun-slinging desert-blues giants Tinariwen and a show-closing set from Senegalese superstar Baaba Maal.

01:00

Through the Night

30 July 2007

30 July 2007

Susan Sharpe introduces music, beginning with a concert recorded in Brussels as part of the 2006 KlaraFestival.

1.01am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Sonetto 47 del Petrarca (Années de Pčlerinage, S161)
Jan Michiels (piano)
1.07am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Der Rattenfänger, D255
1.09am
Der Tod und das Mädchen, D531
1.12am
Der Doppelgänger (Schwanengesang, D957 No 13)
1.16AM
Erlkönig, D328
Yves Saelens (tenor)
Inge Spinette (piano)
1.21am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Der Doppelgänger - Vision, for piano, S560 No 12
1.26am
Mephisto-Waltz No 1, Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke
Jan Michiels (piano)
1.37am
Benedetto sia 'l giorno (Tre Sonetti di Petrarca, S270 No 2)
1.43am
Die Lorelei (Ich weiss nicht), S273
Yves Saelens (tenor)
Inge Spinette (piano)

1.50am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Symphony No 4 in D minor, Op 120
Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Tamás Vásáry (conductor)

2.21am
Doppler, Franz (1821-1883): Fantasie pastoral hongroise, Op 26
Ian Mullin (flute)
Richard Shaw (piano)

2.32am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op 45
Marie Arnet (soprano)
Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
Philharmonia Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
James Conlon (conductor)

3.39am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Quartet in E minor for flute, violin, gamba and continuo (Paris Quartets)
L'Ensemble Arion

3.59am
Hempenius, Sicco Albert (1785-1849): Variations on Wien Nečrlandsch Bloed
Gert Oost

4.06am
Bach, Johann Michael (1648-1694): Auf lasst uns den Herren loben (Come let us praise the Lord)
Ulla Groenewold (contralto)
Musica Antiqua Köln
Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

4.12am
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787): Symphony, Op 10, No 2
La Stagione Frankfurt
Michael Schneider (conductor)

4.24am
Ruppe, Christian Friedrich (1753-1826): Duetto in F
Wyneke Jordans and Leo van Doeselaar (piano duet)

4.34am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Symphony No 1 in E flat, K16
Camerata Salzburg
Leonidas Kavakos (director)

4.47am
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941): Nocturne, Op 16 No 4
Polish Radio Orchestra
Jerzy Maksimiuk (conductor)

4.52am
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958): Romance for viola and piano
Steven Dann (viola)
Bruce Vogt (piano)

5.00am
Mosonyi, Mihály (1815-1870): Studies for the Teaching of the Interpretation of Hungarian Music
Klara Körmendi (piano)

5.13am
Erkel, Ferenc (1810-1893): Aria of Bánk (Bánk bán)
5.15am
Wine Song (Bánk bán)
Sandor Solyom-Nagy (baritone)
Unnamed male chorus
The Hungarian Radio Orchestra
András Kórodi (director)

5.18am
Anonymous: Bashraf Saba
Trio Alpha

5.25am
Anonymous: 3 Sephardic Romances
Montserrat Figueras (soprano)
Hespčrion XX
Jordi Savall (director)

5.34am
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911): Romance for violin and orchestra in G, Op 26
Julia Fischer (violin)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)

5.43am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Slavonic March in B flat minor, Op 31 (Marche slave)
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

5.53am
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904): Slavonic Dance in F, Op 46 No 4
James Anagnoson, Leslie Kinton (piano)

6.00am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Cantata No 202 (Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten)
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Concerto Copenhagen
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord/director)

6.20am
Buffardin, Pierre-Gabriel (c.1690-1768): Concerto in E minor ŕ 5 for flute and strings
Musica Antiqua Köln

6.33am
Lindblad, Adolf Fredik (1801-1878): String Quartet No 6 in E flat
Örebro String Quartet




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