07:00
Breakfast
1 September 2008
With Rob Cowan.
Rob presents ground-shaking Brumel, music from Vivaldi's first opera and the final chorus of Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha. With Free Thought after 8.30am.
From 7.00am
Brumel: Agnus Dei III (Earthquake mass - Et ecce terrae motus)
Ensemble Clement Janequin
Les Sacqueboutiers
Dominque Visse (director)
Fucik: Wintersturme Walzer, Op 184
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Vaclav Neumann (conductor)
Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue in D
Musica Antiqua Koln
From 8.30am:
Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha's Departure: And They Said, Farewell for Ever! (Hiawatha)
Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Kenneth Alwyn (conductor)
Vivaldi: Ottone in Villa Sinfonia in C, RV 729
L'arte dell'arco
Christopher Hogwood (director)
Scriabin: Fantasy in A
Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)
10:00
Classical Collection
1 September 2008
With Sarah Walker.
Including:
10.00am
Rossini: Overture (Il Signor Bruschino)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA GD60387
10.05am
Danzi: Wind Quintet in F, Op 68, No 2
Ensemble Wien-Berlin
DG 423 591-2
10.25am
Milhaud: Scaramouche, Op 165b
Stephen Coombs, Artur Pizarro (piano)
HYPERION CDA67014
10.35am
Stravinsky: Pulcinella
Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
Ryland Davies (tenor)
John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 423 889-2
11.14am
Roger Marsh: Cuisine Lyrique; Arlequinade; Pierrot Polaire (Pierrot Lunaire)
Joe Marsh Giraud (narrator)
Ebor
Juice with Omar Sharhyar (beatbox)
Hilliard Ensemble
Paul Gameson (director)
NMC NMCD127 (2-CD set)
11.22am
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence
Borodin Quartet
TELDEC 4509 90422-2 (2-CD set)
12:00
Composer of the Week
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Part One
By the time of his death in 1924, Gabriel Faure was venerated as the grand old man of French music. Yet today much of his output is neglected, and he is eclipsed by his better-known contemporaries Debussy and Ravel. Donald Macleod explores Faure's songs and chamber music, discovering some forgotten gems along the way.
1/5. This programme includes the First Violin Sonata, which launched Faure onto the road to recognition and landed him an important publishing contract on a zero-per cent royalty!
Clair de lune (Moonlight), Op 46, No 2
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Graham Johnson (piano)
Puisqu'ici-bas toute ame (Since here on earth each soul), Op 10, No 1; Tarentelle, Op 10, No 2
Geraldine McGreevy, Stella Doufexis (soprano)
Graham Johnson (piano)
Nocturnes Nos 1-3 for piano, Op 33
Kathryn Stott (piano)
Sonata No 1 for violin and piano, Op 13
Pierre Amoyal (violin)
Pacal Roge (piano)
13:00
6 September 2008
6 September 2008
Live from Cadogan Hall, London. Presented by Christopher Cook.
The Proms' commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams' death continues as celebrated British tenor Mark Padmore joins the Nash Ensemble for a performance of On Wenlock Edge - six settings of words by AE Housman. It explores themes of hope and loss in the Romantic backdrop of a Shropshire landscape.
Plus a rare chance to hear a work by one of Vaughan Williams' fellow students at the Royal College of Music - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's masterly Clarinet Quintet, written in response to a challenge from his teacher Charles Stanford to write a work that would match up to Brahms' famous Quintet without revealing that composer's influence.
Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Nash Ensemble
14:00
Afternoon on 3
1 September 2008
Presented by Penny Gore
2.00pm BBC Proms 2008
Another chance to hear the young star players of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conducted by the youngest man ever to be appointed Musical Director of the Royal Opera, Antonio Pappano. There is an American theme to their programme, launched by Frenchman Edgard Varese's hymn to the New World where he went to live, followed by the more reluctant US resident Rachmaninov's last numbered piano concerto, written mainly in New York.
The concert ends with Aaron Copland's all-American Third Symphony, featuring his famous Fanfare for the Common Man.
Varese: Ameriques
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 4
Copland: Symphony No 3
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Antonio Pappano (conductor)
3.55pm Chamber Music
Elgar: Piano Quintet
Sorrel Quartet
Martin Roscoe (piano)
17:00
In Tune
1 September 2008
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard talks about performing Messiaen at the Proms and director Edward Kemp discusses Brecht's play Turandot, about to see its UK premiere at London's Hampstead Theatre.
Plus live music from artists appearing in the Chelsea Schubert Festival - by artistic directors Marc Verter (piano) and Andrew O'Brien (tenor) as well as violinist Benjamin Wragg.
19:00
BBC Proms 2008
1 September 2008
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Louise Fryer.
A performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, featuring Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaider and Colin Davis conducting the hand-picked players of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D
Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Colin Davis (conductor).
19:50
Twenty Minutes
Franco Zeffirelli
To mark the 500th year of Scottish publishing, Stuart Kelly explains how in 1826, pre-eminent Scottish publisher John Murray II's attempts to create a newspaper to rival The Times, encouraged and abetted by future prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, led to financial disaster, vicious caricatures and a life-long feud.
20:10
BBC Proms 2008
1 September 2008
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
The Prom concludes with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under Colin Davis in Sibelius' much-loved Symphony No 2.
Sibelius: Symphony No 2 in D
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Colin Davis (conductor)
21:15
The Lebrecht Interview
1 September 2008
Norman Lebrecht talks to Italian opera and film director Franco Zeffirelli, who speaks candidly of the early loss of his mother, his relationship with fellow film-maker Luchino Visconti, the experience of directing Joan Sutherland and Maria Callas, and the reasons behind Maria Callas's volatile temper.
22:00
BBC Proms 2008
1 September 2008
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Verity Sharp.
The Proms Messiaen centenary celebrations continue with the composer's Cinq rechants - a work which draws its inspiration from a mixture of Sanskrit texts, traditional Indian rhythms, Renaissance polyphony and ancient tales and mythology, creating a sensual, vocally virtuosic and highly-charged synthesis of styles and language.
The opening sequence likewise weaves together music of the East and West. Nishat Khan joins the BBC Singers in a short sequence of French Renaissance motets and chansons - exploring the season of spring and the erotic imagery associated with it - woven around improvised classical Indian ragas, echoing the mood of Messiaen.
And Nishat Khan concludes the programme with a selection of night ragas, chosen according to the mood of the occasion.
Motets and chansons by Claudin de Sermisy, Jean Richafort, Antoine Brumel and Claude Le Jeune, interspersed with Indian ragas.
Messiaen: Cinq rechants
Night ragas
Nishat Khan (sitar)
Rashid Mustafa Thirak (tabla)
Natasha Ahmad (tanpura)
BBC Singers
David Hill (conductor)
23:30
World on 3
1 September 2008
Charlie Gillett presents tracks from around the world including Orchestra Baobab recorded on the Radio 3 Stage at this year's WOMAD festival. Plus Massukos from northern Mozambique performing in the studio.
01:00
Through the Night
1 September 2008
1 September 2008
With Jonathan Swain.
1.00am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Violin Sonata in C, K296; 12 Variations in B flat, K500
Malin Broman (violin)
Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
1.28am
Mozart: Piano Trio in B flat, K502
Kungsbacka Trio:
Malin Broman (violin)
Jesper Svedberg (cello)
Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
1.50am
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937): Polish Dances
Jerzy Godziszewski (piano)
1.59am
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): Pulcinella
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Rolando Villazon (tenor)
Denis Sedov (baritone)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Marc Minkowski (conductor)
2.37am
Gesualdo, Carlo (c.1560-1613): Two madrigals: Merce grido piangendo; Luci serene e chiare
The King's Singers
2.44am
Gabrieli, Andrea (1532/3-1585): Pass'e mezzo antico
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)
2.48am
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936): Vetrate di chiesa (Church Windows)
Orchestra London Canada
Uri Mayer (conductor)
3.13am
Moszkowski, Moritz (1854-1925): Piano Concerto in E, Op 59
Janina Fialkowska (piano)
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra
Raffi Armenian (conductor)
3.50am
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963): Sonata for oboe and piano
Roger Cole (oboe)
Linda Lee Thomas (piano)
4.04am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 22 in E flat (The Philosopher)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Marc Minkowski (conductor)
4.25am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Si, si, fellon, t'intendo...; Fra Tempeste funeste a quest'alma (Rodelinda)
Matthew White (countertenor)
Arte dei Suonatori
Eduardo Lopez (conductor)
4.31am
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934): Cockaigne overture
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Pinchas Steinberg (conductor)
4.46am
Walton, William (1902-1983): Three pieces for organ
Ian Sadler (organ)
4.52am
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor, Op 39
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
5.00am
Lisinski, Vatroslav (1819-1854): Grand Overture No 7
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Ilmar Lapinjs (conductor)
5.14am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto in F, RV 442
Michael Schneider (recorder)
Camerata Koln
5.22am
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643): Magnificat (Vespro della Beata Vergine)
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal
Christopher Jackson (conductor)
5.39am
Anon (14th century): Bassa danza (Faenza Codex)
Millenarium
Christophe Deslignes (organetto/director)
5.45am
Cherubini, Luigi (1760-1842): Anakreon (excerpts)
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
5.53am
Busoni, Ferruccio (1866-1924): Sonatina super Carmen (Sonatina No 6 - Kammerfantasie)
Matti Raekallio (piano)
6.02am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Luonnotar, Op 70
Soile Isokoski (soprano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
6.11am
Kodaly, Zoltan (1882-1967): Cello Sonata, Op 4
Miklos Perenyi (cello)
Jeno Jando (piano)
6.29am
Marie, Gabriel (1852-1928) (arr. C Arnold): Golden Wedding
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello)
William Tritt (piano)
6.33am
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908): Le coq d'or
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Uri Mayer (conductor)
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