Listings
Presented by Penny Gore . Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Ireland A London Overture
LSO, conductor Richard Hickox Liszt Ave Maria (The Bells of Rome) Stephen Hough (piano) Satie March: Le Piccadilly Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
Cole Porter Main Title; I Love Paris; Montmart' (Can-Can) Frank Sinatra , Maurice Chevalier and Chorus from the original soundtrack recording Vieuxtemps Souvenir d'Amerique sur Yankee Doodle, Op 17 Philippe Koch (violin), Luc Devos (piano) Respighi The Fountains of Rome Rome Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, conductor Danielle Gatti
8.30-10.00: Mozart Piano Sonata in C, K545
Christian Zacharias Schumann Symphony No 3 in E flat (Rhenish) Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, conductor David Zinman
Contributors
Presented By:
Penny
Gore
Piano:
Stephen
Hough
Conductor:
Michel
Plasson
Conductor:
Cole
Porter
Unknown:
Frank
Sinatra
Unknown:
Maurice
Chevalier
Violin:
Philippe
Koch
Violin:
Luc
Devos
Conductor:
Danielle
Gatti
Conductor:
David
Zinman
Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Liszt Les Preludes New Symphony Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult
10.16 Handel He That Dwelleth in Heaven....
Thou Shalt Break Them (Messiah) Jon Vickers (tenor), RPO, conductor Thomas Beecham
10.20 Verdi Ingemisco (Messa da Requiem) Jon Vickers (tenor), New Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli
10.24 Shostakovich Piano Sonata No 2, Op 64 Emil Gilels
10.51 Britten Peter 's mad scene (Peter Crimes, Act 3) Jon Vickers (tenor), Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis
11.02 Mahler, arr Britten What the Wild Flowers Tell Me English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Benjamin Britten
11.13 Schubert Mut; Die Nebensonnen; Der Leiermann (Winterreise, 0911) Jon Vickers (tenor), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
11.23 Mendelssohn Symphony No 5 in D
(Reformation) LPO, conductor Thomas Beecham
11.53 Vaughan Williams Bright Is the Ring of Words (Songs of Travel) Jon Vickers (tenor), Richard Woitach (piano)
Contributors
Presented By:
Jonathan
Swain.
Conductor:
Adrian
Boult
Tenor:
Jon
Vickers
Conductor:
Thomas
Beecham
Conductor:
Verdi
Ingemisco
Tenor:
Jon
Vickers
Conductor:
John
Barbirolli
Unknown:
Emil
Gilels
Unknown:
Britten
Peter
Tenor:
Jon
Vickers
Conductor:
Colin
Davis
Conductor:
Benjamin
Britten
Tenor:
Jon
Vickers
Tenor:
Geoffrey
Parsons
Conductor:
Thomas
Beecham
Conductor:
Vaughan
Williams
Tenor:
Jon
Vickers
Piano:
Richard
Woitach
5/5. Donald Macleod introduces works from Dohnanyi's American years.
Three Singular Pieces, Nos 1 and 2 Ernst von Dohnanyi (piano) Violin Concerto No 2
Mark Kaplan , Barcelona and Catalonia
National SO, conductor Lawrence Foster American Rhapsody
Frankfurt RSO, director Alun Francis
Repeated on Thursday at 12 midnight
Contributors
Introduces:
Donald
MacLeod
Piano:
Ernst Von
Dohnanyi
Unknown:
Mark
Kaplan
Director:
Alun
Francis
St Magnus Festival
4/4. Recorded at midsummer in St Magnus
Cathedral in Kirkwall, Linda Ormiston introduces the Nash Ensemble , appearing for the first time as a string quartet. They're joined by John Kenny playing the Iron-Age Celtic brass instrument, the carnyx.
John Kenny (carnyx), Nash Ensemble Grieg String Quartet in G minor, Op 27
Nigel Osborne Forest River Ocean for carnyx, string quartet and tape
Contributors
Introduces:
Linda
Ormiston
Unknown:
Nash
Ensemble
Unknown:
John
Kenny
Unknown:
John
Kenny
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini Mahler Ruckert-Lieder
Tubin Toccata
Sibelius Symphony No 5 Repeated from last Friday
Contributors
Unknown:
Anne Sofie
von Otter
Unknown:
Tchaikovsky
Francesca
Gil Scott-Heron
Julian Joseph is in conversation with writer James Wylie about the music of writer, poet. composer and pianist Gil Scott -Heron. Heron's politically charged music takes us from soul and funk via early rap to such iconic R 'n' B tracks as The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and The
Bottle, both from 1974.
Contributors
Unknown:
Gil
Scott-Heron
Unknown:
Julian
Joseph
Unknown:
James
Wylie
Pianist:
Gil
Scott
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, with studio guests and an round-up of arts news.
Contributors
Unknown:
Sean
Rafferty
Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. The bicentenary of Hans Christian
Andersen is celebrated with a specially commissioned work based on his tale of sacrifice, unconditional love and watery death. Presented by Fiona Talkington.
Inger Dam-Jensen (soprano), Gert Henning -Jensen (tenor), Lars Vogt (piano), Danish National Radio Girls' Choir and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Thomas Dausgaard Bent Sorensen The Little Mermaid (first performance)
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor
8.30 Twenty Minutes: Talking Proms Fiona Talkington discusses the rich folk traditions of Scandinavia with tonight's featured composer, Bent Sorensen, and presents news, views and features on the current Proms season.
8.50 Nielsen Symphony No 5
Repeated on Thursday 25 August at 2.30pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Royal Albert
Hall
Unknown:
Hans
Christian
Presented By:
Fiona
Talkington.
Soprano:
Inger
Dam-Jensen
Soprano:
Gert
Henning
Tenor:
Lars
Vogt
Conductor:
Thomas
Dausgaard
Unknown:
Fiona
Talkington
4/4. Egypt. Zeinab Badawi considers how, from the Nilometers of the Pharaohs to Nasser's high dam at Aswan, Egyptians ancient and modern have tried to tame the river and the silt-rich annual flood it brings from the heart of Africa.
And she discovers that the Egyptian world-view has been coloured by the knowledge that the Nile is a source both of life and of death.
Robert Sandall and Mark Russell present an eclectic mix of musical styles and influences.
Contributors
Unknown:
Robert
Sandall
Unknown:
Mark
Russell
Herbie Hancock/Wayne Shorter/Dave Holland/Brian Blade
Another chance to hear three superstars of jazz and a rising star in a rare performance together, last year at the Barbican. Pianist Herbie Hancock, saxophonist Wayner Shorter and bassist Dave
Holland, all veterans of Miles Davis's bands of the 1960s, are joined by Wayne Shorter's current drummer, Brian Blade. Presented by Jez Nelson .
Contributors
Presented By:
Jez
Nelson
With Louise Fryer. Verdi Falstaff
A complete performance conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini.
3.08 Cambini Trio in 0 for flute, oboe and bassoon. Op 45 No 13.22 Rosenmiiller Gloria/Das Wort ward Fleisch
3.37 Bach Trio Sonata in G, BWV1038 3.45 Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No I in A minor 4.06 Dvorak In Nature's Realm, Op 63 4.19 Alfven Swedish Rhapsody No 1, Op 19
(Midsummer Vigil) 4.34 Merikanto Improvisation, Op 76 No 3 4.41 Bruckner Locus Iste; Christus Factus Est 4.49 Hannikainen Air, Op 16 No 14.54 Sibelius Romance, Op 42
5.00 D Scarlatti Piano Sonata in E, Kk380 5.05 Mozart String Quartet in B flat, K589 5.30 Haydn Piano Sonata in 0, H XVI 33 5.47 Durante Concerto per Quattro No 2 in G minor 5.59 Peterson-Berqer Singing Games (Ran)
6.02 Verdi Patria Oppressa (Macbeth) (sung in Hungarian) 6.09 Purcell Four Dances (Abdelazer)
6.13 Liszt Transcription from Mozart's Die Zauberflote
6.18 Berlioz Overture: Le Roi Lear 6.34 Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice) 6.41 Genin Fantaisie sur Rigoletto, Op 19 6.53 Verdi Ballet music (Otello, Act 3)
Contributors
Unknown:
Louise
Fryer.
Unknown:
Verdi
Falstaff
Conducted By:
Carlo Maria
Giulini.
Unknown:
Gluck
Dance
Unknown:
Genin
Fantaisie