Proms Chamber Music
Monday 6 August 2007 13:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
1.00pm BBC Proms Chamber Music
Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Cadogan Hall, London.
At the heart of the Henschel Quartet's wide-ranging recital is the mature masterwork Sibelius wrote between his Third and Fourth Symphonies. Its subdued central movement of gentle, yet aching, nostalgia gave it the title of 'Intimate Voices'.
Playlist:
Mendelssohn: Capriccio, Op 81, No 3
Sibelius: String Quartet, Op 56 (Voces Intimae)
Janacek: String Quartet No 1 (The Kreutzer Sonata)
2.00pm BBC Proms 2007
Another chance to hear Esa-Pekka Salonen conduct the BBC SO in a programme with French connections.
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Esa-Pekka Salonen: Piano Concerto (BBC co-commission)
Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
Yefim Bronfman (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
3.45pm From the Schumann bicentenary series in Belfast, 2006
Presented by Louise Fryer.
Schumann: Quartet in E flat for piano and strings, Op 47; Quartet in E flat for piano and strings, Op 44
High Tinney (piano)
Vanbrugh String Quartet
