The BBC Proms series representative piece this week is from Prom 25, Edward Elgar's Falstaff symphonic study.
In commemoration of the birth of conductor and bassist Serge Koussevitzky (July 26, 1874), his Concerto for double bass and orchestra is included in the first hour of this program. The birthday of William Schuman (August 4, 1910, composer and first president of the Juilliard School) is observed also.
Fanfare I (CD: Praise the Lord) (Gerre Hancock, organ) Alban Berg: Violin concerto (CD: Berg/Rihm: (Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin; Violin Concertos) Chicago Symph Orch; James Levine ) J. S. Bach: Es ist genug (CD: Bach Hits Back) (The Swingle Singers) Serge Koussevitzky: Concerto for double bass and (CD: Virtuoso orchestra, op. 3 double-bass concertos) (Gary Karr, double bass; Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Uros Lajovic) Louis Couperin: Organ works (CD: Couperin: Fantaisie L'oeuvre d'orgue) Duo Ut queant laxis (trio) (Davitt Moroney, organ)
David Ashley White: Cantate Domino (CD: By the Rivers (Gloriae Dei Cantores; of Babylon: American Elizabeth C. Patterson) Psalmody Vol. II) Giovanni Gabrieli: In ecclesiis (CD: Songs and Psalms (Musica Sacra, Richard Westenburg) of the Divine) Henry Purcell: Blow the trumpet up in Zion (CD: Purcell: Anthems (Choir of Trinity College, for the Chapel Royal) Cambridge; Richard Marlow) Josquin Desprez: Ave Maria (CD: Beyond Chant: (Voices of Ascension; Patrick Mysteries of the Stephens, piano; Dennis Keene) Renaissance) Frederic Mompou: Cançiones y danzas, Nos. 3-5 (CD: Mompou: (Gustavo Romero, piano) Cançiones y danzas) Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr.): Ca' the yowes (CD: Bushes and Briars) (Ian Partridge, tenor; London Madrigal Singers; Christopher Bishop) Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr.): Loch Lomond (CD: Bushes and Briars) (Ian Partridge, tenor; London Madrigal Singers; Christopher Bishop) W. A. Mozart: Ah, vous dirais-je Maman, K. 265 (CD: The Swingle (The Swingle Singers; Ward Swingle) Singers: Anyone for Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi?)
Martin Shaw: Processional on "Lobe den Herren" (CD: All Through (James Warren, organist) the Night: Hymn Improvisations) Edward Elgar: Falstaff: Symphonic study in C minor, op. (CD: Elgar: Enigma 68 Variations / Falstaff) (Orchestre Symphonique De Montréal; Charles Dutoit ) William Schuman: New England Triptych (CD: An American (Dallas Symphony Tapestry) Orchestra; Andrew Litton) J. S. Bach: Prelude no. 24 (arr. Swingle) (CD: The Swingle (The Swingle Singers; Ward Swingle) Singers: Anyone for Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi?)
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