Wednesday 7th July 2004

07:00

Morning on 3

7 July 2004

Penny Gore continues her exploration of the tragic tale of Orpheus and Euridice with some works which take the Greek myth as a point of departure for some pretty wayward wanderings.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Gluck: Orphee et Eurydice: Act II, Tableau 2, scene 1 'The Elysian Fields'
Eurydice ...... Barbara Hendricks (soprano)
Monteverdi Choir
Lyon Opera Orchestra
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Philip Glass: Interlude from Orphee
Stuttgart CO
Dennis Russell Davies (conductor)

Piston: Capriccio for harp and string orchestra
Therese Elder Wunrow (harp)
Seattle Symphony
Gerard Schwartz (conductor)

From 8.30am

Offenbach: Orphee aux Enfers Scene 4
Pluton ...... Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor)
Cupidon ...... Patricia Petibon
Venus ...... Veronique Gens
Eurydice ...... Natalie Dessay
Jupiter ...... Laurent Naouri
Orphee ...... Yann Beuron
Public Opinion ...... Ewa Podles
Choir and Orchestra of the National Opera of Lyon
Marc Minkowski (conductor)

Beethoven: String Quartet in E flat 'Harp', Op 74
Alban Berg Quartet

Rossi: Orfeo: Epilogue
Orfeo ...... Agnes Mellon (soprano)
Giove ...... Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor)
Mercurio ...... Benoit Thivel (alto)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie (director)

10:00

CD Masters

7 July 2004

With Rob Cowan.

Handel: "Scenes of horror, scenes of woe" (Jephtha)
Maureen Forrester (soprano)
I Solisti de Zagreb
Antonio Janigro (conductor)

Beethoven: 12 Variations on "See the conqu'ring hero comes" from Handel's 'Judas Maccabeus', WoO 45
Rudolf Metzmacher (cello)
Einar Steen-Nokleberg (piano)

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 77
Bronislaw Huberman (violin)
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Artur Rodzinski (conductor)

Purcell: "Wondrous machine The fife and all the harmony of war" (Ode on St Cecilia's Day, 1692)
Paul Esswood (countertenor)
Alexander Young (tenor)
John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
English Chamber Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

Stenhammar: Excelsior!
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

Beethoven: Sonata for cello and piano in A major, Op 69
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

12:00

Composer of the Week

The Neapolitan Connection

3. Carl Heinrich Graun (1703 - 1759) in Berlin

Donald Macleod introduces the third of five programmes devoted to mid-18th century Neapolitan opera seria and to the cities and courts outside Italy where its composers flourished.

Extracts from Montezuma, 1755
Montezuma, Emperor of Mexico ........ Lauris Elms (mezzo)
Eupaforice, betrothed to Montezuma ......... Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Fernando Cortez, Spanish conquistador .......... Monica Sinclair (soprano)
Ambrosian Singers
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Bonynge (conductor)
Extracts from Cesare e Cleopatra, 1742

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
Janet Williams (soprano)
Concerto Koln
Rene Jacobs (conductor)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

L'Invitation au Voyage/City of London Festival

7 July 2004

In another of this week's concerts from the City of London Festival, Fiona Talkington introduces a recital of French song by
Radio 3 New Generation Artist Sally Matthews from the church of St Botolphs, Aldgate.

Faure: Apres un reve, Op 7 No 1
Mandoline, Op 58 No 1
En sourdine, Op 58 No 2
Nell, Op 18 No 1
Automne Op 18 No 3

Poulenc: Airs chantes:
Air Romantique
Air Champetre
Air Grave
Air Vif

Duparc: L'invitation au Voyage
Soupir
Chanson Triste

Ravel: Cinq melodies populaires grecques:
Chanson de la mariee
La-bas, vers l'eglise
Quel Galant m'est comparable
Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques
Tout gai!

Poulenc: Fiancailles pour rire
La Dame d'Andre
Dans l'herbe
Il vole
Mon cadavre dest doux comme un gant
Violon
Fleurs

Sally Matthews (soprano)
Simon Lepper (piano)

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

The New Generation Artists theme continues with Alex Slobodyanik as soloist in Rachmaninov's ever popular 2nd Piano Concerto, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Garry Walker.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Wagner: Tristan Prelude and Liebestod
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2
Alex Slobodyanik (piano)
Garry Walker (conductor)

Elgar: Symphony No 2
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

16:00

Choral Evensong

7 July 2004

Live from Southwark Cathedral.

Introit: Alleluia, I heard a Voice (Weelkes)
Responses: Smith
Psalm: 37 (Goss, Day)
First Reading: 2 Esdras 9: 26-33
Canticles: Noble in B minor
Second Reading: John 12: 20-26
Anthem: Geistliches Lied (Brahms)
Hymn: Love Divine (Blaenwern)
Organ Voluntary: Allegro - Symphonie No 2 (Vierne)

Director of Music: Peter Wright
Assistant Organist: Stephen Disley
Organ Scholar: Ian Keatley

17:00

In Tune

7 July 2004

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world.

19:30

Performance on 3

Sir Edward Downes's 80th birthday concert

Part One

Sir Edward Downes conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a special concert to celebrate his eightieth birthday given at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

Respighi: The Pines of Rome

BBC Philharmonic
Sir Edward Downes (conductor)

Continues after Twenty Minutes at 8.15pm.

19:55

Twenty Minutes

Fifty years at the Royal Opera House

Sir Edward Downes talk to Piers Burton Page about his life-long passion for opera, and his five decades conducting particularly Verdi, Wagner and Russian opera at Covent Garden.

20:15

Performance on 3

Sir Edward Downes's 80th birthday concert

Part Two

Tonight's performance by the BBC Philharmonia Orchestra, concludes with Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 (Leningrad).

21:45

Night Waves

7 July 2004

Susan Hitch talks to historian David Cannadine about his new book which explores the relationship between the history and the media, and asks how did a boy from lower-middle-class Birmingham become preoccupied with the modern history of the British aristocracy and monarchy, with class and ritual, and with figures of such aristocratic lineage as Trevelyan and Churchill?

22:15

Late Junction

7 July 2004

Shaheera Asante's music mix includes Iranian kamancheh player Kayhan Kalhor performs with Kurdish singer Ali Akbar Moradi, Italian viol player Vittorio Ghielmi plays pieces by seventeenth century English composer Tobias Hume and Louisiana band Beausoleil lead a Cajun waltz.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Camille Saint-Saens (1835 - 1921)

4. All the World's a Stage

For any self-respecting composer in 19th Century France, success in the opera house was what really mattered. Camille Saint-Saens, as Donald Macleod reveals, was no exception, but this was the nut he found hardest to crack.

'Le Bonheur est chose legere' from Le Timbre d'Argent
Alma Gluck (soprano)
Efrem Zimbalist (violin)
Samuel Chotzinoff (piano)

La Princess jaune, Op.30 (excerpts)
Lena ...... Maria Costanza Nocentini (soprano)
Kornelis ...... Carlo Allemano (tenor)
Swiss Italian Orchestra
Francis Travis (conductor)

Henry VIII (excerpt)
Anne Boleyn ...... Lucile Vignon (mezzo-soprano)
Don Gomez ...... Alain Gabriel (tenor)
Henry VIII ...... Philipppe Rouillon (baritone)
Catherine of Aragon ...... Michelle Command (soprano)
Churs due Theatre des Arts de Rouen
Orchestre Lyrique Francais
Alain Guingal (conductor)

Samson et Dalila (excerpts)
Dalila ...... Olga Borodina (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Carlo Rizzi (conductor)

Parysatis - 'Airs de Ballet'
London Philharmonic
Geoffrey Simon (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

7 July 2004

Part One

With Louise Fryer.

1.00am
Gillian Weir plays the organ of Symphony Hall Birmingham
Recorded on 2nd May 2002

Joseph Jongen: Sonata eroica, Op 94
Durufle: Suite, Op 5
Liszt: St Francois de Paule marchant sur les flots, S 175 No 2
Widor: Symphony No 6 in G, Op 42 No 2

2.25am
Gosta Nystroem: Golfiner (Golfines)
?slog Rosen (soprano soloist)
Swedish Radio Choir
Eric Ericson (conductor)

2.30am
Wilhelm Stenhammar: Four Stockholm Poems, Op 38 (1918)
Karl-Magnus Fredriksson (baritone)
Stefan Nilsson (piano)

2.45am
Beethoven: String Quartet in E flat major, Op 127
Oslo Quartet

3.30am
Schubert: 3 pieces, D 946
Alfred Brendel (piano)

3.55am
August Enna: Overture - The Match Girl
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Hannu Koivula (conductor)

4.00am
Francaix: Le Gai Paris
The Wind Ensemble of the Hungarian Radio Orchestra

4.10am
Haydn: Sonata in G major, Hob XVI/39
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

4.25am
Arthur Benjamin: Overture to an Italian Comedy
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Joseph Post (conductor)

430am
Paganini: Moses Fantaisie
Monika Leskovar (cello)
Ivana Svarc (piano)

4.40am
Pieter Hellendaal: Concerto grosso for strings and continuo in E flat major, Op 3 No 4
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

4.55am
Couperin: Rondeau - Soeur Monique
Colin Tilney (harpsichord)

05:00

Through the Night

7 July 2004

Part Two

Louise Fryer concludes this morning's programme.

5.00am
Messaien: O Sacrum Convivium!
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

5.05am
Franck: Pastorale in E major, M 31
Gillian Weir (organ)

5.15am
Giustini: Piano Sonata in D major, Op 1 No 5
Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)

5.25am
Mozart (arr. Franz Danzi): Duo from Le Nozze di Figaro, 'Voi che sapete'
Duo Fouquet

5.30am
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz: 4 Songs
Jadwiga Rappe (contralto)
Ewa Poblocka (piano)

5.40am
Nicolas Gombert: Benedicto mensae
BBC Singers
Bo Holten (conductor)

5.50am
Byrd: Fantasia, MB 28 46 in D minor
Aapo Hakkinen (harpsichord)

5.55am
Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Ivars Taurins (conductor)

6.05am
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich
David Zinman (conductor)

6.35am
Mendelssohn: Hora est
Radio France Chorus
Donald Palumbo (conductor)

6.45am
Chopin: Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante, Op 22
Artur Rubinstein (piano)