Wednesday 21st July 2004

07:00

Morning on 3

21 July 2004

Penny Gore celebrates the Mediterranean world of Georges Bizet and Camille Saint-Saens.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Roussel: Petite Suite, Op 39
Orchestre National de l'ORTF

Bizet: Jeux d'Enfants
Katia and Marielle Labeque (piano)

Monteverdi: Hor che'l ciel e la terra 'l vento (Petrarch Rime, CLXIV)
Taverner Consort and Players
Andrew Parrott (director)

From 8.30am

Saint-Saens: Suite Algerienne, Op 60
Swiss Italian Orchestra, Francis Travis (conductor)

Liszt: Benedetto sia'l giorno from Three Petrarch Sonnets
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor)
John Wustman (piano)

Schubert: Symphony No 4 in C minor 'Tragic'
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

21 July 2004

With Jonathan Swain.

G Gabrieli: Canzon VII a 7; Canzon a 12 in Echo; Canzon III a 6
Hesperion XX
Jordi Savall (treble viol/director)

Schubert: Quartet in E major, D 353
Allegri String Quartet

G Gabrieli
Misericordia a 12; Magnificat a 14
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Rogers Covey-Crump, Nigel Rogers, Martyn Hill (tenors)
Taverner Choir
London Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble
Andrew Parrott (director)

Listener request
Parry: Symphony No 5 in B minor 'Symphonic Fantasia 1912'
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Matthias Bamert (conductor)

G Gabrieli: Lieto godea; Amor s'e in lei; Sacri di giove augei
Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (lute/director)
Baroque Brass of London
Michael Laird (cornett/director)

Britten: Quartet No 2 in C major, Op 36
Allegri String Quartet

12:00

Composer of the Week

Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)

Part 3

With Donald Macleod.

In 1866, Grieg returned to Norway to live in the capital Christiana, but life there was not all he'd hoped for. His beloved baby daughter and only child died, things were difficult financially and he had to work very hard just to make a living amongst people who didn't totally appreciate him. He was sustained through his time there by a visit to Rome where he met Liszt and by his friendship and artistic collaboration with the playwright Bjornstjerne Bjornson.

Margaret's cradle song and Among the Roses, Op 15 No 1, and Op 39 No 4
Monica Groop (mezzo soprano)
Ilmo Ranta (piano)

1st violin Sonata 2nd mvt, Op 8
Augustin Dumay (violin)
Maria Jo?o Pires (piano)

Piano Concerto
Leif Ove Andsnes
Berlin Philharmonic
Mariss Jansons (conductor)

Olav Trygvason scene 3, Op 50
Gothenburg Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Cheltenham Festival 2004

21 July 2004

Chris de Souza introduces performances from the Pittville Pumproom given as part of this year's Cheltenham International Festival of Music. Today Radio 3 New Generation Artist Ashley Wass combines a programme of a first performance with classics from the piano repertory.

Beethoven: Sonata in C minor "Pathetique", Op 13
Schumann: Papillons, Op 2
Tanguy: Quattro Intermezzi (World Premiere)
Liszt: Annees de Pelerinage: 1er annee, Suisse S 160 - Au lac de Wallenstadt - Orage - Les Cloches de Geneve

Ashley Wass (piano)

14:15

BBC Proms 2004

Prom 4

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Another chance to hear Monday's Prom, celebrating the work of the three great British composers who died in 1934. Delius's heart-rending tale of grief and loss to verse by the great American poet Walt Whitman is followed by Gustav Holst's setting of an enigmatic Byzantine hymn which explores his fascination with Eastern myth. The concert is framed by two of Elgar's most abiding works.

Presented by Martin Handley.

Thomas Hampson (baritone)
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Bach Choir
Choir of St Paul's Cathedral
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Elgar: Cockaigne
Delius: Sea Drift
Holst: Hymn of Jesus
Elgar: Enigma Variations

16:00

Choral Evensong

21 July 2004

From Eton College Chapel with members of the third 2004 Eton Choral Course.

Introit: Confitemini Domino (Palestrina)
Responses: Byrd
Psalm: 106 (Ben Parry)
First Reading: Isaiah 63 vv7-14
Office Hymn: The Lord whom earth and sea and sky (Veni Redemptor)
Magnificat a 8 (Gabrieli)
Second Reading: John 16 vv 25-33
Nunc Dimittis: Tone iii (Victoria)
Anthem: Nisi Dominus (Monteverdi)
Final Hymn: Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go (Song 34)
Organ Voluntary: Meine Seele erhebet den Herren - Fuge uber das Magnificat, BWV 733 (Bach)

Director: Ben Parry
Organist: Christopher Whitton

17:00

In Tune

21 July 2004

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

19:30

BBC Proms 2004

Prom 7 part 1

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

A welcome first visit to the Proms by a Czech orchestra rarely heard in this country and a conductor steeped in the music of this season's 'Back to Bohemia' theme. The thrilling mezzo Magdalena Kozena joins them for a delightfully mixed programme culminating in Mozart's tribute to the beautiful city of Prague.

Presented by Sandy Burnett.

Continues after Twenty Minutes.

Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano)
Marcel Javorcek (piano)
Ican Hoznedr (timpani)

Prague Philharmonia
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Vejvanovsky: Sonata vespertina a 8
Myslivecek: L'Olimpiade - Che non mi disse un di!
Mozart: Vado, ma dove? K583; Alma grande e nobil core, K578
Martinu: Double Concerto for piano, timpani and strings

20:20

Twenty Minutes

Prague 1934

A new short story by the novelist Elena Lappin, set in the capital of Czechoslovakia when it was an enlightened and youthful democracy - yet just a few years away from invasion and occupation by Germany.

20:40

BBC Proms 2004

Prom 7 part 2

Live from the Royal Albert Hall. Prague Philharmonia/Jiri Belohlavek conclude tonight's concert with Novak: Melancholic Songs of Love and Mozart: Symphony No 38 (Prague).

21:45

The Brancusi Trial

The Brancusi Trial

Writer and barrister John Mortimer tells the story of one of the most influential art trials ever conducted: Brancusi vs. United States.

Constantin Brancusi is considered the father of modern sculpture. But 75 years ago he had to fight for his name and reputation in a trial which became the cause celebre of its day. This extraordinary case resulted in a court of law having to answer that most elusive question - what is art?

Using transcripts of the trial which the programme-makers unearthed in a personal archive, Mortimer analyses a remarkable episode which transformed 20th century art.

22:30

Late Junction

21 July 2004

In tonight's programme there's a chance to hear The Master of Notes and the Instrument of a Hundred colours, a Late Junction concert given in this year's Spitalfields Festival by the BBC Singers conducted by Bo Holten and the sarangi player Sylvia Hallett.

Plus accordion music performed by Guy Klucevsek and Alan Bern and a track from American Guitarist Jack Rose.

With Fiona Talkington.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944)

4. The Wilderness Years

Between 1910 and 1912 Ethel Smyth virtually gave up writing music and devoted herself to the suffragist cause. One of the few works Smyth completed in 1912 were the last two movements of her String Quartet in E minor. She had written the first two movements ten years earlier. Smyth was a friend and supporter of Emmeline Pankhurst, and wrote what became the marching anthem for the cause, The March of the Women.

The years leading up to this decision had been difficult for Ethel Smyth. She had experienced conflict over a production of her opera The Wreckers in Leipzig, which resulted in many opera houses, including Covent Garden, avoiding performances of her work. Two years later though in 1908 Smyth went to Paris to hear a performance of her Four Songs for Chamber Ensemble, which Debussy praised as well as the French critics.

Donald Macleod and Odaline de la Martinez discuss these years of change and the effect they had on Ethel Smyth's music.

The March of the Women
Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano)
The Plymouth Festival Chorus and Orchestra
Philip Brunelle (conductor)

Possession
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Graham Johnson (piano)

String Quartet in E minor (3rd and 4th movements)
Archaeus Quartet

Four Songs for Voice and Chamber Ensemble
Jane's Minstrels
Jane Manning (soprano)

01:00

Through the Night

21 July 2004

Part One

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
Susan Landale (organ)
(recorded on 3rd October 1996 in St. Etienne Abbey Caen and 12th July 1995 in St. Alban's Cathedral)

Charles Tournemire (ed Durufle): Fantaisie Improvisation No 4 sur 'Ave maris stella'
Messaien: Meditations sur le mystere de la Sainte Trinite - No 5
Vierne: Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 59

1.55am
Mendelssohn: Three Psalms, Op 78
Chamber Choir AVE
Andraz Hauptman (conductor)

2.15am
Chopin: Ballade No 2 in F major, Op 38
Valerie Tryon (piano)

2.25am
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 2 in E minor, Op 67
Arve Tellefsen (violin)
Truls M?rk (cello)
H?vard Gimse (piano)

2.55am
Gregorio Huet: Fantasia
Toyohiko Satoh (lute)

3.00am
Bruckner: Symphony No 2 in C minor
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)

4.05am
Howard Cable: The Banks of Newfoundland
The Hannaford Street Silver Band
Stephen Chenette (conductor)

4.10am
Willy Hess: Suite in B flat major, Op 45
Desmond Wright (piano)

4.20am
Dukas: Villanelle
Esa Tukia (horn)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michel Adelson (conductor)

4.30am
Georg Druschetsky: Sextet
Bratislava Chamber Harmony

4.50am
Dvorak: Carnival overture, Op 92
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra
Samo Hubad (conductor)

05:00

Through the Night

21 July 2004

Part Two

Jonathan Swain concludes this morning's programme.

5.00am
Pachelbel: Motet - Exsurgat Deus
Cantus Colln
Konrad Junghanel (director)

5.05am
Hindemith: Trauermusik
Rivka Golani (viola)
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)

5.15am
Franz Grothe: Illusion
Robert Kortgaard (piano)
Marie Berard (violin)
Joseph Macerollo (accordion)

5.20am
Beethoven: Overture - Leonora No 3
Slovenian RTV Symphony Orchestra
Anton Nanut (conductor)

5.30am
Constantijn Huygens: Multi dicunt animae meae; Domine ne in furore tuo; Usquequo Domine (Pathodia sacra)
Anne Grimm (soprano)
Peter Kooij (bass)
Leo van Doeselaar (organ)
Mike Fentross (theorbo)
Mieneke van der Velden (viola da gamba)

5.40am
Arvo P?rt: Magnificat for chorus
Jauna Musica
Vaclovas Augustinas (conductor)

5.45am
Moniuszko: Czy Powroci (Will he return?)
Urszula Kryger (mezzo soprano)
Katarzyna Jankowska-Borzykowska (piano)

5.50am
Franck: Sonata in A major, M8
Janine Jansen (violin)
Katherine Stott (piano)

6.20am
Luis de Milan: Fantasia del primero y segundo tono; Sospirastes Baldovinos
Trio Montparnasse

6.25am
Giovanni da Firenze: Canzone - Quand Amor
Ensemble Micrologus

6.30am
CPE Bach: Sonata in E flat major, BWV 1031
The Sonora Hungarica Consort

6.40am
Ilmari Hannikainen: Rural Dances, Op 39a
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Petri Sakari (conductor)