Sunday 1st August 2004

07:00

Morning on 3

1 August 2004

Presented by Martin Handley.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Schumann: Arabeske, Op 18
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

Johann Wilhelm Wilms: Symphony No 7 in c minor
Concerto Koln

From 8:00am

Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat
Michel Beroff (piano)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Kurt Masur (conductor)

Barber: Second Essay, Op 17
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor)

09:00

The Cowan Collection

1 August 2004

Rob Cowan introduces some surprises and treasures from his record collection. Regular features include The Innocent Ear and Rob's recommendation for a Bargain Hunter CD.

Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon Overture
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

Bach: Violin Sonata in C minor BWV 1017
Josef Suk (violin)
Zuzana Ruzickova (harpsichord)

Massenet: "J'ai marque l'heure du depart" (Manon Act 1)
Pierrette Alarie (soprano)
Leopold Simoneau (tenor)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Lee Shaenen (conductor)

Blacher: Concertante Musik Op 10
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Hans Rosbaud (conductor)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat Op 19
Dejan Lazic (piano)
Classical Philharmonic, Bonn
Heribert Beissel (conductor)

12:00

Private Passions

Kate Adie

Michael Berkeley's guest today is the BBC's former Chief News Correspondent Kate Adie, renowned for her fearless reporting from war zones around the world. Her musical private passions include works from Sweden and Georgia, English folk songs refashioned by Vaughan Williams, and music by Bruch, Wagner, Shostakovich and Puccini.

13:00

The Early Music Show

The First New World Opera

Catherine Bott looks at Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco's La Purpura de la rosa (The Blood of the Rose), the first opera ever to be performed in the New World, which received its premiere in 1701 in Lima, Peru.

14:00

Sunday Gala

Murray Perahia

Today's Sunday Gala features American pianist Murray Perahia in a concert he gave at the Royal Festival Hall in June - his only London recital this year. The programme includes one of Beethoven's more quirky sonatas, Schumann's lyrical Fantasy Pieces, and Brahms' mighty Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. Stephanie Hughes talks to Murray Perahia about his ideas behind the programme.

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Sonata in G, Op 31, No 1
Robert Schumann: Phantasiestucke, Op 12
Johannes Brahms: Variations and fugue on a theme by Handel in B flat, Op 24

15:30

Getting Organised 4 of 4

Getting Organised 4 of 4

4/4. Last in the series exploring the world's finest organ music.

Wayne Marshall looks at the way the organ has been used in collaboration with other instruments. He introduces his own improvisation projects, as well as music that combines the organ with choir and solo trumpet. Once again, Wayne uses the organ of Blackburn Cathedral to demonstrate the music he discusses.

16:00

3 for all

1 August 2004

Brian Kay opens another bag of listener requests. Amongst them, Sibelius's symphonic poem Finlandia, Bryn Terfel and Malcolm Martineau perform songs by John Ireland, and violinist Sarah Chang plays Elgar's Salut d'amour and Khachaturian's Sabre Dance from Gayane, which she recorded when she was only 9 years old. Plus more from the BBC's own library of recordings.

17:45

New Generation Artists

1 August 2004

In a series of programmes running through the Proms season, BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists past and present are featured in recordings made specially for the BBC.

Sally Matthews (soprano)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Schubert: Nacht und Traume, D 827; Lied der Delphine, D 857; Stimme der Liebe, D 412; Sprache der Liebe, D 410; Leibhaber in allen Gestalten, D 558; Allegretto - Der Fruhling wir kommen

18:30

BBC Proms 2004

Prom 23 part 1

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

In this their centenary year, the LSO performs Britten's deeply affecting memorial to pacifism in which he interspersed settings of the Latin Mass for the Dead with verse by the First World War poet Wilfred Owen.
It's preceded by the world premiere of a recently uncovered organ work which Britten wrote in the 1930s, a decade which ushered in yet more devastating conflict.

Presented by Tommy Pearson.

Britten: Voluntary on Tallis's Lamentations (world premiere)
Britten: War Requiem
Susan B. Anthony (soprano)
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
Timothy Bond (organ)

Finchley Children's Music Group
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

20:15

Sunday Feature

East Meets West Meets East

Christopher Cook explores the many ways in which artists from Eastern traditions are reinventing and reversioning western cultural classics. Focusing on music, the visual arts (including architecture and garden design), film and literature, Christopher asks how traditions merge and augment each other. Including interviews with Yo-Yo Ma, Tan Dun, Amit Chaudhuri and Gurinder Chadha.

21:00

BBC Proms 2004

Prom 23 part 2

Fiona Talkington introduces the second part of tonight's Prom, live from the Royal Albert Hall.

Sir John Tavener's cosmic masterpiece comes to the Proms in a new compact version to celebrate his 60th birthday. The original, seven-hour work, premiered in Fleet Street's Temple Church last summer, astonished the musical world with its mesmerising journey of chants, prayers and psalms. The vast spaces of the Royal Albert Hall promise to bring a new dimension to this powerful work.

Sir John Tavener: The Veil of the Temple (world premiere of concert version)

Patricia Rozario (soprano)
Simon Wall (tenor)
Andy Staples (tenor)
Andrew Rupp (baritone)
Thomas Guthrie (baritone)
Jeremy Birchall (bass)
Adrian Peacock (bass)

Dirk Campbell (duduk)

James Vivian (organ)

Choir of the Temple Church
Holst Singers
Brighton Festival Chorus
Brass of the English Chamber Orchestra
Stephen Layton (conductor)

00:00

Composer of the Week

Guillaume Dufay (c1400 - 1474) and Gilles Binchois (c1400 - 1460)

1. Two of a Kind

Donald Macleod begins a week-long survey of the music of two figureheads from the 15th century, Guillaume Dufay and Gilles Binchois. Today, a look at Dufay's early career, including his musical responses to the various political upheavals through which he lived.

Binchois: Adieu mon amoreuse joye
Gothic Voices
Christopher Page (director)

Dufay: Flos Florum; Vergene bella
Hilliard Ensemble

Dufay: Vasilissa ergo gaude
Huelgas-Ensemble
Paul van Nevel (director)

Dufay: Resvellies vous et faites chiere lye
Ensemble Unicorn
Michael Posch (director)

Dufay: Apostolo glorioso
The Binchois Consort
Andrew Kirkman (director)

Dufay: Mass for St James the Greater: Alleluia; Rite Majorem/Arcibus summis; Mass for St James the Greater: Offertory
The Binchois Consort
Andrew Kirkman (director)

Dufay: Quel fronte signorille; La dolce vista
Ensemble Unicorn
Michael Posch (director)

01:00

Through the Night

1 August 2004

Part One

With John Shea.

1.00am
Waterworks - A Composer's Competition from Denmark, featuring new works by young composers, recorded at Library Hall Round Tower Copenhagen 21st November 2003.

Hymnia Chamber Chorus
Flemming Windekilde (conductor)

Eric Whitacre: Water Night

Morten Poulsen: Havsbon (Sea Prayer)

Jaakko Mantyjarvi: De hulkende s?mand (The sobbing sailor)

Francesco Cali: Regn p? ruden (Rain on the window pane)

Catharina Palmer: Kissrain Watersleep
Mathias Friis-Hansen and Nicolai Slaatao (percussion)

Lasse Enersen: Agua Nocturna
Emilie Esk?r (cello)

Kelly Crandell: Blessing the Boats

Jaakko Mantyjarvi: Where Corals Lie

1.50am
Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat major
Halle Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)

2.45am
Brahms: Trio in E flat major, Op 40
Baiba Skride (violin)
Linda Skride (viola)
Lauma Skride (piano)

3.15am
Bach: Prelude and fugues Nos 11-17 from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Book 2, BWV 880-886
Rosalyn Tureck (piano)

4.05am
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Prelude and Fugue, Op 36, No 2
Arto Noras (cello)
Tapani Valsta (piano)

Abraham van den Kerckhoven: Prelude and Fugue in D minor
Haite van der Schaaf (organ)

4.15am
Britten: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell (A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Milen Nachev (conductor)

4.30am
Faure (arr T Dooney): Piece
Douglas Boyd (oboe)
Susan Tomes (piano)

4.35am
Roussel: 3 pieces for piano, Op 49
Mats Jansson (piano)

4.45am
Palestrina: Laudate Dominum
Chorus of Swiss Radio Lugano
Diego Fasolis (conductor)
Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ)
Alberto Rasi (viola da gamba)

4.45am
Durante: Concerto per quartetto No 4 in E minor
Concerto Koln

05:00

Through the Night

1 August 2004

Part Two

John Shea concludes this morning's programme.

5.00am
Purcell: The Duke of Gloucester's trumpet suite
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet)
The King's Consort
Robert King (director)

5.10am
Giaches de Wert: Qual musico gentil
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (director)

5.20am
Mozart: Violin Sonata in F major, K 377
Ana Savicka (violin)
Aljosa Lecic (piano)

5.40am
Dohnanyi: Symphonic Minutes, Op 36
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Jorge Mester (conductor)

5.50am
Cazzati: Ballo delle Ombre
Ensemble Daedalus
Roberto Festa (recorder and director)

5.55am
Jan de Castro: Je suis tellement langoureus
Ensemble Daedalus
Roberto Festa (director)

6.00am
Telemann: Trio No 3 from Essercizii Musici
Camerata Koln

6.15am
Shchedrin (arr D Tziganov): Humoresque; In imitation of Albeniz
Vesko Eschkenazy (violin)
Ludmil Angelov (piano)

6.20am
Daniel-Lesur: Le Cantique des colonnes
Isabelle Perrin and Ghislaine Petit (harps)
Maitrise de Radio France
Denis Dupays (conductor)

6.35am
Suk: Praga - symphonic poem
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Alois Klima (conductor)