Saturday 11th September 2004

07:00

Morning on 3

11 September 2004

Presented by Martin Handley.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Johann Strauss I: Homage to Queen Victoria of Great Britain, Op 103
London Symphony Orchestra
John Georgiadis (conductor)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 3 in E flat, K107
Murray Perahia (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra

From 8.00am

William Harris: Faire is the heaven
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Timothy Brown (director)

Moeran: Sinfonietta
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)

09:00

CD Review

11 September 2004

With Andrew McGregor who plays some of this month's newest releases.

The programme includes the following features:

Andrew Manze recommends a version of Schubert's Symphony No 8 in B Minor 'Unfinished' from the currently available recordings.

Simon Heighes reviews new releases of baroque music, including Vivaldi concertos from the English Concert, Rameau harpsichord works from Sophie Yates, and Alessandro Scarlatti's oratorio La Santissima Trinita from Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante.

An interview with Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe who talks about his formative years, life on the Pacific Rim and his new CD Songs of Sea and Sky for didjeridu and orchestra.

Disc of the Week

Bartok: Violin Sonata No 2
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

13:00

The Early Music Show

Music for St Anthony Abbot

Catherine Bott introduces two rarities from fifteenth century Burgundy, performed by the Binchois Consort, director Andrew Kirkman, in the majestic acoustic of the Chapter House of York Minster. The ten movement Missa Sancti Anthonii Viennensis is ascribed to the Burgundian master Guillauem Dufay. The only surviving isorythmic motet by his great contemporary Gilles Binchois was also written for St.Anthony of Vienne. This work, Nove cantum melodie has been reconstructed from surviving manuscript fragments by Philip Weller.

14:00

Discovering Music

Words and Music

To begin a new season of programmes, Charles Hazlewood is joined by mezzo soprano Pamela Helen Stephen, tenor James Gilchrist and the BBC Concert Orchestra for a workshop session exploring the many different ways composer over the past three hundred years have approached the setting of words in opera arias and in song.

Purcell: See, see the many coloured fields ("The Fairy Queen")
Handel: Svegliatevi ne core ("Julius Caesar")
Mozart: Dies bildnis ("The Magic Flute")
Berlioz: Spectre de la rose ("Nuits d'ete")
Britten: Midnight's Bell ("Nocturne")
Finzi: It was a lover and his lass

15:00

World Routes

11 September 2004

A concert recorded at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. The legendary South African jazzman teams up with one of the UK's leading big bands in a blend of Masekela classics with a little Bob Marley. Introduced by Ghanaian musician Serena Dankwa.

16:00

Jazz Line-Up

11 September 2004

Julian Joseph previews next week's Scarborough Jazz Festival, plus an introduction to new Japanese pianist and composer Hiromi.

17:00

Jazz Record Requests

11 September 2004

Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.

18:00

Jazz File

Sketches of Gil

1. The Birth of the Cool

A three part series telling the story of one of the most important composers, arrangers and bandleaders in modern jazz, Gil Evans.

"I don't play jazz music" Gil once said, "I play popular music: the music of the times".

Looking back over a career that spanned six decades, it's clear to see Gil never stood still but continued to make vibrant, imaginative music throughout.

A self-taught pianist, Gil helped revolutionise the sound of the big band in the 1940's through his work with the Claude Thornhill orchestra. After a key meeting with Miles Davis, he then masterminded the sessions now known as
"The Birth of the Cool" and went on to record a series of classic collaborations including "Miles Ahead", "Porgy and Bess" and "Sketches of Spain". Always on a quest for new musical colours, his latter day big band embraced electronics readily and even recorded an album of Jimi Hendrix songs.

'Sketches of Gil' is presented by saxophonist and Evans collaborator David Sanborn and features exclusive interviews with the following Evans alumni: Lee Konitz, Gunther Schuller, Wayne Shorter, Creed Taylor, Howard Johnson, Billie Harper, Anita Evans and Maria Schneider. Plus there will be archive interview material of Gil Evans himself.

The first programme examines Gil's early years and shows what you get when you cross an obsession with Louis Armstrong with a close study of Ravel, and then add bebop.

18:30

Kit and the Widow Cocktails

11 September 2004

To bring this series to a rousing conclusion, today Kit and the Widow welcome a sparkling array of talent into the Cocktails studio, including singer Liz Robertson, Radio 3's poet-in-residence Mario Petrucci, and, just in from Manhattan, composer, pianist, song-writer, and singer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett.

19:30

BBC Proms 2004

Last Night of the Proms, pt 1

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

The traditional Last Night festivities draw together some of this season's anniversary composers and themes, including colourful overtures by Dvorak and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and a showcase for the newly-restored organ, along with Strauss's flamboyant concerto with one of this country's most celebrated young horn players, and popular arias from Proms favourite Sir Thomas Allen.

Presented by Stephanie Hughes.

Continues at 9.10pm, after Twenty Minutes.

Programme notes, composer and artist profiles and "now playing" information for each main evening Prom are available on LiveText via Dab radio and Freeview.

Dvorak: Overture 'Carnival'
R Strauss: Horn Concerto No 1 in E flat, Op.11 %
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs * #
Barber: Toccata festiva for organ and orchestra +

Simon Preston (organ) +
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone) *
David Pyatt (horn) %
BBC Singers #
BBC Symphony Chorus #
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

20:45

Twenty Minutes

Proms in the Parks

A live round up of four spectacular events in Swansea, London, Glasgow and Belfast, including music from Dennis O'Neill, Kim Criswell, Ramon Vargas, Nicola Benedetti, and James Galway.

21:10

BBC Proms 2004

Last Night of the Proms, pt 2

Stephanie Hughes introduces the conclusion of the Last Night festivities.

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Ojai Festival Overture
Puccini: Humming chorus from 'Madam Butterfly' #
Rodgers & Hammerstein: "Oh what a beautiful morning!" from 'Oklahoma!' *
Cole Porter: Where is the life that late I led? from "Kiss me, Kate" *
Gilbert & Sullivan: The List Song from 'The Mikado' * #
Sousa: Liberty Bell March
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1
Wood: Fantasia on British Sea-Songs (1905, with additional numbers arr Stephen Jackson)
Parry (orch Elgar): Jerusalem
arr Wood: The National Anthem

Trad: Auld Lang Syne

Sir Thomas Allen (baritone) *
David Pyatt (horn) %
BBC Singers #
BBC Symphony Chorus #
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Leonard Slatkin

22:45

Pre-Hear

11 September 2004

As a preface to tonight's Hear and Now, a group of 70th birthday tributes to Anthony Gilbert by his contemporaries and colleagues, David Lumsdaine and Nicola LeFanu, Alexander Goehr, Anthony Payne and Harrison Birtwistle. Performed by members of the Endymion Ensemble.

23:00

Hear And Now

Anthony Gilbert - A Retrospective

Ivan Hewett introduces a concert marking Anthony Gilbert's 70th birthday in July, given by the Endymion ensemble. They explored his highly individual chamber works including Elegy for piano (1967); Long White Moonlight (1980) for soprano and electric double bass; O'Grady Music (1971) for clarinet, cello and toy instruments; Spell Respell (1968) for electric bassett clarinet and piano; and the world premiere of Tinos for soprano, bass clarinet and vibraphone.

The programme also features short tributes to Gilbert by some of his friends and former students including Martin Butler and Simon Holt.

01:00

Through the Night

11 September 2004

Part One

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am
Oslo Philharmonic conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, Op 77
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)

Debussy: 3 Images

2.15am
Bax: Legend
Steven Dann (viola)
Bruce Vogt (piano)

2.25am
Ludwig Thuille: Sextet in B flat, Op 6
Jae-Eun Ku (piano)
Tae-Won Kim (flute)
Hyong-Sup Kim (oboe)
Hyon-Kon Kim (clarinet)
Sang-Won Yoon (bassoon)
Kawng-Ku Lee (horn)

2.55am
Pavel Haas (arr Jan van Uhjmen): 4 Lieder
Maarten Konigsberger (baritone)
Nieuw Ensemble
Ed Spanjaard (director)

3.05am
Bizet: (Suite 2 compiled by Ernest Guiraud) L'Arlesienne Suites Nos 1 & 2
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

3.30am
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat m, Op 23
Andre Laplante (piano)
Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec
Yoav Talmi (conductor)

4.05am
Alessandro Scarlatti: Le Violette
Nicolai Gedda (Tenor)
Miguel Zanetti (piano)

4.10am
Vivaldi: Concerto da Camera in G m, RV 107
Camerata Koln: Karl Kaiser (flute)
Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe)
Michael McCraw (bassoon)
Mary Utiger, Hajo Ba? (violins)
Rainer Zipperling (cello)
Harald Hoeren (harpsichord)

4.15am
Nicolaus Bruhns: Der Herr hat seinen Stuhl im Himmel bereitet
Max van Egmond (bass)
Ricercar Consort

4.25am
Bach: Wer nur den lieben Gott la?t walten, BWV 691a
Mario Penzar (organ)

4.30am
Schein: Canzon No 26 in Am
Hesperion XX
Jordi Savall (descant viola da gamba and director)

4.35am
Beethoven: 13 Variationen uber 'Es war einmal ein', WoO 66
Theo Bruins (piano)

4.50am
Trad 17th Century Dances
Csaba Nagy (tarogato)
Peter Ella (harpsichord)

05:00

Through the Night

11 September 2004

Part Two

Susan Sharpe concludes this morning's programme.

5.00am
Mozart: Lucio Silla - Overture, K 135
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

5.05am
Cesti: Intorno all'idol mio (Orontea)
Helga Muller Molinari (mezzo-soprano - Orontea)
Concerto Vocale
Rene Jacobs (director)

5.15am
Haydn: Symphony No 73 in D 'La Chasse', H 1 73
Romanian National Chamber Orchestra
Horia Andreescu (conductor)

5.35am
Schubert: Sonata No 1 in D, D 384
Tomaz Lorenz (violin)
Alenka Scek-Lorenz (piano)

5.50am
Massenet: Werther's aria from Werther, Act 1
Denes Gulyas (tenor)
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
Andras Mihaly (conductor)

5.55am
Shostakovitch: Second Waltz from the Second Jazz suite
Eolina Quartet

6.00am
Stravinsky: Ragtime
Canadian Chamber Ensemble
Raffi Armenian (conductor)

6.05am
Bacewicz: Partita for orchestra
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra
Marek Pijarowski (conductor)

6.20am
Abel: Flute Concerto in Em, Op 6 No 2
Karl Kaiser (flute)
La Stagione Frankfurt
Michael Schneider (director)

6.35am
Marcin Mielczewski: Missa Super O Gloriosa Domina
Il Canto

6.55am
Reger: Chorale Prelude - Von Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, Op 67 No 42
Graham Barber (organ)