Sunday 12th September 2004

07:00

Morning on 3

12 September 2004

Presented by Martin Handley.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Honegger: Pacific 231
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
Michel Plasson (conductor)

J.S. Bach: Cantata "Jesu, der du meine Seele" BWV 78
The Bach Ensemble
Joshua Rifkin (director)

From 8.00am

Hoddinott: Two Songs of Glamorgan
Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone)
Nigel Foster (piano)

Grieg: Sonata in Em, Op 7
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

09:00

The Cowan Collection

12 September 2004

Today's selection includes works by Walton, Vivaldi, Suk, Shostakovich and Tallis

12:00

Private Passions

Hugo Morley-Fletcher

Michael Berkeley's guest is Hugo Morley-Fletcher, ceramics expert on the Antiques Roadshow. His enthusiasms range from the Italian Baroque to Bruckner and Wagner.

13:00

The Early Music Show

12 September 2004

In this month's live and interactive Early Music Show, Catherine Bott's guest is baroque violinist Monica Huggett.

14:00

Sunday Gala

Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

Today's Sunday Gala features the exciting Russian pianist Mikhail Pletnev in a concert he gave at the Royal Festival Hall in May. His programme included a pairing of Beethoven sonatas; his Op.10'3 and the mighty 'Pathetique'. Then a rare chance to hear some of Tchaikovsky's 18 Pieces for Piano, each dedicated to one of his friends.

Presented by Stephanie Hughes.

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in D, Op 10'3
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in Cm, Op 13, 'Pathetique'
Tchaikovsky: 18 Pieces for Piano, Op 72 (Nos 1-7)

15:30

Sounding the Soul

Sounding the Soul

Series in which four leading thinkers explore the spiritual essence of music. This edition meets Father Daniel, Abbot of the monastic community on the remote Welsh island of Caldey.

16:00

3 for all

12 September 2004

This week, listeners have requested music from Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony, Beethoven's Leonore Overture No.3 and, from the BBC archives, Indian Suite by John Foulds. Plus Brian sifts through his postbag for suggestions of music that 'touches the soul'.

17:45

Music Matters

12 September 2004

With Tom Service.

Daniel Barenboim explains why, relatively late in his career, he has now joined the pantheon of great pianists to have recorded Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. And a look at Push 04, a season of British, black-led theatre, opera and ballet.

18:30

Performance on 3

Edinburgh International Festtival 2004

Complete performance

In the opening concert of this year's festival the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Edinburgh Festival Chorus and conductor Kwame Ryan are joined by an exciting line-up of solo singers and a cast of French actors for a rare performance of Honegger's oratorio about Joan of Arc setting a text by Paul Claudel.

Honegger: Jeanne d'Arc au bucher
Joan of Arc ...... Jeanne Balibar
Brother Dominic ...... Phillipe Girard
Marguerite ...... Lisa Milne
The Virgin ...... Sarah Fox
Catherine ...... Jane Irwin
Porcus/1st Herald/Clerk ...... Paul Agnew
2nd Herald/Peasant ...... Tim Mirfin
Members of the Centre Dramatique National/Orleans-Loiret-Centre
Edinburgh Festival Chorus, chorus-master David Jones
RSNO Junior Chorus, chorus-master Christopher Bell
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Kwame Ryan (conductor)

20:00

Drama on 3

Romeo and Juliet in Southwark

By Georgia Finch.

A play written in collaboration with the Globe Theatre Education Department and the pupils from an inner-London school, this is the story of two ordinary London teenagers, their lives, and the very special day they share. Based on real events.

Stephen ...... Mohammed George
Jessica ...... Petra Letang
Francis ...... Mark Monero
Jessica's Mum ...... Janice Acquah
Bola ...... Troy Glasgow
Mel ...... Medhavi Patel
Jade ...... Aml Ameen
Slick ...... Tyronne Lewis
Driver ...... Nick Boulton
Narrator ...... Georgia Fitch

Directed by Marc Beeby.

21:30

Sunday Feature

Nile Lands

1. Ethiopia

The Nile is the world's longest river, the lifeblood of one of the first great civilisations and the route which brought Europeans into the heart of Africa. Over four programmes, Zeinab Badawi visits the countries through which the Nile flows to explore how the river has shaped their different cultural identities and helped to form perceptions of Africa in the Western imagination.

Zeinab's journey starts at the source of the Blue Nile where the river seeps out of Ethiopia's Mount Gish at the Sekala Spring. Ethiopian tradition connects the river to the country's ancient Christian heritage: it is a river in the Garden of Eden, which gave refuge to the Virgin Mary on her flight from Egypt and brought the Ark of the Covenant to Axum.

22:15

Andy Kershaw

12 September 2004

Forerunners of Alt-Country and recently reformed, the Long Ryders make their debut appearance on Radio 3.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Peter Maxwell Davies (b. 1934)

1. Seascapes and Wavetypes

Donald Macleod travels to Sanday in the Orkneys, the home of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who celebrates his 70th birthday this week. Today they discuss a few of his many works reflecting life on the islands, written since his move north in the 1970s.

Solstice of Light (extract)
The Choir of King's College Cambridge
Christopher Hughes (organ)
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Piano Sonata (Mvt V: Grave)
David Holzman (piano)

Westerlings
BBC Singers
Simon Joly (conductor)

Symphony No 2 (extract: final mvt)
BBC Philharmonic
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

12 September 2004

Part One

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am
Founded in 1903 at the church of the same name, "The Seven Saints" Chamber Choir, with conductor Dimitar Grigorov perform a range of sacred vocal music from the C 12th St John Koukouzel up to John Taverner's The Lamb, taking in along the way pieces by Musorgsky, Tchaikovsky as well as Heinrich Isaac and Peter Philips

2.05am
Richard Charlton: Dances of the Rainbow Serpent
Guitar Trek

2.15am
Schumann: Piano Sonata No 2 in Gm, Op 22
Wilhelm Kempff (piano)

2.35am
Tartini: Violin Concerto in Dm, D 45
Carlo Parazzoli (violin)
I Cameristi Italiani

2.50am
Haydn: Symphony No 22 in E flat 'The Philosopher'
Prima La Musica
Dirk Vermeulen (conductor)

3.10am
Nielsen: Symphony No 6 'Sinfonia semplice'
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

3.45am
Julius Rontgen: Sonata in F sharp m, Op 20
Alexander Kerr (violin)
Sepp Grotenhuis (piano)

4.05am
Brahms: Five Choral Songs, Op 104
Danish National Radio Choir
Stefan Parkman (conductor)

4.20am
Telemann: Concerto a 5
Christian Schneider, Erik Niord Larsen (oboe d'amore)
Kjell Arne J?rgensen, Miranda Playfair (violin)
Dan Styffe (bass)
Hans Knut Sveen (harpsichord)

4.30am
Wagner: Tannhauser - Overture
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

4.45am
Ferenc Erkel: Aria of Bank - from the opera Bank ban
Lajos Miller (baritone)
The Hungarian Radio Orchestra
Gesa Oberfrank (director)

4.50am
Milhaud: Scaramouche
Lee-Malmqvist Piano Duo

05:00

Through the Night

12 September 2004

Part Two

Susan Sharpe concludes this morning's programmme.

5.00am
Schubert: Ave Maria
Eolina Quartet

5.10am
Jacques Gallot: Pieces in Fm
Konrad Junghanel (lute)

5.25am
Marais: Caprice ou Sonate
Pierre Pitzel, Mary Jean Bolli (violas da gamba)
Augusta Campagne (harpsichord)

5.30am
Bach: Violin Concerto No 1 in Am, BWV 1041
Musica Antiqua Koln
Reinhard Goebel (violin and conductor)

5.40am
Horneman: Aladdin - overture
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michael Sch?nwandt (conductor)

5.50am
Uros Krek: Sonatina for Strings
The Slovenian Philharmonic String Chamber Orchestra
Andrej Petrac (leader)

6.05am
Montsalvatge: Concierto Breve
Angela Cheng (piano)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Hans Graf (conductor)

6.30am
Weyse: Symphony No 6 in Cm
The Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Adam Fischer (conductor)