Sunday 19th September 2004

07:00

Morning on 3

19 September 2004

Presented by Martin Handley, who today starts a series of the complete Haydn Op 33 String Quartets written 'in an entirely new and special way.'

Music includes, from 7.00am

Thomas Crecquillon: Andreas Christi famulus
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (director)

Haydn: String Quartet in Bm, Op 33 No 1
Quatour Mosaiques

Sibelius: Scenes Historiques No 1, Op 25
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Ari Rasilainen (conductor)

From 8.00am

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in G, Op 79
Richard Goode (piano)

Arnold: Symphony No 5
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by the Composer

09:00

The Cowan Collection

19 September 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. There's also a chance to hear the recording of Beethoven Bagatelles recommended on yesterday's CD Review.

Bach: Chromatic fantasia and fugue in Dm, BWV 903
George Malcolm (harpsichord)

Webern:
Im Sommerwind
Staatskapelle Dresden
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)

Spohr: Concertante in G for Violin and Harp, WoO 13
Pierre Amoyal (violin)
Marielle Nordmann (harp)
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Armin Jordan (conductor)

Samuel Scheidt: Canzon super "O Nachbar Roland"
Concentus musicus Vienna
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)

12:00

Private Passions

Jenny Agutter

Michael Berkeley talks to Jenny Agutter, whose musical passions range from Monteverdi and Schutz to Bernstein.

13:00

The Early Music Show

Early Music in Ireland

Lucie Skeaping explores music in Ireland from medieval times onwards.

14:00

Sunday Gala

19 September 2004

Stephanie Hughes introduces a programme featuring highlights from two concerts given earlier this year at the Styriarte Festival in Austria, featuring the acclaimed Chamber Orchestra of Europe and a starry line-up of soloists. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the Festival's founder, conducts.

Schumann: Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op 52
Beethoven: Triple Concerto Op 56
Beethoven: Symphony No 8 in F, Op 93

Thomas Zehetmair (violin)
Clemens Hagen (cello)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

15:30

Sounding the Soul

Sounding the Soul

In the third of four programmes, architect Daniel Libeskind explores the place of music in his spiritual life. Educated as a concert pianist, Libeskind considers music's power in affirming his national identity, and discusses its place in helping us to come to terms with horrific events in history, the same events which led to his designs for the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Freedom Tower to be built at New York's Ground Zero. His music choices include piano music by Chopin, Yehudi Menuhin playing Bloch's Violin Concerto and the remarkable sound of traditional Inuit singing games.

16:00

3 for all

19 September 2004

Amongst this week's requests, another journey into the BBC's historic archives for Dame Janet Baker's appearance in the 1963 recording of Tippett's A Midsummer Marriage which heralded the opera's early renaissance. Also, Radu Lupu plays the first of Brahms's Rhapsodies, Op 79, and Emma Kirkby features in a recording of Bach's Cantata no.51 Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen. Plus more listeners' responses to Sounding the Soul and its exploration of spiritual themes in music.

17:45

Music Matters

19 September 2004

Tom Service presents a live edition of the programme in which he meets composer conductor Pierre Boulez ahead of a series of performances with the London Symphony Orchestra. Author Jerrold Northrop Moore explores the rural landscape of Worcestershire that informed much of Elgar's work, and as English National Opera prepare to present the complete production of Berlioz's opera, The Trojans, Tom talks to some of those who remember the British premiere of the epic in Glasgow in 1935.

18:30

Performance on 3

Britten: War Requiem

Complete performance

"My subject is War, and
the pity of War;
The poetry is in the pity .
All a poet can do today is warn."
(Wilfred Owen)

Britten's powerful setting of the Roman Mass for the Dead, interspersed with anti-war poems by Wilfred Owen. Tonight's performance was recorded in the Usher Hall at this year's Edinburgh International Festival.

Presented by Christopher Cook.

Olga Guryakova (soprano)
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
David Jones (Chorus Master)
National Youth Choir of Scotland National Boys Choir
Christopher Bell (Chorus Master)
Paragon Ensemble
Garry Walker (conductor)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

20:15

Drama on 3

Something Dark

By Lemn Sissay.

Fostered as a baby and brought up in care, Sissay spent most of his adult life searching for his family. This is a poetic retelling of his journey.

21:30

Sunday Feature

Nile Lands

2. Uganda

Zeinab Badawi continues her cultural journey through the countries connected by the Nile, exploring how the river has shaped their identities and helped to form perceptions of Africa in the Western imagination.

For centuries the source of the White Nile was a mystery. The ancients thought it rose in the heart of Africa and there was talk of the "Mountains of the Moon". Even as late as the first half of the nineteenth century no one was sure. It was a British explorer, John Hanning Speke, who claimed to have settled the issue in 1862 when he saw a huge river leaving the then unnamed Lake Victoria in Uganda. Zeinab Badawi considers what led to this claim and what Ugandans then and now made of the discovery.

22:15

Andy Kershaw

19 September 2004

Andy Kershaw presents music from around the world. Tonight, Louisiana bluesman Ernie Payne makes his UK debut.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Gabriel Faure (1845 - 1924)

Part 1

Recognition during his life was a long time in coming for the composer Gabriel Faure, partly because what counted in music in France in the nineteenth century was opera and ballet, virtuosity and spectacle, whereas Faure was a master of the smaller forms. However, when he was 65, he produced what he felt was his masterpiece, the opera Penelope. With Donald Macleod.

Pavane Opus 50
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)

Penelope
Penelope ......... Jessye Norman
Ulysse ........... Alain Vanzo

with Jocelyne Taillon, Gerard Friedman, Jean Dupouy, Phillipe Huttenlocher, Paul Guigue, Francois Leroux, Jose Van Dam, Colette Alliot Lugaz, Christine Barbaux and Daniele Borst.

Ensemble Vocal Jean La Forge
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo
Charles Dutoit (conductor)

Second Cello Sonata Opus 117
Thomas Igloi (cello)
Clifford Benson (piano)

String Quartet Opus 121 in E minor mvt 1
Quatuor Via Nova

01:00

Through the Night

19 September 2004

Part One

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
Music by Flor Peeters

Missa Festiva, Op 62
Peter Pieters (organ)
Flemish Radio Choir
Vic Nees (director)

Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (Op. 52)
Peter Pieters (organ)
Flemish Radio Orchestra
Yoel Levi (conductor)

2.10am
Mudarra: Claros y frescos rios
Montserrat Figueras (soprano)
Hesperion XX
Jordi Savall (director)

2.15am
Bach: Sonata in Gm, BWV 1001
Hopkinson Smith (Baroque Lute)

2.30am
Lassus: Motet - Omnes de Saba venient
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal
Christopher Jackson (director)

2.35am
Giaches de Wert: Motet - Ascendente Jesu in naviculam
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal
Christopher Jackson (director)

2.40am
Hummel: Viola Sonata in E flat, Op 5 No 3
Michael Gieler (viola)
Lauretta Bloomer (fortepiano)

3.00am
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Symphony No 2)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

3.45am
Elgar (arr David Passmore): Salut d'Amour
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello)
William Tritt (piano)

3.50am
Francois ('le cadet') Francoeur (arr B Trowell): Sonata in E
Monica Leskhovar (cello)
Ivana Schwartz (piano)

4.00am
Grazyna Bacewicz: Suite for chamber orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jan Krenz (conductor)

4.10am
Szymanowski: Polish Dances
Jerzy Godziszewski (piano)

4.20am
Tchaikovsky: Tatyana's Letter Scene - from Eugene Onegin
Tatyana ...... Joanne Kolomyjec (soprano)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

4.30am
Carulli: Guitar Concerto in A
Heiki Matlik (guitar)
Estonian Radio Chamber Orchestra
Paul Magi (conductor)

4.50am
Rudolf Tobias: Sonatina No 2 in Cm
Vardo Rumessen (piano)

05:00

Through the Night

19 September 2004

Part Two

Jonathan Swain concludes this morning's programme.

5.00am
Schubert: Overture in D, D 556
Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marcello Viotti (conductor)

5.05am
Sibelius: Spring Song, Op 16
Kaija Saarikettu (violin)
Raija Kerppo (piano)

5.15am
Brahms: Motets - Es ist das Heil uns kommen her); Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein reines Herz, Op 29
Danish National Radio Choir
Stefan Parkman (conductor)

5.25am
Prokofiev: Nocturne, Op 43 No 2
Roger Woodward (piano)

5.30am
Hans Gal: Serenade for string orchestra, Op 46
Symphony Nova Scotia
Georg Tintner (conductor)

5.50am
Blagoje Bersa: Suncana Polja (Sunny Fields)
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Kazushi Ono (conductor)

6.10am
Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op 15
Annie Fischer (piano)

6.25am
Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219
I Virtuosi di Santa Cecilia
Igor Oistrakh (violin/conductor)