07:00
26 September 2004
Presented by Louise Fryer.
Music includes, from 7.00am
Mozart: Symphony No 1 in E flat major, K16
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
Liszt: Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (Symphonic Poem No 13, S107)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Kurt Masur (conductor)
From 8.00am
Ireland: A London Overture
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
JC Bach: Quintet in D major for flute, oboe, violin, cello and keyboard, Op 22, No 1
The English Concert
09:00
26 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 Puccini's Madame Butterfly recommended on yesterday's CD Review
The programme includes:
Bernstein: Candide Overture
Boston Pops Orchestra
John Williams (conductor)
Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor
Zara Nelsova
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
Mozart: Symphony No 25 in G minor, K183
RAI Rome Symphony Orchestra
Peter Maag (conductor)
Haydn: Piano Sonata No 52 in E flat
Lili Kraus (piano)
Milhaud: La Cheminee du Roi Rene
Wind Quintet of the French National Radio Orchestra
12:00
26 September 2004
Michael Berkeley's guest today is the journalist and broadcaster Sir Mark Tully, formerly the BBC's chief correspondent in India, where he now lives. He has written and broadcast widely on a variety of subjects, including the life of Jesus, and his musical tastes range from sacred vocal music by Bruckner and John Tavener to Indian classical music and Benny Goodman.
13:00
26 September 2004
Catherine Bott and friends perform a seductive selection of Spanish pieces from Ferdinand and Isabella's own musical collection, The Cancionas por los Reyes'.
14:00
26 September 2004
Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert from Symphony Hall, Birmingham with resident Organist Thomas Trotter performing works including the premiere of a new Symphony Hall commission from James MacMillan, Le Tombeau de Georges Rouault.
Thomas Trotter (organ)
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E Flat, St Anne
Mozart: Adagio and Allegro, K594
MacMillan: Le Tombeau de Georges Rouault (world premiere)
Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka (arr Trotter)
Wammes: Miroir
Liszt: Prelude and Fugue on BACH
15:30
26 September 2004
In the last of the series about the place of music in our spiritual lives, former leader of the Medici Quartet Paul Robertson explores music's capacity to promote wellbeing.
16:00
26 September 2004
16-year-old Nicola Benedetti swept all before her when she took to the stage for her final performance of BBC Young Musician of the Year 2004. Her winning performance of Szymanowski's shimmering Violin Concerto No 1 features in this week's selection of requests, together with recordings from musicians of an altogether greater vintage; soprano Dame Joan Hammond, and horn-player Dennis Brain in a BBC recording of Schubert's Auf dem Strom D943 with tenor Peter Pears.
17:45
26 September 2004
Who's got the power?
It used to be the record industry and a few mega-agents who controlled the classical music we heard and who shaped the destiny of most artists.
No longer. The major labels have opted out of classical music and the two biggest artist agencies are losing money. A huge power vacuum has opened at the heart of the musical process, just as new means of dissemination are becoming available.
So who's taking charge? Is it government, which is increasingly demanding social bang for its subsidy bucks? Is it wealthy sponsors and corporations? Is it media players like Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch - or, indeed, the BBC which is flexing cultural influence once again?
Nature abhors a vacuum and music needs new leadership. Where should it come from? Will the internet create diversity or merely follow mass taste? Who has got the new ideas? Will there ever be new money?
18:30
Listen Up! - BBC Scottish Symphony Orch
From Kendal
Radio 3 continues its Listen Up series with a concert from the Westmorland Hall in Kendal.
The Northern Sinfonia under their music director Thomas Zehetmair perform a programme of Baroque and Classical music, beginning with Jean-Fery Rebel's simfonie Les Elemens. The orchestra are then joined by soloist Stephen Varcoe for a performance of Bach's Cantata No 82 Ich habe genug. The final piece in the programme is Mozart's exuberant Sinfonia Concertante, for which Thomas Zehetmair dons his violin-playing hat, alongside the viola-player Ruth Killius.
Presented by Martin Handley.
20:00
Hippomania
By Snoo Wilson.
With Laurence Olivier preparing to film the patriotic epic Henry V in neutral Ireland during the Second World War, and the poet John Betjeman attracting the suspicious attention of the IRA, it is a heady time in Dublin.
Snoo Wilsons astonishing fantasia, which springs from real events in Betjemans life, conjures up Nazis, assassins and fairies as the poet wanders blithely through seats of power, pubs and a cemetery.
John Betjemen ...... Anthony Calf
Penelope ...... Anastasia Hille
Edna ...... Patricia Leventon
Sir Oswald Mosely ...... Andrew Woodall
Diana Mosley ...... Victoria Woodward
Betterton/Lord Powerscourt ...... Ian Masters
Officer, MI6/Sweney ...... Owen Sharpe
Susan Hilton ...... Katherine Igoe
James Blair/Declan ...... Stephen Hogan
Dannan ...... Renee Weldon
Bridy ...... Aoife McMahon
Titannicus ...... Gerard Murphy
Eammon de Valera/MacNamara ...... John Rogan
Laurence Olivier ...... Nicholas Boulton
Olawalu ...... Jimmy Akingbola
Princess Sobietska ...... Ndidi del Fatti
Conor ...... Andrew Scott
Guy Burgess ...... Tam Williams
Evelyn Waugh ...... Snoo Wilson
Other parts played by Alex Tregear, Emily Wachter, Jason Chan, Robert Hastie and Stuart McLoughlin.
Music direction by Jay Owen.
Directed by Ned Chaillet.
21:30
Nile Lands - 3
3. Sudan
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.
This week Zeinab's journey along the Nile reaches the land of her birth, Sudan, where the Blue Nile and the White Nile meet and flow north together to the Mediterranean.
It's been called the 'corridor to Africa ', and over the centuries the Nile has brought many visitors into Sudan - the Emperor Nero sent two centurions south along it to discover the riches of Central Africa. They failed - and for the best part of 2000 years the great swamp barrier of the Sudd has separated the southern reaches of Sudan from the north. This programme explores the currents of culture and identity that flow through the vast land of swamps and deserts.
22:15
26 September 2004
Andy travels to Liverpool to catch up with his old friends Half Man Half Biscuit, the band behind such classics as Tonight Matthew I'm Going to be Jesus, and Trouble over Bridgewater.
00:00
Sibelius: The Path to the Symphony
1. 1892-3
In the decade leading up to his First Symphony, Sibelius tackles a wide variety of forms large and small. Today, Vainamoinen takes a boat-ride, three solo songs portray three different kisses, an orchestral saga hides a psychological portrait, and a historical pageant turns into a patriotic exercise.
With Donald Macleod.
Venematka, Op 18 No 9
Lund University Male Voice Choir
Folke Bohlin (conductor)
En Saga, Op 2, 1892 version
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor)
Three Songs from Op 13
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo)
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Karelia Suite, Op 11, first version 1893
Raimo Laukka (baritone)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor)
01:00
26 September 2004
Part One
With Jonathan Swain.
1.00am
Verdi: Missa da Requiem (recorded on 9th April 2003 at Oslo Cathedral)
Ragnhild Heiland S?rensen (soprano)
Ingebjorg Kosmo (mezzo-soprano)
Ivar Gilhuus (tenor)
Oddbjorn Tennfjord (baritone)
Collegium Vocale
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Johannes Fritzsch (conductor)
2.25am
Clara Schumann: Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op 20
Angela Cheng (piano)
2.30am
Tchaikovsky: Overture - Romeo and Juliet
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Edouard van Beinum (conductor)
2.55am
Shostakovich: Violin Sonata, Op 134
Vesko Eschkenazy (violin)
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
3.25
Berio: Folk Songs (1964)
Jean Stillwell (mezzo-soprano)
Canadian Chamber Ensemble
Raffi Armenian (conductor)
3.50am
Bizet: Carmen Suite No 2
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra
Marko Munih (conductor)
4.05am
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 3
Jeno Jando (piano)
4.10am
Marais: Les Folies d'Espagne
Lise Daoust (flute)
4.20am
Bach: Chorale prelude - Schmucke dich, O liebe Seele, BWV654
Bine Katrine Bryndorf (organ)
4.30am
Provenzale: Selections from La Colomba Ferita - Opera spirituale in 3 Acts
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano: Angelo)
Gloria Banditelli (mezzo: Santa Rosalia)
Luca Dordolo (tenor: Demonio)
Pino de Vittorio (tenor: Scaccia Napolitano)
Giuseppe Naviglio (baritone: Calabrese)
Daniela del Monaco (alto: Antonia Cameriera)
Roberta Andalo (soprano: Eurillo Paggio)
Capella della Pieta de'Turchini
Antonio Florio (conductor)
4.45am
Cavalli: 'E che sperar poss'io' and 'Speranze fuggite' (Giasone)
Catherine Dubosc (soprano - Isifile Queen of Lemnos)
Instrumental Ensemble of Concerto Vocale
Rene Jacobs (conductor)
04:50
26 September 2004
Part Two
Jonathan Swain concludes this morning's programme.
4.50am
Haydn: Overture - Lo Speziale
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)
5.00am
John Wilbye: Draw on sweet night
BBC Singers
Bo Holten (conductor)
5.05am
Telemann: Cantata - Es wird ein unbarmherzig Gericht, TWV1:542
Veronika Winter (soprano)
Patrick von Goethem (alto)
Markus Schafer (tenor)
Ekkehard Abele (bass)
Rheinische Kantorei
Das Kleine Konzert
Hermann Max (conductor)
5.15am
Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in F minor, RV297, Op 8, No 4, L'Inverno (Winter)
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Paul Dyer (director)
5.20am
Handel: Mi palpita il cor - Italian cantata No 33, HWV132c
Zoltan Gavodi (counter tenor)
The Sonora Hungarica Consort
5.35am
Mozart: 12 Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman', K265
Yur-Eum Woodwind Quintet
5.50am
Wagner: Good Friday music from Parsifal
Felix Mottl (piano)
6.00am
Raimonds Pauls: Liepajain (For Liepaja) - from Ziedonis Purvs
Janis Zabers (tenor)
Riga Pops Orchestra
Men's vocal ensemble
Raimonds Pauls (conductor)
6.05am
Bartok: Dance suite, Sz77
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
6.20am
Milhaud: La creation du monde, Op 81
Canadian Chamber Ensemble
Raffi Armenian (conductor)
6.40am
Saint-Saens: Septet in E flat major, Op 65
Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet)
Elise Baatnes and Karolina Radziej (violins)
Lars Anders Tomter (viola)
Hjalmer Kvam (cello)
Marius Faltby (double bass)
Enrico Pace (piano)
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