Saturday 5th March 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

5 March 2005

Presented by Martin Handley.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Soler: Concerto for Two Organs No 3 in G
Peter Hurford, Thomas Trotter (organs)

Boccherini: Nocturne in G
Tafelmusik
Jeanne Lamon (director)

From 8.00am

Chopin: Polonaise Brilliante in C, Op 3
Janos Starker (cello)
Gyorgy Sebok (piano)

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 1, Op 10
Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)

09:00

CD Review

5 March 2005

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

In Building a Library, Paul Guinery recommends a version of Elgar's Falstaff from the currently available recordings.

Mark Russell reviews recent film score releases, including Jocelyn Pook's The Merchant of Venice, Max Steiner's music for The Adventures of Mark Twain and Thomas Newman's score for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Andrew McGregor talks to Trevor Pinnock about his recent chamber and solo harpsichord recordings, and life after The English Concert.

Disc of the Week

Bruckner: Symphony No 5 in B flat (excerpt)
Vienna Philharmonic
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

13:00

The Early Music Show

The Catherine the Great Orchestra

A concert of music by Russia's pioneering early music ensemble, presented by Catherine Bott in conversation with director Andrey Reshetin and the director of the Russian Early Music Foundation, Marc de Mauny

14:00

Discovering Music

Chopin's piano Preludes Opus 28

Stephen Johnson and the Radio 3 New Generation artist Llyr Williams appear before an audience in the Turner Simms Concert Hall in Southampton for an exploration of Chopin's celebrated cycle of Opus 28 Preludes for the piano.

15:00

World Routes

Africa Season

In the first of two special programmes Lucy Duran travels to the rarely visited Southern African country of Mozambique. After decades of civil war, it's home to many diverse musical traditions which have rarely been recorded or heard by outsiders.

16:00

Jazz Line-Up

5 March 2005

Stacey Kent presents a selection of new releases, and takes a look at the UK jazz scene in the week ahead.

17:00

Jazz Record Requests

Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests

Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Request your favourite jazz cut by email: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk

18:00

Jazz File

2,3,4 The Art of Arranging

5 March 2005

5/6. John Dankworth looks at how arrangers from Nelson Riddle to Quincy Jones have written for singers and instrumental soloists, including examples of his own work with Dame Cleo Laine, Gerry Mulligan and Dizzy Gillespie.

In the studio, the Dankworth Seven are joined by Jacqui Dankworth. In the band are Guy Barker (trumpet), Mark Nightingale (trombone), Jimmy Hastings (clarinet/tenor saxophone), Andy Panayi (alto and baritone saxophones), John Horler (piano), Alec Dankworth (bass) and Allan Ganley (drums), with special guest Anthony Kerr.

18:30

Opera On 3

Samson et Dalila

Act One

Live from the Met.

Sex and religion are the driving forces in Saint-Saens' opera based on the biblical story from the Book of Judges. Samson is the hero who fights, but eventually gives in to, the feminine wiles of Dalila. But when he is taken prisoner to the pagan temple of Dagon, Samson prays to God to restore his strength and wreaks a terrible revenge.

[Continues at 7.45pm, after Twenty Minutes]

Saint-Saens: Samson et Dalila (Act 1)

Dalila ...... Denyce Graves (mezzo-soprano)
Samson ...... Jose Cura (tenor)
High Priest ...... Jean-Philippe Lafont (baritone)
Abimelech ...... James Courtney (bass)
The Old Hebrew ...... Robert Lloyd (bass)
1st Philistine ...... Bernard Fitch (tenor)
2nd Philistine ...... Richard Hobson (baritone)
Messenger ...... Tony Stevenson (tenor)

Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera
Bertrand de Billy (conductor)

19:20

Twenty Minutes

A Map of Manhattan

The second in an occasional series exploring the places in Manhattan, real and metaphorical, that carry a special significance for contemporary writers. Biographer and journalist Barry Miles describes the importance in his life and work of the Chelsea Hotel and some of its extraordinary residents.

19:45

Opera On 3

Samson et Dalila

Act Two

Samson et Dalila: Act 2 of Saint-Saens's opera with Denyce Graves, Jose Cura and the Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Met/Bertrand de Billy. [Continues at 8.30pm, after the Met Opera Quiz]

20:30

The Met Opera Quiz

The Met Opera Quiz

Steven Blier puts listeners' questions to Henry Fogel, Stuart Hamilton and Phillip Gainsley.

21:00

Opera On 3

Samson et Dalila

Act Three

Samson et Dalila: Act 3 of Saint-Saens's opera with Denyce Graves, Jose Cura and the Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropliation Opera/Bertrand de Billy. Live from the Met.

21:45

The Verb

5 March 2005

Ian McMillan presents a special programme recorded at the Hayward Gallery, celebrating African writing and performance. Ngugi Wa Thiong'O reads from his next novel, Jackie Kay performs new poetry and the Daara J trio showcase the best in Senegalese hip hop.

22:30

Between The Ears

Ports

In Paul Farley's evocative radio poem, three ports - Carthage, Liverpool and Rotterdam - speak to each other across the centuries and down the sea lanes. From the ruins of the great Phoenician harbour, we follow the radar-blip of commerce as it travels on from the abandoned Liverpool dockside to the cranes and containers of Europe's busiest port.

23:00

Hear And Now

Brits

1/4. In the first of four programmes focusing on the work of British composers, Alwynne Pritchard introduces two concerts from the bmic's 2004 Cutting Edge series. The Norwegian quintet asamisimasa performs works by James Saunders, Roger Redgate, Ian Willcock and the UK premiere of Michael Finnissy's L'Herbe. Finnissy is also featured in the concert given by Ensemble Expose with the London premiere of his Greatest Hits of All Time. The concert also included pieces by James Dillon, Ross Lorraine and Joanna Bailie.

01:00

Through the Night

5 March 2005

Part One

With John Shea.

1.00am
From the 2004 Proms

Dvorak: Cello Concerto in Bm

Ravel: Sheherazade
Katarina Karneus (mezzo-soprano)

Respighi: Pini di Roma

Truls M?rk (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

Recorded on 6th August 2004

2.25am
Schubert: Impromptu No 1 in Cm, D899
Radu Lupu (piano)

2.35am
Bach: Sonata No 3 in C, BWV1005
Sigiswald Kuijken (violin )

3.00am
CPE Bach: Zur Einfuhrung des HP Gasie, Wq 250
Barbara Schlick (soprano)
Hilke Helling (contralto)
Wilfried Jochens (tenor)
Gotthold Schwarz (bass)
Rheinische Kantorei
Das Kleine Konzert
Hermann Max (conductor)

3.25am
Rachmaninov: Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op 42
Duncan Gifford (piano)

3.45am
Renaat Veremans: Night and Dawn at the Nete
Flemish Radio Orchestra)
Bjarte Engeset (conductor)

3.55am
Haydn: Piano Trio in F, H 15 4
Moscow Trio

4.10am
Chopin: Variations Brillantes in B flat, on a theme from Herold's Ludovic
Ludmil Angelov (piano)

4.15am
Verdi: Va Pensieri (Nabucco)
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra and Chorus
Richard Bradshaw (conductor)

4.20am
Glinka: Overture - Ruslan and Lyudmila
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Chi-Yong Chung (conductor)

4.25am
Weber: Sonatina, Romance and Menuet, Op 3
Antra Viksne, Normunds Viksne (piano duet)

4.35am
Wassenaer: Concerto No 1 in G (Sei Concerti Armonici)
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor)

4.45am
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Tarantella
Tomaz Rajteric (guitar)

04:50

Through the Night

5 March 2005

Part Two

John O'Shea concludes this morning's programme.

4.50am
Philippe Gaubert: Trois Aquarelles No 1: 'Pour un clair matin'
Trio Salome

5.00am
Liadov: The Enchanted Lake, Op 62
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Dmitri Kitaenko (conductor)

5.05am
Debussy: Syrinx
Boris Campa (flute)

5.10am
Sigismondo d'India: Ma con chi parlo? Ahi lassa; Che non t'amicor mio; Pur venisti cor mio
The Consort of Musicke

5.20am
Mozart (transcr J Petric): Adagio and rondo in C, K617
Joseph Petric (accordion)
Moshe Hammer, Marie Berard (violins)
Douglas Perry (viola)
David Hetherington (cello)

5.30am
Niels Wilhelm Gade: Ved solnedgang (At Sunset), Op 46
Danish National Radio Choir
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Roman Zeilinger (conductor)

5.35am
Crusell: Vid en vans dod (After a friend's death)
Eeva-Liisa Saarinen (mezzo soprano)
Pentti Kotiranta (piano)

5.40am
Elgar: Serenade for Strings, Op 20
Royal Academy Soloists
Clio Gould (director)

5.50am
Tchaikovsky: Otchevo? Op 6 No 5 Net tolko tot kto znal, Op 6 No 6, Kukushka, Op 54 No 8
Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano)
Roger Vignoles (piano)

6.00am
Dohnanyi: String Quartet No 2 in D flat, Op 15
Kodaly Quartet

6.25am
Grainger: To a Nordic Princess (Bridal song)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)

6.40am
Beethoven: Sonata No 13 quasi una fantasia, Op 27 No 1 in E flat
Shura Cherkassky (piano)