Monday 7th March 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

7 March 2005

Sandy Burnett selects performances by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, and includes music by composers in their first flush of youth.

From 7.00am

Rachmaninov: Moment Musical no 6, Op 16
Nikolai Lugansky (piano)

Heinichen: Concerto in F, S104
Musica Antiqua Cologne
Reinhard Goebel (director)

Mozart: Ah, Se il Crudel Periglio (Lucio Silla)
Natalie Dessay (soprano)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Louis Langree (conductor)

From 8.30am

Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)

Haydn: Piano Concerto in F, Hob XVIII no 6
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Gottfried von der Goltz (director)

Janacek: Violin Sonata
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

10:00

CD Masters

7 March 2005

With Jonathan Swain.

Featuring chamber music by Shostakovich and British oboists.

Shostakovich: Concertino for two pianos
Dimitri Shostakovich, Maxim Shostakovich (piano)

Colin: Concertino for oboe and orchestra
Leon Goossens (oboe)

Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)

Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 2 in Em, Op 67
Emil Gilels (piano)
Leonid Kogan (violin)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)

Rossini: Overture - William Tell
World Orchestra for Peace
Sir Georg Solti (conductor)

Honegger: Saluste du Bartas (6 Villanelles) H152
Brigitte Balleys (mezzo-soprano)
Billy Eidi (piano)

Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E flat K297b
Sidney Sutcliffe (oboe)
Bernard Walton (clarinet)
Dennis Brain (horn)
Cecil James (bassoon)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Five First Nights

Donald Macleod looks at some of the personalities who were instrumental in helping Verdi achieve success, beginning with Antonio Barezzi, a distiller and grocer who sponsored Verdi as a child. Later on, Barezzi's daughter Margherita, also a keen supporter of Verdi's ambitions, became the composer's first wife.

Va, pensiero, sullali dorate (Nabucco)
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

Sinfonia in C
Symphony Orchestra of Milan
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

Leonores Cavatina, Act 1, Oberto
Ghena Dimitrova (soprano)
Munich Radio Orchestra
Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)

Quartet, Act 2, Oberto
Ghena Dimitrova (soprano)
Ruza Baldani (mezzo soprano)
Carlo Bergonzi (tenor)
Rolando Panerai (baritone)
Munich Radio Orchestra
Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)

The Prophecy, Act 3, Nabucco
Piero Cappuccilli (baritone)
Ghena Dimitrova (soprano)
Kurt Rydl (bass)
Chorus and orchestra of Deutschen Oper Berlin
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Zehetmair Quartet

Music by Grieg, Schubert and Schumann

Live from Wigmore Hall in London.

Stephanie Hughes introduces this concert by the Zehetmair Quartet, in a programme of 19th century works, which includes Grieg's rarely performed unfinished Quartet in F.

Grieg: Quartet in F (1891) (unfinished)
Schubert: Overture in Cm, D8a
Schumann: Quartet in F, Op 41 No 2

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC Philharmonic

Today's Afternoon Performance includes a performance the BBC Philharmonic gave on tour in Germany at Eurogress, Aachen. They are joined by the pianist Nikolai Tokarev for Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto no 1, before Franck's lyrical Symphony in D minor.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Josep Caballe-Domenech (conductor)
Recorded 17 March 2004

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no 1 in B flat m
Nikolai Tokarev (piano)

Franck: Symphony in D minor
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Recorded 23 October 2003

15:40

Making Tracks

7 March 2005

Music for younger listeners presented by CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson, featuring music from West Side Story and Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann.

16:00

Stage and Screen

BMI Music Theatre Workshops

Edward Seckerson visits the BMI Music Theatre Workshops in New York, talks to Maury Yeston about how to teach musical theatre and hears from two of its most successful students.

17:00

In Tune

7 March 2005

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, and keeps us up to date with what's happening in the arts world.

19:30

Performance on 3

Halle Orchestra

Complete performance

Christopher Cook introduces an all British concert from Symphony Hall in Birmingham.

The CBSO, under the baton of Martyn Brabbins, marks the centenary this year of the birth of Sir Michael Tippett with his most famous and enduring work: A Child of our Time.

Tippett used terrible contemporary events - the murder and oppression of thousands of German Jews by Hitler in 1938 - as the focus for the work: a spiritual meditation on man's capacity for both evil and good, which continues to resonate today.

Vaughan Williams' Pastoral Symphony was sketched during his time in the trenches during the First World War, and like Tippett he looks beyond the horrors of wartime to the possibility of a better world.

Presented by Christopher Cook.

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3
Tippett: A Child of Our Time

Gweneth-Ann Jeffers (soprano)
Hilary Summers (mezzo-soprano)
Daniel Norman (tenor)
Keel Watson (bass)
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

21:30

Night Waves

7 March 2005

Are we a nation of bad, incompetent and selfish egoists driven by a desire to succeed at all costs? Rabbi Julia Neuberger reveals her thoughts about the moral state we are in to Isabel Hilton.

And you can hear the last in our series on African objects - when the power of the chair is revealed.

22:15

Late Junction

7 March 2005

Verity Sharp introduces Canadian electro-acoustic music from Gilles Gobeil and guitarist Rene Lussier, film music by Quincy Jones, and music for player piano by Belgian composer Godfried-Willem Raes.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Alan Hovhaness (1911 - 2000)

Part Two

2/5. Not many composers have destroyed a thousand-odd works by their 30th birthday, but that's how it was with Alan Hovhaness. His output was staggeringly prolific, but it wasn't until the 1940s that he felt confident of the work he was producing.

Donald Macleod examines how the composer's work blossomed during this period.

Prayer to St Gregory
Paul Young (trumpet)
Ulster Orchestra
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

Symphony No 8, Arjuna
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ken Young (conductor)

Twelve Armenian Folksongs
Sahan Arzruni (piano)

Vision from High Rock, Op 123
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

[Rpt of Tue 12.00pm]

01:00

Through the Night

7 March 2005

Part One

With John Shea.

1.00am
The Mira Quartet play Bach, Stravinsky and Haydn in a concert recorded on 21st March 2004 at Haldum Church, Jutland.
Signe Madsen (violin)
Birgitte B?rentzen (violin)
Anna Dahl (viola)
Vincent Stadlmaier (cello)

Bach: Six Fugues from Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080: Fugue No 1; Fugue No 2; Fugue No 6; Fugue No 7; Fugue No 9; Fugue No 3
Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in G, Op 77 No 1

1.50am
John Cage: Four Aquared for A Capella Choir
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

1.55am
Sergiu Natra: Sonatine
Rita Costanzi (harp)

2.05am
Alexander Raichev: Symphony No 2 Noviyat Prometey (The New Prometheus)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vasil Stefanov (conductor)

2.50am
Fanny Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, Op 6
Sylviane Deferne (piano)

3.00am
Franck: Sonata for violin and piano in A m 8
Chantal Juillet (violin)
Pascal Roge (piano)

3.30am
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A, K581
Reinier Hogerheijde (clarinet)
Glinka Quartet

4.05am
Bach (arr Busoni): Toccata and Fugue in Dm, BWV 565
Valerie Tryon (piano)

4.10am
Carl Friedrich Abel: Flute Concerto, Op 6 No 1 in C
Karl Kaiser (transverse flute)
La Stagione Frankfurt
Michael Schneider (director)

4.25am
Robert de Visee: Logistille de Roland de Mr JB Lully
Yasunori Imamura (theorbe)

4.30am
Albeniz: Cordoba - from Cantos de Espana, Op 232 No 4
Eolina Quartet

4.35am
Saint-Saens: Etude in D flat, Op 52 No 6
Stefan Lindgren (piano).

04:45

Through the Night

7 March 2005

Part Two

John Shea concludes this morning's programme.

4.45am
Rossini: Largo al factotum (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Allan Monk (baritone)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

4.50am
Liszt: La Leggierezza
Steven Osborne (piano)

5.00am
Khachaturian: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)
Ukranian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)

5.05am
MIvo Parac: Andante Amoroso
Zagreb Quartet

5.15am
Palestrina: Motet - Ad te levavi oculos meos
Silvia Piccollo (soprano)
Annemieke Cantor (alto)
Marco Beasley (tenor)
Furio Zanasi (bass)
Paolo Crivellaro (organ)
Alberto Rasi (viola da gamba)
Chorus of Swiss Radio Lugano
Diego Fasolis (conductor)

5.20am
Janacek: Sonata 1 X 1905, in E flat
Rudolf Firkusny (piano)

5.30am
Boieldieu: 'Viens gentille dame' (La Dame Blanche)
Mark Dubois (tenor)
Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra
Raffi Armenian (conductor)

5.35am
Chambonnieres: Pavane - L'Entretien des Dieux
Bob van Asperen (harpsichord)

5.45am
Lassus: Quid trepidas
Currende
Erik van Nevel (conductor)

5.50am
Beethoven: Variations in F, Op 34
Glenn Gould (piano)

6.05am
Kodaly: Summer Evening
The Philharmonic Society Orchestra
Zoltan Kodaly (conductor)

6.25am
Waldemar Ahlen: Sommarpsalm
Erik Westbergs Vocal Ensemble

6.30am
Vaclovas Augustinas: Trepiute Martela
Jauna Musica
Vaclovas Augustinas (conductor)

6.35am
Brahms: Variations on a theme by Paganini, Op 35
Nicholas Angelich (piano)