Wednesday 9th March 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

9 March 2005

Presented by Sandy Burnett.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Glinka (arr Balakirev): The Lark
Evgeny Kissin (piano)

Gluck: Chiamo il Mio Ben Cosi (Orfeo ed Euridice)
Orfeo ...... Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Rene Jacobs (conductor)

Rossini: La Scala di Seta - Overture
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

From 8.30am

Barber: Souvenirs - Suite, Op 28
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor)

Handel: E vivo ancore Scherza infida (Ariodante)
Ariodante ...... Lorraine Hunt (mezzo-soprano)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan (conductor)

Haydn: Quartet in F, Op 77 no 2
L'Archibudelli

10:00

CD Masters

9 March 2005

With Jonathan Swain.

Warlock: He Reproves the Curlew - 'O Curlew Cry no More' (The Curlew)
John Armstrong (tenor)
Robert Murchie (flute)
Terence MacDonagh (cor anglais)
International String Quartet
Constant Lambert (conductor)

Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in Gm, Op 57
The Hollywood String Quartet
Victor Aller (piano)

Britten: The Lesson (Scene 6, The Turn of the Screw)
Miles ...... David Hemmings (boy soprano)
Flora ...... Olive Dyer (soprano)
The Governess ...... Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)
Joy Boughton (oboe/cor anglais)
English Opera Group Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)

Vaughan Williams: Ten Blake Songs
Ian Partridge (tenor)
Janet Craxton (oboe)

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in Am, Op 56 'Scottish'
London Symphony Orchestra
Peter Maag (conductor)

Marcello: Oboe concerto in Cm
Leon Goossens (oboe)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Walter Susskind (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Five First Nights

The librettist with whom Verdi worked for more than 20 years was Francesco Maria Piave. Together, they were responsible for some of Verdi's biggest hits and also some of his more memorable flops.

Verdi regarded Piave as a good friend, but that didn't stop him from accusing him of being long winded, criticising him and - in the case of Macbeth - sending it straight round to another writer and translator, Andrea Maffei, for further work. To Verdi's credit, he helped to support Piave's family after the librettist suffered a stroke and paid for his funeral nine years later.

Stornello
Margaret Price (soprano)
Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

Rigoletto, excerpt from Act 2
Mio padre, Dio Mia Gilda, Si vendetta, tremenda vendetta
Renato Bruson (baritone)
Andrea Rost (soprano)
Ernesto Gavazzi (tenor)
Silvestro Sammaritano, Antonio de Gobbi (bass)
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Riccardo Muti (conductor)

Vegliammo invan due notti, Ella è morta! Act IV, Macbeth
Shirley Verrett (soprano)
Piero Cappuccilli (baritone)
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

Overture to la forza del destino
Orchestra of La Scala
Riccardo Muti (conductor)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Sir Michael Tippett Centenary

Peter Donohoe

Chris de Souza presents the second of four concerts celebrating the chamber music of Michael Tippett from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. Pianist Peter Donohoe contrasts one of Tippett's piano sonatas with the music of Arthur Bliss and Debussy.

Bliss: Piano Sonata
Tippett: Piano Sonata No 2
Debussy: Masques; D'Un Cahier d'Esquisses; L'Isle Joyeuse

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Today's programme includes a concert the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra gave at the MacRobert Arts Centre in Stirling last year, featuring New Generation Artist Christian Poltera as soloist in Haydn's D Major Cello Concerto.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

Bach: Suite for Orchestra no 3 in D, BWV 1068
David Porcelijn (conductor)

Prokofiev: Symphony no 1 in D 'Classical'
Haydn: Cello Concerto in D
Christian Poltera (cello)
Mozart: The Magic Flute - Overture
Shostakovich: Symphony no 9 in E flat
Alan Buribayev (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

9 March 2005

Music for younger listeners presented by CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson.

16:00

Choral Evensong

Canterbury Cathedral

Live from Canterbury Cathedral.

Introit: In ieiunio et fletu (Tallis)
Responses: Tomkins
Psalms: 47, 48, 49 (Davy, Hurford, Walmisley)
First Reading: 2 Samuel 18 vv1-16, 24-33
Canticles: Stanford in G
Second Reading: Matthew 11 vv1-6
Anthem: Attende Domine (Villette)
Final Hymn: Jesus, Lover of My Soul (Aberystwyth)
Organ Voluntary: Cortege et Litanie (Dupre)

Organist and Master of the Choristers: David Flood
Assistant Organist: Robert Patterson

17:00

In Tune

9 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

Tippett and Beethoven

Part One

Christopher Cook presents the first of three concerts from the Barbican Hall in London featuring Sir Michael Tippett alongside his greatest musical hero: Beethoven.

Tonight, Beethoven's revolutionary third symphony follows two pieces of vintage Tippett that cover plenty of other musical history: a rich tribute to the Italian Baroque master Corelli, and a Divertimento that weaves melodies from four centuries of British music around the traditional tune Sellinger's Round.

[Continues at 8.40pm, after Twenty Minutes]

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Tippett: Divertimento on Sellinger's Round
Tippett: Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Joseph Swensen (conductor)

20:20

Twenty Minutes

Tippett as Librettist

Unusually for a composer, Michael Tippett wrote his own libretti for his operas and other works. Richard Elfyn Jones, who met Tippett on several occasions, discusses some of the ideas behind Tippett's material.

20:40

Performance on 3

Tippett and Beethoven

Part Two

Christopher Cook presents the second half of tonight's concert, live from the Barbican.

Beethoven: Symphony No 3 (Eroica)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Joseph Swensen (conductor)

21:45

Night Waves

9 March 2005

Phillip Dodd chairs a timely debate in Undercurrents, which looks at the history of ideas and culture behind the headlines.

22:15

Late Junction

9 March 2005

Verity Sharp's selections include a solo piano recording by Thelonious Monk, the Rova Saxophone Quartet playing music by Terry Riley and a specially recorded Late Junction session from singer Jolie Holland of the Be Good Tanyas.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Alan Hovhaness (1911 - 2000)

Part Four

4/5. Alan Hovhaness's experience of the court music of Korea led him to remark 'I thought this was the most mysterious music I had ever heard', and for him the 1960s became a time when he immersed himself in the music and culture of the far East, developing a very personal amalgamation of occidental and oriental traditions. Donald Macleod surveys the work of this period.

Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints, Op 211
Heather Corbett (xylophone)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ken Young (conductor)

Distant Lake of Sighs
Ara Berberian (bass)
Hovhaness (piano)

The Holy City, Op 218
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor

Suite from String Quartet No 2
Shanghai Quartet

Meditation on Zeami, Op 207
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Douglas Bostock (conductor)

[Rpt of Thu 12.00pm]

01:00

Through the Night

9 March 2005

Part One

1.00am
Shostakovich from Bulgarian Radio Archives
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Konstantin lliev (conductor)
Piano Concerto No 2 in F Op 102
Dmitri Shostakovich (piano)

1.15am
Symphony No 8 in Cm Op 65
(recorded 1958)

2.20am
Grazyna Pstrokonska-Nawratil: Eternel
Izabella Klosinska (soprano); Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice
The Boys' choir of the Cracow Philharmonic
Polish Radio Choir in Cracow
Antoni Wit (conductor)

2.50am
Chopin: Sonata No 3 in Bm, Op 58
Krystian Zimerman (piano)

3.15am
Sandor Balassa: Prince Csaba
Concentus Hungaricus Chamber Orchestra

3.40am
Bach: Sonata No 2 in D BWV 1028
Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba)
Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord)

3.55am
Lassus: Motets - Aurora lucis rutilat; Gratia sola Dei; Super flumina Babylonis
Currende
Erik van Nevel (conductor)

4.10am
Anon: Istampita parlamento
Les Menestrels

4.14am
Schubert: Ave Maria
Eolina Quartet

4.15am
Lev Konstantinovich Knipper: Radif
Amadeus' Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan
Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)

4.30am
Holst: Beni Mora - oriental suite Op 29 No 1
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

4.45am
Weelkes: As Vesta was from Latmos Hill descending
The King's Singers

04:50

Through the Night

9 March 2005

Part Two

John Shea concludes this morning's programme.

4.50am
Purcell: Two Trumpet Tunes and Air
Ian Sadler (organ)

4.55am
Purcell: Voluntary on the Old 100th (Psalm 134)
Haite van der Schaaf (organ)

5.00am
Beethoven: Overture - Die Geschopfe des Prometheus
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer (conductor)

5.05am
Britten: Choral dances from 'Gloriana'
BBC Singers
Stephen Layton (conductor)

5.10am
Otomar Kvech: Oboe Sonata - 1st movement
Maxim Orekhov (oboe)
Alaxey Kurbatov (piano)

5.15am
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 1 in D flat Op 10
Nicolai Lugansky (piano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Alexander Lazarev (conductor)

5.30am
Telemann: Concerto in D TWV 51 F 1
Il Gardellino

5.45am
Filiberto Nantermi: Cor mio deh non languire
Adriano Banchieri: Cor mio deh non languire
Alessandro Savioli: Cor mio deh non languire (Dear heart I prithee do not waste away)
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (director)

6.00am
Satie: Apercus desagreables
Pianoduo Kolacny

6.05am
Parashkev Hadjiev: String Quartet No 2 in Cm
Avramov String Quartet

6.25am
Musorgsky: Softly the spirit flew
Petteri Salomaa (baritone)
Ilmo Ranta (piano)

6.30am
Stravinsky: The Firebird - suite
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)