Saturday 12th March 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

12 March 2005

Presented by Tommy Pearson, who begins a series of recordings by Hesperion XX.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Mozart: Piano Sonata in F, K280
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)

Vaughan Williams: In the Fen Country
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)

From 8.00am

Richard Strauss: Romance in F
Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello)
Pascal Amoyel (piano)

Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in E, BWV 1053
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (director)

09:00

CD Review

12 March 2005

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

In Building a Library, Jeremy Summerly recommends a version of Frank Martin's Mass from the currently available recordings.

Harriet Smith reviews new piano discs, including Schubert's last Sonata from Leif Ove Andsnes, Rachmaninov's Second Sonata from Simon Trpceski, and a Liszt recital from Denis Matsuev.

Andrew McGregor talks to the Brodsky Quartet about the astonishing range of their recordings from Haydn to Shostakovich, Elvis Costello to Bjork.

Disc of the Week
Britten: Sechs Holderlin-Fragmente
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Roger Vignoles (piano)

13:00

The Early Music Show

The Lives and Loves of Henry's Six Wives

Henry VIII is one of Britain's most famous monarchs. Virtually every schoolchild in England has been taught the Divorced-Beheaded-Died, Divorced-Beheaded-Survived rhyme for remembering what fate eventually befell each of Henry's wives. In today's programme, Andrew Manze traces their lives through the music which was written about them or which each of them would have heard.

14:00

Discovering Music

12 March 2005

With Stephen Johnson.

Bruckner Motets

Anton Bruckner was a devout Christian as well as a great composer. He dedicated his own skills to the service of God and the Church. His masses and motets occupy as important a place in his career as the symphonies he composed later in life, as Bruckner authority Stephen Johnson reveals in this workshop session.

Locus iste
Ave Maria (1861)
Vexilla regis
Os justi
Christus factus est (1884)
BBC Singers
Bob Chilcott (conductor)

15:00

World Routes

12 March 2005

Lucy Duran continues her journey through the little-visited country of Mozambique. She visits the beautiful Ilha do Mocambique to hear traditional Tufo songs of the women. Plus there's panpipe music from the very hot north, and in Maputo, the first gig in four years by the country's best-loved veteran band Ghorwane.

16:00

Jazz Line-Up

12 March 2005

After a long wait and much anticipation from jazz lovers, the Vortex Jazz Club will be opening its new doors, down the road from its old stomping ground in Stoke Newington, in brand new premises in Dalston.

Once again, it will be providing a vibrant hub for the arts in East London. Stacey Kent previews the opening with promoter Oliver Weindling and musician Billy Jenkins.

17:00

Jazz Record Requests

12 March 2005

Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.

18:00

Jazz File

2,3,4 The Art of Arranging

Programme Six

6/6. In the final programme of his six-part series on the arranger's role in jazz, John Dankworth looks at how jazz writing has spread into the world of films and television, and presents his five golden rules for any would-be arranger.

With the Dankworth Seven, he shows how his own theme from the film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning could be rewritten to show a range of emotions.

With him in the studio are Guy Barker (trumpet), Mark Nightingale (trombone), Jimmy Hastings (clarinet/tenor saxophone), Andy Panayi (alto/baritone saxophones), John Horler (piano), Alec Dankworth (bass), and Allan Ganley (drums).

18:30

Opera On 3

Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia

Acts One and Two

Presented from New York by Margaret Juntwait, live from the Met.

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Rossini's setting of the first play in the trilogy by Beaumarchais is the tale of Figaro before his marriage, when he was a carefree barber in the city of Seville.

As he says, his profession opens every door in the city to him, and so he is able to help Count Almaviva - who has fallen in love with the beautiful Rosina - ward off the comically pompous Dr Bartolo who keeps her a virtual prisoner.

But as Bartolo wishes to marry Rosina himself, there is much intrigue involving secret letters, disguises and hastily hatched plots before the lovers are married in the nick of time, and Bartolo is left with no option but to grin and bear it.

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Acts 1 and 2)

Rosina ...... Katarina Karneus (mezzo-soprano)
Count Almaviva ...... Matthew Polenzani (tenor)
Figaro ...... Franco Vassallo (baritone)
Dr Bartolo ...... Carlos Chausson (bass)
Don Basilio ...... Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass)
Berta ...... Claudia Waite (soprano)
SergeantBernard Fitch (tenor)

Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera
Maurizio Benini (conductor).

20:05

The Met Opera Quiz

The Met Opera Quiz

Brian Zeger puts listeners' questions to Louise Guinther, Alan Wagner and Willie Anthony Waters.

20:35

Opera On 3

Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia

Act Three

Presented from New York by Margaret Juntwait, live from the Met.

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Act 3)

Rosina ...... Katarina Karneus (mezzo-soprano)
Count Almaviva ...... Matthew Polenzani (tenor)
Figaro ...... Franco Vassallo (baritone)
Dr Bartolo ...... Carlos Chausson (bass)
Don Basilio ...... Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass)
Berta ...... Claudia Waite (soprano)
SergeantBernard Fitch (tenor)

Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera
Maurizio Benini (conductor).

21:45

The Verb

12 March 2005

Ian McMillan presents the literature and performance programme, with new work from cult Israeli writer Etgar Keret, and a commissioned drama about intrusive documentary-making from playwright Steve Waters.

22:30

Between The Ears

12 March 2005

Killing Time: Cornelia Parker explores the indeterminate nature of waiting.

23:00

Hear And Now

12 March 2005

Presented by Sarah Walker.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ilan Volkov, presents a portrait concert of its Composer in Association, Jonathan Harvey, alongside pieces by Giacinto Scelsi and the orchestra's recently appointed Resident Composer Anna Meredith.

Jonathan Harvey: Ricercare una Melodia
Mark O'Keeffe (trumpet)

Giacinto Scelsi: I Presagi

Jonathan Harvey: Wheel of Emptiness

Anna Meredith: Torque

Jonathan Harvey: Cello Concerto
Arne Deforce (cello)

Plus, more music from last year's Cutting Edge Series, from a concert given by Noszferatu including the world premiere of Hilary Robinson's Blue Icarus and the London premiere of More Matter Less by Andrew Poppy.

01:00

Through the Night

12 March 2005

Part One

With John Shea.

1.00am
From the 2004 Proms
Recorded on 27th August 2004 at the Royal Albert Hall
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Wagner (orch. Mottl): Wesendonk-Lieder
Deborah Voigt (soprano)
Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat, Eroica
Daniele Gatti (conductor)

2.10am
Messaien: O Sacrum Convivium
Elmer Iseler Singers
Elmer Iseler (conductor)

2.10am
Chausson: Les Serres Chaudes Op 24
Lena Hoel (soprano)
Bengt ?ke-Lundin (piano)

2.25am
Bernhard Molique (arr J Petric and E. Goodman): Six Songs Without Words
Joseph Petric (accordion)
Erica Goodman (harp)

2.35am
Bach: Suite in Gm, BWV 995
Konrad Junghanel (lute)

3.00am
Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op 28
Roland Pontinen (piano)

3.40am
Francaix: Quintet for Wind No.1
Galliard Ensemble

4.00am
Mozart: Overture - Der Schauspieldirektor
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Ivor Bolton (conductor)

4.05am
Kuhlau: Introduction et Variations Sur la Romance de l'Opera Euryanthe
Duo Nanashi

4.20am
Jacques-Francois Halevy: Salut Salut a Cette Noble France (La Reine de Chypre)
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor - Gerard)
Brett Polegato (baritone - Lusignan)
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
Richard Bradshaw (conductor)

4.30am
Haydn: Piano Sonata in GHXVI 40
Andras Schiff (piano)

4.40am
Handel: Spirit Music Nos 1 to 4 - from Alcina
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Monica Huggett (guest conductor)

04:50

Through the Night

12 March 2005

Part Two

John O'Shea concludes this morning's programme.

4.50am
Joaquin Nin: Seguida Espanola
Henry-David Varema (cello)
Heiki Matlik (guitar)

5.00am
Ludvig Norman: (arr. Niklas Willen): Andante Sostenuto
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Niklas Willen (conductor)

5.05am
Wagner (transcr. Liszt): Isolde's Liebestod S447
Francois-Frederic Guy (piano)

5.15am
Luca Marenzio: Giunto a la tomba
The Consort of Musicke

5.25am
Matthaus Waissel: Two Polish Dances
Jacob Heringman (lute)

5.30am
Giustini: Suonata X in Fm
Wolfgang Brunner (fortepiano)

5.40am
Lionel Daunais: Le Pont Mirabeau
Phoenix Chamber Choir
Ramona Luengen (conductor)

5.40am
Engelbert Humperdinck: Dream Pantomime - from Hansel and Gretel
Symphony Nova Scotia
Georg Tintner (conductor)

5.50am
Wagner (arr. Zoltan Kocsis): Concert Prelude to Tristan und Isolde
Francois-Frederic Guy (piano)

6.00am
Ester Magi: Duo rahvatoonis
Jaan ?un (flute)
Ulrika Kristian (violin)

6.05am
Debussy: String Quartet in Gm, Op 10
Tilev String Quartet

6.30am
Joaquin Rodrigo: Three Spanish Compositions
Goran Listes (guitar)

6.45am
Jules August Demersseman: Italian Concerto in F, Op 82, No 6
Kristina Vaculova (flute)
Inna Aslamasova (piano)