Sunday 13th March 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

13 March 2005

Presented by Tommy Pearson.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Turina: Circulo
Trio Parnassus

CPE Bach: Sonata in F sharp m, Wq 52 No 4
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

From 8.00am

Handel: Organ Concerto in B flat, Op 7 No 6
Bob van Asperen (organ)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Tippett: Little Music for Strings
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

09:00

The Cowan Collection

13 March 2005

Rob Cowan introduces some surprises and treasures from his record collection.

Corrette: La Choisy, for four horns and orchestra
Jean-Francois Paillard Chamber Orchestra
Jean-Francois Paillard (conductor)

Mahler: Wo die Schonen Trompeten Blasen
Dorothea Roschmann (soprano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Harding (conductor)

Maxwell Davis: A Spell of Green Corn: The MacDonald Dances
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Peter Maxwell Davies (conductor)

Sibelius: Fragments for a Suite for Orchestra
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor)

Bach: The Art of Fugue Contrapunctus VI
The Amsterdam Bach Soloists

Vivaldi: In furore giustissimae irae, RV 626
Mady Mesple
Toulouse Chamber Orchestra
Louis Auriacombe (conductor)

Haydn: Sonata in C, H16 50
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

Ziehrer: Wiener Burger Waltz
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Hans Knappertsbusch (conductor)

Parry: English Lyrics There; Three Aspects
John McCormack (tenor)
Edwin Schneider (piano)

Handel: Suite No 13 in B flat
Andrei Gavrilov (piano)

Durufle: Three Dances for Orchestra, Op 6
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Jean-Jacques Kantorow (conductor)

12:00

Private Passions

13 March 2005

Another chance to hear outstanding editions from the past decade as Private Passions celebrates its 10th anniversary.

In a programme first broadcast in 2002, the writer, broadcaster and critic Clive James shares his fascination with the human voice with Michael Berkeley.

He introduces a wide range of vocal interpretations, from opera stars Enrico Caruso, Maria Callas and Jussi Bjorling to Frank Sinatra, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf.

13:00

The Early Music Show

13 March 2005

Andrew Manze presents the first of two programmes which focus on the music of The Mannheim School.

Founded in the early 18th century by Joseph Stamitz, the Mannheim orchestra quickly became one of the most successful in Europe. Music literally poured from the castle walls and made household names of Stamitz, Christian Cannabich and Franz Xaver Richter.

14:00

Sunday Gala

13 March 2005

Stephanie Hughes introduces a recital from London's Queen Elizabeth Hall by the Polish-born pianist Piotr Anderszewski. Much praised for his recordings of Bach, Anderszewski's programme includes the Overture in the French Style, alongside works by Chopin.

Bach: Overture in the French Style, BWV 831
Chopin: Three Mazurkas, Op 63; Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op 58.

15:30

Spring Journey

2/4. Welcome

Another chance to hear the second in a series of four programmes for the Easter season presented by one of Britain's leading theologians.

Dr Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham, reflects in words and music on the problems confronting modern society. Faced with new and alarming hostilities within the post-Cold War world, and the issues surrounding multicultural societies, he urges people to learn to welcome and be welcomed by one another as fellow humans.

To illustrate his point he draws on songs by Vaughn Williams and orchestral music by Sibelius and Mussorgsky.

16:00

3 for all

13 March 2005

Brian Kay introduces listeners' requests, including Grieg's Piano Concerto and choral singing from the Clerkes of Oxenford. Plus music by Steve Reich and two contrasting performances from British singers: Neil Mackie in Britten's Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, and counter-tenor Robin Blaze with a cantata from the 17th-century German tradition.

17:45

Music Matters

13 March 2005

Tom Service talks to Fanny Waterman, doyenne of piano teachers, and takes a look at the reputation of the prolific Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu.

18:30

Performance on 3

BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican

Complete performance

Paul Guinery introduces the BBC Symphony Orchestra performing two works meditating on the theme of loss: Martinu's Sixth Symphony, rooted in the exiled composer's memories of his Czech homeland; and Mozart's Requiem Mass. Conducted by Jiri Belohlavek at the Barbican.

Martinu: Symphony No 6
Mozart: Requiem
Kate Royal (soprano)
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
Robert Murray (tenor)
Matthew Rose (bass)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

20:00

Drama on 3

13 March 2005

Hotel Cristobel. By Caryl Phillips. A Caribbean island provides the setting for an intense and personal three-way struggle for control of a fading hotel.

21:30

Sunday Feature

Liver Birds and Laundrymen. Europe's Earliest Chinatown

Gregory Lee, Professor of Chinese at the University of Lyon, returns to his native Liverpool, where his grandfather arrived from China in 1911, to tell a personal history of the earliest Chinese settlement in Europe.

Today a gleaming traditional Chinese arch welcomes people to Liverpool's Chinatown but this overshadows darker stories of fear, exploitation and invisibility.

In Anfield cemetery Lee finds the graves of the Chinese who dug the trenches in the First World War. He recounts how, after serving Britain in the Second World War, Chinese sailors were deported, and how suspicion persists today in attitudes towards Chinese cockle pickers.

He also exchanges stories with Joe Phillips, the son of a Chinese sailor and a Liverpudlian woman, who, after ignoring it for years, has come to appreciate and explore his Chinese heritage.

22:15

Andy Kershaw

13 March 2005

Andy explores the music of Sardinia and Corsica. He finds that music is still used as a voice for dissent by separatist groups and is seen as a vital force for political change.

00:00

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)

01:00

Through the Night

13 March 2005

Part One

With John Shea.

1.00am
Bruckner
Os justi; Vexilla Regis; Pange lingua Christus factus est; Ecce sacerdos magnus
Danish National Choir
Stephen Layton (director)
Thomas Dahlkvist (trombone)
Jan Mortensen (trombone)
Mads H?ck (trombone)
Peter Bennet Schmidt (organ)
recorded on 26th March 2004 at Danish Radio Concert Hall Copenhagen

Te De um in CA
Georgia Milanese (soprano)
Alfred Hailstone (tenor)
Anne Margaret Puns Gulch (soprano)
Thomas Noh (baritone)
Harvard Stands (bass-baritone)
Kristin Cathedral Choir
Norwegian Radio Orchestra/Rolf Uptake
Recorded on 8th June 2004 at Kristiansand Cathedral

1.50am
Schoenberg: Suite Op 25
Glenn Gould (piano)

2.05am
Stravinsky: Three pieces
Martins Circenis (clarinet)

2.10am
Rachmaninov: Ne poy, krasavica, pri mne, Op 4, No 4(Sing not to me, Beautiful Maiden); Otryvok iz A Myusse, Op 21, No 6(Loneliness); Krysolov Op 38, No 4 (The Rat-catcher)
Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano)
Roger Vignoles (piano)

2.20am
Sibelius: Lemminkainen Suite, Op 22
Finnish RSO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste

3.05am
Chopin: Polonaise fantasie in A flat, Op 61
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)

3.20am
Beethoven: String Quintet in C, Op 29
Yggdrasil String Quartet

3.55am
Lassus: Aurora lucis rutilat
BBC Singers/Peter Phillips

4.00am
Trad: Dance of the Prince of Transylvania; Dances from the Gervaise Collection
Csaba Nagy (recorder)
Camerata Hungarica Laszlo Czidra, Laszlo Czidra (conductors)

4.04am
Frescobaldi: Canzona sesta, detta L'Altera
Musica Fiata Koln
Roland Wilson (director)

4.10am
Telemann: Sonata Polonaise in Am, TWV 42
La Stagione Frankfurt

4.15am
Bach: Prelude and fugue in Cm, from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Book 1 No 2, BWV 847
Justas Dvarionas (piano)

04:20

Through the Night

13 March 2005

Part Two

John Shea concludes this morning's programme.

4.20am
Mozart: Martern aller Arten (Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail)
Cyndia Sieden (soprano)
Prima La Musica/Dirk Vermeulen

4.30am
Saint-Saens: Allegro appassionato in C sharp m, Op 70
Stefan Lindgren (piano)

4.35am
Glazunov: Don't be bewitched by warlike honour
Peter Mattei (baritone)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)

Borodin: Polovtsian dances from Prince Igor
Sydney SO/Stuart Challender

4.50am
Cozzolani: Laudate pueri
Cappella Artemisia
Maria Christina Cleary (harp)
Francesca Torelli (theorbo)
Bettini Hoffmann (gamba)
Miranda Aureli (organ)
Candace Smith (director)

5.00am
Poul Schierbeck: Largo Op 33
The Danish RCO/Borge Wagner

Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Muhseligen Op 74, No 1
Danish National Choir
Stephen Layton (director)

5.10am
Debussy: Et la lune descend sur la temple qui fut; Poissons d'or (Images -Set 2)
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

5.20am
Matthaus Waissel: Three Polish Dances for lute
Jacob Heringman (lute)

5.25am
Anthoine Busnois: Fortuna desperata
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Edward Wickham (director)

5.30am
Cripriano de Rore: Alma Susanna
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (director)

5.35am
Saint-Saens: Danse macabre Op 40
Ouellet-Murray Duo

5.40am
Hugo Alfven: En b?t med blommer (A boat with flowers) Op 44
Peter Mattei (baritone)
Swedish RSO/Manfred Honeck

5.50am
Satie: Gnossienne No 5
Pascal Roge (piano)

5.55am
Virgil Thomson: String Quartet No 2
Mayuki Fukuhara, Eriko Sato (violins)
Masako Yanagita (viola)
Michael Finckel (cello)

6.20am
Haydn: Arianna a Naxos
Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Julius Drake (piano)

6.35am
Graeme Koehne: Capriccio
Clemens Leske (piano)
Adelaide SO/Janos Furst