Wednesday 16th March 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

16 March 2005

Presented by Sandy Burnett.

Music includes, from 7.00am:

Victoria: Ave Regina caelorum a 5 (1572)
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Hesperion XX
Jordi Savall (director)

Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
Orchestre de Paris
Jean Martinon (conductor)

Medtner: Danza Festiva, Op 38, No 3
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)

From 8.30am

Weber: Clarinet Concerto No 1 in Fm, Op 73
Andrew Marriner (clarinet)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

Richard Rodney Bennett: Five Impromptus
Graham Anthony Devine (guitar)

Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Philadelphia Orchestra
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

16 March 2005

With Rob Cowan.

Bach orch. Elgar: Fantasia and Fugue in Cm, BWV 537
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

Beethoven: Cello Sonata in F, Op 5 No 1
Daniil Shafran (cello)
Anton Ginzburg (piano)

Haydn: Symphony No 98 in B flat
Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Klemperer (conductor)

Schumann: Fugue on the Name Bach Op 60, No.2
Olivier Latry (organ)

Loewe: Frauenliebe Op 60
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano)
Cord Garben (piano)

Bach: Suite No 3 in C BWV 1009
Daniil Shafran (cello)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Muzio Clementi (1752 - 1832)

Part Three

Caught whilst trying to elope and with two marriages both to women much younger than himself, Muzio Clementi had quite a time with the ladies. Donald Macleod finds out what effect the women in his life had on Clementi's music.

Trio Opus 22 No 3, La Chasse
The Faure Trio
Vittorio Del Col (piano)
Mario Vassilev (violin)
Sergio Bonfanti (cello)

Sonata Opus 13, No 6
Andreas Staier (piano)

Symphony No 2 in C
Philharmonia Orchestra
Claudio Scimone (conductor)

[Rpt of Wed 12.00pm]

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Across the Divide

16 March 2005

Petroc Trelawny presents a concert from St Bride's, Fleet Street, featuring works by Britten and Shostakovich, recorded at last year's City of London Festival.

Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue No 4 in Em
Britten: Ovid Metamorphoses

Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue No 3 in G
Britten: Nocturnal after Dowland
Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue No 8 in F sharp m

Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Douglas Boyd (oboe)
Peter Katona (guitar)

14:00

Afternoon Performance

16 March 2005

The Ulster Orchestra with music specially recorded for the programme by Shchedrin, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky. Introduced by Warwick Thompson.

Shchedrin: Music for Strings, Oboes, Horns and Celeste
Conductor Alexander Anissimov

Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1
Thorleif Thedeen (cello)
Conductor Alexander Anissimov

Tchaikovsky: Suite No 3
Vladimir Altschuler (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

16 March 2005

Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present music from the film The Big Country, music about twins and music about a birdcatcher from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.

16:00

Choral Evensong

16 March 2005

Live from Hereford Cathedral.

Introit: God So Loved the World (Stainer)
Responses: Sumsion
Psalms: 82, 84, 85 (Turle, Bairstow, Hopkins)
First Reading: Amos 4 vv1-12
Canticles: St Paul's Service (Howells)
Second Reading: Matthew 12 vv22-37
Anthem: Ne irascaris (Byrd)
Final Hymn: The Royal Banners Forward Go
(Gonfalon Royal)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude Op. 5 (Durufle)

Organist and Director of Music: Geraint Bowen
Assistant Organist: Peter Dyke.

17:00

In Tune

16 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

BBC Philharmonic

Part One

Petroc Trelawny presents the BBC Philharmonic live from Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, conducted by James MacMillan with the Liverpool Cathedral Occasional Singers and organist Ian Tracey performing James MacMillan's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis and Poulenc's Organ Concerto.

[Continues at 8.35pm, after Twenty Minutes]

20:15

Twenty Minutes

Through a Glass Darkly

Britain has an enviably rich tradition of sacred stained glass spanning over a thousand years. Professor Richard Marks and artist Thomas Denny explore the factors that make medieval glass so highly regarded and the extent to which the sense of tradition influences artists today.

20:35

Performance on 3

BBC Philharmonic

Part Two

Petroc Trelawny presents the second part of tonight's concert, live from Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. The BBC Philharmonic conducted by James MacMillan perform Judith Bingham's Chartres.

21:30

Night Waves

16 March 2005

International relations expert Fred Halliday talks to Paul Allen about his new book 100 Myths About the Middle East.

22:15

Late Junction

16 March 2005

Fiona Talkington features Argentinian tango played by Mr McFall's Chamber, John Tavener's The Veil of the Temple, and Icelandic music from Emiliana Torrini and Sigur Ros and the soundtrack to the film 101 Reykjavik.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

4/5. Five First Nights. Cairo

The librettist with whom Verdi produced his later operas - Otello, Falstaff and a much revised Simon Boccanegra - was Arrigo Boito. Verdi much admired Boito, a composer in his own right, for his brilliant mind.

Their association had an unfortunate start as Boito insulted Verdi and the novelist Alessandro Manzoni at a banquet by reading out an ode he'd written about the decrepit old men who were ruining Italian art. It was 20 years before they became friends, but then they remained so until Verdi's death.

Innio delle nazioni (excerpt)
Jan Peerce (tenor)
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Arturo Toscanini (conductor)

Excerpt from Act 3 (Simon Boccanegra)
Reconciliation Scene
Nikolai Ghiaurov (bass baritone)
Piero Cappuccilli (baritone)
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

Excerpt from Act 2 (Otello)
Credo in un dio crudel....se inconscia, contro te, sposo, ho peccato
Cheryl Studer (soprano)
Placido Domingo (tenor)
Sergei Leiferkus (baritone)
Denyce Graves (mezzo soprano)
Chorus and Orchestra of Bastille Opera
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

Excerpt from Act 1 (Falstaff)
Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Anthony Mee (tenor)
Anatoli Kotscherga (bass)
Enrico Facini (tenor)
Berlin Philharmonic
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

16 March 2005

Part One

1.00am
The second programme revisiting the Historic Organs of the Netherlands.

Brachthuijser: Fantasie in Em
Gert Oost (organ )

1.15am
Samuel de Lange, sr: Fantasie-Sonate No 3 in Gm 'Ja Jesus heerscht! Het ongerloof verstomm'
Geert Bierling (organ)

1.30am
Theodore Dubois: 3 pieces from Messe de Mariage
Anja Hendrikx (organ)

1.45am
Jean Langlais: Mon ? cherche un fin paisible, Op 40
Anja Hendrikx (organ)

1.50am
Fran Lhotka: Frescoes: 3 Symphonic Movements
Martina Gojceta Silic, Gordana eb, Martina Matic Borse (voices)
Nikola Fabijanic (saxophone solo)
Croatian RSO/Mladen Tarbuk

2.40am
Ludvig Norman: String Sextet in A, Op 18
Stockholm String Sextet

3.05am
Geirr Tveitt: Welcome Me with Humour; Tears and Laughter for a Boat; Langeleik Tune; The Long Long Winter Night (Folk tunes from Hardanger, Op 150
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

3.15am
Ambroise Thomas: ?vin dissipe la tristesse (Hamlet)
Brett Polegato (baritone)
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra/Richard Bradshaw

3.20am
Berlioz: La Mort d'Ophelie
Sarah Walker (mezzo soprano)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)

3.30am
Edouard Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole
Vadim Repin (violin)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbr?cken/Michael Stern

4.00am
Mozart: Flute Quartet No 1 in D, K285
Carol Wincenc (flute)
Chee-Yun (violin)
Nokuthula Ngwenyama (viola)
David Finckel (cello)

4.15am
Bach: Der Geist Hilft Unsrer Schwachheit Auf - motet, BWV 226
Danish National Radio Choir/Stefan Parkman

4.25am
Adam Jarzebski: Coronea Aurea
Simon Standage (violin)
Il Tempo

4.30am
Schubert: Impromptu in A flat, D935 No 2
Wilhelm Kempff (piano)

4.35am
Schumann: Genoveva, Overture Op 81
Orchestre Nationale de France/Heinz Wallberg

04:45

Through the Night

16 March 2005

Part Two

John Shea concludes this morning's programme.

4.45am
Mihkel L?dig: Koit (The Dawn)
Laulupeo ?endkoor (Song Festival Joint Choir)
J?ri Variste (conductor)

4.50am
Nils-Eric Fougstedt: Concert Overture
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

5.00am
Ligeti: Six Bagatelles
Cinque Venti

5.10am
Goldmark: Sonntagsruhe, Op 18 No 1
L?l? Polgar (bass)
Ad?Fellegi (piano)

5.10am
Bach: Prelude in Am, BWV 569
Jaco van Leeuwen (organ)

5.20am
Johann Rosenm?ller: Sonata quarta ?
Ensemble La Fenice
Jean Tub? (cornet and conductor)

5.25am
Matthias Weckmann: Wenn der Herr die Gefangenen zu Zion Erlosen Wird
Soloists from Rheinsche Kantorei
Musica Alta Ripa
Hermann Max (conductor)

5.35am
Handel: In'den Angenehmen B?schen HWV 209 - No 8 from Deutsche Arien
H?ne Plouffe (violin)
Louise Pellerin (oboe)
Dom Andr?aberge (organ)

5.40am
Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D, Op 25, Classical
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Michel Tabachnik (conductor)

5.55am
CPE Bach: W?rtemburg Sonata No 1 in Am
Rietze Smits (organ)

6.05am
Bella, J?Levoslav: Solemn Overture in E flat
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava
R?bert Stankovsky (conductor)

6.10am
Hal?: Quand de la nuit l'?is nuage (L'?lair)
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor)
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
Richard Bradshaw (conductor)

6.20am
Chopin: Fantasy Op 49 in Fm
Fran?s-Fr?ric Guy (piano)

6.30am
J?sef Elsner: Symphony in C, Op 11
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice
Janusz Przybylski (conductor)