07:00
19 March 2005
Presented by Martin Handley.
Music includes, from 7.00am
Telemann: Sonata in Dm, TWV 41: d4, "Essercizi Musici"
Michael Schneider (recorder)
Yasunori Imamura (lute)
Christian Beuse (bassoon)
Sabine Bauer (chamber organ)
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No 1 in Gm, Op 25
Stephen Hough (piano)
CBSO
Lawrence Foster (conductor)
From 8.00am
George Lloyd: Overture - John Socman
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
George Lloyd (conductor)
Wagner: A Faust Overture
French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Yutaka Sado (conductor).
09:00
19 March 2005
Andrew McGregor plays some of this month?s newest releases.
In Building a Library, Alyn Shipton recommends a version of Beethoven?s Cello Sonata in A Major, Op 69, from the currently available recordings.
Rodney Milnes reviews recent opera releases, including Berlioz?s Benvenuto Cellini, and DVD recordings of Wagner?s Tannhauser and Halevy?s La Juive.
To mark the 25th anniversary of Priory Records, Andrew McGregor talks to MD, engineer and producer Neil Collier about the joys and peculiar challenges of recording choirs and organs.
Disc of the Week
Brahms: Symphony No 3 in F Major, Op 90 (excerpt)
WDR Sinfonie-Orchester, Koln
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)
13:00
John Dowland: The Man and the Myth
John Dowland was one of the greatest musicians of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and information about his life is quite plentiful. Why then, do so many inconsistencies about the man remain? Why is the truth about his life shrouded in mystery? Lucie Skeaping explores the life of the enigmatic composer. Meanwhile, Catherine Bott talks to Dr Helen Hackett about the life and poetry of one of the ladies of the time, Lady Mary Wroth.
Dowland: Flow my tears
Tell me true love
Weep you no more, sad fountains
O sweet words, the delight of solitarienesse
Unquiet Thoughts
I saw my lady weep
Sweet Stay Awhile
Go Crystal Tears
14:00
Words and Music
Charles Hazlewood is joined by mezzo soprano Pamela Helen Stephen, tenor James Gilchrist, and the BBC Concert Orchestra for a workshop session exploring the many different ways composers over the past 300 years have approached the setting of words in opera arias and in song.
Purcell: See, See the Many Coloured Fields, The Fairy Queen
Handel: Svegliatevi ne core, Julius Caesar
Mozart: Dies Bildnis, The Magic Flute
Berlioz: Spectre de la rose, Nuits d'ete
Britten: Midnight's Bell, Nocturne
Finzi: It Was a Lover and His Lass
15:00
19 March 2005
Lucy Duran is joined by Nigel Williamson for a look at what's new in world music, and Simon Broughton travels to Tamanrasset in southern Algeria for a music festival with the desert Touaregs.
16:00
19 March 2005
Helen Mayhew presents a selection of new releases, and previews what's on in the UK jazz scene.
17:00
19 March 2005
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
18:00
Don Carlo
Act One
Live from the Met.
Don Carlo, heir to the Spanish throne, has been promised to Elisabeth, daughter of the King of France, to promote peace between the two nations. They meet and fall in love, but it's then decided that Elisabeth should marry Carlo's father, Philip II of Spain, instead. This begins a tale of conflict between father and son, crown and church, and love and duty.
Verdi's epic Don Carlo contains some of his most dramatic and memorable music, and is sung by a top cast including Sondra Radvanovsky, Violeta Urmana and Richard Margison.
Presented by Margaret Juntwait.
[Continues at 7.40pm, after Interval]
Elisabeth de Valois ...... Sondra Radvanovsky (soprano)
Princess Eboli ...... Violeta Urmana (soprano)
Don Carlo ...... Richard Margison (tenor)
Rodrigo, Count of Posa ...... Dwayne Croft (baritone)
Philip II ...... Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass)
Grand Inquisitor ...... Samuel Ramey (bass)
Voce dal Ciel ...... Olga Makarina (soprano)
Tebaldo ...... Sandra Lopez (soprano)
Herald ...... Dimitri Pittas (tenor)
Lerma ...... Brian Davis (tenor)
Frate ...... Vitalij Kowaljow (bass)
Forester ...... Patrick Carfizzi (baritone)
Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera
Fabio Luisi (conductor).
19:40
What Does Schiller Mean to Us Today?
What Does Schiller Mean to Us Today?
2005 is the 200th anniversary year of the death of Friedrich von Schiller, the German philospher who was also a lyric poet, playwright, idealist and revolutionary rolled into one, and on whose Don Carlos the libretto of Verdi's opera is based.
James Woodall charts Schiller's relevance from his day to ours.
20:10
Don Carlo
Act Two
Don Carlo (Act 3): Continuing the performance of Verdi's epic by the Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera, conducted by Fabio Luisi. [Continues at 8.45pm, after The Met Opera Quiz]
20:45
19 March 2005
Thor Eckert puts listeners' questions to Speight Jenkins, Evans Mirageas and Christopher Purdy.
21:10
Don Carlo
Acts 4 & 5
Don Carlo (Acts 4 & 5): Concluding the performance of Verdi's epic tale of love and duty by the Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera, conducted by Fabio Luisi.
22:45
19 March 2005
Ian McMillan presents the literature and performance programme. Whitbread prize-winning poet Michael Symmons Roberts performs a new commission inspired by the Book of Psalms, and Ian hears the first in a series of new versions of the parables as novelist Sarah Hall rewrites the parable of the lost sheep.
23:15
19 March 2005
Robert Worby introduces a Hear and Now Studio Concert, recorded at LSO St Luke?s, featuring music by five of the UK?s most exciting young composing talents. The London Sinfonietta is conducted by Nicholas Kok.
William Attwood: Iwwer Tiermen
Phillip Neil Martin: Shifting Mirrors
Ben Foskett: Violin Concerto
Clio Gould (violin)
Emily Hall: Think About Space
Sam Hayden: Relative Autonomy, UK premiere of London Sinfonietta commission
In the last of the concerts recorded at the 2004 BMIC?s Cutting Edge Series, the Juice Vocal Trio presents 'rockrainwindfire', a selection of pieces for unaccompanied female voices, including works by Morag Galloway, Paul Robinson, Paul Mealor and David Breslin, as well as pieces by Juice?s three performers, Anna Molyneux, Kerry Andrew and Sarah Dacey.
01:00
19 March 2005
Part One
With John Shea.
1.00am
From the 2004 Proms
Bach: Mass in Bm, BWV 232
Katherine Fuge, Renate Pokupic (soprano)
Sara Mingardo (contralto)
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Dietrich Henschel (baritone)
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Recorded on 15th August 2004 at Royal Albert Hall London.
2.50am
Busoni: Five pieces from Sechs Kurze Stucke zur Pflege des Polyphonen Spiels
Valerie Tryon (piano)
3.05am
Nielsen: String Quartet No 1 in Gm, Op 13
Paizo Quartet (Denmark)
3.35am
Liszt: Piano Concerto No 2 in A, S125
Sveinung Bjelland (piano)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Stefan Asbury (conductor)
4.00am
Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon II Septimi Toni
Canadian Brass
4.04am
Handel: Flammende Rose Zierde der Erden, HWV 210 (Deutsche Arien)
Helene Plouffe (violin)
Louise Pellerin (oboe)
Dom Andre Laberge (organ)
4.10am
Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas in C, Kk 159; Dm Kk 9, Bm Kk 377
Natalya Pasichnyk (piano)
4.15am
Brahms: Tragic Overture
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
4.30am
Lipinski: Great Fantasy on Themes from Bellini?s I Puritani, Op 29
Miroslaw Lawrynowicz (violin)
Krystyna Makowska-Lawrynowicz (piano)
04:50
19 March 2005
Part Two
John Shea concludes this morning's programme.
4.50am
Verdi: Recitative and aria: Ella mi fu rapita? Parmi veder le lagrime, aria: La donna e mobile (Rigoletto)
Volodymyr Hryshko (tenor)
Ukrainian National Opera Orchestra
5.00am
Beethoven: Trio in B flat, Op 11 - Adagio
Beaux Arts Trio
5.05am
Anon (arr Petros Shoujounian): Pats Mez Der
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano)
5.09am
Marcel Dupre: Versets on Ave maris stella
Plainchant sung by students of Newcastle University Conservatorium of Music
Michael Dudman (organ)
5.15am
Grieg: Lyric Pieces - Evening in the Mountains, Op 68, No 4); At the Cradle, Op 68, No 5
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5.25am
Mozart: Fantasy in Dm, KV 397
Bruno Lukk (piano)
5.30am
Morales: Motet - Andreas Christi Famulus
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal
Christopher Jackson (director)
5.40am
Haydn: Symphony No 27 in G
Hungarian Chamber Orchestra
Vilmos Tatrai (leader)
5.50am
Ravel: Ronsard a son ame (Ronsard to his soul)
Olle Persson (baritone)
Bengt-?ke Lundin (piano)
5.55am
Paderewski (arr.J. Maksymiuk): Nocturne, Op 16, No 4
Polish Radio Orchestra
Jerzy Maksimiuk (conductor)
6.00am
Suk: Elegie, Op 33
Suk Trio
6.05am
Schubert: Piano Sonata in Em, D 566
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
6.25am
Debussy: Jeux
Royal Concertbegouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
6.45am
Marais: La Paraza
Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba)
Luca Pianca (lute)
6.48am
Emil Sjogren: Two Lyrical Pieces
Per Enoksson (violin)
Peter Nagy (piano)
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