Thursday 24th March 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

24 March 2005

Presented by Sandy Burnett.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Kodaly: Dances of Galanta
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

Elgar: La Capricieuse for violin and piano, Op 17
Gil Shaham (violin)
Rohan De Silva (piano)

Zelenka: Lamentation II for Maundy Thursday
Michael Chance (countertenor)
The Chandos Baroque Players

Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin Act 3
French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Paavo Jarvi (conductor)

JCF Bach
Sonata in G, for violin, viola and keyboard
London Baroque

From 8.30am

Liszt: Mephisto waltz No 1, S 514 transc for piano
Murray Perahia (piano)

Robert White: Lamentations for 5 voices
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (director)

Prokofiev: Cinderella Suite No 1, Op 107
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

24 March 2005

Recordings of Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Piston, Palestrina and Debussy.

Vivaldi: Concerto in C, Op 8, No.12, RV 178
Louis Kaufman, Winterthur Symphony Orchestra
Clemens Dahinden (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op 102, No 3; Caprice Op 33
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)

Ravel: Vocalise en forme de habanera
Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
Dalton Baldwin (piano)

Piston: Violin Concerto No.1
Louis Kaufman (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Herrmann (conductor)

Palestrina: Lamentations for Holy Saturday
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Sonata in E, Op 6
Murray Perahia (piano)

Debussy: La Mer
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

Trad. (arr Kreisler)
Londonderry Air
Louis Kaufman (violin)
Paul Ulanowsky (piano)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Elgar (1857 - 1934)

4/5. At the Centre of Public Life

Elgar was a private man, most at home in the Worcestershire countryside, but his music thrust him to the forefront of public life. Presented by Donald Macleod.

Elgar: Five Intermezzos: No 3
Athena Ensemble

Elgar: Caractacus, Scene IV Soldiers Chorus and Caractacus? Lament
Peter Glossop (baritone)
Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Charles Groves (conductor)

Elgar: Coronation Ode
Teresa Cahill (soprano)
Anne Collins (contralto)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Gwynne Howell (bass)
Scottish National Orchestra Chorus
Scottish National Orchestra
Sir Alexander Gibson (conductor)

Elgar: The Sanguine Fan, Extract
The London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bryden Thomson (conductor).

[Rpt of Thu 12.00pm]

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Celebrating Mozart

24 March 2005

Celebrating Mozart: Stephanie Hughes introduces the Artis Quartet of Vienna, who are joined at LSO St Lukes by violist Lawrence Power for String Quartet in C, K 465 and Quintet in E flat, K 614.

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC SSO, BBC Singers

In the last of this week's programmes, Graeme Kay introduces the first broadcast of a new piece by the contemporary jazz composer Keith Tippett, from the Norwich Festival 2004. Scored for the Singers plus saxophone quartet and four jazz saxophonists. The text, by Julie Tippetts, describes an elderly monk in his cell, contemplating the natural world he can see through his window and musing on his life.

Barber: Overture - School for Scandal
Fabio Mechetti (conductor)

Bernstein: On the Waterfront
Christopher Austin (conductor)

Stravinsky: Symphony in C
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Steven Osborne (piano)
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Keith Tippett: The Monk Watches the Eagle
BBC Singers
Julie Tippetts (vocals)
Apollo Saxophone Quartet
Chris Biscoe, Pal Dunmall, Kevin Figes, Ben Waghorn (saxophone)
Keith Tippett (conductor)

16:00

Brian Kay's Light Programme

24 March 2005

Brian Kay plays a selection of light classics.

17:00

In Tune

24 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

Belief

24 March 2005

Joan Bakewell talks to artists and thinkers about what they believe and why. This edition features Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Laureate for Chemistry.

20:00

Performance on 3

Easter At Kings

Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsories

Easter At King's: Louise Fryer introduces The King's Singers at King's College Chapel, Cambridge. The programme includes Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday.

21:00

BBC SSO

Jeff Hamburg's David

David Porcelijn conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Jeff Hamburg's David, five psalms for wind orchestra.

21:30

Night Waves

24 March 2005

Paul Allen and guests discuss Thomas More, Shakespeare's 'banned' play written in collaboration with Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle, which opens at Royal Shakespeare Company, depicting race riots in London as a result of asylum seekers from the continent fleeing religious persecution.

22:15

Late Junction

24 March 2005

Fiona Talkington presents James MacMillan's Kiss on Wood for violin and piano, The Burgundian Cadence singing Robert Hugill's settings of poems by Carl Cook, and music for Maundy Thursday from 17th Century Provence.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Muzio Clementi (1752 - 1832)

Part Five

Muzio Clementi (1752 - 1832) 5/5. Donald Macleod looks at how Muzio Clementi became a founding member of what is the second oldest concert cociety in the world, The Royal Philharmonic, formerly The London Philharmonic. [Rpt of Fri 12.00pm]

01:00

Through the Night

24 March 2005

Part One

With John Shea.

1.00am
Dvorak: Stabat Mater, Op 58
Melanie Diener (soprano)
Dagmar Peckova (mezzo soprano)
Jaroslav Brezina (tenor)
Peter Mikula? (bass)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
Ji?i B?hlolavek (conductor)
(recorded on 1st April 2004 in the Oslo Concert Hall)

2.25am
Brahms: String Sextet No.2 in G, Op 36
Oslo Chamber Soloists

3.05am
Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F
Ronald Brautigam (piano)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Richard Dufallo (conductor)

3.40am
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 8 in G, Op 30, No 3
Mats Zetterqvist (violin)
Mats Widlund (piano)

3.55am
Bax: Hardanger (Hommage to Grieg)
Howard Shelley, Hilary MacNamara (pianos)

4.00am
Grieg: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (Lyric pieces, Op 65)
Valerie Tryon (piano)

4.10am
Johann Eccard: Cui pia contingit divino munere conjunx
Ensemble Weser Renaissance
Manfred Cordes (conductor)

4.15am
Toivo Kuula: The Bride Arrives
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jorma Panula (conductor)

4.19am
Gabriel Marie (arr C.Arnold): La Cinquantaine (Golden Wedding)
Joseph Ghys (arr. Nicolaj Hansen): Gavotte Louis XIII (Amaryllis)
Saint-Saens (arr R Klugescheid): My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice (Samson and Delilah)
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello)
William Tritt (piano)

4.25am
Handel: Return O God of Hosts (Samson)
Maureen Forester (alto)
I Soloisti di Zagreb
Antonio Janigro (conductor)

4.35am
Chopin: Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op 22
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Milen Nachev (conductor)

4.50am
Granados: La Maja y el Ruise?or (The Maiden and the Nightingale)
Marilyn Richardson (soprano)
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Kamisrski (conductor)

05:00

Through the Night

24 March 2005

Part Two

John Shea concludes this morning's programme.

5.00am
Wagner: Good Friday music ? from Parsifal
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Frank Shipway (conductor)

5.10am
Orff: In Trutina ? from Carmina Burana
Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Karmiski (conductor)

Schubert (transcr Liszt): Die Forelle, S564
Simon Trpceski (piano)

5.15am
Anon: The Gentle Lamb
Sequentia: Barbara Thornton (voice)
Margaret Tindemans (fiddle)

5.25am
Anon: Canto di lanzi venturieri; Canto ti lanzi sonatori di rubechine; Canto di lanzi venturieri; Canto dei capi tondi; Carro della morte
Ensemble Claude-Gervaise
Gilles Plante (director)

5.35am
Johann Rosenmuller: Sinfonia Quinta
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists

5.45am
Stanis?aw Krupowicz: Miserere
Camerata Silesia
Anna Szostak (conductor)

6.00am
Pfitzner: Symphony No 2 in C, Op 46
Symphony Novia Scotia
Georg Tintner (conductor)

6.15am
Ferenc Erkel: Duo Brillant
Ferenc Szecsodi (violin)
Istvan Kassai (piano)

6.35am
Mieczys?aw Kar?owicz: Stanis?aw and Anna of O?wi?cim ? Symphonic Poem, Op 12
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Stanis?aw Wislocki (conductor)