Friday 25th March 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

25 March 2005

Presented by Sandy Burnett.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Debussy: Danseuse de Delphes, from Preludes Book 1
Robert Casadesus

Mozart: Illia?s Aria: Zeffiretti lunsinghieri from Idomeneo
Natalie Dessay (soprano)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Louis Langree (conductor)

Dukas: La Peri (poeme pur orchestre)
National Orchestra of Lille
Jean-Claude Casadesus (conductor)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata no 24 in F sharp, Op 78 `A Therese?
Robert Casadesus (piano)

Lassus: Lamentatio Tertia from Lamentations of Jeremiah
Ensemble Vocal Orlando
Laurent Gendre (director)

From 8.30am

Mozart: Sonata in B flat, K454
Fabio Biondi (violin)
Olga Tverskaya (fortepiano)

Lassus: Stabat Mater
Currende
Erik van Nevel (director)

Bach: Concerto for Three Keyboards and String Orchestra in Dm, BWV 1063
Robert, Gaby and Jean-Claude Casadesus (piano)
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

Saint-Saens: HavanaiseLouis Kaufman (violin)Netherlands Philharmonic OrchestraLauritz van der Berg (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Songs with Words Op 85 No 4; Op 62 No 6; Op 67 No 5
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

Bach: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C, BWV 564
Hans Fagius (organ)

Smetana: Vltava
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Prelude and Fugue, Op 35, No1
Arthur Loesser (piano)

Couperin: Premiere lecon de tenebres pour le mercredi saint
Sophie Daneman (soprano)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie (conductor)

Still: Pastorella
Louis Kaufman (violin)
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Herrmann (conductor)

Still: Danza de Panama, No 3
Kaufman String Quartet

Ravel: Sheherazade
Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)

Milhaud: Concert de Printemps
Louis Kaufman (violin/conductor)
French National Orchestra

Steiner: Belle Watling and Melanie (Gone with the Wind)
MGM Orchestra (leader, Louis Kaufman)
Max Steiner (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Elgar (1857 - 1934)

The Enigmatic Man

Donald Macleod asks, who was the real Elgar?

Elgar: Four Choral Songs Op 53, No 4 the Owls
The Finzi Singers
Paul Spicer (conductor)

Elgar: Two Songs Op 60, No 1 The Torch
Neil Mackie (tenor)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Elgar: Symphony No 2, 3rd Movement
London Symphony Orchestra
Adrian Boult (conductor)

Elgar: The Music Makers
Felicity Palmer (contralto)
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox (conductor)

[Rptd Fri 12.00am]

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Celebrating Mozart

25 March 2005

Stephanie Hughes presents the last in this series of concerts from LSO St Luke?s showcasing Mozart?s String Quintets. The Skampa Quartet join forces with violist Lawrence Power for the 17-year old Mozart?s Quintet in B flat as well the late G minor Quintet.

Mozart: Quintet in B flat, K 174
Mozart: Quintet in Gm, K 516

14:00

A Passion 4 Radio

A Passion 4 Radio

A new harmonisation by Antony Pitts of the four Gospel narratives of the last 24 hours in the life of Jesus is interleaved with commentary and interviews from Jerusalem, London and Manchester.

16:00

Jazz Legends

25 March 2005

Julian Joseph in conversation with two illustrious members of the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band, electric bassist John Lee and trombonist and arranger Slide Hampton.

17:00

In Tune

25 March 2005

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and keeps us up to date with what's happening in the arts world.

18:00

Performance on 3

BBC Singers/City of London Sinfonia

St Matthew Passion: Part One

JS Bach's St Matthew Passion, BWV 244, performed by BBC Singers, the Finchley Children's Music Group and the City of London Sinfonia, live from London's Barbican Hall.

(Evangelist) ........ Thomas Randle (tenor)
(Christus) ........ Christopher Purves (baritone)
Sarah Fox (soprano)
William Towers (counter-tenor)
Barry Banks (tenor)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
BBC Singers
Finchley Children?s Music Group
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV 244, (sung in German)

JS Bach?s mighty setting of the gospel account of Christ?s Passion and death is one of the masterpieces of Western music, and is performed here in a concert live from London?s Barbican Hall. Presented by Paul Guinery.

[Continues at 7.45pm, after Belief]

19:20

Belief

Michael Symmons Roberts

Series in which Joan Bakewell talks to guests about their beliefs and the influences that have shaped them. This edition features Michael Symmons Roberts, winner of the 2004 Whitbread Poetry Award.

19:45

Performance on 3

BBC Singers/City of London Sinfonia

St Matthew Passion: Part Two

Continuing tonight's concert of JS Bach's St Matthew Passion, BWV 244, performed by BBC Singers, the Finchley Children's Music Group and the City of London Sinfonia, live from London's Barbican Hall.

21:30

Night Waves

25 March 2005

The novelist Ian McEwan, author of Enduring Love and Atonement, has been hailed as 'this country?s unrivalled literary giant'.

His tenth novel, Saturday, has recently been published. In this interview, he talks to Paul Allen about a career that began when he shattered the taboos of genteel literary Britain in the 1970s, and continues to go from strength to strength - his last two novels Amsterdam and Atonement won the Booker Prize and the `People?s Booker? respectively.

22:15

Performance on 3

Easter At Kings

Haydn's Seven Last Words from the Cross

The festival of music for Holy Week from the chapel of King's College Cambridge continues with one of Haydn's most intense chamber works, composed originally for orchestra to accompany the Good Friday meditiations in Cadiz cathedral in 1785.

The seven descriptive slow movements are preceded by an overture and followed by a dramatic finale, representing the earthquake. In this performance, recorded earlier this evening, the Salomon String Quartet perform the chamber version which Haydn prepared in 1787, with readings from the Gospels by the Dean of King's College,
Rev Ian Thompson. Presented by Louise Fryer.

23:30

Jazz on 3

Partisans

Jez Nelson presents a live recording of the powerhouse British jazz rock outfit Partisans, playing music from their new album.

Now almost in their tenth year, the group have lately found themselves in the position of elder statesmen of a burgeoning London jazz scene increasingly influenced by punk. Plus, Jez talks to George Cole about his recent book on Miles Davis? music after 1980 and asks whether his eighties period was a sellout or an artistic success.

01:00

Through the Night

25 March 2005

Part One

With John Shea.

1.00am
Gounod: Mors et Vita (Death and Life): Sacred Trilogy for Solo Voices, Chorus and Orchestra
Barbara Frittoli (soprano)
Lidia Tirendi (mezzo-soprano)
Zoran Todorovich (tenor)
Davide Damiani (baritone)
Budapest Radio Chorus
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marcello Viotti (conductor)

3.20am
Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze, Op 6
Tiina Karakorpi (piano)

3.50am
Schickhard: Flute Sonata in C
Vladislav Brunner jr (flute)
Herta Madarova (harpsichord)

4.00am
Moniuszko: String Quartet No 1 in Dm
Camerata Quartet

4.15am
Crusell: Kalla hander, varmt hjarta (Cold hands, warm heart)
Eeva-Liisa Saarinen (mezzo-soprano)
Pentti Kotiranta (piano)

4.20am
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 10 in Bm
Risor Festival Strings

4.30am
Vivaldi: Nulla in mundo pax sincera, RV 630
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Academy of Ancient Music
Andrew Manze (director) (Encore)

4.35am
Handel: Sonata in Gm, HWV 390a
Musica Alta Ripa

4.45am
Bernhard Crusell: Introduction and Variations on a Swedish Drinking Song, Op 12
Anne-Marja Korimaa (clarinet)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor)

05:00

Through the Night

25 March 2005

Part Two

John Shea concludes this morning's programme.

5.00am
Gounod: Mab, reine des mensonges (Romeo et Juliette)
Brett Polegato (baritone ? Mercutio)
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
Richard Bradshaw (conductor)

5.03am
Karl Doppler: The Forest Bird, Op 21
Janos Balint (flute)
Jen? Kevehazi, Peter Fuzes, Sandor Endr?di, Tibor Maruza (horns)

5.09am
Debussy: La Cathedrale engloutie (Preludes Book 1)
Philippe Cassard (piano)

5.15am
Poulenc: 7 chansons
Swedish Radio Choir
Par Fridberg (conductor)

5.25am
Moritz Moszkowski: Romance sans Paroles
David Drury (organ)

5.30am
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Sinfonie in F, F67
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Stephan Mai (director)

5.40am
Petko Stainov: The Secret of the Struma River
Gusla Men?s Choir
Vassil Stefanov (conductor)

5.50am
Ilja Zeljenka: Capriccio
Zuzana Paulechova (piano)

5.55am
Glazunov: Iz Petraski (When your eyes), Op 59, No 3
Peter Mattei (baritone)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)

6.00am
Balakirev: Overture on Russian Themes
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

6.05am
Nielsen: Flute Concerto
Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Stadtorchester Winterthur
Janos Furst (conductor)

6.25am
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D, BWV 1050
Per Flemstr?m (flute)
Andrew Manze (violin)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
Ris?r Festival Strings

6.45am
Moniuszko: Overture to Paria
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Wit (conductor)