07:00
26 March 2005
Presented by Martin Handley.
Music includes, from 7.00am
Vivaldi Violin Concerto in Em, RV 273
Giuliano Carmignola (violin)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Andrea Marcon (director)
Ravel: La Valse
Philharmonia Orchestra
Andre Cluytens (conductor)
From 8.00am
Mozart: Piano Sonata in C, K309
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Bartok Two Pictures, Sz 46
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)
09:00
26 March 2005
Andrew McGregor plays some of this month?s newest releases, and in a special Easter feast, some seasonal new releases.
In Building a Library, Piers Burton-Page recommends a version of Britten?s Sinfonia Da Requiem from the currently available recordings.
Roderick Swanston reviews recent releases of music from the Classical period, including Haydn symphonies from Rene Jacobs and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Mozart piano sonatas from Andreas Staier.
Andrew McGregor talks to Laurence Dreyfus, director of the viol consort Phantasm, about their award-winning recordings of Purcell and Gibbons, and the thinking behind their latest disc, The Four Temperaments.
Disc of the Week:
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No 2 in B Flat m, Op 36
Simon Trpceski (piano).
13:00
Sacred music of Orlandus Lassus
Catherine Bott presents a programme devoted to the sacred music of Orlandus Lassus, performed by the BBC singers conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore.
14:00
Brahms - Piano pieces, Op 118
In this workshop session recorded in the Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, pianist David Owen Norris uses a recently restored piano (originally built in 1887) to delve into the musical and symbolic detail in the collection of piano pieces composed by Brahms in 1892, Op 118.
15:00
26 March 2005
Lucy Duran is joined by the broadcaster Charlie Gillett for a round-up of new World Music releases. Plus Andy Kershaw reviews the new box set I Am the Upsetter, by Jamaican reggae legend Lee Perry.
16:00
Andy Bey
Helen Mayhew talks to vocalist Andy Bey, one of the great unsung heroes of jazz, and presents a selection of new releases.
17:00
26 March 2005
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Request your favourite jazz cut by email: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
18:00
The Joy of Sax
Part One
Courtney Pine explores the history of one of the most recently invented instruments in western music, which was created for the symphony orchestra but found its authentic voice in jazz.
After its invention by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, the saxophone languished in obscurity until its fortunes were transformed by the genius of Sidney Bechet, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young.
18:30
Cavalleria Rusticana
Complete Performance
Live from the Met.
Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, the ever-popular pair of short operas, return to the Met for a special Easter performance.
Easter Sunday, c1880: Lola and Turiddu were sweethearts, but when Turiddu went to do his military service she married another man. When Turiddu came back and found out, he didn't see the funny side. Things will never be the same in the little Sicilian village?
A troupe of travelling players comes to town, and the impressario guards his young wife jealously. As it turns out, he has every reason to.
Presented from New York by Margaret Juntwait.
Santuzza ......... Violeta Urmana (soprano)
Turiddu .......... Eduardo Villa (tenor)
Alfio ............ Frederick Burchinal (baritone)
Lola ........... Sandra Piques Eddy (mezzo-soprano)
Mamma Lucia ............ Jane Bunnell (mezzo-soprano)
Peasant Woman ............. Mary Meyers (soprano)
Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera
Dennis Russell Davies (conductor)
[Continues at 8.20pm, after Conductors' Round Table]
19:50
Conductors' Round Table
James Conlon and Donald Runnicles join Henry Fogel to share their experiences of life on the conductor's podium.
20:20
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
Complete Performance
Tonight's Opera on 3 continues live from the Met with Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.
Nedda .......... Daniela Dessi (soprano)
Canio .......... John Mac Master (tenor)
Tonio ........... Juan Pons (baritone)
Beppe .......... Philippe Castagner (tenor)
Silvio .......... Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone)
Villager ......... Daniel C. Smith (tenor)
Villager .......... Jason Hendrix (bass-baritone)
21:55
26 March 2005
Ian McMillan presents the literature programme. This edition features new poetry from John Burnside and a commissioned parable from acclaimed Pakistani novelist Kamlia Shamsie.
22:40
Pliny's Naturalis Historia
Pliny the Elder was passionate about directly observing the natural world. So passionate, in fact, that he was killed when he got too close to Vesuvius in AD 79.
Two years earlier, however, he had completed his Naturalis Historia, which included four volumes of observations of the animal kingdom. In this programme, Sean Barret and Mia Soteriou read the Latin text, accompanied by a soundscape of specially composed music, mixed with animal recordings gathered from Bristol?s famous Natural History Unit.
23:00
Brits 4 of 4
The Nash Ensemble, conducted by Lionel Friend, give the world premieres of new works by British composers Harrison Birtwistle and Colin Matthews as well as a new piece by American composer Elliott Carter, alongside music by Oliver Knussen and Julian Anderson.
The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group plays music by Gerald Barry, Simon Holt, Colin Matthews and Philip Cashian.
Presented by Sarah Walker.
02:00
26 March 2005
Part One
With John Shea.
1.00am GMT
CPE Bach: Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu, Wq 240
Barbara Schlick (soprano), Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass)
Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (director)
3.15am BST
Stanford: The Haven, Op 127, No 4
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
3.15am
Elgar: Cello Concerto in Em
Pieter Wispelwey (cello)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gabriel Chmura (conductor)
3.45am
Mendelssohn: Rondo capriccioso in E , Op 14
Sook-Hyun Cho (piano)
3.50am
Bartok: Four Hungarian Folk Songs, Sz 93
The Hungarian Radio Chorus
Peter Erdei (conductor)
4.05am
Handel: Gentle Morpheus, Son of Night (Alceste)
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Academy of Ancient Music
Andrew Manze (director)
4.15am
Giovanni Platti: Oboe Concerto in Gm
Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe)
Neue Dusseldorfer Hofmusik
Mary Utiger (director)
4.25am
Weber: Und ob die Wolke sie verhulle (Der Freischutz)
Charlotte Margiono (soprano)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
4.35am
Frescobaldi: Canzona trigesimaprima
Musica Fiata, Koln
Roland Wilson (director)
4.37am
Bach: Double Concerto in Cm, BWV 1060
Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe)
Mary Utiger (violin)
Camerata Koln
4.50am
Verdi: Overture ? Nabucco
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Alun Francis (conductor)
05:00
26 March 2005
Part Two
John Shea concludes this morning's programme.
5.00 am
Franck: Les Eolides
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Pierre Monteux (conductor)
5.10am
Mozart: Rondo in D major, KA.184
Carina Jandl (flute)
Svetlana Sokolova (piano)
5.15am
CPE Bach: Minuet 1 and 2 in F; Fantasia in D; Andante e sostenuto in G; Presto in C; Fuga in C, W1 119/7
Wim Diepenhorst (organ)
5.30am
Beethoven: Overture - Leonora No 3
Slovenian RTV Symphony Orchestra
Anton Nanut (conductor)
5.40am
Tekla Badarzewska-Baranowska: The Maiden?s Prayer, Op 4
Kyung-Sook Lee (female) (piano)
5.45am
Mykola Lysenko: Fantasy on Two Ukrainian Themes
Yuri Shut?ko (flute)
Ukrainian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)
5.55am
Nicolaas Bouwman: Arie Thalia-ouverture
Dutch National Youth Wind Orchestra
Jan Cober (conductor)
6.05am
Mozart: Variations in C, on Dezede?s arietta Lison dormait, K264
Bart van Oort (fortepiano)
6.15am
Andreas Hammerschmidt: Suite in D minor
Hesperion XX
Jordi Savall (director)
6.30am
Haydn: Symphony No 67 in F, H I 67
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Frubeck de Burgos (conductor)
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