Sunday 27th March 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

27 March 2005

Presented by Martin Handley.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Couperin: Victoria! Christo resurgenti
Sandrine Piau (soprano)
Veronique Gens (soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christoph Rousset (organ)

J Strauss: Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op 325
London Philharmonic
Franz Welser-Most (conductor)

From 8.00am

Bach: Cantata: Der Himmel lacht! die Erde jubilieret, BWV 31
Barbara Schlick (soprano)
Kai Wessel (alto)
Guy de Mey (tenor)
Klaus Mertens (bass)
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir
Ton Koopman (director)

Berlioz: Le Roi Lear: Overture, Op 4
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor).

09:00

The Cowan Collection

27 March 2005

Rob Cowan introduces some surprises and treasures from his record collection.

Mendelssohn: Scherzo for String Quartet, Op 81 2 in A m

Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue for Keyboard, BWV 903 in Dm

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini - Opera vers. Revised in Three Acts, Act 3

Liszt: Apparitions - Ballet (from pf pieces selected Lambert and orch. Jacob)

Pisador: Romance de Abindarraez, Libro de Cifra, 1522

Del Villar: Aniceto: Pues que me tiens, Miguel, for soprano and instrumental ensemble

Collins: Elegy for Elgar for orchestra

Tartini: Sonata for Violin and Continuo, Op 1, 10 in Gm, Didone abbandonata

Revueltas: Ocho por radio for orchestra

Puccini: Le Villi - Opera vers. Revised in Two Acts, Act 1; Se come voi piccina io fossi (Anna's aria)

Milford: Fishing by Moonlight, Op.96a,
arr. for piano and orchestra

Reger: Eine Ballettsuite, Op 130

Liszt: Elegy No. 2 arr. for piano

Britten: Sinfonia da requiem, Op 20

Berg: Variations for piano in C

Schubert: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, D345 in D, Concertstuck

Verdi: La Forza del destino - Opera in Four Acts.

12:00

Private Passions

27 March 2005

Another classic from the first decade of Private Passions, in which the late Edward Said discusses his musical enthusiasms with Michael Berkeley. These range from keyboard music by Bach, Chopin and Messiaen, to operas by Berlioz, Wagner and Berg.

13:00

The Early Music Show

The Empress of Magnificent Taste and Pleasure

Teresa Cornelys arrived penniless in England in the autumn of 1759, yet, little more than a year later, she was an international Opera star, and owned London's most successful entertainment business.

Judith Summers, author of a biography of this incredible woman, talks to Lucie Skeaping about Teresa, who had a rumoured love affair with Gluck and was mother to Casanova's child.

Featuring music by Gluck, Handel, Thomas Arne and JC Bach.

14:00

Sunday Gala

Kronos Quartet

Stephanie Hughes presents a concert given by at the Barbican in January. Includes the world premiere of Meredith Monk's Stringsongs, and a string quartet by Alexandra du Bois. Stephanie Hughes also discusses the music with Kronos? lead violinist, David Harrington.

Michael Gordon: Potassium (UK premiere)
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh: Oasis
Meredith Monk: Stringsongs (world premiere)
Clint Mansell (arr David Lang): Requiem for a Dream, Suite
Alexandra du Bois: String Quartet: Oculus pro oculo totum orbem terrae caecat (An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind)

15:30

Spring Journey

4/4 Hope

The last in a series of programmes for the Easter season presented by Dr Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham.

This Easter Day programme on the theme of hope looks forward to a future filled with new possibilities for communities and societies.

Sibelius? Third Symphony, music by Vaughan Williams and Herbert Howells, and Schumann?s C major Fantasia provide a backdrop to the culmination of this Spring Journey.

16:00

Choral Evensong

27 March 2005

Live from the Chapel of King?s College, Cambridge.

Vaughan Williams: Introit: Rise Heart! Thy Lord is Risen
Rose: Responses
Woodward, Parratt, Wesley: Psalms: 118 vv1-2, 14-24
First Reading: Song of Solomon 3 v2-5, 8 v6-7
Office Hymn: Christ the Lord Is Risen Again (Orientis partibus)
Canticles: Collegium Regale (James Whitbourn) first performance
Second Reading: John 20 vv11-18
Elgar: Anthem: Light of the World
Howells: Te Deum: Collegium Regale
Harris: Organ Voluntary: Flourish for an Occasion

Director of Music: Stephen Cleobury
Organ Scholars: Tom Winpenny, Oliver Brett.

17:00

3 for all

27 March 2005

Amongst this weeks requests, the English Suite for Guitar by the late John Duarte, Fetes from Debussy?s Nocturnes transcribed for two pianos and one of the best loved arias from Handel?s Messiah in a vintage recording from the English soprano Jennifer Vyvyan.

17:45

Music Matters

27 March 2005

GF Handel is one of the best known and loved of all composers, but why has his music fascinated and delighted so many?

As the 28th London Handel Festival opens, Tom Service talks to leading musicians drawn to the Handelian flame, including Christopher Hogwood, Nicholas McGegan and Emmanuelle Haim.

Does the image of Handel the jolly composer and impressario belie a darker side to his character? And what were Handel's views on food, music, money and the opposite sex?

18:30

Performance on 3

Easter at Kings

Complete performance

Louise Fryer presents a concert recorded yesterday in the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, relating the miraculous events of the first Easter morning through the music of JS Bach.

His Easter Oratorio, which had its origins in a secular cantata of 1725, is preceded by two other festive compositions, the motet Lobet den Herrn and the third Orchestral Suite.

Diana Gilchrist (soprano)
Robin Tyson (countertenor)
Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Richard Lloyd Morgan (baritone)

Choral Scholars of King?s and Clare Colleges
The Academy of Ancient Music
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Bach: Motet Lobet den Herrn, BWV230
Bach: Suite No 3 in D, BWV 1068
Bach: Easter Oratorio: BWV 249

20:10

Drama on 3

Faustus

British Premiere of David Mamet?s new play Faustus. In a timeless setting Mamet directs his own working of the Faustian legend.

Neglectful of his son on his birthday, Faustus is drawn into a deadly wager with the party 'entertainer' in which logic and reason are shown to be feeble weapons against the power of chance, mystery and magic. Will intellectual pride precede the ultimate fall of man?

Faustus ...... Ed O?Neill
The Friend ...... Ed Begley Jr
The Magus ...... Ricky Jay
Faustus? Wife ...... Rebecca Pidgeon
The Child ...... C Mamet

21:30

Sunday Feature

27 March 2005

Maroon Rebels: Robert Beckford investigates the history of the Maroon rebel slaves in Jamaica who fought and won their freedom against the British in the 18th century.

22:15

Andy Kershaw

27 March 2005

Africa Season: Featuring highlights from a concert given by one of Sudan's top musicians, Abdel Gadir Salim.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Elgar (1857 - 1934)

Part One

1/5. The Man Who Didn?t Belong: Donald Macleod looks at Elgar's life. Celebrated as the greatest English composer since Purcell, Elgar never felt part of the society he epitomised.

Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma') for Orchestra, Theme only
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)

Elgar: Froissart Op 19
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Downes (conductor)

Elgar: Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology, Op 45
The Finzi Singers
Paul Spicer (conductor)

Elgar: Cello Concerto
Paul Tortelier (cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)

[Rpt of Mon 12.00pm]

01:00

Through the Night

27 March 2005

Part One

With John Shea.

1.00am
Scheidemann: Preambulum in Dm
Christian Geist: Dixit Dominus; Laudet Deum Gloria
Gustav Duben: Nun lob mein seel den Herrn
Buxtehude: Preludium in C; Jesu Dulcis memoria; Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott; Befiehl den Engel dass er komm; Passacaglia in Dm; Der Herr ist mit mir
Schutz: Magnificat anima mea Dominum SWV 468

Pieter Dirksen (organ)
Swedish Harmony of Voices, Members of the Stockholm Baroque Ensemble,
Members of the Stockholm Baroque Ensemble
Frederik Malmberg (conductor)
Recorded at the German Church, Stockholm on 3 June 2004

2.10am
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 5 in D, `Reformation?
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Paavo Berglund (conductor)

2.40am
Beethoven: Quintet in E flat for Piano and Wind, Op 16
Pavol Kovac (piano)
Members of the Bratislava Wind Quintet

3.05am
Mykola Lysenko: Kamo poydu ot lyzia tvoyego, Gospody (O, my God, your face is my light in a tunnel); Cheruvymska (Song of the Cherubim)
Svitych Chorus of the Nizhyn State Pedagogical University
Lyudmyla Shumska (director)

3.15am
Rachmaninov: Etudes-Tableaux I ? VI , Op 39
Nicholas Angelich (piano)

3.40am
Mozart: Symphony No 38 in D, `Prague?
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Ivor Bolton (conductor)

4.10am
Haydn: Divertimento in G, H IV 4
Carol Wincenc (flute)
Philip Setzer (violin)
Carter Brey (cello)

4.15am
Weber: Wie nahte mir der Schlummer...Leise, leise (Der Freischutz)
Charlotte Margiono (soprano)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

4.20am
Leevi Madetoja: Overture, Op 7
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra,
John Storg?rds

05:40

Through the Night

27 March 2005

Part Two

John Shea concludes this morning's programme.

4.30am
Debussy: Estampes
Lars-David Nilsson (piano)

4.45am
Schoenberg: Schenk mir deinen Goldenen Kamm, Op 2
Arleen Auger (soprano)
Irwin Gage (piano)

4.50am
Weber: Overture and March (Turandot)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

5.00am
Francesco Geminiani: Concerto Grosso in Gm
Academy of Ancient Music
Andrew Manze (director/violin)

5.05am
Handel: Die ihr aus dunkeln Gruften den eiteln Mammon grabt, HWV 208 (German Aria)
Helene Plouffe (violin
Louise Pellerin (oboe)
Dom Andre Laberge (organ)

5.10am
Scheidemann: Magnificat on the Sixth Tone
Pieter Dirksen (organ)

5.15am
Friedrich Kunzen: Overture - Vinhoesten (Der Fest der Winzer)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Peter Marschik (conductor)

5.20am
Mozart: Sonata in D, K 381
Vilma Rindzeviciute, Irina Venckus (piano)

5.30am
Mendelssohn: Hora est
Radio France Chorus
Donald Palumbo (conductor)

5.40am
Giuseppe Tartini: Sonata No 6, `Senti lo Mare?
Elizabeth Wallfish (baroque violin)

5.45am
Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in E, Kk 135
Melvyn Tan (harpsichord)

5.50am
Buxtehude: Fantasia: Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ
Pieter Dirksen (organ)

5.55am
Pongrac Kacsoh: Excerpts from Janos Vitez (The Hero John)
John ....... Janos Berkes (tenor)
Iluskas ......... Magda Kalmar (soprano)
Bago ......... Lajos Miller (baritone)
The Hungarian State Opera Orchestra/Janos Kerekes

6.10am
Beethoven: Piano Trio in E flat, Op 1, No 1 - Presto (finale)
Beaux Arts Trio

6.15am
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz: Returning Waves
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra/Andrzej Straszynski

6.40am
Nino Rota: Bassoon Concerto
Christopher Millard (bassoon)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra/Mario Bernardi.