Thursday 7th April 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

7 April 2005

Presented by Sandy Burnett.

From 7.00am

Gabrieli: Sonata XX a 22
Kings Consort
Robert King (director)

Mendelssohn: Variations concertantes, Op 17
Christophe Coin (cello)
Patrick Cohen (fortepiano)

Stravinsky: Octet
Columbia Chamber Ensemble
Igor Stravinsky

Fom 8.30am

Nielsen: Three Pieces, Op 59
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

Schubert: String Quintet in C, D956
Isaac Stern, Alexander Schneider (violins)
Milton Katims (viola)
Pablo Casals, Paul Tortelier (cellos)

10:00

CD Masters

7 April 2005

Recordings of Poulenc, Wolf, Liszt, Vivaldi, Stravinsky and Fodor.

Poulenc: Rapsodie negre
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo)
Ensemble
Bengt Forsberg (piano)

Wolf: Italian Serenade
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
William Steinberg (conductor)

Liszt: Piano Concerto No 2 in A
Egon Petri (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Leslie Heward (conductor)

Poulenc: Fancy
Elly Ameling (soprano)
Dalton Baldwin (piano)

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - Autumn (a Dresden version with winds)
Federico Gugliemo (violin)
L'Arte del'Arco

Stravinsky: Les Noces
Kate Winter (soprano)
Linda Seymour (contralto)
Parry Jones (tenor)
Roy Henderson (baritone)
BBC Chorus
Berkeley Mason
Leslie Heward, Ernest Lush, Edwin Benbow (pianos)
Percussion Ensemble
Igor Stravinsky (conductor)

Fodor: Symphony No 4, Op 19
Residentie Orchestra the Hague
Antal Dorati (conductor)

Poulenc: La Courte Paille
Felicity Palmer (soprano)
John Constable (piano)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)

Part Four

4/5. When the first public opera house opened in Venice in 1637 the demand for musical entertainment soared. In spite of his regular job as Director of Music at St Mark's, Monteverdi found time to write several new stage works which were hugely successful.

Donald Macleod introduces the first - the story of Ulysses and his return home after the Trojan War.

Monteverdi: Come dolce oggi lauretta spira (from Proserpina rapita)
Emma Kirkby, Judith Nelson, Poppy Holden (sopranos)
Jakob Lindberg, Anthony Rooley (chitarrone)

Monteverdi: Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria - extracts
Penelope ...... Bernarda Fink
Telemachus (Ulysses' son) ...... Christina Hogman
Ulysses ...... Christoph Pregardien
Eumaeus (shepherd to Ulysses) ...... Martyn Hill
Irus (parasite to the suitors) ...... Guy de Mey
Antinous ...... David Thomas
Pisander ...... Dominique Visse
Anfinomus (suitors to Penelope) ...... Mark Tucker
Melanthius (Maidservant to Penelope) ...... Faridah Subrata
Concerto Vocale
Rene Jacobs (director)

[Rptd Thu 12.00am]

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Representing Self

7 April 2005

3/4. More music and art from the National Museum and Gallery of Wales in Cardiff. Christopher Cook introduces two sets of Pictures From an Exhibition, those featured in the Augustus and Gwen John exhibition, and Musorgsky's spectacular depiction of paintings by Victor Hartmann.

Beethoven: Sonata No 23, Op 57, Appassionata

Musorgsky: Pictures From an Exhibition

Freddy Kempf (piano)

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Sandy Burnett presents today's programme from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales - a feast of English music, including a rare chance to hear Lennox Berkeley's Piano Concerto, performed by Howard Shelley.

Walton: Crown Imperial
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Bridge: Phantasm for Piano and Orchestra
Howard Shelley (piano)
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Michael Berkeley: Gethsemane Fragments
Lennox Berkeley: Piano Concerto in B flat, Op 29
Howard Shelley (piano)
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Walton: Symphony No 1 in B flat m
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

16:00

Brian Kay's Light Programme

7 April 2005

Brian Kay plays a selection of light classics.

17:00

In Tune

7 April 2005

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

19:30

Performance on 3

Halle Orchestra

Part One

In the second live visit of the week to the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Mark Elder and the Halle Orchestra perform two of the orchestral works which transformed the classical musical landscape - Webern's five masterly exercises in economy and intensity and Beethoven's miraculous re-invention of the symphony. They are joined by Viktoria Mullova for a performance of one of the great romantic violin concertos.

Viktoria Mullova (violin)
Halle Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)

Bach (orch Webern): Ricercar (The Musical Offering)
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, Op 77

20:25

Twenty Minutes

A Microphone for the People -The Charles Parker Archive

Tomorrow, Birmingham hosts a major conference about Charles Parker at the Central Library, home to his archive. In the Radio Ballads, Parker brought the microphone to people whose voices had not been heard before, but Sean Street discovers that this vast collection of tapes, scripts and papers reveals much more about the democratic impulse of this pioneering radio producer, oral historian and political activist.

He talks to Gillian Reynolds about the continuing influence of Parker's work, Paul Long about his legacy to social history, Dave Rogers of Banner Theatre which Parker helped set up 30 years ago and to archivist Sian Roberts, about the project to digitise the collection.

20:45

Performance on 3

Halle Orchestra

Part Two

Tonight's concert continues live from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, with the Halle Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder performing Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op 10 and Beethoven' Symphony No 5.

21:45

Night Waves

7 April 2005

Landmarks: Isabel Hilton with another in the monthly series celebrating one of the great landmarks of culture.

22:15

Late Junction

7 April 2005

Verity Sharp plays music from Polish folk group Dikanda and tracks from the soundtrack to Noi the Albino. Silke-Thora Matthies and Christian Kohn perform Brahms.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Ernest Chausson (1855 - 1899)

5/5. An Unfinished Story

Ernest Chausson met with an unexpected death at the age of only 44 at a time when his music was finally beginning to be understood and appreciated internationally. It's clear from the plans and music he left behind that he had reached a new confidence as a composer and was advancing, according to his friend Vincent d'Indy, towards a freedom from the doubts and innate sadness that had permeated his earlier compositions.

Donald Macleod looks at Chausson's later work.

Chausson: A mort dOphelie
Ann Murray (mezzo soprano)
Graham Johnson (piano)

Chausson: Chanson Perpetuelle, Op 37 (1898)
Felicity Lott (soprano),
The Chamber Ensemble of Paris
Stephane Petitjean (piano)
Armin Jordan (director)

Chausson: Poeme de lamour et de la mer
Dame Janet Baker (mezzo soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)

Chausson: Anime (4th Movement) Piano Quartet in A, Op 30
Pascal Devoyon (piano)
Philippe Graffin (violin)
Toby Hoffman (viola)
Gary Hoffmann (cello)

[Rpt of Fri 12.00pm]

01:00

Through the Night

7 April 2005

Part One

With Louise Fryer.

1.00am
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice
Aleksander Tansman: Stele in memoriam Igor Stravinsky
Wojciech Michniewski (conductor)
(Recorded 20 October 1998 )
Zbigniew Bujarski: Lumen
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice
Jerzy Katlewicz (conductor)
(Recorded 30 April 1999)
Kazimierz Serocki: Romantic Concerto
Adam Wodnicki (piano)
Tadeusz Wojciechowski (conductor)
(Recorded 01 June 1999 )

2.05am
Berio: Folk Songs
Jean Stillwell (mezzo-soprano)
Canadian Chamber Ensemble
Raffi Armenian (conductor)

2.25am
Erik Gustaf Geijer: Piano Sonata in Fm
Stefan Bojsten (piano)
Anders Kostrom (piano)

2.50am
Mozart: String Quartet for Strings in Dm, K 421
Artemis Quartet

3.20am
Nielsen: Symphony No 3 Sinfonia Espansiva
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec
Gilles Auger (conductor)

4.00am
Emil Sjogren: Prelude and Fugue No 3 in C, Op Posth
Ralph Gustafsson (organ)

4.05am
Johannes Le Febure: Motet - O quam gloriosum
Currende
Herman Stinders (organ)
Erik van Nevel (conductor)

4.10am
Anon: Istampita Tre fontane
Ensemble Micrologus

4.15am
Anon: Salterello
Ensemble Micrologus

4.20am
Liszt: Symphonic poem - Orpheus
Hungarian State Orchestra
Janos Ferencsik (conductor)

4.30am
Janos Vajda: Via Crucis
Hungarian Radio Choir
Budapest Wind Ensemble
Istvan Ella (organ)
Kalman Stranz (conductor)

4.50am
Brahms (arr F Squarcia): 3 Hungarian Dances
I Cameristi Italiani

05:00

Through the Night

7 April 2005

Part Two

With Louise Fryer.

5.00am
Purcell: Excerpts from King Arthur
Nancy Argenta (soprano)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Monica Huggett (conductor)

5.10am
Walton: Death of Falstaff. Touch her soft lips and part (Henry V)
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra
Roy Goodman (conductor)

5.15am
Cipriano de Rore: O socii neque enim/Durate
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul Van Nevel (conductor)

5.20am
Antoine Forqueray: Allemande
Vittorio Ghielmi (Viola da Gamba)
Luca Pianca (lute)

5.25am
Antoine Forqueray: La Girouette
Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba)
Luca Pianca (lute)

Srul Irving Glick: Divertimento
13 Strings of Ottawa, Brian Law (conductor)

5.45am
Chopin: Scherzo No 2 in B flat m, Op 31
Dang Thai Son (piano)

5.55am
Scriabin: Le poeme de lextase
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

6.20am
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No 2
Edward Zienkowski (violin)
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice
Michal Dworzynski (conductor)

6.40am
Frescobaldi (transcr Bartok): Toccata in G
Jan Michiels (piano)

6.45am
Naumann: Symphonie a grand orchestre de lopera Cora
Concerto Koln