Friday 8th April 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

8 April 2005

Presented by Penny Gore.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Bach: Cantata No 68, 'Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt', BWV 68
Barbara Schlick (soprano)
Gotthold Schwarz (bass)
Accentus Chamber Choir
Limoges Baroque Ensemble
Cristophe Coin (violoncello piccolo/director)

Handel: Va tacito e nascosto (Giulio Cesare)
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)

Poulenc: Flute Sonata
Emily Beynon (flute)
Andrew West (piano)

From 8.30am

Schumann: Cello Concerto in Am, Op 129
Cristophe Coin (cello)
Orchestre des Champs Elysees
Philipe Herreweghe (conductor)

Sibelius: Symphony No 7 in C, Op 105
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt

10:00

CD Masters

8 April 2005

Music includes:

Elgar: Salut d'amour, Op 12
Halle Orchestra
Leslie Heward (conductor)

Poulenc: Tel jour telle nuit
Pierre Bernac (baritone)
Francis Poulenc (piano)

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 1, Op 35
Eileen Joyce (piano)
Arthur Lockwood (trumpet)
Halle Orchestra
Leslie Heward (conductor)

Mozart: Adagio, K 580a
Paul Goodwin (cor anglais)
Terzetto

Poulenc: Eight Polish Songs
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Dalton Baldwin (piano)

Berlioz: Les Nuits d'ete - Le Spectre de la Rose; Absence
Maggie Teyte (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Leslie Heward (conductor)

Schoeck: Cello Sonata
Johannes Goritzki (cello)
David Levine (piano)

Haydn: Symphony No 91 in E flat
Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mogens Woldike (conductor)

Poulenc: Les Chemins d'amour
Yvonne Printemps (soprano)
Orchestra
Marcel Cariven (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)

Part Five

5/5. Donald Macleod introduces extracts from L'Incoronazione de Poppea, the opera which Monteverdi wrote in the final year of this life.

Catalonia
Mexico City Philharmonic
Enrique Batiz (conductor)

Merlin (excerpts)
Ninian ......... Anna Maria Martinez
Coros and Orquestra de Madrid
Jose de Eusebio (conductor)

Iberia Book 4
Alicia de Larrocha

[Rptd Fri 12.00am]

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Representing Self

The Atrium Quartet

Representing Self. 4/4.

Christopher Cook introduces the last in a series of concerts reflecting on self-portraiture in music and art from the National Museum and Gallery of Wales in Cardiff.

Atrium String Quartet

Shostakovich: String Quartet No 7, Op 108
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No 2, Op 22

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

This week's piano concerto theme concludes with Marc-Andre Hamelin as soloist with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's 2nd Piano Concerto.
Thats followed by a concert the Orchestra gave at the MacRobert Arts Centre in Stirling in April last year. Presented by Sandy Burnett

Webern: Passacaglia, Op 1
Errico Fresis (conductor)

Shostakovich : Piano Concerto No 2 in F
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
Andrew Litton (conductor)

Haydn: Symphony No 82 in C,The Bear
Bach: Violin Concerto No 1 in Am, BWV 1041
Elizabeth Layton (violin)
Rachmaninov: Vocalise
Stravinsky : Apollon Musagete
Elizabeth Layton (director)

16:00

Jazz Legends

Julian Joseph and John Serry

As part of Jazz Legends' Fifth Birthday celebrations, Julian Joseph performs piano duets with John Serry, recorded before an invited audience at the Floral Hall of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

17:00

In Tune

8 April 2005

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

18:00

Evening Songs

Evening Songs

Richard Strauss opulent and richly-scored works for chorus include two unaccompanied motets for evening - Hymne and Der Abend. They're coupled, in this live concert from St Giles,Cripplegate, with his playful setting of words by Ruckert about a Goddess in the boudoir, and with choral works sacred and secular by Anton Bruckner. Presented by Warwick Thompson.

BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

18:50

In Tune

8 April 2005

Sean Rafferty presents a further selection of music, plus news from the arts world.

19:30

Performance on 3

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Donald Runnicles

8 April 2005: Part One

Christopher Cook presents the first part of tonight's concert, live from the Barbican with the great American soprano Christine Brewer joining the BBCSO for Strauss's operatic settings of poems by Hoelderlin/Ho"lderlin.

Richard Strauss: Drei Hymnen

Christine Brewer (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

[Continues at 8.15pm after Twenty Minutes]

19:55

Twenty Minutes

The Eyes Of The Statue

In a new series of readings for Radio 3's Africa season, and the second of three tales themed around 'land', Adjoa Andoh reads The Eyes Of The Statue, by Camara Laye, formerly of Guinea. A young girl battles through undergrowth that seems intent on swamping the city. Nature is triumphant.

20:15

Performance on 3

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Donald Runnicles

8 April 2005: Part Two

Christopher Cook presents the second part of tonight's concert, live from the Barbican with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Donald Runnicles, performing Bruckner's Symphony No 8.

Christine Brewer (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

22:00

Night Waves

8 April 2005

Paul Allen and guests consider the history of British silent cinema.

22:30

Mixing It

8 April 2005

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present a unique mix of musical styles and influences.

23:30

Jazz on 3

8 April 2005

Jez Nelson presents a performance by Bobby Previte on percussion, Charlie Hunter on hybrid 8-string guitar and DJ Logic on the turntables in a concert recorded last year.