Monday 11th April 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

11 April 2005

Penny Gore looks at Haydn's last years in London and explores music by composers for whom music was not their only profession.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Chopin: Nocturne in A , Op 32, No 2
Elisabeth Leonskaya (piano)

Haydn: Scena di Berenice
Amanda Roocroft (soprano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)

Wagner: Forest Murmurs (Siegfried)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
James Levine (conductor)

From 8.30am

Schumann: Phantasiestucke, Op 12
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

Haydn: Symphony No 102 in B flat
Philharmonica Hungarica
Antal Dorati (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

11 April 2005

Jonathan Swain features Corelli's Concerti Grossi Op 6 and recordings by Frederick Fennell.

Goldman: Childrens March
Orion R Farrar - Bombasto
Eastman Wind Ensemble
Frederick Fennell (conductor)

Corelli: Concerto grosso in D, Op 6, No 1
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner (director/violin)

H. Owen Reed: La Fiesta Mexicana, Mexican Folksong Symphony
Eastman Wind Ensemble
Frederick Fennell (conductor)

Rakhmaninov: Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat, Op 36
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

Corelli: Concerto grosso in F, Op 6, No.2
I Virtuosi di Roma
Renato Fasano (conductor)

Holst: Suite No 1 in E flat, Op 28a
Eastman Wind Ensemble
Frederick Fennell (conductor)

Massenet: Suite No 7 Scenes Alsaciennes
Paris Conservatoire Concerts Society Orchestra
Albert Wolf (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Isaac Albeniz (1860 - 1909)

Part One

1/5. Donald Macleod sorts fact from fiction in the life of the great Spanish composer and pianist. Did he really stow away on a ship bound for the Americas?

Improvisation in F sharp
Isaac Albeniz (piano)

Pavana capricho
Bajo la palmera (Cantos de Espagna)
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)

Albeniz (orch Trayter): Concierto Fantastico
Aldo Ciccolini (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Enrique Batiz (conductor)

Iberia Book 1
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Belcea Quartet

Beethoven & Schumann String Quartets

Live from the Wigmore Hall, Fiona Talkington introduces the Belcea Quartet performing Beethoven's String Quartet in G, Op 18 No 2 and Schumann's String Quartet in A, Op 41 No 3.

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC Philharmonic

Petroc Trelawny presents the first of five programmes featuring some of the great French masterpieces.Today, Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture, and Saint-Saens' Organ Symphony.

Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
Pascal Rophe (conductor)

Respighi: Pines of Rome
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2
Stanislaw Bunin (piano)
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

Saint-Saens Symphony No 3 Organ
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

16:00

Stage and Screen

11 April 2005

Tommy Pearson reviews some new film soundtrack releases and talks to composer Debbie Wiseman about her latest film and television scores, including Arsene Lupin and Judge John Deed.

17:00

In Tune

11 April 2005

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

19:00

Performance on 3

BBC NOW in Stuttgart

Rossini & Mozart

Live from Germany, Louise Fryer visits the Liederhalle in Stuttgart for a concert from the BBC NOWs current tour, including Rossini's Overture to Semiramide and Mozart's Concerto No 27, K595 in B flat

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Takuo Yuasa (conductor)
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)

Rossini: Overture to Semiramide
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27, K595 in B flat

[Continues at 8.10pm, after Twenty Minutes]

19:50

Twenty Minutes

11 April 2005

Continuing the series of readings for Radio 3's Africa Season, Jude Akuwundike reads The Knife Grinder's Tale, a specially commissioned story by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, themed around 'land'. The scene of a murder is the place where Ogwang struggles to bridge the distance between love and death in the face of violence.

20:10

Performance on 3

BBC NOW in Stuttgart

Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances

Tonight's Peformance on 3 continues live from the Liederhalle in Stuttgart, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Takuo Yuasa performing Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances, Op 45.

21:00

BBC Singers

Emmanuel Nunes's Vislumbre

Nicholas Kok conducts the BBC Singers in a performance of Emmanuel Nunes's Vislumbre, recorded at the 2002 Tage fur Neue Musik in Zurich.

21:30

Night Waves

11 April 2005

Military historian Richard Holmes talks to Susan Hitch about his new eight-part television series about Winston Churchill's life and career, In the Footsteps of Churchill.

22:15

Late Junction

11 April 2005

Fiona Talkington with traditional vocal music from Vietnam, works for clavichord by the 17th-century German composer JJ Froberger, and a live session by the group Kerfuffle.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)

Part Two

2/5. When Monteverdi lost both his wife and his favourite pupil within six months of one another, he buried himself in his work. It resulted in an extraordinary collection of madrigals on the themes of love and death. In spite of his grief, he also completed an opera and a ballet for the lavish wedding celebrations for the Duke of Mantuas son.

Donald Macleod introduces these works which helped establish Monteverdis reputation, both in Italy and the rest of Europe.

Monteverdi: Dara la notte il sol
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldi Alessandrini (director)

Monteverdi: Lamento dArianna
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldi Alessandrini (director)

Monteverdi: Ballo della Ingrate
Red Byrd
Parley of Instruments
Peter Holman

[Rpt of Tue 12.00pm]

01:00

Through the Night

11 April 2005

Part One

1.00am
The second of four concerts from the Lincoln Center New York
Kodaly: Serenade for 2 violins and viola, Op 12
Dvorak: Piano Quartet No 2 in E flat, Op 87
Timothy Fain, Viviane Hagner (violin)
Lang Lang (piano)
Viviane Hagner (violin)
Ngwenyama Nokuthula (viola)
Alisa Weilerstein (cello)
(Recorded in 2004)

1.55am
Johan Svendsen: Symphony No 2 in B flat, Op 15
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Eivind Aadland (conductor)

2.30am
Emil Sjogren: Sonata No 2, Op 44
Lucia Negro (square piano)

2.50am
Schenck: Sonata in F sharp m, Op 9, No 3 (L'Echo du Danube 1706)
Berliner Konzert: Hartwig Groth (viola da gamba)
Christoph Lehmann (harpsichord)

3.05am
Johann Strauss Jr: Rosen aus dem Suden, Op 388
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Roman Zeilinger (conductor)

3.1am
Beethoven: Sonata for piano No 3 in C, Op 2, No 3
Grigory Sokolov (piano)

3.45am
Haydn: Symphony No 73 in D, La Chasse, H173
Romanian National Chamber Orchestra
Horia Andreescu (conductor)

4.10am
Moniuszko: Wilja (Wilia)
Urszula Kryger (mezzo soprano)
Katarzyna Jankowska-Borzykowska (piano)

4.15am
Schumann: Papillons, Op 2
Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano)

4.30am
Handel: Whereer you walk (Semele)
Matthew White (counter-tenor)
Arte dei Suonatori
Eduardo Lopez (conductor)

4.35am
Thomas Baltzar: Divisions on John Come Kiss Me Now
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin)
Rosanne Hunt (cello)
Linda Kent (harpsichord)

4.40am
Diego Ortiz: La Spagna
Pierre Sandrin: Doulce Memoire Diego Ortiz: Recercada segonda sobre Doulce Memoire
Trio Montparnasse

4.45am
Nielsen: Overture - Helios
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor)

05:00

Through the Night

11 April 2005

Part Two

Jonathan Swain concludes this morning's programme.

5.00am
Bruckner: Ecce sacerdos, for choir, three trombones and organ
Radio France Chorus
Denis Comtet (organ)
Donald Palumbo (conductor)

5.05am
Knud?ge Riisager: Little Overture
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

5.10am
Mozart: Fantasy and fugue for piano in C, K394
Wolfgang Brunner (fortepiano)

5.20am
Duparc: Le Manoir de Rosamonde
Gerald Finley (baritone)
Stephen Ralls (piano)

5.25am
Schumann: Overture - Die Braut von Messina
The Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

5.30am
Kodaly: Pictures from Matra
Edward Price (baritone)
BBC Singers
Edward Jones (conductor)

5.45am
Colin Brumby: Paen
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Patrick Thomas (conductor)

5.50am
Heinrich Bach: Cantata - Ich danke dir, Gott
Musica Antiqua Koln
Rheinische Kantorei
Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

5.55am
Purcell (arr Bartok): Preludes in G and C
Jan Michiels (piano)

6.00am
Handel: Concerto Grosso No 7, Op 6
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Terje T?nnesen (conductor)

6.15am
Rodrigo (arr Peter Tiefenbach): Cuatro madrigales amatorios
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano)
Bryan Epperson, Maurizio Baccante, Roman Borys, Simon Fryer, David Hetherington, Roberta Jansen, Paul Widner, Thomas Wiebe, Winona Zelenka (cello)

6.25am
Rameau: Suite from Les Indes galantes
Neue Dusseldorfer Hofmusik
Mary Utiger (director)