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Sunday 17th April 2005
April
2005
07:00Morning on 317 April 2005Presented by Martin Handley. From 7.00am 09:00The Cowan Collection17 April 2005Rob Cowan introduces some surprises and treasures from his record collection, including a chance to hear Pergolesis' Stabat Mater. Ernest Tomlinson: Silverthorne Suite - Concert Jig 12:00Private PassionsTheologian and Historian Diarmaid MacCullochMichael Berkeley's guest today is the theologian and historian Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, who is currently Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. A prolific author, his recent book on the European Reformation won the 2003 Wolfson History Prize. His musical choices include works by Ravel, Samuel Wesley, Kurt Weill, Vaughan Williams and Tippett. 13:00The Early Music ShowAshley Solomon of FlorilegiumLucie Skeaping talks to Ashley Solomon, the founder and director of Florilegium, about their recent recording project in South America. 17th Century vocal and instrumental music from the Jesuit missions in central Bolivia, including works by the Italian missionary, Domenico Zipoli, and by the indigenous Bolivian people themselves. Accomplished, lively and flamboyant music, some of which is written in the local Chiquitanos langauge. 14:00Sunday GalaSchwetzingen FestivalStephanie Hughes presents a concert recorded last year at the Schwetzingen Festival, featuring late music from Mozart: and Schubert. Mozart had King Friedrich Wilhelm II, an amateur cellist in mind when he wrote his 2nd Prussian Quartet. And cellos feature strongly in Schubert's String Quintet in C, for which the Hagen Quartet is joined by Mozart: String Quartet in B flat, K589 15:30John Williams' GuitarBritain, Part 33/4. The creation of the British 20th century guitar repertoire was largely due to one man, Julian Bream, and the way he worked with many composers to create new works for the instrument. John Williams introduces Bream's famous recordings of works by Walton, Britten and Arnold, and also discusses his own collaborations with such composers as Stephen Dodgson and Richard Harvey. He also gives the background to Stanley Myers' composition Cavatina, and how it became one of the most widely-known of all guitar pieces. 16:003 for all17 April 2005Brian Kay introduces listeners' requests, including Smetana's autobiographical string quartet From My Life, one of the less well-known of Liszt's Mephisto Waltzes and part of Handel's very first oratorio, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. 17:45Music Matters17 April 2005Better known as conductor rather than composer, Lorin Maazel's new opera based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four opens at the Royal Opera House at the beginning of May. It's directed by Robert Lepage, and Tom Service talks to both Maazel and Lepage about the work and the possibilities Orwell's novel presents on the operatic stage. Meanwhile, conductor, Ingo Metzmacher's declared passion is to turn today's music into accepted repertoire, he talks about his ideas for radical concert programming and his success in giving concerts combining composers as incongruous as Beethoven and Luigi Nono. 18:30Performance on 3Music from the time of Ben JonsonSongs by William Cornyshe, Purcell and Robert JohnsonSarah Walker presents recent performances from around Europe of choral and vocal music from the England that Ben Jonson knew. Including songs by William Cornyshe 19:20Drama on 3VolponeBy Ben Jonson: Volpone ......... Ian McDiarmid 21:30Sunday FeatureGoing to Jonestown25 years ago, in a remote jungle settlement in Guyana almost a thousand people and their leader Jim Jones killed themselves. Ever since, the writer Fred D'Aguiar, who grew up in Guyana, has been preoccupied by Jonestown, which put that country on the map and blighted its history. In a journey that echoes those of the victims, D'Aguiar - a black person living in America travels from the United States into Guyana's jungle interior to Jonestown itself. He searches for what it means to the Guyanese, talking to the writers Wilson Harris, Ian McDonald and Ruel Johnson, to people who knew Jones and the settlement, including the pilot who was the first to arrive after the atrocity, and students who were not even born when it happened. Exploring the social, political and mythic significance of Jonestown, D'Aguiar tests his imagination against the reality and responds with new work. 22:15Andy Kershaw17 April 2005Highlights from a gig given last year at London's Cargo Club by Tinariwen, Touareg rock rebels and 2005 Radio 3 Awards for World Music winners. 00:00Composer of the WeekIsaac Albeniz (1860 - 1909)Part One1/5. 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 01:00Through the Night17 April 2005Part OneWith John Shea. 1.00am 05:00Through the Night17 April 2005Part TwoJohn Shea concludes this morning's programme. 5.00am |
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