Monday 18th April 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

18 April 2005

Penny Gore presents music from Liszt's first two books of Annees de Pelerinage and recordings from the career of Claudio Abbado.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Beethoven: Overture - Egmont
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

Geminiani : Concerto No 7 in Dm
Ensemble 415
Chiara Banchini (director)

Liszt: Chapelle de Guillaume Tell; Au Lac de Wallenstadt
(Annees de Pelerinage Bk 1: Suisse)
Alfred Brendel (piano)

Bizet: Habanera (Act 1, Carmen)
Carmen ......... Teresa Berganza
Ambrosian Singers
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

From 8.30am

Liszt: Pastorale; Au Bord dune Source; Orage
(Annees de Pelerinage Bk 1: Suisse)
Jorge Bolet (piano)

Bizet: L'Arlesienne: Suite No 2
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

18 April 2005

Jonathan Swain features Schumann's choral works and recordings by American pianist Byron Janis.

Chopin: Etude in F Op 25, No 3; Etude in E Op 10 No 3; Waltz in Em, Op posth.
Byron Janis (piano)

Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, Op 50 (excerpt)
Barbara Bonney, Alexandra Coku (soprano)
Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano)
Christoph Pregardien (tenor)
Neill Archer (tenor)
Gerald Finley (baritone)
Cornelius Hauptmann (bass)
Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Raff: Symphony No 4 in Gm, Op 167
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Hans Stadlmair (conductor)

Beethoven: Sonata in Dm, Op 31 No 2 'Tempest'
Byron Janis (piano)

Schumann: Die rote Hanne Op 31, No 3
Jonathan Lemalu (baritone)
Ex Cathedra Consort
Graham Johnson (piano)

Gute: Nacht Op 59, No 4
London Schubert Chorale
Stephen Layton (conductor)

Clara Schumann: Gondoliera
Studio Vocale
Karlsruhe
Werner Pfaff (conductor)

R Strauss II: 'An der schonen, blauen Donau'
Vienna State Opera Choir
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Willi Boskowski (conductor)

Schulz-Evler: Arabesques on 'An der schonen, blauen Donau'
Byron Janis (piano)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)

Part One

1/5. St Petersburg: Although he lived in America for almost 30 years, Igor Stravinsky referred to the loss of his homeland Russia and its language as the greatest crisis in his life as a composer. Donald Macleod examines the impact of Stravinsky's exile from Russia and the music it inspired.

Scherzo a la russe
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
David Atherton (conductor)

Petrushka: First Tableau
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

Three Songs (Recollections of My Childhood)
Phyllis Bryn Julson (soprano)
Ensemble InterContemporain
Pierre Boulez (conductor)

Sonata in F sharp m (2nd movement)
Martin Jones (piano)

The Firebird (suite)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)

[Rpt of Mon 12.00pm]

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Sally Matthews

Songs by Dvorak, Barber and Strauss

Verity Sharp introduces a concert, live from Wigmore Hall. Soprano Sally Matthews is accompanied by pianist Simon Lepper for a recital of songs by Dvorak, Barber and Strauss.

Dvorak: Love Songs Op 83
Barber: Hermit Songs Op 29
Richard Strauss: Morgen; Ruhe meine Seele Op 27
Richard Strauss: Das Rosenband Op 36
Richard Strauss: Zueignung Op 10

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Martin Handley presents the first of five programmes this week featuring Strauss tone poems. Today, the BBC NOW perform Sprach Zarathustra once described by the composer himself as 'by far the most important of all my pieces'.

Mahler: Blumine
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Schoenberg: Accompaniment to a Cinematographic scene
Jac van Steen (conductor)

Brahms: Violin Concerto
Janine Jansen (violin)
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Christian Gansch (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

18 April 2005

Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present music for shepherds, music from the animation Lilo and Stich and Mozart's famous Little Night Music.

16:00

Stage and Screen

Unknown Richard Rodgers

Edward Seckerson explores some lesser known scores, by Rodgers and Hart including Higher and Higher and By Jupiter. Also Rodgers and Hammerstein's only original film musical, State Fair, and his solo effort after Hammerstein's untimely death - No Strings.

17:00

In Tune

18 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

Mitsuko Uchida

Schubert, Beethoven and Boulez

Warwick Thompson introduces a recital given last month at London's Royal Festival Hall by pianist Mitsuko Uchida. Music by Schubert and Beethoven as well as Boulez's Notations, a set of 12 pieces, each only 12 bars long and exploring a different musical issue.

Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Pierre Boulez: 12 Notations for piano
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata in C, D840 Reliquie
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Sonata in B flat, Op 106 Hammerklavier

21:15

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra perform Telemann's Concerto in D. Recorded at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2001.

21:30

Night Waves

The Lizard

Isabel Hilton and guests discuss The Lizard, a comedy which played to packed houses in Iran before the Islamic clergy forced the government to suppress the film.

22:15

Late Junction

18 April 2005

Fiona Talkington introduces music by the American saxophonist Tim Berne from his album, The Sevens, Norwegian folk group Blamann Blamann, Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer, plus Erik Satie's, Le Fils des Etoiles.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Isaac Albeniz (1860 - 1909)

Part Two

2/5. Donald Macleod continues his exploration of the life and works of Albeniz, and asks whether he really had piano lessons from Franz Liszt.

Sonata No 4 (last movement)
Albert Guinovart (piano)

Cordoba (Cantos de Espagna)
Ricardo Requejo (piano)

Albeniz (orch Hallfter) Rapsodia espagnola
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Raphael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)

Iberia Book 2
Raphael Orozco (piano)

[Rpt of Tue 12.00pm]

01:00

Through the Night

18 April 2005

Part One

With John Shea.

1.00am
Concerts from the Lincoln Centre New York
Charles Martin Loeffler: Cornemus - movement for oboe, viola and piano
Faure: Piano Quartet No 2 in G, Op 45
Stephen Taylor (oboe)
Ani Kavafian (violin)
Paul Neubauer (viola)
Carter Brey (cello)
Jeffrey Swann (piano)
(recorded in 2004)

1.45am
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester psalms
Radio France Chorus
Yves Castagnet (organ)
Vladislav Chernuchenko (conductor)

2.10am
Dvorak: Symphony No 5 in F
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)

2.45am
Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op 26
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

3.10am
Brahms: Sonata in Fm, Op 120, No 1
Martin Frost (clarinet)
Thomas Larcher (piano)

3.30am
Boris Papandopulo: Nad grobom ljepote djevojke (By the grave of the Beauty), Op 39
Slovenian Chamber Choir
Vladimir Kranjcevic (conductor)

3.40am
Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219
Pinchas Zukerman (violin/director)
National Arts Centre Orchestra

4.10am
JCF Bach: Sinfonia for strings and continuo in Dm
Das Kleine Konzert

4.15am
Debussy: 3 Images Oubliees
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

4.30am
Piazzolla (arr Branko Djordjevic): Milonga del Angel
Duo Novello: Hanne Askou (violin)
Branko Djordjevic (accordeon)

4.35am
Sebastian Bodinus: Trio in G for oboe and 2 bassoons
Hildebrand'sche Hoboisten Compagnie

4.45am
Richard Strauss: Love scene from Ein Heldenleben
Richard Strauss (piano)

4.50am
Flor Alpaerts: Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils
Flemish Radio Orchestra
Bjarte Engeset (conductor)

05:00

Through the Night

18 April 2005

Part Two

John Shea concludes this morning's programme.

5.00am
Bach: Cantata - Widerstehe doch der Sunde, BWV 54
Jadwiga Rappe (alto)
Concerto Avenna
Andrzej Mysinski (conductor)

5.10am
Marcel Tournier: Vers la source dans le bois
Rita Costanzi (harp)

5.15am
Johann Strauss, Jr (arr Schoenberg): Emperor Waltz
Canadian Chamber Ensemble
Raffi Armenian (conductor)

5.25am
Nielsen: Violin Sonata No 2, Op 35, 2nd movement: Molto Adagio
Duo Z: Anna Zelianodjevo (violin)
Tanja Zapolski (piano)

5.35am
Fux: Missa Pro Gratiarum Actione, K27
Capella Nova Graz
Otto Kargl (conductor)

6.05am
Haydn:Sonata in D, H 16 37
Paul Lewis (piano)

6.10am
Bartok: Six Rumanian Dances
Miklos Szenthelyi (violin)
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

6.20am
Wilhelm Stenhammar: Ithaka, Op 21
Peter Mattei (baritone)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck (conductor)

6.30am
Grzegorz Gorczycki: Litaniae de providential divina
Olga Pasiecznik, Marta Bobertska (soprano)
Piotr Lykowski (countertenor)
Wojciech Parchem (tenor)
Miroslaw Borzynski (bass)
Sine Nomine Chamber Choir
Concerto Polacco
Marek Toporowski (chamber organ/director)

6.40am
Cornelius Dopper: Ciaconna Gotica
The Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Kees Bakels (conductor)