Tuesday 19th April 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

19 April 2005

Presented by Penny Gore.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Liszt: Vallee d'Oberman
(Annees de Pelerinage, Bk 1: Suisse)
Georges Cziffra (piano)

Brahms: Songs for women's voices, 2 horns and harp, Op 17
Womens voices of the South German Vocal Ensemble Marie-members of Luise Neumecker Horn Ensemble
Ludmilla Muster (harp)
Rolf Beck (director)

Telemann: Concerto in Gm, TWV 42:g2
Karl Kaiser (transverse flute)
Camerata Koln

Verdi: Come in questora (Act 1, Simon Boccanegra)
Mirella Freni (soprano)
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

From 8.30am

Liszt: Eglogue; Le Mal du Pays
(Annees de Pelerinage, Bk 1: Suisse)
Lazar Berman (piano)

Berwald: Septet
Members of the Berlin Wind Octet

Beethoven: Choral Fantasia, Op. 80
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

19 April 2005

With Jonathan Swain.

Liszt: Totentanz
Byron Janis (piano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)

Schumann: Szenen aus Goethes Faust WoO 3 - Part III (extract)
Dr Marianus ...... Fischer-Dieskau
Gretchen ...... Elizabeth Harwood
Sinner ...... Felicity Palmer
Samaritan ...... Meriel Dickinson
Mary of Egypt ...... Pauline Stevens
Mater Gloriosa ...... Alfreda Hodgson
Wandsworth School Choir
Aldeburgh Festival Singers
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)

Liszt: Paraphrase on themes from Verdi's Rigoletto
Byron Janis (piano)

Schumann: Requiem for Mignon Op 98b
Barbara Bonney, Brigitte Poschner (soprano)
Dalia Schachter, Margareta Hintermeier (alto)
Jorge Antonio Pita (tenor)
Andreas Schmidt (bass)
Vienna State Opera Concert Choir
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

R Strauss: Burleske
Byron Janis (piano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)

Bartok: Quartet No 6
Takacs Quartet

12:00

Composer of the Week

Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)

2/5. The Ballets Russes

Donald Macleod charts how Stravinsky's name was established outside Russia through his collaboration with the Russian ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev.

Two Poems of Paul Verlaine
John Shirley Quirk (baritone)
Ensemble InterContemporain
Pierre Boulez (conductor)

Excerpt from Act 1, Oedipus Rex
Thomas Moser (tenor)
Siegmund Nimsgern (baritone)
Male Chorus of Bavarian Radio
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

The Rite of Spring (excerpt from Part 1)
Orchestre de la Societe du Conservatoire de Paris
Pierre Monteux (conductor)

Les Noces: 1st tableau La tresse
Basia Retchitzka (soprano)
Lucienne Devallier (contralto)
Hugues Cuenod (tenor)
Heinz Rehfuss (bass)
Vladimir Diakoff (bass)
The Motet Choir of Geneva
Renee Peter, Doris Rossiaud
Roger Aubert (pianos)
Jacques Horneffer (director and piano)

Symphonies of wind instruments
Detroit Chamber Winds and Friends

[Rpt of Tue 12.00pm]

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Discovering Mozart

19 April 2005

Part of a year long celebration of Mozart's music, this series showcases his piano works alongside music by Chopin. Marc-Andre Hamelin opens this series of concerts from the Queens Hall in Edinburgh. Introduced by Claire English.

Mozart: Piano Sonata in B flat, K570
Chopin: Polonaise Op 26, No. 1
Mozart: Piano Sonata in C, K 545
Chopin: Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise, Op 22

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Martin Handley continues this week's theme of Strauss tone poems with Tod und Verklarung, written when the composer was just 25.

Strauss: Tod und Verklarung
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

Weber: Clarinet Concerto, No 1
Martin Frost (clarinet)
Douglas Bostock (conductor)

Beethoven: Symphony No 6, Pastorale
James Judd (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

19 April 2005

Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present music from the film Zorro and the massive sound of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.

16:00

Voices

19 April 2005

Iain Burnside presents a recital in which he accompanies the mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly in a sequence of late Romantic and Expressionist songs by Schoenberg ending with his song cycle, The Book of the Hanging Gardens.

Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Iain Burnside (piano)

17:00

In Tune

19 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

Tokyo String Quartet

Complete performance

Penny Gore introduces a performance from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London by the Tokyo String Quartet, formed over 30 years ago and now one of the most celebrated chamber ensembles in the world, contrasting Eastern and Western musical traditions with music by Mozart, Takemitsu and Beethoven.

Mozart: Quartet in B flat, K589
Takemitsu: A Way Alone
Beethoven: Quartet in E flat, Op 127

21:00

Ulster Orchestra

Ulster Orchestra

David Porcelijn conducts the Ulster Orchestra in a performance of Gordon Kerry's Upon Empty Air, a work composed for Belfast's Sonorities festival of contemporary music in 2003.

21:30

Night Waves

19 April 2005

Robert Hanks is joined by James J O'Donnell to discuss Augustine, Saint and Sinner, his biography of Saint Augustine, considered by many to be the most important Christian thinker after St Paul.

22:15

Late Junction

19 April 2005

Fiona Talkington's selections include music by the American group Tortoise, English singer-songwriters Robert Wyatt and June Tabor, and John Cage's work for percussion ensemble, Second Construction.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Isaac Albeniz (1860 - 1909)

Part Three

3/5. Donald Macleod explores the artistic and financial relationship between Albeniz and the eccentric English solicitor, poet and librettist, Francis Burdett Money-Coutts.

Pepita Jimenez (excerpts)
Susan Chilcott (Pepita)
Francesc Garriogosa (Luis)
Orquestra de Cambra Teatre Lluire
Josep Pons (conductor)

Pepita Jimenez (excerpts)
Coro de voces blancas solistas,
Coro Cantores de Madrid
Orquestra Sinfonica
Pablo Sorozabal (conductor)

La Vega
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)

01:00

Through the Night

19 April 2005

Part One

With John Shea.

1.00am
A concert recorded at Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm on 1 September 1998
Susanne Ryden (soprano)
Maria Lindal (violin)
William Dongois (cornet)
Sven Berg (theorbo)
Peter Lonnerberg (organ)

Schutz: Mein Herz ist bereit, SWV 341
Michael Jacob: Himmel weine bitterlich
Thomas Selle: O Ungluck; Frisch auf mein Herz
Ricardo Rognoni: Anc or che col partire
Luigi Rossi: Lamento della Regina di Svezia (Cantata di Gustavo Adolfo Re di Svezia)
Giovanni Battista Fontana: Sonata settima
Tarquino Merula: Nigra sum
Cesti: Duri lacci Argia; Fuggi purdal mio sen (L'Argia)

1.45am
Debussy: Reflets dans l'eau; Hommage a Rameau; Mouvement; Cloches a travers les feuilles; Poissons d'or - from Images books I and II
Dang Thai Son (piano)

2.05am
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 in Em, Op 27
Budapest Festival Orchestra/Ivan Fischer

3.00am
Schubert (transcr Wanda Landowska): Waltzes from 'Die schone Mullerin'
Wanda Landowska (piano)

3.10am
Beethoven: Piano Trio in G, Op 1, No 2
The Grieg Trio

3.40am
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op 61, incidental music
Danish National RSO/Michael Sch?nwandt

4.05am
Johann Stadlmayr: Ave Maris Stella
Capella Nova Graz/Otto Kargl

4.10am
Augustin Dautrecourt: Concert a Deux Violes No 44, Tombeau des Regrets
Violes Esgales

4.20am
Verdi: Per me giunto, Don Carlos
Gaetan Laperriere (baritone): Rodrigo
Orchestre Symphonique de Trois Rivieres/Gilles Bellemare

4.30am
Blagoje Bersa: Dramatska predigra (Dramatic Overture), Op 25a
Croatian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Mladen Tarbuk

4.45am
Villa-Lobos: Guitar Prelude No 1 in Em
Norbert Kraft (guitar)

4.50am
Erik Satie (arr Milhaud): Jack-in-the-box pantomime
CBC Vancouver Orchestra/Mario Bernardi

05:00

Through the Night

19 April 2005

Part Two

John Shea concludes this morning's programme.

5.00am
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Peeter Lilje (conductor)

5.10am
Kodaly: The Aged (Oregek)
Hungarian Radio Choir
Janos Ferencsik (conductor)

5.20am
Debussy (arr Nancy Allen): Arabesque No 2
Mojca Zlobko (harp)

5.22am
Granados: El Pelele, Goyescas, Op 11
Angela Hewitt (piano)

5.25am
Mahler: Ich ging mit lust durch einen grunen Wald
Arleen Auger (soprano)
Irwin Gage (piano)

5.30am
Grzegorz Gorczycki: Laetatus sum
Olga Pasiecznik (soprano)
Henning Voss (countertenor)
Wojciech Parchem (tenor)
Miroslaw Borzynski (bass)
Sine Nomine Chamber Choir
Concerto Polacco
Marek Toporowski (chamber organ/director)

5.35am
Endre Szervanszky: Serenade for clarinet and strings
Bela Kovacs (clarinet)
Hungarian Radio Orchestra
Adam Medveczky (conductor)

6.00am
Chausson: Poeme for violin and orchestra, Op 25
Arthur Grumiaux (violin)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
George Szell (conductor)

6.15a
Trad (collected by Bartok, Bela): 3 Folksongs from Gyergyo
Zoltan Juhasz (shepherd's pipe)
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

6.20am
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
Collegium Aureum

6.45am
Ture Rangstom: Partita
Bernt Lysell (violin)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Niklas Willen (conductor)