Thursday 21st April 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

21 April 2005

Presented by Penny Gore.

From 7.00am

Handel: Concerto grosso, Op 6 2 in F
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie (director)

Liszt: Petrarch Sonnet Nos 47 and 123
(Annees de Pelerinage, Bk 2: Italie)
Daniel Barenboim (piano)

Lehar: Clo-Clo Overture
Berlin RSO
Michail Jurowski (conductor)

Mozart: Andante and Rondo in D, K 271a
Albrecht Mayer (oboe)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

From 8.30am

Liszt: Apres une Lecture de Dante
(Annees de Pelerinage, Bk 2: Italie)
Alfred Brendel (piano)

Schumann: Faust's Death (Pt 2: Scenes from Goethe's Faust)
Faust ...... Bryn Terfel
Mephistopheles ...... Jan-Hendrick Rootering
Tolzer Knabenchor
Swedish Radio Choir
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor).

10:00

CD Masters

21 April 2005

With Jonathan Swain.

Mendelssohn: Song without Words Op 62, No 1
Octavio Pinto
Three Scenes from Childhood
Byron Janis (piano)

Don Gillis: Symphony No 5?, Symphony for Fun
New Symphony Orchestra
Don Gillis (conductor)

Schumann: Der Konig von Thule Op 67, No 1; Heidenroslein Op 67, No 3; Im Walde Op 75, No 2; Der Rekrut Op 75, No 4;
Vom werwundeten Knaben Op 75, No.5; Das Schifflein Op 146, No 5
South West German Radio Vocal Ensemble
Rupert Huber (conductor)

Liszt: Concerto No 1 in E flat
Byron Janis (piano)
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Kirill Kondrashin (conductor)

Mozart: Divertimento in E flat, K563
The Heifetz-Primrose-Feuermann Trio

Schumann: Des Sanger's Fluch, Op 139 (extracts)
Queen ...... Hanne Fischer (mezzo-soprano)
Narrator ...... Marianne R?rholm (mezzo-soprano)
Youth ...... Roland Wagenfuhrer (tenor)
Harpist ...... Dietrich Henschel (baritone)
King ...... Bo Anker Hansen (bass)
Danish National Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra
Michael Sch?nwandt (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)

4/5. Return to France

In 1934 Igor Stravinsky took up French citizenship. It was not a successful move on either a personal or professional level. Donald Macleod explores the reasons why Stravinsky's move back to France proved to be so unsatisfactory.

Circus Polka
London Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

Dumbarton Oaks
Nash Ensemble
Elgar Howarth (conductor)

Violin Concerto
Chantal Juillet (violin)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor)

Three Sacred Cantatas of Gesualdo
New London Chamber Choir,
James Wood (conductor)

[Rpt of Thu 12.00pm]

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Celebrating Mozart. Mozart and Stravinsky

21 April 2005

Petroc Trelawney presents the third of this week's lunchtime concerts from Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Today, the Nash Ensemble expand from Quartet to Septet, in a programme which includes Mozart's Oboe Quartet, Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Winds and Stravinsky's Septet.

14:10

Afternoon Performance

BBC Philharmonic

The BBC Philharmonic takes centre stage today with Strauss' very Lisztian tone poem, Macbeth. Presented by Martin Handley.

Strauss: Macbeth
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Nelson Goerner (piano)
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Dvorak: Symphony No 7
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

21 April 2005

Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present music about the wind, music about an ageing detective and music played on a car exhaust pipe!

16:00

Brian Kay's Light Programme

21 April 2005

Brian Kay plays a selection of light classics.

17:00

In Tune

21 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

Landscape with Birds

Landscape with Birds

Catalogue d'oiseaux , a Landscape with Birds: Five pieces from the bird catalogue by French composer Olivier Messiaen, together with the sounds of the birds
and natural landscape that inspired them. Pianist Peter Hill, who studied with Messiaen, plays and talks about the music, with soundscapes reflecting the structure of the pieces.

Twitching: Poet Laureate Andrew Motion reads six new bird poems: Blackbird, Song Thrush, Raven, Swallow, Wren, Sparrow. With the voices of the birds themselves.

Birdsong Bagatelles: Edward Cowie, the composer who is the artist in residence of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, introduces the first broadcast of his new work for the Coull String Quartet. It's a set of 24 portraits of common British birds, their songs and behaviour, from the wren and the skylark to the woodpigeon
and the heron.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: Another chance to hear the award-winning Radio 3 feature inspired by one of our most familiar and best-loved birds and its remarkable song.

22:30

Late Junction

21 April 2005

Fiona Talkington looks ahead to next month's Contemporary Music Network tour, Shamanic Voices, which showcases the vocal traditions of the Arctic, Finland and Mongolia.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Isaac Albeniz (1860 - 1909)

Part Five

5/5. In the final programme of this week, Donald Macleod examines Albeniz's skill as an orchestrator.

Music includes:

Catalonia
Mexico City Philharmonic
Enrique Batiz (conductor)

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

Iberia, Book 4
Alicia de Larrocha.

[Rpt of Fri 12.00pm]

01:00

Through the Night

21 April 2005

Part One

With John Shea.

1.00am
Bruckner: Symphony, No 6 in A
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Recorded 27 January 2005 in Oslo Concert Hall

1.55am
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 6 in A, Op 30, No 1
Mats Zetterqvist (violin)
Mats Widlund (piano)

2.15am
Lassus: Motets - Quo properas; Musica Dei donum; In religione homo vivit
Currende
Erik van Nevel (conductor)

2.25am
Frescobaldi: Toccata avanti la Messe; Ricercar dopo il credo; Toccata per l'Elevazione; Toccata Quinto
Liuwe Tamminga (organ)

2.40am
Luigi Rossi: Oratorio per la Settimana Santa
Agnes Mellon, Jill Feldman, Marie-Claude Vallin (soprano)
Dominique Visse, Vincent Darras (countertenor)
Ian Honeyman, Michel Laplenie (tenor)
Philippe Cantor, Francois Fauche, Antoine Sicot (bass)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie (director)

3.20am
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 77
Regis Pasquier (violin)
Hungarian RSO
Tamas Vasary (conductor)

4.00am
Saint-Saens (transcr. Eugen d'Albert):Danse macabre, Op 40
Etude en forme de valse, Op 52, No 6
Eugen d'Albert (piano)

4.15am
Oscar Merikanto: Itveka huilu, Crying Flute, Op 52, No 4
Sauli Tiilikainen (baritone)
Markus Lehtinen (piano)

4.15am
Chopin: Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante, Op 22
Janina Fialkowska (piano)
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra
Raffi Armenian (conductor)

4.35am
Francesco Veracini: Largo
Jela Spitkova (violin)
Tatiana Franova (piano)

4.35am
Andreas Hammerschmidt: Suite in G, Ester Flei?
Hesperion XX
Jordi Savall (director)

04:50

Through the Night

21 April 2005

Part Two

John Shea concludes this morning's programme.

4.50am
Bach: Eins ist not ach Herr dies Eine, BWV 453; Jesu deine Liebeswunden, BWV 471; Auf auf! Die rechte Zeit ist hier, BWV 440, 3 Schemelli Chorales
Marco Fink (bass baritone)
Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano)
Domen Marincic (gamba)
Dalibor Miklav (organ)

5.00am
Corona Schroter: Overture - Die Fischerin
Michael Freimuth (guitar)
Gerald Hambitzer (fortepiano)

5.03am
Tartini: Trumpet Concerto in D
Stanko Arnold (trumpet)
Slovenian Soloists
Marko Munih (conductor)

5.10am
Bruhns: Cantata - Wohl dem der den Herren furchtet
Greta de Reyghere and Jill Feldman (soprano)
Max van Egmond (bass)
Ricercar Consort

5.20am
Pieter Hellendaal: Cello Sonata, Op 5, No 5
Jaap ter Linden (cello)
Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
Ageet Zweistra (cello continuo)

5.30am
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz: 10 Songs, Op 3
Jadwiga Rappe (contralto)
Ewa Poblocka (piano)

5.50am
Dimitar Tapkov: Second Suite for String Quartet
Avramov String Quartet

5.55am
Richard Strauss: Deutsche Motette, Op 62
Olivia Robinson (soprano)
Judith Harris (mezzo)
Robert Johnston (tenor)
Edward Price (bass)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

6.15am
Pancho Vladigerov: Sonatina Concertante, Op 28
Ivan Eftimov (piano)

6.35am
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz: Songs Z nowa wiosna, When Spring Arrives; O nie wierz temo co powiedza ludzie, Do Not Believe what the People Say; Czasem gyd dlugo na pol sennie marze, Sometimes when Long I Dream; Rdzawe liscie strzasa z drzew, Rust-coloured Leaves Fall from the Trees
Jadwiga Rappe (contralto)
Ewa Poblocka (piano)

6.40am
Glinka: Trio for clarinet, cello and piano in Dm, Pathetique
Trio Luwigana