Friday 22nd April 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

22 April 2005

Presented by Penny Gore.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Handel: Almirenas Aria Augeletti, from Rinaldo
Miah Persson (soprano)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Rene Jacobs (director)

Liszt: Prometheus
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Variations concertantes for cello and piano, Op 17
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)

Weiss: Concerto Grosso in F, SC 57
Richard Stone (lute)
Cynthia Roberts and Emlyn Ngai (violin)
Ann Marie Morgan (viola da gamba)
Tempesta di Mare

From 8:30am

Schubert: Symphony No 8, Unfinished
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

Liszt: Venezia e Napoli, Annees de Pelerinage, Bk 2, Italie, supplement
Jorge Bolet (piano)

Bach (orch Webern): Ricercar, The Musical Offering
Vienna Philharmonic
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

22 April 2005

With Jonathan Swain.

10.00am
Schumann: Arabesque, Op18
Byron Janis (piano)

10.10am
Schumann: Missa sacra, Op 147 (ii) Gloria
Rosina Bacher (soprano)
Scot Weir (tenor)
Ermnst-Wolfgang Lauer (bass)
Stefan Johannes Bleicher (organ)
South German Radio Choir, Stuttgart
Rupert Huber (conductor)

10.20am
MacCunn: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood, Overture, Op 8
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Grant Lewellyn (conductor)

10.30am
Chopin: Mazurka in C sharp m, Op 50, No 3; Nocturne in G, Op 37, No 2
Byron Janis (piano)

10.40am
Schumann: Requiem, Op 148 (excerpt)
Helen Donath (soprano)
Marjana Lipovek (mezzo-soprano)
Thomas Moser (tenor)
Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass)
Bavarian Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)

11.05am
Amy Beach: Symphony in E m, Op 32, Gaelic
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Jarvi (conductor)

11.45am
Liszt: Annees de pelerinage, 2de annee, Italie, No 5
Sonetto del Petrarca, No 104, Pace non trovo; Consolation, No 5; Sans mesure
Byron Janis (piano)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)

5/5. America

Disenchanted with life in Europe, in 1939 Igor Stravinsky moved to America where he remained until his death in 1971. Donald Macleod details the final chapters of Stravinsky's life.

Requiem Canticles
Susan Bickley (contralto)
David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone)
Stephen Richardson (bass)
New London Chamber Choir
Oliver Knussen (conductor)

Symphony in Three Movements
Suisse Romande Orchestra
Ernest Ansermet (conductor)

The Rake's Progress
Regina Sarfaty (mezzo soprano)
Alexander Young (tenor)
John Reardon (baritone)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky (conductor)

[Rpt of Fri 12.00pm]

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Discovering Mozart

22 April 2005

To end this week's recitals from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh, Claire English introduces Alfredo Perl, performing two of Mozart's most happy and playful works alongside Chopin's most daring and dissonant works. Chopin's scherzos are no joke.

Mozart: Fantasie in D minor, K 397; Piano Sonata in B flat, K 333
Chopin: Polonaise-Fantasie in A flat m
Chopin: Scherzo in C sharp m
Alfredo Perl (piano)

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

With Martin Handley. In the last of this week's programmes, the BBC Philharmonic plays Strauss' tone poem Ein Heldenleben, which translates either as "a hero's life", or "a heroic life". The hero in question is in no doubt though: Richard Strauss himself.

Dvorak: The Water Goblin
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Elgar: Cello Concerto
Guy Johnson (cello)
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

22 April 2005

Radio 3's programme for younger listeners, presented by CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson. Includes music about mist covered mountains, a flying elephant and taking a spin around Moscow.

16:00

Jazz Legends

Jimmy Smith

The Jazz World lost the undisputed King of Hammond Organ, Jimmy Smith, a few weeks ago. Julian Joseph revisits a conversation he had with Jimmy Smith in December 2000.

Smith talks about being impressed with his hero Wild Bill Davis and mastering the art of playing the Bass pedals on the Hammond. This programme also features his last commercial recoding where he duets with Hammond companion Joey De Francesco.

17:00

In Tune

22 April 2005

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

19:45

Performance on 3

City of London Sinfonia

Part 1

John Toal presents a live performance of Mendelssohn's Overture, A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the Ulster Orchestra under its Principal Conductor Thierry Fischer, in the Ulster Hall in Belfast.

Also, internationally renowned Belfast-born pianist Barry Douglas performs Rachmaninov's virtuosic Piano Concerto No 3.

[Continues at 8.55pm, after Twenty Minutes]

20:35

Twenty Minutes

Glob Girls

Forty years ago a book was published that was to give archaeology its first push out of dry and dusty academe towards the popularity it enjoys today: The Bog People, by PV Glob, about the extraordinary Iron Age bodies found in Danish peat bogs. Archaeologist Christine Finn discovers that the book may never have been written if it hadn't been for a group of convent school girls from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

20:55

Performance on 3

City of London Sinfonia

Part Two

John Toal presents continued live coverage of the Ulster Orchestra performing Copland's Appalachian Spring and Smetana's From Bohemia's Woods and Fields.

21:45

Night Waves

J Caouette's documentary on Schizophrenia

Paul Allen and guests discuss Jonathan Caouette's new documentary about growing up with Schizophrenia. Tarnation is a mixture of snapshots, Super-8, answering machine messages, video diaries and early short films culled from 19 years of Caouette's life.

22:15

Mixing It

22 April 2005

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present a unique mix of musical styles and influences.

23:30

Jazz on 3

Henri Texier Strada Sextet

Jez Nelson presents French bassist Henri Texier with his Strada Sextet. Widely acclaimed as both a composer and virtuoso bass player, Texier stands firmly rooted in the French jazz scene whilst engaging with his childhood influences of North African music.

He is joined by Francois Corneloup on saxophone, Guergui Karnazov on trombone and Manu Codjia on guitar to perform works from his new album Vivre.

Recorded at Gateshead Jazz Festival.

01:00

Through the Night

22 April 2005

Part One

With John Shea.

1.00am
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Wotan ....... Willard W White (bass baritone)
Loge ........ Kim Begley (tenor)
Donner ....... James Rutherford (bass baritone)
Froh ....... Timothy Robinson (tenor)
Fricka ........ Yvonne Naef (mezzo soprano)
Freia ........ Geraldine McGreevy (soprano)
Erda .......... Anna Larsson (contralto)
Alberich ...... Oleg Bryjak (baritone)
Mime ........ Robin Leggate (tenor)
Fasolt ......... Peter Rose (bass)
Fafner .......... Robert Lloyd (bass)
Woglinde ........ Kate Royal (soprano)
Wellgunde .......... Karen England (soprano)
Flosshilde ....... Christine Rice (mezzo soprano)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
(Recorded 19th August 2005 at the Royal Albert Hall, 2004 Proms season)

3.35am
Wojciech Kilar: Piano Concerto
Peter Jablonski (piano)
Polish RSO
Wojciech Rajski (conductor)

4.00am
Ludwik Grossman: Csardas from The Ghost of Voyvode
Polish RSO Katowice
Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor)

Carl Nielsen: Folketone (Folk Melody), Op 3, No 1; Spraellemanden (Jumping Jack) Op 11, No 4
Anders Kilstrom (piano)

4.10am
Saint-Saens: Saltarelle, Op 74
Lamentabile Consort

4.20am
Telemann: Concerto in Em for recorder, transverse flute, strings and continuo
La Stagione Frankfurt

Brahms: Sonata No1 in Fm, Op 120, No 1 - 4th movement (Vivace)
Bojan Cvetreznik (viola)
Benjamin Govze (piano)

4.40am
Etienne-Nicolas Mehul: Sonata in D, Op 1, No 1
Arthur Schoondewoerd (fortepiano)

4.45am
Poul Schierbeck: Det er I dag et vejr (Today is Lovely Weather)
Hans Ulrik (saxophone)
Danish National Girls Choir
Michael Bojesen (conductor)

4.50am
Vladimir Godar: Emmeleia
Ivana Pristaova (violin)
Zilina State Orchestra
Leo Svarovsk? (conductor)

05:00

Through the Night

22 April 2005

Part Two

John Shea concludes this morning's programme.

5.00am
Zygmunt Noskowski: The Steppes, Op 66
Sinfonia Varsovia
Grzegorz Nowak (conductor)

5.20am
Yrjo Kilpinen: Spielmannslieder, Op 77
Sauli Tiilikainen (baritone)
Pentii Kotiranta (piano)

5.30am
Antonio Lotti: Sonata in F, Echo-Sonata for Two Oboes
Ensemble Zefiro

5.40am
Purcell: Three Parts Upon a Ground, Z731
Simon Standage (violin)
Ensemble Il Tempo

5.45am
Schubert: An den Mond, D259; Geistes Gru?, D142; Auf dem See, D543; Der Musensohn, D 764
Christoph Pregardien (tenor)
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

5.55am
Wagner: Overture - Tannhauser
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

6.10am
Liszt: Harmonies du soir, Etudes d'execution transcendante, S139
Jeno Jando (piano)

6.20am
Bach: Orchestral Suite No 1 in C, BWV 1066
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

6.40am
Robert Kajanus: Aino
Helsinki University Choir
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jorma Panula (conductor)