Monday 25th April 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

25 April 2005

Penny Gore explores music from the life and times of Jane Austen, and also compares the baroque suite with later interpretations of the form.

Music includes from 7.00am

William Lawes: Royall Consort no 5 in D
Sonnerie
Monica Huggett (director)

Haydn: A Pastoral Song
Lisa Milne (soprano)
Roger Vignoles (piano)

Pleyel: Sonatina, no 2 in Dm
Martin Souter (piano)
Stodart 1807

From 8.30am

Glazunov: Five Novellettes, op 15, Alla Spagnuola
Vertavo String Quartet

Hindemith: French Dance Suite
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Werner Andreas Albert (conductor)

Bax: Three Pieces for Small Orchestra
English Chamber Orchestra
Jeffrey Tate (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

25 April 2005

Rob Cowan presents Glazunov's orchestral music and recordings by Ralph Kirkpatrick.

Glazunov: Poeme lyrique Op.12
USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

Gibbons: The Queene's Command
Couperin
Le Carillon de Cithere
Scarlatti
Sonatas in D Kk535; in Am Kk175
Ralph Kirkpatrick (harpsichord)

Glazunov: Stenka Razin, symphonic poem, Op 13
USSR Symphony Orchestra
Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor)

Shostakovich: String Quartet, No 9 in E flat, Op 117
Fitzwilliam Quartet

Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in Dm, BWV903
Ralph Kirkpatrick (harpsichord)

Glazunov: The Sea, Fantasy, Op 28
USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gennady Provatorov (conductor)

Haydn: Arianna a Naxos
Jennie Tourel (mezzo-soprano)
Ralph Kirkpatrick (fortepiano)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Luigi Boccherini (1743 - 1805)

Part One

1/5. Donald Macleod explores the life and works of the composer often referred to as Haydn's wife.

Sonata in C, G17
Richard Lester (cello)
David Watkin (cello)

Cello Concerto, no 6 in D
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Collegium Musicum Zurich
Paul Sacher

Symphony in C, op 37, no 1
Academia Montis Regalis Baroque Orchestra
Luigi Mangiocavallo (director)

[Rpt of Mon 12.00pm]

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Heinrich Schiff

Bach, Brahms and Lutoslawski

Fiona Talkington introduces a concert from Wigmore Hall. World-renowned cellist and conductor Heinrich Schiff performs Bach's Suite No 1 for Solo Cello, before being joined by pianist Roger Vignoles for works by Lutoslawski and Brahms.

JS Bach: Suite for Solo Cello, No 1 in G, BWV1007
Lutoslawski: Grave, Metamorphoses for Cello and Piano, 1981
Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano, No 2 in F, Op 99

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Louise Fryer presents a performance given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in City Hall Perth last year, featuring Nielsen and Sibelius. The Scandinavian theme is in keeping with this week's Lunchtime Concerts.

Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Sibelius: Symphony no.2 in D major
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

25 April 2005

Radio 3's programme for younger listeners presented by CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson. Including hand clapping music and a piece sung to a beautiful tree.

16:00

Stage and Screen

Legends: Thomas Hampson

Edward Seckerson in conversation with the great American baritone, currently appearing at Covent Garden in Un Ballo in Maschera. Includes music from Verdi's Don Carlos, The Marriage of Figaro and Billy Budd. Recorded in the Crush Room at the Royal Opera House in front of a live audience.

17:00

In Tune

25 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

City of London Sinfonia

Complete performance

As part of the South Bank Centre's major festival celebrating the music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Richard Hickox conducts the City of London Sinfonia in an all-British concert. Penny Gore presents.

The programme includes a premiere of a piece by Maxwell Davies called A Dance on the Hill which was commissioned by the BBC. The composer calls it "a simple memorial stone" for one of his favourite poets, the Orkney islander George Mackay Brown.

Britten: Suite, A Time There Was

Maxwell Davies: A Dance on the Hill
Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo)

Tippett: Fantasia on a theme of Corelli

Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony, No 3
Lucy Crowe (soprano)

21:30

Night Waves

E. E. Cumings

Philip Dodd considers the life and work of American poet e e cummings in the light of a new biography which draws on 400 boxes of previously sealed papers.

22:15

Late Junction

Django Reinhardt and Martin Carthy

Verity Sharp presents vintage Django Reinhardt and Martin Carthy, music from the spiritual 17th century world of Heinrich Biber played by Andrew Manze, and Sweden's Nyckelharporkestern play tunes by Byss-Calle who, according to legend, had supernatural powers and could work magic.

00:00

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]

01:00

Through the Night

25 April 2005

Part One

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
Chamber music from the Lincoln Centre, New York.
Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F major, K370
Stephen Taylor (oboe)
Ani Kavafian (violin)
Paul Neubauer (viola)
Carter Brey (cello)

1.16am
Dvorak: Piano Quintet, No 2 in A, Op 81
Ann-Marie McDermott (piano)
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin)
Ida Kavafian (violin)
Paul Neubauer (viola)
Fred Sherry (cello)

1.49am
Poulenc: Cantata, Figure humaine
Danish National Radio Choir
Stefan Parkman (conductor)

2.08am
Kodaly: Sonatina
Laszlo Mez? (cello)
Lorant Szucs (piano)

2.18am
Bruckner: Symphony, No 2 in Cm
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)

3.20am
Brahms: 4 Klavierstucke, Op 119
Robert Silverman (piano)

3.38am
Boildieu: Harp Concerto in C
Xavier de Maistre (harp)
Indiana University Orchestra
Gerhard Samuel (conductor)

4.01am
Beethoven: 9 Variations on Quant' e piu bello, from Paisiello's opera 'La molinara', WoO.69
Theo Bruins (piano)

4.07am
Abel: Symphony in D, Op 10, No 5
La Stagione Frankfurt
Michael Schneider (conductor)

4.17am
Saint-Saens: Oboe Sonata, Op 166
Roger Cole (oboe)
Linda Lee Thomas (piano)

4.29am
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
William Tritt (piano)
Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra
Boris Brott (conductor)

4.46am
Coward: I'll Follow My Secret Heart, from Conversation Piece
Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Kamirski (conductor)

4.51am
Adriaenssen: Prince (Allemande for Lute, from Pratum Musicum 1584)
Toyohiko Satoh (lute)

4.54am
Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue in D
Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players
Barbara Jane Gilbey (violin and director)
Geoffrey Lancaster (harpsichord)

05:00

Through the Night

25 April 2005

Part Two

Jonathan Swain concludes this morning's programme.

5.00am
Jarnefelt: Lullaby
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ilpo Mansnerus (conductor)

5.03am
Bozza: Jour d'ete a la montagne
Giedrius Gelgoras
Albertas Stupakas
Valentinas Kazlauskas
Linas Gailiunas (flutes)

5.14am
Malmfors: Hans und Grethe, Pilarna (The Willows)
Swedish Radio Choir
Eric Ericson (conductor)

5.18am
Suk: Elegy, Op 23
Trio Lorenz
Primoz Lorenz (piano)
Tomaz Lorenz (violin)
Matija Lorenz (cello)

5.26am
Faure: Nocturne, No 4 in E flat, Op 36
Stephane Lemelin (piano)

5.32am
Andriessen: Qui habitat
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Uwe Gronostay (director)

5.41am
Mussorgsky: A Night on Bare Mountain
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Tamas Vasary (conductor)

5.53am
Verdi: Oh cielo, dove son io..., from Stiffelio
Ana Pusar (soprano)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Anton Nanut (conductor)

6.06am
Schumann: Piano Sonata, No 2 in Gm, Op 22
Wilhelm Kempff (piano)

6:25am
Martinu: Variations on a Slovak Theme
Peter Jarusek (cello)
Daniela Varinska (piano)

6.36am
Dohnanyi: Ruralia Hungarica, Op 32b
Hungarian Radio Orchestra
Andras Korodi (conductor)