Monday 2nd May 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

2 May 2005

Presented by Sandy Burnett. This week featuring Mendelssohn's String Quartets and the French melodie.

From 7.00am

Debussy: Trois Melodies (Paul Verlaine)
Francois Le Roux (baritone)
Noel Lee (piano)

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F, BWV1047
Camerata of the 18th century
Konrad Hunteler (director)

Strauss: Liebesszene (Feuersnot)
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Karl Anton Rickenbacher (conductor)

From 8.30am

Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E flat, Op 12
Quatuor Mosaiques

Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op 45
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton (conductor)

Brahms Variations on a theme of Paganini, Op 35
Julius Katchen (piano)

10:00

CD Masters

2 May 2005

Rob Cowan presents a selection of Mozart's violin sonatas and recordings by Arthur Fiedler.

Loesser: Hans Christian Anderson Medley
Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler (conductor)

Mozart: Violin Sonata in A, K526
Arthur Grumiaux (violin)
Clara Haskil (piano)

Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No 1, No 2, Solvejg's Song
Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler (conductor)

Tippett: String Quartet No 2
Zorian Quartet

Bach: B Minor Mass (Agnus Dei)
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Boyd Neel Orchestra
George Enescu (conductor)

Liszt: Piano Concerto No 2 in A
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Kyrill Kondrashin (conductor)

Ibert: Divertissement
Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

George Enescu (1881 - 1955)

1/5. Romania to Paris

Donald Macleod looks at the life and work of George Enescu, who died 50 years ago this week. A violin prodigy, Enescu's fame during his lifetime rested on his career as a virtuoso performer. But by his late teens he had already won royal patronage as a composer, in 1899 writing two works that proved a turning point in his music: a violin sonata and an impressive Octet.

Impressions d'Enfance, Vieux mendiant and Ruisselet au fond du jardin
Anne Solomon (violin)
Dominic Saunders (piano)

Second Violin Sonata, extract MVTIII
Adelina Oprean (violin)
Justin Oprean (piano)

Octet, orchestral version
Kremerata Baltica
Gidon Kremer (director)

[Rpt of Mon 12.00pm]

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Galina Gorchakova

Russian and Spanish songs

From Wigmore Hall, Verity Sharp introduces outstanding Russian soprano, Galina Gorchakova, accompanied by pianist Iain Burnside, in a programme of Russian and Spanish songs.

Rimsky-Korsakov: Zvonche zhavoronka pen'ye (The Lark Sings Louder) Op 43, No 1
Ne veter, veya s visoti (Not the Wind, Blowing from the Heights) Op 43, No 2
Serenade, The Beauty, Op 51, No 4

Medtner: Bezsonnitsa (Sleeplessness) Op 37, No 1
Voron (The Ravens) Op 52, No 2
Serenada, Op 52, No 6

Granados: La Maja Dolorosa

Rachmaninov: Arion, Op 34, No 5
Veter perelyotniy (Day to Night Comparing Went the Wind) Op 34, No 4
Muzika (Music) Op 34, No 8
Ya zhdu tebya (I Wait for Thee) Op 14, No 1

Turina: Poema en forma de canciones Op 19

14:00

Afternoon Performance

2 May 2005

This week, Afternoon Performance is featuring music for soprano and orchestra.

Edward Seckerson presents the final work of a composer whose love for the soprano voice was well known - Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs, sung by Rebecca Evans with the BBC Philharmonic. That's followed by Beethoven's heroic Symphony No 3.

Rossini: William Tell Overture
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Strauss: Four Last Songs
Rebecca Evans (soprano)
Jason Lai (conductor)

Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat, Eroica
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

2 May 2005

Radio 3's programme for younger listeners presented by CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson. In today's show there's ancient Spanish music, some marching trolls and some traditional Welsh music.

16:00

Stage and Screen

2 May 2005

Tommy Pearson looks forward to the release of Star Wars III later this month, with his choice of music written for science fiction films.

17:00

In Tune

2 May 2005

Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and keeps us up to date with what's happening in the arts world. Email: in.tune@bbc.co.uk

19:30

Performance on 3

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Complete performance

Christopher Cook presents the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Mark Elder in a concert recorded last Friday at the Royal Festival Hall, London.

The concert is part of the South Bank Centre's series entitled, A Generous Spirit: Mendelssohn the Musician. Mendelssohn was not only a great conductor but an untiring champion of the music of his friends and contemporaries.

The bill includes a performance of two of his best known works, Fingal's Cave and the Italian Symphony. In between these classic pieces is music by composers he knew and admired: Robert Schumann and Niels Gade.

Mendelssohn: Overture, Fingal's Cave (The Hebrides)
Gade: Symphony No 6 in Gm
Schumann: Cello Concerto in Am
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A, Italian

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Mark Elder (conductor)

21:15

Nash Ensemble

Nash Ensemble

The spirit of stride piano and the extrovert playing of legendary jazz pianists like Fats Waller and James P Johnson and the work's dedicatee Richard Rodney Bennett - inspired Turnage's piano quintet, written for the Nash Ensemble.

Turnage: Slide Stride
Nash Ensemble
Ian Brown (piano)
Marianne Thorsen and Arisa Fujita (violin)
Lawrence Power (viola)
Paul Watkins (cello)

21:30

Night Waves

2 May 2005

The tail end of the 20th century saw an unprecedented investment in attention-grabbing, hi-tech arts buildings across the UK. But five years on, how have these Millennium Projects fared now that the spotlight has moved away?

In a special programme, Paul Allen talks to architects, critics and directors as he visits the Lowry in Salford Quays, the New Art Gallery, Walsall, and the second-biggest free tourist attraction in the country - Tate Modern, where he reflects on the last five years with Nic Serota.

22:15

Late Junction

2 May 2005

Verity Sharp presents selections from the GRM archive of classic musique-concrete; traditional music from Burma; and the 14th century world of Guillaume de Machaut.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Luigi Boccherini (1743 - 1805)

Part Two

2/5. Presented by Donald Macleod. Boccherini is largely known today for just one work, his Minuet from the E major String Quintet. His contribution to the development of chamber music was remarkable, where he introduced various innovations and composed a total of 489 pieces.

String Quintet in E, op 11, no 5, G275
Isaac Stern and Cho-Liang Lin (violin)
Jaime Laredo (viola)
Yo-Yo Ma and Sharon Robinson (cello)

String Quintet, op 29, no 2,1st movement
Sigiswald Kuijken, Alda Stuurop (violin)
Anner Bylsma, Wieland Juijken (cellos)
Lucy van Dael (viola)

Cello Concerto in B flat, G482, (arr Grutzmacher)
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Pinchas Zukerman (director)

[Rpt of Tue 12.00pm]

01:00

Through the Night

2 May 2005

Part One

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
The Chillingirian Quartet (and friends) play Mozart and Dvorak
Mozart: String Quartet in B flat (K589)

1.25am
Dvorak: String Sextet in A (Op 48)
With members of Midt Vest Ensemble

1.59am
Bruckner: Te Deum in C
Kelly Nassief (soprano)
Sylvie Sulle (mezzo-soprano)
Kim Begley (tenor)
Jerome Correas (baritone)
Radio France Chorus
Lubomir Matl (director)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Gunther Herbig (conductor)

2.24am
Mendelssohn: Double concerto in Dm
Jaroslaw Zolnierczyk (violin)
Andrzej Tatarski (piano)
The Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan
Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)

2.58am
Liszt: Apres une lecture de Dante
Richard Raymond (piano)

3.17am
Telemann: Sonata in A
Camerata Koln

3.24am
Nielsen: Symphony No 4, Op 29, The Inextinguishable
BBC Philharmonic
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

4.00am
Rautavaara: Lahto (Departure) for choir
Sibelius: Finlandia Hymn
Finnish Radio Chamber Choir
Eric-Olof Soderstrom (conductor)

4.04am
Kajanus: Finnish Rhapsody No 1
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Leif Segerstam (conductor)

4.14am
Howells: Rhapsody No 1 in D flat, Op 17, No 1
Ian Sadler (organ)

4.21am
Vaughan Williams: Norfolk Rhapsody No 1, in Em
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sir Bernard Heinze (conductor)

4.32am
Scott: Lotus Land, Op 47, No 1
Christina Ortiz (piano)

4.37am
Squire: Tarantella
Il-Hwan Bai (cello)
Dai-Hyun Kim (piano)

4.41am
Purcell: Let the Dreadful Engines, from Don Quixote
Thomas Allen (baritone)
Roger Vignoles (piano)

4.50am
Britten: Fanfare for St Edmundsbury
The Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble

4.54am
Vaszy: Comedy Overture
Hungarian Radio Orchestra
Viktor Vaszy (conductor)

05:00

Through the Night

2 May 2005

Part Two

Jonathan Swain concludes the programme.

5.00am
Bartok: Rhapsody for violin and orchestra, No 1, Sz 86
Zoltan Takacs (violin)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Bister (conductor)

5.09am
Odak: Madrigal, Op 11
Slovenian Chamber Choir
Vladimir Kranjcevic (conductor)

5.16am
Grieg: Overture, In Autumn, Op 11
Orchestre National de France
Osmo Vanska (conductor)

5.29am
Chaminade: Automne, Op 35, No 2
Valerie Tryon (piano)

5.36am
Herberigs: Die winter is verganghen, from Dertien Oud-Nederlandse liederen
The Flemish Radio Choir
Eric Mertens (flute)
Joost Gils (oboe)
Alex van Beveren (cor anglais)
Anne Boeykens (clarinet)
Luc Verdonck and Paul Gerlo (bassoon)
Herman Lemahieu (horn)
Johan Duijck (conductor)

5.38am
Strauss: Stimmungsbilder, Op 9
Ludmil Angelov (piano)

6.01am
Schubert: Die Burgschaft, D246
Christoph Pregardien (tenor)
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

6.19am
Noskowski: Symphony No 3 in F, from Spring to Spring
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice
Szymon Kawalla (conductor)