Sunday 8th May 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

8 May 2005

Presented by Martin Handley.

Music includes from 7.00am

Purcell: Rejoice in the Lord Always, Z49
Choir and Orchestra of Collegium Vocale
Philippe Herreweghe (director)

Elgar: Froissart, Op 19
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)

From 8.00am

Mendelssohn: String Quintet No 2 in B flat, Op 87
Raphael Ensemble

Lyapunov: Rhapsody on Ukranian Themes, Op 28
Hamish Milne (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

09:00

The Cowan Collection

8 May 2005

Rob Cowan introduces some surprises and treasures from his record collection. Regular features include The Innocent Ear, and Rob's recommendation for a Bargain Hunter CD. There's also a chance to hear Ravel's Left-hand Piano Concerto recommended on yesterday's CD Review.

Debussy: Fanfare for Martyre de Saint Sebastien
Orchestra de Paris
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

Telemann: Siehe, es hat uberwunden der Lowe
Susanne Gorzny (soprano)
Henning Voss (alto)
Ralph Eschrig (tenor)
Matthias Vieweg (bass)
Biederitzer Kantorei
Weimarer Baroque Ensemble
Michael Scholl (conductor)

Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Leif Segerstam (conductor)

Haydn: Symphony No 87 in A
Concentus Musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

Kernis: Air for Cello and Orchestra
Truls M?rk
Minnesota Orchestra
Eiji Oue (conductor)

Mozart: Ch'io mi scordi di te
Suzanne Danco (soprano)
Maria Bergmann (piano)
South West German Radio Orchestra
Hans Rosbaud (conductor)

Delius: Summer Night on the River
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)

Handel: Sonata No 6 in E, Op 1 No 15
Arthur Grumiaux (violin)
Robert Veyron-Lacroix (harpsichord)

12:00

Private Passions

8 May 2005

Michael Berkeley talks to Deborah Moggach, award-winning author of novels and screenplays including Tulip Fever, Porky, These Foolish Things, and Final Demand. Her musical choices range from a Bach cantata, Mozart's Requiem and Haydn's Seven Last Words from the Cross, to a Shostakovich string quartet and songs by Gershwin, Sheryl Crow and Karen Dalton.

13:00

The Early Music Show

8 May 2005

As part of The Early Music Shows from Sweden series, Andrew Manze visits Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm, home of the Swedish royal family. Music includes works by Duben, Roman and Zellbell.

14:00

Sunday Gala

8 May 2005

Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert given at the Wigmore Hall by the young Italian virtuoso Gianluca Cascioli, whose effortless piano playing has astounded critics and audiences throughout the world.

Mozart: Sonata in Am, K310
Cascioli: Sonatina per pianoforte (UK premiere)
Chopin: Fantastie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66
Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor Op 39
Nocturne in E flat Op 9, No 2
Nocturne in F sharp Op 15, No 2
Scherzo No 4 in E, Op 54
Gianluca Cascioli (piano)

15:30

Icons

Dennis Brain

Tom Robinson presents the series in which leading musicians of today reflect upon the iconic reputations of past performers.

For a horn player like Michael Thompson, there can really be only one icon, Dennis Brain. As soloist, chamber musician, orchestral section leader and composer's muse, Brain changed expectations of the instrument and all this within a life cut short by a car crash in 1957.

Brain's iconic reputation is revealed through recordings of Mozart, Britten, Hindemith and Marin Marais.

16:00

3 for all

8 May 2005

One listener's favourite piece of Chopin is amongst this week's selection of requests: his piano concerto No 2 in Fm, in a brilliant performance by Martha Argerich.

Also, Chausson's popular Poeme in a transcription for violin and piano; the sacred cantata Christus, der ist mein Leben by the 17th century German composer Johann Schelle; and highlights from Arturo Toscanini's memorable 1947 recording of Verdi's Otello.

17:45

Music Matters

8 May 2005

The Grand Tour reached its peak in the mid 18th century when rich, adventurous young travellers embarked on a journey south through Europe to expand their horizons. Tom Service investigates the works of some of the composers who were inspired by that journey.

Tom also looks at the phenomonen of child prodigies and the talent of 12 year old New Yorker, Jay Greenberg who's already written five symphonies.

18:30

Performance on 3

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Complete performance

Celebrating Sir Michael Tippett's centenary, Richard Hickox conducts A Child of Our Time, Tippett's wartime oratorio written as an expression of man's inhumanity to man. Recorded in concert last weekend at the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, it's introduced by Warwick Thompson.

Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Amanda Roocroft (soprano)
Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano)
Philip Langridge (tenor)
Roderick Williams (bass)
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)

19:50

Drama on 3

8 May 2005

If Not Now, When?

By Primo Levi.

To mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a radio version of this extraordinary play about a group of Jewish partisans making their way across war torn Europe, fighting their way west from Russia.

Narrator ...... Corin Redgrave
Mendel ...... Mark Meadows
Gedaleh ...... Jonathan Tafler
Dov/Captain Smirnov ...... Kenneth Collard
Ulybin/Edek ...... Carl Prekopp
Pavel ...... Chris MacDonnell
Jozek/Chaim ...... Chris Donnelly
Piotr ...... Nitzan Sharron
Leonid ...... Jonathan Gunning
Mottel ...... Chris Garner
Line ...... Hayley Doherty
Rokhele ...... Amy Clifton

Original music composed by Gary Yershon and played by Graeme Taylor, Giles Broadbent and Gary Yershon.

Adapted for radio by Jeremy Howe and produced by Iain Hunter and Jeremy Howe.

21:30

Sunday Feature

8 May 2005

Something in the Air: Playwright Peter Nichols explores, in a unique personal memoir of the Second World War, the strange recordings of the Nazi swing band, Charlie and his Orchestra.

22:15

Andy Kershaw

8 May 2005

Andy Kershaw presents music from around the world, including a session by Louisiana bluesman Ernie Payne.

00:00

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]

01:00

Through the Night

8 May 2005

Part One

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am
A concert given by the Swedish Radio Choir and Eric Ericson recorded on 22nd January 2005 at Berwaldhallen Stockholm.
Otto Olsson: Six Latin Hymns, Op 40
Mathias Brorson (baritone)
Fartein Valen: Psalm 121, Ich hebe meine Augen auf
Bjorn Gafvert (organ)
Susanne Carlstrom (soprano)
Eva Wedin (contralto)
Olof Lilja (tenor)
Patrik Sandin (bass)
August Soderman: 7 Spiritual Songs
Lena Hill?s (soprano)
Grieg: Four Psalms, Op 74
Lage Wedin (baritone)
Sven-David Sandstrom: Lobet den Herrn

2.30am
Wagner (orch. Mottl): Wesendonk-Lieder
Deborah Voigt (soprano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Daniele Gatti (conductor)

2.50am
Brahms: Eight Piano Pieces, Op 76
Robert Silverman (piano)

3.15am
Mozart: Symphony No 35 in D, K385, Haffner
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Bjarte Engeset (conductor)

3.35am
Franz Berwald: Septet in B flat
Kristian Moller (clarinet)
Frederik Ekdahl (bassoon)
Ayman Al Fakir (horn)
Roger Olsson (violin)
Linn Lowengren-Elkvull (viola)
Hanna Thorell (cello)
Mattias Karlsson (double bass)

4.00am
Bartok: For Children Book 1, excerpts
Marta Fabian and Agnes Szakaly (cimbaloms)

4.05am
Pal Kadosa: Sonatina on Hungarian Folk Songs
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

4.10am
Lipinski: Rondo alla Polacca in E, Op 13
Albrecht Breuninger (violin)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Wojiech Rajski

4.25am
Liszt: Transcendental Study in B flat, Feux follets, RV139
Daniel Wayenberg (piano)

4.27am
Bizet: Parle-moi de ma mere (Carmen)
Lyne Fortin (soprano)
Richard Margison (tenor)
Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec/Simon Streatfield

4.35am
Jean Barriere: Sonata No 10 in G for 2 Cellos
Duo Fouquet

4.45am
Peter Benoit: Overture, Charlotte Corday
Flemish Radio Orchestra/Jan Latham-Koenig

05:00

Through the Night

8 May 2005

Part Two

Susan Sharpe concludes this morning's programme.

5.00am
Chopin: Nocturne in F, Op 15 No 1
Witold Malcuzynski (piano)

5.03am
Hildor Vilhelm Lundvik: In the Mood of Verlaine; Quiet Rain
?slog Rosen (soprano)
Swedish Radio Choir
Eric Ericson (conductor)

5.05am
Telemann: Sonata in Fm, Der Getreue Musik-Meister
Camerata Koln

5.15am
Stradella: Quando mai vi Stancherete
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Alan Wilson (harpsichord)

5.25am
Lodewijk De Vocht: Naar Hoger Licht (Towards a Higher Light)
Luc Tooten (cello)
Flemish Radio Orchestra
Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor)

5.30am
Vic Nees: De Profundis
Polish Radio Choir
Wlodzimierz Siedlik (conductor)

5.35am
Faure: Nocturne in B flat, Op 37
Stephane Lemelin (piano)

5.45am
Offenbach: C'est une chanson d'amour (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
Lyne Fortin (soprano)
Richard Margison (tenor)
Orchestre Symphonique du Quebec
Simon Streatfield (conductor)

5.50am
Erik Gustaf Geijer: Sonatina in A flat
Klara Hellgren (violin)
Anders Kostrom (piano)

6.05am
Ravel: String Quartet in F
Biava Quartet

6.35am
Schubert: Piano Sonata No 15 in C, D840
Alfred Brendel (piano)