Monday 9th May 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

9 May 2005

Presented by Sandy Burnett.

From 7.00am

Elgar: Overture, Cockaigne
London Symphony Orchestra
Andre Previn (conductor)

Schubert: Gesange des Harfners, D478
Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Gerold Huber (pianoforte)

Telemann: Flute Quartet in G, TWV43, G12
Musica Antiqua Koln

From 8.30am

Puccini: Crisantemi
Hagen Quartet

Handel: Cantata, Lungi da me pensier tiranno
Sara Mingardo (contralto)
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)

Walton: Belshazzar's Feast
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
LSO and Chorus
Andre Previn (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

9 May 2005

Rob Cowan features songs by Brahms, and recordings by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Dvorak: Slavonic Dance Op 46, No 1
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

Brahms: Intermezzo in A, Op 118, No 2
Radu Lupu (piano)
Sapphische Ode, Op 94, No 4
Hermann Prey (baritone)
Gerald Moore (piano)

Schubert: Variations in B flat, D603
Lili Kraus and Homero de Magalhaes (piano)

Leclair: Sonata in A, Op 4, No 6
The Purcell Quartet

Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Hermann Schey (baritone)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Willem Mengelberg (conductor)

Mozart: Symphony No 40 in Gm, KV550
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bruno Walter (conductor)

Brahms: Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer
Marian Anderson (contralto)
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
Die Mainacht
Paul Schoffler (bass-baritone)
Ernest Lush (piano)
Nachtigall schwingen
Julius Patzak (tenor)
Michael Raucheisen (piano)

Roussel: Le Festin de LAraignee, Op 17
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)

Part One

1/5. Handel enjoyed the support of several patrons during his career, particularly in the early years, and Donald Macleod looks at the music the composer wrote in connection with these supporters.

When Handel arrived in Rome in 1707, ecclesiastics and noble families controlled the machinery of patronage, and it was in these circles that Handel would find admirers, among them, the rich and influential Cardinal Pamphili.

Dixit Dominus (extract)
Choir and Orchestra of Westminster Abbey
Simon Preston (conductor)

Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (extract)
Deborah York (soprano)
Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano)
Sara Mingardo (alto)
Nicholas Sears (tenor)
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)

Delirio Amoroso, Aria, Per te lasciai la luce
Magdalena Kozena (soprano)
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski (conductor)

[Rpt of Mon 12.00pm]

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Takacs Quartet

9 May 2005

Fiona Talkington presents a performance of Debussy's String Quartet in Gm Op 10 and Beethoven's String Quartet in F Op 135 by the Takacs Quartet from Wigmore Hall in London.

14:00

Afternoon Performance

1/5. New Generation Artists

Sarah Walker presents the first of five programmes this week featuring Radio 3 New Generation Artists past and present in English string concertos. Today, viola player Lawrence Power takes centre stage in the concerto by York Bowen, part of a hot-off-the-press CD with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Bowen: Viola Concerto
Lawrence Power (viola)
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Brahms: Symphony No 3
David Porcelijn (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

9 May 2005

CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present the programme for younger listeners. Today's show includes jazzy music for a dog, a cat, and a rather strange sonata.

16:00

Stage and Screen

9 May 2005

Best of British: Edward Seckerson explores the British musical through Lionel Bart's Blitz, his follow-up to Oliver!, Andrew Lloyd-Webber's Aspects of Love and Howard Goodall's The Hired Man.

17:00

In Tune

9 May 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

Maurizio Pollini

Part One

Sandy Burnett introduces a Chopin recital by the celebrated Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini, given at the Royal Festival Hall, London.

Chopin: 3 Nocturnes, Op 15
Ballade No 3 in A flat, Op 47
2 Nocturnes, Op 48
Scherzo No 1 in Bm, Op 20

[Continues at 8.40pm after Twenty Minutes]

20:20

Twenty Minutes

9 May 2005

The Polishness of Chopin: Lesley Chamberlain explores the continuing debates over Chopin's identity. Was he really more French than Polish and why do we think it matters?

20:40

Performance on 3

Maurizio Pollini

Part Two

Sandy Burnett presents the concluding part of celebrated Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini's recital of music by Chopin from the Royal Festival Hall, London.

Chopin 2 Nocturnes, Op 55
Chopin 2 Nocturnes, Op 62
Chopin Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Op 35 (Marche Funebre)

21:30

Night Waves

9 May 2005

Playwright David Eldridge talks to Paul Allen about following up his highly acclaimed adaptation of Festen with Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness.

22:15

Late Junction

9 May 2005

Fiona Talkington ushers in a week of cinema soundtracks from around the world. Tonight, music from Eastern Europe from Jasmin Dizder's Beautiful People and Gyorgy Szonjas's Vagabonds. And from further north, the elemental singing of Shaman Voices, recorded on their recent CMN tour, will echo through the week.

00:00

Composer of the Week

George Enescu (1881 - 1955)

2/5. And He Awakes the Music of Our Souls

From the turn of the century to 1914, Enescu was beginning to assume a central role in the musical life of Romania. When not touring internationally as a violinist or conducting in the capital Bucharest, Pele castle in the mountains of Sinaia was his refuge for composition.

Donald Macleod explores the influences revealed in Enescu's music at this point in his career.

Romanian Rhapsody No 2
George Enescu Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra
Cristian Mandeal (conductor)

Sept Chansons de Clement Marot
Sarah Walker/Roger Vignoles

Symphony No 1, extract MVTIII
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
Lawrence Foster (conductor)

First Piano Quartet, extract MVTI
Yvonne Piedemonte (piano)
Members of the Voces String Quartet

[Rpt of Tue 12.00pm]

01:00

Through the Night

9 May 2005

Part One

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am
Chamber music recorded at the Tivoli Concert Hall Copenhagen on 22nd June 2004
Beethoven: String Quartet in B flat, Op 18, No 6
Chilingirian Quartet
Levon Chilingirian and Charles Sewart (violin)
Susie Mezaros (viola)
Philip De Groote (cello)

Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat, Op 47
Ensemble Midt Vest
Martin Qvist Hansen (piano)
Malyn Nystrom (violin)
Sanna Ripatti (viola)
Jonathan Slaato (cello)

Franck: Piano Quintet in Fm, M7
Martin Qvist Hansen (piano)
Chilingirian Quartet

2.30am
Jan Krtitel Krumpholz: Harp Concerto No 5 in B, Op 7
Miloslav Vildner (harp)
Radio Bratislava Chamber Association/Vlastimil Horak

2.55am
Baldassare Galuppi: Good-looking Joseph
The Seven Saints Chamber Choir/Dimitar Grigorov

3.00am
Grechaninov: Missa Festiva, Op 154
Yves Castagnet (organ)
Radio France Chorus/Vladislav Chernuchenko

3.20am
Leopold Ebner: Trio in B flat
Zagreb Woodwind Trio

3.30am
Fanny Mendelssohn: Sonata in Cm
Sylviane Deferne (piano)

3.45am
Bartok: Two Pictures for Orchestra, Sz 46
Slovak Radio SO in Bratislava/Reucha Bystrik

4.00am
Bach (transcr. Bartok): Sonata VI in G, BWV530
Jan Michiels (piano)

4.15am
Niewiadomski: Siwy koniu (You Grey Horse)
Polish Radio Choir/Marek Kluza

4.17am
Mozart (arr. Franz Danzi): Voi che sapete from Le Nozze di Figaro
Duo Fouquet

4.20am
Sor: Introduction and variations on Mozart's O cara armonia, Op 9
Ana Vidovic (guitar)

4.30am
Brahms: Variations on the St Anthony Chorale, Op 56a
Slovenian Radio and Television SO/Samo Hubad

4.45am
Ambroise Thomas: Comme une pale fleur (Hamlet)
Brett Polegato (baritone)
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra/Richard Bradshaw

4.50am
Puccini: Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut
BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda

05:00

Through the Night

9 May 2005

Part Two

Susan Sharpe concludes the programme.

5.00am
Giuseppe Martucci: Noveletta, Op 82, No 2
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Nello Santi (conductor)

5.05am
Faure: Nocturne in C sharp m, Op 74
Stephane Lemelin (piano)

5.10am
Michael Bojesen: For?rsnat (Spring Night)
Hans Ulrik (saxophone)
Danish National Girls' Choir
Michael Bojesen (conductor)

5.15am
Schumann: Fantasiestucke, Op 73
Claudio Bohorquez (cello)
Marcus Groh (piano)

5.25am
Juan Carlos Cirigliano: El sonido de la ciudad
Musica Camerata Montreal

5.40am
Dvorak: The Water Goblin, Vodnik, Op 107
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

6.00am
Joseph Chevalier de Saint-Georges Boulogne: Ballet music from the opera L'amant anonyme
Tafelmusik Orchestra
Jeanne Lamon (conductor)

6.05am
Purcell: Sonata No 7 for two violins in Em, Z796
Simon Standage (violin)
Ensemble Il Tempo

6.15am
Vaughan Williams: Silence and Music (A Garland for the Queen)
BBC Singers
Stephen Layton (conductor)

6.20am
Canteloube: Brezairola (Songs of the Auvergne)
Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Kamirski (conductor)

6.25am
Lipinski: Violin Concerto No 2 in D, Op 21, Military
Albrecht Breuninger (violin)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Wojciech Rajski (conductor)