Wednesday 11th May 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

11 May 2005

Presented by Sandy Burnett.

Music includes from 7.00am

Liadov: Kikimora, Op 63
Kirov Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)

Telemann: Cantata: Weiche, Lust und Frohlichkeit
Dorothee Mields (soprano)
Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble
Han Tol (conductor)

Rossini: Sonata for Strings, No 2
Members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

From 8.30am

Schubert: Impromptu in Fm, D935/1
Alexei Lubimov (piano)

Vaughan Williams: Concerto Accademico
James Buswell (violin)
LSO
Andre Previn (conductor)

Brahms: Sonata in F, Op 99
Natalie Clein (cello)
Charles Owen (piano)

10:00

CD Masters

11 May 2005

With Rob Cowan.

JC Bach: Sinfonia No 2 in B flat, Op 18, Lucio Silla
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Eduard van Beinum (conductor)

Verdi: Don Carlo, Ella giamai m'amo, Dormiro sol nel manto mio regal
Boris Christoff (bass)
De Machula (cello)
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Eduard van Beinum (conductor)

Berg orch. Verbey: Piano Sonata Op 1
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Friedrich Gulda (piano)

Brahms: Wie melodien Op 105, No 1
Lisa Della Casa (soprano)
Karl Hudez (piano)
Intermezzo, Op 76, No 3
Rudolf Firkusny (piano)
Von ewiger Liebe, Op 43, No 1; Standchen Op 106, No 1
Lisa Della Casa (soprano)
Karl Hudez (piano)

Ligeti: Hungarian Rock and Contiuum
Elisabeth Chojnacka (harpsichord)

Brahms: Komm bald; Wie bist du, meine Konig; Wenn du nur zuweilen lachelst
Hans Hotter (baritone)
Gerald Moore (piano)

Prokofiev: Symphony No 3 in Cm, Op 44
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Kirill Kondrashin (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)

Part Three

3/5. On his second visit to England, Handel took up residence in Burlington House, Piccadilly, for three years, where his mornings were employed in study. At dinner he sat down with eminent, influential gentlemen. Donald Macleod looks at the music associated with this period of Handel's career.

Il Pastor Fido, Overture
Simon Standage (violin)
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock (conductor)

Rinaldo: Aria Cara sposa
James Bowman (alto)
The King's Consort
Robert King (conductor)

Amadigi di Gaula, excerpt Act 2
Amadigi ...... Nathalie Stutzmann
Oriana ...... Jennifer Smith
Melissa ...... Eiddwen Harrhy
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski (conductor)

[Rpt of Wed 12.00pm]

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

English Music from The Sage

11 May 2005

Petroc Trelawny presents more English repertoire from The Sage, Gateshead, in a concert given by The BBC Singers under the direction of Dominic Wheeler.

Beginning with three Purcell Anthems, the choir then performs three Shakespeare Songs by Vaughan Williams, and a set of four songs from The British Isles by Michael Tippett.

The concert ends with Malcolm Williamson's North Country Sketches.

14:00

Afternoon Performance

New Generation Artists

3/5. Sarah Walker introduces a performance of Walton's viola concerto with Radio 3 New Generation Artist Antoine Tamestit, alongside works by Holst and Rachmaninov.

Holst: The Perfect Fool, Ballet Music
Walton Viola Concerto
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2
Antoine Tamestit (viola)
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

11 May 2005

CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present the programme for younger listeners, including music for dinosaurs, Water Music for a king and some strange goings on down in the woods.

16:00

Choral Evensong

11 May 2005

Live from the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music, St. Pancras Church, London.

Introit: O be joyful in the Lord (Paul Ayres)
Responses: Francis Pott
Psalms: 59, 60, 61 (Batchelor)
First Reading: Nehemiah 7 v73b, 8 vv3, 8-12
Canticles: Diana Burrell
Second Reading: 2 Corinthians 11 vv16-end
Anthem: Lo God is Here! (Philip Moore)
Hymn: O God, my God, Risen Above (Ruby)
Organ Voluntary: Sanctus (Sebastian Forbes)

Director of Music: Christopher Batchelor
Organist: Peter Bennett

17:00

In Tune

11 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

London Symphony Orchestra

11 May 2005 - Part One

A performance of Smetana's Ma Vlast - a unique cycle of six symphonic poems evoking the natural beauty and legendary history of his Czech homeland.

Traditionally, the poems open the world-famous Prague Spring Festival. In two days' time the LSO and Sir Colin Davis will have the honour of performing them in the Smetana Hall of Prague's Municipal House.

Recorded last night at the Barbican Hall, London. Presented by Christopher Cook.

Smetana: Ma Vlast, Vysehrad, Vltava, Sarka
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

[Continues at 8.30pm after Twenty Minutes]

20:10

Twenty Minutes

Trespass

Trespass: By Julian Barnes. Geoff thinks he can impress Lynn by taking her hiking, with all the right equipment and know-how. Then things go wrong in the ferns at Froggatt Edge. Read by David Thorpe.

20:30

Performance on 3

London Symphony Orchestra

11 May 2005 - Part Two

Christopher Cook presents the LSO conducted by Sir Colin Davis performing the concluding part of Smetana's Ma Vlast - a unique cycle of six symphonic poems recorded last night at the Barbican Hall, London.

Ma Vlast: From Bohemia's Meadows and Forests; Tabor; Blanik
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

21:30

Night Waves

11 May 2005

Isabel Hilton and guests explore the ideas and history behind the week's news headlines.

22:15

Late Junction

11 May 2005

Fiona Talkington takes her seat in front of the silver screen for soundtracks from the Middle East - featuring Natacha Atlas, Souad Massi and Lebanese electronic band Soapkills. And there's music from Madagascar, the Hilliard Ensemble and Joanna Macgregor playing Messiaen.

00:00

Composer of the Week

George Enescu (1881 - 1955)

Part Four

4/5. A Romanian Music: The interwar years were dominated for Enescu by the completion in 1931 of the first major Romanian opera, Oedipe, which he had laboured over for more than two decades. During a period which was to prove difficult in his personal life he also wrote several pieces with a national style in mind, by attempting to reflect in music the soul of his people, rather than quoting folk tunes. With Donald Macleod.

Sonata No 3 in Am, extract MVTII
Anne Solomon (violin)
Dominic Saunders (piano)

Oedipe, extract, end of Act 2
Sphinx ...... Marjana Lipovsek
Oedipus ...... Jose van Dam
Chorus Orfeon Donostiarra
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
Lawrence Foster (conductor)

3rd Orchestral Suite Villageoise
Romanian National Radio Orchestra
Horia Andreescu (conductor)

[Rpt of Thu 12.00pm]

01:00

Through the Night

11 May 2005

Part One

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am
David Sanger plays Vierne's Organ Symphony No 2 in Em, Op 20, on the organ of Westminster Cathedral, with other pieces from the French Organ repertoire by Jean Langlais, Vincent Indy and Cesar Franck (played on the organ of Exeter College, Oxford).

Vierne: Toccata in B flat minor, Pieces de fantasie, Second Suite, Op 53
Henri Rosaces Mulet: Esquisses byzantines, No 3
Franck: Piece heroique in Bm, M37
Vierne: Organ Symphony No 2 in Em, Op 20
Jean Langlais: Incantation pour un jour saint

2.00am
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for strings in C, Op 48
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ludovit rajter (conductor)

2.35am
Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata in Gm, Op 19
Elizabeth Dolin (cello)
Francine Kay (piano)

03:00

Through the Night

11 May 2005

Part Two

Susan Sharpe continues today's programme.

3.10am
Pieter Hellendaal: Sonata Prima in G, Op 5
Jaap ter Linden (cello)
Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
Ageet Zweistra (cello continuo)

3.20am
Haydn: Symphony No 31 in D, H1.31) Hornsignal
The Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra
Ludovit Rajter (conductor)

3.45am
Weber: Clarinet Concerto No 2 in E flat major, Op 74
Kari Kriikku (clarinet)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

4.05am
Purcell: See, see, even Night herself is here (The Fairy Queen)
Nancy Argenta (soprano)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Monica Huggett (guest conductor)

4.10am
Lodewijk De Vocht: In ballingschap (In Exile)
Flemish Radio Orchestra
Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor)

4.25am
Schumann: Traumerei
Jane Coop (piano)

4.25am
Johann Kasper Kerll: Magnificat Septimi Toni
Royal Academy of Music Chamber Choir
Patrick Russill (conductor)
Daniel Cook (Positive Organ)

4.35am
Purcell: Sonata No 6 for Two Violins in Gm, Z807
Ensemble Il Tempo

4.40am
Liszt: Auf flugeln des Gesanges, S547
Sylviane Deferne (piano)

4.45am
Jayme Ovalle (arr. Peter Tiefenbach): Azul?o (Blue Bird)
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano)
James Parker (piano)
Bryan Epperson, Maurizio Baccante, Roman Borys, Simon Fryer, David Hetherington, Roberta Jansen, Paul Widner, Thomas Wiebe, Winona Zelenka (cello)

4.50am
Harold Arlen: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
I Cameristi Italiani

4.53am
Bernstein: Overture, Candide
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Richard Dufallo (conductor)

05:00

Through the Night

11 May 2005

Part Three

Susan Sharpe concludes this morning's programme.

5.00am
Chopin: Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor, Op 39
Simon Trpceski (piano)

5.05am
D'Indy: Prelude in E flat minor, Op 66
David Sanger (organ)

5.10am
Lodewijk Mortelmans: Solemn Procession to Gethsemani (Evangelical Diptych)
Flemish Radio Orchestra
Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor)

5.15am
Zelenski (arr. Jan Maklakiewicz): Zaczarowana krolewna (The Bewitched Princess)
Polish Radio Choir
Marek Kluza (director)

5.20am
Bach: Concerto No 7 in Gm, BWV1058
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

5.35am
Dvorak: Legend No 4 in C, Op 59
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)

5.40am
Willem de Fesch: Concerto for Two Flutes in Gm, Op 5, No 2
Musica ad Rhenum

5.50am
Chopin: Ballade No 1 in Gm, Op 23
Teresa Carre?o (piano)

6.00am
Mozart: String Quartet in C, Dissonance, K465
Jupiter Quartet

6.30am
Pancho Vladigerov: Elegie d'automne, Op 15
Ludmil Angelov (piano)

6.35am
Berlioz: La Mort de Cleopatre
Olga Borodina (mezzo soprano)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)