Thursday 12th May 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

12 May 2005

Presented by Sandy Burnett.

Music includes from 7.00am

Poulenc: Three Pieces
Andre Previn (piano)

Faure: Suite, Pelleas et Melisande
Paris Orchestra
Serge Baudo (conductor)

Mozart: Motet, Exsultate jubilate
Ruth Ziesak (soprano)
La Stagione
Michael Schneider (conductor)

From 8.30am

Donizetti: Trio for Flute, Bassoon and Piano
Wolfgang Schultz (flute)
Milan Turkovic (bassoon)
Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Brahms: Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit (German Requiem)
Margaret Price (soprano)
Ambrosian Singers
RPO
Andre Previn (conductor)

Mozart: Concerto in G, K453
Andre Previn (piano)
Vienna PO

10:00

CD Masters

12 May 2005

With Rob Cowan.

Brahms: Tragic Overture
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum (conductor)

Tunder: An Wasserflussen Babylon
Netherlands Bach Society
Jos van Veldhoven (conductor)

Scarlatti: Sonata K119 in D
Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord)

Brahms: An die Nachtigall
Lotte Lehmann (soprano)
Paul Ulanowsky (piano)

Weber: Konzertstuck in Fm, Op 79
Lili Kraus (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Pierre Monteaux (conductor)

Brahms: Vocal Quartets Op 64, An die Heimat, Fragen
Edith Mathis (soprano)
Brigitte Fassbaender (alto)
Peter Schreier (tenor)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Karl Engel and Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano)

Kodaly: Suite, Hary Janos
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Willem Mengelberg (conductor)

Brahms: Deutsche Volkslieder, Op 33, Nos 2, 3 and 6
Irmgard Seefried (soprano)

Honegger: Symphony No 5, Di tre re
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)

Part Four

4/5. Between the accounts of the Water party in 1717 and February 1919, there is no mention of Handel's activities in the London press. He was, during this time, composer in residence at Cannons, the magnificent palace of the Duke of Chandos in Edgware, where he composed music for private performance, completing one his finest works of the decade: Acis and Galatea.

Chandos Anthem No 6, As Pants the Hart
April Cantelo (soprano)
Ian Partridge (tenor)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Andrew Davis (organ)
Sir David Willcocks (conductor)

Oboe Sonata in Gm
Anthony Robson (oboe)
Orchestra of the Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)

Suite No 5 in E
IV Air and 5 Variations, The Harmonious Blacksmith
Sophie Yates (harpsichord)

Acis and Galatea, Excerpt Act 2
Les Arts Florissants chorus and orchestra
William Christie (conductor)

[Rpt of Thu 12.00pm]

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

English Music from The Sage

12 May 2005

Tenor James Gilchrist with pianist Anna Tilbrook give a concert of English songs from The Sage, Gateshead.

First, three Purcell realisations by Britten and Tippett, followed by Tippett's own mammoth song-cycle, The Heart's Assurance. The concert concludes with some of Britten's folksong arrangements and then his sublime cycle, On this Island.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

14:00

Afternoon Performance

New Generation Artists

4/5. The spotlight falls on the BBC SSO. Joining them, former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Ilya Gringolts, who takes the solo part in Elgar's lyrical violin concerto, dedicated to Fritz Kreisler and first performed by him in London in 1910.

Brahms: Symphony No 2
Stefan Solyom (conductor)

Elgar: Violin Concerto
Ilya Gringolts (violin)
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

12 May 2005

CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present the programme for younger listeners, including a Presto by Beethoven, some fiddle music from Wales and a massive mambo.

16:00

Brian Kay's Light Programme

12 May 2005

George Melachrino, Charles Williams and Gavin Sutherland all feature as conductors of their own music in today's selection. There's also music by Ernest Tomlinson, Albert W Ketelby and Sir Dan Godfrey conducting the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra in one of his famous novelty numbers.

17:00

In Tune

12 May 2005

Sean Rafferty 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

RPS Awards 2005

12 May 2005

An evening celebrating the RPS Awards, presented in association with BBC Radio 3 and including a special Listeners' Award.

Many of the world's finest artists gathered last night at the Dorchester Hotel, London, for the ceremony. The 13 prestigious awards honour outstanding achievements by composers, performers and arts organisations which demonstrate the RPS' key values of encouraging creativity, recognising excellence and promoting understanding.

Sir Andrew Davis and Radio 3's Stephanie Hughes present the awards with a keynote speech by Jude Kelly. Sean Rafferty talks to the musicians and introduces performances of their music.

22:00

Night Waves

12 May 2005

Philip Dodd and guests discuss the debut British tour of the National Beijing Opera Company of China, which opens with Forest of Wild Boars at the Lowry Centre in Salford.

22:30

Late Junction

12 May 2005

Fiona Talkington holds a torch for film scores from the far-east: from Japan, Shigeru Umebayashi's music for In the Mood for Love, and from China, film scores by Tsai Ming-Liang. Plus Purcell, Schubert and JS Bach.

00:00

Composer of the Week

George Enescu (1881 - 1955)

Part Five

5/5. Final Years: Donald Macleod looks at Romanian composer George Enescu's final works. Moving to a self-imposed exile in Paris after the Second World War, his life ended there, in poverty, in 1955.

Ouverture de Concerts sur des Themes populaires roumain
Philharmonia Moldova/Alexandru Lascae (conductor)

Piano Quartet No 2
The Solomon Ensemble

Chamber Symphony
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Lawrence Foster (conductor)

[Rpt of Fri 12.00pm]

01:00

Through the Night

12 May 2005

Part One

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am
Haydn and Mozart, from Norwegian Radio.

Haydn: Symphony No 96 in D, Miracle, H1.96
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
(recorded on 16th September 2004 at The Grieg Hall, Bergen)

1.20am
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20 Dm, K466
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Terje Toennesen (conductor)
(recorded on 2nd October 2004 at the University of Oslo Festival Hall )

1.55am
Haydn: Symphony No 102 in B flat major, H1.102
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Andre Previn (conductor)
(recorded on 23rd September 2004 at the University of Oslo Festival Hall)

2.20am
Schubert: Die Winterreise
Hans Hotter (bass-baritone)
Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

03:00

Through the Night

12 May 2005

Part Two

Susan Sharpe continues the programme.

3.40am
Nicolas Gombert: Media vita in morte sumus a6
BBC Singers
Bo Holten (conductor)

3.45am
Nicolas Gombert: Musae Jovis
BBC Singers
Bo Holten (conductor)

3.55am
Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon Primi Toni
Douglas Haas (organ)
Canadian Brass
Stuart Laughton, Fred Mills, Bill Phillips and Ronald Romm (trumpet)
Graeme Page (French horn)
Gene Watts (trombone)
Chuck Daellenbach (tuba)

4.00am
Telemann: Concerto for two horns in D
Jozef Ille and Jan Budzak (horns)
Chamber Association of Slovakian Radio
Vlastimil Horak (conductor)

4.10am
Byrd: Selection from The Battle, MB28.94
Jautrite Putnina (piano)

4.15am
Charles Dancla: Variations on a theme by Bellini, Op 3
Valdis Zarin (violin)
Ieva Zarina (piano)

4.20am
Berlioz: Overture, Beatrice and Benedict, Op 27
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

4.30am
Hummel: Rondo in Bm, Op 109
Stefan Lindgren (piano)

4.40am
Rossini: Introduction, theme and variations
Laszlo Horvath (clarinet)
The Hungarian Radio Orchestra
Geza Oberfrank (conductor)

4.50am
Constantijn Huygens: Multi dicunt animae meae; Domine ne in furore tuo; Usquequo Domine, from Pathodia sacra
Anne Grimm (soprano)
Peter Kooij (bass)
Leo van Doeselaar (organ)
Mike Fentross (theorbo)
Mieneke van der Velden (viola da gamba)

05:00

Through the Night

12 May 2005

Part Three

Susan Sharpe concludes this morning's programme.

5.00am
Pandolfi Mealli: Violin Sonata No 6, La Sabbatina, Op 3
Andrew Manze (violin)
Richard Egarr (harpsichord)

5.05am
Luis de Milan: Fantasia del primero y segundo tono; Sospirastes Baldovinos
Trio Montparnasse

5.15am
Sigismondo d'India: Al partir del mio sole (At the Departure of My Beloved)
Cripriano de Rore: O santo fior felice (O Blest and Happy Flower..)
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (director)

5.20am
Corelli: Trio sonata in C, Op 3, No 8
Il Seminario Musicale
Gerard Lesne (director)

5.25am
Mozart: Kirchen-Sonate No 13 in C for two violins, bass and solo organ, K328
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Kent Nagano (conductor)

5.30am
Chopin: Preludes No 16 in B flat m; No 17 in A flat; No 18 in Fm; No 19 in Eflat; No 20 in Cm, Op 28
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)

5.40am
David Wikander: Kung Liljekongvalje (King Lily of the Valley)
Swedish Radio Choir
Stefan Skold (conductor)

5.45am
David Wikander: Gammal sorg (Old Sorrow)
Swedish Radio Choir (women's voices only)
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Maria Wieslander (piano)
Gustav Sjokvist (conductor)

5.45am
Bellini: Qui la voce; Vien diletto (I Puritani di Scozia)
Anna Netrebko (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda

5.55am
Shostakovich: PianoTrio No 2 in Em, Op 67
Arve Tellefsen (violin)
Truls M?rk (cello)
H?vard Gimse (piano)

6.20am
Rachmaninov/Kreisler: When Night Descends in Silence; Oh Stop Thy Singing Maiden Fair
Fredrik Zetterstrom (baritone)
Tobias Ringborg (violin)
Anders Kilstrom (piano)

6.30am
Arensky: Suite No 1 in F, Op 15
James Anagnason
Leslie Kinton (piano)

6.45
Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave (Op.31)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra/Marko Munih