Saturday 14th May 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

14 May 2005

Presented by Martin Handley.

From 7.00am
Kuula: Auringon Noustessa, Op 11, No 3 (Sunrise)
Accentus Chamber Choir
Eric Ericson (conductor)

Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)

From 8.00am
Barre: Suite in G, Sonate, L'Inconnue
Rachel Brown (flute)
Mark Caudle (viol)
James Johnstone (harpsichord)

Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije Suite
Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell (conductor)

09:00

CD Review

14 May 2005

Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's newest releases and Stephen Plaistow surveys available recordings of the keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti in Building a Library. Ash Khandekar reviews new releases of choral music, including Rutter's Gloria from King's College Cambridge, Rachmaninov's All-Night Vigil from the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, and the Vaughan Williams Mass from Westminster Cathedral Choir.

Pianist Piotr Anderszewski talks about his recordings of Bach and Beethoven; the expectations of a Pole playing Chopin, and his new CD of Szymanowski.

Disc of the Week at 12.30pm:
Britten: String Quartet No 1 in D, Op 25
Belcea Quartet

13:00

The Early Music Show

London Handel Festival 2005

Handel's English Circle

Catherine Bott introduces a concert from Handel's own parish church, St George's Hanover Square, where Adrian Butterfield and the London Handel Players perform a programme featuring the music of Handel together with music by some of his English contemporaries.

Handel: Flute Concerto in Gm, HWV 287; Passacaglia from No 4 trio sonata, Op 5; Ombre piante from Rodelinda; Il volo cosi fido from Riccardo Primo

Festing: Concerto No 8 in D, Op 3

Stanley: Organ Concerto in G, Op 2, No 3

London Handel Players -
Oliver Webber (violin)
Stephen Bull (violin)
William Thorp (violin)
Rachel Stott (viola)
Katherine Sharman (cello)
Cecelia Bruggemeyer (double bass)
Adrian Butterfield (director/violin)
Joanne Lunn (soprano)
Rachel Brown (flute)
Laurence Cummings (organ/harpsichord)

14:00

Discovering Music

The Golden Spinning Wheel

Stephen Johnson joins the members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Neil Thomson for a look at the workings and inspiration behind Antonin Dvorak's fairy-tale inspired tone poem, The Golden Spinning Wheel.

15:00

World Routes

WOMAD New Zealand

Charlie Gillett introduces highlights from one of WOMAD's international offshoots, held in Taranaki on New Zealand's North Island.

Featured artists include Maori singer Mahinarangi Tocker, Australian Aboriginal rocker George Rrurrambu with his band Birdwave, and Kari Kari from the world's most isolated island, Rapanui (Easter Island).

16:00

Jazz Line-Up

14 May 2005

Claire Martin presents a selection of new releases and looks ahead to the Bath International Music Festival.

17:00

Jazz Record Requests

14 May 2005

Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listener's jazz requests. Request your favourite jazz cut by E mail: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk

18:00

Jazz File

The Musical World of Keith Jarrett

Never Let Me Go - Part Three

Alyn Shipton continues his series of conversations with pianist Keith Jarrett. In this third programme, Jarrett talks about his European quartet featuring saxophonist Jan Garbarek, his experiments with the church organ, and his first major recitals as a classical performer.

18:30

BBC Singers

Time for Tippett

Michael Tippett composed some of the best-loved choral works of 20th century British repertoire.

From St Giles' Church in London's Barbican, Louise Fryer presents a concert in which the BBC Singers perform a selection of his work, including spirituals, motets and folksongs. They are coupled with choral music by an earlier British composer who Tippett much admired, Henry Purcell.

BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
Benjamin Bayl (organ continuo)

19:25

Opera On 3

Tippet's 'The Knot Garden'

14 May 2005 Acts 1 and 2

Elizabethan Knot Gardens often resembled a maze. Tippett's opera, with his own libretto, deals with 20th century relationships in turmoil, and has strong echoes of Shakespeare's The Tempest with its themes of enchantment and isolation.

The Knot Garden caused controversy at its premiere in 1970. Two of the main characters - the bisexual Black writer Mel and his white friend Dov, a musician - are probably the first openly gay couple to appear in opera. It is their relationship, grown fragile, around which much of the plot revolves.

Presented by Stephanie Hughes.

Faber ...... Christopher Purves (baritone)
Thea ...... Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
Flora ...... Ailish Tynan (soprano)
Denise ...... Rachel Hynes (soprano)
Mel ...... Roderick Williams (baritone)
Doy ...... James Gilchrist (tenor)
Mangus ...... Alan Opie (baritone)

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)

[Continues at 8.45pm after Twenty Minutes]

20:25

Twenty Minutes

Electric Tippett

Tippett's deployment of a twanging electric guitar in The Knot Garden was a first for him, and he went on to include it in The Ice Break, New Year and The Songs for Dov.

Steve Martland explores whether Tippett was being genuine or just trendy in his use of the instrument from the 1970s onwards. With contributions from Sir Colin Davis, Robert Tear and guitarist Steve Smith.

20:45

Opera On 3

Tippet's 'The Knot Garden'

14 May 2005 Act 3

Act 3. The Knot Garden: Live from the Barbican, Stephanie Hughes presents the concluding part of Tippett's opera, with a cast featuring Christopher Purves and Karen Cargill.

21:30

The Verb

14 May 2005

Ian McMillan presents the writing and performance programme. There's a special commission from Chris Cleave, author of Incendiary, a new novel which imagines
Britain in the aftermath of a terrorist attack.

Chris's commission looks at how language reacts to moments of crisis. Also on the show, a new eartoon from Peter Blegvad.

22:15

Pre-Hear

York Holler's Pensees

A major work from the 1990s combining electronic and orchestral forces.

York Holler: Pensees second Piano Concerto
Pi-Hsien Chen (piano)
Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hans Zender (conductor)

23:00

Hear And Now

2/4. Electronic May

Durham Electroacoustic Music Festival

Throughout May, Hear and Now will be featuring electronic music from around the country. Alwynne Pritchard presents two classic works using multi-channel surround-sound which were paired with two new works at the Durham concerts in March.

Martyn Harry: Restraint (world premiere)
Stockhausen: Kontakte
performed by Psappha

Iannis Xenakis: Polytope de Cluny (UK premiere)
Furt: OMNIVM (Part II) (world premiere)

01:00

Through the Night

14 May 2005

Part One

With Louise Fryer.

1.00am (from the 2004 Proms)
Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine
Carolyn Sampson, Rebecca Outram (soprano)
Charles Humphries (counter tenor)
Charles Daniels
James Gilchrist
Daniel Auchinloss
Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Vine (tenor)
Robert Evans, Robert Macdonald (bass)
Choir of the King's Consort
The King's Consort
Robert King (conductor)

2.30am
Wojciech Kilar: Choral Prelude
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Wojciech Rajski (conductor)

2.45am
Dvorak: Trio in Em, Dumky, Op 90
Trio Lorenz

3.20am
Chopin: Nocturne in G, Op 37, No 2
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (piano)

3.30am
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in Eb, KV 364
Gotz Rustig (violin)
Werner Ehrbrecht (viola)
Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

4.00am
Marais: Plainte
Pierre Pitzl, Mary Jean Bolli (violas da gamba)
Luciano Contini (archiliuto)
Augusta Campagne (harpsichord)

4.05am
Palestrina: Missa sine nomine
Silvia Piccollo (soprano)
Annemieke Cantor (alto)
Marco Beasley (tenor)
Daniele Carnovich (bass)
Diego Fasolis (conductor)

4.20am
Wassenaer: Concerto armonico in B flat, No 5
Academy of Ancient Music
Andrew Manze (director/violin)

4.30am
Brahms: Geistliches Wiegenlied, Op 91, No 2
Judita Leitaite (mezzo-soprano)
Arunas Statkus (viola)
Andrius Vasiliauskas (piano)

4.40am
Vaino Haapalainen: Lemminkainen Overture
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Atso Almila (conductor)

4.45am
Schubert: Gesang der Geistern uber den Wassern
Estonian National Male Choir
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Juri Alperten (director)

05:00

Through the Night

14 May 2005

Part Two

Through the Night concludes with Louise Fryer.

5.00am
Giuseppe Tartini: Violin Concerto in Dm, D45
Federico Agostini (violin)
Slovenski Solisti
Marko Munih (conductor)

5.15am
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 3
Jeno Jando (piano)

5.20am
Frescobaldi: Toccata Quarta
Stef Tuinstra (organ)

5.25am
Monteverdi: Madrigal - Altri canti d'Amor
Suzie Le Blanc, Kristina Nilsson (soprano)
Daniel Taylor (counter tenor)
Rodrigo del Pozo (tenor)
Josep Cabre (baritone)
Bernard Deletre (bass)
Tragicomedia
Stephen Stubbs (conductor)
Concerto Palatino
Bruce Dickey (conductor)

5.35am
Bartok: From the Diary of a fly; Chromatic Invention (Mikrokosmos)
Jan Michiels (piano)

5.40am
Dvorak: Overture - King and the Charcoal Burner
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Robl (conductor)

5.45am
Puccini: Quando m'en vo (La Boheme)
Anna Netrebko (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

5.50am
Marcel Grandjany: Rhapsodie pour la harpe
Rita Costanzi (harp)

6.00am
Gershwin: Lullaby
New Stenhammar String Quartet

6.10am
Aleksander Zarzycki: Polish Suite, Op 37
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Andrzej Straszynski (conductor)

6.35am
Moniuszko: O Zosi sierotce (The Orphaned Zosia); Do Niemna (To the Niemen River); Dumka
Urszula Kryger (mezzo soprano)
Katarzyna Jankowska-Borzykowska (piano)

6.45am
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz: Chant de l'eternelle aspiration (Chants eternels), Op 10
Orchestre Francais des Jeunes
Marek Janowski (director)