Wednesday 18th May 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

18 May 2005

Presented by Penny Gore.

Music includes from 7.00am

Verdi: Prelude to Simon Boccanegra, 1857 version
Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra of Milan
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

Vaughan-Williams: Romance and Pastorale for viola and piano, c 1914
Lawrence Power (viola)
Ian Brown (piano)

Delibes: Scene du bouquet from Le roi la dit
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Bonynge (conductor)

Locatelli: Concerto grosso Op 7'6 in E flat, Il Pianto d'Arianna
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini

Mozart: Piano Sonata in E flat, K 282
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

From 8.30am

Vaughan-Williams: On Wenlock Edge
Philip Langridge (tenor)
Britten Quartet
Howard Shelley (piano)

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe part 3
Berlin Radio Choir and Berlin Philharmonic
Pierre Boulez (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

18 May 2005

With Jonathan Swain.

Boieldieu: Overture, La Dame blanche
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Paul Paray (conductor)

Byrd: Iustorum Animae; Lassus; Iustorum Animae
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks (conductor)

Koechlin: La Meditation de Purun Bhagat, Op 159
Rheinland-Pfalz Philharmonic
Leif Segerstam (conductor)

Goss: Psalm 23, The Lord is My Shepherd
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks (organ)

Schumann: Fantasia in C, Op 17
Robert Casadesus (piano)

Pergolesi: Sinfonia for Cello and Continuo
Peter Howard (solo cello)
Joshua Koestenbaum (continuo cello)
Christopher Hogwood (harpsichord)

Haydn: Missa in Tempore Belli, HobXXII/19
Heather Harper (soprano)
Pamela Bowden (mezzo)
Alexander Young (tenor)
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
English Chamber Orchestra
Sir David Willcocks (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Bedrich Smetana (1824 - 1884)

Part Three

3/5. Donald Macleod tells the story of how Bedrich Smetana began to write opera and takes us through what has become the best loved of his eight operas, The Bartered Bride. We also hear the snippet of operatic writing that Smetana believed to be his best.

The Brandenburgers in Bohemia, Act 2 Scene 1
Old Man ...... Eduard Haken (bass)
The Chorus and Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre
Jan Hus Tichy (conductor)

Excerpts from The Bartered Bride
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra cond Zdenek Kosler

The Kiss, Act 1 scene 7
Vendulka ...... Eva Depoltova (soprano)
Martinka ...... Libuse Marova (alto)
Brno Janacek Opera Orchestra
Frantisek Vajnar (conductor)

[Rpt of Wed 12.00pm]

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Celebrating Mozart

18 May 2005

Stephanie Hughes presents the first of four concerts in Radio 3's Celebrating Mozart season. Members of the Gaudier Ensemble, including the pianist Susan Tomes, perform chamber works by Mozart for piano and wind instruments.

Mozart: Adagio in Bm, K450; Clarinet Trio in E flat K498 Kegelstatt; Piano and Wind Quintet in E flat K452

14:00

Afternoon Performance

Dvorak Symphonies

The BBC Philharmonic takes centre stage with Dvorak's Symphony No 7, commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society in 1884 and first performed in London in April 1885 under the baton of the composer himself. Introduced by Warwick Thompson.

Smetana: Richard III
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Grieg: Piano Concerto in Am, Op 16
Lukas Vondracek (piano)
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Dvorak: Symphony No 7 in Dm
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

18 May 2005

CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present the programme for younger listeners, including a march for bassoon, music from India and some strange percussion music.

16:00

Choral Evensong

18 May 2005

Live from Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.

Introit: Through Christ Jesus (Peter Hurford)
Responses: Leighton
Psalms: 93, 94 (Garrett, Wesley)
First Reading: Ecclesiastes 1 vv1-11
Office Hymn: Holy Spirit, Ever Dwelling (Salisbury)
Canticles: Westminster Service (Howells)
Second Reading: James 2 vv14-24
Anthems: And When the Builders (Richard Shephard)
Hymn: Come Down O Love Divine (Down Ampney)
Organ Voluntary: Improvisation sur le Te Deum (Tournemire)

Master of the Choristers and Organist: Ian Tracey
Assistant Organist and Choral Conductor: Ian Wells

17:00

In Tune

18 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

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Live from Bedford School Hall Part One

Part 1.

Live from Bedford School Hall.

On 30th July 1941 the BBC Symphony Orchestra travelled by special train from its previous wartime billet in Bristol to its new temporary home in Bedford. The orchestra was to stay there until the end of the War in 1945, giving regular concerts at the Corn Exchange and Bedford School.

Sixty years on, the Orchestra makes a welcome return visit. Presented by Paul Guinery.

Stravinsky: Danses Concertantes
Britten: Les Illuminations
Claire Booth (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

[Continues at 8.40pm after Twenty Minutes]

20:20

Twenty Minutes

18 May 2005

Fighting for Good Music: During the Second World War, classical music was found to have more inspirational and spiritual value for the troops than other music. Graeme Kay investigates.

20:40

Performance on 3

BBC Symphony Orchestra

from Bedford School Hall Part Two

Paul Guinery presents the concluding part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's celebration of its wartime home in Bedford and the regular concerts it gave there at the Corn Exchange and Bedford School.

Sibelius: Symphony No 3
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

21:30

Night Waves

18 May 2005

Philip Dodd talks to film director George Lucas about the new Star Wars movie, Revenge of the Sith, and about the remarkable success and meaning of the Star Wars series.

22:15

Late Junction

18 May 2005

Fiona Talkington listens to a new album from the Christian Wallumrod Ensemble. There's music by Bach, and Nils Okland is the soloist in Geir Tveitt's Hardanger Fiddle Concerto No 2, Three Fjords.

00:00

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]

01:00

Through the Night

18 May 2005

Part One

With Louise Fryer.

1.00am
From Croatian Radio, recorded at the Lisinski Concert Hall, Zagreb, in 1977
Prokofiev (arr Abram Stasevich): Ivan the Terrible, Op 116a
Biserka Cveji (soprano)
Vladimir Rudjak (baritone)
Zlatko Crnovi (narrator)
Ivan Goran Kovai Academic Choir and Zagreb PO/Nika Bareza

2.15am
Frederik Pacius: Violin Concerto
Jorma Rahkonen (violin)
Finnish RSO/Okko Kamu

2.35am
Erik Tulindberg: String Quartet No 3 in C
Ostrobothnian Quartet

2.55am
Mozart: Sonata for two pianos in D, K448
Bart van Ort and Liv Glaser (fortepiano)

3.20am
Georg Muffat: Sonata V in G from Armonico Tributo
Academy of Ancient Music/Paul Goodwin

3.40am
Britten: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell, A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Bulgarian National RSO/Milen Nachev

4.00am
Purcell: Chaconne upon a Ground (Dioclesian)
Rachel Beckett and Marion Scott (recorder)
Jakob Lindberg (lute)
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

4.00am
Louis-Claude Daquin: Rondeau, Le Coucou
Colin Tilney (harpsichord)

4.05am
Nicolaus Bruhns: Hemmt eure Tranenflut, madrigal a 9
Greta de Reyghere (soprano)
James Bowman (counter-tenor)
Guy de Mey (tenor)
Max van Egmond (bass)
Ricercar Consort

4.20am
CPE Bach: Sinfonia No 2 in B flat
Camerata Bern

4.30am
Tippett: Dance, Clarion Air
BBC Singers/Stephen Layton

4.35am
Fibich: Poem for Violin and Piano
Jela Spitkova (violin)
Tatiana Franova (piano)

4.35am
Alexis Contant: La Charmeuse
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello)
William Tritt (piano)

4.40am
Dukas: Villanelle
Esa Tukia (horn)
Finnish RSO/Michel Adelson

4.50am
Edward MacDowell: Hexentanz, Op 17, No 2
Yuki Takao (piano)

4.50am
Barber: Adagio for String Orchestra
CBC Vancouver Orchestra/Mario Bernadi

05:00

Through the Night

18 May 2005

Part Two

Louise Fryer concludes this morning's programme.

5.00am
Hugo Alfven: Midsummer Vigil, Swedish Rhapsody No 1, Op 19
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michael Sch?nwandt (conductor)

5.10am
Sibelius: Luonnotar
Soile Isokoski (soprano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

5.20am
Bach: Concerto for two violins in Dm, BWV1043
Sigiswald Kuijken (violin and conductor)
Lucy van Dael (2nd violin solo)
La Petite Bande

5.35am
Alfredo Casella: Sicilienne and Burlesque
Kathleen Rudolph (flute)
Rena Sharon (piano)

5.45am
Michelangelo Rossi: Toccata No 7 in Dm (Toccate e correnti)
Ton Koopman (harpsichord)

5.50am
Anton Arensky (arr Vladimir Kriukov): Romance No 3; Ne zazhigay ognya, Op 38
The Hertz Trio

5.55am
Nikolai Kedrov Jnr: Psalm 103
Nikolai Kedrov Snr: Our Father (The Lord's Prayer)
The Seven Saints Chamber Choir
Dimitar Grigorov (conductor)

6.00am
Stravinsky: Instrumental miniatures for 15 instruments arr. from Les cinq doigts (orig for piano)
Canadian Chamber Ensemble
Raffi Armenian (director)

6.10am
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz: Violin Concerto in A, Op 8
Kaja Danczowska (violin)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Wit (conductor)

6.40am Stefan Nemeth-Samorinsky: Birch Trees, symphonic poem
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava
Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)