07:00
23 May 2005
Penny Gore explores musical borrowings. Firstly with baroque composers using each others' material, and secondly with 20th century composers revisiting the past.
From 7.00am
Atterberg: Varmland Rhapsody
Norrkiping Symphony Orchestra
JunIchi Hirokami (conductor)
Haydn: String Quartet in E flat, Op 20, No 1
Hagen Quartet
Mozart: Prelude and Fugue in C, K.394
Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
From 8.30am
Strauss: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Bach: Concerto after Marcello in Dm, BWV974
Alessio Bax (piano)
Debussy: Fantaisie for piano and orchestra
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer (conductor)
10:00
23 May 2005
With Jonathan Swain.
Offenbach: La belle Helene, Overture
Berlin Staatskapelle
Otto Klemperer (conductor)
Tallis: Salve intemerata
Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon (director)
Boccherini: Cello Concertro No 2, recte No 6 in D, G479
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Zurich Collegium Musicum
Paul Sacher (conductor)
Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Otto Klemperer (conductor)
Tallis: Gaude gloriosa Dei mater
Clerkes of Oxenford
David Wulstan (director)
Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Klemperer (conductor)
12:00
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Berlioz the Songwriter
Biographer and Berlioz authority David Cairns joins Donald Macleod to talk about aspects of Hector Berlioz's music. They discuss Berlioz's songwriting. Berlioz's earliest compositions were songs, some of which may have been written while he was still living at home with his parents in La Côte-Saint-André. As a young man keen to further his musical studies he moved to Paris in 1821, but although he became enthused with writing larger orchestral works he continued to write songs intermittently up until 1850, expanding and developing the genre.
Elégie, Irlande, Op 2
Robert Tear (tenor)
Viola Tunnard (piano)
Le Jeune Pâtre breton, Op 13, No 4
John Aler (tenor)
Bernd Schenk (horn)
Cord Garben (piano)
Les nuits d'été, Op 7
Susan Graham (mezzo soprano)
Royal Opera House Orchestra
John Nelson (conductor)
La mort d'Ophélie
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano)
Cord Garben (piano)
13:00
Hagen Quartet
23 May 2005
Fiona Talkington presents a concert by the Hagen Quartet from Salzburg, Austria, live from the Wigmore Hall in London.
The Hagen Quartet is renowned for its thoughtfully balanced repertoire and this programme is no exception as they play Beethoven, Shostakovich and Haydn.
Beethoven: String Quartet in Fm, Op 95
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 7 in F sharp m, Op 108
Haydn: String Quartet in G, Op 76, No 1
14:00
23 May 2005
Sandy Burnett presents an afternoon of music featuring music by Mozart, beginning with his Haffner Symphony performed by the Ulster Orchestra, conducted by David Porcelijn.
There's also a rare chance to hear Hamilton Harty's romantic Violin Concerto, and a favourite Haydn symphony, The Clock.
Mozart: Symphony No 35 in D, Haffner
David Porcelijn (conductor)
Nikolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture
Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor)
Harty: Violin Concerto in Dm
Michael D'Arcy (violin)
Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor)
Haydn: Symphony No 101 in D, The Clock
David Porcelijn (conductor)
15:40
23 May 2005
CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present the programme for younger listeners. Including Scottish music by Beethoven and the Parade of Charioteers from the epic film Ben Hur.
16:00
Legends. Anja Silja
Edward Seckerson celebrates the 70th birthday of the great German soprano who made her Bayreuth debut at the age of just 19.
Music includes Der Fliegender Hollander, Lohengrin and Fidelio, plus a specially recorded excerpt from Janacek's The Makropoulos Case.
17:00
23 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
19:00
Take Two
Part One
Live from the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, Sarah Walker introduces a BBC Singers' concert in which seven contemporary composers present their take on the music of their forebears.
In part one, there's a performance of John Taverner's Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas in which two new reworkings of the famous mass intersperse his original music.
John Taverner: Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
Elspeth Brooke: Gloria/Hallelujah (BBC Commission; first performance)
Judith Bingham: In Nomine (BBC Commission; first performance)
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
[Continues at 8.10pm after Tweny Minutes]
19:45
23 May 2005
Abidjan Blues
By Veronique Tadjo.
In a series of readings for Radio 3's Africa Season, streetlife is the theme.
Akissi finally returns to Cote d'Ivoire, but it's to bury her father. This feels like she's severing her last links with the city of her birth. Until, that is, she retraces her father's footsteps in the capital.
Read by Janice Acquah.
20:05
Take Two
Part Two
Sarah Walker introduces the concluding part of the BBC Singers' concert live from the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford.
Five composers transform a range of music from the 13th to the 17th centuries.
Thea Musgrave: A Medieval Summer (After Sumer Is I'cumen In)
Bob Chilcott: My prayer (after Purcell)
John H?ybye: The Slow Spring (after Morley)
Bo Holten: In nomine (after Taverner)
Steve Martland: Summer Rounds (after Sumer is icumen in)
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
21:10
Jonathan Harvey's Wheel of Emptiness
Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Jonathan Harvey's Wheel of Emptiness.
21:30
23 May 2005
Susan Hitch presents the first in a week long series of explorations of artists' relationships with a particular colour. This edition looks at Yves Klein blue.
22:15
23 May 2005
All this week, Shaheera Asante looks forward to Radio 3's Africa Lives programmes with a series of Songlines - African musicians telling the stories of particular songs. Plus music from Konono No 1, a Congolese band about to make their UK debut, who perform on amplified thumb-pianos.
00:00
Bedrich Smetana (1824 - 1884)
Part Two
2/5. Bedrich Smetana did not have an easy life. His beloved Katerina, his first wife, died after just a few years of marriage, following the path of three of their four children. Donald Macleod presents the Trio in Gm that Smetana wrote in memory of his oldest and favourite child, Bedriska.
Album Leaves No 1 for Katerina Kolarova
Ivan Klansky (piano)
Trio for piano, violin and cello in Gm, Op 15
Guarneri trio: Ivan Klansky (piano)
Cenek Pavlik (violin)
Marek Jerie (cello)
Souvenir de Boheme Op 12, No 2
Radoslav Kvapil (piano)
Hakon Jarl
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
[Rpt of Tue 12.00pm]
01:00
23 May 2005
Part One
With Jonathan Swain.
1.00am
Bach arr. Lazar Nikolov: Chaconne in Dm
Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra/Georgi Dimitrov
Dimitar Nenov: Piano Concerto
Anton Dikov (piano)
Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra/Alipi Naidenov
2.00am
Plamen Djurov: Fantasy
Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble/Plamen Djurov
2.15am
Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, Op 46
James Anagnoson and Leslie Kinton (piano)
2.50am
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, Op 70
The Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan/Agnieszka Duczmal
3.25am
Donizetti: Una Furtiva lagrima, L'Elisir d'amore
Volodymyr Hryshko (tenor)
Ukrainian National Opera Orchestra
3.30am
Poulenc: Oboe Sonata
Roger Cole (oboe)
Linda Lee Thomas (piano)
3.45am
Sibelius: Oi kallas Suomi (O Precious Finland), Op 23, No 9
Finnish Radio Chamber Choir/Eric-Olof Soderstrom
3.45am
Mozart: Sonata in B flat, K281
Ingo Dannhorn (piano)
4.00am
Georges Auric arr. Philip Lane: Suite from The Lavender Hill Mob
BBC Philharmonic/Rumon Gamba
4.05am
Stravinsky: Rag-time
Canadian Chamber Ensemble/Raffi Armenian
4.10am
Gershwin: The Man I Love; I Got Rhythm; Someone to Watch Over Me
Annika Skoglund (soprano)
Bengt-?ke Lundin (piano)
Staffan Sjoholm (double bass)
4.20am
Debussy: L'Isle Joyeuse
Roger Woodward (piano)
4.25am
Handel: Sonata in C, Op 1, No 7
Peter Hannan (recorder)
Colin Tilney (harpsichord)
Christel Thielmann (viola da gamba)
4.40am
Hurlebusch: Concerto in A
Paul van de Linden and Kristine Linde (oboe)
Manfred Kraemer (violin)
Musica ad Rhenum
4.50am
Frescobaldi: Canzona quinta a 3, Canzon quinta a 4 (Canzoni da Sonare)
Musica Fiata Koln/Roland Wilson
05:00
23 May 2005
Part Two
Through the Night concludes with Jonathan Swain.
5.00am
Henry Lawes: Orpheus Hymne to God
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Anthony Rooley (lute)
5.00am
Maurice Greene: Orpheus with his Lute
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Anthony Rooley (lute)
5.05am
Khachaturian: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from the ballet Spartacus
Ukranian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)
5.15am
Guiseppe Sarti: Kheruvimskaya pisnia, Song of the Cherubim
Svitych Chorus of the Nizhyn State Pedagogical University
Lyudmyla Shumska (director)
5.19am
Richard Strauss: Auf stillem Waldespfad from Stimmungsbilder, Op 9, No 1
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
5.25am
Krassimir Kyurkchiiski: A Little Bird is Singing
Sofia Chamber Choir
Vassil Arnaudov (conductor)
5.25am
Bartok: Bulgarian Rhythm from Mikrokosmos
Claire Ouellet and Sandra Murray (piano)
5.30am
Steven Wingfield: Three Bulgarian Dances
Moshe Hammer (violin)
William Beauvais (guitar)
5.35am
Petko Stainov: Paidoushko Horo (Thracian Dances)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
5.40am
Verdi: Ella mi fu rapita, Rigoletto
Kaludi Kaludov (tenor)
Sofia Symphony Orchestra
Metodi Matakiev (conductor)
5.45am
Georgius Rychnovsky: Missa super et valde mane; Gloria
The Seven Saints Chamber Choir, Dimitar Grigorov (conductor)
5.50am
Liszt: Orpheus, Symphonic poem
Hungarian State Orchestra
Janos Ferencsik (conductor)
6.00am
Pencho Stoyanov: Metamorphoses
Ivan Eftimov (piano)
6.15am
Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op 64, No 5, Lark
Tilev String Quartet
6.30am
St John Koukouzel: Our Bishop and Arch-shepherd
Orthodox Anon, XV1c, Glory, Only-begotten
Mikolaj Zielensky: Confirma Hoc Deus
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