Thursday 26th May 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

26 May 2005

Presented by Penny Gore.

From 7.00am
Schumann: Adagio and allegro, Op 70
Radovan Vlatkovic (horn)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

Gade: Echoes of Ossian, Op 1
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Dmitri Kitajenko (conductor)

Wieniawski: Polonaise brillante No 2 in A, Op 21
Maxim Vengerov (violin)
Ian Brown (piano)

From 8.30am
Schoenberg: Concerto for string quartet and orchestra
Schoenberg Quartet
Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra
Roberto Benzi (conductor)

Bach: Organ Concerto in Dm, BWV 596
Simon Preston (organ)

Mozart: Ballet music from Idomeneo K367
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (director)

10:00

CD Masters

26 May 2005

With Jonathan Swain.

Tallis: Videte miraculum
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (director)

Handel: Concerto grosso in A, Op 6, No 11
English Baroque Orchestra
Hermann Scherchen (conductor)

Tallis: Cantiones Sacrae, Honor, virtus et potestas
Cantores in Ecclesia
Michael Howard (conductor)
O sacrum convivium
Choir of New College Oxford
Edward Higginbottom (director)
Spem in alium
Oxford Camerata
Jeremy Summerly (director)

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano)
Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Klemperer (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

Berlioz the Symphonist

Berlioz's artistic viewpoint saw the symphony as a form of drama which could equal any drama on stage. His scale of vision and ideas about orchestration were ahead of his time. His earliest symphonic work, the Symphonie Fantastique, which was produced in 1830, had an electrifying effect on the audience. They'd never heard anything like it before.

Harold in Italy followed in 1834, which was inspired by Byron's dramatic poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Berlioz's own memories of happy times spent in the Abruzzi mountains outside Rome. Like Beethoven before him, Berlioz's innovations challenged the way in which symphonic music was regarded.

Donald Macleod is joined by Berlioz expert David Cairns.

Ronde du Sabbat from Symphonie Fantastique
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

Harold in Italy (2nd movement)
Tabea Zimmermann (viola)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

Symphonie Funèbre (excerpt from 1st movement)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor)

Roméo et Juliette (finale)
Gilles Cachemaille (baritone)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Monteverdi Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Celebrating Mozart

26 May 2005

Petroc Trelawney presents the third of this week's lunchtime concerts from Symphony Hall, Birmingham. The Nash Ensemble expand from Quartet to Septet for a programme which includes Mozart's Oboe Quartet, Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Winds and Stravinsky's Septet.

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC Philharmonic

The BBC Philharmonic take up the Mozart theme with his Piano Concerto No 15, performed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard. That's followed by Shostakovich's 5th Symphony, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.

Presented by Sandy Burnett.

Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas - Overture
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

Liadov: The Enchanted Lake
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 15 in B flat
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 in Dm
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

26 May 2005

CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present the programme for younger listeners. Including pieces about an angel, a cuckoo and a bull on the roof.

16:00

Brian Kay's Light Programme

26 May 2005

Ernest Tomlinson conducts Haydn Wood in his adopted homeland of the Isle of Man. There's music from Holst and the Carry On films, and Sir Arthur Sullivan's May Day in Queen Elizabeth's Time.

17:00

In Tune

26 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

Part Two. BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican

Part One

Two journeys through life from birth to death, as described by two Russian composers. The concert begins with Shostakovich's final symphony, completed in 1971, four years before his death.

Presented by Christopher Cook.

Shostakovich: Symphony No 15
Galina Gorchakova (Soprano)
Ilya Levinsky (Tenor)
Pavel Baransky (Baritone)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

[Concludes at 8.40pm after Twenty Minutes]

20:20

Twenty Minutes

Lagos, Lagos

Part of a series of short stories about African streetlife.

As Chidra was being driven across Lagos, she was struck by how dissatisfied the people looked. She too was one of those dissatisfied people. But she hoped it would end today.

Read by Susan Aderin.

20:40

Performance on 3

Part Two. BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican

Part Two

Christopher Cook presents the concluding part of a concert that depicts two journeys through life from birth to death, as described by two Russian composers.

Rachmaninov's The Bells, based on a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, depicts a journey marked by bells: from sleigh bells to wedding bells, and ultimately to the hollow tolling of the death-knell.

Rachmaninov: The Bells
Galina Gorchakova (Soprano)
Ilya Levinsky (Tenor)
Pavel Baransky (Baritone)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

21:30

Night Waves

26 May 2005

Writer John Banville talks to Paul Allen about his latest novel The Sea.

22:15

Late Junction

26 May 2005

Shaheera Asante looks forward to the UK tour of South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, and samples the new recording of the Steve Reich classic Drumming by So Percussion.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Bedrich Smetana (1824 - 1884)

Part Five

Donald Macleod introduces some works that Smetana wrote towards the end of his life, along with possibly his most famous piece, Vltava from Ma Vlast.

The Three Riders
Czech Philharmonic Chorus

Czech Dances Book 2: Oats, The Bear, The Little Onion, Stamp Dance
Jan Novotny (piano)

Quartet No 2 in Dm
Talich Quartet

Vltava from Ma Vlast
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Malcolm Sargent (conductor)

[Rpt of Fri 12.00pm]

01:00

Through the Night

26 May 2005

Part One

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra/DR
Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)
Recorded at the Danish Radio Concert Hall on 14th December 2004
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No 1, Op 46
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op 35
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Brahms: Symphony No 4 in Em, Op 98

2.30am
Durufle: Requiem, Op 9
BBC Singers
David Goode (organ)
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

3.10am
Sibelius: Masonic Ritual Music, Op 113
Risto Saarman (tenor)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

3.30am
Mozart: Quintet in E flat, K452
Douglas Boyd (oboe)
Hans Christian Br?in (clarinet)
Kjell Erik Arnesen (horn)
Per Hannisal (bassoon)
Andreas Staier (piano)

3.55am
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger: V?ren kom en valborgsnatt (The Spring Came on a Walpurgis Night)
Swedish Radio Choir
Eric Ericson (conductor)

3.55am
Buxtehude: Canzonetta, BuxWV225 in Am
James Dalton (organ)

4.00am
Buxtehude: Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern chorale-fantasia, BuxWV223
James Dalton (organ)

4.10am
Matthew Locke: Fantazie (keyboard only); Suite in Am (Pavan; Almand; Courante; Ayre; Sarabande; Jigg)
Pedro Memelsdorff (recorder)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)

4.20am
Pachelbel: Motets - Exsurgat Deus; Nun danket alle Gott
Cantus Colln
Konrad Junghanel (director)

4.30am
Pieter Hellendaal: Concerto Grosso in Dm, Op 32
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

4.40am
Berlioz transcr. Liszt: Danse des sylphes, S475
Wanda Landowska (piano)

4.45am
Gounod: Avant de quitter ces lieux from Faust, Act 2
Brett Polegato (baritone)
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
Richard Bradshaw (conductor)

4.50am
Donizetti: Sinfonia in Gm
Bratislava Chamber Harmony

05:00

Through the Night

26 May 2005

Part Two

Through the Night concludes with Jonathan Swain.

5.00am
Edgar Tinel: Overture to Polyeucte
Flemish Radio Orchestra
Lev Markiz (conductor)

5.15am
Alexander Archangelski: Now Lettest; Judgement Day
Hr. Hristov (baritone)
The Seven Saints Chamber Choir
Dimitar Grigorov (conductor)

5.25am
Alexander Fateev: Blessed is the Man
The Seven Saints Chamber Choir
Dimitar Grigorov (conductor)

5.30am
Dobri Hristov: In Your Kingdom
B Petrova (soprano)
The Seven Saints Chamber Choir
Dimitar Grigorov (conductor)

5.30am
Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)

5.50am
Ibert: Trois Pieces Breves
The Ariart Woodwind Quintet

6.00am
CFE Horneman: Aladdin Overture
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michael Sch?nwandt (conductor)

6.10am
Toivo Kuula: Satukavia (Fairytale Visions), Op 19
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)

6.25am
Jean Yves Daniel-Lesurs: Le Cantique des colonnes cantata
Isabelle Perrin and Ghislaine Petit (harp)
Maitrise de Radio France
Denis Dupays (conductor)

6.40am
Liszt: Les Preludes, symphonic poem after Lamartine, S97
Orchestre National de France
Riccardo Muti (conductor)