Saturday 28th May 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

28 May 2005

Presented by Tommy Pearson.

From 7.00am
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No 1, Op 46
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Beethoven: Sonata for piano No 26, Op 81a in E flat; Op 81a Les Adieux
Maurizio Pollini (piano)

Thomas Linley the Younger: Ye Nymphs of Albion's Beauty-blooming Isle
Julia Gooding (soprano)
The Parley of Instruments
Paul Nicholson (director)

From 8.00am
Wagner: Prelude to Parsifal
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

Bach: Ciaccona from Partita No 2 in Dm, BWV1004
Rachel Podger (baroque violin)

Grieg/Duke Ellington: Ase's Death from Peer Gynt
Duke Ellington Band

09:00

CD Review

28 May 2005

Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's newest releases. Andrew Green recommends a version of Vaughan Williams' Symphony No 3 Pastoral from the currently available recordings.

Anthony Burton reviews new chamber music releases, including assorted Saint-Saens from the Nash Ensemble, Shostakovich from the Jerusalem Quartet, and Mozart violin sonatas from Mark Steinberg and Mitsuko Uchida.

Andrew McGregor talks to pianist Lang Lang about making music back home in China; the pressures of his meteoric rise to international fame; his Carnegie Hall debut recital and his new recording of Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto.

Disc of the Week
Esa-Pekka Salonen: Wing on Wing
Anu Komsi (soprano)
Piia Komsi (soprano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

13:00

The Early Music Show

Tutti Lutie

Lucie Skeaping journeys both East and West to explore the surprisingly exotic lute family tree. She touches down in Iran and Greece en route to India and finds out whether instrumental blood really is thicker than water.

14:00

Discovering Music

Bernstein SeasonSerenade after Plato's Symposium (1954)

Leonard Bernstein's five movement concerto for violin, strings and percussion is one of his most personal compositions. It was inspired by Plato's Symposium, a discourse on love in all its aspects, and was presented in the form of a series of statements by celebrated guests at a banquet.

In this workshop session Charles Hazlewood explores the relationship between Bernstein's music and the source of his inspiration.

Antje Weithaas (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Charles Hazlewood (conductor)

15:00

World Routes

Africa Lives Roadshow

Live from Cardiff Bay, Lucy Duran hosts a concert organised with the city's Somali community. Artists include the Congolese group Konono No 1, who play traditional trance music on electrified thumb-pianos, plus one of Somalia's leading groups, the Shego Band.

16:00

Jazz Line-Up

28 May 2005

Claire Martin presents a selection of new releases, and talks to trumpeter Colin Steele about his new album Through The Waves.

17:00

Jazz Record Requests

28 May 2005

Request your favourite jazz cut by E mail: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk

18:00

Jazz File

Brilliant Corners: The Story of Riverside Records

28 May 2005

John Fordham looks at one of the unsung heroes of modern jazz recording - Riverside Records. In conversation with legendary record producer and label owner Orrin Keepnews, they chart how the label came to record some of the key jazz albums of the fifties and early sixties.

1/3. Keepnews tells how he dealt with the sometimes difficult Thelonious Monk in the studio, signed pianist Bill Evans and recorded one of jazz's first statements on civil rights, Sonny Rollins' Freedom Suite.

Presented by John Fordham.

18:30

Opera On 3

Le Roi Arthus

Complete performance

The French composer Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) was fascinated both by Arthurian legend and the operas of Wagner. His only opera, set in 6th century England, brings to life the tragic tale of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table - with its themes of illicit love, chivalry and magic.

The superb cast and orchestra are conducted in this new studio recording by Leon Botstein. Presented by Stephanie Hughes with Roger Nichols.

Chausson: Le Roi Arthus

Genievre ...... Susan Bullock (soprano)
Arthus ...... Andrew Schroeder (baritone)
Lancelot ...... Simon O'Neill (tenor)
Merlin ...... Francois Le Roux (baritone)
Mordred ...... Daniel Okulitch (baritone)
Lyonnel ...... Garrett Sorenson (tenor)
Allan ...... Sir Donald McIntyre (bass-baritone)
Apollo Voices
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leon Botstein (conductor)

21:45

The Verb

28 May 2005

Ian McMillan presents the writing and performance programme. The acclaimed American author Joyce Carol Oates discusses the faith of the writer; plus, a specially commissioned piece by renowned novelist Derek Beavan, and another instalment from The Verb's award-winning eartoonist Peter Blegvad.

22:30

Pre-Hear

Sarah Nicholls plays Alfred Schnittke

Pianist Sarah Nicholls plays Improvisation and Fugue, Sonata No 2, by the 20th Century Russian master, Alfred Schnittke - recorded at the 2003 Bath Festival.

23:00

Hear And Now

4/4. Electronic May. Cut and Splice II

Robert Worby presents the second programme from the recent Cut and Splice Festival of Electronic Music, featuring classic works using taped sounds from the 1960s by Robert Ashley and Mauricio Kagel, and a new work from Austria which uses live electronic manipulations of instrumental music.

Robert Ashley: Wolfman
Keir Neuringer (vocals) and Joel Ryan (live electronics)
Peter Ablinger Fur Johannes Michael Fischer (UK Premiere)
Mauricio Kagel: Acustica
Apartment House, led by Anton Lukoszevieze

01:00

Through the Night

28 May 2005

Part One

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
From the Proms 2004
Dvorak: Serenade for string orchestra, Op 22 in E
Schumann: Concerto for piano and orchestra, Op 54 in Am
Chopin: Concerto for piano and orchestra No 2, Op 21 in Fm
Dvorak: Legend in Dm, Op 59, No 1 and Legend in Gm, Op 59, No 3
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Christian Zacharias (Piano/Conductor)

2.40am
Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op 24
Hinko Haas (piano)

3.10am
Jenner: Trio in E flat for Clarinet, Horn and Piano 1900
James Campbell (clarinet)
Martin Hackleman (horn)
Jane Coop (piano)

3.40am
Crusell: Concertino for bassoon and orchestra in B flat
Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

4.00am
Sibelius: Oi Toivo, Op 23, No 3; Tuule, tuule leppeaman Op 23, No 6b; Oi lempi, sun valtas aareton on Op 23, No 7
Pirkko Tonquvist (soprano)
Finnish Radio Chamber Choir
Eric-Olof Soderstrom (conductor)

4.05am
Scheidt: Alamanda
Vincent van Laar (organ)

4.20am
Handel: Water Music Suite No 2 in D
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

4.35am
Glazunov: Chant du menestrel, Op 71
Shauna Rolston (cello)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

4.40am
Grieg: Symphonic Dance No 4
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Goran W Nilson (conductor)

05:00

Through the Night

28 May 2005

Part Two

Through the Night concludes with Jonathan Swain.

5.00am
Kabalevsky: Comedians, suite
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava
Oliver Dohnanyi

5.15am
Auric: Suite from the film It Always Rains on Sunday
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

5.45am
Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Symphony Nova Scotia
Georg Tintner (conductor)

5.55am
Tormis: Spring Sketches
Eesti Radio Choir
Toomas Kapten (conductor)

6.00am
Vivaldi: Concerto in A, RV335, The Cuckoo
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Paul Dyer (director)

6.10am
Liszt: Waldesrauschen
Lana Genc (piano)

6.15am
Dvorak: V prirode, Op 91
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

6.30am
Humperdinck: Dream Scene from Hansel and Gretel
Engelbert Humperdinck (piano)

6.40am
Lindblad: Dreams
Swedish Radio Choir
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gustaf Sjokvist (conductor)