07:00
29 May 2005
Presented by Tommy Pearson.
From 7.00am
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No 2, Op 55
New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
Bach-Busoni: Ciaccona, Chaconne, from Partita No 2 in Dm, BWV1004
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
From 8.00am
Wagner: Good Friday Music from Parsifal
Dresden Staatskapelle
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
Walter Leigh: Concertino for harpsichord and string orchestra
George Malcolm (harpsichord)
ASMF
Neville Marriner (conductor)
Grieg/Duke Ellington: Solveig's Song from Peer Gynt
Duke Ellington Band
Biber: Gloria from Missa Salisburgensis in 53 parts
Gabrieli Consort
Musixa Antiquae, Koln
Paul McCreesh (conductor)
09:00
29 May 2005
Rob Cowan introduces some surprises and treasures from his record collection. Regular features include The Innocent Ear, and Rob's recommendation for a Bargain Hunter CD. There's also a chance to hear some of Vaughan Williams' Symphony No 3 Pastoral, recommended on yesterday's CD Review. The programme includes:
Falla: La Vida Breve, Interlude and Dance No 1
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Antal Dorati (conductor)
Vivaldi: Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in Em, R278
Giuliano Carmignola (viola)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Andrea Marcon (conductor)
Verdi: Requiem Mass, Offertorium
Maria Stader (soprano)
Oralia Dominguez (mezzo)
Gabor Carelli (tenor)
Ivan Sardi (bass)
St Hedwig's Cathedral Choir
RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Berlin
Ferenc Fricsay (conductor)
Bach: Trio Sonata in Cm, BWV526
Karl Richter (organ)
Mendelssohn: It Is Enough, from Elijah
Harold Williams (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra
Stanford Robinson (conductor)
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 4
Jerusalem Quartet
Puccini: Intermezzo, Act 3, from Manon Lescaut
Halle Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)
Handel-Beecham: Love in Bath (excerpts)
Ilse Hollweg (soprano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)
Granados: Danza V, Andaluza
Cochita Supervia (soprano)
Frank Marshall (piano)
Rachmaninov arr. Heifetz: Andante from Cello Sonata in Gm, Op 19
Jascha Heifetz (violin)
Emanuel Bay (piano)
Ravel: Sonatine
Friedrich Gulda (piano)
12:00
29 May 2005
Michael Berkeley's guest this week is the broadcaster Humphrey Burton, who is currently presenting Bernstein Week on Radio 3. Bernstein is just one of his many enthusiasms, and over the course of a distinguished career in radio and television he has made many flagship arts programmes, with a particular focus on music. His personal choices range from Mozart, Schubert and Verdi to Poulenc, Milhaud and Gershwin.
13:00
Biber's Rosary Sonatas
Andrew Manze introduces a selection from Biber's unique collection of 15 violin sonatas. He explores the different ways in which they can be realised, and considers the symbolism behind the music.
Sonata No 1, The Annunciation
Sonata No 4, The Presentation in the Temple
Andrew Manze (violin)
Richard Eggar (organ)
Sonata No 6, The Agony in the Garden
Sonata No 9, The Carrying of the Cross
Sonata No 10, The Crucifixion
Monica Huggett (violin)
Emilia Benjamin (viola da gamba)
Matthew Halls (organ)
Richard Sweeney (theorbo)
Sonata No 11, The Resurrection
Pavlo Besnoziuk (violin)
David Roblou (organ)
Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo)
Richard Tunnicliffe (violone)
14:00
Bernstein on Broadway
Tommy Pearson and Humphrey Burton introduce highlights from a concert given at the Barbican in July last year. Kim Criswell sings favourites from Bernstein's Broadway shows, and the London Symphony Orchestra takes centre stage in his Prelude, Fugue and Riffs and Three Dance Episodes from On the Town.
Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs; West Side Story Prologue; I Feel Pretty; Somewhere; Candide Overture; Easily Assimilated; Candide's Lament; On the Town, Three Dance Episodes; I Can Cook Too; Wonderful Town Overture; One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Man; A Little Bit in Love; Trouble in Tahiti; Island Magic.
Kim Criswell (vocalist)
Maida Vale Singers
London Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor)
15:30
Part 1 of 4
Passionate New Yorker Jamie Bernstein takes a switchback musical ride through her favourite city.
In the first of a quarterly series of audio postcards, she reports from some of the myriad live events which have fired her excitement over the last few weeks. Including a Buddhist nun gigging in Joe's Pub, a Klezmer rapper and the silliest song ever heard on Broadway.
16:00
29 May 2005
Yesterday was the 80th birthday of the great German baritone, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, so Brian Kay introduces a selection of listeners' requests of the man in action.
There's also a chance to hear a complete performance of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, narrated by Sting, and John Ireland's Legend for Piano and Orchestra.
17:45
Bernstein Season
Leonard Bernstein's interest in music education, exemplified by his Young Peoples Concerts with the New York Philharmonic in the 50s and 60s and his celebrated Harvard Lectures in 1973, is continued today through the Grammy Foundation Leonard Bernstein Center for Learning in California.
Tom Service looks at this side of Bernstein's work and the legacy he has left.
Part of Radio 3's Bernstein season.
18:30
A Taste of Africa
Western classical and traditional African music
A Taste of Africa
In March, the members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra spent a week exploring music inspired by Africa and its cultures. A Taste of Africa culminated in a thrilling concert when the BBCSO was joined by the BBC Symphony Chorus, the Macusi Players, and young London musicians for performances of Western classical and traditional African music. Presented by Fiona Talkington.
Walton: Johannesberg Festival Overture
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
Traditional, arr Rattray: Eeshe Olwa
BBC Symphony Chorus
Hammersmith Youth Choir
Brenda Rattray (director)
Saint-Saens: Africa
Ashley Wass (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
Traditional: See Jolly
Macusi Players
Samuel Coleridge Taylor: Variations on an African Air, Op. 53
BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Charles Abell (conductor)
Derek Bermel: Dust Dances
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Grant Llewellyn (Conductor)
Jo Jo Yates: Ase Fua
Macusi Players
BBC Symphony Chorus
Hammersmith Youth Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra
20:10
King Baabu by Wole Soyinka
A comic and outlandish look at dictatorship. Nigerian Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka's play dramatises life under the brutal regime of General Sani Abacha, and is adapted for radio by the playwright for its British premiere.
Maku Makubeti ...... Paterson Joseph
Ma Makube ...... Susan Aderin
Tikim ...... Wale Ojo
Chaplain/Shoki ...... Patrice Naiambana
Marabout/Kpoki ...... Marcia Hewitt
Fatasimu/officers ...... Anthony Ofoegbu
Drumming and Musical Director ...... Tunji Oyelana
Trumpet/bugle ...... Tobias Sturmer
Directed by Pauline Harris.
21:30
Somaliland: A Relative Story
In 1991 the northern part of Somalia separated itself from the war-torn south of the country and declared itself the independent republic of Somaliland. After nearly 15 years of relative peace and democratic stability, its citizens insist it is a model African nation - yet the international community refuses to recognise its right to exist.
Shaheera Asante tells the extraordinary story of Somaliland, through the eyes of its people and of the Somali expat community in Wales, many of whom devote themselves to helping their relatives in nurturing the fledgling state.
22:15
Mauritania: Festival of Nomad Music
Andy Kershaw visits the Festival of Nomad Music in Mauritania, a country on the western fringe of the Sahara Desert that is rarely visited by international tourists or businessmen.
Twenty years ago its people were 80% nomadic, but its society is now changing dramatically, and is starting to open up to the world. Andy encounters an extraordinarily rich musical culture, both at the festival and beyond, with world-class musicians that the world hasn't yet discovered.
00:00
Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
Part One
With Humphrey Burton.
1/5. Presented from New York, Leonard Bernstein's biographer Humphrey Burton introduces highlights from Bernstein's music for Broadway. The programme includes excerpts from the Jerome Robbins' ballet Fancy Free (1944) , the musical On the Town (1944) and JM Barrie's play Peter Pan (1950), for which Bernstein wrote the songs.
With contributions from, among others, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Bernstein's collaborators and lifelong friends.
[Rpt of today 12.00am]
01:00
29 May 2005
Part One
With Jonathan Swain.
1.00am
Ensemble William Byrd directed by Graham O'Reilly
Leonardo Leo: Miserere Mei Deus
Francesco Scarlatti: Miserere Mei Deus
1.40am
Franck: 11 Miniatures for Piano
Robert Silverman (piano)
2.00am
Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3 in Cm, Organ Symphony, Op 78
Gillian Weir (organ)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
2.35am
Brahms: Trio for violin, viola and piano originally for horn, violin and piano, Op 40 in E flat
Baiba Skride (violin)
Linda Skride (viola)
Lauma Skride (piano)
3.05am
Holland: Agatka, Czyli Przyjazd Pana (Agatha, or the Arrival of the Master) Singspiel 1784
Concerto Polacco
Marek Toporowski (director)
4.00am
Abel: Sonata No 6 in G, for flute and harpsichord
Karl Kaiser (transverse flute)
Susanne Kaiser (harpsichord)
4.15am
Herbert: Panamericana
Eastman-Dryden Orchestra
Donald Hunsberger (conductor)
4.20am
Halvorsen: Norwegian Rhapsody No 1 in Am
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)
4.30am
CPE Bach: Quartet for flute, viola and continuo in D, Wq 94/H538
Les Adieux
05:00
29 May 2005
Part Two
Through the Night concludes with Jonathan Swain.
5.00am
Rathaus: Prelude and Gigue in A for Orchestra, Op 44
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice
Joel Stuben (conductor)
5.10am
Chopin: Polonaise in E flat m, Op 26, No 2
Witold Malcuzynski (piano)
5.25am
de Wert: Qual musico gentil
The Consort of Musicke
5.35am
Froberger: Lamento sopra la Morte Ferdinandi III, 1657
Jacques Ogg (harpsichord)
5.55am
Hellendaal: Concerto grosso for strings and continuo in F, Op 3/3
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
6.05am
Mozart: Piano Concerto in A, K488
H?vard Gimse (piano)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)
6.40am
Milhaud: Le Globe-trotter, Op 358
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
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