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07:00
Morning on 3
31 May 2005
Presented by Penny Gore.
From 7.00am
Bizet: Carmen, Suite No 1
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Purcell: The Comical History of Don Quixote, Z578, From Rosy Bow'rs, Mad Song
Alfred Deller (countertenor)
Wieland Kuijken (viola da gamba)
William Christie (harpsichord)
Berlioz: Overture, Les Francs-juges, Op 3
London Classical Players
Roger Norrington (conductor)
From 8.30am
Corelli: Concerto grosso in Gm, Op 6, No 8
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock (director)
Prokofiev: Scythian Suite, Op 20
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Ravel: String Quartet in F
Alban Berg Quartet
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10:00
CD Masters
31 May 2005
With Jonathan Swain.
Haydn: Symphony No 82
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
Bax: Symphony No 3
Halle Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)
Ives: Symphony No 2
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
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12:00
Composer of the Week
Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
Part Two
2/5. More music from Bernstein's Broadway years, presented by Humphrey Burton from New York. Today, excerpts from the one-act opera Trouble in Tahiti (1952), a study in domestic discord composed on his honeymoon, and Wonderful Town (1953), a blissfully nostalgic evocation of Greenwich Village in the swing era, starring Rosalind Russell.
Guests in Manhattan include Seymour Lipkin who conducted the premier of Tahiti, and producer Harold Prince who worked as a stage manager on Wonderful Town.
[Rptd today 12.00pm]
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13:00
Lunchtime Concert
French Melodies
Part 1
John Toal presents the first of four recitals from Belfast devoted to French song from Berlioz to the present day, marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ernest Chausson.
Tenor Yann Beuron and pianist David Zobel perform works by Roussel, Chausson and Faure.
Roussel: Amoureux separes; Des fleurs font une broderie; Madrigale lyrique
Flammes: Si quelquesfois tu pleures; Adieux; Vieilles cartes, vieilles mains
Chausson: Le Colibri; Serenade
Faure: Serenade toscanne, Automn, En sourdine; Poemes d'un jour; Rencontre, Toujours; Adieu Fleur jetee
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14:00
Afternoon Performance
Bernstein Season
Tommy Pearson presents a series of programmes featuring the BBC Orchestras and BBC Singers in performances of Bernstein's own music and key works that he premiered or championed, including the music of Mahler, Messiaen, Shostakovich, Copland and Britten, including excerpts from the complete cycle of Bernstein's symphonies performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin.
The BBC Philharmonic perform a rare Bernstein piece and two Serge Koussevitztky commissions that received their original Tanglewood premieres under the baton of Koussevitzky's greatest protege, Leonard Bernstein.
Bernstein: Halil nocturne
Richard Davis (flute)
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
Britten: Sea interludes (Peter Grimes)
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony
Piers Lane (piano)
Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot)
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
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16:00
Voices
31 May 2005
Iain Burnside introduces a specially recorded recital in which he and the soprano Lisa Milne perform a selection of settings of Verlaine poems by Debussy, Delius, Hahn, and Szulc.
Debussy, Delius, Hahn, and Szulc: Fetes Galantes: Verlaine Settings
Lisa Milne (soprano)
Iain Burnside (piano)
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17:00
In Tune
31 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
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19:30
Performance on 3
Bernstein Season
On the Town
Tommy Pearson and Humphrey Burton introduce this performance of Bernstein's musical about the antics of three sailors on shore leave in the Big Apple for the first time.
Julia McKenzie and Ned Sherrin narrate this concert version, recorded at the Royal Festival Hall in 2000.
Claire ...... Sally Burgess
Hildy ...... Kim Criswell
Miss Turnstiles ...... Lillian Watson
Ozzie ...... Graham Bickley
Gabey ...... Brent Barrett
Chip ...... Karl Daymond
Pitkin ...... Daniel Washington
Madam Dilly ...... Julia McKenzie
London Voices
Terry Edwards (chorus master)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Paul Daniel (conductor)
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21:30
Night Waves
31 May 2005
Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer talks to Matthew Sweet about his new novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
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22:15
Late Junction
31 May 2005
Shaheera Asante introduces a live recording from Tunisia of music by Luis Delgado, inspired by the poetry of twelfth-century Andalousia. Plus music from Brazilian singer Celso Fonseca and Cuban revolutionary songs from Pedro Luis Ferrer.
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00:00
Composer of the Week
Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
Part Three
3/5. Humphrey Burton continues his survey of Bernstein's work for Broadway, with excerpts from the satirical operetta Candide (1956) and incidental music for The Lark (1955), his earlier collaboration with the playwright Lillian Hellman.
In New York, Humphrey Burton's guests include the poet Richard Wilbur who wrote many of Candide's lyrics, and in London, Denis Quilley who sang Candide in the first London production.
[Rpt of today 12.00am]
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01:00
Through the Night
31 May 2005
Part One
With Jonathan Swain.
1.00am
Le Concert d'Astree under director Emmanuelle Haim perform madrigals by Monteverdi, Marini, Carissimi and Frescobaldi in a concert recorded in Paris in March 2004.
2.25am
Liszt: No 2 Ave Maria; No 3 Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude; No 7 Funerailles; No 5 Pater Noster from Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses; 10 pieces for piano, S173
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
3.10am
Louie: Songs of Paradise
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
3.25am
Mozart: String Quintet in Gm, K516
Pinchas Zuckerman (violin)
Jessica Linnebach (violin)
Jethro Marks (viola)
Donnie Deacon (viola)
Amanda Forsyth (cello)
4.00am
Groneman: Flute Sonata in G
Jed Wentz (flute)
Balazs Mate (cello)
Marcelo Bussi (harpsichord)
4.15am
Couperin arr. Bartok: Extract from Les Fastes de la grande et ancienne Menestrandise, from Pieces de clavecin ordre No 11
Jan Michiels (piano)
4.20am
Bazzini: La Ronde des lutins
Maxim Vengerov (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
4.25am
Stravinsky: Dances Concertantes for chamber orchestra
Polish Radio Orchestra, Warsaw
Krzystzof Slowinski (conductor)
4.50am
Bartok: Piano Suite, Op 14
Geza Anda (piano)
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05:00
Through the Night
31 May 2005
Part Two
Through the Night concludes with Jonathan Swain.
5.00am
Wagner: O du, mein holder Abendstern
Jorma Hynninen (baritone)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ulf Soderblom (conductor)
5.10am
Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op 11
I Cameristi Italiani
5.20am
P?rt: Magnificat
Jauna Musica
Vaclovas Augustinas (conductor)
5.25am
Corelli: Sonate da Chiesa in Cm, Op 1, No 8
London Baroque
5.40am
Raminsh: Ave Verum Corpus
Vancouver Chamber Choir
Jon Washburn (conductor)
5.50am
Ravel: Miroirs
Louis Lortie (piano)
6.20am
Harrison: Harp Suite, 1952-1977
David Tanenbaum (guitar)
William Winant (tuned water bowls, finger cymbals and sistra)
Scott Evans (tuned water bowls and drums)
Joel Davel (drums)
6.35am
Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches suite, Op 10
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Uri Mayer (conductor)
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