Monday 20th June 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

20 June 2005

Penny Gore presents a week of music for Midsummer.

From 7.00am
Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture on Russian Themes, Op 28
Russian Symphony Orchestra
Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor)

Brahms: Five Waltzes, Op 39
Arranged for piano duo
Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Kohn (piano)

Finzi: I Said to Love, Op 19b
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Iain Burnside (piano)

From 8.30am
Boulanger: Hymne au soleil
New London Chamber Choir
James Wood (conductor)

Bridge: Summer
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony No 1 in Em, Op 1
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

20 June 2005

With Rob Cowan. Featuring Mahler Symphonies and recordings by Ezio Pinza.

Vivaldi: Concerto for two trumpets in C, RV 537
Arthur Haneuse, Roger Delmotte (trumpet)
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Hermann Scherchen (conductor)

Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea - Oblivion soave; Arianna - Lasciatemi morire
Ezio Pinza (bass)
Fritz Kitzinger (piano)

Debussy: Preludes Book II - La Puerta del vino; Les Fées sont d'exquises danseuses; Bruyčres; Général Lavine - eccentric
Monique Haas (piano)

Johann Strauss II: Wiener Blut
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Bruno Walter (conductor)

Verdi: Ernani - Che mai vegg'io! Infelice
I vespri Siciliani - O tu, Palermo
Ezio Pinza (bass)
Orchestra
Rosario Bourdon (conductor)

Scriabin: Sonata No 10, Op 70
John Ogdon (piano)

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte - O Isis und Osiris
Ezio Pinza (bass)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Giulio Setti (conductor)

Mahler: Symphony No 1
Dresden Philharmonic
Herbert Kegel (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Hans Werner Henze (b 1926)

Early Works, Germany

Donald Macleod talks to Hans Werner Henze about his early life in Germany during the Nazi era, and his difficult journey towards becoming a composer.

Chamber Concerto, Op 1 (extract)
Matthias Perl (flute)
Christopher Tainton (piano)
NDR Symphony Orchestra
Peter Ruzicka (conductor)

3rd Symphony (extract)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Henze (conductor)

Boulevard Solitude (extract)
Elena Vassilieva (soprano)
Jerome Pruett (tenor)
Orchestra des Rencontres Nusicales
Ivan Anguelov (conductor)

9th Symphony (extract)
Berlin Philharmonic
Ingo Metzmacher (conductor)

Ode an den Westwind
Siegfried Palm (cello)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Henze (conductor)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

20 June 2005

20 June 2005

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, presented by Fiona Talkington, a concert performed by the Canadian Baritone Nathan Berg with Julius Drake at the piano.

Ibert: 4 Chansons de Don Quichotte

Duparc: Chanson Triste, La vie antérieure

Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel

Ravel: Don Quichotte ŕ Dulcinée

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC Philharmonic

To tie in with this week's Aldeburgh Festival performances on a British Isles theme, the programme features the BBC Philharmonic with music from Bax, McCabe and Elgar.
Presented by Graeme Kay.

Bax: Tintagel
Vernon Handley (conductor)

McCabe: Concerto for oboe and clarinet
Jennifer Galloway (oboe)
John Bradbury (clarinet)
Clark Rundell (conductor)

Elgar: Symphony No 2 in E flat
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

20 June 2005

CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present the programme for younger listeners.

16:00

Stage and Screen

20 June 2005

Edward Seckerson talks to Elton John and Lee Hall about their new musical version of Billy Elliot, and explores Michael Grandage's all-star production of Guy and Dolls.

17:00

In Tune

20 June 2005

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and keeps us up to date with what's happening in the arts world.

19:30

Performance on 3

Aldeburgh Festival 2005

Part One

Fireworks, fireflies and a fairytale preceed Tippett's powerful Second Symphony. This year's Aldeburgh Festival focuses on the music of England and Russia, and in particular on Tippett, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.

Presented by Stephanie Hughes.

Stravinsky: Fireworks
Knussen: Flourish with Fireworks
Matthews : Fanfare and Flourish with Fireflies
Tchaikovsky: Suite from The Sleeping Beauty, Op.66a
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

20:20

Twenty Minutes

20 June 2005

Writer and entertainer Joyce Grenfell was a fan of Aldeburgh, not missing a festival from 1962 until her death in 1979, and writing daily letters of her experiences to her friend Virginia Graham. Janie Hampton, Grenfell's biographer, presents a compilation of these letters, read by Maureen Lipman, revealing a candid, gossipy and surprisingly insightful portrait of the Festival, Benjamin Britten and Aldeburgh itself.

1/3. Britten

Grenfell's growing friendship with Britten led to her creating and recording a special song to celebrate the 20th Festival. Soon after, the recording was lost, only to be discovered nearly 40 years later during the research for this programme.

20:40

Performance on 3

Aldeburgh Festival 2005

Part Two

This year's Aldeburgh Festival focuses on the music of England and Russia, and in particular on Tippett, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. Presented by Stephanie Hughes.

Tchaikovsky orch. Stravinsky: Bluebird Pas de Deux from The Sleeping Beauty
Tippett: Symphony No 2
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

21:30

Night Waves

20 June 2005

Susan Hitch and guests discuss 'Geek Chic' and the inexorable rise of the geek. Also, in the latest of the Picture of Britain series, Louis de Bernieres casts his eye over his beloved East Anglia.

22:15

Late Junction

20 June 2005

Ballaké Sissoko plays the West African kora, Amjad Ali Khan plays the Indian sarod, and Roy Bailey sings The Four Loom Weaver. Plus 18th-century English organ music from the church of St Matthew's Westminster.

Introduced by Verity Sharp.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)

Vaughan Williams in the 1920s

In 1921 and 1922 Vaughan Williams composed a series of fine works which paint a picture of a composer really finding his voice. He was never a professing Christian, and yet a powerful theme emerging here is one of uniquely spiritual music, giving rise to the notion of Vaughan Williams as a Christian agnostic. Donald Macleod focuses on this sublime group of works.

Motion and Stillness, from Four Poems by Fredegond Shove
Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
David Willison (piano)

Mass in Gm (Sanctus)
Corydon Singers
Matthew Best (conductor)

The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains (exc), from The Pilgrim's Progress, Act IV Sc 2
Roderick Williams (tenor)
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Jeremy White (tenor)
Gerald Finley (baritone)
Susan Gritton (soprano)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Symphony No 3 Pastoral
LPO
Adrian Boult (conductor)
Margaret Price (soprano)

01:00

Through the Night

20 June 2005

20 June 2005

Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00am
The Vilnius Quartet at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival
Pärt: Fratres
Janácek: String Quartet No 2 - Intimate Letters
MK Ciurlionis: String Quartet in Cm

2.05am
Rachmaninov: The Bells (Kolokola), Op 35
Roumiana Bareva (soprano)
Pavel Kourchoumov (tenor)
Stoyan Popov (baritone)
'Sons de la mer' Mixed Choir Varna
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vassil Stefanov (conductor)

2.40am
Liszt: Fantasies on Szozdat and Hungarian National Anthem
Klára Körmendy (piano)

2.50am
Zoltán Kodály: Variations on a Hungarian Folksong, The Peacock
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Willem Mengelberg (conductor)

3.20am
Ravel: Histoires naturelles
Olle Persson (baritone)
Bengt-Ĺke Lundin (piano)

3.40am
CPE Bach: Sonata for winds in A
Bratislava Chamber Harmony

3.55am
Mozart: Violin sonata in G, K301
Reka Szilvay (violin)
Naoko Ichihashi (piano)

4.10am
Daniel Bacheler: Mounsiers almain for lute
Nigel North (lute)

4.20am
Telemann: Concerto in Em, TWV 52 e:1
Il Gardellino

4.30am
Alessandro Scarlatti: Fuga del Terzo Tono in Am
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

4.35am
Carl Heinrich Biber: Sonata a 3 ex E terz minore
Salzburger Hofmusik
Wolfgang Brunner (director/keyboards)

4.40am
Saint-Saëns: Prelude and Fugue in C, Op 109, No 3
David Drury (organ)

4.50am
Poulenc: Petites voix
Maitrise de Radio France
Denis Dupays (director)

5.00am
Marcel Poot: A Cheerful Overture
Belgium Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra
Alexander Rahbari (conductor)

5.05am
Marcin Mielczewski: Missa Super O Gloriosa Domina
Il Canto

5.25am
Dvorák: Romance in Fm, Op 11
Jela Spitkova (violin)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

5.35am
Smetana: Sonata movement in Em (B70)
Else Krijgsman, Mariken Zandliver, David Kuijken, Carlos Moerdijk (piano)

5.50am
Schubert: Der Pilgrim (D794); An Emma (D113c); Hoffnung (D637)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor)
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

6.00am
Bach: Overture in Gm (BWV 1070)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

6.15am
Emil Sjögren: Cello Sonata in A, Op 58
Mats Rondin (cello)
Bengt Forsberg (piano)

6.35am
Richard Strauss: Piano Sonata in Bm, Op 5
Ludmil Angelov (piano)