Saturday 2nd July 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

2 July 2005

With Sarah Walker.

From 7.00am

Dvorak arr. Schäffer: Czech Suite, Op 39
ensemble acht

Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat major, S124
Martha Argerich (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

From 8.00am

Bartók: Divertimento, Sz 113
Camerata Bern/Thomas Zehetmair

Brahms: Rhapsody No 1 in Bm, Op 79
Julius Katchen (piano)

09:00

CD Review

2 July 2005

Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's newest releases. Harriet Smith recommends a version of Liszt's Bm Sonata from the currently available recordings. Alison Bullock reviews new releases of early music, including Machaut motets from Ensemble Music Nova, Spanish Renaissance music from the Monteverdi Choir, and a disc marking the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot from the King's Singers and viol consort Concordia.

Andrew McGregor talks to Norwegian bandoneonist Per Arne Glorvigen about the instrument's origins, his recordings with Gidon Kremer, the influence of Astor Piazzolla, and how to turn the Beatles into tango.

Disc of the Week:
Haydn: Symphony No 82 in C, Hob I:82, The Bear
Concentus Musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

13:00

The Early Music Show

2 July 2005

Andrew Manze visits Stockholm for the first of two programmes charting the development of early music in Sweden. With music by Andreas and Gustaf Düben, Johann Agrell and Johann Helmich Roman, including performances recorded at Wigmore Hall earlier this year as part of the From Sweden series.

14:00

Discovering Music

Folk Songs

Stephen Johnson joins the members of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christopher Austin and the traditional folk singer Martin Carthy for a look at the imaginative ways in which Percy Grainger and Ralph Vaughan-Williams have used folk song material in their compositions. The programme includes a complete performance of Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus by Vaughan-Williams.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martin Carthy (folk singer)
Christopher Austin (conductor)

15:00

World Routes

2 July 2005

Live from the Eden Project in Cornwall, Peter Gabriel hosts performances from Live 8's Africa Calling concert.

The event features some of Africa's leading musicians including Tinariwen from Mali, Maryam Mursal from Somalia and Thomas Mapfumo from Zimbabwe.

16:00

Jazz Line-Up

2 July 2005

Claire Martin presents a selection of new releases, and singer Lizz Wright talks about her new album Dreaming Wide Awake.

17:00

Jazz Record Requests

2 July 2005

Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Ask for your favourite jazz cut by E mail: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk

18:00

Jazz File

Art Blakey

Jazz Messenger - Part One

In the first of two programmes, Jez Nelson explores the musical journey of drummer and bandleader, Art Blakey. From the 1950s to the 1980s Blakey's band, The Jazz Messengers served as a finishing school, inspiring hundreds of talented young players to carry the flame of modern jazz.

In this first part, we hear how Art Blakey helped bring the drums into the frontline of small band jazz, and in so doing played a key role in the development of Hard Bop.
We also examine the controversial issue of African drums in Blakey's rhythmic conception. How true was Blakey's claim that Africa doesn't have a damn thing to do with jazz?

Contributors include pianist Horace Silver, ex-Messenger John Ramsay, and critic, Ira Gitler.

18:30

Opera On 3

Smetana - The Bartered Bride

Act One

Stephanie Hughes presents the Glyndebourne production of Smetana's comic opera about the relationship between love and money. Can true love win against the cynical manipulations of parents and marriage brokers? Will a mysterious man from outside the village be a better husband than someone nearer to home? Will the little dog of the travelling English circus perform on the night as he should?

Ludmilla ...... Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano)
Kruina ...... Andrew Shore (baritone)
Marenka ...... Solveig Kringelborn (soprano)
Mícha ...... Alan Fairs (bass)
Háta ...... Frances McCafferty (mezzo-soprano)
Vaek ...... Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (bass)
Jeník ...... Julian Gavin (tenor)
Kecal ...... Reinhard Dorn (bass)
Ringmaster ...... Andrew Forbes-Lane (tenor)
Esmerelda ...... Olga Schalaewa (soprano)

The Glyndebourne Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Dietfried Bernet (conductor)

21:00

The Verb

2 July 2005

Ian McMillan presents new writing, poetry and performance. Nii Parkes concludes his guide to great African writers and the Malawian poet Jack Mapange reads from new work.

21:45

Between The Ears

Walking Against the Wind

Another airing of Bonnie Greer's specially-written radio poem.

"What is it that a stranger knows? Walking through grey days, grimy streets, wandering, wondering... "

Playwright and critic Bonnie Greer keeps moving through the streets of London and across the geographical unconscious to the beat of broken language, foreign voices, and untold stories.

22:15

Pre-Hear

2 July 2005

The BBC Philharmonic conducted by Baldur Bronniman, perform the world premiere of Nicholas Simpson's Symphony No 2.

23:00

Hear And Now

BCMG and Sheffield Sound Junction

Robert Worby introduces the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Oliver Knussen in performances of Julian Anderson's Book of Hours and Elliott Carter's Dialogues. With Jonty Harrison and Lamberto Coccioli (live electronics).

Later, Robert reports from the Sheffield Sound Junction Festival, which focussed on the French/Canadian acousmatic pioneer Francis Dhomont, including his piece AvAtArsSon.

01:00

Through the Night

2 July 2005

2 July 2005

With Susan Sharp.

1.00am
Janácek Quartet at the Bĺstad Chamber Music Festival in Sweden 2004
Janácek: String Quartet No 1 Kreuzer Sonata
Smetana: String Quartet No 2 in Dm
Dvorák: String Quartet No 12 in F, American, Op 96
Janácek Quartet:
Milos Vacek and Viteslav Zavadilík (violin)
Ladislav Kyselák (viola)
Bretislav Vybiral (cello)

2.00am
Mahler: Symphony No 4 in G
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bruno Walter (conductor)

2.55am
Boccherini: String Quintet in E flat, G266
Andreia Potroshko (double bass)
Zagreb String Quartet

3.15am
Liszt: Concerto Pathetique, S365
Viktor Chuchkov (piano)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vassil Stefanov (conductor)

3.35am
Bax: Legend
Steven Dann (viola)
Bruce Vogt (piano)

3.45am
Haydn: Symphony No 88 in G
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Paul Mann (conductor)

4.10am
Sibelius: Saarela palaa, Fire on the Island, Op 18, No 3
Finnish Radio Chamber Choir
Eric-Olof Söderblom (conductor)

4.10am
Thomas Morley: Now Is the Month of Maying
BBC Singers
Bo Holten (director)

4.10am
George Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

4.25am
Telemann: Concerto for two chalumeaux in Dm
Eric Hoeprich and Lisa Klewitt (chalumeaux)
Musica Antiqua Köln
Reinhard Goebel (director)

4.30am
Kaspar Förster: Sonata a3 in B flat, KBPJ 39
Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble

4.35am
Vivaldi: Concerto for strings in Dm, Il Piccolino, RV 127
I Cameristi Italiani

4.40am
Handel: Figlia mia non pianger no! Tamerlano
Nigel Robson (tenor)
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

4.45am
Sammartini: Sonata in F, Sib 22
Philip Pickett (recorder)
Anthony Pleeth (cello)
David Roblou (harpsichord)

5.00am
Tchaikovsky: Voyevoda Symphonic Ballad, Op 78
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Tamás Vásáry (conductor)

5.10am
Alfvén: Aftonen (evening)
Swedish Radio Choir
Eric Ericson (conductor)

5.15am
Rangström: Sub umbra Aftonen (Eventide), Natten (night)
Swedish Radio Choir
Eric Ericson (conductor)

5.20am
David Popper: Wie einst in schönern Tagen, Op 64, No 1
Janos Starker (cello)
Alain Planes (piano)

5.25am
Chopin: Mazurka in Cm, Op 56, No 3
Artur Rubinstein (piano)

5.30am
Vivaldi: Concerto for strings in G, Al Rustica, RV151
I Cameristi Italiani

5.35am
Jr Kaspar Förster: Dialogus a 5 Quid faciam misera?
Olga Pasiecznik and Marta Boberska (soprano)
Dirk Snellings (bass)
Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble
Agata Sapiecha (violin/director)

5.40am
Handel: Voluntary No 2 in C
Dom André Laberge (organ)

5.45am
Johann Mattheson: Sonata No 7, Op 1, No 4
Vladislav Brunner (flute)
Juraj Brunner (flute)
Milan Brunner (flute)

5.50am
Debussy: (La) Soirée dans Grenade (Estampes)
Claude Debussy (piano)

5.55am
Khachaturian: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
David Measham (conductor)

6.05am
Janácek: Suite for Orchestra, Op 3
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

6.20am
Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608
Matthew White (counter-tenor)
Arte dei Suonatori
Eduardo Lopez (conductor)

6.40am
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No 2
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)