Saturday 16th July 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

16 July 2005

With Martin Handley.

From 7.00am

Holst: A Fugal Overture
London Philharmonic
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)

Biber: Sonata Representativa
Reinhard Goebel (violin)
Thierry Maeder (organ)

From 8.00am

Monteverdi: Cantate Domino a 2
Charles Daniels, James Gilchrist (tenor)
King's Consort
Robert King (director)

Copland: Suite - The Tender Land
Phoenix Symphony
James Sedares (conductor)

09:00

CD Review

16 July 2005

Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's newest releases and talks to conductor Kurt Masur about life as a musician in the former German Democratic Republic, and his special feelings for the music of Mendelssohn and Shostakovich.

Simon Heighes reviews new releases of baroque music, including Handel's opera Rodelinda, and Monteverdi discs from La Venexiana and Maria Cristina Kiehr.

Geoffrey Smith recommends a recording of Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore in Building a Library.

Disc of the Week:
Mendelssohn: Octet, Op 20, in E Flat
Ensemble Explorations

13:00

The Early Music Show

16 July 2005

Lucie Skeaping introduces a concert from this year's Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, given by Europa Galante. The concert includes music by little known composers such as Geminiani, Barsanti and d'Alai, who in the view of violinist/director Fabio Biondi deserve to be better known. These are framed by Telemann's Burlesque de Quixotte and a Concerto Grosso by Corelli.

14:00

Discovering Music

Alfred Schnittke

In a workshop recorded at the Cheltenham Festival, conductor and presenter Charles Hazlewood, his chamber orchestra Excellent Device and pianist Rolf Hind delve into the vivid musical detail of the piano concerto composed by Russian Alfred Schnittke in 1979.

15:00

World Routes

16 July 2005

A concert by the blind Malian duo Amadou and Mariam, recorded especially for the programme at the Marquee Club in London's Leicester Square. Their new album Dimanche à Bamako was produced by Manu Chao, and has already sold over 100,000 copies in France. Introduced by Lucy Duran.

Part of the BBC's Africa Lives season.

16:00

Jazz Line-Up

16 July 2005

Claire Martin presents a selection of new releases, and features music by the European Jazz Orchestra, recorded earlier this year in Canada.

17:00

Jazz Record Requests

16 July 2005

Request your favourite jazz cut by email: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk. With Geoffrey Smith.

18:00

Jazz File

Staying On

Part 1

Michael Pointon presents a two-part series celebrating the South African jazz musicians who turned their backs on the prospect of international fame and plied their trade at home. Featuring rare archive material of South African jazz and jazz-related music, including one piece recorded as early as 1931.

18:30

Kit and the Widow Cocktails

16 July 2005

Kit and the Widow return for another series of all that is good, nutritious and wholesome from the world of cabaret. They are joined by comedienne Joan Rivers, Izzy van Randwyck and Dominic Tighe.

19:30

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 2 Part One

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, a feast of sparkling music from Britain's most famous Victorian operatic duo - Gilbert and Sullivan.

Featuring The Yeoman of the Guard - overture; the Pineapple Poll suite, based on Gilbert's ballad The Bumboat Woman's Story, as originally arranged by Sir Charles Mackerras in the 1950s; and in the second part, a voyage aboard HMS Pinafore.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

20:05

Twenty Minutes

16 July 2005

Blow the Man Down: Tim Healey attends the Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival to find out more about the history and evolution of those salty working songs.

20:25

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 2 Part Two

The second part of the Gilbert and Sullivan fest from the Royal Albert Hall, with the focus on a voyage aboard HMS Pinafore, with a host of seafaring soloists.

Sir Joseph Porter ...... Richard Suart (baritone)
Captain Corcoran ...... Neal Davies (bass)
Ralph Rackstraw ...... Timothy Robinson (tenor)
Josephine ...... Sally Matthews (soprano)
Little Buttercup ...... Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano)
Dick Deadeye ...... Peter Sidhorn (baritone)
Bill Bobstay, Boatswains Mate ...... Owen Gilhooly (baritone)
Bob Becket, Carpenter's Mate ...... Stephen Richardson (bass)
Cousin Hebe ...... Wendy Dawn Thompson (mezzo-soprano)
Tim Brooke-Taylor (narrator)
Maida Vale Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

22:00

The Wire

The Colony

By Dennis Kelly.

Paul collects ants; Vinnie wants to be a war reporter; Louise watches the world go by from her flat as she looks after her sick mother; and Ade remembers his son and the bullet that killed him. When a child crawls along a balcony, untended, each of them watches, caught up in their own obsessions.

Paul ...... Adam Godley
Vinnie ...... Bryan Dick
Ade ...... Jude Akuwudike
Sarah ...... Gillian Wright
Louise ...... Carolyn Tomkinson

Produced by Pam Marshall.

23:00

Hear And Now

16 July 2005

Alwynne Pritchard reports from the Indaba festival held in Grahamstown, South Africa. This year's theme is Reimagining Africa, with music from across the continent. The featured composer is Justinian Tamusuza from Uganda, plus some cutting-edge electronica and the Bow Project, which celebrates Xhosa bow music in new compositions for mouth bow and string quartet.

Part of the BBC's Africa Lives season.

01:00

Through the Night

16 July 2005

16 July 2005

With John Shea.

1.00am
From the Oslo Concert Hall on 31 March 2005
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911): Symphony No 7 in Em (1st movement; Nachtmusik; Scherzo; Nachtmusik; Rondo-finale)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Leif Segerstam (conductor)

2.26am
Fruhling, Carl (1868-1937): Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, Op 40
Amici Chamber Ensemble

2.53am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Piano Concerto No 3 in Cm, Op 37
Jacob Bogaart (piano)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Ernest Bour (conductor)

3.27am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Also sprach Zarathustra, Op 30
Orchestre National de France
Emmanuel Krivine (conductor)

4.00am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Drei Lieder der Ophelia aus Shakespeare's Hamlet, Op 67
Sally Matthews (soprano)
Simon Lepper (piano)

4.08am
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934) ed. Eric Fenby: La Calinda, from 'Koanga'
BBC Concert Orchestra
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

4.13am
Humperdinck, Engelbert (1854-1921): Dream Scene from Hänsel und Gretel
Engelbert Humperdinck (piano)

4.20am
Larsson, Lars-Erik (1908-1986): Pastoral Suite, Op 19, 1938
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

4.34am
Gabrieli, Giovanni (1557-1612): Motet - Domine, Dominus noster - from Sacræ Symphoniæ, Venice 1597
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal
Christopher Jackson (conductor)

4.38am
Nauss, Johann Xaver (c. 1690-1764): Praeludium Terti Toni from Die spielende Muse
Jaroslav Tuma (organ)

4.52am
Chausson, Ernest Amédée (1855-1899): Trois Chansons de Shakespeare, Op 28
Brett Polegato (baritone)
Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Iain Burnside (piano)

5.00am
Auber, Daniel-Francois-Esprit (1782-1871): Overture to Marco Spada
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

5.10am
Godard, Benjamin (1849-1895): Oh! Ne t'éveille pas encore - from Jocelyn, Act 1
Thomas, Ambroise (1811-1896): Adieu! Mignon from Mignon, Act 2
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor)
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
Richard Bradshaw (conductor)

5.20am
Chambonnieres, Jacques Champion de (c.1601-1672): Pièces de clavecin du premier livre (Paris, 1670)
Hank Knox (harpsichord)

5.34am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto for violin and orchestra in Fm, RV 297, Op 8, No 4, L'Inverno (Winter)
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Paul Dyer (director)

5.42am
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976): Sinfonia da Requiem, Op 20
Radio Symphonieorchester Wien
Pinchas Steinberg (conductor)

6.04am
Juon, Paul (1872-1940): Sonata No 2 in Am for cello and piano, Op 54
Esther Nyffenegger (cello)
Desmond Wright (piano)

6.23am
Pilkington, Francis (c.1565-1638): Rest, Sweet Nymphs
Cantamus Choir (UK)
Pamela Cooke (director)

6.27am
Rubinstein, Anton (1829-1894): Melody in F, Op 3, No 1
Gershwin, George (1898-1937): The Man I Love (transc. Percy Grainger)
Dennis Hennig (piano)

6.35am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Quartet for strings, K499, in D, Hoffmeister
Tankstream Quartet