07:00
31 July 2005
Presented by Martin Handley.
From 7.00am
Vivaldi: Concerto for violin and orchestra, RV286, in F, Per la solennita di S Lorenzo
The English Concert
Andrew Manze (solo violin, director)
Strauss: Sextet from Capriccio, Op 85
Vienna String Sextet
Biber: Dixit Dominus
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir
From 8.00am
Mozart: Nine Variations in D on a Minuet by Duport, K573
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Massenet: Scènes Alsaciennes, Suite No 7
Orchestra of Monte-Carlo Opera
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Duruflé: Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d'Alain, Op 7
Jean-Pierre Lecaudey (organ of S Remy de Provence)
09:00
31 July 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 Beethoven's complete symphonies. Featuring:
Boccherini/Berio: Ritirata notturna di Madrid
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Morales: Lamentabatur Jacob
Pro Cantione Antiqua
Bruno Turner (conductor)
Bach: Toccata in Em, BWV 914
Kevin Bowyer (organ)
Mendelssohn: On Wings of Song
Jascha Heifetz (violin)
Isidor Achron (piano)
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Sea Murmurs
Jascha Heifetz (violin)
Arpad Sandor (piano)
Amadeo Roldan: Suite de La rebambaramba
The New World Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
Coates: Cinderella Fantasy
Pro Arte Orchestra
Stanford Robinson (conductor)
Brahms: Intermezzo, Op 117'2; Capriccio, Op 76'1; Intermezzo, Op 119'3
Anton Kuerti (piano)
Puccini: Tutta su me ti posa? Manon, senti amor mio (from Manon Lescaut)
Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor)
Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Rome Symphony Orchestra, RAI
Alberto Paoletti (conductor)
Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op 6, No 4
Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
Boyd Neel and his Chamber Orchestra
Guastavino: Pueblito, mi pueblo; Cita
Raúl Giménez (tenor)
Nina Walker (piano)
Roussel: Les Dieux dans l'ombre des cavernes (from Evocations)
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
Michel Plasson (conductor)
Bartók: Bagatelles Sz 38, Nos 11, 12 and 14
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
Mendelssohn-Wayne Shorter: On Wings of Song
Wayne Shorter Quartet
12:00
31 July 2005
Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Miranda Richardson, famous for such diverse roles as Ruth Ellis in the film Dance with a Stranger, Mrs Tweedy in Chicken Run, Queenie in Blackadder II, and Rita Skeeter in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Her musical choices range from Roy Bailey singing the traditional folk song Bitter Withy, to the Sanctus from Britten's War Requiem, and the opening of Debussy's opera Pelleas et Melisande.
13:00
31 July 2005
Philippe de Vitry was the most ground breaking and innovative musician of his time. Lucie Skeaping takes a look at his works alongside pieces by some of his contemporaries.
14:00
31 July 2005
Given at London's Wigmore Hall, this concert features guitarist John Williams and Richard Harvey playing mandolin, dulcimer, various wind instruments and a battery of exotic percussion instruments. Introduced by Stephanie Hughes, who is also in conversation with the performers.
15:30
31 July 2005
The last in a series of four programmes in which the Middlesex and England cricketer Ed Smith talks to leading young musicians about the differences and similarities between musical and sporting performance. His guest is the guitarist Craig Ogden.
16:00
31 July 2005
Brian Kay introduces listeners' requests. Among them are the overture to Nicolai's last opera and masterpiece, The Merry Wives of Windsor; Poulenc's Concerto for organ, strings and timpani; and continuing the celebration of the sea, the parting of the Red Sea from Handel's oratorio, Israel in Egypt.
17:45
31 July 2005
Verity Sharp presents a programme of studio recordings made specially for Radio 3 by BBC New Generation Artists Martin Frost and the Royal String Quartet, and talented Welsh pianist Llyr Williams.
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet
Royal String Quartet with Martin Frost
Ossip Gabrilowitsch: Melodie in Em, and Caprice-Burlesque in G flat
Llyr Williams (piano)
18:30
31 July 2005 Prom 23
Presented by John Shea, live from the Royal Albert Hall.
Shakespeare has inspired artists and musicians the world over, and Berlioz was no exception. For their first Prom of the season, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs his dramatic work based on Shakespeare's most famous love story. The rich scoring, brilliant orchestration and passionate intensity of the piece confirm Berlioz's reputation as the romantic artist par excellence.
Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet (sung in French)
Katarina Karnéus (mezzo-soprano)
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor)
John Relyea (bass)
London Symphony Chorus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
20:15
Venus and Adonis
By William Shakespeare.
The Bard's exquisite retelling of a classical myth concerning desire and loss.
Narrator ...... Nicholas Boulton
Venus ...... Claire Skinner
Adonis ...... Chris Moran
Directed by Sara Benaim.
21:30
In Search of Hans Christian Andersen
Two hundred years after the birth of Hans Christian Andersen, Michael Rosen and Lars Tharp travel to Denmark to uncover the truth about the unlikely creator of some our best loved tales.
22:15
31 July 2005
Andy presents the show from the Radio 3 mobile studio at WOMAD. With music from the blind Malian duo Amadou and Mariam, Iraqi legend Ilham Al Madfai, and Sufi singer Rizwan Qawwali. Plus a live appearance by the singer-songwriter Richie Havens, and on the Radio 3 Village stage, the Ugandan Geoffrey Oryema.
00:00
Robert Simpson (1921 - 1997)
Part One
One of the most charismatic British composers of recent years was Robert Simpson, a man of staunch principles, both musical and personal, whose work flew in the face of contemporary trends.
In conversation with the writer and broadcaster (and close personal friend of Simpson) Stephen Johnson, Donald Macleod discusses Simpson's character, and the rich body of work he bequeathed us.
String Trio (Prelude: Presto)
Delmé String Quartet
01:00
31 July 2005
31 July 2005
Presented by John Shea.
1.00am
Mendelssohn's Elijah from the Radio House Concert Hall, Copenhagen.
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Elijah, Op 70, (1846) Oratorio: German text version (Wds. Schubring)
Inger Dam-Jensen (soprano)
Anna Larsson (contralto)
Sune Hjerrild (tenor)
Bo Boje Skovhus (baritone)
Bo Anker Hansen (bass)
Danish National Choir/DR
Klaudia Kidon, Hjørdis Jakobsen (soprano)
Ulla Munck, Jane Bertelsen (contralto)
Poul Emborg, Lars Pedersen (tenor)
Hans-Henrik Raaholt (baritone)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR
Graeme Jenkins (conductor)
3.06am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E flat, BWV 998
Konrad Junghänel (lute)
3.20am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Fantasia for piano duet, D940, in Fm
Anna Klas, Bruno Lukk (piano)
3.38am
Bruch, Max (1838-1920): Violin Concerto No 2 in Dm, Op 44
James Ehnes (violin)
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4.04am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Illych (1840-1893): Pique Dame, Act 2: Yeletzky's Aria
Allan Monk (baritone)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4.08am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893): Sleep My Little One and Dream - aria from Mazeppa
Joanne Kolomyjec (soprano)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4.11am
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958): Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
The Royal Academy Soloists
Clio Gould (director)
4.24am
Trad. English arr. Jo Holland: The Whale
Highcliffe Junior Choir
Mary Deniss (director)
4.27am
Tye, Christopher (c.1505-c.1572): Omnes gentes, plaudite, for five voices
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
4.32am
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695): Funeral Music for Queen Mary
The Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble
4.39am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Water Music - Suite in G, HWV 350
Collegium Aureum
4.51am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto VII in F for four violins and basso continuo, RV 567 - from L'estro Armonico, Op 3
Paul Wright, Natsumi Wakamatsu, Sayuri Yamagata, Staas Swierstra (violin)
Hidemi Suzuki (cello)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Paul Dyer (conductor)
5.00am
Alabiev, Alexander (1787-1851): Overture in Fm
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mario Kosik (conductor)
5.12am
Eespere, René (b. 1953): De amore aeterno
Ele Raik (alto)
Talinn Music High School Chamber Choir
Evi Eespere (director)
5.18am
Visée, Robert de (c.1650-c.1710): Suite in A
Yasunori Imamura (theorbo)
5.33am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Sonata for viola da gamba and basso continuo in Am - from Essercizii Musici
Camerata Köln
Rainer Zipperling (solo viola da gamba)
Ghislaine Wauters (viola da gamba continuo)
Sabine Bauer (harpsichord)
5.43am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Hungarian Rhapsody No 1
Jenö Jandó (piano)
5.57am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Hai gia vinta la causa (The Marriage of Figaro)
Gaétan Laperrière (baritone)
Orchestre Symphonique de Trois Rivières
Gilles Bellemare (conductor)
6.03am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Keyboard Trio in A for piano, violin and cello
Ensemble of the Classic Era
Paul Wright (violin)
Susan Blake (cello)
Geoffrey Lancaster (fortepiano)
6.22am
Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672) : Io moro, ecco ch'io moro, SWV 13, from Il Primo Libro de Madrigali Venice
The Consorte of Musicke
Emma Kirkby, Evelyn Tubb (soprano)
Mary Nichols (alto)
Andrew King (tenor)
Richard Wistreich (bass)
Anthony Rooley (conductor)
6.26am
Chedeville (Le Cadet), Nicolas (1705-1782): Sonata for two flutes, Op 8, L'Allemande
Vladislav Brunner Sr, Juraj Brunner (flute)
6.43am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Concerto for two violins and string orchestra in Dm, BWV 1043
Sigiswald Kuijken (violin/conductor)
Lucy van Dael (2nd violin solo)
La Petite Bande
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