Monday 22nd August 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

22 August 2005

With Penny Gore, featuring classics of the clarinet repertoire and piano variations.

From 7.00am

Mendelssohn: Konzertstück No 2 in Dm for Clarinet, Basset Horn & Orchestra, Op 114
Sabine Meyer (clarinet)
Wolfgang Meyer (basset horn)
ASMF
Kenneth Sillito (director)

Monteverdi: Dixit Dominus II
La Capella Ducale
Musica Fiata Koln
Roland Wilson (director)

Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
LSO
Colin Davis (conductor)

From 8.30am

Fasch: Concerto in D
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock (director)

Lutoslawski: Variations on a Theme of Paganini
Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire (piano)

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A, K622
Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Thomas Beecham (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

22 August 2005

With Jonathan Swain, featuring Berlioz vocal-orchestral works and recordings by pianist Samson François.

Ravel: Scarbo (Gaspard de la nuit)
Samson François (piano)

Vaughan Williams: Taking Off at Night; Dawn Patrol (from the film Costal Command)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Kenneth Alwyn (conductor)

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 in C, Op 26
Samson François
Paris Conservatoire Concerts Society Orchestra
André Cluytens (conductor)

Berlioz: Messe solennelle
Donna Brown (soprano)
Jean-Luc Viala (tenor)
Gilles Cachemaille (bass-baritone)
Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Chopin: Ballade No 4 in Fm, Op 52
Samson François (piano)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Constant Lambert (1905-1951) and Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971)

Part One

Donald Macleod begins his week-long exploration of the lives and works of two composers who were born a few months apart 100 years ago. As he finds out, among their many common interests was a passion for cats and fish.

Alan Rawsthorne: The Naming of Cats (Excerpt from Practical Cats)
Robert Donat (speaker)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Alan Rawsthorne (conductor)

Alan Rawsthorne: The Creel
Peter Lawson and Alan MacLean

Constant Lambert: Romeo and Juliet (Excerpt)
State Orchestra of Victoria
John Lanchbery (conductor)

Constant Lambert: The Rio Grande
Sally Burgess (mezzo-soprano)
Jack Gibbons (piano)
English Northern Philharmonia
Leeds Festival Chorus
David Lloyd Jones (conductor)

Alan Rawsthorne: Theme and Variations for Two Violins (1938)
Peter Sheppard Skærved and Christine Sohn

13:00

BBC Proms Chamber Music 2005

Concert Six

From Cadogan Hall, presented by Stephanie Hughes.

The distinctive genius of Michael Tippett shines brightly in his moving song cycle and exhilarating piano sonata - both creating an utterly personal sound-world. Tippett's centenary and his love of Purcell's music are celebrated by a young tenor from BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists, and a renowned pianist who knew Tippett well and is the dedicatee of the Third Sonata.

Tippett: The Heart's Assurance
Purcell, arr Tippett and Bergmann: Sweeter than Roses; I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly; An Evening Hymn
Tippett: Piano Sonata No 3
Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Paul Crossley (piano)

14:00

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 36 Part Two

From the Royal Albert Hall, presented by Christopher Cook.

The Korean composer Unsuk Chin gained worldwide recognition last year when she won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award. Her song cycle features words from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Also on the menu, the overture to Weber's magical masterpiece and Bruckner's epic 6th Symphony.

Weber: Der Freischütz - overture
Unsuk Chin: Snags & Snarls (Suite from Alice in Wonderland)
Bruckner: Symphony No 6 in A

Christiane Oelze (soprano)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Kent Nagano (conductor)

16:00

Stage and Screen

Alfred Newman

Tommy Pearson pays tribute to one of the fathers of modern film music, who as head of music at 20th Century Fox composed classic scores and nurtured a whole generation of composers, from Bernard Herrmann and John Williams to his sons David and Thomas, and his nephew Randy.

17:00

In Tune

22 August 2005

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

19:30

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 51 Part One

From the Royal Albert Hall, presented by Tommy Pearson.

Written at the height of the Second World War, Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony is a highly personal response to mass devastation. The Prom opens with two contrasting sides of Ravel's musical personality, his own orchestration of the Spanish-flavoured piano piece, Alborada del gracioso, and his jazz-influenced Piano Concerto.

Ravel: Alborada del gracioso; Piano Concerto in G
Shostakovich: Symphony No 8 in Cm
Hélène Grimaud (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)

20:05

Twenty Minutes

22 August 2005

Three months before VE Day, the Allied bombing of Dresden in February 1945 proved a highly controversial act. It remains so to this day. Historian Dr David Stafford, of the University of Edinburgh, charts the significance of the event, and the changing ways in which it has been viewed since then.

20:25

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 51 Part Two

The live concert continues with Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony in Cm, a highly personal response to mass devastation in the Second World War.

21:45

Travels with Blavatsky

Travels with Blavatsky

Peggy Reynolds goes in search of the grandmother of the New Age, Madame Blavatsky, one of history's most enigmatic women, who was responsible for opening Western minds to Eastern thought.

Considered by her Victorian peers a sage and charlatan, philosopher and fraud, Blavatsky was a whirlwind of inspiration, invoking a revolution in the arts, politics and science. With stops in Bombay, London, New York and Nirvana, the programme removes the beguiling cloak of mystery from Blavatsky's epic writings and incredible life.

22:30

Late Junction

22 August 2005

Fiona Talkington features music from Swiss duo Bo Wiget and Luigi Archetti, 1950s calypso from Young Tiger, Venetian lute music and a selection from Your 3.

00:00

Composer of the Week

The German Organists (1560 - 1750)

Part Two: Our Friends in the North

Donald Macleod continues his journey through nearly 200 years of German music in Halle and Hamburg to discover the early exponents of the great North German organ tradition.

Scheidt: Modus ludendi pleno organo pedaliter
Georges Guillard (organ)

Scheidt: Niederlandisch Liedgen; Cantio Belgica Weh windgen weh
Franz Raml (harpsichord)

Scheidt: Canzon à 5 super O Nachbar Roland
The Musica Dolce Ensemble

Schein: Siehe, nach Trost war mir sehr bange
Ensemble Vocal Européen
Philippe Herreweghe (director)

Jacob Praetorius: Choralbearbeitung Was kann uns kommen an für not
Philip Swanton (organ)

Hieronymus Praetorius: Missa super Angelus ad Pastores, Sanctus and Agnus Dei
Capella Sancti Michaelis
Ricercar Consort
Erik van Nevel (director)

Scheidemann: Vater unser im Himmelreich
Julia Brown (organ)

01:00

Through the Night

22 August 2005

22 August 2005

Jonathan Swain begins the programme with a Composer Portrait on Max Reger (1873-1916), followed at 2.21am by music from Zemlinsky, Schoenberg, A Mahler and G Mahler.

1.01am
Six Piano Pieces - No 3 in F sharp from Silhouetten: 7 pieces for piano, Op 53; Three pieces from Bunte Blätter, Op 36 Nos 3, 6 & 7; Vivace in Dm from Träume
am Kamin, Op 143, No 10
Mats Jansson (piano)

1:15am
Chaconne (Grave) from Sonata for solo violin in Am, Op 91, No 7
Peter Olofsson (violin)

1.25am
Ausgewahlte Volkslieder - No 1 Mailied, No 4 Ich hab' die Nacht geträumet, No 5 Trutze nicht, No 8 Es waren zwei Königskinder & No 7 Schwäbisches Tanzliedchen
Members of the Swedish Radio Choir
Ulla Sjöblom, Helena Olsson (soprano)
Katarina Altéus, Malena Ernman (contraltos)
Per-Erik Lindskog, Pelle Olofsson (tenor)
Mats Kiesel, Lage Wedin (bass)
Eric Ericson (conductor)

1.37am
Serenade for flute, violin and viola, Op 141a, in G
Andreas Alin (flute)
Peter Olofsson (violin)
Tony Bauer (viola)

1.54am
Variations and fugue on a theme of Beethoven for 2 pianos, Op 86
Yoriko Asahara, Mats Jansson (piano)

2.21am
Zemlinsky, Alexander von (1872-1942): Die Seejungfrau - Fantasie for Orchestra (1902/3)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

3.03am
Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951): Verklärte Nacht, Op 4
Borromeo String Quartet
Nicholas Kitchen, Ruggero Allifranchini (violin)
Hsin-Yun Haeng (viola)
Yeesun Kim (cello)
with Cynthia Phelps (viola) and Andrés Díaz (cello)

3.32am
Mahler, Alma (1879-1964): In meines Vaters Garten (Hartleben)
Barbara Bonney (soprano)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)

3.38am
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911): Todtenfeier
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Joseph Swensen (conductor)

4.00am
Hasse, Johann Adolfe (1699-1783): Overture to the opera Arminio
Ekkehard Hering, Wolfgang Kube (oboe)
Andrew Joy, Rainier Jurkiewicz (horn)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Stephan Mai (director)

4.07am
Carlton, Richard (c.1558-1638): Calm was the air

4.10am
Weelkes, Thomas (1575-1623): As Vesta was from Latmos Hill descending
The King's Singers
David Hurley, Robin Tyson (countertenor)
Paul Phoenix (tenor)
Philip Lawson, Gabriel Crouch (baritone)
Stephen Connolly (bass)

4.14am
Cavalli, Francesco (1602-1676): Sonata à 8 (Musiche sacre concernenti messa, e salmi concertati con istromenti, imni, antifone et sonate Venice 1656)
Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble
Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)

4.19am
Schnittke, Alfred (1934-1998): Suite in the olden style
Daniil Shafran (cello)
Anton Osetrov (piano)

4.33am
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937): Variations in B flat m, Op 3
Jerzy Godziszewski (piano)

4.45am
Copi, Ambroz (b.1973): Psalm 108: My heart is steadfast; Pie Jesu from the Dies Irae of the Requiem Mass
Chamber Choir AVE
Andraz Hauptman (conductor)

4.53am
Donizetti, Gaetano (1797-1848): Grande Offertorio in D
Aart Bergwerff (playing Batz organ, Grote or Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk, Harderwijk)

5.00am
Biber, Heinrich Franz Ignaz (1644-1704): Sonata XII à 8 - from Sonatae tam aris quam aulis serviente
Collegium Aureum

5.05am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Concerto for flute and orchestra in D
Wilbert Hazelzet (flute)
Musica Antiqua Köln
Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

5.17am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Künft'ger Zeiten eitler Kummer, HWV 202, No 1 from Deutsche Arien
Hélène Plouffe (violin)
Louise Pellerin (oboe)
Dom André Laberge (organ - 1999 Karl Wilhelm at the abbey church Saint-Benoit-du-Lac)

5.23am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774; Nacht und Träume, D827
Edith Wiens (soprano)
Rudolf Jansen (piano)

5.31am
Weber, Carl Maria Von (1786 -1826): Konzertstuck in Fm, Op 79
Lili Kraus (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Pierre Monteux (conductor)

5.48am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Motets - Es ist das Heil uns kommen her; Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein reines Herz, Op 29
Danish National Radio Choir
Stefan Parkman (conductor)

6.00am
Weckman, Matthias (c.1616-1674): Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ - praeludium for organ
James Dalton (organ)

6.13am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Suite in B flat, Op 4
I Solisti del Vento
Etienne Siebens (conductor)

6.38am
Suolahti