07:00
28 August 2005
Martin Handley continues his exploration of Switzerland's oldest orchestra.
Elgar: In the South, Alassio; Overture, Op 50
Halle Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)
Albeniz: Jerez from Iberia Book 4
Hervé Billaut (piano)
Wolf-Ferrari: Overture to Il Segreto di Susanna
Zurich Tonhalle
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (conductor)
From 8.00am
Mozart: Six Variations in G, K 455 on an aria from Gluck's, The Pilgrim of Mecca
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
Honegger: Symphony No 2
Herbert Kistler (trumpet)
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor)
09:00
28 August 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 Beethoven's Piano concerto No 3, recommended on yesterday's CD Review.
The programme includes:
Strauss, Richard: Festliches Präludium, Op 61
Philadelphia Orchestra
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
Alessandro Scarlatti: O cessate
Lully: Air de ballet
Gérard Souzay (baritone)
Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Telemann: Sonata Metodiche in A
Barthold Kuijken (transverse flute)
Wieland Kuijken (viola da gamba)
Robert Kohnen (harpsichord)
Chopin: Introduction and Variations on a German National Air in E
Tamas Vasary (piano)
Verdi: Patria oppressa! (from Macbeth)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Robert Shaw (conductor)
Weill: Tango Ballade
Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinet)
Gianna Coscia (accordion)
Mozart: Andante and Rondo, Allegro in D, K271a
Albrecht Mayer (oboe)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 10
Weller Quartet
Schubert: Du bist die Ruh, D776
Pavel Lisitsian (baritone)
Orchestra
Semyon Gorchakov (conductor)
Schutz: Machet die Tore weit, SWV Anh.8
Dresdner Kreuzchor
Martin Flämig (conductor)
Schubert: Overture to Fierrabras
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
István Kertész (conductor)
12:00
John Wheatley
Michael Berkeley's guest today is the architect John Wheatley, who was closely associated with the redevelopment of the City of London from the 1980s onwards.
Architecture, art and music have shaped a major part of his professional life, and his musical passions show a fascination with the conjunction of oriental and western music, the influence of jazz, and composers such as Messiaen and Scriabin who were preoccupied with philosophical and mystical concepts.
13:00
Early Music Discoveries
You might not expect the world of Early Music to be revealing new and interesting finds after all these years, but take a look at these:
Viol player takes up the longbow.
4000 year old harp found to roar like a bull.
Set of squiggles may change the way we listen to Bach.
Andrew Manze investigates.
14:00
Edinburgh International Festival 2005
Stephanie Hughes introduces a programme of songs by Dvorák, Schubert and Brahms given by the mezzo-soprano Bernada Fink and pianist Roger Vignoles at the Queen's Hall as part of this year's Edinburgh International Festival.
Dvorák: Love Songs, Op 83
Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade
Schubert: Im Frühling
Schubert: Lachen und Weinen
Schubert: Du bist die Ruh
Schubert: Die junge Nonne
Brahms: Vergebliches Standchen
Brahms: Wie Melodien
Brahms: Der Gang zum Liebchen
Brahms: Sapphische Ode
Brahms: Das Mädchen spricht
Brahms: Meine Liebe ist grün
Dvorák: Songs from the Dvur Králové Manuscript, Op 7
15:30
28 August 2005
David Cairns talks about his groundbreaking work on the music of Berlioz.
16:00
28 August 2005
More listeners' requests, which this week include Vaughan Williams' Norfolk Rhapsody, Salieri's Concerto for oboe, flute and orchestra, Suk's Fantastic Scherzo and Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder, in a vintage recording from Janet Baker and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Reginald Goodall.
17:45
Christian Poltera and Antoine Tamestit
A chance to discover some of the hottest new talent in the music world.
Verity Sharp presents a programme of studio recordings made specially for Radio 3 by BBC New Generation Artists Christian Poltera and Antoine Tamestit.
Bach: Cello Suite No 2
Christian Poltera (cello)
Ligeti: Sonata for solo viola
Antoine Tamestit (viola)
18:30
Prom 58
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
The BBC Philharmonic's Principal Conductor, Gianandrea Noseda, conducts an all-Italian line-up of soloists in Verdi's profoundly beautiful, operatically-proportioned masterpiece. Verdi's daring arrangement of the Latin text for the Requiem Mass brought its share of criticism in his day, but its sheer magnificence remains unsurpassed.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
Verdi: Requiem
BBC Symphony Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
Barbara Frittoli (soprano)
Daniela Barcellona (mezzo-soprano)
Giuseppe Filianoti (tenor)
Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass)
20:00
Women Beware Women
Thomas Middleton's Jacobean classic in which the women are the worst betrayers. When Leantio's beautiful wife Bianca catches the eye of the Duke, the worldly Livia arranges an assignation, plunging Bianca into the vice and corruption of the court.
Livia ...... Penny Downie
Bianca ...... Beth Chalmers
Leantio ...... John McAndrew
Mother ...... Manon Edwards
Guardiano ...... Bill Wallis
Isabella ...... Sara McGaughey
Hippolito ...... Andrew Wincott
Fabritio ...... James Greene
Duke ...... Nigel Terry
Cardinal ...... Dorien Thomas
Ward ...... Robert Harper
Sordido ...... Simon Ludders
Directed by Alison Hindell.
22:15
28 August 2005
A repeat of a classic session, featuring one of the great voices of gospel music - Pops Staples, whose many hits included I'll Take You There, Respect Yourself and the Civil Rights anthem, Why Am I Treated So Bad, which was recorded for Andy's programme in 1992.
00:00
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 Skćrved and Christine Sohn
01:00
28 August 2005
28 August 2005
With Jonathan Swain.
1.00am
A complete performance of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Mary, recorded by Norwegian Radio at the Oslo Trinity Church on 5th December 2004
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643): Vespero della Beata Virgine
Tone Elsabeth Baarten and Tone Margaret Wik (soprano)
Rasmus Hřgset (counter tenor)
Sebasjan Podbregar and Magnus Staveland (tenor)
Johannes Weisser (baritone)
Daniel Oskar Danielsson (bass baritone)
Grex Vocalis
Concerto Barocco
Carl Hřgset (conductor)
2.40am
Brade, William (1560-1630): Newe ausserlesne Paduanen und Galliarden, Hamburg 1614
Hesperion XX
Jordi Savall (conductor)
3.06
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Suite No 5 in Cm, BWV 1011
Guy Fouquet (cello)
3.35am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Piano Concerto in A, KV 414
Maurizio Moretti (piano)
Zagreb Soloists
4.00am
Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725): 2 Toccatas in F and in Dm
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)
4.12am
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757) (arr. Timothy Kain): 2 Sonatas in D, K430 and in F, K518
Guitar Trek
4.19am
Cimarosa, Domenico (1749-1801) (arr. Arthur Benjamin): Oboe Concerto (arranged for trumpet)
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Michael Halasz (conductor)
4.31am
Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643): Selection from Messa Della Madonna
Liuwe Tamminga (organ)
4.43am
Henderson, Ruth Watson (b. 1932): In Memoriam Elmer Iseler
The Elmer Iseler Singers
Lydia Adams (conductor)
4.50am
Debussy, Claude (1862 1918): Images, Set 2
Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
5.00am
Auber, Daniel-Francois-Esprit (1782-1871): Overture from Fra Diavolo
Slovak Radio SO
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
5.08am
Luzzaschi, Luzzasco (c.1545-1607): Cor mio, deh non languire
5.11am
Nantermi, Filiberto (d.1605): Cor mio, deh non languire
5.16am
Radesca di Foggia, Enrico (d.1625): Cor mio, deh non languire
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (lute and director)
5.19am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Süsser Blumen Ambraflocken, HWV 204, No 3, from Deutsche Arien
Hélčne Plouffe (violin)
Louise Pellerin (oboe)
Dom André Laberge (organ)
5.25am
Melartin, Erkki (1875-1937): Leivo, Skylark, Op 138, No 2
5.27am
Melartin, Erkki (1875-1937): Mina metsan polkuja kuljen, I Am Walking in a Forest, Op 4, No 1
5.28am
Luolajan-Mikkola, Vilho (b. 1911): Haatanhu, Wedding Folkdance
Sauli Tiilikainen (baritone)
Markus Lehtinen (piano)
5.32am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): The Fiddler, from 5 Characteristic Impressions, Op 103, No 2
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)
5.34am
Hannikainen, Ilmari (1892-1955): Suihkulähteellä, At a Fountain
Lissa Pohjola (piano)
5.41am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): 11 Zigeunerlieder, Op 103
Danish National Radio Choir
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Stefan Parkman (conductor)
6.01am
Busoni, Ferrucio (1866-1924): Violin Concerto in D, Op 35a
Adolf Busch (violin)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bruno Walter (conductor)
6.23am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) transc. Busoni: Choral Prelude, Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein, BWV 734
Ferruccio Busoni (piano)
6.26am
Rossi, Salomone (c.1570-c.1630): Sinfonia a 5
Ensemble Daedalus
Roberto Festa (conductor)
6.31am
Schoek, Othmar (1886-1957): Ravenna lied on a poem by Hermann Hesse, Op 24b
Reinhard Hagen (bass)
Ursula Rüttimann (piano)
6.34am
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915): Počme de l'extase, Op 54
Orchestre National de France
Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
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