Monday 29th August 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

29 August 2005

With Penny Gore, celebrating the history, music and music-making of Switzerland.

From 7.00am

Beethoven: Variations on a Swiss Song, WoO 64
Mikhail Pletnev

Vivaldi: Concerto in C, RV 87
L'Astree

Honegger: Rugby
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
David Zinman

From 8.30am

Rossini: String Sonata No 3 in C
Members of OAE

Heinichen: Alma mater redemptoris
Axel Kohler (alto)
Musica Antiqua Koln
Reinhard Goebel

Ibert: Symphonie concertante
John de Lancie (ob)
LSO
Andre Previn (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

29 August 2005

With Rob Cowan.

Featuring Shostakovich string quartets and recordings by Nan Merriman.

Shostakovich: Elegy
Borodin Quartet

Fauré: Ici-bas! Op 8, No 3; Après un rêve, Op 7, No 1
Nan Merriman (mezzo-soprano)
Gerald Moore (piano)

Handel: Concerto grosso in A, Op 6, No 11
Guildhall String Ensemble

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Act II
Orfeo ...... Nan Merriman (mezzo-soprano)
Euridice ...... Barbara Gibson (soprano)
Robert Shaw Chorale
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Arturo Toscanini (conductor)

Shostakovich: String Quartet No 3 in F, Op 73
Tchaikovsky Quartet

Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis
Nan Merriman (mezzo-soprano)
Gerald Moore (piano)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826)

Part One

Bad luck seemed to dog Carl Maria von Weber's professional life: there was always a rival faction, a temperamental diva or political intrigue to complicate matters. Donald Macleod finds Weber working for the aristocratic and eccentric Württemberg family, with whom Weber's own sense of mischief landed him in hot water.

Ruler of the Sprits Overture
The Hanover Band
Roy Goodman (director)

Symphony No 1
Philharmonia Orchestra
Claus Peter Flor (conductor)

Seven Variations on Vien quà, Dorina bella
Alexander Paley (piano)

13:00

BBC Proms Chamber Music 2005

Concert Seven

From Cadogan Hall, presented by Stephanie Hughes.

A lively vocal and instrumental ensemble celebrates 1605 - a vintage year for Italian music. It saw the birth in Rome of Carissimi, now credited as the inventor of the oratorio. Jonas is one of his most famous - full of glorious music, and an absolute whale of a story!

Meanwhile, in Mantua in 1605, Monteverdi was at the peak of his powers, producing his impassioned fifth book of madrigals.

Carissimi: Annunciate gentes; Ardens est cor meum
Uccellini: Sonata Decima Sesta a doi violini
Monteverdi: Ch'io t'ami; Ahi come a un vago sol
Carissimi: Turbabuntur impii
Uccellini: Sonata Decima Ottava a 2
Carissimi: Jonas

I Fagiolini
Robert Hollingworth (director/harpsichord)

14:00

BBC Proms 2005

16 August 2005 Prom 43 Part One

From the Royal Albert Hall, presented by Sarah Walker.

Written for the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution, Shostakovich's graphic symphony looks back to the failed uprising against the Tsar in 1905 and contrasts with Stravinsky's virtuosic description of a fireworks display. The centrepiece of the programme is Marc-André Dalbavie's new Piano Concerto inspired by William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.

Stravinsky: Fireworks
Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 in Gm
Marc-André Dalbavie: Piano Concerto, (BBC co-commission with The Cleveland Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra; world premiere)

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

16:00

Stage and Screen

29 August 2005

Edward Seckerson compares notes with the dazzling Romanian-born soprano Angela Gheorghiu. Music includes Verdi's La Traviata, Puccini's La Rondine and Gounod's Romeo et Juliette.

17:00

In Tune

29 August 2005

Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and keeps us up to date with what's happening in the arts world. Email: in.tune@bbc.co.uk

19:30

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 59 Part One

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, presented by Louise Fryer.

Continuing this year's Proms nautical theme, Wagner's musical depiction of a storm-tossed sea provides a tempestuous contrast with the sunrise opening of Strauss' tone poem. Pianist Emanuel Ax joins the visiting Zurich orchestra in Beethoven's grandiose and lyrical concerto.

Wagner: The Flying Dutchman - overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 in Cm

Emanuel Ax (piano)
Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich
David Zinman (conductor)

20:20

Twenty Minutes

In Front of Closed Doors

At the Royal Albert Hall, audiences come and go. But the stewards could be considered as the native population. Once a uniformed helper at the Old Vic under Olivier, Simon Callow takes us in front of closed doors at the Hall and looks back on his own experiences as an usher, unearthing along the way other well-known voices who have performed the same role.

20:40

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 59 Part Two

The live Proms concert featuring the Tonhalle Orchestra continues with Strauss' tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra.

21:35

Feature

Walden Revisited

Henry David Thoreau published Walden, his classic account of life in a cabin in the woods around Walden Pond, 151 years ago. The book is now considered one of the most important in American literature, and has inspired generations of writers, thinkers and environmentalists.

Professor Geoff Ward considers Thoreau's achievement and returns to Walden Pond, now struggling to preserve its status as a sacred place of American culture and ecology. Contributors include novelists Rick Moody and Alexander Theroux, and Thoreau scholars Lawrence Buell and Elizabeth Witherell.

22:20

Late Junction

29 August 2005

Fiona Talkington previews Kate Rusby's new album The Girl Who Couldn't Fly and plays tracks from Dhafer Youssef's 1999 album Malak, featuring trumpeter Markus Stockhausen.

00:00

Composer of the Week

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

Part Two

Donald Macleod continues his journey through the lives and works of these two composers who were both contemporaries and friends. He follows them along their different career paths. Constant Lambert had a meteoric start and was already established by the age of 22, but it took Alan Rawsthorne considerably longer to make his mark, not least because he began training as both a dentist and an architect first.

Constant Lambert: Sonata for Piano
Ian Brown

Constant Lambert: Pomona
English Northern Philharmonia
David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)

Alan Rawsthorne: Excerpt from score for the film of Uncle Silas (arranged and orchestrated by Philip Lane)
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

29 August 2005

29 August 2005

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
Another of our Composer Portrait concerts - this one pairing chamber music by the two Russian composers Scriabin and Prokofiev. Recorded in Stockholm in 2003 and 1998.

Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915): Preludes, Op 11, Nos 1-14
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)

1.19am
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953): Five Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Op 27, 1916
Maria Höglind (mezzo-soprano)
Henrik Löwenmark (piano)

1.29am
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915): Piano Sonata No 2 in G sharp m, Op 19, Fantasy
Piano Sonata No 4 in F sharp, Op 30
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)

1.48am
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953): String Quartet No 2, Op 92 in F on Kabardinian themes, 1941
Tale String Quartet
Patrik Swedrup and Anders Nyman (violin)
Ingegerd Kiergegaard (viola)
Helena Nilsson (cello)

2.11am
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953): Piano Sonata No 7 in B flat m, Op 83, 1939-42
Love Derwinger (piano)

2.32am
Schein, Johann Hermann (1586-1630): Selection from Diletti Pastorali
Cantus Cöln
Konrad Junghänel (conductor)

2.54am
Guilain, Jean-Adam (c.1680-1739): Suite du premier ton
Norbert Bartelsman (organ)

3.04am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Violin Concerto in G, H7a.4
Aladar Mozi (violin)
Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Pavol Bagin (conductor)

3.30am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Sinfonia concertante
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Terje Tønnesen (conductor)

4.00am
India, Sigismondo d (c.1582-c.1629): Lagrimate, occhi miei, text: Giovanni Villafranchi
Nigel Rogers (tenor)
Paul O'Dette (lute)
Felice chi vi mira, text: Giovanni Battista Guiarini
The Consort of Musicke

4.07am
Byrd, William (c.1543-1623): Pavan and galliard in G, MB.28.70, Quadran
Aapo Häkkinen (harpsichord)

4.21am
Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643): Canzona decimanova (detta La Capriola), Canzona nona (detta La Gualterina), Canzona decimal (detta L'Henri-cuccia), Canzona vigesima (detta La Lipparella) from Il primo Libro delle Canzoni (Rome 1628)
Musica Fiata
Köln, Roland Wilson (director)

4.33am
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909): Na sniegu, In the Snow, Op 1, No 3 and Smutna jest dusza moja, My Soul Is Sad, Op 1, No 6
Jadwiga Rappé (alto)
Ewa Poblocka (piano)

4.37am
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915): 4 Morceaux, Op 56
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)

4.43am
Sehested, Hilda (1858-1936): 3 Fantasy pieces, 1908
Nina Reintoft (cello)
Malene Thastum (piano)

4.54am
Dugan, Franjo Senior (1874-1948): Toccata
Ljerka Ocic (organ)

5.00am
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953): Overture on Jewish Themes in C m, Op 34
Per Billman (clarinet)
Henrik Löwenmark (piano)
Tale String Quartet

5.09am
Knipper, Lev Konstantinovich (1898-1974): Radif, a piece in Iranian style, 1973
Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan
Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)

5.22am
Khachaturian, Aram (1903-1978): Violin Concerto in D m
Ion Voicu (violin)
Georges Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra
George Georgescu (conductor)

6.00am
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915): 4 Mazurkas, No 8 in G sharp m, Op 3; No 2 in F m, Op 25; No 8 in B, Op 25; No 1 in D flat, Op 40
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)

6.09am
Malipiero, Gian Francesco (1882-1973): Concerto a-tre, 1938
Trio Lorenz
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Jakov Cipci (conductor)

6.24am
Herberigs, Robert (1886-1974): Die edele Heer van Brunenswye, The Squire of Brunswick, from Dertien Oud-Nederlandse liederen, 13 old Flemish Songs (1949-50)
The Flemish Radio Choir
Eric Mertens (flute)
Joost Gils (oboe)
Alex van Beveren (cor anglais)
Anne Boeykens (clarinet)
Luc Verdonck and Paul Gerlo (bassoon)
Herman Lemahieu (horn)
Johan Duijck (conductor)

6.27am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Oboe Sonata in E m, from Essercizii musici
Adrian Wilson (oboe)
Joanne Seeley (piano)

6.31am
Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672): Quella damma son io, SWV 11, Sospir che del bel petto; SWV 14, Dunque addio, care selve; SWV 15, Tornate, o cari baci; SWV 16, Di marmo siete voi; SWV 17, Giunte è pur, Lidia; SWV 18 from Il Primo Libro de Madrigali Venice (1611)
The Consorte of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (conductor)