Wednesday 31st August 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

31 August 2005

With Penny Gore.

From 7.00am

Gershwin: Overture - Girl Crazy
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

Strozzi: Salve Regina
Maria-Christina Kiehr (soprano)
Concerto Soave

Martin: Trio on Irish popular melodies
Grieg Trio

From 8.30am

Mozart: Concerto in A, K.488
Clara Haskil
Vienna SO
Paul Sacher (conductor)

Martin: Three Christmas Songs
Elly Ameling (soprano)
Pieter Odé (flute)
Frank Martin (piano)

Debussy: La mer
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

31 August 2005

With Rob Cowan.

Wagner: Tannhauser, Overture
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Yevgeny Mravinsky (conductor)

Chausson: Les Temps des Lilas
Nan Merriman (mezzo-soprano)
Gerald Moore (piano)

Shostakovich: String Quartet No 7 in F sharp m, Op 108
Fine Arts Quartet

Mozart: Symphony No 36 in C, K425 Linz
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Bruno Walter (conductor)

Verdi: Falstaff: Act I, Part 2
Alice Ford ...... Herva Nelli (soprano)
Meg Page ...... Nan Merriman (mezzo-soprano)
Mistress Quickly ...... Cloe Elmo (mezzo-soprano)
Nanetta ...... Teresa Stich-Randall (soprano)
Ford ...... Frank Guarrera (baritone)
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Arturo Toscanini (conductor)

Rubbra: Soliloquy, Op 57
Raphael Sommer (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)

Shostakovich: String Quartet No 8 in C m, Op 110
Borodin Quartet

Montsalvatge: Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito, Canciones negras
Nan Merriman (mezzo-soprano)
Gerald Moore (piano)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826)

Part Three

Donald Macleod tells more tales of the skulduggery of 19th-century court life. This programme talks about Weber's struggles against anti-German sentiment and his tense relations with colleagues in Dresden.

Jubel-Messe
Elisabeth Speiser (soprano)
Helen Watts (alto)
Kurt Equiluz (tenor)
Siegmund Nimsgern (bass)
Werner Keltsch Instrumental Ensemble
Gerhard Wilhelm (director)

Invitation to the Dance
Alexander Paley (piano)

Der Freischütz, Overture
Philharmonia
Neeme Järvi (conductor)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Edinburgh International Festival 2005

Lars Vogt

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a recital recorded on Monday at the Queen's Hall.

Lars Vogt (piano)

Mozart: Piano Sonata in C, K330
Mozart: Piano Sonata in F, K332
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C m, Op 111

14:30

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 39 Part One

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Mendelssohn's magical music for Shakespeare's play takes centre stage in this year's fairytale celebrations. Only 17 when he wrote the overture, Mendelssohn recaptured all its youthful freshness years later when he was commissioned by the King of Prussia to supply a complete set of instrumental music for the play. Beethoven's heroic symphony forms a fitting conclusion to the concert.

Presented by Edward Seckerson.

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream incidental music, sung in English
Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in Cm.

Mary Nelson (soprano)
Victoria Simmonds (mezzo-soprano)
Methodist College Belfast Girls' Choir
Ulster Orchestra
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

16:00

Choral Evensong

From St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh

From St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh sung by members of the 2005 Charles Wood Summer School.

Introit: Hail Gladdening Light (Wood)
Responses: Clucas
Psalms: 147, 148, 149, 150, Stanford, McWilliam
First Reading: Isaiah 53 vv1-9
Canticles: New College Service (Howells)
Second Reading: John 1 vv29-34
Anthem: O vera digna hostia (Tarik O'Regan)
Hymn: O Christ the Same (Londonderry Air)
Organ Voluntary: Rhapsody No 3 (Howells)

David Hill (director)
John Robinson (organ)

17:00

In Tune

31 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 62

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

From the heart, may it reach to the heart, runs Beethoven's inscription on the score of his uniquely dramatic and highly personal setting of the Mass. Making their second appearance at this year's Proms, The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus take up the challenge of this all-encompassing work.

Presented by Sarah Walker.

Beethoven: Missa solemnis, Mass in D

Emily Magee (soprano)
Yvonne Naef (mezzo-soprano)
Toby Spence (tenor)
Michael Volle (bass)

The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)

21:00

The Meeting of Minds

The Philadelphia Convention, 1787

Meetings of Minds is a series looking at meetings during three moments in history which have had enormous impact beyond their four walls.

In 1787 a meeting that was to last three months was called in Philadelphia. Its president had one tooth, its elder statesman arrived each day in a sedan chair carried by prisoners and its opening had to be delayed by a week when only two of the 13 delegations turned up. From such inauspicious beginnings the American Constitution was born.

Frances Stonor Saunders examines the Philadelphia Convention which drew up this unique and contested document and how the decisions made there have had consequences for both America and the world today.

21:45

The Harp Consort

31 August 2005

Recorded in Crichton Collegiate Church, Midlothian in 2003.

JS Bach: Trio sonata in G, BWV 1039
JS Bach: In dir ist Freude/Tanzen und Springen

Andrew Lawrence-King (harp/director)
Julian Podger (tenor/guitar)
Nancy Hadden (flute)
Barbara Hoffmann (viola da gamba)
Keith McGowan (bassoon)
Steve Player (guitar)

22:15

Late Junction

31 August 2005

Fiona Talkington plays music by Mercan Dede and trumpeter Jon Hassel, and looks ahead to UK tours from Yat Kha and Christian Wallumrod.

00:00

Composer of the Week

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

Part Four

Constant Lambert and Alan Rawsthorne had a lot in common, not least that they both married the same woman. The amazing Isabel Nicholas was one of the great muses of the 20th century. Donald Macleod looks at how she, and other significant women, affected the composers' lives.

Constant Lambert: Elegiac Blues
Richard Rodney Bennett

Constant Lambert: Eight Poems by Li-Po
Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Alan Rawsthorne: Concertante for Violin and Piano
Nadia Myerscough (violin)
Yoshiko Endo (piano)

Constant Lambert: Horoscope (excerpt)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

Alan Rawsthorne: Quintet for Piano and Winds
The Fibonacci Sequence

01:00

Through the Night

31 August 2005

31 August 2005

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
To celebrate Slovakian National Day, Slovakian music performed by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava in concerts recorded between 1983 and 1992.

1.01am
Suchon, Eugen (1908-1993): Elegy and Toccata
With Klára Havlíková (piano)
Ondrej Lenárd (conductor)

1.10am
Bella, Jan Levoslav (1843-1936): Fate and the Ideal - symphonic poem
Oliver Dohnányi (conductor)

1.29am
Moyzes, Alexander (1906-1984): Piano Concerto
With Ida Cernecká (piano)
Marián Vach (conductor)

1.44am
Albrecht, Alexander (1885-1958), arranged by Ladislav Holoubek: Suite for Big Orchestra
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava
Oliver Dohnányi (conductor)

2.08am
Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951): Verklärte Nacht, Op 4
Borromeo String Quartet

2.37am
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): Messa da Requiem
Ragnhild Heiland Sřrensen (soprano)
Ingebjorg Kosmo (mezzo-soprano)
Ivar Gilhuus (tenor)
Oddbjorn Tennfjord (baritone)
Collegium Vocale
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Johannes Fritzsch (conductor)

4.00am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Piano Sonata No 25 in G, Op 79
Edith Vogel (piano)

4.11am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Divertimento in D, K136
National Arts Centre Orchestra
Pinchas Zuckerman (conductor)

4.25am
Carniolus, Iacobus Gallus (1550-1591): 2 Motets: Virgines prudentes a 8, OM 4/30; O beata Trinitas, te invocamus a 8, OM 3/3 - from Opus Musicum
Ljubljanski madrigalisti
Matjaz Scek (director)

4.30am
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936): Antiche Arie e Danze - Suite No 3, 1932
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Igor Kuljeric (conductor)

4.50am
Manfredini, Francesco (1684 - 1762): Symphony No 10 in E m
Slovak Chamber Orchestra
Bohdan Warchal (leader)

5.00am
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837): Overture No 1, Op 101, in B flat
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava
Stefan Róbl (conductor)

5.07am
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959): Variations on a Slovak Theme
Peter Jarusek (cello)
Daniela Varinska (piano)

5.18am
Puccini, Giacomo (1858 -1924): Chrysanthemums
Moyzes Quartet

5.24am
Soyka, Ulf-Dieter (b.1954): Chromatic concert etudes, Op 9, No 4
Marán Pivka (piano)

5.33am
Gounod, Charles (1818-1893): Fausts Aria Salut, demeure chaste et pure
Peter Dvorsky (tenor)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

5.38am
Benes, Juraj (b. 1940): Music for JS, 1985
Zilina State Chamber Orchestra
Leo Svárovsk? (conductor)

5.54am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Sarabande in C, BWV 1009
Miklós Perényi (cello)

5.59am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Little Shepherd, from Children's Corner
Slovak String Quartet

6.02am
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911): 4 songs from Das Knaben Wunderhorn: Rheinlegendchen, No 7; Ablösung im Sommer, No 11 of lieder und gesange aus der Jugendzeit, but from Knaben Wunderhorn collection; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen, No 9; Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? No 4
Lucia Popp (soprano)
Irwin Gage (piano)

6.16am
Quantz, Johann Joachim (1697-1773): Duet, Op 2
Vladislav Brunner Sr and Juraj Brunner (flute)

6.25am
Donizetti, Gaetano (1797-1848): Sinfonia in G m
Bratislavska Komorna Harmonia

6.32am
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837): Trio in G
Viktor Simcisko (violin)
Alzbeta Plazkurova (viola)
Jozef Sikora (cello)

6.47am
Hellendaal, Pieter (1721 - 1799): Concerto grosso, Op 3
Slovak Chamber Orchestra
Bohdan Warchal (leader)