Thursday 1st September 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

1 September 2005

With Penny Gore.

From 7.00am

Arriaga: Overture, The Happy Slaves
Scottish CO
Charles Mackerras

Granados: Allegro appassionato, Escenas romanticas
Alicia de Larrocha

Liszt: Chapelle de Guillaume Tell, Annees de Pelerinage - Suisse
Stephen Hough

From 8.30am

Brahms: Violin Sonata in D m, Op 108
Maxim Vengerov
Lilia Zilberstein

Rossini: William Tell (excs)
Soloists
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly

Honegger: Symphony No 4, Deliciae Basiliensis
Toulouse Capitole Orchestra
Michel Plasson

10:00

CD Masters

1 September 2005

With Rob Cowan.

Poulenc: Pièce brève sur le nom d'Albert Roussel
French National Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor)

Mozart: Oh Dei, come veloce se ne va quella barca!... Soave sia il vento; Ah scostati!... Smanie implacabili che magitate, Cosi fan tutte, Act I
Fiordiligi ...... Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Dorabella ...... Nan Merriman (soprano)
Don Alfonso ...... Sesto Bruscantini (bass)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

Shostakovich: String Quartet No 11 in F m, Op 122
Hagen Quartet

Martin: Ode à la Musique
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)

Debussy: Fêtes galantes (1er serie)
Nan Merriman (mezzo-soprano)
Gerald Moore (piano)

Shostakovich: String Quartet No 14 in F sharp, Op 142
Glinka String Quartet

Duparc: La Vie antérieure; Phidylé
Nan Merriman (mezzo-soprano)
Gerald Moore (piano)

Poulenc: Sinfonietta
French National Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826)

Part Four

Donald Macleod tells the story behind Weber's masterpiece Der Freischütz, a triumphant success from its first performance.

Der Freischütz (extracts)
Staatskapelle Dresden
Carlos Kleiber (conductor)

Euryanthe (extract)
Staatskapelle Dresden
Marek Janowski (conductor)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Edinburgh International Festival 2005

1 September 2005

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a recital recorded last Friday at the Queen's Hall.

Mozart: String Quartet in G, K387
Haydn: String Quartet in G, Opus 77, No 1
Schubert: String Quintet in C

Michelangelo String Quartet
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)

15:00

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 47 Part One

From the Royal Albert Hall, presented by Tommy Pearson.

Tippett champion Sir Colin Davis continues this year's centenary celebrations with a work the composer described as a birth to death piece - a lyrical journey from first to last breath. Complementing this, after the interval, Beethoven's symphony Eroica, which culminates in a great celebration of human life.

Tippett: Symphony No 4
Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat,
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

16:30

Brian Kay's Light Programme

1 September 2005

Music includes two more Industrial Patterns from Trevor Duncan, a march by Michael North, a waltz by Charles Williams and John Ansell conducting his own Plymouth Hoe.

17:00

In Tune

1 September 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

19:00

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 63

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

In the first of two eagerly-awaited Proms under the baton of its new music director, the world-renowned Dutch orchestra performs Mahler's massive 6th Symphony. The fateful hammer blows of the work's finale seem to prophesy the tragedies that the composer himself was soon to face: his daughter's death and the diagnosis of his own fatal heart condition.

Presented by Andrew McGregor.

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A m

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons (conductor)

20:35

The Meeting of Minds

In Defence of Culture

Frances Stonor Saunders concludes her series about great intellectual gatherings, exploring how they brought together for just a brief moment in history, competing personalities with conflicting ideas in politics, diplomacy, art, economics and literature.

Paris 1935. A huge conference was convened: the First International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture. It was attended by some of Europe's greatest literary figures: Boris Pasternak, Andre Malraux, EM Forster, Andre Gide, Aldous Huxley and Bertolt Brecht were amongst the 220 delegates from 40 countries. The whole affair was a thinly veiled communist front, but it turned into the last great showcase of European literary culture before it was swept away by war.

The writers were plagued by the question of how to respond to the spectre of the new dictatorships and social chaos that was growing around them. How should the world's great artists, apparently so important and so revered, confront the book burnings and propaganda? Frances Stonor Saunders brings back to life their speeches, arguments and protests.

21:20

BBC SSO

1 September 2005

Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performing Ulysses Awakes and Double Mercury by John Woolrich. Scott Dickinson plays viola.

22:00

BBC Proms 2005

Prom 64

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

English music spanning a tempestuous era for the arts and religion: from works by Cornysh and Wylkynson recorded for posterity in the pages of the Eton Choirbook in the time of Henry Tudor, to the rich Elizabethan harmonies of Thomas Tallis' magnificent 40-part motet, Spem in Alium.

Presented by Catherine Bott.

Wylkynson: Jesus autem transiens/Credo in unum Deum
Cornysh: Salve regina
Tallis: Nine Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter:
1. Man Blest no Doubt
2. Let God Arise in Majesty
3. Why Fumth in Fight
4. O Come in One to Praise the Lord
Tallis: O nata lux de lumine
Tallis: Nine Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter
5. Een Like the Hunted Hind
6. Expend, O Lord, My Plaint of Word
7. Why Bragst in Malice High
8. God Grant We Grace
9. Come, Holy Ghost (Tallis' Ordinal)
Tallis: Gaude gloriosa Dei mater
Tallis: Spem in alium

The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)

23:15

Piano Miniatures

1 September 2005

Mikhail Pletnev plays a selection of keyboard sonatas by Scarlatti.

00:00

Composer of the Week

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

Part Five

Donald Macleod ends his week-long examination of the lives and music of these two composers by looking at the friends who influenced them and the friendship that existed between the two men.

Alan Rawsthorne: Symphony No 2 (A Pastoral Symphony)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor)

Constant Lambert: Trois Pièces Nègres pour les Touches Blanches
Peter Lawson and Alan MacLean

Constant Lambert: Concerto for Piano and Nine Players (Excerpt)
Richard Rodney Bennett (piano)
Members of the English Sinfonia
Neville Dilkes (conductor)

Alan Rawsthorne: Variations on a Theme by Constant Lambert
Ulster Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

1 September 2005

1 September 2005

With Jonathan Swain.

A concert by the RTE National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Laurent Wagner, recorded on 4th February 2005 at National Concert Hall, Dublin.
1.01am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Overture from The Magic Flute, K620
1.08am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Symphony No 6 in C, D589
1.39am
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911): Das Klagende Lied - cantata
Orla Boylan (soprano)
Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano)
John Daszak (tenor)
William Dazeley (baritone)

2.42am
Silvestri, Constantin (1913-1969): Harp Sonata
Ion Ivan Roncea (harp)

3.05am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): String Quintet in C, Op 29
Yggdrasil String Quartet

3.38am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893): Tatyana's Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin)
Tatyana ...... Joanne Kolomyjec (soprano)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

3.51am
Giustini, Lodovico (1685-1743): Piano Sonata in C, Op 1, No 9
Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)

4.03am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Four Minuets, K601
Symphony Nova Scotia
Georg Tintner (conductor)

4.14am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Scherzo No 4, Op 54, in E
Simon Trpceski (piano)

4.26am
Delibes, Leo (1836-1891): Couplets de Nilacantha (Lakme)
Nicola Ghiuselev (bass)
Orchestre de l'Opera National de Sofia
Rouslan Raitchev (conductor)

4.30am
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997): Wind Quintet No 1
Galliard Ensemble

4.51am
Litolff, Henry (Charles) (1818-1891): Scherzo - from the Concerto Symphonique No 4, Op 102
Arthur Ozolins (piano)
Toronto Symphony
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

5.00am
Anonymous (17th Century): Ave Potentissima - Geistliches Konzert (1696)
Kamila Zajicková (soprano)
Musica Aeterna Bratislava
Peter Zajicek (director)

5.08am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Valse Triste
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

5.14am
Stanford, Charles Villiers (1852-1924): O Living Will - motet
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

5.18am
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916) arranged by Chris Paul Harman: The Maiden and the Nightingale - from Goyescas
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano)
Bryan Epperson, Maurizio Baccante, Roman Borys, Simon Fryer, David Hetherington, Roberta Jansen, Paul Widner, Thomas Wiebe, Winona Zelenka (cello)

5.25am
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883): Prelude to Tristan and Isolde
Felix Mottl (piano)

5.36am
Penderecki, Krzysztof (b. 1933): Song of Cherubs (Kerubok Eneke)
Hungarian Radio Choir
Kálmán Strausz (conductor)

5.44am
Khachaturian, Aram (1903-1978): Adagio (Spartacus)
Ukranian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)

5.54am
Allegri, Gregorio (1582-1652): Miserere mei Deus
Camerata Silesia
Anna Szostak (conductor)

6.07am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Syrinx
Boris Campa (flute)

6.11am
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936): Chant du menestrel, Op 71
Shauna Rolston (cello)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

6.16am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Petite suite
Anna Klas, Bruno Lukk (piano)

6.29am
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936): Ancient Airs and Dances - Suite No 2
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

6.47am
Muffat, Georg (1653-1704); Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687): Suite for Orchestra
Armonico Tributo Austria
Lorenz Duftschmid (director)