Wednesday 16th November 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

16 November 2005

Penny Gore continues to mark Sir Charles Mackerras' 80th birthday, featuring:

From 7.00am

Handel: Organ Concerto No 4 in F, Op 4, No 4
Matthew Halls (organ)
Ensemble Sonnerie
Monica Huggett (violin/director)

Weber: Concertino in Em, Op 45
Hermann Baumann (horn)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Kurt Masur (conductor)

Walton: Coronation Te Deum
Christopher Whitton (organ)
St John's College Choir, Cambridge
Christopher Robinson (conductor)

From 8.30am

Purcell: Overture - Canzona from Hail! Bright Cecilia, Z328
English Chamber Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)

Strauss: Alphorn, AV 29
Marie McLaughlin (soprano)
Barry Tuckwell (horn)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

Haydn: Symphony No 48 in C, Maria Theresia
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

16 November 2005

Jonathan Swain continues to feature Poulenc piano works and recordings by Galina Vishnevskaya.

Poulenc: Fifteen Improvisations
Gabriel Tacchino (piano)

Verdi: Pace, mio Dio (La Forza del Destino, Act IV)
Leonora ...... Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre
Boris Khaikin (conductor)

Rossini: William Tell - ballet music
Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)

Poulenc: Suite Française
Francis Poulenc (piano)

Shostakovich: Symphony No 14, Op 135
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Mark Rezhetin (bass)
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Uncertainty

Robert Schumann had predicted great things for Brahms, but by the early 1860s, it was far from certain that the young composer would live up to his early promise. With Donald Macleod.

Serenade No 2 in A, Scherzo
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)

4 songs, Op 17
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Erwin Ortner (conductor)

Geistliches Wiegenlied, Op 91, No 1
Sarah Walker (mezzo)
Paul Silverthorne (viola)
Julian Jacobson (piano)

Horn Trio in E flat, Op 40
Stephen Stirling (horn)
Anthony Marwood (violin)
Susan Tomes (piano)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Cutting Edge Haydn

Programme Two

Mary Ann Kennedy introduces a concert given in the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, including Haydn's English and Scottish songs.

Haydn: Variations on My Love She's but a Lassie Yet
Original canzonettas, set 1: The Mermaid's Song; Recollection; A Pastoral Song; Despair; Pleasing Pain; Fidelity
Piano trio in E flat m - Jacob's Dream
Scots songs from George Thomson's Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs: What Can a Young Lassie Do wi' An Old Man; The White Cockade
Variations on Maggy Lauder

Mhairi Lawson (soprano)
David Owen Norris (fortepiano)
Sonnerie
Monica Huggett (violin)
Joseph Crouch (cello)

14:00

Afternoon Performance

Touring Japan

Continuing a series of excerpts from concerts recorded by the BBC Singers on their tour of Japan earlier this year. Plus orchestral music with links to Japan through composers and performers. Featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and presented by Graeme Kay.

Weber: Overture - Oberon
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Tippett: Dance Clarion Air
Trad arr Holst: I Sowed the Seeds of Love
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Mozart: Clarinet concerto, K622
Robert Plane (clarinet)
Weber: Andante and Rondo Ongarese
Jaroslaw Augustyniak (bassoon)
Schumann: Symphony No 2 in C
Takua Yuasa (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

16 November 2005

CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present the programme for younger listeners. Including a Slavonic dance by Dvorák and Memories of the Alhambra by Tarrega.

Purcell: Rondo from Abdelazer
Berlin Philharmonic Brass Ensemble

Tarrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra
John Williams (guitar)

Ferenc Farkas: Lapokas Dance from Old Hungarian Dances
Adelphi Saxophone Quartet

Trad Indian: Nikhil Banerjee - Raga Surdasi Malhar
Nikhil Banerjee (sitar)

Rodgers/Hammerstein: Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'
John Raitt
Studio Orchestra
Franz Allers (conductor)

Dvorák: Slavonic Dance No 15
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Mariss Jansons (conductor)

16:00

Choral Evensong

From Lincoln Cathedral

Live from Lincoln Cathedral.

Introit: Prevent Us, O Lord (Byrd)
Responses: Smith
Office Hymn: O God, Thy Loving Care for Man (Exaltet caelum laudibus)
Psalms: 34, 133 (Martin, Ley)
First Reading: Isaiah 6 vv1-8
Magnificat on the fifth tone (Praetorius)
Second Reading: Hebrews 12 vv1-14
Nunc Dimittis tertii toni (Victoria)
Anthem: Ecce sacredos magnus (Bruckner)
Final Hymn: Thy Hand, O God, has Guided (Thornbury)
Organ Voluntary: Evocation (Langlais)

Charles Harrison (assistant director of music)
Colin Walsh (organist)

17:00

In Tune

16 November 2005

Sean Rafferty 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

Opera On 3

Handel's Julius Caesar

Sir Charles Mackerras at 80

Continuing a series of concerts to celebrate the landmark birthday of a conductor dubbed 'the musician's musician'. A historic recording from 1984 - Handel's opera Julius Caesar, recorded in English. Presented by Donald Macleod, in conversation with Sir Charles Mackerras and Dame Janet Baker, who starred in the title role.

Julius Caesar ...... Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
Curio ...... Christopher Booth-Jones (baritone)
Cornelia ...... Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano)
Sextus ...... Della Jones (mezzo-soprano)
Cleopatra ...... Valerie Masterson (soprano)
Ptolemy ...... James Bowman (countertenor)
Achillas ...... John Tomlinson (bass)
Nirenus ...... David James (countertenor)

English National Opera Chorus
Orchestra of English National Opera
Charles Mackerras (conductor)

22:30

Late Junction

16 November 2005

Fiona Talkington presents jazz arrangements of the music of Nick Drake by trumpeter Nick Smart, and Hindu meditations form the ancient Indian city of Benares, sung by the Misra Brothers.

Plus choral music by Christopher Fox, and music from Louis Moholo's 1978 Octet featuring Evan Parker and Keith Tippett.

00:00

Composer of the Week

William Alwyn (1905-1985)

Part Four

During the 1950s, Alwyn's home and professional life had become so stressful that in the early 60s, he suffered a nervous breakdown. Donald Macleod looks at some of the chamber music Alwyn wrote during those difficult years, and introduces a work dedicated to the man who was perhaps more of an influence on Alwyn's career than any other person - Sir Henry Wood.

Fantasy-Waltzes Nos 1,2,3 & 6
John Ogdon (piano)

Derby Day Overture
London Philharmonic Orchestra
William Alwyn (conductor)

String Trio
Members of the Quartet of London

Concerto Grosso No 3
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

16 November 2005

16 November 2005

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
Sherban Lupu plays Georges Enescu
Enescu, Georges (1881-1955): Sonata for violin and piano No 2 in Fm, Op 6
1.24am
Sonata for violin and piano No 3 in Am, dans le caractere populaire roumain, Op 25
1.48am
Impressions d'enfance for violin and piano, Op 28
Sherban Lupu (violin)
Valentin Gheorghiu (piano)

2.08am
Huber, Klaus (b. 1924): Ein Hauch von Unzeit, No 1 for flute - Plainte sur la perte de la reflexion musicale
Andrea Kollé (flute)

2.24am
Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992): L'Ascension - 4 meditations symphoniques
Huw Lewis (organ)

2.45am
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915): Symphony No 1, Op 26, in E
Larissa Diadkova (mezzo-soprano)
Endrik Wottrich (tenor)
Choeur de Radio France
Orchestre National de France
Riccardo Muti (conductor)

3.36am
Lindberg, Oskar (1887-1955): Piano Quartet
Marten Landström (piano)
Members of the Uppsala Chamber Soloists

4.01am
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936): Ancient airs and dances
Cameristi Italiani

4.20am
Giustini, Lodovico (1685-1743): Sonata for piano in G, Op 1, No 12
Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)

4.33am
Blow, John (1649-1708): How Art Thou Fall'n from Heaven, O Lucifer
Yvonne Seymour (soprano)
Stephen Varcoe (bass)
David Miller (theorbo)
Peter Seymour (organ)

4.37am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture, Op 27
Orchestre National de France
Riccardo Muti (conductor)

4.51am
Sjögren, Emil (1853-1918): Prelude and Fugue for organ No 3 in C, Op Posth
Ralph Gustafsson (organ)

5.00am
Stradella, Alessandro (1644-1682): Ardo, sospiro e piango
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
David Thomas (bass)
Jakob Lindberg (lute)
Anthony Rooley (director/lute)

5.06am
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924): Nocturne in Em, Op 107
Stefan Lindgren (piano)

5.13am
Barber, Samuel (1910-1981): Agnus Dei for chorus
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

5.22am
Sullivan, (Sir) Arthur (1842-1900): In memoriam overture in C
BBC Philharmonic
Richard Hickox (conductor)

5.34am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Impromptu No 4 in A flat, D899
Arthur Schnabel (piano)

5.41am
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643), arr Heinrich Schütz: Güldene Haare
The Sweelinck Ensemble
Lisette Weselling/Andrea Brown (soprano)
Farran Scott/Hazel Brooks (violin)
Jane Ashby (cello)
Liz Pallett (theorbo)
Martin Knizia (organ)

5.45am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Mentre ti lascio, o figlia, K513
Robert Holl (bass)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

5.53am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Piano Sonata in Bm, Op 5
Ludmil Angelov (piano)

6.18am
Reger, Max (1873-1916): Four Tone Poems after Arnold Böcklin, Op 128
Philippe Koch (violin)
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Olaf Henzold (conductor)

6.47am
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959): Bachianas Brasileiras No 5
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano)
Bryan Epperson, Maurizio Baccante, Roman Borys, Simon Fryer, David Hetherington, Roberta Jansen, Paul Widner, Thomas Wiebe, Winona Zelenka (cello)