Monday 21st November 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

21 November 2005

Penny Gore presents a programme with an American flavour, exploring the music-making of the New York Philharmonic and smaller scale works by Aaron Copland.

Barber: Summer Music
Members of New York Philharmonic

Dvorák: Slavonic Dances, Op 46, Nos 6 & 8
New York Philharmonic
Kurt Masur (conductor)

Shostakovich: Three Fantastic Dances, Op 5
Konstantin Scherbakov (piano)

Copland: Duo for flute & piano
Jennifer Stinton (flute)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Rameau: Cantata - Le Berger Fidele
Karine Deshayes (soprano)
Les Musiciens de Monsieur Croche

Dvorák: Symphony No 8 in G, Op 88
New York Philharmonic
Kurt Masur (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

21 November 2005

With Rob Cowan, featuring Reger Chamber Music and recordings by Piero Coppola.

Saint-Saëns: Phaëton, Op 39
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Piero Coppola (conductor)

Ravel: L'Heure espagnole - Ah, la pitoyable aventure
Fanny Heldy (soprano)
Louis Morturier (bass)
M Favereau (tenor)
Orchestra
Piero Coppola (conductor)

Aubert: Habańera
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Piero Coppola (conductor)

Reger: Clarinet Quintet in A, Op 146
Karl Leister (clarinet)
Drolc Quartet

Ravel: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Piero Coppola (conductor)

Golestan: Rapsodie Roumaine
M Stroesco (tenor)
Orchestra
Piero Coppola (conductor)

Schumann: Symphony No 1 in B flat - Spring
National Symphony Orchestra
Piero Coppola (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)

Childhood and Teens

Jazz trumpeter and composer Guy Barker shares one of his great passions, the music of Arthur Honegger, with Donald Macleod. They begin by discussing Honegger's childhood and student days.

Sonatine for Two violins (1st movement)
Dong Suk Kang, Jean-Philippe Audoli (violin)

Clarinet Sonatine (3rd movement)
Michel Arrignon (clarinet)
Pascal Devoyon (piano)

String Quartet No 1 (first movement)
Quatuor Ludwig

Excerpts from Le dit des jeux du monde - Le Soleil et la Fleur; Les hommes et le Terre; l'homme et la mer; Epilogue
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Arturo Tamayo (conductor)

Sept Pičces Breves
Annette Middelbeek (piano)

Pastorale d'Été
Toulouse Capitole Orchestra
Michel Plasson (conductor)

Fourth Symphony - Finale
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor)

Automne, from six poems of Apollinaire
Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
Jérôme Ducros (piano)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Miah Persson

21 November 2005

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, presented by Sean Rafferty. Malin Christensson features in a programme that includes music by Stenhammar, Rangström and Wolf.

Mozart: Concert aria: Vado, ma dove; Als Luise die Briefe; Oiseaux, si tous les ans; Dans un bois solitaire
Wilhelm Stenhammar: I Skogen sover
Ture Rangström: Flyckan under nymĺnen
Wilhelm Stenhammar: Flickan kom ifrĺn sin älsklings möte
Ture Rangström: Pan
Hugo Wolf: From the Italiensches Liederbuch: Auch kleine Dinge: Mein Liebster singt am Haus: Du denkst mit einem Fädchen mich zu fangen: Nein, junger Herr: Wenn du, mein Liebster steigst zum Himmel auf; Wer rief dich denn?; Wir haben beide lange Zeit geschwiegen
Richard Strauss: Schlagende Herzen; Die Nacht; Hat's gesagt, bleibt's nicht dabei; Morgen; Schlechtes Wetter

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Sandy Burnett begins a week of concerts highlighting BBC New Generation artists, past and present. Featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Handel: Amadigi - Ah! Spietato
Ailish Tynan (soprano)
Douglas Boyd (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Beethoven: Symphony No 8
Christoph Koenig (conductor)

Rouse: Clarinet concerto
Martin Frost (clarinet)
Yasuo Shinozaki (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

21 November 2005

CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present the programme for younger listeners. Including Allegri's haunting Miserere and Charles Williams' Devil's Galop.

John C Heed: In Storm and Sunshine
Eastman Wind Ensemble
Frederick Fennel (conductor)

Michael Nyman: Theme from the Piano
Michael Nyman (piano)
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

Allegri: Miserere (extract)
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (director)

Karl Seglem: Urein
Karl Seglem (goat horn) and band

Pablo de Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Op 20 (extract)
Joshua Bell (violin)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton (conductor)

Williams, Charles: The Devil's Galop
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

16:00

Stage and Screen

Kenneth Alwyn

Edward Seckerson introduces an 80th birthday celebration of one of the great British musical directors. Alwyn's career has encompassed many of the highlights of post war British musical theatre, including The Crooked Mile, Half a Sixpence, Charlie Girl, Carmen Jones and David Heneker's forgotten masterpiece, Jorrocks.

17:00

In Tune

21 November 2005

Sean Rafferty's first guests are The Bekova Trio, three sisters - Eleonora, Elvira and Alfia.

Virtuoso pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin also plays live on the programme.

The BBC ONE programme Imagine, this Wednesday, is a documentary about the recreation of a lost piano concerto by Edward Elgar. Robert Walker, who spent the last 10 years piecing it together, and solo pianist David Owen Norris, talk to Sean about this amazing case of musical detective work.

19:30

Performance on 3

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Complete performance

Louise Fryer is at St David's Hall in Cardiff for two absorbing Russian masterworks, performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Written alongside Romeo and Juliet, Prokofiev's second concerto shares the ballet's direct emotion. Rachmaninov's second symphony, written 20 years earlier, is at once an intense tour de force and a seductive song for orchestra.

Prokofiev: Concerto for violin and orchestra No 2, Op 63, in Gm
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2, Op 27, in Em

James Ehnes (violin)
Jac van Steen (conductor)

21:10

Chamber Concert

LSO Wind Ensemble

The LSO Wind Ensemble play music by a composer considered in his lifetime to be a rival to Beethoven, Frŕnts Krómmer. Recorded at St George's in Bristol.

Frŕnts Krómmer: Partita in E flat, Op 79
LSO Wind Ensemble
Roy Carter, John Lawley (oboe)
Andrew Marriner, Chi-Yu Mo (clarinet)
Rachel Gough, Nicholas Hunka (bassoon)
Dominic Morgan (contra-bassoon)
David Pyatt, Tim Jones (horn)

21:30

Night Waves

21 November 2005

Isabel Hilton looks at how African- Americans were represented on stage before the Second World War. Especially in the light of a little known play by Eugene O'Neil being staged together with the British premier of a play by Abram Hill, the co-founder of the American Negro Theatre in 1940.

22:15

Late Junction

21 November 2005

With Fiona Talkington. More highlights from the London Jazz Festival, including the Charles Lloyd Trio, plus motets by Philippe de Vitry and improvisations from guitarist Fred Frith.

The fusion of traditional West African sounds with Gregorian Chant also feature - from the Keur Moussa Monastery in Senegal.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Lover and Loner

Brahms' celebrated love affair with Clara Schumann was just the first of a string of failed relationships with women. Donald Macleod examines why he never succeeded in his search for true love.

Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann, Op 9 (extract)
Daniel Barenboim (piano)

Piano Quartet No 3 in Cm, Op 60, 1st Movt
Artur Rubinstein (piano)
Guarneri Quartet

2 Motets, Op 29
Danish National Radio Choir

Rinaldo (extract)
Steve Davislim (tenor)
Dresden Philharmonic Choir
Ernst-Senff Choir, Berlin
Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra
Michel Plasson (conductor)

Sextet No 2, Op 36, Scherzo
Kocian Quartet
Members of the Smetana Quartet (Milan Skampa, Antonin Kohout)

01:00

Through the Night

21 November 2005

21 November 2005

With Susan Sharpe.

The Casals Quartet at a recital recorded in March 2005 at Aula Maxima, University College, Cork
1.01am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): String Quartet in G, K80
1.19am
Zemlinsky, Alexander von (1872-1942): String Quartet No 2, Op 15
1.57am
Falla, Manuel de (1876-1946), arr Unknown: The Millers' Dance from El Sombrero de tres picos
The Casals Quartet
Vera Martinez Mehner, Abel Tomas Realp (violin)
Jonathan Brown (viola)
Arnau Tomas Realp (cello)

2.01am
Montsalvatge, Xavier (1912-2002): Concierto Breve
Angela Cheng (piano)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Hans Graf (conductor)

2.25am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Suite No 4 in E flat, BWV 1010
Guy Fouquet (cello)

2.50am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Concerto Grosso in A, Op 6, No 11
Barbara Jane Gilbey (violin)
Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players

3.08am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Symphony No 25 in Gm, K183
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Zoltán Kocsis (conductor)

3.34am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Fantasy, D760, in C - Wandererfantasie
Alfred Brendel (piano)

3.55am
Mozetich, Marjan (b. 1948): Postcards from the Sky
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

4.08am
Stanford, Charles Villiers (1852-1924): Eternal Father, Op 135, No 2
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

4.15am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Flute Sonata in C, Wq 73
Konrad Hünteler (flute)
Ton Koopman (harpsichord)

4.28am
Schein, Johann Hermann (1586-1630): Canzon in Am - Corollarium (Banchetto Musicale)
Hesperion XX
Jordi Savall (descant viola da gamba/director)

4.33am
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943): 2 pieces, Op 2
Monika Leskovar (cello)
Ivana Svarc-Grenda (piano)

4.42am
Benoit, Peter (1834-1901): Ecce Panis & Salve Regina
Marijke Pyck (alto)
The Flemish Radio Choir
Joris Verdin (organ)
Jan Busschaert (5 string double bass)
Vic Nees (conductor)

4.50am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Overture Fierrabras, D796
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Hans Zender (conductor)

5.00am
Schreker, Franz (1878-1934): Valse Lente
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

5.04am
Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951): Kammersymphonie No 1 in E, Op 9
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

5.26am
Anonymous, attrib. Bach, Johann Christoph (1642-1703): Ich lasse dich nicht
Cantus Cölln
Konrad Junghänel (director)

5.30am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Concerto in Fm for 3 violins (Musique de table)
European Union Baroque Orchestra
Roy Goodman (director)

5.45am
Spisak, Michal (1914-1965): Allegro de Voiron
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Charles Olivieri-Munroe (conductor)

5.53am
Mini Series
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Mazurka in Bm, Op 33, No 4
Ossip Gabrilowitsch (piano)

5.59am
Wikander, David (1884-1955): Dofta, dofta vit syrén (Spread Your Fragrance, Lilac White)
6.02am
Lindberg, Oskar (1887-1955): Morgonen (Morning)
Swedish Radio Choir (women's voices only)
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Maria Wieslander (piano)
Gustav Sjökvist (conductor)

6.06am
Larsson, Lars-Erik (1908-1986): String Quartet No 3, Op 65
Members of Upsala Chamber Soloists

6.16am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Entr'acte in B flat (Rosamunde), D797
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

6.23am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Valse oubliée, S215, No 1
WS Heo (piano)

6.26am
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): Overture (Masquerade)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Ari Rasilainen (conductor)

6.32am
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934): Spielmann (Minstrel)
Solveig Kringelborn (soprano)
Ivar Anton Waagaard (piano)

6.35am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Old Norwegian Romance with Variations, Op 51
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)