Thursday 24th November 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

24 November 2005

Penny Gore continues to feature music with an American flavour, exploring the work of the New York Philharmonic and smaller scale pieces by Aaron Copland.

Copland: The Cat and the Mouse
Eric Parkin (piano)

Ketelby: In a Monastery Garden
New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp (conductor)

John Dunstable: Kyrie, JD 1
Tonus Peregrinus
Antony Pitts (conductor)

Copland: Piano Quartet
Members of New York Philharmonic
Israela Margalit (piano)

Beethoven: Sonata in Fm, Op 2/1
Andras Schiff (piano)

Harris: Symphony No 3
New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

24 November 2005

Rob Cowan continues to feature Reger Chamber Music and recordings by Piero Coppola.

Gretry, arr Mottl: Céphale et Procris - Suite de Ballet
Orchestra
Piero Coppola (conductor)

Debussy, arr Coppola: La Soirée dans Grenade; Cloches à travers les feuilles
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Piero Coppola (conductor)

Wagner: Die Walküre - Wotan's Farewell
Marcel Journet (baritone)
Orchestra
Piero Coppola (conductor)

Reger: Sextet in F, Op 118
Die Kammermusiker Zürich

Hovhaness: October Mountain
Tristan Fry Percussion Ensemble
John Eliot Gardiner

Chopin: Barcarolle in F sharp, Op 60
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

Ravel: Bolero
Orchestra
Piero Coppola (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)

1940s

Donald Macleod and Guy Barker consider the effect the Second World War had on the music and life of Honegger.

Colloque for flute, celeste, violin and viola
Alain Marion (flute)
Pascal Devoyon (celeste)
Dong-Suk Kang (violin)
Pierre-Henri Xuereb (viola)

Largo, H105, for string orchestra
Lucerne Festival Strings
Achim Fiedler (conductor)

2nd Symphony (3rd movement)
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

Serenade à Angelique
Österreichische Kammersymphoniker
Ernst Theis (conductor)

Mermoz (Suite No 1) La Traversée des Andes
Toulouse Capitole Orchestra
Michel Plasson (conductor)

Symphony No 3, slow movement
Oslo Philharmonic
Mariss Jansons (conductor)

The Christmas Cantata (excerpt)
Gulbenkian Chorus and Orchestra
Michel Corboz (conductor)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Grieg and the Scandinavians

24 November 2005

Continuing a series of concerts from Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen, celebrating Edvard Grieg's connections with the North East of Scotland and 100 years of Norway's independence.

Christopher Cook presents music by Grieg, Sibelius and Nielsen - played by Swedish pianist Roland Pontinen.

Grieg: Ballade, Op 24
Sibelius: Forest Lake, Op 114, No 3; The Spruce Tree, Op 75, No 5; Song in the Forest, Op 114, No 4
Nielsen: Chaconne, Op 32
Grieg: From Lyric Pieces - Butterfly; Nocturne; Wedding Day at Troldhaugen

14:00

Afternoon Performance

24 November 2005

Sandy Burnett continues to feature concerts highlighting BBC New Generation artists, past and present. With the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Chabrier: España
De Falla: The Three Cornered Hat (concert version)
David Atherton (conductor)

Rosauro: Marimba concerto
Colin Currie (marimba)
Nicholas Kok (conductor)

Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
Jamie Owen (narrator)
Richard Hickox (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

24 November 2005

CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present the programme for younger listeners. We discover a princess in an orange and a cowardly duke in a cupboard!

Prokofiev: March from the Love of 3 Oranges
Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

Eric Coates: Sleepy Lagoon
The New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp (conductor)

Trad Hungarian, arr Antal Kovacs: Good Mother
Romano Drom

Brahms: Waltz No 6 in C sharp
Alexandar Serdar (piano)

Gilbert and Sullivan: In Enterprise of Martial Kind
Sir Geraint Evans, Edna Graham, Monica Sinclair, Alexander Young
Pro Arte Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor)

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 3, BWV 1048, 1st mov
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

16:00

Brian Kay's Light Programme

24 November 2005

Brian Kay plays a selection of light classics, including music by featured artist Mantovani.

17:00

In Tune

24 November 2005

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and keeps us up to date with what's happening in the arts world. This edition includes:

The director and members of the cast of Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, currently running at one of London's hottest new venues, the Menier Chocolate Factory.

Cellists Mats Lidstrom and Claes Gunnarsson play live on the programme ahead of their concert at London's Wigmore Hall.

Denis Matsuev, who won the Tchaikovsky Piano competition in 1998 and is currently touring the country playing Rachmaninov with the St Petersburg Philharmonic, joins Sean in the studio.

19:30

Performance on 3

London Jazz Festival 2005

BBC Concert Orchestra

Alyn Shipton presents works by saxophonist John Surman and pianist Uri Caine, from the London Jazz Festival, featuring Drew Gress (bass), Ben Perowsky (drums) and the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Robert Ziegler.

Recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Surman: In All Weathers
Caine: Birdtalk; Dubya at War (BBC Commission)
Surman: Road to St Ives

21:30

Night Waves

24 November 2005

The prequel to Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's is just about to be published. But is such an early, formerly unpublished work worth the scrutiny it is now getting? Paul Allen investigates.

22:15

Late Junction

24 November 2005

Fiona Talkington presents a live recording from 1965 of The John Coltrane Quartet, featuring McCoy Tyner. Plus Orlando Gibbons' anthem This is the Record of John, sung by countertenor Michael Chance.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Wrestling with Posterity

By the 1870s, the turbulence of Brahms' early life had been replaced by a comfortable bachelor routine. Even so, the masterpieces continued to pour forth. Donald Macleod charts these years, and looks at Brahms' concern with his future biographers.

Intermezzo in Ab, Op 76, No 3
Dinorah Varsi (piano)

Symphony No 1, 1st movt.
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

Lieder und Romanzen, Op 93a; No 2 Das Mädchen; No 4 Fahr wohl; No 5 Der Falke
BBC Singers
Jason Lai (conductor)

Clarinet Sonata No 2
Richard Stoltzman (clarinet)
Richard Goode (piano)

Prelude on O Welt, ich muss dich lassen, Op post 122, No 11
Kevin Bowyer (organ)

01:00

Through the Night

24 November 2005

24 November 2005

With Susan Sharpe.

The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra with conductor Marcello Viotti at a concert recorded on 3 October 2003 at Concert Hall, Gothenburg
1.01am
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924): Masques et bergamasques, Op 112
1.15am
Sandström, Sven-David (b 1942): Concert Pieces for Percussion and Orchestra (premiere)
With Kroumata Percussion Ensemble
1.46am
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936): Pines of Rome

2.08am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, Op 24
Hinko Haas (piano)

2.39am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Suite in Em
Douglas Mackie, Jane Dickie (flute)
Barbara Jane Gilbey, Imogen Lidgett (violin)
Sue-Ellen Paulsen (cello)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Geoffrey Lancaster (conductor/harpsichord)

3.12am
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958): 3 Shakespeare Songs
3.18am
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961): 4 Folk Songs
Camerata Chamber Choir
Michael Bojesen (conductor)

3.29am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219
Igor Oistrakh (violin/conductor)
I Virtuosi di Santa Cecilia

4.00am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Sonata in Cm, HWV 386a
Musica Alta Ripa

4.11am
Cavalli, Francesco (1602-1676): Sonata à 8 & Lauda Jerusalem (Psalm 147)
Concerto Palatino

4.26am
Domenico da Piacenza (fl.1439-c.1450): La fia Guilmin
4.27am
Gafurius, Franchino (1451-1524): Virgo constans decolatur
Ensemble Claude-Gervaise
Gilles Plante (director)

4.30am
Schein, Johann Hermann (1586-1630): Paduana (Suite VII)
Royal Academy of Music Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble
Patrick Russill (conductor)

4.34am
Rota, Nino (1911-1979): Clarinet Trio
Embla

4.51am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Erster Verlust, D226; Hektors Abschied, D312b
Christoph Prégardien (tenor)
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

5.00am
Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990): Overture (Candide)
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

5.05am
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847): Piano Trio No 1 in Dm, Op 49
The Tori Trio

5.36am
Rossi, Salomone (c.1570-c.1630): Sinfonia grave a 5 & Tu parti, ahi lasso!
Eitan Sorek (tenor)
Ensemble Daedalus
Roberto Festa (conductor)

5.45am
Vladigerov, Pancho (1899-1978): Poème hebreu, Op 47
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vladigerov (conductor)

6.00am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Fantasy on Halevy's La Juive
Károly Mocsári (piano)

6.15am
Zelenski, Wladyslaw (1837-1921): Overture In the Tatras, Op 27
Sinfonia Varsovia
Grzegorz Nowak (conductor)

6.29am
Weill, Kurt (1900-1950): Lost in the Stars
Jean Stilwell (mezzo soprano)
Robert Kortgaard (piano)
Marie Bérard (violin)
Joseph Macerollo (accordion)
Andy Morris (percussion)

6.32am
Karlsson, Leif (b.1958): Tango for 2 accordions & marimba (1995)
Kroumata Percussion Ensemble

6.37am
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963): Organ Concerto
Michael Dudman (organ)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Dommett (conductor)