Saturday 26th November 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

26 November 2005

With Martin Handley.

From 7.00am

Sibelius: Pohjola's Daughter - symphonic fantasia, Op 49
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi (conductor)

Prinz Louis Ferdinand of Prussia: Trio, Op 2, in A flat
Trio Parnassus

From 8.00am

Biber: Sonata a 6 for str & bc in G - Sonata campanarum, vulgo glockeriana, attrib. (MS St Maurice's, Kromeriz)
Musica Antiqua Cologne
Reinhardt Goebel (director/violin)

Mozart: Symphony No 29, K201, in A
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen (conductor)

09:00

CD Review

26 November 2005

Andrew McGregor plays some of the newest releases, and in Building a Library at 9.30am, David Owen Norris recommends a version of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. Also includes:

10.15am
A round-up of some recently reissued recordings.

10.50am
Lowri Blake reviews new recordings of chamber music, including releases on the Wigmore Hall's new label, and Brahms sonatas from violinist Renaud Capucon and cellist Steven Isserlis.

11.20am
An interview with Ralph Couzens, Managing Director of Chandos Records, who talks about taking over the business from his father and the company's long-term projects - including opera in English and recordings of British music.

11.55am
The Listening Booth

12.30am
Disc of the Week
Mozart: Concerto in D, K314
Sharon Bezaly (flute)
Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra
Juha Kangas (conductor)

13:00

The Early Music Show

26 November 2005

Part of the series of programmes dedicated to the music of Britain. Lucie Skeaping focuses on the music of times leading up to the English Civil War, the interregnum and the Restoration. Featuring music from composers such as William Lawes, Thomas Tomkins, John Hingeston and John Playford.

Plus, Andrew Carwood visits Stonyhurst College in Lancashire - a site used by Oliver Cromwell's army just before their victory at the Battle of Preston.

14:00

Discovering Music

Elgar's Cello Concerto

Stephen Johnson joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Briger, and cellist Christian Poltera, for a look behind the notes of Elgar's Cello Concerto.

15:00

World Routes

Zanzibar - Programme One

Lucy Duran heads to Zanzibar, and gets to know the Swahili Arab-influenced musical style Taarab, and visits Ikwan Safaa, Africa's oldest music club, which celebrates its centenary.

Part of Africa Lives on the BBC.

16:00

Jazz Line-Up

26 November 2005

Claire Martin introduces the BBC Big Band in concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, directed by Gerald Wilson.

17:00

Jazz Record Requests

26 November 2005

Request your favourite jazz cut by E mail: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk. With Geoffrey Smith.

18:00

Jazz File

Sketches of Gil

Programme One

The story of one of the most important composers, arrangers and bandleaders in modern jazz, Gil Evans.

1/3. The Birth of Cool

A self-taught pianist, Gil helped revolutionise the sound of the big band in the 1940s through his work with the Claude Thornhill orchestra. After a key meeting with Miles Davis, he then masterminded the sessions now known as The Birth of the Cool.

Presented by saxophonist and Evans collaborator, David Sanborn.

18:30

Opera On 3

Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage

Presented by Stephanie Hughes

Michael Tippett's first opera, featuring some of his most glorious music, returns to the Royal Opera House in Graham Vick's production. Presented by Stephanie Hughes, in conversation with Vick and choreographer Ron Howell.

Two couples step into a magical world and find themselves on a voyage of self-discovery.

Mark ...... Will Hartmann (tenor)
Jenifer ...... Amanda Roocroft (soprano)
King Fisher, her father ...... John Tomlinson (bass)
Bella, his secretary ...... Cora Burggraaf (soprano)
Jack, her boyfriend ...... Gordon Gietz (tenor)
Sosostris ...... Elena Manistina (mezzo-soprano)
He-Ancient ...... Brindley Sherratt (bass)
She-Ancient ...... Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano)
Half-Tipsy Man ....... Jonathan Fisher (baritone)
Man Dancing ...... Steven Boydall (tenor)

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Peter Manning (concert master)
Royal Opera Chorus
Renato Balsadonna (chorus director)
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Including intervals at 7.40pm - in which Ivan Hewett draws on Tippett's newly-published letters to uncover the long drawn out genesis of The Midsummer Marriage - and at 8.35pm: more letters unveil the protracted and often anguished negotiations over the opera's original production.

22:15

The Verb

26 November 2005

Another instalment from resident eartoonist Peter Blegvad, and an alternative view of American Thanksgiving in a piece from Native American novelist Susan Power. With Paul Farley.

22:45

Between The Ears

Sound Relations

Is our voice something that we inherit? Do we sound like relatives who died decades ago and who we never met?

Oral historian Alan Dein tries to plug the gap in our self-perception in a series of sound experiments. He listens to fathers, cousins, grandmothers and great-grandfathers as far back as sound recording goes, on archive, home-made cassettes and through personal memories.

23:15

Hear And Now

26 November 2005

Ivan Hewett presents music recorded in two concerts at the Warehouse in London's Waterloo as part of the British Music Information Centre's annual Cutting Edge series.

Presented with the Austrian Cultural Forum and marking the 70th birthday of Kurt Schwertsik, the music is performed by the Royal Northern College of Music New Ensemble and students from the Vienna Conservatory, conducted by Clark Rundell, and features works by Johannes Maria Staud, Marcel Reuter, Reinhard Fuchs, Johanna Doderer, Joe Cutler, David Horne and Schwertsik.

01:00

Through the Night

26 November 2005

26 November 2005

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am
Members of the Danish Royal Opera House
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Serenade for flute, violin and viola in D, Op 25
Russel Itain (flute)
Lars Bjornkjoer (violin)
Stine Hasbirk (viola)
1.18am
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): Quintet for wind, Op 43
Royal Danish Winds
Nikolaj von Scholten (flute)
Joakim Dam Thomasen (oboe)
Adam Simonsen (clarinet)
Jorgen Bracht Nielsen (bassoon)
Lasse Mauritzen (horn)
1.42am
Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951): Chamber Symphony No 1 in E for 15 instrument, Op 9
Members of the Royal Danish Opera Orchestra
Thomas Sondergaard (conductor)

2.03am
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976): Nocturne, Op 60
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor)
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra
Simon Streatfield (conductor)

2.30am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): 12 Etudes
Aleksander Madzar (piano)

3.13am
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908): Sheherazade, Op 35
Philippe Koch (violin)
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Yuri Ahronovich (conductor)

3.59am
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959): Guitar Prelude No 2 in E
Norbert Kraft (guitar)

4.02am
Satie, Erik (1866-1925): La Belle Excentrique (Fantaisie sérieuse)
Steven and Stijn Kolacny (piano)

4.11am
Dubois, Pierre Max (1930-1995): Flute Quartet
Valentinas Kazlauskas, Lina Baublyte, Albertas Stupakas, Giedrius Gelgoras (flute)

4.19am
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826): Andante and Rondo Ungarese in Cm, Op 35
Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

4.29am
Eckhard, Johann Gottfried (1735-1809): Sonata in F, Op 2, No 1
Arthur Schoonderwoerd (fortepiano)

4.44am
Visée, Robert de (c.1655-c.1723/3): Logistille de Roland de Mr JB Lully
Yasunori Imamura (theorbe)

4.50am
Morley, Thomas (c.1557-1602): Hard By a Crystal Fountain
The King's Singers
David Hurley, Robin Tyson (countertenor)
Paul Phoenix (tenor)
Philip Lawson, Gabriel Crouch (baritone)
Stephen Connolly (bass)

4.53am
Wieniawski, Henryk (1835-1880): Polonaise No 1 in D, Op 4
Reka Szilvay (violin)
Naoko Ichihashi (piano)

5.00am
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953): Nocturne, Op 43, No 2
Roger Woodward (piano)

5.05am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): The Lover, Op 14
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

5.17am
Rore, Cipriano de (c1515-1565): Wherever it May Be, a Gentle Heart Should be Courteous, for it Cannot Be Otherwise
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (director)

5.20am
Albicastro, Henricus (fl.1700-06): Sonate pour violon et continue, Op 9, No 12, La Folia
Ensemble 415
Chiara Banchini (conductor)

5.32am
Dowland, John (1563-1626): King of Denmark's Galliard
Nigel North (lute)

5.35am
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903): Intermezzo in E flat
Ljubljana String Quartet
Monika Skalar, Karel Zuzek (violin)
Franc Avsenek (viola)
Stane Demsar (cello)

5.47am
Duruflé, Maurice (1902-1986): Quatre motets sur des thèmes Grégoriens, Op 10
Elmer Iseler Singers
Elmer Iseler (conductor)

5.55am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), orch. Webern, Anton (1883-1945): Ricercata (Musical Offering), BWV 1079
Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra
Wolfgang Fortner (conductor)

6.06am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): String Quartet in D, K575
Quartet Tartini

6.29am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Ballade No 3 in A flat, Op 47
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)

6.37am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Der Rosenkavalier (suite)
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Québec
Franz-Paul Decker (conductor)