07:00
3 December 2005
With Martin Handley.
From 7.00am
Debussy: Danses sacrées et danses profane
Alice Chalifoux (harp)
Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)
Locatelli: Concerto for violin and strings, Op 3'9 in G
Giuliano Carmignola (violin)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Andrea Marcon (director)
From 8.00am
Schubert: Fantasy for piano, D760 in C, Wandererfantasie
Murray Perahia
Strauss: Concerto for horn and orchestra No 1, Op 11 in E flat
Dale Clevenger (horn)
Chicago SO
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
09:00
3 December 2005
Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's newest releases and recently reissued recordings.
In Building a Library, Alyn Shipton recommends a version of Bach's Christmas Oratorio from the currently available recordings.
Stephen Johnson reviews new recordings of orchestral music, including Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra from Christoph Eschenbach and Seiji Ozawa, and Mahler's Sixth Symphony from Ivan Fischer.
Plus, there's an interview with Sir Edward Downes who talks about his long career in the opera house and his love for both British and Russian music.
13:00
3 December 2005
As a postscript to our Made in Britain month, Catherine Bott presents a concert from the Greenwich International Festival of Early Music. Timothy Travers-Brown and Jacob Herringman perform English lute songs in the Old Royal Navel College Chapel. Old favourites by Campion and Dowland can be heard alongside lesser known pieces in the English repertoire.
14:00
Rachmaninov's Isle of the Dead
Stephen Johnson joins the BBC SO and conductor Grant Llewellyn in a programme looking at the background and the structure of Rachmaninov's great symphonic tone poem Isle of the Dead.
15:00
Africa Lives on the BBC
Lucy Duran presents the second of two programmes from Zanzibar. She visits the world-famous Culture Musical Club, and meets the singer and 2005 WOMEX award-winner Bi Kidude, who at the age of 94 is still teaching young women and girls the art of good sexual practice through her songs.
16:00
3 December 2005
Helen Mayhew presents the first of two concerts recorded at the Scarborough Jazz Festival. Clare Teal and her band perform tracks from her new album as well as some jazz standards.
17:00
3 December 2005
Request your favourite jazz cut by E mail: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk
18:00
Sketches of Gil
Programme 2
David Sanborn presents the story of one of the most important composers, arrangers and bandleaders in modern jazz, Gil Evans.
This programme focuses on Gil's classic Columbia recordings with Miles Davis: Miles Ahead, Sketches of Spain and Porgy and Bess. Miles' cool solos from these albums have become legendary, but taking a closer look at the score sheet reveals his improvisations weren't always as spontaneous as they sound.
18:30
Youthful Beethoven
Youthful Beethoven: The Leopold String Trio perform Beethoven's Trio for Strings Op 9 No 3 in a recording from the 2002 Aldeburgh Festival.
18:55
Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Act One
Act 1
Forty-five years after its premiere, Benjamin Britten's classic remains one of the supreme translations of Shakespeare into operatic form, his music effortlessly and wittily conjuring the mysteries of the Athenian wood where the confusions of love are tested and resolved. This new production, especially conceived by director Olivia Fuchs for the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, is conducted by Richard Hickox, and presented by Stephanie Hughes.
Oberon, King of the Fairies ...... William Towers (counter-tenor)
Titania, Queen of the Fairies ...... Gillian Keith (soprano)
Puck ...... Jami Quarrell (actor)
Theseus, Duke of Athens ...... Mark Beesley (bass)
Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus ...... Liora Grodnikaite (mezzo-soprano)
The Lovers
Lysander ...... Robert Murray (tenor)
Demetrius ...... Grant Doyle (baritone)
Hermia, in love with Lysander ...... Tove Dahlberg (mezzo-soprano)
Helena, in love with Demetrius ...... Katie Van Kooten (soprano)
The Rustics
Bottom, a weaver ...... Darren Jeffery (bass)
Quince, a carpenter ...... Jonathan Best (bass)
Flute, a bellows-maker ...... Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Snug, a joiner ...... Jeremy White (bass)
Snout, a tinker ...... Andrew Sritheran (tenor)
Starveling, a tailor ...... Andrew Mayor (baritone)
The Fairies
Cobweb ...... James Walsh (treble)
Peaseblossom ...... Ben Davies (treble)
Mustardseed ...... Tom Nichols (treble)
Moth ...... Edmund Jillings (treble)
City of London Sinfonia (leader Nicholas Ward)
Tiffin School Choir (music director Simon Toyne)
Richard Hickox (conductor)
19:50
3 December 2005
Stephanie Hughes is joined in the box by Britten expert Dr John Evans, and veteran Oberon James Bowman talks about his view of the role. Plus Christopher Cook continues his series of interviews with the Director of the Royal Ballet, Monica Mason.
20:05
Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Act Two
A Midsummer Night's Dream. British Music Focus. Act 2: Britten's classic performed at The Linbury Theatre with Richard Hickox. Stephanie Hughes presents.
21:00
Exit, Pursued by VAT Man
Exit, Pursued by VAT Man: Fay Weldon's specially commissioned story takes Hermione from A Winter's Tale and gives her a modern day dilemma no less dramatic than the original.
21:15
Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Act Three
A Midsummer Night's Dream. British Music Focus. Act 3: The concluding part of Britten's classic opera performed at The Linbury Theatre, conducted by Richard Hickox. Stephanie Hughes presents.
22:20
3 December 2005
Ian McMillan presents the weekly cabaret of new writing, poetry and performance.
Acclaimed Chinese-American novelist Amy Tan talks about her latest book Saving Fish From Drowning, and Poet Laureate Andrew Motion tells of the launch of the national poetry archive.
22:50
Jan Michelle Kerouac
A portrait of poet Jan Michelle Kerouac (1952-1996) made by her friend Marjorie Van Halteren in remembrance of her astonishing spirit.
Jan Kerouac met her famous father Jack Kerouac only twice. When she was a teenager, he said to her "Write a book. Use my name". But in the end his name turned out to be the last part of him that she really needed. She took up writing of her own accord and it became her lifeline.
Towards the end of her life, Jan even talked of changing her famous name so that she could continue to do what she loved above all in peace - to write. But her grip on health loosened and her life ended in the midst of the kind of confusion that the estates of famous writers too often come to today. Her identity was overshadowed by a drama made up of all the greed and obsession concerning Jack's papers and works.
Marjorie Van Halteren was crushed by Jan's untimely death aged just 44. In this programme, Marjorie has tried to evoke the last time she saw her friend, acting on a desire to bring Jan back for the listener.
23:10
BMIC Cutting Edge: Continuum Ensemble
Making their second appearance in a British Music Information Centre Cutting Edge series, the Continuum Ensemble under the direction of Philip Headlam performs a mainly British programme. The set finishes with a major work from the senior British composer now based in Australia, Roger Smalley; his Quintet receives its UK premiere. Presented by Alwynne Pritchard.
Luke Bedford: Through Mazes Running
Larry Goves: turning aperture slowly clockwise spinning (world premiere)
Judith Weir: The Voice of Desire
Margaret Cameron (mezzo soprano)
Mark Anthony Turnage: A Fast Stomp
Kenneth Hesketh: Gabos Opus (world premiere)
Lisa Nelsen (flute)
Roger Smalley: Quintet
01:00
3 December 2005
3 December 2005
With Louise Fryer.
1.00am
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Herbert Blomstedt
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Holberg Suite, Op 40
1.22am
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927): Serenade for orchestra, Op 31 in F
1.59am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Symphony No 1 in Cm, Op 68
Gewandhaus-Orchestra Leipzig
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
2.50am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): An die Musik, D547
Edith Wiens (soprano)
Rudolf Jansen (piano)
2.53am
Philips, Peter (1560-1628): Paradisus Sacris Cantionibus: Assumpsit Jesus Petrum; Beata Dei Genitrix Maria; O Dilecte; Ecce Panis Angelorum; O Quam Bonus et Suavis est Dominus
Vocal Ensemble Currende
Herman Stinders (organ)
Erik Van Nevel (conductor)
3.08am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Serenade in B flat major, K361, Gran Partita
Collegium Aureum
3.58am
Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725): Toccata per cembalo in G
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord, Franciscus Debbonis, Roma 1678)
4.07am
Luzzaschi, Luzzasco (15451607): O primavera for solo soprano and bc & O dolcezze amarissime d'Amore for 3 sopranos & bc from Madrigali per cantare, et sonare a uno, e doi, e tre soprani (Rome 1601)
Tragicomedia
4.14am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Sonata in D for trumpet, 2 oboes & basso continuo
Camerata Köln: Stephen Keavy (trumpet)
Hans-Peter Westermann & Piet Dhont (oboe)
Michael McCraw (bassoon)
Harald Hoeren (harpsichord)
4.29am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Finale: Dammi un bacio from 'Cosi fan tutte', Act 1 Scene 16
Miranda Keys (Fiordiligi)
Miriam Murphy (Dorabella)
Jenny Grahn (Despina)
Mark Wilde (Ferrando)
Richard Morrison (Don Alfonso)
James Rutherford (Guglielmo)
Royal Academy of Music Sinfonia
Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
4.33am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 22, H.1.22 in E flat, The Philosopher
Prima La Musica
Dirk Vermeulen (conductor)
4.49am
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755): Concerto per quartetto for strings No 3 in E flat
Concerto Köln
5.00am
Loeillet, Jean Baptiste "Loeillet de Gant" (1688-1720): Sonata in G
Vladimír Jasko (trumpet)
Imrich Szabó (organ)
5.09am
Turina, Joaquín (1882-1949): Fiesta at San Juan de Aznalfarache from, Sinfonia Sevilliana, Op 23
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Goossens (conductor)
5.16am
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953): Pensées, Op 62
Roger Woodward (piano)
5.30am
Lajovic, Anton (1878-1960): Zunaj narahlo sapica piha, V. Jerajeva
Marijana Lipovek (mezzo soprano)
Marijan Lipovek (piano)
5.33am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Trois Chansons
Veronika Portsmuth (soprano)
Risto Joost (tenor)
Riivo Kallasmaa (baritone)
Talinn Music High School Chamber Choir
Evi Eespere (director)
5.41am
Roussel, Albert (1869-1937): Suite from 'Le Festin de l'Araignée, Op 17
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
5.59am
Skjavetic, Julije, transcribed by Dr Lovro Zupanovic: Canzon, song 4
Slovenian Chamber Choir
Vladimir Kranjcevic (director)
6.08am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Sonata for viola da gamba and keyboard No 2 in D, BWV 1028
Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba)
Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord)
6.22am
Stefani, Agostino (1654-1728): Excerpts from Tassilone
Monique Zanetti (soprano)
Musica Alta Ripa
6.47am
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868): William Tell Overture
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Samo Hubad (conductor)
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