07:00
4 December 2005
With Martin Handley.
Marin Marais: La Sonnerie de Sainte-Genevičve du Mont de Paris for violin, bass viol and continuo, from 'La Gamme et autre morceaux...', 1723
Le Concert des Nations
Haydn: Symphony No 85, H.1.85 in B flat, La Reine
Concentus Musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
From 8.00am
Giovanni Gabrieli: Magnificat for 33 voices, 1615
Gabrieli Consort and Players
Paul McCreesh (conductor)
Schubert: 8 Variations on a theme from Herold's 'Marie' for piano duet, D908 in C
Yaara Tal and Andreas Groethuysen (piano)
Strauss: Concerto for horn and orchestra No 2, AV.132 in E flat
Hermann Baumann (horn)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Kurt Masur (conductor)
09:00
4 December 2005
Rob Cowan introduces some surprises and treasures from his record collection. Includes a chance to hear JS Bach's Christmas Oratorio as recommended on yesterday's CD Review.
Mendelssohn: Scherzo in Gm
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Praetorius: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen;
Still, still, still, Weils Kindlein schlafen will
Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)
Hermann Prey (baritone)
Fritz Neumeyer (conductor)
Suk: Fantasie, Polonaise, Op 5
Pavel Stepan (piano)
Traditional Spanish: En Belen tocan a fuego
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen (director)
Bryars: Violin Concerto, The Bulls of Basham
Gwen Hoebig (violin)
CBC Radio Orchestra
Owen Underhill (conductor)
Charpentier: Noëls sur les instruments, H531& 534
English Concert
Trevor Pinnock (director)
Zelenka: Simphonie a 8 concertante in A
Collegium 1704
Chapi: El barquillero, Romanza de Socorro
Teresa Berganza (soprano)
English Chamber Orchestra
Enrique Garcia Asensio
Albinoni: Trumpet Concerto in Dm
Maurice André (trumpet)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jesus Lopez-Cobos (conductor)
Svendsen: Symphony No 2 in B flat, Op 15
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Mariss Jansons (conductor)
Bach arr Grohovski: Partita No 1 in B flat (extracts)
Valeri Grohovsky (piano)
Hamilton Price (bass)
Gerry Gibbs (drums)
12:00
Jon Snow
Another chance to hear the journalist and broadcaster Jon Snow discussing his musical enthusiasms with Michael Berkeley. Many of his choices reflect his early background as a cathedral chorister, with sacred works by Bach, Rossini, Mozart, Beethoven and Herbert Howells, as well as music by Poulenc, Prokofiev and Schumann.
13:00
Tutti Lutie
Lucie Skeaping journeys both East and West to explore the surprisingly exotic family tree of the lute. She touches down in Iran and Greece en route to India, and finds out whether instrumental blood really is thicker than water.
14:00
Bath Mozartfest 2005
Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert recorded at last month's Bath MozartFest. This recital by the distinguished pianist Stephen Kovacevich, whose interpretations of the classical repertoire are as enthralling as they are authoritative, contains three sonatas which might be described as early, middle and late. There's early Mozart, with the delightfully Haydnesque K282, composed in January 1775 as part of his first published set of six sonatas; middle-period Beethoven, with the A major sonata which cast such a spell over his Romantic successors; and Schubert's sublime last sonata, composed only two months before his death.
15:30
4 December 2005
Jamie Bernstein sends another of her quarterly musical postcards from New York, featuring clips from an avant-garde trio doing folk-rock alla Bartok, a black Irish fiddler from Queens, and Stravinsky from Ground Zero.
16:00
4 December 2005
Requests include Stravinsky's neo-classical Concerto for piano and wind instruments, highlights from Handel's oratorio Theodora, Respighi's Pines of Rome and part of Britten's cantata St Nicolas.
17:45
4 December 2005
Fifteen years after the death of Aaron Copland, Tom Service reassesses the music of one of America's best loved composers. He talks to friends and colleagues including conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, writer and historian Vivian Perlis and the journalist Paul Moor, a former lover. And ahead of Radio 3's British Music Week, Tom discusses the position of British contemporary music in the 21st century.
18:30
British Music Focus
Robert Simpson
Andrew McGregor presents two symphonies by one of the most individual British composers of the last century, Robert Simpson, in conversation with his widow Angela Simpson.
Robert Simpson: Symphony No 5
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor)
Robert Simpson: Symphony No 7
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
19:45
The Sicilian Expedition
By John Fletcher.
Almost 2500 years ago, a confident young general persuaded Athens to launch an attack on Sicily. Alcibiades was a member of the Athenian baby boomer generation, whose elders had fought to give their children a society of justice, wealth and education. The baby boomers explored every sexual avenue, took drugs to excess, and became the greatest consumers of the most exotic products in human history. Then it all went wrong.
Within two years of the defeat in Sicily, imperial, democratic Athens, the pinnacle of human civilisation, lay in ruins. Yet, as the city endured its death agonies, something new and wonderful was born: the Socratic idea of universal love.
Socrates ...... James Laurenson
Alcibiades ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Callias ...... Richard Nichols
Theodote ...... Mia Soteriou
Nicias ...... Jonathan Nibbs
Taureas ...... Matthew Morgan
Agathon ...... Richard Mitchley
Spartan Soldier ...... Nathan Sussex
Bagoas ...... Brendan Charleson
Mantitheus ...... Jonathan Floyd
Mother ...... Christine Pritchard
Original Music by John Hardy.
Directed by Kate McAll.
21:30
The Agony and The Ecstasy - Programme 1
Sarah Dunant presents a cultural exploration into the twin extremities of human emotion: pain and pleasure, and asks why, at different times in our history, we have placed more emphasis on one or the other of the two sovereign masters.
This programme focuses on how Christianity stands Classical ideas about pleasure and pain on their head. By placing the image of the suffering Christ at the centre of Western culture, pain becomes a way to redemption, and suffering in this life beats a path to pleasure in the next.
22:15
4 December 2005
A return to the Kershaw studio for Scots singer Dick Gaughan, who lists his greatest influences as including Karl Marx, Groucho Marx, Bertolt Brecht, and his mother (Gaughan's, not Brecht's).
00:00
Mozart the Keyboard Player
Part One
Donald Macleod goes in search of Mozart the keyboard player, a young man who arrived in Vienna in 1781 and whose brilliance as performer, composer and impresario turned a city upside down in what was to become one of the most remarkable decades in musical history.
12 Variations on Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman, K265 (excerpt)
András Schiff (piano)
Concerto for Two Pianos No 10 in E flat, K365 (finale)
Alfred Brendel, Imogen Cooper (piano)
ASMF
Neville Marriner (conductor)
Sonata for Two Pianos K448 (2nd movement)
Ingrid Haebler, Ludwig Hoffman (piano)
Fantasia in Dm, K397
Emil Gilels (piano)
Piano Concerto No 12 in A, K414
Howard Shelley (piano)
London Mozart Players
01:00
4 December 2005
4 December 2005
With Louise Fryer.
1.00am
The Madrigal National Chamber Choir of Romania perform a selection of sacred music recorded between 1976 and 2004
Pann, Anton (1796-1854), arr Mihai Goia, Dan: Tatl nostru
Madrigal National Chamber Choir
Constantin Marin (director)
1.07am
Hrisafi, Ioan (20th century): Aghios, O Theos, O Thou Holy God, Liturgical Trisagion
1.11am
Toduta, Sigismund (1908-1991): Doamne, Te-am auzit, O Lord, I Heard You
1.18am
Anonymous: Laude, 13th-century Greek stichera
Stefan Pruteanu (tenor)
1.23am
Filothei, Sân Agai Jipei (1670-1726): Pripeala, Hymn for the Ascension
1.30am
Anonymous: Anastaseos Imera, Day of Resurrection, Byzantine melody from Mount Athos
1.34am
Bentoiu, Pascal (b.1927): Te slavesc pe Tine, Parinte, I Praise Thee, O Father
1.40am
Marin, Constantin (b. 1925): Excerpt from the Byzantine Paschal Florilegium
Lucian Bonifaciu (tenor)
David Valeriu, narrator in Psalm 50
Madrigal National Chamber Choir
Constantin Marin (director)
1.55am
Vierne, Louis (1870-1937): Symphony for organ No 1, Op 14 in Dm
Huw Lewis (organ)
2.30am
Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail Mikhaylovich (1859-1935): Caucasian Sketches, suite, Op 10
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Uri Mayer (conductor)
2.52am
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847): Concerto for Violin and Piano in Dm
Stoika Milanova (violin)
Dora Milanova (piano)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
3.31am
Couperin, Francois (1668-1733): La Françoise, La pucelle, sonata, from Les Nations, ordre No 1 in Em
Ricercar Consort
Henri Ledroit (conductor)
3.39am
Spohr, Louis (1784-1859): Six German songs for soprano, clarinet and piano, Op 103
Júlia Pászthy (soprano)
László Horvath (clarinet)
László Baranyay (piano)
4.01am
Caplet, André (1878-1925): Divertissement No 2, A l'Espagnole
Mojka Zlobko (harp)
4.07am
Janácek, Leos (1854-1928): Pohádka, Fairytale, for cello and piano
Elizabeth Dolin (cello)
Francine Kay (piano)
4.19am
Smetana, Bedrich (1824-1884): Vltava, Moldau, from Ma Vlast
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Québec
Raffi Armenian (conductor)
4.31am
Albicastro, Henricus (fl.1700-06): Concerto ŕ 4, Op 7, No 12
Ensemble 415
Chiara Banchini (director)
4.39am
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963): Litanies ŕ la Vierge Noire arranged for female/children's voices, string orchestra and timpani
Maitrise de Radio France
Orchestre National de France
George Prętre (conductor)
4.50am
Franck, César (1822-1890): Nocturne
Klara Takacs (mezzo-soprano)
Jenö Jandó (piano)
4.54am
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924): Nocturne in A flat, Op 33, No 3
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
5.00am
Järnefelt, Armas (1869-1958): Lyric Overture
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ilpo Mansnerus (conductor)
5.11am
Paganini, Nicolň (1782-1840) after Rossini arr: Moses fantaisie
Monica Leskhovar (cello)
Ivana Schwartz (piano)
5.19am
Rossini, Gioacchino (1792-1868): Lindoro's cavatina, Languir per una bella, from L'Italiana in Algeri, Act 1 Scene 3
Lindoro, a young Italian slave ...... Francisco Araiza (tenor)
Capella Coloniensis
Gabriele Ferro (conductor)
5.27am
Weyse, Christoph Ernst Friedrich (1774-1842): Symphony No 6 in Cm
The Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Adam Fischer (conductor)
5.54am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Adelaďde, Op 46
Mark Pedrotti (baritone)
Stephen Ralls (piano)
6.01am
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): Concerto for chamber orchestra in E flat, Dumbarton Oaks
Orchestre National de France
Charles Dutoit (conductor)
6.17am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Concert Paraphrase on the themes from Verdi's opera, Rigoletto
Marián Lapansk? (piano)
6.25am
Tobias, Rudolf (1873-1918): Otsekui Hirv, As a Deer; Eks Teie Tea, Wouldn't You Know; Sanctus from the oratorio, Joonase Lähetamine, Jonah's Mission
Tallinn Boys' Choir
Charles Church Chamber Choir
Tallinn Town Hall Chamber Choir
Youth Philharmonic Ensemble
Toomas Kapten
Ene Üleoja
Elo Kaapere and Lydia Rahula (conductors)
6.40am
Linko, Ernst (1889-1960): Concerto No 2 for p
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