Saturday 10th December 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

10 December 2005

Presented by Martin Handley.

From 7.00am

Chabrier: Suite pastorale
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Paul Paray (conductor)

Beethoven: Octet in E flat, Op 103
Vienna Wind Soloists

From 8.00am

Schubert: Notturno in E flat, D897
Edward Dusinberre (violin)
András Fejér (cello)
Andreas Haefliger (piano)

Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op 33a
Philharmonia Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)

09:00

CD Review

10 December 2005

Andrew McGregor is joined live in the studio by Harriet Smith, Dermot Clinch and Rob Cowan to celebrate the Christmas season with a look at some of the year's best recordings. Includes:

10.20am
Jeremy Summerly has been listening to this year's Christmas releases, and offers a guide to the finest stocking-fillers.

12.00pm
Listeners' Discs of the Year: Excerpts from your favourite CDs of the Year.

12.30pm
Disc of the Year 2005 (As voted for by listeners)

13:00

The Early Music Show

10 December 2005

Catherine Bott is in Coram Fields in London, until 1926 the sight of the Foundling Hospital where in 1749 Handel presented a special charity concert.

The programme takes a journey around the Foundling Hospital Museum and features music from that concert - including the Music for the Royal Fireworks, Solomon and the Foundling Hospital Cantata.

14:00

Discovering Music

Tippett's Songs for Dov

Charles Hazlewood is joined by members of the BBC Philharmonic to unravel the complexities of Tippett's song cycle.

The composer regarded Songs for Dov as one of his most personal works, revealing much about his 'take' on the musical and cultural world of the 1960s. Taking on the demanding role of Dov is tenor Nigel Robson, who sang the work for the composer on many occasions.

15:00

World Routes

10 December 2005

Lucy Duran reviews new world music releases with Navid Akhtar.

Young Algerian activist Souad Massi talks about her latest album Honeysuckle, plus a session by refugee band Watmon Cultural Group from Northern Uganda, recorded especially for the programme in Kampala.

16:00

Jazz Line-Up

10 December 2005

Clare Teal and her band in concert, recorded for Radio 3 at this year's Scarborough Jazz Festival. Clare sings a selection of her own songs and jazz standards. Presented by Helen Mayhew.

17:00

Jazz Record Requests

10 December 2005

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

18:00

Jazz File

Sketches of Gil

Programme 3

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

3/3. The focus is on the work Gil did in the early 1970s with his electric big band, achieving his trademark rich soundscape using synths and electric guitars where he'd previously used expanded brass sections.

Presented by saxophonist and Evans collaborator, David Sanborn.

18:30

Opera On 3

Britten's Billy Budd

Act One

One of Britten's most richly worked operatic scores is performed live from English National Opera, with Simon Keenlyside in the title role, and John Tomlinson as Claggart. Presented by Martin Handley.

Popular able seaman Billy Budd is accused by the master-at-arms John Claggart of plotting mutiny. When confronted by Captain Vere, Billy's stutter prevents him from defending himself any other way than by striking Claggart, who dies from the blow. Vere as an old man looks back at this incident on HMS Indomitable, and wonders if he had any other option than to sentence Billy to death.

Billy Budd ...... Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
Captain Vere ...... Timothy Robinson (tenor)
Claggart ...... John Tomlinson (bass)
Mr Redburn ...... Ashley Holland (baritone)
Mr Flint ...... Pavlo Hunka (baritone)
Lieutenant Ratcliffe ...... Brindley Sherratt (bass)
Red Whiskers ...... Adrian Thompson (tenor)
Donald ...... Toby Stafford-Allen (baritone)
Dansker ...... Gwynne Howell (bass)
Novice ...... James Edwards (tenor)
Squeak ...... Richard Coxon (tenor)
Bosun ...... Nicholas Folwell (bass-baritone)
Maintop ...... Andrew Rees (tenor)
The novice's friend ...... William Berger (baritone)

Orchestra and Chorus of English National Opera
Andrew Litton (conductor)

19:55

Twenty Minutes

Billy Budd, a Song of Innocence

Tim Healey has been interested in Britten's work ever since singing on the first recording of the composer's War Requiem as a choirboy. He considers the sources of Britten's inspiration when he wrote this nautical opera, mainly Herman Melville's novella of the same name, which itself referred back to mutinies in both the US Navy and the Royal Navy.

20:15

Opera On 3

Britten's Billy Budd

Act Two

The second Act of Britten's opera Billy Budd, live from English National Opera.

21:45

The Verb

10 December 2005

Ian McMillan presents the weekly cabaret of new writing, poetry and performance. This edition features another instalment from The Verb's award-winning eartoonist, Peter Blegvad.

22:30

Between The Ears

The Pembrokeshire Underground

What do you think of while travelling on the Tube? Writer Dan Anthony has several thoughts. Join him as he takes a ride on the train line of the mind, heading west on The Pembrokeshire Underground.

Featuring the voices of Phil Rowlands, Gillian Elisa Thomas, Alun Owen, Alun Lewis and Gary Jones.

23:00

Hear And Now

Gallic Virtuosity

Sarah Walker presents a concert given by Ensemble 10/10, celebrating the British composer Simon Bainbridge. Plus, a performance of Rode with Darkness by Luke Bedford, played by the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, conducted by George Benjamin; and pianist Nicolas Hodges playing modern takes on the works of JS Bach.

Gary Carpenter: Da Capo
Luciano Berio: Sequenza XII
Pascal Gallois (bassoon)
Simon Bainbridge: Guitar Concerto
Craig Ogden (guitar)
Emily Howard: Dualities (world premiere)
Simon Bainbridge: For Miles
Simon Bainbridge: Voiles (world premiere)
Pascal Gallois (bassoon)

01:00

Through the Night

10 December 2005

10 December 2005

With Louise Fryer.

1.00am
King's Consort directed by Robert King with trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins at a concert recorded at the Borglum Monastery, Jutland on 5 July 2005
Handel, George Frederic (1685-1759): Mr Handel's Water pieces
1.13am
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz (1644-1704): Baletti lamentabili
1.24am
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713): Trumpet Sonata in D
1.29am
Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich (1630-1680): Sonata VIII from Sacro-profanus concentus musicus (1662)
1.33am
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695): Trumpet Suite; Suite from the Indian Queen, Z630
1.48am
Albinoni, Tomaso (1671-1751): Concerto for 2 oboes, Op 9, No 3
Molly Marsh, Hannah McLaughlin (oboe)
1.59am
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz (1644-1704): Sonata tam aris quam aulis servientes No 4
2.04am
Clarke, Jeremiah (1674-1707): Ayres for the King's Theatre
2.10am
Handel, George Frederic (1685-1759): Hornpipe from Water Music

2.13am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): The Seasons, Op 37b
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

2.57am
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904): String Quartet No 12 in F - American, Op 96
Keller Quartet

3.22am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Symphony No 5 in E flat, Op 82
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa (conductor)

3.55am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): La Valse
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Québec
Raffi Armenian (conductor)

4.08am
Duparc, Henri (1848-1933): Extase
Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano)
Stephen Ralls (piano)

4.11am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Adagio from Clarinet Trio in Am, Op 114
Opus 11

4.20am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Variations sérieuses in Dm, Op 54
Sylviane Deferne (piano)

4.32am
Eespere, René (b. 1953): De amore aeterno
Ele Raik (alto)
Talinn Music High School Chamber Choir
Evi Eespere (director)

4.39am
Pauls, Raimonds (b. 1936): Liepajain (For Liepaja)
Janis Zabers (tenor)
Riga Pops Orchestra
Men's vocal ensemble
Raimonds Pauls (conductor)

4.42am
Gotovac, Jakov (1895-1982): Introductory Chorus & Djula's Song from the opera Ero the Joker
Djula ...... Ljiljana Molnar-Talajic (soprano)
Croatian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra & Choir
Oskar Danon (conductor)

4.50am
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857): Spanish overture No 1
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

5.00am
Bingen, Hildegard von (1098-1179): Alma Redeptoris Mater & Ave Maria, O auctrix vite
Sequentia

5.11am
Hook, James (1746-1827): Voluntary No 3 in Gm/major, Op 146
Richard Coulson (organ)

5.18am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Duet - Fra gli amplessi (Cosi fan tutte)
Fiordiligi ...... Geraldine McGreevy
Ferrando ...... Henry Moss
Royal Academy of Music Sinfonia
Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

5.25am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Sonata in Fm (Der Getreue Music-Meister)
Camerata Köln

5.35am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Bassoon concerto in Am, RV 497
Ivan Pristas (bassoon)
Camerata Slovacca
Viktor Malek (conductor)

5.48am
Hassler, Hans Leo (1554-1612): Canzon duodecimi toni a8
Roland Götz (spinet/organ)
Flautando Köln, Geigenbande

5.53am
Handel, George Frederic (1685-1759): Chaconne
King's Consort
Robert King (director)

5.58am
Bakfark, Bálint (c.1530-1576): Fantasia & Je prens en gre
Jacob Heringman (lute)

6.05am
Bingen, Hildegard von (1098-1179): Ave Generosa
Orpheus Women's Choir (Netherlands)
Albert Wissink (director)

6.11am
Kajanus, Robert (1856-1933): Aino - symphonic poem
Helsinki University Choir
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jorma Panula (conductor)

6.26am
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881), orch Ravel: Pictures from an Exhibition
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Muhai Tang (conductor)