Friday 16th December 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

16 December 2005

Sandy Burnett continues a whistle stop tour of the music of Spanish America in the Golden Age; and his exploration of the music making of the Argentinian born pianist, Martha Argerich.

From 7.00am

Chopin: Barcarolle in F sharp, Op 60
Martha Argerich (piano)

Zipoli: Gloria from Missa San Ignacio
Ex Cathedra
Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor)

Saint-Saens: Romance for horn (or cello) and orchestra, Op 36, in F
Gautier Capuçon (cello)
Frank Braley (piano)

Anon: Bayle del Chimo
Musica Temprana

Grieg: Peer Gynt - suite No 1, Op 46
CBSO
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

From 8.30am

Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit
Martha Argerich (piano)

Wagner: Good Friday music (from Parsifal) - concert version (no voices)
Bavarian RSO
Eugen Jochum (conductor)

Bruckner: Quartet for strings in Cm (1862)
Leipzig String Quartet

Liszt: Concerto for piano and orchestra No 1, S124, in E flat
Martha Argerich (piano)
London SO
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

16 December 2005

Jonathan Swain continues to feature music from JS Bach's personal library and recordings by Sir Adrian Boult.

Tieke: Old Comrades
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)

Johann Bernhard Bach: Overture in Gm
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Thomas Hengelbrock (director/violin)

Schubert: Symphony No 9 in C, D944, Great
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)

Böhm: Capriccio in D
Lully, arr Anon: Chaconne (Phaëton)
Carole Cerasi (harpsichord)

JC Bach (1642-1703): Ach, daß ich Wassers g'nug hätte
Daniel Taylor (counter-tenor)
Theatre of Early Music
Es erhub sich ein Streit
Cantus Cölln, Concerto Palatino
Konrad Junghänel (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Part Five

Donald Macleod looks at the most fundamental dilemma Tchaikovsky faced - whether to live or to die.

Softly the Spirit Flew Up to Heaven, Op 47, No 2
Nina Rautio (soprano)
Semion Skigin (piano)

Symphony No 6 in Bm, Op 74, Pathetique
Leningrad PO
Evgeny Mravinsky (conductor)

None But the Lonely Heart, Op 6, No 6
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
Oleg Boshniakovich (piano)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

16 December 2005

Petroc Trelawny introduces another in the series of concerts from the Waterfront Hall in Belfast featuring pieces from two great musical cities - Prague and Vienna.

4/4. The Galliard Ensemble perform music for wind instruments by Mozart and 20th-century Czech composers.

Mozart, arr Rechtman: Quintet in Cm, K406
Zemlinsky: Humoresque
Martinu: Two madrigals
Haas: Quintet, Op 10

14:00

Afternoon Performance

German Romantics

As a prelude to BBC Radio 3's Bach Week - a look at his legacy, featuring some of the greatest early romantic music to come out of Germany. Presented by Edward Seckerson, and featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Mozart: Overture - Marriage of Figaro
Patrick Summers (conductor)

Schubert: Symphony No 8 Unfinished
Heinrich Schiff (conductor)

Brahms: 5 songs for chorus, Op 104
BBC Singers
Celso Antunes (conductor)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4
François-Frédéric Guy (piano)
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Schumann: Symphony No 1 Spring
Henrik Schaefer (conductor)

16:00

Jazz Legends

Harold McNair

Julian Joseph is joined by musician and jazz club owner Steve Rubie, to talk about the career of Jamaican born jazz flautist Harold McNair.

McNair's credentials include recordings with 1970s artists Donovan and John Martyn. His music is much in demand now, mainly due to his inventive soloing on the albums Flute and Nut and the Fence, which are featured.

17:00

In Tune

16 December 2005

Sean is joined by Alistair Dixon and Chapelle du Roi who sing a selection of pieces by Tallis in advance of their concert at St John's, Smith Square.

As Rossini's Barbiere di Siviglia is about to open at Covent Garden, directors Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser come in with singers Joyce Didonato and Toby Spence. That's all alongside the usual mix of classical music and arts news.

19:00

A Bach Christmas

Petroc Trelawny

The start of a 214-hour marathon featuring all of Johann Sebastian Bach's surviving works. Throughout the celebrations, speakers from the world of music and beyond will be introducing the pieces and what they mean to them.

Contributors include Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Emma Kirkby, Davitt Moroney, Ton Koopman, Christopher Hogwood, Dame Gillian Weir, Joanna MacGregor, Sir Roger Norrington, Dame Janet Baker and Andrew Parrott.

Plus The Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, The Archbishop of Canterbury the Right Reverend Rowan Williams, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, Armando Ianucci, Siobhan Davies, Sir Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Simon Russell Beale, Fiona Shaw, Ian McEwan, Wynton Marsalis, Nitin Sawhney, Andrew Marr and Alain de Botton.

Simon Heighes contributes Bach Bites - short introductions to various aspects of Bach's life and works; and Peter Dyke follows Bach's footsteps from Arnstadt to Lubeck.

Ton Koopman introduces his performance of
Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, Cantatas 1, 2 and 3
Lisa Larsson (soprano)
Bogna Bartosz (alto)
Jörg Dürmüller (tenor)
Peter Harvey (bass)
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Chorus
Ton Koopman (director)
From a concert given in the Grosser Saal, Musikverein Vienna, in December 2004

Chorale preludes
Jesus, meine Zuversicht, BWV 728
In Dulci Jubilo, BWV 729
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 730
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 731
Ton Koopman (organ)

Partita No 1 in Bm, BWV 1002
Thomas Zehetmair (violin)

Keyboard Concerto No 2 in E, BWV 1053
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (director)

22:00

A Bach Christmas

Fiona Talkington

Featuring Bach motets, plus the first of a series of specially recorded concerts for the late hours.

Motets
Komm Jesu komm, BWV 229
Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden, BWV 230
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Quodlibet, BWV 524
Agnes Giebel (soprano)
Marie-Luise Gilles (alto)
Bert van t'Hoff (tenor)
Peter-Christoph Runge (bass)
Leonhardt Consort
Gustav Leonhardt (director)

Concerto in Dm for organ and strings, after BWV 35, 156
Trio sonata No 6 in G, after Organ sonata BWV 530
Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 753 (completed Charlston)
Fantasia super Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 713
Suite No 5 in Gm for strings, BWV 1070
London Baroque
Terence Charlston (organ)

Cantata No 156: Ich steh mit einem Fuss im Grabe
Paul Esswood (countertenor)
Kurt Equiluz (tenor)
Thomas Hampson (bass)
Tolz Boys Choir
Concentus Musicus, Vienna
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director)

00:00

A Bach Christmas

Louise Fryer

Saturday 17 Dec



Louise Fryer

Including early works from Bach's time in Arnstadt and Muhlhausen, and cantatas from Weimar and Cothen.

00.01am
Ich Habe Genug, Schlummert Ein, BWV 82, No 2 and 3 (Anna Magdalena Büchlein)
Elly Ameling (soprano)
Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)
Angelica May (cello)

00.09am
Kyrie in F, BWV 233a
Gachinger Kantorei, Ensemble
Helmuth Rilling (conductor)

00.13am
Sonata in Am, BWV 965
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)

00.31am
Fantasia & unfinished fugue in Cm, BWV 906
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)

00.39am
Cantata: Gott ist mein König, BWV 71
Agnes Giebel (soprano)
Marga Hoffgen (alto)
Hans-Joachim Rotsch (tenor)
Theo Adam (bass)
Thomanerchor Leipzig
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Kurt Thomas (conductor)

00.59am
Suite in Gm, BWV 822
Michelle Barchi (harpsichord)

1.14am
Toccata in E, BWV 566
Hans Fagius (Wahlberg organ of the Frederik Church, Karlskrona)

1.24am
Emma Kirkby introduces a recording of
Cantata: Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Michael Chance (alto)
Charles Daniels (tenor)
Peter Harvey (bass)
The Purcell Quartet

1.38am
Aria variata in Am, BWV 989
Rosalyn Tureck (piano)

1.54am
Toccata in Dm, BWV 913
Angela Hewitt (piano)

2.06am
Suite in Em (lute), BWV 996
Julian Bream (guitar)

2.26am
Cantata: Ach! Ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe, BWV 162
Arleen Auger (soprano)
Alyce Rogers (alto)
Kurt Equiluz (tenor)
Wolfgang Schone (bass)
Gachinger Kantorei
Frankfurter Kantorei
Bach-Collegium Stuttgart
Helmuth Rilling (conductor)

2.43am
Suite in Am, BWV 818a , incl two alternative Sarabandes, BWV 818
Zuzanna Ruzickova (harpsichord)

3.04am
Canon a 4 perpetuus, BWV 1073
Musica Antiqua Köln

3.06am
Toccata and Fugue Dorian in Dm, BWV 538
Marie-Claire Alain (Gottfried Silbermann organ in Freiburg Cathedral)

3.20am
Sigiswald Kuijken introduces his recording of
Cantata: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21
Greta de Reyghere (soprano)
René Jacobs (alto)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor)
Peter Lika (bass)
Netherlands Chamber Choir
La Petite Bande
Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)

4.05am
Prelude and Fugue in Am, BWV 894
Zuzanna Ruzickova (harpsichord)

4.16am
Sonata in Gm for flute and continuo, BWV 1020
Lisa Beznosiuk (flute)
Paul Nicholson (harpsichord)
Richard Tunnicliffe (cello)

4.29am
Cantata: Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre, BWV 134a
Michael Chance (alto)
Paul Agnew (tenor)
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir
Ton Koopman (conductor)

5.06am
Sonata in Em for violin and continuo, BWV 1023
Musica Alta Ripa
Ursula Bundeis (violin)
Bernward Lohr (organ)
Albert Bruggen (theorbo)

5.17am
Cantata: Amore traditore, BWV 203
Dietrich Henschel (bass)
Michael Behringer (harpsichord)

5.29am
Chorale prelude: An Wasserflüssen Babylon (organ), BWV 653
Ton Koopman (Muller organ in the Grote Kerk, Leeuwarden)

5.35am
Chorale: An Wasserflüssen Babylon, BWV 267
Amsterdam Bach Choir
Ton Koopman

5.37am
Prelude & Fugue in C, BWV 545
Edward Power Biggs (Flentrop organ in Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University)

5.44am
Cantata: Durchlauchster Leopold (serenata), BWV 173a
Lisa Larsson (soprano)
Klaus Mertens (bass)
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir
Ton Koopman (conductor)

6.03am
Fantasia and Fugue in Gm, BWV 542
Simon Preston (Sauer organ in St Peter's, Waltrop, near Dortmund)

6.15am
Cantata: Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!, BWV 208 (Hunt Cantata)
Diana ...... Jennifer Smith (soprano)
Pales ...... Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Endymion ...... Simon Davies (tenor)
Pan ...... Michael George (bass)
The Parley of Instruments
Roy Goodman, Peter Holman (director)