Tuesday 27th December 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

27 December 2005

Penny Gore continues to look at music inspired by or resulting from revolution and war, and at some of the great pianist-composers.

From 7.00am

Beethoven: Rondo - Rage Over a Lost Penny
Yevgeni Kissin (pf)

Vivaldi: Concerto grosso in D, RV 562a
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi

Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea
Thomas Allen
Geoffrey Parsons

From 8.30am

Arnold: Overture - Peterloo
CBSO
Malcolm Arnold

Mendelssohn: Elijah (excs)
Janet Baker, Nicolai Gedda, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
New Philharmonia & Chorus
Rafael Fruhbech de Burgos

Holst: A Moorside Suite
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Gary Cutt

10:00

CD Masters

27 December 2005

With Jonathan Swain and Rob Cowan.

Telemann: Concerto in D
Mark Bennett, Mark Harrison, Nicholas Thompson (trumpet)
Paul Goodwin, Lorraine Wood (oboe)
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock (director/harpsichord)

Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in Am, Op 50
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
Isaac Stern (violin)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)

Mozart: Bassoon Concerto
Henri Helaerts (bassoon)
London Symphony Orchestra
Anthony Collins (conductor)

Miaskovsky: Symphony No 22 in Bm, Symphonic Ballad, Op 54
Ministry of Culture State Symphony Orchestra
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

Debussy: Ariettes oubliées
Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
Cathérine Collard (piano)

J Strauss II: Vienna Blood
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)

Wunderkind

Mozart became one of Hummel's first teachers, and Hummel was soon following in the footsteps of his mentor to become the latest prodigy to take Europe by storm.
Presented by Donald Macleod.

Capriccio
Giuliana Corni (piano)

Trio, Op 35
Trio Parnassus

Piano Sonata No 1, Op 2a, No 3
Ian Hobson (piano)

Mass, Op 80 (Sanctus, Benedictus & Agnus Dei)
Susan Gritton (soprano)
Ann Murray (mezzo)
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Collegium Musicum 90
Richard Hickox (conductor)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Celebrating Mozart

Kungsbacka Trio

Opening a series of recitals featuring some of the music which contributed to Mozart's 'star' status in Viennese society during 1784. From the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, introduced by Petroc Trelawny.

Haydn: Quartet, Op 33, No 2 (Joke)
Mozart: Quartet in B flat, K458 (The Hunt)

Wihan Quartet

14:00

Afternoon Performance

75th anniversary of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Marking the 75th anniversary of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a week of concerts focusing on some of the greatest conductors to have worked with the orchestra. Presented by John Shea.

Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op 20
Mark Elder (conductor)

Boulez: Rituel in Memoriam Bruno Maderna
Pierre Boulez (conductor)

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4
Ralph Vaughan Williams (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty - Prologue
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

16:00

Voices

27 December 2005

Best of 2005: Iain Burnside introduces highlights of the year's programmes, featuring Francis Leroux, Brigitte Fassbaender, Ann Murray, Felicity Lott, John Mark Ainsley and Danny Kaye among others.

17:00

Made in Britain

1939-1945 In Time of War

Martin Handley presents a series spotlighting some of the unexplored music composed in Britain in the 20th Century.

2/10. 1939-1945. In Time of War

A selection of music composed to lift the spirits or express something of the personal tragedies of this turbulent time.

Patrick Hadley: I Sing of a Maiden
Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Frank Bridge: Rebus
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)

George Lloyd: March - HMS Trinidad
Black Dyke Band
David King (conductor)

Lambert: Aubade Heroique
Orchestra of Opera North
David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)

Addinsell (arr Douglas): Warsaw Concerto
Martin Roscoe (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Walton (arr Paul Hindmarsh): Romance (from Next of Kin)
Black Dyke Band
James Watson (conductor)

Lutyens: Chamber Concerto No 1
Jane's Minstrels ensemble
Roger Montgomery (conductor)

Moeran: Sinfonietta
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)

Howells: Like As the Hart
Choir of St Paul's Cathedral
John Scott (conductor)

18:30

New Generation Artists

Psophos string quartet

Verity Sharp presents a special Christmas series highlighting the inspiring studio recordings made by Radio 3's New Generation Artists. Featuring performances by an all-female string quartet and an outstanding young French pianist.

Purcell: Chaconne
Psophos Quartet

Beethoven: Sonata No 5, Op 10, No 1
Cedric Tiberghien (piano)

Beethoven: String Quartet No 6, Op 18
Psophos Quartet

19:30

Performance on 3

More of Loesser

27 December 2005

Songs from the shows of Frank Loesser - such as Guys and Dolls, Where's Charley? and The Most Happy Fella - are followed by a concert performance of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Recorded after a run of performances at Chichester Festival Theatre earlier this year, Joe McFadden stars as J Pierrepoint Finch, the ambitious newcomer to the World Wide Wicket Company, with James Bolam as its president JB Biggley.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

The Voice of the Book ...... Alistair McGowan
J Pierrepoint Finch ...... Joe McFadden
Rosemary Pilkington ......Fiona Dunn
Smitty ...... Sophie-Louise Dann
JB Biggley ...... James Bolam
Bud Frump ...... David Langham
Miss Jones ...... Beverley Klein
Mr Twimble/Wally Womper ...... Teddy Kempner
Hedy La Rue ...... Annette McLaughlin
Bratt ...... Trevor Jones

BBC Concert Orchestra
Richard Balcombe (conductor)

21:30

Belief

David Greig

Series in which Joan Bakewell talks to guests about their beliefs, the influences that have shaped them and their ideas about life's big questions. Her guest is the playwright David Greig.

22:00

BBC Proms 2005 Highlights

27 December 2005

Continuing the special Christmas series of highlights from the summer Proms. English music spanning a tempestuous era for the arts and religion - from works by Cornysh and Wylkynson recorded for posterity in the pages of the Eton Choirbook in the time of Henry Tudor, to the rich Elizabethan harmonies of Thomas Tallis' magnificent 40-part motet, Spem in Alium.

Presented by Catherine Bott and recorded at the Royal Albert Hall.

Wylkynson: Jesus autem transiens; Credo in Deum
Cornysh: Salve regina
Tallis: Nine Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter; O nata lux de lumine; Gaude gloriosa Dei mater; Spem in Alium

The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)

23:10

New Generation Artists

Psophos string quartet

Verity Sharp continues a special Christmas series featuring the inspiring studio recordings made by Radio 3's New Generation Artists. With performances by both of the young string quartets on the New Generation Artists scheme; a French all-female string quartet called Psophos which means 'sound event' in Greek, and a talented and dynamic Polish quartet.

Webern: Langsamer Satz
Royal String Quartet

Grieg: String Quartet, Op 27
Psophos Quartet

00:00

Composer of the Week

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Part Three

Tchaikovsky's state of mind with regard to his work could veer between ecstatic optimism and despairing doubt. These mood swings often, as Donald Macleod discovers, severely affected the composer's life and music.

It's Painful, It's Sweet, Op 6, No 3
Ljuba Kazarnovskaya (soprano)
Ljuba Orfenova (piano)

Marche Slave, Op 31
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert Von Karajan (conductor)

Suite No 3, Op 55 (excerpt)
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi (conductor)

The Oprichnik, Act 2 (excerpt)
Prince Vjaz'minskij ...... Vladimir Ognovenko (baritone)
Andrej Morozov ...... Vsevolod Grivnov (tenor)
Basmanov ...... Alexandra Durseneva (alto)
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Lirico de Cagliari
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

Allegro Brillante - Piano Concerto No 3, Op 75
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
The Philharmonia
Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

27 December 2005

27 December 2005

With John Shea.

1.00am
Ensemble Séverin at the 2004 Brezice Festival
Buns, Benedictus (1642-1716): Church Sonata No 1 in G, from Orpheus Elianus; Church Sonata No 12 in Cm, from Orpheus Elianus
1.18am
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713): Sonata a tre in A, for violin, violone and continuo, Op 3, No 12
1.26am
Buns, Benedictus (1642-1716): Church Sonata No 10 in F, from Orpheus Elianus (Amsterdam, 1698)
1.35am
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713): Sonata a tre in Em, for violin, violone and continuo, Op 3, No 7; Sonata a tre in F, for 2 violins, violone and continuo, Op 1, No 1
1.52am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Allegro, from Correlisieende Sonaten
Ensemble Séverin
Judith Steenbrink, Liz MacCarty (violin)
Joshua Cheatham (violone)
Tineke Steenbrink (harpsichord)

1.54am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): 15 Variations and fugue on an original theme in E flat, Op 35, Eroica
Vesselin Stanev (piano)

2.16am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Prometheus
The Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor)

2.30am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856), arr Duczmal: Cello Concerto in Am, Op 129
Karolina Jaroszewska (cello)
'Amadeus' Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan
Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)

2.54am
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869): Symphonie Fantastique, Op 14
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

3.47am
Lipatti, Dinu (1917-1950): Sonatina for violin & piano, Op 1
Mihaela Martin (violin)
Florina Cozighian (piano)

4.02am
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959): Guitar Prelude No 1 in Em
Norbert Kraft (guitar)

4.06am
Marais, Marin (1656-1728): Les Folies d'Espagne
Lise Daoust (flute)

4.17am
Browne, John (fl.1490): O Maria salvatoris mater
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

4.31am
Tomkins, Thomas (1572-1641): A Sad Pavan for These Distracted Times
Paul Nicholson (organ)

4.37am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Concerto a5
Christian Schneider, Erik Niord Larsen (oboe d'amore)
Kjell Arne Jørgensen, Miranda Playfair (violin)
Dan Styffe (bass)
Hans Knut Sveen (harpsichord)

4.48am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Toccata for keyboard in D, BWV 912
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

5.00am
Petersen, David (c.1650-1737): Sonata No 5, from Speelstukken, for violin and continuo
Ensemble Séverin
Judith Steenbrink (violin)
Joshua Cheatham (violone)
Tineke Steenbrink (harpsichord)

5.07am
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Fantasia in Dm
Freddy Eichelberger (organ)

5.17am
Gabrieli, Giovanni (1557-1612): In ecclesiis (Sacræ Symphoniæ)
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal
Christopher Jackson (conductor)

5.25am
Bloch, Ernest (1880-1959): Meditation and Processional
Morten Carlsen (viola)
Sergej Osadchuk (piano)

5.31am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Rêverie
Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello)
Heini Kärkkäinen (piano)

5.36am
Schreker, Franz (1878-1934): Nachtstück (Der ferne Klang)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

5.53am
Lehár, Franz (1870-1948): Zigeunerliebe Overture
Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra
Franz Lehár (conductor)

6.02am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Five Dances
Symphony Nova Scotia
Georg Tintner (conductor)

6.16am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Hungarian Dance No 5
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Stuart Challender (conductor)

6.19am
Gershwin, George (1898-1937): Rhapsody in Blue
Hinko Haas (piano)

6.36am
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921): Carnival of the Animals
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound
James Campbell (director)