Wednesday 28th December 2005

07:00

Morning on 3

28 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

Rouget de Lisle, arr Berlioz: La Marseillaise
Toulouse Capitole Ch & Orch
Michel Plasson

Liszt: Harmonies du soir (Transcendental Studies)
Gabor Csalog (piano)

Dvorák: Intermezzo for string quintet
The Nash Ensemble

From 8.30am

Mehul: Chant National
Toulouse Capitole Ch & Orch
Michel Plasson

Ives: Three Places in New England
Baltimore SO
David Zinman

Gossec: Symphony in F (a 17 parties)
Swiss Italian Radio Orchestra
Wolf-Dieter Hauschild

10:00

CD Masters

28 December 2005

With Jonathan Swain and Rob Cowan.

Tallis: Spem in alium
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks (director)

Dohnányi: Konzertstück, Op 12
Jŕnos Starker (cello)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Walter Susskind (conductor)

Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Prague Chamber Harmony
Libor Peek (conductor)

Mondonville: Sonata, Op 3, No 4
Les Musiciens du Louvre - Grenoble
Marc Minkowski (conductor)

Brian: Symphony No 6, Sinfonia Tragica
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Myer Fredman (conductor)

Campion: Care-Charming Sleep
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Desmond Dupré (lute)

Rasch: Mutter Orchesterlied I (Mein Herz Brennt)
René Pape (bass)
Dresden Symphony Orchestra
John Carewe (conductor)

Haydn: Symphony No 88 in G
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Eugen Jochum (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)

Going Solo

Hummel's growing reputation as a composer went alongside rather more erratic fortunes in his professional career. Then, as the Congress of Vienna brought Europe's leaders to his doorstep, he was persuaded to revive his activities as a performer. With Donald Macleod.

6 Waltzes for the Apollo Saal, Op 91, No 1
Anthony Goldstone, Caroline Clemmow (piano duet)

Clarinet Quartet in E flat, 2nd Movt (La seccatura)
Fabrizio Meloni (clarinet)
Andrea Pecolo (violin)
Luca Ranieri (viola)
Mario Finotti (cello)

Piano Concerto in Am, Op 85, 1st movt (Allegro moderato)
Stephen Hough (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra
Bryden Thomson (conductor)

String Quartet in C, Op 30, No 1
The Delmé Quartet

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Celebrating Mozart

Artur Pizarro and Vita Panomariovaite

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.

Fantasy-Fragment in Dm, K397
Sonata in A, K331
Violin Sonata in B flat, K454

Ronald Brautigam (forte-piano)
Marieke Blankestijn (violin)

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.

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 8
Leopold Stokowski (conductor)

Brahms Symphony No 4, Final movement - Allegro energico ed appassionato
Bruno Walter (conductor)

Lutoslawski: Partita for violin and orchestra with obbligato solo piano
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
Phillip Moll (piano)
Witold Lutoslawski (conductor)

Scriabin: Symphony No 3, The Divine Poem
Sir John Pritchard (conductor)

16:00

Choral Evensong

From Eton College Chapel

Live from Eton College Chapel with the Rodolfus Choir.

Introit: Coventry Carol (arr Francis Grier)
Responses: Howells
Psalms: 123, 128 (Allwood, Goss)
First Reading: Isaiah 49 vv14-25
Office Hymn: All As God Wills, Who Wisely Heeds (Stracathro)
Canticles: Arvo Pärt
Second Reading: Matthew 2 vv13-18
Anthems: The Carol of the Holy Innocent (John Madden)
Vox in Rama (Giaches de Wert)
Final Hymn: All My Hope on God is Founded (Michael)
Organ Voluntary: Annum per annum (Arvo Pärt)

Ralph Allwood (director)
David Goode (organist)

17:00

Made in Britain

1945-1951 A Time of New Beginnings

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

3/10. 1945-1951. A Time of New Beginnings

The new cultural optimism was reflected in the founding of major artistic festivals - like Aldeburgh, Cheltenham and Edinburgh - the birth of the BBC Third Programme and the Festival of Britain.

Peter Wishart: Alleluya, A New Work Is Come in Hand
Polyphony Choir
Stephen Layton (conductor)

Britten: Occasional Overture
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)

Elizabeth Maconchy: String Quartet No 5 (1948)
Bingham Quartet

George Dyson: Veni Emmanuel (Concerto da Chiesa)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)

Eric Ball: Resurgam
Grimethorpe (UK Coal) Band
Elgar Howarth (conductor)

Gerald Finzi: Clarinet Concerto
Alan Hacker (clarinet)
English String Orchestra
William Boughton (conductor)

Vaughan Williams: Music and Silence
Joyful Company of Singers
Peter Broadbent (conductor)

18:30

New Generation Artists

Christianne Stotijn

Verity Sharp presents a special Christmas series highlighting the inspiring studio recordings made by Radio 3's New Generation Artists. Featuring Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn, who recently received brilliant reviews following her debut appearance at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw under the baton of Bernard Haitink.

Tchaikovsky: As Over Burning Ashes, Op 22.2; My Guardian, My Angel, My Friend; Cradle Song (Malkov), Op 16.1; Amid the Noise of the Ball, Op 38.3
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano)
Julius Drake (piano)

Shostakovich: Sonata for viola and piano, Op 147
Antoine Tamestit (viola)
Markus Hadulla (piano)

19:30

Performance on 3

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Donald Runnicles

Gregorian chant and Catholic ritual strongly influenced the music of French organists and composers Maurice Durufle (1902-1986) and Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), although their compositional styles were very different. Donald Runnicles makes a welcome return to the BBC Symphony Orchestra to conduct two divinely-inspired masterpieces. Presented by Paul Guinery.

Messiaen: Trois Petites Liturgies
Durufle: Requiem

Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot)
Steven Osborne (piano)
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Christopher Maltman (baritone)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

21:05

Belief

Professor Alister McGrath

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. Professor Alister McGrath is the guest.

21:35

BBC Proms 2005 Highlights

28 December 2005

Continuing the Christmas series of highlights from the summer Proms. For the 70th birthday celebrations of the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, a selection of his haunting settings of sacred texts, interspersed with plainchant and motets from the 12th-14th centuries - music which has inspired and informed Pärt's own style.

Presented by Martin Handley, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall.

Anon: Cantus - Te Deum
Pérotin: Sederunt principes
Anon English 14th century - from Worcester Fragments: Beata viscera
Arvo Pärt: An den Wassern zu Babel (Psalm 137)
Anon English 13th century: Motet - Virgo plena gratie
Arvo Pärt: Nunc dimittis; Salve regina
Anon English 13th century: Laude novella
Arvo Pärt: Trivium; Dopo la vittoria

Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Paul Hillier (director)

23:00

BBC Proms 2005 Highlights

28 December 2005

Continuing the Christmas series of highlights from the summer Proms.

Polish composer Henryck Górecki's mesmerising symphony of songs was heard at the Proms for the first time. Its three movements each paint a picture of a mother's sorrow over a lost child - the Virgin Mary's lamentation at the foot of the cross; 18-year old Second World War prisoner Helena Wanda Blazusiakówna's secret cell wall writings; and a peasant mother's mourning over the loss of her soldier son in the First World War.

Presented by Warwick Thompson, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall.

Henryk Górecki: Symphony No 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Susan Bullock (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
David Atherton (conductor)

00:00

Composer of the Week

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Part Four

Donald Macleod examines the composer's complicated relationship with his native Russia - a land he professed to adore, though he endeavoured to spend a great deal of time abroad.

Spirit My Heart Away
Olga Borodina (mezzo soprano)
Larissa Gergieva (piano)

Scherzo ŕ la Russe, Op 1, No 1
Viktoria Postnikova (piano)

Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op 33
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

Symphony No 2 in Cm, Op 17 (excerpt)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)

Dumka, Op 58
Xiang-Dong Kong (piano)

01:00

Through the Night

28 December 2005

28 December 2005

With John Shea.

1.00am
Legendary pianist Van Cliburn at the 1967 Dubrovnik Summer Festival
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Intermezzo No 1; Intermezzo No 2; Ballade No 5, Op 118
1.14am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Sonata in Fm, Op 57
1.38am
Barber, Samuel (1910-1981): Sonata, Op 26
1.58am
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Sonata in Bm, Op 58
Van Cliburn (piano)

2.25am
Vedel, Artemy (1767-1808): Oh God, My Hope Is Only In You
Dumka Academic Cappella
Evgeny Savchuk (director)

2.35am
Franck, César (1822-1890): Rédemption, počme-symphonie
Gé Neutel (soprano)
Netherlands Radio Choir
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Jean Fournet (conductor)

3.33am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): String Quartet No 2, Op 13, in Am
Johnston Quartet
Magnus Johnston, Donald Grant (violin)
Martin Saving (viola)
Marie Bitlloch (cello)

4.05am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Träumerei, No 7, Op 15
Alfred Grünfeld (piano)

4.08am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Liebestraum No 3
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello)
William Tritt (piano)

4.13am
Gossec, François-Joseph (1734-1829) : Symphony in D, Op 5, No 5 - Pastorella
Tafelmusik Orchestra
Jeanne Lamon (conductor)

4.29am
Bernardi, Stefano (1585-1636): Ah Dolente partita
Cantus Cölln
Johanna Koslowsky (soprano)
David Cordier (counter tenor)
Wilfried Jochens (tenor)

4.31am
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959): Introduction to Chôros
Timo Korhonen (guitar)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

4.45am
Vives, Amadeo (1871-1932): La presumida (The Hussy); El retrato de Isabela (The Portrait of Isabella)
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano)
Gerald Moore (piano)

4.50am
Ruzdjak, Vladimir (1922-1987): Three Days; Last Night; Water Flows Out of a Stone; What Happened; Good Night
Miroslav Zivkovich (baritone)
Croatian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra
Mladen Tarbuk (conductor)

5.00am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Cosi fan tutte Overture
Royal Academy of Music Sinfonia
Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

5.05am
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): Alzati! Lŕ tuo figlio (Un ballo in maschera)
Renato ...... Georg Ots (baritone)
Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi (conductor)

5.12am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949), arr. Franz Hasenohrl: Till Eulenspiegel - Einmal Anders!
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound
James Campbell (conductor)

5.21am
Pijper, Willem (1894-1947): La maumariée
Jard van Nes (mezzo soprano)
Gérard van Blerk (piano)

5.26am
Suchon, Eugen (1908-1993): Little Suite with Passacaglia, Op 3
Zuzana Paulechova (piano)

5.36am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Marche Slave, Op 31
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Marko Munih (conductor)

5.47am
Kornowicz, Jerzy (b. 1959): Waiting
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

5.57am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Sonata for violin and cello
Dong-Ho An (violin)
Hee-Song Song (cello)

6.19am
Weiner, Leó (1885-1960): Serenade for small orchestra in Fm, Op 3
Hungarian Radio Orchestra
Miklós Erdélyi (conductor)

6.41am
Dahl, Ingolf (1912-1970): Concerto a tre
Patricia Shands (clarinet)
Carmit Zori (violin)
Peter Rejto (cello)