Tuesday 28th March 2006

07:00

Morning on 3

28 March 2006

Penny Gore features, among other late works, a symphony left incomplete at Schubert's death.

From 7.00am

Humperdinck: Overture to Hansel and Gretel
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

Elgar: Serenade for string orchestra, Op 20, in Em
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)

Handel: Chorus - How Dark, O Lord, are Thy Decrees, from Jephthe Act II
Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Chopin: 3 Mazurkas, Op 63
Anton Rubinstein (piano)

Verdi: Stabat Mater from Four Sacred Pieces
Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)

From 8.30am

Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No 1 in Fm, Op 120, No 1
Dieter Klöcker (clarinet)
Claudius Tanski (piano)

Schubert, realised Newbold: Symphony No 10 in D, D936a
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

28 March 2006

Jonathan Swain hosts Debussy orchestral music, including arrangements by other composers, and recordings by choral conductor Edwin Loehrer.

Debussy: Rhapsody
Sigurd Rascher (saxophone)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

Monteverdi: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Narrator ...... Laerte Malaguti (tenor)
Tancredi ...... Rodolfo Malacarne (tenor)
Clorinda ...... Luciana Ticinelli-Fattori (soprano)
Società Cameristica di Lugano
Edwin Loehrer (conductor)

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216
Arthur Grumiaux (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor)

Anon: Medieval Italian Lauds
from the Laudario di Cortona
Società Cameristica di Lugano
Edwin Loehrer (conductor)

Debussy: (Composite performance)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Monteux (conductor)
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Paul Paray (conductor)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett

Part Two

Donald Macleod visits Sir Richard at his home in New York, to discuss, among other things, his love of jazz and ballet, and his adopted home city.

Four-piece for 2 pianos
David Nettle, Richard Markham (piano)

Five Impromptus for guitar
Craig Ogden (guitar)

Isadora
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Schumann Songs

Christian Gerhaher

Fiona Talkington presents a series of concerts from LSO St Luke's, celebrating the songs of Schumann and some of his fellow romantics.

1/4. German baritone Christian Gerhaher combines Schumann with Hugo Wolf's settings of Goethe's poems about a blind harpist.

Schumann: Liederkreis, Op 24
Wolf: 3 Harfenspielerlieder - Harfenspieler 1 (Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt); Harfenspieler 2 (An die Türen will ich schleichen); Harfenspieler 3 (Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass)
Schumann: 6 Songs, Op 36

Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Gerold Huber (piano)

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Edward Seckerson presents music celebrating towns and cities in Britain, Europe and America.

2/5. With the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Elgar: Froissart
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

Bridge: A Prayer
Richard Hickox (conductor)
BBC National Chorus of Wales

Respighi: The Pines of Rome
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

Rossini: Overture - Barber of Seville
Alexander Titov (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 - Italian
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

28 March 2006

CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present the programme for younger listeners. Including gentle music from Zimbabwe; a track from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame; some experimental vocal works, and a very busy musical bee.

Khachaturian: Dance of a Greek Slave (from Spartacus)
Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

Traditional Zimbabwean: Bangiza
Backbeat Percussion Quartet

Menken/Schwartz: Hellfire (from The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Original soundtrack recording

Debussy: Clair de Lune (from Suite Bergamasque)
Leon Fleisher (piano)

Stephen Montague: Tigida Pipa
Singcircle
Gregory Rose (conductor)

Schubert: The Bee
Piers Adams (recorder)
Howard Beech (piano)

16:00

Voices

Korngold, Krenek, Eisler and Zemlinsky

Iain Burnside presents a recital of songs by European émigré composers Korngold, Krenek, Eisler and Zemlinsky; given by bass-baritone James Rutherford, accompanied on the piano by Burnside himself.

17:00

In Tune

28 March 2006

Tenor Andrew Kennedy and musical director Laurence Cummings preview the London Handel Festival. American tenor Eric Cutler discusses his recent successes at the Metropolitan Opera, New York; Antonio Pappano previews the Royal Opera's new season and pianist Ashley Wass performs live in the studio.

19:30

Performance on 3

Piano 2006 Festival

Celebrating Mozart

Louise Fryer presents another in a series of programmes from the Piano 2006 Festival in Manchester, which this year features Mozart's piano concertos.

4/7. A trio of Mozart's most celebrated concertos written after his arrival in Vienna.

Concerto No 18 in B flat, K456
Michael Roll (piano)

Concerto No 21 in C, K467
Anne Queffelec (piano)

Concerto No 23 in A, K488
Martin Roscoe (piano)

BBC Philharmonic
Paul Goodwin (conductor)

21:15

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jonathan Harvey's Tranquil Abiding

Conductor Ilan Volkov leads the orchestra in a recital of Jonathan Harvey's Tranquil Abiding.

21:30

Night Waves

28 March 2006

Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney talks to Susan Hitch about his latest collection, District and Circle, which includes poems on a childhood spent safe from the horrors of the Second World War.

22:15

Late Junction

28 March 2006

Fiona Talkington features Henry's Eight, who perform Lassus' setting of the penitential Psalms; plus, a devotional raag for the Hindu deity Shiv, and a live recording of Canadian folk group Genticorum.

There's also more from Dhafer Youssef's album Divine Shadows, released this week.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Rossini (1792-1868)

Vienna, Venice and Brighton

From 1822, Rossini began to spread his wings beyond Italy, and as an internationally renowned opera composer, he was greeted as one of the major celebrities of his day wherever he travelled. Donald Macleod looks at the works associated with his first trips abroad.

Zelimira (extract: Ah! One Whole Day Has Passed!)
Alistair Miles (bass)
Philharmonia Orchestra
David Parry (conductor)

Zelmira (extract: end Act II)
Zelmira ...... Cecilia Gasdia
Polydorus ...... José Garcia
Antenor ...... Chris Merritt
Leucippus ...... Boaz Senator
Ilos ...... William Matteuzzi
The Ambrosian Singers
I Solisti Veneti
Claudio Scimone (conductor)

Semiramide (extract: Introduzione)
Semiramide ...... Cheryl Studer
Assur ...... Samuel Ramey
Idreno ...... Frank Lopardo
Oroe ...... Jan-Hendrik Rootering
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
LSO
Ion Marin (conductor)

La gazza ladra: Overture
Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

28 March 2006

28 March 2006

With John Shea.

1.00am
Michala Petri and Musica Antiqua Köln in concert in Humlebaek
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Concerto da camera in Gm
1.19am
Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich (1630-1680): La Pastorella sonatina in G; La bella pastorella, Lied variations
1.34am
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713): Ciacona in G for 2 violins and continuo, Op 3, No 12
1.39am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto in Am for sopranino recorder, RV 108
1.47am
Valentini, Giuseppe (1681-1753): Sonata in A for 2 violins and continuo, Op 5, No 12 - Pastorale
2.08am
Naudot, Jacques-Christophe (c1690-1762): Concerto in G for soprano recorder, 2 violins and continuo
Michala Petri (recorder)
Musica Antiqua Köln
Reinhard Goebel, Margret Goebel (violin)
Klaus-Dieter Brandt (cello)
Leon Berben (harpsichord)

2.22am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897), arr. Duczmal: Sextet in B flat, Op 18
The Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan
Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)

3.00am
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963): Piano Concerto
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Orchestre National de France
Georges Prêtre (conductor)

3.22am
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908): Sheherazade, Op 35
Romanian National Radio Orchestra
Iosif Conta (conductor)

4.09am
Huygens, Constantijn (1596-1687): Proba me Deus for bass and continuo, Memor fui dierum antiquorum
Anne Grimm (soprano)
Peter Kooij (bass)
Leo van Doeselaar (organ)
Mike Fentross (theorbo)
Mieneke van der Velden (viola da gamba)

4.15am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Freye Fantasie in F sharp m, Wq 67
Andreas Staier (pianoforte)

4.28am
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179): Alma Redeptoris Mater; Ave Maria, O auctrix vite
Sequentia

4.40am
Huygens, Constantijn (1596-1687): Iniquitatem meam ego cognovi; Domine spes mea; In quo corriget
Anne Grimm (soprano)
Peter Kooij (bass)
Leo van Doeselaar (organ)
Mike Fentross (theorbo)
Mieneke van der Velden (viola da gamba)

4.49am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Flute Quartet in C, K285b, (excerpt)
The Galeazzi Ensemble
Lesley Holliday (flute)
Richard Wade (violin)
Virginie Guiffray (viola)
Gareth Deats (cello)

5.03am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F, BWV 1047
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Ivor Bolton (conductor)

5.15am
Cozzolani, Suor Chiara Margarita (1602-c.1677): Laudate pueri
Cappella Artemisia

5.24am
Förster, Kaspar Jr (1616-1673): Dialogus a 5 Quid faciam misera?
Olga Pasiecznik, Marta Boberska (soprano)
Dirk Snellings (bass)
Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble

5.32am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
André Previn (conductor)

5.43am
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883): Prelude to Tristan & Isolde
Felix Mottl (piano)

5.53am
Duparc, Henri (1848-1933): Extase
Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano)
Stephen Ralls (piano)

5.57am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture, Op 27
Orchestre National de France
Riccardo Muti (conductor)

6.11am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Symphony No 4 in B flat, Op 60
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
André Previn (conductor)

6.47am
Klami, Uuno (1900-1961): Suomenliina Festival Overture
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)