Thursday 30th March 2006

07:00

Morning on 3

30 March 2006

Penny Gore continues her exploration of the late works of a range of composers and marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the Crimean War.

From 7.00am

Mussorgsky: The Capture of Kars from unfinished opera Mlada
The Locke Brass Consort
James Lockart (conductor)

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No 3, BWV 1048, in G
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock (director)

Chopin: 3 Waltzes, Op 64
Claudio Arrau (piano)

Verdi: Te Deum from Four Sacred Pieces
Cheryl Studer (soprano)
Chorus of Vienna State Opera
Vienna Philharmonic
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

From 8.30am

Fauré: Quartet for strings, Op 121, in Em
Ysaye Quartet

Rachmaninov: Symphonic dances for orchestra, Op 45
St Petersburg Philharmonic orchestra
Mariss Jansons (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

30 March 2006

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

Debussy, orch Charles Koechlin: Khamma
Suisse Romande Orchestra
Ernest Ansermet (conductor)

Cimarosa: I tre amanti (Act I, finale)
Violante ...... Basia Retchitzka (soprano)
Don Arsenio ...... Carlo Gaifa (tenor)
Don Riccardo ...... Rodolfo Malacarne (tenor)
Barone della Nebbia ...... Laerte Malaguti (baritone)
Brunetta ...... Maria Grazia Ferracini (soprano)
Swiss-Italian Radio Orchestra
Edwin Loehrer (conductor)

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 4 in D, K218
Szymon Goldberg (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Walter Susskind (conductor)

Sister Claudia Francesca Rusca: Sacred Concerti and Canzoni da sonare
Basia Retchitzka, Maria Grazia Ferracini (soprano)
Società Cameristica di Lugano
Edwin Loehrer (conductor)

Debussy, orch André Caplet
La boîte à joujoux
Suisse Romande Orchestra
Ernest Ansermet (conductor)

Petrassi: Nonsense No 6
Swiss-Italian Radio Choir
Edwin Loehrer (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett

Part Four

Donald Macleod discovers the precocious beginnings of Sir Richard's career.

A Contemplation upon Flowers for chorus
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Partita for orchestra
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

Noctuary (Variations on a theme of Scott Joplin) for piano
John McCabe (piano)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Schumann Songs

Toby Spence

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

3/4. Toby Spence is joined by Llyr Williams to perform the first true song-cycle, Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte, which Schumann admitted had a huge influence on his own Dichterliebe.

Beethoven: Adelaide, Op 46; An die ferne Geliebte, Op 98
Schumann: Dichterliebe

Toby Spence (tenor)
Llyr Williams (piano)

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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

4/5. With the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Singers.

Haydn: Symphony No 104 in D - London
Paul Watkins (conductor)

Granville Bantock: A Pageant of Human Life
BBC Singers
New London Children's Choir
Malcolm Williamson: Sonnet
BBC Singers
Ronald Corp: Dover Beach (BBC commission; premiere broadcast)
New London Children's Choir
Ronald Corp (conductor)

Mozart: Symphony No 38, K504, in D - Prague
Carlos Kalmar (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

30 March 2006

CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present the programme for younger listeners. Including music from Peru, an earthy dance from Stravinsky and some musical fireflies.

Brahms: Allegro (from Hungarian Dance No 5)
Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Istvan Bogar (conductor)

Amy Beach: Fireflies
Alan Feinberg (piano)

Bernard Hermann: Prelude from Vertigo
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Hermann (conductor)

Sondheim, arr. Williams: Losing My Mind
I Fagiolini
Robert Holllingworth (director)

Traditional Andes music comp. Alex Sanches Bustamante: Tempestad
Savia Andina

Stravinsky: Dances of the Young Girls (from The Rite of Spring)
Kirov Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)

16:00

Brian Kay's Light Programme

30 March 2006

Brian Kay presents a programme of Viennese light music, a suite by Robert Docker, and music by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, in celebration of his 70th birthday.

17:00

In Tune

30 March 2006

Sean's first guest is Paul Spicer who conducts his own work, The Deciduous Cross, at St John's Smith Square tomorrow.

Members of the Linos Wind Quintet perform French chamber music with Simon Lepper at the piano.

Sean is also joined by Rene Jacobs, whose performances and recordings of Baroque and Classical works have received widespread acclaim.

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 as part of Celebrating Mozart.

6/7. A concert from Festival Director Barry Douglas' own Camerata Ireland, featuring three of Mozart's greatest Viennese concertos.

Piano Concerto No 17 in G, K453
Matthais Kerschnereit (piano)

Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat, K482
Barry Douglas (piano)

Piano Concerto No 24 in Cm, K491
John O'Conor (piano)

Camerata Ireland
Barry Douglas (conductor)

21:30

Night Waves

30 March 2006

Paul Allen and guests discuss Opera North's new production Arms and the Cow - a political satire on the arms race.

22:15

Late Junction

30 March 2006

Eclectic late night music mix with Fiona Talkington, including another Your 3.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Rossini (1792-1868)

Return to Paris

Donald Macleod looks at Rossini's final years of his life in Paris, and the remarkable works he dismissed as his 'sins of old age'.

L'Ultimo Ricordo
Musique Anodine - setting No II
Steven Kimbrough (baritone)
Dalton Baldwin (piano)

Péchés des Vieillesse
Album des enfants dégourdis - Assez de memento: dansons

Album de chaumière - Un cauchemar
Frederic Chiu (piano)

Petite Messe Solennelle (extract: XI-XIV - Prelude religieux; Sanctus; O Salutaris hostia; Agnus Dei)
Lucia Popp (soprano)
Brigitte Fassbaender (alto)
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Dimitri Kavrakos (bass)
Katia and Marielle Labeque (piano)
David Briggs (harmonium)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

30 March 2006

30 March 2006

With John Shea.

1.00am
The ERT National Symphony Orchestra in Athens
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943): Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op 43
1.26am
Skalkotas, Nikos (1904-1949): Greek Popular Dances
1.37am
Theodorakis, Mikis (b 1925): Zorba (excerpts)
Dimitris Papadimitriou (piano)
ERT National Symphony Orchestra
Andreas Pylarinos (conductor)

1.51am
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757): Six Sonatas - in Fm, Kk 481; in D, Kk 45; in C sharp m, Kk 46; in Fm, Kk 386; in Bm, Kk 87; in Dm, Kk 18
Sergei Terentjev (piano)

2.18
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Suite for Solo Cello No 6 in D, BWV 1012
Guy Fouquet (cello)

2.55am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Trio, D929, in E flat
Grieg Trio

3.41am
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936): Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No 2
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

4.00am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Sonata in F (Der Getreue Music-Meister)
Michael Schneider (recorder)
Rainer Zipperling (cello)
Harald Hoeren (organ)

4.06am
Allegri, Lorenzo (1567-1648): Primo Ballo della notte d'amore & Sinfonica (Il primo libro delle musiche)
Tragicomedia

4.16am
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868): Prelude, Toccata and Variations
Mindaugas Gecevicius (horn)
Ala Bendoraitiene (piano)

4.27am
Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924): Un bel di vedremo (Madama Butterfly)
Grace Moore (soprano)
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Willem Mengelberg (conductor)

4.31am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Cello Concerto in D
France Springuel (cello)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)

5.00am
Gesualdo Da Venosa (1561?-1613): Miserere
Camerata Silesia
Anna Szostak (conductor)

5.15am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Porgi amor qualche ristoro (Le Nozze di Figaro)
Charlotte Margiono (soprano)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

5.19am
Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899): Pavane & Forlane (Quelques Danses)
Bengt Åke-Lundin (piano)

5.29am
Rore, Cipriano de (c1515-1565): Da l'estrem'orizonte' (From the Furthest Horizon)
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (director)

5.32am
Parac, Ivo (1890-1954): Pastorale
Ljerka Ocic (organ)

5.42am
Andriessen, Hendrick (1892-1981): Concertino for cello and orchestra
Michael Müller (cello)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

5.54am
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953): Pensées, Op 62
Roger Woodward (piano)

6.08am
Merikanto, Aarre (1893-1958): Serenade for cello and orchestra
Seppo Laamanen (cello)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ulf Söderblom (conductor)

6.22am
Spohr, Louis (1784-1859): String sextet in C, Op 140
Wiener Streichsextet

6.47am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Minuet 1 and 2 in F; Fantasia in D; Andante e sostenuto in G; Presto in C; Fuga à 4 in C
Wim Diepenhorst (organ)