Friday 31st March 2006

07:00

Morning on 3

31 March 2006

Penny Gore celebrates the 350th anniversary of the birth of the legendary French viol player and composer Marin Marais; and concludes her exploration of musical late works with a celebrated recording of Strauss' autumnal Four Last Songs.

From 7.00am

Mendelssohn: Overture - Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen (conductor)

Purcell: From Rosy Bow'rs (Mad Song) - 'The last Song the Authour Set it Being in his Sickness'
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Members of The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (director)

Chopin: Barcarolle for piano, Op 60, in F sharp
Krystian Zimerman (piano)

Marin Marais: Le Basque
Dennis Brain (horn)
Wilfred Parry (piano)

From 8.30am

Marin Marais: Couplets de Folies (11th Suite - Sujet avec 20 couplets for bass viol and continuo - from Pieces de violes, Book 1)
Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba)
Guido Boysen (theorbo)
Dolores Costoyas (guitar)
Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord)

Strauss: Four Last Songs
Gundula Janowitz (soprano)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

31 March 2006

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

Alessandro Scarlatti: Sedecia, Rč di Gerusalemme (excerpt)
Adriana Maliponte (soprano)
Societŕ Cameristica di Lugano
Edwin Loehrer (conductor)

Debussy, orch Stokowski: Clair de lune
Stokowski Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski (conductor)

Monteverdi: Gloria (Selva morale e spirituale)
Societŕ Cameristica di Lugano
Edwin Loehrer (conductor)

Debussy: Nocturnes
Philharmonia Choir & Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)

Palestrina: Vexilla regis prodeunt
Societŕ Cameristica di Lugano
Edwin Loehrer (conductor)

Mozart: Horn Concerto No 1 in D, K412
Barry Tuckwell (horn)
London Symphony Orchestra
Peter Maag (conductor)

Vecchi: L'Amfiparnaso (excerpt)
Enrico Bertorelli (narrator)
Societŕ Cameristica di Lugano
Edwin Loehrer (conductor)

Debussy: Jeux
Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett

Part Five

Donald Macleod talks to Sir Richard at his home in New York about his long career as a composer for film music.

Far from the Madding Crowd - music for film
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Missa Brevis (1990)
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Concerto for trumpet and wind orchestra
Martin Winter (cornet)
RNCM Wind Orchestra
Timothy Reynish (conductor)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Schumann Songs

Joan Rodgers

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

4/4. Joan Rodgers and Iain Burnside round off the series with Schumann's Frauenliebe und leben, coupled with songs by Richard Strauss.

Schumann: Frauenliebe und leben, Op 42
R Strauss: Begegnung; Rote Rosen; Die Erwachte Rose; Heimliche Aufforderung, Op 27'3; Die Georgine, Op 10'4; Die Verschwiegenen, Op 10'6; Die Zeitloser, Op 10'7;
Allerseelen, Op 10'8; Schlechtes Wetter, Op 69'5

Joan Rodgers (soprano)
Iain Burnside (piano)

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC Symphony Orchestra

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

5/5. With the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Delius, arr Beecham: Walk to the Paradise Garden
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Bingham: The Secret Garden
BBC Symphony Chorus
Iain Farrington (organ)
Stephen Jackson (conductor)

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

Delius: Dance Rhapsody No 2
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Britten: Plymouth Town
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

31 March 2006

CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present the programme for younger listeners. With music from Spain, experiments with the inside of a piano and a trip to the ballet.

Johann Strauss: Radetzky March
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

Bieito Romero: Raqueiros
Luar na Lubre
Cabo do mundo

Bach: Badinerie (from Suite in Bm}
Fine Arts Brass

John Cage: Three Dances for 2 prepared pianos (extract)
Patrick Moraz (prepared pianos)

Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Mirlitons (from The Nutcracker)
Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi (conductor)

Handel: Zadok the Priest
The King's Consort and Choir
Robert King (conductor)

16:00

Jazz Legends

Roswell Rudd

Julian Joseph chats with trombonist and jazz innovator Roswell Rudd. They focus on Rudd's work with star Kora player Toumani Diabate, as well as collaborations with piano maestro Herbie Nichols.

17:00

In Tune

31 March 2006

Today's programme kicks off with jazz star, composer and trumpet player Dave Douglas talking about his new collaboration with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. He performs live in the studio.

The Austrian Cultural Forum mark their 50th anniversary this weekend with a concert at the Wigmore Hall, and some of their performers play live in the studio.
Rounding up the programme, pianist John Lill talks about his career at the forefront of the classical world and talks about his latest CD release.

19:30

Performance on 3

Piano 2006 Festival

Celebrating Mozart

Louise Fryer presents the last 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.

7/7. Steven Osborne plays the valedictory concerto which Mozart composed just under a year before his early death. By contrast, Michel Dalberto plays the majestic
concerto written at the height of the Viennese love affair with Mozart as composer and soloist in his own music.

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

Mozart: Concerto No 16 in D, K451
Michel Dalberto (piano)

Mozart: Concerto No 27 in B flat, K595
Steven Osborne (piano)

BBC Philharmonic
Paul Goodwin (conductor)

21:00

Chamber Concert

Brodsky Quartet

Recorded at the 2002 Aldeburgh Festival, the Brodsky Quartet perform Alexander Zemlinsky's Quartet for Strings No 4, Op 25, his Suite for String Quartet.

21:30

Night Waves

31 March 2006

Playwright Trevor Griffiths talks to Matthew Sweet as a season of his plays, including the European premiere of Camel Station, set in northern Iraq in 2001, opens at the Theatre Museum in London.

22:15

Mixing It

31 March 2006

Mark Russell and Robert Sandall report from LA. Guests include electronic musician Ken Gibson, guitarist and producer Ry Cooder and Frank Zappa collaborator Don Preston.

23:30

Jazz on 3

31 March 2006

John Fordham introduces a concert by the British pianist John Taylor, which was part of the debut tour of his new trio featuring Swedish bassist Palle Danielsson and drummer Martin France.

01:00

Through the Night

31 March 2006

31 March 2006

With John Shea.

1.00am
The Ulster Orchestra at the BBC Proms 2005
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op 61
Mary Nelson (soprano)
Victoria Simmonds (mezzo-soprano)
Ulster Orchestra
Belfast Methodist College Girls' Choir
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

1.44am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Symphony No 5 in Cm, Op 67

2.18am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Der Herr lebt, Cantata, Wq 251
Barbara Schlick (soprano)
Hilke Helling (alto)
Wilfried Jochens (tenor)
Gotthold Schwarz (bass)
Das Kleine Konzert
Rheinische Kantorei
Hermann Max (conductor)

2.55am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): 25 Variations and fugue on a theme by Handel, Op 24
Simon Trpceski (piano)

3.20am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Concerto for cello and Orchestra, HV VII No 2 in D
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Heinrich Schiff (cellist and conductor)

3.46am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Symphony No 29 in A, K 201
National Arts Centre Orchestra
Pinchas Zuckerman (conductor)

4.14am
Suriani Germani, Alberta (b 19??): Partita
Branka Janjanin-Magdalenic (harp)

4.24am
Besard, Jean-Baptiste (1567-1616): Ma belle si ton ame, Thesaurus harmonicus
Tragicomedia

4.27am
Förster, Kaspar (1616-1673): Sonata a 7
Musica Fiata
Roland Wilson (director)

4.33am
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904): Legend No 1 in Dm, Op 59
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Robl (conductor)

4.37am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Jardins sous la pluie
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

4.41am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Trois Chansons
Veronika Portsmuth (soprano)
Risto Joost (tenor)
Riivo Kallasmaa (baritone)
Talinn Music High School Chamber Choir
Evi Eespere (director)

4.49am
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934) arr Beecham
The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

5.00am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Egmont Overture, Op 84
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Arthur Fagan (conductor)

5.09am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): String Quartet in G, KV 387 (excerpt)
Prague Quartet

5.14am
Roussel, Albert (1869-1937): Suite from 'Le Festin de l'Araignée, Op 17
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)

5.32am
Croft, William (baptized1678; died 1727): Voluntary No 12 in D
Martin Baker (organ)

5.37am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto for violin and orchestra, RV 234 in D 'L'Inquietudine'
Giuliano Carmignola (violin)
Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca

5.44am
Sheppard, John (c 1515-c 1559): Gaude gaude gaude Maria virgo
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

5.56am
Alessandrescu, Alfred (1893-1959): Symphonic sketch, Autumn Dawn
Romanian National Radio Orchestra
Constantin Bobescu (conductor)

6.05am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Scherzo No.2 in B flat minor, Op 31
Alex Slobodyanik (piano)

6.16am
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872): Cisza dokola, noc jasna, The Haunted Manor
Tomasz Kuk (tenor)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michal Klauza (conductor)

6.24am
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924): Piano Quartet in Gm, Op 45, No 2
Brahms Piano Quartet