Sunday 2nd April 2006

07:00

Morning on 3

2 April 2006

With Martin Handley.

From 7.00am

Rameau: Quatrieme Concert (Six Concerts en sextour)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset

Mahler: Quartet Movement
Vienna Piano Trio
Johannes Flieder (viola)

From 8.00am

Handel: Anthem - The King Shall Rejoice
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Philip Ledger

Mozart: Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat
Barry Tuckwell
ECO

09:00

The Cowan Collection

2 April 2006

Rob Cowan introduces some surprises and treasures from his record collection. Regular features include The Innocent Ear, and Rob's recommendation for a Bargain Hunter CD. There's also a chance to hear Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, as recommended on CD Review. The programme includes:

Widor: Toccata (from Symphony No 5)
Ralph Downes (organ)

Handel: Concerto grosso in Am, Op 6'4
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Iona Brown (director)

Elgar: The Wand of Youth, Suite No 2
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Eduard Van Beinum (conductor)

Gluck, arr Kempff: Ballet music (from Orfeo ed Eurydice)
Wilhelm Kempff (piano)

Fauré: Les Djinns, Op 12
Jean-Claude Pennetier (piano)
Solistes de Lyon
Bernard Tétu (conductor)

Part: Pilgrim's Song
Swedish Radio Choir
Tonu Kaljuste (conductor)

Szymanowski: Piesn Roksany
Kaja Danczowska (violin)
Krystian Zimerman (piano)

Mozart: Un aura amorosa (from Cosi fan tutte)
Alfredo Kraus (tenor)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Karl Böhm (conductor)

Sibelius: The Chase (from Scčnes Historiques, Op 66)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)

Anthony Collins: Louis XV Silhouettes
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 27 in Em, Op 90
Yves Nat (piano)

Mendelssohn: String Symphony No 2 in D
Polish Chamber Orchestra
Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Written Words (from Eugene Onegin)
Andrei Ivanov (baritone)
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Alexander Orlov (conductor)

12:00

Private Passions

William Gaskill

Michael Berkeley meets one of Britain's most distinguished and influential theatre directors. William Gaskill was a seminal figure in the artistic development of the Royal Court Theatre, before becoming associate director to Laurence Olivier at the National Theatre and a founder-director of the Joint Stock Theatre Company.

He now teaches at RADA, and has directed new and classic plays and operas all over the world. His musical choices include works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Janacek, Weill and Stravinsky.

13:00

The Early Music Show

Jan Dismas Zelenk

Lucie Skeaping profiles the life, times and music of Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka, one of most neglected figures of the late baroque. Zelenka composed some of the most sumptuous and glorious church music ever written, and won the admiration of many distinguished contemporaries, among them Johann Sebastian Bach.

14:00

Sunday Gala

Leopold String Trio

Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert from London's Wigmore Hall, given by former Radio 3 New Generation artists the Leopold String Trio.

Taneyev: String Trio in E flat, Op 31
Schnittke: String Trio
Beethoven: String Trio in G, Op 9, No 1

15:30

Fast Machine

2 April 2006

Jamie Bernstein sends a musical postcard from New York in winter. Including songs from Mike Errico and John Bucchino, and an avant-garde string quartet called Ethel - premiering Brazilian fusion.

Plus the saddest version of House of the Rising Sun you'll be likely to hear, sung by a busker on the 14th Street subway.

16:00

3 for all

2 April 2006

Brian Kay introduces listeners' requests, including Mozart's popular Piano Sonata in Am, K310, played by Alfred Brendel, and a selection of evocative choral works by Estonian composer Veljo Tormis.

As part of the featured theme of Shakespeare-inspired music, there's also the Symphonic Dances from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story.

17:45

Music Matters

2 April 2006

With Petroc Trelawny.

As a new production of Offenbach's La Belle Helene opens at English National Opera, a look at Offenbach's place in French culture with soprano Dame Felicity Lott and translator Kit Hesketh-Harvey.

Plus, an interview with the Mexican tenor Rolando Villazon.

18:30

The Choir

2 April 2006

On the anniversary of the death of Pope Jean Paul II, Aled Jones is joined by Martin Baker, of Westminster Cathedral, to examine the state of choral singing in the Roman Catholic church.

20:00

Drama on 3

The Royal Court, 50 Years on

Live performances of new plays from writers hailing from the era when the English Stage Company launched at The Royal Court on April 2, 1956. They include Wole Soyinka, Arnold Wesker, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Joe Penhall and Laura Wade.

The evening is compered by Richard Wilson and music is by Stephen Warbeck.

21:30

Sunday Feature

The Birth of the Royal Court

Theatre director Dominic Dromgoole explores the beginnings of one of the most influential theatres of the 20th Century, the Royal Court - which opened under legendary director George Devine 50 years ago.

Dominic meets key figures from the theatre's origins such as William Gaskill and George Devine's daughter Harriet. He talks to other directors from the time, like Sir Peter Hall and Frith Banbury, to unpick some of the clichés about British theatre before the Court. And he explores the power and legacy of Look Back in Anger - the play that made the Court's name. Was it really the radical battlecry it seemed at the time?

22:15

Andy Kershaw

2 April 2006

A session with soul survivor Candi Staton, who has returned to her blues and country roots in her new album His Hands.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett

Part One

Donald Macleod talks to Sir Richard at his home in New York, about his life and long career as a composer and performer.

Gormenghast
Andrew Johnson (treble)
BBC Philharmonic
John Harle (conductor)

A Good-night for chorus
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor/organ)

Murder on the Orient Express
Music from the film, arr Lindup
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

On Christmas Day for Chorus
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor/organ)

Symphony No 3
Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
James Depreist (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

2 April 2006

2 April 2006

With Louise Fryer.

1.00am
The Seventh World Symposium on Choral Music, from Kyoto
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Die Nacht (Wie schön bist du)
1.06am
Loewe, Carl (1796-1869): Der Fichtenbaum
1.09am
Reger, Max (1873-1916): Hell ins Fenster, Op 38, No 7
1.11am
Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963): Nun, da der Tag des Tages Müde ward
1.14am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Traumlied, Op 123, No 2
Cantabile Limburg
Jürgen Fassbender (director)
1.23am
Traditional Japanese, arr Matsushita: Hyuga Kobiki uta (Woodman's Song of the Hyuga); Itsuki no Komori uta (Lullaby from Itsuki); Mihara Yassa bushi (Dance music of Mihara)
Vox Gaudiosa Chamber Chorus
Ko Matsushita (director)

1.43am
Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967): Hary János Suite, Op 35a
The Hungarian Radio Orchestra
Tamás Vásáry (conductor)

2.06am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): String Quintet No 2 in B flat, Op 87
William Preucil, Philip Setzer (violin)
Cynthia Phelps, Nokuthula Ngwenyama (viola)
Carter Brey (cello)

2.51am
Bertouch, Georg von (1668-1743): The Lord, the God of Hosts, Has Spoken
Mona Julsrud (soprano)
Tuva Semmingsen (mezzo-soprano)
Jerker Dahlin (tenor)
Frank Havröy (bass)
Oslo Cathedral Choir
Terje Tönnesen
Cecilia Waahlberg, Bjarte Eike (violin)
Markku Luolajan-Mikkola, Andreas Johnson, Kirsten Jahr (viola da gamba)
Dan Styffe (bass)
Hans Knut Sveen (harpsichord)

3.23am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Piano Concerto in Am, Op 16
Gunilla Süssmann (piano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton (conductor)

3.55am
Alfvén, Hugo (1872-1960): Midsummer Vigil - Swedish rhapsody No 1, Op 19
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michael Schřnwandt (conductor)

4.09am
Gabrieli, Giovanni (c.1553-1612): Deus in nomine tuo
Hungarian Radio Choir
Ferenc Sapszon (conductor)

4.17am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Quartet in G for 2 violins, viola and continuo, Op 5, No 4
Musica Antiqua Köln

4.30am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Beau soir (Beautiful Evening)
Roger Cole (oboe)
Linda Lee Thomas (piano)

4.33am
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963): Capriccio for Two Pianos
Antra Viksne, Normunds Viksne (piano)

4.38am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827), arr Wenzel Sedlak: Fidelio Overture, Op 72b
Octophoros

4.45am
Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich (1840-1893): Prostite vď, kholmď, polya rodnďye (Farewell, O Native Hills and Fields - The Maid of Orleans)
Vesselina Kasarova (mezzo)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Milen Natchev (conductor)

4.52am
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): Giovanna D'Arco, Sinfonia
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
Richard Bradshaw (conductor)

5.00am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): 6 Quartets for chorus and piano, Op 112
Danish National Radio Choir
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Stefan Parkman (conductor)

5.15am
Goldmark, Károly (1830-1915): Night Piece (The Queen of Sheba)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

5.23am
Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805): Cello Sonata No 4 in A, G4
Li-Wei (cello)

5.37am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Polonaise for violin and orchestra in B flat, D580
Peter Zazofsky (violin)
Prima La Musica
Dirk Vermeulen (conductor)

5.43am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Sonata in G for flute, violin and bass continuo
Musica Petropolitana

5.54am
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934): Serenade for string orchestra, Op 20, in Em
BBC Concert Orchestra
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

6.07am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Solitudini amate (Beloved Solitude - Alessandro)
Sophie Boulin (soprano)
La Petite Bande
Sigswald Kuijken (director)

6.13am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Sonata in Em
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

6.28am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Symphony No 36 in C, K425 - Linz
The Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Adam Fischer (conductor)