07:00
16 April 2006
Martin Handley plays a selection of music for Easter morning.
From 7.00am
Beethoven: Variations in D, Op 76
Gianluca Cascioli (piano)
Bach: Cantata No 4 - Christ lag in Todes Banden
Emily van Evera (soprano)
Caroline Trevor (alto)
Charles Daniels (tenor)
David Thomas (bass)
Taverner Consort and Players
Andrew Parrott (director)
From 8.00am
Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival overture
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor)
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
09:00
16 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 Dvorak's Violin concerto, as recommended on CD Review. The programme includes:
Handel: Overture in B flat
English Chamber Orchestra
Raymond Leppard (conductor)
Barber: Knoxville - Summer of 1915, Op 24
Sylvia McNair (soprano)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Yoel Levi (conductor)
Howells: Salve Regina
The Choir of Wells Cathedral
Bach: Piano Concerto in Dm, BWV 1052
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor)
Elgar: Froissart Overture, Op 19
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Edward Elgar (conductor)
Smetana: Stamping Dance; Neighbour's Dance; Polka No 3 (from Czech Dances)
Rudolf Firkusny (piano)
Gombert: Super flumina Babylonis
Oxford Camerata
Jeremy Summerly (conductor)
Purcell: Chacony
Festival Strings Lucerne
Rudolf Baumgartner (conductor)
Siegmeister: Western Suite
Utah Symphony Orchestra
Maurice Abravanel (conductor)
12:00
Peter Maxwell Davies
Michael Berkeley's guest is one of the foremost composers of our time. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who was appointed Master of the Queen's Music in 2004, has an
His credits includes operas such as The Lighthouse, ballets, music-theatre works including Eight Songs for a Mad King, eight symphonies, numerous concertos, chamber music and lighter works such as the popular Orkney Wedding with Sunrise.
Sir Peter's musical choices are varied, ranging from Italian folk music and Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers, to a Bartók string quartet and a cello concerto by the young Scottish composer Sally Beamish.
13:00
The Mannheim School 2/2
Andrew Manze focuses on the music of The Mannheim School.
2/2. After nearly 50 years of success at the Mannheim court, the orchestra eventually moved to Munich, taking most of its most important musicians with it. Some of the performers became so successful that they were able to tour Europe - Franz Danzi, clarinettist Franz Tausch and Carl Stamitz all made a living off the back of the Mannheim name.
14:00
Webern, Beethoven and Schumann
Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert recorded in Berlin's Philharmonie Hall.
Webern: Six Pieces, Op 6
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 - Emperor
Schumann: Symphony No 3
Emanuel Ax (piano)
Berlin Philharmonic
David Zinman (conductor)
15:30
It Wasn't Alright on the Night
Welsh bass singer Robert Lloyd introduces some light hearted stories of performance mishaps by well known musicians.
16:00
From St George's Chapel, Windsor
On Easter Day, live from St George's Chapel, Windsor.
Introit: This Joyful Eastertide (arr Wood)
Responses: Rose
Psalm: 118 (Stanford)
First Lesson: Ezekiel 37 vv1-14
Canticles: Stanford in A
Second Lesson: Luke 24 vv13-35
Anthems: I Know that My Redeemer Liveth; Since by Man Came Death; Worthy is the Lamb (Messiah - Handel)
Final Hymn: Thine Be the Glory (Judas Maccabeus)
Organ Voluntary: Sinfonia from Cantata No 29 (Bach, arr Dupré)
Timothy Byram-Wigfield (director of music)
Roger Judd (assistant organist)
17:00
16 April 2006
More listeners' requests, including music inspired by this month's Shakespearean theme.
17:45
A Wagner Prelude
Tom Service presents a special edition of Music Matters as a prelude to BBC Radio 3's Ring in a Day on Monday.
Author Patrick Carnegy takes a look at the history of staging Wagner; while writer and broadcaster Stephen Johnson talks about his often rocky relationship with the composer. Soprano Dame Anne Evans and bass Sir John Tomlinson talk about both the physical and mental strain of performing in such a vast work.
18:30
16 April 2006
Catherine Bott joins Aled Jones for a look at an extraordinary choral project. Last autumn an all-female group of singers and instrumentalists travelled to the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice where Antonio Vivaldi served, on and off, for much of his career.
Their aim was to recapture the performance of an Easter Vespers exactly as the composer would have heard it, bringing with it the challenge of finding female singers to take the parts of tenors and basses.
The music includes the psalm settings Dixit Dominus, RV 595; Laetatus Sum, RV 607; In Exitu Israel, RV 604 and the Magnificat, RV 611.
19:30
Waiting for Godot
As part of Radio 3's Samuel Beckett season, a performance of his classic, Waiting for Godot.
Two tramps wait on a lonely road for the elusive Godot. They pass the time with storytelling, and their everyday conversation takes on a universal significance.
Vladimir ...... Sean Barrett
Estragon ...... David Burke
Lucky/narrator ...... Nigel Anthony
Pozzo ...... Terence Rigby
Boy ...... Zachary Fox
Director John Tydeman.
21:30
A Ship of Voices
A Ship of Voices: A celebration of the famous BBC Broadcasting House building in London; focusing on the voices, sounds and music that inhabit its walls.
22:00
BBC Symphony Orchestra
The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rumon Gamba, feature in a recital of Hovhaness' The Holy City, Op 218.
22:15
16 April 2006
Andy welcomes back to the studio Salsa Celtica, who, as their name suggests, mix the traditional sounds of the Highlands with the flutes and fiddles of Cuban Charanga.
00:00
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Part One
History is often harsh in its judgements, and Spohr perhaps might have more grounds to feel aggrieved than most. He was one of the most noble composers ever, a gracious and dignified figure whose legacy was immense. Donald Macleod reassesses Spohr's reputation, arguing that we should give him more credit than he often receives.
Overture, Op 12
Leipzig Chamber Orchestra
Sebastian Weigle (conductor)
Clarinet Concerto No 1 in Cm, Op 26
Michael Collins
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Robin O'Neill (conductor)
Sonata for Violin and Harp in Cm
Hugh Webb (harp)
Sophie Langdon (violin)
Variations in B flat, WoO 15 (from Alruna)
Michael Collins
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Robin O'Neill (conductor)
01:00
16 April 2006
16 April 2006
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00am
Radio France
Piazzolla, Astor (1921-1992): Bandoneon Concerto, [1979
1.22am
Piazzolla, Astor (1921-1992): Libertango
1.28am
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959): Floresta do Amazonas
Richard Galliano (bandoneon)
Indra Thomas (soprano)
Radio France Chorus
Orchestre National de France
Enrique Diemecke (conductor)
2.21am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Partita for keyboard No 6 in Em, BWV.830
Ida Gamulin (piano)
2.42am
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903): String Quartet in Dm
Ljubljana String Quartet
3.29am
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927): Four Stockholm Poems, Op 38
Karl-Magnus Fredriksson (baritone)
Stefan Nilsson (piano)
3.40am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 92 in G, Oxford
Bienne Symphony Orchestra of Switzerland
Grzegorz Nowak (conductor)
4.06am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Cantata, Es wird ein unbarmherzig Gericht, TWV.1:542
Veronika Winter (soprano)
Patrick von Goethem (alto)
Markus Schäfer (tenor)
Ekkehard Abele (bass)
Rheinische Kantorei
Das Kleine Konzert
Hermann Max (conductor)
4.18am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Si l'infida consorte' & 'Confusa si miri' Bertarido's recitative and aria from Act I of 'Rodelinda, regina de Longobardi'
Matthew White (counter-tenor)
Arte dei Suonatori
Eduardo Lopez (conductor)
4.23am
Desprez, Josquin (1440-1521): Praeter rerum seriem
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul van Nevel (director)
4.29am
Kaski, Heino (1885-1957): Prelude
The Finnish Symphony Orchestra
Okko Kamu (conductor)
4.34am
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937): The Fountain of Arethusa from Myths for violin and piano, Op 30
Hyun-Mi Kim (violin)
Seung-Hye Choi (piano)
4.40am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): 3 Chansons de Bilitis
Paula Hoffman (mezzo-soprano)
Lars-David Nilsson (piano)
4.50am
Schweiter, Johannes (1831-1882): Sancta Maria
Tallinn Boys Choir
Lydia Rahula (conductor)
4.53am
Pacius, Frederik (1809-1891): Overture for Large Orchestra
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Kari Tikka (conductor)
5.00am
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1881-1959): Agnus Dei from 'Missa São Sebastião'
Danish National Girls Choir
Michael Bojesen (conductor)
5.03am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): La Valse for two pianos
Ouellet-Murray Duo
Claire Ouellet & Sandra Murray (piano)
5.15am
Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924): Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
5.21am
Giordano, Umberto (1867-1948): Amor ti vieta - Loris Ipanov's aria from Fedora
Marek Lipok (tenor)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michal Klauza (conductor)
5.24am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Adagio & Fugue in Cm, K.546
Risør Festival Strings
5.31am
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837): Rondo brillant in A, Op 56
Rudolf Macudzinski (piano)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ludovít Rajter (conductor)
5.52am
Couperin, François (1668-1733): Les Nonètes. Les Blondes. Les Brunes; La Bourbonnoise (Gavotte); La Manon, from les Pièces de clavecin - Première ordre
Wladyslaw Klosiewicz (harpsichord)
5.58am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Mazurka in Am, Op 17, No 4
Jane Coop (piano)
6.03am
Engel, Jan (?-1788): Symphony in E flat major
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Andrzej Straszynski (conductor)
6.14am
Smetana, Bedrich (1824-1884): Piano Trio in Gm, Op 15
Suk Trio
6.42am
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924): Pelleas et Melisande - suite, Op 80
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
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