Thursday 20th April 2006

07:00

Morning on 3

20 April 2006

With Penny Gore.

Arnell, Richard: The New Age: Overture, Op 2
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Martin Yates (conductor)

Bach, CPE: Double Concerto in E flat, W 47
Anneke Uttenbosch (harpsichord)
Jurg Schaeftlein (fortepiano)
Leonhardt Consort
Concentus Musicus Wien

Mozart: Divertimento in E flat, K252
The Wind Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe

From 8.30am

Boismortier: Gentilesse in G
Passacaglia

Barber: Second Essay for Orchestra, Op 17
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor)

Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano, Op 23 in Am
Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Wilhelm Kempff (piano)

10:00

CD Masters

20 April 2006

With Rob Cowan.

Burkhard: The Hunting Parson Overture
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

Bishop: Should He Upbraid
D'hardelot: A Lesson with the Fan
Sharp: Oh No John
Conchita Supervia (mezzo-soprano)
Ivor Newton (piano)

Sibelius: Symphony No 5
Halle Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)

Ciampi: Se tu m'ami
Paisiello: I Zingara in Fiera: Chi vuol la zingarella
Conchita Supervia (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra
Antonio Capdevila and Modesto Romero (conductor)

Bach: Suite in Gm, BWV1070, att. WF Bach
Paillard Chamber Orchestra
Jean-François Paillard (director)

Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri: Amici, in ogni evento
Isabella: Conchita Supervia (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra
Angelo Albergoni (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Etudes tableaux, Op 39, excerpts
Francois Joel Thiollier (piano)

Sibelius: Tapiola
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Paavo Berglund (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)

A Spiritual Homeland

When Sergei Rachmaninov found himself facing the events of the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 and the disintegration of the Old Russia he had grown up with, he felt unable to remake himself and chose emigration. Once abroad, out of necessity he began to carve out an exhausting life touring as a concert pianist.

Études tableaux, No 8 Op 33 and No 5 Op 39
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

The Isle of the Dead, Op 29
St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Mariss Jansons (conductor)

Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op 42
Hélène Grimaud (piano)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Schumann Chamber Music

Programme Three

John Toal presents another recital from Belfast, marking the 150th anniversary of the death of Robert Schumann.

Schumann: Sonata in Am, Op 105
Schumann: Sonata in Dm, Op 121
Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
Finghin Collins (piano)

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC Philharmonic and BBC Singers - Shostakovich's Film Music

Presented by John Shea.

Mozart: Flute Concerto in G, K313
Philippa Davies (flute)
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Shostakovich: Suite from the film score: Five Days, Five Nights
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Gretchaninoff: Strstnaya sedmitsa, Passion week, Op 58; Svete tihiy, Gladsome Light; Tebe odeyushchagosia, Thou Who Clothest Thyself with Light; Bog Gospod ... Blagoobraznïy Iosif, The Lord is God ... Noble Joseph
BBC Singers
Dominic Wheeler (conductor)

Beethoven: Symphony No 7
Josep Caballé-Domenech (conductor)

16:00

Brian Kay's Light Programme

20 April 2006

Brian Kay goes for a Quiet Stroll courtesy of Charles Williams and indulges in a slice of Linzertorte. He also marks the anniversary of the death of Robert Farnon, and to end the programme there's music by the Czech composer Karel Komzak who died 100 years before Robert Farnon.

17:00

In Tune

20 April 2006

Sean Rafferty talks to pianist Paul Turner about his concert series at St John's Smith Square, including live performances with mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley and violinist Madeleine Mitchell.

Peter Holman, director of The Parley of Instruments, introduces his upcoming Wigmore Hall concert and Stephen Barlow presents extracts from his new opera, King.

19:30

Performance on 3

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

South American Tour 2006 - Programme One

The orchestra's first ever trip to South America reaches its climax as it arrives in Argentina and performs in the legendary acoustic of Buenos Aires' world famous opera house - the Teatro Colon.

Presented by Sarah Walker.

Stravinsky: Divertimento (The Fairy's Kiss)
Britten Les Illuminations
Barbara Hannigan (soprano)

Mahler: Symphony, No 4
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

21:30

Night Waves

20 April 2006

Philip Dodd with another edition of the arts and ideas programme.

22:15

Late Junction

20 April 2006

Fiona Talkington features John Tavener's The Repentant Thief, guitarist Ralph Towner, and Michael Mantler's settings of the verse of Edward Gorey, featuring singer Robert Wyatt.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Louis Spohr (1784-1859)

Part Five

If history has not been as generous to Louis Spohr as perhaps it might, one reason could be the high wall of Romanticism that seems to stand between us and the composer. The gracious elegance of Spohr's classicism seems altogether less grand than the gestures that were to follow from the pens of Berlioz, Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss and the rest.

Yet Spohr was a figure whose music laid many of the foundations that these composers would build on, and Donald Macleod considers this aspect of the composer's music.

Fourth Symphony, Op 86, Die Weihe der Töne
1st movement - Largo Allegro
Budapest SO
Alfred Walter (conductor)

Piano Trio No 1 in Em, Op 119
New Munich Piano Trio

Seventh Symphony in C, Op 121
The Earthly and Divine in Human Life
Last (3rd) movement - Final Triumph of the Heavenly
Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra
Alfred Walter (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

20 April 2006

20 April 2006

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Halvorsen, Johan (1864-1935): Scenes from Norwegian Fairytales, Op 37
1.16am
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908): Sheherazade - symphonic suite, Op 35
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Vytautas Lukocius (conductor)

2.00am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Cantata - Gott hat den Herrn auferwecket, Wq 240
Martina Lins (soprano)
Paul Elliott (tenor)
Gotthold Schwarz (bass)
Rheinische Kantorei
Das Kleine Konzert
Hermann Max (conductor)

2.27am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Quartet for strings in D, Op 44, No 1
Tankstream Quartet

2.54am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Piano Sonata No 21 in C - Waldstein, Op 53
Seung-Hee Hyun (piano)

3.18am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Exsultate, jubilate, K165
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Kent Nagano (conductor)

3.33am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): An Schwager Kronos, D369; An Mignon, D161
Christoph Prégardien (tenor)
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

3.39am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 100 in G, Military
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Mark Taddei (conductor)

4.04am
Förster, Kaspar (1616-1673): Ah, peccatores graves
Olga Pasiecznik, Marta Boberska (soprano)
Kai Wessel (alto)
Krzysztof Szmyt, Jacek Wislocki (tenor)
Dirk Snellings (bass)
Ensemble Il Tempo

4.12am
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713): Sonate da Chiesa in Am, Op 1, No 4
London Baroque

4.16am
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764): Cantata - Le Berger Fidèle
Les Talens Lyriques

4.31am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Syrinx for solo flute
Boris Campa (flute)

4.35am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Daphnis & Chloé - Suite No 2
Choir 'Madrigal' National Radio Choir
Philharmonic Choir
Romanian National Radio Orchestra
Iosif Conta (conductor)

4.52am
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921): Etude in D flat, Op 52, No 6
Stefan Lindgren (piano)

5.00am
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837): Overture No 1, Op 101, in B flat
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava
Stefan Róbl (conductor)

5.07am
Andriessen, Hendrick (1892-1981): Concertino for Oboe and String Orchestra
Henk Swinnen (oboe)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

5.21am
Parac, Ivo (1890-1954): Andante amoroso for string quartet
Zagreb Quartet

5.27am
Halvorsen, Johan (1864-1935): Norwegian Rhapsody No 1 in A
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)

5.40am
Leo, Leonardo (1694-1744): Miserere Mei Deus
Ensemble William Byrd
Graham O'Reilly (director)

5.57am
Liadov, Anatoly (1855-1914): The Enchanted Lake, Op 62
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Dmitri Kitaenko (conductor)

6.05am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Keyboard Sonata in D, K279
Shani Diluka (piano)

6.18am
Scacchi, Marco (1602-1662): Omnes Gentes
Kai Wessel (alto)
Krzystof Szmyt (tenor)
Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble
Agata Sapiecha (director)

6.21am
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916), arr Chris Paul Harman: The Maiden and the Nightingale - from Goyescas
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano)
Bryan Epperson, Maurizio Baccante, Roman Borys, Simon Fryer, David Hetherington, Roberta Jansen, Paul Widner, Thomas Wiebe, Winona Zelenka (cello)

6.27am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): String Octet, Op 20, in E flat
Yoshiko Arai, Ik-Hwan Bae (violin)
Yuko Inoue (viola)
Christoph Richter (cello)
Vogler Quartet