07:00
23 April 2006
With Martin Handley.
Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs
Holst Singers
Stephen Layton (conductor)
Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden arr Beecham, from A Village Romeo and Juliet
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)
From 8.00am
Walton: Hamlet and Ophelia - poem for orchestra arr Muir Mathieson, from the film music
BBC NOW
Richard Hickox (conductor)
09:00
23 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 Elgar's In the South as recommended on yesterday's CD Review. The programme includes:
Holst: March from First Suite in E flat for Military Band, Op 28, No 1
Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger
Elgar: Sospiri, Op 70
New Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
Ireland: The Trellis
Warlock: Piggensie
Peter Pears (tenor)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
Viola Tunnard (piano)
Coates: Saxo-Rhapsody
Jack Brymer (alto saxophone)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Groves
Scott, Cyril: Tallahassee Suite
Jascha Heifetz (violin)
Emanuel Bay (piano)
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Boston Symphony Orchestra/Pierre Monteux
Elgar: Oh! My Warriors, from Caractacus, Op 35
Peter Dawson, with orchestra
Dunstable: Beata mater
Pro Cantione Antiqua/Bruno Turner
Bax: The Garden of Fand
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham
Montague, Stephen: Midnight Sun; Chorale for a Millennium Sunset
Philip Mead (piano)
Bliss: Fanfare Overture; Awakening of Love (from Adam Zero)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Overture/Vernon Handley
Finzi: Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun; O Mistress Mine (from Let us Garlands Bring)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Iain Burnside (piano)
Byrd: Ad Dominum cum tribularer
The Sixteen/Harry Christophers
Walton: Scapino Overture
Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Frederick Stock
Britten: Festival Te Deum
Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Sir Philip Ledger
Delius: A Song of Summer
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
12:00
St George's Day
For St George's Day, Private Passions presents a selection of past guests who have chosen pieces by English composers.
Playwright Arnold Wesker explores the quintessential Englishness of Elgar, while Tom Wright, now Bishop of Durham, remembers his student days at Oxford to the accompaniment of Vaughan Williams, whose music is also the choice of novelist Alan Hollinghurst. Writer Philip Pullman finds an almost pagan sensibility in Tippett's Concerto for Double String Orchestra; while poet Ruth Fainlight chooses a traditional folksong and an extract from Harrison Birtwistle's Pulse Shadows. Stephen Fry finds Britten's War Requiem unbearably poignant, while poet Geoffrey Hill recalls the wartime destruction of Coventry. Byrd's Mass for five voices is the choice of writer and psychoanalyst Salley Vickers.
13:00
Purcell Request Show
Catherine Bott and her guest Gary Cooper play CDs of your favourite Purcell requests and answer any questions you might have about the most famous of English composers. Gary has prepared a selection of Purcell's keyboard music and plays your choices live during the programme.
If you'd like to request some Purcell, whether a CD or a piece for Gary to play live in the studio, or you have a question for Kate or Gary, please e-mail earlymusic@bbc.co.uk or contact the Radio Information Line on 08700 100 300 [national rate].
14:00
English Music Day
As part of Radio 3's English Music Day, Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert of English song from London's Wigmore Hall, given by Sir Thomas Allen and Malcolm Martineau.
Blow: The Self-Banished
Purcell: Music for a While
Ford: Since First I Saw Your Face
Boyce: The Song of Momus to Mars
Quilter: Elizabethan Lyrics; Weep You No More; Brown Is My Love; Damask Roses; My Life's Delight; Five Shakespeare Songs; Come Away Death; O Mistress Mine; Blow, Blow thou Winter Wind; Take, O Take Those Lips Away; Hey Ho the Wind and the Rain
Warlock: Sleep; Hanacker Mill; My Own Country; Yarmouth Fair
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
15:30
St George's Day
Continuing Radio 3's theme for St George's Day, Martin Handley introduces your requests for music by English composers. These include the emotive and beautiful Eclogue for Piano and string orchestra by Finzi, an archive recording of Benjamin Frankel performing his own Trio, with clarinettist Thea King and cellist Eleanor Warren, and the popular Padstow Lifeboat March for brass band, written by Malcolm Arnold as a tribute to the crews of the RNLI lifeboat station at Padstow.
18:00
English Music Day
English music is usually defined by Tallis, Purcell and the 20th Century pastoral tradition. But what is English music today? Tom Service chairs a live edition with contributions from the composers Anthony Payne, Mark-Anthony Turnage and George Benjamin.
18:30
The English Anthem
The Choir makes its own contribution to Radio 3's English Music Day, as Aled Jones joins forces with Jeremy Summerly to take a look at the English anthem, a musical form which emerged from the Reformation, and which subsequently has become one of the most distinctive and best loved features of Anglican worship. Aled and Jeremy piece together the story of how the English anthem evolved; then Jeremy sets off for Hereford to talk to Geraint Bowen, Artistic Director of the Three Choirs Festival, an institution which for almost three centuries has cherished this particular realm of choral endeavour. Then its your turn - Aled plays the English anthems chosen by you.
They could include: In the Bleak Midwinter, by Holst; Greater Love Hath No Man, by John Ireland; Take Him Earth for Cherishing, by Howells, Easter, from Vaughan Williams Mystical Songs; Rejoice in the Lamb, by Britten, And I Saw a New Heaven, by Bainton, or more recent ones by the likes of Rutter and Tavener.
20:00
Shakespeare and Englishness
To celebrate St George's Day and the birthday of the Bard, Jonathan Bate and his guests examine the role Shakespeare has played - and continues to play - in the shaping of the national consciousness.
Catholic dissident or Protestant apologist? Voice of the commons or celebrant of Empire? Around the table are Peter Ackroyd, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Michael Dobson. With contributions from Michael Boyd, Ania Loomba, Richard Wilson, Eamon Duffy, David Dabydeen and David Crystal.
21:00
Shakespeare and English Music
Actress Fiona Shaw explores the rich vein of English music inspired by the words of William Shakespeare.
Includes music by Roger Quilter, Benjamin Britten, Gerald Finzi, Ralph Vaughan-Williams and songs written for various stagings of The Tempest down the ages - from the original 1609 production to Sir Michael Tippett's music for the Old Vic production in 1961.
22:00
England in Ribbons
For hundreds of years, ordinary people across the world have expressed their relationship with life and landscape through traditional dance, music and song. The English traditions that have been shaped and nurtured by the hands of successive generations now make up the deep and richly layered ground that is England today.
A two hour montage of songs, tunes, conversation, storytelling and dance, with contributions from Hugh Lupton, Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Chris Wood, Robert Harbron, the Britannia Coconut Dancers of Bacup, Oxford Folk Festival goers, Rosalie and Colin Dipper, the English Acoustic Collective, John Spiers and Jon Boden, Andy Cutting, Kathryn Tickell and many more.
00:00
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
Early Career
2/5. Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)The Young Artist: Donald Macleod looks at the composer's early professional experiences.
The Young Artist
Following the success of his one act student opera Aleko, and his graduation from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892 Sergei Rachmaninov embarked upon a professional career as a composer. Initially, he was forced to take on teaching jobs and write some money-spinning piano works to make ends meet, but gradually he was offered more performances of his music.
In 1897, though, the premiere of his first symphony brought him the biggest shock of his career. It was a complete disaster and the critics savaged it. The experience devastated Rachmaninov, who was then unable to compose anything for the next two years. With Donald Macleod.
The Chorus of Spirits
Russian State Symphonic Cappella
Nye poy krasáavitsa, pri mnye Do Not Sing to Me Fair Maiden, Op 4, No 4
Alexandre Naoumenko (tenor)
Howard Shelley (piano)
Cello Sonata - second movement
Moray Welsh (cello)
Martin Roscoe (piano)
Spring
Tigram Martyrosyan (bass)
Russian State Symphonic Capella
Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Valery Polyansky (conductor)
Second Symphony - slow movement
Philharmonia Orchestra
Kurt Sanderling (conductor)
Were you Hiccupping, Natasha?
Sergei Leiferkus (bass)
Howard Shelley (piano)
01:00
23 April 2006
23 April 2006
With John Shea.
1.00am
The Swedish Radio Chorus
Sandström, Sven-David (b 1942): Singet dem Herrn
1.15am
Rautavaara, Einojuhani (b 1928): Katedralen, The Cathedral
Helena Olsson (soprano)
Per Björsund (tenor)
Patrik Sandin (bass)
1.36am
Rehnqvist, Karin (b 1957): Teile dich Nacht
Anu Komsi (soprano)
1.55am
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707): Klag-Lied
2.05am
Daniel-Lesur, Jean Yves (1908-2002): Le Cantique des Cantiques
Swedish Radio Chorus
Erik Westberg (director)
2.29am
Berwald, Franz (1796-1868): Piano Trio No 1 in E flat
Terés Löf (piano)
Roger Olsson (violin)
Hanna Thorell (cello)
2.49am
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911): Symphony No 5 in C sharp m
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton (conductor)
4.01am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Ivars Taurins (conductor)
4.15am
Gabrieli, Andrea (1532/3-1585): Martin menoit, chanson avec diminutions; Ricercar sopra martin menoit
Stefano Innocenti (organ)
4.24am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Trio No 6, Essercizii Musici
Camerata Köln
4.32am
Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672): Quella damma son io, SWV 11; Dunque addio, care selve, SWV 15
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (director)
4.38am
Larsson, Lars-Erik (1908-1986): Concertino for Piano and Strings, Op 45, No 12
Mĺrten Landström (piano)
Members of Upsala Chamber Soloists
4.54am
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904): Furiant, Op 85, No 7
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava
Róbert Stankovsk? (conductor)
4.56am
Weiner, Leó (1885-1960): Fox Dance
Concentus Hungaricus
Ildikó Hegyi (conductor)
5.03am
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Fantasia in Dm
Liuwe Tamminga (organ)
5.08am
Förster, Kaspar (1616-1673): Jesu dulcis memoria
Dirk Snellings (bass)
Ensemble Il Tempo
5.15am
Jaquet de la Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude (1665-1729): Sonata in D for two violins and continuo
Musica Fiorita
5.24am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Sonata in E flat, K282
Boyan Kirilov Kolarov (piano)
5.38am
Khachaturian, Aram (1903-1978): Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
Ukranian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)
5.48am
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936): Don't be Bewitched by Warlike Honour; Drinking Song; When Your eyes; The Muse
Peter Mattei (baritone)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
6.01am
Vladigerov, Pancho (1899-1978): Divertimento
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vladigerov (conductor)
6.17am
Byström, Thomas (1772-1839): Polonaise in C
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)
6.23am
Rangström, Ture (1884-1947), text: Norlind: Aftonen, Evening
Alfvén, Hugo (1872-1960), text: Sätherberg: Aftonen, Evening
Swedish Radio Choir
Eric Ericson (conductor)
6.30am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Metamorphosen, AV 142
Risřr Festival Strings
Christian Tetzlaff (conductor)
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