07:00
30 April 2006
Presented by Martin Handley.
From 7.00am
Byrd: Ave verum corpus
Winchester Cathedral Choir
David Hill (conductor)
Mozart: Violin Concerto in D, No 4, K218
The English Concert
Andrew Manze (violin & director)
From 8.00am
Poulenc: Quatre Petites prieres de Saint François d'Assise
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)
Dvorák: Serenade in Dm, Op 44
Nash Ensemble
09:00
30 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 Puccini's Manon Lescaut as recommended on yesterday's CD Review. The programme includes:
Mendelssohn: War March of the Priests, from Athalie, Op 74
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
Tchaikovsky: arr Stravinsky: Variation of the Lilac Fairy; Entr'acte, from The Sleeping Beauty
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
Palestrina: Dum complerentur
Regensburg Cathedral Choir
Hans Schrems (conductor)
Finzi: Magnificat, Op 36
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox (conductor)
Bach: Chaconne, vers. for violin and four voices after an analysis by Helga Thoene
Christoph Poppen (violin)
The Hilliard Ensemble
Dvorák arr Burghauser: Waltzes, Op 54, Nos 7 & 8
Prague Philharmonia
Jakub Hrusa (conductor)
D'Hervelois: Plainte
Maurice Marechal (cello)
Jean Doyen (piano)
Weber: Leise, leise, fromme Weise, from Der Freischutz
Pilar Lorengar (soprano)
Vienna Opera Orchestra
Walter Weller (conductor)
Kernis: Musica Celestis
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Hugh Wolf (conductor)
Praetorius arr Peter Reeve: Terpsichorean Suite for brass
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Buxtehude: Sonata in B flat, BuxWV 273
Musica Antiqua Köln
Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (excerpts)
Suisse Romande Orchestra
Ernest Ansermet (conductor)
Mendelssohn: Prelude and Fugue in Em, Op 35, No 1
Jorge Bolet (piano)
12:00
Kate Mosse
Michael Berkeley meets the writer Kate Mosse, whose most recent book, the medieval thriller Labyrinth, has just received the public vote for "best read on the Richard and Judy Bookclub", and has shot into the best-seller league. A familiar voice on Radio 4's literary programmes, Kate Mosse is passionate about encouraging new writers, and also about music. Her choices today include a Bach Brandenburg Concerto, the prelude to Wagner's Parsifal, Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony.
13:00
30 April 2006
Andrew Manze is joined in the studio by harpsichordist and musical director Richard Egarr.
Egarr, now based in Amsterdam, performs live, and answers questions from Radio 3 listeners.
The repertoire includes Frescobaldi, Louis Couperin, Handel and Bach.
If you have anything you'd like to ask Richard Egarr, please e-mail the programme at earlymusic@bbc.co.uk, send a text to 83111 [network rates apply], or telephone the Radio 3 Audience Line on 08700 100 300 [national rate].
14:00
Mitsuko Uchida
Stephanie Hughes presents the first of three programmes celebrating legendary pianist Mitsuko Uchida in a stunning all-Mozart solo recital from London's Barbican.
Mozart: Fantasia in Cm, K475
Mozart: Sonata in Cm, K457
Mozart: Adagio in Bm, K540
Mozart: Sonata in F, K533/494
Mozart: Sonata in D, K576
15:30
Programme One
1/4. God, History, Fantasy and Reason: The writer Colm Tóibín takes a journey through Spanish history and music, starting in the ancient pilgrim city of Santiago de Compostela.
16:00
30 April 2006
Listeners' requests include Colin Matthews' orchestral arrangements of some of Debussy's Preludes recorded specially for the programme by the BBC National Orchestral of Wales, William Crotch's Organ Concerto and a little-known transcription of the Fantasy Overture from Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet by Rimsky-Korsakov's wife, Nadezhda Purgold.
17:45
Must Genius be Mad?
It's 150 years since the death of Robert Schumann who died in an asylum after throwing himself into the Rhine. He shares a morbid anniversary with Heinrich Heine, whose late poetry was, by his own recognition, a last-ditch defence in his struggle with insanity. Along with other leading voices of the Romanticism - Byron, Shelley, Beethoven - Schumann and Heine were widely regarded as mad.
The stigma is not confined to their era. Mozart is alleged to have had tourette's syndrome, a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Vincent Van Gogh suffered from a manic-depressive illness, now known as bipolar disorder, mainly painting in lucid breaks from his illness.
What is the link between genius and madness? Are people with an extraordinary talent so far beyond the pale that they are mentally abnormal? Or is madness a label we attach to people we cannot understand, people whose intensity inspires fear in the supposedly normal?
Leading players give their views on lebrecht.live. Send yours to lebrecht.live@bbc.co.uk and phone in during the programme on 08700 100 444 [national rates]
18:30
National Youth Choirs of Great Britain
Last Easter Saturday, Manchester's Bridgewater Hall resounded to the strains of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain.
Music ranged from Schutz to Chilcott, and also included the winning entry from NYC's recent Young Composer Competition, plus new commissions from Tarik O'Regan and Richard Allain. With ages ranging from 13 to 22, the National Youth Choir and National Youth Training Choir play a key role in developing Britain's young singers, and Aled Jones talks to Deborah Catterall, conductor of the National Youth Training Choir, about the work that the choir does, and its role in sustaining choral music in Britain.
Also today, a round-up of some of Aled's favourite recent choral releases on CD.
20:00
Billiards at Half Past Nine
By Heinrich Böll. Dramatised by Claire Luckham.
The action takes place in Germany in the summer of 1958 when the Faehmel family meet to celebrate Heinrich Faehmel's eightieth birthday. In the course of one day Böll reveals the crucial incidents in the past of a family of architects, from the Wilhelminian empire through Weimar and Hitler to the prosperous West Germany of the 1950s.
Based on Böll's novel of the same name, it is a searing examination of the moral crises of post war Germany. Billiards at Half Past Nine is considered to be the novel which won Böll the Nobel Prize.
Robert ...... Michael Maloney
Jochen ...... Sam Beazley
Schrella ...... Kenneth Cranham
Nettlinger ...... Henry Goodman
Ruth ...... Jasmine Hyde
Joanna ...... Dilys Laye
Heinrich ...... Geoffrey Palmer
Hugo ...... Paul Ready
Joseph ...... Daniel Weyman
Young Heinrich ...... Oscar Fletcher
Composer/Music Arranger ...... Orlando Gough
Solo Songs ...... Melanie Pappenheim
Choir ...... Christ Church, Knightsbridge
German Speaking Church Choir
Director ...... Roxana Silbert
21:30
The Search for Sepharad - Programme One
Broadcaster and film-maker Dennis Marks travels across the Mediterranean in the footsteps of the Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492. Travelling from Israel via Greece to Andalucia, he discovers a unique collaboration between Jews and Muslims which lasted half a millennium, and a culture which still influences our lives today.
22:15
30 April 2006
Baka Gbine, a six-piece band of Baka people from the forests of Cameroon, visit the Kershaw studio as part of their first trip outside Central Africa.
00:00
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918)
Part One
After Purcell died in 1695, music in this country was dominated by two Germans, first Handel and then Mendelssohn. Donald Macleod looks at the life and music of the man who it was felt began a renaissance of English music at the end of the 19th century, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry.
Jerusalem
Paul Robeson (bass)
Harriet Wingreen (piano)
Symphony No 3 in C
The London Philharmonic
Matthias Bamert (conductor)
Second movement Sonata No 1 in F for piano
Anthony Goldstone (piano)
Blest Pair of Sirens
London Symphony and Chorus
Richard Hickox (conductor)
01:00
30 April 2006
30 April 2006
With John Shea.
1.00am
BBC Proms 2005
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 90 in C, H.1.90
1.30am
Nelson Mass in Dm, Hob.22.11
Luba Orgonáová (soprano)
Wilke te Brummelstroete (mezzo soprano)
Robert Murray (tenor)
Alastair Miles (bass)
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
2.10am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Piano Trio in Am
Grieg Trio
2.37am
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997): Wind Quintet No 1
Galliard Ensemble
2.58am
Jora, Mihail (1891-1971): Sonatine, Op 44
Ilinca Dumitrescu (piano)
3.09am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Concerto for 2 violins in Dm, BWV 1043
Espen Lilleslatten and Renata Arado (violins)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Ivor Bolton (conductor)
3.25am
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Ricercare in Dm
Stef Tuinstra (organ)
3.31am
Dopper, Cornelis (1870-1939): Symphony No 7, Zuiderzee, 1917
The Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Kees Bakels (conductor)
4.07am
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): Cortigiani, vil razza dannata - from Rigoletto
Andrzej Dobber (baritone)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
4.12am
Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899): Chanson Perpetuelle, Op 37
Barbara Hendricks (soprano)
Staffan Scheja (piano)
Vertavo String Quartet
4.20am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Scherzo in E, Op 54, No 4
Simon Trpceski (piano)
4.31am
Veremans, Renaat (1894-1969): Night and Dawn at the Nete - in memoriam Felix Timmermans
Flemish Radio Orchestra
Bjarte Engeset (conductor)
4.43am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Duet: Fra gli amplessi, from Cosi fan tutte
Geraldine McGreevy (Fiordiligi)
Henry Moss (Ferrando)
Royal Academy of Music Sinfonia
Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
4.50am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Egmont Overture, Op 84
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Arthur Fagan (conductor)
5.00am
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921), arr R Klugescheid: My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice - Cantabile from Samson and Delilah
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello)
William Tritt (piano)
5.03am
Lindberg, Oskar (1887-1955): Starlight
Lundvik, Hildor (1885-1951)
In the Mood of Verlaine
Ilona Maros (soprano)
Swedish Radio Choir
Eric Ericson (conductor)
5.09am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Trio in A, H.XV.18
William Preucil (violin)
David Finkel (cello)
Wu Han (piano)
5.26am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Overture Don Giovanni, K 527
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Heinz Wallberg (conductor)
5.33am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Brandenburg concerto No 3, BWV 1048 in G
Risřr Festival Strings
Andrew Manze (conductor)
5.44am
Larsson, Lars-Erik (1908-1986): Songs of the Naked Trees, Op 7
Swedish Radio Choir (men's voices only)
Göte Widlund (conductor)
5.59am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Sonata in A, K 331, Alla Turka
Václav Mácha (piano)
6.24am
Pekiel, Bartlomiej (?-c 1670): I Missa senza le cerimonie
Camerata Silesia
Julian Gembalski (positive organ)
Anna Szostak (conductor)
6.35am
Dohnányi, Ernő (1877-1960): Variations on a Nursery Song, Op 25
Arthur Ozolins (piano)
Toronto Symphony
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
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