Wednesday 28th June 2006

07:00

Morning on 3

28 June 2006

Presented by Penny Gore.

From 7.00am

Mozart: Nehmt meinen Dank, K383
Christine Schafer (soprano)
Berlin Philharmonic
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

Weber: Concertino in E flat for clarinet and orchestra, Op 26
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Antony Pay (clarinet/director)

Wolf: Italian Serenade
Hagen Quartet

From 8.30am

Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances - Suite No 1
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Dvorák: Romantic Pieces, Op 75
Gil Shaham (violin)
Orli Shaham (piano)

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

28 June 2006

Rob Cowan highlights Wagner orchestral music and recordings by tenor Peter Schreier.

10.00am
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Act I, Prelude
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
EMI CDZ 7 62540 2

10.12am
Prokofiev: Children's Songs, Op 68
Peter Schreier (tenor)
Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano)
PHILIPS 426 237 2

10.22am
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 1 in D, Op 19
Erick Friedman (violin)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)
TESTAMENT SBT 1376

10.45am
Bach: Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen, BWV 215
Edith Mathis (soprano)
Peter Schreier (tenor)
Siegfried Lorenz (bass)
Berlin Soloists
Berlin Chamber Orchestra
Peter Schreier (director/tenor)
BRILLIANT CLASSICS 99366 (8CDs)

11.18am
Wagner, arr. Stokowski: Tristan und Isolde - Liebesnacht
Philadelphia Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski (conductor)
PEARL GEMM CD 9486

11.42am
Pfitzner: Palestrina - Act I (excerpt)
Peter Schreier (tenor)
Berlin Staatskapelle
Otmar Suitner (conductor)
BERLIN CLASSICS 0310-001

12:00

Composer of the Week

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Part Three

Poulenc was acquainted with many of the leading painters of the day - including Picasso, Derain and Jacques-Emile Blanche, and to a lesser extent Salvador Dali. Donald Macleod examines how the visual arts became a source of inspiration to Poulenc both directly and indirectly in his music.

La Grenouillčre
Gabriel Bacquier (baritone)
Jacques Fevrier (piano)

Jacques Villon (Le Travail du Peintre)
Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
Inger Södergren (piano)

Sextet for piano and wind instruments
Pascal Rogé (piano)
Patrick Gallois (flute)
Maurice Bourgue (oboe)
Michel Portal (clarinet)
Amaury Wallez (bassoon)
André Cazalet (horn)

Concerto in Gm for Organ, String Orchestra and Timpani
Maurice Duruflé (organ)
French National Radio Orchestra
Georges Pretre

Bleuet
Antony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Graham Johnson (piano)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Aldeburgh Festival 2006

Katia and Maria Labčque

Sisters Katia and Maria Labčque play music from France and Russia - a late Debussy masterpiece from 1915, a quirky piece by Erik Satie from 12 years earlier and Stravinsky's brilliant Concerto for Two Pianos.

Debussy: En blanc et noir
Satie: 3 morceaux en forme de poire
Stravinsky: Concerto for two pianos

14:00

Afternoon Performance

On Tour

The week's theme is concerts recorded on tour abroad, highlighting the ambassadorial role of the BBC performing groups. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

3/5. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and The BBC Singers

Elgar: Froissart - concert overture, Op 19
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

Arr. Holst: I Sowed the Seeds of Love
Judith Bingham: Water Lilies
Edward Cowie: Lyre-bird Motet
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Elgar: Symphony No 2, Op 63, in E flat
Takuo Yuasa (conductor)

15:40

Making Tracks

28 June 2006

CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson present the programme for younger listeners. Including Boccherini's famous Minuet and Frank Zappa's Zombie Woof.

Henry Mancini: Strings on Fire
Richard Hayman and His Orchestra

Irving Berlin: Let's Face the Music and Dance
Nat King Cole (singer) and band

Chin Chakrit: Fighting Moment (taken from music for a Thai Boxing Match)
Unnamed Group

Boccherini: Minuet (from String Quintet in E)
Guildhall Strings
Robert Salter (director)

Frank Zappa: Zombie Woof
Saxofourte

Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (from The Nutcracker)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

16:00

Choral Evensong

From Westminster Cathedral

Live from Westminster Cathedral.

Psalms: 117, 148 (Plainsong)
Canticle: Ephesians 1 vv3-10 (Plainsong)
Lesson: Romans 1 vv1-2,7
Responsory: Loquebantur apostoli verbum Dei (Plainsong)
Hymn: Aurea luce et decore roseo (Plainsong)
Magnificat Sexti toni (Victoria)
Homily: Mgr Mark Langham
Motets: Magnus sanctus Paulus (Palestrina)
Tu es Petrus (Victoria)
Organ Voluntary: Improvisation (Matthew Martin)

Martin Baker (Master of Music)
Matthew Martin (Assistant Master of Music)

17:00

In Tune

28 June 2006

Sean Rafferty hosts live music from accordionist Merima Kljuco and cellist Claudio Bohorquez. There's also a visit by organist Simon Preston, who looks forward to his concert on the newly restored organ of the Royal Albert Hall.

Plus, violinst and artistic director of the Delius Inspired festival in Bradford, Tasmin Little, also features.

19:30

Performance on 3

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas

Concert Two

Andrew McGregor introduces a series inaugurating a complete cycle of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, performed in London's Wigmore Hall by Paul Lewis.

Sonata in G, Op 14, No 1
Sonata in B flat, Op 22
Sonata in E, Op 14, No 2
Sonata in C, Op 53 (Waldstein)

21:05

BBC NOW

28 June 2006

Huw Watkins is the soloist in a performance of his own Piano Concerto. Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

21:30

Night Waves

Islamic entrepreneurs in Turkey

Isabel Hilton goes to Central Anatolia in Turkey to meet the new breed of Islamic entrepreneurs busy quoting Max Weber whilst creating a radical new hybrid of Islam and Calvinism.

22:15

Late Junction

28 June 2006

Verity Sharp contrasts fantasias by William Byrd with the sounds of Indonesia.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

Part Four

By the 1930s, Bartok's international reputation as both composer and pianist was at its peak. But at home in Hungary, he was still struggling to gain the recognition he deserved. Donald Macleod explores the years leading up to the Second World War when Bartók began to realise his future may lie elsewhere, rather than in his beloved Hungary.

Cantata Profana
Tamas Daroczy (tenor)
Alexandru Agache (baritone)
Choir of Hungarian Radio and Television
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor)

Two- and three-part Choruses (Wandering; Loafer's Song)
Chamber Chorus of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
Antal Dorati (conductor)

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

28 June 2006

28 June 2006

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am
Vieru, Anatol (1926-1998): Cello Concerto
Vladimir Orlov (cello)
1.16am
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896): Symphony No 7 in E
George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta (conductor)

2.16am
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915): Prelude and Nocturne for the Left Hand, Op 9
Martina Filjak (piano)

2.27am
Gorczycki, Grzegorz Gerwazy (1665-1734): Missa Paschalis
Il Canto

2.42am
Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899): Poeme de l'amour et de la mer, Op 19
Maria Oran (soprano)
Residentie Orchestra, The Hague
Hans Vonk (conductor)

3.09am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Quintet for 2 Violins, Viola and 2 Cellos in C, D956
Artemis Quartet

4.01am
Benjamin, Arthur (1893-1960): Overture to an Italian Comedy
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Joseph Post (conductor)

4.07am
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943): Italian Polka - for piano duet
Ruta Ibelhauptiene, Zbignevas Ibelhauptas (piano)

4.10am
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975), arr Timothy Kain: The Age of Gold - Polka
Guitar Trek

4.13am
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959): Variations on a theme by Rossini
Leonid Gorokhov (cello)
Irini Nikitina (piano)

4.21am
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868): Ecco ridente in cielo (from Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Mark Dubois (tenor)
Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra
Raffi Armenian (conductor)

4.26am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Divertimento in C (London Trio No 1)
Carol Wincenc (flute)
Philip Setzer (violin)
Carter Brey (cello)

4.36am
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893): Capriccio Italien, Op 45
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrej Boreyko (conductor)

4.51am
Badings, Henk (1907-1987): Canamus, amici, canamus and Finnigan's Wake
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Uwe Gronostay (conductor)

5.00am
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916): The Maiden and the Nightingale - from Goyescas: 7 pieces for piano, Op 11, No 4
Angela Hewitt (piano)

5.06am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Syrinx for solo flute
Ian Mullin (flute)

5.09am
Honegger, Arthur (1892-1955): Pastorale d'été
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Jan Koetsier (conductor)

5.18am
Lindblad, Adolf Fredrik (1801-1878): En sommerafton (A Summer Evening) - from Om vinterkvall (Of a Winter's Eve)
Swedish Radio Choir
Eric Ericson (conductor)

5.21am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Sonatina No 3 for piano in B flat m, Op 6
Eero Heinonen (piano)

5.28am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Concert aria - Ch'io mi scordi di te...? Non temer, amato bene, K505
Tuva Semmingsen (soprano)
Jörn Fosheim (piano)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Michel Tabachnik (conductor)

5.38am
Rore, Cipriano de (c1515-1565): Fera gentil'
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (director)

5.44am
Schumann, Clara (1819-1896): Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann in F sharp m, Op 20
Angela Cheng (piano)

5.53am
Khachaturian, Aram (1903-1978): Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia - from Spartacus Ballet Suite No 2
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
David Measham (conductor)

5.59am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): String Quartet in G, Op 18, No 2
Bartók Quartet

6.23am
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): 8 Instrumental miniatures for 15 instruments (arranged from Les cinq doigts for piano)
Canadian Chamber Ensemble
Raffi Armenian (conductor)

6.31am
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921): Concerto for piano and orchestra No 5, Op 103, in F - Egyptian
Pascal Rogé (piano)
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra
Ronald Zollman (conductor)