Saturday 2nd December 2006

07:00

Morning on 3

2 December 2006

With Martin Handley.

7.00am
Mozart: Horn Concerto No 1
English Chamber Orchestra
Barry Tuckwell (horn/director)

Francaix: L'heure du berger
Susan Tomes (piano)
Gaudier Ensemble

8.00am

Wagner: Tannhauser - overture
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Leila Josefowicz (violin)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)

09:00

CD Review

2 December 2006

Andrew McGregor presents the weekly survey of new releases and recommended recordings, beginning with some CDs hot off the press.

9.30am
Building a Library: Jeremy Summerly explores the available recordings of Berlioz's Grande messe des morts (Requiem).

10.15am
A round-up of recently re-issued recordings.

10.45am
Jeremy Siepmann reviews some recent piano discs, including Schumann from Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the latest disc in Andras Schiff?s Beethoven Sonatas series.

11.15am
Interview: Andrew talks to conductor Gianandrea Noseda about his hugely productive relationship with the BBC Philharmonic and the orchestra's pioneering Beethoven Symphony downloads.

11.45am
The Listening Booth: Listeners request the latest CD releases from the programme website.

12.25pm
Disc of the Week: Haas: String Quartet No 2 (From the Monkey Mountains). Pavel Haas Quartet.

13:00

The Early Music Show

Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

Trevor Pinnock at 60: Catherine Bott is joined by Trevor Pinnock and John Butt to discuss the history, legacy and popularity of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.

The programme includes a feature about Pinnock's newly-formed European Brandenburg Ensemble, from their summer residency in Sheffield.

14:00

Discovering Music

Brahms: Variations on a theme of Haydn

Brahms: Variations on a theme of Haydn (The St Anthony Chorale).

Stephen Johnson joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Grant Llewellyn for a look at Brahms's pioneering set of orchestral variations.

Just as Mozart and Beethoven before him had used variation form to demonstrate their skills as performers, Brahms used the form to show off his skills as a composer.

15:00

World Routes

Peru Special Part One

Lucy Duran presents a series recorded on location in Peru.

She begins her journey on the way to the lost city of Machu Picchu and the haunting huaynos of the Andes.

Her explorations of the Afro-Peruvian traditions of the Pacific coast include a session with Peru's most famous singer Susana Baca and a visit to one of Latin America's most atmospheric clubs, the Pena Don Porfirio.

16:00

Jazz Line-Up

2 December 2006

Claire Martin presents a selection of new jazz releases and is joined by journalist Jack Massarik with his monthly column.

17:00

Jazz Record Requests

2 December 2006

Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.

18:00

Jazz File

Arrangers Anonymous

Programme Two

Russell Davies presents the first of a four-part series in which analyses and deconstructs a selection of outstanding jazz scores, discovering how each arrangement actually works and what was in the mind of the arranger when the piece was conceived. He is joined by Barry Forgie and Steve Gray.

This programme explores three numbers from the suite Such Sweet Thunder, by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.

18:30

Opera On 3

Mozart's Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni

Stephanie Hughes presents a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni, recorded at this year's Salzburg Festival.

Mozart's antihero, an unscrupulous free spirit, attempts to seduce a noblewoman and is challenged to a duel by her father, whom he kills. The subsquent dark chain of events culminates in the unrepentant Don being dragged down to hell.

Don Giovanni (a nobleman) ...... Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Il Commendatore ...... Robert Lloyd (bass)
Donna Anna (his daughter) ...... Christine Schäfer (soprano)
Don Ottavio (her betrothed) ...... Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Donna Elvira ...... Melanie Diener (soprano)
Leporello (Giovanni?s servant) ...... Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (bass-baritone)
Masetto (a peasant) ...... Luca Pisarone (bass-baritone)
Zerlina (his betrothed) ...... Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano)

Vienna State Opera Chorus Concert Association
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Daniel Harding (conductor)

22:00

The Verb

Ira Lightman and Sean Damian Bruno

Ian McMillan presents the weekly language, literature and performance cabaret.

This programme celebrates the 300th anniversary of first usage of the Greek letter Pi to define the mathematical constant, with the help of public art poet Ira Lightman.

Plus arresting performance from Canadian spoken word artist Sean Damian Bruno.

22:30

Between The Ears

The Edge

The Edge.

Dermot Healy's home is disappearing into the sea.

23:00

Hear And Now

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch present a series of broadcasts from the 2006 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

The programme includes a profile of featured festival composer Barry Guy and an extensive piece from Lithuanian-born composer Rytis Mazulis. Plus an interview with the festival's new Artistic Director Graham McKenzie.

Barry Guy: Bird Gong Game 1; Celebration; Five Fizzles; Bird Gong Game 2.
Gemini, Maya Homburger (baroque violin), Beatrice Zawodnik (oboe), Evan Parker (saxophone), Agusti Fernandez (piano).

Mazulis: ajapajapam.
Exaudi, Apartment House

01:00

Through the Night

2 December 2006

2 December 2006

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Wagner and Tchaikovsky
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883): Siegfried Idyll
1.23am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Piano Concerto No 1
Boris Berezovsky
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Yasuo Shinozaki (conductor)

1.58am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Hungarian Coronation Mass
Etelka Csavlek (soprano)
Marta Lukin (alto)
Boldizsar Keonch (tenor)
Bala Laborfalvy Soos (bass)
Choir of the Matyas Church
Budapest Choir
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Istvan Lantos (conductor)

2.47am
Farkas, Ferenc (1905-2000): 5 Ancient Hungarian Dances
Tae-Won Kim (flute)
Hyong-Sup Kim, Pil-Kwan Sung (oboes)
Hyon-Kon Kim (clarinet)
Sang-Won Yoon (bassoon)

2.57am
Janacek, Leos (1854-1928): Sonata for Violin and Piano
John Harding
Daniel Blumenthal

3.15am
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Piano Trio No 4 (Dumky)
Suk Trio

3.45am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): 10 Variations on La stessa, la stessissima, from Salieri's Falstaff
Theo Bruins (piano)

3.56am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Trumpet Concerto in E flat
Geoffrey Payne
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Michael Halasz (conductor)

4.12am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Nulla in mundo pax
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Academy of Ancient Music
Andrew Manze (director)

4.19am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Intermezzo in A, Op 118 No 2
Jane Coop (piano)

4.26am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Traumerei am Kamin (Intermezzo)
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)

4.33am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Gesang der Geistern aber den Wassern
Estonian National Male Choir,
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Juri Alperten (director)

4.44am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Serenade No 2
Judy Kang (violin)
Orchestre Symphonique de Laval
Jean-François Rivest (conductor)

4.53am
Verdi, G

5.00am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Ungarischer Marsch zur Krönungsfeier in Ofen-Pest
Zoltan Kocsis, Gyorgy Oravecz (piano)

5.04am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Where'er you walk (Semele)
Matthew White (countertenor)
Arte dei Suonatori
Eduardo Lopez (conductor)

5.08am
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713): Concerto Grosso in F, Op 6 No 9
King's Consort
Robert King (director)

5.18am
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916): El Pelele
Angela Hewitt (piano)

5.23am
Traditional: Romanza
Stepan Rak (guitar)

5.30am
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): String Quartet No 12 (American)
Keller Quartet

5.55am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Autumn Evening
Soile Isokoski (soprano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

6.00
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911): Romance in G, Op 26
Julia Fischer (violin)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)

6.08am
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976): The Poet's Echo
Emma Bell (soprano)
Charles Owen (piano)

6.23am
Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann (1710-1784): Sinfonie in F, F67
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Stephan Mai (director)

6.35am
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Symphony No 1 (Classical)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Karel Ancerl (conductor)

6.49am
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883): Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Act I prelude
World Orchestra for Peace
Valery Gergiev (conductor)