07:00
9 December 2006
Presented by Martin Handley.
Including at 7.00am
Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toit
Orchestre National de Lille
Jean-Claude Casadesus (conductor)
Schubert: Variations in B flat, D968A
Rico Gulda and Christopher Hinerhuber (piano)
8.00am
Vaughan Williams: Prelude and Fugue in Cm
Ian Watson (organ)
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox (conductor)
Mozart: Trio in G, K564
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
Kyril Zlotnikov (cello)
09:00
9 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: Chris de Souza surveys the available recordings of the music of Gerald Finzi who died fifty years ago this year.
10.15am
A round-up of recently re-issued recordings.
10.45am
Alexandra Wilson takes a look at some recent vocal recital discs including Renée Fleming and Anna Netrebko's recordings with Valery Gergiev and his Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Simon Keenleyside?s Tales of Opera and the debut CD of the young Australian soprano Amelia Farrugi.
11.15am
Interview: Andrew talks to Jos van Immerseel about playing period pianos and working with his ensemble Anima Eterna.
11.45am
The Listening Booth: Listeners request the latest CD releases from the programme website.
12.15pm
Disc of the Week: Debussy: The Complete Preludes (Book 1)
Steven Osborne (piano)
13:00
I Fagiolini
Catherine Bott talks to Robert Hollingworth, director of the vocal ensemble of I Fagiolini, who celebrate their 20th anniversary this year. They discuss the development of the group and play music from several of their recordings, including a performance from this year's York Early Music Festival.
The programme includes works by Monteverdi, Pallavicino and Janequin.
14:00
Sibelius - Tapiola
Sibelius: Tapiola.
Stephen Johnson joins the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, for a workshop on the great Finnish composer's final orchestral work.
The tone poem Tapiola was inspired by the legends and atmosphere of the great Finnish forests.
15:00
Peru
Lucy Duran presents a series recorded on location in Peru.
She explores the music of Ayacucho, the remote Andean region which bore the brunt of the Shining Path terrorist attacks throughout the 1980s and 90s.
The programme features a session by Manuelcha Prado, a performance of the classic El Condor Pasa on the unique Peruvian harp, and songs from Puspo, a singer who already has 17 children at the age of 22.
16:00
BBC Big Band
Claire Martin presents highlights of the BBC Big Band, conducted by Barry Forgie, in a concert recorded in August at Snape Maltings, Suffolk.
17:00
9 December 2006
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
18:00
Mozart's Idomeneo
Mozart - Idomeneo Act 1
Live from the New York Metropolitan Opera, Margaret Juntwait presents a performance of Mozart's Idomeneo (Act 1).
Idomeneo, King of Crete, has escaped a shipwreck by promising to sacrifice to Neptune the first person he meets. This person, searching for his father, is Idomeneo's son Idamante.
Kobie van Rensburg (tenor, Idomeneo)
Magdalena Kozena (mezzo, Idamante)
Dorothea Roschmann (soprano, Ilia)
Alexandra Deshorties (soprano, Elettra)
Jeffrey Francis (tenor, Arbace)
Stephen Milling (bass, voice of Neptune)
Orchestra and Chorus of the New York Metropolitan Opera
James Levine (conductor)
19:00
The Last Jew on Crete
In the 1950s Stavroulakis, whose roots are in Crete, arrived on the island after the Jewish community had been destroyed by the Nazis during the Second World War. He recalls how he restored the crumbling Etz Hayyim Synagogue in Hania and has acted as the city's rabbi, despite frequently being the only member of his congregation.
19:20
Mozart's Idomeneo
Mozart - Idomeneo Act 2
Live from the New York Metropolitan Opera, Margaret Juntwait presents a performance of Mozart's Idomeneo (Act 2).
Idomeneo, King of Crete, has escaped a shipwreck by promising to sacrifice to Neptune the first person he meets. This person, searching for his father, is Idomeneo's son Idamante.
Kobie van Rensburg (tenor, Idomeneo)
Magdalena Kozena (mezzo, Idamante)
Dorothea Roschmann (soprano, Ilia)
Alexandra Deshorties (soprano, Elettra)
Jeffrey Francis (tenor, Arbace)
Stephen Milling (bass, voice of Neptune)
Orchestra and Chorus of the New York Metropolitan Opera
James Levine (conductor)
20:20
9 December 2006
Beverley Sills hosts the quiz in which opera buffs pit their wits against teasers sent in by listeners.
Panellists include Ira Siff and Terrence McNally.
20:40
Mozart's Idomeneo
Mozart - Idomeneo Act 3
Live from the New York Metropolitan Opera, Margaret Juntwait presents a performance of Mozart's Idomeneo (Act 3).
Idomeneo, King of Crete, has escaped a shipwreck by promising to sacrifice to Neptune the first person he meets. This person, searching for his father, is Idomeneo's son Idamante.
Kobie van Rensburg (tenor, Idomeneo)
Magdalena Kozena (mezzo, Idamante)
Dorothea Roschmann (soprano, Ilia)
Alexandra Deshorties (soprano, Elettra)
Jeffrey Francis (tenor, Arbace)
Stephen Milling (bass, voice of Neptune)
Orchestra and Chorus of the New York Metropolitan Opera
James Levine (conductor)
22:00
Fiona Sampson
Ian McMillan presents the weekly language, literature and performance cabaret.
Guest is poet Fiona Sampson, who explores the allure of the quartet, both literary and musical, in a piece specially written for the programme.
22:30
Bread On The Waters
A look at the theory and practice of Bottle Evangelism, in which the word of God is sealed in glass flasks and floated across the oceans.
23:00
2006 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Robert Worby presents a series of broadcasts from the 2006 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
The programme features music from an eclectic mix of composers including Morton Feldman, Christopher Fox and Richard Barrett. The two performing ensembles featured are Australia's leading New Music Ensemble Elision and British contemporary music champions the Smith Quartet.
Elision
Timothy O'Dwyer: Gravity
Maurizio Pisati: Habergeiss
John Rodgers: L'aura eternal; ciacco; ma fiuo
Richard Barrett: Codex 1
Smith Quartet
Christopher Fox: 1,2,3 (World Premiere)
Chantale Laplante: Study of a Room
Morton Feldman: Spring of Chrosoes
01:00
9 December 2006
9 December 2006
With John Shea.
1.00am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Fantasia in F minor for piano duet, D940
Leon Fleischer, Katherine Jacobson Fleischer
1.21am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Piano Sonata in B flat, D960
Leon Fleischer
2.04am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Octet in E flat, Op 20
Yoshiko Arai, Ik-Hwan Bae (violins)
Yuko Inoue (viola),
Christoph Richter (cello)
Vogler Quartet
2.36am
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934): Cello Concerto
Pieter Wispelwey
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gabriel Chmura (conductor)
3.05am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Eine Alpensinfonie
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Wit (conductor)
3.56am
Kodaly, Zoltan (1882-1967): Mountain Nights
La Gioia
4.00am
Fault, François du (1604-c.1670): L'Offrande
Konrad Junghänel (lute)
4.06am
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713): Sonata da Chiesa in C minor, Op 1 No 8
London Baroque
4.13am
Forster, Kaspar (1616-1673): Vanitas vanitatum
Olga Pasiecznik (soprano)
Krzysztof Szmyt (tenor)
Grzegorz Zychowicz (bass)
Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble
4.25am
Marais, Marin (1656-1728): Caprice ou Sonate
Pierre Pitzel, Mary Jean Bolli (violas da gamba)
Augusta Campagne (harpsichord)
4.31am
Luzzaschi, Luzzasco (1545-1607): O primavera; O dolcezze amarissime d'Amore
Tragicomedia
4.39am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Tragic Overture
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
4.53am
Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847): Nachtreigen
BBC Singers
Jason Lai (conductor)
5.00am
Willan, Healey (1880-1968): Five Pieces
Ian Sadler (organ)
5.11am
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976) : Gloriana
Peter Pears (tenor)
SWF Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
5.37am
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975): Piano Concerto No 2
Dmitri Shostakovich
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Konstantin lliev (conductor)
5.54am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): String Quartet in G minor, Op 10
Tilev Quartet
6.19am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Ave Maria, D839
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787): The Dance of the Blessed Spirits
Il-Hwan Bai (cello)
Dai-Hyun Kim (piano)
6.28am
Ranta, Sulho (1901?1960): Finnish Folk Dances, Op 51
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
6.37am
Chan Ka Nin (b. 1949): Four Seasons Suite
Ottawa Winds
Michael Goodwin (conductor)
6.49am
Feldman, Morton (1926-1987): Christian Wolff in Cambridge
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
6.53am
Kalman, Emmerich Imre (1882-1953): Komm, Zigany; Czardas (Gräfin Mariza)
Mark Dubois (tenor)
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra
Raffi Armenian (conductor)
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