Saturday 30th December 2006

07:00

Morning on 3

With Martin Handley

With Martin Handley. Including at 7.00am Bantock: Pierrot of the Minute. Janacek: Starodavny. 8.00am Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Tumblers. Wagner: Prelude to Act 3 (Lohengrin).

Including at 7.00am
Bantock: Pierrot of the Minute
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)

Janacek: Starodavny (Lachian Dances)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Jose Serebrier (conductor)

8.00am
Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Tumblers (The Snow Maiden)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

Wagner: Prelude to Act 3 (Lohengrin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)

09:00

CD Review

Best of 2006

Andrew McGregor ends the year with a look at some of the best recordings of 2006 and ahead to 2007 with a Bach cantata for New Year's Day.

Including at 9.30am
Bach: Cantata No 41 (Jesu, nun sei gepreiset)
Yukari Nonoshita (soprano)
Robin Blaze (countertenor)
Jan Kobow (tenor)
Dominik Worner (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki (conductor)

10.00am
Round-up of recent releases of Shostakovich film music.

11.00am
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C, Op 53 (Waldstein)
Paul Lewis (piano)

11.30am
Bax: The Garden of Fand
BBC Philharmonic
Vernon Handley (conductor)

12.00am
Mozart: Violin Sonata in B flat, K454
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
Lambert Orkis (piano)

12.30pm
Strauss: Elektra (exc)
Elektra ...... Gerda Lammers (soprano)
Clytemnestra ...... Georgine von Milinikovic (mezzo)
Chrysothemis ...... Hedwig Muller-Butow (soprano)
Covent Garden Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Rudolf Kempe (conductor)

13:00

The Early Music Show

The court of Dresden

Instrumental music from the court of Dresden.

Saxony and its capital boast a long cultural history and many composers wrote for the Dresden orchestra. Catherine Bott presents a programme of music including works by Heinichen, Hasse and virtuosi violinist Veracini.

14:00

Discovering Music

Mozart the Improviser

Mozart the Improviser: David Owen Norris and pianist Ashley Wass consider the qualities that governed how Mozart improvised at the piano drawing on clues from his published scores.

15:00

World Routes

Rivermead Revisited

Rivermead Revisited: Lucy Duran introduces more highlights from last year's WOMAD festival.

Including the flamenco singing of Enrique Morente from Spain, the electric thumb-pianos of Congolese band Konono No 1 and a rare acoustic performance by Malian kora virtuoso Toumani Diabate.

16:00

Jazz Line-Up

30 December 2006

A selection of new releases and a UK gig guide.

17:00

Jazz Record Requests

30 December 2006

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

18:00

Jazz File

Arrangers Anonymous

Bill Finegan

Russell Davies is joined Barry Forgie and Steve Gray to analyse and deconstruct a collection of outstanding jazz scores, discovering how each arrangement actually works and what was in the mind of the arranger when the piece was conceived.

They focus on The Continental, an arrangement by Bill Finegan for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra of 1949.

18:30

Opera On 3

Mozart's The Magic Flute

Act One

Mozart's The Magic Flute, live from the New York Metropolitan Opera House in a new, abridged English version for children by American director Julie Taymor.

Prince Tamino faces a series of trails to gain the hand of Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night, helped, or hindered, by the bird-catcher Pagageno.

Tamino ...... Frank Lopardo (tenor)
Papageno ...... Nathan Gunn (baritone)
Queen of the Night ...... Erika Miklosa (coloratura soprano)
Pamina ...... Ying Yuang (soprano)
First Lady ...... Wendy Bryn Harmer (soprano)
Second Lady ...... Kate Lindsey (mezzo)
Third Lady ...... Tamara Mumford (mezzo)
Papagena ...... Jennifer Aylmer (soprano)
Sarastro ...... Morris Robinson (bass)
Monostatos ...... Gregg Fedderley (tenor)
Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera
James Levine (conductor)

20:10

Drama Feature

Pinter's Family Voices

One of Pinter's finest radio pieces, recorded at the recent Sheffield Crucible Theatre's Pinter season.

This short but powerful insight into a family stars Timothy West, Prunella Scales and their son Samuel West.

20:45

Drama Feature

Harold Pinter: Voices

First broadcast to mark the occasion of Harold Pinter's 75th birthday in October 2005, Voices is a powerful and disturbing collaboration between the Nobel Prize-winning playwright and a cutting-edge composer that heightens some of Pinter's most painful images. The tormentors and the tormented so potently etched in Pinter's political plays find a stunning musical counterpoint in James Clarke's score recently commended at the 2006 Prix Italia.

Voices: Harry Burton, Anastasia Hille, Andy de la Tour, Douglas Hodge, Gabrielle Hamilton, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Gawn Grainger, Harold Pinter, Indira Varma.

Music: Apartment House; Eileen Aagaard; Prometheus Ensemble; Rolande van der Paal; Etienne Siebens; BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Martyn Brabbins and David Porcelijn; Fatma Mehralieva.

21:30

Recital

Nativite du Seigneur

Thomas Trotter (organ) plays Messiaen's La nativite du Seigneur.

22:30

Between The Ears

Three and the Third

Alan Hall presents voices from 60 years of BBC cultural broadcasting to celebrate sixty years on from the start of the Third Programme. This irreverent but affectionate feature is crammed full of highlights and hiccoughs, familiar characters and flaming controversies.

23:00

Hear And Now

30 December 2006

A performance of cutting-edge contemporary music.

01:00

Through the Night

30 December 2006

30 December 2006

John Shea introduces music beginning with a piano recital by Murray Perahia given at the Royal Festival Hall.

1.00am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Sonata in F, K533/494; Sonata in A, K331 (Alla Turka); Piano Sonata in Am, K310
Murray Perahia (piano)

2.02am
Spohr, Louis (1784-1859): String Sextet in C, Op140
Wiener Streichsextet

2.28am
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934): The Dream of Gerontius
Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Paul Groves (tenor)
Matthew Best (bass)
London Philharmonic Choir
Hallé Choir and Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)

4.00am
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): Overture (Masquerade)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Ari Rasilainen (conductor)

4.05am
Geminiani, Francesco (1687-1762): Concerto grosso No 3 in Bm
Concertino

4.13am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Io ti getto, eimo ed usbergo - Ho cento vanni al tergo (Orlando furioso, RV 728)
Lucia Sciannimanico (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra Barocca Modo Antiquo
Federico Maria Sardelli (conductor)

4.15am
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869): Danse des sylphes (La damnation de Faust)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava
Ludovit Rajter (conductor)

4.18am
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787): Dance of the Furies (Orfeo ed Euridice)
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Lovro von Matacic (conductor)

4.23am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): 6 German Dances, K509
Murray Perahia (piano)

4.34am
Pezel, Johann Christoph (1639-1694): German Dance Suite
Canadian Brass

4.42am
Czerny, Carl (1791-1857): Etude in G flat
Stefan Lindgren (piano)

4.45am
Litolff, Henry (1818-1891): Scherzo (Concerto Symphonique No 4)
Arthur Ozolins (piano)
Toronto Symphony
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

4.53am
Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706): Jauchzet dem Herrn
Cantus Cölln

5.00am
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872): Paria Overture
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Wit (conductor)

5.10am
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958): Serenade to Music
Bette Cosar (soprano)
Delia Wallis (mezzo-soprano)
Edd Wright (tenor)
Gary Dahl (bass)
Alexander Skwortsow (violin)
Vancouver Bach Choir
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Bruce Pullan (conductor)

5.23am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Tarantella, S162
Janina Fialkowska (piano)

5.33am
Bottesini, Giovanni (1821-1889): Tarantella
Gary Karr (double-bass)
Harmon Lewis (piano)

5.39am
Rautavaara, Einojuhani (b. 1928): With joy we go dancing
Finnish Radio Chamber Choir
Eric-Olof Söderström (conductor)

5.42am
Johann Strauss Jr (1825-1899): Spanish March, Op 433
ORF Symphony Orchestra
Peter Guth (conductor)

5.50am
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909): Cordoba, Op 232 No 4
Eolina Quartet

5.58am
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936): Drinking Song, Op 27 No 1
Peter Mattei (baritone)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)

6.01am
Martucci, Giuseppe (1856-1909): Noveletta, Op 82 No 2
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Nello Santi (conductor)

6.07am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Fantasy and Fugue in C for piano, K394
Murray Perahia (piano)

6.17am
Zarebski, Juliusz (1854-1885): Dances polonaises
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Janusz Powolny (conductor)

6.43am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51
Susanne Ryden (soprano)
Robert Farley (trumpet)
European Union Baroque Orchestra
Roy Goodman (conductor)