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Monday 1st January 2007

January 2007
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07:00

Morning on 3

1 January 2007

With Penny Gore.

Including at 7.00am
Purcell: Incidental music from Dioclesian
Tafelmusik
Jeanne Lamon (director)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Concerto for trombone
Jacques Mauger (trombone)
Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra
Clark Rundell (conductor)

Mozart: Six German Dances, K567
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

8.30am
Faure: Barcarolle No 1 in Am, Op 26
Kathryn Stott (piano)

JC Bach: Overture (Adriano in Siria)
Academy of Ancient Music
Simon Standage (director)

Falla: Suite populare
Leila Josefowicz (violin)
John Novacek (piano)

10:15

New Year's Day Concert

From Vienna - Part One

First part of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra's traditional new year concert of music by the Strauss family and friends, conducted by Zubin Mehta, live from Vienna's Musikverein.

10:50

Twenty Minutes

The Ormolu Clock

The Ormolu Clock: Muriel Spark's tale features the rivalries of two hotel owners on the Austrian-Yugoslavian border as they battle for guests and territory. Read by Stella Gonet.

11:15

New Year's Day Concert

From Vienna - Part Two

Second part of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra's traditional new year concert of music by the Strauss family and friends, conducted by Zubin Mehta, live from Vienna's Musikverein.

morning | afternoon | evening

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Rolf Hind

Piano recital

A piano recital by Rolf Hind, given at the Wigmore Hall, London, of works by Satie, Cage, Debussy and Schoenberg.

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Matthias: Invocation and Dance
Jac van Steen (conductor)

Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain for piano and orchestra
David Abell (conductor)

Glazunov: Concerto in E flat for alto saxophone
Alan Buribayev (saxophone)
Martin Robertson (conductor)

Elgar: Symphony No 1
Richard Hickox (conductor)

16:00

Stage and Screen

Legends: Barbra Streisand

Legends: Barbra Streisand. Edward Seckerson pays a New Year's tribute to one of the world's most remarkable singers, who made her Broadway debute in Funny Girl with a song called I'm the Greatest Star and has spent much of her career since grumbling about the fact.

Including music from I Can Get It for You Wholesale, Yentl and House of Flowers.

17:00

At the Piano

Imogen Cooper

Petroc Trelawny examines the riches of the recorded piano repertoire in the company of a leading pianist.

1/5. He talks to Imogen Cooper about the pianists she most admires, with performances of Brahms by Wilhelm Kempff and Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto No 4 played by Alfred Cortot.

morning | afternoon | evening

18:30

New Generation Artists

Beethoven and Bach

Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme features some of the brightest young talents in the classical music world.

1/5. Verity Sharp presents performances by two Russian artists, oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk and violinist Alina Ibragimova and the scheme's first jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock.

Beethoven: Trio, Op 11
Alexei Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe)
Boris Andrianov (cello)
Katya Apekisheva (piano)

Bach: Sonata No 2 in Am, BWV 1003
Alina Ibragimova (violin)

Improvisations by Gwilym Simcock

19:30

BBC Proms 2006

BBC Concert Orchestra

A concert from the 2006 BBC Proms season, given at the Royal Albert Hall by Artur Pizarro (piano), Juan Diego Florez (tenor) and BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth.

21:45

Belief

Prof Haleh Afshar

Series in which Joan Bakewell talks to guests about their beliefs, influences that have shaped them and life's big questions. 6/10. She talks to Muslim feminist Prof Haleh Afshar.

22:15

BBC Proms 2006

The Great Venetians

Another chance to hear a BBC Proms 2006 concert given at the Royal Albert Hall, London, by His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.

Pieces by Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Grandi and Rigatti.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Mozart's Vienna Contemporaries

Part Two

In 1784, Mozart begins a thematic catalogue to keep track of his compositions, which this year include six keyboard concertos. A year later, Leopold Mozart arrives for an extended visit, listens to his son perform in public and observes the predominance of Italian opera at the Burg-Theater. Wolfgang writes several insertion pieces for other operas which are played there.

Paisiello: Overture (Il Re Teodoro in Venezia)
Swiss Italian Orchestra
Enrique Mazzola (conductor)

Salieri: Amor, Pietoso Amore (Il Ricco d'un giorno)
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Adam Fischer (conductor)

Sarti: Come un agnello (Fra I due litiganti il terzo gode)
Roberto Scaltriti (baritone)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset (conductor)

Mozart (attrib.): Eight Variations in A on Come un agnello from Sarti's I due Litiganti, K460
Walter Klien (piano)

Righini: Per pieta, deh, ricercate (L'incontro inaspettato)
Patrice Michaels (soprano)
Classical Arts Orchestra
Stephen Alltop (conductor)

Salieri: Overture (La grotta di Trofonio)
Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michael Dittrich (conductor)

Salieri: La ra la, che filosofo buffon! (La grotta di Trofonio)
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Adam Fischer (conductor)

Mozart: Two insertion ensembles for Francesco Bianchi's La vilannella rapita
Dite almeno in che mancai, K479
Julie Kaufmann (soprano)
Hans-Peter Blochwitz (tenor)
Anton Scharinger and René Pape (basses)
Munich Radio Orchestra
Jorg-Peter Weigle (conductor)

Mandina amabile, questo donaro, K480
Eva Lind (soprano)
Hans-Peter Blochwitz (tenor)
Anton Scharinger (bass)
Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra
Jorg-Peter Weigle (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

1 January 2007

1 January 2007

With John Shea.

Grieg and Stenhammer String Quartets.

1.00am
Grieg: String Quartet No 2 in Gm, Op 27
Engegard Quartet

1.38am
Stenhammar: String Quartet No 4 in Am, Op 25
Oslo String Quartet

2.13am
Veracini: Overture No 4 for 2 oboes, bassoon and strings
Michael Niesemann and Alison Gangler (oboes)
Adrian Rovatkay (bassoon)
Musica Antiqua Koln
Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

2.24am
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No 2
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

2.43am
Palestrina: Tu es Petrus
Silvia Piccollo and Emmanuela Galli (sopranos)
Fabian Schofrin (alto)
Marco Beasley (tenor)
Daniele Carnovich (bass)
Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano
Theatrum Instrumentorum

2.49am
Haydn: Symphony No 8 in G (Le Soir)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Rolf Gupta (conductor)

3.14am
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 4 in Gm, Op 40
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

3.41am
Vremsak: They're leaving early; Leaves are falling; That's then
Cantemus Mixed Choir
Sebastjan Vrhovnik (director)

3.46am
Bach: Trio Sonata in Dm
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists

4.00am
Ambrosius: Suite
Zagreb Guitar Trio

4.07am
Liszt: Transcendental Study No 11 in D flat
Jeno Jando (piano)

4.17am
Schubert: Rondo in A for violin and strings
Pinchas Zuckerman (violin)
The National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada

4.32am
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B flat
Peter Hanzel (bassoon)
Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

4.52am
Handel: Pensieri notturni di Filli: Nel dolce del' oblio'
Johanna Koslwosky (soprano)
Musica Alta Ripa

5.00am
Bernstein: Candide Overture
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

5.05am
Copland: El Salon Mexico
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

5.17am
Martinu: La revue de cuisine suite
The Festival Ensemble

5.32am
Beethoven: Adagio for Musical Clock
Stef Tuinstra (organ)

5.38am
Stanford: The Blue Bird, Op 119 No 3
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

5.43am
Rossini: Overture (La Gazza Ladra)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

5.53am
Frescobaldi: Canzon prima basso solo for curtal, organ and chitarrones
Musica Fiata, Koln
Roland Wilson (director)

5.58am
Debussy: Fetes Galantes, Set 2
Paula Hoffman (mezzo-soprano)
Lars-David Nilsson (piano)

6.06am
Svendsen: Norwegian Artists' Carnival, Op 14
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Ari Rasilainen (conductor)

6.17am
Faure: Pelleas et Melisande Suite, Op 80
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

6.34am
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (3 dances)
Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

6.48am
Vivaldi: Recorder Concerto in Cm
Michael Schneider (recorder)
Camerata Koln




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