Wednesday 3rd January 2007

07:00

Morning on 3

3 January 2007

With Penny Gore.

Including at 7.00am

Schumann: Toccata in C, Op 7
Freddy Kempf (piano)

Taverner: Dum transisset sabbatum
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)

Borodin: Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)
London Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor)

8.30am
Arnold: English Dances, Set 1
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Charles Groves (conductor)

Handel: Berenice (excerpt)
Collegium Musicum 90
Simon Standage (conductor)

Noblot: Andantino
Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Mariko Anraku (harp)

10:00

CD Masters

3 January 2007

Jonathan Swain and Rob Cowan present a week of programmes to celebrate the New Year.

Including at 10.00am
Beethoven: Overture (The Consecration of the House)
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Arturo Toscanini (conductor)
RCA GD 60267

10.11am
Vivaldi: Concerto grosso No 8 in Am, Op 3
Igor Oistrakh (violin)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
David Oistrakh (violin/conductor)
DG 463 616 2

10.25am
Balakirev: Tamara
USSR Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
CHANT DU MONDE LDC 278758

10.48am
Mozart: Exultate, jubilate
Elisabeth Schwarkopf (soprano)
Vienna Philharmonic
Josef Krips (conductor)
TESTAMENT SBT 2172 (2-CD set)

11.06am
Beethoven: Overture (King Stephen)
LSO
Pierre Monteux (conductor)
DECCA 443 479 2 (2-CD set)

11.15am
Haydn: Sonata in C, H XVI 48
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
RCA RD 77160

11.30am
Blauth: Concertino for oboe and strings
Andres Spiller (oboe)
Camerata Bariloche
Fernando Hasaj (music director)
DORIAN DOR 90249

11.49am
Beethoven: Overture (Fidelio)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA 09026 60962 2

12:00

Composer of the Week

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Part Two

Donald Macleod continues his exploration of the various roles Vivaldi stepped into with a look at the composer as a teacher.

Sonata in C, RV 779
Paul Goodwin (oboe)
John Holloway (baroque violin)
Colin Lawson (chalumeau)
John Toll (organ)

Concerto in G, RV 532
Ugo Orlandi, Dorina Frati (mandolin)
I Solisti Veneti
Claudio Scimone (conductor)

Sposa son disprezzata
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Gyorgy Fischer (piano)

Sinfonia in G, RV 149
Academy of Ancient Music
Andrew Manze (director)

Sonata in Dm, RV 15
Fabio Biondi (violin)
Maurizio Naddeo (cello)
Rinaldo Alessandrini (organ)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Han-Na Chang

Bach, Britten

Fiona Talkington introduces a recital by Korean cellist Han-Na Chang.

Bach: Suite No 3, BWV1009
Britten: Suite No 1, Op 72

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

Featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers.

Elgar: In the South (Alassio)
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Monteverdi: Beatus vir
BBC Singers
St James Baroque
Stephen Layton (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Tasmin Little (violin)
Stefan Solyom

Monteverdi: Magnificat
BBC Singers
St James Baroque
Stephan Layton (conductor)

Debussy: Images
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

16:00

Choral Evensong

A Service for Epiphany

Live from the Chapel of Eton College with the Rodolfus Choir.

Introit: Epiphany Responsory (Richard Lloyd) first performance
Hymn: Where is this stupendous stranger
First Reading: At Bethlehem (Richard Crashaw)
Anthem: Reges Tharsis (Sheppard)
Second Reading: Matthew 2, vv1-11
Hymn: Brightest and best
Third Reading: The Offering (Jeremy Taylor)
Anthem: Bethlehem Down (Warlock)
Fourth Reading: Royal Presents (Nathaniel Wanley)
Anthem: Here is the little door (Howells)
Fifth Reading: At the manger Mary sings (WH Auden)
Anthem: Videntes stellam (Poulenc)
Sixth Reading: Exodus 2, vv1-10
Anthem: Mater ora filium (Bax)
Hymn: O worship the Lord
Organ Voluntary: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 739 (Bach)

Director of music: Ralph Allwood
Organist: Tom Winpenny

17:00

At the Piano

Part 3 - Leon McCawley

3/5. Petroc Trelawny examines the riches of the recorded piano repertoire in the company of a leading pianist.

18:30

New Generation Artists

3 January 2007

Verity Sharp introduces more performances by current members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme, focusing on two new works jointly commissioned by BBC New Generations and the Royal Philharmonic Society.

Huw Watkins: Partita for solo violin (BBC Commission/RPS commission)
Alina Ibragimova (violin)

Hugh Wood: Robert Graves Songs (BBC Commission/RPS commission)
Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Simon Lepper (piano)

Haydn: Sonata in F, H XVI 29
Eduard Kunz (piano)

19:30

BBC Proms 2006

Pittsburgh SO

Another chance to hear a concert from the BBC Proms 2006 season, with Leonard Slatkin conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Lang Lang (piano) at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Ives: Symphony No 2
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1 in Em
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel

21:30

Belief

Hanif Kureishi

Series in which Joan Bakewell talks to guests about their beliefs, the influences that have shaped them and their ideas about life's big questions. 8/10: Writer Hanif Kureishi.

22:00

BBC Proms 2006

London Sinfonietta

Another chance to hear a late-night concert given at the Royal Albert Hall, London, as part of the BBC Proms 2006 season.

Mary King (mezzo)
Christopher Gillett (tenor)
London Sinfonietta
Oliver Knussen (conductor)

Hans Werner Henze: Voices

00:00

Composer of the Week

Mozart's Vienna Contemporaries

Part Four

Mozart's Vienna Contemporaries (1788-1789). In 1788, Don Giovanni reaches Vienna. But Mozart is short of money and borrows heavily while writing his last three symphonies. The following year, as Paris erupts, he makes an extended continental journey in search of commissions. Back in Vienna, his competitors thrive.

Gazzaniga: Due baronesse amabili (L'isola d'Alcina)
Roberto Scaltriti (baritone)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset (conductor)

Salieri: Il Talismano - overture
Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michael Dittrich (conductor)

Mozart: Un bacio di mano, K541 (aria for Pasquale Anfossi's Le gelosie fortunate)
Roberto Scaltriti (baritone)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset (conductor)

Mozart: Nine Variations in D on a Minuet by Jean-Pierre Duport, K573.
Alfred Brendel (piano)

Salieri: Non vo' gia che vi suonino (La cifra)
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Adam Fischer (conductor)

Mozart: Alma grande e nobil core, K578 (aria for Cimarosa's I due baroni di Rocca Azzura)
Edith Mathis (soprano)
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Leopold Hager (conductor)

Martin y Soler: Il Burbero di buon core (Act 1 finale)
Gloria Banditelli (soprano)
Umberto Chiummo (baritone)
Montserrat Figueras (soprano)
Francesc Garrigosa (bass)
Eva Kirchner (soprano)
Ernesto Palacio (tenor)
Luigi Petroni (tenor)
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

3 January 2007

3 January 2007

With John Shea.

1.00am

Dutch Organs 1511-1896

Sweelinck: Christe qui lux es et dies; Echo Fantasia in D minor

1.10am
Bull: Salvator mundi

1.14am
Muffat: Toccata Prima (Apparatus musico organisticus)

1.20am
Anon: Cancio para la Corneta con el Eco

1.24am
Babou: Fantaisie des Trompettes basse et haute
Peter van Dijk (organ)

1.28am
Bach: Aria variata alla maniera italiana in A minor
Sietze de Vries (organ)

1.44am
Liszt: Prelude and Fugue on the name Bach
Gerrie Meijers (organ)

1.58am
Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
The Sixteen
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Ton Koopman (conductor)

2.28am
Forqueray: Jupiter
Bob van Asperen (harpsichord)

2.33am
Haydn: Symphony No 43 in E flat (Mercury)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Balazs Kocsar (conductor)

2.55am
Chopin: Scherzo No 3 in C sharp (Op 39)
Ronald Brautigam (piano)

3.03am
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 in E minor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin

4.00am
Bella: Hermania in Venus' Cave Overture
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava
Stefan Robl (conductor)

4.08am
Caplet: 2 Divertissements
Mojka Zlobko (harp)

4.18am
Capricornus: Sonata A 3
Musica Aeterna Bratislava
Peter Zajicek (conductor)

4.24am
Geminiani: Concerto Grosso (Op 3, No 2)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi (conductor)

4.33am
CPE Bach: Sonata in E minor
Andreas Staier (piano)

4.42am
Bouwman: Thalia Ouverture
Dutch National Youth Wind Orchestra
Jan Cober (conductor)

4.52am
Martinu: Variations on a Theme by Rossini
Leonid Gorokhov (cello)
Irina Nikitina (piano).

5.00am
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia Overture
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Chi-Yong Chung (conductor)

5.08am
Bergh: Lied fur pianoforte
Frans van Ruth (piano)

5.13am
Nielsen: Out of the Mist Emerges My Native Soil; Irmelin Rose (Op 4, No 4)
Mattias Ermedahl (tenor)
Anders Kilstrom (piano)

5.19am
Eccles: Sonata
Gary Karr (double-bass)
Harmon Lewis (piano)

5.27am
Telemann: Quadro for 2 Violins, Viola and Continuo in B flat
The King's Consort
Robert King (conductor)

5.34am
Ockeghem: Intemerata Dei mater
The Hilliard Ensemble

5.43am
Grieg: Triumphal March (Sigurd Jorsalfar)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Roman Zeilinger (conductor)

5.53am
Henderson: In Memoriam Elmer Iseler
The Elmer Iseler Singers
Lydia Adams (director)

6.00am
Rubinstein: The Ball; Portrait (Op 10, No 22)
Josef Lhevinne (piano)

6.13am
Mozart: Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat
Jacob Slagter (horn)
Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam
Lev Markiz (conductor)

6.27am
Kreisler: Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven
Taik-Ju Lee (violin)
Young-Lan Han (piano)

6.31am
Telemann: Alles redet jetzt und singet
Barbara Schlick (soprano)
Stephen Varcoe (bass)
Michael Schneider and Konrad Huntele (recorders)
Hans-Peter Westermann and Pieter Dhont (oboes)
Michael McCraw (bassoon)
Das Kleine Konzert
Hermann Max (conductor).