Wednesday 10th January 2007

07:00

Morning on 3

10 January 2007

With Penny Gore.

From 7.00am

Telemann: Concerto in F for 2 horns, strings and continuo, TWV 52.F4
Berlin Baroque Soloists
Rainer Kussmaul (conductor)

Schubert: Impromptu in Fm, D935, No 4
Alfred Brendel (piano)

Bartok: Rhapsody No 1
Khung-Wha Chung (violin)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)

From 8.30am

Liszt: Rigoletto paraphrase, S434
Leslie Howard (piano)

Haydn: Concerto in G
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

Corelli: Sonata in Dm, Op 5, No 12 (La Folia)
Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin)
Richard Boothby (cello)
Robert Woolley (harpsichord)

10:00

CD Masters

10 January 2007

With Jonathan Swain.

10.00am
Pfitzner: Palestrina (Act I, Prelude)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
ORFEO C 186 881 A

10.08am
Palestrina: Tu es Petrus a 6
Roger Wagner Chorale
Roger Wagner (conductor)
CAPITOL SP 8365 (LP)

10.12am
Palestrina: Vexilla regis prodeunt
Societa Cameristica di Lugano
Edwin Loehrer (conductor)
ACCORD 201562

10.23am
Schmidt: Das Buch der sieben Siegeln - Part I, Nos 6-9
Anton Dermota (tenor)
Hilde Gueden (soprano)
Ira Malaniuk (alto)
Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)
Walter Berry (bass)
Choral Society of the Gesellschaft der Muskifreunde, Vienna
Alois Forrer (organ)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Dimitri Mitropoulos (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL SM2K 68442

10.38am
Palestrina, arr. Stokowski: Adoramus te Christe
Symphony of the Air
Leopold Stokowski (conductor)
EMI ZDMB 5 65427 2

10.42am
Palestrina: Missa Ecce ego Johannes
Choir of Westminster Cathedral
James O'Donnell (Master of music)
HYPERION CDA 67099

11.11am
Mahler: Symphony No 1 (Titan)
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Dimitri Mitropoulos (conductor)
ARTONE 222335-3554

12:00

Composer of the Week

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Part Three - Uncertainty

With Donald Macleod. Schumann had predicted great things for Brahms, but by the early 1860s it was far from certain that the young composer would live up to his early promise

Serenade No 2 in A (Scherzo)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Adrian Boult (conductor)

Four Songs, Op 17
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Erwin Ortner (conductor)

Geistliches Wiegenlied, Op 91 No 1
Sarah Walker (mezzo)
Paul Silverthorne (viola)
Julian Jacobson (piano)

Trio in E flat, Op 40
Stephen Stirling (horn)
Anthony Marwood (violin)
Susan Tomes (piano)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

World of Wolf

Part Two

Series of recitals recorded at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Schumann: Myrten Lieder
Widmung (Rückert)
Der Nussbaum (Mosen)
Jemand (Burns/Gerhard)
Die Lotosblume (Heine)
Lied der Braut No 1 (Rückert)
Lied der Braut No 2 (Rückert)
Aus den hebräischen Gesängen (Byron/Körner)
Du bist wie eine Blume (Heine)

Clara Schumann: Early Ruckert songs
O Lust, o Lust
Geheimes Flüstern hier und dort
Auf einem grünen Hügel
An einem lichten Morgen

Wolf: Eichendorff Lieder
Die Kleine
Verschwiegene Liebe
Das Ständchen
Die Nacht
Die Zigeunerin
Nachtzauber

Geraldine McGreevy (soprano)
Gary Matthewman (piano)

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC Singers & BBC SO

Louise Fryer presents a series featuring music recorded by the BBC Singers during their tour of Mexico in October, including extracts from an audio diary kept by BBC Singer Rebecca Lodge. With the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Gerhard: Dances from Don Quixote
Andrew Davis (conductor)

Rimsky-Korsakov: May Night (Recit and Levko's Song; Kak tikho)
Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Andrew Davis (conductor)

Gubaidulina: Seven Last Words of Christ
James Crabb (accordion)
David Cohen (cello)
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Byrd: Gaudeamus omnes
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No 9
Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1, Op 77, in Am
Daniel Hope (violin)
Maxim Shostakovich (conductor)

16:00

Choral Evensong

Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

A 1974 archive broadcast from Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Responses: Byrd
Psalms: 32, 33, 34 (Wood, Camidge, Parratt)
First Lesson: Genesis 41 vv46-57
Canticles: Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense (Tippett)
Second Lesson: Revelation 4
Anthem: Laudibus in Sanctis (Byrd)
Organ Voluntary: Rhapsody in C sharp minor (Howells)

Organist: Simon Preston
Assistant Organist: Nicholas Cleobury

17:00

In Tune

10 January 2007

Sean Rafferty's guests include Emmanuelle Haim, classical guitarist Xuefei Yang, and rising stars The Lendvai String Trio, who perform live in the studio.

19:30

BBC Proms 2006

10 January 2007

Donald Macleod presents a concert recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Susan Gritton (soprano)
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo)
BBC Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)

Mahler: Symphony No 2 (Resurrection)

21:05

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Nikos Skalkottas

Nikos Christodoulou conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in two pieces by Nikos Skalkottas: Little Suite for Strings (1942); Four Images (1948).

21:30

Night Waves

10 January 2007

Gabriel Gbadamosi and guests confront the ideas that might dominate the coming year. Gabriel also talks to Doris Lessing about her latest novel in which she envisages an all female society.

22:15

Late Junction

10 January 2007

Fiona Talkington's selections include 13th-century vocal music from the Montpellier Codex, the American industrial ballads of Pete Seeger and orchestral music by Sofia Gubaidulina.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Part Four

Donald Macleod traces the wildly varying fortunes of Vivaldi in his role as impresario. Though the composer's eye to the main chance was always wide open when it came to making money, it was largely in the cut-throat arena of opera production that he chose to concentrate his entrepreneurial spirit.

Agitata da due venti (Griselda)
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca

Concerto in F, RV 574
King's Consort
Robert King (conductor)

Orlando Finto Pazzo (excerpt)
Antonio Abete (bass)
Manuela Custer (mezzo)
Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino
Academia Montis Regalis
Alessandro De Marchi (conductor)

La Verita in Cimento (excerpts)
Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano)
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
Sara Mingardo (contralto)
Ensemble Matheus
Jean-Christopher Spinosi (conductor)

Del destin non vi lagnate (L'Olimpiade)
Riccardo Novaro (baritone)
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)

Se mai senti spirarti sul volto (Catone in Utica)
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Brandenburg Consort
Roy Goodman (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

10 January 2007

10 January 2007

With Louise Fryer.

1.00am
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911): Symphony No 7
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)

2.20am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Clarinet Quintet in A, K581
Kimball Sykes (clarinet)
Pinchas Zukerman, Donnie Deacons (violin)
Jane Logan (viola)
Amanda Forsyth (cello)

2.54am
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943): 6 Moments Musicaux, Op 16
Lazar Berman (piano)

3.24am
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903): 8 Morike Lieder
Arleen Auger (soprano)
Irwin Gage (piano)

3.51am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Brandenburg Concerto No 4
Estonian Radio Chamber Orchestra
Paul Magi (conductor)

4.08am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Te Deum in C
Netherlands Radio Choir and Chamber Orchestra
Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)

4.18am
Ciglic, Zvonimir (b. 1921): Concertino for harp and orchestra
Mojka Zlobko
Slovenian RTV Symphony Orchestra
Anton Nanut (conductor)

4.32am
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): Chaconne, Op 32
Anders Kilstrom (piano)

4.41am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Return, O God of hosts (Samson)
Maureen Forrester (contralto)
I Solisti di Zagreb
Antonio Janigro (conductor)

4.50am
Heinichen, Johann David (1683-1729): Concerto for flute, bassoon, cello, double bass and harpsichord
Vladislav Brunner (flute)
Jozef Martinkovic (bassoon)
Juraj Alexander (cello)
Juraj Schoffer (double-bass)
Milos Starosta (harpsichord)

5.00am
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958): The Wasps
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

5.11am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): 6 Quartets, Op 112
Danish National Radio Choir
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Stefan Parkman (conductor)

5.22am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Concerto in B flat
Peter Westermann, Michael Niesemann, Piet Dhont (oboe)
Musica Antiqua Koln
Reinhard Goebel (director)

5.31am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Piano Trio in G, K564
Ondine Trio

5.47am
Saint-Georges, Joseph Boulogne (c.1748-1799): L'amant anonym (ballet music)
Tafelmusik Orchestra
Jeanne Lamon (conductor)

5.54am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): An die Türen will ich schleichen, D480
Christoph Prégardien (tenor)
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

5.57am
Vanhal, Johann Baptist (1739-1813): Symphony in Am
Capella Coloniensis
Hans-Martin Linde (conductor)

6.15am
Czerny, Carl (1791-1857): Brilliant Polonaise
Kestutis Grybauskas, Vilma Rindzeviciute, Irina Venkus (piano)

6.29am
Poulenc, Francis (Jean Marcel) (1899-1963): 7 chansons
Swedish Radio Choir
Par Fridberg (conductor)

6.42am
Kabalevsky, Dimitri (1904-1987): Comedians Suite
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)