Saturday 13th January 2007

07:00

Morning on 3

13 January 2007

With Martin Handley.

Including at 7.00am
J Strauss II: Seid umschlungen, Millionen
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

Telemann: Concerto in Am
Florilegium Ensemble

8.00am
Beethoven: Sonata in Gm, Op 49 No 1
Stephen Kovacevich (piano)

Stenhammar: Midwinter
Gothenburg Concert Hall Chorus
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

09:00

CD Review

13 January 2007

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: Stephen Johnson explores the available recordings of Bruckner's Symphony No 9.

10.15am
A round-up of recently re-issued recordings.

10.45am
Colin Lawson reviews some recent discs of string quartets and other chamber music by Schumann and Mozart.

11.15am
Interview: Andrew talks to soprano Juliane Banse.

11.45am
The Listening Booth: Listeners request the latest CD releases from the programme website.

12.15pm
Disc of the Week: HK Gruber: Rough Music (Concerto for percussion and orchestra)
Martin Grubinger (percussion)
Tonkunstler Orchestra
Kristjan Jarvi (conductor)

13:00

Performance on 3

A Journey of the Soul: The Music of Sofia Gubaidulina

String Quartets by Gubaidulina and Haydn

The Radio 3 Sofia Gubaidulina Weekend continues with a performance by the Royal String Quartet, live from St Giles, Cripplegate.

Gubaidulina: String Quartet No 2
Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 77 No 1
Gubaidulina: String Quartet No 1

15:00

World Routes

Highlight for the London Jazz Festival. Part One

Lucy Duran introduces highlights from this summer's WOMAD Festival in Reading.

Featured performers include headliner Salif Keita on the Open Air stage, fellow Malian Djelimady Tounkara in the Siam Tent and French band Moussou T et les Jovents on the Radio 3 stage.

16:00

Jazz Line-Up

New releases and a UK gig guide

A selection of new releases and a UK gig guide.

17:00

Jazz Record Requests

13 January 2007

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

18:00

Jazz File

Swing City

Part Two

Miles Kington presents a series from Kansas City, the centre of a unique jazz style for nearly thirty years.

2/3. He visits the famous 18th and Vine crossroads in the heart of the old African American jazz quarter. On the way to meet Jay McShann, the grand old man of the big bands, he stops off for a spot of barbecue and ends the day by the graveside of one of the greatest of all Kansas City jazzmen, saxophone legend Charlie Parker.

18:30

Opera On 3

Tan Dun's The First Emperor

Act One

Live from the New York Metropolitan Opera, Margaret Juntwait presents a performance of Tan Dun's The First Emperor.

This epic story of love, power and betrayal is based on the historical figure of Emperor Chin, who unified China in the third century BC and built the Great Wall.

Emperor Chin ...... Placido Domingo (tenor)
Princess Yue-yang ...... Elizabeth Futral (soprano)
Gao Jian-li ...... Paul Groves (tenor)
General Wang ...... Hao Jiang Tian (bass)
Shaman ...... Michelle DeYoung (mezzo)
Chief Minister ...... Haijing Fu (baritone)
Yin Yang Master ...... Wu Hsing-Kuo (Beijing Opera Singer)
Mother of Yue-yang ...... Suzanne Mentzer (mezzo)

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Tan Dun (conductor)

(Act 1)

19:50

Twenty Minutes

13 January 2007

Arts feature.

20:20

Opera On 3

Tan Dun's The First Emperor

Act Two

Live from the New York Metropolitan Opera, Act 2 of Tan Dun's The First Emperor. Margaret Juntwait presents.

This epic story of love, power and betrayal is based on the historical figure of Emperor Chin, who unified China in the third century BC and built the Great Wall.

Emperor Chin ...... Placido Domingo (tenor)
Princess Yue-yang ...... Elizabeth Futral (soprano)
Gao Jian-li ...... Paul Groves (tenor)
General Wang ...... Hao Jiang Tian (bass)
Shaman ...... Michelle DeYoung (mezzo)
Chief Minister ...... Haijing Fu (baritone)
Yin Yang Master ...... Wu Hsing-Kuo (Beijing Opera Singer)
Mother of Yue-yang ...... Suzanne Mentzer (mezzo)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Tan Dun (conductor)

22:00

The Verb

13 January 2007

Ian McMillan presents the weekly magazine about language.

22:45

Pre-Hear

New Carols

New Carols: The Ives Ensemble perform Christopher Fox's Straight Lines in Broken Times.

23:00

Hear And Now

2006 Donaueschingen Music Days and the Aldeburgh Festival

Ivan Hewett introduces music from the 2006 Donaueschingen Music Days and the Aldeburgh Festival, which featured recent work by Brian Ferneyhough.

Brian Ferneyhough: Plötzlichkeit for large orchestra (SWR and Radio France co-commission; world premiere)
Monika Meier-Schmid (soprano)
Truike van der Poel (mezzo)
Janet Collins (contralto)
SWR Symphony Orchestra
Arturo Tamayo (conductor)

Nicolaus Richter de Vroe: Les cases conjuguées; Schwesterfelder for string quartet and orchestra (SWR commission; world premiere)
Arditti Quartet
SWR Symphony Orchestra
Arturo Tamayo (conductor)

Brian Ferneyhough: Missa Brevis (1969)
Exaudi Vocal Ensemble
James Weeks (director)

Adriana Hölszky: Flugmanöver for two clarinets and orchestra (SWR commission; world premiere)
Das Klarinettenduo: David Smeyers, Beate Zelinsky

Brian Ferneyhough: String Quartet No 5 (first performance)
Arditti Quartet

01:00

Through the Night

13 January 2007

13 January 2007

With Louise Fryer.

1.00am
Quatuor Mosaiques perform Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): String Quartet in Gm, Op 20 No 3
1.20am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): String Quartet in B flat, K458 (Hunt)
1.42am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): String Quartet in F, Op 59 No 1 (Rasumovsky)
Quatuor Mosaiques

2.22am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Sonata in A, D959
Annie Fischer (piano)

2.55am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Simone Young (conductor)

3.09am
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), arr. Mottl: Wesendonk Lieder
Yvonne Minton (mezzo)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Kurt Masur (conductor)

3.28am
Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899): Symphony in B flat, Op 20
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Michel Plasson (conductor)

4.04am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Es ist das Heil uns kommen her; Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein reines Herz
Danish National Radio Choir
Stefan Parkman (conductor)

4.16am
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): Andante Lamentoso
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Royal Danish Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)

4.22am
Wassenaer, Unico Wilhelm van (1692-1766): Concerto No 6 in E flat
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor)

4.31am
Reincken, Johann Adam (1643?-1722): Fuga in Gm
Pieter Dirksen (organ)

4.37am
Mouret, Jean-Joseph (1682-1738): Andromède et Persée
Richard Duguay (tenor)
Ensemble Arion

4.52am
Forster, Kaspar (1616-1673): Ah, peccatores graves
Olga Pasiecznik, Marta Boberska (sopranos)
Kai Wessel (alto)
Krzysztof Szmyt, Jacek Wislocki (tenors)
Dirk Snellings (bass)
Ensemble Il Tempo

5.00am
Avison, Charles (1709-1770): Concerto grosso No 2 in G
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Jeanne Lamon (director)

5.13am
Fodor, Carolus Antonius (1768-1846): Symphony No 3
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Anthony Halstead (conductor)

5.42am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): As cheers the sun (Joshua); Perche viva il caro sposo (Rodrigo)
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Academy of Ancient Music
Andrew Manze (director)

5.52am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Contrapunctus 1 and 2 (Art of Fugue)
Young Danish String Quartet

5.58am
Tobias, Rudolf (1873-1918): Absol
Eesti Projekt Chamber Choir

6.06am
Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706): Aria Quinta in Am (Hexachordum Apollinis)
Kees van Houten (organ)

6.15am
Larsen, Tore Bjorn (b.1957): Three Rosettes
Fionian Chamber Choir
Alice Granum (director)

6.29am
Erkel, Ferenc (1810-1893): Aria of Bank
Lajos Miller (baritone)
Hungarian Radio Orchestra
Gesa Oberfrank (director)

6.32am
Fall, Leo (1873-1925): O Rose von Stambul
Rudolf Schock (tenor)
West Deutsches Rundfunkorchester Köln
Franz Marszalek (conductor)

6.37am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Der Rosenkavalier - grand suite
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec
Franz-Paul Decker (conductor)