Thursday 25th January 2007

07:00

Morning on 3

25 January 2007

Presented by Sandy Burnett.

Including at 7.00am
Elgar: Serenade in Em
Hallé Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)

Rossini: Overture (The Barber of Seville)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
James Judd (conductor)

Corelli: Concerto grosso in C, Op 6 No 10
Alessandro Stradella Consort
Estevan Velardi (director)

8.30am
Shostakovich: Ball at the Palace (Hamlet)
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Bernard Herrmann (conductor)

Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Philippa Davies (flute)
Roger Chase (viola)
Marisa Robles (harp)

Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain (original version)
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
Theodore Kuchar (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

25 January 2007

With Jonathan Swain.

10.00am

Saint-Saëns: La Princesse jaune (overture)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch (conductor)
EMI CZS 575477-2 (2-CD set)

10.07am
Vivaldi: Concerto in C, RV558
Members of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (harpsichord/director)
SONY CLASSICAL SMK 47642

10.19am
Berlioz: Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch (conductor)
RCA 09026 61400 2

10.31am
Verdi: The Veil Song (Don Carlos, Act 1)
Grace Brumby (soprano)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Georg Solti (conductor)
DECCA 421 114-2 (3-CD set)

10.36am
Rachmaninov: Moment musical in Em, Op 16 No 4; Prelude in Gm, Op 32 No 5; Lilacs, Op 21 No 5
Benno Moiseiwitsch (piano)
TESTAMENT SBT1196

10.45am
Vivaldi: Concerto in F, RV551
Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman (violins)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL SM2K 66472 (2-CD set)

10.57am
Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien
Phyllis Curtin (soprano)
Florence Kopleff, Catherine Akos (altos)
New England Conservatoire Chorus
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch (speaker and conductor)
RCA GD 60684

12:00

Composer of the Week

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Part Four

22 December, 1808 was the date of one of the most extraordinary concerts in musical history. The programme included world premieres of Beethoven's fifth and sixth Symphonies, his Choral Fantasia and his fourth Piano Concerto. The occasion would also be the composer's last major public performance.

Piano Concerto No 4
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Karl Bohm (conductor)

Fantasia in Cm, Op 80
Carola Hohn, Katharina Kammerloher (soprano)
Andrea Bonig (mezzo)
Endrik Wottrich, Par Lindskog (tenor)
Rene Pape (baritone)
Chorus of the German Staatsoper
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Mourning for Scandinavia

Sibelius and Grieg

Petroc Trelawny introduces a series of concerts from The Sage Gateshead, looking at the music of Scandinavian composers.

Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
Greta Dowdeswell (piano)

Sibelius:
Sonatine, Op 80
Romance, Op 78 No 2
Rondino, Op 81 No 2
Valse, Op 81 No 3
Mazurka, Op 81 No 1
Auf der Heide, Op 115 No 1
Scene de danse, Op 116 No 1
Danse caracteristique, Op 116 No 2
Die Glocken, Op 115 No 4

Grieg:
Sonata in Cm, Op 45

14:00

Afternoon Performance

BBC Scottish SO

Live from Glasgow City Hall, presented by Martin Handley.

Martin Roscoe (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Titov (conductor)

R Strauss: Don Juan
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20
Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version)

16:00

Brian Kay's Light Programme

25 January 2007

Brian Kay plays a selection of light classics, including music by Juventino Rosas, Leroy Anderson and Edward German's Three Dances from Henry VIII.

17:00

In Tune

25 January 2007

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world.

19:30

Performance on 3

Sibelius' Symphony Cycle

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Stephen Johnson presents a series recorded in Glasgow's City Halls.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Leif Segerstam (conductor)

Sibelius: Symphony No 5; Symphony No 6; Symphony No 7

21:30

Night Waves

Gabriel Gbadamosi

Gabriel Gbadamosi talks to playwright Christopher Hampton about the West End revival of his 1970s play Treats, starring Billie Piper.

22:15

Late Junction

25 January 2007

Robert Sandall features music from Talk Talk, Sufjan Stevens, Lou Harrison and contemporary composition from Ireland.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Frank Bridge (1879-1941)

Part Five

Bridge was not alone amongst composers in finding that what he wanted to write was not necessarily what the public wanted to hear. Donald Macleod and Paul Hindmarsh examine how he found himself increasingly at odds with his audience as he searched for a distinctive voice.

Go not, happy day (Tennyson)
Jamie McDougall (tenor)
Roger Vignoles (piano)

Three Lyrics
Ashley Wass (piano)

Sir Roger de Coverley
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Piano Trio No 2
Bernard Roberts Trio

Threads (first movement)
Britten Sinfonia
Nicholas Cleobury (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

25 January 2007

25 January 2007

With John Shea.

1.00am
BBC National Orchestra of Wales at the 2006 BBC Proms
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-91): Concerto in E flat for two pianos and orchestra, K365
Paul Lewis, Till Felner (pianos)

1.27am
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Symphony No 7
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)

2.05am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-91): Serenade in B flat, K361 (Gran Partita)
Collegium Aureum

2.55am
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943): Etudes-Tableaux, Op 39
Nicholas Angelich (piano)

3.20am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-93): Swan Lake (suite)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Marko Munih (conductor)

3.42am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Ich steh' am deiner Krippen hier, BWV469; Mein Jesu, was für Seelenweh, BWV487; Selig, wer am Jesum denkt, BWV498
Marco Fink (bass-baritone)
Bernarda Fink (mezzo)
Domen Marincic (gamba)
Dalibor Miklavcic (organ)

3.49am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Suite in G (Burlesque de Don Quichotte)
La Stagione Frankfurt
Michael Schneider (conductor)

4.09am
Falla, Manuel de (1876-1946): Ritual Fire Dance
Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello)
Heini Karkkainen (piano)

4.13am
Sor, Fernando (1778-1839): Introduction and Variations on Mozart's O cara armonia
Ana Vidovic (guitar)

4.22am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Komm, Jesu, komm!
Danish National Radio Choir
Stefan Parkman (conductor)

4.31am
Geminiani, Francesco (1687-1762): Concerto grosso in Em, Op 3 No 6
Camerata Bern
Thomas Furi (conductor)

4.40am
Wingfield, Steven (b. 1955): 3 Bulgarian Dances
Moshe Hammer (violin)
William Beauvais (guitar)

4.48am
Kuhlau, Frederik (1786-1832): Overture (The Magic Harp)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Roman Zeilinger (conductor)

5.00am
Maklakiewicz, Jan (1899-1954): Two Winds
Polish Radio Choir
Marek Kluza (director)

5.06am
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Waltz in E flat, Op 18
Witold Malcuzynski (piano)

5.11am
Schumann, Robert (1810-56): Märchenbilder
Pinchas Zukerman (viola)
Marc Neikrug (piano)

5.27am
Norman, Ludvig (1831-1885): Sextet in Am, Op 29
Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano)
Uppsala Chamber Soloists

5.59am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Sonata in B flat, Op 2 No 3
Musica Alta Ripa

6.10am
Froberger, Johann Jaokob (1616-1667): Capriccio III
Pavao Masic (organ)

6.15am
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Bacchanalia, Op 85 No 10
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Robert Stankovsky (conductor)

6.20am
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911): Romance in G, Op 26
Julia Fischer (violin)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)

6.29am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): 32 Variations in Cm, WoO80
Irena Kobla (piano)

6.41am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Trio in B flat, H XVI 41
Leopold String Trio

6.50am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), arr. Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Sonata in C, K545
Julie Adam, Daniel Herscovitch (pianos)