Sunday 28th January 2007

07:00

Morning on 3

28 January 2007

Presented by Martin Handley.

Including at 7.00am

Arne: Rise, Glory, Rise
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

Mozart: Symphony No 27
Prague Chamber Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)

8.00am

Dunstable: Veni Sancte Spiritus/Veni Creator Spiritus
Hilliard Ensemble

Schubert: Sonata in A flat, D557
Andras Schiff (piano)

09:00

The Cowan Collection

28 January 2007

Rob Cowan introduces some favourite recordings.

Featuring The Innocent Ear (music played with minimal introduction to encourage listening without preconceptions) and the recording of Shostakovich's Cello Sonata recommended on CD Review.

The programme includes:

German: Henry VIII Dances
London Pops Orchestra
Frederick Fennell (conductor)

Schubert: Symphony No 3
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen (conductor)

Bax: Mediterranean
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Adrian Boult (conductor)

Handel: Concerto grosso in F, Op 3 No 4b
Collegium Aureum

Schumann, orch. Rimsky-Korsakov, Arensky, Glazunov, etc: Carnaval
Philharmonia Orchestra
Robert Irving (conductor)

Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (Act 3, Scene 3 excerpt)
Beniamino Gigli (tenor)
Ezio Pinza (bass)
Unnamed orchestra

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Jacques Rouvier (piano)

12:00

Private Passions

Henry Goodman

Michael Berkeley's guest is actor Henry Goodman, well-known for his stage appearances in the classical repertory and in films, television and West End musicals such as Follies and Chicago.

His wide-ranging musical passions include operas by Verdi, Bizet and Richard Strauss, Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht, Jewish traditional music and a song by Jacques Brel.

13:00

The Early Music Show

From Sweden

Andrew Manze visits Drottningholm Palace, home of the Swedish royal family. Music includes works by Duben, Roman and Zellbell.

14:00

Sunday Gala

Andras Schiff with Robert Holl

Stephanie Hughes introduces the second of two concerts featuring pianist Andras Schiff recorded at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. He is joined by by Dutch bass Robert Holl for a programme of German lieder by Schubert, Wolf and Brahms.

Including:

Schubert: Auf der Donau; Lied eines schiffers an der Dioskuren; Der Schiffer; Der Entsühnte Orest; Fragment aus der Aeschylus; Prometheus; Grenzen der Menschheit; Im Abendrot
Wolf: Three Michelangelo sonnets
Brahms: Four serious songs, Op121

16:00

3 for all

28 January 2007

Brian Kay introduces listeners' requests, including Tasmin Little in Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending, Mozart's Piano Sonata in C, K545, with an intriguing accompaniment for a second piano by Grieg, and Lisa della Casa's highly acclaimed recording of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs.

17:45

lebrecht.live

Is the blog emerging as a new art form?

Norman Lebrecht debates another cultural issue with guests in the studio and around the world. This programme asks whether the blog is emerging as a new art form. In a media environment that is changing by the minute, news and comment about the arts are increasingly being driven by first-person websites. Is this the end of criticism as we know it, or the beginning of an interactive audience?

18:30

The Choir

Nigel Short

Former King's Singer and choral director Nigel Short joins Aled Jones to talk about how a chance encounter with a Formula 1 star led to the birth of his vocal group Tenebrae.

Plus a trip to Huddersfield to explore the unique choral world of The 17, singers who 'use no libretto, lyrics or words; no time signatures, rhythm or beats; and have no knowledge of melody, counterpoint or harmony.' Hearing them in action proves harder than envisaged.

20:00

Drama on 3

Professor Bernhardi

Professor Bernhardi, by Arthur Schnitzler. In Vienna in 1900, a distinguished Jewish doctor prevents a Catholic priest from administering last rites to a dying patient. His actions provoke a political witch-hunt, leading to the professor's trial and imprisonment.

This new version of a play which had been unseen in London for over 70 years was produced for the stage by Dumbfounded Theatre Company in 2005 by National Theatre playwright Samuel Adamson.

21:30

Sunday Feature

The Struggle for Language

The Struggle for Language. 2/3: Turkish. Maureen Freely hears how writers like Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk work with a language censored by a government reform.

2/3. Turkish

Maureen Freely hears how writers like Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk work with a language that had half its vocabulary expunged, or made politically incorrect, in a government reform that banned words of Arabic and Persian origin in favour of pure Turkish.

22:15

Andy Kershaw

Christmas in Ashgabat

Christmas in Ashgabat: Turkmenistan is a curious, little-visited place where the months of the year are named after the President's family, beards are illegal, and there is a public holiday for the honey-dew melon. Andy forsakes his traditional seasonal fare for a glass of Presidential Vodka, a Christmas Kebab, and a generous helping of Turkmen national folk music, in the first British documentary ever made inside one of the world's most autocratic states.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Part One

In November 1792, Beethoven set out for Vienna from his native Bonn. It was his second visit, and this time the move was to be permanent. He quickly established himself as a prodigiously talented pianist and composer. Donald Macleod looks at some of his earliest Viennese works involving the piano.

Piano Trio in C minor, Op 1 No 3 (third movement)
Florestan Trio:
Anthony Marwood (violin)
Richard Lester (cello)
Susan Tomes (piano)

Adelaide
Stephan Genz (baritone)
Roger Vignoles (piano)

Quintet in E flat, Op 16 (third movement)
Murray Perahia (piano)
Neil Black (oboe)
Thea King (clarinet)
Anthony Halstead (horn)
Graham Sheen (bassoon)

Piano Concerto No 2
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

28 January 2007

28 January 2007

With John Shea.

1.00am
The Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953), arr. Fedoseyev: Ivan the Terrible - oratorio
Alexei Petrenko (bass/narrator)
Radio France Chorus
1.55am
Kalinnikov, Vasily Sergeyevich (1866-1901): Symphony No 1
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor)

2.33am
Tsvetanov, Tsvetan (1931-1982): Theme and Variations
Avramov String Quartet

2.39am
Tubin, Eduard (1905-1982): Sonata in the Phrygian Mode
Ulrika Kristian (violin)
Marje Lohuaru (piano)

3.01am
Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594): Missa Osculetur me
Royal Academy of Music Chamber Choir
Royal Academy of Music Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble
Patrick Russill (conductor)

3.25am
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ
Leo van Doeselaar (organ)

3.39am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Orchestral Suite No 2
La Petite Bande
Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)

4.00am
Pez, Johann Christoph (1664-1716): Overture in Dm
Hildebrand'sche Hoboisten Compagnie

4.10am
Skjavetic, Julije (16th century Croatian composer): I do not wish to praise
Slovenian Chamber Choir
Vladimir Kranjcevic (director)

4.14am
Janacek, Leos (1854-1928): The Fiddler's Child
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

4.28am
Massenet, Jules (1842-1912): Melodie-elegie
Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello)
Heini Karkkainen (piano)

4.31am
Piazzolla, Astor (1921-1992): Le Grand Tango
Musica Camerata Montréal

4.42am
Nardelli, Mario (1927-1993): Three pieces
Mario Nardelli (guitar)

4.52am
Noskowski, Zygmunt (1846-1909): Sir Zolzikiewicz (overture)
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra
Zygmunt Rychert (conductor)

5.00am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Lyric Suite
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)

5.18am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Bolero in Am, Op 19
Michel Dussault (piano)

5.25am
Fitelberg, Grzegorz (1879-1953): The Song about a Falcon
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Stanislaw Wislocki (conductor)

5.38am
Bacheler, Daniel (c.1574-c.1610): Pavan
Nigel North (lute)

5.44am
D'India, Sigismondo (c.1582-c.1629): Forbidden dreams and hopeless love
Consort of Musicke

5.51am
Gershwin, George (1898-1937), trans. Grainger: Love Walked In
Dennis Hennig (piano)

5.56am
Khachaturian, Aram (1903-1978): Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
Ukranian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)

6.06am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Ch'io mi scordi di te?? Non temer, amato bene
Tuva Semmingsen (soprano)
Jorn Fosheim (piano)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Michel Tabachnik (conductor)

6.16am
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924): Piano Trio in Dm, Op 120
Grumiaux Trio

6.38am
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921): Danse macabre
David Drury (organ)

6.47am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Mephisto Waltz No 1
Janina Fialkowska (piano)