Wednesday 31st January 2007

07:00

Morning on 3

31 January 2007

Presented by Sandy Burnett.

From 7.00am

Borodin: Prince Igor (overture)
Kirov Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)

Handel: Concerto in F, HWV 295 (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale)
Simon Preston (organ)
English Concert
Trevor Pinnock (director)

Ravel: Sites Auriculaires
Jean-Philippe Collard, Michel Béroff (piano)

From 8.30am

Mozart: Adagio in E, K261
Anne Sophie Mutter (violin)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)

Biber: Partita No 3
Tafelmusik
Jeanne Lamon (director)

Debussy: Marche ecossaise
French National Radio Orchestra
Jean Martinon (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

31 January 2007

With Rob Cowan.

10.00am
Diack: Little Jack Horner
Alexander Kipnis (bass)
Ernst Victor Wolff (piano)
NIMBUS NI 7839

10.04am
Bach: Cello Suite No 4
Gavriel Lipkind (cello)
LIPKIND/EDEL 0016132GLP

10.31am
Mozart: Die Zauberflote (Act II excerpt)
Alexander Kipnis (bass)
Berlin State Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Erich Orthmann (conductor)
PREISER 89019

10.34am
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Act I excerpt)
Alexander Kipnis (bass)
Jarmila Novotna (soprano)
Ezio Pinza (tenor)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Bruno Walter (conductor)
NAXOS 8.110013-4

10.44am
Antheil: Symphony No 3 (American)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hugh Wolff (conductor)
CPO 777 040-2

11.11am
Grieg: Sonata in G, Op 13
Jascha Heifetz (violin)
Emanuel Bay (piano)
RCA 09026 61734 2

11.32am
Handel: Ariodante (excerpt); Berenice (excerpt)
Alexander Kipnis (bass)
Arthur Bergh (piano)
SONY MHK 62354

11.42am
Schumann: Manfred Overture
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Carl Schuricht (conductor)
TESTAMENT SBT2 1403

12:00

Composer of the Week

Alban Berg (1885-1935)

Sound Secrets, Suddenly All Is Over

Donald Macleod explores Berg's Vienna, a city of breathtaking change. Shockwaves were felt from new discoveries in sciences and the arts and new fears were unleashed as the Austrian empire began to crumble. Vienna's young artists produced deliberately radical works of art designed to shock.

Uber die Grenzen des All (Beyond the bounds of space)
(From Five Orchestral Songs to Picture-Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg)
Jessye Norman (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)

Four Songs, Op 2 (1909-10)
Dagmar Peckova (soprano)
Irwin Gage (piano)

Three Orchestral Pieces, Op 6 (1913-15)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

Wozzeck, Act 111 (excerpt)
Marie ...... Josephine Barstow (soprano)
Wozzeck ...... Andrew Shore (baritone)
Magret ...... Jean Rigby (mezzo)
Doctor ...... Clive Bayley (bass)
Captain ...... Stuart Kale (tenor)
Susan Singh Choristers
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra
Paul Daniel (conductor)

Schliesse mir die Augen beide (1925) (Close both my eyes, Theodor Storm, 1925)
Jessye Norman (soprano)
Ann Schein (piano)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Schubert Swansongs

Programme Two

Fiona Talkington introduces a series from LSO St Luke's in London. The programme consists of piano music dating from the last years of Schubert's life alongside songs from the Schwanengesang collection published after his death.

Steven Osborne (piano)
Andrew Kennedy (tenor)

Schubert:
Abschied; In der Ferne; Aufenthalt (Schwanengesang, D957)
Sonata in G, D894

14:00

Afternoon Performance

British Symphony Series: Robert Simpson

With John Shea.

Musgrave: A Medieval Summer
BBC Singers Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Howells: Hymnus Paradisi
Joan Rodgers (soprano)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Singers
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Simpson: Symphony No 4 (revised version)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Kok (conductor)

16:00

Choral Evensong

Live from King's College, London

Live from King's College, London.

Introit: Domine salva nos (Byrd)
Responses: Byrd
Psalms: 147, 148 (Stanford)
First Lesson: Genesis 19 vv1-3, 12-29
Canticles: Jackson in G minor
Second Lesson: Matthew 27 vv45-56
Anthems: Evening Hymn (Harris)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Victoria)
Final Hymn: Hail to the Lord's Anointed (Cruger)
Organ Voluntary: Kyrie, Gott Heiliger Geist, BWV671 (Bach)

Director of Music: David Trendell
Organ Scholar: Tom Little

17:00

In Tune

31 January 2007

Sean Rafferty's guests are harpsichordist and conductor Richard Egarr, who plays live in the studio ahead of his solo recital at the Wigmore Hall in London on Thursday; conductor Jeffrey Skidmore, who talks about Ex Cathedra's concert at St John's, Smith Square on Saturday; and mezzo-sopranos Sarah Connolly and Christine Rice discuss their roles in the new English National Opera production of Handel's Agrippina, which opens next Monday.

19:30

Performance on 3

John Ogdon 70th Anniversary

Concert Three

Sarah Walker presents a series commemorating the 70th anniversary of the birth of one of the great pianists of the twentieth century.

The programme includes contributions and memories from friends and colleagues, including pianist Artur Pizarro.

Tippett: Piano Concerto
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Etudes-tableaux

Chaminade: Etudes de concert

Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Constantin Silvestri (conductor)

21:30

Night Waves

Brian Eno

Gabriel Gbadomosi hears about the new exhibition of the work of Brian Eno, which opens at the Baltic art gallery in Newcastle this week. Eno, musician, artist and man of ideas, has used electronic screens to create constantly evolving paintings out of handmade slides randomly combined by computer software. The result consists of 77 million paintings.

22:15

Late Junction

31 January 2007

Robert Sandall features music from The Necks, Susumu Yokota, Ysaye's solo violin sonatas performed by Frank Peter Zimmerman, and Bonnie Prince Billy.

00:00

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)

01:00

Through the Night

31 January 2007

31 January 2007

With John Shea.

1.00am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Sonata No 10
1.10am
Fiocco, Joseph Hector (1703-1741): Suite in G
Geert Bierling (organ)
1.19am
Dubois, Theodore (1837-1924): Messe de Mariage (excerpts)
Anja Hendrikx (organ)
1.36am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Overture in C, K399
1.41am
Hummel, Johann Neopumuk (1778-1837): Andante in A flat
1.44am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): 2 Allegros, WoO33 Nos 3, 4
1.49am
Czerny, Carl (1791-1857): Prelude in G, Op 698, No 4
Rob Nederlof (organ)

1.53am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Magnificat in D, BWV 243
Antonella Balducci (soprano)
Ulrike Clausen (alto)
Frieder Lang (tenor)
Fulvio Bettini (baritone)
Chorus of Swiss-Italian Radio and Ensemble Vanitas
Diego Fasolis (conductor)

2.21am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), arr. Duczmal: Quintet in A, K581
Wojciech Mrozek (clarinet)
Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra
Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)

2.52am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Triple Concerto in C
Arve Tellefsen (violin)
Truls Mork (cello)
Havard Gimse (piano)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Rolf Gupta (conductor)

3.27am
Satie, Erik (1866-1925), arr. Goto: Je te veux
Piano duo Kolacny

3.31am
Obrecht, Jacob (1450-1505): J'ai pris amours a ma devise
Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet

3.38am
Palmgren, Selim (1878-1951): Cinderella Suite
Finnish Radio SO
George de Godzinsky (conductor)

4.00am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
BBC Scottish SO
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

4.11am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 7 (Le Midi)
National Arts Centre Orchestra
Gabriel Chmura (conductor)

4.34am
Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594): Luxuriosa res vinum
Currende
Erik van Nevel (conductor)

4.38am
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837): Trio in G
Viktor Simcisko (violin)
Alzbeta Plazkurova (viola)
Jozef Sikora (cello)

4.53am
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713): Sonate da Chiesa in F, Op 1, No 1
London Baroque

5.00am
Borodin, Alexander (1833-1887): Prince Igor (overture)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)

5.11am
Byrd, William (c.1543-1623): O Lord, how vain
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Rose Consort of Viols

5.18am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Sonata in Em, HobXVI.34
Niklas Sivelov (piano)

5.31am
Pranzer, Joseph (early 19th century): Concert Duo No 4
Alojz and Andrej Zupan (clarinets)

5.43am
Gilse, Jan van (1881-1944)
Concert Overture in Cm
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)

5.53am
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936): Ancient Airs and Dances (Suite No 3)
I Cameristi Italiani

6.12am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): 6 Sonatas
Bratislava Chamber Harmony

6.32am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): 4 Songs for women's voices, Op 17
Danish National Radio Choir
Leif Lind, Per McClelland Jacobsen (horns)
Catriona Yeats (harp)
Stefan Parkman (conductor)

6.47am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Brandenburg Concerto No 2
Mark Bennett (trumpet)
Terje Tonnesen, Cecilia Waahlberg, Bjarte Eike (violins)
Frode Thorsen (recorder)
Anna-Maija Luolajan-Mikkola (oboe)
Andreas Torgersen (viola)
Markku Luolajan-Mikkola (cello)
Dan Styffe (bass)
Hans Knut Sveen (harpsichord)