07:00
3 February 2007
Presented by Martin Handley
Including at 7.00am
Bach: Trio Sonata in C, BWV529
Simon Preston (organ)
Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)
8.00am
Chopin: Polonaise-fantaisie in A flat, Op 61
Martha Argerich (piano)
Schumann: Overture, Scherzo and Finale
London Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
09:00
3 February 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: Richard Wigmore compares the available recordings of Haydn's Symphony No 88.
10.15am
A round-up of recently re-issued recordings.
11.00am
Stephen Plaistow samples new discs from four young pianists including Chopin from Simon Trpceski and a mixed recital from seventeen-year-old Adriel Gomez-Mansur.
11.30am
Andrew talks to Australian violinist, director and composer Richard Tognetti, who has just completed a project to record the complete violin music of J S Bach. He also directs the acclaimed Australian Chamber Orchestra and writes music for films, notably Master and Commander starring Russell Crowe.
12.00pm
The Listening Booth: Listeners request the latest CD releases from the programme website.
12.30pm
Disc of the Week: Mahler: Urlicht and other songs
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo)
Julius Drake (piano)
13:00
Cavalli's Calisto
Catherine Bott looks at Cavalli's opera Calisto and how approaches to this work have developed since the pioneering recording and performances by Raymond Leppard.
14:00
Tchaikovsky's Symphonie Pathetique (first movement)
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6 begins with a section which is as compelling as any tone poem. Charles Hazlewood explores this great movement with the BBC Philharmonic.
15:00
Uganda
Lucy Duran presents the second of two programmes recorded in Uganda. She travels east from the source of the Nile into the Busoga Kingdom, an area famed for its music. She hears the giant pit xylophone, so named because of the large hole dug in the ground over which it resonates. Another group turn out to be fans of the World Service and compose a special song about the BBC.
16:00
3 February 2007
Helen Mayhew presents a selection of new releases and a UK gig guide.
17:00
3 February 2007
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
18:00
The Caribbean Connection
Programme Two
Soweto Kinch explores the relationship between jazz in the West Indies and today's generation of Anglo-Caribbean players. He traces the story of the musical heirs of Joe Harriott and Harold McNair, in particular the Jazz Warriors. He hears from Courtney Pine, Bammi Rose, Gary Crosby and Jason Yarde about the renaissance in Anglo-Caribbean jazz and looks at how Tomorrow's Warriors and Jazz Jamaica grew out of the active London jazz scene of the 1980s.
18:30
Puccini' s La Boheme
Acts One and Two
Live from the New York Metropolitan Opera, Margaret Juntwait presents Franco Zeffirelli's production of Puccini's masterpiece.
Mimi ...... Cristina Gallardo-Domas (soprano)
Musetta ...... Ainhoa Arteta (soprano)
Rodolfo ...... Marcello Giordani (tenor)
Marcello ...... Dwayne Croft (baritone)
Schaunard ...... Aaron St Clair Nicholson (baritone)
Colline ...... John Relyea (bass)
Benoit/Alcindoro ...... Paul Plishka (bass)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi (conductor)
(Acts 1 and 2)
19:30
Leaving Home
Leaving Home: When Christine Finn's parents died within a year of each other, it fell to her to clear out and sell the family home in Deal, Kent. As an archaeologist, she found she could best handle the project as one of excavation and restoration - a process aimed at enabling her finally to let go
19:50
Puccini' s La Boheme
Act Three
Live from the New York Metropolitan Opera, Margaret Juntwait presents Franco Zeffirelli's production of Puccini's masterpiece.
Mimi ...... Cristina Gallardo-Domas (soprano)
Musetta ...... Ainhoa Arteta (soprano)
Rodolfo ...... Marcello Giordani (tenor)
Marcello ...... Dwayne Croft (baritone)
Schaunard ...... Aaron St Clair Nicholson (baritone)
Colline ...... John Relyea (bass)
Benoit/Alcindoro ...... Paul Plishka (bass)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi (conductor)
(Act 3)
20:25
3 February 2007
Opera buffs pit their wits against teasers sent in by listeners.
20:45
La Boheme
Act Four
Live from the New York Metropolitan Opera, Margaret Juntwait presents Franco Zeffirelli's production of Puccini's masterpiece.
Mimi ...... Cristina Gallardo-Domas (soprano)
Musetta ...... Ainhoa Arteta (soprano)
Rodolfo ...... Marcello Giordani (tenor)
Marcello ...... Dwayne Croft (baritone)
Schaunard ...... Aaron St Clair Nicholson (baritone)
Colline ...... John Relyea (bass)
Benoit/Alcindoro ...... Paul Plishka (bass)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi (conductor)
(Act 4)
21:30
3 February 2007
Ian McMillan presents the weekly magazine about language. Louise Welsh brings a thriller writer's perspective to a specially commissioned piece about the sinister night life in a large factory in Edinburgh. Daljit Nagra, bard of Dollis Hill, talks to Ian about his collection Look We Have Coming To Dover.
22:15
Alfred Schnittke's Choir Concerto
Valery Polyansky directs the Russian State Symphonic Cappella in a performance of Alfred Schnittke's Choir Concerto.
23:00
3 February 2007
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a concert of new music selected by SPNM artistic director Rolf Hind, recorded at the Wigmore Hall.
Rolf Hind (piano)
Duke Quartet
Alfred Schnittke: Piano Quintet
Jeremy Thurlow: The Will of the Tones
Naomi Pinnock: IS
Shiori Usui: Liya-pyuwa
Philip Venables: String Quartet
Rolf Hind: The Eye of Fire
01:00
3 February 2007
3 February 2007
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00am
Camerata Salzburg at the 2006 BBC Proms
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Symphony No 1
1.14am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Violin Concerto No 3
Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
1.37am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 82 (The Bear)
Camerata Salzburg
Leonidas Kavakos (director)
2.05am
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): Song of the Bear
Mattias Ermedahl (tenor)
Anders Kilstrom (piano)
2.12am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Sonata in G
Peter Oundjian (violin)
William Tritt (piano)
2.31am
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764): Le Temple de la gloire
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
3.01am
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924): Quartet in Cm, Op 15
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
Jannica Gustafsson (violin)
Hakan Olsson (viola)
Mats Rondin (cello)
3.35am
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974): La création du monde
Canadian Chamber Ensemble
Raffi Armenian (conductor)
3.54am
Marais, Marin (1656-1728): Caprice ou sonate
Pierre Pitzel, Mary Jean Bolli (violas da gamba)
Augusta Campagne (harpsichord)
4.00am
Ranta, Sulho (1901-1960): Finnish Folk Dances
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
4.09am
Wanski, Jan (1762-1821): Symphony in G on themes from The Peasant
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Andrzej Mysinski (conductor)
4.25am
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594): Missa Ut re mi fa sol la (Agnus Dei)
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul van Nevel (director)
4.32am
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868): The Silken Ladder (overture)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
James Clark (conductor)
4.39am
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903): Intermezzo in E flat
Ljubljana String Quartet
4.53am
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958): 3 Shakespeare Songs
Camerata Chamber Choir
Michael Bojesen (conductor)
5.00am
Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847): Allegro moderato, Op 8 No 1
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
5.05am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto in A, RV335 (Cuckoo)
Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Paul Dyer (director)
5.15am
Koutev, Philip (1903-1982): Dragana and the Nightingale
Sofia Chamber Choir
Vassil Arnaudov (conductor)
5.18am
Schnittke, Alfred (1934-1998): Suite in the Olden Style
Daniil Shafran (cello)
Anton Osetrov (piano)
5.32am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Marche Slave
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
5.42am
Stanley, John (1712-1786): Organ Concerto in Cm
John Toll (organ)
London Baroque
5.53am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): 2 Marches in E flat
Bratislava Chamber Harmony
Justus Pavlik (director)
6.00am
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896): Te Deum in C
Giorgia Milanesi (soprano)
Ulfried Haselsteiner (tenor)
Anne Margrethe Punsvik Gluch (soprano)
Thomas Mohr (baritone)
Havard Stendsvold (bass-baritone)
Kristiansand Cathedral Choir
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Rolf Gupta (conductor)
6.26am
Rathaus, Karol (1895-1954): Nocturne, Op 44
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra
Joel Suben (conductor)
6.38am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Fantasy in C, D760 (Wandererfantasie)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
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