Thursday 8th February 2007

07:00

Morning on 3

8 February 2007

Presented by Penny Gore.

Including at 7.00am
Mozart: Ein Madchen oder Weibchen (Die Zauberflöte)
Matthias Goerne (baritone)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck (conductor)

Beethoven: Bagatelle in E flat, Op 33 No 1
Stephen Kovacevich (piano)

Janacek: The Ballad of Blanik Hill
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

8.30am
Telemann: Concerto in A, TWV51.A2 (Les Rainettes)
Midori Seiler (violin)
Berlin Academy of Ancient Music

Mahler: Urlicht (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Alice Coote (mezzo)
Julius Drake (piano)

Poulenc: Piano Concerto
Pascal Rogé (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

8 February 2007

With Rob Cowan.

10.00am
Bruckner: Overture in Gm
Residentie Orkest
Willem van Otterloo (conductor)
CHALLENGE CC 72142

10.12am
Liszt: Prelude and Fugue on BACH
Thomas Trotter (organ)
SYMPHONY HALL SHCD 3

10.24am
Bach: Fürchte dich nicht, BWV 228
Cantus Cölln
Konrad Junghänel (director)
DHM 74321 935432

10.34am
Suk: About Mother, Op 28
Pavel Stepan (piano)
SUPRAPHON SU 3820-2 (3-CD set)

10.58am
Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229
Lausanne Vocal Ensemble
Michel Corboz (director)
CASACAVELLE VEL 3090 (2-CD set)

11.07am
Brahms, arr. Busoni: Es ist ein' ros' entsprungen (Chorale prelude)
Paul Jacobs (piano)
ARBITER 124 (2-CD set)

11.12am
Brahms: Symphony No 1
Residentie Orkest
Willem van Otterloo (conductor)
CHALLENGE CC 72142

12:00

Composer of the Week

John Adams (b.1947)

Part Four

Donald Macleod's look at the work of John Adams continues through the 1990s, taking in music that draws its inspiration from such influences as Schoenberg, Slonimsky and Nancarrow. Macleod talks to Adams about the musical direction his work took through this period, and the extent to which the minimalist label is still appropriate.

Chamber Symphony third movement (Roadrunner)
London Sinfonietta
John Adams (conductor)

Slonimsky's Earbox
Halle Orchestra
Kent Nagano (conductor)

Century Rolls
Emanuel Ax (piano)
Cleveland Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnanyi (conductor)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Preludes to the Afternoon

8 February 2007

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a series of recitals from the Perth Concert Hall featuring preludes and fugues by Dmitri Shostakovich.

Juho Pohjonen (piano)

Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue No 5 in D; No 6 in Bm
Mendelssohn: Six Preludes and Fugues, Op 35

14:00

Afternoon Performance

British Symphony Series: Robert Simpson

Sandy Burnett presents the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vernon Handley.

Simpson: Symphony No 10

Plus a selection of music recorded at this year's Royal Northern College of Music Brass Festival.

16:00

Brian Kay's Light Programme

8 February 2007

Brian Kay plays light classics, including pieces by Robert Farnon, Charles Williams, Frederick Curzon, Angela Morley and Montague Phillips's Four Dances from The Rebel Maid.

17:00

In Tune

8 February 2007

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

19:30

Performance on 3

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Part One

Petroc Trelawny presents the first part of tonight's concert, live from the City Halls, Glasgow.

Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No 1 (original version)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24

20:25

Twenty Minutes

"Music" by Vladimir Nabokov

Music, by Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Dmitri Nabokov.

The emotions of a painful break-up are captured in exquisite detail in this short story set during a music recital in Berlin.

Read by Ben Miles.

20:45

Performance on 3

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Part Two

Petroc Trelawny presents the second part of tonight's concert, live from the City Halls, Glasgow.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Beethoven: Symphony No 6 (Pastoral)

21:30

Night Waves

Sir Robert Walpole

Isabel Hilton and guests discuss Sir Robert Walpole, the man usually regarded as Britain's first prime minister. In the year in which the country expects to find itself with a new leader, what can Walpole's life tell us about the role?

22:15

Late Junction

8 February 2007

Fiona Talkington features ballet music from Cambodia, traditional music from Latvia and choral music and song from Russia.

00:00

Composer of the Week

Alban Berg (1885-1935)

Sound Secrets, Pandora's Box

Sound Secrets: Pandora's Box.

Donald Macleod looks at Berg's final masterpieces, both of which include secret self-portraits of the composer.

Hier ist Friede (Here is peace)
(From Five Orchestral Songs to Picture-Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg)
Jessye Norman (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)

Lulu (Act 11 excerpts)
Alwa ...... John Graham-Hall (tenor)
Lulu ...... Lisa Saffer (soprano)
Manservant ...... Alan Oke (tenor)
Dr. Schön ...... Robert Hayward (baritone)
Acrobat ...... Robert Poulton (baritone)
Countess Geschwitz ...... Susan Parry (mezzo)
Schoolboy ...... Anna Burford (mezzo)
English National Opera Orchestra
Paul Daniel (conductor)

Violin Concerto (1935)
Daniel Hope (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Paul Watkins (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

8 February 2007

8 February 2007

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am
The Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra at Lisinski Concert Hall
Tchaikovsky, Peter (1840-1893): Suite No 1
1.37am
Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899): Poème
Stefan Milenkovich (violin)
1.55am
Glazunov, Alexander (1865-1936): Raymonda
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Pavel Kogan (conductor)

2.11am
Albeniz, Isaac (1860-1909): Spanish Suite
Ilze Graubina (piano)

2.34am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): String Quartet in E flat, Op 127
Oslo Quartet

3.18am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 104 (London)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Philippe Entremont (conductor)

3.45am
Fodor, Carlus A. (1768-1846): Sonata in F sharp m, Op 22 No 2
Arthur Schoondewoerd (fortepiano)

4.01am
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869): Rakoczy March (La Damnation de Faust)
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

4.06am
Kodaly, Zoltan (1882-1967): A song about King Stephen
Hungarian Radio Chorus
Peter Erdei (conductor)

4.11am
Bartok, Bela (1881-1945): Four Old Hungarian Folksongs
Male Choir of the Hungarian Army
Bela Podor (conductor)

4.16am
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958): Norfolk Rhapsody No 1
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Heinze (conductor)

4.27am
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934), arr. Passmore: Salut d'Amour
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello)
William Tritt (piano)

4.30am
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755): Concerto per quartetto No 3 in E flat
Concerto Köln

4.41am
Forster, Kaspar (1616-1673): Repleta est malis
Kai Wessel (countertenor)
Krzysztof Szmyt (tenor)
Grzegorz Zychowicz (bass)
Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble

4.52am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Secondo Trietto
La Coloquinte

5.00am
Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich (c.1620-1680): Vesperae sollennes
Gradus ad Parnassum
Concerto Palatino
Wiener Hofburgkapelle Choral Scholars
Konrad Junghänel (director)

5.22am
Wilbye, John (1574-1638): Draw on, sweet night
Ensemble Daedalus
Roberto Festa (director)

5.27am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Partita in Cm, BWV 997
Konrad Junghänel (lute)

5.50am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Suite in Gm, HWV 439
Jautrite Putnina (piano)

6.06am
Delibes, Léo (1836-1891): Fantaisie aux divins mensonges (Lakme)
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor)
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
Richard Bradshaw (conductor)

6.12am
Guerrero, Francisco (c.1528-1599): Ojos claros y serenos
Montserrat Figueras (soprano)
Maite Arruabarrena (mezzo)
Paolo Costa (countertenor)
Lambert Climent (tenor)
Hespèrion XX
Jordi Savall (director)

6.14am
Guerrero, Francisco (c.1528-1599): Prado verde y florido
Montserrat Figueras (soprano)
Maite Arruabarrena (mezzo)
Lambert Climent (tenor)
Francesc Garrigosa (tenor)
Hespèrion XX
Jordi Savall (director)

6.20am
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924): En sourdine
Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)

6.23am
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924): Nocturne in F sharp m, Op 104
Stéphane Lemelin (piano)

6.28am
Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963): Sonata for harp
Rita Costanzi (harp)

6.41am
Auric, Georges (1899-1983), arr. Lane: It Always Rains on Sunday (suite)
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

6.56am
Strauss, Johann II (1825-1899): Unter Donner und Blitz
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Roman Zeilinger (conductor)