Sunday 18th February 2007

07:00

Breakfast

Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Including Strauss: Morgen. Mendelssohn: String Symphony No 3. Milhaud: Scaramouche. Chopin: Grande valse brilliante. Handel: Concerto grosso in D, Op 3/6. Saint-Saens: Wedding Cake.

Including at 7.00am
R Strauss: Morgen
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

Mendelssohn: String Symphony No 3
Concerto Koln

Milhaud: Scaramouche
Stephen Coombs, Artur Pizarro (pianos)

8.30am
Chopin: Grande valse brilliante in E flat, Op 18
Murray Perahia (piano)

Handel: Concerto grosso in D, Op 3 No 6
Collegium Aureum

Saint-Saens: Wedding Cake
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Andre Previn (conductor)

10:00

Iain Burnside

18 February 2007

Iain Burnside presents a morning of music interspersed with intelligent comment.

This programme is on the theme of Landscapes, to coincide with the opening of a major new Renoir exhibition at the National Gallery. Guest is Alan Rusbridger, pianist and editor of The Guardian.

Music includes pieces by Messaien, Vaughan Williams, Ibert, Debussy and Haydn.

12:00

Private Passions

Stephen Venables

Michael Berkeley talks to mountaineer Stephen Venables, the first Briton to climb Everest without oxygen. His musical choices include a harpsichord piece by Rameau, Bach's Mass in B minor, Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, Elgar and Weill.

13:00

The Early Music Show

The viol consort

Lucie Skeaping talks to Ian Gammie from the English Consort of Viols about the revival of the viol consort in the 20th century. The programme includes pieces by John Jenkins, Gibbons, Purcell and Christopher Tye.

14:00

Feature

Expressing Your Affection

Simon Russell Beale introduces a selection of WH Auden's poems from the late 1930s, interwoven with musical settings.

Britten: Let the florid music praise! (On This Island)
Berkeley: Lauds
Philip Langridge (tenor)
Steuart Bedford (piano)

Britten: When you're feeling like expressing your affection
Della Jones (mezzo)
Steuart Bedford (piano)

Britten: Rats Away! (Our Hunting Fathers)
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Britten Sinfonia
Daniel Harding (conductor)

Britten: Nocturne (On This Island)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Benjamin Britten (piano)

Britten: Calypso
Della Jones (mezzo)
Steuart Bedford (piano)

Britten: Hymn (Paul Bunyan)
Kenneth Cranham (speaker)
Susan Gritton (soprano)
Timothy Robinson (tenor)
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Britten: Tell me the truth about love
Jill Gomez (soprano)
Martin Jones (piano)

Henze: In Memoriam LKA 1950-52
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Julius Drake (piano)

Bernstein: The Masque (Symphony No 2)
Philippe Entremont (piano)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

Britten: Hymn for St Cecilia Part III
Monteverdi Choir
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

15:00

Performing Britten

Paul Bunyan

Series focusing on the operas of Benjamin Britten. John Evans talks to singers, conductors and directors about performances and recordings with which they are closely associated, and about the problems and pleasures of performing Britten.

American director Francesca Zambello discusses the operetta Paul Bunyan, Britten's first attempt at a stage work, written in America in the early 1940s in collaboration with WH Auden.

16:00

Choral Evensong

From Ely Cathedral

Live from Ely Cathedral.

Introit: I have done what was mine to do (Cecilia McDowall) (first broadcast)
Responses: Paul Trepte
Psalms: 93, 94 (Hurford, SS Wesley)
First Lesson: Exodus 3, vv1-6
Office Hymn: O blest creator of the light (plainsong)
Canticles: St Martin's Service (Cecilia McDowall) (first broadcast)
Second Lesson: John 12, vv27-36a
Anthem: O give thanks (SS Wesley)
Organ Voluntary: Allegro from Symphony No 6 (Widor)

Director of music: Paul Trepte
Assistant organist: Jonathan Lilley

17:00

Discovering Music

Mozart's Clarinet Concerto

Charles Hazlewood conducts Emma Johnson and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in an exploration of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto.

18:30

The Choir

18 February 2007

Aled Jones visits the London Bulgarian Choir and talks to conductor Dessislava Stefanova about the music of her homeland. Plus more amateur choirs who want to 'Sing to the Nation'.

20:00

Drama on 3

Hooligan Nights

The brutal world of London gangland in the 1890s is brought vividly to life in an innovative new musical created by writer Mike Walker and composer Mike Woolmans. Loosely based on the book by Clarence Rook, it recounts the criminal career of Alf, a self-styled Lambeth hooligan.

Alf ...... James Daley
Ally ...... Pamela Banks
P.C. 91...... Stephen Greif
Harry ...... Carl Prekopp
Billy the Snide/Patrick Hooligan ...... Gerard Horan
Frenchy ...... Freddy White
Shop Assistant/Izzy/Judge ...... Gerard McDermott
Young Alf ...... Jamie Borthwick
The Great Reboundo ...... David O'Dell
Referee/Barman ...... Sam Dale
Alf's Ma ...... Bethan Walker

Other parts played by Paul Richard Biggin, Joseph Kloska, Emma Noakes and Saikat Ahamed.

Director Toby Swift.

21:30

Sunday Feature

Auden: Six Unexpected Days

Marking the centenary of the birth of WH Auden, poet Paul Farley crosses the Northern Pennines following an itinerary suggested by Auden in an article for American Vogue in 1954. Paul investigates how this once thriving mining area, renowned for its limestone, exerted a powerful influence over the young Auden and how it continued to resonate in his poetry throughout a career which lasted more than half a century.

22:15

Words & Music

The Truth about Love

With Derek Jacobi and Juliet Stevenson.

Readings include some of the great love poetry - Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, Philip Larkin's Arundel Tomb and Auden's Lullaby and Oh Tell Me the Truth about Love.

Music related to the theme includes Britten's Auden settings, Elgar's Salut d'amour, madrigals by De Rore and Dufay and Wagner's Prelude to Tristan and Isolde.

00:00

The Early Music Show

Johann Froberger

Lucie Skeaping talks to harpsichordist Robert Woolley and music editor Dr Richard Jones about Johann Froberger, whose influence is of great importance in the development of baroque keyboard music. His toccatas provided the model for Buxtehude and Bach.

They also discuss a recently discovered manuscript, dating from Froberger's final years, that was sold in November at Sotheby's.

01:00

Through the Night

18 February 2007

18 February 2007

With John Shea.

1.00am
The Danish National Choir at the Carlsberg Glyptotek Art Museum
Mendelssohn, Fanny (1805-1847): Caecilie
1.10am
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976): The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
1.19am
Boulanger, Lili (1893-1918): Les Sirčnes
1.25am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Blegnet, signet; Ave Maris stella; The great white flock
1.36am
Lange-Müller, Peter Erasmus (1850-1926): Madonna Songs, Op 29
1.44am
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976): Hymn to St Cecilia
Danish National Choir
Morten Schuldt-Jensen (conductor)

1.55am
Smetana, Bedrich (1824-1884): Overture (The Bartered Bride)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Jorge Mester (conductor)

2.02am
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904): Trio in Em, Op 90 (Dumky)
Grieg Trio

2.33am
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896): Symphony No 6
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

3.27am
Vierne, Louis (1870-1937): Clair de lune
Stanislas Deriemaeker (organ)

3.38am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Images I
Roger Woodward (piano)

3.53am
Lipinski, Karol Józef (1790-1861): Violin Concerto No 3 (allegro)
Albrecht Breuninger (violin)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Wojciech Rajski (conductor)

4.09am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Trio Sonata in Dm, BWV 527
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists

4.23am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) arr. Squarcia: 3 Hungarian Dances
I Cameristi Italiani

4.32am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Te Deum in C, H XXIIIc 1
Netherlands Radio Choir and Chamber Orchestra
Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)

4.40am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Tarantella, S162
Janina Fialkowska (piano)

4.50am
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904): Carnival Overture
Slovenian RTV Symphony Orchestra
Samo Hubad (conductor)

5.00am
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921): Allegro appassionato in C sharp m, Op 70
Stefan Lindgren (piano)

5.06am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Sonata in C, RV 779
Camerata Köln

5.20am
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): Pan and Syrinx
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michael Schonwandt (conductor)

5.29am
Schierbeck, Poul (1888-1949): In Denmark I was born
Danish National Choir
Morten Schuldt-Jensen (conductor)

5.34am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Suite Champętre
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Hannu Koivula (conductor)

5.41am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Württemberg Sonata No 1
Rietze Smits (organ)

5.53am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 8 (Le soir)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Rolf Gupta (conductor)

6.18am
Groneman, Albertus (1710-1778): Concerto in G
Jed Wentz, Marion Moonen, Cordula Breuer (flutes)
Musica ad Rhenum

6.26am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Auf stillem Waldespfad, Op 9 No 1
Ludmil Angelov (piano)

6.32am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Adagio, WoO 33
Stef Tuinstra (organ)

6.39am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Variations on a Rococo Theme
Bartosz Koziak (cello)
Polish Radio Orchestra
Andrzej Mysinski (conductor)