Tuesday 20th February 2007

07:00

Breakfast

Rob Cowan

Including Gliere: Russian Sailor's Dance (Red Poppy). Telemann: Flute Quartet in G. Monteverdi: Zefiro torna. Thomas Canning: Fantasy on a Hymn Tune. Mendelssohn: On Wings of Song.

Including at 7.00am
Gliere: Russian Sailor's Dance (The Red Poppy)
Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
Felix Slatkin (conductor)

Telemann: Flute Quartet in G
Musica Antiqua Köln
Reinhard Goebel (director)

Gershwin: Bess you is my woman now (Porgy and Bess)
Isaac Stern (violin)
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Milton Katims (conductor)

8.30am
Monteverdi: Zefiro torna
Nigel Rogers, Ian Partridge (tenors)
Christopher Keyte (bass)
Jürgen Jürgens (director)

Thomas Canning: Fantasy on a Hymn Tune
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
Raymond Leppard (conductor)

Mendelssohn: On Wings of Song
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano)
Sinfonia of London
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

20 February 2007

With Jonathan Swain.

10.00am
Vaughan Williams: O clap your hands
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
English Chamber Orchestra
David Willcocks (conductor)
EMI CDM 565 588 2

10.05am
Faure: String Quartet, Op 121
Ysaye Quartet
AEON AECD 0426

10.30am
Beethoven: Sonata in E, Op 109
Maria Tipo (piano)
AURA AUR 158-2

10.50am
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Isobel Baillie (soprano)
Eva Turner (soprano)
Heddle Nash (tenor)
Roy Henderson (baritone)
Original soloists
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Henry Wood (conductor)
DUTTON CDAX 8004

11.06am
Chopin: Nocturnes: in F sharp, Op 15 No 2; in B, Op 32 No 1; in E, Op 62 No 2
Maria Tipo (piano)
EMI 5550732 (2 CDs)

11.24am
Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
Orchestre National
Ernest Bour (conductor)
MODE VG 671 627007

12:00

Composer of the Week

Court of Elizabeth I

Part Two

With Donald Macleod.

Byrd: O Lord make thy servant Elizabeth
Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (director)

Tallis: Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter
Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (director)

Mundy: Evening Service (In medio chori)
The Sixteen
Paul Nicholson (organ)
Harry Christophers (director)

Bull: Prelude; In nomine
Joseph Payne (organ)

Morley: Nolo mortem
Tallis: O nata lux
Cambridge Singers
John Rutter (director)

13:00

Afternoon on 3

20 February 2007

Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm

Lunchtime Concert

1/4. From the 2006 Schwarzenberg Schubertiade in Austria.

Daniel Sepec (violin)
Andreas Staier (piano)
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Beethoven: Trio in D, Op 70 No 1 (Ghost)
Schubert: Trio in B flat, D898

2.00pm

2/5. Amsterdam Concertgebouw

Series showcasing one of the world's great concert halls and orchestras.

Mendelssohn: Elijah
Camilla Tilling (soprano)
Ann Hallenberg (mezzo)
Rainer Trost (tenor)
Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)

Mozart: Sonata in A minor, K310
Ronald Brautigam (piano)

Messiaen: L'ascension
Netherlands National Youth Orchestra
Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor)

17:00

In Tune

20 February 2007

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

19:00

Performance on 3

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Conducted by Mariss Jansons

Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given at the Barbican.

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons (conductor)

Schubert: Symphony No 3
Bruckner: Symphony No 3

20:45

Composer of the Week

Court of Elizabeth I

Part Two

With Donald Macleod.

Byrd: O Lord make thy servant Elizabeth
Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (director)

Tallis: Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter
Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (director)

Mundy: Evening Service (In medio chori)
The Sixteen
Paul Nicholson (organ)
Harry Christophers (director)

Bull: Prelude; In nomine
Joseph Payne (organ)

Morley: Nolo mortem
Tallis: O nata lux
Cambridge Singers
John Rutter (director)

21:45

Night Waves

Tariq Ramadan

Isabel Hilton talks to the renowned Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan about the life of Muhammad and its continuing importance to Muslims today.

22:30

Artist Focus

Angela Hewitt

Petroc Trelawny features pianist Angela Hewitt, who begins the programme with an excerpt from Chabrier's Dix pieces pittoresques.

23:00

The Essay

On Auden

Four poets salute the centenary of WH Auden's birth.

Award-winning writer Kate Clanchy looks at Auden's earlier works, including Refugee Blues and In Memory of WB Yeats, and explores his political attitudes and their contemporary relevance.

Read by Tim Pigott-Smith.

23:15

Late Junction

20 February 2007

Verity Sharp introduces Congolese rumba OK Jazz, a five-part motet by Thomas Tallis and an excerpt from John Surman's Road to St Ives.

01:00

Through the Night

20 February 2007

20 February 2007

With John Shea.

1.00am
Medieval pieces performed by Desperando Spero at the 2006 Vendsyssel Festival

1.51am
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868): Overture (William Tell)
BBC Philharmonic
Paul Watkins (conductor)

2.04am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Concerto in G, Wq 169
Robert Aitken (flute)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

2.29am
Sullivan, Arthur (1842-1900): Symphony in E (Irish)
BBC Philharmonic
Richard Hickox (conductor)

3.06am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Five Scottish and Irish Folksongs
Stephen Powell (tenor)
Lorraine Reinhardt (soprano)
Linda Lee Thomas (piano)
Gwen Thompson (violin)
Eugene Osadchy (cello)
Vancouver Chamber Choir
Jon Washburn (conductor)

3.20am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Fingal's Cave
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa (conductor)

3.32am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Sonata in B flat, K570
Vikingur Heidar Olafsson (piano)

3.52am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto da Camera in F, RV 99
Camerata Köln

4.00am
Paganini, Nicolo (1782-1840): Perpetuum Mobile
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Nello Santi (conductor)

4.06am
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953): 3 Dances (Romeo and Juliet)
Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

4.21am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): 16 German Dances, D783
Ralf Gothoni (piano)

4.32am
Pezel, Johann Christoph (1639-1694): German Dance Suite
Canadian Brass

4.40am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Sonata in Dm
Ola Karlsson (cello)
Lars-David Nilsson (piano)

4.53am
Chabrier, Emmanuel (1841-1894): Espana
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Stuart Challender (conductor)

5.00am
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826): Andante and Rondo Ungarese in Cm, Op 35
Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

5.10am
Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672): Magnificat anima mea Dominum
Schütz Akademie
Howard Arman (conductor)

5.20am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Sonata in G, K238
Marie Rorbech (piano)

5.33am
Gilse, Jan van (1881-1944): Trio for flute, violin and viola
Viotta Ensemble

5.48am
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872): Verbum nobile (overture)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jerzy Salwarowski (conductor)

5.53am
Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich (1732-1795): Trio in C
Musica Petropolitana

6.06am
Reinecke, Carl (1824-1910): Flute Concerto in Dm, Op 283
Matej Zupan (flute)
Slovenian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
David de Villiers (conductor)

6.27am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Scherzo No 4 in E
Dubravka Tomsic (piano)

6.39am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Deus judicium tuum regi da (Psalm 71)
Veronika Winter, Andrea Stenzel (sopranos)
Patrick von Goethem (alto)
Markus Schäfer (tenor)
Ekkehard Abele (bass)
Rheinische Kantorei
Das Kleine Konzert
Hermann Max (conductor)