Wednesday 21st February 2007

07:00

Breakfast

Rob Cowan

Including Bach: Concerto in D minor, BWV1063. Delibes: Coppelia (Act I excerpts). Grieg: Album-leaf; Melody (Lyric Pieces). Haydn: Symphony No 46. Brahms: Deutsche Volkslieder.

Including at 7.00am
Bach: Concerto in Dm, BWV 1063
Robert, Gaby and Jean Casadesus (pianos)
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

Delibes: Coppélia (Act I excerpts)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor)

Grieg: Album-leaf; Melody (Lyric Pieces, Op 47 Nos 2,3)
Emil Gilels (piano)

8.30am
Haydn: Symphony No 46
Polish Chamber Orchestra
Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor)

Brahms: Deutsche Volkslieder (selection)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Gerald Moore (piano)

Chopin, arr. Wilhelmj: Nocturne in D flat, Op 27 No 2
Michael Rabin (violin)
Leon Pommers (piano)

10:00

CD Masters

21 February 2007

With Jonathan Swain.

10.00am
Clementi: Sonata in Fm, Op 13 No 6
Maria Tipo (piano)
WARNER FONIT 0927 43315-2 (2 CDs)

10.19am
Vaughan Williams: Mass in Gm
John Eaton (treble)
Nigel Perrin (alto)
Robin Doveton (tenor)
David van Asch (bass)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
David Willcocks (conductor)
EMI CDM 769 820 2

10.45am
Hume: The passion of musick
Consort de La Belle Famille
ALPHA 061

10.50am
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 21
Maria Tipo (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
RICORDI 74321923972

11.20am
Vaughan Williams: A Vision of Aeroplanes
Choir of Westminster Cathedral
Robert Quinney (organ)
Martin Baker (director)
HYPERION CDA 67503

11.32am
Respighi: Feste Romane
London Symphony Orchestra
Eugene Goossens (conductor)
EVEREST EVC 9018

12:00

Composer of the Week

Court of Elizabeth I

Part Three

With Donald Macleod.

John Milton: Fair Orian in the morn
I Fagiolini

Edward Johnson: Eliza is the Fairest Queen
Niec van der Meulen, Robert Kuizenga (countertenors)
Diapente Viol Consort

Johnson: The New Hunt is Upp
Charivari Agreable

Byrd: Rejoice unto the Lord
Michael Chance (countertenor)
Fretwork

Bull: Almighty God, which by the leading of a star
Consortium
Edward Barbieri (director)

Anon: The Queen's Masque
Bull: The Bull Masque
Coprario: Gray's Inn the 1st
Brade: Cornish Dance
Anon: Irish Dance
Brade: Scottish Dance
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts

Anon: Artheres Dump
Richard Allison: Allison's Knell
Charivari Agreable

Byrd: Te Deum (Great Service)
Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (director)

13:00

Afternoon on 3

21 February 2007

Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm

Lunchtime Concert

2/4. From the 2006 Schwarzenberg Schubertiade in Austria.

Andreas Scholl (countertenor)
Ottavio Dantone (harpsichord)
Accademia Bizantina
Bach: Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35; Harpsichord Concerto in Dm, BWV 1052; Vergnugt Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170

2.15pm

3/5. Amsterdam Concertgebouw

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

Varese: Ameriques
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Peter Ruzicka (conductor)

Bruckner: Symphony No 8
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Zubin Mehta (conductor)

16:00

Choral Evensong

Ash Wednesday

A service for Ash Wednesday, live from the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge.

Introit: Ne irascaris, Domine (Byrd)
Responses: Ebdon
Psalm: 51 Miserere mei, Deus (Allegri)
First Lesson: Isaiah 1, vv10-18
Antiphon: Non in sole pane (plainsong)
Magnificat (George Malcolm)
Second Lesson: Luke 15, vv11-32
Nunc dimittis (Holst)
Anthem: Lord, thou hast searched me out (Rutter) (First broadcast)
Hymn: Forty days and forty nights (Aus der Tiefe)
Organ Voluntary: An Wasserflussen Babylon, BWV 653a (Bach)

Director of music: David Hill
Organ student: Leon Charles

17:00

In Tune

21 February 2007

Sean Rafferty presents a special edition live from Studio 7 Concert Hall in Manchester.

Vassily Sinaisky conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a programme of favourites from France, England and Russia, as well as a vibrant trumpet concerto from Armenia.

Plus live music by Shostakovich and Ravel from the Rautio Piano Trio, and contributions from Mark Elder, Douglas Boyd and Ralph Kirshbaum.

Berlioz: Le Corsaire (overture)
Arutunian: Trumpet Concerto (Jamie Prophet, soloist)
Elgar: Serenade in E minor, Op 20
Tchaikovsky: Polonaise (Eugene Onegin)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol

19:00

Performance on 3

Christopher Maltman

Nash Ensemble

Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given at the Wigmore Hall, London.

Christopher Maltman (baritone)
Nash Ensemble

Bax: Harp Quintet
Vaughan Williams: 5 Mystical Songs
Butterworth: Love Blows as the Wind Blows
Elgar: String Quartet in Em, Op 83

20:45

Composer of the Week

Court of Elizabeth I

Part Three

With Donald Macleod.

John Milton: Fair Orian in the morn
I Fagiolini

Edward Johnson: Eliza is the Fairest Queen
Niec van der Meulen, Robert Kuizenga (countertenors)
Diapente Viol Consort

Johnson: The New Hunt is Upp
Charivari Agreable

Byrd: Rejoice unto the Lord
Michael Chance (countertenor)
Fretwork

Bull: Almighty God, which by the leading of a star
Consortium
Edward Barbieri (director)

Anon: The Queen's Masque
Bull: The Bull Masque
Coprario: Gray's Inn the 1st
Brade: Cornish Dance
Anon: Irish Dance
Brade: Scottish Dance
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts

Anon: Artheres Dump
Richard Allison: Allison's Knell
Charivari Agreable

Byrd: Te Deum (Great Service)
Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (director)

21:45

Night Waves

The car bomb

Matthew Sweet talks to the cultural historian Mike Davis about the car bomb, a weapon of war from which there is no defence. First deployed in New York in 1920, the car bomb has influenced everything from patterns of behaviour to the design of cities themselves.

22:30

Artist Focus

Angela Hewitt

Petroc Trelawny features pianist Angela Hewitt, who begins the programme with an excerpt from Francois Couperin's Livres de clavecin (Ordre 6).

23:00

The Essay

On Auden

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

Glyn Maxwell once travelled to Iceland with Simon Armitage in the footsteps of Auden and Louis MacNeice. He explores the distinctive nature of Auden's poems and how they work, with samples including The Fall of Rome and The Shield of Achilles.

Read by Tim Pigott-Smith.

23:15

Late Junction

21 February 2007

Verity Sharp's selections include Hampshire dance tunes from Tim Laycock and Colin Thompson, the American songwriting duo of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and a recording of Arvo Part's Trisagion, performed by the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Saulius Sondeckis.

01:00

Through the Night

21 February 2007

21 February 2007

With John Shea.

1.00am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H
Pierre Cochereau (organ)
1.14am
Dragoi, Sabin (1894-1968): Rustic Divertimento
1.41am
Simionescu, Constantin (1914-1986): Tradition's Echoes
Bucharest Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory Camerata
Paul Staicu (conductor)
1.48am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Fantasy and Fugue on Chorale Ad nos, ad salutarem undam
Pierre Cochereau (organ)
Romanian National Radio Orchestra
Emanuel Elenescu (conductor)

2.15am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Divertimento, K563
Eugene Drucker (violin)
Toby Hoffman (viola)
Andres Dias (cello)

2.59am
Haydn, Franz Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 60
Oslo Philharmonic
Andrej Boreyko (conductor)

3.25am
Fischer, Johann Caspar Ferdinand (c.1665-1746): Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
Barbara Schlick (soprano)
Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor)
Max von Egmond (bass)
Jugendkantorei Dormagen
Das Kleine Konzert
Hermann Max (director)

3.42am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Symphony No 4
Bergen Philharmonic
Heinz Wallberg (conductor)

4.11am
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959): Madrigals
Danish Radio Choir
Stefan Parkman (conductor)

4.21am
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Prague Waltzes
Slovak RSO
Stefan Robl (conductor)

4.29am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Mazurka, Op 17 No 4
Jane Coop (piano)

4.34am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto, RV 234
Giuliano Carmignola (violin)
Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca

4.40am
Rore, Cipriano de (c1515-1565): Amor, che t'ho fatt'io
Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (director)

4.44am
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916): The Maiden and the Nightingale
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano)
Bryan Epperson, Maurizio Baccante, Roman Borys, Simon Fryer (cellos)

4.51am
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869): Overture (Beatrice and Benedict)
New Zealand SO
Neville Marriner (conductor)

5.00am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): 32 Variations in Cm, WoO 80
Theo Bruins (piano)

5.11am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Orpheus
Hungarian State Orchestra
János Ferencsik (conductor)

5.22am
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903): Italian Serenade
Bartok Quartet

5.30am
Speer, Daniel (1636-1707): Intrada and 2 Wallachian Dances (Turkischer Eulenspiegel)
Romanian RTV Early Music Ensemble
Ludovic Bacs (conductor)

5.34am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) transcr. Liszt: Ständchen
Simon Trpceski (piano)

5.41am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Regina coeli
Olivia Robinson (soprano)
Sian Menna (mezzo)
Christopher Bowen (tenor)
Stuart MacIntyre (baritone)
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

5.48am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Water Music Suite No 3
Collegium Aureum

6.00am
Gassman, Florian Leopold (1729-1774): Stabat Mater
Capella Nova Graz
Otto Kargl (conductor)

6.13am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Concerto in Am, BWV 1065
Ton Koopman, Tini Mathot, Patrizia Marisaldi, Elina Mustonen (harpsichords)
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Ton Koopman (director)

6.23am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Octet in E flat, Op 20
Leonidas Kavakos, Per Kristian Skalstad, Frode Larsen, Tor Johan Böen (violins)
Lars Anders Tomter, Catherine Bullock (violas)
Oystein Sonstad, Ernst Simon Glaser (cellos)

6.55am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Waltz, Op 38 No 7; Elves' Dance, Op 12 No 4
Mie Miki (accordion)