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Sunday 25th February 2007

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morning | afternoon | evening

07:00

Breakfast

Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Including at 7.00am:

Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in G, Op 3 No 3
English Concert
Trevor Pinnock (director)

Bach: Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki (director)

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox (conductor)

8.30am

Beethoven: The Consecration of the House
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor)

Telemann: Concerto in D for trumpet, strings and basso continuo
Musica Antiqua Köln
Reinhard Goebel (director)

Glinka: Overture (A Life for the Tsar)
USSR Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)

10:00

Iain Burnside

With Richard Eyre

Iain Burnside presents a morning of music interspersed with intelligent comment. This programme focuses on film composers, to coincide with the 79th Academy Awards. Featured guest is award-winning director Richard Eyre.

Music includes:

Honegger: Pastorale d'ete
Czech Philhamonic Orchestra
Serge Baudo (conductor)

Handel: Concerto grosso in F, Op 3 No 6
Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra
Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

Schubert: Notturno in E flat, D 897
Beaux Arts Trio

Shostakovich: Jazz Suite No 2
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

morning | afternoon | evening

12:00

Private Passions

Diana Quick

Michael Berkeley's guest is actor Diana Quick, whose career in film, TV and theatre has spanned nearly four decades. Her musical choices range from Bach and Schubert to Jonathan Harvey, Arvo Part and Marvin Gaye.

13:00

The Early Music Show

Kuijken at York

Catherine Bott presents a concert recorded at the York Early Music Festival 2006. Flute player Barthold Kuijken and harpsichordist Ewald Demayere play pieces by the Bach family.

14:00

Lunchtime Concert

25 February 2007

Beaux Arts Trio

Stephanie Hughes introduces a recital by the Beaux Arts Trio given at the Wigmore Hall, London.

Brahms: Piano Trio No 3 in Cm, Op 101
Schnittke: Piano Trio

15:00

Performing Britten

Peter Grimes

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.

Tenor Philip Langridge talks about tackling one of Britten's most famous operatic roles, the tormented Suffolk fisherman Peter Grimes.

16:00

Choral Evensong

From Worcester Cathedral

Live from Worcester Cathedral.

Introit: Ich lasse dich nich (JS Bach)
Responses: Adrian Lucas
Office Hymn: O Christ, who art the Light and Day (Christe qui lux)
Psalm: 119, vv73-88 (Barnby, Havergal)
First Lesson: Jonah 3
Canticles: Fourth Service (Tomkins)
Second Lesson: Luke 18, vv9-14
Anthem: Attende Domine (Villette)
Final Hymn: Ah holy Jesu, how hast thou offended (Herzliebster Jesu)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude from Suite, Op 5 (Durufle)

Master of the choristers: Adrian Lucas
Assistant organist: Christopher Allsop

17:00

Discovering Music

Puccini's La Boheme

The great Italian composer is revered as one of music's great tunesmiths, but Catherine Bott reveals there is much more to his art as she explores his Parisian masterpiece with singers Katie van Kooten and Peter Auty. Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

morning | afternoon | evening

18:30

The Choir

Glasgow Orpheus Choir

Aled Jones looks at the history of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir under its inspirational founder Sir Hugh Roberton. He explores a traditional form of congregational psalm singing and introduces two settings of the same text written by two of Scotland's finest composers, one from the 16th century and one from the 21st.

20:00

Sunday Feature

The Eternal Rock

The two square miles of land mass that form the rock of Gibraltar have been invaded and contested by nearly every major civilisation in European history. This tiny piece of land has been slow to give up the secrets of its past, but Michael Portillo utilises modern archaeological methods to unearth its real history.

20:45

Drama on 3

Love and Money

By Dennis Kelly.

A radio adaptation of the Young Vic/Royal Exchange co-production of Kelly's funny and heart-wrenching exploration of the devastating impact of debt and desire in the modern world.

Jess, who is in love with David, believes that happiness can be bought - but in a world of easy credit, it doesn't come cheap.

Jess ...... Kellie Bright
David ...... John Kirk
Mother ...... Joanna Bacon
Father/Duncan ...... Paul Moriarty
Val/Debbie ...... Claudie Blakley
Paul/Doctor ...... Graeme Hawley

Original Music by Olly Fox.

Sound Design by Ian Dickinson.

Directed by Matthew Dunster and produced by Nadia Molinari.

22:15

Words & Music

From London to Paris

Sophie Okonedo and Kenneth Cranham read a selection of poetry and prose around the theme of two great cities, from Samuel Johnson, Wordsworth and Verlaine to George Orwell and Fleur Adcock. The programme includes music by Gibbons, Noel Coward, Elgar, Pierre Boulez and Yves Montand.

00:00

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.

01:00

Through the Night

25 February 2007

25 February 2007

With John Shea.

1.00am
A tribute to Mozart by the Romanian Radio Children's Chorus recorded in Bucharest in April 2006.

1.46am
Diamond, David (b. 1915): Rounds
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

2.01am
Jenner, Gustav Uwe (1865-1920): Trio in E flat
James Campbell (clarinet)
Martin Hackleman (horn)
Jane Coop (piano)

2.28am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Symphony No 2
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

3.09am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Arpeggione Sonata, D821
Gary Karr (double bass)
Harmon Lewis (piano)

3.33am
Caurroy, Eustache de (1549-1609): 11 Fantasias on 16th-century songs
Hespèrion XX
Jordi Savall (viol and director)

4.00am
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Fantasia in Gm
Bert Matter (organ)

4.06am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Concerto in Dm
Erik Hoeprich, Lisa Klewitt (chalumeaux)
Musica Antiqua Köln
Reinhard Goebel (director)

4.18am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Partita in Bm, BWV1002 - Sarabande
Hopkinson Smith (lute)

4.22am
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963): Sarabande
Heiki Matlik (guitar)

4.24am
Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643) arr. Bartok: Toccata and Fugue
Gyorgy Sandor (piano)

4.34am
Bartok, Bela (1881-1945), arr. Ede Zathureczky: For Children (excerpts)
Ede Zathureczky (violin)
Endre Petri (piano)

4.40am
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875): Parle-moi de ma mère; Séguidilla (Carmen)
Lyne Fortin (soprano)
Richard Margison (tenor)
Orchestre Symphonique de Québec
Simon Streatfield (conductor)
Judith Frost (mezzo)
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

4.53am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Lemminkainen's Return
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

5.00am
Wegelius, Martin (1846-1906): Rondo quasi Fantasia
Margit Rahkonen (piano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Petri Sakari (conductor)

5.11am
Hess, Willy (b. 1906): Suite in B flat, Op 45
Desmond Wright (piano)

5.21am
Gilse, Jan van (1881-1944): String Quartet
Ebony Quartet

5.31am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Bondens Sang, Op 65 No 2; Halling, Op 47 No 4
Mie Miki (accordion)

5.35am
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962): Nina, after Pergolesi's Tre Giorni son che Nina
Hertz Trio

5.39am
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787): Symphony in E flat, Op 10 No 3
La Stagione Frankfurt
Michael Schneider (conductor)

5.48am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Abendempfindung
Adeline Ramage (soprano)
Robert Melling (piano)

5.54am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): 9 Variations on Quant'e piu bello
Theo Bruins (piano)

6.00am
Alabiev, Alexander (1787-1851): Overture in Fm
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mario Kosik (conductor)

6.12am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): 6 Impromptus, Op 5
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)

6.29am
Dohnanyi, Erno (1877-1960): Variations on a Nursery Song, Op 25
Arthur Ozolins (piano)
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

6.54am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), arr. Max Schonherr: Marche militaire No 1
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Uri Mayer (conductor)




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