Tuesday 27th February 2007

07:00

Breakfast

Rob Cowan

Including at 7.00am:

Wolf-Ferrari: Overture (La dama boba)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)

Schubert, trans. Liszt: Valse-Caprice, S427
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Oleg Maisenberg (piano)

Mussorgsky: Dawn over the Moscow River (Khovanschina)
Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell (conductor)

8.30am

Lalo: Presto (Norwegian Rhapsody)
Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra
Paul Paray (conductor)

Vivaldi: Concerto in C, RV 532
Takashi and Silvia Ochi (mandolins)
Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra
Paul Kuentz (conductor)

Franck: Symphonic Variations
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)

10:00

CD Masters

27 February 2007

With Jonathan Swain.

10.00am
Tchaikovsky: Trepak (Nutcracker Suite)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)

10.03am
Brahms: Theme and Variations in Dm
Daniel Barenboim (piano)

10.17am
Tchaikovsky: Quartet in B flat
Borodin Quartet

10.32am
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)

11.11am
Brahms: Four Ballades, Op 10
Emil Gilels (piano)

11.38am
Debussy: Iberia (Images)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

In Search of the Ideal Woman

With Donald Macleod. Wagner's vision of true love was immortalised in many of his operas, but his own journey towards the perfect marriage was long and difficult. Featuring excerpts from Tannhauser, Der Fliegende Hollander and Tristan und Isolde.

13:00

Afternoon on 3

27 February 2007

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

1.00pm

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

1/4. The Power and the Glory

Series of concerts at St George's Bristol, featuring the Schubert Ensemble.

Mahler: Quartet in Am
Brahms: Quartet in Gm, Op 25

2.00pm

BBC SO Far East Tour

Last November the BBC Symphony Orchestra went on tour to the Far East. This week's programmes feature music they recorded in Kuala Lumpur, including the fruits of a successful collaboration with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.

Dvorak: Scherzo capriccioso
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1
Ilya Gringolts (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Raskatov: Five Minutes from the Life of WAM
Members of Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Kevin Field (conductor)

Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen (Suite)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Liadov: Kikimora
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Matthias Bamert (conductor)

Zelenka: Overture a 7
Members of Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra
Kevin Field (conductor)

Smetana: Vltava (Ma vlast)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Stravinsky: Petrushka
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

17:00

In Tune

27 February 2007

Sean Rafferty's guests include composer Tarik O'Regan, ahead of the world premiere of Rai by the Britten Sinfonia, and Paul Edlin and Paul Patterson who talk about the Sounds New Festival 2007.

19:00

Performance on 3

27 February 2007

Ian Bostridge with Antonio Pappano

A recording from the 2006 Schubertiade in the Austrian town of Schwarzenberg by British tenor Ian Bostridge accompanied on piano by Antonio Pappano, music director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. They perform Schubert's last song cycle Schwanengesang and Wolf's intensely expressive Morike and Eichendorff Lieder.

20:45

Composer of the Week

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

In Search of the Ideal Woman

With Donald Macleod. Wagner's vision of true love was immortalised in many of his operas, but his own journey towards the perfect marriage was long and difficult. Featuring excerpts from Tannhauser, Der Fliegende Hollander and Tristan und Isolde.

21:45

Night Waves

Julian Baggini

Philip Dodd talks to the philosopher Julian Baggini about his attempts at understanding the English mentality by moving to the outskirts of Rotherham. Poet Anthony Joseph describes the recent rise of violent kidnapping in his native Trinidad.

22:30

Artist Focus

Maxim Vengerov

Petroc Trelawny features violinist Maxim Vengerov, who begins the programme with Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565.

23:00

The Essay

What Are Friends For?

2/4. What Are Friends For? Justin Champion considers what friendship meant to the early Christian scholars.

23:15

Late Junction

27 February 2007

Verity Sharp features processed guitar from Richard Pinhas, traditional music from the islands of Madagascar and Okinawa, and an excerpt from Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach.

01:00

Through the Night

27 February 2007

27 February 2007

With John Shea.

1.00am
Marais, Marin (1656-1725): Suite No 5
1.17am
Philidor, Anne Danican (1681-1728): Recorder Sonata in Dm
1.27am
La Barre, Michel de (c.1675-1743/4): Suite No 1
1.36am
Marais: Allemande; Monsr Lully
1.47am
Lully, Jean Baptiste (1632-1687): Le sommeil
La Simphonie du Marais
Hugo Reyne (director)

1.51am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Symphony No 4
BBC SO
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

2.26am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Cello Concerto No 1
Stephen Isserlis (cello)
Netherlands RCO
Jean Fournet (conductor)

2.53am
Marenzio, Luca (c.1553-1599): Solo e pensoso
Ensemble Daedalus
Roberto Festa (director)

2.58am
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): Giovanna D'Arco (Sinfonia)
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
Richard Bradshaw (conductor)

3.06am
Reicha, Anton (1770-1836): Oboe Quintet in F
Les Adieux

3.34am
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943): 2 pieces, Op 2
Monika Leskovar (cello)
Ivana Svarc-Grenda (piano)

3.43am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Concerto in D, BWV 1054
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord)
Concerto Copenhagen

4.00am
Bartok, Bela (1881-1945): 2 Pictures
Slovak RSO
Bystrik Rezucha (conductor)

4.16am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Norwegian Bridal March, Op 19 No 2
Edvard Grieg (piano)

4.20am
Bloch, Ernest (1880-1959): Nigun (Baal-shem)
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Valerie Tryon (piano)

4.27am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Concerto grosso, Op 6 No 4
Sixth Floor Ensemble
Anssi Mattila (conductor)

4.38am
Haapalainen, Vaino (1893-1945): Lemminkainen Overture
Finnish RSO
Atso Almila (conductor)

4.47am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Rondo, K269
Benjamin Schmid (violin)
Danish RCO
Adam Fischer (conductor)

4.54am
Cavalli, Francesco (1602-1676): Con arti e con lusinghe (Giasone)
Instrumental Ensemble of Concerto Vocale
René Jacobs (conductor)

5.00am
Lipinski, Karol Jozef (1790-1861): Rondo alla Polacca in E, Op 13
Albrecht Breuninger (violin)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Wojiech Rajski (conductor)

5.15am
Martucci, Giuseppe (1856-1909): Noveletta
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Nello Santi (conductor)

5.21am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): March of the Trolls
Mie Miki (accordion)

5.25am
Albicastro, Henricus (fl.1700-06): Coelestes angelici chori
Guy de Mey (tenor)
Ensemble 415
Chiara Banchini (conductor)

5.38am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Trio in E flat, D897 (Notturno)
Tomaz Lorenz (violin)
Andrej Petrac (cello)
Alenka Scek-Lorenz (piano)

5.49am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto in G, RV151 (Al Rustica)
I Cameristi Italiani

5.53am
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687): Plainte d'Armide (Les amours deguises)
Isabelle Poulenard (soprano)
Ricercar Consort
Henri Ledroit (conductor)

6.01am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): La valse
Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bruno Maderna (conductor)

6.14am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): String Quartet in C, Op 59 No 3 (Rasumovsky)
Yggdrasil Quartet

6.45am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Prometheus
Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor)