Sunday 4th March 2007

07:00

Breakfast

Sara Mohr-Pietsch

7.00am

Johann Strauss II: Morning Papers Waltz
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

Marais: Girl Dreaming
Jordi Savall (bass viol)
Pierre Hantai (keyboard)
Rolf Lislevand (theorbo)

Kodaly: Dances of Galanta
Philharmonia Hungarica
Antal Dorati (conductor)

8.30am

Vivaldi: Alma oppressa (La fida ninfa)
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini (director)

Rachmaninov: Valse (Suite No 2, Op 17)
Martha Argerich, Alexander Rabinovich (pianos)

Cherubini: Anacréon (Overture)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

10:00

Iain Burnside

Heather Couper

Iain Burnside presents a morning of music interspersed with intelligent comment. This programme focuses on space and astral bodies with guest Heather Couper.

Music includes:

Nielsen: Helios Overture
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Jean Martinon (conductor)

Haydn: The Representation of Chaos (The Creation)
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Colin Matthews: Pluto
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)

Bliss: Things to Come
London Symphony Orchestra
Arthur Bliss (conductor)

12:00

Private Passions

Alex Jennings

Michael Berkeley's guest is award-winning actor Alex Jennings, a regular star at the RSC and the National Theatre. His musical tastes are broad, ranging from Frank Sinatra and Marvin Gaye to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson singing Bach, Laurence Olivier declaiming Shakespeare to Walton's music, Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw and Stravinsky's ballet Pulcinella.

13:00

The Early Music Show

Children of the Revolution

Lucie Skeaping looks at the music of the French Revolution and those who lived and worked in Paris through the years of terror at the end of the 18th century. Featured composers include Gossec, Cherubini, Mehul, Boieldieu and Dussek

14:00

Lunchtime Concert

Katerina Karnéus and Johan Ullén

Schubert, Debussy & Wagner

Sean Rafferty presents a recital by Swedish mezzo Katerina Karneus, accompanied by pianist Johan Ullen.

Schubert: Fruhlingsglaube, D686; Der Musensohn, D764; Wanderers Nachtlied, D768; Klarchens Lied, D210; Bei dir allein, D866 No 2; Rastlose Liebe, D138
Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis
Poulenc: Metamorphoses
Wagner: Wesendonk Lieder

15:00

Performing Britten

The Rape of Lucretia

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.

Dame Janet Baker talks about performing the demanding title role in the chamber opera The Rape of Lucretia.

16:00

Choral Evensong

Rochester Cathedral

Live from Rochester Cathedral.

Introit: When David heard (Tomkins)
Responses: Tomkins
Office Hymn: O thou who camest from above (Hereford)
Psalm: 135 (Ashfield, Ley)
First Lesson: Jeremiah 22 vv1-9, 13-17
Canticles: St Paul's Service (Howells)
Second Lesson: Luke 14 vv27-33
Anthem: Te lucis ante terminum (Balfour Gardiner)
Final Hymn: Lead, kindly light (Alberta)
Organ Voluntary: Chant heroique (Langlais)

Organist and Director of Music: Roger Sayer
Sub-Organist and Assistant Director of Music: Daniel Soper

17:00

Discovering Music

William Walton's Cello Concerto

Charles Hazlewood is joined by cellist Matthew Barley and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to explore William Walton's Cello Concerto.

18:30

The Choir

Bob Chilcott

Aled Jones talks to composer, conductor and former King's Singer Bob Chilcott about his wide-ranging career, which combines work with top professional ensembles alongside a lifelong commitment to amateur and children's music-making.

20:00

Drama on 3

The Fiery World

In this Radio 3 special commission, Peter Ackroyd dramatises the life of William Blake.

In 1805, with England at war and in constant fear of invasion, radicalism was the equivalent of treason. Blake was never afraid of speaking his mind, but as a poet and visionary he was at odds with the spirit of his age - so much so that his life was in danger.

William Blake ...... Robert Glenister
James Deville ...... David Warner
Catherine Blake ...... Miriam Margolyes
Kedges ...... David Timson
Mrs Deville ...... Alison Pettitt
Samuel Rose ...... Sean Barrett
Billy Cosway ...... Hugh Ross
Scofield ...... Mark Gillis
Armitage ...... Brian Croucher
Boy ...... Deo Simcox

Directed by Roy McMillan.

21:30

Sunday Feature

Chaplin, Celebrity and Modernism

Thirty years after the death of Charles Chaplin, Mark Kermode investigates the great comedian's celebrity role and influence on world culture from the modernists and Dadaists to the Russian avant-garde and imitators in Bombay. Privileged access to Chaplin's private archive reveals remarkable letters from Truman Capote, Winston Churchill and James Agee.

22:15

Words & Music

Innocence and Experience

Imogen Stubbs and Bill Paterson read a selection of poetry and prose around the theme of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience.

Featured writers include Emily Dickinson, John Clare, Robert Herrick, Thomas Mann and George Herbert. Sylvia Plath reads her poem Ariel and Brian Patten's A Blade of Grass, a poem about the loss of innocence.

The programme includes Blake settings by Vaughan Williams, Bernstein's The Age of Anxiety and Tallis's Spem in Alium.

00:00

The Early Music Show

Francois Couperin's Pieces de Clavecin

Lucie Skeaping is joined by author and harpsichordist Jane Clark for a focus on some of the greatest keyboard music of the French baroque.

01:00

Through the Night

4 March 2007

4 March 2007

With John Shea.

1.00am
A concert recorded in Gothenburg in March 1999
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963): Un soir de neige; Secheresses; Petites voix; La courte paille; Chansons françaises Nos 1,3,8; 4 petites prières de Ste Francois d'Assise; Intermezzi Nos 1 in C, 2 in D flat; Litanies à la Vierge noire; Figure humaine
Gothenburg Chamber Choir
Gothenburg University Chamber Choir
Gunnar Eriksson (conductor)

2.31am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Ein Heldenleben
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)

3.17am
Fontana, Giovanni Battista (c.1592-1631): Sonata undecima
Le Concert Brisé
William Dongois (cornet/director)

3.26am
Hellendaal, Pieter (1721-1799): Concerto grosso in F, Op 3 No 6
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

3.40am
Janacek, Leos (1854-1928): Mladi
Dirk de Caluwe (flute)
Thomas Indermuehle (oboe)
Walter Boeykens (clarinet)
Brian Pollard (bassoon)
Jacob Slagter (horn)
Jan Guns (bass clarinet)

4.00am
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Scherzo capriccio
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)

4.12am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Trio Sonata in E flat, HobXV.29
Kungsbacka Trio

4.29am
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924): Dolly (Suite)
Erzsebet Tusa, Istvan Lantos (pianos)

4.44am
Striggio, Alessandro (c.1540-1592): Ecce beatam lucem
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

4.52am
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857): Kamarinskaya
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)

5.00am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Concerto in A, BWV1041
Midori Seiler (violin)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

5.14am
Gigout, Eugene (1844-1925): Toccata
David Drury (organ)

5.18am
Falla, Manuel de (1876-1946): Siete canciones populares españolas
Jard van Nes (mezzo)
Gérard van Blerk (piano)

5.31am
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916): Valse Poetico
Enrique Granados (Welte Mignon piano roll)

5.42am
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787): Symphony, Op 10 No 2
La Stagione Frankfurt
Michael Schneider (conductor)

5.53am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Sonata in Dm
Ola Karlsson (cello)
Lars-David Nilsson (piano)

6.06am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Symphony No 38 (Prague)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

6.33am
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918): Chanson Sans Paroles
Arto Noras (cello)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jorma Panula (conductor)

6.38am
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953): Scythian Suite
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)