Monday 30th April 2007

07:00

Breakfast

Rob Cowan

Including at 7.00am:

Rodrigo: Canconeta
Augustin Leon Ara (violin)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)

Moore: Tis the last rose of summer
Robert White (tenor)
Samuel Sanders (piano)

Bach arr. Mozart: Fugue
Hagen Quartet

8.30am

Smetana: Polka
Jan Novotny (piano)

Wolf-Ferrari: Overture (Susanna's Secret)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)

Moszkowski: Spanish Dances
London Symphony Orchestra
Ataulfo Argenta (conductor)

10:00

Classical Collection

30 April 2007

With James Jolly.

10.00am
Bartok: Four Orchestral Pieces, Op 12
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)
SONY SMK 45837

10.25am
Liszt: Sonetto 123 del Petrarca
Jorge Bolet (piano)
DECCA 410 161-2

10.33am
Peri: Lasso, ch'i' ardo
Ellen Hargis (soprano)
Andrew Lawrence-King (harp)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907234

10.38am
Verdi: String Quartet in E minor
Giovane Quartetto Italiano
CLAVES CD 50-9114

11.02am
CPE Bach: Flute Concerto in D minor
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute)
Paris Opera Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)
ORYX EXP 23 (LP)

11.26am
Mozart: Quintet for piano and wind in E flat, K452
The recording recommended in last Saturday's CD Review

12:00

Composer of the Week

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857)

Part One

Until his mid-thirties, Glinka was regarded as a musical dilettante, but this relatively untrained man went on to produce a four-act opera which was to change the course of Russian musical history. Donald Macleod introduces some of Glinka's early songs and chamber music and the first of his orchestral works.

O Thou Dear, Darling Little Girl
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Jan Eyron (piano)

Nocturne for harp
Susan Drake (harp)

The Poor Singer; Alla Cetra
Inessa Galante (soprano)
Roger Vignoles (piano)

Grand Sextet (1st movement)
Russian National Symphony Orchestra Soloists Ensemble

Capriccio on Russian Themes
Joan Yarbrough and Robert Cowan (piano)

Symphony on Two Russian Themes
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

13:00

Afternoon on 3

Music from Russia & Eastern Europe

Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Introduced by Stephanie Hughes, live from London's Wigmore Hall.

Dvorak: Terzetto in C for 2 violins and viola, Op 74
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115
Gaudier Ensemble

2.00pm

Music from Eastern Europe is threaded through this afternoon's sequence.

Gretchaninoff: Otche Nash (Lord's Prayer); Cherubic Hymn; Verouiou (Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op 29)
Lynette Alcantara (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Singers
Dominic Wheeler (conductor)

Eugen Kapp: Kalevipoeg (ballet suite)
BBC Philharmonic
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

Adams: Shaking and Trembling (Shaker Loops)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Robert Ziegler (conductor)

Artur Kapp: Don Carlos
BBC Philharmonic
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

Villem Kapp: Symphony No 2
BBC Philharmonic
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

Merilainen: Aikaviiva (Timeline: Concerto No 2 for Orchestra)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Storgards (conductor)

Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104
Heinrich Schiff (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

17:00

In Tune

30 April 2007

Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world. He talks to violinist Sarah Chang and jazz trumpeter Guy Barker performs live in the studio.

19:00

Performance on 3

30 April 2007

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Martin Handley introduces the final concert in the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's season at Edinburgh's Usher Hall.

Berlioz was so unhappy with his opera Les Francs Juges that he burned most of it, but kept the thrilling overture which opens tonight's concert. The premiere of Schumann's Piano Concerto featured the composer's wife at the piano, while the various sides of Richard Strauss's personal life were put into music in his Ein Heldenleben, loosely translated as A Hero's Life.

Antti Siirala (piano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Stephane Deneve (conductor)

Berlioz: Les Francs-Juges
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

20:45

Composer of the Week

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857)

Part One

Until his mid-thirties, Glinka was regarded as a musical dilettante, but this relatively untrained man went on to produce a four-act opera which was to change the course of Russian musical history. Donald Macleod introduces some of Glinka's early songs and chamber music and the first of his orchestral works.

O Thou Dear, Darling Little Girl
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Jan Eyron (piano)

Nocturne for harp
Susan Drake (harp)

The Poor Singer; Alla Cetra
Inessa Galante (soprano)
Roger Vignoles (piano)

Grand Sextet (1st movement)
Russian National Symphony Orchestra Soloists Ensemble

Capriccio on Russian Themes
Joan Yarbrough and Robert Cowan (piano)

Symphony on Two Russian Themes
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

21:45

Night Waves

Fashionable intellectuals

Why have certain intellectuals - from Jean-Paul Sartre to Jacques Derrida - become globally fashionable, inspiring not just scholarly studies but biographical books, hagiographic films and even fashion items? Is it really just the power of their ideas or is there something less high-minded that makes a thinker indispensable to the cognoscenti? Matthew Sweet and guests discuss.

22:30

Artist Focus

Mark Elder

With Martin Handley.

A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way.

Tonight Mark Elder conducts tenor Marcelo Alvarez and the Orchestra of the Nice Opera in music from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann.

23:00

The Essay

Death and the Philosopher

Death and the Philosopher: 1/4. Philosophers die like everyone else, so why are their bodies interesting? Lesley Chamberlain explores.

23:15

Andy Kershaw

Manu Dibango

Veteran African superstar Manu Dibango joins Andy for a studio session.

01:00

Through the Night

30 April 2007

30 April 2007

Susan Sharpe introduces music, beginning with a recital given at Akershus Castle Church, Oslo, in August last year.

1.00am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Arpeggione Sonata
Erling Blondal Bengtsson (cello)
Katharine Jacobson Fleischer (piano)

1.23am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): String Quartet No 6 in D
Quartetto Bernini

1.47am
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937): Symphony No 4
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Orchestre National de France
Charles Dutoit (conductor)

2.15am
Kodaly, Zoltan (1882-1967): Missa brevis
Anikó Kopjár, Alice Komaromi, Eva Nagy, Agnes Tumpekne Kuti, Timea Tillai (sopranos)
Janos Szerekovan, Joszef Moldvay (tenors)
Istvan Ella (organ)
Chamber Choir of Pecs
Aurel Tillai (conductor)

2.50am
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945): Petite Suite
Jan Michiels (piano)

2.58am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor)
Susanna Stefani (piano)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Oleg Caetani (conductor)

3.34am
Dvorák, Antonin (1841-1904): Wind Serenade in D minor, Op 44
Canadian Chamber Ensemble
Raffi Armenian (conductor)

4.00am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): 3 Pieces from Slatter (Norwegian Peasant Dances)
Haavard Gimse (piano)

4.08am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto da camera in G minor
Camerata Köln

4.18am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Sinfonia (Christmas Oratorio)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Kjetil Haugsand (conductor)

4.24am
Parac, Ivo (1890-1954): Andante amoroso
Zagreb Quartet

4.31am
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908): May Night Overture
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

4.40am
Morley, Thomas (c.1557-1602): Now is the month of Maying
BBC Singers
Bo Holten (director)

4.41am
Byrd, William (c.1543-1623) arr. Elgar Howarth: The Earle of Oxford's March
Tallinn Brass
Tarmo Leinatamm (conductor)

4.45am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): La Campanella
Valerie Tryon (piano)

4.51am
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872): Overture to Flis (The Raftsman)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jerzy Salwarowski (conductor)

5.00am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Toccata in D
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

5.11am
Bach, Johann Christoph (1642-1703): Fürchte dich nicht
Cantus Cölln
Konrad Junghänel (director)

5.16am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) trans. Liszt: Die Forelle
Simon Trpceski (piano)

5.20am
Bacewicz, Grazyna (1909-1969): Suite for chamber orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jan Krenz (conductor)

5.28am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Clair de lune
Jane Coop (piano)

5.34am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Bella mia fiamma, Resta, O cara
Andrea Rost (soprano)
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Zoltán Kocsis (conductor)

5.45am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Recorder Concerto in F
Michael Schneider (treble recorder)
Camerata Köln

5.53am
Solnitz, Anton Wilhelm (c.1708-c.1752-3): Sinfonia in A
Musica ad Rhenum

6.06am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Ruy Blas, Op 95
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Hiroyuki Iwaki (conductor)

6.14am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 63
Kungsbacka Trio

6.46am
Wanski, Jan (1762-1821): Symphony in D on Themes from the Opera Pasterz nad Wisla (The Shepherd on the Vistula)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Andrzej Mysinski (conductor)