Thursday 10th May 2007

07:00

Breakfast

Rob Cowan

Including at 7.00am:

Verdi: Sinfonia in C
Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra of Milan
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

Handel: Sonata in E for violin and continuo
Itzhak Perlman (violin)
David Garvey (piano)

Guerrero: El Huesped del sevillano; Rachel
Rolando Villazon (tenor)
Madrid Community Orchestra
Placido Domingo (conductor)

8.30am

Mozart/Busoni: Giga, bolero e Variazione
Anatol Ugorski (piano)

Bach: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus tragicus, Cantata No 106)
South German Madrigal Choir
Consortium Musicum
Wolfgang Gonnenwein (director)

Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (excerpts)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)

10:00

Classical Collection

10 May 2007

With Sarah Walker.

10.00am
Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Arturo Toscanini (conductor)
RCA GD 60322

10.11am
Scarlatti: Sonata in G minor (Cat's Fugue)
Joanna MacGregor (piano)
COLLINS CLASSICS 13222

10.15am
Telemann: Fantasia No 5 in A for solo violin
Andrew Manze (violin)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907137

Telemann: Fantasia in F sharp minor for flute (transposed)
Marion Verbruggen (recorder)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907158

Telemann: Fantasia No 2 for harpsichord (Dozzina I)
John Butt (harpsichord)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907176

10.30am
Beethoven: String Quartet in E flat, Op 74 (Harp)
Emerson String Quartet
DG 453 766 2 (2 CD set)

11.01am
Gorecki: 3 Kurpian Songs, Op 76 Nos 2-4
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Paul Hillier (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907391

11.12am
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 427 335 2

10.39am
Scarlatti: Sonata in D minor, KK213; Sonata in E, KK 380
Virginia Black (harpsichord)
CRD CRD3442

11.53am
Mozart: Non piu andrai, farfallone amoroso (Marriage of Figaro)
Figaro ...... Petteri Salomaa (baritone)
The Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra
Arnold Ostman (conductor)
L'OISEAU LYRE 421 333 2 (3 CD set)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Dietrich Buxtehude (1636-1707)

Part Four

Donald Macleod explores Buxtehude's fascination with counterpoint, astronomy and the beauty of numbers with period performer and musicologist Ton Koopman, who recently embarked on an ambitious project to record every surviving note of the composer's music.

Fugue in C, BuxWV 174
Ton Koopman (organ)

Canzona in C, BuxWV 166
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord)

Mit Fried und Freud ich Fahr Dahin, BuxWV 76 (Cantata)
Jonathan Peter Kenny (counter-tenor)
Stephan MacLeod (bass)
Collegium Vocale
Orchestra Anima Eterna
The Royal Consort
Jos van Immerseel (conductor)

Prelude in F sharp minor, BuxWV 146
Ton Koopman (organ)

Trio Sonata in E, Op 2 No 6
John Holloway (violin)
Jaap ter Linden (viola da gamba)
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord)

Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein, BuxWV 210 (Chorale fantasia)
Ton Koopman (organ)

13:00

Afternoon on 3

Vienna Week

Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Cardiff Coffee Concerts

3/4. Penny Gore introduces more chamber music recorded at National Museum Wales. Russian-born pianist Eduard Kunz explores widely contrasting points on the keyboard, ranging from the delicacy of Scarlatti's sonatas to the fiery intensity of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody.

Scarlatti: Sonata in B minor, K87; Sonata in A, K209; Sonata in A, K212
Bach: Partita No 1
Debussy: La Puerta del Vino; Minstrels (Preludes)
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 12

2.00pm Vienna Week

Shostakovich: Symphony No 1
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Bertrand de Billy (conductor)

Kagel: Trio for piano, violin and cello
Till Fellner (piano)
Elisabeth Batiashvili (violin)
Adrian Brendel (cello)

Haydn: Symphony No 82 (The Bear)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Peter Oudjian (conductor)

Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Artemis Quartet

Eisler: Little Symphony, Op 29
Lausanne Symphony Orchestra
Christian Zacharias (conductor)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 17 in G
Pierre Laurent Aimard (piano)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe

17:00

In Tune

10 May 2007

Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio by international jazz star Hugh Masekela ahead of his forthcoming tour, and young British pianist Daniel Grimwood before his recital at St Peter's, Vauxhall this week.

19:00

Performance on 3

10 May 2007

Kancheli, Shostakovich and Scriabin

Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert given by Sarah Chang (violin) and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vassily Sinaisky.

Noch einen Schritt (Another Step), written soon after Kancheli's move to Germany in 1991, captures the inspired simplicity and sorrowful essence of the Georgian composer's sound-world; Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto is a thrilling and highly virtuosic work; and to end the programme, there's a rare outing for Scriabin's Second Symphony, a feast of orchestral colour and exotic melodies.

Kancheli: Noch einen Schritt (UK premiere)
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1
Scriabin: Symphony No 2

20:45

Composer of the Week

Dietrich Buxtehude (1636-1707)

Part Four

Donald Macleod explores Buxtehude's fascination with counterpoint, astronomy and the beauty of numbers with period performer and musicologist Ton Koopman, who recently embarked on an ambitious project to record every surviving note of the composer's music.

Fugue in C, BuxWV 174
Ton Koopman (organ)

Canzona in C, BuxWV 166
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord)

Mit Fried und Freud ich Fahr Dahin, BuxWV 76 (Cantata)
Jonathan Peter Kenny (counter-tenor)
Stephan MacLeod (bass)
Collegium Vocale
Orchestra Anima Eterna
The Royal Consort
Jos van Immerseel (conductor)

Prelude in F sharp minor, BuxWV 146
Ton Koopman (organ)

Trio Sonata in E, Op 2 No 6
John Holloway (violin)
Jaap ter Linden (viola da gamba)
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord)

Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein, BuxWV 210 (Chorale fantasia)
Ton Koopman (organ)

21:45

Night Waves

A Matter of Life and Death

Gabriel Gbadamosi reports on the new National Theatre production of A Matter of Life and Death. Originally made into a film in 1946 starring David Niven as a RAF pilot caught between life and death, it has been frequently cited as one of the great British movies of all time, particularly in its use of colour and a famous escalator to the skies. How does it survive its transition to the stage?

22:30

Artist Focus

Christian Lindberg

With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Christian Lindberg begins the programme by conducting Alfven's Fest-Overture.

23:00

The Essay

Lingua Franca

Michael Rosen continues on the long and winding linguistic road through the roots of European language.

4/8. Marche Slave

From vampires to vodka: 1,900 years ago, the Slavic family of languages spread west, probably originally from the Ukraine, to cover much of central Europe.

23:15

Late Junction

10 May 2007

Fiona Talkington introduces fiddle tunes from Alicia Bjornsdotter and Emma Reid, as well as music by Czech singer Zuzana Lapcikova, multi-instrumentalist Hugh Hopper and a Nunc dimittis by Stanford.

01:00

Through the Night

10 May 2007

10 May 2007

Susan Sharpe introduces music, beginning with performances given during last year's BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

1.00am
Lyadov, Anatoly Konstantinovich (1855-1914): From the Apocalypse
Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre (Kirov Opera)
Valery Gergiev (conductor)

1.10am
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893): Symphony No 4 in F minor
NDR Symphony Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnanyi (conductor)

1.54am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): 33 Variations in C on a Waltz by Diabelli
Einar Henning Smebye (piano)

2.51am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Quartet in F for strings
Biava Quartet

3.22am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Lemminkäinen Suite, Op 22
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

4.08am
Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643): Canzona decimasettima, detta La Diodata, ŕ due Bassi
Musica Fiata, Köln
Roland Wilson (director)

4.13am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Hora est (antiphon and responsorium)
Denis Comtet (organ)
Radio France Chorus
Donald Palumbo (conductor)

4.22am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Trio Sonata in D minor (La Folia)
Florilegium

4.32am
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915): Nocturne for the Left Hand
Anatol Ugorski (piano)

4.40am
Strauss, Johann II (1825-1899): Wienerblut, Op 354
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Borge Wagner (conductor)

4.50am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543
David MacDonald (organ)

5.00am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Mercordi (Pyrmonter Kurwoche)
Albrecht Rau (violin)
Heinrich Rau (viola)
Clemens Malich (cello)
Wolfgang Hochstein (harpsichord)

5.08am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Songs from Myrten, Op 25
Olle Persson (baritone)
Stefan Bojsten (piano)

5.20am
Albrecht, Alexander (1885-1958): Quintet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon
Pavol Kovác (piano)
Bratislava Wind Quintet

5.29am
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869): Les Franc-juges
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
John Nelson (conductor)

5.42am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Ballade No 3 in A flat
Teresa Carreno (piano)

5.50am
Handel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759): As cheers the sun (Act 2, Joshua)
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Academy of Ancient Music
Andrew Manze (director)

5.53am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Concerto in E flat for two pianos and orchestra
Kalle Randalu, Kristjan Randalu (pianos)
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Andres Mustonen (conductor)

6.17am
Paganini, Nicolň (1782-1840): Introduction and Variations on a Theme from Rossini's Mosč in Egitto
Monika Leskovar (cello)
Ivana Schwartz (piano)

6.26am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Sonata in D minor
Wolfgang Glüxam (harpsichord)

6.47am
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787): Ballet music from Paris e Helena
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra
Ludovít Rajter (conductor)