Wednesday 23rd May 2007

07:00

Breakfast

Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Including at 7.00am:

Handel: Trio Sonata in D minor, Op 2 No 5
Peter and Zoltan Katona (guitars)
Liwei Qin (cello)

Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Joseph Swensen (conductor)

Schein: Israelis Brunnlein (excerpt)
Ensemble Vocal Europeen
Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)

8.30am

Francaix: 11 Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Mainz Wind Ensemble
Klaus Rainer Scholl (director)

Mozart: Overture (Cosi fan tutte)
La Petite Bande
Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)

Stravinsky: Suite Italienne
Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
Peter Nagy (piano)

10:00

Classical Collection

23 May 2007

With Sarah Walker.

10.00am
Mozart: Symphony No 35 in D, K385 (Haffner)
Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell (conductor)
SONY SBK 46333

10.20am
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44
Clifford Curzon (piano)
Budapest Quartet
NAXOS 8.110306

10.52am
Paganini: Caprice No 5 in A minor; Caprice No 13 in B flat (24 Caprices, Op 1)
Salvatore Accardo (violin)
DG 429 714-2

10.58am
Strauss: Don Quixote, Op 35
Rafael Druian (violin)
Abraham Skernick (viola)
Pierre Fournier (cello)
Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell (conductor)
SONY MHK63123

11.38am
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 24 in F sharp minor, Op 78
Artur Schnabel (piano)
NAXOS 8.110761

11.48am
Ravel: Don Quichotte a Dulcinee
Gerard Souzay (baritone)
Orchestra de la societe de Concerts du Conservatoire
Edouard Lindenberg (conductor)
TESTAMENT SBT 1342

12:00

Composer of the Week

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Il mondo della luna and La vera costanza

If Haydn's operas have failed to catch on, it's certainly not the fault of the music: Donald Macleod considers the composer's dreadful choice of libretti. In terms of textual turkey, La vera costanza is a prime offender, yet it contains some of Haydn's most inspired music.

Il mondo della luna (Act 2, Finale; Act 3)
Arleen Auger, Edith Mathis (sopranos)
Frederica von Stade, Lucia Valentini-Terrani (mezzo-sopranos)
Luigi Alva, Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenors)
Domenico Trimarchi (baritone)
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Antal Dorati (conductor/continuo)

D'una sposa meschinella (insertion aria for Paisiello's La Frascatana)
Edith Mathis (soprano)
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Armin Jordan (conductor)

La vera costanza (So che una bestia sei, Act 1)
Domenico Trimarchi (baritone)
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Antal Dorati (conductor/continuo)

La vera costanza (Act 1, Finale)
Jessye Norman, Helen Donath, Kari Lovaas (sopranos)
Claes H Ahnsjo, Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenors)
Wladimiro Ganzarolli, Domenico Trimarchi (baritones)
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Antal Dorati (conductor/continuo)

13:00

Afternoon on 3

Mozart, Brahms and Elgar

Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Edinburgh International Festival 2006

Another chance to hear a recital from last year's Edinburgh Festival given at the Queen's Hall, in which Trio Wanderer from France made its Edinburgh Festival debut. Tchaikovsky's trio was inspired by the death of the composer's close friend Nikolai Rubinstein and is subtitled In Memory of a Great Artist.

Haydn: Piano Trio in C
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50

2.00pm

Continuing this week's BBC Orchestra focus on Mozart's piano concertos and Radio 3 New Generation Artists in Brahms chamber music featuring the clarinet.

Liszt: Prometheus
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat, K482
Antti Siirala (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Susanna Malkki (conductor)

Simon Bainbridge: Fantasia for Double Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Susanna Malkki (conductor)

Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115
Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet)
Szymanowski Quartet

Elgar: Cello Concerto
Daniel Muller-Schott (cello)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Schumann: Symphony No 4
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

17:00

In Tune

23 May 2007

Sean Rafferty is joined by the Royal String Quartet ahead of their performance at LSO St Luke's on Thursday.

Composer Rodion Shchedrin and cellist Raphael Wallfisch join conductor Simon Over to talk about their new arrangement of Prokofiev's Cinq Melodies, and we hear from artistic director Ann Sholem and singer Marie McLaughlin from WNO's new production of Kurt Weill's Seven Deadly Sins.

19:30

Performance on 3

Bath International Music Festival 2007

Maxim Vengerov - Part One

Petroc Trelawny introduces a live recital featuring Russian violinist Maxim Vengerov amongst the soloists, who will be playing a selection of works for solo violin.

Jack Liebeck (violin)
Katya Apekisheva (piano)

Elgar: Violin Sonata

20:05

Twenty Minutes

Ol'ga Berggol'ts

Philip Bullock discusses the life and work of Soviet Russian poet Ol'ga Berggol'ts (1910-75) who is remembered not only for some of the loveliest Russian lyric poetry of the 20th century but also for the inspiring and historic radio broadcasts she made during the Siege of Leningrad, which gave hope and comfort to the city's desperate inhabitants.

20:25

Performance on 3

Bath International Music Festival 2007

Maxim Vengerov - Part Two

Petroc Trelawny introduces the second half of tonight's recital. Featuring Russian violinist Maxim Vengerov amongst the soloists, who will be playing a selection of works for solo violin.

Adrian Brendel (cello)
Tim Horton (piano)

Beethoven: Cello Sonata in G minor

21:45

Night Waves

What does it mean to be in love in the 21st century?

What does it mean to be in love at the start of the 21st century? Philip Dodd investigates a new book that borrows the method of the ancient thinker Socrates to explore all the dimensions of love around us today: family love, love of one's country, love of God and more.

In today's competitive and individualistic times, can love be found in unfamiliar places? And what does that tell us about the world around us?

22:30

Artist Focus

Artur Schnabel

With Jonathan Swain. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Pianist Artur Schnabel begins the programme with Mozart's Rondo in A minor, K511.

23:00

The Essay

The Great Essayists - William Hazlitt

Writer and philosopher AC Grayling continues his exploration of key figures from the glory days of the English essay.

3/4. William Hazlitt was a journalist, critic and radical republican polemicist. He is renowned for the power and beauty of his prose in essays, ranging from a description of Poussin's famous painting of Orion to an evocation of the atmosphere at a bare-knuckle fight on the Hungerford Downs.

23:15

Late Junction

23 May 2007

Verity Sharp presents contemporary Belizean sounds from Andy Palacio and his Garifuna Collective, a pontic lyra improvisation from Greek instrumentalist Matthaios Tsahourides and recordings by English folk musician Nic Jones.

01:00

Through the Night

23 May 2007

23 May 2007

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Chorale: Leibster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 730
1.07am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Organ Sonata No 1 in A minor (Wurttemburg)
1.19am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-97): Organ Variations over an Allegretto in F, K54
Reitze Smits (organ)

1.25am
Petrali, Vincenzo (1832-1889): Organ Sonata per flauto
1.30am
Organ Sonata finale
1.34am
Spergher, Ignazio (1763-1808): Organ Sonata in B flat
Cor van Wageningen (organ)

1.47am
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896): Symphony No 4 in E flat (Romantic)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Heinrich Schiff (conductor)

2.53am
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883): Good Friday Music (Parsifal)
Felix Mottl (piano)

3.04am
Marais, Marin (1656-1728): Suite No 2 in G for two viols
Violes Esgales

3.42am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Estampes
Lars-David Nilsson (piano)

3.57am
Wanski, Jan (1762-1821): Symphony in D
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Andrzej Mysinski (conductor)

4.11am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Piano Sonata in E minor, H XVI 34
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)

4.24am
Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706): Tröste uns Gott unser Heiland
Cantus Cölln
Konrad Junghänel (director)

4.27am
Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706): Canon and Gigue in D
Geoffrey Lancaster (harpsichord)
Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players
Barbara Jane Gilbey (violin/director)

4.32am
Khachaturian, Aram (1903-1978): Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
Ukranian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)

4.42am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 (Great)
Guitar Trek

4.49am
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883): Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Prelude to Act 1)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Tamás Vásáry (conductor)

5.00am
Németh-Samorinsky Stefan (1896-1975): Birch Trees
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava
Oliver Dohnányi (conductor)

5.19am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Sinfonia in D for two violins and continuo, H585
Les Adieux

5.29am
Arensky, Anton Stepanovich (1861-1906): Suite No 1 in F for two pianos, Op 15
James Anagnason, Leslie Kinton (pianos)

5.44am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Scherzo for piano No 3 in C sharp minor, Op 39
Simon Trpceski (piano)

5.52am
Gotovac, Jakov (1895-1982): Symphonic Dance Kolo, Op 12
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Kazushi Ono (conductor)

6.02am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Künft'ger Zeiten eitler Kummer, HWV 202
Hélčne Plouffe (violin)
Louise Pellerin (oboe)
Dom André Laberge (organ)

6.07am
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Toccata in C
Jacques van Oortmerssen (organ)

6.13am
Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899): Chanson Perpetuelle, Op 37
Barbara Hendricks (soprano)
Staffan Scheja (piano)
Vertavo String Quartet

6.20am
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809): String Quartet in B, Op 64, No 3
Talisker Kvartetten

6.41am
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953): Symphony No 1 in D (Classical)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Karel Ancerl (conductor)

6.55am
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911): Ich ging mit lust durch einen grünen Wald
Arleen Auger (soprano)
Irwin Gage (piano)