07:00
Rob Cowan
Including at 7.00am:
Tchaikovsky: Dance of the swans (Swan Lake)
Suisse Romande Orchestra
Ernest Ansermet (conductor)
Hahn: Le rossignol des lilas; Fumee
Mady Mesple (soprano)
Dalton Baldwin (piano)
Brahms: Hungarian Dances (Nos 1, 5, 6 and 11)
London Symphony Orchestra
Antal Dorati (conductor)
8.30am
Giuseppe Sammartini: Recorder Sonata in G
Michael Schneider (flute)
Camerata Koln
Glazunov: Summer; Autumn (The Seasons)
Concert Arts Orchestra
Robert Irving (conductor)
Leopold Mozart: Trombone Concerto in D
Armin Rosin (trombone)
Vienna Chamber Orchestra
Philippe Entremont (conductor)
10:00
30 May 2007
With James Jolly.
10.00am
Bizet: Habanera (Carmen)
Carmen ...... Leontyne Price (soprano)
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
RCA 09026-68153-2
10.06am
Sorabji: Pastiche No 2 (Habanera from Bizet's Carmen)
Michael Habermann (piano)
BMS BMS 427-429 (3 CDs)
10.12am
Britten: Billy Budd (Act II, Sc 3)
Billy ...... Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
Dansker ...... Clive Bayley (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 9826(3) (3 CDs)
10.29am
Bridge: The Sea
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 10012
10.52am
Mendelssohn: Six Songs without Words, Op 30
Daniel Adni (piano)
EMI 5693522 (2 CDs)
11.12am
Beethoven: Abscheulicher, wo eilst du hin? (Fidelio, Act I)
Leonore ...... Gundula Janowitz (soprano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 419 436-2 (3 CDs)
11.21am
Beethoven: Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131
Budapest String Quartet
UNITED ARCHIVES UAR 001.8
12:00
Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin (1871-1915)
Miniaturist and Symphonist
While many of Scriabin's works are small-scale piano pieces, he also worked on a larger scale. Donald Macleod introduces the composer's massive Second Symphony and Fifth Piano Sonata, and explores Scriabin's personal philosophy that prompted him once to exclaim 'I am God!'.
Poeme languide, Op 52 No 3
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
Symphony No 2, Op 29
Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
Sonata No 5, Op 53
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
13:00
San Francisco Symphony
Presented by Penny Gore.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Edinburgh International Festival 2006
Another chance to hear a recital of songs and lieder given at last year's Edinburgh Festival by baritone Simon Keenlyside with pianist Malcolm Martineau.
Grainger: The Sprig of Thyme
Bridge: Love Went a-riding
Somervell: Birds in the high Hall Garden
Warlock: Piggesnie
Howells: The little boy lost
Holst: Betelgeuse
Britten: Songs and proverbs of William Blake
Schubert: An die Leier; Stimme der liebe; Fischerlied; Fischerweise; Im Walde (Waldersnacht)
Brahms: Feldeinsamkeit; Nachtwandler; Es schauen di Blumen; Standchen, Op 106
2.00pm San Francisco Symphony
More recordings by the American orchestra.
Busoni: Berceuse elegiaque, Op 42
San Francisco Symphony
Roberto Abbado (conductor)
Turnage: Three screaming popes for orchestra
San Francisco Symphony
Robert Spano (conductor)
Respighi: Fountains of Rome; Pines of Rome
San Francisco Symphony
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Berio: From Duets for Two Violins
Members of San Francisco Symphony
Members of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
Pascal Dusapin: Extenso
San Francisco Symphony
Roberto Abbado (conductor)
Debussy, orch Busser: Printemps (Symphonic Suite)
San Francisco Symphony
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Britten: Spring Symphony, Op 44
Mary Dunleavy (soprano)
Susanne Mentzer (mezzo-soprano)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Symphony
Robert Spano (conductor)
17:00
30 May 2007
Sean Rafferty talks to director Thomas Guthrie and soprano Susan Gilmour-Bailey about the Armonico Consort's new production of Purcell's King Arthur at the Bath International Music Festival.
Plus Wasfi Kani, director of Grange Park Opera's production of Prokofiev's The Gambler, joins Sean, along with tenor Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts and mezzo Katherine Rohrer.
19:00
30 May 2007
Abbey Choir
Kate Bott presents a concert by the Abbey Choir, given in the magnificent space of Westminster Abbey, of some of Bach's most striking and jubilant church music. The double-chorus motet, Komm, Jesu, komm provides a stunning opening to a concert that demonstrates the depth and variety of the great composer's invention, from two of his popular Cantatas through to one of his lesser known Lutheran Masses.
Rebecca Outram (soprano)
Charles Humphries (countertenor)
Matthew Brook (bass)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O'Donnell (conductor)
Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229
Cantata No 52 (Falsche Welt, dir trauich nicht)
Lutheran Mass in F, BWV 233
Sinfonia in D, BWV 1045
Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV 226
Cantata No 34 (O ewiges Feuer, O Ursprung der Liebe)
20:45
Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin (1871-1915)
Miniaturist and Symphonist
While many of Scriabin's works are small-scale piano pieces, he also worked on a larger scale. Donald Macleod introduces the composer's massive Second Symphony and Fifth Piano Sonata, and explores Scriabin's personal philosophy that prompted him once to exclaim 'I am God!'.
Poeme languide, Op 52 No 3
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
Symphony No 2, Op 29
Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
Sonata No 5, Op 53
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
20:45
Composer of the Week
Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin (1871-1915)
Miniaturist and Symphonist
While many of Scriabin's works are small-scale piano pieces, he also worked on a larger scale. Donald Macleod introduces the composer's massive Second Symphony and Fifth Piano Sonata, and explores Scriabin's personal philosophy that prompted him once to exclaim 'I am God!'.
Poeme languide, Op 52 No 3
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
Symphony No 2, Op 29
Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
Sonata No 5, Op 53
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
21:45
Ten Canoes
Can two cultural traditions, ostensibly developed thousands of years apart, truly come together?
Matthew Sweet meets director Rolf de Heer to talk about his new film, Ten Canoes, which is set in a remote part of Australia's Northern Territory. Developed in collaboration with the indigenous community of Ramingining, the film aims to create an ancient aboriginal tale told for the 21st century.
22:30
Simon Keenlyside
With Catherine Bott. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Baritone Simon Keenlyside begins the programme with a selection of Schubert's lieder.
23:00
Nightwalks
Four writers fond of walking explore how this simple activity is dramatically transformed at night time.
3/4. Alain de Botton believes that the only way to appreciate how electricity is carried, in all its power and vastness, is to stroll beneath the pylons at midnight.
23:15
30 May 2007
Fiona Talkington introduces award-winning group Kwadrofonik who play improvisations on Polish folk music, plus music from Yann Tiersen, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Messiaen.
01:00
30 May 2007
30 May 2007
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00am
A concert recorded in Zagreb in November 1958.
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Romeo and Juliet (Fantasy Overture); Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 74 (Pathetique)
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Lovro von Matacic (conductor)
2.08am
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936): Iz Petraski; Muza; Vakkhicheskaja Pesnja; Don't be bewitched by warlike honour
Peter Mattei (baritone)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
2.18am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Symphonic Etudes
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
2.50am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131
Quattuor Mosaďques
3.30am
Christoff, Dimiter (b.1933): Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Milena Mollova (piano)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
4.00am
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904): Overture (King and the Charcoal Burner)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Robl (conductor)
4.08am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Komm, heiliger Geist, BWV 652
Bine Katrine Bryndorf (organ)
4.18am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), orch. Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951): Komm, Gott Schopfer, heiliger Geist, BWV 631
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Edo de Waart (conductor)
4.21am
Bach, Johann Michael (1648-1694): Liebster Jesu, hor mein Flehen
Maria Zedelius (soprano)
David Cordier (alto)
Paul Elliott, Hein Meens (tenors)
Michael Schopper (bass)
Musica Antiqua Koln
Reinhard Goebel (director)
4.28am
Daquin, Louis-Claude (1694-1772): Les Enchaînement harmonieux
Colin Tilney (harpsichord)
4.33am
Anon (17th century): Court Masques under Charles I and II
Pedro Memelsdorff (recorder)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
4.44am
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695): Sonata No 7 in E minor for 2 violins and continuo
Simon Standage (violin)
Ensemble Il Tempo
4.52am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Concert Paraphrase on God save the Queen
László Baranyay (piano)
5.00am
Lisinski, Vatroslav (1819-1854): Grand Overture No 7
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Ilmar Lapinjs (conductor)
5.14am
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959): Variations on a Slovak Theme
Peter Jarusek (cello)
5.25am
Derungs, Gion Antoni (b.1935): Sut steilas
5.27am
Tomasch, Dolf (1889-1963): Allas steilas
Cantus Firmus Surselva
Clau Scherrer (conductor)
5.31am
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921): Introduction and rondo capriccioso for violin and orchestra, Op 28
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Winnepeg Symphony Orchestra
Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
5.40am
Couperin, Francois (1668-1733), arr. Bartók, Béla (1881-1945): Les Baricades misterieuses; Le Moucheron
Jan Michiels (piano)
5.44am
Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594): Pelli meae consumptis carnibus
The King's Singers
5.53am
Gottschalk, Louis Moreau (1829-1869): Le Chant du martyr
Lambert Orkis (piano)
6.00am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Litaniae Lauretanae
Dita Paegle (soprano)
Antra Bigaca (mezzo-soprano)
Martins Klisans (tenor)
Janis Markovs (bass)
Choir of Latvian Radio and the Riga Chamber Players
Sigvards Klava (conductor)
6.26am
Nenov, Dimitar (1901-1953): Ballade for Piano and Orchestra
Mario Angelov (piano)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Milen Nachev (conductor)
6.47am
Servais, Adrien François (1807-1866): La Romanesca
Servais Ensemble
6.51am
Ghys, Joseph (1801-1848): Gavotte Louis XIII (Amaryllis)
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello)
William Tritt (piano)
6.54am
Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings (1848-1918): I was glad (Psalm 122)
Vancouver Bach Choir
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Bruce Pullan (conductor)
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