07:00
Rob Cowan
Including from 7.00am
Brahms: Hungarian Dances, Nos 5 and 17
Güher and Süher Pekinel (pianos)
Delius: In a Country Garden
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Thomas Beecham (conductor)
Bach: Concerto for oboe and violin in D minor, BWV 1060
Gernot Schmalfuss (oboe)
Tibor Varga Festival Chamber Orchestra
Tibor Varga (director/violin)
From 8.30am
Ravel: Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)
Leon Fleischer (piano)
Haydn: Symphony No 88
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor)
Schumann: Songs of Dawn, Op 133
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
10:00
3 July 2007
With James Jolly.
10.00am
Rossini: Overture (Semiramide)
London Symphony Orchestra
Piero Gamba (conductor)
DECCA 417 692-2
10.13am
Handel: Dixit Dominus
Felicity Palmer, Margaret Marshall (sopranos)
Charles Brett, John Angelo Messana (countertenors)
Richard Morton, Alistair Thompson (tenors)
David Wilson-Johnson (bass)
Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
ERATO 4509-99757-2
10.49am
Bach: 2 part inventions (No 3 in D; No 10 in G; No 15 in B minor)
Wanda Landowska (harpsichord)
Bach: 2 part inventions (No 6 in E; No 13 in A minor; No 1 in C)
Glenn Gould (piano)
2 part inventions (No 8 in F; No 14 in B flat; No 4 in D minor)
Wendy Carlos (Moog synthesiser)
ESD 81732
11.03am
Tippett: Boyhood's End
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
HYPERION CDA 67459
11.17am
Arriaga: Symphony in D minor
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 66800
11.41am
Ravel, arr. Peter Sadlo: Ma mere l'oye
Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire (pianos)
Peter Sadlo, Edgar Guggeis (percussion)
DG 453 576-2 (2 CDs)
12:00
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Part Two
Donald Macleod continues his exploration of Bruckner's Vienna years, at a time when the musical life of the city was sharply divided. You were either a Brahmsian or a Wagnerian, and the two camps were as implacably opposed as mods and rockers.
Abendzauber, for baritone solo, men's chorus, distant voices and 4 horns
Markus Krause (baritone)
Suddeutsches Vokalensemble
Hornensemble Marie Luise Neunecker
Rolf Beck (conductor)
Os Justi, Gradual for 8 part choir
Monteverdi Choir
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
String Quintet in F (4th mvt)
Ronald Hoogeveen, Rami Koch (violins)
Zoltan Benyacs, Prunella Pacey (violas)
Henk Lambooij (cello)
Symphony No 5 in B (1st mvt)
Berlin Philharmonic
Gunter Wand (conductor)
13:00
East Meets West
Presented by Penny Gore.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Aldeburgh Festival
1/8. From the 2007 Aldeburgh Festival, baritone Simon Keenlyside and pianist Malcolm Martineau perform an emotionally and thematically varied programme of songs by Schubert, Schoenberg, Pfitzner and Mahler.
2.15pm
2/5. The East meets West theme has a Germanic slant, with two 'oriental' characters from Mozart's Magic Flute, a Japanese-born, Vienna-trained London resident playing Schubert, and Zemlinsky's vocal symphony which sets words by Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore.
Mozart: Alles fuhlt der Liebe Freuden; In diesen heil'gen Hallen (The Magic Flute)
Monostatos ...... Burkhard Ulrich (baritone)
Sarastro ...... Rene Pape (bass)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
Schubert: 4 Impromptus, D899
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony
Melanie Diener (soprano)
Matthias Goerne (baritone)
North German Radio Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
16:00
Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
Performances of the music James Naughtie mentions in his Radio 4 series, which connects historical events and their effect on the course of classical music.
22/30. Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
As France was on the brink of a revolution, the story of a count being exposed and humiliated by his servant was, in Napoleon's words, 'the revolution in action'.
17:00
3 July 2007
Sean Rafferty's guests include Red Priest, who talk about their forthcoming appearance at the Lake District summer Music festival, and Elin Manahan Thomas, who discusses the release of her new CD.
19:00
3 July 2007
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at 21
Petroc Trelawny introduces a celebratory concert at the Royal Festival Hall as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is 21 years old.
With a starry cast of guest musicians and no fewer than four conductors, the orchestra plays classical and baroque masterpieces. The programme includes Roger Norrington conducting Rameau's Suite from Dardanus, a work which the orchestra performed at its very first concert at the South Bank Centre 21 years ago.
Richard Egarr (piano)
Robert Levin (piano)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Clive Bayley (bass)
Philip Langridge (tenor)
David Wilson-Johnson (bass)
Peter Sidhom (speaker)
Choir of the Enlightenment
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Mark Elder, Vladimir Jurowski, Charles Mackerras, Roger Norrington (conductors)
Purcell: Welcome to all the Pleasures (Suite); Now does the Glorious Day Appear (Suite)
Rameau: Dardanus (Suite)
Mozart: Concerto in E flat for 2 pianos, K365
Haydn: Symphony No 63
Weber: Der Freischutz (Act 2, finale)
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
20:45
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Part Two
Donald Macleod continues his exploration of Bruckner's Vienna years, at a time when the musical life of the city was sharply divided. You were either a Brahmsian or a Wagnerian, and the two camps were as implacably opposed as mods and rockers.
Abendzauber, for baritone solo, men's chorus, distant voices and 4 horns
Markus Krause (baritone)
Suddeutsches Vokalensemble
Hornensemble Marie Luise Neunecker
Rolf Beck (conductor)
Os Justi, Gradual for 8 part choir
Monteverdi Choir
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
String Quintet in F (4th mvt)
Ronald Hoogeveen, Rami Koch (violins)
Zoltan Benyacs, Prunella Pacey (violas)
Henk Lambooij (cello)
Symphony No 5 in B (1st mvt)
Berlin Philharmonic
Gunter Wand (conductor)
21:45
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Isabel Hilton and guests discuss the life and work of the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Despite the fact he died before his 30th birthday, his admirers have stretched from painter Rossetti to Karl Marx and radical journalist Paul Foot. He famously said that 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world' but two centuries on, what should we make of his life's fusion of the literary imagination and political activism?
22:30
Angela Gheorghiu
With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Tenor Roberto Alagna joins his wife Angela Gheorghiu for an excerpt from Verdi's Otello.
23:00
States of Mind
Four British cultural figures explore how their first impressions of America developed through intellectual, physical and cultural discoveries.
2/4. British-Pakistani writer Kamran Nazeer examines how his idea of America is tied up with the law, and how his younger self was inspired by the elderly men and women of the Supreme Court.
23:15
3 July 2007
Fiona Talkington presents a laid-back, eclectic mix of music from across the globe.
Including performances by Kimmo Pohjonen's Kluster duo and Norwegian singer Mari Boine recorded at the Bath Festival, and pianist Christopher O'Riley playing the songs of Nick Drake.
01:00
3 July 2007
3 July 2007
With John Shea.
1.00am
A concert recorded at the Copenhagen Early Music Festival.
Dufay, Guillaume (c.1400-1474): Bon jour bon mois (rondo); Las! Que feray (rondo); J'ay mis mon cuer (ballad); Mon cuer me fait toudis penser (rondo); Helas mon deuil (virelai); La belle se siet; Helas madame par amours; Quel fronte signorille (rotundello); Ce jour de l'an (rondo) assimilate; C'est bien raison; Dona I ardenti rai (encore)
Tetraktys
1.47am
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896): Symphony No 8
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Manfred Honeck (conductor)
3.12am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Concerto in D minor for violin, piano and string orchestra
Sveinung Sand (violin)
Sveinung Bjelland (piano)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
3.49am
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924): La Bonne Chanson, Op 61
Barbara Hendricks (soprano)
Staffan Scheja (piano)
Vertavo String Quartet
4.13am
Escher, Rudolf (1912-1980): Le vrai visage de la paix
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Ed Spanjaard (conductor)
4.25am
Allegri, Lorenzo (1567-1648): Primo Ballo della notte d'amore; Sinfonica (Spirto del ciel)Tragicomedia
Stephen Stubbs (chitaronne/director)
4.35am
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945): Romanian folk dances
I Cameristi Italiani
4.43am
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Psalm 23 (The Genevan Psalter)
Leo van Doeselaar (organ)
4.51am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Spring Song, Op 16
Kaija Saarikettu (violin)
Raija Kerppo (piano)
5.00am
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787): Overture (Alceste)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava
Ludovit Rajter (conductor)
5.10am
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643): Altri canti d'Amor a 6
Suzie Le Blanc, Kristina Nilsson (sopranos)
Daniel Taylor (countertenor)
Rodrigo del Pozo (tenor)
Josep Cabré (baritone)
Bernard Deletré (bass)
Tragicomedia
Stephen Stubbs (conductor)
Concerto Palatino
Bruce Dickey (conductor)
5.19am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Preludes No 21 in B flat; No 22 in G minor; No 23 in F; No 24 in D minor
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)
5.26am
Barber, Samuel (1910-1981): Adagio for Strings
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Jorge Mester (conductor)
5.35am
Dukas, Paul (1865-1935): Villanelle for horn and orchestra
Esa Tukia (horn)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michel Adelson (conductor)
5.42am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Sinfonia in D, Wq 183 No 1
Slovenicum Chamber Orchestra
Uros Lajovic (conductor)
5.53am
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934): Sea Pictures, Op 37
Margreta Elkins (mezzo-soprano)
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Werner Andreas Albert (conductor)
6.16am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886), after Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Soirée de Vienne No 6 in A minor
Teresa Carreńo (piano)
6.24am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Bourée; La Paix; La Rejouissance; Menuet 1 and 2 (Music for the Royal Fireworks)
Collegium Aureum
6.47am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F, BWV 1047
Mark Bennett (trumpet)
Terje Tönnesen, Cecilia Waahlberg, Bjarte Eike (violins)
Frode Thorsen (recorder)
Anna-Maija Luolajan-Mikkola (oboe)
Andreas Torgersen (violin)
Markku Luolajan-Mikkola (cello)
Dan Styffe (bass)
Hans Knut Sveen (harpsichord)
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