Saturday 21st July 2007

07:00

Breakfast

Sara Mohr-Pietsch

From 7.00am

Rameau: Overture (Les Indes galantes)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset (director)

Bellini: Vaga luna che inargenti
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
James Levine (piano)

From 8.00am

Johann Strauss Jr: Morning papers
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)

Arvo Part: Spiegel im Spiegel
Dietmar Schwalke (cello)
Alexander Malter (piano)

09:00

CD Review

21 July 2007

Andrew McGregor introduces the latest releases and looks at some of the CDs of the past season chosen by the CD Review critics and listeners.

Including:

9.30am
Ravel: Shéhérazade
Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Kent Nagano (conductor)

10.00am
Korngold: Violin Concerto in D, Op 35
James Ehnes (violin)
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

10.30am
Beethoven piano sonatas in new recordings by Andras Schiff and Nelson Freire (piano) and Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)

11.20am
Wagner: Prelude to Parsifal Act 1
Hallé Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)

11.50am
Warlock: The Curlew for tenor, flute, cor anglais and string quartet
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Michael Cox (flute)
Gareth Hulse (cor anglais)
Fitzwilliam String Quartet

12.20am
Disc of the Week: Schumann: Symphony No 2 in C, Op 61
South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra
Roger Norrington (conductor)

13:00

The Early Music Show

Shakespeare and Music in the Time of Henry Purcell

Actor Simon Russell Beale explores the world of the Restoration theatre, sharing his insights into the plots and characters in musical settings of Shakespeare's plays by Purcell and his contemporaries.

Music includes examples from Richard II, Timon of Athens, The Tempest and The Fairy Queen.

14:00

BBC Proms Chamber Music 2007

BBC Proms Chamber Music 2007

Another chance to hear mezzo-soprano Alice Coote performing in last Monday's Proms Chamber Music Concert at Cadogan Hall, London. Alice revisits the poignant song cycle specially composed for her by Judith Weir, a series of fleeting conversations between humans and birds. This is set in the context of music by earlier generations of lyrical English song composers.

Judith Weir: The Voice of Desire
Britten: A Charm of Lullabies
Songs by Quilter, Vaughan Williams, Gurney and Stanford.

Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Graham Johnson (piano)

15:00

World Routes

Darbar Festival

Jameela Siddiqi introduces performances from the Darbar Festival in Leicester, including music from South India with an ensemble led by flute player Mysore Chandan and raags played on the Indian slide guitar by Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.

Part of the India & Pakistan 07 season.

16:00

Jazz Line-Up

Silje Nergaard

Julian Joseph presents Norwegian vocalist Silje Nergarrd in concert with her Quartet, recorded earlier this year at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival.

Plus journalist Jack Massarik with his monthly jazz column.

17:30

Jazz Record Requests

21 July 2007

Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.

18:30

New Generation Artists

Eduard Kunz

Verity Sharp presents recordings by past and present members of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. Featuring pianist Eduard Kunz.

D Scarlatti: Sonata in A, Kk209
Beethoven: Sonata in C, Op 53 (Waldstein)

19:00

BBC Proms 2007 live

21 July 2007

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, a Proms concert of French favourites, with works by Debussy, Saint-Saëns and Fauré.

Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor

Steven Isserlis (cello)
William Dutton (treble)
Russell Braun (baritone)
National Youth Choir of Wales
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

19:35

Twenty Minutes

Fathoming the Lake

Llangorse Lake has always been an important, and sometimes frightening, presence in the life of writer Horatio Clare, whose childhood was spent on a hill farm nearby. In a programme recorded in his canoe on the lake at dusk, Clare salutes its legendary birds, mud-loving eels and infamous pike, and dives into the lake's myths and history. Is it bottomless, a door to another world or does it hide a drowned town?

Clare also chronicles life in South Wales, from the Ice Age, Henry IV and Owain Glyndwr to today, and shows how these times exist together, barely below the surface of the lake.

19:55

BBC Proms 2007 live

21 July 2007

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, the second half of a Proms concert of French favourites, featuring two works by Fauré.

Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine; Requiem

William Dutton (treble)
Russell Braun (baritone)
National Youth Choir of Wales
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

21:00

Between The Ears

Maysles in the Dakota

Paul McCartney and Martin Scorsese explore the life and times of Albert Maysles who, with his brother David, played an important role in the mid-20th-century documentary film-making revolution, developing the direct cinema genre in classics such as What's Happening, The Beatles in the USA and Gimme Shelter.

21:30

Pre-Hear

Musical landscapes from the Far East

The Singapore composer Joyce Koh takes the Chinese character 'Tai' and illustrates it through the orchestra. While Korean composer Unsuk Chin explores the concept of passing time and the necessity for humanity to confront its own mortality - using two vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra and works by European poets including Unica Zurn, Gerhard Ruhm, Arthur Rimbaud and Paavo Haavikko.

Joyce Bee Tuan Koh: Tai for orchestra
Unsuk Chin: Kala for soprano, bass, chorus and orchestra

Piia Komsi (soprano)
Jeremy Birchall (singer)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Johannes Kalitzke (conductor)

22:30

Hear And Now

BCMG

Tom Service presents music recorded at a recent Birmingham Contemporary Music Group concert, which ranges from the serialist adventures of Anton Webern to the world premiere of Johannes Maria Staud's spatial concerto for harpsichord, electronics and ensemble One Movement and Five Miniatures. Also featuring works by Gyorgy Ligeti, Edward Rushton and Benedict Mason.

Edward Rushton: Palace
Johannes Maria Staud: One Movement and Five Miniatures (world premiere)
Clive Williamson (harpsichord)
Jonathan Green and Simon Hall (live electronics)

Anton Webern: Five Canons on Latin Texts, Op 16
Three Traditional Rhymes, Op 17
Barbara Hannigan (soprano)

Benedict Mason: Nodding Trilliums and Curve-Lined Angles

Gyorgy Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre
Barbara Hannigan (soprano)

BCMG
Richard Baker (conductor)

00:00

The Early Music Show

The Masque of Moments

Lucie Skeaping is joined by lutenist Elizabeth Kenny in two programmes recorded at Blythburgh Church in Suffolk as part of the 2007 Aldeburgh Festival.

1/2. Featuring music taken from a dazzling array of 17th century masques, including songs and dances by Thomas Lupo, John Coprario, Thomas Campion, Alfonso Ferrabosco and Robert Johnson, along with readings by Simon Robson.

Sophie Daneman (soprano)
William Purefoy (countertenor)
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Elizabeth Kenny, Jacob Heringman, David Miller (lute)
Siobhan Armstrong (harp)
Mark Levy, Joanna Devine, Alison McGillivray (viol)

01:00

Through the Night

21 July 2007

21 July 2007

With Susan Sharpe.

A concert recorded in Bonn.
1.00am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat, Op 73 (Emperor)
1.41am
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953): Symphony No 5
Emanuel Ax (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

2.25am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): String Quartet No 1 in D, Op 11
Tämmel String Quartet

2.55am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Jordens sang, Op 93 (Song of the Earth)
The Academic Choral Society
The Helsinki Cathedral Chorus
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ulf Söderblom (conductor)

3.14am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Cello Concerto No 2 in D
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Heinrich Schiff (cello/conductor)

3.40am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Piano Sonata No 15 in C, D840
Alfred Brendel (piano)

4.00am
Wassenaer, Unico Wilhelm van (1692-1766): Concerto No 5 in F minor
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor)

4.11am
d'India, Sigismondo (c.1582-c.1629): Ma con chi parlo? Ahi lassa
4.13am
Che non t'ami, cor mio
4.16am
Pur venisti, cor mio
The Consort of Musicke

4.19am
Couperin, Francois (1668-1733) arranged by Bartók, Béla (1881-1945): Les baricades misterieuses
4.22am
Les Fastes de la grande et anciénne Ménéstrandise (excerpt)
Jan Michiels (piano)

4.24am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto in C for string orchestra, RV 114
The King's Consort
Robert King (director)

4.30am
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918): Festive March, Op 13
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
George de Godzinsky (conductor)

4.39am
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826): Rondo brillante in E flat, Op 62
Raoul Pugno (piano)

4.44am
Bersa, Blagoje (1873-1934): Idila, Op 25b
Croatian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mladen Tarbuk (conductor)

4.52am
Part, Arvo (1935-): Trivium for organ
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ)

5.00am
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869): Le carnaval romain
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

5.08am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Waltz in A minor, Op 34, No 2
Emanuel Ax (piano)

5.14am
Gorczycki, Grzegorz Gerwazy (c.1665-1734): Laetatus sum - concert a 9
5.19am
Te lucis ante
5.21am
Litaniae de providential divina
Olga Pasiecznik, Marta Bobertska (soprano)
Piotr Lykowski (countertenor)
Wojciech Parchem (tenor)
Miroslaw Borczynski (bass)
Sine Nomine Chamber Choir
Concerto Polacco
Marek Toporowski (chamber organ/director)

5.33am
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695): Chacony a 4 in G minor for strings, Z730
Simon Standage (violin)
Il Tempo

5.38am
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961): O Danny Boy
Edmonton Wind Ensemble
Harry Pinchin (conductor)
5.42am
Colleen Dhas
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Geoffrey Simon (conductor)

5.46am
Grandjany, Marcel (1891-1975): Rhapsodie pour la harpe, Op 10
Rita Costanzi (harp)

5.55am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Intermède (2nd mvt, Sonata for violin and piano in G minor)
Vineta Sareika (violin)
Ventis Zilberts (piano)

6.00am
Kilar, Wojciech (b. 1932): Little Overture
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Stanislav Macura (conductor)

6.07am
Lindberg, Oskar (1887-1955): Piano Quartet
Marten Landstrom (piano)
Members of the Uppsala Chamber Soloists

6.32am
Rheinberger, Josef (1839-1901): Sonata in E flat for horn and piano, Op 178
Martin Van der Merwe (horn)
Huib Christiaanse (piano)

6.53am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) : Das war sehr gut? (Arabella)
Joanne Kolomyjec (soprano)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)