Friday 27th July 2007

07:00

Breakfast

Rob Cowan

Including at 7.00am:

Feliks Janiewicz: Divertimento
Polish Chamber Orchestra
Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor)

Wagner: The Good Friday Spell (Parsifal)
Houston Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski (conductor)

Bach: Cantata No 66 (Rejoice now in gladness)
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir
Ton Koopman (director)

8.30am
Bizet: Symphony in C
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Munch (conductor)

Korngold: Gluck, das mir verblieb (Die tote Stadt)
Pilar Lorengar (soprano)
Vienna Opera Orchestra
Walter Weller (conductor)

Dvorak arr. Dennis Russell Davies: Bagatelles, Op 47
Orchestra of the Bonn Beethovenhalle
Dennis Russell Davies (conductor)

10:00

Classical Collection

27 July 2007

With Sarah Walker.

10.00am
Britten: Prince of the Pagados (Act 2, scene 2)
London Sinfonietta
Oliver Knussen (conductor)
VIRGIN 0777 7595782 2 (2 CDs)

10.12am
Debussy, arr. Grainger: Pagodes (Estampes)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 556 412-2

10.19am
Stravinsky: Les Noces
Alison Wells (soprano)
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
Martyn Hill (tenor)
Alan Ewing (bass)
Simon Joly Chorale
International Piano Quartet
Tristan Fry Percussion Ensemble
Robert Craft (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557499

10.44am
Dohnanyi: Violin Concerto No 2
James Ehnes (violin)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Matthias Bamert (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 10245

11.16am
Cage: Third Construction
Amadinda Ensemble
HUNGAROTON HCD 12991

11.27am
Perotin: Sederunt principes
Hilliard Ensemble
ECM 1385

11.40am
Reich: Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ
Bob Becker, Tim Ferchen, Russell Hartenberger, Steve Reich (marimbas)
Garry Kvistad, Thad Wheeler (glockenspiels)
James Preiss (vibraphone)
Nurit Tillis (electric organ)
Pamela Wood Ambush, Rebecca Armstrong (voices - long tones)
Jay Clayton (voice - melodic patterns)
NONESUCH 7559 79451-2 (10 CDs)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) and Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

PartFive

Donald Macleod considers the Scarlattis' enormous influence on European musical life.

D Scarlatti: Sonatas: in D, Kk492; in F minor, Kk239
Scott Ross (harpsichord)

Cantata (Pur nel sonno almen tal'ora)
Cyrille Gertshenhaber (soprano)
Musique des Lumieres
Jean-Christophe Frisch (director)

A Scarlatti: Sonata No 7 in D
Judith Linsenburg (recorder)
Musica Pacifica

D Scarlatti: Sonatas: in D, Kk430; in G, Kk13
Glenn Gould (piano)

13:00

Afternoon on 3

Cheltenham Festival and BBC Proms

1.00pm

Lunchtime Concert

8/8. Cheltenham Festival 2007

New members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme, the Pavel Haas Quartet are quickly securing a reputation as one of the world's best young chamber groups. Featuring their recital in the Pittville Pump Room as part of this year's Cheltenham Festival.

Pavel Haas Quartet

Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546
Dvorak: String Quartet No 12 in F (American)
Janacek: String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters)

2.10pm

BBC Proms 2007

Another chance to hear last Sunday's Proms concert featuring a work by Austrlian composer Brett Dean. His witty 'sociological cantata' strikes a blow against reality TV, automated answering services, the dehumanisation of contemporary society and the warped language of corporate jargon. The work shares a social conscience with Beethoven's Symphony No 7, premiered in 1813 at a benefit concert for soldiers wounded in the Napoleonic Battle of Hanau. Presented by Christopher Cook.

Gondwana Voices
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
David Robertson (conductor)

Brett Dean: Vexations and Devotions (BBC co-commission with Perth Festival; European premiere)
Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A

4.00pm

From Bath Festival 2006

Carolin Widmann (violin)
Simon Lepper (piano)

Bach: Partita for solo violin No 2 in D minor
Xenakis: Dikhthas for violin and piano
Stravinsky arr. Stravinsky and Dushkin: Divertimento for violin and piano

17:00

In Tune

27 July 2007

Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio by Andrew Nethsingha from the Three Choirs Festival and conductor Stephen Layton ahead of his chamber music Prom with ensemble Polyphony.

Plus Yefim Bronfman and Esa-Pekka Salonen chat to Sean about the Prom they'll be performing in with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

19:30

BBC Proms 2007 live

27 July 2007

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

The Halle and their charismatic chief conductor Mark Elder perform Richard Strauss's Macbeth, which was his first tone poem and a dark psychological study of the play's major protagonists. This is followed by Britten's youthful settings of Rimbaud's poetry, and the theme of conflict continues in Nielsen's 'Inextinguishable' Symphony, which ultimately celebrates, as the composer put it, the elemental will to live.

Joan Rodgers (soprano)
Halle Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)

Strauss: Macbeth
Britten: Les Illuminations

20:20

Twenty Minutes

This Green Plot

1/2. This Green Plot: Michael Dobson explores the history of outdoor productions of Shakespeare.

20:40

BBC Proms 2007 live

27 July 2007

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Martin Handley presents the second half of tonight's Proms concert.

Joan Rodgers (soprano)
Halle Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)

Nielsen: Symphony No 4 (The Inextinguishable)

21:45

Meetings of Minds

4th International Congress of Modern Architects

Frances Stonor Saunders explores meetings of huge significance.

3/3. Fourth International Congress of Modern Architects: Marseilles and Athens 1933

In July 1933, Le Corbusier and 90 other delegates boarded a boat in Marseilles. Architects, engineers, writers and artists from 18 different countries spent the next 15 days discussing ideas for the city of the future.

22:30

Jazz Library

Duke Ellington

Alyn Shipton is joined by expert Pete Long to choose the essential recordings from Duke Ellington's output between 1940 and his death in 1974, including the long symphonic work Black Brown and Beige as well as his version of the Nutcracker Suite and the Second Sacred Concert.

23:30

WOMAD festival

At the Start of Womad

Andrew McGregor and Verity Sharp start off a weekend of broadcasts from WOMAD with live performances and recorded highlights from the two main stages, the Open Air and the Siam Tent, as the leading festival of world music opens in its 25th year in the green and pleasant fields of Charlton Park, Wiltshire.

Artists include Congolese rumba maestro Samba Mapangala, Mexican singer Lila Downs and Egyptian band El Tanbura. And from Radio 3's own stage in Charlton Park's arboretum, Fiona Talkington introduces a live set from Malian ngoni virtuoso Bassekou Kouyate.

01:00

Through the Night

27 July 2007

27 July 2007

Susan Sharpe introduces music, beginning with a concert given at the Royal Albert Hall, London, as part of the 2006 BBC Proms.

1.00am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Overture (Manfred)
1.15am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Violin Concerto in D
1.56am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish)
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

2.36am
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953): Romeo and Juliet, Op 64
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor)

3.16am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Trio in B flat for piano and strings, Op 97 (Archduke)
Macquarie Trio

3.56am
Leclair, Jean-Marie (1697-1764): Violin Concerto in D, Op 10 No 3
Simon Standage (violin)
Il Tempo

4.11am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): The Hebrides, Op 26 (Fingal's Cave)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz (conductor)

4.22am
Martland, Steve (b. 1959): Three Carols
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

4.32am
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937): Variations in B flat minor, Op 3
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice
Marek Pijarowski (conductor)

4.46am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Valse triste
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

4.52am
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961): To a Nordic Princess
Leslie Howard (piano)

5.00am
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883): Overture (Tannhauser)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)

5.15am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (Lyric Pieces, Op 65)
Valerie Tryon (piano)

5.22am
Couperin, François (1668-1733): Treizième concert à deux violes
Violes Esgales

5.33am
Nystroem, Goesta (1890-1966): Tre havsvisioner; Havets hand; Vid havet; Havet
Swedish Radio Choir
Gustaf Sjokvist (conductor)

5.44am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Première rapsodie for clarinet and orchestra
Jozef Luptacik (clarinet)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava
Ludovit Rajter (conductor)

5.53am
Escher, Rudolf (1912-1980): Ciel, air et vents
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Ed Spanjaard (conductor)

6.06am
Moyzes, Alexander (1906-1984): Symphony No 6
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava
Ladislav Slovak (conductor)

6.36am
Thomson, Virgil (1896-1989): String Quartet No 2
Musicians from the Chamber Music Conference and Composer's Forum of the East