Sunday 29th July 2007

07:00

Breakfast

29 July 2007

Including from 7.00am:

Bach: Furchte dich nicht, BWV 228
Orchestra and Choir of La Chapelle Royale
Collegium Vocale
Philippe Herreweghe (director)

Verdi: Ballet of the Queen (Don Carlos)
La Scala Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

From 8.00am

Robert Kajanus: Aino
Helsinki Male Voice Choir
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jorma Panula (conductor)

Haydn: Piano Trio in E flat, H XV 29
Trio Wanderer

From 9.00am

Walton: Gloria (Missa brevis)
Michael Harris (organ)
Canterbury Cathedral Choir
David Flood (director)

Anon: Villancicos (Cancioner de Uppsala)
Monserrat Figueras (soprano)
Hesperion XX

10:00

Iain Burnside

29 July 2007

Mary King sits in for Iain and follows in the tracks of explorers and pioneers with works including Holst's Beni Mora, Weill's Lindbergh Flight and music from the forests of Papua New Guinea and the Amazon.

12:00

Private Passions

Colm Toibin

Michael Berkeley's guest is award-winning Irish writer Colm Toibin, whose novels include The Blackwater Lightship, The Master and a collection of short stories, Mothers and Sons.

A passionate music lover, his choices include Pablo Casals playing Bach, songs by Faure, Gluck, Schubert and Sibelius, a string quartet by Irish composer Frederick May and an excerpt from Wagner's Die Walkure.

13:00

WOMAD festival

Sets introduced by Lucy Duran

Radio 3's coverage of the WOMAD festival continues with live and specially recorded sets from across the weekend introduced by Lucy Duran.

Including Vieux Farka Toure, son of Ali Farka Toure, and Dr Jyotsna Srikanth, the violin-playing pathologist from South India.

14:00

Radio 3 Requests

29 July 2007

Chi-chi Nwanoku presents a selection of listeners' requests.

Music this week includes Shostakovich conducted by Haitink, Kiri Te Kanawa, and the Lancashire Caruso, a tenor who lived his life like a swashbuckling film star and became one of Puccini's favourite singers. Chi-chi also takes a request from a member of the Brodsky Quartet.

16:00

Choral Evensong

Buckfast Abbey, Devon

From Buckfast Abbey, Devon during the 2007 Exon Singers Festival.

Introit: Beati quorum via (Howard Skempton)
Responses: Plainsong
Office Hymn: Creator of the earth and sky (Deus creator)
Psalms: 141, 142, 143 (Plainsong)
First Lesson: Galatians 3 vv26-29; 4 vv6-7
Anthem: And I saw a new heaven (Bainton)
Second Lesson: Luke 4 vv16-21
Homily: The Venerable Nicola Sullivan
Magnificat: The Edinburgh Service (Howard Skempton)
The Lord's Prayer: Leighton
Motet: Ave Virgo sanctissima (Howard Skempton)
Final Hymn: O for a thousand tongues to sing (Richmond)
Organ Voluntary: Toccata and Fugue (Hommage a Buxtehude) (Petr Eben)

Director of Music: Matthew Owens
Organist: Jeffrey Makinson

17:00

Discovering Music

Prokofiev's Classical Symphony

Charles Hazlewood and the BBC Concert Orchestra explore the world of Prokofiev's Symphony No 1 in D, which was inspired by the classical style of Haydn. The programme also includes movements from Haydn's Symphonies Nos 93, 95, 100 and 101.

18:30

BBC Proms 2007 live

Prom 22 Part 1

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Louise Fryer presents an all-French programme of vivid orchestral scene setting.

Fauré's exquisite incidental music inspired by Shakespeare is followed by the sultry sounds and scents of summer nights in Berlioz's atmospheric song cycle.

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra and Choir of Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble
Marc Minkowski (conductor)

Fauré: Shylock (excerpts)
Berlioz: Les nuits d'été

19:20

Twenty Minutes

I Hear You Say So

By Elizabeth Bowen.

Elizabeth Bell reads this classic tale which takes place on a warm summer evening as different people are brought together in their local park to listen to the song of the nightingale.

19:40

BBC Proms 2007 live

Prom 22 Part 2

Tonight's Prom concludes with Bizet's famous evocation of exotic Provence, in a rare extended selection of the incidental music to Daudet's play.

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra and Choir of Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble
Marc Minkowski (conductor)

Bizet: L'Arlesienne

20:45

Drama on 3

The Two Gentlemen of Valasna

By William Shakespeare.

Adapted for radio by Roger Elsgood and Willi Richards. Shakespeare's early romantic comedy is set in two Indian princely states in the weeks leading up to the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Recorded entirely on location in Maharashtra, India.

Vishvadev......Nadir Khan
Parminder......Arghya Lahiri
Syoni......Anu Menon
Jumaana......Avantika Akerkar
The Maharaja......Sohrab Ardishir
Thaqib......Zafar Karachiwala
Sparsh......Kunaal Roy Kapoor
Lehk......Joy Sengupta
Lavanya......Suchitra Pillai
Babu......Farid Currim
Arabinder......Jayant Kripalani
Pramathesh and Ekanjeet......Vikrant Chaturvedi
The Dacoits......Advait Zen Hazarat, Siddhant Pinto and Ali Fazal

22:20

Words & Music

The Beast Within

Actress Fiona Shaw introduces a selection of poetry and prose on the theme of animals, including work by Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, William Golding, Les Murray, Lewis Carroll and Paul Durcan. With music by Sibelius, Schumann, Schubert, John Tavener and Poulenc.

00:00

The Early Music Show

My Lady Rich, Emily van Evera

Lucie Skeaping talks to singer Emily van Evera about her new disc My Lady Rich, named after Penelope Rich, one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting and sister to the Queen's favoured Earl of Essex. It's said that this 'heart-stealing goddess' was a muse to poets and musicians alike, and inspired music by the finest composers of Elizabethan England.

Lady Rich's later life was not happy and her final sorrow has been likened to Ophelia's. Featuring songs and instrumental pieces by John Dowland, Charles Tessier, William Byrd, Anthony Holborne, John Coprario, Robert Jones and John Bartlet.

01:00

Through the Night

29 July 2007

29 July 2007

With Susan Sharpe.

1.01am
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707): Du Friedesfürst, Herr Jesu Christ, in G, BuxWV 21
Harmony of Voices
1.11am
Rosenmüller, Johann (c.1619-1684): Sonata VII à 4 in D minor (1682)
1.19am
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707): Jesu dulcis memoria, BuxWV 57
1.26am
Aria sopra le nozze di Sua Maestà il Re di Svezia, BuxWV 119
1.32am
Gen Himmel zu dem Vater, in G, BuxWV 32
1.41am
Klaglied, BuxWV 72b
1.47am
Rosenmüller, Johann (c.1619-1684): Welt Ade! Ich bin dein Müde
1.51am
Sonata IX à 5 in D
1.57am
Sonata X à 5
2.03am
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707): Alles was ihr tut mit Worten oder mit Werken, BuxWV 4
Harmony of Voices:
Fredrik Malmberg (organ/director)
Ensemble Altapunta
Ole-Kristian Andersen (trombone/director)

2.16am
Norman, Ludvig (1831-1885): String Quartet in C, Op 42 (1871)
Bernt Lysell, Per Sandklef (violins)
Thomas Sundkvist (viola)
Mats Rondin (cello)

2.47am
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911): Symphony No 9 in D
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Michael Boder (conductor)

4.12am
Bonnet, Joseph (1884-1944): Variations de concert
Michael Dudman (organ)

4.21am
Martin, Frank (1890-1974): Five Ariel Songs
Myra Kroese (contralto)
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Tonu Kaljuste (conductor)

4.33am
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713): Sonate da chiesa in C, Op 1 No 7
London Baroque

4.38am
Rovetta, Giovanni (c.1595/7-1668): La bella Erminia
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (lute/director)

4.46am
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941): Nocturne in B flat, Op 16 No 4
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (piano)

4.51am
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826): Concertino in C for oboe and wind ensemble
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Michael Halasz (conductor)

5.00am
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787): Symphony in C
La Stagione, Frankfurt
Michael Schneider (conductor)

5.09am
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707): Missa Brevis, BuxWV 114
Harmony of Voices
Fredrik Malmberg (organ/director)
Ensemble Altapunta
Ole-Kristian Andersen (trombone/director)

5.19am
Fiocco, Joseph Hector (1703-1741): Suite in G
Geert Bierling (organ)

5.28am
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963): Sonata for oboe and piano
Roger Cole (oboe)
Linda Lee Thomas (piano)

5.42am
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921): Scherzo in B, Op 87
Marten Landstrom, Stefan Lindgren (pianos)

5.53am
Melartin, Erkki (1875-1937): Aino's aria Tuli kevät, tuli toivo (Aino, Op 50)
Aulikki Eerola (soprano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Kari Tikka (conductor)

6.01am
Krenz, Jan (b. 1926): Concertino for piano and orchestra
Adam Wodnicki (piano)
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice
Tadeusz Wojciechowski (conductor)

6.21am
Busoni, Ferruccio (1866-1924): Kammer Fantasie - Carmen
6.29am
Novacek, Ottokar Eugen (1866-1900): Perpetuum Mobile
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Valerie Tryon (piano)

6.33am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Till Eulenspiegel - Einmal Anders!
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound
James Campbell (conductor)

6.42am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Ma mère l'oye (Mother Goose Suite)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)