Tuesday 31st July 2007

07:00

Breakfast

31 July 2007

Including from 7.00am

Vivaldi: Concerto in D minor for viola d'amore, lute and orchestra
Manfredo Kraemer (viola d'amore)
Rolf Lislevand (lute/director)

Wagner, transcr. Liszt: Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
Andreas Haefliger (piano)

Tavener: Fragment for the Virgin
Nicola Benedetti (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding (conductor)

From 8.30am

Britten: Moderato and Nocturne (Sonatina romantica)
Stephen Hough (piano)

Brahms: Alto Rhapsody, Op 53
Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Adrian Boult (conductor)

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)

10:00

Classical Collection

31 July 2007

With Sarah Walker.

10.00am
Smetana: String Quartet No 2 in D minor
Skampa Quartet
SUPRAPHON SU3740-2

10.19am
Kapustin: Prelude in Jazz Style, Op 53 No 9
Steven Osborne (piano)
HYPERION CDA67159

10.22am
Messiaen: Regard de la croix (Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jesus)
Steven Osborne (piano)
HYPERION CDA67351/2 (2-CD set)

10.27am
Liszt: Andante lagrimoso (Harmonies poetiques et religieuses)
Steven Osborne (piano)
HYPERION CDA67445 (2-CD set)

10.36am
Mahler: Symphony No 2 in C minor (Resurrection)
Heather Harper (soprano)
Helen Watts (contralto)
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Georg Solti (conductor)
DECCA 475 8501

12:00

Composer of the Week

Frank Martin (1890-1974)

Part Two

Donald Macleod turns his attention to the music Frank Martin wrote in the 1930s, a decade during which he really hit his stride as a composer. He talks to Martin's 92-year-old widow Maria and features one of his greatest works Le vin herbé.

Air (Four Short Pieces for Guitar)
Michalis Kontaxakis (guitar)

Danse de la peur
Paul Badura-Skoda, Sebastian Benda (pianos)
Orchestra della Svissera Italiana
Christian Benda (conductor)

Ballade for alto saxophone, piano and orchestra
John Harle (saxophone)
Ronald Brautigam (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

Le vin herbé (excerpt)
Scharoun Ensemble
RIAS Chamber Choir
Daniel Reuss (director)

13:00

Afternoon on 3

Hay Music Festival & BBC SO at the Proms

Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Hay Music Festival 2007

1/4. A series of concerts with a literary twist, given during the Guardian Hay Festival.

Jonathan Lemalu (baritone)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Schubert: Schwanengesang

2.00pm BBC Proms 2007

Another chance to hear Andrew Davis conduct the BBC SO in a trio of major British works which were given their world premieres at the Proms.

Daniel Hope (violin)
Philip Dukes (viola)
Christian Poltera (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)

Delius: A Song of Summer
Tippett: Triple Concerto
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5

3.30pm From Wigmore Hall, London

Grieg: Sonata, Op 45
Daniel Hope (violin)
Sebastian Knauer (piano)

Liszt: Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543
Beethoven: Sonata No 29 in B flat (Hammerklavier)
Frederick Kempf (piano)

17:00

In Tune

31 July 2007

Petroc Trelawny's guests include conductor Semyon Bychkov, who directs the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Friday's Proms concert, and the Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director Alexei Ratmansky, who talks about the troupe's forthcoming residency at London's Coliseum.

19:00

BBC Proms 2007 live

BBC SSO play Sibelius and Britten

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

Tonight's Prom opens with Sibelius's terrifying portrait of Tapio the Finnish forest God followed by Britten's Piano Concerto, which was originally premiered at the Proms with Britten himself at the piano.

Steven Osborne (piano)
Tenebrae (male voices)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Sibelius: Tapiola
Britten: Piano Concerto

20:00

Twenty Minutes

Summer Nights in Spain

Writer Chris Stewart is well-known for his books about moving to a mountain farm in Andalucia, where he still lives. In this interval talk, he reflects on the very special atmosphere and experiences of Spanish summer nights.

20:20

BBC Proms 2007 live

BBC SSO play Varese and Debussy

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, tonight's Prom concludes with Varčse's Ecuatorial, which was premiered at the Proms in 1966, and Debussy's powerful and impressionistic seascape.

Steven Osborne (piano)
Tenebrae (male voices)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Varčse: Ecuatorial
Debussy: La mer

21:15

Feature

Wilfred Owen's Half-Known Roads

Poet Paul Farley investigates the people and places which shaped Wilfred Owen's life and work.

He visits Broxton in Cheshire where Owen first felt called to poetry and Dunsden in Oxfordshire where the poet lost his faith, but developed his empathy with the poor. He also goes to Craiglockhart, the hospital for shell-shocked soldiers in Edinburgh where Owen met Siegfreid Sassoon and developed his true voice, and he climbs to the attic room in Ripon where Owen wrote some of his most powerful poems.

Farley talks to people living in these places now and to historians, and travels to the Sambre-Oise canal, where Owen was killed, to visit his grave in nearby Ors.

22:00

BBC Proms 2007 live

BBC Singers and London Sinfonietta

Presented by Verity Sharp, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

A Proms debut for conductor Susanna Malkki, and Proms premieres from two of contemporary music's most eminent living figures. Boulez's major reworking of an earlier instrumental work is paired with Birtwistle's dark and sonorous setting of words by the Chilean revolutionary poet Pablo Neruda.

BBC Singers
London Sinfonietta
Susanna Malkki (conductor)

Boulez: Derive 2
Birtwistle: Neruda Madrigales (BBC co-commission; London premiere)

23:30

Late Junction

Look back at Womad

Fiona Talkington looks back at the 2007 WOMAD festival with highlights from performances by Korean percussionists Dulsori and Senegalese kora maestro Seckou Keita.

Plus viol consort music by William Lawes and the Klezmer violin of Alexey Rozov.

01:00

Through the Night

31 July 2007

31 July 2007

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am
Grandi, Alessandro (1586-1630): Deus qui nos tantis; Cantemus Domino
1.06am
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643): O bone Jesu; O quam pulchra est
1.16am
Grandi, Alessandro (1586-1630): Jesu mi dulcissime; Plorabo die ac nocte
1.29am
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643): Cantate Domino
1.35am
Castello, Dario (1590-1644): Sonata Seconda
1.41am
Rovetta, Giovanni (c.1595-1668): Cantate Domino
1.45am
Grandi, Alessandro (1586-1630): O Intermerate
1.49am
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643): Ego flos campi
Kantus Kobenhavn

1.54am
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975): Symphony No 5
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

2.44am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Octet in F
Niklas Andersson (clarinet)
Henrik Blixt (bassoon)
Hans Larsson (horn)
Jannica Gustafsson (violin)
Martin Stensson (violin)
Hakan Olsson (viola)
Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello)
Maria Johansson (double bass)

3.43am
Fasch, Johann Friedrich (1688-1758): Lute Concerto in D minor
Konrad Junghänel (lute)
Musica Antiqua Köln
Reinhard Goebel (director)

3.58am
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927): Florez and Blanzeflor
Peter Mattei (baritone)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck (conductor)

4.06am
Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967): Sonatina for cello and piano
László Mezo (cello)
Lóránt Szücs (piano)

4.16am
Kutev, Filip (1903-1982): Pastoral for flute and orchestra
Lidia Oshavkova (flute)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Dimitar Manolov (conductor)

4.27am
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903): Intermezzo in E flat for string quartet
Ljubljana String Quartet

4.38am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), arr. Grieg: Sonata in G
Julie Adam, Daniel Herscovitch (pianos)

4.52am
Sorkocevic, Luka (1734-1789): Symphony No 3 in D
Dubrovnik Guitar Trio

5.00am
Fasch, Johann Friedrich (1688-1758): Sonata in D minor
Amsterdam Bach Soloists
Wim ten Have (conductor)

5.09am
Gilse, Jan van (1881-1944): String Quartet
Ebony Quartet

5.19am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Fantasy and Fugue in C for piano
Murray Perahia (piano)

5.29am
Obrecht, Jakob (1450-1505): Omnis spiritus laudet
Ensemble Daedalus

5.36am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Andante cantabile (String Quartet, Op 11)
Shauna Rolston (cello)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

5.43am
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868): Overture (La gazza ladra)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

5.53am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Bassoon Concerto in B flat
Peter Hanzel (bassoon)
Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

6.13am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Nulla in mundo pax sincera for soprano and orchestra
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Academy of Ancient Music
Andrew Manze (director)

6.20am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): String Quartet in D, Op 44 No 1
Tankstream Quartet

6.47am
Dukas, Paul (1865-1935): The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Orchestre National de France
Charles Dutoit (conductor)