Thursday 29th November 2007

07:00

Breakfast

Rob Cowan

Including at 7.00am

Handel: Organ Concerto No 6 in B flat, Op 4
Simon Preston (organ)
Menuhin Festival Orchestra
Yehudi Menuhin (conductor)

Rossini: Inflammatus e accensus
Montserrat Caballe (soprano)
RCA Italian Opera Orchestra
Carlo Felice Cillario (conductor)

Dvorak: The Noon Witch, Op 108
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam
Yakov Kreizberg (conductor)

8.30am
Ravel: Sonate Posthume
Charles Libove (violin)
Nina Lugovoy (piano)

Gliere: Festival in the Palace of Prince Vladimir
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Harold Farberman (conductor)

Beethoven: String Quartet, Op 18 No 2
Tokyo Quartet

10:00

Classical Collection

29 November 2007

With James Jolly.

10.00am
Smetana: Tabor (Ma vlast)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
SUPRAPHON 1112082

10.14am
Mozart: Overture (Don Giovanni)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 419 179 2

10.19am
Mozart: Madamina, il catalogo è questo (Don Giovanni, Act 1)
Leporello ...... Ezio Flagello (baritone)
Prague National Theatre Orchestra
Karl Böhm (conductor)
DG 429 870 2 (3 CDs)

10.25am
Mozart: La nobilità...Là ci darem la mano...Ah fuggi il traditor (Don Giovanni, Act 1)
Don Giovanni ...... Johannes Weisser (baritone)
Zerlina ...... Sunhae Im (soprano)
Donna Elvira ...... Alexandrina Pendatchanska (soprano)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
René Jacobs (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901 964 (3 CDs)

10.33am
Dusek: Parthia in C for wind trio
Novak Trio
SUPRAPHON 1121952

10.40am
Bach: Cantata No 147 (Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben)
Lisa Larsson (soprano)
Bogna Bartosz (alto)
Gerd Türk (tenor)
Klaus Mertens (bass)
Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Orchestra
Ton Koopman (conductor)
ERATO 3984231412 (3 CDs)

11.11am
Grieg: Incidental music from Peer Gynt (excerpts)
Elly Ameling (soprano)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Edo de Waart (conductor)
PHILIPS 411 038 2

11.36am
Glinka: Variations on Scottish Themes
Valery Kamyshov (piano)
OLYMPIA OCD 124

11.44am
Smetana: Libuse's Prophecy with Six Visions from Czech History
Libuse ...... Eva Urbanova (soprano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
ERATO 3984234142

12:00

Composer of the Week

Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995) and Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)

Part Four

Donald Macleod explores the music of two composers who provided the soundtrack to Hollywood's Golden Age.

4/5. High Definition

Korngold's Hollywood resume took a downward turn while Rozsa entered the most productive years of his Hollywood career, leading to the era of the epics Quo Vadis and Ben-Hur. And another emigre musician caught the eyes, and ears, of both composers: violinist Jascha Heifetz.

Korngold: King's Row (main title)
National Philharmonic
Charles Gerhardt (conductor)

Rozsa: Madame Bovary (Waltz)
City of Prague Philharmonic
Kenneth Alwyn (conductor)

Rozsa: Ave Caesar (Quo Vadis)
City of Prague Philharmonic
Kenneth Alwyn (conductor)

Rozsa: Violin Concerto, Op 24 (3rd mvt)
Anastasia Khitruk (violin)
Russian Philharmonic
Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor)

Korngold: Violin Concerto (1st mvt)
Gil Shaham (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Andre Previn (conductor)

Rozsa: Ben-Hur Suite
North Hungarian Symphony Orchestra
Laszlo Kovacs (conductor)

13:00

Afternoon on 3

29 November 2007

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

3/4. From the recent New Generation Artists showcase series at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, the Ebène Quartet perform two works from the German Romantic repertoire.

Brahms: Quartet in A minor, Op 51 No 1
Schubert: Quartet in D minor (Death and the Maiden)

2.15pm

Featuring Scottish music, composers and performers.

Tippett: Fantasia on a Theme of Handel
Steven Osborne (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Hovhaness: A Rose Tree Blossoms
Thea Musgrave: Poems on the Underground (Set 2)
Stephen Sametz: I have had singing
National Youth Choir of Scotland
Christopher Bell (conductor)

Poulenc: Gloria
Susan Gritton (soprano)
National Youth Choirs of Scotland and Great Britain
Rodolfus Choir
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Eddie McGuire: Calgacus for Orchestra
Robert Wallace (bagpipes)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa (conductor)

Mackenzie: Overture (The Cricket on the Hearth)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Poulenc: 5 poemes de Ronsard
Lord Berners: 3 English Songs
Lisa Milne (soprano)
Iain Burnside (piano)

James MacMillan: O Bone Jesu
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Tallis: O Nata Lux
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

James MacMillan: A Child's Prayer
Margaret Feaviour, Micaela Haslam (sopranos)
BBC Singers
Nicholas Kok (conductor)

John McLeod: Fling for orchestra
Highland Region Youth Orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Clark Rundell (conductor)

Tippett: Piano Concerto
Steven Osborne (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

17:00

In Tune

29 November 2007

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world.

19:00

Performance on 3

29 November 2007

Alexander Melnikov and the BBC Philharmonic

Martin Handley presents a concert by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Thomas Dausgaard, whose programme includes an early orchestral work by Messiaen as well as a symphony by Carl Nielsen that ranks among the greatest of the 20th century.

Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov is the soloist in one of Prokofiev's early triumphs, a dazzling concerto written when he was still in his early twenties.

Messiaen: Hymne au Saint-Sacrement
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 2
Nielsen: Symphony No 5

20:45

Composer of the Week

Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995) and Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)

Part Four

Donald Macleod explores the music of two composers who provided the soundtrack to Hollywood's Golden Age.

4/5. High Definition

Korngold's Hollywood resume took a downward turn while Rozsa entered the most productive years of his Hollywood career, leading to the era of the epics Quo Vadis and Ben-Hur. And another emigre musician caught the eyes, and ears, of both composers: violinist Jascha Heifetz.

Korngold: King's Row (main title)
National Philharmonic
Charles Gerhardt (conductor)

Rozsa: Madame Bovary (Waltz)
City of Prague Philharmonic
Kenneth Alwyn (conductor)

Rozsa: Ave Caesar (Quo Vadis)
City of Prague Philharmonic
Kenneth Alwyn (conductor)

Rozsa: Violin Concerto, Op 24 (3rd mvt)
Anastasia Khitruk (violin)
Russian Philharmonic
Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor)

Korngold: Violin Concerto (1st mvt)
Gil Shaham (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Andre Previn (conductor)

Rozsa: Ben-Hur Suite
North Hungarian Symphony Orchestra
Laszlo Kovacs (conductor)

21:45

Free Thinking 2007

'Is There Too Much Culture?'

As part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival of ideas, film director Mike Figgis delivers a lecture entitled 'Is There Too Much Culture?'.

Mike Figgis is the Academy Award-nominated director of films such as Leaving Las Vegas and Timecode, and one of the most innovative and successful British film-makers working today.

22:30

Artist Focus

Matthias Goerne

With Martin Handley. Baritone Matthias Goerne is the featured artist. Including some of Hans Eisler's Hollywood songs.

23:00

The Essay

Paulin on Blake

On the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Blake, Tom Paulin presents a series of spoken essays exploring the life and works of the great non-conformist English visionary, poet and artist.

4/4. He explores some of Blake's more complex writing in the unfinished epic Vala and confides his own frustration at not having yet grasped the strange and inscrutable mythological world of Blake's creation.

23:15

Late Junction

29 November 2007

Verity Sharp presents electronic miniatures from To Rococo Rot and Icarus, and a Romanian epic song performed by the Taraf of Clejani.

01:00

Through the Night

29 November 2007

29 November 2007

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
Enescu, George (1881-1955): Two Intermezzi for strings, Op 12
Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra
Horia Andresscu (conductor)

1.11am
Bruch, Max (1838-1920): Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 26
Cristina Anghelescu (violin)
Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra
Horia Andresscu (conductor)

1.35am
Tchaikovsky, Pytor Il'yich (1840-1893): String Serenade in C, Op 48
Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra
Horia Andresscu (conductor)

2.05am
Piazzolla, Ástor Pantaleón (1921-1992): Histoire du Tango
Jadwiga Kotnowska (flute)
Leszek Potasinki (guitar)
Grzegorz Frankowski (double-bass)

2.21am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Rosalyn Tureck (piano)

3.50am
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907): Symphonic Dance No 4, Op 64
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Göran W Nilson (conductor)

4.01am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Organ Sonata No 1 in A minor
Reitze Smits (1827 Wander Beekes organ at Heilig Hartkerk, Vinkeveen)

4.13am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Die Liebe, D210; Heidenröslein, D257; Der Fischer, D225
Christoph Prégardien (tenor)
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

4.19am
Bourdon, Rosario (1885-1961): Elegiac poem for cello and orchestra
Alain Aubut (cello)
Orchestre Métropolitain
Gilles Auger (conductor)

4.26am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Flute Concerto in D, K314
Robert Aitken (flute)
National Arts Centre Orchestra
Franco Mannino (conductor)

4.47am
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787): Ballet music from Paris e Helena
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra
Ludovit Rajter (conductor)

5.00am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Overture (La clemenza di Tito)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Sebastian Weigle (conductor)

5.05am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918), arr. Kocsis: Mazurka
Anita Szabo (flute)
Bela Horvath (oboe)
Zsolt Szatmari (clarinet)
Gyorgy Salamon (bass clarinet)
Pal Bokor (bassoon)
Tamas Zempleni (horn)

5.09am
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937): Veni Creator
Elzbieta Szmytka (soprano)
Choeur de Radio France
Francois Polgar (choirmaster)
Orchestre National de France
Hans Graf (direction)

5.20am
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757): Sonata in C
Jos Van Immerseel (organ)

5.25am
Part, Arvo (b.1935): Fratres for cello and piano
Petr Nouzovsky (cello)
Yukie Ichimura (piano)

5.38am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Meinem Kinde, Op 37 No 3
Edith Wiens (soprano)
Rudolf Jansen (piano)

5.40am
Trad (Swiss), arr. Corsin Tuor: Tutta nanna tgu
Brassband Bürgermusik Luzern
Corsin Tuor (director)

5.44am
Contant, Alexis (1858-1918): Overture (Les Deux Âmes)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Uri Mayer (conductor)

5.53am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Deus judicium tuum regi da
Veronika Winter, Andrea Stenzel (sopranos)
Patrick von Goethem (alto)
Markus Schäfer (tenor)
Ekkehard Abele (bass)
Rheinische Kantorei
Das Kleine Konzert
Hermann Max (conductor)

6.14am
Reicha, Antonin (1770-1836): Symphony in E flat (A grande orchestre)
Capella Coloniensis
Hans-Martin Linde (director)

6.40am
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915): Nocturne for the Left Hand
Anatol Ugorski (piano)

6.47am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto in C for sopranino recorder
Michael Schneider (recorder)
Camerata Köln

6.56am
Trad Swedish: Folk Melody
Young Danish String Quartet