07:00
Martin Handley
From 7.00am
Mussorgsky: Dawn over the Moscow River (Khovanshchina)
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Gesualdo: Asciugate I begli occhi
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)
From 8.00am
The 48 at 8:
Bach: Prelude and Fugue No 8 in E flat minor, BWV 853 (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Grieg: Haugtussa, Op 67 (selection)
Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano)
Love Derwinger (piano)
09:00
8 December 2007
Andrew McGregor introduces Radio 3's weekly programme devoted to all that's new in the world of recorded music.
9.30am Building a Library
Expert guidance on which recording of a famous work to choose. William Mival compares recordings of Strauss' Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings.
10.30am
Francis Knights reviews recent recordings of music by Domenico Scarlatti, born 250 years ago this year. Once dismissed as merely eccentric, Scarlatti's 500 or so keyboard sonatas are now available in a bewildering array of recordings played on harpsichord, clavichord, organ, historic and modern piano.
11.45am Disc of the Week
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Artemis Quartet
12:15
8 December 2007
Tom Service talks to violinist Itzhak Perlman about being a great advocate of classical music and the importance of music education.
There's an update on the Music Manifesto from composer and broadcaster Howard Goodall, and Tony Hall, Executive Director of the Royal Opera House, talks about the challenges of finding new audiences for opera and ballet.
13:00
Alessandro Scarlatti - The Sicilian Godfather of the Oratorio
Lucie Skeaping looks at the life of the Sicilian born composer, and some of the music he composed for oratorios during the early part of the 18th century.
The Vatican had placed a ban on opera and theatrical productions which lasted nearly 30 years, but Scarlatti found ways around that inconvenience and wrote some of the most influential stage works during this time. Music includes excerpts from Ishmael, Maddalena, Il Giardino di Amore and Cain, ovvero Il Primo Omidicio.
Simon Lole presents a feature about Scarlatti's younger brother Francesco, whose life took a much less successful path.
14:00
8 December 2007
Arcanto Quartet
Another chance to hear last Monday's concert from the Wigmore Hall, London. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
The Arcanto Quartet perform Bartok's String Quartet No 5 and Brahms' String Quartet in C minor, Op 51, No 1.
15:00
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso in Concert: Lucy Duran introduces a performance by Brazil's celebrated singer-songwriter, recorded at the Barbican in London.
16:00
Joe Zawinul
Recorded at Barbican Hall as part of the 2007 London Jazz Festival, Julian Joseph presents a tribute to keyboard giant Joe Zawinul - by the BBC Big Band, conducted by Jules Buckley.
Featuring the rhythm section of Django Bates (keyboards), Victor Bailey (bass), Martin France (drums) and Bosco (percussion).
17:30
8 December 2007
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
18:30
Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride
Metropolitan Opera
Presented live from the New York Met by Margaret Juntwait.
The new season of broadcasts from New York's Metropolitan Opera House opens with one of the supreme dramatic works of the 18th century. Gluck's Iphigénie was the crowning achievement of his career, and ever since its premiere, it has gripped audiences with its insights into practical and psychological family problems in the aftermath of the Trojan War.
American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham sings the title role, while tenor Plácido Domingo plays her long-lost brother Oreste for the first time and French conductor Louis Langrée makes his Met debut.
Iphigénie, High Priestess of Diana ...... Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
Oreste, Iphigénie's brother ...... Plácido Domingo (tenor)
Pylade, Oreste's friend ...... Paul Groves (tenor)
Thoas, King of Tauris ...... William Shimell (bass)
Diane ...... Michele Losier (soprano)
First Priestess/A Greek Woman ...... Lisette Oropesa (soprano)
Second Priestess ...... Sasha Cooke (soprano)
A Scythian/A Minister ...... David Won (baritone)
Orchestra and Chorus of the New York Metropolitan Opera
Louis Langrée (conductor)
21:15
The Refuge Box
Half way between Holy Island and the mainland of Northumbria, a flight of steps leads to a wooden cabin on stilts. It is the Refuge Box, built to save people cut off by the tide from being swept away and drowned.
This is the focus of a new radio poem by Katrina Porteous, whose poetry, recorded all over Holy Island and in the Refuge Box itself, is interspersed with other voices, including island fishermen who remember rescues and tragedies, the coastguard and lifeboat crew, the bird warden, the Franciscan vicar of Holy Island, and a refugee who fled her West African homeland to seek sanctuary in Britain.
Beyond the human voices is the poetry of the place itself, the seals singing, the wheeze of swans flying over Holy Island, sudden jet fighters protecting this sanctuary yet violating its peace and, always, the wind and the sea.
21:45
BBC NOW
A programme of music firmly rooted in Northern Europe, with a Finnish conductor, a Lithuanian cellist, and works by Latvian and Estonian composers.
Petri Sakari conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Vasks' Viatore for string orchestra, plus cellist David Geringas joins them for Tuur's Concerto for cello and orchestra.
22:30
8 December 2007
Ivan Hewett introduces new music with a visual element, such as film or light shows, and music from Liverpool as it shapes up to be City of Culture. Plus to mark the 80th birthday of musique concrete pioneer Pierre Henry, excerpts from his Messe de Liverpool. Other music includes a selection of new 10-minute pieces from Ensemble 10/10's recent 10th birthday concert in Liverpool.
Ian Gardiner: L'escalier en spirale
Gary Carpenter: Sonatinas
Howard Skempton: Piazza
Kenneth Hesketh: Ein Lichtspiel
Christian Forshaw (alto saxophone)
Ensemble 10/10
Clark Rundell (conductor)
Anna Meredith: Flak
London Sinfonietta
Sound Intermedia
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)
00:00
Cavalli's opera La Calisto
Catherine Bott looks at Cavalli's opera La Calisto and how approaches to this work have developed since the pioneering recording and performances by Raymond Leppard.
01:00
8 December 2007
8 December 2007
With Susan Sharpe.
1.00am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Prelude and Fugue No 10 in E minor, BWV 855; Prelude and Fugue No 15 in G, BWV 860 (The Well Tempered Clavier Book 1)
1.10am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Fantasia in D minor, K397
1.17am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Sonata No 2 in A for piano, Op 2, No 2
1.41am
Franck, César (1822-1890): Prélude, Choral et fugue for piano
2.03am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Kinderszenen for piano
Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano)
2.20am
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): Petrushka
Ruud van den Brink (piano)
Peter Masseurs (trumpet)
Jacques Zoon (flute)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
2.55am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)
3.24am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): String Quintet in G minor, K516
Pinchas Zuckerman, Jessica Linnebach (violin)
Jethro Marks, Donnie Deacon (viola)
Amanda Forsyth (cello)
4.02am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Sonata in A minor for flute and continuo
Robert Aiken (flute)
Colin Tilney (harpsichord)
Margaret Gay (cello)
4.12am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918), orch. Henri Büsser: Printemps
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Jun Märkl (conductor)
4.30am
Donizetti, Gaetano (1797-1848): Edgar's aria (Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3)
Denes Gulyas (tenor)
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
János Ferencsik (conductor)
4.37am
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Fantasia in G
Liuwe Tamminga (organ)
4.48am
Bree, Johannes Bernardus van (1801-1857): Allegro in D minor for 4 string quartets
Viotta Ensemble
Viktor Liberman (conductor)
5.00am
Chan Ka Nin (b.1949): Four Seasons Suite
Ottawa Winds
Michael Goodwin (conductor)
5.12am
Suk, Josef (1874-1935): Mass in B flat (Krecovicka)
Marie Matejkova (soprano)
Ilona Satylova (alto)
Jiri Vinklarek (tenor)
Michael Mergl (bass)
Miluska Kvechova (organ)
Czech Radio Choir
Pilzen Radio Orchestra
Stanislaw Begunia (conductor)
5.37am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat, K495
James Sommerville (horn)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5.55am
Fesch, Willem de (1687-1757): Concerto in E, Op 5, No 6
Manfred Krämer (violin)
Musica ad Rhenum
6.06am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Coriolan Overture in C minor, Op 62
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck (conductor)
6.14am
Demersseman, Jules August (1833-1866): Italian Concerto in F, Op 82, No 6
Kristina Vaculova (flute)
Inna Aslamasova (piano)
6.26am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto in C for 2 trumpets and orchestra
Toni Grcar, Stanko Arnold (trumpet)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Marko Munih (conductor)
6.33am
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904): Romance in F minor for violin and orchestra, Op 11
Jela Spitkova (violin)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
6.45am
Anon: 3 Sephardic Romances
Montserrat Figueras (soprano)
Hespèrion XX
Jordi Savall (director)
6.54am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Die ihr aus dunkeln Grüften den eiteln Mammon grabt
Hélène Plouffe (violin)
Louise Pellerin (oboe)
Dom André Laberge (organ)
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