Wednesday 12th December 2007

07:00

Breakfast

Sara Mohr-Pietsch

From 7.00am

Handel: Symphony (Saul)
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Schubert: An den Mond, D259
Matthias Goerne (baritone)
Andreas Haefliger (piano)

The 48 at 8: Bach: Prelude and Fugue No 12 in F minor, BWV 857 (The Well-Tempered Clavier)
Daniel Barenboim (piano)

From 8.30am

Messiaen: Le baiser de l'enfant Jesus (Vingt regards de l'enfant Jesus)
Steven Osborne (piano)

Schumann: Introduction and Allegro appassionato, Op 92
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Christian Zacharias (piano/conductor)

Bach: Sonata No 1 in G minor for solo violin, BWV 1001
Julia Fischer (violin)

10:00

Classical Collection

12 December 2007

With Sarah Walker.

10.00am
Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F, Op 68 (Pastoral)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Karl Böhm (conductor)
DG 413 721-2 (2 CD set)

10.45am
Trad, arr. Casals: El Cant dels Ocells
Prades Festival Orchestra
Pablo Casals (director/cello)
SONY CLASSICAL SMK 66573

10.50am
Tallis: Missa Puer natus est nobis
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (director)
CORO COR16037

11.20am
Liszt: Au lac de Wallenstadt; Pastorale; Au bord d'une source; Orage (Premičre Année de Pelerinage: Suisse)
Lazar Berman (piano)
DG 437 206-2 (3 CD set)

11.33am
Bartók: Three Village Scenes
Slovakian Folk Ensemble Choir
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer (conductor)
PHILIPS 456 575-2

11.44am
Trad, arr. Savall: La filadora; El mestre
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Jordi Savall (director)
ASTRE ES 9937

12:00

Composer of the Week

Anton Webern (1883-1945)

Part Three

Donald Macleod investigates how Webern's encounter with his mentor Arnold Schoenberg led to a continuing relationship that imposed on huge areas of his life and music, and not always in a positive way.

Kinderstuck
Yuji Takahashi (piano)

Piano Quintet
Ensemble InterContemporain

Five Songs, Op 4
Christiane Oelze (soprano)
Eric Schneider (piano)

Three pieces for cello and piano, Op 11
Fred Sherry (cello)
Christopher Oldfather (piano)

Six Bagatelles, Op 9
Artis Quartet

Symphony, Op 21
The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnanyi (conductor)

Quartet, Op 22
Jennifer Frautschi (violin)
Christopher Oldfather (piano)
Daniel Goble (tenor saxophone)
Michael Lowenstern (clarinet)

13:00

Afternoon on 3

12 December 2007

Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Wall2Wall, FiddleFest

A series of concerts recorded at the 2007 Fiddlefest, which takes place within the historic walls of Londonderry and showcases the violin in all its many guises including jazz, traditional and classical.

2/4. Violinist Catherine Leonard and pianist Hugh Tinney present a programme of music by Beethoven and Mozart, including Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, which inspired Leo Tolstoy to write a novel bearing the same name.

Beethoven: Rondo in G
Mozart: Sonata in E minor
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 9 in A, Op 47 (Kreutzer)

2.00pm Ulster Orchestra Summer Invitation Concerts

Mozart, Haydn and Neo-Classicism

Stravinsky: Danses concertantes
Ulster Orchestra
Adrian Leaper (conductor)

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216
Chloe Hanslip (violin)
Ulster Orchestra
Adrian Leaper (conductor)

Haydn: Quartet in G for strings, Op 77, No 1
Royal String Quartet

Rachel Holstead: Time is a spiral (BBC Radio 3 commission)
Ulster Orchestra
Adrian Leaper (conductor)

Falla: Master Peter's Puppet Show
Rebekah Coffey (soprano)
Niall Morris (tenor)
Owen Gilhooley (baritone)
Ulster Orchestra
Adrian Leaper (conductor)

Faure: Masques et Bergamasques, Op 112
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Koenig (conductor)

Haydn: Symphony No 104 in D (London)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Paul Watkins (conductor)

Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Martin Roscoe (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
David Abell (conductor)

17:00

In Tune

12 December 2007

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

19:00

Performance on 3

The Romantic, the Revolutionary, and the Rebel

BBC SSO

A mini-series of concerts from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra featuring the music of Brahms, Bartok and Ligeti.

2/4. The rhythmic vitality of Bartok's Dance Suite and Beethoven's Second Symphony provide the revolutionary and rebellious elements in this programme, whereas the Romantic is supplied by Brahms' dark and brooding First Piano Concerto.

Bartok: Dance Suite
Beethoven: Symphony No 2
Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor

Nelson Goerner (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Konig (conductor)

20:45

Composer of the Week

Anton Webern (1883-1945)

Part Three

Donald Macleod investigates how Webern's encounter with his mentor Arnold Schoenberg led to a continuing relationship that imposed on huge areas of his life and music, and not always in a positive way.

Kinderstuck
Yuji Takahashi (piano)

Piano Quintet
Ensemble InterContemporain

Five Songs, Op 4
Christiane Oelze (soprano)
Eric Schneider (piano)

Three pieces for cello and piano, Op 11
Fred Sherry (cello)
Christopher Oldfather (piano)

Six Bagatelles, Op 9
Artis Quartet

Symphony, Op 21
The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnanyi (conductor)

Quartet, Op 22
Jennifer Frautschi (violin)
Christopher Oldfather (piano)
Daniel Goble (tenor saxophone)
Michael Lowenstern (clarinet)

21:45

Night Waves

Tom Loosemore

Philip Dodd meets Tom Loosemore, one of the leading British thinkers on the internet, to discuss Distributed Genius, the delicate ecosystem which Loosemore believes lies behind the net and which we must defend against fatal but well-meaning outside interference at all costs.

Film critic Nigel Floyd joins Philip to review Youth Without Youth, the first film in ten years from Francis Ford Coppola, the director who transformed contemporary Hollywood through films such as the Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now.

22:30

Artist Focus

Harry Christophers

Petroc Trelawny presents The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers, who perform Palestrina's Motet, Assumpta est Maria.

23:00

The Essay

Greek and Latin Voices

A series about the literature which underpins Western civilisation. Starting, with Homer, the grand old man of European literature, and featuring new translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey, specially created by Oliver Taplin and read by Tim Pigott-Smith.

3/4. Oliver Taplin explores Homer's world.

23:15

Late Junction

12 December 2007

Fiona Talkington introduces music recorded at the 2007 London Jazz Festival from Bill Bruford and Michiel Borstlap. Plus music from Georgia and piano music by Scarlatti.

01:00

Through the Night

12 December 2007

12 December 2007

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am
Varčse, Edgard (1883-1965): Ionisation
Members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bruno Maderna (conductor)

1.08am
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945): Violin Concerto No 1
Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)

1.29am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Symphony No 8 in F
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Pierre Monteux (conductor)

1.56am
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872): Zlota rybka (The Goldfish); Kotek (The Kitten)
Urszula Kryger (mezzo-soprano)
Katarzyna Jankowska-Borzykowska (piano)

2.02am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Piano Trio in D minor, Op 63
Dan Almgren (violin)
Torleif Thedén (cello)
Stefan Bojsten (piano)

2.36am
Holst, Gustav (1874-1934): The Planets Suite
Bach Choir
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

3.27am
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594): Magnificat primi toni for 4 voices
Marco Beasley, Davide Livermoore (tenor)
Fabian Schofrin, Annemieke Cantor (alto)
Daniele Carnovich (bass)
Diego Fasolis (conductor)

3.34am
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904): Serenade in D minor for wind instruments, Op 44
Canadian Chamber Ensemble
Raffi Armenian (conductor)

4.00am
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869): Overture (Béatrice et Bénédict)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

4.08am
Maurice, Paule (1910-67): Tableaux de Provence
Julia Nolan (saxophone)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

4.23am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Sonata in G for transverse flute and basso continuo (Essercizii Musici)
Camerata Köln

4.31am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Etude in E, Op 10, No 3
Jane Coop (piano)

4.34am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Etude in F, Op 10, No 8
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)

4.37am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Horn Concerto No 3 in E flat
James Sommerville (horn)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

4.53am
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904): Polonaise in E flat for orchestra
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ludovít Rajter (conductor)

5.00am
Walton, William (1902-1983): 3 Pieces for organ
Ian Sadler (organ of St James' Cathedral, Toronto)

5.05am
Raitio, Väinö (1891-1945): Moonlight on Jupiter, Op 24
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

5.18am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): An den Mond, D259
Christoph Prégardien (tenor)
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

5.22am
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904): Song to the Moon (Rusalka)
Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Kamiriski (conductor)

5.29am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Sonata in D, K576
Jonathan Biss (piano)

5.44am
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713): Concerto Grosso in F, Op 6, No 9
The King's Consort
Robert King (director)

5.53am
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945): Petite Suite
Jan Michiels (piano)

6.01am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir
Marko Munih (conductor)

6.17am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): String Quartet in B, Op 64, No 3
Talisker Quartet

6.37am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Trio Sonata in B minor, Wq 143
Les Coucous Bénévoles

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