07:00
Rob Cowan
Including from 7.00am
Brahms: Intermezzo in C sharp minor, Op 117 No 3
Helene Grimaud (piano)
The 48 at 8:
Bach: Prelude and Fugue No 24 in B minor (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
Wanda Landowska (harpsichord)
Beethoven: Sonata in A, Op 12 No 2
Augustin Dumay (violin)
Maria Joao Pires (piano)
From 8.30am
Vivaldi: Concerto in D
Giuliano Carmignola (violin)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Andrea Marcon (director)
Haydn: Sonata in B minor
Lief Ove Andsnes (piano)
Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto for piano and orchestra
Leonard Pennario (piano)
Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
Carmen Dragon (conductor)
10:00
24 December 2007
With James Jolly.
10.00am
Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve Suite
Suisse Romande Orchestra
Ernest Ansermet (conductor)
DECCA 443 464-2 (2 CDs)
10.31am
Charpentier: Messe de Minuit
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski (conductor)
ARCHIV 453 479-2
10.56am
Rautavaara: Piano Concerto No 3 (Gift of Dreams)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano/conductor)
ONDINE ODE 950-2
11.31am
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
The Building a Library recommendation.
12:00
Eric Coates (1886-1957)
Part One
Donald Macleod salutes a composer with a unique ability to match a national mood with music. For five decades Eric Coates's music seemed to pervade the national consciousness, stirring the war effort, celebrating the Dam Busters and defining some of the nation's best loved radio and television programmes.
1/5. Singing for Your Supper
A revolver at the Royal Academy and a premiere at the Proms, Coates's student years proved to be startlingly memorable.
BBC Television March
Sydney Torch and His Orchestra
Ballad for Strings
East of England Orchestra
Malcolm Nabarro (conductor)
Four Old English Songs
Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor)
Eugene Asti (piano)
Stonecracker John; Reuben Ranzo; A Dinder Courtship
Brian Rayner Cook (baritone)
Raphael Terroni (piano)
The Mill o' Dreams
Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
I Heard You Singing
Thomas Allen (baritone)
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
Symphonic Rhapsody on I Heard You Singing and Bird Songs at Eventide
London Philharmonic
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
Symphonic Rhapsody on a Song by Richard Rodgers, With a Song in My Heart
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
13:00
24 December 2007
Presented by Penny Gore.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert given at the Wigmore Hall, London, by German ensemble Trio Jean Paul.
Haydn: Piano Trio in E minor, H XV 12
Brahms: Piano Trio in B, Op 8
2.00pm Bayreuth Ring Cycle 2007
Over the Christmas season, Afternoon on 3 is broadcasting Wagner's entire Ring Cycle, recorded at the 2007 Bayreuth Festival. Wagner's Ring Cycle begins today with Das Rheingold, and continues with one act per day across two weeks into the New Year.
Wagner: Das Rheingold (Der Ring des Nibelungen)
Wotan ...... Albert Dohmen (baritone)
Donner ...... Ralf Lukas (baritone)
Froh ...... Clemens Bieber (tenor)
Loge ...... Arnold Bezuyen (tenor)
Fasolt ...... Kwangchul Youn (baritone)
Fafner ...... Hans-Peter König (bass)
Alberich ...... Andrew Shore (baritone)
Mime ...... Gerhard Siegel (tenor)
Fricka ...... Michelle Breedt (mezzo-soprano)
Freia ...... Edith Haller (soprano)
Erda ...... Mihoko Fujimura (contralto)
Woglinde ...... Fionnuala McCarthy (soprano)
Wellgunde ...... Ulrike Helzel (soprano)
Flosshilde ...... Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo-soprano)
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
Christian Thielemann (conductor)
Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61
Christine Schäfer (soprano)
Werner Güra (tenor)
Gerald Finlay (bass)
Arnold Schoenberg Chorus
Concentus Musicus, Vienna
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
17:00
24 December 2007
Sean Rafferty introduces a series of programmes celebrating the life and career of Luciano Pavarotti, who died in September.
1/5. From Rodolfo to the Moor
Pavarotti in his own words, discussing his career in an interview with Rodney Milnes recorded at the tenor's Modena home in 1991, 30 years after his debut. Including music by Verdi, Puccini, Mozart and Donizetti.
18:00
24 December 2007
Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme picks out some of the brightest new talents in the classical musical world. Verity Sharp presents a special Christmas and New Year series featuring studio recordings by this group of young musicians.
Haas: String Quartet No 3
Pavel Haas Quartet
Haydn: Sonata in E minor, H XVI 34
Ingrid Fliter (piano)
Janacek: String Quartet No 1 (Kreutzer Sonata)
Pavel Haas Quartet
19:00
24 December 2007
Over Christmas and New Year, Performance on 3 revisits some of the highlights of the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.
Geoffrey Smith begins the series with a Prom that celebrated the eightieth birthdays of jazz legends John Dankworth and Cleo Laine. Together with special guests, the BBC Big Band and members of the BBC Concert Orchestra, they pay tribute to the enduring genius of William Shakespeare through their music. Dankworth fashions a sequence of Shakespeare settings that really swing and celebrates his friendship with Duke Ellington by performing his Shakespearean suite Such Sweet Thunder.
Cleo Laine (singer)
Soweto Kinch, Tommy Smith (saxophones)
Guy Barker (trumpet)
John Dankworth Quintet
BBC Big Band
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Dankworth (director/reeds)
Dankworth: The Million Dollar Collection (excerpts); Shakespeare and All That Jazz (excerpts)
Ellington, arr. Dankworth: Such Sweet Thunder (excerpts)
Strayhorn, arr. Dankworth: Take the A Train
Ellington: Tonight I Shall Sleep
Dankworth: The Blues Ain't
Ellington: Creole Love Call
Ellington, arr. Dankworth: It Don't Mean a Thing
21:20
Eric Coates (1886-1957)
Part One
Donald Macleod salutes a composer with a unique ability to match a national mood with music. For five decades Eric Coates's music seemed to pervade the national consciousness, stirring the war effort, celebrating the Dam Busters and defining some of the nation's best loved radio and television programmes.
1/5. Singing for Your Supper
A revolver at the Royal Academy and a premiere at the Proms, Coates's student years proved to be startlingly memorable.
BBC Television March
Sydney Torch and His Orchestra
Ballad for Strings
East of England Orchestra
Malcolm Nabarro (conductor)
Four Old English Songs
Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor)
Eugene Asti (piano)
Stonecracker John; Reuben Ranzo; A Dinder Courtship
Brian Rayner Cook (baritone)
Raphael Terroni (piano)
The Mill o' Dreams
Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
I Heard You Singing
Thomas Allen (baritone)
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
Symphonic Rhapsody on I Heard You Singing and Bird Songs at Eventide
London Philharmonic
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
Symphonic Rhapsody on a Song by Richard Rodgers, With a Song in My Heart
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
22:20
24 December 2007
Continuing Radio 3's Christmas and New Year series of highlights from the 2007 BBC Proms, Christopher Cook introduces a concert in which two of the UK's leading choirs join forces in a programme of choral blockbusters from the late Renaissance, including the modern premiere of Alessandro Striggio's Mass, a 40-voice piece that had lain forgotten for 450 years in a Paris library.
Striggio: Motet (Ecce beatam lucem)
Lassus: Aurora lucis rutilat (Motet and Magnificat)
Tallis: Spem in alium
Striggio: Mass in 40 and 60 parts (Ecco si beato giorno)
BBC Singers
The Tallis Scholars
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Peter Phillips, Davitt Moroney (conductors)
23:50
24 December 2007
With her own mix of sounds from across the globe.
01:00
24 December 2007
24 December 2007
With John Shea.
1.00am
Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725): Cinque Profeti - Christmas Cantata
Daniel ...... Barbara Schlick (soprano)
Ezechielle ...... Heike Hallaschka (soprano)
Geremia ...... Kai Wessel (alto)
Isaia ...... Christoph Prégardien (tenor)
Abramo ...... Michael Schopper (bass)
La Stagione
Michael Schneider (director)
2.02am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Sonata for violin and piano in G minor
Peter Oundjian (violin)
William Tritt (piano)
2.15am
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936): Trittico Botticelliano
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Peter Sánta (conductor)
2.37am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) arr. Agnieszka Duczmal: Sextet in B flat, Op 18
Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan
Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)
3.15am
Anon, Croatian 18th century: Sonata in G; Sonata in C; Sonata in G; Pastorella in D
Stanko Arnold (trumpet)
Ljerka Ocic (organ)
3.29am
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962): String Quartet in A minor (1919)
Orford String Quartet
4.00am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Sonata in G for flute, violin and bass continuo, BWV 525
Musica Petropolitana
4.11am
Kunzen, Friedrich Ludwig Aemilius (1761-1817): Symphony in G minor
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Peter Marschik (conductor)
4.31am
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963): Suite from Les Biches
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
4.51am
Daquin, Louis-Claude (1694-1772): Noël No 2 en dialogue, duo et trio Or dites-nous Marie
Hans van Nieuwkoop (organ)
5.00am
Enescu, George (1881-1955): Romanian Rhapsody No 1 in A, Op 11 No 1
Romanian National Radio Orchestra
Horia Andreescu (conductor)
5.12am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Music to a Scene (1904)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
5.18am
Leontovitch, Mykola (1877-1921)/Kountz, Richard (b. 19??), arr. Cable/Howard: Carol of the Bells; The Sleigh a la Russe
Judy Loman (harp)
Toronto Children's Chorus
Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Jean Ashworth Bartle (conductor)
5.22am
Trad German arr. John Rutter (b. 1945): Still, still, still
Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir
John Rutter (conductor)
5.24am
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911): Symphony No 2 in B flat, Op 15
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Eivind Aadland (conductor)
6.00am
Williamson, Malcolm (1931-2003): This Christmas Night
David Miller (piano)
Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir
Antony Walker (conductor)
6.03am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto in G minor for two cellos and orchestra, RV 531
Maris Villeruss, Leons Veldre (cellos)
Peteris Plakidis (harpsichord)
Latvian Philharmony Chamber Orchestra
Tovijs Lifsics (conductor)
6.16am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Evening in the Mountains, Op 68 No 4; At the cradle, Op 68 No 5 (Lyric Pieces, Book 9)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)
6.24am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Beschränkt, ihr Weisen dieser Welt, BWV 443; Ich liebe Jesum alle Stund', BWV 468; Jesu, Jesu, du bist mein, BWV 470; Ach daß nicht die letzte Stunde meines Lebens, BWV 439 (Schemelli Chorales)
Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano)
Domen Marincic (gamba)
Dalibor Miklavcic (organ)
6.33am
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924): Pavane for orchestra, Op 50
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
6.41am
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Prague Waltzes
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava
Stefan Robl (conductor)
6.49am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): La plus que lente (1910)
Roger Woodward (piano)
6.53am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918), orch. Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Danse (Tarantelle styrienne)
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
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