Saturday 29th December 2007

07:00

Breakfast

Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Including from 7.00am

Strauss: Overture (Die Fledermaus)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Vaclav Neumann (conductor)

Beethoven: Sonata in G, Op 79
Alfredo Perl (piano)

From 8.00am

The 48 at 8:

Bach: Prelude and Fugue No 5 in D, BWV 874 (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2)
Davitt Moroney (harpsichord)

Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije, Op 60
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

09:00

CD Review

29 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

Chris de Souza compares available recordings of Saint-Saëns's Organ Symphony.

10.30am

Buxtehude Round-Up Part 1: Choral music.

11.15am

Buxtehude Round-Up Part 2: Instrumental music.

11.50am Disc of the Week

Bellini: La sonnambula
Amina ...... Natalie Dessay (soprano)
Elvino ...... Francesco Meli (tenor)
Rodolfo ...... Carlo Colombara (bass)
Lisa ...... Jael Azzaretti (soprano)
Teresa ...... Sara Mingardo (alto)
Orchestra and Choir of Lyon Opera
Evelino Pido (conductor)

12:15

Feature

Kennedy on Grapelli

On the tenth anniversary of the death of the great improvising violinist Stephane Grappelli, Nigel Kennedy gives a personal tribute to this iconic figure, in conversation with Geoffrey Smith. Featuring classic recordings and selections from the archive.

13:00

The Early Music Show

Padre Antonio Soler

Catherine Bott presents a portrait of the intriguing Spanish monk and composer Padre Antonio Soler.

A disciple of Domenico Scarlatti, Soler entered the monastery at El Escorial, near Madrid, in 1752, where he remained for the last 31 years of his life, composing keyboard sonatas, chamber music and choral works.

14:00

Lunchtime Concert

29 December 2007

Trio Jean Paul

Another chance to hear German ensemble Trio Jean Paul perform Haydn's Piano Trio in E minor and Brahms's Piano Trio in B.

15:00

World Routes

In Amman

Moshe Morad travels to Jordan's capital, Amman, to record one of the Middle East's biggest stars, Iraqi singer and songwriter Ilham Al Madfai.

Ilham performs with his full band as well as on his own in a more intimate setting and talks about his love for the city of Baghdad.

16:00

Jazz Line-Up

Guy Barker

After the success of BBC Radio 3's commission dZf (a reincarnation of the Magic Flute), composer and trumpeter Guy Barker returns to record more music inspired by Mozart's operas, which can be heard on his current tour entitled The Amadeus Project.

17:30

Jazz Record Requests

29 December 2007

Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.

18:30

Opera On 3

Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel

Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel

A new production in English of Engelbert Humperdinck's version of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, live from the New York Metropolitan Opera.

As with many fairy tales, the story is light on the surface, but with some dark undertones, and Humperdinck illustrates the story with some of his most sumptuous music. The roles of the siblings, lost in the menacing world of the forest, are sung by Christine Schafer and Alice Coote, with Philip Langridge as the witch who tries to destroy them.

Presented from New York by Margaret Juntwait.

Gretel ...... Christine Schäfer (soprano)
Hansel ...... Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Gertrude ...... Rosalind Plowright (mezzo-soprano)
The Witch ...... Philip Langridge (tenor)
Peter ...... Alan Held (bass-baritone)
Dew Fairy ...... Lisette Oropesa (soprano)
Sandman ...... Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano)

Chorus and Orchestra of New York Metropolitan Opera
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)

21:00

Chamber Concert

Gubaidulina: The String Quartets

During the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Gubaidulina Weekend in January 2007, the Royal String Quartet performed all four of Gubaidulina's unique quartets at St Giles, Cripplegate, in London's Barbican Centre. Now aged 76, Sofia Gubaidulina lived through the Soviet era, maintaining her artistic integrity in astonishingly powerful music inspired by her profound Russian Orthodox faith.

2/4. Quartet No 1, written in 1971, is a drama in which the four players take on disparate lives, rather than interacting together, eventually moving away from each other to the four corners of the concert platform.

21:30

The Wire

Not Talking

By Mike Bartlett.

What happens to a relationship when it becomes impossible to talk? What happens when the system does not allow us to speak? Richard Briers and June Whitfield star in this provocative and touching play which won the Imison and Tinniswood awards for outstanding radio writing.

James ...... Richard Briers
Lucy ...... June Whitfield
Mark ...... Carl Prekopp
Amanda ...... Lyndsey Marshal

22:30

Hear And Now

2007 New Music Highlights

For the last edition of 2007, Sara Mohr-Pietsch is joined by critics Annette Morreau and Ivan Hewett for a round-up of the year's new music highlights.

00:00

The Early Music Show

Lutheran Vespers for Christmas

Lucie Skeaping presents a programme of music recorded for The Early Music Show by the BBC Singers with organist Iain Farrington.

David Hill conducts music from the Lutheran Vesper service as it might have been celebrated in mid-17th century Germany. Including works by Schutz, Weckmann, Schein, Hammerschmidt, Scheidt and Praetorius.

01:00

Through the Night

29 December 2007

29 December 2007

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934): Violin Concerto in B minor, Op 61
Nikolaj Znaider (viollin)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton (conductor)

1.50am
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921): Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ)
Karstein Askeland (organ)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)

2.27am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): 16 Ländler for piano (Ländler, D366)
Ralf Gothoni (piano)

2.39am
Strauss, Johann Jr (1825-1899): Rosen aus dem Süden, Op 388
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Roman Zeilinger (conductor)

2.49am
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953) (selection by Tilson-Thomas): Cinderella Suite No 1, Op 107
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

3.17am
Susato, Tylman (c.1500-1661/64): Allemande; Nachtanz (Danserye)
Jacques van Oortmerssen (organ)

3.20am
Forqueray, Antoine (1672-1745): Allemande
Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba)
Luca Pianca (lute)

3.25am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): French Suite No 5 in G, BWV 816
Jevgeny Rivkin (piano)

3.42am
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837): Trio in G for violin, viola and cello
Viktor Simcisko (violin)
Alzbeta Plazkurova (viola)
Jozef Sikora (cello)

3.57am
Dove, Jonathan (b.1959): Figures in the Garden
London Winds
Michael Collins (clarinet/director)

4.15am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): L'isle joyeuse
Jurate Karosaite (piano)

4.23am
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826): Wie nahte mir der Schlummer... Leise, leise (Der Freischütz
Charlotte Margiono (soprano)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

4.32am
Byrd, William (c.1543-1623): The Earl of Salisbury
4.34am
Daquin, Louis-Claude (1694-1772): Rondeau (Le colin-maillard)
Colin Tilney (harpsichord)

4.36am
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): Octet for wind instruments
Canadian Chamber Ensemble
Raffi Armenian (conductor)

4.52am
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787): Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orphée et Euridice)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Paul Dyer (conductor)

5.00am
Kverno, Trond H.F. (b. 1945): Corpus Christi Carol: Missa Fidei Mysterii
Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Grete Helgerod (conductor)

5.17am
Klami, Uuno (1900-1961): Symphonie enfantine
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Pertti Pekkanen (conductor)

5.33am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Piano Sonata in C minor, K457
Pavica Gvozdic (piano)

5.53am
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918): Prelude and Fugue for orchestra (1909)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Pertti Pekkanen (conductor)

6.03am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Overture (Suite No 1 in C, BWV 1066)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)

6.14am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 59 in A (Fire)
Budapest Strings
Botvay Karoly (conductor)

6.33am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Love Scene (Feuersnot)
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)

6.42am
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934): To her beneath whose steadfast star
BBC Singers
Stephen Layton (conductor)

6.47am
Stanford, Charles Villiers (1852-1924): The Haven (8 Partsongs, Op 127 No 4)
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

6.50am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Trio Sonata in D minor, Op 1 No 12 (La folia)
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