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Wednesday 2nd January 2008

January 2008
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morning | afternoon | evening

07:00

Breakfast

Rob Cowan

Including from 7.00am

Honegger: Pastorale d'ete
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
Michel Plasson (conductor)

Grieg: Intermezzo in A minor
Truls Mork (cello)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

The 48 and 8:

Bach: Prelude and Fugue No 9 in E, BWV 878 (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2)
Ton Koopman (harpsichord)

From 8.30am

Chopin: 3 Waltzes, Op 64
Peter Katin (piano)

Sibelius: Norden, Op 90 No 1
Tom Krause (baritone)
Pentti Koskimies (piano)

Arnold: 4 Cornish Dances, Op 91
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
Robert Farnon (conductor)

10:00

Classical Collection

2 January 2008

With James Jolly.

10.00am
Vivaldi: Concerto in B flat, RV 362 (La caccia)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi (director)
VIRGIN CLASSICS 561980-2 (2 CD set)

10.08am
Schumann: Papillons, Op 2
Alfred Cortot (piano)
BIDDULPH LHW003

10.22am
Mahler: Symphony No 1
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
DG 449 735-2

11.12am
Mozart: Tantum Ergo in D, K197
Leipzig Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra
Peter Schreier (conductor)
PHILIPS 464 940-2 (5 CD set)

11.16am
Mozart: Modulating Prelude
Erik Smith (harpsichord)
PHILIPS 464 940-2 (5 CD set)

11.18am
Mozart: Rondo in E flat, K371
Timothy Brown (horn)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Kenneth Sillito (conductor)
PHILIPS 464 940-2 (5 CD set)

11.24am
Dohnanyi: Sextet in C, Op 37
Kalman Berkes (clarinet)
Radovan Vlatkovic (horn)
Andras Schiff (piano)
Takacs Quartet
DECCA 421 423-2

morning | afternoon | evening

12:00

Composer of the Week

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

Part Three

This year marks the 150th birthday of Giacomo Puccini, whose operas have become repertory mainstays.

3/5. Torre del Lago

Donald Macleod looks at the lifestyle Puccini enjoyed at his home in Torre del Lago. There, away from the glare of publicity, he could compose in peace, play cards, drink rough red wine with the locals and was able to shoot wildfowl on Lake Massaciuccoli.

Casa mia, casa mia
Placido Domingo (tenor)
Julius Rudel (piano)

L'uccellino
Roberta Alexander (soprano)
Tan Crone (piano)

Recondite armonia (Tosca, Act 1)
Placido Domingo (tenor)
Angelo Veccia (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)

Mario! Mario! Mario!... Ah, quegli occhi! (Tosca, Act 1)
Leontyne Price (soprano)
Placido Domingo (tenor)
Vienna Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

Dov'e Angelotti... nel pozzo... nel giardino (Tosca, Act 2)
Tito Gobbi (baritone)
Giuseppe di Stefano, Franco Calabrese (tenors)
Maria Callas (soprano)
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Victor de Sabata (conductor)

Tosca (Act 3, excerpt)
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)
Roberto Alagna, David Cangelosi (tenors)
Sorin Coliban (bass)
Chorus of the Royal Opera House
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Antonio Pappano (conductor)

13:00

Afternoon on 3

2 January 2008

Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

As part of the 2007 Music in the Round series, baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Iain Burnside perform a programme of Spanish-inspired songs recorded at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.

Schumann: Der Hidalgo
Wolf: Auf dem grünen Balkon; Dereinst, dereinst, Gedanke mein; Herz, verzage nicht geschwind (Spanisches Liederbuch)
Montsalvatge: 5 Negro Songs
Shostakovich: Spanish Songs, Op 100
Ravel: Don Quichotte a Dulcinée

2.00pm Bayreuth Ring Cycle 2007

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Prelude and Act 1)
Siegfried ...... Stephen Gould (tenor)
Gunther ...... Ralf Lukas (baritone)
Hagen ...... Hans-Peter König (bass)
Alberich ...... Andrew Shore (baritone)
Brünnhilde ...... Linda Watson (soprano)
Gutrune ...... Edith Haller (soprano)
Waltraute ...... Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano)
First Norn ...... Simone Schröder (alto)
Second Norn ...... Martina Dike (mezzo-soprano)
Third Norn ...... Edith Haller (soprano)
Woglinde ...... Fionnuala McCarthy (soprano)
Wellgunde ...... Ulrike Helzel (soprano)
Flosshilde ...... Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo-soprano)
Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra
Christian Thielemann (conductor)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488
Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Andres Mustonen (conductor)

Grieg, arr. Geirr Tveitt: Ballade in G minor, Op 24 (in the form of variations on a Norwegian melody)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Eivind Aadland (conductor)

17:00

At the Piano

Leif Ove Andsnes

Petroc Trelawny examines the riches of the recorded piano repertoire.

3/5. Leif Ove Andsnes talks about the pianists he most admires, with performances of Chopin by Dinu Lipatti and Brahms by Leon Fleisher.

morning | afternoon | evening

18:00

New Generation Artists

2 January 2008

Verity Sharp presents recordings by members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.

Schumann: Adagio and Allegro
Danjulo Ishizaka (cello)
Jose Gallardo (piano)

Milhaud: Sonatine
Sharon Bezaly (flute)
Love Derwinger (piano)

Wolf: Auch kleine Dinge; Wer rief dich denn?; Du denkst mit einem Fadchen; Ich hab in Penna einen Liebsten
Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Phillip Thomas (piano)

Peter Maxwell Davies: A Sad Paven for These Distracted Tymes
Pavel Haas Quartet

Beethoven: Sonata in D, Op 10 No 3
Ingrid Fliter (piano)

19:00

BBC Proms 2007

2 January 2008

Continuing the Christmas and New Year series of highlights of the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, Petroc Trelawny introduces the Proms debut by Roger Norrington who conducts the Handel and Haydn Society in Haydn's timeless representation of the passage of the seasons.

Haydn: The Seasons (sung in German)

Sally Matthews (soprano)
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone)
Handel and Haydn Society of Boston
Roger Norrington (conductor)

21:20

Composer of the Week

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

Part Three

This year marks the 150th birthday of Giacomo Puccini, whose operas have become repertory mainstays.

3/5. Torre del Lago

Donald Macleod looks at the lifestyle Puccini enjoyed at his home in Torre del Lago. There, away from the glare of publicity, he could compose in peace, play cards, drink rough red wine with the locals and was able to shoot wildfowl on Lake Massaciuccoli.

Casa mia, casa mia
Placido Domingo (tenor)
Julius Rudel (piano)

L'uccellino
Roberta Alexander (soprano)
Tan Crone (piano)

Recondite armonia (Tosca, Act 1)
Placido Domingo (tenor)
Angelo Veccia (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)

Mario! Mario! Mario!... Ah, quegli occhi! (Tosca, Act 1)
Leontyne Price (soprano)
Placido Domingo (tenor)
Vienna Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

Dov'e Angelotti... nel pozzo... nel giardino (Tosca, Act 2)
Tito Gobbi (baritone)
Giuseppe di Stefano, Franco Calabrese (tenors)
Maria Callas (soprano)
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Victor de Sabata (conductor)

Tosca (Act 3, excerpt)
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)
Roberto Alagna, David Cangelosi (tenors)
Sorin Coliban (bass)
Chorus of the Royal Opera House
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Antonio Pappano (conductor)

22:20

BBC Proms 2007

2 January 2008

Continuing the Christmas and New Year series of highlights of the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, The Nash Ensemble continues the Proms Britten/Auden celebration with a performance of some of the works on which the composer and poet collaborated.

Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)
Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Richard Watkins (horn)
Iain Burnside (piano)
Samuel West (narrator)
Nash Ensemble
Edward Gardner (conductor)

Britten: The Way to the Sea; On This Island
Britten, arr. Daryl Runswick: Cabaret Songs
Britten: Night Mail
Britten, arr. Colin Matthews: In memoriam Dennis Brain
Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings

23:50

Late Junction

2 January 2008

Verity Sharp introduces poetic tunes from Karen Tweed and Timo Alakotila's album May Monday, a new recording of Morten Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium by the Vasari Singers and hypnotic sounds in Francois Bayle's electroacoustic piece Toupie dans le Ciel.

01:00

Through the Night

2 January 2008

2 January 2008

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Christe qui lux es et dies
1.06am
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Echo Fantasia in D minor
1.10am
Bull, John (c1562-1628): Salvator mundi
Pieter Dirksen (organ)

1.14am
Muffat, Georg (1653-1704): Toccata prima
1.19am
Anon: Cancio para la Corneta con el Eco
1.24am
Babou, Thomas (1656-1739): Fantaisie des trompettes basse et haute par M. Babou
Peter van Dijk (organ)

1.28am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Italian Concerto in F, BWV 971
Sietze de Vries (organ)

1.43am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Präludium und Fuge über den Namen B.A.C.H.
Gerrie Meijers (organ)

1.58am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147
The Sixteen
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Ton Koopman (conductor)

2.28am
Forqueray, Antoine (c.1672-1745), arr. Forqueray, Jean-Baptiste (1699-1782): Jupiter
Bob van Asperen (harpsichord)

2.33am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 43 in E flat (Mercury)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Balazs Kocsar (conductor)

2.55am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Scherzo No 3 in C sharp, Op 39
Ronald Brautigam (piano)

3.03am
Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943): Symphony No 2 in E minor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

4.00am
Bella, Jan Levoslav (1843-1936): Overture (Hermina im Venusberg)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava
Stefan Robl (conductor)

4.08am
Caplet, André (1878-1925): Divertissement No 1
4.13am
Caplet, André (1878-1925): Divertissement No 2
Mojka Zlobko (harp)

4.18am
Capricornus, Samuel (1628-1665): Sonata a 3
Musica Aeterna Bratislava
Peter Zajicek (director)

4.24am
Geminiani, Francesco (1687-1762): Concerto grosso in G minor, Op 3 No 2
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi (violin/director)

4.33am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Sonata in E minor, Wq 59 No 1
Andreas Staier (pianoforte)

4.42am
Bouwman, Nicolaas Arie (1854-1941): Thalia
Dutch National Youth Wind Orchestra
Jan Cober (conductor)

4.52am
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959): Variations on a Theme by Rossini
Leonid Gorokhov (cello)
Irina Nikitina (piano)

5.00am
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868): Overture (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Chi-Yong Chung (conductor)

5.08am
Bergh, Gertrude van den (1793-1840): Lied fur pianoforte
Frans van Ruth (piano)

5.13am
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): Der dukker af diesen
5.16am
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): Irmelin Rose (1891)
Mattias Ermedahl (tenor)
Anders Kilstrom (piano)

5.19am
Eccles, Henry (?1675-?1745): Sonata
Gary Karr (double bass)
Harmon Lewis (piano)

5.27am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Quadro in B flat
The King's Consort
Robert King (director)

5.34am
Ockeghem, Johannes (c.1410-1497): Intemerata Dei mater
Hilliard Ensemble
Paul Hillier (bass/director)

5.43am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Triumphal March (Sigurd Jorsalfar)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Roman Zeilinger (conductor)

5.53am
Henderson, Ruth Watson (b. 1932): In Memoriam Elmer Iseler
Elmer Iseler Singers
Lydia Adams (conductor)

6.00am
Rubinstein, Anton (1829-1894), transcr. Josef Lhevinne (1874-1944): The Ball (excerpt)
6.06am
Rubinstein, Anton (1829-1894), transcr. Josef Lhevinne (1874-1944): Kamennoi Ostrov, Op 10 No 22
Josef Lhévinne (piano)

6.13am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat, K417
Jacob Slagter (horn)
Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam
Lev Markiz (conductor)

6.27am
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962): Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven for violin and piano
Taik-Ju Lee (violin)
Young-Lan Han (piano)

6.31am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Alles redet jetzt und singet
Das Kleine Konzert
Hermann Max (conductor)




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