Sunday 6th January 2008

07:00

Breakfast

Martin Handley

Including from 7.00am

Strauss: Roses from the South, Op 388
New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

Vivaldi: Concerto in A minor, RV356
Nigel Kennedy (violin)
Berlin Philharmonic

From 8.00am

The 48 at 8:

Bach: Prelude and Fugue No 13 in F sharp, BWV 882 (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2)
Daniel Chorzempa (harpsichord)

Korngold: Der Schneemann
BBC Philharmonic
Mathias Bamert (conductor)

From 9.00am

Telemann: Trio sonata in D
Musica Antiqua Koln
Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

Poulenc: Concerto in G minor
Simon Preston (organ)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

10:00

Iain Burnside

6 January 2008

Dear Diary: Iain leafs through diaries of great composers, in words and music, including Schumann's Davidsbundlertanze and Janacek's Diary of One Who Disappeared.

12:00

Private Passions

Mark Ravenhill

Michael Berkeley talks to the controversial playwright Mark Ravenhill, whose musical choices have a strongly political slant and reveal a passion for opera.

They range from Offenbach's satirical comedy Orpheus in the Underworld, to Beethoven's Fidelio, Verdi's Rigoletto, John Adams's Nixon in China and Britten's Peter Grimes.

13:00

The Early Music Show

Euripides's Medea

Lucie Skeaping presents a programme devoted to Euripides's great tragedy of Medea, and the setting by the French composer Charpentier. Charpentier was over-shadowed to a certain extent by his contemporary Lully, and it is really only in the last few decades that this opera has been rediscovered.

The music is considered some of Charpentier's finest, and one can only imagine the spectacle the drama created through its use of stage machinery and fireworks in the 17th century!

14:00

Radio 3 Requests

6 January 2008

Chi-chi Nwanoku welcomes in the New Year with another selection of music you've asked to hear.

Including motets by Bruckner, a flamboyant rendition of Lou Harrison's piano concerto, and an excerpt from Mozart's Don Giovanni requested by baritone Christopher Maltman.

16:00

Choral Evensong

6 January 2008

Live from the Chapel of Eton College with the Rodolfus Choir.

Introit: Epiphany Responsory (Richard Lloyd)
Bidding Prayer
Hymn: O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness (Was lebet)
First Reading: Isaiah 60, vv1-9
Antiphon: Reges Tharsis et insulae (Plainsong)
Second Reading: Matthew 2, vv1-11
Anthem: Stella quam viderant Magi (Palestrina)
Third Reading: The Offering (Jeremy Taylor)
Hymn: Brightest and best (Liebster Immanuel)
Fourth Reading: The Magi (WB Yeats)
Anthem: Lux aurumque (Eric Whitacre)
Fifth Reading: From Helena (Evelyn Waugh)
Anthem: Lord, when the wise men came from far (Philip Moore)
Sixth Reading: Revelation 21, vv22-27
Anthem: Friede auf Erden (Schoenberg)
Prayers
Hymn: Hail to the Lord's anointed (Crüger)
Organ Voluntary: Fugue on Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern (Reger)

Director of music: Ralph Allwood
Organist: David Goode

17:00

Discovering Music

John Adams's Chamber Symphony

Charles Hazlewood is joined by Excellent Device to explore Adams's Chamber Symphony, also pausing to examine in closer detail one of the works which inspired it, Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony.

18:30

The Choir

6 January 2008

Aled Jones enlists the help of two American authors who have written self-help guides on how to be an effective member of a choir.

Plus a look back and forward at the wide-ranging use of choral music in computer games, films, television and advertising. Aled meets some of those soundtrack composers who have made effective use of choral music.

20:00

Drama on 3

The Picture Man By David Eldridge

Neil decides he has been pushed too far by the uncaring and often callous behaviour he sees around him. But when he begins to intervene in incidents by taking pictures on his mobile phone, it has disastrous consequences.

Introduced by the writer, David Eldridge.

Neil ...... Martin Freeman
Janine ...... Heather Craney
Hussein ...... Emil Marwa
George ...... Peter Marinker
Man on Tube ...... Jake Harders
Polish Prostitute ...... Ania Sowinkski
Freddie ...... Bailey Pepper
Teenage Boy ...... Joseph Tremain

With Anna Bengo, Laura Molyneux, Alex Lanipekun and Ben Crowe.

Directed by Sally Avens.

21:05

Chamber Concert

The Royal String Quartet

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.

4/4. In Quartet No 3, written in 1987, it's only halfway through the 15 minute work that the players discover their bows!

21:30

Sunday Feature

Bosphorous Battles

Since the siege of Troy, the Turkish Straits between the Dardanelles and the Northern end of the Bosphorus have been of vital strategic importance. The water has been both a source of prosperity and the cause of political battles for Istanbul.

Tom de Waal takes a journey up the Bosphorus and talks to the writers Orhan Pamuk and Elif Shafak, Professors Gun Kut and Edhem Eldem, and Captains Rajiv Kumar and Mete Kocar to present a portrait of Istanbul as seen from its seaway.

22:15

Words & Music

A Book of Hours

Amanda Root and Rory Kinnear take an imaginative journey around the clock over the course of 24 hours with poems and prose by Fleur Adcock, John Clare, Shakespeare, Byron, Walt Whitman and Carol Ann Duffy, and music by Sibelius, Debussy, Elvis Costello, Copland and Falla.

00:00

The Early Music Show

6 January 2008

Lucie Skeaping focuses on a fascinating collection of 17th century German instrumental music known as Das Partiturbuch Ludwig.

Assembled by Jacob Ludwig as a birthday present for his patron Duke August of Gotha, the collection features composers from all over Germany, including Antonio Bertali, Johann Nicolai, Johann Schmelzer, Adam Drese, Samuel Capricornus and Nathanael Schnittelbach.

01:00

Through the Night

6 January 2008

6 January 2008

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am
Stravinsky: Anthem (The Dove Descending Breaks the Air)
Swedish Radio Chorus
Anders Eby (conductor)

1.04am
Rangström: Sorgen och stjärnen (The Sorrow and the Star)
Helena Lidén Moore (soprano)
Bengt Eklund (piano)

1.08am
Schubert, arr. Clytus Gottwald: Nacht und Träume, D827
Swedish Radio Chorus
Anders Eby (conductor)

1.12am
Nilsson: Ayíasma for flute and mixed chorus
Maria Aström (flute)
Swedish Radio Chorus
Anders Eby (conductor)

1.17am
Unander-Scharin: From Things to Sound
Swedish Radio Chorus
Anders Eby (conductor)

1.38am
Shostakovich: Symphony No 10 in E minor
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Daniele Gatti (conductor)

2.31am
Geijer: Sonata in F minor for Piano (four hands)
Stefan Bojsten (piano)
Anders Kilström (piano)

2.52am
Dohnányi: Piano Quintet No 2 in E flat minor, Op 26
Erno Szegedi (piano)
Tatrai Quartet

3.17am
Korngold: Violin Concerto in D, Op 35
Chantal Juillet (violin)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Franz-Paul Decker (conductor)

3.44am
Henderson: Gloria
Robert Venables, Robert Devito (trumpets)
Linda Broncesky (horn)
Ian Cowie (trombone)
Marc Bonang (tuba)
Graham Hargrove, Nicolas Coulter (percussion)
Elmer Iseler Singers
Lydia Adams (conductor)

3.50am
Muffat: Passacaglia in G minor
Geert Bierling (organ)

4.00am
Bree: Concert Overture in B minor
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)

4.12am
Lortzing: Heiterkeit und Fröhlichkeit (Der Wildschütz, Act 3)
Brett Polegato (baritone)
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
Richard Bradshaw (conductor)

4.17am
Wilms: Rondo (Polonaise in D)
Arthur Schoonderwoerd (fortepiano)

4.24am
Telemann: Concerto in D minor for two chalumeaux and strings
Eric Hoeprich, Lisa Klewitt (chalumeaux)
Musica Antiqua Köln
Reinhard Goebel (director)

4.32am
Aufschnaiter: Ouverture; Entrée; Menuett; Gavotta; Menuett (Serenade No 3 in G minor)
L'Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg (director)

4.41am
Schumann: 3 Carols of Death
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

4.52am
Geminiani: Concerto Grosso No 3 in B minor
Concertino
Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players

5.00am
Kabalevsky: Overture (Colas Breugnon)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Uri Mayer (conductor)

5.05am
Bartok: Andante in A for violin and piano
Tamas Major (violin)
Gyorgy Oravecz (piano)

5.10am
Dvorak: Furiant, No 7; Bacchanalia, No 10 (Poeticke nalady, Op 85)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava
Robert Stankovsky (conductor)

5.18am
Haydn: Sonata in G for piano
Niklas Sivelov (piano)

5.29am
CPE Bach: Heilig, Heilig
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Ton Koopman (conductor)

5.36am
A Scarlatti: Fuga del Primo Tono (D minor)
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

5.40am
Rossi: Toccata No 7 in D minor (Toccate e correnti)
Ton Koopman (harpsichord)

5.44am
Alfvèn: Suite for Orchestra (King Gustav II Adolf)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Niklas Willén (conductor)

6.00am
Pez: Overture in D minor
Hildebrand'sche Hoboïsten Compagnie

6.10am
Josquin des Pres: Plaine de dueil
Lassus: Timor et tremor; Exaudi Deus
Ensemble Daedalus
Roberto Festa (director)

6.20am
Frumerie: Pastoral Suite, Op 13b
Kathleen Rudolph (flute)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

6.34am
Zemlinsky: Trio, Op 3
Trio Luwigana