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Tuesday 22nd January 2008

January 2008
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morning | afternoon | evening

07:00

Breakfast

Rob Cowan

Including at 7.00am

Tallis: Magnificat
Chapelle Du Roi
Alistair Dixon (director)

Rossini: Che Ascolto! (Otello)
Juan Diego Florez (tenor)
Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra and Choir of Milan
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

Handel: Sonata in C, HWV 365
Michala Petri (recorder)
Academy Chamber Ensemble

8.30am
Telemann: Trumpet Concerto
Maurice Andre (trumpet)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jesus Lopez-Cobos (conductor)

Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras No 9
I Musici de Montreal
Yuli Turovski (conductor)

10:00

Classical Collection

22 January 2008

With James Jolly.

10.00am
Schumann: Marchenbilder, Op 113
Yuri Bashmet (viola)
Mikhail Muntian (piano)
RCA RD 60112

10.09am
Stravinsky: Elegie
Tabea Zimmermann (viola)
EMI 7543942 T.5

10.25am
Benjamin: Viola, Viola
Tabea Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit (violas)
NIMBUS NI 5713

10.34am
Rubbra: Meditations on a Byzantine Hymn, Op 117
Lawrence Power (viola)
HYPERION CDA 67587

10.46am
Mozart: Quintet in E flat, K 614
Griller String Quartet
William Primrose (viola)
VANGUARD 08802571

11.09am
Rota: Intermezzo
Nobuko Imai (viola)
Roland Pontinen (piano)
BIS CD 829

11.18am
Bowen: Viola Concerto in C minor, Op 25
Lawrence Power (viola)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67546

morning | afternoon | evening

12:00

Composer of the Week

Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)

Part Two

D'Indy takes part in the Paris premiere of Lohengrin, visits England and starts work on his opera Fervaal - 'the French Parsifal', as it has sometimes been called. Presented by Donald Macleod.

Overture: Modere (Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, Op 29)
Amici Ensemble
Joaquin Valdepenas (clarinet)
David Hetherington (cello)
Patricia Parr (piano)

Sur la mer, for female voices and piano, Op 32
BBC Singers
Eleanor Meynell (solo soprano)
Stephen Betteridge (piano)
Ron Corp (conductor)

Tableaux de Voyage, 13 pieces for piano, Op 33 (excerpts)
Michael Schafer (piano)

Fervaal, Op 40 (Prélude)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Monteux (conductor)

Istar, variations symphoniques, Op 42
Orchestra Philharmonique des Pays de Loire
Pierre Dervaux (conductor)

13:00

Afternoon on 3

22 January 2008

Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Four 'period instrument' lunchtime recitals from The Clothworkers' Centenary Concert Hall at the University of Leeds.

1/4. Trio Goya perform works from the Austrian Classical repertoire.

Haydn: Trio in D, Hob:XV:24
Mozart: Trio in B flat for piano and strings, K502
Haydn: Trio in D, Hob:XV:13

2.00pm Youth Orchestras

A week of concerts by some of the world's leading youth orchestras and choirs. In this programme, music comes from Australia, France and Germany.

Arvo Part: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Resonanz Ensemble

Ravel: La valse
Australian Youth Orchestra
Lawrence Foster (conductor)

James Ledger: Habits of Creatures
Australian Youth Orchestra
Lawrence Foster (conductor)

Gorecki: String Quartet No 1, Op 62 (Already it is dusk)
Resonanz Ensemble

Wagner, arr. Gottwald: Im Treibhaus (Wesendoncklieder)
Schleswig-Holstein Festival Chorus

Mahler, arr. Gottwald: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Schleswig-Holstein Festival Chorus

Avner Dorman: Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!
PercaDu percussion duo
UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra
Zubin Mehta (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op 43
Alexey Yemtsov (piano)
Australian Youth Orchestra
Lawrence Foster (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36
Australian Youth Orchestra
Lawrence Foster (conductor)

17:00

In Tune

22 January 2008

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

morning | afternoon | evening

19:00

Performance on 3

Judith Weir: Telling the Tale

Earth and Sky

Earth and Sky

Tom Service presents the world premiere performance of Judith Weir's Concrete, commissioned by the BBC for the occasion. Taking the Barbican itself as its inspiration, this is a large-scale work for chorus, narrator and orchestra, subtitled 'a motet about London'. Also on the programme is Weir's Moon and Star and a performance of a piece by a composer who Weir cites as a big influence on her own work - Michael Finnissy.

Weir: Moon and Star
Finnissy: Red Earth
Weir: Concrete (world premiere)

Samuel West (narrator)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

20:45

Composer of the Week

Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)

Part Two

D'Indy takes part in the Paris premiere of Lohengrin, visits England and starts work on his opera Fervaal - 'the French Parsifal', as it has sometimes been called. Presented by Donald Macleod.

Overture: Modere (Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, Op 29)
Amici Ensemble
Joaquin Valdepenas (clarinet)
David Hetherington (cello)
Patricia Parr (piano)

Sur la mer, for female voices and piano, Op 32
BBC Singers
Eleanor Meynell (solo soprano)
Stephen Betteridge (piano)
Ron Corp (conductor)

Tableaux de Voyage, 13 pieces for piano, Op 33 (excerpts)
Michael Schafer (piano)

Fervaal, Op 40 (Prélude)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Monteux (conductor)

Istar, variations symphoniques, Op 42
Orchestra Philharmonique des Pays de Loire
Pierre Dervaux (conductor)

21:45

Night Waves

Russian Masterpieces

Philip Dodd talks to historian Orlando Figes about the new exhibition of Masterpieces from Russian Museums at the Royal Academy in London, the subject of recent diplomatic tension between London and Moscow.

On the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the programme asks whether attempts by world leaders to use YouTube to explain policy are merely a gimmick.

Pyschoanalyst Darian Leader and art historian Griselda Pollock discuss the place of mourning and grief in contemporary culture.

Plus a review of the new Royal Court production of The Vertical Hour, David Hare's play about the Iraq War.

22:30

Artist Focus

The Nash Ensemble

With Tom Service. The Nash Ensemble are the featured artists and the programme includes Mark-Anthony Turnage's An Invention on 'Solitude'.

23:00

The Essay

In Search of Contentment

How does a long train journey, a moment to sit back, relax and quietly relish success, turn into too much time in which to brood? Scottish novelist and columnist AL Kennedy finds herself bereft of contentment, but the search goes on.

23:15

Late Junction

22 January 2008

Verity Sharp presents Alan Maralung's recordings of Australian Aboriginal songs and the South Indian violin duo of Lalitha and Nandini Muthuswamy. Plus excerpts from Francois Tetaz's score for the film Wolf Creek, which features the wire recordings of instrument maker Alan Lamb and the prepared piano of Anthony Pateras

01:00

Through the Night

22 January 2008

22 January 2008

With Jonathan Swain.

1.01am
Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725)
Variations on La Follia
1.09am
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
A selection of Keyboard Sonatas: B minor, K 27; B minor, K 227; D major, K 45; C major, K 132; F minor, K 239; A major, K 208; D minor, K 141; D major, K 492; D minor, K 32 (Aria)
1.37am
Soler, Antonio (1729-1783)
Fandango for keyboard in D minor, R 146
1.48am
Ligeti, Gyorgy (1923-2006)
Hungarian Rock (chaconne) (1978)
Ruggero Lagana (harpsichord)

1.52am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Suite in C (Hamburger Ebb und flut) (TWV 55:C3)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Kjetil Haugsand (conductor)

2.17am
Holst, Gustav (1874-1934)
The Planets - suite, Op 32
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

3.08am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor, Op 111
John Ogdon (piano)

3.35am
Hammerschmidt, Andreas (1611/12-1675)
Suite in G minor/G major for winds - (Ester Fleiss)
Hesperion XX
Jordi Savall (director)

3.49am
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904)
Othello - concert overture, Op 93
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

4.05
Johnson, Robert (c.1583-1633)
2 Songs: 'Full fathum five' and 'Where the bee sucks, there suck I'
Paul Agnew (tenor)
Christopher Wilson (lute)

4.10am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Rondo in D, K 485
Jean Muller (piano)

4.17am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Academic Festival Overture, Op 80
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Tamas Vasary (conductor)

4.27am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) transcr. Liszt, Franz
Standchen (Serenade) (Schwanengesang), D 957
Simon Trpceski (piano)

4.34am
Bach, Johann Michael (1648-1694)
Aria (Auf lasst uns den Herren loben)
Ulla Groenewold (contralto)
Musica Antiqua Koln
Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

4.41am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-175

5.00am
Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725)
Sinfonia amore, pace e providenza
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Biondi (conductor)

5.03am
Popper, David (1843-1913)
Hungarian Fantasy, Op 68
Shauna Rolston (cello)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

5.12am
Kodaly, Zoltan (1882-1967)
A song about King Stephen
Hungarian Radio Chorus
Peter Erdei (conductor)

5.17am
Faure, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Nocturne No 6 in D flat, Op 63
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

5.27am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Chansons madecasses
Catherine Robbin (mezzo)
Nora Shulman (flute)
Thomas Wiebe (cello)
Andre Laplante (piano)

5.40am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759) ed. Dart
Sonata in B flat, HWV 357
Louise Pellerin (oboe)
Dom Andre Laberge (organ)

5.46am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Violin Sonata No 2 in A
Valdis Zarins (violin)
Ieva Zarina (piano)

6.06am
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in G, K 104 (Allegro)
Virginia Black (harpsichord)

6.12am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No 104 in D, H 1 104 (London)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Philippe Entremont (Conductor)

6.39am
Leclair, Jean-Marie (1697-1764)
Violin Concerto in D, Op 10 No 3
Simon Standage (violin)
Il Tempo

6.54am
Bacewicz, Grazyna (1909-1969)
Krakowiak for orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jan Krenz (conductor)




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