Sunday 3rd February 2008

07:00

Breakfast

Alexandra Wilson

Including from 7.00am:

Mozart: Overture (La clemenza di Tito)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Colin Davis (conductor)

Grieg: Six Norwegian Mountain Melodies
Einar Steen Nokleberg (piano)

From 8.00am

Berlioz: Nuit d'ivresse (Les Troyens)
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)
Roberto Alagna (tenor)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Richard Armstrong (conductor)

Geminiani: Concerto grosso in E minor, Op 3 No 3
La Petite Bande
Sigiswald Kuijken (director)

From 9.00am

Rossini, arr. Sedlak: Overture (L'inganna felice)
Consortium Classicum

Elgar: Give unto the Lord, Op 74
Choir of St John's College, Cambridge
Christopher Robinson (conductor)

10:00

Iain Burnside

3 February 2008

Iain Burnside plays music on the theme of carnivals, including Schumann's Faschingswank aus Wien and Berlioz's Le carnaval romain.

12:00

Private Passions

Martin Rowson

Michael Berkeley meets The Guardian's political cartoonist Martin Rowson, famous for his acid wit, as well as his penetrating eye.

He explains to Michael Berkeley how a convinced atheist can find Bach's St Matthew Passion deeply moving, why he thinks Bob Dylan is greatly overrated as a poet and why we should all learn a song from The Sound of Music.

13:00

The Early Music Show

Versailles and Paris Month: The Palace of Versailles

Lucie Skeaping and Catherine Bott visit the Palace of Versailles to learn about its transformation from a humble hunting lodge into one of Europe's most impressive royal residences.

Versailles historian Pierre Arizzoli-Clementel and Prof Tony Spawforth act as their guides through the many mysteries and splendours of the famous chateau that employed some of the most important musicians in Europe, including Boesset, Lully, Couperin, Marais, Campra, Chambonnieres and Lalande.

14:00

Radio 3 Requests

3 February 2008

Chi-chi Nwanoku plays listeners' requests, including a portrait of a Hungarian queen by Reynaldo Hahn, Yvonne Minton singing songs from Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder and Toscanini conducting Respighi's Pines of Rome. Plus lutenist Elizabeth Kenny's personal highlight from Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers.

16:00

Choral Evensong

3 February 2008

Live from Chester Cathedral.

Introit: When to the temple Mary went (Eccard)
Responses: Piccolo
Office Hymn: See how the age-long promise (Iste Confessor)
Psalms: 122, 132 (Fisher, Howells)
First Reading: Malachi 3 vv1-5
Canticles: Westminster Service (Howells)
Second Reading: Luke 2 vv22-40
Anthem: Ecce beatam lucem (Jonathan Dove)
Hymn: Hail to the Lord who comes (Old 120th)
Organ Voluntary: Ave Maris Stella (Dupre)

Organist: Ian Roberts
Director: Philip Rushforth

17:00

Discovering Music

Britten Sea Interludes and Passacaglia

Charles Hazlewood conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in an exploration of the Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia that Benjamin Britten extracted from his opera Peter Grimes.

18:30

The Choir

Madrigal Comedy

Aled Jones talks to Robert Hollingworth about the short-lived, 16th century genre of madrigal comedy, and presents a complete performance of a modern madrigal fable - Menotti's The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore, marking the first anniversary of the composer's death.

20:00

Drama on 3

The Devil Was Here Yesterday

By Colin Teevan.

Will civil servant Simon deliver the report the evidence appears to support or the report the minister seems to want the evidence to support? Inspired by a visit to South America last year, Colin Teevan's new play explores the political landscape of a country undergoing an oil-fuelled revolution.

Simon ...... Owen Teale
Elisabet ...... Haydn Gwynne
The Minister ...... Greg Hicks
Hector/Profesor ...... Stephen Greif
Victoria/Firmina ...... Clare Higgins
La Guacha ...... Rufus Wright
Angel ...... Alex Lanipekun
Gregoria ...... Nadine Marshall
Willoughby/Woker ...... Martin Hyder
Linda/Gloria ...... Nancy Crane
Waitress ...... Laura Molyneux

Original music by Nikola Kodjabashia.

Directed by Toby Swift.

21:30

Sunday Feature

South American Currents

A new series offering fresh cultural perspectives on South America.

1/3. Colombia - An End to Solitude?

Forty years ago, the novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote of the afflictions of Colombia, his country of birth. Now a new generation of Colombian writers are trying to find a way out of that 'solitude' in order to describe the complex, violent but exuberant reality they live in.

Novelist Juan Gabriel Vasquez takes us with him to the Colombian capital Bogota to share the elements of 21st century urban life in South America that have inspired his work.

22:15

Words & Music

Happiness

Actor Simon Russell Beale curates a sequence of words and music on the theme of happiness. Emma Fielding and John Rogan read poems and texts by Wordsworth, Adcock, Shakespeare, AA Milne and Sassoon.

Music eovking the happiness of the texts includes Byrd's Haec dies, Blossom Dearie singing I'm in Love, Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, Adams's China Gates and Wagner's Siegfried Idyll.

00:00

The Early Music Show

Great 20th-Century Harpsichordists

Catherine Bott talks to Maggie Cole about two great harpsichordists of the early 20th century, Wanda Landowska and Violet Gordon Woodhouse. These extraordinary women never met, but their enthusiasm and dedication to their instrument was remarkable. Music includes early recordings of pieces by Scarlatti, Bach, Rameau and Mozart.

01:00

Through the Night

3 February 2008

3 February 2008

With John Shea.

1.00am
Haydn, (Johann) Michael (1737-1806): Requiem Mass (1771)
1.40am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Mass in C, K317
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Hilary Summers (mezzo-soprano)
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Peter Harvey (bass)
The King's Consort
Robert King (conductor)

2.05am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Miroirs
Martina Filjak (piano)

2.39am
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975): Symphony No 8 in C minor, Op 65
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Konstantin lliev (conductor)

3.40am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): String Quartet in A, Op 41 No 3
Faust Quartet

4.07am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Recorder Concerto in C minor, RV 441
Camerata Koln

4.18am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Tzigane
Vilmos Szabadi (violin)
Marta Gulyas (piano)

4.28am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Matthew Rowe (conductor)

4.39am
Falla, Manuel de (1876-1946): No 5 (Nana); No 7 (Polo); No 4 (Jota) (7 Canciones populares espanolas)
Moshe Hammer (violin)
William Beauvais (guitar)

4.46am
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911): Overture (Carnival in Paris, Op 9)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)

5.00am
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869): La damnation de Faust, Op 24 (excerpts)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Willem Mengelberg (conductor)

5.12am
Schafer, Dirk (1873-1931): Adagio patetico (Piano Quintet, Op 5)
Jacob Bogaart (piano)
Orpheus String Quartet

5.22am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Concerto in E minor
La Stagione Frankfurt

5.36am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Chansons de Bilitis
Jard van Nes (mezzo-soprano)
Gerard van Blerk (piano)

5.46am
Bartok, Bela (1881-1945) arr. Willner: Romanian Folk Dances, Sz 56
I Cameristi Italiani

5.53am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): En Saga (1892)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

6.15am
Escher, Rudolf (1912-1980): Ciel, air et vents
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Ed Spanjaard (conductor)

6.27am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): 4 Impromptus, Op 142
Alfred Brendel (piano)