Saturday 9th February 2008

07:00

Breakfast

Martin Handley

Including from 7.00am

Dowland: Fantasia No 7 (A Varietie of Lute Lessons)
Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Tavener: Dhyana (A Song for Nicola for solo violin and strings)
Nicola Benedetti (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton (conductor)

From 8.00am
Schubert: Impromptu No 3 in C, D 946
Alfred Brendel (piano)

Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor, Op 12 No 1
Sarah Chang (violin)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

09:00

CD Review

9 February 2008

Andrew McGregor introduces Radio 3's weekly programme devoted to all that's new in the world of recorded music.

Including:

9.30am Building a Library
Expert guidance on which recording of a famous work to choose. Peter Quantrill recommends a recording of Mozart's String Quartet, K590.

10.30am
Rob Cowan looks at some recent issues of historic recordings, including Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony from Hamilton Harty and a live recording of Elgar's Enigma Variations by Thomas Beecham.

11.20am Session Report: Fire Burning in Snow

How do Jeffrey Skidmore's Ex Cathedra Consort and Baroque Ensemble recreate the exuberant Baroque music of Latin America in a north London church?

11.55am Disc of the Week
Bizet: Jeux d'enfants, Op 22
Les Siecles
Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor)

12:15

Music Matters

Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Tom Service talks to pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard about his first recording of Bach - The Art of Fugue - and his stewardship of the Aldeburgh Festival.

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales celebrate the music of Henri Dutilleux. And a major exhibition of field recordings from India opens at the Horniman Museum in London.

13:00

The Early Music Show

Versailles and Paris Month: Musicians of Versailles

Catherine Bott looks at some of the many composers who were employed by the French royal family from the time of Louis XIII up to the Revolution at the end of the 18th century.

Musicians such as Marin Marais, the Couperin brothers, Andre Campra, Claude Balbastre, Francois Philidor, Louis-Claude Daquin and Andre Destouches all lived and/or worked at the palace of Versailles at some point during their career and wrote some of their best-known pieces for royal occasions.

14:00

Lunchtime Concert

9 February 2008

Ailish Tynan and Julius Drake

Sarah Walker presents another chance to hear Monday's Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert given at the Wigmore Hall, London. Irish soprano Ailish Tynan is joined by pianist Julius Drake for a recital of French songs and a selection of nine lieder by Johannes Brahms.

Brahms: Das Madchen spricht, Op 107 No 3; Es traumte mir, Op 57 No 3; Wenn du nur zuweilen lachelst, Op 57 No 2; Ach, wende diesen Blick, Op 57 No 4; Unbewegte laue Luft, Op 57 No 8; Standchen, Op 106 No 1; Da unten im Tale; O kühler Wald, Op 72 No 3; Vergebliches Standchen, Op 84 No 4
Debussy: Fetes galantes I; En sourdine; Clair de lune; Fantoches
Faure: Three settings of texts by Paul Verlaine: Clair de lune, Op 46 No 2; Spleen, Op 51 No 3; Mandoline, Op 58 No 1
Debussy: Fetes galantes II; Les ingenus; Le faune; Colloque sentimental
Faure: Three settings of texts by Charles-Marie-ReneLeconte de Lisle: Les roses d'Ispahan, Op 39 No 4; Lydia, Op 4 No 2; Nell, Op 18 No 1

15:00

World Routes

World Routes in Azerbaijan

Lucy Duran examines the music of Azerbaijan.

1/2. On the shores of the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan borders Iran, Armenia, Russia and Georgia and its musical traditions have influenced the area for centuries.

Although, with its plentiful oil and gas, the country is growing quickly, the old songs of the Ashig troubadours and the art music of the virtuosic Mugham performers are still going strong.

16:00

Jazz Line-Up

Joe Zawinul Tribute

Julian Joseph presents previously unbroadcast tracks from a concert given at the London Jazz Festival 2007 in tribute to the late jazz keyboard player Joe Zawinul. Featuring the BBC Big Band, with Joe's own bass player Victor Bailey and keyboardist Django Bates taking Joe's part.

17:30

Jazz Record Requests

9 February 2008

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

18:30

Opera On 3

Verdi's La Traviata

From the Royal Opera House

Based on a play by Alexandre Dumas, La traviata tells the tragic story of Violetta, the consumptive courtesan whose bid for true love finds her pitilessly rejected by the society that once rejoiced in her debauched parties.

This Royal Opera House production is led by a cast including Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, tenor Jonas Kaufman and baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

Presented by Sean Rafferty from the Royal Opera House in conversation with writer and opera critic Alexandra Wilson.

Violetta Valery ...... Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Flora Bervoix ...... Monika-Evelin Liiv (mezzo-soprano)
Marquis d'Obigny ...... Kostas Smoriginas (bass-baritone)
Baron Douphol ...... Eddie Wade (baritone)
Doctor Grenvil ...... Mark Beesley (bass)
Gastone de Letorieres ...... Ji-Min Park (tenor)
Alfredo Germont ...... Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Giuseppe ...... Neil Gillespie (tenor)
Giorgio Germont ...... Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
Messenger ...... Charbel Mattar (bass)
Servant ...... Jonathan Coad (bass)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Maurizio Benini (conductor)

21:10

The Wire

Moonmen

By Jimmy McAleavey.

A space odyssey with a difference, Moonmen centres on a philosophical encounter between two isolated men - an astronaut and a CB radio enthusiast in rural Ireland. Are they polar opposites or kindred spirits locked in a mutual orbit?

Moonman ...... Dermot Crowley
Spaceman ...... Nathan Osgood
Ground Control ...... Peter Marinker
Radio Announcer ...... Linda Wray
DJ ...... Paul Sheridan

Director: Eoin OCallaghan

22:10

Pre-Hear

Downie and Holloway

Featuring music from two composers with strong academic associations: Gordon Downie lectures at the University of the West of England and Robin Holloway at the University of Cambridge.

Downie: forms 6: event aggregates for orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

Holloway: Scenes from Schumann - 7 paraphrases for orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Diego Masson (conductor)

22:30

Hear And Now

Edward Rushton's The Shops

Ivan Hewett introduces a performance of a new chamber opera The Shops, a humorous exploration of kleptomania and compulsive shopping by composer Edward Rushton and librettist Dagny Gioulami.

Rushton: The Shops
Darren Abrahams (tenor)
Richard Burkhard (baritone)
Phyllis Cannan (alto)
Anna Dennis (soprano)
Louise Mott (mezzo-soprano)
Paul Reeves (bass)
The Opera Group
Patrick Bailey (conductor)

00:00

The Early Music Show

Versailles and Paris Month: The Versailles Centre for Baroque Music

Lucie Skeaping launches BBC Radio 3's focus throughout February on music from Paris and Versailles with an exploration of France's continuing rediscovery of its own baroque music.

01:00

Through the Night

9 February 2008

9 February 2008

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Overture (Ruy Blas); Violin Concerto in E minor
1.37am
Corigliano, John (b.1938)
Le Moulin Rouge (The Red Violin)
1.41am
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Symphony No 9 in E minor (New World)
Joshua Bell (violin)
Orchestre Nationale de France
Kurt Masur (conductor)

2.27am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Mass in B flat, H XXII 10
BBC Singers
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

3.01am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Symphonische Etuden for piano
Andras Schiff (piano)

3.28am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Sonata in C, Op 1 No 7
Peter Hannan (recorder)
Colin Tilney (harpsichord)
Christel Thielmann (viola da gamba)

3.39am
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764): Les Paladins
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan (conductor)

4.00am
Anon: 2 Moravian Chorales
American Brass Quintet

4.03am
Part, Arvo (1935-): Dopo la vittoria for a capella choir
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Paul Hillier (conductor)

4.15am
Lully, Jean Baptiste (1632-1687): Le sommeil
La Simphonie du Marais

4.19am
Roussel, Albert (1869-1937): Coeur en peril, Op 50 No 1
Ola Eliasson (baritone)
Mats Jansson (piano)

4.22am
Poulenc, Francois (1899-1963): Deux poemes de Louis Aragon
Anne Sheridan (soprano)
Jonathan Savage (piano)

4.26am
Della Ciaia, Azzolino Bernardino (1671-1755): Tempo primo (Sonata in G)
Gyorgy Sandor (piano)

4.27am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Prelude and Fugue No 15 in G, BWV 860
Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano)

4.32
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Overture in C, TWV 55 C3
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin

4.52am
Andriessen, Jurriaan (1925-1996): Sonnet No 43
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Uwe Gronostay (conductor)

5.00am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Vorrei punirti indegno (La finta giardiniera), K196
Veronique Gens (soprano)
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Ivor Bolton (conductor)

5.04am
Califano, Arcangelo: Sonata a quattro in C
Ensemble Zefiro

5.14am
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757): Sonata in C, Kk 159; Sonata in D minor, Kk 1
Mie Miki (accordion)

5.19am
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): Ballet music (Otello)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)

5.26am
Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899): Pavane; Forlane
Bengt Ake-Lundin (piano)

5.36am
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario (1895-1968): Tarantella for guitar
Tomaz Rajteric (guitar)

5.40am
Pook, Jocelyn (b.1960): Mobile
The King's Singers

5.45am
Klami, Uuno (1900-1961): Numisuutarit
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

5.53am
Franck, Cesar (1822-1890): Andantino in G minor for organ, M 25
Nicholas Danby (organ)

6.01am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Symphony No 1 in E flat, K16
Camerata Salzburg
Leonidas Kavakos (conductor)

6.14am
Parry, Hubert (1848-1918): No 6 (Songs of Farewell for mixed voices)
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

6.25am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Piano Concerto in G
Francois-Frederic Guy (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

6.47am
Gottschalk, Louis Moreau (1829-1869): Pasquinade (c.1863)
Michael Lewin (piano)

6.51am
Gottschalk: L'Union (paraphrase de concert on National Airs), Op 48
Anthony Goldstone (piano)