Monday 11th February 2008

07:00

Breakfast

Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Including from 7.00am

Mendelssohn: Hear my prayer
Rachel Bennett (soprano)
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge
Mark Bennett (organ)
Richard Marlowe (director)

Tchaikovsky: Waltz (Sleeping Beauty)
Kirov Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)

Schubert: Marche militaire, D733 No 1
Radu Lupu, Daniel Barenboim (piano duet)

From 8.30am

Ravel: Jeux d'eau
Tzimon Barto (piano)

Mozart: Cosi fan tutte (Quintet, Act I, Scene 2)
Fiordiligi ...... Sena Jurinac (soprano)
Dorabella ...... Blanche Thebom (mezzo-soprano)
Ferrando ...... Richard Lewis (tenor)
Guglielmo ...... Erich Kunz (bass)
Don Alfonso ...... Mario Borriello (bass)
Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra
Fritz Busch (conductor)

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 5
European Brandenburg Ensemble
Trevor Pinnock (director)

10:00

Classical Collection

11 February 2008

With Sarah Walker.

10.00am
Copland: Suite from the film North Star
Collegiate Chorale
Eos Orchestra
Jonathan Sheffer (conductor)
TELARC CD-80583

10.19am
Sibelius: Sonatine in E, Op 67 No 2
Glenn Gould (piano)
SONY CLASSICAL SM2K 52 654

10.27am
Rameau: Suite (Les Boreades)
Orchestra of the XVIII Century
Frans Bruggen (conductor)
PHILIPS 420 240-2

10.45am
Holmboe: Symphony No 8 (Sinfonia boreale)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Owain Arwel Hughes (conductor)
BIS BIS-CD-618

11.22am
Mozart: String Quartet in F, K590
The Building a Library recommendation

12:00

Composer of the Week

Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

An Ordinary Englishman

Donald Macleod maps Howells's compositional roots, which stretch back to the music of the Tudors. There is also a chance to hear the composer himself speaking in the first of a series of archive interviews for the week.

Here is the little door
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)

Hughes's Ballet; De la Mare's Pavane; Sir Hugh's Galliard (Lambert's Clavichord)
Margaret Fingerhut (piano)

Elegy
Matthew Souter (viola)
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Piano Concerto No 2 in C, Op 39
Howard Shelley (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox (conductor)

13:00

Afternoon on 3

11 February 2008

Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Direct from the Wigmore Hall, London, Suzy Klein introduces a concert of baroque chamber music for winds.

Emily Beynon (flute)
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe)
Gustavo Nunez (bassoon)
Gary Cooper (harpsichord)

Telemann: Trio Sonata in F for oboe, bassoon and continuo, TWV 42 F10
Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor for flute, oboe and bassoon, RV 103
Attrib. Handel: Trio Sonata in F for oboe, bassoon and continuo
Fasch: Trio Sonata in G minor for flute, oboe and continuo

2.00pm Focus on Berlin

A week of programmes celebrating the best of music-making in Berlin. Alongside performances by the Berlin Philharmonic are chamber music highlights from orchestra members past and present.

Dvorak: Slavonic Rhapsody in D, Op 45 No 1
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)

Bartok: Piano Concerto No 3
Helene Grimaud (piano)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi

Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody in A, Op 11 No 1
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)

Haydn: Trio in C, H IV1 (London)
Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Guy Braunstein (violin)
Olaf Maninger (cello)

Borodin: Symphony No 2 in B minor, Op 5
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)

Rameau: Les Indes galantes
German Symphony Orchestra
Emanuelle Haim (conductor)

Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)

17:00

In Tune

11 February 2008

Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world.

19:00

Performance on 3

11 February 2008

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Catherine Bott introduces a concert given in January at Dundee's Caird Hall by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under music director Stephane Deneve featuring three orchestral showpieces that were each groundbreaking in their time.

Hilary Hahn (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Stephane Deneve (conductor)

Strauss: Don Juan
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'une faune
Debussy: La mer

20:45

Composer of the Week

Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

An Ordinary Englishman

Donald Macleod maps Howells's compositional roots, which stretch back to the music of the Tudors. There is also a chance to hear the composer himself speaking in the first of a series of archive interviews for the week.

Here is the little door
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)

Hughes's Ballet; De la Mare's Pavane; Sir Hugh's Galliard (Lambert's Clavichord)
Margaret Fingerhut (piano)

Elegy
Matthew Souter (viola)
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Piano Concerto No 2 in C, Op 39
Howard Shelley (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox (conductor)

21:45

Night Waves

James Wood

To mark 150 years since the first apparent sightings of St Bernadette at Lourdes, Matthew Sweet is joined by theologian Martin Palmer and Catholic writer Cristina Odone to discuss the enduring power of miracles in the 21st century.

Award-winning architect Edward Cullinan discusses the challenges facing architecture in the face of climate change, Harvard literary critic James Wood unpicks how novels are written, from the prose of John Updike to characterisation in James Joyce, plus highlights from this year's Berlin Film Festival.

22:30

Artist Focus

Heinrich Schiff

With Catherine Bott. The featured artist is cellist and conductor Heinrich Schiff, who performs Bach's Cello Suite No 1 in G, BWV 1007.

23:00

The Essay

A Sense of Ourselves

Four writers and immigrants to Britain give the outsider's perspective on modern Britishness.

1/4. Jamaican poet James Berry came to Britain 60 years ago as part of the Windrush generation. He talks about the process of rethinking the idea of Britishness he had absorbed as a child of Empire and his subsequent efforts to bring Caribbean culture to bear on Britishness through literature.

23:15

Lopa Kothari

11 February 2008

Singer and broadcaster Lopa Kothari presents her own global musical mix, including Brazilian beats from DJ Dolores and new recordings of prison choirs in Zimbabwe.

01:00

Through the Night

11 February 2008

11 February 2008

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): String Quartet No 2 in G minor, Op 27
Engegard Quartet

1.36am
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927): String Quartet No 4 in A minor, Op 25
Oslo String Quartet

2.13am
Veracini, Francesco (1690-1768): Overture No 6 for 2 oboes, bassoon and strings
Musica Antiqua Koln
Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

2.24am
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936): Ancient Airs and Dances
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

2.43am
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594): Tu es Petrus
Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano
Theatrum Instrumentorum
Diego Fasolis (conductor)

2.49am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 8 in G, H I 8
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Rolf Gupta (conductor)

3.14am
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943): Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

3.41am
Vremsak, Samo (1930-2003): 3 Choral Songs
Cantemus Mixed Choir
Sebastjan Vrhovnik (conductor)

3.46am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Trio Sonata
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists

4.00am
Ambrosius, Hermann (1907-1983): Suite
Zagreb Guitar Trio

4.07am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Transcendental study No 11 in D flat
Jeno Jando (piano)

4.17am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Rondo in A for violin and strings, D438
National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada
Pinchas Zuckerman (violin/director)

4.32am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K191
Peter Hanzel (bassoon)
Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

4.52am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Pensieri notturni di Filli (Nel dolce dell'oblio), HWV 134
Johanna Koslwosky (soprano)
Musica Alta Ripa:
Danya Segal (recorder)
Anne Rohrig, Ursula Bundies (violins)
Guido Larisch (cello)
Bernward Lohr (harpsichord)

5.00am
Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990): Overture (Candide)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

5.05am
Copland, Aaron (1900-1990): El Salon Mexico
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

5.17am
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959): La revue de cuisine
Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound

5.32am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Adagio for Musical Clock, WoO 33
Stef Tuinstra (organ)

5.38am
Stanford, Charles Villiers (1852-1924): The Blue Bird
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

5.43am
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868): Overture (La gazza ladra)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

5.53am
Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643): Canzon prima basso solo
Musica Fiata, Koln
Roland Wilson (director)

5.58am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Fetes galantes
Paula Hoffman (mezzo-soprano)
Lars-David Nilsson (piano)

6.06am
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911): Norwegian Artists' Carnival, Op 14
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Ari Rasilainen (conductor)

6.13am
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961): Apres un reve
Leslie Howard (piano)

6.17am
Faure, Gabriel (1845-1924): Suite (Pelleas et Melisande, Op 80)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

6.34am
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953): 3 dances (Romeo and Juliet)
Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

6.48am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto in C minor for treble recorder, RV 441
Michael Schneider (recorder)
Camerata Koln