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Tuesday 12th February 2008

February 2008
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07:00

Breakfast

Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Including from 7.00am

Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Ton Koopman (organ)

Glazunov: Mazurka-Oberek
Itzhak Perlman (violin)
Abbey Road Ensemble
Lawrence Foster (conductor)

Purcell: Man that is born of a woman
Taverner Consort
Taverner Players
Andrew Parrott (director)

From 8.30am

Mahler: Das Trinklied von Jammer der Erde (Das Lied von der Erde)
Ernst Hafliger (tenor)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Bruno Walter (conductor)

Faure: Dolly Suite, Op 56
Katia and Marielle Labeque (piano duet)

Bernstein: Overture (Candide)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

10:00

Classical Collection

12 February 2008

With Sarah Walker.

10.00am
J Strauss II: North Sea Pictures, Op 390
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Willi Boskovsky (conductor)
LONDON 436 783-2

10.09am
Bortnyansky: Sonata No 2 in C
Nadezhda Golubovskaya (piano)
MULTISONIC 31 0253-2

10.23am
Shostakovich: Suite from the film Hamlet
USSR Radio Large Symphony Orchestra
Nikolay Rabinovich (conductor)
CLASSOUND 2003-05

10.46am
Dowland: The King of Denmark's Galliard
Hesperion XXI
Jordi Savall (treble viol/director)
ASTREE ES 9949

Savall: Lachrimae tristes; Sinfonia di guerra; Pugna and Damnatio
Le Concert Des Nations
Hesperion XXI
Jordi Savall (treble viol/director)
ALIA VOX AVSA 9852

10.53am
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in F, Op 5, No 1
Andre Navarra (cello)
Pierre Sancan (piano)
ACCORD 476 7786

11.22am
Sibelius: Symphony No 5 in E flat, Op 82
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 474 353-2

morning | afternoon | evening

12:00

Composer of the Week

Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

Love and Despair

The loss of his nine-year-old son Michael to a sudden illness in 1935 cast a lifelong shadow across Howells's music. Donald Macleod explores how music became a release valve for the bereft composer and we also hear Howells's own thoughts on one of the works directly inspired by his son's death.

The Chosen Tune
Margaret Fingerhut (piano)

Sing Lullaby
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)

Green Ways: Under the greenwood tree; Wanderer's Night Song; On the merry first of May
Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox (conductor)

All my hope on God is founded
John Rutter (descant)
Philip Scriven (organ)
Winchester Cathedral Choir
David Hill (director)

Requiem (1st mvt)
Corydon Singers
Matthew Best (conductor)

De profundis (Psalm Prelude Set 2 No 1)
Stephen Cleobury (organ of King's College, Cambridge)

Concerto for Strings (final mvt)
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Magnificat (St Paul's Service)
Choir of St Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Dearnley (organ)
John Scott (conductor)

13:00

Afternoon on 3

12 February 2008

Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

City of London Festival 2007

A second week of concerts given at last summer's festival begins with a song recital in the church of St Andrew by the Wardrobe.

Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone)
Michael Hampton (piano)

Schumann: Dichterliebe
Schubert: Das Fischermadchen; Am Meer; Die Stadt; Der Doppelganger; Ihr Bild; Der Atlas (Schwanengesang)
Bennett: Songs Before Sleep

2.00pm Focus on Berlin

Continuing a celebration of the best of music-making in Berlin, with performances by the Berlin Philharmonic plus chamber music highlights from orchestra members past and present.

Busoni: Sarabande, Op 51 (Two Studies for Doktor Faust)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)

Dvorak: Piano Concerto in G minor, Op 33
Andras Schiff (piano)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)

Mozart: Flute Quartet in C, K285b
Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Guy Braunstein (violin)
Ori Kam (viola)
Olaf Maninger (cello)

Bartok: Suite (The Miraculous Mandarin, Sz 73)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)

Handel: Il delirio amoroso
Laura Claycomb (soprano)
German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin
Emanuelle Haim (conductor)

Klengel: Hymn for 12 Cellos, Op 57
The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Delius: Brigg Fair
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)

17:00

In Tune

12 February 2008

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

morning | afternoon | evening

19:00

Performance on 3

12 February 2008

Piotr Anderszewski

Presented by Catherine Bott.

A recital given by the Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski in his home town of Warsaw in 2006. The performance includes music by Mozart and Bach plus Szymanowkski's Homer-inspired cycle of miniature tone-poems and Chopin's rendering of traditional Polish dances.

Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Mozart: Fantasy in C minor, K475
Mozart: Sonata in C minor, K457
Szymanowski: Metopes, Op 29
Chopin: Mazurkas, Op 59
Bach: English Suite in D minor, BWV 811

20:45

Composer of the Week

Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

Love and Despair

The loss of his nine-year-old son Michael to a sudden illness in 1935 cast a lifelong shadow across Howells's music. Donald Macleod explores how music became a release valve for the bereft composer and we also hear Howells's own thoughts on one of the works directly inspired by his son's death.

The Chosen Tune
Margaret Fingerhut (piano)

Sing Lullaby
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)

Green Ways: Under the greenwood tree; Wanderer's Night Song; On the merry first of May
Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox (conductor)

All my hope on God is founded
John Rutter (descant)
Philip Scriven (organ)
Winchester Cathedral Choir
David Hill (director)

Requiem (1st mvt)
Corydon Singers
Matthew Best (conductor)

De profundis (Psalm Prelude Set 2 No 1)
Stephen Cleobury (organ of King's College, Cambridge)

Concerto for Strings (final mvt)
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Magnificat (St Paul's Service)
Choir of St Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Dearnley (organ)
John Scott (conductor)

21:45

Night Waves

Islam's relationship with democracy

Rana Mitter and three experts examine the state of Pakistani democracy, as the country prepares to go to the polls under the dark cloud of Benazir Bhutto's assassination.

Fresh from a Bafta win, Coen Brothers' long-time cinematographer Roger Deakins talks about his varied career working on films such as A Beautiful Mind and O Brother Where Art Thou?

Plus the first night review of the much-anticipated Old Vic production of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, starring Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum.

22:30

Artist Focus

Heinrich Schiff

With Catherine Bott. The featured artist is cellist Heinrich Schiff, who performs Lutoslawski's Cello Concerto with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer.

23:00

The Essay

A Sense of Ourselves

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

2/4. Nadeem Aslam came to Britain from Pakistan at the age of 14. His last novel Maps for Lost Lovers deals with the emotional life of an immigrant family living in a working-class Pakistani community in the north of England. Nadeem explores the emotional ambiguity underpinning his own relationship to Britain.

23:15

Late Junction

50 years of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Fiona Talkington travels back in time to mark 50 years of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, with the Dr Who theme, Frederick Bradnum's 1957 radiophonic poem Private Dreams Public Nightmares and music by Benjamin Britten.

Plus, throughout the week, music recorded at this year's Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow.

01:00

Through the Night

12 February 2008

12 February 2008

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759): Suite in F, HWV 348 (Water Music)
1.28am
Avison, Charles (1709-1770): Concerto grosso No 5 in D minor
1.37am
Geminiani, Francesco (1687-1762): Concerto grosso No 12 in D minor (La folia)
1.48am
Roman, Johan Helmich (1694-1758): Then Svenska Messan
Maria Keohane (soprano)
Marianne Beate Kielland (contralto)
Jakob Block Jespersen (bass)
Concerto Copenhagen
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)

2.34am
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor, Op 11
Havard Gimse (piano)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Foremny (conductor)

3.15am
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869): Harold en Italie, Op 16
Milan Telecky (viola)
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

4.01am
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963): Sonata for violin and piano (1st mvt)
Fanny Clamagirand (violin)
Nicolas Bringuer (piano)

4.08am
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759): Sonata in A minor for oboe and continuo, Op 1 No 4
Louise Pellerin (oboe)
Dom Andre Laberge (organ)

4.16am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Kyrie eleison in G minor, RV 587
Choir of Latvian Radio
Riga Chamber Players
Sigvards Klava (conductor)

4.26am
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826): Andante and Rondo Ungarese in C minor, Op 35
Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

4.37am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): String Quartet in C minor, D103 (excerpt)
Tilev Quartet

4.47am
Dukas, Paul (1865-1935): The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Orchestre National de France
Charles Dutoit (conductor)

5.00am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Sonata Polonaise in A minor, TWV 42
La Stagione Frankfurt

5.07am
Holmboe, Vagn (1909-1996): Lauda, anima mea, Op 59c
Sokkelund Choir
Morten Schuldt Jensen (conductor)

5.15am
Ibert, Jacques (1890-1962): Trois pieces breves
Bulgarian Academic Wind Quintet

5.23am
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755): Concerto No 3 in E flat for string quartet
Concerto Koln

5.33am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Sonata in D for two pianos, K381
Vilma Rindzeviciute, Irina Venckus (pianos)

5.44am
Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno (1876-1948): Two orchestral intermezzi, Op 4
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Othmar Maga (conductor)

5.53am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Little preludes for keyboard, BWV 939-42 (excerpts)
Christophe Bossert (organ)

5.57am
Bruhns, Nicolaus (1665-1697): Wohl dem, der den Herren furchtet
Greta de Reyghere, Jill Feldman (sopranos)
Max van Egmond (bass)
Ricercar Consort

6.06am
Novak, Vitezslav (1870-1949): Trio in D minor for piano and strings, Op 27
Suk Trio

6.22am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Overture and ballet music (Prometheus, Op 43)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Hannu Koivula (conductor)

6.39am
Bach: Suite No 3 in D for orchestra, BWV 1068
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Ivor Bolton (conductor)




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