07:00
Martin Handley
From 7.00am
J Strauss II: Overture (Die Fledermaus)
Bavarian State Orchestra
Carlos Kleiber (conductor)
Schubert: Die Forelle, D550
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Gerald Moore (piano)
From 8.00am
Handel: Concerto grosso in E minor, Op 6, No 3
Concentus Musicus Vienna
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director)
Debussy: Children's Corner
Simon Trpceski (piano)
09:00
16 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
David Vickers considers all the available recordings of Vivaldi's Stabat Mater and recommends the must-have version.
10.00am Downloads
Andrew talks to James Jolly, Gramophone editor and expert on the rapidly-expanding field of classical music downloads. Along with explaining the basics of downloads, they discuss the range of material available and recommend recent highlights.
11.45am Disc of the Week
Janacek: The Excursions of Mr Broucek
Jan Vacik (tenor)
Peter Straka (tenor)
Roman Janal (baritone)
Maria Haan (soprano)
Zdenek Plech (bass-baritone)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
12:15
16 February 2008
Tom Service explores the little-known world of Vivaldi the opera composer ahead of a performance of Tito Manlio at London's Barbican next week. With a re-assessment of Olivier Messiaen's legacy as teacher, and harpist Osian Ellis on his 80th birthday.
13:00
Versailles and Paris Month
Versailles and Paris Month: Lully's Paris. Lucie Skeaping takes a journey around central Paris, revealing the haunts of one the city's greatest composers, Jean-Baptiste Lully.
14:00
16 February 2008
Telemann, Handel and Fasch
Suzy Klein presents another chance to hear last Monday's concert given at Wigmore Hall in London, featuring baroque chamber music for winds.
Telemann: Trio Sonata in F for oboe, bassoon and continuo, TWV 42
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
Emily Beynon (flute)
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe)
Gustavo Nunez (bassoon)
Gary Cooper (harpsichord)
15:00
Azerbaijan
Lucy Duran concludes a series of programmes on the music of Azerbaijan.
2/2. Lucy records Azerbaijan's most successful musician, the Mugham singer Alim Qasimov; visits the extraordinary natural gas fires of Yanar Dag, and listens to traditional music in the contemporary context of a noisy wedding party.
16:00
From One Touch Theatre
The programme comes live from the One Touch Theatre in Inverness to celebrate the re-opening of the newly refurbished complex, and also in memory of the Highland Jazz Promoter and News Editor Jim Love.
With music from the BBC Big Band's lead trombonist Gordon Campbell and fellow Scotsman Colin Steele on trumpet.
17:00
16 February 2008
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
18:00
Puccini's Manon Lescaut
Live from the Met
The young Puccini's first great success, Manon Lescaut is a drama of a free-spirited beauty whose equal need for love and luxury causes her downfall.
Finnish soprano Karita Mattila sings the title role for the first time at the Met in a score full of youthful and erotic passion. Marcello Giordani plays Manon's young lover des Grieux and the Met's Music Director James Levine conducts. The programme also includes backstage interviews with some of the artists.
Presented from New York by Margaret Juntwait.
Manon Lescaut ...... Karita Mattila (soprano)
des Grieux ...... Marcello Giordani (tenor)
Lescaut ...... Dwayne Croft (baritone)
Geronte de Ravoir ...... Dale Travis (baritone)
Musician ...... Tamara Mumford (mezzo-soprano)
Edmondo ...... Sean Panikkar (tenor)
Dancing Master ...... Bernard Fitch (tenor)
Lamplighter ...... Tony Stevenson (tenor)
Innkeeper ...... Paul Plishka (bass)
Sergeant ...... James Courtney (bass)
Captain ...... Richard Bernstein (bass)
Orchestra and Chorus of New York Metropolitan Opera
James Levine (conductor)
21:45
Mobius Strip and the Confidence Trickster
Forensic Psychiatrist Anne MacDonald, architect Cecil Balmond and the fiance of a compulsive liar try to understand the process of psychological manipulation in humans using the mathematical concept of the Mobius Strip - a piece of paper with only one side.
22:15
Duddell: The Realside
Featuring a touching elegy by young British composer Joe Duddell, written in memory of two school friends. Duddell: The Realside. BBC Singers/James Morgan.
22:30
Luigi Nono
As the South Bank's Luigi Nono restropective Fragments of Venice draws to a close, Tom Service, in discussion with Christopher Fox, looks back at the life and work of the Italian composer.
They concentrate on how his work developed and how it has taught us how to re-approach the musical experience. The programme features music recorded at the festival performed by the London Sinfonietta under Diego Masson, as well as a look forward to the UK premiere of Nono's ground-breaking opera Prometeo.
Nono: Variazione canoniche sulla serie dell'op 41 di Arnold Schoenberg; Incontri; No hay caminos, hay que caminar...Andrej Tarkowskij; Prometeo (excerpt)
London Sinfonietta
Diego Masson (conductor)
00:00
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.
01:00
16 February 2008
16 February 2008
With Jonathan Swain.
1.00am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Carnaval, scenes mignonnes sur quatre notes for piano, Op 9
1.32am
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Ballade No 1 in G minor, Op 23
1.41am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Prelude and Fugue No 1 in E minor, Op 35
1.51am
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): Three movements from Petrushka transcribed for solo piano
2.08am
Chopin: Nocturne in F minor, Op 55, No 1
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
2.14am
Papandopulo, Boris (1906-1991): Noonday Symphony
Miljenka Grdan (soprano)
Adela Golac-Rilovic (soprano)
Martina Tomcic (mezzo-soprano)
Tvrtko Stipic (tenor)
Ozren Bilusic (bass)
Zlatko Crnkovic (actor/reciter)
Vladimir Krpan (piano)
Slovenian Chamber choir
Vladimir Kranjcevic (conductor)
2.52am
Arnic, Blaz (1901-1970): Divja Jaga - simfonicna pesnitev
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Lovrenc Arnic (conductor)
3.13am
Kuhnau, Johan (1660-1722): Suonata prima (Biblical Sonatas)
Luc Beausejour (organ)
3.26am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): String Quintet in C, Op 29
Yggdrasil Quartet
Par-Ola Lindberg (viola)
4.00am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Rosamunde, D797
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Heinz Holliger (conductor)
4.07am
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): Ah, la paterna mano (Macbeth)
Myhailo Didyk (tenor)
NCRU Symphony Orchestra
Viacheslav Blinov (conductor)
4.11am
Rosenmuller, Johann (Giovanni) (c.1619-1684): Sonata quarta a 3
Ensemble La Fenice
Jean Tubery (cornet/conductor)
4.18am
Bach, Johann Ernst (1722-1777): Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn
Rheinische Kantorei
Das Kleine Konzert
Hermann Max (conductor)
4.32am
Jacquet de la Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude (1665-1729): Sonata in D for 2 violins and continuo
Musica Fiorita
4.41am
Tobias, Rudolf (1873-1918): Sonatina No 2 in C minor
Vardo Rumessen (piano)
4.51am
Lazar, Milko (b.1965): Prelude
Mojca Zlobko Vaigl (harp)
Bojan Gorisek (piano)
5.00am
Kyurkchiyski, Krassimir (b.1936): Bulgarian Madonna
Simfonieta Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio
Kamen Goleminov (conductor)
5.05am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Polonaise in C
Eero Heinonen (piano)
5.07am
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918): Haamarssi
Eero Heinonen (piano)
5.12am
Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899): Les Serres Chaudes, Op 24
Lena Hoel (soprano)
Bengt Ake-Lundin (piano)
5.26am
Marais, Roland (c.1680-1750): Suite in C minor (excerpts)
Pere Ros (viola da gamba)
Emer Buckley (harpsichord)
5.36am
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934): Serenade for strings, Op 20
Royal Academy Soloists
Clio Gould (director)
5.47am
Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725): Toccata in A minor; Fuga del secondo tono (G minor)
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)
5.54am
Muffat, Georg (1653-1704): Sonata
L'Orfeo Barockorchester
Michi Gaigg (director)
6.01am
Dessane, Antoine (1826-1873): Ouverture
Orchestre Metropolitaine
Gilles Auger (conductor)
6.08am
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971), arr Stravinsky/Dushkin: Divertimento (1931)
Mihaela Martin (violin)
Enrico Pace (piano)
6.30am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Gammelnorsk Romance met Variasjoner
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)
6.54am
Handel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759): Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo), HWV 7
Marita Kvarving Solberg (soprano)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Kjetil Haugsand (conductor)
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