Sunday 17th February 2008

07:00

Breakfast

Martin Handley

From 7.00am

Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor, RV 331
Giuliano Carmignola (violin)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Andrea Marcon (director)

Mozart: Et incarnatus est - Credo (Great Mass in C minor, K427)
Gabrieli Consort and Players
Paul McCreesh (conductor)

From 8.00am

Offenbach: Ballet of the Snowflakes
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski (conductor)

Philip Glass: Morning Passages (The Hours)
Michael Riesman (piano)
Orchestra conducted by Nick Ingram

From 9.00am

Delibes: Flower Duet (Lakme)
Mady Mesple (soprano)
Danielle Millet (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of the Opera-Comique
Alain Lombard (conductor)

Beethoven: Choral Fantasia
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)

10:00

Iain Burnside

17 February 2008

Iain Burnside and professor of mathematics Marcus Du Sautoy explore the connections between music and mathematics, focusing on Bartok's 5th string quartet and a Leonel Power Mass.

12:00

Private Passions

Vernon Bogdanor

Michael Berkeley's guest is Vernon Bogdanor, Professor of Government at Oxford University, and a noted commentator on constitutional and political issues.

A passionate music lover, his choices reflect his love of the piano, and also an interest in the part music has played in politics, illustrated by an excerpt from Wagner's Parsifal and Prokofiev's 6th Symphony.

13:00

The Early Music Show

Versailles and Paris Month: Le Concert Spirituel

Catherine Bott meets Herve Niquet, current director of Le Concert Spirituel, the noted French concert society. She also talks to musicologist Jean-Paul Montagnier, from Nancy University.

The trio talk about the composers and performers who were closely associated with Le Concert, the first concert organisation in France specialising in performance of French grands motets. Featuring music by Mondonville, Campra, Gilles and Leclair.

14:00

Radio 3 Requests

17 February 2008

Chi-chi Nwanoku opens another postbag of Radio 3 listeners' requests. Among the selection is music by a wide range of composers including Peter Cornelius, Eugene Goossens, Ottorino Respighi and Handel.

16:00

Choral Evensong

17 February 2008

Live from the Chapel of New College, Oxford.

Introit: There is an old belief (Parry)
Responses: Smith
Psalm: 135 (Stanford)
First Reading: Numbers 21 vv4-9
Canticles: Gray in F minor
Second Reading: Luke 14 vv27-33
Anthem: Lord, let me know mine end (Parry)
Hymn: O Thou who dost accord (Innsbruck)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in G (Brahms)

Assistant Organist: Stephen Grahl
Director: Edward Higginbottom

17:00

Discovering Music

Electronic Music

Alwynne Pritchard takes us on a journey through the rich and colourful landscape of electronic music with composer Jonathan Harvey discussing his Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco and pioneering works by Varese and Stockhausen.

18:30

The Choir

Choral Traditions in the Pacific Islands

David Fanshawe has spent over 10 years recording singers across the Pacific Islands. He talks to Aled Jones about his travels and Tahitian and French Polynesian choral traditions.

20:00

Drama on 3

The Cool Bag Baby

By Katie Hims.

A coolbag containing a baby is left outside a cafe in the hope that owner will provide it with a loving home. But unexpectedly the cafe stays closed, with the result that the baby is undiscovered and lives across London begin to fall apart.

Katie Hims' new drama is an investigation, a love story as well as a cry for help.

Carol ...... Sophie Stanton
Joan ...... Rachel Davies
Stuart ...... David Schofield
Phil ...... Nicholas Gleaves
Jana ...... Larissa Kouznetsova
DI ...... Andrew Tiernan
Ted/PC ...... Mark Monero
Mehmet ...... Hemi Yeroham
Jack ...... Jamie F Glover

21:15

BBC Singers

A Farewell to Arms

Cellist Raphael Wallfisch and the BBC Singers under Bob Chilcott perform Richard Rodney Bennett's A Farwell to Arms.

21:30

Sunday Feature

South American Currents

A series offering fresh cultural perspectives on South America.

3/3. Peru - The Padlocked Town

Exploring the theme of disappearance, Peruvian-American author Daniel Alarcon journeys deep into the Andes, to Corongo. Now known as the 'Padlocked Town', Corongo is a semi-deserted place which residents left as they searched for a more stable and prosperous future in the capital city.

Daniel follows their journey to Lima, finding out how Andean culture has transformed the identity of the sprawling city over the past 30 years. He also discovers how a major earthquake in 1970 followed by years of political violence has forced the disappearance of many similar Andean towns and villages.

22:15

Words & Music

This is New York

William Hope and Laurel Lefkow read poetry and prose by Langston Hughes, E B White, Walt Whitman and Audre Lorde, accompanied by the music of Dvorak, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, John Adams, Philip Glass, Rodgers and Hart and Ned Rorem.

00:00

The Early Music Show

Versailles and Paris Month: A Musical Day in the Life of Louis XIV

BBC Radio 3's series dedicated to the music of Paris continues as Lucie Skeaping recreates a possible day in the life of King Louis XIV.

After waking in his sumptuous bedchamber, the king follows a busy schedule before entertaining guests at supper and retiring late in the evening. At every part of the day, musicians are on hand to entertain or soothe him, or to trumpet his arrival.

Olivier Baumont, a harpsichordist and expert on French Baroque music, guides Lucie through the Palace of Versailles to illustrate some of the music the king may have heard.

01:00

Through the Night

17 February 2008

17 February 2008

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990): Mass (1971)
Oliver Aigner (bass)
John Cashmore (baritone)
Kaybee Cashmore (vocals)
Karin Seyfried (soprano)
Henrik Wagner (vocals)
Romanian Radio Academic Chorus
Romanian Radio Children's Chorus
George Enescu Philharmonic Chorus
Romanian National Radio Orchestra
Wayne Marshall (conductor)

2.42am
Gershwin, George (1898-1937): An American in Paris
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Jorge Mester (conductor)

3.01am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Suite Bergamasque
Artur Pizarro (piano)

3.20am
Veracini, Francesco Maria (1690-1768): Sonata in F for Violin and continuo
Gottfried von der Goltz (violin)
Torsten Johann (harpsichord/positive organ)
Lee Santana (theorbo)

3.39am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Variations on a roccoco theme
Bartosz Koziak (cello)
Polish Radio Orchestra
Andrzej Mysinski (conductor)

4.00am
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764): L'entretien des Muses
Bob van Asperen (harpsichord)

4.06am
Rigatti, Alessandro (1615-1649): Dixit Dominus a 8
His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

4.20am
Auber, Daniel-Francois-Esprit (1782-1871): Overture (Marco Spada)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

4.31am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546
Academy of Ancient Music (orchestra)
Richard Egarr (conductor)

4.39am
Koehne, Graeme (b. 1956): Trois pieces bourgeoises
The Australian String Quartet

4.52am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Der Augenblick for 4 voices and continuo
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Gondelfahrer for male voices and piano, D809
Stephen Betteridge (piano)
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

5.00am
Horneman, Christian Frederik Emil (1840-1906): Overture (A Hero's Life)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michael Schonwandt (conductor)

5.14am
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Polonaise in A flat, Op 53
Jacek Kortus (piano)

5.21am
Matteis, Nicola (died c.1713): L'Amore (Love)
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin)
Linda Kent (chamber organ)

5.26am
Buxtehude, Dietrich (c.1637-1707): Ciaccona (Quemadmodum desiderat cervus), BuxWV 92
John Elwes (tenor)
La Fenice
Jean Tubery (cornet/conductor)

5.32am
Kodaly, Zoltan (1882-1967): Jesus and the Traders
Hungarian Radio Chorus
Janos Ferencsic (conductor)

5.39am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Pohjola's Daughter, Op 49
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Berglund (conductor)

5.53am
Part, Arvo (1935-): Trivium
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ)

6.00am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Overture (Fierrabras), D796
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Hans Zender (conductor)

6.10am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Sonata for piano in C minor, Op 10, No 1
Geoffrey Lancaster (fortepiano)

6.31am
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): String Quartet No 12 in F, Op 96 (American)
Prague Quartet

6.54am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Abendempfindung for voice and piano, K523
Adeline Ramage (soprano)
Robert Melling (piano)