07:00
Rob Cowan
From 7.00am
Suppe: Overture (Light Cavalry)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
Mondonville: Sonate en Symphonie, Op 3, No 5
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Mark Minkowski (conductor)
Butterworth: 3 Songs from A Shropshire Lad
Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
David Willison (piano)
From 8.30am
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes (excerpts)
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Bruggen (conductor)
Schumann: Requiem für Mignon
Soloists from the Chorus of the Dusseldorf Musikverein
Dusseldorf Symphony Orchestra
Bernhard Klee (conductor)
Haydn: Piano Concerto in D
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
Concerto Copenhagen
Lars-Ulrik Mortensen (director)
10:00
18 February 2008
Includes Mussorgsky: Prelude (Dawn over the Moscow River, Khovanshchina). Morales: Sanctus de la Missa Mille regretz. Guridi: 8 sketches for piano. Rodrigo: Concierto Andaluz.
10.00am
Mussorgsky: Prelude (Dawn over the Moscow River - Khovanshchina)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Jose Serebrier (conductor)
ASV CD DCA 644
10.06am
Morales: Sanctus de la Missa Mille regretz
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Hesperion XXI
Jordi Savall (director)
ALIA VOX AV 9814 tk 14
10.13am
Guridi: Eight sketches for piano
Victoria Aja (piano)
NAXOS 855 7633
10.30am
Rodrigo: Concierto Andaluz for four guitars and orchestra
Celedonio, Celin, Pepe and Angel Romero (guitars)
San Antonio Symphony Orchestra
Victor Alessandro (conductor)
MERCURY 434 369 2
10.57am
Arriaga: Symphony in D
Le Concert des Nations (La Capella Reial de Catalunya)
Jordi Savall (conductor)
ASTREE E 8632
11.28am
Early Iberian Organ Music
Robert Parkins (organ)
NAXOS 8.550705
11.30am
Vivaldi: Stabat Mater
The Building a Library recommendation
12:00
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Part One
Donald Macleod looks at some of the personalities who were instrumental in helping Verdi achieve success.
1/5. The Barezzi Family
Antonio Barezzi, a distiller and grocer, sponsored Verdi as a child. Later on, Barezzi's daughter Margherita, also a keen supporter of Verdi's ambitions, became the composer's first wife.
Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate (Nabucco)
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Sinfonia in C
Symphony Orchestra of Milan
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Leonore's Cavatina (Act 1, Oberto)
Ghena Dimitrova (soprano)
Munich Radio Orchestra
Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)
Quartet (Act 2, Oberto)
Ghena Dimitrova (soprano)
Ruza Baldani (mezzo-soprano)
Carlo Bergonzi (tenor)
Rolando Panerai (baritone)
Munich Radio Orchestra
Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)
The Prophecy (Act 3, Nabucco)
Piero Cappuccilli (baritone)
Ghena Dimitrova (soprano)
Kurt Rydl (bass)
Chorus and orchestra of Deutschen Oper Berlin
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
13:00
18 February 2008
Presented by John Shea.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Direct from the Wigmore Hall in London, Sean Rafferty introduces French pianist Cedric Tiberghien performing works by Chopin and Beethoven.
Chopin: Four Ballades
Beethoven: Sonata in C minor, Op 111
2.00pm The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and friends
A week of concerts by another of Europe's top orchestras, complemented by other Czech music and Czech performers.
The Czech Philharmonic played Smetana's best-known work when they opened the 2007 Prague Spring Festival, and were joined later by young talented Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel.
Smetana: Ma Vlast
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Zdenek Macal (conductor)
Revueltas: Sensemaya
Bartok: Dance Suite
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)
Smetana: String Quartet No 1 in E minor (From My Life)
Kapralova Quartet
Prokofiev: Symphony No 5
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)
17:00
18 February 2008
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world.
19:00
18 February 2008
BBC Symphony Orchestra
With Tom Service.
A concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican last week, with 21-year-old conductor Lionel Bringuier making his UK debut with a composition and an arrangement by Ravel.
The orchestra is also joined by violinist Lisa Batiashvili and her husband Francois Leleux for the world premiere performance of a double concerto by Giya Kancheli.
Ravel: Alborada del Gracioso
Kancheli: Concerto for violin and Oboe (world premiere)
Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
Francois Leleux (oboe)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Lionel Bringuier (conductor)
20:45
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Part One
Donald Macleod looks at some of the personalities who were instrumental in helping Verdi achieve success.
1/5. The Barezzi Family
Antonio Barezzi, a distiller and grocer, sponsored Verdi as a child. Later on, Barezzi's daughter Margherita, also a keen supporter of Verdi's ambitions, became the composer's first wife.
Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate (Nabucco)
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Sinfonia in C
Symphony Orchestra of Milan
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Leonore's Cavatina (Act 1, Oberto)
Ghena Dimitrova (soprano)
Munich Radio Orchestra
Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)
Quartet (Act 2, Oberto)
Ghena Dimitrova (soprano)
Ruza Baldani (mezzo-soprano)
Carlo Bergonzi (tenor)
Rolando Panerai (baritone)
Munich Radio Orchestra
Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)
The Prophecy (Act 3, Nabucco)
Piero Cappuccilli (baritone)
Ghena Dimitrova (soprano)
Kurt Rydl (bass)
Chorus and orchestra of Deutschen Oper Berlin
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
21:45
Ronald Harwood
Matthew Sweet is joined by political cartoonist Martin Rowson, American poet Mark Doty and novelist and critic Adam Mars-Jones to consider what our pets can tell us about ourselves and our place in the cosmos.
Harvard creative writing director Lewis Hyde discusses his new book Trickster, which takes on the subject of playfulness, from the ancient world to the present. He argues that tricksters, while lying and cheating their way round the edges of society are in fact also indispensable heroes of culture.
And there are reviews of two of the week's main openings - the first English language film by Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai and An English Tragedy, the new play from Ronald Harwood, recently nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
22:30
Susan Graham
With Tom Service. A profile of American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, well-known for her interpretations of French music. Plus a performance of Ravel's Sheherazade.
23:00
Death and the Philosopher
Death and the Philosopher: 1/4. Philosophers die like everyone else, so why are their bodies interesting? Lesley Chamberlain explores.
23:15
18 February 2008
Lopa presents her own global musical mix, including the voice of 'Mama Africa' Miriam Makeba, and songs by former laundry worker turned singer, Egypt's Shaban Abd El Rehim.
01:00
18 February 2008
18 February 2008
With Jonathan Swain.
1.00am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Haugtussa - song cycle
1.29am
Grieg: Sonata No 2 in G for violin and piano, Op 13
Solveig Kringelborn (soprano)
Alina Pogostkina (violin)
Sveinung Bjelland (piano)
1.51am
Shchedrin, Rodion Konstantinovich (b.1932): Carmen - ballet suite for strings and percussion
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Milen Nachev (conductor)
2.32am
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875), transcr Horowitz: Virtuoso Fantasy on themes from Carmen
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
2.36am
Norman, Ludvig (1831-1885): Sextet in A minor, Op 29
Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano)
Uppsala Chamber Soloists
3.09am
Weyse, Christoph Ernst Friedrich (1774-1842): Symphony No 6 in C minor
The Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Adam Fischer (conductor)
3.37am
Schobert, Johann (c.1735-1767): Keyboard concerto in G
Eckart Sellheim (fortepiano)
Collegium Aureum
Franzjosef Meier (conductor)
4.00am
Dowland, John (1563-1626): Mr Dowland's Midnight; Fantasia (orig. for lute)
Manuel Calderon (guitar)
4.07am
Willaert, Adrian (1490-1562): Pater noster
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Paul van Nevel (conductor)
4.12am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Trio No 8 (Essercizii Musici)
Camerata Koln
4.20am
Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann (1710-1784): Sinfonie in F, F67
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Stephan Mai (director)
4.32am
Henderson, Ruth Watson (b.1932): Sing All Ye Joyful
The Elmer Iseler Singers
4.37am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Piano trio in G, K564
Ondine Trio
4.53am
Kuchar, Jan Krtitel (1751-1829): Fantasia II in D minor
Peter van Dijk (organ)
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
The 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, Sergey (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
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