07:00
Rob Cowan
From 7.00am
Nicolai: Overture (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Franz Welser-Most (conductor)
CPE Bach: Sonata in G, Wq 62/19
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
Tchaikovsky: Polonaise and Waltz (Eugene Onegin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski (conductor)
From 8.30am
Biber: Laetatus sum
Max van Egmont, Jacques Villisech (bass)
Concentus musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director)
Prokofiev: Scenes from Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Ancerl (conductor)
Anderson: Piano concerto in C
Jeffrey Biegel (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
10:00
21 February 2008
With Sarah Walker.
10.00am
Dvorak: Symphony No 8 in G, Op 88
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
DG 469 046 2
10.38am
Albeniz, arr. Bream: Cadiz (Suite espanola, Op 47)
Julian Bream (guitar)
RCA RCD 14378
10.42am
Albeniz: Sevilla (Suite espanola, Op 47)
Katia and Marielle Labeque (piano)
PHILIPS 438938 2
10.46am
Albeniz, arr. de Burgos: Cataluna (Suite espanola, Op 47)
The New Philharmonia Orchestra
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)
DECCA 448 601 2
10.50am
Guridi: Una aventura de Don Quijote
Euskadiko Orkestra Sinfonikoa
Miguel A Gomez Martinez (conductor)
CLAVES CD 50-9709
11.03am
Mompou: Prelude No 11
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
RCA 09026 625542
11.06am
Handel: Delirio amoroso, HWV 99 (Da quel giorno fatale)
Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano)
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski (conductor)
ARCHIV 469 065 2
11.41am
Respighi: Fountains of Rome
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA 09026 61401 2
12:00
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Part Four
Donald Macleod looks at some of the personalities who were instrumental in helping Verdi achieve success.
4/5. Arrigo Boito
Arrigo Boito was the librettist with whom Verdi produced his later operas Otello, Falstaff and a much revised Simon Boccanegra. Verdi greatly admired Boito, a composer in his own right, for his brilliant mind.
Their association had an unfortunate start as Boito insulted Verdi and the novelist Alessandro Manzoni at a banquet by reading out an ode he had written about the decrepit old men who were ruining Italian art. While it was 20 years before they become friends, they remained so until Verdi's death.
Reconciliation scene (Simon Boccanegra, Act 3)
Nikolai Ghiaurov (bass-baritone)
Piero Cappuccilli (baritone)
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Credo in un dio crudel...se inconscia, contro te, sposo, ho peccato (Otello, Act 2)
Cheryl Studer (soprano)
Placido Domingo (tenor)
Sergei Leiferkus (baritone)
Denyce Graves (mezzo-soprano)
Chorus and Orchestra of Bastille Opera
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
Falstaff, Act 1 (excerpt)
Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Anthony Mee (tenor)
Anatoli Kotscherga (bass)
Enrico Facini (tenor)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
13:00
21 February 2008
Presented by John Shea.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
City of London Festival 2007
Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Ebene Quartet perform in a concert given at the church of St Bartholomew the Great at last year's festival.
Webern: Langsamer Satz; 6 Bagatelles
Gribbin: Calum's Light (world premiere)
Ravel: String Quartet
Ebene Quartet
2.00pm The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and friends
Continuing the celebration of Czech music making. With Russian music from the Czech Philharmonic, Germans performing Strauss in serious and humorous moods at the 2007 Prague Autumn Festival, and two Czech composers influenced by jazz.
Glinka: Overture (Ivan Susanin, A Life for the Tsar)
Czech Philharmonic
Alexander Lazarev (conductor)
Haas: Horse, Cart And Driver (String Quartet No 2, 2nd mvt)
Pavel Haas Quartet
Balakirev, compl. Lyapounov: Piano Concerto No 2 in E flat
Ivan Rudin (piano)
Czech Philharmonic
Alexander Lazarev (conductor)
Strauss: 6 Songs: Heimliche Aufforderung; Meinem Kinde; Zueignung; Morgen; Ich wollt ein Strausslein binden; Cacilie
Genia Kuhmeier (soprano)
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)
Haas: Wild Night (String Quartet No 2, 4th mvt)
Pavel Haas Quartet
Novak: Capriccio for cello and small orchestra
Petr Nouzovsky (cello)
Czech Chamber Philharmonic
Leos Svarovsky (conductor)
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)
Haas: String Quartet No 3
Pavel Haas Quartet
Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No 3 in G
Czech Philharmonic
Alexander Lazarev (conductor)
17:00
21 February 2008
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world.
19:00
21 February 2008
Susan Graham and Malcolm Martineau
With Tom Service.
A concert given at the Wigmore Hall, London, with celebrated American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham performing a varied programme of 19th and 20th century French songs, accompanied by pianist Malcolm Martineau.
Bizet: Chanson d'avril
Franck: Nocturne
Faure: Dans les ruines d'une abbaye
Gounod: Ou voulez-vous aller?
Lalo: Guitare
Saint-Saens: Danse macabre
Chabrier: Les cigales
Paladilhe: Psyche
Debussy: Harmonie du soir
Chausson: Les papillons
Bachelet: Chere nuit
Duparc: Au pays ou se fait la guerre
Ravel: Le paon
Caplet: Le corbeau et le renard
Roussel: Reponse d'une epouse sage
Messiaen: La fiancee perdue
Debussy: Colloque sentimental
Faure: Vocalise
Hahn: Tyndaris
Satie: Le chapelier
Honegger: 3 Chansons de la petite Sirene
Canteloube: Brezairola
Rosenthal: La souris d'Angleterre
Poulenc: La dame de Monte Carlo
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
20:45
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Part Four
Donald Macleod looks at some of the personalities who were instrumental in helping Verdi achieve success.
4/5. Arrigo Boito
Arrigo Boito was the librettist with whom Verdi produced his later operas Otello, Falstaff and a much revised Simon Boccanegra. Verdi greatly admired Boito, a composer in his own right, for his brilliant mind.
Their association had an unfortunate start as Boito insulted Verdi and the novelist Alessandro Manzoni at a banquet by reading out an ode he had written about the decrepit old men who were ruining Italian art. While it was 20 years before they become friends, they remained so until Verdi's death.
Reconciliation scene (Simon Boccanegra, Act 3)
Nikolai Ghiaurov (bass-baritone)
Piero Cappuccilli (baritone)
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Credo in un dio crudel...se inconscia, contro te, sposo, ho peccato (Otello, Act 2)
Cheryl Studer (soprano)
Placido Domingo (tenor)
Sergei Leiferkus (baritone)
Denyce Graves (mezzo-soprano)
Chorus and Orchestra of Bastille Opera
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
Falstaff, Act 1 (excerpt)
Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Anthony Mee (tenor)
Anatoli Kotscherga (bass)
Enrico Facini (tenor)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
21:45
Stefan Collini
Gabriel Gbadamosi visits Wibsey Working Men's club in Bradford, the setting for director Henry Singer's documentary for the forthcoming BBC Two 'White' season, to explore the state of social cohesion in modern Britain.
Stefan Collini, professor of intellectual history at Cambridge University, and writer Laurence Norfolk discuss the 20th century's men and women of letters, the role of the critic, and the place of intelligence and intellectuals both inside and outside universities.
To mark the opening of David Farr's African version of Brecht's The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, Gabriel asks if the current trend of African makeovers on the stage goes more than skin deep.
Plus a review of David McVicar's new production of Salome at the Royal Opera.
22:30
Susan Graham
Tom Service concludes his profile of mezzo-soprano Susan Graham with Berg's Seven Early Songs and opera arias by Handel.
23:00
Death and the Philosopher
The body of Immanuel Kant has been buried, disinterred and reburied several times as his home town of Konigsberg has changed country, name and ideology over time.
Lesley Chamberlain asks how a bundle of bones can carry the power of the ideas that once animated the living philosopher.
23:15
21 February 2008
Verity Sharp presents songs from the far north of Canada by Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq, Icelandic electronica from Mum plus Hindu devotional music from the Gargar Brothers.
01:00
21 February 2008
21 February 2008
With Jonathan Swain.
1.00am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Symphony No 1 in C
1.28am
Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
2.02am
Goldberg, Johann Gottlieb (1727-1756): Sonata in C minor
Musica Alta Ripa
2.14am
Crusell, Bernhard Henrik (1775-1838): The Little Slave Girl
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor)
2.33am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Piano Sonata in B minor, Op 5
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
2.57am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): String Quartet in G, K156
Australian String Quartet
3.10am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Ma mere l'Oye ballet
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)
3.39am
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826): Bassoon Concerto in F, Op 75
Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
3.57am
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): 3 Easy Pieces
Anna Klas, Bruno Lukk (piano)
4.01am
Mendis, Janis (1890-1966): Flower Waltz (Victory of Love)
Lepaja Symphony Orchestra
Imants Resnis (conductor)
4.07am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Concerto Grosso in A, Op 6, No 11
Barbara Jane Gilbey (violin)
Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players
4.24am
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958): Romance for viola and piano
Steven Dann (viola)
Bruce Vogt (piano)
4.31am
Bridge, Frank (1879-1941): Trio No 2 in G minor (Hornpipe)
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello)
William Tritt (piano)
4.35am
Trad, arr. Petrinjak, Darko: 6 Renaissance Dances
Zagreb Guitar Trio
4.46am
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961): Hill-Song No 1
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
5.00am
Auric, Georges (1899-1983), arr. Philip Lane: Overture (Hue and Cry)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
5.02am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Romance in G for violin and orchestra, Op 40
Igor Ozim (violin)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Samo Hubad (conductor)
5.10am
Jersild, Jorgen (1913-2004): 3 Danish Romances for Choir
The Jutland Chamber Choir
Mogens Dahl (conductor)
5.22am
Diethelm, Caspar (1926-1997): Schonster Tulipan, Op 294
Sibylle Tschopp, Mirjam Tschopp (violin)
5.31am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Symphony No 5 in B flat, K22
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Ernest Bour (conductor)
5.39am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Impromptu No 4 in A flat, D899
Sook-Hyun Cho (piano)
5.46am
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): Giovanna D'Arco (Sinfonia)
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
5.53am
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): Serenata in vano, FS 68
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound
James Campbell (conductor)
6.01am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): 4 Klavierstucke, Op 119
Robert Silverman (piano)
6.19am
Bacewicz, Grazyna (1909-1969): Folk sketches
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jan Krenz (conductor)
6.24am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Trio Sonata in G, Wq 144
Les Coucous Benevoles
6.38am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Romeo and Juliet
The Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra
Ludovit Rajter (conductor)
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