Sunday 24th February 2008

07:00

Breakfast

Martin Handley

Including from 7.00am

Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walkure)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)

Dufay: Sanctus (Mass of St Anthony of Padua)
Binchois Consort
Andrew Kirkman (conductor)

From 8.00am

Scarlatti: Sonata in E, Kk 162
Pierre Hantai (harpsichord)

Handel: As when the dove (Acis and Galatea)
Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Philomusica of London
Adrian Boult (conductor)

From 9.00am

Debussy: The Sunken Cathedral (Preludes, Book 1)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

Boccherini: Symphony in D minor, Op 12 No 4 (The House of the Devil)
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

10:00

Iain Burnside

Tom Phillips

Iain admires a range of musical portraits with painter Tom Phillips, whose choices include Messiaen's Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jesus and Mozart's Die Zauberflote.

12:00

Private Passions

Maureen Lipman

Michael Berkeley's guest is the actress Maureen Lipman, whose musical choices include concertos by Bruch and Beethoven, arias by Bernstein and Rossini, Glenn Gould playing Bach, and the Queen of the Night's aria from Mozart's The Magic Flute, sung by Florence Foster Jenkins, whom Maureen Lipman has played on stage.

13:00

The Early Music Show

Versailles and Paris Month: Notre Dame and the Sorbonne

Lucie Skeaping visits Notre Dame where she meets Benjamin Bagby and Katarina Livljanic, both performers and directors of medieval music ensembles, and lecturers in medieval music performance practice at the Sorbonne, Paris. They talk about some of the composers of the medieval period and how they influenced the development of western music. Katerina and Benjamin also take Lucie to the Left Bank to discover how the Sorbonne evolved.

Music includes works by Leonin and Perotin, and examples of the earliest motets and conductus form.

14:00

Radio 3 Requests

24 February 2008

Chi-chi Nwanoku presents more requests from Radio 3 listeners, including Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims travelling to the tune of George Dyson, The Devil's Trill captured in Tartini's violin sonata in G minor, and composer Gavin Bryars's request for some Wagner.

16:00

Choral Evensong

Live from Wakefield Cathedral

Live from Wakefield Cathedral.

Introit: Steal away (Tippett)
Responses: Shephard
Nobody knows (Tippett)
Psalm: 119 vv1-32 (Attwood, Coward, Bairstow, Marchant)
First Reading: Joshua 1 vv1-9
Canticles: Howells in B minor
Second Reading: Ephesians 6 vv10-20
Go down, Moses (Tippett)
By and by (Tippett)
Final Hymn: Praise to the holiest in the height (Chorus Angelorum)
Deep river (Tippett)
Organ Voluntary: Apparition de l'eglise eternelle (Messiaen)

Organist: Jonathan Bielby
Assistant director of music: Thomas Moore

17:00

Discovering Music

Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit

Stephen Johnson and Radio 3 New Generation Artist pianist Cedric Tiberghien consider some of the ingredients that define the piano music of Maurice Ravel with particular emphasis on what is arguably the greatest French 'sonata' for the piano, his Gaspard de la nuit.

18:30

The Choir

Walt Whitman

Aled Jones presents choral settings of words by the quintessential American poet, Walt Whitman, and discovers that Whitman's fame began when he was taken up by English composers. With music by Vaughan Williams, Holst, Delius, Hindemith and Charles Ives.

20:00

Drama on 3

Girlfriend in a Coma, by Douglas Coupland

The first radio adaptation of a book by Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X and Microserfs, dramatised by Sony award-nominated Dan Rebellato.

The date is 15 December 1979. Karen Ann McNeill goes into a deep coma after a teen party and remains in it until 1997. When she wakes up, the voices in her head keep telling her the world is about to end, but Karen doesn't believe them.

Jared ...... Florian Hutter
Karen ...... Rayisa Kondracki
Wendy ...... Maggie Blake
Richard ...... Jason Durran
Hamilton ...... Simon Lee Phillips
Pamela ...... Heather Dann
Doctor ...... Peter Marinker
Megan ...... Julia Summer
Gloria ...... Buffy Davis

Music composed by Alice Trueman

21:30

Sunday Feature

Retreat to Bug River

Rana Mitter traces the dramatic events of August 1920 when the Red Army marched on Warsaw in the hope of exporting the Bolshevik revolution to Poland, Germany and beyond.

In conversation with historians Norman Davies and Timothy Garton Ash, veterans of the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-20 and their relatives, Rana brings to life the day-by-day events of August 1920 and asks how the Battle of Warsaw continues to influence Poland and the wider region.

22:15

Words & Music

Animals

Actress Fiona Shaw introduces a selection of poetry and prose on the theme of animals, wild and domestic, including works by Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, William Golding, Lewis Carroll and Paul Durcan, with music by Sibelius, Schumann, Schubert, John Tavener and Poulenc.

00:00

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.

01:00

Through the Night

24 February 2008

24 February 2008

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am

Delius, Frederick (1862-1934): To be sung of a summer night on the water for chorus
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Paul Hillier (conductor)

1.07am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Norwegian March; Nocturne; March of the Trolls (Lyric Pieces, Book 5, Op 54)
Sveinung Bjelland (piano)

1.19am
Grieg: 4 Psalms for baritone and mixed voices, Op 74
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Paul Hillier (conductor)

1.40am
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975): Symphony No 11 in G minor
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ladislav Slovak (conductor)

2.46am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
Amsterdam Bach Soloists

4.01am
Brumby, Colin (b. 1933): Festival Overture on Australian Themes
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Richard Mills (conductor)

4.11am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Exsultate, jubilate, K165
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Kent Nagano (conductor)

4.26am
Ligeti, Gyorgy (1923-2006): Six bagatelles for wind quintet
Cinque Venti

4.38am
Hellendaal, Pieter (1721-1799): Concerto grosso in D minor, Op 3 No 2
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

4.50am
Piazzolla, Astor Pantaleon (1921-1992): Adios Nonino
Musica Camerata Montreal

5.00am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) arr. Fiona Walsh: Fugue in G minor, BWV542 (Great)
Guitar Trek

5.07am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Te Deum in C, H XXIIIc 1
Netherlands Radio Choir and Chamber Orchestra
Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)

5.15am
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975): Festive Overture, Op 96
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

5.22am
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Scherzo No 4 in E for piano, Op 54
Simon Trpceski (piano)

5.33am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Polonaise in B flat for violin and orchestra, D580
Peter Zazofsky (violin)
Prima La Musica
Dirk Vermeulen (conductor)

5.39am
Cesti, Pietro Antonio (1623-1669): Intorno all'idol mio (Orontea)
Helga Muller Molinari (mezzo-soprano)
Concerto Vocale
Rene Jacobs (director)

5.47am
Copland, Aaron (1900-1990): Danzon Cubano
Aglika Genova, Liuben Dimitrov (pianos)

5.53am
Halvorsen, Johan (1864-1935): Norwegian Rhapsody No 1 in A minor
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)

6.06am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Trio sonata in B flat, Wq 161 No 2
Les Coucous Benevoles

6.24am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Valses nobles et sentimentales
Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano)

6.40am
Power, Leonel (d.1445): Salve regina
Hilliard Ensemble

6.47am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Variations serieuses, Op 54
Reitze Smits (organ)