Friday 29th February 2008

07:00

Breakfast

Rob Cowan

Including from 7.00am

Chopin: Mazurkas, Op 63: No 1 in B; No 2 in F minor; No 3 in C sharp minor
Charles Rosen (piano)

Beethoven: Adelaide
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone)
Imogen Cooper (piano)

Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture (The Tsar's Bride)
Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra
Aldexander Lazarev (conductor)

From 8.30am

Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, Op 28
Henryk Szeryng (violin)
Monte-Carlo National Opera Orchestra
Edourard van Remoortel (conductor)

Bellini: A te, o cara, amor talora
Raul Gimenez (tenor)
Scottish chamber Orchestra
Michelangelo Veltri (conductor)

Smetana: Blanik (Ma vlast)
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Zdenek Macal (conductor)

10:00

Classical Collection

29 February 2008

With Sarah Walker.

10.00am
Mussorgsky: The Wanderer; On the Dnieper
Boris Christoff (bass)
Alexandre Labinsky (piano)
EMI CDH 763 025 2 (3 CDs)

10.08am
Gliere: Concerto for harp and orchestra
Osian Ellis (harp)
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Bonynge (conductor)
DECCA 430 006 2

10.35am
Francaix: Quartet for wind
Selandia Ensemble
KONTRAPUNKT 32032

10.47am
Mozart: String Quintet in C, K515
Amadeus Quartet
Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
DG 431 149 2 (3 CDs)

11.20am
Bliss: Piano Concerto in B flat
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
NAXOS 8557146

12:00

Composer of the Week

William Alwyn (1905-1985)

Part Five

One of Alwyn's long-cherished dreams while he was writing film scores was to compose for the stage, and after he had settled into his new home in Suffolk he spent the next 14 years working on two operas.

Donald Macleod presents highlights from the second opera Miss Julie, based on August Strindberg's play of the same name, and introduces one of Alwyn's last orchestral works, inspired by the 17th century English writer Sir Thomas Browne.

Naiades
Anna Noakes (flute)
Gillian Tingay (harp)

Symphony No 5 (Hydriotaphia)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
William Alwyn (conductor)

Miss Julie (excerpts)
Miss Julie ...... Jill Gomez (soprano)
Jean ...... Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
Kristin ...... Della Jones (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Vilem Tausky (conductor)

Rpt of today 12.00pm

13:00

Afternoon on 3

29 February 2008

Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Concluding a week of highlights from a series of concerts given in St George's Hall in Liverpool last autumn to mark the city's 800th anniversary. These concerts feature young artists performing British and American repertoire, reflecting Liverpool's long-standing reputation as the gateway to the New World.

Ives: Variations on America
Onyx Brass Quintet

Pitfield: Trio for flute, oboe and piano
InTriplicate

Barber: String Quartet in B minor
Doric Quartet

Bridge: Sonata for violin and piano
Jack Liebeck (violin)
Ashley Wass (piano)

Copland: Old American Songs (excerpts)
Simon Bailey (bass-baritone)
Claire Dunham (piano)

2.20pm British Symphony Series: Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony Cycle

Tavener: The Beautiful Names
John-Mark Ainsley (tenor)
BBC Symphony Chorus
Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Prokofiev: Sonata in C for cello and piano, Op 119
Christian Poltera (cello)
Pollina Leschenko (piano)

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 1 in D flat, Op 10
Nikolai Lugansky (piano)
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

17:00

In Tune

29 February 2008

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world.

19:00

Performance on 3

29 February 2008

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert given as part of the CBSO's IgorFest project to perform Stravinsky's complete works.

The programme includes Capriccio, the most extrovert of his three works for piano and orchestra, and Persephone, a story of the Greek Underworld that is regarded as among the most beautiful of the composer's pieces and features writing for adult and children's choruses.

Peter Donohoe (piano)
Peter Wedd (tenor)
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Chopin, orch. Stravinsky: Nocturne and Grande valse brillante
Stravinsky: Capriccio for piano and orchestra; Persephone

20:45

Composer of the Week

William Alwyn (1905-1985)

Part Five

One of Alwyn's long-cherished dreams while he was writing film scores was to compose for the stage, and after he had settled into his new home in Suffolk he spent the next 14 years working on two operas.

Donald Macleod presents highlights from the second opera Miss Julie, based on August Strindberg's play of the same name, and introduces one of Alwyn's last orchestral works, inspired by the 17th century English writer Sir Thomas Browne.

Naiades
Anna Noakes (flute)
Gillian Tingay (harp)

Symphony No 5 (Hydriotaphia)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
William Alwyn (conductor)

Miss Julie (excerpts)
Miss Julie ...... Jill Gomez (soprano)
Jean ...... Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
Kristin ...... Della Jones (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Vilem Tausky (conductor)

Rpt of today 12.00pm

21:45

The Verb

29 February 2008

Ian McMillan talks to young writer Junot Diaz, whose new novel has received much critical praise. He discusses his love of playing with different languages as well as his book's blending didactism with entertainment.

Poets Mark Thomson and Gary Robertson celebrate the Dundee dialect, read their poetry and correct Ian's attempts at the Dundee accent.

The programme rediscovers lost Nobel Laureate, Sardinian writer Grazia Deledda, and there is a performance from poet and spoken word artist George Pringle.

22:30

Jazz Library

Rex Stewart

Trumpeter Guy Barker guides Alyn Shipton through some of the career highlights of cornettist Rex Stewart, who brought a fiery talent to many bands, including the Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington Orchestras.

As well as the big band discs, they also look back at Stewart's work with many small groups, starring such colleagues as Johnny Hodges and Sidney Bechet.

23:30

Jazz on 3

Myra Melford's Spindrift

Jez Nelson presents a gig from pianist Myra Melford's group Spindrift, featuring Brandon Ross on guitar, Mark Taylor on French horn and Shuni Tzou on the dizi (Chinese flute).

At last year's Vision Festival in New York, the group formed a musical tribute to avant-garde violinist Leroy Jenkins, who died earlier in 2007 and with whom Melford collaborated extensively.

Strongly associated with the important avant-garde scene of her hometown Chicago, Melford blends her native blues and boogie-woogie styles with musical influences imported from Europe and the Far East.

01:00

Through the Night

29 February 2008

29 February 2008

Susan Sharpe introduces music, beginning with performance of Verdi's Macbeth.

1.00am
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): Macbeth (1865 revision, with final scene from 1847 version)
Lady Macbeth ...... Sylvie Valayre (soprano)
Macbeth ...... Andrzej Dobber (baritone)
Banquo ...... Stanislav Shvets (bass-baritone)
Macduff ...... Peter Auty (tenor)
Malcolm ...... Bryan Griffin (tenor)
Doctor/Servant/Herald ...... Richard Mosley-Evans (bass-baritone)
Lady-in-waiting ...... Svetlana Sozdateleva (soprano)
Assassin ...... Douglas Rice-Bowen (bass-baritone)
A Lady ...... Julie Pasturaud (mezzo-soprano)
Glyndebourne Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)

3.24am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1665-1741): Concerto in C for two guitars and orchestra
Maya Le Roux-Obradovic, Zoran Krajisnik (guitars)
Sinfonietta Belgrade
Aleksandar Vujic (conductor)

3.38am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Lyric Suite (arr. for orchestra from Book 5, Lyric Pieces, Op 54)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)

3.57am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): 16 Landler for piano (17 Landler, D366)
Ralf Gothoni (piano)

4.09am
Part, Arvo (b. 1935): Spiegel im Spiegel
Morten Carlsen (viola)
Sergej Osadchuk (piano)

4.17am
Baranovic, Kresimir (1894-1975): Gingerbread Heart Ballet Suite
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Mladen Tarbuk (conductor)

4.32am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op 56a
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Marc Albrecht (conductor)

4.51am
Spohr, Louis (1784-1859): Fantasy, Theme and Variations in B minor on a Theme of Danzi, Op 81
Laszlo Horvath (clarinet)
New Budapest String Quartet

5.00am
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): Overture (La forza del destino)
5.07am
Anon: The Spanish Gypsies
Concerto Copenhagen
Andrew Lawrence-King (director/harpsichord)

5.12am
Falla, Manuel de (1876-1946): Spanish Dance No 1 (molto ritmico) (La vida breve)
Eolina Quartet

5.16am
Moszkowski, Moritz (1854-1924): Valse in E for piano, Op 34 No 1
Dennis Hennig (piano)

5.25am
Tournier, Marcel (1879-1951): Images for harp and string quartet, Op 35
Erica Goodman (harp)
Members of the Amadeus Ensemble

5.36am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto No 8 in A minor for two violins, strings and continuo, RV 522 (L'estro armonico, Op 3)
Paul Wright, Sayuri Yamagata (violins)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Paul Dyer (conductor)

5.46am
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): Four Studies for piano, Op 7
Nikita Magaloff (piano)

5.54am
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903): Intermezzo in E flat for string quartet (1886)
Ljubljana Quartet

6.06am
Rosetti, Antonin Frantisek (c.1750-1792): Concerto in E flat for two horns and orchestra, K3 No 53
Jozef Illes, Jan Budzak (horns)
Chamber Association of Slovakian Radio
Vlastimil Horak (conductor)

6.25am
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz (1644-1704): Sonata No 1 a 8 (Sonatae Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes) (1676)
Collegium Aureum

6.31am
Suk, Josef (1874-1935): Raduz and Mahulena, Op 16
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Vaclav Smetacek (conductor)