Monday 15th September 2008

07:00

Breakfast

15 September 2008

With Rob Cowan.

Featuring a Schubert Serenade, plus music by Chabrier and Mozart. With Free Thought after 8.30am.

From 7.00am

Schubert: Standchen (Schwanengesang, D957)
Robert Holl (bass-baritone)
Roger Vignoles (piano)

Chabrier: Overture (Gwendoline)
Orchestre National de l'ORTF
Thomas Beecham (conductor)

Arensky: Two pieces, Op 12
Nancy Green (cello)
Frederick Moyer (piano)

From 8.30am

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 27 in E minor, Op 90
Solomon (piano)

Verdi: Ave Maria (4 Sacred Pieces)
Swedish Radio Choir
Stockholm Chamber Choir
Riccardo Muti (conductor)

Mozart: Violin Concerto in D, K211
Giuliano Carmignola (violin)
Orchestra Mozart
Claudio Abbado (conductor).

10:00

Classical Collection

15 September 2008

With Sarah Walker.

Including:

10.00am
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Andre Previn (conductor)
TELARC CD 80158

10.17am
Grainger: Fantasy on George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
Peter Donohoe, Martin Roscoe (pianos)
CARLTON 3036600682

10.37am
Bruch: Scottish Fantasia
Alfedo Campoli (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Adrian Boult (conductor)
BEULAH 2PD10

11.02am
Beethoven: Fantasia in G minor, Op 77
Edwin Fischer (piano)
MUSIC AND ARTS PROGRAMS OF AMERICA CD 880

11.12am
Schubert: Symphony No 2
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 423 652 2

11.44am
Tallis: Why fum'th in sight; Like as the doleful dove; Tallis's Canon; When shall my sorrowful sighing slake; Te lucis ante terminum
Theatre of Voices
Paul Hillier (director)
The King's Noyse
David Douglass (director)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 90715

12:00

Composer of the Week

Lord Berners (1883-1950)

Part One

Donald Macleod explores colourful life and music of English eccentric Lord Berners.

1/5. Berners the Humorist

Donald Macleod concentrates on a Berners' work for puppet theatre, an exuberant essay in Spanish colour and a trio of waltzes which contain a passage Stravinsky described as 'one of the most impudent in modern music'.

Du bist wie eine blume (Three Songs in the German Manner)
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Peter Lawson (piano)
ALBANY TROY 290 T1-3

Le poisson d'or
Len Vorster (piano)
MARCO POLO 8.225159 T5

Three Pieces for Orchestra
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
CAMPION CAMEO 2054

L'uomo dai baffi
English Northern Philharmonia
David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
MARCO POLO 8.223711 T20-26

Valses bourgeoises
Peter Lawson, Alan MacLean (piano)
ALBANY TROY 142 T1-3

Fantaisie espagnole
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
CAMPION CAMEO 2054

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

15 September 2008

15 September 2008

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces the American Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio performing an all-Beethoven programme, with the two Op 70 Piano Trios, including the Ghost.

14:00

Afternoon on 3

15 September 2008

Presented by Louise Fryer.

Towards Messiaen: Church and Organ Music

1/5. Part of a series of programmes marking this December's centenary of the birth of Olivier Messiaen. Placing his work in the context of significant themes running through French music history, the programme focuses on church and organ music.

Including:

2.00pm
Guilmant: Marche-fantaisie sur deux chants d'eglise, Op 44
Ian Tracey (organ)
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Machaut: Messe de nostre dame
Diabolus in Musica Ensemble

2.30pm
Messiaen: Les offrandes oubliees
Charpentier: Te Deum a 4, H147
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

Charpentier: Litanies de la Vierge a six voix et deux dessus de violes
Claire Debono, Ana Quintans (dessus)
Amaya Rodriguez (bas-dessus)
Andrew Tortise (haute-contre)
Marc Mauillon (basse-taille)
Jonathan Sells (bass)
Kaori Uemura, Emmanuel Balsa, Anne-Marie Lasla (basse de viole)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie (harpsichord/director)

3.30pm
Widor: Symphony No 3 for organ and orchestra, Op 69
Ian Tracey (organ)
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

4.15pm
Faure: Requiem, Op 48
Alex Eager (treble)
Gilles Cachemaille (baritone)
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

17:00

In Tune

15 September 2008

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. With internationally renowned tenor Jose Carreras, plus broadway singer and pianist Michael Feinstein performing live in the studio.

19:00

Performance on 3

15 September 2008

Complete performance

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

A concert given in the Usher Hall as part of this year's Edinburgh International Festival by baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, accompanied by pianist Ivari Ilja. A committed ambassador for Russian music, Hvorostovsky's programme includes romantic songs by Tchaikovsky, Medtner and Rachmaninov.

Tchaikovsky songs including:
On the Golden Cornfields, Op 57, No 2
Pimpinella, Op 38
Don Juan's Serenade, Op 38, No 1

Medtner songs including:
I have outlived my aspirations, Op 3, No 2
To a Dreamer, Op 32, No 6
Bon Voyage, Op 15, No 8
Wandrers Nachtlied, Op 6, No 6

Rachmaninov songs including:
'Tis time, Op 14, No 12
Let us rest, Op 26, No 3
Spring Waters, Op 14, No 11

Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
Ivari Ilja (piano)

Followed by a look into the BBC archives for highlights from past Edinburgh Festivals: From 1980 -

Beethoven: Quartet in E minor, Op 59, No 2
Amadeus String Quartet

21:15

Night Waves

15 September 2008

Philip Dodd begins the new Night Waves season with a rare, extended interview with Philip Roth, one of America's most feted living writers. Roth discusses his life and work, including his latest book Indignation, set in 1951 and focusing on the son of a kosher butcher who escapes the confines of New Jersey to attend a conservative college in Ohio.

The author gives his thoughts on the role of fiction in his life and about his own impact on America, describing the attraction of mixing fiction with elements of autobiography and about the expectations people have of the writer. He also talks about the ageing process and about his writing environment in the countryside north of New York.

22:00

Composer of the Week

Lord Berners (1883-1950)

Part One

Donald Macleod explores colourful life and music of English eccentric Lord Berners.

1/5. Berners the Humorist

Donald Macleod concentrates on a Berners' work for puppet theatre, an exuberant essay in Spanish colour and a trio of waltzes which contain a passage Stravinsky described as 'one of the most impudent in modern music'.

Du bist wie eine blume (Three Songs in the German Manner)
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Peter Lawson (piano)
ALBANY TROY 290 T1-3

Le poisson d'or
Len Vorster (piano)
MARCO POLO 8.225159 T5

Three Pieces for Orchestra
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
CAMPION CAMEO 2054

L'uomo dai baffi
English Northern Philharmonia
David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
MARCO POLO 8.223711 T20-26

Valses bourgeoises
Peter Lawson, Alan MacLean (piano)
ALBANY TROY 142 T1-3

Fantaisie espagnole
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
CAMPION CAMEO 2054

23:00

The Essay

On Excess

Series asking what part various aspects of excess play in our lives.

1/5. In Excess

Leading psychotherapist Adam Phillips asks if our appetite is by nature excessive.

23:15

Jazz on 3

David Murray's Black Saint Quartet at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival

Jez Nelson presents David Murray's Black Saint Quartet in a concert given at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival in July. The iconic tenor saxophonist carried the avant-garde torch throughout the 70s and 80s to become one of the main exponents of the tradition.

This group is in the classic quartet format with which Murray originally made his name, and features Lafayette Gilchrist on piano, one-time Art Ensemble of Chicago bassist Jaribu Shahid, and Hamid Drake on drums.

01:00

Through the Night

15 September 2008

15 September 2008

With John Shea.

1.01am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Trio in E flat for piano clarinet and viola, K498 (Kegelstatt)
Martin Frost (clarinet)
Antoine Tamestit (viola)
Cedric Tiberghien (piano)

1.20am
Mozart: Sonata in D for keyboard, K576
Jonathan Biss (piano)

1.35am
Mozart: Quartet in G minor for piano and strings, K478
Trio Ondine:
Martin Qvist Hansen (piano)
Erik Heide (violin)
Jonathan Slaato (cello)
Antoine Tamestit (viola)

2.00am
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826): Missa sancta No 1 in E fla, J224 (Freischutzmesse)
Norwegian Soloist Choir
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Grete Pedersen Helgerod (conductor)

2.33am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 13
Biava Quartet

3.04am
Stolzer, Josip (1896-1955): 4 Folk Tunes for orchestra
Croatian Radio Television Orchestra
Mladen Tarbuk (conductor)

3.17am
Kodaly, Zoltan (1882-1967): Sonatina for cello and piano
Laszlo Mezo (cello)
Larant Szucs (piano)

3.27am
Schumann-Wieck, Clara (1819-1896): Piano Trio in G minor, Op 17
Erika Radermacher (piano)
Eva Zurbrugg (violin)
Angela Schwartz (cello)

3.55am
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934): Serenade in E minor for strings, Op 20
Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble
Plamen Djurov (conductor)

4.06am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): L'autunno (Autumn), RV 293
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Paul Dyer (director)

4.17am
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757): Sonata in C, K460
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)

4.24am
Bach, Johann Michael (1648-1694): Furchtet euch nicht
Cantus Colln:
Johanna Koslowsky, Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano)
Graham Pushee, Kai Wessel (countertenor)
Gerd Turk, Wilfred Jochens (tenor)
Stephan Schreckenberger, Raimund Nolte (bass)
Christoph Anselm Noll (organ)
Konrad Junghanel (director)

4.27am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): (Lassen) Lose Himmel, meine seele, S494
Sylviane Deferne (piano)

4.34am
Janacek, Leos (1854-1928): Vlci stopa (The wolf's trail)
Susse Lillesoe (soprano)
Per Salo (piano)
Danish National Radio Choir
Stefan Parkman (conductor)

4.41am
Pez, Johann Christoph (1664-1716): Overture in D minor
Hildebrand'sche Hoboisten Compagnie

4.52am
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908): The Three Wonders (The Tale of Tsar Saltan Suite, Op 57)
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

5.00am
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883): Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Prelude to Act 1)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Tamas Vasary (conductor)

5.10am
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor for piano, Op 66
Dubravka Tomsic (piano)

5.15am
Anon (arr. Pedro Memelsdorff/Andreas Staier): Three tunes to John Playford's Dancing Master
Pedro Memelsdorff (recorder)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)

5.20am
Bach, Heinrich (1615-1692): Ich danke dir, Gott
Musica Antiqua Koln
Rheinische Kantorei
Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

5.27am
Carmichael, John (b.1930): A Country Fair
Jack Harrison (clarinet)
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Richard Mills (conductor)

5.36am
Holborne, Anthony (1560-1602): Muy linda; Pavan; Galliard (Pavans, Galliards, Almains, and Other Short Aeirs, Both Graue and Light)
The Canadian Brass

5.40am
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Scherzo capriccioso, Op 66
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)

5.53am
Wegelius, Martin (1846-1906): Rondo quasi Fantasia for piano and orchestra
Margit Rahkonen (piano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Petri Sakari (conductor)

6.04am
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927): String Quartet No 3 in F, Op 18
Yggdrasil String Quartet

6.37am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Suite No 3 in D for orchestra, BWV 1068
Erik Niord Larsen, Roar Brostrom (oboe)
Ole Edvard Antonsen, Lasse Rossing, Jens Petter Antonsen (trumpet)
Rolf Cato Raade (timpani)
Risor Festival Strings
Andrew Manze (conductor)