07:00
Breakfast
20 September 2008
With Martin Handley.
Featuring an ocean-going tone poem by Sibelius and a 19-part motet from Scotland. With Free Thought from 8.30am.
From 7.00am
Suppe: The Jolly Robbers
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor)
Chopin: Fantasy in F minor
Maria Joao Pires (piano)
From 8.00am
Carver: O Bone Jesu
Taverner Choir
Andrew Parrott (conductor)
Sibelius: The Oceanides
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
09:00
CD Review
20 September 2008
Andrew McGregor introduces Radio 3's weekly programme devoted to all that's new in the world of recorded music.
Including:
9.30am
Building a Library
Chris de Souza with a personal recommendation from all the available recordings of Mendelssohn's Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish).
10.30am
Andrew talks to John Eliot Gardiner about the progress of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage on the Monteverdi Choir's own label as well as their latest venture: the first release from the Brahms Project.
11.40am
Disc of the Week: Gubaidulina: In tempus praesens - Concerto for violin and orchestra
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)
12:15
Music Matters
20 September 2008
With the first new concert hall to be built in London for over 25 years about to open its doors to the public, Tom Service investigates why the capital needs yet another concert venue.
There is also a look at La Calisto, a comic tale of amorous confusion between gods and mortals, and the first ever opera by Baroque composer Francesco Cavalli to be performed by the Royal Opera House. Why has it taken so long for it to reach the stage there?
Plus 2008's centenary of composer Raymond Scott, the man who wrote music for adverts, electronics and for getting babies to sleep.
13:00
The Early Music Show
20 September 2008
Catherine Bott introduces a programme of Purcell anthems recorded at the Brinkburn Festival in Northumberland.
Purcell wrote sacred music throughout his creative life and left a fantastic body of verse anthems for strings and voices, several of which were featured in a concert given by the Gabrieli Consort, directed by Paul McCreesh, at the 2008 Brinkburn Festival.
Performed in the wonderful acoustic of Brinkburn Priory, the concert includes Purcell's popular O Sing Unto the Lord and Rejoice in the Lord Alway.
14:00
Lunchtime Concert
20 September 2008
20 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.
15:00
World Routes
20 September 2008
Moshe Morad travels to Jordan's capital Amman to record one of the Middle East's biggest stars, the Iraqi singer-songwriter Ilham Al Madfai. Ilham performs with his full band, as well as on his own in a more intimate setting, and talks about his love for the lost city of Baghdad.
16:00
Jazz Library
Harry James
Trumpeter Guy Barker joins Alyn Shipton to select the essential recordings by Harry James, one of the most notable brass technicians in jazz, ranging from his work with Benny Goodman to his own Trumpet Blues and Cantabile.
James made his first records while just out of his teens and starred with Benny Goodman's orchestra in the mid-1930s. He went on to lead his own bands, in the studio, on the road and finally in Las Vegas, where his standards remained high despite an inexorable decline in his own playing as age and celebrity took their toll.
17:00
Jazz Record Requests
20 September 2008
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
18:00
Opera On 3
20 September 2008
Act One
Kurt Weill and Berthold Brecht's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
HK Gruber conducts soprano Susan Bickley and the Royal National Scottish Orchestra in a performance of Weill and Brecht's anti-capitalist satire, given in August at the Usher Hall in the opening concert of this year's Edinburgh International Festival.
The opera's story centres on three fugitives' setting up of a city in an American desert devoted solely to pleasure and debauchery. Prostitution and cheap alcohol attract many prospectors, but when Jimmy the barman declares that all restraints are to be removed, there can only be tragic consequences.
Introduced by Donald Macleod, who also talks to the conductor about the context of the work and Weill and Brecht's influence on subsequent operatic developments.
Leokadja Begbick ...... Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
Fatty ...... Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (tenor)
Trinity Moses ...... Alan Opie (baritone)
Jenny ...... Giselle Allen (soprano)
Jimmy Mahoney ...... Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor)
Jack Smith, Toby Higgins ...... Peter Hoare (tenor)
Bill ...... Stephan Loges (baritone)
Joe ...... Brindley Sherratt (bass)
Hannah Gordon (narrator)
Ladies of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
Christopher Bell (chorus master)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
HK Gruber (conductor)
21:00
20 September 2008
20 September 2008
Two a capella mass settings separated by over 400 years.
Francisco Guerrero: Missa Sancta et immaculata
Roxanna Panufnik: Westminster Mass
Choir of Westminster Cathedral
James O'Donnell (Master of Music)
22:05
Pre-Hear
20 September 2008
Featuring James MacMillan's Sinfonietta, performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, with the composer conducting.
22:30
Hear And Now
20 September 2008
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces recordings from this year's Vale of Glamorgan festival, including a new work by Piers Hellawell inspired by the work of sculptor David Smith.
Including:
David Cowley (oboe)
Robert Plane (clarinet)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Michal Dworzynski (conductor)
Gorecki: Three Dances
Guto Puw: Oboe Concerto
Piers Hellawell: Agricolas for clarinet and orchestra (BBC commission: world premiere)
Pawel Szymanski: Quasi una sinfonietta.
00:00
Jazz Library
Oscar Peterson
Alyn Shipton presents a special tribute edition of Jazz Library devoted to Oscar Peterson, who died in December 2007 and is regarded as one of the greatest jazz pianists. The programme not only suggests the essential Peterson CDs, but also calls on the help of the man himself, with an extended interview recorded in 2000.
01:00
Through the Night
20 September 2008
20 September 2008
With Jonathan Swain.
1.00am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Manfred Symphony, Op 58
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
2.02am
Mussorgsky, Modest (1839-1881) orch. Rimsky-Korsakov/Labinsky/Serge Liapunov
Songs and Dances of Death
Kolos Kovacs (bass)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
2.21am
Bruch, Max (1838-1920): Eight Pieces, Op 83 (Nos 5-8)
Paul Dean (clarinet)
Brett Dean (viola)
Stephen Emmerson (piano)
2.42am
Leo, Leonardo (Ortensio Salvatore de) (1694-1744): Miserere mei Deus
Ensemble William Byrd
Graham O'Reilly (director)
3.00am
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764): Suite (Pieces de clavecin)
Stefan Trayanov (harpsichord)
3.24am
Dauvergne, Antoine (1713-1797): Concert de simphonies in F, Op 3, No 2
Capella Coloniensis
William Christie (harpsichord/director)
3.45am
Halvorsen, Johan (1864-1935): Pictures from Norwegian Fairy-Tales, Op 37
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Vytautas Lukocius (conductor)
4.00am
Jarzebski, Adam (1590-1649): Concerto primo a 2; Concerto secondo a 2; Concerto terza a 2; Concerto quarto a 2
Bruce Dickey (cornetto)
Alberto Grazzi (bassoon - in No 4 only)
Michael Fentross (theorbo)
Charles Toet (trombone)
Jacques Ogg (organ)
Lucy van Dael (conductor)
4.13am
Faber, Nikolaus Franciscus (d.1673): Threnon musicum
Capella Regia Musicalis
Robert Hugo (organ/director)
4.21am
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869): Overture (Les franc-juges, Op 3)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
John Nelson (conductor)
4.33am
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757): Sonata IX in D minor, K9
Wolfgang Brunner (fortepiano)
4.37am
Haydn, Johann Michael (1737-1806): Sinfonia in E flat, MH 340
Academia Palatina
Florian Heyerick (director)
4.53am
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Slavonic Dance in F, Op 46, No 4
James Anagnoson, Leslie Kinton (piano)
5.00am
Trad Catalonia: El noi de la mare
Anon (15th century Dutch): Ons is gheboren een uutvercoren
5.05am
Hermann, Nikolaus (1500-1561): Wir singen dir, Immanuel
Zefiro Torna
Jurgen De Bruyn (lute/director)
5.08am
Knipper, Lev Konstantinovich (1898-1974): Radif - in Iranian style for string quartet and string orchestra
Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan
Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)
5.21am
Matton, Roger (b.1929): L'escaouette
Adrienne Savoie (soprano)
Catherine Sevigny (mezzo-soprano)
Jean-Francois Morin (tenor)
Charles Prevost (baritone)
Ensemble Vocal Katimavik
Choeur Vaudril Soulanges
Orchestre Metropolitain
Gilles Auger (conductor)
5.31am
McPhee, Colin (1900-1964), transcr. McPhee: Balinese ceremonial music
Ashley Wass, Grace Francis (piano)
5.41am
Tippett, Michael (1905-1998): Five Spirituals (A Child of our Time)
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
5.53am
Wiedermann, Bedrich Anton (1883-1951): Pastorale dorico
Hans Leenders (organ)
6.00am
Genin, Pierre Agricola (1832-1903): Fantasie sue Rigoletto, Op 19
Zhenia Dukova (flute)
Andrey Angelov (piano)
6.12am
Koehne, Graeme (b.1956): Three Poems of Byron
Elizabeth Campbell (mezzo-soprano)
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Janos Furst (conductor)
6.25am
Balakirev, Mily Alexeyevich (1837-1910): Tamara
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava
Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)
6.47am
Hidas, Frigyes (1928-2007): Adagio
Hungarian Radio Orchestra
Gyergy Lehel (conductor)
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