Sunday 21st September 2008

07:00

Breakfast

21 September 2008

With Martin Handley.

Featuring a Bach Cantata and brass band music by Elgar. With Free Thought from 8.30am.

From 7.00am

Holst: A Fugal Overture
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)

Handel: Recorder Sonata in F, Op 1, No 11
Marion Verbruggen (recorder)
Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
Jap ter Linden (cello)

From 8.00am

Elgar: A Severn Suite
John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band
Roy Newsome (conductor)

Pearsall: Lay a Garland
Cambridge Singers
John Rutter (conductor)

From 9.00am

Brahms: 3 Intermezzi, Op 117
Radu Lupu (piano)

Bach: Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV 96
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki (conductor).

10:00

Iain Burnside

21 September 2008

Iain ponders the notion that where we listen to music might have an effect on the way we hear it, looking at the locations where this programme's selection was recorded, which include St Mark's Basilica in Venice and a 'giant chicken coop' in London. Featuring works by Elgar and from Bach's Trinity Cantata

12:00

Private Passions

21 September 2008

Michael Berkeley's guest is actor Dominic West, star of the cult TV series The Wire, and well-known for a variety of stage and film roles including the lead in Tom Stoppard's recent play Rock 'n' Roll.

His musical choices range from sacred music by Pergolesi, Handel and Mozart as well as Arvo Part's Spiegel im Spiegel for violin and piano, to songs by Schubert, Neil Young, Flanders and Swan and Jake Thackray.

13:00

The Early Music Show

21 September 2008

Catherine Bott explores the life and music of Domenico Zipoli, a contemporary of Bach and Handel who seemed to disappear from European musical life just as he was making his mark.

14:00

Radio 3 Requests

21 September 2008

Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces listeners' choices, which include a Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody arranged for piano and harmonium, Gounod's celebrated Ave Maria and the Bach prelude on which it was based. Plus performances by the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle, Angela Hewitt and Leontyne Price. American composer John Adams is the guest requester.

16:00

Choral Evensong

21 September 2008

Live from the London Oratory.

Organ Prelude: Intonatio del settimo tono (Andrea Gabrieli)
Invitatory: Deu in adjutorium meum (Croce)
Antiphons and Psalms: 110, 111, 112, 113, 117 (Plainsong)
Hymn: Iste confessor (Palestrina)
Antiphon: Hic vir despiciens (Plainsong)
Canticle: Magnificat octavi toni (Victoria)
Motet: O viridissima virga (Hildegard of Bingen)
Antiphon of Our Lady: Salve Regina (Philips)
Organ Voluntary: Chaconne in F (Fischer)

Organist: John McGreal
Celebrant: The Very Rev Ignatius Harrison
Director of Music: Patrick Russill

17:00

Discovering Music

Elgar: A Very English Composer

Charles Hazlewood is joined by the string section of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to explore what makes Elgar such a quintessentially 'English' composer, focusing on his 1905 Introduction and Allegro, and the 1892 Serenade for Strings.

As a contrast, Charles also examines the music of Holst, another English composer who was writing in the early part of the 20th century, looking at his Saint Paul's Suite for string orchestra. Could Holst's style possibly be more authentically English than that of Elgar?

18:30

The Choir

Hungarian Choirs

Aled Jones visits the pioneering Aswatuna Festival in Petra, Jordan, an event which brings together choirs from across the Middle East and beyond.

Featuring Middle Eastern choirs and Swedish vocal group Voces Nordicae in a unique collaboration, plus a tour of the Hungarian choral scene with music from Bartok, Kodaly and contemporary composer Janos Vajda.

20:00

Drama on 3

A Disappearing Number

Adapted for radio by Simon McBurney and Ben Power. Based on the stage play by the theatre company Complicite.

An award-winning production exploring our relentless compulsion to understand, and which is a provocative meditation on the beauty of mathematics and the nature of creativity. It was inspired by the story of the collaboration between two of the 20th century's most notable pure mathematicians, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a poor Brahmin from South India, and Cambridge professor GH Hardy.

Performed by David Annen, Firdous Bamji, Paul Bhattacharjee, Divya Kasturi, Chetna Pandya, Saskia Reeves and Shane Shambhu. With Mick Barnfather, Tamzin Griffin, Tim McMullan and Clive Mendus.

21:30

Sunday Feature

Remember, Remember

Psychologist Susan Blackmore investigates how we are outsourcing the memory of our lives to digital devices and asks whether that is changing the nature of human memory. She hears from a 'lifelogger' who is recording every detail of his daily life - and from an academic who has taped 220,000 hours of audio and video of his infant son. She asks whether we will all end up doing the same and how this will affect the way we remember our own lives.

22:15

Words & Music

21 September 2008

A sequence of music interspersed with readings of poetry and prose on the theme of autumn.

Nicholas Farrell and Rachel Atkins read works by Robert Frost, Yeats, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Yeats and Ted Hughes. With music by Vaughan Williams, Vivaldi, Mahler, Charlie Parker, Piazzolla and Haydn.

23:30

Jazz Line-Up

21 September 2008

Julian Joseph presents the programme from the Armagh Jazz Weekend. Including the BBC Big Band conducted by Barry Forgie, with special guest soloist Bruce Adams on trumpet, plus Enniskillen-born percussionist Anthony Kerr performing an original score by Barry Forgie.

Bruce Adams comes from a showbiz family and was part of his father's stage act from an early age. For many years he co-led a critically successful and award-winning quintet with saxophonist Alan Barnes, and now either leads his own band or plays as a featured artist. His Recent recordings include Always and Forever with Dave Cliff and Good Bait, recorded at Ronnie Scott's.

01:00

Through the Night

21 September 2008

21 September 2008

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
Part, Arvo (b.1935): Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
1.08am
Part: L'Abbe Agathon
Patricia Rozario (soprano)
1.22am
Part: These Words, for string orchestra and percussion
1.35am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225
Danish National Choir/DR
Danish National Vocal Ensemble/DR
Tonu Kaljuste

1.48am
Part: In Principio
Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR
Tonu Kaljuste (conductor)

2.08am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Symphony No 5 in E minor
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)

2.56am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Piano Concerto in A minor
Emil Gilels (piano)
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Pinchas Steinberg (conductor)

3.30am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Oboe Concerto in D
Hristo Kasmetski (oboe)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vladigerov (conductor)

3.58am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Sinfonia in D for 2 violins and continuo
Les Adieux
Mary Utiger, Hajo Bass (violin)
Christina Kyprianides (cello)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)

4.08am
Tallis, Thomas (c.1505-1585): Spem in Alium
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

4.16am
Giuliani, Mauro (1781-1829): 6 Variations for guitar and violin
Laura Vadjon (violin)
Romana Matanovac (guitar)

4.25am
Verhulst, Johannes (1816-1891), arr. Stumpff: Gruss aus der Fernen
Dutch National Youth Wind Orchestra
Jan Cober (conductor)

4.32am
Brumby, Colin (b.1933): Festival Overture on Australian themes
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Richard Mills (conductor)

4.42am
Grunfeld, Alfred (1852-1924): Soirees de Vienne
Dennis Hennig (piano)

4.48am
Wiren, Dag (1905-1986): Violin Sonatina
Arve Tellefsen (violin)
Lucia Negro (piano).

5.00am
Avison, Charles (1709-1770): Concerto grosso No 5 in D minor
Concerto Copenhagen
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)

5.08am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): St Matthew Passion (Opening Chorus)
Hungarian Radio Choir
Hungarian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Tamas Vasary (conductor)

5.17am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Hungarian rhapsody No 12 in C sharp minor, S244; Mesto
Grace Francis (piano)

5.27am
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918): Prelude and Fugue for orchestra, Op 10
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Pertti Pekkanen (conductor)

5.37am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Aria with variations (Piano Suite No 5 in E, HWV 430 - The Harmonious Blacksmith)
Marian Pivka (piano)

5.43am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Trio No 4 (Essercizii Musici)
Camerata Koln

5.53am
Albeniz, Isaac (1860-1909): Cordoba (Cantos de Espana)
Jin-Ho Kim (piano)

5.58am
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): Serenata in vano for clarinet, horn, bassoon, cello and double bass
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound
James Campbell (conductor)

6.06am
Grechaninov, Alexandr Tikhonovich (1864-1956): 6 Motets, Op 155
Yves Castagnet (organ)
Radio France Chorus
Vladislav Chernuchenko (conductor)

6.24am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Divertimento in B flat, K439b No 2
Bratislava Wind Trio

6.41am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Piano Sonata No 30 in E, Op 109
Cedric Tiberghien (piano).