Sunday 28th September 2008

07:00

Breakfast

28 September 2008

With Martin Handley.

Featuring up-beat Gershwin, familiar Handel in an unusual setting and rousing Beethoven, plus a Free Thought after 8.30am.

From 7.00am

Gershwin: Overture (Funny Face)
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

Chopin: Barcarole in F sharp, Op 60
Martha Argerich (piano)

From 8.00am

Handel: Lascia la spina (Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno)
Kate Aldrich (mezzo-soprano)
Academia Montis Regalis
Alessandro de Marchi (conductor)

Mozart: Flute Quartet in G, K285a
Carol Wincenc (flute)
Emerson String Quartet

From 9.00am

Schubert: Rondo in B minor, D895
Elisabeth Batiashvili (violin)
Milana Chernyavska (piano)

Beethoven: Choral Fantasy in C minor, Op 80
Yefim Bronfman (piano)
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich
Swiss Chamber Choir
David Zinman (conductor)

10:00

Iain Burnside

28 September 2008

With the US elections barely two months away, Iain looks inside the melting pot of musical America with his guest, New York-based British composer Tarik O'Regan. The music includes works by Edgar Varese, Roy Harris and Steve Reich.

12:00

Private Passions

28 September 2008

Michael Berkeley's guest is former nurse and midwife Jennifer Worth, who has written two best-selling books - Call the Midwife and Shadow of the Workhouse - detailing her experiences working in London's Docklands in the 1950s. But her first love has always been music, and after finishing nursing, she has taught piano and singing for over a quarter of a century.

Her musical selections range from singers such as Maria Callas, Janet Baker and Edith Piaf to Russian Orthodox choral music, the Paraguayan harp and a Hebridean folksong.

13:00

The Early Music Show

A Musical Day in the Life of Louis XIV

Lucie Skeaping recreates a possible day in the life of King Louis XIV.

After waking in his sumptuous bedchamber, the king follows a busy schedule before entertaining guests at supper and retiring late in the evening. At every part of the day, musicians are on hand to entertain or soothe him, or to trumpet his arrival.

Olivier Baumont, a harpsichordist and expert on French Baroque music, guides Lucie through the Palace of Versailles to illustrate some of the music the king may have heard.

14:00

Radio 3 Requests

28 September 2008

Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces a selection of Radio 3 listeners' requests, including the Bach Double Concerto with David and Igor Oistrakh, the Grieg Piano Concerto with Dudley Moore, the celebrated voices of Alfred Deller and Conchita Supervia as well as the recording that woke up thousands of Radio 3 listeners.

Plus a guest request from conductor Charles Mackerras.

16:00

Choral Evensong

28 September 2008

Live from Blackburn Cathedral.

Introit: Laus Trinitati (James Davy)
Responses: Sumsion
Psalm: 119 vv1-32 (Goss, Warborough, Walker, Barnby)
First Lesson: 1 Maccabees 3 vv42-60
Canticles: St Paul's Service (Howells)
Second Lesson: Mark 15 vv33-41
Anthem: O pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Howells)
Hymn: All my hope on God is founded (Michael)
Organ Voluntary: Psalm Prelude - Set 2, No 1 (Howells)

Assistant Director of Music: James Davy
Director of Music: Richard Tanner

17:00

Discovering Music

28 September 2008

Schubert: Octet. Stephen Johnson examines some of the ideas that inspired Schubert's celebrated masterpiece for wind and strings with members of Britten Sinfonia.

18:30

The Choir

28 September 2008

Aled Jones talks to Harry Christophers, the founder of one of the UK's most successful vocal ensembles, The Sixteen. Plus news from YLE, one of Finland's oldest male voice choirs.

20:00

Drama on 3

Season of Migration to the North

Philip Palmer's dramatisation for Radio 3 of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's sensual and shocking thriller, often described as the most important Arab novel of the 20th century.

21:30

Sunday Feature

28 September 2008

Novelist Hari Kunzru explores how pulp fiction writers and great novelists got to grips with the UK's first major 'war on terror' - against the Anarchists of Victorian and Edwardian times. These 'scare novels' responded to the Anarchists' wish to abolish the State by depicting outlandish scenarios such as political assassinations and large-scale bombings.

He also explores the world of the real anarchists in London's immigrant communities - most of whom were peaceful and cultured East End Jewish activists, trying to improve conditions in the garment trade - in contrast to these terrorists the novelists imagined and the popular press feared.

Bringing the programme up to date, Hari and literary scholars Laurence Davies and Deaglan O'Donghaile also briefly consider the modern response to 9/11, asking whether novels on terrorism ever get it right.

22:15

Words & Music

Face

Michael Maloney and Lesley Sharp are the readers in a programme that explores aspects of the face such as beauty, youth, ugliness, love, fear, blindness, disfigurement and unhappy stories behind a face.

With poems and texts by Walt Whitman, Edward Lear, Marlowe, Ovid and excerpts from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray interspersed with music by Gershwin, Purcell, John Harle, Ivor Gurney and George Michael.

23:30

Jazz Line-Up

28 September 2008

Claire Martin presents the programme from the Scarborough Jazz Festival, now in its 6th year. Featuring bassist Laurence Cottle and trumpeter Tom Arthurs in session.

01:00

Through the Night

28 September 2008

28 September 2008

With Jonathan Swain.

1.01am
Mantyjarvi, Jaakko (b.1963): Pseudo-Yoik
1.04am
Sandstrom, Sven-David (b.1942): April och tystnad (April and Silence)
1.12am
Nystroem, Gosta (1890-1966): Three Visions about the sea (Havsvisioner)
1.21am
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927), text Jens Peter Jacobsen: Three Choral Songs
1.28am
Lidholm, Ingvar (b.1921), text Dante Alighieri: A riveder le stelle
Helena Stroberg (soprano)

1.41am
Werle, Lars Johan (1926-2001), text ee Cummings: Trees
Johan Pejler (baritone)

1.52am
Trad/Sandstrom, Jan (b.1954): Biegga Luohte
Mathias Brorson (baritone/drum)

2.02am
Youmans, Vincent (1898-1946), arr Robert Sund: Hallelujah!
Swedish Radio Chorus
Peter Dijkstra (conductor)

2.07am
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975): Symphony No 8 in C minor, Op 65
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Konstantin Iliev (conductor)

3.08am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Concerto in E flat for harpsichord and fortepiano, Wq 47
Michel Eberth (harpsichord)
Wolfgang Brunner (fortepiano)
Slovenicum Chamber Orchestra
Uros Lajovic (conductor)

3.26am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Flute Quartet in A, K298
Joanna G'froerer (flute)
Martin Beaver (violin)
Pinchas Zukerman (viola)
Amanda Forsyth (cello)

3.38am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Sextet in D for piano and strings, Op 110
Wu Han (piano)
Philip Setzer (violin)
Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Cynthia Phelps (viola)
Carter Brey (cello)
Michael Wais (bass)

4.01am
Kalman, Emmerich Imre (1882-1953): Two lovely eyes (The Circus Princess)
Gyorgy Korondy (tenor)
Hungarian Radio Orchestra
Tamas Brody (conductor)

4.08am
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961): To a Nordic Princess
Leslie Howard (piano)

4.15am
Janacek, Leos (1854-1928): Suite for Orchestra, Op 3
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

4.29am
Couperin, Louis (c.1626-1661): Suite in G
Rosalind Halton (harpsichord)

4.45am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Valse Triste (Kuolemo)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

4.51am
Klami, Uuno (1900-1961): Suite (Numisuutarit)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

5.00am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 22 in E flat (The Philosopher)
Amsterdam Bach Soloists

5.15am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Concerto in E minor for violin and orchestra, Op 64
Isaac Stern (violin)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Nikolai Malko (conductor)

5.42am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emmanuel (1714-1788): Sinfonia No 2 in B flat
Camerata Bern

5.53am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Prelude and fugue in F (Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, BWV 880)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)

5.59am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Trio No 8 (Essercizii Musici)
Camerata Koln

6.07am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Piano Sonata in B flat, K333
Jevgeny Rivkin (piano)

6.24am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Polonaise (Eugene Onegin)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Uri Mayer (conductor)

6.30am
Wieniawski, Henryk (1835-1880): Polonaise No 1 in D, Op 4
Reka Szilvay (violin)
Naoko Ichihashi (piano)

6.36am
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868): Quartet No 1 in F for flute, clarinet, bassoon and horn
Canberra Wind Soloists:
Vernon Hill (flute)
Alan Vivian (clarinet)
Richard McIntyre (bassoon)
Dominic Harvey (horn)

6.47am
Halvorsen, Johan (1864-1935): Norwegian Rhapsody No 1 in A minor
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)