Buxtehude, Bach, Bax, Lindblad.
Franck, Brade, Paderewski, Bach, Mozart.
Berlioz, Faure, Corelli, Machaut, Fault, Kapp, Wilms, Lipinski, Rimsky-Korsakov.
Jonathan Swain concludes the programme with music by Berlioz, Faure, Corelli, Buxtehude, Machaut, Fault, Dvorak, Kapp, Wilms, Lipinski, Rimsky-Korsakov and Henderson.
Including Mozart: Die Maurerfreude. Seiber: Besardo Suite No 2. Schubert: Sonatina in D. Handel: Concerto in G minor. Kodaly: Dances of Marosszek. Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E.
Including Dvorak: Five Bagatelles. Ives: Three places in New England. Holborne: Five Dances. Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (excerpt from Act 3). Grieg: Lyric Pieces (selection).
Donald Macleod considers the importance of Beethoven for Schubert and introduces Schubert's Piano Sonata in B flat.
Lunchtime Concert: With Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 4.
Ebony and Ivory: With music by Elgar.
Sean Rafferty has music and guests from the arts world. With artistic director Christopher Batchelor, composer Diana Burrell and pianist Peter Donohoe.
Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert given at St David's Hall, Cardiff, by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Bartok: Divertimento; Violin Concerto No 1. Beethoven: Symphony No 7.
Philip Dodd is joined by pirate radio and club DJ Matt Mason to explore whether 'youth culture' has anything meaningful to offer to society.
With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is pianist Mikhail Pletnev, who performs Chopin's Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor, Op 31.
Emotional Landscapes: Four writers give personal insights into different emotional states. 3/4: Guilt. Lavinia Greenlaw explores the feeling of guilt.
Fiona Talkington presents an eclectic musical mix, with The House of the Rising Sun revisited, a new take on the Medieval Ciaramella and music from a 14th century book.
THURSDAY 08 MAY 2008
THU 01:00 Through the Night (b00b55b4)
Including
1.00 Bach, Brahms, Durufle, Mozart.
2.37 Mahler, Wagner, Hove, Ivanovs, Byrd, Haczewski.
5.00 CPE Bach, Bridge, Vedel, Tanguay, Froberger, Haydn, Nowowiejski, Hartmann.
THU 05:00 Through the Night (b00b55b6)
Through the Night
Jonathan Swain concludes the programme with music by CPE Bach, Scarlatti, Wilbye, Debussy, Sjoblom, Bridge, Vedel, Tanguay, Froberger, Haydn, Nowowiejski and Hartmann.
THU 07:00 Breakfast (b00b55b8)
Including:
Saint-Saens, arr. Ysaye: Caprice d'apres l'etude en forme de valse, Op 52
Jean-Jacques Kantorow (violin)
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Kees Bakels (conductor)
Kuhnau: Tristis est anima mea
Dresdner Kreuzchor
Rudolf Mauersberger (conductor)
Schubert: Quartetsatz in C minor, D703
Artemis Quartet
Wagner: A Faust Overture
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Edo de Waart (conductor)
Hahn: Si mes vers avaient des ailes
Martini: Plaisir d'amour
Barbara Hendricks (soprano)
Michel Dalberto (piano)
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in F, BWV 880 (48 Preludes and Fugues, Book 2)
Vladimir Feltsman (piano).
THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b00b55ct)
Includes Saint-Saens: Carnaval des animaux. Mozart: Das Veilchen. Schubert: Suleika 1. Wolf: Philine (Singet nicht in Trauertonen). Handel: Trio Sonata in A. Dutilleux: Oboe Sonata.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00b55bf)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Episode 4
Donald Macleod looks at two valedictory works from Schubert's final weeks - the motet Tantum ergo and the troubled String Quintet, which gathered dust for 25 years after the composer's death but is now regarded as one of the masterpieces of chamber music.
Tantum ergo for soloists, chorus and orchestra, D962
Lucia Popp (soprano)
Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto)
Adolf Dallapozza (tenor)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
String Quintet in C, D956
Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Alban Berg Quartet.
THU 13:00 Afternoon Concert (b00b55c7)
Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:
A series of concerts from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, with contributions from the festival's Artistic Director Marc Neikrug.
Magnus Lindberg: Duo for cello and piano (world premiere)
Anssi Karttunen (cello)
Magnus Lindberg (piano)
Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A, Op 81
William Preucil, Benny Kim (violins)
Kirsten Johnson (viola)
Eric Kim (cello)
Jonathan Biss (piano)
Plus Ebony and Ivory:
Concertos written for keyboard, oboe and clarinet performed by the BBC Orchestras.
Strauss: Oboe Concerto in D, AV 144
Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyon (conductor)
Elgar: In the South (Alassio)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
Sterndale Bennett: Piano Concerto No 4
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Howard Shelley (piano/director)
Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (5 Movements), arr for cello, violin and piano (4th mvt: 3 Dances - Tango, Waltz, Ragtime)
Ilya Gringolts (violin)
Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet)
Ashley Wass (piano)
Bruckner: Symphony No 4 in E flat (Romantic)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (conductor)
And BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008 Finalist - Percussion Category Winner.
THU 17:00 In Tune (b00b55bk)
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Creative director Mary King talks about the Southbank Centre's Chorus, a week-long celebration of choral singing, and the Vasari Singers with director Jeremy Backhouse perform live in the studio ahead of their concert at the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music.
THU 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00b55h1)
Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given at the Lighthouse, Poole, by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop. Alongside Mahler's Ninth symphony - the penultimate work in their Mahler cycle - is a Wagnerian-themed percussion concerto by American composer Christopher Rouse, whom Alsop has championed.
Colin Currie (percussion)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor)
Christopher Rouse: Der Gerettete Alberich
Mahler: Symphony No 9.
THU 20:45 Composer of the Week (b00b55bf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 21:45 Night Waves (b00b55h3)
Rana Mitter talks to Xu Bing, one of China's leading artists - who recently sold a piece for one million dollars - about his new work and the emerging Chinese art scene.
A former 'sent down youth', Xu was relocated to the countryside for two years during the Cultural Revolution and has recently been invited back to China after years of living in New York. He often takes calligraphy as a starting point for his work, recombining elements drawn from genuine Chinese characters to invent new ones, and combining English words to create a sort of 'Chinglish'.
THU 22:30 Artist Focus (b00b55h5)
With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring the work of Mikhail Pletnev, with a performance of Scriabin's Piano Sonata No 10 in C, Op 70.
THU 23:00 The Essay (b008cs3n)
Emotional Landscapes
Courage
Tahmima Anam questions what exactly is meant by courage.
THU 23:15 Late Junction (b00b55h7)
Fiona Talkington introduces an eclectic musical mix, including the Galician piping of Xose Manuel Budino, 18th-century Spanish dance music by Santiago de Murcia and Philip Glass's musings around the life of self-styled Samurai Yukio Mishima.
FRIDAY 09 MAY 2008
FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b00b55mg)
With Jonathan Swain.
Including:
Franck: Psyche et Eros (Psyche)
Debussy: Danses sacree et profane
Jongen: Harp Concerto
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 5 in D minor (Reformation)
Groneman: Flute Sonata in D
Bizet: Carmen (Act 1, Parle-moi de ma mere)
Brahms: Quartet No 1 in G minor for piano and strings
Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs)
Anon (14th century Bohemian): Czaldy waldy
Anon (15th century North Italian): Istampita parlamento
Stravinsky : Suite italienne for violin and piano
Anon (14th century Florence): Salterello
Dvorak: Scherzo capriccioso
Beethoven: 32 Variations in C minor
Nielsen: Serenata in vano for clarinet, horn, bassoon, cello and double bass
Halvorsen: Norwegian Rhapsody No 1
Rameau: Three pieces (Les indes galantes)
Fontana: Sonata undecima for cornet, violin and bass continuo
Rimsky-Korsakov: Salieri's Aria (Mozart and Salieri, Op 48)
Raffaelli: Introduction and Theme with Variations in A
Haydn: Sinfonia concertante in B flat, H I 105
Debussy: La plus que lente
Brahms: Sonata No 2 in F for cello and piano, Op 99
Sweelinck: Regina coeli
Dohnanyi: String Quartet No 2 in D flat, Op 15
Scarlatti: Sonata in C, K460.
FRI 05:00 Through the Night (b00b55mj)
Through the Night
Jonathan Swain concludes the programme with music by Fontana, Rimsky-Korsakov, Raffaeli, Haydn, Debussy, Brahms, Sweelinck, Dohnanyi and Scarlatti.
FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b00b55ml)
Including:
Josef Strauss: Transactionen, Op 184
Bamber Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck (conductor)
Vivaldi: Sinfonia in E, RV 134
Adrian Chandler (violin)
La Serenissima
Poulenc: Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone
Members of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Dyson: Four Songs for Sailors
London Oriana Choir
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Drummond (conductor)
Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat minor
Samson Francois (piano)
French Radio Orchestra
Constantin Silvestri (conductor)
Falla: El corregidor y la molinera (The Governor and the Miller's Wife) (1st part)
Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
Juan Antonio Alvarez Parejo (piano).
FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b00b55mn)
With Sarah Walker.
Including:
CPE Bach: Sonata in D, Wq 61 No 2
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
DG 459 614 2
Takemitsu: Toward the Sea
Robert Aitken (alto flute)
Norbert Kraft (guitar)
NAXOS
8.555859
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
RCA 09026 612262
Liszt: Sonata in B minor, S 178
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
DG 457 629 2
Rameau: Loure; Pantomime; Air de furie (Les Paladins)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Gustav Leonhardt (conductor)
PHILIPS 4329682
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Peter Donohoe (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 585 538 2 (2 CDs).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00b55mq)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Episode 5
Donald Macleod looks at the songs written during Schubert's final months, grouped together by an enterprising publisher under the title Schwanengesang, or Swansong.
Herbst, D945
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Graham Johnson (piano)
Schwanengesang, D957
Hans Hotter (baritone)
Gerald Moore (piano).
FRI 13:00 Afternoon Concert (b00b55ms)
Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert:
A series of concerts from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, with contributions from the festival's artistic director Marc Neikrug as well as violinist Pinchas Zukerman.
Ravel: La valse
Yuja Wang (piano)
Mozart: Divertimento in E flat, K563
Pinchas Zukerman (violin)
Jethro Marks (viola)
Amanda Forsyth (cello)
Plus Ebony and Ivory:
Concertos written for keyboard, oboe and clarinet, performed by the BBC Orchestras.
Holst: St Paul's Suite
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Clark Rundell (conductor)
Maxwell Davies: The Seas of Kirk Swarf for bass clarinet and string orchestra
Simon Butterworth (bass clarinet)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom (conductor)
MacCunn: Overture (The Ship o' the Fiend, Op 5)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
Albinoni: Concerto a 5 in D minor for oboe and strings, Op 9 No 2 (transcr for trumpet by Alison Balsom)
Alison Balson (trumpet)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Baldur Bronnimann (conductor)
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
Francis Edward Bache: Piano Concerto in E
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Howard Shelley (piano/director)
Britten: Phantasy for oboe and string trio, Op 2
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe)
Psophos String Quartet
Elgar: Symphony No 2 in E flat, Op 63
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
And BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008 Finalist - Keyboard Category Winner.
FRI 17:00 In Tune (b00b55pr)
Sean Rafferty welcomes opera stars from productions at either end of the country. With director Dominic Hill and baritone Peter Sidhom ahead of their production of Falstaff with Scottish Opera, while tenor Jonas Kaufmann and soprano Micaela Carosi talk about their work on Puccini's Tosca at the Royal Opera House.
FRI 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00b55wq)
Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert given at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, concluding the Halle Orchestra's 150th anniversary season.
The programme celebrates the orchestra's notable record of British premieres, with a performance of Shostakovich's First symphony, premiered in England by Hamilton Harty and the Halle in 1931.
Alina Pogostkina (violin)
Halle Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)
Glinka: Overture (A Life for the Tsar)
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D
Shostakovich: Symphony No 1 in F minor.
FRI 20:45 Composer of the Week (b00b55mq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 21:45 The Verb (b00b55ws)
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's weekly cabaret of language, featuring Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. alias singer and songwriter Sam Duckworth. His opinionated lyrics have led to comparisons with Billy Bragg and he joins Ian to talk about his work and perform songs from his new album.
FRI 22:30 Jazz Library (b00b55wv)
Jack DeJohnette
Drummer Jack DeJohnette joins Alyn Shipton to discuss his choice of his own recordings, including music from his days with Charles Lloyd, Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett.
FRI 23:30 Jazz on 3 (b00b55wx)
Bill Frisell
Jez Nelson presents a gig by jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, with a new quintet, recorded at the 2008 Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Famed for work that blends blues and country influences with jazz harmonies and electronics, Frisell is joined in the line-up by reedsman Chris Cheek and cornettist Ron Miles, with Larry Grenadier on bass and Rudy Royston on drums.
Awarded the 'Best Contemporary Jazz Album' Grammy award in 2005 for his disc Unspeakable, Frisell was for a time associated with the German ECM label, where he made several recordings as in-house guitarist before leading his own group for the first time in 1982. Since then he has played with many of the music's leading names, including Jim Hall, Paul Motian, Joe Lovano and Ron Carter.