Simpson, Christopher (c.1605-1669): Prelude and Divisions upon a Ground (The Division Viol)
Hesse, Adolph Friedrich (1809-1863): Introduction, Theme and Variations in A, Op 47
Boehm, Theobald (1794-1881): Introduction and variations on a theme by Paisiello, Op 4
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936): Muza (The Muse); Iz Petraski (When Your Eyes)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Fantasia in F minor for mechanical organ, K608
Mackeben, Theo (1897-1953): Eine Frau wird erst schon durch die Liebe (A woman will become beautiful only through love -
Susan Sharpe concludes the programme with music by Horneman, Chopin, Glazunov, Abel, Mozart, Martin, Martinu, Mackeben, Rautio and Bernhard.
GM Hoffmann, attrib. Bach: Cantata, BWV 53
Donald Macleod looks at the year 1947 - a frenetic year for Waxman, even by his own standards - where he found time to launch the Los Angeles Music Festival, promote the career of a young Isaac Stern, conduct across the world and write one of his finest film scores.
Another chance to hear the opening recital from the Bank of Scotland Queen's Hall Series from 2007's Edinburgh International Festival, with mezzo-soprano Jane Irwin joining the Hebrides Ensemble for music by Mahler and Berio, together with instrumental chamber music by Janacek and Nigel Osborne.
Mahler, arr. Edward Harper: Kindertotenlieder
Series of performances by the BBC orchestras, with a focus on works for cello and orchestra as well as sets of variations.
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. With bass John Tomlinson, soprano Sarah Tynan and music director Edward Gardner on their production of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier at ENO, plus the Lendvai Piano Trio performing live in the studio ahead of a lunchtime concert at St John's, Smith Square, London.
Tom Service introduces the first of two concerts from the 2008 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. Philippe Herreweghe conducts seasonal Bach cantatas with his Collegium Vocale Ghent, performing music Bach wrote for springtime religious festivals including his Easter and Ascension Oratorios.
Bach: Easter Oratorio, BWV 249; Cantata No 68 (Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt); Ascension Oratorio, BWV 11.
Kenan Malik and guests with a first night review of the musical Margueritte, based on Alexander Dumas's novel La Dame aux camelias. The production updates the book's events to Paris during the World War II and tells the story of a dangerous love affair between the mistress of a high-ranking SS officer and a young musician.
With Tom Service. Featuring clarinettist Sabine Meyer, with recordings of Weber's Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor with the orchestra of the Staatskapelle Dresden under Herbert Blomstedt.
Writer and broadcaster Graeme Fife explores the work of the poet and novelist Robert Graves. Graeme explores Graves's use of ancient myth in understanding and reflecting the wider world.
Verity Sharp introduces music from Armenian duduk player Djivan Gasparian, the duo of Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan and an excerpt from Steve Reich's Drumming from 1971.
WEDNESDAY 21 MAY 2008
WED 01:00 Through the Night (b00bctzf)
With Susan Sharpe.
Including:
Roman, Johan Helmich (1694-1758): Golvin musiken (excerpt)
Palschau, Johann Gottfried (1741-1815): Harpsichord Concerto
Roman: Golvin musiken (excerpt); Oboe Concerto in D
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Concerto grosso in F, Op 3 No 4
Agrell, Johan Joachim (1701-1765): Flute Concerto in D
Roman: Golvin musiken (excerpt)
Handel: Hornpipe (Water Music)
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868): Overture (La gazza ladra)
Fabritius, Ernst (1842-1899): Violin Concerto
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Symphony No 5 in F, Op 76
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): String Quartet in B, Op 64 No 3
Dulichius, Philipp (1562-1631): Sunt pia sceptra (motet for 6 voices)
Van Noordt, Anthoni (1619-1675): Psalm 24 (vv 1-4 (Pedaliter); vv 2-4; vv 3-5)
Bacewicz, Grazyna (1909-1969): Partita for orchestra
Forster, Kaspar (1616-1673): Sonata a 7
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Overture (Egmont)
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Fest- und Gedenkspruche, Op 109
Strauss, Josef (1827-1880): Dorfschwalben aus Osterreich, Op 164
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759): Sonata in A minor, Op 1 No 4
Alfven, Hugo (1872-1960): Midsummer Vigil, Op 19 (Swedish rhapsody No 1)
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Sonetto 123 di Petrarca, I vidi in terra angelici costumi, S158 No 3
Wilbye, John (1574-1638): Weepe, mine eyes; O what shall I doe
Janacek, Leos (1854-1928): Mladi (Youth)
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op 61
Hartmann, Johann Peter Emilius (1805-1900), arr. Gunther/Teuber: Blomstre som en rosengard (Blooming like a rose garden)
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Scherzo No 4 in E, Op 54
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Divertimento in D, K205
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975): Festive Overture, Op 96.
WED 04:31 Through the Night (b00bctzh)
Through the Night
Susan Sharpe concludes the programme with music by Beethoven, Brahms, Josef Strauss, Handel, Alfven, Liszt, Wilbye, Janacek, Mendelssohn, Hartmann, Chopin, Mozart and Shostakovich.
WED 07:00 Breakfast (b00bdjmr)
Including:
Poulenc: Three Intermezzi for piano
Eric Le Sage (piano)
Elgar: Overture (In the South - Alassio), Op 50
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)
Handel, arr. Mozart: Aria - Wie's Taubchen klagt (Acis und Galatea)
Barbara Bonney (soprano)
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock (director)
Byrd: Qui passe (for My Lady Nevell)
Timothy Roberts (virginals)
Dvorak: Capriccio (Rondo di concerto)
Qian Zhou (violin)
Edmund Battersby (piano)
Dohnanyi: Symphonic Minutes, Op 36
BBC Philharmonic
Matthias Bamert (conductor).
WED 10:00 Classical Collection (b00bctzm)
With James Jolly.
Including:
Mozart: Concerto in A, K622
Sabine Meyer (clarinet)
Berlin Philharmonic
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Schubert: Voruber die stohnende Klage, D53
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Erwin Ortner (conductor)
Corelli: Concerto grosso in F, Op 6 No 2
Brandenburg Consort
Roy Goodman (violin/director)
Verdi: La Traviata (end of Act 2)
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)
Frank Lopardo (tenor)
Robin Leggate (tenor)
Leah-Marian Jones (mezzo-soprano)
Leo Nucci (baritone)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Georg Solti (conductor)
Poulenc: Sonata for two pianos
Love Derwinger, Roland Pontinen (pianos)
Dvorak: Violin Concerto, Op 53
Josef Suk (violin)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Ancerl (conductor).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00bctzp)
Franz Waxman
Hollywood's Golden Composer
Donald Macleod looks at Waxman's back-to-back Academy Award success in 1950 and 1951, when he gained two in succession, having previously been nominated six times without ever winning. Featuring Waxman's moody, jazz-inflected score for A Place in the Sun, and what has been described as his masterpiece - his soundtrack to Billy Wilder's iconic film noir, Sunset Boulevard.
Suite (A Place in the Sun - film score)
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
Franz Waxman (conductor)
Sunset Boulevard (excerpts from the film score)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Joel McNeely (conductor).
WED 13:00 Afternoon Concert (b00bctzr)
Presented by Penny Gore.
Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2007
Another chance to hear tenor Mark Padmore and chamber ensemble Walking to Lubeck performing a programme of Baroque vocal music in the Bank of Scotland Queen's Hall Series from 2007's Edinburgh International Festival.
Bach: Cantata No 55 (Ich armer Mensch)
Buxtehude: Contrapunctus 1
Bach: Du bist bei mir
Buxtehude: Contrapunctus 2
Bach: Recitative and Aria (Komm, du susse Todesstunde)
Buxtehude: Klaglied; Contrapuctus 3
Bach: Cantata No 82 (Ich habe genug)
Plus Cello Concertos, Variations and Rhapsodies:
Series of performances by the BBC orchestras, with a focus on works for cello and orchestra as well as sets of variations.
Brahms: Tragic Overture, Op 81
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
Brahms: Concerto in A minor for violin, cello and orchestra, Op 102
Olivier Charlier (violin)
Alban Gerhardt (cello)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)
Haydn: Concerto in C for cello and orchestra, H VIIb 1
Daniel Muller-Schott (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op 56a
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).
WED 17:00 In Tune (b00bctpr)
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Pianist Yevgeny Sudbin plays live in the studio ahead of his performance at the Bath Festival, and film director John Bridcut talks about his Ralph Vaughan Williams documentary for BBC Four.
WED 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00bctzt)
Catherine Bott presents a concert given by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, with music inspired by the city of Paris. Featuring Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, inspired by a visit to the city, as well as Haydn's Hen Symphony, one of the six he wrote for concerts there.
Rachel Podger (violin)
Pavlo Beznosiuk (viola)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Ivan Fischer (conductor)
Rameau: Suite (Castor and Pollux)
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K364
Haydn: Symphony No 83 (La poule).
WED 20:45 Composer of the Week (b00bctzp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 21:45 Night Waves (b00bcv5r)
Philip Dodd is joined by historian Tony Judt to discuss his theory that we have entered an age of forgetting, sacrificing much of the West's post-war history. He argues it's a time of myth-making over understanding and denial over memory.
As the death tolls from China's earthquake and Burma's cyclone continue to mount, Philip and guests discuss the relationship between natural disaster and democracy. Is the very term 'natural disaster', a cop-out and how much truth is there in the theory that natural disasters can expose sham government and strengthen pro-democracy movements in the process?
Now that a 14-foot silkscreen print of Chairman Mao by Andy Warhol is going on sale in Hong Kong, and may fetch over a hundred million dollars, artist and sculptor David Mach and journalist Jonathan Fenby look at how the image of Mao has become detached from the reality of the man and his treatment of the Chinese people.
And Rupert Cornwall pays tribute to a quiet hero of the struggle for civil rights in America, who died in May 2008.
WED 22:30 Artist Focus (b00bctzy)
With Tom Service. Featuring clarinettist Sabine Meyer, with a recording of Brahms's Clarinet Trio in A minor with cellist Heinrich Schiff and pianist Rudolf Buchbinder.
WED 23:00 The Essay (b00bcv00)
Robert Graves and the Poetic Myth
Episode 3
Writer and broadcaster Graeme Fife explores the work of the poet and novelist Robert Graves.
Graeme recalls his visits to Graves's home in Mallorca and considers the role in his life of the poet Laura Riding, with whom he had a romantic and professional association as well as four other muses who followed.
WED 23:15 Late Junction (b00bcv02)
Verity Sharp's selections include recordings by Cretan singer Psarantonis, Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer and an excerpt from Herbert Howells's Requiem.
THURSDAY 22 MAY 2008
THU 01:00 Through the Night (b00bcv59)
Through the Night
With Susan Sharpe.
Including:
Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann: Fugue in C minor; Fugue in F
Lustig, Jacob Wilhelm: Sonata No 5 in A minor (excerpts); Overture No 1 in C minor
Muthel, Johann Gottfried: Fantasie in F
Turk, Daniel Gottlob: Idyllische Pastorale
Hasse, Johann Adolf: Concerto No 2 in G (Allegro)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Allegretto con variazoni in C, Wq 118 No 5
Haydn, Franz Joseph, arr Geert Bierling: Concerto per l'organo in C, H XVII 1 (Allegro molto)
Vivaldi, Antonio: Concerto for strings in D minor, RV 127 (Il Piccolino)
Fux, Johann Joseph: Julius Ascanius, King of Alba, K304
Britten, Benjamin: 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid for oboe solo, Op 49
Strauss, Richard: Metamorphosen
Lisinski, Vatroslav: Overture (Porin)
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich: Reverie in D flat, Op 24
Erkel, Ferenc: Swan Song
Nicolai, Otto: Horch, die Lerch singt in Hain (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Schubert, Franz, arr Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Standchen, D889
Moszkowski, Moritz: Guitarre
Pylkkanen, Tauno: Suite for oboe and strings, Op 32
Handel, George Friedrich: Oft on a plat of rising ground
Weber, Carl Maria von: Perpetuum mobile (Sonata No 1 in C)
Brahms, Johannes: Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein rein Herz, Op 29 No 2
Geminiani, Francesco: Concerto grosso No 12 in D minor (Folia)
Lazar, Milko: Passacaglia (Largo)
Schierbeck, Poul: Largo for string orchestra, Op 33
Hue, Georges: Phantasy
Strauss, Richard: Standchen; Morgen; Fur funfzehn Pfennige; Zueignung
Vitols, Jazeps: Melody
Jarnefelt, Armas: Kanteletar
Pachelbel, Johann: Jauchzet Gott alle Lande
Haydn, Joseph: Keyboard Sonata in D, H XVI 37
Poulenc, Francis: Sinfonietta for orchestra
Fesch, Willem de: Concerto No 3 in G, Op 5
Papa, Clemens non: Frais et gaillard
Stenhammar, Wilhelm: Varnatt.
THU 05:00 Through the Night (b00bcv5c)
Through the Night
Susan Sharpe concludes the programme with music by Geminiani, Lazar, Schierbeck, Hue, Strauss, Vitols, Jarnefelt, Pachelbel, Haydn, Poulenc, Fesch, Papa and Stenhammar.
THU 07:00 Breakfast (b00bdjpr)
Including:
Victoria: Kyrie (Requiem)
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (director)
Ravel: Introduction and Allegro for flute, clarinet, harp and string quartet
Mobius
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C sharp (Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Book 2)
Gary Cooper (harpsichord)
Brahms: Variations on a theme of Haydn
Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfmann (pianos)
Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon
Kathleen Ferrier (alto)
Frederick Stone (piano)
Webern: Three short pieces, Op 11
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Alexandre Tharaud (piano).
THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b00bcv5h)
With James Jolly.
Including:
Scarlatti: Sonata, K53
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)
Nielsen: Til snapsen; Paaske-Liljen
Male voices of the Canzone-Koret
Frans Rasmussen (conductor)
Barber: Piano Concerto
John Browning (piano)
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
Spohr: Mignon's Lied
Marjorie Patterson (soprano)
Daniel Sarge (piano)
Duparc: Romance de Mignon
Florence Bonnafous (soprano)
Maciej Pikulski (piano)
Berg: Mignon
Jessye Norman (soprano)
Ann Schein (piano)
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in D, Op 44 No 1
Talich Quartet
Haydn: Symphony No 53 in D (Imperial)
Concentus musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody, Op 53
Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
Bavarian Radio Choir and Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00bcv5k)
Franz Waxman
Sacred and Profane
Donald looks at some of Waxman's most eclectic works: a sinfonietta written between continents, a film score based on a book that scandalised America and an epic Biblical oratorio, composed after the tragic death of the composer's wife.
Sinfonietta for string orchestra and timpani
Los Angeles Festival orchestra
Franz Waxman (conductor)
Suite: Peyton Place (arr Patrick Russ)
Camerata Nordica
Joshua: A Dramatic Oratorio for Soloists, Narrator, Mixed Chorus and Orchestra (excerpt from Part 1)
Maximilian Schell (narrator)
Rod Gilfry (baritone)
Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)
Peter Buchi, Patrick Poole (tenor)
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Prague Philharmonia
James Sedares (conductor).
THU 13:00 Afternoon Concert (b00bcv5m)
Presented by Penny Gore.
Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2007
Another chance to hear early music chamber ensemble Nachtmusik, led by Eric Hoeprich, in a concert of music by Mozart and Haydn as part of the Bank of Scotland Queen's Hall series from the Edinburgh International Festival 2007.
Mozart, arr Stumpf: Die Zauberflote (excerpts)
Mozart: Selected Duos and Trios from K487, K292 and K410
Haydn: Divertimento in F
Mozart: Serenade in E flat, K375
Plus Cello Concertos, Variations, and Rhapsodies:
Series of performances by the BBC orchestras, with a focus on works for cello and orchestra as well as sets of variations.
Otmar Macha: Variations on a theme and the death of Jan Rychlik
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrusa (conductor)
Martinu: Parables
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrusa (conductor)
Suk: Pohadka - Fairy Tale Suite, Op 16
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrusa (conductor)
Dvorak: Cello Concerto
Sol Gabetta (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)
Gorecki: Symphony No 3, Op 36 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)
Susan Bullock (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
David Atherton (conductor).
THU 17:00 In Tune (b00bctpt)
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world.
THU 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00bcv5p)
Tom Service presents the second of two concerts from the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music given by the Ensemble Pierre Robert - a group known for its interpretations of French baroque music. With works occasioned by pauses in Louis XIV's many military campaigns including Lully's Idylle sur la paix and Brossard's Eucharistic prayer for peace, celebrating the joining of Strasbourg to the kingdom of France.
Ensemble Pierre Robert
Frederic Desenclos (director)
Lully: Idylle sur la paix
Brossard: Canticum eucharistum pro pace.
THU 20:45 Composer of the Week (b00bcv5k)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 21:45 Night Waves (b00bctzw)
Rana Mitter talks to American writer and neoconservative thinker Robert Kagan about his new book The Return of History and the End of Dreams, which debates the issues facing liberal democracies today.
A key advisor on foreign policy to Republican Party nominee John McCain, Kagan called for regime change in Iraq as far back as 1998 and is a vocal supporter of the war. He argues that it was wrong to assume the end of the Cold War would bring about global liberalism and that instead, the growing might of an autocratic China and Russia, along with the threat from Islamic fundamentalism, has created an ideologically unstable world in which liberal democracies will have to fight for survival and influence.
Also on the programme, critic Gillian Reynolds and writer and broadcaster Tristram Hunt join Rana for a view of a new panoramic cityscape of Liverpool by the artist Ben Johnson. A vast painting three years in the making, the Panorama takes in Liverpool's skyline from a point high above the Mersey.
THU 22:30 Artist Focus (b00bcv5t)
With Tom Service. Featuring clarinettist Sabine Meyer, with a recording of Copland's Clarinet Concerto with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ingo Metzmacher.
THU 23:00 The Essay (b00bcv5w)
Robert Graves and the Poetic Myth
Episode 4
Writer and broadcaster Graeme Fife explores the work of the poet and novelist Robert Graves.
Graeme considers the part sexual love, sexless poetic love and marital love all played in Graves's later work.
THU 23:15 Late Junction (b00bcv5y)
Verity Sharp presents music including Nordic roots from singer Anders Larrson, choral music from the Spanish Renaissance by Diego Ortiz and a selection from the latest album by electronic pioneers Autechre.
FRIDAY 23 MAY 2008
FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b00bcvd7)
Through the Night
With Susan Sharpe.
Including:
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Symphony No 8 in F, Op 93
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Symphony No 2 in C, Op 61
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): La valse (for two pianos)
Alkan, Charles-Valentin (1813-1888): Grand Duo concertant for violin and piano in F sharp minor, Op 21
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Minuet 1 and 2 in F; Fantasia in D; Andante e sostenuto in G; Presto in C; Fuga a 4 in C, W1 119/7
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Was erblicke ich? (Daphne, Op 82)
Fischer, Johann Caspar Ferdinand (c.1670-1746): 4 Preludes and Fugues
Poulenc, Francis (Jean Marcel) (1899-1963): 7 chansons
Marteau, Henri (1874-1934): Quartet No 3 in C
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): La Campanella
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto in C for sopranino recorder, RV 444
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Violin Sonata in G, K301
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918): The Bride Arrives
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op 27
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Polonaise for piano in F sharp minor, Op 44.
FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b00bdjsg)
Including:
Handel: My breast with tender pity swells (Hercules)
Jennifer Smith (soprano)
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Clementi: Sonata in G minor, Op 7 No 3
Howard Shelley (piano)
Wagner: Overture (Tannhauser)
Concert Arts Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)
Telemann: Trio Sonata in G minor
Amsterdam Baroque Soloists
Ton Koopman (director)
Barber: Essay No 2 for Orchestra
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
Boccherini: Guitar Quintet No 4 in D
Narciso Yepes (guitar)
Lucero Tena (castanet)
Melos Quartet.
FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b00bcvdf)
With James Jolly.
Including:
Chopin: Polonaise No 6 in A flat, Op 53 (Heroic)
John Ogdon (piano)
Weber: Introduction, Theme and Variations for clarinet and string quartet
Sabine Meyer (clarinet)
Philharmonia Quartet, Berlin
Brahms: Begrabnisgesang
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
Beethoven: Waldstein Sonata, Op 53
Emil Gilels (piano)
Goldschmidt: Clarinet Concerto
Sabine Meyer (clarinet)
Orchestra of the Berlin Comic Opera
Berthold Goldschmidt (conductor)
Handel: Saul, HWV 53 (excerpt)
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Neal Davies (bass)
Andreas Scholl (countertenor)
Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Rob Howarth (organ)
Gabrieli Consort and Players
Paul McCreesh (conductor)
Rubbra: Symphony No 4, Op 53
Philharmonia Orchestra
Norman Del Mar (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00bcvdh)
Franz Waxman
Epitaphs and Impressions
Contrasting two colourful showpieces for orchestra with the sombre late song-cycle Song of Terezin, Waxman's setting of poems by children interned in the Terezin ghetto in Czechoslovakia.
Goyana: La Marquesa de Santa Cruz
Cristina Ortiz (piano)
Orquestra Simfonica de Barcelona I Nacional de Catalunya
Laurence Foster (conductor)
The Ride to Dubno (Taras Bulba)
MGM Studio Orchestra
Franz Waxman (conductor)
The Song of Terezin
Della Jones (mezzo-soprano)
Berlin Symphony Orchestra
Lawrence Foster (conductor).
FRI 13:00 Afternoon Concert (b00bcvdk)
Presented by Penny Gore.
Including Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2007:
Another chance to hear a recital from 2007's Edinburgh International Festival from the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, featuring Finnish pianist and composer Olli Mustonen giving the UK premiere of the piano version of one of his own sonatas.
Schumann: Scheherazade; Kleine Romanze; Erinnerung; Reiterstueck; Langsam und mit Ausdruck zu spielen; Winterszeit 1 and 2 (Album fur die Jugend, Op 68)
Bach: 15 Three-Part Inventions, BWV 787-801
Schumann: Gesange der Fruhe, Op 133
Mustonen: Jehkin livana
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No 6, Op 82
Plus Cello Concertos, Variations and Rhapsodies:
Concluding a series of performances by BBC orchestras, with a focus on works for cello and orchestra as well as sets of variations.
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Sunwook Kim (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
Schumann: Trio No 1 in D minor for piano and strings, Op 63
Ondine Trio
D'Albert: Cello Concerto in C, Op 20
Alban Gerhardt (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar (conductor)
Elgar: Enigma Variations
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor).
FRI 17:00 In Tune (b00bctpw)
Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Father Karl from the Cistercian monastery of Stift Heiligenkreuz in Austria talks about the monks' release of Gregorian chant which came about as a result of a video they placed on the internet. Sean is also joined by violinst Fabio Biondi, who directs the English Concert in a programme of Italian Baroque music at the Wigmore Hall, London.
FRI 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00bcvdm)
Ian Skelly introduces a concert given at the Barbican in London featuring Argentinian pianinst and BBC New Generation Artist Ingrid Fliter, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The programme includes a work by Chopin and a perfomance of Czech violinist-composer Josef Suk's Asrael Symphony, a work dedicated to his late teacher and wife.
Ingrid Fliter (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2
Suk: Asrael Symphony.
FRI 20:45 Composer of the Week (b00bcvdh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 21:45 The Verb (b00bcvdp)
Ian McMillan presents the weekly cabaret of language, talking to hip-hop musician and performance poet Saul Williams, who also performs in studio. Williams is an internationally-renowned spoken word artist, who has released several solo albums and also worked with the likes of The Fugees and Erykah Badu.
FRI 22:30 Jazz Library (b00bcvdr)
McCoy Tyner
To coincide with a short UK tour, pianist McCoy Tyner joins Alyn Shipton to look back at his recorded work. He discusses his many albums as a bandleader and soloist, his work with John Coltrane, with whose band he came to fame in the 1960s, and his earlier discs with the Benny Golson/Art Farmer Jazztet.
FRI 23:30 Jazz on 3 (b00bcvdt)
Scorch Trio
Jez Nelson presents a chance to hear a Scandinavian jazz-metal gig from the Scorch Trio in concert at the London Jazz Festival 2002. Founded by Finnish composer and guitarist Raoul Bjorkenheim, the trio also features bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and drummer Mark Sanders. The gig was a part of the Adventures In Sound series jointly curated by Jazz on 3 and the London Jazz Festival with the aim of providing a performance space for experimental combinations and unusual collaborations.