SUNDAY 08 AUGUST 2010

SUN 00:00 The Early Music Show (b00n6t8d)
Carl Heinrich Graun

Catherine Bott delves into the life and intriguing music of the mid-18th century German composer Carl Heinrich Graun - not necessarily a famous name these days, but in the mid 1700s, Graun, along with Hasse, was considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera.

As a young man, Graun had his fingers in many musical pies, and by the time he reached his early twenties, was an accomplished singer, cellist, keyboard-player and composer. He spent nine happy years in the service of the Duke of Brunswick, where, in 1733, he came onto Prince Frederick of Prussia's radar, and before long, Graun was given a plum job at Frederick's court. Soon after that, the music-loving Prince Frederick acceded to the throne, and, as Frederick the Great, began to challenge the world on all fronts. While the new emperor prepared his armies to invade Silesia, his trusty Kapellmeister Graun set off to scout the opera houses of Italy and bring back the best talent to Berlin.

Frederick was an ardent opera enthusiast and was determined to turn Berlin into an international operatic centre. To that end, he commissioned two new stages from the architect & painter, George Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, both inaugurated within twelve months of one another, with new productions of operas by Graun. The first, was Graun's setting of "Rodelinda" for the theatre at the royal residence in the Berliner Stadtschloß, and the second, in December 1742, was for the opera house in central Berlin, at Unter den Linden, which opened to huge critical acclaim with Graun's magnificent "Cleopatre et Cesare".


SUN 01:00 Through the Night (b00t6ts4)
Jonathan Swain presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters

1:01 AM
Ovalle, Jaime [1894-1955]
Azulao

1:03 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Auf Flugen des Gesanges (On Wings of Song) (Op.34 no.2)

1:06 AM
Yradier, Sebastian [1809-1965]
La Paloma

1:10 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
No.4 Als die alte Mutter (Op.55)
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) Sinfonia of London, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)

1:14 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Caprice bohemien (Op.12)
Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Verbitsky (conductor)

1:34 AM
Traditional American arr. Burleigh, Harry T [1866-1949]
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

1:38 AM
Traditional Catalan,
El Mariner [The Sailor]
Rossinyol (Nightingale)

1:42 AM
Paladilhe, Emile [1844-1926]
Psyche

1:46 AM
Halffter, Ernesto [1905-1989]
Ai que linda moca
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) Geoffrey Parsons (1929-1995) (piano)

1:49 AM
Pandolfi Mealli, Giovanni Antonio (fl.1660-1669)
Sonata No.6 for violin and continuo 'La Sabbatina'
Andrew Manze (violin), Richard Egarr (harpsichord)

1:58 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
La flute enchantee from Sheherazade

2:01 AM
Respighi, Ottorino [1879-1936]
Stornellatrice

2:03 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Standchen
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional, Pedro de Freitas Branco (1896-1963) (conductor)

2:06 AM
Mompou, Federico [1893-1987]
Damunt de tu, nomes les flors
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) Gonzalo Soriano (1913-1972) (piano)

2:11 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Standchen D.920
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Manuel Garcia Morante (piano)

2:15 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
An die Musik D.547
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) Manuel Garcia Morante (piano)

2:19 AM
Berlioz, Hector [1803-1869]
No. 5 Absence from Les Nuits d'ete for voice and orchestra (Op.7)
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch (1897-1968) (conductor)

2:24 AM
Montsalvatge, Xavier [1912-2002]
Canto Negro
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, Rafael Frubeck de Burgos (conductor)

2:26 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Dances Concertantes for chamber orchestra
Polish Radio Orchestra, Warsaw, Krzystzof Slowinski (conductor)

2:47 AM
Toldra , Eduard [1895-1962]
Canco incerta

2:49 AM
Maig
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) Orquesta Ciudad de Barcelona, Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)

2:54 AM
Traditional Catalan, arr. Monstsalvagte, Xavier [1912-2002]
El cant dels ocells
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) Lluis Claret (cello) Orquestra Ciudad de Barcelona, Luis Garcia Navarro (1941-2001) (conductor)

3:01 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Symphony No.7 in A major (Op.92)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)

3:41 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Estampes for piano
Roger Woodward (piano)

3:57 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Sinfonia Concertante for oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon in E flat major (K.297b)
Bart Schneemann (oboe), Harmen de Boer (clarinet), Jacob Slagter (horn), Ronald Karten (bassoon), Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Lev Markiz (conductor)

4:27 AM
Cavalli, Francesco (1602-1676)
Dixit Dominus a 8
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)

4:38 AM
Geijer, Erik Gustaf (1783-1847)
Sonata for Piano (four hands) in F minor
Stefan Bojsten (piano), Anders Kilstrom (piano)

5:01 AM
Kodaly, Zoltan (1882-1967)
A–regek
Hungarian Radio Choir, Janos Ferencsik (conductor)

5:09 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in E major (L.23)
Sae-Jung Kim (female) (piano)

5:14 AM
Devienne, Francois (1759-1803)
Trio No.2 in C major
Valentinas Gelgotas (flute), Vitalija Raskeviciute (viola), Gediminas Derus (cello)

5:24 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto for keyboard and string orchestra No.4 in A major (BWV.1055)
Lars-Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord), Ensemble 415

5:39 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Quartet for strings in C minor (D.103) [fragment] 'Satz'
Tilev String Quartet

5:49 AM
Roussel, Albert (1869-1937)
Bacchus et Arianne (Op.43 no.2)
Orchestre National de France, Charles Dutoit (conductor)

6:09 AM
Strauss, Johann jr. (1825-1899) arranged by Berg, Alban (1885-1935)
Wein, Weib und Gesang
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor)

6:19 AM
Crusell, Bernhard Henrik (1775-1838)
Introduction et Air Suedois (Op.12)
Anne-Marja Korimaa (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)

6:30 AM
Smetana, Bedrich (1824 -1884)
String Quartet No.1 in E minor 'From My Life'
Vertavo Quartet.


SUN 07:00 Breakfast (b00t6tsz)
Sunday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Breakfast. Including music by Gibbons, Purcell, Vaughan Williams, Britten and Macmillan.


SUN 10:00 Sunday Morning (b00t6tt1)
Fairytales, Myths and Magic

Suzy Klein goes down to the musical woods today, in search of music about fairy tales, myths and magic. As well as music by Humperdinck, Dvorak, Schumann, Ravel, and Janacek, there are the usual features including new CD releases, Suzy's weekly gig guide, Mark Swartzentruber's raid on the archive, and as usual, your emails.

sundaymorning@bbc.co.uk

A Perfectly Normal Production for BBC Radio 3
Producer: Lyndon Jones.


SUN 12:00 Private Passions (b00t6ttk)
Tracy Chevalier

Michael Berkeley's guest is the best-selling novelist Tracy Chevalier, whose 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', inspired by Vermeer's enigmatic painting, has sold 4 million copies worldwide and was made into a film starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johanssen. Her novels so far have been historically based, and include 'The Lady and the Unicorn', inspired by a famous set of medieval tapestries in the Cluny Museum in Paris. Her latest book, 'Remarkable Creatures', tells the story of two early 19th-century female fossil-hunters whose remarkable discoveries pre-dated Darwin and upset the establishment status quo.

Tracy Chevalier , who grew up in Washington DC and was educated at Oberlin College, Ohio, and then at the University of East Anglia, has lived in London for over 20 years. She played the clarinet as a child, and her music choices begin with two extracts from symphonies featuring a clarinet solo - Schubert's 'Unfinished' and Dvorak's 'From the New World' - as well as Brahms's Second Clarinet Sonata. Her choices also include two much-loved piano pieces, Schubert's Impromptu in G flat major played by Canadian pianist Paul Berkowitz and Schumann's 'Of Strange Lands and People', played by Alfred Brendel; as well as the Prologue to Leonard Bernstein's masterpiece 'West Side Story'; a piece of plainchant from a medieval part-book found in the Spanish monastery of Montserrat, which inspired Tracy Chevalier while she was writing 'The Lady and the Unicorn', and 'Once in a Lifetime' by Talking Heads.


SUN 13:00 The Early Music Show (b00t6v4b)
Orlando Gibbons

Lucie Skeaping looks back on the life and music of the Jacobean prodigy, Orlando Gibbons. Should we be surprised that he was one of Canadian pianist, Glenn Gould's favourite composers? - the range and variety of Gibbons' remarkably accomplished output continues to inspire musicians from many different musical disciplines. Lucie Skeaping presents a cross-section of his works, not least his most famous piece, "The Silver Swan".


SUN 14:00 Radio 3 Requests (b00t6v4d)
Elgar, Lennox Berkeley, Arne Nordheim

Fiona Talkington plays out a selection of your broad-ranging requests with two helpings of Elgar, including As Torrents in Summer (from King Olaf). Tenor James Gilchrist with harpist Alison Nicholls conjure up the rich Elizabethan sound world of Lennox Berkeley's Five Herrick Poems, and there's bewitching beauty in Arne Nordheim's work for violin and electronics, Partita for Paul. Today's guest requester is the young violinist Duncan Thomson of the National Youth Orchestra.


SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (b00t20vj)
A 1989 archive broadcast from Canterbury Cathedral.

Introit: Ubi caritas et amor (Durufle)
Responses: Tomkins
Psalm: 73 (Turle, Ouseley)
First Lesson: Numbers 15 vv27-36
Hymn: Jesus, whose all-redeeming love (Stracathro)
Canticles: Bairstow in G
Second Lesson: John 8 vv1-11
The Litany (Ridout)
Organ Voluntary: Dies sind die heil'gen zehen Gebot, BWV 678 (Bach)

Organist and Master of the Choristers: Dr Allan Wicks
Assistant Organist: Michael Harris.


SUN 16:00 BBC Proms (b00t867v)
2010

Prom 30 - BBC Symphony Chorus and London Brass

BBC PROMS 2010

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Choral music with a French flavour in this Prom matinee with the BBC Symphony Chorus conducted by its Director, Stephen Jackson.

Bookends to the programme are two masterworks from the 20th century a cappella choral repertoire. Daniel-Lesur's Le Cantique de Cantiques, composed in 1953, is a beautifully-shaped and lusciously-scored setting of words from the Biblical Song of Songs, in which the eroticism of the ancient texts is portrayed in music of dreamy sensuality. Poulenc's Figure Humaine confronts the dark reality of life in Occupied France and is one of the most thrilling moments in the entire choral repertoire.

In between, two works for brass by Toru Takemitsu - music of harmonic elegance and dream-like stillness, and a new piece by Stephen Montague, exploring the joys of language and human utterance.

Daniel-Lesur: Le cantique des cantiques
Takemitsu: Garden Rain*
Stephen Montague: Wilful Chants (BBC commission: world premiere)
Takemitsu: Signals from Heaven*
Poulenc: Figure humaine

BBC Symphony Chorus
Soloists from Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir
London Brass
O Duo
Stephen Jackson (conductor)
*Andrew Crowley (conductor)

EXTRA NOTES:

Daniel-Lesur's Le Cantique de Cantiques, composed in 1953, is a beautifully-shaped and lusciously-scored setting of words from the Biblical Song of Songs, in which the eroticism of the ancient texts is portrayed in music of dreamy sensuality.

Poulenc's Figure Humaine confronts the dark reality of life in Occupied France and Composed to be performed on the long-awaited day of liberation, Poulenc's cantata - setting words by poet-turned-Resistance-member Paul Eluard - is a paean to his homeland, culminating in a hymn to liberty which is one of the most thrilling moments in the entire choral repertoire.

Toru Takemitsu - though Japanese - counted Claude Debussy as a major influence and his music, like much of Debussy's, has a harmonic elegance and dream-like stillness. In contrast, Stephen Montague's new piece - a BBC commission here receiving its first performance - is an energetic exploration of the joys of language and human utterance, a virtuoso tapestry of many different world languages and even some that don't exist!


SUN 17:45 Discovering Music (b00t83k6)
Nielsen's 4th Symphony - The Inextinguishable

Tom Service is joined by the BBC Philharmonic and conductor John Storgards to explore Nielsen's 4th Symphony, one of the most stirring and intriguing works the Dane ever composed. Nielsen himself wrote of the piece: Music is life and like it inextinguishable.


SUN 19:30 BBC Proms (b00t6vch)
Prom 31

Part 1

BBC PROMS 2010

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Sir Andrew Davis returns to the BBC Proms as Conductor Laureate of the BBC Symphony Orchestra with a typically wide-ranging programme of music whose pairings reflect musical homages. 'Mozart always smiled; his music also smiled,' said Messiaen of Mozart - which explains the title of his Mozart tribute Un sourire. That prefaces one of Mozart's ebullient piano concertos, and the second half of the concert couples one of Brahms's greatest works with a tribute from one of his English admirers

Messiaen: Un sourire
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K453

Louis Lortie (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Friday 13th August at 2pm.


SUN 20:20 Twenty Minutes (b00t83k8)
My Summer Job

AL Kennedy

The award-winning author AL Kennedy's grandmother was an exacting, furious woman who loved the particularities of wood. A meticulous, experienced French polisher, she knew how to apply thin alchemical layers of varnishes and lacquers to make surfaces gleam with a deep, inner shine. AL Kennedy describes the charcteristic "cheap whip and spring of young pine, or the dry and intelligent complications of restored mahogany, the sharp density of beech, the melancholy heat in oak", all qualities that were familiar to her grandmother.

In this moving testimony to her grandmother's hard won craft and exacting skill, AL Kennedy honours the work of a generation of artisan craftsmen and women.

Producer: Mark Smalley.


SUN 20:40 BBC Proms (b00t6vck)
Prom 31

Part 2

BBC PROMS 2010

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Sir Andrew Davis returns to the BBC Proms as Conductor Laureate of the BBC Symphony Orchestra with a typically wide-ranging programme of music whose pairings reflect musical homages. 'Mozart always smiled; his music also smiled,' said Messiaen of Mozart - which explains the title of his Mozart tribute Un sourire. That prefaces one of Mozart's ebullient piano concertos, and the second half of the concert couples one of Brahms's greatest works with a tribute from one of his English admirers

Parry: Elegy for Brahms
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor

Louis Lortie (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Friday 13th August at 2pm.


SUN 22:00 Sunday Feature (b00t6vcm)
After a Dancemaker Dies

An urgent and lively documentary asking can - and should - modern dances survive the deaths of their makers? Isn't dance an art of the present tense? Presented by the dance programme-maker, Frances Byrnes.

Merce Cunningham and the German dance-theatre maker Pina Bausch both made masterworks which have been seminal in the development of modern dance theatre. Both made a world onstage which did not exist anywhere else, and kingdoms off stage too: typically for the pioneers of modern movement, both established their own companies, named after them and dancing only their works. Both choreographers changed their works, for different dancers, spaces, times. Now they leave recordings of the art, not the art itself. The art only exists in live performance.

This programme visits the Cunningham Studio in New York and Tanztheater Wuppertal to find out from their exceptional movers and shakers (Robert Swinston, Patricia Lent in the US, Dominique Mercy in Germany): What will happen to the dances? What qualities will make a few of their dances live on? Will having a Legacy Plan (as the Merce Cunningham Trust has) help?

We visit Josephine Ann Endicott (re-staging Kontakthof after Bausch) and Jeannie Steele (reviving RainForest without Cunningham): what are the challenges to keeping the dance alive - neither in aspic, nor overly altered?

It's early days for them.

After all, most dances by most dancemakers, have probably died. Isn't that what dance goers love, the romance of loss and the yearning for another transient, transcendent moment?

Barbara Horgan (Director of the Balanchine Foundation) and Kenneth MacMillan's widow, Lady MacMillan, both inheritors and licensers of ballets, give a longer perspective of what lasts - and how.

Or should we let go? Dance is about now, about being in life, not revival. Nancy Umanoff, the Executive Director of Mark Morris Dance Group, hasn't persuaded Mark to make a plan for his group's dances yet.


SUN 22:45 Words and Music (b00t6vcp)
The Old Refrain

This edition of Words and Music is all about refrain. Whether it appears in a poem such as Easter, 1916 by Yeats or in the idée fixe of Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique; whether its anguished as in Villanelle by William Empson or wonderfully ingenious as in Dana Gioia's double triolet - The Country Wife.

Why are we fascinated by the idea of repetition? Rhythm is meaningless without it. It gives shape and subtlety to music and poetry and by its modulated insistence often unlocks the door to our most complex feelings and thoughts. We use past experience as a tool to understand what's happening to us in the present and what might happen to us in the future.

The actors Samuel West and Nancy Carroll read the poems and count on a supporting musical cast that includes Brahms, Tavener and Ravel.


SUN 23:45 Jazz Line-Up (b00t6vcr)
Dr Lonnie Smith

Jazz Line-Up this week features one of the great Hammond Organ heroes of all time, Dr Lonnie Smith. Recorded at this year's Glasgow International Jazz Festival, Dr Smith with his guitarist, Jonathan Kreisburg and drummer, Jamire Williams with tracks from his current CD Spiral and demonstrates how the Hammond can groove in either pianissimo or triple forte.

Dr .Lonnie has recorded and performed with Randy Brecker, John Abercrombie,, Ronnie Cuber, Kenny Garrett, Lenny White, Reuben Wilson, Lee Morgan, David 'Fat Head' Newman, King Curtis, Blue Mitchell, Joe Lovano, Jimmy McGriff, Frank Foster, Ron Carter, Grover Washington, Jr., Dizzy Gillespie.

This Concert demonstrates that Dr Lonnie (and his vocalise) grooves through the repertoire and with his left foot provides the walking bass line (a technique often missed out by organists).