SATURDAY 29 JANUARY 2011

SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b00xwjgz)
Presented by Jonathan Swain

1:01 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Quintet for strings (K.516) in G minor
Diamond Ensemble with guest Nikolaj Znaider, violin

1:36 AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
2 Pictures for orchestra (Sz.46) (Op.10)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Bystrik Rezucha (conductor)

1:52 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Symphony No.1 in D major (Op.25), 'Classical'
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Michel Tabachnik (conductor)

2:07 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Serenade (K.361) in B flat major for 13 wind instruments
Diamond Ensemble with guest Nikolaj Znaider (director)

3:01 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907)
Holberg Suite (Op.40)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor)

3:21 AM
Rodrigo, Joaquín (1901-1999)
Concierto Serenata for harp and orchestra (1952)
Nicanor Zabaleta (harp), Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

3:43 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Variations on a Theme of Corelli (Op.42)
Duncan Gifford (piano)

4:04 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Sonata da chiesa in E minor (Op.3 No.5)
Camerata Tallin: Jan Oun (flute), Mati Karmas (violin), Heiki Mätlik (guitar)

4:12 AM
Anonymous
3 Sephardic Romances
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall (director)

4:21 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1916)
Sonata for cello and piano in D minor
Zara Nelsova (cello), Grant Johannesen (piano)

4:32 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707)
Missa brevis (BuxWV.114)
Marieke Steenhoek (soprano) Miriam Meyer (soprano) Bogna Bartosz (contralto) Marco van de Klundert (tenor) Klaus Mertens (bass), Ton Koopman (conductor)

4:42 AM
Escosa, John B. (1928-1991)
Three Dances for 2 harps
Julia Shaw and Nora Bumanis (harps)

4:49 AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
Gai Paris for wind ensemble
The Wind Ensemble of the Hungarian Radio Orchestra

5:01 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Overture - from 'Don Giovanni' (K.527)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Barlow (conductor)

5:07 AM
Lauber, Joseph (1864-1952)
Trois Morceaux Caracteristiques for solo flute (Op.47)
Marianne Keller Stucki (flute)

5:14 AM
Power, Leonel (d. 1445)
Salve Regina
The Hilliard Ensemble

5:21 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), orchestrated. Anton Webern (1883-1945)
6 German Dances (D.820)
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown (conductor)

5:30 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
Sonatina for clarinet & piano (1956)
Timothy Lines (clarinet), Philippe Cassard (piano)

5:42 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
String Quartet No.2 in F major (1837-40)
Camerata Quartet

5:59 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Jozef (1732-1809)
Symphony no.95 (H.1.95) in C minor
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Marek Janowski (conductor)

6:19 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
3 Airs from Vauxhall Gardens, arranged by Steele-Perkins for trumpet and orchestra
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), The King's Consort, Robert King (director)

6:30 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Serenade for string orchestra (Op.6) in E flat major
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, James Clark (conductor).


SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b00y225s)
Saturday - Katie Derham

Katie Derham presents Breakfast. Music includes a Vivaldi Concerto performed by the Freiburg Baroque, Sir Charles Mackerras conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Dvorak's Scherzo Capriccioso, an aria from Puccini's Tosca sung by Renata Tebaldi, and the Polovtsian Dances by Alexander Borodin performed by the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell.


SAT 09:00 CD Review (b00y225v)
Building a Library - Liszt: Annees de Pelerinage (Bk 2)

Andrew McGregor introduces CD Review, Radio 3's weekly programme devoted to what's new in the world of recorded music, including:

9.05am
DEBUSSY: “Orchestral works Vol.5”: La boite a joujoux; Estampes Nos 1 & 2; L’isle joyeuse; 6 epigraphes antiques
Orchestre National de Lyon / Jun Markle
Naxos 8.572568 (CD)

SAINT-SAENS: Music for the Prix de Rome inc. Ivanhoe; Le Retour de Virgine; Motets au Saint Sacrement
Flemish Radio Choir / Brussels Philharmonic / Herve Niquet (conductor)
Glossa GCD 922210 (2 CDs)

BIZET: Clovis et Clotilde; Te Deum
Katarina Javonavic (soprano), Philippe De (tenor), Mark Schnaible (bass) / Choeur Regional Nord – Pas-de-Calais / Orchestre National de Lille / Jean-Claude Casadesus (conductor)

9.30am Building a Library
David Owen Norris surveys the currently available recordings of Liszt’s Années de Pélerinage, book 2: Italy, and makes a top recommendation.

Top choice:
Alan Marks (piano)
Nimbus NI5226 (CD)

10.20am New Releases
Martin Cotton joins Andrew to discuss new orchestral releases, including extracts from the following discs:

VICTOR DE SABATA: Il Mercante di Venezia
Malaga Philharmonic / Aldo Ceccato (conductor)
Discantica 228 (CD)

KHACHATURIAN: Spartacus; Gayaneh – excerpts
Bournemouth S O / Kirill Karabits (conductor)
Onyx 4063 (CD)

PROKOFIEV: Lieutenant Kije; The Love of Three Oranges – suites; The Ugly Duckling
Jacqueline Porter (soprano) / Andrei Laptev (baritone) / Sydney Symphony / Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
Exton EXCL-00049 (Hybrid SACD)

PROKOFIEV: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5
Sydney Symphony / Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
Exton EXCL-00042 (Hybrid SACD)

HINDEMITH: Complete music for viola and orchestra
Lawrence Power (viola) / BBC Scottish S O / David Atherton (conductor)
Hyperion CDA67774 (CD)

11am Recent Releases: Bargain-price Collections

HERMANN BAUMANN COLLECTION: Horn concertos by Gliere, Haydn, Mozart, Telemann, Weber et al.
Hermann Baumann (horn) / Leonard Hokanson (piano) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / St Paul Chamber Orchesta / Leipzig Gewandhausorchester / Folkwang Horn Ensemble / Iona Brown, Pinchas Zukerman, Kurt Masur (conductors)
Newton Classics 8802035 (7 CDs)

HEINZ HOLLIGER COLLECTION: Works by Vivaldi, Telemann, Albinoni, Haydn, Mozart, Martin, Honegger, Martinu et al.
Artists include: Heinz Holliger (Oboe), Hermann Baumann (Horn), Maurice Bourgue (Oboe), John Constable (Piano), Maria Teresa Garatti (Harpsichord), Ursula Holliger (Harp), Aurele Nicolet (Flute), Klaus Thunemann (Bassoon), Iona Brown, Eliahu Inbal, Raymond Leppard, Sir Neville Marriner, David Zinman (conductors)
Brilliant Classics 94054 (10 CDs)

11.45am Disc of the Week
LUTOSLAWSKI: Orchestral works Vol.1: Concerto for Orchestra; Symphony No.3; Chain 3
BBC S O / Edward Gardner (conductor)
Chandos CHSA 5082 (Hybrid SACD)


SAT 12:15 Music Feature (b00y225x)
Nights in a Divided Spain

Thoughts of Spanish music mostly conjure up images of exoticism or flamenco, frequently written by composers from outside Spain itself. But within Spain a national music was flourishing at the start of the 20th century, with Manuel de Falla leading the way. Dermot Clinch explores the meaning of 'Spanishness' for native composers such as Falla, Joaquin Rodrigo and Roberto Gerhard (later exiled in England), and looks at their music against the backdrop of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1930s and 40s: the creation of the Republic followed by the Nationalist uprising, the ensuing Civil War and the subsequent regime of General Franco.

With contributions from the musicologists Carol Hess, Graham Wade and Samuel Llano and from the historian Paul Preston, along with the insider's viewpoint from Madrid with Cecilia Rodrigo, daughter of the composer and keeper of his memory and archive.


SAT 13:00 The Early Music Show (b00y225z)
Lully's Bellerophon

Catherine Bott samples Lully's opera "Bellérophon" with Christophe Rousset and his group Les Talens Lyriques who recently gave the first performance in modern times of this hugely successful tragedie en lyrique by Lully, in the sumptuous Opera Royal at Versailles, after Rousset's discovery of missing pages of the score in a bookshop in Paris. Rousset talks about his find, and about the qualities that make Lully's opera stand out as a masterpiece.

Lully was one of opera's most significant figures and this opera was one of his most successful. It originally ran for nine months when it was given at the Palais Royal on 31st January 1697. But non-French speaking audiences often encounter difficulties appreciating Lully's dramatic style and some of the subtleties of his declamatory word setting. Rousset offers some insights as to why these pioneering and influential works are worth wider appreciation.

The programme includes comments from Rousset and from Bellérophon himself - tenor Cyril Auvity - as well as highlights from the Versailles performance.

Libretto by Thomas Corneille.

Recorded in the Opera Royal of the Chateau de Versailles, France, and featuring:

Cyril Auvity, Bellérophon
Céline Scheen, Philonoé
Ingrid Perruche, Sténobeé
Jennifer Borghi, Argie/Pallas
Evgeniy Alexiev, Pan/Jobate (Le Roy)
Jean Teitgen, Apollon/Amisodar
Robert Getchell, Bacchis/La Pythie

With the Chamber Choir of Namur and Les Talens Lyriques directed by Christophe Rousset.

Music played:

1. Overture

2. Prologue - Chorus: "Chantons le plus grand mortels"

3. Act 1 Scene 5 - Chorus of Amozones & Soloymes: "Faisons cesser nos alarmes"

4. Act 2 Scene 6 - Scene with Amisodar and Chorus of Magiciens: "Que ce jardin se change"

5. Act 2 Scene 2 - Duet for Bellérophon and Philonoé: "Que tout parle, a l'envy"

6. Act 3 Scene 5 - Sacrificial scene: "Le malheur qui nous accable"

7. Act 2 Scene 3: Bellérophon and Stenobeé: "Ma présence ici te fait peine"

8. Act 5 Final Scene: "Connoissez le fils de Neptune"


SAT 14:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00xnbjm)
Christianne Stotijn

Live from London's Wigmore Hall the Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn, with pianist Julius Drake, performs two groups of songs by Tchaikovsky. Between them, the centrepiece of their recital is one of Shostakovich's last works, his settings of Six Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva. Fiona Talkington introduces the concert.

Tchaikovsky: T'was in the early spring; The fearful moment; The stars looked tenderly upon us; Had I only known
Shostakovich: Six poems of Marina Tsvetaeva
Tchaikovsky: Why?; My guardian, my angel, my friend; None but the lonely heart; Can it be day?

Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano)
Julius Drake (piano).


SAT 15:00 Music Planet (b00xnhn6)
The Arctic

For this major series to accompany BBC One's 'Human Planet', Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran go in search of music from some of the world's remotest locations.. This week: the Arctic.

Greenland: Lucy greets the New Year with music, and hears the mighty voice of Greenland's greatest singer, Rasmus Lyberth.

Norway: Andy goes reindeer-herding under the midnight sun with Human Planet's May-Torril, who also happens to be an accomplished singer in the Sami tradition of yoiking.

Canada: Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq introduces us to her village in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, and sings the intensely soulful music of the western Inuit.

Siberia: Andy meets musicians from Yakutsk, the coldest city on earth, where long winter nights are whiled away with the help of a Jew's harp.

Producers Roger Short and James Parkin.


SAT 16:00 Jazz Library (b00y2261)
Sonny Stitt

Sonny Stitt was one of the finest bebop saxophonists, transferring the style of Charlie Parker to the tenor instrument, as well as developing his own approach to the alto. Fellow saxophonist Alan Barnes joins Alyn Shipton to choose the best examples of Stitt's work, including his recordings with Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and Sonny Rollins as well as the many sessions he led himself.


SAT 17:00 Jazz Record Requests (b00y2263)
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.


SAT 18:00 Opera on 3 (b00y2265)
Live from the Met

Puccini's Tosca

Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York: Tosca, Puccini's tale of love, lust, corruption and revenge.
In this revival of Luc Bondy's dramatic production, Sondra Radvanovsky sings the title role for the first time at the Met, starring as the prima donna with the firebrand artist lover, who thinks she knows how to outwit the notorious Baron Scarpia - the vicious Police Chief, who will stop at nothing to have her.
Presented by Margaret Juntwait with guest commentator Ira Siff.

Floria Tosca, a celebrated singer ..... Sondra Radvanovsky (Soprano)
Mario Cavaradossi, a painter ..... Marcelo Álvarez (Tenor)
Baron Scarpia, chief of police ..... Falk Struckmann (Baritone)
Cesare Angelotti, former Consul of the Roman Rep. ..... Peter Volpe (Bass)
A Sacristan ..... Paul Plishka (Bass)
Spoletta, a police agent ..... Dennis Petersen (Tenor)
Sciarrone, a gendarme ..... James Courtney (Bass)
A Jailer ..... Harold Wilson (Bass)
Chorus and Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera
Marco Armiliato ..... Conductor.


SAT 21:30 The Wire (b00y2267)
This Isn't Romance

In-Sook Chappell's moving story of two children who lose one another in early childhood, but find one another again as lonely adults in the heart of the city of Seoul, South Korea.

Cast:
Miso Blake ..... Jennifer Lim
Han ..... Mo Zainal
Jack ..... Matthew Marsh
Naomi/Miss Han ..... Sonnie Brown
Bunny/Waitress ..... Elizabeth Tan
Ajossi ..... Jay Lim

Director Lisa Goldman

In-Sook Chappell says:
"This story addresses what faces immigrants and asylum seekers when they return to the country of their birth. I was born in Korea and adopted into an English family. The inspiration for the play came on a visit back to Seoul. Unable to speak Korean, I was a foreigner in the country I was born in. I had lost my language, my country and my family. The sound of Korean upset me, stirred feelings I had as a baby that I'd forgotten. I met a lot of adoptees searching for their biological families, only communicating with them through an interpreter. I decided not to track down my family. Instead I spoke to some who had, then I imagined and wrote this play. On a visit to an orphanage, I met a little boy aged 4 who had been left on the street by his parents. If I had been in a better financial situation I would have adopted him. He was the starting point for Han. Growing up in England I always thought; What if I had stayed in Korea, grown up in an orphanage; would I have ended up a teenage prostitute or a factory worker? I had a strong sense of guilt for living a privileged life in England. In cross-cultural adoption, we rarely talk about what happens when the children grow up, what they lose as well as gain. The sounds of this play evoke emotions and memories, a sense of dislocation, of being thrown into another world; the alienation of hearing another language clearly spoken with passion and love, but incomprehensible and impossible to respond to.".


SAT 22:30 Hear and Now (b00y2269)
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2010

Episode 3

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce a third programme of highlights of last November's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Tonight's programme includes music from Peter Adriaansz, Timothy McCormack, Peter Ablinger and Graham Fitkin and Robert Worby reports on pianist Philip Thomas' twelve hour performance of John Cage's Electronic Music for Piano in Huddersfield's Art Gallery.

Running order:

Graham FITKIN: Twenty-Six Days (2010) World Premiere

Peter ABLINGER: Instrumente und Raschen

Timothy McCORMACK: One Flat Thing (reproduced)

Peter ADRIAANSZ: Three Studies on Elevation (2010) UK premiere