18 December 2009

Radio 3 Listings for 19/12/2009 - 25/12/2009


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SAT SATURDAY 19 DECEMBER 2009 SAT SAT 01:00 Through the Night b00p8jc6 (Listen) SAT 1.00am SAT Enescu, George (1881-1955): Violin Sonata No 3 in A, Op 25 SAT (dans le caractere populaire roumain) SAT Sebastian Tegzesiu (violin) Viorica Boerescu (piano) SAT 1.29am SAT Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): String Quartet No 20 SAT in D, K499 (Hoffmeister) ANIMA Quartet SAT 1.54am SAT Muthel, Johann Gottfried (1728-1788): Concerto in D minor SAT for harpsichord, two bassoons, strings and continuo SAT Rhoda Patrick, David Mings (bassoons) SAT Gregor Hollman (harpsichord) Musica Alta Ripa SAT 2.18am SAT Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953): Symphony No 5, Op 100 SAT Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra SAT Milen Nachev (conductor) SAT 3.01am SAT Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): String Quartet No 1 in G minor, SAT Op 13 (1888 revised 1900) Vertavo Quartet SAT 3.26am SAT Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Scherzo No 1 in B, Op 20 SAT Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) SAT 3.36am SAT Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Rosamunde - incidental music, SAT D797 Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra SAT Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) SAT 4.06am SAT Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974), arr Timothy Kain: Scaramouche SAT Guitar Trek SAT 4.16am SAT Albicastro, Henricus (fl.1700-06): Motet: Coelestes SAT angelici chori Guy de Mey (tenor) Ensemble 415 SAT Chiara Banchini (conductor) SAT 4.30am SAT Anon (c.1600-1650): Toccata; Angelus pastoribus SAT Marek Toporowski (chamber organ) SAT 4.35am SAT Ward, John (c.1589-1638): Cor mio, deh, non languire SAT 4.38am SAT Gibbons, Orlando (1583-1625): The Silver Swan SAT Emma Kirkby (soprano) The Rose Consort of Viols SAT 4.40am SAT Wiren, Dag (1905-1986): Violin Sonatina (1939) SAT Arve Tellefsen (violin) Lucia Negro (piano) SAT 4.51am SAT Tobias, Rudolf (1873-1918): Prelude and Fugue in D minor SAT Estonian National Symphony Orchestra SAT Arvo Volmar (conductor) SAT 5.01am SAT Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Overture (Die SAT Zauberflote, K620) Canadian Opera Company Orchestra SAT Richard Bradshaw (conductor) SAT 5.08am SAT Groneman, Albertus (1710-1778): Flute Sonata in D SAT Jed Wentz, Marion Moonen (flutes) SAT 5.22am SAT Schutz, Heinrich (1585-1672): Selve beate, se sospirando, SAT SWV3 (Il Primo Libro de Madrigali Venice - 1611) SAT The Consorte of Musicke Anthony Rooley (conductor) SAT 5.26am SAT Suchon, Eugen (1908-1993): Symfonietta Rustica (1954-55) - SAT Pictures from Slovakia Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra SAT Ludovit Rajter (conductor) SAT 5.44am SAT Tulindberg, Erik (1761-1814): Polonaise and Variations SAT Jorma Rahkonen (violin) SAT 5.48am SAT Paganini, Niccolo (1782-1840): Polonaise SAT Viktor Pikajzen (violin) Evgenia Sejdelj (piano) SAT 5.54am SAT Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847): Trio in D minor, Op SAT 11 Trio Orlando SAT 6.19am SAT Arban, Jean-Baptiste (1825-1889), arr David Stanhope: SAT Fantasy and variations on a Cavatina (Beatrice di Tenda - SAT by Bellini) Geoffrey Payne (trumpet) SAT Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Michael Halasz (conductor) SAT 6.27am SAT Gorczycki, Grzegorz Gerwazy (c.1665-1734): Litaniae de SAT providential divina (c.1726) SAT Olga Pasiecznik, Marta Bobertska (soprano) SAT Piotr Lykowski (countertenor) Wojciech Parchem (tenor) SAT Miroslaw Borzynski (bass) Sine Nomine Chamber Choir SAT Concerto Polacco SAT Marek Toporowski (chamber organ/director) SAT 6.39am SAT Reger, Max (1873-1916): Humoresque in G minor, Op 20 No 5 SAT 6.41am SAT Reger: Intermezzo in E flat minor, Op 45 No 3 SAT 6.45am SAT Reger: Intermezzo in G minor, Op 45 No 5 SAT Max Reger (piano) (recorded on 8th December 1905) SAT 6.48am SAT Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto VIII in A minor for SAT two violins, strings and continuo, RV522 (L'Estro SAT Armonico, Op 3) Paul Wright, Sayuri Yamagata (violins) SAT Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Paul Dyer (conductor). SAT SAT 07:00 Breakfast b00pcg4s (Listen) SAT SAT 09:00 CD Review b00pcg4v (Listen) SAT Building a Library: Ravel: Piano Trio SAT SAT With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Ravel: SAT Piano Trio; The latest Christmas-themed releases; Disc of SAT the Week: Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (with Jonathan Lemalu). SAT SAT 09.05am SAT GERSHWIN: Porgy and Bess SAT Isabelle Kabatu (Soprano - Bess) / Angela Renee Simpson SAT (Soprano - Serena) / Bibiana Nwobilo (Soprano - Clara) / SAT Roberta Alexander (Soprano - Maria) / Jonathan Lemalu SAT (Bass-Baritone - Porgy) / Gregg Baker (Baritone - Crown) / SAT Rodney Clarke (Baritone - Jake) / Michael Forest (Tenor - SAT Sportin' Life) / Previn Moore (Tenor - Mingo, Robbins, SAT Peter, Honey-Man, Crab-Man) / Arnold Schoenberg Chor / SAT Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Nikolaus Harnoncourt SAT (conductor) RCA 88697591762 (3CD) SAT SAT Per Il Santissimo Natale SAT MELANI: Sonata in C major; HOFFMAN: Magnificat; SAT MANFREDINI: Sinfinonia Pastorale; HANDEL: Gloria; TORELLI: SAT Concerto Per Il Santissimo Natale; JACOBI: Cantata Der SAT Himmel steht uns wieder offen! SAT Deborah York (soprano) / Elbipolis Baroque Orchestra of SAT Hamburg Berlin Classics 0016602BC (CD) SAT SAT MATTHESON: Das grosste Kind, Christmas Oratorio SAT Susanne Ryden (soprano) / Nele Gramss (soprano) / Anne SAT Schmid (alto) / Melissa Hegney (alto) / Gerd Turk (tenor) SAT / Ulrich Cordes (tenor) / Wolf Matthias Friedrich SAT (tenor) / Thilo Dahlmann (bass) / Koelner Akademie / SAT Michael Alexander Willens (conductor) CPO 7774552 (CD) SAT SAT PLAINSONG: Rorate caeli; Psalm 2; Alleluia. Dominus dixit; SAT Mass IX ‘Cum iubilo’ (Sanctus & Benedictus); Ecce advenit; SAT Alleluia. Vidimus stellam; Mass X ‘Alme Pater’; VICTORIA: SAT Descendit Angelus Domini; BYRD: Rorate caeli; Tollite SAT portas – Ave Maria; Ecce virgo concipiet; MARTIN: Adam lay SAT ybounden; MALCOLM: Missa Ad praesepe; MONTEVERDI: Gloria SAT Messa a 4 da cappella; LASSUS: Omnes de Saba; BEVAN: SAT Magnificat Alternatim With Mode 8 Chant And Improvised SAT Organ Versets; WOOD: Nunc dimittis in B flat; ORGAN SAT IMPROVISATION: Marche des Rois mages SAT The Choir of Westminster Cathedral / Martin Baker SAT (director) / Matthew Martin (organ accompaniment) / Martin SAT Baker (organ improvisations) Hyperion CDA67707 (CD) SAT SAT RYBA: Czech Christmas Mass; Rozmily Slavicku; Pisnicku; SAT Jak Mile Rozkosne SAT Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano) / Capella Regia Musicalis SAT / Robert Hugo (conductor) Archiv 4778365 (CD) SAT SAT 09.35am Building a Library SAT RAVEL: Piano Trio in A minor SAT SAT Reviewer – Harriet Smith SAT SAT The first choice recommendation will be placed on the CD SAT Review website on Tuesday. SAT SAT Next week Stephen Johnson compares recordings of SAT Beethoven’s Symphony No 9. SAT SAT 10.25am Recent Releases SAT SAT Canzoni Per Sonare: Music by Giovanni Gabrieli and his SAT Contemporaries (Venice, 1608) SAT GABRIELI: Canzon Vigesimaottava; Canzon Prima ‘La SAT Spiritata’; Canzon Seconda; Canzon Quarta; Canzon SAT Vigesimasettima; GUAMI: Canzon Vigesimaquinta; Canzon SAT Decimanona; Canzon Sesta; LAPPI: Canzon Undecima ‘La SAT Scrasina’; Canzon Vigesimasesta ‘ La Negrona’; Canzon SAT Terza; LUZZASCHI: Canzon Decima; FRESCOBALDI: Canzon SAT Terzadecima; Canzon Vigesimaprima; Canzon Vigesimanona; SAT ANTEGNATI: Canzon Nona ‘La Battera’; Canzon Vigesima ‘La SAT Moranda’; CHILESE: Canzon Vigesimaseconda; GRILLO: Canzon SAT Quartadecima ‘Capricio’; BARTOLINI: Canzon Trigesima; SAT MASCHERA: Canzon Settima ‘La Mazzuola’; MASSAINO: Canzon SAT Trigesimaquarta, Canzon Trigesimaterza; MERULA: Canzon SAT Quinto; Canzon Vigesimaterza SAT His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts / The Purcell Quartet / SAT Chordophony SFZ Music SFZM0209 SAT SAT Rolf Lislevand – Diminuito SAT CAPIROLA: Ricercate; Dalza: Saltarello; Piva; TERZI: Petit SAT Jacquet; Susanne un jour; Vestiva i colli; ANON: La Perra SAT Mora; Tourdion; MILANO: Canon; ROBINSON: Passamezzo SAT Gaillard; MUDARRA: Fantasía que contrahaze la harpa en la SAT manera de Luduvico Rolf Lislevand Ensemble SAT ECM New Series 4763317 (CD) SAT SAT Istanbul SAT CANTEMIR: The Book of Science of Music and the Sephardic SAT and Armenian Traditions SAT Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall (director) SAT Alia Vox AVSA9870 (Hybrid SACD) SAT SAT 11.00am Recent Releases SAT Andrew talks to conductor Jeremy Summerly about recent SAT recordings of music for Christmas, with extracts from the SAT following discs: SAT SAT SCHUTZ: Weinachtshistorie SWV 435; Auferstehunghistorie SAT SWV 450 SAT Jakob Bloch Jespersen (bass) / Johan Linderoth (tenor) / SAT Adam Riis (tenor) / Else Torp (soprano) / Concerto SAT Copenhagen / Sirius Viols / Ars Nova Copenhagen / Paul SAT Hillier Dacapo 8226058 (CD) SAT SAT On Christmas Night SAT TRAD: Il est ne le divin enfant; Nu zijt wellekome; On SAT Christmas Night all Christians sing; The first Nowell; SAT Sterren; Midden in de winternacht; De herdertjes lagen bij SAT nachte; Adeste Fidelis; God rest you merry gentlemen; O SAT herders verlaat uw bokskens; While shepherds watched their SAT flocks; This endris night; ‘t Is geboren; Laat nu alle SAT droefheid vluchten; The Lord at first did Adam make; Es SAT ist ein Ros entsprungen; Still, still, still; PIERPOINT: SAT Jingle Bells; GRUBER; Stille Nacht; BERLIN: White SAT Christmas; SAT Ralph Rousseau (viola da gamba) / Lenny Kuhr (voice) SAT Challenge CC72340 (CD) SAT SAT Christmas At Salisbury Cathedral SAT GAUNTLETT: Once in royal David's city; TRAD NORMANDY: Away SAT in a manger (arr. Jacques); TRAD FRENCH: Il est ne le SAT devin enfant (arr. John Rutter); OLD GERMAN: O little one SAT sweet: (harm. J.S.Bach); DARKE: In the bleak midwinter; SAT HALLS: I heard an infant weeping; Rejoice and be merry; SAT TRAD ENGLISH: Rejoice and be merry (arr. Jacques); TRAD SAT ENGLISH: It came upon the midnight clear (adap. Sullivan); SAT TRAD: Blessed be that maid Marie (arr. Wood and Halls; SAT BERLIOZ: The Shepherds' Farewell; MANZ: E'en so Lord SAT Jesus; WALFORD DAVIES: O little town of Bethlehem; etc SAT The Boy Choristers and Lay Clerks of Salisbury Cathedral / SAT Daniel Cook (organ) / David Halls (director) SAT Priory PRCD1025 (CD) SAT SAT Into This World, This Day Did Come - Carols Contemporary & SAT Medieval SAT BINGHAM: Annunciation for organ; God would be born in SAT thee; Incarnation with shepherds dancing for organ; SAT MACRAE: Adam lay y-bounden; BURRELL: Creator of the Stars SAT of Night; Christo paremus cantica; DUNSTABLE: Quam pulchra SAT es; JACKSON: Salus aeterna; Nowell sing we; 13th-C. SAT ENGLISH: Edi beo thu; 16th-C. Anon: Salvator mundi; SAT SKEMPTON: Into this world, this day did come; To Bethlem SAT did they go; CAUSTON: Cradle Song; POTT: That yonge child; SAT 12TH-C. ENGLISH: Verbum Patris umanatur; SWEENEY: The SAT Innumerable Christ; REDFORD: Tui sunt caeli; 15th-C. SAT ANON.: Nowell sing we; HOLLOWAY: Christmas Carol; SAT Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge / Geoffrey SAT Webber (director) Delphian DCD34075 (CD) SAT SAT TRAD: Gabriel's Message; The Snow It Melts The Soonest; SAT Cherry Tree Carol; STOOKEY, BATTEAST, MEZZETTI: Soul Cake; SAT ANON: There Is No Rose Of Such Virtue; STING, MACMASTER: SAT Christmas at Sea; PRAETORIUS: Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming; SAT PURCELL: Cold Song; Now Winter Come Slowly; WOOD: The SAT Burning Babe; STING: The Hounds Of Winter; WARLOCK: SAT Balulalow; STING, MILLER: Lullaby For An Anxious Child; SAT SCHUBERT: Hurdy Gurdy Man (adapted by Sting); BACH: You SAT Only Cross My Mind In Winter SAT Sting (vocals) / Dominic Miller (guitar) / Kathryn Tickell SAT (violin, Nothumbrian smallpipes) / Mary Macmaster (harp) / SAT Julian Sutton (melodeon) / Bijan Chemirani (percussion) / SAT etc Deutsche Grammophon 06025 270 1743 (CD) SAT SAT LAURIDSEN: O nata lux; Madrigali: Six ‘Fire Songs’ on SAT Italian Renaissance poems; Les Chansons des Roses; SAT Mid-Winter Songs; O magnum mysterium SAT Leslie De’Ath (piano) / Elora Festival Singers / Noel SAT Edison (conductor) Naxos 8559304 (CD, Budget) SAT Joy in the Morning SAT BRITTEN: In the bleak mid-winter; GARDNER: The holly and SAT the ivy; Tomorrow shall be my dancing day; JOUBERT: Joy in SAT the morning; DARKE: In the bleak mid-winter; HAKIM: Noel; SAT LEIGHTON: A Christmas Caroll; MENDELSSOHN: For He shall SAT give His angels; When Jesus, our Lord; GABRIELI: O magnum SAT mysterium; BATES: Three Songs for Christmas; etc SAT Ex Cathedra / Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor) SAT Orchid Classics ORC100008 (CD) SAT SAT 11.45am Disc of the Week SAT GERSHWIN: Porgy and Bess SAT Isabelle Kabatu (Soprano - Bess) / Angela Renee Simpson SAT (Soprano - Serena) / Bibiana Nwobilo (Soprano - Clara) / SAT Roberta Alexander (Soprano - Maria) / Jonathan Lemalu SAT (Bass-Baritone - Porgy) / Gregg Baker (Baritone - Crown) / SAT Rodney Clarke (Baritone - Jake) / Michael Forest (Tenor - SAT Sportin' Life) / Previn Moore (Tenor - Mingo, Robbins, SAT Peter, Honey-Man, Crab-Man) / Arnold Schoenberg Chor / SAT Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Nikolaus Harnoncourt SAT (conductor) RCA 88697591762 (3CD) SAT SAT 12:15 Music Matters b00pcg4x (Listen) SAT The Midlands at Christmas SAT SAT Tom Service travels across the English Midlands taking a SAT snapshot of music making in villages, towns and cities as SAT people prepare for Christmas. Visiting Lincolnshire, SAT Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and the West Midlands, he SAT meets people who are bringing music – from brass bands to SAT opera, cathedral choirs to pub carols – to the heart of SAT their communities. SAT SAT Lincoln: Cathedral Choristers SAT SAT Tom starts his journey at Lincoln Cathedral, where William SAT Byrd was organist in the 16th century. He talks to the SAT person currently in Byrd’s shoes, Aric Prentice, and drops SAT in on Evensong given by the cathedral’s girl choristers. SAT And he catches up with older members of the choir in the SAT Dog and Bone pub, where they meet to sing arrangements of SAT music from Byrd to the Beach Boys. Listening with George SAT Revill – a lecturer in Geography at the Open University SAT and an expert in music’s relationship with the social and SAT geographical landscape of the region – Tom discovers what SAT music means for the musicians and local community. SAT SAT Edwinstowe: Thoresby Colliery Band SAT SAT 30 miles south-west of Lincoln, at the Miners Welfare hall SAT in the village of Edwinstowe, in the heart of SAT Nottinghamshire’s Sherwood Forest, Tom visits the SAT championship Thoresby Colliery Band. During a break in SAT rehearsal for their forthcoming Christmas concerts, the SAT band’s members tell Tom how industrial decline in the SAT region, and the challenge of attracting young musicians, SAT has forced many brass bands to disband. But with players SAT travelling from up to five hours away each week, and a SAT local community proud of the band’s heritage, the Thoresby SAT Colliery Band continues to thrive. SAT SAT Nottingham: Hetain Patel SAT SAT Tom meets visual artist and tabla player Hetain Patel at SAT the New Arts Exchange gallery in central Nottingham. Patel SAT – born in England to parents who emigrated from India a SAT generation ago – started learning the tabla a few years SAT ago, and uses rhythm in his work as a means of SAT re-connecting with the ancient culture of his heritage. He SAT tells Tom about the challenge of being caught between two SAT cultures. Scroll down to see a video of Hetain's 2007 work SAT Kanku Raga. SAT SAT And Tom catches up with George Revill in his home town of SAT Jacksdale, West Nottinghamshire: a place which in some SAT ways is a shadow of its former self as a hub of the coal SAT and steel industry, but also in which music has been used SAT as a powerful tool for bringing people together. SAT SAT Castleton: Village Carols SAT SAT For one December night each year, The George Hotel in the SAT Derbyshire Peaks village of Castleton hosts a SAT centuries-old tradition of Christmas carol singing. It’s a SAT tradition which Ralph Vaughan Williams discovered on a SAT song-collecting trip to Castleton in 1908, and which is SAT being kept alive today by a group of enthusiasts who SAT travel from across Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Cheshire. SAT Tom, accompanied again by George Revill, finds out what SAT inspires them, and talks to young singer Bella Hardy, born SAT in neighbouring Edale, about the importance of maintaining SAT the tradition for future generations. SAT SAT Birmingham: Verdi’s Othello SAT SAT Tom’s musical discovery of the Midlands ends with SAT Birmingham Opera Company’s production in English of SAT Verdi’s Othello, taking place in the Argyle Works, a SAT former factory in an area of Birmingham which symbolises SAT both the city’s industrial past and rejuvenated present. SAT The use of hundreds of local people for the chorus means SAT that this production is deeply connected with its SAT community; Tom finds out what difference this makes from SAT artistic director Graham Vick, and members of the chorus SAT tell stories of how music has changed their lives. Othello SAT is also being filmed for future broadcast on BBC2 SAT SAT Sinfonia Viva SAT SAT Tom visits a project run by Sinfonia Viva at the Drill SAT Hall in Lincoln - a collaboration between the orchestra SAT and children from local schools, including new works SAT inspired by the music of Stravinsky, Varese and Weill SAT SAT 13:00 The Early Music Show b00pgvpy (Listen) SAT La Fenice SAT SAT Catherine Bott presents highlights from a concert given in SAT 2008 in Villars-sur-Glane in Switzerland, featuring the SAT ensemble La Fenice directed by Jean Tubery, with soprano SAT Nuria Rial. Music includes Monteverdi's Exulta filia Sion SAT and works by Tarquinio Merula, Bonifazio Graziano and SAT Jacob van Eyck. SAT SAT Anon: Misteri gioisi. Ave Maria gratia plena. Canto fermo SAT for one voice; Lucis creator optime. Canto fermo for male SAT voices; SAT SAT Giuseppe Scarani: Sonata sopra Lucis creator optime, for SAT two cornetts, organ, harpsichord, cello and theorbo SAT SAT Bonifazio Graziano: Venite pastores ad sacros amores SAT (Motets for 1, 2 and 3 male voices and continuo), arr for SAT soprano SAT SAT Orazio Tarditi: Volate coelites, qui natus est..., for SAT soprano, two cornetts, cello, harpsichord, organ and SAT theorbo SAT SAT Anon: Ottava di Natale: Parton dall'oriente tre re per SAT adorar, for soprano, theorbo, cello and organ SAT SAT Segue to: SAT SAT Bernardo Storace: Passacaglia in pastoral mode, for SAT recorder, dessus de viole, organ and cello (instrumental) SAT SAT Segue to: SAT SAT Monteverdi: Exulta filia Sion, motet for soprano and SAT continuo SAT SAT Tarquinio Merula: Curtio precipitato et altri caprici, SAT libro secondo (excerpt): Hor ch'e tempo di dormire, SAT Canzonetta sacra sopra - alla nanna, for one voice and SAT continuo SAT SAT GB Fontana: Sonata decima terza, for two cornetts, cello, SAT harpsichord and guitar (instrumental) SAT SAT Segue to: SAT SAT Biagio Marini: Con le stelle in ciel che mai, madrigal for SAT soprano and instrumental ensemble SAT SAT Anon: Puer nobis nascitur, motet for voice and continuo SAT SAT Jacob van Eyck: Puer nobis nascitur, arr. for recorder and SAT continuo. SAT SAT 14:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b00p8dgc (Listen) SAT David Fray SAT SAT From Wigmore Hall, London. Fiona Talkington presents SAT pianist David Fray performing an all-Schubert programme. SAT Schubert: Impromptus, Op 90; 6 moments musicaux. SAT SAT 15:00 World Routes b00pcg51 (Listen) SAT African Artists, Amadou and Mariam SAT SAT Lucy Duran presents concert recordings by African artists SAT who have broken through to the mainstream. SAT SAT Following successful appearances this year at Hyde Park SAT and the main stage at Glastonbury, the highly rated Malian SAT duo Amadou and Mariam play an end-of-year gig at the HMV SAT Forum in London's Kentish Town. SAT SAT Produced by Roger Short SAT SAT Amadou & Mariam in Concert at the HMV Forum SAT SAT Amadou Bagayoko (guitar/lead voice) SAT Mariam Doumbia (lead voice) Yvo Abadie (drums) SAT Yao Dembele (bass) Boubacar Dembele (djembe/percussion) SAT Igor Nikitinsky (keyboard) SAT Cheick Tidiane Seck (2nd keyboard) SAT Woridjo Kouyate (backing vocals) SAT Sira Kouyate (backing vocals) SAT SAT Masiteladi Djuru Welcome to Mali Batoma Djama SAT Cenepabon Couloubaly Sabali SAT Performed by Amadou & Mariam SAT BBC Recording by Martin Appleby, Duncan Rhodes and Mike SAT Page, December 2009, at the HMV Forum SAT SAT Mon amour ma cherie SAT Performed by Amadou & Mariam, ft. Romeo Stodard (guitar) SAT BBC Recording by Martin Appleby, Duncan Rhodes and Mike SAT Page, December 2009, at the HMV Forum SAT SAT Dimanche a Bamako Performed by Amadou & Mariam SAT BBC Recording by Martin Appleby, Duncan Rhodes and Mike SAT Page, December 2009, at the HMV Forum SAT SAT 16:00 Jazz Library b00pcg53 (Listen) SAT Stefano Bollani SAT SAT One of the highlights of the 2009 London Jazz Festival was SAT pianist Stefano Bollani's residency at Kings Place, where SAT the Italian gave solo performances as well as concerts in SAT duo, trio and quintet settings. In a programme recorded in SAT front of an audience at the festival, Alyn Shipton talks SAT to Bollani about his varied recording career, including SAT his latest trio outing for ECM. SAT SAT DISC 1 Title: La Sagra di Paolopoli SAT Artist: Stefano Bollani Composer: Bollani SAT Album: L'orchestra del Titanic SAT Label: Via Veneto / RCA Victor Number: Track 1 SAT SAT Personnel: Stefano Bollani (piano); Riccardo Onori SAT (guitar); Raffaello Pareti (bass); Walter Paioli (drums). SAT Castargneto Carducci (Tuscany), 1999. SAT SAT DISC 2 Title: Cornettology SAT Artist: Enrico Rava/Stefano Bollani/Paul Motian SAT Composer: Rava Album: Tati Label: ECM SAT Number: 1921 Track 10 SAT SAT Personnel: Enrico Rava (trumpet); Stefano Bollani (piano); SAT Paul Motian (drums). New York, 2004. SAT SAT DISC 3 Title: Darn That Dream SAT Artist: Luigi Tessarollo/Stefano Bollani SAT Composer: DeLange/Van Heusen SAT Album: Homage To Bill Evans And Jim Hall SAT Label: Dischi Della Quercia/CAM Number: 128044-2 Track 3 SAT SAT Personnel: Luigi Tessarollo g; Stefano Bollani, p. Teatro SAT Sociale, Bellinzona (Switzerland), April 2000. SAT SAT DISC 4 Title: Pierre et le Loup SAT Artist: Stefano Bollani Composer: Prokofiev SAT Album: Smat Smat Label: Label Bleu SAT Number: LBLC 6665 Track 05 SAT SAT Personnel: Stefano Bollani, p. Montevarchi, May, 2003. SAT SAT DISC 5 SAT Title: Concertone, I. Mouvement Il Vecchio Combattente SAT Artist: Stefano Bollani / Orchestra Della Toscana (cond. SAT Paolo Silvestri) Composer: Bollani/Silvestri SAT Album: Concertone Label: Label Bleu SAT Number: LBLC 6666 Track 1 SAT SAT Personnel: Stefano Bollani, p; Ares Tavolazzi, b; Walter SAT Paoli, d; Orchestra della Toscana (cond. Paolo Silvestri) SAT [Stefano Scalzi, tb; Micro Guerrini, ts; Nico Gori, as, SAT ss, cl.] Florence, September, 2003. SAT SAT DISC 6 Title: Maple Leaf Rag Artist: Stefano Bollani SAT Composer: Joplin Album: Piano Solo Label: ECM SAT Number: 1964 Track 14 SAT SAT Personnel: Stefano Bollani, p. August, 2005 SAT SAT DISC 7 Title: Scartabello SAT Artist: Stefano Bollani Quintet Composer: Bollani SAT Album: I Visionari Label: Label Bleu SAT Number: LBLC6695/96 Disc B Track 6 SAT SAT Personnel: Mark Feldman, vn; Mirko Guerrini, ts, fl; Nico SAT Gori, cl; Stefano Bollani, p; Ferruccio Spinetti, b; SAT Cristiano Calcagnile, d. October, 2005 SAT SAT DISC 8 Title: Cheek to Cheek SAT Artist: Stefano Bollani Trio Composer: I Berlin SAT Album: I'm In The Mood For Love Label: Venus SAT Number: TKCV 35396 Track 2 SAT SAT Personnel: Stefano Bollani, p; Ares Tavolazzi, b; Walter SAT Paoli, d. Rome, August, 2006 SAT SAT DISC 9 Title: Habanerando (Habanera) SAT Artist: Richard Galliano Composer: Richard Galliano SAT Album: Passatori Label: Dreyfus SAT Number: DRE 36601 Track 7 SAT SAT Personnel: Richard Galliano, bandoneon; Stefano Bollani, SAT p; Cinzia Conte, harp; members of Toscana Orchestra. SAT Florence, 1998 SAT SAT DISC 10 Title: Asuda Artist: Stefano Bollani SAT Composer: Bollani Album: Stone On The Water SAT Label: ECM Number: 2080 Track 8 SAT SAT Personnel: Stefano Bollani, p; Jesper Bodilsen, b; Morten SAT Lund, d. New York, 2008. SAT SAT 17:00 Jazz Record Requests b00pcg55 (Listen) SAT SAT JRR Signature Tune: SAT Oh, but on the Third Day (Happy Feet Blues) (Wynton SAT Marsalis) SAT Performed by Wynton Marsalis (tp), Marcus Roberts (p), SAT Todd Williams (ts), Dr Michael White (cl), Danny Barker SAT (bj), Teddy Riley (tp), Freddie Lonzo (tb), Reginald Veal SAT (b), Herlin Riley (d) Recorded 28 October 1988 SAT Taken from the album The Majesty of the Blues SAT 1989 CD (CBS 465129 2) SAT SAT White Christmas (Irving Berlin) (4:10) SAT Performed by Miles Davis (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Al Haig SAT (p) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d) SAT Recorded 25 December 1948 SAT Taken from the album Pensive Bird SAT LP (Ember CJS 821. S2/2) SAT SAT Papa Ain’t No Santa Claus (Mama ain’t No Christmas Tree) SAT (Edwards) (3:16) SAT Performed by Butterbeans and Susie (v) Eddie Heywood (p) SAT Recorded 13 August 1930, New York SAT Taken from the album Screening the Blues SAT LP (CBS 63288. S1/2) SAT SAT Santa Claus Blues (Gus Kahn, Charley Straight) (5:45) SAT Performed by Bob Brookmeyer (valve tb, p) Jimmy Giuffre SAT (cl, bs, ts) Jim Hall (g) Dave Bailey (d) Joe Benjamin (b) SAT Recorded 1957 SAT Taken from the album Traditionalism Revisited SAT LP (Affinity AFF 127. S1/2) SAT SAT Gin for Christmas (Hampton) (2:28) SAT Performed by Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra: Ziggy Elman SAT (tp) Toots Mondello (cl, as) Ben Webster, Jerry Jerome SAT (ts) Cldye Hart (p) Albert Casey (g) Artie Bernstein (b) SAT Lionel Hampton (d) Recorded 30 October 1939 SAT Taken from the album Lionel Hampton SAT 1992 CD (Flapper PAST CD9789 Track 22) SAT SAT Me Myself and I (Gordon, Roberts, Kaufman) (2:42) SAT Performed by Billie Holiday (v) Lester Young (ts) Buck SAT Clayton (tp) Jimmy Sherman (p) Freddie Green (g) Walter SAT Page (b) Jo Jones (d) SAT Recorded 15 June 1937, New York City SAT Taken from the album The Legacy (1933-1958) SAT 1991 CD (Columbia/Legacy C3K47724 Disc 2, Track 15) SAT SAT Deck Us All with Boston Charlie (W Kelly, N Monath) (3:12) SAT Performed by Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross SAT (v) Ike Isaacs (b) Gildo Mahones (p) Jimmy Wormworth (d) SAT Recorded 4 May 1961, New York SAT Taken from the album Jingle Bell Jazz SAT LP (Columbia PC 36803 S2/2) SAT SAT God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Part one (Trad.) (4:45) SAT Performed by Carla Bley (piano, celeste) Steve Swallow SAT (bass, chimes) The Partyka Brass Quintet: Tobias Weidinger SAT (trumpet, flugelhorn, glockenspiel) Axel Schlosser SAT (trumpet, flugelhorn, chimes) Christine Chapman (horn) SAT Adrian Mears (trombone) Ed Partyka (bass trombone, tuba) SAT Recorded December 2008 SAT Taken from the album Carla’s Christmas Carols SAT 2009 CD (Watt/35 2712413 Tr.5) SAT SAT We Free Kings (Roland Kirk) (4:41) SAT Performed by Roland Kirk (ts, manzello, stritch, f, siren) SAT Hank Jones (p) Wendell Marshall (b) Charli Persip (d) SAT Recorded 17 August 1961, New York SAT Taken from the album We Free Kings SAT CD (Emarcy 8264552(1) Track 7) SAT SAT 4:30 Blues (Duke Ellington) (4:00) SAT Performed by Duke Ellington (conductor, piano) Norris SAT Turney (as & ts flt, cl) Johnny Hodges (as) Harold Ashby SAT (ts, flt) Paul Gonsalves (ts) Harry Carney (bs, cl, bass SAT cl) Cat Anderson, Cootie Williams, Rolf Ericson, Mercer SAT Ellington (tp) Lawrence Brown, Chuck Connors (tb) Wild SAT Bill Davis (organ) Victor Gaskin (b) Rufus Speedy Jones SAT (d) SAT Recorded 26 November 1969, Free Trade Hall Manchester SAT Taken from the album Duke Ellington 70th Birthday Concert SAT CD (Blue Note CDP8327462(2) Disc 1, Track 5) SAT SAT Congeniality (Ornette Coleman) (6:43) SAT Performed by Ornette Coleman (as) Don Cherry (cnt) Charlie SAT Haden (b) Billy Higgins (d) Recorded 22 May 1959 SAT Taken from the album The Shape of Jazz to Come SAT CD (Atlantic 8122-73198-2 Track 5) SAT SAT Goin’ To Chicago Blues (Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing) (3:38) SAT Performed by Kay Starr (v) Van Alexander And His Orchestra SAT Recorded Summer 1959, Hollywood SAT Taken from the album Movin’ SAT CD (Jasmine JASCD307. Track 7) SAT SAT Skating in Central Park (John Lewis) (6:07) SAT Performed by the Modern Jazz Quartet: John Lewis (p) Milt SAT Jackson (vib) Percy Heath (b) Connie Kay (d) SAT Recorded 9 October 1959, New York City SAT Taken from the album Odds Against Tomorrow SAT 1990 CD (Blue Note CDP7934152 Track 1) SAT SAT 18:00 Opera on 3 b00pcg57 (Listen) SAT Live from the Met, Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann SAT SAT From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, James Levine SAT conducts a production of Offenbach's Les Contes SAT d'Hoffmann, starring Joseph Calleja as the troubled poet SAT and Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova and Kathleen Kim as SAT Hoffmann's former loves. SAT SAT Hoffmann is waiting for the object of his affection, SAT Stella, to arrive and fills the time by telling the tale SAT of his disastrous past loves. First, a mechanical doll SAT called Olympia, destroyed by her owner. His second love SAT Antonia dies when the impulse to sing is too much for her SAT weak heart. Finally, the Venetian courtesan Giulietta SAT steals his reflection as well as his heart before choosing SAT a different suitor. Stella finally arrives to find SAT Hoffmann drunk, so leaves with his rival for her love. SAT SAT Presented by Margaret Juntwait with guest commentator Ira SAT Siff. With live backstage interviews and the Met Quiz SAT during the two intervals. SAT SAT Olympia ...... Kathleen Kim (soprano) SAT Antonia/Stella ...... Anna Netrebko (soprano) SAT Giulietta ...... Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano) SAT Nicklausse/The Muse ...... Kate Lindsey (mezzo-soprano) SAT Hoffmann ...... Joseph Calleja (tenor) SAT Four Villains ...... Alan Held SAT Chorus and Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera SAT James Levine (conductor). SAT SAT Synopsis - Prologue SAT SAT Luther’s tavern in a German city, early 19th century. The SAT poet Hoffmann is in love with Stella, the star singer of SAT the opera. SAT SAT Lindorf, a rich counselor, also loves her and has SAT intercepted a note she has written to Hoffmann. SAT SAT He is confident to win her for himself (“Dans les rôles SAT d’amoureux langoureux”). Entering with a group of SAT students, Hoffmann sings a ballad about a disfigured dwarf SAT named Kleinzach (“Il était une fois à la cour d’Eisenach”). SAT SAT During the song, his mind wanders to recollections of a SAT beautiful woman. When Hoffmann recognizes Lindorf as his SAT rival, the two men trade insults. SAT SAT Hoffmann’s Muse, who has assumed the guise of his friend SAT Nicklausse, interrupts, but the encounter leaves the poet SAT SAT He begins to tell the stories of his three past loves… SAT SAT Act 1 SAT SAT The eccentric inventor Spalanzani has created a mechanical SAT doll named Olympia. SAT SAT Hoffmann, who thinks she is Spalanzani’s daughter, has SAT fallen in love with her. SAT SAT Spalanzani’s former partner Coppélius sells Hoffmann a SAT pair of magic glasses through which he alone perceives SAT Olympia as human (Trio: “Je me nomme Coppélius”). SAT SAT When Coppélius demands his share in the profits the two SAT inventors expect to make from the doll, Spalanzani gives SAT him a worthless check. SAT SAT Guests arrive and Olympia captivates the crowd with the SAT performance of a dazzling aria (“Les oiseaux dans la SAT charmille”), which is interrupted several times in order SAT for the doll’s mechanism to be recharged. SAT SAT Oblivious to this while watching her through his glasses, SAT Hoffmann is enchanted. He declares his love and the two SAT dance. Olympia whirls faster and faster as her mechanism SAT spins out of control, until Hoffmann falls and breaks his SAT glasses. SAT SAT Coppélius, having discovered that the check was worthless, SAT returns in a fury. He grabs Olympia and tears her apart as SAT the guests mock Hoffmann for falling in love with a SAT machine. SAT SAT Act 2 SAT SAT Antonia sings a plaintive love song filled with memories SAT of her dead mother, a famous singer (“Elle a fui, la SAT tourterelle”). SAT SAT Her father, Crespel, has taken her away in the hopes of SAT ending her affair with Hoffmann and begs her to give up SAT singing: she has inherited her mother’s weak heart, and SAT the effort will endanger her life. SAT SAT Hoffmann arrives and Antonia joins him in singing until SAT she nearly faints (Duet: “C’est une chanson d’amour”). SAT Crespel returns, alarmed by the arrival of the charlatan SAT Dr. Miracle, who had treated Crespel’s wife the day she SAT died. SAT SAT The doctor claims he can cure Antonia but Crespel accuses SAT him of killing his wife and forces him out. Hoffmann, SAT overhearing their conversation, asks Antonia to give up SAT singing and she reluctantly agrees. SAT SAT The moment he has left Miracle reappears, urging Antonia SAT to sing. He conjures up the voice of her mother and claims SAT she wants her daughter to relive the glory of her own fame. SAT SAT Antonia can’t resist. Her singing, accompanied by Miracle SAT frantically playing the violin, becomes more and more SAT feverish until she collapses. Miracle coldly pronounces SAT her dead. SAT SAT Act 3 SAT SAT The Venetian courtesan Giulietta joins Nicklausse in a SAT barcarole (“Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour”). SAT SAT A party is in progress, and Hoffmann mockingly praises the SAT pleasures of the flesh (“Amis, l’amour tendre et rêveur”). SAT SAT When Giulietta introduces him to her current lover, SAT Schlémil, Nicklausse warns the poet against the SAT courtesan’s charms. Hoffmann denies any interest in her. SAT SAT Having overheard them, the sinister Dapertutto produces a SAT large diamond with which he will bribe Giulietta to steal SAT Hoffmann’s reflection for him—just as she already has SAT stolen Schlémil’s shadow (“Scintille, diamant”). SAT SAT As Hoffmann is about to depart, Giulietta seduces him into SAT confessing his love for her (Duet: “O Dieu! de quelle SAT ivresse”). SAT SAT Schlémil returns and accuses Giulietta of having left him SAT for Hoffmann, who realizes with horror that he has lost SAT his reflection (Ensemble: “Hélas! mon cœur s’égare SAT encore!”). SAT SAT Schlémil challenges Hoffmann to a duel and is killed. SAT Hoffmann takes the key to Giulietta’s boudoir from his SAT dead rival but finds the room empty. SAT SAT Returning, he sees her leaving the palace in the arms of SAT the dwarf Pitichinaccio. SAT SAT Epilogue SAT SAT Having finished his tales, all Hoffmann wants is to forget. SAT SAT Nicklausse declares that each story describes a different SAT aspect of one woman: Stella. SAT SAT Arriving in the tavern after her performance, the singer SAT finds Hoffmann drunk and leaves with Lindorf. SAT SAT Nicklausse resumes her appearance as the Muse and SAT encourages the poet to find consolation in his creative SAT genius. SAT SAT 22:10 Between the Ears b007ntt3 (Listen) SAT The Sleepover SAT SAT Shut away for 20 hours in a humble house and barn beside a SAT creek, Judith Kampfner explores Jackson Pollock's domestic SAT world. SAT SAT 22:30 Hear and Now b00pcg77 (Listen) SAT Composer Portraits, Bruno Mantovani SAT SAT Concluding a series of composer profiles, Ivan Hewett SAT interviews French composer Bruno Mantovani at his home in SAT Paris. Featuring music from a concert given by the BBC SAT National Orchestra of Wales, recorded at BBC Hoddinott SAT Hall in Cardiff. SAT SAT Bruno Mantovani: Time Stretch (On Gesualdo) (16:22) SAT BBC National Orchestra of Wales Pascal Rophe (conductor) SAT SAT Cello Concerto (18:52) Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) SAT BBC National Orchestra of Wales Pascal Rophe (conductor) SAT SAT L'ere de rien (9:37) Andrew Nicholson (flute) SAT Yann Ghiro (clarinet) Catherine Roe-Williams (piano) SAT SAT Finale (14:46) BBC National Orchestra of Wales SAT Pascal Rophe (conductor) SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 20 DECEMBER 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Jazz Library b00kss3c (Listen) SUN Joni Mitchell SUN SUN Singer Christine Tobin guides Alyn Shipton through the SUN jazz-oriented repertoire of Joni Mitchell, including her SUN work with Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius and Herbie SUN Hancock. Mitchell often employed jazz musicians on her SUN recordings, but she was also fascinated by Charles Mingus, SUN making an album of his music shortly before his death. SUN SUN DISC 1 SUN Title: The Hissing Of Summer Lawns SUN Artist: Joni Mitchell SUN Composer: Guerin/Mitchell SUN Album. The Hissing Of Summer Lawns SUN Label: Asylum SUN Number: K253018, Track 6 SUN Personnel: Joni Mitchell (vocals), Chuck Findlay SUN (trumpet), Bud Shank (alto saxophone, flute), Victor SUN Feldman (keyboard), James Taylor (guitar), Max Bennett SUN (bass), John Guerin (drums, moog). recorded 1975 SUN SUN DISC 2 SUN Title: Coyote SUN Artist: Joni Mitchell SUN Composer: Mitchell SUN Album: Hejira SUN Label: Elektra SUN Number: 1087, Tr 1 SUN Personnel: Joni Mitchell (vocals, guitar), Larry Carlton SUN (guitar), Abe Most (clarinet), Neil Young (harmonica), SUN Chuck SUN Findley, Tom Scott (horns), Victor Feldman (vibraphone), SUN Jaco Pastorius (bass), John Guerin (drums), Bobbye Hall SUN (percussion). Rec: 1976 SUN SUN DISC 3 SUN Title: Paprika Plains SUN Artist: Joni Mitchell SUN Composer: Mitchell SUN Album: Don Juan's Reckless Daughter SUN Label: Asylum SUN Number 263003, Tr 4 SUN Personnel: Joni Mitchell (vocals, piano), Wayne Shorter SUN (soprano saxophone), Jaco Pastorius (bass), John Guerin SUN (drums). Orchestra arr, dir and cond by Mike Gibbs. SUN Recorded 1977 SUN SUN DISC 4 SUN Title: Dreamland SUN Artist: Joni Mitchell SUN Composer: Mitchell SUN Album: Don Juan's Reckless Daughter SUN Label: Asylum SUN Number 263003, Tr 7 SUN Personnel: Joni Mitchell, Chaka Khan (vocals), Airto SUN Moreira (bass drum), Don Alias (percussion), Jaco SUN Pastorius (cowbell), Alejandro Acuna (shakers), Manolo SUN Badrena (conga). Rec 1977 SUN SUN DISC 5 SUN Title: A Chair In The Sky SUN Artist: Joni Mitchell SUN Composer: Mitchell/Mingus SUN Album: Mingus SUN Label: Asylum SUN Number 7559 60557-2, Tr 4 SUN Personnel: Joni Mitchell (vocals, guitar), Jaco Pastorius SUN (bass), Wayne Shorter (soprano saxophone), Herbie Hancock SUN (keyboard), Peter Erskine (drums), Don Alias (conga), Emil SUN Richards (percussion). Rec 1979 SUN SUN DISC 6 SUN Title: God Must Be Boogie Man SUN Artist: Joni Mitchell SUN Composer: Mitchell SUN Album: Mingus SUN Label: Asylum SUN Number 7559 60557-2, Tr 2 SUN Personnel: as Disc 5 SUN SUN DISC 7 SUN Title: Goodbye Porkpie Hat SUN Artist: Joni Mitchell SUN Composer: Mingus SUN Album: Shadows and Light SUN Label: Elektra SUN Number: Tr 5 SUN Personnel as for Tr 7 SUN SUN DISC 8 SUN Title: I Wish I Were In Love Again SUN Artist: Joni Mitchell SUN Composer: Rodgers/Hart SUN Album: Both Sides Now SUN Label: Reprise SUN Number 9362476202, Tr 11 SUN Personnel: Joni Mitchell (vocals), Herbie Hancock (piano), SUN Chuck Berghofer (bass), Peter Erskine (drums). Orchestra SUN conducted by Vince Mendoza. Rec. 2000 SUN SUN DISC 9 SUN Title: Both Sides Now SUN Artis: Joni Mitchell SUN Composer: Rodgers/Hart SUN Album: Both Sides Now SUN Label: Reprise SUN Number 9362476202, Tr 12 SUN As Tr 8 but with Wayne Shorter (soprano saxophone). SUN SUN 01:00 Through the Night b00pckzd (Listen) SUN 1.00am SUN Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725): Cinque Profeti - SUN Christmas Cantata SUN Daniel ...... Barbara Schlick (soprano) SUN Ezechielle ...... Heike Hallaschka (soprano) SUN Geremia ...... Kai Wessel (countertenor) SUN Isaia ...... Christoph Pregardien (tenor) SUN Abramo ...... Michael Schopper (bass) La Stagione SUN Michael Schneider (director) SUN 2.01am SUN Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Quartet No 1 in A SUN minor, Wq 93 (Three quartets for fortepiano, flute and SUN viola - 1788) Les Adieux: Andreas Staier (fortepiano) SUN Wilbert Hazelzet (flute) Hajo Bass (viola) SUN 2.09am SUN Van Noordt, Anthoni (1619-1675): Fantasia 5 in C SUN Leo van Doeselaar (organ of the Hooglandse Kerk in Leiden) SUN 2.24am SUN Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707): Durch Adam Fall ist ganz SUN verderbt, BuxWV 183 SUN Juliusz Gembalski (organ of St Andrew the Apostle Parish SUN Church in Olkusz; construction of the organ begun by Hans SUN Hummel in the years 1617-1624 - was completed by Jerzy SUN Nitrowski in the years 1631-1633) SUN 2.28am SUN Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): The Firebird - suite (1945 SUN version) Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra SUN Marcello Viotti (conductor) SUN 3.01am SUN Bacewicz, Grazyna (1909-1969): Partita for orchestra SUN Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra SUN Marek Pijarowski (conductor) SUN 3.15am SUN Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Piano Sonata No 12 SUN in F, K332 Annie Fischer (piano) SUN 3.30am SUN Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936): Il Tramonto - poemetto SUN lirico Andrea Trebnik (soprano) SUN Borromeo String Quartet SUN 3.45am SUN Handel, George Friedrich (1685-1759): Incidental music to SUN The Alchemist, a play by Ben Johnson SUN CBC Vancouver Orchestra Monica Huggett (conductor) SUN 4.03am SUN Spohr, Louis (1784-1859): String Sextet in C, Op 140 SUN Wiener Streichsextet SUN 4.28am SUN Holst, Gustav (1874-1934): Ave Maria Chamber Choir AVE SUN Andraz Hauptman (conductor) SUN 4.34am SUN Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Suite in B flat for 13 wind SUN instruments, Op 4 Ottawa Winds SUN Michael Goodwin (conductor) SUN 5.01am SUN Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943): The Bells (Kolokola) for SUN soloists, chorus and orchestra, Op 35 SUN Roumiana Bareva (soprano) Pavel Kourchoumov (tenor) SUN Stoyan Popov (baritone) Sons de la Mer Mixed Choir Varna SUN Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra SUN Vassil Stefanov (conductor) SUN 5.39am SUN Bizet, Georges (1838-1875): L'arlesienne Suite No 1 SUN Slovenia Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra SUN Marko Munih (conductor) SUN 5.57am SUN Vallet, Nicolas (c.1583-c.1645): Carillon de village SUN Toyohiko Satoh (lute) SUN 6.00am SUN Rung, Henrik (1807-1871): Kimer, I klokker (Chime, you SUN bells) Fionian Chamber Choir Alice Granum (director) SUN 6.02am SUN Cantieni, Robert: Il Sain da Not (The Evening Bell) SUN Suraua Mixed Chorus Ruedi Collenberg (director) SUN 6.04am SUN Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Kallion kirkon kellosavelma SUN (The Bells of Kallio Church), Op 56b SUN Finnish Radio Chamber Choir SUN Eric-Olof Soderstrom (conductor) SUN 6.07am SUN Purcell, Henry (1659-1695): Rejoice in the Lord alway, Z49 SUN (Bell Anthem) Robert Lawaty (countertenor) SUN Robert Pozarski (tenor) Miroslaw Borczynski (bass) SUN Sine Nomine Chamber Choir SUN Concerto Polacco Baroque Orchestra SUN Marek Toporowski (director) SUN 6.15am SUN Delibes, Leo (1836-1891): Bell Song: Ou va la jeune SUN Hindoue? (Lakme, Act 2) SUN Lakme ...... Tracy Dahl (soprano) SUN Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra SUN Mario Bernardi (conductor) SUN 6.24am SUN Saint-Saens, Camille (1835-1921), transcr. Saint-Saens for SUN two pianos: Danse macabre, Op 40 Ouellet-Murray Duo: SUN Claire Ouellet, Sandra Murray (pianos) SUN 6.31am SUN Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): La cathedrale engloutie (No SUN 10 - Preludes, Book 1 - 1910) Philippe Cassard (piano) SUN 6.37am SUN Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953): Lieutenant Kije, Op 60 - SUN concert suite Queensland Symphony Orchestra SUN Vladimir Verbitsky (conductor). SUN SUN 07:00 Breakfast b00pcldp (Listen) SUN SUN 10:00 Sunday Morning b00pcldr (Listen) SUN Considering Christmas... SUN SUN Iain Burnside present a piquant take on Christmas and its SUN music. Joined by historian Kate Williams, who shares with SUN Iain her thoughts about how the Victorians did so much to SUN create the traditions we now take for granted, Iain plays SUN five centuries of Christmas music, from Thomas Tallis to SUN Morten Lauridsen. SUN SUN 12:00 Christmas Around Europe b00pcldt (Listen) SUN Christmas Around Europe (2009), Part 1 SUN SUN Fiona Talkington presents part of a day of concerts to SUN celebrate Christmas around Europe. SUN SUN 12.00pm SUN Vienna: From the Radiokulturhaus in Vienna, a concert of SUN chamber music by Mozart, Haydn, Albrechtsberger and SUN Schmidt, including Mozart's Adagio and Fugue for String SUN Quartet, K546, plus organ music by Schmidt. SUN SUN Robert Lehrbaumer (organ/piano) Laura Nocchiero (piano) SUN Antonello Pellegrini (clarinet) SUN SUN 1.00pm SUN Nuremberg: A concert of Christmas music by 17th-century SUN composer Johann Rosenmuller, German by birth, but very SUN influenced by the Italian style. The concert includes SUN newly discovered sacred concertos for vocal ensemble, SUN along with pieces for soprano solo and instrumental SUN ensemble. SUN SUN Lautten Compagney, Berlin Capella Angelica SUN Wolfgang Kortschner (conductor) SUN SUN 2.00pm SUN Tallinn: From St Nicholas' Church in Tallinn, the Estonian SUN National Men's Chorus perform a varied programme of SUN Christmas music, including traditional Estonian songs SUN along with Bach, Gabrieli and English Christmas carols. SUN SUN Estonian National Men's Chorus Ants Soots (director) SUN SUN 3.00pm SUN Dublin: The Irish contribution to Christmas around Europe SUN is a concert given by the RTE National Symphony Orchestra SUN from the National Concert Hall in Dublin, with Christmas SUN music from Rimsky-Korsakov, Bach and Grieg. SUN SUN Victoria Massey (mezzo-soprano) RTE Children's Choir SUN RTE National Symphony Orchestra SUN Gavin Maloney (conductor). SUN SUN 16:00 Choral Evensong b00p8g37 (Listen) SUN SUN From All Saints' Church, Swanton Morley, Norfolk with the SUN Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. SUN SUN Introit: Arise, shine (Ned Rorem) Responses: Peter Still SUN Psalm: 25 (Henry Ainsworth) SUN First Lesson: Isaiah 51 vv1-8 SUN Office Hymn: Hark the glad sound! (Bristol) SUN Canticles (Robert Nicholls) SUN Second Lesson: II Thessalonians 1 SUN Spirituals: Ev'ry time I feel the Spirit; There is a balm SUN in Gilead; Ain't that good news!; My Lord, what a morning; SUN Ezekiel saw de wheel (arr. Henry Burleigh and William SUN Dawson) SUN Final Hymn: Mine eyes have seen the glory (Battle Hymn of SUN the Republic) SUN Organ Voluntary: Hymn (Flights of Fancy) (William Albright) SUN SUN Organ scholars: Matthew Fletcher, Annie Lydford SUN Director of music: Geoffrey Webber. SUN SUN 17:00 Christmas Around Europe b00pcldw (Listen) SUN Christmas Around Europe (2009), Part 2 SUN SUN Fiona Talkington presents the conclusion of a day of SUN concerts to celebrate Christmas around Europe. SUN SUN 5.00pm SUN Munich: From the Herkulessaal, the Bavarian Radio Chorus SUN and Orchestra perform two contrasting Christmas choral SUN works. Arvo Part's 2 Christmas Lullabies and Saint-Saens's SUN mighty Christmas Oratorio. SUN SUN Bavarian Radio Chorus and Orchestra SUN Tonu Kaljuste (conductor) SUN SUN 6.00pm SUN Warsaw: From the Witold Lutoslawski Concert Hall, a SUN concert of Renaissance motets for Christmas, featuring SUN works by Josquin Desprez, Victoria, Tallis, Lasso and SUN Mikolaj Zielenski. SUN SUN The Subtilior Ensemble Piotr Zawistowski (director) SUN SUN 7.00pm SUN Prague: BBC Radio 3 rounds off the day of Christmas music SUN from around Europe with a concert from the Kromeriz SUN Archives (1750-1800), performed in the Mirror Chapel in SUN Prague. SUN SUN Ensemble Inegal Adam Viktoria (director). SUN SUN 20:00 Drama on 3 b00pcldy (Listen) SUN A Whistle in the Dark SUN SUN By Tom Murphy. SUN SUN This powerful modern classic play is set in the early SUN 1960s and centres on the reunion of an Irish family in SUN Coventry. Michael Carney, with the help of his English SUN wife, Betty, is putting up his brothers Harry, Iggy and SUN Hugo in his house. When Dada arrives from Ireland with SUN Des, the youngest brother, it has devastating consequences SUN for all of them. SUN SUN Dada ...... John Kavanagh SUN Michael Carney ...... Aidan McArdle SUN Des Carney ...... Martin McCann SUN Harry Carney ...... Denis Conway SUN Iggy Carney ...... David Wilmot SUN Hugo Carney ...... Garrett Lombard SUN Mush ...... Ruaidhri Conroy Betty ...... Emma Amos SUN SUN Director/producer: Roland Jaquarello. SUN SUN 22:00 Sunday Feature b00pclf0 (Listen) SUN Tasty! SUN SUN Notions of good and bad taste used to reinforce strict SUN top-down notions of how we should appreciate the visual SUN arts and design. But consumerism has democratised taste. SUN So have ideas about taste just become subjective or, now SUN that we can all take part, are they even more important? SUN Cultural historian Richard Weight explores how we decide SUN what is tasty. SUN SUN 22:45 Words and Music b00mm0lw (Listen) SUN In the Park SUN SUN Words and Music this week takes a walk through the park: a SUN place where children play, lovers kiss, old friends SUN reminisce and the affluent rub shoulders with the lost. In SUN an urban landscape, the park provides an escape from the SUN everyday, but in the stillness and space both joy and SUN sadness can seem heightened. SUN So we find pleasure and cheerfulness in the park, starting SUN with the jaunty optimism of Charles Williams' ‘A Quiet SUN Stroll’. Later, in William Thackeray’s ‘Vanity Fair’ we SUN encounter a fun-loving crowd at the Vauxhall Gardens - and SUN at the conclusion of the programme, we delight in life SUN with David Constantine’s ‘Woman on a Swing’ as she rocks SUN her life “back to the lip of the breaking wave of SUN girlhood”. SUN An extract from Roy Porter’s ‘London: A Social History’ SUN tells us how Kensington Gardens became the most exclusive SUN green after Queen Caroline sought to ‘prevent persons SUN meanly clad from going into the garden’. And we hear the SUN quasi-pastoral sentiments of Thomas Arne’s ‘Cantata: SUN Delia’, featured as a part of the entertainment at SUN Vauxhall Gardens; and it was at the Gardens that in 1749 SUN there was a full rehearsal of Handel’s ‘Music for the SUN Royal Fireworks’, in preparation for its later performance SUN in Green Park. In ‘Guards!’, D.H. Lawrence gives an SUN account of the crowd watching a review in Hyde Park in SUN 1913 – and the pomp and ceremony of that occasion SUN continues in Derek Broadbent’s march ‘The British SUN Bandsman’, played by West Yorkshire’s Brighouse & Rastrick SUN Band. SUN SUN But we also stumble upon sorrow and grief – at the start SUN of the programme, the mother described by Gwen Harwood SUN feels ‘eaten alive’ by her children; Douglas Dunn writes SUN of a father in a park in the Lowlands who, in the idyllic SUN sunlight of a July evening, grieves for the son he will SUN lose to leukaemia. The darkness that can overshadow us in SUN beautiful surroundings is also reflected in Sara SUN Teasdale’s poem ‘Spring Night’, and Charles Ives’ musical SUN evocation of night sounds: Central Park in the Dark. SUN And it is on the park bench that the realisation comes of SUN what we have done to spoil our lives and devastate others… SUN as in Graham Greene’s ‘The End of the Affair’, as Bendrix SUN is confronted by the Henry, the husband of his ex-lover, SUN Sarah… as Robin Robertson’s park drunk’ wakes to frost and SUN drinks ‘for winter’. SUN SUN Greta Scacchi and Henry Goodman lead a literary amble SUN through the park, with poetry by DH Lawrence, Matthew SUN Arnold, Gwen Harwood and Sara Teasdale; and music by SUN Handel, Charles Ives and Phyllis Tate. SUN SUN Producer: Lisa Davis SUN SUN Details of Readings and Music SUN Times are from the start of the programme SUN SUN 00:00:00 SUN CHARLES WILLIAMS A Quiet Stroll SUN The New London Orchestra Ronald Corp – conductor SUN HYPERION CDA67400 SUN 00:02:07 SUN GWEN HARWOOD In the Park Greta Scacchi (reader) SUN 00:03:11 SUN WILLIAM BLEZARD Battersea Park Suite: Boat on the Lake SUN Ian Scott – clarinet Royal Ballet Sinfonia SUN Gavin Sutherland – conductor ASV CD WHL 2131 SUN 00:05:29 SUN DOUGLAS DUNN Reading Pascal in the Lowlands SUN Henry Goodman (reader) SUN 00:08:28 SUN WILLIAM BLEZARD Battersea Park Suite: Child Asleep SUN Royal Ballet Sinfonia Gavin Sutherland – conductor SUN ASV CD WHL 2131 SUN 00:10:08 SUN ELIZABETH BOWEN The Death of the Heart SUN Greta Scacchi (reader) SUN 00:11:35 SUN PAUL SIMON Old Friends Simon & Garfunkel SUN COLUMBIA MOOD CD21 SUN 00:14:08 SUN GRAHAM GREENE The End of the Affair SUN Henry Goodman (reader) SUN 00:15:40 SUN PHYLLIS TATE SUN London Fields Suite: St James’ Park – a Lakeside Reverie SUN Royal Ballet Sinfonia Gavin Sutherland – conductor SUN ASV CD WHL 2138 SUN 00:20:01 SUN ROBIN ROBERTSON The Park Drunk Henry Goodman (reader) SUN 00:21:07 SUN STEPHEN SONDHEIM Beautiful Mandy Patinkin – George SUN Barbara Bryne – Old Lady RCA RD85042 SUN 00:24:09 SUN GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL SUN Music for the Royal Fireworks: Ouverture SUN English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner – conductor SUN PHILIPS 411 122-2 SUN 00:26:05 SUN WILLIAM THACKERAY Vanity Fair Greta Scacchi (reader) SUN 00:31:35 SUN ROY PORTER London: A Social History SUN Henry Goodman (reader) SUN 00:33:00 SUN D.H. LAWRENCE SUN GUARDS! Greta Scacchi (reader) SUN 00:33:58 SUN DEREK BROADBENT The British Bandsman SUN Brighouse & Rastrick Band Derek Broadbent – conductor SUN POLYPHONIC QPRL 031D SUN 00:37:13 SUN SARA TEASDALE Spring Night Greta Scacchi (reader) SUN 00:38:29 SUN CHARLES IVES Central Park in the Dark SUN New York Philharmonic Leonard Bernstein – conductor SUN DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 429 220-2 SUN 00:45:22 SUN MATTHEW ARNOLD Words Written in Kensington Gardens SUN Henry Goodman (reader) SUN 00:48:09 SUN THOMAS AUGUSTINE ARNE Cantata: Delia SUN Emma Kirkby – soprano London Baroque SUN Charles Medlam – director EMI CDC 7 49799 2 SUN 00:51:52 SUN FLEUR ADCOCK Immigrant Greta Scacchi (reader) SUN 00:52:37 SUN CLAUDE DEBUSSY SUN Images pour piano – Livre I: No 1: Reflets dans l’eau SUN Kathryn Stott – piano CONIFER 75605 51755 2 SUN 00:56:27 SUN DAVID CONSTANTINE Woman on a Swing SUN Greta Scacchi (reader) SUN SUN 23:45 Jazz Line-Up b00pclf4 (Listen) SUN John Scofield SUN SUN In an edited version of an interview given at the 2009 SUN London Jazz Festival, Kevin LeGendre talks in-depth to SUN guitarist John Scofield, a former sideman to Miles Davis SUN and collaborator with many others. SUN SUN Since working with Davis, Scofield has famously led his SUN own groups, producing more than 30 albums, many of which SUN are now classics. He has collaborated with contemporary SUN favourites such as Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Eddie SUN Harris, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Bill Frisell, Brad SUN Mehldau, Mavis Staples, Government Mule, Jack DeJohnette, SUN Joe Lovano and Phil Lesh. Scofield has also played and SUN recorded with Tony Williams, Jim Hall, Ron Carter, Herbie SUN Hancock, Joe Henderson, Dave Holland and Terumasa Hino. SUN SUN Title: Call SUN Artist: Troyka (Chris Montague - guitar, Kit Downes - SUN organ, Joshua Blackmore - drums) Album: Troyka SUN Track: 10 Label: Edition EDN 1014 SUN Comp: Chris Montague Publ: Edition Records Dur:2m15s SUN SUN Title: So He Left Artist: Empirical Album: Out 'n' In SUN Track: 4 Label: Naim Jazz NAIMCD 139 SUN Comp: Nathaniel Facey Publ: Naim Jazz Dur:5m27s SUN SUN Title: Motherless Child Artist: John Scofield SUN Album: Piety Street Track: 2 SUN Label: Emarcy 060251 791 1369 SUN Comp: Trad (arr John Scofield) Publ: n/a Dur:5m18s SUN SUN Title: igetthepicture SUN Artist: John Scofield - guitar, Don Alias - percussion, SUN George Duke - keyboard, Dennis Chambers - drums, Gary SUN Grainger, bass Album: Loud Jazz Track: 10 SUN Label: Gramavision GCD 79402 Comp: John Scofield SUN Publ: BMI Dur:4m18s SUN SUN Title: London December 1, 2008 - Part 12 SUN Artist: Keith Jarrett Album: Testament - Paris/London SUN Track: CD3, XII Label: ECM ECM 2132 SUN Comp: Keith Jarrett Publ: Cavelight Music (BMI) SUN Dur:7m15s SUN SUN EBU Recording - made in the Leffe Abbey, at the Dinant SUN Jazz Nights Festival, 2008 Title: Sugar SUN Artists: Eric Legnini - piano, Stephane Belmondo - SUN trumpet, Julien Lourau - saxophone, Mathias Allamane - SUN bass, Frank Agulhorn - drums Comp: Stanley Turrentine SUN Dur: 13m44s SUN SUN EBU Recording - made in the Leffe Abbey, at the Dinant SUN Jazz Nights Festival, 2008 Title: Big Boogaloo SUN Artists: Eric Legnini - piano, Stephane Belmondo - SUN trumpet, Julien Lourau - saxophone, Mathias Allamane - SUN bass, Frank Agulhorn - drums Comp: Stanley Turrentine SUN Dur:10m44s SUN SUN Title: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Part One SUN Artist: Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, The Partyka Brass SUN Quintet Album: Carla's Christmas Carols Track: 5 SUN Label: Watt Production/ECM Records WATT/35 2712412 SUN Comp: Trad (arr Carla Bley) Publ: ECM Dur:1m09s SUN SUN Title: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Part Two SUN Artist: Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, The Partyka Brass SUN Quintet Album: Carla's Christmas Carols Track: 6 SUN Label: Watt Production/ECM Records WATT/35 2712412 SUN Comp: Trad (arr. Carla Bley) Publ: ECM Dur:5m13s. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 21 DECEMBER 2009 MON MON 01:00 Through the Night b00pclhn (Listen) MON 1.00am MON Nenov, Dimitar (1901-53): Christmas - symphonic poem for MON soloists, mixed choir and symphony orchestra (1938-39) MON Valeri Popova (soprano) Alexander Krunev (baritone) MON Mixed Choir of Bulgarian National Radio MON BNR Symphony Orchestra Milen Nachev (conductor) MON 1.36am MON Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Quartet No 1 in G minor for MON piano and strings, Op 25 Laurence Power (viola) MON Kungsbacka Trio: Malin Broman (violin) MON Jesper Svedberg (cello) Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano) MON 2.18am MON Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Iberia: Images for Orchestra, MON No 2 (1909) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra MON Jun Markl (conductor) MON 2.40am MON Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826): Grand duo concertant MON for clarinet and piano, Op 48 MON Joaquin Valdepenas (clarinet) Patricia Parr (piano) MON 3.01am MON Schenck, Johann (1660-c.1712): Sonata in A minor, Op 9 No 2 MON Berliner Conzert MON 3.23am MON Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Symphony No 6 in C, D589 MON Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra MON Jukka-Peka Saraste (conductor) MON 3.55am MON Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Nocturne in D flat, Op 27 No MON 2 Jane Coop (piano) MON 4.02am MON Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Brandenburg Concerto MON No 2 in F, BWV1047 Alexis Kossenko (recorder) MON Erik Niord Larsen (oboe) Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet) MON Elise Batnes (violin) Risor Festival Strings MON Knut Johannessen (harpsichord) MON 4.13am MON Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Spring Song, Op 16 MON Kaija Saarikettu (violin) Raija Kerppo (piano) MON 4.22am MON Crusell, Bernhard Henrik (1775-1838): Introduction et Air MON Suedois, Op 12 Anne-Marja Korimaa (clarinet) MON Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Osmo Vanska (conductor) MON 4.33am MON Bartok, Bela (1881-1945): Four Old Hungarian Folksongs MON (Negy regi magyar nepdal) for male chorus, Sz 50 MON Male Choir of the Hungarian Army Bela Podor (conductor) MON 4.38am MON Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Was erblicke ich? (Daphne, MON Op 82) - aria Ben Heppner (tenor) MON Toronto Symphony Orchestra Andrew Davis (conductor) MON 4.47am MON Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Bacchanalia (Poeticke nalady MON - No 10, Op 85) MON Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava MON Robert Stankovsky (conductor) MON 4.53am MON Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), compl. Zoltan MON Kocsis: Rondo (Concert rondo) for horn and orchestra in E MON flat, K371 Laszlo Gal (horn) MON Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra MON Zoltan Kocsis (conductor) MON 5.01am MON Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Overture (Manfred, Op 115) MON BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) MON 5.15am MON Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Intermezzo in A, Op 118 No 2 MON Jane Coop (piano) MON 5.21am MON Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Giulio Cesare's aria: MON Al lampo dell'armi (Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Act 2) MON Matthew White (countertenor) Arte dei Suonatori MON Eduardo Lopez (conductor) MON 5.26am MON Sammartini, Giuseppe (1695-1750): Sinfonia in F MON Europa Galante Fabio Biondi (violin/director) MON 5.34am MON Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809): String Quartet No 31 in MON B minor, H lll 37 Quatour Ysaye MON 5.52am MON Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): Feux d'artifice, Op 4 MON Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra MON Valery Gergiev (conductor) MON 5.56am MON Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Jeux - poeme danse MON Oslo Philharmonic Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) MON 6.14am MON Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Rondo in D, K184 - MON arr. for flute and piano Carina Jandl (flute) MON Svetlana Sokolova (piano) MON 6.20am MON Zagar, Peter (b.1961): Blumenthal Dance No 2 for violin, MON viola, cello, clarinet and piano (1999) MON Opera Aperta Ensemble MON 6.28am MON Grandjany, Marcel (1891-1975): Rhapsodie pour la harpe, Op MON 10 (1921) Rita Costanzi (harp) MON 6.38am MON Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Cantata No 170 MON (Vergnugte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust) - Leipzig, 1726 MON Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) MON Les Musiciens du Louvre Marc Minkowski (conductor). MON MON 07:00 Breakfast b00pclhq (Listen) MON MON 10:00 Classical Collection b00pclhs (Listen) MON 10.00am MON Vaughan Williams: Aristophanic Suite (The Wasps) MON Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra MON James Judd (conductor) NAXOS 8.572304 MON 10.26am MON Bernstein: La bonne cuisine Patricia Petibon (soprano) MON Susan Manoff (piano) VIRGIN 5622942 MON 10.36am MON Telemann: Quartet in E minor (Tafelmusik, Part 3) MON Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901689 MON 10.47am MON Roussel: Le festin de l'araignee, Op 17 MON Orchestre National de l'ORTF Jean Martinon (conductor) MON ERATO 2564 605772 MON 11.20am MON Ravel: Piano Trio MON The Building a Library recommendation from CD Review. MON MON 12:00 Composer of the Week b00pclhv (Listen) MON John Rutter (b.1945), Episode 1 MON MON Donald Macleod is in conversation with John Rutter, one of MON the world's most successful and popular living composers. MON MON John discusses some of his most significant childhood MON experiences, whose influences continue to resonate in his MON most recent music. MON MON John Rutter — Shepherd’s Pipe Carol MON Allmänna Sången Uppsala Kammarorkester MON Cecilia Rydinger Alin (Conductor) BIS, BISNLCD5028,, 16 MON MON John Rutter — Come down O love divine MON Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano) The Cambridge Singers MON John Rutter (Conductor) Collegium, COLCD 129,, 13 MON MON John Rutter — A Gaelic Blessing MON The Choir of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle MON Roger Judd (organ) Timothy Byram-Wigfield (conductor) MON Hyperion, CDA66947,, 10 MON MON John Rutter — Mass of the Children MON Angharad Gryffydd-Jones (soprano) MON Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) MON Choir of Clare College, Cambridge Farnham Youth Choir MON Clare Chamber Ensemble James McVinnie (organ) MON Timothy Brown (conductor) Naxos, 8.557922,, 1-5 MON MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b00pclpg (Listen) MON Takacs Quartet MON MON Repeated from Wigmore Hall earlier this year, Sarah Walker MON presents a concert featuring the Takacs Quartet. They MON perform Haydn's String Quartet, Op 77 No 1, and Bartok's MON String Quartet No 4. MON MON 14:00 Afternoon on 3 b00pclpj (Listen) MON Richard Hickox Tribute, Episode 1 MON MON Penny Gore introduces a series of programmes in tribute to MON the late conductor Richard Hickox. MON MON Featuring concert recordings from the Cheltenham Festival MON and from the BBC Proms as well as from St David's Hall in MON Cardiff, all given while Richard was principal conductor MON MON Elgar: Overture (Cockaigne) MON BBC National Orchestra of Wales MON Richard Hickox (conductor) MON MON Bach: Magnificat Norma Burrowes (soprano) MON Paul Esswood (countertenor) Robert Tear (tenor) MON Thomas Allen (baritone) Alastair Ross (organ) MON Richard Hickox Orchestra and Singers MON Richard Hickox (conductor) MON MON 2.45pm MON Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms MON BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales MON Richard Hickox (conductor) MON MON Rubbra: Symphony No 4 BBC National Orchestra of Wales MON Richard Hickox (conductor) MON MON Ravel: Ma mere l'oye - ballet MON BBC National Orchestra of Wales MON Richard Hickox (conductor) MON MON 4.10pm MON Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony MON BBC National Orchestra of Wales MON Richard Hickox (conductor). MON MON 17:00 Words and Music b00jkt31 (Listen) MON Handel Week - Handel's Divas MON MON Opera in London during the 18th century was much talked MON about, and there is a wealth of material from which to MON choose which highlights differing opinions, anecdotes and MON accounts of the activities of all those involved in their MON performance, composition and production. It is a rich seam MON to be mined, but in the end I decided to focus on a MON particular time in Handel’s life in London. The Royal MON Academy of Music was founded in 1719 to establish regular MON seasons of Italianate opera seria in London, and Handel MON provided vehicles for the most famous singers, mostly MON brought over from Italy. MON MON The programme begins with an observation from the famous MON musical historian and commentator – Charles Burney – who MON knew and admired Handel. He gives a clear picture of the MON personality of Handel – a little impatient perhaps and MON prone to say what he thought, but not at all malicious. MON Ironic, therefore, that he had to endure the petty MON squabblings of his opera singers. MON MON The opening music I think reflects the gentler side of the MON composer with a beautiful interpretation of his trio MON sonata for flute and violin. MON MON Longfellow’s poem about the three singers sets the tone MON for the rest of the programme – the idea that singers MON working together can create wonderful harmony, but warns MON of the inevitable discord which can arise from jealousy MON and competition. MON MON Rinaldo pre-dates the Royal Academy but was the first of MON Handel’s London operas. Contemporary writing from John Gay MON (famous for his “Beggar’s Opera”) and the author Daniel MON Defoe highlight the obsession at that time with opera, and MON in particular some of the singers. One of the most famous MON was the castrato Francesco Bernadi, otherwise known as MON Senesino (a nickname inspired by his birth place – MON Sienna). He enjoyed enormous success during his stay in MON London but was a difficult character by all accounts. Yet MON he had a superb voice, and in the recording of Va Tacito e MON nascosto (from Giulio Cesare in Egito)[Silently and MON stealthily the cunning hunter moves] David Daniels’s MON almost womanly countertenor voice I think is probably one MON of the closest ideas we will ever have as to what a real MON castrato may have sounded like. MON MON Italian singers were not always received well, with the MON inevitable xenophobia in some publications, which could be MON quite acerbic at times. They were hugely popular, though, MON and it was not long before more arrived and delighted more MON and more admirers. You can almost hear the baying crowds MON in A Legend of the Haymarket, Richard Barham’s boisterous MON poem about the public demand for their favourite singer. MON MON The next darling of the opera stage to arrive from Italy MON was Francesca Cuzzoni. Her debut was in Ottone, and the MON aria Falsa imagine [false picture] became a big hit with MON audiences. Cuzzoni was apparently no great beauty, but she MON won the hearts of all with her voice. Robert Leighton’s MON enraptured poem is in fact about a singer from a century MON later, also famous for singing Handel, but aptly reflects MON the reactions of the time for Cuzzoni. MON MON A short while after Cuzzoni, along came Faustina Bordoni MON who became just as popular. The duet Placa l’alma, quieta MON il petto! (from Alessandro) [bid the soul rest, and still MON thy breast] was written specifically for these two divas MON to show off their talents, and it was not long before MON there was a debate as to who was the better. The rivalry MON was infamous and the hostility between the two women was MON so great that they actually came to blows on stage during MON an opera by Handel’s own rival - Bononcini. The incident MON caused great offence to the Princess of Wales, who was MON present, and brought the season to an abrupt end. MON MON The satirical writing of the time is cruel, harsh and MON sometimes very funny at the singers’ expense. A favourite MON device was to create scenes and letters, anonymously MON written and published in pamphlets, purporting to be the MON thoughts and words of the singers themselves. MON MON The stormy aria Furie terribili [fearful furies] from MON Rinaldo dates from before the furore, but aptly reflects MON the turbulence with its astonishing thunder effects, which MON the original production would have had, special effects MON being very much in vogue at the time. MON MON Eventually, things calmed down, singers moved on, and the MON Royal Academy was restructured. Handel continued writing MON smash hit operas, but eventually, in 1742, The Messiah was MON to open up a whole new area of Handel’s music to audiences MON – the oratorio. MON MON Meanwhile, the delightfully gossipy correspondence of Mrs MON Pendarves gives us a real insight into the thoughts and MON activities of these music lovers and her warm account of MON Mr Handel playing to her guests creates an intimate MON picture of 18th century home entertainment. The Harmonious MON Blacksmith remains one of Handel’s most popular keyboard MON pieces to this day, and I can just imagine his friends MON requesting that he play it to them whilst they drink their MON “white mulled wine”. MON MON Finally, Ben Jonson’s The musical strife; in a pastoral MON dialogue brings back the theme of competing singers, but MON concludes (in just the same manner that Longfellow did at MON the beginning of the programme), that true harmony is MON achieved by striving together rather than against each MON other. And what better way to demonstrate this than with MON one of Handel’s most popular and exquisite pieces of all – MON the duet As steals the morn upon the night (from MON L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato) which essentially MON advocates the motto “moderation in all things”! MON MON Producer Helen Garrison MON MON Running Order MON MON GJ = Geraldine James MM = Michael Maloney MON MON 00:00:00 MON Charles Burney: Extract from An Account of the Musical MON Performances...in Commemoration of Handel (MM) MON 00:00:27 MON Handel: Trio sonata (Op.2`1) in B minor [HWV.386] (Largo MON and Allegro) Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone MON Harmonia Mundi HMC 901957 Tracks 14-15 MON 00:05:04 MON Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Singers (GJ) MON 00:06:23 MON Handel: Overture to Rinaldo MON The Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood MON Decca 467 087-2 CD 1 Track 1 MON 00:07:28 MON Unknown author, possibly Daniel Defoe: Extract from a MON letter to the Weekly Journal, 18th December 1725 (MM) MON 00:08:44 MON John Gay: Extract from letter to Jonathan Swift, 1722-3 MON (MM) MON 00:10:05 MON Joseph Mitchell: Ode on the Power of Musick (MM) MON 00:10:20 MON Handel: Va Tacito e nascosto (from Giulio Cesare in Egito) MON David Daniels (countertenor – Giulio Cesare) MON Roger Montgomery (horn) MON Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Sir Roger Norrington MON Virgin VC 5 45326 2 Track 3 MON 00:16:19 MON Unknown author: Faustina: or the Roman Songstress, A MON Satyr, on the Luxury and Effeminacy of the Age (MM) MON 00:16:44 MON Anne Penny: Addressed to David Garrick, Esq; on Seeing the MON Opera of Daphne and Amyntor (GJ) MON 00:18:16 MON Richard Barham: A Legend of the Haymarket (MM) MON 00:19:29 MON Extract from the British Journal, 29th December 1722 (GJ) MON 00:19:41 MON Handel: Falsa imagine (from Ottone Re di Germania) MON Claron McFadden (soprano – Teofane) MON The King’s Consort/Robert King Hyperion CDA66751/3 MON CD 1 Track 8 MON 00:21:46 MON Robert Leighton: Jenny Lind (MM) MON 00:22:50 MON Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Oh listen while I sing to MON thee (GJ) MON 00:25:18 MON Extract from The London Journal, 30th March 1723 (GJ) MON 00:26:15 MON Unknown author: Faustina: or the Roman Songstress, A MON Satyr, on the Luxury and Effeminacy of the Age (MM) MON 00:26:46 MON Mrs Pendarves to her sister, Miss Anne Granville, 22nd MON August 1725 (GJ) MON 00:27:10 MON Handel: La speranza è giunta in porto (from Ottone Re di MON Germania) Jennifer Smith (soprano – Gismonda) MON The King’s Consort/Robert King Hyperion CDA66751/3 MON CD 1 Track 4 MON 00:28:31 MON Extract from The London Journal, 4th September 1725 (GJ) MON 00:28:51 MON Handel: Placa l’alma, quieta il petto! (from Alessandro) MON Sophie Boulin (soprano – Rossane) MON Isabelle Poulenard (soprano – Lisaura) MON La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken MON Deutsche Harmonia Mundi GD77110 (3) CD 2 Track 5 MON 00:31:32 MON Extract from The British Journal, 25th march 1727 (MM) MON 00:31:50 MON Handel: Brilla nell’alma un non inteso ancor (from MON Alessandro) Sophie Boulin (soprano – Rossane) MON La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken MON Deutsche Harmonia Mundi GD77110 (3) CD 3 Track 13 MON 00:31:55 MON Unknown author: Extract from Faustina’s answer to MON Senesino’s Epistle (satyr) (read by Lara Bellini) MON 00:36:58 MON Unknown author: The Devil to pay at St James’s: or, A full MON and true account of a most horrid and bloody battle MON between Madam Faustina and Madame Cuzzoni (MM) MON 00:37:52 MON Handel: Furie terribili (from Rinaldo) MON Luba Orgonasova (soprano – Armida) MON The Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood MON Decca 467 087-2 CD 1 Track 15 MON 00:40:15 MON Unknown author: Extract from Faustina’s answer to MON Senesino’s Epistle (satyr) (read by Lara Bellini) MON 00:40:24 MON Unknown author: Extract from An Epistle from Signor MON Senesino to Signora Faustina (satyr) (MM) MON 00:40:54 MON HANDEL Parto, fuggo… (from Scipione) MON Doris Lamprecht (alto – Lucejo) MON Les Talens Lyriques/Christoph Rousset FNAC 592245 (3) MON CD 2 Track 8 4’03 MON 00:40:58 MON Alexander Pope (1688-1744) MON A Farewell to London (extract) (MM) MON 00:44:58 MON Unknown author (1727) MON The contre temps; or, Rival Queens: A small farce (extract) MON (MM) MON 00:46:07 MON Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780-1857) MON Translated by Eugene Field (1850-95) Ma Vocation (GJ) MON 00:46:56 MON Handel: Da tanti affani oppressa (from Admeto, re di MON Tassaglia) Jill Gomez (soprano – Antigona) MON Il Complesso Barocco/Alan Curtis Virgin VMT 5 61369 2 MON CD 2 Track 15 MON 00:54:09 MON Handel: Air with five Variations “The Harmonious MON Blacksmith” Paul Nicholson (harpsichord) MON Hyperion CDA66931/2 CD 1 Track 23 MON 00:54:27 MON Mrs Pendarves to her sister, Miss Anne Granville, 12th MON April 1734 (GJ) MON 00:58:39 MON Extract from Faulkner’s Dublin Journal, 13th April 1742 MON (MM) MON 00:59:02 MON Handel: For unto us a Child is born (from Messiah) MON The English Concert and Choir/Trevor Pinnock MON Archiv 423 630-2 CD 1 Track 12 MON 01:03:03 MON Extract from Faulkner’s Dublin Journal, 15th March 1743 MON (GJ) MON 01:03:50 MON Handel: Let the Bright Seraphim - chorus (from Samson) MON The Sixteen MON The Symphony of Harmony and Invention/Harry Christophers MON Collins 70382 CD 3 Track 22 MON 01:03:54 MON William Hughes: Remarks upon musick, to which are added MON several observations upon some of Mr Handel’s Oratorios, MON and other parts of works (Worcester 1758) (MM) MON 01:06:53 MON Ben Jonson (1572-1637) MON The musical strife; in a pastoral dialogue (GJ and MM) MON 01:07:11 MON Handel: As steals the morn upon the night (from L’Allegro, MON il Penseroso ed il Moderato) Susan Gritton (soprano) MON Paul Agnew (tenor) The King’s Consort/Robert King MON Hyperion CDA67283/4 CD 2 Track 24 7’08 MON MON 18:15 New Generation Artists b00pclpn (Listen) MON MON BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme picks out some MON of the brightest new talents in the classical music world. MON The special Christmas and New Year series features studio MON and live concert performances, here by Swiss pianist MON Francesco Piemontesi, Swedish soprano Malin Christensson MON and Ukrainian viola player Maxim Rysanov. MON MON Schumann: Toccata, Op 7 Francesco Piemontesi (piano) MON MON Wolf: Wie lange schon; Wer rief dich denn?; Wir haben MON beide lange Zeit geschwiegen; Mein Liebster ist so klein; MON Mein Liebster singt am Haus; Du denkst mit einem Fadchen MON (Italienisches Liederbuch) Malin Christensson (soprano) MON Simon Lepper (piano) MON MON Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata, D821 Maxim Rysanov (viola) MON Evgeny Samoyloff (piano). MON MON 19:00 Performance on 3 b00pclpq (Listen) MON LSO/Gergiev MON MON Valery Gergiev conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in MON ballet music by Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky, and MON continues his Dutilleux season with the Symphony No 2, MON written in 1959. MON MON In May 2009, Gergiev was awarded the prestigious RPS MON Conductor's Award for being 'a conductor who makes things MON happen - an inspiration to players and audiences alike,' MON and in this concert he celebrates that achievement. In his MON innovative Symphony, Dutilleux - a gold medallist of the MON RPS - divides the orchestra into two, the small ensemble MON mirroring the larger. The French tradition is represented MON here by Ravel's Pavane for an imaginary Spanish princess MON and his overwhelming ballet score Bolero. With Debussy's MON enigmatic Jeux, written for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, MON and Stravinsky's Jeu de cartes, an idea which came to him MON during a taxi ride. He said: 'I was so delighted that I MON stopped the driver and invited him to have a drink with MON me.' MON MON London Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev (conductor) MON MON Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte Debussy: Jeux MON Henri Dutilleux: Symphony No 2 MON Stravinsky: Jeu des cartes Ravel: Bolero. MON MON 20:45 Belief b00pclps (Listen) MON Series 6, David Starkey MON MON Joan Bakewell explores areas of belief with artists, MON thinkers and other public figures. MON MON She talks to historian, writer and broadcaster David MON Starkey about his Quaker upbringing, his rejection of MON religion as the answer to life's big questions and how he MON makes sense of recent moves in Catholic-Anglican MON relations. As the author of a recent biography of Henry MON VIII, he wonders if time is running out for Henry's great MON legacy - England's national church - the Church of England. MON MON 21:15 BBC Proms b00pclpv (Listen) MON 2009, Prom 17: Bach Motets MON MON A late-night Prom from the 2009 season in which John Eliot MON Gardiner and his hand-picked choir and ensemble perform MON some of Bach's motets. While Bach's great Passions MON languished unheard for almost a century after his death, MON his motets continued to be sung by the Leipzig choirs for MON which they were written. The concert features four of MON them, including Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Sing to MON the Lord a new song), a work which had even Mozart MON exclaiming, 'Now, there's a piece one can learn from'. MON MON Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists MON John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) MON MON Bach: Komm, Jesu, Komm!, BWV229; Furchte dich nicht, MON BWV228; Jesu, meine Freude, BWV227; Singet dem Herrn ein MON neues Lied, BWV225 MON MON Followed by two solo performances from the 2009 Proms New MON Generation Artist weekend. Violinist Alina Ibragimova MON plays Bach's Partita No 3 in E, BWV1006, while Maxim MON Rysanov performs Bach's Suite No 4 in E flat, BWV1010, in MON an arrangement for the viola. MON MON 23:15 Jazz on 3 b00pclqf (Listen) MON Best Albums of 2009 MON MON Jez Nelson is joined by a panel of the UK's leading jazz MON critics to play selections from their favourite album MON releases of 2009. MON MON For more information about tickets for Jazz On 3's MON celebration of British jazz at Ronnie Scott's on January MON 4th 2010, please go to www.bbc.co.uk/tickets. Tickets will MON not be available after the programme ends tonight! MON MON Follow Jez Nelson and Jazz On 3 on Twitter: MON http://twitter.com/jeznelson MON http://twitter.com/r3jazzon3 MON MON Dave Douglas' Quintet play Hand-written Letter in a MON recording made at the Everyman Theatre (Cheltenham MON Festival, 3rd May 2009) MON MON Line-up: Dave Douglas (trumpet, composer) MON Donny McCaslin (saxophone) Orin Evans (Rhodes keyboard) MON Clarence Penn (drums) Scott Colley (bass) MON MON Martial Solal plays Vincent Youmans' Tea For Two, recorded MON at Kings Place on 11th June 2009 MON MON Line up: Martial Solal (piano) MON MON Henri Texier, Louis Sclavis and Aldo Romano play Les MON Petits Lits Blanc, recorded at LSO St Luke's (London Jazz MON Festival, 18th November 2008) MON MON Line-up: Aldo Romano (drums, percussion) MON Henri Texier (bass) MON Louis Sclavis (clarinet, saxophone and composer) MON MON Their album African Flashback is released on Label Bleu. MON MON Excerpt of L'Ampleur des Degats by the Marc Ducret Trio MON recorded at the Vortex, London (28th January 2009) MON Line-up: Marc Ducret (guitar, composer) MON Bruno Chevillon (double bass) Eric Echampard (drums) MON MON The Claudia Quintet play Be Happy, recorded at the MON Barbican (8th July 2009) MON MON Line-up: John Hollenbeck (drums, composer) MON Trevor Dunn (electric bass) Chris Speed (reeds) MON Matt Moran (vibes) Ted Reichman (accordion) MON MON Joe Lovano's Us Five play Powerhouse, recorded at Ronnie MON Scott's (26th May 2009) MON MON Line-up: Joe Lovano (reeds, composer) MON James Weidman (piano) Esperanza Spalding (bass) MON Otis Brown (drums) Francesco Mela (drums) MON MON The Bobby Hutcherson Quartet perform John Coltrane's Wise MON One, recorded at Ronnie Scott's (Friday 13th November) MON MON Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone) Joe Gilman (piano) MON Glenn Richman (bass) Eddie Marshall (drums) MON MON Joshua Redman's Trio play Faraway, recorded at Ronnie MON Scott's (21st March 2009) MON MON Line up: MON Joshua Redman (tenor and soprano saxophones, composer) MON Reuben Rogers (double bass) Gregory Hutchinson (drums) MON MON Han Bennink, Marc Ribot and Evan Parker perform an MON improvisation, recorded at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London MON (14th June 2009, Meltdown Festival MON MON Line up: Han Bennink (drums, percussion) MON Marc Ribot (guitar) Evan Parker (reeds) MON MON The Matana Roberts Quartet perform Exchange, recorded at MON the Vortex Jazz Club, London (1st April 2009) MON MON Line up: Matana Roberts (saxophone, composer) MON Robert Mitchell (piano) Tom Mason (bass) MON Chris Vatalaro (drums) MON MON Paul Dunmall plays Adhesive Capsulitis, recorded at the MON Everyman Theatre (Cheltenham Festival, 1st May 2009) MON MON Line-up: Paul Dunmall (solo bagpipes, composer). MON MON TUE TUESDAY 22 DECEMBER 2009 TUE TUE 01:00 Through the Night b00pdjld (Listen) TUE 1.00am TUE Ryba, Jakub Jan (1765-1815): Missa pastoralis bohemica Hej TUE mistre! (Hail Master!) TUE 1.44am TUE Trad: Christ was born (old Czech carol) TUE Eva Drizgova Jirusova (soprano) TUE Jana Wallingero Stefackova (mezzo-soprano) TUE Vladimir Dolezal (tenor) Jiri Sulzenko (bass) TUE Katerina Chrobokova (organ) Czech Philharmonic Chorus TUE Petr Fiala (director) Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra TUE Vladimir Valek (conductor) TUE 1.49am TUE Saint-Saens, Camille (1835-1921): Septet in E flat for TUE trumpet, piano and strings, Op 65 TUE Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet) TUE Elise Baatnes, Karolina Radziej (violins) TUE Lars Anders Tomter (viola) Hjalmer Kvam (cello) TUE Marius Faltby (double bass) Enrico Pace (piano) TUE 2.06am TUE Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op TUE 98 Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra TUE Riccardo Chailly (conductor) TUE 2.45am TUE Hammerschmidt, Andreas (1611/12-1675): Suite in G minor/G TUE major for winds (Ester Fleiss) Hesperion XX TUE Jordi Savall (director) TUE 3.01am TUE Wagner, Richard (1813-1883): Rienzi Overture TUE Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Simone Young (conductor) TUE 3.15am TUE Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Die Burgschaft, D246 TUE Christoph Pregardien (tenor) TUE Andreas Staier (fortepiano - after Johann Fritz, Vienna c. TUE 1815) TUE 3.33am TUE Valerius, Adriaen (c.1575-1625): Engels Malsims TUE Toyohiko Satoh (lute) TUE 3.35am TUE Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Malle Symen TUE Peter van Dijk (organ) TUE 3.38am TUE Willan, Healey (1880-1968): Symphony No 2 in C minor, B74 TUE Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Uri Mayer (conductor) TUE 4.21am TUE Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787): Trio in F for two flutes TUE and continuo Karl Kaiser, Michael Schneider (flutes) TUE Rainer Zipperling (cello) Harald Hoeren (harpsichord) TUE 4.31am TUE Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Faschingsschwank aus Wien, TUE Op 26 Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) TUE 4.52am TUE Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): Sinfonia: Giovanna D'Arco TUE Canadian Opera Company Orchestra TUE Richard Bradshaw (conductor) TUE 5.01am TUE Praetorius, Michael (1571-1621): Renaissance Concerto for TUE brass ensemble Hungarian Brass Ensemble TUE 5.05am TUE Wagenseil, Georg Christoph (1715-1777): Concerto in E flat TUE for trombone and orchestra Warwick Tyrrell (trombone) TUE Adelaide Symphony Orchestra TUE Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor) TUE 5.15am TUE Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Adagio and Fugue in TUE C minor for strings, K546 Risor Festival Strings TUE 5.23am TUE Hidas, Frigyes (1928-2007): Adagio for orchestra TUE Hungarian Radio Orchestra Gyorgy Lehel (conductor) TUE 5.35am TUE Kodaly, Zoltan (1882-1967): Four Italian madrigals for TUE female chorus Jutland Chamber Choir TUE Mogens Dahl (director) TUE 5.47am TUE Byrd, William (c.1540-1623): Pavana lachrimae (after John TUE Dowland) for keyboard, MB XXVIII 54 TUE Aapo Hakkinen (harpsichord) TUE 5.55am TUE Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Music for the Royal TUE Fireworks Collegium Aureum TUE 6.17am TUE Pacius, Fredrik (1809-1891): Overture (The Hunt of King TUE Charles) - 1852 Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra TUE Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) TUE 6.25am TUE Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): 10 Pensees lyriques for piano, TUE Op 40 Eero Heinonen (piano) TUE 6.44am TUE Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837): Trio in G for violin, TUE viola and cello Viktor Simcisko (violin) TUE Alzbeta Plazkurova (viola) Jozef Sikora (cello). TUE TUE 07:00 Breakfast b00pdjlg (Listen) TUE TUE 10:00 Classical Collection b00pdjlj (Listen) TUE 10.00am TUE Sammartini: Concerto a piu stromenti in E flat, J73 TUE La Serenissima Adrian Chandler (violin/director) TUE AVIE AV 2154 TUE 10.17am TUE Three Fake Folksongs: TUE Little Miss Britten composed and performed by Dudley Moore TUE EMI 793962-2 TUE Heynonnynonny Smallprint composed by Geoffrey Poole and TUE performed by David Stout NMC D 150 TUE The Folksong Army composed and performed by Tom Lehrer TUE REPRISE 61792 TUE 10.26am TUE Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher Daniel Benyamini (viola) TUE Orchestre de Paris Daniel Barenboim (conductor) TUE DG 423 2412 TUE 11.05am TUE Brahms: String Quartet in C minor, Op 51 No 1 TUE Takacs Quartet HYPERION CDA 67552 TUE 11.35am TUE Mozart: Don Giovanni (conclusion) TUE Don Giovanni ...... Bo Skovhus (baritone) TUE Leporello ...... Alessandro Corbelli (baritone) TUE Donna Elvira ...... Felicity Lott (soprano) TUE Il Commendatore ...... Umberto Chiummo (bass) TUE Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus TUE Charles Mackerras (conductor) TELARC CD 80420. TUE TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week b00pdk0k (Listen) TUE John Rutter (b.1945), Episode 2 TUE TUE Donald Macleod is in conversation with John Rutter, one of TUE the world's most successful and popular living composers. TUE TUE John reveals his affection for his home town of Cambridge TUE and its musical traditions, and discusses with Donald his TUE attitude to religion alongside some of his many sacred TUE choral works. TUE TUE John Rutter — Be thou my vision TUE The Cambridge Singers City of London Sinfonia TUE John Rutter (conductor) Collegium, CDCD514,, 1 TUE TUE John Rutter — Hymn to the Creator of Light TUE The Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral John Scott (Dir) TUE Hyperion, CDA66994,, 12 TUE TUE John Rutter — Shadows (Nos.1-IV) TUE Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) Stewart French (Guitar) TUE Naxos, 8.557922,, 6-9 TUE TUE John Rutter — Wild Wood Carol TUE Polyphony Stephen Layton (conductor) TUE Hyperion CDA67245,, 8 TUE TUE John Rutter — Suite Antique TUE Duke Dobing (flute) Wayne Marshall (harpsichord) TUE The City of London Sinfonia John Rutter (conductor) TUE Collegium, COLCD117,, 7-12 TUE TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b00pdk0m (Listen) TUE Cheltenham Music Festival 2009, The Nash Ensemble TUE TUE Penny Gore presents a performance given by the Nash TUE Ensemble at the 2009 Cheltenham Festival. Featuring two TUE so-called viola quintets by Mozart and Mendelssohn - each TUE with an extra part for that instrument - plus two recent TUE works featuring the clarinet by Alexander Goehr. TUE TUE Nash Ensemble: Richard Hosford (clarinet) TUE Marianne Thorsen, Benjamin Nabarro (violin) TUE Lawrence Power, Vicci Wardman (viola) TUE Paul Watkins (cello) TUE TUE Mozart: String Quintet in C minor, K406 TUE Alexander Goehr: Quintet for clarinet and strings, Op 79; TUE Manere for clarinet and violin, Op 81 TUE Mendelssohn: String Quintet in B flat, Op 87. TUE TUE 14:00 Afternoon on 3 b00pdk0p (Listen) TUE Richard Hickox Tribute, Episode 2 TUE TUE Penny Gore presents a series of programmes in tribute to TUE conductor Richard Hickox. TUE TUE Featuring music by Michael Berkeley, who was TUE composer-in-association with the BBC National Orchestra of TUE Wales during Richard's tenure as well as mezzo-soprano TUE Pamela Helen Stephen, Hickox's widow. TUE TUE Grainger: The Warriors BBC National Orchestra of Wales TUE Richard Hickox (conductor) TUE TUE Holst: The Hymn of Jesus Bach Choir TUE Choir of St Paul's Cathedral TUE BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales TUE Richard Hickox (conductor) TUE TUE 3.10pm TUE Lennox Berkeley: Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila TUE Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano) TUE BBC National Orchestra of Wales TUE Richard Hickox (conductor) TUE TUE Michael Berkeley: Concerto for orchestra TUE BBC National Orchestra of Wales TUE Richard Hickox (conductor) TUE TUE 3.50pm TUE Mendelssohn: Symphony No 2 (Lobgesang) TUE Veronique Gens (soprano) TUE Pamela Helen-Stephen (mezzo-soprano) Robert Tear (tenor) TUE BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales TUE Richard Hickox (conductor). TUE TUE 17:00 Words and Music b00j8dpm (Listen) TUE Years of Wonders TUE TUE The first known usage of the phrase “Annus Mirabilis”, or TUE “Year of Wonders” came in John Dryden’s poem of that title TUE in 1666. It was actually a year of great calamity for TUE England, with the Great Fire of London, although there was TUE also a great sea victory against the Dutch. The composer TUE Henry Purcell would have been a child of 6 or 7 at the TUE time, and his life spanned some particularly momentous TUE events in English history. TUE TUE Purcell was born in 1659, and the following year saw the TUE Restoration to the throne of Charles II. Samuel Pepys was TUE on the same boat as the King as he arrived at Dover to TUE great public acclaim. But the diarist makes sure that we TUE realise Charles was indeed a mere mortal, having a simple TUE breakfast of boiled beef and being the indulgent owner of TUE a badly behaved dog…Dryden takes the King’s journey on to TUE his coronation, with all the hopes of a new and better age. TUE TUE A few years later a strange new comet was seen in the sky TUE – Pepys tried his best to see it, eventually succeeding, TUE and then a new one appeared... With the benefit of TUE hindsight these were interpreted as being terrible omens TUE presaging the Great Plague of 1665 and the Fire of 1666. TUE Daniel Defoe, writing some 60 years later, would only have TUE been 5 at the time of the plague, but provides an TUE insightful and chilling account of that dreadful time. TUE TUE In 1666 the diarist John Evelyn describes a site visit to TUE the old St Paul’s with, among others, Sir Christopher TUE Wren, in which they discussed the rickety structure of the TUE old church and the possibility of designing a new-fangled TUE cupola instead of a steeple. But less than a month later, TUE the proposed demolition was somewhat overtaken by events – TUE the outbreak of the Great Fire. Pepys gives his usual TUE thorough account of the scene, not forgetting even the TUE poor pigeons who were loth to leave their perches and were TUE singed, while Dryden compares the progress of the fire to TUE the calculated campaign of a pillaging tyrant. TUE TUE While many were quick to ascribe the horrors of disease TUE and fire to the sinful ways of London’s court and indeed TUE general population, the year 1666 also saw an outbreak of TUE rationality and rigorous investigation. As Isaac Newton TUE sat in his Lincolnshire garden one day, (having had to TUE leave Cambridge University owing to an outbreak of plague TUE there), he observed the falling of an apple…Years later he TUE was to describe this, his own annus mirabilis, in which he TUE began to get to grips with calculus, optics and the law of TUE gravitation. TUE TUE In 1688 Purcell would have seen another great wonder of TUE his age – a (nearly) bloodless revolution as Parliament TUE overthrew the pro-Catholic James II and replaced him as TUE monarch with his daughter Mary and her husband , William TUE of Orange. We end with a paean of praise to the new Queen TUE by Aphra Behn, and leave the new monarchs at their TUE coronation the following year, amid fresh hopes for peace, TUE health and prosperity. TUE TUE The words of the period are surrounded with the music of TUE the age – coronation anthems, secular songs, and TUE instrumental sonatas in the fast developing baroque style TUE – it was a good time for English music, crowned by TUE Purcell, and influenced by visiting composers from other TUE lands, especially Italy. But there is also music from our TUE own times reflecting the terror and turbulence of the TUE period – Ligeti’s unearthly Lux Aeterna underscores the TUE strangeness of the ominous comets, and Varese’s Arcana TUE seems to echo the inexorable menace of the progress of the TUE Great Fire as described by Pepys and Dryden. TUE TUE Elizabeth Funning Producer TUE TUE Running Order TUE TUE Juliet Stevenson (JS) Kenneth Cranham (KC) TUE TUE 00.00.00 TUE Purcell : Cibell Fine Arts Brass Ensemble TUE Nimbus NI 5546 Tr 10 TUE 00.01.03 TUE Locke : Aire from Theatre Suite The Flautadors TUE Deux-Elles DXL 1123 Tr 9 TUE 00.01.10 TUE Sara Coleridge (1802–52) TUE Part of: Kings of England from the Conquest 1660 (JS) TUE 00.01.27 TUE Samuel Pepys. Charles II lands at Dover to reclaim throne TUE (KC) TUE 00.02.39 TUE Pelham Humfrey : Hear my Crying, O God TUE Donna Deam, soprano Drew Minter, countertenor TUE Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor John Potter, tenor TUE David Thomas, bass Choir of Clare College, Cambridge TUE Romanseca Nicholas McGegan, conductor TUE Harmonia Mundi HMU 907053 Tr 8 TUE 00.03.44 TUE John Dryden : To His Sacred Majesty, a Panegyrick on His TUE Coronation, 1661, extract (JS) TUE 00.12.58 TUE Ligeti : Lux Aeterna Groupe Vocal de France TUE Guy Reibel, conductor EMI CDC 754096 2 Tr 1 TUE 00.13.25 TUE Samuel Pepys : Various attempts to see the comets (KC) TUE 00.15.00 TUE Daniel Defoe. A journal of the plague year, extract (JS) TUE 00.16.55 TUE Purcell arr Britten : In the black dismal dungeon of TUE despair Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor TUE Roger Vignoles, piano Helios CDH 55244 Tr 7 TUE 00.21.29 TUE Pepys : On the Great Plague (KC) TUE 00.22.29 TUE “To make plague-water” TUE From “The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened” 1669 TUE (JS) TUE 00.23.22 TUE Purcell arr Rees-Williams : When I am laid in earth TUE David Rees-Williams Trio BBCLJ 30032 Tr 5 TUE 00.24.25 TUE Defoe: A journal of the plague year, extract (JS) TUE 00.27.03 TUE Trad 17th Century : Old England Grown New TUE Richard Wistreich The City Waites Naxos 8.557672 Tr 8 TUE 00.29.18 TUE Robert Herrick : From “Songs of New London” (KC) TUE 00.29.58 TUE Torelli : Sonata a 5 in D major Grave-Allegro TUE Alison Balsom, trumpet The Parley of Instruments TUE Peter Holman, organ Tr 25 TUE 00.30.59 TUE Steve Reich : Music for 18 musicians - Pulses TUE Ensemble Modern RCA 09026 68672 2 Tr 1 TUE 00.31.15 TUE Isaac Newton : Extract from his notebooks on his work in TUE the years 1665/1666 (KC) TUE 00.32.28 TUE Byron: Don Juan. Canto 10 (JS) TUE 00.33.00 TUE Playford: Paul’s Steeple, or the Duke of Norfolk TUE David Douglas, violin Paul o’Dette, theorbo TUE Andrew Lawrence–King, harp TUE Harmonia Mundi HMU 907186 Tr 9 TUE 00.35.35 TUE From the Diary of John Evelyn. TUE Evelyn visits St Pauls, with Christopher Wren, among TUE others, before the Fire of London starts. (KC) TUE 00.37.28 TUE Varese : Arcana Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra TUE Christopher Lyndon-Gee, conductor Naxos 8.554820 Tr 1 TUE 00.37.44 TUE Dryden : Annus Mirabilis, extract (JS) TUE 00.40.29 TUE Pepys : On the Great Fire of London Kenneth Cranham TUE 00.41.50 TUE Trad 17th Century ballad : London Mourning in Ashes TUE Richard Wistreich, solo Naxos 8.557672 Tr 17 TUE 00.45.03 TUE Mary Adams (fl. 1676) : Oh London I once more to thee do TUE speak (JS) TUE 00. 47.18 TUE Locke : Courante and Sarabande Broken consort in D TUE Palladian Ensemble LINN CKD041 Tr 2 and 4 TUE 00.49.03 TUE John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester : Impromptu on Charles TUE II (KC) TUE 00.49.30 TUE From Diary of John Evelyn. The death of Charles II (KC) TUE 00.50.58 TUE Purcell : Upon a Quiet Conscience (Close thine eyes and TUE sleep secure) Lynne Dawson, soprano TUE Peter Harvey, baritone English Baroque Soloists TUE John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Erato 0630-10700-2 Tr 10 TUE 00.54.50 TUE Locke Sarabande, from Suite no 4 The Flautadors TUE Deux-Elles DXL 1123 Tr 5 TUE 00.55.02 TUE Sara Coleridge TUE Part of: Kings of England from the Conquest 1685 (JS) TUE 00.55.36 TUE Dryden : King James to Himself (KC) TUE 00.56.38 TUE Giovanni Battista Draghi: Prelude and Jigg from Suite in A TUE major Davitt Moroney, harpsichord TUE Virgin Veritas 5 45166 2 Tr 22 and 27 TUE 00.59.17 TUE Sara Coleridge TUE Part of: Kings of England from the Conquest 1689 (JS) TUE 00.59.27 TUE Purcell : High on a Throne (Ode on the Queen 1690) TUE Barbara Borden, soprano David Barick , baritone TUE Academy of the Begynhof, Amsterdam Globe GLO 5029 Tr 1 TUE 01.03.22 TUE Aphra Behn : Congratulatory Poem to Her Sacred Majesty TUE Queen Mary, Upon Her Arrival in England (JS) TUE 01.04.50 TUE Joseph Stennett : On the Accesion of King William and TUE Queen Mary (KC) TUE 01.05.59 TUE John Blow : The Lord God is a sun and a shield TUE (sung at the coronation of William and Mary ) TUE The Choir of New College, Oxford TUE The Academy of Ancinet Music Edward Higginbottom TUE Hyperion CDA 66658 Tr 12 TUE TUE 18:15 New Generation Artists b00pdk2z (Listen) TUE TUE BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme picks out some TUE of the brightest new talents in the classical music world. TUE The special Christmas and New Year series features studio TUE and live concert performances, here by American vioinist TUE Tai Murray and the Elias String Quartet from the UK. TUE TUE Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A, Op 12 No 2 TUE Tai Murray (violin) Ashley Wass (piano) TUE TUE Haydn: String Quartet in G, Op 76 No 1 TUE Elias String Quartet. TUE TUE 19:00 Performance on 3 b00pdk31 (Listen) TUE Choir of Westminster Abbey/James O'Donnell TUE TUE Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season TUE TUE Catherine Bott presents James O'Donnell conducting the TUE Choir of Westminster Abbey and St James's Baroque in music TUE by Purcell, including music that Purcell composed for the TUE funeral of Queen Mary II in March 1695, just a few months TUE before his own death. TUE TUE Henry Purcell lived, worked and died at Westminster Abbey TUE - the great composer was buried next to the Abbey's organ TUE on 26 November 1695. Marking the 350th anniversary of his TUE birth, this concert forms one of the highlights of BBC TUE Radio 3's year-long celebration of the composer's music. TUE TUE Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Iestyn Davies (countertenor) TUE Ed Lyon (tenor) Neal Davies (bass-baritone) TUE The Choir of Westminster Abbey St James's Baroque TUE James O'Donnell (conductor) TUE TUE Purcell: Te Deum and Jubilate in D; Funeral Sentences; TUE Hail! Bright Cecilia. TUE TUE 21:00 Belief b00g33pk (Listen) TUE Series 4, Marina Warner TUE TUE Joan Bakewell explores areas of belief with artists, TUE thinkers and other public figures. TUE TUE She talks to prize-winning novelist, critic and cultural TUE historian Marina Warner who, although brought up Catholic TUE and a former pupil of one of Britain's top convent TUE schools, abandoned her faith in her twenties while writing TUE her second book Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of TUE the Virgin Mary. TUE TUE Yet she remains personally and professionally interested TUE in all things religious, magical, mythical and irrational. TUE TUE 21:30 BBC Proms b00pdk35 (Listen) TUE 2009, Prom 58: Netherlands Wind Ensemble TUE TUE Catherine Bott presents a high-intensity late-night Prom TUE given by some of the world's best wind players. TUE TUE The Netherlands Wind Ensemble perform Steve Martland's TUE Beat the Retreat, a work written for the last big Purcell TUE anniversary in 1995. In celebration of the seventieth TUE birthday of Martland's iconoclastic teacher, Dutch TUE composer Louis Andriessen, there is the minimalist TUE masterpiece De Staat (The State). The concert ends with TUE Doors Closed, a belated London premiere for a 1980s TUE classic by a leading Dutch pupil of Andriessen's, Cornelis TUE de Bondt. It is a musical ritual of death superimposing TUE the funeral march from Beethoven's Eroica Symphony on the TUE famous Lament from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. TUE TUE Steve Martland: Beat the Retreat TUE Louis Andriessen: De Staat TUE Cornelis de Bondt: Doors Closed TUE TUE Netherlands Wind Ensemble Lucas Vis (conductor) TUE Bart Schneemann (conductor) - De Bondt only. TUE TUE 23:15 Late Junction b00pdk37 (Listen) TUE Verity Sharp presents a seasonal mix of music from across TUE time and space, including evocative pieces for piano by TUE Ryuichi Sakamoto, the crystal clear voice of Mary Hopkin TUE with a traditional Welsh song associated with her TUE birthplace in West Glamorgan and a Hungarian lullaby as TUE interpreted by Marta Sebestyen on her latest album I Can TUE See the Gates of Heaven. Plus seasonal music by both Chris TUE Wood and Howard Skempton. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 23 DECEMBER 2009 WED WED 01:00 Through the Night b00pdk52 (Listen) WED 1.00am WED Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): The Nutcracker, Op WED 71 (excerpts) Orchestre National de France (orchestra) WED Dmitri Liss (conductor) WED 1.56am WED Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943): Piano Concerto No 3 in D WED minor, Op 30 Arkady Volodos (piano) WED Orchestre National de France (orchestra) WED Dmitri Liss (conductor) WED 2.39am WED Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Psalm Nisi Dominus, RV608 WED Matthew White (countertenor) Arte dei Suonatori WED Eduardo Lopez (conductor) WED 3.01am WED Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Allein zu dir, WED Herr Jesu Christ (Genevan Psalter) WED Leo van Doeselaar (Van Hagerbeer organ - 1643 - at the WED Pieterskerk in Leiden, where he is resident organist. The WED organ contained parts from 1446, 1518 and 1628; it was WED further added to in 1687 and 1745, and restored in 1998.) WED 3.15am WED Six traditional songs: Das Muhlrad; Z'lauterbach hab I WED mein Strumpf verlorn; Maria der berge; Gsatzli; Oh, du WED liabs Engeli; Die Beruhigte WED 3.24am WED Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903): Three songs: Morgentau; das WED Voglein; Mausfallen-Spruchlein WED Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) Felix de Nobel (piano) WED 3.29am WED Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907), arr. unknown for oboe and WED piano: Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt, Op 23) WED Wan-Soo Mok (oboe) Hyun-Soo Cho (piano) WED 3.33am WED Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937), arr. Maganini for oboe and WED piano: Pavane pour une infante defunte Roger Cole (oboe) WED Linda Lee Thomas (piano) WED 3.39am WED Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899): Pavane and Forlane (Quelques WED Danses, Op 26) - 1896 Bengt Ake-Lundin (piano) WED 3.49am WED Dohnanyi, Erno (1877-1960): Symphonic Minutes, Op 36 WED Hungarian Radio Orchestra Tamas Vasary (conductor) WED 4.03am WED Josquin des Prez (c.1440-1521): O Admirabile Commercium WED Zefiro Torna Jurgen de Bruyn (director) WED 4.07am WED Josquin: Motet Inviolata,integra et casta es (five-part) WED Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal WED Christopher Jackson (director) WED 4.13am WED Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Sonata in D minor for WED recorder and basso continuo (Essercizii Musici) WED Camerata Koln WED 4.22am WED Franck, Cesar (1822-1890): Le chasseur maudit (The WED Accursed Huntsman), M44 - symphonic poem WED Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra WED Milen Nachev (conductor) WED 4.37am WED Mehul, Etienne-Nicolas (1763-1817): Sonata in D, Op 1 No 1 WED Arthur Schoondewoerd (fortepiano) WED 4.46am WED Rore, Cipriano de (c1515-1565): Alma susanna (Noble WED Susanna, happy is the heart that burns with love for WED you...); Mentre, lumi maggior; Non e, lasso martire' (It WED is, alas, no torment to think that I must die for you, my WED lady...) (Il quinto libro di madrigali, 1568) WED Evelyn Tubb (soprano) Mary Nichols (contralto) WED Andrew King (tenor) Paul Agnew (tenor) WED Alan Ewing (bass) Consort of Musicke WED Anthony Rooley (director) WED 5.01am WED Humperdinck, Engelbert (1854-1921): Overture (Hansel and WED Gretel) Symphony Nova Scotia WED Georg Tintner (conductor) WED 5.09am WED Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): 32 Variations in C WED minor, WoO 80 Irena Kobla (piano) WED 5.22am WED Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976): A Ceremony of Carols, Op 28 WED Katya Dimanova, Evguenia Tasseva, Penka Kazandzhieva WED (soloists) Ivelina Ivancheva (piano) Polyphonia WED Ivelin Dimitrov (conductor) WED 5.46am WED Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Brandenburg Concerto WED No 5 in D, BWV1050 Lars-Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) WED Ensemble 415 WED 6.07am WED Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975): Elegy for violin and WED piano Valdis Zarins (violin) Ieva Zarina (piano) WED 6.10am WED Faure, Gabriel (1845-1924): Elegy for cello and piano, Op WED 24 (1883) Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello) WED Emmanuel Strosser (piano) WED 6.17am WED Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): Elegy for violin solo (1944) WED Gidon Kremer (violin) Oleg Meisenberg (piano) WED 6.22am WED Martland, Steve (b.1959): Three Carols: From lands that WED see the sun arise; make we joy; There is no rose of such WED virtue BBC Singers Stephen Cleobury (conductor) WED 6.32am WED Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Sonata in G, K283 WED (1774) Marie Rorbech (piano) WED 6.45am WED Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Nur ein wink von WED seinen Handchen (Christmas Oratorio, Part 6, BWV248) WED Marita Kvarving Solberg (soprano) WED Norwegian Radio Orchestra Kjetil Haugsand (conductor) WED 6.49am WED Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963): Quatre motets pour le temps WED de Noel Talinn Music High School Chamber Choir WED Evi Eespere (director). WED WED 07:00 Breakfast b00pdk54 (Listen) WED WED 10:00 Classical Collection b00pdk56 (Listen) WED 10.00am WED J Strauss II: Wein, Weib und Gesang Vienna Philharmonic WED Willi Boskowsky (conductor) DECCA 468 4892 WED 10.06am WED Bach, arr Busoni: Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 WED Alfred Brendel (piano) DECCA 4282116 WED 10.12am WED Martinu: La revue de cuisine (complete ballet) WED Members of the Czech Philharmonic WED Christopher Hogwood (conductor) SUPRAPHON SU 3749-2 WED 10.31am WED Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges (Act 3, Sc 2) WED The Prince ...... Jean-Luc Viala (tenor) WED Truffaldino ...... Georges Gautier (tenor) WED The Cook ...... Jules Bastin (bass) Lyon Opera Orchestra WED Kent Nagano (conductor) VIRGIN VCD 7910842 WED 10.41am WED Schumann: Violin Sonata No 3 in A minor WED Carolin Widmann (violin) Denes Varjon (piano) WED ECM 4766744 WED 11.00am WED Haydn: Symphony No 102 in B flat WED London Philharmonic Orchestra Georg Solti (conductor) WED DECCA UCCD 3777 WED 11.35am WED Christopher Steel: Six Pieces, Op 33 WED Crispian Steele Perkins (trumpet) WED Stephen Cleobury (organ) PRIORY PRCD 189 WED 11.50am WED Britten: Albert Herring (conclusion) Peter Pears (tenor) WED Ensemble English Chamber Orchestra WED Benjamin Britten (conductor) LONDON 421 8502. WED WED 12:00 Composer of the Week b00pdk58 (Listen) WED John Rutter (b.1945), Episode 3 WED WED Donald Macleod is in conversation with John Rutter, one of WED the world's most successful and popular living composers. WED WED Music critics in Britain have often been diffident or WED openly hostile about Rutter's accessible style, but in the WED US he receives near universal praise and regard. Donald WED speaks to John about the musical love affair with America WED that has shaped so much of his career. WED WED John Rutter — Fanfare and Proclamation (from Three WED American Miniatures for Clarinet and Flute) WED Joanna Cowan White (flute) Kennen White (clarinet) WED Centaur, CRC 2603,, 1 WED WED John Rutter — Gloria WED Polyphony The City of London Sinfonia WED The Wallace Collection Andrew Lumsden (organ) WED Stephen Layton (conductor) Hyperion, CDA 67259,, 1-3 WED WED John Rutter — Candlelight Carol WED The Cambridge Singers The City of London Sinfonia WED John Rutter (Dir) Collegium, CSCD510,, 10 WED WED John Rutter — Partita (1st Movt.: Vivace) WED Royal Ballet Sinfonia, conducted by Gavin Sutherland WED Resonance, CDRSB085, CD4,, 1 WED WED John Rutter — Birthday Madrigals WED The Cambridge Singers Wayne Marshall (piano) WED Malcolm Creese (double bass) John Rutter (conductor) WED Collegium, COLCD128, 17-21 WED WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b00pdk5b (Listen) WED Cheltenham Music Festival 2009, Haydn Trio Eisenstadt WED WED Penny Gore presents performances from the Cheltenham WED Festival 2009. WED WED The Haydn Trio Eisenstadt perform Haydn's Piano Trio in C, WED with the Archduke Trio by Beethoven and John Woolrich's WED The night will not draw on, composed for the ensemble's WED Dedicated to Haydn project. Soprano Elin Manahan Thomas WED also joins the group in a selection of Haydn's Welsh WED folksong settings. WED WED 14:00 Afternoon on 3 b00pdk5d (Listen) WED Richard Hickox Tribute, Episode 3 WED WED Penny Gore introduces a series of programmes in tribute to WED conductor Richard Hickox. WED WED With two concert recordings, including the Britten WED Serenade with Hickox's close friend Philip Langridge, with WED whom he worked throughout his long career. WED WED Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings WED Philip Langridge (tenor) David Pyatt (horn) WED BBC National Orchestra of Wales WED Richard Hickox (conductor) WED WED 4.00pm WED Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat WED BBC National Orchestra of Wales WED Richard Hickox (conductor). WED WED 16:00 Choral Evensong b00pdk5g (Listen) WED Choral Evening Prayer WED WED From St James's Roman Catholic Church, Spanish Place, WED London, with the Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. WED WED Versicle and Response: Deus in adjutorium (Padilla) WED Rorate caeli desuper (Guerrero) WED Psalms: 110, 147 - Dixit Dominus (Padilla), Lauda WED Jerusalem (Patino) First Lesson: Isaiah 55 WED Office Hymn: The Angel Gabriel (Basque trad, arr Pettman) WED Magnificat (Morales) Second Lesson: Matthew 1 vv18-23 WED Nunc Dimittis (Coelho) Homily: Prof Christopher Rowland WED Anthems: Ave Maria (de Cristo); Pastores, si nos quereis WED (Guerrero); O magnum mysterium (Victoria); Alma WED redemptoris mater (Fernandez); Verbum caro factum est WED (Lobo) WED Organ Voluntary: Tiento y discurso de segundo tono (Correa WED de Araujo) WED WED Organ scholars: Benedict Lewis-Smith and Matthew Burgess WED Director of music: Owen Rees. WED WED 17:00 Words and Music b00m0jst (Listen) WED To Strive, to Seek, to Find and Not to Yield WED WED While reacquainting myself with the poetry of Tennyson for WED this bi-centenary edition of Words and Music, I was struck WED by the choice many of his characters have to make between WED action and inaction, decision and indecision. Mariana WED helplessly waits for her absent lover in her remote moated WED grange, wishing she were dead, whereas the Lady of WED Shalott, who starts off in a similarly isolated and WED helpless situation makes the dangerous decision to break WED out of her lonely existence into the real world beyond the WED enchanted mirror. And similarly the Lotos Eaters drift WED into a life of drowsy ease, whereas the aged Ulysses WED decides to press onwards, to strive, to seek, to find, and WED not to yield. WED WED Using these characters from Tennyson as the mainstay of WED the sequence I added other poems that explore the ideas of WED decision, change, seizing the day, and fighting the WED inevitable. WED WED So we open with the languishing Mariana, followed by the WED water nymph Rusalka, who longs for her unattainable lover WED in a similar vein, although she is more like the Lady of WED Shalott in that she takes the ultimate risk to win his WED love. Two poems on change and choice follow, and Hardy’s WED “Young Man’s Exhortation” to action is followed by Billy WED Bragg’s rendition of Blake’s anthem to determined WED striving, “Jerusalem”. Andrew Marvell urges his Coy WED Mistress to seize the day, while the Lady of Shalott WED embodies the idea that it is better to have loved and WED lost, than never to have loved at all. WED WED (But Lancelot’s final comment on his tragic lady , “she WED had a lovely face”, is a bit offhand to say the least - WED great events can often go unappreciated, as in Auden’s WED “Musee des Beaux Arts”…) WED WED The still centre of the programme is Bach’s achingly WED beautiful “Schlummert Ein”, a deep desire for eternal WED sleep, followed by Shakespeare’s mighty and disturbingly WED logical dissection of the dilemma between action and WED inaction. WED WED From this point the sea starts rather insistently to WED present itself as a metaphor for life and so three of WED Britten’s Sea Interludes from “Peter Grimes” echo the WED atmosphere of poems on the decision to push ever onwards. WED WED So finally on to T S Eliot’s idea that all exploration and WED effort will eventually bring us somehow back to where we WED started, although transformed, and to close, the poem that WED Tennyson wanted to be placed at the end of all editions of WED his poetry, “Crossing the Bar”, with its acceptance of the WED end of striving. WED WED Elizabeth Funning (producer) WED WED Running Order WED WED Readers: Michael Pennington (MP) Beth Goddard (BG) WED WED 00:00:00 WED Debussy : Voiles Melvyn Tan (piano) WED Deux-Elles DXL1092 Track 2 WED 00:02:10 WED Tennyson : Mariana [Excerpt] (BG) WED 00:03.13 WED Dvorak : Song to the Moon from Rusalka WED Renee Fleming (soprano) London Symphony Orchestra WED Sir Georg Solti (conductor) DECCA 4752442 Track 9 WED 00:09:08 WED Kathleen Raine : Change (MP) WED 00:10:08 WED Robert Frost : The Road not taken (BG) WED 00:11:12 WED Sondheim : The Road you didn’t take (From Follies) WED John McMartin Original Broadway Cast WED Angel ZDM 7646662 Track 5 WED 00:13:53 WED Hardy : A Young Man’s Exhortation (MP) WED 00:14:59 WED Billy Bragg : “Blake’s Jerusalem” WED From “The Internationale” UTILITY UTIL11CD Track 4 WED 00:17:22 WED Marvell : To his Coy mistress (MP) WED 00:19:35 WED Van Morrison : Don’t worry about tomorrow WED Polydor 531 789-2 CD1 Track 8 WED 00:22:03 WED Verdi: La Traviata (Prelude to Act 1) WED Philadelphia Orchestra Eugene Ormandy (conductor) WED Sony CD 45544 Track 18 WED 00:25:55 WED Tennyson: In Memoriam [excerpt] (BG) WED 00:26:41 WED Bliss: Tennyson: The Lady of Shalott (Ballet): Prelude WED BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Arthur Bliss (conductor) WED BBC Radio Classics 1565691842 Track 4 WED 00:29:24 WED Tennyson: Lady of Shalott [excerpt] (BG) WED 00:31:19 WED Bent Sorenson: The Lady of Shalott Cikada String Quartet WED ECM 4651352ECM Track 12 WED 00:33:47 WED W H Auden: Musee des Beaux Arts (MP) WED 00:35:10 WED Tennyson : The Lotus Eaters [Excerpt] (BG) WED 00:37:43 WED J S Bach: Schlummert Ein, ihr matten augen (Cantata no 82) WED Angelika Kirschlager (mezzo) Venice Baroque Orchestra WED Andrea Marcon (director) Sony SK 89924 Track 3 WED 00:47:07 WED Shakespeare: Hamlet: To be or not to be… (MP) WED 00:49:23 WED Britten : Moonlight from Four Sea Interludes op 33a WED London Symphony Orchestra Andre Previn (conductor) WED EMI CDM 7 64736 2 Track 15 WED 00:51:25 WED Rosetti: The House of Life [excerpt] (MP) WED 00:52:25 WED Britten: Sunday Morning from Four Sea Interludes op 33a WED London Symphony Orchestra Andre Previn (conductor) WED EMI CDM 7 64736 2 Track 14 WED 00:53:29 WED Louise Gluck: Odysseus’ Decision (BG) WED 00:56:03 WED Dylan Thomas: Do not go gentle into that good night (MP) WED 00:57:16 WED Britten: Storm from Four Sea Interludes op 33a WED London Symphony Orchestra Andre Previn (conductor) WED EMI CDM 7 64736 2 Track 16 WED 00:59:49 WED Tennyson: Ulysses [excerpt] (BG) WED 01:01:43 WED T S Eliot: Little Gidding [excerpt] from Four Quartets (BG) WED 01:01:47 WED Strauss : Death and Transfiguration, op 24 WED Vienna Philharmonic Christoph von Dohnanyi WED DECCA 470 954-2 CD 3 Track 5 WED 01:09:18 WED Tennyson: Crossing the Bar (MP) WED 01:09:58 WED Ives: Crossing the Bar BBC Singers WED Stephen Cleobury (director) Collins Classics 14792 WED Track 4 WED WED 18:15 New Generation Artists b00pdk6h (Listen) WED WED BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme picks out some WED of the brightest new talents in the classical music world. WED The special Christmas and New Year series features studio WED and live concert performances, here by Argentinian pianist WED Ingrid Fliter and Danish cellist Andreas Brantelid. WED WED Bach: Concerto in the Italian Style, BWV971 WED Ingrid Fliter (piano) WED WED Franck: Sonata in A, Op 47 (orig. for violin and piano) WED Andreas Brantelid (cello) Bengt Forsberg (piano). WED WED 19:00 Performance on 3 b00pdk6k (Listen) WED Elijah WED WED Philippe Herreweghe conducts Mendelssohn's powerful and WED dramatic re-telling of the Old Testament story of the WED prophet Elijah at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. WED WED Mendelssohn built on the English oratorio tradition WED created by Handel and Haydn, and from its first WED performance Elijah has held its own place in that WED repertoire. Sung in German by the forces of Netherlands WED Radio, this performance celebrates the bicentenary of the WED composer's birth, with music which remains as fresh and WED exciting to sing and hear as when it was first written. WED WED Mendelssohn: Elijah WED WED Soile Isokoski (soprano) Christianne Stotijn (contralto) WED Christoph Strehl (tenor) Michael Nagy (bass) WED Netherlands Radio Chorus WED Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic WED Philippe Herreweghe (conductor). WED WED 21:15 Belief b00pdk6m (Listen) WED Series 6, Prof John Hull WED WED Joan Bakewell explores areas of belief with artists, WED thinkers and other public figures. WED WED She talks to theologian and academic John Hull about his WED experience of going blind. Born sighted, John underwent WED several episodes of temporary blindness before finally WED losing his sight for good more than 35 years ago. His WED book, Touching the Rock, movingly recounts his journey WED into acceptance of blindness and how he faced the new WED challenges of day-to-day family life. WED WED John was born into a conservative Methodist family in WED Australia. He himself believed he had a vocation to follow WED in his minister father's footsteps, but a thwarted love WED affair threw up too many doubts about his own ability to WED be a minister and his beliefs have developed into a more WED inclusive and radical brand of Christian faith. WED WED Today, having been a leading figure in the debate on WED religious education in state schools, John now teaches WED trainee ministers in prophetic ministry. WED WED 21:45 BBC Proms b00pdk6p (Listen) WED 2009, Prom 71: Peter Maxwell Davies Celebration WED WED Catherine Bott presents a concert given as part of the WED 2009 Proms celebration of the 75th birthday of composer WED Peter Maxwell Davies, featuring a performance of two of WED his most important choral works. WED WED Westerlings imagines the early Norse settlers colonising WED Orkney in the 8th century. In one of the most virtuosic WED works in the entire choral repertoire, George Mackay WED Brown's poems are set alongside wordless 'seascapes', WED creating an enormously atmospheric piece which vividly WED conjures up the cold and wet and other hardships endured WED by the settlers, rowing their longboats across the waters WED from Scandinavia. Sightings of whales and fish, waves and WED birds, culminate - at landfall - in a haunting setting of WED the Lord's Prayer, sung in the old Norse of ancient Orkney. WED WED It is followed by another piece with powerful Orcadian WED roots: Solstice of Light, for chorus, organ and solo WED tenor, sets more words by Brown charting the whole history WED of the Orkney archipelago. It begins as the islands first WED emerge from seas and ice, then describes the prehistoric WED builders of cairns and stone circles, the Celtic men and WED women who bring a religion of dance and light, Viking WED marauders who murder the islands' own saint - Magnus - and WED finally brings the story into our own times of those who WED would rape and despoil the Orkneys in search of the WED treasures of today - oil, minerals, uranium. WED WED Ed Lyon (tenor) David Goode (organ) BBC Singers WED David Hill (conductor) WED WED Peter Maxwell Davies: Westerlings; Solstice of Light. WED WED 23:15 Late Junction b00pdk6y (Listen) WED Verity Sharp presents a musical jamboree from across the WED ages with an anti-Christmas song by Miles Davis, anarchic WED rhythms from OOIOO alongside those of the Japanese taiko WED drum ensemble Tomoe-Ryu Yutakadaiko, an epic ballad from WED Richard Hawleey's latest release True Loves Gutter, and a WED Plygain carol from the Anglesey tradition sung by Daniel WED Huws. Plus a recording of the Ulster Christmas Rhymers WED performing their traditional mummers' play in 1954. WED WED THU THURSDAY 24 DECEMBER 2009 THU THU 01:00 Through the Night b00pdkb6 (Listen) THU 1.00am THU Byrd, William (c.1540-1623): Puer natus est THU 1.04am THU Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976): A Hymn to the Virgin THU 1.08am THU Byrd: O Magnum Mysterium THU 1.10am THU Holst, Gustav (1874-1934): Jesu fili virgine THU 1.13am THU Byrd: Hodie Christus natus est Ars Nova Vocal Group THU Paul Hillier (director) THU 1.17am THU Schutz, Heinrich (1585-1672): Weinachtshistorie (The THU Christmas Story), SWV435 Else Torp (soprano) THU Adam Riis (tenor) Jakob Bloch Jespersen (baritone) THU Ars Nova Vocal Group Concerto Copenhagen THU Paul Hillier (director) THU 1.51am THU Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Symphony No 1 in G THU minor (Winter Daydreams) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra THU Alan Buribayev (conductor) THU 2.33am THU Fitelberg, Grzegorz (1879-1953): Rapsodja polska (Polish THU Rhapsody), Op 25 (1913) THU Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra THU Jerzy Salwarowski (conductor) THU 2.52am THU Bernard, Felix (1897-1944)/Simcock, Gwilym: Improvisation THU on Winter Wonderland Gwilym Simcock (piano) THU 2.55am THU Torme, Mel (1925-1999)/Wells, Robert/Simcock, Gwilym: THU Improvisation on Merry Christmas to You aka Chestnuts THU Roasting on an Open Fire Gwilym Simcock (piano) THU 3.01am THU Gorecki, Mikolaj Junior (b.1971): Three Episodes for THU Orchestra National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra THU Stanislav Macura (conductor) THU 3.21am THU Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Kinderszenen for piano, Op 15 THU Eun-Soo Son (piano) THU 3.39am THU Durante, Francesco (1684-1755): Concerto per quartetto No THU 6 in A for strings Concerto Koln THU 3.50am THU Arriaga, Juan Crisostomo (1806-1826): Symphony in D THU major/minor Danish Radio Concert Orchestra THU Hannu Koivula (conductor) THU 4.19am THU Tailleferre, Germaine (1892-1983): Sonata for harp THU Godelieve Schrama (harp) THU 4.29am THU Zemlinsky, Alexander von (1871-1942): Heilige Nacht, Op 2 THU No 2 (Holy Night) Jean Stilwell (mezzo-soprano) THU Robert Kortgaard (piano) THU 4.32am THU Weill, Kurt (1900-1950): Saga of Jenny (Lady in the Dark) THU Jean Stilwell (mezzo-soprano) Robert Kortgaard (piano) THU Marie Berard (violin) Joseph Macerollo (accordion) THU James Spragg (trumpet) George Kohler (bass) THU Andy Morris (percussion) Peter Tiefenbach (conductor) THU 4.37am THU Verhulst, Johannes (1816-1891): Overture in C minor THU (Gijsbrecht van Aemstel, Op 3) THU Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra THU Jac van Steen (conductor) THU 4.46am THU Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594): Omnia tempus habent - THU motet for eight voices (1585a) Currende THU Erik van Nevel (conductor) THU 4.51am THU Turina, Joaquin (1882-1949): Rapsodia sinfonica for piano THU and string orchestra, Op 66 Angela Cheng (piano) THU Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Hans Graf (conductor) THU 5.01am THU Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Das war sehr gut.../Dann THU aber, wie ich Sie gespürt hab' hier im Finstern steh'n THU (Arabella, Act 3, final scene) THU Joanne Kolomyjec (soprano) THU Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra THU Mario Bernardi (conductor) THU 5.07am THU Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827), arr. for oboe and THU piano: Eight Variations on Mozart's La ci darem la mano, THU Wo0 28 Hyong-Sup Kim (oboe) Ja-Eun Ku (piano) THU 5.17am THU Wiedermann, Bedrich Anton (1883-1951): Pastorale dorico THU Hans Leenders (organ - 1894 Gebrueder Rieger organ in the THU parish church of Rokytnice v Orlikych horach in E Bohemia; THU Rieger was one of the largest late 19th-century Bohemian THU makers) THU 5.24am THU Vivaldi, Antonio (1665-1741): Concerto in C for two THU guitars and orchestra THU Maya Le Roux-Obradovic, Zoran Krajisnik (guitars) THU Sinfonietta Belgrade Aleksandar Vujic (conductor) THU 5.37am THU Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911): Romance in G for violin and THU orchestra, Op 26 Julia Fischer (violin) THU Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra THU Christopher Warren-Green (conductor) THU 5.46am THU Mozetich, Marjan (b.1948): Fantasia su un linguaggio THU perduto for string instruments THU Members of the Amadeus Ensemble THU 6.01am THU Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Suite No 4 in G THU for orchestra, Op 61 Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra THU Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor) THU 6.26am THU Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Sinfonia concertante THU in E flat for violin, viola and orchestra, K364 THU Valery Oistrach (viola) I Virtuosi di Santa Cecilia THU Igor Oistrach (violin/conductor). THU THU 07:00 Breakfast b00pdkb8 (Listen) THU THU 10:00 Classical Collection b00pdkbb (Listen) THU 10.00am THU Delalande: Airs de ballet de la paix (Symphonies pour les THU soupers du Roy, 11eme Suite) La Simphonie de Marais THU Hugo Reyne (conductor) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901337.40 THU 10.20am THU Messiaen: Le banquet celeste Olivier Messiaen (organ) THU EMI CZS 7674002 THU 10.30am THU Mendelssohn: Psalm 42 Sibylla Rubens (soprano) THU Scot Weir, Christoph Genz (tenor) THU Matthias Goerne, Thomas Mehnert (bass) THU Gachinger Kantorei Stuttgart Bach-Collegium Stuttgart THU Helmuth Rilling (conductor) HANSSLER CD 98273 THU 10.55am THU Rachmaninov: Preludes, Op 32 Nos 5-8 THU Steven Osborne (piano) HYPERION CDA 67700 THU 11.05am THU Burns: Jamie, come try me Elspeth Cowie (voice) THU LINN CKD 099 THU 11.07am THU Arne: Delia Emma Kirkby (soprano) London Baroque THU Charles Medlam (director) EMI CDC 7497992 THU 11.13am THU Morley: No, no, no, no, Nigella The Consort of Musicke THU Anthony Rooley (conductor) DECCA 476 1971 THU 11.25am THU Ruggles: Angels Brass Ensemble THU Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) SONY SX2K 66610 THU 11.30am THU Strauss: Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Op 60 THU Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Thomas Beecham (conductor) THU EMI CDH 7631062. THU THU 12:00 Composer of the Week b00pdkbf (Listen) THU John Rutter (b.1945), Episode 4 THU THU Donald Macleod is in conversation with John Rutter, one of THU the world's most successful and popular living composers. THU THU For much of the 1980s, Rutter struggled to continue THU working under the shadow of long-term illness, yet it was THU during this period he composed one of his best loved and THU most regularly performed works. John discusses with Donald THU the genesis of his Requiem. THU THU John Rutter — A Choral Fanfare THU The Cambridge Singers John Rutter (conductor) THU Collegium, COLCD112,, 7 THU THU John Rutter — What Sweeter Music THU Choir of King’s College, Cambridge THU Robert Quinney (organ) Stephen Cleobury THU EMI CDC5566052,, 9 THU THU John Rutter — Requiem (ensemble version) THU Choir of Clare College, Cambridge THU Members of the City of London Sinfonia THU Nicholas Rimmer (organ) Timothy Brown (Conductor) THU Naxos 8557130,, 1-7 THU THU John Rutter — Variations on an Easter Theme ‘O Filii et THU Filiae) for organ duet THU Christopher Herrick (organ) Jeremy Spurgeon (organ) THU Hyperion CDA67458,, 4-9 THU THU John Rutter — A Choral Fanfare THU The Cambridge Singers John Rutter (conductor) THU Collegium, COLCD112,, 7 THU THU John Rutter — What Sweeter Music THU Choir of King’s College, Cambridge THU Robert Quinney (organ) Stephen Cleobury THU EMI CDC5566052,, 9 THU THU John Rutter — Requiem (ensemble version) THU THU Choir of Clare College, Cambridge THU Members of the City of London Sinfonia THU Nicholas Rimmer (organ) Timothy Brown (Conductor) THU Naxos 8557130,, 1-7 THU THU John Rutter — Variations on an Easter Theme ‘O Filii et THU Filiae) for organ duet THU THU Christopher Herrick (organ) Jeremy Spurgeon (organ) THU Hyperion CDA67458,, 4-9 THU THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b00pdkbh (Listen) THU Cheltenham Music Festival 2009, Angela Hewitt THU THU Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt presents a recital THU featuring major works by two composers celebrating an THU anniversary in 2009: the Prelude and Fugue No 1 in E minor THU and Variations Serieuses by Mendelssohn, and the E flat THU Sonata Haydn. They are complemented by two baroque THU keyboard suites by Handel and Bach. THU THU Handel: Suite No 2 in F, HWV427 THU Bach: English Suite No 6 in D minor, BWV811 THU Mendelssohn: Prelude and Fugue No 1 in E minor (1841); THU Variations Serieuses, Op 54 THU Haydn: Sonata in E flat, H XVI 52. THU THU 14:00 Afternoon on 3 b00pdkbk (Listen) THU Handel: Hercules THU THU Handel Operas 2009 THU THU BBC Radio 3's complete series of Handel operas continues THU with a performance of Hercules from a stellar cast, THU including Gidon Saks, Anne Sofie von Otter and David THU Daniels. Written at time when Handel was becoming better THU known for his oratorios, his setting of the Greek myth was THU not as successful in its day as his earlier Italian operas THU had been. Only now has it been recognised that its musical THU quality and dramatic vigour justifies a more regular place THU in the opera house. THU THU Handel: Hercules - music drama in three acts THU THU Hercules ...... Gidon Saks (bass-baritone) THU Dejanira ...... Anne Sofie von Otter (soprano) THU Hyllus ...... Richard Croft (tenor) THU Iole ...... Lynne Dawson (soprano) THU Lichas ...... David Daniels (countertenor) THU Priest of Jupiter ...... Marcos Pujol (baritone) THU Choeur et Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble THU Marc Minkowski (conductor). THU THU 17:15 Words and Music b00k9q8r (Listen) THU The Faerie World THU THU The Mendelssohn weekend ends with an edition of Words and THU Music exploring the fairy tradition in poetry and music. THU It’s a tradition which Shakespeare drew on for ‘A THU Midsummer Night’s Dream’ but it began in the fourteenth THU century with Chaucer and Gower. More recently, Victorian THU and Edwardian writers and composers were fascinated by the THU tradition, fuelled partly by their preoccupation with THU childhood as A.S. Byatt explores in her new novel ‘The THU Children’s Book’. THU THU The relationship between fairy and human is sometimes THU benign but more often dangerous – the water spirit Undine THU desires men’s souls while others, like the fairies in THU Yeat’s ‘The Stolen Child’, heard here in Cyril Rootham’s THU beautiful setting of the poem, lure children away from the THU human world. Some fairies we can imagine as beautiful THU spirits but others, like the creatures in Christina THU Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’, are ugly, ferocious beasts THU with a furious energy expressed by Antonio Bazzini in his THU ‘La ronde des lutins’ (Dance of the Goblins). THU THU Scottish poets and composers bring the fairy tradition THU into the twenty first century. In her poem ‘Glamourie’ THU Kathleen Jamie draws on the supernatural Scottish ballad THU of Tam Lin. John Burnside’s poems too are filled with THU spirits and fairies, stolen children and selkies – in the THU programme you’ll hear his ‘Shiochie’s Hill, Dunkeld’ and THU ‘entremonde’ alongside Joan Baez’s ‘Silkie’ and Judith THU Weir’s ‘Distance and Enchantment, which explores the THU phenomenon of fairy abduction in a chamber piece inspired THU by a story from South Uist. THU THU Fiona McLean (producer) THU THU Details of Readings and Music THU THU Times are from the start of the programme THU THU 00:00:00 THU GRAHAM FITKIN Hard Fairy Graham Fitkin – piano THU John Harle – soprano saxophone ARGO 4441122 THU 00:01:09 THU CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Goblin Market THU Robert Glenister (reader) THU 00:02:42 THU SARA TEASDALE The Faery Forest Stella Gonet (reader) THU 00:03:00 THU EDVARD GRIEG Once upon a time Holberg Suite THU Michala Petri – recorder THU The English Chamber Orchestra Ensemble THU Gordon Langford – conductor RCA 09026618812 THU 00:06:37 THU KATHLEEN JAMIE Glamourie Stella Gonet (reader) THU 00:08:01 THU THE KATHRYN TICKELL BAND Floating from Skerry THU BLACK CROW CROCD227 THU 00:10:01 THU WALTER de la MARE The Listeners THU Robert Glenister (reader) THU 00:11:48 THU FRANZ SCHUBERT Erlkonig Lieder THU Matthias Goerne – baritone Andreas Haefliger – piano THU DECCA 4529172 THU 00:15:51 THU CHARLOTTE BRONTE Jane Eyre Stella Gonet (reader) THU 00:16:55 THU CYRIL ROOTHAM The Stolen Child For the Fallen etc THU The Sinfonia Chorus and BBC Northern Singers THU Richard Hickox – conductor EMI CDC7490212 THU 00:23:41 THU CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Goblin Market THU Robert Glenister (reader) THU 00:25:33 THU ANTONIO BAZZINI La Ronde des lutins Rediscovered THU Itzhak Perlman – violin RCA 82876625172 THU 00:30:11 THU JOHN BURNSIDE Shiochie’s Hill Stella Gonet (reader) THU 00:31:03 THU JOAN BAEZ Silkie Volume Two VANGUARD 662098 THU 00:35:00 THU YEATS The Stolen Child Robert Glenister (reader) THU 00:37:14 THU JUDITH WEIR Distance and Enchantment THU COLLINS CLASSICS 14532 THU 00:41:06 THU SEAMUS HEANEY Undine Robert Glenister (reader) THU 00:42:07 THU ANATOL LYADOV Baba-Yaga BBC Philharmonic THU Vassily Sinaisky – conductor CHANDOS CHAN9911 THU 00:45:30 THU JOHN BURNSIDE Entremonde Stella Gonet (reader) THU 00:47:01 THU ALEXANDER SCRIABIN Reverie, op 24 THU Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin THU Vladimir Ashkenazy - conductor THU 00:51:11 THU SHELLEY Queen Mab Stella Gonet (reader) THU 00:52:18 THU SHAKESPEARE Romeo and Juliet THU Robert Glenister (reader) THU 00:52:50 THU HECTOR BERLIOZ Romeo et Juliette THU The Cleveland Orchestra Pierre Boulez – conductor THU DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4742372 THU THU 18:15 New Generation Artists b00pdkd3 (Listen) THU THU Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme picks out some of THU the brightest new talents in the classical music world. THU The special Christmas and New Year series features studio THU and live concert performances, here by British violinist THU and former BBC Young Musician of the Year Jennifer Pike, THU Austrian mezzo-soprano Daniela Lehner and Georgian pianist THU Khatia Buniatishvili. THU THU Ravel: Tzigane Jennifer Pike (violin) THU Martin Roscoe (piano) THU THU Guridi: Seis canciones castellanas THU Daniela Lehner (mezzo-soprano) Jose Luis Gayo (piano) THU THU Chopin: Ballade No 4 in F minor THU Khatia Buniatishvili (piano). THU THU 19:00 Performance on 3 b00pdkd5 (Listen) THU BBC Philharmonic - Haydn's The Creation THU THU In the climax to their Haydn the Innovator season, the BBC THU Philharmonic and BBC Singers are conducted by Gianandrea THU Noseda in Haydn's Creation. In a work that opens with THU music representing the grandeur and desolation of chaos THU waiting for the Almighty's creative touch, moving through THU the blazing affirmation 'and there was light', and then THU continuing with the feeling of wonder at the sight of the THU unfolding universe, Haydn puts his own stamp on musical THU conventions of the period. THU THU Haydn: The Creation THU THU Kate Royal (soprano) Andrew Kennedy (tenor) THU Neal Davies (baritone) BBC Singers BBC Philharmonic THU Gianandrea Noseda (conductor). THU THU 21:00 Belief b00g42xy (Listen) THU Series 4, Tim Winter THU THU Joan Bakewell explores areas of belief with artists, THU thinkers and other public figures. She talks to Cambridge THU University chaplain and Muslim convert Tim Winter, known THU as Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad. He explores the moral sense THU of the sacred, instilled in him by his mother, his search THU for a connection with his creator and what it means to be THU a Muslim convert in Britain today. THU THU Winter made his own journey towards Islam via the THU Unitarian church, bringing Western academic methods to his THU studies of Islam and its history. He is strongly critical THU of Wahhabism and of the kinds of Islamic interpretation THU and fundamentalism which underlie extremism and THU justifications of violence. A participant in inter-faith THU dialogue at high levels, he has recently returned from the THU Vatican in an attempt to improve Muslim Catholic relations. THU THU 21:30 BBC Proms b00pdkfl (Listen) THU 2009, Prom 3: Stan Tracey THU THU Catherine Bott presents a late-night jazz Prom from the THU opening weekend of the 2009 season, in which the great THU pianist and composer Stan Tracey - known to his fans as THU the Godfather of British Jazz - recreates the biblical THU version of the Big Bang as a big band suite. THU THU Stan Tracey and his Orchestra THU THU Stan Tracey: Genesis. THU THU 23:15 Late Junction b00pdkjt (Listen) THU Including a seasonal tune played on the ukulele, Finola o THU Siochur singing a Christmas song from the Irish Celtic THU tradition and organist Carleton Etherington playing Von THU Himmel Hoch by Garth Edmondson. Plus powerful group THU singing from the congregation of Liberty Baptist Church in THU Alabama alongside carol singers at the Royal Hotel, THU Dungworth, near Sheffield. THU THU And in a special collaboration session at the BBC's Maida THU Vale studios, a trio of performers take us on a winter's THU journey, through song, spoken word and percussion. THU Traditional storyteller Debs Newbold, folk singer Mary THU Hampton and experimental percussionist Dave Price weave a THU rich aural tapestry of sounds, stories and songs, taking THU fragments from traditional winter tales and adding new THU material and improvisations to create a unique Christmas THU Eve soundworld. THU THU The three performers, who have never worked together THU before, create a modern-day radio ballad, based on a THU winter theme. Each uses their own speciality, possibly THU venturing into areas unknown, and draw on traditional THU pagan winter stories and folk songs about the frosty THU season, combining fragments of these with experimental and THU perhaps theatrical percussion. THU THU Debs Newbold is a renowned storyteller and cabaret THU performer, who has long been telling tales from her THU Anglo-Irish family, and is currently the English Folk THU Dance and Song Society's storyteller-in-residence at Cecil THU Sharp House in London. Mary Hampton is a young folk singer THU from Brighton, whose enchanting and often eerie folk THU singing mixes the traditional with the new. Percussionist THU and composer Dave Price is a member of the Nozferatu THU collective and works with the Gecko physical theatre THU company as well as pursuing various other projects, THU involving artists such as Regina Spektor, Gwyneth Herbert THU and Aqualung. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 25 DECEMBER 2009 FRI FRI 01:00 Through the Night b00pdknp (Listen) FRI 1.00am FRI Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Christmas Oratorio FRI Evangelist ...... Jan Kobow (tenor) FRI Ditte Andersen (soprano) Ann Hallenberg (contralto) FRI Lars Johansson Brissman (bass) Swedish Radio Choir FRI Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra FRI Peter Dijkstra (conductor) FRI 2.41am FRI Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): String Quartet in D, Op 64 No 5 FRI (The Lark) Yggdrasil String Quartet: FRI Fredrik Paulsson, Per Ohman (violins) FRI Robert Westlund (viola) Per Nystrom (cello) FRI 3.01am FRI Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958): Hodie (A Christmas FRI Cantata) - prologue Hungarian Radio Choir FRI Hungarian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra FRI Tamas Vasary (conductor) FRI 3.05am FRI Villa Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959): O Polichinello (Le FRI polichinelle) - Rag doll (Prole do bebe - No 7) FRI Valerie Tryon (piano) FRI 3.06am FRI Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908), transcr. FRI Rachmaninov: (The) Flight of the Bumble-Bee FRI Valerie Tryon (piano) FRI 3.08am FRI Roussel, Albert (1869-1937): Suite (Le festin de FRI l'araignee, Op 17) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra FRI Bernard Haitink (conductor) FRI 3.26am FRI Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Notturno for piano and FRI viola, O p 42 (arr. from Serenade, Op 8) FRI Gisela Bergman (viola) Patricia Verhagen (piano) FRI 3.47am FRI Anon (12th century): Natali regis glorie - hymn FRI 3.5am FRI Anon: Lullay, lullow - carol FRI 3.54am FRI Anon: Ther is no rose (sic) FRI 3.58am FRI Trad. French: Noel Nouvelet Zefiro Torna FRI Jurgen De Bruyn (lute/director) FRI 4.01am FRI Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Quintet in E flat FRI for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, K452 FRI Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Kari Krikku (clarinet) FRI Albrecht Meyer (oboe) Jonathan Williams (horn) FRI Per Hannisdal (bassoon) FRI 4.25am FRI Nowowiejski, Felix (1877-1946): Weihnacht in der uralten FRI Marienkirche zu Krak au. Fantasie Felix Nowowiejski FRI Waclaw Golonka (organ - Sv Vojtech, Prague, built in 1877 FRI by GF Steinmeyer and Co) FRI 4.33am FRI Guilmant, Alexandre (1837-1911): Introduction and FRI Variations on a Polish Noel Michael Dudman (organ) FRI 4.36am FRI Heyral, Marc (b.19??), arr Gaston Rochon: Le Noel de la FRI Rue (1952) FRI 4.41am FRI Traditional carol: Entre le boeuf et l'ane gris FRI Richard Pare (harpsichord) FRI Les chanteurs de Saint-Coeur-de-Marie FRI Claude Gosselin (conductor) FRI 4.45am FRI Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Susser Blumen FRI Ambraflocken, HWV204 (German Arias - No 3) FRI 4.51am FRI Handel: Die ihr aus dunkeln Gruften den eiteln Mammon FRI grabt, HWV208 (German Arias - No 7) FRI Helene Plouffe (violin) Louise Pellerin (oboe) FRI Dom Andre Laberge (organ - 1999 Karl Wilhelm at the abbey FRI church Saint-Benoit-du-Lac) FRI 4.56am FRI Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Hodie Christus FRI natus est Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir FRI Hannaford Street Silver Band: FRI Stuart Laughton, James Gardiner (solo trumpets) FRI Edward Moroney (organ) John Rutter (conductor) FRI 5.01am FRI Dupre, Marcel (1886-1971): Variations on Adeste fideles FRI Tong-Soon Kwak (Rieger organ at the Torch Centre for World FRI Missions in Seoul, Korea) FRI 5.09am FRI Goodall, Howard (b.1958): Romance of the Angels FRI Robert Quinney (organ) BBC Singers FRI Stephen Cleobury (conductor) FRI 5.14am FRI Samuel-Rousseau, Marcel (1882-1955): Variations Pastorales FRI sur un vieux Noel Erica Goodman (harp) FRI Members of the Amadeus Ensemble: FRI Moshe Hammer, Barry Schifman (violins) FRI Douglas Perry (viola) Jack Mendelssohn (cello) FRI 5.24am FRI Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Variations on a Theme by FRI Haydn, Op 56a - version for orchestra (St Antoni Chorale) FRI Oslo Philharmonic Marek Janowski (conductor) FRI 5.40am FRI Nenov, Dimitar (1901-1953): The Holy One FRI Sofia Chamber Choir Vassil Arnaudov (conductor) FRI 5.44am FRI Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707): Prelude in G minor, BuxWV FRI 149 Lorenzo Ghielmi (harpsichord) FRI 5.52am FRI Forster, Kaspar (1616-1673): Dulcis amor Jesu, KBPJ 16 FRI Olga Pasiecznik, Marta Boberska (soprano) Il Tempo FRI 6.01am FRI Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): String Octet in E flat, Op FRI 20 (1825) Kodaly Quartet Bartok String Quartet FRI 6.29am FRI Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Komm, heiliger Geist - FRI chorale-prelude for organ, BWV652 FRI Bine Katrine Bryndorf (organ - Hjertling Church, Jutland) FRI 6.38am FRI Henderson, Ruth Watson (b.1932): Come Holy Spirit - for FRI SATB with organ accompaniment Matthew Larkin (organ) FRI Elmer Iseler Singers Lydia Adams (conductor) FRI 6.43am FRI Salzedo, Carlos (1885-1961): Concert Variations on O FRI Tannenbaum Judy Loman (harp) FRI 6.48am FRI Anon (16th century): Branles FRI 6.49am FRI Anon (16th century): Suite Hortus Musicus FRI Andres Mustonen (conductor) FRI 6.57am FRI Cornelius, Peter (1824-74), arr. Ruth Watson Henderson: FRI Three Kings Ben Heppner (tenor) FRI Toronto Children's Chorus FRI Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra FRI Jean Ashworth Bartle (conductor). FRI FRI 07:00 Breakfast b00pdknr (Listen) FRI FRI 10:00 Classical Collection b00pdknt (Listen) FRI 10.00am FRI Arnold: Commonwealth Christmas Overture FRI London Philharmonic Orchestra Malcolm Arnold (conductor) FRI REFERENCE RECORDINGS RR-48CD FRI 10.22am FRI Debussy: Des pas sur la neige; Ce qu'a vu le vent d'Ouest FRI (Preludes, Book 1) Nelson Freire (piano) FRI DECCA 4781111 FRI 10.30am FRI Flecha: Ensalada 'El Jubilate' La Stagione Armonica FRI Concerto di Viole L'Amoroso FRI Sergio Balestracci (conductor) CPO 7770702 FRI 10.40am FRI Roger Norrington discusses Haydn's Symphonies FRI Haydn: Symphony No 103 in E flat (Drum Roll) FRI SWR Stuttgart Radio Orchestra FRI Roger Norrington (conductor) HAENSSLER CD 93252 FRI 11.15am FRI Novak: Pohadka srdce, Op 8 (Fairytale of the Heart) FRI Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano) FRI Malcolm Martineau (piano) DG 4776665 FRI 11.35am FRI Strauss: Schlagobers Suite, Op 70 (excerpts) FRI Detroit Symphony Orchestra Neeme Jarvi (conductor) FRI CHANDOS CHAN 9606. FRI FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week b00pdknw (Listen) FRI John Rutter (b.1945), Episode 5 FRI FRI Donald Macleod is in conversation with John Rutter, one of FRI the world's most successful and popular living composers. FRI FRI Despite a prolific and varied output, Rutter is still FRI regarded by many simply as 'Mr Christmas'. Donald Macleod FRI quizzes John on why he keeps coming back to Christmas FRI carols, and what it is that gives his music such wide FRI appeal. Including the premiere recording of Rutter's most FRI recent carol. FRI FRI John Rutter — Star Carol FRI The Bach Choir The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble FRI John Scott (organ) Sir David Willcocks (conductor) FRI Decca 4178981, 15 FRI FRI John Rutter — Dormi Jesu FRI Polyphony The City of London Sinfonia FRI Stephen Layton (conductor) Hyperion, CDA67245,, 13 FRI FRI John Rutter — There is a Flower FRI The Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge FRI David Hill (conductor) Hyperion, CDA67576, 13 FRI FRI John Rutter — When Icicles Hang FRI The Cambridge Singers The City of London Sinfonia FRI John Rutter (conductor) Collegium, COLCD117,, 18-23 FRI FRI John Rutter — Veni Sancti Spiritus FRI Choir of King’s College, Cambridge FRI Robert Quinney (organ) Stephen Cleobury (conductor) FRI EMI CDC5566052,, 9 FRI FRI John Rutter — Carol of the Magi FRI BBC Singers BBC recording FRI FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b00pdkny (Listen) FRI Cheltenham Music Festival 2009, Quatuor Diotima FRI FRI Penny Gore presents a performance given at the Pittville FRI Pump Room at 2009's Cheltenham Festival by French ensemble FRI Quatuor Diotima. FRI FRI Featuring Ravel's only string quartet, which remains one FRI of his most popular works, alongside Beethoven's Quartet FRI in E flat, Op 74 (The Harp). FRI FRI 14:00 A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols b00pdkp0 (Listen) FRI FRI Stephen Cleobury directs the choir of King's College, FRI Cambridge for the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and FRI Carols. The pattern of the Festival, based around nine FRI Bible readings interspersed with carols, has remained the FRI same for over 90 years. It unfolds the great mystery of FRI how God came into the world in human form, and for FRI millions across the globe it heralds the beginning of FRI Christmas. FRI FRI 15:40 Afternoon on 3 b00pdkp2 (Listen) FRI Richard Hickox Tribute, Episode 4 FRI FRI Penny Gore concludes a tribute to Richard Hickox with a FRI festive programme featuring his last concert as principal FRI conductor with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at the FRI BBC Proms with Bryn Terfel. Including an interview with FRI Hickox at this momentous occasion, plus works Hickox FRI conducted in Cardiff from Christmas concerts past. FRI FRI Humperdinck: Overture (Hansel and Gretel) FRI BBC National Orchestra of Wales FRI Richard Hickox (conductor) FRI FRI Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas carols FRI Neal Davies (baritone) FRI Chamber Choir of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama FRI BBC National Orchestra of Wales FRI Richard Hickox (conductor) FRI FRI Bridge: Roger de Coverley - Christmas dance FRI BBC National Orchestra of Wales FRI Richard Hickox (conductor) FRI FRI 4.15pm FRI Walton: Belshazzar's Feast Bryn Terfel (baritone) FRI London Symphony Chorus Cor Caerdydd FRI BBC National Orchestra of Wales FRI Richard Hickox (conductor). FRI FRI 17:00 Words and Music b00k00ps (Listen) FRI Food for Thought FRI FRI Why add to the mountain of programmes about food? Because FRI (to misquote a maybe familiar phrase) this is no ordinary FRI food programme… For sure, food features in every one of FRI the texts read by Robert Powell and Samantha Bond – but FRI only as a means of telling us about something else much FRI more interesting: people, situations, emotions. All of FRI which are further articulated by the music preceding or FRI following each reading. FRI FRI So the whole is prefaced by Clemens non Papa’s FRI sixteenth-century “Prayer before the Meal”; John Crowe FRI Ransom’s quirky “Survey of Literature” is paired with one FRI of John Cage’s Sonatas which leads into Proust’s famous FRI cup of tea and madeleine – the trigger for a host of FRI memories of the people and surroundings of his small-town FRI upbringing. Proust’s obvious musical partner is that most FRI bourgeois and sympathetic of French composers, Chabrier FRI and his piano piece “Paysage” (“landscape; scenery”). FRI FRI The dreamy atmosphere of Robert Frost’s wonderful “After FRI Apple Picking” is evoked by the night scene from Copland’s FRI “Billy the Kid” which in turn slides seamlessly into the FRI perfect musical prelude to the forbidden fruit episode FRI from Genesis: “Trust in Me” from Disney’s “The Jungle FRI Book”. But we’re reminded of the true import of the text FRI with Bach’s austere chorus from Cantata 146 “We must FRI through great tribulation enter the kingdom of God.” FRI FRI The next passage was surely intended to evoke that FRI biblical fall from grace: the tragedy-to-come of Hardy’s FRI Tess, after her first strawberry from Alec, is underlined FRI by the slow movement from Schubert’s “Death and the FRI Maiden” string quartet. An extract from a cookery book by FRI Jane Grigson, coupled with a Victorian parlour song, seems FRI to be more a comment on Victorian society than a piece FRI about the proper appreciation of plums. FRI FRI Stravinsky frames Carol Ann Duffy’s “Circe”. Duffy’s witty FRI and sardonic re-imagining of Greek myth (via pork cookery) FRI is set up with music from Stravinsky’s Classical ballet, FRI “Apollo” and concludes with the porcine snufflings of his FRI most neo-classical score, the “Octet”. FRI FRI Two complete meals end the programme. The first, from FRI Samuel Pepys, oozing with apparently unconscious FRI complacency and self-satisfaction, is contrasted with the FRI much more appealing whiff of understated eroticism of FRI Lampedusa’s Sicilian dinner from “The Leopard”. The last FRI music is the appropriately sensuous middle movement of FRI Bach’s Double Violin Concerto which, complete with its FRI “dying fall”, also links the final text: Shakespeare’s FRI famous “If music be the food of love…” from “Twelfth FRI Night”. FRI FRI Produced by David Papp FRI FRI Running Order FRI FRI 00:00:00 FRI Clemens Non Papa: Priere devant le repas, O souverain FRI Pasteur Ensemble Clément Janequin/Dominque Visse FRI Harmonia Mundi HMC 901729 Track 1 FRI 00:02:14 FRI John Crowe Ransom: Survey of Literature (SB) FRI 00:03:18 FRI Cage: Sonata II Boris Berman (piano) Naxos 8.554345 FRI Track 2 FRI 00:05:39 FRI Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1: Swann's FRI Way [extract] (RP) FRI 00:08:23 FRI Chabrier: Paysage (No.1from Dix Pieces pittoresques) FRI Alain Planès (piano) Harmonia Mundi HMA 1951465 FRI Track 1 FRI 00:13:40 FRI Robert Frost: After Apple-Picking (RP) FRI 00:15:06 FRI Copland: “Night” from Billy the Kid (excerpt) FRI San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas FRI RCA 090206 63511 2 Track 1 FRI 00:16:38 FRI Richard M & Robert B Shermann: Trust In Me FRI Sterling Holloway (vocal) Walt Disney WD 704002 FRI Track 10 FRI 00:19:07 FRI Genesis 3, vs 1 – 19: Adam & Eve taste the forbidden fruit FRI (RP) FRI 00:22:39 FRI Bach: Wir müssen durch viel Trubsal (from Cantata 146) FRI Monteverdi Choir FRI English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner SDG 107 FRI CD 1, Track 15 FRI 00:30:18 FRI Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d’Urbervilles: Alec gives Tess a FRI strawberry (SB) FRI 00:32:34 FRI Schubert: Andante con moto (from String Quartet No.14 in D FRI minor “Death and the Maiden”) Takacs Quartet FRI Hyperion CDA67585 Track 2 FRI 00:44:55 FRI Jane Grigson: Plums (SB) FRI 00:46:35 FRI Balfe: Come into the garden, Maud FRI Robert Tear (tenor) & André Previn (piano) FRI EMI HMV 7 67808 2 Track 9 FRI 00:50:41 FRI Stravinsky: Coda - Apollon et les muses from Apollon FRI musagètes Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly FRI Decca 458 142-2 Track 10 FRI 00:54:00 FRI Carol Ann Duffy: Circe (SB) FRI 00:56:00 FRI Stravinsky: Tema con Variazioni from Octet FRI Columbia Chamber Ensemble/Igor Stravinsky Sony M 30579 FRI Track 5 FRI 01:01:00 FRI Samuel Pepys: 13 Jan 1663 - A grand dinner party he gave FRI at the cost of 'near £5' (RP) FRI 01:03:12 FRI Lampedusa: The Leopard [extract – Sicilian Dinner] (SB) FRI 01:05:22 FRI Bach: Largo ma non tanto from Double Violin Concerto (BWV FRI 1043) Daniel Hope & Marieke Blankesstijn (violins) FRI Chamber Orchestra of Europe Warner 2564 62545-2 FRI Track 5 FRI 01:07:11 FRI Shakespeare: If music be the food of love (RP) FRI FRI 18:15 New Generation Artists b00pdktf (Listen) FRI FRI Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme picks out some of FRI the brightest new talents in the classical music world. FRI The special Christmas and New Year series features studio FRI and live concert performances, here by the ATOS Trio from FRI Germany, who perform a work by Schubert in a concert given FRI at London's Wigmore Hall. FRI FRI ATOS Trio FRI FRI Schubert: Piano Trio No 1 in B flat, D898. FRI FRI 19:00 Performance on 3 b00pfsf3 (Listen) FRI Handel: Messiah FRI FRI Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season FRI FRI Catherine Bott presents Laurence Cummings conducting FRI English National Opera's new staged version of Handel's FRI Messiah, directed by Deborah Warner. This masterpiece FRI telling the story of Christ is one of the mainstays of the FRI oratorio tradition, but it is not often staged. The aim of FRI the ENO's new version is ensure that one of the world's FRI most-enduring narratives is given a powerful new FRI relevance. From the melodic beauty of 'Comfort ye' to the FRI grand spectacle of the 'Hallelujah Chorus', the events of FRI the Biblical narrative are conveyed in the singing of John FRI Mark Ainsley, Brindley Sherratt, Sophie Bevan and FRI Catherine Wyn Rogers, alongside ENO's Chorus and FRI Orchestra, conducted by leading Handelian Laurence FRI Cummings. FRI FRI Handel: Messiah FRI FRI Sophie Bevan (soprano) Catherine Wyn Rogers (alto) FRI John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Brindley Sherratt (bass) FRI ENO Chorus and Orchestra Laurence Cummings (conductor). FRI FRI 21:45 Belief b00pfsf7 (Listen) FRI Series 6, Ann Widdecombe FRI FRI Joan Bakewell explores areas of belief with artists, FRI thinkers and other public figures. FRI FRI She talks to Conservative MP and novelist Ann Widdecombe, FRI who was a life-long Anglican until the Church of England's FRI decision to ordain women priests in the 1990s. She FRI converted to Catholicism and has been a passionate FRI supporter of Rome ever since. Ann sees a time when the FRI Catholic Church will drop its demand for celibacy amongst FRI its priests and believes Pope Benedict is a figure who FRI could achieve such a reform. For her, such a change is FRI possible within her lifetime. FRI FRI Ann is stepping down as an MP at the general election FRI scheduled to take place in 2010 and says she would like to FRI take up the post of Britain's ambassador to the Holy See FRI which becomes vacant in the same year. FRI FRI 22:15 Recital b00pgvtw (Listen) FRI Dies Natalis FRI FRI Gerald Finzi's rapturous setting of Thomas Traherne's FRI vision of new-born innocence is paired with Arthur FRI Honneger's more earthy Une Cantate de Noel. FRI FRI Finzi: Dies Natalis, Op 8 John Mark Ainsley (tenor) FRI Corydon Singers and Orchestra Matthew Best (conductor) FRI FRI Honegger: Une Cantate de Noel FRI James Rutherford, (baritone) FRI BBC National Chorus of Wales FRI Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum FRI Dean Close School Chamber Choir Robert Court (organ) FRI BBC National Orchestra of Wales FRI Thierry Fischer (conductor). FRI FRI 23:15 World on 3 b00pfsf9 (Listen) FRI WOMAD Revisited FRI FRI Lopa Kothari warms up Christmas night with highlights from FRI the 2009 WOMAD festival, held in Charlton Park, Wiltshire. FRI Featuring sets broadcast for the first time, with music FRI from renowned dub reggae producer Denis Bovell, Mongolian FRI throat singer Enkh Jargal and UK bhangra pioneer Channi FRI Singh. FRI FRI

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