Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 August 2008 Page 1 of 17 SATURDAY 09 AUGUST 2008 Anon. (12th century English) Riccardo Muti, conductor Dance for fiddle EMI 5 74808 CD1 Tr 4 SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b00cwf2m) Margaret Tindermans (fiddle) With Jonathan Swain. MILHAUD Purcell, Henry (1659-1695) Les Songes Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943) 4 Dances from 'Abdelazer' Stephen Coombs, Artur Pizarro (pianos) The Isle of the Dead, symphonic poem, op. 29 Tafelmusik, Jeanne Lamon (director) HYPERION CDA 67014 tracks 7-9 Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rossen Milanov (conductor) Willan, Healey (1880-1968) SZYMANOWSKI orch. Fittelberg Te Deum Laudamus Etude in B flat minor, Op. 4, No. 3 Bartók, Béla (1881-1945) Vancouver Bach Choir, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bruce Polish State Symphony Orchestra (Katowice) Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra Pullan (conductor) Karol Stryja, conductor Anna Stoycheva (piano), Lora Chekoratova (piano), Bulgarian NAXOS 8.553686 Tr 4 National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Kazandjiev Fornerod, Aloys (1890-1965) (conductor) Concert for 2 violins and piano (Op.16) FREE THOUGHT Sibylle Tschopp and Mirjam Tschopp (violins), Isabel Tschopp Gwilym Simcock - Getting children into music Mielczewski, Marcin (1600-1651) (piano) Missa Super O Gloriosa Domina SIMCOCK Il Canto Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907) transcr. Gary Carr orch. Joseph Voices Horovitz Gwilym Simcock (piano) Forqueray, Antoine (c.1672-1745) Concerto for double and orchestra BASHO Music SRCD 224-2 Tr 6 Suite No.4 in G minor 'La Marella' – transcr. J.B. Forqueray Gary Carr (double bass), Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Christophe Rousset (harpsichord) Patrick Thomas (conductor) BRAHMS 4 Gesänge Op.17 Franck, César (1822-1890) Aufschnaiter, Benedict Anton (1665-1742) Delyth Wynne (harp), Psyché Ouverture & Entrée from Serenade No.3 in G minor Anthony Halstead, Christian Rutherford (horns) The Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Radio L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg (director) Monteverdi Choir Philharmonic, Jean Fournet (conductor) John Eliot Gardiner, conductor PHILIPS 432 152 2 Tr 19-22 Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b00cwxdw) Waldscenen (Op.82 No.7): 'Vogel als Prophet' Breakfast BERLIOZ Ralf Gothoni (piano) Rakoczy March Music for breakfast-time listening with Martin Handley Symphony Orchestra Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904) Pierre Monteux, conductor Cello Concerto No.2 in B minor A musical mix for breakfast-time including the Gypsy Song BBC LEGENDS BBCL 4112 Tr 7 Truls Mørk (cello), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn from and a stunning instrumental work by Bach that (conductor) sounds like twentieth century minimalism. And a Free Thought at 8.30. SAT 09:00 CD Review (b00cwxdy) Nauss, Johann Xaver (c. 1690-1764) Andrew McGregor introduces some of the best recordings. Praeludium Terti Toni (from Die spielende Muse) ROSSINI arr. SEDLAK Jaroslav Tuma (organ) Overture “L’Italiana in Algiera” Including: Netherlands Wind Ensemble Hammerschmidt, Andreas (1611/12-1675) PHILIPS 442 654 Tr 8 Ste COLOMBE: Concert à deux violes égales (“Le retrouvé)* Suite in G for gambas (from Ester Fleiß) from disc Tombeau pour M de Colombe et autres portraits Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (director) Henry PURCELL (c/w STE COLOMBE: Prélude (du manuscrit de Tournus); Suite in C Major MARIN MARAIS: Tombeau pour Mr. De Ste Colombe; J.B Wingfield, Steven (b. 1955) arr. Wingfield Davitt Moroney (player virginals) FORQUERAY: La Laborde; La Rameau; La Leclair; DENIS 3 Bulgarian Dances VIRGIN VC5451662 Tr 17-20 GAUTIER: Tombeau de Gautier; J.B Forqueray: La Forqueray; Moshe Hammer (violin), William Beauvais (guitar) J.P RAMEAU: La Rameau; VIEUX GAUTIER: Les Larmes de Gerald FINZI Boesset, Courrante; J.B FORQUERAY: La Couperin; J.P Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741) God is gone up RAMEAU: La Forqueray; MARIN MARAIS: Tombeau pour Cello Concerto in D minor Westminster Abbey Choir, Mr Lully; La Marianne) Charles Medlam (cello), London Baroque: Ingrid Seifert & Robert Quinney (organ) Ensemble Spirale: Marianne Muller (viola da gamba/director)*, Richard Gwilt (violins), William Hunt (violone), John Toll James O’Donnell, conductor Emily Audouin (bass viola da gamba)*, Violaine Cochard (organ), Nigel North (theorbo) HYPERION CDA 67680 Tr 12 (harpsichord), Claire Antonini (theorbo and lute), Charles Edouard Fantin (guitar and lute) Sauguet, Henri (1901-1989) Antonin REICHA Zig Zag Territoires ZZT080302 (CD) La Nuit Introduction and Rondo for horn and orchestra CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Daniel Swift (conductor) Karl-Otto Hartmann (horn) GERSHWIN: Porgy and Bess (Live recording – Titiana Palast, Prague Chamber Orchestra Berlin, 21st September 1952) Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) Milan Lajcik conductor Leontyne Price (Bess), William Warfield (Porgy), Cab Der Alpenjäger (D.588b) ORFEO C 170 021 Tr 5 Calloway (Sporting Life), John McCurry (Crown), Joseph Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano) James (Jake), Helen Colbert (Clara), Howard Roberts PROKOFIEV (Robbins), Helen Thigpen (Serena), Leslie Scott (Jim), Moses Linek, Jiri Ignac (1725-1791) Toccata, Op.11 Lamar (Frazier), William Weasey (Undertaker), Walter Coronation Fanfare Cyprien Katsaris (piano) Riemann (Detective), Helen Dowdy (Strawberry woman), Ray Ensemble of Prague Trumpet Players WARNER CLASSICS 49637 CD4 Tr 24 Yates (Crab man), Eva Jessye Choir, RIAS Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens (conductor) Arnold, Malcolm (b. 1921) arr. John Wallace BIZET Guild Historical GHCD231314 (2 CDs, Mid Price) Flourish for a Birthday (Op.44) Gypsy Song, Carmen Act I Sc.II Royal Academy of Music Brass Soloists Tatiana Troyanos (soprano) LEOPOLD GODOWSKY: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Die London Philharmonic Orchestra Fledermaus from disc Strauss Transcriptions and other waltzes Kraus, Joseph Martin (1756-1792) Sir Georg Solti, conductor (c/w Symphonic Metamorphosis on Künstlerleben after Johann Symphony in C major (VB.139) DECCA 421 300 2 Tr 4 Strauss II; from Walzermasken; from Triakontameron; Concerto Köln Symphonic Metamorphosis on Wein, Weib und Gesang; The J.H.SCHMELZER Last Waltz – Oscar Strauss, idealised version by Godowsky) Brönnemüller, Elias (1666-1761) Sonata “ad tabulam” in G major Marc-André Hamelin (piano) Toccatina from No.1 in D (from 'Fasciculus Musicus') Musica Antiqua Koln Hyperion CDA67626 (CD) Peter van Dijk (organ) Flanders Recorder Quartet Reinhard Goebel, violin/director SALIERI: De profundis clamavit from disc Musik der Wiener Anon. ARCHIV 453 442 track 12 Hofkapelle (Music of the Viennese Court Chapel) Gregorian Chants – Lux vera Lucis (c/w JOSEPH LEOPOLD VON EYBLER: Omnes de Saba Schola Gregoriana Pragensis, David Eben (conductor) NIELSEN venient; JOHANN VON HERBECK: Pueri concinite; Gregorius praesul, Prologus Antiphonarii An imaginary journey to the Faeroe Islands ANTONIO SALIERI: Veni Sancte spiritus; MOZART: Sub Dialogos, Katarina Livljanic (director) Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra tuum praesisium KV 198; MICHAEL HAYDN: Alleluja in die Sequentia, Benjamin Bagby (director) Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor resurrectionis; JOHANN JOSEPH FUX: Laudate Pueri ‘Sit SONY SK 5276 Tr 3 nomen domini’; JOSEPH LEOPOLD VON EYBLER: Terra Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904) tremuit; SCHUBERT: Totus in corde langueo Op. 46 D136; Prague Waltzes (B.99) J.S.BACH MOZART: Regina Coeli KV 276; SCHUBERT: Auguste iam Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Stefan Róbl Canons BWV.1072-1078, 1086 celestium D488; MOZART: Ave Verum Corpus KV 618; (conductor) Gottfried von der Goltz (violin) BENEDIKT RANDHARTINGER: Cantate Domino) Karl Kaiser (flute) Lenneke Ruiten (soprano), Johannes Martin Kränzle (baritone), Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975) Ekkehard Weber (viola da gamba) Daniel Behle (tenor), Christina Georg (mezzo-soprano), WDR Second Waltz from Second Jazz suite Michael Behringer (harpsichord) Rundfunchor und orchester Köln; Helmuth Froschauer Eolina Quartet HANSSLER CD.92.133 Tr 17-24 (conductor) Phoenix Edition 112 (CD) Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959) SCHUBERT Polkas and Études for Piano, Book III Ballet Music Die Zauberharfe: No.9 Andantino MOZART: Symphony No. 35 in D major K. 385 “Haffner” Antonín Kubálek (piano) Philharmonic (c/w Symphony No. 29 in A major K. 201; Symphony No. 33 in Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 August 2008 Page 2 of 17 B flat major, K. 319; Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504 London. No: HDCD 01 “Prague”; Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 “Jupiter”) Dur: 04.30 Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado (conductor) Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Huw Watkins perform Comp: Mike Walker Archiv Produktion 477 7598 (2 CDs, Mid Price) two works by French composers at opposite ends of their Pub. n/a careers: Debussy's Sonata was the last work he completed, while WAGNER: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (from a live BBC Messiaen's Theme and Variations is a youthful piece written as 7. Broadcast, 10th February 1968 at Sadler’s Wells Theatre) a wedding present for his first wife. The violin part of Title: Hillbillies on a Quiet Afternoon Margaret Curphey (soprano), Ann Robson (mezzo-soprano), Prokofiev's neo-classical Second Sonata though virtuosic is also Artist: S.M.V. (Stanley Clarke/Marcus Miller/Victor Wooten) Alberto Remedios (tenor), Gregory Dempsey (tenor), Norman highly lyrical and elegant, evidence of the work's inception as a Album: Thunder Bailey (bass-baritone), Noel Mangin (bass), Derek Hammond sonata for flute. Trk: 3 Stroud (baritone), Stafford Dean (bass), Sadlers Wells Chorus Label: FDM/ Dreayfus Jazz & Orchestra, Reginald Goodall (conductor) Alina Ibragimova No: 46050 369212 Chandos CHAN3148 (4 CDs, Mid Price) Huw Watkins (piano) Dur: 03.30 Comp: Victor Wooten/Stanley Clarke WAGNER: Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) Debussy: Sonata for violin and piano Pub. Bug Music (recorded live at the , Covent Garden in Messiaen: Theme and variations, for violin and piano September and October 1957) Prokofiev: Sonata No 2 in D for violin and piano, Op 94a. 8. Das Rheingold: Hans Hotter, Otakar Krauss, Erich Witt, Kurt Title: The Moon Song Böhme; Die Walküre: Birgit Nilsson, Hans Hotter, Sylvia Artist: Charlie Haden/Pat Metheney Fisher, Ramón Vinay; Siegfried: Wolfgang Windgassen, Hans SAT 15:00 World Routes (b00cwxgt) Album: Beyond the Missouri Sky Hotter, Peter Klein, Birgit Nilsson; Götterdämmerung: Birgit World Routes in China Trk: 9 Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Kurt Böhme, Hermann Uhde Label: Verve Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Silk and Bamboo music, the gugin and Pingtan music No: 537 130 2 Garden, Rudolf Kempe (conductor) Dur: 06.50 Mono Recording Lucy Duran travels to Shanghai to find out what remains of Comp: Johnny Mandel Testament SBT131426 (13 CDs, Budget) traditional Chinese music in this booming metropolis. Music Pub. Copyright Secur recorded on location includes a session by one of Shanghai's RAMEAU: Castor et Pollux (suite) best guqin players, who performs on an instrument dating from 9. (c/w JEAN-FÉRY REBEL: Les Élémens) the 13th century, a group of pensioners who are struggling to Title: Some Of My Best Friends Are the Blues L’Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg (conductor) preserve the beautiful sound of silk and bamboo, and a Artist: Shirley Horn Phoenix Edition 110 (Hybrid SACD) performance of Pingtan from the city of Suzhou. Album: Travelin’ Light Trk: 6 Label: IMPULSE! SAT 12:15 Music Feature (b007r9z0) SAT 16:00 Jazz Line-Up (b00cwxj1) No: GRD 138 Is This a Record? Claire Martin talks to jazz composer and performer Django Dur: 02.21 Bates about his new CD, his residence in Copenhagen and the Comp: Byron/Harris Many classical artists over the years have made recordings that formation of his band Stormchaser. Plus a digest of new jazz Pub. Pelew Music Inc/Darwood Music/Ellipsis Music in hindsight might be seen as ill-advised, whether through a CDs. Corp/Anna dubious attempt at 'crossover', or simply through an unsuitable Theresa Music Ltd choice of repertoire. Norman Lebrecht looks at these recordings 1. and discusses them with some of the leading record producers Title: If Music Be The Food of Love 10. of the past 40 years to try and discover how and why they get Artist: Cleo Laine & Johnny Dankworth Title: Chega De Saudad made. Contributors include Thomas Z Shepherd, Steven Album: The Collection Artist: Milton Nascimento & Jobim Trio Epstein and Herbert Breslin. Trk: 8 Album: Milton Nascimento & Jobim Trio Label: Spectrum Trk: 9 No: 5447 70-2 Label: EMI SAT 13:00 The Early Music Show (b008dmwg) Dur: 02.26 No: 50999 214817 2 7 Bach's Art of Fugue Comp: Shakespeare/Dankworth Dur: 03.29 Pub. Colgems Music Corp Comp: Antonio Carlos Jobim/Vinicius De Moraes Lucie Skeaping delves into the riddles which lie behind Bach's Pub. Arapua (Fermata) late great masterpiece, the Art of Fugue. Considered to be the 2. definitive exploration of musical counterpoint, there are still Title: Nice & Easy 11. many mysteries about the work which remain unsettled to this Artist: John Griffin Title: Spring day. Album: Introducing Johnny Griffin Artist: Django Bates/Stormchaser Trk: 5 Album: Spring is Here (Shall We Dance?) Bach: Contrapunctus I (version for 2 harpsichords) (Art of Label: Blue Note Trk: 1 Fugue) No: 0946 3 74218 2 6 Label: Lost Marble Ton Koopman Dur: 04.23 No: LM 003 ERATO 4509-96387-2 - Tr 1 Comp: Johnny Griffin Dur: 05.36 Pub. Blue Note Comp: Django Bates Bach: Contrapunctus 3 and 4 (Art of Fugue) Pub. Django Bates Joanna MacGregor 3. COLLINS CLASSICS 70432 (2) - Trs 3 and 4 Title: Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams 12. Artist: Sidney Bechet and his Feetwarmers Title: Early Bloomer Bach: Contrapunctus 8 (Art of Fugue) Album: A Portrait of Sidney Bechet in Paris Artist: Django Bates/Stormchaser Gustav Leonhardt Trk: 2 Album: Spring is Here (Shall We Dance?) DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI GD77013 - Disc 1 Tr 8 Label: Upbeat Jazz Trk: 5 No: URCD 195 Label: Lost Marble Bach: Contrapunctus 9 (Art of Fugue) Dur: 03.02 No: LM 003 Hesperion XX Comp: Barrris/Koehler/Moll Dur: 02.10 Jordi Savall (director) Pub. Shapiro Bernstein & Co Ltd Comp: Django Bates ASTREE E8522 - Tr 20 4. Pub. Django Bates Title: The Albert Jenkins Story Bach: Contrapunctus 10 (Art of Fugue) Artist: Abram Wilson 13. Julliard String Quartet Album: Ride! Ferris Wheel to the Modern Day Delta Title: Convolution (for Dudley Moore) SONY CLASSICAL S2K45937 - Tr 10 Trk: 2 Artist: Iain Ballamy Label: Dune Album: Anorak More Jazz Bach: Contrapunctus 13 a 3 inversus/ a 3 rectus (Art of Fugue) No: CD016 Trk: 4 Charles Rosen Dur: 02.31 Label: Basho Records SONY CLASSICAL SB2K63231 - Disc 2 Trs 12 and 13 Comp: Abram Wilson No: SRCD 22-2 Pub. Dune Music Publishing Dur: 07.25 Bach: Contrapunctus 14 (unfinished) (Art of Fugue) Comp: Iain Ballamy Glenn Gould 5. Pub. PRS/MCPS SONY CLASSICAL SMK52595 - Tr 16 Title: Raju Artist: John McLaughlin 14. Bach: Organ Prelude Vor deinen Thron tret ich, BWV 686 Album: Floating Point Title: Swift Ton Koopman Trk: 2 Artist: Freddie Redd Teldec 4509944592 - Disc 1, Tr 18. Label: Abstract Album: Shades of Redd No: ABLX 011 Trk: 5 Producer: Sam Phillips Dur: 08.18 Label: Blue Note BBC Manchester Comp: John McLaughlin No: 50999 5 14375 2 7 Pub. Buma/Stemra Dur: 02.03 Comp: Freddie Redd SAT 14:00 BBC Proms (b00ct3z0) 6. Pub. Blue Note Proms Chamber Concerts Title: A Real Embrace Artist: Mike Walker 15. PCM3 - Grieg, Tchaikovsky Album: Madhouse and the Whole Thing There Title: Bye Bye Trk: 1 Artist: Christine Tobin Presented by Christopher Cook, from the Royal Albert Hall, Label: www.mike-walker.co.uk Album: Secret Life of a Girl Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 August 2008 Page 3 of 17 Trk: 1 Honeysuckle Rose (Fats Waller / Andy Razaf) (16’39’’) Sound design by Kal Ross and Steve Brooke. Label: Babel Performed by Buck Clayton, Harry James (tp) Vernon Brown Directed by Pauline Harris. No: BDV 2875 (tb) Benny Goodman (cl) Johnny Hodges (as) Lester Young (ts) Dur: 04.10 Harry Carney (bar) Count Basie (p) Freddie Green (g) Walter Comp: Eva Salzman/Christine Tobin Page (b) Gene Krupa (d) SAT 21:45 Pre-Hear (b00cwyrc) Pub. MCPS/PRS Recorded NY Jan 16 1938 Martyn Brabbins conducts Rolf Hind (piano) and the BBC Taken from the album Live at Carnegie Hall Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Per Norgard's Concerto in due © 1999 CD (Columbia C2K65143(2); Tracks 14-15) tempi for orchestra. Recorded at the Huddersfield SAT 17:30 Jazz Record Requests (b00cwxj3) Contemporary Music Festival in 2002. Presented by Geoffrey Smith Don't forget, you can have your say on today's programme, or Producer: Benedict Warren any aspect of jazz, by visiting the Jazz Messageboard. Saturday 9 August 2008 5.30pm–6.30pm SAT 22:30 Hear and Now (b00cwz4p) Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces highlights of two concerts from Music Details SAT 18:30 New Generation Artists (b00cwxkx) the BMIC Cutting Edge Series in 2007. Gwilym Simcock JRR Signature Tune: Larry Goves: My Name is Peter Stillman. That is not my real Oh, but on the Third Day (Happy Feet Blues) (Marsalis) Featuring the scheme's first jazz pianist and composer, Gwilym name Performed by Wynton Marsalis (tpt), Marcus Roberts (pno), Simcock, who talks to presenter Verity Sharp and introduces Jonathan Green: Into Movements Todd Williams (tsx), Dr Michael White (clt), Danny Barker pieces from a special solo session and his debut album. Michael Clarke: Emmeshed II (bjo), Teddy Riley (tpt), Freddie Lonzo (tbn), Reginald Veal Sarah Nicholls (piano) (bs), Herlin Riley (dms) Recorded 28 October 1988 SAT 19:00 BBC Proms (b00cwxkz) Sam Hayden: Schismatics Taken from the album The Majesty of the Blues Prom 31: BBC Concert Orchestra Yannis Kyriakides: Hyperamplified 1989 CD (CBS 465129 2) Anne La Berge (flute) Prom 31 - Part 1 Mieko Kanno (violin) Red Beans and Rice (Humphrey Lyttelton) (2’09’’) Claire Edwardes (percussion) Performed by Humphrey Lyttelton (tp) John Picard (tb) Bruce From the Royal Albert Hall, London, Sarah Walker presents a Turner (cl) Johnny Parker (p) Jim Bray (b) Eddie Taylor (d) jazz-infused programme with works by Gershwin, Stravinsky Plus an interview with Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky that Recorded London, Jan 14 1957 and Bernstein, plus new compositions by Radio 3 New Subliminal Kid. Tom Service talks to Miller about his new book Taken from the album The Best of Humphrey Lyttelton Generation Artist Gwilym Simcock and Jason Yarde. Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture. 2003 CD (EMI 7243 5 83283 2 5; Track 9) Michael Collins (clarinet) Sweet Savannah Sue (Fats Waller) (3’30’’) Gwilym Simcock (piano) Performed by Pat Halcox (cnt) Chris Barber (tb) Monty Phil Donkin (bass) SUNDAY 10 AUGUST 2008 Sunshine (cl) Micky Ashman (b) Ron Bowden (d) Lonnie Martin France (drums) Donegan (bj) Jason Yarde (saxophone) SUN 00:00 The Early Music Show (b00c8x5d) Recorded London, Sep 29 1955 BBC Concert Orchestra Charles Burney - Journeyman, Historian and Composer Taken from the album Echoes of Harlem Charles Hazlewood (conductor) 1986 LP (Dormouse DM 8; Side 2/d) Lucie Skeaping talks to musicologist Ian Gammie about the life Gershwin: Strike Up the Band and travels of the inimitable Charles Burney. Burney, the 18th- Bag of Blues (Bob Cooper) (3’58’’) Gershwin, arr. Jason Yarde: My man's gone now (Porgy and century music-writer, teacher, organist and composer was well Performed by Bud Shank (as) Claude Williamson (p) Don Prell Bess) (BBC commission; world premiere) known for having opinions on just about everything, and, during (b) Chuck Flores (d) Jason Yarde: Rhythm and Other Fascinations (BBC his extensive travels through , met some of the great Recorded LA, Jan 25 1956 commission; world premiere) musical luminaries of his day, including Padre Martini, Scarlatti Taken from the album Jazz West Coast Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto and even the young Mozart. LP (Bud Shank. Vogue LAE12061(1); Side 1 / Track 1) Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs.

Twins (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis / Johnny Griffin) (6’29’’) SUN 01:00 Through the Night (b00cwzc8) Performed by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Johnny Griffin (ts) SAT 19:45 Twenty Minutes (b007smzf) With Susan Sharpe. Junior Mance (p) Larry Gales (b) Ben Riley (d) The Bargain Recorded NY, Nov 4 &10 1960 Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931) Taken from the album Tough Tenors By Truman Capote. Pan and Syrinx (Op.49) (symphonic poem) LP (Jazzland, JLP 31; Side 1 Track 3) A gem from an American classic, The Bargain takes us into the Elgar, Edward (1857-1934) Body and Soul (Johnny Green / Frank Eyton / Edward Heyman apartment of affluent New Yorker Mrs Chase. An old Cello Concerto in E minor (Op.85) / Robert Sour) (2’57’’) acquaintance is due to arrive for lunch and Mrs Chase is Truls Mørk (cello) Performed by Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra: entertaining the possibility of purchasing a mink coat from her, Billie Holiday (vcl) Roy Eldridge (tp) Jimmy Powell, Carl Frye for her forthcoming trip to Paris. But when her guest arrives, Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) (as) Kermit Scott (ts) Sonny White (p) Lawrence “Larry” Lucie some remarkable revelations call up hitherto unstirred Symphony No.4 in E minor (Op.98) (g) Johnny Williams (b) Harold “Doc” West (d) emotions. Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR, Thomas Dausgaard Recorded NY, Feb 29 1940 (conductor) Taken from the album Lady Day – The Best of Billie Holiday Read by Lorelei King. 2001 CD (Columbia/Legacy COL 504722 2; Disc 2 / Track 9) Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963) Gloria for soprano, chorus and orchestra in G major Body and Soul (Johnny Green / Frank Eyton / Edward Heyman SAT 20:05 BBC Proms (b00cwylv) Annick Massis (soprano), Choeur de Radio France, Orchestre / Robert Sour) (2’59’’) Prom 31: BBC Concert Orchestra National de France, George Prêtre (conductor) Performed by Tommy Lindsay, Joe Guy (tp) Earl Hardy (tb) Jackie Fields, Eustis Moore (as) Coleman Hawkins (ts) Gene Prom 31 - Part 2 Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) Rodgers (p) William Oscar Smith (b) Arthur Herbert (d) Sonata No.3 in F minor (Op.14) Recorded 1939 From the Royal Albert Hall, London, Sarah Walker presents the Aldo Ciccolini (piano) Taken from the album Coleman Hawkins second half of a jazz-infused programme with a work by 2000 CD (Verve 549 085-2; Track 6) Gershwin and a new composition by Radio 3 New Generation Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) Artist Gwilym Simcock. String Trio in E flat major (Op.3) C Jam Blues (Duke Ellington) (4’11’’) Leopold String Trio Performed by Dave Brubeck (p) Joe Benjamin (b) Joe Morello Michael Collins (clarinet) (d) Gwilym Simcock (piano) Duphly, Jacques (1715-1789) Recorded Newport Jazz Festival, Jul 3 1958 Phil Donkin (bass) Courante – La Boucon Taken from the album Newport ‘58 Martin France (drums) 1958 LP (CBS -450317 1; Side 2 / Track 4) Jason Yarde (saxophone) Duphly, Jacques (1715-1789) BBC Concert Orchestra La Tribolet If You Want to Write Me (Trad.) (3’55’’) Charles Hazlewood (conductor) Colin Tilney (harpsichord) Performed by Don Cherry (pocket-tp) Michael Mantler (tp) Sharon Freeman (fhr) Gary Valente (tb) Steve Slagle Gwilym Simcock: Progressions for piano and orchestra (BBC Rosenmuller, Johann (c.1619-1684) (as,sop,fl,cl) Jim Pepper (ts,sop,fl) Dewey Redman (ts) Jack commission; world premiere) Sinfonia Quinta Jeffers (tu) Carla Bley (p,glockenspiel) Mick Goodrick (g) Gershwin: An American in Paris. Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists Charlie Haden (b) Paul Motian (d,perc) Recorded Ludwigsburg, Nov 1982 Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787) Taken from the album The Ballad of the Fallen SAT 21:00 The Wire (b0092bt1) Overture – from 'Alceste' CD (ECM 811562(1); Track 3) Lullaby of Shadows Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava), Ludovít Rajter (conductor) Greasy Sack Blues (Don Rader) (5’30’’) By Andrea Earl. Woody Herman and his Orchestra: Woody Herman (cl), Bill Gounod, Charles (1818-1893) Chase, Don Rader, Dusko Goykovich, Gerry Lamy, Bobby A psychological thriller about a mother who believes her Marguerite's aria 'Air des bijoux' – from 'Faust', Act 3 [NB Shew (tp) Frank Tesinsky, Don Doane, Henry Southall (tb) Sal husband is plotting to kill their newborn baby. 1958 mono recording] Nistico, Gary Klein, Andy McGhee (ts) Tom Anastas (bar) Nat Elly Ameling (soprano, Netherlands), Orchestre de la Suisse Pierce (p) Tony Leonardi (b) Ronnie Zito (d) Jenny ...... Lyndsey Marshal Romand, Edmond Appia (conductor) Recorded 28-30 June 1965, 'Basin Street West', San Francisco Matt ...... Joe Caffrey Taken from the album Woody's Winners Sylvia ...... Olwen May Loeillet, Jean Baptiste "Loeillet de Gant" (1688-1720) 1966 LP (CBS-21110, Side 1 / Track 5) Doctor ...... Stephen Tomlin Sonata in G major Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 August 2008 Page 4 of 17 Vladimír Jasko (trumpet), Imrich Szabó (organ) Rondo in A minor, K.511 himself. Alfred Brendel (piano) Demantius, Christoph (1567-1643) PHILIPS 475 7185 CD2 Tr 5 Including: Intraden und Tänze – from Conviviorum Deliciae Hortus Musicus, Andrew Mustonen John BULL Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Variation 1) Een Kindeken is ons geboren Glenn Gould (piano) - 1984 recording Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872) Margaret Philips (organ) CBS M3K79358 Mountain Dances – from 'Halka' CRC 908 – 2 Tr 1 Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Szymon Kawalla Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Variation 1) (conductor) RAVEL Glenn Gould (piano) - 1955 recording Shéhérazade – Ouverture de féerie CBS 1479 Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857) Ulster Orchestra Mazurka in A minor Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor CPE Bach: Symphony in F, Op 183 No 3 Ilkka Paananen (piano) CHANDOS CHAN7103 Tr 1 Akademie fur Alte Musik, Berlin Stefan Mai (conductor) Terentjev, Sergei (b. 1946) Domenico SCARLATTI Harmonia Mundi HMC901622 Improvisations on Chopin's Prelude in A Sonata in A minor, Kk, 3 Sergei Terentjev (piano) Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord) Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E flat, S49 SONY SBK 60099 Tr 1 Wynton Marsalis (trumpet) Vladigerov, Pancho (1899-1978) National Philharmonic Orchestra Improvisation & Toccata for orchestra (Op.36) KODALY Raymond Leppard (conductor) Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Dances of Galanta Sony CBS Masterworks 37846 Vladigerov (conductor) Philharmonia Hungarica Antal Dorati, conductor Cole Porter: Any Tom Dick or Harry (Kiss me Kate) Manz, Paul (b. 1919) Hymn Improvisation on 'We who once MERCURY 432 005 2 Tr 10 Broadway Cast Recording were dead' DRG 12988 CHOPIN Tournemire, Charles (1870-1939) Study in E flat minor, Op.10, No.6 Ravel: Concerto in F for left-handed piano and orchestra Choral Improvisation sur le 'Victimae paschali' Moura Lympany (piano) Leon Fleisher (piano) Tong-Soon Kwak (organ) APEX 2564 60158 Tr 29 Boston Symphony Orchestra Seiji Ozawa (conductor) Verrijt, Jan Baptist (c.1600-1650) FREE THOUGHT Sony Classical SK47188 Flammae Divinae (Op.5) (1649) – No.1: O Mediatrix Domina Marina Warner“Celebrating contemporary art” No.2: In Te Domine speravi; No.4: Currite, pastores; No.5: Lennon and McCartney, arr. 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Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759) STRAVINSKY Django Reinhardt: Improvisation No 1 Sonata in G minor (HWV.390a) for 2 Violins and Continuo 3 Dances from “The Soldier’s Tale” Django Reinhardt (guitar) Musica Alta Ripa: Anne Röhrig & Ursula Bundies (violins), Nash Ensemble Castle Pie Pie SD233 Guido Larisch (cello), Bernward Lohr (harpsichord) Elgar Howarth conductor EMI 5 72698 Tr 6 – 8 Beethoven: String Quartet, Op 130 (Cavatina) Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741) Emerson Quartet Concerto for cello and orchestra in E minor, RV.409 KABALEVSKY DG 444 0752 Maris Villeruss (cello), Latvian Philharmony Chamber Colas Breugnon Overture Orchestra, Tovijs Lifsics (conductor) Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra Paganini: Caprice No 13 Loris Tjeknavorian, conductor Midori (violin) Clerambault, Louis-Nicolas (1676-1749) ASV CD DCA 967 Tr 21 CBS CD44944 Leandre et Hero – cantata Isabelle Poulenard (soprano), Ricercar Consort, Henri Ledroit BORTNIANSKY Scriabin: Le divin poeme (Jeu divin) (conductor) The Cherubic Hymn Russian National Orchestra Estonian Chamber Philharmonic Choir Mikhail Pletnev (conducting) Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) Paul Hillier, conductor DG 4596812 Stimmungsbilder [Mood Pictures] (Op.9) – No.1 Auf stillem HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907318 Tr 3 Waldespfad; No.2 An einsamer Quelle; No.3 Intermezzo; No.4 Mozart: Symphony No 39, K543 Träumerei; No.5 Heidebild RACHMANINOV Prague Chamber Orchestra Ludmil Angelov (piano) Valse (Suite No.2 for 2 Pianos) Charles Mackerras (conductor) Martha Argerich and Alexander Rabinovich (pianos) Telarc CD80203. Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918) TELDEC 9031 74717 2 Tr 6 The Bride Arrives Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Panula (conductor) Richard STRAUSS SUN 12:00 Private Passions (b00cwzgx) Prelude (Capriccio) Kiran Desai Amadeus Quartet with SUN 07:00 Breakfast (b00cwzcd) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Michael Berkeley talks to Booker Prize-winning author Kiran Breakfast William Pleeth (cello) Desai, who grew up in India and now lives in America. Her BBC LEGENDS BBCL 4061 Tr 8 musical choices range from Bach played by Glenn Gould and A sequence for your Sunday morning breakfast-time listening, Pablo Casals to two masters of the guitar, three contrasting presented by Martin Handley VIVALDI pieces of Indian music and the Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Alma oppressa; Zeffiretti, che sussurrate Evora. Curling up with the Sunday papers? Johann Strauss's Morning Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano Papers waltz should be a perfect accompaniment. Or if waltzing Il Giardino Armonico is too much effort then try Marais's stunning evocation of a girl Giovanni Antonini (director) SUN 13:00 The Early Music Show (b00cwzgz) dreaming. DECCA 466 569 2 Tr 5 Dr John Bull ohann STRAUSS II JANACEK Lucie Skeaping explores the troubled life of British composer Morning Papers Waltz Mladi Dr John Bull and his music. He had more than his fair share of Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Melos Ensemble difficulties throughout his life: he was blighted by poverty, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor EMI 5 65304 Tr 4 – 7 dismissed from at least three jobs, a victim of highway robbery, TELDEC 8573 83563 2 CD1 Tr 4 robbed by pirates and involved in a scandal which led to a self- Fernando SOR imposed exile from his homeland. Marin MARAIS Study in B minor Op. 35, No. 22 Girl Dreaming Narciso Yepes (guitar) Blighted by poverty, dismissed from at least three jobs, a victim Jordi Savall (bass viol) DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 459 029 Tr 3 of highway robbery, robbed by pirates and involved in a scandal Pierre Hantai (keyboard) which led to a self-imposed exile from his homeland, Dr John Rolf Lislevand (theorbo) CHERUBINI Bull had more than his fair share of difficulties throughout his VALOIS V4640 Tr 8 Overture, Anacréon life. Lucie Skeaping looks at the troubled life of the British Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra composer and his music. John BLOW Herbert von Karajan, conductor Of all the torments EMI CDM7 69020 Tr 2 The Bull Masque John Mark Ainsley (tenor), His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo), Hyperion CDA66894 Timothy Roberts (harpsichord and organ) SUN 10:00 Sunday Morning (b00cwzcg) Track 15 HYPERION CDA66646 Tr 16 Mary King sits in for Iain Burnside and explores the world of left-handed musicians, composers and performers - who include In Nomine IX MOZART CPE Bach, Mozart, Scriabin, Ravel, one of the Beatles and Iain Derek Adlam (Harpsichord) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 August 2008 Page 5 of 17 GUILD GMCD7233 Prom 32: BBC Singers SUN 21:30 Sunday Feature (b00cx18z) Track 14 A Brief History of Cunning From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Suzy Klein. Early fantasia (from Fitzwilliam book) American writer and satirist Joe Queenan traces the history of Martin Souter (Organ) James O'Donnell puts the organ of the Royal Albert Hall cunning, from Odysseus to Karl Rove, via Machiavelli, Richard ISIS ISISCD005 through its paces in one of the landmarks of 20th-century Nixon and Margaret Thatcher. He talks to experts, observers Track 10 repertoire for the instrument, Messiaen's Messe de la Pentecôte, and practitioners of the dark arts, from Professor of Classics which draws musical inspiration from birdsong and concludes Edith Hall to Tim Parks, translator of Machiavelli's The Prince. Almighty God, which by the leading of a star with a shattering depiction of pentecostal tongues of fire Consortium/ Price (organ)/ Barbieri (dir.) engulfing the Apostles. Alongside it, sacred French music for In Italy he meets a commentator who describes cunning as a DEUX-ELLES DXL853 the same church feast from an earlier tradition: a Renaissance pathology of intelligence, while former Conservative party Track 1 mass by Pierre de Manchicourt, a composer who, though little treasurer Lord McAlpine sees it more as a 'little nudge here, a known today, ended his life as master of the royal chapel of little nudge there'. Fantasy a 4 Philip II of Spain and who no less a figure than Orlando Lassus Fretwork called a 'distinguished and excellent composer of music'. Other contributors include writer Kathy Lette, Italian journalist VIRGIN CLASSICS VC7907062 Beppe Severgnini, law professor Don Herzog, and actor Ian Track 7 James O'Donnell (organ) Richardson, prime minister in the BBC's House of Cards. BBC Singers Princes Galliard Andrew Carwood (conductor) Joseph Payne (harpsichord) SUN 22:15 Words and Music (b00cx19y) BIS CD729BIS Olivier Messiaen: Messe de la Pentecôte Crushed Track 10 interspersed with Pierre de Manchicourt: Missa Veni sancte spiritus. Readers Rafe Spall and Abigail Davies. Salve Regina I Sally Garden (Mezzo-Soprano)/ Roger Williams (Organ) ‘In the end it took me a dictionary to find out the meaning of ALPHA CDCA951 SUN 17:00 Discovering Music (b00cx15r) unrequited’. So sings the Saturday Boy in Billy Bragg’s Track 1 Schwanengesang evocation of the pain of unrequited love. The dictionary would only have told him that unrequited means unreturned. Looking Fantasia X Baritone Hakan Vramsmo and pianist Julius Drake join Stephen into the world of music and poetry he would have found that Bob van Asperen Johnson for an exploration of the musical nuances to be found unrequited love is much more complex and nuanced. TELDEC 842874 in Schubert's posthumous song-cycle Schwanengesang, settings Track 11 of poems by Ludwig Rellstab and Heinrich Heine. Schooldays are often the start, also for Gwyneth Lewis in her poem ‘To the boys I loved who never loved me’ which brings Carol arr. “den lustelijcken mey” back memories of adolescence and makes an important Ton Koopman (organ) SUN 18:30 New Generation Artists (b00cx15t) statement in this territory: I was never made less by loving you CAPRICCIO 10255 Eduard Kunz, Martin Helmchen, Aronowitz Ensemble more. Unrequited Love can leave someone a sad, winsome and Track 5 even quite pathetic figure. However, in reading poetry and Verity Sharp introduces performances by pianist Eduard Kunz, listening to music that dealt with this idea it soon becomes clear Doctor Bull’s Goodnight cellist Danjulo Ishizaka and the Aronowitz Ensemble. that once the hope is gone, how the person deals with the love Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord) and longing that remains is fertile ground. ASTREE E8543 Tchaikovsky: January; March; October (Seasons) Track 17 Eduard Kunz (piano) The physical decline of Miss Haversham’s dress and rooms might be shocking, and the still upper lip fortitude found in the Stuart MacRae: Unity Houseman poetry quite painful, but the determination and SUN 14:00 Radio 3 Requests (b00cwzh1) Danjulo Ishizaka (cello) self–knowledge demonstrated by both are things I found to be In today's hour-long edition of requests from Radio 3 listeners, Martin Helmchen (piano) noble and empowering. a disastrous spell is cast in Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice and there's a nearly-discarded quartet movement from the sixteen Nicholas Maw: Sextet for strings The idea of a carrying something inside that isn’t just going to year old Mozart. Violist Lawrence Power also shares a favourite Aronowitz Ensemble. go away is also explored in Simon Rae’s poem ‘Believed’. This recording of two songs by Brahms for alto, viola and piano. Chi- isn’t about unrequited love, but is nonetheless a longing for chi Nwanoku presents. something that’s never going to happen. There is perhaps in all SUN 19:30 BBC Proms (b00cx15w) of us a longing for the things we didn’t do, the words unspoken, Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Prom 33: BBC Symphony Orchestra people unkissed, journeys not taken. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine (conductor) Deutsche Grammophon 419 617-2, track 5 Prom 33 - Part 1 This is also touched on in Sophie Hannah’s poem To the Memory of Love where Love was Not. Unrequited Love can be Mozart: String Quartet in G major, K. 156 (Adagio, original From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Rob Cowan. painful, and the love that remains after hope has gone can be second movement) the most painful of all. Sophie Hannah reminds us that however Éder Quartet Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a painful the feelings, at least those feelings are there, true and Naxos 8.550542, track 14 first half inspired by the sun and nature, with Sibelius's Night present, and in some way make us real. Ride and Sunrise followed by two world premieres: Michael Morley: Madrigals: Arise, awake; Fire and Lightning; No, no, Berkeley's Slow Dawn on the rising of the sun and Stuart There’s a great deal of music that can be related to unrequited no, no Nigella McRae's Gaudete a 'life narrative' based on the epilogue from a love. Brahms and Berlioz come to mind for their devotions to The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director) collection of Poems by Ted Hughes and sung by Susanna Clara Schumann and Harriet Smithson respectively. Billie L’Oiseau Lyre 436 962-2, tracks 1, 8 & 3 Andersson. Holiday had to be there not just for the song – she sings ‘Love me or Leave me’ here – but for her own life and that voice that Eduard Tubin: Ballade Susanna Andersson (soprano) carries so much loss and pain so beautifully. The plangent Arvo Leibur (violin), Vardo Ramussen (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra dissonances of early string music are so reminiscent of the pains BIS-CD-541/542, CD 1 track 6 Edward Gardner (conductor) and stabs of love, and I’ve included music by Gibbons and Biber. To finish, I have included the quintet from Wagner’s Die Brahms: Two songs for alto, viola obbligato and piano Op. 91 Sibelius: Night Ride and Sunrise Meistersinger where Hans Sachs, one of the most humane and Marian Anderson (contralto), William Primrose (viola), Franz Michael Berkeley: Slow Dawn (world premiere of new version) complex of all operatic characters sings of how ‘the heart’s Rupp (piano) Stuart MacRae: Gaudete (BBC commission; world premiere). sweet burden had to be subdued’ and renounces his love for Biddulph Lab 150, tracks 8-9 Eva.

Tchaikovsky: Waltz of the Flowers (Nutcracker Suite) SUN 20:30 Proms Short Story (b00czj23) GIBBONS Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Von Karajan By Leonard Woolf. Fantasia No.3 Deutsche Grammophon 419 175-2, track19 Consorts For Viols An English novelist visiting Ceylon falls hopelessly in love with Laurence Dreyfus/ Phantasm a beautiful native prostitute and buys her out of the brothel Avie AV0032 SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (b00cwzj2) where she works in this acutely observed story of desire, From the Three Choirs Festival at Worcester Cathedral. expectation and colonial life at the beginning of the 20th CAROL ANN DUFFY century. Read by Alex Jennings. Warming her Pearls Responses: Richard Shephard Read by Abigail Davies Psalm: 94 (Cooke, Cook) First Lesson: Proverbs 10 vv1-12 SUN 20:50 BBC Proms (b00cx18x) NYMAN Magnificat (Giles Swayne) Prom 33: BBC Symphony Orchestra Trysting Fields Second Lesson: Mark 6 vv1-13 Film Music 1980–2001 Nunc dimittis (Holst) Prom 33 - Part 2 Michael Nyman Band Anthem: The Wilderness (SS Wesley) Virgin CDVED957 Hymn: O love divine, how sweet thou art (Cornwall) From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Rob Cowan presents the Organ Voluntary: Toccata (Francis Pott) second half of a Prom, which features a perennial favourite by SIMON RAE Elgar. Believed Master of the choristers: Adrian Lucas Read by Rafe Spall Assistant organist: Christopher Allsop. BBC Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner (conductor) BRAHMS Intermezzo in C Sharp Minor SUN 16:00 BBC Proms (b00cx15p) Elgar: Enigma Variations. Two Rhapsodies 2008 Radu Lupu Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 August 2008 Page 6 of 17 Decca 4175992 BILLY BRAGG Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, The Saturday Boy Bogdan Oledzki (conductor) A. E. HOUSMAN Brewing Up With Billy Bragg XXXI (Because I liked you) Billy Bragg Handel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759) Read by Rafe Spall Cooking Vinyl COOKCD 107 Piangerò la sorte mia (Giulio Cesare) Emma Kirkby (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew NOEL COWARD ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Manze (director) Mad About the Boy Sonnets from the Portuguese, XIII All Woman 3 Read by Abigail Davies Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759) Dinah Washington The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Quality TV ALLWOCD03 HANDEL Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor) Ombra Mai Fù BEETHOVEN La Lucrezia Fischer, Johann Caspar Ferdinand (c.1670-1746) Variations On Bei Männern Welche Liebe Fühlen Suite No.4 in D minor (Op.1 No.4) Variations for Piano and Cello in E Flat Major The Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, Geoffrey Jacqueline du Pré/ Daniel Barenboim Lancaster (conductor) EMI CMS 7630152 MONDAY 11 AUGUST 2008 Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) BEN JONSON MON 00:00 The Early Music Show (b00c8p1m) Trumpet Concerto in E flat major Song to Celia Charles Burney's German Journey Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Read by Rafe Spall Michael Halasz (conductor) In July 1772 Dr Charles Burney set off on his second European BERLIOZ journey to gather information for his proposed mighty Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827) Un Bal publication of A History of Music. Lucie Skeaping interviews Leonore Overture No.3 Symphonie Fantastique musician and publisher Ian Gammie about Burney's musical Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop (conductor) Berlin Philharmonic perambulations through Germany and The Netherlands, and DG 415325-2 chooses music by some of the composers he met along the way, Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) including Gluck, Hasse and Quantz. Prelude in A minor (BWV.922) DICKENS Lorenzo Ghielmi (harpsichord) From Great Expectations Read by Abigail Davies MON 01:00 Through the Night (b00cx1bv) Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) With Susan Sharpe. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (BWV.225) TCHAIKOVSKY Doubinsky, Ivan Danish National Radio Chorus, Stefan Parkman (conductor) Pezzo in forma di Sonatina Our Father Symphony 4 Kunzen, Friedrich (1761-1817) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Franck, César (1822-1890) Overture to 'Vinhoesten' (Der Fest der Winzer) Virgin VC 7907982 Panis Angelicus Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Peter Marschik (conductor)

JOBIM/ DE MORAES/GIMBEL Kaufman, Nikolai (1925- ) Strauss, Johann jr. (1825-1899) arr. Berg, Alban (1885-1935) The Girl From Ipanema Two Humorous Folk Songs Wein, Weib und Gesang Nigel Kennedy Plays Jazz Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor) Nigel Kennedy / Peter Pettinger Kolarov, Milko (1946- ) Chandos CHAN 6513 Why is the Spout Dripping Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) Variations on Das Dirndl is harb auf mi HEINRICH HEINE Tanev, Alexander (1928-1996) Leopold String Trio Why is the Rose so Pale Pizzicatos Read by Abigail Davies Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868) Kostov, Georgi (1941-) Quartet no.6 in F major MOZART Ludicrous Dance Vojtech Samec (flute), Jozef Luptacik (clarinet), Frantisek Adagio Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major K488 Machats (bassoon), Josef Illes (french horn) Piano Concertos Tekeliev, Alexander (1942-) Daniel Barenboim/ English Chamber Orchestra Motor-Car Race Geminiani, Francesco (1687-1762) EMI 7691222 Concerto grosso in D minor (Op.7 No.2) Tekeliev, Alexander (1942-) La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) EMILY DICKENSON Tempo di Waltz The Heart asks Pleasure First Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759) Read by Abigail Davies Kaufman, Nikolai (1925-) Mi palpita il cor – Cantata no.33 (HWV.132c) Melodies from the Shoppe Region Zoltán Gavodi (counter tenor), The Sonora Hungarica Consort: JANACEK all Bulgarian Radio Children's Choir, conductor Hristo Imre Lachegyi (recorder), Sándor Sászvárosi (viola da gamba), String Quartet No.2,"Intimate Letters" Nedyalkov Zsuzsanna Nagy (harpsichord) String Quartets Vanbrugh String Quartet Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869) Franck, César Auguste (1822-1890) Harper Collins 13812 Symphonie Fantastique Final in B flat major (Op.21) Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Eggen (conductor) Leo van Doeselaar (organ) F SCOTT FITZGERALD Excerpt from the Great Gatsby Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924) Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963) Read by Rafe Spall Nocturne in B minor (Op.97) Sinfonietta Stéphane Lemelin (piano) CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor) DONALDSON / KAHN Nocturne in A flat major (Op.33, No.3) Love me or leave me Stefan Lindgren (piano) The Very Best of Billie Holiday MON 07:00 Breakfast (b00cx28v) Billie Holiday Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909) With Sara Mohr-Pietsch Verve 5474942 Córdoba Henry-David Varema (cello), Heiki Mätlik (guitar) The selection includes Purcell's Ode for St Cecilia's Day, RUPERT BROOKE Geraint Evans singing Mahler and Alfred Brendel playing Liszt. Love Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909), orch. E. Arbós Read by Rafe Spall Iberia suite SMETANA The West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester The Bartered Bride, Overture SOPHIE HANNAH (conductor) Academy of St Martin-In-The-Fields The Memory of Love where Love was Not Conductor: Neville Marriner Read by Abigail Davies Turina, Joaquín (1882-1949) PHILIPS 411450-2 Tr 4 Circulo (Op.91) BIBER John Harding (violin), Stefan Metz (cello), Daniel Blumental RAVEL Rosary Sonata No.1 "The Annunciation" (piano) Jeux d’eau Rosary Sonatas Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano Pavlo Beznosiuk/ David Roblou Satie, Erik (1866-1925), arr.J. Jersild DECCA 433515-2 CD 2 Tr 4 Avie AV 0038 Three melodies Soloists, The Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (conductor) TORELLI PETRACH Sonata in D Major á 5 for trumpet, strings and continuo Canzoniere I Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992) Wynton Marsalis (trumpet) Read by Rafe Spall O Sacrum Convivium The English Chamber Orchestra BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor) Director: Anthony Newman SHAKESPEARE SONY SK66244 Tr 16 – 19 Sonnet 149 Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937) Read by Rafe Spall Piano Sonata No.3 (Op.36) DUPRÉ Jerzy Godziszewski (piano) Cortège et Litanie Op. 19 No. 2 GWYNETH LEWIS Ian Tracey (organ) To the Boys I Loved Who Never Loved Me Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872) BBC Philharmonic Read by Abigail Davies The Commander-in-Chief's Lover overture Conductor: Rumon Gamba Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 August 2008 Page 7 of 17 CHANDOS CHSA5048 Tr 5 EMI CMS 5668492 (5-CD set) MON 13:00 BBC Proms (b00cx28z) Proms Chamber Concerts PURCELL Cage: In a landscape Welcome to all the Pleasures (Ode for St Cecilia’s Day) Joshua Pierce (piano) PCM4 - Messiaen's Harawi Tavener Consort and players WERGO WER 60151-50 Director: Andrew Parrott From Cadogan Hall, London. Presented by Suzy Klein. EMI CDC7496352 Tr 1 – 6 Brahms: Warum ist das Light gegeben den Muhseligen, Op 74 No 1 Messiaen's song-cycle Harawi is the first part of a trilogy of TCHAIKOVSKY RIAS-Kammerchor works inspired by the legend of Tristan and Isolde. Harawi Berceuse, Op. 72, no. 2 Marcus Creed (conductor) alludes to Peruvian love songs, even though the texts to the 12 Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901591 songs are by Messiaen himself. DECCA 466562-2 Tr 5 Aho: Concerto for clarinet and orchestra Gwenneth-Ann Jeffers (soprano) GRIEG Martin Frost (clarinet) Simon Lepper (piano). Norwegian Dances No. 1 & 2 Op. 35 Lahti Symphony Orchestra Gothenberg Symphony Orchestra Osmo Vanska Conductor: Neeme Järvi BIS-SACD-1463 MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00cx291) DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4194312 Tr 1 & 2 Presented by Ian Skelly. Bax: What the Minstrel told us BACH Ashley Wass (piano) BBC Proms 2008 Concerto in A BMV 1055 NAXOS 8.557769 Douglas Boyd, oboe d’amore British composer George Benjamin conducts the BBC Chamber Orchestra of Europe Honegger: Symphony No 5 (di tre re) Symphony Orchestra in his first orchestral work Ringed by the DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4292252 Tr 7 – 9 Boston Symphony Orchestra Flat Horizon, which was dedicated to his teacher Olivier Charles Munch (conductor) Messiaen. The concert opens with Messiaen's four meditations DEBUSSY RCA 09026 60685-2. on religious themes, L'ascension, and returns to France at its Etude No 11 pour les Arpeges Composes close with popular works by Ravel. German violinist Carolin Alexis Weissenberg (piano) Widmann makes her Proms debut with Stravinsky's neo- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 415510-2 Tr 4 MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b007qs5g) Classical violin concerto. Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. SHOSTOKOVICH Carolin Widmann (violin) Romance from the Suite from ‘The Gadfly’ Op.97 Episode 1 BBC Symphony Orchestra BBC Philharmonic George Benjamin (conductor) Vassily, Sinaisky, conductor Rossini’s operatic career got underway in 1810 with La CHANDOS CHAN10183 Tr 13 cambiale di matrimonio – the first, melodious gust of a musical Messiaen: L'ascension whirlwind that was to blow unabated for 20 years, then die Stravinsky: Violin Concerto POULENC down as abruptly as it had sprung up. When he retired from George Benjamin: Ringed by the Flat Horizon Clarinet Sonata Op. 184 operatic composition at the age of 37, he had more than three Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte Sabine Mayer (clarinet) dozen to his credit, yet relatively few of them have kept Ravel: Bolero Oleg Maisenberg (piano) a place in the repertoire. This week, Donald Macleod turns his EMI CLASSICS 094637978726 Tr 5 – 7 attention to Rossini’s forgotten operatic masterpieces, starting, Chamber Music today, with his one-act farsa, . But first – and MAHLER for the only time this week – a word from a rather more Couperin: Pieces de clavecin Revelge (Das Knaben Wunderhorn) familiar character … Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin (excerpts) Geraint Evans (baritone) Alexandre Tharaud (piano). London Philharmonic Il barbiere di Siviglia, Act I scene 1, ‘Largo al factotum’ Conductor: Wyn Morris (extract) NIMBUS NI5084 Tr 1 Sesto Bruscantini (Figaro ) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / MON 17:00 In Tune (b00cx2f5) Vittorio Gui (cond) Live from the Edinburgh Festival. Petroc Trelawny interviews ENCINA EMI 724356776227 Jonathan Mills, director of the Edinburgh International Festival, Mi libertad en sosiego CD1 T7 and talks to a selection of the top artists from around the world Gothic Voices appearing at the festival, including organist Naji Hakim, pianist Director: Christopher Page Il Signor Bruschino, Sinfonia Gabriela Montero, conductor Emmanuelle Haim, and members HYPERION CDA66653 Tr 1 English Chamber Orchestra / Ion Marin (cond) of Scottish Opera's new production of Smetana's Two Widows. Deutsche Gramophon 435865-2 Simon Callow pops in to read some Dickens from his Fringe ANON. T11 show, and Petroc highlights other Fringe artists including Dindirin, dindirin accordionist Sandy Brechin and a tribute show to George Gothic Voices Il Signor Bruschino, No.1 Formby. Director: Christopher Page Aria: ‘Deh tu m’assisti amore’ (Florville) HYPERION CDA66653 Tr 8 Duettino: ‘Marianna!’ – ‘Voi signore!’ (Florville, Marianna) Bartok Recitativo: ‘Ferma … ascolta … ‘ (Florville, Sofia) Swindherd’s Dance Leopold MOZART Duettino: ‘Quant’è dolce a un’alma amante’ (Sofia, Florville) Budapest Festival Orchestra Horn Concertino in D Kathleen Battle (Sofia), Jennifer Larmore (Marianna), Frank Ivan Fischer (conductor) Barry Tuckwell, horn Lopardo (Florville) / English Chamber PHILIPS 4544302 Academy of St Martin in the Fields Orchestra / Ion Marin (cond) Track 7 Conductor: Neville Marriner Deutsche Gramophon 435865-2 2’11 EMI CLASSICS724356939523 CD 1 TR 10 – 12 T2 Prokofiev LISZT Il Signor Bruschino, Nos.2 & 3 Symphony No.1: finale Totentanz (Paraphrase on Dies irae) No.2 Duetto: ‘Io danari vi darò’ (Florville, Filiberto) London Symphony Orchestra Alfred Brendel (piano) Recitativo: ‘A noi. Su trasformiamoci’ (Florville) Valery Gergiev (conductor) London Philharmonic No.3 Cavatina: ‘Nel teatro del gran mondo’ (Gaudenzio) PHILIPS Conductor: Bernard Haitink Frank Lopardo (Florville), Michele Pertusi (Filiberto), Samuel CD1 Track 4 PHILIPS 4757188 CD1 Tr 4 Ramey (Gaudenzio) / English Chamber Orchestra / Ion Marin 3’40 (cond) ROSSINI Deutsche Gramophon 435865-2 Hakim T4-6 Glenalmond Suite London Symphony Orchestra Naji Hakim (organ) Claudio Abbado, conductor Il Signor Bruschino, No.4 SIGNUM SIGCD130 DG 419869-2 Tr 2 Terzetto: ‘Per un figlio già pentito’ (Gaudenzio, Bruschino, Track 17 Florville) 2’05 Frank Lopardo (Florville), Claudio Desderi (Bruschino), MON 10:00 Classical Collection (b00cx28x) (Gaudenzio) / English Chamber Orchestra / Ion Messiaen With Sarah Walker. Marin (cond) La nativite du Seigneur: Dieu parmi nous… Deutsche Gramophon 435865-2 Naji Hakim (organ) Auric: Ouverture T8 EMI 5722722 London Symphony Orchestra Track 7 Antal Dorati (conductor) Il Signor Bruschino, Nos. 7 & 8 8’44 MERCURY 4343352 No.7 Duetto: ‘È un bel nodo che due cori’ (Gaudenzio, Sofia) Recitativo: ‘Ah che scoperta!’ (Bruschino, Florville) Smetana Satie, orch. Debussy: Gymnopedies Nos 1 and 3 No.8 Finale: ‘Ebben, ragion, dovere’ (Gaudenzio, Bruschino, Two Widows: Overture Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Florville, Sofia, Marianna, Filiberto, Figlio Bruschino) Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra Louis Auriacombe (conductor) Kathleen Battle (Sofia), Jennifer Larmore (Marianna), Frank Jaroslav Krombholc (conductor) EMI 5851892 (2-CD set) Lopardo (Florville), Claudio Desderi (Bruschino), PRAGA PR250022/23 Samuel Ramey (Gaudenzio), Octavio Arévalo (Figlio CD 1 Track 1 Poulenc: Cinq poemes de Pierre de Ronsard Bruschino) / English Chamber Orchestra / Ion Marin (cond) 6’42 Francois le Roux (baritone) Deutsche Gramophon 435865-2 Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra T14-16 Smetana John Nelson (conductor) Two Widows: Aria ‘Oh love, torturer of all hearts’ Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 August 2008 Page 8 of 17 Anezka… Marcela Machotkova (soprano) ECM 4727672 Brazilian band Monobloco, and Tuareg desert blues Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra Track 4 fromTerakaft. Jaroslav Krombholc (conductor) 4’23 PRAGA PR250022/23 Notes:- CD 2 Track 6 Trad. Byzantine Monobloco brought the Rio Carnival to WOMAD - they are 2’55 Why are you amazed O Mary? one of Brazil's most popular 'bloco', or street-bands, and they Sister Marie Keyrouz (vocal) perform every year in the Rio Carnival. They have been hailed Smetana EMI 5453892 as a breath of feresh air on the carnival scene, as they play not Two Widows: Duet ‘It’s decided’ Track 2 only samba rhythms, but a wide variety of other traditional Karolina…Jana Jonasova (soprano) 5’30 beats too. Even their rehearsals attract thousands of spectators Anezka….Marcela Machotkova (soprano) in Rio. They performed in the Siam Tent on the Saturday Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra afternoon of the Festival. Jaroslav Krombholc (conductor) MON 19:30 BBC Proms (b00cx2h0) Terakaft are a desert blues band from Mali, started by two PRAGA PR250022/23 Prom 34: Rachmaninov, Puccini founder-members of fellow Touareg band Tinariwen. Their CD 2 Track 2 name means 'Caravan' in Tamashek, and they played their first 1’51 Prom 34 - Part 1 concert in 2001. They were also in the Siam Tent, closing the Friday night-Saturday morning session at 1.45am. Trad. From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Suzy Klein. Adieu sweet lovely Nancy Playlist Ewan Wilkinson (vocals/guitar) Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a Sandy Brechin (accordion) performance of Rachmaninov's Symphony No 1, now Hotel Palindrone: Thernberger Hochzeitsstuecke & Branohm Ronan Martin (violin) recognised for the masterpiece it is despite its disastrous (traditional arr. Breathnach) (6:06) BBC Recording (in Sandy Brecin’s living room!) premiere. BBC recording from Womad 2008 3’28 BBC Philharmonic Massukos: Ndjango (Massukos) (5:40) J.S. Bach / Montero Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) Album: Bumping Prelude in C Poo Productions PPLCD001, track 2 Gabriela Montero (piano) Rachmaninov: Symphony No 1. EMI 3514452 Lo Còr de la Plana: Lèva ti dau mitan (E. Théron) (4:28) Track 7 Album: Tant Deman 4’18 MON 20:20 Twenty Minutes (b00cx88f) Buda Musique 3017530, track 10 Proms Plus: Il tabarro Arne / Montero Monobloco: Abertura (2’28”), Cosinha do pai (2:07) and Vou Rule Brittania! Suzy Klein discusses Puccini's opera Il tabarro with Festejar (3:15) Gabriela Montero (piano) musicologists Roger Parker and Alexandra Wilson. BBC recording from Womad 2008 BBC Recording (‘In Tune’, 2008) 2’14 John McCusker: McGoldricks (John McCusker) (3:06) MON 20:40 BBC Proms (b00cx88h) Album: Yella Hoose and Goodnight Ginger Trad. Prom 34: Rachmaninov, Puccini Navigator Records NAVIGATOR7DCD, CD2 track 11 Strip the Willow (extract) Sandy Brechin (accordion) Prom 34 - Part 2 Paul Brady: Arthur McBride (traditional, arr. Paul Brady) Aly Macrae and the Macrazy Vaudeville Orchestra (7:16) BAR CDBAR005 From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Suzy Klein. Album: Nobody Knows – The Best of Paul Brady Track 5 Rykodisc RCD 10491, track 14 0’18 Gianandrea Noseda celebrates the 150th anniversary in 2008 of Puccini's birth by conducting the BBC Philharmonic, BBC Tashi Lhunpo Monks (15:20) Wilkinson Singers and an international cast in a concert performance of BBC recording from Womad 2008 Lost in the day his one act opera Il tabarro. Interview with Andrew McGregor Ewan Wilkinson (vocals/guitar) Sandy Brechin (accordion) Puccini: Il tabarro (sung in Italian) Maeve Mackinnon: Mac Iain ’ic Sheumais (traditional) (3:13) Ronan Martin (fiddle) Album: Don’t Sing Lovesongs BBC Recording (in Sandy Brechin’s living room!) Giorgetta ...... Barbara Frittoli Foot Stompin’ Records CDFSR1735, track 1 3’31 Luigi ...... Miro Dvorsky Michele ...... Lado Ataneli Emilio Balcarce y Orquesta: Si sos brujo (Emilio Balcarce) Buchanan La Frugola ...... Jane Henschel (3:40) From a late night train (extract) Il Tinca ...... Barry Banks Album: Café de los Maestros Blue Nile Il Talpa ...... Alastair Miles Wrasse Records WRASS226, CD1 track 9 LINN LKHCD2 A song-vendor ...... Allan Clayton Track 5 Young lover ...... Katherine Broderick Catriona McKay with Alistair MacDonald: Swan LK243 0’40 Young lover ...... Edgaras Montvidas (Catriona McKay) (4:39) BBC Singers Album: Starfish Handel BBC Philharmonic Climster Records GLIMCD02, track 4 Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno: Sonata Gianandrea Noseda (conductor). Le Concert d’Astree Toumani Diabate’s Symmetric Orchestra: Mali Sadio Emmanuelle Haim (director) (traditional) (6:50) VIRGIN 3634282 MON 22:00 The Lebrecht Interview (b00d19kh) Album: Toumani Diabate’s Symmetric Orchestra CD 1 Track 1 Peter Jonas World Circuit WCD074, track 4 4’51 Norman Lebrecht talks to music administrator Peter Jonas, who Terakaft: Three pieces (16:55) Handel talks about his career at the helm of some of the world's most BBC recording from Womad 2008 Israel in Egypt: He rebuked the Red Sea (chorus) prestigious music companies, bereavement, his relationship Monteverdi Choir with soprano Lucia Popp and his struggle with cancer. He also Lo Còr de la Plana: La Noviòta (6:10) and La Vielha (3:53) English Baroque Soloists discusses the highs and lows of life in Chicago, London and BBC recording from Womad 2008 John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Munich. PHILIPS 4321102 CD 1 Track 11 2’58 MON 22:45 Artist Focus (b00cx88m) TUESDAY 12 AUGUST 2008 Proms Artist Focus (Paul Hillier) Handel TUE 01:00 Through the Night (b00cx8r3) Yet, can I hear that dulcet lay (The Choice of Hercules) Paul Hillier With Susan Sharpe. Robin Blaze (countertenor) King’s Consort Featuring Paul Hillier, founder of both the Hilliard Ensemble Defoort, Kris (b.1959) Robert King and Theatre of Voices. Including music by Palestrina. Dedicato lV HYPERION CDA67298 Track 15 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) 4’19 MON 23:00 The Essay (b007smpm) Sonata (K. 309) in C major Life But Not As We Know It Adam Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Giselle: Pas seul, Act 1 (Variation de Giselle) Episode 1 28 Variations on a theme by Paganini for piano (Op. 35) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Richard Bonynge (conductor) Biologist Jack Cohen on why the discovery of aliens would Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937) DECCA 4175052 change our view of biology, evolution and organised religion. Gaspard de la nuit for piano CD 2 Track 10 all Anna Vinnitskaya (piano) 2’08 MON 23:15 World on 3 (b00cx8n2) Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975) Stravinsky WOMAD 2008 Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op.47 Duo Concertant: Gigue Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ladislav Slovák Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Mary Ann Kennedy with more highlights from this year's (conductor) Peter Nagy (piano) WOMAD Festival, including a taste of the Rio Carnival from Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 August 2008 Page 9 of 17 La Rue, Pierre de (c.1460-1518) Chopin: Grande valse in A flat, Op 42 Andromaca ...... Margarita Zimmermann (mezzo-soprano) Missa Sancto Job Alexandre Tharaud (piano) Pilade ...... William Matteuzzi (tenor) Orlando Consort Attalo ...... Mario Bolognesi (tenor) Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op 36 Fenicio ...... Simone Alaimo (baritone) Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847) Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra Prague Philharmonic Chorus Double concerto in D minor Kees Bakels (conductor) Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo Jaroslaw Zolnierczyk (violin), Andrzej Tatarski (piano), The (conductor). "Amadeus" Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan, Monteverdi: Ballo: Volgendo il ciel (Madrigals, Book 8) Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor) April Cantelo, Eileen Poulter (sopranos) Helen Watts (alto) TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00cxbhb) Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868) Gerald English, Robert Tear (tenors) Wyastone Leys Summer Festival 2008 The Italian Girl in Algiers – overture Christopher Keyte (bass) BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor) English Chamber Orchestra Episode 1 Raymond Leppard (harpsichord/director) Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707) Ian Skelly presents chamber music from the 2008 Summer Chorales: 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland' (BuxWV.211); 'In Janacek, arr. Talich, rev. Smetacek: The Cunning Little Vixen Series recorded at Wyastone Leys in the heart of the Wye dulci jubilo' (BuxWV.197); 'Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist' Suite Valley. (BuxWV.208); 'Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott' (BuxWV. 184) Prague Symphony Orchestra Bernard Lagacé (organ ) Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Mozart: Serenade, K361 (Gran Partita) London Winds. Sarasate, Pablo de (1844-1908) Biber, transcr. Fischer: Passacaglia (Violin Sonata No 6 in C Zigeunerweisen (Op.20) minor) Frank Peter Zimmerman (violin) Netherlands Radio Matthew Wadsworth (lute) TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00cxc28) Philharmonic Orchestra, Guido Ajmone Marsan (conductor) BBC Proms 2008 Strauss: Don Juan, Op 20 Myslivecek, Josef (1737-1781) (arr. unknown) Chicago Symphony Orchestra Ian Skelly presents the Ulster Orchestra under its principal String Quintet no.2 in E flat major Fritz Reiner (conductor). conductor Kenneth Montgomery exploring contrasting Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Werthen (conductor) nationalities in a colourful Proms programme of Irish and Czech music. Works by Irish born composers Ferguson and Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849) TUE 10:00 Classical Collection (b00cy2sc) Stanford are followed by Smetana's Ma vlast and Dvorak's Nocturne in C minor (Op.48 No.1) With Sarah Walker. Eighth Symphony. Young Irish pianist Finghin Collins makes Llyr Williams (piano) his Proms debut in Stanford's Second Piano Concerto. Including: Introduced by Alex Wilson. Albinoni, Tomasi (1671-1750) Oboe Concerto in D minor (Op.9 No.2) Satie: Les aventures de Mercure Finghin Collins (piano) Carin van Heerden (oboe), L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Orchestre de Paris Ulster Orchestra Gaigg (director) Pierre Dervaux (conductor) Kenneth Montgomery (conductor) EMI 5851892 (2-CD set) Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713) Ferguson: Overture for an Occasion Trio sonata in C major, (Op.3, No.8) Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli Stanford: Piano Concerto No 2 Il Seminario Musicale, Gérard Lesne (director) The Sixteen Smetana: Vltava (Ma vlast) Harry Christophers (director) Dvorak: Symphony No 8 in G Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759) COLLINS 50092 Pensieri notturni di Filli:Nel dolce del' oblio' Cantata Chamber Music (HWV.134) Durey: Homage a Erik Satie Johanna Koslwosky (soprano), Musica Alta Ripa: Danya Segal Francois le Roux (baritone) MacMillan: Memento for String Quartet (recorder), Anne Röhrig & Ursula Bundies (violins), Guido Graham Johnson (piano) Callino Quartet Larisch (cello), Bernward Lohr (harpsichord) HYPERION CDA67257 Brahms: Quintet in F minor for piano and strings, Op 34 Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953) (arr. unknown) Schoenberg: Theme and Variations, Op 43a Barry Douglas (piano) Waltz Suite Eastman Wind Ensemble Callino Quartet. Anna Klas, Bruno Lukk (pianos) [Mono] Frederick Fennell (conductor) MERCURY UCCP 3271 Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957) TUE 17:00 In Tune (b00d140j) Rakastava (Op.14) – suite Debussy Nocturne Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor) Jean Efflam Bavouzet (piano) the arts world. CHANDOS CHAN 10467 Passereau, Pierre (c. 1490-1547) Il est bel et bon – from Pierre Attaingnat (Hg.), Second livre Copland: Night TUE 19:00 BBC Proms (b00cxc2b) contenant XXV. chansons nouvelles à quatre parties Roberta Alexander (soprano) Prom 35: Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Rimsky-Korsakov The King's Singers Roger Vignoles (piano) ETCETERA KTC 1100 Prom 35 - Part 1 Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963) (orch. Lennox Berkeley) Flute Sonata Faure: Nocturne No 3 in A flat, Op 36 From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Rob Cowan. Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Paul Crossley (piano) Enrique Garcia-Asensio (conductor) CRD CRD 5006 Russian conductor Vassily Sinaisky's enthusiasm for things English is demonstrated with performances of Elgar and Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706) Franck: Symphony in D minor Vaughan Williams. Der Herr ist König (und herrlich geschmückt) – motet Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Cantus Cölln John Barbirolli (conductor) Ashley Wass (piano) Konrad Junghänel (director) SUPRAPHON COCO 70502. BBC Philharmonic Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) Arnold, Sir Malcolm Henry (b. 1921), arr. John P. Paynter Little Suite No.1 (Op.80) TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b007qsgl) Elgar: In the South (Alassio) Edmonton Wind Ensemble, Harry Pinchin (conductor) Gioachino Rossini Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto.

Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936) Episode 2 Ancient Airs and Dances – Suite No.2 TUE 19:55 Twenty Minutes (b00cyyzc) CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor) When Rossini moved to Naples, the then capital of the operatic Artist Akram Zaatari explores the photographic archives of world, he met the prima donna who was to become Mrs Rossini, Studio Shehrazade - half a million images that document 50 Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) Isabella Colbran. He also met Beethoven in Vienna, who years of life in southern Lebanon through the lives of the people Divertimento (H.2.21) in E flat major 'Eine Abendmusik' advised him to stick to comedy. Happily for posterity, this was of Saida. Both surprising and revealing, Shehrazade's archive St Christopher Chamber Orchestra, Vilnius, Donatas Katkus advice he ignored. The programme includes excerpts from his tells stories of Lebanese society, its underlying tensions and (conductor) tragic masterpiece , which Rossini liked to call his changing conventions since the 1950s. 'little William Tell'. Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Orchestral Suite No.4 in D major (BWV.1069) Ermione Sinfonia TUE 20:15 BBC Proms (b00cxc2d) La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) Prague Philharmonic Chorus Prom 35: Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo Claudio Scimone (conductor) Prom 35 - Part 2 TUE 07:00 Breakfast (b00cx8v6) With Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Ermione (Act 1, scene 6) From the Royal Albert Hall, London, Rob Cowan presents Ermione (Act 2, scenes 2-3 excerpts) Vassily Sinaisky and the BBC Philharmonic in Rimsky- The selection includes a Chopin waltz played by Alexandre Ermione (Act 2, scenes 5-6) Korsakov's Scheherazade, the tale of a princess who seduces a Tharaud and a performance of Janacek's The Cunning Little sultan with her never-ending fund of stories. Vixen Suite. Oreste ...... Chris Merritt (tenor) Ermione ...... Cecilia Gasdia (soprano) BBC Philharmonic Including: Pirro ...... (tenor) Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) Cleone/Cefisa ...... Elisabetta Tandura (soprano) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 August 2008 Page 10 of 17 Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade. 2 Romances for Oboe and Piano Op. 94 Nulla in Mondo pax sincera Douglas Boyd, oboe Mária Zádori (sopraono), Maria Joao Pires, piano Capella Savaria TUE 21:30 Sunday Feature (b008qhxh) DG 439889-2 Tr 2 & 3 Director: Pál Németh In the midst of Moscow's huge building boom, Professor Ricky QUINTANA QUI903063 Tr 9 Burdett visits the city to investigate claims that its architectural MOZART treasures, including important early Modernist buildings, are Tantum Ergo K142 MASSENET being destroyed or ignored in the rush to modernise and forget a Charlotte Margiono, soprano Scenes de Feerie (Suite no 6 for orchestra) painful past. Also, Lord Foster gives an account of his projects Arnold Schoenberg Choir Orchestra of the National Opera, Monte Carlo in Moscow, including the tower that will be Europe's tallest. Concentus Musicus Vienna John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor ERATO 2292458582 Tr 4 – 7 TELDEC 4509989282 Tr 21 TUE 22:15 BBC Proms (b00cxcbr) BEETHOVEN 2008 ARENSKY Sextet for 3 violins, 2 horns & cello in E flat Op. 81b Suite No. 1 for Two Pianos, Op. 15 The Gaudier Ensemble Prom 36: Rachmaninov Vespers Lyubov Bruk & Mark Taimanov (piano) HYPERION CDA66513 Tr 7 – 9 PHILIPS 456736-2 CD1 Tr 10 – 12 From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Martin Stefano LANDI Handley. ADES Dirindin The Fayrfax Carol L’arpeggiata Rachmaninov's Vespers, his heartfelt setting of the Orthodox Polyphony Christina Pluhar, director All-Night Vigil, is performed by the Estonian Philharmonic Stephen Layton, director ALPHA ALPHA202 Tr 12 Chamber Choir and its outgoing chief conductor and artistic EMI 724355761026 Tr 3 director Paul Hillier. Written shortly before the composer emigrated, the piece is based on chants of the Russian Orthodox DVORAK WED 10:00 Classical Collection (b00cy2s5) Church, evoking the rich, expressive choral sound of his native Polonaise B.100 With Sarah Walker. land. Detroit Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Antal Dorati Including: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir DECCA 4143702 Tr 7 Paul Hillier (conductor) Milhaud: Little Symphony No 1, Op 43 (Le printemps) BYRD Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg Rachmaninov: All-Night Vigil (Vespers). Fantasia No 1 a 6 Darius Milhaud (conductor) The Rose Consort of Viols VOX CDX 5109 (2-CD set) DEUX-ELLES DXL1129 Tr15 TUE 23:30 Late Junction (b00cxcbt) Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame Verity Sharp spins a selection of sounds ranging from the BACH Hilliard Ensemble Persian electronic music of Ata Ebtekar to traditional Japanese Concerto no.3 in D major BWV 1054 Paul Hillier pieces by Kunaicho Gakubu and Seijin Noborikawa as well as a Glenn Gould, piano HYPERION CDA 66358 recording by The Musicians of the Nile. Plus a performance Columbia Symphony Orchestra from the 2008 WOMAD festival by Hossam Ramzi and his Vladimir Golschmann, conductor Tailleferre: Concertino for harp and orchestra Egyptian orchestra. SONY SMK87761 Tr 4 – 6 Gillian Benet (harp) The Women's Philharmonic ROSSINI: Duetto buffo di due gatti JoAnn Falletta Rockwell Blake, tenor KOCH 371692 WEDNESDAY 13 AUGUST 2008 Gerard Lesne, alto Antonio Pappano, piano Satie: Messe des pauvres WED 01:00 Through the Night (b00cx90d) EMI 724355561428 Tr 22 Gaston Litaize (organ) With Susan Sharpe. Choeurs Rene Duclos SOKOLOV/ GLAZUNOV/LIADOV Jean Laforge (conductor) Including: Polka from Les Vendredis EMI 5851892 (2-CD set) The Dante Quartet Brumel, Antoine (c.1460-c.1515): Missa et ecce terrae motus a ASV CDQS6229 Tr 10 Liszt: Dante Symphony, S109 12 Berlin Philharmonic Moscheles, Ignaz (1794-1870): Grosse Sonate in E, Op 41 ROSSINI Daniel Barenboim (conductor) Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Concerto in C, Op 56 La Partenza, canzonetta TELDEC 9031-77340-2. Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911): Symphony No 4 in G Rockwell Blake, tenor Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Sonata in D minor Antonio Pappano, piano Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951): 4 Lieder, Op 2 EMI 724355561428 Tr 8 WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b007qthq) Handel, George Friedrich (1685-1759), arr. Johan Halvorsen Gioachino Rossini (1864-1935): Passacaglia in G minor FREE THOUGHT Schierbeck, Poul (1888-1949): Andante dolorosa, Op 57 No 2 Liam Fogarty - How city living informs us both historically and Episode 3 Wassenaer; Unico Wilhelm van (1692-1766): Concerto No 2 in culturally B flat Donald Macleod continues his exploration of Rossini’s lesser- Barber, Samuel (1910-1981): The Coolin' (Reincarnations for Richard Rodney BENNETT known operatic gems with a romantic melodrama based on Mixed Chorus, Op 16) Lets go and live in the country Walter Scott’s poem The Lady of the Lake – La donna del lago. Trad., arr. Michael Hurst: Ten Thousand Miles Away Catherine Bott, soprano The opera drove its opening-night audience wild – Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Carnival Overture, Op 92 David Owen Norris, piano unfortunately, not in the good sense … Hannikainen, Ilmari (1892-1955): Rural Dances, Op 39a HYPERION CDA67457 Tr 18 Daquin, Louis-Claude (1694-1772): La mélodieuse; Le Colin- Act I, Nos 1 & 2 maillard; Les Enchaînement harmonieux GINASTERA No.1 Sinfonia e Introduzione Machaut, Guillaume de (c.1300-1377): Rondeau 17: Dis et sept 4 Dances from ‘Estancia’ 'Del did massager' (Cora) et cinq for 3 voices (Le Veoir Dit) Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela 'Oh maturing abort!' (Elena) Diamond, David (b. 1915): Rounds for string orchestra Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel 'Qual son!' (Elena, Uberto) Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Sinfonia in F (Bajazet, RV703) DG 4777457 Tr 6 – 9 'Uberto! Ah! Dove t'ascondi?' (Coro) Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Io ti getto, eimo ed usbergo - Ho cento vanni al tergo (Orlando - Furioso, RV 728) VIVALDI Recitativo Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): L'isle joyeuse Spirat anguis 'Sei gia nel tetto mio' (Elena, Uberto) Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Andante Festivo for strings and Mária Zádori (sopraono) timpani Capella Savaria No.2 Coro e Duetto Wagner, Richard (1813-1883): Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan Director: Pál Németh 'D'Inibaca donzella' (Coro, Uberto, Elena) und Isolde, Act 3) QUINTANA QUI903063 TR 11 'Sei gia sposa?' (Uberto, Elena) Litzau, Johannes Barend (1822-1892): Choral-Bearbeitung 'Quali accenti!' (Uberto, Elena) Über Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, Op 36 No 6 SCARLATTI 'Ma son sorpreso' (Uberto, Elena, Coro) Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Quartet for flute, Sonata K263 Katia Ricciarelli (Elena), Dalmacio Gonzales (Uberto) / Prague viola and continuo in D, Wq 94 Andreas Staier, harpsichord Philharmonic Chorus / Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Barisons, Peteris (1904-1947): Damewort (Floral Twine) HARMONIA MUNDI 05472772742 Tr 3 Maurizio Pollini (cond) Kalsons, Romualds (1936- ): Wedding Song for orchestra. Sony S2K39311 MENDELSSOHN CD1 T1-9 String Symphony no.10 WED 07:00 Breakfast (b00cx8v8) Concerto Köln Act I, No. 8 Finale (extract) With Sara Mohr-Pietsch. DAS ALTE WERK 2564698573 Tr 9 'Sul colle a Morve opposto' (Serano, Coro, Douglas, Rodrigo, Elena, Malcolm) BRITTEN MANCHICOURT 'Gia un raggio forier' (Coro, Albina, Rodrigo, Elena, Malcolm, The Courtly Dances from Gloriana, Symphonic Suite Op. 53a Osculetur me Serano, Douglas) Royal Liverpoool Philharmonic Orchestra The Brabant Ensemble 'Su . amici! guerrieri!' (Malcolm, Rodrigo, Douglas, Serano, Conductor: Takuo Yuasa Stephen Rice, director Albina, Elena, Coro) EMI 724356545625 Tr 3 – 8 HYPERION CDA67604 Tr 9 Oslavio di Credico (Serano), Samuel Ramey (Douglas), Dano Raffanti (Rodrigo), Katia Ricciarelli (Elena), Lucia Valentini SCHUMANN VIVALDI Terrani (Malcolm), Cecilia Valdenassi (Albina) / Prague Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 August 2008 Page 11 of 17 Philharmonic Chorus / Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Regina caeli LIVE Maurizio Pollini (cond) The Brabant Ensemble Wallen Sony S2K39311 Stephen Rice (director) London’s Burning CD1 T7-9 HYPERION CDA67694 David Webb (tenor) Tr. 7 Errollyn Wallen (piano) Act II, No. 14 4’03 2’26 No.14 Rondo finale 'Tanti affetti in tal momento' (Elena, tuti gli altri) Messiaen LIVE 'Fra il padre, a fra l'amante' (Elena, tutti gli altri) Apparition de l’église éternelle (extract) Wallen Katia Ricciarelli (Elena), 'tuti gli altri': Antonio d'Uva Jennifer Bate (organ) Of Crumpling Rocks (Bertram), Dalmacio Gonzales (Uberto/Giacomo V), Lucia UNIKORN DKPCD 9028 Sarah-Jane Lewis (mezzo-soprano) Valentini Terrani (Malcolm),Samuel Ramey (Douglas), Dano Tr. 8 Errollyn Wallen (piano) Raffanti (Rodrigo), Cecilia Valdenassi (Albina), Oslavio di 2’12 3’23 Credico (Serano) / Prague Philharmonic Chorus /Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Maurizio Pollini (cond) Messiaen Adams Sony S2K39311 La Nativité du Seigneur (Les Anges) Tromba Lontana CD2 T 29-9 Jennifer Bate (organ) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra JADE 74321 29890-2 Simon Rattle (conductor) Tr. 7 EMI 50999 215014-2 WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00cxbj5) 3’33 CD 1 Wyastone Leys Summer Festival 2008 tr. 5 Messiaen 4’00 Episode 2 La Nativité du Seigneur (Jésus accepte la souffrance) Jennifer Bate (organ) Sondheim Ian Skelly presents highlights from the 2008 Wyastone Leys JADE 74321 29890-2 Company (Getting married today) Festival. Tr. 8 Millicent Martin (soprano) 4’43 Julia McKenzie (soprano) Beethoven: Octet, Op 103 David Kernan (tenor) London Winds Handel BMG GD81851 Fitzwilliam Sonata in B flat major, HWV.377 CD1 Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D703 Trio Passaggio tr. 4 Kopelman Quartet ANTES BMCD319154 4’00 Tr. 23-25 Shostakovich: String Quartet No 10 in A flat, Op 118 5’29 Kopelman Quartet. WED 19:30 BBC Proms (b00cxlmq) Barber Prom 37: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Essay no.1 WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00cxlmn) Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Prom 37 - Part 1 Presented by Ian Skelly. Leonard Slatkin (conductor) CFP 50999 228275-2 From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Fiona BBC Proms 2008 Tr. 5 Talkington. 9’10 Leonard Slatkin conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Charismatic young conductor Gustavo Dudamel returns to the a Prom featuring three diverse composers. Chen Yi's Olympic Shostakovich Proms in 2008 to direct former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Fire was commissioned to celebrate the opening of the 2008 Overture on Russian and Kirghiz Folk Themes Martin Frost and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in a new Beijing Olympics, and to look forward to the London Olympics Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra clarinet concerto by Anders Hillborg. in 2012. Neeme Järvi (conductor) DG 427 616-2 Martin Frost (clarinet) Winner of the 2001 Van Cliburn Competition Olga Kern plays Tr. 6 Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra one of the best-loved works by fellow-Russian Sergei 9’50 Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) Rachmaninov. Rachmaninov Ravel: La valse The Prom finishes with two major pieces by Ralph Vaughan Ne poi, krasavitsa & Sumerki Anders Hillborg: Clarinet Concerto (Peacock Tales) (UK Williams: a work for strings commissioned for the New York Karita Mattila (soprano) premiere). World's Fair just before the Second World War and a searing Martin Katz (piano) symphony apparently inspired by the horrors that conflict ONDINE ODE 1100-5 brought. Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Tr. 11-12 WED 20:20 Twenty Minutes (b00cxlms) 6’34 Andrew Brown explores the slave-raiding culture of the Viking- Olga Kern (piano) era British isles and finds that our own ancestors were not so Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Janacek innocent either. With contributions from historians Alex Woolf, Leonard Slatkin (conductor) Jenufa (Jenufa’s Prayer) Clare Downham and David Wyatt. Karita Mattila (Jenufa) Chen Yi: Olympic Fire (BBC commission; world premiere) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Bernard Haitink (conductor) WED 20:40 BBC Proms (b00cxlmv) Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus ERATO 0927 45330-2 Prom 37: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 6 in E minor CD 2 tr. 3 Prom 37 - Part 2 Chamber Music 4’00 From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Bach: Preludes and Fugues Clementi Schoenberg: Pieces Piano Sonata in D major, Op.10’2 Fiona Talkington presents the second half of a Prom which Alfredo Pearl (piano) Howard Shelley (piano) features Gustavo Dudamel conducting 's ecstatic HYPERION CDA67717 and hallucinatory Symphonie fantastique. Plus highlights from Hesperion XXI and Jordi Savall at the CD 1 2006 Wyastone Leys Festival. tr. 13-14 Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra 7’21 Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

WED 17:00 In Tune (b00d13zb) Schumann Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique. Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from Manfred Overture the arts world, and is joined by organist Jennifer Bate ahead of Radio Symphony Orchestra her 2008 Prom featuring works by her former teacher, Olivier Hans Vonk (conductor) WED 22:00 BBC Proms (b00cxlr2) Messiaen. Soprano Karita Mattila discusses performing in a EMI 50999 215310-2 BBC Proms Composer Portrait concert with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Sakari CD 3 Oramo at the Edinburgh International Festival 2008. tr. 1 Anders Hillborg 11’28 And as Errollyn Wallen's Songbook is being staged as a A profile of Swedish composer Anders Hillborg, whose narrative for the first time as part of the 2008 Grimeborn opera LIVE Clarinet Concerto (Peacock Tales) was premiered at this season, the composer and four emerging opera singers perform Wallen evening's Proms concert. songs from the work live in the studio. Jesus on a Train Gillian Ramm (soprano) Chabrier Errollyn Wallen (piano) WED 22:45 Artist Focus (b00cxlr4) Fête Polonaise 2’57 Proms Artist Focus (Paul Hillier) Toulouse Capitole Orchestra Michel Plasson (conductor) LIVE Episode 2 EMI CDC 749652-2 Wallen Tr. 8 Off the Map Featuring Paul Hillier, conductor, singer and founder of the 7’33 Callum Thorpe (bass-baritone) Hilliard Ensemble. He also established the vocal group the Errollyn Wallen (piano) Theatre of Voices, who appear in the programme. Morales 2’43 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 August 2008 Page 12 of 17 WED 23:00 The Essay (b007snnh) 6.30 Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) Life But Not As We Know It Schäfers Klagelied (D.121) (Op.3 No.1) Feldman: Trio for Flutes (1972) Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano) Episode 3 Manuel Zurria (bass flutes) Taken from the album Repeat! Pisendel, Johann Georg (1687-1755) Philosopher Nick Bostrom explains why he believes that the Die Schachtel Zeit CD01 Sonata in C minor for violin & basso continuo (attributed to J.S. discovery of aliens would be a disaster for the future of CD 2, T 4 Bach as BWV.1024) humanity and lead to the end of civilisation as we know it. 4.26 Barbara Jane Gilbey (violin), Sue-Ellen Paulsen (cello), Geoffrey Lancaster (harpsichord) David Sylvian: New Moon at Red Deer Wallow WED 23:15 Late Junction (b00cxlr6) David Sylvian Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) orch. Brewaeys, Luc (b.1959) La The latest offering from Eliza Carthy features in tonight’s Late Taken from the album Camphor terrasse des audiences du clair du lune – from Preludes Book II Junction alongside the Kurdish sounds of Cemil Koçgün and Virgin CDVE962 7243 812197 2 0 Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Daniele Callegari (conductor) Arvo Pärt’s Pari Intervallo played on flutes, bottles and glasses; T 5 plus Verity Sharp also introduces last month’s performance by 5.13 Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687) Martha Wainwright at WOMAD. Dernière Sarabande Wainwright: I wish I were Concerto Copenhagen, Andrew Lawrence-King (director & Improv: Raga Bhairavi Martha Wainwright harpsichord) Santosh Nahar (violin); Shabbir Hussain (tabla) BBC Recording, Womad, Wiltshire July '08 Taken from the album The Golden Bow 4.00 Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904) Sense World Music Sense 030 Op.72 Slavonic Dances, No.s 10 & 11 T 6 Wainwright: Bleeding all over you BBC Concert orchestra, Barry Wordsworth 5.48 Martha Wainwright Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR, Thomas Dausgaard BBC Recording, Womad, Wiltshire July '08 Carthy: Lavenders 3.37 Liszt, Franz (1811-1886) Eliza Carthy Ungarischer Marsch zur Krönungsfeier in Ofen-Pest (S.523) Taken from the album Dreams of Breathing Underwater Wainwright: This life is boring Zoltán Kocsis & György Oravecz (piano duet) Topic TSCD571 Martha Wainwright, ft. Shlomo (human beat box) T 7 BBC Recording, Womad, Wiltshire July '08 Geminiani, Francesco (1687-1762) 4.19 5.13 Sonata in D major, (Op.1 No.1) Pierre Pitzl and Mary Jean Bolli (violas da gamba), Luciano Eriksson, Arr. NHO: Emma Dansar Wainwright: Tower Contini (archlute), Augusta Campagne (harpsichord) Nyckelharp Orkestern Martha Wainwright Taken from the album N.H.O BBC Recording, Womad, Wiltshire July '08 Förster, Kaspar (1616-1673) Drone DRO CD32 3.17 Repleta est malis (KBPJ.35) T 12 Kai Wessel (counter-tenor), Krzysztof Szmyt (tenor), Grzegorz 3.36 Wainwright: You cheated me Zychowicz (bass), Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble Martha Wainwright Trad: Bonaparte’s Retreat – The Rogue’s March BBC Recording, Womad, Wiltshire July '08 Pastoral Suite (Op.13b) Kerfuffle 3.35 Kathleen Rudolph (flute), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Taken from the album To The Ground Bernardi (conductor) Rootbeat Records RBRCD06 Wainwright: Comin’ tonight T 11 & 12 Martha Wainwright Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) 3.54 BBC Recording, Womad, Wiltshire July '08 Sinfonia Concertante for oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon in E 2.50 flat major (K.297b) Trad: Lovely on the Water Bart Schneemann (oboe), Harmen de Boer (clarinet), Jacob Coope Boyes and Simpson Wainwright: unnamed Slagter (horn), Ronald Karten (bassoon), Nieuw Sinfonietta Taken from the album Triple Echo Martha Wainwright, Shlomo (human beat box) , Lev Markiz (conductor) No Masters NMCD22 BBC Recording, Womad, Wiltshire July '08 T 6 3.41 Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643) 3.54 Toccata sopra i pedali dell'Organo e senza Wainwright: In the middle of the night/See Emily Play Angela Tomanic (organ of Bazilika obiskanja Device Marije, Hughes: Slow Motion Blackbird Martha Wainwright (Church of the Virgin Mary), Petrovcah constructed by Gaétano Chris Hughes BBC Recording, Womad, Wiltshire July '08 Callido of Padua 1727, expanded 1813] Taken from the album Shift 2.00 Helium Records HeCD002 Heinichen, Johann David (1683-1729) T 5 Yao/Jun: Pisces Iscariots Se mai, Tirsi, mio bene – from the cantata 'Clori e Tirsi' 5.46 Dajuin Yao & Yan Jun Nancy Argenta (soprano), Nigel Short (countertenor), Cappella Taken from the Album Live at 2pi Festival 2004 Coloniensis, Hans-Martin Linde (conductor) Pärt: Pari Intervallo Subjam Kwanyin 015 Manuel Zurria (flutes, bottles and glasses) 5.42 Taken from the album Repeat! THU 07:00 Breakfast (b00cx8vb) Die Schachtel Zeit CD01 Rob Cowan CD 1, T 2 4.23 THURSDAY 14 AUGUST 2008 Thursday's breakfast selection with Rob Cowan includes a recording of a Strauss waltz by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra J. Spaceman: Michael’s Opening THU 01:00 Through the Night (b00cx90g) and Anton Kuerti playing a crystalline Scriabin etude. J. Spaceman With Susan Sharpe. Taken from the album Mister Lonely STRAUSS Drag City 360CD Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Wein, Weib und Gesang Op. 333 T 1 Goldberg Variations (BWV.988) Vienna Symphony Orchestra 1.24 Glenn Gould (piano) Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor PHILIPS 4222772 Tr 3 Fauré: Nocturne No.2 in B Op.33 No.2 Boulogne, Joseph - Chevalier de Saint-Georges (c.1748-1799) Charles Owen (piano) Symphony in G major (Op.11, No.1) ELGAR Taken from the album Fauré: The Complete Nocturnes Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor) Dream Children, Op. 43 Avie AV2133 Ashley Wass (piano) T 2 Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908) NAXOS 8.570166 Tr 3 – 4 5.32 Le Coq d'Or [The Golden Cockerel] Nikolay Stoilov (bass) -- King Dodon, Lyubomir Bodourov PURCELL Correa/Frías: Vieja Viola (tenor) -- Prince Guidon, Emil Ougrinov (baritone) -- Prince Welcome, welcome glorious morn (symphony and opening Lágrima Ríos (voice); Aníbal Arias (guitar) Afron, Konstantin Videv (bass) -- Commander Polkan, Evgenia chorus) Taken from the album Café de los Maestros Babacheva (contralto) -- Housekeeper Amelfa, Lubomir An Evening Hymn Wrasse WRASS 226 Diakovski (tenor) -- Astrologer, Elena Stoyanova (soprano) -- Rogers Cover-Crump (tenor) CD 1, T 2 Queen of Shemakha, Yavora Stoilova (soprano) -- Golden Eamonn O’Dwyer (treble) 3.16 Cockerel, Sofia National Opera Choir & Orchestra, Lyubomir The Choir of the King’s Consort Karolev & Hristo Kazandjiev (chorus masters), Dimiter The King’s Consort Giorginakis: Panighiri (Greek Memories) Manolov (conductor) Robert King, conductor Arada Guitar Duo HYPERION KING2 Tr 1 & 18 Taken from the album Mediterranean Byrd, William (c.1543-1623) Landor Records LAN 284 Pavana lachrimae [after John Dowland] (MB.28.54) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS T 1 Aapo Häkkinen (harpsichord) Quick March – Sea Songs 2.31 Philharmonia Orchestra Wanski, Jan (1762-1821) Leonard Slatkin, conductor Trad, Arr. Koçgün: Ne Keremdir Symphony in D major on themes from the opera "Pasterz nad RCA 09026611952 Tr 1 Cemil Koçgün (tanbur & voice) Wisla" (The Shepherd on the Vistula) Taken from the album Heya: Songs From Qizilbas I Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Mysinski SAINT-SAENS Kalan CD426 (conductor) ‘Softly Awakes my Heart’ from Samson and Delilah T 10 Grimethorpe Colliary Band Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 August 2008 Page 13 of 17 Mark Walters, flugel ACCORD 4767931 CD2 Tr 16 'Vieni, signor: in altra stanza' (Pisani, Falliero) DOYEN DOYCD013 Tr 3 'Tu non sai qual colpo atroce' (Falliero, coro) MONTI 'Lasso! cessar di vivere' (Falliero) BACH Csardas 'Ma piu che onore e vita' (Falliero, coro) Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BMV 225 Sandor Lakatos and his Gipsy Band 'No, non e reo' (Pisani, Contareno, Capellio, Falliero) Regensburger Domspatzen WHITE LABEL HRC068 Tr 1 'Donna, chi sei? -- Bianca son io' (Bianca, Contareno, Capellio) Capella Academica Wien 'Cielo, il mio labbro inspira' (Bianca, Falliero, Contareno, Hanns Martin Schneidt, director Capellio) ARCHIV 427117-2 Tr 1 THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b00cy2s7) 'Parla dunque: qual mistero' (Contareno, Bianca, Capellio, With Sarah Walker. Falliero) George SHEARING 'Grazie, o cielo!' (Bianca, Falliero, Contareno, Capellio, coro) Medley Including: Jennifer Larmore (Falliero), Ryland Davies (Pisani), Barry George Shearing, piano Banks (Contareno), Capellio BBC BBCJ7005-2 Tr 8 Bruckner: Inveni David; Ave Maria; Ecce sacerdos magnus (Ildebrando D'Arcangelo), Majella Cullagh (Bianca) / Geoffrey Graham Chambers, Jeremy Gough, Martin Kelly, Christopher Mitchell Choir / London TELEMANN Stearn (trombones) Philharmonic Orchestra / David Parry (cond.) Concerto in D for 3 trumpets, timpani, 2 oboes, strings and Thomas Trotter (organ) ORC20 continuo Corydon Singers CD3 T11-22 John Wallace (trumpet) Matthew Best (conductor) English String Orchestra HYPERION CDA 66062 William Boughton, director THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00cxbj7) NIMBUS NI5189 Tr 2 – 5 Auric: Suite (The Lavender Hill Mob) Wyastone Leys Summer Festival 2008 BBC Philharmonic ROSSINI Rumon Gamba (conductor) Episode 3 ‘Resta immobile’ from William Tell CHANDOS CHAN 9774 Tito Gobbi (baritone) Ian Skelly presents highlights from the Wyastone Leys Summer Philharmonia Orchestra Bach: French Suite No 5 in G, BWV 816 Series 2008. The Kopelman Quartet perform the deeply Alberto Erede, conductor Angela Hewitt (piano) personal Piano Quintet, Op 18, by Soviet composer Moisey EMI 7631092 Tr 15 HYPERION CDA 67122 (2-CD set) Vainberg, whose career was rescued through the patronage of Shostakovich. BAERMANN Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor, Op 61 Air Varie for clarinet and piano Zino Francescatti (violin) Plus part of a set from jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock and his Victoria Soames (clarinet) New York Philharmonic Orchestra trio. Julius Drake (piano) Dimitri Mitropoulos (conductor) CLARIENT CLASSICS CC0003 Tr2 SONY SMK 53085 THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00cxmdx) WAGNER Purcell: When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas) Presented by Ian Skelly. Das Rheingold - Entrance of the gods into Valhalla Jessye Norman (soprano) London Symphony Orchestra English Chamber Orchestra BBC Proms 2008 Leopold Stokowski, conductor Raymond Leppard (conductor) LONDON 4439012 Tr 4 PHILIPS 416 299-2 A jazz-infused concert given at the Royal Albert Hall, London, with works by Gershwin, Stravinsky and Bernstein, plus new SCRIABIN Purcell: Sweeter than roses compositions by Radio 3 New Generation Artist Gwilym Etude No. 11 in B flat minor from Twelve Etudes, Op. 8 Emma Kirkby (soprano) Simcock and Jason Yarde. Anton Kuerti, piano Anthony Rooley (lute) ANALEKTA FL23044 Tr 11 L'OISEAU LYRE 417 123-2 Michael Collins (clarinet) Gwilym Simcock (piano) FREE THOUGHT Purcell: Oh fair Cedaria Phil Donkin (bass) Richard Holloway - Art as creative dissonance Barbara Bonney (soprano) Martin France (drums) King's Consort Jason Yarde (saxophone) JOSQUIN HYPERION KING 2 BBC Concert Orchestra Veni Sanctus Charles Hazlewood (conductor) The Binchois Consort Poulenc: Stabat mater HYPERION CDA67183 Tr 5 Regine Crespin (soprano) Gershwin: Strike Up the Band Choeurs Rene Duclos Gershwin, arr. Jason Yarde: My man's gone now (Porgy and VERDI Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Bess) (BBC commission; world premiere) Overture, La forza del destino Georges Pretre (conductor) Jason Yarde: Rhythm and Other Fascinations (BBC West-Eastern Divan Orchestra EMI 5668372 (5-CD set) commission; world premiere) Daniel Barenboim, conductor Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto WARNER 256462190-5 CD1 Tr 5 Milhaud: Les soirees de Petrograd No 1, Op 35 Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs Jane Bathori (soprano) Gwilym Simcock: Progressions for piano and orchestra (BBC RACHMANINOV Darius Milhaud (piano) commission; world premiere) Two Pieces for Piano and Cello, Op. 2 MARSTON 51009-2. Gershwin: An American in Paris Alexander Ivashkin (cello) Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano) Chamber Music CHANDOS CHAN10095 Tr 2 & 3 THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b007qtwy) Gioachino Rossini Bach: Partita No 1 HILLIAM Martin Helmchen (piano) What was the matter with Rachmaninoff? Episode 4 Flotsam and Jetsam Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 5 VOCALION CDEA6144 Tr 4 Rossini is often characterized as lazy; in fact ‘workaholic’ would Jacques Loussier Trio be a more accurate description. ‘He has toiled long and wearily RAMEAU enough’, wrote his father in a letter of 1827, referring to the Bach: English Suite No 2 Hippolyte et Aricie – Act 3 composer’s almost superhuman productivity over the previous Martin Helmchen (piano). La Petite Bande decade and a half. Today, Donald Macleod talks us through Sigiswald Kuijken Rossini’s two-act musical melodrama , the final Deutsche Harmonia Mundi GD77009 Tr 15-20 production of one of the composer’s busiest ever years, 1819. THU 17:00 In Tune (b00d13zd) Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from TCHAIKOVSKY arr. Paul Binkley and John Imholz Bianca e Falliero, Act I scene 1, Introduzione the music world. Featuring interviews with soprano Jeanne- The Nutcracker Suite, Overture 'Dalle lagune Adriache' (coro) Michele Charbonnet ahead of her appearances at the Proms on Modern Mandolin Quartet 'Pace alfin per l'Adria splende' (Contareno, Capellio) Friday, and Stephane Deneve who conducts Honegger's Le Roi BMG 82376628212 Tr 9 Barry Banks (Contareno), Capellio (Ildebrando D'Arcangelo) / David at the Edinburgh International Festival next week. Geoffrey Mitchell Choir / London Philharmonic Orchestra / SCHUBERT David Parry (cond.) Bellini Auf dem Wasser zu singen D.774, Op. 72 Opera rara ORC20 Suoni la tromba (, Act 2) Der Kreuzzug D.932 CD1 T2-3 Mariusz Kwiecen (bass-baritone, Giorgio) Hermann Prey, baritone Valerian Ruminski (bass-baritone, Riccardo) Leonard Hokanson, piano Bianca e Falliero, Act I scene 3 (extract) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra PHILIPS 442692-2 CD1 Tr 6&7 'Ciel! qual destin terribile' (Falliero, Bianca) Charles Rosenkrans (conductor) 'Deh! va', ti scongiuro' (Bianca, Falliero) NAXOS 8557309 LISZT Jennifer Larmore (Falliero), Majella Cullagh (Bianca) / London Track 16 Tasso – Symphonic Poem Philharmonic Orchestra / David Parry (cond.) 3’25 Philharmonia Orchestra Opera rara ORC20 Constantin Silvestri, conductor CD2 T4-5 York Bowen TESTAMENT SBT1129 Tr 5 Romance No.2 in F, Op. 45 Bianca e Falliero, Act II scene 2 Stephen Hough, piano DEBUSSY 'Ah! qual notte di squallore' (coro) HYPERION CDA66838 L’isle Joyeuse 'Qual funebre apparato' (Falliero) Track 22 Claude Helffer, piano 'Alma, ben mio, si pura' (Falliero) 6’31 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 August 2008 Page 14 of 17 John Foulds THU 19:00 BBC Proms (b00cxmdz) THU 23:30 Late Junction (b00cxqnh) World Requiem: Laudamus Prom 38: Daniel Barenboim - West-Eastern Divan Verity Sharp Jeanne-Michele Charbonnet (soprano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom 38 - Part 1 Verity Sharp's selection has a distinctly Scandinavian flavour Leon Botstein (conductor) and includes Finnish Jouhikko music by Lassin Logren, CHANDOS CHSA50582 From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Martin Norwegian singer Marit Mattisgard accompanying herself on CD 2 Tracks 1-2 Handley. the langeleik (Norwegian zither) and a performance by chamber 3’30 choir Eesti Projekt. Plus the Anglo-Scots-Norwegian Proms favourites Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern collaborative energies unleashed during 2008's WOMAD Janacek Divan Orchestra return in the first of two concerts. The festival by the trio Fribo. Glagolitic Mass: Slava orchestra brings young Israeli and Arab musicians together Libuse Domaninska (soprano) every summer to work and perform Viennese classics by Burns arr. Polwart: Mirk Mirk Is This Midnight Hour Beno Blachut (tenor) Haydn, Schoenberg and Brahms. Karine Polwart Czech Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra Taken from the album Fairest Floo’er Karel Ancerl (conductor) Ramon Ortega Quero (oboe) Hegri Music HEGRICD03 SUPRAPHON 1119302 Mor Biron (bassoon) Track 3 Guy Braunstein (violin) Trad: Dr Letcher’s Favourite (Mayden Lane – Mount Hills) 6’22 Hassan Moataz El Molla (cello) Kerfuffle/Andy Letcher, pipes West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Taken from the album To The Ground Bartok Daniel Barenboim (conductor) Rootbeat Records RBRCD06 Duke Bluebeard’s Castle: Doors 3 & 4 Jeanne-Michele Charbonnet (soprano) Haydn: Sinfonia concertante in B flat for oboe, bassoon, violin Trad: Jack Hall John Tomlinson (bass) and cello Walter Pardon BBC Symphony Orchestra Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra, Op 31. Taken from the album The Voice Of People Vol. 17 Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) Topic TSCD 667 WARNER 2564619532 Tracks 4-5 THU 19:50 Twenty Minutes (b00cxmf1) Trad: Tsimidinky 5’56 Final Exposure Mrs Fiamina & Mrs Seho Taken from the album Madagascar: Antanosy Country Mendelssohn (arr. W T Best) Journalist Christine Finn explores the private world of late Ocora C 560214 Overture to the Oratorio ‘St. Paul’, Op 36 British landscape photographer Fay Godwin, who left London Simon Preston (organ of the Royal Albert Hall) in 1995 and moved permanently to the family's former holiday Njava: Hitologn’azy SIGNUM SIGCD084 home in a remote, secret location on the Sussex coast. Godwin Njava Track 1 found a new direction for her work and introduced colour for Taken from the album Vetse 7’42 the first time. Hemisphere 4 99265 2

Mozart After her death in 2005, Godwin's family offered her Fairhurst: Friends Sinfonia concertante K.297b: 3rd movement considerable archive to the British Library. Finn, the first John Fairhurst & James Wilson, guitars Mohammed Saleh (oboe) journalist to be allowed to visit, was shown round Godwin's Taken from the album Joys of Spring Kinan Azmeh (clarinet) home by her friend film-maker Maggie Taylor, gaining an Humble Soul HS204 Mor Biron (bassoon) insight into the power of the place that inspired Godwin. Sharon Polyak (horn) Nicholls: Chamber Music (James Joyce) West–Eastern Divan Orchestra Mike Watt Daniel Barenboim (conductor) THU 20:10 BBC Proms (b00cxmf3) Taken from the album Chamber Music WARNER 2564627912 Prom 38: Daniel Barenboim - West-Eastern Divan Fire Records 809236111029 Track 3 8’08 Prom 38 - Part 2 Ambarchi: Corkscrew Oren Ambarchi R. Strauss From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Martin Taken from the album Grapes from the Estate Overture to The Silent Woman Handley. Touch TO 61 Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Jeffrey Tate (conductor) Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Urmas Sissak: Omnis Una (Gloria Patri) EMI CDC7545812 continue their programme of Viennese classics with a Brahms The Chamber Choir Eesti Projekt Track 6 symphony. Taken from the compilation Estonian Experience 4’20 Finlanda 0630 12244 2 Ramon Ortega Quero (oboe) John Milton Mor Biron (bassoon) Trad, Arr. Hanggai: Wuji When David heard that Absolon was slain Guy Braunstein (violin) Hanggai Choir of Selwyn College Cambridge Hassan Moataz El Molla (cello) Taken from the album Introducing Hanggai Sarah MacDonald (director) West-Eastern Divan Orchestra World Music Network LC 11067 REGENT REGCD268 Daniel Barenboim (conductor) Track 19 Trad/Kleemola: Haliasoitto 3’38 Brahms: Symphony No 4. Lassin Logrén (jouhikko) Taken from the album Hiien Hiruksista: Jouhikko Music from Roussel Finland Bacchus & Ariadne: Finale THU 21:15 Sunday Feature (b00cznsf) Kansanmusiikki Instituutti KICD82 Royal Scottish National Orchestra The childhood landscape of Elizabeth Bishop Stephane Deneve (conductor) Trad: Han Ola Min – Ola Dilt NAXOS 8570245 Lavinia Greenlaw travels to Great Village in Nova Scotia to Marit Mattisgard (voice/langeleik) Tracks 24-26 explore the childhood landscape of Elizabeth Bishop, one of the Taken from the album Norway: Traditional Music 5’28 most important poets of the 20th century. Ocora C 600015

Honegger Even though Bishop only lived in Great Village for three years Trad: På Sbeuk (crooked hat)/Port-a-beul (scottish mouth Le Roi David: Psalm, Incantation and March in her infancy, the place, the people and the way of life resonate music) Jean Desailly (Narrator & Samuel) throughout her work. Fribo -Ewan MacPherson (guitar); Anne Sofie-Linge (vocal); Simone Valere (Witch of Endor) Sarah Jane Summers (fiddle); Signy Jakobsdottir (percussion) Philippe Caillard Choir BBC Recording, Womad, Wiltshire July '08 Instrumental Ensemble THU 22:15 BBC Proms (b00cxqnf) Charles Dutoit (conductor) 2008 Summers: Gammal Kjerring/Da Lounge Byr/Happy Hardanger ERATO 2292458002 Fribo -Ewan MacPherson (guitar); Anne Sofie-Linge (vocal); Tracks 11-13 Prom 39: Members of West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Sarah Jane Summers (fiddle); Signy Jakobsdottir (percussion) 5'23 BBC Recording, Womad, Wiltshire July '08 Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Martin Honegger Handley. Anon: Beltane Le Roi David: The Dance before the Ark (extract) Fribo -Ewan MacPherson (guitar); Anne Sofie-Linge (vocal); Philippe Caillard Choir Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Sarah Jane Summers (fiddle); Signy Jakobsdottir (percussion) Instrumental Ensemble their second concert for the 2008 BBC Proms. Boulez's BBC Recording, Womad, Wiltshire July '08 Charles Dutoit (conductor) Memoriale, written to commemorate the death of Stravinsky, is ERATO 2292458002 followed by Stravinsky's L'histoire du soldat, the mesmerising Anon: Flutes Track 16 tale of a soldier who is tricked by the Devil. Fribo -Ewan MacPherson (guitar); Anne Sofie-Linge (vocal); 6'00 Sarah Jane Summers (fiddle); Signy Jakobsdottir (percussion) Patrice Chereau (narrator) BBC Recording, Womad, Wiltshire July '08 Mozart Members of West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Variations on Ah vous dirai-je Maman, K.265 Daniel Barenboim (conductor) Anon: Gutten & Mannen/Slått’n Hass Ingrid Haebler (piano) Fribo -Ewan MacPherson (guitar); Anne Sofie-Linge (vocal); PHILIPS 4227292 Pierre Boulez: Mémoriale (... explosante-fixe ... Originel) Sarah Jane Summers (fiddle); Signy Jakobsdottir (percussion) Track 1 Stravinsky: L'histoire du soldat. BBC Recording, Womad, Wiltshire July '08 13’14 Trad: Betty Corrigall’s Lament Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 August 2008 Page 15 of 17 Kerfuffle Hoffmann, Leopold (1738-1793) (formerly attrib. to Haydn) Culture Taken from the album To The Ground Flute Concerto in D major Rootbeat Records RBRCD06 Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Bienne Symphony Orchestra, Marc WAGNER Tardue (conductor) Träume Christa Ludwig, mezzo soprano Philharmonia Orchetstra FRIDAY 15 AUGUST 2008 FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b00cx8vd) Otto Klemperer, conductor Rob Cowan EMI CLASSICS 724358509922 CD2 Tr12 FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b00cx90j) With Susan Sharpe. With Rob Cowan. HAYDN String Quartet in D, Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’ Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) Rob's selection includes Liszt's evocative Chapelle de The Smetana Quartet Violin Concerto no. 1 (K. 207) in B flat major Guillaume Tell from Années de Pélerinage and Haydn's lyrical TESTAMENT SBT1118 Tr 9 – 12 string quartet The Lark. Violin Concerto no. 2 (K.211) in D major; HE LUTING Director: James Ehnes (violin), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra JANACEK The Cowherd’s Flute Starodávný from Lachian Dances Lang Lang, piano Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904) Czech State Orchestra DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4776229 Tr 6 Trio for piano and strings No. 3 in F minor (Op.65) Conductor: José Serebrier Grieg Trio REFERENCE RECORDINGS RR65CD Tr 6 BRITTEN Three Flower Songs: Liszt, Franz (1811-1886) Michael EAST To daffodils, The Succession of four sweet months & Marsh Hungarian Coronation Mass (S.11) You meaner beauties of the night flowers Etelka Csavlek (soprano), Márta Lukin (alto), Boldizsár Keönch Emma Kirkby, soprano The Cambridge Singers (tenor), Béla Laborfalvy Soós (bass), The Choir of the Matyas The Consort of Musicke Madrigal Director: John Rutter Church, The Budapest Choir, Hungarian Radio Symphony Anthony Rooley, director COLLEGIUM COLCD104 Tr 16 – 18 Orchestra, Istvan Lantos (conductor) HYPERION CDA66227 Tr 18 SIBELIUS Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) LISZT The Swan of Tuonela Op. 22/3 Symphony No.1 in C minor (Op.68) Chapelle de Guillaume Tell from Années de Pélerinage The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) Nicholas Angelich (piano) Yevgeny Mravinsky, conductor MIRARE MIR9941 CD1 Tr 1 OLYMPIA OCD223 Tr 6 Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) "Fantasie in G major for organ (BWV.572) VIVALDI MALASHKIN Scott Ross (organ) Concerto in C for mandolin, strings and continuo, RV425 Oh, could I but express in song The Parley of Instruments STANFORD Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594) Paul O’Dette, director She is far from the land Agnus Dei – super ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la HYPERION CDA66160 Tr 7 – 9 Paul Robeson, bass Huelgas Ensemble; Paul van Nevel (director) EMI CLASSICS 2156002 Tr 9 & 19 PAGANINI Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) Caprice No 7 (Moderato assai) RAVEL Rosamunde – Overture (D.644) Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin Menuet antique & Menuet sur le nom de Haydn Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Heinz Holliger (conductor) EMI CDC7476442 Tr 7 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano SCENE DG MDG6041190-2 CD2 Tr 11 & 12 Coulthard, Jean (1908-2000) see PALESTRINA Four Irish Songs orch. Michael Conway Baker Assumpta est Maria in Caelum Leroy ANDERSON Linda Maguire (mezzo-soprano), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, The Tallis Scholars Trumpeter’s Lullaby & Syncopated Clock Mario Bernardi (conductor) Director: Peter Phillips Utah Symphony Orchestra GIMELL CDGIM020 Tr 2 Maurice Abravanel, conductor Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759) VANGUARD CLASSICS 08600871 Tr 3 & 7 Quartet in G major for 2 violins, viola and continuo (Op.5 SMETANA No.4) The Lancer from Czech Dances (second series) RITTER Musica Antiqua Köln BRNO State Philharmonic Orchestra O amantissime sponse Jesu Frantisek Jilek, conductor Aafje Heynis (contralto) Lorenzo, Leonardo de (C.20th) SUPRAPHONET 111115-2 Tr 12 Netherlands Chamber Orchestra Capriccio brillante for 3 flutes (Op.31) Director: Szymon Goldberg Vladislav Brunner, Juraj Brunner, Milan Brunner (flutes) BIBER RETROSPECTIVE 93407/3 CD3 Tr 10 Sonata a 8 for two trumpets and six violins Fesch, Willem de (1687-c.1757) Concentus musicus Wien Luca PIANCA Concerto for 2 flutes and orchestra in G minor (Op.5 No.2) Director: Nikolaus Harnoncourt Improvisation on Greensleaves & HANDEL: The Arrival of the Musica ad Rhenum TELDEC 8.43779 Tr 7 Queen of Sheba Il Giardino Armonico, Milano Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767) FAURE Giovanni Antonini, director Cantata: 'Erwachet zum Kriegen, ihr' (TWV.01:481) Pelleas et Melisande: Sicilienne WARNERCLASSICS256463264-2 CD9 Tr 17 & 19 Henri Ledroit (counter-tenor), François Fernandez (violin), Branford Marsalis, saxophone Philippe Pierlot (bass viol), Bernard Fouccrolle (harpsichord) English Chamber Orchestra Andrew Litton, conductor FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b00cy2s9) Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) SONY CLASSICAL 88697275442 Tr 12 With Sarah Walker. 7 variations on 'God save the King' in C major (WoO.78) Theo Bruins (piano) WALDTEUFEL Including: Grenadiers Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927) Philharmonia Promenade Orchestra Wagner: Forest Murmurs (Siegfried, Act 2) Excelsior! – symphonic overture (Op.13) Henry Krips, conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) EMI 724356828926 CD2 Tr 5 Adrian Boult (conductor) EMI CDM 7631212 Roussel, Albert (1869-1937) SPIRITUALS Le Jardin mouillé, Op.3, No.2 ‘Honour, Honour’, ‘His Name So Sweet’ & ‘Witness’ Faure/Messager: Souvenirs de Bayreuth Ola Eliasson (baritone), Mats Jansson (piano) Kathleen Battle, soprano Kathryn Stott, Martin Roscoe (piano) James Levine, piano Hyperion CDA 66911/4 (4-CD set) Durante, Francesco (1684-1755) DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 415361-2 Tr 17 – 19 Harpsichord Concerto in B flat Milhaud: Concerto for marimba, vibraphone and orchestra Gerald Hambitzer (harpsichord), Concerto Köln BYRD Rainer Kuisma (marimba and vibraphone) Fantasia in C Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra Porta, Costanzo (1528/9-1601) Simon Preston, organ Jorma Panula (conductor) Sub Tuum Praesidium ARCHIV 415675-2 Tr 2 BIS CD 149 Banchieri Singers, Denes Szabo (conductor) SALIERI Beethoven: Sonata No 8 in C minor, Op 13 (Pathetique) Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943) Allegro brilliante and Pantomime from Les Danaides Artur Pizarro (piano) 2 pieces for cello & piano, Op.2 (Prélude; Danse Orientale) Mozart Mannhime Orchestra LINN CKD 209 Monika Leskovar (cello), Ivana Švarc-Grenda (piano) Thomas Fey, conductor HANSSLER CLASSIC CD98.506 Tr 14 & 15 Part: Seven Magnificat Antiphons Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826) Theatre of Voices Grand duo concertant for clarinet and piano (Op.48) MARTINU Paul Hillier (director) Joaquín Valdepeñas (clarinet), Patricia Parr (piano) Pastoral from Etudes and Polkas HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907182 Hana Dvorakova, piano Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) VARS VA0010 Tr 22 Bartok: Piano Concerto No 3 Concerto in A major (BWV.1055) Daniel Barenboim (piano) Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe d'amore), Camerata Köln FREE THOUGHT New Philharmonia Christoph Grunenberg - The enduring power of Viennese Pierre Boulez (conductor) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 August 2008 Page 16 of 17 EMI 5626202 BBC Proms 2008 Bach English suite no.2 in A minor (Allemande) Durey: Sonatine, Op 25 From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Rob Cowan. Murray Perahia (piano) Emily Beynon (flute) SONY 8869731050 2 Andrew West (piano) Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with CD 1 HYPERION CDA 67204 the first half of the Prom inspired by the sun and nature - Tr. 10 Sibelius's Night Ride and Sunrise is followed by two world 3’39 Satie: Avant-dernieres pensees premieres: Michael Berkeley's Slow Dawn on the rising of the Yuji Takahashi (piano) sun and Stuart McRae's Gaudete, a 'life narrative' based on the Janacek DENON 32C37-7486. epilogue from a collection of poems by Ted Hughes and sung Jealousy overture by Susanna Andersson. A perennial favourite by Elgar Czech Philharmonic Orchestra concludes the programme. Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b007qv9d) CHANDOS CHAN 9080 Gioachino Rossini Susanna Andersson (soprano) Tr. 5 BBC Symphony Orchestra 5’53 Episode 5 Edward Gardner (conductor) Haydn ossini is said to have completed in a Sibelius: Night Ride and Sunrise Il mondo della luna (Overture) fortnight, but even he couldn’t compose three operas at once – Michael Berkeley: Slow Dawn (world premiere of new version) Drottningholm Court Theatre although that’s exactly what he tried to do in 1821, as Donald Stuart MacRae: Gaudete (BBC commission; world premiere) Mark Tatlow (conductor) Macleod relates in today’s programme. But first, is it a comedy, Elgar: Enigma Variations PRIVATE RECORDING is it a tragedy? – no, it’s Matilde di Shabran … 3’43 Plus: Matilde di Shabran, Act I, No.2 Cavatina Isidoro Haydn 'Intanto Armenia 'nfra l'ombrose piante . ' (Isidoro) Janacek: Diary of One Who Disappeared Il mondo della luna (extract) 'Ma mo sto castellano' (Isidoro) Toby Spence (tenor) Drottningholm Court Theatre Bruno de Simone (Isidoro) / Galicia Symphony Orchestra / Graham Johnson (piano) Mark Tatlow (conductor) Riccardo Frizza (cond) PRIVATE RECORDING recorded live at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, August Highlights from Hesperion XXI and Jordi Savall at the 2006 3’04 2004 Wyastone Leys Festival. Decca 4757688 Mozart CD1 T6-7 Bach: Fugue No 5 Nozze di Figaro (Finale) Jacques Loussier Trio. Hakan Hagegard (Count Almaviva) Matilde di Shabran, Act I, No.6 Quintetto Arleen Auger (Countess) 'Questa e la Dea? Che aria!' (Contessa, Matilde, Aliprando, Barbara Bonney (Susanna) Ginardo) FRI 17:00 In Tune (b00d13zg) Petteri Salomaa (Figaro) 'Che strepito e mai questo?' (Corradino, Contessa, Matilde, Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra Aliprando, Ginardo) the music world. Geoge Vass, artistic director of the Presiteigne Arnold Ostman (conductor) 'Dallo stupore oppresso, ignoto incanto io provo' (Corradino, Festival, chats to Petroc about this year's festival which features DECCA 470 860 2 Aliprando, Ginardo, Matilde, Contessa) violinist Tamsin Wahley-Cohen and pianist Helen Reid who CD 3 'Signor, me n'vado, o resto?' (Contessa, Corradino, Matilde, perform live in the studio. The Drottningholm Court Theatre Tr. 12 Ginardo, Aliprando) from Sweden are making a special appearance in the UK this 4’52 'Ch'io fugga ha gia timore. L'amico gia sta in gabbia' (Matilde, weekend with Haydn's opera Il mondo della Luna, and director Corradino, Aliprando, Ginardo, Contessa) Willian Relton, conductor and artistic manager, Mark Tatlow, Liszt Chiara Chialli (Contessa d'Arco), Annick Massis (Matilde and soprano Susanna Stern discuss the production with Petroc. Hungarian Rhapsody no.2 Shabran), Marco Vinco (Aliprando), Carlo Lepore (Ginardo), He is also joined by tenor Paul Groves, and soprano Rosemary Lang Lang (piano) Juan Diego Florez (Corradino) / Galicia Symphony Orchestra / Joshua ahead of Handel's Belshazzar in which they are DG 477 5976 Riccardo Frizza (cond) - recorded live at the Rossini Opera performing at the Proms on Saturday. CD 2 Festival in Pesaro, August 2004 Main news headlines are at 5.00 and 6.00 Tr. 1 Decca 4757688 E-mail: [email protected] 9’05 CD2 T2-6 Handel Beethoven Matilde di Shabran, Act II, No.9 (Scena e Cavatina Edoarda) Belshazzar (Overture) Fidelio (Overture) 'Dove, o misero padre, e quando speri piu il tuo figlio Concentus musicus Vienna Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra abbraciar?' (Raimondo) Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director) Erich Kleiber (conductor) 'Sazia tu fossi alfine revolubil Fortuna!' (Edoardo) TELDEC 0630 10275 2 MEDICI ARTS MM027 2 'Ah! Perche, perche la morte non ascolta i pianti miei?' CD 1 Tr. 1 Tr. 1 (Edoardo, Raimondo) 4’30 6’35 'Ah ! Se ancora un altra volta ei ritorna al dolce amplesso' (Edoardo) Reich Handel Bruno Taddia (Raimondo Lopez), Hadar Halevy (Edoardo) / Nagoya marimbas Belshazzar (Thou, God most high) Galicia Symphony Orchestra / Riccardo Frizza (cond) Colin Currie (percussion) Nitocris (Felicity Palmer) recorded live at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, August EMI 572267 2 Concentus Musicus Vienna 2004 Tr. 12 Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director) Decca 4757688 4’48 TELDEC 0630 10275 2 CD3 T4-7 CD 1 LIVE Tr. 3 Matilde di Shabran, Act II, No.10 Sestetto McDowall 4’04 'E palese il tradimento - Mente il foglio, o ad arte e scritto . ' Strange violin are you following me? 'Perfida, invan tu piangi: e finto quell'affanno' Tamsin Wahley-Cohen (violin) Handel 'Fra Quattro armigeri immantinente' Helen Reid (piano) Belshazzar (Let the deep bowl) Chiara Chialli (Contessa d'Arco), Annick Massis (Matilde 10’10 Robert Tear (Belshazzar) Shabran), Juan Diego Florez (Corradino), Marco Vinco Chamber Choir (Aliprando), Bruno de Simone (Isidoro), Carlo Lepore LIVE Concertus Musicus Vienna (Ginardo) / Galicia Symphony Orchestra / Riccardo Frizza Debussy Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director) (cond) Violin Sonata (1st movement) TELDEC 0630 10275 2 recorded live at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, August Tamsin Wahley-Cohen (violin) CD 2 2004 Helen Reid (piano) Tr. 13 Decca 4757688 4’30 5’45 CD3 T9-11 LIVE Handel Janacek Partenope (Il ti leve l’Impero dell’Armi) FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00cxbj9) Osud (I want to be in the glow of the sun) (extract) Rosemary Joshua (Partenope) Wyastone Leys Summer Festival 2008 Miss Mila (Magdalena Hajossyova) Early Opera Company BRNO Janacek Opera Christian Curnyn (director) Episode 4 Frantisek Jilek (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN 07193 SUPRAPHON SU 00452 CD 1 Ian Skelly presents highlights from the Wyastone Leys Summer CD 1 Tr. 27 Series 2008. Tr. 7 6’18 0’54 Featuring a set by young pianist and composer Gwilym Brahms (arr. Joachim) Simcock, the first BBC Radio 3 New Generation jazz artist, Mahler Hungarian Dances (No. 18) Wo01 with fellow trio members Phil Donkin (bass) and Martin France Symphony no.5: 1st mvt (Trauermarsch) Hagai Shaham (violin) (drums). Gurzenich Orchestra, Cologne Arnon Erez (piano) James Conlon (conductor) HYPERION CDA 67663 EMI 574979 2 Tr. 18 FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00cxqnr) Tr. 1 1’22 Presented by Ian Skelly. 12’43

Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 August 2008 Page 17 of 17 FRI 19:30 BBC Proms (b00cxqp8) DAVID TORN’S PREZENS RECORDED LIVE AT THE Prom 40: BBC Symphony Orchestra in Janaceck VORTEX JAZZ CLUB 14TH JANUARY 2008

Prom 40 - Part 1 LINE UP David Torn – guitar/ sampling/ electronics From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Donald Tim Berne – saxophone McLeod. Craig Taborn – keyboards Tom Rainey – drums The music of Leos Janacek is a recent departure for Pierre Boulez, who galvanises large orchestral forces with extra brass 15-MINUTE EXTRACT FROM SET 1 in Janacek's glorious Sinfonietta. Plus a rare opportunity to hear - All improvised and composed by the group the Capriccio for piano and chamber ensemble. JEZ NELSON INTERVIEWS DAVID TORN Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra FULL 53-MINUTE SET 2 Pierre Boulez (conductor) - All improvised and composed by the group

Janacek: Sinfonietta; Capriccio. JOURNALIST JOHN FORDHAM DISCUSSES DAVID TORN AND PREZENS WITH JEZ NELSON

FRI 20:20 Twenty Minutes (b00cxqqp) LINKS: As conductor Pierre Boulez takes on a complete Janacek www.davidtorn.net programme in a 2008 Prom with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, www.myspace.com/prezens a chance to hear his views on the master Czech composer's works in conversation with Proms director Roger Wright. From RECOMMENDED FURTHER LISTENING: the Britten Theatre in the Royal College of Music. Artist – David Torn’s Prezens Album – Prezens Label – ECM (2007) FRI 20:40 BBC Proms (b00cxqqr) Prom 40: BBC Symphony Orchestra in Janaceck Artist – SPLaTTeRCeLL (a.k.a. David Torn) Album – Oah Prom 40 - Part 2 Label – 75 Ark Records(2000)

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Donald McLeod.

Pierre Boulez continues the Janacek Prom, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra joined by 260 voices and organ for Janacek's Glagolitic Mass.

Janacek: Glagolitic Mass (original version, reconstr. Paul Wingfield)

Jeanne-Michele Charbonnet (soprano) Anna Stephany (mezzo-soprano) Simon O'Neill (tenor) Peter Fried (bass) Simon Preston (organ) London Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Pierre Boulez (conductor).

FRI 21:30 Sunday Feature (b00c0rgn) Piano fever in China

Petroc Trelawny visits the Chinese city of Guangzhou and the Shanghai Conservatoire as well as fast-food style piano kindergartens and the biggest piano factory in the world to find out why China is gripped by piano fever. Tens of millions of shoolchildren are learning the instrument and Western classical music is in the ascendancy. Yet less than four decades ago, classical music was banned and pianos were smashed as symbols of Western decadence.

FRI 22:30 Jazz Library (b00cxqsw) Jimmy McGriff

Alyn Shipton picks the finest discs by jazz organist Jimmy McGriff, who died in May 2008 after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. He was not only one of the fathers of both soul jazz and acid jazz, but was widely regarded as one of the greatest of all jazz organists. As well as Alyn's archive interviews with McGriff himself, there are several of his finest tracks including All about My Girl, I've Got a Woman and The Worm.

FRI 23:30 Jazz on 3 (b00cxqsy) David Torn's Prezens

Jez Nelson presents guitarist David Torn's project Prezens, featuring Tim Berne on alto sax, Craig Taborn on keyboards and Tom Rainey on drums. Recorded in January 2008 at London's Vortex jazz club.

Presenter: Jez Nelson Producer: Robert Abel

CD TRACK

Artist David Torn / Tim Berne / Craig Taborn / Tom Rainey Track Title AK Album Title Prezens Composer David Torn / Tim Berne / Craig Taborn / Tom Rainey Label ECM Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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