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Radio 3 Listings for 26 November – 2 December 2011 Page 1 of 9 SATURDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2011 Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643) SAT 15:00 Saturday Classics (b017mv42) Partite cento sopra il Passachagli Simon Russell Beale SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b017ckbq) Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) Susan Sharpe introduces the Cherubini Requiem Mass and a London programme of Vivaldi, Handel and Marcello from Slovenia 5:39 AM Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893) A personal view of classical music from a range of presenters. 1:01 AM Voyevoda - Symphonic Ballad (Op.78) Today, the last of the 4 programmes presented by Simon Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741] Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry Russell Beale as he concludes his series of programmes Concerto in D min for 2 violins, cello and orchestra (RV.565) (conductor) exploring the music connected to some of the cities he visited in (Op.3, No.11) BBC Four's 'Symphony' series. Today's focus is London, and Slovenian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Despalj 5:51 AM over the two hours Simon plays great music from composers (conductor) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) who lived, wrote in and travelled to London. Repertoire Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat (K.417) includes orchestral music by Elgar and Vaughan Williams, a 1:12 AM David Pyatt (horn), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert flute sonata by Mozart, and an anthem by Handel. This Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759] King (conductor) programme is part of Radio 3's series of symphony programmes Concerto for harp and orchestra in B flat major (Op.4 No.6) broadcast this month. (HWV.294); 6:08 AM Sofija Ristic (harp), Slovenian Radio Television Symphony Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826) Orchestra, Paule Despalj (conductor) Aufforderung zum Tanz (Invitation to the Dance) - Rondo SAT 17:00 Jazz Record Requests (b017lym3) brillante in D flat (J.260) for Piano (Op.65) Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. 1:25 AM Niklas Sivelöv (piano) Cherubini, Luigi [1760-1842] Requiem Mass for chorus and orchestra no. 1 in C minor; (à la 6:17 AM SAT 18:00 Opera on 3 (b017lym5) mémoire deLouis XVI) Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin Slovenian Radio & Television Chamber Choir, Slovenian Radio Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (BWV.51) - Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Despalj (conductor) Susanne Ryden (soprano), Robert Farley (trumpet), European Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor) Presented by Martin Handley 2:10 AM Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] 6:34 AM Tchaikovsky's most famous opera is based on a verse-novel by Ave Verum Corpus (K.618) Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847) Pushkin. It tells the story of the relationship between Eugene Slovenian Radio & Television Chamber Choir, Slovenian Radio Concerto for violin and orchestra in E minor (Op.64) Onegin, a young St. Petersburg man-about-town and the woman Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Despalj (conductor) Renaud Capuçon (violin), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Paul who he initially rejects and then realises that he truly loves, McCreesh (conductor). Tatiana. Between rejecting her and realising that he's made a 2:15 AM terrible mistake he flirts with her sister, who is engaged to his Marcello, Alessandro [1669-1747]; friend, the poet Lensky. A duel ensues in which Lensky is Concerto in D minor for oboe and strings SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b017lyls) killed. By the end of the opera Onegin is left alone and broken- Maja Kojc (oboe), Slovenian Radio Television Symphony Saturday - Martin Handley hearted. Orchestra, Pavle Despalj (conductor) Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, This new production from English National Opera is directed 2:27 AM including Herrmann's overture to Citizen Kane performed by by Deborah Warner and stars the young Norwegian baritone Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893) The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Paul Audun Iversen in the title role. He's joined by the South- Concerto for piano and orchestra no.1 (Op.23) in B flat minor Bateman, Haydn's London Trio No. 4 is performed by Jean- African soprano Amanda Echalaz (who was such a huge success Stephen Hough (piano), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, John Pierre Rampal (flute), Issac Stern (violin) and Mstislav when she sang Tosca at ENO last hear) as Tatiana and English Storgårds Rostropovich (cello), and music from Purcell's The Fairy tenor Toby Spence as the doomed poet. ENO's Music Director Queen is performed by the Sixteen Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner conducts. 3:01 AM Harry Christophers. Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) Eugene Onegin.....Audun Iversen (baritone) Symphony no.6 in C major, (D.589) Tatyana.....Amanda Echalaz (soprano) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Peka Saraste SAT 09:00 CD Review (b017lylv) Lensky.....Toby Spence (tenor) (conductor) Building a Library: Mahler: Symphony No 8 Prince Gremin.....Brindley Sherratt (bass) Olga.....Claudia Huckle (mezzo-soprano) 3:33 AM With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Mahler: Madame Larina.....Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano) Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Symphony No 8; New Mozart releases: early symphonies and Filipievna.....Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo soprano) Piano Trio in B major (Op.8) piano concertos; Disc of the Week: Couperin: Exultent superi. Zaretski.....David Stout (baritone) Trio Ondine English National Opera Orchestra and Chorus 4:04 AM SAT 12:15 Music Matters (b017lylx) Conductor.....Edward Gardner. Rodrigo, Joaquín (1901-1999) The Symphony Since 1945 Three Spanish Compositions Goran Listes (guitar) As part of the BBC's Symphony season, Tom Service presents a SAT 21:00 Between the Ears (b017lym7) special edition exploring the development of the symphony Horse 4:18 AM from 1945 onwards in post-war Europe, the USA and beyond. Strauss, Johann Jr (1825-1899) 'Horse' is a new poem for radio by the Northumbrian poet Rosen aus dem Süden, waltz (Op.388) Katrina porteous and the composer and electronic music Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor) SAT 13:00 The Early Music Show (b017lylz) pioneer Peter Zinoviev. It was commissioned by Radio 3 for The English Concert Between the Ears, its series for innovative feature making, for 4:27 AM the first time performed and recorded in front of a live Farkas, Ferenc (1905-2000) Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert given at the audience, at the Free Thinking Festival in The Sage, Gateshead. 5 Ancient Hungarian Dances for wind quintet year's York Early Music Festival by the English Concert Galliard Ensemble directed by Harry Bicket. Their programme reflects some of The poem is inspired by a 3,000 year old figure of a horse, cut Handel's early works as he arrived in London, and includes a into the chalk of a hill near Uffington, that leaps across the 4:38 AM cantata and operatic arias sung by soprano Lucy Crowe. Oxfordshire landscape. It is scored for two voices, the poet and Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849) the actor Steven Hawksby, and two computers, played by Scherzo No.2 in B flat minor (Op.31) Zinoviev, who developed the machine that made Dalek voices Alex Slobodyanik (piano) SAT 14:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b017chyr) possible and the synthesizer used by Pink Floyd on 'Dark Side The Jerusalem Quartet of the Moon'. He has also worked with Stockhausen and 4:48 AM Harrison Birtwistle. Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787) From London's Wigmore Hall, former Radio 3 New Generation Symphony in E (Op.10 No.1) Artists the Jerusalem Quartet play one of Mozart's so-called All the sounds used in the music are derived from recordings La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor) 'Haydn' quartets (dedicated to the older composer who had been which Peter Zinoviev made of King Harry Ferry, which crosses such an inspiration to him) and Debussy's only string quartet, the River Fal in Cornwall on huge chains. Katrina Porteous 5:01 AM now one of the clasics of the chamber-music repertoire. found rhythms and word-sounds in Zinoviev's initial recordings, Haapalainen, Väinö (1893-1945) and he responded to these as he manipulated the recordings, so Lemminkainen Overture (1925) Mozart's 6 'Haydn' quartets are both an affectionate tribute to the music and words grew out of the same source. The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Atso Almila the composer's teacher and a showcase of all that he had learned (conductor) from his mentor - 'the fruit of long and arduous work' as Mozart 'Horse' is a poem of many voices - performed by two. Actor himself explained. Debussy's Quartet (which he called Op.10, Steve Hawksby shadows the leading voice of Katrina Porteous. 5:09 AM despite otherwise never using opus numbers!) was written There are echoes and chants, electronic and spoken, derived Liszt, Franz (1811-1886) towards the end of the 19th-century and was initially regarded from Northumbrian dialect words associated with farming and Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli (S.162) as phenomenally difficult to play. Both performers and metal-working. These suggest an older language buried beneath Janina Fialkowska (piano) audiences have subsequently taken it to their hearts and it is this one, which at moments emerges out of music into speech now one of the most famous of all string quartets. then sinks back into music. 5:18 AM Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) Presented by Sarah Walker. The piece connects the horse with its chalk landscape, which is Gesang der Geistern über den Wassern, Op.167 itself a huge natural auditorium, with the sky and stars - Estonian National Male Choir, Estonian National Symphony Mozart: String Quartet in D minor K421. especially the constellation we know as the Plough, of which the Orchestra, Juri Alperten (director) Debussy: String Quartet in G minor Op 10.