Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 1 of 19 SATURDAY 09 MAY 2009 Dessane, Antoine (1826-1873): Ouverture Festspiel Orchester Gottingen Orchestre Metropolitain Nicholas McGegan, conductor SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b00k4q23) Gilles Auger (conductor) CARUS 83.420 TR 26 Susan Sharpe 5.15am 0719 With Susan Sharpe. Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Chansons de Bilitis Paula Hoffman (mezzo-soprano) BULL 1.00am Lars-David Nilsson (piano) Visit to a Summer Farm including The Herd Girl’s Sunday Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869): Overture (Le carnaval romain, Op Arve Tellefsen, violin 9) 5.25am Bergen Symphony Orchestra 1.10am Debussy, Claude (1862-1918), orch. Ravel, Maurice Karsten Andersen, conductor Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Piano Concerto No (1875-1937): Tarantelle styrienne (Danse)Winnipeg Symphony NORWEGIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL NKFCD50008-2 TR 21 in C, K467 Orchestra 5 1.42am Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor) Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924): Capriccio sinfonico 0728 1.54am 5.31am Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936): The Pines of Rome - Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): La valse - choreographic poem PALESTRINA symphonic poem for orchestra Tu es Petrus Gianluca Cascioli (piano) Orchestre National de France Choir of King’s College Cambridge RTE National Symphony Orchestra Charles Dutoit (conductor) Stephen Cleobury, director Giancarlo Andretta (conductor) ARGO 4101492 T8 5.44am 2.15am Witte, George Hendrick (1843-1929): Three Waltzes for piano, 0732 Soriano, Francesco (1548/9-1621): Op 7 Nos 3, 6, 9 BBC Singers Wyneke Jordans, Leo van Doeselaar (piano) MENDELSSOHN Bo Holten (conductor) Capriccio in E Minor, op 81 No 3 5.50am Bartholdy Quartet 2.22am Eyck, Jacob van (c.1590-1657): Preludium ofte Voorspel ACANTA 43075 CD 3 TR 5 Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Le quattro stagione (The Four Marijke Miessen (recorder) Seasons) 0742 Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin) 5.52am Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Huygens, Constantijn (1596-1687): Multi dicunt animae meae, J.S.BACH Paul Dyer (director) domine ne in furore tuo, usquequo domine (Pathodia sacra et Concerto for Three Keyboards in D Minor, BWV1063 profana, 1647) Guher & Suher Pekinel, pianos 3.00am Anne Grimm (soprano) Zurcher Kammerorchester Arnic, Blaz (1901-1970): Overture to the Comic Opera, Op 11 Peter Kooij (bass) Howard Griffiths, conductor Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra Leo van Doeselaar (organ) Warner 256461950-2 Tr 7-9 Anton Nanut (conductor) Mike Fentross (theorbo) Mieneke van der Velden (viola da gamba) 0756 3.08am Gretry, Andre-Ernest-Modeste (1741-1813): Selections (Le 6.00am MENDELSSOHN jugement de Midas) Groneman, Albertus (1710/12-1778): Trio Sonata in E minor Wasserfahrt Apollon/Marsias ...... John Elwes (tenor) Gert Oost (organ) Felicity Lott, soprano Chloe ...... Mieke van der Sluis (soprano) Ann Murray, mezzo Lise ...... Francoise Vanheck (soprano) 6.07am EMI 094635083323 CD 2 Tr 6 Mopsa ...... Suzanne Gari (soprano) Roman, Johan Helmich (1694-1758): Suite (Sonata) No 12 in E Palemon ...... Jules Bastin (bass) minor for clavichord, IB236 0802 Pan ...... Michel Verschaeve (bass) Karin Jonsson-Hazell (harpsichord) Choeur de la Chapelle Royale de Paris MENDELSSOHN La Petite Bande 6.15am Trumpet Overture in C Major, op 101 Gustav Leonhardt (conductor) Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Sonata in G for flute, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig violin and continuo, BWV1038 (authenticity doubtful) Kurt Masur, conductor 3.45am Musica Petropolitana BERLIN CLASSICS 0002452CCC CD 3 T.3 Bentzon, Jorgen (1897-1951): Sinfonia Buffo, Op 35 Danish Radio Concert Orchestra 6.23am 0812 Borge Wagner (conductor) Hofmann, Leopold (1738-1793) (formerly attrib. Haydn): Concerto in D for flute and orchestra HANDEL 3.51am Emmanuel Pahud (flute) Extracts from Israel in Egypt Pook, Jocelyn (b.1960), text: Andrew Motion: Mobile Bienne Symphony Orchestra Hans Jorg Mammel, tenor The King's Singers Marc Tardue (conductor) Monika Frimmer (??), soprano Rheinische Kantorei 3.55am 6.43am Das Kleine Konzert Spassov, Ivan (1934-1996): Dimano, Lyube Dimano (Dimana, Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Trio in E for keyboard and strings, Hermann Max, director My Love Dimano) H XV 28 CPO 777222-2 CD 2 T.16-20 Katya Dimanova (soloist) Beaux Arts Trio. Polyphonia 0820 Ivelin Dimitrov (conductor) SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b00k9pfs) MENDELSSOHN 4.02am Mendelssohn Weekend - Mary King Prelude and Fugue No 2 in D Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Singet dem Herrn ein Martin Jones, piano neues Lied, BWV225 - motet As part of Radio 3's Mendelssohn Weekend, marking 200 years Nimbus NI5071 T.3-4 Norwegian Soloists' Choir since his birth, Mary King presents a programme exploring the Norwegian Radio Orchestra composer's wider sound-world. What would he have listened Grete Pedersen (conductor) to? Who were his contemporary and historical heroes? 0827

4.19am With a varied selection of music, ranging from Bach's Triple FRANCES-HOAD Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Violin Sonata No 1 in G Piano Concerto in D minor, BWV 1063 to Schubert's Erlkonig, Song Without Words minor, BWV1001 (Presto) D328, plus works by Lassus and Bach, and an excerpt from Andrew Zolinsky, piano Hilary Hahn (violin) Handel's Israel in Egypt. There are also pieces by Mendelssohn BBC RECORDING himself, including his Organ Sonata, Op 65, No 5 and the 4.22am Trumpet Overture, Op 101, as well as a specially-commissioned 0833 Spohr, Louis (1784-1859): Duo in E minor for violin and viola, new Song Without Words. Op 13 GADE Vilmos Szabadi (violin) Complete Playlist: Scherzo from Symphony no 1, op 5 Gyorgy Konrad (viola) Danish National Symphony Orchestra 0703 , conductor 4.37am CHANDOS 10026 Tr 2 Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Trio in B flat for violin, MENDELSSOHN cello and piano, Op 11 (Gassenhauer-Trio) Variations concertantes, op 17 0839 Arcadia Trio Richard Lester, cello Susan Tomes, piano MENDELSSOHN 5.00am LDR 1003 Tr 4 Sonata for Organ, Op 65 No 5 in D Forqueray, Antoine (1672-1745): La regente (Pieces de viole - Wouter Van Den Broek, organ Paris, 1747) 0714 EMERGO EC3999-2 T.5 Pierre Pitzl, Marcy Jean Bolli (violas da gamba) Luciano Contini (archlute) HANDEL/MENDELSSOHN 0848 Augusta Campagne (harpsichord) Muss ich dem Teuren Klage weihn Julia Kleiter, soprano SCHUBERT 5.07am NDR Chor Erlkonig, D328 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 2 of 19 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in E minor Op. 64 Bach: Keyboard concerto in D minor, BWV1052 (2nd mvt) Gerald Moore, piano (c/w MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49; Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord) DG 4310852 T.18 Violin Sonata in F major (1838)) Collegium Aureum Anne-Sophie Mutter (Violin), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 05472 77412-2, Tr 8 0853 Kurt Masur (conductor), Lynn Harrell (cello), Andre Previn (piano) CPE Bach: Symphony No 1 in D (final mvt) MENDELSSOHN Deutsche Grammophon 00289 477 8001 (CD with bonus DVD) The English Concert Agitato from Songs without words, op 38 Andrew Manze (director) Luba Edlina, piano MENDELSSOHN: Cello Sonata in D Op. 58 HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907403, Tr 3 CHANDOS 89489 CD 21 TR 5 (c/w MENDELSSOHN: Cello Sonata in B flat Op. 45; Song Without Words (Andante) Op. 109; Variations concertantes Op. CPE Bach: La Borchward (Polonaise); La Pott (Minuet) (23 0856 17) Pieces caracteristiques) Claude Starck (cello), Christoph Eschenbach (piano) Christine Schornsheim (plays on Hammerflugel by Matthias MENDELSSOHN Brilliant Classics 93888/17 (40 CDs, Budget) Heilmann, 1780) Der wandernde Musikant, from 6 Songs, op 88 CAPRICCIO 10 424, Trs 15 and 16 RIAS Kammerchor MENDELSSOHN: in D Hans-Christoph Rademann, director (c/w MENDELSSOHN: Jesu meine Freude; Tu es Petrus Op. Bach: Chorale: Was mein Gott will (St Matthew Passion) Harmonia Mundi HMC901992 Tr 24 111; Wir glauben an einen Gott; ) Das Neue Orchester Andrea L. Brown (Soprano), Monica Groop (alto), Werner Chorus Musicus Güra (tenor), Michael Volle (bass) Kammerchor Stuttgart, Christoph Spering (conductor) SAT 09:00 CD Review (b00k9pfv) Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Frieder Bernius OPUS 111 OPS 30-72/73 Mendelssohn Weekend (conductor) CD1, Tr 20 Carus 83.216 (Hybrid SACD) Building a Library: WF Bach: Adagio and Fugue in D minor MENDELSSOHN: Octet in E flat major Op. 20 MENDELSSOHN: Paulus Florilegium Susan Gritton (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), Barry CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS 9096, Trs 5-6 Reviewer - Piers Burton-Page Banks (tenor), Peter Coleman-Wright (bass), BBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard CPE Bach: Double concerto for harpsichord and fortepiano First choice: Hickox (conductor) W47 (3rd mvt) (c/w MENDELSSOHN: Sextet in D major Op. 110) Chandos 10516(2)X (2CDs, Mid Price) Anneke Uittenbosch (harpsichord) Chamber Music Ensemble of Lincoln Center Jean Antonietti (fortepiano) Delos DE 3266 (CD) MENDELSSOHN: String Quintet No. 2 Op. 87 Concentus Musicus Wien (c/w MENDELSSOHN: String Quintet No. 1 Op. 18) Leonhardt Consort CD Review BAL Catalogue Data Mannheim String Quartet, Jone Kaliunaite (viola) TELDEC 0630 12326 2, Tr 3 bal.mendelssohn: CPO 777 3892 (CD, Mid Price) bal.mendelssohn.octet.op.20 Mendelssohn: Motet: Tu es Petrus, Op 111 MENDELSSOHN: Concerto for piano and strings in A minor Stuttgart Chamber Choir Andrew McGregor introduces Radio 3's weekly programme (c/w Concerto for violin, piano and strings on D minor) German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen devoted to all that's new in the world of recorded music, with a Andreas Staier (fortepiano), Rainer Kussmaul (violin), Frieder Bernius (conductor) focus on recordings of Mendelssohn. Concerto Koln CARUS 83216, Tr 9. Warner 2564 69270-9 (4 CDs, Budget) Including: MENDELSSOHN: Piano Works SAT 14:00 Mendelssohn Weekend (b00k9pxv) 09.05am Prelude in B minor Op 104a No. 2; Rondo Capriccioso Op. 14; The Salon Lied Op 34 Nos. 2 & 4 [transc. Liszt]; 3 Etudes Op. 104b; Song MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2 Without Words Op. 38 No. 2; 3 Fantaisies ou Caprices Op. 16 The Saturday Salon (c/w SCHUBERT: Quartettsatz in C minor D. 703; MOZART: (Scherzo); Song Without Words Op. 19 No. 2; Variations String Quartet in C major K. 465 ‘Dissonance’; Serieuses Op 54; Song Without Words Op. 102 No. 5; Caprices Louise Fryer explores the legacy of Mendelssohn's chamber MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in D major Op. 44 No. 1 Op. 33 Nos. 2 & 3; Songs Without Words Op. 67 Nos. 2 & 5; A music, ranging from his Piano Quartet, Op 1, written while he (Andante espressivo ma con moto)) midsummer Night’s Dream (Scherzo) [transc. Rachmaninov] was still a child prodigy, to his second String Quintet, composed Elias String Quartet Bertrand Chamayou just a couple of years prior to his death. Wigmore Hall Live WHlive0028 (CD, Mid Price) Naïve V 5131 (CD) Performers include former Radio 3 New Generation Artists the 09.10am Disc of the Week (Part 1) 11.50 am Disc of the Week (Part 2) Royal String Quartet, Israeli violinist Shlomo Mintz and the Henschel Quartet, whose award-winning Mendelssohn MENDELSSOHN: Piano Sonata in E Major Op. 6 MENDELSSOHN: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor Op. 40 recordings have drawn critical praise. (c/w MENDELSSOHN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor Op. (c/w MENDELSSOHN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor Op. 25; Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor Op. 40; Prelude and 25; Piano Sonata in E Major Op. 6; Prelude and Fugue Op. 35 Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op 1 Fugue Op. 35 No. 1) No. 1) Domus: (piano) Murray Perahia (piano), Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Krysia Osotowicz (piano) Sony Classical 88697 00818 2 (CD, Mid Price) Neville Marriner (conductor) Timothy Boulton (viola) Sony Classical 88697 00818 2 (CD, Mid Price) Richard Lester (cello) 09.30 am Building a Library Recommendation Susan Tomes (piano)

MENDELSSOHN: Octet in E flat major Op. 20 SAT 12:15 Music Matters (b00k9plb) Mendelssohn: String Quartet No 5 in E Flat, Op 44, No 3 Mendelssohn Weekend - Mendelssohn's Scotland The Henschel Quartet Reviewer – Piers Burton-Page Tom Service journeys through Scotland in a quest to find the Mendelssohn: Violin Sonata in F minor, Op 4 First choice recommendation: inspiration behind Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture and his Shlomo Mintz (violin) (c/w MENDELSSOHN: Sextet in D major Op. 110) Scottish Symphony. Check out more images and video clips Paul Ostrovsky (piano) Chamber Music Ensemble of Lincoln Center from Tom's journey below. Delos DE 3266 (CD) Mendelssohn: String Quintet No 2 in B flat, Op 87 The Royal String Quartet. Next week Iain Burnside compares recordings of Liszt SAT 13:00 The Early Music Show (b00k9pxs) Transcendental Studies S. 139. Mendelssohn Weekend SAT 16:00 Mendelssohn Weekend (b00k9pxx) 10.25 am New Releases Catherine Bott talks to Christoph Wolff about Mendelssohn's Vintage Mendelssohn love of the music of the Bachs and the links between these two Andrew talks to Harriet Smith and Ivan Hewett about some families. Mendelssohn's great aunt, Sara Levy, studied with JS Rob Cowan presents some of his favourite Mendelssohn recent releases of Mendelssohn’s music. With extracts from a Bach's son, Wilhelm Friedemann, and she also owned a very recordings, including songs with and without words, from some selection of the following discs: extensive collection of music, among which were many works of the great performers of the past. by Johann Sebastian and his four sons. Madame Levy also MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 4 in A major Op. 90 ‘Italian’ commissioned new works and became a patron for the two (c/w BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4 in E minor Op. 98) elder Bach brothers. SAT 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00kbhbs) Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, Riccardo Chailly (conductor) Mendelssohn and Royalty Decca Concerts 002894758216 (download only) The programme includes excerpts from Mendelssohn's arrangement of JS Bach's St Matthew Passion and works by two Mendelssohn and Royalty - Part 1 MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 3 in A minor Op. 56 of his sons, WF and CPE Bach. ‘Scottish’ Presented by Louise Fryer. (c/w MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 1 in C minor Op. 11 Playlist: New , Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor) A concert exploring Mendelssohn's relationship to the heritage Brilliant Classics 93777 (7 CDs, Budget) Bach: Wir setzen uns mit Tranen nieder (St Matthew Passion - and some of the major figures of European royalty, in which final chorus) - arr Mendelssohn 1841 the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers perform choral and MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No. 12 in G minor Das Neue Orchester orchestral music. (c/w MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No. 1 in C major; Chorus Musicus String Symphony No. 6 in E flat major; String Symphony No. 7 Christoph Spering (conductor) The programme begins with the much-loved Hebrides Overture, in D minor) OPUS 111 OPS 30-72/73 composed in 1829 on a trip to Scotland, and which was Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Lev Markiz (conductor) CD2, Tr 31 dedicated to an important continental monarch - King Federick Brilliant Classics 93777 (7 CDs, Budget) William IV of Prussia. It is followed by choral pieces which Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 3 of 19 were a response to the heritage of German and congregational letters to his family about his impressions of the landscape, Geoffrey Simon (conductor) music. culture and customs of the different countries he encountered. It was also a process of self-discovery where he thought about 3.35am BBC Singers his future plans and his identity as a German. Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): String Quartet in A, Op 41, No BBC Symphony Orchestra In London he sees streets shrouded in fog; in Edinburgh he 3 Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor) scrambles up Arthur's Seat for a view of the city. Quatuor Manfred He notes in Vienna that people do nothing at all. Travelling The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave, Op 26); Mein Gott, warum hast down the Danube by boat is a highlight and in Pressburg he 4.06am Du mich verlassen, Op 78, No 3; Ave Maria, Op 23, No 2; Wer joins in the celebrations for the crowning of the King of Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Sonata in E for flute and nur den lieben Gott lasst walten. Hungary. His final destination is London, where he is continuo, BWV 1035 overwhelmed by the enthusiastic reception by audiences. Lena Weman Ericsson (flute) Hans-Ola Ericsson (organ) SAT 19:50 Twenty Minutes (b00kdp93) The programme includes music written by Mendelssohn Mendelssohn at Buckingham Palace alongside music the composer would have heard during his 4.20am years of travelling. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Symphony No 31 in Sean Rafferty visits Buckingham Palace's picture gallery to D, K297 (Paris) discover details of the various visits Mendelssohn made to the The King's Consort royal residence to see the young Queen Victoria and Prince SAT 23:30 Hear and Now (b00k9py5) Robert King (conductor) Albert, among whom he was a favourite. Aided by the deputy Manchester Portraits surveyor of the Queen's works of art, Jonathan Marsden, who 4.38am has researched the composer's visits, Sean views excerpts from Steven Mackey Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Hvad est du dog skjon (How fair Mendelssohn's and Victoria's letters and journals, and finds out thou art); Guds son har gjort mig fri (God's son hath set me why he was so popular there. In a programme recorded at Studio 7 in Manchester, Robert free, Four Psalms, Op 74) Worby explores the work of American composer Steven Thorbjorn Gulbrandsoy (bass) With recollections of the rooms they stayed in, the music Mackey, who talks about his music and introduces four BBC Symphony Chorus played, the works of art the composer saw and gifts exchanged orchestral works. Stephen Jackson (conductor) in the form of the Scottish Symphony dedication and Victoria's ring. There are also accounts of Mendelssohn's improvisational Steven began his surprising career path playing electric guitar in 4.49am skills and the shared interests among the three of them, rock bands in Northern California. Describing a formative early Pejacevic, Dora (1885-1923): Four pieces for piano including Shakespeare and British history. influence, he went to a gig by prog rock band Yes in 1973, and Ida Gamulin (piano) heard beautiful orchestral music playing over the PA - he found out that it was Stravinsky's Firebird, and wanted to explore this 5.00am SAT 20:10 Performance on 3 (b00kdp95) music further. Salmenhaara, Erkki (1941-2002): Adagietto for orchestra Mendelssohn and Royalty Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Now a professor of music at Princeton, he continues to play Ralf Sjoblom (conductor) Mendelssohn and Royalty - Part 2 electric guitar, and has written two concertos for the instrument. As a composer he is noted for his highly individual style, a 5.06am Presented by Louise Fryer. multi-layered play of rhythm and sonority which incorporates Hartmann, Johan Peter Emilius (1805-1900): Four Caprices, and plays with references to classical and popular music. Op 18, No 1 The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers' programme of Nina Gade (piano) choral and orchestral music exploring Mendelssohn's royal Fred Sherry (cello) connections concludes. Featuring a piece which expressed his BBC Philharmonic 5.18am close relationship with the British royal family - the Scottish Clark Rundell (conductor) Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Four songs (Im Grunen, Op Symphony, which Mendelssohn dedicated to Queen Victoria 59) when he completed it in 1842, almost 15 years after its Steven Mackey: Lost and Found; Banana/Dump Truck; Turn BBC Singers inception. the Key; Eating Greens. Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

BBC Singers 5.27am BBC Symphony Orchestra Franck, Cesar (1822-1890): Le chasseur maudit - symphonic Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor) SUNDAY 10 MAY 2009 poem, M44 Orchestre National de France Symphony No 3 in A, Op 56 (Scottish). SUN 01:00 Through the Night (b00k9pym) Neeme Jarvi (conductor) 1.00am Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Cantata: Herz und Mund 5.44am SAT 21:00 Mendelssohn Weekend (b00k9pxz) und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Pyrmonter Kurwoche Mendelssohn, the Nazis and Me The Sixteen No 5 (Scherzi melodichi per divertimento dicoloro, TWV XLII Radio Chamber Orchestra e4) Sheila Hayman, a descendant of Mendelssohn's sister Fanny, Ton Koopman (conductor) Albrecht Rau (violin) explores how Felix tried to reconcile his Christianity with his Heinrich Rau (viola) Jewish roots, tracing the events from his time to the emergence 1.32am Clemens Malich (cello) of the Third Reich. Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 99 in E flat, H I 99 Wolfgang Hochstein (harpsichord) Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra She talks to conductor Kurt Masur, an Aryan boy in 1930s Guido Ajmone-Marsan (conductor) 5.52am Berlin, forbidden to listen to Mendelssohn, and Claus Moser, a Papa, Clemens non (1510/15-1544/45): Frais et gaillard Jewish boy in Berlin at the same time, forbidden to listen to 1.56am Flautando Koln (recorders) Beethoven and consoled by Mendelssohn. Steven Isserlis shows Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Six Impromptus, Op 5 how Mendelssohn's own struggle between his two faiths can be Juhani Lagerspetz (piano) 5.55am heard in his music. Hassler, Hans Leo (1554-1612): Canzon duodecimi toni zu acht 2.12am Stimmen And Hayman's cousin Cecile, an adolescent in the Third Reich, Larsson, Lars-Erik (1908-1986): Sonatina for violin and piano Roland Gotz (spinet/organ) talks for the first time of how it felt to be a 'Mischling', Arve Tellefsen (violin) Flautando Koln (recorders) belonging neither with Jews nor Aryans, in a world where being Lucia Negro (piano) Geigenbande (musicians) a Mendelssohn had suddenly changed from a badge of pride to a source of shame, and even mortal danger. 2.27am 6.00am Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Serenade No 2 in A, Op 16 Arcadelt, Jacques (c.1505-1568): Il bianco e dolce cigno Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra Gastoldi, Giovanni (c.1550-c.1622): Bellissima Mirtilla SAT 21:45 Mendelssohn Weekend (b00k9py1) Raffi Armenian (conductor) Verdelot, Philippe (c.1485-c.1532): Italia Mia; Dormend Songs Without Words for the 21st Century un'giorno 3.00am Banchieri Singers Louise Fryer discusses Radio 3's newly commissioned Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): A Midsummer Night's Dream Denes Szabo (conductor) collection of Songs Without Words with the pianist who - incidental music recorded them, Andrew Zolinsky. The works were composed Britten Sinfonia 6.13am by Anna Meredith, James Olsen, Emily Hall, Lloyd Moore, Alexander Shelley (conductor) Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Psalm 23 (Genevan Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Vlad Maistorovici. Psalter) 3.18am Leo van Doeselaar (organ) Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958): Three Shakespeare SAT 22:20 Words and Music (b00kbygk) songs for chorus 6.20am Mendelssohn Weekend - The Great Trip Polyphony Kodaly, Zoltan (1882-1967): Psalm 114 (Genevan Psalter) Stephen Layton (conductor) Istvan Ella (organ) Edward Bennett reads extracts from letters Mendelssohn wrote Chamber Choir of Pecs during the 'Great Trip'. In 1829, aged 20, the young and 3.25am Aurel Tillai (conductor) impressionable composer embarked on a tour that lasted until Grainger, Percy (1882-1961): O Danny Boy or Irish tune from 1832. County Derry; Shepherd's Hey - vers for wind band 6.24am Edmonton Wind Ensemble Neefe, Christian G. (1748-1798): Concerto in G for keyboard It was the longest trip undertaken by any musician in modern Harry Pinchin (conductor) in G times and spanned England, Scotland, the Swiss Alps and Christine Schornsheim (fortepiano) European cities such as Vienna, Rome and Paris. The journey 3.32am Michael Niesemann (oboe) concluded in London, a city where Mendelssohn felt Grainger, Percy (1882-1961): Colleen Dhas Neue Dusseldorfer Hofsmusik particularly at home. Throughout the trip, Mendelssohn wrote Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 4 of 19 6.46am 0824 SUN 10:00 Sunday Morning (b00k9q6t) Hubay, Jeno (1858-1937): Spinning Room, Op 44, No 3 Mendelssohn Weekend Ferenc Szecsodi (violin) MENDELSSOHN Istvan Kassai (piano) Capriccio in F sharp minor (Op. 5) With Iain Burnside. Benjamin Frith, piano 6.51am Naxos 8.553541 T14 A special edition of the programme from the Lecture Theatre at Bersa, Blagoje (1873-1934): Idila, Op 25b the Victoria and Albert Museum, with music from violinist Croatian Radio Symphony Orchestra 0831 Daniel Hope, pianist Sebastian Knauer, soprano Sophie Bevan Mladen Tarbuk (conductor). and baritone David Stout, as well as conversation with historian SCARLATTI Kate Williams. Together they paint a portrait of Mendelssohn Sonata in F major, K38 the salon musician, consider his relationship with Queen SUN 07:00 Breakfast (b00k9pyp) Scott Ross, harpsichord Victoria and Prince Albert, and perform some of the music he Mendelssohn Weekend - Mary King Warner 2564-60030-2 T.5 created for this setting.

As part of Radio 3's Mendelssohn Weekend, Mary King 0834 Playlist: presents a programme exploring the composer's wider sound- world. What would he have listened to? Who were his MENDELSSOHN Mendelssohn, arr Hope: On Wings of Song, Op 34 No 2 contemporary and historical heroes? Prelude and Fugue in D minor (Op. 37, No. 3) Daniel Hope (violin) Margaret Philips, organ Sebastian Knauer (piano) With music ranging from an excerpt from Mozart's Jupiter REGENT REGCD209 CD 2 T.10-11 Duration: 2m15s Symphony to Attwood's anthem Come Holy Ghost and Weber's Konzertstuck in F minor, Op 79, plus works by Schumann and 0842 Mendelssohn: Gruss, Op 63 No 3 Beethoven. With pieces by Mendelssohn himself, including his Sophie Bevan (soprano) Three Studies, the String Symphony No 2 in D and the Caprice ATTWOOD David Stout (baritone) No 2 in E, as well as a specially-commissioned new Song Come Holy Ghost Iain Burnside (piano) Without Words. The Choir of New College Oxford Duration: 2m20s Ryan Wigglesworth, organ Complete Playlist: Edward Higginbottom, director Mendelssohn: Der Mond, Op 86 No 5; Fruhlingslied, Op 47 No CRD 3510 T.6 3; Da lieg' ich unter den Baumen, Op 84 No 1; Nachtlied, Op 0703 71 No 6 0848 David Stout (Baritone) MENDELSSOHN Iain Burnside (piano) String Symphony No. 2 in D major STERNDALE BENNETT Durations: 1m40s, 2m21s, 3m53s, 2m13s Niuew Sinfonietta Amsterdam Barcarole from Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor (Op.19) Lev Markiz, conductor BBC Scottish Chamber Orchestra CD BIS-CD-939 CD 2 Tr 1-3 Howard Shelley, piano and conductor James Olsen: Song IId (BBC recording) HYPERION CDA67595 T.2 Andrew Zolinsky (piano) 0714 In: My song is called IId... 0756 Out: Music (MUSIC DURATION ONLY = 3m44s) J.S.BACH Duration: 4m25s Prelude & Fugue in A minor, BWV543 MEREDITH Christopher Herrick, organ Camberwell Green Mendelssohn: Sonata in F (1838) HYPERION CDA6679/2 CD 1 T 4-5 Andrew Zolinsky, piano Daniel Hope (violin) BBC RECORDING Sebastian Knauer (piano) 0725 Duration: 22m06s 0903 MENDELSSOHN Mendelssohn: Die Liebende schreibt, Op 86 No 3; Pagenlied; Three Studies (Op.104b) MENDELSSOHN Schilflied, Op 71, No 4; Wanderlied, Op 57 No 6 Martin Jones, piano Wir glauben all an einen Gott Sophie Bevan (soprano) NIMBUS NI5071 T.18-20 Kammerchor Stuttgart Iain Burnside (piano) Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Durations: 2m53s, 1m43s, 2m48s, 1m52s 0733 Frieder Bernius, director CARUS 83.216 T.10-12 Mendelssohn: Song without Words No 6 in F sharp minor, Op MACFARREN 30 (Venetianisches Gondellied); Song without Words No 4 in Chevy Chace Overture 0910 D, Op 85 (Andante sostenuto) English Northern Philharmonia Sebastian Knauer (piano) David Lloyd-Jones, conductor WEBER Durations: 3m15s, 3m16s HELIOS CDH55088 TR 1 Konzertstück in F minor (Op. 79) Russian National Orchestra Prince Albert: Gruss an den Bruder; Einsamkeit 0741 Mikhail Pletnev, conductor David Stout (Baritone) DG 453 486-2 T.1-4 Iain Burnside (piano) SCHUMANN Durations: 1m6s, 2m27s Adagio from String Quartet in A minor (Op. 41, No.1) 0926 Zehetmair Quartet Prince Albert: Cradle Song ECM 4721692 Tr 3 MENDELSSOHN Sophie Bevan (soprano) Caprice No. 2 in E major (Op.33) Iain Burnside (piano) 0747 Martin Jones, piano Duration: 1m34s NIMBUS 5069 T2 MOZART CD 4th mvt Molto allegro from "Jupiter" Symphony (K.551) 0933 Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56 (Scottish) Gurzenich Orchestra of Cologne (finale) Gunter Wand, conductor SCHUMANN Apollo Chamber Orchestra TESTAMENT SBT1304 T.12 Erinnerung from Album fur die Jügend (Op.68) Meridian CDE 84261, Tr 4 Angela Brownridge, piano 0754 HELIOS CDH55039 T.28 Mendelssohn: O wert thou in the cauld blast Sophie Bevan (soprano) MENDELSSOHN 0936 David Stout (baritone) Der Gluckliche & Hirtenlied, from 6 Songs, op 88 Iain Burnside (piano) RIAS Kammerchor BEETHOVEN Duration: 1m52s Hans-Christoph Rademann, director Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (Op.112) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901992 T. 20-21 Corydon Singers Mendelssohn: There be none of beauty's daughters Corydon Orchestra David Stout (baritone) 0803 Matthew Best Iain Burnside (piano) Hyperion CDA66880 T.14 Duration: 2m34s BACH Sanctus from B Minor Mass 0946 Mendelssohn: Sun of the sleepless The Monteverdi Choir Sophie Bevan (soprano) The English Baroque Soloists MENDELSSOHN Iain Burnside (piano) , conductor Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (Op. 27) Duration: 2m14s DG 469778-2 CD 9 T.10 Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Kurt Masur, conductor Mendelssohn arr Hope: Suleika, Op 57 No 3 0812 BERLIN CLASSICS 0002452CCC CD 3 T.5 Daniel Hope (violin) Sebastian Knauer (piano) SCHUBERT 0957 Duration: 2m33s Scherzo from Symphony No. 9 in C major (D. 944) “Great" Berlin Philharmonic MENDELSSOHN Mendelssohn: On Wings of Song, Op 34 No 2 Simon Rattle, conductor Song Without Words, op 102, No 3 Sophie Bevan (soprano) EMI 094633938229 Tr 3 The English Guitar Quartet David Stout (baritone) Saydisc CDSDL379 T.1 Iain Burnside (piano) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 5 of 19 Duration: 2m44s. Mendelssohn never managed to fully reconcile the two and he A selection of poetry, prose and music on the theme of the fairy remained dissatisfied with his symphony. He withdrew it and it tradition, with readings by Stella Gonet and Robert Glenister. was never published in his lifetime. But that didn't stop it SUN 12:00 Private Passions (b00k9q6w) becoming immensely popular and a staple part of the Including works by Keats, Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, Christina Private Passions - John Sessions as symphonic repertoire. Rossetti and Yeats interspersed with music by Stravinsky, Judith Weir, Schubert, Purcell and Kathryn Tickell. Michael Berkeley is transported to the Isle of Staffa, where he In considering the work and its revisions, Charles provides an meets the great Felix Mendelssohn (aka John Sessions) and his insight into Mendelssohn's philosophy as a symphonist, as well charming sister Fanny Hensel (Rebecca Front). A certain as the role that Mendelssohn's mentor, Goethe, played in SUN 23:30 Jazz Line-Up (b00k9q8t) amount of inter-sibling rivalry ensues. directing the young composer. The programme also features a Gareth Williams's Power Trio performance of Mendelssohn's overture inspired by a poem of Goethe, Die Erste Walpurgisnacht. Kevin LeGendre presents a concert given at Ronnie Scotts in SUN 13:00 Mendelssohn Weekend (b00k9q6y) London by prolific Welsh-born composer and pianist Gareth The Salon Williams with his Power Trio, with virtuosic bassist Lawrence SUN 18:30 Choir and Organ (b00k9q8m) Cottle and drummer Ian Thomas. The Sunday Salon Mendelssohn Weekend Gareth's first major professional engagement was as keyboard Louise Fryer explores Mendelssohn's chamber music, including In a programme from the Royal Northern College of Music in player/MD for jazz hip-hop band Us3 (whose most celebrated his popular Octet, Op 20, written at the age of just 16. A work Manchester, Aled Jones and his guests explore how hit was Cantaloop). He performed with the band on a world tour widely recognised as his first masterpiece, the recording is the Mendelssohn's creative personality was laid bare in his choral in 1993 and appears on their Blue Note album Broadway and winner of CD Review's Building a Library survey. music. 52nd.

The programme also includes the young Kungsbacka Trio, Manchester Chamber Choir, conducted by Richard Tanner, Kevin also talks to saxophonist Mark Lockheart about his new former Radio 3 New Generation Artists, performing perform sacred and secular works from across Mendelssohn's CD In Deep. Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D minor, one of his most choral career. Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir, conducted successful chamber works. A darker note is struck by the by Sue Hollingworth are joined by the boys of Oldham Youth Title: Crossing the Sands composer's final String Quartet, often interpreted as a response Choir, directed by Eileen Bentley, to give a special performance Artist: Jazz Warriors to the death of his beloved sister Fanny, and which was written of Hear my Prayer in the culmination of Radio 3's Wings CD: Afropeans - Jazz Warriors in the final months of his own life. project - a nationwide event in which choirs all over Britain Track: 4 have signed up to perform O for the Wings of a Dove. Label: Destin-E Records 777 25 3 2005 Cello Sonata No 1 in B flat, Op 45 Comp: Courtney Pine Steven Isserlis (cello) Denn Er hat seinen Engeln befohlen Pub: C.Pine'stone Music Melvyn Tan (fortepiano) Manchester Chamber Choir, conducted by Richard Tanner with Dur: 05.13 Greg Morris on organ Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 49 Title: It Might as Well Be Spring The Kungsbacka Trio Laudate Pueri Dominum Op. 39 No. 2 Artist: Jim Hart Quartet Manchester Chamber Choir, conducted by Richard Tanner with CD: Words and Music (A Tribute to the Art of Song) String Quartet No 6 in F minor, Op 80 Greg Morris on organ Track: 1 The Elias String Quartet Label: Woodville Records WVCD 124 Verleih’ uns Frieden Comp: Rogers/Hammerstein Octet, Op 20 Manchester Chamber Choir, conducted by Richard Tanner with Pub: MCPS The winning disc from CD Review's Building a Library Survey Greg Morris on organ Dur: 07.30 The Chamber Society from Lincoln Centre, . Mitten wir im Leben sind Op. 23 Title: Stairway Manchester Chamber Choir, conducted by Richard Tanner Artist: Mark Lockheart Group SUN 15:00 Mendelssohn Weekend (b00k9q70) CD: In Deep Mendelssohn Revealed Hear my Prayer Track: 1 Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir, Oldham Youth Choir Label: Edition Records EDN 1013 Tom Service, Louise Fryer and studio guests including writer boys, with Greg Morris on organ Comp: Mark Lockheart and broadcaster Judith Chernaik and conductor Ben Parry Pub: Edition Records reassess Mendelssohn's reputation and legacy 200 years after his Traditional Dur: 01.47 birth, asking what lies behind our tendency to underrate him? Summer is a Cumin in Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir, conducted by Susan Title: Long Way Gone Conductors Riccardo Chailly and Christopher Hogwood give Hollingworth Artist: Mark Lockheart Group their thoughts about the composer and what his music means to CD: In Deep them, and pianist Roberto Prosseda talks about the recently Beati mortui Op.115 Track: 4 reconstructed third piano concerto which offers some insights CD Label: Edition Records EDN 1013 into the compositional direction Mendelssohn might have taken Comp: Mark Lockheart were it not for his untimely death. Sechs Lieder im Freien zu singen, Op. 59 Pub: Edition Records Frühzeitiege Frühling Op. 59, no. 2 Dur: 05.42 And Tom goes in search of the truth behind the recent stories Die Nachtigall Op. 59, no. 4 about the composer's infatuation with the Swedish soprano Jagdlied Op. 5, no. 6 Title: Golden People Jenny Lind, while the programme also hears from some of the Manchester Chamber Choir, conducted by Richard Tanner Artist: Mark Lockheart Group 100 choirs around the UK singing Mendelssohn's O for the CD: In Deep Wings of a Dove. Nunc Dimittis Op. 69 No.1 Track: 3 Manchester Chamber Choir, conducted by Richard Tanner Label: Edition Records EDN 1013 Comp: Mark Lockheart SUN 16:00 Choral Evensong (b00k4llx) Sechs Sprüche, Op. 79 Pub: Edition Records Mendelssohn Weekend: Choral Evensong 1. Weihnachten Dur: 06.30 4. In Der Passionszeit From the Temple Church, London. 3. Am Himmelfahrtstage Title: The Major and the Minor Manchester Chamber Choir, conducted by Richard Tanner Artist: Dutch Jazz Orchestra Introit: Richte mich Gott (Mendelssohn) CD: Dutch Jazz Orchestra - Moon Dreams - Gil Evans and Hymn: Take up thy cross (Breslau) Gerry Mulligan Responses: Smith SUN 20:00 Drama on 3 (b00k9q8p) Track: 7 Psalm: 33 (Pye) Mendelssohn Weekend - A Midsummer Night's Dream Label: Challenge Records Int. CR 73275 First Lesson: Exodus 33 Comp: Gerry Mulligan Canticles: Walmisley in D minor A rare chance to hear Shakespeare's play and Mendelssohn's Pub: Challenge Records Second Lesson: Luke 3 vv15-22 complete incidental music for it in its intended context, Anthem: All men, all things (Hymn of Praise) (Mendelssohn) specially recorded in the Tudor setting of the Middle Temple BBC recording, made at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London, Final Hymn: Now thank we all our God (Nun danket) Hall in London. Tim Carroll introduces his production in March 2009 Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in C minor, Op 37 No 1 conversation with Louise Fryer. Title: Rocky Crater (Mendelssohn) Artist: Gareth William's Power Trio Oberon/Theseus ...... Martin Turner Comp: Gareth Williams Associate organist: Greg Morris Titania/Hippolyta ...... Melanie Jessop Dur: 06.24 Assistant organist: Ian le Grice Lysander/Flute ...... Alex Hassell Director of music: James Vivian. Demetrius/Starveling ...... Daniel Rigby BBC Recording, made at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London, Helena/Snug ...... Catherine Bailey March 2009 Puck/Snout ...... James Garnon Title: Shock! SUN 17:00 Discovering Music (b00k9q72) Bottom/Egeus ...... John Paul Connolly Artist: Gareth William's Power Trio Mendelssohn Weekend - Italian Symphony Hermia/Quince/First Fairy ...... Elena Pavli Comp: Gareth Williams Ladies' Choir of the Enlightenment Dur: 07.28 Charles Hazlewood and the BBC Concert Orchestra explore the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment history and workings of Mendelssohn's popular 4th Symphony - Charles Hazlewood (conductor) BBC recording, made at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London, the Italian, discovering that the composer was torn between two Directed by Tim Carroll. March 2009 artistic ideals - using music to express the poetic and extra- Title: Zelda musical, and creating a taut, pure symphonic construction that Artist: Gareth William's Power Trio would be deemed worthy of a successor to Beethoven. SUN 22:30 Words and Music (b00k9q8r) Comp: Gareth Williams The Faerie World Dur: 05.47 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 6 of 19 BBC recording, made at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London, Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet) programme has been broadcast. March 2009 Frank de Bruine (oboe) Title: Seven Leaves The King's Consort 07:03 Artist: Gareth Williams's Power Trio Robert King (director) Comp: Gareth Williams Kabalevsky Dur: 06.30 4.54am Overture - Colas Breugnon Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz (1644-1704): Sonata No 1 a 8 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra BBC recording, made at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London, (Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes) Eugene Ormandy (conductor) March 2009 Collegium Aureum GREAT CONDUCTORS 7243 5 75127 2 5 CD.2 Tr.1 Title: For Alun Lewis, Hedd Wyn and the Others Artist: Gareth Williams's Power Trio 5.00am 07:08 Comp: Gareth Williams Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Trio: Marie Theres'! - Hab' mir's Dur: 05.55 gelobt, ihn lieb zu haben (Der Rosenkavalier, Op 59) VIVALDI Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano) Sovvente il sole from Andromeda liberata (serenata) BBC recording, made at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London, Tracy Dahl (soprano) Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano March 2009 Jean Stilwell (mezzo-soprano) Daniel Hope, violin Title: Zed Blues Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Chamber Orchestra of Europe Artist: Gareth Williams's Power Trio Mario Bernardi (conductor) DG 477 7463 Tr.11 Comp: Gareth Williams Dur: 03.27 5.06am 07:18 Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953): Cinderella's waltz (Zolushka - Title: Powerhouse Suite No 1, Op 107) CHOPIN Artist: Joe Lovano Us Five BBC Philharmonic Scherzo for piano no. 4 (Op.54) in E major CD: Folk Art Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) Richard Goode, piano Track: 1 NONESUCH 7559-79452-2 Tr.8 Label: Blue Note 50999 6 94493 2 1 5.11am Comp: Joe Lovano Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953): March (The Love for Three 07:32 Pub: Blue Note Oranges) Dur: 04.00. San Francisco Symphony Orchestra BIBER (conductor) Mystery (Rosary) sonata no. 1 in D minor ""The Annunciation"" 5.13am Sonnerie MONDAY 11 MAY 2009 Huber, Hans (1852-1921): Sonata No 4 in B flat for cello and GAUDEAMUS CD GAU 350 Tr.1 piano, Op 130 MON 01:00 Through the Night (b00k9qcg) Esther Nyffenegger (cello) 07:38 1.00am Desmond Wright (piano) Ades, Thomas (b.1971): Overture, waltz and finale (Powder DELIUS Her Face) 5.39am Over the hills and far away - fantasy overture 1.12am Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757): Sinfonie in G RPO Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): Pulcinella - after Pergolesi (ballet Andras Keller (violin) Thomas Beecham 1920, suite rev 1949) Concerto Koln EMI 5 75788 2 Tr.5 1.36am Ginastera, Alberto (1916-1983): Variaciones concertantes, Op 5.42am 07:50 23 Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725): Sinfonia amore, pace e 1.59am providenza MOZART Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): The Firebird - suite (version Stavanger Symphony Orchestra Overture and March from Die Entführung aus dem Serail 1919) Fabio Biondi (conductor) Matti Salminen (Osmin) (Belmonte) Franz Welser-Most (conductor) 5.46am Wilfried Gahmlich (Pedrillo) Picchi, Giovanni (1571/2-1643): Ballo alla Polacca; Ballo Orchestra of the Zürich Opera House 2.18am Ongaro; Ballo ditto il Pichi (conductor) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Piano Sonata in A Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord) TELDEC 2564 69128-9, CD1 TR. 1 & 14 minor, K310 Andras Schiff (piano) 5.52am 08:03 Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Klopstock's 2.40am Morgengesang am Schöpfungsfeste, Wq 239 MENDELSSOHN Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713): Violin Sonata in A, Op 5, No 6 Barbara Schlick, Johanna Koslowsky (sopranos) Song without words Op.53 No.1 Pierre Pitzl, Marcy Jean Bolli (violas da gamba) Rheinische Kantorei HaeSun Paik Augusta Campagne (harpsichord) Das Kleine Konzert EMI CDZ5 72827-2 Tr.1 Hermann Max (conductor) 2.52am 08:07 Holst, Gustav (1874-1934): The Evening-watch, Op 43, No 1 6.05am BBC Singers Eckard, Johann Gottfried (1735-1809): Sonata in F minor for PURCELL Bob Chilcott (conductor) fortepiano, Op 1, No 3 Laudate Ceciliam (Z.329) Arthur Schoonderwoerd (fortepiano) James Bowman, counter-tenor 2.57am Mark Padmore, tenor Holten, Bo (b.1948): Spring (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell) 6.26am Michael George, bass Polyphony choir Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Tapiola - symphonic poem, Op 112 The King's Consort Stephen Layton (conductor) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Robert King Ilan Volkov (conductor) HYPERION CDA66494 Tr.13-16 3.00am Lindberg, Oscar (1887-1955): Organ Sonata in G minor, Op 23 6.42am 08:18 Hans Fagius (organ) Morley, Thomas (c.1557-1602): Now is the month of Maying arr. Kain for guitar quartet HOLST 3.18am Guitar Trek The Planets: Jupiter, the bringer of jollity Lucic, Franjo von (1889-1972): Missa Jubilaris BBCSO The Ivan Goran Kovacic Academic Chorus 6.43am Andrew Davis, conductor The Croatian Army Symphony Wind Orchestra Raminsh, Imant (b.1943): Ave verum corpus WARNER 50-514428467-2-0 Tr.4 Mladen Tarbuk (conductor) Vancouver Chamber Choir Jon Washburn (conductor) 08:27 3.47am Kyurkchiyski, Krassimir (b.1936): Prayer (Two works after 6.49am Irving BERLIN paintings of Vladimir Dimitrov, the Master) Benoit, Peter (1834-1901): Tale in F, orch Lodewijk Cheek to Cheek Simfonieta Orchestra of Bulgarian National Radio Mortelmans Fred Astaire Kamen Goleminov (conductor) Flemish Radio Orchestra Leo Reisman and his Orchestra Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor) CONIFER TQ134 Tr.5 3.53am Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869): Trio des jeunes Ismaelites 6.52am 08:32 (L'enfance du Christ) Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Rondino in E flat for two Nora Shulman, Virginia Markson (flutes) oboes, two clarinets, two horns and two bassoons, WoO 25 IRELAND orch. Geoffrey Bush Judy Loman (harp) The Festival Winds. Scherzo and cortege from 'Julius Caesar' LSO 4.00am Richard Hickox, conductor Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Trio in A minor for MON 07:00 Breakfast (b00k9qcj) CHANDOS CHAN8994 Tr.1-2 piano and strings, Op 50 Rob Cowan Grieg Trio 08:40 With Rob Cowan. 4.47am SCHUBERT Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Overture (Tafelmusik) The complete Breakfast playlist is posted online after the Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen (D.343) & Normans Gesang Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 7 of 19 (D.846) VIRGIN CLASSICS 267291-2 Baiba Skride (violin) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone Lauma Skride (piano) Gerald Moore, piano 11.22am EMI CMS 7 63566 2 CD.2 Tr.7 & 10 Rimsky-Korsakov: Allegro Dvorak: The Golden Spinning-Wheel Vertavo Quartet Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 08:45 SIMAX PSC 1178 Daniel Harding (conductor)

MOZART 11.30am 2.30pm Symphony no. 35 (K.385) in D major ""Haffner"" Grimace: A l'arme a l'arme Szymanowski: Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin Marlboro Festival Orchestra Franciscus: Phiton Phiton Aleksandra Zamojska (soprano) Pablo Casals Borlet: He tres doulz roussignol Prague Philharmonia SONY SMK 47294 Tr.1-4 Early Music Consort of London Kaspar Zehnder (conductor) David Munrow (director) 09:09 VIRGIN CLASSICS VED 561284-2 2.40pm Sibelius: Symphony No 7 KORNGOLD 11.41am Prague Philharmonia Romance. Andante from Concerto for violin and orchestra Copland: Clarinet Concerto Kaspar Zehnder (conductor) (Op.35) in D major Benny Goodman (clarinet) Nikolaj Znaider (violin) Laura Newell (harp) Messiaen: Cinq rechants Vienna Philharmonic Abba Bogin (piano) Swedish Radio Chorus Valery Gergiev (conductor) Columbia Symphony Strings Peter Dijkstra (director) RCA Red Seal promo, Tr.5 Aaron Copland (conductor) SONY CLASSICAL SM3K 46559. 3.25pm 09:19 Giovanni Sollima: Sonnets et Rondeaux Ishum String Quartet WALDTEUFEL MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00k9qcn) L' Estudiantina - waltz for orchestra (Op.191) Bach in Weimar 3.40pm Philharmonia Promenade Orchestra Mahler: Episode 1 Michael Schade (tenor) EMI 5 68289 2 CD.2 Tr.4 Christian Gerhaher (baritone) Donald Macleod explores Bach's ten years in Weimar, where he Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 09:24 became court organist and concertmaster. He looks at Bach's Daniel Harding (conductor). arrival there, and how he coped with the 'lowly' position J S BACH alongside 12 other joint servants. Adagio from Toccata, adagio & fugue (BWV.564) MON 17:00 In Tune (b00k9qcv) Daniil Shafran (cello) Erschallet, ihr Lieder - Opening chorus (Cantata, BWV 172) Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from Anton Ginsburg (piano) Emma Kirkby (soprano) the arts world, including the St James Quintet talking about Aulos Music AMC2 013, Tr.2 Michael Chance (countertenor) their upcoming concert appearances at the 2009 Norwich and Charles Daniels (tenor) Norfolk Festival, plus Jamie Walton and Daniel Grimwood 09:30 Peter Harvey (bass) performing music to be played at a memorial concert at the The Purcell Quartet Cadogan Hall, London. BEETHOVEN CHACONNE CHAN 0752 CD1, Tr 1 Sonata for piano no. 26 (Op.81a) in E flat major ""Les 5.03 Adieux"" Trio super Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend, BWV 665 COPLAND Nelson Freire, piano Hans Fagius (organ of the Kristine Church, Falun) Fanfare for the Common Man DECCA 475 815-5 Tr.4-6 BIS CD235 CD1, Tr 5 Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra Enrique Batiz (conductor) 09:45 Concerto in C for three harpsichords, BWV 1064 EMI 2681322 Robert Woolley, Laurence Cummings, John Toll (harpsichords) CD 4 Track 5 John FOREST Purcell Quartet 3’37 Qualis est dilectus tuus CHANDOS CHAN 0611, Trs 1-3 La Reverdie 5.12 ARCANA A20 Tr.2 Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund, BWV 621; Hilf, Gott, dass mir's OFFENBACH gelinge, BWV 624; Erstanden ist der heil'ge Christ, BWV 628 Allez! Pour te livrer combat (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) 09:48 (Orgelbuchlein) Bryn Terfel (bass baritone) Simon Preston (organ of Soro Abbey) Orchestra GOUNOD DG 4318162, Trs 23, 26, 30 James Levine (conductor) Funeral March of a Marionette Deutsche Grammophon 4458662 Detroit Symphony Orchestra , BWV 233 Track 8 Paul Paray (conductor) Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir 3’50 MERCURY 434 332-2, TR.2 Ton Koopman (director) ANTOINE MARCHAND CC72222 CD2, Tr 1 5.17 09:52 GABRIEL GROVLEZ Toccata and Fugue, BWV 540 Sicilienne & Allegro giocoso SAINT SAENS Ton Koopman (organ of Arp Schnitger, Hamburg) Karen Geoghegan (bassoon) Odelette for flute and piano TELDEC 0630173692, Trs 2-3. Philip Fisher (piano) William Bennett, flute Chandos CHAN10521 Clifford Benson, piano Tracks 1-2 CALA CACD1017 CD.2 Tr.1 MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00k9qcq) 5’50 Sophie Koch/Sophie Raynaud 5.27 MON 10:00 Classical Collection (b00k9qcl) Presented by Fiona Talkington. LIVE MUSIC: With Sarah Walker. NIELSEN In a concert from Wigmore Hall, London, French mezzo- Wind Quintet (1st movement) 10.00am soprano Sophie Koch performs with pianist Sophie Raynaud. The St. James Quintet CPE Bach: Symphony in E, Wq 182, No 6 6’00 Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Sophie Koch (mezzo-soprano) Christopher Hogwood (conductor) Sophie Raynaud (piano) 5.38 L'OISEAU-LYRE 417 124-2 LIVE MUSIC: Schumann: Widmung; Der Nussbaum; Jemand; Die IBERT 10.10am Lotosblume; Talismane; Lied der Suleika (Myrten, Op 25); Aus Trois Pieces Breves Bartok: Contrasts den hebraischen Gesangen; Du bist wie eine Blume (Zwei The St. James Quintet Benny Goodman (clarinet) Lieder der Braut) 7’07 Joseph Szigeti (violin) Bela Bartok (piano) Strauss: Nichts, Op 10; Fruhlingsgedrange, Op 26; Die Nacht, 5.46 CBS MK 42227 Op 10; Allerseelen, Op 10; Meinem Kinde, Op 37; Ich liebe MOZART dich, Op 37; Befreit, Op 39; Schlechtes Wetter, Op 69; Cacilie, Ch’io mi scordi te? K505 10.28am Op 27. Miah Persson (soprano) Haydn: Summer (The Seasons) Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) Jane ...... Heather Harper (soprano) Swedish Chamber Orchestra Lucas ...... Ryland Davies (tenor) MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00k9qcs) Sebastian Weigle (conductor) Simon ...... John Shirley-Quirk (bass) Looking East BIS SACD-1529 BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Track 2 Colin Davis (conductor) Episode 1 9’59 PHILIPS 434 169-2 Music by Western composers looking East to Asia, plus pieces 5.57 11.05am inspired by poetry, with a particular focus on sonnets. JEAN LENOIR & JACQUES CHARLES Janacek: In the mists La Villette Piotr Anderszewski (piano) Kreisler: Tambourin chinois Julie Depardieu (voice), Laurent Korcia (violin), Arnaud Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 8 of 19 Boukhitine (tuba) MON 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00k9qcn) 1.44am Naïve V4978 [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Waltz in E flat for piano, Op Track 15 18 (Grande valse brillante) 2’29 1.49am MON 23:00 The Essay (b00k9qd1) Chopin: Three Waltzes for piano, Op 34 6.00 News Tomorrow is Today 2.03am Chopin: Waltz in A flat for piano, Op 42 6:03 Damien Gorman 2.06am ROSSINI Chopin: Two Waltzes for piano, Op 64, Nos 1 and 2 Overture: La Scala di Seta Series looking at the arts in Northern Ireland since the signing Zoltan Kocsis (piano) Budapest Festival Orchestra of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Ivan Fischer (conductor) 2.12am Channel Classics CCSSA27708 With the thoughts of playwright Damien Gorman - winner of Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay (1844-1908): Scheherazade - Track 1 the Stewart Parker Award for his first play, All Being Well, and symphonic suite, Op 35 5’53 whose work has taken the Troubles as its theme on many Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra occasions. George Pehlivanian (conductor) 6.14 GRIEG 3.00am Cello Sonata in A minor Op. 36 (1st movement) MON 23:15 Jazz on 3 (b00k9qd3) Chopin: Variations in E for flute and piano on Non piu mesta Jamie Walton (cello) The Profound Sound Trio at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival from Rossini's Daniel Grimwood (piano) Valentinas Gelgotas (flute) Signum Classics [TO BE RELEASED IN OCTOBER 2009] Radio 3 at the Summer Festivals Audrone Kisieliute (piano) Tracks 5 8’39 In a concert given at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2009, Jez 3.05am Nelson presents British saxophonist Paul Dunmall together with Colby, Carlton L. (c.1880-1940): Ragtime Travesty on Il 6.31 two important figures in American free jazz - bass player and Trovatore LIVE MUSIC: violinist Henry Grimes and drummer Andrew Cyrille. Paragon Ragtime Orchestra RACHMANIOV: Rick Benjamin (conductor) Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19 (3rd movement) The three musicians, each considered to be significant creative Jamie Walton (cello) forces on the improvised music scene, call themselves The 3.08am Daniel Grimwood (piano) Profound Sound Trio. Their first concert was at 2008's Vision Lipinski, Karol Jozef (1790-1861): Great Fantasy on themes 4’54 Festival, and its success led to it being planned for release as an from Bellini's I Puritani for violin and piano album. Miroslaw Lawrynowicz (violin) 6.39 Krystyna Makowska-Lawrynowicz (piano) ANOUSHKA SHANKAR Dave Douglas Quintet recorded at the Everyman Theatre on Naked May 3, 2009 3.28am Anoushka Shankar (sitar) Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943): Rhapsody on a theme of EMI 5802952 Line up: Paganini for piano and orchestra, Op 43 Track 4 Dave Douglas (trumpet) Nikolay Evrov (piano) 4’11 Donny McCaslin (saxophone) Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra Orrin Evans (piano, keyboard) Vassil Stefanov (conductor) 6.47 Scott Colley (bass) RAVEL Clarence Penn (drums) 3.52am La Valse Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Six Variations on a Boston Symphony Orchestra Set list: folk melody Bernard Haitink (conductor) Handwritten Letter (Douglas) Bulgarian Academic Wind Quintet Philips 4544522 Track 13 Hear the rest of the Dave Douglas Quintet set at Cheltenham 4.00am 11’48 Jazz Festival on Jazz on 3 on May 25, 2009 Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): 25 Variations and fugue on a theme by Handel for piano, Op 24 The Golden Age of Steam recorded at the Town Hall Pillar Simon Trpceski (piano) MON 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00k9qcx) Room on May 2, 2009 Yevgeny Sudbin 4.26am Line up: Andriessen, Hendrik (1892-1981): Variations and fugue on a Presented by Martin Handley. James Allsopp (reeds) theme by Kuhnau Kit Downes (keyboard) Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra In a concert given at Wigmore Hall, London, pianist Yevgeny Tim Giles (drums) David Porcelijn (conductor) Sudbin performs music by Scarlatti, Haydn, Chopin, Medtner and Prokofiev. Set list: 4.40am 300 Golden Bees into Monkey Phonics (both Allsopp) Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962): Nina, after Tre Giorni son che Scarlatti: Sonata in F minor, Kk466; Sonata in G, Kk455 Nina by Pergolesi Haydn: Sonata in E minor, HX VI 34 Profound Sound Trio recorded at the Town Hall Pillar Room on The Hertz Trio Chopin: Mazurka in F minor, Op 7, No 3; Mazurka in B flat May 2, 2009 minor, Op 24, No 4; Mazurka in D, Op 33, No 2; Mazurka in B 4.44am minor, Op 33, No 4 Line up: Grainger, Percy (1882-1961): Ramble on love for piano Medtner: Fairy Tale in E flat, Op 26, No 1; Fairy Tale in B flat Andrew Cyrille (drums) Dennis Hennig (piano) minor, Op 20, No 1 Paul Dunmall (soprano and tenor saxophones) Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No 7 in B flat, Op 83 Henry Grimes (double bass and violin) 4.52am Kleynjans, Francis (b.1951): Hommage a Satie Plus recordings by past winners of the RPS awards, which Set one: Heiki Matlik (guitar) celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2009. Charles Mackerras, Opus de Life one (Cyrille/Dunmall/Grimes) winner of the 2004 Radio 3 Listeners' Award, conducts the 4.55am Welsh National Opera Orchestra in Delius' variations on an Profound Sound Trio join Jez in conversation backstage at the Buchbinder, Rudolf (b.1946): Paraphrase on J Strauss English folksong, Brigg Fair. Town Hall Pillar Room Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)

Delius: Brigg Fair Set two: 5.00am Orchestra of Welsh National Opera Drum song for Leadbelly (Cyrille) into Opus de Life three Derungs, Gion Antoni (b.1935): Sut steilas (Under the stars) Charles Mackerras (conductor) (Cyrille/Dunmall/Grimes) Cantus Firmus Surselva Clau Scherrer (conductor) Debussy: Pour les Cinq Doigts (12 Etudes no.1) Links: Mitsuko Uchida (piano) http://www.davedouglas.com Derungs, Gion Antoni (b.1935): Al sulegl (To the sun) http://www.myspace.com/thegoldenageofsteam Lumnezia Men's Chorus Brahms: Serenade no.2 in A maj, Op.16 http://www.porterrecords.com/id53.html Scottish Chamber Orchestra (Profound Sound Trio) 5.07am Charles Mackerras (conductor) http://www.geocities.com/bourbonstreet/9273 (Andrew Cyrille) Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963): Sonata arr Berkeley (orig for http://www.pauldunmall.com flute and piano) http://www.henrygrimes.com. Emmanuel Pahud (flute) MON 21:15 Night Waves (b00k9qcz) Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Peter Grimes Enrique Garcia Asensio (conductor)

Rana Mitter reviews a new production of Benjamin Britten's TUESDAY 12 MAY 2009 5.20am opera Peter Grimes. Premiered by English National Opera - as Delius, Frederick (1862-1934): On hearing the first cuckoo in Sadler's Wells Opera - in 1945, Britten's first opera is widely TUE 01:00 Through the Night (b00k9qj9) spring regarded as the most significant British opera for over two 1.00am Symphony Nova Scotia centuries. ENO's production at the London Coliseum is directed Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Piano Sonata in E minor, Op 7 Georg Tintner (conductor) by David Alden and stars Amanda Roocroft, Gerald Finley, 1.19am Felicity Palmer and Stuart Skelton. Grieg: Lyric pieces - Book 1 for piano, Op 12 5.29am 1.31am Thomas, John (1826-1913): The Minstrel's adieu to his native Grieg: Lyric pieces - Book 2 for piano, Op 38 land for harp Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 9 of 19 Rita Costanzi (harp) CRESTON Paul Paray (conductor) Gregorian Chant MERCURY 434 332-2 Tr 3 5.36am New York Chamber Orchestra Fasch, Johann Friedrich (1688-1758): Sonata in D minor Arthur Lief (conductor) 09:36 Amsterdam Bach Soloists VANGUARD CLASSICS 08 4076 71 Tr 8 Wim ten Have (conductor) VIVALDI 07:48 Sinfonia “Al Santo Sepolcro” RV 169 5.46am Il Giardino Armonico Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto in D for violin and SCARLATTI Giovanni Antonini (conductor) orchestra, RV 234 (L'inquietudine) Sonata K96 in D major L’OISEAU LYRE 478 1466 Tr 18-19 Giuliano Carmignola (violin) Christian Zacharias (piano) Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca EMI CMS 7639402 CD1 Tr 4 09:40

5.53am RODGERS ARR HOUGH Giovannelli, Ruggiero (c.1560-1625): Ah dolente partita 07:53 My Favourite Things 5.55am Stephen Hough (piano) Marenzio, Luca (c.1553/4-1599): Quell' Augellin che canta HANDEL NIMBUS NI 2540 Tr 11 5.57am Scacciata dal suo nido Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo (c.1554-1609): Cieco amor non ti Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano) 09:42 cred'io Vienna Cantata Orchestra Cantus Colln Henry Lewis (conductor) RAVEL Konrad Junghanel (lute/director) DECCA 478 0168 CD3 T.8 Introduction and Allegro Tokyo String Quartet 6.02am 08:03 James Galway (flute) Rosenmuller, Johann (c.1619-1684): Gloria/Das Wort ward Richard Stoltzman (clarinet) Fleisch MENDELSSOHN Heidi Lehwalder (harp) Johanna Koslowsky (soprano) Song without Words No.22 in F Op.53 No.4 RCA 09026 625 522 Tr 9 David Cordier, Gerd Turk (tenor) Benno Moiseiwitsch (piano) Stephan Schreckenberger (bass) NAXOS 8110669 Tr 9 09:52 Carsten Lohff (organ) Cantus Colln SCARLATTI Konrad Junghanel (director/lute) 08:06 Toccata in D minor Schöllmann-Abiton (guitars) 6.17am GERSHWIN LARGO 5101 Tr 1 Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Four songs Cuban Overture Jard van Nes (mezzo soprano) Symphony Orchestra Gerard van Blerk (piano) Eduardo Mata (conductor) TUE 10:00 Classical Collection (b00k9qjf) RCA 74321 30984 2 CD1 Tr 2 Sarah Walker 6.29am Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927): Varnatt (Spring Night) With Sarah Walker. Swedish Radio Choir 08:16 Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra 10.00am Stefan Skold (conductor) BEETHOVEN Szymanowski: Concert Overture, Op 12 Romance in G major Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra 6.38am Gidon Kremer (violin) Witold Rowicki (conductor) Roman, Johan Helmich (1694-1758): 13 pieces London Symphony Orchestra MUZA PNCD 062 (Drottningholmsmusiquen) Emil Tchakarov (conductor) Concerto Koln. DG 431 168 2 Tr 2 10.13am Faure: La bonne chanson, Op 61 08:23 Suzanne Danco (soprano) TUE 07:00 Breakfast (b00k9qjc) Guido Agosti (piano) Rob Cowan GIBBONS TESTAMENT SBT1289 What is our Life? With Rob Cowan. Pro Cantione Antiqua 10.35am ALC 1039 Tr 16 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36 The complete Breakfast playlist is posted online after the Philharmonia Orchestra programme has been broadcast. 08:31 (conductor) DECCA 425 586-2 07:03 SUK Spring Op.22a, Movements 1 and 2 11.19am MOZART Lada Valešová (piano) Lobo: O quam suavis est March in D KV249 AVIE AV 2142 Tr 29-30 Barahona: Veni Domine, et noli tardare Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Ceballos: Hortus conclusus Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) 08:39 Pro Cantione Antiqua PHILIPS 416 153 2 Tr 1 Bruno Turner (conductor) RODRIGO arr Gil Evans TELDEC 2292 46003-2 Concieto de Aranjuez (Adagio) 07:07 Miles Davis (flugelhorn and trumpet) 11.33am Orchestra conducted by Gil Evans Debussy: Piano Trio in G minor (1880) SCHUBERT COLUMBIA CK 65142 Tr 1 The Florestan Trio Moments musicaux No.4 in C sharp minor HYPERION CDA67114. Radu Lupu (piano) 08:56 DECCA 417 785 2 Tr 4 GABRIELLI TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00k9qjh) 07:13 Sonata in A major Bach in Weimar Anner Bylsma (cello) KODALY Bob van Asperen (organ) Episode 2 Hungarian Rondo DHM RD 77978 Tr 13 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Donald Macleod explores Bach's ten years in the city of DG 447 109 2 Tr 1 09:07 Weimar, where he was court organist and concertmaster.

07:24 FAURÉ Donald describes how the composer's strategy for promotion Dolly unfolded as he travelled to Halle under the guise of an advisor HAYDN Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française for an organ restoration, leaving an exasperated courier and a The Wanderer Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor) hefty bar bill in the process. Elly Ameling (soprano) EMI 379 986 2 Tr 6-11 Jörg Demus (piano) Sinfonia, BWV 1046a BRILLIANT CLASSICS 93768 CD1 Tr 10 09:26 The Parley of Instruments Roy Goodman (director) 07:31 CHOPIN HYPERION CDA66169, Tr 1 3 Mazurkas Op.59 TCHAIKOVSKY Maria João Pires (piano) Organ Concerto in C, BWV 595 (after Prince Johann Ernst) Gopak from Mazeppa DG 477 7483 CD1 Tr 7-9 Wolfgang Rubsam (organ) Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra NAXOS 8550936, Tr 6 Kurt Masur (conductor) 09:32 APEX 2564 29324 1 Tr 5 Toccata for keyboard, BWV 914 SAINT-SAENS Pierre Hantai (harpsichord) 07:36 Marche militaire française VIRGIN 545284-2, Trs 13-16 Detroit Symphony Orchestra Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 10 of 19 Chorale Prelude: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 633 Lisa Milne and Kristina Hammerstrom ahead of their Symphonic Variations (VI. Triumph) Simon Preston (organ) performance of Handel's Arianna in Creta, with the Academy Ashley Wass (piano) DG 4318162, Tr 35 of Ancient Music. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra James Judd (conductor) Cantata: Himmelskonig, sei willkommen, BWV 182 Violinist and former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Ilya NAXOS 8 570774 Yumiko Kurisu (soprano) Gringolts, with pianist Ashley Wass join Petroc to play in the Track 7 Yoshikazu Mera (countertenor) studio and talk about their forthcoming performance at the 4:39 Makoto Sakurada (tenor) 2009 Norfolk and Norwich Festival, where the programme Peter Kooy (bass) includes music by Prokofiev, Grieg and Tchaikovsky. 18:37 Bach Collegium Japan LIVE Masaaki Suzuki (director) 17:03 PROKOFIEV BIS CD791, Trs 17-24. TANYEV Cinq Melodies Op.35 (nos 4&5) Tarantella (Suite de concert, Op.28) (violin) Ilya Gringolts (violin) Ashley Wass (piano) TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00k9qjk) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 4’28 Roger Vignoles and Friends HYPERION CDA 67642 Track 16 18:43 Episode 1 6’43 DVORAK Legends, op 59 (No.9) Presented by Penny Gore. 17:10 Budapest Festival Orchestra FAURE Iván Fischer Series of concerts of Schubert lieder devised by pianist Roger Impromptu no.3 in A flat, Op.34 PHILIPS 476 2179 Vignoles with the individual singers in mind, performed at LSO Kathryn Stott (piano) Track 9 St Luke's. HYPERION CDA 67064 2:24 Track 18 With tenor John Mark Ainsley featuring in a programme of 4’30 SEGUE music by Schubert put together to display his dramatic talents. 17:24 18:46 John Mark Ainsley (tenor) HANDEL VIVALDI Roger Vignoles (piano) Arianna in Creta (overture) Concerto in F for 6 insturments, RV 569 Academy of Ancient Music Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Schubert: Ganymed, D544; Atys, D585; Die Gotter Christopher Hogwood (conductor) Gottfried von der Goltz (director/violin) Griechenland; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren, D360; 1’00 OPUS OP 30283 Auf dem See, D543; Des Fischers Liebesgluck, D93; Der Tracks 4-6 Schiffer; Die Sterne, D939; Der Einsame, D800; Nachtstuck, 17:22 12’13 D672; Willkommen und Abschied, D767; Schafers Klagelied, HANDEL D121; Auf der Bruck, D853. Arianna in Creta (Son qual stanco) Theodora Baka (mezzo) TUE 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00k9qjr) Orchestra of Patras CBSO and Chorus/Oramo TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00k9qjm) George Petrou (conductor) Looking East MD&G 6091375 2 In a concert given in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Martin CD 2, track 17 Handley presents the grand finale of the IgorFest series. Episode 2 4’21 The programme features works by Stravinsky, including Music by Western composers looking East to Asia, plus pieces 17:35 Fireworks, which shows the influence of Stravinsky's teacher inspired by poetry. Including works from two French HANDEL Rimsky-Korsakov. It is followed by the comic opera Mavra - composers, as well as music based on the poetry of Petrarch and Arianna in Creta (Qui ti sfido, o mostro infame) dedicated to Tchaikovsky - and which is a witty setting of a Michelangelo from a German and two radical Italians. Mary-Ellen Nesi (mezzo) Pushkin tale set in a Russian village. Orchestra of Patras Debussy: Pagodes (Estampes) George Petrou (conductor) His strange, visionary 1912 cantata The King of the Stars Emanuel Ax (piano) MD&G 6091375 2 precedes a work composed at the same time, and famous for its CD 3 Track 7 scandalous Paris premiere - The Rite of Spring. Debussy: La demoiselle elue 4’20 Laura Aikin (soprano) Stravinsky: Fireworks; Four Russian Peasant Songs; Mavra; The Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano) 17:40 King of the Stars; The Rite of Spring MDR Radio Chorus LISZT Anita Watson: Parasha MDR Symphony Orchestra Legende no.2, S.354 (St Francis of Paola walking on the waves) Liora Grodnikaite: The Neighbour Jun Markl (conductor) BBC Philharmonic Elizabeth Sikora: The Mother Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) Robert Anthony Gardiner: The Hussar 2.30pm CHANDOS CHAN 10524 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Manfred Trojahn: Ariosi Track 10 Sakari Oramo (conductor) Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano) 8’20 Sabine Meyer (bass clarinet) Plus recordings by past winners of the RPS awards, which MDR Symphony Orchestra 17:50 celebrate their 20th anniversary in 2009. Pianist Angela Hewitt, Jun Markl (conductor) MOZART winner of the 2002 Radio 3 Listeners' Award, plays Bach. Rondo in A minor, K.511 2.50pm Christian Zacharias (piano) Bach: English Suite no.6 in D minor, BWV 811 Vicentino: Laura che il verde lauro MDG 340 0961 2 Angela Hewitt (piano) Weser-Renaissance, Bremen Track 8 Manfred Cordes (director) 8’50 Bach: Prelude and Fugue in B major, BWV 868 Angela Hewitt (piano) Monteverdi arr Mark Steinberg: Madrigals (Sixth Book - 1614) 18:03 Brentano Quartet STRAVINSKY Scherzo a la Russe (fully orchestrated version) TUE 21:15 Night Waves (b00k9qkj) 3.05pm City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Modern Architecture Roussel: Padmavati Simon Rattle (conductor) Padmavati, Queen of Chitor ...... Sylvie Brunet (contralto) EMI 749178 2 Bidisha is joined by architecture critic Hugh Pearman to discuss Ratan-Sen, her husband ...... Finnur Bjarnasson (tenor) Track 13 a lecture by Prince Charles to the Royal Institute of British Alaouddin (Aladdin), Sultan of the Moghuls ...... Alain Fondary 3’56 Architects. The occasion marks the Institute's 175th anniversary (baritone) celebrations and also 25 years since the Prince made his famous The Brahmin ...... Yann Beuron (tenor) 18:08 'monstrous carbuncle' speech, in which he criticised modern Gora, administrator of the palace ...... Laurent Alvaro (baritone) FRANCISCO DE PENALOSA building styles. Badal, Ratan-Sen's envoy ...... Francois Piolino (tenor) Ave verum corpus Nakamti, a young woman from Chitor ...... Blandine Folio Peres Pro Cantione Antiqua (mezzo-soprano) Bruno Turner (director) TUE 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00k9qjh) The Watchman ...... Alain Gabriel (tenor) HELIOS CDH 55357 [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] A Priest ...... Jean-Vincent Blot (bass) Track 7 Theatre du Chatelet Chorus 2’40 Stephen Betteridge (director) TUE 23:00 The Essay (b00k9qkl) Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra 18:11 Tomorrow is Today Lawrence Foster (conductor). LIVE HEINRICH WILHELM ERNST Rita Duffy Elegie TUE 17:00 In Tune (b00k9qjp) Ilya Gringolts (violin) Series looking at the arts in Northern Ireland since the signing Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from Ashley Wass (piano) of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. the arts world. 5’48 With the thoughts of artist Rita Duffy, whose paintings and As part of celebrations marking the 250th anniversary Handel's 18:25 drawings often dramatically reflect her perception of the social death, Petroc speaks to Christopher Hogwood and sopranos BAX and political climate of a divided region. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 11 of 19 TUE 23:15 Late Junction (b00k9qkn) Rockadillo Records ZENCD 2125 Jack Harrison (clarinet) Verity Sharp West Australian Symphony Orchestra (Segue) Richard Mills (conductor) Presented by Verity Sharp. Including samples of the sounds of the African biram, the South American charango and the 00:24 4.29am French barrel organ, and a celebration of the 75th anniversary Malam Mamane Barka: Bulanga Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich (c.1620-1680): Suite No 2 in D of the birth of Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesiser. Album: Mamane Barka Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin) World Music Network LC 11067 Rosanne Hunt (cello) 23:15 Linda Kent (harpsichord) Trad arr. Di Naye Kapeleye: Hangu and Freylachs From Podoly 00:30 Di Naye Kapelye Francesco Tristano (piano) & Rami Khalifé (piano): The 4.36am Album: Rough Guide to Klezmer Melody Forster, Kaspar (1616-1673): Sonata a 3 in B flat, KBPJ 39 World Music Network RGNET 1047 Album: Not For Piano Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble InFiné Music IF 1001 23:19 4.42am Bingen: O Virtus Sapientie 00:35 Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Mazurka in G minor, Op 67, Performed By Kronos Quartet Trad arr. Stefanov: Altun Maro (Golden Mara) No 2; Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op 63, No 3 - arr Kocsis Album: Early Music Perunika Trio (Eugenia Georgieva/Victoria Mancheva/Victoria Zsolt Szatmari (clarinet) Nonesuch 7559 79457 2 Evstatieva) Zoltan Kocsis (piano) Album: Introducing Perunika Trio (Segue) World Music Network INTRO 109CD 4.47am Kisielewski, Stefan (1911-1991): Suite (Fun Fair) 23:24 (Segue) Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice A Filetta: Treblinka Michal Nesterowicz (conductor) Album: Bracanà 00:37 Deda Tim van Eyken (melodeon) & Robert Harbron (concertina): 5.00am Poynton Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Symphonic Dance No 2, Op 64 23:31 Album: One Sunday Afternoon (Allegro grazioso) Tom James Scott: Elephants Beautiful Jo Records BEJOCD 34 Norwegian Radio Orchestra Album: School and Rivers Ingar Bergby (conductor) Bo Weevil WEAVIL 32 CD (Segue) 5.07am 23:38 00:44 Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Wellingtons Sieg or Die Mísia: Joana Rosa Frédéric Paris (clarinet); Gilles Chabenet (hurdy-gurdy); Schlacht bei Vittoria, Op 91 (Battle Symphony) Album: Ruas Maarten Decombel, (mandola); Wim Claeys (accordion): Les Octophoros (wind group) Opendisc 531656 2 Moissons Paul Dombrecht (conductor) Album: Live En Flandres (Segue) Wild Boar Music WBM 21070 5.22am Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Gestillte Sehnsucht for alto, 23:43 00:47 viola and piano, Op 91, No 1 Amàlia Rodrigues: Carmencita Benjamin Brunel: We Must Be Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano) Album: Casa do Fado Album: Famous For Being Famous Morten Carlsen (viola) Iris Music 3001 960 Brunel Records Sergej Osadchuk (piano)

(Segue) 5.29am Quantz, Johann Joachim (1697-1773): Trio Sonata in E flat 23:45 WEDNESDAY 13 MAY 2009 Atrium Musicium Chamber Ensemble Michael Copley (bamboo flute) & Peter Martin (charango): Bailecito de Procession WED 01:00 Through the Night (b00k9qnb) 5.37am Album: There and Back Again 1.00am Marais, Marin (1656-1728): Les folies d'espagne Seaview Music SMCD 007370 Campra, Andre (1660-1744): Messe de Lise Daoust (flute) Anders Dahlin, Nicholas Mulroy (tenor) 23:49 Matthew Brook (bass-baritone) 5.47am Govin: Le Supplice de la Roue Monteverdi Choir Albeniz, Isaac (1860-1909): Cordoba (Nocturne, Cantos de Pierre Charial (barrel organ); Valentin Clastirer (hurdy gurdy); English Baroque Soloists Espana, Op 232, No 4) arr unknown Pierre Olivier Govin (bass clarinet); François Meruille John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Henry-David Varema (cello) (percussion) Heiki Matlik (guitar) Album: Folklore Moderne 1.50am Collectif Polysons DDC 066 Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Der Einsame, D800; 5.54am Fischerweise, D881 Daquin, Louis-Claude (1694-1772): Deux Rondeaux: La (Segue) Edith Wiens (soprano) melodieuse; Le coucou Rudolf Jansen (piano) Colin Tilney (harpsichord) 23:56 J.S. Bach arr. Carlos: Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in C minor 1.59am 6.00am Performed By Wendy Carlos (Moog synthesiser) Schubert: An die Entfernte, D765; Der Pilgrim, D794 Dittersdorf, Carl Ditters von (1739-1799): Concerto in A for Album: Switched On Bach II Christoph Pregardien (tenor) keyboard and strings East Side Digital ESD 81422 Andreas Staier (fortepiano) Linda Nicholson (fortepiano)

(Segue) 2.07am 6.18am Schubert: Mass No 6 in E flat, D950 Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903): Intermezzo in E flat for string quartet 23:59 Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano) Ljubljana String Quartet Tosca: My First Mark Padmore (tenor) Album: No Hassle James Gilchrist (tenor) 6.29am !K7 Records K7235 CD Matthew Rose (bass) Carniolus, Jacobus Gallus (1550-1591): Two motets a 8: Collegium Musicum 90 Virgines prudentes; O beata Trinitas, te invocamus; Three 00:05 Richard Hickox (conductor) Madrigals: Musica noster amor, dulces exuviae; Libertas animi Amy Beach: Serenade Serenade (Transcription of R.Strauss’s cibus est Ständchen) 3.00am Ljubljanski madrigalisti Performed By Kirsten Johnson, piano Zemlinsky, Alexander (1871-1942): Die Seejungfrau (The Matjaz Scek (director) Album: Amy Beach - Piano Music Volume 2 Little mermaid) - fantasy for orchestra after Andersen Guild GMCD 7329 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 6.40am Riccardo Chailly (conductor) Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Holberg Suite, Op 40 - vers for 00:10 string orchestra Paul Robeson (voice) & Alan Booth (piano): Wanderer 3.43am The Slovenian Philharmonic String Chamber Orchestra Album: On My Journey - Paul Robeson’s Independent Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951): Verklarte Nacht for string Andrej Petrac (artistic leader). Recordings sextet, Op 4 Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD40178 Borromeo String Quartet WED 07:00 Breakfast (b00k9qnd) (Segue) 4.11am Rob Cowan Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951): Waldsonne, Op 2, No 4 00:12 4.15am With Rob Cowan. John Fairhurst: On The Run Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911): Ich ging mit lust durch einen Album: Joys of Spring grunen Wald (I walked with joy through a green forest) The complete Breakfast playlist is posted online after the Humble Soul HS 204 Arleen Auger (soprano) programme has been broadcast. Irwin Gage (piano) 00:17 0703 Gunn/Pohjonen/Mastelotto: Fragile Sun & Kataklasm 4.20am KTU Carmichael, John (b.1930): A Country Fair, arr Hurst for MOZART Album: Quiver orchestra Rondo for Piano & Orchestra in A, K386 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 12 of 19 Westdeutsche Sinfonia NONESUCH 512788 TR 3 Edward Wickham (conductor) Dirk Joeres, piano and conductor MUSIQUE EN WALLONIE NEW 0848-0849 CARLTON 3036701072 TR 7 0848 10.49am 0712 Bach arr Walton: Herzlich tut mich verlangen, BWV727 HAYDN Bach arr Ireland: Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn, BWV648 PURCELL 6 Variations in C major, H17.5 Bach arr Howells: O Mensch, Bewein dein Sunde gross, Sonata Rudolph Buchbinder, piano BWV622 Peter Hurford, organ WARNER 25643782-2 CD 10 TR 9 Angela Hewitt (piano) Michael Laird, trumpet HYPERION CDA67309 ARGO 4334512 T6-8 0857 11.00am TARTINI Bliss: Oboe Quintet 0718 Pastorale in A major, op 1 no 13 Nicholas Daniel (oboe) The Locatelli Trio Maggini Quartet OFFENBACH HYPERION CDD22061 CD 1 TR 10-12 NAXOS 8.555931 Suite from The Tales of Hoffman Detroit Symphony Orchestra 0906 11.23am Paul Paray, conductor Ravel: Chansons de madecasses MERCURY 434 332-2 TR 10 HEROLD Katarina Karneus (soprano) Overture: Zampa Emmanuel Pahud (flute) 0725 L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Truls Mork (cello) Ernest Ansermet, conductor (piano) FAURE transc Oubradous DECCA 4800023 T3 EMI CDC 556982-2 Piece Karen Geoghegan, bassoon 11.38am Philip Fisher, piano 0915 Haydn: Symphony No 38 in C CHANDOS 10521 TR 9 The English Concert SCHUBERT Trevor Pinnock (director) 0730 Die junge Nonne, D828 DG 463 731-2. Gundula Janowitz, soprano SULLIVAN Irwin Gage, piano Overture: The Pirates of Penzance DG 437 943-2 CD 1 Tr 14 WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00k9qsy) Scottish Chamber Orchestra Bach in Weimar Alexander Faris, conductor 0920 NIMBUS NIM5066 TR 3 Episode 3 SHOSTAKOVICH 0738 Romance from The Gadfly Donald Macleod explores Bach's ten years in the city of Tasmin Little, violin Weimar, where he was court organist and concertmaster. CHOPIN Piers Lane, piano Fantasy in F minor, op 49 EMI 5099926813226 CD5 Tr 4 Donald describes a boast at the breakfast table which saw Bach Witold Malcuzynski, piano come unstuck as he tried to dazzle a friend with his sight- Polskie Nagrania PNCD022 Tr 1 reading at the keyboard. Nevertheless, the composer's decade at 0924 the ducal court in Weimar also saw him reach new heights as a 0853 chamber musician. TCHAIKOVSKY arr GAUK VIVALDI May from The Seasons Fugue for Violin, BWV 1026 Flute Concerto RV433 Detroit Symphony Orchestra Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin) Andrea Griminelli, flute Neeme Jarvi, conductor Richard Tunniclifffe (cello) English Chamber Orchestra CHANDOS 9514 TR 19 Paul Nicholson (harpsichord) Jean-Pierre Rampal, conductor HYPERION CDD22025, Tr 1 UCJ 4765885 CD 2 Tr 13 0929 Toccata, Adagio and Fugue, BWV 564 PERGOLESI Ton Koopman (organ) 0803 Confitebor tibi Domine ARCHIV 423 200-2, Trs 4-6 Ann Monoyios, soprano MENDELSSOHN Balthasar-Neumann-Chor Cantata, BWV 54 Songs without Words: op 85 No 1, Andante Espressivo Freiburger Barockorchester Andreas Scholl (countertenor) Luba Edlina, piano Thomas Hengelbrock, director Orchestra of Collegium Vocale CHANDOS 89489 CD 2 T.13 BMG 05472773692 Tr 18-25 Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901644, Trs 6-8 0806 0946 English Suite No 5, BWV 810 FARNON Christophe Rousset (harpsichord) Three Impressions SCHUMANN AMBROISIE AMB9942 CD2, Trs 14-19. BBC Concert Orchestra Arabeske op 18 John Wilson, conductor Paolo Giacometti, piano DUTTON CDLX7173 TR 12-14 CHANNEL CCSSA28709 TR 19 WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00k9qnj) Roger Vignoles and Friends 0954 0814 Episode 2 SCHUBERT BACH Standchen Presented by Penny Gore. Overture from Orchestra Suite No 3 in D major, BWV1068 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Gerald Moore, piano Series of concerts of Schubert lieder devised by Roger Vignoles Conductor Frans Bruggen DG 437235-2 CD 3 Tr 4 with the individual singers in mind, performed at LSO St PHILIPS 442151-2 CD 2 T1 Luke's.

0821 WED 10:00 Classical Collection (b00k9qng) Katarine Karneus (mezzo-soprano) Sarah Walker Roger Vignoles (piano) MOZART Rondo from Piano Quartet in G minor, K478 With Sarah Walker. Schubert: Der Musensohn, D764; Nahe des Geliebten, D162; Faure Quartet Klarchens Lied, D210; Rastlose Liebe, D138; Mignon Lider: DG4775885 Tr 3 10.00am Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, D877, No 1; Heiss mich nicht Sibelius: Oceanides, Op 73 reden, D877, No 2; So lasst mich scheinen, D877 No 3; Im City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Fruhling, D882; Bei dir allein, D866; Die abgebluhte Linde, 0831 Simon Rattle (conductor) D514; Heimliches Lieben, D922; Du liebst mich nicht; Der EMI CDM 764119-2 Zwerg, D771; Im Abendrot; Fruhlingsglaube, D686; Auflosung, ROSSINI D807. Overture: 10.12am Budapest Festival Orchestra Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto in C Ivan Fischer, conductor Howard Shelley (piano) WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00k9qnl) CHANNEL CLASSICS CCSSA27708 TR 9 London Symphony Orchestra Looking East Bryden Thomson (conductor) 0844 CHANDOS CHAN9262/3 Episode 3

TRAD 10.38am Music by Western composers looking East to Asia, plus pieces Wa Habibi Regis: Lux solemnis/Repleti sunt omnes inspired by poetry. Featuring Chinese, Japanese and Balinese Kronos Quartet The Clerks inspiration, with an orchestra from Sydney. The sonnet settings Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 13 of 19 use French Renaissance works. Empirical AS Byatt, whose latest novel The Children's Book is set in the 5’11 'Edwardian summer' leading up to the First World War. Ravel, orch Grainger: Vallee des cloches (Miroirs) Sydney Symphony Orchestra 5.39 Matthew Coorey (conductor) MOZART WED 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00k9qsy) Symphony No. 31 ‘Paris’ [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Ludvig Irgens Jensen: Japanese Spring Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Ragnhild H Sorensen (soprano) Claudio Abbado (conductor) Stavanger Symphony Orchestra Sony SK48385 WED 23:00 The Essay (b00k9qny) Steven Sloane (conductor) Tracks 1-3 Tomorrow is Today 16’19 2.30pm Philip Hammond Messiaen: Sept Haikai 5.56 Yvonne Loriod (piano) HAYDN Series looking at the arts in Northern Ireland since the signing Philharmonia Orchestra ‘Non sparate…mi disdico’ (Act 1 from La Vera Costanza) of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Charles Bruck (conductor) Thomas Quasthoff (baritone) Freiburger Barockorchester With the thoughts of Philip Hammond a Belfast-born composer 2.50pm Gottfried Von Der Goltz (director) and the former arts development director at the Arts Council of Rameau: Suite (Les indes galantes) DG 477 7469 Northern Ireland. Sydney Symphony Orchestra Track 11 Matthew Coorey (conductor) 2’39 WED 23:15 Late Junction (b00k9qt0) Marc-Andre Dalbavie: Sonnets 6.00 News Verity Sharp Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra 6:03 Verity Sharp introduces classic tracks by Kraftwerk from their Dmitri Slobodeniouk (conductor) HANDEL album Autobahn, a motet by Guillaume de Machaut and a song Zadok the Priest HWV258 from the new album by Brass Monkey. 3.30pm Choir of Westminster Abbey Bartok: Suite (The Miraculous Mandarin) The English Concert Track List: Sydney Symphony Orchestra Simon Preston (director) Matthew Coorey (conductor). Archiv 4100302 23:15 Track 1 Karan Casey: The Jute Mill Song 5’12 Album: Distant Shore WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (b00k9qnn) Vertical VERTCD 064 From the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music 6.09 2009 at St Pancras Church, London. PIAZZOLLA (Segue) Concierto para quinteto Introit: Preserve us, O Lord (Peter Foggitt) Artemis Quartet 23:18 Responses: Paul Ayres Jacques Ammon (piano) Máirtín O’Connor (accordion); Cathal Hayden (fiddle); Seamie Psalms: 69, 70 (Christopher Batchelor, Tallis) Virgin 26729206 O’Dowd (guitar); Jimmy Higgins (bodhran): Crossroads (The First Lesson: Numbers 12 Tracks 1 Boys of Coonamore – Tongs by the Fire – The Hunter’s House) Canticles (Deirdre Gribbin) - first performance 9’39 Album: Crossroads Second Lesson: Luke 5 vv12-26 MCS CD001 Anthem: I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord (Francis Pott) - 6.22 first performance LIVE MUSIC: 23:23 Hymn: Finished the strife (Surrexit) THOMAS D’URFEY: Arborea: River & Rapids Organ Voluntary: Variations on Ein' feste Burg (Richard Cold and Raw Album: House of Sticks Arnell) Vivien Ellis (voice) Born Music BR002 Giles Lewin (fiddle) Organist: Paul Ayres 3’32 (Segue) Director of Music: Christopher Batchelor. 6.26 23:27 LIVE MUSIC Manganje dancers playing kachisi and mudewa drums: WED 17:00 In Tune (b00k9qnr) ANON (17TH CENTURY): Awelemuwo ee Dandaula Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from A begging we will go Recorded at Visanza, Nkhotakota District the arts world. Vivien Ellis (voice) Album: Nyasaland - Northern and Central Malawi Giles Lewin (fiddle) Smithsonian Folkways SFW 014 Jazz group Empirical perform in the studio some of their new 2’46 works in tribute to saxophonist Eric Dolphy, and baroque duo (Segue) Alva, including vocalist Vivien Ellis and fiddle player Giles 6.34 Lewin, talk about their appearance at the 2009 Lufthansa PURCELL 23:30 Festival of . The Gordian Knot Unty’d (Aire and Jigg) El Tanbura: Friends of Bamboute Aradia Ensemble Album: Friends of Bamboute 5.03 Kevin Mallon (director) El Tanbura 3019PSFOB1869 FASCH Naxos 8.570149 Overture in D major Tracks 18-19 23:35 Zefiro 3’23 Guillaume de Machaut: La Rota & Gaudeamus Omnes in Alfredo Bernardini (director) Domino Sony 88697367922 6.42 Performed By Obsidienne Track 10 LIVE MUSIC Album: Guillaume de Machaut - Messe Nostre Dame 6’36 TRADIONAL SCOTTISH: Calliope CAL 9318 Ann thou were my Ain Thing 5.10 Vivien Ellis (voice) (Segue) SCHUBERT Giles Lewin (fiddle) 23:40 Die Forelle D550 4’40 Dufay arr. Ambrose Field (electronics): La Dolce Vista Elizabeth Watts (soprano) With John Potter (tenor) Roger Vignoles (piano) 6.49 Album: Being Dufay RCA 88697329322 SIBELIUS: ECM 2071 Track 5 Four Legends from the Kalevala Op. 22 – The Swan of Tuonela 2’03 Orchestra (Segue) Eugene Ormandy (conductor) 5.13 EMI 2684172 23:46 LIVE MUSIC: CD 6 Track 6 Kraftwerk: Kometenmelodie – 1 & 2 TOM FARMER 9’01 Album: Autobahn Out But In EMI CDP 7461532 Empirical 4’03 WED 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00k9qnt) 23:59 The Royal Philharmonic Society Awards 2009 Ro:toro: Hämara Liblikad 5.22 Album: Estonian Traditional Music LIVE MUSIC: From the Dorchester Hotel, London, Martin Handley presents Estonian Traditional Music Centre NATHANIEL FACEY: coverage of the 2009 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, So He Left which recognise excellence in live performance. (Segue) Empirical The programme includes interviews and music. 4’32 00:04 Kärt Johanson & Robert Jürjendal: Kiige ärasaatmine (Swing’s 5.33 WED 21:15 Night Waves (b00k9qnw) Send Off) LIVE MUSIC: AS Byatt Album: Estonian Traditional Music TOM FARMER: Estonian Traditional Music Centre Boweden Out Matthew Sweet presents an extended conversation with novelist Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 14 of 19 00:10 3.27am 7:16 Hugh Webb (harp): Danse Royale Saint-Saens, Camille (1835-1921): Septet in E flat for trumpet, Album: Douce Dame Debonaire piano and strings, Op 65 D SCARLATTI Joglaresa JOG 002 Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet) 2 Sonatas in G Major K 283 & 284 Elise Baatnes, Karolina Radziej (violins) Mikhail Pletnev (piano) (Segue) Lars Anders Tomter (viola) VIRGIN VBD5 61961-2 D1 T3 & 4 Hjalmar Kvam (cello) 00:14 Marius Faltby (double bass) 7:23 Olov Johansson (nyckelharpa) & Catriona McKay (Scottish Enrico Pace (piano) harp): Early Sun Polska LEVY Album: Foogy 3.45am Grand Russian Fantasia Olov Johansson Musik OJM 009 Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Grande Polonaise brillante Wynton Marsalis (cornet) precedee d'un Andante spianato, Op 22 Eastman Wind Ensemble 00:19 Lana Genc (piano) Donald Hunsberger (conductor) Thomas Lupo: Fantasia in 6 Parts No. 11 CBS MK 42137 T4 Performed By Fretwork 4.00am Album: Birds on Fire Tartini, Giuseppe (1692-1770): Concerto in D for violin and 7:32:00 Harmonia Mundi HMU 907478 orchestra, D28 Stavanger Symphony Orchestra MOZART (Segue) Fabio Biondi (violin/conductor) Symphony No.26 in E Flat K184 Le Cercle de l'Harmonie 00:22 4.17am Jeremie Rhorer (conductor) Jean Mouton: Nesciens Mater Gombert, Nicolas (c.1495-c.1560): Benedicto mensae VIRGIN 50999 234868-2 T5-7 Performed By The Monteverdi Choir BBC Singers Album: Pilgrimage to Santiago Bo Holten (conductor) 7:41 Soli Deo Gloria SDG 701 4.27am BACH 00:29 Zulawski, Wawrzyniec (1918-1957): Suite in the old style Mache dich, mein Herze, rein (St. Matthew Passion) Longstone: Kabuki Wire Edit National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Hermann Prey (baritone) Album: Kabuki Radio Edits Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor) Consortium Musicum Ochre OCH 051 Wolfgang Gönnenwein (conductor) 4.39am EMI 50999 5 00941-2 D3 T21 00:34 Mercadante, Saverio (1795-1870): Concerto No 2 in E minor Luis Rico: En El Funeral Del Rio for flute and orchestra 7:50 Album: Rough Guide to Bolivia Yuri Shut'ko (flute) World Music Network RGNET 1147 Ukrainian National Radio Symphony Orchestra MOERAN Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor) Prelude (Segue) Mats Lidström (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano) 5.00am HYPERION CDA 67184 T11 00:40 Elgar, Edward (1857-1934): Serenade in E minor for strings, Trad arr. Brass Monkey: The Press Gang Op 20 7:55 Brass Monkey Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble Album: Head of Steam Plamen Djurov (conductor) SCHUMANN Topic TSCD 575 Soldier’s March, The Wild Rider & Knecht Ruprecht (Album 5.12am for the Young) 00:47 Lukacic, Ivan (1587-1648): Three motets (Sacrae cantiones) Leigh Howard Stevens (marimba) Amy Beach: Arctic Night (Eskimos Op. 64) Pro Cantione Antiqua DELOS DE 3142 T29 - 21 Performed By Kirsten Johnson Mark Brown (conductor) Album: Amy Beach - Piano Music Volume 2 8:03 Guild GMCD 7329 5.26am Ciglic, Zvonimir (b.1921): Concertino for harp and orchestra MENDELSSOHN (Segue) Mojka Zlobko (harp) Song without Words Op.38 No.2 in C sharp Minor Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra Melvyn Tan (1835 Broadwood piano) 00:53 Anton Nanut (conductor) EMI CDC7 49999-2 T4 Arborea: In The Tall Grass Taken from the album House of Sticks 5.40am 8:05 Born Music BR002 Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): 12 Variationen uber den russischen Tanz, WoO 71 Fanny MENDELSSOHN Theo Bruins (piano) Du Bist die Ruh Susan Gritton (soprano), Eugene Asti (piano) THURSDAY 14 MAY 2009 5.53am HYPERION CDA 67110 T19 Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Rosamunde - Ballet Music, D797 THU 01:00 Through the Night (b00k9qy2) Oslo Philharmonic 8:09 1.00am Heinz Holliger (conductor) Butterworth, George (1885-1916): A Shropshire Lad - rhapsody HANDEL for orchestra 6.01am Concerto Grosso in D major Op.6 no.5 1.13am Spisak, Michal (1914-1965): Sonata for violin and orchestra Academy of Ancient Music Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958): Symphony No 8 in D Krzysztof Bakowski (violin) Andrew Manze (conductor) minor Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907228 (D1) T1 - 6 1.44am Zbigniew Graca (conductor) Bruch, Max (1838-1920): Concerto No 1 in G minor for violin 8:23 and orchestra, Op 26 6.34am 2.08am Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Liederkreis, Op 39 SCHUBERT Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Till Eulenspiegels lustige Ian Bostridge (tenor) Du bist die Ruh Streiche, Op 28 Leif Ove Andsnes (piano). Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Hermann Reutter (piano) Janine Jansen (violin) ORFEO C508 011B T5 Halle Orchestra Mark Elder (conductor) THU 07:00 Breakfast (b00k9qy4) 8:32 Rob Cowan 2.24am HANDEL Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Piano Sonata No 17 in D The complete Breakfast playlist is posted online after the Placa l’alma, quieta il petto! (Alessandro) minor, Op 31 (Tempest) programme has been broadcast. Sophie Boulin & Isabelle Poulenard (sopranos) Sviatoslav Richter (piano) La Petite Bande, 7:03 Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) 2.48am DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI GD77110 D2 T5 Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Brandenburg Concerto WEBER No 2 in F, BWV 1047 Overture: Silvana 8:35 Alexis Kossenko (recorder) New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Erik Niord Larsen (oboe) Antoni Wit (conductor) WALTON Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet) NAXOS 8.570296 T7 Overture: Portsmouth Point Elise Batnes (violin) London Philharmonic Orchestra Risor Festival Strings 7:09 Leonard Slatkin (conductor) Knut Johannessen (harpsichord) VIRGIN 7423 5 61146-2 T1 HOLST 3.00am Psalm 148 8:41 Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936): Rossiniana The Britten Singers The West Symphony Orchestra City of London Sinfonia Marc BLITZTEIN Jorge Mester (conductor) Richard Hickox (conductor) I Wish It So CHANDOS CHAN 8997 T9 Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Eric Stern (piano) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 15 of 19 ELEKTRA NONESUCH 7559-79345-2 T1 Roger Vignoles (piano) Leonato, Alexander's sidekick...... Guy de Mey (tenor) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901753 Cleone, Alexander's sidekick ...... Ria Bollen (mezzo-soprano) 8:44 La Petite Bande 11.30am Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) Paul SIMON arr. Alexander Bellow & Manuel Barrueco Honegger: Symphony No 4 (Deliciae Basilienses) Old Friends Czech Philharmonic Orchestra 4.45pm Manuel Barrueco (guitar) Serge Baudo (conductor) Liszt: Petrarch Sonnet No 123 (Annees de Pelerinage - EMI CDC5 55039-2 T1 SUPRAPHON DWCD/SUP 11 1566-2. Deuxieme annee: Italie) Nikolai Lugansky (piano). 8:48 THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00k9qy8) POULENC Bach in Weimar THU 14:02 Handel Opera Cycle (b00kctyd) Suite francaise Alessandro Members of the Orchestre National de France Episode 4 Charles Dutoit (conductor) Alessandro - Acts 1 and 2 DECCA 475 7930 D5 T1-7 Donald Macleod explores Bach's ten years in the city of Weimar, where he was court organist and concertmaster. Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel's operas continues with 9:00 Acts 1 and 2 of his tale of Alexander the Great's advance into He describes how the composer was experimenting with some India. After he capture one of its cities, the Macedonian king BUXTEHUDE foreign musical ingredients when a court prince returned from a becomes embroiled in a complicated love triangle with two Prelude in G Minor BuxWV 149 trip to the Netherlands with an unusual collection of holiday captive princesses. The composer used the rivalry between his Ton Koopman (organ of the Ludgerkirche, Norden, Germany) souvenirs. original leading women - sopranos Faustina Bordoni and NOVALIS 150 048-2 T12 Francesca Cuzzoni - in his adaptation of the original material Vivaldi: Concerto, Op 3, No 12 (excerpt) for the opera, giving them equal billing. 9:08 Europa Galante VIRGIN VMD5453152, Tr 20 Handel expert Suzana Ograjensek - herself a soprano MOZART specialising in the Baroque repertory - explains the genesis of Piano Sonata in B Flat K281 Keyboard Concerto, BWV 976 (after Vivaldi) this work. Alfred Brendel (piano) Olivier Baumont (harpsichord) PHILIPS 475 6199 T1-3 ERATO 3984255042, Trs 1-3 Handel: Alessandro (Acts 1 and 2)

9:23 Cantata: Der Himmel lacht! die Erde jubilieret, BWV 31 Alessandro (the Great) ...... Rene Jacobs (countertenor) Barbara Schlick (soprano) Rossane, captive princess ...... Sophie Boulin (soprano) BRAHMS Kai Wessel (countertenor) Lisaura, captive princess too ...... Isabelle Poulenard (soprano) Nachtwache I & II Guy de Mey (tenor) Tassile, Indian King ...... Jean Nirouet (countertenor) Consortium Klaus Mertens (bass) Clito, Alexander's sidekick ...... Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Andrew-John Smith (conductor) Amsterdam Baroque Chorus and Orchestra Leonato, ditto ...... Guy de Mey (tenor) HYPERION CDA 67775 T10 & 11 Ton Koopman (director) Cleone, ditto ...... Ria Bollen (mezzo-soprano) CHALLENGE CLASSICS CC72201 CD3, Trs 1-9 La Petite Bande 9:28 Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor). Prelude and Fugue after Albinoni, BWV 951 STANFORD Masaaki Suzuki (harpsichord) Irish Rhapsody No.4 (The Fisherman of Lough Neagh and what BIS CD1037, Trs 13-14 THU 17:00 In Tune (b00k9qyg) he saw) Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from London Philharmonic Orchestra Piece d'orgue, BWV 572 the arts world. Sir Adrian Boult (conductor) Rainer Oster (Arp-Schnitger organ of St Jacobi Hamburg) LYRITA SRCD 219 T1 ARTE NOVA 74321 63644 2, Tr 7. With conductor Vladimir Jurowski and baritone Christopher Purves talking about Glyndebourne's production of Verdi's 9:47 Falstaff. Christopher also performs in the studio. THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00k9qyb) BACH arr. Lewis Roger Vignoles and Friends Plus soprano Emma Kirkby discussing her concert at the 2009 Fugue in D Major (Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1) Lufthansa festival, in which she performs with lutenist Jakob John Lewis (piano) Episode 3 Lindberg and harpsichordist Steven Devine. She talks to Petroc PHILIPS 12002 T6 about her chosen repetoire - a personal journey through 150 Penny Gore presents a series of concerts of Schubert lieder years of English song. 9:52 devised by Roger Vignoles with the individual singers in mind, performed at LSO St Luke's. 17:02 PÄRT TCHAIKOVSKY Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten Bass-baritone Florian Boesch gives a recital that includes Cossack Dance (Mazeppa) Estonian National Symphony Orchestra settings of Greek legends. London Symphony Orchestra Paavo Järvi (conductor) Charles Mackerras (conductor) CFP 7243 5 85914-2 T16 Florian Boesch (bass-baritone) MERCURY 434 352-2 Roger Vignoles (piano) T8 4:14 THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b00k9qy6) Schubert: Schmidt of Lubeck (Der Wanderer); Schlegel (Der Sarah Walker Wanderer); Der Wanderer an den Mond, D870; Heliopolis I, 17:07 D753; Heliopolis II, D754; An die Leier, D737; Gruppe aus SIGISMONDO D’INDIA With Sarah Walker. dem Tartarus; Memnon, D541; Prometheus, D674; Auf der Da l’onde del mio Pianto Donau; Waldesnacht, D708; Die Mutter Erde, D788; An Emma Kirkby (soprano) 10.00am Schwager Kronos, D369. Jakob Lindberg (lute) C Schumann: Piano Trio in G minor, Op 17 BIS CD 1734/35 Beaux Arts Trio CD4 T9 PHILIPS 475 171-2 THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00k9qyd) 3:22 Looking East 10.25am 17:11 Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106 Handel: Alessandro - Acts 1 and 2 LIVE Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra VERDI Evegeny Mravinsky (conductor) Handel Operas 2009 Falstaff, Act 1(Ehi! Paggio!) PRAGA PR 254 047 Christopher Purves (baritone) Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel's operas continues with Susanna Stranders (piano) 10.54am Acts 1 and 2 of his tale of Alexander the Great's advance into 4’18 Reich: Nagoya Marimbas India. After he capture one of its cities, the Macedonian king Safri Duo becomes embroiled in a complicated love triangle with two 17:22 CHANDOS CHAN9645 captive princesses. The composer used the rivalry between his Falstaff, Act 2 (Alfin t’ho colto, raggiante fior) original leading women - sopranos Faustina Bordoni and Bryn Terfel (Falstaff) 10.58am Francesca Cuzzoni - in his adaptation of the original material Adrianne Pieczonka (Mrs Alice Ford) Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor (Well-tempered for the opera, giving them equal billing. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Clavier Bk 1) Claudio Abbado (conductor) Safri Duo Handel expert Suzana Ograjensek - herself a soprano DG 471 194-2 CHANDOS CHAN6651 specialising in the Baroque repertory - explains the genesis of CD2 T3 this work. 3:17 11.01am Chopin: Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor Handel: Alessandro (Acts 1 and 2) 17:29 Safri Duo Falstaff, Act 3 (Tutto nel mondo e burla) CHANDOS CHAN6651 Alessandro (the Great) ...... Rene Jacobs (countertenor) Giuseppe Valdengo (Falstaff) Rossane, captive princess ...... Sophie Boulin (soprano) Herva Nelli (soprano) 11.08am Lisaura, captive princess ...... Isabelle Poulenard (soprano) Entire cast Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben Tassile, Indian King ...... Jean Nirouet (countertenor) NBC Symphony Orchestra Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) Clito, Alexander's sidekick ...... Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Arturo Toscanini (conductor) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 16 of 19 RCA GD 60251 A Violin Concerto, a highly virtuosic piece that was branded 23:43 CD2 T30 unplayable at the time. These are followed by Rachmaninov's : Shaking and Trembling (Shaker Loops) 3:01 Symphonic Dances, his final composition, and which conjure Performed By San Francisco Symphony; conducted by Edo de his Russian homeland. Waart Album: Steve Reich Variations, John Adams Shaker Loops 17:37 Nikolaj Znaider (violin) Philips 412 214 2 CHOPIN London Symphony Orchestra 3 Mazurkas, op.63 Valery Gergiev (conductor) (Segue) Maria Joao Pires (piano) DG 477 7483 Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements 23:52 CD2 T2-4 Schoenberg: Violin Concerto Bortniansky: Lord, Make Me To Know My End 6:16 Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances Performed By Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir; directed by Paul Hillier 17:44 Plus recordings by past winners of the RPS awards, which Album: Orthodox Church Music - Let My Prayer Arise BACH celebrate their 20th anniversary in 2009. Soprano Miah Persson, Harmonia Mundi HMX2907457 59 Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor, BWV.1060 winner of the Radio 3 Listeners' Award in 2006, sings Mozart Julia Fischer (violin) arias. (Segue) Audrey Rubtsov (oboe) DECCA 478 0650 Britten: 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo 00:00 T10-12 Andrew Kennedy (tenor) KTU: Snow Reader 14:06 Roger Vignoles (piano) Album: Quiver Rockadillo Records ZENCD 2125 18:03 Mozart: Schon lacht der Holde Fruhling HAYDN Miah Persson (soprano) 00:06 Sinfonia in D major, Hob.1a:6 (L’Incontro Improvviso) Swedish Chamber Orchestra Daniel Melingo: En Un Bondi Color Humo Haydn Sinfonietta Wien (period instruments) Sebastian Weigle (conductor) Album: Rough Guide to Tango Manfred Huss (director) World Music Network RGNET 1219 BIS CD 1818 CD1 T8 THU 21:15 Night Waves (b00k9qyl) 00:11 7:10 Charlie Kaufman Ar C’Hoarezed Goadeg (The Goadeg Sisters): Al Lez Vamm Album: Mouezious Bruded A Vreiz 18:11 Matthew Sweet talks to Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Keltia Musicque KMCD 11 SCARLATTI Kaufman, who makes his directorial debut with Synecdoche, Che sara? Chi’a me lo dice? . . . New York, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha (Segue) (Non so qual piu m’ingombra) Morton and Catherine Keener. Emma Kirkby (soprano) 00:14 London Baroque Often described as having a surreal style, Kaufman's previous Nancy Kerr (voice and fiddle); Ian Carr (guitar): Low Down in Charles Medlam (cello & director) work includes Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal the Broom – The Sukebind BIS CD 1734/35 Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. His new film is about a theatre Album: Shape of Scrape CD3 T2 director who struggles with his work and the women in his life, Mrs Casey Records MCRCD 5992 4:14 as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play. 00:18 18:20 Mohamed Ilyas & Nyota Zameremeta Orchestra of Zanzibar: DOWLAND Moyoni Sina Nafasi O Sweet Woods THU 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00k9qy8) Album: Taarab Emma Kirkby (soprano) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Chiku-Taku Recording Company CHITA 01 Anthony Rooley (lute) BIS CD 1734/35 00:25 CD4 T1 THU 23:00 The Essay (b00k9qyn) Cabanilles: Symphonia - Tiento de Falsas de Primer Tono 6:25 Tomorrow is Today Performed By Al Ayre Español Album: A Batallar Estrellas 18:33 Leontia Flynn Harmonia Mundi LC7045 HANDEL Ad plausus ad jubila (O Qualis de Coelo Sonus) Series looking at the arts in Northern Ireland since the signing (Segue) Emma Kirkby (soprano) of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. London Baroque: 00:29 Charles Medlam (cello & director) With the observations of poet Leontia Flynn, whose often Yonder: Foggy Straits BIS CD 1734/35 politically-inspired work has seen her shortlisted for the Album: Yonder CD1 T14 Whitbread Poetry Award and named one of the Poetry Book Rootsy 010 3:27 Society's Next Generation poets. 00:36 18:37 Taffetas: Taffetas WAGNER THU 23:15 Late Junction (b00k9qyq) Album: Taffetas Good Friday Music (Parsifal, Act III) Verity Sharp Asmia 10403 Halle Mark Elder (conductor) Verity Sharp's varied musical selection includes Daniel Melingo (Segue) CD HLL 7517 singing Argentinian tango, the San Francisco Symphony T2 Orchestra performing music by John Adams and Staff Benda 00:40 10:19 Bilili playing their own brand of Congolese soukous. Carlou D: Sam Fall Album: Ndeye Dior 18:48 Track List: Foundation Prince Claus GABRIEL JACKSON Salve Regina 23:15 00:45 Polyphony Bustan Abraham: Mabruk John Wolf Brennan: Para.ph(r)ase (after Steve Reich’s Violin Stephen Layton (director) Album: Hamsa Phase) HYPERION CDA 67708 Nada Productions NADA 13 Album: Flügel T10 s Creative Works CW1037 5’15 23:20 Ahmet Aslan: Duzegê Xarpêti (Segue) 18:54 Album: Veyvé Milaketu MEDTNER Kalan CD 432 00:50 Canzona matinata in G major, Op.38 No.4 Lise Sinclair (voice); Catriona McKay (harp); Chris Stout Nikolai Demidenko (piano) (Segue) (violin); Wendy Weatherby (cello): Lullaby Ida Mirknin HYPERION CDH 55315 Album: Ivver Entrancin Wis T4 23:27 Shetland Music SADACD 001 5:04 Carolina Chocolate Drops: Banjo Dreams – Jalidong Album: Heritage 00:53 DixieFrog DFCD 8640 Last Days: The City Failed THU 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00k9qyj) Album: The Safety Of The North LSO/Gergiev 23:32 N5Music N5MD 166 Staff Benda Bilili: Marguerite Martin Handley presents a concert given at the Barbican Hall, Album: Très Très Fort London, for the London Symphony Orchestra's Emigres series, Crammed Discs CRAW 51 featuring three important works by European emigres in the FRIDAY 15 MAY 2009 USA, written in the 1930s and 1940s. 23:40 Jean Ribouillault (épinette): Valsigineuse – Valse de Fréland FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b00k9rfx) Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, with its bold Album: L’Épinette des Vosges 1.00am American gloss and material Stravinsky originally intended for Ocora C 560122 Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): String Quartet in E minor Hollywood movie soundtracks, is followed by Schoenberg's Vertavo Quartet Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 17 of 19 1.25am FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b00k9rfz) Lucy van Dael (director) Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): String Quartet in F Rob Cowan EMI 3509052 CD2 Trs 23-25 Biava Quartet With Rob Cowan. 08.18 1.56am Gershwin, George (1898-1937): Lullaby for string quartet The complete Breakfast playlist is posted online after the SCHUBERT New Stenhammar String Quartet programme has been broadcast. Ave Maria D839 (mezzo) 2.05am 07.02 Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): Wind Quintet, Op 43 EMI 5628962 Tr8 The Ariart Woodwind Quintet ANON Sonata Chjquitanas XVII 08.31 2.32am Florilegium & Bolivian Baroque Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Norwegian Bridal march (Pictures CHANNEL CLASSICS CCSSA22105 tr 7 GRAINGER from Country Life, Op 19, No 2) Handel in the Strand (arr for Organ Peter King) Edvard Grieg (piano) 07.06 Peter King at the organ of Bath Abbey Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (Lyric Pieces, Op 65) REGENT REGCD311 tr 13 Valerie Tryon (piano) WOLF-FERRARI Overture ‘Il segreto di Susanna’ 08.36 2.43am BBC Philharmonic Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764): Symphonies and Dances Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) BLOCH Bratislava Wind Quintet CHANDOS CHAN 10511 tr 11 Suite Hebraique for Violin & Orchestra Zina Schiff (violin) 3.01am 07.09 Royal Scottish National Orchestra Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 67 in F, H I 67 José Serebrier (conductor) Oslo Philharmonic SCHUBERT NAXOS 8.557757 Trs 7 -9 Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor) Impromptu No.4 in F Minor Radu Lupu (piano) 08.50 3.27am DECCA 460 9752 tr 8 Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Sonata No 8 in G for HANDEL violin and piano, Op 30 07.17 Hercules - Chorus of Trachinians Mats Zetterqvist (violin) Leipzig Radio Choir and Orchestra Mats Widlund (piano) GADE Wolf-Dieter Hauschild (conductor) Five Songs (No.3 Morning Walk) BERLIN CLASSICS 0184672BC CD1 Tr25 3.44am The Danish National Radio Choir Czerny, Carl (1791-1857): Fantasie in F minor for piano four Stefan Parkman (conductor) 08.53 hands, Op 226 CHANDOS CHAN 9075 tr 11 Stefan Lindgren, Daniel Propper (piano) BACH 07.20 Suite for Solo Cello in D Minor BWV 1008 (Courante) 2’09” 3.54am (arr. for Double Bass) Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Ave Maria TELEMANN Edgar Meyer (double bass) Chorus of Swiss-Italian Radio Concerto polonois in G SONY SK 89183 tr 3 Stefano Innocenti (organ) The Academy of Ancient Music Diego Fasolis (conductor) Christopher Hogwood (director) 08.56 L’OISEAU LYRE 478 0022 trs 12-14 3.59am VILLA LOBOS Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908): Capriccio Espagnol, 07.32 Prole do bebê Op 34 Arthur Rubinstein (piano) BBC Philharmonic MONTEVERDI (recorded October 30th 1961 at the ) Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) Ohime ch’io cado RCA Red Seal 09026 63042 2 Trs 21-26 Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor 4.16am L’Arpeggiata 09.09 Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936): Concert Christina Pluhar, director waltz No 2 in F for orchestra, Op 51 VIRGIN 5099923614024 T2 BACH CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G BWV 1048 Kazuyoshi Akiyama (conductor) 07.36 I Barocchisti Diego Fasolis 4.25am RAVEL ARTS 47715-8 Trs 14-15 Arensky, Anton Stepanovich (1861-1906): Suite No 1 in F for Jeux d’eaux two pianos, Op 15 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) 09.19 James Anagnoson, Leslie Kinton (pianos) MDG 604 11902 CD1 Tr 4 POULENC 4.40am 07.43 Salve Regina Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915): Le poeme de l'extase, Op 54 Choir of Westminster Cathedral BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra TIPPETT James O’Donnell (master of Music) Ilan Volkov (conductor) Little Music for Strings HYPERION CDA 66664 Tr 20 Academy of St Martin in the Fields 5.01am Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) 09.24 Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Scherzo capriccioso, Op 66 DECCA 476 7960 tr 8 BBC National Orchestra of Wales RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Richard Hickox (conductor) 07.54 The Tale of Tsar Saltan- March London Symphony Orchestra 5.13am HUMMEL Jean Martinon (conductor) Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Partita No 5 in G for Septet in D Minor Op.74 (minuet) DECCA 475 7209 CD8 Tr5 keyboard, BWV 829 Melos Ensemble of London Glenn Gould (piano) DECCA 430 2972 tr 2 09.29

5.27am 08.03 MOONDOG Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Six Variations in F for Heath on the Heather piano, Op 34 MENDELSSOHN Joanna MacGregor (piano/conductor) Glenn Gould (piano) Song Without Words Op.19 No.3 Andy Sheppard (saxophones) Daniel Barenboim (piano) Kuljit Bhamra (tabla/percussion) 5.40am DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 453 061-2 D1 T3 Neville Malcolm (bass) Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951): Suite, Op 25 Seb Rochford (drums) Glenn Gould (piano) 08.05 Shri Sriram (Indian Flute) Britten Sinfonia 5.54am FINZI SOUNDCIRCUS SC010 Tr 14 Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): Octet for wind instruments ‘O Mistress Mine’ (Let us Garlands bring Op.18) Canadian Chamber Ensemble Christopher Maltman (baritone) 09.33 Raffi Armenian (conductor) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins (conductor) GERSHWIN 6.09am HYPERION CDA67065 tr 17 The Man I Love Borodin, Alexander (1833-1887): Symphony No 1 in E flat Teddy Wilson & his trio Vancouver Symphony Orchestra 08.08 SONY A 50640 COL CD6680 Tr 19 Bramwell Tovey (conductor) VIVALDI 09.37 6.42am Concerto in C RV 178 Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): Petrushka (excerpts) Han de Vries (oboe) MOZART Alex Slobodyanik (piano). I Solisti di Zagreb Lucio Silla K135 ‘Ah se il crudel periglio Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 18 of 19 Sandrine Piau (soprano) ECM ECM 4760482 CD2, Trs 21-22 and discuss this year’s festival programme. Freiburg Baroque Gottfried von der Goltz Toccata and Fugue, BWV 538 17:02 NAÏVE E 8877 Tr 10 Woolfgang Rubsam (organ) SHOSTAKOVICH Philips 420860-2 CD1, Tr 13. Festive Overture Op 96 09.46 Russian National Orchestra Pletnev (conductor) THOMAS FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00kc5tg) DEUTSCHE GRAMMAPHON DG 4398922 Raymond (overture) Roger Vignoles and Friends Track 3 Suisse Romande Orchestra 5’29 Ernest Ansermet (conductor) Episode 4 DECCA 480 0023 Tr 4 17:09 Penny Gore presents a series of concerts of Schubert lieder SATIE 09.54 devised by Roger Vignoles with the individual singers in mind, Gymnopedie No 1 performed at LSO St Luke's. Joanna Macgregor (piano) KROMMER Sound Circus Partita OP.79 in E Flat Major (Allegro assai) Ailish Tynan (soprano) Track 1 Ensemble Philidor Nicholas Rodwell (clarinet) 3’07 CALLIOPE CAL 9264 Tr13 Roger Vignoles (piano) 17:13 Schubert: Suleikas erste Gesang; Suleikas zweite Gesang; Dass LIVE FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b00kc5tb) sie hier gewesen, D775; Sei mir gegrusst, D741; Gretchen am BEETHOVEN Sarah Walker Spinnrade, D118; Erste Verlust, D226; Die Sternennachte, Sonata for Violin and Piano Op.30 no.1 in A major (1st D670; Delphine; Schwestergruss; Auf dem Wasser zu singen, movement: Allegro) With Sarah Walker. D774; Nacht und Traume; D827; Die junge Nonne, D828. Min-Jin Kym (violin) Ian Brown (piano) 10.00am 8’00 Poulenc: Flute Sonata FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00kc5tj) Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) Looking East 17:26 Robert Veyron-Lacroix (piano) LIVE ERATO 2292-45839-2 Handel: Alessandro - Act 3 BRAHMS Sonata for violin and piano No 1 Op 78 in G major (1st 10.13am Handel Operas 2009 movement: Vivace ma non troppo) Haydn: Symphony No 39 in G minor Min-Jin Kym (violin) Camerata Academica Handel: Alessandro (Act 3) Ian Brown (piano) Sandor Vegh (conductor) 12’02 Orfeo C532 001B Alessandro (the Great) ...... Rene Jacobs (countertenor) Rossane, captive princess ...... Sophie Boulin (soprano) 17:43 10.32am Lisaura, captive princess ...... Isabelle Poulenard (soprano) BEETHOVEN Chopin: Etudes, Op 25 Tassile, Indian King ...... Jean Nirouet (countertenor) Violin Concerto in D major Op 61 (Final movement) Murray Perahia (piano) Clito, Alexander's sidekick ...... Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Min-Jin Kym (violin) SONY CLASSICAL SK61885 Leonato, Alexander's sidekick ...... Guy de Mey (tenor) Philharmonia Orchestra Cleone, Alexander's sidekick ...... Ria Bollen (mezzo-soprano) Sir Andrew Davis (conductor) 11.03am La Petite Bande SONY 88697144422 Berlioz: Les Troyens (excerpts from Act 4) Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) Track 3 Enee ...... Guy Chavet (tenor) 10’20 Didon ...... Regine Crespin (mezzo-soprano) 2.55pm Looking East Ascagne ...... Jane Berbie (soprano), 17:54 Anna ...... Marie-Luce Bellary (contralto) The concluding act of Handel's Indian-set opera is COATES Iopas ...... Gerard Dunan (tenor), complemented by another work taking inspiration from the Knightsbridge March Narbal ...... Jean-Pierre Huteau (bass) subcontinent - Messaien's Turangalila. Plus the a Western East of England Orchestra Panthee ...... Lucien Vernet (bass) evocation of the Balinese gamelan and Jonas Kaufmann singing Malcolm Nabarro (conductor) Orchestra and Chorus of the Theatre de l'Opera de Paris Britten's settings of Michelangelo. ASV CD WHL 2053 Georges Pretre (conductor) Track 9 EMI CDM 763480 2 Colin McPhee: Tabuh-Tabuhan 4’16 Esprit Orchestra 11.21am Alex Pauk (conductor) 18:03 Britten: Cello Sonata, Op 65 MOZART Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) 3.15pm Marriage of Figaro (Overture) Benjamin Britten (piano) Britten: Seven sonnets of Michelangelo The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra LONDON 421 859-2 Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) Silvio Varviso (conductor) Helmut Deutsch (piano) GLYNDEBOURNE GFOCD 001-62 11.41am CD 1 Track 1 Liszt: Mazeppa 3.30pm 4’07 Vienna Philharmonic Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra 18:07 DG 453 444-2. Myung-Whun Chung (conductor). FREDRIK KEMPE La Viox (2009 Sweden Eurovision entry) Malena Ernman (mezzo soprano) FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00kc5td) FRI 14:02 Handel Opera Cycle (b00kcvhq) WHITE LABEL Bach in Weimar Alessandro 0’48

Episode 5 Alessandro - Act 3 18:09 WILLIAM BOLCOM Donald Macleod explores Bach's ten years in the city of Handel: Alessandro (Act 3) Cabaret Songs (Murray the Furrier) Weimar, where he was court organist and concertmaster. Malena Ernman (mezzo soprano) Alessandro (the Great) ...... Rene Jacobs (countertenor) Bengt-Aske Lundin (piano) Donald looks at the composer's eventful final years at the ducal Rossane, captive princess ...... Sophie Boulin (soprano) BIS CD 1154 court, when his manoeuvres to secure a new job landed him in Lisaura, captive princess ...... Isabelle Poulenard (soprano) Track 2 Weimar's prison for a brief spell. Tassile, Indian King ...... Jean Nirouet (countertenor) 2’26 Clito, Alexander's sidekick ...... Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Prelude (Suite in E minor, BWV 996) Leonato, Alexander's sidekick ...... Guy de Mey (tenor) 18:13 Kim Heindel (lautenwerk) Cleone, Alexander's sidekick ...... Ria Bollen (mezzo-soprano) GERSHWIN KINGDOM KCLCD 2020, Tr 10 La Petite Bande Piano Concerto in F (3rd Movement) Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor). Joanna Macgregor (piano) Cantata: Komm, du susse Todesstunde, BWV 161 LSO Matthew White (alto) Carl Davis (conductor) Hans Jorg Mammel (tenor) FRI 17:00 In Tune (b00kc5tl) WHITE LABEL Collegium Vocale Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from Track 1 Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) the arts world. 6’36 HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901969 Violinist Min-Jin Kym and pianist Ian Brown play in the studio 18:23 Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903 and talk to Petroc about their forthcoming performance at the LIVE Christophe Rousset (harpsichord) Wigmore Hall, where the programme includes Stravinsky, JANACEK OISEAU LYRE 433 054-2, Trs 16-17 Beethoven, Brahms and Bartok. From The Diary of One Who Disappeared – I. One Day I Met a Young Girl, Preludes and Fugue in B (The Well-Tempered Clavier), BWV Bath Music Festival’s Artistic Director and acclaimed pianist II. That Dark-Skinned Gypsy Girl 868 Joanna Macgregor joins tenor Paul Nilon to perform the first III. The Glow-Worms Are Dancing Till Fellner (piano) six songs from Janacek's The Diary of One Who Disappeared IV. The Young Swallows Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 May 2009 Page 19 of 19 V. Poughing Is Heavy Work the composer's first symphonic work since his official Miaire/Hillman: Matsotsi VI. Hey, You Grey Oxen denunciation in 1948, and some say that the short and violent Chiwoniso Paul Nilon (tenor) second movement is a musical portrait of the dictator. Album: Rebel Woman Joanna Macgregor (piano) Cumbancha CMB-CD-8, Tr 2 (5:04) 7’31 BBC Philharmonic Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) Tavares: De Alma 18:36 Sara Tavares, Ft. Boyge Mendez MZILIKAZI KHUMALO Shostakovich: Symphony No 10. Album: Xinti Princess Magogo ka Dinuzulu (extract) World Connection WCD34, Tr 4 (4:12) Sibongile Khumalo (mezzo) WHITE LABEL FRI 21:15 The Verb (b00kc5tq) Trad, Arr. Ivan Duran: Merua Track 8 Colm Toibin and CK Stead Garifuna Women's Project 5’00 Album: Umalali Ian McMillan's cabaret of language features award-winning Cumbancha CMB-CD-6, Tr 2 (3:10) 18:44 novelist Colm Toibin, who presents a short story written HAYDN specially for the programme and discusses his novel Brooklyn. Pereira: Boyzinho Trumpet Concerto in E flat (1st movement) Julio Pereira Alison Balsom [trumpet] Plus controversial New Zealand poet, novelist and critic CK Album: Rituais German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen Stead, talking about his collected poems as well as reflecting on MUM records MUM 026CD, Tr 1 (4:08) EMI 2 16213 0 7 returning to writing after a stroke left him unable to read. Track 4 Moondog: Sextet (Oo) 6’32 Moondog FRI 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00kc5td) Album: More Moondog 18:51 [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Honest Jons Records HJRCDDJ106, Tr 14 (1:30) OFFENBACH Tales of Hoffman (Kleinzach Song from Act 1) Diabate: Elyne Road Rolando Villazon (Hoffman) FRI 23:00 The Essay (b00kc5ts) Toumani Diabate Royal Opera Chorus Tomorrow is Today Album: Mande Variations Orchestra of the Royal Opera House World Circuit WCD079, Tr 2 (8:50) Antonio Pappano (conductor) David Park CDR In Session Track 1 Series looking at the arts in Northern Ireland since the signing 5’48 of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Tavares: Penestrada BBC Recording, Maida Vale Studios, 2009. 18:57 With the thoughts of Belfast-born novelist David Park. Winner BOLCOM of the American Ireland Fund Literary Award for his Bonga: N'Genda Twelve Songs from ‘Cabaret Songs’ (Places to Live) contribution to Irish literature, his work, including his novel Barcelo Bonga Malena Ernman (mezzo soprano) The Truth Commissioner, frequently embraces the troubled Album: Bairro Bengt-Aske Lundin (piano) culture in which he grew up. Lusafrica 562212, Tr 5 (3:12) BIS CD 1154 Track 7 In Session 1’54 FRI 23:15 World on 3 (b00kc5tv) Charlie Gillett Tavares: Ponto de Luz BBC Recording, Maida Vale Studios, 2009. FRI 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00kc5tn) Presented by Charlie Gillett Great Russians: Shostakovich Produced by Roger Short De Sela/Sarah Page: Fool's Gold Lhasa Fri, 15th May 2009 - Part 1 Tel 020 7765 4661 Album: Lhasa Fax 020 7765 5052 Warner 2564690483, Tr 6 (3:03) From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Martin Handley e-mail [email protected] presents a concert from the BBC Philharmonic's Great Russians To Trips/Pedro Gonzalves: Electrica Cadente series. Friday 15th May 2009 Dead Combo Album: Dead Combo Vol. 1 The orchestra's Russian chief guest conductor Vassily Sinaisky Staff Benda Bilili: Moziki Transformadorres 510035, Tr 4 (3:01) appears with one of Britain's operatic stars, John Tomlinson, for Staff Benda Bilili the Suite on Verses of Michelangelo, which are settings of Album: Tres Tres Fort Jack Nitzsche: Murder verses by the great Italian artist and poet. One of Shostakovich's Crammed Discs CRAW 51, Tr 1 (4:55) John Lee Hooker/Miles Davis last works, written in 1974, it is symphonic in scope, and Album: The Hot Spot consists of 11 orchestral songs in which every text has to do Houdini: Poor but ambitious Antilles AN 8755, Tr 2 (4:10) with the life and work of the artist, including his achievements, Wilmoth Houdini & Unknown personnel his setbacks, his loves and his sense of destiny. Album: Poor but Ambitious Arhoolie CD 67010, Tr 24 John Tomlinson (bass) BBC Philharmonic Max Manila: Adieu Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) 17 Hippies Album: El Dorado Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo. Hipster HIP013, Tr 2

Oi Va Voi: Waiting FRI 19:40 Twenty Minutes (b00kczwd) Oi Va Voi ft. Voice of Bridgette Amofa Michelangelo the Poet Album: Travelling the face of the globe Oi Va Voi CD 2, Tr 1 (4:09) Mario Petrucci, who was Radio 3's first poet in residence, looks at the original Italian manuscripts and surveys the various In Session translations to reveal the qualities of the 300 or so sonnets and Sara Tavares other poems that Michelangelo wrote, asking what drew Shostakovich to them. He discovers a writer of considerable Tavares: Voice of the winds range, formal accomplishment and intelligence, qualities which BBC Recording, Maida Vale Studios, 2009. are considered as marking his genius as a visual artist. Mendez: So Doce, So Mel When he died in 1564, Buonarroti Michelangelo was regarded Boyge Mendez as one of the leading poets of his age, a great lyrical voice. But Album: Noite de Morabeza his colossal achievement in other fields has cast a shadow over Lusafrica 362122, Tr 1 (5:29) his contribution to literature. Yet, down the generations, major artists such as Wordsworth have always engaged with his L. Konza: Lisanga poetry. Gerald Toto; Richard Bona; Lokua Konza Album: Toto Bona Lokua Universal Music/No Format Records SSL 3030, Tr 12 (3:27) FRI 20:00 Performance on 3 (b00kczwg) Great Russians: Shostakovich Princezito: Pilonkan (Fisherman of poems) Princezito Fri, 15th May 2009 - Part 2 Album: Spiga Harmonia Lda 23952, Tr 1 (3:39) From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Presented by Martin Handley. In Session

The concert concludes with Vassily Sinaisky conducting the Pedero Ayes Magalhaes/Miguel Esteves Lardoso: Barquingo da BBC Philharmonic in Shostakovich's Symphony No 10, which Esperanza was premiered in 1953, not long after the death of Stalin. It was BBC Recording, Maida Vale Studios, 2009. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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