Radio 3 Listings for 19 – 25 December 2009 Page 1 of 13 SATURDAY 19 DECEMBER 2009 Jorma Rahkonen (violin) SAT 13:00 The Early Music Show (b00pgvpy) La Fenice SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b00p8jc6) 5.48am Presented by Susan Sharpe. Paganini, Niccolo (1782-1840): Polonaise Catherine Bott presents highlights from a concert given in 2008 Viktor Pikajzen (violin) in Villars-sur-Glane in Switzerland, featuring the ensemble La 1.00am Evgenia Sejdelj (piano) Fenice directed by Jean Tubery, with soprano Nuria Rial. Music Enescu, George (1881-1955): Violin Sonata No 3 in A, Op 25 includes Monteverdi's Exulta filia Sion and works by Tarquinio (dans le caractere populaire roumain) 5.54am Merula, Bonifazio Graziano and Jacob van Eyck. Sebastian Tegzesiu (violin) Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847): Trio in D minor, Op Viorica Boerescu (piano) 11 Anon: Misteri gioisi. Ave Maria gratia plena. Canto fermo for Trio Orlando one voice; Lucis creator optime. Canto fermo for male voices; 1.29am Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): String Quartet No 20 6.19am Giuseppe Scarani: Sonata sopra Lucis creator optime, for two in D, K499 (Hoffmeister) Arban, Jean-Baptiste (1825-1889), arr David Stanhope: Fantasy cornetts, organ, harpsichord, cello and theorbo ANIMA Quartet and variations on a Cavatina (Beatrice di Tenda - by Bellini) Geoffrey Payne (trumpet) Bonifazio Graziano: Venite pastores ad sacros amores (Motets 1.54am Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for 1, 2 and 3 male voices and continuo), arr for soprano Muthel, Johann Gottfried (1728-1788): Concerto in D minor Michael Halasz (conductor) for harpsichord, two bassoons, strings and continuo Orazio Tarditi: Volate coelites, qui natus est..., for soprano, two Rhoda Patrick, David Mings (bassoons) 6.27am cornetts, cello, harpsichord, organ and theorbo Gregor Hollman (harpsichord) Gorczycki, Grzegorz Gerwazy (c.1665-1734): Litaniae de Musica Alta Ripa providential divina (c.1726) Anon: Ottava di Natale: Parton dall'oriente tre re per adorar, for Olga Pasiecznik, Marta Bobertska (soprano) soprano, theorbo, cello and organ 2.18am Piotr Lykowski (countertenor) Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953): Symphony No 5, Op 100 Wojciech Parchem () Segue to: Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra Miroslaw Borzynski (bass) Milen Nachev (conductor) Sine Nomine Chamber Bernardo Storace: Passacaglia in pastoral mode, for recorder, Concerto Polacco dessus de viole, organ and cello (instrumental) 3.01am Marek Toporowski (chamber organ/director) Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): String Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op Segue to: 13 (1888 revised 1900) 6.39am Vertavo Quartet Reger, Max (1873-1916): Humoresque in G minor, Op 20 No 5 Monteverdi: Exulta filia Sion, motet for soprano and continuo 6.41am 3.26am Reger: Intermezzo in E flat minor, Op 45 No 3 Tarquinio Merula: Curtio precipitato et altri caprici, libro Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Scherzo No 1 in B, Op 20 6.45am secondo (excerpt): Hor ch'e tempo di dormire, Canzonetta sacra Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) Reger: Intermezzo in G minor, Op 45 No 5 sopra - alla nanna, for one voice and continuo Max Reger (piano) (recorded on 8th December 1905) 3.36am GB Fontana: Sonata decima terza, for two cornetts, cello, Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Rosamunde - incidental music, 6.48am harpsichord and (instrumental) D797 Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto VIII in A minor for Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra two violins, strings and continuo, RV522 (L'Estro Armonico, Segue to: Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) Op 3) Paul Wright, Sayuri Yamagata (violins) Biagio Marini: Con le stelle in ciel che mai, madrigal for 4.06am Australian Brandenburg Orchestra soprano and instrumental ensemble Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974), arr Timothy Kain: Scaramouche Paul Dyer (conductor). Guitar Trek Anon: Puer nobis nascitur, motet for voice and continuo

4.16am SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b00pcg4s) Jacob van Eyck: Puer nobis nascitur, arr. for recorder and Albicastro, Henricus (fl.1700-06): Motet: Coelestes angelici Saturday - Martin Handley continuo. chori Guy de Mey (tenor) Presented by Martin Handley. Wake up to music, news and the Ensemble 415 occasional surprise, including a Winter Waltz at 8.00am and a SAT 14:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00p8dgc) Chiara Banchini (conductor) carol from the BBC Singers at 8.30am. David Fray

4.30am From , London. Fiona Talkington presents pianist Anon (c.1600-1650): Toccata; Angelus pastoribus SAT 09:00 CD Review (b00pcg4v) David Fray performing an all-Schubert programme. Schubert: Marek Toporowski (chamber organ) Building a Library: Ravel: Piano Trio Impromptus, Op 90; 6 moments musicaux.

4.35am With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Ravel: Ward, John (c.1589-1638): Cor mio, deh, non languire Piano Trio; The latest Christmas-themed releases; Disc of the SAT 15:00 World Routes (b00pcg51) 4.38am Week: Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (with Jonathan Lemalu). African Artists Gibbons, Orlando (1583-1625): The Silver Swan Emma Kirkby (soprano) Building a Library: Amadou and Mariam The Rose Consort of Viols RAVEL: Piano Trio in A minor Lucy Duran presents concert recordings by African artists who 4.40am have broken through to the mainstream. Wiren, Dag (1905-1986): Violin Sonatina (1939) Reviewer – Harriet Smith Arve Tellefsen (violin) Following successful appearances this year at Hyde Park and Lucia Negro (piano) First Choice Recommendation: the main stage at Glastonbury, the highly rated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam play an end-of-year gig at the HMV 4.51am c/w RAVEL: Sonata for violin and piano; Sonata for violin and Forum in London's Kentish Town. Tobias, Rudolf (1873-1918): Prelude and Fugue in D minor cello; Sonata for violin and piano ‘Sonate posthume’ Estonian National Symphony Orchestra Renaud Capuçon (violin) / Gautier Capuçon (cello) / Frank WORLD ROUTES Arvo Volmar (conductor) Braley (piano) Virgin 5454922 (CD) Presented by Lucy Duran 5.01am Produced by Roger Short Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Overture (Die CD Review BAL Catalogue Data Zauberflote, K620) Tel. 020 7765 4661 Canadian Company Orchestra bal.ravel: Fax. 020 7765 5052 Richard Bradshaw (conductor) bal.ravel.piano.trio e-mail [email protected] hs.bal.cd.review 5.08am Saturday 19th December, 3:00pm Groneman, Albertus (1710-1778): Flute Sonata in D Jed Wentz, Marion Moonen (flutes) SAT 12:15 Music Matters (b00pcg4x) Amadou & Mariam in Concert at the HMV Forum A Midlands Christmas 5.22am Amadou Bagayoko (guitar/lead voice) Schutz, Heinrich (1585-1672): Selve beate, se sospirando, Tom Service travels across the English Midlands taking a Mariam Doumbia (lead voice) SWV3 (Il Primo Libro de Madrigali Venice - 1611) snapshot of music making in villages, towns and cities as people Yvo Abadie (drums) The Consorte of Musicke prepare for Christmas. Visiting Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Yao Dembele (bass) Anthony Rooley (conductor) Derbyshire, and the West Midlands, he meets people who are Boubacar Dembele (djembe/percussion) bringing music – from brass bands to opera, cathedral to Igor Nikitinsky (keyboard) 5.26am pub carols – to the heart of their communities. (2nd keyboard) Suchon, Eugen (1908-1993): Symfonietta Rustica (1954-55) - Woridjo Kouyate (backing vocals) Pictures from Slovakia Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see a video of Tom as Sira Kouyate (backing vocals) Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra he reflects on the journey ahead, and a piece by Nottingham- Ludovit Rajter (conductor) based visual artist Hetain Patel - and listen to a specially Masiteladi recorded feature about Sinfonia ViVa's 'In The Space Between' Djuru 5.44am project at the Drill Hall in Lincoln, a creative collaboration Welcome to Mali Tulindberg, Erik (1761-1814): Polonaise and Variations between the orchestra and local schools. Batoma Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 19 – 25 December 2009 Page 2 of 13 Djama 2009 CD (Watt/35 2712413 Tr.5) Bruno Mantovani: Time Stretch (On Gesualdo) (16:22) Cenepabon BBC National Orchestra of Wales Couloubaly We Free Kings (Roland Kirk) (4:41) Pascal Rophe (conductor) Sabali Performed by Roland Kirk (ts, manzello, stritch, f, siren) Hank Performed by Amadou & Mariam Jones (p) Wendell Marshall (b) Charli Persip (d) Cello Concerto (18:52) BBC Recording by Martin Appleby, Duncan Rhodes and Mike Recorded 17 August 1961, New York Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) Page, December 2009, at the HMV Forum Taken from the album We Free Kings BBC National Orchestra of Wales CD (Emarcy 8264552(1) Track 7) Pascal Rophe (conductor) Mon amour ma cherie Performed by Amadou & Mariam, ft. Romeo Stodard (guitar) 4:30 Blues (Duke Ellington) (4:00) L'ere de rien (9:37) BBC Recording by Martin Appleby, Duncan Rhodes and Mike Performed by Duke Ellington (conductor, piano) Norris Turney Andrew Nicholson (flute) Page, December 2009, at the HMV Forum (as & ts flt, cl) Johnny Hodges (as) Harold Ashby (ts, flt) Paul Yann Ghiro () Gonsalves (ts) Harry Carney (bs, cl, bass cl) Cat Anderson, Catherine Roe-Williams (piano) Dimanche a Bamako Cootie Williams, Rolf Ericson, Mercer Ellington (tp) Lawrence Performed by Amadou & Mariam Brown, Chuck Connors (tb) Wild Bill Davis (organ) Victor Finale (14:46) BBC Recording by Martin Appleby, Duncan Rhodes and Mike Gaskin (b) Rufus "Speedy" Jones (d) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Page, December 2009, at the HMV Forum Recorded 26 November 1969, Free Trade Hall Manchester Pascal Rophe (conductor) Taken from the album Duke Ellington 70th Birthday Concert CD (Blue Note CDP8327462(2) Disc 1, Track 5) SAT 16:00 Jazz Library (b00pcg53) Stefano Bollani Congeniality (Ornette Coleman) (6:43) SUNDAY 20 DECEMBER 2009 Performed by Ornette Coleman (as) Don Cherry (cnt) Charlie One of the highlights of 2009's London Jazz Festival was pianist Haden (b) Billy Higgins (d) SUN 00:00 Jazz Library (b00kss3c) Stefano Bollani's residency at Kings Place, where the Italian Recorded 22 May 1959 Joni Mitchell gave solo performances as well as concerts in duo, trio and Taken from the album The Shape of Jazz to Come settings. Recorded in front of an audience at the festival, CD (Atlantic 8122-73198-2 Track 5) Singer Christine Tobin guides Alyn Shipton through the jazz- Alyn Shipton talks to Bollani about his varied recording career, oriented repertoire of Joni Mitchell, including her work with including his latest trio outing for ECM. Goin’ To Chicago Blues (Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing) (3:38) Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius and Herbie Hancock. Mitchell Performed by Kay Starr (v) Van Alexander And His Orchestra often employed jazz musicians on her recordings, but she was Recorded Summer 1959, Hollywood also fascinated by Charles Mingus, making an album of his SAT 17:00 Jazz Record Requests (b00pcg55) Taken from the album Movin’ music shortly before his death. Jazz Record Requests CD (Jasmine JASCD307. Track 7) Presented by Geoffrey Smith Saturday 19 December 2009 17:00 – 18:00 Skating in Central Park (John Lewis) (6:07) SUN 01:00 Through the Night (b00pckzd) Performed by the Modern Jazz Quartet: John Lewis (p) Milt Presented by Jonathan Swain. JRR Signature Tune: Jackson (vib) Percy Heath (b) Connie Kay (d) Oh, but on the Third Day (Happy Feet Blues) (Wynton Recorded 9 October 1959, New York City 1.00am Marsalis) Taken from the album Odds Against Tomorrow Scarlatti, (1660-1725): Cinque Profeti - Christmas Performed by Wynton Marsalis (tp), Marcus Roberts (p), Todd 1990 CD (Blue Note CDP7934152 Track 1) Cantata Williams (ts), Dr Michael White (cl), Danny Barker (bj), Teddy Daniel ...... Barbara Schlick (soprano) Riley (tp), Freddie Lonzo (tb), Reginald Veal (b), Herlin Riley Don't forget, you can have your say on today's programme, or Ezechielle ...... Heike Hallaschka (soprano) (d) any aspect of jazz, by visiting the Jazz Messageboard. Geremia ...... Kai Wessel (countertenor) Recorded 28 October 1988 Isaia ...... Christoph Pregardien (tenor) Taken from the album The Majesty of the Blues The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet Abramo ...... Michael Schopper (bass) 1989 CD (CBS 465129 2) sites. La Stagione Michael Schneider (director) White Christmas (Irving Berlin) (4:10) Performed by Miles Davis (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Al Haig (p) SAT 18:00 Opera on 3 (b00pcg57) 2.01am Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d) Live from the Met Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Quartet No 1 in A Recorded 25 December 1948 minor, Wq 93 (Three quartets for fortepiano, flute and viola - Taken from the album Pensive Bird Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann 1788) LP (Ember CJS 821. S2/2) Les Adieux: From the , New York, James Levine Andreas Staier (fortepiano) Papa Ain’t No Santa Claus (Mama ain’t No Christmas Tree) conducts a production of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Wilbert Hazelzet (flute) (Edwards) (3:16) starring Joseph Calleja as the troubled poet and , Hajo Bass (viola) Performed by Butterbeans and Susie (v) Eddie Heywood (p) Ekaterina Gubanova and Kathleen Kim as Hoffmann's former Recorded 13 August 1930, New York loves. 2.09am Taken from the album Screening the Blues Van Noordt, Anthoni (1619-1675): Fantasia 5 in C LP (CBS 63288. S1/2) Hoffmann is waiting for the object of his affection, Stella, to Leo van Doeselaar (organ of the Hooglandse Kerk in Leiden) arrive and fills the time by telling the tale of his disastrous past Santa Claus Blues (Gus Kahn, Charley Straight) (5:45) loves. First, a mechanical doll called Olympia, destroyed by her 2.24am Performed by Bob Brookmeyer (valve tb, p) Jimmy Giuffre (cl, owner. His second love Antonia dies when the impulse to sing is Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707): Durch Adam Fall ist ganz bs, ts) Jim Hall (g) Dave Bailey (d) Joe Benjamin (b) too much for her weak heart. Finally, the Venetian courtesan verderbt, BuxWV 183 Recorded 1957 Giulietta steals his reflection as well as his heart before Juliusz Gembalski (organ of St Andrew the Apostle Parish Taken from the album Traditionalism Revisited choosing a different suitor. Stella finally arrives to find Church in Olkusz; construction of the organ begun by Hans LP (Affinity AFF 127. S1/2) Hoffmann drunk, so leaves with his rival for her love. Hummel in the years 1617-1624 - was completed by Jerzy Nitrowski in the years 1631-1633) Gin for Christmas (Hampton) (2:28) Presented by Margaret Juntwait with guest commentator Ira Performed by Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra: Ziggy Elman Siff. With live backstage interviews and the Met Quiz during 2.28am (tp) Toots Mondello (cl, as) Ben Webster, Jerry Jerome (ts) the two intervals. Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): The Firebird - suite (1945 Cldye Hart (p) Albert Casey (g) Artie Bernstein (b) Lionel version) Hampton (d) Olympia ...... Kathleen Kim (soprano) Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra Recorded 30 October 1939 Antonia/Stella ...... Anna Netrebko (soprano) Marcello Viotti (conductor) Taken from the album Lionel Hampton Giulietta ...... Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano) 1992 CD (Flapper PAST CD9789 Track 22) Nicklausse/The Muse ...... Kate Lindsey (mezzo-soprano) 3.01am Hoffmann ...... Joseph Calleja (tenor) Bacewicz, Grazyna (1909-1969): Partita for orchestra Me Myself and I (Gordon, Roberts, Kaufman) (2:42) Four Villains ...... Alan Held Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra Performed by Billie Holiday (v) Lester Young (ts) Buck Chorus and Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera Marek Pijarowski (conductor) Clayton (tp) Jimmy Sherman (p) Freddie Green (g) Walter Page James Levine (conductor). (b) Jo Jones (d) 3.15am Recorded 15 June 1937, New York City Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Piano Sonata No 12 Taken from the album The Legacy (1933-1958) SAT 22:10 Between the Ears (b007ntt3) in F, K332 1991 CD (Columbia/Legacy C3K47724 Disc 2, Track 15) The Sleepover Annie Fischer (piano)

Deck Us All with Boston Charlie (W Kelly, N Monath) (3:12) Shut away for 20 hours in a humble house and barn beside a 3.30am Performed by Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross creek, Judith Kampfner explores Jackson Pollock's domestic Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936): Il Tramonto - poemetto lirico (v) Ike Isaacs (b) Gildo Mahones (p) Jimmy Wormworth (d) world. Andrea Trebnik (soprano) Recorded 4 May 1961, New York Borromeo String Quartet Taken from the album Jingle Bell Jazz LP (Columbia PC 36803 S2/2) SAT 22:30 Hear and Now (b00pcg77) 3.45am Composer Portraits Handel, George Friedrich (1685-1759): Incidental music to The God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Part one (Trad.) (4:45) Alchemist, a play by Ben Johnson Performed by Carla Bley (piano, celeste) Steve Swallow (bass, Bruno Mantovani CBC Vancouver Orchestra chimes) The Partyka Brass Quintet: Tobias Weidinger (trumpet, Monica Huggett (conductor) flugelhorn, glockenspiel) Axel Schlosser (trumpet, flugelhorn, Concluding a series of composer profiles, Ivan Hewett chimes) Christine Chapman (horn) Adrian Mears (trombone) interviews French composer Bruno Mantovani at his home in 4.03am Ed Partyka (bass trombone, tuba) Paris. Featuring music from a concert given by the BBC Spohr, Louis (1784-1859): String in C, Op 140 Recorded December 2008 National Orchestra of Wales, recorded at BBC Hoddinott Hall Wiener Streichsextet Taken from the album Carla’s Christmas Carols in Cardiff. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 19 – 25 December 2009 Page 3 of 13 4.28am Chorus: Wachet! Betet! Betet! Wachet! Puer natus est nobis) Holst, Gustav (1874-1934): Ave Maria Monteverdi Choir Tallis Scholars Chamber Choir AVE English Soloists Peter Philips (conductor) Andraz Hauptman (conductor) (conductor) Gimell 4549342 Track 2 SDG 162 CD2 Track 1 Dur: 7m20s 4.34am Dur: 3m33s Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Suite in B flat for 13 wind Bach: Chorus: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (Cantata, instruments, Op 4 Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium BWV62) Ottawa Winds Polyphony Monteverdi Choir Michael Goodwin (conductor) Stephen Layton (conductor) English Baroque Soloists Hyperion CDA67449 Track 14 John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) 5.01am Dur: 6m40s SDG 162 Cd1 Track 7 Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943): The Bells (Kolokola) for Dur: 4m42s soloists, chorus and orchestra, Op 35 Scriabin: Sonata No 3 (3rd and 4th mvts) Roumiana Bareva (soprano) Vladimir Sofronitsky (piano) Harry Warren, arr Alasdair Nicholson: 42nd Street Pavel Kourchoumov (tenor) Philips 456 970 2 CD2 Tracks 3, 4 Joanna MacGregor (piano) Stoyan Popov (baritone) Dur: 10m03s Sound Circus SC002 Track 6 Sons de la Mer Mixed Choir Varna Dur: 3m41s. Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra Ariel Ramirez, arr Timothy- Wayne-Knight: La Peregrinacion Vassil Stefanov (conductor) The King's Singers SIGNUM SIGCD502 Track 21 SUN 12:00 Christmas around Europe (b00pcldt) 5.39am Dur: 3m09s Christmas Around Europe (2009) Bizet, Georges (1838-1875): L'arlesienne Suite No 1 Slovenia Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra Bach: Cantata, BWV61 Part 1 Marko Munih (conductor) Recit: Siehe ich stehe vor der Tur/aria Offne dich, main ganzes Herze Fiona Talkington presents part of a day of concerts to celebrate 5.57am Dietrich Henschel Christmas around Europe. Vallet, Nicolas (c.1583-c.1645): Carillon de village Joanne Lunn Toyohiko Satoh (lute) English Baroque Soloists 12.00pm John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Vienna: From the Radiokulturhaus in Vienna, a concert of 6.00am SDG 162 CD1 Tracks 4, 5 chamber music by Mozart, Haydn, Albrechtsberger and Rung, Henrik (1807-1871): Kimer, I klokker (Chime, you bells) Dur: 5m00s Schmidt, including Mozart's Adagio and Fugue for String Fionian Chamber Choir Quartet, K546, plus organ music by Schmidt. Alice Granum (director) Holst/Rosetti: In the Bleak Midwinter The Sixteen Robert Lehrbaumer (organ/piano) 6.02am Harry Christophers (conductor) Laura Nocchiero (piano) Cantieni, Robert: Il Sain da Not (The Evening Bell) Collins Classics 13002 Track 13 Antonello Pellegrini (clarinet) Suraua Mixed Chorus Dur: 4m20s Ruedi Collenberg (director) 1.00pm Jean Mouton: Nesciens mater Nuremberg: A concert of Christmas music by 17th-century 6.04am The Sixteen composer Johann Rosenmuller, German by birth, but very Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Kallion kirkon kellosavelma (The Harry Christophers (conductor) influenced by the Italian style. The concert includes newly Bells of Kallio Church), Op 56b Hyperion CDA 66263 Track 15 discovered sacred concertos for vocal ensemble, along with Finnish Radio Chamber Choir Dur: 5m45s pieces for soprano solo and instrumental ensemble. Eric-Olof Soderstrom (conductor) Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ (Excerpt from Part 2 - Shepherds Lautten Compagney, Berlin 6.07am Farewell) Capella Angelica Purcell, Henry (1659-1695): Rejoice in the Lord alway, Z49 Orchestra des Champs-Elysees Wolfgang Kortschner (conductor) (Bell ) Collegium Vocale Ghent Robert Lawaty (countertenor) La Chapelle Royale 2.00pm Robert Pozarski (tenor) Philippe Herrreweghe (conductor) Tallinn: From St Nicholas' Church in Tallinn, the Estonian Miroslaw Borczynski (bass) Harmonia Mundi HMX 2971632.33 CD2 Track 2 National Men's Chorus perform a varied programme of Sine Nomine Chamber Choir Dur: 4m30s Christmas music, including traditional Estonian songs along Concerto Polacco Baroque Orchestra with Bach, Gabrieli and English Christmas carols. Marek Toporowski (director) Finzi: Dies Natalis (Excerpt - Wonder) Wilfred Brown Estonian National Men's Chorus 6.15am English Chamber Orchestra Ants Soots (director) Delibes, Leo (1836-1891): Bell Song: Ou va la jeune Hindoue? Christopher Finzi (conductor) (Lakme, Act 2) EMI CDM 7633722 Track 10 3.00pm Lakme ...... Tracy Dahl (soprano) Dur: 4m15s Dublin: The Irish contribution to Christmas around Europe is a Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra concert given by the RTE National Symphony Orchestra from Mario Bernardi (conductor) Bach: Cantata, BWV147 the National Concert Hall in Dublin, with Christmas music Chorus: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben from Rimsky-Korsakov, Bach and Grieg. 6.24am Monteverdi Choir Saint-Saens, Camille (1835-1921), transcr. Saint-Saens for two English Baroque Soloists Victoria Massey (mezzo-soprano) pianos: Danse macabre, Op 40 John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) RTE Children's Choir Ouellet-Murray Duo: SDG 162 Cd2 Track 18 RTE National Symphony Orchestra Claire Ouellet, Sandra Murray (pianos) Dur: 3m48s Gavin Maloney (conductor).

6.31am Bach/Hess: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): La cathedrale engloutie (No 10 - Angela Hewitt (piano) SUN 16:00 Choral Evensong (b00p8g37) Preludes, Book 1 - 1910) Hyperion CDA 67309 Track 7 From All Saints' Church, Swanton Morley, Norfolk with the Philippe Cassard (piano) Dur: 3m50s Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

6.37am Mozart: Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo Introit: Arise, shine (Ned Rorem) Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953): Lieutenant Kije, Op 60 - Thomas Quasthoff Responses: Peter Still concert suite Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra Psalm: 25 (Henry Ainsworth) Queensland Symphony Orchestra Jorg Faerber (conductor) First Lesson: Isaiah 51 vv1-8 Vladimir Verbitsky (conductor). RCA 09026614282 Track 5 Office Hymn: Hark the glad sound! (Bristol) Dur: 5m50s Canticles (Robert Nicholls) Second Lesson: II Thessalonians 1 SUN 07:00 Breakfast (b00pcldp) Green/Robin: Something in the Wind Spirituals: Ev'ry time I feel the Spirit; There is a balm in Gilead; Sunday - Martin Handley Deanna Durbin Ain't that good news!; My Lord, what a morning; Ezekiel saw EMI 7013602 Track 15 de wheel (arr. Henry Burleigh and William Dawson) Presented by Martin Handley, who shares his personal choice of Dur: 2m59s Final Hymn: Mine eyes have seen the glory (Battle Hymn of the music. Including a Winter Waltz and a carol from the BBC Republic) Singers. John Rutter: What sweeter music Organ Voluntary: Hymn (Flights of Fancy) (William Albright) Tenebrae Nigel Short (conductor) Organ scholars: Matthew Fletcher, Annie Lydford SUN 10:00 Sunday Morning (b00pcldr) SIGCD182 Track 3 Director of music: Geoffrey Webber. Considering Christmas... Dur: 4m46s

Iain Burnside present a piquant take on Christmas and its music. Tchaikovsky, transcr M Pletnev: Concert Suite: Andante SUN 17:00 Christmas around Europe (b00pcldw) Joined by historian Kate Williams, who shares with Iain her maestoso (Pas de Deux) - The Nutcracker Christmas Around Europe (2009) thoughts about how the Victorians did so much to create the Simon Trpceski (piano) traditions we now take for granted, Iain plays five centuries of EMI 575 202 2 Track 7 Part 2 Christmas music, from Thomas Tallis to Morten Lauridsen. Dur: 5m15s Fiona Talkington presents the conclusion of a day of concerts to Bach: Cantata, BWV70 Thomas Tallis: Sanctus/Benedictus (Mass - for seven voices - celebrate Christmas around Europe. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 19 – 25 December 2009 Page 4 of 13 5.00pm Publ: Edition Records Jesper Svedberg (cello) Munich: From the Herkulessaal, the Bavarian Radio Chorus and Dur:2m15s Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano) Orchestra perform two contrasting Christmas choral works. Arvo Part's 2 Christmas Lullabies and Saint-Saens's mighty Title: So He Left 2.18am Christmas Oratorio. Artist: Empirical Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Iberia: Images for Orchestra, No Album: Out 'n' In 2 (1909) Bavarian Radio Chorus and Orchestra Track: 4 Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Tonu Kaljuste (conductor) Label: Naim Jazz NAIMCD 139 Jun Markl (conductor) Comp: Nathaniel Facey 6.00pm Publ: Naim Jazz 2.40am Warsaw: From the Witold Lutoslawski Concert Hall, a concert Dur:5m27s Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826): Grand duo concertant for of Renaissance motets for Christmas, featuring works by clarinet and piano, Op 48 Josquin Desprez, Victoria, Tallis, Lasso and Mikolaj Zielenski. Title: Motherless Child Joaquin Valdepenas (clarinet) Artist: John Scofield Patricia Parr (piano) The Subtilior Ensemble Album: Piety Street Piotr Zawistowski (director) Track: 2 3.01am Label: Emarcy 060251 791 1369 Schenck, Johann (1660-c.1712): Sonata in A minor, Op 9 No 2 7.00pm Comp: Trad (arr John Scofield) Berliner Conzert Prague: BBC Radio 3 rounds off the day of Christmas music Publ: n/a from around Europe with a concert from the Kromeriz Dur:5m18s 3.23am Archives (1750-1800), performed in the Mirror Chapel in Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Symphony No 6 in C, D589 Prague. Title: igetthepicture Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Artist: John Scofield - guitar, Don Alias - percussion, George Jukka-Peka Saraste (conductor) Ensemble Inegal Duke - keyboard, Dennis Chambers - drums, Gary Grainger, Adam Viktoria (director). bass 3.55am Album: Loud Jazz Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Nocturne in D flat, Op 27 No 2 Track: 10 Jane Coop (piano) SUN 20:00 Drama on 3 (b00pcldy) Label: Gramavision GCD 79402 A Whistle in the Dark Comp: John Scofield 4.02am Publ: BMI Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Brandenburg Concerto By Tom Murphy. Dur:4m18s No 2 in F, BWV1047 Alexis Kossenko (recorder) This powerful modern classic play is set in the early 1960s and Title: London December 1, 2008 - Part 12 Erik Niord Larsen (oboe) centres on the reunion of an Irish family in Coventry. Michael Artist: Keith Jarrett Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet) Carney, with the help of his English wife, Betty, is putting up Album: Testament - Paris/London Elise Batnes (violin) his brothers Harry, Iggy and Hugo in his house. When Dada Track: CD3, XII Risor Festival Strings arrives from Ireland with Des, the youngest brother, it has Label: ECM ECM 2132 Knut Johannessen (harpsichord) devastating consequences for all of them. Comp: Keith Jarrett Publ: Cavelight Music (BMI) 4.13am Dada ...... John Kavanagh Dur:7m15s Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Spring Song, Op 16 Michael Carney ...... Aidan McArdle Kaija Saarikettu (violin) Des Carney ...... Martin McCann EBU Recording - made in the Leffe Abbey, at the Dinant Jazz Raija Kerppo (piano) Harry Carney ...... Denis Conway Nights Festival, 2008 Iggy Carney ...... David Wilmot Title: Sugar 4.22am Hugo Carney ...... Garrett Lombard Artists: Eric Legnini - piano, Stephane Belmondo - trumpet, Crusell, Bernhard Henrik (1775-1838): Introduction et Air Mush ...... Ruaidhri Conroy Julien Lourau - saxophone, Mathias Allamane - bass, Frank Suedois, Op 12 Betty ...... Emma Amos Agulhorn - drums Anne-Marja Korimaa (clarinet) Comp: Stanley Turrentine Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Director/producer: Roland Jaquarello. Dur: 13m44s Osmo Vanska (conductor)

EBU Recording - made in the Leffe Abbey, at the Dinant Jazz 4.33am SUN 22:00 Sunday Feature (b00pclf0) Nights Festival, 2008 Bartok, Bela (1881-1945): Four Old Hungarian Folksongs Tasty! Title: Big Boogaloo (Negy regi magyar nepdal) for male chorus, Sz 50 Artists: Eric Legnini - piano, Stephane Belmondo - trumpet, Male Choir of the Hungarian Army Notions of good and bad taste used to reinforce strict top-down Julien Lourau - saxophone, Mathias Allamane - bass, Frank Bela Podor (conductor) notions of how we should appreciate the visual arts and design. Agulhorn - drums But consumerism has democratised taste. So have ideas about Comp: Stanley Turrentine 4.38am taste just become subjective or, now that we can all take part, Dur:10m44s Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Was erblicke ich? (Daphne, Op are they even more important? Cultural historian Richard 82) - aria Weight explores how we decide what is tasty. Title: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Part One Ben Heppner (tenor) Artist: Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, The Partyka Brass Quintet Toronto Symphony Orchestra Album: Carla's Christmas Carols Andrew Davis (conductor) SUN 22:45 Words and Music (b00mm0lw) Track: 5 In the Park Label: Watt Production/ECM Records WATT/35 2712412 4.47am Comp: Trad (arr Carla Bley) Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Bacchanalia (Poeticke nalady - A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of parks, Publ: ECM No 10, Op 85) with readings from Greta Scacchi and Henry Goodman. Dur:1m09s Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Robert Stankovsky (conductor) Including writing by Thackeray, DH Lawrence, Elizabeth Title: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Part Two Bowen, Graham Greene, Gwen Harwood and Sara Teasdale, as Artist: Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, The Partyka Brass Quintet 4.53am well as music from Handel, Debussy, Phyllis Tate, Stephen Album: Carla's Christmas Carols Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), compl. Zoltan Sondheim and Charles Ives. Track: 6 Kocsis: Rondo (Concert rondo) for horn and orchestra in E flat, Label: Watt Production/ECM Records WATT/35 2712412 K371 Comp: Trad (arr. Carla Bley) Laszlo Gal (horn) SUN 23:45 Jazz Line-Up (b00pclf4) Publ: ECM Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra John Scofield Dur:5m13s. Zoltan Kocsis (conductor)

In an edited version of an interview given at the 2009 London 5.01am Jazz Festival, Kevin LeGendre talks in-depth to guitarist John Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Overture (Manfred, Op 115) Scofield, a former sideman to Miles Davis and collaborator MONDAY 21 DECEMBER 2009 BBC Symphony Orchestra with many others. Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) MON 01:00 Through the Night (b00pclhn) Since working with Davis, Scofield has famously led his own Presented by Jonathan Swain. 5.15am groups, producing more than 30 albums, many of which are Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Intermezzo in A, Op 118 No 2 now classics. He has collaborated with contemporary favourites 1.00am Jane Coop (piano) such as Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Eddie Harris, Medeski, Nenov, Dimitar (1901-53): Christmas - symphonic poem for Martin and Wood, Bill Frisell, Brad Mehldau, Mavis Staples, soloists, mixed choir and symphony orchestra (1938-39) 5.21am Government Mule, Jack DeJohnette, Joe Lovano and Phil Lesh. Valeri Popova (soprano) Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Giulio Cesare's aria: Al Scofield has also played and recorded with Tony Williams, Jim Alexander Krunev (baritone) lampo dell'armi (Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Act 2) Hall, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Dave Mixed Choir of Bulgarian National Radio Matthew White (countertenor) Holland and Terumasa Hino. BNR Symphony Orchestra Arte dei Suonatori Milen Nachev (conductor) Eduardo Lopez (conductor) Title: Call Artist: Troyka (Chris Montague - guitar, Kit Downes - organ, 1.36am 5.26am Joshua Blackmore - drums) Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Quartet No 1 in G minor for Sammartini, Giuseppe (1695-1750): Sinfonia in F Album: Troyka piano and strings, Op 25 Europa Galante Track: 10 Laurence Power (viola) Fabio Biondi (violin/director) Label: Edition EDN 1014 Kungsbacka Trio: Comp: Chris Montague Malin Broman (violin) 5.34am Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 19 – 25 December 2009 Page 5 of 13 Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809): String Quartet No 31 in B Repeated from Wigmore Hall earlier this year, Sarah Walker Conductor's Award for being 'a conductor who makes things minor, H lll 37 presents a concert featuring the Takacs Quartet. They perform happen - an inspiration to players and audiences alike,' and in Quatour Ysaye Haydn's String Quartet, Op 77 No 1, and Bartok's String this concert he celebrates that achievement. In his innovative Quartet No 4. Symphony, Dutilleux - a gold medallist of the RPS - divides the 5.52am orchestra into two, the small ensemble mirroring the larger. The Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): Feux d'artifice, Op 4 French tradition is represented here by Ravel's Pavane for an Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00pclpj) imaginary Spanish princess and his overwhelming ballet score Valery Gergiev (conductor) Richard Hickox Tribute Bolero. With Debussy's enigmatic Jeux, written for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and Stravinsky's Jeu de cartes, an idea which 5.56am Episode 1 came to him during a taxi ride. He said: 'I was so delighted that Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Jeux - poeme danse I stopped the driver and invited him to have a drink with me.' Oslo Philharmonic Penny Gore introduces a series of programmes in tribute to the Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) late conductor Richard Hickox. London Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev (conductor) 6.14am Featuring concert recordings from the Cheltenham Festival and Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Rondo in D, K184 - from the BBC Proms as well as from St David's Hall in Cardiff, Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte arr. for flute and piano all given while Richard was principal conductor with the Debussy: Jeux Carina Jandl (flute) orchestra. Henri Dutilleux: Symphony No 2 Svetlana Sokolova (piano) Stravinsky: Jeu des cartes Elgar: Overture (Cockaigne) Ravel: Bolero. 6.20am BBC National Orchestra of Wales Zagar, Peter (b.1961): Blumenthal Dance No 2 for violin, viola, Richard Hickox (conductor) cello, clarinet and piano (1999) MON 20:45 Belief (b00pclps) Opera Aperta Ensemble Bach: Magnificat Series 6 Norma Burrowes (soprano) 6.28am Paul Esswood (countertenor) David Starkey Grandjany, Marcel (1891-1975): Rhapsodie pour la harpe, Op Robert Tear (tenor) 10 (1921) Thomas Allen (baritone) Joan Bakewell explores areas of belief with artists, thinkers and Rita Costanzi (harp) Alastair Ross (organ) other public figures. Richard Hickox Orchestra and Singers 6.38am Richard Hickox (conductor) She talks to historian, writer and broadcaster David Starkey Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Cantata No 170 about his Quaker upbringing, his rejection of religion as the (Vergnugte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust) - Leipzig, 1726 2.45pm answer to life's big questions and how he makes sense of recent Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms moves in Catholic-Anglican relations. As the author of a recent Les Musiciens du Louvre BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales biography of Henry VIII, he wonders if time is running out for (conductor). Richard Hickox (conductor) Henry's great legacy - England's national church - the Church of England. Rubbra: Symphony No 4 MON 07:00 Breakfast (b00pclhq) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Monday - Rob Cowan Richard Hickox (conductor) MON 21:15 BBC Proms (b00pclpv) 2009 Rob Cowan presents great pieces, great performances and a few Ravel: Ma mere l'oye - ballet surprises, including a Winter Waltz at 8.00am and a carol from BBC National Orchestra of Wales Prom 17: Bach Motets the BBC Singers at 8.30am. Richard Hickox (conductor) Presented by Catherine Bott. 4.10pm MON 10:00 Classical Collection (b00pclhs) Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony A late-night Prom from the 2009 season in which John Eliot Monday - James Jolly BBC National Orchestra of Wales Gardiner and his hand-picked choir and ensemble perform Richard Hickox (conductor). some of Bach's motets. While Bach's great Passions languished With James Jolly. unheard for almost a century after his death, his motets continued to be sung by the Leipzig choirs for which they were Featuring great performances and classic recordings. With MON 17:00 Words and Music (b00jkt31) written. The concert features four of them, including Singet music on the theme of dining and a taste of the best CDs Handel Week - Handel's Divas dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Sing to the Lord a new song), a released in 2009. work which had even Mozart exclaiming, 'Now, there's a piece Geraldine James and Michael Maloney read extracts from one can learn from'. 10.00am journals, newspapers, letters and poetry of Handel's time about Vaughan Williams: Aristophanic Suite (The Wasps) the highs and lows of opera and oratorio performances in Monteverdi Choir Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra London. These are interspersed with music by the composer English Baroque Soloists James Judd (conductor) himself. John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) NAXOS 8.572304 In his London , Handel provided vehicles for the most Bach: Komm, Jesu, Komm!, BWV229; Furchte dich nicht, 10.26am famous singers, mostly brought over from Italy. The infamous BWV228; Jesu, meine Freude, BWV227; Singet dem Herrn ein Bernstein: La bonne cuisine rivalries between singers such as Senesino, Cuzzoni and neues Lied, BWV225 Patricia Petibon (soprano) Faustina were played out in public. Susan Manoff (piano) Followed by two solo performances from the 2009 Proms New VIRGIN 5622942 Generation Artist weekend. Violinist Alina Ibragimova plays MON 18:15 New Generation Artists (b00pclpn) Bach's Partita No 3 in E, BWV1006, while Maxim Rysanov 10.36am BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme picks out some performs Bach's Suite No 4 in E flat, BWV1010, in an Telemann: Quartet in E minor (Tafelmusik, Part 3) of the brightest new talents in the world. The arrangement for the viola. Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin special Christmas and New Year series features studio and live HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901689 concert performances, here by Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi, Swedish soprano Malin Christensson and Ukrainian MON 23:15 Jazz on 3 (b00pclqf) 10.47am viola player Maxim Rysanov. Best Albums of 2009 Roussel: Le festin de l'araignee, Op 17 Orchestre National de l'ORTF Schumann: Toccata, Op 7 Jez Nelson is joined by a panel of the UK's leading jazz critics Jean Martinon (conductor) Francesco Piemontesi (piano) to play selections from their favourite album releases of 2009. ERATO 2564 605772 Wolf: Wie lange schon; Wer rief dich denn?; Wir haben beide For more information about tickets for Jazz On 3's celebration 11.20am lange Zeit geschwiegen; Mein Liebster ist so klein; Mein of British jazz at Ronnie Scott's on January 4th 2010, please go Ravel: Piano Trio Liebster singt am Haus; Du denkst mit einem Fadchen to www.bbc.co.uk/tickets. Tickets will not be available after the The Building a Library recommendation from CD Review. (Italienisches Liederbuch) programme ends tonight! Malin Christensson (soprano) Simon Lepper (piano) Follow Jez Nelson and Jazz On 3 on Twitter: MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00pclhv) http://twitter.com/jeznelson John Rutter (b.1945) Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata, D821 http://twitter.com/r3jazzon3 Maxim Rysanov (viola) Episode 1 Evgeny Samoyloff (piano). Dave Douglas' Quintet play Hand-written Letter in a recording made at the Everyman Theatre (Cheltenham Festival, 3rd May Donald Macleod is in conversation with John Rutter, one of the 2009) world's most successful and popular living composers. MON 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00pclpq) LSO/Gergiev Line-up: John discusses some of his most significant childhood Dave Douglas (trumpet, composer) experiences, whose influences continue to resonate in his most Presented by Catherine Bott. Donny McCaslin (saxophone) recent music. Orin Evans (Rhodes keyboard) Valery Gergiev conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Clarence Penn (drums) ballet music by Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky, and continues Scott Colley (bass) MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00pclpg) his Dutilleux season with the Symphony No 2, written in 1959. Takacs Quartet Martial Solal plays Vincent Youmans' Tea For Two, recorded at In May 2009, Gergiev was awarded the prestigious RPS Kings Place on 11th June 2009 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 19 – 25 December 2009 Page 6 of 13 Line up: Petr Fiala (director) 5.55am Martial Solal (piano) Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Music for the Royal Vladimir Valek (conductor) Fireworks Henri Texier, Louis Sclavis and Aldo Romano play Les Petits Collegium Aureum Lits Blanc, recorded at LSO St Luke's (London Jazz Festival, 1.49am 18th November 2008) Saint-Saens, Camille (1835-1921): Septet in E flat for trumpet, 6.17am piano and strings, Op 65 Pacius, Fredrik (1809-1891): Overture (The Hunt of King Line-up: Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet) Charles) - 1852 Aldo Romano (drums, percussion) Elise Baatnes, Karolina Radziej (violins) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Henri Texier (bass) Lars Anders Tomter (viola) Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) Louis Sclavis (clarinet, saxophone and composer) Hjalmer Kvam (cello) Marius Faltby (double bass) 6.25am Their album African Flashback is released on Label Bleu. Enrico Pace (piano) Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): 10 Pensees lyriques for piano, Op 40 Excerpt of L'Ampleur des Degats by the Marc Ducret Trio 2.06am Eero Heinonen (piano) recorded at the Vortex, London (28th January 2009) Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Symphony No 4 in E minor, Line-up: Op 98 6.44am Marc Ducret (guitar, composer) Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837): Trio in G for violin, Bruno Chevillon (double bass) Riccardo Chailly (conductor) viola and cello Eric Echampard (drums) Viktor Simcisko (violin) 2.45am Alzbeta Plazkurova (viola) The Claudia Quintet play Be Happy, recorded at the Barbican Hammerschmidt, Andreas (1611/12-1675): Suite in G minor/G Jozef Sikora (cello). (8th July 2009) major for winds (Ester Fleiss) Hesperion XX Line-up: (director) TUE 07:00 Breakfast (b00pdjlg) John Hollenbeck (drums, composer) Tuesday - Rob Cowan Trevor Dunn (electric bass) 3.01am Chris Speed (reeds) Wagner, Richard (1813-1883): Rienzi Overture Rob Cowan presents music to discover, rediscover and lift the Matt Moran (vibes) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra spirits. Including a Winter Waltz at 8.00am and a carol from Ted Reichman (accordion) Simone Young (conductor) the BBC Singers at 8.30am.

Joe Lovano's Us Five play Powerhouse, recorded at Ronnie 3.15am Scott's (26th May 2009) Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Die Burgschaft, D246 TUE 10:00 Classical Collection (b00pdjlj) Christoph Pregardien (tenor) Tuesday - James Jolly Line-up: Andreas Staier (fortepiano - after Johann Fritz, Vienna c. 1815) Joe Lovano (reeds, composer) With James Jolly. James Weidman (piano) 3.33am Esperanza Spalding (bass) Valerius, Adriaen (c.1575-1625): Engels Malsims Featuring great performances and classic recordings. With three Otis Brown (drums) Toyohiko Satoh (lute) fake folksongs from Dudley Moore, Tom Lehrer and Geoffrey Francesco Mela (drums) Poole, plus a dinner party from hell for . 3.35am The Bobby Hutcherson Quartet perform John Coltrane's Wise Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Malle Symen 10.00am One, recorded at Ronnie Scott's (Friday 13th November) Peter van Dijk (organ) Sammartini: Concerto a piu stromenti in E flat, J73 La Serenissima Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone) 3.38am Adrian Chandler (violin/director) Joe Gilman (piano) Willan, Healey (1880-1968): Symphony No 2 in C minor, B74 AVIE AV 2154 Glenn Richman (bass) Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Eddie Marshall (drums) Uri Mayer (conductor) 10.17am Three Fake Folksongs: Joshua Redman's Trio play Faraway, recorded at Ronnie Scott's 4.21am Little Miss Britten composed and performed by Dudley Moore (21st March 2009) Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787): Trio in F for two flutes and EMI 793962-2 continuo Heynonnynonny Smallprint composed by Geoffrey Poole and Line up: Karl Kaiser, Michael Schneider (flutes) performed by David Stout Joshua Redman (tenor and soprano saxophones, composer) Rainer Zipperling (cello) NMC D 150 Reuben Rogers (double bass) Harald Hoeren (harpsichord) The Folksong Army composed and performed by Tom Lehrer Gregory Hutchinson (drums) REPRISE 61792 4.31am Han Bennink, Marc Ribot and Evan Parker perform an Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Faschingsschwank aus Wien, 10.26am improvisation, recorded at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (14th Op 26 Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher June 2009, Meltdown Festival Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Daniel Benyamini (viola) Orchestre de Paris Line up: 4.52am Daniel Barenboim (conductor) Han Bennink (drums, percussion) Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): Sinfonia: Giovanna D'Arco DG 423 2412 Marc Ribot (guitar) Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Evan Parker (reeds) Richard Bradshaw (conductor) 11.05am Brahms: String Quartet in C minor, Op 51 No 1 The Matana Roberts Quartet perform Exchange, recorded at the 5.01am Takacs Quartet Vortex Jazz Club, London (1st April 2009) Praetorius, Michael (1571-1621): Renaissance Concerto for HYPERION CDA 67552 brass ensemble Line up: Hungarian Brass Ensemble 11.35am Matana Roberts (saxophone, composer) Mozart: Don Giovanni (conclusion) Robert Mitchell (piano) 5.05am Don Giovanni ...... Bo Skovhus (baritone) Tom Mason (bass) Wagenseil, Georg Christoph (1715-1777): Concerto in E flat Leporello ...... Alessandro Corbelli (baritone) Chris Vatalaro (drums) for trombone and orchestra Donna Elvira ...... Felicity Lott (soprano) Warwick Tyrrell (trombone) Il Commendatore ...... Umberto Chiummo (bass) Paul Dunmall plays Adhesive Capsulitis, recorded at the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus Everyman Theatre (Cheltenham Festival, 1st May 2009) Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor) Charles Mackerras (conductor) TELARC CD 80420. Line-up: 5.15am Paul Dunmall (solo , composer). Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Adagio and Fugue in C minor for strings, K546 TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00pdk0k) Risor Festival Strings John Rutter (b.1945)

TUESDAY 22 DECEMBER 2009 5.23am Episode 2 Hidas, Frigyes (1928-2007): Adagio for orchestra TUE 01:00 Through the Night (b00pdjld) Hungarian Radio Orchestra Donald Macleod is in conversation with John Rutter, one of the Presented by Jonathan Swain. Gyorgy Lehel (conductor) world's most successful and popular living composers.

1.00am 5.35am John reveals his affection for his home town of Cambridge and Ryba, Jakub Jan (1765-1815): Missa pastoralis bohemica Hej Kodaly, Zoltan (1882-1967): Four Italian madrigals for female its musical traditions, and discusses with Donald his attitude to mistre! (Hail Master!) chorus religion alongside some of his many sacred choral works. 1.44am Jutland Chamber Choir Trad: Christ was born (old Czech carol) Mogens Dahl (director) Eva Drizgova Jirusova (soprano) TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00pdk0m) Jana Wallingero Stefackova (mezzo-soprano) 5.47am Cheltenham Music Festival 2009 Vladimir Dolezal (tenor) Byrd, William (c.1540-1623): Pavana lachrimae (after John Jiri Sulzenko (bass) Dowland) for keyboard, MB XXVIII 54 The Nash Ensemble Katerina Chrobokova (organ) Aapo Hakkinen (harpsichord) Czech Philharmonic Chorus Penny Gore presents a performance given by the Nash Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 19 – 25 December 2009 Page 7 of 13 Ensemble at the 2009 Cheltenham Festival. Featuring two so- Purcell, including music that Purcell composed for the funeral Kurt Vile called viola by Mozart and Mendelssohn - each with an of Queen Mary II in March 1695, just a few months before his Album: Childish Prodigy extra part for that instrument - plus two recent works featuring own death. Matador OLE 887 2 the clarinet by Alexander Goehr. lived, worked and died at Westminster Abbey - (Segue) Nash Ensemble: the great composer was buried next to the Abbey's organ on 26 Richard Hosford (clarinet) November 1695. Marking the 350th anniversary of his birth, 23:24 Marianne Thorsen, Benjamin Nabarro (violin) this concert forms one of the highlights of BBC Radio 3's year- Sakamoto: Riot in Lagos Lawrence Power, Vicci Wardman (viola) long celebration of the composer's music. Ryuichi Sakamoto (piano) Paul Watkins (cello) Album: Playing the Piano Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Decca 2717098 Mozart: String Quintet in C minor, K406 Iestyn Davies (countertenor) Alexander Goehr: Quintet for clarinet and strings, Op 79; Ed Lyon (tenor) 23:29 Manere for clarinet and violin, Op 81 Neal Davies (bass-baritone) Trad: Nzombi Mendelssohn: String Quintet in B flat, Op 87. The Choir of Westminster Abbey Aka Pygmies of Central Africa (voices and mo-beke whistle) St James's Baroque Album: Central Africa: Musical Anthology of the Aka Pygmies James O'Donnell (conductor) Ocora C 560171/72 TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00pdk0p) Richard Hickox Tribute Purcell: Te Deum and Jubilate in D; Funeral Sentences; Hail! (Segue) Bright Cecilia. Episode 2 23:34 Trad arr. Sebestyén: Vision Penny Gore presents a series of programmes in tribute to TUE 21:00 Belief (b00g33pk) Márta Sebestyén conductor Richard Hickox. Series 4 Album: I Can See The Gates of Heaven World Village 450009 Featuring music by Michael Berkeley, who was composer-in- Marina Warner association with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales during (Segue) Richard's tenure as well as mezzo-soprano Pamela Helen Joan Bakewell explores areas of belief with artists, thinkers and Stephen, Hickox's widow. other public figures. 23:39 Trad: Elias Grainger: The Warriors She talks to prize-winning novelist, critic and cultural historian Jonas Simonson (willow flute), Mattias Perez (guitar), Mats BBC National Orchestra of Wales Marina Warner who, although brought up Catholic and a Edén (fiddle) Richard Hickox (conductor) former pupil of one of Britain's top convent schools, abandoned Album: Crane Dance her faith in her twenties while writing her second book Alone of Nordic Tradition Records NTCD08 Holst: The Hymn of Jesus All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary. Bach Choir 23:44 Choir of St Paul's Cathedral Yet she remains personally and professionally interested in all Wood. arr. EAC: While Shepherd’s Watched BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales things religious, magical, mythical and irrational. English Acoustic Collective Richard Hickox (conductor) Album: Private Recording

3.10pm TUE 21:30 BBC Proms (b00pdk35) (Segue) Lennox Berkeley: Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila 2009 Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano) 23:48 BBC National Orchestra of Wales Prom 58: Netherlands Wind Ensemble Change Ringing: The Bells of St Cuthbert’s Church Richard Hickox (conductor) St Cuthbert’s Change Ringers Catherine Bott presents a high-intensity late-night Prom given Album: Adeste Fideles Michael Berkeley: Concerto for orchestra by some of the world's best wind players. Delphian DCD34077 BBC National Orchestra of Wales Richard Hickox (conductor) The Netherlands Wind Ensemble perform Steve Martland's (Segue) Beat the Retreat, a work written for the last big Purcell 3.50pm anniversary in 1995. In celebration of the seventieth birthday of 23:51 Mendelssohn: Symphony No 2 (Lobgesang) Martland's iconoclastic teacher, Dutch composer Louis Skempton: To Bethlem did they go Veronique Gens (soprano) Andriessen, there is the minimalist masterpiece De Staat (The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge Pamela Helen-Stephen (mezzo-soprano) State). The concert ends with Doors Closed, a belated London Album: Into This World this Day Did Come Robert Tear (tenor) premiere for a 1980s classic by a leading Dutch pupil of Dephian DCD34075 BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales Andriessen's, Cornelis de Bondt. It is a musical ritual of death Richard Hickox (conductor). superimposing the funeral march from Beethoven's Eroica 23:55 Symphony on the famous Lament from Purcell's Dido and Trad arr. Jenkins: Gaudete Aeneas. Tenebrae TUE 17:00 Words and Music (b00j8dpm) Album: What Sweeter Music Years of Wonders Steve Martland: Beat the Retreat Signum Classics SIGCD182 Louis Andriessen: De Staat Juliet Stevenson and Kenneth Cranham read prose and poetry Cornelis de Bondt: Doors Closed (Segue) describing the momentous times that the composer Henry Purcell would have witnessed. He was a baby at the the time of Netherlands Wind Ensemble 23:56 Charles II's Restoration to the throne, but would have known Lucas Vis (conductor) Holden/Cowper: Cowper 168 the Great Plague and Great Fire of London. In adulthood, he Bart Schneemann (conductor) - De Bondt only. Liberty Baptist Church would have seen both the accession and the forced abdication of Album: Awake My Soul James II in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 as well as the Awake Productions coronation of James's daughter Mary and her husband William TUE 23:15 Late Junction (b00pdk37) of Orange. Verity Sharp (Segue)

Readings include excerpts from Pepys, Evelyn, Dryden, Aphra Verity Sharp presents a seasonal mix of music from across time 23:59 Behn and Defoe, while the music includes Purcell and his and space, including evocative pieces for piano by Ryuichi Turner/Wesley: Consecration 448t contemporaries alongside works from the 20th century. Sakamoto, the crystal clear voice of Mary Hopkin with a Woven Hand traditional Welsh song associated with her birthplace in West Album: Awake My Soul Glamorgan and a Hungarian lullaby as interpreted by Marta Awake Productions TUE 18:15 New Generation Artists (b00pdk2z) Sebestyen on her latest album I Can See the Gates of Heaven. BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme picks out some Plus seasonal music by both Chris Wood and Howard 00:02 of the brightest new talents in the classical music world. The Skempton. Thompson/O’Rourke: Small Racket special Christmas and New Year series features studio and live Richard Thompson, James O’Rourke (piano) concert performances, here by American vioinist Tai Murray Track List: Album: Grizzly Man and the Elias String Quartet from the UK. Cooking Vinyl CookCD360 23:15 Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A, Op 12 No 2 Trad arr. Hopkin: Y’deryn pur 00:06 Tai Murray (violin) Mary Hopkin (voice and guitar) Alhousseyni: Kel Tamashek Ashley Wass (piano) Album: Blodeugerdd Tinariwen Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40552 Album: Imidiwan Haydn: String Quartet in G, Op 76 No 1 Independiente ISOM78CD Elias String Quartet. 23:18 Bensusan: The Last Pint 00:10 Pierre Bensusan (guitar) Tenniscoats: Hajimari/Owari – Dream is Refreshing TUE 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00pdk31) Album: Pierre Bensusan A La Carte Tenniscoats Choir of Westminster Abbey/James O'Donnell Dadgad Music DM1010 Album: Temporacha Room 40 RM436 Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season (Segue) (Segue) Catherine Bott presents James O'Donnell conducting the Choir 23:21 of Westminster Abbey and St James's Baroque in music by Vile: Blackberry Song 00:14 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 19 – 25 December 2009 Page 8 of 13 Hampton: Free Grace 3.24am (1883) Mary Hampton Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903): Three songs: Morgentau; das Voglein; Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello) Album: My Mother’s Child Mausfallen-Spruchlein Emmanuel Strosser (piano) Navigator 15 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) Felix de Nobel (piano) 6.17am 00:20 Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): Elegy for violin solo (1944) Viv: Billy 3.29am Gidon Kremer (violin) Viv Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907), arr. unknown for oboe and piano: Oleg Meisenberg (piano) Album: Sea Shells Listening Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt, Op 23) Pebble 02 Wan-Soo Mok (oboe) 6.22am Hyun-Soo Cho (piano) Martland, Steve (b.1959): Three Carols: From lands that see the (Segue) sun arise; make we joy; There is no rose of such virtue 3.33am BBC Singers 00:23 Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937), arr. Maganini for oboe and piano: (conductor) Trad: More Ângna Pavane pour une infante defunte Titi Robin, Faiz Ali Faiz Roger Cole (oboe) 6.32am Album: Jaadu Linda Lee Thomas (piano) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Sonata in G, K283 Accords Croises AC130 (1774) 3.39am Marie Rorbech (piano) 00:34 Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899): Pavane and Forlane (Quelques Gustafsson: You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago Danses, Op 26) - 1896 6.45am Fire! (Mats Gustafsson (sax, electronics), Johan Berthling Bengt Ake-Lundin (piano) Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Nur ein wink von seinen (bass), Andreas Werliin (percussion) Handchen (Christmas Oratorio, Part 6, BWV248) Album: You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago 3.49am Marita Kvarving Solberg (soprano) Rune Grammofon RCD 2091 Dohnanyi, Erno (1877-1960): Symphonic Minutes, Op 36 Norwegian Radio Orchestra Hungarian Radio Orchestra Kjetil Haugsand (conductor) 00:38 Tamas Vasary (conductor) Sakamoto: Thousand Knives 6.49am Ryuichi Sakamoto, piano 4.03am Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963): Quatre motets pour le temps de Album: Playing the Piano Josquin des Prez (c.1440-1521): O Admirabile Commercium Noel Decca 2717098 Zefiro Torna Talinn Music High School Chamber Choir Jurgen de Bruyn (director) Evi Eespere (director). (Segue) 4.07am 00:43 Josquin: Motet Inviolata,integra et casta es (five-part) WED 07:00 Breakfast (b00pdk54) Piaf arr. Wainwright: Soudain Une Vallée Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal Wednesday - Rob Cowan Martha Wainwright Christopher Jackson (director) Album: Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, A Paris Rob Cowan presents a refreshing choice of music, including a Co-op Promo 4.13am Winter Waltz and a carol from the BBC Singers. Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Sonata in D minor for (Segue) recorder and basso continuo (Essercizii Musici) Camerata Koln WED 10:00 Classical Collection (b00pdk56) 00:48 Wednesday - James Jolly Biolay: Tu Es Mon Amour 4.22am Benjamin Biolay Franck, Cesar (1822-1890): Le chasseur maudit (The Accursed With James Jolly. Album: La Superbe Huntsman), M44 - symphonic poem Naïve Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra Including an early recording by Georg Solti of Haydn's Milen Nachev (conductor) Symphony No 102, one of Alfred Brendel's final performances 00:51 before his retirement and Albert Herring outrages polite society Stevens: Linear Tableau with Intersecting Surprise 4.37am with a tale of drunken debauchery. Sufjan Stevens Mehul, Etienne-Nicolas (1763-1817): Sonata in D, Op 1 No 1 Album: The BQE Arthur Schoondewoerd (fortepiano) 10.00am Rough Trade Promo J Strauss II: Wein, Weib und Gesang 4.46am Vienna Philharmonic Rore, Cipriano de (c1515-1565): Alma susanna (Noble Willi Boskowsky (conductor) 00:55 Susanna, happy is the heart that burns with love for you...); DECCA 468 4892 Trad: Diadem Mentre, lumi maggior; Non e, lasso martire' (It is, alas, no Grimthorpe Colliery Band torment to think that I must die for you, my lady...) (Il quinto 10.06am Album: The Grimethorpe Colliery Band libro di madrigali, 1568) Bach, arr Busoni: Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 Castle Music PLS CD 194 Evelyn Tubb (soprano) Alfred Brendel (piano) Mary Nichols (contralto) DECCA 4282116 Andrew King (tenor) Paul Agnew (tenor) 10.12am WEDNESDAY 23 DECEMBER 2009 Alan Ewing (bass) Martinu: La revue de cuisine (complete ballet) Consort of Musicke Members of the Czech Philharmonic WED 01:00 Through the Night (b00pdk52) Anthony Rooley (director) (conductor) Including: SUPRAPHON SU 3749-2 5.01am 1.00am Humperdinck, Engelbert (1854-1921): Overture (Hansel and 10.31am Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): The Nutcracker, Op 71 Gretel) Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges (Act 3, Sc 2) (excerpts) Symphony Nova Scotia The Prince ...... Jean-Luc Viala (tenor) Orchestre National de France (orchestra) Georg Tintner (conductor) Truffaldino ...... Georges Gautier (tenor) Dmitri Liss (conductor) The Cook ...... Jules Bastin (bass) 5.09am Lyon Opera Orchestra 1.56am Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): 32 Variations in C minor, (conductor) Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943): Piano Concerto No 3 in D WoO 80 VIRGIN VCD 7910842 minor, Op 30 Irena Kobla (piano) Arkady Volodos (piano) 10.41am Orchestre National de France (orchestra) 5.22am Schumann: Violin Sonata No 3 in A minor Dmitri Liss (conductor) Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976): A Ceremony of Carols, Op 28 Carolin Widmann (violin) Katya Dimanova, Evguenia Tasseva, Penka Kazandzhieva Denes Varjon (piano) 2.39am (soloists) ECM 4766744 Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Psalm Nisi Dominus, RV608 Ivelina Ivancheva (piano) Matthew White (countertenor) Polyphonia 11.00am Arte dei Suonatori Ivelin Dimitrov (conductor) Haydn: Symphony No 102 in B flat Eduardo Lopez (conductor) London Philharmonic Orchestra 5.46am Georg Solti (conductor) 3.01am Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Brandenburg Concerto DECCA UCCD 3777 Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Allein zu dir, Herr No 5 in D, BWV1050 Jesu Christ (Genevan Psalter) Lars-Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) 11.35am Leo van Doeselaar (Van Hagerbeer organ - 1643 - at the Ensemble 415 Christopher Steel: Six Pieces, Op 33 Pieterskerk in Leiden, where he is resident organist. The organ Crispian Steele Perkins (trumpet) contained parts from 1446, 1518 and 1628; it was further added 6.07am Stephen Cleobury (organ) to in 1687 and 1745, and restored in 1998.) Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975): Elegy for violin and piano PRIORY PRCD 189 Valdis Zarins (violin) 3.15am Ieva Zarina (piano) 11.50am Six traditional songs: Das Muhlrad; Z'lauterbach hab I mein Britten: Albert Herring (conclusion) Strumpf verlorn; Maria der berge; Gsatzli; Oh, du liabs Engeli; 6.10am (tenor) Die Beruhigte Faure, Gabriel (1845-1924): Elegy for cello and piano, Op 24 Ensemble Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 19 – 25 December 2009 Page 9 of 13 English Chamber Orchestra WED 18:15 New Generation Artists (b00pdk6h) of those who would rape and despoil the Orkneys in search of (conductor) BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme picks out some the treasures of today - oil, minerals, uranium. LONDON 421 8502. of the brightest new talents in the classical music world. The special Christmas and New Year series features studio and live Ed Lyon (tenor) concert performances, here by Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter David Goode (organ) WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00pdk58) and Danish cellist Andreas Brantelid. BBC Singers John Rutter (b.1945) David Hill (conductor) Bach: Concerto in the Italian Style, BWV971 Episode 3 Ingrid Fliter (piano) Peter Maxwell Davies: Westerlings; Solstice of Light.

Donald Macleod is in conversation with John Rutter, one of the Franck: Sonata in A, Op 47 (orig. for violin and piano) world's most successful and popular living composers. Andreas Brantelid (cello) WED 23:15 Late Junction (b00pdk6y) Bengt Forsberg (piano). Verity Sharp Music critics in Britain have often been diffident or openly hostile about Rutter's accessible style, but in the US he receives Verity Sharp presents a musical jamboree from across the ages near universal praise and regard. Donald speaks to John about WED 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00pdk6k) with an anti-Christmas song by Miles Davis, anarchic rhythms the musical love affair with America that has shaped so much Elijah from OOIOO alongside those of the Japanese taiko drum of his career. ensemble Tomoe-Ryu Yutakadaiko, an epic ballad from Presented by Catherine Bott. Richard Hawleey's latest release True Loves Gutter, and a Plygain carol from the Anglesey tradition sung by Daniel Huws. WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00pdk5b) Philippe Herreweghe conducts Mendelssohn's powerful and Plus a recording of the Ulster Christmas Rhymers performing Cheltenham Music Festival 2009 dramatic re-telling of the Old Testament story of the prophet their traditional mummers' play in 1954. Elijah at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Haydn Trio Eisenstadt Track List: Mendelssohn built on the English oratorio tradition created by Penny Gore presents performances from the Cheltenham Handel and Haydn, and from its first performance Elijah has 23:15 Festival 2009. held its own place in that repertoire. Sung in German by the Trad/Järvelä: Jeppo & Övermark forces of Netherlands Radio, this performance celebrates the Nordik Tree The Haydn Trio Eisenstadt perform Haydn's Piano Trio in C, bicentenary of the composer's birth, with music which remains Album: Nordik Tree with the Archduke Trio by Beethoven and John Woolrich's The as fresh and exciting to sing and hear as when it was first Nordik Tree NDTCD006 night will not draw on, composed for the ensemble's Dedicated written. to Haydn project. Soprano Elin Manahan Thomas also joins the 23:20 group in a selection of Haydn's Welsh folksong settings. Mendelssohn: Elijah Trad: The Bells of Paradise Alva Soile Isokoski (soprano) Album: Songs of Witchcraft & Magic WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00pdk5d) Christianne Stotijn (contralto) Wild Goose WGS 341 CD Richard Hickox Tribute Christoph Strehl (tenor) Michael Nagy (bass) (Segue) Episode 3 Netherlands Radio Chorus Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic 23:25 Penny Gore introduces a series of programmes in tribute to Philippe Herreweghe (conductor). Ramnath: Thunder in my Heart conductor Richard Hickox. Yashila Album: Drive East With two concert recordings, including the Britten Serenade WED 21:15 Belief (b00pdk6m) Sense Sense CD084 with Hickox's close friend Philip Langridge, with whom he Series 6 worked throughout his long career. 23:36 Prof John Hull Sakamoto: Tamago 2004 Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Ryuichi Sakamoto (piano) Philip Langridge (tenor) Joan Bakewell explores areas of belief with artists, thinkers and Album: Playing the Piano David Pyatt (horn) other public figures. Decca 2717098 BBC National Orchestra of Wales Richard Hickox (conductor) She talks to theologian and academic John Hull about his (Segue) experience of going blind. Born sighted, John underwent several 4.00pm episodes of temporary blindness before finally losing his sight 23:38 Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat for good more than 35 years ago. His book, Touching the Rock, Davis: Blue Christmas BBC National Orchestra of Wales movingly recounts his journey into acceptance of blindness and Miles Davis, Bob Dorough (voice) Richard Hickox (conductor). how he faced the new challenges of day-to-day family life. Album: Merry Readymade (To Whom It May Concern) Readymade John was born into a conservative Methodist family in WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (b00pdk5g) Australia. He himself believed he had a vocation to follow in (Segue) Choral Evening Prayer his minister father's footsteps, but a thwarted love affair threw up too many doubts about his own ability to be a minister and 23:41 From St James's Roman Catholic Church, Spanish Place, his beliefs have developed into a more inclusive and radical Krygier: Postcolombino London, with the Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. brand of Christian faith. Axel Krygier Abum: Échale Semilla! Versicle and Response: Deus in adjutorium (Padilla) Today, having been a leading figure in the debate on religious Hi Top CD002 Rorate caeli desuper (Guerrero) education in state schools, John now teaches trainee ministers in Psalms: 110, 147 - Dixit Dominus (Padilla), Lauda Jerusalem prophetic ministry. (Segue) (Patino) First Lesson: Isaiah 55 23:43 Office Hymn: The Angel Gabriel (Basque trad, arr Pettman) WED 21:45 BBC Proms (b00pdk6p) Leyland: SOL Magnificat (Morales) 2009 OOIOO Second Lesson: Matthew 1 vv18-23 Album: Armonico Hewa Nunc Dimittis (Coelho) Prom 71: Peter Maxwell Davies Celebration Thrill Jockey Records Thrill 222 Homily: Prof Christopher Rowland : Ave Maria (de Cristo); Pastores, si nos quereis Catherine Bott presents a concert given as part of the 2009 23:47 (Guerrero); O magnum mysterium (Victoria); Alma Proms celebration of the 75th birthday of composer Peter Trad: Shutsujin redemptoris mater (Fernandez); Verbum caro factum est (Lobo) Maxwell Davies, featuring a performance of two of his most Tomoe-Ryu Yutakadaiko Organ Voluntary: Tiento y discurso de segundo tono (Correa de important choral works. Album: Japanese Drums Araujo) Arc EUCD 2045 Westerlings imagines the early Norse settlers colonising Orkney Organ scholars: Benedict Lewis-Smith and Matthew Burgess in the 8th century. In one of the most virtuosic works in the (Segue) Director of music: Owen Rees. entire choral repertoire, George Mackay Brown's poems are set alongside wordless 'seascapes', creating an enormously 23:50 atmospheric piece which vividly conjures up the cold and wet Micus: Desert Poem WED 17:00 Words and Music (b00m0jst) and other hardships endured by the settlers, rowing their Stephan Micus, (kalimba, voice, sinding, steel drums, To Strive, to Seek, to Find and Not to Yield longboats across the waters from Scandinavia. Sightings of percussion) whales and fish, waves and birds, culminate - at landfall - in a Album: To the Evening Child In a programme celebrating the work of Tennyson, Beth haunting setting of the Lord's Prayer, sung in the old Norse of ECM 513 780-2 Goddard and Michael Pennington read poetry from Tennyson ancient Orkney. himself and others on the theme of destiny, alongside with (Segue) music inspired by, and reflecting the texts. The poet is It is followed by another piece with powerful Orcadian roots: represented by excerpts from favourites such as The Lady of Solstice of Light, for chorus, organ and solo tenor, sets more 23:55 Shalott and Ulysses. words by Brown charting the whole history of the Orkney Hawley: Don’t You Cry archipelago. It begins as the islands first emerge from seas and Richard Hawley With works by Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, Andrew Marvell, ice, then describes the prehistoric builders of cairns and stone Album: True Loves Gutter Dylan Thomas and TS Eliot, as well as music from Vaughan circles, the Celtic men and women who bring a religion of Mute Promo Williams, Britten, Hubert Parry, Richard Strauss and Arthus dance and light, Viking marauders who murder the islands' own Bliss among others. saint - Magnus - and finally brings the story into our own times 00:05 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 19 – 25 December 2009 Page 10 of 13 The Bellows: Troop 1.17am Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra The Bellows Schutz, Heinrich (1585-1672): Weinachtshistorie (The Mario Bernardi (conductor) Album: The Troop EP Christmas Story), SWV435 Cake Music Else Torp (soprano) 5.07am Adam Riis (tenor) Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827), arr. for oboe and piano: 00:10 Jakob Bloch Jespersen (baritone) Eight Variations on Mozart's La ci darem la mano, Wo0 28 Trad: Ecco il ridente Maggio Ars Nova Vocal Group Hyong-Sup Kim (oboe) Suona Banda Concerto Copenhagen Ja-Eun Ku (piano) Album: La Bella è entrata in ballo Paul Hillier (director) Folkclub Ethnosuoni ES5382 5.17am 1.51am Wiedermann, Bedrich Anton (1883-1951): Pastorale dorico (Segue) Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Symphony No 1 in G Hans Leenders (organ - 1894 Gebrueder Rieger organ in the minor (Winter Daydreams) parish church of Rokytnice v Orlikych horach in E Bohemia; 00:17 Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Rieger was one of the largest late 19th-century Bohemian Castillo/Piana: Silbando Alan Buribayev (conductor) makers) Aníbal Arias (guitar) Album: Escenas de la Ciudad 2.33am 5.24am Winter & Winter 910 160 2 Fitelberg, Grzegorz (1879-1953): Rapsodja polska (Polish Vivaldi, Antonio (1665-1741): Concerto in C for two Rhapsody), Op 25 (1913) and orchestra 00:20 Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Maya Le Roux-Obradovic, Zoran Krajisnik (guitars) Alposta/Melingo: En Un Bondi Color Humo Jerzy Salwarowski (conductor) Sinfonietta Belgrade Daniel Melingo Aleksandar Vujic (conductor) Taken from the compilation Rough Guide to Tango 2.52am World Music Network RGNET1219 Bernard, Felix (1897-1944)/Simcock, Gwilym: Improvisation 5.37am on Winter Wonderland Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911): Romance in G for violin and 00:24 Gwilym Simcock (piano) orchestra, Op 26 Bailey: Flare Julia Fischer (violin) Derek Bailey (guitar) 2.55am Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Album: Wireforks Torme, Mel (1925-1999)/Wells, Robert/Simcock, Gwilym: Christopher Warren-Green (conductor) Shanachie 5011SHA Improvisation on Merry Christmas to You aka Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire 5.46am (Segue) Gwilym Simcock (piano) Mozetich, Marjan (b.1948): Fantasia su un linguaggio perduto for string instruments 00:27 3.01am Members of the Amadeus Ensemble Sebestyén: Flower Gatherers Gorecki, Mikolaj Junior (b.1971): Three Episodes for Márta Sebestyén Orchestra 6.01am Album: I Can See The Gates of Heaven National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Suite No 4 in G for World Village 450009 Stanislav Macura (conductor) orchestra, Op 61 Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra 00:35 3.21am Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor) Trad arr. Huws: Carol Plygain Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Kinderszenen for piano, Op 15 Daniel Huws (voice) Eun-Soo Son (piano) 6.26am Album: Blodeugerdd Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Sinfonia concertante Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40552 3.39am in E flat for violin, viola and orchestra, K364 Durante, Francesco (1684-1755): Concerto per quartetto No 6 Valery Oistrach (viola) (Segue) in A for strings I Virtuosi di Santa Cecilia Concerto Koln Igor Oistrach (violin/conductor). 00:40 Trad: The Bitter Withy 3.50am Tom Brown Arriaga, Juan Crisostomo (1806-1826): Symphony in D THU 07:00 Breakfast (b00pdkb8) Album: Songs of Witchcraft & Magic major/minor Monday - Rob Cowan Wild Goose WGS 341 CD Danish Radio Concert Orchestra Hannu Koivula (conductor) Rob Cowan shares his personal choice of music. Including a 00:45 Winter Waltz at 8.00am and a carol from the BBC Singers at Speech recording: Introduction to the Sidmouth Mummer’s Play 4.19am 8.30am. BBC Archive Tailleferre, Germaine (1892-1983): Sonata for harp Godelieve Schrama (harp) (Segue) THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b00pdkbb) 4.29am Thursday - James Jolly 00:47 Zemlinsky, Alexander von (1871-1942): Heilige Nacht, Op 2 Trad: Mummer’s Play No 2 (Holy Night) With James Jolly. Ulster Christmas Rhymers Jean Stilwell (mezzo-soprano) Album: Commando Benevolent Fund Dinner Robert Kortgaard (piano) Delalande provides music to dine by, Messiaen provides food BBC Archive CDA 10119 for spiritual thought and the Group of Three is dedicated to 4.32am famous TV chefs. (Segue) Weill, Kurt (1900-1950): Saga of Jenny (Lady in the Dark) Jean Stilwell (mezzo-soprano) 10.00am 00:51 Robert Kortgaard (piano) Delalande: Airs de ballet de la paix (Symphonies pour les Trad: Hampshire Mummer’s Song Marie Berard (violin) soupers du Roy, 11eme Suite) Belshazzar’s Feast Joseph Macerollo (accordion) La Simphonie de Marais Album: Frost Bites James Spragg (trumpet) Hugo Reyne (conductor) Wild Goose WGS366CD George Kohler (bass) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901337.40 Andy Morris (percussion) 00:58 Peter Tiefenbach (conductor) 10.20am Schnittke: Stille Nacht Messiaen: Le banquet celeste Roman Mints (violin), Evgenia Chudinovich (piano) 4.37am Olivier Messiaen (organ) Album: Transformations Verhulst, Johannes (1816-1891): Overture in C minor EMI CZS 7674002 Black Box BBM1025 (Gijsbrecht van Aemstel, Op 3) Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra 10.30am Jac van Steen (conductor) Mendelssohn: Psalm 42 Sibylla Rubens (soprano) THURSDAY 24 DECEMBER 2009 4.46am Scot Weir, Christoph Genz (tenor) Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594): Omnia tempus habent - motet Matthias Goerne, Thomas Mehnert (bass) THU 01:00 Through the Night (b00pdkb6) for eight voices (1585a) Gachinger Kantorei Stuttgart Presented by Jonathan Swain. Currende Bach-Collegium Stuttgart Erik van Nevel (conductor) Helmuth Rilling (conductor) 1.00am HANSSLER CD 98273 Byrd, William (c.1540-1623): Puer natus est 4.51am 1.04am Turina, Joaquin (1882-1949): Rapsodia sinfonica for piano and 10.55am Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976): A Hymn to the Virgin string orchestra, Op 66 Rachmaninov: Preludes, Op 32 Nos 5-8 1.08am Angela Cheng (piano) Steven Osborne (piano) Byrd: O Magnum Mysterium Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra HYPERION CDA 67700 1.10am Hans Graf (conductor) Holst, Gustav (1874-1934): Jesu fili virgine 11.05am 1.13am 5.01am Burns: Jamie, come try me Byrd: Hodie Christus natus est Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Das war sehr gut.../Dann aber, Elspeth Cowie (voice) Ars Nova Vocal Group wie ich Sie gespürt hab' hier im Finstern steh'n (, Act 3, LINN CKD 099 Paul Hillier (director) final scene) Joanne Kolomyjec (soprano) 11.07am Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 19 – 25 December 2009 Page 11 of 13 Arne: Delia earlier Italian operas had been. Only now has it been recognised Catherine Bott presents a late-night jazz Prom from the opening Emma Kirkby (soprano) that its musical quality and dramatic vigour justifies a more weekend of the 2009 season, in which the great pianist and London Baroque regular place in the opera house. composer Stan Tracey - known to his fans as the Godfather of Charles Medlam (director) British Jazz - recreates the biblical version of the Big Bang as a EMI CDC 7497992 Handel: Hercules - music drama in three acts big band suite.

11.13am Hercules ...... Gidon Saks (bass-baritone) Stan Tracey and his Orchestra Morley: No, no, no, no, Nigella Dejanira ...... Anne Sofie von Otter (soprano) The Consort of Musicke Hyllus ...... Richard Croft (tenor) Stan Tracey: Genesis. Anthony Rooley (conductor) Iole ...... Lynne Dawson (soprano) DECCA 476 1971 Lichas ...... David Daniels (countertenor) Priest of Jupiter ...... Marcos Pujol (baritone) THU 23:15 Late Junction (b00pdkjt) 11.25am Choeur et Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble Late Junction Sessions Ruggles: Angels Marc Minkowski (conductor). Brass Ensemble Debs Newbold, Mary Hampton and Dave Price Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) SONY SX2K 66610 THU 17:15 Words and Music (b00k9q8r) Presented by Verity Sharp. The Faerie World 11.30am Including a seasonal tune played on the ukulele, Finola o Strauss: Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Op 60 A selection of poetry, prose and music on the theme of the fairy Siochur singing a Christmas song from the Irish Celtic tradition Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tradition, with readings by Stella Gonet and Robert Glenister. and organist Carleton Etherington playing Von Himmel Hoch Thomas Beecham (conductor) by Garth Edmondson. Plus powerful group singing from the EMI CDH 7631062. Including works by Keats, Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, Christina congregation of Liberty Baptist Church in Alabama alongside Rossetti and Yeats interspersed with music by Stravinsky, carol singers at the Royal Hotel, Dungworth, near Sheffield. Judith Weir, Schubert, Purcell and Kathryn Tickell. THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00pdkbf) And in a special collaboration session at the BBC's Maida Vale John Rutter (b.1945) studios, a trio of performers take us on a winter's journey, THU 18:15 New Generation Artists (b00pdkd3) through song, spoken word and percussion. Traditional Episode 4 Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme picks out some of the storyteller Debs Newbold, folk singer Mary Hampton and brightest new talents in the classical music world. The special experimental percussionist Dave Price weave a rich aural Donald Macleod is in conversation with John Rutter, one of the Christmas and New Year series features studio and live concert tapestry of sounds, stories and songs, taking fragments from world's most successful and popular living composers. performances, here by British violinist and former BBC Young traditional winter tales and adding new material and Musician of the Year Jennifer Pike, Austrian mezzo-soprano improvisations to create a unique Christmas Eve soundworld. For much of the 1980s, Rutter struggled to continue working Daniela Lehner and Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili. under the shadow of long-term illness, yet it was during this The three performers, who have never worked together before, period he composed one of his best loved and most regularly Ravel: Tzigane create a modern-day radio ballad, based on a winter theme. performed works. John discusses with Donald the genesis of his Jennifer Pike (violin) Each uses their own speciality, possibly venturing into areas . Martin Roscoe (piano) unknown, and draw on traditional pagan winter stories and folk songs about the frosty season, combining fragments of these Guridi: Seis canciones castellanas with experimental and perhaps theatrical percussion. THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00pdkbh) Daniela Lehner (mezzo-soprano) Cheltenham Music Festival 2009 Jose Luis Gayo (piano) Debs Newbold is a renowned storyteller and cabaret performer, who has long been telling tales from her Anglo-Irish family, and Angela Hewitt Chopin: Ballade No 4 in F minor is currently the English Folk Dance and Song Society's Khatia Buniatishvili (piano). storyteller-in-residence at Cecil Sharp House in London. Mary Presented by Penny Gore. Hampton is a young folk singer from Brighton, whose enchanting and often eerie folk singing mixes the traditional Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt presents a recital featuring THU 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00pdkd5) with the new. Percussionist and composer Dave Price is a major works by two composers celebrating an anniversary in BBC Philharmonic - Haydn's The Creation member of the Nozferatu collective and works with the Gecko 2009: the Prelude and Fugue No 1 in E minor and Variations physical theatre company as well as pursuing various other Serieuses by Mendelssohn, and the E flat Sonata Haydn. They Presented by Catherine Bott. projects, involving artists such as Regina Spektor, Gwyneth are complemented by two baroque keyboard suites by Handel Herbert and Aqualung. and Bach. In the climax to their Haydn the Innovator season, the BBC Philharmonic and BBC Singers are conducted by Gianandrea Handel: Suite No 2 in F, HWV427 Noseda in Haydn's Creation. In a work that opens with music Bach: English Suite No 6 in D minor, BWV811 representing the grandeur and desolation of chaos waiting for FRIDAY 25 DECEMBER 2009 Mendelssohn: Prelude and Fugue No 1 in E minor (1841); the Almighty's creative touch, moving through the blazing Variations Serieuses, Op 54 affirmation 'and there was light', and then continuing with the FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b00pdknp) Haydn: Sonata in E flat, H XVI 52. feeling of wonder at the sight of the unfolding universe, Haydn Presented by Jonathan Swain. puts his own stamp on musical conventions of the period. 1.00am THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00pdkbk) Haydn: The Creation Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Christmas Oratorio Handel: Hercules Evangelist ...... Jan Kobow (tenor) Kate Royal (soprano) Ditte Andersen (soprano) Handel Operas 2009 Andrew Kennedy (tenor) Ann Hallenberg (contralto) Neal Davies (baritone) Lars Johansson Brissman (bass) Presented by Penny Gore. BBC Singers Swedish Radio Choir BBC Philharmonic Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra BBC Radio 3's complete series of Handel operas continues with Gianandrea Noseda (conductor). Peter Dijkstra (conductor) a performance of Hercules from a stellar cast, including Gidon Saks, Anne Sofie von Otter and David Daniels. Written at time 2.41am when Handel was becoming better known for his oratorios, his THU 21:00 Belief (b00g42xy) Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): String Quartet in D, Op 64 No 5 setting of the Greek myth was not as successful in its day as his Series 4 (The Lark) earlier Italian operas had been. Only now has it been recognised Yggdrasil String Quartet: that its musical quality and dramatic vigour justifies a more Tim Winter Fredrik Paulsson, Per Ohman (violins) regular place in the opera house. Robert Westlund (viola) Joan Bakewell explores areas of belief with artists, thinkers and Per Nystrom (cello) Handel: Hercules - music drama in three acts other public figures. She talks to Cambridge University chaplain and Muslim convert Tim Winter, known as Shaykh 3.01am Hercules ...... Gidon Saks (bass-baritone) Abdal Hakim Murad. He explores the moral sense of the Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958): Hodie (A Christmas Dejanira ...... Anne Sofie von Otter (soprano) sacred, instilled in him by his mother, his search for a Cantata) - prologue Hyllus ...... Richard Croft (tenor) connection with his creator and what it means to be a Muslim Hungarian Radio Choir Iole ...... Lynne Dawson (soprano) convert in Britain today. Hungarian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra Lichas ...... David Daniels (countertenor) Tamas Vasary (conductor) Priest of Jupiter ...... Marcos Pujol (baritone) Winter made his own journey towards Islam via the Unitarian Choeur et Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble church, bringing Western academic methods to his studies of 3.05am Marc Minkowski (conductor). Islam and its history. He is strongly critical of Wahhabism and Villa Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959): O Polichinello (Le of the kinds of Islamic interpretation and fundamentalism polichinelle) - Rag doll (Prole do bebe - No 7) which underlie extremism and justifications of violence. A Valerie Tryon (piano) THU 14:02 Handel Opera Cycle (b00ph7rv) participant in inter-faith dialogue at high levels, he has recently Hercules returned from the Vatican in an attempt to improve Muslim 3.06am Catholic relations. Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908), transcr. Rachmaninov: Presented by Penny Gore. (The) Flight of the Bumble-Bee Valerie Tryon (piano) BBC Radio 3's complete series of Handel operas continues with THU 21:30 BBC Proms (b00pdkfl) a performance of Hercules from a stellar cast, including Gidon 2009 3.08am Saks, Anne Sofie von Otter and David Daniels. Written at time Roussel, Albert (1869-1937): Suite (Le festin de l'araignee, Op when Handel was becoming better known for his oratorios, his Prom 3: Stan Tracey 17) setting of the Greek myth was not as successful in its day as his Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 19 – 25 December 2009 Page 12 of 13 Bernard Haitink (conductor) 5.44am 11.35am Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707): Prelude in G minor, BuxWV Strauss: Schlagobers Suite, Op 70 (excerpts) 3.26am 149 Detroit Symphony Orchestra Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Notturno for piano and Lorenzo Ghielmi (harpsichord) Neeme Jarvi (conductor) viola, O p 42 (arr. from Serenade, Op 8) CHANDOS CHAN 9606. Gisela Bergman (viola) 5.52am Patricia Verhagen (piano) Forster, Kaspar (1616-1673): Dulcis amor Jesu, KBPJ 16 Olga Pasiecznik, Marta Boberska (soprano) FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00pdknw) 3.47am Il Tempo John Rutter (b.1945) Anon (12th century): Natali regis glorie - hymn 3.5am 6.01am Episode 5 Anon: Lullay, lullow - carol Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): String Octet in E flat, Op 20 3.54am (1825) Donald Macleod is in conversation with John Rutter, one of the Anon: Ther is no rose (sic) Kodaly Quartet world's most successful and popular living composers. Bartok String Quartet 3.58am Despite a prolific and varied output, Rutter is still regarded by Trad. French: Noel Nouvelet 6.29am many simply as 'Mr Christmas'. Donald Macleod quizzes John Zefiro Torna Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Komm, heiliger Geist - on why he keeps coming back to Christmas carols, and what it Jurgen De Bruyn (lute/director) chorale-prelude for organ, BWV652 is that gives his music such wide appeal. Including the premiere Bine Katrine Bryndorf (organ - Hjertling Church, Jutland) recording of Rutter's most recent carol. 4.01am Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Quintet in E flat for 6.38am piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, K452 Henderson, Ruth Watson (b.1932): Come Holy Spirit - for FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00pdkny) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) SATB with organ accompaniment Cheltenham Music Festival 2009 Kari Krikku (clarinet) Matthew Larkin (organ) Albrecht Meyer (oboe) Elmer Iseler Singers Quatuor Diotima Jonathan Williams (horn) Lydia Adams (conductor) Per Hannisdal (bassoon) Penny Gore presents a performance given at the Pittville Pump 6.43am Room at 2009's Cheltenham Festival by French ensemble 4.25am Salzedo, Carlos (1885-1961): Concert Variations on O Quatuor Diotima. Nowowiejski, Felix (1877-1946): Weihnacht in der uralten Tannenbaum Marienkirche zu Krak au. Fantasie Felix Nowowiejski Judy Loman (harp) Featuring Ravel's only string quartet, which remains one of his Waclaw Golonka (organ - Sv Vojtech, Prague, built in 1877 by most popular works, alongside Beethoven's Quartet in E flat, GF Steinmeyer and Co) 6.48am Op 74 (The Harp). Anon (16th century): Branles 4.33am 6.49am Guilmant, Alexandre (1837-1911): Introduction and Variations Anon (16th century): Suite FRI 14:00 A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols on a Polish Noel Hortus Musicus (b00pdkp0) Michael Dudman (organ) Andres Mustonen (conductor) Stephen Cleobury directs the choir of King's College, Cambridge for the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. 4.36am 6.57am The pattern of the Festival, based around nine Bible readings Heyral, Marc (b.19??), arr Gaston Rochon: Le Noel de la Rue Cornelius, Peter (1824-74), arr. Ruth Watson Henderson: Three interspersed with carols, has remained the same for over 90 (1952) Kings years. It unfolds the great mystery of how God came into the 4.41am Ben Heppner (tenor) world in human form, and for millions across the globe it Traditional carol: Entre le boeuf et l'ane gris Toronto Children's Chorus heralds the beginning of Christmas. Richard Pare (harpsichord) Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Les chanteurs de Saint-Coeur-de-Marie Jean Ashworth Bartle (conductor). Claude Gosselin (conductor) FRI 15:40 Afternoon Concert (b00pdkp2) Richard Hickox Tribute 4.45am FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b00pdknr) Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Susser Blumen Friday - Rob Cowan and Sara Mohr-Pietsch Episode 4 Ambraflocken, HWV204 (German Arias - No 3) 4.51am Rob Cowan and Sara Mohr-Pietsch present a special Christmas Penny Gore concludes a tribute to Richard Hickox with a Handel: Die ihr aus dunkeln Gruften den eiteln Mammon grabt, edition. Including a Winter Waltz at 8.00am and a carol from festive programme featuring his last concert as principal HWV208 (German Arias - No 7) the BBC Singers at 8.30am. conductor with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at the Helene Plouffe (violin) BBC Proms with Bryn Terfel. Including an interview with Louise Pellerin (oboe) Hickox at this momentous occasion, plus works Hickox Dom Andre Laberge (organ - 1999 Karl Wilhelm at the abbey FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b00pdknt) conducted in Cardiff from Christmas concerts past. church Saint-Benoit-du-Lac) Friday - James Jolly Humperdinck: Overture (Hansel and Gretel) 4.56am With James Jolly. BBC National Orchestra of Wales Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Hodie Christus natus Richard Hickox (conductor) est With whipped cream and tea leaves from Richard Strauss, Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir Magdalena Kozena singing a Novak fairytale, Nelson Freire Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas carols Hannaford Street Silver Band: playing Debussy, plus discussing and Neal Davies (baritone) Stuart Laughton, James Gardiner (solo trumpets) performing Haydn. Chamber Choir of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Edward Moroney (organ) Drama John Rutter (conductor) 10.00am BBC National Orchestra of Wales Arnold: Commonwealth Christmas Overture Richard Hickox (conductor) 5.01am London Philharmonic Orchestra Dupre, Marcel (1886-1971): Variations on Adeste fideles Malcolm Arnold (conductor) Bridge: Roger de Coverley - Christmas dance Tong-Soon Kwak (Rieger organ at the Torch Centre for World REFERENCE RECORDINGS RR-48CD BBC National Orchestra of Wales Missions in Seoul, Korea) Richard Hickox (conductor) 10.22am 5.09am Debussy: Des pas sur la neige; Ce qu'a vu le vent d'Ouest 4.15pm Goodall, Howard (b.1958): Romance of the Angels (Preludes, Book 1) Walton: Belshazzar's Feast Robert Quinney (organ) Nelson Freire (piano) Bryn Terfel (baritone) BBC Singers DECCA 4781111 London Symphony Chorus Stephen Cleobury (conductor) Cor Caerdydd 10.30am BBC National Orchestra of Wales 5.14am Flecha: Ensalada 'El Jubilate' Richard Hickox (conductor). Samuel-Rousseau, Marcel (1882-1955): Variations Pastorales La Stagione Armonica sur un vieux Noel Concerto di Viole L'Amoroso Erica Goodman (harp) Sergio Balestracci (conductor) FRI 17:00 Words and Music (b00k00ps) Members of the Amadeus Ensemble: CPO 7770702 Food for Thought Moshe Hammer, Barry Schifman (violins) Douglas Perry (viola) 10.40am A selection of poetry, prose and music on the subject of food, Jack Mendelssohn (cello) Roger Norrington discusses Haydn's Symphonies with readings by Samantha Bond and Robert Powell.

5.24am Haydn: Symphony No 103 in E flat (Drum Roll) Including stories from the Bible, poetry by Robert Frost and Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Variations on a Theme by SWR Stuttgart Radio Orchestra Carol Anne Duffy as well as writings by Jane Grigson, Marcel Haydn, Op 56a - version for orchestra (St Antoni Chorale) Roger Norrington (conductor) Proust, Samuel Pepys and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Oslo Philharmonic HAENSSLER CD 93252 Music includes Chabrier, Cage, Schubert, Stravinsky and Bach. Marek Janowski (conductor) 11.15am 5.40am Novak: Pohadka srdce, Op 8 (Fairytale of the Heart) FRI 18:15 New Generation Artists (b00pdktf) Nenov, Dimitar (1901-1953): The Holy One Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano) Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme picks out some of the Sofia Chamber Choir Malcolm Martineau (piano) brightest new talents in the classical music world. The special Vassil Arnaudov (conductor) DG 4776665 Christmas and New Year series features studio and live concert Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 19 – 25 December 2009 Page 13 of 13 performances, here by the ATOS Trio from Germany, who Friday 25th December 2009 Jargal: Huder Dougei perform a work by Schubert in a concert given at London's Enkh Jargal Wigmore Hall. Trad, Arr. Dom Felmons/Rhiannon Giddens/Justin Robinson: BBC Recording from the WOMAD festival, 2009 Cornbread and Butterbeans ATOS Trio Carolina Chocolate Drops Marko Marković: Khelipa e Cheasa Album: Genuine Negro Jig Boban I Marko Marović Schubert: Piano Trio No 1 in B flat, D898. Nonesuch 400105 Album: Blown away to Dancefloor heaven Piranha Records CD-PIR2339 Johnny Marks: Holly Jolly Christmas FRI 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00pfsf3) Martin Sexton Nataf: Mon Ami d’en Haut Handel: Messiah Album: A Family Christmas JP Nataf Putumayo PUT 295-2 Album: Acoustic France Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season Putumayo PUT 281-2 Hassan: Alu Ummi Catherine Bott presents Laurence Cummings conducting Mariem Hassan Papi Arosemena: Carmen 's new staged version of Handel's Album: Shouka Los Silvertones Messiah, directed by Deborah Warner. This masterpiece telling Nubenegra Records Album: Panama!3 Calypso Panameño, Guajira Jazz & Cumbia the story of Christ is one of the mainstays of the oratorio tpica on the Isthmus 1960-75 tradition, but it is not often staged. The aim of the ENO's new WOMAD highlights Soundway SNDWCD081P version is ensure that one of the world's most-enduring narratives is given a powerful new relevance. From the melodic Dennis Bovell Dub Band Leonard Cohen, Arr. Autorickshaw: Bird on a Wire beauty of 'Comfort ye' to the grand spectacle of the 'Hallelujah Dennis Bovell (leader/bass/ocals) Autorickshaw Chorus', the events of the Biblical narrative are conveyed in the Zufana (vocals) Album: So goes the Journey singing of John Mark Ainsley, Brindley Sherratt, Sophie Bevan Askala (vocals) Tala-Wallah Recordsn TW003 and Catherine Wyn Rogers, alongside ENO's Chorus and Daniel Spahni (drums) Orchestra, conducted by leading Handelian Laurence Lillia Lonchiva (percussion) Toure/Diabate: Sabu Yerkoy Cummings. John Kpiaye (guitar) Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate Fabio Marchiori (keyboard) Album: Ali & Toumani Handel: Messiah Kai sandquist (sax/flute) World Circuit Records WLWCD 083 Klas Jervfors (trombone) Sophie Bevan (soprano) Catherine Wyn Rogers (alto) Chief Inspector Bettah John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Dennis Bovell Dub Band Brindley Sherratt (bass) BBC Recording from the WOMAD festival, 2009 ENO Chorus and Orchestra Laurence Cummings (conductor). Dub Master Dennis Bovell Dub Band BBC Recording from the WOMAD festival, 2009 FRI 21:45 Belief (b00pfsf7) Series 6 Oh Mama, Oh papa Dennis Bovell Dub Band Ann Widdecombe BBC Recording from the WOMAD festival, 2009

Joan Bakewell explores areas of belief with artists, thinkers and Pow Wow other public figures. Dennis Bovell Dub Band BBC Recording from the WOMAD festival, 2009 She talks to Conservative MP and novelist Ann Widdecombe, who was a life-long Anglican until the Church of England's Wade Schuman: It Calls me decision to ordain women priests in the 1990s. She converted to Hasmat Modine Catholicism and has been a passionate supporter of Rome ever Album: Bahamut since. Ann sees a time when the Catholic Church will drop its Jaro Medien GmbH Jaro 4283-2 demand for celibacy amongst its priests and believes Pope Benedict is a figure who could achieve such a reform. For her, Jose dos Santos/Alain Oulman: Alfama such a change is possible within her lifetime. Amalia Rodrigues Album: Fado Anthologia Ann is stepping down as an MP at the general election Universal Portugal 0602517859562 scheduled to take place in 2010 and says she would like to take up the post of Britain's ambassador to the Holy See which WOMAD highlights becomes vacant in the same year. Channi Singh Bhangra band Channi Singh (lead vocals) FRI 22:15 Night Music (b00pgvtw) Hinal Pattani (keyboard/bass) Dies Natalis Sunil Kalyana () Manwinder Sagoo (dholak) Gerald Finzi's rapturous setting of Thomas Traherne's vision of Tarsem Kalyana (drums) new-born innocence is paired with Arthur Honneger's more Paramjit Saib (guitar) earthy Une Cantate de Noel. H Panesar (dohl) Inderjit Singh Kalsi (engineer) Finzi: Dies Natalis, Op 8 John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Ik Kuri Gulab De Phull (A girl like a rose flower) Corydon Singers and Orchestra Channi Singh Bhangra band Matthew Best (conductor) BBC Recording from the WOMAD festival, 2009

Honegger: Une Cantate de Noel Tarak De Ke Wang Tut Gayee James Rutherford, (baritone) Channi Singh Bhangra band BBC National Chorus of Wales BBC Recording from the WOMAD festival, 2009 Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum Dean Close School Chamber Choir Nach Mundeya Robert Court (organ) Channi Singh Bhangra band BBC National Orchestra of Wales BBC Recording from the WOMAD festival, 2009 Thierry Fischer (conductor). Dama Dam Must Kalander Channi Singh Bhangra band FRI 23:15 World on 3 (b00pfsf9) BBC Recording from the WOMAD festival, 2009 WOMAD Revisited Kottarashky: Chetiri Lopa Kothari warms up Christmas night with highlights from Kottarashky the 2009 WOMAD festival, held in Charlton Park, Wiltshire. Album: Opa Hey Featuring sets broadcast for the first time, with music from Asphalt Tango Records CD-ATR 2609 renowned dub reggae producer Denis Bovell, Mongolian throat singer Enkh Jargal and UK bhangra pioneer Channi Singh. Trad, Arr. Simpson: Delia Martin Simpson World on 3 Album: Bootleg USA Presented by Lopa Kothari High Bohemia Records 616895 310089# Produced by Roger Short WOMAD highlights Tel 020 7765 4661 Fax 020 7765 5052 Enkh Jargal e-mail [email protected] Enkh Jargal “Epi” (Moorin Hoor (Horsefiddle)/Vocals) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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