Radio 3 Listings for 25 June – 1 July 2011 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 25 JUNE 2011 of Waalse Kerk, Leeuwarden, Netherlands played in the Central Band; and Walford Davies was the RAF's first Director of Music. Walton O'Donnell also had military SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b0120855) 5:53 AM connections, as Musical Director for the Royal Marines. John Shea introduces a concert from the 2010 BBC Proms with Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) the Early Opera Company Orchestra in a programme including Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat (K.417) Walton O'Donnell: At the Pattern (from 2 Irish Tone Sketches) Pergolesi Stabat Mater with soloists Elizabeth Watts and Anna James Sommerville (horn), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Gilbert Vinter: Hunter's Moon (with solo horn) Stephany Bernardi (conductor) Ernest Tomlinson: Suite of Old English Folk Songs Ronald Binge: Las Castañuelas orch. George Pollen 1:01 AM 6:08 AM Eric Coates: Spring time in Angus Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann [1710-1874] Gallot, Jacques (1620-ca.1698) Haydn Wood: Mannin Veen (A Manx Tone Poem) Sinfonia for 2 flutes and strings (F.65) in D minor Pièces de Lute in F minor Walford Davies: RAF March Past Early Opera Company Orchestra, Christian Curnyn (conductor) Konrad Junghänel (lute) Central Band of the Royal Air Force 1:10 AM 6:18 AM Director: Wing Commander Duncan Stubbs. Arne, Thomas [1710-1778] Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1788-1831) Symphony no. 4 in C minor; Trio for clarinet, cello and piano Early Opera Company Orchestra, Christian Curnyn (conductor) Amici Chamber Ensemble SAT 15:00 World Routes (b00mrx6v) World Routes in Cape Verde 1:24 AM 6:39 AM Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista [1710-1736] Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Cesaria Evora, Bau and Tito Paris Stabat mater for soprano, alto, strings & organ in F minor Suite for Orchestra No.2 in B minor (BWV.1067) Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Anna Stephany (mezzo-soprano), Jan Dewinne (flute), Ensemble 415. Lucy Duran visits Cape Verde, the windswept and dramatic Early Opera Company Orchestra, Christian Curnyn (conductor) archipelago off the west coast of Africa, and travels to one of the most beautiful islands, San Antao. She hears songs for 2:02 AM SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b0124qkq) making grogue, Cape Verde's national drink, which is said to Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) Saturday - Martin Handley make bulls weep as they operate an ancient sugar press. The 4 Impromptus (Op.142) (D.935) programme ends in the unofficial musical capital, Mindelo, on Alfred Brendel (piano) Martin Handley presents Breakfast including Ron Goodwin's the island of Sao Vicente, where Cesaria Evora was born and 633 Squadron (Main Title) performed by the Central Band of where many other Cape Verdean greats began their careers. 2:34 AM the Royal Air Force conducted by Wing Commander H B Including sessions by two such musicians - virtuosic guitarist Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957) Hingley, Balakirev's Islamey is performed by the Russian State Bau and singer-songwriter Tito Paris. Symphony No.7 in C major (Op.105) Symphony Orchestra conducted by Igor Golovschin, and the Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Jean-François Rivest Endellion String Quartet perform Samuel Barber's famous Presented by Lucy Duran (conductor) Adagio from his String Quartet No.11. Produced by James Parkin 3:01 AM Tel. 020 7765 4661 Tchaikovsky, Pyotr (1840-1893) SAT 09:00 CD Review (b0124qks) Fax. 020 7765 5052 Serenade for String Orchestra in C (Op.48) Building a Library: Essential light music e-mail [email protected] Virtuosi di Kuhmo, Peter Csaba (conductor) With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: 3:34 AM Essential light music; Chamber music by Schumann, SAT 16:00 Jazz Library (b0124ql1) Franck, César (1822-1890) Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich; Disc of the Week - Beethoven: Tim Garland Sonata in A major (M.8) Diabelli Variations. Janine Jansen (violin), Kathryn Stott (piano) Originally in folk-jazz group Lammas, leader of a regular band at London's Pizza Express and then recruited to join Chick 4:02 AM SAT 12:15 Music Matters (b0124qkv) Corea, Tim Garland is now one of Britain's best known jazz Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) (arr. Franz Hasenohrl) Light Fantastic: What Happened to British Light Music saxophonists. In this programme he joins Alyn Shipton to pick Till Eulenspiegel - Einmal Anders! not only examples of his work in all those contexts, but also in The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James From the Royal Festival Hall in London, Petroc Trelawny and a orchestral settings, with his Lighthouse Trio, Acoustic Triangle, Campbell (conductor) panel of guests discuss the question 'what happened to British and his current touring band with Americans Joe Locke and light music?'. Geoff Keezer, known as Storms / Nocturnes. 4:11 AM Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849) Two Nocturnes (Op.32) SAT 13:00 Light Fantastic (b0124qkx) SAT 16:45 Jazz Record Requests (b0124qns) Kevin Kenner (piano) Light Music Signature Tunes Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests beginning with Donald Lambert romping through Wagner, and 4:21 AM Matthew Sweet takes an affectionate look back across an eighty Buck Clayton and pals swinging all the way to the end. Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907) year relationship between light music and the media through the Quartet for strings in F major world of radio and television signature tunes. To make your Jazz Record Request, email Vertavo Quartet [email protected]. Since the Golden Age of radio back in the 1930s and 40s, 4:38 AM through the arrival of television, and up until the present day, Liszt, Franz (1811-1886) light music has played a central part in shaping our perception SAT 17:30 Opera on 3 (b0124qnv) Hymne de l'enfant à son reveil - for female chorus, harmonium of programmes. Some of the melodies used by producers as Beethoven's Fidelio and harp (S.19) signature tunes have been especially composed, while others Éva Andor (soprano), Hédi Lubik (harp), Gábor Lehotka have been edited from (slightly) larger works. Many have Beethoven's Fidelio (organ), The Girl's Choir of Gyõr, Miklós Szabó (conductor) become light music classics, such as Eric Coates's "By The Presented by Martin Handley Sleepy Lagoon" (Desert Island Discs), or Trevor Duncan's "A 4:50 AM Little Suite" (Doctor Finlay's Casebook), and Johnny Pearson's The opera that cost Beethoven so much time and energy tells Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788) "Sleepy Shores" (Owen MD). the story of a woman's determination to rescue her husband Trio Sonata in B minor (Wq.143) from imprisonment at the hands of an evil governor. Leonora Les Coucous Bénévoles Matthew Sweet reflects across a broad selection of these much disguises herself as a man - Fidelio - and takes a job as a guard loved themes, many of which are only familiar from their first at the prison where she believes her husband, Florestan, is 5:01 AM forty seconds. interred. She manages to charm the prison warden and his Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869) family (to the extent that his daughter falls in love with her) Overture - Beatrice and Benedict (Op.27) before taking on the governor and achieving her aim. The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner SAT 14:00 Light Fantastic (b0124qkz) Swedish soprano Nina Stemme tackles the demanding title-role (conductor) Light Winds in London for the first tme on stage and is supported by a highly experienced cast and conductor. 5:09 AM Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Schumann, Clara (1819-1896) Leonore ..... Nina Stemme (soprano) Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann in F sharp minor Presented by Suzy Klein Florestan ..... Endrik Wottrich (tenor) (Op.20) Jaquino ..... Steven Ebel (tenor) Angela Cheng (piano) The Central Band of the Royal Air Force is regarded as one of Marzelline ..... Elizabeth Watts (soprano) the finest military bands in the world. In this concert forming Don Pizarro ..... John Wegner (bass) 5:19 AM part of Radio 3's Light Fantastic Weekend, it celebrates the Don Fernando ..... Willard White (bass) Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) wind band music of Britain's finest light music composers. Rocco ..... Kurt Rydl (bass) 3 Songs for chorus (Op.42) Prisoner ..... Dawid Kimberg (baritone) Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor) Eric Coates is the quintessential composer of light music, and 'Springtime in Angus' was written in honour of Queen Elizabeth Royal Opera Chorus (Chorus Director Renato Balsadonna) 5:29 AM the Queen Mother. Haydn Wood is another important composer Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741) of the age, and his tone poem is inspired by the Isle of Man, Conductor ..... Mark Elder. Concerto da Camera in D major (RV.94) where he grew up. Camerata Köln Many of the composers featured today had connections with the SAT 20:00 Light Fantastic (b0124qnx) 5:41 AM RAF: Ernest Tomlinson served in as a wireless mechanic and Great Masters of Light Music Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759) saw action in France; Ronald Binge, who began his musical Aria and Variations - from the Keyboard Suite No.3 in D minor career as a cinema organist, served in the RAF during the Live from the Royal Festival Hall Jan Jongepier on the 1740 Johann Michaell Schwarzburg organ Second World War; Gilbert Vinter was a bandmaster and Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 25 June – 1 July 2011 Page 2 of 10 Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943) The Enchanted Lake (Op.62) Prelude in Bb Major, Op.23 No.2; Prelude in G minor, Op.23 Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Verbitsky John Wilson conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a No.5 (conductor) concert celebrating the masters of light music including Eric Lang Lang (piano) Coates, Ernest Tomlinson, Haydn Wood and Robert Farnon.