Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 1 of 20 SATURDAY 13 DECEMBER 2008 Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Ballade No 1, Op 23 07:43 Hinko Haas (piano) SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b00fvldd) DEBUSSY With Jonathan Swain. 5.28am Nocturne Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937): Penthesilea for soprano and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) 1.00am orchestra CHANDOS CHAN 10467 T1 Mussorgsky, Modest (1839-1881): Night on a Bare Mountain Elzbieta Szmytka (soprano) Oslo Philharmonic Orchestre National de France 07:49 Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) Hans Graf (conductor) BERLIOZ 1.14am 5.34am Royal Hunt & Storm (The Trojans) Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16 Lassus, Orlando (1532-1594): Jubilate deo; Io ti voria; Tristis Philharmonia Orchestra Boris Berezovsky (piano) est anima mea Herbert von Karajan (conductor) Oslo Philharmonic Netherlands Chamber Choir DISKY DC700182 T14 Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) Paul van Nevel (conductor) 08:04 1.42am 5.40am Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Symphony No 1 in C minor, Anon (17th century): Andante from the archives of the BACH Op 68 Franciscan monastery in Klanjec, Croatia Allegro (Viola da Gamba sonata No.2 in D) Oslo Philharmonic Ana Pokos (organ) Pablo Casals (cello), Paul Baumgartner (piano) Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) CBS MPK 46445 T6 5.44am 2.27am Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959): Bachianas Brasileiras No 9 08:12 Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Sonatine for string orchestra Aldo Ciccolini (piano) Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan HOLST Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor) Marching Song (2 songs without words Op.22) 2.40am English Chamber Orchestra Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): String Quartet No 1 in G minor, 5.53am Imogen Holst (conductor) Op 27 Peterson-Berger, Wilhelm (1867-1942): Flowers from Froso LYRITA SRCD 223 T2 Yggdrasil Quartet for piano, Book 2 Johan Ullen (piano) 08:13 3.17am Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): 3 Songs from Op 6 6.18am BRITTEN Mikael Axelsson (bass) Gershwin, George (1898-1937), arr. Bengt-Ake Lundin: Choral Dances from 'Gloriana' Niklas Sivelov (piano) Rhapsody in Blue Polyphony Staffan Sjoholm (double bass) Stephen Layton (conductor) 3.29am Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano) HYPERION CDA 67140 T14 – 19 Reger, Max (1873-1916): Four Tone Poems after Arnold New Stenhammar String Quartet Bocklin, Op 128 08:23 Philippe Koch (violin) 6.36am Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 96 in D (Miracle) RACHMANINOV Olaf Henzold (conductor) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Scherzo (Symphony No.1) Ilan Volkov (conductor). St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra 3.58am Mariss Jasons (conductor) Praetorius, Michael (1571-1621): Renaissance Concerto EMI CZS5 75510-2 CD1 T2 Hungarian Brass Ensemble SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b00g03t0) Martin Handley 08:31 4.03am Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Keyboard Concerto No 5 With Martin Handley. MILTON in F minor, BWV1056 On his Deceased Wife Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) The complete Breakfast playlist is posted on this website after Read by Robert Glenister Risor Festival Strings the programme has been broadcast. 08:34 4.13am 07:04 Saint-Saens, Camille (1835-1921): Saltarelle, Op 74 PURCELL Lamentabile Consort TELEMANN Fantazia 12 in D Minor Concerto for 3 Oboes, 3 Violins & Continuo Fretwork 4.19am Musica Antiqua, Cologne VIRGIN VC5 45062-2 T9 Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Two Marches in E flat for wind Reinhard Goebel (director) Bratislavska Komorna Harmonia ARCHIV 476 7253 T5 – 7 08:38 Justus Pavlik (director) 07:13 MAYERL 4.26am Autumn Crocus Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975): Second Waltz (Second Jazz GRAINGER Susan Tomes (piano) Suite) Sussex Mummers Christmas Carol VIRGIN 7243 5 61323 2 T13 Eolina Quartet: Percy Grainger (piano - Duo-Art Piano Roll) Vessela Jeleva (harp) NIMBUS NI 8809 T3 08:41 Nikolay Koev (flute) Stefan Trayanov (piano) 07:17 MOZART Vladislav Andonov (viola) Adagio in B Flat for 2 clarinets & 3 Bassett-Horns K411 FAURÉ Netherlands Wind ensemble 4.30am Overture, Madrigal & Pavane (Masques et Bergamasques) CHANDOS CHAN 9284 T1 Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Piano Sonata No 15 in C, D840 Nicolai Gedda (tenor) Alfred Brendel (piano) Linda Chésis (flute) 08:49 Toulouse Capitole Orchestra 4.51am Michel Plasson (conductor) WEBER Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): Overture (La forza del destino) EMI CZS5 74840-2 CD1 T6, 9 & 13 Overture: Preciosa KBS Symphony Orchestra New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Chi-Yong Chung (conductor) 07:30 Antoni Wit (conductor) NAXOS 8.570296 T6 5.00am MONCAYO Hartmann, Johann Peter Emilius (1805-1900), arr. Huapango 08:57 Gunther/Teuber: Blomstre som en rosengard (Blooming like a Orquesta Sinfonica de Xalapa rose garden) Herrera de la Fuente (conductor) Domenico SCARLATTI Fionian Chamber Choir GUILD GMCD 7211 T1 Sonata in F Major K525 Alice Granum (director) Pierre Hantai (harpsichord) 07:38 NAIVE ASTRÉE E 8836 T3 5.05am Byrd, William (c.1543-1623): Pavana lachrimae (after John MILTON Dowland) for keyboard, MB 28 54 To Mr Lawrence SAT 09:00 CD Review (b00g03t2) Aapo Hakkinen (harpsichord) Read by Robert Glenister Building a Library: Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1

5.13am 07:40 Building a Library: Walton, William (1902-1983): Death of Falstaff; Touch her Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 soft lips and part (Two Pieces for Strings) Robert JOHNSON Manitoba Chamber Orchestra Tell me, dearest Reviewer - David Fanning Roy Goodman (conductor) Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Matthew Wadsworth (lute) First choice: 5.18am AVIE AV2053 T8 (c/w Symphonies Nos. 2-3; Symphonic Dances Op. 45; The Isle Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 2 of 20 of the Dead Op. 29; The Bells Op. 35) retrouvée Robin Blaze (countertenor)/Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) Hyperion CDA 67589 (conductor) Chandos CHAN10497 (CD) Track 9 Decca 455 7982 (3 CDs, Budget) 11. 10 Christmas New Releases Segue to: CD Review BAL Catalogue Data bal.rachmaninov: COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Christmas Overture from disc A WILLIAM LAWES Country Dance; bal.rachmaninov.symphony.no.1 Very Pristine Christmas Elizabeth Kenny (lute) BBC Wireless Orchestra, Percy Pitt (recorded 1926) Hyperion CDA 67589 09.05am Pristine Audio PAMX005 (download from Track 12 www.pristineclassical.com) RAVENSCROFT: Hawking for the Partridge; MORLEY: Segue to: Those that want to my pipes sound, Nos Galan, Bransle BERLIN: White Christmas from disc Christmas Round the l’Officiel from disc Music for The Twelve Days of Christmas World HENRY LAWES Sweet Echo… and The Nativity Jascha Heifetz (violin), Salvatore Camarata and his Orchestra Rebecca Outram (soprano)/Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo) His Majesty’s Sagbutts & Cornetts Deutsche Grammophon 477 7971 (CD, Mid Price) Hyperion CDA 67589 SFZ Music SFZ0307 (CD) Track 11 ANON: Patapan; ANON: The Coventry Carol from discs Messe de la Vigile: Introit: Hodie Scietis; Messe de minuit: Christmas Carols and Motets (Alfred Deller The Complete THOMAS ARNE By the Rushy-fringed bank/ Brightest Lady Introit: Dominus dixit ad me from disc Chant de l’Eglise de Vanguard Recordings, Vol. 3) Emma Kirby (soprano)/Academy of Ancient Rome VI-XIII Siècles The Deller Consort (recorded 1956), Alfred Deller (counter- Music/Christopher Hogwood Ensemble Organum, Marcel Peres (conductor) tenor) Decca 470 372-2 Zig Zag Territoires ZZT081001 (CD) Vanguard MC192 (4 CDs, Budget) Track 13 (CD2/2)

SABOLY: Tu que cerques tei delices; CORDAT: O monde, que MENDELSSOHN: Quartet No. 1 Op. 12 (Canzonetta) from THOMAS ARNE Fame’s an Echo/ Not on Beds of Fading tu es heureux from disc Noel Baroque en Pays D’Oc (carols in CD and musical games set Musical Instruments Flowers the Occitan language from southern France) The Eroica Quartet Julianne Baird (soprano)/Colin Tilney (harpsichord)/Alison La Camera Delle Lacrime, Olivier Germond (tenor), Matthiew Harmonia Mundi HMX2908238 (CD, 60 Cards and booklet) Mackay (viola da gamba) Benoit (tenor), Jean-Louis Paya (baritone), De La Maitrise de Dorian DOR 90105 Saint-Christophe de Javel, Bruno Bonhoure (voice and SCARLATTI: Cantata pastorale per la nascita di Nostro Tracks 7, 8 conductor) Signore (Recitativo and Pastorale) from disc Christmas Alpha 117 (CD) Concertos and Cantatas HANDEL Comus Susan Gritton (soprano), Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Patrizia Kwella (soprano)/Margaret Cable (mezzo)/David CHARPENTIER: Canticum in nativitatem Domini Standage (conductor) Thomas (bass)/Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher H 393 from disc Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Noel Chandos CHAN0754X (CD, Mid Price) Hogwood Solistenensemble stimmkunst, Ensemble 94, Kay Johannsen OISEAU LYRE 421 479-2 (conductor) 11.45am Disc of the Week Tracks 20-25 Carus 83.196 (CD) BIZET: Carmen HENRY LAWES Sitting by the Streams 09.30 am Anna Caterina Antonacci (Carmen), Jonas Kaufmann (Don Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley Building a Library Recommendation Jose), Norah Amsellem (Micaela), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo Hyperion CDA 66135 (Escamillo), Jacques Imbrailo (Morales), Matthew Rose Track 17 Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 (Zuniga), Elena Xanthoudakis (Frasquita), Viktoria Vizin (Mercedes), Caroline Lena Olsson (Lillas Pastia), Jean Reviewer – David Fanning Sebastien Bou (Le Dancaire), Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (Le SAT 14:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00fvn9y) Remendado), Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Trio Jean Paul Next week is the CD Review Christmas Special. Antonio Pappano (conductor), Francesco Zambello (stage director) From London's Wigmore Hall, Sarah Walker introduces a 10.20 New Christmas Releases Decca 0743312 (DVD) performance by Trio Jean Paul, an ensemble whose name is taken from the 19th-century German author who inspired POULENC: Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel from disc A Robert Schumann. Christmas Carol from Westminster Abbey SAT 12:15 Music Matters (b00g03t4) (including music by William Walton, James Lavino, Bob Review of 2008 Haydn: Trio in F sharp minor, H XV 26 Chilcott, Jonathan Dove, William Matthias and arrangements of Schumann: Trio in D minor, Op 63. traditional carols) Tom Service and guests look back at some of the key cultural Choir of Westminster Abbey, Robert Quinney (organ), James milestones of the year - from concert series, festivals and other O’Donnell (conductor) events that have had a big impact on the arts scene. SAT 15:00 World Routes (b00g03tg) Hyperion CDA67716 (CD) Lucy Duran presents a tribute to the late, celebrated South African singer Miriam Makeba, who died in November 2008. 10.30 New Releases SAT 13:00 The Early Music Show (b00g03t6) With contributions from musicians who knew her, excerpts Milton's Comus from interviews she gave over the years and highlights from her Stephen Plaistow talks to Andrew about new piano recordings. final UK concert, recorded for World Routes at the Brighton With extracts from the following discs: Comus (A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634) was a Festival in May 2008. masque written by John Milton in honour of chastity and it was BACH: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846–869 first presented on Michaelmas, 1634, before John Egerton, Earl World Routes (Prelude and Fugue in C minor; Prelude and Fugue in C sharp of Bridgewater at Ludlow Castle in celebration of the Earl's minor); The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, BWV 870–893 elevation to President of Wales with music by Henry Lawes. Presented by Lucy Duran (Prelude and Fugue in E major) Milton and Lawes had a close friendship and collaborated on a Produced by Roger Short BACH (trans. Rachmaninov): Partita for Violin Solo No. 3 in E number of works, but Lawes was not the last composer to write major, BWV 1006 (Preludio); music for this masque. In Milton's 400th anniversary year, Tel. 020 7765 4661 BACH (trans. Liszt): Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV 543; Catherine Bott travels to Ludlow Castle to explore the occasion Fax 020 7765 5052 BACH: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II (Prelude and of that first performance and the music which Comus went on Fugue in D minor); to inspire. The programme includes excerpts from Comus and e-mail [email protected] BACH (trans. Busoni): Chaconne in D minor BWV 1004; Milton's sonnet to Lawes: To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires read Saturday 13th December, 3pm BACH: Concerto for Harpsichord, Strings, and Continuo No. 1 by Robert Glenister. in D minor BWV 1052 Arr. Makeba: Live the Future Hélène Grimaud (piano) PLAYLIST: Miriam Makeba Deutsche Grammophon 477 7978 (CD) Recorded Wednesday 21 May at the Dome, Brighton as part of HENRY LAWES Sitting by the Streams Brighton Festival BACH: Concertos for Keyboard and orchestra BWV 1055, Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley 1056, 1058 and 1052 Hyperion CDA 66135 Arr. Makeba: Iphi Ndlela David Fray (piano and director), Die Deutsche Track 17 Miriam Makeba Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Album: Makeba! EMI 2130642 (CD, Mid Price) JOHN MILTON (father) Fair Oriana in the morn Reprise Records RSLP 6310 I Fagiolini CHOPIN: 24 Preludes Op. 28; Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op. 58 Chandos CHAN 0682 Mackay Davashe: Laku Tshone ‘Ilanga Nikolai Demidenko (piano) Track 23 Miriam Makeba; The Manhattan Brothers Onyx ONYX4036 (CD) Album: The best of Miriam Makeba -The Early Years HENRY LAWES Sweet Stay Awhile Wrasse WRASS088 CHOPIN: Ballade No. 2 in F, Op. 38; Mazurka in G sharp The Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley minor, Op. 33 No. 1; Mazurka in D major, Op. 33 No. 2; Hyperion CDA 66135 Anon: Table Mountain Mazurka in C major, Op 33 No. 3; Mazurka in B minor, Op. 33 Track 3 Miriam makeba, Abilgail kubeka, Mummy Girl Nketle; Mary No. 4; Waltz in A flat major, Op. 34 No. 1; Waltz in A miNo. r, Rabotapi; Op. 34 No. 2; Waltz in F major, Op. 34 No. 3; Impromptu No. MAZZOCCHI La Catena d’Adone Alexander Jafete (mandolin); General Duze (guitar); Mannie 2 in F sharp, Op. 36; Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 Les Arts Florissant/William Christie parkes (bass); Maurizio Pollini (piano) Virgin Classics 3381542 Roy hanger (drums) Deutsche Grammophon 477 7626 (CD) Track 2 Album: Miriam Makeba & The Skylarks Kaz KAZCD26 DEBUSSY: 12 Etudes Books 1 & 2; Images Book 1 & 2; Etude HENRY LAWES From the heav’ns now I fly; Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 3 of 20 Makeba: The Click Song 1994 CD (Happy Days YULE300 (1); Track 3) whose poetry, recorded all over Holy Island and in the Refuge Miriam Makeba Box itself, is interspersed with other voices, including island Album: Folk songs from Africa Merry Christmas, Baby (Johnny Moore / Lou Baxter) (3’23’’) fishermen who remember rescues and tragedies, the coastguard Music of the World CD12514 Performed by Kenny Burrell (g); unknown brass, org, rhythm, and lifeboat crew, the bird warden, the Franciscan vicar of Holy strings; Richard Evans (arr,cond) Island, and a refugee who fled her West African homeland to Makeba: Khawuleza/Hurry Mama Hurry Recorded Chicago, Oct 1966 seek sanctuary in Britain. Miriam Makeba Taken from the album Verve Presents: The Very Best of Album: An evening with Belafonte/Makeba Christmas Jazz Beyond the human voices is the poetry of the place itself, the RCA ND89871 2001 CD (Verve 549 067-2; Track 2) seals singing, the wheeze of swans flying over Holy Island, sudden jet fighters protecting this sanctuary yet violating its Ragovoy/Makeba: Pata Pata Boogie Woogie (Carl Smith) (3’12’’) peace and, always, the wind and the sea. Miriam Makeba Performed by Carl Smith (tp) Lester Young (ts) Count Basie (p) Album: Pata Pata Walter Page (b) Jo Jones (d) Jimmy Rushing (vcl) Warner Bros 9362 47064-2 Recorded Chicago, Oct 9 1936 SAT 22:00 BBC Singers (b00g187z) Taken from the album Count Basie 1936-1938 BBC Singers in Tallis Trad: Malaika © 1993 CD (Classics 503; Track 3) Miriam Makeba In a performance given at Llandaff Cathedral, the BBC Singers Album: Mama Africa –The very best of Miriam Makeba Santa Claus is Coming to Town (J. Fred Coots / Haven under David Hill perform Thomas Tallis's mass Puer natus est Manteca MANTCD014 Gillespie) (4’30’’) nobis for seven voices. Performed by Bill Evans (p) solo Trad: Malaika Recorded NY, Jan 10 1963 The work is considered one of the masterworks of Tudor sacred Angelique Kodjo Taken from the album Riverside Recordings music. Composed, in likelihood, for Christmas Day 1554, it is Album: Keep on Moving CD (Riverside 12RCD0182IL(4); D11 / Track 2) based on a Latin plainchant melody which begins 'A boy is born Wrasse WRASS030 to us, and a son is given to us whose government shall be on his Four Rich Brothers (Jimmy Giuffre) (3’23’’) shoulders'. But the piece marks not just the birth of Christ but Trad (Guinea): Sékou Famaké Performed by Dale Pierce, Charlie Walp, Tommy Alison (tp) also the longed-for birth of a royal heir - the Queen, Mary Miriam Makeba & her Guinean Quintet Mario Daone, Bob Swope, Bob Ascher (tb) Hal McKusick (as) Tudor, who was mistakenly thought to be pregnant at the time. Album: The Guinea years Jimmy Giuffre, Ben Lary, Warne Marsh (ts) Harvey Levine Sterns Africa STCD3017 (bar) Jerry Schwartz (p) Teddy Kotick (b) Buddy Rich (d) Recorded NY, October 28 1948 SAT 22:30 Hear and Now (b00g052y) Arr. Makeba: Ibhabalazi Taken from the album Cool Breeze LDNSNF_40 Miriam Makeba LP (Astan -20128; Side 1 / Track 3) Recorded Wednesday 21 May at the Dome, Brighton as part of From the Royal Festival Hall's Spirit Level, Ivan Hewett Brighton Festival England’s Carol (God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen) (Trad) (2’48’’) introduces an event to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Performed by the Modern Jazz Quartet: London Sinfonietta, LDNSNF_40, featuring performances of Anon: Umam’ Uyajabula (Mama is happy) Milt Jackson (vib) John Lewis (p) Percy Heath (b) Connie Kay specially-commissioned 'Sinfonietta Short' - solo and duo Miriam Makeba (d) chamber pieces from Dai Fujikura, Mira Calix, Anna Meredith, Album: Sangoma Recorded 1958 Harrison Birtwistle and John Woolrich. Warner 7599256732 Taken from the album Longong for the Continent CD (LRC C387678 (1); Track 3) Plus a chance to hear new works by Christian Mason, Larry Ragovoy/Makeba: Pata Pata 2000 Goves and Claudia Molitor from a concert given earlier this Miriam Makeba Don't forget, you can have your say on today's programme, or month at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Album: Homeland any aspect of jazz, by visiting the Jazz Messageboard. Putumayo PUTU1642 Christian Mason: In Time Entwined, In Space Enlaced 10:15 The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet London Sinfonietta Arr. Makeba: Nginani Na – from Brighton concert sites. Baldur Bronnimann Miriam Makeba Recorded 02/12/08, Royal Festival Halls Recorded Wednesday 21 May at the Dome, Brighton as part of Brighton Festival SAT 17:30 Opera on 3 (b00g03tq) LIVE: Dai Fujikura - Eternal Escape for solo cello 3:00 Live from the Met Timothy Gill (solo cello)

SAT 16:00 Jazz Library (b00g03tj) Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades LIVE: John Woolrich - Fragment for solo saxophone 3:36 Duke Ellington Small Groups Simon Haram (solo saxophone) Direct from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Seiji Alyn Shipton is joined by pianist and author Brian Priestley to Ozawa conducts Tchaikovsky's opera, based on Pushkin's story LIVE: Will Gregory - Interference for solo saxophone + pick out the essential Duke Ellington small group discs, ranging about a man who loses his fortune and his mind to cards, with electronics 10:45 from duos with bassist Jimmy Blanton to septets and octets Maria Guleghina as Lisa and Ben Heppner as Ghermann. Simon Haram (solo saxophone) featuring such noted instrumentalists as Johnny Hodges, Sound Intermedia (electronics) Lawrence Brown and Barney Bigard. Ghermann is madly in love with Lisa, the wealthy granddaughter of the Countess, but he is too poor to have much LIVE: Jordan Hunt - Iambic Stutter 5:00 Although his big band was the central focus of Duke Ellington's hope of aspiring to her hand. He must learn the Countess's Kathryn Thomas (flute) musical life, he led a variety of small groups drawn from his gambling secret in order to strike it rich and marry Lisa. She Timothy Orpen (clarinet) orchestra throughout his career. He also encouraged his star kills herself, though, when she realises that Gherman's Byron Fulcher (trombone) soloists to record under their own names. obsession with gambling has driven him mad, and he commits Tim Gill (cello) suicide after losing his fortune. John Constable (piano)

SAT 17:00 Jazz Record Requests (b00g03tl) Presented by Margaret Juntwait with guest commentator Ira Larry Goves: Springtime 7:40 JRR Signature Tune: Siff. The two intervals include live backstage interviews with Juliet Fraser (soprano) Oh, but on the Third Day (Happy Feet Blues) (Marsalis) some of the artists. London Sinfonietta Performed by Wynton Marsalis (tpt), Marcus Roberts (pno), Recorded 02/12/08, Royal Festival Halls Todd Williams (tsx), Dr Michael White (clt), Danny Barker Lisa ...... Maria Guleghina (soprano) (bjo), Teddy Riley (tpt), Freddie Lonzo (tbn), Reginald Veal Ghermann ...... Ben Heppner (tenor) LIVE: Mira Calix – “ort-oard” for solo cello & electronics 3:38 (bs), Herlin Riley (dms) Pauline ...... Ekaterina Semenchuk (mezzo-soprano) Timothy Gill (cello) Recorded 28 October 1988 The Countess ...... Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano) Mira Calix (laptop) Taken from the album The Majesty of the Blues Count Tomsky ...... Mark Delavan (baritone) 1989 CD (CBS 465129 2) Prince Yeletsky ...... Vladimir Stoyanov (baritone) LIVE: Street Genius / Culture Collective / London Sinfonietta – Chekalinsky ...... Alan Oke (tenor) “Pop Music” 4:00 Beau Koo Jack (Louis Armstrong / Alex Hill) (2’56’’) Surin ...... Paul Plishka (bass) David Powell (tuba) Performed by Louis Armstrong and his Savoy Ballroom Five: Chaplitsky ...... Mark Schowalter (tenor) Nicole Robson (cello) Louis Armstrong (tp) Fred Robinson (tb) Jimmy Strong (cl,ts) Narumov ...... LeRoy Lehr (bass) Timo Tuhkanen (electric guitar) Don Redman (as) Earl Hines (p) Mancy Cara (bj) Zutty Master of Ceremonies ...... Bernard Fitch (tenor) Antoine Francoise (piano) Singleton (d) Alex Hill (arr) Governess ...... Kathryn Day (mezzo-soprano) Mira Calix (conductor) Recorded Chicago, Dec 5 1928 Masha ...... Erin Morley (soprano) Taken from the album Hot Five & Sevens Volume 3 Chloe ...... Wendy Bryn Harmer (soprano) Claudia Molitor: Untitled 40 [desk life] 7:13 CD (JSP JSPCD 314; Track 15) Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus London Sinfonietta Seiji Ozawa (conductor) Recorded 02/12/08, Royal Festival Halls Give Me the Simple Life (Harry Ruby / Rube Bloom) (1’54’’) Performed by Ella Fitzgerald (vcl) Lou levy (p) Herb Ellis (g) Including the Met Opera Quiz during the interval. LIVE: Anna Meredith – Lylat for trombone & electronics 3:21 Wilfred Middlebrooks (b) Gus Johnson (d) Byron Fulcher (trombone + electronics) Recorded 1961 Taken from the album Ella Returns to Berlin SAT 21:30 Between the Ears (b008fwkb) (Items in the montage sequence at the top of the show) 1991 CD (Verve 8377582(1); Track 2) The Refuge Box Bates: Tentle Moments Christmas Swing (Django Reinhardt) (2’49’’) Half way between Holy Island and the mainland of London Sinfonietta/Diego Masson Performed by Django Reinhardt (g) Jean Magnien (cl) Andre Northumbria, a flight of steps leads to a wooden cabin on stilts. Album: Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters Lamory (as) Charles Schaaf (ts) Pierre Zeppelli (p) Michel It is the Refuge Box, built to save people cut off by the tide ARGO 452 099 2 t.8 Warlop (vln,dir) Louis Vola (b) from being swept away and drowned. Recorded Paris, Dec 27 1937 Nancarrow arr Mikhashoff: Study No.7 Taken from the album Christmas Time with the Stars This is the focus of a new radio poem by Katrina Porteous, London Sinfonietta/Stephen Asbury Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 4 of 20 Album: Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters 3.54am With Martin Handley. WARP CD 144 CD1 t.3 Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Trio in F for keyboard and strings, H XV 4 The complete Breakfast playlist is posted on this website after Squarepusher arr Fraser Trainer & Sound Intermedia: Conc 2 Moscow Trio the programme has been broadcast. Symmetriac London Sinfonietta/Stephen Asbury 4.06am 07:04 Album: Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Pastorella in F, BWV 590 WARP CD 144 CD2 t.4 Hans van Nieuwkoop (organ) NICOLAI Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor Knussen: Flourish with Fireworks op.22 4.18am Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen Kutev, Filip (1903-1982): Pastoral for flute and orchestra Carlos Kleiber (conductor) Album: Works by Knussen Lidia Oshavkova (flute) SONY SK 48376 T1 DG 474 322 2 t.3 Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra Dimitar Manolov (conductor) 07:13 Takemitsu: Water-Ways London Sinfoneitta/Oliver Knussen 4.29am BEETHOVEN Album: Riverrun; Water-Ways etc Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Slavonic Dance No 11 in F, Op Sextet in E Flat VIRGIN CLASSICS VC791180 2 t.2 72 Ensemble Galant (with Andrew Clark & Roger Montgomery Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (horns)) Cage: First Construction in Metal Juanjo Mena (conductor) EMI CDZ5 72822-2 T6 – 8 London Sinfonietta Album: Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters 4.33am 07:29 WARP CD 144 CD1 t.4 Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959): String Sextet, H224 Wiener Streichsextet STRAUSS Reich: Six Marimbas Wiegenlied Op.41 No.1 London Sinfonietta 4.51am Anne Schwanewilms (soprano) Album: Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters Turina, Joaquin (1882-1949): Rapsodia sinfonica for piano and Hallé Orchestra WARP CD 144 CD2 t.3 string orchestra, Op 66 Mark Elder (conductor) Angela Cheng (piano) HALLÉ CDHLL 7508 T4 Tavener: The Whale Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra London Sinfonietta/David Atherton Hans Graf (conductor) 07:35 Album: The Whale APPLE CDSAPCOR15 t.1 5.00am SAINT-SAENS Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869): Overture (Beatrice et Benedict, Bacchanale (Samson & Delilah) Julian Anderson: Khorovod Op 27) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Thomas Becham (conductor) Album: Alhambra Fantasy Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) EMI CDM7 63412-2 T14 ONDINE ODE10122 t.3 5.08am 07:43 Squarepusher arr David Horne: The Tide Tallis, Thomas (c.1505-1585): Spem in alium for 40 voices London Sinfonietta/Stephen Asbury BBC Singers TALLIS Album: Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters Stephen Cleobury (conductor) O Sacrum Convivium WARP CD 144 CD1 t.7 Taverner Choir 5.17am Andrew Parrott (conductor) Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759): Sonata in C minor for EMI CDC7 49563-2 T7 oboe and continuo, Op 1 No 8 SUNDAY 14 DECEMBER 2008 Louise Pellerin (oboe) 07:47 Dom Andre Laberge (organ) SUN 00:00 Jazz Library (b007gbzh) SUK Fats Waller 5.24am Barcarolle Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), arr. Grieg: Sonata in Suk Quartet Alyn Shipton is joined by Martin Litton to select the best C for piano, K545 CRD 3472 T6 recordings made by pianist, bandleader and vocalist Fats Julie Adam, Daniel Herscovitch (pianos) Waller, noted for being the finest of Harlem's stride pianists 07:51 and creating one of the largest collections of jazz recordings of 5.33am the 1930s and 1940s with his band the Rhythm. Horovitz, Joseph (b.1926): Music Hall Suite FINZI Slovene Brass Quintet A Farewell to Arms Ian Partridge (tenor) SUN 01:00 Through the Night (b00g03sp) 5.44am New Philharmonia Orchestra With Jonathan Swain. Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Marchenbilder for viola and Vernon Handley (conductor) piano, Op 113 LYRITA SRCD 237 T18 & 19 1.01am Pinchas Zukerman (viola) Lyadov, Antoly Konstantinovich (1855-1914): Barcarolle in F Marc Neikrug (piano) 08:05 sharp for piano, Op 44; Five Preludes, Op 44 1.11am 6.00am BACH Medtner, Nikolai (1879-1951): Skazi (Fairy Tales) Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953): Cinderella's Waltz 1st Movt - Concerto in A Major BWV 1055 1.34am (Zolushka/Cinderella Suite No 1, Op 107) Richard Egarr (harpsichord) Mussorgsky, Modest (1839-1881): A Night on the Bare BBC Philharmonic Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director) Mountain (arr. for piano by C Tchernov) Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) HARMONIA MUNDI 907284 T4 1.43am Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition 6.06am 08:11 2.13am Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), arr. Felix Mottl: Funf Lieder Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943): 13 Preludes for piano, Op von Mathilde von Wesendonck SHOSTAKOVICH 32 (Nos 4 and 6) Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano) Concertino for 2 Pianos Op. 94 Boris Bererezovsky (piano) Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Martha Argerich & Lilya Zilberstein (pianos) Kurt Masur (conductor) EMI 50999 5 04504 2 T5 2.20am Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 6.25am 08:20 104 Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937): Polish Dances Truls Mork (cello) Jerzy Godziszewski (piano) BIZET Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Prelude (L'Arlesienne) Andre Previn (conductor) 6.34am London Symphony Orchestra Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Rivolgete a lui lo Claudio Abbado (conductor) 3.01am sguardo (Cosi fan tutte) DG 469 121-2 D2 T1 Gautier d'Espinal (c.1215-1272): Puis que en moi a recouvre Russell Braun (baritone) seignorie Canadian Opera Company Orchestra 08:25 Lucidarium Richard Bradshaw (conductor) HOLST 3.07am 6.40am Bring Us In Good Ale Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), compl. Sussmayr: Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Concerto in A for Requiem in D minor, K626 flute and strings, Wq 168 arr. Holst Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Robert Aitken (flute) Matthew, Mark, Luke & John Ingeborg Danz (mezzo-soprano) CBC Vancouver Orchestra The King's Singers Mark Padmore (tenor) Mario Bernardi (conductor). EMI CDC7 49765-2 T5 & 6 Alfred Reiter (bass) Collegium Vocale Ghent 08:31 Orchestre des Champs-Elysees SUN 07:00 Breakfast (b00g053z) Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) Martin Handley MILTON Upon the Circumcision Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 5 of 20 Read by Robert Glenister Iain explores the idea of love and loss, with musical examples Mirella Freni (Aida), Piero Cappuccilli (Amanosro) including works by Brahms, Debussy, Britten and Alma Mahler. Vienna Philharmonic/Herbert von Karajan 08:33 He is joined by actress, singer and comedienne Dillie Keane, 4’44 who chooses some of her favourite music to illustrate the TCHAIKOVSKY subject. 5 Rachmaninov : Vocalise op 34 no 14 Cello Sonata etc The Crown of Roses DECCA 4143402 – Track 9 The Cambridge Singers Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Op 20 Lynn Harrell (cello), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) John Rutter (conductor) Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Fritz Reiner (conducting) 6’51 COLLEGIUM COLCD 124 T6 RCA RD85408 T.2 d 16’15 6 Tchaikovsky : Mazurka from Eugene Onegin (Act II) 08:36 PHILLIPS 438 237-2 – CD2 - Track 4 Haydn: Organ Concerto in C major Hob XV111/8 Hervé Hennequin (Captain), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Onegin), VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Martin Haselboeck (organ)/ Divertimento Salzburg Neil Shicoff (Lenski), Sarah Walker (Larina) St Petersburg Nocturne & Scherzo for String Quintet Orfeo C158871 Chamber Choir, Orchestre de Paris/Semyon Bychkov The Nash Ensemble T.7-9 d 13’03 4’32 HYPERION CDA 67381 T 4 & 5 Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Schumann in f-sharp minor, 7 ‘Warszawski dzień’ Przeboje Socjalizmo. Zbudujemy nowa 08:53 Op. 9 polske AN102 – Track 2 Louis Lortie (piano) Song & Dance Company of Warsaw/dir. Tadeusza MASSENET CHANDOS CHAN 9289 Sygietyńskiego Valse folle T15-31 d17.46 T Sygietyński /S R Dobrowolski Marc-André Hamelin (piano) 3’08 HYPERION CDA 67275 T9 DILLIE KEANE – Guest Choices 8 The Beatles: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Sgt Pepper’s 08:51 Fascinating Aida: Much More Married Lonely Hearts Club Band PARLOPHONE CDP7464422 – Fascinating Aida Track 3 BACH First Night SceneCD23 John Lennon/ Northern Songs Ltd Komm, Jesu, Komm! T.18 d 5’02 3’25 Sibylla Rubens (soprano) RIAS Chamber Choir Jacques Brel/ Gerard Jouannest : La Chanson des Vieux Amants 9 Tchaikovsky : Chinese Dance from ‘The Nutcracker Suite’ René Jacobs (conductor) Barb Jungr (vocal)/ Russell Churney (piano) PHILIPS 4427352 – CD 1 Track 9 HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901589 CD2 T22 – 24 Julie Walkington (bass)/ Kim Burton (accordion) London Philharmonic Orchestra/Leopold Stokowski Linn AKD 167 1’00 09:04 Tr. 9 d 5’50 10 The Magnificat Sunday Vespers HERALD HAVPCD131 – MIKHAILOV - SHALAYEV Puccini: ‘Come una mosca prigioniera’ and ‘Con Onor Muore’ Track 3 Out > 3’09 Fantasy on Volga Melodies The last scenes from Madama Butterfly The Monks & organist of Quarr Abbey Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra Mirella Freni (Madama Butterfly)/ Suzuki (Christa Ludwig)/ 3’09 Vitaly Gnutov (conductor) Luciano Pavarotti (BF. Pinkerton)/ Vienna Philharmonic/ MERCURY 475 6610 T5 Herbert von Karajan (conducting) Decca 4175772 SUN 13:00 The Early Music Show (b00c4c9m) 09:10 Cd 3 t,10 d 2’43 The King's Singers And T.11 d 5’34 NIELSEN The King's Singers were founded in 1968, and so to celebrate Serenata in Vano Wagner: Siegfried Idyll their 40th anniversary, Robert Hollingworth guest presents a Lahti Chamber Ensemble Northern Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (conducting) programme focussing on the large amount of 16th and 17th ONDINE ODE 792-2 T10 CHANDOS CHAN9354 century repertoire covered by the group. Robert hosts a round T11 d18.26 the table chat and welcomes founder baritone Simon 09:18 Carrington, who is now Professor of Choral Conducting at Yale Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op 31 ‘Hymn’ University, and two current members of the group, the counter- MOZART Peter Pears (tenor)/ Barry Tuckwell (horn)/ London Symphony tenor David Hurley and baritone Christopher Gabbitas. They Flute Concerto in D K314 Orchestra/ Benjamin Britten chat about the early influences of the group in this repertoire Patrick Gallois (flute) London 4363952 and how approaches to this music have changed over the King's Swedish Chamber Orchestra T.6 d2.01 Singers 40 years. Music in the programme includes works by Patrick Gallois & Katarina Andreasson (directors) Lassus and Josquin, and an early recording from 1973 of NAXOS 8.557011 T1-3 Debussy: ‘Jeux de Vagues’ from La Mer Janequin's La Guerre, plus music from a recent recording of Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim (conducting) Tenebrae Responsories by Gesualdo. 09:37 TELDEC 8573817022 T4 d 6’59 PLAYLIST: MILTON From Paradise Regained Franck: 4th Movement from the Violin Sonata in A Major T. Morley: Now is the month of maying Read by Robert Glenister David Oistrakh (violin) /Sviatoslav Richter (piano) The King’s Singers: Melodiya 74321341812 Nigel Perrin & Alastair Hume (Counter Tenors) 09:39 T11 d6.12 Alastair Thompson (Tenor) Anthony Holt (Baritone) RAMEAU Simon Carrington & Brian Kay (Basses) Overture: Zoroastre SUN 12:00 Private Passions (b00g0550) EMI CD-EMX 2129 Les Talens Lyriques Jan Pienkowski Track 1 Christophe Rousset (director) L'OISEAU-LYRE 455 293-2 T8 Michael Berkeley's guest is Polish-born illustrator Jan Josquin Desprez: Allegez moy Pienkowski, creator with Helen Nicoll of the much-loved Meg The King’s Singers: 09:44 and Mog series of children's books and a pioneer of the modern David Hurley & Alastair Hume (Countertenors) pop-up book. His most recent publication is an illustrated Robert Chilcott (Tenor) LERNER & LOEWE version of the Christmas story The Nutcracker. Bruce Russell & Simon Carrington (Baritones) I’ve Grown Accustomed to her Face (My Fair Lady) Stephen Connolly (Bass) Andre Previn (piano) His musical choices, which all have strong personal resonances, BMG Classics 09026 61814 2 Leroy Vinnegar (bass) reflect his Polish background as well as his love of both Italy Track 9 Shelley Manne (drums) and England. They include works by Chopin, Tchaikovsky, ASV CD AJA 5073 T3 Verdi, Rachmaninov and The Beatles. Senfl: Ach Elslein, liebes Elselein The Consort of Musicke, Director Anthony Rooley 09:49 1 Sig M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from The King’s Singers: Chaucer) Jeremy Jackman & Alastair Hume (Countertenors) BERNSTEIN (Berkeley/OUP) Anthony Holt & Simon Carrington (Baritones) What a Terrible Movie! (Trouble in Tahiti) Beaux Arts Brass Quintet 0’26 Colin Mason (Bass) Dawn Upshaw (soprano) Bill Ives (Tenor) Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2 Infant holy, Infant lowly EMI Classics 7243 5 85714 2 4 David Zinman (conductor) Carols from Kings COLLINS CLASSICS 13352 – Track 12 Track 31 NONESUCH 7559 79458-2 T3 The Choir of King’s College Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Director Lassus: La nuit froide et sombre 09:55 (words trans Reed – Polish tune arr Willcocks) The King’s Singers: 2’00 Jeremy Jackman & Alastair Hume (Countertenors) LANQUETUIT Anthony Holt & Simon Carrington (Baritones) Toccata 3 Chopin : Polonaise in A Major Op 40 no 1 ‘Military’ Colin Mason (Bass) Gillian Weir (organ of the Royal Albert Hall) Polonaises RCA RD89814 – Track 3 Robert Chilcott (Tenor) PRIORY PRCD 859 T8 Artur Rubenstein (piano) LP EMI LC 0233 4’06 Side 1 Band 9

SUN 10:00 Sunday Morning (b00g054w) 4 Verdi : ‘Rivedrai le foreste imbalsamate’ from ‘Aida’, Act III Janequin: La Guerre Love and Loss EMI CMS7693002 – CD3 track 6 The King’s Singers: Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 6 of 20 Nigel Perrin & Alastair Hume (Countertenors) Debussy: Hommage à Rameau (Images) Bo Holten: I denne sode juletid Anthony Holt & Simon Carrington (Baritones) Boris Berman (piano) Musica Ficta conducted by Bo Holten Brian Kay (Bass) Chandos CHAN9294, track 5 NAXOS 8554627, track 18 Alastair Thompson (Tenor) LP EMI CDS 3740 Bliss Meditations on a Theme of John Blow Anon English 15th Century: Eya mater Stephane Side 1 Band 1 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Hugo Rignold Oxford Camerata, directed by Jeremy Summerly (conductor) NAXOS 8550751, track 10 Willaert: Qual dolcezza giamai Lyrita SRCD254 The King’s Singers: Romance de Virgen y el Ciego David Hurley & Alastair Hume (Countertenors) Die Singphoniker with Irmgard Gorzawski (harp) Robert Chilcott (Tenor) SUN 16:00 Choral Evensong (b00fvv02) CPO 7770672, track 15 Bruce Russell & Simon Carrington (Baritones) From St Edmundsbury Cathedral. Stephen Connolly (Bass) Päivi Ojanoerä: Joulun sydänyö (On Christmas Night) EMI Classics CDC 7 54191 2 Introit: Super flumina Babylonis (Palestrina) Philomela conducted by Marjukka Riihimäki Track 16 Responses: Tomkins Alba NCD 34, track 7 Psalms: 53, 54, 55 (Smart, Turle, Stainer) Tallis: Spem in alium (excerpt) First Lesson: Isaiah 31 Roderick Williams: O Adonaï The King’s Singers: Office Hymn: Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates (Wellington) Ex Cathedra conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore David Hurley, Robin Tyson (Countertenors) Canticles: Watson in E EXCCD003, track 5 Paul Pheonix, (Tenor) Second Lesson: Matthew 15, vv1-20 Philip Lawson, Christopher Gabbitas (Baritones) Anthem: And I saw a new heaven (Bainton) Plainchant: Vox clara, ecce, intonat Stephen Connolly (Bass) Final Hymn: Hills of the North, rejoice (Little Cornard) Anonymous 4 Signum SIGCD 071 Organ Voluntary: Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV569 HARMONIA MUNDI HCX3957139 t6 Track 1 (Bach) Links Gesualdo: Tristis est anima mea from Responsories from 1st Assistant director of music: David Humphreys The Manchester Carols www.themanchestercarols.com Nocturn Director of music: James Thomas. The King’s Singers: David Hurley & Robin Tyson (Countertenors) SUN 20:15 Drama on 3 (b00g056m) Paul Phoenix (Tenor) SUN 17:00 Discovering Music (b00g055g) Samson Agonistes Philip Lawson & Gabriel Crouch (Baritones) Elliott Carter at 100 Stephen Connolly (Bass) By John Milton and adapted for radio and directed by John Signum Records SIGCD 048 Stephen Johnson travels to New York City to talk to the Tydeman. Track 3 composer Elliott Carter, who celebrates his 100th birthday in 2008. Focusing on four of his pieces - Elegy, Triple Duo, String A new production of Milton's dramatic poem, originally Sebastián de Vivanco: Versa est in Luctum Quartet No 5 and Dialogues - Carter delves into the techniques published in 1671, as part of Radio 3's celebrations of the 400th The King’s Singers: behind his music, together with stories from his life. anniversary of the poet's birth. David Hurley & Robin Tyson (Countertenors) Paul Phoenix (Tenor) Written in the form of a Greek tragedy, with the chorus Philip Lawson & Christopher Gabbitas (Baritones) SUN 19:00 Choir and Organ (b00g055j) commenting on the action, the play follows the biblical story of Stephen Connolly (Bass) Christmas Music for Choirs the blind Samson wreaking his revenge on the Philistines who Signum Classics SIGCD 119 have imprisoned him. Track 5 It's one of the great challenges for a choral composer - how to write new and distinctive Christmas music. Aled Jones talks to Samson ...... Iain Glen Salamone Rossi Hebreo: Psalm 128 Sasha Johnson Manning whose Manchester Carols aim to retell Manoa ...... David de Keyser Sarband / The King’s Singers: the story of the Nativity for the 21st century. Plus the antidote Dalila ...... Samantha Bond David Hurley & Robin Tyson (Countertenors) to famous carol overload, a selection of Christmas choral Harapha ...... Philip Madoc Paul Phoenix (Tenor) rarities. Public Officer ...... Matthew Morgan Philip Lawson & Christopher Gabbitas (Baritones) Messenger ...... Michael Maloney Stephen Connolly (Bass) Playlist Chorus 1 ...... Tim Bentinck Signum Classics SIGCD 065 Lutosławski: Hey! We rejoice now (extract) Chorus 2 ...... Simon Treves Track 12 Polish Radio Chorus and Polish National Radio Symphony Chorus 3 ...... Sean Barrett Orchestra conducted by Antoni Wit Directed by John Tydeman. SUN 14:00 Radio 3 Requests (b00g0558) Sasha Johnson Manning: Mirabile dictu Chi-chi Nwanoku presents more of your requests. Including The Manchester Carollers, Northern Chamber Orchestra NB: Finishes at 10.05 pm opera from Mussorgsky, Ballet music by Rameau, and a rarely conducted by Richard Tanner heard major work by Arthur Bliss, his Meditations on a theme TMC CD1, track 2 of John Blow. SUN 22:05 Sunday Feature (b00g056p) Sasha Johnson Manning: New Boy Born How Far Would You Go For A Dance? ADDRESS: Radio 3 Requests, BBC Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ The Manchester Carollers, Northern Chamber Orchestra, Phone: 03700 100 300. email: [email protected] conducted by Richard Tanner The Puppet Masters TMC CD1, track 10 Including: Judith Mackrell visits pioneering and distinctive choreographers Anon: Nova Nova working in Britain and Ireland to ask them how wide they cast Rameau: La Princess de Navarre. Act 1, Entrée des guerriers Taverner Choir, conducted by Andrew Parrott their imaginations to make innovative dance theatre. With English Baroque Festival singers, Nicholas McGegan EMI CDC7498092, track 4 contributions from Javier de Frutos, Michael Keegan-Dolan, (conductor) Wayne McGregor and Hofesh Schechter. Erato, 0630129862, track 2 Sasha Johnson Manning: A Miracle The Manchester Carollers, Northern Chamber Orchestra, Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina: Prelude, Dawn over the River conducted by Richard Tanner SUN 22:50 Words and Music (b00g056r) Moscow TMC CD1, track 8 Monsters Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Claudio Abbado (conductor) Sasha Johnson Manning: The Gold of Straw A selection of poetry and music on the theme of monsters, with DG 4297582, CD1, track 1 The Manchester Carollers, Northern Chamber Orchestra, readings by Don Warrington and Carolyn Pickles. Including conducted by Richard Tanner works by Jack Mapanje, Christina Rossetti, Seamus Heaney, Leighton: Elegy for Cello & Piano Op.5 TMC CD1, track 11 Yeats, Hans Christian Andersen, Robert Browning, Sylvia Andrew Fuller (cello), Michael Dussek (piano) Plath, Brian Patten, Carol Ann Duffy, Tennyson and Ted Dutton Laboratories CDLX7118 Sasha Johnson Manning: An Angel Hughes, and music including Grieg, Knussen and Schubert. NB: The Manchester Carollers, Northern Chamber Orchestra, This broadcast starts at approximately 22.50 Gigout: Toccata conducted by Richard Tanner Marie-Claire Alain (organ) TMC CD1, track 9 Erato 4509948122, track 4 John Turner: A song on the birth of Christ MONDAY 15 DECEMBER 2008 Delius: Sea Drift (extract) BBC Singers directed by David Hill Bruce Boyce (baritone), BBC Chorus, royal Philharmonic BBC Recording MON 00:05 Jazz Line-Up (b00g056t) Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor) Tim Garland's Lighthouse Project Sony Classical SBK62752, track 12 Leon Roberts: Come Bless the Lord Quire Please note: This broadcast will start at approximately 00:05. Rameau: Platée Suite QUIRE002, track 1 European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor) Claire Martin presents an exclusive session from the 2008 City Naxos 8557490, tracks 1-7 Short extracts of of London Festival, with the Lighthouse Project featuring Dominic Muldowney: Leaves on the Line saxophonist Tim Garland and the Sacconi Strings. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov, Death Scene King’s Singers Boris Christoff (bass), Ana Alexieva (mezzo soprano), John Dominic Muldowney: The Fall of Jerusalem Title: Speaking with Wooden Tongue Lanigan (tenor) Chorus of the National Opera of Sophia, Leeds Festival Chorus Artist: Bill Bruford's Earthworks featuring Tim Garland Conservatoire Concert Society Orchestra, André Cluytens Private recordings CD: Random Acts of Happiness (conductor) Track: 9 EMI CDS7479938 CD3 Tracks 17-19 Carols you’ve never heard! Label: Summerfold Records SFVP 001CD-JP Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 7 of 20 Comp: Tim Garland Bernard Haitink (conductor) Hesperion XX Pub: Copyright Control ASTREE E 8536 Tr.1 Dur: 02.11 4.51am Daquin, Louis-Claude (1694-1772): Noel No 2 en dialogue, duo 07:06 Title: Bach's D Minor Concerto et trio (Or dites-nous Marie) Artist: Tim Garland/Gwilym Simcock/Asaf Sirkis Hans van Nieuwkoop (organ) CHABRIER Comp: Tim Garland Espana Pub: Copyright Control 5.00am Boston Symphony Orchestra Dur: 01.13 Enescu, George (1881-1955): Romanian Rhapsody No 1 in A, Seiji Ozawa, conductor Op 11 DG 423 698-2 Tr.1 Title: Blue and Green Romanian National Radio Orchestra Artist: Tim Garland/Gwilym Simcock/Asaf Sirkis Horia Andreescu (conductor) 07:13 Comp: Miles Davis Pub: Copyright Control 5.12am BYRD Dur: 06.19 Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Music to a Scene Miserere mihi, Domine Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Stile Antico Title: Bajo Del Sol Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) HARMONIA MUNDI HMU907419 Tr.11 Artist: Tim Garland/Gwilym Simcock/Asaf Sirkis Comp: Tim Garland 5.18am 07:16 Pub: Copyright Control Leontovitch, Mykola (1877-1921) arr. Howard Cable: Carol of Dur: 09.34 the Bells HAYDN Kountz, arr. Howard Cable: The Sleigh a la Russe Sonata for piano (H.16.41) in B flat major Title: Homage to Father Bach The Toronto Children's Chorus Marc-André Hamelin, piano Artist: Tim Garland/Gwilym Simcock/ Sicconi Strings Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra HYPERION CDA67554 CD.1 Tr.9-10 Comp: Tim Garland Judy Loman (harp) Pub: Copyright Control Jean Ashworth Bartle (conductor) 07:27 Dur: 15.37 5.22am BRAHMS Title: Darkhorse Trad. German arr. John Rutter (b.1945): Still, still, still Wiegenlied Artist: Tim Garland/Gwilym Simcock/Asaf Sirkis/Sicconi (German carol) Bernarda Fink, mezzo Strings Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir Roger Vignoles, piano Comp: Tim Garland John Rutter (conductor) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901926 Tr.31 Pub: Copyright Control Dur: 07.11 5.24am 07:31 Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911): Symphony No 2 in B flat Title: Hang Loose Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra DVORAK Artist: Tim Garland/Gwilym Simcock/Asaf Sirkis Eivind Aadland (conductor) Nocturne (Op.40) in B major Comp: Tim Garland Budapest Festival Orchestra Pub: Copyright Control 6.00am Ivan Fischer, conductor Dur: 11.06 Williamson, Malcolm (1931-2003): This Christmas Night PHILIPS 476 2179 Tr.11 Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir Title: Spring Tide / Tide Races / Going Ashore David Miller (piano) 07:39 Artist: Tim Garland's Lighthouse Trio/Royal Philharmonic Antony Walker (conductor) Orchestra SCHUBERT Comp: Tim Garland 6.03am Impromptus D935 No.1 in F minor Pub: Copyright Control Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto in G minor for two Imogen Cooper, piano Dur: 04.42 / 03.23 / 06.20 cellos and orchestra, RV531 OTTAVO OTR C88817 Tr.5 Maris Villeruss, Leons Veldre (cellos) Title: Sly Eyes Peteris Plakidis (harpsichord) 07:50 Artist: Tim Garland/Gwilym Simcock/Asaf Sirkis Latvian Philharmony Chamber Orchestra Comp: Tim Garland Tovijs Lifsics (conductor) DOWLAND Pub: Copyright Control Sorrow stay Dur: 08.11. 6.16am John Harle, saxophone Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Two Lyric Pieces: Evening in the John Lenehan, harpsichord Mountains, Op 68 No 4; At the cradle, Op 68 No 5 UNICORN KANCHANA DKP(CD)9160 Tr.16 MON 01:35 Through the Night (b00g05d5) CBC Vancouver Orchestra With Jonathan Swain. Mario Bernardi (conductor) 07:55

1.35am 6.24am BRAHMS Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725): Cinque Profeti - Christmas Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Four Chorales from the Hungarian Dance No.6 in D Cantata Schemelli collection Concertgebouw Orchestra Daniel ...... Barbara Schlick (soprano) Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano) Bernard Haitink, conductor Ezechielle ...... Heike Hallaschka (soprano) Domen Marincic (gamba) PHILIPS 422 477-2 Tr.6 Daniel ...... Kai Wessel (alto) Dalibor Miklavcic (organ) Isaia ...... Christoph Pregardien (tenor) 08:03 Abramo ...... Michael Schopper (bass) 6.33am La Stagione Faure, Gabriel (1845-1924): Pavane for orchestra, Op 50 BACH Michael Schneider (director) BBC National Orchestra of Wales “Gloria in excelsis… Et in terra pax” from Mass in B minor, Grant Llewellyn (conductor) BWV 232 2.37am Monteverdi Choir Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Sextet in B flat, Op 18 - arr. 6.41am English Baroque Soloists Agnieszka Duczmal Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Prague Waltzes (Prazske John Eliot Gardiner The Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan valciky), B99 ARCHIV 469 7772 CD.8 Tr.4-5 Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava Stefan Robl (conductor) 08:10 3.15am Anon, Croatian 18th century: Sonata in G; Sonata in C; 6.49am RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Pastorella in G (for organ); Sonata in G; Pastorella in D; Aria in Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): La plus que lente Sheherazade Op.35 - The Sea and Sinbad's ship D (for trumpet and organ) Roger Woodward (piano) Chicago Symphony Orchestra Stanko Arnold (trumpet) Daniel Barenboim, conductor Ljerka Ocic (organ) 6.53am TELDEC 8573-82127-2 CD.1 Tr.1 Debussy, Claude (1862-1918), orch. Ravel: Danse (Tarantelle 3.29am styrienne) 08:21 Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962): String Quartet in A minor Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Orford String Quartet Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor). CHOPIN Mazurka Op.17 no.1 in B flat major 4.00am Richard Goode, piano Bach: Sonata in G for flute, violin and bass continuo, BWV525 MON 07:00 Breakfast (b00g054f) NONESUCH 7559-79452-2 Tr.6 Musica Petropolitana Sara Mohr-Pietsch 08:24 4.11am With Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Kunzen, Friedrich Ludwig Aemilius (1761-1817): Symphony in MOZART G minor The complete Breakfast playlist is posted on this website after La Clemenza di Tito - opera in 2 acts (K.621) Danish Radio Concert Orchestra the programme has been broadcast. Act 1, no.9; Parto, parto, ma tu ben mio (Aria) Peter Marschik (conductor) Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano 07:03 English Baroque Soloists 4.31am John Eliot Gardiner Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963): Les Biches - suite PURCELL DG 477 7077 CD.1 Tr.6 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Fantazia upon one note for 5 instruments (Z.745) in F major Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 8 of 20 08:32 James Jolly Presented by Penny Gore.

MENDELSSOHN With James Jolly. 2.00pm A Midsummer night's dream - incidental music (Op.61) Mendelssohn: The Hebrides, Op 26 Overture (Op.21) 10.00am BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra The Chamber Orchestra of Europe Vivaldi: Concerto in E, RV269 (La primavera) Christoph Konig (conductor) Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor Amandine Beyer (violin) TELDEC 9031-74882-2 Tr.1 Gli Incogniti Brahms: Violin Concerto Christian Tetzlaff (violin) 08:45 10.10am BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Cage: Imaginary Landscape No 1 Ilan Volkov (conductor) ANONYMOUS Ensemble Negativa Pulcherrima rosa Rainer Riehn (conductor) Mahler, arr. Clytus: Gottwald: Ich bin der Welt Hilliard Ensemble BBC Singers Jan Garbarek, saxophone 10.19am David Hill (conductor) ECM NEW SERIES 1525 445 369-2 Tr.7 Finzi: Till Earth Outwears, Op 19a John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Mahler, orch. Britten: What the Wild Flowers Tell Me 08:52 Iain Burnside (piano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Stefan Solyom (conductor) FINZI 10.37am O mistress mine; It was a lover and his lass (from Op.18) Bartok: String Quartet No 4 3.05pm Christopher Maltman, baritone Belcea Quartet Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No 1 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins, conductor 11.02am Ilan Volkov (conductor) HYPERION CDA67065 Tr.17-18 Berlioz: La captive Lani Poulson (mezzo-soprano) Brahms: Three Intermezzi for piano, Op 117 08:58 SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden und Freiburg Llyr Williams (piano) Sylvain Cambreling (conductor) BACH arr Rodolfo Richter 3.55pm Fugue from WTC BWV 892 11.10am Brahms: Symphony No 1 The Bach Players Rachmaninov: Symphony No 1 in D minor BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra HYPHEN PRESS MUSIC 001 Tr.23 The Building a Library recommendation. Stefan Solyom (conductor).

09:02 MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00g058k) MON 17:00 In Tune (b00g059x) POULENC The Neapolitan Golden Age Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the Suite francaise [after Gervaise] vers. for wind, perc, hpcd arts world, including violinist Joshua Bell, who talks about his French National Orchestra Episode 1 new CD of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Charles Dutoit, conductor DECCA 475 7930 CD.5 Tr.1-7 Donald Macleod journeys through a century of music-making Plus pianist Aleksandar Madzar performing in the studio and in Naples which put even its great rival Venice's culture in the discussing his three concerts of solo and chamber music as part 09:15 shade. The death in 1725 of the great Alessandro Scarlatti of Roald Dahl Week at Kings Place, London. offers new opportunities to Neapolitan musicians. RACHMANINOV 17:02 Etudes-tableaux (Op.39) no.5 in E flat minor Vinci: Sinfonia for strings (1st mvt) MOZART Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano Cappella della Pieta de'Turchini Rondo alla turca DECCA 00289 475 8512 CD.1 Tr.11 Antonio Florio (conductor) Canadian Brass NAIVE OP30274 - Tr 10 SONY MK45744 09:20 Track 9 Vinci: Erighetta e Don Chilone (excerpt) 2’33 HANDEL Erighetta ...... Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) Concerto grosso (Op.6`2) in F major Don Chilone ...... Giuseppe Naviglio (bass) 17:05 Arte dei Suonatori Cappella della Pieta de'Turchini GERSHWIN arr. William David Brohn Martin gester, director Antonio Florio (conductor) I Got Rhythm BIS-SACD-1705/6 CD.1 Tr.6-9 NAIVE OP30274 - Trs 6-9 Joshua Bell (violin) London Symphony Orchestra 09:34 Durante: Sonate per cembalo divise in studii e divertimenti John Williams (conductor) (Study No 6) SONY 88697074162 STRAVINSKY Laura Alvini (harpsichord) CD 2 Faun and shepherdess - song suite for mezzo-soprano and TACTUS TC680402 - Tr 11 Track 3 orchestra (Op.2) 4’17 Mary Simmons, mezzo-soprano Durante: Duet: Methilde, alma via CBC Symphony Orchestra Ensemble Concerto: 17:10 Igor Stravinsky, conductor Cristina Miatello (soprano) LIVE SONY SM2K 46 298 CD.2 Tr.1-3 Claudio Cavina (contralto) TCHAIKOVSKY (arr. Pletnev) Laura Alvini (harpsichord) Nutcracker Suite (Pas de Deux) 09:44 Roberto Gini (cello) Aleksandar Madzar (piano) TACTUS TC680401 - Tr 7 5’05 Albeniz/Godowsky Tango Durante: Lamentations of Jeremiah - Lectio terza in fera sexta 17:23 Stephen Hough, piano parasceve LIVE HYPERION CDA67565 Tr.14 Monika Frimmer (soprano) DEBUSSY Mechtild Bach (soprano) Children's Corner Suite (extracts tbc) 09:48 Margarete Joswig (alto) Aleksandar Madzar (piano) Kolner Kammerchor 7’19 Smetana Collegium Cartusianum The Peasant Woman Peter Neumann (director) 17:31 BBC Philharmonic CPO 999 325-2 - Trs 14-21. MONTEVERDI Gianandrea Noseda, conductor Vespers of 1610 (Psalm 109: Dixit Dominus) CHANDOS CHAN 10413 Tr.5 Jill Gomez (soprano) MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00g05dy) Felicity Palmer (soprano) 09:52 Christopher Maltman (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano) Robert Tear (tenor) Philip Langridge (tenor) PUCCINI From the Wigmore Hall, London. Presented by Sarah Walker. John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) Edgar - Act 3 Prelude Michael Rippon (bass) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Christopher Maltman (baritone) Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra Riccardo Chailly, conductor Malcolm Martineau (piano) John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) DECCA 417 979-2 Tr.5 DECCA 414 572 2 Holst: Vedic Hymns, Op 24 (Nos 1, 3, 6, 9); Humbert-Wolfe CD 1 09:56 settings, Op 48 (Nos 6, 12) Track 3 Strauss: Funf Lieder, Op 15; Acht Gedichte aus Letzte Blatter 8’10 Ejnar Eklof von Hermann von Gilm, Op 10 (Nos 1, 8) Morgon Korngold: Songs of the Clown, Op 29; Drei Lieder, Op 18. 17:41 Swedish Radio Orchestra TELEMANN Nils Grevillius, conductor Flute Quartet in B flat Major, TWV 43 B2 BLUEBELL ABCD066 Tr.2 MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00g0596) Musica Antiqua Köln Brahms Reinhard Goebel (director) ARCHIV 00289 477 5379 MON 10:00 Classical Collection (b00g058h) Brahms - Episode 1 Tracks 23-25 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 9 of 20 6’21 Pascal Rophé (conductor). Carlo DeRosa – double bass

17:48 SET LIST: DONIZETTI MON 21:15 Night Waves (b00g37c7) Roberto Devereux (Overture) Opera on the Big Screen 1) The Preserver London Symphony Orchestra 2) Hope Richard Bonynge (conductor) As a film version of La boheme opens, starring Rolando 3) Playing with Stones DECCA 366 431 2 Villazon, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss why operas are CD 2 increasingly finding their way onto the big screen. Many major www.rudreshm.com Track 1 opera houses, such as Bayreuth, the Royal Opera House and La 6’05 Scala, are now broadasting their operas live into cinemas. This JEZ NELSON INTERVIEWS JOHN BUTCHER comes in the wake of a new wave of operatic feature films, 17:54 such as Kenneth Branagh's The Magic Flute. JOHN BUTCHER OCTET RECORDED LIVE IN CONCERT PUCCINI AT HUDDERSFIELD CONTEMPORARY MUSIC O Soave Fanciulla (Act 1, La Boheme) They ask if this trend is a sign that opera is working hard to FESTIVAL Rolando Villazon (Rodolfo) shed its image as the most expensive and elitist of all art forms - Creative Arts Building Recital Hall Boaz Daniel (Marcello) and could cinemas prove crucial to opera's future survival? 22nd November 2008 Anna Netrebko (Mimi) Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra LINE UP: Bertrand de Billy, conductor MON 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00g058k) DECCA 00289 477 7949 [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] John Butcher – saxophone CD 1 Clare Cooper – harp, ghuzeng Track 11 Chris Burn – piano 4’07 MON 23:00 The Essay (b00df5kl) Dieb13 – turntables On Excess John Edwards – double bass 18:04 Adam Linson – double bass, electronics VIVALDI In Excess Gino Robair – percussion, energised surfaces Concerto no.2 in g minor, RV.315 “Summer” Thomas Lehn – analogue synthesiser Joshua Bell (violin) Leading psychotherapist Adam Phillips asks if our appetite is Academy of St.artin in the Fields by nature excessive. SET LIST: John Constable (harpsichord) SONY 88697 11013 2 1) somethingtobesaid by John Butcher Track 4 MON 23:15 Jazz on 3 (b00g05cz) 5’22 John Butcher at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival www.johnbutcher.org.uk

18:15 Jez Nelson presents the world premiere of British saxophonist JAMES NEWTON HOWARD John Butcher's Composition for Eight Musicians. The project Music from the Motion Picture ‘Defiance’ (The Wedding) has been specially commissioned by the 2008 Huddersfield TUESDAY 16 DECEMBER 2008 Joshua Bell (violin) Contemporary Music Festival and features both acoustic and SONY 88697417392 electronic instrumentalists, including Clare Cooper on harp and TUE 01:00 Through the Night (b00g05dk) Track 9 guzheng, Chris Burn on piano, dieb13 at the turntables, John With Jonathan Swain. 1’35 Edwards and Adam Linson on double bass and electronics, Gino Robair on percussion and energised surfaces, and Thomas 1.01am 18:20 Lehn on analogue synthesiser Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Sextet for strings No 2 in G, SARASATE Op 36 Introduction and Tarantella Butcher was born in Brighton and has lived in London since the Oslo Chamber Soloists Joshua Bell (violin) late 1970s. He began playing the saxophone while studying Simon Mulligan (piano) physics at university. Since leaving academia to focus 1.41am SONY 88697074162 completely on music, he has developed his own style that Svedsen, Johan (1840-1911): Octet in A for strings, Op 3 CD 1 embraces free improvisation and electronics, often distorting Atle Sponberg, Joakim Svenheden (violins) Track 7 his sound until it is unrecognisable in the traditional sense. Over Aida-Carmen Soanea (viola) 5’16 the years, Butcher has worked with Phil Minton, Derek Bailey Adrian Brendel (cello) and John Stevens in what was the final version of the Vertavo String Quartet 18:29 Spontaneous Music Ensemble. VIVALDI 2.19am Concerto no.4 in f minor, RV.297 “Winter” PLAYLIST Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963): Quatre motets pour le temps de Joshua Bell (violin) Noel Academy of St Martin in the Fields John Butcher Octet at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Talinn Music High School Chamber Choir John Constable (harpsichord) Festival Evi Eespere (director) SONY 88697 11013 2 Tracks 10-12 Jazz on 3 2.29am 7’51 15/12/08 Busoni, Ferrucio (1866-1924): Suite No 2 for orchestra, Op 34a Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra 18:39 Presenter: Jez Nelson Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor) SCHUMANN Producer: Robert Abel 3 Romanzen for Clarinet & Piano Op 94 2.57am Mikhail Rudy (piano) SIGNATURE TUNE Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Violin Sonata No 2 in A Michel Portal (clarinet) Valdis Zarins (violin) EMI CDC 7 54824 2 Artist Russell Gunn (Russell Gunn – trumpet, Gregory Tardy & Ieva Zarina (piano) Tracks 17-19 Bruce Williams – reeds, Andre Heyward – trombone, Chieli 13’22 Minucci – guitar, James Hurt – keyboards, Rodney Jordan – 3.17am bass, Woody Williams – drums, Khalil Kwame Bell – Jenkins, John (1592-1678): Galliard 18:53 percussion, DJ Apollo - turntables) Concordia LAURIDSEN Track Title Seventy Four Miles Away Mark Levy (conductor) O magnum mysterium Composer Joe Zawinul Chantage Album Title Ethnomusicology Volume 1 3.20am James Davy (director) Martland, Steve (b.1959): Three Carols EMI 5099923579620 EXTRACT FROM JOHN BUTCHER INTERVIEW BBC Singers Track 2 CONDUCTED BY JEZ NELSON Stephen Cleobury (conductor) 6’50 CD TRACK: 3.31am Elgar, Edward (1857-1934): Variations on an Original Theme MON 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00g05bk) Artist Nostalgia 77 featuring Keith & Julie Tippett (Julie (Enigma), Op 36 BBC Symphony Orchestra/Ali Tufekci Traditional Ensemble Tippett – vocals, Keith Tippett – piano, Riaan Vosloo – double Royal Philharmonic Orchestra bass, Adam Sorenson – drums, Gary Boyle – guitars, Mark Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor) Suzy Klein presents a concert given by the BBC Symphony Hanslip – tenor saxophone, Fulvio Sigurta – trumpet, flugal Orchestra with Ali Tufekci's traditional ensemble featuring horn) 4.05am music inspired by Turkish culture. Title You Don’t Just Dream When You Sleep Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Sonata a quattro in C for two Composer Benedic Lamdin & Riaan Vosloo oboes, bassoon and continuo The concert includes works by the grand old man of Turkish Album Title Nostalgia 77 Sessions Ensemble Zefiro music, Ahmed Adnan Saygun, who was to his country what Label TruThoughts Jean Sibelius is to Finland, and his contemporary Ulvi Cemal 4.17am Erkin. Plus a new work by Michael Ellison for symphony www.myspace.com/nostalgia77 Gabrieli, Giovanni (c.1553-1612): Exaudi me, for 12-part triple orchestra, Turkish ensemble and solo cello, along with music by chorus, continuo and four trombones Mozart. SESSION FROM RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA Lars Baunkilde (violone) Soren Christian Vestergaard (organ) Gemma Rosefield (cello) LINE UP: Danish National Radio Chorus Ali Tufekci Ensemble Copenhagen Cornetts and Sackbutts BBC Symphony Orchestra Rudresh Mahanthappa – saxophone Bo Holten (conductor) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 10 of 20 4.23am PERGOLESI arr. BACH Brahms Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): 8 Instrumental miniatures for 15 Stabat Mater (opening movement) Dein blaues Auge Op.59/8 instruments The Bach Players Bernarda Fink, mezzo Canadian Chamber Ensemble HYPHEN PRESS MUSIC 001 Tr.6 Roger Vignoles, piano Raffi Armenian (conductor) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901926 Tr.10 07:23 4.31am 08:55 Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Horn Concerto No 1 in E flat SIBELIUS Bostjan Lipovsek (french horn) Valse Triste (from Kuolema) WEBER orch. Berlioz Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra Lahti Symphony Orchestra Invitation to the dance (Op.65) David de Villiers (conductor) Osmo Vanska, conductor London Symphony Orchestra BIS-CD-1557/58 CD.1 Tr.9 Charles Mackerras, conductor 4.48am PHILIPS 462 868-2 CD.1 Tr.4 Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Mephisto Waltz No 1, S514 07:30 Yuri Boukoff (piano) 09:05 MOZART compl. Sussmayr 5.00am Concerto for horn and orchestra no. 1 (K.412) in D major GLASS Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Sonata in E minor, Timothy Brown, horn Quartet for strings no. 4 ""Buczak"" 1st movement HWV379 Academy of St Martin in the Fields Smith Quartet Sonora Hungarica Consort Iona Brown, conductor SIGNUM SIGCD117 CD.1 Tr.11 HANSSLER CD 98.316 Tr.10-11 5.09am 09:14 Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931), arr. Dyrst: Hjemlige jul (Christmas 07:40 at home) VIVALDI Fionian Chamber Choir SATIE Griselda - opera (RV.718) Dopo un'orrida procella Alice Granum (director) Ragtime-Parade Cecilia Bartoli Joanna MacGregor, piano Il Giardino Armonico 5.12am COLLINS CLASSICS 10532 Tr.13 DECCA 466 569-2 Tr.2 Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Sinfonia (Christmas Oratorio, BWV248) 07:43 09:18 Norwegian Radio Orchestra Kjetil Haugsand (conductor) MONTEVERDI Mozart Vespro della Beata Vergine [1610] Ave maris stella Fantasia in F minor K608 5.18am Les Arts Florrissants Simon Preston, organ (Westminster Abbey) Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Sonata in C for organ, William Christie, director DECCA 430 091-2 Tr.3 BWV529 ERATO 3984-23139-2 CD.2 Tr.5 Juliusz Gembalski (organ) 09:30 07:52 5.33am Stravinsky Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Overture (Konig Stefan, BRAHMS Pulcinella - Introduction Op 117) Serenade No.1 in D major Op.11 - Scherzo & Trio Dietmar Kres, guitar Toronto Symphony Orchestra Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra EXTRAPLATTE EX 769-2 Tr.4 Andrew Davis (conductor) Andrew Davies, conductor APEX 2564 61138-2 Tr.2 09:34 5.41am Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Quartet in A for 08:03 PROKOFIEV flute and strings, K298 Scythian suite from ""Ala i Lolly"" (Op.20) Joanna G'froerer (flute) BACH Chicago Symphony Orchestra Martin Beaver (violin) “Allemande” from French Suite No.5 in G major BMV 816 Claudio Abbado, conductor Pinchas Zukerman (viola) Ton Koopman, harpsichord DG 410 598-2 Tr.17-20 Amanda Forsyth (cello) Erato 4509 948052 Tr.25 09:55 5.53am 08:06 Jadin, Hyacinthe (1776-1800): Sonata No 1 in E flat, Op 3 JOHNSON Patrick Cohen (fortepiano) RESPIGHI Have you seen the bright lily grow? Burlesca John Potter, voice 6.12am BBC Philharmonic Barry Guy, bass Dubois, Pierre Max (1930-1995): Quartet for flutes Gianandrea Noseda, conductor The Dowland Project Valentinas Kazlauskas, Lina Baublyte, Albertas Stupakas, CHANDOS CHAN 10388 Tr.1 ECM NEW SERIES 1803 476 052-2 Tr.12 Giedrius Gelgoras (flutes) 08:14 6.20am TUE 10:00 Classical Collection (b00g0587) Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): La valse for two pianos DVORAK James Jolly Ouellet-Murray Duo: Slavonic Dance Op.46 No.3 in D & No.5 in A Claire Ouellet, Sandra Murray (pianos) Katia & Marielle Labeque, pianos With James Jolly. PHILIPS 426 264-2 Tr.3 & Tr.5 6.32am 10.00am Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899): Poeme de l'amour et de la mer, 08:22 Debussy: Pour le piano Op 19 (version for voice and orchestra) Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) Maria Oran (soprano) JOSQUIN Residentie Orchestra The Hague Salve Regina a5 10.13am Hans Vonk (conductor). The Clerk's Group Ives: The Circus Band Edward Wickham, director Gerald Finley (baritone) GAUDEAMUS CD GAM 361 Tr.2 Julius Drake (piano) TUE 07:00 Breakfast (b00g054h) Sara Mohr-Pietsch 08:31 Ives: Down East Deborah Voigt (soprano) With Sara Mohr-Pietsch. ELGAR Brian Zeger (piano) Pomp and circumstance march no.1 in D major 07:02 BBCSO Ives: General William Booth enters into Heaven Leonard Bernstein, conductor Marni Nixon (soprano) MUSSORGSKY DG 43 490-2 Tr.16 John McCabe (piano) Scherzo in B flat London Symphony Orchestra 08:38 10.25am Claudio Abbado, conductor Bach: Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns halt, BWV178 RCA RD70405 Tr.4 RACHMANINOV Robin Tyson (countertenor) Elegie in E flat minor Christoph Genz (tenor) 07:06 Idil Biret, piano Brindley Sherratt (bass) NAXOS 8.550348 Tr.11 Monteverdi Choir BEETHOVEN English Baroque Soloists 6 Bagatelles for piano (Op.126) 08:44 John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) no.4 in B minor no.5 in G major BIBER 10.46am no.6 in E flat major Mystery (Rosary) sonata: The Nativity Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34 Alfred Brendel, piano Maya Homburger, violin Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) PHILIPS 475 7182 Tr.4-6 Camerata Kilkenny Artemis Quartet MAYA RECORDINGS MCD0603 CD.1 Tr.7-9 07:18 11.27am 08:52 Henze: Symphony No 8 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 11 of 20 Gurzenich-Orchester Koln conversation ahead of a concert with the English Chamber 7.11 Markus Stenz (conductor). orchestra and Tallis Chamber Choir. 18:17 Plus conductor Daniel Harding and violinist Daniel Hope VIVALDI TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00g057n) performing in the studio. Concerto in D Major, RV 234 ‘L’inquietudine’ The Neapolitan Golden Age Daniel Hope, violin 17:03 Chamber Orchestra of Europe Episode 2 BEETHOVEN DG 4777463 Egmont Overture TR. 1-3 Donald Macleod explores the music of Giovanni Battista Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen 6’07 Pergolesi, whose death at the age of 26 gave him a mythical Daniel Harding, conductor status, causing many works to be falsely ascribed to him. Virgin Classics 18:33 TR 3 MOZART Attrib. Pergolesi: Violin Concerto in B flat (1st mvt) 7.42 Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio! (concert aria) Concerto Koln Patricia Petibon (soprano) CAPRICCIO 10378 - Tr 4 17:11 Concerto Koln LEHÁR Daniel Harding, conductor Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona (opening) Die Lustige Witwe (Viljalied) DG 4777468 Serpina ...... Patricia Biccire (soprano) Angelika Kirchschlager, mezzo-soprano TR.2 Uberto ...... Donato Di Stefano (bass) Tonkunstler Orchestra 6.38 La Petite Bande Conductor Alfred Eschwe Sigiswald Kuijken (violin/director) Sony 88697286002 18:45 ACCENT ACC96123 - Trs 16-18 TR5 MAHLER 5.24 Symphony No. 10 (Scherzo) Pergolesi: Mass a 5 Wiener Philharmoniker Ensemble Turicum 17: 17 Daniel Harding, conductor Luiz Alvez da Silva, Mathias Weibel (directors) GLUCK DG – 4777347 K617 K617159 - Trs 1-9 Orphée et Eurydice (Plainte d’Orphée & Danse des ombres TR.2 heureuses) 11.08 Pergolesi: Quando corpus (Stabat mater) Wilhelm Kempff (piano) Andreas Scholl (countertenor) DG – 4396722 18:57 Barbara Bonney (soprano) CD.1 CHOPIN Les Talens Lyriques TR.11 & 12 Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, op. 21 (Allegro vivace) Christophe Rousset (director) 4.42 Goldstone and Clemmow DECCA 4661342 - Tr 12. Divine Art dda25070 17:22 TR.3 HOLST 9.05 TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00g05f2) The Planets (Mars, the Bringer of War) LSO St Luke's Brahms Series New Queen’s Hall Orchestra 19 :08 Roy Goodman, conductor LIVE Episode 1 Carlton Classics 3036600432 RAVEL TR.1 Kaddish (for solo violin) LSO St Luke's Brahms Series: Penny Gore presents the LSO 6.18 Daniel Hope Chamber Players in Brahms's Horn Trio in E flat, Op 40, and 4’05 Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op 115. 17:32 ALLEGRI 18:13 Miserere MOZART TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00g058y) Roy Goodman (treble) Mitridate re di Ponto (Al destin che la minaccia) Brahms The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge Diana Damrau – soprano Sir David Willcocks Le Cercle de l’Harmonie Brahms - Episode 2 DECCA 4663732 Jeremie Rhorer, conductor TR.1 Virgin Classics 2120232 Presented by Penny Gore. Out at 1’57 TR.1 6:05 2.00pm 17:38 Brahms: Tragic Overture HANDEL BBC Philharmonic The Messiah (Hallelujah) TUE 19:20 Opera on 3 (b00g192c) Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) King’s College Choir Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel The Brandenburg consort Liszt: Les jeux d'eau a la Villa d'Este (Annees de pelerinage - Stephen Cleobury (conductor) In a performance from the Royal Opera House, Colin Davis 3eme annee, S163) ARGO 4406722 conducts Humperdinck's fairytale opera with a cast that Simon Trpceski (piano) CD.2 includes mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirschlager as Hansel and TR.18 soprano Diana Damrau as Gretel. Elgar: In the South 4.01 BBC Philharmonic In this classic story from the Brothers Grimm, two children get Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) 17:45 lost in a forest after dark and are charmed by the witch to enter CORELLI her magical gingerbread house. The children are ensnared but Bainton: The Golden River - four tone pictures after Ruskin Concerti Grossi, op. 6 manage to defeat the witch, and in a rousing happy ending they BBC Philharmonic (Concerto Grosso No. 11 in B flat) are returned home and reunited with their parents. Paul Daniel (conductor) The Brandenburg Consort Roy Goodman, conductor Suzy Klein is joined by German music specialist John 3.00pm Hyperion CDA 667412 Deathridge before the start and during the interval to give a Arnold: A Sussex Overture CD.2 guide to the music. With additional insights from members of BBC Philharmonic TR. 24-29 the cast. Rumon Gamba (conductor) 9.35 Hansel ...... Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano) Smetana: Bybay (The Fisherboy); Hakon Jarl 17:56 Gretel ...... Diana Damrau (soprano) BBC Philharmonic RAUTAVAARA Gertrud ...... Elizabeth Connell (soprano) Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) Partita Peter ...... Thomas Allen (baritone) Rafael Aguirre Miñarro, guitar Witch ...... Anja Silja (soprano) 3.30pm NAXOS 8.572064 Sandman and ...... Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano) Dvorak: Slavonic Dances (No 1 in C, Op 46; No 2 in E minor, TR.7-9 Dew Fairy and Echo ...... Anita Watson (soprano) Op 72; No 8 in G minor, Op 46) 3:46 Echo ...... Eri Nakamura, Simona Mihai (sopranos) BBC Philharmonic Tiffin Boys' Choir Rumon Gamba (conductor) 18:03 Tiffin Children's Chorus TVEITT Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Szymanowski: Myths for violin and piano, Op 30 Suite No. 2 Colin Davis (conductor). Ilya Gringolts (violin) The Royal Norweigan Navy Band Ashley Wass (piano) Bjarte Engeset NAXOS 8.572095 TUE 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00g057n) 4.00pm TRs. 12-14 [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Brahms: Symphony No 2 5.45 BBC Philharmonic Gunther Herbig (conductor). 18:09 TUE 23:00 The Essay (b00dlb9m) Clement Janequin On Excess La Guerre TUE 17:00 In Tune (b00g059l) The King’s Singers Enough Is Enough Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the SIGNUM SIGCD150 arts world, including conductor Roy Goodman, who is in TR.11 Leading psychotherapist Adam Phillips focuses on addiction, Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 12 of 20 asking what it teaches us about appetite and dependence. Taken from the album Nordic Voices 5.00am Aurora ACD 5055 Lipinski, Karol Jozef (1790-1861): Great Fantasy on Themes from Bellini's I Puritani for violin and piano, Op 29 TUE 23:15 Late Junction (b00g05cq) (Segue) Miroslaw Lawrynowicz (violin) Fiona Talkington Krystyna Makowska-Lawrynowicz (piano) 00:47 11:15 Trad: Smøligråen 5.19am Trad (China): Turning back pages Hans Brimi (fiddle) Solnitz, Anton Wilhelm (c.1708-c.1752-3): Sinfonia in A for Atsuko Kamura Taken from the album Nordisk Sang strings and continuo, Op 3 No 4 Taken from the album I am a Kamura New Albion NA031 Musica ad Rhenum DR001 00:49 5.31am (Segue) Dolly Parton: Do I ever cross your mind Schutz, Heinrich (1585-1672): Vater Abraham, erbarme dich Dolly Parton & Chet Atkins (guitars and vocals) mein, SWV477 11:17 Taken from the album Chet Atkins and Friends La Capella Ducale Trad arr Nils Landgren: Maria Går I Törnesnår Musica Fiata Nils Landgren (trombone), Knutsson (sax), Johan Norberg 00:52 Roland Wilson (director) (kantele) Trad arr Nils Landgren: Himmel [Psalm 130] Taken from the album Christmas with my friends II Nils Landgren (trombone) Johan Norberg (guitar) 5.45am ACT 9476 2 Taken from the album Christmas with my friends II Smetana, Bedrich (1824-1884): Sonata movement in E minor ACT 9476 2 for two pianos (eight hands), B70 11:21 Else Krijgsman, Mariken Zandliver, David Kuijken, Carlos Bartok: String Quartet No 2 - 3rd mvt Lento (Segue) Moerdijk (pianos) Ébène Quartet Mirare MIR 029 00:55 5.56am Phillips Brooks: O little town of Bethlehem Ramovs, Primoz (1921-1999): Woodwind Quintet (Segue) Nils Landgren (trombone) Jonas Knutsson (sax) Johan Norberg Ariart Woodwind Quintet (guitar) 11:30 Taken from the album Christmas with my friends II 6.06am Pivot: My heart like marching band ACT 9476 2 Kverno, Trond HF (b.1945): Corpus Christi Carol (Missa fidei Pivot mysterii) Taken from the album O Soundtrack My Heart Norwegian Soloists' Choir Warp CD 166P Grete Helgerod (conductor) WEDNESDAY 17 DECEMBER 2008 11:34 6.23am Anon - My nightingale in a golden cage WED 01:00 Through the Night (b00g05dm) Groneman, Albertus (1710-1778): Flute Sonata in D Tatios Efendi - Kürdîlihicâzkâr Saz Semai - Postlude With Jonathan Swain Jed Wentz, Marion Moonen (flutes) Kemai Sebuh - Kürdîlihicâzkâr Longa Ali Tüfekçi (Ney) 1.01am 6.37am Furkan Bilgi (Kemençe) Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Partita for solo violin No Fodor, Carolus Antonius (1768-1846): Symphony No 4 in C Halil Karaduman (Kanun) 3 in E, BWV1006 minor, Op 19 Mete Aslan (Ud) 1.20am Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra BBC Recording Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Partita for solo violin No Guido Ajmone Marsan (conductor). http://www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/symphonyorchestra/learning/di 2 in D minor, BWV1004 verseorchestras_turkey.shtml 1.52am Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Violin Sonata No 3, WED 07:00 Breakfast (b00g054k) 11:49 BWV1005 (Allegro assai) With Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Portico Quartet: Knee Deep in the North Sea James Ehnes (violin) Taken from the album Knee Deep in the North Sea 07:03 Babel BVOR2769 1.56am Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759): From harmony, from COATES 11:56 heav'nly harmony (Ode for St Cecilia's Day, HWV76) Holborn - march Cobain: Lithium Birgitte Christensen (soprano) BBC Concert Orchestra Bad Plus Ulf Oyen (tenor) John Wilson, conductor Taken from the album For all I Care Oratory Choir Caeciliaforeningen DUTTON CDLX 7198 Tr.5 Emarcy 0602517821644 Norwegian National Opera Choir and Orchestra Arnulv Hegstad (conductor) 07:07 00:03 Damon Albarn: Disappearing Volcano 2.48am BUXTEHUDE Taken from the album Monkey Journey to the West Elsner, Josef (1769-1854): Symphony in C, Op 11 Suite for keyboard (BuxWV.240) in G major (Soundtrack) Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice Ton Koopman, harpsichord XL CD388 Janusz Przybylski (conductor) CHALLENGE CLASSICS CC72245 CD2 Tr.2

00:09 3.14am 07:14 Trad: Coventry Carol Jenner, Gustav Uwe (1865-1920): Trio in E flat for clarinet, BJ Cole (Orchestral steel guitar) horn and piano BEETHOVEN Richard Hartley (synth) James Campbell (clarinet) King Stephen - overture Taken from the album Transparent Music Martin Hackleman (horn) Philharmonia Orchestra HANNIBAL RECORDS HNCD 1325 Jane Coop (piano) Otto Klemperer, conductor EMI CDM 7 63611 2 Tr.6 00:13 3.41am McKay/MacDonald: Moved Along By The Ceaseless Tide Of Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Liederkreis, Op 24 07:23 Our Own Forward Steps Philip Langridge (tenor) Strange Rainbow - Catriona McKay (harp) and Alistair David Owen Norris (piano) SMETANA MacDonald (laptop/live electronics) Polka in A major Taken from the album Invisible from land and sea 4.01am Andras Schiff, piano Worp, Johannes (1821-1891): Fantasie in F TELDEC 3984-21261-2 Tr.8 00:26 Kees van Eersel (organ) Patrick Burston/Stephen Morris: Isthmus Christmas 07:30 Stephen Morris 4.15am Taken from the album Songs for Sale Meder, Johann Gabriel (1729-1800): Sinphonia No 4 (Six BACH Sinphonie, Op 1) Partita for violin solo no. 1 (BWV.1002) in B minor; Allemande (Segue) Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra and double Anthony Halstead (conductor) Nigel North, lute 00:29 LINN CKD 300 CD1 Tr.5 Max Richter: Cradle Song for A (Interstate B) 4.28am Max Richter (piano) Pezel, Johann Christoph (1639-1694): Tower Music from 07:41 Taken from the album 24 Postcards in Full Colour Leipzig Intrada 1, 2 and 3 FAT CAT CD1307 Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble TCHAIKOVSKY Cossak Dance from Mazeppa 00:31 4.33am London Symphony Orchestra O Sanctissima/Ruggiero/Allemande/Ding dong merrily on high Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Reminiscences des Puritains Charles Mackerras, conductor Rolf Lislevand (Bellini), S390 MERCURY 434 352-2 Tr.8 Taken from the album Jul I gammal tid Endre Hegedus (piano) Kirkelig Kulturverkstad FXCD 301 07:46 4.53am 00:36 Bellini, Vincenzo (1801-1835): Overture (Norma) SCHUMANN Henrik Ødegaard: O Magnum Mysterium Oslo Philharmonic 9 Songs from Wilhelm Meister (Op.98a) Nordic Voices Nello Santi (conductor) no.1; Kennst du das Land Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 13 of 20 Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano 09:22 ORFEO C381953 CD3 - Trs 20-22 Julius Drake, piano WIGMORE HALL LIVE WHLive0024 Tr.9 HOLST Porpora: Cello Sonata (London, c.1733) Beni Mora - oriental suite (Op.29 No 1) Musica Alta Ripa 07:50 LPO MDG 309 0779-2 - Trs 7-10 Adrian Boult, conductor FALLA LYRITA SRCD.222 Tr.3-5 Jommelli: Miserere Canciones populares espanolas - Jota A Sei Voci Jan Vogler, cello 09:40 Bernard Fabre-Garrus (director) Bruno Canino, piano AUVIDIS E8590 CD1 - Tr 1. BERLIN CLASSICS 0017062BC Tr.10 J C BACH Sinfonia in F Op.8 No.4 07:54 Freiburg Baroque Orchestra WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00g05fd) Gottfried von der Goltz, director LSO St Luke's Brahms Series LARA CARUS 83.307 Tr.13-15 Granada Episode 2 Juan Diego Florez, tenor 09:49 Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Penny Gore introduces the Gould Piano Trio. Brahms: Piano Miguel Harth-Bedoya NANCARROW Trio No 3 in C minor, Op 101; Piano Trio No 1 in B, Op 8 DECCA 475 757-6 Tr.5 Study for Player Piano No.49a (vers rev 1889). Recorded on the composer's custom-altered piano 08:03 WERGO WER 60165-50 Tr.8 WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00g0590) BACH DANCES 17/31 09:52 Brahms Forlane from Overture (Orchestral Suite) No.1 in C major, BWV 1066 DOWLAND Brahms - Episode 3 La Stravaganza Koln Go christall teares (1597) Andrew Manze Andreas Scholl, counter-tenor Presented by Penny Gore. DENON CO 78965 CD1 Tr.4 Julian Behr, lute Concerto di Viole 2.00pm 08:05 HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901993 CD.1 Tr.1. Dvorak: In Nature's Realm BBC National Orchestra of Wales BIZET Jac van Steen (conductor) Carmen Suite No.1 WED 10:00 Classical Collection (b00g0589) Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux James Jolly Schumann: Vier Doppelchorige Gesange, Op 141 Igor Markevitch, conductor BBC Singers PHILIPS 422 272-2 Tr.3 With James Jolly. Celso Antunes (conductor)

08:17 10.00am Schumann: Symphony No 4 Mozart: Violin Concerto in G, K216 BBC National Orchestra of Wales GABRIELI Giuliano Carmignola (violin) Jac van Steen (conductor) Canzon duodecimi toni a 10 Orchestra Mozart His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts Claudio Abbado (conductor) 3.00pm Timothy Roberts, director Brahms: Funf Gesange, Op 104 HYPERION CDA66908 Tr.1 10.21am BBC Singers Grieg: Hjertets melodier, Op 5 Celso Antunes (conductor) 08:20 Katarina Karneus (mezzo-soprano) Julius Drake (piano) Beethoven: Violin Concerto MOZART Isabelle Faust (violin) Rondo for piano K511 10.28am BBC National Orchestra of Wales Mitsuko Uchida, piano Dvorak: Symphonic Variations Jac van Steen (conductor). PHILIPS 132 989-2 CD.1 Tr.5 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop (conductor) 08:33 WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (b00g05fg) 10.52am From Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. DVORAK Reger: Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 28 Legends (Op.59) no.3 in G minor; Allegro giusto Alban Gerhardt (cello) Introit: Adam lay y-bounden (Frank Boles) Budapest Festival Orchestra Markus Becker (piano) Responses: Michael Walsh Ivan Fischer, conductor Psalms: 42, 43 (Scott, Martin, Barnby) PHILIPS 464 647-2 Tr.3 11.13am First Lesson: Malachi 3, v16 - 4 v6 Ives: Psalm 90 Canticles: Gloucester Service (Howells) 08:37 SWR Vokalensemble Second Lesson: Mark 9, vv9-13 Marcus Creed (conductor) Anthems: Evening Hymn (Nicholas Maw); There is no rose MILHAUD (Alan Smith) Scaramouche (arr for clar and piano, orig 2 pianos) 11.24am Hymn: O holy city, seen of John (Sancta Civitas) Sabine Meyer, clarinet Myaskovsky: Symphony No 20 in E, Op 50 Organ Voluntary: Fugue sur le nom d'Alain, Op 7 (Durufle) Oleg Maisenberg, piano Russian State Symphony Orchestra EMI 3 79787 2 Tr.11-13 Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor). Assistant director of music: Tristan Russcher Director of music: Judy Martin. 08:49 WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00g057q) TAVENER The Neapolitan Golden Age WED 17:00 In Tune (b00g059n) Funeral ikos (The Greek funeral sentences) for chorus Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the The Tallis Scholars Episode 3 arts world, including, ahead of a performance at Kings Place in Peter Phillips, director London, violinists Maya Koch and Matthew Trusler with pianist GIMELL CDGIM 005 Tr.8 Donald Macleod follows the lives of some of the young Sarah Koch. graduates of the conservatoire in Naples who carried their 08:59 training across Europe, cementing the city's reputation as a And pianist Daniel Grimwood discusses his perfomance of cultural hothouse. Books I and II of Lizst's Anne de Pelerinage on a period Erad BRAHMS piano at the Wigmore Hall. Ballade Op.118/3 Piccinni: Overture (Le donne vendicate) Helene Grimaud, piano I Barocchisti 17.02 ERATO 0630-14350-2 Tr.13 Diego Fasolis (conductor) GIBBONS CHACONNE CHAN0705 CD1 - Tr 1 This is the record of John 09:04 Alfred Deller, The Deller Consort Jommelli: Don Trastullo (excerpt) Schola Cantorum Basiliensis VIVALDI Don Trastullo ...... Giuseppe Naviglio (bass) August Wenzinger (director) Concerto for sopranino recorder RV445 Arsenia ...... Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) ARCHIV 453 166 Peter Holtslag, recorder Giambarone ...... Rosario Totaro (tenor) Track 8 The Parley of Instruments Cappella della Pieta de'Turchini 5’05 Peter Holman, director Antonio Florio (conductor) HYPERION CDA66328 Tr.10-12 OPUS111 OP30280 - Trs 8-11 17.08 IRELAND 09:14 Jommelli: Didone Abbandonata (conclusion) Amberley Wild Brooks Didone ...... Dorothea Roschmann (soprano) Eric Parkin (piano) CHOPIN Selene ...... Mechthild Bach (mezzo-soprano) CHANDOS CHAN 9140 2 Nocturnes for piano (Op.27): no.2 in D flat major Osmida ...... Arno Raunig (tenor) Track 11 Maria Joao Pires, piano Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra 3’19 DG 447 096-2 CD.1 Tr.8 Frieder Bernius (conductor) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 14 of 20 17.12 9’23 Kan Mikami: ローマの雨 (The rain in Rome) LIVE Taken from the album Lesbos SHOSTAKOVICH 18.51 PSFD8012 2 duos for 2 violins and piano HANDEL Matthew Trusler (violin) Theodora (Angels, ever bright and fair) (Segue) Maya Koch (violin) Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo) Sarah Koch (piano) Julius Drake (piano) 11:26 Prelude 1’58 WIGMORE HALL WH Live 0024 Keiko Abe: Dream of the Cherry Blossoms Waltz 1’47 Track 22 Daniella Ganeva (marimba) 3’57 Signum SIGCD057 17.21 LIVE 18.56 11:31 DEBUSSY arr. HEIFETZ SINGDING Tom Carter & Christian Kiefer: The Coo Coo Bird Gollywogs Cakewalk Rustle of Spring Opus 32, No.3 Taken from the album From the Great American Songbook Matthew Trusler (violin) Philip Martin (piano) Preservation PRE017 Sarah Koch (piano) HYPERION CDA 67379 2’27 Track 1 (Segue) 2’46 17:29 11:37 LIVE Ane Brun: Lullaby for Grown Ups PROKOFIEV arr. FICHTENHOLZ WED 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00g05bc) Taken from the album Changing of the Seasons Cinderella Suite (1st movement) Suzy Klein introduces young Ukranian conductor Kirill DEMCD08 Matthew Trusler (violin) Karabits in charge of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Maya Koch (violin) a programme of popular romantic favourites. Including an 11:41 Sarah Koch (piano) excerpt from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Christmas Eve, Ilya Before and Afterlife 5’04 Gringolts joining the orchestra for Tchaikovsky's evergreen Arve Henriksen with David Sylvian, Jan Bang, Helge Sunde Violin Concerto and Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, another Taken from the album Cartography 17.35 tale of complications in love. ECM 1780116 CANNING Fantasy on a Hymn Tune Ilya Gringolts (violin) (Segue) Houston Symphony Orchestra Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Leopold Stokowski (conductor) Kirill Karabits (conductor) 11:47 EVEREST EVC 9004 Garth Knox: Celtic Dance Track 4 Rimsky-Korsakov: Polonaise (Christmas Eve) Taken from the album D’Amore 10’59 Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto ECM New Series 476 6369 Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique 17.48 (Segue) HAYDN Followed by seasonal music for Advent from the BBC Singers, Symphony No.98 in B Flat major (finale: presto) including Naylor's Vox dicentis. 11:49 Orchestra Della Suizzera Italiana El Hadj N’Diaye: Boor yi Howard Shelly (conductor) Chant Vox Clara + Edward Naylor: Vox Dicentis Taken from the album Geej Hyperion CD544372 Jennifer Adams Barbaro (soprano) Marabi 46825 2 CD2 Robert Johnston (tenor) Track 12 BBC Singers (Segue) 8’14 Andrew Carwood (conductor) Duration: 10'45" 11:54 17.57 Trad: Zegar pole goji janje moje STRAUSS Chant Rorate coeli + Francis Grier: Dilectus Meus 10’04” Taken from the album Zegar Zivi Heimkehr Opus 15, no.5 Olivia Robinson (soprano) Cloud valley music CV3008 Christopher Maltman (baritone) Neil MacKenzie (tenor) Alastair Miles (bass) BBC Singers 11:57 Roger Vignoles (piano) Andrew Carwood (conductor) John Harbison: O Magnum Mysterium HYPERION CDA67667 Duration: 10'04" BBC Singers/Stephen Cleobury 2’17 BBC WMEF 0063-2 Chant O Adonai + Roderick Williams: O Adonai 07’41” 18.03 Micaela Haslam (soprano) 00:00 JACOBI Amanda Morrison (soprano) Howard Skempton - Five Preludes Introduction and Polonaise for bassoon & strings BBC Singers Tom Kerstens (guitar) Karen Geoghegan (bassoon) Andrew Carwood (conductor) Taken from the album Black Venus Orchestra of Opera North BGS113 Benjamin Walfisch (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN 10477 WED 21:15 Night Waves (b00g05c0) 00:06 Tracks 9 & 10 Philip Dodd and guests debate the state of global capitalism, Lila Downs: El Quinto Regimiento 9’00 asking whether the conditions that led to the credit crisis are an Taken from the album Spain in my heart: Songs of the Spanish aspect of capitalism's essential nature. Is the capitalism we have Civil War 18.13 today the same as the system Karl Marx analysed in the 19th APPLESEED RECORDS APR CD1074 LIVE century? Or does it change over time, and in different national SCHUBERT contexts in Britain, India and China? Are we witnessing the 00:10 Hungarian Melody in B minor, D817 later phases of capitalism or are we just at the beginning? Pembe Selemani & men (Tanzania): Mjinga Masikiyo Uzibe Daniel Grimwood (piano) Taken from the album The Very Best of Hugh Tracey 3’19 SWP034 WED 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00g057q) 18.23 [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] (Segue) LISZT Book I of Années de Pelerinage (Petrarch’s Sonnet 123) 00:12 Daniel Grimwood (piano) WED 23:00 The Essay (b00df61x) People Like us and Ergo Phizmiz: Social Dance Song PRIVATE COPY On Excess Taken from the album Perpetuum Mobile 6’29 Soleilmoon recordings SOL156CD Sex Mad 00:18 18.35 Tavener: A Nativity LIVE Leading psychotherapist Adam Phillips discusses how and why Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown LISZT sexual desire can be thought of as excessive. NAXOS 8.572168 Book I of Années de Pelerinage (At Lake Wallenstadt) Daniel Grimwood (piano) (Segue) 3’05 WED 23:15 Late Junction (b00g05cs) 11:15 00:20 18.40 Trad: Once in Royal David’s City Medley: Hark the Herald Angels Sing/ O Come All Ye Faithful LIVE Sufjan Stevens John Fahey LISZT Taken from the album Sufjan Stevens presents songs for Taken from the album the best of John Fahey vol 2 Christmas Tree Suite no.3 (The Shepherds at the Manger) Christmas Takoma records CDTAK 8916 Daniel Grimwood (piano) RTRADCDX450 2’22 (Segue) 11:17 18.41 Edward Kalunga (Zambia): Bata Wasunga mulundu 00:23 SPOHR Beti Kamanga (Malawi): Dale Wangu Ukamunyenga Masotho Trad: Julkvelden Sextet for Strings (Scherzo and Finale) Taken from the album The very best of Hugh Tracey Ragna Brenno Frydenberg (langeleik) Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble SWP034 Taken from the album Folkemusikk frå Oppland CHANDOS CHAN 9424 Grappa GRCD 4065 Tracks 12 – 17 11:22 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 15 of 20 00:26 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Swedish Chamber Orchestra Toumani Diabate: Si Naani Jorge Mester (conductor) Thomas Dausgaard, conductor Taken from the album The Mandé Variations SIMAX PSC 1282 Tr.8-9 World Circuit WCD079 5.00am Derungs, Gion Antoni (b.1935): Sut steilas (Under the stars) 07:39 00:37 5.02am John Tavener Tomasch, Dolf (1889-1963): Allas steilas (To the stars) SCARLATTI Rocking from Ex Maria Virgine Cantus Firmus Surselva Sonata in C major Kk 513 Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown Clau Scherrer (conductor) Andras Schiff, piano NAXOS 8.572168 DECCA 421 422-2 Tr.2 5.05am (Segue) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): 12 Variations on Ah, 07:46 vous dirai-je, maman, K265 00:39 Lana Genc (piano) STRAVINSKY Trad: The Dunstan Lullaby Chanson Russe (Mavra) Coope Boyes and Simpson 5.16am Mstislav Rostropovich, cello Taken from the album A Garland of Carols Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Pohjola's Daughter - symphonic Alexander Dedyukhin, piano Nomasters NMCD 13 fantasia, Op 49 EMI 5 62996 2 CD.2 Tr.8 Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra 00:41 Paavo Berglund (conductor) 07:50 Bugge Wesseltoft: It’s Snowing On My Piano/In Dulce Jubilo Taken from the album It’s Snowing on my Piano 5.30am TELMANN ACT 9260 2 Aufschnaiter, Benedict Anton (1665-1742): Ouverture and Quartet in E Minor (Tafelmusik) Entree; Menuett, Gavotta and Menuett (Serenade No 3 in G Hortus Musicus 00:53 minor) FINLANDIA 4509 95578-2 T7 - 10 Max Richter L'Orfeo Barockorchester From 553W Elm Street, Logan Illinois (Snow) Michi Gaigg (director) 08:03 Taken from the album 24 Postcards in Full Colour Fat Cat CD1307 5.39am BACH Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Lute Concerto in D Ach, nun ist mein Jesus hin! aria from St Matthew Passion, 00:56 Nigel North (lute) BWV 244 Grouper: Disengaged London Baroque Kai Wessel, alto Taken from the album Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Type 038 5.49am Ton Koopman Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): Eri tu (Un ballo in maschera); Di ERATO 2292 45814 2 CD.2 Tr.1 Provenza il mar (La traviata) Gaetan Laperriere (baritone) 08:08 THURSDAY 18 DECEMBER 2008 Orchestre Symphonique de Trois-Rivieres Gilles Bellemare (conductor) MOZART THU 01:00 Through the Night (b00g05dp) Piano Concerto No.9 K271 (Jeunehomme) - 3rd mvt With Jonathan Swain. 6.00am Alfred Brendel, piano Mehul, Etienne-Nicolas (1763-1817): Symphony No 1 in G Scottish Chamber Orchestra 1.01am minor Charles Mackerras Martin, Frank (1890-1974): Le mystere de la nativite Cappella Coloniensis PHILIPS 470 287-2 Tr.3 Eve, Notre Dame ...... Elly Ameling (soprano) Bruno Weil (director) Elizabeth, Anna la Prophetess ...... Aafje Heynis (alto) 08:19 L'ange Gabriel, Melcior ...... Ernst Haefliger (tenor) 6.27am Sathan, Ysambert ...... Herbert Handt (tenor) Fabritius, Ernst (1842-1899): Violin Concerto SCHUBERT Belzebuth, Rifflart ...... Serge Maurer (tenor) Olavi Palli (violin) Schwanengesang (D.957) no.14 Die Taubenpost Adam, Joseph ...... Louis-Jacques Rondeleux (baritone) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Thomas Quasthoff, baritone Acteur, Astaroth, Pellion, Baltazar ...... Leo Ketelaars (baritone) Pertti Pekkanen (conductor) Justus Zeyen, piano Dieu le Pere, Simeon le prophete ...... Andre Vassieres (bass) DG 471 030-2 Tr.14 Lucifer, Aloris, Jaspar, Pretre ...... Guus Hoekman (bass) 6.54am Netherlands Radio Choir Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915): Fantasy in A minor for two 08:23 Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra pianos Jean Fournet (conductor) Aglika Genova, Liuben Dimitrov (pianos). STRADELLA Sinfonia in D major from 'Il barcheggio' 2.47am Crispin Steele Perkins, trumpet Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Symphony No 9 in C, D944 THU 07:00 Breakfast (b00g054m) The Parley of Instruments (Great) Sara Mohr-Pietsch Peter Holman, organ BBC Philharmonic HYPERION CDA67359 Tr.21-24 Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) With Sara Mohr-Pietsch. 08:32 3.38am 07:03 Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963): Concerto for organ, strings and LISZT timpani ANONYMOUS Hungarian Rhapsody No.5 Michael Dudman (organ) Polonaise for keyboard in D minor attrib. J S Bach (as Berlin Philharmonic Sydney Symphony Orchestra BWV.A.128) (no.24 in Anna Magdalena Notebook) Herbert von Karajan Leonard Dommett (conductor) Michael Behringer, harpsichord DG413 587-2 HANSSLER CLASSICS 92136 CD.2 Tr.6 4.01am 08:44 Corbetta, Francesco (1615-1681): Fantaisie de chaconne 07:05 4.04am BRITTEN Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687): Chaconne d'amadis GRIEG A Hymn to the Virgin Concerto Copenhagen Sigurd Jorsalfar suite (Op.56) - Hommage march Choir of St John's College, Cambridge Andrew Lawrence-King (director/harpsichord) Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra Christopher Robinson, director Gennady Rozhdestvensky NAXOS 8.554791 Tr.12 4.14am CHANDOS CHAN 9113 Tr.13 Couperin, Francois (1668-1733): The Visionary, The 08:50 Mysterious One, La Monflambert, The Victorian Muse, 07:14 Wandering Souls (Livres de clavecin, Book 4, Ordre 25) LULLY Stefan Trayanov (harpsichord) BAZZINI Chaconne from Amadis La Ronde des lutins Andrew Lawrence King, Baroque triple harp 4.32am Maxim Vengerov, violin HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907335 Tr.23 Saint-Saens, Camille (1835-1921), arr. Klugescheid: My Heart Vag Papian, piano At Thy Sweet Voice (Samson and Delilah) Virtuosi 09:00 Moshe Hammer (violin) EMI 5 57164 2 Tr.12 Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello) GRAINGER William Tritt (piano) 07:20 The Gum-Sucker's March (In a Nutshell Suite) BBC Philharmonic Orchestra 4.37am DURUFLE Richard Hickox (conductor) Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Four Songs, Op 17 4 Motets sur des themes gregoriens for a capella choir (Op.10) CHANDOS CHAN 9493 T14 Sioned Williams (harp) Corydon Singers Nicholas Korth, Christopher Larkin (horns) HYPERION CDA66191 Tr.10-13 09:05 BBC Symphony Chorus Stephen Jackson (conductor) 07:32 MOZART Sonata for violin and keyboard (K.305) in A major 4.52am BEETHOVEN Rachel Podger, violin Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Pavane pour une infante defunte Ruins of Athens Op.113 - Overture; Turkish March Gary Cooper, fortepiano Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 16 of 20 CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 25608 Tr.1-2 Episode 4 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 24 in F sharp, Op 78 Cedric Tiberghien (piano) 09:22 Donald Macleod explores some of the music that would have been heard at the new theatre dedicated to comedy that the king Brahms: Symphony No 3 DEBUSSY had ordered built in the 1770s. He discovers that the royal grip BBC Symphony Orchestra Gigues (Images) had not fully loosened when it came to the rulebook for Jiri Belohlavek (conductor). Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra audiences at the new venue. Bernard Haitink (conductor) PHILIPS 438 742-2 D1 T2 Paisiello: Overture (Don Chisciotte) THU 17:00 In Tune (b00g059q) Orchestra Filarmonica Italiania di Piacenza Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the 09:30 Valentino Metti (conductor) arts world, including members of the comic opera group DYNAMIC CDS366/1-2 CD1 - Tr 1 Impropera, who create an opera on the spot in the studio, ahead ANON of their weekend show. Quanno nascete ninno Paisiello: Don Chisciotte (Act 2, excerpt) Members of the Taverner Players Don Chisciotte ...... Sergio Rocchi (tenor) And conductor Nicola Luisotti and soprano Irene Theorin join Andrew Parrott (conductor) Sancio Panza ...... Maurizio Leoni (baritone) Sean to discuss Puccini's Turandot, in which they are appearing EMI CDC7 49809-2 T15 La Contessa ...... Paola Quagliata (soprano) at the Royal Opera House. Soloists 09:33 Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana di Piacenza 17:02 Valentino Metti (conductor) MONTEVERDI * PART DYNAMIC CDS366/1-2 CD2 - Trs 15-16 Domine ad adjuvandum me festina (Vespers 1610) Spiegel im Spiegel arr. unknown for cello and piano Taverner Consort, Choir & Players Dietmar Schwalke, cello Fiorenza: Sinfonia in F minore a due violini e basso director Andrew Parrott Alexander Malter, piano Dolce e Tempesta EMI 212685 2 ECM NEW SERIES 1591 449 985-2 Tr.3 Stefano Demicheli (director) Tr. 2 FUGA FUG526 Trs 7-10 1’45* 09:43 Porpora: Notturni per I Defunti (No 2) 17:06 * RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Monica Piccinini (soprano) WAGNER Concerto for piano and orchestra (Op.30) in C sharp minor Romina Basso (alto) Forest murmurs (Siegfried) Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra La Stagione Armonica New York Philharmonic Kees Bakels, conductor Dolce e Tempesta conductor Zubin Mehta BIS-CD-1387 Tr.6 Stefano Demicheli (director) CBS MK 37795 FUGA FUG526 - Trs 11-16 Tr. 4 09:57 6’56* Cimarosa: Armida Immaginaria (end of Act 3) Elizabeth POSTON Soloists 17:14 Jesus Christ the Apple Tree Coro del Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari MOZART The Cambridge Singers Orchestra del Teatro Bellini Fantasia in D minor, K.397 John Rutter (conductor) Eric Hull (conductor). Alfred Brendel (piano) COLLEGIUM COLCD 107 T22. PHILIPS 473 689 2 Tr. 4 THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00g05fq) 5’15* THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b00g058c) LSO St Luke's Brahms Series James Jolly 17:22 Episode 3 LIVE With James Jolly. IMPROPERA Penny Gore introduces a concert given by the Aronowitz Improvisation: A translation of an aria in a made up 10.00am Ensemble. Brahms: Quintet in F minor for piano and strings, language…! Handel: Organ Concerto in F, Op 4 No 4 Op 34. Bruckner: Intermezzo in D minor. Louise Crane (mezzo soprano) Academy of Ancient Music Niall Ashdown Richard Egarr (organ/director) Anthony Ingle (piano) THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00g0592) 3’44 10.15am Brahms Beethoven: Variations on See the conqu'ring hero comes 17:32 Antonio Meneses (cello) Brahms - Episode 4 IMPROPERA Menahem Pressler (piano) Improvisation: in Gershwinesque style With Penny Gore. Niall Ashdown 10.30am Anthony Ingle (piano) Schumann: Intermezzi, Op 4 2.00pm 2’20 Eduard Erdmann (piano) Schumann: Manfred Overture BBC Symphony Orchestra 17:35 10.48am Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) ENESCU Strauss: Zweite Brautnacht (Die Agyptische Helena) Romanian Rhapsody in A, Op. 11 no.1 Renee Fleming (soprano) Reger: Acht Geistliche Gesange, Op 138 RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra Munich Philharmonic Orchestra BBC Singers conductor Leopold Stokowski Christian Thielemann (conductor) Celso Antunes (conductor) RCA 099026 615032 Tr. 2` 10.52am 2.30pm 11’31* Berlioz: Nature immense (La damnation de Faust) Mozart: Symphony No 41 Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) BBC Symphony Orchestra 17:47 Prague Philharmonic Orchestra David Robertson (conductor) MICHAEL HEAD Marco Armilato (conductor) The little road to Bethlehem Schnittke: Moz-Art a la Haydn Choir of Westminster Abbey 10.57am Peter Danis (violin) conductor James O’Donnell Bellini: Reggimi, o buona madre...Vedi, o madre, e afflitto e Miroslav Danis (violin) HYPERION CDA 67716 mesto (La Sonnambula) Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra Chamber Ensemble Tr. 15 Amina ...... Natalie Dessay (soprano) Kevin Field (conductor) 2’59* Teresa ...... Sara Mingardo (contralto) Elvino ...... Franceso Meli (tenor) 3.15pm 17:52 Lyon Opera Orchestra Berg: Piano Sonata, Op 1 CHOPIN Evelino Pido (conductor) Llyr Williams (piano) Etudes Opus 10 (nos 10, 11 and 12) Peter Donohoe (piano) 11.06am Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden EMI CLASSICS CDC 754416 2 Padilla: Missa Ave Regina caelorum BBC Symphony Chorus Tr 10, 11, 12 The Sixteen Stephen Jackson (conductor) 7’27 Harry Christophers (conductor) Berg (arr. Clytus Gottwald): Die Nachtigall 18:03 11.21am Webern: Entflieht BOB CHILCOTT Berg: Chamber Concerto Schoenberg: Ei, du Lutte O Rex gentium; O Emmanuel (Advent Antiphons, no.6 & 7)) Mitsuko Uchida (piano) BBC Singers BBC Singers Christian Tetzlaff (violin) David Hill (conductor) SIGNUM SIGCD 100 Ensemble Intercontemporain Tr. 12-13 Pierre Boulez (conductor). Zemlinsky: Psalm 23 for chorus and orchestra, Op 14 2’58 BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra 18:06 THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00g057s) Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) VIVALDI The Neapolitan Golden Age Sinfonia in C, RV.192 4.05pm Freiburg Baroque Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 17 of 20 director Gottfired von der Goltz THU 19:40 Twenty Minutes (b00g19jx) Aurora ACD 50512 OPUS 111 OP 30358 Celebrating St Nicolas Tr. 10-13 11:28 5’12* Louise Fryer retraces the genesis of Britten's St Nicolas, talking Farmers Market: Yagoda, From Prussia with love to some of those who took part in the premiere at Lancing Taken from the album Surfin’ USSR 18:12 College in 1948, as well as more recent performers, to find out IPCRAC Recordings IPC101 SHOSTAKOVICH how it came to be written and how it stands up today. Prelude & fugue no.1 in C, Op.87 no.1 11:36 Dmitri Shostakovich (piano) The cantata is one of Britten's most creative and inventive Roy Harper: Forever EMI 217 575 2 scores, bringing together amateur and professional forces, parts Susanna CD 14 Tr. 11 for the audience to sing, as well as giving a highly theatrical Taken from the album Flower of Evil 4’52 treatment of its subject matter, creating a model that Britten Rune Grammofon RCD 2080 drew upon in many later works. 18:18 11:43 PUCCINI Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band:There Ain't No Santa O Principi, che a lunghe carovane (Turandot, Act 2) THU 20:00 Performance on 3 (b00g19jz) Claus On The Evenin' Stage Turandot…Katia Ricciarelli (soprano) Howells, Britten Taken from the album The Spotlight Kid Calaf……Placido Domingo (tenor) REPRISE 7599262492 Vienna Philharmonic Thu, 18 December 2008 - Part 2 conductor Herbert von Karajan 11:47 DG 410 096 2 From the Chapel of Lancing College, Sussex. Presented by The Carter Family: No Depression CD 2 Tr. 13 Suzy Klein. Taken from the album The Decca Sessions Vol 1 4’20* Catfish KATCD188 This concert of Christmas music performed by the BBC 18:29 Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers concludes with 11:51 PUCCINI Benjamin Britten's cantata St Nicolas. It presents a series of Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys: Christmas Time’s a Signore, ascolta (Turandot, Act 1) important incidents in the life of of the saint, and of the Coming Liu……Barbara Hendricks (soprano) children, sailors and travellers who come into contact with him. Taken from the album Wish you too best Christmas Ever Vienna Philharmonic The part of Nicolas is taken by a solo tenor, with the choirs Trikont US 0387 conductor Herbert von Karajan transforming themselves into the various other characters of the DG 410 096 2 drama and relating the events with the conviction of eye- (Segue) CD 1 Tr. 13 witnesses, tying the story together with their prayers and praise. 2’45* 11:53 Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral Rolf Lislevand: Jeg synger julekvad 18:39 Sioned Williams (harp) Taken from the album Jul I gammal tid PUCCINI Daniel Norman (tenor) Kirkelig Kulturverkstad FXCD 301 Principessa di morte! (Turandot, Act 3) BBC Singers Calaf… Placido Domingo (tenor) BBC Concert Orchestra 11:58 Turandot…Katia Ricciarelli (soprano) Paul Brough (conductor) Papa Noel: Madiabuana Vienna Philharmonic Taken from the album Bel Ami conductor Herbert von Karajan Britten: St Nicolas. Stern’s Africa STCD3016 DG 410 096 2 CD 3 Tr. 12 00:06 3’50* THU 21:15 Night Waves (b00g05c2) Arne Nordheim As part of the 2008 Radio 3 Free Thinking festival of ideas, Collage II (Multiple Parallel Layers) 18:44 Susan Hitch explores the history, architecture and significance Taken from the album Electronic Music from the 1960s DVORAK of Liverpool's two cathedrals with the new chair of the National Aurora ACD 50512 Rondo in G minor Trust Simon Jenkins, architectural historian Gavin Stamp, Steven Isserlis (cello) artistic director of the Catholic Metropolitan cathedral Sister 00:16 Stephen Hough (piano) Anthony Wilson and, from the Anglican cathedral, canon Schumann: Mondnacht from Eichendorff lieder op 39 HYPERION CDA 67529 Anthony Hawley. Christan Gerhaher (baritone) Gerold Huber (piano) Tr. 5 RCA 88697168172 6’58* How did a huge gothic cathedral come to be built as late as the 20th century and why did Edwin Lutyens's ambitious plans for (Segue) 18:53 the Metropolitan cathedral end up as they did? As cathedrals MARCELLO now host art exhibitions, restaurants and corporate events, what 00:21 Oboe concerto in D mninor is the role of these great buildings today? Recorded in front of Michael Praetorius/Jan Sandström: Det är En ros utsprungen Douglas Boyd (oboe) an audience at BBC Radio Merseyside. Allmänna Sången, Cecilia Rydinger Alin (conductor) Chamber Orchestra of Europe Taken from the album Candlelight Carols Alexander Schneider BIS BLCD5028 COE RECORDSCD CD COE 810 THU 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00g057s) Tr. 9-11 [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] (Segue) 11’03 00:26 THU 23:00 The Essay (b00df625) Sufjan Stevens: Lo, How a rose e’er blooming THU 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00g05bf) On Excess Taken from the album Sufjan Stevens presents songs for Howells, Britten Christmas On Being Too Much for Ourselves RTRADCDX450 Thu, 18 December 2008 - Part 1 Leading psychotherapist Adam Phillips looks at self-destructive 00:28 From Lancing College Chapel, Sussex. Presented by Suzy behaviour and how people can consider themselves 'excessive'. Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium Klein. Nordic Chamber Choir Morten Lauridsen (conductor) The BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers perform a THU 23:15 Late Junction (b00g05cv) BAYER RECORDS BR 100305CD concert of Christmas music, featuring works by two 20th- 11:15 century British composers. Elsie and Doris Waters: Gert and Daisy make a Christmas (Segue) Pudding (Waters) [1935] The programme includes some of Herbert Howells's much- Taken from the album A Vintage Christmas 00:35 loved carol-anthems, include the lyrical A Spotless Rose and Flapper PASTCD9768 John Morton: Teetines Here is the little door, as well as Britten's A Ceremony of Taken from the album Solo Traveler Carols, a showpiece for treble voices, written during the Second (Segue) INNOVA 665 World World War as the composer returned from America by sea. 11:16 00:41 Coconami: Sleigh Ride The Alps: A Manhã Na Praia Listeners who have satellite or digital TV can press their TV red Taken from the album Wish You Too Best Christmas Ever Taken from the album III button to watch this specially recorded performance for seven Trikont US 0387 TYPE 040 days from 19 December. 11:19 (Segue) Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral Chris Wood arr Tweed / Alakotila: The Land - when the land is Sioned Williams (harp) white with snow 00:47 Daniel Norman (tenor) Karen Tweed/Timo Alakotila Peter Broderick: Something has changed BBC Singers Taken from the album May Monday Take from the album Float BBC Concert Orchestra FYCD003 TYPE 027 Andrew Carwood (conductor) (Segue) 00:49 Britten: A Ceremony of Carols Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G BWV 541 Howells: Three Carol-Anthems. 11:25 Peter Hurford (Organ of the Martinikerk, Gronigen, Holland) Arne Nordheim: Den lille Prinsen EMI 5856302 Taken from the album Electronic Music from the 1960s Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 18 of 20 FRIDAY 19 DECEMBER 2008 5.13am Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Bergh, Gertrude van den (1793-1840): Lied fur pianoforte Neeme Jarvi (conductor) FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b00g05dr) Frans van Ruth (Piano) DG 477 6654 CD7 T6 With Jonathan Swain. 5.18am 07:32 1.01am Verhulst, Johannes (1816-1891): Lied van bloemen (Flower Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990): Overture (Candide) song), Op 26 No 2 MOZART 1.06am Nico van der Meel (tenor) Chamber Sonata in C major, K.328 Webern, Anton (1883-1945): Im Sommerwind - idyll for Leo van Doeselaar (fortepiano) London Baroque orchestra Charles Medlam (director) 1.22am 5.22am HMG 501137 T8 Janacek, Leos (1854-1928): Taras Bulba - rhapsody for Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976): Five Flower Songs for chorus, orchestra Op 47 07:37 1.49am Camerata Chamber Choir Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Symphony No 7 in D minor Michael Bojesen (conductor) BILLINGS Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra Methinks I see an heav'nly host Jacques Delacote (conductor) 5.33am Taverner Choir, Andrew Parrott (conductor) Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759): Susser Blumen EMI CDC7 54529-2 T1 2.28am Ambraflocken, HWV 204 Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943): Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat Helene Plouffe (violin) 07:41 minor, Op 36 Louise Pellerin (oboe) Aldo Ciccolini (piano) Dom Andre Laberge (organ) ROSSINI Pas de deux (William Tell) 2.47am 5.39am Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi Bree, Johannes Bernardus van (1801-1857): Allegro in D minor Lawes, William (1602-1645): Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Riccardo Chailly (conductor) for four string quartets 5.41am DECCA 470 298-2 T6 Viotta Ensemble Lawes, Henry (1596-1662): Now, now, Lucatia, now make Viktor Liberman (conductor) haste, L655 07:50 5.45am 2.59am Lawes, William (1602-1645): Up, ladies, up PURCELL Biber, Heinrich Ignaz von (1644-1704): Sonata violino solo Angharad Gruffydd Jones (soprano) Now that the sun hath veiled his light representiva in A for violin and continuo Concordia Chanticleer Elizabeth Wallfisch (broque violin) Mark Levy (conductor) Francoise Johannel (harp) Rosanne Hunt (cello) Susie Napper (viola da gamba) Linda Kent (harpsichord) 5.47am Olivier Fortin (organ) Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Psalm 22: My God, my God, Skip Sempe (director) 3.10am why hast thou forsaken me? (3 Psalms for soloists and double TELDEC 2564 60290-2 T6 Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826): Missa sancta No 1 in E chorus, Op 78 No 3) flat, J224 (Freischutzmesse) - for soli, chorus and orchestra Radio France Chorus 07:54 Norwegian Soloist Choir Donald Palumbo (conductor) Norwegian Radio Orchestra SAINT-SAENS Grete Pedersen Helgerod (conductor) 5.56am Cavatine Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787): Symphony in E flat, K21 Christian Lindberg (trombone) 3.44am La Stagione Frankfurt Roland Pontinen (piano) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Rondo concertante in Michael Schneider (conductor) BIS CD 638 T2 B flat for violin and orchestra, K269 Mozart Anniversary Orchestra 6.06am 08:04 James Ehnes (violin/director) Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Concerto No 2 in B flat for flute and strings, Wq 167 BACH 3.51am Robert Aitken (flute) Bourree I/II; Gigue (English Suite No.2 in A minor, BWV.807) Dandrieu, Jean-Francois (c.1681-1738): L'harmonieuse (Pieces CBC Vancouver Orchestra Martha Argerich (piano) de clavecin, Book 1) Mario Bernardi (conductor) DG 423 880-2 T12-13 Colin Tilney (harpsichord) 6.29am 08:12 3.57am Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Die Forelle, D550; Nacht und Satie, Erik (1866-1925): La belle excentrique (fantaisie Traume, D827; Der Musensohn, D764 SUPPE serieuse) Barbara Hendricks (soprano) Overture (Light Cavalry) Pianoduo Kolacny Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Orchestre symphonique de Montreal Charles Dutoit (conductor) 4.06am 6.37am DECCA 475 7930 CD1 T3 Chabrier, Emmanuel (1841-1894): Espana - rhapsody for Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953): Lieutenant Kije - suite for orchestra orchestra, Op 60 08:19 Sydney Symphony Orchestra Queensland Symphony Orchestra Stuart Challender (conductor) Vladimir Verbitsky (conductor). SOR Introduction and variations on Mozart's 'O cara armonia' 4.13am Timothy Walker (guitar) Arriaga, Juan Crisostomo (1806-1826): Erminia, scene lyrique- FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b00g054p) CICD 1013 T17 dramatique for soprano and orchestra Sara Mohr-Pietsch Rosamund Illing (soprano) 08:32 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra With Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Heribert Esser (conductor) LISZT 07:03 Mephisto waltz no. 1 4.27am Jorge Bolet (piano) Marin, Jose (c.1618-1699): No pianse Manguilla ya' SULLIVAN DECCA 467 801-2 CD1 T3 Montserrat Figueras (soprano) Overture di ballo Rolf Lislevand (baroque guitar) New Symphony Orchestra of London 08:44 Arianna Savall (double harp) Adrian Boult (conductor) Pedro Estevan (percussion) CHESKY CD53 T4 MOZART Adela Gonzalez-Campa (castanets) Divertimento in F K138 07:14 Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra 4.34am Ton Koopman (conductor) Mozetich, Marjan (b. 1948): El dorado STRAUSS ERATO 2292 45471-2 T7 - 9 Erica Goodman (harp) Morgen, Op.27 No.3 Amadeus Ensemble Elizabeth Watts (soprano) 08:59 Madeleine Mitchell (violin) 4.50am Andrew Ball (piano) VERDI Attrib. Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809), possibly by Pleyel: DDA 25063 T23 Come in quest'ora bruna (Simon Boccanegra) Divertimento in B flat, H II 46 Soile Isokoski (soprano) Bulgarian Academic Wind Quintet 07:20 Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Mikko Franck (conductor) 5.00am BACH arr. Rummel ONDINE ODE 1126-2 T7 Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953): Prelude (10 Pieces for piano, Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan Op 12) Jonathan Plowright (piano) 09:05 Roger Woodward (piano) HYPERION CDA 67481 CD1 T5 BORODIN 5.02am 07:26 Nocturne (String Quartet No.2) Gilse, Jan van (1881-1944): Concert Overture in C minor The Borodin Quartet Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra SIBELIUS EMI CDC7 47795-2 T7 Jac van Steen (conductor) Valse romantique, Op.62b Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 19 of 20 09:14 Elly Ameling (soprano) Prelude and Fugue No.5 in D BWV.874 Birgit Finnila (contralto) Peter Donohoe (piano) VIVALDI Montreux Festival Chorus 5’54 Cessate omai cessate - cantata (RV.684) Lausanne Chamber Orchestra Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor) Vittorio Negri (conductor) 17:18 Ensemble 415 PHILIPS 422 489-2 - Tr 2 LIVE Chiara Banchini (director) MESSIAEN HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 2901571 T4-7 Traetta: Festa che termina lo spettacolo (Antigona) Vingt Regards (Noel) Maria Bayo (Antigona) Peter Donohoe (piano) 09:27 Anna Maria Panzarella (Ismene) 4’34 Carlo Vincenzo Allemano (Creonte) KREISLER Laura Polverelli (Emmone) 17:27 Tambourin chinois Gilles Ragon (Adrasto) LIVE Maxim Vengerov (violin) Accentus Chamber Choir PURCELL Itamar Golan (piano) Les Talens Lyriques Chacony TELDEC 9031 77351-2 T8 Christophe Rousset (director) Brodsky Quartet DECCA 460 205-2 CD2 - Trs 28 to end 6’13 09:34 Pergolesi: Salve regina in A minor 17:34 POULENC Barbara Bonney (soprano) LIVE Concerto for piano and orchestra Les Talens Lyriques HEAD Pacal Roge (piano) Christophe Rousset (director) The Little Road to Bethlehem Philharmonia Orchestra DECCA 4661342 - Trs 18-21. Elizabeth Watts (soprano) Charles Dutoit (conductor) Roger Vignoles (piano) DECCA 475 8454 CD1 T1-3 2’54 FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00g05g1) 09:54 LSO St Luke's Brahms Series 17:37 LIVE TRAD. FRENCH Episode 4 HOWELLS Picardy Come sing and dance David Rees-Williams Trio. Penny Gore presents an all-Brahms concert given by Maxim Elizabeth Watts (soprano) Rysanov (viola), Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano) and Katya Roger Vignoles (piano) Apekisheva (piano). 3’46 FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b00g058f) James Jolly Brahms: Violin Sonata in G, Op 78 No 1 (arr. Klengel/Rysanov 17:43 for viola); Two Songs for alto, viola and piano, Op 91; Viola LIVE With James Jolly. Sonata in F minor, Op 120 No 1. SCHUBERT Die Forelle 10.00am Elizabeth Watts (soprano) Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 1, Op 35 FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00g0594) Roger Vignoles (piano) Martha Argerich (piano) Brahms 2’06 Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet) Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana Brahms - Episode 5 17:54 Alexander Vedernikov (conductor) LIVE Presented by Penny Gore. HENRY VIII 10.22am Grene Growith The Holy Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri (conclusion) 2.00pm The Dufay Collective Dorothea Roschmann (soprano) Weber: Overture (Oberon) 4’08 Christoph Strehl (tenor) Ulster Orchestra Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra Christian Gansch (conductor) 18:07 Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) LIVE Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto Norwegians on the London Underground 10.37am Jennifer Pike (violin) Kit and the Widow Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead, Op 29 Ulster Orchestra 3’10 BBC Philharmonic David Angus (conductor) Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) 18:12 Chopin: Piano Sonata No 1 LIVE 10.59am Alexander Slobodyanik (piano) Carols Medley (Gordon – Walking in the Air – Ding Dong Tippett: Piano Sonata No 1 Merrily) Steven Osborne (piano) 2.50pm Kit and the Widow Mendelssohn: Symphony No 5 (Reformation) 4’06 11.20am Ulster Orchestra Haas: String Quartet in C sharp minor David Hill (conductor) 18:20 Pavel Haas Quartet LIVE Schumann: Marchenbilder, Op 113 SHOSTAKOVICH 11.35am Antoine Tamestit (viola) String Quartet No.11, Op.122 in F minor Poulenc: Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel Markus Hadulla (piano) Brodsky Quartet Polyphony 17’24 Stephen Layton (conductor) 3.35pm Dvorak: Czech Suite 18:43 11.46am Ulster Orchestra MEL TORMÉ and BOB WELLS Arturo Marquez: Danzon No 2 Christian Gansch (conductor) The Christmas Song (1944) Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela Elizabeth Watts (soprano) Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Brahms: Symphony No 4 Roger Vignoles (piano) Ulster Orchestra 3’06 Thierry Fischer (conductor). FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00g057v) 18 :47 The Neapolitan Golden Age LIVE FRI 17:00 In Tune (b00g059s) LISZT Episode 5 Presented by Sean Rafferty. Les Jeux d’eau a la villa d’este Peter Donohoe (piano) Donald Macleod explores music by the prolific but unfortunate A festive edition from the Radio Theatre in Broadcasting 6’26 Domenico Cimarosa, who lost his father to a building accident House, London. Featuring seasonal music from pianist Peter in childhood, and had to overcome poverty to establish an Donohoe, the Brodsky Quartet, the Dufay Collective, Kit and 18:55 international opera career, ended by political wrangling which the Widow, and soprano Elizabeth Watts with pianist Roger LIVE saw him go into hiding fearing for his life. Vignoles. ANON C17 Blessed be that Maid Marie Cimarosa: Overture (L'impresario in angustie) Plus actor John Sessions reading a selection of Christmas texts. The Dufay Collective Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia 2’26 Alessandro Amoretti (conductor) 17:03 NAXOS 8.570508 - Tr 12 LIVE Anon. C17 FRI 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00g05bh) Cimarosa: Deh, parlate (Il Sacrificio d'Abramo) To Drive The Cold Winter Away Elliott Carter Centenary Concert Amanda Roocroft (soprano) The Dufay Collective Academy of St Martin in the Fields 3’54 Suzy Klein introduces Oliver Knussen conducting the BBC Neville Marriner (conductor) Symphony Orchestra in a concert given to mark the 100th EMI CDC5553962 - Tr 7 17:10 birthday of Elliott Carter, who was born on 11 December 1908. LIVE Cimarosa: Sequentia (Requiem) BACH Carter was initially encouraged to become a composer by Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 December 2008 Page 20 of 20 Charles Ives, who had sold insurance to his parents, and since Album: Pete Seeger at 89 Portuondo: Adios Felicidad the 1940s his influence as composer, writer and teacher has Appressed Recordings APRCD1113 Omara Portuondo spanned the globe. He is still writing now and has enjoyed a Album: Gracias fruitful partnership with Knussen and with the BBC Symphony B.B. King: Christmas Celebration World Village WVF001 479021 Orchestra. BB King Album: A Jazz & Blues Christmas Long: We can't let you Broadcast That Anssi Karttunen (cello) Putumayo PUT 285-2 Norman Long Martin Owen (french horn) Album: This Record is not to be Broadcast -75 Records banned BBC Symphony Orchestra Trad: John the Revelator by the BBC Oliver Knussen (conductor) Son House Acrobat Music Presents ACTRCD9015 Album: Beginners Guide to Blues Music Carter: Sound Fields (UK premiere); Cello Concerto; Wind Nascente NSBOX031 Liebert/Freberg/Stone: John and Marsha Rose (BBC commission; world premiere); Mad Regales (UK Stan Freberg premiere); Horn Concerto; Boston Concerto Efren Lopez: Lluna Album: This Record is not to be Broadcast -75 Records banned Al Andaluz Project by the BBC Followed by seasonal music for Advent from the BBC Singers. Album: Deus et Diabolus Acrobat Music Presents ACTRCD9015 Including Praetorius: Magnificat. Galileo GNC026 Trad, Arr. Whyton: Maggie May PRAETORIUS, Hieronymus: Magnificat on the 4th tone for a Ridel/Attard: La Chaple Vipers Skiffle Group capella choir Moussu T el Lei Jovents Album: This Record is not to be Broadcast -75 Records banned BBC SINGERS Album: Home sweet home by the BBC Andrew CARWOOD - Director Le chant du Monde CDM 127 Acrobat Music Presents ACTRCD9015 Duration: 10:50 Seun Kuti Studio Session PALESTRINA, Giovanni Pierluigi da: Canite tuba - motet for 5 voices [1572] Oyinade Adeniran (tenor sax) BBC SINGERS Bolande Kamson (singer/dancer) Andrew CARWOOD - Director Ajayi Raimi Adebiyi (drummer) Duration: 3:32 Kola Onasanya (giant konga) Recorded at St Giles Cripplegate 24/11/05 Kunle Justice (bassist) Alade Oluwagbemiga (guitarist) PALESTRINA, Giovanni Pierluigi da: Creator alme siderum - Adedimeji Fagbemi (baritone sax) hymn for 4 voices Seun Anikulapo Kuti (lead vocalist) BBC SINGERS Emmanuel Kunnuji (trumpet) Andrew CARWOOD - Director Wale Toriola (percussions) Duration: 4:00 David Obanyedo (guitarist) Recorded at St Giles Cripplegate 24/11/05 Omawunmi Richard (singer) Tajudeen Animasahun (Baba Ani/keyboard) CHILCOTT, Bob: Advent antiphons for a capella choir Iyabo Adeniran (singer) BBC SINGERS Olugbade Okunade (trumpeter) Bob CHILCOTT - Conductor Moturayo Anikulapo Juti (singer) Duration: 7:28 Recorded at St Paul's Knightsbridge 4/3/05 Kuti: Think Africa Recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studios, December 2008 MACMILLAN, James: Seinte Mari Moder Milde for choir KING'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE CHOIR Kuti: Many Things Stephen CLEOBURY - Conductor Recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studios, December 2008 Duration: 7:28 EMI 5580702 2/2 Anon: Rwakanembe Nyoro Royal horn Ensemble WOOLRICH, John: Spring in winter Royal Court Music from Uganda 1950 & ‘52 KING'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE CHOIR SWP Records SWP008 Stephen CLEOBURY - Conductor Duration: 2:14 David Greely/Jean Arceneaux: Tiens bon/Hold on EMI 5580702 2/4 Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys Album: The Best of Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys Rounder ROUN6117 FRI 21:15 The Verb (b00g05c4) Ian McMillan's weekly cabaret of language includes poet Moriarty: Jimmy Kenneth Steven, who was written a brand new poem for the Moriarty programme, lamenting the vanished snow of Christmases past. EP: Jimmy Naïve/Kartel NV812172 Plus French singer-songwriters Herman Dune discussing their unique brand of Leonard Cohen-influenced pop. Wadi El Safi/Maroun Karam: Tawassim Qanun/Ya Bayli Ya Boytati Essa Awad; Lubna Salamo; The Arab Orchestra of Nazareth FRI 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00g057v) Album: Live in Nazareth [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Magda Ethnic MGD041

Galant Tu Perds Ton Temps: Quand j’étais fille à marier FRI 23:00 The Essay (b00df62c) Galant Tu Perds Ton Temps On Excess Album: Par un dimanche au Soir Folquebec FOLQ2008 The Rule of Not Too Much Trad: Reel Psychotherapist Adam Phillips discusses excessive religious Ross Ainslie; Matheu Watson belief and what makes us think a belief is extreme. Is it Album: Live Piping Concert From Ceolas - Oirfeid Uibhist excessive to kill for one's most profoundly held beliefs? Green/Somerville/Sutherland: Polkska Box Club FRI 23:15 World on 3 (b00g05cx) Album: Box Club Mary Ann Kennedy presents sounds from across the globe, Box Club Records Boxclubcd1 including a studio session with the new voice of Nigerian Afrobeat Seun Kuti, the youngest son of Fela Kuti, performing Kuti: African Problems with his late father's band Egypt 80. Recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studios, December 2008

World on 3 Kuti: Mosquito Song Recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studios, December 2008 Presented by Mary Ann Kennedy Produced by Roger Short Trad, Arr. Linn Andrew Fuglseth: Folkefrelsar, til oss kom Trio Mediaeval Tel 020 7765 4661 Album: Folk Songs Fax 020 7765 5052 ECM B0009888-02 e-mail [email protected] Trad, Arr. Rusby: The Miner’s Dream of Home Friday 19th December Kate Rusby Album: Sweet Bells Seeger: Now we sit us down Pure Records PRCD28 Pete Seeger Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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