Radio 3 Listings for 12 – 18 April 2008 Page 1 of 5 SATURDAY 12 APRIL 2008 Another chance to hear last Monday's concert given by Trio Jean Paul at the Wigmore Hall, London. Haydn: Piano Trio in C, SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b009q9jk) H XV 27. Beethoven: Piano Trio in D, Op 70 No 1. Through the Night Including 1.00 Sibelius, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Schubert, Gilse, SAT 15:00 World Routes (b009tny6) Haydn. 3.12 Beethoven, Palestrina, Weber, Bach, A Scarlatti. Lucy Duran introduces a concert from two of the nominees in 5.00 Fischer, Forster, Debussy, Mozart, Strauss. the Radio 3 Awards for World Music. With flamenco music by Son de la Frontera, and singer Mayra Andrade from Cape Verde. SAT 05:00 Through the Night (b009q9jm) Through the Night SAT 16:00 Jazz Line-Up (b009tny8) Kevin LeGendre presents highlights of a concert given at the Jonathan Swain concludes the programme with music by Queen's Hall in Edinburgh in April by New Generation Artist Fischer, Forster, Nielsen, Moniuszko, Ravel, Debussy, Juon, Gwilym Simcock and John Taylor, another noted jazz pianist. Magi, Palmgren, Mozart, Lassus and Richard Strauss. SAT 17:30 Jazz Record Requests (b009tp2f) SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b009tnpv) Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Including Kabalevsky: Overture (Colas Breugnon). Durufle: Four Email [email protected]. Motets on Gregorian Themes. Handel: Sonata in C, Op 1 No 7. Saint-Saens: Allegro appassionato in B minor. SAT 18:30 Opera on 3 (b009tnyb) Prokofiev's The Gambler SAT 09:00 CD Review (b009tnxy) Building a Library: Schumann: Piano Quintet Op. 44 Prokofiev's The Gambler: Live from New York, Valery Gergiev conducts a rare performance of Prokofiev's first major stage Building a Library: work, featuring Vladimir Galouzine and Olga Guryakova. Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat Op. 44 Reviewer - David Fanning SAT 21:15 Performance on 3 (b009tnyd) Schubert First Choice: (c/w BRAHMS: Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34) Mitsuko Uchida performs Schubert's final piano sonata, in B flat, Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Artemis Quartet D960. Virgin Classics 3951432 (CD) Budget Price Version: SAT 22:05 Pre-Hear (b009tp2h) (c/w BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 26) The Death of Balder Clifford Curzon (piano), Budapest String Quartet Naxos Historical 8.110306 (CD, Budget) The Death of Balder: A choral re-telling of the 12th-century saga in which a Norse god is killed by a dart. Hughes: The Historic Choice: Death of Balder. James Morgan conducts the BBC Singers. (c/w MOZART: String Quartet No. 16 in E flat; DVORAK: String Quartet No. 10 in E flat) Rudolf Serkin (piano), Busch Quartet SAT 22:30 Hear and Now (b009tp2k) Biddulph LAB103 (CD, Mid Price) Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert given by the Arditti Quartet and a report from recent workshops they have held to Period Instrument Choice: discuss the practicalities of writing for quartet. (c/w Fur meine Clara; Pieces in Canonic Form Op. 56) La Gaia Scienza Winter & Winter 9101132 (CD) SUNDAY 13 APRIL 2008 CD Review BAL Catalogue Data bal.schumann: SUN 00:00 The Early Music Show (b009y4hs) bal.schumann.piano.quintet.op.44 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was undoubtedly the most powerful man in 16th SAT 12:15 Music Matters (b009tny0) Century Europe. He was also a notable patron of the arts, With Tom Service. Simon Heffer explains the influence of war employing such musical luminaries as Pierre de la Rue, Thomas on Vaughan Williams' music, and Tom talks to German Crecquillon and Nicholas Gombert. In this programme, composer Heiner Goebbels about his highly 'visual' Catherine Bott traces his life through the music which he would compositions. have heard and with which he surrounded himself. SAT 13:00 The Early Music Show (b009tny2) SUN 01:00 Through the Night (b009trcv) My Lady Rich Including 1.00 Brahms. 2.57 Schubert, Geminiani, Glinka, Bach, Schumann, Ravel, Mozart, Vivaldi. 5.00 Schubert, Hess, My Lady Rich: Lucie Skeaping talks to singer Emily van Evera CPE Bach, Dukas, Mendelssohn, Paganini, Glick, Hummel. about her recent disc dedicated to the Elizabethan noblewoman Penelope Rich. With music by Dowland, Byrd and Holborne. SUN 05:00 Through the Night (b009trcx) Through the Night SAT 14:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b009tny4) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 12 – 18 April 2008 Page 2 of 5 Jonathan Swain concludes the programme with music by Adam Nicolson travels along the eastern Mediterranean, from Schubert, Hess, Bach, CPE Bach, Strauss, Dukas, Byrd, the Ionian Sea to the western coast of Turkey to trace the Mendelsson, Paganini, Glick and Hummel. origins of the poems at the root of modern European thought. Adam concludes his exploration of the enduring grip of Homer's SUN 07:00 Breakfast (b009tp61) epic poems, beginning on a wooden sailing boat as he follows Including Striggio: Ecce beatam lucem. Dvorak: The Noonday Odysseus on his long and adventure-strewn journey home from Witch. Liadov: The Enchanted Lake. Bach: Trio in D minor, Troy. BWV583. Hindemith: Tanzstucke. Haydn: Keyboard Concertino in C. SUN 23:00 Words and Music (b009tr8p) We Must Love One Another or Die SUN 10:00 Sunday Morning (b009tqxh) Iain and architecture critic Jonathan Glancey debate the Sian Thomas and Nicholas Farrell read poetry and prose from question that if architecture is frozen music, how does it sound? the 1930s by Louis MacNeice, Sylvia Townsend Warner, John Including music by Berlioz, Monteverdi, JC Bach and Cage. Steinbeck, George Orwell, Dylan Thomas and WH Auden, with music by Britten, Barber, Robeson, Bartok and Noel Coward. SUN 12:00 Private Passions (b009tqxk) Michael Berkeley's guest is Prof Simon Baron-Cohen, who chooses music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin as well MONDAY 14 APRIL 2008 as Aretha Franklin, Eva Cassidy and traditional klezmer music. MON 00:00 The Early Music Show (b009ps3n) Sacred Music: Tallis and Byrd in London SUN 13:00 The Early Music Show (b009tqxm) Acis and Galatea Sacred Music: Tallis and Byrd in London. Harry Christophers talks to Catherine Bott about Tallis and Byrd's lives in London Lucie Skeaping looks in detail at one of Handel's most popular and the development of the English choral tradition. and enduring works: Acis & Galatea. With extracts from recordings by Trevor Pinnock, John Eliot Gardiner and Adrian Boult, among others. MON 01:00 Through the Night (b009trcv) [Repeat of broadcast at 01:00 on Sunday] SUN 14:00 Radio 3 Requests (b009tqxp) Chi-chi Nwanoku selects Radio 3 listeners' requests, which MON 05:00 Through the Night (b009trcx) include Isobel Baillie singing Handel, a string quintet by [Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 on Sunday] Boccherini, Beethoven's Symphony No 3 and music by Schubert. MON 07:00 Breakfast (b009wxkt) Including Dowland: Sweet, stay awhile. Handel: Sharp thorns SUN 16:00 Choral Evensong (b009tqxr) despising (The Triumph of Time and Truth). Darlow. From the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford. The Griboyedov: Two Waltzes. Howells: Take him, earth, for Oxford Blues Service: A complete Jazz setting by Roderick cherishing. Williams of Anglican Evensong. MON 10:00 Classical Collection (b009trd1) SUN 17:00 Discovering Music (b009tqxt) Including Suk: Fairy Tale Suite. Lemmens: Grand Fantasia (The History of the Serenade Storm). Martinu: Sinfonietta La Jolla. Lennon and McCartney: Michelle. Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (excerpts). Episode 1 History of the Serenade: 1/2. Charles Hazlewood explores the MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b007g7p6) history of the serenade, focusing on the beginnings of the form Claude Debussy and in particular one written by Mozart. Background SUN 18:30 Choir and Organ (b009tqxx) Claude Debussy (1862-1918): 1/5. Background: Donald Macleod Aled Jones presents choral music from Australia and New explores Debussy's life and work, focusing on the historical and Zealand, including music reflecting the Maori tradition, and also political background to his music. talks to Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe. MON 13:00 Afternoon Concert (b009trj9) SUN 20:00 Drama on 3 (b009tqxz) 1.00pm Lunchtime Concert: Martin Frost and Roland Pontinen The Country Wife perform works by Brahms and Schumann. 2.00pm Bristish Symphony Series: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Including The Country Wife, by William Wycherley: A raunchy Restoration Symphony No 5. comedy about a rake who spreads the false rumour that he is impotent in order to gain access to other men's wives. MON 17:00 In Tune (b009trs6) Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, plus news from the SUN 22:15 Sunday Feature (b009tr8m) arts world. Homer's Landscapes The Odyssey MON 19:00 Afternoon Concert (b009trs8) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 12 – 18 April 2008 Page 3 of 5 Catherine Bott introduces a programme to mark 50 years since Impresssionism Ralph Vaughan Williams' death. With archive recordings including Five Tudor Portraits, Symphony No 3 and Pastoral. Claude Debussy (1862-1918): 2/5. Impressionism: Donald Macleod explores the various artistic currents in Paris that influenced Debussy's music. MON 20:45 Composer of the Week (b007g7p6) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] TUE 13:00 Afternoon Concert (b009trzh) 1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: The Britten Sinfonia @ MON 21:45 Night Waves (b0080gnz) Lunch. The Britten Sinfonia perform chamber music. 2.00pm Philip Dodd presents a programme dedicated to the classic British Symphony Series: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony 1960s film Blow-Up, directed by Italian director Michelangelo No 6. Antonioni, who died in July. TUE 17:00 In Tune (b009trq9) MON 22:30 Artist Focus (b009trsd) Sean Rafferty presents a special live programme, with the BBC With Catherine Bott.