Radio 3 Listings for 5 – 11 September 2009 Page 1 of 41 SATURDAY 05 SEPTEMBER 2009 Tae-Won Kim (flute) Hyong-Sup Kim, Pil-Kwan Sung (oboes) SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b00mdn9n) Hyon-Kon Kim (clarinet) 1.00am Sang-Won Yoon (bassoon) Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 47 in G, H I 47 Australian Chamber Orchestra 4.27am Richard Tognetti (conductor) Bartok, Bela (1881-1945), arr Arthur Willner: Romanian folk dances, Sz 56 1.20am I Cameristi Italiani Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Concerto No 19 in F for piano and orchestra, K459 4.35am Melvyn Tan (piano) Ipavec, Benjamin (1829-1908): Maria the Gypsy Australian Chamber Orchestra Ana Pusar Jeric (soprano) Richard Tognetti (conductor) Nataea Valant (piano) 1.49am 4.39am Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), arr Richard Tognetti: String Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943): Caprice bohemien, Op 12 Quartet in G, D887 (Capriccio on Gypsy Themes) Australian Chamber Orchestra Queensland Symphony Orchestra Richard Tognetti (conductor) Vladimir Verbitsky (conductor) 2.32am 5.01am Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594): Magnificat Primi Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): Feu d'artifice, Op 4 Toni Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra 2.40am Valery Gergiev (conductor) Palestrina: Ascendo ad Patrem - Motet for five voices (1572) 2.44am 5.05am Palestrina: Quem vidistis, pastores Gesualdo, Carlo (c.1560-1613): Ave, dulcissima Maria for five Elmer Iseler Singers voices (1603a) Elmer Iseler (conductor) BBC Singers Bo Holten (conductor) 2.48am Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): The Hebrides Overture 5.10am Norwegian Radio Orchestra Parsons, Robert (c.1530-1570): Ave Maria for five voices Markus Lehtinen (conductor) BBC Singers Stephen Cleobury (conductor) 3.01am Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): Pulcinella 5.14am Lynne Dawson (soprano) Byrd, William (c.1543-1623): Agnus Dei (Mass for five voices) Rolando Villazon (tenor) BBC Singers Denis Sedov (baritone) Bo Holten (director) Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra Marc Minkowski (conductor) 5.19am Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975): Concerto No 2 in F for piano 3.38am and orchestra, Op 102 Stradella, Alessandro (1639-1682): Sara ver ch'io mai disciolga; Patrik Jablonski (piano) Fulmini quanto sa for voice and accompaniment Polish Radio Orchestra of Warsaw Emma Kirkby (soprano) Wojciech Rajski (conductor) David Thomas (bass) Alan Wilson (harpsichord) 5.40am Jakob Lindberg (lute) Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872): String Quartet No 1 in D Anthony Rooley (director/lute) minor (1837-1840) Camerata Quartet 3.49am Cavalli, Francesco (1602-1676): Sonata a 8 5.56am Concerto Palatino Holmboe, Vagn (1909-1996): A Song at Sunset (Walt Whitman) Camerata Chamber Choir 3.54am Michael Bojesen (conductor) Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805): Concerto in E flat for harpsichord and orchestra, G487 6.04am Eckart Sellheim (fortepiano) Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): String Quartet in G minor, Op 20, Collegium Aureum No 3 Franzjosef Meier (conductor) Quatuor Mosaiques 4.10am 6.23am Kyurkchiiski, Krassimir (b.1936): A Little Bird is Singing Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Piano Sonata in A minor, Op 42 4.14am Alfred Brendel (piano). Koutev, Philip (1903-1982): Dragana and the Nightingale Sofia Chamber Choir Vassil Arnaudov (conductor) SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b00mj2p4) Mary King 4.17am Farkas, Ferenc (1905-2000): Five Ancient Hungarian Dances for 7:03 wind quintet Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 5 – 11 September 2009 Page 2 of 41 BERLIOZ ELGAR Hungarian March (Rakoczy March) – Pomp & Circumstance March No.4 The Damnation of Faust London Philharmonic Orchestra Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra Vernon Handley (conductor) Matyas Antal (conductor) CFP CD-CFP 9004 T4 NAXOS 8.550142 T11 8:08 7:09 CAMPION Giovanni GABRIELI Come Cheerful Day Exaudi me Domine (16-part motet) The English Ayre, Nigel North (lute) Huelgas Ensemble LINN CKD 105 T1 Paul van Nevel (conductor) SONY CLASSICAL SK 66 261 T6 8:12 7:15 HANDEL Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.9 in F MOZART Tha Academy of Ancient Music Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat K297B Andrew Manze (director) 3rd movement - Andantino with variations) HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907229 (D2) T15 - 20 David Theodore (oboe), Robert Hill (clarinet), John Price (bassoon), Nicholas Busch (horn) 8:26 London Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) JANACEK arr. Talich EMI CD-EMX 2181 T3 Suite: The Cunning Little Vixen Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 7:24 Sir Charles Mackerras DECCA 417 129-2 D2 T11 CHABRIER Idylle (10 pieces pittoresques) 8:37 Angela Hewitt (piano) HYPERION CDA 67515 T8 MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio in C Minor Op.66 (slow movement) 7:30:00 Joshua Bell (violin), Steven Isserlis, (cello), Dénes Várgon (piano) DVORAK BBC RECORDING (not commercially available) Legend in G Minor Op.59 No.3 Budapest Festival Orchestra 8:44 Ivan Fischer (conductor) PHILIPS 464 647-2 T3 DUPARC Au pays ou se fait la guerre 7:34 Danielle Borst (soprano) Jeff Cohen (piano) BERNSTEIN REM 311049 T7 A Quiet Girl (Wonderful Town) Thomas Hampson (baritone) 8:50 London Voices, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Carter PANN Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) Slalom EMI CDC5 56753-2 T10 University of Kansas Wind Ensemble John P Lynch (conductor) 7:38 NAXOS 8.570074 T1 RODGERS & HART Little Girl Blue SAT 09:00 CD Review (b00mj7r9) Oscar Peterson (piano) Andrew McGregor plays tracks from the following: MPS 821 843-2 T8 0:06:03 09.05am 7:44 SUK: Symphony No.2 in C minor, “Asrael” STENHAMMAR Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Claus Peter Flor (conductor) Notturno (Serenade) BIS SACD-1776 (Hybrid SACD) Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor) JANACEK arr. Breiner: “Orchestral Suites from the Operas DG 471 747-2 D1 T8 Vol.3”: The Cunning Little Vixen; From the House of the Dead New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Peter Breiner (conductor) 7:51 Naxos 8.570706 (CD, Budget Price) BRAHMS 09.40am Scherzo - Sonata in F minor for 2 pianos Emanuel Ax & Yefim Bronfman (pianos) CHOPIN: 24 Preludes Op.28; Andante spianato and Grande SONY CLASSICAL SK 89868 T3 Polonaise Op.22 Wojciech Switala (fortepiano) 8:03 NIFC CD 006 (CD) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 5 – 11 September 2009 Page 3 of 41 CHOPIN: Etudes Opp.10 and 25 BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.6 “Pastoral”; STRAUSS: Ein Tatiana Shebanova (fortepiano) Heldenleben NIFC CD 007 (CD) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor) Testament SBT 1452 (CD, Mid-Price) CHOPIN: Fantasia on Polish airs; Variations on “La ci darem”; Krakowiak; Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise BRAHMS: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 Nelson Goerner (fortepiano), Orchestra of the 18th Century; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor) Franz Bruggen (conductor) EMI Classics 2 67254 2 (3 CDs, Mid-Price) NIFC CD 009 (CD) CHOPIN: Piano concertos Nos. 1 and 2 SAT 12:15 Music Feature (b00mly72) Dang Thai Son (fortepiano), Orchestra of the 18th Century, Purcell and Dryden - A Professional Friendship Franz Bruggen (conductor) NIFC CD 004 (CD) Alyn Shipton explores Dryden and Purcell's collaboration on the semi-opera King Arthur, a work which is often regarded as the CHOPIN: Works including 4 Impromptus, Nocturnes Op.32, first professional collaboration between librettist and composer. Mazurkas Op.59 He is joined by Purcell biographer Jonathan Keates, who Kevin Kenner (fortepiano) describes some of the sights, sounds and smell of the world of NIFC CD 010 (CD) Restoration theatre. It was a period in which people would come in and out for single acts of an opera, jostle in the stalls CHOPIN: Mazurkas (selection) and swap seats in boxes, while the privileged would claim seats Fou Ts’ong (fortepiano) on the stage. NIFC CD 001 (CD) There is a look at the latest scholarship on the genesis of the CHOPIN: Ballades Nos.1-4; Nocturnes Opp.27 and 48/2 opera, with Dryden's biographer, James Wynn, who traces the Nelson Goerner (fortepiano) origins of the collaboration between the two men in the preface NIFC CD 003 (CD) to Dioclesian, which was signed by Purcell but written by Dryden. He explains that 17th-century authorship was a bit like 10.20am the teams of writers on a present-day sitcom. HANDEL: Serse Alyn also considers the origin of the Knights of the Garter, the Maureen Forrester (Serse), Maureen Lehane (Arsamene), Lucia redecoration of Windsor Castle and the messy politics of Popp (Romilda), Owen Brannigan (Elviro), Vienna Academy Jacobites supporting the ousted James II versus William III's Chorus and Radio Orchestra, Brian Priestman (conductor) Orange and Protestant sympathies. This provides the Deutsche Grammophon 477 8339 (3 CDs, Mid-Price) background to such remarkable musical treats as Purcell and Dryden's Chorus of Cold People, the paeon of praise to St HANDEL: Serse George, and the best-known setting in the opera Fairest Isle. Carolyn Watkinson (Serse), Paul Esswood (Arsamene), Barbara With naked sylphs, ancient British battles and a drinking song Hendricks (Romilda), Ortrun Wenkel (Amastre), Ulrich Studer worthy of the terraces at an England game, Alyn sheds new (Elviro), La Grande Ecure et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude light on this most fascinating of operas. Malgoire (conductor) Sony Classical 88697527242 (3 CDs, Budget Price) SAT 13:00 The Early Music Show (b00mkvn1) HANDEL: Serse Eustache du Caurroy Judith Malafronte (Serse), Lisa Milne (Atalanta), Susan Bickley (Amastre), David Thomas (Elviro), The Hanover Band and Andrew Carwood presents a programme of sacred music by the Chorus, Nicholas McGegan (conductor) little-known 16th century French composer Eustache du Sony Music 88697 532062 (3 CDs, Budget Price) Caurroy, recorded by the BBC Singers. HANDEL: “Between Heaven and Earth” – oratorio arias Du Caurroy was born in 1549 near Beauvais. Nothing is really Sandrine Piau (soprano), Accademia Bizantina, Stefano known about his childhood or musical education, but he Montanari (conductor) apparently declared that he had learned his trade 'by reading Naïve OP 30484 (CD) good authors and imitating the ancients'. It is thought that For more details see http://www.naive.fr/#/work/handel- some of those 'good authors' and 'ancients' included composers between-heaven-and-earth such as Josquin des Prez, Adrian Willaert and Gioseffo Zarlino, who were among the leading lights of the generation before HANDEL: La Resurrezione Caurroy.