Radio 3 Listings for 12 – 18 June 2010 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 12 JUNE 2010 Symphony No.22 in E flat, 'The Philosopher' Tom Service meets conductor Jonathan Nott, principal Amsterdam Bach Soloists conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, and talks to SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b00smvg2) tenor Ian Bostridge and director David Alden about performing Jonathan Swain presents rarities, archive and concert recordings 4:35 AM Janacek. Robin Holloway talks about the appeal for from Europe's leading broadcasters Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787) contemporary composers of Schumann's music, plus a report on Sonata No.6 in G major (Op.6 No.6) classical club nights. 1:01 AM Karl Kaiser (transverse flute), Susanne Kaiser (harpsichord) Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) Wie Lachend sie mir Lieder singen ( Tristan und Isolde, Act 1) 4:45 AM SAT 13:00 The Early Music Show (b00sq42f) Brigit Nilsson (Isolde), Irene Dalis (Brangäne), Metropolitan Rore, Cipriano de (c1515-1565) Ghostwriter: The Story of Henri Desmarest Opera Orchestra, Karl Böhm (conductor) Fera gentil The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director) Henry Desmarest was obviously a talented musican and 1:10 AM composer, first boy page and then musician in Louis XIV's Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) 4:51 AM court, he began ghost-writing Grands Motets for one of the Amfortas! Die Wunde! (Parsifal, Act 1) Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869) chapel directors Nicholas Goupillet when he was in his early Jon Vickers (Parsifal), Christa Ludwig (Kundry), Metropolitan Le Carnaval romain - overture (Op.9) twenties. After a decade, this scandal was uncovered, but it was Opera Orchestra, James Levine (conductor) Orchestra di Roma della RAI, Leonard Bernstein (conductor) not the last of Desmarest's woes! A few years later, he fell in love with one of his pupils, who also happened to be the 1:19 AM 5:01 AM daughter of a wealthy and powerful man who managed to get Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849) the composer sentenced to death, forcing Desmarest to spend Schweigt doch, ihr Stimmen! (Die Frau ohne Schatten (Op.65), Variations Brillantes in B flat major, on a theme from Hérold's the rest of his days in exile. Lucie Skeaping explores the Act 3) 'Ludovic' extraordinary life and music of Henry Desmarest. Walter Berry (Barak), Christa Ludwig (Dyer's wife), Belén Ludmil Angelov (piano) Amparan (voice), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Karl Böhm (conductor) 5:08 AM SAT 14:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00smq1v) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) Steven Osborne 1:29 AM Symphony No.16 in C major (K.128) Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951) The Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan, Today's Lunchtime Concert from Wigmore Hall features [3] Folksongs for chorus (Op.49) Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor) acclaimed pianist Steven Osborne. He begins with Beethoven's Carmina Chamber Choir, Peter Hanke (conductor) concise Piano Sonata no.25, before moving to his innovative 5:21 AM Fantasie, and his 11 Bagatelles. The concert ends with 1:44 AM Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741) Rachmaninov's sparkling Variations on Corelli's own version of Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976) Nulla in mundo pax sincera (RV.630) the Folia theme. Now the Great Bear and Pleiades (Peter Grimes (Op.33), Act 1) Marita Kvarving Sølberg (soprano), Norwegian Radio Jon Vickers (Peter Grimes), Geraint Evans (Captain Balstrode), Orchestra, Ketil Haugsand (conductor) Presented by Sean Rafferty. Gene Boucher (Ned Keene), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Colin Davis (conductor) 5:29 AM Beethoven: Piano Sonata no.25 in G major, Op.79 Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893) Beethoven: Fantasie, Op.77 1:48 AM Wojewode, symphonic ballad, (Op 78) Beethoven: 11 Bagatelles, Op.119 Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) Olso Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) Rachmaninov: Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op.42 Wie du warst! (Der Rosenkavalier (Op.59), Act 1) Leonie Rysanek (Princess von Werdenberg, Christa Ludwig 5:41 AM Steven Osborne (piano). (Octavian), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Karl Böhm Lipinski, Karol Józef (1790-1861) (conductor) Variations on a theme of Rossini's 'La Cenerentola' Miroslaw Lawrynowicz (violin), Krystyna Makowska- SAT 15:00 World Routes (b00sq42h) 1:53 AM Lawrynowicz (piano) 2010 Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) Ah! Du wolltest mich nicht deinen Mund küssen lassen (Salome 5:57 AM New music in the Middle East (Op.54), final scene) Tallis, Thomas (c.1505-1585) Birgit Nilssen (Salome), Irene Dalis (Herodias), Karl Liebl Spem in Alium Iraqi oud virtuoso Khyam Allami, the first recipient of the (Herod), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Karl Böhm (conductor) BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor) World Routes Academy scholarship, travels with Lucy Duran to explore new music in Beirut, Damascus and Amman. 2:08 AM 6:05 AM Zemlinsky, Alexander von (1871-1942) Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937) BBC Radio 3's World Routes Academy scholarship is a new Trio (Op.3) La valse scheme which aims to support and inspire young world music Trio Luwigana BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen (conductor) artists by bringing them together with an internationally- renowned figure in the same field. This year, Khyam Allami 2:34 AM 6:18 AM will be collaborating with, and learning from, one of the biggest Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) Sor, Fernando (1778-1839) stars of Middle Eastern music, the Iraqi singer and guitarist Höre mit Sinn (Götterdämmerung, Act 2) Introduction and variations on Mozart's 'O cara armonia' (Op.9) Ilham Al Madfai. The project culminates in a BBC Promenade Christa Ludwig (Waltraute), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Ana Vidovic (guitar) concert in August. In this programme, Khyam Allami presents a Karl Böhm (conductor) broad picture of contemporary Middle Eastern music, which 6:27 AM has one of the world's most vibrant musical industries, by 2:46 AM Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) focusing on three of its centres - the capital cities of Lebanon, Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) Concerto for 2 violins and string orchestra in D minor Syria and Jordan. Unsre Liebe? Tristans Liebe? (Tristan und Isolde, Act 2) (BWV.1043) Jon Vickers (Tristan), Birgit Nilsson (Isolde), Mignon Dunn Sigiswald Kuijken (violin and conductor), Lucy van Dael (2nd (Brangäne), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Karl Böhm violin solo), La Petite Bande SAT 16:00 Jazz Library (b00sq42k) (conductor) Art Pepper 6:44 AM 3:01 AM Gershwin, George (1898-1937) Despite a lifelong battle with narcotics, harrowingly related in Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621) Three Preludes arr. for two pianos his book "Straight Life", Art Pepper was one of the finest alto Fantasia in G minor Aglika Genova & Luben Dimitrov (pianos) saxophonists in jazz. In this programme, British saxophonist Leo van Doeselaar (organ) Alan Barnes joins Alyn Shipton to choose Pepper's finest 6:50 AM recordings, and also reveals the American's remarkable talents 3:12 AM Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) on the clarinet, on the tenor saxophone, and as a composer. Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957) Theme with variations from Sextet in B flat major (Op.18) Symphony no.1 (Op.39) in E minor Wiener Streichsextet. Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor) SAT 17:00 Jazz Record Requests (b00sq42m) Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. 3:50 AM SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b00sq427) Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924) Saturday - Fiona Talkington Nocturne for piano No.1 in E flat minor (Op.33 No.1) SAT 18:00 Opera on 3 (b00sq42p) Livia Rev (piano) Fiona Talkington presents Breakfast. Music to mark Russian Janacek's Katya Kabanova National Day, Hande'ls Music for the Royal Fireworks and 3:58 AM Borodin's Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor are included in Among the more remarkable stories of reinvigorated old age is Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741) this morning's programme. the miracle of Leos Janacek's creative Indian summer. Its cause Concerto for 2 cellos and orchestra in G minor (RV.531) was the Czech composer's passion for the already married Maris Villeruss and Leons Veldre (cellos), Peteris Plakidis Kamila Stösslová: they met when he was in his mid-sixties and (harpsichord), Latvian Philharmony Chamber Orchestra, Tovijs SAT 09:00 CD Review (b00sq429) she was nearly forty years his junior. But despite - or perhaps Lifsics (conductor) Building a Library: Schumann: Piano Concerto because of - the fact that it was a largely one-sided affair on his part, he poured his passion into the music he wrote in the last 4:11 AM With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library: Schumann: Piano decade of his life and created a series of undoubted Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936) Concerto; Rob Cowan on recent Dvorak symphony recordings; masterpieces, including the first of his four late operas, Katya Elegie in D flat major (Op.17) Disc of the Week: Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin. Kabanova. It tells the tragic story of a woman trapped in a Mindaugas Gecevicius (horn), Ala Bendoraitiene (piano) loveless marriage, stifled by provincial society -and the mother- in-law from hell. Katya has her brief moment of extra-marital 4:19 AM SAT 12:15 Music Matters (b00sq42c) passion which inexorably leads to her suicide. Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) Jonathan Nott, Schumann Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 12 – 18 June 2010 Page 2 of 11 The pared-down intensity of Janacek's opera with its short, Trumpeter Art Farmer was one of the most lyrical and inventive 5:09 AM terse, scenes was echoed in director David Alden's acclaimed players in jazz. Alyn Shipton is joined by Ian Smith (who met Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757) production, with American soprano Patricia Racette, making and interviewed Farmer) to select his finest recordings, which Sonata in G major (Kk.146) her English National Opera debut in the title role.