Radio 3 Listings for 22 – 28 December 2012 Page 1 of 22 SATURDAY 22 DECEMBER 2012 Les chanteurs de Saint-Coeur-de-Marie, Richard Paré (organ), Claude Gosselin (conductor) SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b01p9jfd) John Shea introduces the final programme in our mini-series 4:11 AM celebrating the career of the conductor Sergiu Celibidache with Humperdinck, Engelbert (1854-1921) the Swedish Radio SO - today Frumerie's Pastoral Suite and Overture - from Hansel and Gretel Sibelius's 5th Symphony from the archives. Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor) 1:01 AM 4:19 AM Frumerie, Gunnar de [1908-1987] Bartók, Béla (1881-1945) Pastoral suite Op.13b for flute, harp and strings Excerpts from 44 Duos for 2 violins Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Celibidache Wanda Wilkomirska and Mihaly Szucs (violins) (conductor) 4:30 AM 1:14 AM Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741] Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) Trio sonata for 2 violins & continuo (RV.63) (Op.1 No.12) in D Concerto for cello and Orchestra (HV VIIb:2) in D major minor 'La Folia' Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Heinrich Schiff Il Giardino Armonico (cello/conductor) 4:40 AM 1:39 AM Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich [1865-1936] Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957] Concert waltz for orchestra no.1 (Op.47 ) in D major Symphony no. 5 in E flat major Op.82 CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Kazuyoshi Akiyama Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Celibidache (conductor) (conductor) 4:49 AM 2:15 AM Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963) Lipatti, Dinu [1917-1950] Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël Aubade for wind quartet Talinn Music High School Chamber Choir, Evi Eespere (director) Nicolae Maxim (flute), Radu Chisu (oboe), Valeriu Barbuceanu (clarinet), Mihai Tanasila (bassoon) 5:01 AM Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759) 2:35 AM For unto us a child is born - from Messiah Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849] Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Orchestra, Ivars Taurins Etude in G flat (Op. 10 no. 5) (conductor) Dinu Lipatti (piano) 5:05 AM 2:37 AM Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] Scarlatti, Domenico [1685-1757] Fantasia for piano in C minor (K.475) Sonata in G major (L. 387) Juho Pohjonen (piano) Dinu Lipatti (piano) 5:18 AM 2:39 AM Arriaga, Juan Crisostomo (1806-1826) Enescu, George (1881-1955) Los Esclavos Felices - overture Impressions d'enfance for violin and piano (Op.28) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor) Sherban Lupu (violin), Valentin Gheorgiu (piano) 5:26 AM 3:01 AM Rangström, Ture (1884-1947) Elsner, Jósef (1769-1854) Suite for violin and piano No.2 (in Modo barocco) Symphony in C major (Op.11) Tale Olsson (violin), Mats Jansson (piano) Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Janusz Przybylski (conductor) 5:37 AM Neruda, Johann Baptist Georg [c.1707-1780] 3:27 AM Concerto for horn or trumpet and strings in E flat major Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet), Oslo Camerata, Stephan Barratt- Grosser Herr und starker König - from Weihnachts-Oratorium Due (conductor) (BWV.248) Peter Danilov (bass), Ivan Hadliyski & Roman Hajiyski 5:53 AM (trumpets), Kamerorchester, Alipi Naydenov (conductor) Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959) La revue de cuisine - suite from the ballet 3:32 AM The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Sonata for cello and piano No.2 in F (Op.99) 6:08 AM Truls Mørk (cello), Kathryn Stott (piano) Anonymous Alma Redemptoris Mater (Christmas carol); Lullay, Lullow - carol 3:59 AM Zefiro Torna Traditional carol Deck the Hall; Entre le boeuf et l'âne gris 6:16 AM Richard Paré (harpsichord), Les chanteurs de Saint-Coeur-de- Traditional Marie, Claude Gosselin (conductor) Noel Nouvelet Zefiro Torna 4:05 AM Grüber, Franz (1787-1863) 6:19 AM Stille Nacht (Silent Night) Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 22 – 28 December 2012 Page 2 of 22 String Quartet in D major (Op.64 No.5) 'The Lark' SAT 14:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01p9h1l) Yggdrasil String Quartet Kristian Bezuidenhout 6:37 AM Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953) Lieutenant Kije Suite, Op.60 Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Verbitsky (conductor). Mozart: Prelude and Fugue in C major K. 394 Mozart: Sonata in B flat K. 333 Mozart: Variations in G major on 'Unser dummer Pobel meint' K. SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b01pcq9j) 455 Saturday - Martin Handley Presented by Sarah Walker. Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. As December progresses, plenty of festival music and surprises. SAT 15:00 Saturday Classics (b01pcq9s) From 15th December, the BBC Singers will be specially Richard Sisson recording carols - some of them requested by our listeners. The pianist and composer Richard Sisson presents an There's the Breakfast Advent Calendar - opening a door every alternative take on the Twelve Days of Christmas. Featuring day to reveal winter music and readings chosen by listeners music by Poulenc, Wagner, Noel Coward, The Muppets, Bing and presenters. Crosby and Tchaikovsky. Closer to Christmas, listeners will have the chance to send a Breakfast Christmas Card by requesting a piece of music and SAT 17:00 Jazz Record Requests (b01pcq9v) dedicating it to a friend. Alyn Shipton presents a selection of listeners' requests including seasonal fare from Booker Erwin, Charles Tolliver and And in Your Call where we hear from our audience about their Louis Armstrong, plus music from pianist Bill Charlap. favourite pieces of music, there's the chance to introduce a favourite piece of music to the rest of the UK. In the run up to Christmas we'll be hearing about music that reminds listeners SAT 18:00 Opera on 3 (b01pcq9x) of the festive season. Live from the Met Rossini's The Barber of Seville SAT 09:00 CD Review (b01pcq9l) Building a Library: Rossini's La Cenerentola Live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Rossini: La Presented by Margaret Juntwait with commentary by Ira Siff. Cenerentola; recent recordings of music by Lutoslawski; Disc of the Week: Bach: Cantatas from Leipzig 1727-32. The Barber of Seville, Rossini's great comic opera, in Bartlett Sher's English adaptation, with Isabel Leonard as Rosina, Rodion Pogossov as Figaro and SAT 12:15 Music Feature (b01gvqsb) Alek Shrader as Count Almaviva. Yves Abel conducts. If Chimes Could Whisper - The Strange Tale of the Glass Armonica Count Almaviva has disguised himself as a poor student in the hope of persuading the beautiful Rosina to love him for himself, Dame Evelyn Glennie celebrates the 250th birthday of one of rather than for his money. But there's a snag: Rosina is the the most unusual of all musical instruments, the Glass ward of grumpy old Dr. Bartolo, and he too has plans to marry Armonica, premiered by Benjamin Franklin in 1762. She tries her. out the working instrument at the Benjamin Franklin House in The Count needs help, but crafty barber Figaro is on hand. He London, sees an original example in the Horniman Museum, suggests that the Count disguise himself as a drunken soldier, and discovers the repertoire written for it by Mozart, Hasse and ordered to be billeted with Dr. Bartolo, and so gain entrance to Donizetti. On the way, she encounters madness and mental his house. illness, reveals one of the world's first female virtuosi, Marianne Two centuries after its premiere - and now universally accepted Davies, and meets the man responsible for the present day as the composer's comic masterpiece - Rossini's prequel to The revival of this remarkable instrument, Thomas Bloch. Marriage of Figaro remains as tuneful, ironic and uproariously funny as ever. First broadcast in April 2012. Rosina: Isabel Leonard, contralto Count Almaviva: Alek Shrader, tenor SAT 13:00 The Early Music Show (b01pcq9q) Figaro: Rodion Pogossov, baritone Trinity Carol Roll Dr. Bartolo: John Del Carlo, baritone Don Basilio: Jordan Bisch,bass Catherine Bott is in Cambridge for a look at the Trinity Carol Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus Roll, one of the earliest sources of English polyphonic carols. Conductor: Yves Abel. She visits the Wren Library where the manuscript is kept and talks about the music and the significance of the collection with David Skinner who has recently recorded it all with his group SAT 20:30 Warsaw Variations (b018cg7v) Alamire. Panufnik and Lutoslawski were the great hopes of Polish music The thirteen works preserved in this manuscript include the at the outbreak of World War Two. patriotic 'Agincourt' carol, celebrating Henry V's victory over the French in 1415, and the most famous of all early English During the Occupation, opportunities for musical development carols 'Ther is no rose'. were severely limited, but an artistic life sprang up in the cafes and bars of Warsaw. For four years, Lutoslawski and Panufnik Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 22 – 28 December 2012 Page 3 of 22 made a living playing arrangements of popular and classical collaborated before on a Jules Verne story, 'Doctor Ox's tunes (most famously the Paganini variations) to mixed Experiment' - also about Verne's interest in music and science. audiences of music lovers, nationalist resisters and cultured Wehrmacht officers. Gerda Stevenson stars as the narrator, Anna. She's the church warden and mother of a child she christened Ian but who now Warsaw Variations traces the experiences of these two young has the new name of Ray because his special note is Ray sharp. musicians through the Occupation, the Warsaw Uprising (in She sees at first hand how the stranger brings his gift of music. which virtually all their manuscripts were destroyed) and into the era of Socialist Realism.