Radio 3 Listings for 30 January – 5 February 2010 Page 1 of 13 SATURDAY 30 JANUARY 2010 05:52AM WILLIAM BYRD Browning a 5 Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903) Rose Consort of Viols SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b00q912d) Italian Serenade for string quartet (BBC recording) 01:01AM Ljubljana String Quartet Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) FERRABOSCO Four-note Pavan a 5 Die schöne Müllerin - song-cycle (D.795) 06:00AM Rose Consort of Viols Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano, after Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924) (BBC recording) Johann Fritz, Vienna ca.1818, Imitation by Christopher Clarke, Piano Trio in D minor (Op.120) (1923) Paris 1981) Grumiaux Trio PURCELL Fantazia a 4 No.12 in D minor; Fantazia upon One Note a 5 02:01AM 06:22AM Rose Consort of Viols Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Enna, August (1859-1939) (BBC recording) Quartet for piano and strings No.3 (Op.60) "Werther" in C Skitsebogen (Sketch Book) minor Ida Cernecka (piano) GIBBONS In nomine Håvard Gimse (piano), Stig Nilsson (violin), Anders Nilsson Rose Consort of Viols (viola), Romain Garioud (cello) 06:38AM (BBC recording). Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) 02:37AM Suite for orchestra No.2 in B minor (BWV.1067) Liszt, Franz (1811-1886) La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor). SAT 14:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00q904p) Piano Concerto No.2 in A major (S. 125) Mark Padmore/Andrew West Sveinung Bjelland (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Stefan Asbury (conductor) SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b00qbz71) Mark Padmore pairs one of Henze's most colourful and exotic Saturday - Suzy Klein creations, "Six Songs from the Arabian", full of witches, 03:01AM monsters and shipwrecks, with Schumann's sensitive settings of Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826) Presented by Suzy Klein. Start the day with a refreshing choice Hans Christian Andersen. Concerto for clarinet and orchestra No.2 in E flat major of music. (Op.74) Märzveilchen Op. 40 No. 1 Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Muttertraum Op. 40 No. 2 Sakari Oramo (conductor) SAT 09:00 CD Review (b00qbz73) Der Soldat Op. 40 No. 3 Building a Library: Schoenberg: Five Pieces for orchestra Der Spielmann Op. 40 No. 4 03:23AM Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907) With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library: Schoenberg: Five The composer presented the writer with a copy of these songs, String Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 27 Pieces for orchestra, Op 16; Nikolaj Znaider on Elgar's Violin writing that Andersen may very well find the settings strange. Ensemble Fragaria Vesca Concerto, Op 61; Disc of the Week: Elgar: Violin Concerto. Schumann said that he himself found the texts strange at first, but as he began to understand the poems and their strangeness 03:58AM more deeply, his music became increasingly strange as well. Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713) SAT 12:15 Music Feature (b00qbz75) Concerto Grosso in F major (Op.6 No.9) (appl) Theodorakis - Greece's Musical Revolutionary The King's Consort, Robert King (director) SAT 15:00 World Routes (b00g3rxj) 85 this year, Mikis Theodorakis is best known for the music to World Routes in North East Brazil 04:07AM 1974 film Zorba the Greek, but as Miranda Hinkley discovers, Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908) Libretto derrived from there's also a wealth of chamber, opera and symphonic music. Forro, coco and cowboys Alexander Pushkin's play of the same name Part of the resistance during the Second World War, Salieri's Aria from Mozart and Salieri - opera in 1 act (Op.48) imprisoned during the Greek Civil War, exiled during the Lucy Duran travels to rural North East Brazil, going in search of Robert Holl (bass), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Kenneth military dictatorship, his story mirrors that of modern Greece. traditional Forro, a style of country music much-loved there but Montgomery (conductor) And he's been responsible for a musical revolution, a uniquely little-known outside. And, travelling deeper inland towards the Greek sound. Mikis Theodorakis is joined by singers Maria Sertao - Brazil's wild semi-desert area - she has a chance 04:16AM Farantouri and Marios Frangoulis and by violinist Georgos encounter with some singing cowboys. Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868) Demertzis, to look back on a 60-year career. Quartet for flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon no.6 in F major 'Andante et tema con variazioni' Presented and produced by Miranda Hinkley. Executive SAT 16:00 Jazz Library (b00qbzfz) Vojtech Samec (flute), Jozef Luptacik (clarinet), Frantisek Producer Alan Hall. Erroll Garner Machats (bassoon), Josef Illes (french horn) A Nightjar production. Erroll Garner was one of the most distinctive and original 04:27AM pianists in jazz. To select his finest recordings, Alyn Shipton is Sjögren, Emil (1853-1918) SAT 13:00 The Early Music Show (b00qbz77) joined by the young British pianist Neil Cowley. The Two Lyrical Pieces [1898] Rose Consort of Viols at the 2009 York Early Music Festival programme includes examples of Garner's earliest stride style, Per Enoksson (violin), Péter Nagy (piano) covers the emergence of his own individual jazz voice, and Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert given by the features his most popular album "Concert by the Sea". 04:39AM Rose Consort of Viols recorded in the National Centre for Early Producer Alyn Shipton. Carissimi, Giacomo (1605-1674) Music as part of the 2009 York Early Music Festival. The Vanitas vanitatum concert was entitled Alpha and Omega, and charted the origins Olga Pasiecznik & Marta Boberska (sopranos), Il Tempo and culmination of the English consort music; the music in this SAT 17:00 Jazz Record Requests (b00qbzg1) Baroque Ensemble programme from the concert includes a work, A Knell of Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Johnson, by Robert Johnson (c.1500 - c.1560), music by 04:50AM William Byrd and Osbert Parsley, and some of the Fantazias Marcello, Alessandro (1669-1747) written by Henry Purcell in the summer of 1680. SAT 18:00 Opera on 3 (b00qbzg3) Concerto in D minor Live from the Met Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet), Colm Carey (organ of PLAYLIST: the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London) Verdi's Stiffelio ROBERT JOHNSON A knell of Johnson a 5 05:01AM Rose Consort of Viols Verdi's opera Stiffelio had a troubled history. The Bree, Johannes Bernardus van (1801-1857) (BBC recording) predominantly Catholic Italy of the mid-19th century was not Overture 'Le Bandit' ready for a story of adultery in the home of a Protestant Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen PURCELL Fantazia a 4 No.9 in A minor; minister and the opera was severely censored at the time of its (conductor) Fantazia a 4 No.8 in D minor première in 1850. Forced to extensively revise his opera, Verdi Rose Consort of Viols then lost interest in it and did his best to destroy all copies of 05:08AM (BBC recording) the original manuscript. It wasn't until 1960 that a complete Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849) score of Stiffelio was discovered, and in 1993 it entered the Scherzo No.3 in C sharp (Op.39) JOHN LLOYD Puzzle Canon 'Tris' a 4 repertory of the Metropolitan Opera with tenor Plácido Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [Brautigam plays on an 1842 Rose Consort of Viols Domingo in the title role. Domingo now takes up the Erard Grand Piano. Recorded in 1992] (BBC recording) conductor's baton whilst Argentinian tenor José Cura sings the role of Stiffelio, the troubled clergyman who struggles between 05:16AM Segue to: his ideals and the urge for revenge. American soprano Sondra Bruhns, Nicolaus (1665-1697) Radvanovsky performs the role of his wife, Lina. From the Wohl dem, der den Herren fürchtet (cantata) JOHN BALDWIN A Browninge a 3 opening scene, the young Verdi's originality is apparent as he Greta de Reyghere & Jill Feldman (sopranos), Max van Rose Consort of Viols begins Stiffelio with a long, ambitious septet and goes on from Egmond (bass), Ricercar Consort (BBC recording) there with that mixture of dramatic force and melodic richness that made him the most successful composer of Italian opera in 05:24AM PURCELL Fantazia a 3 No.3 in G minor; Fantazia a 3 No.2 in the second half of the 19th century. Hellendaal, Pieter (1721-1799) F major; Fantazia a 3 No.1 in D minor Concerto grosso for strings and continuo in F major (Op.3 Rose Consort of Viols Presented by Margaret Juntwait with guest commentator Ira No.6) (BBC recording) Siff. Backstage interviews with members of the cast and the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam Met Quiz during the intervals. OSBERT PARSLEY The Songe upon the Dyall a 5 05:38AM Rose Consort of Viols Stiffelio: José Cura (tenor) Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963) (BBC recording) Lina: Sondra Radvanovsky (soprano) Sonata for oboe and piano (1962) Stankar: Andrzej Dobber (baritone) Roger Cole (oboe), Linda Lee Thomas (piano) Segue to: Raffaele von Leuthold: Michael Fabiano (tenor) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 30 January – 5 February 2010 Page 2 of 13 Jorg: Phillip Ens (bass) Renaissance Polyphony Jouko Harjanne (trumpet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dorotea: Jennifer Check (mezzo-soprano) Sakari Oramo (conductor) Federico: Diego Torre (tenor) Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars have specialised in the Plácido Domingo (conductor) performance of Renaissance polyphony for over thirty years. 05:06AM Orchestra and Chorus of Metropolitan Orchestra. They have built a reputation for bringing some of the greatest Mielck, Ernst (1877-1899) European church music of the 16th and 17th centuries onto the Suomalainen sarja (Finnish suite) (Op.10) (1899) concert platform. So what has prompted such an enthusiasm? Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor) SAT 21:15 Between the Ears (b00qbzg5) Lucie Skeaping explores with Peter and the group some of the The Chekhov Challenge - The Sound of a Breaking String qualities and the ethos of Renaissance polyphony.