Listings
: Morning on 3
With Penny Gore . Music includes:7.00-8.30: Vaughan-Williams Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Bernard Haitink
Coates Symphonic Rhapsody on Richard Rodgers With a Song in My Heart
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor John Wilson Bartok Rhapsody, Op 1 Zoltan Kocsis (piano), Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer
8.30-10.00: Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV538 (Dorian) Hans Fagius (organ) Janacek Taras Bulba
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Karel Ancerl
Contributors
Unknown:
Penny
Gore
Conductor:
Bernard
Haitink
Unknown:
Richard
Rodgers
Conductor:
John
Wilson
Piano:
Zoltan
Kocsis
Conductor:
Ivan
Fischer
Unknown:
Hans
Fagius
Conductor:
Karel
Ancerl
: CD Masters
With Jonathan Swain.Verdi Overture: La Forza del Destino New Philharmonia, conductor Igor Markevitch
10.09 Listener request:
Berlioz Adieu Fiere Cite (Les Troyens, Act 5) Rita Gorr (mezzo), Philharmonia, conductor Lawrance Collingwood
10.14 Marais Prelude en Harpegement; Fantaisie; Grand Ballet; Caprice ou
Sonate; Muzette Sophie Watillon and Friederike Heumann (bass viols), Xavier Diaz-Latorre (guitar and theorbo), Luca Guglielmi (harpsichord)
10.31 Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 in Fminor Clara Haskil , Lamoureux
Orchestra, conductor Igor Markevitch
11.03 Marais Suite No 1 in D (Pieces de Viole, 4eme Livre) Jérôme Hantai , Kaori Uemura and Alex Verzier (bass viols), Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord)
11.28 Markevitch L 'Envoi d'lcare Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Contributors
Unknown:
Jonathan
Swain.
Conductor:
Igor
Markevitch
Unknown:
Rita
Gorr
Conductor:
Lawrance
Collingwood
Unknown:
Sophie
Watillon
Bass:
Friederike
Heumann
Guitar:
Xavier
Diaz-Latorre
Harpsichord:
Luca
Guglielmi
Unknown:
Clara
Haskil
Conductor:
Igor
Markevitch
Unknown:
Jérôme
Hantai
Unknown:
Kaori
Uemura
Bass:
Alex
Verzier
Harpsichord:
Pierre
Hantaï
Conductor:
Christopher
Lyndon-Gee
: Composer of the Week: Berlioz
4: Berlioz the SymphonistDonald Macleod and Berlioz expert David Cairns considerthe artistic viewpoint from which Berlioz approached the symphony. He saw it as a form of drama which could equal any of Shakespeare's. His scale of vision and ideas about orchestration were ahead of his time, and his earliest symphonic work, the Symphonie
Fantastique, which was produced in 1830, had an electrifying effect on the audience, who had never heard anything like it before. Harold in Italy followed in 1834, inspired by Byron's dramatic poem Childe Harold 's Pilgrimage and Berlioz's own memories of happytimes spent in the Abruzzi mountains outside Rome. Like Beethoven before him, Berlioz's innovations challenged the way in which symphonic music was regarded.
Ronde du Sabbat (Symphonie Fantastique) LSO, conductor Colin Davis
Harold in Italy (2nd mvt)
Tabea Zimmermann (viola), London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale
(1st mvt) (excerpt) Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit Romeo et Juliette (finale)
Gilles Cachemaille (baritone), Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et
Romantique, conductor John Eliot Gardiner Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight See also 7.30pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Donald
MacLeod
Unknown:
David
Cairns
Unknown:
Childe
Harold
Conductor:
Colin
Davis
Viola:
Tabea
Zimmermann
Conductor:
Colin
Davis
Conductor:
Symphonie
Funebre
Conductor:
Charles
Dutoit
Baritone:
Gilles
Cachemaille
Conductor:
John Eliot
Gardiner
: Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Bath MozartfestPresented by Stephanie Hughes. Nash Ensemble
Schubert Octet in F, D803
Contributors
Presented By:
Stephanie
Hughes.
: Afternoon Performance
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Presented by Louise Fryer . Berlioz Overture: Le Carnaval RomainConductor Ilan Volkov
Pierne Scherzo-Caprice, Op 25 Stephen Coombs (piano), conductor Ronald Corp
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K622 Michael Collins (basset clarinet), conductor Ilan Volkov
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor Conductor Alexander Titov
Contributors
Presented By:
Louise
Fryer
Conductor:
Ilan
Volkov
Piano:
Stephen
Coombs
Conductor:
Ronald
Corp
Basset:
Michael
Collins
Conductor:
Ilan
Volkov
Conductor:
Alexander
Titov
: Making Tracks
Music foryounger listeners presented by CBBC's Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson. Including music from Guys and Dolls and Where the Wild Things Are.Contributors
Unknown:
Adrian
Dickson.
: Brian Kay's Light Programme
A selection of light classical music.: In Tune
Sean Rafferty introduces a selection of music and news from the arts world.Contributors
Introduces:
Sean
Rafferty
: Performance on 3
Archive WeekStephen Johnson presents another concert from the BBC Archives, as voted for by Radio 3 listeners. Thomas Beecham was one of the greatest Berlioz champions, and his Royal Albert Hall performance of the immense Grande Messe des Morts from 1959 reveals the work as a magnificent Romantic vision, rather than the inflated monsterpiece it is often reputed to be.
Berlioz Grande Messe des Morts Richard Lewis (tenor),
Royal Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Thomas Beecham
(13 December 1959, Royal Albert Hall , London)
Contributors
Unknown:
Stephen
Johnson
Unknown:
Thomas
Beecham
Unknown:
Royal Albert
Hall
Tenor:
Richard
Lewis
Conductor:
Thomas
Beecham
Unknown:
Albert
Hall
: Belcea Quartet
Janacek String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters) (R): Night Waves
China Mieville discusses the final part of Peter Jackson 's Lord of the Rings trilogy, Return of the King, and talks to American writer David Foster Wallace about the Concept of infinity. Producer Timothy ProsserContributors
Unknown:
Peter
Jackson
Unknown:
David Foster
Wallace
Producer:
Timothy
Prosser
: Late Junction
Readings from Noël Coward and John Betjeman , krautrockfrom Cluster, and Kaffe Matthews 's adventures in electronics. Presented by Verity Sharp.Contributors
Unknown:
John
Betjeman
Unknown:
Kaffe
Matthews
Presented By:
Verity
Sharp.
: Composer of the Week: Stravinsky
5: With Donald Macleod.Concerto for Two Pianos (Variations;
Prelude and Fugue) Soulima Stravinsky and the Composer
Concerto in E flat (Dumbarton Oaks)
Endymion Ensemble, director John Whitfield Symphony in C LSO, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
Repeated from Friday
Contributors
Unknown:
Donald
MacLeod.
Unknown:
Soulima
Stravinsky
Director:
John
Whitfield
Conductor:
Michael Tilson
Thomas
: Through the Night
With Louise Fryer.Liadov The Enchanted Lake, Op 62
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4 in F minor
1.50 Rachmaninov Variations on a Theme ofCorelli, Op 42 2.15 Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 65 2.35 Livadlc Scherzo in E; Scherzo in A flat 2.40 Papandopulo Croatian Mass 3.40 Telemann Scherzo
Melodico No 3 in G (Mittwoch) (Pyrmonter Kurwoche) 3.50 Bach Keyboard Partita
No 5 in G, BWV829 4.00 Hoist, arr Walsh St Paul 's Suite 4.15 Stanford 0 Living Will; The Blue Bird, Op 119 No 3 4.25Satie, arr Goto Valse: Je Te Veux 4.30 Debussy Première Rapsodie 4.35 Delibes Bell
Song(Lakme) 4.45 Wassenaer Concerto Armonico No 1 in G 5.00 Bach Violin
Concerto in E, BWV1042 5.15 Weber Sonatina, Romance and Menuet,
Op 3 Nos 1-3 5.20 Donizetti Tombe degli Avi Miei ...Fra Poco a Me Ricovero (Lucia di Lammermoor) 5.30 Fritz Violin Sonata, Op2No4 4 5.45 CF Abel SymphonyinA, Op 10 No 6 5.55 CPE Bach Rondo in C minor, Wq59 No 4 6.00 Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 (Aria -
Cantilena; Danca - Martel) 6.15 Gade At
Sunset, Op 46 6.20 Mozart String Quintet in G minor, K516
Contributors
Unknown:
Louise
Fryer.
Unknown:
Walsh St
Paul
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