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Through the Night

Continuous broadcast of concert music and opera, recorded from locations throughout Europe

Through the Night; Through the Night

Through the Night: Through the Night

24/09/2007

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Through the Night

Jonathan Swain concludes the programme with music by Wolf, Chopin, Verdi, Palestrina, Sibelius, Vivaldi, Suk, Strauss and Mozart.

With Jonathan Swain.

5.00am
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903): Italian Serenade
Ljubljana String Quartet

5.08am
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849): Scherzo No 1 in B minor, Op 20
Valerie Tryon (piano)

5.18am
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901): Giovanna d'Arco (Sinfonia)
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
Richard Bradshaw (conductor)

5.25am
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594): Magnificat primi toni
Marco Beasley, Davide Livermoore (tenors)
Fabian Schofrin, Annemieke Cantor (altos)
Daniele Carnovich (bass)
Diego Fasolis (conductor)

5.33am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Petite Suite
Royal Academy of Music Brass Soloists

5.41am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Flute Concerto in D, Op 10 No 3
Karl Kaiser (flute)
Camerata Koln

5.53am
Suk, Josef (1874-1935): Mass in B flat (Krecovicka)
Marie Matejkova (soprano)
Ilona Satylova (alto)
Jiri Vinklarek (tenor)
Michael Mergl (bass)
Miluska Kvechova (organ)
Czech Radio Choir
Pilzen Radio Orchestra
Stanislaw Begunia (conductor)

6.18am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Violin Sonata in E flat, Op 18
Baiba Skride (violin)
Lauma Skride (piano)

6.47am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Flute Quartet No 4 in A, K298
Dae-Won Kim (flute)
Yong-Woo Chun (violin)
Myung-Hee Cho (viola)
Jink-Yung Chee (cello).

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Breakfast

Radio 3's breakfast show, waking the UK up with the finest classical music in the best performances

Breakfast: 24/09/2007

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, 24/09/2007

Including Byrd, Elgar's Froissart Concert Overture, Pergolesi, Mozart, Stravinsky and Bach

Including Elgar: Froissart Concert Overture. Pergolesi: La conosco a quegl occhietti. Mozart: Symphony No 33. Stravinsky: Sonata for 2 pianos. Bach: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied.

Including from 7.00am

Byrd: Ne irascaris dominum/Civitas sanctis tui
Hilliard Ensemble

Elgar: Froissart Concert Overture, Op 19
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)

Pergolesi: La conosco a quegl' occhietti (La Serva Padrona)
Maddalena Bonifaccio (soprano)
Siegmund Nimsgern (bass)
Collegium Aureum

From 8.30am

Mozart: Symphony No 33 in B flat, K319
English Chamber Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor)

Stravinsky: Sonata for two pianos
Robert Fizdale, Arthur Gold (pianos)

Bach: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
La Chapelle Royale
Collegium Vocale
Philippe Herreweghe (conductor).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Music includes: 
7.00-8.30: Byrd Ne Irascaris Dominum 
Hilliard Ensemble Elgar Overture: Froissart RPO, conductor 
Charles Mackerras Pergolesi La Conosco a Quegl'occhietti (La Serva Padrona) Maddalena Bonifaccio (soprano), 
Siegmund  Nimsgern (bass), Collegium Aureum 
8.30-10.00: Mozart Symphony No 33 in B flat, K319 English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis Stravinsky Sonata for two pianos Robert Fizdale , Arthur  Gold  Bach Motet: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV225 La Chapelle Royale, 
Collegium Vocale , director Philippe Herreweghe

Classical Collection

Programme presenting a sequence of great music in classic recordings

Classical Collection: 24/09/2007

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Collection, 24/09/2007

With Sarah Walker. Works by M Haydn, Bartok, Francaix, CPE Bach, Brahms and Mozart.

Including M Haydn: Symphony in E flat. Bartok: Piano Concerto No 1. Francaix: Quartet for cor anglais and strings. Brahms: 4 Serious Songs. Mozart: Sinfonia concertante.

With Sarah Walker.

10.00am
M Haydn: Symphony in E flat, P26
London Mozart Players
Matthias Bamert (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 9352

10.10am
Senaille: Allegro Spirituoso
Archie Camden (bassoon)
Unknown Orchestra
Hamilton Harty (conductor)
BEULAH 1PD4

10.15am
Bartok: Piano Concerto No 1
Stephen Bishop Kovacevich (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor)

10.41am
Francaix: Quartet for cor anglais and strings
Lajos Lencses (cor anglais)
Francaix Trio
CPO 999 779 2

10.56am
CPE Bach: Concerto in C minor for harpsichord and orchestra
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI RD 77187

11.09am
Brahms: 4 Serious Songs
Hans Hotter (bass)
Gerald Moore (piano)
EMI CDH 763 198 2

11.27am
Mozart: Sinfonia concertante, K364
As recommended in Saturday's Building a Library.

Presented by Sarah Walker. M Haydn Symphony in A, P6 
London Mozart Players, conductor Matthias Bamert 
10.16 Bartok Piano Concerto No 1 
Stephen Kovacevich , LSO/Colin Davis 
10.41 Françaix Quartet for cor anglais and strings Lajos Lencses, Frangaix Trio 
10.56 CPE Bach Harpsichord Concerto in C minor, Wq43No4 Andreas Staier, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, conductor Thomas Hengelbrock 
11.09 Brahms Four Serious Songs 
Hans Hotter (bass), Gerald Moore (piano) 
11.27 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K364 As recommended in Saturday's CD Review.

Composer of the Week

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Christoph Willibald Gluck

Composer of the Week: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Episode 1

Episode 1

Christoph Willibald Gluck

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Episode 1

Gluck stood aloof from any tradition, declaring he wrote 'music belonging to all nations'.

Including excerpts from Orfeo ed Euridice, Alceste, Iphigenie en Aulide and Iphigenie en Tauride.

With Donald Macleod. Remembered today as a composer who reformed the narrow conventions of Italian and French opera, Gluck was a fascinatingly unique composer. He deliberately stood aloof from any school or tradition, declaring he wanted to write 'music belonging to all nations'.

Overture (Orfeo ed Euridice)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Rene Jacobs (conductor)

Non vi turbate, no, pietosi dei (Alceste)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord/director)

Iphigenie en Aulide (Act 2, scenes 6-7)
Achille ...... John Aler (tenor)
Agamemnon ...... Jose van Dam (bass-baritone)
Orchestra de l'Opera de Lyon
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Chaconne (Alessandro)
Musica Antiqua Koln
Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

Iphigenie en Tauride (Act 3)
Iphigenie ...... Mireille Delunsch (soprano)
Oreste ...... Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
Une Pretresse ...... Claire Delgado-Boge (soprano)
Pylade ...... Yann Beuron (tenor)
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski (conductor).

Donald Macleod explores the 18th century German composer, famous for Orfeo ed Euridice

Donald Macleod explores the life of the 18th century German composer, who was Marie Antionette's music teacher. Famous for reforms in the field of opera, Orfeo ed Euridice is his most famous work

Composer of the Week:Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-87)

1/5. Gluck is remembered today as the reforming composer who broke through the conventions of Italian and French opera. He declared he wanted to write "music belonging to all nations", to destroy "the ridiculous distinctions between national styles". Donald Macleod assesses how he fared. Overture: Orfeo ed Euridice 
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, conductor René Jacobs Non Vi Turbate, No, Pietosi Dei (Alceste) 
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) 
Iphigenie en A ulide (Act 2, Scenes 6 and 7)  Lyon Opera Orchestra/John Eliot Gardiner Chaconne (Alessandro) 
Musica Antiqua, Koln, director Reinhard  Goebel Iphigenie en Tauride (Act 3)  
Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc  Minkowski Repeated at 8.45pm 
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Afternoon Concert

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras from around the world

Afternoon on 3

Afternoon Concert: 24/09/2007

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, 24/09/2007

The Lunchtime Concert features violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cedric Tiberghien.

1.00pm Lunchtime Concert: Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cedric Tiberghien. 2.00pm New Generation Artists. 4.00 The Making of Music. 41/60: The End of the Hapsburgs.

Presented by Penny Gore.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, Verity Sharp introduces a recital by two recent Radio 3 New Generation Artists, violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cedric Tiberghien.

Schubert: Sonatina No 3 in G minor, D408
Hartmann: Suite No 2 for solo violin
Beethoven: Sonata in F, Op 24 (Spring)

2.00pm

The Lunchtime Concert focus on Radio 3 New Generation Artists continues into the afternoons this week with concerto performances recorded with the BBC Orchestras. And the BBC Philharmonic's recently recorded cycle of Schumann's four symphonies features across the week, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.

Elgar: Cello Concerto
Natalie Clein (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
James Judd (conductor)

Berlioz: Harold en Italie (Symphony for viola and orchestra)
Antoine Tamestit (viola)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor)

Schumann: Symphony No 1 in B flat (Spring)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 
Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, introduced by Verity Sharp. Alina Ibragimova (violin), 
Cedric Tiberghien (piano) 
Schubert Violin Sonatina No 3 in G minor, D408 Hartmann Suite No 2 for solo violin 
Beethoven Violin Sonata in F, Op 24 (Spring) 
2.00 BBC Philharmonic 
Presented by Penny Gore . The focus on Radio 3 
New Generation Artists continues with a concerto each day and one of Schumann's four symphonies at the end of each concert. 
Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor Natalie Clein , BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor James Judd Berlioz Harold en Italie Antoine Tamestit (viola), BBC NOW, conductor Jac van Steen 
Schumann Symphony No 1 in B flat (Spring) 
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gianandrea Noseda 
4.00 The Making of Music 
11/30. The End of the Hapsburgs. Performances in full of the music featured in James Naughtie 's Radio 4 series. How Czech composer Janacek became a poet of his times and his people.

The Making of Music

Performances of the music James Naughtie mentions in his Radio 4 series.

Performances of the music James Naughtie mentions in his Radio 4 series, which connects historical events and their effect on the course of classical music.

The Making of Music; The Making of Music

The Making of Music: The Making of Music

BBC Radio 3 - The Making of Music, The Making of Music

Performances of the music James Naughtie mentions in his Radio 4 series, which connects historical events and their effect on classical music. 41/60: The End of the Hapsburgs.

Performances of the music James Naughtie mentions in his Radio 4 series, which connects historical events and their effect on the course of classical music.

41/60. The End of the Hapsburgs

As the Austro-Hungarian Empire was disintegrating, the Czech composer Janacek became a poet of his times and his people by drawing on the culture of the new Czech lands that were forming. Including music by Janacek and Bartok.

In Tune

Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.

Radio 3's drivetime show brings you incredible live music and interviews from the world's finest classical, jazz, folk and world musicians.

Radio 3's drivetime show brings you incredible live music and interviews from the world's finest classical, jazz, folk and world musicians. If it's happening in the world of music, you'll hear it first on In Tune.

In Tune: 24/09/2007

BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, 24/09/2007

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world.

Sean Rafferty's guests include flautist Adam Walker, and cast members and the production team of a rare staging of Mozart's first oratorio Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots.

Sean Rafferty's guests include flautist Adam Walker, who talks about the Young Concert Artists Trust's Presentation Concert at The Purcell Room on Friday, and cast members and the production team of a rare staging of Mozart's first oratorio Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots (The First Commandment), who perform live in the studio.

Performance on 3

Performance on 3 has been replaced by Radio 3 Live in Concert.

Performance on 3: Sir Colin Davis's 80th Birthday

Performance on 3: Sir Colin Davis's 80th Birthday: Episode 1

Sir Colin Davis's 80th Birthday

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, Sir Colin Davis's 80th Birthday, Episode 1

Berlioz performed in 1965 by the New Philharmonia Orchestra, plus Stravinsky and Gerhard.

Radio 3 celebrates Sir Colin Davis's 80th birthday with recordings from the archive. 1/5. Including a 1965 New Philharmonia Orchestra recording of Berlioz's Les Francs-juges.

With Tom Service.

Radio 3 celebrates Sir Colin Davis's 80th birthday with recordings from the archive. These concerts span the majority of his career, covering signature composers from his repertoire, performed by the orchestras and opera companies with whom he has built up a close relationship.

1/5. Tonight's concert includes a 1965 New Philharmonia Orchestra recording of excerpts from Berlioz's Les Francs-juges.

Stravinsky: Petrushka
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor)

Berlioz: Les Francs-juges
April Cantelo (soprano)
Helen Watts (mezzo-soprano)
Emile Belcourt (tenor)
Raimund Herincx (baritone)
The Ambrosian Singers
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor)

Gerhard: Symphony No 4 (New York)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor).

Radio 3 celebrates conductor Sir Colin Davis's 80th birthday with archive recordings

- Colin Davis at 80 
Tom Service presents this weeks Radio 3 celebration of Colin Davis 's 80th birthday with archive recordings that span his career and feature works by the chief composers from his repertoire, performed by the orchestras and opera companies with whom he worked closely. 
Tonight's concert includes a 1965 recording of Berlioz's incomplete opera Les Francs-Juges. Stravinsky Petrushka 
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis Berlioz Les Francs-Juges (fragments) 
April  Cantelo  (soprano), Helen Watts (mezzo), Emile Belcourt (tenor), Raimund Herincx 
(baritone), Ambrosian Singers , New Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis 
Gerhard Symphony No 4 (New York) 
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis Music choices: page 128

Composer of the Week: Gluck

Night Waves

Radio 3’s flagship arts programme until 2013. Over 350 editions available in the archive.

Radio 3’s flagship arts programme until 2013. Search the extensive archive for interviews, debates and reviews. Go to Free Thinking for the new home of arts and ideas on Radio 3.

Night Waves: 24/09/2007

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, 24/09/2007

Gabriel Gbadamosi and Richard Mabey explore our long-standing relationship with trees.

Gabriel Gbadamosi joins one of Britain's foremost nature writers, Richard Mabey, on a journey to explore society's long-standing relationship with its trees.

Gabriel Gbadamosi joins one of Britain's foremost nature writers, Richard Mabey, on a journey to explore society's long-standing relationship with its trees. Mabey believes Britain has changed its understanding of trees ever since the great storm of 1987 and to prove his case takes Gabriel to visit an ancient Queen Beech tree in Hertfordshire.

Gabriel Gbadamosi joins nature writer Richard Mabey on a journey to explore society's long-standing relationship with its trees. Producer Horatio Clare

Artist Focus

Programme focussing on the work of a specific artist

Programme focussing on the work of a specific artist.

This programme is no longer broadcast.  The details have been left here for information.

Artist Focus: 24/09/2007

BBC Radio 3 - Artist Focus, 24/09/2007

Soprano Felicity Lott performs English music, with excerpts from Britten's Peter Grimes.

With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Soprano Felicity Lott performs a feast of English music including excerpts from Britten's Peter Grimes.

Felicity Lott sings excerpts from Britten's Peter Grimes. Presented by Tom Service . EMAIL: artistfocus@bbc.co.uk

The Essay

Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.

Essay: Strange Encounters

The Essay: Strange Encounters: Episode 1: Breaking the Time Barrier

Episode 1: Breaking the Time Barrier

Strange Encounters

Breaking the Time Barrier

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Strange Encounters, Breaking the Time BarrierClose menu

Archaeologist Clive Gamble sees evidence of the Stone Age in a gravel pit in north France.

Strange Encounters: Four scientists relive a key moment in their discipline. 1/4: Breaking the Time Barrier. Archaeologist Clive Gamble sees the first evidence of the Stone Age.

Strange Encounters

Four scientists relive a key moment in their discipline.

1/4. Breaking the Time Barrier

Archaeologist Clive Gamble transports us back to a gravel pit in northern France in 1859 to see the first evidence of the Stone Age, proof that mankind lived long before biblical times.

The Essay: Strange Encounters

Four scientists relive a key moment in their discipline

Strange Encounters 
1/4. Breaking the Time Barrier. Archaeologist Clive Gamble recalls the discovery of the first Stone Age artefacts in a gravel pit in northern France in 1859. Producer Roland Pease EMAIL: theessay@bbc.co.uk

Charlie Gillett

A selection of intriguing sounds from around the world

Charlie Gillett: 24/09/2007

BBC Radio 3 - Charlie Gillett, 24/09/2007

More intriguing sounds from around the world.

Another selection of intriguing sounds from around the world.

Through the Night: 25/09/2007

25/09/2007

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 25/09/2007

Jonathan Swain spins Debussy, Boulanger, Beethoven, Mahler, Mozart, Abel and Sweelinck.

Including 1.00 Debussy, Boulanger, Beethoven, Mahler. 3.35 Mozart, Abel, Sweelinck, Bartok, La Barre, Humperdinck. 5.00 Cramer, Abel, Chopin, Korngold, Tippett, Hellendaal.

With Jonathan Swain.

1.01am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1916): Piano Trio in G
George Sand Trio

1.23am
Boulanger, Lili (1893-1918): Piano Trio (D'un soir triste); Piano Trio (D'un matin de printemps)
George Sand Trio

1.42am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1916): Printemps
George Sand Trio

1.49am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus
Romanian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Horia Andreescu (conductor)

2.34am
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911): Das Lied von der Erde
Randi Stene (mezzo-soprano)
Gwyn Hughes Jones (tenor)
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra
Eivind Aadland (conductor)

3.35am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Serenade in C minor for wind octet, K388
The Wind Ensemble of the Hungarian State Opera

3.58am
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787): Sonata in A for cello and continuo
La Stagione Frankfurt

4.06am
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Psalm 23 (5 Psalms of David)
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)

4.14am
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945): Six Romanian Dances
Miklós Szenthelyi (violin)
Zoltán Kocsis (piano)

4.20am
La Barre, Michel de (c.1675-1743/4): Suite No 1 in C minor
La Simphonie du Marais

4.30am
Koussevitsky, Serge (1874-1951): Andante cantabile and Valse miniature, Op 1 Nos 1 and 2
Gary Carr (double bass)
Harmon Lewis (piano)

4.39am
Humperdinck, Engelbert (1854-1921): Dream Pantomime (Hansel and Gretel)
Symphony Nova Scotia
Georg Tintner (conductor)

4.49am
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997): Gai Paris for wind ensemble
Wind Ensemble of the Hungarian Radio Orchestra.

Presented by Jonathan Swain. Debussy Piano Trio in G 
Boulanger D'un Soir Triste; D'un Matin de Printemps George Sand Trio 
1.42 Debussy Printemps 1.49 Beethoven Die 
Ceschopfe des Prometheus 2.34 Mahler Das Lied von der Erde 3.35 Mozart Wind Serenade in C minor, K388 
3.58 Abel Cello Sonata in A 4.06 Sweelinck Psalm 23 
(Five Psalms of David) 4.14 Bartok Six Romanian Dances 
4.20 La Barre Suite No I in C minor 4.30 Koussevitsky Andante cantabile, Op 1 No I; Valse Miniature, Op I No 2 
4.39 Humperdinck Dream Pantomime (Hansel und 
Gretel) 4.49 Francaix Gai Paris 5.00 Cramer Sonata in G (CPE Bach Musical Collection) 5.07 Papandopulo By the Grave of the Beauty 5.14 Abel Symphony in D, Op 10 No 5 5.24 Rangstrom Violin Suite No 2 
5.35 Chopin Polonaise in A flat, Op 53 
5.42 Cimarosa, arr Benjamin Oboe Concerto 
5.53 Korngold Violin Concerto 6.19 Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op 22 
6.34 Tippett Five Spirituals (A Child of Our Time) 
6.46 Hellendaal Concerto Grosso in E flat, Op 3 No 4

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