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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

19/01/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Through the Night

Jonathan Swain concludes the programme with music by Rossini, Vivaldi, Sibelius, Verdi, Wanski, Ravel, Schumann, Chopin, Schubert and Ireland.

With Jonathan Swain.

5.00am
Rossini: The silken ladder – overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
James Clark (conductor)

5.06am
Vivaldi: Concerto in D, RV 234 (Inquietudine)
Giuliano Carmignola (violin)
Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca

5.12am
Sibelius: Romance in D flat, Op 24, No 9
Liisa Pohjola (piano)

5.17am
Verdi: Pater Noster
Radio France Chorus
Donald Palumbo (conductor)

5.26am
Wanski: Symphony in G on themes from the opera Kmiotek
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Andrzej Mysinski (conductor)

5.42am
Ravel: Deux melodies hebraiques
Catherine Robbin (mezzo)
Andre Laplante (piano)

5.40am
Schumann, arr. Liszt: Widmung
Janina Fialkowska (piano)

5.53am
Chopin: Scherzo in B flat minor, Op 31
Alex Slobodyanik (piano)

6.04am
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, D667 (Trout)
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)
Alban Berg Quartet

6.42am
Ireland: A Downland Suite
Hannaford Street Silver Band
Bramwell Tovey (conductor).

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: 19/01/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, 19/01/2008

Including works by Biber, Walton, Handel and Bernstein.

Including Biber: Ballettae a 4. Walton: Facade (excerpts). Handel: Violin Sonata in G, HWV358. Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs.

Including from 7.00am

Biber: Ballettae a 4
New London Consort
Philip Pickett (director)

Walton: Facade (excerpts)
Fenella Fielding and Michael Flanders (reciters)
Members of the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)

From 8.00am

Handel: Violin Sonata in G, HWV 358
Andrew Manze (violin)
Richard Egarr (harpsichord)

Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
Benny Goodman (clarinet)
Columbia Jazz Combo
Leonard Bernstein (director).

Martin Handley

Music includes: 
7.00-8.00: Biber Ballettae a 4 New London Consort, director Philip Pickett Walton Façade (excerpts) 
Fenella Fielding and Michael Flanders (reciters), members of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner 
8.00-9.00: Handel Violin Sonata in G, HWV358 Andrew Manze (violin), Richard Egarr (harpsichord) Leonard Bernstein Prelude, Fugue and Riffs 
Benny Goodman (clarinet), Colombia Jazz Combo directed by the composer 
For full details visit www.bbc. co.uk/radio3/breakfast on the day of transmission PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) email: [address removed] Address: Breakfast. BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA

CD Review

A thorough look at the week's classical music releases, plus news and recommendations

A thorough look at the week's classical music releases, plus news and the Radio 3 Disc of the Week recommendation

CD Review: Building a Library: Wagner: Siegfried

Building a Library: Wagner: Siegfried

BBC Radio 3 - CD Review, Building a Library: Wagner: Siegfried

With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Wagner: Das Rheingold.

With Andrew McGregor. Including 9.30am Building a Library: Wagner: Das Rheingold. 10.45am Naxos A-Z of Conductors. 11.15am The music of Judith Weir. 11.45am Disc: Handel: Esther.

Andrew McGregor introduces Radio 3's weekly programme devoted to all that's new in the world of recorded music. 

Building a Library:
Wagner: Siegfried 

Reviewer - Roderick Swanston

First Choice:
Siegfried - Wolfgang Windgassen; Brunnhilde - Astrid Varnay; Wanderer - Hans Hotter; Alberich - Gustav Neidlinger; Mime - Paul Kuen; Erda - Maria von Ilosvay; Fafner - Josef Greindl; Waldvogel - Ilse Hollweg; Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele
Joseph Keilberth (conductor)
Testament SBT4 1392 (4 CDs)

CD Review BAL Catalogue Data
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Presented by Andrew McGregor. 
9.30 Building a Library Writer and broadcaster Roderick Swanston continues CD Review's analysis of Wagner's Ring cycle by exploring available recordings of the third part, Siegfried. 
10.45 Conductor Edward Gardner discusses highlights from the Naxos A-Z of Conductors. 
11.15 Composer and conductor James Weeks surveys recordings of music by Judith Weir. whose career is celebrated this weekend at the Barbican and on Radio 3. 
11.45 Disc of the Week: Handel Esther London Handel Orchestra, conductor Laurence Cummings www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview PHONE: [number removed]. 
(calls from landlines cost no more than 8p per minute) email: [address removed] Text [number removed](standard rate) Disc details are posted on the website and on CEEFAX, BBC1, page 651

Music Matters

The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters

Music Matters: 19/01/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, 19/01/2008

Valery Gergiev talks about his current interests, including his Mahler cycle.

Valery Gergiev, principal conductor of the LSO, talks to Tom Service about his current interests, including his Mahler cycle. And conductor Mark Elder marks 150 years of the Halle.

Valery Gergiev, principal conductor of the LSO, talks to Tom Service about his current preoccupations, including his Mahler cycle. And conductor Mark Elder and players celebrate 150 years of the Halle, Britain's oldest professional symphony orchestra.

Valery Gergiev , principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, talks to Tom Service about his current preoccupations, including his Mahler cycle. And conductor Mark Elder and orchestra members celebrate 150 years of the Halle, 
Britain's oldest professional symphony orchestra. Producer Jeremy Evans

The Early Music Show

Performance and news from the world of early music.

An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.

The Early Music Show: The Early Music Show

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, The Early Music Show

Lucie Skeaping explores John Taverner, who combined Medieval and Renaissance influences.

Lucie Skeaping features the music of the Lincolnshire-born composer and church musician John Taverner.

Lucie Skeaping features the music of the Lincolnshire-born composer and church musician John Taverner.

Unequalled among English musicians of his time, he combined the florid writing of the late Medieval period with newer continental Renaissance influences.

Lucie Skeaping explores the music of Lincolnshire-born composer and church musician John Taverner , who was unequalled among 
English musicians of his time and combined the style of the late-medieval florid writing with the newer continental Renaissance influences. Producer Rebecca Bean

Performance on 3

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

Performance on 3: Judith Weir: Telling the Tale

Judith Weir: Telling the Tale

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, Judith Weir: Telling the Tale

The Schubert Ensemble perform Judith Weir's Music for 247 strings and Piano Quartet (2000)

Judith Weir: Telling the Tale. The Art of Chamber Music: From LSO St Luke's, London, The Schubert Ensemble perform Judith Weir's Music for 247 strings and Piano Quartet (2000).

Judith Weir: Telling the Tale

The Art of Chamber Music

Live from LSO St Luke's, London, Tom Service presents a chamber concert as part of a weekend dedicated to the music of leading British composer Judith Weir. The performers, The Schubert Ensemble, have transformed the British chamber music landscape by commissioning around 40 works – including several in this concert. 

Martin Butler: American Rounds
Weir: Music for 247 strings; Arise, arise, you slumbering sleepers; Piano Quartet (2000)

Judith Kleinman (double bass)
The Schubert Ensemble:
Simon Blendis (violin)
Douglas Paterson (viola)
Jane Salmon (cello)
Peter Buckoke (double bass)
William Howard (piano).

Judith Weir: Telling the Tale The Art of Chamber Music

This year's January composer weekend, celebrating the music of Judith Weir , continues with a concert given by the Schubert Ensemble, who have commissioned around 40 new chamber works during their 
25-year existence. Introduced by Tom Service . Schubert Ensemble 
Martin Butler American Rounds 
Judith Weir Music for 247 Strings; Arise, Arise, You Slumbering Sleepers; Piano Quartet (2000) 
2.50 Interval Another chance to hear Everything's OK, by Daniela Crasnaru. 
3.05 David Knotts On Such a Night as This 
Judith Weir What Sound Will Chase Elephants Away?; The Art of Touching the Keyboard Piers Hellawell Weaver of Grass

Twenty Minutes

Eclectic arts magazine programme, exploring a range of fascinating subjects

Eclectic arts magazine programme, exploring a range of fascinating people, places and events

Twenty Minutes: Everything's OK

12/08/2007

Everything's OK

BBC Radio 3 - Twenty Minutes, Everything's OK

Travelling conductor Gheorghe Iliu receives curious family telegrams.

Everything's OK, by Daniela Crasnaru: Bill Nighy reads a story by an acclaimed Romanian writer. Conductor Gheorghe Iliu receives some curious telegrams from his family back home.

The Schubert Ensemble perform music including Weir's What Sound Will Chase Elephants Away?

Judith Weir: Telling The Tale. The Art of Chamber Music: This afternoon's concert concludes with Weir's What Sound Will Chase Elephants Away? and The Art of Touching the Keyboard.

Judith Weir: Telling The Tale

The Art of Chamber Music

This afternoon's concert by the Schubert Ensemble concludes with works including Weir's What Sound Will Chase Elephants Away? Plus music from David Knotts and Piers Hellawell.

Knotts: On Such a Night As This
Weir:	 What Sound Will Chase Elephants Away?; The Art of Touching the Keyboard
Piers Hellawell: Weaver of Grass.

Jazz Line-Up

Programme exploring jazz music, focussing both on established, mainstream players and on the new generation of younger artists

Jazz Line-Up: 19/01/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Line-Up, 19/01/2008

Featuring a session with the Jef Neve Trio recorded at the 2007 London Jazz Festival.

Featuring a session with the Jef Neve Trio recorded at the London Jazz Festival 2007. With music from their latest CD Nobody is Illegal and other tracks such as Soul in a Picture.

Recorded during the London Jazz Festival 2007 in association with BBC Radio 3, the programme features a session with the Jef Neve Trio. With music from their most recent album Nobody is Illegal as well as other tracks including Soul in a Picture and A Waterfall Never Comes Alone.

A session by the Jef Neve Trio recorded during the London Jazz Festival 2007, featuring music from the recent album Nobody Is Illegal as well as other tracks, including Soul in a Picture and A Waterfall Never Comes Alone.

Jazz Record Requests

Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you.

Join our community of jazz lovers. Alyn Shipton is waiting for your requests: email jazzrecordrequests@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.

Jazz Record Requests: 19/01/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Record Requests, 19/01/2008Close menu

Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.

Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.

Geoffrey Smith introduces a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
Address: Jazz Record Requests, [address removed]
Fax: [number removed] Email: [email address removed]

Opera on 3

Programme presenting rare and fascinating operatic performances

Programme presenting rare and fascinating performances and vividly communicating the immediacy of the live experience

Opera on 3: Wagner's Parsifal

Wagner's Parsifal

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Wagner's Parsifal

A recording of the recent production of Wagner's final opera from the Royal Opera House.

Wagner's Parsifal: A recording of the recent production of Wagner's final opera from the Royal Opera House, with Bernard Haitink conducting a cast of leading Wagner interpreters.

Wagner's Parsifal

Martin Handley presents a recording of the recent production of Wagner's final opera from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. It marks the return to the theatre's podium of former music director Bernard Haitink, with a cast of leading Wagner interpreters from home and abroad. 

Parsifal, the 'pure fool made wise by suffering', encounters the knights of the holy grail led by the wounded ruler Amfortas and veteran knight Gurnemanz. He meets the mysterious wild woman Kundry and the evil magician Klingsor. He grows in maturity and is eventually revealed as the redeemer whose task is to take on the role of the new lord of the grail.

Gurnemanz ...... John Tomlinson (bass)
First Knight ...... Nikola Matisic (tenor)
Second Knight ...... Krzysztof Szumanski (bass)
First Esquire ...... Harriet Williams (mezzo-soprano)
Second Esquire	 ...... Rebecca de Pont Davies (soprano)
Third Esquire ...... Ji-Min Park (tenor)
Fourth Esquire ...... Haoyin Xue (tenor)
Kundry ...... Petra Lang (mezzo-soprano)
Amfortas ...... Falk Struckmann (bass)
Parsifal ...... Christopher Ventris (tenor)
Titurel ...... Gwynne Howell (bass)
Voice from above ...... Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Klingsor ...... Willard White (bass)
Flowermaidens...... Elizabeth Cragg, Anita Watson, Kichani Jayasinghe, Malin Christensson, Ana James, Pumeza Matshikiza (sopranos)
Children's Chorus from Trinity School, Croydon
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Bernard Haitink (conductor).

Opera on 3 Parsifal

Martin Handley introduces a performance of Wagner's final opera, Parsifal, given recently at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Parsifal, the pure fool made wise by suffering, encounters the knights of the Holy Grail led by the wounded ruler Amfortas and veteran knight Gurnemanz. 
He also meets the mysterious wild woman Kundry and the evil magician Klingsor. Growing in maturity, he is eventually revealed as the redeemer whose task is to take on the role of the new Lord of the Grail. and Trinity School Children's Chorus, Croydon, 
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conductor Bernard Haitink 
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Hear and Now

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and studio sessions from the best new groups, and premiering works commissioned by the BBC

Hear and Now: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007

Hear and Now: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007: Episode 3

Episode 3

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007, Episode 3

With music by Rebecca Saunders, Harrison Birtwistle, Jonathan Harvey and Sam Hayden.

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007: 3/5. With music by Rebecca Saunders, Harrison Birtwistle, Jonathan Harvey and Sam Hayden. Plus the art of Christina Kubisch.

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007

Sara Mohr Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce highlights from the festival

3/5. This programme features two German ensembles, Musikfabrik and Ensemble Mosaik, playing the music of four British composers, while the German artist Christina Kubisch talks us through her 'Electrical Walk'.

Saunders: Stirrings Still (world premiere)
Musikfabrik
Etienne Siebens (conductor)

Birtwistle: Orpheus Elegies
Andrew Watts (countertenor)
Musikfabrik

Harvey: Sprechgesang
Peter Veale (oboe)
Musikfabrik

Hayden: Die Modularitaten (Modularities)
Ensemble Mosaik
Sam Hayden (conductor).

Highlights from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007, which was held in November

Sara Mohr Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce highlights from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007, which was held in November

3/5. Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce further highlights of the 2007 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. 
Rebecca SaundersStirrings Still (first performance) Musikfabrik, conductor Etienne Siebens Harrison Birtwistle Orpheus Elegies Andrew Watts (countertenor) 
Jonathan Harvey Sprechgesang Peter Veale (oboe) 
Sam Hayden Die Modulahtaten (Modularities) Ensemble Mosaik, conducted by the composer

Through the Night: 20/01/2008

20/01/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 20/01/2008

Including works by Berlioz, Brahms, Saint-Saens, Ravel, Boccherini, Chopin and Bach.

Including 1.00 Berlioz, Faure, Hahn, Poulenc, Berlioz. 3.07 Brahms, Blow, Glazunov, Bach, Saint-Saens, Sweelinck. 5.00 Warlock, Ravel, Bellini, Mozart, Handel, Boccherini, Chopin.

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869): Les nuits d'ete, Op 7
1.29am
Faure Gabriel (1845-1924): Le papillon et la fleur; Au bord de l'eau, Op 8 No 1; Apres un reve
1.36am
Hahn, Reynaldo (1875-1947): Quand je fus pris au pavillon; Trois jours de vendange; Lyde; Tyndaris; Pholoe; A Chloris
1.51am
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963): Les chemins de l'amour
Veronique Gens (soprano)
Susan Manoff (piano)

1.55am
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869): Symphonie fantastique, Op 14
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
John Nelson (conductor)

2.49am
Druschetsky, Georg (1745-1819): Sextet in E flat for 2 clarinets, 2 french horns and 2 bassoons
Bratislava Chamber Harmony

3.07am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor, Op 15
Peter Frankl (piano)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Tames Vasary (conductor)

3.55am
Blow, John (1649-1708): The Graces' Dance; Gavott; Sarabande for the Graces (Venus and Adonis)
Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley (director)

4.02am
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936): Saxophone Concerto in E flat, Op 109
Virgo Veldi (saxophone)
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Tarmo Leinatamm (conductor)

4.16am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Concerto in C minor for violin, harpsichord and orchestra, BWV 1060
Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Risor Festival Strings
Andrew Manze (violin/director)

4.30am
Saint-Saens, Camille (1835-1921): Sonata in G for bassoon and piano, Op 168
Jens-Christoph Lemke (bassoon)
Marten Landstrom (piano)

4.43am
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): O Domine Jesu Christe
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Instrumental Ensemble of three sackbutts and tenor shawm
Paul van Nevel (conductor)

4.50am
Tartini, Giuseppe (1692-1770): Symphony in A
I Cameristi Italiani.

Presented by Jonathan Swain. 
Berlioz Les Nuits dEt6 Faure Le Papillon et la Fleur; 
Au Bordde I'Eau; Après un Reve Hahn OuandJe Fus Pris au Pavilion; Trois Jours de Vendange; Lyde; Tyndaris; Pholoe; A Chloris Poulenc Les Chemins de lAmour Véronique Gens (soprano), Susan Manoff (piano) 
1.55 Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique 
2.49 Druschetsky Sextet in E flat 3.07 Brahms Piano Concerto No I in D minor 3.55 Blow The Graces' Dance; Gavott; Sarabande for the Graces (Venus and Adonis) 
4.02 Glazunov Saxophone Concerto in E flat 
4.16 Bach Concerto in C minor for violin and harpsichord, BWV1060 4.30 Saint-Saens Bassoon Sonata in G, Op 168 4.43 Sweelinck 0 Domine Jesu Christe 
4.50 Tartini Symphony in A 5.00 Warlock Serenade for Strings 5.07 Ravel Sheherazade 5.24 Bellini, arr unknown Oboe Concerto in E flat, arr for trumpet 
5.32 Mozart Fantasy in C minor, K396 
5.41 Albicastro Trio Sonata, Op 8 No 9 
5.53 Mozart Overture: Die Zauberflote 
6.00 Handel Ombre Pallide (Alcina) 6.06 Boccherini Cello Concerto in E flat 6.24 Chopin Six Mazurkas 
6.42 Bach Violin Concerto in E, BWV1042

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