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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

23/02/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Through the Night

Jonathan Swain concludes the programme with works by Glinka, Liszt, Milhaud, Boely, Mertz, Dvorak, Philips, Chabrier, Mozart, CPE Bach and Elgar.

With Jonathan Swain.

5.00am
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857): Overture (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra
Arvid Engegaard (conductor)

5.06am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Ave Maria, D839
Sylviane Deferne (piano)

5.13am
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974): Suite for clarinet, violin and piano, Op 157b
James Campbell (clarinet)
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Andre Laplante (piano)

5.23am
Boely, Pierre-Alexandre-Francois (1785-1858): Messe des fetes solennelles
Marcel Verheggen (organ)

5.32am
Mertz, Johann Kaspar (1806-1856): Hungarian Fatherland Flowers
Laszlo Szendry-Karper (guitar)

5.40am
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): Scherzo capriccioso, Op 66
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)

5.53am
Philips, Peter (c.1560-1628): Pavan Dolorosa
Concordia
Mark Levy (director)

5.59am
Chabrier, Emmanuel (1841-1894): Espana
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Stuart Challender (conductor)

6.06am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Adagio in B minor, K540
Murray Perahia (piano)

6.13am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Sonata in D, Wq 83 H505
Les Coucous Benevoles

6.31am
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934): Variations on an original theme (Enigma)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Neville Marriner (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: 23/02/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, 23/02/2008

Including music by Vivaldi, Schubert, Mozart and Stravinsky.

Including Vivaldi: Overture (Griselda). Schubert: An die Musik, D547. Mozart: Symphony No 5 in B flat, K22. Stravinsky: Suite Italienne.

Including from 7.00am

Vivaldi: Overture (Griselda)
Brandenburg Consort
Roy Goodman (conductor)

Schubert: An die Musik, D547
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Gerald Moore (piano)

From 8.00am

Mozart: Symphony No 5 in B flat, K22
Vienna Consentus Musicus
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

Stravinsky: Suite Italienne
Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
Peter Nagy (piano).

Martin Handley

Music includes: 
7.00-8.00: Vivaldi Overture: 
Griselda Brandenburg Consort , conductor Roy Goodman Schubert An die Musik, D547 
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) 
8.00-9.00: Mozart Symphony No 5 in B flat, K22 Vienna Concentus Musicus, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt Stravinsky Suite Italienne 
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Peter Nagy (piano) 
For full details visit www.bbc. co.uk/radio3/breakfast on the day of transmission PHONE: [number removed] (calls from landlines 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: Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2 Sz. 112 

 Building a Library: Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2 Sz. 112 

BBC Radio 3 - CD Review, Building a Library: Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2 Sz. 112

With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Bartok's Violin Concerto No 2.

With Andrew McGregor. Including at 9.30am Building a Library: Bartok's Violin Concerto No 2. 10.30am New chamber music releases. 11.45am Disc of the Week: Strauss: Four Last Songs.

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

Building a Library: Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2 Sz. 112 Reviewer - Piers Burton-Page

First Choice:

(c/w Concerto for Orchestra Sz116; Piano Concerto No. 2 Sz95; Piano Concerto No. 3 Sz119; Violin Concerto No. 1 Sz36; Viola Concerto Op. posth. Sz120; The Miraculous Mandarin - Suite Sz73; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Sz106)
Kyung-Wha Chung (violin)*, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra*, Simon Rattle (conductor)*
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (conductor), Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Orchestre de Paris, Lorin Maazel (conductor), Martha Argerich (piano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit (conductor), Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra, Libor Pesek (conductor), Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, David Shallon (conductor), Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
EMI 509407 2 (3 CDs, Budget)

CD Review BAL Catalogue Data
bal.bartok:
bal.bartok.violin.concerto.no.2.sz.112

Introduced by Andrew McGregor. 
9.30 Building a Library Piers Burton-Page surveys recordings of Bartok's Violin Concerto No 2. 
10.30 Hilary Finch reviews new releases of chamber music, including Beethoven's Ghost trio from Andreas Staier , Daniel Sepec and Jean-Guihen Queyras , late Schubert from the Trio Wanderer and the first instalment of a projected series of Clementi piano sonatas from Howard Shelley. 
11.15 Session Report: Late Mozart Symphonies The Glasgow City Halls sessions for Charles Mackerras 's latest recordings of Mozart 
Symphonies with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. 
11.45 Disc of the Week 
Strauss Four Last Songs Anja Harteros (soprano), Dresden Staatskapelle, conductor Fabio Luisi 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

The Segovia Legacy

BBC Radio 3 - The Segovia Legacy

Louis de Bernieres visits the museum devoted to Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia.

Novelist and guitar fan Louis de Bernieres and guitarist Craig Ogden visit the museum devoted to Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia to discover more about the man.

Novelist and guitar enthusiast Louis de Bernieres and classical guitar virtuoso 
Craig Ogden visit Linares in Andalusia to explore the museum established in honour of the city's most famous son, the guitarist Andres Segovia. Producer Simon Taylor 
Radio choices: pages 134-135

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 Development of the Parisian Chanson

The Development of the Parisian Chanson

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, The Development of the Parisian Chanson

Catherine Bott looks at the rise of the Parisian chanson, a 15th-century French song.

Versailles and Paris Month: The Development of the Parisian Chanson. Catherine Bott looks at the rise of the Parisian chanson, a very popular form of 15th-century French song.

Versailles and Paris Month: The Development of the Parisian Chanson

Catherine Bott continues the exploration of the early music of Versailles and Paris with a look at the rise of the Parisian chanson, a form of 15th-century French song made hugely popular through composers such as Claudin de Sermisy and Clement Janequin.

Versailles and Paris Month: The Development of Parisian 
Chanson Catherine Bott looks at the rise of the Parisian Chanson, a form of 15th-century French song made hugely popular by composers such as Claudin de Sermisy and Clement Janeguin. Producer Chris Wines

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: 23/02/2008

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Cedric Tiberghien performs four Chopin ballades and Beethoven's Sonata in C minor, Op 111.

Sean Rafferty presents another chance to hear Monday's Lunchtime Concert given at Wigmore Hall. Chopin: 4 Ballades. Beethoven: Sonata in C minor, Op 111. Cedric Tiberghien (piano).

Sean Rafferty presents another chance to hear Monday's Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert from the Wigmore Hall, London.

Cedric Tiberghien (piano)

Chopin: Four Ballades	 
Beethoven: Sonata in C minor, Op 111.

Another chance to hear last Monday's recital from the Wigmore Hall, introduced by Sean Rafferty. Cedric Tiberghien (piano) Chopin Four Ballades 
Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor. Op 111

World Routes

Programme exploring music from around the world

Programme exploring music from around the world, featuring interviews with performers, live concerts, monthly CD reviews and special location reports

World Routes: 23/02/2008

BBC Radio 3 - World Routes, 23/02/2008

With a studio session by mandolin player Chris Thile with his group Punch Brothers.

Lucy Duran presents a studio session by American mandolin player Chris Thile with his group Punch Brothers. Plus a round-up of recent world music releases.

Lucy Duran presents a studio session by the American mandolin player Chris Thile with his new group Punch Brothers. Plus a round-up of recent world music releases with guests Andy Morgan and Laudan Nooshin.

Lucy Duran presents a studio session by American mandolin player Chris Thile with his new group Punch Brothers. Producer Felix Carey

Jazz Line-Up

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

Jazz Line-Up: 23/02/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Line-Up, 23/02/2008

With a session from Israeli-born pianist Yaron Herman from the London Jazz Festival 2007.

Claire Martin introduces a session by Israeli-born pianist Yaron Herman from the London Jazz Festival 2007. Plus an interview with guitarist Pat Metheny, who talks about his new CD.

Claire Martin introduces a session by Israeli-born pianist Yaron Herman given at the London Jazz Festival 2007. Plus an interview with guitarist Pat Metheny, who talks about his new CD Daytrip.

Claire Martin presents a session by Israeli-born Yaron Herman , recorded at the 2007 London Jazz Festival. And guitarist Pat Metheny talks about his new album Daytrip.

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: 23/02/2008

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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 presents listeners' jazz requests. ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3, Broadcasting House, London W1A IAA 
Fax: [number removed] 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: Live from the Met

Opera on 3: Bizet's Carmen

Bizet's Carmen

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Bizet's Carmen

Emmanuel Villaume conducts a production of Bizet's tragic opera.

Bizet's Carmen: Emmanuel Villaume conducts mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina as femme fatale Carmen, with tenor Marcelo Alvarez as Don Jose in Bizet's tragic opera.

Bizet's Carmen

Mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina takes the title role and Marcelo Alvarez makes his Met debut as Don Jose, the proud soldier destroyed by his fascination with the femme fatale Carmen, in this live production from New York. Carmen was among the first operas in the 1870s to go against the trend of glorifying heroes and heroines and Bizet's independent-minded gypsy seductress caused much controversy amongst critics of the time.

The programme, which also includes backstage interviews with the artists during the intervals, is presented from New York by Margaret Juntwait, with Ira Siff as guest commentator.

Carmen ...... Olga Borodina (mezzo-soprano)
Don Jose ...... Marcelo Alvarez (tenor)
Escamillo ...... Lucio Gallo (baritone)
Micaela ...... Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano)
Frasquita ...... Rachelle Durkin (soprano)
Mercedes ...... Edyta Kulczak (mezzo-soprano)
Remendado ...... Juan-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor)
Dancairo ...... John Hancock (baritone)
Zuniga ...... Jeffrey Wells (bass)
Chorus and Orchestra of New York Metropolitan Opera
Emmanuel Villaume (conductor).

Margaret Juntwait is joined by guest commentator Ira Siff to present a performance of Bizet's Carmen, direct from 
New York. In the 1870s Carmen went against the trend of glorifying heroes and heroines, and Bizet's independently minded Gypsy seductress caused consternation among critics of the day. Including the Met Opera Quiz and backstage interviews with the artists during the intervals. Bizet Carmen  
Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera, conductor Emmanuel Villaume 
RT DIRECT: Bizet's Carmen (3 CDs) is available for E19.99 including p&p. Send a cheque payable to Selections to: [address removed] Phone [number removed] (national rate), quoting B46-AG019, or visit www.selections.com/rtdirect Radio choices: pages 134-135

Pre-Hear

Companion programme to Hear and Now, offering more of the best new music

Companion programme to Hear and Now, the contemporary music showcase, offering more of the best new music

Pre-Hear: 23/02/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Pre-Hear, 23/02/2008

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Jennifer Martin's Hearing Pictures.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Pierre-Andre Valade perform Scottish composer Jennifer Martin's Hearing Pictures.

BBCSSO, conductor Pierre-Andre Valade Jennifer Martin Hearing Pictures

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: 23/02/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, 23/02/2008

Hear and Now's annual electronic music event, featuring the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra.

Cut and Splice: Robert Worby presents the annual electronic music event. Based on the theme of food, the line-up includes the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra amplifying raw vegetables.

Cut and Splice

Robert Worby presents Hear and Now's annual electronic music event, co-curated with the Sonic Arts Network.

This year the theme is Food, with the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra amplifying raw vegetables, Charles Amirkhanian weaving concrete poetry from favourite food names and Parkinson Saunders playing a quartet for plastic cups.

Lee Patterson and Helena Gough create soundscapes from frying eggs and roasting seeds.

Plus noise/body art by Randy HY Yau and Sudden Infant.

Robert Worby presents the programme's annual Cut and Splice electronic music event, co-curated with the Sonic Arts Network. This year the theme is food, with the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra amplifying raw vegetables and noise/body-art by Randy HY Yau and Sudden Infant. Recorded at Bates Mill, Huddersfield.

The Early Music Show: Lully's Paris

16/02/2008

Lully's Paris

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Lully's Paris

Lucie Skeaping explores Parisian locations associated with Jean-Baptiste Lully.

Lucie Skeaping considers the life and music of Jean-Baptiste Lully by exploring some of the sites in central Paris associated with the composer.

A repeat of a programme broadcast earlier this year in which Lucie Skeaping considers the life and music of Jean-Baptiste Lully by exploring some of the sites in central Paris associated with the composer.

PLAYLIST:

All music by Jean Baptiste Lully

Te Deum – “Dignare, Domine”& “In Te, Domine, speravi” 
Le Concert Spirituel/Herve Niquet
NAXOS 8.554397
Tracks 5 & 6
		
Ballet Royal de Flore (excerpt)
Le Simphonie du Marais/Hugo Reyne
ACCORD 4618042
Tracks 25-37

Ballet Royal de Flore (excerpt)
Le Simphonie du Marias/Hugo Reyne
ACCORD 4618042
Tracks 38-40
		
Miserere – “Benigne fac, Domine” 
Le Concert Spirituel/Herve Niquet
NAXOS 8.554397
Tracks 7
		
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme – Overture, Interlude, Bouree, Galliarde, Canarie
London Oboe Band/Paul Goodwin
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907122
Tracks 17- 20
		
Isis – “Scene du froid”
Sophie Daneman (soprano)
Paul Agnew (tenor)
Les Arts Florissants/William Christie
ERATO 0927 446552
Track 10

Passacaille d’Armide
Skip Sempe/Capriccio Stravagante
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI RD 77218
Track 15
		
Armide: “Un amant fortune, puis le Choeur”
Paul Agnew (tenor)
Rinat Shaham (mezzo-soprano)
Cyril Auvity (countertenor)
Les Arts Florissants/William Christie
ERATO 0927 446552
Track 14

Versailles and Paris Month: Lully's Paris 
Composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. Producer Chris Wines

Through the Night: 24/02/2008

24/02/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 24/02/2008

With Susan Sharpe. Including works by Enescu, Mozart, Dvorak, Brahms, Franck and Dukas.

Including 1.00 Enescu, Dvorak, Brahms. 3.04 Rossi, Chausson, Dukas. 5.00 Dvorak, Stravinsky, Haydn, Weber, CPE Bach, Strauss.

With Susan Sharpe.

1.00am
Enescu, George (1881-1955): String Trio (Aubade)
1.05am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)	: String Quintet in C minor, K406
1.31am
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904): String Quintet in E flat
2.03am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): String Quintet No 2 in B flat (2nd mvt)
2.09am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): String Quintet No 2 in G (4th mvt)
Zukerman Chamber Players

2.14am
Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Leif Segerstam (conductor)

2.58am
Rossi, Camilla de (fl.1707-1710): Duol sofferto per Amore (Sant'Alessio)
Alessio ...... Martin Oro (countertenor)
Musica Fiorita
Daniela Dolci (director)

3.04am
Rossi, Salomone (c.1570-1630): Rimanti in pace for 5 voices
Katelijne van Laethem (soprano)
Pascal Bertin (alto)
Eitan Sorek, Josep Benet (tenors)
Josep Cabre (baritone)
Daedalus
Roberto Festa (conductor)

3.11am
Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899)	: Poeme for violin and orchestra
Igor Ozim (violin)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Samo Hubad (conductor)

3.28am
Franck, Cesar (1822-1890): Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34
Imre Rohmann (piano)
Bartok Quartet

4.02am
Dukas, Paul (1865-1935): The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Orchestre National de France
Charles Dutoit (conductor)

4.14am
Forqueray, Antoine (1672-1745): Harpsichord suites (Pieces de clavecin 1747)
Kati Hamalainen (harpsichord)

4:30am
Bozza, Eugene (1905-1991): Jour d'ete a la montagne
Giedrius Gelgoras, Albertas Stupakas, Valentinas Kazlauskas, Linas Gailiunas (flutes)

4.41am
Raitio, Vaino (1891-1945): Joutsenet (The Swans)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Okko Kamu (conductor)

4.50am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): St Francis Preaching to the Birds (2 Legendes, S175)
Bernhard Stavenhagen (piano).

With Susan Sharpe. Including 1.00 Enescu String Trio (Aubade) Mozart String Quartet in C minor, K406 Dvorak String Quartet in E flat, Op 97 Zukerman 
Chamber Players 5.00 Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso , Op 66 Slovak RSO Bratislava/Oliver Dohnanyi 
6.43 Strauss Horn Concerto No 1 in E flat 
For full details visit www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/throughthenight

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