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Breakfast

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

Breakfast: 25/05/2008

25/05/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, 25/05/2008

Including music by Brahms, Rossini, Handel, Saint-Saens, Mozart and Puccini.

Including Brahms: Waltzes, Op 39. Rossini: String Sonata No 1. Handel: Tra le Fiamme. Saint-Saens: Septet, Op 65. Mozart: Symphony No 31. Puccini: Viene la sera (Madama Butterfly).

Including:

Brahms: Waltzes, Op 39: Nos 1, 2 ,5, 6, 10, 14 and 15
Dinu Lipatti, Nadia Boulanger (pianos)

Rossini: String Sonata No 1 in G
Bologna Civic Theatre Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

Handel: Tra le Fiamme
Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano)
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Mark Minkowski (director)

Saint-Saens: Septet in E, Op 65
Andre Previn (piano)
Thomas Stevens (trumpet)
Julie Rosenfeld, Ani Kavafian (violins)
Toby Hoffman (viola)
Carter Brey (cello)
Jack Kulowitsch (double-bass)

Mozart: Symphony No 31 (Paris)
Vienna Philharmonic
James Levine (conductor)

Puccini: Viene la sera (Madama Butterfly)
Mirella Freni (soprano)
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor)
Vienna Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (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.

Martin Handley

Music includes: 
7.00-8.30: Brahms Waltzes , Op3Nos 1, 2,5, 6, 10, 14, and 15 Dinu Lipatti and Nadia Boulanger (pianos) Rossini String Sonata No 1 in G Bologna Civic 
Theatre Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly 
Handel Tra le Fiamme Magdalena Kozena (mezzo), Les Musiciens du Louvre, director Marc Minkowski 
8.30-10.00: Sairrt-SaensSeptef/n E, Op 65 Thomas Stevens (trumpet), Julie Rosenfeld and AniKavafian (violins), Toby Hoffman , (viola), Carter Brey (cello), Jack Kulowitsch (double bass), Andre Previn (piano) 
Mozart Symphony No 31 in D, K297 (Paris) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor James Levine 
Puccini Viene la Sera (Madama Butterfly) 
Mirella Freni (soprano), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Vienna PO, conductor Herbert von Karajan

Sunday Morning

Sarah Walker chooses uplifting music to complement your morning.

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.

Iain Burnside

Sunday Morning: 25/05/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Morning, 25/05/2008

Focusing on Vienna and the music and musicians who have come from the city.

Iain focuses on Vienna and the music and musicians who have come from the city. With music including Schoenberg's Suite for Piano and J Strauss/Godowsky's Wine Women and Song.

Iain focuses on Vienna and the music and musicians who have come from this culturally rich city. With music including Schoenberg's Suite for Piano and Strauss/Godowsky's Wine Women and Song.

lain Burnside

An overview of music and musicians associated with the culturally rich city of Vienna. Included are Schoenberg's Suite for piano and Godowsky's transcription of Johann Strauss 's Wine, Women and Song. EMAIL: [address removed]

Private Passions

Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates

Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates, and talk about the influence music has had on their lives

Private Passions: Terry Burns

Terry Burns

BBC Radio 3 - Private Passions, Terry Burns

The economist Terry Burns chooses music including excerpts from Purcell's The Fairy Queen.

Michael Berkeley's guest is the economist Terry Burns, whose musical choices include excerpts from Purcell's The Fairy Queen and Monteverdi's Vespers, plus a Bach cantata.

Michael Berkeley's guest is the economist Terry Burns, a former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, who is now chairman of Abbey National. A keen music-lover who learnt the clarinet as a schoolboy, he is now chairman of the board of governors of the Royal Academy of Music. His choices include excerpts from Purcell's The Fairy Queen and Monteverdi's Vespers, as well as a Bach cantata conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, Beethoven's Symphony No 5 conducted by Toscanini and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro from Carlos Kleiber.

Michael Berkeley is joined by economist Terry Burns , a former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury. A keen music-lover, Burns is now chairman of the board of governors of the Royal Academy of Music. His choices include excerpts from Purcell's Fairy Queen, Monteverdi's Vespers and a Bach cantata conducted by John Eliot 
Gardiner. Beethoven's Fifth Symphony conducted by Toscanini and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro conducted by Carlos Kleiber.

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: Lufthansa Festival 2008

Lufthansa Festival 2008

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Lufthansa Festival 2008

Highlights from this year's Lufthansa Festival, featuring soprano Elin Manahan Thomas.

Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from the 2008 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, with soprano Elin Manahan Thomas performing with the group Concordia.

Lucie Skeaping presents the second of two programmes of highlights from the 2008 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, with a performance in which soprano Elin Manahan Thomas joins the group Concordia. Including pieces by William Lawes and John Jenkins, composed during the English Civil War, contrasted with consort music and songs by Henry Purcell and Orlando Gibbons.

Lufthansa Festival 2008 
2/2. Music by Concordia recorded at this year's 
Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. Soprano Elin Manahan Thomas joins the group as they perform pieces composed during the English Civil War by William Lawes and John Jenkins , contrasted with consort songs and music by Henry Purcell and Orlando Gibbons. With Lucie Skeaping. Producer Chris Wines

Radio 3 Requests

Weekly pick of music requests from Radio 3 listeners

Radio 3 Requests features a wide breadth of classical works requested by the station's listeners.

The final edition of Radio 3 Requests was broadcast on 1st May 2011.  We can no longer accept new requests.

Radio 3 Requests: 25/05/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Requests, 25/05/2008

Radio 3 listeners' requests with a focus on Chopin, following Radio 3's Chopin Experience.

Chi-chi Nwanoku presents Radio 3 listeners' requests, with a focus on Chopin as she sorts through the requests inspired by Radio 3's Chopin Experience weekend.

Chi-chi Nwanoku presents listeners' favourites. ADDRESS: Radio 3 Requests. BBC Wales, CF5 2YQ 
Phone: [number removed] (calls from a landline cost no more than 8p per min) EMAIL: [address removed]

Choral Evensong

Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: 25/05/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, 25/05/2008

Live from Manchester Cathedral.

Introit: Tibi laus, tibi gloria (Philips)
Responses: Martin Bussey
Office Hymn: O blest Creator of the light (Lucis Creator)
Psalm: 119 vv73-104 (Hopkins, Attwood, Monk, Parry)
First Lesson: Amos 9 vv5-15
Canticles: The Great Service (Parry)
Second Lesson: Ephesians 6 vv1-20
Anthem: I saw the Lord (Stainer)
Final Hymn: I bind unto myself today (St Patrick's Breastplate)
Organ Voluntary: Hymne d'actions de graces - Te Deum (Langlais)

Sub-Organist: Jeffrey Makinson
Organist and Master of the Choristers: Christopher Stokes.

From Manchester Cathedral. Introit: 
Tibi Laus , Tibi Gloria (Philips). Responses: Martin Bussey. Office Hymn: 0 Blest Creator of the Light (Lucis Creator). Psalm: 119, w73-104 (Hopkins, Attwood, Monk, Parry). First Lesson: Amos 9, vv 5-15. Canticles: The Great Service (Parry). Second Lesson: Ephesians 6, vv 1-20. Anthem: I Saw the Lord (Stainer). Final Hymn: I Bind unto Myself Today (St Patrick's Breastplate). Organ Voluntary: Hymne d'Actions de Graces - Te Deum (Langlais). Organist and master of the choristers Christopher Stokes. Sub-organist Jeffrey Makinson.

Discovering Music

Programme which examines a different piece of music each week

Programme which examines a different piece of music each week, looking at the musical form or the composer's style, and exploring the many things contributing to the overall experience

Discovering Music: Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela, and Night Ride and Sunrise

14/10/2007

Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela, and Night Ride and Sunrise

BBC Radio 3 - Discovering Music, Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela, and Night Ride and Sunrise

Stephen Johnson and the BBC Philharmonic explore Sibelius' tone poem Night Ride & Sunrise.

Stephen Johnson and the BBC Philharmonic explore Sibelius' tone poem Night Ride and Sunrise, plus The Swan of Tuonela, the most famous part of the composer's Lemminkainen Suite.

Stephen Johnson is joined by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Petri Sakari to explore Sibelius' tone poem Night Ride and Sunrise, as well as The Swan of Tuonela, the most famous part of the composer's Lemminkainen Suite.

Stephen Johnson is joined by the BBC 
Philharmonic and conductor Petri Sakari for an exploration of two of Sibelius's most gripping tone poems: Night Ride and Sunrise, and The Swan of Tuone/a, the most famous part of the composer's Lemminkainen Suite.

Choir and Organ

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an irresistible mix of music and singing.

The Choir

Choir and Organ: 25/05/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Choir and Organ, 25/05/2008

A selection of modern works inspired by plainsong, including Durufle's Requiem.

Aled Jones plays a selection of modern works inspired by plainsong, including Durufle's Requiem. Plus Universal A and R executive Tom Lewis, and members of the Mediaeval Baebes.

From Enigma to James MacMillan, Aled Jones plays a selection of contemporary works inspired by plainsong, including a 20th-century classic - Durufle's Requiem.

Plus Universal Artists and Repertoire executive Tom Lewis, and members of the Mediaeval Baebes explaining how their current projects fit in to the current resurgence of interest in this traditional form.

Aled Jones plays a selection of contemporary works inspired by plainsong, and Durufle's Requiem. 
Universal A&R executive Tom Lewis and members of the Mediaeval Baebes also appear, explaining how their current projects fit in to the resurgence of interest in this traditional form.

Drama on 3

Series of drama performances, ranging from experimental works to the Classics

Drama on 3: The Vertical Hour

The Vertical Hour

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Nadia has settled opinions and relationships - until she meets her boyfriend's father.

By David Hare. Nadia, an American academic, is comfortable with her opinions and her relationships - until she meets her boyfriend's father for the first time.

By David Hare.

Nadia, an American war reporter-turned-academic, lives a settled life with her English boyfriend, but when she visits his home and meets his womanising father for the first time, her political opinions and her relationship come under great strain.

With Joseph Kloska, Anton Lesser, Wunmi Mosaku, Tom Riley, Indira Varma.

Original music composed by Nick Powell
Director: Jeremy Herrin.

By David Hare.
Nadia, a war reporter-turned-academic, lives a settled life with her English boyfriend - but when she visits his home and meets his lethally charming father for the first time, her political opinions and relationship come under great strain.
Producer Catherine Bailey ; Director Jeremy Herrin

Sunday Feature

Exploring music, history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature.

In-depth documentaries which explore music, history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature.

Sunday Feature: Paradise or Nightmare - DH Lawrence in Cornwall

Paradise or Nightmare - DH Lawrence in Cornwall

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Paradise or Nightmare - DH Lawrence in Cornwall

Looking at the DH Lawrence's time in Cornwall after the bad reception of The Rainbow.

DH Lawrence biographer John Worthen discusses the writer's retreat to Cornwall, after the bad reception of The Rainbow and the start of the First World War.

DH Lawrence biographer John Worthen discusses DH Lawrence's retreat to Cornwall following the controversy over his novel The Rainbow and the horrors of the First World War. Worthen talks to fellow Lawrence scholars Fiona Becket, Mark Kinkead-Weekes, and Christopher Pollnitz about the impact of this period on Lawrence's life and work.

Lawrence may have loved Cornwall, and completed Women in Love - one of his best novels - there, but the violence of the war eventually caught up with him, and he and his wife were expelled on suspicion of spying in October 1917. This experience surfaced in his later Novel Kangaroo - in a the chapter which he called The Nightmare.

Sunday Feature: Paradise or Nightmare -DH Lawrence in Cornwall

Biographer John Worthen explores DH Lawrence's retreat to Cornwall in 1916 following the controversy over his novel The Rainbow. Worthen talks to fellow Lawrence scholars Fiona Becket , Mark Kinkead -
Weekes and Christopher Pollnitz about the impact of this period on Lawrence's life and work. Producer Richard Bannerman

Words and Music

A journey of discovery, weaving music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

A weekly journey of discovery, weaving together a range of music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

Words and Music: Chains of Desire

Chains of Desire

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Poetry, prose and letters interspersed with music, all linked by the theme of erotic love.

A sequence of poems, prose and letters read by actors Neil Pearson and Clare Higgins interspersed with music, all connected by the theme of erotic love.

A sequence of poems, prose and letters read by actors Neil Pearson and Clare Higgins interspersed with music, all connected by the theme of erotic love. With words by Catullus, Andrew Marvell, Shakespeare, Keats as well as Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Proust (in translation). The music includes works by Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov, Wagner, Dvorak and Orff.

Chains of Desire 
A sequence of poems, prose and letters read by actors Neil Pearson and Clare Higgins interspersed with music, all connected by the theme of erotic love.

The Early Music Show: Bach in Leipzig

11/05/2008

Bach in Leipzig

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Bach in Leipzig

Looking at Bach's time in the German town of Leipzig, where he lived until 1750.

Lucie Skeaping examines Bach's time in the German town of Leipzig, where he remained from 1723 until his death in 1750.

Lucie Skeaping examines Bach's time in the German town of Leipzig, where he remained from 1723 until his death in 1750. After working for Prince Leopold of Anhalt in Cothen, Bach took a substantial drop in salary and public standing to work as Cantor in Leipzig. The role primarily involved teaching at St Thomas's School, but it also meant that Bach was responsible for the music in the German town's four churches.

Lucie Skeaping explores Bach's time in Leipzig, his home from 1723 until his death in 1750.

Through the Night

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

Through the Night: 26/05/2008

26/05/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 26/05/2008

Susan Sharpe introduces works by Vaughan Williams, Britten, Rachmaninov, Ravel and Berwald

Includes music by Vaughan Williams, Britten, Tavener, Glinka, Rachmaninov, Ravel, CPE Bach, Verdi, Saint Saens, Corelli, Schubert, Weber, Mozart, Bartok, Tchaikovksy and Berwald.

With Susan Sharpe.

Including:

Vaughan Williams: O Mistress Mine Song, The Willow Song (Three Elizabethan Songs for chorus); Come Away, Death for chorus
Britten: Chorale after an old French carol - Our father, whose creative will; A Shepherd's Carol for chorus
Tavener: The Tyger for chorus; The Lamb - carol
Holten: Spring (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell for soprano and chorus)
Mantyjarvi: Four Shakespeare Songs for chorus (Come Away, Death; Lullaby; Double, Double, Toil and Trouble; Full Fathom Five)
Martin: Full Fathom Five (5 Ariel Songs for 16 voices - The Tempest)
Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs for chorus
Glinka: Memories of a Summer Night in Madrid (Spanish Overture No 2)
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 in E minor, Op 27
Ravel Gaspard de la nuit for piano
Debussy, arr Kocsis: Arabesque No 2, L 66; Mazurka, L 67
Chopin, arr Kocsis: Nocturne in E flat, Op 55 No 2
CPE Bach: Concerto in F for 2 harpsichords, Wq 46
Verdi: Quartet in E minor for strings
Canteloube: Three songs (Chants de France)
Saint-Saens: Concerto No 1 in A minor for cello and orchestra, Op 33
Corelli, arr Billington: Concerto in C, Op 6 No 10
Schubert: Overture (Des Teufels Lustschloss) (The Devil's Castle)
Mendelssohn, arr Rachmaninov: Scherzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Weber: Rondo brillante in E flat for piano, Op 62 (La gaite)
Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate, K165
Sweelinck: Psalm 23 (Thysius Lute Book)
Scheidt: 3 Symphoniae for 2 violins and continuo
Handel: Sonata in F, Op 1 No 5, HWV 363a
Wiren: Serenade for strings, Op 11
Bartok, arr Szekely: Romanian folk dances, Sz 56
Tchaikovsky: Burya (The Tempest) - symphonic fantasia after Shakespeare, Op 18
Berwald: Piano Quintet No 1 in C minor, Op 5.

With Susan Sharpe. 
A concert of choral songs by Vaughan Williams , Britten, 
Tavener, Bo Holten , Jaakko Mantyjarvi and Frank Martin performed by Polyphony, conductor Stephen Layton 
1.52 Glinka Memories of a Summer Night in Madrid 
(Spanish Overture No2) 2.02 RachmaninovSymphon/No2 in E minor 2.59 Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit 3.20 Debussy, arr Kocsis Arabesque No 2; Mazurka 3.25 Chopin, arr Kocsis Nocturne in E flat, Op 55 No 2 3.32 CPE Bach Concerto in F for two harpsichords 3.55 Verdi String Quartet in E minor 4.19 Canteloube Three Songs from 
Chants de France 4.27 Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor 4.49 Corelli, arr Thomas Billington Concerto in C. Op 6 No 10 5.00 Schubert Overture: Des Teufels 
Lustschloss 5.09 Mendelssohn, arr Rachmaninov Scherzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream) 5.14 Weber Rondo Brillante in E flat. Op 62 (La Gaiete) 5.21 Mozart Exsultate, Jubilate, K165 5.36 Sweelinck Psalm 23 (Thysius Lute Book) 
5.39 Scheidt Three Symphoniae for violins and continuo 
5.44 Handel Sonata in F.OplNo 5, HWV363a 5.52 Wiren 
Serenade for Strings, Op 116.07 BartoK arr Zoltan Szekely Romanian Folk Dances 6.13 Tchaikovsky The Tempest. Op 18 6.36 Berwald Piano Quintet No 1 C C minor, Op 5

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