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Breakfast

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

Breakfast: Martin Handley

17/08/2008

Martin Handley

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, Martin Handley

Martin Handley introduces music by Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Dupre, Bach, Chopin and Martin.

With Martin Handley. Including Tchaikovsky, arr. Breiner: The Harvest (The Seasons). Vivaldi: Bassoon Concerto in F, RV485. Dupre: Finale (Evocation). Chopin: Ballade No 1, Op 23.

With Martin Handley.

Martin presents music from the familiar to the unusual, with a seasonal contribution from Tchaikovsky, an arrangement of Bach by Villa-Lobos and Frank Martin's Mass for Double Choir.

TCHAIKOVSKY arr. Breiner
August: The Harvest from The Seasons
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Peter Breiner, conductor
NAXOS 8.553510  Tr 8


DE WERT
O crux ave spes unica 
Collegium Regale
Stephen Cleobury, director
SIGNUM SIGCD131  Tr 1


DVORAK arr. Isserlis
Romantic Piece, Op 75 No 4
Steven Isserlis, cello
Thomas Ades, piano
RCA 0902668928 2 Tr 9


FIELD
Rondeau in A flat major
Miceal O’Rourke, piano
London Mozart Players
Matthias Bamert, conductor
CHANDOS 10468(4)X  CD4 Tr 4


Johann STRAUSS
Egyptian March op 335
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert Von Karajan, conductor
DG 449768-2  Tr 3


VIVALDI
Concerto for Bassoon in F major, RV485 
Tamas Benkocs, bassoon
Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia
Bela Drahos, director
NAXOS 8.557829  Tr 4-6


SCHUBERT
Trois Marches Heroiques, D602; No 3 in D major
Christoph Eschenbach and Justus Frantz, piano duet
BRILLIANT CLASSICS 92858  CD4 Tr 8


HANDEL
Dopo Notte from Ariodante
Angelika Kirchschlager, mezzo
Kammerorchester Basel
Laurence Cummings, conductor
SONY 82876889522  Tr 10


ELGAR
Serenade in E minor op 20 
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox, conductor
EMI CDC 7476712  Tr 10-12


DUPRE 
Final from Suite Evocation
Pierre Cochereau, organ
SOLSTICE SOCD 94  CD1 Tr 7


COATES 
Northwards and Eastwards from Four Ways Suite
London Pops Orchestra
Frederick Fennell
MERCURY 434 376-2  Tr 4-5


LIGETI
Etude No 10: Der Zauberlehrling
Toros Can, piano
L’EMPREINTE DIGITALE ED13125  Tr 10


FREE THOUGHT 
David Sulkin - The baby boomer who won’t lie down


JANACEK
Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs 1-6 
Iva Bittova & the Skampa Quartet
SUPRAPHON SU 3794-2  Tr 1-6


BACH arr. Villa-Lobos
Prelude in D minor BWV853
The Pleeth Cello Octet
HYPERION CDH55316  Tr 7


GABRIELLI
Trumpet Sonata No. 4 in D major
Thomas Reiner, trumpet
Southwest German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim
Sebastian Tewinkel, director
NAXOS 8.570501  Tr 19-23


STANFORD
Beati quorum via
The Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral Edinburgh
Timothy Byram-Wigfield, director
Priory PRCD557  Tr 7


BIZET
Overture from L’Arlesienne, Orhestral Suite No 1 
Orquesta Ciudad de Granada
Josep Pons, conductor
HARMONIA MUNDI HMA1951675  Tr 1


CHOPIN 
Ballade No 1 in G minor, op 23
Murray Perahia, piano
SONY SK64399  Tr 1


BARTOK trans. Krauter
Melodies Poulaires Hongroises 
Renaud Capucon, violin
Gautier Capucon, cello
VIRGIN 094633262621  Tr 11-17


TRAD.
Roman Cigany Hallgato 
Kalman Balogh
ARC EUCD2172  Tr 11


MARTIN
Kyrie and Gloria from Mass for Double Choir
Choir of Westminster Cathedral 
James O’Donnell, director
HYPERION CDA67017  Tr 1+2


TORELLI
Concerti Grossi Op 8, No 12 in D major
Mariana Sirbu, violin
I Musici
PHILIPS 4321182  Tr 1-3


BEHR trans. Rachmaninov
Polka de W.R.
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
HYPERION CDA67275  Tr 2

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.

Presented by Martin Handley , including a Free Thought at 8.30. Music includes: 
7.00-8.00: Tchaikovsky, arr Peter Breiner August: The Harvest (The Seasons) 
Vivaldi Bassoon Concerto in F RV485 
8.00-9.00: Dupre Final (Suite: Evocation) 
Bach, arr Villa-Lobos Prelude in D minor, BWV853 
9.00-10.00: Chopin Ballade No 1 in G minor, Op 23 Martin Kyrie ; Gloria (Mass for Double Choir)

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: Mary King - Music about Town and Country

Mary King - Music about Town and Country

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Morning, Mary King - Music about Town and Country

Mary King sits in for Iain and explores music comparing the ideas of town and country.

Sitting in for Iain Burnside, Mary King explores music comparing the ideas of the town and the country by composers including Beethoven, Copland, Mozart, Reich and Handel.

Town and country. Town or country? As the 2008 holiday season draws to a close, comparisons of the two figure strongly in our minds. Sitting in for Iain Burnside, Mary King gathers up some musical examples by composers who have written about either or, in some cases, both. She is joined by composer and entertainer Richard Sisson, and there is music by Beethoven, Copland, Mozart, Reich and Handel.

PLAYLIST
Monteverdi: Lasciate i monti  from Orfeo
John Eliot Gardiner / Monteverdi Choir /His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts
DG Archiv 419 250-2 

Stravinsky: Pastorale (Song without words)                    
CBC Symphony Orchestra / Stravinsky (conductor)
Sony (SX9K64136)

Mozart: Symphony no 31 K297 - Allegro 
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Warner Classics 2564623342

Copland: Billy the Kid – extracts  
New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
Sony 63082

Schumann: Waldszenen (excerpts)                                   
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Deutsche Grammophon  459 018-2

Handel: L’Allegro, Il penseroso ed il moderato 
Ensemble Orchestrale de Paris / Lynne Dawson / Bach Choir / John Nelson (conductor) 
Virgin Classics 7243 5 45417 

Lord Kitchener: London is the Place for Me                                                
Lord Kitchener With Freddy Grant’s Caribbean Rhythm
Honest Jon’s Records HJRCD2 

Beethoven: Trio No1 in Eb op 1 no 1 (Adagio)              	 
Beaux Arts Trio 
Philips (4684112) 

Ian Venables: When Green buds Hang in the Elm-like Dust  
from Songs of Eternity and Sorrow Op. 36
Andrew Kennedy (tenor) / Dante Quartet / Simon Crawford-Philips (piano)
Signum Classics SIGCD 112 

Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 2 Scherzo
RLPO / Vernon Handley
EMI Classics for Pleasure 575 309 2 

Reich: Tokyo / Vermont Counterpoint
Mika Yoshida (marimba)
Nonesuch 7559795462 

Britten:  If its Ever Spring Again
Daniel Norman (tenor) / Christopher Gould (piano)
BIS CD 1510 
                 
Beethoven: Symphony no 6 ‘Pastoral’ - Movement 3 ‘Merry Gathering of Country Folk’ 
Berliner Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan 
DG 474 603-2

Kurt Weill: Das Berliner Requiem ‘Ballad of the Drowned Girl’ and ‘Epitaph’                                            
London Sinfonietta / David Atherton (conductor) Philip Langridge / Benjamin Luxon / Michael Rippon
DG 459 442-2

Reynaldo Hahn: A Chloris 				 
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet) / Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano)
Linn CKD294 

Handel: Coronation Anthem ‘The King shall rejoice’      
Academy of Ancient Music / Choir of New College Oxford / Edward Higginbottom
Decca 470 226-2

Elgar: Cockaigne Overture                                                         
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vernon Handley (conductor)
EMI 7243 5 75307

Mary King

Mary King introduces music exploring the contrast between town and country, selecting music by composers who've written about either. She is joined by composer and entertainer Richard Sisson , and included are works by Beethoven, Copland, Mozart, Steve Reich and Handel.

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: Private Passions - Ffion Hague

Private Passions - Ffion Hague

BBC Radio 3 - Private Passions, Private Passions - Ffion Hague

Michael Berkeley meets Ffion Hague, wife of shadow foreign secretary William Hague.

Michael Berkeley meets Ffion Hague, wife of Conservative MP William Hague. Her choices include Bryn Terfel singing a Welsh lullaby and Bruckner's motet Christus factus est.

Michael Berkeley meets Ffion Hague, wife of shadow foreign secretary William Hague, and who has published a highly-rated book on the women in former Prime Minister Lloyd George's life. A native Welsh-speaker, Ffion loves music, having played clarinet and cello as a teenager, and is an enthusiastic singer. Her musical choices include Bryn Terfel singing a Welsh lullaby, Bruckner's motet Christus factus est, Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine and concerto movements by Mozart and Bach.

PLAYLIST
Sig	M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer) 		
(Berkeley/OUP)							0’26
Beaux Arts Brass Quintet



Mozart : 2nd mvt from Clarinet Concerto K622				8’49
‘Great Recordings of the Century’ EMI Classics 0724356760127 - Track 6
Jack Brymer, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/ Sir Thomas Beecham 1958


Jerry Gray: A String of Pearls							3’17
Glenn Miller: A Memorial RCA Victor GMI Side 3 Band 4
Glenn Miller and his Orchestra
Gray/Warner Chappell Music Ltd


Trad: Suo-Gân									5’02
We’ll Keep a Welcome DG 4635932 – Track 7
Bryn Terfel, The Orchestra of Welsh National Opera/Gareth Jones


Bruckner: Christus factus est (Motet)						5’14
“Bruckner Motets” Hyperion CDA66062 – Track 11
Corydon Singers/Matthew Best


JS Bach: 1st mvt from Concerto for Two Violins				4’03
‘Violin Concertos’ NAXOS 8110965 – Track 7
Yehudi Menuhin/George Enescu, Paris Symphony Orchestra/Pierre Monteux


Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine op 11						4’40
‘Requiem etc’ ERATO 0630178972 – Track 12
Chorale Philippe Caillard/
Orchestra National de L’Opéra de Monte-Carlo/Louis Frémaux


Arlen/Harburg: Over the Rainbow						4’59
BLIX STREET HIT16  - Track 1
Eva Cassidy
Arlen/Harburg/EMI Music

Michael Berkeley welcomes Ffion Hague , who has just published a book on the women in Lloyd 
George's life. A native Welsh-speaker, she loves music and her choices include Bryn Terfel singing a Welsh lullaby, Bruckner's motet Christus Factus Est, and Faure's Cantique deJean Racine, plus concerto movements by Mozart and Bach.

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: Composer Portrait: Torelli

Composer Portrait: Torelli

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Composer Portrait: Torelli

Music by 17th-century Italian composer and virtuoso violinist Giuseppe Torelli.

Catherine Bott presents music by 17th-century Italian composer and virtuoso violinist Giuseppe Torelli, most famous for his trumpet concertos.

Catherine Bott presents a programme of music by the 17th century Italian composer and virtuoso violinist, Giuseppe Torelli. Most famous for his trumpet concertos, Torelli also wrote many wonderful pieces for his own instrument and was at the forefront of the early development of the Concerto Grosso.

Giuseppe Torelli 
Lucie Skeaping presents a programme of music by 17th-century Italian composer and virtuoso violinist Giuseppe Torelli. Most famous for his trumpet concertos, Torelli also wrote many pieces for his own instrument and was at the forefront of the early development of the concerto grosso. Producer Les Pratt

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: Radio 3 Requests with  Chi-chi Nwanoku

Radio 3 Requests with  Chi-chi Nwanoku

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Requests, Radio 3 Requests with  Chi-chi Nwanoku

Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces listeners requests, including music set to Shakespeare.

Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces listeners requests, including music set to Shakespeare by Purcell and Britten, and one of Schubert's final pieces for piano played by Maria Joao Pires.

Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces the wish-list of music from Radio 3 listeners, including music set to Shakespeare by Purcell and Britten, and one of Schubert's final pieces for piano played by Maria Joao Pires. Conductor Ivor Bolton shares his passion for a performance of Weber's Der Freischutz overture.

PLAYLIST
listeners, including music set to Shakespeare by Purcell and Britten, and one of Schubert's final pieces for piano played by Maria João Pires. Conductor Ivor Bolton shares his passion for a performance of Weber's Der Freischutz overture. 

Henri Mulet: Tu es Petra
John Scott (organ)
Priory PRCD 345, track 10

Weber: Overture to Der Freischutz 	
Dresden Staatskapelle orchestra, Carlos Kleiber (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 415 432-2, CD 1 track 1

Britten: I Know a Bank (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)	
James Bowman (Oberon), City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor)
Virgin Classics VCD 7593052, CD 1 track 6

Schubert: Allegretto (3 piano pieces D. 946)	
Maria João Pires (piano)
Deutsche Grammophon 457 550-2, CD 2 track 6 

Purcell: Halcyon Days (The Tempest)		
Jennifer Smith (soprano), Monteverdi Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Erato 2292-45555-2, track 16

Rossini: String Sonata No. 3 in C major	
Members of the Serenata of London: Barry Wilde (violin), Clive Lander (violin), Roger Smith (cello), Michael Brittain (double bass)
ASV CD DCA 767, tracks 7-9

Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces listeners' requests, including settings of Shakespeare by Purcell and Britten, and one of Schubert's final pieces for piano, played by Maria Joao Pires. Conductor Ivor Bolton also shares his passion for a performance of Weber's overture to Der Freischutz. 
ADDRESS: Radio 3 Requests, BBC Wales, CF5 2Y0 
Phone: [number removed]. email: [address removed]

BBC Proms

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: 2008

BBC Proms: 2008: Prom 42: Jennifer Bate

Prom 42: Jennifer Bate

2008

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2008, Prom 42: Jennifer Bate

Jennifer Bate (organ) in Messiaen. Including Apparition de l'eglise eternelle.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London, Suzy Klein presentes Jennifer Bate (organ) in music by Messiaen. Including Apparition de l'eglise eternelle and La nativite du Seigneur.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Suzy Klein.

In the 2008 centenary year of Messaien's birth, one of his staunchest British champions plays a programme of his music on the recently restored organ of the Royal Albert Hall.

Jennifer Bate (organ)

Messiaen: Apparition de l'eglise eternelle; La nativite du Seigneur.

Selected coverage from the classical concerts of the Proms 114th season.

BBC Proms 2008

C A recital of Messiaen's organ music, introduced live from the Royal Albert Hall by Suzy Klein. Jennifer Bate (organ) 
Messiaen Apparition de I'Eglise Etemelle; La Nativité du Seigneur

Choral Evensong

Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: 17/08/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, 17/08/2008

From St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh, during the Edinburgh International Festival

From St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh, during the Edinburgh International Festival 2008.

From St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh, during the Edinburgh International Festival 2008.

Introit: Let all the world (Leighton)
Responses: Gabriel Jackson
Office Hymn: Angel voices ever singing (Angel voices)
Psalm: 74 (Woodward)
First Lesson: II Kings 4 vv1-37
Canticles: Stanford in G
Second Lesson: Acts 16 vv1-15
Anthem: Awake my glory (Leighton)
Final Hymn: How shall I sing that majesty? (Coe Fen)
Organ Voluntary: Toccata (Marcel Lanquetuit)

Assistant organist: Nicholas Wearne
Organist and master of the music: Duncan Ferguson.

From St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, 
Edinburgh, during the Edinburgh International Festival. Introit: Let All the World (Leighton). 
Responses: Gabriel Jackson. Office Hymn: Angel Voices Ever Singing (Angel Voices). Psalm: 74 (Woodward). First Lesson: 2 Kings 4, vv1-37. 
Canticles: Stanford in G. Second Lesson: Acts 16, vv1-15. Anthem: Awake My Glory (Leighton). Final Hymn: How Shall I Sing That Majesty? (Coe Fen). Organ Voluntary: Toccata. (Marcel Lanquetuit ). Organist and master of the music 
Duncan Ferguson. Assistant organist Nicholas Wearne.

New Generation Artists

New Generation Artists - a BBC scheme to nurture exceptional young talent

The BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme helps to support talented musicians to reach the next stages of their careers and brings some of the world’s most promising new talent to listeners across the UK through BBC Radio 3 broadcasts.

New Generation Artists: Ingrid Fliter, Ebene String Quartet

Ingrid Fliter, Ebene String Quartet

BBC Radio 3 - New Generation Artists, Ingrid Fliter, Ebene String Quartet

With pianist Ingrid Fliter in Schubert and Chopin, plus the Ebene String Quartet in Brahms

Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter performs Schubert's Impromptu in E flat, D899, and Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu, Op 66. Plus the Ebene Quartet in Brahms's String Quartet, Op 51/1.

Verity Sharp introduces Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter, winner of a Gilmore Artist Award in 2006, and the Ebene String Quartet from France.

Schubert: Impromptu No 3 in E flat, D 899 No 2
Chopin: Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66
Ingrid Fliter (piano)

Brahms: String Quartet in C minor, Op 51 No 1
Ebene Quartet.

Introduced by Verity Sharp. 
Schubert Impromptu in E flat, D899 No 2 
Chopin Fantasie-lmpromptu in C sharp minor. Op 66 Ingrid Fliter (piano) 
Brahms String Quartet in C minor, Op 51 No  Ebene Quartet

BBC Proms: 2008: Prom 43: Mozart, Vaughan Williams and Beethoven

BBC Proms: 2008: Prom 43: Mozart, Vaughan Williams and Beethoven: Prom 43 - Part 1

Prom 43 - Part 1

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2008, Prom 43: Mozart, Vaughan Williams and Beethoven, Prom 43 - Part 1

Richard Hickox conducts Vaughan Williams's Flos Campi and Nigel Osborne's Flute Concerto.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London, and presented by Louise Fryer. Richard Hickox conducts Vaughan Williams's Flos Campi, followed by Nigel Osborne's Flute Concerto.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Louise Fryer.

Prefaced by highly-charged words from the Song of Solomon, Vaughan Williams's Flos Campi features a solo viola accompanied by orchestra and wordless chorus. Well known for his advocacy of British music, this evening's conductor - Richard Hickox - also directs Nigel Osborne's Flute Concerto in celebration of the composer's sixtieth birthday and with a Radio 3 New Generation Artist as soloist.

Sharon Bezaly (flute)
Lawrence Power (viola)
Rebecca Evans (soprano)
Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano)
Thomas Walker (tenor)
Matthew Rose (bass)
BBC Singers
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Mozart: Symphony No 34 in C, K338
Vaughan Williams: Flos campi 
Nigel Osborne: Flute Concerto.

Prom 43: Mozart, Vaughan Williams and Beethoven

The City of London Sinfonia in music by Mozart, Vaughan Williams and Beethoven

The BBC Singers and the City of London Sinfonia under Richard Hickox in music by Mozart, Vaughan Williams and Beethoven

Introduced live from the Royal Albert Hall in London by Louise Fryer. 
Sharon Bezaly (flute), Lawrence Power 
(viola), Rebecca Evans (soprano), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo), Thomas Walker (tenor), Matthew Rose (bass), BBC Singers, City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox Mozart Symphony No 34 in C, K338 Vauqhan Williams Flos Campi Nigel Osborne Flute Concerto 
8.35 Twenty Minutes: Fantasia on a Theme - The Captain's Apprentice Roy Palmer 's series on the folk songs collected by Vaughan Williams concludes with The Captain's Apprentice, quoted in Flos Campi , performed in the Prom concert this evening and providing the haunting melody in the Norfolk Rhapsody. 
8.55 Beethoven Mass in C 
Repeated on Monday 25 August at 2pm

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: Fantasia on a Theme

Twenty Minutes: Fantasia on a Theme: Episode 3: Fantasia on a Theme - The Captain's Apprentice

Episode 3

Episode 3: Fantasia on a Theme - The Captain's Apprentice

Fantasia on a Theme

Fantasia on a Theme - The Captain's Apprentice

BBC Radio 3 - Twenty Minutes, Fantasia on a Theme, Fantasia on a Theme - The Captain's Apprentice

Roy Palmer's explores socially and musically significant song The Captain's Apprentice.

Roy Palmer's series on the folksongs Vaughan Williams collected concludes with the socially and musically influential song The Captain's Apprentice.

Roy Palmer's series on the folksongs Vaughan Williams collected concludes with The Captain's Apprentice, quoted in Flos Campi, performed in this evening's Prom and which provides the haunting melody in the Norfolk Rhapsody. Roy explains the social as well as musical significance of this song of an apprentice destroyed by a brutal ship's captain.

Vaughan Williams heard the song, uncannily close to the plot of Peter Grimes, from 'Duggie' Carter, a King's Lynn fisherman and, in the very pub where he sat in the corner and noted it down, historian Dr Paul Richards explains the social as well as musical significance of the song. And Roy also unearths recordings from North America and the Norfolk traditional singer Harry Cox.

Roy Palmer explores the songs Vaughan Williams collected, and how they inspired him

BBC Proms: 2008: Prom 43: Mozart, Vaughan Williams and Beethoven: Prom 43 - Part 2

Prom 43 - Part 2

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2008, Prom 43: Mozart, Vaughan Williams and Beethoven, Prom 43 - Part 2

Richard Hickox conducts the City of London Sinfonia in Beethoven's Mass in C.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Richard Hickox conducts the City of London Sinfonia in Beethoven's Mass in C.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Louise Fryer presents the conclusion of a Prom, with Richard Hickox conducting the City of London Sinfonia in Beethoven's Mass in C.

Rebecca Evans (soprano)
Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano)
Thomas Walker (tenor)
Matthew Rose (bass)
BBC Singers
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox (conductor).

New Generation Artists: Sharon Bezaly

Sharon Bezaly

BBC Radio 3 - New Generation Artists, Sharon Bezaly

Flautist Sharon Bezaly performs Bach's Sonata, BWV1031, with harpsichord Terence Charlston

Israeli flautist Sharon Bezaly performs Bach's Sonata in E flat, BWV1031, for which she is joined by harpsichordist Terence Charlston.

Ahead of an appearance a 2008 Prom with the City of London Sinfonia, Israeli flautist Sharon Bezaly performs works by Bach and Donjon.

Bach: Sonata in E flat for flute and harpsichord, BWV 1031
Sharon Bezaly (flute)
Terence Charlston (harpsichord)

Donjon: Le chant du vent
Sharon Bezaly (flute).

Bach Flute Sonata in E flat, BWV1031 
Sharon Bezaly (flute), Terence Charlston (harpsichord)

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: Berlin

Berlin

BBC Radio 3 - Words and Music, Berlin

Poems and music on the theme of Berlin, with readings by Henry Goodman and Liz Sutherland.

Poems and music on the theme of the city of Berlin, with readings by Henry Goodman and Liz Sutherland.

Tonight’s actors are Henry Goodman and Liz Sutherland and you should probably listen out too for the supporting cast which includes Hitler and John F Kennedy!

Hausmusik
Oktett, Op.20
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Mendelssohn: Octet. Quintet No 1
EMI CDC7499582
Track 8

Joseph Roth
Extract from Flight Without End
Reader: Henry Goodman

U2
Zoo Station
From Achtung Baby
ISLAND CIDU28
Track 1

Erich Kastner
Extract from Emil and the Detectives
Reader: Henry Goodman

Ute Lemper, John Mauceri
Moritat von Mackie Messer
Composer: Kurt Weill
From Ute Lemper sings Kurt Weill 
DECCA425204-1
Track 3

Georg Heym
The Demons of the Cities
The Faber Book of 20th Century German Poems
Reader: Henry Goodman

Ernst Busch
Der Graben
Composer: Hanns Eisler 
Der politische Tucholsky
Deutsche Grammophon LPMS 44025
Track 8

Bertolt Brecht
Of poor B.B
The Faber Book of 20th Century German Poems
Reader: Henry Goodman

Wiener Philharmoniker
Wozzeck
Composer: Alban Berg
Wozzeck
Deutsche Grammophon 423 587 -2
Track 10

Alfred Doblin
Extract from eighth book of Berlin Alexanderplatz
Reader: Liz Sutherland

Berliner Philharmoniker
Ein Heldenleben 
Richard Strauss
Deutsche Grammophon 439 039 -2
Track 1

Erich Kastner
Das Kastnerbuch 
Reader: Liz Sutherland

Buchberger Quartett
Ouverture zum “Fliegende Hollander” wie sie eine schlechte Kurkapelle morgens um 7 am Brunnen vom Blat spielt, fur Streichquartett
Composer: Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith: Kammermusik
WER 6197-2 286 197-2
Track 12

Anthony Beevor 
Extract from  - Berlin – The Downfall
Reader: Henry Goodman

Dennis Russell Davies and Brooklyn  Philharmonic Orchestra
Low Symphony
Philip Glass
Low Symphony
Phillips 475 075-2
Track 1

Peter Schneider
Extract from The Wall Jumper
Reader: Henry Goodman

Dennis Russell Davies and Brooklyn  Philharmonic Orchestra
Low Symphony
Philip Glass
Low Symphony
Phillips 475 075-2
Track 1

Nazim Hikmet
Autobiography
Reader: Liz Sutherland

The Symphony Orchestra of the Southwest German Radio
Vergangenes – number 2 of the Funf Orchesterstucke op. 16
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg – Funf Orchesterstucke op.16
WERGO WER6018550
Track 2

James Fenton
A German Requiem
Reader: James Fenton

Einsturzende Neubauten
Steh auf Berlin
Einsurzende Neubauten
Kollaps
ZICKZACK ZZ 65
Track 8

Anna Funder
Extract from Stasiland
Reader: Liz Sutherland

Ensemble Modern – Josef Bierbichler
Anmut sparet nicht noch Muhe 
Heiner Goebbels/Hanns Eisler
Eislermaterial
CD Code: ECM 4616482
Track 1

Gunter Grass
In the Egg
The Faber Book of 20th Century German Poems
Reader: Liz Sutherland

Rufus Wainwright
Going to a Town
From Release the Stars
GEFFEN1733587
Track 2

Emine Sevgi Ozdamar
Extract from The Bridge of the Golden Horn
Reader: Liz Sutherland

3Phase 
Der Klang der Familie
Sven Rohrig and Matthias Roeingh
Best of Reactive Volume 2
REACT MUSIC REACTCD197
Track 7

Durs Grunbein
Trilce, Cesar
Ashes for Breakfast
Reader: Liz Sutherland

Bertolt Brecht
To those born later
The Faber Book of 20th Century German Poems
Reader: Henry Goodman

Philharmonia Choir and Orchestra
Ebarme Dich 
J.S.Bach
Matthaus Passion
EMI 7243 5 675388 2 2
CD 2 track 16

Berlin 
Home to Hitler, Strauss, Mendelssohn, 
Schoenberg and Weill, celebrated by Alfred Doblin , Joseph Roth , Bertolt Brecht and Gunter Grass , the city of Berlin is explored tonight in works read by Henry Goodman and Liz Sutherland. EMAIL: [address removed]
For details of the music and verse heard in this programme, visit www.bbc.ca.uk/radio3/wordsandmusic

The Early Music Show: Dr John Bull

10/08/2008

Dr John Bull

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Dr John Bull

Lucie Skeaping explores the troubled life of British composer Dr John Bull and his music.

Lucie Skeaping explores the troubled life of British composer Dr John Bull and his music. He was blighted by poverty and was a victim of highway robbers and pirates.

Lucie Skeaping explores the troubled life of British composer Dr John Bull and his music. He had more than his fair share of difficulties throughout his life: he was blighted by poverty, dismissed from at least three jobs, a victim of highway robbery, robbed by pirates and involved in a scandal which led to a self-imposed exile from his homeland.

Blighted by poverty, dismissed from at least three jobs, a victim of highway robbery, robbed by pirates and involved in a scandal which led to a self-imposed exile from his homeland, Dr John Bull had more than his fair share of difficulties throughout his life.  Lucie Skeaping looks at the troubled life of the British composer and his music.


The Bull Masque
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Hyperion CDA66894
Track 15

In Nomine IX
Derek Adlam (Harpsichord)
GUILD GMCD7233
Track 14

Early fantasia (from Fitzwilliam book)
Martin Souter (Organ)
ISIS ISISCD005
Track 10

Almighty God, which by the leading of a star
Consortium/ Price (organ)/ Barbieri (dir.)
DEUX-ELLES DXL853
Track 1

Fantasy a 4
Fretwork
VIRGIN CLASSICS VC7907062
Track 7

Princes Galliard
Joseph Payne (harpsichord)
BIS CD729BIS
Track 10

Salve Regina I
Sally Garden (Mezzo-Soprano)/ Roger Williams (Organ)
ALPHA CDCA951
Track 1

Fantasia X
Bob van Asperen
TELDEC 842874
Track 11

Carol arr. “den lustelijcken mey”
Ton Koopman (organ)
CAPRICCIO 10255
Track 5

Doctor Bull’s Goodnight
Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord)
ASTREE E8543
Track 17

Lucie Skeaping looks at the troubled life of British Composer John Bull. Producer Sam Phillips

Through the Night

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

Through the Night: 18/08/2008

18/08/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 18/08/2008

Susan Sharpe presents music by Verdi, Franck, Schoeck, Kodaly, Sibelius and Stravinsky.

Susan Sharpe introduces music, including Verdi, Franck, Schoeck, Arutiunian, Sibelius, Busoni, Chopin, Stravinsky, Goldmark, Ligeti, Verdi, Dancla, Rodrigo, Walton, Blow and Bach.

With Susan Sharpe.
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
Missa da Requiem  
Ana Maria Martinez (soprano), Yvonne Naef (mezzo), Stefano Secco (tenor), Franz-Josef Selig (bass), EuropaChorAkademie, SWR Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden and Freiburg, conductor Sylvain Cambreling 

Franck, César (1822-1890)
Pastorale in E major (Op.19) 
Joris Verdin (organ)

Schoeck, Othmar (1886-1957)
Sommernacht (Summer Night): pastoral intermezzo (Op.58) 
Camerata Bern 

Kodály, Zoltán  (1882-1967)
Summer evening [Nyari este]
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, György Lehel (conductor)

Arutiunian, Alexander (b. 1920)
Trumpet Concerto 
Stanslaw Dziewor (trumpet), Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Gabriel Chmura (conductor) 

Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Symphony no.1 in E minor 
Hallé Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder 

Busoni, Ferruccio (1866-1924)
2 Finnish Folksong arrangements  (Op.27)
Erik T. Tawaststjerna and Hui-Ying Liu (pianos)

Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Nocturne in F sharp major (Op.15 No.2)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) (piano) 

Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Octet for wind instruments 
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor)

Goldmark, Károly (1830-1915)
Scherzo in E minor (Op.19)
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Adam Medveczky (conductor)

Ligeti, György (1923-2006)
Six Bagatelles for wind quintet 
Cinque Venti: Liesbet Dregelinck (flute); Korneel Alsteens (oboe); Johan Schols (clarinet); Geert Philips (bassoon), Jos Verjans (horn)

Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in D minor (Op.3 No.11) from 'L'Estro Armonico' 
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)

Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901), arr. Liszt
Rigoletto (paraphrase de concert for piano) (S. 434)
Gyõrgy Cziffra (piano)

Dancla, Charles (1817-1907)
Variations on a theme by Bellini (Op.3)
Valdis Zarinš (violin), Ieva Zarina (piano)

Rodrigo, Joaquín (1901-1999)
Three Spanish Compositions (1. Fandango; 2. Passacaglia; 3. Zapateado)
Goran Listes (guitar)

Walton, William (1902-1983)
Johannesberg Festival Overture
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; David Atherton (conductor)

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

Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Sonata for piano in C minor (H.16.20)
Rudolf Firkušný (piano) 

Coriolan Overture in C minor (Op.62)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)

Quartet for strings (K.589) in B flat major
Johnston Quartet

Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D (BWV 1050)
Rachel Brown (flute), Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin), Richard Egarr (harpsichord/director), Academy of Ancient Music

With Susan Sharpe. Verdi Requiem Ana Maria Martinez and Yvonne Naef 
(mezzos), Stefano Secco (tenor), Franz-Josef Selig (bass), EuropaChorAkademie, SWR Symphony 
Orchestra, Baden-Baden and Freiburg, conductor 
Sylvain Cambreling 2.25 Franck Pastorate in E. Op 19 
2.35 Schoeck Pastoral intermezzo: Sommernacht, 
Op 58 2.47 Kodaly Summer Evening 3.05 Alexander Arutiunian Trumpet Concerto 3.21 Sibelius Symphony No 14.00 Busoni Two Finnish folk song arrangements. 
Op 27 4.12 Chopin Nocturne in F sharp major, Op 15 No 2 
4.16 Stravinsky Octet for wind instruments 
4.31 Goldmark Scherzo in E minor, Op 19 
4.38 Ligeti Six Bagatelles for wind quintet 4.50 Vivaldi Concerto in D minor, W565 (L'Estro Armonico) 
5.00 Liszt Rigoletto: concert paraphrase, S434 
5.07 Dancia Variations on a theme by Bellini, Op 3 
5.13 Rodrigo Fandango; Passacaglia; Zapateado 
5.26 Walton Johannesburg Festival Overture 
5.43 Blow The Graces' Dance: Gavott: Sarabande for the Grace (Venus and Adonis) 5.50 Haydn Piano Sonata in C minor, H XVI 20 6.06 Beethoven Overture: Coriolan 
6.13 Mozart String Quartet in B flat, K589 
6.38 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D, BWV1050

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