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Breakfast

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

Breakfast: 29/10/2008

29/10/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, 29/10/2008Search BBC

Rob Cowan presents music by Cavalli, Chopin, Handel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Weber and Schumann.

With Rob Cowan. Featuring singing from Rolando Villazon, Carolyn Sampson and Placido Domingo, as well as Schumann's Konzertstuck for four horns.

The complete Breakfast playlist is posted on this site after the programme has been broadcast.

07:03

BACH
‘Jig’ Fugue in G BWV 577
Peter Hurford (organ)
EMI 7243 585630 2 3  CD1 Tr 4


07:06

BRIDGE
Threads
Britten Sinfonia
Nicholas Cleobury (conductor)
RCA 74321 987082  CD2 Tr 11-12


07:15

CAVALLI
Lasso io vivo (L’Egisto)
Roland Villazon (tenor)
Le Concert d’Astree
Emmanuelle Haim (director)
VIRGIN 5190442  Tr 1


07:19

J.C. BACH
Symphony No.1 in D major
The Hanover Band
Anthony Halstead (conductor)
CPO 9992682  Tr 1-3


07:31

GRIEG
Symphonic Dance No.1
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 9113  Tr 1


07:37

CHOPIN
Etude in F major, Waltz in A minor
Byron Janis (piano)
MERCURY 434346-2  Tr 16-17


07:44

HANDEL
Oh the pleasure of the plains!
Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt (director)
LINN CKD 319  CD1 Tr 2


07:50

GLAZUNOV
Concert waltz for orchestra no. 1 (Op.47) in D major
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
ORFEO C 148101A  Tr 5


08:03

MOZART
Don Giovanni: Overture
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Rene Jacobs (conductor)
HMC 80196466  CD1 Tr 1


08:09

RACHMANINOFF
Youth Symphony
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 10475  Tr 2


08:19

HANDEL
Parnasso in Festa: Nel spiegar
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
The King’s Consort
Matthew Halls (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67701  CD1 Tr 26


08:31

SMETANA
Etude in A minor (1846)
Jan Novotný (piano)
SUPRAPHON SU 3374-2 112  CD2 Tr 19


08:34

FREE THOUGHT 
Lizzie Nunnery - How culture is a shared process


08:36

Keiko ABE
Dream of the Cherry Blossoms
Daniella Ganeva (marimba)
SIGNUM SIGCD057  Tr 2


08:44

RIMSKY–KORSAKOV
Fantasy on Russian Themes, Op.33
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 10491  Tr 1-3


09:02

GRIEG
Holberg Suite – Gavotte
Young Mandolin Orchestra of Baden Wurttemburg
ANTES BM CD 31.9247  Tr 3


09:06

BACH
Prelude and Fugue no.20 in A minor
Helene Grimaud (piano)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON PROMO  Tr 11-12


09:11

WEBER
Oberon: Vater! Hor' mich flehn zu dir!
Placido Domingo (tenor)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4775644  CD2 Tr 2


09:16

WAGNER
An Webers Grabe
Male Choir of the Vienna Chamber Chorus
Michel Plasson (conductor)
EMI 5563582  Tr 3


09:21

ELLINGTON
Come Sunday 
Norma Winstone (voice)
John Taylor (piano)
ENOCD 002  Tr 10


09:25

BOCCHERINI
Sinfonia Op 12’4: Allegro assai con moto (in imitation of Gluck)
“La casa del diavolo”
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
NAÏVE OP 30399  Tr 20


09:34

SCHUMANN
Konzertstück for four horns
La Chambre Philharmonique
Emmanuel Krivine (conductor)
NAÏVE V 5132  Tr 5-7


09:52

GRANADOS
Andaluza
Nancy Laufer (accordion)
THOROFON CTH2552  Tr 7


09:55

CHOPIN
Waltz & Mazurka Op.7 No.1
Sonny Robb, age 14 (piano)
Recorded at the Radio 3 Pianothon in Belfast

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 Rob Cowan. Including a Free Thought after 8.30. Music includes: 
7.00-8.30: Cavalli Lasso to Vivo (L'Egisto) Roland Villazon (tenor), Le Concert d'Astree, director Emmanuelle HaTm 
Chopin Waltz in A minor Byron Janis (piano) Handel Nel Spiegar (Parnasso in Festa) 
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), the King's Consort. conductor Matthew Halls 
8.30-10.00: Rimsky-Korsakov Fantasy on Russian Themes, Op33 Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi 
Weber Vater Hor' mich flehn zu dir (Oberon) 
Placido Domingo (tenor), Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir and Orchestra, conductor Rafael Kubelik Schumann Konzertstuck in F, Op 86 
La Chambre Philharmonique, conductor Emmanuel Krivine

Classical Collection

Programme presenting a sequence of great music in classic recordings

Classical Collection: Sarah Walker

Sarah Walker

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Collection, Sarah Walker

Sarah Walker presents music by Tartini, Schumann and Liszt.

With Sarah Walker. Including Tartini, arr. Zandonai: Sonata in G minor (Devil's Trill). Schumann: Frauenliebe und -Leben. Liszt: A Faust Symphony.

10.00  Tartini arr. Zandonai    Sonata in G minor ‘Devil’s Trill’
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
Vienna Philharmonic, James Levine (conductor)
DG 437 544-2

10.16* Schumann   Frauenliebe und -leben, Op.42
Margaret Price (soprano), James Lockhart (piano)
EMI 573718-2

10.40* Liszt   A Faust Symphony
Kenneth Riegel (tenor)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 447 449-2

With Sarah Walker. 
Tartini, arr Zandonai Violin Sonata in G minor (Devil's Trill) 
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Vienna PO/James Levine 
10.26 Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben, Op 42 Margaret Price (soprano), James Lockhart (piano; 
10.40 Liszt A Faust Symphony 
Kenneth Riegel (tenor), Tanglewood Festival 
Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Bernstein

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: Gustav Mahler

Composer of the Week: Gustav Mahler: Episode 3: 1909-1910

Episode 3

Episode 3: 1909-1910

Gustav Mahler

1909-1910

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Gustav Mahler, 1909-1910

Donald Macleod explores Mahler's life in New York, where he learned of his wife's affair.

Donald Macleod explores Mahler's life in New York, where he had a successful second season as a conductor before learning of his wife's affair with a German architect.

Donald Macleod explores Mahler's life in New York City, a hustling and bustling metropolis that even presented him with women's suffrage marches outside his hotel apartment window. Despite a successful second season conducting the New York Philharmonic, misfortune struck again when Mahler discovered his wife was conducting an affair with the young German architect Walter Gropius.

Symphony No 1 (2nd, 3rd mvts)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor)
Decca 475 8230 Trs 2, 3

Hurrah for Woman Suffrage! (words: Nettie Metcalf); Dixie (tune: Daniel Decateur Emmett)
The Homespun Singers
Miriam Reed Productions - Tr 1

In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus (Kindertotenlieder)
Stephen Genz (baritone)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
Hyperion CDA67392 - Tr 21

Symphony No 10 (excerpt)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 447 023-2 CD 12 - Trs 9-13.

Donald Macleod surveys Mahler's last years, marked by both misfortune and personal success

Donald Macleod surveys Mahler's last, eventful years, which were marked by both misfortune and personal success. With excerpts from all ten of Mahler's symphonies as well as historic audio excerpts

3/5. Donald Macleod explores Mahler's life in New York. Despite a successful second season conducting the New York Philharmonic, tragedy struck again when Mahler discovered his wife was having an affair with architect Walter Gropius. Symphony No I (2nd and 3rd mvts) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Georg Solti 
Emmet Hurrah for Woman Suffrage Homespun Singers 
Mahler In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus 
(Kindertotenlieder) Stephen Genz (baritone), 
Roger Vignoles (piano) Symphony No 10 (Adagio) Vienna PO, conductor Claudio Abbado Rptd atropm

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: LSO St Luke's British Series

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: LSO St Luke's British Series: Episode 2

Episode 2

LSO St Luke's British Series

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, LSO St Luke's British Series, Episode 2Close menu

James Gilchrist (tenor) and Anna Tilbrook (piano) in Purcell, Tippett, Finzi and Britten.

Louise Fryer presents highlights from the LSO St Luke's British series of concerts. James Gilchrist (tenor) and Anna Tilbrook (piano) in Purcell, Tippett, Finzi and Britten.

Louise Fryer presents highlights from the LSO St Luke's British series of concerts.

James Gilchrist (tenor)
Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Purcell, arr. Tippett: Music for a while
Purcell, arr. Britten: Solitude
Tippett: Boyhood's End
Finzi: From O Fair to See
Britten: Winter Words Poems by Thomas Hardy.

Concerts from LSO St Luke's looking at cross-currents in British music in the early 1900s

Series of concerts performed at LSO St Luke's in London concentrating on cross-currents in British music in the early 20th century

Afternoon on 3

With Louise Fryer. 
James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano) Purcell, arr Tippett Music fora While Purcell, arr Britten Solitude Tippett Boyhood's End 
Finzi 0 Fair to See (excerpt) 
Britten Winter Words (Poems by Thomas Hardy ) 
2.00 Towards Messiaen: The Stage Messiaen Saint Francois d'Assise: Act 2 For cast see yesterday

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: Towards Messiaen: The Stage

Afternoon Concert: Towards Messiaen: The Stage: Episode 3

Towards Messiaen: The Stage

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Towards Messiaen: The Stage, Episode 3

A focus on French opera and ballet, with the second act of Messiaen's St Francis of Assisi

A focus on French opera and ballet, with a celebrated Proms 2008 performance of the second act of Messiaen's Saint Francis of Assisi.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

Part of a series celebrating 100 years since the birth of Messiaen, with a focus on his music in context of French opera and ballet. As part of a repeat of a celebrated 2008 Prom by Netherlands Opera, the programme features the second act of Messiaen's only opera, which culminates in the famous scene of his sermon to the birds, whose songs are depicted by a large orchestra.

Messiaen: Saint Francois d'Assise (Act 2)
Saint Francis ...... Rodney Gilfry (baritone)
Angel ...... Heidi Grant Murphy (soprano)
Leper ...... Hubert Delamboye (tenor)
Brother Masseo ...... Charles Workman (baritone)
Brother Leo ...... Henk Neven (baritone)
Brother Elias ...... Donald Kaasch (tenor)
Brother Bernard ...... Armand Arapian (baritone)
Brother Sylvester ...... Jan Willem Baljet (baritone)
Brother Rufus ...... Andre Morsch (baritone)
Chorus of the Netherlands Opera
The Hague Philharmonic Orchestra
Ingo Metzmacher (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Towards Messiaen: The Stage

Music placing Messiaen in the conxtext of French musical themes: With opera and ballet

Music placing Messiaen's music in the context of important themes in French musical history, with a focus on opera and ballet performances

Choral Evensong

Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: 29/10/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, 29/10/2008

From The Queen's College, Oxford.

Introit: Beati omnes (Purcell)
Responses: Reading
Psalms: 66, 67 (Ley, Knyvett, Elgar)
First Lesson: Hosea 11 vv1-11
Office Hymn: For all thy Saints, O Lord (Sandys)
Canticles: Purcell in G minor
Second Lesson: Luke 6 vv17-31
Anthems: Selig sind die Toten (Schutz); Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Schutz); Let my prayer come up (Blow)
Final Hymn: Who are these, like stars appearing (All Saints)
Organ Voluntary: Voluntary in D minor for double organ (Purcell)

Organ scholar: Benedict Lewis-Smith
Director of music: Owen Rees.

Live from the Chapel of Queen's College, Oxford. Introit Beati Omnes (Purcell). 
- - Responses: Reading Psalms 66, 67 (Ley, 
Knyvett, Elgar). First Lesson: Hosea 11, vv1-11 
Office Hymn: For All Thy Saints, 0 Lord (Sandys). Canticles: Purcell in G minor. Second Lesson: Luke 6, vv17-31. Anthems: Selig sind die Toten 
(Schiitz); Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied 
(Schiitz). Let My Prayer Come Up (Blow). Final 
Hymn: Who Are These, Like Stars Appearing (All Saints). Organ Voluntary: Voluntary in D minor for double organ (Purcell). Director of music 
Owen Rees. Organ scholar Benedict Lewis-Smith .

In Tune

Radio 3's drivetime show has all the latest interviews and music ahead of the coronation.

Radio 3's drivetime show brings you all the latest interviews and music as we build up to the coronation.

In Tune: 29/10/2008

BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, 29/10/2008

With Sean Rafferty. Including John Butt of the Dunedin Consort and organist Olivier Latry.

Presented by Sean Rafferty. With Dunedin Consort director John Butt about its recording of Acis and Galatea, plus organists Olivier Latry and Simon Johnson.

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world, talking to John Butt, director of the Dunedin Consort, about its recording of Handel's Acis and Galetea.

Plus Olivier Latry demonstrating the refurbished organ of St Paul's Cathedral, London with cathedral organist Simon Johnson.

17:02
HANDEL
Acis and Galatea (Sinfonia; Happy, happy we)
Dunedin consort and Players
John Butt (conductor)
LINN CKD319
CD.1 
Tracks 1+12
5’47

17:08
ELENA KATS-CHERNIN
Courting the Dragon (Pheoenix Story)
Pei-Jee Ng (cello)
Pei-Sian Ng (cello)
MELBA MR301113
Track 10
5’31

17:14
KETELBEY
In a Persian Market
Chorus and New Symphony Orchestra of London
Robert Sharples (conductor)
DECCA 452 987 2
Track 6
7’12
				
17:23
HANDEL			
Wretched Lovers (Act II)
Dunedin consort and Players
John Butt (conductor)
LINN CKD319
CD.2 
Track 1
4’24

17:31
HANDEL
Acis and Galatea (I rage – I melt I burn!; O ruddier than the cherry)
Matthew Brook, bass-baritone (Polyphemus)
Dunedin Players
John Butt (director)
LINN CKD319
CD.2 
Tracks 2-3
4’45

17:41
HANDEL
Acis and Galatea (Heart, the seat of soft delight; Galatea, dry thy tears)
Susan Hamilton (soprano)
Dunedin consort and Players
John Butt (conductor)
LINN CKD319
CD.2 
Tracks 16-17	
7’21

17:48
SCHUBERT
Impromptu No. 1 in C minor, Op 90
Andreas Haefliger (piano)
SONY SK 53108	
Track 1
9’26

18:03
LEROY ANDERSON
The Waltzing Cat
BBC Concert Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
NAXOS 8.559356
Track 6
2’36	

18:07
VIVALDI
Concerto in C minor, RV.509
Viktoria Mullova, Giuliano Carmignola (violins)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Andrea Marcon (director)
ARCHIV 00289 477 7466	
Tracks 13-15
8’39

18:21
BACH
Prelude in G major, BWV 541
Olivier Latry (organ)
3’24

18:28
VIERNE
Carillon de Westminster
Olivier Latry (organ)
6’55

18:36
SCHUBERT
Der Psalm 23, D706
BBC Singers
Susan Tomes (piano)
Jane Glover (conductor)
COLLINS CLASSICS
Track 1
5’54

18:43
BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonata no.10 in E major, op.14 no.1
Murray Perahia (piano)
SONY88697326462
Track 5-7
12’59

18:57
BACH
The Art of Fugue (Contrapunctus V)
The Amsterdam Baroque Soloists
OTTAVO OTR C48503
Track 6
2’25

Sean Rafferty introduces a selection of music and news from the arts world.

Performance on 3

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

Performance on 3: Lyon, Tomlinson, Wood, Lane, Coates, Ketelbey, Patterson

Performance on 3: Lyon, Tomlinson, Wood, Lane, Coates, Ketelbey, Patterson: Wed, 29 October - Part 1

Wed, 29 October - Part 1

Lyon, Tomlinson, Wood, Lane, Coates, Ketelbey, Patterson

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, Lyon, Tomlinson, Wood, Lane, Coates, Ketelbey, Patterson, Wed, 29 October - Part 1

Petroc Trelawny presents the BBC CO in English light music by Lyon, Tomlinson and Wood.

From Watford Colosseum, Petroc Trelawny presents the BBC CO in English light music. Works by David Lyon and Ernest Tomlinson, plus Haydn Wood: Violin Concerto, with Tasmin Little.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny from Watford Colosseum.

A concert given by the BBC Concert Orchetra focusing on the theme of English light music, past and present. With a work by contemporary composer David Lyon, followed by one from Ernest Tomlinson, president of the Light Music Society and who was an instrumental figure in the BBC Light Music Festivals in the late 1950s and 1960s. Violinist Tasmin Little, a champion of British music, joins the orchestra for Haydn Wood's heroic violin concerto, written in 1928.

Tasmin Little (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Gavin Sutherland (conductor)

David Lyon: Overture Joie de vivre
Ernest Tomlinson: Lakeside Idyll
Wood: Violin Concerto.

The BBC Concert Orchestra in a programme of English light music, past and present

The BBC Concert Orchestra in a programme of English light music, past and present. With works by Lyon, Tomlinson, Haydn Wood, Lane, Hope, Coates, Ketelbey and Paul Patterson

Live from the Colosseum in Watford, Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Concert Orchestra for the opening concert of its new season with a theme of English light music past and present. Including pieces by contemporary composers Peter Hope , David Lyon , Philip Lane , Ernest Tomlinson and Paul Patterson , plus works by Eric Coates , Albert Ketelbey , Charles Williams and Haydn Wood. Gavin Sutherland conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, with violin soloist Tasmin Little. Including at: 
7.45 Twenty Minutes: The Bell 
An extract from Iris Murdoch 's famous novel. Dora and Toby hatch a bizarre plan to replace the newly arrived bell. Read by Liz Sutherland.

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: The Bell

23/07/2008

The Bell

BBC Radio 3 - Twenty Minutes, The Bell

Liz Sutherland reads an extract from Iris Murdoch's famous novel.

An extract from Iris Murdoch's classic novel centring two people's plan to replace the bell of a convent in order to convince its residents of the existence of miracles.

Liz Sutherland reads an extract from Iris Murdoch's famous 1958 novel. It takes up the story, which is set in a lay community near a convent, when Dora and Toby hatch a bizarre plan to replace the newly-arrived bell in order to convince the residents of the existence of miracles.

Performance on 3: Performance on 3: Lyon, Tomlinson, Wood, Lane, Coates, Ketelbey, Patterson

Performance on 3: Lyon, Tomlinson, Wood, Lane, Coates, Ketelbey, Patterson: 29/10/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, Lyon, Tomlinson, Wood, Lane, Coates, Ketelbey, Patterson, 29/10/2008

English music by Paul Patterson, Philip Lane, Peter Hope, Eric Coates and Albert Ketelbey.

From Watford Colosseum. English light music, including Paul Patterson's Jubilee Dances plus works by Philip Lane, Peter Hope, Eric Coates and Albert Ketelbey.

From Watford Colosseum.

The BBC Concert Orchestra programme of Engligh light music concludes with older and contemporary works, including Paul Patterson's Jubilee Dances, which was commissioned to celebrate the BBC CO's 50th anniversary.

BBC Concert Orchestra
Gavin Sutherland (conductor)

Philip Lane: London Salute
Peter Hope: Kaleidoscope
Coates: Summer Afternoon
Ketelbey: In the Moonlight
Paul Patterson: Jubilee Dances, Op 89.

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: Landmarks

05/06/2008

Landmarks

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, Landmarks

Matthew Sweet and guests discuss David Lean's 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia.

Matthew Sweet is joined by directors Nicolas Roeg and Roger Michell for an in-depth celebration of David Lean's classic 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia, starring Peter O'Toole.

In a special programme, Matthew Sweet is joined by film directors Nicolas Roeg and Roger Michell among others for an in-depth look at David Lean's 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia. Its hero is the enigmatic British soldier Thomas Edward Lawrence, portrayed by Peter O'Toole, acting alongside Omar Sharif and Alec Guinness. The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards, eventually winning seven including Best Director.

Matthew Sweet is joined by Omar Sharif and others to take an in-depth look at David Lean's 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia, in the director's centenary year. Producer Sally Spurring

Composer Of the Week

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.

The Essay: Night Walks

The Essay: Night Walks: Episode 3: Janice Galloway

Episode 3: Janice Galloway

Night Walks

Janice Galloway

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Night Walks, Janice Galloway

Novelist and short story writer Janice Galloway walks the shore at Saltcoats, near Glasgow

Novelist and short story writer Janice Galloway tiptoes the shore at Saltcoats, outside Glasgow.

Novelist and short story writer Janice Galloway tiptoes the shore at Saltcoats, outside Glasgow and recalls some walks she made during her childhood.

Writers walk after dark and report on what they see, feel and think about their travels

Five writers take a stroll after dark and reports back on what they see, feel and think about their travels. Focusing on walking as a source of recreation, escape, nostalgia and spiritual release

Nlghtwalks 
3/5. Scottish novelist Janice Galloway returns to Saltcoats beach near Glasgow, and recalls walks first made in childhood. Things have changed since then, of course - including her footwear.

Late Junction

Journeys in music, ancient to future. The home for adventurous listeners

Late Junction: Verity Sharp

Verity Sharp

BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction, Verity Sharp

Verity Sharp presents Welsh bag-hornpipe music from Ceri Rhys Matthews.

Verity Sharp presents Welsh bag-hornpipe music from Ceri Rhys Matthews, Chris Wood's recording of England in Ribbons, the prepared piano of Hauschka and Turkish singer Ahmet Aslan.

Tonight’s selection includes the Welsh pibe-cyrn (bag-hornpipe) played by Ceri Rhys Matthews, Chris Wood’s recent recording of ‘England in Ribbons’ co-written with Hugh Lupton, the prepared piano of Hauschka, Turkish singer Ahmet Aslan and Alan Lomax’s 1951 recording of Peggy MacGillivray. With Verity Sharp. 


11.15.00

Sweden

Trad: Engelska efter Albert A

Orust (Göran Premberg, fiddle/Johan Kullberg, accordion/Tomas Larsson, mandola)

Taken from the album TJO

Footprint FRCD 021                                                         

11.18.00

Trad arr. Jones: Barrack Street

Nic Jones, voice & guitar/Tony Hall, melodeon

Taken from the album Penguin Eggs

Topic TSCD 411                                                 


11.23.00

Madagascar

Trad: Tsapiky Bilo

Remaniny & Retovony, accordions

Taken from the album Madagascar: Pays Masikoro

Ocora C560149                                               

11.27.00

Madagascar

Trad: Ê Lahy ê

Vola, Marie-Bernadette, Célestine Mora, Vao Feno, Tendry, voices 

Taken from the album Madagascar: Antanosy Country

Ocora C 560214                                                 

 

11.31.00

Trad: The World Must Be Coming To An End

Peggy MacGillivray (vocals)

Taken from the album The Alan Lomax Collection: Singing in the Streets

Rounder ROUCD1795                                                     

 

11.34.00

Welsh

Trad/Morris: Perllan

Pigyn Clust

Taken from the album Perllan

Fllach Tradd CD244H                                          

 

11.42.00

Kemp: The Cry of Man

Mary Margaret O’Hara

Taken from the compilation Rogue’s Gallery

Anti LC 02576                                                    

 

11.45.00

Corona: Cosmos I

Murcof

Taken from the album Cosmos

Leaf Bay 59 CD                                       

 

11.55.00

Bryars: Incipit Vita Nova

David James, countertenor/Annemarie Dreyer, violin/Ulrike Lachner, viola/Rebecca Firth, cello

Taken from the album Vita Nova

ECM 445 351 2                                                   

 

12.01.00

Sweden

Trad arr. Frifot: Hobergsgubben

Frifot

Taken from the album Flyt

Amigo AMCD 762                                               

 

12.05.00

Turkish

Öztürk/Aslan: Dagli bir kabiledir ask

Ahmet Aslan 

Taken from the album Veyvé Milaketu (Dance of the Angels) 

Kalan CD 432                                                    

 

12.10.00

Trad arr. Simpson: Swannanoa Tunnel 

Martin Simpson

Taken from the album Cool and Unusual

Red House RHRCD110                            

 

12.14.00

AMGC: Go Back Home

Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir

Taken from the album Ten Thousand

Ballin the Jack BTJ 01CD                                       

 

12.17.00 

Bertelmann: Schönes Mädchen

Hauschka

Taken from the album Ferndorf

Fatcat 130701                                         

 

12.22.00

Lupton/Wood: England in Ribbons 

Chris Wood

Taken from the album Trespasser

Ruf Records RUFCD 11                            

 

12.36.00

Breton

Trad: Dañs ‘dro Kalanel-ha tro dro – Soubenn al laezh

Daniel Le Noan, bombarde/Alain Michel, binioù-kozh/Annaïg Le Gorju, voice

Taken from the album An Eured

An Naer 701                                                      

 

12.41.00

Trad: Pantybara – Breuddwyd Rhysyn Bach – Blode’r Gwinwydd

Ceri Rhys Matthews (Welsh Bag Horn Pipe)

Taken from the album Pibddawns

Fflach Tradd CD1293h                                      

 

12.48.00 

Iceland

Trad arr. Grímsdóttir: Ad minni sálu amar

Bára Grímsdóttir, voice/Chris Foster, guitar

Taken from the album Funi 

Green Man Productions GMCD 00                      

 

12.54.00 

Gibbons: Fantasia MB15

Daniel Ben Pienaar, piano

Taken from the album Orlando Gibbons: Complete Keyboard Works

Deux Elles DXL 1126

Featuring the Welsh bag-hornpipe played by Ceri Rhys Matthews and Chris Wood 's recent recording of England in Ribbons co-written with Hugh Lupton. Plus Turkish singer Ahmet Asian and Alan Lomax 's 1951 recording of Peggy MacGillivray. Introduced by Verity Sharp.

Through the Night

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

Through the Night: 30/10/2008

30/10/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 30/10/2008

Susan Sharpe with music by Brahms, Bach, Nielsen, Grieg, Mozart, Respighi and Debussy.

Susan Sharpe presents music, including Brahms, Bach, Grieg, Crusell, Kuula, Mozart, Pergolesi, Respighi, Fontana, CPE Bach, Bouwman, Schubert, Borodin, Strauss, Kodaly and Debussy.

01:01AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Symphony No.4 in E minor (Op.98)
I Virtuosi di Santa Cecilia, Massimo Freccia (conductor)

01:45AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto No.5 (BWV.1056) in F minor
Angela Hewitt (piano), CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

01:56AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Wind Quintet (Op.43)
Galliard Ensemble

02:22AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Sonata for violin and piano No.3 (Op.45) in C minor
Alena Baeva (violin), Giuzai Karieva (piano)

02:46AM
Crusell, Bernard Henrik (1775-1838)
Concertino for bassoon and orchestra in B flat major
Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

03:05AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
Sinfonia for orchestra (Op.36) 'Jupiter'
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Panula (conductor)

03:12AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No.41 in C major (K.551) 'Jupiter'
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

03:52AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Where'er you walk - Jupiter's air from Semele, Act II, Scene 3
Matthew White (counter-tenor), Arte dei Suonatori, Eduardo Lopez (conductor)

03:56AM
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
Nina, after 'Tre Giorni son che Nina' by Giovanni Pergolesi
The Hertz Trio

04:00AM
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736)
Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in B flat  
András Keller (violin), Concerto Köln

04:13AM
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Ancient Airs and Dances – Suite No.2
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

04:32AM
Anon (14th century Florence)
Salterello
Ensemble Micrologus

04:38AM
Fontana, Giovanni Battista (c.1592-1631)
Sonata undecima for cornet, violin and bass continuo
Le Concert Brisé

04:47AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Trio Sonata (Wq148) in A minor
Les coucous bénévoles

05:00AM
Bouwman, Nicolaas Arie (1854-1941)
Thalia-ouverture for wind orchestra
Dutch National Youth Wind Orchestra, Jan Cober (conductor)

05:09AM
Bruhns, Nicolaus (1665-1697)
Wohl dem, der den Herren fürchtet (cantata)
Greta de Reyghere & Jill Feldman (sopranos), Max van Egmond (bass), Ricercar Consort

05:17AM
Gratton, Hector (1900-1970) arr. David Passmore
Première danse Canadienne
Quatrième danse Canadienne
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)

05:25AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
5 German dances with 7 trios and coda (D.90) originally for string quartet
Zagreb Soloists

05:41AM
Borodin, Alexander (1833-1887)
Symphony No.3
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

05:59AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Das war sehr gut…/Dann aber, wie ich Sie gespürt hab' hier im Finstern steh'n – from the opera 'Arabella', Act 3 final scene
Joanne Kolomyjec (soprano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

06:06AM
Anonymous (17th century)
Court Masques under Charles I and II
Pedro Memelsdorff (recorder), Andreas Staier (harpsichord)

06:17AM
Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967)
Dances of Galanta (orig. for orchestra)
Adam Fellegi (piano)

06:32AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
String Quartet (Op.10) in G minor
RTE Vanbrugh String Quartet

Presented by Susan Sharpe. 
Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor I Virtuosi di Santa 
Cecilia, conductor Massimo Freccia 1.45 Bach Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor, BWV10561.56 Nielsen Wind Quintet 2.22 Grieg Violin Sonata No 3 in C minor 
2.46 Crusell Bassoon Concertino in B flat 3.05 Kuula Sinfonia, Op 36 (Jupiter) 3.12 Mozart Symphony No 41 in C, K551 (Jupiter) 3.52 Handel Where'er You Walk (Semele) 3.56 Kreisler Nina, after Tre Giomi son che Nina by Giovanni Pergolesi 4.00 Perqolesl Violin 
Concerto in B flat 4.13 Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No 2 4.32 Anon 14th-century Florence Salterello 
4.38 Fontana Sonata undecima for cornet. violin and bass continuo 4.47 CPE Bach Trio Sonata in A minor, Wq148 5.00 Bouwman Overture: Thalia 5.09 Bruhns Wohl dem, der den Herren furchtet 5.17 Gratton Première Danse Canadienne; Quatrieme Danse Canadienne 
5.25 Schubert Five German dances with Seven trios and coda, D90 5.41 Borodin Symphony No 3 in A minor 
5.59 Strauss Das warsehrgut (Arabella) 6.06 Anon 
17th-century Court Masques under Charles I and II 6.17 Kodaly Dances of Galanta 6.32 Debussy String Quartet

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