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Breakfast

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

Breakfast: 11/12/2008

11/12/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, 11/12/2008

Rob Cowan with music, including Telemann, Howells, Berlioz, Handel, Beethoven and Haydn.

With Rob Cowan. Including Telemann: La majeste (Twelve Heroic Marches). Howells: A Spotless Rose. Berlioz: Overture (Le corsaire). Handel: Concerto grosso in G, Op 6 No 1.

The complete Breakfast playlist will be posted on this website after programme has been broadcast.

07:03

MENDELSSOHN 
Overture: The Hebrides
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
DG 469157-2   CD 1  Tr 1


07:15

TELEMANN 
La Majeste, La Grace & La Vaillance from Twelve Heroic Marches
Matthew Sadler, trumpet
Marcus Sterk, organ
Organum Ogm281010   Tr 4-6


07:22

ELGAR
Chanson de Matin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Lawrence Collingwood, conductor
EMI 724356559325    Tr 1


07:26

BACH
Vivace from Sonata for Violin & Piano in F major BWV1018
Frank Peter Simmerman, violin
Enrico Pace, piano
Sony 8697112432   CD 2   Tr 8


07:31

WARLOCK
Capriol Suite
Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields
Sir Neville Marriner
Decca 421391-2   Tr 1-6


07:43

HOWELLS
A Spotless Rose
Phoenix Chorale
Charles Bruffy, director
Chandos 5066   Tr 6


07:47

CHOPIN
Waltz op 69, no 1
Jose Iturbi, piano
EMI 094635180428    CD 2   Tr 5


07:50

BORODIN orch. Tcherepnin
Notturno (Andante amoroso from String Quartet No 2)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi, conductor
DG 435757-2	   CD 2   Tr 5


08:02

BACH
Mein gläubiges Herze  from Cantate BWV 68 Also hat Gott die Welt Geliebt	
Peter Jelosits, treble 
Concentus Musicus Wien 
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, director
Teldec 242571-2    CD 1   Tr 9


08:07

BERLIOZ
Overture: Le corsaire, op. 21
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Sylvain Cambreling, conductor
Hanssler CD93.201   Tr 6


08:16

HAYDN
Sonata in D major, H 16.51 
Glenn Gould, piano
Sony SMK 87857   Tr 9-10


08:23

BEETHOVEN arr. Sedlak
Fidelio: Overture
Emily Pailthorpe & Elaine Douvas, oboes
With members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Mark Gould, conductor
Oboe Classics CC2018   Tr 10


08:31

John MILTON
To Mr Cyriack upon his Blindness
Read by Robert Glenister


08:32

HANDEL
Total Eclipse from Samson
Mark Padmore, tenor
The English Concert
Andrew Manze, director
Harmonia Mundi HMU907735   Tr 7


08:38

ELGAR
Meditation from The Light of Life, op29
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult, conductor 
EMI 724357529525   Tr 19


08:44

VIVALDI
Concerto op 1 no 12 in D minor, RV63 La Follia
Il Giardino Armonico, Milano
Giovanni Antonino
Warner 256463264-2	   CD 4   Tr 12


08:55

SCHUMANN
Botschaft op74 No8
Barbara Bonney, soprano
Angelika Kirchschlager, mezzo
Malcolm Martineau, piano			
Sony SK93133   Tr 12


08:59

HAYDN
Symphony No. 79 in F major
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra							
DG 439779-2   Tr 9-12


09:20

SCRIABIN
Valse, op 38
Yevgeny Sudbin, piano								
BIS 1568   Tr 13


09:26

CARTER
Musicians wrestle everywhere
John Oliver Chorale
John Oliver, director
Koch 3-7178-2H1   Tr 10


09:30

BEETHOVEN
7 Variations on 'Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen'
From Mozart's ‘Die Zauberflote’ 
Andras Schiff, piano
Miklos Perenyi, cello
ECM 1819   CD 2   Tr 6


09:39

John MILTON
When I consider how my light is spent
Read by Robert Glenister


09:40

DEBUSSY
Des Pas Sur La Niege
Michelangeli, piano
DG 469820-2   CD 7   Tr 6


09:46

HANDEL
Concerto Grosso in G major, op. 6 no. 1
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner, conductor
Decca 475 8673   CD 1   Tr 1

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 Bach Dances at 8.00 and Milton's Mr Cyriack on His Blindness and When / Consider How My Time Is Spent. 
Music includes: 7.00-8.00: Telemann La Majeste (Twelve Heroic Marches) Howells A Spotless Rose Berlioz Overture: Le Corsaire 
8.30-10.00: Handel Concerto Grosso in G, Op 6 No I Beethoven Seven Variations on Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen from Mozart's Die Zauberflote, Wo046 Haydn Symphony No 79 in F

Classical Collection

Programme presenting a sequence of great music in classic recordings

Classical Collection: 11/12/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Collection, 11/12/2008

Including music by Dohnanyi, Faure, Bartok, Strauss, Rameau and Joachim.

With James Jolly. Including Dohnanyi: Variations on a Nursery Song. Faure arr Davies: Dolly Suite. Bartok: Contrasts. Strauss: Elektra's soliloquy (Elektra).

With James Jolly.

10.00 Dohnanyi   Variations on a Nursery Song op 25
Ernst von Dohnanyi (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
EMI CDM 763 183 2

10.23* Faure arr Davies   Dolly Suite
Albion Ensemble
LP: FRS 100 

10.39* Bartok   Contrasts
Gyorgy Pauk (violin), Jeno Jando (piano), Kalman Berkes (clarinet)
NAXOS 8.550749 

10.57* Strauss   Elektra’s Soliloquy (Elektra)
Inge Borkh (soprano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA GD 60874 

11.08* Rameau   Le Rappel des oiseaux (Pieces de clavecin 1724)
George Malcolm (harpsichord)
DECCA 444 390 2 

11.12* Rameau   La Villageoise (Pieces de clavecin 1724)
Ralph Kirkpatrick (harpsichord)
PEARL GEMM CD 9245

11.15* Rameau   Les Tourbillons (Pieces de clavecin 1724)
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)
L’OISEAU-LYRE 425 886 2  (2-CD set)

11.17* Joachim   Violin Concerto no 2
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
VIRGIN CLASSICS 502 109

With James Jolly. 
Ernst von Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song, Op 25 The composer (piano), Royal 
Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult 
10.24 Faure, arr Davies Dolly Suite Albion Ensemble 
10.40 Bartok Contrasts Kalman Berkes 
(clarinet),Gyorgy Pauk (violin), Jeno Jando (piano) 
10.58 Strauss Elektra 's soliloquy (Elektra) 
Inge Borkh (soprano), Chicago SO/Fritz Reiner 
11.08 Rameau Le Rappel des Oiseaux; La 
Villageoise; Les Tourbillons (Pieces de Clavecin) George Malcolm, Ralph Kirkpatrick, Christophe Rousset (harpsichords) 
11.17 Joachim Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor Christian Tetzlaff, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Thomas Dausgaard

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: Robert Schumann

Composer of the Week: Robert Schumann: Episode 4: The Dresden Years

Episode 4

Episode 4: The Dresden Years

Robert Schumann

The Dresden Years

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Robert Schumann, The Dresden Years

Donald Macleod explores the Schumanns' move to Dresden in 1845 to start a new life.

Donald Macleod explores the Schumanns' move to Dresden in 1845 to start afresh, amid concerns for Robert's mental health.

Amidst growing concerns for Robert's mental health, the Schumanns made the move in 1845 to Dresden, where he took to the podium as conductor of an amateur choir and, with Clara's assistance, led several performances of his own works. But his strange leadership did not always go down well with the choristers.

If musical life seemed dull, all that was about to change with the Dresden uprisings in 1849, after which Robert fled the city, leaving his pregnant wife Clara to brave the battleground and rescue their children to safety.

Six Fugues on the Name of BACH (No 2)
Olivier Latry (organ)
SK 57490 - Tr 12

Nachtlied, Op 108
Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 457 660-2, CD 1 - Tr 2

Piano Trio No 2 in F
Florestan Trio 
Hyperion CDA 67063 - Trs 5-8

Cathedral Scene (Scenes from Goethe's Faust)
Mephistopholes ...... Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass)
Gretchen ...... Karita Mattila (soprano)
Tolz Boys' Choir
Swedish Radio Choir
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Berlin Philharmonic
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
S2K 66308, CD 1 - Tr 4.

Donald Macleod charts the relationship between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck

Donald Macleod charts the unique relationship between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck

Composer of the Week: Schumann

4/5. The Dresden Years. In 1845 the Schumanns moved to Dresden, where Robert took to the podium as conductor of an amateur choir. Presented by Donald Macleod. 
Six Fugues on the Name of BACH (No 2) Olivier Latry (organ) Nachtlied, Op 108 
Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, conductor John Eliot Gardiner Piano Trio No 2 in F Florestan Trio 
Cathedral Scene (Scenes from Goethe's Faust)  
Tolz Boys ' Choir, Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado Repeated at 10pm

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: Messiaen Centenary Series

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Messiaen Centenary Series: Episode 3

Episode 3

Messiaen Centenary Series

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Messiaen Centenary Series, Episode 3Close menu

Louise Fryer presents the Fibonacci Sequence in Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time.

Louise Fryer introduces members of the Fibonacci Sequence in Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall as part of the 2008 centenary celebrations.

Louise Fryer introduces a recital given by members of the Fibonacci Sequence at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall as part of 2008's Messiaen centenary celebrations. They perform Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, a work created during his internment by the Nazis, which began as a short trio and was then developed into an eight-movement work that was premiered in front of prisoners and guards in 1941.

The Fibonacci Sequence:
Kathron Sturrock (piano)
Jack Liebeck (violin)
Benjamin Hughes (cello)
Julian Farrell (clarinet)

Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time.

Concerts given at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall for the 2008 Messiaen centenary

A series of concerts given at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall marking 2008's centenary of the birth of Olivier Messiaen

Afternoon on 3: Messiaen Centenary

With Louise Fryer. 
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 
3/4. Another concert recorded at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. 
Fibonacci Sequence 
Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time 
2.00 Afternoon on 3: Messiaen in Context Today's John Milton poem is Lycidas read by Robert Glenister. 
Gounod Fantasy on the Russian National Hymn Ian Tracey (organ), BBC Philharmonic conductor 
Rumon Gamba Lutoslawski Piano Concerto 
Paavali Jumppanen , BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins 
2.55 Dukas Ariane et Barbe-Bleue  
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leon Botstein

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: Messiaen in Context

Afternoon Concert: Messiaen in Context: Episode 4: Messiaen in Context - Episode 4

Episode 4: Messiaen in Context - Episode 4

Messiaen in Context

Messiaen in Context - Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Messiaen in Context, Messiaen in Context - Episode 4

Louise Fryer presents music by Gounod, plus Lutoslawski's Piano Concerto.

Louise Fryer presents music by composers Messiaen admired, including Gounod, as well as Lutoslawski's Piano Concerto and Dukas's Ariane et Barbe-Bleu.

Louise Fryer presents music by composers Messiaen admired as well as pieces by his contemporaries. Plus John Milton's poem Lycidas read by Robert Glenister.

Messiaen: Oraison (for ondes martenot)
Ensemble d'Ondes de Montreal

Gounod: Fantasy on the Russian National Hymn
Ian Tracey (organ)
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Lutoslawski: Piano Concerto
Paavali Jumppanen (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

2.55pm
Dukas: Ariane et Barbe-Bleue
Ariane ...... Lori Phillips (soprano)
La Nourrice ...... Patricia Barcon (mezzo-soprano)
Barbe-Bleue ...... Peter Rose (bass)
Selysette ...... Laura Vlasak Volen (mezzo-soprano)
Ygraine ...... Ana James (soprano)
Melisande	 ...... Daphne Touchais (soprano)
Bellangere ...... Sarah-Jane Davies (soprano)
BBC Singers
Stephen Betteridge (chorus master)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leon Botstein (conductor)

Guilmant: Meditation sur le Stabat Mater, Op 63
Ian Tracey (organ)
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Messiaen in Context

Series of performances of music by Messiaen's contemporaries and composers he admired

Series of performances of music by Messiaen's contemporaries and other composers he admired

In Tune

Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.

Radio 3's drivetime show brings you incredible live music and interviews from the world's finest classical, jazz, folk and world musicians.

Radio 3's drivetime show brings you incredible live music and interviews from the world's finest classical, jazz, folk and world musicians. If it's happening in the world of music, you'll hear it first on In Tune.

In Tune: 11/12/2008

BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, 11/12/2008

Presented by Sean Rafferty. With cellist Yo Yo Ma playing in the studio.

Presented by Sean Rafferty. With cellist Yo Yo Ma playing in the studio, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato discussing her CD of music by Handel and violinist Leonidas Kavakos.

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world, including cello superstar Yo Yo Ma, who plays in the In Tune studio.

Plus mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato discussing her CD of music by Handel which she performs in concert at London's Barbican Centre, London, and violinist Leonidas Kavakos ahead of his concert at the Wigmore Hall.

17:02
LIVE
GERSHWIN
Prelude no.1
Yo Yo Ma (cello)
Kathryn Stott (piano)
1’52

17:06
CARTER
Three Occasions for Orchestra (A Celebration of some 100 x 150 notes)
London Sinfonietta
Oliver Knussen (conductor)
VIRGIN VC7915032
Track 1
3’13

17:10
HANDEL
Serse (Crude furie degl’orridi abissi)
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset (conductor)
VIRGIN 519038
Track 1
3’43

17:20
HANDEL
Teseo (Dolce riposo)
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset (conductor)
VIRGIN 519038	
Track 2
3’14

18:29
HANDEL
Amadigi (Destero dall’empia Dite)
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Dave Hendry (trumpet)
Josep Domenech (oboe)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset (conductor)
VIRGIN 519038	
Track 12
5’23

17:37
LIVE
ELGAR
Salut d’Amour
Yo Yo Ma (cello)
Kathryn Stott (piano)
2’34		

17:46
French Canadian trad. Arr. Natalie MacMaster
A Christmas Jig/ Mouth of the Tobique Reel
Yo Yo Ma (cello)
Natalie MacMaster (fiddle)
J.D. Blair (drums)
Marta Cook (celtic harp)
Mac Morin (piano)
SONY CLASSICAL 886734390 2	
Track 7
3’46
		
17:56
LIVE
SAINT-SAENS
The Swan
Yo Yo Ma (cello)
Kathryn Stott (piano)
2’35

18:04
KHACHATURIAN
Gayaneh (Storm)
London Symphony Orchestra
Aram Khachaturian (conductor)
EMI 3 93229 2
Track 7
4’58

18:10
KREISLER
Tambourin Chinois
Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
Peter Nagy (piano)
DELOS DE3116
Track 4
3’56

18:21
MOZART
Violin Concerto No.3 in G K.216 (Adagio)
Camerata Salzburg
Leonidas Kavakos (violin/conductor)
SONY 82876842412
CD.2	
Track 2
7’03

18:36
MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto in E minor, op.64 (Final Mvt)
Leonidas Kavakos (violin/conductor)
Camerata Salzburg
SONY 88697433032
CD.1 
Track 3
5’45

18:43
CHOPIN
Prelude in C sharp Minor, op.45 no.25
Martha Argerich (piano)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 2530 721
CD 2
Track 11
4’04

18:48
HANDEL
Ariodante (Scherza infida)
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset (conductor)
VIRGIN 519038	
Track 10
10’54

With Sean Rafferty , including after 6pm Milton's On the Late Massacre in Piedmont.

Performance on 3

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

Performance on 3: BBC SSO - Stravinsky, Rachmaninov

Performance on 3: BBC SSO - Stravinsky, Rachmaninov: Episode 1: Thu, 11 December 2008 - Part 1

Episode 1

Episode 1: Thu, 11 December 2008 - Part 1

BBC SSO - Stravinsky, Rachmaninov

Thu, 11 December 2008 - Part 1

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, BBC SSO - Stravinsky, Rachmaninov, Thu, 11 December 2008 - Part 1

BBC SSO conducted by Ilan Volkov. Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto 4

From Glasgow's City Halls, Petroc Trelawny presents the BBC SSO performing Stravinsky's Jeu de cartes and Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 4, with Yevgeny Sudbin (piano).

From Glasgow's City Halls. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Opening the concert is Stravinsky's neo-classical ballet score Jeu de cartes, subtitled A Ballet in Three Deals, which was written while Stravinsky - known to be a keen card player - was visiting America, and the work was premiered there in 1937.

Rachmaninov's Fourth Piano Concerto was also premiered in America - in the 1920s - and although not as well known as his other concertos, it still contains the composer's trademark melodies and romantic harmony.

Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor, Op 40 (original version).

From Glasgow's City Halls, the BBC SSO under Ilan Volkov in Stravinsky and Rachmaninov

From Glasgow's City Halls, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Ilan Volkov perform a programme of music by Stravinsky and Rachmaninov

Presented from Glasgow City Halls by Petroc Trelawny. 
Yevgeni Sudbin (piano), BBC Scottish 
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Nan Volkov Stravinsky Jeu de Cartes 
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor 
7.55 TWenty Minutes: Konstantin Meinikov An account of author Bruce Chatwin 's trip to Moscow to see the reclusive architect. 
8.15 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

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: Konstantin Melnikov

Konstantin Melnikov

BBC Radio 3 - Twenty Minutes, Konstantin Melnikov

Iain Glen reads Bruce Chatwin's story of his trip to see the architect Konstantin Melnikov

Iain Glen reads travel writer and novelist Bruce Chatwin's account of his trip to Moscow to see the reclusive architect Konstantin Melnikov at his famous house.

Performance on 3: Performance on 3: Stravinsky, Rachmaninov

Performance on 3: BBC SSO - Stravinsky, Rachmaninov: Thu, 11 December 2008 - Part 2

Thu, 11 December 2008 - Part 2

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, BBC SSO - Stravinsky, Rachmaninov, Thu, 11 December 2008 - Part 2

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Ilan Volkov perform Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

From City Halls, Glasgow. Petroc Trelawny presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Ilan Volkov in a performance of Stravinsky's revolutionary The Rite of Spring.

From City Halls, Glasgow. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

The concert concludes with Ilan Volkov conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Stravinsky's revolutionary The Rite of Spring, which was written for Serge Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, with choreography by Nijinsky.

The concert will be available to watch online at bbc.co.uk/radio3  from the 12/12/08 for 7 days.

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: Tony Benn

Tony Benn

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, Tony Benn

Tony Benn gives a talk on the value of experience at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2008

In an event from the Free Thinking festival 2008, Tony Benn talks about the value of experience and discusses his own life experience with presenter Susan Hitch and the audience.

In a discussion in front of an audience at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2008 in Liverpool, Susan Hitch is joined by former Labour MP and cabinet minister Tony Benn to reflect on one of the key themes of the festival: the value of experience. 

He talks about being taken by his father to meet Gandhi when he was six years old, and the pleasure he still remembers when the father of Indian independence asked him questions and listened to his thoughts. He muses on the importance of listening to the young as well as advising them, and describes Marx as the last of the Old Testament prophets. Crucially, he explains that his own experience of two world wars, his time as a pilot and the deaths of friends and his brother, are intrinsic to his commitment to peace. He also talks about his new practical invention 'Benn's Safe Seat'.

Tony Benn joins Radio 3's Free Thinking festival in Liverpool to reflect on one of its key themes - the value of experience. 
He muses on the importance of listening to the young, as well as advising them. Presented by Susan Hitch. Producer Allegra Mcilroy

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: John Milton, the Essayist

The Essay: John Milton, the Essayist: Episode 4

John Milton, the Essayist

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, John Milton, the Essayist, Episode 4

Tom Paulin responds to Milton's Second Defence of the English People.

Tom Paulin responds to Milton's Second Defence, revealing Milton's republican thinking, and how Paradise Lost is a republican and a religious poem.

Poet Tom Paulin responds to Milton's Second Defence of the English People - a response to a royalist treatise - revealing how profound was Milton's republican thinking, and how Paradise Lost is a republican as well as religious poem.

Series in which various writers and intellectuals respond to essays by John Milton

Series in which various writers and intellectuals respond to important essays by John Milton

The Essay: Milton Season

John Milton , the Essayist 
4/5. Tom Paulin looks at Milton's A Second Defence of the English People.

Late Junction

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

Late Junction: 11/12/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction, 11/12/2008

Fiona Talkington music by Jacques Brel, Peteris Vasks and Pierre Villette.

Fiona Talkington presents the songs of Jacques Brel as heard by viola da gamba player Ralph Rousseau, plus music from the Zambian roadsides and by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks.

11:15
Green Mamba: Moyo taukali mucamba 
Taken from the album Zambia Roadside
SWP 019 

11:20
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan: Seafaring Song  
Taken from the album Sunday at Devil Dirt
V2 Records VVR1050628

11:24
Pierre Villette: O Magnum Mysterium
Holst Singers/Stephen Layton  
Hyperion CDA67539 TR 17	
[Segue]
11:28
Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
Vladmir Spivakov (vioin) Sergej Bezrodny (pno)
Taken from the album Alina
ECM new series 449 958 2

11:39
Ralph Rousseau (viola da gamba); Matangi String Quartet
Ne me quitte pas (jacques Brel)
Taken from the album Chansons d’amour
CC72305 
[Segue]
11:43
Sebastian Åberg: Rageshree
Maruti V Kurdekar (tabla tarang) Ismet Demirhan (duduk)
Country & Eastern CE05

11:51
Benny Andersson: Innan Gyrningen
Mormors Julstjärna 
Triakel
Swedish Ebu Christmas Concert

11:57
Høstnatt på Fjellskogen
Sinikka Langeland  with Markku OUnaskari percussion
Taken from the album Starflowers
ECM 171 
[Segue]
00:02
Ignatz: Gone
Taken from the album III  
K-RAA-K K056

00:07
Short Mazabuka: Maggie
Taken from the album Roadside Zambia 
Sharp Wood
[Segue]
00:11
arthurs.høiby.ritchie: Untitled #1
Taken from the album Explications					
1450

00:19
Peteris Vasks: Musica Adventus
Riga Sinfonietta
Normund Sne (conductor)
Taken from the album Viatore
Wergo WER6705 2

00:47
Boine arr Jan Garbarek: Gula Gula
Jan Garbarek
Taken from the album I took up the runes
ECM 843 850 2 

00:53
Charlemagne Palestine: Seven Organism Study
Taken from the album Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music, Vol.5
SUB ROSA SR270

The songs of Jacques Brel performed by viola da gamba player Ralph Rousseau, music by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, plus Pierre Villette's 20th-century setting of O Magnum Mysterium. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Through the Night

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

Through the Night: 12/12/2008

12/12/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 12/12/2008

Jonathan Swain introduces music, including Haydn, Beethoven, Mielck and Hannikainen.

Jonathan Swain introduces music, including Haydn, Beethoven, Mielck, Hannikainen, Prokofiev, Britten, Lauber, Zulawski, Czerny, Jenkins, Vivaldi, Bennett, Zemlinsky and Mendelssohn.

With Jonathan Swain.

1.00am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Symphony No 64 in A (Tempora mutantur)

1.21am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Solo e pensoso (Petrarch: Il Canzionere, H XXIVb 20); Nun beut die Flut das frische Grun (Die Schopfung)

1.34am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)
Sine Bundgaard (soprano)
Danish Radio Sinfonietta DR
Rolf Gupta (conductor)

2.23am
Mielck, Ernst (1877-1899): String Quintet in F, Op 3
Erkki Palola, Anne Paavilainen (violins)
Matti Hirvikangas, Teema Kupiainen (violas)
Risto Poutanen (cello)

2.48am
Hannikainen, Ilmari (1892-1955): Piano Concerto, Op 7
Arto Satukangas (piano)
Helsinki Radio Symphony Orchestra
Petri Sakari (conductor)

3.22am
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953): Pensees, Op 62
Roger Woodward (piano)

3.36am
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976): Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra, Op 31
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor)
James Sommerville (horn)
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra
Simon Streatfield (conductor)

4.00am
Lauber, Joseph (1864-1952): Sonata Fantasia in una parte for flute and piano, Op 50
Marianne Keller Stucki (flute)
Agathe Rytz-Jaggi (piano)

4.14am
Kaiser Ferdinand III (1608-1657): Chi volge ne la mente (Musurgia universalis, sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni)
Daniel Taylor (countertenor)
Rodrigo del Pozo (tenor)
Josep Cabre (baritone)
Bernard Deletre (bass)
Tragicomedia
Stephen Stubbs (conductor)
Concerto Palatino
Bruce Dickey (conductor)

4.16am
Sances, Giovanni Felice (c.1600-1679): Lagrimosa belte (Cantade a doi voci, libro secondo, parte seconda)
Suzie Le Blanc, Barbara Boden (sopranos)
Tragicomedia
Stephen Stubbs (conductor)
Concerto Palatino
Bruce Dickey (conductor)

4.21am
Zulawski, Wawrzyniec (1918-1957): Suita w dawnym stylu (Suite in the Old Style)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor)

4.33am
Czerny, Carl (1791-1857): Brilliant polonaise for six hands, Op 296
Kestutis Grybauskas, Vilma Rindzeviciute, Irina Venkus (pianos)

4.46am
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872): Overture (Verbum Nobile)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jerzy Salwarowski (conductor)

4.52am
Buus, Jacques (c.1500-1565): Ricercare
Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (recorders)

5.00am
Jenkins, John (1592-1678): Newark Siege
Concordia
Mark Levy (conductor)

5.06am
Pylkkanen, Tauno (1918-1980): Suite for oboe and strings, Op 32
Aale Lindgren (oboe)
Finnish Radio Orchestra
Petri Sakari (conductor)

5.15am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Ondine (Preludes, Book 2)
Philippe Cassard (piano)

5.19am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): O wie angstlich, o wie feurig (Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail)
Michael Schade (tenor)
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
Richard Bradshaw (conductor)

5.24am
Brade, William (1560-1630): Turkische Intrada
Hesperion XX

5.28am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Violin Concerto in E, RV269 (Spring)
Concerto Copenhagen
Gottfried von der Goltz (violin/conductor)

5.39am
Bennett, Richard Rodney (b.1936): 4 Poems of Thomas Campion for choir
BBC Symphony Chorus
Stephen Jackson (conductor)

5.52am
Rheinberger, Josef (1839-1901): Tempo moderato sopra il magnificat (Organ Sonata No 4 in A minor, Op 98)
Wout van Andel (organ)

6.00am
Zemlinsky, Alexander von (1871-1942): Trio, Op 3
Trio Luwigana

6.26am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64
Olivier Charlier (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Paul Watkins (conductor)

6.54am
Barnes, Milton (1931-2001): Three Folk Dances
Moshe Hammer (violin)
Valerie Tryon (piano).

With Jonathan Swain. 
Haydn Symphony No 64 in A (Tempora Mutantur); Solo e Pensoso, H XXIVb 20; Nun beut die Flut das frische Crun (Die Schopfung) Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica) 2.23 Mielck String Quintet in F Op 3 
2.48 Hannikainen Piano Concerto, Op 73.22 Prokofiev Pensées, Op 62 3.36 Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings 4.00 Lauber Sonata Fantasia, Op 50 
4.14 Kaiser Ferdinand III Chi Volge Ne la Mente 
4.16 Sances Lagrimosa Betta 4.21 Zulawski Suite in Olden Style 4.33 Czerny Brilliant Polonaise, Op 296 
4.46 Moniuszko Overture: Verbum Nobile 4.52 Buus Ricercare 5.00 Jenkins Newark Siege 5.06 Pyikkanen Suite for oboe and strings, Op 32 5.15 Debussy Ondine (Preludes, Book 2) 5.19 Mozart 0 wie angstlich, o wie feurig (Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail) 5.24 Brade Turkische Intrada 5.28 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E, RV269 (Spring) (The Four Seasons) 5.39 Richard Rodney Bennett Four Poems of Thomas Campion 
5.52 Rheinberger Tempo Moderate sopra il Magnificat (Sonata No 4 in A minor, Op 98) (Tonus Peregrinus) 
6.00 Zemlinsky Trio, Op 3 6.26 Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor 6.54 Barnes Three Folk Dances

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