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Breakfast

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

Breakfast: Rob Cowan

26/08/2009

Rob Cowan

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents music, news and the occasional surprise.

The complete Breakfast playlist is posted online after the programme has been broadcast.

7:03am

SCHUBERT
Marche militaire no.3 in E flat major (D.733 No.3)
Ykeda Duo
Lontano 2564 69074-4  Tr 4			 

7:09am

SIBELIUS
Khadra's Dance from Belshazzar's Feast - suite
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
RCA Victor Red Seal 09026-60434-2  Tr 7

7:15am

PURCELL
Sonata no.2 in E flat major from 10 sonatas in IV parts
Ricercar Consort
Ricercar RIC 217, CD2  Tr 9

7:22am

TAILLEFERRE
Pastorale
Emily Beynon (flute)
Andrew West (piano)
Hyperion CDA67204  Tr 5

7:27am

LULLY
Domine Salvum Regem
Monique Zanetti (soprano)
Arlette Steyer (soprano)
Marie Boyer (mezzo)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie (director)
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901274  Tr 11					

7:31am

BEETHOVEN
Fidelio Overture (Op.72b)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA Victor 09026 68976 2  Tr 10

7:38am

COUPERIN
Les Baricades MistÃ©rieuses
Les Tours de Passe-passe
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901956  Trs 1, 13

7:45am

MENDELSSOHN
No.14: Aria (Elijah): Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel
No.15: Quartet (Angels): Cast thy burden upon the Lord
Bryn Terfel (bass: Elijah)
Quartet not identified
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Paul Daniel (conductor)
Decca 455 688-2, CD1  Tr 16, 17		

7:50am

R STRAUSS arr. PRIHODA
Der Rosenkavalier - Waltz
Renaud CapuÃ§on (violin)
JÃ©rÃ´me Ducros (piano)
Virgin Classics 374087 2  Tr 16

7:58am

SCHUBERT arr. WILHELM
The Bee (Op.13 No.9)
Renaud CapuÃ§on (violin)
JÃ©rÃ´me Ducros (piano)
Virgin Classics 374087 2  Tr 2

8:03am

MOZART
Finale: Allegro assai from Concerto for piano and orchestra no.20 (K.466) in D minor
(cadenza by Beethoven)
Martha Argerich (piano)
Teldec 4509-98407-2  Tr 3

8:11am

HANDEL
Sonata for transverse flute and basso continuo (HWV.376) in B minor
Barthold Kuijken (transverse flute)
Wieland Kuijken (viola da gamba)
Robert Kohnen (harpsichord)
Accent ACC 10080  Trs 29-32

8:20am

TCHAIKOVSKY
Polonaise from Cherevichki
The USSR Academic Symphony Orchestra
Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
Olympia OCD 136  Tr 4			

8:26am

HAYDN
The Mermaid's Song
Lisa Milne (soprano)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
Hyperion CDA 67174  Tr 16

8:32am

SULLIVAN
Overture to the Mikado
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 411 450-2  Tr 6					

8:41am

CHOPIN
Scherzo: Allegro con brio - 2nd movement from the Cello sonata in G minor, Op.65
Alban Gerhardt (cello)
Steven Osborne (piano)
Hyperion CDA67624  Tr 6

8:47am

D'INDIA
Vostro fui
Cristiana Presutti (mezzo soprano)
Ensemble PoÃ¯Ã©sis
Aeon AECD 0869  Tr 13					

8:52am

COATES
Halcyon Days from The Three Elizabeths
London 'Pops' Orchestra
Frederick Fennell (conductor)
Mercury 434 330-2  Tr 12					

9:01am

BEETHOVEN
12 Variations in A major on the Russian Dance from Paul Wranitzky's ballet Das WaldmÃ¤dchen (WoO.71)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Decca 475 8401  Tr 34

9:13am

MYASKOVSKY
Allegro burlando from Symphony no.5 in D major, Op.18
Russian Federation Academic Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
Olympia OCD 735  Tr 3

9:18am

PALESTRINA
Sicut cervus desiderat
Choir of Westminster Cathedral
James O'Donnell (conductor)
Hyperion CDA66490  Tr 7							

9:25am

TARTINI / KREISLER
Variations on a theme by Corelli
Nicola Loud (violin)
Elizabeth Burley (piano)
Chandos CHAN 8769  Tr 14

9:31am

MENDELSSOHN
No.42: Chorus: And then shall your light break forth (final chorus)
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Paul Daniel (conductor)
Decca 455 688-2, CD2  Tr 22
				
9:37am

RAVEL
Rapsodie Espagnole (vers. for orchestra)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 476 8501  Trs 12-15

9:53am

VERDI
Vieni a mirar from Simon Boccanegra (Act I)
Richard Tucker (tenor)
Eileen Farrell (soprano)
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Fausto Cleva (conductor)
Sony Classical MHK 62357  Tr 5.

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Classical Collection

Programme presenting a sequence of great music in classic recordings

Classical Collection: James Jolly

James Jolly

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Collection, James Jolly

James Jolly presents music by Humperdinck, Tchaikovsky, Ketelbey, Haydn, Mahler, Gibbons.

With James Jolly. Including Humperdinck: Overture (Hansel und Gretel). Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (excerpt). Ketelbey: In the Woodlands. Haydn: Symphony No 68.

With James Jolly.

10.00am
Humperdinck: Overture (Hansel und Gretel)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)
TELDEC 4509-94549-2 (2 CDs)

10.10am
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (end of Act 2)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
BBC ARTUIM BBCCD3003 (2 CDs)

10.32am
Ketelbey: In the Woodlands
Rosemary Tuck (piano)
NAXOS 8.223699

10.35am
Haydn: Symphony, No 68
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Nicholas Harnoncourt (conductor)
TELDEC 9031-74859-2

11.05am
Mahler: Das Klagende Lied (Waldmarchen)
Marina Shaguch (soprano)
Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano)
Thomas Moser (tenor)
Sergei Leiferkus (baritone)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
RCA 09026 68599 2

11.37am
Gibbons: The Woods so Wild
John Toll (harpsichord)
LINN CKD125

11.43am
Vaughan Williams: Willow-Wood
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557798.

With James Jolly. 
Humperdinck Overture: Hansel und Gretel Bavarian RSO, conductor Donald Runnicles 
10.10 Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty (excerpt) BBCSO, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky 
10.32 Ketelbey In the Woodlands Rosemary  Tuck  (piano) 
10.35 Haydn Symphony No 68 in B flat Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Harnoncourt 
11.05 Mahler Waldmarchen (Das klagende Lied) Marina Shaguch (soprano), Michelle De Young 
(mezzo), Thomas Moser (tenor), Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas 
11.37 Gibbons The Woods So Wild 
John Toll (harpsichord) 
11.43 Vaughan  Williams 
Willow-Wood Roderick Williams (baritone), RLPO, conductor David Lloyd-Jones

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: Nicolay Yakovlevich Myaskovksy (1881-1950)

Composer of the Week: Nicolay Yakovlevich Myaskovksy (1881-1950): Episode 3

Episode 3

Nicolay Yakovlevich Myaskovksy (1881-1950)

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Nicolay Yakovlevich Myaskovksy (1881-1950), Episode 3

Donald Macleod explores the impact on Myaskovsky's music of the First World War.

Donald Macleod explores the impact on Myaskovsky's music of the First World War and the changing social and political mood in Russia.

Donald Macleod traces Myaskovsky's time serving as an army officer in the First World War, during which he composed his fourth and fifth symphonies. Shell shock, and the horrors of war would greatly influence Myaskovsky, who subsequently suffered a breakdown. His music from this point starts to incorporate aspects of political and social change in Soviet Russia, with his Fourth Piano sonata featuring angry clashes and dissonance.

During this period of change, Myaskovsky's father is torn to pieces by a revolutionary mob, and his aunt also later dies. Myaskovsky pours his feelings into his Sixth Symphony, combining French revolutionary themes with images of the migration of the soul from the body.

Romance (You are leaving for the wars), Op 40 No 8 (1935-6)
Mary King (mezzo-soprano)
Andrew Ball (piano)
BBC Recording

Symphony No 5 in D, Op 18 (1918) - 1st mvt
Russian Federation Academic Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
Olympia OCD735 Tr 1

Piano Sonata No 4 in C minor, Op 27 (1924-5) - 1st mvt
Murray McLachlan (piano)
Regis RRC1245 Tr 1

Symphony No 6 in E flat minor, Op 23 (1921-3) - 4th mvt
Gothenburg Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
DG 4716552 Tr 4.

Donald Macleod explores the life and works of composer and music critic Nicolay Myaskovsky

Donald Macleod explores the life and works of Russian composer and music critic Nicolay Myaskovsky

Composer of the Week: Myaskovsky

3/5. During the First World War, Myaskovsky served as an army officer. Shell-shock and the horrors of war led to a breakdown. With Donald Macleod. You Are Leaving for the Wars, Op 40 No 8 Mary King (mezzo), Andrew Ball (piano) 
Symphony No 5 (1st mvt) Russian Federation Academic SO, conductor Yevgeni Svetlanov 
Piano Sonata No 4, Op27(lstmvt) Murray McLachlan Symphony No 6 (4th mvt) Gothenburg Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi

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: Edinburgh International Festival 2009

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2009: Episode 2

Episode 2

Edinburgh International Festival 2009

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Edinburgh International Festival 2009, Episode 2

Lisa Milne (soprano) in songs by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Francis George Scott.

Lisa Milne (soprano) and Malcolm Martineau (piano) perform music inspired by Scottish literature. With Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Francis George Scott.

Radio 3 at the Summer Festivals

Scottish soprano Lisa Milne and pianist Malcolm Martineau explore subjects as diverse as love, Mary Queen of Scots and monkeys in a recital inspired by Scottish literature. With music by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Borders-born Francis George Scott, setting texts by Walter Scott and Robert Burns among others.

Series of chamber concert performances from the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival

Afternoon on 3

With Jonathan Swain. 
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
In another concert from the Edinburgh Festival, Scottish soprano Lisa Milne and pianist Malcolm Martineau explore subjects as diverse as love, 
Mary, Queen of Scots, and monkeys. With music by Schubert and Mendelssohn.

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 Concert: Prom 38/Ravel, Unsuk Chin, Stravinsky

Prom 38/Ravel, Unsuk Chin, Stravinsky

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Prom 38/Ravel, Unsuk Chin, Stravinsky

BBC Proms 2009: Ravel: La valse. Stravinsky: Rite of Spring. Unsuk Chin: Cello Concerto.

BBC Proms 2009: A Prom featuring the BBC SSO under Ilan Volkov. Ravel: La valse. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring. Unsuk Chin: Cello Concerto (with Alban Gerhardt).

Presented by Jonathan Swain.

BBC Proms 2009:

A Prom featuring Ravel's La valse, a work begun as a homage to the Viennese waltz but which was twisted by the composer's wartime experiences into a darker vision of a society whirling to disaster.

It is followed by Stravinsky's seminal, riot-inducing ballet The Rite of Spring, and Unsuk Chin's new Cello Concerto, which was written specially for Alban Gerhardt, an early member of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.

Alban Gerhardt (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Ravel: La valse
Unsuk Chin: Cello Concerto (BBC commission)
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring.

BBC Proms 2009

Alban Gerhardt (cello), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor llan Volkov Ravel La valse 
Unsuk Chin Cello Concerto (BBC commission) Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

Choral Evensong

Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: 26/08/2009

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, 26/08/2009

From the Priory Church, Edington, during the 2009 Festival of Music within the Liturgy.

From the Priory Church, Edington, Wiltshire, during the 2009 Festival of Music within the Liturgy.

From the Priory Church, Edington, Wiltshire, during the 2009 Festival of Music within the Liturgy.

Responses: Gibbons and Barnard
Office Hymn: Lucis Creator optime (Plainsong)
Psalms: 42, 43 (Wesley)
First Lesson: Genesis 22 vv1-18
Magnificat for double choir (Stanford)
Second Lesson: Romans 8 vv28-39
Nunc Dimittis for double choir (Wood)
Anthem: Most glorious Lord of Lyfe (Francis Jackson) - Festival commission
Final Hymn: Love's redeeming work is done (Savannah)
Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude on Croft's 136th (Parry)

Organist: Ashley Grote
Conductors: Andrew Carwood, Matthew Martin, Jeremy Summerly.

From the Priory Church, Edington, Wiltshire, during the 2009 Festival of Music within the Liturgy. Responses: Gibbons and Barnard. Office Hymn: Lucis Creator optime (Plainsong). Psalms: 42, 43 (Wesley). First Lesson: Genesis 22, vvl-18. Magnificat for double choir (Stanford). Second Lesson: Romans 8, vv28-39. Nunc Dimittis for double choir (Wood). Anthem: Most Glorious Lord of Lyfe (Francis Jackson ). Festival commission. Final Hymn: Love's Redeeming Work Is Done 
(Savannah). Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude on Croft's 136th (Parry). Conductors: 
Andrew Carwood , Matthew Martin , Jeremy Summerly. Organist: Ashley Grote.

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: 26/08/2009 Michael Volle, David Zinman and Fabio Luisi

26/08/2009 Michael Volle, David Zinman and Fabio Luisi

BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, 26/08/2009 Michael Volle, David Zinman and Fabio Luisi

Petroc Trelawny talks to singer Michael Volle, and conductors David Zinman and Fabio Luisi

Presented by Petroc Trelawny. With baritone Michael Volle and conductor David Zinman, ahead of their appearances at the Edinburgh Festival, plus conductor Fabio Luisi.

Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world, including baritone Michael Volle who joins him in the studio ahead of his recital at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival.

Conductor David Zinman appears ahead of performances with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich at Edinburgh and the Proms, and conductor Fabio Luisi discusses his forthcoming Prom with Staatskapelle Dresden.

17:02
BELLINI
Overture (I Capuleti e I Montecchi)	
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi (conductor)
DG 477 8031				
CD 1 Track 1			
4â33

17:07
HAYDN 
Presto (Trio in C, Hob.XV:27)
Vienna Piano Trio
MDG 342 1556 2
Track 6
4â57

17:14
STRAUSS 
Introduction (Don Quixote)
Dresden Staatskapelle
Fabio Luisi (conductor)
SONY 88697435542
CD 2 Tracks 1-2
(Extract) 5â45

17:25	
BRUCKNER
Scherzo (Symphony no.9)
Dresden Staatskapelle
Fabio Luisi (conductor)
SONY 88697 29964 2
Track 2
10â59

17:38
VICTORIA 
Incipit oratio Jeremiae Prophetae (Lamentations of Jeremiah)
Nordic Voices
CHANDOS CHAN 0763			
Track 1
6â29

17:48
ELGAR
Serenade for strings in E minor, Op.20
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor)
TELARC CD 80192
Track 3-5
11â47

18:03
STRAVINSKY
Jeu de cartes (Deal 3)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67698
Track 3
7â28

18:11
SCARLATTI
Sonata in F sharp, Kk.319
Christian Zacharias (piano)
EMI  CMS 763940 2
CD 2 Track 9
3â55

18:16
TELEMANN
Sonata in F minor
Matthew Wilkie (bassoon)
Neal Peres da Costa (harpsichord)
Kees Boersma (double bass)
MELBA MR 301124
Tracks 16-19	
10â29

18:28
MENDELSSOHN
Deposuit potentes (Magnificat)
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen
Frieder Bernius (conductor)
CARUS 83216
Track 4
3â18

18:38
ZEMLINSKY
Erkenntnis (Disillusion) (Symphonic Songs, Op.20)
Michael Volle (baritone)
Gurzenich Orchestra of Cologne
James Conlon (conductor)
EMI CDC 557024 2
Track 15
2â42

18:45
Schubert
Abschied (Schwanengesang)
Michael Volle (baritone)
Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano)
NAXOS 8 554663
Track 10
4â40

18:52
FALLA
Danza de los Vecinos (El Sombrero de Tres Picos)	
Katona Twins
David Garcia Mir (percussion)
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCSSA 28809	
Track 15
3â12

18:55
MAHLER
Symphony no.7: 1st mvt (adagio & opening of the allegro)
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor)
RCA 88697 50650 2
Track 1
(Extract) 4â39

19:05
GORECKI
Symphony no.3 âSymphony of sorrowful songs: 2nd mvt (extract)
Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
London Sinfonietta
David Zinman (conductor)
NONESUCH 7559 792822
Track 2
(Extract) 4â06

19:15
Mahler
Symphony no.4: Finale
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor)
RCA 88697 16852 2
Track 4
9â33

19:25
Debussy
Poissons dâor: Anime (Images, Book II)
Simon Trpceski (piano)
EMI 50999 5 00272 2 4
Track 14
3â44

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: 2009: Prom 55: Adams, Mozart, Strauss

BBC Proms: 2009: Prom 55: Adams, Mozart, Strauss: Part 1

Part 1 2009

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2009, Prom 55: Adams, Mozart, Strauss, Part 1

BBC SSO/Donald Runnicles. Adams: Slonimsky's Earbox. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20.

From the Royal Albert Hall. Donald Runnicles conducts the BBC SSO in John Adams's colourful Slonimsky's Earbox, plus Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, with Shai Wosner.

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

Edinburgh-born Donald Runnicles, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's chief conductor-designate conducts John Adams's colourful, energetic and witty tribute to the Russian polymath Nicolas Slonimsky, plus Mozart's stormy D minor Piano Concerto, with Radio 3 New Generation Artist Shai Wosner making his Proms debut.

Shai Wosner (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

Adams: Slonimsky's Earbox
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466.

BBC Proms: 2009

Prom 55: Adams, Mozart, Strauss

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Donald Runnicles in music by Adams, Mozart and Strauss

Donald Runnicles conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a witty work by John Adams, a Mozart piano concerto (with Shai Wosner) and a piece by Strauss inspired by the composer's family life

From London's Royal Albert Hall.
Tonight's programme features Richard Strauss's orchestral canvas inspired by family life in the Strauss household - including bath time and a vivid bedroom scene. New Generation Artist Shai Wosner makes his Proms solo debut in Mozart's stormy D minor piano concerto, and the concert opens with John Adams's tribute to Russian polymath Nicolas Slonimsky. With Louise Fryer.

Shai Wosner (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Donald Runnicles

John Adams Slonimsky's Earbox

Mozart Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466

8.20 Twenty Minutes: Wunderkind
A story by Carson McCullers. Frances, a 15-year-old pianist who has been told she is a musical prodigy discovers that she might be only ordinary after all.

8.40 Strauss Symphonia domestica

(Repeated on Thursday 10 September 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: Wunderkind

Wunderkind

BBC Radio 3 - Twenty Minutes, Wunderkind

Carson McCullers's story about the troubled life of the child prodigy.

Madeleine Potter reads Carson McCullers's classic coming-of-age story, written when she was only 19, in which she explores the pressures and angsts of life as a child prodigy.

In Wunderkind, her classic coming-of-age story, written when she was only 19, Carson McCullers explores the pressures and angsts of life as a child prodigy. Frances, a fifteen-year-old pianist, who for her whole childhood has been considered a shining musical prodigy, arrives for her lesson at her teacher's studio. Her playing has been faltering recently, while Heime, her fellow student and now rival, seems to be on the verge of an illustrious concert career. As the lesson progresses, the emotions spiral, until Frances has to face up to the fact that she might be only ordinary after all.

Carson Mccullers was one of the great writers of the American South. As a child she trained as a classical pianist but gave up her ambitions for a musical career after an emotional break in her relationship with a beloved piano teacher. In this highly autobiographical story, McCullers looks not only at the troubled life of the child prodigy, but also at the pressures and isolation of adolescence.

The reader is Madeleine Potter.
Producer: Justine Willett (Rpt).

BBC Proms: 2009: Prom 55: Adams, Mozart, Strauss: Part 2

Part 2 BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2009, Prom 55: Adams, Mozart, Strauss, Part 2

BBC SSO conducted by Donald Runnicles in Strauss: Symphonia domestica.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Edinburgh-born Donald Runnicles conducts the BBC SSO in Strauss' Symphonia domestica, inspired by family life in the composer's household.

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

Edinburgh-born Donald Runnicles, the BBC SSO's chief conductor-designate, leads his players in Richard Strauss's gargantuan and virtuosic orchestral canvas inspired by family life in the Strauss household - including bathtime and a vivid bedroom scene.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

Strauss: Symphonia domestica.

Sunday Feature

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

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

Sunday Feature: Creating Burns's Reputation

25/01/2009

Creating Burns's Reputation

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Creating Burns's Reputation

Robert Crawford on why Robert Burns was a poet and songwriter of international importance.

Poet and Burns scholar Professor Robert Crawford of St Andrews University, examines how Robert Burns became a sensation at home and abroad. With contributions from Douglas Dunn, who considers the strength of Burns's verse, Professor Fiona Stafford, who discusses whether Burns was the first romantic poet and David Hopes, who asks whether Burns's image is going to be renewed again in the making of the new birthplace museum.

There is also debate on Burns's newest scholarly incarnation as a radical, and Dr Leith Davies looking at how the once very male and clubbable world of the 'Burns club' and Burns Supper now contends with new cultural fusion such as Gung Haggis Fat Choy, which melds Burns night with the Chinese New Year celebrations.

Professor Robert Crawford examines how the poet Robert Burns achieved success at home and abroad. Producer Louise Yeoman

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: Shai Wosner

Shai Wosner

BBC Radio 3 - New Generation Artists, Shai Wosner

Israeli pianist Shai Wosner performs Schubert's Moments Musicaux, D780.

Series of chamber performances from the 2008-2010 intake of BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists. Israeli pianist Shai Wosner performs Schubert's Moments Musicaux, D780.

Shai Wosner (piano) 
Schubert Moments musicaux, D780

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: The Future's Not What it Used to Be

The Essay: The Future's Not What it Used to Be: Episode 2: Trust Me, I'm a Scientist

Episode 2: Trust Me, I'm a Scientist

The Future's Not What it Used to Be

Trust Me, I'm a Scientist

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, The Future's Not What it Used to Be, Trust Me, I'm a ScientistClose menu

Looking at HG Wells and Aldous Huxley's questioning whether can science mend broken dreams

Richard Foster on how in the 1930s, HG Wells and Aldous Huxley asked the next big question: can science mend our broken dreams?

Richard Foster looks at how, in the 1930s, when capitalism and communism appeared unable to deliver utopia, HG Wells in The Shape of Things to Come and Aldous Huxley in Brave New World asked the next big question: can science mend our broken dreams, or will they just become nightmares?

...it used to Be. Exploring literary visions of utopia, asking where it all went wrong

Richard Foster explores literary visions of utopia, asking where it all went wrong

The Essay: The Future's NotWhat It Used to Be

2/3. Trust Me, I'm a Scientist. Richard Foster continues his survey of how the technological age is measuring up to the visions set out in the speculative novels of previous eras. By the 1930s it seemed politics alone would never deliver utopia. HG Wells in The Shape of Things to Come and Aldous Huxley 's Brave New World asked the next big question: can science mend broken dreams?

Late Junction

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

Late Junction: Fiona Talkington

Fiona Talkington

BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction, Fiona Talkington

Fiona Talkington with music from Bente Kahan, Sylvain Chauveau's band O and Anja Garbarek.

Fiona Talkington's varied musical selection includes the voice of Bente Kahan, Sylvain Chauveau's band O playing Morton Feldman and a lullaby from Wibutee with Anja Garbarek.

Fiona Talkington's varied musical selection includes the voice of Bente Kahan, Sylvain Chauveau's band O playing Morton Feldman and a lullaby from Wibutee with Anja Garbarek.

Track List:

23:15
17 Hippies: Atchafalaya
Album: El Dorado
Hipster Records HIP 0123

23:19
Joshua Goldman: Language
Album: Electronic Music Vol. III
Misomusic 016.07

23:26
Gillian Welch: Rock Of Ages
Album: Hell Among The Yearlings
Acony 0102

(Segue)

23:29
Brian Dewan: Rock of Ages
With The Liverpool Cathedral Bell Ringers
Album: Ringing At The Speed Of Prayer
Innova 725

(Segue)

23:34
Alan Hovhaness: Prayer of Saint Gregory, Op. 62b (version for trumpet and wind band)
Performed By John Wallace (trumpet); Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Wind Orchestra, directed By Keith Brion
Album: Hovhaness - Symphonies Nos. 4, 20 and 53
Naxos 8.559207

23:38
David Rothenberg: One Lone Maui Humpback Whale
Album: Whale Music Remixed
Terranova TN 0906

(Segue)

23:42
O: Maryannâs Theme
Morton Feldman Arr. Joel Merah
3â CD

23:48
HÃ¥tt: Ãrhunderts Mazurka
Album: B-Burger
Ta:lik TA 73CD

(Segue)

23:50
HÃ¥tt: Influensaen
Album: B-Burger
Ta:lik TA73CD

23:53
Andrew Cronshaw (zither) & Abdullah Chhadeh (qanun): The Colour Of The Rose
Album: Ochre
Cloud Valley CV2008

00:06
Vladislav Delay: Musta Planeetta (Black Planet)
Album: Tummaa
Leaf BAY 72CD

(Segue)

00:12
Hitte: Karjankutsu 
Sanne Tschirpke (voice & cattle calls)
Album: Maamo
Aania 13

00:15
Bente Kahan: Der Filosof/Romenye, Romenye
With Gjertrudâs Gipsy Orchestra
Album: Jiddischkeit
Victoria VCD 19064

(Segue)

00:22
Richard Cooke: Kwenja Kwenja
Album: Music From Objects
CDR
http://rcooke.free.fr

00:25
Habib Yammine: DabkÃ© (Danse Libanaise)
Album: Thurraya PleÃ¯ades
Le Chant Du Monde 274 1550

(Segue)

00:32
Jon Hassell: Courtrais
With Peter Freeman (bass); Jan Bang (live sampling); Steve Shehan (percussion)
Album: Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street
ECM B0012573 02

00:39
O: Mouvement De Neige
Maitane Sebastian
3â CD

(Segue)

00:43
Wibutee with Anja Garbarek: The Ball
Album: Sweet Mental
Sonne Disk Son 001

00:48
Robert Hampson: Ahead â Only The Stars
Album: Vectors
Touch TO:71

Eclectic listening with Fiona Talkington , including the voice of Bente Kahan : Sylvain Chauveau 's band 0 playing music by Morton Feldman : and a lullaby from Wibutee, with Anja Garbarek.

Through the Night

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

Through the Night: 27/08/2009

27/08/2009

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 27/08/2009

Music including Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Byrd, Hummel, Rachmaninov, Bizet, Purcell.

Music including Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Byrd, Hummel, Rachmaninov, Bizet, Purcell, Delibes, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Prokofiev, Praetorius, Kodaly, Byrd, Handel and Pacius.

1.00am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): The Art of Fugue, BWV1080 - arr for string quartet (excerpt)
1.10am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): String Quartet No 12 in E flat, Op 127
1.51am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): String Quintet No 4 in G minor, K516
Huang Hsin-Yun (viola)

2.28am
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809): Finale (String Quartet in D, H III 79
Brentano Quartet

2.32am
Byrd, William (c.1543-1623): In Fields abroad
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
The Rose Consort of Viols

2.39am
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837): Rondo brillant in A for piano and orchestra, Op 56
Rudolf Macudzinski (piano)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ludovit Rajter (conductor)

3.01am
Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943): The Bells, Op 35
Roumiana Bareva (soprano)
Pavel Kourchoumov (tenor)
Stoyan Popov (baritone)
'Sons de la mer' Mixed Choir Varna
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vassil Stefanov (conductor)

3.39am
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875): L'Arlesienne Suite No 1
Slovenia Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Marko Munih (conductor)

3.57am
Vallet, Nicolas (c.1583-c.1645): Carillon de village
Toyohiko Satoh (lute)

4.00am
Rung, Henrik (1807-1871): Chime, you bells
Fionian Chamber Choir
Alice Granum (director)

4.02am
Cantieni, Robert: The Evening Bell
Suraua Mixed Chorus
Ruedi Collenberg (director)

4.04am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): The Bells of Kallio Church, Op 56b
Finnish Radio Chamber Choir
Eric-Olof Soderstrom (conductor)

4.07am
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695): Rejoice in the Lord alway, Z49 (Bell anthem)
Robert Lawaty (countertenor)
Robert Pozarski (tenor)
Miroslaw Borczynski (bass)
Sine Nomine Chamber Choir
Concerto Polacco Baroque Orchestra
Marek Toporowski (director)

4.15am
Delibes, Leo (1836-1891): Bell Song: Ou va la jeune Hindoue? (Lakme - Act 2)
Lakme ...... Tracy Dahl (soprano)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

4.24am
Saint-Saens, Camille (1835-1921): Danse macabre, Op 40 -  transcr Saint-Saens for two pianos
Ouellet-Murray Duo:
Claire Ouellet, Sandra Murray (pianos)

4.31am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): La cathedrale engloutie (Preludes: Book 1 - 1910)
Philippe Cassard (piano)

4.37am
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953): Lieutenant Kije - suite for orchestra, Op 60
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Verbitsky (conductor)

5.01am
Praetorius, Michael (1571-1621): Renaissance concerto for brass ensemble
Hungarian Brass Ensemble

5.05am
Wagenseil, Georg Christoph (1715-1777): Concerto in E flat for trombone and orchestra
Warwick Tyrrell (trombone)
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor)

5.15am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Adagio and Fugue in C for strings, K546
Risor Festival Strings

5.23am
Hidas, Frigyes (1928-2007): Adagio for orchestra
Hungarian Radio Orchestra
Gyorgy Lehel (conductor)

5.35am
Kodaly, Zoltan (1882-1967): Four Italian madrigals for female chorus
Jutland Chamber Choir
Mogens Dahl (director)

5.47am
Byrd, William (c.1540-1623): Pavana lachrimae for keyboard (after John Dowland) for keyboard, MB XXVIII 54
Aapo Hakkinen (harpsichord)

5.55am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Music for the Royal Fireworks
Collegium Aureum

6.17am
Pacius, Fredrik (1809-1891): Overture (The Hunt of King Charles - 1852)
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

6.25am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): 10 Pensees lyriques for piano, Op 40
Eero Heinonen (piano)

6.44am
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837): Trio in G for violin, viola and cello
Viktor Simcisko (violin)
Alzbeta Plazkurova (viola)
Jozef Sikora (cello).

Bach The Art of Fugue, BW V1080 (excerpt, arr string quartet) Beethoven String Quartet in E flat, Op 127 
Mozart String Quintet in G minor, K516 Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 76 No 5 (finale) Brentano Quartet, Huang Hsin-Yun (viola) 2.32 Byrd In Fields Abroad 
2.39 Hummel Rondo brillant in A. Op 56 3.01 
Rachmaninov The Bells, Op 35 3.39 Bizet Suite No V. L'Arlésienne 3.57 Vallet Carillon de village 4.00 
Rung Chime, You Bells 4.02 Cantieni The Evening Bell 
4.04 Sibelius The Bells of Kallio Church, Op 56b 
4.07 Purcell Rejoice in the Lord Alway (Bell Anthem) 
4.15 Delibes Bell Song (Lakme) 4.24 Saint-Saens Danse macabre, Op 40 4.31 Debussy La cathédrale engloutie (Preludes, Book 1) 4.37 Prokofiev Suite: 
Lieutenant Kije 5.01 Praetorius Renaissance concerto 
5.05 Waqenseil Trombone Concerto in E flat 
5.15 Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546 
5.23 Hidas Adagio 5.35 Kodaly Four Italian madrigals 
5.47 Byrd, after Dowland Pavana lachrimae 5.55 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks 6.17 Paclus Overture: The Hunt of King Charles 6.25 
Sibelius Pensees lyriques, Op 40 6.44 Hummel String Trio in G

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