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Breakfast

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

Breakfast: Mary King

05/09/2009

Mary King

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Radio 3's breakfast programme with Mary King - a lively mix of music.

7:03

BERLIOZ 
Hungarian March (Rakoczy March) â 
The Damnation of Faust
Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra
Matyas Antal (conductor)
NAXOS 8.550142  T11


7:09	

Giovanni GABRIELI
Exaudi me Domine  (16-part motet)
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul van Nevel (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL SK 66 261  T6 	

7:15	

MOZART
Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat K297B 
3rd movement - Andantino with variations)
David Theodore (oboe), Robert Hill (clarinet), John Price (bassoon), Nicholas Busch (horn)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
EMI CD-EMX 2181  T3	


7:24	

CHABRIER
Idylle (10 pieces pittoresques)
Angela Hewitt (piano)
HYPERION CDA 67515  T8	


7:30:00		

DVORAK
Legend in G Minor Op.59 No.3
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer (conductor)
PHILIPS 464 647-2  T3	


7:34		

BERNSTEIN
A Quiet Girl (Wonderful Town)
Thomas Hampson (baritone)
London Voices, 
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI CDC5 56753-2   T10	


7:38	

RODGERS & HART
Little Girl Blue
Oscar Peterson (piano)
MPS 821 843-2  T8	0:06:03


7:44	

STENHAMMAR
Notturno (Serenade)  
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, 
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
DG 471 747-2  D1 T8


7:51	

BRAHMS
Scherzo - Sonata in F minor for 2 pianos
Emanuel Ax & Yefim Bronfman (pianos)
SONY CLASSICAL SK 89868   T3	


8:03	

ELGAR
Pomp & Circumstance March No.4
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)
CFP CD-CFP 9004   T4	


8:08	

CAMPION
Come Cheerful Day
The English Ayre, Nigel North (lute)
LINN CKD 105  T1	


8:12	

HANDEL
Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.9 in F
Tha Academy of Ancient Music
Andrew Manze (director)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907229 (D2) T15 - 20


8:26	

JANACEK arr. Talich
Suite: The Cunning Little Vixen 
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras
DECCA 417 129-2  D2 T11


8:37	

MENDELSSOHN
Piano Trio in C Minor Op.66 (slow movement)
Joshua Bell (violin), Steven Isserlis, (cello), DÃ©nes VÃ¡rgon (piano)
BBC RECORDING (not commercially available) 


8:44	

DUPARC 
Au pays ou se fait la guerre   
Danielle Borst (soprano) 
Jeff Cohen (piano)
REM 311049   T7

8:50	

Carter PANN
Slalom
University of Kansas Wind Ensemble
John P Lynch (conductor)
NAXOS 8.570074  T1

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CD Review

A thorough look at the week's classical music releases, plus news and recommendations

A thorough look at the week's classical music releases, plus news and the Radio 3 Disc of the Week recommendation

CD Review: 05/09/2009

BBC Radio 3 - CD Review, 05/09/2009

Peter Breiner's suites from Janacek operas; Stephen Plaistow on Chopin recordings.

Presented by Andrew McGregor. Featuring Peter Breiner's suites from Janacek operas; Stephen Plaistow on Chopin recordings; and vocal music by Handel.

Andrew McGregor plays tracks from the following:

09.05am

SUK: Symphony No.2 in C minor, “Asrael”
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Claus Peter Flor (conductor)
BIS SACD-1776 (Hybrid SACD)

JANACEK arr. Breiner: “Orchestral Suites from the Operas Vol.3”: The Cunning Little Vixen; From the House of the Dead
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Peter Breiner (conductor)
Naxos 8.570706 (CD, Budget Price)


09.40am

CHOPIN: 24 Preludes Op.28; Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise Op.22
Wojciech Switala (fortepiano)
NIFC CD 006 (CD)

CHOPIN: Etudes Opp.10 and 25
Tatiana Shebanova (fortepiano)
NIFC CD 007 (CD)

CHOPIN: Fantasia on Polish airs; Variations on “La ci darem”; Krakowiak; Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise
Nelson Goerner (fortepiano), Orchestra of the 18th Century; Franz Bruggen (conductor)
NIFC CD 009 (CD)

CHOPIN: Piano concertos Nos. 1 and 2
Dang Thai Son (fortepiano), Orchestra of the 18th Century, Franz Bruggen (conductor)
NIFC CD 004 (CD)

CHOPIN: Works including 4 Impromptus, Nocturnes Op.32, Mazurkas Op.59
Kevin Kenner (fortepiano)
NIFC CD 010 (CD)

CHOPIN: Mazurkas (selection)
Fou Ts’ong (fortepiano)
NIFC CD 001 (CD)

CHOPIN: Ballades Nos.1-4; Nocturnes Opp.27 and 48/2
Nelson Goerner (fortepiano)
NIFC CD 003 (CD)



10.20am 

HANDEL: Serse
Maureen Forrester (Serse), Maureen Lehane (Arsamene), Lucia Popp (Romilda), Owen Brannigan (Elviro), Vienna Academy Chorus and Radio Orchestra, Brian Priestman (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 477 8339 (3 CDs, Mid-Price)

HANDEL:  Serse
Carolyn Watkinson (Serse), Paul Esswood (Arsamene), Barbara Hendricks (Romilda), Ortrun Wenkel (Amastre), Ulrich Studer (Elviro), La Grande Ecure et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire (conductor)
Sony Classical 88697527242 (3 CDs, Budget Price)

HANDEL: Serse
Judith Malafronte (Serse), Lisa Milne (Atalanta), Susan Bickley (Amastre), David Thomas (Elviro), The Hanover Band and Chorus, Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Sony Music 88697 532062 (3 CDs, Budget Price)

HANDEL: “Between Heaven and Earth” – oratorio arias
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Accademia Bizantina, Stefano Montanari (conductor)
Naïve OP 30484 (CD)
For more details see http://www.naive.fr/#/work/handel-between-heaven-and-earth

HANDEL: La Resurrezione
Camilla Tilling (Angelo), Luca Pisaroni (Lucifero), Kate Royal (S. Maria Maddalena), Sonia Prina (S. Maria Cleofe), Toby Spence (S. Giovanni Evangelista), Le Concert d’Astree, Emmanuelle Haim (director)
Virgin Classics 50999 694567 (2 CDs)



11.10 am

SIBELIUS: Violin concerto; ELGAR: Violin concerto
Ida Haendel (violin), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)
Testament SBT 1444 (CD, Mid-Price)

MOZART: Divertimento K.287; STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
Testament SBT 1453 (CD, Mid-Price)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.6 “Pastoral”; STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
Testament SBT 1452 (CD, Mid-Price)

BRAHMS: Symphonies Nos. 1-4
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI Classics 2 67254 2 (3 CDs, Mid-Price)

Summer CD Review

With Andrew McGregor. 
Excerpts from the third volume of conductor 
Peter Breiner 's series of his own suites fashioned from the operas of Janacek. 
9.30 Andrew talks to Stephen Plaistow about a new series of Chopin recordings from the Frederyk Chopin Institute, Warsaw. 
10.15 Recent vocal music by Handel. 
11.15 New releases of live recordings by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: a newly-taped Brahms cycle from Simon Rattle , and London concerts conducted by Herbert von Karajan in 1972. bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview PHONE: [number removed] email: cdreview@bbc.co.uk Text[number removed] (standard rate) Disc details are posted on the website and on CEEFAX, BBC1, page 651

Music Feature

Programmes exploring music and music-related subjects

Music Feature: Purcell and Dryden - A Professional Friendship

Purcell and Dryden - A Professional Friendship

BBC Radio 3 - Music Feature, Purcell and Dryden - A Professional Friendship

Alyn Shipton on Dryden and Purcell's collaboration on the semi-opera King Arthur.

Alyn Shipton explores Dryden and Purcell's collaboration on the semi-opera King Arthur, bringing to life the world of Restoration theatre.

Alyn Shipton explores Dryden and Purcell's collaboration on the semi-opera King Arthur, a work which is often regarded as the first professional collaboration between librettist and composer. He is joined by Purcell biographer Jonathan Keates, who describes some of the sights, sounds and smell of the world of Restoration theatre. It was a period in which people would come in and out for single acts of an opera, jostle in the stalls and swap seats in boxes, while the privileged would claim seats on the stage.

There is a look at the latest scholarship on the genesis of the opera, with Dryden's biographer, James Wynn, who traces the origins of the collaboration between the two men in the preface to Dioclesian, which was signed by Purcell but written by Dryden. He explains that 17th-century authorship was a bit like the teams of writers on a present-day sitcom.

Alyn also considers the origin of the Knights of the Garter, the redecoration of Windsor Castle and the messy politics of Jacobites supporting the ousted James II versus William III's Orange and Protestant sympathies. This provides the background to such remarkable musical treats as Purcell and Dryden's Chorus of Cold People, the paeon of praise to St George, and the best-known setting in the opera Fairest Isle. With naked sylphs, ancient British battles and a drinking song worthy of the terraces at an England game, Alyn sheds new light on this most fascinating of operas.

Purcell and Dryden:a Professional Friendship

In 1691, England's leading poet, John Dryden , and the country's foremost composer, Henry Purcell , collaborated on the opera King Arthur.  Alyn Shipton sets out to discover to what extent this opera broke new ground in the collaboration between librettist and composer, Producer Simon Jacobs

The Early Music Show

Performance and news from the world of early music.

An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.

The Early Music Show: Eustache du Caurroy

Eustache du Caurroy

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Eustache du Caurroy

Andrew Carwood presents music by Eustache du Caurroy, recorded by the BBC Singers.

Andrew Carwood presents a programme of sacred music by little-known 16th century French composer Eustache du Caurroy, recorded by the BBC Singers.

Andrew Carwood presents a programme of sacred music by the little-known 16th century French composer Eustache du Caurroy, recorded by the BBC Singers.

Du Caurroy was born in 1549 near Beauvais. Nothing is really known about his childhood or musical education, but he apparently declared that he had learned his trade 'by reading good authors and imitating the ancients'. It is thought that some of those 'good authors' and 'ancients' included composers such as Josquin des Prez, Adrian Willaert and Gioseffo Zarlino, who were among the leading lights of the generation before Caurroy. Not a bad starting block, then, for a composer who was to become one of the greatest musicians in Europe during his lifetime.

Du Caurroy served the French royal court for his entire career until his death in 1609. His legacy lived on long after his passing, and in 1636 the philosopher Marin Mersenne wrote of him 'Du Caurroy reigns supreme for the great harmoniousness of his composition and his rich counterpoint...all the composers of France hold him to be their master.' These are fine words about a composer who seems to have all but disappeared from our church repertoire today.

Playlist:

Vox Domini super aquas
BBC Singers
Andrew Carwood (conductor)
(BBC studio recording, made at St Paul's Knightsbridge, London)

Qui paracletus
BBC Singers
Andrew Carwood (conductor)
(BBC studio recording, made at St Paul's Knightsbridge, London)

Eustache du Caurroy - Alleuya, Alleluya
BBC Singers
Andrew Carwood (conductor)
(BBC studio recording, made at St Paul's Knightsbridge, London)

Eustache du Caurroy - Missa pro defunctis
BBC Singers
Andrew Carwood (conductor)
(BBC studio recording, made at St Paul's Knightsbridge, London).

Andrew Carwood profiles Eustache Du Caurroy (1549-1609), who is believed to have served the French royal court in the reign of Charles IX as a singer in the Royal Chapel. Caurroy remained there for the rest of his career, ultimately gaining recognition as a composer and teacher, though his music seems to have all but disappeared from the Church repertoire of today. Producer Les Pratt

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: Proms Chamber Concerts

BBC Proms: 2009: Proms Chamber Concerts: Part 6: PCM 06 - Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis and Denes Varjon

Part 6 Part 6: PCM 06 - Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis and Denes Varjon

2009

PCM 06 - Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis and Denes Varjon

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2009, Proms Chamber Concerts, PCM 06 - Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis and Denes Varjon

Joshua Bell (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello), Denes Varjon (piano): Schumann, Mendelssohn

From Cadogan Hall, London. Joshua Bell (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello) and Denes Varjon (piano) perform Schumann's Phantasiestucke and Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No 1.

From Cadogan Hall, London. Presented by Louise Fryer.

Long-term chamber partners Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis join forces with a brilliant young Hungarian pianist for music of poetry and drama. They perform Fantasiestucke, Schumann's four character pieces, which were the composer's first works for piano trio, composed in 1842 when he was particularly interested in the form.

These are followed by Mendelssohn's Piano Trio, Op 49, which Schumann himself dubbed 'the master trio of our age'. It bears the hallmarks of an expressive 'song without words' and a fleeting 'scherzo', alongside the Romantic sweep and grandeur of its outer movements.

Joshua Bell (violin)
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Denes Varjon (piano)

Schumann: Phantasiestucke, Op 88
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 49.

BBC Proms: 2009

Proms Chamber Concerts

Series of concerts by small classical musical ensembles, broadcast from Cadogan Hall

BBC Proms Chamber Music 2009

Another chance to hear this concert from 
London's Cadogan Hall , with Louise Fryer. Joshua Bell (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello), Denes Varjon (piano) 
Schumann Phantasiestucke , Op 88 
Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor, Op 49

World Routes

Programme exploring music from around the world

Programme exploring music from around the world, featuring interviews with performers, live concerts, monthly CD reviews and special location reports

World Routes: Gnawa and World Music Festival 2009 Part 2

Gnawa and World Music Festival 2009 Part 2

BBC Radio 3 - World Routes, Gnawa and World Music Festival 2009 Part 2

Lucy Duran presents highlights from the 2009 Gnawa and World Music Festival in Morocco.

Lucy Duran presents highlights from the 2009 Gnawa and World Music Festival in Essaouira, Morocco, an annual free festival which celebrates the ancient tradition of trance music.

Lucy Duran presents highlights from the 2009 Gnawa and World Music Festival in Essaouira on Morocco's Atlantic coast, an annual free festival which celebrates the ancient tradition of trance music. With performances by Braim El Belkani, a gnawa master who once played with Led Zeppelin, and Morocco's most celebrated band, the veterans Nass El Ghiwane.

Essaouira is an old stone town that is home to an even older style of music which arrived in Morocco centuries ago with the slaves who came from across the Sahara. It is a sacred music which is traditionally heard at all-night 'lilas', where animal sacrifices are made and people are healed from spiritual and physical ailments. 

The sound of the music is characterised by the bass thump of the three-stringed gimbri and the strident clatter of metal castanets. The Gnawa and World Music Festival was established 12 years ago to celebrate the gnawa tradition, with concerts featuring gnawa masters from all over Morocco, together with events where gnawa musicians collaborate with artists from across the globe.

WORLD ROUTES

Presented by Lucy Duran
Produced by Roger Short

Tel. 020 7765 4661 
Fax. 020 7765 5052 
e-mail world.routes@bbc.co.uk

Saturday 5th September 2009 

El Belkani: Baba l'Rouami 
Maalem Brahim El Belkani 
BBC Recording by Marvin Ware, at the Essaouira World Music Festival 2009 

Interview with Maalem Brahim El Belkani at the Essaouira World Music Festival

El Belkani: Tramin
Maalem Brahim El Belkani 
BBC Recording by Marvin Ware, at the Essaouira World Music Festival 2009 

Interview with Andre Azoulay at the Essaouira World Music Festival

Lala Fatima
Blue Mogador 
BBC Recording by Marvin Ware, at the Essaouira World Music Festival 2009 

Interview with Asdin and Marwan, members of Blue Mogador

Dimi Maak 
Blue Mogador 
BBC Recording by Marvin Ware, at the Essaouira World Music Festival 2009 

Omar Essayed: Fin Radi biya Khouya fin radi biya (where are you going to take me my brother)
Nass El Ghiwane
BBC Recording by Marvin Ware, at the Essaouira World Music Festival 2009 

Interview with Omar Essayed from Nass El Ghiwane

Omar Essayed: Annahla Chama (the Queen Bee Chama)
Nass El Ghiwane
BBC Recording by Marvin Ware, at the Essaouira World Music Festival 2009

Lucy Duran presentss more highlights from this year's Gnawa and World Music Festival, a free event celebrating the ancient tradition of trance music, held in Essaouira on Morocco's Atlantic coast. With performances by Brahim El Belkani and veteran 
Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane. Producer Roger Short

Jazz Library

Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings

Programme offering advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings or adding to an existing one

Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings.

Jazz Library: Hampton Hawes

Hampton Hawes

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Library, Hampton Hawes

Tim Richards guides Alyn Shipton through highlights of pianist Hampton Hawes' recordings.

Tim Richards guides Alyn Shipton through the highlights of pianist Hampton Hawes' trio recordings, made with figures such as saxophonist Art Pepper.

In the 1950s, Hampton Hawes was the most exciting and technically gifted pianist in Los Angeles. Pianist and author Tim Richards guides Alyn Shipton through the highlights of Hawes' trio recordings made with the likes of saxophonist Art Pepper, works which are considered landmarks in the history of jazz piano. After a period in prison, Hawes emerged a changed man - Richards also selects the key recordings from his later more contemplative years.

In the 1950s Hampton Hawes (1928-77) was considered among the most exciting and technically gifted pianists in Los Angeles; his trio records and the discs he made with the likes of saxophonist Art Pepper are landmarks in jazz piano. Today pianist and author Tim Richards guides Alyn Shipton through the highlights. Producer Alyn Shipton

Jazz Record Requests

Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you.

Join our community of jazz lovers. Alyn Shipton is waiting for your requests: email jazzrecordrequests@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.

Jazz Record Requests: 05/09/2009

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Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.

Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.

Jazz Record Requests
Presented by Geoffrey Smith
Saturday 5 September 2009 5pm–6pm

JRR Signature Tune:
Oh, but on the Third Day (Happy Feet Blues) (Wynton Marsalis)
Performed by Wynton Marsalis (tp), Marcus Roberts (p), Todd Williams (ts), Dr Michael White (cl), Danny Barker (bj), Teddy Riley (tp), Freddie Lonzo (tb), Reginald Veal (b), Herlin Riley (d)
Recorded 28 October 1988
Taken from the album The Majesty of the Blues
1989 CD (CBS 465129 2)

It’s Sand, Man (E. Lewis) (3:56)
Performed by J.J. Johnson (tb, arr) Kai Winding (tb) Dick Katz (p) Paul Chambers (b) Osie Johnson (d, perc)
Recorded 24 June 1955
Taken from the album Complete Fifties Studio Recordings
2005 CD (Lonehill Jazz LHJ10179 (1) Disc 1 Track 14)

In the Mood (Andy Razaf, Joe Garland) (3:37)
Performed by Henry 'Red' Allen (t) Kid Ory (tb) Bob McCracken (cl) Cedric Haywood (p) Frank Haggerty (g) Charles Oden (b) Alton Redd (d, v)
Recorded 19 July 1959, Los Angeles
Taken from the album Kid Ory and his Creole Jazz Band featuring Red Allen
LP (HMV CLP 1329 S1/1)

No Regrets (Tobias, Ingraham) (3:15)
Performed by Archie Semple (clt) Dickie Hawdon (tp) Dave Stevens (p) Bill Reid (b) Alan Ganley (d)
Recorded 1958
Taken from the album The Clarinet of Archie Semple
LP (Seventy-Seven 77LEU 12-6 S2/3)

Trees (Joyce Kilmer, Oscar Rasbach) (3:19)
Performed by Bunny Berigan And His Orchestra: Bunny Berigan, Irving Goodman, Steve Lipkins (tp) Al George, Sonny Lee (tb) Mike Doty, Joe Dixon (as, cl) Clyde Rounds, George Auld (ts) Joe Lipman (p) Tom Morgan (g) Hank Wayland (b) George Wettling (d)
Recorded 23 December 1937, New York
Taken from the album The Pied Piper (1934-40)
CD (Bluebird 07863666152(1) Track 16)

The Sheik of Araby (Ted Snyder, Harry B Smith, Francis Wheeler) (5:22)
Performed by Hot Lips Page (tp) Marion McPartland (p) Walter Yost (b) Mousie Alexander (d)
Recorded 27 May 1953
Taken from the album Jazz Time USA
LP (Coral LVA 9017. S2/5)

I’ll Be Seeing You (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) (5:03)
Performed by Sarah Vaughan (v) Kirk Stuart (p) Buster Williams (b) George Hughes (d)
Recorded 18 - 20 July 1963, Copenhagen
Taken from the album Compact Jazz: Sarah Vaughan Live
1987 CD (Mercury 8325722 (1) Track 14)

Stomping Grounds (Fleck, Wooten) (5:25)
Performed by Béla Fleck (banjo) Future Man (synth-axe drumitar) Howard Levy (synthesizer, piano, harmonica) Victor Wooten (b) Jeff Coffin (sax) Sam Bush (mandolin) Paul McCandless (ss)
Recorded 1995
Taken from the album Greatest Hits Of The 20th Century
1999 CD (Warner 9362473012(1) Track 2)

Les (Eric Dolphy) (4:16)
Performed by Chris Biscoe (as, acl, afl) Tony Kofi (as) Larry Bartley (b) Stu Butterfield (d)
Recorded 10 December 2007, London
Taken from the album Gone in the Air
2008 CD (Trio TR578 (1) Track 2)

Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert) (10:58)
Performed by Miles Davis (tp) Julian Cannonball Adderley (as) Hank Jones (p) Sam Jones (b) Art Blakey (d)
Recorded 9 March 1958
Taken from the album Somethin' Else
CD (Blue Note CDP77466382 (1) Track 1)

Four (Davis) (7:13)
Performed by Sonny Rollins (ts) Herbie Hancock (p) Bob Cranshaw (b) Roy McCurdy (d)
Recorded 1964 New York City
Taken from the album Now's The Time
LP (RCA LPM-2927 B4)

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Geoffrey Smith presents listeners' requests. ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3, 
Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA Fax: [number removed] email: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk

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: 05/09/2009

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Haas: String Quartet No 1. Schumann: Maria Stuart Songs. Chopin: Sonata No 3 in B minor.

Concerts and recordings performed by young musical talent. Featuring Pavel Haas' first String Quartet, Schumann's Maria Stuart Songs, and Chopin's Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op 58.

Presented by Sarah Walker.

Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme provides concert and recording opportunities for some of the finest young talent on the international music scene.

The first String Quartet of Pavel Haas is performed by the young quartet who adopted his name.

Austrian mezzo-soprano Daniela Lehner sings Schumann's Maria Stuart Songs, settings of poetry supposedly written by the ill-fated Mary Queen of Scots during her incarceration. The treatment of love and death reflected Schumann's own depression and illness at the time of writing this, his final song cycle.

Finally, Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter plays Chopin's Sonata No 3 in B minor.

Haas: String Quartet No 1 in C sharp minor, Op 3
Pavel Haas Quartet

Schumann: Maria Stuart Songs, Op 135
Daniela Lehner (mezzo-soprano)
Jose Luis Gayo (piano)

Chopin: Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op 58
Ingrid Fliter (piano).

Recordings from Radio 3 New Generation Artists. Haas String Quartet No 1 in C sharp minor, Op 3 Pavel Haas Quartet 
Schumann Five Poems of Queen Mary Stuart , Op 135 Daniela Lehner (mezzo), Jose Luis Gayo (piano) Chopin Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op 58 Ingrid Fliter

BBC Proms: 2009: Prom 67: Janacek, McCabe, Dvorak

BBC Proms: 2009: Prom 67: Janacek, McCabe, Dvorak: Part 1

Part 1 BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2009, Prom 67: Janacek, McCabe, Dvorak, Part 1

BBC NOW/Jac van Steen. Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen (suite). McCabe: Horn Concerto.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. BBC NOW/Jac van Steen performs Vaclav Talich's arrangement of Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen (suite), and John McCabe's Horn Concerto.

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

Forest life abounds in this concert. Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen was based on a newspaper comic-strip adventure, a story of forest-dwellers both animal and human, and nature's ever-turning circle of life and death. Some of Janacek's most engaging and luminous music was selected by the Czech conductor Vaclav Talich and re-orchestrated to form this suite.

John McCabe celebrates his 70th birthday in 2009, and the Proms marks it with a performance of his Horn Concerto, commissioned by the BBC in 2007. The soloist is David Pyatt, a past principal horn with the BBC NOW. It is a work infused with the shifting moods and smoky lines of West Coast jazz, but there is also a contrast between urban up-tempo sections and the slower pace of the rainforest soundscapes that open and close the concerto.

David Pyatt (horn)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor)

Janacek, arr. Talich: The Cunning Little Vixen (suite)
John McCabe: Horn Concerto (Rainforest IV).

Prom 67: Janacek, McCabe, Dvorak

BBC NOW/Jac van Steen performs Janacek arr Talich, John McCabe and Dvorak

BBC NOW/Jac van Steen performs Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen (suite) arr Talich, John McCabe's Horn Concerto with David Pyatt (horn), and Dvorak's Symphony No 9 (From the New World)

BBC Proms 2009

Introduced by Louise Fryer from London's Royal Albert Hall. 
David Pyatt (horn), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Jac van Steen 
Janacek, arr Talich Suite: The Cunning Little Vixen John McCabe Horn Concerto (Rainforest IV) 
7.45 Twenty Minutes: On Planet Hoffnunq 
Musical comedian Rainer Hersch marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Gerard Hoffnung. 
8.05 Dvorak Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World)

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: On Planet Hoffnung

On Planet Hoffnung

BBC Radio 3 - Twenty Minutes, On Planet Hoffnung

Rainer Hersch reviews Gerard Hoffnung's contribution to the comic side of classical music.

Comedian and classical music specialist Rainer Hersch remembers Gerard Hoffnung's brilliant and eccentric contribution to the comic side of classical music.

Rainer Hersch, stand-up comedian and classical music specialist, remembers the brilliant and eccentric contribution to the comic side of classical music from Gerard Hoffnung.

Hoffnung, who died in 1959 at the age of 34, was a cartoonist and wit whose mocking of the solemn rituals of classical music created a sensation in the 1950s. At a time when the symphony concert was a matter of great seriousness for music-lovers, Hoffnung loved to see the funny side of those formalities. His famous cartoons took the instruments of the orchestra - and the characters of the people who played them - and sent them up mercilessly.

In 1956 Hoffnung had the idea of translating the cartoons into real life. With a combination of realisations of his weird cartoon instruments and suitably eccentric compositions to showcase them, the first Hoffnung Music Festival took place at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

Rainer Hersch delves into the BBC archives to meet Hoffnung and those who were part of those first concerts, while on the South Bank he encounters two musicians who had to grapple with these memorable, yet oddball orchestral occasions.

BBC Proms: 2009: Prom 67: Janacek, McCabe, Dvorak: Part 2

Part 2 BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2009, Prom 67: Janacek, McCabe, Dvorak, Part 2

BBC NOW/Jac van Steen in Dvorak's Symphony No 9 (From the New World).

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Louise Fryer presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Jac van Steen performing Dvorak's Symphony No 9 (From the New World).

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

Dvorak wrote his Ninth Symphony during a three-year stay in New York during the 1890s. He wrote the title 'From the New World' himself on the front page of the score, and declared that it was in the spirit of Negro and Red Indian folk music. Dvorak stopped short of using any actual American melodies, but it is often said that the spiritual Swing low, sweet chariot appears tantalisingly close on the flute in the first movement.

It is also undeniable that in his Ninth Symphony Dvorak is longing for his native Czech heritage and its Bohemian melodies.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor)

Dvorak: Symphony No 9 (From the New World).

Drama on 3

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

Drama on 3: The Adding Machine

02/03/2008

The Adding Machine

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An Expressionist work from 1923 by American playwright Elmer Rice.

Expressionist classic play. Mr Zero has spent years adding up figures and dreaming of promotion, but when the boss finally calls him into his office he receives a surprise.

Elmer Rice's wildly imaginative Expressionist classic play from 1923. 

Mr Zero has spent the last 25 years adding up columns of figures and dreaming of advancement. But when the boss finally calls him into his office, Zero does not get the promotion he was expecting - quite the opposite in fact.

Mr Zero ...... Nathan Osgood
Mrs Zero ...... Rebecca Front
Daisy ...... Gina Bellman
Shrdlu ...... John Rogan
Charles/The Head ...... Danny Sapani
One/Boss ...... Peter Marinker
Mrs One ...... Liza Sadovy
Two/Joe ...... Chris Pavlo
Mrs Two/Judy ...... Liz Sutherland
Young Man/Policeman ...... Ben Crowe

Produced by Steven Canny and Abigail le Fleming.

Elmer Rice 's wildly imaginative Expressionist play from 1923. Mr Zero has spent the past 25 years adding up columns of figures and dreaming of advancement. But when the boss finally calls him into his office, Zero doesn't get the promotion he was expecting.  producers Steven Canny and Abigail le Fleming

Hear and Now

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and studio sessions from the best new groups, and premiering works commissioned by the BBC

Hear and Now: Xenakis, Julian Anderson

Xenakis, Julian Anderson

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Xenakis, Julian Anderson

Ivan Hewett introduces works by Xenakis, Julian Anderson, Jane Hebberd and others.

Ivan Hewett introduces works by Xenakis, Julian Anderson and others. Xenakis: Persephassa. Holloway-Nahum: As our shadows tremble on the walls. Anderson: Poetry Nearing Silence.

In conversation with composer Julian Anderson, Ivan Hewett intoduces recordings made at the 2009 Total Immersion days at the Barbican in London. Including a performance of Iannis Xenakis' Persephassa for percussion, and student works for octet inspired by Xenakis, Stockhausen and Tristan Murail. Plus a recording of Julian Anderson's Poetry Nearing Silence, inspired by a book of drawings and poems by artist Tom Phillips.

Xenakis: Persephassa 29:36
Guildhall Percussion Ensemble
Richard Benjafield (director)

Jane Hebberd: Schism 5:52
Aaron Holloway-Nahum: as our shadows tremble on the walls... 7:53
Edward Nesbit: Quartet for Eight 6:05
Carol Ella (viola)
Anneke Hodnett (harp)
Tamsy Kaner (cello)
Nicholas Korth (horn)
Naomi Pitts (clarinet)
Hannah Stone (harp)
Alison Teale (cor anglais)
Kate Walter (flute)
Caz Wolfson (percussion)
Pierre-Andre Valade (conductor)

Julian Anderson: Poetry Nearing Silence 15:22
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

Presented by Ivan Hewett with Julian Anderson , including a performance of Xenakis's Persephassa for percussion, student works for octet inspired by Xenakis, Stockhausen and Tristan Murail , and Julian Anderson 's Poetry Nearing Silence.

The Early Music Show: Vivaldi Concertos

Vivaldi Concertos

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Vivaldi Concertos

Catherine Bott talks to Adrian Chandler about his recordings of Vivaldi concertos.

Catherine Bott interviews Adrian Chandler about some of Vivaldi's lesser-known concertos, and his recordings with the ensemble La Serenissima.

Catherine Bott talks to the violinist and director of the ensemble La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler, about his recordings of some of Antonio Vivaldi's lesser-known concertos.  Vivaldi wrote over five hundred concertos, including many for his own instrument, the violin, along with some for larger and grander ensembles.  Adrian Chandler has long been a champion of Vivaldi as a composer, and is keen to demonstrate some of his less popular works in the concerto idiom.  The programme will include complete performances of the Concerto for violin, 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns and timpani RV562a, and the violin concerto in F major RV292.

Including:

VIVALDI Concerto III con violino solo obligato in G, Op.3 RV.310 (1st movement)
La Serenissima
Directed by Adrian Chandler 
AVIE 2106
Track 34

VIVALDI Concerto senza cantin, for violin, strings and continuo RV.243 (1st movement)
La Serenissima
Directed by Adrian Chandler 
AVIE 2128
Track 13

VIVALDI Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in E flat, RV.254 (2nd movement)
La Serenissima
Directed by Adrian Chandler 
AVIE 2128
Track 19

VIVALDI Concerto for violin, 2 cellos, strings and continuo in C, RV.561 (1st movement)
La Serenissima
Directed by Adrian Chandler 
AVIE 2128
Track 7

VIVALDI Concerto for violin, cello, organ, strings and continuo, RV.554a
La Serenissima
Directed by Adrian Chandler 
AVIE 2063
Tracks 23-25

VIVALDI Concerto for violin, 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, timpani, strings and continuo, RV.562a (3rd movement)
La Serenissima
Directed by Adrian Chandler 
AVIE 2154
Track 20

VIVALDI Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in F, RV.292
La Serenissima
Directed by Adrian Chandler 
AVIE 2063
Tracks 1-2

BYRD Venite from The Great Service
The Tallis Scholars
Directed by Peter Phillips
GIMELL CDGIM 011 
Track 1

Catherine Bott talks to Adrian Chandler - violinist and director of La Serenissima - about his recordings of Vivaldi's lesser-known concertos. 
Featuring complete performances of the Concerto for violin, two oboes, bassoon, two horns and timpani, RV562a and the Violin Concerto in F, RV292.

Through the Night

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

Through the Night: 06/09/2009

06/09/2009

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 06/09/2009

Music including Brahms, Ravel, Handel, Mozart, Faure, Liszt, Wagner, Bach and Nardelli.

Music including Brahms, Ravel, Handel, Mozart, Faure, Liszt, Wagner, Bach, Nardelli, Martinu, Weber, Kuula, Cossetto, Bartok, Infante, Forsyth, Pezel and Blockx.

1.00am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Nanie for chorus and orchestra, Op 82
Danish Radio Vocal Ensemble
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

1.13am
Brahms: Gesang des Parzen (song of the fates) for chorus and orchestra, Op 89
Danish Radio Vocal Ensemble
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

1.24am
Brahms: Schicksalslied (Song of destiny) for chorus and orchestra, Op 54
Danish Radio Vocal Ensemble
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

1.40am
Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

2.21am
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937): Trio for piano and strings in A minor
Dumky Trio:
Pierre-Olivier Quayras (violin)
Veronique Marin (cello)
Frederic Lagarde (piano)

2.48am
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759): Alpestre monte HWV 81, for soprano, two violins and basso continuo
Susie Le Blanc (soprano)
Ensemble Tempo rubato
Alexander Weimann (continuo and director)

3.01am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Nine variations on a minuet by Duport for piano, K573
Bart van Oort (piano)

3.11am
Faure, Gabriel (1845-1924): Piano Trio in D minor, Op 120 (1923)
Grumiaux Trio

3.33am
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886): Prometheus - symphonic poem, S99
The Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor)

3.47am
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883): Siegfried Idyll for small orchestra
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Arvid Engegard (conductor)

4.07am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Suite for Solo Cello No 6 in D, BWV 1012
Guy Fouquet (cello)

4.38am
Nardelli, Mario (1927-1993): Three pieces for guitar (1979)
Mario Nardelli (guitar)

4.48am
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959): Sonatina for clarinet and piano (1956)
Timothy Lines (clarinet)
Philippe Cassard (piano)

5.01am
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826): Invitation to the Dance - Rondo brillante in D flat, J260, for Piano, Op 65
Niklas Sivelov (piano)

5.10am
Rautavaara, Einojuhani (b.1928): With joy we go dancing
Finnish Radio Chamber Choir
Eric-Olof Soderstrom (conductor)

5.13am
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918): South Ostrobothnian Dances 1-5, Op 17 (1909)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Kari Tikka (conductor)

5.22am
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907): Norwegian Dance No 1, Op 35
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton (conductor)

5.28am
Wingfield, Steven (b.1955): Three Bulgarian Dances, arr. Wingfield for violin and guitar
Moshe Hammer (violin)
William Beauvais (guitar)

5.36am
Cossetto, Emil (b.1918): Two Dances from the cantata Zeleni Jura (Green George)
Pavica Gvozdic (piano)

5.45am
Trad. Hungarian, arr. unknown: Early 12th century Hungarian Dances
Bulgarian Academic Wind Quintet

5.55am
Bartok, Bela (1881-1945): Six Rumanian Dances
Miklos Szenthelyi (violin)
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

6.01am
Infante, Manuel (1883-1958): Three Andalucian Dances
Aglika Genova and Liuben Dimitrov (pianos)

6.16am
Lopes-Graca, Fernando (1906-1994): Three Portuguese Dances, Op 32 (1941)
Portuguese Symphony Orchestra
Wolfgang Rennert (conductor)

6.23am
Forsyth, Malcolm (b.1936): The Kora Dances for two harps (1990)
Julia Shaw and Nora Bumanis (harps)

6.31am
Pezel, Johann Christoph (1639-1694): German Dance Suite
Canadian Brass

6.39am
Champagne, Claude (1891-1965): Danse villageoise
Peter Oundjian (violin)
William Tritt (piano)

6.42am
Turpin, Thomas Million (1873-1922): Harlem Rag (1897)
Donna Coleman (piano)

6.46am
Blockx, Jan (1851-1912): Flemish Dances
BRT Philharmonic Orchestra Brussels
Alexander Rahbari (conductor).

Brahms Nanie, Op 82; Gesang des Parzen, Op 89; 
Schicksalslied, Op 54; Symphony No 4 in E minor 
2.21 Ravel Piano Trio in A minor 2.48 Handel Alpestre monte, HWV81 3.01 Mozart Nine Variations on a minuet by Duport, K573 3.11 Faurt Piano Trio in D minor, Op 120 
3.33 Lisrt Prometheus, S99 3.47 Waqner Siegfried Idyll 4.07 Bach Cello Suite No 6 in D, BWV1012 4.38 
Nardelll Three pieces for guitar 4.48 Martlnu Clarinet Sonatina 5.01 Weber Rondo brillante in D flat, Op 65 
(Invitation to the Dance) 5.10 Einojuhanl Rautavaara With Joy We Go Dancing 5.13 Kuula South Ostrobothnian 
Dances 1-5, Op 17 522 Grieg Norwegian Dance No 1. Op 35 528 Wingfield Three Bulgarian Dances 5.36 Ell Cossetto Two Dances (Zeleni Jura) 5.45 Trad Early 12th-century Hungarian Dances 5.55 Bartok Six Romanian Dances 
6.01 Infante Three Andalusian Dances 6.16 Lopes-
Grasa Three Portuguese Dances, Op 32 6.23 Malcolm Forsyth The Kora Dances 6.31 Pezel German Dance 
Suite 6.39 Champagne Danse villageoise 6.42 Turpin Harlem Rag 6.46 Blockx Flemish Dances

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