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Breakfast

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

Breakfast: Sunday - Martin Handley

25/10/2009

Sunday - Martin Handley

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, Sunday - Martin Handley

Presented by Martin Handley, who shares his personal choice of music.

Sunday 25th October09

07.04
VIVALDI 
Concerto for strings in C major RV 117
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini, director
OPUS OPS30181  Tr 1-3


07.10
BRITTEN
Sunday Morning from Four Sea Interludes Op.33a 
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
RCA 0902 612 262  Tr 5


07.14
SCHUBERT 
Scherzo D 593 No.1 
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 435 072 2  Tr 8


07.20
MOZART
Horn concerto No.2 in E flat major K417
David Pyatt (horn)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner, conductor 
ERATO 0630170742  Tr 3-5


07.35
NIELSEN  
Maskarade - overture
San Francisco Symphony
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
DECCA 425 857 2  Tr 1


07.40
MACMILLAN
Mitte manum tuam
Cappella Nova 
Alan Tavener, conductor
LINN CKD301  Tr 1


07.44
J.S. BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No.3 BWV 1048
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock, director
ARCHIV 410 500 2  Tr 8-10


07.56
DVORAK
Legends Op.59 No.1
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer, conductor
PHILIPS 464 647 2  Tr 1 


08.03
TCHAIKOVSKY
Danses from The Oprichnik
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Sir Colin Davis, conductor
PHILIPS 422 845 2  Tr 7


08.10
SCARLATTI 
Sonata in E major K 206
Murray Perahia (piano)
SONY SK 62785  Tr 21


08.16
SMETANA 
“The Moldau” from “Ma vlast” 
Vienna Philharmonic
James Levine, conductor
DG 419 768 2  CD1 Tr 2


08.29
PURCELL
Seven-part In Nomine “Dorian”, Z 747
Rose Consort of Viols
NAXOS 8553957  Tr 15


08.34
HAYDN 
Piano Trio Hob 15:10 in E flat 
Beaux Arts Trio 
PHILIPS 454 098 2  CD4 Tr 8-9


08.44
DURUFLE
Motet from Quartet motets sur des themes grégoriens, Op.10
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge
CHANDOS CHAN 10357  Tr 10


08.47
BARTOK
Divertimento – third movement
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 415 668 2  Tr 3


08.55
CHOPIN
Mazurka Op.59 No.3
Maria Joao-Pires (piano)
DG 477 7483  CD1 Tr 9


09.03
BRAHMS 
Rondo from Serenade No.1 in D major Op.11
Berlin Philharmonic 
Claudio Abbado, conductor
DG 477 8221  Tr 6


09.10
BYRD 
Civitas sancti tui 
Choir of Westminster Cathedral
James O’Donnell, conductor
HYPERION CDA 66850  Tr 12


09.16
SAINT-SAENS 
Caprice sur des air danois et russes Op.79
Nash Ensemble
HYPERION CAD 674312  CD2 Tr 12


09.29
COUPERIN 
Rondeau from The Nations, Second ordre: L’Espagnole
Hespèrion 20
Jordi Savall, director
ASTREE E7701  Tr 17


09.34
MUSSORGSKY
Promenade; Ballet of the chickens in their Shells from Pictures at an Exhibition
Alfred Brendel (piano)
PHILIPS 420 156 2  Tr 9


09.33
BAX
November Woods 
BBC Philharmonic
Vernon Handley, conductor
CHANDOS CHAN 10362  Tr 2

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Sunday Morning

Sarah Walker chooses uplifting music to complement your morning.

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.

Sunday Morning: 25/10/2009

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Morning, 25/10/2009

David Owen Norris explores how music complements and enriches drama.

David Owen Norris sits in for Iain Burnside and explores how music complements and enriches drama. Music is by Ibert, Beethoven, Purcell. With Matthew Scott of the National Theatre.

David Owen Norris sits in for Iain Burnside and explores how music complements and enriches drama, on both theatrical and operatic stages and on small and large screens. Including music by Ibert, Beethoven and Purcell.

David's guest is composer Matthew Scott of the National Theatre.

Playlist:

Vaughan Williams: Overture: The Wasps
Halle Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)
HLD 7510 DISC 1  Tr 1
Dur: 9m37s

Porter, arr Bregman: It's too darn hot (Kiss me Kate)
Ella Fitzgerald, uncredited orchestra
Buddy Bregman (conductor)
VERVE 8219892  Tr 4
Dur: 3m47s

Ibert: Divertissement (The Italian Straw Hat)
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Jean Martinon (conductor)
DECCA 421 173-2  Trs 1-6
Dur: 14m52s
 
Matthew Scott: The Trial of Lord Lucan
Ensemble
Matthew Scott (conductor)
PRIVATE RECORDING
Dur: 1m34s

Matthew Scott: Death at the Opera Suite (Mrs Bradley Mysteries)
Ensemble
Matthew Scott (conductor)
BBC WMSF 6021-2  Tr 7
Dur: 5m32s

Georges Delerue: Love's not like that (A Little Romance)
Ensemble
Georges Delerue (conductor)
VARESE SARABANDE VSD 5367  Tr 2
Dur: 1m03s

Georges Delerue: Main title (A Little Romance)
Ensemble
Georges Delerue (conductor)
VARESE SARABANDE VSD 5367  Tr 1
Dur: 3m11s

Malcolm Arnold: Sarabande (Solitaire) - excerpt
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Malcolm Arnold (conductor)
LYRITA SRDC 201  Tr 9
Dur: 2m19s

Malcolm Arnold, arr Scott: Sarabande (Solitaire) - music for Separate Tables
Simon Harram (soprano saxophone)
Matthew Scott (piano)
PRIVATE RECORDING
Dur: 55s

Beethoven: Overture: Egmont
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich
David Zinman (conductor)
ARTE NOVA 82876 57831 2 DISC 1  Tr 2
Dur: 7m19s

Purcell: Frost Scene (King Arthur - Act 3)
Cupid ...... Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Cold Genius ...... Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass)
English Concert
Trevor Pinnock (conductor)
ARCHIV 4354902 CD1 
Tr 20: What power art thou? (2m51s)
Tr 21: Thou doting fool (54s)
Tr 22: Great Love (1m02s)
Tr 23: No part of my dominion (1m11s)
Dur:5m57s

Patrick Gowers: The Musgrave Ritual (Music for Sherlock Holmes)
Wren Orchestra
Patrick Gowers (conductor)
CDTER 1136  Tr 4
Dur: 2m44s

Michel Legrand: Harp Concertino (Summer of '42)
Catherine Michel (harp)
Orchestre Symphonique
Michel Legrand (conductor) 
Travelling K1020  Tr 2
Dur: 4m39s

Brahms: Ballade in D minor, Op 10 No1 (Edward)
Ignat Solzhenitsyn (piano)
COP 2009-05  Tr 19
Dur: 4m15s

Berlioz: Pantomime: Andromache's scene (Les Troyens - Act 1, No 6)
Cassandra ...... Petra Lang (mezzo-soprano)
Andrew Marriner (clarinet)
London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Chorus
Colin Davis (conductor)
LSO 0010 DISC 1  Tr 8
Dur: 8m07s

Schubert: Die Hochzeitsbraten
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Michael Schade (tenor)
Gerald Finley (baritone)
Graham Johnson (piano)
HYPERION CDJ 33036  Tr 16
Dur: 11m16s

CV Stanford: Drake's Drum
Peter Dawson (baritone)
uncredited orchestra, choir and conductor
Pearl GEMMCD 9384  Tr 5
Dur: 2m34s

Sullivan: The Tempest (Overture to Act 4)
BBC Philharmonic
Richard Hickox (conductor),
CHANDOS CHAN 9859  Tr 5
Dur: 4m56s

Sullivan: The Tempest (Epilogue)
BBC Philharmonic
Richard Hickox (conductor),
CHANDOS CHAN 9859  Tr 5
Dur: 1m39s.

With David Owen Norris , who today explores how music complements and enriches drama. 
Featuring pieces by Ibert, Beethoven and Purcell and, in the studio, composer Matthew Scott of the National Theatre. EMAIL: sundaymorning@bbc.co.uk

Private Passions

Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates

Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates, and talk about the influence music has had on their lives

Private Passions: Stewart Copeland

Stewart Copeland

BBC Radio 3 - Private Passions, Stewart Copeland

Michael Berkeley meets drummer from The Police and opera composer Stewart Copeland.

Michael Berkeley meets drummer from The Police and opera composer Stewart Copeland. His musical choices include Wagner, Ravel, John Adams, Booker T, Paul Simon and Desmond Dekker.

Michael Berkeley meets rock great Stewart Copeland, drummer with The Police, and a composer of operas and soundtracks as well as songs. His musical tastes, all of which have influenced his own style, range from Wagner, Ravel and John Adams to Booker T, Paul Simon and reggae from Desmond Dekker.

Michael Berkeley meets American drummer Stewart Copeland , founder and former member of reggae-inspired pop-rock band the Police, and now a composer of operas and soundtracks, as well as songs. Recently he provided music and narration for a production of Ben-Hur at London's 02 arena. His musical tastes range from Wagner, Ravel and John Adams to Booker T, Paul Simon and Desmond Dekker.

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: The Elizabethan Stage Jig

The Elizabethan Stage Jig

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, The Elizabethan Stage Jig

Lucie Skeaping explores bawdy musical comedies from 16th and 17th century England.

Lucie Skeaping explores the often forgotten world of the Elizabethan stage jig - a popular form of bawdy musical comedy from the 16th and 17th century.

Lucie Skeaping explores the often forgotten world of the Elizabethan stage jig - a popular form of bawdy musical comedy from the 16th and 17th century.

The crowds who flocked to the London playhouses in the late 16th and early 17th century expected to be amused and amazed. Mostly, they got their money's worth because not only could they see a drama, a comedy or some great tragedy, but if they stayed on after the play had ended, they would also be treated to a short farce - a rude, lewd and outrageous musical entertainment known as a jig.

Playlist:

Trad: Jog on                                
The King's Noyse
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU907101  Tr 7

William Kemp (?): Singing Simpkin: Blind Cupid hath made
City Waites
HYPERION CDA67754  Tr 13

Playford: Goddesses/Jamaica
Dufay Collective
CHANDOS CHAN9446  Tr 15

Trad: As ye came from Walsingham  (The Black Man jig)
HYPERION CDA67754  Tr 4 (excerpt)

Segue:

Byrd: Walsingham variations   
Davitt Moroney
HYPERION CDA66558  Tr 14

John Johnson: Galliard to the Flat Pavan
Shirley Rumsey (lute)
NAXOS 8550776  Tr 21

Robert Johnson: Hark Hark the Lark
The Gesualdo Consort
CANTORIS CRCD6017  Tr 8

Segue:

Robert Johnson: Full Fathom Five
Julianne Baird/Ronn McFarlane (lute)
Dorian DOR90109  Tr 9

Segue:

Robert Johnson: Where the Bee Sucks
The Broadside Band
SAYDISC CDSDL409  Tr 2

Trad: Stingo
Musicians of Swan Alley 
VIRGIN CLASSICS VC7907892  Tr 4

Trad: Pell Mell (playford)
Dufay Collective
CHANDOS CHAN9446  Tr 21

Trad: The Black Man (cont...)
City Waites
HYPERION CDA67754  Trs 7-11

Jan Janz Starter: Zingende klucht van Lijsje Flepkous (excerpt)
Camerata Trajectina
GLOBE GLO 6062  Trs 26-29

The Elizabethan Stage Jig. The crowds who flocked to the London playhouses in the late 16th and early 17th centuries expected to be amused and amazed. And by and large they got their money's worth, for not only could they see a drama, a comedy or some great tragedy, but if they stayed on after the play had ended, they would also be treated to a short farce - a rude, lewd, outrageous musical entertainment known as a jig. Lucie Skeaping explores this forgotten, often bawdy world and the music that caused such uproar. Producer Sam Philips

Radio 3 Requests

Weekly pick of music requests from Radio 3 listeners

Radio 3 Requests features a wide breadth of classical works requested by the station's listeners.

The final edition of Radio 3 Requests was broadcast on 1st May 2011.  We can no longer accept new requests.

Radio 3 Requests: Fiona Talkington

Fiona Talkington

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Requests, Fiona Talkington

Listeners' requests, including Ravel, Lauridsen, Wagner, Reger, Mozart and Billy Mayerl.

Fiona Talkington presents listeners' requests, including a guest request from saxophonist Jan Garbarek. With music by Ravel, Lauridsen, Wagner, Reger, Mozart and Billy Mayerl.

Fiona Talkington introduces Radio 3 listeners' requests, including a guest request from saxophonist Jan Garbarek. The line-up features music by Ravel, Lauridsen, Wagner, Reger, Mozart and Billy Mayerl.

Wagner
The Ride of the Valkyries (Die WalkÃ¼re)
The MET Orchestra, James Levine (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 447 764-2 track 2

Morten Lauridsen
Lux Aeterna (excerpt)
Veni, Sancte Spiritus; Agnus Dei â Lux aeterna
Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Layton (conductor) 
Hyperion CDA 67449 tracks 4 + 5

Jimmy Webb
The Moonâs a Harsh Mistress		
Radka Toneff (voice) with Steve Dobrogosz (piano)
Universal 066650 2 track 12		

Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Guitar Concerto no.1 in D Major		
John Williams (guitar)
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
St Michael  M2002215
S2 T1-3


Harald Saeverud arr. Garbarek
Rondo Amoroso			
Jan Garbarek (saxophone)
ECM 2709572 CD 1 track 5

Ravel
Le Tombeau De Couperin			
Orchestre De Paris, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
EMI Classics 4 76860 tracks 6-9

Mozart
Cosi Fan Tutte
Act II, Scene I: âUna Donna A Quindici Anniââ
Recitative: âWell, I declare, you are a funny pair of young ladiesâ
Aria: âAt fifteen a girl already must be wiseâ
Despina â Lesley Garrett (soprano), Fiordilegi â Janice Watson (soprano), Dorabella â Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Chandos CHAN31523 CD2 tracks 5+6

Irish Trad
Johnny, I Hardly Knew You
Tommy Makem (singer) 
SHANACHIE 52023 track 3

Reger
Symphonic Prologue to a Tragedy
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (conductor)
BIS CD 771 track 11
	
Billy Mayerl 
Jill All Alone	
Eric Parkin (piano)
Chandos CHAN 103243  CD 2 track 13

Fiona Talkington introduces listeners' choices, including autumnal choral sounds from America, an epic piece of late German Romanticism and two operatic showpieces. Plus a guest request from saxophonist Jan Garbarek. 
ADDRESS: Radio 3 Requests. BBC Wales, CF5 2YO 
Phone: [number removed]. email: radio3requests®bbc.co.uk

Choral Evensong

Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: 21/10/2009

21/10/2009

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, 21/10/2009

From Gloucester Cathedral.

Introit: Keep me as the apple of an eye (Neil Cox)
Responses: Spicer
Psalm: 106 (Jackson, Brooksbank, Byrd, Atkins)
First Lesson: 2 Kings 18 vv13-37
Canticles: Francis Jackson in G
Second Lesson: Philippians 2 vv1-13
Anthem: Te Deum (Haydn)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in D, BWV 532 (Bach)

Assistant Director of Music: Ashley Grote
Director of Music: Adrian Partington.

Wednesday's service from Gloucester Cathedral. Introit: Keep Me as the Apple of an Eye (Neil Cox). Responses: Spicer. Psalm: 106 (Jackson, 
Brooksbank, Byrd, Atkins). First Lesson: 2 Kings 18, vv 13-37. Canticles: Francis Jackson in G. Second Lesson: Philippians 2, vv 1-13. Anthem: Te Deum 
(Haydn). Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in D, BWV532 (Bach). Director of music Adrian Partington. Assistant director of music Ashley Grote.

Discovering Music

Programme which examines a different piece of music each week

Programme which examines a different piece of music each week, looking at the musical form or the composer's style, and exploring the many things contributing to the overall experience

Discovering Music: Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

BBC Radio 3 - Discovering Music, Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Charles Hazlewood and the BBC NOW explore Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

Charles Hazlewood is joined by the BBC NOW and pianist Ashley Wass for an examination of Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, as well as the original.

In front of an audience at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, Charles Hazlewood joins the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and pianist Ashley Wass for an examination of both the original piano and the orchestral versions of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Charles is also joined in his analysis by David Nice, an authority on Russian music.

What exactly were the images that so fired Mussorgsky's imagination and what do they tell us about the personality of this complex and often misunderstood 19th-century composer? Why did the composer seek a synthesis of Western and Slavic  influences, and to what extent is Pictures an 'international' piece, countering arguments that Ravel's orchestration is not Russian enough?

Following the death of his close friend, Russian artist Victor Hartmann in 1873, Mussorsgky attended an exhibtion of his work and was inspired to compose a piano suite depicting some of the paintings, drawings and designs that he had seen. The composer wrote the suite very quickly and it became a potent example of his Russian nationalist sentiments and his desire to 'realistically' capture pictorial ideas in music. The piano suite cried out to be arranged for orchestra, and one who took up the challenge was Frenchman Maurice Ravel, who made his remarkable orchestration in 1922. The work has never waned in popularity since.

Before an audience at Cardiff's Hoddinott Hall , Charles Hazlewood joins the BBC National 
Orchestra of Wales and pianist Ashley Wass for an examination of both the original 1874 version of Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Ravel's 1922 orchestration. He is helped in his analysis by David Nice - an authority on Russian music - who discusses the "pictures" that fired Musorgsky's imagination, and what they reveal about the personality of this complex and often misunderstood 19th-century composer. 
See this week's Composer of the Week Mon-Fri at 12 noon

Choir and Organ

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an irresistible mix of music and singing.

The Choir

Choir and Organ: The Bach Choir Profile

The Bach Choir Profile

BBC Radio 3 - Choir and Organ, The Bach Choir Profile

Aled Jones talks to members of the long-established London-based ensemble The Bach Choir.

Aled Jones talks to members of the Bach Choir, an ensemble founded in Victorian London and subsequently imitated by many others around the world.

Aled Jones talks to members of The Bach Choir, an ensemble founded in Victorian London and subsequently imitated by many others around the world. Aled chats to current members Ellie Bacon and Shane Connolly about life in today's choir, and explores the past with former member Dr Basil Keen, author of a recent book about the choir's first 100 years.

Playlist: 
Johann Sebastian Bach
St Matthew Passion			
1) Come, ye daughters, share my mourning
The Bach Choir, The Boys of St Paulâs Cathedral Choir andThames Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Sir David Willcocks
DECCA 475 7987, track 1

Benjamin Britten
War Requiem - Libera Me
Soloists Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), The Bach Choir, London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, and Highgate School Choir, Melos Ensemble and London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Britten
DECCA 00289 475 7511

Herbert Howells
Sir Patrick Spens			
Katy Butler (soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone) with The Bach Choir and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Hill	 
NAXOS 8.570352, track 1

Harry Gregson-Williams 
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - The Wardrobe
The Bach Choir conducted by Harry Gregson-Williams
DISNEY 0946-3-47667-2-2, track 3

Carl Rutti: Requiem - In Paradisum
Olivia Robinson (soprano) and Edward Price (baritone). The Bach Choir and Southern Sinfonia conducted by David Hill with Jane Watts on organ
NAXOS 8.572317, track 7

A profile of the Bach Choir , an ensemble founded in Victorian London and subsequently imitated by many others around the world. Aled Jones talks to current members Ellie Bacon and Shane Connolly about life in today's choir, and recalls its earlier days with former member Dr Basil Keen. Featuring Bach Choir recordings.

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: Free Thinking 2009: Concluding Discussion

Night Waves: Free Thinking 2009: Concluding Discussion: Part 1

Part 1 Free Thinking 2009

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, Free Thinking 2009, Concluding Discussion, Part 1

Matthew Sweet hosts conversation and debate about Radio 3's 2009 Free Thinking festival.

Matthew Sweet hosts conversation and debate about Radio 3's 2009 Free Thinking festival of ideas, taking place at the Sage, Gateshead.

Matthew Sweet hosts conversation and debate about Radio 3's 2009 Free Thinking festival of ideas, taking place at the Sage, Gateshead.

Matthew is joined by a round-table of guests to reflect on the interviews, lectures and audience comment that they've heard - in particular on the festival's key theme - the 21st-century family. They assess if the complex and thought-provoking questions thrown up by the powerful speakers have elicited any answers. And how did the audience at the Sage respond?

Night Waves: Free Thinking 2009

Concluding Discussion

Matthew Sweet hosts conversation and debate about the 2009 Free Thinking ideas festival

Matthew Sweet hosts conversation and debate about Radio 3's 2009 Free Thinking festival of ideas, taking place at the Sage, Gateshead. Its main theme is the 21st-century family

Free Thinking 2009, Concluding Discussion

Matthew Sweet hosts conversation and debate about Radio 3's Free Thinking festival of ideas, which took place this weekend at the Sage Gateshead. Matthew is joined by a round-table of guests to reflect on the interviews, lectures and audience comment that they have heard - in particular on the festival's key theme, the 21st-century family. They assess if the complex and thought-provoking questions thrown up by the powerful speakers have elicited any answers. Producer Martin Smith

Drama on 3

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

Drama on 3: Beware the Kids

Beware the Kids

BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Beware the KidsClose menu

A new drama which tackles the themes of family and responsibility.

A new drama by Newcastle writers Fiona Evans and Karen Laws, performed at the Baltic Centre, which tackles the themes of family and responsibility.

Free Thinking 2009

By Karen Laws and Fiona Evans. A fictional story, developed with a community group in Byker, Newcastle, takes a journey into the reality of neglect as one child's life spirals out of control. 

Recorded in front of an audience as part of the Free Thinking Festival in Gateshead, this hard-hitting play explores how a tragedy can unfold right before the eyes of a child's family and carers.

Mark ...... Matthew McNulty
Jaden ...... Rosie Stancliffe
Audrey ...... Judi Earl
Yvonne ...... Jane Holman
Ben ...... Tony Neilson
Kyle ...... Max Watson

Directed by Kate Rowland.

By writers Fiona Evans and Karen Laws. A new drama specially written for the Free Thinking festival on the family theme, exploring the line between personal and public responsibility. Performed at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. With 
Matthew McNulty as Mark. Directed by Kate Rowland.

Night Waves: Free Thinking 2009: Concluding Discussion: Part 2

Part 2 BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, Free Thinking 2009, Concluding Discussion, Part 2

Matthew Sweet hosts further conversation and debate about the 2009 Free Thinking festival.

Words and Music

A journey of discovery, weaving music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

A weekly journey of discovery, weaving together a range of music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

Words and Music: Family Portraits

Family Portraits

BBC Radio 3 - Words and Music, Family PortraitsClose menu

Ian McMillan introduces a special edition recorded from the 2009 Free Thinking festival.

Ian McMillan introduces a special edition recorded as part of Radio 3's 2009 Free Thinking festival. Featuring readings by Gina McKee and Donald McBride.

Free Thinking 2009

Ian McMillan introduces a special edition, as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking festival. In an atmospheric evening of poetry and music inspired by family life, County Durham-born actress Gina McKee and Live Theatre's Donald McBride read poems by Philip Larkin, John Clare, Sylvia Plath and Newcastle's own Thomas Whittle. Plus a newly-commissioned dramatic dialogue for both actors by Karen Laws, Free Thinking Writer-in-Residence.

They are joined by members of the Northern Sinfonia playing works for string quartet by Purcell, Haydn and Dvorak, as well as music from Newcastle-based folk singer Emily Portman and concertina and Northumbrian pipes player Alistair Anderson.

Ian McMillan introduces an edition recorded at the Sage Gateshead as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking festival. Gina McKee and Donald McBride read poems by Philip Larkin , John Clare , Sylvia Plath and Thomas Whittle. Plus a newly commissioned dramatic dialogue for both actors by Karen Laws, Free Thinking writer in residence. They are joined by members of the Northern Sinfonia playing works by Purcell, Haydn and Dvorak. EMAIL: wordsandmusic@bbc.co.uk 
For details of the music and verse heard in this programme visit bbc.co.uk/radio3/wordsandmusic

Jazz Line-Up

Programme exploring jazz music, focussing both on established, mainstream players and on the new generation of younger artists

Jazz Line-Up: Stanley Jordan, Terence Blanchard

Stanley Jordan, Terence Blanchard

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Line-Up, Stanley Jordan, Terence Blanchard

Julian Joseph interviews guitarist Stanley Jordan and plays tracks from his latest CD.

Julian Joseph talks to guitarist Stanley Jordan about the therapeutic powers of music and plays tracks from his latest CD. Plus an interview with Terence Blanchard.

Julian Joseph interviews guitarist Stanley Jordan and plays tracks from his latest CD, State of Nature. Jordan gives his thoughts on musical therapy, explaining that music can help creative people with psychological problems such as perfectionism. Plus a telephone interview with trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard.

Title: Tom's Tune
Artist: Kit Downes (piano), Calum Gourley (double bass), James Maddren (drums)
Album: Golden
Label: Basho Records SRCD 31-2
Track: 8
Comp: Kit Downes
Publ: Basho
Dur: 6m24s

Title: Trapped in a Dream
Artist: Gerald Glayton
Album: Two-Shade
Label: Emarcy 0602527071442
Track: 2
Comp: Gerald Clayton
Publ: Gerald Clayton Music/ASCAP
Dur: 6m33s

Title: Ocean Breeze
Artist: Stanley Jordan (with Jay Kishor - sitar, Giovanna Imbesi - piano/keyboards, Tammi Brown - vocals, Charnett Moffett - bass, Tommy Brown - bass, Vedang Londhe - tablas, Hartt Stearns - percussion, Davis Haynes - drums)
Album: State of Nature
Label: Mack Avenue MAC 1040
Track: 8
Comp: Stanley Jordan/Jay Kishor
Publ: Manifold Music
Dur:5m48s

Title: Mind Games # 1
Artist: Stanley Jordan (Charnett Moffett - bass, Kenwood Dennard - drums)
Album: State of Nature
Label: Mack Avenue MAC 1040
Track: 7
Comp: Stanley Jordan 
Publ: Manifold Music
Dur:33s

Title: Mind Games # 2
Artist: Stanley Jordan (Charnett Moffett - bass, Kenwood Dennard - drums)
Album: State of Nature
Label: Mack Avenue MAC 1040
Track: 10
Comp: Stanley Jordan
Publ: Manifold Music
Dur:48s

Title: Mind Games # 3
Artist: Stanley Jordan (Charnett Moffett - bass, Kenwood Dennard - drums)
Album: State of Nature
Label: Mack Avenue MAC 1040
Track: 12
Comp: Stanley Jordan
Publ: Manifold Music
Dur:34s

Title: A Place in Space
Artist: Stanley Jordan (Charnett Moffett, bass, David Haynes, drums)
Album: State of Nature
Label: Mack Avenue MAC 1040
Track: 1
Comp: Stanley Jordan
Publ: Manifold Music
Dur:7m21s

Title: All Blues
Artist: Stanley Jordan (Charnett Moffett - bass, David Haynes - drums)
Album: State of Nature
Label: Mack Avenue MAC 1040
Track: 2
Comp: Miles Davis
Publ: Jazz Horn Music Co-operation (BMI)
Dur:7m52s

Title: Journey
Artist: Terence Blanchard, Bilal, Lionel Loueke, Fabian Almazan, Derrick Hodge, Kendrick Scott
Album: Choices
Label: Decca Records  Promo CD
Track: 4
Comp: Terence Blanchard
Publ: Decca
Dur:5m54s

Title: Conception
Artist: Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, Walter Bishop Jnr, Tommy Potter, Art Blakey
Album: Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, The Classic Prestige Sessions, 1951-1956

Label: Prestige 08880 72314610
Track: 7 (CD2)
Comp: George Shearing
Publ: Screen Gems/EMI Music (BMI)
Dur:4m06s

Title: Let's Call This
Artist: Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Julius Watkins, Percy Heath, Willie Jones
Album: Monk
Label: Prestige 08880 7231 5938
Track: 5
Comp: Thelonious Monk
Publ: Thelonious Monk Music
Dur:5m08s

Title: C.T.A.
Artist: Red Garland with John Coltrane, George Joyner, Art Taylor
Album: Dig It!
Label: Prestige 08880 7231 5921
Track: 3
Comp: James Heath
Publ: EMI U Catalog/ASCAP
Dur:4m39s

Title: I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)
Artist: John Coltrane, Wilbur Harden, Red Garland, Paul chambers, Jimmy Cobb
Album: Standard Coltrane
Label: Prestige 08880 7231 2210
Track: 2
Comp: Ahlert/Turk
Publ: Fred Ahlert Music/Cromwell Music/Pencil Mark Music/ASCAP
Dur:8m03s.

Julian Joseph interviews guitarist Stanley Jordan , who talks about his recent release State of Nature. Producer Keith Loxam

Through the Night

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

Through the Night: 26/10/2009

26/10/2009

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 26/10/2009

Music including Chopin, Schumann, Clara Schumann, Handel, Halvorsen, Mozart and Haydn.

Music including Chopin, Schumann, Clara Schumann, Handel, Halvorsen, Mozart, Haydn, Biber, Suk, Martinu, Bach, Abel, Nielsen, Glinka, Balakirev, Borodin, Sibelius and Fabritius.

1.00am
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Concerto No 1 in E minor for piano and orchestra, Op 11
Havard Gimse (piano)
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra
Josep Caballe-Domenech (conductor)

1.42am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Kinderszenen for piano, Op 15
Havard Gimse (piano)

2.02am
Schumann, Clara (1819-1896): Variations in F sharp minor on a theme of Robert Schumann for piano, Op 20
Angela Cheng (piano)

2.11am
Schumann, Clara: Prelude and Fugue in B flat, Op 16, No 2
Angela Cheng (piano)

2.16am
Handel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759), arr. Halvorsen, Johan: Passacaglia in G minor
Dong-Ho An (violin)
Hee-Song Song (cello)

2.26am
Halvorsen, Johan (1864-1935): Symphony No 2 in D minor (Fatum)
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra
Josep Caballe-Domenech (conductor)

3.01am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo - aria for bass and orchestra, K584
Russell Braun (baritone)
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
Richard Bradshaw (conductor)

3.07am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Trio in E flat for keyboard and strings, H XV 30
Kungsbacka Piano Trio

3.25am
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von (1664-1704): Missa Sancti Henrici (1701)
Unknown boy soloists from Regensburger Domspatzen
James Griffett (tenor)
Michael Schopper (bass)
Regensburger Domspatzen
Collegium Aureum
Herbert Metzger (organ)
Georg Ratzinger (conductor)

4.02am
Suk, Josef (1874-1935): Fantastic scherzo for orchestra, Op 25
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)

4.16am
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959): Four Madrigals (1959)
Danish National Radio Choir
Stefan Parkman (conductor)

4.26am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf - motet, BWV 226
Danish National Radio Choir
Stefan Parkman (conductor)

4.34am
Bernhard, Christoph (1628-1692): Wohl dem, den der Herrn furchtet - dialogue for soprano and bass with strings and continuo
Veronika Winter (soprano)
Michael Pannes (bass)
Musica Alta Ripa
Hermann Max (conductor)

4.39am
Dedekind, Constantin Christian (1628-1715): Wie wird ein JÃ¼ngling seinen Weg - Concerto for three solo voices, two instruments and four choir voices
Veronika Winter (soprano)
Lisinka De Vries-Schuring (alto)
Peter Zimpel (bass)
Musica Alta Ripa
Hermann Max (director)

4.44am
Zachow (Zachau), Friedrich Wilhelm (1663-1712): Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ
Mario Penzar (organ)

4.48am
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787): Symphony in E, Op 10, No 1
La Stagione Frankfurt
Michael Schneider (conductor)

5.01am
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931): Overture (Maskarade), FS39
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Ari Rasilainen (conductor)

5.06am
Siefert, Paul (1586-1666): Psalm 5 (three verses)
Wolfgang Baumgratz (organ)

5.11am
Darzins, Emils (1875-1910): Melanholiskais valsis (Melancholy waltz)
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra
Leonids Vigners (conductor)

5.18am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Partita No 3 in E for violin solo, BWV 1006
Gidon Kremer (violin) 

5.34am
Tormis, Veljo (b.1930): Kevadkillud (Spring Sketches)
Estonian Radio Choir
Toomas Kapten (conductor)

5.37am
Magi, Ester (b.1922): Duo rahvatoonis for flute and violin
Jaan Oun (flute)
Ulrika Kristian (violin)

5.40am
Magi, Ester (b.1922): Murdunud aer (The broken oar)
Estonian National Male Choir
Ants Soots (director)

5.44am
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovic (1804-1857): Nocturno for harp
Branka Janjanin-Magdalenic (harp)

5.50am
Balakirev, Mily Alekseyevich (1837-1910): Overture on Russian themes
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

5.59am
Borodin, Alexander (1833-1887): Aria: Ni sna, ni otdikha (No sleep, no rest) - Prince Igor, Act 2
Prince Igor ...... Stoyan Popov (baritone)
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Rouslan Raychev (conductor) 

6.06am
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918): Tranquillamente from three Satukuvaa (Fairy tale pictures) for piano, Op 19, No 3
Liisa Pohjola (piano)

6.12am
Englund, Einar (1916-1999): The White reindeer (Valkoinen puura) - suite for orchestra (1952)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Petri Sakari (conductor)

6.26am
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957): Sonatina No 3 in B flat minor for piano, Op 67
Eero Heinonen (piano)

6.33am
Fabritius, Ernst (1842-1899): Concerto for violin and orchestra (1878)
Olavi Palli (violin)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Pertti Pekkanen (conductor).

Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor 1.42 Schumann 
Kinderszenen, Op 15 2.02 Clara Schumann Variations in F sharp minor on a theme of Robert Schumann , Op 20; Prelude and Fugue in B flat, Op 16 No 2 
2.16 Handel, arr Halvorsen Passacaglia in G minor 
2.26 Halvorsen Symphony No 2 in D minor (Fatum) 101 Mozart Rivolgete a lui 10 sguardo, K584 3.07 Haydn Piano Trio in E flat, H XV 30 3^5 Biber Missa Sancti Henrici 4.02 Suk Fantastic Scherzo, Op 25 4.16 Martinu Four Madrigals 
4.26 Bach Motet: Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, BWV226 4.34 Bernhard Wohl dem, den der Herrn furchtet 
4.39 Dedekind Wie wird ein Jungling seinen Weg 
4.44 Zachow Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ 4.48 Abel Symphony in E, Op 10 No 1 5.01 Nielsen Overture: Maskarade 
5.06 Siefert Psalm 5 5.11 Darzins Melancholy Waltz 
5.18 Bach Violin Partita No 3 in E, BWV1006 5.34 Veljo Tormis Spring Sketches 5.3T Ester Magi Two Folk Tunes; The Broken Oar 5.44 Glinka Nocturno 5.50 Balakirev Overture on Russian themes 5.59 Borodin No Steep, No Rest (Prince Igor) 6.06 Kuula Tranquillamente, Op 19 No 3 
6.12 Enqlund Suite: The White Reindeer 6.26 Sibelius Piano Sonatina No 3, Op 67 6.33 Fabrrtlus Violin Concerto

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