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Breakfast

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

Breakfast: Friday - Rob Cowan

20/11/2009

Friday - Rob Cowan

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, Friday - Rob Cowan

Presented by Rob Cowan, who shares his personal choice of music.

7.03	

CHOPIN
Grande Valse Brillante in Eb Op 18
Maria-Joao Pires, piano
WCJ68728	CD1	t1						

7.08	

SCHUBERT 
Overture in the Italian Style in D,   D590
Prague Sinfonia
Christian Benda
NAXOS 8570329 t2							

7.17	

Giovanni Gabrieli
Jubilate Deo
La Nuova Musica
John Rutter
COLLEGIUM134 t1							

7.22

ARNOLD
Little Suite for Brass Band No. 2
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
DECCA 476534	CD3	t20-22					

7.31	

DEBUSSY (arr. Bronislav Pronovich)
Minstrels
Karen Gheoghegan (bassoon)
Philip Fisher, piano
CHANDOS 10521	t16							

7.34

MUSSORGSKY
Night on Bald Mountain
London Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski
DECCA 475609 CD6	t2					

7.44	

FRIEDMAN (after Mozart)
Menuetto in D (from Divertimento K334)
Stephen Hough (piano) 
HYPERION CDA 67598  tr 7 						

7.50

BRAHMS
3rd mvt of String Quartet No. 3 in Bb
Guarneri Quartet
RCA 94195	CD2 t2				

8.03	

PURCELL
The Fairy Queen
Hornpipe
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Thomas Hengelbrock (director)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI  RD 77231 t6			

8.06	

GLINKA 
Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner
RCA 63942	t21					

8.12	

GLAZUNOV
Intermezzo from Symphony No 6 in C Minor
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Jose Serebrier
WARNERS 696270	t3					 

8.17	

SATIE
Jack-in-the-Box
Jan Vrana (piano)
SUPRAPHON 3566	t2-4							

8.25	

HADJIDAKIS
Carnation Behind Your Ear
Agnes Baltsa (mezzo)
Athens Experimental Orchestra
Stavros Xarhakos
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON  474812 1			

8.31	

MOZART 
E amore un Ladroncello from Cosi Fan Tutte
Mozart Ensemble of the Vienna Volksoper
NIMBUS 5805 t16						

8.34	

MENDLESSOHN
Overture to the Marriage of Camacho
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Claus Peter Flor
RCA 87905	t1					

8.42	

RODGERS 
Thou Swell from a Connecticut Yankee
Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
Orchestra
Eric Stern
NONESUCH 794062	t6					

8.46	

TELEMANN
Concerto in A for 2 Violins in Scordatura
Musica Antiqua Koln
Reinhard Goebel
ARCHIV 474230 t1-4						

8.55	

JOSQUIN DES PREZ?
Inter Natos Mulierum
The Binchois Consort
Andrew Kirkman
HYPERION 67183	t1					  

9.01	

ALWYN
Elizabethan Dances: Allegro Giocoso
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones
NAXOS 8.570144	t6					 

9.05	

CHOPIN	
Polonaise in F Sharp Minor Op 44
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
SONY 88697575002-60 t7				

9.15	

STRAUSS 
Der Rosenkavalier 
Act 3 Trio to the end of the opera
Christa Ludwig (The Marschallin) 
Gwyneth Jones (Octavian)
Lucia Popp (Sophie)
Ewald Aichberger (Faninalâs majordomo)
Vienna State Opera Chorus 
Vienna Philharmonic 
Leonard Bernstein 
SONY 88697527322 	CD3  trs 13-14 				

9.29	

PROKOFIEV 
Scherzo Presto from Violin Sonata No 2 in D Major
Jack Liebeck (Violin)
Katya Apekisheva (piano)
QUARTZ 2002 t2					

9.36	

ROSSINI
Semiramide Overture
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly
DECCA 417797 t7					

9.49	

THEODORAKIS
The Train Leaves at Eight
Agnes Baltsa (mezzo)
Athens Experimental Orchestra
Stavros Xarhakos
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 474812 t5			

9.54	

GRAINGER
Childrenâs March
Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestra
Frederick Fennell
MERCURY 434330	t4

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.

Classical Collection

Programme presenting a sequence of great music in classic recordings

Classical Collection: Friday - Sarah Walker

Friday - Sarah Walker

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Collection, Friday - Sarah Walker

Sarah Walker presents music by Bach, Schumann, Purcell and Haydn.

With Sarah Walker. Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in D, BWV1054. Schumann: Humoreske. Purcell: Theodosius or The Force of Love. Haydn: Symphony No 93. Purcell: Come ye sons of art.

With Sarah Walker.

Featuring great performances and classic recordings. Guido Cantelli conducts the first of Haydn's London symphonies and John Eliot Gardiner conducts Purcell's Come ye sons of art.

10.00am
Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in D, BWV1054
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
DECCA 460 031-2

10.16am
Schumann: Humoreske, Op 20
Radu Lupu (piano)
DECCA 440 496-2

10.43am
Purcell: Theodosius, or The Force of Love
Judith Nelson, Emma Kirkby (sopranos)
James Bowman (countertenor)
Martyn Hill (tenor)
David Thomas (bass)
Taverner Choir
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
OISEAU LYRE 425 893-2

11.05am
Haydn: Symphony No 93 in D
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Guido Cantelli (conductor)
TESTAMENT SBT4 1317

11.28am
Purcell: Come ye sons of art
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Charles Brett, John Williams (countertenors)
Thomas Allen (bass)
Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
ERATO ECD 88071.

With Sarah Walker. 
Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D, BWV1054 
Christophe Rousset , Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood 
10.16 Schumann Humoreske , Op 20 RaduLupu (piano) 
10.43 Purcell Theodosius, or The Force of Love Judith Nelson and Emma Kirkby (sopranos), 
James Bowman (countertenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), David Thomas (bass), Taverner Choir, Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Christopher Hogwood 
11.05 Haydn Symphony No 93 in D 
NBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Guido Cantelli 
11.28 Purcell Come Ye Sons of Art 
Felicity Lott (soprano), Charles Brett and John Williams (countertenors), Thomas Allen (bass), Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, conductor John Eliot Gardiner

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: Purcell's Contemporaries

Composer of the Week: Purcell's Contemporaries: Episode 5

Episode 5

Purcell's Contemporaries

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Purcell's Contemporaries, Episode 5

Donald Macleod on those who contributed to London's theatre scene in the 17th century.

Donald Macleod looks at the composers who contributed to London's theatre scene in the second half of the 17th century.

Concluding his survey of the music of Purcell's day, Donald Macleod looks at the composers who contributed to London's theatre scene in what was a short career for English opera in the second half of the 17th century.

Purcell: Fairest Isle (King Arthur)
The Parley of Instruments Baroque Orchestra
Roy Goodman (director)
HYPERION CDA67001 CD1 Tr 13

Daniel Purcell: O ravishing delight (The Judgement of Paris)
Ryland Angel (countertenor)
Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)
DEUX-ELLES DXL 911 Tr 11

John Eccles: Can life be a blessing? (Troilus and Cressida)
Catherine Bott (soprano)
The Parley of Instruments
Peter Holman (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67450 Tr 4

John Blow: Lovely Selina, innocent and free (The Princess of Cleve)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Timothy Roberts (spinet)
Paula Chateauneuf (baroque guitar)
HYPERION CDA66646 Tr 4

John Weldon: Dry those eyes which are o'erflowing (The Tempest)
Catherine Bott (soprano)
The Parley of Instruments
Peter Holman (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67450 Tr 4

Matthew Locke: Psyche (Act 3)
Vulcan and Mars ...... Paul Agnew (tenor)
Pyracmon, first cyclops ...... Christopher Robson (countertenor)
Brontes, second cyclops ...... Michael George (bass)
Steropes, third cyclops ...... Simon Grant (bass)
Harpes, fourth cyclops ...... Julian Podger (tenor)
Praesul ...... Andrew King (tenor)
Venus ...... Catherine Bott (soprano)
New London Consort
Philip Pickett (conductor)
L'OISEAU-LYRE 444 336-2 Trs 13-20

William Croft: Ayres in the Comedy of Courtship A La Mode
The Parley of Instruments
MERIDIAN CDE 84234 Tr 7.

Donald Macleod introduces the composers of Restoration England

Donald Macleod introduces the composers of Restoration England who, from today's perspective, stand in Henry Purcell's shadow

5/5. Concluding his survey of the music of Purcell's day, Donald Macleod recalls the composers who contributed to London's theatre scene in what was a short career for English opera in the second half of the 17th century.
Purcell Fairest Isle (King Arthur), Parley of Instruments Baroque Orchestra, director Roy Goodman
D Purcell O Ravishing Delight (The Judgement of Paris) Ryland Angel (countertenor), Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)
Eccles Can Life Be a Blessing? (Troilus and Cressida) Catherine Bott (soprano), Parley of Instruments, director Peter Holman
Blow Lovely Selina, Innocent and Free (The Princess of Cleve)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Timothy Roberts (spinet), Paula Chateauneuf (baroque guitar) Weldon Dry Those Eyes Which Are O'erf lowing (The Tempest) Catherine Bott (soprano),
Parley of Instruments, director Peter Holman
Locke Psyche (excerpt) Catherine Bott (soprano), Christopher Robson (countertenor), Paul Agnew and Julian Podger (tenors), Andrew King
(bass-baritone), Michael George and Simon Grant (basses), New London Consort, conductor Philip Pickett Croft Ayres in the Comedy of Courtship a la Mode Parley of Instruments Repeated at 10pm

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Ronald Brautigam and Friends

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Ronald Brautigam and Friends: Episode 4

Episode 4

Ronald Brautigam and Friends

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Ronald Brautigam and Friends, Episode 4

Mhairi Lawson (soprano) performs Haydn songs, with Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano).

Mhairi Lawson (soprano) performs a selection of Haydn songs, with Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) at the 47th Belfast Festival at Queen's.

Part of a series of concerts celebrating the music of Haydn in the 200th anniversary year of his death. Scottish soprano Mhairi Lawson performs a selection of Haydn songs, accompanied by Dutch pianist Ronald Brautigam, in the banqueting room of the newly refurbished Belfast City Hall, as part of the 47th Belfast Festival at Queen's.

Mhairi Lawson (soprano)
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)

Haydn: The Sailor's song; A Rosebud by my early walk; Up in the morning early; The Wanderer; Sympathy; The lea-rig; She never told her love; I love my love; The Spirit's Song; O tuneful voice; Wilt thou be my dearie; Ich bin der Verliebteste; Piercing eyes; What can a young lassie do with an old man; Greensleeves.

Performances by Dutch pianist Ronald Brautigam and friends at the 47th Belfast Festival

Series of performances given by Dutch pianist Ronald Brautigam and friends at the 47th Belfast Festival at Queen's in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn

Afternoon on 3

With Louise Fryer. 
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 
4/4. The last of this week's series of concerts from Belfast City Hall celebrating the music of Haydn. Mhairi Lawson (soprano), 
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) 
Haydn The Sailor's Song; A Rosebud by My Early Walk; Up in the Morning Early; The Wanderer; 
Sympathy; The Lea-rig; She Never Told Her Love; I Love My Love; The Spirit's Song; 0 Tuneful Voice; Wilt Thou Be My Dearie; Ich bin der Verliebteste; Piercing Eyes; What Can a Young Lassie Do with an Old Man; Creensleeves

Afternoon Concert

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras from around the world

Afternoon on 3: Cleveland Orchestras

Afternoon Concert: Cleveland Orchestras: Episode 4

Cleveland Orchestras

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Cleveland Orchestras, Episode 4

Apollo's Fire in Fasch and Bach. Plus Cleveland Orchestra in Janacek, Bartok, Tchaikovsky.

Apollo's Fire in Fasch: Overture in G; Bach: Orchestral Suite No 3. Cleveland Orchestra in Janacek: Sinfonietta, Op 60; Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6.

Louise Fryer presents recent performances by the Cleveland Orchestra, as well as the ensemble Apollo's Fire, aka the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, with their founder and music director Jeannette Sorrell. Including Bartok's tragic opera Bluebeard's Castle.

Johann F Fasch: Overture in G for two oboes and strings
Apollo's Fire
Jeannette Sorrell (conductor)

Bach: Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068
Apollo's Fire
Jeannette Sorrell (conductor)

Janacek: Sinfonietta for orchestra, Op 60
Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)

Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle, Op 11 - opera in one act
Judith ...... Michelle de Young (mezzo-soprano)
Bluebeard ...... John Relyea (bass-baritone)
Narrator ...... Eprs Kisfaludy
Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)

Mozart: Ballet music from Idomeneo
Apollo's Fire
Jeanette Sorrell (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 74 (Pathetique)
Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Most (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Cleveland Orchestras

Louise Fryer with performances by the Cleveland Orchestra and the ensemble Apollo's Fire

Louise Fryer presents recent performances by the Cleveland Orchestra and also the ensemble Apollo's Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, with their founder and music director Jeannette Sorrell

Cleveland Orchestra

The last of this week's performances by the Cleveland Orchestra and Apollo's Fire.
J.F. Fasch Overture in G for two oboes and strings Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068 Apollo's Fire, conductor Jeannette Sorrell Janacek Sinfonietta , Op 60
Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez Bartok Bluebeard 's Castle
Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez Mozart Ballet Music (Idomeneo)
Apollo's Fire, conductor Jeanette Sorrell
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique) Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Franz Welser-Mbst

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: 20/11/2009 Schubert Ensemble, Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

20/11/2009 Schubert Ensemble, Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, 20/11/2009 Schubert Ensemble, Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio by two leading chamber music ensembles.

Presented by Sean Rafferty. With studio performance from chamber groups the Schubert Ensemble and the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio.

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world, and is joined in the studio by two of today's leading chamber music ensembles.

The Schubert Ensemble perform and discuss their recent CD and their forthcoming concert commemorating 50 years since the composer Martinu's death.

And the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio play ahead of their concert at London's Wigmore Hall.

17.03
BEETHOVEN
Fidelio Overture
Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Daniel Harding (conductor)
VIRGIN 545364-2
Track 8
7â10

17.11
FAURE
Dolly Suite; Berceuse
Katia & Marielle Labeque (piano)	 
PHILIPS 420 159-2
Track 13
2â54

17.19
LIVE
MARTINU
Piano Quartet H.287; 1st movt
The Schubert Ensemble
6â18

17.32
LIVE
SAINT SAENS
Piano Quartet Op.41; 1st movt
The Schubert Ensemble
7â10

17.40
VIVALDI
Violin Concerto Op.8â2 in G minor,âSummerâ
Christopher Warren-Green (violin/director)
London Chamber Orchestra
EMI 967007-2
CD 1 Tracks 4-6
9â37

17.50
MOSZKOWSKI
Chanson Boheme de lâOpera Carmen de Georges Bizet
Seta Tanyel (piano)
HYPERION CDH55141
Track17
6â32

17.57
SCHUBERT
An Sylvia
Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Wigmore Live 
WHLIVE0031
Track1
2â41 

18.04
GLINKA
Valse- Fantaisie
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 9861
Track 9
8â20

18.12
PURCELL
Sing all ye muses (Don Quixote)
Joseph Cornwell (tenor)
Simon Grant (bass)
Alan Wilson (harpsichord)
Richard Boothby (bass viol)
Michael Fields (lute)
MUSICA OSCURA 070973
CD 1 Track 4
4â28

18.18
LIVE
HAYDN
Piano Trio H.15.12; 1st movt (Allegro Moderato)
Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio 
4â55

18.30
LIVE
KREISLER
Miniature Viennese March
Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio
3â59

18.36
LIVE
GERSHWIN
Summertime
Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio
3â19

18.40
BACH ARR. BUSONI
Nun kommâ der Heiden Heiland, BWV.659
Alfred Brendel (piano)
DECCA  478 2116
CD 2 Track 11
5â00 

18.46
SCHUBERT
Die Winterreise; Der Lindenbaum
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Paul Lewis (piano)
Harmonia Mundi HMU 907484
CD 1 Track 5
4â50  


18.52
PROKOFIEV
Romeo and Juliet; Act 1 â Romeoâs Variation & Love Dance
London Symphony Orchestra
AndrÃ© Previn (conductor)
EMI  967701-2
CD 1 Track20-21
7â01

Performance on 3

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

Performance on 3: Shostakovich, Brahms, Sibelius

Performance on 3: Shostakovich, Brahms, Sibelius: Episode 1: Part 1

Episode 1

Episode 1: Part 1

Shostakovich, Brahms, Sibelius

Part 1 BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, Shostakovich, Brahms, Sibelius, Part 1

The BBC Philharmonic under Vassily Sinaisky perform music by Shostakovich and Sibelius.

From Bridgewater Hall. Petroc Trelawny presents the BBC Philharmonic under Vassily Sinaisky. Shostakovich: Orchestral Interludes (Katerina Ismaylova). Sibelius: Symphony No 1.

From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

The BBC Philharmonic under chief guest conductor Vassily Sinaisky perform music by Shostakovich and Brahms, featuring young Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan.

The concert opens with orchestral interludes taken from Shostakovich's opera Katerina Ismaylova (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk). Written at the height of Stalin's purges in the 1930s, it was popular with audiences, but was condemned in an anonymous article in Pravda and banned in the Soviet Union for almost 30 years. The composer extracted these interludes from his 1962 reworking of the piece. It is followed by Sibelius's First Symphony, which introduces the colourful tones and creative harmonies which were to become the hallmark of all his orchestral works.

BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Shostakovich: Orchestral Interludes (Katerina Ismaylova)
Sibelius: Symphony No 1.

Vassily Sinaisky conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Shostakovich, Brahms and Sibelius

From Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, chief guest conductor Vassily Sinaisky leads the BBC Philharmonic in controversial works by Shostakovich and Brahms, as well as a Sibelius Symphony

Presented by Petroc Trelawny, from the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.
The concert opens with orchestral interludes taken from:
Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of Mstsensk.
Sergey Khachatryan (violin), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vassily Sinaisky
Shostakovich Orchestral Interludes (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Brahms Violin Concerto in D

8.00 Twenty Minutes: The Suit
Writer Ian Samson reflects on the history and significance of the gentleman's suit.

8.20 Sibelius Symphony No 1

Twenty Minutes

Eclectic arts magazine programme, exploring a range of fascinating subjects

Eclectic arts magazine programme, exploring a range of fascinating people, places and events

Twenty Minutes: The Suit

The Suit

BBC Radio 3 - Twenty Minutes, The Suit

Writer Ian Sansom reflects on dress, class and the philosophical life.

Ian Sansom reflects lightheartedly on dress, class, ageing and the philosophical life, prompted by a visit to a gentleman's outfitters to be measured for a new suit.

A funny and provocative look at dress, class, ageing and the philosophical life from Ian Sansom. An eccentric and perfectly tailored feature, prompted by a visit to a gentleman's outfitters, where Ian is measured for a new suit. He's reminded of the men in his family - his working-class grandfathers trussed up uncomfortably in clothes designed for the sedentary professional classes, collected in a family album of black and white photos that brings to mind John Berger's essay, 'The Suit and the Photograph' in which Berger writes about the great German photographer August Sander. This leads on to reflections on famous suit wearers in history and literature, and to a series of thoughts about, among others, Benjamin Franklin, John F. Kennedy, Michael Nyman, Franz Kafka, and Anthony Powell. 

Ian Sansom is a critic and writer of both fiction and non-fiction, whose series of detective stories featuring a mobile librarian in rural Northern Ireland has gathered fans around the world. He has previously broadcast for Radio 3 on WH Auden, his passion for concrete, his adopted city of Belfast and bibliomania. 

Producer: Sara Davies.

Performance on 3: Shostakovich, Brahms, Sibelius: Episode 2: Part 2

Episode 2

Episode 2: Part 2

Part 2 BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, Shostakovich, Brahms, Sibelius, Part 2

The BBC Philharmonic in Brahms's Violin Concerto in D, with soloist Sergey Khachatryan.

From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. The BBC Philharmonic and Vassily Sinaisky's concert concludes with Brahm's Violin Concerto in D, with soloist Sergey Khachatryan.

From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

The BBC Philharmonic and chief guest conductor Vassily Sinaisky's concert concludes with Brahms's Violin Concerto, which brought mixed reactions when it was new - one critic declared that it was a wasn't so much a concerto for the violin but rather one 'against the violin', while it had a favourable public reception.

Sergey Khachatryan (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D.

The Verb

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance

The Verb: Muriel Spark/Sean Taylor/New American Gothic/Kenneth Steven/BBC Introducing

Muriel Spark/Sean Taylor/New American Gothic/Kenneth Steven/BBC Introducing

BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, Muriel Spark/Sean Taylor/New American Gothic/Kenneth Steven/BBC Introducing

Ian McMillan presents. Featuring Muriel Spark's work and singer-songwriter Sean Taylor.

Presented by Ian McMillan. Featuring the work of Muriel Spark, singer songwriter Sean Taylor on the blues, writer Diane Roberts on American Gothic fiction and poet Kenneth Steven.

Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word.

The poetry of Muriel Spark

Best known as the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Spark began her writing life as a poet, and went on to edit Poetry Review before coming to fiction in her 40s. As her autobiography Curriculum Vitae is re-published for the first time since her death, Paul Farley and Elaine Feinstein consider Spark the poet and Spark the editor of poetry.

Sean Taylor

As his latest album, the highly-rated Calcutta Grove, is released, the singer-songwriter discusses the lyrics of the blues and why it's a form uniquely adaptable to documenting contemporary concerns.

New American Gothic

Writer and critic Diane Roberts considers the resurgence of the Gothic in contemporary American fiction, and recommends the best of American Gothic fiction, old and new. 

Diane's Reading List...

Wieland, by Charles Brockden Brown
Her Fearful Symmetry, by Audrey Niffenegger
The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff
Invisible, by Paul Auster

A Song Among the Stones

Poet Kenneth Steven presents a new cycle of poems, written specially for the programme. Sixth-century monks - known as the Papar - are thought to have made the perilous journey by sea from Scotland to Iceland as a kind of religious quest, centuries before Scandinavians would undertake the same voyage in reverse. A Song Among the Stones imagines what they found, and what drove them to risk their lives for their faith. 

Other works by Kenneth Steven include Iona and Making the Known World New.

BBC Introducing

Thanks for continuing to send your poetry, spoken word and songs to BBC Introducing. The Verb's always on the look out for talented new writers, and this week we've particularly enjoyed the work of performer Mac Dunlop and singer-songwriter Sam Sallon. More details on them below.

Ian McMillan features a brand-new commission from poet Kenneth Steven. Producer Laura Thomas

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: A Tribute to Mr Purcell

The Essay: A Tribute to Mr Purcell: Episode 5: Purcell Re-Interpreted

Episode 5: Purcell Re-Interpreted

A Tribute to Mr Purcell

Purcell Re-Interpreted

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, A Tribute to Mr Purcell, Purcell Re-Interpreted

Nicholas Kenyon on how Purcell's music has been preserved, revived and interpreted.

Nicholas Kenyon looks back at how Purcell's music has been preserved, revived and interpreted, and considers recent developments in our reception of his music.

Nicholas Kenyon, managing director of the Barbican Centre in London, looks back at how Purcell's music has been preserved, revived and interpreted, and considers how his standing among composers has been affected by recent developments in our reception of his music.

Series on the life and music of composer and organist Henry Purcell

5/5. Purcell Re-Interpreted. Nicholas Kenyon explores how Purcell's music has been preserved, revived and interpreted.

World on 3

Radio 3's world music programme, with new CDs and studio sessions

World on 3: Sam Carter: Mary Ann Kennedy

Sam Carter

Sam Carter: Mary Ann Kennedy

Mary Ann Kennedy

BBC Radio 3 - World on 3, Mary Ann Kennedy

With Mary Ann Kennedy. Including a session with a new voice in English folk, Sam Carter.

Mary Ann Kennedy presents new releases from across the world, and a studio session with a new voice in English folk, Sam Carter.

World on 3
Presented by Mary Ann Kennedy
Produced by Roger Short
Tel 020 7765 4661
Fax 020 7765 5052
e-mail worldon3@bbc.co.uk
Friday 20th November 2009 

Reid/Hinds: Carry, Go Bring, Dome
The Skatalites with Justin Hinds & the Dominoes
Album: The Very best of the Skatalites
Nascente NSDCD014

Bob Roberts: Barbaree 
Peter Bellamy (vocal/concertina); Dave Swarbrick (fiddles)
Album: Both Sides Then
Topic Records TSCD582

Chapin: Lâanmaou Ka Chape Ou
Marc Vorchin
Album: Antilles âWest Indies
Air Mail Music SA 141188

Unknown: Dr. Kinsey
The Jamaican Calypsonians, Ft. Lord Lebby (vocals)
Album: Boogu Yagga Gal
Heritage records HTCD45

Arr. Sathanao: Mgzavruli (Travellerâs Song, Guria-Achara)
Sathanao
Album: Georgian Church and Secular Music
Unlabelled CD

Anon, Arr. SebestyÃ©n/DongÃ³/Bolya: Good King Matthias
MÃ¡rta SebestyÃ©n; BalÃ¡zs Szokolay DongÃ³; MÃ¡tyÃ¡s Bolya
Album: I can see the gates of heaven
World Village 450009

Trad, Arr. Carlos MartÃ­n Aires/AntÃ³n Davila: Charrada de los Perros
Vallarna  
Jesus Enrieuq âChuchiâ (guitar/vocals)
Javier RomÃ¡n (fiddle/vocals)
Carlos MartÃ­n Aires (bouzouki/Vocals)
Arturo RodrÃ­quez (3-hole pipe/tabor/tambourine/vocals)
Album: KM.90 
Folka Records FAKE078

In Session
Sam Carter (acoustic guitar/vocals)
Sam Nadel (drums)
Matt Ridley (acoustic bass)

Carter: Yellow Sign 
Sam Carter (solo)
BBC recording at Broadcasting House by engineers Andrew Smillie and Drew Leckie, November 2009 

Carter: She wonât hear 
Sam Carter; Matt Ridley
BBC recording at Broadcasting House by engineers Andrew Smillie and Drew Leckie, November 2009 

Ligeti/MaÃ¯ Lingani/Wendy K Blass: Sankar Yaare
Lukas Ligeti and Burkina Electric
Album: Paspanga
Cantaloupe Music CA21057

Staff Benda Bilili: Marguerite
Staff Benda Bilili
Album: Tres Tres Fort
Crammed Discs Craw51

Kent Harris: Shoppinâ for Clothes
The Coasters
Album: Charlie Gillettâs Radio Picks âHonky Tonk
ACE records CDCHD 1242

Hugh Lupton, Arr. Chris Wood: One in a million
Chris Wood
Album: Albion âAn Anthology
Navigator Records Navigator29 

In Session
Sam Carter (acoustic guitar/vocals)
Sam Nadel (drums)
Matt Ridley (acoustic bass)

Carter: Taxi 
Sam Carter; Sam Nadel; Matt Ridley
BBC recording at Broadcasting House by engineers Andrew Smillie and Drew Leckie, November 2009 

Carter: Pheasant
Sam Carter; Sam Nadel; Matt Ridley
BBC recording at Broadcasting House by engineers Andrew Smillie and Drew Leckie, November 2009 

All music from Samâs latest album Keepsakes

Ronu Wanga
George Rrurrambu
Album: Aboriginal Soul
Nascente NSCD120

On his jewelled floor
Rickie Lee Jones
Album:  Balm in Gilead
Fantasy Records/Universal

Trad: Amazing Grace
Peter Bellamy (vocals); Anthea Bellamy (vocals); The Waterson family (vocals)
Album: Both Sides Then
Topic Records TSCD582

MacKenzie: Suidh San Oisean
Eilidh MacKenzie
Album: Bel Canto
Macmeanmna records SKYECD52

Burns/Smith: Gowden Locks oâ Anna
Emily Smith; Jamie McClennan
Album: Adoon Winding Nith
White Fall records WFRCD003

A studio session by startling new English folk music talent, Sam Carter. Producer Roger Short

Through the Night

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

Through the Night: 21/11/2009

21/11/2009

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 21/11/2009

Music including Messiaen, Mahyler, Haas, Beethoven, Sweelinck, Verrijt, Obrecht, Purcell.

Music including Messiaen, Mahyler, Haas, Beethoven, Sweelinck, Verrijt, Obrecht, Bernstein, Horst, Tchaikovsky, Faure, Piston, Lipatti, Mozart, Copland, Piazzolla and Purcell.

Including:

1.00am
Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992): Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum for wind and percussion
Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Most (conductor)

1.26am
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911): Das Lied von der Erde
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Christopher Maltman (baritone)
Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Most (conductor)

2.26am
Haas, Pavel  (1899-1944), arr. Jan van Uhjmen: Songs on Chinese Poetry
Maarten Konigsberger (baritone)
Nieuw Ensemble
Ed Spanjaard (director)

2.40am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Piano Sonata No 8 in C minor, Op 13 (Pathetique)
Mi-Joo Lee (piano)

3.01am
Verrijt, Jan Baptist (c.1600-1650): Flammae divinae, Op 5 Nos 1-4 (1649)
Consort of Musicke

3.16am
Estendorffer, Anton (1670-1711): Ciaccona super: Joseph, lieber Joseph mein
Peter van Dijk on the Conradus Ruprecht II organ (c.1715) of Tuindorpkerk, Utrecht

3.20am
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Fantasia in G
Vincent van Laar (Arp Schnitger organ (1687) (with parts from 1567 and 1618) at St Ludgerikirche, Norden, Germany)

3.29am
Horst, Anthon van der (1899-1963): La nuit, Op 63 No 1
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Eric Ericson (conductor)

3.37am
Verrijt, Jan Baptist (c.1600-1650): Flammae divinae, Op 5 Nos 5-7 (1649)
Consort of Musicke

3.49am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893): Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture (1880 version)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)

4.10am
Kolb, Carlmann (1703-1765): Praeludium tertium in A minor (Certamen Aonium 1733)
Peter van Dijk on the Conradus Ruprecht II organ (c.1715) of Tuindorpkerk, Utrecht

4.13am
Locatelli, Pietro Antonio (1695-1764), arr. Geert Bierling: Menuetto con variazioni (Sonate in G, Op 2 No 10)
Geert Bierling (organ) (Christian Gottlieb Friedrich Witte 1858, employing case and pipework by Matthijis Verhofstad 1721)

4.21am
Verrijt, Jan Baptist (c.1600-1650): Flammae divinae, Op 5 Nos 12-15 (1649)
Consort of Musicke

4.34am
Verhulst, Johannes (1816-1891), arr. CWP Stumpff: Gruss aus der Fernen, Op 7
Dutch National Youth Wind Orchestra
Jan Cober (conductor)

4.40am
Verrijt, Jan Baptist (c.1600-1650): Flammae divinae, Op 5 Nos 16-18 (1649)
Consort of Musicke

4.54am
Obrecht, Jacob (1450-1505): Salve regina
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Paul van Nevel (conductor)

5.01am
Bernstein, Leonard  (1918-1990): Overture (Candide)
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

5.06am
Faure, Gabriel (1845-1924): Sonata No 2 in G minor for cello and piano, Op 117
Andreas Brantelid (cello)
Bengt Forsberg (piano)

5.26am
Piston, Walter (1894-1976): Prelude and Allegro (1943)
David Schrader (organ)
Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar (conductor)

5.37am
Lipatti, Dinu (1917-1950): Improvisation for violin, cello and piano
Stefan Gheorghiu (violin)
Radu Aldulescu (cello)
Miron Soarec (piano)

5.43am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Symphony No 40 in G minor, K550
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice (NOSPR)
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (conductor)

6.12am
Coulthard, Jean (1908-2000): Excursion Ballet Suite
Symphony Nova Scotia
Georg Tintner (conductor)

6.27am
Copland, Aaron (1900-1990): Danzon Cubano - version for two pianos
Aglika Genova, Liuben Dimitrov (pianos)

6.33am
Piazzolla, Astor Pantaleon (1921-1992): Adios Nonino
Ingrid Fliter (piano)

6.40am
Piazzolla: Le Grand Tango
Musica Camerata Montreal

6.51am
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695): Let all mankind the pleasure share (Dioclesian, Z627)
Gillian Fisher (soprano)
Michael George (bass)

Purcell: Sound Fame (Dioclesian, Z627)
Paul Elliott (tenor)
Crispian Steele-Perkins, David Staff (trumpets)
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).

Messiaen Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum

Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

2.26 Haas, arr Uhjmen Four Songs on Chinese Poetry

2.40 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 13 (Pathetique)

3.01 Verrijt Flammae Divinae, Op 5 (Nos 1-4)

3.16 Estendorffer Ciaccona super: Joseph, lieber Joseph mein

3.20 Sweelinck Fantasia in G

3.29 Horst La Nuit, Op 63 No 1

3.37 Verrijt Flammae Divinae, Op 5 (Nos 5-7)

3.49 Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet

4.10 Kolb Praeludium tertium in A minor (Certamen Aonium)

4.13 Locatelli, arr Bierlinq Menuetto con variazioni (Sonate in G, Op 2 No 10)

4.21 Verrijt Flammae Divinae, Nos 12-15, Op 5

4.34 Verhulst, arr CWP Stumpff Gruss aus der Fernen, Op 7

4.40 Verrijt Flammae Divinae, Op 5 (Nos 16-18)

4.54 Obrecht Salve Regina

5.01 Bernstein Overture: Candide

5.06 Faure Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 117

5.26 Piston Prelude and Allegro

5.37 Lipatti Improvisation for violin, cello and piano

5.43 Mozart Symphony No 40 in G minor, K550

6.12 Coulthard Ballet Suite: Excursion

6.27 Copland Danzon cubano

6.33 Piazzolla Adios Nonino; Le grand tango

6.51 Purcell Dioclesian (excerpts)

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