MONDAY 06 DECEMBER 2010

MON 01:00 Through the Night (b00wbklx)
Susan Sharpe's selection includes a concert by the Orchestra della Svizzera Italia performing Prokofiev, Weill and Richard Strauss

1:01 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey [1891-1953]
Symphony no. 1 (Op.25) in D major "Classical"
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, John Axelrod (conductor)

1:16 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Burleske for piano and orchestra (AV.85) in D minor
Lilya Zilberstein (piano) Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, John Axelrod (conductor)

1:38 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Septet for trumpet, piano and strings in E flat major (Op.65)
Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Elise Baatnes and Karolina Radziej (violins), Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Hjalmer Kvam (cello), Marius Faltby (double bass), Enrico Pace (piano)

1:56 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor (Op.37)
Christian Zacharias (piano), Académie Beethoven, Jean Caeyers (conductor)

2:30 AM
Weill, Kurt [1900-1950]
Symphony no. 2
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, John Axelrod (conductor)

3:01 AM
Aulin, Valborg (1860-1928)
String Quartet in F major (1884)
Tale String Quartet

3:27 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Symphony no.2 in D major (Op.43)
Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Peeter Lilje (conductor)

4:11 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Violin Concerto in E major (BWV.1042)
Sigiswald Kuijken (violin and conductor), La Petite Bande

4:29 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924), with Messager, André (1853-1929)
Messe Basse (orch. Jon Washburn)
Henriette Schellenberg (soprano), Vancouver Chamber Choir, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Jon Washburn (conductor)

4:39 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Waltz no.2 in C sharp minor from 3 Waltzes for piano (Op.64)
Nikolay Evrov (piano)

4:43 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Sonata for recorder & basso continuo in D minor
Camerata Köln

4:53 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975)
Festive Overture (Op.96)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

5:01 AM
Bergh, Gertrude van den (1793-1840)
Rondeau (Op.3)
Frans van Ruth (piano)

5:08 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Overture to the 'King and the Charcoal Burner' (1874)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Robl (conductor)

5:16 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959)
Etude no.4 in G major (Un Peu Modéré) - from 12 Estúdios for guitar (A.235)
Heiki Mätlik (guitar)

5:21 AM
Humperdinck, Engelbert (1854-1921)
Dream Pantomime - from Hansel and Gretel
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)

5:30 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
From 'Paris e Helena', ballet music
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ludovít Rajter (conductor)

5:42 AM
Field, John (1782-1837)
Rondo in A flat for piano and strings
Eckart Selheim (fortepiano), Collegium Aureum, Franzjosef Maier (director)

5:51 AM
Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967)
Hary János Suite (Op.35a)
The Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor)

6:14 AM
Strauss, Johann II (1825-1899)
Overture; Tik-tak Polka (Op.365); Csárdás - from Die Fledermaus
Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian (conductor)

6:30 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concerto for Bassoon & Orchestra (K.191) in B flat major
Audun Halvorsen (bassoon), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)

6:50 AM
Jommelli, Nicolo (1714-1774)
Sonata in D major
Camerata Tallin: Jan Oun (flute), Mati Karmas (violin), Heiki Mätlik (guitar).


MON 07:00 Breakfast (b00wbkn8)
Monday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan shares his musical enthusiasms - and dips into his rucksack for a surprise or two.


MON 10:00 Classical Collection (b00wbknb)
Monday - James Jolly

with James Jolly: this week a selection of music containing Folk and Popular Songs, Tchaikovsky Orchestral Suites and recordings by the pianist Murray Perahia.

Today's highlights include Delius' Brigg Fair, Tchaikovsky's Suite No.2 and a selection of Chopin Etudes performed by Murray Perahia.

10.00
Glinka
Ruslan und Ludmilla: Overture
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA 82876 61394-2

10.05
Chopin
Etudes (selection)
Murray Perahia (piano)
SONY CLASSICAL SK 61885

10.12
Delius
Brigg Fair
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Thomas Beecham (conductor)
EMI CDM 567552-2

10.28
Mozart
"Ein Madchen oder Weibchen" (Die Zauberflote, Act 2)
Walter Berry (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Klemperer (conductor)
EMI 567 7388-2

10.32
Tchaikovsky
Suite No.2 in C major, Op.23
Philharmonia Orchestra
Michael Tilson-Thomas (conductor)
RETROSPECTIVE RECORDINGS RET 023

11.09
A selection of recordings selected as the Critics' Choices for 2010 in last Saturday's CD Review.


MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00wbksv)
Andre Campra (1660-1744)

Episode 1

Donald Macleod is joined by the musicologist, harpsichordist and conductor, William Christie for a series of programmes to mark the 350th anniversary of André Campra's birth.

André Campra, the man from Aix, seems to have had what it takes, a natural gift for producing such charming and elegant music that it delighted audiences wherever it was heard. A succession of church posts resulted in a wealth of sacred music, while the success of his opera ballet l'Europe Galante made him a household name. These days his stage works are largely unknown and he's best known for a Requiem and a Te Deum. Part of the reason for this obscurity can be attributed to historical circumstance. He came to the fore in the wake of Lully's domination of the French operatic stage, and latterly was eclipsed by the genius of Jean-Philippe Rameau. As a link between these two Baroque giants, Campra makes a fascinating study but to think of him only in these terms sells him rather short. William Christie has done much to put Campra on the map, with performances and recordings of his music. For the first time on "Composer of the Week" Campra features alone, providing a rare opportunity to appreciate the breadth of music he wrote, from the meltingly beautiful to the highly dramatic.

Contemporaries called Campra a plagiarist, thief, rogue, hellhound, even fiend - strong words indeed. Campra it seems was at the very least a shrewd operator, a survivor, who knew how to cultivate powerful protectors. Yet despite the scheming, Campra seems to have had a rather devil may care attitude when it comes to authority, he survived several scandals in his career.

When Lully died in 1687, young Campra was in his twenties, with a head full of untapped theatrical possibilities. His career had begun in the church, with a series of provincial posts. It was in the Cathedral at Toulouse that his operatic tendencies began to offend his clerical superiors' sensibilities. A few months after a scandal involving a girl and some members of his choir, Campra arrived in Paris on four months leave, supposedly to "improve himself and make himself more capable of rendering service to the church". Clearly chafing at the bit, the wily Campra never returned, preferring instead to wangle himself the prestigious post of Master of Music at Notre-Dame in Paris. Finally in a position to stake his claim on the operatic stage, in 1697 Campra wrote an opera ballet, L'Europe Galante, an act so scandalous to his church employers, that he had to issue it under an anonymous name. In one sweep it became a massive hit. He had revitalised French opera and Campra was all set for a dazzling career on the operatic stage. More stage works followed, among them Les fêtes vénitiennes, Tancrède and Idoménée but further difficulties also ensued. Having left Notre Dame to write for the stage, a quarrel resulted in his replacement by Marin Marais at the Opéra of the Académie Royale de Musique. Subsequently it took Campra twenty years to secure a job as one of the Masters in the Royal Chapel at Versailles. Once established there with generous resources and a splendid setting for his grand motets, Campra being Campra, still found himself some trouble. In 1731 at the age of 71 it's recorded that he took part in an orgy. Since the most scurrilous thing about the event appears to have been the loss of his glasses, perhaps it's more a measure of the viperous nature of gossip at Versailles than a reflection of a septuagenarian's libertine propensities.

In the first programme Donald Macleod and William Christie look at Campra's provincial training, first as a choirboy and later as a Music Master at the Cathedral of St. Étienne in Toulouse. At the age of just seventeen, supposedly a year after he'd learnt to read and write, Campra produced a setting of verses from Psalm 45, Deus Noster Refugium, while his operatic tendencies were already bursting through in joyous settings such as the secular motet Florete prate.


MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00wbkt7)
Mark Padmore

In the bicentenary year of Schumann's birth, one of this country's most highly acclaimed tenors - Mark Padmore - performs his song cycle Liederkreis Op. 24, songs originally intended for the composer's celebrated cycle of settings by Heine - Dichterliebe ('A Poet's Love') - as well as other settings of Heine from Franz Paul Lachner's first Sängerfahrt ('A Bard's Journey'), marking 120 years since Lachner's death. Introduced by Suzy Klein.

Mark Padmore (tenor)
Kristian Bezuidenhout (piano)

SCHUMANN Four Songs originally for Dichterliebe:
Dein Angesicht
Lehn deine Wang'
Es leuchtet meine Liebe
Mein Wagen rollet langsam

LACHNER Heine Lieder:
Im Mai
Die Meerfrau
Das Fischermädchen
Ein Traumbild
Die Einsame Thräne

SCHUMANN Liederkreis Op.24.


MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00wbknd)
Dresden and Leipzig

Episode 1

This week Afternoon on 3 features performances from the Dresden Staatskapelle and Lepizig Gewandhaus Orchestras. Today's programme includes two favourites from the concerto repertoire: Elgar's Cello Concerto and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. Plus Schumann's Rhenish Symphony and a Bach Cantata recorded at the Leipzig Bach Festival.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

2pm
Mozart: Don Giovanni Overture
Strauss: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

2.45pm
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Gérard Korsten (conductor)

3.15pm
Bach: Gott, man lobt dich in der Stille, BWV.120
Dorothee Mields (soprano)
Damien Guillon (alto)
Colin Balzer (tenor)
Peter Kooij (bass)
Collegium Vocale Ghent
Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)

Jörg Widmann: Con brio
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor)

3.50pm
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622
Jörg Widmann (clarinet)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor)

4.25pm
Schumann: Symphony no.3 in E flat major, 'Rhenish'
Dresden Staatskapelle
Daniel Harding (conductor).


MON 17:00 In Tune (b00wbkng)
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With countertenor Andreas Scholl in the studio talking about his new Purcell CD and a concert of music by the composer with fellow countertenor Philippe Jaroussky. Plus composer HK Gruber, who features soon in a composer portrait with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Main news headlines are at 5.00 and 6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.


MON 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00wbknj)
Britten Sinfonia - Rossini, Mozart, Ligeti, Weber

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

The Britten Sinfonia returns to the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London for a work known as a tour de force for soprano and orchestra - Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre. The Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan has received much acclaim for performances of his music, as well as in the opera house. She has sung this work across the world, and in this concert performs it alongside Ligeti's energy-fuelled Concert Românesc. Two spirited Rossini overtures, some of Mozart's most popular songs and Weber's virtuosic Concertino for Horn make up the rest of this captivating programme.

Rossini: Overture to The Silken Ladder*
Mozart: Vado, ma dove? O dei, K583
Mozart: Un moto di gioia K579
Mozart: Misera, dove son - Ah, non son io che parlo, K369
Ligeti: Concert Românesc*
Rossini: Overture to Il Signor Bruschino*
Mozart: Five Contradanses, K609
Weber: Concertino for Horn and Orchestra*
Ligeti, arr. Howarth: Mysteries of the Macabre

Barbara Hannigan soprano/director
Richard Watkins horn
Britten Sinfonia
Jacqueline Shave leader/director
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor*

Followed by our continuing series of 100 years of German Song from the Wigmore Hall. Tonight mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager accompanied by pianist Malcolm Martineau perform songs written in the 1830s by Felix Mendelssohn and Paul Lachner.


MON 21:15 Night Waves (b00wbknl)
Jennifer Homans, Turner Prize 2010, Rob Lemkin

Anne McElvoy talks to historian and critic Jennifer Homans about the history of classical ballet.

Jennifer Homans is an ex-professional dancer who trained at the School of American Ballet. Her new book Apollo's Angels: A History of Classical Ballet traces the art from from its origins in the courts of Europe to the present day. Originally it was a form of aristocratic etiquette and a political event as much as a work of art. Homans shows how ballet evolved to reflect political and cultural upheaval in places as diverse as Cuba and France and how dancers and dance makers were influenced by the Renaissance and French Classicism, by Revolution and Romanticism, by Expressionism and Modernism and by the Cold War.
There'll also be an assessment of this year's winner of the Turner Prize and Rob Lemkin the co-director of an extraordinary Oscar nominated documentary about the Khmer Rouge will be discussing his reasons for making the film.

Producer: Zahid Warley.


MON 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00wbksv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]


MON 23:00 The Essay (b00rd7qb)
Karachi Postcards

Arrival, and the Family Waits for Her...

The London based novelist Kamila Shamsie
returns to her city of birth every winter,
and this time decides to explore it properly:

1. Arrival, and the family waits for her...

Producer Duncan Minshull

"Each time I visit Karachi there is a particular strangeness that accompanies me... invisible to x-ray machines... undetected by sniffer dogs. It is the strangeness of returning."

London based novelist Kamila Shamsie returns to Karachi every January to see her family and old friends. But it's not where she lives anymore, so it has a fresh and often surprising quality to it. Over five 'postcards' for The Essay, she explores the city of her birth in this uncertain and often intriguing light

And the experience of arrival is a big deal. Outside the sleek, spare, deserted airport terminal all of Karachi's life comes towards you...


MON 23:15 Jazz on 3 (b00wbknn)
London Jazz Festival 2010

Geri Allen

Jez Nelson presents a solo performance by pianist Geri Allen. Recorded in the Purcell Room during the 2010 London Jazz Festival, she explores what it means to be an African-American woman, musician, mother, daughter and teacher, in a set that was accompanied by films created by photographer and film-maker Carrie Mae Weems.

Since the early 1990s, Allen has cemented her position as one of the foremost pianists of her generation. With the release earlier this year of her album Flying Toward The Sound, inspired by Herbie Hancock, Cecil Taylor and McCoy Tyner, she has also established herself as an accomplished solo performer.

Presenter: Jez Nelson
Producer: Peggy Sutton.