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01Beethoven/barenboim   
03Beethoven/barenboim   
 andrew Mcgregor Presents A Concert Given Last Thursday At The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, As Part20041101 of the Birtwistle Games festival.
Birtwistle: Ritual Fragment
Scelsi: Kya
Birtwistle: Silbury Air
Feldman: The Viola in My Life II
Birtwistle: Secret TheatreLONDON Sinfonietta
David Atherton (conductor)
Mark van de Wiel (clarinet)
Paul Silverthorne (viola).
 lucie Skeaping Presents Handel At His Grandest - With A Little Bit Of Help From One Of His Most Famo20041228 us admirers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
To suit the richer tastes of his late-eighteenth-century Viennese audience, Mozart made souped-up versions of several big Handel pieces, and there's a rare chance to hear one of them tonight.
Handel (arr Mozart): Alexander's Feast, or The Power of Musick
Emma Bell (soprano)
Paul Agnew (tenor)
Roderick Williams (bass)
Choir and Orchestra of the ENGLISH Concert
Andrew Manze (director).
01Aldeburgh Festival 2009, Takacs Quartet20090622 Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
In a concert given at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, the award-winning Takacs Quartet perform works by Schumann and Beethoven, and commemorate the 200th anninversary of Haydn's death with two of his quartets: the Op 77, No 2 and one of his last contributions to the genre - the Op 103, an unfinished work consisting of two movements.
Takacs Quartet
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
Beethoven: String Quartet in D, Op 18, No 3
Haydn: String Quartet in F, Op 77, No 2; String Quartet in D, Op 103
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44
Followed by a focus on celebrated historical recordings made at the Aldeburgh Festival.
Petroc Trelawny introduces the Takacs Quartet in music by Haydn, Beethoven and Schumann.
01Bach At Christmas20081222 John Eliot Gardiner conducts a cantata from Bach's Christmas Oratorio. And Suite No 1 in G
A programme recorded at Hawksmoor's Christ Church as part of the 2008 Spitalfields Winter Festival.
John Eliot Gardiner conducts The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists in an all-Bach programme, featuring one of the cantatas that make up the Christmas Oratorio, as well as one of the Motets and a Brandenburg Concerto.
Bach: Motet - Komm, Jesu, Komm, BWV 229; Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat, BWV 1051; Cantata No 1: Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf preiset die Tage (Christmas Oratorio)
Evangelist....Nicholas Mulroy (tenor)
  • Simon Preston (organ)
  • jian wang (cello)
    bach: vater unser im himmelreich, bwv 682
  • john eliot gardiner (conductor)
    plus highlights from the 2008 bbc proms:
    bach: suite no 1 in g, bwv 1007
  • the english baroque soloists
  • the monteverdi choir
    • 01Bach, Berg, Brahms, Part 120091002 From St David's Hall, Cardiff. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    Thierry Fischer conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Bach and Brahms, as well as Berg's Violin Concerto, with Viviane Hagner, one of the most eagerly-watched violinists to emerge in recent years.
    Featuring the grandiose Bach Toccata and Fugue, followed by Berg's final masterwork - the tragic Violin Concerto, which movingly ends with a meditation on one of Bach's best-known chorales - before Brahms' First Symphony, with its stormy opening and cathartic release.
    Viviane Hagner (violin)
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Thierry Fischer (conductor)
    Bach/Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
    Berg: Violin Concerto
    Brahms: Symphony No 1.
    BBCNOW/Thierry Fischer, with Viviane Hagner (violin), in music by Bach, Berg and Brahms.
    01Beethoven, Berlioz, Part 120091014 Presented by Martin Handley.
    From the 2009 Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Thierry Fischer perform Beethoven's great Romantic masterwork the Emperor Piano Concerto, with pianist Nelson Goerner.
    Nelson Goerner (piano)
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Thierry Fischer (conductor)
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor).
    BBC NOW/Thierry Fischer and Nelson Goerner (piano) in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5.
    01Edinburgh International Festival 2009   
    01Edinburgh International Festival 2009, Sco/william Christie20090914 Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    In a concert which opened the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform Handel's rousing oratorio Judas Maccabeus. It is conducted by one of the great Baroque music interpreters of today, William Christie.
    Judas Maccabeus was one of the most popular oratorios in Handel's lifetime, and it continues to appeal to current audiences, with its rousing choruses and strong melodies. Based on the Jewish story of Judas Maccabeus leading the Israelites to victory over their enemies, Handel and his librettist Thomas Morrell were making a highly political statement, celebrating the victory of the Duke of Cumberland and the House of Hanover over the Scottish Jacobite rebels at Culloden. For this reason it still remains provocative today.
    Handel: Judas Maccabaeus
    Israelite Woman....Rosemary Joshua (soprano)
    Israelite Man....Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano)
    Priest....Reno Troilus (countertenor)
    Judas Maccabaeus....William Burden (tenor)
    Simon....Neal Davies (bass)
    Edinburgh Festival Chorus
    Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    William Christie (conductor)
    Followed by performances from the gala recital at the Leeds International Piano Competition, where the finalists perform solo works from their competition repertoire.
    Presented by Petroc Trelawny. SCO/William Christie in Handel's oratorio Judas Maccabeus.
    01Great Russians: Shostakovich, Fri, 15th May 2009 - Part 120090515 From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Martin Handley presents a concert from the BBC Philharmonic's Great Russians series.
    The orchestra's Russian chief guest conductor Vassily Sinaisky appears with one of Britain's operatic stars, John Tomlinson, for the Suite on Verses of Michelangelo, which are settings of verses by the great Italian artist and poet. One of Shostakovich's last works, written in 1974, it is symphonic in scope, and consists of 11 orchestral songs in which every text has to do with the life and work of the artist, including his achievements, his setbacks, his loves and his sense of destiny.
    John Tomlinson (bass)
    BBC Philharmonic
    Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
    Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo.
    With Martin Handley. The BBC Philharmonic in Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo
    01Haydn Choral Works, Thu, 11th June 2009 - Part 120090611 Presented by Martin Handley.
    In third of the BBC Philharmonic's concerts from Bridgewater Hall in Manchester celebrating the music of Haydn, they perform choral works including the tragic Scena di Berenice, where the abandoned Berenice calls on the gods to take her life.
    Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
    Diana Moore (mezzo-soprano)
    Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
    Neal Davies (baritone)
    BBC Singers
    BBC Philharmonic
    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
    Haydn: Symphony No 90; Scena di Berenice.
    Martin Handley presents the BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda performing music by Haydn.
    01Howells, Britten, Thu, 18 December 2008 - Part 120081218 Suzy Klein presents the BBC CO and BBC Singers in Christmas music by Britten and Howells.
    From Lancing College Chapel, Sussex. Presented by Suzy Klein.
    The BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers perform a concert of Christmas music, featuring works by two 20th-century British composers.
    The programme includes some of Herbert Howells's much-loved carol-anthems, include the lyrical A Spotless Rose and Here is the little door, as well as Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, a showpiece for treble voices, written during the Second World World War as the composer returned from America by sea.
    Listeners who have satellite or digital TV can press their TV red button to watch this specially recorded performance for seven days from 19 December.
    Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral
  • andrew carwood (conductor)
    britten: a ceremony of carols
  • bbc concert orchestra
  • bbc singers
  • daniel norman (tenor)
  • howells: three carol-anthems
  • Sioned Williams (harp)
    • 01Jackson, Tomkins, Hoddinott, Harvey, Mccabe, Part 120090925 Presented by Martin Handley.
    As part of the 2009 North Wales International Music Festival, the BBC Singers perform music in the magnificent surroundings of St Asaph Cathedral in Denbighshire. The programme features music by Welsh composers from Thomas Tomkins to Alan Hoddinott, as well as a celebration of the 70th birthdays of Jonathan Harvey and John Mccabe.
    BBC Singers
    David Hill (conductor)
    Gabriel Jackson: To Music
    Tomkins: Musicke devine; When David heard
    Hoddinott: Out of the Deep
    Jonathan Harvey: I love the Lord
    John Mccabe: Motet.
    BBC Singers/David Hill in music by Gabriel Jackson, Tomkins, Hoddinott, Harvey and McCabe.
    01Kalman, Lehar, Dostal, Zeller, Fischer, Chaminade, Part 120091013 From Watford Coliseum. Presented by Martin Handley.
    Barry Wordsworth and the BBC Concert Orchestra take in the Alps and the Danube in a programme of European light music. Featuring Franz Lehar's unjustly-neglected Violin Concertino as well as one of his popular arias.
    Rebecca Bottone (soprano)
    Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin)
    Ileana Ruhemann (flute)
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
    Emmerich Kalman: Overture (Countess Maritza)
    Lehar: Concertino
    Nico Dostal: Frohliches Spiel
    Lehar: Love Live Forever (from Paganini)
    Zeller: Don't be Cross (Sei nicht bos)
    Ernst Fischer: Suite - Sudlich der Alpen.
    BBC CO/Barry Wordsworth in European light music by Kalman, Lehar, Dostal, Zeller, Fischer.
    01Martinu, Mahler, Strauss, Part 120091009 Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    From the Barbican in London, Jiri Belohlavek conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme including a Martinu symphony and a favourite work by Strauss.
    Martinu's Second Symphony, dating from 1943, contains effervescent music written to honour the defiant courage of Czechs living under Nazi oppression.
    It is followed by Strauss' richly romantic Four Last Songs, written in the aftermath of the Second World War, when the octogenarian increasingly sought refuge in nostalgic memories of times past. Completed less than a year before the composer's death, they stand as an elegiac farewell to the world, and are sung by Anne Schwanewilms, who is considered among the finest of Strauss interpreters.
    Anne Schwanewilms (soprano)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
    Martinu: Symphony No 2
    Strauss: Four Last Songs.
    BBC SO/Jiri Belohlavek. Martinu: Symphony No 2. Strauss: Four Last Songs.
    01Nielsen Symphony Cycle20090112 CBSO/Dmitri Slobodeniouk perform Nielsen's Symphony No 4 - The Inextinguishable.
    Presented by Martin Handley.
    Part of a cycle of Danish composer Carl Nielsen's six symphonies performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Manchester's Halle. Guest conductor Dmitri Slobodeniouk, making his UK debut, takes the baton in the Fourth Symphony, known as The Inextinguishable, because, dating from the early years of World War One, it reflects Nielsen's own belief in life and music's capacity to triumph over adversity. The symphony is preceded by Nielsen's rhapsodic overture, A Fantasy Trip to the Faroes as well as a performance of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto with Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky.
    Nikolai Lugansky (piano)
  • city of birmingham symphony orchestra
  • dmitri slobodeniouk (conductor)
    nielsen: a fantasy trip to the faroes
  • nielsen: symphony no 4 (the inextinguishable)
    followed by a nielsen chamber music focus, including recordings from the bbc archives
  • rachmaninov: piano concerto no 2
    • 01Performance On 3: Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Part 120090918 From St David's Hall, Cardiff. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    The BBC National Orchestra of Wales opens its new season with a concert of masterpieces from Vienna, starting with the dramatic Leonore Overture No 3, one of Beethoven's four attempts at an opener for his opera Fidelio. It is followed by Mozart's sunny concerto, among the earlier concertos he wrote for the Vienna concert season. The soloist is one of the foremost interpreters of the Viennese classics, Paul Lewis.
    Paul Lewis (piano)
    Piia Komsi (soprano)
    Isabelle Druet (mezzo-soprano)
    Hans Jorg Mammel (tenor)
    Matthew Rose (bass)
    BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
    Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor)
    Beethoven: Leonore Overture No 3
    Mozart: Piano Concerto No 12 in A, K414.
    BBC NOW/Francois-Xavier Roth performs works by Beethoven and Mozart.
    01Scottish Ensembles, Rsno/deneve20100301 Stephane Deneve conducts the RSNO in music by Berlioz, Beethoven, Connesson and Respighi.
    01Szymanowski, Dvorak, Prokofiev, Part 120100225 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert live from the Barbican Hall in London.
    Slavic flavours and great melodies are to the fore in tonight's concert of orchestral music from Eastern Europe. From Poland, Szymanowski's Concert Overture dates from the early 1900s. Distinguished German violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann takes the solo spotlight in Dvorak's evergreen Violin Concerto, while the programme's second half holds the compelling Third Symphony of Prokofiev, dating from the turbulent Soviet 1920s.
    Szymanowski: Concert Overture
    Dvorak: Violin Concerto
    Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Vedernikov.
    From the Barbican Hall. BBC SO/Alexander Vedernikov in Szymanowski and Dvorak.
    02Bach At Christmas20081223 John Eliot Gardiner conducts Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 4. Plus Proms 2008 highlights.
    An all-Bach programme recorded at Hawksmoor's Christ Church as part of the 2008 Spitalfields Winter Festival, with John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists.
    Evangelist....Nicholas Mulroy (tenor)
  • Simon Preston (organ).
  • jian wang (cello)
    bach: toccata and fugue in d minor, bwv 565
  • john eliot gardiner (conductor)
    bach: motet - lobet den herrn, alle heiden, bwv 230; brandenburg concerto no 4 in g, bwv 1049; cantata no 2: und es waren hirten in derselben gegend (christmas oratorio)
    plus highlights from the 2008 bbc proms:
    bach: suite no 2 in d minor, bwv 1008
  • the english baroque soloists
  • the monteverdi choir
    • 02Nielsen Symphony Cycle20090119 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, as the CBSO welcome back previous principal guest conductor Okko Kamu to direct another concert in the Nielsen Symphony Cycle. The concert also includes his evocation of the rise and fall of the sun over the Aegean and Prokofiev's concerto which combines innocence and sophistication with fairy-tale unreality.
    Nielsen: Helios Overture; Symphony No 6 (Sinfonia semplice)
  • anne-marie mcdermott (piano).
    nielsen and prokofiev from manchester's bridgewater hall, plus chamber music from new york
  • city of birmingham symphony orchestra
  • efe baltacigil (cello)
  • nielsen: symphony no 2 (the four temperaments)
    akiko suwanai (violin)
  • okko kamu (conductor)
    followed by british chamber music performed at new york's alice tully hall.
    bridge: phantasy trio in c minor
    ani kavafian (violin)
  • prokofiev: violin concerto no 1
    • 02Scottish Ensembles, Bbc Sso/solyom20100302 Stefan Solyom conducts the BBC SSO in music by Staern, Sibelius and Shostakovich.
    02 LASTBach, Berg, Brahms, Part 220091002 From St David's Hall, Cardiff. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    Thierry Fischer conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Brahms' First Symphony, with its stormy opening and cathartic release.
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Thierry Fischer (conductor)
    Brahms: Symphony No 1.
    BBCNOW/Thierry Fischer perform Brahms' Symphony No 1.
    02 LASTGreat Russians: Shostakovich, Fri, 15th May 2009 - Part 220090515 From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Presented by Martin Handley.
    The concert concludes with Vassily Sinaisky conducting the BBC Philharmonic in Shostakovich's Symphony No 10, which was premiered in 1953, not long after the death of Stalin. It was the composer's first symphonic work since his official denunciation in 1948, and some say that the short and violent second movement is a musical portrait of the dictator.
    BBC Philharmonic
    Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 10.
    Presented by Martin Handley. Vassily Sinaisky conducts Shostakovich's Symphony No 10.
    02 LASTHaydn Choral Works, Thu, 11th June 2009 - Part 220090611 From Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Martin Handley presents the conclusion of the BBC Philharmonic celebrating the music of Haydn. Featuring The Storm, in which the composer set his first English text.
    Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
    Diana Moore (mezzo-soprano)
    Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
    Neal Davies (baritone)
    BBC Singers
    BBC Philharmonic
    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
    Haydn: The Storm; Te Deum; Mass in B flat (Theresien).
    Martin Handley presents the BBC Philharmonic in Haydn: The Storm; Te Deum; Mass in B flat.
    02 LASTHowells, Britten, Thu, 18 December 2008 - Part 220081218 Presented by Suzy Klein. The concert concludes with Benjamin Britten's cantata St Nicolas.
    From the Chapel of Lancing College, Sussex. Presented by Suzy Klein.
    This concert of Christmas music performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers concludes with Benjamin Britten's cantata St Nicolas. It presents a series of important incidents in the life of of the saint, and of the children, sailors and travellers who come into contact with him. The part of Nicolas is taken by a solo tenor, with the choirs transforming themselves into the various other characters of the drama and relating the events with the conviction of eye-witnesses, tying the story together with their prayers and praise.
    Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral
  • bbc concert orchestra
  • bbc singers
  • daniel norman (tenor)
  • paul brough (conductor)
    britten: st nicolas
  • Sioned Williams (harp)
    • 02 LASTJackson, Tomkins, Hoddinott, Harvey, Mccabe, Part 220090925 Presented by Martin Handley.
    As part of the 2009 North Wales International Music Festival, the BBC Singers conclude their concert performed in the surroundings of St Asaph Cathedral in Denbighshire. The programme features a piece by William Mathias, the founder of the festival.
    BBC Singers
    David Hill (conductor)
    Britten: Choral Dances (Gloriana)
    Judith Bingham: The Spirit of Truth
    Whyte: Christe qui lux es et dies
    Maconchy: Nocturnal
    Rootham: Daybreak at Sea
    Matthias: A Royal Garland.
    BBC Singers/David Hill perfoming Britten, Bingham, Whyte, Maconchy, Rootham and Mathias.
    02 LASTKalman, Lehar, Dostal, Zeller, Fischer, Chaminade, Part 220091013 From Watford Coliseum. Presented by Martin Handley.
    Barry Wordsworth and the BBC Concert Orchestra's programme of European light music concludes with Chaminade's Flute Concertino, a Lehar popular aria and a work by the pioneering Roger Roger, as well as Strauss and Julius Fucik.
    Rebecca Bottone (soprano)
    Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin)
    Ileana Ruhemann (flute)
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
    02 LASTPerformance On 3: Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Part 220090918 From St David's Hall, Cardiff. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    The BBC National Orchestra of Wales' concert concludes with the Nelson Mass, composed by Haydn around the time that Lord Nelson was engaged in fighting the French forces, and Vienna itself was under threat from Napoleon.
    Paul Lewis (piano)
    Piia Komsi (soprano)
    Isabelle Druet (mezzo-soprano)
    Hans Jorg Mammel (tenor)
    Matthew Rose (bass)
    BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
    Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor)
    Haydn: Mass in D minor (Nelson Mass).
    The BBC NOW under Francois-Xavier Roth performs Haydn's Mass in D minor (Nelson Mass).
    02 LASTSchubert, Hensel, Tippett, Maconchy, Bingham, Part 220091008 Presented by Petroc Trelawny. From St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge in London.
    The BBC Singers' concert under Paul Brough concludes with works by Schumann and Mendelssohn, followed by Bruckner's unusual Abendzauber, a work for horns, male voices and three yodellers.
    Michael Thompson Quartet
    BBC Singers
    Paul Brough (conductor)
    Schumann: Jagdlieder, Op 137
    Mendelssohn: Im Grunen, Op 59
    Bruckner: Abendzauber
    Plus part of a series of lesser-known works by Mendelssohn, one of Radio 3's Composers of the Year in 2009.
    BBC Singers. Schumann: Jaglieger. Mendelssohn: Im Grunen. Bruckner: Abendzauber.
    02 LASTSzymanowski, Dvorak, Prokofiev, Part 220100225 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert live from the Barbican Hall in London.
    Slavic flavours and great melodies are to the fore in tonight's concert of orchestral music from Eastern Europe. From Poland, Szymanowski's Concert Overture dates from the early 1900s. Distinguished German violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann takes the solo spotlight in Dvorak's evergreen Violin Concerto, while the programme's second half holds the compelling Third Symphony of Prokofiev, dating from the turbulent Soviet 1920s.
    Prokofiev: Symphony no.3
    Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Vedernikov.
    Alexander Vedernikov conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Prokofiev's Third Symphony.
    02 LASTWagner: Gotterdammerung, Wagner: Gotterdammerung - Acts 2 And 320090609 Presented by Martin Handley.
    Mark Elder conducts the Halle Orchestra, with Lars Cleveman as Siegfried and Katarina Dalayman as Brunnhilde in a celebrated production of the second and third acts of Wagner's Gotterdammerung.
    The love between Siegfried and Brunnhilde is doomed and, as the Norns predicted, the final catastrophe is impending. In the darkness of night, Hagen's sleep is interrupted by Alberich appearing through the moonlight, urging him to murder Siegfried and to seize the ring from his finger. The drama threads its way through love potions, fatal deceptions, the Rhine's bursting of its banks and the fiery destruction of Valhalla with its gods and heroes.
    Wagner: Gotterdammerung (Acts 2 and 3)
    Brunnhilde....Katarina Dalayman
    Hagen....Attila Jun
    Gunther....Peter Coleman-Wright
    Waltraute....Susan Bickley
    Second Norn....Yvonne Howard
    Woglinde....Katherine Broderick
    Flosshilde....Leah-Marian Jones
    Siegfried....Lars Cleveman
    Alberich....Andrew Shore
    Gutrune....Nancy Gustafson
    First Norn....Ceri Williams
    Third Norn....Miranda Keys
    Wellgunde....Madeleine Shaw
    BBC Symphony Chorus
    London Symphony Chorus
    Chorus of the Royal Opera
    Halle Choir and Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor).
    Martin Handley presents Acts 2 and 3 of Wagner's Gotterdammerung.
    03Aldeburgh Festival 2009, Ades/isserlis/marwood20090624 Radio 3 at the Summer Festivals.
    Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given at the 2009 Aldeburgh Festival, with former artistic director Thomas Ades returning as pianist in a series of chamber combinations, with cellist Steven Isserlis and violinist Anthony Marwood.
    Thomas Ades (piano)
    Steven Isserlis (cello)
    Anthony Marwood (violin)
    Faure: Cello Sonata No 2
    Ades: Lieux Retrouves (world premiere - Aldeburgh commission)
    Janacek: Violin Sonata
    Ravel: Piano Trio
    Followed by a focus on historical recordings made at The Maltings, Snape, Aldeburgh: in a performance from 1968, Benjamin Britten conducts the English Chamber Orchestra in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F, BWV 1047.
    With Petroc Trelawny. Thomas Ades and Steven Isserlis perform Faure, Ades and Ravel.
    03Bach At Christmas20081224 John Eliot Gardiner conducts Bach's Brandeburg Concerto No 5 and Suite No 3 in C.
    Presented by Martin Handley.
    John Eliot Gardiner conducts The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists in an all-Bach programme, recorded at Christ Church as part of the Spitalfields Winter Festival 2008.
    Evangelist....Nicholas Mulroy (tenor)
  • Simon Preston (organ)
  • jian wang (cello)
    bach: canonic variations on vom himmel hoch, bwv 769
  • john eliot gardiner (conductor)
    bach: motet - der geist hilft unser schwachheit auf, bwv 226; brandenburg concerto no 5 in d, bwv 1050; cantata no 3 - herrscher des himmels, erhore das lallen (christmas oratorio)
    plus highlights from bbc proms 2008:
    bach: suite no 3 in c, bwv 1009
  • the english baroque soloists
  • the monteverdi choir
    • 03Edinburgh International Festival 2009   
    03Edinburgh International Festival 2009, Eu Baroque Orchestra20090916 Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    The European Union Baroque Orchestra is an extraordinary ensemble of young musicians fresh from the conservatoires of Europe, selected to take part in the orchestra each year. In this concert from the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival, they showcase their talents in music by composers who were all active in Rome in the late 17th and early 18th centuries - Corelli, Muffat, Geminiani and Handel.
    For many Baroque composers, Rome was an important place to visit and study, and both Muffat and Handel absorbed elements of the Italian style whilst staying there, as is evident in their sonatas in this concert. Corelli was one of the most influential musicians in Italy at this time and his concerti grossi were imitated and developed by his successors, including his pupil Geminiani.
    European Union Baroque Orchestra
    Chiara Banchini (director)
    Corelli: Concerto grosso in D, Op 6, No 4
    Muffat: Sonata No 2 in G minor (Armonico Tributo)
    Geminiani: La Follia in D minor (after Corelli)
    Handel: Violin Concerto in B flat (Sonata a 5)
    Muffat: Sonata No 1 in D (Armonico Tributo)
    Corelli: Concerto grosso in G minor, Op 6, No 8
    Plus performances from the Gala recital at the Leeds International Piano Competition, where the finalists perform solo works from their competition repertoire.
    European Union Baroque Orchestra/Chiara Banchini in Corelli, Geminiani, Muffat and Handel.
    03Haydn Concerts, The Seasons20090708 Presented by Ian Skelly.
    Olari Elts conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a performance of Haydn's oratorio The Seasons, considered to be the composer's last important work, depicting rural life through the four seasons of the year. It touches on the labours, lovemaking, hardships and celebrations of an unspecified community of peasants, who are given rousing choral passages, including a celebration of wine and a hunting chorus. The more solemn Ode to Toil caused Haydn to remark that, though he had been industrious all his life, he had never before been called upon to write music in praise of industry.
    Haydn: The Seasons
    Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
    John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
    Roderick Williams (baritone)
    Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    Olari Elts (conductor).
    Presented by Ian Skelly. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Olari Elts in Haydn's The Seasons.
    03Nielsen Symphony Cycle20090126 Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    Part of a cycle of concerts featuring music by Danish composer Carl Nielsen, shared jointly by the Halle and the CBSO, with the Halle and music director Mark Elder performing the vigorous and optimistic First Symphony and the mighty Symphony No 5, seen as humanity's struggle for order over chaos, including a notable moment for the side drum. Alongside these are works by Nielsen's hero, Beethoven.
    Halle Orchestra
  • Mark Elder (conductor)
    beethoven: egmont overture, op 84
  • beethoven: ah! perfido, op 65
  • city of birmingham symphony orchestra
  • nielsen: symphony no 1 in g minor, op 7
  • nielsen: symphony no 5, op 50
    followed by a series featuring artists associated with the orchestra of the age of enlightenment, including:
    albinoni: trio sonata in c minor, op 6 no 10
  • the locatelli trio.
    the halle and Mark Elder perform nielsen: symphonies 1 and 5, plus music by beethoven
    • 03Scottish Ensembles, Donizetti: The Elixir Of Love20100303 Donald Macleod presents Scottish Opera's revival of Donizetti's opera The Elixir of Love.
    04Edinburgh International Festival 2009, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists20090917 Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    John Eliot Gardiner has been conducting the vocal works of Bach across the world for many years to great acclaim, and here he brings his choral and orchestral forces to the 2009 Edinburgh Festival.
    With the sacred concerto by Johann Christoph Bach, a piece held in regard by his nephew Johann Sebastian, followed by the first Part of Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt, which contains some moving choruses and highly descriptive depictions of the Plagues.
    Bach's cantatas are some of his most dramatic sacred works, and the works which follow, composed for the Feast of St Michael and All Angels, are no exception.
    Monteverdi Choir
    English Baroque Soloists
    John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
    Johann Christoph Bach: Es erhub sich ein Streit
    Handel: Exodus (Israel in Egypt, Part 1)
    Bach: Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV 130; Es erhub sich ein Streit, BWV 19; Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft, BWV 50
    Followed by performances from the Gala recital at the Leeds International Piano Competition, where the finalists perform solo works from their competition repertoire.
    John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir in choral works by Bach and Handel.
    04Haydn Concerts, Symphonies For Six20090709 Presented by Ian Skelly.
    Florilegium perform chamber music by Haydn, including arrangements for six players of his London Symphonies, made by the impresario Salomon.
    Florilegium
    Ashley Solomon (artistic director)
    Haydn: Symphony No 98 in B flat (arr Salomon); String Quartet in C minor, Op 17, No 4; Flute Trio in G, Op 38 No 4; Symphony No 103 in E flat (Drumroll) - arr Salomon
    Followed by John Mark Ainsley singing High on the giddy bending mast and other songs by Haydn.
    With Ian Skelly. Florilegium perform Haydn: Symphony No 98 and String Quartet in C.
    04Nielsen Symphony Cycle20090202 Presented by Martin Handley.
    Mark Elder conducts the Halle in Nielsen's Third Symphony, to conclude a celebration of the Danish composer's symphonies undertaken in conjuction with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    The concert opens with the Halle's assistant conductor Ewa Strusinska conducting Kodaly's Hary Janos, where a convincing orchestral 'sneeze' heralds a complete and colourful fantasy of the hero's exploits.
    This is followed by Alphabicycle Order, from the Halle's Associate Composer Colin Matthews, a huge hit at the Manchester International Festival 2007, in which the newly formed Halle Children's Choir draws amusing alphabet pictures, which sometimes appear sinister or merely absurd.
    Nadine Livingston (soprano)
  • Mark Elder, ewa strusinska (conductor)
    kodaly: hary janos suite
  • colin matthews: alphabicycle order
  • halle children's choir
  • halle orchestra
  • matthew brook (baritone)
  • nielsen: symphony no 3 (sinfonia espansiva)
    followed by piano music played by louis lortie in a recital from city halls, glasgow, which includes liszt's un sospiro.
    Martin Handley presents Mark Elder conducting the halle in nielsen: symphony no 3
    • 04Scottish Ensembles, Scottish Ensemble20100304 Jonathan Morton conducts the Scottish Ensemble in Tippett, Berio and Vaughan Williams.
    05Aldeburgh Festival 2009, Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Ligeti, Birtwistle, Haydn20090626 Radio 3 at the Summer Festivals.
    Petroc Trelawny presents the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the international ensemble founded by Claudio Abbado, in a concert from the 2009 Aldeburgh Festival. The programme features music from the 20th century - one of their specialities - along with two symphonies by Haydn, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the composer's death.
    Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
    Mahler Chamber Orchestra
    Susanna Malkki (conductor)
    Ligeti: Ramifications
    Haydn: Symphony No 60 in C (Il distratto)
    Birtwistle: Slow Frieze for piano and ensemble
    Haydn: Symphony No 101 in D (The Clock)
    Followed by a focus on celebrated historical recordings made at Aldeburgh. With a highlight from the memorable piano duet recital given in 1965 at The JubiLee Hall, by Benjamin Britten and Sviatoslav Ricther, featuring Schubert's Grand Duo in C, D812.
    With Petroc Trelawny. The Mahler Chamber Orchestra perform Ligeti, Haydn and Birtwistle.
    05 LASTHaydn Concerts, Oae - Haydn Symphonies20090710 Presented by Ian Skelly.
    Edward Gardner conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in works from different periods of Haydn's career, performed on the original instruments.
    Working alone in an isolated corner of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Haydn created music full of originality - it made him famous throughout Europe. His symphonies, written for private aristocratic entertainment, are seen as unpredictable and engaging - in ways which continue to fascinate long after his death.
    Lisa Beznosiuk (flute)
    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Edward Gardner (conductor)
    Haydn: Symphony No 7 in C (Le midi); Symphony No 64 in A (Tempora mutantur)
    Mozart: Flute concerto No 2 in D, K314
    Haydn: Symphony No 90 in C
    Followed by some of Haydn's Baryton Trios performed by the Esterhay Ensemble.
    With Ian Skelly. OAE/Gardner perform Haydn: Symphonies No 7 in C; No 64 in A; No 90 in C.
    05 LASTScottish Ensembles, Scottish Chamber Orchestra/ticciati20100305  Presented by Martin Handley. Robin Ticciati conducts Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ.
    06 LASTAldeburgh Festival 2009, Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Haydn, Stockhausen, Beethoven20090629 Radio 3 at the Summer Festivals.
    Catherine Bott presents a concert from the 2009 Aldeburgh Festival, under the baton of Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the festival's new artistic director and a leading pianist who is running his first season at the Suffolk venue. The programme feature two masterpieces of the classical repertoire and one from the 20th-century avant-garde.
    Mahler Chamber Orchestra
    Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano/director)
    Haydn: Symphony No 45 (Farewell)
    Stockhausen: Kontra-Punkte
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 (Emperor)
    Followed by songs from Broadway musicals sung by Kim Criswell and Brent Barrett, with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by John McGlinn.
    With Catherine Bott. The Mahler Chamber Orchestra perform Haydn, Stockhausen and Beethoven
     Bbc Symphony Orchestra Live From The Barbican, Presented By andrew Mcgregor. Emanuel Ax (piano) Bbc20040512 Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin (conductor) Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor Tonight's performance continues after Twenty Minutes.
    Concluding tonight's performance live from the Barbican. Shostakovich's monumental Symphony No. 11 reflects on the failed 1905 RUSSIAn Revolution - and was written in the aftermath of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary. BBC Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin (conductor) Shostakovich: Symphony no.11 "The Year 1905".
    BBC Symphony Orchestra Live from the Barbican, presented by Andrew McGregor. Emanuel Ax (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin (conductor) Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor Tonight's performance continues after Twenty Minutes.
     Concluding Tonight's Performance Live From The Barbican. Shostakovich's Monumental Symphony No. 11 R20040512 Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin (conductor) Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor Tonight's performance continues after Twenty Minutes.
    Concluding tonight's performance live from the Barbican. Shostakovich's monumental Symphony No. 11 reflects on the failed 1905 RUSSIAn Revolution - and was written in the aftermath of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary. BBC Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin (conductor) Shostakovich: Symphony no.11 "The Year 1905".
    BBC Symphony Orchestra Live from the Barbican, presented by Andrew McGregor. Emanuel Ax (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin (conductor) Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor Tonight's performance continues after Twenty Minutes.
     Aldeburgh Festival20040625 Britten Sinfonia/Thomas Ades
    The Artistic Director of the 2004 Aldeburgh Festival, Thomas Ades, directs the Britten Sinfonia in a concert from the Snape Maltings, featuring an all ENGLISH programme of music. The concert is introduced by Humphrey Burton.
    Tippett: Corelli Fantasia
    Holst: Lovely Venus; David's Lament for Jonathan; The Fields of Sorrow
    Birtwhistle: The Fields of Sorrow
    Britten: Suite on ENGLISH Folk Songs: "A Time There Was."
    Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi
    Isabelle van Keulen (viola)
    Britten-Pears Chamber Choir
    Britten Sinfonia
    Thomas Ades (conductor).
     City Of London Festival20040627 Fiona Talkington introduces a concert, recorded last week in St Paul's Cathedral, which gives a cross-section of some of John Tavener's choral music across thirty years, from his tiny miniature The Lamb, loved by choirs the world over, to the gargantuan Ultimos Ritos, a piece which thrillingly exploits the vast spaces of St Paul's.
    John Tavener: Hymn to the Mother of God
    John Tavener: Hymn for the Dormition of the Mother of God
    John Tavener: The Lamb
    John Tavener: Song for Athene
    John Tavener: Ultimos ritos
    BBC Singers
    City of LONDON Sinfonia
    Patricia Rosario (soprano)
    Richard Hickox (conductor).
     A Gala Concert Celebrating The Music Of leonard Bernstein By Kim Criswell (soprano), Jean Yves-thiba20040715 udet (piano), Maida Vale Singers and the LSO conducted by Marin Alsop.
     Edinburgh International Festtival 200420040912 In the opening concert of this year's festival the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, EDINBURGH Festival Chorus and conductor Kwame Ryan are joined by an exciting line-up of solo singers and a cast of French actors for a rare performance of Honegger's oratorio about Joan of Arc setting a text by Paul Claudel.
    Honegger: Jeanne d'Arc au bucher
    Joan of Arc....Jeanne Balibar
    Brother Dominic....Phillipe Girard
    Marguerite....Lisa Milne
    The Virgin....Sarah Fox
    Catherine....Jane Irwin
    Porcus/1st Herald/Clerk....Paul Agnew
    2nd Herald/Peasant....Tim Mirfin
    Members of the Centre Dramatique National/Orleans-Loiret-CentreEDINBURGH Festival Chorus, chorus-master David Jones
    RSNO Junior Chorus, chorus-master Christopher Bell
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Kwame Ryan (conductor).
     Edinburgh International Festival 200420040913 Recorded last month in the Usher Hall, Christopher Cook presents Weber's German Romantic masterpiece of magic in the forest, Weber Der Freischutz.
    Agathe....Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano)
    Annchen....Ailish Tynan (soprano)
    Max....Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
    Kaspar John Relyea (bass)
    Ottokar Christopher Maltman (baritone)
    Kilian Ronan Collett (baritone)
    Hermit Matthew Rose (bass)
    Samiel Siegfried Vogel (bass)
    Philharmonia Chorus (Robert Dean, chorusmaster)
    Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor).
     Edinburgh International Festival 200420040914 Northern Sinfonia
    The Northern Sinfonia and the British chamber orchestra, conducted by Thomas Zehetmair perform works by Carl Maria von Weber.
    Abu Hassan - singspiel in 1 act, Overture
    Konzertstuck for piano and orchestra, Op 79 in F minor
    The Northern Sinfonia and the British chamber orchestra,
    Thomas Zehetmair (conductor)
    Dejan Lazic (piano)
    Grand duo concertant for clarinet and piano, Op 48
    Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet)
    Quintet, Op 34 in B flat major arr. for clarinet and chamber orchestra
    Concertino for horn and orchestra, Op 45 in E minor
    David Pyatt (horn)
    Symphony No 1, J 50, Op 19 in C major.
     Edinburgh International Festival 200420040915 Oberon
    Christopher Cook presents a concert performance of Weber's opera Oberon from the EDINBURGH International Festival.
    Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon, opera in 3 acts
    Scottish Opera OrchestraBRITISH Symphony Orchestra
    Richard Armstrong (conductor)
    Elizabeth Whitehouse (soprano)
    Jane Irwin (mezzo-soprano)
    Anna Burford (mezzo-soprano)
    Barry Banks (tenor)
    Garry Magee (baritone).
     Edinburgh International Festival 200420040916 Sandy Burnett introduces a two-piano recital which includes an early version of a Brahms work which later became the Piano Quintet. Recorded at the Queen's Hall, EDINBURGH on 3rd September.
    Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
    Phillip Moore (piano)
    Mozart: Sonata for 2 Pianos in D, K448
    Debussy: En Blanc et Noir for Two Pianos
    Debussy: Lindaraja
    Brahms: Sonata for 2 Pianos in F Minor, Op 34/b.
     Edinburgh International Festival20040920 In the first of two recitals given at the Queen's Hall as part of this year's EDINBURGH International Festival Steven Osborne performs all of Tippett's piano sonatas together with the music of Beethoven.
    Presented by Sandy Burnett.
    Tippett: Sonata No 1
    Beethoven: Sonata in D, Op, 10 No 3
    Tippett: Sonata No 2
    Beethoven: Sonata in C Op 53 'Waldstein'
    Steven Osborne (piano).
     Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20040921 A Bartok triple bill from this year's EDINBURGH International Festival. Presented by Christopher Cook.
    Bartok: Divertimento for strings
    Bartok: Piano Concerto No 3
    Steven Osborne (piano)
    Bartok: Duke Bluebeard's Castle
    Judith....Petra Lang (mezzo soprano)
    Duke Bluebeard....John Relyea (bass)
    Ilan Volkov (conductor).
     Edinburgh International Festival20040922 In the second of two recitals given at the Queen's Hall as part of this year's EDINBURGH International Festival Steven Osborne plays all of Tippett's piano sonatas together with music by Beethoven. Presented by Sandy Burnett.
    Beethoven: Sonata in Em, Op 90
    Tippett: Sonata No 3
    Beethoven: Bagatelles, Op 126
    Tippett: Sonata No 4
    Steven Osborne (piano).
     Edinburgh International Festival 200420040923 The American Auryn Quartet present two classic works from the chamber music repertoire in a concert given at the Queen's Hall as part of the EDINBURGH International Festival. Presented by Sandy Burnett.
    Schumann: String Quartet in A, Op 41 No 3
    Beethoven: String Quartet, Op 131 in C sharp m
    Auryn Quartet.
     Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra20040924 Sarah Walker presents the opening concert of a six week festival celebrating the richness of orchestral music-making in partnership with the Association of British Orchestras and Making Music. Looking to a bright musical future, a vibrant orchestra of young players at the threshold of their professional careers presents a colourful and dramatic all-Russian programme.
    Recorded at St John's Smith Square, LONDON
    Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
    Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
    Angellica Bell and Adrian Dickson (narrators)
    Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 (Pathetique)
    James Blair (conductor).
     Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra20040928 Continuing this evening's performance by the BBC SSO with the National Youth Choir of SCOTLAND.
    Ilan Volkov (conductor)
    Nicholas Hodges (piano)
    Rudi de Groote (cello)
    Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)
    National Youth Choir of SCOTLAND
    Claude Debussy: La Damoiselle elue - poeme lyrique for soprano, female chorus and orchestra ; Gigues (1st movement of "Images"); Iberia (2nd movement of "Images"); Rondes de printemps (3rd movement of "Images").
     Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2.20041007  
     Stravinsky - The Rite Of Spring.20041008  
      20041012 The RSNO/Lazarev play Wood's Listen Up Fanfare, MacMillan's Confession of Isobel Gowdie, Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Katarina Karneus, mezzo) and Shostakovich's Symphony No 12.
     Live From The Barbican Hall, The London Symphony Orchestra/pierre Boulez Conclude Tonight's Performa20041013 nce with Mahler's Symphony No 7.
    LONDON Symphony Orchestra/Pierre Boulez
    Live from the Barbican Hall, LONDON.
    The French composer and conductor joins the LONDON Symphony Orchestra for a concert that spans both the twentieth century and the potential of the orchestra. Boulez's own Dérive 2 uses a colourful ensemble of only eleven instruments, while the Seventh Symphony by another great composer and conductor, Gustav Mahler, uses just about every instrument you can think of (and lots of them) - including a guitar!
    Continues at 8.10pm, after Twenty Minutes.
    Boulez: Dérive 2LONDON Symphony Orchestra
    Pierre Boulez (conductor).
     London Symphony Orchestra/pierre Boulez20041013 Live from the Barbican Hall, the LONDON Symphony Orchestra/Pierre Boulez conclude tonight's performance with Mahler's Symphony No 7.
    LONDON Symphony Orchestra/Pierre Boulez
    Live from the Barbican Hall, LONDON.
    The French composer and conductor joins the LONDON Symphony Orchestra for a concert that spans both the twentieth century and the potential of the orchestra. Boulez's own Dérive 2 uses a colourful ensemble of only eleven instruments, while the Seventh Symphony by another great composer and conductor, Gustav Mahler, uses just about every instrument you can think of (and lots of them) - including a guitar!
    Continues at 8.10pm, after Twenty Minutes.
    Boulez: Dérive 2LONDON Symphony Orchestra
    Pierre Boulez (conductor).
     English Chamber Orchestra20041020 Sandy Burnett introduces a concert given earlier this month from LONDON's newest concert venue - the Cadogan Hall. The well-loved works on the programme call for several different instrumental combinations as well as accomplished soloists, one of the foremost qualities of the ECO.
    Bach: Brandenburg Concerto Nos 5 and 3; Concerto for Violin and Oboe
    Vivaldi:The Four Seasons
    Robert Aldwinckle (harpsichord)
    John Anderson (oboe)
    William Bennett, Kate Hill (flute)
    Andrew Crowley (trumpet)
    Stephanie Gonley (director & violin).
     Academy Of Ancient Music20041021 Founded over thirty years ago the Academy of Ancient Music is one of this country's leading exponents of historically informed performance practice. Louise Fryer presents this all Bach concert, directed from the harpsichord
    by the distinguished Japanese musician and Bach expert Masaaki Suzuki, founder of the Bach Collegium in Japan,
    and here making his UK debut.
    Live from St John's Smith Square, LONDON.
    Continues at 8.30pm, after Tweny Minnutes.
    Bach: Suite No 1 in C, BWV1066; Cantata No 54: Widerstehe doch der Sunde, BWV54
    Pascal Bertin (countertenor)
    Masaaki Suzuki (director & harpsichord).
    The Academy of Ancient Music conclude tonight's performance with Bach's Harpsichord Concerto in D, BWV1054, and Cantata No 35 'Geist und Seele wird verwirret'.
    Academy of Ancient Music
     The Academy Of Ancient Music Conclude Tonight's Performance With Bach's Harpsichord Concerto In D, B20041021 Founded over thirty years ago the Academy of Ancient Music is one of this country's leading exponents of historically informed performance practice. Louise Fryer presents this all Bach concert, directed from the harpsichord
    by the distinguished Japanese musician and Bach expert Masaaki Suzuki, founder of the Bach Collegium in Japan,
    and here making his UK debut.
    Live from St John's Smith Square, LONDON.
    Continues at 8.30pm, after Tweny Minnutes.
    Bach: Suite No 1 in C, BWV1066; Cantata No 54: Widerstehe doch der Sunde, BWV54
    Pascal Bertin (countertenor)
    Masaaki Suzuki (director & harpsichord).
    The Academy of Ancient Music conclude tonight's performance with Bach's Harpsichord Concerto in D, BWV1054, and Cantata No 35 'Geist und Seele wird verwirret'.
    Academy of Ancient Music
     Presented By Tommy Pearson. London Mozart Players/andrew Parrott Conclude Tonight's Performance With20041026 Schubert's Grand Duo in C, D812.
     Live From The Barbican. The Bbc Symphony Orchestra/jukka-pekka Saraste Conclude Tonight's Concert Wi20041028 th Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4.
     The Philharmonic Orchestra Feature The Music Of French Composer Hector Berlioz In This Concert, Part20041102 of the celebrations to mark the centenary of the Entente Cordiale. Recorded last month at the Royal Festival Hall and presented by Christopher Cook.
    Berlioz: Overture: Beatrice et Benedict
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4
    Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Charles Dutoit (conductor)
    Yefim Bronfman (piano).
     A Live Performance From St John's, Smith Square. The London Chamber Orchestra/christopher Warren-gre20041103 en conclude tonight's concert with Beethoven's Symphony No 7.
     Soloists, The Bbc National Chorus Of Wales, Cor Caerdydd, And The Bbc Now/richard Hickox Conclude To20041104 night's concert.
    Beethoven: Symphony No 9 (Choral)
    Sally Matthews (soprano)
    Catherine Wyn Rogers (mezzo-soprano)
    Rhys Meirion (tenor)
    Neal Davies (bass)
    BBC National Chorus of Wales
    Côr Caerdydd (choir - "Cardiff Choir")
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Richard Hickox (conductor).
     Geoffrey Skidmore Conducts His Own Choir, Ex Cathedra, And The City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra20041107 in this concert recorded during the 2004 Lichfield Festival.
    Reflecting the diversity of the festival, the repertoire include Handel's uplifting anthem Zadok the Priest, Bach's sublime Magnificat, and a Bachian tribute by Knut Nystedt. The concert ends with the premiere of Peter Sculthorpe's Requiem for chorus, orchestra and didgeridoo. Introduced by Warwick Thompson.
    Handel: Zadok the Priest
    Nystedt: Immortal Bach
    JS Bach: Magnificat
    Sculthorpe: Requiem
    City of BIRMINGHAM Symphony Orchestra
    Ex Cathedra
    William Barton (didgeridoo)
    Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor).
     The Nash Ensemble20041115 Christopher Cook presents a concert given by the Nash Ensemble at Wigmore Hall last month. The programme includes the world premiere performance of Mark-Anthony Turnage's 2 Baudelaire Songs, commissioned by the Nash Ensemble and sung by soprano Sally Matthews. Presented by Christopher Cook
    Lionel Friend (conductor)
    Sally Matthews (soprano)
    Turnage: Two Baudelaire Songs for soprano and ensemble
    Britten: Sinfonietta, Op 1
    Mozart: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, K478
    Debussy, arr Walter: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
    Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, D667, 'The Trout'.
     A Concert At London's Wigmore Hall Featuring The Vienna Sextet. Presented By Stepanie Hughes.20041116 Brahms: String Sextet in G, Op 36
    Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op 4.
     The Royal Concert 200420041117 Tommy Pearson presents the Musicians Benevolent Fund's annual Royal Concert from Symphony Hall BIRMINGHAM, given by the CBSO conducted by Sir Charles MacKerras.
    Ravel: La Valse
    Ravel: Sheherazade
    CBSO
    Joan Rogers (soprano)
    Sir Charels MacKerras (conductor)
    Continues at 8.40pm after Twenty Minutes.
    The Royal Concert 2004
    Tommy Pearson presents further coverage of the Musicians Benevolent Fund's annual Royal Concert from Symphony Hall BIRMINGHAM, given by the CBSO conducted by Sir Charles MacKerras.
    Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
     A Piano Recital Exploring The Viennese Connections Which Link Beethoven, Brahms And Schoenberg. Give20041118 n by the young French pianist, Cédric Tiberghien at LONDON's Wigmore Hall last month.
    Presented by Piers Burton-Page.
    Schoenberg: Drei Klavierstücke, Op 11
    Brahms: 4 Ballades Op 10
    Beethoven: Piano Variations in F, Op 34 & Op 35 in E flat "The Eroica Variations".
     Verity Sharp Introduces A Concert Recorded Earlier This Year At London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. Piani20041119 st Mitsuko Uchida is joined by past and present members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists Scheme in a programme that includes Schubert's The Shepherd on the Rock, and Schumann's great Piano Quintet.
    Schubert: The Shepherd on the Rock
    Schumann: Myrthen, Op 25 Nos 1 (Widmung) & 3 (Der Nussbaum); Op 90 Nos 2 (Meine Rose) & 7 (Requiem)
    Hillberg: Peacock Tales
    Hogberg: Invisible Duet
    Mozart: Rondo in Am, K511
    Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44
    Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
    Emma Bell (soprano)
    Jonathan Biss (piano)
    Martin Frost (clarinet)
    Jerusalem Quartet.
     Bbc Symphony Orchestra20041123 Live from the Barbican Centre, LONDON
    John Adams, the BBCSO's Artist in Association, conducts his modern classic Harmonium, a setting of words by John Donne and Emily Dickinson for large chorus and orchestra. And the young Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto plays the earlier and less well-known of Bartok's two violin concertos. Presented by Paul Guinery.
    Continues at 8.35pm, after Twenty Minutes.
    Stravinsky: The Song of the NIGHTINGALE
    Bartok: Violin Concerto no.1
    Pekka Kuusisto (violin)#
    John Adams (conductor).
    Presented by Paul Guinery, live from the Barbican. BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra/John Adams play Ives's Symphony No 4 - fugue, and Adams's Harmonium.
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
     Presented By Paul Guinery, Live From The Barbican. Bbc Symphony Chorus, Bbc Symphony Orchestra/john20041123 Live from the Barbican Centre, LONDON
    John Adams, the BBCSO's Artist in Association, conducts his modern classic Harmonium, a setting of words by John Donne and Emily Dickinson for large chorus and orchestra. And the young Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto plays the earlier and less well-known of Bartok's two violin concertos. Presented by Paul Guinery.
    Continues at 8.35pm, after Twenty Minutes.
    Stravinsky: The Song of the NIGHTINGALE
    Bartok: Violin Concerto no.1
    Pekka Kuusisto (violin)#
    John Adams (conductor).
    Presented by Paul Guinery, live from the Barbican. BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra/John Adams play Ives's Symphony No 4 - fugue, and Adams's Harmonium.
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
     London Jazz Festival: Dizzy Gillespie Alumni Big Band20041124 Alyn Shipton introduces a concert by a big band co-led by trumpeter Jon Faddis and bassist John Lee, celebrating the music and spirit of the great trumpeter and bebop innovator Dizzy Gillespie, who died in 1993. The stellar line-up includes trombonist Slide Hampton, and saxophonists Jimmy Heath, James Moody and Frank Wess. Recorded at the Barbican in LONDON earlier this month.
     London Symphony Orchestra20041126 Tommy Pearson presents a concert from the LONDON Symphony Orchestra's 100th birthday season at LONDON's Barbican Hall. An old friend of the orchestra - their former principal conductor Michael Tilson Thomas - brings a programme full of RUSSIAn favourites.
    Tchaikovsky: Festival Coronation March; Violin Concerto
    Prokofiev: Suite from the ballet Romeo and Juliet
    Joshua Bell (violin)
    Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor).
     Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra20041129 Principal conductor of the Bournemouth SO Marin Alsop performs two works by her former teacher and mentor Leonard Bernstein and talks to Verity Sharp about his music and the an behind it.
    Recorded at The Lighthouse, Poole.
    Bernstein: Divertimento for Orchestra; Serenade
    Tchaikovsky; Symphony No 5 in Em
    Philippe Quint (violin)
    Marin Alsop (conductor).
     Highlights From The Recent London Jazz Festival. There'll Be Eclectic Acoustic Covers From The Doyen20041201 ne of solo piano Brad Mehldau, big band sounds from British jazz pioneer Graham Collier and his Celebration band, the award winning saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and rising star vocalist Gwyneth Herbert.
    Presented by Jez Nelson 
     A Concert Given Last Month By The Nash Ensemble At London's Wigmore Hall That Included The London Pr20041202 emiere of Seven Skies of Winter by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, alongside Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Wind, K452, and Schubert's masterly Octet.
    Maxwell Davies: Seven Skies of Winter
    Mozart: Quintet in E flat for piano and wind, K452
    Schubert: Octet in F, D803.
     Bbc Symphony Orchestra At The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester20041203 Some of the great paintings by Turner were the inspiration for Thea Musgrave's new work, a concerto for orchestra - 'Sunrise with Sea Monsters', 'The Shipwreck' and 'Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps' among them. And the walk around the gallery continues with Mussorgsky's 1874 promenade around the paintings of Viktor Hartmann. Presented by Chris de Souza.
    Thea Musgrave: Turbulent Landscapes
    Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
    Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
    Mussorgsky (orch Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    David Zinman (conductor).
     William Primrose Centenary Viola Festival20041205 Born in GLASGOW in 1904, Primrose was one of the world's greatest viola holders and commissioners of new music for his instrument. Tonight, Performance on 3 marks the start of a festival from GLASGOW which celebrates Primrose's art and legacy.
    Presented by Sandy Burnett and recorded in Studio One, BBC SCOTLAND.
    Walton: Viola Concerto
    Lars Anders Tomter (viola)
    Dvorak: Symphonic Variations
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
     William Primrose Centenary Viola Festival20041206 From Academy Hall at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in GLASGOW.
    Presented by Sandy Burnett.
    David Dorward: Viola Concerto (First performance)
    Philip Dukes (viola)
    Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi
    Scott Dickinson (viola)
    RSAMD Chamber Choir
    Bartok: Viola Concerto (Op posth)
    Nobuko Imai (viola)
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
     Chamber Performance On 320041207 In a concert given at Wigmore Hall on Friday, Steven Osborne performs Messiaen's monumental piano cycle depicting comtemplations of the baby Jesus through the eyes of different people, and the standpoint of different situations throughout his life.
    Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jesus
    Steven Osborne (piano).
     Richard Hickox Brings Musicians, Cast And Chorus Before A Live Jury At St David's Hall, Cardiff, For20041209 Gilbert and Sullivan's uproarious courtroom drama. Sarah Walker introduces an evocative evening of music, including Debussy's mysterious Nocturnes and Vaughan Williams's seasonal Fantasia on CHRISTMAS Carols.
    Contnues at 8.10pm, after Twenty minutes.
    Humperdinck: Overture to Hansel and Gretel
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Richard Hickox (conductor)
    Debussy: Nocturnes for orchestra
    Chamber Chorus of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
    Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on CHRISTMAS Carols for Baritone, Chorus and Orchestra
    Donald Maxwell
    Tonight's performance concludess with Gilbert and Sullivan's uproarious courtroom drama.
    Gilbert and Sullivan: Trial by Jury - a comic opera in 1 act
    Plaintiff....Rebecca Evans
    Defendent....James Gilchrist
    Counsel....Matthew Brook
    Usher....Neal Davies
    Judge....Donald Maxwell
    BBC National Orchestra of Walesa
    Richard Hickox brings musicians, cast and chorus before a live jury at St David's Hall, Cardiff, for Gilbert and Sullivan's uproarious courtroom drama. Sarah Walker introduces an evocative evening of music, including Debussy's mysterious Nocturnes and Vaughan Williams's seasonal Fantasia on CHRISTMAS Carols.
     Tonight's Performance Concludess With Gilbert And Sullivan's Uproarious Courtroom Drama.20041209 Gilbert and Sullivan's uproarious courtroom drama. Sarah Walker introduces an evocative evening of music, including Debussy's mysterious Nocturnes and Vaughan Williams's seasonal Fantasia on CHRISTMAS Carols.
    Contnues at 8.10pm, after Twenty minutes.
    Humperdinck: Overture to Hansel and Gretel
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Richard Hickox (conductor)
    Debussy: Nocturnes for orchestra
    Chamber Chorus of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
    Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on CHRISTMAS Carols for Baritone, Chorus and Orchestra
    Donald Maxwell
    Tonight's performance concludess with Gilbert and Sullivan's uproarious courtroom drama.
    Gilbert and Sullivan: Trial by Jury - a comic opera in 1 act
    Plaintiff....Rebecca Evans
    Defendent....James Gilchrist
    Counsel....Matthew Brook
    Usher....Neal Davies
    Judge....Donald Maxwell
    BBC National Orchestra of Walesa
    Richard Hickox brings musicians, cast and chorus before a live jury at St David's Hall, Cardiff, for Gilbert and Sullivan's uproarious courtroom drama. Sarah Walker introduces an evocative evening of music, including Debussy's mysterious Nocturnes and Vaughan Williams's seasonal Fantasia on CHRISTMAS Carols.
     Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra20041210 Verity Sharp presents a concert recorded at The Lighthouse, Poole, in which the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra are directed by the Chinese-born conductor Lu Jia in two classical symphonies. Alban Gerhardt joins them in Schumann's anguished cello concerto, one of the last works he wrote before mental illness took hold.
    Mozart: Symphony No 31 (Paris)
    Schumann: Cello Concerto
    Bargiel: Adagio for Cello & Orchestra
    Schubert: Symphony No 4 (Tragic)
    Lu Jia (conductor)
    Alban Gerhardt (cello).
     A Performance By The Bbc Philharmonic Recorded At The Bridgewater Hall In Manchester.20041212 James Macmillan: A Scotch Bestiary for organ and orchestra
    Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (selection)
    BBC Philharmonic
    Wayne Marshall (organ)
    James MacMillan and Gianandrea Noseda (conductors).
     Archive Week20041213 Stephen Johnson presents concerts from the BBC Archives voted for by Radio 3 listeners, featuring some of the great moments of musical broadcasting.
    Joining Stephen in the studio is Anthony Payne to introduce Elgar's captivating fantasy for children of all ages, The Starlight Express, first broadcast in 1965.
    Elgar: The Starlight Express
    The Organ Grinder....Denis Dowling
    Laughter....Audrey Attwood
    Henry Rogers....Patrick Barr
    Daddy....Noel Howlett
    Mother....Noel Hood
    Madame Jequier....Cecile Chevreau
    Jane Anne....Jane Wenham
    Monkey....Elizabeth Proud
    Jimb....Danny Rambler
    A Gardener....Wilfrid Carter
    A Dustman....Bruce Beeby
    A Lamplighter....Brian Hewlett
    A Tramp....John Dearth
    A Sweep....Hector Ross
    The Guard....Patricia Gallimore.
     Archive Week20041214 Stephen Johnson presents concerts from the BBC Archives voted for by Radio 3 listeners, featuring some of the great moments of musical broadcasting.
    Britten was an outstanding Mozart conductor, and in Mozart's last piano concerto he is a superb partner for the great Sviatoslav Richter. Before this is a Haydn performance in which lightness of touch masks deep seriousness and penetrating musical intelligence.
    Haydn: Symphony in Cm, No 95
    Mozart: Piano Concerto in B flat, K595ENGLISH Chamber Orchestra
    Benjamin Britten (conductor)
    Recorded at the Aldeburgh Festival, 16 June 1965.
     Archive Week20041215 Stephen Johnson presents concerts from the BBC Archives voted for by Radio 3 listeners, featuring some of the great moments of musical broadcasting.
    Fine though Clifford Curzon's studio legacy is, his concert performances often had the edge when it came to intensity and creative fire. These performances with the Amadeus Quartet are models of chamber intimacy and subtlety, but with drama and a wonderful breadth of expression and colour.
    Schubert: Quintet in A, D667, The Trout
    Brahms: Quintet in Fm, Op 34
    Amadeus Quartet
    Clifford Curzon (piano)
    Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, LONDON on 17 July 1971 (Schubert) and 17 November 1974 (Brahms).
     Archive Week20041216 Stephen Johnson presents concerts from the BBC Archives voted for by Radio 3 listeners, featuring some of the great moments of musical broadcasting.
    This towering, blisteringly impassioned performance of Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand from 1959 was a turning point in the great post-war Mahler revival. It also confirms Horenstein's reputation as one of the noblest and most sensitive of all Mahler interpreters.
    Mahler: Symphony No 8 in E flatLONDON Symphony Orchestra
    Jascha Horenstein (conductor)
    Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, LONDON, 20 March 1959.
     Archive Week20041217 Stephen Johnson presents concerts from the BBC Archives voted for by Radio 3 listeners, featuring some of the great moments of musical broadcasting.
    Joining Stephen in the studio is Geoffrey Smith to introduce Duke Ellington's legendary Third Sacred Concert, recorded at Westminster Abbey in 1973.
    Works performed include
    My Love
    Is God a Three Letter Word for Love?
    Everyman Prays in His Own Language
    The Beauty Of God
    Ain't Nobody Nowhere Nothin' Without God
    Praise God and Dance
    Duke Ellington Orchestra
    Duke Ellington (piano)
    Alice Babs (vocalist)
    Toney Watkins (vocalist)
    Anita Moore (vocalist)
    The John Alldis Choir
    Roscoe Gill (conductor).
     Bbc Symphony Orchestra At The Barbican20041220 Literature and travel inspired the works in tonight's programme. There are journeys by two British composers: Elgar to Italy, and Payne to the Scilly Isles. Visions and Journeys won the Radio 3 Listeners Awards in the 2003 British Composer Awards. Words by Leon Leclerc and Baudelaire are set by their compatriots - and sung by the great American mezzo, Susan Graham. Presented by Paul Guinery
    Anthony Payne: Visions and Journeys
    Ravel: Shéhérazade
    Debussy (arr Adams): Le Livre de Baudelaire
    Elgar: In the South (Alassio)
    Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor).
     British Composer Awards20041221 The British Composer Awards ceremony took place in LONDON last Friday, hosted by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters in association with BBC Radio 3.
    Ivan Hewett presents your chance to hear the ceremony and the winning compositions: everything from pieces for one or two instruments to choirs, orchestras and operas, via community and education projects - and featuring the Radio 3 Listeners' Award.
     London Symphony Orchestra20041222 The LONDON Symphony Orchestra perform a contrasting pairing of 8th symphonies; the surviving movements of Schubert's Unfinished, and the much revised, expansive 8th symphony of Bruckner. They're conducted by one of today's most distinguished maestros, Lorin Maazel.
    Presented by Sandy Burnett.
    Schubert: Symphony No 8 (Unfinished)
    Bruckner: Symphony No 8.
     Live From The Sage Gateshead. The Much Heralded Arts Centre For The North East Opens Its Doors To Th20041223 e public with a week long programme of events, including The Creation, Haydn's joyful choral and orchestral masterpiece celebrating new beginnings.
    This performance, introduced by Martin Handley, comes from the larger of its two concert halls, the new home of the North east's residence orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia.
    Continues at 8.40pm, after Twenty Minutes.
    Haydn: The Creation
    Rosemary Joshua (soprano)
    Thomas Walker (tenor)
    Michael George (bass-baritone)
    Sinfonia Chorus
    Alan Fearon (chorus master)
    Northern Sinfonia
    Thomas Zehetmair (conductor).
    Thomas Zehetmair conducts the Northern Sinfonia in the concluding part of tonight's live performance of Haydn's Creation at the Sage Gateshead. Presented by Martin Handley.
    Live from the Sage Gateshead. The much heralded arts centre for the North East opens its doors to the public with a week long programme of events, including The Creation, Haydn's joyful choral and orchestral masterpiece celebrating new beginnings.
     Thomas Zehetmair Conducts The Northern Sinfonia In The Concluding Part Of Tonight's Live Performance20041223 e public with a week long programme of events, including The Creation, Haydn's joyful choral and orchestral masterpiece celebrating new beginnings.
    This performance, introduced by Martin Handley, comes from the larger of its two concert halls, the new home of the North east's residence orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia.
    Continues at 8.40pm, after Twenty Minutes.
    Haydn: The Creation
    Rosemary Joshua (soprano)
    Thomas Walker (tenor)
    Michael George (bass-baritone)
    Sinfonia Chorus
    Alan Fearon (chorus master)
    Northern Sinfonia
    Thomas Zehetmair (conductor).
    Thomas Zehetmair conducts the Northern Sinfonia in the concluding part of tonight's live performance of Haydn's Creation at the Sage Gateshead. Presented by Martin Handley.
    Live from the Sage Gateshead. The much heralded arts centre for the North East opens its doors to the public with a week long programme of events, including The Creation, Haydn's joyful choral and orchestral masterpiece celebrating new beginnings.
     Bbc Concert Orchestra - Jule Styne Gala20041227 Singers Kim Criswell, Anna-Jane Casey and Ron Raines join the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Kevin Farrell in an evening's celebration of music by Jule Styne, whose centenary falls next year. There are some familiar favourites such as Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and songs from popular hit shows such as Gypsy, Funny Girl and Peter Pan, as well assome new discoveries lesser known gems.
    Edward Seckerson presents this concert which was recorded at the Hackney Empire in LONDON in September.
     Halle Orchestra20050112 Live from the Bridgewater Hall, MANCHESTER, the orchestra is joined by guest conductor Yakov Kreizberg and pianist Alfredo Perl for an evening of popular classics, beginning with Dvorak's ebullient Carnival Overture, then Beethoven's exuberant Piano Concerto No 1.
    Alfredo Perl (piano)
    Halle Orchestra
    Yakov Kreizberg (conductor)
    Dvorak: Carnival Overture, Op 92
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1 in C, Op 15.
    Tonight's performance live from the Bridgewater Hall, MANCHESTER continues with the Halle Orchestra performing Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4 in Fm, Op 36.
     Tonight's Performance Live From The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Continues With The Halle Orchestra20050112 Live from the Bridgewater Hall, MANCHESTER, the orchestra is joined by guest conductor Yakov Kreizberg and pianist Alfredo Perl for an evening of popular classics, beginning with Dvorak's ebullient Carnival Overture, then Beethoven's exuberant Piano Concerto No 1.
    Alfredo Perl (piano)
    Halle Orchestra
    Yakov Kreizberg (conductor)
    Dvorak: Carnival Overture, Op 92
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1 in C, Op 15.
    Tonight's performance live from the Bridgewater Hall, MANCHESTER continues with the Halle Orchestra performing Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4 in Fm, Op 36.
     Orchestra Of St John's20050113 Tommy Pearson presents a concert in the Encore series, a partnership between BBC Radio 3 and the Royal Philharmonic Society dedicated to re-discovering significant orchestral works by contemporary composers in the UK. Diana Burrell's first major orchestral work receives only its second performance. Landscape describes a primitive urban vista with through an exciting array of traditional and unusual instruments. The programme also includes the LONDON Première of James Macmillan's second symphony and favourite works by Schumann and Ravel.
    Diana Burrell: Landscape
    Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in Am
    James Macmillan: Symphony No 2
    Maurice Ravel: Suite - Mother Goose (Ma Mere l'Oye)
    Orchestra of St John's
    John Lill (piano)
    John Lubbock (conductor).
     Darkness Into Light: The Music Of James Macmillan20050114 Live from the Barbican.
    The BBC Symphony Orchestra's annual January Weekend turns the spotlight on the Scottish composer James MacMillan. Over eight concerts this weekend you can experience orchestral, chamber and choral music of breathtaking power and spiritual intensity. The weekend begins with music for orchestra: an early work bristling with energy, Tryst, followed by a commentary for cor anglais and orchestra on the Easter story in The World's Ransoming. Then massive forces gather for Quickening, celebrating birth and renewal, and complete with celestial off-stage choristers.
    Presented by John Tusa.
    Continues at 8.30pm, after Twenty Minutes.
    MacMillan: Tryst; The World's Ransoming
    Celia Craig (Cor Anglais)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Sir Andrew Davis.
    Darkness into Light: The Music of James MacMillan. The Hilliard Ensemble, Westminster Cathedral Choristers, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/Andrew Davis perform MacMillan's Quickening.
    Darkness into Light: The Music of James MacMillan
     Darkness Into Light: The Music Of James Macmillan. The Hilliard Ensemble, Westminster Cathedral Chor20050114 Live from the Barbican.
    The BBC Symphony Orchestra's annual January Weekend turns the spotlight on the Scottish composer James MacMillan. Over eight concerts this weekend you can experience orchestral, chamber and choral music of breathtaking power and spiritual intensity. The weekend begins with music for orchestra: an early work bristling with energy, Tryst, followed by a commentary for cor anglais and orchestra on the Easter story in The World's Ransoming. Then massive forces gather for Quickening, celebrating birth and renewal, and complete with celestial off-stage choristers.
    Presented by John Tusa.
    Continues at 8.30pm, after Twenty Minutes.
    MacMillan: Tryst; The World's Ransoming
    Celia Craig (Cor Anglais)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Sir Andrew Davis.
    Darkness into Light: The Music of James MacMillan. The Hilliard Ensemble, Westminster Cathedral Choristers, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/Andrew Davis perform MacMillan's Quickening.
    Darkness into Light: The Music of James MacMillan
     Darkness Into Light: The Music Of James Macmillan20050115 An opportunity to hear some of MacMillan's chamber music, often inspired by Gaelic or Scottish folk culture. Hebridean psalm-singing underlies Memento; keening Celtic laments and Highland fiddle music fuse with modernism in Visions of a November Spring; while lamentation and loss are central to the clarinet quintet Tuireadh, written in response to the catastrophic 1988 explosion on the North Sea oil-rig Piper Alpha. BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists perform in the historic church of St. Giles, Cripplegate in the Barbican Centre, LONDON.
    Presented by John Tusa.
    MacMillan: Visions of a November Spring
    Gubaidulina: String Quartet No 3
    MacMillan: Memento
    MacMillan: Tuireadh - Clarinet Quintet
    Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet)
    Royal String Quartet.
    Darkness into Light: The Music of James MacMillan
    Live from the Barbican Hall.
    Tonight the BBC Philharmonic is conducted by its resident Composer/Conductor, James MacMillan. MacMillan burst onto the international music scene in 1990 with The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, inspired by the persecution of 'witches' following the Scottish Reformation. Rising star Daniel Hope is the soloist in the Violin Concerto by MacMillan's teacher John Casken, and the BBC Singers join for orchestral settings of the liturgy. The concert opens with a celebration of Britain's orchestras - full of well-known tunes and high-jinks!
    Continues at 9.10pm, after Twenty Minutes.
    MacMillan: Britannia
    Casken: Violin Concerto*
    Daniel Hope (violin)*
    BBC Philharmonic
    James MacMillan (conductor).
    MacMillanMagnificat & Nunc Dimittis#
    MacMillanThe Confession of Isobel Gowdie
    BBC Singers#
     Macmillanmagnificat & Nunc Dimittis#20050115 An opportunity to hear some of MacMillan's chamber music, often inspired by Gaelic or Scottish folk culture. Hebridean psalm-singing underlies Memento; keening Celtic laments and Highland fiddle music fuse with modernism in Visions of a November Spring; while lamentation and loss are central to the clarinet quintet Tuireadh, written in response to the catastrophic 1988 explosion on the North Sea oil-rig Piper Alpha. BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists perform in the historic church of St. Giles, Cripplegate in the Barbican Centre, LONDON.
    Presented by John Tusa.
    MacMillan: Visions of a November Spring
    Gubaidulina: String Quartet No 3
    MacMillan: Memento
    MacMillan: Tuireadh - Clarinet Quintet
    Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet)
    Royal String Quartet.
    Darkness into Light: The Music of James MacMillan
    Live from the Barbican Hall.
    Tonight the BBC Philharmonic is conducted by its resident Composer/Conductor, James MacMillan. MacMillan burst onto the international music scene in 1990 with The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, inspired by the persecution of 'witches' following the Scottish Reformation. Rising star Daniel Hope is the soloist in the Violin Concerto by MacMillan's teacher John Casken, and the BBC Singers join for orchestral settings of the liturgy. The concert opens with a celebration of Britain's orchestras - full of well-known tunes and high-jinks!
    Continues at 9.10pm, after Twenty Minutes.
    MacMillan: Britannia
    Casken: Violin Concerto*
    Daniel Hope (violin)*
    BBC Philharmonic
    James MacMillan (conductor).
    MacMillanMagnificat & Nunc Dimittis#
    MacMillanThe Confession of Isobel Gowdie
    BBC Singers#
     Darkness Into Light: The Music Of James Macmillan20050116 Live from the Barbican.
    The final event in the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Composer Weekend, with MacMillan himself at the helm.
    There's a powerful work by Birtwistle, one of his musical heroes, contrasting with MacMillan's own evocation of the calm spiritual atmosphere of the island of Iona, where St Columba began his mission to CHRISTIANise SCOTLAND.
    Presented by John Tusa.
    Continues at 9.10pm, after Twenty Minutes.
    MacMillan: I (A Meditation on Iona)
    Birtwistle: Exody
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    James MacMillan (conductor).
    Darkness into Light: The Music of James MacMillan
    The BBC Symphony Orchestra's Composer Weekend ends with James MacMillan's high-octane percussion concerto, Veni, Veni, Emmanuel, which has received well over 300 performances worldwide since its Proms premiere in 1992.
    MacMillan: Veni, Veni, Emmanuel
    Colin Currie (percussion)
    James MacMillan.
     Bbc Philharmonic20050118 A concert celebrating the music of the great Romanian composer George Enescu, recorded last Friday at The Bridgewater Hall, MANCHESTER.
    Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No 1
    Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2
    Enescu: Symphony No 2
    Barry Douglas (piano)
    BBC Philharmonic
    Laurence Foster (conductor).
     Live From The Ulster Hall In Belfast John Toal Presents The First Of The Ulster Orchestra's Brahmsfe20050119 st concert series, which will include all four of Brahms symphonies conducted by Thierry Fischer.
    Brahms: Hungarian Dances 1, 3, 10
    Brahms: Double Concerto
    Brahms: Symphony No 2
    Paul Barritt (violin)
    Emma-Jane Murphy (cello)
    Thierry Fischer (conductor).
     Thierry Fischer Conducts The Ulster Orchestra In The Second Of Three Concerts Devoted To The Music O20050120 f Brahms. Presented by John Toal.
    Brahms: Symphony No 3; Piano Concerto No 1
    Peter Donohoe (piano)
    Thierry Fischer (conductor).
     John Toal Presents The Final Instalment Of The Ulster Orchestra's Brahmsfest Concert Series, Live Fr20050121 om the Ulster Hall in Belfast. The programme features Brahms' first and last symphonies, two undisputed masterpieces of the orchestral repertoire.
    Brahms: Symphony No 1; Symphony No 4
    Continues at 8.55pm, after Twenty Minutes.
    John Toal presents the Ulster Orchestra, conducted by Thierry Fischer, in a performance of Brahms' Symphony No 4, live from Ulster Hall in Belfast.
    John Toal presents the final instalment of the Ulster Orchestra's BrahmsFest concert series, live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast. The programme features Brahms' first and last symphonies, two undisputed masterpieces of the orchestral repertoire.
     John Toal Presents The Ulster Orchestra, Conducted By Thierry Fischer, In A Performance Of Brahms' S20050121 om the Ulster Hall in Belfast. The programme features Brahms' first and last symphonies, two undisputed masterpieces of the orchestral repertoire.
    Brahms: Symphony No 1; Symphony No 4
    Continues at 8.55pm, after Twenty Minutes.
    John Toal presents the Ulster Orchestra, conducted by Thierry Fischer, in a performance of Brahms' Symphony No 4, live from Ulster Hall in Belfast.
    John Toal presents the final instalment of the Ulster Orchestra's BrahmsFest concert series, live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast. The programme features Brahms' first and last symphonies, two undisputed masterpieces of the orchestral repertoire.
     City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra20050123 Tommy Pearson presents a concert from Symphony Hall in BIRMINGHAM in which Sian Edwards conducts the CBSO in a programme of ENGLISH music by Holst and Colin Matthews. Colin Matthews's Fourth Sonata dates from 1976, and was inspired by the composer's interest in minimalism. It is being performed as part of 'Encore' - a project led by Radio 3 and the Royal Philharmonic Society highlighting outstanding British works from the last three decades.
    Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
    C Matthews: Sonata for Orchestra No 4
    Holst: The Planets
    C Matthews: Pluto
    City of BIRMINGHAM Symphony Youth Chorus (Seniors)
    City of BIRMINGHAM Symphony Orchestra
    Sian Edwards (conductor).
     Bbc Concert Orchestra And The Julian Joseph Quartet20050124 An evening of great jazz and jazz-influenced music, recorded last Thursday at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
    Milhaud: La Creation du Monde
    Ellington: The River (excerpts)
    Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks
    Turnage (arr Rundell): An Invention on Solitude
    Joseph: Symphonic Story Part 3 - Jacqueline; Symphonic Story Part 5 - New Work
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    Julian Joseph Quartet -
    Julian Joseph (piano)
    Mark Mondesir (drums)
    Mark Hodgeson (bass)
    Adam Salkeld (guitar)
    Clark Rundell (conductor).
     Jacqueline Du Pré Anniversary Concert20050125 Raphael Wallfisch and John YORK perform the complete works for cello and piano by Beethoven in a concert celebrating the great cellist Jacqueline du Pré, who would have celebrated her 60th birthday tomorrow.
    Presented live from LONDON's Queen Elizabeth Hall by Piers Burton-Page.
    Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
    John YORK (piano)
    12 Variations on "See the conqu'ring hero comes", WoO 45, from Handel's Judas Maccabeus
    Sonata in Gm, Op 5, No 2
    Sonata in Cm, Op 102, No 1
    Sonata in A, Op 69
    Continues at 9.00pm, after the documentary, 'The Bombing of Dresden'.
    Raphael Wallfisch and John YORK continue their performance of Beethoven's works for cello and piano in a concert celebrating the great cellist Jacqueline du Pré.
      20050127 BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican
    John Adams, the BBCSO's artist in association, recalls growing up in a small New ENGLAND town in My Father Knew Charles Ives, and reflects on naivety and self-consciousness in Naïve and Sentimental Music.
    The young Canadian violinist James Ehnes plays Mozart's charming 3rd Violin Concerto, written when he was in his nineteenth year and in the service of the Salzburg church court. Presented by Penny Gore.
    John Adams: My Father Knew Charles Ives
    Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216
    John Adams: Naïve and Sentimental Music
    James Ehnes (violin)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    John Adams (conductor).
      20050128 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    A concert broadcast live from the Music Hall, Aberdeen, conducted by the orchestra's Chief Conductor, Ilan Volkov.
    Presented by Sandy Burnett.
    Continues at 8.25pm, after Twenty Minutes.
    CPE Bach: Symphony, Wq 183/1 in D
    Ravel: Sheherazade
    Ailish Tynan (soprano).
    Sandy Burnett presents a live performance from the Music Hall, Aberdeen. The BBC SSO/Ilan Volkov conclude tonight's concert with Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony.
      20050130 Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) and the BBC Philharmonic/V Sinaisky play Philip Grange's Eclipsing (first performance, BBC commission), Mozart's Piano Concerto No 15 and Mahler's Symphony No 1.
     The 2005 Mozart Birthday Concert20050131 Sarah Walker introduces a concert given yesterday afternoon at LONDON's Queen Elizabeth Hall to mark Mozart's
    birthday, and the 21st year of the Young Concert Artists Trust. Founded in 1984, YCAT's role has been to identify,
    nurture and promote outstanding young soloists and chamber ensembles trained in the UK.
    Mozart: Piano Sonata in Am, K310; Das Veilchen, K476; Als Luise die Briefe, K520; Abendempfindung, K523; Piano Quartet in Gm, K478; Flute Quartet in D, K285; String Quintet in C, K515
    Llyr Williams (piano)
    Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
    Andrew West (piano)
    Emily Beynon (flute)
    Kungsbacka Piano Trio
    Krzysztof Chorkelski (viola)
    Belcea Quartet
    Malin Broman (viola).
      20050201 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Marin Alsop, principal conductor of the BSO begins her mini-series of Stravinsky ballet scores with this concert. She and the orchestra are joined by GREEK violinist Leonidas Kavakos in Korngold's ravishing and romantic concerto, and the programme concludes with Dvorak's expressive and emotional 7th Symphony, first performed in LONDON in 1885. Recorded at The Anvil, Basingstoke. Presented by Verity Sharp.
    Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919)
    Korngold: Violin Concerto in D
    Dvorak: Symphony No 7 in Dm
    Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
    Marin Alsop (conductor).
      20050202 Northern Sinfonia
    Warwick Thompson presents a concert from the Sage Gateshead with soprano Lesley Garrett and the Northern Sinfonia under the baton of guest conductor Nicholas Kraemer. The first part of the concert begins with Mozart - his ebullient overture to Die Zauberflöte, followed by the majestic Exsultate, jubilate. Then the celebrations really begin as the orchestra performs Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks.
    Mozart: Overture to Die Zauberflöte
    Jonathan Dove: (new work) Work in Progress (14 Site visits for piano and orchestra with film)
    Rolf Hind (piano)
    Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate
    Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
    Lesley Garrett
    Nicholas Kraemer (conductor).
      20050203 Northern Sinfonia
    Warwick Thompson presents a live concert from The Sage, Gateshead, where the orchestra in residence, The Northern Sinfonia, perform two gems from the Austrian repertoire. In the first half of the concert, the orchestra's music director Thomas Zehetmair will conduct Schoenberg's visionary Chamber Symphony No.1, and in the second half, Schubert's 9th Symphony in C.
    Continues at 8.15pm, after Twenty Minutes.
    Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No 1
    Thomas Zehetmair (conductor).
    Warwick Thompson presents the second part of a live concert from The Sage, Gateshead. Northern Sinfonia/Thomas Zehetmair play Schubert's Symphony No 9 (Great).
      20050204 BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Live at the Barbican
    Oliver Knussen conducts music by some of his great heroes and friends. His teacher Gunther Schuller celebrates his 80th birthday this year; 2005 is the centenary of Michael Tippett's birth; and Elliott Carter is still composing at the age of 96. Carter's recent witty little concert-opener Micomicon was inspired by an episode from Cervantes' Don Quixote - which in turn inspired Richard Strauss back in 1897.
    Presented by Christopher Cook.
    Continues at 8.25pm, after Twenty Minutes.
    Tippett: Praeludium
    Gunther Schuller: 7 Studies on themes of Paul Klee
    Paul Watkins (cello)
    Norbert Blume (viola)
    Oliver Knussen (conductor).
    Live from the Barbican. Paul Watkins (cello), Norbert Blume (viola) and the BBC SO/Oliver Knussen play Elliott Carter's Micomicon (UK Premiere) and Richard Strauss's Don Quixote 
      20050206 Louise Fryer introduces a concert given last Friday at St David's Hall, Cardiff. The centenary of Sir Michael Tippett's birth is celebrated with his virtuoso Triple Concerto, tackled by members of the Chilingirian Quartet, and orchestral showpieces by Chabrier and Walton pave the way for Manuel de Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat, a ballet so iconic even Picasso got involved in its first staging.
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    David Atherton (conductor)
    Levon Chilingirian (violin)
    Susie Mészáros (viola)
    Philip de Groote (cello)
    Walton: Partita
    Tippett: Triple concerto
    Chabrier: Espana
    de Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat (concert version).
      20050207 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Verity Sharp presents a concert recorded at The Guildhall, Portsmouth
    Stephen Kovacevich joins the BSO in two of Bach's harpsichord concertos, played here on the piano, alongside two classics of the orchestral repertoire, Beethoven's revolutionary first symphony and Elgar's enigmatic musical portrait
    of some of his friends.
    Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C
    Bach: Concerto No 1 in Dm, BWV 1052
    Bach: Concerto No 5 in Fm, BWV 1056
    Elgar: Enigma Variations
    Marin Alsop (conductor)
    Stephen Kovacevich (piano).
     A Leipzig Soiree20050208 In the 1830s Mendelssohn started a celebrated series of chamber concerts in Leipzig. Soloists from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment recreate the programme from one of these soirees ending with Mendelssohn's own Octet. Sandy Burnett presents this concert recorded at LONDON's Queen Elizabeth Hall.
    Niels W Gade: Sextet in E flat
    Ludwig Van Beethoven: Cello Sonata No 3 in A, Op 69
    Felix Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat, Op 20
    Soloists of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    David Watkin (cello)
    Howard Moody (fortepiano)
    Elizabeth Wallfisch (director/violin).
     Rncm Festival Of Brass20050209 Petroc Trelawny introduces an evening of music for brass band live from MANCHESTER.
    The performances were recorded last month at the Royal Northern College of Music Festival of Brass, which celebrated the Tippett Centenary and the forthcoming birthdays of two leading figures in banding, Edward Gregson (60) and Elgar Howarth (70).
    The music includes the premieres of a suite of Birthday Variations composed to mark the Tippett Centenary by Tovey, Gregson, Howarth, Michael Ball and Philip Wilby; and of Howarth's new Tenor Horn Concerto.
    There are also performances of
    Gregson: Dances and Arias; An Age of Kings
    Howarth: In Memoriam RK
    Five folk songs with Susan Bickley (mezzo soprano)
    Henze: Ragtimes and Habaneras
    Tippett: Festal Brass with Blues
    Elgar: A Severn Suite
    McCabe: Cloudcatcher Fells
    The bands are
    The Black Dyke Band
    Brighouse and Rastrick Band
    Buy As You View Band
    Fodens [Richardson] Band
    Grimethorpe [UK Coal] Band
    International Staff Band of the Salvation Army
    RNCM Brass Band.
      20050210 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Recorded at The Lighthouse, Poole.
    Yan Pascal Tortelier is guest conductor of the BSO in this concert of just two large works, ending with Shostakovich's five-movement 8th Symphony written in 1943, shortly after the composer had moved to Moscow after the siege of Leningrad.
    Presented by Verity Sharp.
    Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3 in Dm
    Shoatakovich: Symphony No 8 in Cm
    Nelson Goerner (piano)
    Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor).
      20050211 BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Live from the Barbican.
    Rachmaninov's glorious First Symphony and Prokofiev's sparkling Third Piano Concerto - played by rising star Simon Trpceski - are complimented by the world premiere of a BBC commission by a young British composer. BERLIN-based Richard Barrett seeks to address through his music some of the most important political and ethical questions at the heart of modern society through his music.
    Continues at 8.50pm, after Twenty Minutes.
    Richard Barrett: NO (Resistance and Vision, Part 1) (BBC Commission, World Premiere)
    Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3.
    Live from the Barbican. The BBC Symphony Orchestra/Tadaaki Otaka conclude tonight's concert with Rachmaninov's Symphony No 1 (Original Version).
      20050213 Sarah Walker presents a whistlestop musical tour of the countries which joined the EU in 2004: the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.
      20050214 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert celebrating the creative work of Benjamin Britten, given in the library of his former home, The Red House, Aldeburgh. Performed by musicians who have a particular association with Britten and Aldeburgh, the programme includes musical tributes to Henry Purcell, some of his rare settings of foreign texts and his first and last works for string quartet.
    Purcell (ed Britten): Chacony in Gm
    Britten: String Quartet in F (1928)
    Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op 22
    Purcell (arr Britten): A Morning Hymn; Music for a While; Evening Hymn
    Britten: Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente, Op 61
    String Quartet No 3, Op 94
    The Brodsky Quartet
    Mark Padmore (tenor)
    Malcolm Martineau (piano).
      20050215 Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    Recorded last Saturday in the Bridgewater Hall, MANCHESTER.
    Mussorgsky (orch Shostakovich): Prelude to Act 1 (Khovantshchina)
    Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1
    Scriabin: Symphony No 3 (The Divine Poem)
    Sergei Khachatrian (violin)
    BBC Philharmonic
    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).
      20050216 Geoffrey Parsons 10th Anniversary Memorial Concert
    Stephanie Hughes introduces a song recital given a few weeks ago in LONDON's Wigmore Hall to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of the pianist and accompanist Geoffrey Parsons.
    Songs by Haydn, Schubert, Brahms, Mahler, Hahn, Bridge, Quilter, IRELAND and Copland
    Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
    John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
    Thomas Allen (baritone)
    Graham Johnson (piano).
      20050217 Chris de Souza introduces a concert which highlights the City of BIRMINGHAM Symphony Orchestra and its extended family: the City of BIRMINGHAM Symphony Chorus and BIRMINGHAM Contemporary Music Group. Sakari Oramo conducts a programme which includes the most popular of Sibelius' late Symphonies and a joyful classic by the Composer in Association with the orchestra, Julian Anderson.
    Bernstein: Chichester psalms for treble, chorus and orchestra
    Dutilleux: Correspondances (UK premiere)
    Anderson: Khorovod for ensemble
    Sibellius: Symphony No 5, Op 82 in E flat
    Claron McFadden (soprano)BIRMINGHAM Contemporary Music Group
    City of BIRMINGHAM Symphony Chorus
    City of BIRMINGHAM Symphony Orchestra
    Sakari Oramo (conductor).
      20050218Continuesat8.35pm,afterTwentyMinutesSarah Walker introduces Katarina Karneus is the soloist in Ravel's exotic song-cycle and the BBC NOW continues its celebration of Hoddinott at 75. Live from St David's Hall, Cardiff.
    Ravel: Shéhérazade
    Hoddinott: Symphony No 7 for Organ and Orchestra
    Ailish Tynan (mezzo soprano)
    Thomas Trotter (organ)
    Women's voices of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Chamber Choir (chorus)
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Tadaaki Otaka (conductor).
    Tonight's Performance on 3 continues live from St David's Hall, Cardiff. With Ailish Tynan as the soloist in Vaughan Williams' paean to Scott of the Antarctic, Sinfonia antartica (Symphony No 7).
      20050220 BBC RADIO 3 Choir of The Year
    The Semi-Finals
    Petroc Trelawny and Howard Goodall present highlights from the semi-finals of the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year competition.
    Eighteen choirs in three categories - Children's, Youth and Adult - have fought their way from the preliminary stages of this biennial competition to the semi-finals. Now they're battling it out on the stage at the Lowry Centre in SALFORD for six places in the final.
    Taking part are the following choirs
    Childrens
    Lindley Junior School Choir, Huddersfield
    Kinder Junior Singers, Derbyshire
    Grosvenor Grammar School Junior Choir, Belfast
    Methodist College Junior Choir, Belfast
    Inverclyde Schools' Junior Choir, Greenock
    Stoke Brunswick School Choir, Sussex
    Youth
    Hayesfield Girls Choir, Bath
    St Catherine Singers, Herts
    St Patrick's Academy Senior Choir, Dungarnon
    Farnham Youth Choir, Surrey
    Melisma, from St Margaret's School, Exeter
    The Crypt Choir of the King's School, Canterbury
    Adult
    The White Rosettes, LEEDS
    Cantores Novae, SHEFFIELD
    The Oriel Singers, Cirencester
    Schola Cantorum of OXFORD
    Pegasus, LONDON
    Loughside Chamber Choir, Newtonabbey, Northern IRELAND.
      20050221 BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year
    The Final
    Concluding a year of intense competition against some of the best groups in Great Britain, six choirs have made it through to the final. Petroc Trelawny and Catherine Bott have ringside seats at the Lowry Centre, SALFORD. Join them to find out who will win the coveted title of BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year.
      20050222 Sandy Burnett introduces an all-French concert given at LONDON's Wigmore Hall last Saturday by the Nash Ensemble as part of their 40th anniversary season. The programme includes Saint-Saens's extravaganza Carnival of the Animals, written in a matter of days while the composer was on holiday in Austria, and still one of his best-loved works.
    Claude Debussy: Sonata for flute viola and harp
    Emmanuel Chabrier: España-Rapsodie
    Francis Poulenc: Le bal masqué
    Gabriel Fauré: Piano Trio in Dm, Op 120
    Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals
    Nash Ensemble
    Sir Thomas Allen (baritone)
    Eleanor Bron (reciter)
    Ian Brown (piano)
    Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano).
      20050223 The first of three concerts featuring The San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas, who became their Music Director 10 years ago.
    Presented by Geoffrey Smith, who talks to two west coast music critics, Joshua Kosman and Mark Swed, about the orchestra.
    Michael Tilson Thomas: Urban Legend, for contrabassoon, strings and percussion
    Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
    Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
    Steven Braunstein (contrabassoon)
    San Francisco Symphony
    Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor).
      20050227 The second of three concerts featuring The San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas. An all-Bruckner programme presented by Geoffrey Smith.
    Bruckner: Trösterin Musik; Helgoland; Symphony No 7 in E
    Men of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus
    San Francisco Symphony
    Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor).
      20050301Continuesat8.45pm,afterTwentyMinutesSarah Walker celebrates St David's Day with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, live from St David's Hall in the heart of Cardiff. There's a strong Welsh flavour to the proceedings, with Radio 3 New Generation Artist Llyr Williams, music by Alun Hoddinott and William Mathias, and traditional choral power in Walton's jubilant hymn of praise.
    Mathias: Te Deum, Op 85
    Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in Am, K488
    Camilla Roberts (soprano)
    Claire Bradshaw (mezzo-soprano)
    Wynne Evans (tenor)
    Roderick Williams (baritone)
    Llyr Williams (piano)
    BBC National Chorus of Wales (chorus)
    Cardiff Polyphonic Choir (chorus)
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Grant Llewellyn (conductor).
    Concluding tonight's concert live from St David's Hall in Cardiff. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Grant Llewellyn, perform Hoddinott's Dragon Fire, and Walton's Gloria.
    Hoddinott: Dragon Fire
    Walton: Gloria
      20050303 The last of three concerts featuring The San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas. Presented by Geoffrey Smith who talks to two west coast music critics, Joshua Kosman and Mark Swed, about the orchestra.
    Lukas Foss: Phorion (Baroque Variations III)
    Sibelius: Violin Concerto in Dm, Op 47
    Copland: Symphony No 3
    San Francisco Symphony
    Julia Fischer (violin)
    Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor).
      20050304Continuesat8.35pm,afterTwentyMinutesLive from the Ulster Hall in Belfast, John Toal introduces a concert of romantic favourites.
    Former Ulster Orchestra leader Lesley Hatfield returns to Belfast to join conductor Thierry Fischer and the Ulster Orchestra in Bruch's violin concerto. Bruckner's huge Symphony No 4, the Romantic, completes the programme.
    Live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast, Lesley Hatfield and the Ulster Orchestra/Thierry Fischer conclude tonight's concert with Bruckner's Symphony No 4 (Romantic).
      20050307 Christopher Cook introduces an all British concert from Symphony Hall in BIRMINGHAM.
    The CBSO, under the baton of Martyn Brabbins, marks the centenary this year of the birth of Sir Michael Tippett with his most famous and enduring work: A Child of our Time.
    Tippett used terrible contemporary events - the murder and oppression of thousands of German Jews by Hitler in 1938 - as the focus for the work: a spiritual meditation on man's capacity for both evil and good, which continues to resonate today.
    Vaughan Williams' Pastoral Symphony was sketched during his time in the trenches during the First World War, and like Tippett he looks beyond the horrors of wartime to the possibility of a better world.
    Presented by Christopher Cook.
    Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3
    Tippett: A Child of Our Time
    Gweneth-Ann Jeffers (soprano)
    Hilary Summers (mezzo-soprano)
    Daniel Norman (tenor)
    Keel Watson (bass)
    City of BIRMINGHAM Symphony Chorus
    Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
      20050308 Tonight's concert comes from MANCHESTER's Bridgewater Hall, given by the Halle Orchestra, and continues this week featuring music of Sir Michael Tippett.
    The concert juxtaposes Tippett's pictorial Ritual Dances and lyrical Triple Concerto with two overtures by a composer whose influence played a large part throughout Tippett's creative life, Beethoven.
    Presented by Christopher Cook.
    Beethoven: Overture, Leonore No 1
    Tippett: Ritual Dances (Midsummer Marriage)
    Tippett: Triple Concerto
    Beethoven: Leonore No 3
    Mark Elder (conductor)
    Hallé soloists
    Hallé Choir.
      20050309Continuesat8.40pm,afterTwentyMinutesChristopher Cook presents the first of three concerts from the Barbican Hall in LONDON featuring Sir Michael Tippett alongside his greatest musical hero: Beethoven.
    Tonight, Beethoven's revolutionary third symphony follows two pieces of vintage Tippett that cover plenty of other musical history: a rich tribute to the Italian Baroque master Corelli, and a Divertimento that weaves melodies from four centuries of British music around the traditional tune Sellinger's Round.
    Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
    Tippett: Divertimento on Sellinger's Round
    Tippett: Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli
    Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    Joseph Swensen (conductor).
    Christopher Cook presents the second half of tonight's concert, live from the Barbican.
    Beethoven: Symphony No 3 (Eroica)
      20050311 LONDON Symphony Orchestra
    Recorded at the Barbican Centre in LONDON and presented by Christopher Cook.
    Ten years after giving the premiere, the LSO and Colin Davis return to the Barbican to perform Tippett's final orchestral work, The Rose Lake, inspired by his 1990 visit to Senegal. This is coupled with music from much earlier in Tippett's career, his Sonata for 4 Horns, and the concert ends with Beethoven's Symphony no.4.
    Tippett: Sonata for 4 Horns
    Tippett: Rose Lake
    Beethoven: Symphony No 4LONDON Symphony Orchestra
    Sir Colin Davis (conductor).
      20050313 Paul Guinery introduces the BBC Symphony Orchestra performing two works meditating on the theme of loss: Martinu's Sixth Symphony, rooted in the exiled composer's memories of his Czech homeland; and Mozart's Requiem Mass. Conducted by Jiri Belohlavek at the Barbican.
    Martinu: Symphony No 6
    Mozart: Requiem
    Kate Royal (soprano)
    Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
    Robert Murray (tenor)
    Matthew Rose (bass)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).
      20050314 From LEEDS Town Hall, Petroc Trelawny introduces BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Simon Wright, performing Peter Maxwell Davies' Canticum Canticorum (first UK performance) and Haydn's Mass in Dm H XXII 12, Nelson Mass.
    BBC Philharmonic
    Simon Wright (conductor)LEEDS Festival Chorus
    Susannah Glanville (soprano)
    Patricia Bardon (mezzo-soprano)
    Mark Wilde (tenor)
    Roderick Williams (baritone).
      20050315Continuesat8.10pm,afterTwentyMinutesOrchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall. The OAE continue their concert series, A Generous Spirit: Mendelssohn the Musician.
    In a programme celebrating his triple role of composer, conductor and pianist, performing two of his lesser-known works alongside masterpieces by his idols Bach and Mozart. Presented by Louise Fryer.
    Mendelssohn: Sinfonia No 10 in Bm
    Bach: Keyboard Concerto in Dm, BWV 1052
    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Robert Levin (director/fortepiano)
    Richard Lester (director)
    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Continuing the concert live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall. The OAE perform Mozart's Symphony No 38 in D (Prague) and Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No 2 in Dm.
      20050316Continuesat8.35pm,afterTwentyMinutesPetroc Trelawny presents the BBC Philharmonic live from LIVERPOOL Anglican Cathedral, conducted by James MacMillan with the LIVERPOOL Cathedral Occasional Singers and organist Ian Tracey performing James MacMillan's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis and Poulenc's Organ Concerto.
    Petroc Trelawny presents the second part of tonight's concert, live from LIVERPOOL Anglican Cathedral. The BBC Philharmonic conducted by James MacMillan perform Judith Bingham's Chartres.
      20050317 Verity Sharp presents a concert recorded at the Lighthouse, Poole. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by Marin Alsop, performs Graham Fitkin's Piece Metal, written originally for the Royal LIVERPOOL Philharmonic Orchestra in celebration of the re-opening of their concert hall after refurbishment, as well as works by Mozart and Mahler.
    Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20 in Dm
    Mahler: Symphony No 5
    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Paul Lewis (piano)
    Marin Alsop (conductor).
      20050318 Sarah Walker presents a concert recorded at the GLASGOW Royal Concert Hall, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov performing a Shostakovich double bill.
    Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 2
    Gautier Capuçon (cello)
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 8.
      20050320 The Ulster Orchestra conducted by David Porcelijn perform Haydn's Symphony No 87, Wilson's Violin Concerto No 2, Rautavaara's Symphony No 7 and Brahms' Variations on a theme by Haydn.
      20050321 LEEDS Festival Chorus, and BBC Philharmonic conducted by Simon Wright perform Maxwell Davies' Canticum canticorum and Haydn's Mass in Dm, Missa in angustiis (Nelson mass).
    Maxwell Davis, Peter: Canticum Canticorum for SATB solists, chorus and orchestra [2001]
    Haydn: Mass, H 22.11 in Dm, Missa in angustiis (Nelson Mass)
    BBC Philharmonic
    Simon Wright (conductor)LEEDS Festival Chorus
    Susanna Glanville (soprano)
    Louise Poole (mezzo-soprano)
    Mark Wilde (tenor)
    Roderick Williams (baritone).
      20050322Continuesat8.50pm,afterTwentyMinutesLive from the Barbican, the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sylvain Cambreling perform Rameau's Castor et Pollux suite and Messiaen's Reveil des Oiseaux.
    Rameau: Suite Castor et Pollux
    Messiaen: Reveil des Oiseaux
    Roger Muraro (piano)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Sylvain Cambreling (conductor)
    The second part of tonight's concert, live from the Barbican, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sylvain Cambreling performing Messiaen's L'Ascension.
      20050323 Easter At Kings
    In the first on four special concerts from King's College Chapel in Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury conducts The King's College Choir and the Academy of Ancient Music in Bach's mammoth St. John Passion. Presented by Louise Fryer.
      20050324 Easter At King's: Louise Fryer introduces The King's Singers at King's College Chapel, Cambridge. The programme includes Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday.
      20050325Continuesat7.45pm,afterBeliefJS Bach's St Matthew Passion, BWV 244, performed by BBC Singers, the Finchley Children's Music Group and the City of LONDON Sinfonia, live from LONDON's Barbican Hall.
    (Evangelist)....Thomas Randle (tenor)
    (Christus)....Christopher Purves (baritone)
    Rebecca Evans (soprano)
    William Towers (counter-tenor)
    Barry Banks (tenor)
    Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
    BBC Singers
    Finchley Children?s Music Group
    City of LONDON Sinfonia
    Richard Hickox (conductor)
    Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV 244, (sung in German)
    JS Bach?s mighty setting of the gospel account of Christ?s Passion and death is one of the masterpieces of Western music, and is performed here in a concert live from LONDON?s Barbican Hall. Presented by Paul Guinery.
    Continuing tonight's concert of JS Bach's St Matthew Passion, BWV 244, performed by BBC Singers, the Finchley Children's Music Group and the City of LONDON Sinfonia, live from LONDON's Barbican Hall.
    Easter At Kings. Haydn's Seven Last Words from the Cross
    The festival of music for Holy Week from the chapel of King's College Cambridge continues with one of Haydn's most intense chamber works, composed originally for orchestra to accompany the Good Friday meditiations in Cadiz cathedral in 1785.
    The seven descriptive slow movements are preceded by an overture and followed by a dramatic finale, representing the earthquake. In this performance, recorded earlier this evening, the Salomon String Quartet perform the chamber version which Haydn prepared in 1787, with readings from the Gospels by the Dean of King's College,
    Rev Ian Thompson. Presented by Louise Fryer.
      20050327 Easter at Kings
    Louise Fryer presents a concert recorded yesterday in the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, relating the miraculous events of the first Easter morning through the music of JS Bach.
    His Easter Oratorio, which had its origins in a secular cantata of 1725, is preceded by two other festive compositions, the motet Lobet den Herrn and the third Orchestral Suite.
    Diana Gilchrist (soprano)
    Robin Tyson (countertenor)
    Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
    Richard Lloyd Morgan (baritone)
    Choral Scholars of King?s and Clare Colleges
    The Academy of Ancient Music
    Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
    Bach: Motet Lobet den Herrn, BWV230
    Bach: Suite No 3 in D, BWV 1068
    Bach: Easter Oratorio: BWV 249.
      20050328 From MANCHESTER's Bridgewater Hall, The Halle Orchestra begin with Stravinsky's elephantine Circus Polka, under their assistant conductor Andre de Ridder.
    The orchestra are then joined by celebrity percussionists for a rare performance of Erik Satie's extraordinary ballet, Parade.
    Music Director, Mark Elder, then takes the reins for the world première of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Riffs and Refrains, with clarinettist Michael Collins as the soloist.
    The last two pieces in the concert follow a sporting theme - Debussy's tennis love match, Jeux, and excerpts from Shostakovich's exciting football-based ballet, The Golden Age.
    Presented by Louise Fryer 
      20050329 From the Sage, Gateshead, Northern Sinfonia are joined by pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard and conductor Thierry Fischer for a performance of Messaien's profound work, Des canyons aux étoiles.
    (From the Canyons to the Stars) written in 1976 for the UNITED STATES bicentennial. Presented by Sarah Walker.
    Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles
    The Northern Sinfonia
    Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
    Peter Francomb (horn)
    Colin Currie (xylorimba)
    Richard Benjafield (glockenspiel)
    Thierry Fischer (conductor).
     The Emerson String Quartet20050330 The first in a series of two concerts from LONDON's Queen Elizabeth Hall, featuring the Emerson String Quartet performing works by Mendelssohn. Presented by Piers Burton Page.
    Mendelssohn
    Quartet No 1 in E flat, Op 12
    Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 13
    Quartet No 3 in D, Op 44, No 1.
      20050331 The Emerson String Quartet
    The second of two concerts from LONDON's Queen Elizabeth Hall, featuring the Emerson String Quartet performing works by Mendelssohn. Presented by Piers Burton Page.
    Mendelssohn
    Quartet No 4 in Em, Op 44, No 2
    Quartet No 5 in E flat, Op 44, No 3
    Quartet No 6 in Fm, Op 80
    Andante and Scherzo, Op 81, Nos 1 and 2.
      20050401 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert recorded last month in the Bridgewater Hall, MANCHESTER. The BBC Philharmonic conducted by Vassily Sinaisky perform Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2 and Gliere' Symphony No 3.
      20050403 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert recorded yesterday at the Bridgewater Hall, MANCHESTER.
    The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, the LEEDS Philharmonic Chorus and SHEFFIELD Philharmonic Chorus perform Mahler Symphony No 2 (Resurrection).
    Sally Matthews (soprano)
    Katarina Karneus (mezzo-soprano).
    Passion to Pentecost in the Golden Age
    Louise Fryer introduces a concert from St James Church Piccadilly in LONDON given by the BBC Singers conducted by Peter Phillips, featuring sacred music by some of the giants of 16th-century music for the period from Holy Week to Pentecost.
    Victoria: Surrexit pastor bonus
    Lassus: Surrexit pastor bonus
    Tallis: Lamentations II
    Byrd: Tristitia et anxietas
    Byrd: Victimae paschali
    Victoria: Ardens est cor meum
    Palestrina: Mass and motet Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes
    BBC Singers
    Peter Phillips (conductor).
      20050404 Tommy Pearson presents a concert given by the CBSO conducted by Rumon Gamba in Symphony Hall, BIRMINGHAM, inspired by stories from Scandanavia.
    A new piece by Danish composer Per Norgard based on the fairy tales of Hans CHRISTIAN Andersen is performed alongside Grieg's popular music for Ibsen's Peer Gynt.
    Per Norgard: The Will O?the Wisps Go to Town (World Premiere)
    Grieg: Incidental Music from Peer Gynt (selection)
    Simon Callow (narrator)
    Yvette Bonner (soprano)
    Helen Gjerris (mezzo)
    Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor)
    Schola Cantorum of OXFORD
    City of BIRMINGHAM Symphony Youth Chorus
    City of BIRMINGHAM Symphony Chorus
    Percussionists of the CBSO Youth Orchestra
    Rumon Gamba (conductor).
      20050405 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Martyn Brabbins conducts a concert of Mahler, Britten and Sibelius, recorded last month at the Eden Court Theatre, Inverness. Presented by Linda Ormiston.
    Mahler arr. Britten: What the Wild Flowers Tell Me
    Britten: Les Illuminations
    Janice Watson (soprano)
    Sibelius: Symphony No 1.
      20050407 In the second live visit of the week to the Bridgewater Hall in MANCHESTER, Mark Elder and the Halle Orchestra perform two of the orchestral works which transformed the classical musical landscape - Webern's five masterly exercises in economy and intensity and Beethoven's miraculous re-invention of the symphony. They are joined by Viktoria Mullova for a performance of one of the great romantic violin concertos.
    Viktoria Mullova (violin)
    Halle Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor)
    Bach (orch Webern): Ricercar (The Musical Offering)
    Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, Op 77.
    Tonight's concert continues live from MANCHESTER's Bridgewater Hall, with the Halle Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder performing Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op 10 and Beethoven' Symphony No 5.
      20050408Continuesat8.15pmafterTwentyMinutesChristopher Cook presents the first part of tonight's concert, live from the Barbican with the great American soprano Christine Brewer joining the BBCSO for Strauss's operatic settings of poems by Hoelderlin/Ho"lderlin.
    Richard Strauss: Drei Hymnen
    Christine Brewer (soprano)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Donald Runnicles (conductor)
    Christopher Cook presents the second part of tonight's concert, live from the Barbican with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Donald Runnicles, performing Bruckner's Symphony No 8.
      20050410 Passion to Pentecost in the Golden Age
    Louise Fryer introduces a concert from St James Church Piccadilly in LONDON given by the BBC Singers conducted by Peter Phillips, featuring sacred music by some of the giants of 16th-century music for the period from Holy Week to Pentecost.
    Victoria: Surrexit pastor bonus
    Lassus: Surrexit pastor bonus
    Tallis: Lamentations II
    Byrd: Tristitia et anxietas
    Byrd: Victimae paschali
    Victoria: Ardens est cor meum
    Palestrina: Mass and motet Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes
    BBC Singers
    Peter Phillips (conductor).
      20050411Continuesat8.10pm,afterTwentyMinutesLive from Germany, Louise Fryer visits the Liederhalle in Stuttgart for a concert from the BBC NOWs current tour, including Rossini's Overture to Semiramide and Mozart's Concerto No 27, K595 in B flat
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Richard Hickox (conductor)
    Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
    Rossini: Overture to Semiramide
    Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27, K595 in B flat
    Tonight's Peformance on 3 continues live from the Liederhalle in Stuttgart, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Richard Hickox performing Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances, Op 45.
      20050412Continuesat8.40pmafterTwentyMinutesTonight's Performance on 3 continues live from the Wigmore Hall, with Helmut Lachenmann's Variations on a theme of Schubert and Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales; La Valse.
    Fiona Talkingon presents a recital, live from Wigmore Hall, by the Canadian pianist Louis Lortie. Acclaimed for his performances of a broad spectrum of music, Lortie tonight brings his unique brand of pianism to works by Schubert, Ravel and Lachenmann, alongside virtuosic transcriptions by Liszt.
    Louis Lortie (piano)
    Schubert: Waltzes, D969 Valses nobles (selection); Valses sentimentales, D779 (selection)
    Schubert/Liszt: Soirées de Vienne
    Berlioz/Liszt: Un bal (Symphonie Fantastique)
    Liszt: Valses oubliées, S215 (selection)
    Gounod/Liszt: Waltz from 'Faust'
      20050413Continuesat8.35pm,afterTwentyMinutesTonight's concert continues live from the Lighthouse, Poole with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra performing Debussy's Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune and Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No 2.
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Verity Sharp presents a concert live from the Lighthouse, Poole with Tasmin Little joining the BSO in a programme of music by Stravinsky and Buch.
    Stravinsky: Petrushka
    Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1
    Tasmin Little (violin)
    Marin Alsop (conductor)
      20050414 John Toal presents a concert given by the Ulster Orchestra under its Conductor Laureate Vernon Handley. The sensational French violinist David Grimal performs the richly romantic Violin Concerto by Korngold in a programme that also includes works by Stanford, Britten and Vaughan Williams.
    Stanford: Irish Rhapsody No 4 (The Fisherman of Lough Neagh)
    Korngold: Violin Concerto
    Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
    Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4.
      20050415 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
    James Conlon conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in a programme marking the centenary of Karl Amadeus Hartmann, described by his colleague Hans Werner Henze as 'the most significant German composer of his generation'. Presented by Andrew McGregor
    Schubert: Die Zauberharfe
    Martinu: Memorial to Lidice
    Hartmann: Symphony No 2, 'Adagio'
    Ullmann: Piano Concerto Op 25
    Schubert: Symphony No 4, D417, 'Tragic'
    Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
    James Conlon (conductor).
      20050417 Sarah Walker presents recent performances from around Europe of choral and vocal music from the ENGLAND that Ben Jonson knew. Including songs by William Cornyshe
    and Henry Purcell, plus Jonson's colleague - and near-namesake, Robert Johnson 
      20050418 Warwick Thompson introduces a recital given last month at LONDON's Royal Festival Hall by pianist Mitsuko Uchida. Music by Schubert and Beethoven as well as Boulez's Notations, a set of 12 pieces, each only 12 bars long and exploring a different musical issue.
    Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
    Pierre Boulez: 12 Notations for piano
    Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata in C, D840 Reliquie
    Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Sonata in B flat, Op 106 Hammerklavier.
      20050419 Penny Gore introduces a performance from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, LONDON by the Tokyo String Quartet, formed over 30 years ago and now one of the most celebrated chamber ensembles in the world, contrasting Eastern and Western musical traditions with music by Mozart, Takemitsu and Beethoven.
    Mozart: Quartet in B flat, K589
    Takemitsu: A Way Alone
    Beethoven: Quartet in E flat, Op 127.
      20050420 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Live from GLASGOW Royal Concert Hall, Ilan Volkov conducts Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony. Presented by Sandy Burnett.
    Messiaen Turangalila Symphony
    Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot)
    Howard Shelley (piano)
    Ilan Volkov (conductor).
      20050422Continuesat8.55pm,afterTwentyMinutesJohn Toal presents a live performance of Mendelssohn's Overture, A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the Ulster Orchestra under its Principal Conductor Thierry Fischer, in the Ulster Hall in Belfast.
    Also, internationally renowned Belfast-born pianist Barry Douglas performs Rachmaninov's virtuosic Piano Concerto No 3.
    John Toal presents continued live coverage of the Ulster Orchestra performing Copland's Appalachian Spring and Smetana's From Bohemia's Woods and Fields.
      20050424 Verity Sharp presents a concert from the South Bank Centre's series Max: A Musician of Our Time, with Oliver Knussen conducting the LONDON Sinfonietta in his own selection of Maxwell Davies' pieces. From the medievalism of Antechrist, through the Expressionist angst of Revelation and Fall, to a recent meditation on the Virgin Mary.
    Maxwell Davies: Antechrist; Revelation and Fall; Blind Man's Buff; Assumtione beatae Maria Virginis (UK premiere)LONDON Sinfonietta
    Lucy Shelton, Claire Booth (soprano)
    Oliver Knussen (conductor).
      20050425 As part of the South Bank Centre's major festival celebrating the music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Richard Hickox conducts the City of LONDON Sinfonia in an all-British concert. Penny Gore presents.
    The programme includes a premiere of a piece by Maxwell Davies called A Dance on the Hill which was commissioned by the BBC. The composer calls it "a simple memorial stone" for one of his favourite poets, the Orkney islander George Mackay Brown.
    Britten: Suite, A Time There Was
    Maxwell Davies: A Dance on the Hill
    Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo)
    Tippett: Fantasia on a theme of Corelli
    Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony, No 3
    Lucy Crowe (soprano).
      20050426 Tommy Pearson introduces the final of the MANCHESTER International Violin Competition, recorded last weekend at the Bridgewater Hall. Vassily Sinaisky conducts the BBC Philharmonic.
      20050427 CHRISTIAN Tetzlaff teams up with his regular chamber music partner, the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, in a recital of works for violin and piano given at LONDON's Wigmore hall a few days ago. Presented by John Shea.
    Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 6 in A, Op 30, No 1
    Shostakovich: Violin Sonata, Op 134
    Mozart: Violin Sonata in E flat, K 302
    Grieg: Violin Sonata No 3 in C, Op 45CHRISTIAN Tetzlaff (violin)
    Leif Ove Andsnes (piano).
      20050429Continuesat8.55pm,afterTwentyMinutesPenny Gore presents continued live coverage of the BBCSO live from the Barbican, performing Sergey Rachmaninov's Symphony No 3, Op 44 in Am.
    Andreas Haefliger (piano)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    David Porcelijn (conductor).
    Penny Gore presents the BBCSO live from the Barbican performing the world premiere of Lyell Cresswell's Ara Kopikopiko which is Maori for labyrinth. Followed by Grieg's concerto for piano and orchestra, Op 16 in Am.
    Lyell Cresswell: Ara Kopikopiko
    Greig: Am Piano Concerto
      20050501 Song and Dance
    Ian Skelly presents Pierre Boulez conducting two vibrant scores by Stravinsky, recorded at last Summer's Proms: RUSSIAn Peasant songs based on choruses sung by women as they told fortunes, and the evocative wedding celebrations of Les Noces.
    Stravinsky: Les Noces, four RUSSIAn Peasant Songs (a cappella version)
    Catrin Wyn-Davis (Soprano)
    Hilary Summers (mezzo-soprano)
    Toby Spence (tenor)
    Tigran Martirossian (bass)
    BBC Singers
    Ensemble Intercontemporain
    Pierre Boulez (conductor).
      20050502 Christopher Cook presents the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Mark Elder in a concert recorded last Friday at the Royal Festival Hall, LONDON.
    The concert is part of the South Bank Centre's series entitled, A Generous Spirit: Mendelssohn the Musician. Mendelssohn was not only a great conductor but an untiring champion of the music of his friends and contemporaries.
    The bill includes a performance of two of his best known works, Fingal's Cave and the Italian Symphony. In between these classic pieces is music by composers he knew and admired: Robert Schumann and Niels Gade.
    Mendelssohn: Overture, Fingal's Cave (The Hebrides)
    Gade: Symphony No 6 in Gm
    Schumann: Cello Concerto in Am
    Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A, Italian
    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Steven Isserlis (cello)
    Mark Elder (conductor).
      20050503 Sandy Burnett presents a concert recorded last week in the Music Hall, Aberdeen, including music by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's recently appointed Composer in Association.
    Wagner: Faust Overture
    Schumann: Piano Concerto in Am
    Gianluca Cascioli (piano)
    Jonathan Harvey: Tranquil Abiding
    Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No 2
    Ilan Volkov (conductor).
      20050504 Tommy Pearson presents a concert of late works from Mozart and Bruckner recorded last Saturday in the Bridgewater Hall, MANCHESTER.
    Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
    Bruckner: Symphony No 9
    BBC Philharmonic
    John Bradbury (clarinet)
    Günther Herbig (conductor).
      20050505Continuesat8.55pm,afterTwentyMinutesMartin Handley presents the LONDON Symphony Orchestra with their old friend Michael Tilson Thomas conducting to celebrate their 100th birthday live from the Barbican Hall, LONDON.
    Tilson Thomas: Agnegram, UK Première
    Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 1, Op 10 in D flat
    Martin Handley presents the concluding part of the LONDON Symphony Orchestra's live 100th birthday concert from the Barbican Hall, LONDON
      20050506 Verity Sharp presents the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at the Lighthouse, Poole.
    Copland: Appalachian Spring
    Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
    Beethoven: Symphony No.6 (Pastoral)
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Lukas Vondracek (piano)
    Marin Alsop (conductor).
      20050508 Celebrating Sir Michael Tippett's centenary, Richard Hickox conducts A Child of Our Time, Tippett's wartime oratorio written as an expression of man's inhumanity to man. Recorded in concert last weekend at the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, it's introduced by Warwick Thompson.
    Tippett: A Child of Our Time
    Amanda Roocroft (soprano)
    Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano)
    Philip Langridge (tenor)
    Roderick Williams (bass)
    BBC National Chorus of Wales
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Richard Hickox (conductor).
      20050509Continuesat8.40pmafterTwentyMinutesSandy Burnett presents the concluding part of celebrated Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini's recital of music by Chopin from the Royal Festival Hall, LONDON.
    Chopin 2 Nocturnes, Op 55
    Chopin 2 Nocturnes, Op 62
    Chopin Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Op 35 (Marche Funèbre).
    Sandy Burnett introduces a Chopin recital by the celebrated Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini, given at the Royal Festival Hall, LONDON.
    Chopin: 3 Nocturnes, Op 15
    Ballade No 3 in A flat, Op 47
    2 Nocturnes, Op 48
    Scherzo No 1 in Bm, Op 20
      20050510 Martin Handley presents a concert from The Bridgewater Hall in MANCHESTER.
    Guest conductor Susanna Mälkki takes charge of The Halle Orchestra for a UK première of Colin Matthews' Reflected Images.
    They're then joined by pianist Kathryn Stott for a performance of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G. The concert ends with Berlioz' programmatic Symphonie Fantastique.
      20050511Continuesat8.30pmafterTwentyMinutesA performance of Smetana's Ma Vlast - a unique cycle of six symphonic poems evoking the natural beauty and legendary history of his Czech homeland.
    Traditionally, the poems open the world-famous Prague Spring Festival. In two days' time the LSO and Sir Colin Davis will have the honour of performing them in the Smetana Hall of Prague's Municipal House.
    Recorded last night at the Barbican Hall, LONDON. Presented by Christopher Cook.
    Smetana: Ma Vlast, Vysehrad, Vltava, SarkaLONDON Symphony Orchestra
    Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
    Christopher Cook presents the LSO conducted by Sir Colin Davis performing the concluding part of Smetana's Ma Vlast - a unique cycle of six symphonic poems recorded last night at the Barbican Hall, LONDON.
    Ma Vlast: From Bohemia's Meadows and Forests; Tabor; BlanikLONDON Symphony Orchestra
      20050512 An evening celebrating the RPS Awards, presented in association with BBC Radio 3 and including a special Listeners' Award.
    Many of the world's finest artists gathered last night at the Dorchester Hotel, LONDON, for the ceremony. The 13 prestigious awards honour outstanding achievements by composers, performers and arts organisations which demonstrate the RPS' key values of encouraging creativity, recognising excellence and promoting understanding.
    Sir Andrew Davis and Radio 3's Stephanie Hughes present the awards with a keynote speech by Jude Kelly. Sean Rafferty talks to the musicians and introduces performances of their music.
      20050513 Martin Handley presents a concert from The Bridgewater Hall in MANCHESTER.
    Beginning with Richard Strauss' tone poem Don Juan, The Halle Orchestra under the baton of its artistic director, Mark Elder, are then joined by the Dutch violinist
    Janine Jansen for a performance of Dvorak's Violin Concerto.
    The concert concludes with Sibelius' Symphony No 1.
      20050515 Rumon Gamba conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme of music by Weill, Dean and Rachmaninov, recorded at LONDON's Barbican.
      20050516Continuesat8.35pmafterTwenyMinutesPart 2. Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music 2005
    Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
    Sarah Walker presents the concluding part of a concert of work by Corelli and Handel live from St John's in Smith Square, LONDON.
    George Frideric Handel: Sinfonia in B flat, HWV339
    Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata a Quattro, WoO 4
    George Frideric Handel: Concerto a 5 in B flat, HWV288
    Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto in D major, Op 6 no 7
    Petra Müllejans (violin/director).
    Part 1. Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music 2005
    Live from St John's in Smith Square, LONDON, Sarah Walker presents a concert of work by composers who resided for part of their lives in Rome: Corelli, who's influence as a composer and violinist was unparalleled there, and Handel who's two-year stay in the city was of lifelong importance.
    Arcangelo Corelli: Sinfonia in Dm, WoO 1
    George Frideric Handel: Sonata in Gm, Op 2, No 6, HWV391
    Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata La Follia, Op 5, No 12
    Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto in D, Op 6, No 1
      20050517 Penny Gore presents the American cellist Ralph Kirchbaum and pianist Carole Presland in a concert recorded earlier this month at the Hampstead and Highgate Festival.
    Debussy: Cello Sonata
    Beethoven: Sonata in A, op 69
    David Matthews: Journeying Songs, world premiere
    Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in Dm, Op 40
    Ralph Kirchbaum (cello)
    Carole Presland (piano).
      20050518Continuesat8.40pmafterTwentyMinutesPart 2. Live from Bedford School Hall
    Paul Guinery presents the concluding part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's celebration of its wartime home in Bedford and the regular concerts it gave there at the Corn Exchange and Bedford School.
    Sibelius: Symphony No 3
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor).
    Part 1.
    Live from Bedford School Hall.
    On 30th July 1941 the BBC Symphony Orchestra travelled by special train from its previous wartime billet in BRISTOL to its new temporary home in Bedford. The orchestra was to stay there until the end of the War in 1945, giving regular concerts at the Corn Exchange and Bedford School.
    Sixty years on, the Orchestra makes a welcome return visit. Presented by Paul Guinery.
    Stravinsky: Danses Concertantes
    Britten: Les Illuminations
    Claire Booth (soprano)
      20050519Continuesat8.35pmafterTwentyMinutesPart 2.
    Martin Handley introduces the concluding part of this concert from MANCHESTER's Bridgewater Hall. The Halle Orcherstra, under their artistic director Mark Elder, play Nielsen's Symphony No 4, The Inextinguishable.
    Nielsen: Symphony No 4
    Halle Orchestra
    The Lindsats Quartet
    Mark Elder (conductor).
    Part 1.
    Martin Handley introduces a concert from MANCHESTER's Bridgewater Hall. The Halle Orcherstra, under their artistic director Mark Elder, play two staples of the Scandinavian repertoire. They begin, though, with Wagner's declaration of love, Siegrfried Idyll, before tackling Sibelius' mammoth tone poem, Oceanides.
    The Orchestra is then joined by the Lindsays for the premiere of a new work by MANCHESTER-based composer, John Casken - Rest-ringing for String Quartet and
    Orchestra.
    Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
    Sibelius: The Oceanides
    Casken: New Work; Rest-ringing for String Quartet and Orchestra
      20050520Continuesat8.45pmafterTwentyMinutesSarah Walker introduces the second part of tonight's concert, live from the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea.
    Jac van Steen conducts his first live concert with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales as its Principal Guest Conductor.
    Stravinsky's visceral vision of pagan rites still sounds as fast, furious and dangerous as it must have done when it caused a riot at its premiere in 1913. Plus a favourite romantic concerto with rising star and former Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Janine Jansen. From the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, introduced by Sarah Walker.
    Bartok: Two Pictures Sz46 Op 10
    Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op 35, in D
    Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Jac van Steen (conductor)
    Janine Jansen (violin)
      20050522 BBC Symphony Orchestra From Sweden
    The Swedish cellist Mats Lidström, who lives in LONDON, thinks we Brits don't hear enough Swedish music. And so he conceived the idea of a From Sweden festival.
    Tonight he premieres a new cello concerto by Rolf Martinsson. And Mario Venzago, Principal Conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, introduces a Wagner-inspired overture by Stenhammar, and a symphony by the most influential 20th century composer, Hilding Rosenberg.
    Recorded in the BBC's Maida Vale Studios and presented by Andrew McGregor.
    Willhelm Stenhammar: Excelsior! symphonic overture, Op 13
    Rolf Martinsson: Cello Concerto No 1
    BBC co-commission, world premiere
    Hilding Rosenberg: Symphony No 6, Sinfonia semplice
    Mats Lidström (cello)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Mario Venzago (conductor).
      20050523Continuesat8.10pmafterTwenyMinutesTake Two
    Live from the Chapel of Merton College, OXFORD, Sarah Walker introduces a BBC Singers' concert in which seven contemporary composers present their take on the music of their forebears.
    In part one, there's a performance of John Taverner's Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas in which two new reworkings of the famous mass intersperse his original music.
    John Taverner: Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
    Elspeth Brooke: Gloria/Hallelujah (BBC Commission; first performance)
    Judith Bingham: In Nomine (BBC Commission; first performance)
    BBC Singers
    Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
    Sarah Walker introduces the concluding part of the BBC Singers' concert live from the Chapel of Merton College, OXFORD.
    Five composers transform a range of music from the 13th to the 17th centuries.
    Thea Musgrave: A Medieval Summer (After Sumer Is I'cumen In)
    Bob Chilcott: My prayer (after Purcell)
    John Høybye: The Slow Spring (after Morley)
    Bo Holten: In nomine (after Taverner)
    Steve Martland: Summer Rounds (after Sumer is icumen in)
     Bach Cello Suites20050524 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert recorded earlier this month at LONDON's Wigmore Hall of the complete Bach cello suites played by the acclaimed Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey.
    A pupil of both William Pleeth and Anner Bylsma, Wispelwey is as comfortable on the Baroque cello as on the modern instrument. This is a unique opportunity to hear him undertake something of a marathon, performing the works that are considered by many to be the pinnacle of the cello repertoire.
    Bach: Cello Suite No 1 in G, BWV1007; Cello Suite No 2 in Dm, BWV1008; Cello Suite No 3 in C, BWV1009; Cello Suite No 4 in E flat BWV1010; Cello Suite No 5 in Cm BWV1011; Cello Suite No 6 in D BWV1012.
      20050526Concludesat8.40pmafterTwentyMinutesPart One. BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican
    Two journeys through life from birth to death, as described by two RUSSIAn composers. The concert begins with Shostakovich's final symphony, completed in 1971, four years before his death.
    Presented by Christopher Cook.
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 15
    Galina Gorchakova (Soprano)
    Ilya Levinsky (Tenor)
    Pavel Baransky (Baritone)
    BBC Symphony Chorus
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
    Part Two. BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican
    Christopher Cook presents the concluding part of a concert that depicts two journeys through life from birth to death, as described by two RUSSIAn composers.
    Rachmaninov's The Bells, based on a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, depicts a journey marked by bells: from sleigh bells to wedding bells, and ultimately to the hollow tolling of the death-knell.
    Rachmaninov: The Bells
      20050527Continuesat8.05pmafterTwentyMinutesPart Two
    Chris de Souza introduces the concluding part of a concert from the Bath International Music Festival, live from Wells Cathedral. Vaughan Williams brilliant evocation of the song of the lark is brought to life, and there's a chance to hear one of the most spirited and lushly harmonised works in the choral canon.
    Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
    Poulenc: Gloria
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Vasko Vassilev (violin)
    Patricia Rozario (soprano)
    Bath Festival Chorus (chorus)
    Richard Hickox (conductor).
    Part One
    Chris de Souza introduces a concert from the Bath International Music Festival, live from Wells Cathedral. The first half includes Maurice Ravel's tribute to fallen French soldiers of the First World War and a celebration of the centenary of Sir Michael Tippett's birth.
    Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
    Tippett: Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage
     A Taste Of Africa20050529 In March, the members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra spent a week exploring music inspired by AFRICA and its cultures. A Taste of AFRICA culminated in a thrilling concert when the BBCSO was joined by the BBC Symphony Chorus, the Macusi Players, and young LONDON musicians for performances of Western classical and traditional AFRICAn music. Presented by Fiona Talkington.
    Walton: Johannesberg Festival Overture
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
    Traditional, arr Rattray: Eeshe Olwa
    BBC Symphony Chorus
    Hammersmith Youth Choir
    Brenda Rattray (director)
    Saint-Saens: AFRICA
    Ashley Wass (piano)
    Traditional: See Jolly
    Macusi Players
    Samuel Coleridge Taylor: Variations on an AFRICAn Air, Op. 53
    David Charles Abell (conductor)
    Derek Bermel: Dust Dances
    Jo Jo Yates: Ase Fua
      20050612 LONDON Symphony Orchestra
    Tommy Pearson presents a concert recorded last week at the Barbican Hall, LONDON.
    ""I've not written a Mass, I've written a theatre piece about a Mass"". This was Bernstein's description of his Mass for singers, players and dancers which caused a storm of controversy among critics at the premiere in 1971.
    The LONDON Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bernstein pupil Marin Alsop take on a mixture of opera, rock, blues, Broadway and the Latin of the Catholic Mass in a rare chance to hear Bernstein's powerful piece from the Barbican in LONDON.
    Bernstein: MassLONDON Symphony OrchestraLONDON Symphony Chorus
    Marin Alsop (conductor)
    Evening
    Morning
    Afternoon.
      20050613 Sandy Burnett presents Andre Previn conducting the LONDON Symphony Orchestra in a gala concert recorded last week at the Barbican Hall, LONDON. The concert marks Previn's 75th birthday.
    The starry line-up of soloists include Renee Fleming in Strauss' Four Last Songs, Jean-Yves Thibaudet in Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, and Anne-Sophie Mutter in Previn's own Tango, Song and Dance.
    Korngold arr Russ: The Sea Hawk Suite (excerpts)
    Ravel: Piano Concerto in D, Left Hand
    Previn: Tango, Songs and Dance
    Strauss: Four Last Songs
    Ravel: Daphnis and Chloé Suite No 2LONDON Symphony Orchestra
    Renee Fleming (soprano)
    Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
    Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
    Andre Previn (conductor).
      20050614 A concert to commemorate the end of the Second World War in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen and HRH the Duke of EDINBURGH. The concert includes a commission from the Queen to the Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Recorded at Central Hall, Westminster. Presented by Louise Fryer.
    Maxwell Davies: Beacons of Hope (World Premiere)
    Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
    Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije Suite: Birth of Kije; Kije's Wedding
    Takemitsu: Nostalgia
    Beethoven: Leonora Overture No 3
    Bizet: L'Arlesienne; Adagietto; Farandole
    Barber: Adagio for Strings
    Maxwell Davies: Commemoration Sixty, World Premiere
    Traditional: Last Post
    Traditional: Reveille
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Mayumi Fujikawa (violin)
    John Wallace (trumpet)LONDON Symphony Chorus
    Band of the Royal British Legion
    Kneller Hall Trumpets
    Members of St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, Chapel Royal St James' Palace, St George's Chapel Windsor and Chapel Royal Hampton Court Boys' choirs.
    Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (conductor)
    Ted Whealing (conductor).
      20050615Continuesat8.35pmafterTwentyMinutesUnder the baton of their music director Sakari Oramo, the City of BIRMINGHAM Symphony Orchestra set off on their four-year journey through a complete cycle of the works of arguably the greatest composer of the last century, Igor Stravinsky.
    In tonight's concert, live from Symphony Hall, BIRMINGHAM, they begin their series with four works that show the composer's extraordinary range.
    Together with the City of BIRMINGHAM Symphony Chorus and City of BIRMINGHAM Symphony Youth Chorus they showcase the youthful brilliance of Stravinsky's first major orchestral work, Scherzo Fantastique, and his first ballet, The Firebird, together with the timeless ritual of Symphony of Psalms and the charmingly neo-classical
    Concerto in D for Strings. Presented by Tommy Pearson.
    City of BIRMINGHAM Symphony Orchestra
    City of BIRMINGHAM Symphony Chorus
    City of BIRMINGHAM Symphony Youth Chorus
    Sakari Oramo (conductor)
    Stravinsky: Scherzo Fantastique
    Stravinsky: Concerto in D for Strings
    Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
    Tommy Pearson presents the City of BIRMINGHAM Symphony Orchestra directed by Sakari Oramo in the concluding part of their concert of work by Stravinsky with The Firebird - the 1910 version.
      20050616 Belshazzar
    One of Handel's finest, but least-performed oratorios: Belshazzar is a work on an imposing scale - dramatic, passionate, full of fine choruses and solos, and a piece which Handel himself described as very grand and uncommon. Catherine Bott introduces this performance, recorded a few days ago at LONDON's Cadogan Hall.
    Nitocris....Geraldine McGreevy (soprano)
    Cyrus....Diana Moore (mezzo)
    Daniel....Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
    Belshazzar....James Gilchrist (tenor)
    Gobrias....Michael Bundy (bass)
    BBC Singers
    The King's Consort
    Robert King (conductor).
      20050617Continuesat8.55., Continuesat8.55., ChristopherCookpresentstheconclusionofaconcertgivenaspartofSpitalfieldsFestival'scelebrationofthecentenaryofMichaelTippettlivefromChristChurch,LONDON., Purcellarr.Britten:Chacony, Tippett:LamentfromSellinger'sRound, Britten:SerenadeforTenor,HornandStrings, StevenBell(horn), MaximRysanov(viola), KristinaBlaumane(cello), MarkWilde(tenor), PaulWatkins(conductor)., ArvoP.Spitalfields Festival
    Britten Sinfonia
    Christopher Cook introduces a concert given as part of Spitalfields Festival's celebration of the centenary of Michael Tippett live from Christ Church, LONDON. The concert also features a new work by RUSSIAn composer Artem Vassiliev partly based on a novel by John Galsworthy, in which the principal character's rigidity makes him unable to break social rules, leading to tragic consequences.
    Tippett: Little Music for Strings
    Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
    Artem Vassiliev: Duo Concertante, world premiere, commissioned by Spitalfields FestivalPM after Twenty Minutes]
      20050618 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize
    Eighteen of the 25 entrants in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2005 competition have also decided to compete for the song prize, and these have now been whittled down to five finalists. Iain Burnside is joined by Humphrey Burton at St David's Hall in Cardiff for the song competition final, and the announcement of the winner by jury chairman, Anthony Freud.
      20050619 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2005 - The Final
    Petroc Trelawny and Iain Burnside introduce the climax of this year's competition from St David's Hall. It's a truly international event, with 25 countries represented, including Moldova, Uruguay and Serbia and Montenegro for the first time.
    Since its creation in 1983, the contest has produced a host of world class singers including Karita Mattila, Katarina Karnéus, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Bryn Terfel. The stakes are high and there's everything to play for: this year's winner will receive £10,000, plus engagements with the Welsh National Opera and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, who accompany the five finalists tonight.
      20050620Continuesat8.40., Continuesat8.40., BBCSymphonyOrchestra,AldeburghFestival, Thisyear'sAldeburghFestivalfocusesonthemusicofENGLANDandRUSSIA,andinparticularonTippett,TchaikovskyandStravinsky.PresentedbyStephanieHughes., Tchaikovskyorch.Stravinsky:BluebirdPasdeDeuxfromTheSLEEPingBeauty, Tippett:SymphonyNo2, BBCSymphonyOrchestra, EdwardGardner(conductor)., BBCSymphonyOrchestra,AldeburghFestival, Fireworks,firefliesandafairytalepreceedTippett'spowerfulSecondSymphony.Thisyear'sAldeburghFestivalfocusesonthemusicofENGLANDandRUSSIA,andinparticularonTippett,TchaikovskyandStravinsky., PresentedbyStephanieHughes., Stravinsky:Fireworks, Knussen:FlourishwithFireworks, Matthews:FanfareandFlourishwithFireflies, Tchaikovsky:SuitefromTheSLEEPingBeauty,Op.66a, BBCSymphonyOrchestra, EdwardGardner(conductor)PMafterTwentyMinutesBBC Symphony Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival
    Fireworks, fireflies and a fairytale preceed Tippett's powerful Second Symphony. This year's Aldeburgh Festival focuses on the music of ENGLAND and RUSSIA, and in particular on Tippett, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.
    Presented by Stephanie Hughes.
    Stravinsky: Fireworks
    Knussen: Flourish with Fireworks
    Matthews: Fanfare and Flourish with Fireflies
    Tchaikovsky: Suite from The SLEEPing Beauty, Op.66a
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Edward Gardner (conductor)PM after Twenty Minutes]
      20050621 Aldeburgh Festival 2005
    Thomas Ades, Artistic Director of the Festival, conducts the Northern Sinfonia in an opening orchestral concert which was recorded in the Snape Maltings. Included is Ades' own youthful Chamber Symphony and the UK premiere of Gerald Barry's dialogue for solo trumpet and ensemble. Introduced by Stephanie Hughes.
    Richard Martin (trumpet)
    Northern Sinfonia
    Thomas Ades (conductor)
    Barry: L'Agitation des Observateurs; LeTremblement des Voyeurs
    Ades: Chamber Symphony, Op 2
    Ives: Three Places in New ENGLAND
    Beethoven: Symphony No 4.
      20050622 Aldeburgh Festival
    From the home of the Aldeburgh Festival at Snape Maltings, Stephanie Hughes presents a programme exploring music old and new, including the world premiere of a major new vocal work by Harrison Birtwistle which sets words by the Chilean revolutionary poet Pablo Neruda to music.
    Claudio Monteverdi: Zefiro Torna
    Bruno Maderna: Serenata per una satellite
    Igor Stravinsky: The Dove Descending Breaks the Air
    Igor Stravinsky: Four RUSSIAn Peasant Songs
    Carlo Gesualdo, completed Igor Stravinsky: Tres sacrae cantiones
    Tansy Davies: Spine (Aldeburgh Festival commission; world premiere)
    Birtwistle: Neruda Madrigales (joint commission: LONDON Sinfonietta and BBC Radio 3; world premiere)
    BBC SingersLONDON Sinfonietta
    Timothy Davies (speaker)
    Nicholas Kok and Peter Wiegold (conductors).
     Aldeburgh Festival 200520050623Continuedat8.40., Continuedat8.40., AldeburghFestival2005, StephanieHughespresentsthesecondpartoftheBelceaQuartet'sfestivalappearance., Elgar:PianoQuintetinAm,Op84., AldeburghFestival2005, StephanieHughesintroducesthefirstoftwofestivalappearancesbytheBelceaQuartetfeaturingthestringquartetsofthePolishcomposerKarolSzymanowski., HisfirstquartetandthePianoQuintetbyElgarwerebothcomposedduringthedarkdaystowardstheendoftheFirstWorldWar., Mozart:QuartetinA,K464, Szymanowski:QuartetNo1,Op37, BelceaQuartet, WithKathrynStott(piano)PMafterTwentyMinutesStephanie Hughes introduces the first of two festival appearances by the Belcea Quartet featuring the string quartets of the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski.
    His first quartet and the Piano Quintet by Elgar were both composed during the dark days towards the end of the First World War.
    Mozart: Quartet in A, K464
    Szymanowski: Quartet No 1, Op 37
    Belcea Quartet
    With Kathryn Stott (piano)PM after Twenty Minutes]
      20050626 Louise Fryer presents a concert from the Snape Maltings Concert Hall given as part of this year's Aldeburgh Festival by the tenor Ian Bostridge and the festival's Artistic Director, composer and pianist Thomas Ades.
    Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, Op 98
    Wolf: Five Sacred Songs from the Spanisches Liederbuch, Nos 1, 2, 3, 9,10
    Stravinsky: The Owl and the Pussycat
    Prokofiev: Sarcasms, Op 17
    Schubert:Heine settings from Schwanengesang, Der Atlas, Ihr Bild, Das Fischermädchen, Die Stadt, Am Meer, Der Doppelgänger.
      20050627 Aldeburgh Festival 2005
    Thomas Ades conducts the CBSO in two great RUSSIAn masterpieces in a concert given from the Snape Maltings Concert Hall as part of this year's Aldeburgh Festival.
    The presenter is Louise Fryer.
    Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
    Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 (Pathetique).
      20050628 From the Salle Métropole, Lausanne, virtuoso baroque violinist, Fabio Biondi, directs the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, one of Europe's finest modern chamber orchestras, in a programme of contrasts and connections. Music travels widely, says Biondi, and composers have always greatly influenced each other.
    Mozart: Overture to Lucio Silla
    Alessandro Scarlatti: Symphonie Pace, Amore e Provvidenza
    Tartini: Violin Concerto in D
    Handel: Rodrigo, suite from the opera
    Purcell: Abdelazer, incidental music
    Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
    Fabio Biondi (violin/director).
      20050629 Handel: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, serenata a tre
    Lucie Skeaping presents a concert performance of Handel's Aci, Galatea e Polifemo. It's a miniature opera in all but name which the composer wrote during his stay in Italy, in 1708, for the Duke of Alvito's wedding. Ten years later Handel recast the work in the more familiar ENGLISH setting of Acis and Galatea. The story is taken from Ovid's Metamorphosis in which the lovelorn cyclops Polyphemus jealously destroys the happiness of the sea nymph who spurns him and her shepherd lover Acis. The concert was recorded last month at St George's BRISTOL.
    Aci....Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
    Galatea....Hilary Summers (contralto)
    Galatea....Charbel Mattar (bass)
    The ENGLISH Concert
    Andrew Manze (violin/director).
      20050630Continuesat8.25., Continuesat8.25., InthesecondpartofaliveconcertgivenatStationers'HallaspartoftheCityofLONDONFestival,FionaTalkingtonpresentsTonKoopmanandTiniMathotperformingBach'slastmasterpiece,TheArtofFugue,leftunfinishedwhenhedied., JSBach:TheArtofFugueBWV1080, TonKoopmanandTiniMathot(harpsichord)., InthefirstpartofaliveconcertgivenatStationers'HallaspartoftheCityofLONDONFestival,FionaTalkingtonpresentsTonKoopmanandTiniMathotperformingBach'slastmasterpiece,TheArtofFugue,leftunfinishedwhenhedied., JSBach:TheArtofFugue,BWV1080, TonKoopmanandTiniMathot(harpsichord)PMafterTwentyMinutesIn the first part of a live concert given at Stationers' Hall as part of the City of LONDON Festival, Fiona Talkington presents Ton Koopman and Tini Mathot performing Bach's last masterpiece, The Art of Fugue, left unfinished when he died.
    JS Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
    Ton Koopman and Tini Mathot (harpsichord)PM after Twenty Minutes]
      20050701Continuesat8.40., Continuesat8.40., CheltenhamInternationalFestivalofMusic2005, TommyPearsonintroducestheconcludingparttheconcertfromtheCheltenhamTownHall., Tchaikovsky:ManfredSymphony,Op58, VictoriaMullova(violin), CityofBIRMINGHAMSymphonyOrchestra, MartynBrabbins(conductor)., CheltenhamInternationalFestivalofMusic2005, TommyPearsonintroducestheopeningconcertfromthisyear'sfestival,livefromCheltenhamTownHall.TheoccasionmarksthestartofconductorMartynBrabbins'periodasthefestival'sArtisticDirector,andalsothefinalorchestralcommissionfromcomposerJulianAndersonasComposerinAssociationwiththeCBSO., JulianAnderson:Eden,worldpremiere, Bartok:ViolinConcertoNo2,Sz112PMafterTwentyMinutesCheltenham International Festival of Music 2005
    Tommy Pearson introduces the opening concert from this year's festival, live from Cheltenham Town Hall. The occasion marks the start of conductor Martyn Brabbins' period as the festival's Artistic Director, and also the final orchestral commission from composer Julian Anderson as Composer-in-Association with the CBSO.
    Julian Anderson: Eden, world premiere
    Bartok: Violin Concerto No 2, Sz112PM after Twenty Minutes]
      20050703 Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
    Andrew McGregor presents a concert celebrating the centenary of Karl Amadeus Hartmann, including the powerful Third Symphony, a product of wartime experiences, which - as conductor Ingo Metzmacher explains - stands for honesty, courage and humanism.
    Mahler: Blumine (Andante)
    Berg: Concerto for violin and orchestra
    Hartmann: Symphony No 3
    Julia Fischer (violin)
    Ingo Metzmacher (conductor).
     Live8 At The Eden Project20050704 Highlights from Saturday's Africa Calling event in Cornwall. Peter Gabriel and Youssou N'Dour invited leading musicians from across the African continent to perform at this Live8 concert.
    Artists include one of Africa's most popular women singers, Angelique Kidjo from Benin; Algerian violinist, Akim El Sikameya; Senegalese percussionist, Modou Diouf; Malian superstar, Salif Keita; and Youssou N'Dour himself.
      20050705 The BBC Symphony Orchestra on Tour
    Kissingen Sommer Festival
    The BBC symphony Orchestra returns to the beautiful Bavarian Spa Town of Bad Kissingen. The brilliant Chinese pianist Lang Lang joins them and Sir Andrew Davis in Rachmaninov's famous Second Piano Concerto. Sandy Burnett presents.
    Vaughn Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
    Rachmaninov: Piano Concert No 2
    Beethoven: Symphony No 7
    Lang Lang (piano)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Andrew Davis (conductor).
      20050707Continuesat8.05pmafterTwentyMinutesWhen Bach visited Frederick the Great in Potsdam in 1747 he entertained him by improvising a six-part fugue on a theme the King himself had written. Over the next two months the royal theme became the basis of the Musical Offering, a collection of pieces demonstrating the full power of Bach's skill in canon and fugue writing.
    The Soloists of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra directed by Ton Koopman perform this, and other works by Bach live from the Haberdashers Hall in London. Presented by Sarah Walker.
    JS Bach: Musical Offering, BWV 1079
    Live from the Haberdashers' Hall in London. Ton Koopman conducts the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra performing the second half of their recital of JS Bach's Musical Offering.
      20050710 The Royal Chapel in Louis XIV's Chateau of Versailles is the magnificent setting for a choral concert by Le Concert Spirituel, one of France's foremost early music ensembles. Marc-Antoine Charpentier was actually master of music at the rival Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, where he produced a succession of glorious sacred works, praising God and celebrating national victories. Presented by Catherine Bott.
    Charpentier: Mass for 8 voices, H 3
    Charpentier: Te Deum H 145
    Stéphanie Révidat (soprano)
    Hanna Bayodi (soprano)
    François-Nicholas Geslot (countertenor)
    Anders J Dahlin (countertenor)
    Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro (tenor)
    Pierre Evreux (tenor)
    Bertrand Chuberre (bass)
    Jean-Baptiste Dumora (bass)
    Le Concert Spirituel
    Hervé Niquet (director).
     Cheltenham International Festival Of Music 2005 - Virtuous Women And Fallen Wives20050712 Tommy Pearson introduces a gala celebration of Felicity Lott's 30th anniversary of her recital debut in a collection of songs about women in all their guises.
    Weill: Prologue, Nanna's Lied
    Haydn: Die zu späte Ankunft der Mutter
    Mozart: Die Alte
    Schumann: Lied der Braut II
    Brahms: Mädchenlied
    Wolf: Ich hab in Penna
    Richard Strauss: Drei Lieder der Ophelia
    Trad. arr. Herbert Hughes: I Know Where I'm Going
    Walton: Wapping Old Stairs
    Bliss: The Return from Town
    Trad. arr. Benjamin Britten: Sweet Polly Oliver
    Weill: Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib? Here I'll stay
    Albert Roussel: Réponse d'une épouse sage
    Fauré: Une sainte en son auréole
    Duparc: Au pays où se fait la guerre
    Noël Coward: Spinning Song, Alice is at it Again, A bar on the Piccola Marina
    Poulenc: La Dame de Monte Carlo
    Reynaldo Hahn: C'est très vilain d'être infidèle
    Oscar Strauss: Warum soll eine Frau kein Verhältnis haben?
    Murray Grand: What's a Lady Like Me?
    Felicity Lott (soprano)
    Graham Johnson (piano).
      20050713 Two young Finnish artists make their debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Susanna Malkki conducts two works which explore novel combinations of sound and space: Dutilleux's Second Symphony contrasts the large orchestra with a smaller chamber group, while two identical mirror-image orchestras face up antiphonally in Simon Bainbridge's Fantasia. Antti Siirala, who won the 2003 Leeds International Piano Competition is the soloist in Mozart's majestic concerto. Presented from the BBC's Maida Vale Studios by Paul Guinery.
    Bainbridge: Fantasia for Double Orchestra
    Mozart: Piano Concerto No 22, K482
    Dutilleux: Symphony No 2
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Antti Siirala (piano)
    Susanna Malkki (conductor).
      20050714 Tommy Pearson continues coverage of this year's Cheltenham International Festival of Music 2005 with a performance given by one of the country's leading brass bands at Cheltenham Town Hall. The single work in the programme, composed over the course of 14 years, is inspired by the notion of Earth as a living, evolving being, with movements reflecting on the power of the classical elements.
    John Pickard: Gaia Symphony, first complete performance
    Buy as You View Cory Band
    Robert Childs (conductor).
     Edinburgh International Festival 2005 - Curlew River20050911 Britten's church parable based on Japanese Noh theatre is performed in a new EIF production by Olivier Py. Introduced by Donald Macleod.
    Madwoman....Toby Spence (tenor)
    Ferryman....William Dazeley (bass-baritone)
    Traveller....Neal Davies (bass-baritone)
    Abbot....Tim Mirfin (bass)
    Garry Walker (director).
      20050912 Edinburgh International Festival 2005
    Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents this recital given in the Queen's Hall on the last day of the festival by the French master pianist Jean-Philippe Collard.
    Fauré: Nocturne No 1 in E flat m, Op 33; Impromptu No 2 in Fm, Op 31; Nocturne No 6 in D Flat, Op 63;
    Ravel: Sonatine; Oiseaux tristes; Alborada del gracioso
    Chopin: Ballade No 3 in A flat, Op 47; Nocturne in Cm, Op 48; Scherzo No 3 in C sharp m, Op 39; Nocturne in C sharp m, Op 27, No 1; Ballades No 4 in Fm, Op 52
    Jean-Philippe Collard (piano).
      20050913 Edinburgh International Festival 2005
    Donald Macleod introduces a recital given at the Queen's Hall by the young German quartet, the Kuss Quartet, with Jörg Widmann in two roles, as composer and soloist.
    Widmann: String Quartet No 1
    Beethoven: String Quartet, Op 133 in B flat, Grosse Fuge
    Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
    Kuss Quartet
    Jörg Widmann (clarinet).
      20050914 Edinburgh International Festival 2005
    1/4. Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
    Donald Macleod introduces the first of four concerts given in the Usher Hall by the pioneering German orchestra under its chief conductor, mixing classic orchestral repertoire with fresh new music. The soloist is the violinist Christian Tetzlaff.
    Ligeti: Violin concerto
    Mahler: Symphony No 5.
      20050915 Edinburgh International Festival 2005
    Donald Macleod introduces the second of four concerts given in the Usher Hall earlier this month. This programme explores four different incarnations of Variation Form with soloists Stephen Hough (piano) and Thomas Trotter (organ).
    Liszt: Preludium and Fugue on Bach
    Schoenberg: Variations, Op 31
    Rachmaninov: Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op 43
    Ravel: Bolero
    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
    Jonathan Nott (conductor).
      20050916 Edinburgh International Festival 2005
    Donald Macleod introduces the third of four concerts given in the Usher Hall earlier this month by this pioneering German orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, under its British Principal Conductor, Jonathan Nott. The programme opens with Ligeti's experimental work for 100 Metronomes and also includes a piece which Stanley Kubrick used in The Shining.
    Ligeti: Poeme Symphonique
    Bach: Komm Süsser Tod
    Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
    Ligeti: Lontano
    Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, Op 24
    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
    Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
    Jonathan Nott (conductor).
      20050917 Edinburgh International Festival 2005
    A marathon final concert recorded earlier this month at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh by the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, concluding its Festival residency. Includes the UK premiere of Jorg Widmann's Schubert-inspired 'Lied'. Introduced by Donald Macleod.
    Schubert: Symphony No 1
    Mozart: Clarinet concerto in A
    Widmann: Lied für orchester
    Schubert: Symphony No 8
    Bruckner: Symphony No 9
    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
    Jörg Widmann (clarinet)
    Jonathan Nott (conductor).
      20050918 Edinburgh International Festival 2005
    Curlew River
    Britten's church parable based on Japanese Noh theatre is performed in a new EIF production by Olivier Py. Introduced by Donald Macleod.
    Madwoman....Toby Spence (tenor)
    Ferryman....William Dazeley (bass-baritone)
    Traveller....Neal Davies (bass-baritone)
    Abbot....Tim Mirfin (bass)
    Lawrence Power (Viola)
    Duncan McTier (Double Bass)
    Adam Walker (Flute)
    Richard Watkins (Horn)
    Adrian Spillett (Percussion)
    Catrin Finch (Harp)
    Thomas Trotter (Organ)
    Garry Walker (director)
    Pierre-André Weitz (designer).
      20050919 Edinburgh International Festival 2005
    Donald Macleod introduces an all-star chamber music line-up from the Queen's Hall.
    Brahms: Violin Sonata No 1 in G, Op 78; Piano Quartet No 2 in A, Op 26
    Schumann: Fantasiestucke for cello and piano, Op 73; Märchenbilder, Op 113
    Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
    Tabea Zimmermann (viola)
    Alban Gerhardt (cello)
    Lars Vogt (piano).
      20050920 Edinburgh International Festival 2005
    The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Mahler's colossal, nature-inspired Third Symphony. Recorded last month in Edinburgh's Usher Hall and presented by Donald Macleod.
    Mahler: Symphony No 3 in Dm
    Birgitta Svenden (mezzo soprano)
    Ladies of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Donald Runnicles (conductor).
      20050922 From Belfast's Waterfront Hall, John Toal introduces the opening concert of the Ulster Orchestra season - Gershwin and the Russian Gold.
    Shostakovich: Festive Overture
    Gershwin: Piano Concerto
    Joanna MacGregor (piano)
    Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2
    Christian Gansch (conductor).
      20050923Continuesat8.45pmafterTwentyMinutesLive from the Barbican Hall, London, presented by Martin Handley.
    Sir Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra - Mitsuko Uchida is the soloist in Schumann's Piano Concerto, a piece unusual for giving the soloist and orchestra equal importance. That's followed after the interval by Walton's landmark 1st Symphony, one of the pieces that firmly established his musical reputation.
    Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings
    Schumann: Piano Concerto in Am
    Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
    Walton: Symphony No 1
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
    The second part of the concert live from the Barbican spotlights Walton's landmark 1st Symphony.
      20050925 Ivor Bolton conducts the Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg. Recorded in the Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, during the 2005 Mozartwoche celebrations.
    Mozart: Concerto for piano and orchestra No 14, K449; Serenade (Finalmusik), K185 in D
    Lars Vogt (piano)
    Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
    Ivor Bolton (conductor).
      20050926 Chris de Souza visits Britain's smallest ancient cathedral, St Asaph, for a concert given at the North Wales International Music Festival. Pascal Rogé flies the Tricolor for French music with Poulenc's flamboyant concerto, and the BBC NOW's Principle Oboe, David Cowley, plays Francaix's charming Flower Clock.
    Britten: Sinfonietta for 10 instruments, Op 1
    Poulenc: Concerto for piano and orchestra
    Francaix: L'Horloge de Flore for oboe and orchestra
    Mozart: Symphony No 40, K550, in Gm
    Pascal Rogé (piano)
    David Cowley (oboe)
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Douglas Boyd (conductor).
      20050929Continuesat8.40pmafterTwentyMinutesPresented by Sarah Walker.
    Artur Pizarro begins a major series at St John's, Smith Square, London, in which he performs the complete works for piano solo by Debussy and Ravel. He opens with music written by Debussy in the 1880s.
    Intermède
    Danse bohémienne
    Deux arabesques
    Ballade
    Rêverie
    Suite bergamasque
    Continuing the concert featuring Artur Pizarro's series on Debussy, with pieces including Danse - Tarantelle styrienne, Valse romantique, Mazurka, Nocturne and Images oublièes.
      20050930Continuesat8.45pmafterTwentyMinutesThe opening programme of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's series of concerts from the Music Hall in Aberdeen, with Chief Conductor Ilan Volkov. Presented by Christopher Cook. Featuring Stravinsky, Dvorák and, after the interval, Berlioz.
    Stravinsky: Four Etudes
    Dvorák: Cello Concerto in Bm, Op 104
    Heinrich Schiff (cello)
    Christopher Cook presents the second part of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra concert, with the spotlight on Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.
      20051002 Rimsky-Korsakov's fairy-tale images of the Orient and a barnstorming piano concerto by Prokofiev, recorded at the Brangwyn Hall, as part of the Swansea Festival.
    Prokofiev: Symphony No 1, Op 25, in D - Classical; Concerto for piano and orchestra No 5, Op 55, in G
    Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade - symphonic suite, Op 35
    Nicolai Demidenko (piano)
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Alexander Titov (conductor).
      20051003 One of Britain's foremost composers and renowned Haydn performer, John McCabe, joins the BBC Concert Orchestra for a performance of Haydn's keyboard concerto. He also discusses with presenter Piers Burton-Page how the music of Haydn has influenced his own compositions, specifically his 3rd Symphony, which is based on the slow movement of Haydn's Eb String Quartet.
    Elgar: Serenade for Strings, Op 20
    Haydn: Keyboard Concerto in D; String Quartet in Eb, Op 76, No 6
    John McCabe: Symphony No 3, Hommages
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
    John McCabe (piano)
    Wihan Quartet.
      20051004 Presteigne Festival 2005
    Piers Burton-Page introduces an evening of chamber music from the festival, held in the picturesque town of Presteigne in Wales. The Dante Quartet is joined by the pianist John McCabe in a programme ending with Elgar's grandiose piano quintet.
    Purcell: Chaconne in Gm
    Tippett: String Quartet No 2
    David Matthews: Little Serenade for string quartet, Op 93
    Alan Rawsthorne: Sonata for violin and piano
    Robin Holloway: Lento for string quartet
    Ian Wilson: Quartet No 1 Winter's Edge
    Elgar: Piano Quintet in Am, Op 84.
      20051005 Live from the Lighthouse, Poole.
    Principal conductor Marin Alsop and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra are joined by the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus for this first broadcast of the new season, focusing on Mahler's epic second symphony.
    It's been called a symphonic cantata and the progression from tension to ultimate resolution, or redemption, has given the work the subtitle Resurrection.
    Mahler: Symphony No 2, Resurrection
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus
    Sally Matthews (soprano)
    Karen Cargill (alto)
    Marin Alsop (conductor).
      20051006 Presented by Louise Fryer, recorded at Tramway in Glasgow.
    The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ilan Volkov, jazz trombonist Roswell Rudd and his band MALIcool join forces on a unique collaborative journey that fuses classical music with improvisation, jazz and traditional sounds from Mali.
    Including music by Gyorgy Ligeti, Kevin Volans, and the first performance of a new work for orchestra and MALIcool composed by Roswell Rudd.
    Part of Africa Lives on the BBC.
      20051007Continuesat9.10pmafterTwentyMinutesThe Creation
    Sarah Walker introduces an enduringly popular oratorio, live from St David's Hall in Cardiff. Haydn's choral masterpiece depicts the dramatic events of the six days of
    Creation through to the appearance of Adam and Eve, and still startles with its fresh and vivid imagery. Thierry Fischer takes the baton, ahead of taking over as BBC NOW's Principal Conductor next year.
    Nancy Argenta (soprano)
    Martha McLorinan (mezzo-soprano)
    James Gilchrist (tenor)
    Peter Harvey (bass)
    BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
    Thierry Fischer (conductor)
    The Creation: The third and final part of Haydn's The Creation, live from St David's Hall in Cardiff.
      20051009 In a concert recorded during this year's Salzburg Mozartwoche, Christine Schäfer sings a selection of Mozart concert arias, and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra perform Haydn's final symphony.
    Mozart: Misera! dove son...Ah! non son io che parlo, K369; Chio mi scordi di te? Non temer, amato bene, K505; Schon lacht der holde Frühling, K580
    Haydn: Symphony in D
    Christine Schäfer (soprano)
    Gianluca Cascioli (piano)
    Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
    Zubin Mehta (conductor).
      20051010 Warwick Thompson presents a Northern Sinfonia concert from The Sage, Gateshead. The orchestra, under the direction of its musical director Thomas Zehetmair, kicks off
    proceedings with Britten's suite of English folksongs - A Time There Was, followed by Colin Matthews' 1994 BCMG commission Through the Glass.
    Northern Sinfonia is then joined by the young tenor Mark Wilde for a selection of some of Britten's English Folksongs, and the concert concludes with a performance of Schubert's 6th, or 'Little' Symphony.
      20051011 1/3. Tetbury Music Festival 2005
    Donald Macleod travels to one of the Cotswolds' most picturesque locations for the first of three concerts from this year's Tetbury Festival. Period group The King's Consort perform vocal and instrumental works from the Baroque, plus a newly commissioned work from Michael Berkeley inspired by the ecstatic love duets found in Monteverdi, Purcell and Handel.
    Pergolesi: Salve Regina in Am
    Corelli: Concerto Grosso, Op 6, No 9
    Michael Berkeley: Touch Light (new commission)
    Domenico Scarlatti: Salve Regina
    Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in Fm
    Lorna Anderson (soprano)
    Robin Blaze (counter-tenor)
    The King's Consort
    Robert King (conductor/harpsichord).
      20051012 2/3. Tetbury Music Festival 2005
    Donald Macleod presents the second in a series of concerts recently recorded in the church of St Mary the Virgin in Tetbury, Gloucestershire. The Schubert Ensemble play a pair of contrasting piano quintets by Fauré and Dvorák.
    Mahler: Quartet movement for piano and strings in A m
    Fauré: Piano Quintet no.1 in D m, Op 89
    Dvorák: Piano Quintet in A No 2, Op 81
    The Schubert Ensemble
    Simon Blendis and Jan Schmolck (violin)
    Douglas Paterson (viola)
    Jane Salmon (cello)
    William Howard (piano).
      20051013 3/3. Tetbury Music Festival 2005
    Donald Macleod presents the last of three concerts recorded last week at the Cotswolds church of St Mary the Virgin. Tenor Mark Padmore is joined by harpsichordist Matthew Halls, oboist Katharina Spreckelsen, and friends, for an all Bach concert.
    Bach: Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in E, BWV 1053
    Bach: Trio Sonata in Dm, BWV 527
    Bach: Cantata No 55, Ich arme Mensch
    Bach: Concerto for oboe d'amore and strings in A, BWW 1055
    Stolzel (attr. Bach) Bist du bei mir
    Bach: Cantata No 82, Ich habe genug.
      20051014Continuesat8.40pmafterTwentyMinutesThe BBC Symphony Orchestra opens its 2005-2006 Season with new Principal Guest Conductor, David Robertson.
    The composers, Wagner, Schoenberg and Beethoven, are three of the great musical revolutionaries of all time. Schoenberg's Erwartung (after the interval) is a monodrama, almost a psychoanalytic case study, sung by a woman wandering through the woods in search of her lost lover; while heroic struggle and triumph burst from the pages of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
    Presented by Martin Handley.
    Wagner: Prelude from Tristan and Isolde
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Susan Bullock (soprano)
    David Robertson (conductor
    Part 2: Live from the Barbican, the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Robertson perform Schoenberg's Erwartung, with soprano Susan Bullock. Plus, Beethoven's Symphony No 5.
      20051016 Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
    Krzysztof Penderecki conducts the Radio 3 New Generation Artist Claudio Bohorquez and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in a concert recorded at this year's Easter Festival in Warsaw.
    Krzysztof Penderecki (arr for cello by Boris Pergamenschikow): Viola Concerto, 1983
    Sibelius: Symphony No 5 in E flat, Op 82
    Claudio Bohórquez (cello)
    Krzysztof Penderecki (conductor).
      20051017 The exciting young French conductor Stephane Deneve conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in this, his opening season as their new musical director.
    Mendelssohn: Symphony No 5, Reformation
    Mahler: Symphony No 1.
      20051018 London Symphony Orchestra
    Valery Gergiev launches his cycle of Shostakovich symphonies at London's Barbican Hall, in the lead-up to next year's celebrations of Shostakovich's 100th birthday. The huge Seventh Symphony was composed in Leningrad in 1941, as the city withstood the Nazi siege: Shostakovich himself was a volunteer fireman, on the lookout for incendiary bombs.
    Presented by Sandy Burnett.
    Mussorgsky (orch. Shostakovich): Prelude; Dance of the Persian Girls, Khovanshchina
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 7, Leningrad
    Valery Gergiev (conductor).
      20051020Continuesat8.40pmafterTwentyMinutesLive from the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, the Halle Orchestra and Mark Elder are joined by pianist Nikolai Demidenko for a performance of Brahms' mighty Piano Concerto No 2.
    After the break they perform two dark and dramatic symphonic poems from Russia by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky.
    Introduced by Louise Fryer.
    Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
    Halle Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor)
    Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2, in B flat, Op 83
    Two dark and dramatic symphonic poems from Russia complete the concert given by the Halle Orchestra and Mark Elder live from the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.
    Rachmaninov's The Isle of the Dead is inspired by a painting by Bocklin. Tchaikovsky dates his inspiration from the episode in Dante's Inferno where the souls of the two lovers Francesca and Paolo are swept up in a tempest and condemned to eternal damnation.
    Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead Op 29
    Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, Op 32.
      20051021Continuesat8.40pmafterTwentyMinutesLive from Portsmouth Cathedral, in the heart of one of the country's most important maritime cities, a concert marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar and the death of Admiral Lord Nelson. Presented by Susan Sharpe.
    Philip Lane: A Maritime Overture
    Miklós Rózsa (orched. Christopher Palmer): Love theme from Lady Hamilton
    Errollyn Wallen: Our English Heart (BBC commission, world premiere)
    Joseph Haydn: Missa in angustiis (Nelson mass)
    Catherine Bott (soprano)
    Rebecca Lodge (mezzo soprano)
    Robert Johnston (tenor)
    Stephen Charlesworth (baritone)
    BBC Singers
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
    The Trafalgar Day concert live from Portsmouth Cathedral continues, featuring Haydn's Nelson Mass.
      20051023 Young Estonian conductor Olari Elts joins the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in works that hark back to a more classical era.
    Haydn: Symphony No 88
    Tchaikovsky: Variations on a rococo theme
    Strauss: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme.
      20051024 The BBC Symphony Orchestra marks a special day with a 75th anniversary concert, featuring a UK premiere, plus works by Beethoven, Strauss and Stravinsky. Presented by Christopher Cook.
    Carter: Réflexions (UK premiere)
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5
    Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
    Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
    Emmanuel Ax (piano)
    BBC Symphony Chorus
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).
      20051025 One of the most sought-after chamber ensembles, the Skampa Quartet, collaborate live with Martin Roscoe to perform Shostakovich's captivating Piano Quintet. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
    Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op 59, No 1, Razumovsky
    Bohuslav Martinu: String Quartet No 5
    Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in Gm, Op 57
    Skampa Quartet
    Martin Roscoe (piano).
      20051026Continuesat8.35pmafterTwentyMinutesVerity Sharp presents the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra live from the Lighthouse in Poole.
    Featuring, in this his centenary year, Tippett's Ritual Dances from his opera Midsummer Marriage; Copland's enduringly popular Clarinet Concerto played by the 15-year-old superstar Julian Bliss; and, after the interval, Sibelius' Symphony No 1 - written in the same year as his landmark Finlandia - 1899. Both these pieces helped to consolidate his reputation in Europe.
    Tippett: Ritual Dances (Midsummer Marriage)
    Copland: Clarinet Concerto
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Julian Bliss (clarinet)
    Marin Alsop (conductor)
    Verity Sharp presents the second part of the concert live from the Lighthouse in Poole. The concert focuses on Sibelius' Symphony No 1.
      20051027 Presented by Sarah Walker.
    Artur Pizarro continues his major series at St John's, Smith Square, London, in which he performs the complete works for piano solo by Debussy and Ravel. He spotlights works composed between 1895 and 1904.
    Ravel: Serenade Grotesque; Menuet Antique; Pavane
    Debussy: Pour le piano; Prélude; Sarabande; Toccata
    Ravel: Jeux d'eau
    Debussy: Estampes; Pagodes; La soirée dans Grenade; Jardins sous la pluie
    Debussy: Masques; D'un cahier d'esquisses; L'Isle joyeuse; Morceau de concours
    Ravel: Sonatine; Modéré; Mouvement de menuet; Animé.
    Continuing Artur Pizarro's concert, live from St John's, Smith Square, in London. Presented by Sarah Walker 
      20051028 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert of music focusing on Vienna at the start of the 20th Century, recorded at the Bridgewater Hall.
    Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Suite
    Berg: Violin Concerto
    Mahler: Symphony No 10 Adagio
    Ravel: La valse
    Akiko Suwanai (violin)
    BBC Philharmonic
    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).
      20051031 A Manchester Camerata concert exploring the connections between the music of Sir Michael Tippett and Beethoven, recorded at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. Two of Beethoven's great string quartets are performed in arrangements by Mahler and by Tippett's biographer, Meirion Bowen. Introduced by Christopher Cook.
    Beethoven (arr Mahler): Quartet in Fm, Op 95
    Finzi: Clarinet Concerto
    Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra
    Beethoven (arr Bowen): Grosse Fuge, Op 133
    Richard Hosford (clarinet)
    Manchester Camerata
    Douglas Boyd (conductor).
      20051101 The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra feature in a concert recorded recently at the Music Hall in Aberdeen. Presented by Sarah Walker.
    Magnus Lindberg: Arena
    Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 4 in Gm, Op 40
    Nikolai Lugansky (piano)
    Sibelius: Symphony No 2 in D, Op 43
    Robert Spano (conductor).
      20051102 Piers Burton-Page presents a concert of music by Giya Kancheli, who celebrates his 70th birthday this year.
    Kancheli: A little Daneliade; Symphony No 3; Symphony No 5
    David James (counter-tenor)
    BBC Philharmonic
    James MacMillan (conductor).
      20051103Continuesat8.35pmafterTwentyMinutesChistopher Cook presents a live concert from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.
    Mark Elder conducts the Halle Orchestra, beginning with Colin Matthews' recent orchestration of Debussy's Three Preludes, followed by Finzi's Fall of the Leaf. Then orchestra leader Lyn Fletcher is the soloist in Vaughan Williams' bucolic and verdant evocation of Fenland nature, The Lark Ascending. After the interval, it's an all Mendelssohn affair.
    Debussy, orch. Colin Matthews: Orchestral Preludes
    Finzi: Fall of the Leaf
    Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
    Continuing the Halle Orchestra's concert from Manchester, focusing on Mendelssohn: Overture - Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op 27; Symphony No 5 in D, Reformation, Op 107.
     Pierre Boulez's 80th Birthday Concert20051104Continuesat8.40pmafterTwentyMinutesLive from the Barbican, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, which turned a mere 75 recently, celebrates the 80th birthday of its former Chief Conductor. The programme is Boulez's own choice, and sets his music alongside that of his French predecessors. Presented by Stephanie Hughes.
    Debussy: Jeux; Trois ballades de Villon
    Boulez: Soleil des eaux
    Elizabeth Atherton (soprano)
    BBC Singers
    BBC Symphony Chorus
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Pierre Boulez (conductor)
    Second part of the special concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrating Pierre Boulez's 80th birthday, focusing on Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe.
      20051106 Continuing a week of concerts to celebrate the work of The Cleveland Orchestra.
    Franz Welser-Möst is the latest in a distinguished line of music directors at Cleveland. Geoffrey Smith talks to Concert Master William Preucil, Principal Flautist Joshua Smith
    and trombonist Richard Stout about what Welser-Möst brings to the orchestra.
    Followed by a single work from the central European music tradition repertoire in which the orchestra specialises and excels, recorded at Severance Hall, Cleveland.
    Bruckner: Symphony No 7
    The Cleveland Orchestra
    Franz Welser-Möst (conductor).
      20051107 Geoffrey Smith continues his celebration of one of America's top orchestras as he tries to uncover the secret of The Cleveland Orchestra sound. The concert was recorded at Severance Hall, Cleveland.
    Haydn: Symphony No 73
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 11
    The Cleveland Orchestra
    Franz Welser-Möst (conductor).
      20051108 Geoffrey Smith investigates what it's like playing in one of America's top orchestras and what makes The Cleveland Orchestra in particular so special from the players' point of view. With contributions from Concert Master William Preucil and trombonist Richard Stout.
    There is a great tradition stretching back to George Szell of enjoying rehearsals, something that the players and today's Music Director Franz Welser-Möst also share. Followed by performances recorded at Severance Hall in Cleveland.
    Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat - Dumbarton Oaks
    Beethoven: Symphony No 1
    Debussy: Jeux
    Dutilleux: Symphony No 2 (Le Double)
    Ravel: Bolero
    The Cleveland Orchestra
    Franz Welser-Möst (conductor).
      20051110 Geoffrey Smith continues his celebration of The Cleveland Orchestra and talks to Executive Director Gary Hanson and Artistic Administrator Peter Czornyj about the financial challenges that face the orchestra in the immediate future.
    Plus, former music director Pierre Boulez makes another of his regular appearances with the orchestra, recorded at Severance Hall, Cleveland.
    Webern: Five Movements
    Boulez: Notations 1,7,4,3,2
    Stravinsky: Firebird
    The Cleveland Orchestra
    Pierre Boulez (conductor).
      20051111 The celebration of The Cleveland Orchestra concludes as Geoffrey Smith talks to Music Director Franz Welser-Möst about choosing repertoire for the orchestra and his thoughts on the music of Britten. Executive Director Gary Hanson and Artistic Administrator Peter Czornyj talk about future plans.
    Britten: War Requiem
    Melanie Diener (soprano)
    John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
    Thomas Hampson (baritone)
    The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and Children's Chorus
    The Cleveland Orchestra
    Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)
    Recorded at Severance Hall, Cleveland.
      20051114 Sir Charles Mackerras at 80
    Starting a series of concerts to celebrate the landmark birthday of a conductor dubbed 'the musician's musician'. Presented by Donald Macleod in conversation with Sir Charles, this special series begins with one of his favourite operas, Idomeneo, in a BBC Promenade concert from 1991.
    Mozart: Idomeneo, re di Creta, ossia Ilia ed Idamante, K366
    Idomeneo....Dennis O'Neill (tenor)
    Electra....Suzanne Murphy (soprano)
    Ilia....Rebecca Evans (soprano)
    Idamante....John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
    Arbace....Anthony Roden (tenor)
    High Priest of Neptune....Paul Charles Clarke (tenor)
    Voice of Neptune....Ashley Thorburn (bass)
    Welsh National Opera Chorus
    Welsh National Opera Orchestra.
     Sir Charles Mackerras At 8020051115 Continuing a series of concerts to celebrate the landmark birthday of a conductor dubbed 'the musician's musician'. This programme starts with one of Sir Charles' favourite tone poems and ends with his own selection from an opera which has become one of his specialities - Der Rosenkavalier. In conversation with Donald Macleod, he recalls the first time he conducted the opera, in East Berlin just after the Wall had been erected, and with very little rehearsal.
    Recorded at the Barbican Concert Hall.
    Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op 30; Symphonic fantasy from Die Frau ohne Schatten; arr Mackerras - Suite - Der Rosenkavalier
    Marschallin....Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
    Sophie....Rebecca Evans (soprano)
    Oktavian....Randi Stene (mezzo)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Charles Mackerras (conductor).
      20051117 Sir Charles Mackerras at 80
    Continuing a series of concerts to celebrate the landmark birthday of a conductor dubbed 'the musician's musician'. A concert from the 2004 BBC Proms, in which Sir Charles conducted the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in an all Dvorák programme. As he recalls, in conversation with Donald Macleod, it was a great occasion, and a great pleasure to conduct Dvorak's 9th symphony on what would have been the composer's birthday.
    Antonín Dvorák: Scherzo capriccioso; Violin Concerto; Symphony No 9
    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
    Sarah Chang (violin)
    Charles Mackerras (conductor).
      20051118 Sir Charles Mackerras at 80
    Continuing a series of concerts to celebrate the landmark birthday of a conductor dubbed 'the musician's musician'. A concert recorded at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, in 2002. Presented by Donald Macleod - in conversation with Sir Charles, during which the conductor explains why he chose to restore the famous third hammer blow to Mahler's 6th symphony.
    Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Op 20
    Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 6 in Am
    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
    Charles Mackerras (conductor).
      20051120 Sir Charles Mackerras at 80
    The final concert in a week of performances celebrating the 80th birthday of Sir Charles Mackerras is devoted entirely to Janacek. Recorded at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. In conversation with Donald Macleod, Sir Charles talks about Janacek - whose music he has championed throughout his conducting career.
    Leos Janacek: Sinfonietta; (arr Jilek) Suite - The Cunning Little Vixen; Glagolitic Mass
    Christine Brewer (soprano)
    Ameral Gunson (mezzo-soprano)
    Peter Bronder (tenor)
    Geoffrey Moses (bass)
    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
    City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
    Charles Mackerras (conductor).
      20051121 Louise Fryer is at St David's Hall in Cardiff for two absorbing Russian masterworks, performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
    Written alongside Romeo and Juliet, Prokofiev's second concerto shares the ballet's direct emotion. Rachmaninov's second symphony, written 20 years earlier, is at once an intense tour de force and a seductive song for orchestra.
    Prokofiev: Concerto for violin and orchestra No 2, Op 63, in Gm
    Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2, Op 27, in Em
    James Ehnes (violin)
    Jac van Steen (conductor).
      20051122 The Musicians' Benevolent Fund Royal Concert, in the presence of His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh. Recorded at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall and presented by Sandy Burnett.
    Thea Musgrave: Rainbow
    Beethoven: Violin Concerto
    Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
    Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Ilan Volkov (chief conductor).
      20051123Continuesat8.45pmafterTwentyMinutesArtur Pizarro continues his major series live from St John's, Smith Square in London, in which he performs the complete works for piano solo by Debussy and Ravel. The focus is on music composed between 1908 and 1911. Presented by Sarah Walker.
    Ravel: Miroirs; Noctuelles; Oiseaux tristes; Une barque sur l'ocean; Alborada del gracioso; La vallée des cloches
    Debussy: Images Book 1; Reflets dans l'eau; Hommage à Rameau; Mouvement
    Debussy: Images Book 2; Cloches à travers les feuilles; Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut; Poissons d'or
    Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit; Ondine; Le gibet; Scarbo
    The second half of Artur Pizarro's live concert of Ravel and Debussy piano solos, from St John's, Smith Square, London.
      20051124 Alyn Shipton presents works by saxophonist John Surman and pianist Uri Caine, from the London Jazz Festival, featuring Drew Gress (bass), Ben Perowsky (drums) and the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Robert Ziegler.
    Recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
    Surman: In All Weathers
    Caine: Birdtalk; Dubya at War (BBC Commission)
    Surman: Road to St Ives.
      20051125 Jez Nelson presents a round up of concerts from the London Jazz Festival, including the Grammy-winning Maria Schneider Big Band, Blue Note vocalist Kurt Elling and influential pianist McCoy Tyner.
      20051128Continuesat8.20pmafterTwentyMinutesChris de Souza presents a concert from Birmingham's Symphony Hall, in which Sakari Oramo conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. This concert contains just two works - opening with Ravel's stunningly colourful ballet Ma Mere l'Oye and ending, after the interval, in Mahler's dramatic Symphony No 1.
    The second half of the concert from Birmingham's Symphony Hall, with the focus on Mahler's Symphony No 1.
      20051129 John Toal introduces the closing concert of this year's Belfast Festival at Queen's from the Waterfront Hall, which celebrates the music of three of America's finest composers.
    It begins with John Adams' orchestral fanfare, Short Ride in a Fast Machine, and Philip Glass' Company - for string orchestra. The concert ends with Steve Reich's monumental Desert Music, a setting for choir and orchestra of texts by William Carlos Williams.
    John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
    Philip Glass: Company
    Steve Reich: Desert Music
    Ulster Orchestra
    Thierry Fischer (conductor)
    National Chamber Choir of Ireland.
      20051130 The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs in the cultural centre Le Volcan in Le Havre, at the annual Octobre en Normandie festival. There's music from South America by Villa-Lobos alongside Stravinsky's ballet music and a world premiere by a young French composer. Presented by Stephanie Hughes.
    Villa-lobos: Uirapuru -Tone Poem; Guitar Concerto
    Thierry Pecou: Tremendum (World Premiere)
    Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1945)
    Craig Ogden (guitar)
    Thierry Pecou (piano)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Enrique Diemecke (conductor).
      20051202 Christopher Cook presents a concert from the West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, marking the centenary of Sir Michael Tippett, and including a new homage to Tippett by John Woolrich. During the interval, Ivan Hewett delves into Michael Tippett's recently published letters to examine the brittle relationship between himself and the other leading British composer of the 20th century, Benjamin Britten.
    Purcell ed Tippett arr Woolrich: Music for a While; If Music Be the Food of Love; Sweeter than Roses (world premiere)
    Tippett: Little Music
    Beethoven: Grosse Fugue in B flat
    Britten: Les Illuminations
    John Woolrich: The Wayfarer's Night Song (world premiere)
    Tippett: Fantasia Concertante on a theme by Corelli
    Britten Sinfonia
    Ian Bostridge (tenor)
    Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
      20051204 British Music Focus
    Andrew McGregor presents two symphonies by one of the most individual British composers of the last century, Robert Simpson, in conversation with his widow Angela Simpson.
    Robert Simpson: Symphony No 5
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor)
    Robert Simpson: Symphony No 7
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Grant Llewellyn (conductor).
      20051205 British Music Focus. Gothic Symphony
    The first (and so far only) commercial recording of what the Guinness Book of Records reckoned was the "largest symphony" ever written. Made in 1989, it became the biggest-ever seller on the Marco Polo label. Presented by Andrew McGregor.
    Havergal Brian: Gothic Symphony
    Eva Jenisová (soprano)
    Dagmar Pecková (alto),
    Vladimir Dolezal (tenor)
    Peter Mikulás (bass)
    Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Slovak National Opera Chorus
    Slovak Folk Ensemble Chorus, Bratislava City Choir
    Lucnica Choir, Bratislava Children's Choir, Youth 'Echo' Choir
    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
    Ondrej Lenard (conductor).
     British Music Focus20051207 Like Verdi, Vaughan Williams and Richard Strauss, Michael Tippett continued to explore new worlds in his music well into his seventies and eighties. Andrew McGregor presents two major 'late' works.
    Tippett: Byzantium
    Faye Robinson (soprano)
    Tippett: The Mask of Time
    Sarah Walker (mezzo)
    Robert Tear (tenor)
    John Cheek (bass)
    BBC Singers
    BBC Symphony Chorus
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Andrew Davis (conductor).
      20051208 British Music Focus
    Andrew McGregor introduces the complete incidental music for The Wasps, by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Composed originally for a 1909 production of Aristophanes' play at Cambridge University, this performance is the first broadcast of a new edition featuring a translation and adaptation by David Pountney.
    Vaughan-Williams: Music to The Wasps of Aristophanes
    Procleon/other voices....Henry Goodman
    Priest....Richard Suart (chorus leader)
    Chorus of Wasps
    Halle Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor).
      20051209 British Music Focus
    Andrew McGregor presents a concert given by the CBSO in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, of English orchestral music. Pianist Peter Donohoe performs a rarely heard piece for piano and orchestra by John Foulds and the concert ends with the last of Ralph Vaughan Williams' symphonies.
    Elgar: Overture - Cockaigne
    Foulds: Dynamic Tryptych
    Bridge: There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook
    Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No 9
    Peter Donohoe (piano)
    CBSO
    Sakari Oramo (conductor).
      20051211 British Music Focus
    Nicholas Maw, who celebrates his 70th birthday this year, wrote his orchestral work Odyssey between 1973 and 1987. It is a single, unbroken 96-minute span of symphonic music which has been unanimously praised since its initial performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1987 at a BBC Prom. This concert at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios is presented by Andrew McGregor.
    Nicholas Maw: Odyssey
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Andrew Litton (conductor).
      20051212 British Music Focus
    Sarah Walker is at the Ironmongers' Hall in the City of London for the 2005 British Composer Awards. The ceremony, the third of its kind, is presented by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters in association with Radio 3, and includes excerpts from winning works in eleven categories, including the BBC Radio 3 Listeners' Award.
    The BBC Singers celebrate the event with a special concert, conducted by Bob Chilcott, after the awards at around 9.00pm. The concert will feature past and present nominees.
      20051214 Young Scot Garry Walker conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in two of their most popular recent commissions by Scottish composers - the lyrical Viola Concerto No 2 by Sally Beamish - performed by Lawrence Power - and the atmospheric classic by James MacMillan, inspired by the island of Iona.
    The concert also includes Nigel Osborne's chamber work Zansa, previously performed in collaboration with the Rambert Dance company, and an early symphony by Hans Werner Henze.
    Osborne: Zansa
    Beamish: Viola Concerto No 2 (Seafarer)
    MacMillan: I, A Meditation on Iona
    Henze: Symphony No 1
    Lawrence Power (viola)
    Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    Garry Walker (conductor).
      20051215Continuesat8.45pmafterTwentyMinutesLive from Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Louise Fryer introduces the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Danish conductor Thomas Dausgaard.
    The orchestra treats us to Brahms' Variations on a theme of Haydn, plus Nielsen's lyrical 3rd Symphony, and the orchestra is joined by eminent soloist Gil Shaham for music by Sibelius - his Violin Concerto.
    Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn
    Sibelius: Violin Concerto
    Gil Shaham (violin)
    Rachel Nicholls (soprano)
    Jeremy Huw-Williams (baritone)
    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
    The live concert from Symphony Hall in Birmingham continues and spotlights Nielsen's Symphony No 3, Sinfonia Espansiva.
      20051226 Sondheim at 75 - Perfect Relationships
    Julia McKenzie hosts a star-studded gala concert in celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 75th birthday, recorded at Hackney Empire.
    The first part of the evening includes some of Sondheim's best-known songs on the subject of relationships, from Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along and Into the Woods, with many of his greatest hits - including Anyone Can Whistle, There Won't Be Trumpets, In Buddy's Eyes, Losing My Mind, Not When I'm Around and Send in the Clowns.
    In Part Two, there's a concert performance of Company, the Tony Award-winning musical from 1970, about a 30-something single guy who is indifferent to love and commitment, despite being surrounded by five married couples.
    Robert....Julian Ovenden
    Joanne....Kim Criswell
    Larry....Nicholas Pound
    Amy....Melanie Marshall
    Paul....Christopher Dee
    Susan....Sarah Ryan
    Peter....Mark Meadows
    Jenny....Kimberley Akester
    David....Michael Robinson
    Sarah....Sharon Eckman
    Harry....Michael Cantwell
    Marta....Alison Jiear
    Kathy....Samantha Shaw
    April....Emma Kershaw
    Maida Vale Singers
    Christopher Dee (director)
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    Martin Yates (conductor).
      20051227 More of Loesser
    Songs from the shows of Frank Loesser - such as Guys and Dolls, Where's Charley? and The Most Happy Fella - are followed by a concert performance of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Recorded after a run of performances at Chichester Festival Theatre earlier this year, Joe McFadden stars as J Pierrepoint Finch, the ambitious newcomer to the World Wide Wicket Company, with James Bolam as its president JB Biggley.
    Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    The Voice of the Book....Alistair Mcgowan
    J Pierrepoint Finch....Joe McFadden
    Rosemary Pilkington....Fiona Dunn
    Smitty....Sophie-Louise Dann
    JB Biggley....James Bolam
    Bud Frump....David Langham
    Miss Jones....Beverley Klein
    Mr Twimble/Wally Womper....Teddy Kempner
    Hedy La Rue....Annette McLaughlin
    Bratt....Trevor Jones
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    Richard Balcombe (conductor).
      20051228 Gregorian chant and Catholic ritual strongly influenced the music of French organists and composers Maurice Durufle (1902-1986) and Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), although their compositional styles were very different. Donald Runnicles makes a welcome return to the BBC Symphony Orchestra to conduct two divinely-inspired masterpieces. Presented by Paul Guinery.
    Messiaen: Trois Petites Liturgies
    Durufle: Requiem
    Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot)
    Steven Osborne (piano)
    Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
    Christopher Maltman (baritone)
    BBC Symphony Chorus
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Donald Runnicles (conductor).
      20060113Continuesat8.35pmafterTwentyMinutesGet Carter! The Music of Elliott Carter
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Live from the Barbican, London
    The BBC Symphony Orchestra's annual January Weekend turns the spotlight on the great American composer Elliott Carter at 97 years young. Age shows no sign of wearying his creative drive or innovative powers. The Weekend sets music by Carter alongside works by composers who are his friends or heroes. One such friend, Oliver Knussen, conducts the opening concert, which includes the seminal Piano Concerto of 1965. Presented by John Tusa.
    Elliott Carter: Three Occasions
    Copland: Connotations
    Nicolas Hodges (piano)
    Oliver Knussen (conductor)
    Continuing the BBC Symphony Orchestra's annual January Weekend which turns the spotlight on the great American composer Elliott Carter at 97 years young. Age shows no sign of wearying his creative drive or innovative powers. The Weekend sets music by Carter alongside works by composers who are his friends or heroes. Presented by John Tusa.
    Elliott Carter: Piano Concerto
      20060119Continuesat8.45pmafterTwentyMinutesA live concert from the refurbished, reborn Glasgow City Halls, the new home of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
    The concert raises the curtain on a series of special Radio 3 events from Scotland's innovative centre for music in the heart of Glasgow's Merchant City.
    Jonathan Harvey: Towards a Pure Land (BBC Commission, World Premiere)
    Beethoven: Triple Concerto
    Israel Piano Trio
    Stravinsky: The Firebird (original version)
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Ilan Volkov (conductor)
    The live concert from the new home of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra continues, with the focus on Stravinsky's The Firebird.
      20060120Continuesat8.45pmafterTwentyMinutesThe Scottish Chamber Orchestra makes its debut appearance in the new City Halls concert hall in Glasgow, presenting a programme with a distinctly Parisian flavour.
    Frans Bruggen conducts music by Haydn and Mozart, written to impress a Paris audience, as well as a short overture by Chevalier de Saint-George, often referred to as 'the black Mozart'.
    Rameau: Suite from Nais
    Haydn: Symphony No 85, La Reine
    Chevalier de Saint-George: Overture, L'amant anonyme
    Mozart: Symphony No 31 - Paris
    The Scottish Chamber Orchestra continues its debut appearance in the new City Halls concert hall in Glasgow, with works by Mozart and Chevalier de Saint-George.
      20060123 2/12. Shostakovich and His Heroes
    Continuing a series of concerts featuring the BBC Philharmonic playing Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    Prokofiev's cosmopolitan background must have seemed at odds with Shostakovich's - the one embracing time spent in America and Europe before returning to Moscow, the other firmly rooted in Russia.
    Shostakovich thought Prokofiev an iconic figure, and the overture to the latter's epic opera is reflected in one of Shostakovich's most direct statements in his Fifth Symphony. The private side of Shostakovich hides behind this late song cycle written at the end of his life.
    Prokofiev: Overture - War and Peace
    Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo; Symphony No 5.
      20060124Continuesat8.20pmafterTwentyMinutes3/12. Shostakovich and His Heroes
    Continuing a series of concerts - featuring the Northern Sinfonia playing Britten, Bach and Shostakovich, live from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    The concert begins with music by one of Shostakovich's contemporaries - Britten. Then it's the orchestral version of Bach's organ choral prelude. In the second half of the concert, the orchestra tackles Shostakovich's Symphony No 14.
    Britten: Suite on English folk tunes, Op 90
    Bach: Vor deinen Thron tret' ich - chorale prelude for organ, BWV 668
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 14, Op 135
    The live concert from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall continues with the Northern Sinfonia playing Shostakovich's Symphony No 14.
      20060126Continuesat8.35pmafterTwentyMinutesShostakovich and His Heroes
    5/12. Continuing a series of concerts - featuring the Halle Orchestra playing Beethoven, one of Shostakovich's ultimate heroes, from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.
    The orchestra performs Beethoven's overture Egmont and his Concerto No 2. In the second half of the concert, it's Shostakovich's mighty Symphony No 10.
    Beethoven: Egmont - incidental music, Op 84; Concerto for piano and orchestra No 2, Op 19
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 10, Op 93
    Christian Blackshaw (piano)
    Halle Orchestra
    Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (conductor)
    5/12. Shostakovich and His Heroes: The concert featuring the Halle Orchestra in the Shostakovich series continues, with the spotlight on his Symphony No 10.
      20060127Continuesat8.00pmafterTwentyMinutesRadio 3's celebration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth continues with another live concert from London. Presented by Andrew McGregor from the Barbican Hall.
    The BBC Symphony Orchestra plays Mozart's final symphony, the great Jupiter in C, written in Vienna in 1788. The full forces gather for the Mass in Cm, composed a few years earlier in Vienna at a time when Mozart had become interested in the music of Bach and Handel.
    Symphony No 41, Jupiter
    Laura Aikin, Emma Bell (soprano)
    Jeremy Ovenden (tenor)
    James Rutherford (bass)
    BBC Symphony Chorus
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    David Robertson (conductor)
    The live concert from the Barbican Hall marking the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth continues with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus performing the Mass in Cm.
      20060130 Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a concert from the Sage Gateshead given by the Northern Sinfonia, under their Musical Director Thomas Zehetmair, featuring two 20th Century Eastern European masterpieces.
    The brilliant Norwegian cellist Truls Mork joins the orchestra for a concerto by Shostakovich, and there's an opportunity for the back row of the orchestra to show their skills in Bartók's innovative Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta. The concert ends with Mozart's flamboyant Haffner Symphony.
    Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
    Shostakovich: Cello concerto No 1
    Mozart: Symphony No 35 - Haffner
    Truls Mork (cello)
    Northern Sinfonia
    Thomas Zehetmair (director).
      20060131 Shostakovich and His Heroes
    6/12. Surprisingly, operetta was one of Shostakovich's private passions and Lehar's Merry Widow was one of his favourites. Shostakovich was also an avid collector of scores and recordings of Mahler's music as soon as they reached Russia; and their emotional qualities left a mark on him.
    Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    Lehar: The Merry Widow - a waltz sequence
    Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 8
    Ashley Holland (baritone)
    BBC Philharmonic
    Vassily Sinaisky (conductor).
      20060201Continuesat8.50pmafterTwentyMinutesThe Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Principal Conductor Marin Alsop are on home territory for a concert of music by Eastern European composers. Live from the Lighthouse, Poole, presented by Verity Sharp.
    Bartók's Dance Suite was one of three commissions written in 1923 to mark the 50th anniversary of the union of Buda and Pest as the Hungarian capital.
    Sensational young American cellist Alisa Weilerstein joins the orchestra for one of the most popular of all cello concertos and, after the interval, Tchaikovsky's Second Symphony, nicknamed later Little Russian, because of its pervasive use of well-known folksongs.
    Bartók: Dance Suite
    Dvorak: Cello Concerto
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Alisa Weilerstein (cello)
    Marin Alsop (conductor)
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's concert in Poole continues, spotlighting Tchaikovsky's Second Symphony.
      20060202Continuesat8.40pmafterTwentyMinutes7/12. Shostakovich and his Heroes
    Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    Shostakovich's first symphony was written while the composer was a student - a precocious, colourful and witty work. It was so well received that Shostakovich took pleasure in commemorating the anniversary of the first performance throughout his life.
    The second symphony, composed the following year, was the result of a commission to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the revolution. Around these two works, The Halle present music which, despite differences in scale and intent, nonetheless had a profound influence on Shostakovich's symphonic writing.
    Bach: Contrapunctus from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
    Mahler: Ruckertlieder; Ich Atmet' Einem Linden Duft; Liebst Du Um Schonheit; Blicke Mir Nicht In Die Lieder; Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen; Um Mitternacht
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 2 (To The October Revolution)
    Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano)
    Halle Orchestra
    Mark Elder (director)
    7/12. The Halle Orchestra continues its concert, with the focus on Offenbach's Gaiete Parisienne; plus Shostakovich's Symphony No 1 in Fm, Op 1.
      20060203 Artur Pizarro continues his major series at St John's, Smith Square, London, in which he performs the complete works for piano solo by Debussy and Ravel. The focus is on works composed between 1908 and 1911. Presented by Sarah Walker.
    Debussy: Children's Corner; Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum; Jimbo's Lullaby; Serenade for the Doll; The Snow is Dancing; The Little Shepherd; Golliwogg's Cake Walk; La Petit negre; La plus que lente; Hommage à Haydn
    Ravel: Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn; Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
    Debussy: Préludes Book 1; Danseuses de Delphes; Voiles; Le vent dans la plaine; Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir; Les collines d'Anacapri; Des pas sur la neige; Ce qu'a vu le vent d'Ouest; La fille aux cheveux de lin; La serenade interrompue; La Cathédrale engloutie; La danse de Puck; Minstrels.
      20060206 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Recorded at the Lighthouse, Poole, presented by Piers Burton-Page. Marin Alsop takes the orchestra on a journey through three contemporary British works.
    Stephen McNeff is the BSO's newly appointed Composer in the House for the next two years and his Secret Destinations receives its premiere. Cellist Maria Kliegel joins the orchestra in The Protecting Veil by John Tavener, followed by Jonathan Lloyd's Symphony No 4, part of Radio 3 and the Royal Philharmonic Society's joint Encore scheme.
    McNeff: Secret Destinations (world premiere)
    Tavener: The Protecting Veil
    Lloyd: Symphony No 4
    Maria Kliegel (cello)
    Marin Alsop (conductor).
      20060207 The rich musical heritage of Prague and the Czech lands is celebrated in this concert, recorded at The Sage, Gateshead. Mozart's symphonic masterpiece is paired with a symphonic rarity from Hans Krasa, whose life was brought to a tragic end in Auschwitz. Dvorák's engaging violin concerto is preceded by one of Janacek's earliest published works. Introduced by Chris de Sousa.
    Mozart: Symphony No 38 - Prague, K504
    Krasa: Symphony (1925)
    Janacek: Suite, Op 3
    Dvorák: Violin Concerto, Op 53
    With Diana Moore (soprano)
    Northern Sinfonia
    Thomas Zehetmair (violin/conductor).
      20060208Continuesat8.40pmafterTwentyMinutesArtur Pizarro continues his major series at St John's, Smith Square in London, in which he performs the complete works for piano solo by Debussy and Ravel. He focuses on works composed between 1912 and 1915. Presented by Sarah Walker.
    Debussy: Préludes Book 2
    Brouillards
    Feuilles mortes
    La Puerta del Vino
    Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses
    Bruyères
    General Lavine - excentrique
    La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
    Ondine
    Hommage à S Pickwick Esq. PPMPC
    Canope
    Les tierces alternées
    Feux d'artifice
    Ravel: Prélude
    À la manière de...Borodine; À la manière de...Chabrier
    Debussy: Six Épigraphes Antiques
    pour invoquer Pan
    pour un tombeau sans nom
    pour que la nuit soit propice
    pour la danseuse aux crotales
    pour l'Égyptiénne
    pour remercier la pluie au matin
    Étude Retrouvée
    Berceuse héroïque
    Elégie
    Page d'album (Pour l'oeuvre du vêtement du blessé)
    Les soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon
    Continuing Artur Pizarro's concert in his series of the complete works for piano solo by Debussy and Ravel, focusing on the years 1912 and 1915. From St John's, Smith Square in London.
      20060209Continuesat8.30pmafterTwentyMinutes8/12. Shostakovich and his Heroes
    Presented by Petroc Trelawny live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
    Gustav Mahler was a potent influence on Shostakovich, especially in the later symphonies. In this Halle Orchestra concert, Mahler's dark-hued songs on the death of children are set against Shostakovich's 'agit-rop' Third Symphony (1929), with its choral finale celebrating May Day, and the enigmatic 9th (1945), with its entertaining surface and darker undertones.
    Stravinsky: Scherzo à la Russe
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 3 in E flat, Op 20, May Day
    Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 9 in E flat, Op 70
    Mark Stone (baritone)
    Halle Choir
    Royal Northern College of Music Chorus
    Halle Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor)
    Continuing the Halle Orchestra concert celebrating Shostakovich and his Heroes, live from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.
      20060210 Danish composer Poul Ruders' mastery of symphonic form is featured in a concert from Manchester, presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    Ruders: Fairytale; Piano Concerto; Symphony No 2, Symphony and Transformation
    Rolf Hind (piano)
    BBC Philharmonic
    James MacMillan (conductor).
      20060213 9/12. Shostakovich and his Heroes
    The public and private faces of Shostakovich are sharply contrasted in these consecutive works, from an official formalist response, to male voice settings of Yevtushenko's powerful and dangerously controversial poetry. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 12, The Year 1917; Symphony No 13, Babi Yar
    BBC Philharmonic
    Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
    John Tomlinson (bass)
    Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus
    Huddersfield Choral Society
    Bulava Chorus.
      20060214 A Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concert that opens with the world premiere of Ghost Ranch, by Michael Daugherty. The title for this BBC Radio 3 commission is taken from the name of the ranch in New Mexico belonging to artist Georgia O'Keeffe, who was the inspiration for the work.
    Recorded at the Anvil in Basingstoke, presented by Piers Burton-Page.
    Daugherty: Ghost Ranch (world premiere)
    Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 4
    Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Boris Berezovsky (piano)
    Marin Alsop (conductor).
     Osvaldo Golijov, Composer Portrait20060216 BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Osvaldo Golijov maybe a new name to contemporary music fans in the UK, but the Argentine-born composer has already had considerable success in the US with his St. Mark Passion. His music is a memorable blend of Spanish, Latin-American and Jewish influences. The BBCSO gives the UK premiere of Last Round for strings, and Tekyah, written for the BBC's Holocaust: A Music Memorial Film from Auschwitz, broadcast last January, and involving an unusual ensemble including kletzmer clarinet, hyper-accordion and the sound of 10 antelope horns.
    Then Dawn Upshaw joins the BBCSO for the world premiere of a new concert suite from his opera about Federico Garcia Lorca, Ainadamar. And Upshaw and The Andalucian Dogs ensemble perform Ayre, described as "a lush mix of Spanish and Mediterranean influences, telling of love and war, religion and rage and sung in Ladino, Arabic, Hebrew, Sardinian, Spanish and Ancient Aramaic."
    Presented by Christopher Cook.
    Golijov, Osvaldo: Last Round (UK premiere); Tekyah (UK premiere); Ainadamar Arias and Ensembles (world premiere); Ayre (European premiere)
    Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
    Jessica Rivera (soprano)
    Kelly O'Connor (mezzo-soprano)
    Michael Ward-Bergman (Accordion)
    David Krakauer (Kleztmer Clarinet)
    Apollo Voices (chorus)
    The Andalucian Dogs (ensemble)
    Roberto Minczuk (conductor).
      20060217 London Philharmonic Orchestra
    Recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, presented by Edward Seckerson.
    This year marks important anniversaries for two great composers: it's the 100th anniversary of Shostakovich's and the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birthday, and both are celebrated in tonight's concert from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.
    Suites by Shostakovich are heard alongside opera arias by Mozart, for which the orchestra is joined by Russian bass Alexander Vinogradov.
    Shostakovich: Jazz Suite 1; King Lear: Ten Songs of the Fool
    Mozart: A Musical Joke; Madamina, il catalogo di questo, Don Giovanni; Tutto è disposto, Figaro; Diggi, Daggi, Bastien & Bastienne
    Shostakovich: Hypothetically Murdered, Suite
    Alexander Vinogradov (bass)
    Vladimir Jurowski (conductor).
      20060221 British-born conductor Jonathan Nott has made a great reputation for himself in Europe, but has not often been seen at work in the UK. He makes his debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a fascinating programme.
    There's a Haydn symphony, a rarely-heard Schubert symphony, Schubert-inspired music by Henze, and the world premiere of an imaginative new violin concerto by Simon Holt, performed by young violinist Vivianne Hagner. Presented by Penny Gore.
    Haydn: Symphony No 44 Trauersinfonie
    Simon Holt: Violin Concerto (BBC Commission)
    Henze: Erlkonig
    Schubert: Symphony No 6
    Viviane Hagner (violin)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Jonathan Nott (conductor).
      20060222 Joe Lovano joins the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for Turnage's answer to A Lark Ascending, his saxophone concerto A Man Descending. Plus more collaborations with the jazz world in Turnage's Scorched, an orchestration of free jazz for trio and chamber orchestra based on tunes by John Scofield.
    In between, a quartet made up of Joe Lovano, John Scofield, Peter Erskine and John Patitucci perform music from each other's repertoire. Recorded at the Barbican Hall, London, presented by Sandy Burnett.
    Turnage: A Man Descending
    Quartet set
    Turnage: Scorched
    Joe Lovano (tenor saxophone)
    John Scofield (electric and acoustic guitar)
    Pete Erskine (drums)
    John Patitucci (electric bass and acoustic bass)
    Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    Stefan Asbury (conductor).
      20060223Continuesat8.40pmafterTwentyMinutes11/12. Shostakovich and his Heroes
    The Halle Orchestra and Principal Guest conductor Cristian Mandeal bring together a programme of music featuring two composers whom Shostakovich especially admired. Mahler was a guiding inspiration behind a lot of Shostakovich's symphonic thinking, while in Britten he found a kindred musical spirit.
    The concert also features Shostakovich's ebullient and witty concerto for piano and trumpet, and from 1939 the 6th Symphony, which the composer said was motivated by feelings of 'spring, joy, youth and lyricism'.
    Britten: Peter Grimes - Four Sea Interludes, Op 33a
    Shostakovich: Concerto No 1 for Piano, Trumpet and Strings in Cm
    Mahler: Blumine
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 6 in Bm, Op 54
    Alexander Melnikov (solo piano)
    John MacMurray (solo trumpet)
    Halle Orchestra
    Cristian Mandeal (conductor)
    The Halle Orchestra concert continues, with the spotlight on Mahler's Blumine and Shostakovich's Symphony No 6.
      20060224Continuesat8.40pmafterTwentyMinutes12/12. Shostakovich and His Heroes
    Shostakovich admitted that his strongest hero was Mahler: the influence is subtle, but there in all of Shostakovich's symphonies from the Fourth onwards, shaping melody and emotional direction.
    So it's appropriate that Shostakovich's last symphony ends this festival paired with Mahler's last work, whose music haunted many a page of Shostakovich's work for the last 40 years of his life. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 15
    Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
    Katarina Karnéus (mezzo-soprano)
    Jürgen Müller (tenor)
    BBC Philharmonic
    Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
    BBC Philharmonic's concert that concludes the festival of Shostakovich and His Heroes spotlights Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.
      20060227 Gustav Mahler wrote his great 9th Symphony in 1909 with his marriage and his health failing, and there is little room for comfort or solace in the music. Yet at the end of this visionary account of the symphony at the Barbican in December, there was a feeling of hope, a glimpse of heaven. Presented by Christopher Cook.
    Mahler: Symphony No 9
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).
      20060228 Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a concert from the Sage, Gateshead, as one of the rising stars of the British musical world, Robin Ticciati, makes his debut conducting Northern Sinfonia in a programme of Brahms, Strauss and Elgar.
    Elgar: Serenade for string orchestra, Op 20, in Em
    Strauss: Duett-concertino for clarinet, bassoon, string orch. & harp, AV 147; Prelude from Capriccio
    Brahms: Serenade No 1, Op 11, in D
    Christopher Richards (clarinet)
    Stephen Reay (bassoon)
    Northern Sinfonia
    Robin Ticciati (conductor).
      20060301 The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform in their new home, Glasgow's recently reopened and renovated City Halls. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
    Busoni: Berceuse elegiaque
    Sibelius: Violin Concerto
    Alina Pogostkina (violin)
    Fausto Romitelli: Flowing down too slow
    Beethoven: Symphony No 3 (Eroica)
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Ilan Volkov (conductor).
      20060302Continuesat8.50pmafterTwentyMinutesSarah Walker presents a celebration of Richard Rodney Bennett's 70th birthday live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. The concert reflects the many aspects of his long and distinguished career, and the composer himself plays the piano part in his Oscar-nominated score for Murder on the Orient Express.
    Partita
    Country Dances (Chamber Version, World premiere)
    Concerto for Stan Getz
    Suite - Gormenghast: 1 Celebration; 2 Fuchsia and Lord Groan; 3 Irma's Romance; 4 The Red Room; 5 Farewell to Gormenghast
    Suite - Far from the Madding Crowd
    Yanks - Love Theme
    Suite - Murder on the Orient Express - Overture, Waltz, Theme
    Andy Scott (saxophone)
    Richard Rodney Bennett (piano)
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    John Wilson (conductor)
    The Richard Rodney Bennett 70th birthday celebration continues with suites from Gormenghast, Far from the Madding Crowd and Murder on the Orient Express.
      20060303 Christopher Cook presents a concert, given by the Northern Sinfonia and conductor David Lockington, of American classics.
    Clarinettist Richard Stoltzman brings his jazz background and breathtaking technique to solo works for clarinet, including Copland's concerto which was written for jazzman Benny Goodman. A John Adams piece inspired by the Kentucky-based Shaker community also features, alongside one of the great masterpieces from 20th Century America - Aaron Copland's portrait of rural life in the Appalachian Mountains.
    John Adams: Shaker Loops
    Copland: Clarinet Concerto
    Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata
    Copland: Appalachian Spring
    Richard Stoltzman (clarinet)
    Northern Sinfonia
    David Lockington (conductor).
      20060306Continuesat8.05pmafterTwentyMinutesIn a concert live from the BBC Studios in Maida Vale, Stephen Cleobury directs a bird's eye view of Mozart's sacred music. Introduced by Paul Guinery.
    Regina Coeli, K276
    Ave verum corpus, K618
    Mass in C, K257 - Credo Mass
    Olivia Robinson, Elizabeth Poole (soprano)
    Siân Menna (mezzo-soprano)
    Christopher Bowen (tenor)
    Stuart MacIntyre (baritone)
    BBC Singers
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
    The BBC Concert Orchestra's Maida Vale concert featuring sacred music by Mozart continues with his Mass in Cm, K427.
      20060307 A homage to Yehudi Menuhin, featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Christopher Cook.
    Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999) has a legacy that extends well beyond his great recordings - music education was another area where he was a pioneer. Three of the soloists in this concert studied at the Menuhin School for musically gifted children in Surrey. Two of them - Jennifer Pike and Nicola Benedetti - are winners of the BBC's Young Musician of the Year competition.
    Plus there's a world premiere of a work for string orchestra by the Irish composer Gerald Barry.
    Bach, transcr Stokowski: Prelude from Partita No 3 in E
    Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in Dm
    Barry, Gerald: Day (BBC Commission, World Premiere)
    Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
    Elgar: Violin Concerto
    Tasmin Little, Jennifer Pike, Nicola Benedetti, Alina Ibragimova (violin)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    John Storgards (conductor).
      20060308 RNCM Festival of Brass
    Petroc Trelawny introduces highlights from a unique event in the brass band calendar. The festival themes of Celebrating Mozart and Landscapes and Images are featured.
    Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen: Hommage a WA Mozart (Festival Commission, first performance)
    Elgar Howarth: Cornet Concerto
    Hakan Hardenburger (cornet)
    Grimethorpe (UK Coal) Band
    Allan Withington (conductor)
    Peter Meechan: Snake Eyes (Festival Commission, first performance)
    RNCM Brass Ensemble
    James Gourlay (conductor)
    Herbert Howells: Pageantry
    Brighouse and Rastrick Band
    Martin Ellerby: Terra Australis (UK Premiere)
    YBS Band
    David King (conductor)
    Buxton Orr: Trombone Concerto
    Arthur Bliss: Kenilworth
    Ian Bousfield (trombone)
    Fodens (Richardson) Band
    Garry Cut (conductor)
    Philip Wilby: Music for the Moving Image (UK Premiere)
    Malcolm Arnold, arr Farr: Four Cornish Dances
    Black Dyke Band
    Nicholas Childs (conductor).
      20060309 Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces the Northern Sinfonia at the Sage in Gateshead. Frans Bruggen is the distinguished guest conductor.
    Beethoven: Egmont Overture; Symphony No 6 (Pastoral)
    Haydn: Symphony No 104 (The London).
      20060310Continuesat8.40pmafterTwentyMinutesLive from Cheltenham Town Hall, Sarah Walker presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
    It began life as a cello concerto, but was beefed up on a much grander scale. Prokofiev's symphony-concerto is one of the most devilishly demanding works in the cello repertoire. Here it is joined by Beethoven's overture to the tale of an anguished Roman general and Schubert's 'Great' C symphony.
    Beethoven: Coriolan - Overture, Op 62
    Prokofiev: Symphony-concerto for cello and orchestra, Op 125, in Em, after Op 58
    Schubert: Symphony No 9, D944, in C - Great
    Li-Wei (cello)
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Joseph Swensen (conductor)
    The live concert from Cheltenham Town Hall concludes with Schubert's Symphony No 9.
     Shostakovich String Quartets - 220060313 Stephanie Hughes introduces a series of concerts marking the centenary of Shostakovich's birth. Featuring the Aviv String Quartet at London's Wigmore Hall.
    String Quartet No 6 in G
    String Quartet No 13 in B flat m
    String Quartet No 3 in F.
     Shostakovich String Quartets - 320060314 Stephanie Hughes introduces another in a complete cycle of concerts marking the centenary of Shostakovich's birth. Featuring the Aviv String Quartet at London's Wigmore Hall, with Eva Ostrovsky on piano.
    String Quartet No 15 in E flat m
    Piano Quintet in Gm.
     Shostakovich String Quartets - 420060315 Stephanie Hughes introduces another in a series of concerts marking the centenary of Shostakovich's birth. Featuring the Jerusalem String Quartet at London's Wigmore Hall.
    String Quartet No 1 in C
    String Quartet No 12 in D flat
    String Quartet No 8 in Cm.
     Shostakovich String Quartets - 520060316 Stephanie Hughes introduces the penultimate concert in this cycle from London's Wigmore Hall. Featuring the Jerusalem String Quartet.
    String Quartet No 11 in Fm
    String Quartet No 4 in D
    String Quartet No 10 in A flat.
      20060317 Shostakovich String Quartets
    6/6. Stephanie Hughes introduces the final concert in the complete centenary cycle from London's Wigmore Hall. With the Jerusalem String Quartet.
    String Quartet No 5 in B flat
    String Quartet No 9 in E flat.
     Bbc Symphony Orchestra At The Barbican20060320 As the Barbican Centre celebrates the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth, Martin Robertson joins the BBC SO for Mark-Anthony Turnage's saxophone concerto, based around Beckett's monologue Rockaby. Plus Joseph Swensen conducts two great works by Sibelius and Nielsen's life-affirming Fourth Symphony.
    Sibelius: En Saga
    Turnage: Your Rockaby
    Nielsen: Symphony No 4, The Inextinguishable
    Martin Robertson (saxophone)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Joseph Swensen (conductor).
      20060321 The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's Music Director Sakari Oramo pits the orchestra's wits against the epic voyage from darkness to light that is Mahler's second Resurrection Symphony. Plus a piece the orchestra commissioned from composer Thea Musgrave in 1968, representing the rebellious attitudes of that decade. Presented by Martin Handley.
    Musgrave: Concerto for Orchestra
    Mahler: Symphony No 2, Resurrection
    Anu Komsi (soprano)
    Jane Irwin (mezzo-soprano)
    City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Sakari Oramo (conductor).
      20060323Continuesat8.45pmafterTwentyMinutesThe final programme in Artur Pizarro's major series from St John's, Smith Square, London, in which he has performed the complete works for piano solo by Debussy and Ravel. Presented by Sarah Walker.
    Final Thoughts
    Debussy: 12 Études
    pour les cinq doigts - d'après Monsieur Czerny; pour les Tierces; pour les Quartes; pour les Sixtes; pour les Octaves; pour les huit doigts; pour les degrees chromatiques; pour les Agréments; pour les Notes répétées; pour les Sonorités opposes; pour les Arpéges composes; pour les Accords
    Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
    Prélude; Fugue; Forlane; Rigaudon; Menuet; Toccata
    La Valse - Poème choreographique
    Artur Pizarro concludes the last of his concerts in his cycle of the complete piano works of Debussy and Ravel, with the latter's Le Tombeau de Couperin and La Valse.
      20060324 Canadian violinist James Ehnes has been described as having a blistering technique, the purest intonation and a sun-ripe tone, all of which he puts to good use in a performance of Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto. Then principal conductor Marin Alsop leads the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Elgar's Second Symphony, which the composer himself said depicted the 'passionate pilgrimage' of a soul.
    Recorded at the Lighthouse, Poole, presented by Piers Burton-Page.
    Beethoven: Overture - Fidelio
    Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1
    Elgar: Symphony No 2
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    James Ehnes (violin)
    Marin Alsop (conductor).
      20060326 Louise Fryer presents another in a series of programmes from the Piano 2006 Festival in Manchester, which this year features Mozart's piano concertos as part of Celebrating Mozart.
    2/7. A concert featuring three works which span Mozart's career. Festival director Barry Douglas is the soloist in Mozart's 25th Concerto (K503); the young Belfast pianist Michael McHale plays the fifth concerto, (sometimes referred to as his first - the previous youthful four being based on music by other composers) and the two soloists join forces for Concerto for Two Pianos, written when Mozart was 23.
    Concerto No 5 in D, K175
    Michael McHale (piano)
    Concerto No 25 in C, K503
    Barry Douglas (piano)
    Concerto for Two Pianos in E flat, K365
    Michael McHale, Barry Douglas (piano)
    Halle Orchestra
    Barry Douglas (conductor).
      20060327 Louise Fryer presents another in a series of programmes from the Piano 2006 Festival in Manchester, which this year features Mozart's piano concertos as part of Celebrating Mozart.
    3/7. A trio of young pianists play three of Mozart's most celebrated Viennese concertos. RNCM student Alexandra Dariescu and Irishman Finghin Collins perform two of the concertos which Mozart wrote for his subscription series in 1784, when he was the toast of the city. Englishman Freddy Kempf is the soloist in the later 'Coronation' concerto of 1788.
    Concerto No 15 in B flat, K450
    Alexandra Dariescu (piano)
    Concerto No 19 in F, K459
    Finghin Collins (piano/director)
    Concerto No 26 in D, K537
    Freddy Kempf (piano)
    Royal Northern College of Music Chamber Orchestra
    Andre de Ridder (conductor).
      20060328 Celebrating Mozart
    Louise Fryer presents another in a series of programmes from the Piano 2006 Festival in Manchester, which this year features Mozart's piano concertos.
    4/7. A trio of Mozart's most celebrated concertos written after his arrival in Vienna.
    Concerto No 18 in B flat, K456
    Michael Roll (piano)
    Concerto No 21 in C, K467
    Anne Queffelec (piano)
    Concerto No 23 in A, K488
    Martin Roscoe (piano)
    BBC Philharmonic
    Paul Goodwin (conductor).
      20060329 Louise Fryer presents another in a series of programmes from the Piano 2006 Festival in Manchester, which this year features Mozart's piano concertos as part of Celebrating Mozart.
    5/7. A concert encompassing the full range of Mozart's concerto writing - from the fresh Jeunehomme concerto of 1777 to the dark-hued Dm Concerto from 1785; and the sparkling Concerto for three pianos, composed in February 1776 for Countess Antonia Lodron and her two daughters Aloisia and Giuseppina.
    Piano Concerto No 9 in E flat, K271, Jeunehomme
    Noriko Ogawa (piano)
    Piano Concerto No 20 in Dm, K466
    Kathryn Stott (piano)
    Stravinsky: Concerto in D for string orchestra
    Concerto for three pianos in F, K242
    Noriko Ogawa, Kathryn Stott and Finghin Collins (piano)
    Manchester Camerata
    Douglas Boyd (conductor).
      20060330 Louise Fryer presents another in a series of programmes from the Piano 2006 Festival in Manchester, which this year features Mozart's piano concertos as part of Celebrating Mozart.
    6/7. A concert from Festival Director Barry Douglas' own Camerata Ireland, featuring three of Mozart's greatest Viennese concertos.
    Piano Concerto No 17 in G, K453
    Matthais Kerschnereit (piano)
    Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat, K482
    Barry Douglas (piano)
    Piano Concerto No 24 in Cm, K491
    John O'Conor (piano)
    Camerata Ireland
    Barry Douglas (conductor).
      20060331 Louise Fryer presents the last in a series of programmes from the Piano 2006 Festival in Manchester, which this year features Mozart's piano concertos as part of Celebrating Mozart.
    7/7. Steven Osborne plays the valedictory concerto which Mozart composed just under a year before his early death. By contrast, Michel Dalberto plays the majestic
    concerto written at the height of the Viennese love affair with Mozart as composer and soloist in his own music.
    Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
    Mozart: Concerto No 16 in D, K451
    Michel Dalberto (piano)
    Mozart: Concerto No 27 in B flat, K595
    Steven Osborne (piano)
    BBC Philharmonic
    Paul Goodwin (conductor).
      20060403 1/3. John Toal presents the first of a series of concerts from Belfast marking the 150th anniversary of Schumann's death, and featuring all four of his symphonies.
    Schumann: Symphony No 1 - Spring; Cello Concerto; Symphony No 4 (original version)
    Steven Isserlis (cello)
    Ulster Orchestra
    Thierry Fischer (conductor).
      20060404 2/3. John Toal presents another in a series of concerts from Belfast marking the 150th anniversary of Schumann's death, and featuring all four of his symphonies.
    Schumann: Overture - Manfred; Piano Concerto; Symphony No 2
    Louis Lortie (cello)
    Ulster Orchestra
    Thierry Fischer (conductor).
      20060405 3/3. John Toal presents the last in a series of concerts from Belfast marking the 150th anniversary of Schumann's death, and featuring all four of his symphonies.
    Schumann: Overture, Scherzo and Finale; Violin Concerto; Symphony No 3 - Rhenish
    Pekka Kuusisto (cello)
    Ulster Orchestra
    Thierry Fischer (conductor).
      20060406 Donald Macleod presents a concert illustrating the range both musically and geographically of Daniel Barenboim's recent performances in Europe and the Middle East. The event also heralds BBC Radio 4's Reith Lectures - starting on Friday - and Radio 3's The Ring in a Day, on Easter Monday.
    Sibelius: Excerpts from Pelléas et Mélisande, Op 46, suite after Maeterlinck - At the Castle Gate; Melisande; At the Spinning Wheel; Death of Mélisande
    Berlin Staatskapelle
    Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
    Recorded at the Philharmonie, Berlin
    Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon and Orchestra, K297b
    Mohamed Saleh (oboe)
    Kinan Azmeh (clarinet)
    Mor Biron (bassoon)
    Sharon Polyak (horn)
    West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
    Daniel Barenboim (director)
    Recorded at the Cultural Palace, Ramallah
    Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces, Op 16
    Recorded at the Palacio de Carlos V, Granada
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 in Cm, Op 37
    Daniel Barenboim (conductor/piano)
      20060407 Hilary Hahn is the violin soloist who joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Hungarian composer/conductor Peter Eötvös for a concert at the Barbican. Including Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, now established as one of the great 20th Century showcases, which was given its UK premiere 60 years ago this month by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Paul Guinery.
    Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
    Schoenberg: Violin Concerto
    Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
    Hilary Hahn (violin)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Peter Eötvös (conductor).
      20060411 BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican
    Richard Rodney Bennett - 70th Birthday Celebration
    The celebrations continue with some of Bennett's concert music for orchestra. The Third Symphony is a thoughtful and lyrical piece from 1987, written ten years after Actaeon, a tone-poem for horn and orchestra. The BBC Symphony Chorus perform Bennett's musical seascape for unaccompanied choir, a setting of evocative texts by Marvell, Spencer and Shakespeare - including Full fathom five from The Tempest.
    The concert ends suitably with Anniversaries, a brilliant orchestral showcase commissioned to celebrate the BBC's 60th anniversary in 1982, and premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra itself. Introduced by Christopher Cook.
    Bennett, Richard Rodney: Symphony No 3
    Bennett, Richard Rodney: Actaeon (Metamorphosis 1)
    Bennett, Richard Rodney: Sea-Change#
    Bennett, Richard Rodney: Anniversaries
    David Pyatt (Horn)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    BBC Symphony Chorus
    Martyn Brabbins (Conductor)
    Stephen Jackson (Chorus Director).
     The Tenth London International String Quartet Competition20060412 From Wigmore Hall in London, Stephanie Hughes introduces the final round of this prestigious event, a chance to hear some of the world's finest young string quartets in action, and to see who will follow in the footsteps of such distinguished previous winners as the Takacs, Hagen and Vanbrugh quartets.
      20060413 One of Bach's most neglected major choral works, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, is given an Eastertide performance. Recorded at St David's Hall, Cardiff, and presented by Louise Fryer.
    Bach: Chorus, Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft, from Cantata No 50, BWV 50; Sinfonia concerto, from Cantata No 174, BWV 174; Chorus, Der Himmel lacht, die Erde jubiliert, from Cantata No 31, BWV 31; Easter Oratorio, BWV 249
    Joanne Lunn (soprano)
    Alison Browner (mezzo-soprano)
    James Gilchrist (tenor)
    Matthew Hargreaves (baritone)
    BBC National Chorus of Wales
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Nicholas Kraemer (conductor).
     The Passion Of Jesus Of Nazareth (uk Premiere)20060414 Composer Francis Grier joins forces with poet Elizabeth Cook for a piece in which both words and music have been newly created. Cook's libretto is based on the Gospel accounts of the Passion, but also includes some incidents and individuals that don't appear in the Bible, and Grier's virtuoso score draws on the conventions of the traditional Passion-settings, but uses the musical language of today (a Radio 3 commission).
    Presented by Louise Fryer live from King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
    Jesus....Stuart MacIntyre (baritone)
    Pilate....Graham Titus (baritone)
    Malchus, Herod, Joseph of Arimathea, 2nd Thief....Robin Tyson (counter-tenor)
    Procula....Olivia Robinson (soprano)
    Judas, Barabbas....Edward Price (bass)
    Peter....Robert Johnston (tenor)
    Man in linen cloth....Christopher Bowen (tenor)
    Caiaphas....Simon Birchall (bass)
    Centurion....Sam Evans (bass)
    Soldier....John Bowley (tenor)
    Mary of Bethany....Lynette Alcántara (mezzo soprano)
    Veronica....Siân Menna (mezzo-soprano)
    BBC Singers
    The Choristers of King's College, Cambridge
    Endymion
    Stephen Cleobury (conductor).
      20060418 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Recorded at the Lighthouse, Poole. Presented by Verity Sharp.
    Mussorgsky (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov): A Night on Bare Mountain
    Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No 4
    Prokofiev: Symphony No 5
    Natasha Paremski (piano)
    Kees Bakels (conductor).
      20060419 From The Sage, Gateshead, a performance of Handel's oratorio; L'Allegro, Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato (The Cheerful, The Thoughtful and The Moderate Man) is given by the resident ensemble Northern Sinfonia with soloists Lorna Anderson, Amy Freston, Ian Paton and Roderick Williams, and conducted by baroque specialist Nicolas McGegan. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
    Handel: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Ed Il Moderato
    Lorna Anderson (soprano)
    Amy Freston (soprano)
    Ian Paton (tenor)
    Roderick Williams (bass)
    Northern Sinfonia
    Northern Sinfonia Chorus
    Nicholas McGegan (conductor).
      20060420ContinuesFriday7.30pmBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. South American Tour 2006
    The orchestra's first ever trip to South America reaches its climax as it arrives in Argentina and performs in the legendary acoustic of Buenos Aires' world famous opera house - the Teatro Colon.
    Presented by Sarah Walker.
    Stravinsky: Divertimento (The Fairy's Kiss)
    Britten Les Illuminations
    Barbara Hannigan (soprano)
    Mahler: Symphony, No 4
    Ilan Volkov (conductor)
      20060421 The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Ilan Volkov perform at the world famous Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. Presented by Sarah Walker.
    Elgar: In the South
    Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
    Michael Collins (clarinet)
    Schumann: Symphony No 3 (Rhenish).
     Celebrating Dame Janet Baker - 1 - Britten And English Music20060424 Iain Burnside presents a week of programmes celebrating one of England's best loved musicians, the mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker. In the first programme, he explores Baker's relationship with English music and the works of Benjamin Britten in particular. With contributions from Dame Janet Baker and some of the people she worked with.
    Elgar: Sabbath Morning at Sea from Sea Pictures
    Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
    LSO
    Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)
    Britten: Canticle II Abraham and Isaac
    Peter Pears (tenor)
    Graham Johnson (piano)
    Selection of songs by Peter Warlock and Herbert Howells
    Martin Isepp (piano)
    Purcell: Dido's lament from Dido and Aeneas
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Anthony Lewis (conductor)
    Britten: Lucretia!...Last Night Tarquinius Ravished Me, from The Rape of Lucretia
    John Shirley-Quirk
    Benjamin Britten (conductor)
    Selection of songs by Ivor Gurney and Gerald Finzi
    Walton: Slowly it All Comes Back, from Troilus and Cressida
    Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
    Lawrence Foster (conductor)
    Selection of songs by Vaughan-Williams, Benjamin Britten, Roger Quilter
    Gerald Moore (piano)
    Elgar: The Angel's Farewell, from The Dream of Gerontius
    Hallé Choir and Orchestra
    Britten: Phaedra
    Janet Baker (conductor)
    Steuart Bedford (conductor).
      20060425 Celebrating Dame Janet Baker
    2/5. Berlioz Plus
    Iain Burnside continues a week of programmes celebrating the mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker. Here, he explores Baker's special relationship with the music of Berlioz. With contributions from Dame Janet Baker and some of the people she worked with.
    Berlioz: D'amour l'ardente flamme
    Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
    Orchestre de Paris
    Georges Pretre (conductor)
    Selection of songs by Fauré
    Gerald Moore (piano)
    Cavalli: Ardo, sospiro e piango Amara servitu, from La Calisto
    James Bowman, Hugues Cuenod
    London Philharmonic Orchestra
    Raymond Leppard (orchestra)
    Berlioz: Va ma soeur... Adieu, fière cite, from Les Troyens
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Sir Alexander Gibson (conductor)
    Ravel: Trois poèmes de Stephane Mallarmé
    Melos Ensemble
    Handel: Dopo notte from Ariodante
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Raymond Leppard (conductor)
    Handel: How Silently, How Slyly from Julius Caesar, in English
    James Bowman
    Orchestra of English National Opera
    Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
    Berlioz: Les nuits d'été
    New Philharmonia Orchestra
    Sir John Barbirolli (conductor).
      20060426 Celebrating Dame Janet Baker
    German Lieder Plus
    Iain Burnside explores Janet Baker's contribution to German Lieder. With contributions from Dame Janet Baker and some of the people she worked with.
    Brahms: Nachtigall; Von ewiger Liebe
    Janet Baker (mezzo soprano)
    Martin Isepp (piano)
    Selection of Arie Amorose (arr Simon Preston)
    Academy of St Martin in the fields,
    Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
    SchubertLied der Delphine from Lacrimas D857; Wiegenlied D867
    Gerald Moore (piano)
    SchubertGondelfahrer D808; Die Götter Griechenlands D677
    Graham Johnson (piano)
    Massenet: Werther, extract from Act 3
    Orchestra of English National Opera
    Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
    Liszt: Freudvoll und Leidvoll S280; Die drei Zigeuner S320
    Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
    Brahms: Rhapsody for Contralto, Male Chorus and Orchestra Op 53
    John Alldis Choir
    London Philharmonic Orchestra
    Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
    Schumann: Frauenliebe und leben, Op 42
    Daniel Barenboim (piano).
      20060427 Celebrating Dame Janet Baker
    Bach Plus
    Dame Janet Baker was renowned for her interpretations of Bach. Iain Burnside continues his celebration of her life and career with recordings and contributions from Dame Janet Baker and some of the people she worked with.
    JS Bach: Hochgelobter Gottessohn from Cantata BWV6
    Janet Baker (mezzo soprano)
    Academy of St Martin in the Fields
    Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
    Mozart: Ah scostati
    Smanie implacabili from Cosi fan tutte
    Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
    Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
    Mozart: Non piu di fiori from La Clemenza di Tito
    Selection of songs by Duparc
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Andre Previn (conductor)
    Bellini: I Capuleti ed I Montecchi (extract)
    Beverly Sills
    New Philharmonia Orchestra
    Giuseppe Patane (conductor)
    Brahms: Gestillte Sehnsucht; Geistliches Wiegenlied
    Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
    Andre Previn (piano)
    JS Bach: Erbarme dich, from St Matthew Passion
    Munich Bach Orchestra
    Karl Richter (conductor)
    Ravel: Chansons madécasses
    Melos Ensemble
    JS Bach: Cantata BWV170, Vergnügte Ruh
      20060428 Celebrating Dame Janet Baker
    Songs of Farewell
    In the final programme, Iain Burnside describes Dame Janet Baker's farewell to the operatic stage and dips into some of her iconic Mahler recordings. With contributions from Dame Janet Baker and some of the people she worked with.
    Mahler: Rheinlegendchen from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
    Janet Baker (mezzo soprano)
    London Philharmonic Orchestra
    Wyn Morris (conductor)
    Gluck: Divinités du Styx, from Alceste
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Raymond Leppard (conductor)
    Mahler: Rückertlieder
    New Philharmonia Orchestra
    Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)
    Donizetti:Mary Stuart (in English)
    Alan Opie, John Tomlinson
    Orchestra of English National Opera
    Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
    Mahler: Der Einsame im Herbst, from Das Lied von der Erde
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Rudolf Kempe (conductor)
    Gluck: Orfeo (extract)
    Elisabeth Gale
    London Philarmonic Orchestra
    Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
    Hallé Orchestra
      20060501 BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican
    Osmo Vänskä returns to the BBC SO and brings a fresh interpretation to Rachmaninov's glorious, romantic Second Symphony. He also conducts the world premiere of a clarinet concerto by his fellow Finn, Kalevi Aho, played by the young Swedish soloist Martin Fröst
    Presented by Christopher Cook.
    Levin, Todd: Blur - Fragrance Free Mix
    Aho, Kalevi: Clarinet Concerto* (BBC Commission, World Premiere)
    Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 in E m
    Martin Fröst (clarinet)*
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Osmo Vänskä (Conductor).
      20060502 John Shea presents two great favourites from the CBSO under their Artistic Director, Sakari Oramo.
    Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful depiction of tales from Arabian Nights alongside Elgar's autumnal Cello Concerto with the cellist Paul Watkins. Also on the programme, another instalment from the orchestra's revealing survey of the music of John Foulds, his spring inspired April-England.
    Foulds: April-England
    Elgar: Cello Concerto
    Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade
    Paul Watkins (cello)
    CBSO
    Sakari Oramo (conductor).
      20060503 Mitsuko Uchida
    Stephanie Hughes presents the second programme in a short series showcasing Uchida's recent recitals. In this programme recorded at LSO St Lukes in London, Mitsuko Uchida teams up with an international group of musicians to perform one of the seminal works of the 20th century: Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire.
    Berg: Lyric Suite
    Schubert: Impromptus D899
    Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire Op 21
    Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
    Barbara Sukowa (narrator)
    Marina Piccnini (flute)
    Anthony McGill (clarinet)
    Brentano Quartet.
      20060504 BBC Philharmonic
    Petroc Trelawny presents this concert of Elgar's oratorio The Kingdom recorded in Huddersfield Town Hall a century after its first performance.
    Elgar The Kingdom
    Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
    Susan Gritton (soprano)
    Jane Irwin (mezzo- soprano)
    Timothy Robinson (tenor)
    Paul Whelan (baritone)
    Huddersfield Choral Society.
      20060505 Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert from The Sage, Gateshead, as the resident orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, performs a programme of music by Mozart and Britten.
    Under its musical director Thomas Zehetmair, the orchestra begins its concert with Mozart's ebullient 10th Symphony.
    They are then joined by tenor James Gilchrist and horn player John Francomb - soloists in Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn and strings.
    Two more soloists in the next piece - Thomas Zehetmair himself, and his wife Ruth Killius - in a performance of Britten's Double Concerto for violin and viola.
    Finally, the orchestra gives a performance of Mozart's final symphony - No 41, Jupiter.
      20060508 The audience at Leeds Town Hall experience the city premiere of John Adams' great Harmonium - his 1981 setting of three poems of transcendental vision by Emily Dickinson and John Donne for huge orchestra and large choir.
    Plus, Britten and Debussy are inspired by the sea to create some of their most imaginative and thrilling orchestral scores. With the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Sarah Walker.
    Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
    Debussy: La Mer - suite
    Britten: Les Illuminations
    John Adams: Harmonium
    John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
    Leeds Philharmonic Chorus
    Leeds Festival Chorus
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    James Conlon (conductor).
      20060509 The world premiere of a 'celebration of glad noise' by Stephen Roberts puts the spotlight on the orchestra's brass section, in a concert given at Swansea's Brangwyn Hall, introduced by Piers Burton-Page.
    Stephen Roberts: Sinfonia for brass, percussion and strings (Radio 3 commission,world premiere)
    Rachmaninov: Piano concerto No 1, Op 1, in F sharp m
    Mussorgsky, orch. Shostakovich: Prelude to Khovanshchina (Act I)
    Stravinsky: Petrushka
    Noriko Ogawa (piano)
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    David Atherton (conductor).
      20060510 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards 2006
    An evening celebrating the RPS Music Awards, presented in association with BBC Radio 3 and including a special Listeners' Award.
    Many of the world's finest artists gathered at the Dorchester Hotel in London for the ceremony. The 14 prestigious awards honour outstanding achievements by composers, performers and arts organisations - which demonstrate the RPS' key values of encouraging creativity, recognising excellence and promoting understanding.
    Felicity Palmer and Radio 3's Sean Rafferty present the awards, with a keynote speech by Armando Iannucci, and Andrew McGregor talks to the musicians and introduces performances of their music.
      20060511Continuesat8.35pmafterTwentyMinutesAndrew McGregor presents Russian violinist Maxim Vengerov in a recital live from the Barbican in London, accompanied by pianist Lilya Zilberstein.
    Mozart: Adagio for violin and orchestra, K261, in E
    Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano, Op 30'2, in Cm
    Prokofiev: Sonata for violin and piano No 1, Op 80, in Fm
    Shostakovich: 10 Preludes (Nos 2, 6, 12,13, 17-19, 21, 22, 20), transc. Tsiganov
      20060512Continuesat8.15pmafterTwentyMinutesConductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste and the BBC Symphony Orchestra present the live UK premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen's Wing on Wing - written in 2004 for the opening of Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The hauntingly beautiful score is filled with echoes of water and wind, and includes two coloratura sopranos and the amplified sound of the Plainfin Midshipman, a Pacific-dwelling singing fish!
    It's paired with, after the interval, Shostakovich's monumental and anguished 8th Symphony, written during the Second World War.
    Presented by Martin Handley from the Barbican.The BBC Symphony Orchestra concert live from the Barbican continues, with the focus on Shostakovich's Symphony No 8.
      20060515 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Recorded at Poole Arts Centre, presented by Verity Sharp.
    For the last Radio 3 broadcast of this season, principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop leads the orchestra through two works: Tchaikovsky's Fantasy Overture about the two doomed lovers Romeo and Juliet, and then Carl Orff's 1937 masterpiece Carmina Burana, based on medieval Bavarian texts dating back to 1300 about love, dancing and drinking.
    Tchaikovsky: Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet
    Orff: Carmina Burana
    Clare Rutter (soprano)
    Thomas Randle (tenor)
    Markus Eiche (baritone)
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Youth Chorus
    Highcliffe Junior Choir
    Marin Alsop (conductor).
      20060516 The BBC Concert Orchestra joins forces with the award-winning Lebanese oud player Rabih Abou-Khalil, and a group of musical friends from around the world, for a concert including three works specially arranged for the orchestra. Recorded last week at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Presented by Geoffrey Smith.
    Debussy: Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune
    Abou-Khalil: Pekinese Mountain
    Ellington: Solitude in Transblucency; Sophisticated Lady
    Abou-Khalil: Situated Presently for Best Results
    Kodaly: Dances of Galanta
    Abou-Khalil: Sushi for Three
    Rabih Abou-Khalil (oud)
    Jarrod Cagwin (drums)
    Michel Godard (tuba/serpent)
    Gavino Murgia (vocals)
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    Robert Ziegler (conductor).
      20060517 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    A concert recorded in March at the City Halls, Glasgow and presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
    Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No 1 in Gm
    Noriko Ogawa (piano)
    Mahler: Symphony No 5
    Vassily Sinaisky (conductor).
      20060518 Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Mark Elder conducts Mahler's majestic Third Symphony. This monumental work is a hymn to the world of nature from expressions of the awakening of primeval life in the vast first movement to the affirmation of life in the final exultant moments. Through his music, Mahler hoped that "nature in its totality may ring and resound".
    Presented by Martin Handley.
    Mahler: Symphony No 3 in D m
    Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano)
    Ladies of the Hallé Choir
    Hallé Youth Choir
    Manchester Boys' Choir
    Halle Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor).
      20060519Continuesat8.45pmafterTwentyMinutesPart 2. BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Live from the Barbican
    Sir Andrew Davis, Music Director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, conducts the orchestra.
    Elgar: Symphony No 1
    Leonidas Kavakos (Violin)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Sir Andrew Davis (conductor).
    Part 1. BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Sir Andrew Davis, Music Director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, makes a welcome return to his friends at the BBC Symphony Orchestra, where he is Conductor Laureate.
    A respected Elgarian, Davis conducts the orchestra in Sir Edward's First Symphony, and introduces his own orchestration of Bach's great organ Passacaglia and Fugue in Cm BWV582. And the dazzling Leonidas Kavakos is the soloist in Brahms' great Violin Concerto. Presented by Louise Fryer.
    JS Bach (Orch. Sir Andrew Davis): Passacaglia and Fugue in Cm
    Brahms: Violin concerto
      20060522 The Chamber Orchestra of Europe marks its 25th anniversary with a wide-ranging programme from the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Featuring works which put the spotlight on both the orchestra as a whole, and its principal players.
    Presented by Catherine Bott.
    Haydn: Symphony No 6 in D (Le Matin)
    Mozart: Exultate, jubilate
    Mozart: Parto, parto (from La Clemenza di Tito)
    Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
    Joan Rodgers (soprano)
    Chamber Orchestra of Europe
    Douglas Boyd (conductor).
      20060524Continuesat8.25pmafterTwentyMinutesThe BBC Symphony Orchestra's Spanish Tour has already taken in Oviedo, Zaragoza and Pamplona. Now it reaches Valencia, in the Palau de la Musica. It was built in 1987 and is one of the banner buildings of modern Valencia.
    Sir Andrew Davis conducts his own orchestration of Bach's great organ Passacaglia and Fugue in Cm, and Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, after the interval.
    There's also music by the Catalan composer Roberto Gerhard - five dances from his ballet Don Quixote. And the Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos is the soloist in Szymanowski's glorious Second Violin Concerto.
    Presented live from the Palau de la Musica by Martin Handley.
    JS Bach, orch Sir Andrew Davis: Passacaglia and Fugue in Cm
    Szymanowski: Violin concerto No 2
    Gerhard:Dances from Don Quixote
    Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
    Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
    The BBC Symphony Orchestra's concert live from the Palau de la Musica, Valencia, continues with Gerhard's Dances from Don Quixote and Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements.
      20060526 Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a concert from the cathedral in Bury St Edmunds given by Britten Sinfonia, as part of this year's Bury St Edmunds Festival.
    It forms part of the nationwide Encore series in which new works are given an all too rare second hearing. George Newson's Concerto for Two Violins appears alongside more familiar masterpieces by Mozart, Stravinsky and Bach.
    JS Bach:Concerto for Two Violins in Dm
    Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite
    George Newson: Concerto for Two Violins
    Mozart: Symphony No 31 in D - Paris
    Jacqueline Shave, Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
    Britten Sinfonia
    André de Ridder (conductor).
     The Tchaikovsky Symphonies - 3, 420060529 Gianandrea Noseda conducts the six Tchaikovsky Symphonies in concerts from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. He begins by joining the celebrated Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, for No 3 (The Polish) and No 4, the fateful product of Tchaikovsky's year of turmoil in 1877.
    Introduced by Petroc Trelawny 
     Lufthansa Festival Of Baroque Music 200620060530 La Senna festeggiante is Vivaldi's grandest vocal work. With rich orchestral invention and powerful vocal lines Vivaldi depicts three allegorical characters representing the Golden Age, Virtue, and the river god of the Seine who make a triumphant progress to the palace of Versailles where they sing the praises of King Louis XV and predict a glorious future.
    From St John's Smith Square, London. Presented by Simon Heighes.
    Vivaldi: La Senna festeggiante
    Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
    Ivor Bolton (conductor)
    Roberta Invernizzi (soprano)
    Barbara Di Castri (mezzo-soprano)
    Antonio Abete (bass).
     The Tchaikovsky Symphonies - 1, 520060531 Continuing the series of concerts from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic in two Tchaikovsky Symphonies - No 1 - of which he said "I have a soft spot for it, for it is the sin of my sweet youth, and No 5, with its triumph over Fate."
    Introduced by Petroc Trelawny.
    Tchaikovsky: Symphony Nos 1 & 5
    BBC Philharmonic
    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).
     Bath International Music Festival - Macgregor And Brian Eno20060601 Sarah Walker sets the scene in Bath Abbey for this audacious collaboration between Joanna MacGregor, newly-appointed Artistic Director of the Bath International Music Festival, and innovative musical mastermind Brian Eno.
    In this BBC commission, the exquisite acoustic of Bath Abbey becomes a laboratory for one of Eno's typically adventurous musical experiments. Bath Camerata sing 16th century English polyphony, 1930s Californian gospel music, and contemporary choral music from Arvo Pärt and James MacMillan, while MacGregor and Eno give four first performances, including two world premieres. Eno samples and synthesises MacGregor's piano, and the result - a unique fusion of music and sound-art.
    Brian Eno
    Joanna MacGregor
    Bath Camerata
    Organ Peter King
    Nigel Perrin (Director)
    William Byrd: Ne Irascaris
    John Dowland: Forlorn Hope Fancy, Melancholy Galliard
    Arvo Pärt: The Beatitudes
    Brian Eno/Rick Holland: The Airman, World premiere
    Golden Gate Quartet: Listen to the Lambs
    John Dowland: Lachrymae, A Piece Without Title
    Brian Eno: Music for Airports 1/2, First live performance
    Somei Satoh: Incarnation II
    Brian Eno: Music for Airports 2/2, First live performance
    James MacMillan: O Bone Jesu
    Brian Eno/Isaac Rosenberg: August 1914, World premiere
    Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium.
     The Tchaikovsky Symphonies - 2, 620060602 Conductor Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic conclude the series from the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. Introduced by Petroc Trelawny.
    Tchaikovsky's No 2 incorporates Ukrainian Folk Song and the Pathétique, while No 6 was his last major work. Nine days after conducting the premiere, Tchaikovsky was dead.
      20060605 Sarah Walker presents another in a series of concerts recorded at the 2006 Bath International Music Festival.
    Currently touring across Europe, the Australian Chamber Orchestra makes a welcome appearance under Artistic Director Richard Tognetti. Joining them in the historic surroundings of Bath Abbey is the much acclaimed soprano, Dawn Upshaw.
    Pärt: Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten
    Britten, arr Tognetti: Corpus Christi Carol
    Bartók, arr Tognetti: Five Hungarian folksongs
    Takemitsu: Death and Resurrection
    JS Bach: Cantata No 84, BWV 84, Aria Ich bin vergnügt; Cantata No 199, BWV 199, Recit. & aria Ich lege mich....Wie freudig ist mein Herz
    Schubert, arr Tognetti: Quartet for strings, D810, in Dm.
      20060606 Sarah Walker presents another in a series of concerts recorded at the 2006 Bath International Music Festival.
    A lively concert given by pianist Joanna MacGregor, saxophonist Andy Sheppard and the Britten Sinfonia.
    JS Bach: The Art of Fugue (arr. MacGregor); Concerto for keyboard and string orchestra No 5
    Stravinsky: Concerto in D for String Orchestra; Dumbarton Oaks; Ragtime
    Egberto Gismonti: Forrobodo and Frevo for Piano
    Andy Sheppard: View from the Pyramids part 3.
      20060607 A Celebration of Robert Schumann and Heinrich Heine
    A programme marking the 150th anniversary of the deaths of composer Robert Schumann and the poet whose texts he set most, Heinrich Heine. Iain Burnside delves deeper into one of the most fascinating composer-poet relationships of the 19th Century.
    1/2. Iain journeys along the Rhine visiting places associated with Schumann and Heine. In his quest to discover more about these artists, he travels to Dusseldorf to meet Bernd Kortländer of the Heine Institute and Volker
    Kalisch of the Robert Schumann Musikhochschule.
    Specially-commissioned dramas by Hattie Naylor and starring Daniel Goode and Ben Crowe as composer and poet respectively tell of the one and only meeting between Schumann and Heine and what their contemporaries thought of them. Plus there are contributions from acclaimed Schumann interpreters Brigitte Fassbaender, Olaf Bar, Thomas Allen and Christian Gerhaher, and an exploration of Heine's complex relationship with his native Germany by Heine scholar Jim Reed.
    The music includes a complete performance of Schumann Liederkreis, Op 24, by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) and Christoph Eschenbach (piano).
      20060609 Valery Gergiev leads the Rotterdam Philharmonic in a concert of French and Russian orchestral classics. Presented by Andrew McGregor, in conversation with David Nice.
    Stravinsky: Fireworks; Les Noces
    Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
    Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No 2
    Debussy: La mer
    Natalia Korneva (soprano)
    Olga Savova (mezzo-soprano)
    Vladimir Felenchak (tenor)
    Gennady Bezzubenkov (bass)
    Alexander Mogilevsky, Julia Mogilevsky, Maxim Mogilevsky, Svetana Smolina (piano)
    Mariinsky Chorus
    Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
    Valery Gergiev (conductor).
      20060612Continuesat8.55pmafterTwentyMinutesFeaturing the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Barry Wordsworth.
    Falla: 3 dances from The Three Cornered Hat
    Rodrigo: Concerto de Aranjuez
    Bizet: Carmen suite no.2
    Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte
    Falla: Nights in the Garden of Spain
    Craig Ogden (guitar)
    Artur Pizarro (piano)
      20060613 Orchestra, chorus and audience are involved in a recorded concert from The Sage in Gateshead, introduced by Christopher Cook.
    Benjamin Britten's cantata St Nicholas includes hymns for the audience to sing. There is also a seasonal connection in Gerald Finzi's masterly settings of Thomas Traherne for solo tenor and strings, Dies Natalis.
    Handel: Zadok the priest
    Finzi: Dies Natalis
    Britten: Saint Nicolas
    Christopher Gillett (tenor)
    Northern Sinfonia
    Northern Sinfonia Chorus
    Choristers from St Nicholas' Cathedral
    Simon Halsey (conductor).
      20060614Continuesat8.30pmafterTwentyMinutesMartin Handley presents a live concert from Birmingham's Symphony Hall, as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra undertake three works by Stravinsky. In the first half, Sakari Oramo conducts the 4 Studies for Orchestra and is then joined by Daniel Hope for a performance of Stravinsky's Violin Concerto. After the interval, a musical fairytale - The Nightingale.
    Stravinsky: 4 Studies for Orchestra; Violin Concerto; The Nightingale
    Anu Komsi (soprano)
    Daniel Hope (violin)
    City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Sakari Oramo (conductor)
    The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's Stravinsky night focuses on The Nightingale.
      20060615 Imposing choral forces join together for Britten's War Requiem, in Richard Hickox's final concert in Wales as Principal Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. It's one of the 20th Century's greatest choral works, a passionate outcry of the inhumanity of war.
    Recorded at St David's Hall in Cardiff, introduced by Louise Fryer.
    Britten: War Requiem, Op 66
    Janice Watson (soprano)
    Mark Padmore (tenor)
    Dietrich Henschel (baritone)
    BBC National Chorus of Wales (chorus)
    Cardiff Polyphonic Choir (chorus)
    Boy choristers of Gloucester Cathedral Choir (chorus)
    Boy choristers of Wells Cathedral Choir (chorus)
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Richard Hickox (conductor).
      20060616 Sandy Burnett presents a pair of recitals recorded at the Spitalfields Festival 2006, each featuring a work newly commissioned by Radio 3.
    Cellist Rohan de Saram, well-known as a champion of new music, performs at Wilton's Music Hall, including a piece specially written for him by Naresh Sohal.
    Plus, from Christ's Church Spitalfields comes a recital by the young stars Alison Balsom and Colin Curry. Joining them for the premiere of his new work is the maverick composer Django Bates.
    Schubert: Sonata in Am, D821, Arpeggione
    Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue in Em, Op 87, No 4
    Hindemith: Sonata, Op 25, No 3
    Naresh Sohal: Foray world premiere, commissioned by BBC Radio 3
    Rohan de Saram (cello)
    Ananda Sukarlan (piano)
    Jolivet: Heptade II
    Tomasi: Nocturne
    Louis Andriessen: Woodpecker
    Django Bates: Alison in Space world premiere, commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society and BBC Radio 3
    de Falla: 5 popular Spanish songs
    Piazzolla: Otorno; Esqualo
    Alison Balsom (trumpet)
    Django Bates (keyboards)
    Colin Currie (percussion).
      20060619 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    A concert recorded at the City Halls in Glasgow, home of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the orchestra's recently appointed Associate Guest Conductor, Stefan Solyom.
    Sibelius: En Saga
    Judith Weir: Natural History
    Anu Komsi (soprano)
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 5.
      20060620 Sarah Walker introduces a concert at London's Barbican Hall given by pianist Mikhail Pletnev, whose technical power and expressive range have dazzled critics around the world.
    Tchaikovsky: The Seasons
    Schumann: Arabesque; Kreisleriana.
     Aldeburgh Festival 200620060621 Stephanie Hughes continues the coverage from Aldeburgh, with a concert given by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Oliver Knussen.Mahler/Britten: What the Wild Flowers tell me John Woolrich: Cello Concerto Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem Karen Cargill (mezzo)Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello).
      20060622 Continuing the coverage from the Aldeburgh Festival 2006, Stephanie Hughes presents a concert given by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.Berg: Adagio Webern: Six Pieces, Op 6 (arr. Webern) Schoenberg: Ode to Napoleon, Op 41 Henze: KammermusikIan Bostridge (tenor)Craig Ogden (guitar)Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Thomas Adès (conductor).
      20060623 The live concert from the Wiltshire Music Centre in Bradford-on-Avon, featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, concludes with Beethoven's Symphony No 2.
    Petroc Trelawny presents a live concert from the Wiltshire Music Centre in Bradford-on-Avon, featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.The luxuriantly arranged Come Sweet Death by Frank Bridge is followed by his pupil Benjamin Britten's tribute to his teacher, plus a highly charged concerto by Michael Berkeley, the orchestra's Composer in Association.JS Bach: Komm süsser Tod (Come sweet death), BWV 478, arr. Frank Bridge for stringsBritten: Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge for string orchestra, Op 10Michael Berkeley: Concerto for cello and small orchestra (1982, rev. 1997)Beethoven: Symphony No 2, Op 36, in D Alban Gerhardt (cello)BBC National Orchestra of WalesGrant Llewellyn (conductor)[Continues at 8.50pm after Twenty Minutes]
     Aldeburgh Festival 200620060626 The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Ades, perform works by Britten, Prokofiev, Berg and Ades. Presented by Stephanie Hughes from Snape Maltings Concert Hall in Suffolk.
    Ades: Violin Concerto
    Britten: Our Hunting Fathers
    Prokofiev: Autumn
    Berg: Lulu Suite
    Anthony Marwood (violin)
    Lisa Milne (soprano).
      20060627 1/4. Andrew McGregor introduces a series inaugurating a complete cycle of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, performed in London's Wigmore Hall by Paul Lewis.Sonata in G, Op 31, No 1Sonata in Dm, Op 31, No 2 (Tempest)Sonata in F sharp, Op 78Sonata in E flat, Op 31, No 3.
    1/4. Andrew McGregor introduces a series inaugurating a complete cycle of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, performed in London's Wigmore Hall by Paul Lewis.
    Sonata in G, Op 31, No 1
    Sonata in Dm, Op 31, No 2 (Tempest)
    Sonata in F sharp, Op 78
    Sonata in E flat, Op 31, No 3
     Beethovens Piano Sonatas - 220060628 Andrew McGregor introduces a series inaugurating a complete cycle of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, performed in London's Wigmore Hall by Paul Lewis.
    Sonata in G, Op 14, No 1
    Sonata in B flat, Op 22
    Sonata in E, Op 14, No 2
    Sonata in C, Op 53 (Waldstein).
      20060629 3/4. Andrew McGregor introduces a series inaugurating a complete cycle of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, performed in London's Wigmore Hall by Paul Lewis.
    Sonata in Cm, Op 13 (Pathetique)
    Sonata in A flat, Op 26
    Sonata in Em, Op 90
    Sonata in A, Op 101.
      20060630 4/4. Andrew McGregor introduces a series inaugurating a complete cycle of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, performed in London's Wigmore Hall by Paul Lewis.
    Sonata in G, Op 79
    Sonata in D, Op 28 (Pastorale)
    Sonata in B flat, Op 106 (Hammerklavier).
      20060703 A series of concerts from the Delius Inspired festival in Bradford, which celebrates Delius, his inspirations and his influences. Introduced by Paul Guinery.
    1/6. Featuring festival Artistic Director Tasmin Little playing Delius' Violin Concerto.
    Fenby: Rossini on Ilkla Moor
    Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden; Violin Concerto
    Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
    Delius: Sea Drift
    Tasmin Little (violin)
    James Rutherford (baritone)
    Leeds Festival Chorus
    Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus
    BBC Philharmonic
    Rumon Gamba (conductor).
      20060704 2/6. Continuing the second concert from the Delius Inspired festival in Bradford, featuring Tasmin Little (violin) and Martin Roscoe (piano).
    A series of concerts from the Delius Inspired festival in Bradford, which celebrates Delius, his inspirations and his influences. Introduced by Paul Guinery.
    2/6. Tasmin Little is joined by Martin Roscoe in a recital of sonatas by Delius, Grieg and Ravel.
    Grieg: Violin Sonata in G
    Delius: Violin Sonata No 3; Violin Sonata No 1
    Ravel: Violin Sonata
    Tasmin Little (violin)
    Martin Roscoe (piano).
      20060705 Continuing the Delius Inspired festival concerts in Bradford. 3/6. Soprano Yvonne Kenny is joined by Piers Lane for a soirée of songs by Delius, Ravel, Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Satie.
      20060706Continuesat8.30pmafterTwentyMinutesContinuing the Delius Inspired festival concerts in Bradford.
    4/6. Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber is accompanied by pianist John Lenehan, in a concert of works by Delius, Debussy, Fauré, William Lloyd Webber and Rachmaninov. The concert is presented by Paul Guinery.
    Debussy: Cello Sonata
    Faure: Elegie
    Delius: Cello Sonata
    William Lloyd Webber: In the Half Light; Nocturne
    Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata
      20060707Continuesat8.35pmafterTwentyMinutesThe Delius Inspired concert from Bradford concludes with Delius' Double Concerto: Intermezzo and Serenade from Hassan, then Elgar's Enigma Variations.
    Continuing the Delius Inspired festival concerts in Bradford, introduced by Paul Guinery.
    5/6. Featuring Tamsin Little on violin and Guy Johnston on cello, with David Atherton conducting the BBC Philharmonic.
    Grainger: Handel in the Strand
    Warlock: Serenade for Frederick Delius
      20060708Continuesat8.30pmafterTwentyMinutesContinuing the Delius Inspired festival concerts in Bradford.
    6/6. Violinist and Festival Director Tasmin Little is joined by pianist Wayne Marshall to perform works by Delius, Grieg and Ravel. Wayne Marshall also performs an improvisation on a theme by Delius.
    Grieg: Violin Sonata in Cm
    Delius: Violin Sonata No 2; Violin Sonata Op. posth.
    Wayne Marshall: Improvisation on a Theme by Delius
    Ravel: Tzigane
      20060710 Sandy Burnett presents the opening concert of this year's Cheltenham Music Festival from the Town Hall in Imperial Square. Artistic Director Martyn Brabbins takes to the podium to conduct a concert by the Hallé Orchestra, who are currently riding on a high tide of critical acclaim.
    This programme includes a first taste of this year's Scottish theme, courtesy of Mendelssohn; a first airing of work by this year's composer-in-residence, Sally Beamish; and to conclude - Mahler's sublime, epic Fourth Symphony.
    Mendelssohn: Overture, The Hebrides, Op 26, Fingal's Cave
    Sally Beamish: Concerto for Accordion and Orchestra (world premiere)
    Mahler: Symphony No 4 in G
    James Crabb (accordion)
    Ailish Tynan (soprano)
    Hallé Orchestra
    Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
      20060711 Cheltenham International Festival of Music 2006
    Sandy Burnett introduces a concert of music inspired by children given by pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard at this year's Cheltenham Festival. Featuring the UK premiere of George Benjamin's Piano Figures.
    Bartók: Excerpts from Mikrokosmos
    Kurtág: Excerpts from Játékok
    Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op 15
    Benjamin, George: Piano Figures (UK premiere)
    Debussy: Children's Corner
    Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano).
     Cheltenham Music Festival 200620060712 Sandy Burnett introduces a concert given by one of the world's foremost chamber orchestras, including the world premiere of a composite work inspired by paintings from the Fleming Collection of artworks by many of Scotland's most prominent artists.
    Recorded at Cheltenham Town Hall.
    Natalie Clein (cello)
    Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    Joseph Swensen (conductor).
      20060911 Edinburgh International Festival 2006
    Beethoven and Bruckner - Nine Symphonies
    An opportunity to hear Sir Charles Mackerras' anticipated Beethoven cycle from the Usher Hall, presented in tandem with performances of all of Bruckner's symphonies. Both of these opening salvos were mature works, written when the composers were respectively 30 and 42. Introduced by Donald Macleod.
    Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C, Op 21
    Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
    Bruckner: Symphony No 1 in Cm
    Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
    Sakari Oramo (conductor).
      20060912 Edinburgh International Festival 2006
    Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a recital given by Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey at the Queen's Hall. His programme sets two of JS Bach's suites for solo cello alongside two of Benjamin Britten's cello suites.
    Bach: Suite No 1 for Solo Cello in G, BWV 1007
    Britten: Suite No 1 for Cello, Op 72
    Bach: Suite No 2 for Solo Cello in Dm, BWV 1008
    Britten: Suite No 2 for Cello, Op 80.
      20060913 Edinburgh International Festival 2006
    Beethoven and Bruckner - Nine Symphonies
    Sir Charles Mackerras' Beethoven cycle continues with a work written in 1802 - when Beethoven was faced with the prospect of increasing deafness. Bruckner's 2nd Symphony also followed a period of intense mental turmoil, and heralds the beginning of his mature symphonic style. Introduced by Donald Macleod.
    Beethoven: Symphony No 2 in D, Op 36
    Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
    Bruckner: Symphony No 2 in Cm
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Ilan Volkov (conductor).
      20060914 Edinburgh International Festival 2006
    Members of the Belcea Quartet are joined by oboist Stefan Schilli to explore the repertoire for oboe and strings in the Queen's Hall Series. They present Mozart's Oboe Quartet and Britten's Phantasy Quartet, which was originally written for oboist Leon Goossens.
    The Doric Quartet will also perform Mozart's String Quartet in D, and Stefan Schilli presents Britten's work for solo oboe, Six Metamorphoses after Ovid. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
    Britten: Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op 49
    Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F, K370
    Britten: Phantasy Quartet for Oboe and Strings
    Stefan Schilli (oboe)
    Belcea Quartet
    Mozart: String Quartet in D, K499
    Doric Quartet.
     Edinburgh International Festival 2006 - Beethoven And Bruckner - Nine Symphonies20060915 Two monumental musical structures - Beethoven's Eroica was originally dedicated to Napoleon while Bruckner's third, a massive homage to Wagner, inflamed the pro-Brahms critics and was deemed unplayable by the Vienna Philharmonic. Introduced by Donald Macleod.
    Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat, Op 55, Eroica
    Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
    Bruckner: Symphony No 3 in Dm
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Günther Herbig (conductor).
     Edinburgh International Festival 2006 -beethoven And Bruckner: Nine Symphonies20060918 Sir Charles Mackerras continues his Usher Hall Beethoven cycle with the work which Schumann described as a slender Greek maiden between two Norse gods. Bruckner's lyrical Fourth was immediately acclaimed at its premiere, though the composer's insecurity had led to seven years of tinkering before it was ready.
    Introduced by Donald Macleod.
    Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat, Op 60
    Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
    Bruckner: Symphony No 4 in E-flat, Romantic
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Stephane Deneve (conductor).
      20060919 Edinburgh International Festival 2006
    Beethoven and Bruckner - Nine Symphonies
    Sir Charles Mackerras, 80, triggers the most famous four notes in music and supervises their development into Beethoven's iconic symphonic masterpiece. Bruckner's 5th is also a structural miracle, a colossal tour-de-force built from a simple pizzicato scale. Introduced by Donald Macleod.
    Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in Cm, Op 67
    Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
    Bruckner: Symphony No 5 in B-flat
    Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
    Ingo Metzmacher (conductor).
     Edinburgh International Festival 2006 - Beethoven And Bruckner - Nine Symphonies - 620060920 If Bruckner wrote a lightweight symphony, the Sixth is it: a lyrical but elusive work - the only one of the canon which Bruckner never felt the need to revise. Beethoven's Pastoral is full of the sounds of nature, a matter more of feeling than of painting according to the composer. Introduced by Donald Macleod.
    Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F, Op 68 - Pastoral
    Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
    Bruckner: Symphony No 6 in A
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Donald Runnicles (conductor).
      20060921 Leeds International Piano Competition 2006
    From Leeds Town Hall, Sarah Walker introduces highlights from three days of semi-final recitals in which 12 budding concert pianists compete for up to £75,000 prize money and prestigious engagements.
    Founded 43 years ago by Dame Fanny Waterman, this is the 15th competition, featuring pianists from all over the world. Leon McCawley, a prizewinner in the 1993 event, joins Sarah to offer his expert opinion on the competitors and the music they have chosen to perform.
     Leeds International Piano Competition 2006 - 120060922 Sarah Walker introduces coverage of the first three concerto finalists, live from Leeds Town Hall, as they battle for a prize of £14,000 and the promise of several high-profile professional engagements. Mark Elder conducts the Hallé, and there's expert analysis on hand from past prizewinner, Leon McCawley.
    The second half of the final and the results will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 on Saturday evening, from 6.30pm.
     Leeds International Piano Competition 2006 - 2a20060923 Past prizewinner Leon McCawley offers his expert opinion.
    Rachmaninov: Concerto No 2 in Cm, Op 18
    Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
    The jury's decision will be broadcast at 10.45pm.
     Leeds International Piano Competition 2006 - 2b20060923Continuesat8.00pmafterTwentyMinutesPast prizewinner Leon McCawley offers his expert opinion.
    Mozart: Concerto in Cm, K491
    Sung-Hoon Kim (piano)
    Prokofiev: Concerto No 3, Op 26
    Andrew Brownell (piano)
    The jury's decision will be broadcast at 10.45pm.
     Edinburgh International Festival 2006 - Beethoven And Bruckner - Nine Symphonies - 720060925 Rhythm and energy pervade this pairing of symphonies from the Usher Hall. Wagner described Beethoven's Seventh as the 'apotheosis of the dance'. Wagner's death in 1883 inspired Bruckner to write one of his most intense adagio movements. The new work's triumphant premiere finally established Bruckner's celebrity thanks to a 15-minute ovation. Introduced by Donald Macleod.
    Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A, Op 92
    Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
    Bruckner: Symphony No 7 in E
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Claus Peter Flor (conductor).
     Edinburgh International Festival 2006 - Beethoven And Bruckner - Nine Symphonies - 820060926 Featuring the shortest and most paradoxical of Beethoven's symphonies alongside Bruckner's massive 8th. Sir Charles Mackerras draws towards the climax of his Usher Hall cycle with Beethoven's elegant homage to the very Classical style which his symphonies had done so much to shatter. Introduced by Donald Macleod.
    Beethoven: Symphony No 8 in F, Op 93
    Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
    Bruckner: Symphony No 8 in Cm
    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Herbert Blomstedt.
     Edinburgh International Festival 2006- Beethoven And Bruckner - Nine Symphonies- 920060927 Bruckner was the first composer to take up the artistic challenges of Beethoven's 9th. From it, he got his own symphonic trademarks - the habit of starting each musical journey mysteriously out of silence, the violent scherzos, transforming adagios and vast cumulative finales.
    Unlike Beethoven's symphony with its elemental setting of Schiller's Ode to Joy, Bruckner's 9th never got its finale - but ends magnificently unfinished on a note of profound and sublimely moving tragedy. Introduced by Donald Macleod.
    Beethoven: Symphony No 9 in Dm, Op 125
    Janice Watson (soprano)
    Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo)
    Stuart Skelton (tenor)
    Detlef Roth (bass)
    Edinburgh Festival Chorus
    David Jones (chorusmaster)
    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
    Bruckner: Symphony No 9 in Dm
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Jirí Belohlávek (conductor).
      20061021 The opening concert of the inaugural English Music Festival, from the historic abbey in Dorchester-upon-Thames, Oxfordshire.
    Julian Lloyd Webber (cello)
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
    Holst: Walt Whitman - overture
    Vaughan Wiliams: Norfolk Rhapsody No 1
    Bridge: Oration
    Holst: Invocation
    Sullivan: Symphony in E (Irish).
    Malcolm Arnold's one act comic opera of intrigue and misunderstanding opens an all-British programme.
    Ailish Tynan and Susan Gorton (sopranos)
    Wendy Dawn Thompson (mezzo)
    Justin Lavender and Charles Daniels (tenors)
    Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    James Holmes (conductor)
    Arnold: The Dancing Master.
      20061022 A concert recorded in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.
    Orla Boylan (soprano)
    Anna Burford (mezzo)
    Stefan Margita (tenor)
    Neal Davies (bass)
    Halle Choir and Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor)
    Kodaly: Psalmus Hungaricus
    Beethoven: Symphony No 9 (Choral).
      20061102 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert recorded in Cheltenham Town Hall.
    Robert Plane (clarinet)
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    James Judd (conductor)
    Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
    Finzi: Clarinet Concerto
    Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5.
    A live performance by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Stephane Deneve, with pianist Frank Brayley.
    Franck: Symphonic Variations
    Brahms: Symphony No 1.
     Ravel20061106 Christopher Cook introduces a concert from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, featuring music by Ravel as both orchestrator and composer.
    The evocative programme takes the audience on a promenade past the paintings of Viktor Hartmann - the inspiration for Mussorgsky's piano suite that Ravel transformed - and to the Greek island of Lesbos, with its nymphs and pirates, the setting for Ravel's ballet Daphnis and Chloé.
    Mussorgsky orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
    Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
    Halle Choir
    BBC Philharmonic
    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).
      20061108 Piers Burton Page introduces a concert given in August at Hereford Cathedral as part of the Three Choirs Festival. Including the UK premiere of a new work by James Gilchrist, conducted by the composer.
    James Gilchrist (tenor)
    Matthew Brooke (bass)
    Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra
    Gerald Finzi: God Is Gone Up (for choir and orchestra)
    Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
    James MacMillan: Sundogs (UK premiere)
    Gerald Finzi: Dies Natalis
    Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs.
      20061109 A concert given by the BBC Singers conducted by Nicholas Kok. Cowie: National Portraits. Nine motets in the form of sonic portraits for chorus.
     Matthew Barley: On The Road20061110Continuesat8.40pm,afterTwentyMinutesA cello recital by Matthew Barley, live from St George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol.
    Improvisation:
    Gabrielli: Ricercar 6 in G
    Bach: Suite for solo cello No 3 in C, BWV1009
    Kodaly: Solo Sonata, Op 8 (1st mvt)
    Matthew Barley: On the Road
    Matthew Barley concludes his live cello recital from St George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol.
    Britten: Suite for Solo Cello No 3
    John Metcalfe: Constant Filter
    DJ Bee/Barley: Vanishing Tracks.
      20061114Continuesat8.50pm,afterTwentyMinutesMartin Handley introduces a concert live from the Barbican, London.
    German composer conductor Matthias Pintscher, born in 1971, is one of the hottest properties in European music. His beautifully crafted and expressive music has been compared with that of Alban Berg. Truls Mork gives the UK premiere of Pintscher's new cello concerto, and the composer conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in works by some of his musical heroes.
    Truls Mork (cello)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Matthias Pintscher (conductor)
    Messiaen: Un sourire
    Pintscher: Reflections on Narcissus
    Continuing tonight's concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted Matthias Pintscher.
    Ravel: Sheherazade (Overture de Feerie)
    Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite.
      20061115 A concert by the Takacs Quartet given at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank.
    The concert opens with Mozart's String Quartet in D minor, a key that inspired many of the composer's most intense works. The second half is devoted to Beethoven's expansive and profound quartet Op 132, its slow movement representing Beethoven's personal hymn of thanksgiving upon recovery from illness.
    Mozart: String Quartet in Dm, K421
    Bartok: String Quartet No 6
    Beethoven: String Quartet in Am, Op 132.
     A Farewell To Arms20061116Continuesat8.35pm,afterTwentyMinutesFiona Talkington introduces music and readings connected with war and reconciliation, forming part of BBC Radio 3's Wilfred Owen season.
    Alongside music by Maurice Ravel and Ivor Gurney from the period of the First World War, and Richard Rodney Bennett's A Farewell to Arms, the concert features two new BBC Radio 3 commissions by Will Todd and Paul Ayres.
    Richard Rodney Bennett: A Farewell to Arms
    Will Todd: Before Action (BBC Radio 3 commission; first performance)
    Paul Ayres: When you see millions of the mouthless dead (BBC Radio 3 commission; first performance)
    Ravel: Trois Chansons
    BBC Singers
    Endymion
    Simon Day (reader)
    Andrew Carwood (conductor)
    The concert continues, including the first performance of a new Radio 3 commission by Judith Bingham - An Ancient Music - which sets the letters of Owen alongside war poems by Apollinaire.
    Judith Bingham: An Ancient Music (BBC Radio 3 commission; first performance)
    Ivor Gurney: Sleep; Spring; Under the Greenwood Tree
    Michael Tippett: Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
      20061117Continuesat8.30pm,afterTwentyMinutesChristopher Cook introduces a concert recorded at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, featuring Schoenberg and two composers who influenced him. There's music from Wagner's final opera and Schoenberg's chilling account of the Nazi's persecution of the Jews.
    Wagner: Prelude and Good Friday Music (Parsifal)
    Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw
    John Shirley-Quirk (narrator)
    Hallé Choir (male voices)
    BBC Philharmonic
    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
    Conclusion of a concert recorded at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.
    Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra
      20061120 Verity Sharp introduces a concert by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra recorded at the Lighthouse, Poole.
    The orchestra, under principal conductor Marin Alsop, is on increasingly familiar territory with Copland's jazz-inspired Dance Symphony, and is joined by young American violinist James Ehnes for Mendelssohn's celebrated concerto. The concert concludes with Elgar's First Symphony.
    Copland: Dance Symphony
    Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in Em
    Elgar: Symphony No 1.
      20061121 A piano recital by Angela Hewitt given last night at the Wigmore Hall, London.
    Rameau: Suite No 3 in A (Pièces de clavecin en concerts)
    Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 8 in Cm, Op 13 (Pathétique)
    Bach: French Suite No 4 in E flat, BWV 815
    Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C, Op 2 No 3.
      20061123Continuesat8.40pm,afterTwentyMinutesA live performance from King's College Chapel, Cambridge, by Christian Poltera (cello) and the BBC Singers conducted by Stephen Cleobury.
    Striggio: Ecce beatum lucem
    Bach: Cello Suite No 1, BWV 1007
    Giles Swayne: Four Passiontide Motets
    Christian Poltera (cello) and the BBC Singers conducted by Stephen Cleobury continue their live concert from King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
    Bach: Lobet den Herrn, BWV230
    Giles Swayne: The Silent Land
    Tallis: Spem in alium.
      20061127 Highlights from the British Composer Awards ceremony at the Hayward Gallery, hosted by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters in association with BBC Radio 3.
    The programme features the winning compositions in categories ranging from pieces for one or two instruments to choirs, orchestras and operas.
    Plus the Radio 3 Listeners' Award.
      20061128 Jette Parker Young Artists 5th Anniversary Summer Concert.
    Stephanie Hughes presents a selection of popular operatic excerpts featuring singers and conductors from the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House in London, recorded on stage at their Gala concert last July.
    Gounod: Faust (Prelude and Prologue excerpt).
    Nikola Matisic (tenor, Faust)
    Robert Gleadow (bass, Mephistopheles)
    Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (Act II excerpt)
    Marina Poplavskaya (soprano, Adina)
    Robert Murray (tenor, Nemorina)
    Mozart: Idomeneo (Act II excerpt)
    Nikola Matisic (tenor, Arbace)
    Katie Van Kooten (soprano, Ilia)
    Andrew Sritheran (tenor, Idomeneo)
    Susanna Stranders (continuo)
    Smetana: The Bartered Bride ? overture
    Mozart: Don Giovanni (Act 1 excerpt)
    Ana James (soprano, Zerlina)
    Marina Poplavskaya (soprano, Donna Elvira)
    Katie Van Kooten (soprano, Donna Anna)
    Robert Gleadow (bass, Don Giovanni)
    Robert Murray (tenor, Don Ottavio)
    Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Act III excerpt)
    Ana James (soprano, Sophie)
    Liora Grodnikaite (mezzo, Octavian)
    Katie Van Kooten (soprano, Marschallin)
    Robert Gleadow (bass, Faninal)
    The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House is conducted by Rory Macdonald and Oliver Gooch (Don Giovanni only).
    Concert Master Peter Manning.
      20061129 A concert recorded at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall in October.
    Martin Sturfalt (piano)
    Halle Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor)
    Dvorak: The Noonday Witch
    Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No 2
    Vaughan Williams: Norfolk Rhapsody No 1
    Beethoven: Symphony No 2.
      20061130Continuesat8.15pm,afterTwentyMinutesMartin Handley presents the first part of tonight's concert, live from the Barbican.
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    David Robertson (conductor)
    Ivan Fedele: Scena (UK premiere)>
    Martin Handley presents the second part of tonight's concert, live from the Barbican.
    Majella Cullagh (soprano)
    Patricia Bardon (mezzo)
    Colin Lee (tenor)
    Alastair Miles (bass)
    BBC Symphony Chorus
    Rossini: Stabat mater.
      20061201 Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert recorded in September at the City Halls, Glasgow.
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Ilan Volkov (conductor)
    Knussen: Flourish with Fireworks
    Benjamin: Viola, viola (Scott Dickinson and Andrew Berridge, soloists)
    Benjamin: Dance figures
    Walton: Viola Concerto (Lawrence Power, soloist)
    Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique.
      20061204 Benjamin Britten: In Memoriam
    Petroc Trelawny presents the first part of tonight's concert, live from the Wigmore Hall.
    Nash Ensemble
    Lisa Milne (soprano)
    Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo)
    Mark Padmore (tenor)
    Lawrence Power (viola)
    Richard Watkins (horn)
    Edward Gardner (conductor)
    Britten: Lachrymae, Op 48a; Serenade, Op 31.
    Britten: Les Illuminations, Op 18; Phaedra, Op 93.
      20061205 Mozart's Last Year
    Petroc Trelawny presents the second part of tonight's concert, live from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. The programme consists of music composed in the final year of Mozart's life.
    Sabine Meyer (clarinet)
    Ronald Brautigam (piano)
    Michael Escreet (double bass)
    Sally Matthews (soprano)
    Sarah Connolly (mezzo)
    Daniel Norman (tenor)
    James Rutherford (bass)
    BBC Singers
    BBC Philharmonic
    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
    The Magic Flute - overture
    Laut verkunde unsre Freude
    Ave verum corpus
    (ed. Beyer) Mass in Dm, K626 (Requiem).
    Petroc Trelawny presents the first part of tonight's concert, live from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. The programme consists of music composed in the final year of Mozart's life.
    La Clemenza di Tito - overture
    Clarinet Concerto
    Three German Dances, K605
    Per questa bello mano
    Piano Concerto No 27.
      20061207 Verity Sharp presents a concert recorded at the Lighthouse, Poole.
    Truls Mork (cello)
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Marin Alsop (conductor)
    Tchaikovsky: Hamlet
    Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1
    Beethoven: Symphony No 7.
      20061211 Aled Jones presents the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year Grand Final from the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff.
    Concluding a year of intense competition against some of the best ensembles in the UK, eight choirs have made it through to the final stage.
    Aled Jones presents the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year Grand Final from the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Concluding a year of intense competition against some of the best ensembles in the UK, eight choirs have made it through to the final stage.
    Judges are:
    Singer and vocal coach Mary King
    Composer, poet and educationalist Eugene Skeef
    Singer and broadcaster Catherine Bott
    Sound of Music star Connie Fisher
    Composer and broadcaster Howard Goodall
    Finalists are:
    Tees Valley Youth Choir
    Fulham Prep School Chamber Choir
    Sense of Sound
    Amabile
    London Bulgarian Choir
    Inverclyde Schools' Junior Choir
    Haddo Combined Treble Voice Choir
    Chantage.
      20061212 John Shea presents Thomas Zehetmair conducting the Northern Sinfonia in a series of performances given at the Sage, Gateshead, to commemorate 150 years since the death of Robert Schumann.
    Schumann: Symphony No 1 (Spring)
    Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
    Schumann: Symphony No 3 (Rhenish).
      20061213 John Shea presents Thomas Zehetmair conducting the Northern Sinfonia in a series of performances given at the Sage, Gateshead, to commemorate 150 years since the death of Robert Schumann.
    Brahms: Tragic Overture
    Schumann: Piano Concerto
    Dejan Lazic (piano)
    Schumann: Symphony No 2.
      20061214 John Shea presents Thomas Zehetmair conducting the Northern Sinfonia in a series of performances given at the Sage, Gateshead, to commemorate 150 years since the death of Robert Schumann.
    Brahms: Hungarian Dances No 1 in G minor; No 3 in F; No 6 in D
    Schumann: Symphony No 4
    Brahms: Violin Concerto
    Thomas Zehetmair (violin).
      20061215 Martin Handley presents a performance recorded in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.
    Louis Lortie (piano)
    Halle Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor)
    Dvorak: Hussite Overture
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 (Emperor)
    Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 2 (Little Russian).
      20061225 Martin Handley presents a performance recorded in the Barbican.
    Christine Brewer (soprano)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Andrew Davis (conductor)
    Fenelon: Gloria (UK premiere)
    Poulenc: Gloria
    Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique.
      20070111 Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert recorded at the Caird Hall, Dundee.
    Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije (suite)
    Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
    Roussel: Symphony No 3
    Ravel: La Valse
    Nicola Benedetti (violin)
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Stephane Deneve (conductor).
      20070117 A concert by the Artemis Quartet, recorded at the Wigmore Hall.
    Brahms: String Quartet No 3 in B flat, Op 67
    Schoenberg: String Quartet No 1 in Dm, Op 7.
      20070118Continuesat8.35pmafterTwentyMinutesLive from the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Martin Handley presents the first part of a concert featuring the Halle Orchestra.
    Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1
    Victoria Borisova-Ollas: Open Ground
    Janine Jansen (violin)
    Halle Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor)
    Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Martin Handley presents the second part of the Halle Orchestra concert.
    Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
      20070119 A concert recorded in the Lighthouse, Poole.
    Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
    Joan Tower: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No 1
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 (Emperor)
    Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2
    Barry Douglas (piano)
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Marin Alsop (conductor).
      20070122 Stephen Johnson presents a series recorded in Glasgow's City Halls.
    1/4. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Sibelius' Symphony Cycle
    Sibelius: Nightride and sunrise
    Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
    Sibelius: Symphony No 1
    Angela Hewitt (piano)
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Stefan Solyom (conductor).
      20070123 2/4. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Sibelius Symphony Cycle
    Stephen Johnson presents a series recorded in Glasgow's City Halls.
    Sibelius: Symphony No 3; Kullervo
    Paivi Nisula (soprano)
    Raimo Laukka (baritone)
    YL Helsinki Male Voice Choir
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Osmo Vanska (conductor).
      20070124 3/4. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Sibelius Symphony Cycle
    Stephen Johnson presents a series recorded in Glasgow's City Halls.
    Sibelius: Tapiola
    Bartok: Violin Concerto No 2
    Sibelius: Symphony No 4
    Ilya Gringolts (violin)
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Ilan Volkov (conductor).
      20070125 4/4. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Sibelius Symphony Cycle
    Stephen Johnson presents a series recorded in Glasgow's City Halls.
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Leif Segerstam (conductor)
    Sibelius: Symphony No 5; Symphony No 6; Symphony No 7.
      20070126 In a concert recorded at the Wigmore Hall in London, Simon Keenlyside (baritone) is accompanied by Julius Drake (piano).
    Poulenc: Le travail du peintre
    Debussy: Beau soir; Voici que le printemps; Mandoline
    Poulenc: Miel de Narbonne; Attributs; Montparnasse; Carte postale; Avant le cinéma; 1904
    Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
    Rimsky-Korsakov: Eastern Song; Enslaved by the rose the nightingale
    Rachmaninov: Christ is risen, Op 26, No 6; She is as Lovely as the Noon, Op 14, No 9; The Waterlily, Op 8, No 1; A Dream, Op 38, No 5
    Brahms: Auf dem Kirchhofe, Op 105, No 4; Nachtwandler, Op 86, No 3; Es schauen die Blumen, Op 96, No 3; Ständchen, Op 106, No 1
    Richard Strauss: Ständchen, Op 17, No 2; All mein Gedanken, Op 21, No 1; Das Rosenband, Op 36, No 1; Hochzeitlich Lied, Op 37, No 6; Cäcilie, Op 27, No 2.
      20070201 A concert recorded at the University of Georgia.
    Honegger: Pacific 231
    Mozart: Piano Concerto No 21
    Hoddinott: Welsh Dances, Suite No 2
    Stravinsky: Petrouchka
    Llyr Williams (piano)
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Thierry Fischer (conductor).
      20070202 First part of tonight's concert, live from Edinburgh's Usher Hall.
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Stephane Deneve (conductor)
    Beethoven: Symphony No 3 (Eroica).
    Second part of tonight's concert, live from Edinburgh's Usher Hall.
    Irina Tchistyakova (mezzo)
    Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky.
      20070205 Stephen Isserlis (cello) and Robert Levin (piano) perform Beethoven's five cello sonatas in a recital recorded at the Wigmore Hall in London.
      20070207 Petroc Trelawney presents highlights from the 2007 Festival of Brass held at the Royal Nothern College of Music in Manchester.
    Bjarte Engeset conducts the Eikanger Bjorsvik Mussiklag.
    The programme includes:
    Elgar: Festival Music
    Bernstein: West Side Story (suite)
    Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (highlights).
      20070208Continuesat8.45pmafterTwentyMinutesPetroc Trelawny presents the first part of tonight's concert, live from the City Halls, Glasgow.
    Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Ilan Volkov (conductor)
    Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No 1 (original version)
    Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24
    Petroc Trelawny presents the second part of tonight's concert, live from the City Halls, Glasgow.
    Beethoven: Symphony No 6 (Pastoral).
      20070209Continuesat8.50pmafterTwentyMinutesChristopher Cook presents the first part of tonight's concert, live from the Barbican.
    Barry Douglas (piano)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    David Robertson (conductor)
    Simon Bainbridge: Diptych, Part 1 (world premiere)
    Bartok: Piano Concerto No 3
    Christopher Cook presents the second part of tonight's concert, live from the Barbican.
    Simon Bainbridge: Diptych, Part 2 (world premiere)
    Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy.
      20070219 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall in December.
    Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo)
    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
    Haydn: Symphony No 6 (Le Matin)
    Mahler: Songs from Des Knaben Wonderhorn
    Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht.
      20070220 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given at the Barbican.
    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
    Mariss Jansons (conductor)
    Schubert: Symphony No 3
    Bruckner: Symphony No 3.
      20070221 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given at the Wigmore Hall, London.
    Christopher Maltman (baritone)
    Nash Ensemble
    Bax: Harp Quintet
    Vaughan Williams: 5 Mystical Songs
    Butterworth: Love Blows as the Wind Blows
    Elgar: String Quartet in Em, Op 83.
      20070222 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert recorded at the Barbican.
    Berlioz: Roman Carnival
    Debussy: La Mer
    Berio: Folk Songs
    Ravel: La valse
    Elina Garanca (soprano)
    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
    Mariss Jansons (conductor).
      20070223 With Petroc Trelawny.
    Monica Groop (mezzo)
    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
    Haydn: Symphony No 7 (Midi)
    Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
    R Strauss: Metamorphosen.
      20070226 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert recorded at the Lighthouse, Poole.
    Juho Pohjonen (piano)
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Marin Alsop (conductor)
    Grieg: Piano Concerto
    Mahler: Symphony No 1.
      20070227 A recording from the 2006 Schubertiade in the Austrian town of Schwarzenberg by British tenor Ian Bostridge accompanied on piano by Antonio Pappano, music director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. They perform Schubert's last song cycle Schwanengesang and Wolf's intensely expressive Morike and Eichendorff Lieder.
      20070228 With Petroc Trelawny.
    Alina Ibragimova (violin)
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Stefan Solyom (conductor)
    Elgar: Introduction and Allegro
    Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1
    Beethoven: Symphony No 7.
      20070301 Mark Elder conducts the Halle in Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka, which is based on a grotesque puppet show given at a St Petersburg Shrovetide carnival. The orchestra is joined by a young cast of soloists for a performance of Mozart's unfinished Mass in C minor (Great).
    Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version)
    Mozart: Mass in Cm, K427 (Great)
    Susan Gritton (soprano)
    Tove Dahlberg (mezzo-soprano)
    Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
    Henry Waddington (bass)
    The Halle Choir
    The Halle Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor).
      20070302 With Petroc Trelawny.
    Boris Berezovsky (piano)
    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)
    Nielsen: Helios
    Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3
    Sibelius: Symphony No 5.
      20070305 Geoffrey Smith presents a performance by Le Point du Jour, a new early music ensemble.
    David Daniels (countertenor)
    Jory Vinikour (harpsichord)
    Elizabeth Blumenstock, Sharman Plesner (violins)
    Nadine Davin (viola)
    Phoebe Carrai (cello)
    Elizabeth Kenny (lute)
    Monteverdi: E pur io torno (L'incoronazione di Poppea)
    Castello: Sonata Decima Quinta a 4
    Frescobaldi: Cosi mi disprezzate
    Marini: Passacaglie a 3 and a 4
    A Scarlatti: Infirmata, Vulnerata; Concerto grosso; Perche tacete, regolati concenti?
      20070306 Geoffrey Smith presents a performance by the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Lorin Maazel.
    Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortileges
    Child....Susanne Mentzer (mezzo)
    Fire/Nightingale/Princess....Patrizia Ciofi (soprano)
    Shepherdess/Bat/Owl/Bergère chair....Jessica Jones (soprano)
    Female Cat/Squirrel....Isabel Leonard (mezzo)
    Mother/Chinese Teacup/Dragonfly/Shepherd....Kelley O'Connor (mezzo)
    Teapot/ Little Old Man/Tree Frog....Philippe Castagner (tenor)
    Grandfather Clock/Cat....Ian Greenlaw (baritone)
    Armchair/Tree....Kevin Deas (bass)
    New York Choral Artists
    Brooklyn Youth Chorus
    Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3
    Kent Tritle (organ).
      20070307 Geoffrey Smith presents a concert recorded in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.
    Hilliard Ensemble
    City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
    City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus
    BBC Philharmonic
    James MacMillan (conductor)
    Anon: Musicalis Scientia; Stirps Iesse de gremio; Procurans odium
    Rodney Sharman: Passing of the Clarinet
    Anon: Oi Dex! Quam brevis
    Dufay: Anima mea liquefacta set
    Anon: Prima mundi
    Elizabeth Liddle: Whale rant
    Anon: Sophia nasci fertur
    Trad, arr. Komitas: Sarakans (Armenian sacred chants)
    Macmillan: Quickening.
      20070308 With Geoffrey Smith.
    Vadim Repin (violin)
    New York Philharmonic
    Riccardo Muti (conductor)
    Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
    Scriabin: Symphony No 3 (Divine Poem).
      20070309 Geoffrey Smith presents a performance recorded in the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank.
    Katarina Karneus (mezzo)
    London Philharmonic Orchestra
    Kazushi Ono (conductor)
    Faure: Dolly Suite
    Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte
    Ravel: Sheherazade
    Sibelius: Symphony No 2.
      20070312 Catherine Bott introduces a concert at the Barbican Hall, London.
    A passionate choral plea for peace and an idyll by an English composer who was to die in the First World War join the symphony Jean Sibelius wrote just a year into that conflict. Michael Nyman's new work sets texts written 80 years later by Iraqi poet Jamal Juma, conscripted to the Iraqi army during the first Gulf War.
    BBC Symphony Chorus
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    John Storgards (conductor)
    Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad
    Michael Nyman: A Handshake in the Dark
    Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden
    Silbelius: Symphony No 5.
      20070313 A recital by Werner Gura (tenor) and Christoph Berner (piano) of songs by Mozart and Schubert's Schwanengesang.
      20070314 A concert by the Berlin Philharmonic under its music director Simon Rattle.
    One of Dvorak's most romantic symphonies is preceded by the UK premiere of Thomas Ades's biblical one-movement symphony, Tevot.
    Dvorak: Symphony No 7 in Dm
    Ades: Tevot (UK premiere)
    Janacek: Sinfonietta.
      20070315 A piano recital by Imogen Cooper given at the Wigmore Hall, London.
    Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 28 in A, Op 101
    Mozart: Piano Sonata in A minor, K310
    Tippett: Piano Sonata No 2
    Ravel: Miroirs.
      20070319 Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No 9 at Glasgow's City Halls. Preceded by the world premiere of Jonathan Harvey's Body Mandala.
      20070320 A song recital by soprano Christine Brewer and pianist Roger Vignoles, presented by Tom Service.
    Berg: Seven Early Songs
    Strauss: Gesange des Orients, Op 77
    Britten: The Poet's Echo
    Celius Dougherty: Four Songs.
      20070321 With Tom Service.
    Welsh operatic baritone Bryn Terfel and American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham join the BBC Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor Jiri Belohlavek for an evening of favourite extracts of Mozart and Wagner.
      20070322 Tom Service introduces a concert given at Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
    Joanna MacGregor (piano)
    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Richard Seal (conductor)
    Elgar: Introduction and Allegro
    Hugh Wood: Piano Concerto
    Walton: Symphony No 1.
      20070326 Petroc Trelawny introduces a recital by one of the world's leading mezzo-sopranos given last night at London's Wigmore Hall.
    Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano)
    Helmut Deutsch (piano)
    Brahms: 8 Zigeunerlieder, Op 103
    Mendelssohn: Es weiss und rät es doch keiner, Op 99 No 6; Das Waldschloss; Pagenlied; Nachtlied, Op 71 No 6; Wanderlied, Op 57 No 6
    Liszt: Im Rhein im schönen Strome; Es rauschen die Winde; Es war ein König in Thule; Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam; Die stille Wasserrose; O lieb so lang du lieben kannst
    Dvorák: Love songs, Op 83.
      20070327 Introduced by Petroc Trelawny.
    Every two years, conductor William Christie hand-picks the brightest vocal talent from music colleges all over Europe and the US. Le Jardin des Voix is a unique initiative by Christie and Les Arts Florissants, showcasing their young discoveries in leading European and American concert halls.
    The concert includes madrigals, arias and duets by Monteverdi, Handel and Haydn.
    Laura Smith (soprano)
    Claire Meghangi (soprano)
    Francesca Boncompagni (soprano)
    Sonya Yoncheva (soprano)
    Amaya Dominguez (mezzo-soprano)
    Michal Czerniawski (counter-tenor)
    Juan Sancho (tenor)
    Pascal Charbonneau (tenor)
    Nicholas Watts (tenor)
    Jonathan Sells (bass)
    Orchestra of Les Arts Florissants
    William Christie (conductor).
      20070328 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert given at London's Barbican Hall that pairs the talents of BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Cedric Tiberghien with the interpretative insights of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's chief conductor Jiri Belohlavek.
    Dvorak's Fifth Symphony is a pastoral vision of Bohemia, while Eben's Vox clamantis sees hope triumph over adversity after, as a teenager, the composer confronted death's violent world in Buchenwald concentration camp.
    Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
    Eben: Vox clamantis
    Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1
    Dvorak: Symphony No 5.
      20070330 With Petroc Trelawny.
    In the second of his concert series exploring works by Stravinsky, Debussy and Prokofiev, Valery Gergiev and the LSO present three seminal scores in one concert: Debussy's glittering seascape La Mer has long been admired for its descriptive precision, but no less atmospheric is his hazy evocation of the summer reveries of a faun.
    Stravinsky's infamous Rite of Spring instigated riots at its Parisian world premiere, while his Symphonies of Wind Instruments is, by contrast, coolly classical.
    Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
    Debussy: La Mer
    Prokofiev: Seven They are Seven
    Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
    Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
    London Symphony Chorus
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Valery Gergiev (conductor).
      20070402 With Petroc Trelawny.
    Recorded at the Lighthouse in Poole, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is conducted by their acclaimed principal conductor Marin Alsop and play favourite and less well-known Americana, including music by Alsop's former teacher, Leonard Bernstein. With Simon Trpceski as the soloist in Gershwin's ever-popular piano concerto.
    Gershwin: An American in Paris; Rhapsody in Blue
    Copland: Symphony No 2
    Bernstein Suite: On the Waterfront
    Simon Trpceski (piano)
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Marin Alsop (conductor).
      20070403 With Petroc Trelawny.
    A concert given by the Ulster Orchestra in January in the Waterfront Hall, Belfast, under their principal conductor, Kenneth Montgomery. The pianist in the monumental Brahms concerto is local boy turned international soloist and conductor, Barry Douglas. In contrast to the seriousness of the concerto, Dvorak's piece is a happy combination of Brahmsian form with the tunefulness and plangent harmonic style that Dvorak uniquely brought to the symphonic repertoire.
    Beethoven: Prometheus Overture
    Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1
    Dvorak: Symphony No 6
    Barry Douglas (piano)
    Ulster Orchestra
    Kenneth Montgomery (conductor).
      20070404 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert recorded at the Lisbon Festival.
    James MacMillan conducts the BBC Singers and Britten Sinfonia in a programme which includes music for Holy Week by 16th-century composer Victoria, music which inspired MacMillan's Seven Last Words.
    Britten: Prelude and Fugue for 18-part strings
    Victoria: Tenebrae Responsaries for Holy Week; Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday, second nocturn; Tamquam ad latronem; Tenebrae factae sunt; Animam meam dilectam
    Britten: Hymn to the Virgin
    Tippett: Dance, Clarion Air; Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli
    MacMillan: The Seven Last Words from the Cross
    Magnus Johnston, Jacqueline Shave (violin)
    Caroline Dearnley (cello)
    Britten Sinfonia
    BBC Singers
    James MacMillan (conductor).
      20070405 Petroc Trelawny introduces Mahler's epic symphony, which was recorded at London's Barbican Hall.
    Mahler: Symphony No 3
    Jane Irwin (mezzo-soprano)
    BBC Symphony Chorus
    The Choristers of Westminster Cathedral
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).
      20070406 Live from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, Petroc Trelawney introduces a concert for Good Friday. Including the world premiere of British composer Michael Zev Gordon's work for choir and solo cello which tells the Exodus story, and Arvo Part's setting of the Passion.
    Michael Zev Gordon: This Night (Commissioned by King's College)
    Arvo Part: St John Passion
    Anton Lukoszevieze (cello)
    Choir of King's College
    Stephen Cleobury (director)
    The Hilliard Ensemble
    David James (conductor).
      20070409 With Martin Handley.
    The BBC Concert Orchestra performs music for Easter time recorded at King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
    Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs are set to texts by George Herbert, and begin with the words 'Rise heart, thy Lord is risen'. Elgar's early oratorio, The Light of Life, tells the story of Christ's healing of the blind beggar at the temple and culminates with a setting of the line 'I am the good shepherd and know my sheep', words traditionally associated with Easter.
    Elgar: Sursum Corda
    Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs
    Elgar: The Light of Life
    Majella Cullagh (soprano)
    Louise Crane (mezzo-soprano)
    Justin Lavender (tenor)
    Russell Smythe (bass)
    Philharmonia Chorus
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    Stephen Cleobury (conductor).
      20070410 With Martin Handley.
    Schubert's enigmatic and 'Unfinished' 8th Symphony provides the centerpiece to this concert recorded in Belfast's Ulster Hall. Framing it are Stravinsky's lively ballet suite based on the Commedia dell'Arte figure of Pulcinella, while British violinist, Daniel Hope, is the soloist in Brahms' mighty romantic Violin Concerto.
    Stravinsky: Suite Pulcinella
    Schubert: Symphony No 8 (Unfinished)
    Brahms: Violin Concerto
    Ulster Orchestra
    Douglas Boyd (conductor).
      20070411 With Martin Handley.
    Over the next three nights, violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Alexander Lonquich perform all of Beethoven's violin sonatas in a series of concerts given earlier this month at London's Wigmore Hall. Tonight they perform four of his early works.
    Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 1 in D, Op 12 No 1; Violin Sonata No 2 in A, Op 12 No 2; Violin Sonata No 3 in E flat, Op 12 No 3; Violin Sonata No 4 in A minor, Op 23.
      20070412 With Martin Handley.
    Continuing violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Alexander Lonquich's series of all of Beethoven's Violin Sonatas recorded earlier this month at London's Wigmore Hall. Included in the programme is one of Beethoven's most popular Violin Sonatas, the Spring, a work which owes its poetic name to the largely pastoral nature of the outer movements.
    Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 5 in F, Op 24 (Spring); Violin Sonata No 6 in A, Op 30, No 1; Violin Sonata No 7 in Cm, Op 30, No 2.
      20070413 With Martin Handley.
    The conclusion of violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Alexander Lonquich's series of all of Beethoven's violin sonatas, given at London's Wigmore Hall earlier this month. The programme includes Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, the work that inspired Leo Tolstoy to write a novella of the same name.
    Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 8 in G, Op 30 No 3; Violin Sonata No 9 in A, Op 47 (Kreutzer); Violin Sonata No 10 in G, Op 96.
      20070416 With Petroc Trelawny.
    A typically eclectic and fascinating programme taken from the Barbican's Ades festival. From Berlioz's exhuberant overture to Ades's own work, the composer himself conducts the music that is all very close to his heart.
    Rebecca von Lipinski (soprano)
    Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
    BBC Singers
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Thomas Ades (conductor)
    Berlioz: Overture to Les Francs-Juges
    Sibelius: Luonnotar
    Ives: Orchestral Set No 2
    Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
    Thomas Ades: America, A Prophecy.
      20070417 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert featuring Mahler's Fifth Symphony preceded by a world premiere inspired by both jazz and by contemplation of the rainforest.
    David Pyatt (horn)
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
    McCabe: Horn Concerto (BBC commission; world premiere)
    Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor.
      20070418 With Petroc Trelawny.
    Colourful Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen gives the UK premiere of a piano concerto written for him by an equally colourful Russian composer, then Shostakovich's huge and dramatic wartime symphony completes the programme.
    Olli Mustonen (piano)
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
    Rodion Shchedrin: Piano Concerto No 5 (UK premiere)
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 8.
      20070419 With Petroc Trelawny.
    A programme of classical and neo-classical music featuring violin concertos from the 18th and 20th centuries.
    Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat (Dumbarton Oaks)
    Mozart: Violin Concerto No 2
    Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D
    Mozart: Symphony No 36
    Gil Shaham (violin)
    New York Philharmonic
    David Robertson (conductor).
      20070420 With Petroc Trelawny.
    A complete performance of Debussy's orchestral triptych preceded by Beethoven's high-spirited early concerto and a curtain-raiser from Sweden, where conductor Alan Gilbert is based.
    Daniel Bortz: Parodos
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1
    Debussy: Images
    Lars Vogt (piano)
    New York Philharmonic
    Alan Gilbert (conductor).
      20070423 Martin Handley introduces the first of two concerts featuring Beethoven's 'late' string quartets, given last month at the Wigmore Hall, London.
    Emerson String Quartet
    Beethoven: Quartet in E flat, Op 127; Quartet in F, Op 135; Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131.
      20070424 With Martin Handley.
    2/2. The second of two concerts featuring Beethoven's 'late' string quartets, given last month at the Wigmore Hall, London.
    Emerson String Quartet
    Beethoven: Quartet in A minor, Op 132; Quartet in B flat, Op 130 (including Grosse Fugue, Op 133).
      20070425 Martin Handley introduces a concert given last month at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall with Oliver Knussen conducting the London Sinfonietta in works by his former pupil Mark-Anthony Turnage, plus the world premiere of Anthony Payne's new commission exploring the passage of time.
    Jane Irwin (mezzo-soprano)
    London Sinfonietta
    Oliver Knussen (conductor)
    Mark-Anthony Turnage: Dark Crossing
    Anthony Payne: Windows on Eternity
    Elliott Carter: In the Distances of Sleep
    Colin Matthews: Two Part Invention.
      20070426 Martin Handley introduces a concert given last week at Perth Concert Hall which includes a rare performance of a work by John Blackwood McEwen, Walton's impressive orchestral work and Rachmaninov's notoriously demanding concerto performed by an exciting young Israeli pianist.
    Boris Giltburg (piano)
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Rumon Gamba (conductor)
    John Blackwood McEwen: Grey Galloway (Border Ballad No 2)
    Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3
    Walton: Symphony No 1.
      20070427 Martin Handley introduces a song recital by German soprano Dorothea Roschmann with Graham Johnson (piano) given last Monday at the Wigmore Hall, London.
    Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben, Op 42
    Falla: Seven Popular Spanish Songs
    Plus lieder by Beethoven, Brahms and Wolf.
      20070430 Martin Handley introduces the final concert in the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's season at Edinburgh's Usher Hall.
    Berlioz was so unhappy with his opera Les Francs Juges that he burned most of it, but kept the thrilling overture which opens tonight's concert. The premiere of Schumann's Piano Concerto featured the composer's wife at the piano, while the various sides of Richard Strauss's personal life were put into music in his Ein Heldenleben, loosely translated as A Hero's Life.
    Antti Siirala (piano)
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Stephane Deneve (conductor)
    Berlioz: Les Francs-Juges
    Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor
    Strauss: Ein Heldenleben.
      20070501 Martin Handley introduces a concert given last week at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.
    The programme includes Mendelssohn's delightful miniature musical picture based on the tale of a water-nymph who marries a mortal, and Sibelius's quietly radical Third Symphony which contains many Finnish folk elements. Staying in Nordic mood, the Halle's principal clarinet offers her interpretation of Nielsen's concerto. Finally, Strauss's tone poem is a vivid illustration of the pranks and adventures of the legendary jester who has the last laugh, mocking his enemies from the grave.
    Lynsey Marsh (clarinet)
    Halle Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor)
    Mendelssohn: The Fair Melusine
    Sibelius: Symphony No 3 in C
    Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto
    Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel.
      20070502 Martin Handley introduces a recital given at the Wigmore Hall, London, by soprano Soile Isokoski accompanied by pianist Miarita Viitasaloin of songs by Mozart, Schubert and two composers from her native Finland, Sibelius and Yrjo Kilpinen.
      20070503 Martin Handley introduces a concert given by the Hagen Quartet. Made up of three members of one Salzburg family, Lukas, Veronika and Clemens Hagen, plus German violinist Rainer Schmidt, the quartet has forged a reputation as one of the greatest of our time. It performs Schubert's revolutionary final quartet and Haydn's musical depiction of Christ's last words.
    Schubert: String Quartet in G
    Haydn: Seven Last Words from the Cross.
      20070504 With Martin Handley.
    The theme of youthful inspiration runs through this concert, given last month in Birmingham's Symphony Hall.
    Elgar's Wand of Youth Suites are based on music the composer wrote as a young child for a fantasy play he and his sister performed at their home. Bizet composed his Symphony in C at the age of 17, while Mendelssohn wrote his Concerto for Two Pianos at just 14.
    Robert Levin, Ya-Fei Chuang (pianos)
    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
    Elgar: Wand of Youth Suites Nos 1 and 2
    Mendelssohn: Concerto in A flat for Two Pianos
    Bizet: Symphony in C.
      20070507 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert from The Sage, Gateshead as Andrew Manze conducts the Northern Sinfonia for the first time. Stravinsky's delightful Dumbarton Oaks and its 18th Century model, Bach's 3rd Brandenburg Concerto, are partnered with Bach's late and knotty contrapuntal tour de force.
    Northern Sinfonia
    Andrew Manze (conductor)
    Bach: Musical Offering
    Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 3
    Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks.
      20070508 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, as Mark Elder conducts the Halle in an all-French programme, including the world premiere of the last in Colin Matthews' series of dazzling and subtle Debussy orchestrations.
    Pascal Roge (piano)
    Rosemary Joshua (soprano)
    Halle Choir and Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor)
    Debussy orch. Colin Matthews: Orchestral Preludes and Postlude
    Poulenc: Aubade
    Ravel: Piano Concerto for the left hand
    Poulenc: Gloria.
      20070509 The RPS Awards
    The Royal Philharmonic Society has recognised exceptional musical achievement and personal contributions to musical life since the 19th century. Petroc Trelawny finds out which of today's outstanding musicians have won the coveted awards in a ceremony held last night at London's Dorchester Hotel.
      20070511 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert from the 9th Manchester International Cello Festival at the Bridgewater Hall featuring an international line-up of soloists.
    BBC Philharmonic
    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
    Bridge: Oration
    Colin Carr (cello)
    Britten: Cello Symphony
    Natalia Gutman (cello)
    Walton: Cello Concerto
    Yo-Yo Ma (cello).
      20070514 Petroc Trelawny presents the first of two all-Bartok concerts as part of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's Bartok month. Bartok's ballet The Wooden Prince is closely related to his opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle and he referred to them as 'like two movements of a huge symphony'. And if any of Bartok's works could be called a bridge between the opera and the ballet, it's his Four Orchestral Pieces.
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Marin Alsop (conductor)
    Bartok: Four Orchestral Pieces; The Wooden Prince.
      20070515 Petroc Trelawny presents a programme given by one of the leading British chamber orchestras and their young German guest conductor where the theme of nostalgia links several of the pieces.
    Samuel Barber's evocative setting of James Agee's childhood memories is teamed with Copland's lonely urban trumpeter, and Ravel's reflections on an Infanta's death and the loss of friends in the First World War.
    Ravel: Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte
    Debussy: Deux Danses
    Barber: Knoxville Summer of 1915
    Copland: Quiet City
    Falla: Psyche
    Stravinsky: Trois Petites Chansons
    Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
    Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
    Britten Sinfonia
    Andre de Ridder (conductor).
      20070516 Petroc Trelawny presents young British conductor Edward Gardner, now music director of English National Opera, conducting an all-English programme spanning 70 years of music, from Walton's magnificent First Symphony to Julian Anderson's acclaimed single-movement Symphony.
    The programmes starts with Colin Matthews' orchestral arrangement of Britten's A Charm of Lullabies and Britten's late dramatic cantata Phaedra. They offer contrasting opportunities for leading mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly.
    Britten, orch. Colin Matthews: A Charm of Lullabies
    Britten: Phaedra
    Julian Anderson: Symphony
    Walton: Symphony No 1
    Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Edward Gardner (conductor).
      20070517 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert by the LSO and their charismatic new Principal Conductor, as they continue to explore the music of three 20th century masters.
    Stravinsky's large-scale opera-oratorio retells the darkest of Greek myths and features an all-Russian line-up of soloists. This is preceded by excerpts from Prokofiev's youthful four-act opera and Debussy's fragmentary music for Gabriele d'Annunzio's haunting mystery play. The next concert in the series follows on Friday evening.
    Prokofiev: Four Portraits from The Gambler
    Debussy: Symphonic Fragments from Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien
    Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
    Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo-soprano)
    Oleg Balashov, Alexander Timchenko (tenor)
    Evgeny Nikitin (baritone)
    Mikhail Petrenko (bass)
    Gentlemen of the London Symphony Chorus
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Valery Gergiev (conductor).
      20070518 Petroc Trelawny introduces another concert in the LSO's series, spotlighting the music of three masters from the first half of the 20th Century.
    The programme opens with Stravinsky's 'classical' Symphony and ends with a suite from Prokofiev's most famous ballet-score. In between is Debussy's Whistler-inspired sound-pictures of clouds, festivals and the alluring voices of Sirens.
    Stravinsky: Symphony in C
    Debussy: Nocturnes
    Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite
    Ladies of the London Symphony Chorus
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Valery Gergiev (conductor).
      20070521Continuesat8.45pm,afterIntervalJoanna MacGregor at Bath International Music Festival 2007
    Petroc Trelawny presents the second half of pianist Joanna MacGregor's live recital.
    Villa-Lobos: Prelude No 1; Choros No 1
    Egberto Gismonti: Frevo
    Lobo/de Moraes/Jobim: Afro Sambas
    Gershwin: The Gershwin Songbook.
    Petroc Trelawny introduces the first in a series of live broadcasts from the Bath Festival, which begins, direct from the Assembly Rooms, with a typically vivid and eclectic recital by the festival's artistic director, pianist Joanna MacGregor.
    Bach/Shostakovich: 10 Preludes and Fugues
      20070522Continuesat8.50pm,afterTwentyMinutesBorodin Quartet at Bath International Music Festival 2007
    Petroc Trelawny introduces the second half of a live recital by the Borodin Quartet.
    Tchaikovsky: Quartet No 1 in D, Op 11.
    For the second of Radio 3's live visits to this year's Bath Festival, Petroc Trelawny is at the Assembly Rooms to introduce a recital by the Borodin Quartet.
    The programme features Myaskovsky's String Quartet No. 13 and Beethoven's quartet in F minor.
    Ruben Aharonian, Andrei Abramenkov (violins)
    Igor Naidin (viola)
    Vladimir Balshin (cello)
    Myaskovsky: String Quartet No. 13 Opus 86
    Beethoven: Quartet in F minor, Op 95
      20070523Continuesat8.25pm,afterTwentyMinutesMaxim Vengerov at Bath International Music Festival 2007
    Petroc Trelawny introduces the second half of tonight's live broadcast from the Bath Festival.
    Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No 1 in F minor, Op 80
    Shostakovich: Ten selections from 24 Preludes, Op 3.
    Petroc Trelawny introduces a live recital by Russian violinist Maxim Vengerov that reflects both his Russian heritage and his debt to the great names of Mozart and Beethoven
    Maxim Vengerov (violin)
    Igor Levitt (piano)
    Mozart: Adagio in E, K621
    Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 7 in C minor, Op 30 No 2
      20070524Continuesat8.30pm,afterTwentyMinutesDhafer Youssef: Divine Shadows. The second half of tonight's recital by the Tunisian-born singer and oud virtuoso, live from the Assembly Rooms in Bath.
    Dhafer Youssef: Divine Shadows
    Live from the Assembly Rooms in Bath, Petroc Trelawny presents the first half of a concert by Tunisian-born singer and oud virtuoso Dhafer Youssef, whose haunting Sufi-inspired music has caught the hearts and minds of audiences across the world. From humble beginnings when Youssef made his own oud by piecing together bits and pieces he found near his Tunisian home, he has become widely acclaimed and produced several albums along with his band, which consists of the very best of Norwegian electronic nu-jazz.
    Dhafer Youssef (voice/oud)
    Jatinder Thakur (tabla)
    Koehne String Quartet
      20070525 Clifford Curzon
    A celebration of the life and music of one England's most successful and best loved pianists, Clifford Curzon, the centenary of whose birth falls this month.
    Famous for his interpretations of Mozart, the programme includes a recording of Mozart's Piano Concerto in B flat alongside works by Schubert, Schumann and Lili Boulanger, with spoken contributions from people who knew and worked with him.
    Schubert: B flat Impromptu, D935 No 3 (Theme mit Variationen); Fantasie in C, D760 (Wanderer-Fantasie)
    Lili Boulanger: 3 Pieces for violin and piano
    Mozart: Piano Sonata in C minor, K457
    Franck: Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra
    Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op 15
    Schubert: Quintet in A for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass, D667 (The Trout: 4th mvt)
    Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat, K595.
      20070528 Kate Bott introduces a performance of Bartok's one-act opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle given by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at the Lighthouse, Poole.
    Against all advice, Judith marries Duke Bluebeard and joins him in his castle. There she finds seven locked doors, which she insists he opens, revealing such things as a torture chamber, and a lake of tears. Behind the seventh door, though, is the most gruesome discovery of all: his three previous wives.
    Judith....Andrea Melath (soprano)
    Bluebeard....Gustav Belacek (bass)
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Marin Alsop (conductor).
      20070529 Kate Bott introduces a concert recorded last week at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall by the Halle Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder.
    Masterpieces by Mozart and Haydn frame two works that pay homage to the city of Vienna, where the composers lived and worked. Stravinsky's Violin Concerto is brilliant instrumental theatre full of echoes of Viennese classicism, while HK Gruber's Dancing in the Dark is a dizzying car crash where Viennese tradition collides with Fred Astaire.
    Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
    Halle Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor)
    Mozart: Symphony No 34 in C
    HK Gruber: Dancing in the Dark
    Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D
    Haydn: Symphony No 90 in C.
      20070530 Kate Bott presents a concert by the Abbey Choir, given in the magnificent space of Westminster Abbey, of some of Bach's most striking and jubilant church music. The double-chorus motet, Komm, Jesu, komm provides a stunning opening to a concert that demonstrates the depth and variety of the great composer's invention, from two of his popular Cantatas through to one of his lesser known Lutheran Masses.
    Rebecca Outram (soprano)
    Charles Humphries (countertenor)
    Matthew Brook (bass)
    Westminster Abbey Choir
    James O'Donnell (conductor)
    Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229
    Cantata No 52 (Falsche Welt, dir trauich nicht)
    Lutheran Mass in F, BWV 233
    Sinfonia in D, BWV 1045
    Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV 226
    Cantata No 34 (O ewiges Feuer, O Ursprung der Liebe).
      20070531 Kate Bott introduces the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme of works including the world premiere of The Broken Symphony, a BBC commission from young Scottish composer Alasdair Nicolson, Brahms' Symphony No 3 and Beethoven's Violin Concerto.
    Julia Fischer (violin)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    David Zinman (conductor)
    Alasdair Nicolson: The Broken Symphony (Part 1: Endless Laments)
    Brahms: Symphony No 3
    Alasdair Nicolson: The Broken Symphony (Part 2: Ghost Dances)
    Beethoven: Violin Concerto.
      20070606 Tom Service introduces a concert given last week at St David's Hall, Cardiff.
    Swiss pianist Andreas Haefliger performs Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto. Strauss' tone poem Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life) is often considered an autobiographical work, portraying the composer as the hero battling against his critics, but was Strauss's tongue set firmly in his cheek?
    Andreas Haefliger (piano)
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Thierry Fischer (conductor)
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3
    Strauss: Ein Heldenleben.
      20070608 Tom Service introduces a recital by French pianist Pierre-Laurant Aimard given last month at London's Barbican Hall.
    Aimard worked closely with Hungarian composer Gyorgi Ligeti from the mid-1980s until the composer's death a year ago, and the result was a collection of Etudes, several of which are dedicated to Aimard. They are widely considered to be among the great piano works of the late 20th century, and in this concert, a selection of these are interweaved with studies by other composers who influenced Ligeti.
    Schumann: Etudes Symphoniques
    Debussy: Etude No 1 (Pour les cinq doigts)
    Ligeti: Etude No 7
    Chopin: Etude in F minor, Op 25
    Ligeti: Etude No 3 (Touches bloquees)
    Rachmaninov: Etude No 5 in E flat minor, Op 33
    Ligeti: Etude No 6
    Chopin: Etude Posthume No 1 in F minor
    Ligeti: Etude No 11 (En suspens)
    Liszt: Etude d'apres Paganini (La chasse)
    Ligeti: Etude No 4 (Fanfares)
    Messiaen: Etude de Rhythme No 1 (Ile de feu)
    Ligeti: Etude No 13 (L'escalier du Diable).
      20070611 Geoffrey Smith introduces the most recent instalments of the Beethoven Sonata cycle by the much-admired British pianist Paul Lewis, given at London's Wigmore Hall.
    This recital matches the three earliest sonatas, full of the young Beethoven's wit and lyricism, with one of the finest, and most famous, of the 'middle-period' sonatas.
    Beethoven: Sonata in F minor, Op 2, No 1
    Sonata in A, Op 2, No 2
    Sonata in C, Op 2, No 3
    Sonata in F minor, Op 57 (Appassionata).
      20070612 Geoffrey Smith introduces the most recent instalments of the Beethoven Sonata cycle by the much-admired British pianist Paul Lewis, given at London's Wigmore Hall.
    The two Op 27 sonatas show the composer at his most experimental and they're preceded by one of the shortest and least-known of Beethoven's piano works. Paul Lewis ends his recital with the large-scale sonata that the young Beethoven dedicated to a Countess with whom he'd fallen in love.
    Beethoven: Sonata No 22 in F, Op 54; Sonata No 13 in E flat, Op 27, No 1 (Quasi Una Fantasia); Sonata No 14 in C sharp minor, Op 27, No 2 (Moonlight); Sonata No 4 in E flat, Op 7.
      20070613 With Geoffrey Smith.
    This week sees the long-awaited re-opening of London's Royal Festival Hall after major refurbishment that has kept it dark for two years, so the Southbank Centre's resident ensembles combine for a celebratory concert in which 250 musicians will play together for the first time. The programme explores 300 years of classical music, including a specially commissioned work from British composer Julian Anderson.
    Anderson: Alleluia
    Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite
    Ives: The Unanswered Question (Contemplation No 1)
    Harrison Birtwistle: Cortege
    Purcell: Symphony from The Fairy Queen
    Ligeti: Atmospheres
    Beethoven: Symphony No 9 (4th mvt)
    Joan Rodgers (soprano)
    Patricia Bardon (mezzo-soprano)
    Philip Langridge (tenor)
    Brindley Sherratt (bass)
    London Philharmonic Orchestra
    Philharmonia Orchestra
    London Sinfonietta
    The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Philharmonia Chorus
    Margaret Faultless (violin/director)
    Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
    Christoph von Dohnanyi (conductor)
    Marin Alsop (conductor).
      20070614 Geoffrey Smith introduces the most recent instalments of the Beethoven Sonata cycle by the much-admired British pianist Paul Lewis, given at London's Wigmore Hall.
    This recital begins with three sonatas that the young Beethoven wrote at the same time, demonstrating wit, warmth, sadness, depth and fascinating signs of the composer's growing musical maturity. The final sonata in the recital is one of Beethoven's most personal, and is intimately associated with the French occupation of his native Vienna and his feelings regarding the absence, and eventual return, of his patron and pupil Archduke Rudolph.
    Beethoven: Sonata in F, Op 10 No 2; Sonata in D, Op 10 No 3; Sonata in C minor, Op 10 No 1; Sonata No 26 in E flat, Op 81a (Les Adieux).
      20070615 Geoffrey Smith introduces the most recent instalments of the Beethoven Sonata cycle by the much-admired British pianist Paul Lewis, given at London's Wigmore Hall.
    By the time he wrote these final works, Beethoven was stretching the boundaries of what the piano sonata could do. The gentle musings that begin the E major, the two huge fugues that dominate the A flat and the profound slow variations that conclude the C minor all show a great composer at his very greatest.
    Beethoven: Sonata No 30 in E, Op 109; Sonata No 31 in A flat, Op 110; Sonata No 32 in C minor, Op 111.
      20070618 Martin Handley introduces another concert in Valery Gergiev's acclaimed LSO Stravinsky-Debussy-Prokofiev series.
    The Symphony in Three Movements was Stravinsky's first major American work, swiftly followed by revisions of his great ballets, of which Petrushka was the most radical.
    Siberian-born violinist Vadim Repin, who plays the Prokofiev Concerto in this concert, was once described by Yehudi Menuhin as 'simply the best', while Colin Matthews' Debussy orchestrations have been enthusiastically greeted by critics and audiences alike.
    Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
    Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 1
    Debussy, orch. Matthews: Preludes
    Stravinsky: Petrushka.
      20070619 Martin Handley introduces a concert featuring the world premiere of John Tavener's The Beautiful Names, given at Westminster Cathedral, London.
    Commissioned by Prince Charles, the work is an epic setting of the 99 names for Allah found in the Qu'ran and is sung in Arabic.
    Victoria: Popule Meus
    Tavener: Hymn to the Mother of God; The Beautiful Names
    John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
    Westminster Cathedral Choir
    BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
    Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).
      20070620 Martin Handley introduces a concert given by the BBC Singers at the Tampere Festival, their first visit to Finland for over 15 years.
    As well as exploring choral folk music from the four corners of the British Isles, the concert features the first performance of a specially-commissioned work by the BBC Singers' Associate Composer, Judith Bingham. The Hired Hand leaves the rural idyll to explore the 19th century repertoire of traditional songs and poems from the industrial workplace.
    Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs
    Trad, arr. Grainger: Brigg Fair
    Trad, arr. Holst: I love my love
    Britten: Five Flower Songs
    Judith Bingham: The Hired Hand (first performance of the BBC Radio 3 commission)
    Giles Swayne: Magnificat
    Tippett: Over the Sea to Skye
    Peter Maxwell Davies: A Hoy Calendar
    Edward Cowie: Lyre-Bird Motet
    Tippett: Four Songs from the British Isles
    BBC Singers
    Stephen Cleobury (conductor).
      20070621 Martin Handley introduces an all-Rachmaninov concert recorded at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, comprising of his lusciously Romantic Third Symphony, and the rarely heard one act opera Francesca da Rimini. Based on Dante, it begins with a magnificent orchestral prologue and culminates in the longest kiss in opera.
    Francesca....Svetla Vassileva (soprano)
    Paolo....Misha Didyk (tenor)
    Lanceotto....Sergey Murzaev (baritone)
    Virgil....Gennadi Bezzubenkov (bass)
    Dante....Evgheny Akimov (tenor)
    BBC Singers
    BBC Philharmonic
    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
    Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3; Francesca da Rimini.
      20070622 Martin Handley introduces the last of Valery Gergiev's LSO Stravinsky-Debussy-Prokofiev concerts.
    Stravinsky's sophisticated, folkloric Les Noces is paired with Prokofiev's October Cantata, a rambunctious Soviet tub-thumper celebrating the Revolution. In between, the LSO's principal clarinet is put through his paces by Debussy, in what was originally a test piece for students at the Paris Conservatoire.
    Stravinsky: Les Noces
    Debussy: First Rhapsody for Clarinet
    Prokofiev: October Cantata
    Andrew Marriner (clarinet)
    Irina Vasilieva (soprano)
    Olga Savova (mezzo-soprano)
    Andrei Ilyushnikov (tenor)
    Gennady Bezzubenkov (bass)
    Members of the Mariinksy Chorus
    London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
    Valery Gergiev (conductor).
      20070625 Martin Handley introduces two concerts from the Snape Maltings, directed by the composer and conductor Thomas Ades.
    1/2. The programme centres around Ades's own suite from his opera Powder Her Face, which tells the story of the Duchess of Argyll, the Dirty Duchess, whose sexual exploits caused a scandal in Britain during her divorce proceedings. Surrounding it are grand orchestral waltzes and Respighi's sumptuous score, which celebrates the riotous colour and spectacle of the festivals of his adopted city.
    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Thomas Ades (conductor)
    Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No 1
    Busoni: Gesang vom Reigen der Geister
    Thomas Ades: Powder her Face Suite
    Busoni: Tanzwalzer
    Respighi: Feste Romane.
      20070626 Martin Handley introduces two concerts from the Snape Maltings, directed by the composer and conductor Thomas Ades.
    2/2. The programme has an air of nostalgia as Stravinsky's affectionate pastiche of 18th century music sits comfortably alongside two homages to Francois Couperin, including Ades's own re-clothing of the French composer's keyboard music in startling new orchestral colours.
    Claire Wild (soprano)
    Christopher Lemmings (tenor)
    Thomas Guthrie (baritone)
    Northern Sinfonia
    Thomas Ades (conductor)
    Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
    Dallapiccola: Commiato
    Thomas Ades: Three Studies from Couperin
    Stravinsky: Pulcinella.
      20070627 Martin Handley introduces American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato with pianist Julian Drakein a recital of songs with a Latin flavour given at London's Wigmore Hall.
    Bizet: Ouvre ton coeur; Douce mer; Pastorale; Chanson d'avril; Adieux de l'hotesse arabe
    Rossini: Giovanna d'Arco
    Granados: Elegia eterna; Three Songs from Tonadillas en un estilo antiguo; No lloreis ojuelos
    Falla: Siete canciones populares espanolas
    Montsalvatge: Three songs from Cinco canciones negras.
      20070628 Martin Handley introduces a concert given in Christ Church, Spitalfields, as part of the Spitalfields Festival.
    The figure of the Virgin Mary has inspired composers to write some of their most heartfelt and joyous music, and in this concert Paul McCreesh directs the Gabrieli Consort in a programme of choral music that leads us through the various stages of her life, in music written over more than 600 years.
    Procession (trad Basque): Birjina gaztettobat zegoen
    Jean Mouton: Nesciens mater
    Giles Swayne: Magnificat I
    Anon (15th century): There is no rose of swych vertu
    Howells: A spotless rose
    Thomas Ades: The Fayrfax carol
    Palestrina: Stabat mater
    Casals: O vos omnes
    Tallis: Gaude gloriosa Dei Mater
    Josquin Des Prez: Ave Maria...virgo serena
    Bax: Mater ora filium.
      20070629 Martin Handley introduces a concert recorded at Kirkwall's Pickaquoy Centre as part of Orkney's St Magnus Festival.
    Stefan Solyom conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a programme that opens with a recent work by Korean composer Si-Hyun Yi, and ends with Sibelius's first symphonic outpouring. In between these, the orchestra is joined by cellist Alban Gerhardt for a performance of Shostakovich's searing and virtuosic Cello Concerto.
    Si-Hyun Yi: Invisible Dance
    Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1
    Sibelius: Symphony No 1.
      20070702 Petroc Trelawny introduces an all-Schubert concert recorded at the Musikverein in Vienna. The first set of songs were inspired by Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, and fall into two categories following the novel's two characters, the Harper and Mignon. These are followed by six more Goethe settings.
    Dorothea Roschmann (soprano)
    Ian Bostridge (tenor)
    Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
    Julius Drake (piano)
    Schubert: Songs from Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
    Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt, D478 No 1
    Wer nie sein Brot mit Tranen ass, D478 No 2
    An die Turen will ich schleichen, D478 No 3
    An Mignon, D161; Mignon und der Harfer, D877 No 1
    Heiss mich nicht reden, D877 No 2
    So lasst mich scheinen, D877 No 3
    Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, D877 No 4
    Kennst Du das Land, D321
    Cronnan (Ossian), D282
    Kantate zum Geburtstag des Sangers Johann Michael Vogl, D666
    Der Konig in Thule, D367
    Gretchen am Spinnrad, D118
    Gretchens Bitte, D564
    Szene im Dom aus Faust, D126
    Licht und Liebe, D352
    Der Hochtzeitsbraten, D930.
      20070703 Petroc Trelawny introduces a celebratory concert at the Royal Festival Hall as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is 21 years old.
    With a starry cast of guest musicians and no fewer than four conductors, the orchestra plays classical and baroque masterpieces. The programme includes Roger Norrington conducting Rameau's Suite from Dardanus, a work which the orchestra performed at its very first concert at the South Bank Centre 21 years ago.
    Richard Egarr (piano)
    Robert Levin (piano)
    John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
    Clive Bayley (bass)
    Philip Langridge (tenor)
    David Wilson-Johnson (bass)
    Peter Sidhom (speaker)
    Choir of the Enlightenment
    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Mark Elder, Vladimir Jurowski, Charles Mackerras, Roger Norrington (conductors)
    Purcell: Welcome to all the Pleasures (Suite); Now does the Glorious Day Appear (Suite)
    Rameau: Dardanus (Suite)
    Mozart: Concerto in E flat for 2 pianos, K365
    Haydn: Symphony No 63
    Weber: Der Freischutz (Act 2, finale)
    Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks.
      20070705 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert given by Les Siecles at the Middle Temple Hall as part of the 2007 City of London Festival, which features French music and celebrates the abolition of the slave trade 200 years ago.
    Le Chevalier de Saint Georges was a strong campaigner for the liberation of slaves, as he was the son of a black slave and a white plantation worker. He became a successful 18th century violinist and composer, as well as the French revolutionary army's first black colonel.
    Stephanie-Marie Degand (violinist)
    Les Siecles
    Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor)
    Lully: Dances from Alceste
    Rameau: Dances from Dardanus
    Saint-Georges: Concerto No 2 for Violin
    Mantovani: Streets (UK premiere)
    Rameau: Dances from Les Indes Galantes
    Lully: Dances from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
      20070706 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert taken from the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, featuring favourites of the piano trio repertoire, including the impressionism of Ravel and the romanticism of Schubert.
    Mozart: Piano Trio in B flat, K502
    Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
    Schubert: Piano Trio No 1 in B flat, D898
    Julia Fischer (violin)
    Daniel Muller-Schott (cello)
    Milana Chernyavska (piano).
      20070709 Petroc Trelawny introduces the glittering opening night of the 2007 Cheltenham Music Festival, which features key works by four of America's greatest composers, from the energy of Gershwin and Bernstein to the nostalgic lyricism of Samuel Barber.
    Chloe Hanslip (violin)
    Joan Rodgers (soprano)
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    Rumon Gamba (conductor)
    Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
    Bernstein: Overture (West Side Story)
    Barber: Violin Concerto, Op 14
    Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915
    Gershwin, arr. Robert Russell Bennett: Porgy and Bess, A Symphonic Portrait.
      20070711 Petroc Trelawny introduces a specially-recorded invitation concert celebrating important orchestral works premiered at the BBC Proms. Oliver Knussen, who will be at the helm of two Proms this year, conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme that also highlights two teacher-pupil relationships, those between Frank Bridge and Benjamin Britten, and between Alexander Goehr and Julian Anderson.
    Schoenberg: 5 Orchestral Pieces, Op 16
    Bridge: Here is a willow grows aslant a brook
    Anderson: The Stations of the Sun
    Goehr: Colossos or panic
    Britten: Sinfonia da requiem, Op 20.
      20070712 Proms Preview Evening
    Petroc Trelawny presents the essential guide to the 2007 BBC Proms.
    Mark Padmore presents his personal highlights of the season, while cellist Paul Watkins plays music by Elgar and Britten. In his final year as Proms Controller, Nicholas Kenyon will be speaking of the landmarks in his ten years at the helm, and there will be postcards from some of the visiting orchestras from around the world.
    Including:
    Mozart: Overture (The Marriage of Figaro)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
    Elgar: Sospiri; Salut d'amour
    Paul Watkins (cello)
    Huw Watkins (piano).
      20070810 Ian Skelly introduces a recital from the 2007 Schwetzingen Festival.
    American pianist Richard Goode contrasts the classicism of Haydn and Beethoven with the romanticism of Grieg and impressionism of Debussy.
    Haydn: Sonata in D, H XVI 24
    Grieg: Lyric Pieces (excerpts)
    Beethoven: Sonata in A flat, Op 110
    Debussy: Preludes, Book II.
      20070910 Edinburgh International Festival
    Petroc Trelawny introduces a typically eclectic programme from one of Europe's leading chamber orchestras and Thomas Ades.
    Tributes from one composer to another are threaded through the programme, with Berlioz's predominantly gentle song-cycle (unusually performed by a male singer) at its heart. The concert ends with the teenage Bizet's remarkable symphony which pays tribute to Mozart and anticipates some of his own later scores.
    Rameau: Overture (Les Indes Galantes)
    Ades: Three Studies after Couperin
    Berlioz: Les nuits d'ete
    Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
    Bizet: Symphony in C
    Toby Spence (tenor)
    Chamber Orchestra of Europe
    Thomas Ades (conductor).
      20070911 Edinburgh International Festival
    Petroc Trelawny introduces an eagerly anticipated concert by one of Europe's leading early music ensembles and choirs. Under the direction of their charismatic founder they perform Monteverdi's masterpiece, which pulls together psalms, meditations and virtuosic vocal and instrumental solos.
    Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610
    Hesperion XXI
    Le Capella Reial de Catalunya
    Jordi Savall (conductor).
      20070912 Edinburgh International Festival
    Petroc Trelawny introduces a performance of two of Stravinsky's classically inspired masterpieces, rarely heard together.
    The ballet music for Orpheus written 'with Ovid and a classical dictionary in hand' is partnered by the opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex, which tells the famous story with a combination of English narration and dramatic Latin choruses and arias.
    Stravinsky: Orpheus; Oedipus Rex
    Oedipus....Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (tenor)
    Jocaste....Natascha Petrinsky (mezzo-soprano)
    Creon....Terje Stensvold (baritone)
    Tiresias....Matthew Rose (bass)
    Shepherd....Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
    Messenger....Neal Davies (bass)
    Simon Russell Beale (Narrator)
    Edinburgh Festival Chorus
    David Jones (chorus master)
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Susanna Malkki (conductor).
      20070913 Edinburgh International Festival
    With Petroc Trelawny. Two international stars join forces with the local orchestra for a concert of Italian baroque music. Chiara Banchini directs concertos including a rarely heard work by Alessandro Scarlatti and she's joined by leading German countertenor Andreas Scholl for sacred and secular music by Vivaldi.
    Andreas Scholl (countertenor)
    Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    Chiara Banchini (conductor)
    Corelli: Concerto grosso in D, Op 6 No 4
    Geminiani: Concerto grosso in D minor, Op 7 No 2
    Vivaldi: Concerto in C, RV114; Cessate Omai Cessate (Cantata)
    Scarlatti: Concerto grosso in F minor
    Vivaldi: Stabat mater.
      20070914 Edinburgh International Festival
    Petroc Trelawny introduces a celebration of the music of Francis Poulenc, including one of his most famous and colourful concertos, a deeply felt choral work and excerpts from his opera that tells the tragic story of a group of nuns condemned to death during the French Revolution.
    Dame Gillian Weir (organ)
    Christine Brewer (soprano)
    Edinburgh Festival Chorus
    David Jones (chorus master)
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Stephane Deneve (conductor)
    Poulenc: Stabat mater; Organ Concerto; Les Dialogues des Carmelites (excerpts).
      20070917 Geoffrey Smith introduces a concert recorded at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall.
    Dynamic young Russian Vasily Petrenko opens his second season as the RLPO's Principal Conductor with a wide-ranging programme including two world premieres. Soprano Kate Royal, winner of the 2004 Kathleen Ferrier Award, is the soloist in Ravel's ravishing Arabian Nights-inspired song-cycle, Sheherazade.
    Kate Royal (soprano)
    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
    Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
    Kenneth Hesketh: A Rhyme for the Season (world premiere)
    John McCabe: Symphony Labyrinth (world premiere; BBC commission)
    Ravel: Sheherazade
    Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances.
      20070918 Presented by Geoffrey Smith, from London's Wigmore Hall.
    Former Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Jerusalem Quartet play one of Schubert's late masterpieces and are joined by another rising star, Vienna-born pianist Stefan Vladar, for Brahms's powerful Quintet.
    Schubert: Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden)
    Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34.
      20070919 Geoffrey Smith introduces a concert recorded at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.
    The Halle, Britain's longest established professional symphony orchestra, begins its 150th anniversary season, under Music Director Mark Elder.
    Lars Vogt (piano)
    Halle Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor)
    Weber: Jubel Overture
    Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat
    Mahler: Symphony No 1 in D.
      20070921 Presented by Geoffrey Smith.
    From their home at the Royal Festival Hall, the London Philharmonic begin their 75th anniversary season with Vladimir Jurowski's first concert as their Principal Conductor. German Romanticism weighs heavily in a programme ending with Mahler's epic cantata Das klagende Lied.
    Marisol Montalvo (soprano)
    Hedwig Fassbender (mezzo-soprano)
    Michael Hendrick (tenor)
    Anthony Michaels-Moore (baritone)
    London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra
    Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
    Wagner: Prelude (Parsifal)
    Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op 6
    Mahler: Das klagende Lied.
      20070924 With Tom Service.
    Radio 3 celebrates Sir Colin Davis's 80th birthday with recordings from the archive. These concerts span the majority of his career, covering signature composers from his repertoire, performed by the orchestras and opera companies with whom he has built up a close relationship.
    1/5. Tonight's concert includes a 1965 New Philharmonia Orchestra recording of excerpts from Berlioz's Les Francs-juges.
    Stravinsky: Petrushka
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Colin Davis (conductor)
    Berlioz: Les Francs-juges
    April Cantelo (soprano)
    Helen Watts (mezzo-soprano)
    Emile Belcourt (tenor)
    Raimund Herincx (baritone)
    The Ambrosian Singers
    New Philharmonia Orchestra
    Gerhard: Symphony No 4 (New York)
      20070925 With Tom Service.
    2/5. Radio 3 continues its celebration of Colin Davis's birthday with an example of his work as music director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Mozart is a composer close to his heart, and we hear Act 2 from a 1971 performance of The Marriage of Figaro. This is followed by another of Davis's signature composers, Tippet, and we hear the world premiere of his Triple Concerto from the 1980 Proms season.
    Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Act 2)
    Countess Almaviva....Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
    Count Almaviva....Victor Braun (baritone)
    Figaro....Geraint Evans (baritone)
    Susanna....Reri Grist (soprano)
    Cherubino....Patricia Kern (mezzo-soprano)
    Marcellina....Heather Begg (mezzo-soprano)
    Bartolo....Noel Mangin (bass)
    Royal Opera House Orchestra
    Colin Davis (conductor)
    Tippett: Concerto for violin, viola, cello and orchestra
    Gyorgy Pauk (violin)
    Nobuko Imai (viola)
    Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)
    London Symphony Orchestra
      20070926 With Tom Service. Radio 3 continues its celebration of Colin Davis's birthday.
    3/5. A concert given by the Dresden Staatskapelle, with whom Colin Davis is honorary conductor, including an orchestral work by Berlioz, whom Davis has championed throughout his career.
    Dresden Staatskapelle
    Colin Davis (conductor)
    Weber: Overture (Euryanthe)
    Dvorak: The Wild Dove
    Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique.
      20070927 With Tom Service.
    4/5. Radio 3 continues its celebration of Colin Davis's 80th birthday with a concert from his time as principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Tippett is a signature composer for him, and this concert includes the Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage and the world premiere performance of The Rose Lake.
    Gerhard Oppitz (piano)
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Colin Davis (conductor)
    Tippett: Ritual Dances (The Midsummer Marriage)
    Ravel: Concerto in G for piano and orchestra
    Tippett: The Rose Lake
    Debussy: La mer.
      20070928 With Tom Service.
    5/5. Radio 3 concludes its celebration of the eightieth birthday of Sir Colin Davis by coming right up-to-date with a Prom concert recorded this year with the European Union Youth Orchestra. Davis is an authoritative interpreter of the music of Sibelius and this performance includes his Fifth Symphony.
    European Union Youth Orchestra
    Colin Davis (conductor)
    Brahms: Tragic Overture; Symphony No 3
    Sibelius: Symphony No 5.
      20071002 With Petroc Trelawny.
    As he prepares to give up music directorship of the CBSO, conductor Sakari Oramo leads the orchestra in three masterpieces by his compatriot Jean Sibelius. Also included is the UK premiere of Sibelius's Three Symphonic Pieces for cello and orchestra.
    Martti Rousi (cello)
    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Sakari Oramo (conductor)
    Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela; Symphony No 4; Three Symphonic Pieces for cello and orchestra; Symphony No 1.
      20071003 As part of Radio 3's 40th birthday celebrations, Petroc Trelawny presents another chance to hear the Purcell anniversary concert from 1995's Fairest Isle festival featuring vocal and orchestral music by Purcell and Britten at Westminster Abbey and premieres from Jonathan Dove and Michael Tippett.
    James Bowman (countertenor)
    Catherine Bott (soprano)
    David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
    Robin Leggate (tenor)
    Martin Baker (organ)
    Westminster Abbey Choir
    New London Consort
    Martin Neary (conductor)
    BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
    Andrew Davis (conductor)
    Dove: Fairest Isle Fanfare
    Purcell: Incidental Music from Abdelazer (The Moor's Revenge)
    Gibbons: Hosanna to the Son of David
    Byrd: O Lord, Make thy Servant Elizabeth
    Purcell: Hear My Prayer, O Lord; If Music Be The Food of Love; Fairest Isle (King Arthur); Hosanna to the Highest; Hark the Ech'ing Air (The Fairy Queen); My Heart is Inditing
    Handel: Zadok the Priest
    Purcell: Jehova, Quam Multi Sunt Hostes (arr. Elgar for Chorus and Orchestra)
    Tippett: The Tempest (excerpt)
    Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
    Purcell: Now That the Sun Hath Veiled His Light.
      20071004 With Petroc Trelawny.
    The London Philharmonic Orchestra, which celebrates its 75th birthday this month, is joined by its former principal conductor Kurt Masur and pianist Maurizio Pollini for a sell-out concert given at the Royal Festival Hall.
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 (Emperor)
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 5.
      20071005 In her final season as Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop conducts the orchestra in Mahler's epic Third Symphony, recorded at The Lighthouse, Poole.
    Mahler: Symphony No 3
    Ekaterina Semenchuk (mezzo-soprano)
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
    Marin Alsop (conductor).
      20071008 Catherine Bott introduces a concert recorded at London's Barbican Hall.
    Jiri Belohlavek opens his second season as Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra with a new trumpet concerto by German composer Jorg Widmann, a vehicle for its dedicatee, Sergei Nakariakov, deliberately designed to stretch its soloist's virtuosity to extremes. Paired with this is Bruckner's monumental 7th Symphony, the work with which the 60-year-old composer first achieved international fame.
    Jorg Widmann: ad absurdum (UK premiere)
    Bruckner: Symphony No 7
    Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet)
    BBC SO
    Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).
      20071009 With Catherine Bott.
    On 7 October 1932, the newly formed London Philharmonic Orchestra made their first public appearance performing Mozart's Prague Symphony. The orchestra celebrates the occasion as part of a 75th birthday season from their newly refurbished home at London's Royal Festival Hall, with pianist Maurizio Pollini and their vibrant young conductor Vladimir Jurowski.
    Richard Bissill: Fanfare for a 75th Anniversary
    Mozart: Symphony No 38 in D (Prague)
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G
    Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances.
      20071010 40 years of Radio 3 are celebrated with the second of six recordings from the archives. Stephen Plaistow joins Catherine Bott to introduce a Royal Festival Hall recital given by the great Russian pianist Emil Gilels in 1984, the year before his death.
    Scriabin: Sonata No 3 in F sharp minor; 5 Preludes
    Prokofiev: Sonata No 3 in A minor (From old notebooks)
    Beethoven: Sonata No 29 in B flat (Hammerklavier).
      20071011 With Catherine Bott.
    Elgar's late, great reflective choral ode, The Music Makers, was first performed in Birmingham's Town Hall in 1912. The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus celebrate the re-opening of the newly refurbished Town Hall in Elgar's 150th anniversary year with a performance of the work with mezzo-soprano Jane Irwin. This is preceded by another work premiered in 1912, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto.
    Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto
    Elgar: The Music Makers
    Anthony Marwood (violin)
    Jane Irwin (mezzo-soprano)
    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Simon Halsey, Michael Seal (conductors).
      20071012 With Catherine Bott.
    Thierry Fischer leads the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in two works that tell stories through music. Richard Strauss' tone poem tells the story of 13th century prankster Till Eulenspiegel, who is eventually hanged by the authorities for blasphemy, while Prokofiev recounts Shakespeare's tale of star-crossed lovers caught in the cross-fire of family feuding. Between these, Latvian violinist Baiba Skride brings youthful vigour to Stravinsky's angular, yet romantic, neo-classical Violin Concerto.
    Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
    Stravinsky: Violin Concerto
    Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet.
      20071015 Christopher Cook introduces a concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under its principal conductor Jiri Belohlavek given at the Barbican Hall, London.
    The programme begins with a late, sparkling Haydn symphony, before Swedish soprano Camilla Tilling joins in for a rare performance of Zemlinsky's luridly lush late-Romantic, almost operatic depiction of a forest meeting between a traveller and a witch. The concert ends with the charming child's view of heaven in the vocal finale of Mahler's Fourth Symphony.
    Haydn: Symphony No 96 in D (Miracle)
    Zemlinsky: Waldgesprach
    Mahler: Symphony No 4 in G
    Camilla Tilling (soprano)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).
      20071016 From the Lighthouse, Poole, two great staples of the repertoire: young Czech pianist Lukas Vondracek is the soloist in Rachmaninov's ever-popular Second Piano Concerto, and there are more memorable melodies in Holst's orchestral showpiece The Planets, which has been a popular hit since its premiere nearly a century ago.
    Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2
    Holst: The Planets
    Lukas Vondracek (piano)
    Ladies of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Marin Alsop (conductor).
      20071017 Third of six recordings from the archive looking back over 40 years of Radio 3.
    Live broadcasts in 1991 of Mozart's music from around Europe to mark the bicentenary of his death included this performance from Westminster Cathedral of the Vespers 'as it may have been celebrated in Salzburg in Mozart's time'.
    Mozart: Vesperae de Dominica in C, K321; Misericordias Domini, K222; Litaniae Lauretanae, K109
    Chant from Salzburg Cathedral Archives
    Gillian Fisher (soprano)
    Robert Harre-Jones (countertenor)
    Andrew King (tenor)
    Michael George (bass)
    Westminster Cathedral Choir
    Hanover Band
    James O'Donnell (director).
      20071018 Riccardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for the first time in more than 30 years in one of the most keenly anticipated concerts of the season at London's Royal Festival Hall. The programme, with a mixture of the well-known and less familiar, is the perfect vehicle both for the great virtuosity, versatility and expressive style of one of America's great orchestras and Muti's intense conviction and exacting standards.
    Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 (Pathetique)
    Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione
    Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy, Op 54
    Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    Riccardo Muti (conductor).
      20071019 Introduced by Christopher Cook.
    John Lubbock conducts the Ulster Orchestra in a concert given at the Clonard Monastery, Belfast. The programme includes Bax's rarely heard Yeats-inspired tone poem Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan and Vaughan Williams' poignant Fifth Symphony. In between, Emma Johnson joins the orchestra for Mozart's late, great Clarinet Concerto.
    Bax: Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan
    Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
    Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5
    Emma Johnson (clarinet)
    Ulster Orchestra
    John Lubbock (conductor).
      20071022 Petroc Trelawny presents a performance from London's Hackney Empire of The Gospel According to Broadway, an exciting new anthology of the greatest hits of African-American sacred music.
    The BBC Concert Orchestra is joined by choirs and soloists from both sides of the Atlantic for the show which includes tributes to Paul Robeson, Marian Anderson and Mahalia Jackson.
    London Community Gospel Choir
    Bazil Meade (director)
    Michael Terry Singers
    Michael Terry (director)
    Harlem Gospel Ensemble and Hackney Empire Gospel Singers
    Chapman Roberts (director)
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    Richard Balcombe (conductor).
      20071023 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert from The Anvil in Basingstoke, as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performs music by native and adoptive English composers.
    Purcell's Dido and Aeneas was the first English opera, and is given a concert performance starring Sarah Connolly and Giles Underwood as Purcell's doomed lovers. This is accompanied by two of Handel's Concerti Grossi, including Alexander's Feast.
    Handel: Concerto Grosso No 5 in D; Concerto Grosso No 7 in C (Alexander's Feast)
    Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
    Dido....Sarah Connelly (soprano)
    Aeneas....Giles Underwood (tenor)
    Choir of the Enlightenment
    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Margaret Faultless (conductor).
      20071024 Petroc Trelawny presents the fourth of six programmes celebrating 40 years of Radio 3.
    In 1984, four years after his appointment as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's Principal Conductor, Simon Rattle brought the CBSO to the Proms and stunned the audience and critics with this concert which is still remembered as one of the highlights of his extraordinary two decades with the orchestra.
    Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra
    Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat
    Nielsen: Symphony No 4 (The Inextinguishable); Pan and Syrinx
    Yo Yo Ma (cello)
    CBSO
    Simon Rattle (conductor).
      20071025 Petroc Trelawny presents concerts from New York's Avery Fisher Hall. The New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Lorin Maazel explore their Tchaikovsky Experience.
    1/2. This concert includes Berio's take on Boccherini, Tchaikovsky's early Second Symphony (Little Russian), and the orchestra is joined by Lisa Batiashvili for Beethoven's mighty Violin Concerto.
    Berio: Four Original Versions of Boccherini's La ritirata notturna di Madrid
    Beethoven: Violin Concerto
    Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 2 (Little Russian)
    Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
    New York Philharmonic Orchestra
    Lorin Maazel (conductor).
      20071029 With Tom Service. The BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrates John Adams' 60th birthday with a programme in which he conducts his own music and a new work by Colin Matthews, described as 'four different ways of looking at the same thing'.
    Plus former New Generation Artist Alban Gerhardt brings a tribute to the late Mstislav Rostropovich through the powerful work written especially for him by Benjamin Britten.
    Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra
    Matthews: Reflected Images (London premiere)
    Adams: Choruses from The Death of Klinghoffer
    Alban Gerhardt (cello)
    BBC Symphony Chorus
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    John Adams (conductor).
      20071030 Tom Service introduces the fifth of six concerts celebrating 40 years of Radio 3.
    Recorded in December 1972, star of song, stage and screen Eartha Kitt thrilled a capacity audience at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. The legendary chanteuse was joined by the Nash Ensemble for songs by Kurt Weill, and then pianist-composer Richard Rodney Bennett accompanied her in a sequence of his own arrangements of American classics from the 20s and 30s.
    The programme also included Nash Ensemble party pieces by Stravinsky and Martinu.
    Stravinsky Suite: The Soldier's Tale
    Weill: Overture; Mack the Knife; Barbara Song (The Threepenny Opera); Bilbao Song; Matrosen Tango; Surabaya Jonny; Hard Nut (Happy End)
    Martinu: La revue de cuisine
    Cole Porter: Anything goes; My heart belongs to Daddy
    Gershwin: My man's gone now
    Cole Porter: Love for sale
    Harold Arlen: I wonder what became of me
    Rodgers and Hart: Ten cents a dance
    Cole Porter: Let's misbehave
    Eartha Kitt (voice)
    Richard Rodney Bennett (piano)
    Nash Ensemble
    Marcus Dods (conductor).
      20071031 With Tom Service. The BBC Singers welcome their new Chief Conductor David Hill with a concert that they've called 'Out of This World', especially designed for Halloween.
    The programme includes new 'ghostly' works by Andrew Simpson and Judith Bingham, medieval plainsong via the sacred music of William Byrd, partsongs and folk-song arrangements by Ravel and Vaughan Williams, and rarely heard music (in the UK at least) from leading Swedish composer Arne Mellnas.
    Hymn: Salutis aeternae dator
    Mundy: In aeternum
    Arne Mellnas: L'infinito
    Simpson: Ghost Stories
    Vaughan-Williams: Five English Folksongs
    Ravel: Trois Chansonns
    Bingham: Ghost Towns of the American West (UK premiere)
    Byrd: 3 Songs
    Hymn: Placare Christie.
      20071101 Tom Service introduces one of the leading singers of his generation in one of the high-points of German song. Baritone Thomas Quasthoff travels the winter road that Schubert mapped out at the end of his tragically short life, with pianist Charles Spencer as his musical journeyman.
    Schubert: Winterreise, D911.
      20071102 With Tom Service. The RPS Award-winning Britten Sinfonia is joined by former BBC New Generation Artist violinist Alina Ibragimova for this showcase concert. She takes the solo role in concertos by Bach and Hartmann, and directs a performance of Schoenberg's early string orchestral masterpiece.
    Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041; (arr. Tansy Davies) Prelude and Fugue No 20 in A minor
    Hartmann: Concerto Funebre
    Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht.
      20071105 With Tom Service.
    All of the works in this programme were written for the church of Santa Maria de La Pieta in Venice, where Vivaldi taught, and with specific performers in mind, the foundling girls of the Pieta. During Vivaldi's lifetime, these famous girls were celebrated as one of Europe's finest collections of musicians.
    In this concert at St John's Smith Square, the perfect location in which to recreate the musical space of the old Pieta, one of Britain's finest period orchestras replaces the girls.
    Vivaldi: Lauda Jerusalem, RV 609; Violin Concerto in D, RV 617; Salve Regina, RV 212; Concerto for 2 violins and 2 organs, RV 584; Gloria, RV 589
    Joanne Lunn (soprano)
    Kati Debretzeni (violin)
    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
    Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi
    Pavlo Beznosiuk (director/violin).
      20071106 Tom Service presents a concert recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall, in which Vladimir Ashkenazy leads the Philharmonia Orchestra in three works from the heart of 19th century German Romanticism.
    Wagner's overture to Die Meistersinger lifts the curtain on his human love story set against the background of a song competition in Nuremburg. Starry soloist Vadim Repin joins the orchestra to perform one of the most romantic and popular violin concertos in the repertoire, while Schumann's Second Symphony was written at a time when the composer was teetering on the edge of physical and mental breakdown.
    Wagner: Overture (Die Meistersinger)
    Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1
    Schumann: Symphony No 2.
      20071107 Tom Service presents the last of six recordings from the BBC Archives celebrating 40 years of Radio 3.
    Pierre Boulez's tenure as the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Chief Conductor from 1971-1975 is widely thought of as a high point in the orchestra's history. One of Boulez's last concerts at the helm was recorded in Yokohama in 1975 as part of a Japanese tour and is a telling showcase of their partnership.
    Webern: Passacaglia
    Birtwistle: Nenia on the Death of Orpheus
    Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
    Jan DeGaetani (mezzo-soprano)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Pierre Boulez (conductor).
      20071108 Tom Service introduces a recital by German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, who is recognised as one of the finest singers of his generation. He continues his residency at London's Wigmore Hall with this concert of lieder by Gustav Mahler.
    Mahler: Five Ruckert Lieder; Kindertotenlieder; Five Lieder from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
    Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone)
    Charles Spencer (piano).
      20071109 With Tom Service. The BBC Symphony Orchestra continues its season at London's Barbican Hall with a concert of music from England and Poland.
    Benjamin Britten and his teacher Frank Bridge both wrote pieces influenced by the sea - Bridge composed his suite of orchestra seascapes in 1910, three years before the birth of his star pupil. Britten's own Violin Concerto was completed in 1939, shortly after Germany's invasion of Poland and the work exudes a sense of the gathering storm.
    Lutoslawski was taken prisoner by the Nazis, but miraculously escaped to become Poland's leading postwar composer and his 1954 Concerto for Orchestra was the work which first brought him to Western ears.
    Bridge: The Sea
    Britten: Violin Concerto
    Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
    Daniel Hope (violin)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor).
      20071112 Petroc Trelawny introduces the first of several broadcasts of the music of Edward Elgar.
    This concert was recorded at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall in June as part of Elgar in His Kingdom, the Halle's celebration of the composer's 150th anniversary.
    Truls Mork (cello)
    Halle Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor)
    Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor; Symphony No 2 in E flat.
      20071113 Petroc Trelawny presents an all-Elgar concert recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall.
    The first half presents the patriotic side to the composer, as the Nursery Suite was dedicated to members of the Royal Family, while the achingly moving Spirit of England is a meditation written after the First World War. The remainder of the concert features two of Elgar's best-loved orchestral works, including the famous Enigma Variations.
    Elgar: Civic Fanfare; National Anthem arrangement; Nursery Suite; The Spirit of England; Introduction and Allegro for strings; Variations on an original theme (Enigma Variations)
    Emily Magee (soprano)
    London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
    Mark Elder (conductor).
      20071114 Petroc Trelawny presents a specially-recorded concert performance of Elgar's delightful incidental music for the play The Starlight Express. Written during the horrors of the First World War, the drama follows a group of children whose magical 'starlight' quality has been lost by the adults around them.
    Elgar: The Starlight Express
    Elizabeth Atherton (soprano)
    Mark Stone (baritone)
    Simon Callow (narrator)
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
    Kenneth Richardson (director).
      20071115 Petroc Trelawny presents another chance to hear this performance of Elgar's magnificent oratorio, recorded at the 2005 BBC Proms. Elgar set texts by Cardinal John Henry Newman in a work that was to become eloquent testimony to the composer's Catholic faith.
    Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
    Angel....Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
    Gerontius....Paul Groves (tenor)
    Priest/Angel of the Agony....Matthew Best (bass-baritone)
    Hallé Youth Choir
    Hallé Choir
    London Philharmonic Choir
    Hallé Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor).
      20071116 The London Philharmonic Orchestra's principal conductor contrasts a pair of works by two Romantically-inclined Austrian composers with Shostakovich's striking Sixth Symphony. Playing Korngold's lushly Romantic concerto is the dazzling young Danish virtuoso Nikolaj Znaider.
    Zemlinsky: Sinfonietta, Op 23
    Korngold: Violin Concerto in D, Op 35
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 6 in B minor
    Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
    London Philharmonic Orchestra
    Vladimir Jurowski (conductor).
      20071119 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra given at the Lighthouse, Poole.
    Dvorak's New World Symphony, with its stream of memorable tunes, is preceded by Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, which is played by one of Britain's brightest young pianists. The concert begins with James MacMillan's wacky and iconoclastic Stomp, where the worlds of Tchaikovsky and Mozart collide.
    Paul Lewis (piano)
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Marin Alsop (conductor)
    MacMillan: Stomp (With Fate and Elvira)
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 (Emperor)
    Dvorak: Symphony No 9 (From the New World).
      20071120 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert recorded at the Glasgow City Halls.
    The Tirol Tourist Board commissioned the fashionable Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tuur's Oxymoron, where the majesty of the Tirolean mountain landscape is to be heard. An imaginary Chaplin film was the inspiration for Milhaud's Le boeuf sur le toit, while Copland's Music for the Theatre is, misleadingly, a work commissioned for the concert hall.
    Bassist John Patitucci has inspired Mark-Anthony Turnage in the past, and this concertante work for double bass, A Prayer out of Stillness, is the latest fruit of their collaboration.
    Copland: Music for the Theatre
    Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toit
    Turnage: A Prayer out of Stillness (UK premiere)
    Tuur: Oxymoron (Music for Tirol)
    John Patitucci (double bass/six string guitar)
    Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    Olari Etts (conductor).
      20071121 We All Love Ella
    Petroc Trelawny introduces a tribute to one of the greatest singers of the 20th century, recorded as part of the London Jazz Festival at the Royal Festival Hall.
    For millions, Ella Fitzgerald was the peerless interpreter of American popular song. In what would have been her 90th birthday year, the BBC Concert Orchestra and some of London's top jazz players are joined by a host of contemporary stars from both sides of the Atlantic, including Jamelia, Lea DeLaria, Claire Martin, Juliet Roberts, Ian Shaw, Terri Walker and Lizz Wright, to pay tribute.
      20071122 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert given at The Sage, Gateshead.
    The Northern Sinfonia is directed from the keyboard by the distinguished pianist Imogen Cooper in two contrasting Mozart concertos. Debussy's sinuous but concise masterpiece Syrinx is performed by the orchestra's principal flute Juliette Bausor, and Ravel's famous Introduction and Allegro and Debussy's Danses sacree et profane complete this intriguing programme.
    Juliette Bausor (flute)
    Imogen Cooper (piano)
    Northern Sinfonia
    Bradley Creswick (director)
    Debussy: Syrinx
    Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor
    Debussy: Danses sacree et profane
    Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
    Mozart: Piano Concerto No 25 in C.
      20071123 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert given at St David's Hall, Cardiff.
    The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and principal guest conductor Jac van Steen are joined by award-winning Swedish pianist Peter Jablonski for the 18-year-old Prokofiev's defiant First Piano Concerto. This is followed by the world premiere of Giles Swayne's Symphony No 1. The concert ends with the Nordic grandeur of Sibelius's majestic Fifth Symphony.
    Peter Jablonski (piano)
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Jac van Steen (conductor)
    Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 1
    Swayne: Symphony No 1 (A Small World)
    Sibelius: Symphony No 5.
      20071127 With Martin Handley. The Halle pays tribute to Sibelius in the 50th anniversary year of the composer's death in a programme that includes three of his finest tone-poems.
    As well as taking the fearsomely difficult solo vocal part in Luonnatar, leading Swedish soprano Hillevi Martinpelto also contributes some of Sibelius's orchestral songs. The concert also includes his final symphony, a single movement to sum up his life's work.
    Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano)
    Halle
    Mark Elder (conductor)
    Sibelius: Night Ride and Sunrise; Orchestral Songs; Luonnotar; Symphony No 7 in C; Tapiola.
      20071128 With Martin Handley. One of Britain's leading chamber orchestras morphs into a big band for a jazz-inspired programme performed last Saturday as part of the London Jazz Festival. And one of Brazil's most celebrated vocalists, Luciana Souza, adds her brilliantly elastic vocals to the Miles Davis sound, with Radio 3's first New Generation jazz artist, Gwilym Simcock, contributing a new piece of his own.
    Luciana Souza (vocals)
    Romero Lubambo (guitar)
    Alex Acuna (percussion)
    Britten Sinfonia
    Gil Goldstein (conductor)
    Villa Lobos, arr. Goldstein: Bachianais Brasilerias Nos 5 and 6
    Bach, orch. Goldstein: Ricercare a 3 (The Musical Offering)
    Federico Mompou: Cancion y danza No 6
    Luciana Souza/Pablo Neruda: Memory
    Egberto Gismonti, arr. Souza/Goldstein: Memoria e Fado
    Miles Davis/Gil Evans, orch. Goldstein: Miles Ahead
    Hermeto Pascoal, arr. Goldstein: Chorinho Pra Ele; Nem Um Talvez (Live-Evil/Miles Davis)
    Joaquin Rodrigo, arr. Evans, orch. Goldstein: Adagio (Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra)
    Kurt Weill, arr. Gil Evans My Ship (Lady in the Dark)
    Antonio Carlos Jobim, arr. Evans/Souza, orch. Goldstein: Corcorvado (Quiet Nights)
    Pintos/Goncalves, arr. Evans, orch. Goldstein: Aos Pez Daz Cruz (Quiet Nights)
    Egberto Gismonti, arr. Gismonti: Frevo
    Gwilym Simcock: New work
    MacGregor/Mercer/Evans, arr. Goldstein: Boplicity (Birth of the Cool)
    Lennon and McCartney, orch. Goldstein: Hello Goodbye.
      20071129 Martin Handley presents a concert by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Thomas Dausgaard, whose programme includes an early orchestral work by Messiaen as well as a symphony by Carl Nielsen that ranks among the greatest of the 20th century.
    Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov is the soloist in one of Prokofiev's early triumphs, a dazzling concerto written when he was still in his early twenties.
    Messiaen: Hymne au Saint-Sacrement
    Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 2
    Nielsen: Symphony No 5.
      20071130 With Martin Handley.
    American pianist Richard Goode is partnered by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Christoph Eschenbach in Beethoven's darkest piano concerto, the Third. Mahler's Fourth Symphony, by contrast, is his sunniest, ending with a gentle song about a child's view of heaven, and the young American soprano Marisol Montalvo takes the solo role.
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3
    Mahler: Symphony No 4.
      20071203 Recorded at the Lighthouse, Poole, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is led by conductor David Hill in a concert of works by British composers.
    They are joined by the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus for the world premiere of a new work by the orchestra's composer in residence; cellist Raphael Wallfisch is the soloist in Gerard Finzi's Cello Concerto and Vaughan Williams' homage to the capital city rounds off the programme.
    Stephen McNeff: Weathers
    Finzi: Cello Concerto
    Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 2 (London).
      20071204 After 52 years as the pianist and co-founder of the Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem Pressler is retiring, so this programme is a recording of one of two farewell recitals that the Beaux Arts Trio gave recently at London's Wigmore Hall.
    Beaux Arts Trio:
    Menahem Pressler (piano)
    Daniel Hope (violin)
    Antonio Meneses (cello)
    Schubert: Piano Trio No 1 in B flat; Piano Trio No 2 in E flat.
      20071207 The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra performs works by Russian composers for the ballet and opera stage in a concert given at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.
    The music of Prokofiev's Scythian Suite was extracted from ballet music composed for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes as was Stravinsky's more famous Rite of Spring.
    Kristine Opolais (soprano)
    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
    Andris Nelsons (conductor)
    Prokofiev: Scythian Suite
    Rachmaninov: Sing Not to Me, Beautiful Maiden
    Tchaikovsky: Polanaise; Tatyana's Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin)
    Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring.
      20071210 The Wiltshire Music Centre in Bradford-on-Avon is one of the country's quiet success stories and this concert, celebrating its 10th anniversary, begins in typically bold style. It features the world premiere of Wreathe, a piece specially commissioned for the occasion, by Luke Bedford.
    Story telling is the common theme linking the rest of the music, as Vaughan Williams' Songs of Travel journeys through the heartache of lost love and solitude, and Ravel's Mother Goose evokes the magical and nostalgic world of fairytale and childhood.
    Christopher Maltman (baritone)
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Thierry Fischer (conductor).
      20071211 The Romantic, the Revolutionary, and the Rebel
    A mini-series of concerts from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra featuring the music of Brahms, Bartok and Ligeti.
    1/4. Ilan Volkov conducts Ligeti's teasingly beautiful masterpiece Lontano and the ever-popular Concerto for Orchestra by Bartok. Plus between the two, one of Europe's most exciting young pianists performs Beethoven's majestic Emperor Concerto.
    Ligeti: Lontano
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 (Emperor)
    Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
    Till Fellner (piano)
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Ilan Volkov (conductor).
      20071213 The Romantic, the Revolutionary, and the Rebel
    A mini-series of concerts from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra featuring the music of Brahms, Bartok and Ligeti.
    3/4. In a concert recorded at the City Halls, Glasgow, John Lill tackles Brahms' massive Second Piano Concerto, while a virtuoso conductor is also needed for Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, a compositional tour de force featuring contrasting lyrical and energetic movements.
    Benjamin Staern: Cross Draught (UK premiere)
    Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
    Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat
    John Lill (piano)
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Stefan Solyom (conductor).
      20071214 The Romantic, the Revolutionary, and the Rebel
    A mini-series of concerts from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra featuring the music of Brahms, Bartok and Ligeti.
    4/4. Pianist Nelson Freire appears in a favourite of the Romantic repertoire, Schumann's Piano Concerto. Surrounding this are Ligeti's evocative Apparitions and Bartok's luridly graphic ballet that leaves very little to the imagination.
    Nelson Freire (piano)
    Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Chamber Choir
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Ilan Volkov (conductor)
    Ligeti: Apparitions
    Schumann: Piano Concerto
    Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin.
      20071217 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert by Colin Currie (percussion) and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop, given at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
    With the composition of The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky shocked the world with his innovative use of rhythm and orchestration, and his music still makes an impact nearly 100 years later. Also on the programme is a work by a composer who looked backwards rather than forwards for inspiration, Vaughan Williams, and his Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. And we come right up to date with the European premiere of American composer Jennifer Higdon's Percussion Concerto, with Colin Currie as soloist.
    Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
    Higdon: Percussion Concerto (European premiÃre)
    Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring.
      20071218 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert given at the Barbican, London, with Ivan Zenaty (violin) and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under its chief conductor Jiri Belohlavek performing music from his native Czechoslovakia.
    Smetana's popular opera The Bartered Bride is represented by the Overture and three folk dances. Dvorak played the viola in the first performance of the opera, and 20 years later composed his Eighth Symphony, brimful of Bohemian flavour. There's the UK premiere of a concerto from a generation later - Foerster's Violin Concerto No 1 - which is performed by Czech violinist Ivan Zenaty.
    Smetana: Overture; Three Dances (The Bartered Bride)
    Foerster: Violin Concerto No 1 (UK premiere)
    Dvorak: Symphony No 8 in G.
      20071219 Petroc Trelawny introduces a programme of Christmas choral music composed by two composers who were good friends and great admirers of each other's music: Benjamin Britten and Francis Poulenc. The concert, given at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, includes Poulenc's Little Prayers of St Francis of Assisi and Britten's Ceremony of Carols. Plus music by Maurice Durufle - four motets based on plainsong chants.
    Sioned Williams (harp)
    The Sixteen
    Harry Christophers (conductor).
      20071220 Petroc Trelawny introduces The Cardinall's Musick conducted by Andrew Carwood in their annual Christmas concert.
    The baroque splendour of St John's, Smith Square, is complemented by the programme of baroque Christmas choral music, including settings of Singet dem Herren by both Bach and Praetorius, along with music by Bach's predecessors Schutz and Scheidt.
      20071221 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert from Merton College, Oxford, in which the BBC Singers conducted by Peter Philips perform A Tudor Christmas.
    There's music from all the big names of English music of the time, including Tallis, Taverner, Byrd and Gibbons, plus the first modern performances of some Christmas motets by the little-known Tudor composer Derrick Gerarde. The grand finale is arguably the most impressive and expansive piece of the era, the 40-part motet Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis.
    Iain Farrington (organ)
    BBC Singers
    Peter Philips (conductor).
      20080109 Emerson String Quartet
    Petroc Trelawny presents a series of three concerts recorded at London's Wigmore Hall by one of the world's most distinguished string quartets. Each concert is based around the three Beethoven 'Rasumovsky' Quartets and also includes music by Bach and a recent work by a composer closely associated with the group.
    1/3. A quartet from the 1980s by leading German composer Wolfgang Rihm.
      20080111 Emerson String Quartet
    Petroc Trelawny presents a series of concerts recorded at London's Wigmore Hall by one of the world's most distinguished quartets.
    3/3. The Emerson Quartet perform a programme that includes a work specially composed for them by the leading Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho 
      20080114 Martin Handley introduces two concerts given at London's Royal Festival Hall in 2007.
    1/2. The beginning of a series devised by John Eliot Gardiner illustrating Brahms's sometimes surprising knowledge of, and admiration for, earlier composers.
    Monteverdi Choir
    Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
    John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
    Brahms: Begrabnisgesang
    Schutz: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen
    Bach: Cantata No 60 (O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort)
    Brahms: German Requiem.
      20080115 Martin Handley introduces two concerts given at London's Royal Festival Hall in 2007.
    2/2. A second concert demonstrating Brahms's interest in earlier composers.
    Brahms: Haydn Variations
    Schubert: Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern; Gruppe aus dem Tartarus
    Brahms: Alto Rhapsody; Symphony No 1
    Monteverdi Choir
    Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
    John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).
      20080118Continuesat8.10pm,afterTwentyMinutesJudith Weir: Telling the Tale. Natural History: This evening's BBC SO concert concludes with the London premiere of Weir's Winter Song, and her The welcome arrival of rain.
    Judith Weir: Telling the Tale
    Natural History
    Live from the Barbican Hall, London, Tom Service presents the first concert in a weekend dedicated to leading British composer Judith Weir.
    Weir's Forest grows from a tiny 'seed' of melody into a dense, flourishing work for large orchestra, while her song-cycle Natural History draws on Taoist poetry. After the interval, The welcome arrival of rain vividly evokes sensations associated with the Indian monsoon.
    Weir's music is interspersed with folk music from concertina maestro Simon Thoumire and his band, and the English Acoustic Collective.
    Weir: Forest; Natural History; Winter Song; The welcome arrival of rain
    Ailish Tynan (soprano)
    Simon Thoumire Band
    English Acoustic Collective
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Andre de Ridder (conductor)
     Judith Weir: Telling The Tale 1 - The Vanishing Bridegroom20080121 Tom Service presents the first of two BBC Symphony Orchestra performances given at the Barbican, continuing Radio 3's celebration of the music of Judith Weir. This concert features one of her most popular works, the compelling opera The Vanishing Bridegroom, which tells three interlinked stories inspired by tales from the Scottish Highlands.
    Weir: The Vanishing Bridegroom
    Ailish Tynan (soprano)
    Anna Stephany (mezzo-soprano)
    Andrew Tortise (tenor)
    Owen Gilhooly (baritone)
    Jonathan Lemalu (bass)
    BBC Singers
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
     Judith Weir: Telling The Tale 2 - Earth And Sky20080122 Tom Service presents the world premiere performance of Judith Weir's Concrete, commissioned by the BBC for the occasion. Taking the Barbican itself as its inspiration, this is a large-scale work for chorus, narrator and orchestra, subtitled 'a motet about London'. Also on the programme is Weir's Moon and Star and a performance of a piece by a composer who Weir cites as a big influence on her own work - Michael Finnissy.
    Weir: Moon and Star
    Finnissy: Red Earth
    Weir: Concrete (world premiere)
    Samuel West (narrator)
    BBC Singers
    BBC Symphony Chorus
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
      20080123 Jonathan Swain introduces a concert given by Manchester's Halle Orchestra under Mark Elder. John McCabe is a composer who has had a long association with the Halle, and the concert includes the world premiere of his Cello Concerto, specially written for the soloist. McCabe is a modern-day romantic, and his concerto is complimented by two true romantic works: Strauss's opulent Don Juan, written when the composer was still in his mid-20s, and Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances, written
    while he was in exile in America.
    R Strauss: Don Juan
    McCabe: Cello Concerto (World premiere)
    Rachmaninov: Symphony Dances
    Truls Mork (cello)
    The Halle Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor).
      20080124 Jonathan Swain presents a performance given at Glasgow's City Halls featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Leif Segerstam, who conducts the UK premiere of his latest symphony. It was written at the time when bird flu paranoia was at its height and is full of literary jokes and puns. Also on the programme is more conventional Scandinavian music from Sibelius and Nielsen.
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Leif Segerstam (conductor)
    Segerstam: Symphony No 151
    Sibelius: Pohjola's Daughter
    Nielsen: Symphony No 5.
      20080125 Jonathan Swain introduces a concert given in the Dublin National Concert Hall where the Ulster Orchestra under Gareth Jones are joined by baritone Bryn Terfel showing off his versatility with a selection of popular opera arias and songs from the shows.
    Bryn Terfel (baritone)
    Ulster Orchestra
    Gareth Jones (conductor)
    Rossini: Overture (The Barber of Seville)
    Mozart: Non piu andrai (Le nozze di Figaro)
    Mozart: Io ti lascio, K245/621a
    Wagner: Overture (Der Fliegende Hollander)
    Wagner: Wie Todesahnung... O du mein holden Abendstern (Tannhauser)
    Borodin: Prince Igor's Aria (Prince Igor)
    Tchaikovsky: Polonaise (Eugene Onegin)
    Gounod: Vous qui faites l'endormie (Faust)
    Verdi: Ehi! Paggio! L'onore! Ladri! (Falstaff)
    Mendelssohn: Lord God of Abraham (Elijah)
    Elgar: Chanson du matin
    Rodgers: Waltz (Carousel)
    Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific)
    Schoenberg: Stars (Les miserables).
     He Who Gets Slapped20080201 Introduced by Petroc Trelawny.
    A 1924 classic of the silent screen gets an aural makeover from Will Gregory of iconic pop duo Goldfrapp, along with guests saxophonist Andy Sheppard and Adrian Utley of the band Portishead.
    The full-length score, specially written by Gregory to accompany the film, was performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in December 2007.
    Will Gregory (keyboards/saxophone)
    Andy Sheppard (saxophones)
    Adrian Utley (guitar)
    Tony Orrell (drums/chaos pad)
    Dudley Phillips (electric bass)
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    Charles Hazlewood (conductor).
      20080204 Halle Orchestra 150th Birthday Concert
    Petroc Trelawny presents a concert from Manchester's Bridgwater Hall celebrating 150 years since the first of Mr Charles Halle's Grand Orchestral Concerts.
    The programme includes a work that Halle himself played on that auspicious occasion - Weber's Konzertstuck for piano and orchestra - as well as works by Lambert, Elgar and Ades that the orchestra premiered.
    Joining the orchestra are two great singers: Dmitry Hvorostovsky, who performs operatic arias, and Dame Janet Baker, who introduces the concert.
    John Tomlinson (bass-baritone)
    Anna Stephany (mezzo-soprano)
    Polina Leschenko (piano)
    Halle Choir
    Halle Youth Choir
    Halle Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor)
    James Burton (conductor)
    Matthews: A Quick Start
    Berlioz: Overture (Le Corsaire), Op 21
    Verdi: Ella giammai m'amo! (Don Carlos)
    Ades: These Premises Are Alarmed
    Debussy: Fetes
    Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region
    Lambert: The Rio Grande (conducted by James Burton)
    Weber: Konzertstuck in F minor for piano and orchestra
    Wagner: Was duftet doch der Flieder (Der Meistersinger)
    Gounod: Serenade (Vous qui faites l'endormie)
    Elgar: In the South, Op 50 (Alassio).
      20080205 With Petroc Trelawny.
    A concert given at the Brighton Dome as part of the annual conference of the Association of British Orchestras.
    The local orchestra is joined by pianist Artur Pizarro for Gershwin's popular Piano Concerto in F, and the concert includes the world premiere of a new work written for the occasion by Martin Butler.
    Artur Pizarro (piano)
    Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra
    Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
    Butler: From the Fairground of Dreams (world premiere)
    Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F
    Stravinsky: Petrushka.
      20080206 With Petroc Trelawny.
    The London Philharmonic Orchestra's Composer-in-Residence, Mark-Anthony Turnage, composed Lullaby for Hans as a tribute to one of his former teachers, Hans Werner Henze, and this concert includes its London premiere alongside a work by its dedicatee.
    The programme also includes the leading German violinist Christian Tetzlaff in Brahms' lyrical concerto and ends with Tchaikovsky's final, deeply personal symphony.
    Turnage: Lullaby for Hans
    Henze: Sonata per Archi
    Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, Op 77
    Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 in B Minor (Pathetique), Op 74
    Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
    London Philharmonic Orchestra
    Vladimir Jurowski (conductor).
      20080207 Petroc Trelawny introduces highlights from the BBC Symphony Orchestra's recent South American Week, featuring orchestral music from Brazil and Argentina, including Astor Piazzolla's tango-influenced Bandoneon Concerto.
    Per Arne Glorvigen (bandoneon)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Enrique Diemecke (conductor)
    Ginastera: Panambi Suite, Op 1a
    Piazzolla: Bandoneon Concerto (Aconcagua)
    Villa-Lobos: Amazonas
    Plus tangos played by Tango for 3, bossa nova sung by Monica Vasconcelos and samba drumming.
      20080208 With Petroc Trelawny.
    Two premieres feature in this concert given in Liverpool as part of the city's European Capital of Culture programme.
    Italian conductor Marcello Bufalini has reconstructed Mendelssohn's 3rd Piano Concerto, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic's Composer in the House and former chorister at Liverpool Cathedral, Kenneth Hesketh, contributes his first major commission for the orchestra.
    Roberto Prosseda (piano)
    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
    Harry Bicket (conductor)
    Bach: Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV 1068
    Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No 3 in E minor
    Hesketh: Like the Sea, Like Time (world premiere).
      20080211 Catherine Bott introduces a concert given in January at Dundee's Caird Hall by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under music director Stephane Deneve featuring three orchestral showpieces that were each groundbreaking in their time.
    Hilary Hahn (violin)
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Stephane Deneve (conductor)
    Strauss: Don Juan
    Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
    Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'une faune
    Debussy: La mer.
      20080212 Presented by Catherine Bott.
    A recital given by the Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski in his home town of Warsaw in 2006. The performance includes music by Mozart and Bach plus Szymanowkski's Homer-inspired cycle of miniature tone-poems and Chopin's rendering of traditional Polish dances.
    Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
    Mozart: Fantasy in C minor, K475
    Mozart: Sonata in C minor, K457
    Szymanowski: M㩴pes, Op 29
    Chopin: Mazurkas, Op 59
    Bach: English Suite in D minor, BWV 811.
      20080213 Catherine Bott presents a performance of Strauss's opera Salome, featuring Gianandrea Noseda conducting the BBC Philharmonic and a cast from the Italian production.
    Herod....Peter Bronder (tenor)
    Herodias....Dagmar Peckova (mezzo-soprano)
    Salome....Nicola Beller Carbone (soprano)
    Jokanaan....Peteris Eglitis (bass-baritone)
    Narraboth....Jorg Durmuller (tenor)
    A Page....Manuela Custer
    1st Jew....Nicola Pamio
    2nd Jew....Karl Michael Ebner
    3rd Jew....Fulvio Oberto
    4th Jew....Ulfried Haselsteiner
    5th Jew....Nicolai Karnolsky
    1st Nazarene....Roberto Abbondanza
    2nd Nazarene....Thomas Ghazeli
    1st Soldier....Vladimir Baykov
    2nd Soldier....Robert Holzer
    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).
      20080214 Catherine Bott introduces a performance by the Dresden Staatskapelle, featuring Edgar Varese's interpretation of a dream he had of the music of an angel, and followed by works from Beethoven and Strauss.
    Helene Grimaud (piano)
    Dresden Staatskapelle
    Fabio Luisi (conductor)
    Varese: Arcana
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4
    Strauss: Alpine Symphony.
      20080218 With Tom Service.
    A concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican last week, with 21-year-old conductor Lionel Bringuier making his UK debut with a composition and an arrangement by Ravel.
    The orchestra is also joined by violinist Lisa Batiashvili and her husband Francois Leleux for the world premiere performance of a double concerto by Giya Kancheli.
    Ravel: Alborada del Gracioso
    Kancheli: Concerto for violin and Oboe (world premiere)
    Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
    Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
    Francois Leleux (oboe)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Lionel Bringuier (conductor).
      20080219 Tom Service presents another chance to hear a concert given at the Royal Festival Hall in 2001, featuring pianist Murray Perahia performing works by Mozart, Schubert and Chopin.
    Mozart: Fantasia in C minor for piano, K475
    Schubert: Sonata in B flat for piano, D960
    Chopin: Ballade No 3 in A flat for piano, Op 47; 12 Studies for piano, Op 25; Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor, Op 31.
      20080220 With Tom Service.
    There is a waltz theme to this performance given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as Ravel's dark poeme choreographique, La valse, is matched by the ghostly ballroom in the second movement of Rachmaninov's final orchestral work, the Symphonic Dances.
    The programme also includes the Scottish premiere performance of Unsuk Chin's Lewis Carroll song-cycle Snags and Snarls, based on scenes from Alice in Wonderland.
    Ravel: La valse
    Unsuk Chin: Snags and Snarls (Scottish premiere)
    Ravel: Une barque sur l'ocean
    Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
    Yeree Suh (soprano)
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    Ilan Volkov (conductor).
      20080221 With Tom Service.
    A concert given at the Wigmore Hall, London, with celebrated American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham performing a varied programme of 19th and 20th century French songs, accompanied by pianist Malcolm Martineau.
    Bizet: Chanson d'avril
    Franck: Nocturne
    Faure: Dans les ruines d'une abbaye
    Gounod: Ou voulez-vous aller?
    Lalo: Guitare
    Saint-Saens: Danse macabre
    Chabrier: Les cigales
    Paladilhe: Psyche
    Debussy: Harmonie du soir
    Chausson: Les papillons
    Bachelet: Chere nuit
    Duparc: Au pays ou se fait la guerre
    Ravel: Le paon
    Caplet: Le corbeau et le renard
    Roussel: Reponse d'une epouse sage
    Messiaen: La fiancee perdue
    Debussy: Colloque sentimental
    Faure: Vocalise
    Hahn: Tyndaris
    Satie: Le chapelier
    Honegger: 3 Chansons de la petite Sirene
    Canteloube: Brezairola
    Rosenthal: La souris d'Angleterre
    Poulenc: La dame de Monte Carlo
    Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
    Malcolm Martineau (piano).
      20080225 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert given by the BBC Concert Orchestra to celebrate the 60th birthday of Barry Wordsworth, their principal conductor for 17 years, and now conductor laureate.
    In Job, called a masque for dancing, Vaughan Williams draws together Elizabethan courtly dances and traditional country music in a powerfully dramatic score still rarely heard in concert; and in Astor Piazzolla's The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, the rhythms of the nuevo tango meet the Italian Baroque of Vivaldi.
    Chris Garrick (violin)
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
    Vaughan Williams: Job
    Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
    Ravel: La valse.
      20080227 Introduced by Petroc Trelawny.
    James MacMillan, the BBC Philharmonic's Composer/Conductor, conducts the world premiere of three interludes from his new opera The Sacrifice, a work based on a medieval Welsh tale and focusing on issues of love and conflict.
    The programme also includes a work by Messiaen celebrating the Resurrection and evoking the landscapes of the Alps, and Kancheli's Fifth Symphony, written 30 years ago. It features a child-like theme on the harpsichord, representing youthful optimism, which is graphically overpowered by orchestral forces.
    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
    James MacMillan (conductor)
    Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
    MacMillan: Three Interludes (The Sacrifice) (world premiere)
    Kancheli: Symphony No 5.
      20080229 Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert given as part of the CBSO's IgorFest project to perform Stravinsky's complete works.
    The programme includes Capriccio, the most extrovert of his three works for piano and orchestra, and Persephone, a story of the Greek Underworld that is regarded as among the most beautiful of the composer's pieces and features writing for adult and children's choruses.
    Peter Donohoe (piano)
    Peter Wedd (tenor)
    City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
    City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus
    Sakari Oramo (conductor)
    Chopin, orch. Stravinsky: Nocturne and Grande valse brillante
    Stravinsky: Capriccio for piano and orchestra; Persephone.
      20080303 BBC Symphony Orchestra: Penderecki Celebration
    Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
    The 75th birthday of Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki is celebrated with the first UK performance of his latest symphony. Titled Songs of Transcience, it is a large-scale setting of German poems by Goethe and others on the theme of man's destruction of nature. Brahms's Bach-inspired final symphony completes the programme.
    Heidi Grant Murphy (soprano)
    Agnieska Rehlis (mezzo-soprano)
    Roderick Williams (baritone)
    BBC Symphony Chorus
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
    Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor
    Penderecki: Symphony No 8 (Lieder der Verganglichkeit) (UK premiere).
      20080306 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert featuring conductor, composer and chansonnier HK Gruber, in which he explores the world of cabaret. The line-up includes songs by Kurt Weill, theatrical works by Stravinsky, an eclectic John Adams piece as well as Gruber's own darkly comic composition.
    Stravinsky: Suite No 1
    Weill: Berlin im Licht
    Adams: Gnarly Buttons
    Weill: The Threepenny Opera (excerpts)
    Stravinsky: Suite No 2
    Gruber: Frankenstein!! A pan-demonium for orchestra
    Christopher Richards (clarinet)
    Northern Sinfonia
    HK Gruber (conductor/chansonnier).
      20080307 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Petroc Trelawny introduces a performance by the Birmingham orchestra conducted by the young Latvian, Andris Nelsons, who will take over as Music Director of the CBSO in the Autumn.
    Strauss's opera is a love letter to the Viennese waltz, while a new concerto by Austrian Olga Neuwirth - written for tonight's soloist Hakan Hardenberger - offers a kaleidoscope of Handel, jazz and other musical memories.
    Strauss: Suite (Der Rosenkavalier)
    Neuwirth: miramondo multiplo (UK premiere)
    Part: Fratres
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 6, Op 53
    Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)
    Andris Nelsons (conductor).
      20080317 Pagan Rites, Sacred Rituals
    Martin Handley introduces a concert given earlier this month at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, combining percussion with the voices of the BBC Singers.
    Including the BBC Singers' principal guest conductor Bob Chilcott in conversation.
    Simone Rebello, Damien Harron (percussion)
    BBC Singers
    Bob Chilcott (conductor)
    Tormis: Curse upon iron
    Miki: Marimba Spiritual
    Dove: Who killed Cock Robin
    Chilcott: The Making of the Drum
    Martland: Jenny Jones (Street Songs)
    Kernis: I cannot dance, O Lord
    Albright: Chichester Mass
    Harron: Brightlines; Bala
    Arrangements of various spirituals.
     Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio20080324 Catherine Bott introduces a new operatic version of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, written by composer Jonathan Dove and librettist Alasdair Middleton and produced by Opera North.
    Dove: Pinocchio
    Pinocchio....Victoria Simmonds
    Geppetto....Jonathan Summers
    The Blue Fairy....Mary Plazas
    Cricket/Parrot....Rebecca Bottone
    Puppeteer/Ape-Judge/Ringmaster....Graeme Broadbent
    Lampwick....Allan Clayton
    Cat....Mark Wilde
    Fox/Coachman....James Laing
    Pigeon/Snail....Carole Wilson
    Chorus of Opera North
    Orchestra of Opera North
    David Parry (conductor).
      20080408 Suzy Klein presents a concert recorded last week at the Barbican Hall, London, featuring two pieces the BBC Symphony Orchestra premiered in the UK - George Benjamin's Dance Figures and Berg's Violin Concerto as well as Oliver Knussen's reworking of part of his one-act opera Higglety Pigglety Pop!
    Knussen: The Way to Castle Yonder
    Berg: Violin Concerto
    Benjamin: Dance Figures
    Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
    Leila Josefowicz (violin)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Oliver Knussen (conductor).
      20080410 Suzy Klein presents a concert given at New York's Avery Fisher Hall last month, in which Music Director-designate Alan Gilbert conducted the New York Philharmonic in two key works in the classical repertoire, with soprano Dawn Upshaw joining them in Berio's Folk Songs.
    Haydn: Symphony No 48 (Maria Theresia)
    Berio: Folk Songs
    Beethoven: Symphony No 4
    Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
    New York Philharmonic Orchestra
    Alan Gilbert (conductor).
      20080411 BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2008
    Presented by Suzy Klein.
    Mary Ann Kennedy hosts an evening at Dingwall's in London's Camden Town to announce the winners of this year's awards. With performances from a previous winner, Indian classical singer Kaushiki Chakrabarty, and from one of this year's nominees, Algerian rai-rocker Rachid Taha.
    It also marks the launch of the Audience Award, a public vote from all the 30 nominated artists, the winner of which will be invited to appear at the Winners' Concert in July.
      20080421 Tom Service introduces a concert given last week by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at London's Barbican Hall with clarinettist Michael Collins as the soloist in the first UK performance of Ariel's Music, a concerto by Australian Brett Dean.
    The programme also includes Sibelius's two orchestral suites of music for The Tempest performed together with scenes from Shakespeare's original play.
    Michael Collins (clarinet)
    Richard Goulding, Sasha Higgins, Benedict Hopper, Geoff Breton, Phillip Langhorne (actors)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    John Storgards (conductor)
    Dean: Ariel's Music (UK premiere)
    Sibelius: The Tempest Suite.
      20080425 Tom Service introduces the second of two performances given by the New York Philharmonic at the Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, where they are joined by veteran British conductor Colin Davis and American pianist Richard Goode in a programme of works by Beethoven and Vaughan Williams.
    Richard Goode (piano)
    New York Philharmonic
    Colin Davis (conductor)
    Beethoven: Leonore Overture No 2
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G, Op 58
    Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4 in F minor.
      20080505 Petroc Trelawny introduces the first of two concerts given by the Halle Orchestra to mark their 150th anniversary season.
    The programme features two early 20th century works: Hamilton Harty's The Mystic Trumpeter is a setting of a Whitman poem which, since its world premiere by the Halle in 1913, has all but disappeared from the concert hall. Elgar's Violin Concerto, a near-contemporary, has never been out of the repertoire and has attracted many of the world's leading violinists, including Thomas Zehetmair, who features in this concert.
    James Rutherford (baritone)
    Thomas Zehetmair (violin)
    Halle Choir and Orchestra
    Mark Elder (conductor)
    Vaughan Williams: Overture (The Wasps)
    Harty: The Mystic Trumpeter
    Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor.
      20080506 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given last week at King's College Chapel, Cambridge, featuring the King's Singers together with the King's College Choir performing a programme for Ascension Day of music encompassing five centuries.
    The King's Singers
    Choir of King's College, Cambridge
    Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
    Kreek: Onnis on inimene
    Palestrina: Viri galilaei; Ascendit Deus
    Poole: Ave rex angelorum
    Ley: Prayer of King Henry VI
    Peebles: Si quis diligit me
    Poole: Tutivillus
    Tormis: Piispa ja Pakana
    Sweelinck: Mon Dieu, j'ai en toi esperance
    Britten: Hymn to the Virgin
    Poole: Mary Modyr
    Lassus: Ad te levavi
    Reger: Das Agnus Dei
    Lassus: In Pace
    Poole: Blessed Jesu
    Chilcott: High Flight (world premiere).
      20080508 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given yesterday at the Lighthouse, Poole, by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop. Alongside Mahler's Ninth symphony - the penultimate work in their Mahler cycle - is a Wagnerian-themed percussion concerto by American composer Christopher Rouse, whom Alsop has championed.
    Colin Currie (percussion)
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Marin Alsop (conductor)
    Christopher Rouse: Der Gerettete Alberich
    Mahler: Symphony No 9.
      20080512 Young Musician of the Year Concerto Final
    Petroc Trelawny introduces full concerto performances from each of the five finalists in the 2008 Young Musician of the Year competition, which this year celebrates its 30th birthday.
    The finalists perform pieces with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Thierry Fischer as well as giving interviews about their choice of concerto. Their performances are discussed live in the studio with British pianist Lucy Parham, winner of the Young Musician of the Year Keyboard Final in 1984 and member of the judging panel for the Keyboard Final this year.
      20080513 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with the world premiere of Tsunami by Dominic Muldowney as well as a work for baritone and orchestra setting the poetry of James Fenton. Muldowney's piece incorporates television footage of the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004, with Olivier award-winning music theatre actor and singer Philip Quast as the soloist.
    This is prefaced by two pieces by Vaughan Williams - the war-time Symphony No 6, and an early choral work whose text is derived from a metaphysical text by Walt Whitman. Holst's choral work that follows is based on another mystical text, the Apochrypha, which uses the theme of dance as a divine path to enlightenment.
    Philip Quast (baritone)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Andrew Davis (conductor)
    Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region; Symphony No 6 in E minor
    Dominic Muldowney: Tsunami (RPS commission: world premiere)
    Ives: General William Booth enters into Heaven
    Holst: The Hymn of Jesus Op 37.
      20080514 Vaughan Williams Anniversary Concert
    Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert given during the Brighton Festival by the City of London Sinfonia under Richard Hickox to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
    The programme includes the Songs of Travel, in their less well-known orchestral arrangement, and culminates with a performance of the rarely heard music drama Riders to the Sea. The text is based on a tragic one-act play by JM Synge, which centres on a grief-stricken Irish fishing community.
    Vaughan Williams: Overture (The Wasps); Toward the Unknown Region; Songs of Travel; Riders to the Sea
    Gerald Finley (baritone)
    Maurya....Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)
    Bartley....Matthew Brooke (bass)
    Cathleen....Sarah Fox (soprano)
    Nora....Gillian Keith (soprano)
    Brighton Festival Chorus
    City of London Sinfonia
    Richard Hickox (conductor).
      20080516 The RPS Awards
    Petroc Trelawny presents coverage from the Dorchester Hotel, London of the 2008 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, the principal live classical music awards in the UK. With interviews and music as well as the winner of the Radio 3 Listeners' Award.
      20080529 Suzy Klein inroduces a concert featuring the Takacs Quartet performing the world premiere of James MacMillan's technically challenging String Quartet No 3 alongside works by Haydn and Brahms.
    Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Op 74, No 3 (Rider)
    MacMillan: String Quartet No 3 (world premiere)
    Brahms: String Quartet in B flat, Op 67.
      20080603 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given at London's Barbican Hall in May featuring South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim, accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra. Ibrahim is famous for combining traditional African songs with more modern influences, particularly jazz and the sound of Thelonious Monk.
    Abdullah Ibrahim
    Abdullah Trio
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    Jules Buckley (conductor)
    With repertoire including:
    African Concerto
    The Mountain
    Duke 88
    Blue Bolero
    Song for Aggrey
    Cape Town
    Evidence/Monk In Harlem.
     Satie And Friends 20080605 Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London earlier this week, with Charles Hazlewood conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra in music by Satie and his friends.
    BBC Concert Orchestra
    Charles Hazlewood (conductor).
      20080609 Martin Handley presents the final concert in the season at St David's Hall, Cardiff, featuring Thierry Fischer and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in two major works of the 20th century.
    There is Bartok's pantomime-ballet The Miraculous Mandarin, which mixes violence with desire as a band of thieves use a beautiful girl to lure in their victims, as well as Shostakovich's Symphony No 5.
    Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin
    Shostakovich: Symphony No 5
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Thierry Fischer (conductor).
      20080612 Discover Brahms and Schumann
    Martin Handley presents the second concert in the series given by the BBC Philharmonic, featuring Schumann's technically demanding Konzertstuck alongside Brahms's similarly upbeat Symphony No 2.
    Schumann: Overture (Manfred); Konzertstuck for four horns
    Brahms: Symphony No 2.
      20080613 Martin Handley presents a concert given earlier this month by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with their outgoing director Sakari Oramo.
    Lisa Milne (soprano)
    Jane Irwin (mezzo-soprano)
    Gordon Gietz (tenor)
    Matthew Rose (bass)
    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Sakari Oramo (conductor)
    Janacek: Sinfonietta
    Beethoven: Symphony No 9.
      20080616 Martin Handley introduces a concert performed by the China Philharmonic Orchestra in the run-up to the start of the Olympic Games in Beijing, with an opening piece which, it is claimed, is one of the first pieces of classical music about the world of business. Zhao Jiping's six-movement work traces the history of a man who takes over his family business, making a fortune through principles of sincerity and trust. This is followed by Mahler's symphonic song-cycle Das Lied von der Erde, which sets words by ancient Chinese poets.
    Zhao Jiping: Courtyard of Family Qiau - Symphonic Suite