07:00
18 February 2006
With Sarah Walker.
From 7.00am
Schumann: Overture: Hermann und Dorothea, Op 135
Philharmonia
Orchestra
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
Haydn: Arietta with 12
Variations, Hob XVII:3
Jeno Jando (piano)
From
8.00am
Walton: Set Me As a Seal Upon Thine Heart
Choir of Christ
Chuch Cathedral Oxford
Stephen Darlington
(conductor)
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto no 1 in Am, Op 33
Steven
Isserlis (cello)
London SO
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
09:00
18 February 2006
Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's newest
releases.
Christopher Cook recommends versions of Poulenc's operas
Les Dialogues des Carmelites; La Voix Humaine and Les Mamelles de
Tiresias, from the currently available recordings.
A round-up of
some recently reissued recordings.
Robert Hollingworth reviews new
recordings of choral music, including the Fauré and Duruflé Requiems from
the Swedish Radio Choir under Fredrik Malmberg, Nordic works from
Accentus, and Polyphony's new disc of music by Eric
Whitacre.
Andrew McGregor talks to harpist Catrin Finch about her
roots in Welsh tradition, her wide-ranging recording projects, and her
role as Royal Harpist to the Prince of Wales.
Disc of the Week:
Debussy: Preludes Book 2 (excerpts)
Noriko
Ogawa (piano)
13:00
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
3/4. Archive Month: Andrew Manze explores the work of Nikolaus
Harnoncourt, a musician who has been at the forefront of the Early Music
revolution for the last 50 years.
14:00
Haydn Trumpet Concerto
Stephen Johnson takes the trumpet concerto as his subject, journeying
from the baroque with a concerto by Telemann to Haydn's ground breaking
masterpiece. Phillipe Schartz is the soloist who at one point even
ventures to play an original keyed bugle - the instrument that inspired
Haydn to put pen to paper.
The BBC NOW is conducted by Kenneth
Woods.
15:00
Khaled
A rare UK performance at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire by
Algerian-born King of Rai, Khaled, recorded especially for the
programme.
The concert includes songs from his latest album
Ya-Rayi, as well as the hits that have made him an international
phenomenon, such as Aicha.
16:00
McCoy Tyner
Helen Mayhew chats to the legendary pianist McCoy Tyner about his
upbringing in Philadelphia, his first professional engagement and his
memories of meeting Benny Golson and John Coltrane.
17:00
18 February 2006
With Geoffrey Smith. Request your favourite jazz cut by Email:
jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk
18:00
In the Name of the Fatha - The Great Earl Hines
18 February 2006
Concluding this brief Jazz File series on Earl 'Father' Hines, Alyn
Shipton meets his former sidemen, Jesse Stone, Truck Parham and Franz
Jackson, and further explores Hines' keyboard legacy with the help of
British pianist Martin Litton.
Hines himself recalls his great days
at the Grand Terrace Club in Chicago, the birth of bebop, and his reunion
with Louis Armstrong in the globetrotting All Stars.
18:30
Verdi's Aida
Live from the Met. - Act One
Aida, Act I
The Ethiopian slave Aida is in love with the
Egyptian warrior Radames. He loves her too, which angers the Egyptian
princess Amneris who wants him for herself. Aida is hiding the fact that
she is the King of Ethiopia's daughter, so when her father is taken
prisoner by the Egyptians she has to make a choice of loyalty to him or
Radames.
Aida is on the surface one of Verdi's grandest operas, but
is also an intimate drama of love versus duty. Andrea Gruber and Johan
Botha play the doomed lovers, with James Conlon
conducting.
Presented from New York by Margaret Juntwait.
Aida ...... Andrea Gruber (soprano)
Amneris ...... Olga Borodina
(mezzo-soprano)
Radamčs ...... Johan Botha (tenor)
Amonasro ......
Juan Pons (baritone)
Ramfis ...... Kwangchul Youn (bass)
The King
...... Hao Jiang Tian (bass)
Priestess ...... Jennifer Check
(soprano)
Messenger ...... Ronald Naldi (tenor)
Orchestra and
Chorus of the New York Metropolitan Opera
James Conlon (conductor)
19:15
Aciro's Song
Aciro's Song: A specially commissioned short story by Ugandan writer
Jackee Budesta Batanda. Set in a refugee camp, Aciro anxiously awaits the
return of her daughter who has gone foraging for food.
19:40
Verdi's Aida
Live from the Met. - Act Two
Live from the Met. Aida, Act II: Margaret Juntwait presents Verdi's
grand opera with Andrea Gruber and Johan Botha, and James Conlon
conducting.
20:20
18 February 2006
Brian Zeger puts listeners' questions to Robert Dennis, William Fulton
and Fred Plotkin.
Send questions to:
Met Opera Quiz
FDR Station
PO Box
805
New York, NY 10150
... or via bbc.co.uk/radio3
20:50
Verdi's Aida
Live from the Met. - Act Three
Live from the Met. Aida, Act III: Margaret Juntwait presents Verdi's
grand opera with Andrea Gruber and Johan Botha, and James Conlon
conducting.
21:25
Frank Gardner's Cairo
BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner, paralysed in an Al Qaeda
attack 18 months ago, returns for the first time since his accident to the
city where he spent happy years, first as a student and later as head of
the BBC's Cairo Bureau.
21:50
Verdi's Aida
Live from the Met. - Act Four
Live from the Met. Aida, Act IV: Margaret Juntwait presents Verdi's
grand opera with soprano Andrea Gruber and tenor Johan Botha, and James
Conlon conducting.
22:30
18 February 2006
Joolz Denby jumps onto her shark biscuit to deliver a dark tale of
dangerous infatuation in the surfing village of Polwenna.
And the
latest in the topical tight turn-around written pieces adds another grain
of unpredictability to Ian McMillan's cabaret of the written and spoken
word.
23:00
18 February 2006
Sarah Walker presents contemporary music influenced by jazz. The main
work tonight is Blood on the Floor; Mark-Anthony Turnage's visceral suite
for jazz soloists and orchestra, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
recorded at City Hall, Glasgow, earlier this month.
Peter Erskine (drums)
John Parricelli (guitar)
Dave Carpenter
(bass)
Martin Robertson (sax)
BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
And later, new
BBC-commissioned pieces by Dave Maric played by the Katya Labeque Band
recorded on their CMN Tour last December.
Fred Frith
(guitar)
Viktoria Mullova (violin)
The Katya Labeque Band
01:00
18 February 2006
18 February 2006
With Sue Sharpe.
1.00am
The Diamond Ensemble with Sine Bundgaard (soprano) and Allan
Rasmussen (organ) recorded at the Queen's Hall, Copenhagen on 1 March
2005.
1.01
Bach, Johann Christian (1735-1782): Two arias, Chio
speri & Di quella fronte (Temistocle)
1.12am
Bach, Johann
Sebastian (1685-1750): Keyboard Concerto No 4 in A, BWV 1055
Cantata No
202 Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202
1.48am
Mozart,
Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Sonata No.14 in Cm, K457
Annie Fischer
(piano)
2.08am
Boulogne, Joseph (c.1748-1799): Violin Concerto
in D, Op 3, No 1
Linda Melsted (violin)
Tafelmusik
Orchestra
Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
2.30am
Brahms, Johannes
(1833-1897): 3 Intermezzi, Op 117
Llyr Williams (piano)
2.49am
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904): The spectres bride, Op 69
Anda-Louise
Bogza (soprano)
Peter Straka (tenor)
Ivan Kusnjer (baritone)
BBC
Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jirí Belohlávek
(conductor)
4.09am
Bellini, Vincenzo (1801-1835): Norma
overture
Oslo Philharmonic
Nello Santi (conductor)
4.16am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Andante, Op 3, No 1
Ludmil Angelov
(piano)
4.23am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Hektors Abschied,
D312b
Christoph Prégardien (tenor)
Andreas Staier
(fortepiano)
4.28am
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643): O
Mirtillo, Mirtillo anima mia
Cantus Cölln
4.31am
Gabrieli,
Giovanni (1554/57-1612): Sonata for 3 violins &
continuo
Tragicomedia
4.36am
Geminiani, Francesco
(1687-1762): Concerto Grosso in Em, Op 3, No 3
La Petite
Bande
Sigiswald Kuijken (director)
4.45am
Rubinstein, Anton
(1829-1894): Barcarolle No 3 in Gm, Op 50
Frederic Lamond
(piano)
4.49am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Academic Festival
Overture, Op 80
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Tamás Vásáry
(conductor)
5.00am
Gorczycki, Grzegorz Gerwazy (c.1665-1734):
Cum invocarem
Olga Pasiecznik (soprano)
Piotr Lykowski
(countertenor)
Wojciech Parchem (tenor)
Miroslaw Borzynski
(bass)
Sine Nomine Chamber Choir
Concerto Polacco
Marek
Toporowski (chamber organ/director)
5.04am
Bach, Johann
Sebastian (1685-1750): Ich steh am deiner Krippen hier, BWV469; Mein Jesu,
was für Seelenweh, BWV487; Selig, wer am Jesum denkt, BWV498, from the
Schemelli collection.
Marco Fink (bass baritone)
Bernarda Fink
(mezzo soprano)
Domen Marincic (gamba)
Dalibor Miklavcic
(organ)
5.11am
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907): Wedding Day at
Troldhaugen, Op 65, No 6
Carl Wendling (piano)
5.18am
Gluck,
Christoph Willibald (1714-1787): Dance of the Furies, Orfeo ed
Euridice
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Lovro von Matacic
(conductor)
5.23am
Kodaly, Zoltán (1882-1967): Adagio
Morten Carlsen (viola)
Sergej Osadchuk (piano)
5.32am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847) arr. Liszt: Auf flügeln des Gesanges,
S547
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
5.37am
Handel, Georg Frideric
(1685-1759): Oboe Sonata in Am, HWV362
Louise Pellerin (oboe)
Dom
André Laberge (organ)
5.45am
Noskowski, Zygmunt (1846-1909):
Gypsy Dance from A Hut Beyond the Village
National Polish Radio
Symphony Orchestra
Miroslaw Jacek Blaszczyk (conductor )
5.52am
Martin, Frank (1890-1974): Ballade
Lukasz Dlugosz
(flute)
Zdzislawa Rychlewska (piano)
6.00am
De Vocht,
Lodewijk (1887-1977): In Exile - symphonic poem
Flemish Radio
Orchestra
Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor)
6.12am
Chopin,
Frédéric (1810-1849): Rondo ŕ la Mazur in F, Op 5
Ludmil Angelov
(piano)
6.21am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): Violin Concerto
in Dm
Piotr Plawner (violin)
Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of
Europe
Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)
6.42am
Grundt, Albert
(1840-1878) / Knoll, Johann Wilhelm (1832-18??): Den Brug over den Oceaan
Dutch National Youth Wind Orchestra
Jan Cober (conductor)
