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SAT SATURDAY 22 DECEMBER 2012 SAT SAT 07:00 Breakfast b01pcq9j (Listen) SAT Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. SAT As December progresses, plenty of festival music and SAT surprises. SAT SAT From 15th December, the BBC Singers will be specially SAT recording carols - some of them requested by our listeners. SAT SAT There's the Breakfast Advent Calendar - opening a door every SAT day to reveal winter music and readings chosen by listeners SAT and presenters. SAT SAT Closer to Christmas, listeners will have the chance to send SAT a Breakfast Christmas Card by requesting a piece of music SAT and dedicating it to a friend. SAT SAT And in Your Call where we hear from our audience about their SAT favourite pieces of music, there's the chance to introduce a SAT favourite piece of music to the rest of the UK. In the run SAT up to Christmas we'll be hearing about music that reminds SAT listeners of the festive season. SAT SAT Music Played SAT 00:03 SAT Johann Sebastian Bach SAT In Dulce Jubilo BWV608 SAT Onyx Brass SAT RESONUS RES10105 SAT 00:05 SAT Georges Bizet SAT Carillon from L’Arlesienne Suite No.1 SAT Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles SAT Marc Minkowski (conductor) SAT NAÏVE V5130 SAT 00:14 SAT Frédéric Chopin SAT Impromptu in G flat major Op.51 SAT Murray Perahia (piano) SAT SONY 8869748232 SAT 00:21 SAT Engelbert Humperdinck SAT Overture to Hansel & Gretel SAT Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra SAT Georg Solti (conductor) SAT DECCA 4211122 SAT 00:31 SAT Stuart Nicholson SAT Tomorrow shall be my dancing day SAT BBC Singers (tenor solo Stephen Jeffes) SAT Gavin Roberts (organ) SAT Paul Brough (conductor) SAT BBC Singers recorded at Maida Vale Studio 1 SAT 00:34 SAT Nicolò Paganini SAT Violin Concerto No.2 in B minor Op.7 – third movement ‘La SAT Campanella’ SAT Salvatore Accardo (violin) SAT London Symphony Orchestra SAT Charles Dutoit (conductor) SAT DG 4153782 SAT 00:44 SAT Alessandro Scarlatti SAT Aria ‘Nacque, col Gran Messia’ from Cantata ‘Non sòn qual SAT più m’ingombra’ SAT Emma Kirkby (soprano) SAT London Baroque SAT BIS CD1135 SAT 00:51 SAT Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart SAT Symphony No.39 in E flat K543 – fourth movement Finale SAT The English Concert SAT Trevor Pinnock SAT ARCHIV 4470432 SAT 01:04 SAT John Ireland SAT The Holy Boy SAT BBC Singers SAT Paul Brough (conductor) SAT BBC Singers recorded at Maida Vale Studio 1 SAT 01:07 SAT Maurice Ravel SAT Bolero SAT Berlin Philharmonic SAT Pierre Boulez (conductor) SAT DG 4398592 SAT 01:26 SAT George Frideric Handel SAT Why Do the Nations (The Messiah) & Chorus ‘Let us break SAT their bonds’ SAT Eamonn Dougan (bass) SAT Choir of New College Oxford SAT Academy of Ancient Music SAT Edward Higginbottom (conductor) SAT NAXOS 8570131-32 SAT 01:30 SAT Robert Schumann SAT Etudes symphoniques Op.13 – Finale: Allegro brillante SAT Marc-André Hamelin (piano) SAT HYPERION CDA67166 SAT 01:39 SAT Samuel Coleridge-Taylor SAT Christmas Overture SAT BBC Concert Orchestra SAT Barry Wordsworth (conductor) SAT NAXOS 8570331 SAT 01:47 SAT Antonio Vivaldi SAT Concerto in B flat Op.4 No.1 RV383a SAT Rachel Podger (violin) SAT Arte dei Suonatori SAT CCSSEL6212 SAT 01:56 SAT William Byrd SAT O magnum mysterium SAT Theatre of Voices SAT Ars Nova Copenhagen SAT Paul Hiller (conductor) SAT HARMONIA MUNDI HMU807565 SAT SAT 15:00 Saturday Classics b01pcq9s (Listen) SAT Richard Sisson SAT SAT The pianist and composer Richard Sisson presents an SAT alternative take on the Twelve Days of Christmas. Featuring SAT music by Poulenc, Wagner, Noel Coward, The Muppets, Bing SAT Crosby and Tchaikovsky. SAT SAT Music Played SAT 00:00 SAT John Ireland SAT The Holy Boy SAT Neville MARRINER SAT Julian LLOYD WEBBER - Cello SAT Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields SAT PHILIPS SAT 442 530 1 SAT 00:03 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT Winter words Op.52 – The Choirmaster’s Burial SAT Ian PARTRIDGE - Tenor SAT Jennifer PARTRIDGE - Piano SAT 00:07 SAT Jonathan Dove SAT The Three Kings SAT Matthew OWENS SAT Wells Cathedral Choir SAT HYPERION SAT CDA-67768 SAT 00:12 SAT Francis Poulenc SAT 4 Motets pour le temps de Noel SAT Noel EDISON SAT Elora Festival Singers SAT NAXOS SAT 8.54179 SAT 00:23 SAT Tom Lehrer SAT A Christmas carol SAT Tom LEHRER - Singer SAT RHINO SAT R279831 SAT 00:26 SAT Olivier Messiaen SAT Le Merle noir SAT Emmanuel PAHUD - Flute SAT Eric LE SAGE - Piano SAT EMI SAT 5564882 SAT 00:32 SAT Richard Wagner SAT Siegfried-Idyll SAT Rafael KUBELIK SAT Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra SAT DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON SAT 453-290-2 SAT 00:51 SAT Traditional – arr Bob Beers SAT Christmas is Coming SAT The Muppet Orchestra - Main Artist SAT The Muppets - Main Artist SAT MUSIC CLUB SAT MCCDX007 SAT 00:52 SAT Frank Luther SAT Christmas is a-Comin' SAT Bing Crosby - Main Artist SAT Buddy Cole Orchestra SAT PICKWICK SAT PWKS561 SAT 00:55 SAT Orlando Gibbons SAT The Silver swanne SAT Alfred DELLER - Counter-tenor SAT Deller Consort SAT Vanguard SAT 08503871 SAT 00:57 SAT Orlando Gibbons SAT The Lord of Salisbury his pavan and galliard SAT Glenn GOULD - Piano SAT SONY SAT SMK52589 SAT 01:02 SAT Samuel Bordoli SAT Magnificat SAT Richard Smith - Main Artist SAT Worcester Liturgical Music Course - Main Artist SAT LMC SAT 2011 SAT 01:09 SAT Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky SAT The Nutcracker - Waltz of the Snowflakes SAT Seiji OZAWA SAT Boston Symphony Orchestra SAT The American Boychoir SAT DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON SAT 435 619 2 SAT 01:15 SAT Noël Coward SAT The Stately Homes of England SAT Arranger: SAT Noel Coward - Main Artist SAT His Majesty’s Theatre Orchestra SAT Francis M Collinson - conductor SAT Living Era SAT CD AJA-5126 SAT 01:19 SAT Irving Berlin SAT White Christmas, arr. Heifetz SAT Salvador CAMARATA - piano SAT Jascha HEIFETZ - Violin SAT DECCA SAT MACD-42212 SAT 01:22 SAT [traditional] SAT Piva Piva SAT Gli Zampognari Iblei - Main Artist SAT Sonarmusic SAT 3661585233855 SAT 01:23 SAT George Frideric Handel SAT Messiah - Unto us a Child is born; Pifa SAT Ivars TAURINS SAT Tafelmusik Baroque Choir SAT Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra SAT TAFELMUSIK SAT TMK1016CCD2 SAT 01:31 SAT Sir Henry Walford Davies SAT O little town of Bethlehem SAT Bugge WESSELTOFT - Keyboards SAT ACT SAT 9260 2 SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 23 DECEMBER 2012 SUN SUN 07:00 Breakfast b01pcr56 (Listen) SUN Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. SUN As December progresses, plenty of festival music and SUN surprises. SUN SUN From 15th December, the BBC Singers will be specially SUN recording carols - some of them requested by our listeners. SUN SUN There's the Breakfast Advent Calendar - opening a door every SUN day to reveal winter music and readings chosen by listeners SUN and presenters. SUN SUN Closer to Christmas, listeners will have the chance to send SUN a Breakfast Christmas Card by requesting a piece of music SUN and dedicating it to a friend. SUN SUN And in Your Call where we hear from our audience about their SUN favourite pieces of music, there's the chance to introduce a SUN favourite piece of music to the rest of the UK. In the run SUN up to Christmas we'll be hearing about music that reminds SUN listeners of the festive season. SUN SUN Music Played SUN 00:03 SUN Ralph Vaughan Williams SUN Seventeen Come Sunday (Folk Song Suite) SUN Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra SUN James Judd (conductor) SUN NAXOS 8572304 SUN 00:07 SUN [anonymous] SUN Lullay, lullay: As I lay on Yoolis Night SUN Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments SUN Recorded at the Royal Northern College of Music SUN 00:14 SUN George Gershwin SUN Rhapsody in Blue SUN Wayne Marshall (piano/conductor) SUN Aalborg Symphony Orchestra SUN VIRGIN 5612472 SUN 00:29 SUN Will Todd SUN The Christ Child SUN BBC Singers SUN Gavin Roberts (organ) SUN Paul Brough (conductor) SUN BBC Singers recorded at Maida Vale Studio 1 SUN 00:35 SUN Edvard Grieg SUN Morning from Peer Gynt Suite No.1 Op.46 SUN Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra SUN Paavo Berglund (conductor) SUN EMI 5747312 SUN 00:40 SUN Philip Lane SUN Overture on French Carols SUN BBC Concert Orchestra SUN Barry Wordsworth (conductor) SUN NAXOS 8570331 SUN 00:45 SUN [traditional] SUN Nun sei gegrusst, O Jesulein SUN Vienna Boys Choir SUN Peter Marschik (conductor) SUN CAPRICCIO C5160 SUN 00:48 SUN Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart SUN Violin Sonata in G major K379 – Allegro SUN Christian Tetzlaff (violin) SUN Lars Vogt (piano) SUN ONDINE ODE12042 SUN 00:55 SUN Richard Allain SUN In the bleak SUN BBC Singers (soprano solo Olivia Robinson) SUN Paul Brough (conductor) SUN BBC Singers recorded at Maida Vale Studio 1 SUN 01:04 SUN Antonin Dvorak SUN Carnival Overture SUN Cleveland Orchestra SUN Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) SUN DECCA 4335482 SUN 01:16 SUN Peter Warlock SUN The First Mercy SUN Sarah Connolly (mezzo) SUN Malcolm Martineau (piano) SUN CHANDOS CHAN10691 SUN 01:19 SUN Joseph Haydn SUN Symphony No.101 in D major ‘The Clock’ – second movement SUN Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble SUN Marc Minkowski (conductor) SUN NAÏVE V5176 SUN 01:27 SUN Sergey Vasilievich Rachmaninov SUN Prelude in B flat major Op.23 No.2 SUN Simon Trpceski (piano) SUN EMI 5579432 SUN 01:32 SUN Leroy Anderson SUN A Christmas Festival SUN Royal Scottish National Orchestra SUN Christopher Bell (conductor) SUN SIGNUM SIGCD202 SUN 01:40 SUN Will Todd SUN My Lord Has Come SUN Tenebrae SUN Nigel Short (conductor) SUN SIGNUM SIGCD298 SUN 01:44 SUN Pablo de Sarasate SUN Navarra Op.33 SUN Chloe Hanslip & Mikhail Ovrutsky (violins) SUN London Symphony Orchestra SUN Martyn Brabbins (conductor) SUN WARNER 0927456642 SUN 01:53 SUN Johann Sebastian Bach SUN Chorus ‘Ehre sei dir, Gott’ (Christmas Oratorio BWV248, Part SUN 5) SUN Dresden Chamber Choir SUN Leipzig Gewandhausorchester SUN Riccardo Chailly (conductor) SUN DECCA 4782272 SUN SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning b01pcr58 (Listen) SUN Rob Cowan delves into his record collection for instrumental SUN music inspired by or drawn from opera by Wagner, Verdi, SUN Mozart and Johann Strauss. And he introduces this week's SUN cantata by J S Bach, Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! SUN (Prepare the paths, prepare the road!) BWV 132. SUN SUN Music Played SUN 00:12 SUN Jaromír Weinberger SUN Schwanda the Bagpiper - Polka and Fugue SUN 00:23 SUN Johann Sebastian Bach SUN Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! (Prepare the paths, SUN prepare the road!)BWV 132 SUN 00:40 SUN Ludwig van Beethoven SUN Rondo a capriccio in G Op. 129, 'Rage Over a Lost Penny' SUN 00:47 SUN Max Reger SUN Böcklin Portraits: 'Isle of the Dead' SUN 00:57 SUN Juan Cabanilles SUN Batalla Imperial SUN 01:04 SUN Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart SUN Don Giovanni: De, vieni alla finestra SUN 01:07 SUN Giuseppe Verdi & Franz Liszt SUN Il Trovatore: Miserere SUN 01:15 SUN Richard Wagner SUN Tristan und Isolde: Love Music from Acts II and III SUN 01:42 SUN Leopold Godowsky & Johann Strauss (ii) SUN Die Fledermaus SUN 01:52 SUN Franz Waxman SUN Carmen Fantasy SUN 02:01 SUN Giuseppe Verdi SUN Rigoletto - Parmi veder le lagrime (Act III) SUN 02:07 SUN Johann Sebastian Bach & Prof. Hugo Thomas SUN Chaconne (D minor Partita) SUN 02:21 SUN Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky SUN Swan Lake - Waltz SUN 02:28 SUN Giovanni Gabrieli SUN Sonata pian' e forte SUN 02:34 SUN Hugo Alfvén SUN Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 SUN 02:53 SUN Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart SUN Thamos, King of Egypt - Maestoso - allegro SUN Sergey Vasilievich Rachmaninov SUN Dances from Aleko: Men’s Dance SUN Royal Liverpool P O + Vasily Petrenko (conductor) SUN EMI SUN 9 15473 2 SUN Peter Kiesewetter SUN Tango pathétique SUN Martha Argerich (piano), Gidon Kremer (violin), Mischa SUN Maisky (cello) SUN DG SUN 459 326-2 SUN Jaromír Weinberger SUN Schwanda the Bagpiper – Polka and Fugue SUN Royal P O + Rudolf Kempe (conductor) SUN Testament SUN SBT12 1281 SUN Johann Sebastian Bach SUN Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! SUN Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, Barbara SUN Schlick, Kai Wessel, Christoph Prégardien, Klaus Mertens SUN Challenge Classics SUN CC72202 SUN Ludwig van Beethoven SUN Rondo a capriccio in G Op. 129, ‘Rage Over a Lost Penny’ SUN Alexis Weissenberg (piano) SUN EMI SUN 7 69336 2 SUN Max Reger SUN Böcklin Portraits: ‘The Isle of the Dead’ SUN North German RSO + Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (conductor) SUN Acanta SUN 233594 SUN Juan Cabanilles SUN Batalla Imperial SUN Jonathan Woods (harpsichord) SUN Allegro SUN PCD 1086 SUN Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart SUN Don Giovanni: De, vieni alla finestra SUN Arranger: Anon (1792-1809) SUN Wolfgang Schulz (flute), Hansjörg Schelleberger (oboe) SUN DG SUN 423 611-2 SUN Giuseppe Verdi & Franz Liszt SUN Il Trovatore: Miserere SUN Aldo Ciccolini (piano) SUN EMI SUN CDS 7 54142 2 SUN Richard Wagner SUN Tristan und Isolde: Love Music from Acts II and III SUN Arranger: Leopold Stokowski SUN Philadelphia Orchestra + Leopold Stokowski (conductor) SUN Sony SUN 88691971152 SUN Sergio Fiorentino (piano) SUN Die Fledermaus SUN Johann Strauss II & Leopold Godowsky SUN APR SUN APR 7036 SUN Franz Waxman SUN Carmen Fantasy SUN Isaac Stern (violin), studio orchestra + Franz Waxman SUN (conductor) SUN Sony SUN SM2K 64 501 SUN Giuseppe Verdi SUN Rigoletto - Parmi veder le lagrime (Act III) SUN Placido Domingo (tenor), New Philharmonia Orchestra + SUN Sherrill Milnes (conductor) SUN RCA SUN 88691975792 SUN Johann Sebastian Bach SUN Chaconne (D minor Partita) SUN Gordon Nikolitch (violin), Tenebrae SUN LSO Live SUN LSO 0728 SUN Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky SUN Swan Lake: Waltz SUN Berlin PO + Herbert Von Karajan (conductor) SUN Deutsche Grammophon SUN 419 175-2 SUN Giovanni Gabrieli SUN Sonata pian’ e forte SUN Philip Jones Brass Ensemble SUN Decca Eloquence SUN 480 6556 SUN Hugo Alfvén SUN Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 SUN Philadelphia Orchestra + Eugene Ormandy (conductor) SUN RCA SUN 88725417202 SUN Stef Conner SUN This Endris Night SUN Cadenza + Jenny Summerling (conductor) SUN Bright Star SUN CACD03 SUN Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart SUN Thamos, King of Egypt - Maestoso - allegro SUN Geneva Chamber Orchestra + David Greilsammer (conductor) SUN Sony SUN 88725430252 SUN SUN MON MONDAY 24 DECEMBER 2012 MON MON 06:30 Breakfast b01pcr98 (Listen) MON Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. MON As December progresses, plenty of festival music and MON surprises. MON MON From 15th December, the BBC Singers will be specially MON recording carols - some of them requested by our listeners. MON MON There's the Breakfast Advent Calendar - opening a door every MON day to reveal winter music and readings chosen by listeners MON and presenters. MON MON Closer to Christmas, listeners will have the chance to send MON a Breakfast Christmas Card by requesting a piece of music MON and dedicating it to a friend. MON MON And in Your Call where we hear from our audience about their MON favourite pieces of music, there's the chance to introduce a MON favourite piece of music to the rest of the UK. In the run MON up to Christmas we'll be hearing about music that reminds MON listeners of the festive season. MON MON Music Played MON 00:01 MON Johnny Pacheco MON Moita Festa MON The London Chamber Orchestra MON Christopher Warren-Green MON Sony 88697988872 MON 00:04 MON Bernhard Crusell MON Divertimento in C major, op 9 MON Sarah Francis (oboe) MON Allegri String Quartet MON Helios CDH 55015 MON 00:15 MON Claude Debussy MON From Children’s Corner MON Serenade for the Doll; The Snow is Dancing MON Noriko Ogawa (piano) MON BIS CD 1955/56 MON 00:21 MON Philip Lane MON Wassail Dances: Somerset Wassail; Yorkshire Wassail; MON Gloucestershire Wassail MON City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra MON Gavin Sutherland MON Naxos 8.557099 MON 00:33 MON Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov MON Mlada - suite from the opera-ballet [1889-90], Procession of MON the nobles MON Boston Pops Orchestra MON John Williams MON Philips 426 247-2 MON 00:38 MON Anna Baadsvik MON Fantasia on “My Heart Forever Roams” MON Oystein Baadsvik (tuba) MON Brass of Trondheim Symphony Orchestra MON BIS CD 1885 MON 00:41 MON Victor Herbert MON March of the Toys (Babes in Toyland) MON Royal Scottish National Orchestra MON Christopher Bell MON SIGCD202 MON 00:46 MON Johann Strauss II MON Soiree de Vienne (arranged Alfred Grunfeld) MON Rudolf Buchbinder (piano) MON Elatus 2564 60814 2 MON 00:52 MON [traditional] MON Stille Nacht (arranged Jonathan Rathbome) MON BBC Singers MON Paul Brough MON BBC Singers recorded in Maida Vale Studio 1 MON 01:01 MON Joseph Haydn MON Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (H.7e.1) in E flat major, MON third movement; Finale MON Haken Hardenberger (trumpet) MON Academy of St Martin in the Fields MON Neville Marriner MON Philips 420 203-2 MON 01:08 MON Victor Hely-Hutchinson MON Carol Symphony: Third Movement – Coventry Carol and First MON Nowell MON Pro Arte Orchestra MON Barry Rose MON EMI CDM 7 64131 2 MON 01:19 MON [traditional] MON The Twelve Days of Christmas (arranged Andrew Carter) MON Tenebrae MON Nigel Short MON SIGCD 182 MON 01:22 MON [anonymous] MON Greensleeves to a Ground MON Daniel Hope (violin) MON DG 477 8094 MON 01:27 MON Francis Poulenc MON Improvisation no 8 in A minor MON Stephen Hough (piano) MON Hyperion CDA 67890 MON 01:33 MON Johann Sebastian Bach MON Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben, from Christmas MON Oratorio BWV 248 MON Onyx Brass MON Resonus RES10105 MON 01:38 MON Cecil Broadhurst MON The Cowboy Carol (arranged Malcolm Sargent) MON BBC Singers MON Paul Brough MON BBC Singers recorded in Maida Vale Studio 1 MON 01:42 MON Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev MON Winter bonfire for orchestra (Op.122), third movement; Waltz MON on the ice... MON New London Orchestra MON Ronald Corp MON Hyperion CDA 66499 MON 01:47 MON Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov MON Sheherazade - symphonic suite (Op.35), The Sea and Sinbad's MON ship MON London Symphony Orchestra MON Sir Charles Mackerras MON Telarc CD 80208 MON 02:01 MON Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky MON Danse Russe, Swan Lake (arranged Tsiganov) MON Alexander Markov (violin) MON Alexander Markovich (piano) MON Apex 2564 67865 7 MON 02:06 MON John Du Prez MON Adoramus Dominum MON Members of New London Consort MON Philip Pickett MON Decca 425 209-2 MON 02:10 MON Johann Sebastian Bach MON Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme - chorale-prelude for organ MON (BWV.645) ... MON Simon Preston (organ of Westminster Abbey) MON Decca 430 091-2 MON 02:17 MON John Gardner MON Tomorrow shall be my dancing day MON BBC Singers MON Gavin Roberts (organ) MON Paul Brough MON BBC Singers recorded in Maida Vale Studio 1 MON 02:19 MON Franz Lehár MON Gold and silver - waltz (Op.79) MON Vienna Philharmonic MON John Eliot Gardiner MON DG 4631852 MON MON 09:00 Essential Classics b01pcr9b (Listen) MON with Sarah Walker and her guest, comedian and impressionist MON Alistair McGowan. MON MON 9am MON A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the MON Week: Grieg Choral Music - The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, MON BIS-SACD-1661 MON MON 9.30-10.30am MON A Christmas feature with the daily brainteaser set by one of MON our listeners, and performances by the Artists of the Week, MON Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert. MON MON 10.30am MON Sarah's guest this Christmas week is the comedian and MON impressionist Alistair McGowan. Alistair's most recent show MON is You Cannot Be Serious! on ITV, and he is perhaps best MON known for the BBC1 top-rating comedy programme The Big MON Impression, which won numerous awards, including a BAFTA. He MON provided the voices for many of the characters in the MON political puppet comedy Spitting Image, and has been a MON regular on Radio 4 comedy shows including Weekending and The MON Harpoon, as well as The Game's Up on Radio Five Live. MON MON In 2010, his first play, Timing, received a nomination for MON Best New Comedy in the whatsonstage.com awards. As an actor MON Alistair has played the title role in the quirky detective MON show Mayo (co-writing several later episodes), Mr Kenge in MON Bleak House and Spock in Tim Firth's award-winning Preston MON Front. He has hosted Have I Got News For You?, was one of MON the grumpy old men in Grumpy Guides, and has appeared on Who MON Do You Think You Are? He is co-author of A Matter of Life MON and Death: How To Wean A Man Off Football. MON MON 11am MON MON Rossini: La Cenerentola MON The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's MON CD Review. MON MON Music Played MON MON Anon. MON My Lady Wynkfylds Rownde MON Trevor Pinnock (Queen Elizabeth’s Virginals) MON CRD 3307 MON MON Edvard Grieg MON Ved Rondane (At Rondane) MON The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Grete Pedersen (conductor) MON BIS SACD 1661 MON MON Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov MON Overture and Intermezzo (The Tsar’s Bride) MON Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Igor Golovschin (conductor) MON NAXOS 8553789 MON MON Granados MON Los requiebros (Goyescas – Los majos enamorados Part 1) MON Alicia de Larrocha (piano) MON DECCA 448193 2 MON MON Agustín Barrios Mangoré MON Choro da Saudade MON Richard Durrant (guitar) MON LONGMAN 030CD MON MON Today's Brainteaser: Mystery Piece - Births, Marriages, MON Deaths MON Answer: Beethoven, 4th movement of Cantata on the Death of MON Joseph II WoO87) MON Charlotte Margiono (soprano) Choir & Orchestra of the MON Deutsche Oper Berlin, Christian Thielemann (conductor) MON MON Boyce MON Symphony No. 4 in F MON The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord/director) MON ARCHIV 419 631 2 MON MON Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart MON Horn Quintet in E flat, K.407 MON Timothy Brown (horn), Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields MON Chamber Ensemble (1st violin Iona Brown) MON PHILIPS 422 833 2 MON MON Easedale MON Suite from 'Kew Gardens' MON BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Rumon Gamba (conductor) MON CHANDOS CHAN 10636 MON MON Johann Sebastian Bach MON Concerto for harpsichord and 2 recorders, BWV 1057 (adapted MON from Brandenburg Concerto No. 4) MON Philip Pickett & Rachel Beckett (recorders), The English MON Concert, Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord/director) MON ARCHIV 415 992 2 MON MON Zdenek Fibich MON Poème, Op. 41 No. 6 MON Balázs Szokolay (piano) MON NAXOS 8550646 MON MON Edvard Grieg MON In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt Suite No. 1) MON Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan MON (conductor) MON DG 410 026 2 MON MON Field MON Nocturne No. 2 in C minor H25 MON Paolo Restani (piano) MON BRILLIANT CLASSICS 93783 MON MON Offenbach arr Rosenthal MON Allegro brillante, Allegro-Valse, Mazurka, Valse & Peruvian MON Dance MON New Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Munch (conductor) MON DECCA 421 173 2 MON MON Gioachino Rossini MON La Cenerentola (excerpts): Sextet “Siete voi!”; Chorus MON "Della Fortuna instabile!" MON Joyce DiDonato (Cenerentola), Prague Chamber Choir, SWR MON Radio Orchestra Kaiserslautern, Albert Zedda (conductor) MON MON Edvard Grieg MON Piano Concerto in A minor MON Earl Wild (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, René MON Leibowitz (conductor) MON CHESKY CD50A MON MON Today's Brainteaser Answer MON Mystery Piece: the music was a cantata by Beethoven, MON commemorating the Austrian emperor Jospeph II. MON MON The music played: MON MON Beethoven MON ‘Da stiegen die Menschen an’s Licht’ (4th movement of MON Cantata on the Death of Joseph II, WoO 87) MON Charlotte Margiono (soprano) MON Choir and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin MON Christian Thielemann (conductor) MON DG 453 798 2 MON MON TUE TUESDAY 25 DECEMBER 2012 TUE TUE 06:30 Breakfast b01pcs49 (Listen) TUE Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. TUE As December progresses, plenty of festival music and TUE surprises. TUE TUE From 15th December, the BBC Singers will be specially TUE recording carols - some of them requested by our listeners. TUE TUE There's the Breakfast Advent Calendar - opening a door every TUE day to reveal winter music and readings chosen by listeners TUE and presenters. TUE TUE Listeners will have the chance to send a Breakfast Christmas TUE Card by requesting a piece of music and dedicating it to a TUE friend. TUE TUE And in Your Call where we hear from our audience about their TUE favourite pieces of music, there's the chance to introduce a TUE favourite piece of music to the rest of the UK. TUE TUE Music Played TUE 00:00 TUE [traditional] TUE Ding Dong Merrily on High - XVI Century French (arranged TUE Mack Wilberg) TUE Ben-San Lau (organ) TUE Choir of King's College, Cambridge TUE Stephen Cleobury (conductor) TUE KING'S COLLEGE KGS0001 TUE 00:03 TUE Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky TUE March and Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker TUE (arranged Pletnev) TUE Simon Trpceski (piano) TUE EMI 575202-2 TUE 00:08 TUE Peter Warlock TUE Bethlehem Down TUE BBC Singers TUE Paul Brough (conductor) TUE BBC Singers recorded at Maida Vale Studio 1 TUE 00:12 TUE Leroy Anderson TUE Sleigh Ride TUE Emory Symphonic Winds TUE Scott A. Stewart (conductor) TUE NAXOS 8.573002 TUE 00:16 TUE Dietrich Buxtehude TUE Alleluia from Cantata BuxWV 15 TUE Accentus TUE Concerto Koln TUE Laurence Equilbey (conductor) TUE NAÏVE V 5216 TUE 00:20 TUE John Fox TUE Carol Fantasia TUE RTE Concert Orchestra TUE Gavin Sutherland (conductor) TUE NAXOS 8.572744 TUE 00:27 TUE Richard Rodney Bennett TUE There is no Rose TUE Polyphony TUE Stephen Layton (conductor) TUE HYPERION CDA 66925 TUE 00:33 TUE [traditional] TUE The Holy and the Ivy (arranged A Pitts) TUE Tonus Peregrinus TUE Anthony Pitts (conductor) TUE NAXOS 8.557330 TUE 00:36 TUE Arnold Schoenberg TUE Weihnactsmusik TUE Taverner Players TUE VIRGIN 50999 503680-2 TUE 00:42 TUE George Frideric Handel TUE For Unto Us A Child Is Born from Messiah TUE Dunedin Consort and Players TUE John Butt (conductor) TUE LINN CKD 285 TUE 00:47 TUE [traditional] TUE Joy to the World (arranged Frank Denson) TUE Empire Brass TUE EMI CDC 7490972 TUE 00:50 TUE Paul Trepte TUE I Saw three Ships TUE BBC Singers TUE Gavin Roberts [organ] TUE Paul Brough [conductor] TUE BBC Singers recorded at Maida Vale Studio 1 TUE 00:52 TUE Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky TUE Waltz of the Flowers from Nutcracker TUE Vienna Philharmonic TUE James Levine (conductor) TUE DG 4378062 TUE 01:03 TUE Gustav Holst TUE Christmas Day TUE Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral TUE Royal Philharmonic Orchestra TUE John Scott (conductor) TUE RPO CDRP07021 TUE 01:10 TUE Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev TUE Troika from Lieutenant Kije Suite op.60 TUE Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra TUE Andrew Previn (conductor) TUE TELARC CD80143 TUE 01:14 TUE Johann Sebastian Bach TUE In Dulci Jubilo BWV.751 (arranged Kempff) TUE Wilhelm Kempff (piano) TUE DG 439 108-2 TUE 01:16 TUE Peter Cornelius TUE Die Hirten; Christkind TUE Robin Tritschler (tenor) TUE James Baillieu (piano) TUE BBC Recording for New Generation Artists TUE 01:21 TUE Victor Hely-Hutchinson TUE Adeste Fideles, first movement from Carol Symphony TUE City of Prague Symphony TUE Gavin Sutherland TUE NAXOS 8.557099 TUE 01:26 TUE [traditional] TUE I Wonder as I Wander (arranged Jim Clements) TUE Voces 8 TUE SIGNUM CD 291 TUE 01:33 TUE John Rutter TUE Shepherd's Pipe Carol TUE Clare College Singers and Orchestra TUE John Rutter (conductor) TUE EMI 946947-2 TUE 01:37 TUE Émile Waldteufel TUE Les Patineurs [The skaters] - waltz (Op.183) TUE Academy of St. Martin in the Fields TUE Neville Marriner (conductor) TUE Philips 422 050-2 TUE 01:52 TUE Andrew Carter TUE The Magi TUE The Choir of York Minster TUE Robert Sharpe (director) TUE RGENT REGCD 368 TUE 01:56 TUE Francesco Onofrio Manfredini TUE Pastorale from Concerto grosso per il Santissimo Natale in C TUE op.3 no.12 TUE CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra TUE Hartmut Haenchen (conductor) TUE SONY S2K 53266 TUE 01:56 TUE Francisco de Vidales TUE Los que fueren de buen gusto TUE The Taverner Choir and Players TUE Andrew Parrott (conductor) TUE EMI CDC 754829-2 TUE 02:02 TUE Leopold Mozart TUE Classic Sleighride TUE BBC Concert Orchestra TUE Barry Wordsworth (conductor) TUE NAXOS 8.570331 TUE 02:06 TUE Benjamin Britten TUE Wolcum Yole! And There is no rose TUE Sally Pryce (harp) TUE The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge TUE Stephen Layton (conductor) TUE HYPERION CDA 67946 TUE 02:10 TUE [traditional] TUE The First Nowell (arranged Stephen McNeff) TUE Canadian Brass TUE PHILIPS 4268352 TUE 02:14 TUE ?????? ????????? ????????? TUE Carol of the Bells TUE Chantage TUE James Davey [conductor] TUE EMI 50999 2 35796 2 0 TUE 02:17 TUE [traditional] TUE Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer TUE Organ of the Mortier Dance Hall, Netherlands TUE Radio Netherlands recording through EBU TUE 02:20 TUE Malcolm Arnold TUE Fantasy on Christmas Carols from 'The Holly and the Ivy' TUE BBC Philharmonic Orchestra TUE Rumon Gamba (conductor) TUE CHANDOS 9851 TUE TUE 09:00 Essential Classics b01pcs6y (Listen) TUE with Sarah Walker and her guest, comedian and impressionist TUE Alistair McGowan. TUE TUE 9am TUE A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the TUE Week: Grieg Choral Music - The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, TUE BIS-SACD-1661 TUE TUE 9.30-10.30am TUE A Christmas feature where listeners to Essential Classics TUE set the daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artists TUE of the Week, Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert. TUE TUE 10.30am TUE Sarah's guest this Christmas week is the comedian and TUE impressionist Alistair McGowan. Alistair's most recent show TUE is You Cannot Be Serious! on ITV, and he is perhaps best TUE known for the BBC1 top-rating comedy programme The Big TUE Impression, which won numerous awards, including a BAFTA. He TUE provided the voices for many of the characters in the TUE political puppet comedy Spitting Image, and has been a TUE regular on Radio 4 comedy shows including Weekending and The TUE Harpoon, as well as The Game's Up on Radio Five Live. TUE TUE In 2010, his first play, Timing, received a nomination for TUE Best New Comedy in the whatsonstage.com awards. As an actor TUE Alistair has played the title role in the quirky detective TUE show Mayo (co-writing several later episodes), Mr Kenge in TUE Bleak House and Spock in Tim Firth's award-winning Preston TUE Front. He has hosted Have I Got News For You?, was one of TUE the grumpy old men in Grumpy Guides, and has appeared on Who TUE Do You Think You Are? He is co-author of A Matter of Life TUE and Death: How To Wean A Man Off Football. TUE TUE 11am TUE Sarah's Essential Choice TUE TUE Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite TUE Montreal Symphony Orchestra TUE Charles Dutoit (conductor) TUE DECCA 444 322-2. TUE TUE Music Played TUE TUE Georges Bizet TUE Galop from Jeux d’enfants TUE Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor) TUE PHILIPS 416 437 2 TUE TUE Joseph Haydn TUE Piano Trio in A Hob. XV No. 35 TUE Beaux Arts Trio TUE PHILIPS 432 064 2 TUE TUE Edvard Grieg TUE Jesus Kristus er opfaren (Jesus Christ Our Lord is Risen), 4 TUE Psalms Op. 74 No. 3 TUE Soloist: Bård Bratlie, The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Grete TUE Pedersen (conductor) TUE BIS SACD 1661 TUE TUE Louis Moreau Gottschalk TUE Le Banjo – fantaisie grotesque Op. 15 TUE Cecile Licad (piano) TUE NAXOS 8559145 TUE TUE Today's Brainteaser TUE Who am I? TUE The answer is 'Wenceslas' TUE TUE Johann Friedrich Fasch TUE Concerto in C minor for bassoon, 2 oboes and strings L:c2 TUE Alberto Grazzi (bassoon), Paul Goodwin & Lorraine Wood TUE (oboes), The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock TUE (harpsichord/director) TUE ARCHIV 449 210 2 TUE TUE Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart TUE Overture: Marriage of Figaro TUE Dresden Staatskapelle, Colin Davis (conductor) TUE RCA 56698 TUE TUE Sir Edward Elgar TUE Sospiri, Op. 70 TUE London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox (conductor) TUE CHANDOS CHAN 8789 TUE TUE Anon TUE Tempus Adest Florium (Spring Carol) TUE Female voices of Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerley TUE (conductor) TUE NAXOS 8553578 TUE TUE Franz Schubert TUE Moment musical in A flat, D.780 No. 6 TUE Maria João Pires (piano) TUE PHILIPS 456 928 2 TUE TUE Percy Grainger TUE Colonial Song TUE Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, Timothy TUE Reynish (conductor) TUE CHANDOS CHAN 10638 TUE TUE George Frideric Handel TUE Messiah: Part I (conclusion) TUE Arleen Auger (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (alto), The TUE English Concert Choir, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock TUE (harpsichord/director) TUE ARCHIV 423 631 2 TUE TUE Erik Satie TUE Gnossienne No. 4 TUE Roland Pöntinen (piano) TUE BIS CD 317 TUE TUE Maurice Ravel TUE Pavane pour une infante défunte TUE Pascal Roge (piano) TUE DECCA 440 836-2 TUE TUE Sullivan TUE “When you’re lying awake…” (Nightmare song from Iolanthe) TUE Steven Page (baritone), Czech Symphony Orchestra, John TUE Landor (conductor) TUE IMP CLASSICS 1067 TUE TUE Jean-Philippe Rameau TUE La Triomphante TUE John Kitchen (harpsichord) TUE DELPHIAN DCD 34112 TUE TUE Eller TUE Cantando espressivo (from Five Pieces) TUE Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor) TUE CHANDOS CHAN 241-44 TUE TUE Zoltán Kodály TUE Hary Janos Suite TUE Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor) TUE DECCA 444 322 2 TUE TUE Johann Nepomuk Hummel TUE Septet Op. 74 TUE Nash Ensemble TUE CRD 3344 TUE TUE Today's Brainteaser Answer TUE Who am I? Answer: Wenceslas the 1st, duke of Bohemia and TUE subject of the well-loved Christmas carol, Good King TUE Wencelas. He was assassinated in the year 935, and after his TUE martyrdom he developed a reputation for heroic goodness, and TUE was seen as the patron saint of the Czech state. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 26 DECEMBER 2012 WED WED 06:30 Breakfast b01pcs4c (Listen) WED Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. WED As December progresses, plenty of festival music and WED surprises. WED WED From 15th December, the BBC Singers will be specially WED recording carols - some of them requested by our listeners. WED WED Listeners will have the chance to send a Breakfast Christmas WED Card by requesting a piece of music and dedicating it to a WED friend. WED WED And in Your Call where we hear from our audience about their WED favourite pieces of music, there's the chance to introduce a WED favourite piece of music to the rest of the UK. WED WED Music Played WED 00:00 WED Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev WED Cinderella’s Waltz: Suite from Cinderella (arranged Pletnev) WED Ufuk & Bahar Dorduncu (pianos) WED HAT HUT HATNOWART77 WED 00:08 WED Richard Rodney Bennett WED Farewell to Gormenghast WED BBC Philharmonic WED Conductor John Harle WED Sony Classical SK 89135 WED 00:11 WED Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart WED Concerto in C for flute & harp, K299 (second movement: WED Andantino) WED William Bennett (flute) WED Claire Jones (harp) WED English Chamber Orchestra WED Conductor Paul Watkins WED Signum SIGCD216 WED 00:19 WED Marc-Antoine Charpentier WED Messe de Minuit pour Noel – Noel: Laissez paitre vos betes; WED Sanctus & Benedictus; Agnus Dei WED Arcadia Ensemble WED Director Kevin Mallon WED Naxos 8.557229 WED 00:26 WED Georges Bizet WED L' Arlesienne - suite no. 2 [compiled by Ernest Guiraud], WED Farandole WED Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra WED Conductor Claudio Abbado WED DG 471 627-2 WED 00:34 WED Vladimir Horowitz WED Variations on a theme from Bizet’s Carmen WED Cameron Carpenter (organ) WED TELARC CD80711 WED 00:39 WED Leroy Anderson WED Suite of Carols for String Orchestra WED BBC Concert Orchestra WED Conductor Leonard Slatkin WED Naxos 8559356 WED 00:52 WED Franz Schubert WED Impromptu in G flat, D899 No 3 WED Imogen Cooper (piano) WED AVIE AV2158 WED 01:00 WED Gillian Whitehead WED Rocking WED BBC Singers WED Gavin Roberts (organ) WED Conductor Paul Brough WED BBC Singers recorded in Maida Vale Studio 1 WED 01:03 WED Adolphe Adam WED O helga Natt WED Jussi Bjorling (tenor) WED The Royal Orchestra WED Conductor Nils Grevillius WED Swedish Society SCD 1100 WED 01:10 WED Arcangelo Corelli WED Concerto grosso in G minor, Op 6 No 8 “Christmas Concerto” WED Cantilena WED Director Adrian Shepherd WED CHAN 6630 WED 01:26 WED Richard Rodney Bennett WED Seven Swans A-Swimming (Partridge Pie) WED Richard Rodney Bennett (piano) WED Delos DE 6002 WED 01:34 WED Zoltán Kodály WED Hary Janos - suite (Op.35a) [1927], Entrance of the Emperor WED and his court WED Budapest Festival Orchestra WED Conductor Ivan Fischer WED Philips 462 824 2 WED 01:37 WED Frédéric Chopin WED Scherzo No 4 in E, Op 54 WED Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) WED Decca 4783206 WED 01:48 WED Gordon Langford WED A Christmas Fantasy - medley of Christmas carols (arranged WED for chorus & orchestra) WED Sellers Engineering Band WED Huddersfield Choral Society WED Conductor Brian Kay WED CHAN 4530 WED 01:57 WED George Gershwin WED 3 Preludes WED Michael Collins (clarinet) WED Piers Lane (piano) WED CHAN 10615 WED 02:05 WED Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky WED Eugene Onegin - lyric scenes in 3 acts (Op.24), Waltz WED New York Philharmonic WED Conductor Kurt Masur WED Teldec 4509 94571-2 WED 02:12 WED Harold Arlen WED Come Rain or Come Shine WED Richard Rodney Bennett (piano & vocals) WED Black Box BBJ2018 WED 02:18 WED Johann Sebastian Bach WED Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV.248), Pt.1, no.1; Jauchzet, WED frohlocket! [chorus] WED Monteverdi Choir WED English Baroque Soloists WED Conductor John Eliot Gardiner WED Archiv 469 769 2 WED 02:26 WED George Gershwin WED Embraceable You WED John Wilson & His Orchestra WED Conductor John Wilson WED Vocalion CDSA6803 WED WED 09:00 Essential Classics b01pcs72 (Listen) WED with Sarah Walker and her guest, comedian and impressionist WED Alistair McGowan. WED WED 9am WED A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the WED Week: Grieg Choral Music - The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, WED BIS-SACD-1661 WED WED 9.30-10.30am WED A Christmas feature where our listeners set the daily WED brainteaser, and performances by the Artists of the Week, WED Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert. WED WED 10.30am WED Sarah's guest this Christmas week is the comedian and WED impressionist Alistair McGowan. Alistair's most recent show WED is You Cannot Be Serious! on ITV, and he is perhaps best WED known for the BBC1 top-rating comedy programme The Big WED Impression, which won numerous awards, including a BAFTA. He WED provided the voices for many of the characters in the WED political puppet comedy Spitting Image, and has been a WED regular on Radio 4 comedy shows including Weekending and The WED Harpoon, as well as The Game's Up on Radio Five Live. WED WED In 2010, his first play, Timing, received a nomination for WED Best New Comedy in the whatsonstage.com awards. As an actor WED Alistair has played the title role in the quirky detective WED show Mayo (co-writing several later episodes), Mr Kenge in WED Bleak House and Spock in Tim Firth's award-winning Preston WED Front. He has hosted Have I Got News For You?, was one of WED the grumpy old men in Grumpy Guides, and has appeared on Who WED Do You Think You Are? He is co-author of A Matter of Life WED and Death: How To Wean A Man Off Football. WED WED 11am WED Sarah's Essential Choice WED WED Dvorak: Serenade for Strings WED Academy of St-Martin-in-the-Fields WED Neville Marriner (conductor) WED DECCA 470 262-2. WED WED Music Played WED WED Marc-Antoine Charpentier WED Ou s’en vont ces gais bergers? (from Noels sur les WED instruments H 534) WED The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (director) WED ARCHIV 435 202 2 WED WED Edvard Grieg WED Kveldssang for Blakken (Goodnight Song for Dobbin), Op. 61 WED No. 5 WED The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Grete Pedersen (conductor) WED BIS SACD 1661 WED WED Grieg arr. Pedersen WED I Foketone (In the Folk Style) from Op. 71 No. 1 (Once upon WED a time) WED The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Grete Pedersen (conductor) WED BIS SACD 1661 WED WED Gioachino Rossini WED Overture: William Tell WED Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Guilini (conductor) WED EMI CDM 7690422 WED WED Carl Nielsen WED Fantasy Pieces, Op. 2 WED Albrecht Mayer (oboe), Marius Becker (piano) WED EMI 573167 2 WED WED Johann Sebastian Bach WED Allegro (3rd mvmt) of Organ Sonata in E flat major, BWV 525 WED Ton Koopman (Schnitger organ of St Jacobi Kirche in Hamburg) WED TELDEC 4509944602 WED WED Today's Brainteaser WED Famous First Chords - Answers: Saint-Saens, finale of WED 'Organ' Symphony no 3; Grieg, Piano Concerto; Kodaly, Hary WED Janos WED WED Johann Melchior Molter WED Concerto pastorale in G WED The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (director) WED ARCHIV 435 262 2 WED WED Maurice Ravel WED Menuet antique WED London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor) WED DG 423 665 2 WED WED Roussel WED Divertissement, Op. 6 WED Catherine Cantin (flute), Maurice Bourgue (oboe), Michel WED Portal (clarinet), Amaury Wallez (bassoon), André Casalet WED (horn), Pascal Rogé (piano) WED DECCA 425 861 2 WED WED Sir Edward Elgar WED Salut d'amore op 12 WED Kyung Wha Chung (violin), Philip Moll (piano) WED DECCA 433 220 2 WED WED Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart WED Symphony No. 25, K.183 WED The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord/director) WED ARCHIV 439 915 2 WED WED Frédéric Chopin WED Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1 WED Daniel Barenboim (piano) WED DG 471 743 2 WED WED R Strauss arr. Arnolde Wilke WED Morgen Op. 27 No. 4 WED Charlotte Page (soprano), The London Salon Ensemble WED MERIDIAN CDE 84416 WED WED Byrd WED The leaves be green WED The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble WED DEUX-ELLES DXL 1118 WED WED Antonin Dvorak WED Serenade for strings WED Academy of Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner WED (conductor) WED DECCA 470 2622 WED WED George Gershwin WED I'll build a stairway to paradise; Fascinating rhythm WED (George Gershwin Songbook for Piano) WED Richard Rodney Bennett (piano) WED CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE 3 52346 2 WED WED Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka WED Trio Pathetique in D minor WED Harmoniemusik WED HM007/002 WED WED Hector Berlioz WED Roman Carnival Overture WED Dresden Staatskapelle, Colin Davis (conductor) WED RCA 09026 687902 WED WED Today's Brainteaser Answer WED First Chords. The chords came from the following pieces: WED WED Saint-Saens WED Start of finale of 'Organ' Symphony (No. 3) WED Edward Power Biggs (organ) WED Philadelphia Orchestra WED Eugene Ormandy (conductor) WED SONY CLASSICAL SBK47655 WED WED Grieg WED Start of 1st mvmt of Piano Concerto WED Earl Wild (piano) WED Royal Philharmonic Orchestra WED René Leibowitz (conductor) WED CHESKY CD50A WED WED Kodaly WED Opening of Hary Janos Suite WED Montreal Symphony Orchestra WED Charles Dutoit (conductor) WED DECCA 444 322 2 WED WED THU THURSDAY 27 DECEMBER 2012 THU THU 06:30 Breakfast b01pcs4f (Listen) THU Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. THU As December progresses, plenty of festival music and THU surprises. THU THU From 15th December, the BBC Singers will be specially THU recording carols - some of them requested by our listeners. THU THU Listeners will have the chance to send a Breakfast Christmas THU Card by requesting a piece of music and dedicating it to a THU friend. THU THU And in Your Call where we hear from our audience about their THU favourite pieces of music, there's the chance to introduce a THU favourite piece of music to the rest of the UK. THU THU Music Played THU 00:01 THU Sir David Willcocks THU Christmas Fanfare THU Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Military School Kneeler Hall THU Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble THU John Scott (organ) THU Sir David Willcocks (conductor) THU CHANDOS CHAN 7110 THU 00:02 THU Ottorino Respighi THU Trittico Botticelliano no.2; L' Adorazione dei Magi THU Orpheus Chamber Orchestra THU DG 437 5223 THU 00:11 THU Antonin Dvorak THU Humoresque Op.101 No.7 poco lento e grazioso THU Radoslav Kvapil (piano) THU SUPRAPHON SU 3399-2 1111 THU 00:14 THU Antonio Vivaldi THU Double Concerto for Two Violins and String in A Minor RV523 THU Viktoria Mullova, Giuliano Carmignola (violin) THU Venice Baroque Orchestra THU Andrea Marcon (director) THU ARCHIV 477 7466 THU 00:24 THU Kenneth Leighton THU The Star Song – No.1 of Three Carols Op.25 THU Libby Crabtree (soprano) THU Polyphony THU Stephen Layton (conductor) THU HYPERION CDA66925 THU 00:33 THU Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart THU The Magic Flute – Overture THU Mahler Chamber Orchestra THU Claudio Abbado (conductor) THU DG 477 5789 THU 00:40 THU Ferruccio Busoni THU Nuit de Noel THU Geoffrey Douglas Madge (piano) THU PHILIPS 420 7402 THU 00:46 THU Joseph Haydn THU String Quartet in E flat Major, Op.71 No.3 - Vivace THU Takacs Quartet THU HYPERION CDA67793 THU 00:50 THU Pieter Hellendaal THU Pastorale from Concerto in E Flat Op.3/4 THU The Parley Of Instruments THU Peter Holman (conductor) THU HYPERION CDA66924 THU 00:54 THU Jerome Kern THU Showboat – Dance away the Night THU Frederica von Stade (Kim) THU Ambrosian Chorus THU London Sinfonietta THU John McGlinn (conductor) THU EMI CDS 7491082 THU 01:01 THU Johann Sebastian Bach THU Sinfonia to Cantata BWV 29 ‘Wir danken dir, Gott’ THU Accademia Bizantina THU Ottavio Dantone (director) THU DECCA 4782718 THU 01:08 THU Walter Leigh THU Concertino for Harpsichord and String Orchestra THU Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) THU London Philharmonic Orchestra THU Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor) THU LYRITA SRCD 289 THU 01:17 THU Richard Rodney Bennett THU That Younge Child THU Polyphony THU Stephen Layton (conductor) THU HYPERION CDA 66925 THU 01:21 THU Franz Schubert THU Quintet for piano... (D.667) in A major "Trout", fourth THU movement; Thema (Andantino) THU Yefim Bronfman (piano) THU Pinchas Zukerman (violin) THU Jethro Marks (viola) THU Amanda Forsyth (cello) THU Joel Quarrington (double bass) THU RCA 88697 160442 THU 01:33 THU Johannes Brahms THU 21 Hungarian Dances – No.2 in D Minor (orchestrated Ivan THU Fischer) THU Budapest Festival Orchestra THU Ivan Fischer (conductor) THU DECCA 478 4028 THU 01:38 THU Arthur Oldham THU Remember O thou Man THU Westminster Abbey Choir THU Simon Preston (conductor) THU DG 413 5902 THU 01:45 THU Jean-Philippe Rameau THU Les Indes Galantes - Suite THU Le Concert des Nations THU Jordi Savall (director) THU ALIA VOX AVSA9877 THU 01:55 THU Alberto Ginastera THU Dances from the Ballet ‘Estancia’ (‘Ranch’) THU Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela THU Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) THU DG 477 8337 THU 02:01 THU Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev THU Ten Pieces Op.12 – Prelude THU Boris Berman (piano) THU CHANDOS CHAN 9069 THU 02:06 THU Sir Edward Elgar THU A Christmas Greeting Op.52 THU Choristers of Worcester Cathedral THU Jeremy Ballard, Robin Thurlby (violins) THU Keith Swallow (piano) THU Donald Hunt (conductor) THU HYPERION CDA66271/2 THU 02:15 THU Ludwig van Beethoven THU Egmont Overture Op.84 THU Vienna Philharmonic THU Claudio Abbado (conductor) THU DG 429 762-2 THU 02:23 THU Johann Sebastian Bach THU Prelude and Fugue in A Minor BWV 543 THU Christopher Herrick (organ of the Jesuit Church, Lucerne) THU HYPERION CDA66791/2 THU THU 09:00 Essential Classics b01pcs74 (Listen) THU with Sarah Walker and her guest, comedian and impressionist THU Alistair McGowan. THU THU 9am THU A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the THU Week: Grieg Choral Music - The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, THU BIS-SACD-1661 THU THU 9.30-10.30am THU A Christmas feature where listeners set the daily THU brainteaser, and performances by the Artists of the Week, THU Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert. THU THU 10.30am THU Sarah's guest this Christmas week is the comedian and THU impressionist Alistair McGowan. Alistair's most recent show THU is You Cannot Be Serious! on ITV, and he is perhaps best THU known for the BBC1 top-rating comedy programme The Big THU Impression, which won numerous awards, including a BAFTA. He THU provided the voices for many of the characters in the THU political puppet comedy Spitting Image, and has been a THU regular on Radio 4 comedy shows including Weekending and The THU Harpoon, as well as The Game's Up on Radio Five Live. THU THU In 2010, his first play, Timing, received a nomination for THU Best New Comedy in the whatsonstage.com awards. As an actor THU Alistair has played the title role in the quirky detective THU show Mayo (co-writing several later episodes), Mr Kenge in THU Bleak House and Spock in Tim Firth's award-winning Preston THU Front. He has hosted Have I Got News For You?, was one of THU the grumpy old men in Grumpy Guides, and has appeared on Who THU Do You Think You Are? He is co-author of A Matter of Life THU and Death: How To Wean A Man Off Football. THU THU 11am THU Sarah's Essential Choice THU THU Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 'Winter Daydreams' THU London Philharmonic Orchestra THU Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor) THU EMI 65709. THU THU Music Played THU 02:49 THU Franz Schubert THU Nocturne in E flat, D.897 THU Ibert THU 1st of Trois Pieces Breves THU Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet THU BIS CD536 THU Turina THU 3 Pieces from Niñerias Book 1: Ce Que L’on Voit sur la THU Giralda Op. 21 No. 2; A la mémoire d’un bébé Op. 21 No. 7; THU Jeux Op. 21 No. 8 THU Mirian Conti (piano) THU KOCH 3 7322 2 THU Carl Maria von Weber THU Overture: Die Freischutz THU Philharmonia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor) THU EMI CDZ 569 579 2 THU Edvard Grieg THU Blegnet, segnet (Ved en ung hustrus bare) transl. Withered, THU Fallen (at the Bier of a Young Wife) Op. 39 No. 5 THU The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Grete Pedersen (conductor) THU BIS SACD 1661 THU Today's Brainteaser THU Critics' Corner - Answer: Tchaikovsky writing about Grieg THU Antonio Vivaldi THU ‘Spring’ Op. 8 No. 1 (The Four Seasons) THU Simon Standage (violin), The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock THU (harpsichord/director) THU ARCHIV 400 0452 THU Antonin Dvorak THU Slavonic Dance Op. 46 No. 4 in F major THU Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Mackerras (conductor) THU SUPRAPHON SU34222 THU Edvard Grieg THU Scherzo (Lyric Pieces op 54 no 5) THU Einar Steen-Nokleberg (piano) THU NAXOS 8553395 THU Mozart arr. Leleux THU ‘Alles fühlt der Liebe Freuden’; ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ THU for oboe and orchestra (Die Zauberflöte) THU Francois Leleux (oboe/conductor), Camerata Salzburg THU SONY CLASSICAL 8869/365482 THU Georg Philipp Telemann THU Overture (Suite) in D major TWV 55:D19 THU The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord/director) THU ARCHIV 437 5582 THU Rosenthal THU Papillons THU Stephen Hough (piano) THU VIRGIN CLASSICS VC790732 2 THU Sergey Vasilievich Rachmaninov THU Symphony No. 2: Adagio THU London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn (conductor) THU EMI CDM 5669822 THU Dmitri Shostakovich THU Waltz No. 2 from Jazz Suite No. 2 THU Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor) THU WARNER 9362474502 THU Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky THU Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13 ‘Winter Dreams’ THU London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich THU (conductor) THU EMI 565709 2 THU [anonymous] THU Que me quereis, cavallero THU La Morra THU RAMÉE RAM 1203 THU Franz Schubert THU Nocturne in E flat, D.897 THU Trio Fontenay THU TELDEC 4509945582 THU THU Today's Brainteaser Answer THU Critics' Corner. The writer was Tchaikovsky, describing his THU Norwegian contemporary, Edvard Grieg. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 28 DECEMBER 2012 FRI FRI 06:30 Breakfast b01pcs4k (Listen) FRI Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. FRI FRI Music Played FRI 00:01 FRI Joseph Haydn FRI Trio for keyboard and strings (H.15.25) in G major "Gypsy FRI rondo", third movement FRI Florestan Trio FRI Susan Tomes, piano FRI Anthony Marwood, violin FRI Richard Lester, cello FRI Hyperion CDA 67719 FRI 00:05 FRI Eduard Strauss FRI Old England forever! Polka op 239 FRI London Symphony Orchestra FRI John Georgiadis, conductor FRI Chandos CHAN 8739 FRI 00:10 FRI Samuel Barber FRI From Souvenirs Op 28: Waltz FRI Leon McCawley FRI Virgin Classics VC5452702 FRI 00:14 FRI Jules Massenet FRI Méditation from Thais FRI Nigel Kennedy, violin FRI Osian Ellis, harp FRI London Voices (Chorus Master Terry Edwards) FRI English Chamber Orchestra FRI EMI 5574112 FRI 00:22 FRI William Boyce FRI Symphony no 2 in A major (complete, three movements) FRI The English Concert FRI Trevor Pinnock FRI Archiv Produktion 419 631-2 FRI 00:33 FRI Richard Strauss FRI Morgen (Op.27`4) (arranged for voice and orchestra, original FRI for violin and pianoforte] FRI Christine Schafer, soprano FRI Berlin Philharmonic FRI Claudio Abbado FRI Deutsche Grammophon 457 5822 FRI 00:37 FRI Hermann Bellstedt FRI Napoli (arranged Andy Owensen) FRI Roger Webster, cornet solo FRI Black Dyke Band FRI Nicholas J Childs, conductor FRI Doyen DOY CD121 FRI 00:42 FRI Santiago de Murcia FRI La Jota FRI Los Otros: Hille Perl, baroque guitar FRI Lee Santana FRI Steve Player, baroque guitar FRI DHM 05472778612 FRI 00:46 FRI Maurice Ravel FRI Rapsodie espagnole version for orchestra, Feria FRI Orchestre de Paris FRI Semyon Bychkov FRI Philips 438 209-2 FRI 00:52 FRI Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach FRI Concerto in B major Wq.167 for flute: third (final) FRI movement, Allegro assai FRI Alexis Kossenko, flute and direction FRI Arte dei Suonatori FRI Alpha 093 FRI 01:01 FRI Joseph Bodin de Boismortier FRI Chaconne from Premier serenade Op 39 FRI Le Concert Spirituel FRI Hervé Niquet FRI Naxos 8.554295 FRI 01:07 FRI Robert Schumann FRI Die Löwenbraut: the Lion’s Betrothed Op 31 no 1 FRI Simon Keenleyside, baritone FRI Graham Johnson, piano FRI Hyperion CDJ33102 FRI 01:15 FRI Engelbert Humperdinck FRI Königskinder: the Royal Children: Concert Overture FRI Bamberger Symphony FRI Karl Anton Rickenbacher FRI Virgin Classics 50999 62858427 FRI 01:24 FRI Pablo de Sarasate FRI Zapateado Op 23 no 2 FRI Brodsky quartet FRI Chandos CHAN 10708 FRI 01:33 FRI Eric Whitacre FRI Oculi Omnium (text from the Grace from Sidney Sussex FRI College, Cambridge) FRI Eric Whitacre Singers FRI Decca 2796323 FRI 01:37 FRI [traditional] FRI Nobody Knows - Negro Spiritual (arranged Tom Poster and FRI Alison Balsom) FRI Alison Balsom FRI EMI Classics 6785902 FRI 01:42 FRI Ludwig van Beethoven FRI Symphony no 8: second movement, Allegretto scherzando FRI West-Eastern Divan Orchestra FRI Daniel Barenboim FRI Decca 478 3513 FRI 01:47 FRI Frédéric Chopin FRI Etude no 11 from Op 25: “Winter Wind” FRI Lang Lang FRI Sony 88725449602 FRI 01:52 FRI Erich Wolfgang Korngold FRI Violin Concerto: Finale, Allegro assai vivace FRI Nicola Benedetti, violin FRI Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra FRI Kirill Karabits, conductor FRI Decca 478 3529 FRI 02:01 FRI Herbert Howells FRI Walton’s Toye FRI John McCabe, piano FRI Hyperion CDA66689 FRI 02:03 FRI Sir William Walton FRI Crown Imperial FRI Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra FRI Andrew Litton FRI Decca 470 508-2 FRI 02:10 FRI Giacomo Puccini FRI Tosca: Vissi d’arte FRI Eva Marton, soprano FRI Munich Radio Orchestra FRI Giuseppe Patané, director FRI CBS masterworks CBS CD42167 FRI 02:17 FRI Antonin Dvorak FRI String Quartet No 13 in G major: third movement, Molto FRI vivace FRI Artemis Quartet FRI Virgin Classics 3533992 FRI 02:24 FRI Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky FRI Eugene Onegin - lyric scenes in 3 acts (Op.24), Act 3 sc.1, FRI no.19; Polonaise FRI Kirov Orchestra FRI Valery Gergiev FRI Philips 470 032 2 FRI FRI 09:00 Essential Classics b01pcs76 (Listen) FRI with Sarah Walker and her guest, comedian and impressionist FRI Alistair McGowan. FRI FRI 9am FRI A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the FRI Week: Grieg Choral Music - The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, FRI BIS-SACD-1661 FRI FRI 9.30-10.30am FRI A feature for Christmas week where listeners set the daily FRI brainteaser, and performances by the Artists of the Week, FRI Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert. FRI FRI 10.30am FRI Sarah's guest this Christmas week is the comedian and FRI impressionist Alistair McGowan. Alistair's most recent show FRI is You Cannot Be Serious! on ITV, and he is perhaps best FRI known for the BBC1 top-rating comedy programme The Big FRI Impression, which won numerous awards, including a BAFTA. He FRI provided the voices for many of the characters in the FRI political puppet comedy Spitting Image, and has been a FRI regular on Radio 4 comedy shows including Weekending and The FRI Harpoon, as well as The Game's Up on Radio Five Live. FRI FRI In 2010, his first play, Timing, received a nomination for FRI Best New Comedy in the whatsonstage.com awards. As an actor FRI Alistair has played the title role in the quirky detective FRI show Mayo (co-writing several later episodes), Mr Kenge in FRI Bleak House and Spock in Tim Firth's award-winning Preston FRI Front. He has hosted Have I Got News For You?, was one of FRI the grumpy old men in Grumpy Guides, and has appeared on Who FRI Do You Think You Are? He is co-author of A Matter of Life FRI and Death: How To Wean A Man Off Football. FRI FRI 11am FRI Sarah's Essential Choice FRI FRI Stenhammar: Symphony No. 1 in F major FRI Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra FRI Neeme Jarvi (conductor) FRI DG 445 857-2. FRI FRI Music Played FRI FRI Camille Saint-Saëns FRI Fossils (Carnival of the Animals) FRI John Ogdon and Brenda Lucas (pianos) , City of Birmingham FRI Symphony Orchestra, Louis Frémaux (conductor) FRI EMI CDM 7698422 FRI FRI Edvard Grieg FRI I Himmelen (In Heav’n Above), 4 Psalms Op. 74 No. 4 FRI Audun Iversen (soloist), The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, FRI Grete Pedersen (conductor) FRI BIS SACD 1661 FRI FRI Johann Sebastian Bach FRI Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, BWV 1048 FRI The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord/conductor) FRI ARCHIV 423 492 2 FRI FRI Franz Liszt FRI 2 ‘Paganini’ Etudes S141: No. 2 in E flat major (‘Octave’); FRI No. 5 in E major (‘La Chasse’) FRI Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) FRI HYPERION CDA 67370 FRI FRI Today's Brainteaser - Only Connect Answer: Tears or Crying FRI Mozart: Lacrimosa (Requiem) Donizetti: Una furtiva lagrima FRI (L'elisir d'amore), Dowland: Flow my tears FRI FRI John Dowland FRI Goe crysall tears FRI Paul Agnew (tenor), Christopher Wilson (piano) FRI METRONOME MET CD 1010 FRI FRI George Frideric Handel FRI Organ concerto, Op. 4 No. 4 in F major FRI Simon Preston (organ), The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock FRI (director) FRI ARCHIV 435 037 2 FRI FRI Dmitri Shostakovich FRI Cheryomushki Suite, Op. 105: A spin through Moscow; Ballet FRI The Philadelphia Orchestra, Erez Ofer (solo violin/leader), FRI Riccardo Chailly (conductor) FRI DECCA 452 597 2 FRI FRI Henry Purcell FRI Welcome to all the pleasures (Ode for St Cecilia’s Day 1683) FRI Michael Chance (countertenor), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), FRI Michael George (bass), Choir of the English Concert, The FRI English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord/director) FRI ARCHIV 427 663 2 FRI FRI Kabalevsky FRI Four Preludes, Op. 5 FRI Artur Pizarro (piano) FRI COLLINS CLASSICS 14182COL FRI FRI Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky FRI The Old Castle (Pictures at an Exhibition) FRI Berlin Phiharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor) FRI DG 445 238 2 FRI FRI Zidani FRI Inspiration No. 2 in E minor FRI Marcel Zidani (piano) FRI CD Title: Piano in the Small Hours FRI FRI Sir Hamilton Harty FRI The Fair Day, from An Irish Symphony FRI New Philharmonia Orchestra, Vernon Handley (conductor) FRI LYRITA CLASSICS SRCD336 FRI FRI Vecsay FRI Le Vent FRI Ruggiero Ricci (violin), Ernest Lush (piano) FRI DECCA 433 220 2 FRI FRI Wilhelm Stenhammar FRI Symphony No. 1 in F major (1902 - 03) FRI Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor) FRI DG 445 857 2 FRI FRI Michael Praetorius FRI Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen FRI The King’s Singers FRI SIGNUM TWO SIGCD502 FRI FRI Trad arr. Lawson FRI Noël nouvelet FRI The King’s Singers FRI SIGNUM TWO SIGCD502 FRI 02:54 FRI Michael Praetorius & Trad FRI Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen; Noel nouvelet FRI FRI Today's Brianteaser Answer FRI Only Connect: the connection was crying/tears. FRI FRI The music played: FRI FRI Mozart FRI Lacrimosa (Requiem) FRI Leipzig Radio Choir FRI Staatskapelle Dresden FRI Peter Schreier (conductor) FRI PHILIPS 411 429 2 FRI FRI Donizetti FRI Una furtiva lagrima (from L'Elisir d'Amore ) FRI Placido Domingo (tenor) FRI Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra FRI Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) FRI DG 435 419 2 FRI FRI John Dowland FRI Flowe my Tears FRI Paul Agnew (tenor) FRI Christopher Wilson (lute) FRI METRONOME METCD 1010 FRI
18 January, 2013
Breakfast and EC for 22/12/2012 - 28/12/2012
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