BBC Radio 3 Live in Concert 14th to 18th May 2012

[Seán]

There a few concerts on BBC Radio 3 that may be of interest to some of you: including music from Henry VIII to James I; Gergiev in Stravinsky (mmmmm) and Jordi Savall too.

Monday 14th May 2012 - Live from Merton College Chapel, Oxford
Presented by Catherine Bott

Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart - Music of domestic devotion from Henry VIII to James I

BROWNE: Jesu, mercy
CAUSTON: It is a thing both good and meet
MORLEY (ATTRIB.): Nolo mortem peccatoris
SHEPPARD: The Lord�s prayer
BYRD: Domine praestolamur; Why do I use my paper ink and pen; Exsurge Domine
RAMSEY: How are the mighty fallen
TOMKINS: When David heard
MILTON: O had I wings like to a dove
PEERSON: O let me at thy footstool fall
DOWLAND: I shame at my unworthiness
CROCE: From profound centre of my heart
CAMPION: Never weather beat�n sail
AMNER: A stranger here
BYRD: Retire my soul
THOMAS TOMKINS: O Praise the Lord

Stile Antico


Tuesday 15th May 2012 � Live from the Barbican Hall, London
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

STRAVINSKY: Rite of Spring
STRAVINKSY: Oedipus Rex

London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Chorus (male voices)
Valery Gergiev (conductor)
Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo-soprano: Jocasta)
Sergei Semishkur (tenor: Oedipus)
Evgeny Nikitin (bass-baritone: Creon)
Alexei Tanovitski (bass: Tiresias)
Alexander Timchenko (tenor: shepherd)
Simon Callow (narrator)


Wednesday 16th May 2012 � Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Stuart Flinders

BORODIN: Overture � Prince Igor
BORODIN: Symphony no.2
TCHAIKOVSKY: Concert Fantasy Op.56
TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture

Sofya Gulyak (piano
The Hall�
Sir Mark Elder (conductor)


Thursday 17th May 2012 � Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

SCHUBERT arr. WEBERN: German Dances
WEBERN: Five Movements Op.5
SCHUBERT arr. WEBERN: Lieder
MAHLER: Ruckert-Lieder
SCHUBERT: Symphony no.5

Roderick Williams (baritone)
Britten Sinfonia
Jacqueline Shave (violin/director)


Friday 18th May 2012 � Live from St John�s Smith Square, London
Presented by Catherine Bott

LULLY: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme � suite
BIBER: Battalia
CORELLI: Concerto grosso in D major, Op.6 No.4
GEMINIANI: Concerto grosso no.12 in D minor, �La Follia�
HANDEL: Concerto grosso in G major, Op.6 No.1
AVISON: Concerto no.9 in C major (after Domenico Scarlatti)
BOCCHERINI: La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid

Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall (viola da gamba/director)

[Diapason]

Very interesting. It's unfortunate that radio 3 requires being in just one place, and I can't get it on 'normal' radios around the house and car.