Jonathan Swain presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters
Fantasia super 'Komm heiliger Geist, Herre Gott' from 'Leipzig Chorales, BWV 651
Prelude and Fugue (Op. 37) in G
Excerpts from 'Sunday Music'; 1. Fantasia ll; 2. Molto ostinato
Finale from Symphony No 1 (Op. 42) in D minor
Douglas Boyd (oboe), Hans Christian Bræin (clarinet), Kjell Erik Arnesen (french horn), Per Hannisal (bassoon), Andreas Staier (piano)
Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra with Harp, freely using Scottish Folk Melodies (Op.46)
James Ehnes (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
Ann Monoyios (soprano), Matthew White (counter tenor), Colin Ainsworth (tenor), Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963) (orch. Sir Lennox Berkeley)
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Enrique Garcia-Asensio (conductor)
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945) arr. Arthur Willner
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) or possibly Pleyel, Ignace (1757-1831) arr. Perry, Harold
Divertimento (Feldpartita) (H.
) in B flat major arr. for wind quintet
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast on Radio 3 including works by Purcell and Shostakovich, by Bach and Delius as well as a thrilling Liszt tone poem and the William Tell Overture, both conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
Classical Collection with James Jolly. Great recordings and classic performances today include Charles Munch conducting Bizet's Symphony in C and Walton Viola Concerto featuring Yuri Bashmet.
Romanian Rhapsody No.1 in A major, Op.11 No.1 London Symphony Orchestra Antal Dorati (conductor) MERCURY 475 6185
Donald Macleod explores the music of Hector Berlioz in conversation with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, in this Composer of the Week 'special' recorded at the celebrated conductor's Dorset farm. For Gardiner, Berlioz is perhaps the greatest of French composers, and he speaks with a lifetime's experience of studying and performing this remarkable music.
Today's programme explores Berlioz the song writer - and discovers that Berlioz the song writer is really just another aspect of Berlioz the dramatist. All of Berlioz's music is essentially dramatic. Often, incidents in his own life are seen through the filter of literature - Shakespeare, Goethe, Virgil - then converted into music, whether symphonic, vocal or operatic.
Irlande, a collection of nine songs to poems by the Irish writer Thomas Moore, is a case in point. At the time, he was still reeling from the double impact of Shakespeare and Harriet Smithson - the Shakespearean heroine and future Mrs Berlioz. He happened to pick up a copy of Moore's poems, with their atmosphere of heroism and patriotism, all steeped in the soft glow of Celtic romance, and it proved to be perfect material for him, besotted with his passion for the beautiful Irish actress.
Les Nuits d'été, 'Summer Nights', sets poems from the collection The Comedy of Death by Berlioz's friend Théophile Gautier, and again they seem to reflect the emotional turmoil he was going through when he wrote them - the period when his flesh-and-blood relationship with the idealised Harriet was irretrievably breaking down. They're best known as an orchestral song-cycle - in fact, as the first ever orchestral song-cycle; another Berlioz 'first' - but they're presented here in the rarely played but magnificent version for voice and piano.
In the first of three Lunchtime Concerts recorded at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz with pianist Joseph Middleton, and the Sitkovetsky Trio perform music by Chausson and Ravel as part of the Norfolk and Norwich Chamber Music season.
Today's Afternoon on 3 comes live from London's Maida Vale studios. The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Chief Conductor Jiri Belohlavek perform Smetana's lively dances from The Bartered Bride, Grieg's ever-popular Piano Concerto with soloist Pavali Jumppanen, and Prokofiev's mighty Symphony no.5.
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major
From Arundel Cathedral with the Royal School of Church Music Millennium Youth Choir.
Radu Marian's remarkable natural male soprano skills will be amazing audiences in Bath Abbey on the 15th of April in a celebration of the life of 1700s Italian castrato Vananzio Rauzzini. He will perform Rauzzini's works live on the show and Jason Thornton, music director of the Bath Phil, talks with Sean about the concert.
Germany's uncompromising musical explorer Christian Zacharias will be conducting and playing the piano in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen in a series of concerts from the 15th to the 17th of April featuring Schubert with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Christian talks to Sean about his experiences performing the Piano Sonata in D Major and 'The Great' Symphony No. 9 in C Major.
Beethoven's magnificent 9th Symphony is a work of full of hope and faith in mankind, and it still has the power to move audiences today. Schiller's poem 'Ode to Joy' was an inspiration to Beethoven from his early years, and its inclusion as the culmination of the symphony is a stroke of genius.
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, continuing its complete run of Beethoven symphonies, welcomes young Israeli-born conductor Ilan Volkov to conduct this gargantuan work.
Followed by performances from past BBC Young Musician winners, in anticipation of this year's competition broadcasts, which begin on BBC Four television this Friday. Including:
The Mexican Revolution of 1910 was the first successful social revolution of the 20th century. On its 100th anniversary, Anne McElvoy discusses how the legacy of this political event is alive in Mexican culture today - and how the event itself influenced subsequent revolutions around the world. Anne is joined by Mexican poet David Huerta and Latin American historian Andrea Noble.
Plus Anne reviews controversial film director Roman Polanski's much anticipated latest thriller, The Ghost, starring Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor. The film is adapted from Robert Harris' novel of the same name and centres on a ghost writer invited to help with the memoirs of a former Prime Minister. The Ghost discovers that this opportunity of a lifetime is not quite what it seems especially given his predecessor on the job died in an unfortunate accident.
There's also an interview with the historian, Ben Shephard about his new book The Long Road Home - a radical reassessment of the aftermath of the Second World War and to round it all off there's a profile of the great American choreographer, Mark Morris. His work L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato, which is considered one of the landmarks of contemporary dance, is being revived at the Coliseum in London this week.
3/5: Valleys.
British soldiers assisting the Cretan resistance in the Second Word War called the Amari Valley in the centre of the island, Lotus Land. Sarah Raven botanises her way through the scrubby hillsides and down to the lush valley floor looking for wild tulips. Adam Nicolson recounts the remarkable episodes of derring-do that the British got up to and their awful consequences. (Rpt)
Max Reinhardt presents music from the Rada Vodou rituals of Haiti, 16th Century polyphony from Cinquecento, musique concrète from Beatriz Ferreyra and a song about a hangman from Woody Guthrie.
THURSDAY 15 APRIL 2010
THU 01:00 Through the Night (b00rxfvx)
Jonathan Swain presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters
01:01AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
12 Variations on 'Ein Maedchen oder Weibchen' for cello and piano (Op.66)
Heinrich Schiff (cello) Martin Helmchen (piano)
01:12AM
Mozetich, Marjan (b. 1948)
Fantasia su un linguaggio perduto for string instruments
Amadeus Ensemble
01:27AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata for cello and piano (Op.5'2) in G minor
Heinrich Schiff (cello) Martin Helmchen (piano)
01:50AM
Holten, Bo (b. 1948)
Nordisk Suite
Det Jyske Kammerkor (soloists: Hanne Hohwü and Birgitte Moller), Mogens Dahl (conductor)
02:02AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
12 Variations on 'See the conqu'ring hero comes' by Handel for cello and piano (WoO.45) in G major
Heinrich Schiff (cello) Martin Helmchen (piano)
02:14AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Suite for Orchestra No.2 in B minor (BWV.1067)
Jan Dewinne (flute), Ensemble 415
02:35AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata for cello and piano (Op.102'2) in D major
Heinrich Schiff (cello) Martin Helmchen (piano)
02:55AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Zart und mit Ausdruck, from Phantasiestucke for cello & piano (Op.73)
Heinrich Schiff (cello) Martin Helmchen (piano)
03:01AM
Tchaikovsky, Pytor, Illyich (1840-1893)
Francesca da Rimini (Op.32)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Róbert Stankovský (conductor)
03:27AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata - from Années de Pèlerinage: Deuxième Année (S.160 No.7)
Yuri Boukoff (1923-2006) (piano)
03:43AM
Nowowiejski, Felix (1877-1946)
3 Songs (Op.56) from 'The Bialowieza Forest folder'
Polish Radio Chorus, Marek Kluza (conductor)
04:05AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in C major (K.545)
Vanda Albota (piano)
04:16AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Cantata 'Unschuld und ein gut Gewissen'- from the 'Französischen Jahrgang zum Sonntag Oculi 1715' (TWV.
1:1440)
Veronika Winter (soprano), Patrick von Goethem (alto), Markus Schäfer (tenor), Ekkehard Abele (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)
04:29AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
No.4 Lemminkainen's Return - from Lemminkainen Suite (Op.22)
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
04:36AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
Handel in the Strand
Leslie Howard (piano)
04:39AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Water Music: Suite in G major
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
04:50AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Le Carnival Romain, op 9
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
05:01AM
Borgstrøm, Hjalmar (1864-1925)
Music to Johan Gabriel Borkman
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Kjell Seim (conductor)
05:13AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
3 Lyric Pieces: Erotik (Love Poem), Op.43/5; Troldtog (March of the Trolls), Op.54/3; Nocturne (Notturno), Op.54/4
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)
05:23AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Concerto for trumpet and orchestra in D major
Friedemann Immer (trumpet), Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
05:30AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Komm, Jesu, komm (BWV.229)
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
05:39AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
5 Songs from 6 Original canzonettas - set 2 for voice & keyboard
Allan Clayton (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)
05:55AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), orchestrated. Anton Webern (1883-1945)
6 German Dances (D.820)
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown (conductor)
06:04AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
32 Variationen in C minor (WoO 80)
Theo Bruins (piano)
06:15AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Till Eulenspiegel (Op.28)
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit (conductor)
06:30AM
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)
La Création du monde - ballet (Op.81a)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bernhard Klee (conductor)
06:50AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Serenade No.2 in G minor for violin & orchestra (Op.69b)
Judy Kang (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Jean-François Rivest (conductor).
THU 07:00 Breakfast (b00rxfw1)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast on Radio 3. Music for Military Band from Holst, vocal music from Ireland and Arne, and a surprise from Gottschalk.
THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b00rxfwt)
Thursday - James Jolly
Classical Collection with James Jolly. Great recordings and classic performances.
The virtuosic potential of the viola is explored today with Berlioz's Harold in Italy and a suite for solo viola in the style of Bach by Max Reger.
10.00 Mendelssohn
Overture: Ruy Blas, Op.95
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 423 104-2
10.08* Bach
Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1
Preludes and Fugues in E major & E minor, BWV 854 & 855 Evgeni Koroliov (piano) TACET 93
10.16* Berlioz
Harold in Italy
Gerard Causse (viola)
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
PHILIPS 446 676-2
10.57* Melodies by Gounod
including his famous setting of the Ave Maria to Bach's Prelude in C major.
Gounod
Ou voulez-vous aller?; Ave Maria;
Chanson de printemps
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano)
Graham Johnson (piano)
HYPERION CDA668012
11.10* Reger
Suite No.1 in G minor for viola solo, Op.131d Tabea Zimmerman (viola) MYRIOS CLASSICS MYR003
11.22* Ravel
Daphnis and Chloe: Parts 2 & 3
Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden London Symphony Orchestra Pierre Monteux (conductor)
DECCA 448 603-2.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00g3y0r)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Episode 4
Donald Macleod explores the music of Hector Berlioz in conversation with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, in this Composer of the Week 'special' recorded at the celebrated conductor's Dorset farm. For Gardiner, Berlioz is perhaps the greatest of French composers, and he speaks with a lifetime's experience of studying and performing this remarkable music.
Today's programme explores the poetic vein of death and melancholy running through Berlioz's output - on the face of it a somewhat gloomy line of enquiry, but in fact one that brings together an astonishing variety of reflections on mortality.
On Berlioz's third attempt to win the coveted Prix de Rome in 1829, he was thought to be a shoo-in. In fact, he blew it. Rather than submitting a 'safe', conventional piece designed to impress the academic judges, he produced a highly original work that was held by the judiciary to 'betray dangerous tendencies'. That work was The Death of Cleopatra, and the prize was not awarded.
Barely a decade later, Berlioz was considered sufficiently part of the French musical establishment to be commissioned to write music for a grand ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the July Revolution. In response he composed what he called his Grande Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale, scored for a huge military band of 200 players. In the event, despite careful rehearsal the day before and the huge sound made by so many musicians, the noise of the crowds was such that hardly a note of the music was heard.
The programme ends with Tristia - 'Sad Things', a title borrowed from Ovid. It's a triptych of reflective pieces including the well-known Death of Ophelia and the less well-known Funeral March for the Final Scene of Hamlet. Listeners of a nervous disposition should be alerted to the volley of musket fire at the climax of the piece - a musical counterpart to Fortinbras's speech: 'Go bid the soldiers' shoot!'.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00rxfzg)
Norwich and Norfolk Chamber Music
Borodin Quartet
In the second of three Lunchtime Concerts recorded at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, the Borodin Quartet performs two string quartets by Brahms and Tchaikovsky, as part of the Norfolk and Norwich Chamber Music season.
BRAHMS - String Quartet No.2 in A minor Op.51'2
TCHAIKOVSKY - String Quartet No 2 in F major, Op.22.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00rxfzx)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Britten: Peter Grimes
In Afternoon on 3's regular Thursday opera slot, Donald Runnicles conducts Britten's Peter Grimes at the Grand Theatre in Geneva. The lonesome fisherman Peter Grimes stands accused of murdering his boy apprentice. Although he is aquitted, the townsfolk have made their own verdict, and only the school teacher Ellen Orford has any sympathy for him. In a production from Geneva, Stephen Gould plays Peter, with Gabriele Fontana as Ellen.
Presented by Penny Gore
2pm
Britten: Peter Grimes
Peter Grimes ...... Stephen Gould
Ellen Orford ...... Gabriele Fontana
Balstrode ...... Peter Sidhom
Auntie ...... Carole Wilson
1st Niece ...... Julianne Gearhart
2nd Niece ...... Laurence Misonne
Bob Bales ...... Michael Howard
Swallow ...... Clive Bayley
Mrs Sedley ...... Elizabeth Sikora
Rev Adams ...... Adrian Thompson
Ned Keene ...... Daniel Belcher
Hobson ...... Simon Kirkbride
Grand Theatre Chorus
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Donald Runnicles (conductor).
THU 17:00 In Tune (b00rxg1s)
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Virtuoso violinist Tasmin Little performs live in the studio on her Guadagnini violin and is joined by conductor Owain Arwel Hughes. Plus internationally acclaimed Northern Irish pianist Barry Douglas, who performs music by Rachmaninov, Debussy and Schumann in the studio ahead of a concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
THU 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00rxg1v)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Rozsa, Rachmaninov
BBC SSO/Alexander Titov
Presented by Martin Handley
In this live concert from City Halls, Glasgow, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays works from Russia and America. The least well-known of Rachmaninov's symphonies, the First is an incredibly powerful work, bursting with youthful energy. Its premiere, when Rachmaninov was only 24, was famously a disaster and it was never again performed in his lifetime.
Born in Hungary, Miklós Rózsa wrote many classical works but went to Hollywood in 1939 to work on film scores, and is probably best known for his blockbusters like Ben-Hur and El Cid. His Viola concerto is one of his final works, written in 1979 for the young Pinchas Zukerman. The concert opens with an introduction and interlude from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera which combines the real and the supernatural, history and myth.
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh (excerpts)
Rozsa: Viola Concerto
Lawrence Power (viola )
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Titov (conductor).
THU 19:45 Twenty Minutes (b00mdk57)
Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov's novel "Oblomov" was published in 1859 and depicted, in its hero, the greatest couch-potato in literature. So appealing is Oblomov's habit of never really getting up that his name has become synonymous with a sort of fatalistic laziness. So prevalent a character trope did Oblomovism become in Russia that Lenin said that three revolutions had not been able to defeat it. Lesley Chamberlain explores the book and its legacy.
Producer Tim Dee (rpt).
THU 20:05 Performance on 3 (b00s10yr)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Rozsa, Rachmaninov
BBC SSO/Alexander Titov, part 2
Presented by Martin Handley
In this live concert from City Halls, Glasgow, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays works from Russia and America. The least well-known of Rachmaninov's symphonies, the First is an incredibly powerful work, bursting with youthful energy. Its premiere, when Rachmaninov was only 24, was famously a disaster and it was never again performed in his lifetime.
Born in Hungary, Miklós Rózsa wrote many classical works but went to Hollywood in 1939 to work on film scores, and is probably best known for his blockbusters like Ben-Hur and El Cid. His Viola concerto is one of his final works, written in 1979 for the young Pinchas Zukerman. The concert opens with an introduction and interlude from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera which combines the real and the supernatural, history and myth.
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh (excerpts)
Rozsa: Viola Concerto
(interval)
Rachmaninov: Symphony No.1
Lawrence Power (viola )
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Titov (conductor).
THU 21:15 Night Waves (b00rxg21)
Posh/City of Life and Death/The Prisoner
Rana Mitter reviews Posh, a new play at the Royal Court from Laura Wade. Identified in Night Waves' New Voices series earlier this year, Laura Wade's play is set in a fictional Bullingdon club. In an oak-panelled room in Oxford, ten young bloods with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule. Members of an elite student dining society, the boys are hunkering down for a wild night of debauchery, decadence and bloody good wine. But this isn't the last huzzah: they're planning a takeover. Susannah Clapp and Rana Mitter see how much punch this nakedly political play packs in an election period.
Posh opens at the Royal Court on 9th April.
The Nanking massacre of Chinese citizens by Japanese troops in 1937 is still controversial in both countries. This week a Chinese film about the massacre is being released in the UK. It's called City of Life and Death by director Lu Chuan but has also been called Nanking! Nanking! It has sparked considerable argument in its China because it attempts to understand the humanity of both sides in the conflict. Rana Mitter discusses the version of events portrayed in the film and how that fits into a picture of historical argument, recrimination and differing official accounts over events 73 years ago. Rana is joined by Chinese film maker Sun Shuyun and Historian of modern Japan Dr. Christopher Gerteis to discuss war and historical memory in East Asia.
City of Life and Death is released on 16th April.
Rana also reviews the remake of the classic 60's tv series The Prisoner starring Sir Ian McKellen. Can a series associated with cold war paranoia live up to its billing as a thrilling take on the surveillance society?
THU 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00g3y0r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 23:00 The Essay (b00jhvlb)
A Cretan Spring
Villages
4/5: Villages.
Adam Nicolson and Sarah Raven explore the passage of the new season through Crete. (Rpt)
Producer: Tim Dee.
THU 23:15 Late Junction (b00rxg2c)
Max Reinhardt presents tape music from Edgard Varèse, Corrido from Los Campesinos De Michoacan, a piano miniature from Graham Fitkin, and a new release of material from Aníbal Velásquez Y Su Conjunto. Includes another chance to hear the Late Junction collaboration session between sound-artist AGF and artist-composer Gudrun Gut recorded exclusively in Berlin last year.
FRIDAY 16 APRIL 2010
FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b00rxg2p)
Jonathan Swain presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters
01:01AM
Borodin, Alexander [1833-1887]
In the steppes of central Asia
Orchestre National de France, Tugan Sokhiev (conductor)
01:10AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry [1906-1975]
Concerto for cello and orchestra no. 2 (Op.126) in G major
Xavier Phillips (cello) Orchestre National de France, Tugan Sokhiev (conductor)
01:42AM
Britten, Benjamin [1913-1976]
Serenata from Suite for cello solo no. 1 (Op.72)
Xavier Phillips (cello)
01:45AM
McPhee, Colin (1900-1964) transcribed McPhee
Balinese Ceremonial music
Ashley Wass (piano), Grace Francis (piano)
01:55AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Grand duo concertant for clarinet and piano (Op.48)
Joaquín Valdepeñas (clarinet), Patricia Parr (piano)
02:15AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay [1844-1908]
Scheherazade - symphonic suite (Op.35)
Orchestre National de France, Tugan Sokhiev (conductor)
03:01AM
Dohnányi, Ernõ (1877-1960)
Suite im alten Stil for piano (Op.24)
Ilona Prunyi (piano)
03:16AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto No.4 in G major (Op.58)
Nelson Goerne (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
03:51AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Concerto Grosso in A major (Op.6 No.11)
Barbara Jane Gilbey (violin), Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players
04:09AM
Groneman, Albertus (c.1710-1778)
Sonata for Flute in D major
Jed Wentz (flute), Balazs Mate (cello), Marcelo Bussi (harpsichord)
04:23AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) text by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
Gesang der Geistern über den Wassern, Op.167
Estonian National Male Choir, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Juri Alperten (director)
04:34AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921) arr. R. Klugescheid
My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
04:38AM
Barber, Samuel (1910-1981)
Adagio for Strings (Op.11)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor)
04:47AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Arabeske for piano (Op.18) in C major
Seung-Hee Kim (piano)
04:54AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Overture to Maskarade (FS.39)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Leif Segerstam (conductor)
05:01AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Nulla in mundo pax sincera for soprano and orchestra (RV.630)
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director)
05:08AM
Dutilleux, Henri (b. 1916)
Sonatine
Duo Nanashi
05:17AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Bolero
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender (conductor)
05:32AM
Ponce, Manuel Maria (1882-1948)
Preludes Nos. 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
05:40AM
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Poema autunnale for violin & orchestra
Viktor Simcisko (violin), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Onrej Lenard (conductor)
05:55AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No. 43 in E flat major "Mercury" (H. 1/43)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Balazs Kocsar (conductor)
06:17AM
Kozeluch, Leopold (1747-1818)
Sonata for keyboard (P.13.2) in F major "La chasse" [1781]
Gert Oost (organ)
06:35AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
Quartet for strings in E minor
Vertavo Quartet.
FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b00rxg5q)
Friday - Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan presents the Radio 3 Breakfast Show, with music from Prokofiev, Mendelssohn and Bach, the latest from the morning papers, and contributions from Breakfast listeners.
FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b00rxg5s)
Friday - James Jolly
Classical Collection with James Jolly.
Today, classic performances of Elgar's Enigma Variations and Haydn's Mourning Symphony complement the haunting atmosphere of Howells' Elegy and Schumann's ephemeral Papillons, a depiction of a 19th-century masked ball.
10.00 Michael Haydn
Duo for violin & viola No.1 in C major
Thomas Zehetmair (violin)
Tabea Zimmerman (viola)
TELDEC 244 192-2
10.13* Bachelet
Chere Nuit
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
ONYX CLASSICS ONYX 4030
10.19* Elgar
Variations on an original theme 'Enigma', Op.36 BBC Symphony Orchestra Andrew Davis (conductor)
TELDEC 9031-73279-2
10.52* Stanford
Morning Service in C, Op.115
Choir of St John's College, Cambridge
with Christopher Witton (organ)
Christopher Robinson (conductor)
NAXOS
8.555794
11.06* Howells
Elegy for solo viola, string quartet & orchestra City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN9161
11.17* Schumann
Papillons, Op.2
Nelson Freire (piano)
DECCA 473 902-2
11.32* Haydn
Symphony No.44 in E minor, 'Trauer'
The Hanover Band
Roy Goodman (director/harpsichord)
HYPERION CDH55117.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00g3y0v)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Episode 5
Donald Macleod explores the music of Hector Berlioz in conversation with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, in this Composer of the Week 'special' recorded at the celebrated conductor's Dorset farm. For Gardiner, Berlioz is perhaps the greatest of French composers, and he speaks with a lifetime's experience of studying and performing this remarkable music.
Today's programme, the last of the week, is devoted to what many consider to be the summit of Berlioz's achievement - his gargantuan opera Les Troyens. And here we must be thankful for the influence of Dr Berlioz, who infected his son, as a young boy, with a love for the tales of towering passion, of gods and goddesses, of heroes and villains of Virgil's Aeneid - he even named him Hector.
The programme features three extracts from this four-hour epic. Two of them focus on the opera's key couples, Cassandra and Chorebus, and Dido and Aeneas - all of them ultimately doomed except for Aeneas, who eventually sails off into the sunset for his date with destiny - the founding of Rome.
The third extract is the famous 'Trojan March' from the end of Act I. John Eliot Gardiner's recording is the only one to feature the original saxhorns demanded by the score, and he relates how he tracked down a complete set in the private collection of a retired Parisian railway worker, whose apartment near the Gare du Nord was hung from floor to ceiling with historic brass instruments. The sound they make is quite extraordinary.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00rxg7n)
Norwich and Norfolk Chamber Music
The Guarneri Piano Trio
In the third and final concert recorded at Norwich's John Innes Centre, the Guarneri Piano Trio performs two of Beethoven's piano trios, as part of the Norfolk & Norwich Chamber Music season.
BEETHOVEN - Piano Trio in C minor, Op 1'3
BEETHOVEN - Piano Trio in D, Op.70'1 "Ghost".
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00rxg7q)
BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra
Episode 4
Today's programme featuring the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra includes the BBC Singers in music by Jonathan Dove, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Zimmerman and Ravel conducted by Susanna Malkki. And then both sets of artists come together for a performance of Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ.
Presented by Penny Gore
2pm
Jonathan Dove: The Far Theatricals of Day
BBC Singers
Onyx Brass
Stephen Disley (organ)
Nicholas Cleobury (conductor)
2.25
Britten Les Illuminations
Susan Gritton (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
2.45
Zimmerman Photoptosis
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Susanna Malkki (conductor)
3.00
Ravel La Valse
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Susanna Malkki (conductor)
3.15
Berlioz L'Enfance du Christ
Anna Stephany (Mezzo)
Peter Wedd (Tenor)
Owen Gilhooley (Baritone)
Jonathan Lemalu (Bass-baritone)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor).
FRI 17:00 In Tune (b00rxg9v)
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Featuring an interview with the German counter-tenor Andreas Scholl, who spoke to Sean from Germany to discuss the songs of the 14th century composer Oswald von Wolkenstein, which he will perform at the Barbican, London, and Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, next week.
Also on the programme, Gillian Moore previews the London's Southbank Centre's celebration of the works of Edgard Varese, 'Varese 360', during which the complete works of the Franco-American composer are performed. Flautist Michael Cox provides a taste of the music with Varese's 'Density 21.5'.
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00rxg9x)
Bach: B minor Mass
Presented by Martin Handley
Thierry Fischer conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, live from St David's Hall, Cardiff, with a line-up of some of Britain's finest Bach soloists.
The B minor Mass sits at the pinnacle of Bach's achievements. Across its two hour span, the music transcends our everyday existence like no other, encompassing the ecstatic and other worldy, tenderness, tranquility and joyousness in which the spirit of the dance is never far away.
Bach: B minor Mass
Joanne Lunn (soprano)
Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano)
Robin Blaze (counter-tenor)
Toby Spence (tenor)
Peter Harvey (bass)
BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor).
FRI 21:15 The Verb (b00rxg9z)
Millions Poet/WNP Barbellion/Beirut 39/Black Wine/Alice Munro
Millions Poet
Poet Hissa Hilal has just been named runner up in the UAE's wildly popular 'Millions Poet' competition for her combative political verse using an old Bedouin poetic style. Clinton Bailey, an expert on Bedouin poetry and culture, tells Ian McMillan about the history of the form.
WNP Barbellion
Kevin Jackson profiles the obscure but brilliant diarist whose 'Journal of a Disappointed Man' has been called one of "the most moving diaries ever created." With readings by Tobias Beer.
Beirut 39
Palestinian novelist Ala Hlehel and Adania Shibli discuss an energetic new collection of contemporary Arab writing and consider how their situation as Palestinian writers living in Israel impacts on their work.
Black Wine
The novelist Rupert Thomson, author of new memoir This Party's Got to Stop, tells the story of how he won over 'the most terrifying waiters in Barcelona' at a bar famous for its Patatas Bravas.
Alice Munro
Celebrated American novelist Lorrie Moore on her passion for the master short-story writer Alice Munro, winner of last year's International Man Booker Prize and the woman who Margaret Atwood has called 'an international literary saint.'.
FRI 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00g3y0v)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 23:00 The Essay (b00jhxrr)
A Cretan Spring
Towns
5/5: Towns.
After the Minoans and Mycenaean Greeks Crete was occupied by a succession of invaders including the Genoese, Venetians, Turks, the German army in World War Two, the US army nowadays, and tourists from all around Europe. They all meet in the buildings and life of the island's coastal towns, but a Cretan identity emerges as well from this great mix. Adam Nicolson and Sarah Raven report. (Rpt)
Producer: Tim Dee.
FRI 23:15 World on 3 (b00rxgbf)
Mary Ann Kennedy
Mary Ann Kennedy with CDs from across the globe, and a studio session with Cimarron, who play the music of Colombia's rural heartland.
The name Cimarron means 'wild bull', and it's not a bad description of the untamed energy of the music of the cattle-rearing region of Llaneros Orientales. Cimarron play harp, bandola and cuatro with dazzling virtuosity, with instrumental pieces and songs written for festive dancing, milking and cattle driving.
Presented by Mary Ann Kennedy
Produced by James Parkin
Tel 020 7765 4661
Fax 020 7765 5052
e-mail worldon3@bbc.co.uk
Friday 16th April
Phil Colclough: The Call and the Answer
Kris Drever
Album: Mark the Hard Earth
Navigator Records Navigator30
Ouyebu Chi
Commander in Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe & his Nigerian sound makers
Album: Nigeria Special: Volume 2 -Modern Highlife & Nigerian Blues 1970-6
Soundways SNDWCD020P
Swift: That’s your last boogie
Joe Swift with the Johnny Otis Orchestra
Album: Rumba Blues
Rhythm and Blues Records RANDB010
Lieber/Stoller: Hound Dog
Big Mama Thornton, aka Willie Rae
Album: Rumba Blues
Rhythm and Blues Records RANDB010
Trad, Arr. Starr/Joplin: The water is wide
Among the Oak & Ash aka Garrison Starr and Josh Joplin
Album: Among the Oak & Ash
Verve Records 0602527049380
Jerry Holland: Malcolm’s New Fiddle
The Outside Track
Album: Curious Things Given Wings
Lorimer Records LORRCD02
Anon/Edith Wheeler: My Singing Bird
The McPeake Family
Album: Wild Mountain Thyme
Topic Records TSCD583
Pepe Yanci: Xoxua
Korrontxi; Susanne Seiviane; Mikel Urdangarin; Agus Barandiaran; Jorge Arribas; La Musgaña
Album: Getxo
Baga Baga Musika BBCD28
Studio Session
Carlos Rojas (harp)
Ana Veydó (voice)
Darwin Medina (Cuatro)
Ferney Rojas (bandola and tiple)
Carlos Cedeño (bass)
José Oviedo (percussion)
Freyman Cárdenas (voice/percussion)
Leonardo Blanco (percussion)
Rojas: Cimarroneando
Cimarron
BBC recording by sound engineers Mike Engles and Carol Ford, Maida Vale, 2010
Trad, arr. Rojas: Llanero Soy
Cimarron
BBC recording by sound engineers Mike Engles and Carol Ford, Maida Vale, 2010
Kanza: Nakozanga
Lokua Kanza
Album: Nkolo
World Village WVF010
Trad: Sidi Habibi
Faudel
Album: Bled Memory
Universal Music, France 532 448 0
Manelic Ferret/Carlos Lage: La Parrandita de las Santas
Amparo Sanchez, Ft Omara Portuondo
Album: Tuscon-Habana
Wrasse Records Wrass257
Trad, arr. Chalktown/D Blackmore: Nantwich Fair/Better late than never
Chalktown
Album: You Never See The One…
Ramshackle Records RAMCD01
Rojas: San Rafael
Cimarron
BBC recording by sound engineers Mike Engles and Carol Ford, Maida Vale, 2010
Trad, arr. Rojas: Quitapesares
Cimarron
BBC recording by sound engineers Mike Engles and Carol Ford, Maida Vale, 2010
Gilberto/Didi Gutman: Port Antonio
Gilberto Gil
Album: All in one
Verve Records 0602527166902
Ivor Cutler: In the Chestnut Tree
Kaele Rowan and the Roises; Luke Plumb; Quee Macarthur; James Mackintosh
EP: Kaele Rowan and the Roses
Promotional CD
Trad, arr. McGoldrieck/Lunny/Shaw: Mickey’s reels
Michael McGoldrick
Album: Aurora
Vertical records VERTCD090
Wojtek Krzak: 1, 5h
Warsaw Village Band
Album: Gone to the Dogs
Jaro 4299-2
Trad, Arr. Breabach: The Waterhouse’s Lament/Cumha an Each-Uisge
Breabach
Album: The Desperate battle of the bands
Breabach self-label BRE001CD
Pucini Said
Chumbawamba
Album: ABCDEFG
No Masters Co-operative/Westpark Music NMCD33 WP87186