Jonathan Swain presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters
Reto Bieri (Clarinet), Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Corinne Chapelle (violin) Razvan Popovici (viola) Bernhard Naoki Hedenborg (cello)
Soile Isokoski (soprano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
Jaap van Zweden (violin), Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
Marie Matejkova (soprano), Ilona Satylova (alto), Jiri Vinklarek (tenor), Michael Mergl (bass), Miluska Kvechova (organ), Czech Radio Choir, Pilzen Radio Orchestra, Stanislaw Begunia (conductor)
William Tritt (piano), Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Boris Brott (conductor)
Organ Concerto No. 1 (Op.4 No.1) (HWV 289)
When Mary thro' the garden went, No.3 of 8 Partsongs (Op.127. No.3)
Hartmann, Johann Peter Emilius (1805-1900) arr. Gunther, P & Teuber, U
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Music to celebrate the birthdays of the Queen, composer John McCabe, and also some 18th century music from Mexico.
Classical Collection with Sarah Walker. Great recordings and classic performances.
Sweet pangs of melancholy from Tchaikovsky, consolation and coruscation from the piano.
This prodigiously talented composer led a very full but all too brief life, dying at the age of just 31, in 1828. He is probably best known for the vast number of songs he wrote throughout his life - around 600 of them, including the two song cycles 'Die Schöne Müllerin' and 'Winterreise' plus some of the most popular symphonic and chamber music in the repertoire, such as the 'Unfinished' and 'Great C major' Symphonies and the 'Trout' Quintet. This week Donald Macleod looks at the important role the colourful individuals in Schubert's social circle had on him and his music, and how his decadent lifestyle contributed to his untimely death.
He was an intensely prolific composer - in his 18th year alone he produced around 200 works. And in spite of immense mental and physical problems he continued to do so, writing some of his best-loved music in his final year.
Schubert suffered from severe mood swings most of his adult life. When he was in his mid-twenties, they became far more extreme and his friends reported periods of dark despair and violent anger. It's hard to know at this distance, to what extent his decadent lifestyle affected his behaviour but it greatly increased his chances of succumbing to one of the major killers of the time - syphilis. From then on, his fate was sealed - although he had periods of remission, it irreparably damaged his health and if typhoid fever hadn't struck him down first, would undoubtedly have killed him.
Today, Donald Macleod introduces two works which reflect the polar extremes of Schubert's temperament, written at time when his mental health began to deteriorate.
Now entering its second decade, Radio 3's New Generation Artist scheme exists to provide concert and recording opportunites to some of the world's finest younger musicians. The scheme's alumni include such major names as Paul Lewis, Alice Coote, Janine Jansen and the Belcea and Jerusalem string quartets.
In the second of four lunchtime programmes featuring studio and concert performances by current Radio 3 New Generation Artists, Dutch baritone Henk Neven performs songs by Liszt, and Iranian-born harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani plays Bach's Partita No. 4 in D
Liszt: Im Rhein im Schönen Strome; Ein Fichtenbaum (1860 version); Es muss ein Wunderbares sein; Freudvoll und Leidvoll (1860 version)
Bach: Partita No. 4 in D major, BWV828
Elin Manahan Thomas introduces a live BBC National Orchestra of Wales concert from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, conducted by Andrew Grams. Continuing Afternoon on 3's look at classical music's rich lineage of composer-conductor-performers, the programme begins with Mendelssohn's overture - Calm sea and a prosperous voyage and concludes with Chabrier's Espana. Also including Schubert's Symphony No.3, Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin and Toru Takemitsu's 1991 Fantasma-Cantos, a lush single-movement concerto for clarinet and orchestra, showcasing soloist Robert Plane.
Celebrant: The Revd Fr. George Bowen
Petroc is joined in the studio by the King's Singers and early music group Charivari Agreable who perform music from their latest CD of Pachelbel Vespers ahead of a concert at London's Cadogan Hall next week.
Also, from London's Royal Opera House's new production of Verdi's Aida which opens next week, conductor Nicola Luisotti, soprano Micaela Carosi (Aida) and mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti (Amneris) talk to Petroc.
Mark Anthony Turnage's new work is both a Texan soundscape and a meditation on the death of model Anna Nicole Smith. Like Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Philip Glass's new concerto marks each season of the year and is performed tonight by the violinist for whom it was written - Robert McDuffie. The concert ends with a work which became a huge hit in the 1990s and one of the few works by a living composer to top the classical charts - Gorecki's Third Symphony. It is a slow and sorrowful work in which steadily moving string chords underpin a soaring and sublimely expressive solo soprano.
Philip Glass - Violin Concerto no.2 'The American Four Seasons' (European premiere)
Followed by more from this weeks focus on "American Originals". Tonight, a BBC recording of the Szymanowski Quartet performing 'Musica Celestis' the slow movement of a string quartet by Aaron J.Kernis.
Matthew Sweet is joined by Susannah Clapp for a first night review of a new production of Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing, starring Toby Stephens.
The French writer and philosopher Pascal Bruckner is in the studio to discuss his latest book, The Tyranny of Guilt. He argues that while fascism, communism, racism and slavery were grave episodes in Western history, too much attention on the past has prevented the West from dealing with the problems of the present. Pascal and the journalist Jonathan Steele join Matthew Sweet to discuss the power of Western Guilt.
For the past 34 years Antony Griffiths has been Keeper of Prints at the British Museum. Next year is his last, and before he retires he's invited Matthew to the British Museum to show him some personal favourites from the museum's collection of over 2 million prints.
Night Waves will be reviewing Life During Wartime, film director Todd Solondz's latest examination of the dark humour of mid-American Jewish life.
3. Hayden Lorimer runs for his hobby. His day job is a geographer. His feet register the rocks he runs over as intently as any geologist might survey them.
'Running the World', the Essay series this week is written and presented by the running enthusiast and geographer Hayden Lorimer. Walking, swimming, rock climbing - many outdoor activities that put us out of breath have long cultural associations. Running is surprisingly little represented in the arts. Why should that be? The five talks evoke five runs and explore key cultural representations of running: Alf Tupper, the comic strip runner, Alan Sillitoe's novel 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner', the self help running programmes of present day America They also do things that runners don't - stop and look around and think what it means to experience the world by running across it.
Specific trail for priogramme three. As well as a runner Hayden Lorimer is a geographer. His essay today explores whether knowing the sorts of rocks you are running over makes it harder or easier to run.
Max Reinhardt presents a new CD from the father of Ethio-Jazz Mulatu Astatke, soundscapes from Lamma Island by Chinese sound-artist Yan Jun, the polyphonic world of the Georgian Anchiskhati Choir and Hannah Peel's rendition of Tainted Love for music box.
THURSDAY 22 APRIL 2010
THU 01:00 Through the Night (b00s1ly4)
Jonathan Swain presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters
01:01AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Fischerweise (D.881) and other selected Lieder [Fischerweise (D.881)
01:22AM
Die Sterne (Wie blitzen die Sterne) (D.939); Lied der Anne Lyle (D.830); Abschied [nach einer Wallfahrtsarie] (D.475); Rastlose Liebe (D.138); Die Liebe (Klarchens Lied) (Freudvoll und leidvoll) (D.210); Geheimes (D.719); Versunken (D.715)
Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo soprano) Helmut Deutsch (piano)
01:41AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Death and the Maiden: quartet arranged by Mahler for string orchestra from D.810 (Allegro; Sofia Soloists, Plamen Djourov (conductor)
02:21AM
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang [1897-1957]
5 Lieder (Op.38)
02:31AM
Weill, Kurt [1900-1950]
Stay well (Lost in the Stars); Complainte de la Seine; Der Abschiedsbrief; Je ne t'aime pas; Youkali; One life to live (Lady in the dark)
Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo soprano) Helmut Deutsch (piano)
02:54AM
Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990)
Overture - Candide
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
03:01AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C (Op.26) (1917-1921)
Martha Argerich (piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
03:31AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Quartet for strings (Op.42) in D minor
Pavel Haas Quartet
03:44AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Grand Motet 'Deus judicium tuum regi da' (Psalm 71)
Veronika Winter (soprano), Andrea Stenzel (soprano), Patrick von Goethem (alto), Markus Schäfer (tenor), Ekkehard Abele (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)
04:05AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Prelude and Fugue No.1 in E minor (Op.35)
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
04:14AM
Widor, Charles Marie (1844-1937)
Suite for flute et piano (Op.34) [1898]
Katherine Rudolph (flute), Rena Sharon (piano)
04:33AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concert aria: Ch'io mi scordi di te.? Non temer, amato bene (K.505)
Tuva Semmingsen (soprano), Jörn Fosheim (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Michel Tabachnik (conductor)
04:43AM
Schoeck, Othmar (1886-1957)
Sommernacht (Summer Night): pastoral intermezzo for string orchestra (Op.58)
Camerata Bern
04:55AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) (arr unknown)
Prelude from Partita no.3 in E major (BWV.1006)
Myong-Ja Kwan and Hyon-Son La (harps)
05:01AM
Jurjāns, Andrejs (1856-1922)
Beggar's Dance - from Latvian Dances
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Leonids Vigners (conductor)
05:04AM
Weiss, Silvius Leopold (1686-1750)
Prelude, Toccata and Allegro in G major
Hopkinson Smith (Baroque Lute)
05:14AM
Weill, Kurt (1900-1950)
Saga of Jenny - from the musical Lady in the Dark
Jean Stilwell (mezzo soprano), Robert Kortgaard (piano), Marie Bérard (violin), Joseph Macerollo (accordion), James Spragg (trumpet), George Kohler (bass), Andy Morris (percussion), Peter Tiefenbach (conductor)
05:18AM
Suppé, Franz von (1819-1895)
Overture - from The Light Cavalry
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
05:27AM
Lipinski, Karol Józef (1790-1861)
Variations de Bravoure sur une Romance militaire in D major (Op.22) [c.1824]
Albrecht Breuninger (violin), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
05:38AM
Hellendaal, Pieter (1721-1799)
Concerto grosso for strings and continuo (Op.3 No.1) in G minor
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
05:48AM
Enna, August (1859-1939)
Fem klaverstykker Ida Cernecka (piano)
06:01AM
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1788-1831)
Trio for clarinet, cello and piano
Amici Chamber Ensemble
06:22AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Dances Concertantes for chamber orchestra
Polish Radio Orchestra, Warsaw, Krzystzof Slowinski (conductor)
06:43AM
Maldere, Pieter van (1729-1768)
Sinfonia in D major (Op.5 No.1)
The Academy of Ancient Music, Filip Bral (conductor).
THU 07:00 Breakfast (b00s1lyn)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Listen to music by the music teacher of the royal children of Louis XIV, Gibbons and Taverner, Grieg and Ravel, and plenty of surprises too.
THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b00s1m06)
Thursday - Sarah Walker
Classical Collection with Sarah Walker. Great recordings and classic performances.
Musical blues from the Berlin Bach to Ravel, Copland and Ellington.
10.00
Ellington
Mood Indigo
Doris Day (vocals)
Harry Zimmerman's Orchestra
Harry Zimmerman (conductor)
LP: PHILIPS BBL 7377
10.04*
Dvorak
Slavonic Dance in C Op.46 No.1
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
CD: DG 419 056-2
10.08*
C.Ph.E. Bach
Trio Sonata in C minor 'Sanguineus et melancholicus' Wq.161/1 Florilegium
CD: CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS 11197
10.25*
Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No.2 in F Op.102
John Ogdon (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Lawrence Foster (conductor)
CD: EMI 5 74491 2
10.46*
Ravel
Violin Sonata
Arthur Grumiaux (violin)
Istvan Hajdu (piano)
CD: PHILIPS 473 104-2 [5 CDs]
11.04*
Copland's 4 Piano Blues performed by 4 pianists
Copland
4 Piano Blues - (i) Freely Poetic (for Leo Smit) Leo Smit (piano)
CD: SONY CLASSICAL SM2K 66 345 [2 CDs]
4 Piano Blues - (ii) Soft and Languid (for Andor Foldes) Paul Jacobs (piano)
CD: NONESUCH 79006-2
4 Piano Blues - (iii) Muted and Sensuous (for William Kapell) Joanna MacGregor (piano)
CD: LDR LDRCD 1004
4 Piano Blues - (iv) With Bounce (for John Kirkpatrick) Leo Smit (piano)
LP: VARESE SARABANDE VC 81098
11.12*
Dvorak
Serenade in E Op.22
Ferenc Liszt CO
Janos Rolla (conductor)
CD: QUINTANA QUI 903005
11.39*
Debussy
Ariettes oubliees
Suzanne Danco (soprano)
Guido Agosti (piano)
CD: TESTAMENT SBT 1289.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00s1m08)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Episode 4
This prodigiously talented composer led a very full but all too brief life, dying at the age of just 31, in 1828. He is probably best known for the vast number of songs he wrote throughout his life - around 600 of them, including the two song cycles 'Die Schöne Müllerin' and 'Winterreise' plus some of the most popular symphonic and chamber music in the repertoire, such as the 'Unfinished' and 'Great C major' Symphonies and the 'Trout' Quintet. This week Donald Macleod looks at the important role the colourful individuals in Schubert's social circle had on him and his music, and how his decadent lifestyle contributed to his untimely death.
He was an intensely prolific composer - in his 18th year alone he produced around 200 works. And in spite of immense mental and physical problems he continued to do so, writing some of his best-loved music in his final year.
Schubert suffered from severe mood swings most of his adult life. When he was in his mid-twenties, they became far more extreme and his friends reported periods of dark despair and violent anger. It's hard to know at this distance, to what extent his decadent lifestyle affected his behaviour but it greatly increased his chances of succumbing to one of the major killers of the time - syphilis. From then on, his fate was sealed - although he had periods of remission, it irreparably damaged his health and if typhoid fever hadn't struck him down first, would undoubtedly have killed him.
In this programme - having succumbed to the killer disease syphilis, Schubert's struggles to come to terms with his bleak prospects. Donald Macleod introduces a string quartet which seems to reflect his frame of mind, part of a grand, heroic-Romantic opera and a set of variations inspired by an unattainable woman.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00s1m0b)
Radio 3 New Generation Artists
Jennifer Pike, Daniela Lehner, Tom Arthurs, Khatia Buniatishvili
Now entering its second decade, the Radio 3 New Generation Artist scheme exists to provide concert and recording opportunites to some of the world's finest younger musicians. The scheme's alumni include such major names as Paul Lewis, Alice Coote, Janine Jansen and the Belcea and Jerusalem string quartets.
In the third of four lunchtime programmes this week featuring studio and concert performances by current Radio 3 New Generation Artists, violinist Jennifer Pike plays a short work by her father, jazz trumpeter Tom Arthurs performs his own compositions, Austrian mezzo-soprano Daniela Lehner sings songs by Ginastera and Guastavino, and Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili plays Liszt's B minor Sonata.
Full programme:
Jeremy Pike - Praesagium
Jennifer Pike (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano)
Recorded in concert at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 21.
6.09
Alberto Ginastera - En la cuna blanca
Carlos Guastavino - Se equivoco la paloma
Daniela Lehner (mezzo-soprano), Jose Luis Gayo (piano)
Tom Arthurs - Castalia
Tom Arthurs (flugelhorn), Miles Perkins (double bass), Benoit Delbeq (piano), Thomas Gossage (drums)
Liszt - Piano Sonata in B minor
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00s3wwy)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Gounod: Faust
Gounod's Faust from Chicago.
Faust remains Charles Gounod's best-known work, and although it took some time to achieve renown, it has become one of the most frequently staged operas in the repertory. Based on a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre, the drama unfolds over five acts, in which Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for a renewal of his youth and passion - a pact that has tragic consequences for him and for the young girl, Marguerite, with whom he falls in love. First staged at the Paris Theatre Lyrique on 19th March 1859, it's very different to the other operas being written at the time. After hearing the work, Saint-Saens described it as "simplicity which attains to the highest consummation of art."
For Lyric Opera Chicago's production of this masterpiece, the company's chorus and orchestra are joined by a stellar line-up of soloists, under the baton of Sir Andrew Davis. Presented by Louise Fryer
Faust......Piotr Beczala, tenor
Marguerite......Ana Maria Martinez, soprano
Mephistopheles......Rene Pape, bass
Valentin......Lucas Meachem, baritone
Siebel......Katherine Lerner, soprano
Marthe......Jane Bunnell, soprano
Wagner......Corey Crider, baritone
Lyric Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor.
THU 17:00 In Tune (b00s1m0g)
Thomas Ades' controversial chamber opera Powder Her Face returns to the stage at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House on the 26th of April through until the 12th of May. Conductor Timothy Redmond and soprano Joan Rodgers who plays the Duchess talk with Petroc.
British-born pianist Stephen Hough has released two CDs this month: Chopin - Late Masterpieces features works by the composer born 200 years ago this year and as part of Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series Stephen Hough performs Tchaikovsky's Piano Concertos 1, 2 and 3. The versatile pianist will be performing works by Jörg Widmann, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich at the Barbican on the 23rd of April with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Lawrence Renes.
Today also sees the launch of Proms 2010 and Petroc will be talking to the Director of BBC Proms Roger Wright about what's in store.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
THU 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00s1m3k)
Till Fellner
Presented by Ian Skelly
Austrian pianist Till Fellner continues his much acclaimed complete Beethoven Piano Sonata series recorded at the Wigmore Hall.
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 9 in E Op. 14 No.1
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 14 No.2
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No 8 in C minor Op 13 'Pathétique'
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat Op.22
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat Op. 81a 'Les Adieux'
Till Fellner (piano)
Followed by more from our series this week of 'American Originals':
Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Bernstein – Prelude Fugue and Riffs
Sabine Meyer (clarinet)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Jarvi (conductor)
Henry Cowell – The Fairy Answer
Chris Burns (piano)
THU 21:15 Night Waves (b00nky5v)
Free Thinking 2009
Sport or the Arts
In a discussion recorded in front of an audience at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking ideas festival at the Sage, Gateshead, Philip Dodd and guests debate which is the greater human achievement - sport or the arts.
Global sport is a triumphant blend of high drama, athletic grace and operatic personalities. But is it really the noblest of endeavours or an overhyped money market? And can the arts be dismissed as elitist when season tickets cost a fortune and our great galleries are free?
As the 2012 Olympics approaches, a panel from both worlds tackle the issues. It features Simon Pryde, presenter of BBC Newcastle's Total Sport; Ed Smith, former test cricketer and author of What Sport Teaches You About Life; Bill Feaver, art critic and author of The Pitmen Painters; Edith Hall, historian of ancient Greece and Martin Kelner, author and sports writer.
THU 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00s1m08)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 23:00 The Essay (b00s1m55)
Running the World
The Heroes of the Distance Running
The Essay
Running the World
4 The heroes of the distance running. Hayden Lorimer remembers Alf Tupper of the Rover comic.
Producer: Tim Dee.
THU 23:15 Late Junction (b00s1m57)
Max Reinhardt invites pianist Zoe Rahman to join him in the studio and asks her to conjure spontaneous musical reactions to pieces of music of his choosing.
On the eve of St George's Day he also celebrates many of the diverse musical traditions which have been gathering in England over the decades: folk from Waterson Carthy, Lol Coxhill improvising through a Beatles number, Tudor Polyphony from The Sixteen, the poetic dub of Linton Kwesi Johnson, and Pixelh8's musical Observations of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge.
FRIDAY 23 APRIL 2010
FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b00s1m7y)
Jonathan Swain presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters
01:01AM
Sor, Fernando [1778-1839]
Introduction and variations on a theme from Mozart's Magic Flute (Op.9)
01:10AM
Moreno Torroba, Federico [(1891-1983)]
Suite Castellana
01:18AM
Tárrega, Francisco (1852-1909)
Recuerdos de la Alhambra
01:23AM
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909)
Asturias (Leyenda)
01:30AM
Walton, William [1902-1983]
5 Bagatelles for guitar
01:44AM
Piazzolla, Astor [1921-1992]
4 pieces for guitar
02:03AM
Barrios Mangoré, Agustin (1885-1944)
La Catedral
02:11AM
Barrios Mangoré, Agustin (1885-1944)
Una Limosa por el amor de dios
Ana Vidović (guitar)
02:16AM
Marqués y García, Pedro Miguel (1843-1925)
Symphony No.4 in E
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
02:52AM
Rossini, Gioacchino (1792-1868)
Lindoro's cavatina 'Languir per una bella'
Francisco Araiza (tenor: Lindoro, a young Italian slave), Capella Coloniensis, Gabriele Ferro (conductor)
03:01AM
Kilar, Wojciech (b. 1932)
Little Overture (1955)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stanislav Macura (conductor)
03:08AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Phantasy in C major (D.934) (Op.Posth.159)
Thomas Zehetmair (violin); Kai Ito (piano)
03:35AM
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)
Plainte d'Armide for voice & basso continuo
Isabelle Poulenard (soprano), Ricercar Consort, Henri Ledroit (conductor)
03:43AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Cello Concerto in D major, Hob VIIb No.4
France Springuel (cello), Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)
04:03AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Polka of V. R. for piano in A flat major
Ivetta Irkha (piano)
04:07AM
Bacewicz, Grazyna (1909-1969)
Concert Oberek
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
04:10AM
Rore, Cipriano de (c1515-1565)
Anchor che col partire, Ausfùhrung und Anschließender Improvisation
Labyrinto
04:16AM
Gesualdo, Carlo (c.1560-1613)
Tribulationem et dolorem inveni for 5 voices
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
04:20AM
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
Praeludium and Allegro
Moshe Hammer (violin), Valerie Tryon (piano)
04:26AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Liebestraum No.3
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
04:31AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) arr.Max Schonherr
Marche militaire No.1 in D major (D.733)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
04:37AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
Concerto for trombone and military band in B flat major
Tibor Winkler (trombone), Chamber Wind Orchestra, Zdenek Machacek (conductor)
04:49AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Marche Slave (Op.31)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
05:01AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Prelude to Parsifal
Felix Mottl (1856-1911) (piano)
05:13AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Symphony No.1 in C major (Op.19)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
05:38AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Allein Gott in der Hoh' sei Ehr' (BWV.664)
Bine Katrine Bryndorf (Organ of Hjertling Church, Jutland)
05:44AM
Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann (1710-1784)
Fugue in C minor & Fugue in F major
Stef Tuinstra (1808 Freytag organ of the Hervormde kerk, Finsterwolde)
05:55AM
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875) (Suite 2 compiled by Ernest Guiraud)
Selection from L'Arlésienne Suites Nos.1 & 2
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
06:16AM
Wilbye, John (1574-1638)
Flora gave mee fairest flowers for 5 voices
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
06:18AM
Gibbons, Orlando (1583-1625)
What is our life?
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (director)
06:22AM
Wilbye, John (1574-1638)
Oft have I vowde for 5 voices
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
06:26AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959)
Song of the Black Swan
Henry-David Varema (cello), Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
06:29AM
Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805)
Rondeau (Op.28 No.4)
David Varema (cello), Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
06:33AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
Sorrow for cello and orchestra (Op.2 No.2)
Arto Noras (cello), The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Panula (conductor)
06:39AM
Duparc, Henri (1848-1933)
Le Manoir de Rosamonde - for voice and piano (1879/1882)
Gerald Finley (baritone), Stephen Ralls (piano)
06:42AM
Duparc, Henri (1848-1933)
Elégie - for voice and piano (1874)
Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano), Stephen Ralls (piano)
06:45AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante (Op.22)
Ludmil Angelov (piano), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milen Nachev (conductor).
FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b00s1m80)
Friday - Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Music by some well known and some less well known English composers to celebrate St George's Day, as well as music from Vivaldi, Mendelssohn and J S Bach.
FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b00s1m82)
Friday - Sarah Walker
Classical Collection with Sarah Walker. Great recordings and classic performances.
Musical melancholy at its most intense from Elgar, more muted but no less moving from Schumann and Satie.
10.00
Eduard Napravnik
Melancholy Op.48 No.3
Lyadov
Musical Snuff-Box Op.32
USSR Symphony Orchestra
Yevgeniy Svetlanov (conductor)
CD: BMG-MELODIYA 74321 34167 2 [2 CDs]
10.09*
Beethoven
String Quartet in Bb Op.18 No.6
Smithson String Quartet
CD: DHM RD77029 [2 CDs]
10.39*
Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor Op.85
Paul Tortelier (cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
CD: EMI 6 88627 5 [20 CDs]
11.07*
Schumann
Gesange der Fruhe Op.133
Laurent Cabasso (piano)
CD: VALOIS V 4629
11.21*
Brumel
Lamentations
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (director)
CD: GIMELL CDGIM 026
11.30*
J.S. Bach
Suite in G BWV 1007
Tibor de Machula (cello)
LP: ENCORE RECITALS-ONGEHOORD 2007-1/2
11.47*
Satie
Le fils des etoiles - Prelude
Reverie du pauvre
John White (piano)
CD: ARS NOVA 74321 277997.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00s1m8j)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Episode 5
This prodigiously talented composer led a very full but all too brief life, dying at the age of just 31, in 1828. He is probably best known for the vast number of songs he wrote throughout his life - around 600 of them, including the two song cycles 'Die Schöne Müllerin' and 'Winterreise' plus some of the most popular symphonic and chamber music in the repertoire, such as the 'Unfinished' and 'Great C major' Symphonies and the 'Trout' Quintet. This week Donald Macleod looks at the important role the colourful individuals in Schubert's social circle had on him and his music, and how his decadent lifestyle contributed to his untimely death.
He was an intensely prolific composer - in his 18th year alone he produced around 200 works. And in spite of immense mental and physical problems he continued to do so, writing some of his best-loved music in his final year.
Schubert suffered from severe mood swings most of his adult life. When he was in his mid-twenties, they became far more extreme and his friends reported periods of dark despair and violent anger. It's hard to know at this distance, to what extent his decadent lifestyle affected his behaviour but it greatly increased his chances of succumbing to one of the major killers of the time - syphilis. From then on, his fate was sealed - although he had periods of remission, it irreparably damaged his health and if typhoid fever hadn't struck him down first, would undoubtedly have killed him.
Donald Macleod introduces music from those final years including part of the intensely felt song-cycle Die Winterreise, the bright and breezy Shepherd on the Rock and the brilliant finale of his last symphony.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00s1m95)
Radio 3 New Generation Artists
Performances by Francesco Piemontesi, Tai Murray and Mahan Esfahani, Pavel Haas Quartet
Now entering its second decade, the Radio 3 New Generation Artist scheme exists to provide concert and recording opportunites to some of the world's finest younger musicians. The scheme's alumni include such major names as Paul Lewis, Alice Coote, Janine Jansen and the Belcea and Jerusalem string quartets.
In the last of four lunchtime programmes this week featuring studio and concert performances by current Radio 3 New Generation Artists, Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi performs Haydn's F minor Variations, American violinist and Iranian-born harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani team up for a sonata by Corelli, and the Pavel Haas Quartet from Prague play Smetana's First String Quartet 'From my Life'
Full programme:
Haydn: Variations in F minor, Hob.XVII:6
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
Corelli: Violin Sonata in B flat major, Op. 5 No. 2
Tai Murray (violin), Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, 'From my life'
Pavel Haas Quartet.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00s1m9k)
Composer-Conductor-Performers
Episode 4
Composer-conductor-performers
Across the centuries leading musicians, at home and abroad, have demonstrated their versatility in fulfilling dual roles as composers-conductors, conductor-performers or performer-composers with great success. In today's Afternoon on 3, Louise Fryer celebrates the accomplishments of figures who have met these criteria, including Eric Coates, Benjamin Britten and Richard Strauss, together with the contemporary Scottish composer-conductor James MacMillan. Featuring BBC Performing Group recordings.
Coates: The Jester at the Wedding - suite from the ballet
Ulster Orchestra
Rumon Gamba, conductor
2.25pm
Strauss: Don Juan
BBC Philharmonic
Michal Dworzynski, conductor
MacMillan: Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis
BBC Singers
Jonathan Scott, organ
James MacMillan, conductor
3.05pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major
Ulster Orchestra
Howard Shelley, soloist/conductor
Bridge: Summer: tone poem
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Rumon Gamba, orchestra
3.45pm
Britten: Nocturne for tenor, seven obbligato instruments and strings
Ian Bostridge, tenor
BBC Philharmonic
Yutaka Sado, conductor
4.20pm
Britten: Symphony for cello and orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Danjulo Ishizaka, cello
Edwin Outwater, conductor.
FRI 17:00 In Tune (b00s1mdn)
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
Acclaimed Irish actress/director Fiona Shaw and soprano Jennifer Rhys-Davies talk about a new production of Henze's rarelt performed opera Elegy for Young Lovers, an English National Opera production opening soon at the Young Vic Theatre in London. Richard Egarr plays harpsichord in the studio ahead of concerts with the Academy of Ancient Music in London and Cambridge.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00s1mdq)
Widmann, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich
Episode 1
Presented by Ian Skelly
Jörg Widmann ranks among the finest composers of his generation and in this revised version of 'Lied' he builds a colossal Mahlerian orchestral work around fleeting traces of Schubert melodies. Heightened romanticism is also evident in Rachaminov's rhapsody for piano and orchestra based on Paganini's famous 24th Caprice. The concert ends with Shostakovich's wartime Eighth Symphony, which although was not the upbeat propaganda work the Soviet authorities had hoped for, it is one of the composers most hard-hitting and monumental.
Jorg Widmann - Lied
Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
Shostakovich - Symphony no.8 in C minor
Stephen Hough (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Lawrence Renes (conductor).
FRI 19:55 Twenty Minutes (b00s1ml2)
I'm Sorry I Killed Your Fish
Shostakovich's Fifth symphony was published with the tag "A Soviet artist's reply to justified criticism," and was widely seen as an apology to Stalin authorities for his opera Lady Macbeth. Russian apologies are very different from English ones. Overwhelmingly the most common way for a Russian to apologise is to say "forgive me": a formulation that demands forgiveness from the listener. English apologies, by contrast, almost always use the word "sorry": a word full of ambiguity since it expresses regret but not necessarily culpability.
The ambiguity has frequently been exploited by Anglo-Saxon politicians who have apparently apologised for historic wrongs which they were not responsible for.
Poles use the formula: "I apologise" - what linguists call a "a performative" - which is situated somewhere between the English and Russian formula. Eva Ogiermann from Portsmouth University is a Polish linguist, fluent in all three languages; she has carried out extensive research in how people apologise in the three languages. In one scenario she asked people how they would apologise for letting a neighbour's pet fish die while supposedly looking after them. A typical British apology is "Some of your fish died while you were away. I fed them an everything but turned up one day and some had died" (admitting facts but denying responsibility) or when accepting blame only using careful formulation such as "I think I might not have fed them properly". Russians and Poles would tend to the more florid, such as "I neglected your fish. I know now that there is nothing to be done", or "I have not lived up to your trust".
Using many other scenarios, not just fish, Eva Ogiermann constructs a complete typology of apology, and argues that the differences are more than linguistic - they reflect different notions of politeness in the respective cultures. The British emphasise "negative politeness" - not encroaching on someone else's space. Russians are far more interested in "positive politeness" - making the hearer feel good about themselves.
FRI 20:15 Performance on 3 (b00s1mk9)
Widmann, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich
Part 2
Presented by Ian Skelly
Jörg Widmann ranks among the finest composers of his generation and in this revised version of 'Lied' he builds a colossal Mahlerian orchestral work around fleeting traces of Schubert melodies. Heightened romanticism is also evident in Rachaminov's rhapsody for piano and orchestra based on Paganini's famous 24th Caprice. The concert ends with Shostakovich's wartime Eighth Symphony, which although was not the upbeat propaganda work the Soviet authorities had hoped for, it is one of the composers most hard-hitting and monumental.
Jorg Widmann - Lied
Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
Shostakovich - Symphony no.8 in C minor
Stephen Hough (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Lawrence Renes (conductor).
FRI 21:30 The Verb (b00s1mds)
Alex Horne/Fado Poetry/Lionel Shriver
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the spoken word and new writing. On this week's programme:
Pass the Frank...
The Verb's Language Spy Alex Horne investigates the words we use for the TV remote control, from the Frank Zappa to the Dooffer to the Rees-Mogg.
Saudade
As a new collection of poetic responses to the Portuguese song form Fado is published, poets Carol Rumens and Fiona Sampson read their translations of classic lyrics, and reflect on the true meaning of the term Saudade - a kind of yearning that only Fado can express.
Saudade: An Anthology of Fado Poetry is out now from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Lionel Shriver
The Orange Prize winning novelist, author of the bestselling We Need To Talk About Kevin and now So Much For That, reads an extract from a new work in progress: Vermin. A couple's pleasure in their new home turns sour when they try to evict a nest of racoons living close by.
FRI 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00s1m8j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 23:00 The Essay (b00s1mdv)
Running the World
Episode 5
5. Hayden Lorimer, geographer and running obsessive on the rhythms and routines of his love.
'Running the World', the Essay series this week is written and presented by the running enthusiast and geographer Hayden Lorimer. Walking, swimming, rock climbing - many outdoor activities that put us out of breath have long cultural associations. Running is surprisingly little represented in the arts. Why should that be? The five talks evoke five runs and explore key cultural representations of running: Alf Tupper, the comic strip runner, Alan Sillitoe's novel 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner', the self help running programmes of present day America They also do things that runners don't - stop and look around and think what it means to experience the world by running across it.
In the final programme of his week of essays on running, Hayden Lorimer explores the American Dr George Sheehan and his philosophy of running that has found many followers including Bill Clinton.
Producer: Tim Dee.
FRI 23:15 World on 3 (b00s1mdx)
Mary Ann Kennedy
Mary Ann Kennedy with a mix of sounds from across the globe, plus a studio session with Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara, who have taken their guitar and ritti duo to a new level with the extended tracks of their latest album 'Trance Sessions'.
Producer Roger Short
Juldeh is a virtuoso of the one-stringed fiddle, the ritti, having been taught in the Gambia by his father. His collaboration with Justin Adams dates from 2007, and was an instant success, winning a prize in the 2008 Radio 3 Awards for World Music. Justin Adams started out playing electric guitar in bands with bassist Jah Wobble and also singer Robert Plant, and has developed a guitar sound and style influenced equally by American blues and African traditions. They see their Trance Sessions as having 'an African sense of time and structure' - musical ideas which evolve slowly, unfettered by the time restrictions of the classic pop record format.