A jazz composer whose depth and variety of output has been compared to that of Duke Ellington, Mike Westbrook talks to Alyn Shipton to select the highlights of a recording career that stretches back over 40 years. It includes not only music by his highly rated big band, but also his trio and brass band, along with vocal settings of the works of William Blake.
John Shea presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters
Sally Matthews (soprano), Sarah Castle (mezzo soprano), Steve Davislim (tenor), Halle Youth Choir, Halle Choir, Halle Orchestra, Mark Elder (conductor)
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918), orch. Henri Busset
Lawes, William (1602-1645); Lawes, Henry (1596-1662); Anon (17th century) arr. Memelsdorff/Staier
Anon: 2 Tunes to John Playford's Dancing Master (Tune upon a jig; Kemp's jig) [1651]
Sonata in D minor (Kk.9) 'Pastorale'; Sonata in B minor (Kk.27); Sonata in A major (Kk.322)
Strauss, Johann jr. (1825-1899) arranged by Berg, Alban (1885-1935)
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [Brautigam plays on an 1842 Erard Grand Piano. Recorded in 1992]
Gregorc, Janez (b. 1934)
Vos me matastes; De los alamos vengo, madre [from Miguel de Fuenllana (Hg.), Orphénica lyra. Seville 1554]; Oy comamos y bebamos - Villancico a3 [Ms. Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional]
Fiona Talkington presents Breakfast. Music by Bach, Balakirev, Beethoven and Bacharach are all included in this morning's programme.
Suzy Klein has the soundtrack to your Sunday Morning with a programme all about Heroes and Villains -including music from Beethoven, Strauss and Wagner. Intrepid Mark Swartzentruber discovers a rare vintage recording and we elect another candidate to join music's Room 101.
Michael Berkeley's guest this week is the science writer Philip Ball, author of a range of popular books on scientific and aesthetic subjects such as 'Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry'; 'Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Colour'; 'Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts', and 'Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Triumph of the Medieval Mind'. His latest book is 'The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It', which explores how the latest research in music psychology and brain science is piecing together the puzzle of how we understand and respond to music. He discusses his ideas with Michael Berkeley, using a range of personal musical favourites from a Bach Prelude to a piano concerto by Bartok, a piano sonata by Prokofiev, Stravinsky's Tango for two accordions, and a jazz number by Duke Ellington.
Lucie Skeaping talks to Laurence Dreyfus, the founder and director of the viol consort Phantasm. They discuss among other things the group's distinctive expressive sound, and some of their arrangements of keyboard works by JS Bach, and sacred vocal music by Byrd. Music in the programme is a selection from Phantasm's recordings, including works by Jenkins, Lawes, Gibbons and Purcell. (Repeat)
Does classical music need more happy performers? Amongst Chi-chi Nwanoku's requests this week, one listener's plea for musicians to follow the example of Daniel Barenboim, Jacqueline du Pré and Pinchas Zukerman in their joyous recording of Beethoven's 'Archduke' Trio. Plus, virtuosic Chopin from a new Japanese piano sensation, the choral music of American composer Morten Lauridsen, and baritone Christopher Purves on a hidden passion for the music of Engelbert Humperdinck.
Stephen Johnson continues his exploration of Mahler, examining the echoes of his songs in his later symphonies. Whilst their influence is not as obvious as in the first four symphonies, the songs' subtle resonances in these later works play an important role in the understanding and unpicking of the emotional depths of Symphonies 5-10.
Aled Jones catches up with the latest news from the Choir of the Year 2010 competition, already in full swing all round the country, plus he samples the foot-tapping choral rhythms of Latin America.
Gogol's landmark nineteenth century satire on corruption and sleaze. A penniless clerk is mistaken for a Government official by a corrupt town council. Starring Toby Jones and Paul Ritter.
Khlestakov ..... TOBY JONES
The Mayor ..... PAUL RITTER
Education Director ..... JEREMY SWIFT
Anna ..... FRANCES BARBER
Osip/ Gendarme ..... RUSSELL TOVEY
Marya ..... DAISY HAGGARD
Dobchinsky ..... SEAN FOLEY
Bobchinsky ..... MARK HEAP
Shopkeeper 2 / Postmaster ..... PAUL RIDER
Widow / Magistrate's Wife ..... CAROLINE GUTHRIE
Locksmith's Wife / Khlopov's Wife ..... JANICE ACQUAH
Abdulin / Liuliukov ..... JONATHAN TAFLER
Mishka / Constable / Shopkeeper 1 ..... BENJAMIN ASKEW
Waiter / Doctor (German) / Ratakovsky ..... MATT ADDIS
Superintendent / Shopkeeper 3 / Korobkin ..... STEPHEN HOGAN
Magistrate ..... STEPHEN CRITCHLOW
Health Commissioner ..... MALCOLM TIERNEY
Avdotya / Korobkin's Wife ..... LIZZIE WATTS
Gogol's play from 1836 still delights audiences today with its satirical swipes at political self-serving, sleaze and vice. A dazzling blend of preposterous characters and all-too-real situations, Nabokov called The Government Inspector the greatest play in the Russian language.
Every Sunday evening Radio 3 brings you a sequence of music, poetry and prose on a theme, this week inspired by rivers.
Tonight, Juliet Stevenson and Jamie Glover read poetry and prose by Wordsworth, U.A. Fanthorpe, Ezra Pound, John Clare and Elizabeth Jennings with music by Tippett, Delius, Duke Ellington, Gorecki and Talking Heads.
UK Bassist Arnie Somogyi recently went on tour to Brazil and took with him a BBC recorder to document his travels for Jazz Line-Up.
During his visit he met up with the Hermeto Pascoal Band and talked to Brazilian piano maestro Joao Donato, about his work and distinctive interpretation of the music.
Arnie Somogyi also returned with a selection of Brazilian Jazz Releases and demonstrates the flavour of the music currently being played in Brazil, as well as giving us a flavour of his own performance in Brazil.
MONDAY 10 MAY 2010
MON 01:00 Through the Night (b00s9gcf)
John Shea presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters
01:01AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Quartet for Strings (Op. 76'2) in D minor "Fifths"
Pavel Haas Quartet;
01:20AM
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904)
Quintet for strings (Op.97) in E flat major
Pavel Haas Quartet
01:53AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Quartet for strings (Op.18'6) in B flat major
Pacifica Quartet
02:18AM
Stradella, Alessandro (1644-1682)
L'anime del Purgatorio (1680)
Emma Kirkby (soprano: Angelo), David Thomas (bass: Lucifero), Evelyn Tubb (soprano: Un'anima), Richard Wistreich (bass: Un'anima), The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director & lute)
03:01AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Prelude and Act III Liebestod - from the opera Tristan and Isolde
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
03:20AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959)
Guitar Prelude No.3 in A minor
Norbert Kraft (guitar)
03:27AM
Rangström, Ture (1884-1947)
Partita for Violin and Orchestra (appl)
Bernt Lysell (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Niklas Willén (conductor)
03:41AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Quartet for strings in B flat major (K.458) "Hunt"
Quatuor Mosaïques
04:03AM
Skjavetic, Julije [Schiavetti, Giulio] (16th century Croatian composer), transcr. Dr Lovro Zupanovic
Madrigal: Io non voglio lodar (I do not wish to praise)
04:07AM
Madrigal: Cosi fan' questi giovani (That is what these young men are doing)
Slovenian Chamber Choir, Vladimir Kranjčević (director)
04:09AM
Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706)
Canon and Gigue in D major
Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, Barbara Jane Gilbey (violin and director), Geoffrey Lancaster (harpsichord)
04:15AM
Skjavetić, Julije [Schiavetti, Giulio] (16th century Croatian composer), transcr. Dr. Lovro Zupanović
Madrigal: Deh perche vogli' ancho (Oh, why do I still want to)
04:16AM
Madrigal: Fu fors' un tempo (It may have been once)
Slovenian Chamber Choir, Vladimir Kranjcevic (director)
04:19AM
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915)
3 Etudes (Op.65)
Roger Woodward (piano)
04:26AM
Satie, Erik (1866-1925)
La Belle excentrique (Fantaisie sérieuse) - vers. for piano duet
Steven & Stijn Kolacny (pianos)
04:35AM
Skjavetic, Julije [Schiavetti, Giulio] (16th century Croatian composer), transcribed by Dr Lovro Zupanovic
Madrigal: Per pieta (Out of piety)
Slovenian Chamber Choir, Vladimir Kranjcevic (director)
04:39AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Sonata for violin & basso continuo in F major - from Essercizii Musici
Camerata Köln
04:49AM
Farkas, Ferenc (1905-2000)
5 Ancient Hungarian Dances for wind quintet
Galliard Ensemble
05:01AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Fugue for lute (BWV.1000) in G minor
Konrad Junghänel (lute)
05:07AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
7 Variationen über 'Kind willst du ruhig schlafen' (WoO 75)
Theo Bruins (piano)
05:18AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Adagio from Trio for clarinet (or violin), cello and piano in B flat major (Op.11)
Beaux Arts Trio
05:24AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Wie bist du, meine Königin (Op.32 No.9) (song)
Von ewiger Liebe (Op.43 No.1) (song)
Urszula Kryger (mezzo-soprano), Katarzyna Jankowska (piano)
05:34AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
5 Songs for chorus (Op.104)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
05:48AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), arr. Busoni, Ferruccio (1866-1924)
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (BWV.565)
Valerie Tryon (piano)
05:57AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Passacaglia in C minor (BWV.582)
Hans van Nieuwkoop (organ - Hervormde kerk, Noordbroek - Arp Schnitger 1696)
06:12AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Her, BWV 675 (à 3 Canto fermo in Alto)
Stef Tuinstra (organ) played on Albertus Anthoni Hinsz 1777 organ, Damwoude-Dantumawoude, Hervormde Kerk
06:16AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Beschränkt, ihr Weisen dieser Welt (BWV.443); Ich liebe Jesum alle Stund' (BWV.468); Jesu, Jesu, du bist mein (BWV.470); Ach daß nicht die letzte Stunde meines Lebens (BWV.439) - 4 Chorales from the Schemelli collection
Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Domen Marincic (gamba), Dalibor Miklavcic (organ)
06:25AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Double concerto for violin and cello in A minor (Op.102)
Bartilomie Niziol (violin), Adam Klocek (cello), Sinfonia Varsovia, Tomasz Bugaj (conductor).
MON 07:00 Breakfast (b00s9gch)
Monday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Overtures by Rossini and Beethoven, violin music by Bach and Tchaikovsky, and piano music by Haydn and Skempton are all included in this morning's Breakfast. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
MON 10:00 Classical Collection (b00s9gck)
Monday - James Jolly
Classical Collection with James Jolly. Great recordings and classic performances.
The theme this week is Heaven and Hell. Today's highlights include Bach's St Matthew Passion and Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini.
10.00
Massenet
Intermezzo (Thais)
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
EMI CDM 764 629 2
10.07*
Ravel
Introduction and Allegro
William Bennett (flute)
James Campbell (clarinet)
Ieuan Jones (harp)
Allegri String Quartet
CALA CACD1018 (2 CD set)
10.18*
Dvorak
Cello Concerto in B minor op 104
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 447 413 2
11.00*
Rachmaninov
Moments Musicaux op 16: selection
Jonathan Plowright (piano)
SOUND PROJECTS SPJP1002
11.18*
Bach
St Matthew Passion: Part 2
No 52 Konnen Tranen meiner Wangen
No 53 Da nahmen die Kriegsknechte
No 54 O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden
Marie-Claude Chappuis (alto)
Johannes Chum (tenor)
Thomanerchor Leipzig
Tolzer Knabenchor
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
DECCA 478 2194 (2 CD set)
11.30*
Tchaikovsky
Francesca da Rimini
The Building a Library Choice from last Saturday's CD Review.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00sbb2c)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
1803
Aside from his music, Beethoven is perhaps best known for his devastating loss of hearing and infamous love life. Donald Macleod examines how this complex man was affected by such crises, set against the backdrop of the turbulent years through which he lived. In each episode Donald concentrates on the music and events in and around one significant year, beginning in 1803.
By then, aged 33, Beethoven's hearing had already begun to deteriorate and the previous year he wrote of his despair and thoughts of suicide. It marked a change in his music and a new 'heroic style' emerged, reflected in the virtuosic Waldstein Sonata and in the Eroica Symphony, originally written in Napoleon's honour. In the second programme, Donald reflects on 1809, the year Napoleon invaded Vienna. We'll hear from the Les Adieux Piano Sonata and majestic Emperor Piano Concerto, both of which Beethoven wrote for his friend and patron, Archduke Rudolph.
Beethoven had numerous amorous encounters over the years, but things came to a head in 1812. That year he wrote a love letter to his 'Immortal Beloved' whose identity has given rise to endless speculation. In the third programme Donald introduces songs written for the woman thought to be the intended recipient, Antonie Brentano, and ends the programme with the final major work of that year, his 8th symphony.
Beethoven's only opera Fidelio is one of the most intense and moving of all music dramas, a celebration of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity, and it forms the focus of the fourth programme. In the fifth and final programme, Donald looks at 1822. The increasingly reclusive composer wrote his last piano sonata that year and his Handelian overture The Consecration of the House. But his greatest project, which took some five years to complete, was the Missa Solemnis, his largest choral work and for Beethoven, the supreme challenge of his life.
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00s9gcm)
Christian Poltera, Shai Wosner
In today's live Lunchtime Concert from Wigmore Hall, Christian Poltera and Shai Wosner perform two masterpieces from the cello repertoire. Beethoven's lyrical G minor sonata, written during his first years in Vienna, and Brahms' brooding E minor sonata.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.
Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 5 No. 2
Brahms Cello Sonata in E minor, Op. 38 No. 1
Christian Poltéra (cello)
Shai Wosner (piano).
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00s9gcp)
A Prelude to Youth
Episode 1
On Sunday, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales plays host to the grand final of the BBC Young Musician competition at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff. That concert is being broadcast both on Radio 3 and BBC 4 TV, and throughout this week's Afternoons Jonathan Swain presents performances from the final rounds (the percussion final forms part of Performance on 3 on Friday evening). There's also a strong focus on youth in the other music this week, featuring competition finalists from previous years, and on Wednesday we go live to the orchestra's home in BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff.
Hughes: Prelude for the Youth of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Owain Arwel Hughes (conductor)
Hummel: Trumpet concerto in E
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Alison Balsom (trumpet)
Jac van Steen (conductor)
2.40pm
Torke: Rapture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Colin Currie (percussion)
Jac van Steen (conductor)
Gerswhin: An American in Paris
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
National Youth Orchestra of Wales
Eric Stern (conductor)
Edward Gregson: Trombone Concerto
BBC Concert Orchestra
Peter Moore (trombone)
Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
4pm
Berlioz: Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)
4.35pm
Performances from the winner of the 2010 BBC Young Musician brass finals.
MON 17:00 In Tune (b00s9gcr)
Virtuosic pianist Imogen Cooper will perform a series of concerts with the Britten Sinfonia starting from the 13th of May at The Courtyard, Hereford then travelling to Cambridge, London and then Austria. Imogen Cooper will be playing Mozart, Janacek and the acclaimed cycle of Beethoven concertos.
The Tallis Scholars and their director Peter Phillips will appear as part of the series Choral at Cadogan Hall 2009-2010 on the 11th of May. The programme includes a wide selection of sacred music including works by Palestrina, Croce, A Gabrieli, Phinot and Festa.
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
MON 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00s9gct)
Mahler Symphony Cycle
Episode 6
Presented by Catherine Bott.
Continuing our cycle of all Mahler's Symphonies performed in Manchester and broadcast in sequence every Monday in Performance on 3.
Tonight Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic at the Bridgewater Hall in Mahler's Sixth Symphony, sometimes referred to as the 'Tragic', in part due to what Mahler himself described as the 'brief and mighty' fall of a hammer in the final movement.
Before that is the first performance of Edward Gregson's Dream Song. It was commissioned by the BBC specifically to preface Mahler 6 and uses some themes from the symphony.
Edward Gregson: Dream Song (BBC commission)
Mahler: Symphony No 6
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
Followed by performances by nominees for the 2010 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, ahead of the awards ceremony on Tuesday. Tonight features the nominees in the Young Artist category.
Handel: O Praise the Lord with one consent, HWV254
Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Academy of Ancient Music
Stephen Layton (conductor)
Christopher Ball: Flute Concerto (1st mvt)
Adam Walker (flute)
Emerald Concert Orchestra
Christopher Ball (conductor)
Handel: Parnasso in Festa
Lucy Crowe (soprano)
King's Consort
Matthew Halls (director)
MON 21:15 Night Waves (b00s9gcw)
Year of Science 2010
Chris and Uta Frith
As part of the BBC's year of science programmes, Night Waves is running a special series of extended interviews with leading scientists from Britain and the rest of the world. Each month scientific figures talk about their research specialism, their wider scientific views, their personal background and their involvement with broader cultural and political questions.
Tonight, Rana Mitter interviews husband and wife team Chris and Uta Frith. Both are eminent neuroscientists, leaders in their fields - Chris Frith, Emeritus Professor at the Wellcome Trust specialises in schizophrenia and Uta Frith, Professor at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London in autism - which means that they both working in what has been called "the social brain". Rana talks to them about the nature of these illnesses, the strong public perception of them, and the illnesses' sometimes very high political profile - and how the latest wide-ranging scientific research on the brain is changing our understanding of them. And Rana asks them: how does a scientific relationship co-exist with a marriage?
MON 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00sbb2c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
MON 23:00 The Essay (b00kl1mb)
Looking for Ghosts
Spinoza
Emancipation was an important part of Jewish history. Segregated for hundreds of years, Jews were integrated and assimilated into European society. But, because of the Holocaust, most of these ghosts have been forgotten, because the community that might have remembered them no longer exists. Michael Goldfarb travels through Europe in search of these ghosts.
In this first programme, he's in Amsterdam hunting for philosopher, Benedict de Spinoza whose views on tolerance and democracy made him an important part of Jewish history. (Rpt)
Producer: Julia Hayball.
MON 23:15 Jazz on 3 (b00s9gd8)
Billy Jenkins in Session
Jez Nelson presents guitarist and vocalist Billy Jenkins, recorded in session exclusively for Jazz On 3 with an all-star band. A bluesman, fiery improviser and self styled musical subversive, Jenkins is a true original whose music inspired by the South-East London suburbs where he lives.
The comedian Stewart Lee has said of Jenkins "There is a kind of genius on our doorstep, don't let him die in poverty". In this programme Lee interviews Jenkins in his South London home about this session and his life in music, including his early days performing "jazz and jokes" at The Comic Strip comedy club; his seminal band the Voice of God Collective; and how his recent work conducting Humanist funerals has influenced his music.
Alongside Jenkins, this session features Oren Marshall on tuba, trombonist Gail Brand, saxophonist Nathaniel Facey, drummer Charles Hayward and violinist Dylan Bates.
Presenter: Jez Nelson
Producer: Kathryn Willgress & Peggy Sutton.
TUESDAY 11 MAY 2010
TUE 01:00 Through the Night (b00s9h20)
John Shea presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters
01:01AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Fantasia on Polish airs for piano and orchestra (Op.13) in A major
Nelson Goerner (1849 Erard Piano), Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen (conductor)
01:16AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 (Op.11) in E minor
Kevin Kenner (1849 Erard Piano), Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen (conductor)
01:55AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Mazurka in A minor (Op.7, No.2) "Duda"
Kevin Kenner (1849 Erard Piano)
01:59AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Andante spianato and grande polonaise brillante (Op.22) version for piano & orchestra
Nelson Goerner (1849 Erard Piano), Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen (conductor)
02:13AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Tasso: lamento e trionfo - symphonic poem after Byron (S.96)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor)
02:34AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Quartet for oboe and strings (K.370) in F major
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Psophos Quartet
02:49AM
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto for strings, No.4 in E minor
Concerto Köln
03:01AM
Kyurkchiyski, Krassimir (b.1936)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra 'In Memory of Pancho Vladigerov'
Milena Mollova (piano), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Vladigerov (conductor)
03:36AM
Genin, Pierre Agricola (1832-1903)
Fantaisie sur Rigoletto (Op.19)
Zhenia Dukova (flute (Bulgaria), Andrey Angelov (piano)
03:49AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.97 in C major (H.
1.97)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marbà (conductor)
04:14AM
Thuille, Ludwig (1861-1907)
Sextet for piano and wind quintet in B flat major (Op.6) (in four movements)
Jae-Eun Ku (piano), Tae-Won Kim (flute), Hyong-Sup Kim (oboe), Hyon-Kon Kim (clarinet), Sang-Won Yoon (bassoon), Kawng-Ku Lee (horn)
04:44AM
Kajanus, Robert (1856-1933)
Aino - symphonic poem for male chorus and orchestra (1885)
Helsinki University Choir, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Panula (conductor)
05:01AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Concerto for trumpet and orchestra in D major
Friedemann Immer (trumpet), Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
05:08AM
Clemens non Papa (c.1510-c.1556)
Ave Maria
Banchieri Singers, Denes Szabo (conductor)
05:11AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Overture: Der Fliegende Hollander ('The Flying Dutchman')
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
05:23AM
Baermann, Heinrich Joseph (1784-1847)
Adagio in D from Quintet No.3 (Op.23) in E flat (previously attributed to Wagner)
Joze Kotar (clarinet), Borut Kantuzer (double bass), Slovene Philharmonic String Quartet
05:27AM
Mosonyi, Mihály (1815-1870)
Studies for the teaching of the Interpretation of Hungarian Music
Klara Körmendi (piano)
05:41AM
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)
Suite - Le Roi Danse
Ars Barocca
06:00AM
Boulanger, Lili (1893-1918)
Nocturne for flute and piano
Valentinas Gelgotas (flute), Audrone Kisieliute (piano)
06:04AM
Järnefelt, Armas (1869-1958)
Berceuse (Lullaby)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ilpo Mansnerus (conductor)
06:08AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
First movement from the Sonata for violin and piano
Fanny Clamagirand (violin), Nicolas Bringuer (piano)
06:15AM
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
Recitativo and scherzo-caprice for violin solo, (Op.6)b
Fanny Clamagirand (violin)
06:20AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Concerto for double bass and orchestra [transcribed by Gary Karr, orchestrated by Joseph Horovitz after Grieg's cello sonata] (Op.36)
Gary Karr (double bass), Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Thomas (conductor)
06:44AM
Vremsak, Samo (1930-2004)
Three Poems by Tone Kuntner
Chamber Choir AVE, Andraz Hauptman (conductor)
06:49AM
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909)
Smutna opowiesc (Preludia do wiecznosci)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Strazynski (conductor).
TUE 07:00 Breakfast (b00s9h22)
Tuesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast. Music from Hildegard of Bingen, Warlock, Debussy and Mozart, plus a look at this week's Specialist Classical Chart.
TUE 10:00 Classical Collection (b00s9h24)
Classical Collection with James Jolly. Great recordings and classic performances.
Continuing the theme of Heaven and Hell. Today's highlights include a Mendelssohn's chorale cantata "Von Himmel Hoch" and a Group of 3 pieces exploring the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice.
10.00Boito
Mefistofele: Prelude
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
RCA 09026 68284 2 (2 CD set)
10.07*
Poulenc
Sonata for flute and piano
Jonathan Snowden (flute)
Andrew Litton (piano)
VIRGIN CLASSICS VC7908462
10.20*
Mendelssohn
Vom Himmel Hoch
Ute Selbig (soprano)
Egbert Junghanns (baritone)
Dresdner Kreuzchor
Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra
Martin Flamig (conductor)
CAPRICCIO 10216
10.36*
Roussel
Symphony no 3 in G minor op 42
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN7007
10.59*
Beethoven
Sonata in F minor op 57 "Appassionata" Murray Perahia (piano) SONY CLASSICAL SMK 39344
11.24*
Monteverdi
L'Orfeo: conclusion
Deborah York, Carol Hall &
Catherine King (sopranos)
Charles Brett, Robert Jones (altos)
Paul Agnew (tenor)
Alan Ewing (bass)
New London Consort
Philip Pickett (conductor)
OISEAU LYRE 4335452 (2-CD set)
11.27*
Gluck
Air from the ballet music to
Orpheus and Euridice, 1774 Paris version CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra Hartmut Haenchen (conductor) CAPRICCIO 60008-2 (2 CD set)
11.30*
Offenbach
Ballet des mouches
(Orpheus in the Underworld, Act 2)
Lyon Opera Orchestra
Marc Minkowski (conductor)
EMI 556 725 2 (2 CD set)
11.32*
Mozart
Exsultate Jubilate
Edith Mathis (soprano)
Dresden State Orchestra
Bernhard Klee (conductor)
DG 419 060 2
11.47*
Bach/Montero
Toccata in D minor
Gabriela Montero (piano)
EMI 3673592
11.51*
Kabalevsky
Colas Breugnon: Overture
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA 09026 61958 2.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00sbb5t)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
1809
In 1809 when Napoleon invaded Vienna, the entire nobility fled the city, including one of Beethoven's most important patrons, Archduke Rudolph. Beethoven composed two works for Rudolph that year, the Les Adieux Piano Sonata - a touching souvenir of his friend's temporary exile, and the majestic Emperor Piano Concerto. Donald Macleod explores key music and events of Beethoven's year.
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00kp116)
LSO St Luke's Jerwood Hall
Andreas Staier
Presented by Louise Fryer.
Series of chamber music concerts given at LSO St Luke's Jerwood Hall in London. Performing works by Haydn, Andreas Staier evokes a wide range of tone colours on the fortepiano, a typical instrument of the composer's time.
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
Haydn: Sonata in E flat, H XVI 49 ca; Variations in F minor, H XVII 6 ca; Sonata in E flat, H XVI 52 ca.
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00s9h28)
A Prelude to Youth
A prelude to youth
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales looks forward to the final of the BBC Young Musician competition this weekend with a focus on youth, including performances featuring previous winners. 1994 winner cellist Natalie Clein joins the orchestra in the powerful first cello concerto by Shostakovich. There's also a performance of Vaughan Williams' elegiac Lark Ascending from another previous winner, Jennifer Pike (now a Radio 3 New Generation Artist). Finally we hear from the string finalist in this year's competition. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Borodin: In the steppes of central asia
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Alex Shelley (conductor)
Shostakovich: Cello concerto no. 1 in E flat, Op.107
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Natalie Clein (cello)
Alex Shelley (conductor)
2.40pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 2 in C minor "Little Russian"
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Alex Shelley (conductor)
Liszt: Orpheus
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jennifer Pike (violin)
Richard Hickox (conductor)
3.45pm
Haydn: Symphony no. 49 in F minor "La Passione"
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Lesley Hatfield (conductor)
Dvorak: Serenade for strings
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Lesley Hatfield (conductor)
4.45pm
Performances from the winner of the 2010 BBC Young Musician strings final.
TUE 17:00 In Tune (b00s9h2b)
Presented by Suzy Klein.
With pianist Leon McCawley who plays music by Barber, Chopin and Schumann in the studio and discusses his involvement in the Newbury Spring Festival with two concerts in May.
Also, cellist Matthew Barley, described as 'probably the world's most adventurous cellist' (Glasgow Herald), talks to Suzy about his new disc of John Metcalfe compositions and his collaboration with the composer in a three-night series at Kings Place this week.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
TUE 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00s9h2d)
BBC SO/Belohlavek
Presented by Catherine Bott.
In a concert recorded at the Barbican in London on Saturday, celebrated Russian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their principal conductor Jiri Belohlavek in Schumann's Piano Concerto. Michael Tippett wrote his Corelli Fantasia for the 1953 Edinburgh Festival in celebration of the tercentenary of the composer's birth. Martinu called his final symphony, number 6, Symphonic Fantasies, and it was also written between 1951 and 1953 for his friend Charles Munch, conductor of the Boston Symphony. Jiri Belohlavek has long been a champion and expert on the music of his fellow countryman.
Tippett: Fantasia concertante on a theme of Corelli
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor
Martinu: Symphony No 6
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
Followed by performances by nominees for the 2010 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, which is being held tonight at the Dorchester Hotel in London. Tonight features the nominees in the Instrumentalist category.
Ravel: Sonate posthume
Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
Peter Nagy (piano)
Franck, transcr. Hough: Troisieme Choral
Stephen Hough (piano)
Szymanowski: Variations I-X after Paganini's Caprice no 24
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
TUE 21:15 Night Waves (b00s9h2g)
Europe in Crisis, Political Picasso, John Osborne
The huge financial bail out of the Greek economy is testing will of its largest contributor, Germany. Angela Merkel has already been punished in the polls for sending good German Money after bad Greek debts. That this is a crisis in the European Institution is not in doubt but the nature of the crisis is under discussion. Phillip Dodd is joined by Tim Garton Ash, Alex Callinicos and Robert Hancke examine the various divisions - between North and South, East West, elite and popular, financial and political - that the current crisis reveals. And to discuss whether present events will sharpen the arguments against the European project or add urgency to the calls for a greater union.
As the National Theatre of Wales premieres a lost John Osborne play called The Devil Inside Him Philip Dodd talks to John E. McGrath, the company's artistic director. The play is about a young misfit poet trapped in a conservative south Wales household but does this story fit naturally into our existing sense of Osborne's career or does it give us a new glimpse into his character as a playwright.
Pablo Picasso's status as a giant of modern art is well attested but his political significance is the subject of far fewer pronouncements. We tend to associate him with Cubism and Andalucia not ICBMs and the Iron Curtain but now, Tate Liverpool is opening an exhibition called Political Picasso: Peace and Freedom in the Cold War. The exhibition sets out to radically reassess the significance of Picasso's involvement in the Cold War dominated politics of the late 1940s-60s. The conference investigates the understanding that Picasso's politically inspired artworks had in a range of European countries inside and outside the Soviet bloc, and in the world beyond. Issues of 'peace' and 'freedom' continue to dominate our horizons as they did those of peace activists inside and outside the Communist parties. The conference also seeks to consider whether the moral, aesthetic and ideological weight associated with Picasso's major paintings of the time (Charnel House, 1944-5, Massacre in Korea, 1951 and their prefigurative model, Guernica, 1937) belongs to a lost age. Could visual art in our time ever again take on this burden, and if the answer is 'no', then what does this reveal about our contemporary culture and the place and power of art within it?
TUE 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00sbb5t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 23:00 The Essay (b00kl1zb)
Looking for Ghosts
Moses Mendelssohn
Emancipation was an important part of Jewish history. Segregated for hundreds of years, Jews were integrated and assimilated into European society. But, because of the Holocaust, most of these ghosts have been forgotten, because the community that might have remembered them no longer exists. Michael Goldfarb travels through Europe in search of these ghosts.
In Berlin, he tells the story of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn who refused to convert to Christianity and did much to encourage Jews to hold on to their religion and identity. His family went onto establish the Jewish women's salons where all classes and creeds could openly debate art, music, literature and politics. (Rpt)
Producer Julia Hayball.
TUE 23:15 Late Junction (b00s9h2s)
Max Reinhardt's musical journey tonight encompasses Nigerian highlife, a Lithuanian big band, Wagner remixed, and a Gesualdo madrigal.
WEDNESDAY 12 MAY 2010
WED 01:00 Through the Night (b00sch2n)
John Shea presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters
01:01AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 1 in C Major (Op. 21)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
01:27AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Das Lied von der Erde
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Johan Botha (tenor), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
02:36AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961), arr. for orchestra by Peter Sculthorpe
Beautiful Fresh Flower (Chinese melody)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
02:38AM
Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924)
Nessun dorma - from Turandot [arr for trumpet and orchestra]
Jouko Harjanne (trumpet), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
02:42AM
Sjögren, Emil (1853-1918)
Cello Sonata in A major (Op.58) (1912)
Mats Rondin (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
03:01AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Violin Concerto No.1 in D major (Op.19)
David Oistrakh (violin), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
03:23AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Overture (Suite) in G minor
Ad van Sleuwen (organ) on organ of Wallse Kerk, Breda (1763)
03:41AM
Cavalli, Francesco (1602-1676)
Plainsong Antiphon and Magnificat
Concerto Palatino
04:00AM
Rosenmuller, Johann (c.1619-1684)
Sinfonia à 4
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists
04:07AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata for violin and fortepiano in E flat (Op.12 No.3)
Hiro Kurosaki (violin), Linda Nicholson (fortepiano)
04:26AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Quartet for strings in F major [unfinished]
Vertavo Quartet
04:43AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Erster Verlust (D.226) (Op.5 No.4) (First Loss)
Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß (D.479) - from Three Songs of the Harpist (Op.12 No.2)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano) [The fortepiano is modelled by Christopher Clarke, Paris 1981, on a fortepiano built by Johann Fritz, Vienna c.1815. It belongs to the collection of Marcia Hadjimarkos]
04:50AM
Kurpinski, Karol (1785-1857)
Dwie Chatki (Two Huts)
Sinfonia Varsovia, Grzegorz Nowak (conductor)
05:01AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
(Großes) Te Deum in C major (Hob XXIIIc:2) [1800]
Netherlands Radio Choir and Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)
05:10AM
Haydn, Johann Michael (1737-1806)
Sinfonia in E flat major (MH.340) (P.17)
Academia Palatina, Florian Heyerick (director)
05:25AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Csardas macabre
Jenö Jandó (piano)
05:33AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921) transcr. Eugen d'Albert
Danse macabre - symphonic poem transcr. for piano [orig. orchestra, Op.40]
Eugen d'Albert (1864-1932) (piano)
05:41AM
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909)
Stanislaw and Anna of Oswiecim - symphonic poem (Op.12) (1906-7)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stanislaw Wislocki (conductor)
06:04AM
Schlegel, Leander (1844-1913)
Sonata for piano and violin (Op.34) (1910)
Candida Thompson (violin), David Kuyken (piano)
06:26AM
Muethel, Johann Gottfried (1728-1788)
Jesu, meine Freude, arr. for organ (Versus 1/2/3/ Berlin State Library manuscript Ms.mus.15762)
Ludger Lohmann (organ of Kreuzkirche, Herne)
06:35AM
Kotowicz (18th century)
Cos ucznilo - Planctus de Passione for soprano, strings and continuo
06:38AM
Anonymous (18th century)
Gorzkie zale - Planctus de Passione for 2 sopranos, strings and continuo
Concerto Polacco
06:44AM
Juon, Paul (1872-1940)
Humoreske (Allegro) - from Satyrs and Nymphs (Op.18 No.7) for piano
Desmond Wright (piano)
06:46AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
L'isle joyeuse
Roger Woodward (piano)
06:52AM
Ivanovs, Janis (1906-1983)
Cello Concerto - 2nd movement
Agnese Rugevica (cello), Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Imants Resnis (conductor.
WED 07:00 Breakfast (b00s9hc7)
Wednesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Breakfast is presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch, who shares music by Bach, Britten and Bizet, as well as a few surprises from Villa-Lobos, Sibelius and Caine.
WED 10:00 Classical Collection (b00s9h7y)
Wednesday - James Jolly
Classical Collection with James Jolly. Great recordings and classic performances.
The theme this week is Heaven and Hell.
Today's highlights include a classic recording of Strauss's Tod und Verklarung conducted by Herbert von Karajan, Schubert's Ave Maria sung by Janet Baker and ghoulish goings-on from Mussorgsky and Grieg.
10.00
Mussorgsky arr. Stokowski
Night on Bare Mountain
Cleveland Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (conductor)
DG 457 646 2
10.10*
Schubert
Ave Maria D 839
Janet Baker (contralto)
Gerald Moore (piano)
EMI CDZ 762 524 2
10.17*
Grieg
Peer Gynt: Suite no 1
Gosta Ohlin's Vocal Ensemble
Pro Musica Chamber Choir
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
DG 427 807 2
10.32*
Bach arr Hess
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)
SONY CLASSICAL SK48381
10.36*
Strauss
Tod und Verklarung op 24
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 410 892 2
11.03*
Brahms
Trio in E flat for piano, violin and horn Itzhak Perlman (violin) Barry Tuckwell (horn) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) DECCA 414 128 2
11.31*
Mahler
Symphony no 8: conclusion
Arleen Auger (soprano)
Heather Harper (soprano)
Lucia Popp (soprano)
Yvonne Minton (mezzo)
Helen Watts (contralto)
Rene Kollo (tenor)
Chorus of the Vienna State Opera
Vienna Singverein
The Vienna Boys' Choir
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor)
DECCA 414 240 2 (2-CD set).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00sbb62)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
1812
Beethoven had numerous amorous encounters over the years, some more serious than others, but things came to a head in 1812. That year he wrote a love letter to his 'Immortal Beloved' whose identity has given rise to endless speculation ever since. Donald introduces songs written for the most likely candidate, Antonie Brentano, and, in the year which saw a turning point in Beethoven's musical style, the final major work of that period - his 8th symphony. Donald Macleod explores key music and events of Beethoven's year.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00kpj54)
LSO St Luke's Jerwood Hall
Vienna Piano Trio
Presented by Louise Fryer.
Series of chamber music concerts given at LSO St Luke's Jerwood Hall in London. The Vienna Piano Trio perform works by Haydn, written in a period when the piano was becoming an increasingly popular instrument in the home.
Vienna Piano Trio
Haydn: Piano Trio in E minor, H XV 12; Piano Trio in D, H XV 24; Piano Trio in F sharp minor, H XV 26; Piano Trio in G, H XV 25 (Gypsy Rondo).
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00s9h82)
BBC NOW: Hoddinott, Bruch, Sibelius, Nielsen
Live from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, Elin Manahan Thomas presents a concert given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales - continuing their series revisiting works they've recently commissioned. Nielsen's dramatic fourth symphony, "The Inextinguishable", closes the concert, and it opens with the final symphony by Alun Hoddinott, the Welsh composer after whom the orchestra's hall is named.
Hoddinott: Symphony no. 10
John Storgards (conductor)
Bruch: Violin conerto no. 1 in G minor
Matthew Trusler (violin)
John Storgards (conductor)
3pm Interval
Sibelius: Nightride and Sunrise
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
3.15pm
Nielsen: Symphony no. 4 "The Inextinguishable"
John Storgards (conductor).
WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (b00s9h84)
London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
From the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music at St. Pancras Church.
Introit: Whither shall I go then from thy spirit (Robin Walker) Festival commission
Responses: Christopher Batchelor
Office Hymn: The Lord ascendeth up on high (Grange Road) Festival commission
Psalms: 15, 24 (Batchelor)
First Lesson: 2 Samuel 23 vv1-5
St Pancras Canticles (Kerry Andrew) Festival commission
Second Lesson: Colossians 2 v20 - 3 v4
Anthem: Now the Son of Man has been glorified (Francis Grier)
Final Hymn: See the Conqueror mounts in triumph (Rex Gloriae)
Organ Voluntary: Sounding Earth and Heaven (Cecilia McDowall) Festival commission
Director of Music: Christopher Batchelor
Organist: Léon Charles.
WED 17:00 In Tune (b00s9h86)
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Baroque showmen Red Priest perform in the studio and discuss their latest CD, Johann I'm Only Dancing. Plus Czech music from the Sacconi Quartet, which will be the focus of their upcoming chamber music festival in Folkestone.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
WED 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00s9h88)
2010 RPS Awards
The Royal Philharmonic Society Awards 2010
Presented by Catherine Bott
Yesterday evening, the winners of the 2010 Awards from the Royal Philharmonic Society were announced at the Dorchester Hotel, London. The event is the most prestigious award ceremony in the UK for live classical music. Tonight's programme features coverage of the ceremony, with interviews and music.
WED 21:15 Night Waves (b00s9h8b)
Melvyn Bragg, Lebanon, Political Representation
As the South Bank Show comes to an end Anne McElvoy talks to Melvyn Bragg about his life in the arts. One of the most distinctive figures in our cultural landscape: writer, broadcaster, politician and public intellectual, Melvyn Bragg is a cultural industry in his own right. Anne sounds his opinions on the contemporary arts and finds out why we won't find ourselves filling a Bragg shaped hole in the culture any time soon.
Patrick Wright reviews Lebanon, winner of last year's Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Most of the film's action takes place inside an Israeli tank immobilised in enemy territory on the first day of the 1982 Lebanon War and is based on the real-life experiences of the writer and director Samuel Maoz.
And as the nation recovers from its extended bout of democracy in action, Anne explores the nature of political representation with the political theorists Vernon Bogdanor and David Runciman and Ceri Goddard, Chief Executive of the Fawcett Society. In representative democracy what is the right relationship between the newly elected and the voters who put them there? The expenses scandal raised many questions about MPs behaviour, but do we now understand what the nature of representation should be? How do we reconcile the requirements of a cohesive body politic and a functioning government with the individuality and democratic demands of 60 million citizens in a modern state? Anne McElvoy is joined by a roundtable of guests to discuss.
WED 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00sbb62)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 23:00 The Essay (b00klbng)
Looking for Ghosts
Gabriel Riesser
Emancipation was an important part of Jewish history. Segregated for hundreds of years, Jews were integrated and assimilated into European society. But, because of the Holocaust, most of these ghosts have been forgotten, because the community that might have remembered them no longer exists. Michael Goldfarb travels through Europe in search of these ghosts.
In Hamburg, Michael asks the question: Do you know who Gabriel Riesser is? This politician and lawyer who became the first Jewish judge in Germany, has been all but forgotten except for a graveside monument in his honour.
WED 23:15 Late Junction (b00s9h8q)
Max Reinhardt spins a dizzying array of tracks, from Gilberto Gil to John Martyn, from Paganini to Ligeti, and from the McIntosh County Shouters to the Hilliard Ensemble.
THURSDAY 13 MAY 2010
THU 01:00 Through the Night (b00sl7bz)
Through the Night
John Shea presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters
01:01AM
Anon. (17th Century)
4 C.17th pieces for solo lute (1. prelude; 2.Sarabande; 3.La complainte pour l'adieu de Monsieur Pollcenis; 4. Courante "Marion pleure")
Hubert Hoffmann (lute)
01:11AM
Jarzebski, Adam [1590-1649]
Concerti a 3
Ars Antiqua Austria
01:22AM
Zielenski, Mikolaj [1550-1617]
Video caelos apertos from Communiones totius anni, Venice 1611 for Soprano and Organ
Katarzyna Wiwer (soprano), Norbert Zeilberger (positive organ)
01:25AM
Döbel, Heinrich [(1651 - 1693)]
Sonate en la majeur pour violon et continuo
Ars Antiqua Austria
01:38AM
Merula, Tarquinio [1594/5-1665]
Cantate Jubilate for soprano, violin & continuo (from Motetti e Sonate concertanti, Venice 1624)
Katarzyna Wiwer (soprano)Ars Antiqua Austria
01:43AM
Anon. (17th century)
4 C.17th Century works from the Jagiellonian Library, Krakow
Ars Antiqua Austria
01:49AM
Mielczewski, Marcin [1600-1651]
Canzona for 2 violins and Continuo
Ars Antiqua Austria
01:59AM
Szarzynski, Stanislaw [(fl.1692-1713)]
Veni Sancte Spiritus - concerto for soprano, 2 violins and continuo
Katarzyna Wiwer (soprano)Ars Antiqua Austria
02:08AM
Zebrowski, Marcin Jozef [(1710-1780)]
Lauda Sion (an air from the archive of the Pauline Monks in Jasna Gora in Czestochowa)
Katarzyna Wiwer (soprano)Ars Antiqua Austria
02:12AM
Noskowski, Zygmunt (1846-1909)
Symphony No.3 in F major 'From Spring to Spring'
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Szymon Kawalla (conductor)
02:53AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Nocturne in D flat (Op.27 No.2)
Theodor Leschetizky (1830-1915) (piano)
03:01AM
Novak, Vitezslav (1870-1949)
Trio for piano and strings in D minor (Op.27) 'quasi una ballata'
Suk Trio
03:17AM
Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967)
Dances of Galanta
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor)
03:34AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Symphony no.8 (D.759) in B minor 'Unfinished'
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Markus Lehtinen (conductor)
03:59AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
4 Ballades for piano (Op.10)
Paul Lewis (piano)
04:21AM
Duparc, Henri (1848-1933)
Extase
Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano), Stephen Ralls (piano)
04:25AM
Anonymous (12th century English)
Worldes blis ne last no throwe [Worldly bliss lasts no time]
Sequentia
04:36AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975)
Second Waltz from the Second Jazz suite
Eolina Quartet
04:41AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto no.2 (BWV.1047) in F major
Mark Bennett (trumpet), Terje Tönnesen, Cecilia Waahlberg & Bjarte Eike (violins), Frode Thorsen (recorder), Anna-Maija Luolajan-Mikkola (oboe), Andreas Torgersen (violin), Markku Luolajan-Mikkola (cello), Dan Styffe (bass), Hans Knut Sveen (harpsichord)
04:53AM
Bottesini, Giovanni (1821-1889)
Tarantella
Gary Karr (double bass), Harmon Lewis (piano)
05:01AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Märchenerzählungen [Fairy Tales] for clarinet, viola and piano (Op.132)
Robert Schumann Ensemble
05:16AM
Kyurkchiyski, Krassimir (b.1936)
Prayer, from Two works after paintings of Vladimir Dimitrov - the Master
Simfonieta Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio, Kamen Goleminov (conductor)
05:22AM
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Róbert Stankovský (conductor)
05:44AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
L'entretien des Muses (from Pieces de clavessin, Paris 1724)
Bob van Asperen (harpsichord)
05:51AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Raduz and Mahulena (Op.16), 'A fairy tale suite'
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Václav Smetácek (conductor)
06:19AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concerto for 2 pianos and orchestra in E flat major (K.365)
Kalle Randalu, Kristjan Randalu (pianos), Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Andres Mustonen (conductor)
06:43AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
2 Pictures for orchestra (Sz.46) (Op.10)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Bystrik Re?ucha (conductor).
THU 07:00 Breakfast (b00sb2hx)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast. The programme includes performances by John Mark Ainsley, Till Fellner, Elizabeth Watts and Natalie Dessay, and music from Couperin to Coates.
THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b00s9hc9)
Thursday - James Jolly
Classical Collection with James Jolly. Great recordings and classic performances.
Faure's Requiem conducted by Andrew Davis and Barber's Adagio conducted by Leonard Bernstein are amongst today's highlights.
10.00
Sibelius
Lemminkainen's Return
(Lemminkainen Legends op 22)
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
EMI 575 127 2 (2 CD set)
10.08*
Zelenka
Miserere, ZWV57
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor & Ensemble
Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 88697 52684 2
10.23*
Barber
Adagio
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 427 806 2
10.34*
Mozart
Divertimento in D KV 131
for flute, oboe, bassoon, 4 horns & strings Cleveland Orchestra George Szell (conductor) CBS M2YK 46463 (2-CD set)
11.01*
Schumann Nachtstucke op 23
Nachtstuck no 1: Wihelm Kempff (piano)
DG 435 045 2 (4 CD set)
Nachtstuck no 2: Sviatoslav Richter (piano) PHILIPS 438 477 2 (3 CD set)
Nachtstucke nos 3 & 4: Vladimir Horowitz (piano) RCA GD86680
11.19*
Faure
Requiemop 48
Lucia Popp (soprano)
Siegmund Nimsgern (baritone)
Ambrosian Singers
Philharmonia Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL SBK67182.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00sbb68)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
1814
In 1814, Beethoven created the version of his opera Fidelio we know today. It is one of the most intense and moving of all music dramas, a celebration of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. It was first written and staged nine years earlier, in November 1805, while Vienna was still under occupation by Napoleon's armies and folded after only three performances. But in the celebratory mood that pervaded the City after Napoleon's abdication in 1814, the newly revised opera was a success and went on to secure its place in the repertoire. Donald Macleod explores key music and events of Beethoven's year.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00kpjkh)
LSO St Luke's Jerwood Hall
Michelangelo Quartet
Presented by Louise Fryer.
Series of chamber music concerts given at LSO St Luke's Jerwood Hall in London. The Michelangelo Quartet perform two of Haydn's best-known quartets - the Razor and the Sunrise.
Michelangelo Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op 55, No 2 (Razor); String Quartet in B flat, Op 76, No 4 (Sunrise).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00s9hcf)
Thursday Opera Matinee
La Sonnambula
Radio 3's Thursday Opera Matinee season continues with Bellini's La Sonnambula, recorded earlier this year at the Opera Bastille, Paris. In a small Swiss village, orphan girl Amina's betrothal to her beloved farmer Elvino is threatened by her uncontrollable sleepwalking. Bellini's 1831 score is a subtle blend of dazzling vocal fireworks and genuinely touching emotion.
As the heroine, soprano Natalie Dessay won rave reviews: the New York Times praised her "beguiling tone, supple phrasing and lovely vocal colours." She's "happily partnered" with tenor Javier Camerena as Amina's love-interest Elvino.
The opera's followed by more from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Vasily Petrenko, conductor of Sunday's BBC Young Musican competition final. To conclude we hear from this year's piano finalist. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Amina ..... Natalie Dessay (soprano)
Elvino ..... Javier Camarena (tenor)
Count Rodolfo ..... Michele Pertusi (bass)
Lisa ..... Marie-Adeline Henry (soprano)
Alessio ..... Nahuel di Pierro (bass)
A notary ..... Jian-Hong Zhao (tenor)
Paris National Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Evelino Pido (conductor)
4.15pm
Bartok: Dance Suite
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
4.35pm
Performances by the winner of the 2010 BBC Young Musician piano category.
THU 17:00 In Tune (b00s9hch)
Sean Rafferty
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With a selection of music and guests from the music world.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
THU 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00s9hck)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
Catherine Bott presents a concert recorded last week at the Lighthouse in Poole in which the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra give a performance of Ravel's complete ballet music for Daphnis and Chloe with their principal conductor Kirill Karabits.
Written for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes and Nijinsky, Ravel called it a 'symphonie choreographique'. Before that, Dutch pianist Ronald Brautigam joins the Bournemouth SO in Beethoven's 5th and final piano concerto, the 'Emperor' as it became known.
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe (complete ballet)
Ronald Brautigam (piano)
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Kirill Karabits (conductor)
Followed by recordings of chamber music by tonight's soloist Ronald Brautigam.
Nino Rota: Sonata for violin and piano
Isabelle van Keulen (violin)
Ronald Brautigam (piano)
Haydn: Sonata no 35 in A flat
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
THU 21:15 Night Waves (b00s9hcm)
Robin Hood, Abi Morgan, Moral Understanding, Parodies
Matthew Sweet reviews the latest addition to the long history of the Robin Hood myth with writer and historian Antonia Fraser. Director Ridley Scott has cast Russell Crowe as the titular hero with Mark Strong and Cate Blanchett among the merry men and women. Matthew asseses how far from the traditions of Lincoln green and archery contests the director of Alien and Bladerunner take the story. Will the malleable myth of the man who stole from the rich to give to the poor appeal to a post credit crunch audience?
Matthew talks to the author of a new drama set in a Welsh village during a street party to mark the Royal Wedding. Acclaimed television and theatre writer Abi Morgan tells Matthew why she is fascinated by this decade from which, she says, we have yet to recover and yet which is still veiled in a warm nostalgia, bathing Britain in an innocence that still haunts.
New research is emerging that suggests that babies under six month old have a sense of moral understanding. Philosopher Barry Smith and bioethicist John Wyatt examine the implications in their respective fields.
And as the new Oxford Book of Parodies is published the editor John Gross and arch parodist Craig Brown examine what makes for a successful parody and how it contributed to the rise of the novel.
THU 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00sbb68)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 23:00 The Essay (b00klbt1)
Looking for Ghosts
Ludwig Boerne and Heinrich Heine
4/5
Emancipation was an important part of Jewish history. Segregated for hundreds of years, Jews were integrated and assimilated into European society. But, because of the Holocaust, most of these ghosts have been forgotten, because the community that might have remembered them no longer exists. Michael Goldfarb travels through Europe in search of these ghosts.
In Frankfurt, Michael encounters two Jewish trailblazers, writers Ludwig Boerne and Heinrich Heine whose critiques, poetry and prose inspired a literary movement.
(Rpt).
THU 23:15 Late Junction (b00s9hcw)
Max Reinhardt's musical selection tonight includes Joni Mitchell from the 1970s, Lokua Kanza from Democratic Republic of Congo and some 1950s Mento from Jamaica .
FRIDAY 14 MAY 2010
FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b00s9hc5)
John Shea presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters
01:01AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
10 Variations on 'Unser dummer Pobel meint' for piano (K.455) aus Gluck's 'Pilger von Mekka'
Eduard Kunz (piano)
01:16AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Quartet for Strings (Op.74'3) in G minor "Rider"
Ebene Quartet (string quartet)
01:38AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
3 Lieder; 1. Heidenroslein (D.257); 2. Der Konig im Thule (D.367); 3. Gretchen am Spinnrade (D.118)
01:47AM
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang (1897-1957)
5 Lieder (Op. 38) [1947] 1. Gluckwunsch; 2. Der Kranke; 3. Alt-Spanisch; 4. Old English Song; 5. My mistress eyes
Daniela Lehner (mezzo), Jose Luis Gayo (piano)
01:57AM
Smetana, Bedrich (1824-1884)
Quartet for Strings no. 2 in D minor
Paval Haas Quartet
02:18AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Symphonic Dances (Op.64)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
02:44AM
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736)
Salve Regina in F minor
Sara Mingardo (mezzo-soprano) Danish Radio Sinfonietta/DR, Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
03:01AM
Cherubini, Luigi (1760-1842)
Ballet music from Anacreon
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
03:09AM
Roussel, Albert (1869-1937)
Trio for piano and strings (Op.2) in E flat major
Tale Olsson (violin), Johanna Sjunnesson (cello), Mats Jansson (piano)
03:39AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Chants populaires
Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano), André Laplante (piano)
03:53AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
Le Gai Paris for wind ensemble
The Wind Ensemble of the Hungarian Radio Orchestra
04:03AM
Reicha, Antoine (1770-1836)
Trio for French horns (Op.82)
Jozef Illés, Jaroslan Snobl, Jan Budzák (French horns)
04:14AM
Sermisy, Claudin de (c.1490-1562)
5 Chansons: (Paris 1528-1538) [1. Au joly boys (Paris 1538); 2. Je ne menge point de porc (Paris, 1538) 3. Tant que vivray (Paris 1528); 4. Vien tost (Paris 1538); 5. Tu disoys que j'en mourroys) (Paris 1530)]
Ensemble Clément Janequin
04:24AM
Mascitti, Michele (c.1663-1760)
Adagio from Sonata (Op.2) (Paris, 1706)
04:26AM
Marais, Marin (1656-1728)
Rondo from Pièces de Viole, Book 3 no.4, (Paris, 1711)
Pierre Pitzl, Mary Jean Bolli (violas da gamba), Luciano Contini (archiliuto), Augusta Campagne (harpsichord)
04:30AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Overture from Iphigenia en Aulide
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ludovít Rajter (conductor)
04:43AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No. 31 (K.297) in D major 'Paris'
Danish Radio Sinfonietta/DR, Adám Fischer (conductor)
05:01AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Suite from 'Dido and Aeneas'
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (director)
05:08AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
(Schubert) Ave Maria (D.839) transcribed for piano
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
05:16AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio - aria for soprano and orchestra (K.418)
Cyndia Sieden (soprano), Prima La Musica, Dirk Vermeulen (conductor)
05:23AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Notturno (D.897) for piano and strings in E flat major
Vadim Repin (violin), Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
05:33AM
Enescu, George (1881-1955)
Concert Piece for viola and piano [1906]
Tabea Zimmermann (viola, Germany), Monique Savary (piano)
05:42AM
Anonymous, 'Faventina' the liturgies of the Codex Faenza 117 (1380-1420)
Kyrie 'Cunctipotens genitor Deus' and Gloria; Agnus Dei; Benedicamus Domino
Mala Punica
06:00AM
Widor, Charles Marie (1844-1937)
Suite for flute et piano (Op.34) [1898]
Katherine Rudolph (flute), Rena Sharon (piano)
06:19AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Partita for solo violin No.3 in E major, BWV.1006
Sigiswald Kuijken (violin - Giovanni Grancino, Milano c. 1700)
06:37AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concerto in F for 3 pianos and orchestra (K242)
Ian Parker, James Parker and Jon Kimura Parker (pianos), CBC Radio Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernardi.
FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b00s9hgs)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast. Songs by Rodgers, Korngold and Sullivan, and overtures by Berlioz and Rossini are all included in this morning's programme.
FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b00s9hgv)
Friday - James Jolly
Classical Collection with James Jolly. Great recordings and classic performances.
The theme this week is Heaven and Hell. Today there are extracts from Don Giovanni, Berlioz's Damnation of Faust and Liszt's Faust Symphony.
10.00
Berlioz
Hungarian March (Damnation of Faust)
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor)
LSO LIVE LSO 0008 (2-CD set)
10.06*
Elgar
Sonata for violin and piano op 82
Hugh Bean (violin)
David Parkhouse (piano)
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE CDCFP4632
10.33*
Sheppard
The Lord's Prayer
Stile Antico
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 807509
10.38*
Brahms
Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel op 24 Jorge Bolet (piano) DECCA 417 791 2
11.07*
Mozart rev. Stokowski
Don Giovanni: Overture
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski (conductor)
PRT CDPCN6
11.14*
attrib. Bach
Orchestral Suite BWV 1070
Musica Antiqua Koln
Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
ARCHIV 447 285 2
11.33*
Liszt
Mephistopheles (A Faust Symphony)
Kenneth Riegel (tenor)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 447 449 2.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00sbb6j)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
1822
By 1822, Beethoven was becoming ever more reclusive and his behaviour increasingly strange. After an unproductive few years, thanks to a long drawn out guardianship battle over his nephew Carl, he'd finally found his feet again. His last piano sonata dates from that year as does the Handelian overture The Consecration of the House. But his greatest project, which took some five years to complete, was the Missa Solemnis, his largest choral work and for Beethoven, the supreme challenge of his life. Donald Macleod explores key music and events of Beethoven's year.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00kpkmb)
LSO St Luke's Jerwood Hall
Vienna Piano Trio - 2
Presented by Louise Fryer.
Series of chamber music concerts given at LSO St Luke's Jerwood Hall in London. The Vienna Piano Trio perform works by Haydn, written in a period when the piano was becoming an increasingly popular instrument in the home.
Vienna Piano Trio
Haydn: Piano Trio in E flat, H XV 29; Piano Trio in E flat minor, H XV 31 (Jacob's Dream); Piano Trio in A, H XV 18; Piano Trio in C, Hob XV 27.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00s9hh0)
A Prelude to Youth
A prelude to youth
Jonathan Swain concludes this week's youthful focus, leading up to Sunday's grand final of the 2010 BBC Young Musician competition - today we hear today from the wind finalist. To begin, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, which will accompany Sunday's finalists, plays a concerto for winds by Frank Martin, and Schubert's final symphony - the "Great C major". Also today, the fruits of a recent collaboration between wind and brass players from the BBC NOW and students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Rossini: William Tell - overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)
Martin: Concerto for 7 Wind instruments
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)
2.40pm
Schubert: Symphony no. 9 in C "Great"
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)
Hoddinott: Welsh airs and dances
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Jonathan Mann (conductor)
3.45pm
Stravinsky: Symphonies of wind instruments
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jonathan Mann (conductor)
Leighton: Symphony no. 1
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
4.35pm
Performances by the winner of the 2010 Young Musician wind finals.
FRI 17:00 In Tune (b00s9hh2)
Sean Rafferty
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With a selection of music and guests from the music world.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00s9hh4)
Ulster Orchestra, Pascal Rophe
Presented by Catherine Bott.
'What else is our life but a series of Préludes to that unknown hymn, the first solemn note of which is sounded by Death', says the preface to the score of Liszt's third symphonic poem, Les Préludes. Pascal Rogé is a renowned interpreter of French music and joins the Ulster Orchestra in Ravel's jazz infused piano concerto. The story of Pelléas and Mélisande has inspired many composers including Ravel's teacher Gabriel Fauré, who wrote incidental music to the play in 1898. Sibelius' final statement in symphonic form was his one-movement 7th Symphony. It has been described as his 'most remarkable compositional achievement'.
Liszt: Les Préludes
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Fauré: Pelléas and Mélisande
Sibelius: Symphony No 7
Pascal Rogé (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Pascal Rophé (conductor)
Plus:
All this week Afternoon on 3 has been broadcasting the winning entries in the category finals of BBC Young Musician 2010 ahead of the Grand Final at Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre on Sunday. Tonight we hear the winning entry in the Percussion category.
FRI 21:15 The Verb (b00s9hh6)
Les Murray, Loan Words, Glyn Maxwell, Aminatta Forna
Les Murray
The celebrated Australian poet talks about his love of words, his relationship with Australia's Macquarie Dictionary, and the innovations of Australian English.
Loan Words
Writer Kevin Jackson on the words English steals (never mind borrows) from other languages, and the words we loan out in return.
Glyn Maxwell
The poet and dramatist discusses his libretto for new opera The Lion's Face, which centres on a character with Alzheimer's Disease.
The Lion's Face premieres at The Brighton Festival on May 20th before touring round the country throughout the summer. More details at thelionsface.wordpress.com
Aminatta Forna
The novelist presents a brand new story, Haywards Heath, written specially for The Verb, and read by Don Warrington.
FRI 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00sbb6j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 23:00 The Essay (b00klc1x)
Looking for Ghosts
Vienna Holocaust Memorial
5/5
Emancipation was an important part of Jewish history. Segregated for hundreds of years, Jews were integrated and assimilated into European society. But, because of the Holocaust, most of these ghosts have been forgotten, because the community that might have remembered them no longer exists.
Michael visits Vienna where in the early 20th century, Jews made up nearly half of the population but today they have virtually disappeared. Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust memorial pays tribute to these Austrian Jews. Michael also tells the ghost story of poet, Ludwig August Frankl.
(Rpt).
FRI 23:15 World on 3 (b00s9hhh)
Mary Ann Kennedy
Mary Ann Kennedy with new releases from across the globe, plus a studio session with Scottish singer Kris Drever.
Kris Drever is best known as guitarist with the award-winning instrumental folk band Lau, but his second solo album, just released, confirms him as a powerful singer too. He writes his own songs - including the album's title track 'Mark the Hard Earth' - and he selects songs by other, mostly Scottish writers, including his neighbour in Edinburgh, Sandy Wright. Drever's origins are in Orkney, and he started out listening to Heavy Metal, but now finds himself part of the extraordinarily lively folk scene in Scotland today. For this session he is joined by fellow Scots multi-instrumentalist Anna Massie.