Susan Sharpe presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters
Berliner Philharmoniker, Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Tristan Murail (ondes martenot), Simon Rattle (conductor)
Anon. (18th century Croatian)
6 works for organ and trumpet [1. Sonata in G major - Allegro for organ; 2. Sonata in C major - Adagio for organ; 3. Pastorella in G major for organ; 4. Sonata in G major - Allegro for trumpet and organ; 5. Pastorella in D major for trumpet and organ; 6. Aria in D major for trumpet and organ]
Jill Feldman (soprano), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (harpsichord and director)
Lagrimosa beltà - from 'Cantade à doi voci, libro secondo, parte seconda' (Venice 1633)
Suzie LeBlanc & Barbara Boden (sopranos), Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs (conductor), Concerto Palatino, Bruce Dickey (conductor)
Bruce Dickey (cornett), Lucy van Dael (violin and conductor), Richte van der Meer and Rainer Zipperling (cellos), Jacques Ogg (harpsichord), Anthony Woodrow (double bass)
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. A Schumann Romance, a Beethoven Rondo, a Chopin Waltz and a Rossini overture to start the day. Please listen carefully when interacting as our text lines may have closed and you may still be charged. Enjoy the show!
Classical Collection with James Jolly. Great recordings and classic performances. Today japanese-themed music from Holst and Bax, Masaaki Suzuki conducts Bach and the Tokyo Philharmonic perform Strauss' Till Eulenspiegel.
Continuing our series on Alessandro Scarlatti, Donald Macleod focuses on the composer's first period in Naples, where he influenced the course of Neapolitan Opera.
As opera became less popular in Rome due to Papal decree, Alessandro Scarlatti soon moved to Naples to pursue his career for the stage. Donald Macleod surveys this period in Naples, where Scarlatti composed around 70 operas. We'll hear Le violette from Pirro e Demetrio, which had an international success.
Although Scarlatti greatly influenced the course of opera in Naples, he still relied upon other work to survive, including his appointment as the Maestro of the Royal Chapel. He composed over sixty cantatas during this period, frequently for the entertainment of Cardinals Ottoboni and Pamphili in Rome. We'll hear the cantata Gia lusingato appieno, linked in narrative to James II of England.
Louise Fryer introduces the first of four recitals from Belfast featuring the Ulster Hall piano. Today, French pianist Jean-Philippe Collard performs Schumann's Papillons, Chopin's Nocturne op.27 No. 2, Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte and Schumann's Waldscenen.
Louise Fryer presents a week of performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor Jiri Belohlavek, who returned from their Far East tour just a few days ago. Alongside concerts they gave in China and Japan, you can hear - equally hot off the press - their brand-new cycle of all five Beethoven piano concertos with soloist Paul Lewis, who'll also be playing them all at the 2010 Proms. Plus another complete cycle - all six of Martinu's symphonies that Jiri Belohlavek has been conducting with the BBC Symphony Orchestra this season.
Today there's a feast of concertos for various instruments, with star clarinettist Sabine Meyer playing Mozart in Beijing and Japanese violinist Mayuko Kamio taking Sibelius to Tokyo, alongside Beethoven's third piano concerto from Paul Lewis - all in a Martinu symphony sandwich.
Martinu: Symphony no. 2
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Martinu: Symphony no. 3.
Sean is joined by singer Andrea Marcovicci as she prepares to celebrate the work of American songwriter Johnny Mercer in a series of concerts at Pizza on the Park, London, this week.
Later, soprano Dame Emma Kirkby and the chamber group London Baroque perform Purcell, Handel and Arne in the studio ahead of a concert together at Loseley House, Surrey, next week.
your suggestions for operatic Js.
Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610: Claudio Cavina directs La Venexiana, from the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music.
This year Monteverdi's Vespers celebrates its 400th anniversary. An iconic masterwork of the early Baroque, this collection of exquisitely written psalms and other sacred pieces is a showcase for the very best vocal-music techniques of its day, placing sumptuous plainchant-based polyphony alongside solo motets demonstrating the latest styles of sensual vocal melody. After bringing a brilliant Orfeo to the Lufthansa Festival in 2007, the multi-award-winning Italian vocal-and-instrumental ensemble La Venexiana returns under its director Claudio Cavina to open this year's Festival.
Louise Bourgeois, Christopher Hitchens, Cultural Attitudes to Skin, The Late Middle Classes
Anne McElvoy and guests explore the life and work of Louise Bourgeois, one of the 20th Century's greatest sculptors, whose death was announced today.
Anne is joined by polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who over the last three decades has become one of the world's leading public intellectuals. His confessional and provocative memoir 'Hitch-22' covers his 1960's student rebellion, his outspoken support for the war in Iraq and intimate revelations about his friendship with Martin Amis.
From Michelle Obama's "nude" dress to society's increasing obsession with age-defying wrinkle creams and Botox, from body art to religious veiling, a new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection focuses on our largest organ - skin. Literary critic Steve Connor and anthropologist Kit Davis discuss the exhibition and our cultural attitudes to skin.
And we have a first night review of a new production of Simon Gray's play The Late Middle Classes.
Matt Peacock is the originator of Streetwise, the community opera project for the homeless set up in 2002. A classically trained singer, he reflects on the way opera has changed the lives of people he's met during the past ten years.
Whilst Matt certainly doesn't claim that Streetwise has solved the problems of homelessness, he speaks with passion about how opera is for everyone. He argues that the teamwork necessary in opera is a perfect way of engaging the 600 homeless people around the UK who undertake the weekly opera projects. If you can't sing a solo, you can join in the chorus. If you don't want to sing, you can make props or help with costumes. The massive scale of an opera means that, for his team, there's a role for everyone and a reason to turn up every week.
Over the years, his opera company have received warm reviews for their performances. And the somewhat surprising success of using opera as a means of support and rehabilitation of homeless people is now being tried in other countries.
Fiona Talkington introduces tracks from the Punch Brothers new album as well as musical prayers from Aruna Sairam, Ryuichi Sakomoto and Gavin Bryars.
The programme also delves into the operatic world with music from A Flowering Tree by John Adams.
WEDNESDAY 02 JUNE 2010
WED 01:00 Through the Night (b00skbx3)
Susan Sharpe presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters
1:01 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Concerto grosso (Op.6'4) in A minor
Arte dei Suonatori
1:13 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1685)
4 pieces for the stage; [1. Bonduca Overture (Z.574); 2.Slow Air & Hornpipe - incidental music to the play "Distressed Innocence"; 3. Chaconne from the suite to the "Fairy Queen"]
Arte dei Suonatori
1:21 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1685)
3 pieces: Overture to "The Old Batchelor"; Johnny Cock the Beaver; March
Arte dei Suonatori
1:28 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Adagio and allegro in A flat (Op.70), for horn or other and piano
Li-Wei (cello), Gretel Dowdeswell (piano)
1:37 AM
Moszkowski, Moritz (1854-1924)
Valse for piano in E major (Op.34 No.1)
Dennis Hennig (piano)
1:46 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Concerto for organ and orchestra no. 5 (Op.4/5) in F major
Arte dei Suonatori
1:55 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1685)
4 pieces for the stage (2); [1.Air from "Bonduca" (Z.574); 2.Rondeau from "The Batchelor" (Z.607); 3.Overture from "The Rival SIsiters" (Z.609); 4.Prelude to Act 5 of the "Fairy Queen"]
Arte dei Suonatori
2:03 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1685)
4 Pieces; [1. If Love's a sweet passion - from Act 3 of the Fairy Queen; 2. Second Music; 3.Lumps of Pudding; 4.The King of Poland]
Arte dei Suonatori
2:09 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809)
Trio for strings in B flat major (Op.53 No.2) arr. from Piano Sonata (H.
16.41)
Leopold String Trio
2:17 AM
Parry, Hubert (1848-1918)
Songs of farewell for mixed voices: no.6; Lord, let me know mine end [chorus a 8]
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
2:28 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1685)
Scene Music from "The Virtuous Wife" (Z.611)
Arte dei Suonatori
2:36 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1685)
2 pieces: Ground after the Scotch Humour; Chaconne from King Arthur
Arte dei Suonatori
2:41 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Concerto grosso (Op.6'7) in B flat major
Arte dei Suonatori
2:56 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1685)
If Love's a sweet passion from the Fairy Queen (Z.629)
Arte dei Suonatori
3:01 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Concerto for flute and orchestra in G major (Wq.169)
Tom Ottar Andreassen (flute), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
3:25 AM
Sasnauskas, Ceslovas (1867-1916)
Requiem (1912-15)
Inesa Linaburgyte (mezzo-soprano); Algirdas Janutas (tenor), Vladimiras Prudnikovas (bass); Kaunas State Choir, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Petras Bingelis (conductor)
4:00 AM
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916)
Quejas o la maja y el ruisenor (The Maiden and the Nightingale) - from Goyescas: 7 pieces for piano (Op.11 No.4)
Angela Hewitt (piano)
4:06 AM
Bacewicz, Grazyna (1909-1969)
Suite for chamber orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
4:14 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Elegy for cello and piano (Op.24) [1883]
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), Emmanuel Strosser (piano)
4:21 AM
Auric, Georges (1899-1983) arranged by Philip Lane
Suite from 'The Lavender Hill Mob'
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
4:29 AM
Grandjany, Marcel (1891-1975)
Rhapsodie pour la harpe (Op.10) (1921)
Rita Costanzi (harp)
4:39 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
4 Gesänge (Op.32)
Ruud van der Meer (baritone), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
4:49 AM
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto for strings No.3 in E flat major
Concerto Köln
5:01 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Septet in B flat for 3 oboes, 3 violins & basso continuo (TWV.
44:43)
Il Gardellino
5:10 AM
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)
3 Psaumes de David (Op.339)
Elmer Iseler Singers, Elmer Iseler (conductor)
5:20 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Rondo in A minor (K.511)
Jean Muller (piano)
5:30 AM
Grieg, Edvard (Hagerup) (1843-1907)
Andante con moto for piano trio in C minor
Kungsbacka Piano Trio
5:41 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Russian Overture (Op.72)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
5:54 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Concerto in E flat major for harpsichord and fortepiano (Wq.47)
Michel Eberth (harpsichord), Wolfgang Brunner (fortepiano), Slovenicum Chamber Orchestra, Uros Lajovic (conductor)
6:13 AM
Berwald, Franz (1796-1868)
String Quartet in Eb Major (1849)
Zetterqvist String Quartet
6:32 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.104 in D major (H.
1.104) 'London'
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Philippe Entremont (Conductor).
WED 07:00 Breakfast (b00skbx5)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Karajan conducts Mozart, Elgar under Sir George Solti, and the Regensburg Cathedral Choir sing Vivaldi in this morning's programme.
WED 10:00 Classical Collection (b00skbx7)
Wednesday - James Jolly
Classical Collection with James Jolly.
Great recordings and classic performances. Today a Japanese seascape and lullaby, Mozart from Mitsuko Uchida and the Jewel Aria from Faust sung by Cheryl Studer.
10.00
Mozart
Piano Sonata No.12 in F K.332
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
PHILIPS 422 115-2
10.19
Masao Ohki
Japanese Rhapsody
New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra
Takua Yuasa (conductor)
NAXOS
8.557839
10.32
Gounod
Jewel Aria (Faust)
Marguerite: Cheryl Studer (soprano)
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
Michel Plasson (conductor)
EMI CDC 754358 2
10.38
Michio Miyagi
Haro no mi (The Sea in Spring)
Susan Hoeppner (flute)
Rachel Gauk (guitar)
BIS CD 969
10.45
Wagner
Symphony in C WWV29
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Hiroshi Wakasugi (conductor)
DENON CO 75259
11.24
Hoffmeister
Clarinet Quartet in E major
Dieter Klocker (clarinet)
Members of the Vlach Quartet
CPO 999 812-2
11.43
Stanford
A Japanese Lullaby
James Griffett (tenor and piano)
REGIS RRC1083
11.52
Ibert
Bacchanale
Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux
Yutaka Sado (conductor)
NAXOS
8.554222.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00skbx9)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Episode 3
As part of our series on Alessandro Scarlatti, Donald Macleod focuses upon the composer's return to Rome, as necessitated by finances and politics.
With late payments from the Royal Chapel in Naples, Alessandro Scarlatti soon realised he'd need to relocate in order to survive. Donald Macleod follows Scarlatti's return to Rome via Florence, but not before King Philip V of Spain's visit to Naples. Scarlatti, along with other composers such as Corelli, was required to compose music for this important occasion. We'll hear the Sinfonia from Scarlatti's serenata Clori, Dorino e Amore, which captivated the Spanish King.
Once back in Rome, Scarlatti was soon tied down contractually to a number of churches. This was not the sort of work that he wanted to do, and he began to receive complaints for neglecting his duties. Opera however was banned during this period in Rome. Papal opposition to theatrical activity meant that the most important artistic event in the calendar was the oratorios for Lent. To end the programme we'll hear the second half of Scarlatti's Oratorio per la Passione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo. This oratorio is considered to be one of his best in this field, maybe even a rival to Handel's La Resurrezione.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00skc0x)
Ulster Hall
Pascal Roge
Louise Fryer introduces a series of recitals from Belfast featuring the Ulster Hall piano. Today the French theme continues with pianist Pascal Rogé performing Fauré's Nocturne No. 1 in E flat minor, Satie's Gnossienne No. 5, Debussy's Estampes, Ravel's Sonatine and four pieces from Debussy's first book of Preludes.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00skc0z)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Episode 3
Louise Fryer presents a week of performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor Jiri Belohlavek, who returned from their Far East tour just a few days ago. Alongside concerts they gave in China and Japan, you can hear - equally hot off the press - their brand-new cycle of all five Beethoven piano concertos with soloist Paul Lewis, who'll also be playing them all at the 2010 Proms. Plus another complete cycle - all six of Martinu's symphonies that Jiri Belohlavek has been conducting with the BBC Symphony Orchestra this season.
Today everything comes with a number four: Beethoven's most beautiful piano concerto between the most dramatic symphonies by both Martinu and Brahms.
Martinu: Symphony no. 4
2.35pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 4 in G major, Op. 58
Paul Lewis (piano)
3.10pm
Brahms: Symphony no. 4 in E minor, Op. 98.
WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (b00skc11)
From St Davids Cathedral.
Introit: O Lux beata Trinitas (David Bednall)
Responses: Sanders
Psalms: 110, 111 (Foster, Boyce)
First Lesson: Exodus 16 vv12-15
Canticles: Wood in D
Second Lesson: John 6 vv22-35
Anthem: I saw the Lord (Stainer)
Hymn: Holy, holy, holy (Nicea)
Organ Voluntary: Fantasia and Toccata, Op. 57 (Stanford)
Organist and Master of the Choristers: Alexander Mason
Assistant Organist: Simon Pearce.
WED 17:00 In Tune (b00skc13)
Wednesday - Sean Rafferty
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Including at
5.40 the A-Z of Opera with K is for Kings and at
6.40 your suggestions for operatic Ks.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
WED 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00skc15)
Lufthansa Festival 2010
Handel's La Resurrezione
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Handel's Easter oratorio La Resurrezione: Gabrieli Consort & Players conducted by Paul McCreesh, from the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music.
Handel's scintillating Easter oratorio La Resurrezione is a product of his youthful years in Italy, an intensely creative period for him when he forged the style that would serve him for the next 40 years. Like many before and after, he also discovered that Italy could teach him all he needed to know about singing and singers.
Handel: La Resurrezione
Angel: Mhairi Lawson
Mary Magdalen: Gillian Webster
Mary Cleophas: Romina Basso
St John: Jeremy Ovenden
Lucifer: Vuyani Mlinde
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul McCreesh, director
Followed by performances by students at the Royal Academy of Music.
Mozart Agnus Dei from Missa Brevis in B flat K275
Royal Academy of Music Chamber Choir and Becket Ensemble conducted by Patrick Russell. Soloists Lucy Crowe soprano and Ed Lyon tenor
recorded in 2001 in Neresheim Abbey
(CD The Academy at Neresheim Abbey CRCD6066).
WED 21:15 Night Waves (b00skc17)
Alastair Campbell, Elif Shafak, Girl on a Train
Philip Dodd is joined by Alastair Campbell, the man often referred to as Tony Blair's true deputy Prime Minister. He discusses the first volume of his diaries, which shows how - from its earliest days - the tensions between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair deformed what they called The Project.
Bestselling Turkish writer Elif Shafak on her new novel The Forty Rules of Love, which explores the tensions between mysticism and scholarship in Islam, and the life changing friendship between the thirteenth century poet Rumi and the dervish Shams of Tabriz.
And film critic Muriel Zagha reviews the new film from Andre Techine, Girl on the Train. Based on true events the film tells the story of a young woman who claimed to be attacked by anti-Semites on a train in Paris.
Producer: Gavin Heard.
WED 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00skbx9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 23:00 The Essay (b00skc19)
A Passion for Opera
Robert Thicknesse
Robert Thicknesse still sees and writes about opera and he still believes that at its heart there is an argument that can be made for it as an artform. However the old love which he lavished on it in his youth and as a young critic has gone.
He talks about the demons that have nagged at him over the years, the sheer opulence of the operatic world, the claims of broad appeal which he believes are false, the disproportionate funding, the excuses for modernity and above all the festival audiences who are there unashamedly for the event rather than the performance.
Is this really the greatest of all the artforms? Isn't it more honest to admit that it's a pastime of the rich and, other than a flirtation with mass appeal in 19th century Italy, that's how it has always been?
But Robert also tries to explain why he keeps coming back to opera, given that it isn't to be seen in all the right places and to be seen, most importantly, to be rich.
WED 23:15 Late Junction (b00skc1m)
Fiona Talkington introduces the atmospheric installation music of Max Eastley and travels back to Seventies Brazil for the technicolour sounds of Milton Nascimento.
There's also the folk music of Karen Dalton and opera from Bela Bartok.
THURSDAY 03 JUNE 2010
THU 01:00 Through the Night (b00skc4d)
Susan Sharpe presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters
1:01 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Daphnis et Chloe - suite no. 2
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)
1:18 AM
Castellanos, Evencio (1915-1984)
Santa Cruz de Pacairigua
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)
1:34 AM
Montsalvatge, Xavier (1912-2002)
Concierto Breve
Angela Cheng (piano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Graf (conductor)
1:58 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Symphonie Fantastique (Op. 14)
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)
2:57 AM
Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990)
Mambo (West Side Story)
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)
3:01 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Orchestral Suite No.1 in C major, BWV1066
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
3:21 AM
Tubin, Eduard (1905-1982)
Sonata for violin and piano in the Phrygian Mode
Ulrika Kristian (violin), Marje Lohuaru (piano)
3:42 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Quartet for strings in D major (Op.64 No.5) 'Lark'
Tilev String Quartet
4:00 AM
Larsson, Lars-Erik (1908-1986)
Pastoral Suite (Op.19) (1938)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:14 AM
Weckmann, Matthias (1616-1674)
Wenn der Herr die Gefangenen zu Zion erlosen wird - Concert for 4 voices, strings & continuo
Soloists from Rheinsche Kantorei, Musica Alta Ripa, Hermann Max (conductor)
4:24 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 (S.244 No.2) in C-sharp minor
Jenö Jandó (piano)
4:35 AM
Marson, John (1932-2007)
Waltzes and Promenades for 2 harps
Julia Shaw and Nora Bumanis (harps)
4:48 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
3 Airs from Vauxhall Gardens, arranged by Steele-Perkins for trumpet and orchestra
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), The King's Consort, Robert King (director)
5:01 AM
Geminiani, Francesco (1687-1762)
Sonata in D major, (Op.1 No.1)
Pierre Pitzl and Mary Jean Bolli (violas da gamba), Luciano Contini (archlute), Augusta Campagne (harpsichord)
5:11 AM
Lechner, Leonhardt (c.1553-1606)
Deutsche Sprüche von Leben und Tod
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
5:21 AM
Saint-Saens, Camille (1835-1921)
Morceau de Concert for harp & orchestra in G major, Op 154
Suzanna Klintcharova (harp), Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Dimitar Manolov
5:36 AM
Enna, August (1859-1939)
Skitsebogen (Sketch Book)
Ida Cernecka (piano)
5:52 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
The Wasps - Overture from the Incidental Music
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
6:01 AM
Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805)
Quintet for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos No.2 (G.266) (Op.10 No.2) in E flat major (Op.12 No.2)
Andreia Potroshko (double bass), Zagreb String Quartet
6:21 AM
Kraus, Joseph Martin (1756-1792)
Symphony in C minor
Concerto Köln
6:42 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Sonata for violin and harpsichord in B minor (H.512)
Les Adieux: Mary Utiger (violin), Andreas Staier (harpsichord).
THU 07:00 Breakfast (b00skc4g)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. A Strauss fanfare, a Rameau overture, contemporary choral music by Sisask and Dvorak's Song to the Moon are all included in this morning's programme.
THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b00skc4j)
Thursday - James Jolly
Classical Collection with James Jolly.
Great recordings and classic performances including Haydn's Emperor String Quartet from the Tokyo String Quartet and music by leading Japanese composers, artists & orchestras including Toru Takemitsu and Tadaaki Otaka.
10.00
Yuzo Toyoma
Rhapsody for Orchestra
Toyko Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Ryusuke Numajiri (conductor)
NAXOS
8.555071
10.08
Haydn
String Quartet Op 76 No.3 'Emperor'
Tokyo String Quartet
SONY SB2K 53522
10.33
Theodor Szanto
Sakura Sakura
Noriko Ogawa (piano)
BIS CD 1045
10.37
Ede Poldini
Etude Japonaise
Noriko Ogawa (piano)
BIS CD 1045
10.42
Ketelbey
From a Japanese Screen
Noriko Ogawa (piano)
BIS CD 1045
10.45
Takemitsu
Star-Isle
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
BIS CD 760
10.54
Dunstable
Veni Sancte Spiritus - Veni Creator
Tonus Peregrinus
NAXOS
8.557341
11.01
Strauss
Romanze in F major
Mari Fujiwara (cello)
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Hiroshi Wakasugi (conductor
DENON CO 75860
11.12
Sadao Bekku
Cherry Blossoms Lane
Yoshikazu Mera (countertenor)
Kikuko Ogura (piano)
BIS CD 889
11.16
Fux
Stabat Mater K268
Mieke van der Sluis
Armonico Tributo Austria
Lorenz Duftschmid (conductor)
CPO 999 919-2
11.31
Barber
Violin Concerto Op.14
Kyoto Takezawa (volin)
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
RCA 09026 68283 2.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00skc4l)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Episode 4
Donald Macleod continues our series, focusing upon Alessandro Scarlatti's disillusionment with Rome, and his opera failures for the Venetian Carnival season in 1707.
Feeling confined by Papal decree in Rome, Alessandro Scarlatti continued to seek commissions elsewhere. Donald Macleod follows Scarlatti's journey to Venice for the Carnival season in 1707. Scarlatti - in trying to impress the opera capital of the time - seems to have over-complicated his compositions, and the Venetian audience was not impressed.
Scarlatti eventually returned to Naples having been offered a post by the newly appointed Austrian Viceroy. He didn't sever links with Rome, for he was made a Knight of the Golden Spur by the Pope in 1716. It was during this latter part of his life that Scarlatti focused more on instrumental writing. We'll hear a set of 39 variations for harpsichord, on the theme La Folia, similar in form to Bach's Goldberg Variations. Scarlatti didn't stop writing for the Church, and the programme ends with the latter part of his Stabat Mater. This hymn to the virgin was very popular - until Pergolesi's version came along.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00skc68)
Ulster Hall
Louis Lortie
Louise Fryer introduces a series of recitals of French piano music from Belfast. Today, French Canadian pianist Louis Lortie performs Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales, Debussy's La cathédrale engloutie and L'isle joyeuse and Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00skc6b)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Cavalli: La Calisto
Cavalli: La Calisto
Last month the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris staged Cavalli's opera, first seen in Venice in 1651. Jupiter (Giove), king of the gods, comes to earth to clear up after a war but is immediately distracted by the beautiful but chaste nymph Calisto, who's devoted to the service of the goddess Diana. Then Mercury has the bright idea that Jupiter disguise himself as Diana...
Presented by Louise Fryer
Calisto...................................Sophie Karthauser, soprano
Endimione..........................Lawrence Zazzo, countertenor
Giove................................ Giovanni Battista Parodi, bass
Giunone/Il Destino.....................Veronique Gens, soprano
Diana/L'Eternita....Marie-Claude Chappuis, mezzo-soprano
Linfea.................................Milena Storti, mezzo-soprano
La Natura/Pane....................................Cyril Auvity, tenor
Mercurio.........................................Mario Cassi, baritone
Satirino...................................Sabina Puertolas, soprano
Sylvano.....................................Graeme Broadbent, bass
Les Talens Lyriques
Conductor Christophe Rousset
4.30pm
Continuing this week's focus on the BBC Symphony Orchestra with another performance from their recent Far East tour.
Tippett: Fantasia concertante on a theme of Corelli
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Jiri Belohlavek.
THU 17:00 In Tune (b00skc6d)
Thursday - Sean Rafferty
The virtuosic pianist Jeffrey Siegel will be bringing his trademark Keyboard Conversations to Wigmore Hall on the 5th of June with a concert of 'Gershwin and Friends'. He will perform a selection of works by Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein and MacDowell live on the show.
The gifted violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen will join Sean in the studio with accompanying pianist Gary Matthewman. Tamsin will be appearing at the Malvern Theatre in Malvern on the 5th of June to play with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra showcasing a programme of Mozart, Bruch and Beethoven.
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Including at
5.40 the A-Z of Opera with L is for Libretto and at
6.40 your suggestions for operatic Ls.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
THU 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00skc6g)
BBC Concert Orchestra and Singers, Shakespeare
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
The BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers join forces for a concert exploring British composers' settings of works by the great English bard William Shakespeare.
The programme includes suites by William Walton for the classic films Richard III and Henry V, and Ralph Vaughan Williams' much-loved setting of words from The Merchant of Venice. Also there's Frank Bridge's miniature gem of a tone poem and Shakespeare Songs by Cyril Rootham and Giles Swayne. With readings by Simon Paisley Day.
William Walton arr. Mathieson: Richard III - A Shakespeare Suite
John Gardner: nos 1, 2, 4, 5 from Seven Songs
Frank Bridge: There is a willow grows aslant a brook
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Richard II (extracts)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Henry IV
Cyril Rootham: 2 Shakespeare Songs
Giles Swayne: 3 Shakespeare Songs
William Walton (arr. Muir Mathieson): Suite: Henry V
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill conductor
Followed by performances by students at the Royal Academy of Music
Handel Semele Act I Scene I Chorus - Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs
Royal Academy Opera and Baroque Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras conductor
(CD of live recording from 2009 performance)
Live performance -
Telemann Sonata in E minor for oboe and continuo - "Essercizii Musici" TWV 44:e6
Laurence Cummings harpsichord and Leo Duarte baroque oboe
JS Bach Cantata BWV45 'Es ist dir Gesagt' (opening chorus)
Royal Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra & Chorus
Iain Ledingham conductor
(CD of Live recording from Royal Academy of Music / Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Series)
Rameau Dardanus - Lieux funestes, où tout respire; L'Air de triomphe
Allan Clayton Dardanus
Royal Academy Opera and Sinfonia
Laurence Cummings conductor
(CD of live recording November 2006).
THU 21:15 Night Waves (b00skc6j)
Landmarks: The Silent World
In a Night Waves Landmark Matthew Sweet and his guests explore Jacques Cousteau's revolutionary documentary 'The Silent World', one of the first ever films to use underwater cinematography. It launched Cousteau on his rise to international fame, and the career of his young co-director, Louis Malle. The film was shot aboard the ship Calypso and made over two years in the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. 'When you dive you begin to feel that you're an angel' wrote Cousteau about the experiences which won the film an Academy Award and the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1956. Matthew Sweet is joined by film-makers and natural world specialists to discuss how this ground-breaking work shaped the boom in nature documentaries on film and TV which has followed in the decades since.
Producer: Lisa Davis.
THU 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00skc4l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 23:00 The Essay (b00skc6l)
A Passion for Opera
Ashutosh Khandekar
Ashutosh Khandekar - Editor of Opera Now magazine - recounts his entry into the opera world via student opera. Ash realised he was never good enough to be a professional opera singer, but it didn't stop him taking part as student. Born in Bombay, he discovered opera whilst a student at Oxford, fell in love with it and the seed was sown. He's spent the past 15 years watching practically every new production not only in this continent but around the globe including places where you would least expect to find opera, such as Hanoi, Istanbul and Ulan Bator.
Producer: Sarah Taylor.
THU 23:15 Late Junction (b00skc6n)
Fiona Talkington presents operatic Poulenc to celebrate the BBC's opera season whilst the London-based Shadow Orchestra creates a dense electronic landscape.
FRIDAY 04 JUNE 2010
FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b00skc7y)
Susan Sharpe presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters
1:01 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Gaspard de la nuit for piano
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
1:27 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809)
Quartet for strings (Op.74'3) in G minor "Rider"
Ebène Quartet
1:48 AM
Peskin, Vladimir (1906-1988)
Concerto for trumpet and piano no. 1 in C minor
Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet), Roberto Arioso (piano)
2:07 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Serenade for string orchestra (Op.6) in E flat major
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, James Clark (conductor)
2:36 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concerto for violin and orchestra No.3 (K.216) in G major
Valery Klimov (violin), Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
3:01 AM
Kunzen, Friedrich (1761-1817)
Overture to the play 'Husitterne' (The Hussites)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Peter Marschik (conductor)
3:08 AM
Arriaga, Juan Crisostomo (1806-1826)
Erminia, scène lyrique-dramatique
Rosamind Illing (soprano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Heribert Esser (conductor)
3:23 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor (Op.21)
Patrick Cohen (fortepiano), Capella Coloniensis, Hans-Martin Linde (director)
3:59 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Quartet for piano and strings in E flat (K.493)
Paul Lewis (piano), Antje Weithaas (violin), Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Patrick Demanga (cello)
4:27 AM
Hellendaal, Pieter (1721-1799)
Concerto grosso for strings and continuo in E flat major (Op.3 No.4)
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
4:40 AM
Franck, César (1822-1890)
Chorale No.3 in A minor (M.40), from Trois Chorales pour grande orgue
Pierre Pincemaille (organ)
4:52 AM
Massenet, Jules (1842-1912)
Manon Act 1: Manon and Des Grieux recit and duet 'Et je sais votre nom'; 'Nous vivrons à Paris....Tous les deux'
Lyne Fortin (soprano), Richard Margison (tenor), Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Simon Streatfield (conductor)
5:01 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
Hill-Song No.2
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
5:06 AM
Weyse, Christoff Ernst Friedrich (1774-1842)
Sonata No.1 in E major
Folmer Jensen (piano)
5:19 AM
Jarzebski, Adam (1590-1649)
Corona Aurea - concerto a 3
Simon Standage (violin), Il Tempo
5:26 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Concerto grosso (Op.6 No.8) in G minor 'per la notte di Natale'
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
5:42 AM
Reger, Max (1873-1916)
Motet: 'Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht' (Op.110 No.2)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
5:59 AM
Dvořák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Overture 'Othello' (Op.93) (1891-2)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor)
6:15 AM
Raff, Joachim (1822-1882)
La Fileuse (Op.157 No.2)
Dennis Hennig (piano)
6:19 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Macbeth (Op.23)
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
6:39 AM
Vierne, Louis (1877-1937)
Berceuse (sur les paroles classiques)
Leon van den Brand (organ). Played on the 1894 Franciscus Cornelius Smits II organ of St Jacobuskerk, Zeeland
6:44 AM
Traditional (Swiss) [arr. Corsin Tuor]
Tutta nanna tgu [Lullaby]
Brassband Bürgermusik Luzern, Corsin Tuor (director)
6:47 AM
Scherrer, Carli (b.19??) arranged Corsin Tuor
Zuola roda, zuola [Turn spinning wheel, turn]
Brassband Bürgermusik Luzern, Corsin Tuor (director)
6:51 AM
Barnes, Milton (1931-2001)
Three Folk Dances
Moshe Hammer (violin), Valerie Tryon (piano)
6:56 AM
Kroll, William (1901-1980)
Banjo and Fiddle
Moshe Hammer (violin), Valerie Tryon (piano).
FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b00skc80)
Friday - Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast. Included this morning is Bach from Stuttgart, Vaughan Williams from New York, Rossini from Chicago and Andreas Staier playing Schubert on a fortepiano.
FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b00skc91)
Friday - James Jolly
Classical Collection with James Jolly.
The theme of Japan concludes with Jose Carerras and Mirella Freni in Puccini's Madame Butterfly, Malcolm Sargent conducting Sullivan's Mikado and music from native Japanese composers and conductors.
10.00
Sullivan
The Mikado - Overture
Pro Arte Orchestra
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Malcolm Sargent (conductor)
EMI CDS 7477738
10.09
Rubbra
Fukagawa (Deep River)
Danielle Perrett (harp)
ASV DCA 1036
10.12
Koscak Yamada
The Dark Gate
Ulster Orchestra
Takua Yuasa (conductor)
NAXOS
8.555350
10.24
Mendelssohn
Piano Trio No.2 in C Minor Op.66
Trio Florestan
HYPERION CDA 67485
10.51
Puccini
'Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia' (Madame Butterfly) Madama Butterfly: Mirella Freni (soprano)
Pinkerton: Jose Carreras (tenor)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
DG 423 567 2
11.05
Nambu Ushioi Uta
Iwate Cow-Herding Song
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute)
Lily Laskine (harp)
DENON 35C37-7127
11.10
Juan Garcia de Zespedes
Juguete: Convidando esta la noche
Guaracha: Ay que me abraso
ALIA VOX AV9834
11.16
Brahms
Symphony No.2 in D Op.73
Saito Kinen Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
PHILIPS 434 089-2.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00skc82)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Episode 5
In our final programme on Alessandro Scarlatti, Donald Macleod surveys the composer's decline into poverty, and evaluates his reputation as the founder of Neapolitan Opera.
Donald Macleod surveys Alessandro Scarlatti's final years and his reputation as the founder of Neapolitan Opera. During this time a new movement was beginning in the world of opera: opera buffa. We'll hear Scarlatti's own attempt at the new style, with an aria from Il Trionfo dell'Onore.
Towards the end of his life, Scarlatti also taught more pupils out of financial necessity. During one of these lessons he stated that he'd never liked wind instruments, because they never stay in tune. Despite that, Alessandro did compose a number of works for wind instruments, and we'll hear his Concerto in F major for 3 Flutes.
Scarlatti's greatest love may have been opera, but he was mainly employed as the maestro di cappella to a number of royal courts and churches and made a significant impact upon the world of oratorio, cantatas, and sacred music. To end this final episode we'll hear the latter part of his Mass for St Cecilia's Day, composed five years before his death for one of his Roman patrons.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00skc84)
Ulster Hall
Nikolai Demidenko
Louise Fryer introduces the final recital in a series from Belfast featuring the Ulster Hall piano. Today, Russian pianist Nikolai Demidenko performs an all-Chopin programme including his Bolero Op.19 and the 24 Preludes Op.28.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00skc8l)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Episode 4
Louise Fryer presents a week of performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor Jiri Belohlavek, who returned from their Far East tour just a few days ago. Alongside concerts they gave in China and Japan, you can hear - equally hot off the press - their brand-new cycle of all five Beethoven piano concertos with soloist Paul Lewis, who'll also be playing them all at the 2010 Proms. Plus another complete cycle - all six of Martinu's symphonies that Jiri Belohlavek has been conducting with the BBC Symphony Orchestra this season.
To round off the week today, the grandest of Beethoven's piano concertos, the fifth, joins a fifth symphony from Prokofiev - performed in Beijing - and both the fifth and sixth of Martinu's symphonies.
Martinu: Symphony no. 5
2.35pm
Prokofiev: Symphony no. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100
3.30pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 (Emperor)
Paul Lewis (piano)
4.10pm
Martinu: Fantaisies symphoniques (Symphony no. 6).
FRI 17:00 In Tune (b00skc9f)
Friday - Sean Rafferty
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Including at
5.40 the A-Z of Opera with M is for Mad Scene and at
6.40 your suggestions for operatic Ms.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00skcbg)
CBSO, Nelsons
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Andris Nelsons conducts the CBSO in Tchaikovsky's Voyevoda and Pathétique Symphony; Rainer Gibbons is soloist in Strauss' elegiac Oboe Concerto.
The symphonic ballad The Voyevoda is one of Tchaikovsky's least-known works, perhaps because the composer himself tended to under-rate it. But in the Pathétique Symphony, he threw his all into this no-holds-barred musical autobiography; the result is a symphony that blends raw emotion and glorious melody to devastating effect.
Between these two pieces by Tchaikovsky, the CBSO's section leader oboe offers a moment of tranquility with Strauss's gentle concerto.
Tchaikovsky: The Voyevoda
Strauss: Oboe Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique)
Rainer Gibbons oboe
Andris Nelsons conductor
Followed by performances by students at the Royal Academy of Music:
Strauss ‘Gavotte’ from Suite, op.4
Royal Academy of Music Symphonic Wind conducted by Keith Bragg
Live Performance:
Keith Bragg and Wind Octet from the Royal Academy of Music
Mozart Serenade for Wind Instruments in C minor, K.388 (Movement II Andante and Movement IV Allegro)
Keith Bragg conductor
Suzanne Thorn and Peter Facer oboe
Anna Hashimoto and Elaine Ruby clarinet
Rhonwen Jones and Dominic Tyler bassoon
Hugh Sisley and Elise Campbell horn
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Royal Academy of Music Symphonic Wind conducted by Keith Bragg
Strauss: Fanfare zur Eroffnung der Musikwoche der Stadt Wien Op 110
Academy Symphonic Brass
James Watson, conductor
FRI 21:15 The Verb (b00skcbj)
Tony Parsons, Grace Nichols, King James Bible, Poetry and Emotion
Tony Parsons
As the 2010 World Cup in South Africa gets underway, novelist Tony Parsons reads a brand new short story inspired by Britain's 1966 world cup win.
Grace Nichols
In a rare interview Grace Nichols discusses her early life in Guyana, the influence of the tradition of carnival on her work, and her latest collection of poetry, I Have Crossed an Ocean.
Who Wrote the King James Bible?
Kevin Jackson on the extraordinary collaborative effort that created the King James Bible, and its influence on our language and literature.
Poetic Problems: How does poetry express emotion?
Poets Kate Kilalea and Richard Price on how poems make us feel, and the pitfalls of tackling highly emotional subjects in verse.
FRI 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00skc82)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 23:00 The Essay (b00skcbl)
A Passion for Opera
Michael Chance
Counter Tenor Michael Chance is one of Britain's great opera stars. But it's an unofficial title that has come at a cost. While Germany is full of opera houses with permanent ensembles where singers can get to know each other and work together on a series of different productions, Michael is a permanent guest. He's had to get used to living out of a suitcase, settling in to a lodging house or hotel room for a month and bonding with a new cast, a new director and new conductor, only to be off and away the moment the production is up and running.
These are the confessions of the long distance opera singer.
The benefits have been a chance to see the world's stages and work with some of the greats. The down-side is that the whole business of teamwork, of developing together, of celebrating together is very limited.
And of course there's the family. The pull between work and home is constant and doesn't get any easier over time.
FRI 23:15 World on 3 (b00sllvv)
Lopa Kothari
Lopa Kothari with new releases from across the globe, plus a studio session with Paris-based singer-songwriter Hindi Zahra.
Born in Morocco, Hindi Zahra writes songs which reflect the many styles of music she heard as a child - her Berber heritage, the Algerian 'chabi' of Cheikha Rimitti, music of the desert bluesmen of the Sahara, the soulful singing of Aretha Franklin, and the gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt. She moved to Paris as a young girl, got a job at the Louvre, and began writing gentle, artful songs, last year delighting the audience with her performance on BBC Radio 3's stage at WOMAD.