SATURDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2010

SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b00ts3lc)
1:01 AM
Schnittke, Alfred (1934-1998)
Suite in the olden style for violin and piano
Vadim Gluzman (Violin) Angela Yoffe (Piano)

1:17 AM
Schnittke, Alfred (1934-1998)
Fugue for violin
Vadim Gluzman (Violin)

1:21 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Cinderella - suite no.1 (Op.107)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

1:48 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
3 pieces for clarinet
Chen Halevi (Clarinet)

1:54 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
L' Histoire du soldat (the Soldier's Tale)
Vadim Gluzman (Violin) Chen Halevi (Clarinet) Angela Yoffe (Piano)

2:10 AM
Traditional Catalonia & Campion, Francois, (1686 - 1748)
Trad Catalonian: El Cant dels ocells & Campion: Les Ramages
Zefiro Torna, Jurgen De Bruyn (renaissance guitar, director)

2:17 AM
Auerbach, Lera (b. 1973)
Par.ti.ta for violin (2007)
Vadim Gluzman (Violin)

2:38 AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano (Sz.111)
Vadim Gluzman (Violin) Chen Halevi (Clarinet) Angela Yoffe (Piano)

2:56 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975)
no. 3 The Return of Maxim from 4 Waltzes Op. 45
Vadim Gluzman (Violin) Chen Halevi (Clarinet) Angela Yoffe (Piano)

3:01 AM
Marais, Marin (1656-1728)
Allemande
3:03 AM
Rondo
Pierre Pitzl, Marcy Jean Bolli (violas da gamba), Luciano Contini (archlute), Augusta Campagne (harpsichord)

3:07 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Le carnaval des animaux
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (director)

3:30 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Le Roi Lear - overture (Op.4)
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

3:46 AM
Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967)
Hymn to King Stephen
Hungarian Radio Chorus, Péter Erdei (conductor)

3:52 AM
Trad. Hungarian
Dance of the Prince of Transylvania
Csaba Nagy (solo recorder), Camerata Hungarica, László Czidra (conductor)

3:54 AM
Trad. Hungarian
3 Dances from the Gervaise Collection
Csaba Nagy (solo recorder), Camerata Hungarica, László Czidra (conductor)

3:56 AM
Trad. Hungarian
2 Dances from the Lőcse Virginal Book
Camerata Hungarica, László Czidra (conductor)

4:00 AM
Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967)
Dances of Galanta (Galántai táncok) vers. for piano
Adam Fellegi (piano)

4:16 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
Rustic Dance
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)

4:19 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
The Gum-Suckers' March
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)

4:24 AM
Martinů, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
Tango (Lento) from 'La revue de Cuisine' (1930)
Timothy Lines (clarinet), Mihaela Martin (violin), Frans Helmerson (cello), Gustavo Núñez (bassoon), Peter Masseurs (trumpet), Vasily Lobanov (piano)

4:29 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Sonata for oboe and continuo (HWV.366) (Op.1 No.8) in C minor
Louise Pellerin (oboe), Dom André Laberge (organ - 1999 Karl Wilhelm at the abbey church Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, Québec, Canada)

4:36 AM
Vanhal, Johann Baptist (1739-1813)
Concerto for double bass and orchestra in E flat major
Karol Illek (double bass), Camerata Slovacca, Viktor Málek (conductor)

5:01 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Overture to Speziale (H.28.3)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marbà (conductor)

5:08 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Variations in E major on a German National Air (op.posth)
Ludmil Angelov (piano)

5:16 AM
Jez, Jakob (b.1928)
Ode for General Maister
Cantemus Mixed Choir, Sebastjan Vrhovnik (conductor)

5:19 AM
Jez, Jakob (b.1928)
Svetla mu püskica
Polona Pavsek (soprano), Metod Palčič (tenor), Stane Tomelj (baritone), Cantemus Mixed Choir, Sebastijan Vrhovnik (conductor)

5:24 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
12 Variations on 'La Folia' (Wq.118/9) (H.263)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)

5:33 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich [1637-1707] NEW!
Sonate IV in B flat major (BuxWV 255)
Ensemble CordArte: Daniel Deuter (violin), Heike Johanna Lindner (viola da gamba), Stefan Maass (theorbo), Michael Borgstede (cembalo)

5:42 AM
Gilson, Paul (1865-1942)
La Captive : Suite
Flemish Radio Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

6:05 AM
Bloch, Ernest (1880-1959)
Nigun
Moshe Hammer (violin), Valerie Tryon (piano)

6:13 AM
Cara, Marchetto (c.1470-c.1525)
Se non fusse la speranza
Ensemble Claude-Gervaise, Gilles Plante (director) (recorders)

6:14 AM
Tromboncino, Bartolomeo (c.1470-1535)
Frottola 'Gentil donna'
Joris Verdan (Aghte-regal in the Brussels Instrument Museum)

6:17 AM
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755)
Concerto No.2 in G minor
Concerto Köln

6:29 AM
Greef, Arthur de (1862-1940)
Concerto no 2 in B major for Piano and Orchestra
Artur Pizarro (piano), Flemish Radio Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)

6:51 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Serenade No.1 in D major for violin & orchestra (Op.69a)
Judy Kang (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Jean-Francois Rivest.


SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b00tvqcm)
Saturday - Petroc Trelawny

Petroc Trelawny presents Breakfast. The programme includes a Vivaldi Concerto, a Schubert Overture, and features songs by American composer Ned Rorem.


SAT 09:00 CD Review (b00twy48)
Building a Library: Brahms: String Quartet in C minor, Op 51

Andrew McGregor introduces CD Review, Radio 3's weekly programme devoted to all that's new in the world of recorded music

09.05am

Dialogues of Sorrow
ROBERT RAMSEY: When David Heard; What Tears, dear Prince?; How are the Mighty Fall’n; Sleep Fleshly Birth; FORD / CRANFORD / WARD: Passions on the Death of Prince Henry; COPRARIO: From Songs of Mourning; WEELKES: O Jonathan; Woe is me; When David Heard; DERING: And the King was Moved; Contristatus est David; VAUTOR: Melpomene; Bewail; TOMKINS: Then David Mourned; When David Heard; WARD: Weep Forth your Tears
Elizabeth Kenny (lute) / Gallicantus / Gabriel Crouch (director)
Signum SIGCD210 (CD)

Il Giardino Del Mondo: Giovanni Paolo Cima and his contemporaries
CIMA: Sonata a tre in a; Sonata in d; Sonata in g; Quam pulchra es; Gustate et videte; Surge propera-Ecco; O sacrum-Ecco; Adiuro vos; filiae Hierusalem; Gaudeamus omnes; MERULA: La Cattarina; La Gallina; La Bianca; L’Ara; La Treccha; Gaudeamus omnes GRANDI: Salve Regina; Regina caeli; O quam tu pulchra es; Deus; canticum novum
Basel Baroque Consort
Pan Classics PC 10226 (CD)

BLOW: As on his deathbed gasping Strephon lay; BUXTEHUDE: Jubilate Domino, omnis terra, BuxWV 64; HANDEL: Neun deutsche Arien, HWV202-210; PURCELL: Gentle shepherds, you that know the charms, Z464; What a sad fate is mine, Z428A; An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) / Ensemble Guadagni
Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE0038 (CD)

Melani: Mottetti (Motets)
MELANI: Litanie per la beata vergine; Ave regina coelorum; Clamemus ante deum; O voces formidandæ; De necessitatibus; Laudate pueri; Vivere sine te; Salve regina; Ad arma, cor meum; Magnificat;
Concerto Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini (organ & conductor)
Naïve OP 30431 (CD)

09.30am Building a Library

BRAHMS Quartet Op. 51/1 C minor

Reviewer - Piers Burton-Page

First Choice Recommendation:

BRAHMS: String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51 No. 1; Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Quatuor Ebene / Akiko Yamamoto (piano)
Virgin 2166222 (CD)

Search the Building a Library database for recommendations since 2005 via the CD Review website: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/cdreview

10.20am

William Mival looks at some new orchestral releases including Brahms from Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Richard Strauss from Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio SO, Mahler from the Frankfurt Radio SO and Paavo Jarvi and a recreation of a wind band concert which the young Gustav Mahler might have heard in his home town.

BEETHOVEN: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62; BRAHMS: Fest- und Gedenksprüche, Op. 109; Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98; Geistliches Lied, Op. 30; GABRIELI: Sanctus et Benedictus a 12; SCHUTZ: Responsorium: Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich SWV 415
The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique / John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG: SDG705 (CD)

STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier - Suite; Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28; Four Last Songs
Anja Harteros (soprano) / Andreas Rohn (violin solo) / Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Mariss Jansons
BR Klassik 900707 (CD)

MAHLER Symphony No. 2
Natalie Dessay / Alice Coote / Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi (conductor)
Virgin Classics 6945860 (2 CDs)

Gustav Mahler and Military Music in Jihlava 1875
SCHUBERT: Militar-Marsch; AUBER: La muette de Portici (Ouverture); STRAUSS: Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald, Walzer; WAGNER: Einzugsmarsch aus dem Oper Tannhauser; Freiherr von Hess-Marsch No. 49; BEETHOVEN: Yorckscher Marsch; MASSAK: 49er Defi lier Marsch; Cavatina fur Trompete und Militarmusik; 49er Defi lier Marsch; Marsch fur Militarmusik,; FAHRBACH: Standchen-Polka
The Prague Castle Guard and Czech Police Band / Capt. Pavel Hromadka (trumpet ) / Colonel Vaclav Blahunek (conductor)
Arco Diva UP01292 (CD)

11.20am Interview

Edward Higginbottom talks to Andrew about his recording of Monteverdi's Vespers. Released to mark the publication of the work 400 years ago this CD, made with his New College, Oxford choir is the debut release from the college's own label, Novum. Including extracts from:

MONTEVERDI: Vespro della beata Vergine
New College Choir Oxford / Charivari Agreable / Edward Higginbottom (conductor)
Novum NCR1382 (2 CDs)

11.40am Disc of the Week

MAHLER: Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major - Adagio
Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano) / Christian Gerhaher (baritone) / Cleveland Orchestra / Pierre Boulez (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon DGG 477 9060 (CD)

MAHLER, recomposed by MATTHEW HERBERT: Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major
Philharmonia Orchestra / Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon DGG 06025 2734438 (CD)


SAT 12:15 Music Feature (b00twy4b)
Dialogues of Sorrow

Historian, Tristram Hunt explores how the death of Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales, eldest son of King James I at the age of only 18, gripped the nation and led to an unprecedented outpouring of musical and cultural responses.

He was the "People's Prince" and over 2,000 official mourners attended his funeral with satellite events in Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol. Just compare that to Elizabeth I's death where there were only a couple of hundred official mourners. They felt the loss of what might have been had Henry succeed the uncouth and ill-disciplined, James.

Henry was seen as the great hope for Great Britain. He was a renaissance prince who looked to Europe, collecting Italian art, he loved pomp and ceremony and he vowed to fight the protestant cause. Every major writer and composer responded to the young Prince's death, including John Donne, George Herbert, William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes.

Tristram Hunt explores these responses with the help of Gabriel Crouch, director of the vocal ensemble Gallicantus, and music editor Sally Dunkley. In the library of Christchurch, Oxford they uncover the Fanshawe manuscripts, one of the most important collections of responses including the heartfelt and moving piece "Tis now Dead Night" by Thomas Ford, recently reconstructed for performance by Gallicantus.

Tristram also visits the National Portrait Gallery with its former director, historian Sir Roy Strong, who has been fascinated by Henry's life since the 1960s. At the gallery, they see portraits of the dashing young prince, a small medallion of him portrayed like a Roman emperor and an etching of the hearse for his lavish funeral. It's impossible to ignore the parallels to Diana's death.


SAT 13:00 The Early Music Show (b00twy80)
La Capella Ducale and Musica Fiata, Köln

Catherine Bott presents a concert by Musica Fiata and La Capella Ducale, directed by Roland Wilson, in the Chapter House of York Minster as part of the 2010 York Early Music Festival. Their programme consists of German wedding music from the time of the Thirty Years War, by Scheidt, Schein and Schutz.

During this turbulent time in North European history, composers found it very difficult to get their music printed, but rich patrons were still keen to commission special music for weddings, which they would then see published. As a result several composers of the time adapted their best pieces to suit the wedding theme in the hope that their music would then reach a wider audience. This concert reflects some of that music.


SAT 14:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00ts1dk)
Ilya Gringolts at Wigmore Hall

When the young Edvard Grieg was studying in Leipzig he encountered the music of Robert Schumann and it changed his life. In this live recital from London's Wigmore Hall the brilliant young Russian violinist Ilya Gringolts is joined by fellow former Radio 3 New Generation Artist, pianist Ashley Wass for sonatas by both composers. They pair Grieg's youthful 1st Sonata, written on holiday in Denmark, with Schumann's darker and fiery 2nd Sonata. The concert is introduced by Sean Rafferty.

Grieg: Violin Sonata No.1 in F Major Op.18
Schumann: Violin Sonata No.2 in D Minor Op. 121

Ilya Gringolts (violin)
Ashley Wass (piano).


SAT 15:00 World Routes (b00g2jzw)
Jerusalem and Nazareth

Nazareth, the oud, and Dalal Abu Amana

Moshe Morad visits the childhood home of Jesus, Nazareth, meeting members of the Joubran musical dynasty, visiting their oud factory and meeting the Nazareth Arabic orchestra. Plus a recording from the 2008 Jerusalem Oud Festival of Nazareth-born Dalal Abu Amana, who performs her songs in a special Palestinian dialect unique to Galilee.


SAT 16:00 Jazz Library (b00twy84)
Mark Murphy

American singer Mark Murphy is one of the most versatile vocalists in jazz. A master of scat and vocalese, he is also a renowned interpreter of ballads and standards. British singer Ian Shaw joins Alyn Shipton to consider Murphy's finest records, from his early work such as 'That's How I Love The Blues' to his vocalese masterpiece 'Stolen Moments'.


SAT 17:00 Jazz Record Requests (b00twy86)
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.


SAT 18:00 Opera on 3 (b00twy88)
Britten's Billy Budd

From this summer's Festival, a first for Glyndebourne: a new production of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd, based on Herman Melville's allegorical tale of good versus evil on board an 18th century warship. Jacques Imbrailo sings Budd, a young foretopman whose beauty and goodness makes him immediately popular with the crew. But those same qualities also draw a strong reaction from the Master at Arms, John Claggart, and feelings he would rather leave repressed. John Mark Ainsley sings Captain Vere, whose fateful decision on board haunts him for the rest of his life.

Andrew McGregor talks to director Michael Grandage about his operatic debut, and to Mark Elder who is also conducting Budd for the first time.

Captain Vere ..... John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Billy Budd ..... Jacques Imbrailo (baritone)
Claggart ..... Phillip Ens (bass)
Mr. Redburn ..... Iain Paterson (bass)
Mr. Flint ..... Matthew Rose (bass)
Lieutenant Ratcliffe ..... Darren Jeffery (bass)
Red Whiskers ..... Alasdair Elliott (tenor)
Donald ..... John Moore (baritone)
Dansker ..... Jeremy White (bass)
The Novice ..... Ben Johnson (tenor)
Squeak ..... Colin Judson (tenor)
Bosun ..... Richard Mosley-Evans (baritone)

The Glyndebourne Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Mark Elder, conductor.


SAT 21:30 The Wire (b00tz03g)
Castlereagh to Kandahar

Speedy and Stig are best of mates who play in a band together. Not an ordinary band, it's an Orange Flute Band. The rhythms that pound in their veins are those of ancient war, of adrenalin mixed with atavism, blood and thunder, drugs and alcohol. The sheer 'white noise' of their lives, leads them to beatings, to kickings and the knowledge that if they don't get out, they'll end up dead. And how ironic is it then that within 8 months Stig has exchanged the streets of Belfast for those of Kandahar. And it's anybody's bet as to whether Stig in Afghanistan or Speedy in Belfast will be the first to come home in a box.

Rosemary Jenkinson studied medieval literature at Durham. Her collection of short stories, Contemporary Problems Nos. 53 & 54 was published by Lagan Press in 2004. Since then she has been writing a series of provocative plays for Rough Magic, Tinderbox, and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

Cast includes:
Speedy.....Richard Dormer
Stig.....Paul Kennedy
The Road Marshall.....Dan Gordon
Major.....BJ Hogg
Alana.....Abigail McGibbon
Mrs Murdoch.....Stella McCusker

Music composed by Graeme Stewart

Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan.


SAT 22:30 Hear and Now (b00twy8d)
Choral Works, Peter Maxwell Davis

Tom Service introduces choral works by Gabriel Jackson, Michael Zev Gordon and Gyorgy Ligeti, together with a great renaissance masterpiece, from a concert given at this summer''s Cheltenham Festival; and Paul Driver explores what makes modern-day composers continue to look to medieval and renaissance models and vocal textures for inspiration.

Gabriel Jackson: Sanctum est verum lumen
Ligeti: Lux aeterna
Michael Zev Gordon: Allele
Tallis: Spem in alium

New London Chamber Choir
Conducted by James Weeks

Plus Sir Peter Maxwell Davies conducts the BBC Philharmonic in his own imaginative and witty mix of old and new, his foxtrot for orchestra on a pavan by John Bull, 'St Thomas Wake'.

Playlist:

Peter Maxwell Davies: In Nomine II (excerpt)
London Sinfonietta / David Atherton
Decca 475 6166. Disc 1 Track 10

Peter Maxwell Davies: In Nomine V (excerpt)
London Sinfonietta / David Atherton
Decca 475 6166. Disc 1 Track 12

Concert items:
Gabriel Jackson: Sanctum est verum lumen
Ligeti: Lux aeterna
Michael Zev Gordon: Allele
Tallis: Spem in alium

New London Chamber Choir
Conducted by James Weeks
Recorded at the Cheltenham Festival on the 10 July 2010

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E minor Op. 90, 1st movt (excerpt)
Andras Schiff (piano)
ECM 476 6189. Track 1

Goehr: String Quartet No. 3 (excerpt)
Lindsay String Quartet
Wergo WER 60093 (LP) S2/1

Tye: Dum transisset II (excerpt)
Hesperion XX
Astree E8708. Track 15

Brian Ferneyhough: Dum transisset I-IV (excerpt)
Arditti String Quartet
BBC Recording

Peter Maxwell Davies: St Thomas Wake
BBC Philharmonic / Peter Maxwell Davies
Collins Classics 13082. Track 7



SUNDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2010

SUN 00:00 The Early Music Show (b00qpjvx)
Dimitrie Cantemir

Lucie Skeaping profiles the extraordinary life and work of the polyglot Dimitrie Cantemir. Born in Moldavia in 1673, he became one of the foremost intellectuals of Eastern Europe. Scholar, Orientalist, composer, theorist, historian, and fleetingly Prince of Moldavia, he also was a virtuoso played of the tanbur, a long-necked lute. In 1710 Cantemir compiled 'The Book of the Science of Music', a collection of about 355 compositions, 9 of which were by Cantemir himself. This collection charted the theory and forms of 17th century Ottoman music, and was written in a notation also devised by Cantemir. The music in the programme includes several works form this book, and traditional music from the Ottoman world during this time, including recordings by Hesperion XXI.


SUN 01:00 Through the Night (b00twyg0)
1:01 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907)
Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2 in G major (Op.13)
Marianne Thorsen (violin), Håvard Gimse (piano)

1:22 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Sonata no. 3 in D minor for violin and piano (Op. 108)
Marianne Thorsen (violin), Håvard Gimse (piano)

1:44 AM
Franck, César (1822-1890)
Sonata for violin and piano (M.8) in A major
Marianne Thorsen (violin), Håvard Gimse (piano)

2:11 AM
Gilson, Paul (1865-1942)
La Mer (1892)
Flemish Radio Orchestra, Flemish Radio Choir, Brassband Buizingen, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

2:47 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Overture to Les Franc-juges (Op.3)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, John Nelson (conductor)

3:01 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G major BWV.1048
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)

3:14 AM
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)

3:23 AM
Spohr, Louis (1784-1859)
String sextet in C major, Op.140
Wiener Streichsextet:

3:48 AM
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
Preludium and Allegro
Tobias Ringborg (violin), Anders Kilström (piano)

3:55 AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
Quintet for wind No.1
Galliard Ensemble BBC New Generation Artists

4:16 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, conductor Eivind Aadland

4:34 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Sonata in D minor
Peter Hannan (recorder), Colin Tilney (harpsichord), Christel Thielmann (viola da gamba)

4:44 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Sonata for keyboard (K.576) in D major
Jonathan Biss (piano)

5:01 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Cantata No.170 'Vergnügte Ruh', beliebte Seelenlust' (BWV.170) (Leipzig, 1726)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)

5:22 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Pieces from Les Indes Galantes
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Terje Tønnesen (conductor)

5:35 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
String Quartet in G major (Op.77 No.1)
Australian String Quartet

6:01 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
L'Isle Joyeuse
Jurate Karosaite (piano)

6:09 AM
Finzi, Gerald (1901-1956)
White-flowering days for chorus (Op.37);
BBC Singers, Stephen Layton (conductor)

6:12 AM
Pearsall, Robert Lucas (1795-1856)
Lay a garland on her hearse
BBC Singers, Bob Chilcott (conductor)

6:15 AM
Felix Mendelssohn Batholdy (1809-1847)
Symphony No.3 in A minor (Op.56), "Scottish"
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; Vytautas Lukocius (conductor)

6:54 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Maria Theres... Hab' mir's gelobt, ihn lieb zu haben -Der Rosenkavalier (Op.59)
Adrianna Pieczonka (soprano), Tracey Dahl (soprano), Jean Stilwell (mezzo-soprano), Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor).


SUN 07:00 Breakfast (b00twyg2)
Sunday - Petroc Trelawny

Petroc Trelawny presents Breakfast. Music includes a Handel Organ Concerto, songs by Reynaldo Hahn and parts of Manuel de Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain.


SUN 10:00 Sunday Morning (b00twyg4)
Louise Fryer - Weather

Louise Fryer consults her seaweed to look at the weather today; storms, heatwaves, snow and rain. Mark Swartzentruber shines a spotlight on a vintage recording, plus your emails, a new release and our pick of the week's live concerts.


SUN 12:00 Private Passions (b00twyg6)
Alan Sillitoe

Nottingham-born Alan Sillitoe, one of the 'Angry Young Men' generation of British writers, died earlier this year at the age of 82. The author of many novels, poetry collections and an auobiography, he shot to fame in 1958 on the publication of 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning', a gritty depiction of contemporary urban working-class life in the Midlands. The novel was filmed by Karel Reisz in 1960, starring the young Albert Finney as its anti-hero. Sillitoe's other best-known book, 'The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner', appeared in 1959, and was filmed three years later by Tony Richardson, starring Tom Courtenay.

Alan Sillitoe was a keen music-lover, and his choices include Jerome Kern's 'Ol' Man River', sung by Paul Robeson; Maria Callas singing 'Casta diva' from Bellini's opera 'Norma'; Vaughan Williams' arrangement of the English folk-song 'Seventeen Come Sunday', Artur Rubinstein playing a Chopin Prelude, and two pieces by Soviet composers, reflecting Sillitoe's lifelong interest in the Soviet Union - an excerpt from Prokofiev's ballet 'Romeo and Juliet', and Shostakovich's 'The Execution of Stepan Razin'.


SUN 13:00 The Early Music Show (b00twyg8)
York Early Music Festival 2010: Ensemble Lucidarium

Catherine Bott presents music for a Jewish wedding performed by Ensemble Lucidarium from the 2010 York Early Music Festival.

In order to reflect the festival theme of "music and marriage", the Italian based medieval and renaissance group Ensemble Lucidarium devised and performed an enchanting programme of early music written to celebrate and compliment a typical renaissance Jewish wedding service, with songs and dances reflecting the different aspects of the ceremony.


SUN 14:00 Radio 3 Requests (b00twygb)
Chi-chi Nwanoku

Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces more listeners' favourites and several less frequently heard delights including a sparkling symphony by Michael Haydn, choral music by Otto Olsson, and Ethel Smyth's remarkable Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra. Chi-Chi's guest requester is tenor Ian Bostridge.


SUN 16:00 Choral Evensong (b00ts2h7)
From Chichester Cathedral during the Southern Cathedrals' Festival.

Introit: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace (SS Wesley)
Responses: Tomkins
Office Hymn: O thou who camest from above (Hereford)
Psalm: 108 (SS Wesley)
First Lesson: 2 Kings 4 vv1-7
Canticles: Wesley in E
Second Lesson: John 2 vv1-12
Anthem: Faire is the heaven (Harris)
Final Hymn: God is love (Alleluia)
Organ Voluntary: Choral Song and Fugue (SS Wesley)

Organist and Master of the Choristers: Sarah Baldock
Assistant Organist: Simon Lawford.


SUN 17:00 Discovering Music (b00twygd)
16th Century Polyphony

Catherine Bott explores some of the joys of English ployphony with Harry Christophers, Sally Dunkley and The Sixteen in an exploration of music by Byrd, Tallis and Sheppard.

The programme was recorded at the National Centre for Early Music in York as part of the 2010 York Early Music Festival and unpicks some of the working and ideas behind three contrasting masterpieces from 16th century English chuch music. William Byrd's "Infelix Ego" is a meditation on Psalm 50 written by the Italian friar Girolamo Savonarola shortly before his execution for heresy.

Thomas Tallis's short but intensely expressive "Miserere Nostri" is an intricate web of musical games and devices around the words "have mercy on us lord, have mercy on us".

Finally John Sheppard's "Media Vita" is a setting of plainsong and text based around the Nunc Dimittis, the traditional song for evening prayer, composed by Sheppard on an uniquely grand scale.

Harry Christophers, the director of The Sixteen, and Sally Dunkley who sings with the group and prepeares many of The Sixteen's editions, discuss and illustrate with Catherine Bott some of musical thinking behind these pieces.


SUN 18:30 Choir and Organ (b00twygg)
Simon Preston, Georgian Choral Music, Liverpool Metropolitan Choir

Aled Jones shuttles from Georgia in the Caucases to several UK ports of call. Today he introduces the unique and stunning soundworld of Georgian choral music performed by the Rustavi Choir.

Back home Aled introduces two of the category finalists in the countdown to this year's Choir of the Year.
And 2010 is celebration time in Liverpool, the 50th birthday of Liverpool Metropolitan Choir. Aled finds out from former Director at the Catholic 'Wigwam' Cathedral, Terence Duffy.

Today's main guest is Simon Preston former Master of the Music at Westminster Abbey who began his meteoric career directing the choir at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, 40 years ago.


SUN 20:00 Drama on 3 (b00twygj)
Lorca's Rural Trilogy

Yerma

Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca
in a translation by Michael Dewell and Carmen Zapata

The tragic tale of a woman's desperate yearning for a child that leads her to murder. Infused with poetic imagery and song this is one of Lorca's best known plays, written in 1934.

Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 - 1936) is, with Cervantes, the best known figure in Spanish literature. His plays Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba are often referred to as a 'rural trilogy' and all three are being broadcast together on Radio 3 in March 2014.

Singers, Members of the cast and Leslie Pratt
Directed by Pauline Harris.


SUN 21:30 Sunday Feature (b00tx2gy)
James Young Deer - The Winnebago Movie-Maker

In the years before the First World War, a man called James Young Deer was celebrated in the American movie business papers as the world's first Native American film-maker.

He turned the conventions of the Western on their heads.

He showed Indian men rescuing, and marrying, white women.

In one film, 'The Squawman's Revenge', he presented audiences with a white man joining an Indian community - and helping them wreak vengeance on a white settlement.

Another of his movies was titled 'Red Eagle the Lawyer'.

Together with his wife, 'Princess Red Wing', Young Deer made dozens of movies like this, playing a key part in the earliest years of the California film industry.

But in 1914, faced with a sex scandal, he suddenly fled his job running Pathé's West Coast studio. He escaped to New York, and caught the boat to Liverpool.

Young Deer's work in California has recently become the subject of pioneering research in America. But the story of his time in England is unknown, even to most US historians of his work.

Now, with the help of specialists of the early British movie studios, film historian Matthew Sweet pieces together the astonishing story of how this extraordinary man spent much of 1914 shooting thrillers in London.

He visits the sites in Finchley, Waterloo and Crystal Palace where Young Deer shot a series of gangster flicks like 'The Queen of the London Counterfeiters' and 'The Black Cross Gang'.

Historian Gerry Turvey shows Matthew a breathless interview in the British movie press, revealing Young Deer's hair-raising zest for blowing things up.

And Matthew explores why, once he returned to America as war broke out, Young Deer's career never recovered.

He listens to a rare interview, conducted in the 1970s by film historian Kevin Brownlow, with Al Hoxie, a veteran of the early days of Hollywood. Hoxie recalls how Young Deer spent his later years running a two-bit acting school - forgotten by the industry for which he did so much.

Young Deer was accepted and promoted as a Native American, and his films were received as such at the time.

Yet, intriguingly, Matthew hears that there is now some doubt about his origins.

So he talks to Philip Deloria, a historian of Native American heritage, about what the legacy of Young Deer - radical movies, murky background and all - means today.

With Angela Aleiss, Andrew Brodie Smith, Kevin Brownlow, Ian Christie, Philp Deloria, Tony Fletcher and Gerry Turvey.

Producer - Phil Tinline.


SUN 22:15 Words and Music (b00twygl)
In Search of the Sublime

The inexorable yearning for transcendence: Stephen Mangan and Adjoa Andoh read prose and poems by Keats, Mary Wollstonecraft and Robert Scott with music by Janacek and Prokofiev.


SUN 23:30 Jazz Line-Up (b00twygz)
European Jazz Orchestra

Jazz Line-Up introduced by Julian Joseph featuring the 2010 European Jazz Orchestra conducted by Tadej Tomsic (Slovenia) Every year the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) create a Big Band hosted by a European County. 2010 was the turn of a 17-piece band which was created with as many countries, the UK being represented by Guitarist Mark McKnight from Belfast. Each year a new conductor, new compositions and a new line-up of hand-picked musicians, aged 18-30 - go on new adventures, following new itineraries. Since the start of the EJO in 1998, 226 European musicians have participated and 175 concerts have been arranged in 33 countries in Europe. The BBC hosted the event in 2006.
The programme also features music from the Rush Hour Jazz Series, with the Ben Markland Quintet and the Percy Pursglove Quartet, recorded at Birmingham's Symphony Hall.



MONDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2010

MON 01:00 Through the Night (b00twyph)
Rarities, archive and classic recordings from Europe. Tonight, John Shea's selection includes a concert of early music from the Ricercar Consort

1:01 AM
Couperin, Francois [1668-1733]
Sonade en trio for 2 violins
Ricercar Consort: François, Philippe Pierlot (bass viol and director).

1:08 AM
Lully, Jean-Baptiste [1632-1687]
Arbres, Rochers, précipices affreux"; "Ah! quelle cruauté"
Céline Scheen (soprano); Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot (bass viol and director).

1:16 AM
Mussorgsky, Modest (1839-1881) orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai (1844-1908)
Dance of the Persian Slaves - from the Opera Khovanshchina
Slovenian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)

1:23 AM
Marais, Marin [1656-1728]
4 movements from Suite d'un Goût Etranger
Ricercar Consort: Philippe Pierlot (bass viol and director)

1:39 AM
Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
Overture to Mireille
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Oliver Dohnányi (conductor)

1:46 AM
Lambert, Michel [1610-1696]
Three works for soprano,

1:58 AM
Du Boisson (Sieur) [fl.1660s]
O Mort, affreuse mort

Céline Scheen (soprano); Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot (bass viol and director).

2:04 AM
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909)
Preludia do wiecznosci (Op.13)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Strazynski (conductor)

2:15 AM
Rebel, Jean-Fery [c.1666-1747]
Le Tombeau de Monsieur Lully
Ricercar Consort: François Fernandez & Sophie Gant (violins), Luca Guglielmi (harpsichord), Eduardo Egüez (theorbo), Philippe Pierlot (bass viol and director).

2:30 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe [1683-1764]
Le Berger fidèle
Céline Scheen (soprano); Ricercar Consort: Luca Guglielmi (harpsichord), Eduardo Egüez (theorbo), Philippe Pierlot (bass viol and director).

2:45 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Variations for flute and piano in E minor (D.802)
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Bruno Robilliard (piano)

3:01 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Trio Sonata in G major (Op.5 No.4)
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists

3:15 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Suite in A minor (BWV.818a)
Wolfgang Glüxam (harpsichord)

3:29 AM
Bruhns, Nicolaus (1665-1697)
Muss nicht der Mensch auf dieser Erden in steten Streite sein
Greta de Reyghere and Jill Feldman (sopranos), James Bowman (counter-tenor), Guy de Mey and Ian Honeyman (tenors), Max van Egmond (bass), Ricercar Consort

3:43 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Theme with variations from Sextet in B flat major (Op.18)
Wiener Streichsextet

3:53 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No 68 in B flat
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Stefan Solyom

4:14 AM
Duparc, Henri (1848-1933)
Extase
4:17 AM
Elégie
Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano), Stephen Ralls (piano)

4:21 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Polonaise in A flat (Op.40 No.1), Polonaise in E flat minor (Op.26 No.2) & Polonaise in F sharp minor (Op.44)
Kevin Kenner (piano)

4:42 AM
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937) arranged by Wiłkomirski, Kazimierz (1900-1995)
Variations in B flat minor (Op.3)
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Marek Pijarowski (conductor)

4:55 AM
Couperin, Louis (c 1626-1661)
Allemande (arr. unknown) for two pianos
Tor Espen Aspaas & Sveinung Bjelland (pianos)

5:01 AM
Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich (c.1620-1680)
Sonate VIII for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo
Ensemble CordArte

5:06 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Prelude from Partita no.3 in E major (BWV.1006)
Myong-Ja Kwan (female) and Hyon-Son La (female) (harps)

5:11 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788);
Trio sonata for flute, violin and continuo (Wq.161'2) in B flat major
Les Coucous Bénévoles

5:29 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)
Mein junges Leben hat ein End
Barbara Borden (soprano), Netherlands Chamber Choir, Paul van Nevel (conductor)

5:36 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)
Mein Junges Leben hat ein End (variations)
Geert Bierling (small organ of Grote or St. Andreaskerk, Hatten)

5:44 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
The Water Goblin (Op.107)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

6:05 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Tatyana's Letter Scene - from the opera 'Eugene Onegin'
Joanne Kolomyjec (soprano: Tatyana), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

6:18 AM
Norman, Ludvig (1831-1885)
5 Tonbilder im Zusammenhange (Op.6) - for violin and piano
Tobias Ringborg (violin), Anders Kilström (piano)

6:36 AM
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).


MON 07:00 Breakfast (b00twypk)
Monday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a wide range of music from Scarlatti to Sibelius, and Frescobaldi to Faure.


MON 10:00 Classical Collection (b00twypm)
Monday - Sarah Walker

Sarah explores the part-song repertoire with works including Schubert's Die Nacht (Wie schon bist du) and Villette's Panis angelicus performed by the Holst Singers. There's also Haydn's Surprise symphony conducted by George Szell.

10.00
Schubert
Die Zauberharfe: Overture
Concertgebouw Orchestra
George Szell (conductor)
DECCA 475 6780

10.10
Schubert
Die Nacht "Wie schon bist du" D983 No.4
Baccholian Singers
PEARL SHE CD 9549

10.20
Elgar
Variations on an original theme (Enigma), Op.36
London Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Monteux (conductor)
DECCA 4757798

10.50
Villette
Panis angelicus, Op.80
O salutaris hostia, Op.21
Holst Singers
Stephen Layton (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67539

10.56
Haydn
Symphony No. 94 in G major 'Surprise'
Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell (conductor)
CBS M2YK45673

11.20
Brahms
String Quartet Op.51 in C minor
As recommended in last Saturday's Building a Library.


MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00twypp)
Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)

Episode 1

Thomas Tallis lived a long life by sixteenth century standards - he was 80 when he died, having served at the Chapel Royal under four monarchs, beginning with Henry VIII and ending with Elizabeth I. The sixteenth century was an unfortunate time to be a church musician in England. The country shuddered with political and religious upheaval as Henry, then Edward VI, then Mary and finally Elizabeth attempted to establish their own religious reforms. Heretics were sent to the stake, traitors executed in the Tower. Music was one of the battlegrounds, with significant risks attached for its practitioners. Composers delicately negotiated the move from the elaborate and large-scale Catholic works of the early sixteenth century to a plainer style under Edward. This was promptly reversed, just a few years later, when Mary came to the throne, but she herself didn't reign for long, and in the end it was Elizabeth who found the compromise between the needs of the Catholics at one end of the religious spectrum and the Puritans at the other.

Tallis worked at the hub of English church music, the Chapel Royal, for forty years. And through it all, he turned out piece after piece of glorious music, seemingly unperturbed when all the rules changed and changed again. As Peter Phillips of the Tallis Scholars puts it: "What it took in terms of stamina and personality to survive and excel as Tallis did, in the times he did, has something of a miracle about it."

In the first programme of the week, Donald Macleod explores the beginning of Tallis's career. The first hint of troubled times ahead came when Tallis lost his job at the dissolution of Dover Priory. The same thing happened again at Waltham Abbey and he made his way to London, via Canterbury Cathedral.


MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00twypr)
New Generation Artists 2010

ATOS Trio

Today's Lunchtime Concert live from Wigmore Hall features the award-winning ATOS Trio, also members of Radio 3's New Generation Artist scheme. They perform Rachmaninov's lyrical Trio Elegiaque and Beethoven's ever popular Archduke Trio.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

Rachmaninov Trio elegiaque No.1 in G minor (Op. posth)
Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat Op.97 'Archduke'

ATOS Trio.


MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00twypt)
BBC Performing Groups 2010

Episode 1

This week's Afternoon on 3 features new recordings from the BBC performing groups. Today's programme includes music by Mozart and the beginning of a week long Tchaikovsky symphony sequence. There's also music by less well known anniversary composers: Armstrong Gibbs and Rutland Boughton both died 50 years ago in 1960, while the violinist-composer Ferdinand David was born 200 years in 1810 - less than a fortnight after Schumann and a year after his good friend Mendelssohn.

Presented by Katie Derham.

2pm
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, K191
Karen Geoghegan (bassoon)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Rutland Boughton: Burglar Bill
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: Come, sleep
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor)

2.40pm
Lutoslawski: Symphony no.3
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

3.10pm
Ferdinand David: Violin Concerto no. 4 in E major, Op. 23
Hagai Shaham (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

3.35pm
Christopher Gunning: Selection of music for television, including
Five Little Pigs
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

4pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 1 in G minor 'Winter Daydreams'
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor).


MON 17:00 In Tune (b00twypw)
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Members of the Brodsky Quartet come into the studio to talk about their new CD. Violinist Daniel Hope comes in with others to perform live in advance of a concert at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Main news headlines are at 5.00 and 6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.


MON 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00twypy)
Performance on 3

Presented by Martin Handley

Andris Nelsons conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Brahms's ever-popular Violin Concerto and Shostakovich's wartime 8th Symphony, recorded last week at Symphony Hall Birmingham. Written in 1943 Shostakovich's 8th Symphony was not the celebratory homage to the Soviet war machine that the authorities had expected from the composer following the huge success of his previous 'Leningrad' symphony, it received a tepid reception and was little performed in the following years. Today the work is considered among the composer's masterpieces.

Brahms - Violin Concerto in D major
Shostakovich - Symphony no.8 in C minor

Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons (conductor)

Followed by extracts from a specially recorded Wigmore performance of Hugo Wolf's Spanisches Liederbuch performed by mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager, tenor Ian Bostridge accompanied by pianist Julius Drake. Continues in tomorrow's programme.


MON 21:15 Night Waves (b00twyq0)
Correct English, John Le Mesurier, Made in Dagenham, Martin Parr

Matthew Sweet will be talking to the journalist Simon Heffer about his new book, 'Strictly English'. They'll be joined by the writer Michael Rosen to discuss the importance of writing 'correctly'.

The biographer Graham McCann will talk about his new life of John Le Mesurier, the English actor best known for his role as Sergeant Wilson in 'Dad's Army', a performance which epitomised English upper class languor.

A review of 'Made in Dagenham', a new film about the women machinists of Ford Dagenham who went on strike for equal pay in 1968. The producer of the film was inspired by a programme he heard on Radio 4 about the women involved but what will the director of Calendar Girls do with the latest in a long line of British films about industrial relations, films including 'I'm alright, Jack' and the anti-union comedy 'Carry on at your Convenience'?

And the photographer Martin Parr talks about his photo biennial in Brighton, a festival of contemporary photography that is frame-free - all the images will be pinned onto the walls and other surfaces of a variety of venues, from Brighton Museum and Art Gallery to shop windows and advertising hoardings.

Producer: Fiona McLean.


MON 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00twypp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]


MON 23:00 The Essay (b00twyq2)
A Letter to My Body

Sarah Graham

'A Letter to my Body' is a series of essays in which five thinkers, artists and writers ask themselves how they relate to their own bodies. In this first essay Sarah Graham, who is now a successful therapist and addictions counsellor, explores her at times turbulent relationship with her body. From the age of eight Sarah was given ongoing medical treatment for a disorder of sexual development - but she only learned the real nature of her diagnosis at the age of twenty-five when a gynaecologist finally revealed the truth: that she is an intersex woman. She has XY chromosomes. She had never questioned her sex and had lived her life as a woman. Doctors had even shielded her parents from the truth about her gender. The shock of the revelation led Sarah on a path of depression and addiction which nearly killed her. However she has gradually rebuilt her health and her self esteem. In this essay she makes peace with her body and questions our society's polarised expectations of gender.
Producer: Charlotte Simpson.


MON 23:15 Jazz on 3 (b00twyq4)
The Vandermark 5, Jon Rose

Jez Nelson presents the Vandermark 5 in concert at The Vortex, led by reeds player Ken Vandermark, who has been a pioneer of Chicago's jazz and improvisation scene for two decades. Ken formed the Vandermark 5 in 1996. 14 years and 15 albums later, they continue to be one of the most exciting and forward-looking bands in contemporary music, exploring the borders of composition and improvisation, and of jazz, funk rock and new music. Alongside Ken Vandermark, the band currently features drummer Tim Daisy, Kent Kessler on double bass, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and saxophonist Dave Rempis.

Plus a session from experimental violinist and improviser Jon Rose who performs on tenor violin with an interactive K bow. Built into the bow are several movement and pressure sensors that trigger samples and vary musical parameters set by a specially designed software package. Using a range of samples manipulated by conventional bowing techniques and dramatic sweeping movements alongside the acoustic sound of the violin Jon Rose creates a mind blowing solo session.

Presenter: Jez Nelson
Producer: Joby Waldman.



TUESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2010

TUE 01:00 Through the Night (b00twytc)
Rarities, archive and classic recordings from Europe. Tonight, John Shea's selection includes a concert by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and pianist Freddy Kempf

1:01 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Concerto for piano and orchestra (Op.54) in A minor
Freddy Kempf (piano), Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Junichi Hirokami (conductor)

1:34 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Etude in A flat major (Op.25 No.1) 'Aeolian Harp'
Freddy Kempf (piano)

1:37 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Symphony no. 6 (Op.68) in F major 'Pastoral'
Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Junichi Hirokami (conductor)

2:21 AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
String Quartet No.3
Glinka Quartet: Zinno Vinnikov & Ilja Warenberg (violins), Rainer Moog (viola), Dmitri Ferschtmann (cello)

2:38 AM
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643)
Si ch'io vorrei morire
The King's Singers

2:42 AM
Haydn, Franz Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.49 in F minor (Hob.1.49), 'La Passione'
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor)

3:01 AM
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915)
Sonata No.9 in F major 'Black Mass' (Op.68)
Tanel Joamets (piano)

3:10 AM
Gershwin, George (1898-1937)
Lullaby
New Stenhammar String Quartet

3:20 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
Te Deum for soloists, chorus and orchestra in C major
Giorgia Milanesi (soprano), Ulfried Haselsteiner (tenor), Anne Margrethe Punsvik Gluch (soprano), Thomas Mohr (baritone), Håvard Stendsvold (bass-baritone), Kristiansand Cathedral Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rolf Gupta (conductor)

3:46 AM
Visée, Robert de (c.1655-c.1723/3)
Suite No.12 in E minor
Yasunori Imamura (theorbo)

4:03 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Overture - from 'Alceste'
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava), Ludovít Rajter (conductor)

4:14 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Sonata for piano (H.16.29) in F major
Eduard Kunz (piano)

4:28 AM
Matu?ic, Frano (b. 1961)
Two Croatian Folksongs
Dubrovnik Guitar Trio

4:35 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dances (Op.46) - No. 8 In G Minor & No.3 In A flat Major
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Arvid Engegård (conductor)

4:43 AM
Locatelli, Pietro Antonio (1695-1764)
Concerto in E flat (Op.7 No.6), 'Il pianto d'Ariana'
Amsterdam Bach Soloists

5:01 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
La chapelle de Guillaume Tell
Matti Raekallio (piano)

5:07 AM
Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann (1710-1784)
Sinfonie in F major (1745) (F.67)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Stephan Mai (director)

5:19 AM
Krek, Uro? (b. 1922)
Samotno Ugibanje
Chamber Choir AVE, Andra? Hauptman (conductor)

5:23 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), arranged by Humperdinck, Engelbert (1854-1921)
Good Friday Music (from 'Parsifal')
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor)

5:33 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Sonata for violin and piano in G major
Peter Oundjian (violin), William Tritt (piano)

5:52 AM
Rore, Cipriano de (c1515-1565)
Alma susanna
The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)

5:57 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No.16 in C major (K.128)
The Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan, Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)

6:10 AM
Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967)
Mátra Pictures for choir
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)

6:22 AM
Gershwin, George (1898-1937)
Rhapsody in Blue
Hinko Haas (piano)

6:38 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Quartet for Strings (Op.74'3) in G minor "Rider"
Ebene Quartet (string quartet).


TUE 07:00 Breakfast (b00twytf)
Tuesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with music to begin the day. Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, Harris's anthem Bring Us, O Lord, and Lyadov's Baba Yaga are included in the programme, as well as a look at this week's Specialist Classical Chart.


TUE 10:00 Classical Collection (b00twyth)
Tuesday - Sarah Walker

Sarah continues to present performances of part-songs with Parry's Songs of Farewell from the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge and Sullivan's The Long Day Closes, plus George Szell conducts Dvorak's Slavonic Dances.

10.00
Mozart
Violin Sonata K.296 in C major
George Szell (Piano)
Raphael Druian (Violin)
SONY CLASSICAL MPK 47685

10.16
Strauss
Serenade in E flat for 13 wind instruments, Op.7
London Winds
Michael Collins (director)
HYPERION CDA66731/2

10.26
Sussmayr
Sinfonia turchesca
Concerto Koln & Sarband
ARCHIV 474 992-2

10.44
Parry
Songs of Farewell
No. 5 At the round earth's imagined corners
No.6 Lord, let me know mine end
Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Richard Marlow (director)
CONIFER CDCF155

Today's Group of 3 is a collection of Dvorak's Slavonic Dances conducted by George Szell.

11.02
Dvorak
Slavonic Dances
Op.46 No.5 in A major (Skocna)
Op.72 No.2 in E minor (Starodavny)
Op.72 No.7 in C major (Kolo)
Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell (conductor)
CBS MBK 44802

11.13
Rachmaninov
Suite No.1 'Fantaisie-tableaux', Op.5
Martha Argerich & Alexandre Rabinovitch (piano)
TELDEC 9031 74717

11.50
Sullivan
The Long Day Closes
Cheltenham Bach Choir
Brian Kay (conductor)
SOMM CD-207.


TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00twytk)
Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)

Episode 2

Donald Macleod traces Thomas Tallis's career under Henry VIII and discovers the changes which were imposed on church music at the Reformation.


TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00twytm)
New Generation Artists 2010

Andreas Brantelid, Francesco Piemontesi, Elias Quartet

Katie Derham introduces a package of recent studio and concert performances by members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. Danish cellist Andreas Brantelid dabbles with Saint-Saens's ever-popular 'The Swan', Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi performs Schumann's Second Sonata, and the Elias Quartet take on Britten's Second String Quartet, recorded at a concert they gave at this summer's East Neuk Festival.

Saint-Saëns: The Swan
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)

Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Britten: String Quartet No. 2
Elias String Quartet.


TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00twytp)
BBC Performing Groups 2010

Episode 2

Today's Afternoon on 3 features more new recordings from the BBC performing groups, including Lutoslawski from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Conradin Kreutzer and Christopher Gunning from the BBC Philharmonic, Hermann Goetz from the BBC Scottish, and anniversary composers Rutland Boughton and Armstrong Gibbs from the BBC Singers. Plus another in this week's series of Tchaikovsky symphonies.

Presented by Katie Derham.

2pm
Rachmaninov: Symphony in D minor ,'Youth'
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Conradin Kreutzer: Bassoon Fantasia in B flat major
Karen Geoghegan (bassoon)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

2.20pm
Rutland Boughton: The City
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: Old Age
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor)

2.40pm
Lutoslawski: Chain III
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

2.50pm
Hermann Goetz: Piano Concerto in B flat major, Op. 18
Hamish Milne (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Michal Dworzynski (conductor)

3.430pm
Christopher Gunning: Selection of music for television, including
Rebecca
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

4pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4 in F minor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton (conductor).


TUE 17:00 In Tune (b00twytr)
Sean Rafferty is joined by pianist Mark Bebbington, who is due to appear in a Wigmore Hall recital at the end of September and will perform live in the studio.

There will also be live music from pianist Alessio Bax, who will be performing Rachmaninov's Themes of Paganini with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Croydon 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 (b00twytt)
Paul Lewis - Mozart, Schumann, Beethoven

Presented by Martin Handley

Pianist Paul Lewis performs classical and romantic works recorded at the 2010 Chipping Campden Music Festival last May.

Mozart - Adagio in B minor K.540
Schumann - Fantasy in C major op.17
Liszt - Annees de Pelerinage - Vallee d'Obermann
Beethoven - Sonata in C op.53 'Waldstein'

Paul Lewis (piano)

Followed by extracts from a specially recorded Wigmore performance of Hugo Wolf's Spanisches Liederbuch performed by mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager, tenor Ian Bostridge accompanied by pianist Julius Drake. See also yesterday's programme.


TUE 21:15 Night Waves (b00twytw)
Colm Toibin, Gauguin, Christopher Isherwood

Philip Dodd talks to the writer Colm Toibin - whose previous novel Brooklyn won the 2009 Costa Novel Award - about his new collection of short stories, The Empty Family. From the young Pakistani immigrant trying to settle in a strange town to the Irish woman reluctantly moving back to Dublin, Toibin's stories tell of people fleeing the past and returning home.

Plus the critic Richard Cork and novelist Sarah hall discuss the French Post-Impressionist painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin, whose colourful images of women in Tahiti and landscape images of Brittany are included in a major retrospective of the artist at Tate Modern.

And Christopher Isherwood. His novels include A Single Man and Goodbye to Berlin, on which the musical Cabaret was based. As Isherwood's diaries from the 1960's are published, editor Katherine Bucknell looks at his colourful progress through the decade of social and sexual revolution, including the emotional drama of his love for the American painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. And the screenwriter Kevin Elyot talks about his adaptation of Christopher and his Kind, Isherwood's frank memoir about life in the bohemian underworld of 1930's Berlin.

Producer: Natalie Steed.


TUE 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00twytk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]


TUE 23:00 The Essay (b00twyty)
A Letter to My Body

Antony Gormley

Sculptor Antony Gormley discusses his relationship to his own body and why it has featured so prominently in his art. He remembers how the experience of being forced to take an afternoon nap during his childhood set him on the path to learning meditation and he explains why he is now making a conscious effort to 'simply be' in the space of the body without seeking to control it or to make constant use of it.
Producer: Charlotte Simpson.


TUE 23:15 Late Junction (b00twyvz)
Max Reinhardt

Max Reinhardt imagines a Late Junction in which Ravel, John Lee Hooker and Thelonious Monk are swept out to sea with only some Beluga whales, Tom Waits and the Battleship of Maine for company.



WEDNESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2010

WED 01:00 Through the Night (b00twyw5)
Tonight, John Shea's selection includes a concert by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ashkenazy. Music includes Tintagel by Bax and Belshazzar's Feast by Walton

1:01 AM
Sculthorpe, Peter [1929-]
Kakadu
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

1:18 AM
Bax, Arnold [1883-1953]
Tintagel
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

1:35 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Prelude to Tristan & Isolde
Felix Mottl (1856-1911) (piano)

1:45 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Sinfonia Concertante for oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon in E flat major (K.297b)
Bart Schneemann (oboe), Harmen de Boer (clarinet), Jacob Slagter (horn), Ronald Karten (bassoon), Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Lev Markiz (conductor)

2:15 AM
Walton, William [1902-1983]
Belshazzar's Feast
Peter Coleman Wright (baritone) Sydney Philharmonia Symphony Chorus, Brett Weymark (chorusmaster) Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

2:52 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
To a Nordic Princess
Leslie Howard (piano)

3:01 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Piano Trio in E flat major (Op.1, No.1)
Kungsbacka Trio

3:31 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Pelleas et Melisande - suite (Op.80)
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

3:48 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Concerto for flute and strings in D minor (Wq.22)
Martin Michael Koffer (flute), Slovenicum Chamber Orchestra, Uros Lajovic (conductor)

4:12 AM
Wingfield, Steven (b. 1955)
3 Bulgarian Dances arr. Wingfield for violin and guitar
Moshe Hammer (violin), William Beauvais (guitar)

4:19 AM
Mathias, William (1934-1992)
A May magnificat for double chorus (Op.79 No.2)
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

4:28 AM
Canteloube, Joseph (1879-1957)
Brezairola
Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kamirski (conductor)

4:32 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Sonata in C major (Op.1 No.7)
Peter Hannan (recorder), Colin Tilney (harpsichord), Christel Thielmann (viola da gamba)

4:44 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Polonaise de concert in A major (1867)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zygmunt Rychert (conductor)

4:51 AM
Field, John (1782-1837)
Rondo in A flat for piano and strings
Eckart Selheim (fortepiano), Collegium Aureum, Franzjosef Maier (director)

5:01 AM
Luzzaschi, Luzzasco (1545-1607)
O primavera & O dolcezze amarissime d'Amore
Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs (chitaronne/baroque guitar/director)

5:09 AM
Gwilym Simcock [(1981- )]
Spring step for piano
Gwilym Simcock (piano)

5:15 AM
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909)
Chant de l'éternelle aspiration, première partie du tryptique symphonique 'Chants éternels' (Op.10) (1904-1906)
Orchestre Français des Jeunes, Marek Janowski (director)

5:27 AM
Dubois, Theodore (1837-1924)
Chant Pastoral
Kalevi Kiviniemi (organ)

5:31 AM
Barber, Samuel [1910-1981]
Dover beach for voice and string quartet (Op.3)
Ronan Collett (baritone), Psophos Quartet

5:40 AM
Czerny, Carl (1791-1857)
Etude in G flat
Stefan Lindgren (piano)

5:44 AM
Chan Ka Nin (b. 1949)
Four Seasons Suite
Ottawa Winds, Michael Goodwin (conductor)

5:56 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto for violin and orchestra in E major (RV.269) (Op.8 No.1-4), The Four Seasons
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)

6:33 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) orch. Henri Büsser
Printemps
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Jun Märkl (conductor)

6:52 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Barcarolle in F sharp major (Op.60)
Anna Essipoff (1851-1914) (piano).


WED 07:00 Breakfast (b00twz47)
Wednesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast. Organ music by Vierne, piano music by Ravel and Schubert, and dances by Smetana and Dvorak are included in the programme.


WED 10:00 Classical Collection (b00twz49)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker

Today, Sarah Walker continues to explore the part-song repertoire. Today a recording of Stanford's The Bluebird from the Choir of New College, Oxford directed by Edward Higginbottom, the Laudibus ensemble performs songs arranged by Bantock and Vaughan Williams and George Szell conducts songs from Mahler's Knaben Wunderhorn collection.

10.00
Mendelssohn
Trumpet Overture, Op.101
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 423 104-2

10.09
Vaughan Willliams
In the Fen Country
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
EMI CDC 556762-2

10.24
Stanford
The Bluebird
Choir of New College, Oxford
Edward Higginbottom (director)
DECCA 470 384-2

10.28
Mozart
Piano Concerto No.9, K.271 'Jeunehomme'
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)
DECCA 478 2116

11.03
Trad. arr. Vaughan Williams: The Turtle Dove
Trad. arr. Bantock: O can ye sew cushions?
Laudibus
Michael Brewer (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67076

11.19
Mahler
Rheinlegendchen
Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra
George Szell (conductor)
EMI CDM 567236-2

11.27
Schumann
Symphony No.4 in D minor, Op.120
Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL MH2K62319.


WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00twz4c)
Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)

Episode 3

Donald Macleod finds Tallis continuing to grapple with the new Anglican liturgy, and then - all change - as Mary comes to the throne, Catholicism is back and music returns to the luxuriant style of the pre-Reformation.


WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00twz4f)
New Generation Artists 2010

Mahan Esfahani, Andreas Brantelid

More recent studio and concert performances by members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. Today Katie Derham introduces Iranian-born harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani in Bach's Second English Suite and character pieces by Francois Couperin (from recitals he gave in this year's York Early Music Festival and Brinkburn Festival), and Danish cellist Andreas Brantelid performing Schumann's Five Pieces in Folk Style.

F. Couperin: Les Folies Françoises; La Monète; Passacaille
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

Schumann: 5 Stücke im Volkston
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)

Bach: English Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV807
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord).


WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00twz4h)
BBC Performing Groups 2010

Episode 3

Afternoon on 3 continues its celebration of the BBC performing groups with new recordings by the BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers. Plus the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.

Presented by Katie Derham.

2pm
Glinka: Kamarinskya
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Titov (conductor)

Ferdinand David: Andante and Scherzo Capriccioso, Op. 16
Hagai Shaham (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Rutland Boughton: Early one morning
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: The Stranger
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor)

2.25pm
Wieniawski: Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 20
Hamish Milne (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Michal Dworzynski (conductor)

2.55pm
Christopher Gunning: Rosemary and Thyme Caprice
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

3pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 5 in E minor
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor).


WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (b00twz4k)
From Southwark Cathedral

Introit: Give us the wings of faith (Bullock)
Responses: Rose
Psalms: 138, 148 (Cook, Stanford)
First Lesson: Daniel 10 vv4-21
Canticles: St Paul's Service (Howells)
Second Lesson: Revelation 5
Anthem: War in Heaven (Neil Cox)
Hymn: Angel voices, ever singing (Angel Voices)
Organ Voluntary: Introduction and Passacaglia in D minor (Reger)

Director of Music: Peter Wright
Assistant Organist: Stephen Disley.


WED 17:00 In Tune (b00twz4m)
Featuring Opera North's new production of Benjamin Britten's haunting opera The Turn of the Screw with director Alessandro Talevi and soprano Elizabeth Atherton.

Pianist Tom Poster also performs live in the studio to preview this year's Two Moors Festival.


WED 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00twz4p)
LSO - Bizet, Shchedrin, Mussorgsky

Presented by Martin Handley

Valery Gergiev conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a concert which opens with a Russian reworking of a French masterpiece as Rodion Shchedrin's ballet version of Carmen distorts Bizet's original with a vastly expanded percussion section. Shchedrin's 5th Piano Concerto is performed by Tchaikovsky Competition prize-winner Denis Matsuev and the concert ends with a French reworking of a Russian masterpiece with Mussorgsky's famous exhibition re-coloured by Ravel.

Bizet arr.Rodion Shchedrin - Carmen Suite
Rodion Shchedrin - Piano Concerto No 5
Mussorgsky orchestrated Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition

Denis Matsuev (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)

Followed by performances from La Roque d'Antheron International Piano Festival in France.


WED 21:15 Night Waves (b00twz4r)
Galileo, Birdsong, Nigeria, Sound in Art

Rana Mitter discusses the life and work of Galileo, 400 years after his book The Starry Messenger rocked the Catholic Church and laid the foundation stone of modern physics. Two new biographies reassess Galileo's place in Renaissance culture - Galileo by John Heilbron, Professor of History at Berkeley, and Galileo: Watcher of the Skies by David Wootton, Professor of History at York.

David Wootton rejects the orthodoxy which holds that Galileo was a good Catholic and argues that Galileo was a clandestine devotee of Copernicanism much earlier than other biographers believe.

John Heilbron reveals how his work on a Sun-Centred Universe transformed Galileo from a melancholic mathematics professor into an outspoken and celebrated astronomer - 'The Columbus of the Heavens'.

Susannah Clapp reviews 'Birdsong', the stage adapation of Sebastian Faulks's celebrated novel set against a backdrop of Flanders in World War One. Birdsong opens at the Comedy Theatre London.

Nigeria will celebrate fifty years as an independent state on 1st October. Rana asks the playwright Gabriel Gbadamosi and the publisher Bibi Bakare-Yusuf if the country, which has at least two hundred and fifty different cultural, religious and ethnic groups, has been able to develop a coherent national identity.

And Rana discusses the increasing interest in art that uses sound with Susan Philipsz, nominated for this year's Turner Prize and John Keiffer, creative director of Sound and Music. Susan's public art installations include recordings of her voice singing songs played out under three bridges along the Clyde and her latest project uses the eerily deserted weekend streets of the City of London.

Producer: Victoria Shepherd.


WED 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00twz4c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]


WED 23:00 The Essay (b00twz4t)
A Letter to My Body

Sheila Cassidy

In 1975 Dr Sheila Cassidy was tortured in Chile after she gave medical care to an opponent of the Pinochet regime. She has since made her name both as an expert in palliative care and as a Christian writer. In this essay she explores how her attitude towards her body and her religious faith and work in the hospice movement have been affected by her experiences as a torture victim.
Producer: Charlotte Simpson.


WED 23:15 Late Junction (b00twz4w)
Max Reinhardt

Max Reinhardt takes you far out to sea with Jimi Hendrix, Coco Rosie and Belshazzar's Feast, and brings you back safe and sound to dry land with Habib and Hassina Guerroumi, Liszt and Sweelinck.



THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2010

THU 01:00 Through the Night (b00twzbf)
Tonight, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra are featured in concert performing Chin, Bartok, Debussy, Ravel and Brahms. Presented by John Shea

1:01 AM
Unsuk Chin (b.1961)
The Mad Hatter's Tea Party from "Alice in Wonderland"
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

1:04 AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 3 (Sz.119)
Sunwook Kim (piano) (male) Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

1:28 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
La mer
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

1:55 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
La Valse
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

2:08 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Le jardin féerique, from "Ma mère l'Oye"
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

2:13 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

2:17 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Serenade in D minor (Op.44)
I Solisti del Vento, Etienne Siebens (conductor)

2:41 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Valse-Scherzo in A major; Tendres reproches in C sharp minor (Op.73 No.3) ; Valse à cinq temps in D major (Op.72 No.6)
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)

2:46 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Cantata 'Unschuld und ein gut Gewissen' for 4 voices, 2 oboes, strings and continuo (TWV.1:1440)
Veronika Winter (soprano), Patrick von Goethem (alto), Markus Schäfer (tenor), Ekkehard Abele (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)

3:01 AM
Guilmant, Alexandre (1837-1911)
Symphony No.1 in D minor, for organ and orchestra, Op.24
Simon Preston (organ), Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor)

3:23 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Selected Lyric Pieces
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

3:37 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Partita in F (K.Anh.C 17.05) for wind octet
The Festival Winds

4:03 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Prelude & Fugue in B flat minor BWV867 (from Das Wohltemperierte Clavier)
Edwin Fischer (piano) (1886-1960)

4:11 AM
Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924)
Sola perduta abbandonata - from Act IV of Manon Lescaut
Charlotte Margiono (soprano), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

4:17 AM
Vedel, Artemy (1767-1808)
Gospodi Bozhe moy, na tia upovah ('Oh God, my hope is only in you')
Dumka Academic Cappella, Evgeny Savchuk (director)

4:27 AM
Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805)
Cello Concerto in E flat major (G.474)
David Geringas (cello), Varazdin Chamber Orchestra, David Geringas (conductor)

4:45 AM
Marin, José (c. 1618-1699)
No pianse Manguilla ya
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Rolf Liselvand (baroque guitar), Arianna Savall (double harp), Pedro Estevan (percussion), Adela González-Campa (castanets)

4:51 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Prague Waltzes (Prazske valciky) (B.99)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Stefan Róbl (conductor)

5:01 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Le Carnival Romain, op 9
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

5:10 AM
Fernandez, Oscar Lorenzo (1897-1948)
Second Suite Brasileira
Christina Ortiz (piano)

5:16 AM
Gossec, François-Joseph (1734-1829)
Symphony in D major (Op.5 No.3) 'Pastorella'
Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)

5:32 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Io ti lascio - concert aria (KA.245)
Bryn Terfel (bass baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

5:37 AM
Förster, Kaspar (1616-1673)
Dulcis amor Jesu (KBPJ 16)
Olga Pasiecznik (soprano), Marta Boberska (soprano), Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble

5:46 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Sarabande - from Cello Suite no.5 in C minor (BWV.1011)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)

5:51 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 (Op.19) in B flat major
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano/director) Mahler Chamber Orchestra

6:23 AM
Fesch, Willem de (1687-1757)
Joseph's Aria "Tremble Shudder at the Guilt" - from the oratorio Joseph, Act 1
Claron McFadden (soprano: Joseph), Musica ad Rhenum, Jed Wentz (conductor)

6:28 AM
Turina, Joaquín (1882-1949)
Circulo (Op.91)
John Harding (violin), Stefan Metz (cello), Daniel Blumenthal (piano)

6:40 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893)
Capriccio Italien (Op. 45)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrej Boreyko (conductor)

6:55 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Perpetuum mobile (from Sonata No.1 in C, J138)
Konstantin Masliouk (piano).


THU 07:00 Breakfast (b00twzbh)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast, including a Kreisler march, Kabalevsky's overture to Colas Breugnon, Liadov's Enchanted Lake and one of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies.


THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b00twzbk)
Thursday - Sarah Walker

Sarah Walker continues to explore the world of part songs. Our artist of the week George Szell conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Sibelius's Symphony No. 2, Clifford Curzon plays Liszt's Liebestraum No.3 and the Sandrine Piau performs Vivaldi's In furore iustissimae irae.

10.00
Borodin
Scherzo for string quartet
Vertavo Quartet
SIMAX PSC 1178

10.10
Liszt
Liebestraum No.3
Clifford Curzon (piano)
DECCA 433 222-2

10.15
Ketelbey
Sanctuary of the Heart 'Meditation religieuse'
New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp (conductor)
HYPERION CDA66968

10.21
Hasse
Flute Concerto in B minor
Laurence Dean (flute)
Hannover Hofkapelle
CHRISTOPHORUS CHR 77294

10.38
Sibelius
Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.43
Concertgebouw Orchestra
George Szell (conductor)
PHILIPS 420 771-2

11.20
Alfven
Aftonen
Academy Chamber Choir of Uppsala
Stefan Parkman (director)
CHANDOS CHAN 9543

Today's Group of 3 is a collection of piano pieces by Erik Satie.

11.28
Satie
Gnossienne No.1
Chez le marchand d'or (Vieux sequins et vieilles cuirasses)
Je te veux
Anne Queffelec (piano)
VIRGIN CLASSICS 686359-2

11.39
Vivaldi
'In furore iustissimae irae', RV626
Sandrina Piau (soprano)
Accademia Bizantina
Ottavio Dantone (director)
NAIVE OP30416.


THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00twzbm)
Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)

Episode 4

Donald Macleod traces Tallis's career through the reign of 'Bloody' Mary and into that of her hated half-sister, Elizabeth I. There's music from both ends of the spectrum of Tallis's output - the simplicity of the setting (in English) of If ye love me, and the glorious, 40-part motet (in Latin), Spem in alium, one of the great masterpieces of music from any age.


THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00twzbp)
New Generation Artists 2010

Jennifer Pike, ATOS Trio

In the fourth of this week's programmes featuring recent studio and concert performances by members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, British violinist (and former BBC Young Musician of the Year) Jennifer Pike is joined by pianist Tom Poster in Prokofiev's lyrical Second Violin Sonata, and the ATOS Trio from Germany perform Brahms's weighty First Piano Trio. Presented by Katie Derham.

Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 2
Jennifer Pike (violin), Tom Poster (piano)

Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major
ATOS Trio.


THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00twzbr)
Thursday Opera Matinee

Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Today's Thursday Opera Matinee is a recording of Monteverdi's The Return of Ulysses (Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria) from the International Baroque Opera Festival in Beaune, staring Furio Zanasi and Sara Mingardo as the lovers. Plus a new recording by bassoonist Karen Geoghegan and the BBC Philharmonic.

Presented by Katie Derham

2pm
Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Furio Zanasi (Ulisse)
Sara Mingardo (Penelope)
Luca Dordolo (Telemaco)
Monica Piccinini (Minerva, Fortuna, Melanto)
Salvo Vitale (Antinoo, Tempo)
Anna Simboli (Giunone, Amore)
Gian Paolo Fagotto (Iro)
Andrea Arrivabene (Umana Fragilità, Anfinomo)
Jeremy Palumbo (Pisandro, Giove)
Raffaele Giordani (Eurimaco )
Gianluca Ferrarini (Eumete)
Elena Biscuola (Ericlea)
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)

4.40pm
attrib. Rossini: Bassoon Concerto
Karen Geoghegan (bassoon)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).


THU 17:00 In Tune (b00twzbt)
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and soprano Orla Boylan talk about Welsh National Opera's production of Richard Strauss's Ariande auf Naxos. Jazz pianist Django Bates performs live in the studio with his brother Dylan (violin and saw) in advance of his 50th birthday concert in London.
Main news headlines are at 5.00 and 6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.


THU 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00twzbw)
RLPO, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shchedrin, Shostakovich

Presented by Martin Handley

Principal Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Vasily Petrenko leads the orchestra in a programme of music from his Russian homeland. Rimsky-Korsakov's joyful interpretation of Spanish folk themes opens the concert in colourful style. It's followed by a new Oboe Concerto commissioned by the orchestra for its principal oboist Jonathan Small from Rodion Shchedrin considered by many to be Russia's greatest living composer. The orchestra and Petrenko conclude the concert by continuing their cycle of the symphonies of Shostakovich with his final utterance in the form - the 15th Symphony, a work at turns playful and profound.

Rimsky Korsakov - Capriccio Espagnol
Rodion Shchedrin - Oboe Concerto (UK Premiere)
Shostakovich Symphony No. 15

Jonathan Small oboe
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko conductor

Followed by performances from La Roque d'Antheron International Piano Festival in France.


THU 21:15 Night Waves (b00twzby)
Elizabeth Gaskell, Collapse, Dominic Sandbrook, Mona Saudi

Anne McElvoy marks the 200th birthday of Elizabeth Gaskell, whose novels include Wives and Daughters and Cranford. The recent television adaptation of Cranford brought Gaskell to a large new audience but, in her other novels, she revealed herself to be an important social critic of Victorian society. Biographer Kathryn Hughes and historian Jenny Uglow discuss.

David Aaronovitch reviews a provocative new documentary which claims the collapse of modern industrial civilisation is imminent. Collapse is released in cinemas on Friday.

The historian Dominic Sandbrook looks back at the 1970s, arguing in a new book that the period between 1970 and 74 was more important to Britain than the 60s. He discusses the profound social and economic transformation of a country that faced daily headlines about terrorist attacks and power cuts yet possessed material comforts that went way beyond those available to the previous generation. State of Emergency: The Way we Were 1970-1974 is published in hardback.

Director Nicholas Roeg and film critic Adrian Wootton remember Tony Curtis, one of the last of the golden era of Hollywood stars, whose films include Some Like it Hot, Spartacus and The Defiant Ones.

Producer: Timothy Prosser.


THU 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00twzbm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]


THU 23:00 The Essay (b00twzc0)
A Letter to My Body

Ted Harrison

Writer and journalist Ted Harrison asks what body, soul and self really mean in the light of advances in our understanding of molecular biology. Can the Cartesian idea of body-soul dualism mean anything today? Twenty years ago Ted himself received a life-saving kidney transplant. He reflects on how he views the donor organ - and the unknown friend who donated it and he asks whether the development of organ and tissue transplantation changes our notions of the integrity of the body.
Producer: Charlotte Simpson.


THU 23:15 Late Junction (b00twzc2)
Max Reinhardt

Presented by Max Reinhardt. Polish Baroque, a jazzy take on Dowland, blues from Sonny Boy Williamson and Billy Jenkins, and a final deep breath of sea air from Captain Beefheart and the Portico Quartet.



FRIDAY 01 OCTOBER 2010

FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b00tzpdz)
Rarities, archive and classic recordings from Europe. Tonight, John Shea's selection includes a concert by the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra performing Dvorak, Milhaud and Nørgård

1:01 AM
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904)
Serenade for string orchestra (Op.22) in E major
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Gilbert Varga (conductor)

1:30 AM
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)
Concerto for percussion and chamber orchestra (Op.109)
Christian Michael Berg (percussion), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Gilbert Varga (conductor)

1:38 AM
Nørgård, Per (b. 1932)
Fire over water for percussion, selection from 'I Ching'
Christian Berg (percussion)

1:41 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
The Bells of Kallio Church (Op.56b)
Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, Eric-Olof Söderström (conductor)

1:43 AM
Rung, Henrik (1807-1871)
Chime, you bells
Fionian Chamber Choir, Alice Granum (director)

1:46 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli (S.162)
Janina Fialkowska (piano)

1:55 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Quartet for strings (Op.41 No.3) in A major
Vertavo String Quartet

2:24 AM
Nordheim, Arne (b. 1931)
Nachruf for string orchestra
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Gilbert Varga (conductor)

2:32 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Symphony no. 4 (Op.90) in A major "Italian"
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Gilbert Varga (conductor)

3:01 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
Symphony No.7 in E major
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Simone Young (conductor)

4:10 AM
Vaszy, Viktor (1903-1979)
Comedy Overture
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Viktor Vaszy (conductor)

4:16 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Sonata da Chiesa in A major (Op.1 No.3)
London Baroque

4:23 AM
Ligeti, György (1923-2006)
Three Nonsense Madrigals
The King's Singers

4:32 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Scherzo in B (Op.87)
Mårten Landström & Stefan Lindgren (pianos)

4:43 AM
Bree, Johannes Bernardus van (1801-1857)
Allegro for 4 string quartets in D minor (1845)
Viotta Ensemble, Viktor Liberman (conductor)

4:55 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) arr. Maarten Bon
Scherzo à la Russe
Twenty Grand Pianos

5:01 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Overture from The Wasps
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

5:11 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Rondo in C major (K.373)
James Ehnes (violin); Mozart Anniversary Orchestra

5:17 AM
Finzi, Gerald (1901-1956)
White-flowering days for chorus (Op.37);

5:21 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Prelude in C sharp minor (Op.45)
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)

5:28 AM
Bacheler, Daniel (c1574-c1610)
Mounsiers almain for lute
Nigel North (lute)

5:34 AM
Grossman, Ludwik (1835-1915)
Csárdás from the opera The Ghost of Voyvode
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor)

5:44 AM
Schubert, Franz (1979-1828)
Quartet for Strings (D.810) in D minor "Death and the Maiden"
Ebène Quartet

6:24 AM
Marenzio, Luca (c.1553-1599)
Solo e pensoso
Ensemble Daedalus, Roberto Festa (director)

6:30 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Suite Bergamasque (1890)
Roger Woodward (piano)

6:48 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in C minor for treble recorder (RV.441)
Michael Schneider (recorder), Camerata Köln.


FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b00twzfs)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast, including music from Delibes' Coppelia, Ravel's Jeux d'eau, and piano music by Chaminade and Poulenc.


FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b00twzfv)
Friday - Sarah Walker

Sarah brings her exploration of part-songs to a close with Schubert's Naturgenuss and a setting of Robert Burns by James MacMillan. George Szell conducts the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra in Dvorak's Ninth "From the New World" and Robert Levin performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No.22 in E flat major, K.482.

10.00
Schubert
Naturgenuss, D.422
Die Singphoniker
CPO 999 397-2

10.04
Glinka
Trio Pathetique in D minor
The Moscow Trio
CHANT DU MONDE LDC 288007/8

10.26
Dvorak
Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95
Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
George Szell (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL MH2K 63151

11.05
MacMillan
So Deep
Elysian Singers
Sam Laughton (director)
SIGNUM SGICD507

11.10
Viola da gamba player Paolo Pandolfo is our Friday virtuoso. He's playing movements from the Drexel Manuscript by Carl Friedrich Abel.
GLOSSA GCD 920410

11.20
Mozart
Piano Concerto No.22 in E flat major, K.482 [cadenzas Levin]
Robert Levin (fortepiano)
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (director)
OISEAU LYRE 452 052-2.


FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00twzfx)
Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)

Episode 5

Donald Macleod traces Tallis's career under Elizabeth I, who granted Tallis and his colleague Byrd a licence to publish the first ever collection of English music, the Cantiones Sacrae. (They hoped to make a fortune, but the venture was a financial disaster and it wasn't long before they were petitioning their benevolent queen for a bit of cash to tide them over.) We hear some of the pieces which were included in the collection and Byrd's musical elegy for his lifelong friend. Plus there's Tallis's beautiful Lamentations of Jeremiah and two settings of the Magnificat, which make quite clear the range of styles he was expected to master.


FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00twzfz)
New Generation Artists 2010

Daniela Lehner, Tom Arthurs, Malin Christensson, Tai Murray

The week of recent performances by members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme finishes with rarely heard music by Joaquin Nin-Culmell (his Six Sephardic Popular Songs sungs by mezzo-soprano Daniela Lehner) and Walter Piston (the Sonatina for violin and harpsichord performed by Tai Murray and Mahan Esfahani). There is also jazz from trumpeter Tom Arthurs, and a group of Faure songs sung by soprano Malin Christensson. Presented by Katie Derham.

Nin-Culmell: 6 Sephardic Popular Songs
Daniela Lehner (mezzo-soprano), Jose Luis Gayo (piano)

Tom Arthurs: compositions and improvisations

Fauré: Sylvie; Après une rêve; Les roses d'Ispahan; Le Secret; Le papillon et la fleur; Lydia
Malin Christensson (soprano) and Simon Lepper (piano)

Piston: Sonatina for violin and harpsichord
Tai Murray (violin), Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord).


FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00twzg1)
BBC Performing Groups 2010

Episode 4

Today's Afternoon on 3 features more new recordings by the BBC performing groups, including Ferdinand David from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Lutoslawski from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Berhard Crusell and Christopher Gunning from the BBC Philharmonic and Boughton and Gibbs from the BBC Singers. Plus the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony.

Presented by Katie Derham.

2pm
Schumann: Genoveva Overture
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Storgards (conductor)

Ferdinand David: Violin Concerto no. 5 in D minor, Op. 35
Hagai Shaham (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

2.30pm
Rutland Boughton: Pan
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: To Music
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor)

2.45pm
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

3.10pm
Bernhard Crusell: Bassoon Concertino
Karen Geoghegan (bassoon)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Christopher Gunning: a selection of music for television, including
Pollyanna
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

4pm
Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 6 in B minor 'Pathetique'
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor).


FRI 17:00 In Tune (b00twzg3)
Sean Rafferty is joined by trumpet player Håkan Hardenberger and pianist Roland Pöntinen ahead of their appearance at the Wigmore Hall at the beginning of October.

Sean is also joined by the acclaimed mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and pianist and conductor Antonio Pappano, who will perform live in the studio.

Main news headlines are at 5.00 and 6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.


FRI 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00tx50f)
Wagner, Lieberson, Dvorak

Part 1

Presented by Martin Handley

Live from the Barbican Hall in London

The BBC Symphony Orchestra's Chief Conductor launches its 80th season with a programme of works connected by passion, the pain of loss and the enduring power of love. Music from Wagner's medieval romantic drama Tristan and Isolde leads to the UK premiere of Peter Lieberson's achingly beautiful Neruda Songs sung by Sarah Connolly. Dvorak's Seventh Symphony, with its sense of profound tragedy, belongs to Jiri Belohlavek's musical DNA.

Wagner - Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Peter Lieberson - Neruda Songs (UK premiere)

Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek conductor.


FRI 19:50 Twenty Minutes (b00tx52q)
Prague Pictures

John Banville's lyrical account of his first visit to this great city takes in the architecture, street life, political reminiscence and some fruit dumplings at a 'literary' pub.

Reader John Rogan
Producer Gemma Jenkins.


FRI 20:10 Performance on 3 (b00ty5lk)
Wagner, Lieberson, Dvorak

Part 2

Presented by Martin Handley

Live from the Barbican Hall in London

The BBC Symphony Orchestra's Chief Conductor launches its 80th season with a programme of works connected by passion, the pain of loss and the enduring power of love. Music from Wagner's medieval romantic drama Tristan and Isolde leads to the UK premiere of Peter Lieberson's achingly beautiful Neruda Songs sung by Sarah Connolly. Dvorak's Seventh Symphony, with its sense of profound tragedy, belongs to Jiri Belohlavek's musical DNA.

Dvorak - Symphony No. 7 in D minor

Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek conductor.


FRI 21:15 The Verb (b00twzg7)
Prison Writing

Ian McMillan presents another chance to hear a special edition of Radio 3's cabaret of the word, looking at prison writing.

Long-term prisoner turned writer Noel Smith presents a new commission; academic Molly Murray reveals the history of 16th and 17th century prison writing, and novelist Toby Litt visits Parc Prison in Wales to learn about its innovative creative writing programme, meeting inmates and writer-in-residence Graham Hartill.


FRI 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00twzfx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]


FRI 23:00 The Essay (b00twzg9)
A Letter to My Body

Joan Bakewell

'A Letter to my Body' is a series of essays in which five thinkers, artists and writers ask themselves how they relate to their own bodies. In this essay broadcaster Dame Joan Bakewell, who has been outspoken on the way that our society perceives and treats old people, asks herself how she feels about her own body now that she has reached her seventies. She explores the cultural influences - from Shirley Temple to the image of the white wedding - which led her to grow up seeking to use her appearance to gain affection and approval and asks whether now, as she approaches old age, she has finally been liberated from society's expectations of the female body.
Producer: Charlotte Simpson.


FRI 23:15 World on 3 (b00twzgc)
Moishe's Bagel

Mary Ann Kennedy with new releases from across the globe, plus a studio session with Scottish klezmer band Moishe's Bagel, who play tracks from their new album 'Uncle Roland's Flying Machine'.

Moishe's Bagel play Jewish klezmer, but only one and a half of them is Jewish. They are a Scottish band, but only one of them grew up in Scotland. So it's no surprise that their klezmer embraces influences from far and wide, a unique blend of Balkan grooves with jazz, folk and eastern percussion, all delivered with great virtuosity. The group is led by classically-trained pianist Phil Alexander, and includes violinist Greg Lawson, who also plays with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra; leading accordionist Pete Garnett; Guy Nicolson, who specialises in oriental percussion; and Brazilian bass player Mario Caribe.