Rarities, archive and classic recordings from Europe. Tonight, John Shea's selection includes a concert by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 (Op. 23) in B flat minor
Stephen Hough (piano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor)
Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari (conductor)
Isabelle Perrin and Ghislaine Petit (harps), Maîtrise de Radio France, Denis Dupays (conductor)
James Ehnes (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Mario Bernardi (conductor).
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast. Includes piano music by Brahms and Benjamin, orchestral music by Lalo and Wagner, and vocal music by Byrd and Strauss.
Classical Collection with James Jolly. This week a collection of orchestrations and reductions; classic recordings from Frans Bruggen and concertos by Richard Strauss.
Today, James continues to explore orchestrations and reductions with Johann Strauss's Emperor waltz, arranged by Schoenberg for chamber ensemble. Steven Isserlis plays Bach's Suite no. 1 in G, BWV 1007 and Frans Bruggen conducts Haydn's Symphony No. 93 in D.
Johann Strauss II arr. Schoenberg
Poulenc arr. Lennox Berkeley
Donald Macleod explores Richard Wagner's exile in Switzerland, including a period of intense creativity that coincided with the entrance into his life of his second wife, Cosima. Their rented home was an undistinguished, three story villa near Lucerne, with splendid views of the distant mountains, and Wagner was incredibly happy here, accompanied by his young family, a pair of peacocks and two dogs called Wotan and Fricka.
More from this summer's Welsh festivals, and a chance to experience the magnificent acoustic of the Tabernacle in Machynlleth, mid-Wales. Now under the artistic direction of pianist Julius Drake, the Machynlleth Festival brings a week of music-making to an area famed for its natural beauty and progressive commitment to sustainable living.
, a live concert by the BBC Singers on a theme of Mahler and Nature including music by Dvorak, Smetana, Mahler, Berg and Strauss. There's more nature themed music by Dvorak, his symphonic poem "A Hero's Song", whose premiere was conducted by Mahler. Then there's Benjamin Britten's arrangement of the second movement from Mahler's 3rd Symphony "What the flowers tell me", and more Mahler songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn.
BBC Singers "Live" from St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, conducted by James Morgan and introduced by Richard Coles, including:
Mahler arr. Gottwald: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Mahler arr. Britten: What the wild flowers tell me
Final Hymn: Bright the vision (Redhead No. 46)
Organ Voluntary: Fantasia and Toccata in D minor, Op. 57 (Stanford)
Sean Rafferty is joined by violinist Agata Szymczewska ahead of the release of her latest recording, who will perform live in the studio.
There will also be live music from soprano Roberta Invernizzi and harpsichordist Steven Devine, who will be taking part in a concert tomorrow celebrating Pergolesi's 300th anniversary alongside the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and conductor Roberto Polastri.
Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Principal Guest Conductor, David Robertson at this year's BBC Proms.
Between Mozart's final operatic overture and the most determinedly optimistic of Haydn's 'London' symphonies come two contrasting works by Bartók: the unusually mellow and good-humoured Piano Concerto No. 3, featuring distinguished pianist Richard Goode, and the compact burst of fierce vocal virtuosity in which Bartók retells the Romanian coming-of-age parable of nine young hunters fleeing their roost.
A focus on the Royal Northern College of Music, with specially recorded music and interviews.
Olafur Arnalds: 2 Songs from "...and they have escaped the weight of darkness" (World Premiere)
Olafur Arnalds: 2 Songs from "...and they have escaped the weight of darkness" (World Premiere)
1. Haegt Kemur Ljosid
2. Glaeypa Okkur
Philip Dodd explores the work of the journalist, social investigator, dramatist and novelist, Henry Mayhew. His masterpiece, London Labour and the London Poor, is a staggering account of the struggle for survival in tough times. It grew out of a series of newspaper articles and was first published in book form in 1851. Its admirers say Mayhew paints the most vivid picture that we have of labourers in the greatest city of the nineteenth century. It's driven by his manic curiosity, his moral indignation and an unflinching descriptive pen that rivals Dickens....all in all a fitting subject for a Night Waves landmark. To discuss Mayhew's achievement and legacy, Philip Dodd is joined by the writer Iain Sinclair and by historians Jerry White, Rohan McWilliam and Lawrence Goldman.
'Behold yon Scot eats his own blood!" Thus English soldiers taunt Robert Bruce, in the violent, highly fictionalised poem 'The Wallace' by Blind Harry. The medieval poem would become the inspiration for the script of 'Braveheart' in modern times, but it, and the earlier epic 'The Brus', show how the Scottish medieval Wars of Independence were hot political topics, ripe for propaganda, hundreds of years before Mel Gibson. These subjects were especially important to the new Stewart dynasty which succeeded the Bruces.
They needed all the help they could get in their early years, but as Scottish literature evolved, the Stewarts were able to return the favour, as patrons of brilliant, cultured and sometimes scandalous poets (who were dropping the 'f-word' and the 'c-word' into their best work long before 'Trainspotting'). The Stewarts were both the target audience and sometimes, the target, for an increasingly self-confident feisty body of writers. Their stable of court writers were not afraid to look across the border and tut-tut at the giants of an earlier age, like that Geoffrey Chaucer, who probably made stuff up and who was definitely not qualified to stray into theology. Literary bon mots where the word 'miaow!' springs to mind and you wonder if the writer would like a saucer of milk are nothing new. Had such a thing existed, heaven only knows what they would have done to his Amazon reviews...
Max Reinhardt offers meditative moments from Afghanistan's Ahmad Sham Sufi Qawwali Group, Jimi Hendrix and Stockhausen, Robotic interludes from the Crayonettes and Viktoria Mullova, plus something new/something blue from Phronesis, Polar Bear and Lenny Bruce.
THURSDAY 07 OCTOBER 2010
THU 01:00 Through the Night (b00v120d)
Rarities, archive and classic recordings from Europe. Tonight, John Shea's selection includes a concert by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with pianist Simon Trpceski
1:01 AM
Young, Kenneth (b.1955)
Remebering, for violin and orchestra
Vesa-Matti Leppänen (violin), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Yoel Levi (conductor)
1:12 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini for piano and orchestra (Op.43)
Simon Trpceski (piano), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Yoel Levi (conductor)
1:35 AM
Glishik, Zivojin
Prelude and Pajduska
Simon Trpceski (piano)
1:39 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Waltz no. 19 in A major (Op.posth.)
Simon Trpceski (piano)
1:42 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975)
Symphony no. 12 (Op.112) in D minor "The Year 1917"
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Yoel Levi (conductor)
2:22 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Sonata in G minor, BWV.1001
Hopkinson Smith (Baroque Lute)
2:39 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
The Firebird (suite - version 1919)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
3:01 AM
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909)
Suite española (Op.47)
Ilze Graubina (piano)
3:23 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Symphony no.5 in D major 'Reformation' (Op.107)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa (conductor)
3:57 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Chansons Madécasses for voice, flute, cello and piano
Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano); Nora Shulman (flute); Thomas Wiebe (cello); André Laplante (piano)
4:11 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Symphony in E flat (Wq.179)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
4:24 AM
Spohr, Louis (1784-1859)
Fantasia in C minor (Op.53)
Mojca Zlobko (harp)
4:34 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) (arr. Franz Hasenohrl)
Till Eulenspiegel - Einmal Anders!
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (conductor)
4:43 AM
Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967)
Jezus es a kufarok
Hungarian Radio Chorus, János Ferencsic (conductor)
4:51 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) or possibly Pleyel, Ignace (1757-1831) arranged by Harold Perry
Divertimento in B flat Major (H.
2.46)
Galliard Ensemble
5:01 AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
8 Danses exotiques version for 2 pianos
László Baranyai, Jenö Jandó (pianos)
5:11 AM
Enna, August (1859-1939)
The Match Girl: overture
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)
5:17 AM
Traditional arranged by Takemitsu, Toru (1930-1996)
Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) from Uta
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
5:21 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) arr. Zoltán Kocsis
Concert Prelude to Tristan und Isolde for piano
François-Frédéric Guy (piano)
5:33 AM
Hellendaal, Pieter (1721-1799)
Concerto grosso for strings and continuo in F major, Op.3/3
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
5:44 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
String Quartet in G major (Op.18 No.2)
Bartók Quartet (archive recording)
6:07 AM
Wand, Hart A. (c.20th)
The Dallas Blues
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, Rick Benjamin (conductor)
6:11 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Ma Mere l'Oye
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Michel Plasson (conductor)
6:29 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Motet Salve Regina
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal, director -Christopher Jackson
6:35 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
Sonatina for clarinet and piano
Jozef Luptacik (clarinet), Pavol Kovac (piano)
6:46 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Divertimento in D major (K.136)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor).
THU 07:00 Breakfast (b00v120g)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a wide range of music, including poetry settings by Part, Britten, Campion and Vaughan Williams to celebrate National Poetry Day.
THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b00v120j)
Thursday - James Jolly
Classical Collection with James Jolly: this week a collection of orchestrations and reductions; classic recordings from Frans Bruggen; concertos by Richard Strauss.
10.00
Holst
Mercury from The Planets, arr. for 2 pianos
Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow (pianos)
ALBANY RECORDS TROY 198
10.04
Malcolm Arnold
The Belles of St Trinian's: Comedy Suite
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
CHANDOS 9851
10.13
Richard Strauss
Parergon for piano (left-hand) and orchestra
Ian Hobson (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Norman Del Mar (conductor)
ARABESQUE Z6567
10.38
Telemann
Concerto in A for flute, violin, strings and continuo From Tafelmusik,
First Production Concerto Amsterdam
Frans Bruggen (director)
TELDEC 4509-95519-2
10.59
Today's Group of 3 are a cappella arrangements.
Ravel
La flute enchantee
Accentus
Naive V5048
Mozart
Rondo (Horn Concerto No.4 in E flat, K.495) The Swingle Singers Virgin VBD5614722
Berlin
Blue Skies
King's Singers
Signum SIGCD056
11.10
Beethoven arr. Liszt
Symphony no.5: first movement
Paul Badura-Skoda (piano)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 2901195
11.18
Wolff
Italian Serenade
Takacs Quartet
DECCA 460 034-2
11.26
Berlioz
Les Nuits d'Ete, op.7
Barbara Hendricks (soprano)
English Chamber Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor)
EMI 5 55053 2.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00v120l)
Richard Wagner
The Mad King
Wagner's talent for escaping trouble hits new heights thanks to a new King of Bavaria, whose sanity was questionable. The composer, a left-wing revolutionary who had fought on the streets in Dresden, now brought about a revolution in music with the help of a ridiculously spoiled and pampered monarch. King Ludwig happened to be Wagner's number one fan and gave the ever-ambitious composer seemingly limitless financial backing. With Donald Macleod.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00v1218)
Welsh Festivals 2010
Gower Festival
This summer's tour of the pick of Welsh classical festivals alights in the idyllic village of Llangennith on the Gower Peninsula, haven for wildlife, walkers and surfers.
Mozart: Dissonance Quartet in C K.465
Grieg: Quartet in G minor
The Royal String Quartet.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00v121b)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Smetana - The Bartered Bride
Afternoon on 3 presented by Penny Gore. Thursday afternoon Opera
In 1909 Mahler was in New York, and, in one of that season's highlights, conducted Smetana's "Bartered Bride" at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Rewind to 1871 and this time, Bohemian born, Mahler was a student - for a brief time - in Prague, where Smetana had recently begun writing operas in a "Czech" style - and more importantly in the Czech language.
Smetana, along with every other Czech at that time, had grown up with German as the official language of the Austro-Hungarian Empire - he had only started studying the Czech language in his early adulthood - and this idea of a separate Czech national identity was gaining ground around this time.
Building work on The Prague National Theatre had begun in 1868 - a symbol of both Cultural and Political national identity, and Smetana's opera writing fate became entwined with that of the National Theatre, which took a further 13 years to complete (1881) against a background of Viennese Austro-Hungarian opposition.
This tension between "Imperial" and a "National" identities deeply affected both Mahler and Smetana throughout their lives with Smetana becoming an artistic figurehead for Czech identity and expression, and Mahler attempting to reconcile his mixed Austro/German and Bohemian heritage - Mozart and Wagner were at the heart of Mahler's conducting career, but he could readily appreciate Smetana's deeply Czech inspired Operas too, (he later conducted Smetana's "Dalibor" in Vienna). So, there is some symmetry in Mahler, in later years bringing to New York a work bound up with his youth.
The Bartered Bride itself is a comic opera involving two families, an impending marriage, the obligatory mistaken identity and a visiting circus - a rich backdrop to Smetana's music, which, from the well known overture, bristles with energy and an overt Czech-ness.
Ondrej Lenárd conducts a Czech cast of soloists, and the Prague National Opera Orchestra and Chorus, recorded last year in the Prague National Theatre - Smetana's spiritual home.
Smetana's Bartered Bride
Krusina (a farmer) ..... Ivan Kusnjer, baritone
Ludmila (his wife) ..... Yvona Skvárová, soprano
Marenka (their daughter) ..... Pavla Vykopalová, soprano
Mícha (a farmer) ..... Ales Hendrych, bass
Háta, (his wife) ..... Lenka Smídová, alto
Jeník, (Mícha's son from first marriage) ..... Pavel Cernoch, tenor
Kecal (A marriage maker) ..... Ludek Vele, bass
3 Comedians:
Jan Jezek, tenor; Marie Fajtová; soprano, Martin Matousek, bass.
Prague National Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Ondrej Lenárd, conductor
4.45
Dvorak: Othello Concert Overture (Op.93)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek, conductor.
THU 17:00 In Tune (b00v12nr)
Thursday - Sean Rafferty
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With a selection of music and guests from the music world.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
THU 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00v12nt)
Mitsuko Uchida - Beethoven
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Pianist Mitsuko Uchida performs Beethoven's Second and Third Piano Concertos with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker, recorded at the Philharmonie in Berlin this year.
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, op. 19
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op. 37
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
Berliner Philharmoniker
Followed by...
A focus on the Royal Northern College of Music, with specially recorded music and interviews.
Schumann: An die Königin Elisabeth, Op.135 No.3
Schumann: Abschied von der Welt, Op.135 No.4
Sarah Richmond (mezzo-soprano), David Jones (piano)
Mozart: Extracts from "La Clemenza di Tito"
Sipho Fubesi, Tito
Helen Sherman, Sesto
Kathryn Rudge, Annio
Alison Rose, Servilia
Garry Walker, conductor
RNCM Opera Orchestra
RNCM Chorus
Directed by Stefan Janski
Trad: Lord I lift your name on high
RNCM Gospel Choir
Mark McKenzie (keyboard)
Directed by Audrey Mattis-Lawrence
Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden (from A Village Romeo and Juliette)
BBC SO
Andrew Davis (conductor)
TELDEC 4509 90845-2, Tr 4
THU 21:15 Night Waves (b00v12nw)
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peter Lanyon, Che Guevara, Mona Saudi
Mario Vargas Llosa was announced today as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2010. The Chair of the judging committee, Per Wastberg, talks to Night Waves about the Peruvian author and explains why he's won.
Anne McElvoy also discusses a new exhibition in St. Ives of the work of the Cornish artist Peter Lanyon, once considered a leading figure in British abstract expressionist art, but who hasn't had a full retrospective show for almost forty years. During the 1950s Lanyon was a leading member of the St. Ives groups of artists - along with Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson. But Lanyon also was heavily inspired by American artists like Mark Rothko who were leading abstract expressionism. This new exhibition takes place in the town of his birth. Anne is joined by Michael Bird, Bill Feaver and Susanna Heron, daughter of artist Patrick Heron, to talk about Lanyon and the significance of St Ives in British art.
A family friend of Che Guevara has written a new biography of the left wing legend. She remembers 'just another Argentinian boy who liked rugby' and explains why previous representations of Guevara haven't really got to the man himself.
Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology magazine, reports on the auction today at Christie's of a bronze Roman helmet for the astonishing sum of two million pounds, nearly seven times the estimated price. It was found at Crosby Garrett in Cumbria earlier this year by a metal detectorist. As a bronze object, rather than gold or silver like the Staffordshire Hoard, it escapes the Treasure Act. This entitles the finder to sell to the highest bidder, rather giving the opportunity to British Museums to raise the independently valued price of the object. Mike Pitts was at the auction today and joins Anne McElvoy to discuss the sale of the helmet, and the issues it raises for British archaeological finds.
And the Jordanian sculptor, Mona Saudi, explains why stone is a form of poetry and recalls running away to Paris as a teenager.
THU 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00v120l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 23:00 The Essay (b00v12ny)
The Stewarts
James IV
The wild knight, his shaggy costume over his armour, faced his opponent. Lance couched, surging with adrenalin, he charged full speed at the other knight. At the mid-point of the lists they met, lances stabbing into each others coat armour. Three times the wild knight defeated his opponent. The Edinburgh crowd roared their approval of the winner. They went even wilder when he removed his costume to reveal himself as their king - James IV, the most glorious of the Stewart monarchs.
James spared no expense with his tournaments to bring glamour to the world of knightly virtues. There were exotic ladies as prizes, poetry, banqueting, elaborate costumes and Arthurian round tables. Camelot would have nothing on Holyrood as far as James was concerned, and it was all a bit of dig at his English neighbours, the Tudors. They'd polished up their shaky new royal credentials by claiming descent from Arthur. James liked to remind them that having married their daughter, Margaret Tudor, his children were in line to their throne too. Dr Katie Stevenson shows how royal chivalry embraced a lot more than just knocking the other chap off his horse and avoiding the pointy end of his lance, at the sumptuous Renaissance court of James IV.
THU 23:15 Late Junction (b00v12p0)
Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt introduces medieval Andalusian music, Bach Reloaded and Bach performed by Joanna MacGregor, Shorty Petterstein's History of Jazz, plus Devon Sproule, Fresh Hex and Sun Ra.
FRIDAY 08 OCTOBER 2010
FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b00v12xt)
John Shea presents rarities, archive and concert recordings from Europe's leading broadcasters
01:01AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
String Quartet in D major (Op.18 No.3)
Florian Kellerhals (violin), Harald Grimsrud (violin), Elisabeth Sijpkens (viola), Hjalmar Kvam (cello)
01:27AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
String Quartet No.10 in Eb major "Harp" (Op.74) (1809)
Florian Kellerhals (violin), Harald Grimsrud (violin), Elisabeth Sijpkens (viola), Hjalmar Kvam (cello)
01:57AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concerto for Harp, Flute and Orchestra (K.299) in C major
Suzana Klincharova (harp) George Spasov (flute) Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, Plamen Djurov (conductor)
02:26AM
Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990)
Chichester psalms arranged for treble, chorus, organ, harp & percussion
Radio France Chorus, (treble solo part taken by an unidentified high tenor),Yves Castagnet (organ), (harp and percussion unidentified), Vladislav Chernuchenko (conductor)
02:46AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Variations for Brass Band
The Hannaford Street Silver Band, Bramwell Tovey (Conductor)
03:01AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Lemminkäinen Suite (Op 22)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
03:47AM
Mägi, Ester (b. 1922)
Ballad 'Tuule Tuba' (1981)
Academic Male Choir of Tallinn Technical University, Estonian State SO, Arvo Volmer & Jüri Rent (conductors)
03:55AM
Traditional (19th century) arr. Narciso Yepes (1927-1997
Romanza for guitar
Stepan Rak (guitar)
04:02AM
Papandopulo, Boris (1906-1991)
Dodolice (Op. 27)
Slovenian Chamber choir [girls only], Miljenka Grdan (soprano), Vladimir Krpan (piano), Vladimir Kranjcevic (conductor)
04:23AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto for keyboard and string orchestra No.1 in D minor (BWV.1052)
Kåre Nordstoga (harpsichord), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
04:44AM
Auber, Daniel-Francois-Esprit (1782-1871)
Guoracha - Ballet music no.1 from 'La Muette de Portici'
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Viktor Malek (conductor)
04:49AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Three Mazurkas (Op.59)
Kevin Kenner (piano)
05:01AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) [orch. Martin Schmeling]
Hungarian Dances No.1, 3 & 5
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender (conductor)
05:08AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Concert Paraphrase on 'God save the Queen', S 235
László Baranyay (piano)
05:16AM
Locke, Matthew (c.1622-1677)
Oh the brave jolly gypsy
05:17AM
Lucinda, wink or veil those eyes
Angharad Gruffydd Jones (soprano), Concordia, Mark Levy (conductor)
05:19AM
Lawes, Henry (1596-1662)
Now, now, Lucatia, now make haste (L/655)
Gather ye rosebuds while you may
05:25AM
Lanier, Nicholas [1588-1666]
No more shall meads
Angharad Gruffydd Jones (soprano), Concordia, Mark Levy (conductor)
05:29AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Quartet for flute, violin, gamba and continuo No.12/6 in E minor, 'Paris Quartet'
L'Ensemble Arion
05:49AM
Elsner, Jósef (1769-1854)
Symphony in C major (Op.11)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Janusz Przybylski (conductor)
06:15AM
Giustini, Lodovico (1685-1743)
Suonata I in G minor
Wolfgang Brunner (fortepiano)
06:25AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Duet: Là ci darem la mano, là mi dirai di si - from Don Giovanni
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Russell Braun (baritone), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
06:29AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Aria: Ah, fuggi il traditor - from Don Giovanni [Donna Elvira in Act I, Scene X]
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano)
06:30AM
Champagne Aria: Finch'han dal vino - from Don Giovanni [Don Giovanni in Act I, Scene XV]
Russell Braun (baritone)
06:31AM
Aria: Il mio tesoro intanto - from Don Giovanni [Don Ottavio in Act II, Scene X]
Michael Schade (tenor),
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
06:36AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Concerto for horn and orchestra No.1 in E flat major, (Op.11)
Bostjan Lipovsek (french horn), Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, David de Villiers (conductor)
06:53AM
Franck, César (1822-1890)
Cantabile in B major, M.36
David Drury (William Hill and Son organ of Sydney town Hall, Australia).
FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b00v12xw)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast. Llyr Williams performs Liszt, Julian Bream performs Albeniz, and Steven Isserliss and Denes Varjon perform Schumann.
FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b00v12xy)
Friday - James Jolly
Classical Collection with James Jolly: this week orchestrations and reductions; classic recordings from Frans Bruggen; concertos by Richard Strauss.
James concludes his exploration of orchestrations and reductions with two preludes by Debussy arranged for orchestra by Colin Matthews. There's Stravinsky's Suite Italienne featuring Viktoria Mullova and Katia Labeque and Frans Bruggen directs the Credo from Bach's B minor Mass.
10.00
Bach
Sinfonia from Cantata BWV 174, Ich liebe den Hochsten von ganzem Gemute
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Soli Deo Gloria SDG 121
10.06
Vivaldi
Concerto in E flat for bassoon, strings and continuo RV 483
Klaus Thunemann (bassoon)
I Musici
PHILIPS 416 355'2
10.14
Stravinsky
Suite Italienne
Viktoria Mullova (violin)
Katia Labeque (piano)
ONYX ONYX4015
10.30
Richard Strauss
Duett-Concertino
Larry Combs (clarinet
David McGill (bassoon)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
TELDEC 3984 23913-2
10.50
Debussy arr. Colin Matthews
Ce qu'a vu le vent d'Ouest
General Lavine - excentric
Halle Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)
HALLE CONCERTS SOCIETY CD HLL 7513
10.57
Mozart
Piano Concerto in A, K488
Clifford Curzon (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Istvan Kertesz (conductor)
DECCA 430 497-2
11.25
Bach
Credo from Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Jennifer Smith (soprano)
Michael Chance (counter-tenor)
Harry van der Kamp (bass)
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Bruggen (conductor)
PHILIPS 426 238-2.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00v12y0)
Richard Wagner
The Holy Grail
Donald Macleod discovers why Richard Wagner took a twelve year break from his work on the Ring Cycle. As the music fizzes back into life, Donald continues his journey through the epic music dramas, from the thunderous music of Siegfried to the monumental funeral music from Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods). Plus a look at Wagner's controversial legacy and his final work, Parsifal, described by one writer as "opera halfway between Mass and orgy".
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b00v12y2)
Welsh Festivals
Presteigne Festival
Presteigne in Mid-Wales is the final stop in this week of highlights from music festivals across Wales. Featuring this year's quartet in residence, the Tippett Quartet, with pianist Tom Poster performing in the town's St. Andrew's Church.
Stravinsky: Three pieces for string quartet
Hugh Wood: String quartet no.3
Schumann: Piano quintet op.44.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b00v12y4)
Mahler and Nature
Part 4
Penny Gore closes this week dedicated to Mahler and Nature with his 4th Symphony, which was the culmination of his fascination with the folk poetry collection "Des Knaben Wunderhorn". Before then the week's theme continues with Richard Strauss' Alpine Symphony, Webern's Im Sommerwind and Zemlinsky's Op.13 orchestral songs.
2pm
Weber: Euryanthe Overture
French National Orchestra
Daniele Gatti, conductor
2.10pm
Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding, conductor
3pm
Webern: Im Sommerwind
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles, conductor
Zemlinsky: Songs Op.13
Dagmar Peckova, soprano
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek, conductor
4pm
Mahler: Symphony No.4
Barbara Bonney, soprano
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor.
FRI 17:00 In Tune (b00v12y6)
Friday - Sean Rafferty
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With a selection of music and guests from the music world.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00v12y8)
Roxburgh, Delius, Elgar
Part 1
Presented live from the Barbican, Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
British music, a central part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra life since its birth, is celebrated in style tonight under Sir Andrew Davis. The Orchestra's Conductor Laureate sets the pace with the world premiere of Edwin Roxburgh's exhilarating Concerto for Orchestra before turning to Elgar's portrayal of Shakespeare's 'fat knight'. The concert closes with Delius's sublime tone-poem, The Song of the High Hills, a work inspired by Norway's landscape and nature.
Edwin Roxburgh: Concerto for Orchestra (RPS Elgar Bursary Commission; World Premiere)
Elgar: Falstaff
Olivia Robinson (soprano)
Christopher Bowen (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor).
FRI 19:55 Twenty Minutes (b00v6h4r)
Falstaff: The Bad Man We All Need
Before the broadcast of Elgar's 'Falstaff' Paul Allen, who is writing a book about the character, reflects on the fascination of composers and writers with this larger than life figure.One of the first composers to use Falstaff as a subject was the much-maligned Salieri. Nicolai, Verdi, Vaughan Williams and Elgar followed. What makes a character who's not even the official protagonist of two of the three plays he's in so irresistible? Paul Allen finds the answer in two contemporary plays where Falstaff reappears under a different name and in different circumstances: Alan Bennett's 'The History Boys' and Jez Butterworth's 'Jerusalem'. In this illustrated talk he argues that Falstaff, perhaps Shakespeare's greatest invention, is the bad man we all need in order to grow up, to be - in the broadest sense of the word - educated. But there is a price to be paid for this attachment to the young. Falstaff must always die .
prod: Julian May.
FRI 20:15 Performance on 3 (b00v6gxg)
Roxburgh, Delius, Elgar
Part 2
Presented live from the Barbican, Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
British music, a central part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra life since its birth, is celebrated in style tonight under Sir Andrew Davis. The Orchestra's Conductor Laureate sets the pace with the world premiere of Edwin Roxburgh's exhilarating Concerto for Orchestra before turning to Elgar's portrayal of Shakespeare's 'fat knight'. The concert closes with Delius's sublime tone-poem, The Song of the High Hills, a work inspired by Norway's landscape and nature.
Delius: The Song of the High Hills
Olivia Robinson (soprano)
Christopher Bowen (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor).
FRI 21:15 The Verb (b00v12yb)
William Gibson, Louise Welsh, Siddharta Bose, CK Williams
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word. In this edition:
William Gibson
The cyberpunk creator considers the future of Science Fiction and explains why it's better suited than naturalistic modes of writing to explaining the age we live in. He also discusses the work of post-cyberpunk writer Lauren Beukes, whose novels Zoo City and Moxyland offer an intriguing portrait of contemporary South Africa.
William Gibson's Zero History is out now from Penguin. Moxyland and Zoo City by Lauren Beukes are available from Angry Robot.
Siddharta Bose
The playwright and film-maker presents his first poetry collection, Kalagora, a Joycean celebration of a life lived across three continents.
Kalagora by Siddharta Bose is available from Penned in the Margins.
Louise Welsh
The author of Naming the Bones and The Bullet Trick presents a brand new short story, Hootenannies, written specially for the programme.
CK Williams
The American poet reflects on what poetry can do that politics and philosophy can't, as his latest collection, Wait, is published.
Wait by CK Williams is available from Bloodaxe Books.
FRI 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00v12y0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 23:00 The Essay (b00v12yd)
The Stewarts
A Love Affair with Firepower
'For the illustrious James, worthy prince of the Scots, magnificent king, when I sound off I reduce castles. I was made at his order, therefore I am called Lion.'
That's the inscription on one of James I's favourite cannon. It's the beginning of a royal love affair between the medieval Stewart dynasty and really big guns. 'Lion' was big enough to demolish occasional bits of palace, just by colliding with it, never mind firing on things. However dragging these monsters through bogs to besiege a castle, was no guarantee of success. They could blow up the wrong people, such as monarchs like James II who wanted a good view of his guns in action. As one chronicler (obviously an early Health and Safety officer) said, James's untimely death should be 'a lesson to future kings, that they should not stand too close to instruments of this sort when these are in the act of being discharged'. Perhaps ' Most Magnificent King, if you can read this, you are standing too close!' might have made a better inscription for 'Lion'.
But Stewart ventures into big guns, also led them into naval warfare. In their wars against the Lords of the Isles, the Kings of Scots found that those meaty cannon were not much use, if you couldn't get them to the Hebrides. This led to a step-change in British sea-power, as James IV's admirals pioneered effective deck-mounted naval artillery. Finally James IV moved into international waters, commissioning the largest warship in Europe, a masterpiece of Renaissance naval gunnery, 'The Great Michael' for hire to the King of France. A naval arms race with Henry VIII of England was on, but all this fascination with fire-power would end tragically, not at sea but on land, at the Battle of Flodden.
FRI 23:15 World on 3 (b00v12yg)
Hassan Erraji Session
Mary Ann Kennedy with new tracks from across the globe, plus a session with Hassan Erraji, a Moroccan singer and oud player who has just released an acclaimed new album after a musical silence of eight years.
"Violin-backed Arabic country hoe-down" is how The Guardian's Robin Denselow has described Hassan Erraji's new album 'Awal Mara'. Hassan Erraji was born blind in Tazart near Marrakech, and studied at the music academy in Casablanca, before moving to Belgium to learn western vioin and piano. He became widely respected as a singer and multi-instrumentalist, and released several albums of traditional Arabic music. 'Awal Mara' represents a rethinking of his musical approach after his long break, joined now by his daughter on backing vocals, and with production by Dave Creffield, best known for his work with the Kaiser Chiefs.