John Shea presents a complete performance of Glinka's opera Ivan Susanin. You can also hear Mozart's Violin Concerto no. 5 in A, Berlioz and Salieri
Bulgarian Television & Radio Mixed Choir; Mihail Milkov (conductor); Bulgarian Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra; Ivan Marinov (conductor); Nicola Ghiuselev (bass); Elena Stoyanova (soprano); Hristina Angelakova (mezzo-soprano); Rumen Doikov (tenor); Nikolai Stoilov (bass); Angel Petkov (tenor): Dimiter Stanchev (bass)
Fantasia No.2 in E minor (Presto) 'The little trumpeter' - from 3 Fantasias (Caprices) for piano (Op.16)
Gert Oost (1823 Bätz organ of the Grote kerk, Weesp), Bart van Buiteren (bass drum in "Es toben Sturm und Ungewitter")
Tragicomedia - Milos Valent, Peter Spissky & Dagma Valentova (violins), Hille Perle (viola da gamba), Alexander Weimann (harpsichord), Stephen Stubbs (chitaronne).
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with music to begin the day, plus a specially recorded Christmas Carol from the BBC Singers under Bob Chilcott every day at about 10 to 8.
Our Wednesday Award-Winner is a recording of CPE Bach's Sonata in E minor, Wq65 / 5. We continue our selection of wintery music with Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 Winter Daydreams, plus there is a recording of Peter Wispelwey playing Beethoven Cello Sonata in C with the pianist Paul Komen.
Donald Macleod continues his exploration of the rich tradition of Russian opera from Glinka to Schnittke with a look at three members of the so-called 'Mighty Handful' - César Cui, Alexander Borodin and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Borodin was a professor of chemistry who delved into such recherché areas of investigation as the nucleophilic displacement of chlorine by fluorine in benzenecarbonyl chloride. Little wonder that his labours on his opera Prince Igor occupied his spare moments for the best part of 20 years, but even that wasn't enough time for him to complete the work, which had to be painstakingly assembled and orchestrated from the composer's chaotic sketches by Rimsky-Korsakov and his young apprentice, Alexander Glazunov. César Cui, little-known today, also had a day job other than music - he was a respected authority on military engineering, whose Concise Textbook of Field Fortifications ran to nine editions. His opera A Feast in Time of Plague was rather less popular, but it's nonetheless interesting to hear an extract from this rarely performed work. Rimsky-Korsakov started his adult life as a sailor but took up the offer of a professorial post at the St Petersburg Conservatory in his late 20s. Over a long career he composed 15 operas, few of which are performed today outside of Russia. Based on a medieval Russian folk tale, Sadko is in Rimsky's epic vein. By contrast, Kashchey the Immortal is a one-act fairy-tale opera with a ravishing score.
This week Afternoon on 3 celebrates the riches and diversity of 2010's musical summer, with performances from leading festivals in Europe and beyond, by some of the world's great singers, instrumentalists and ensembles.
You can hear the best concerts from 25 festivals in fifteen countries - as far afield as Finland, Moldova and Canada. At the heart of the week will be concerts from top festivals in Austria and Switzerland, including the Martha Argerich Project in Lugano and Nikolaus Harnoncourt's Styriarte Festival in Graz. The Thursday Opera Matinee is Bellini's Norma, conducted by Fabio Biondi with his period-instrument ensemble Europa Galante at the Chopin and his Europe Festival in Warsaw. Large choral works will be a particular feature throughout the week - from Bach's B minor Mass through Haydn's Creation and Beethoven's Missa solemnis to Rachmaninov's Vespers and a celebration of Arvo Pärt's 75th birthday in his native Estonia.
Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70
Finnish folk music composed by Konsta Jylhä and arranged by Toivo Kuula and Einojuhani Rautavaara
Thomas E. Bauer, bass
From King's College Chapel, Cambridge, originally broadcast in 2010 to mark the 90th birthday of Sir David Willcocks who died last Thursday.
Sung by the Chapel Choir with members of the Bach Choir and Cambridge University Musical Society.
Hymn: The first Nowell (arr. Willcocks)
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.
The Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme exists to provide support to some of the brightest talents in the world of classical music, and in the ten years of its existence has numbered artists such as the Belcea String Quartet, Paul Lewis, Janine Jansen, Natalie Clein and Alice Coote among its distinguished members.
In the eighth of ten early-evening programmes over the Christmas period, we hear studio performances by some of the scheme's current members, including tonight British violinist Jennifer Pike in an early Beethoven sonata, tenor Ben Johnson in songs from Mahler's Ruckertlieder, and Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi in Schumann's Fantasy, Op. 17.
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 12 No. 2
Schumann: Fantasy in C major, Op. 17
The Ensemble Matheus from Brittany in the far west of France have been making a name for themselves in recent years with their thrilling performances of Baroque music. Tonight, another chance to hear their Proms debut with their founder-director Jean-Christophe Spinosi in music from the heart of their repertory, by Handel, Telemann and Vivaldi.
Celebrated French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux join the group for arias and duets by Handel and one of his greatest operatic rivals in early eighteenth-century London, Nicola Porpora - including music he wrote for the famous castrato Farinelli.
Biochemist Denis Alexander explores the relationship between his Christian faith and science.
'I think our recordings have been put in the classical, folk, pop, rock, avantgarde, chillout, world and dance sections of record shop,' says Arthur Jeffes, leader of Penguin Café, the 21st-century reincarnation of the Penguin Café Orchestra made famous by his father Simon Jeffes.
In this Late Night Prom from September the Penguin Café's wide-ranging lineup: ukulele, dulcitone, penny whistles and guitars alongside violin, cello and piano, supplemented by the Northumbrian smallpipes - played by their star champion Kathryn Tickell.
A time for reflection in Cliff Carlisle's Red Velvet Slippers, a welcome refuge from festivity with David Matthews' Clarinet Quartet, a pick me up from Couperin and an unseasonal tale from Carmen McRae . All dispensed by Max Reinhardt.
THURSDAY 30 DECEMBER 2010
THU 01:00 Through the Night (b00wlmtg)
John Shea presents a selection of concert performances from around Europe including the Orchestra della Svizzera Italia 'from the new world', featuring Villa-Lobos and Moreno
1:01 AM
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)
Saudades do Brasil Saudades do Brasil - dance suite (Op.67)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Emmanuel Siffert (conductor)
1:26 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959)
Fantasy-Concerto for Guitar and Small Orchestra (1951)
Alvaro Pierri (guitar), Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Emmanuel Siffert (conductor)
1:44 AM
Anonymous; Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959)
Lullaby; Estudio No. 12 for guitar
Alvaro Pierri (guitar)
1:49 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Concerto for piano and orchestra No.2 (Op.21) in F minor
Artur Rubinstein (piano), National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Witold Rowicki (conductor)
2:19 AM
Sapere, José Pierri (1886-1957); Anido, Maria Luisa
Canciones de mi Pueblo; Aire Norteño
Alvaro Pierri (guitar)
2:23 AM
Moreno, Segundo Luis (1882-1972)
Suite Ecuatoriana No. 2 (1942)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Emmanuel Siffert (conductor)
2:43 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Märchenbilder for viola and piano (Op.113)
Pinchas Zukerman (viola), Marc Neikrug (piano)
3:01 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Quintet for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos (D.956) in C major
Royal String Quartet , Christian Poltéra (cello)
3:55 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in C major (K.420)
Ilze Graubina (piano)
4:00 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Petite Suite
Royal Academy of Music Brass Soloists
4:08 AM
Handel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759)
Concerto Grosso in A minor (Op.6 No.4)
The Sixth Floor Ensemble, Anssi Mattila (conductor)
4:19 AM
Czerny, Carl (1791-1857)
Fantasie in F minor for piano four hands (Op. 226)
Stefan Lindgren and Daniel Propper (piano)
4:29 AM
Lipinski, Karol Józef (1790-1861)
Rondo alla Polacca in E major, (Op.13) (C.1820-24)
Albrecht Breuninger (violin), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
4:45 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Le Carnaval Romain, op 9
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
4:54 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Capriccio for Two Pianos
Antra Viksne and Normunds Viksne (piano duo)
5:01 AM
Anonymous (16th century)
¡Ay Jesús qué mal fraile!
Montserrat Figueras & Isabel Alvarez (sopranos), Maite Arruabarrena (mezzo-soprano), Laurence Bonnal (contralto), Luiz Alves da Silva & Paolo Costa (countertenors), Lambert Climent & Francesc Garrigosa (tenors), Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall (director)
5:03 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Une Barque sur l'océan - from no.3 of 'Miroirs' (originally for piano)
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, conductor Eivind Aadland
5:12 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
12 Variations on 'Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman' for piano (K.265)
Lana Genc (piano)
5:23 AM
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903)
Italian serenade for string quartet
Bartók Quartet
5:30 AM
Hellendaal, Pieter (1721-1799)
Concerto Grosso in D minor (Op.3'2)
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
5:42 AM
Copi, Ambro (b.1973)
Psalm 108: My heart is steadfast
Chamber Choir AVE, Andra? Hauptman (conductor)
5:46 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Sonata for oboe and piano (1962)
Roger Cole (oboe), Linda Lee Thomas (piano)
6:01 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Jozef (1732-1809)
Symphony no.95 (H.
1.95) in C minor
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Marek Janowski (conductor)
6:20 AM
Duparc, Henri (1848-1933)
La Vague et la cloche - for voice and piano (1871)
Gerald Finley (baritone), Stephen Ralls (piano)
6:26 AM
Spohr, Louis (1784-1859)
String sextet in C major, Op.140
Wiener Streichsextet: Erich Hobarth, Peter Matzka (violins), Thomas Riebl, Siegfried Fuhrlinger (violas), Susanne Ehn, Rudolf Leopold (cellos)
6:51 AM
Moszkowski, Moritz (1854-1924)
Valse for piano in E major (Op.34 No.1)
Dennis Hennig (piano).
THU 07:00 Breakfast (b00wlmtz)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch shares her personal choice of music. plus a specially recorded Christmas Carol from the BBC Singers under Bob Chilcott every day at about 10 to 8.
THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b00wlmv1)
Thursday - Sarah Walker
Today's highlights include Holst's A Winter Idyll, a group of three settings of In Dulce Jubilo, a recording of Saint Saens' Cello Concerto No.1 performed by Peter Wispelwey, CPE Bach's Sonata in E minor, Wq 59 / 1 and some seasonal light music. Plus there is a recording of Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen Suite conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.
10.00
Delius
Three Small Tone Poems No.2 - Winter Night (Sleigh Ride)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
NAXOS
8.556837
10.06
Thursday Light Music
Maryan Rawicz - Snowflakes
Leroy Anderson - Sleigh Ride
Nigel Ogden (Wurlitzer Theatre Organ, Free Trade Hall, Manchester)
OS210
10.12
Janacek
The Cunning Little Vixen Suite
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)
SUPRAPHON SU 37392032
10.32
Today's Group of 3 are settings of In Dulce Jubilo
Trad. (Arr Pearsall) In Dulci Jubilo
The Cambridge Singers
John Rutter (conductor)
COLLEGIUM COLCD106
Liszt
Weihnachtsbaum - Die Hirten an Der Krippe
Roland Pontinen (piano)
BIS CD 1164
Bach
In Dulci Jubilo, BWV729
Simon Preston (organ)
DG 4694202
10.42
CPE Bach
Sonata in E minor, Wq 59 / 1
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 873674
10.51
Saint-Saens
Cello Concerto No.1 in A minor Op.33
Peter Wispelwey (cello)
German Chamber Philharmonic
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 16501
11.16
Mozart
Symphony No.27 in G K199
Danish National Chamber Orchestra
Adam Fischer (conductor)
DACAPO
6.220542
11.30
Bach
Cantata BWV133 'Ich Freue Mich in Dir'
Monteverdi Choir and Soloists
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG127
11.49
Holst
A Winter Idyll
London Philharmonic Orchestra
David Atherton (conductor)
LYRITA SRCD 209.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00wlmv3)
Russian Opera
Episode 4
Donald Macleod continues his exploration of the rich tradition of Russian opera from Glinka to Schnittke with a musical conservative - Sergei Rachmaninov - and a pair of progressives - Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev. One of only three operas completed by Rachmaninov, The Miserly Knight sets one of Pushkin's four Little Tragedies, in a tradition stretching back to Alexander Darghomïzhsky's The Stone Guest. Stravinsky's opera The Nightingale is an attractive but rather strange work. Stravinsky wrote the first act in 1909, then broke off to fulfil what turned out to be a trio of ballet commissions, for The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring. When he returned to The Nightingale in 1914 - with the incentive of a fat commission fee from the Moscow Free Theatre - his style had undergone a radical transformation. It had changed again by 1922 when he started work on his next opera, Mavra, which stands at the beginning of his neo-classical phase. After a somewhat shaky start - the composer compared the critics at the New York première to a "pack of dogs let out from behind the gate to bite my trousers to shreds" - Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges has gone on to become one of his best-loved works, a delightfully absurd confection in which a hypochondriac prince finds the love of his life inside an enchanted orange - and why not.
THU 13:00 Afternoon Concert (b00wlmy8)
Summer Festivals 2010
Bellini - Norma
This week Afternoon on 3 celebrates the riches and diversity of 2010's musical summer, with performances from leading festivals in Europe and beyond, by some of the world's great singers, instrumentalists and ensembles.
You can hear the best concerts from 25 festivals in fifteen countries - as far afield as Finland, Moldova and Canada. At the heart of the week will be concerts from top festivals in Austria and Switzerland, including the Martha Argerich Project in Lugano and Nikolaus Harnoncourt's Styriarte Festival in Graz. The Thursday Opera Matinee is Bellini's Norma, conducted by Fabio Biondi with his period-instrument ensemble Europa Galante at the Chopin and his Europe Festival in Warsaw. Large choral works will be a particular feature throughout the week - from Bach's B minor Mass through Haydn's Creation and Beethoven's Missa solemnis to Rachmaninov's Vespers and a celebration of Arvo Pärt's 75th birthday in his native Estonia.
Presented by Jonathan Swain
Revueltas: Noche de los Mayas
Mexican State Symphony Orchestra
Enrique Batiz, conductor
(Granada International Music Festival, Spain)
Schumann: Märchenbilder, Op. 113
Lyda Chen, viola
Martha Argerich, piano
(Martha Argerich Project, Lugano, Switzerland)
Rachmaninov: Vespers
Smolny Cathedral Choir, St Petersburg
Vladimir Bletgesov, director
(Quincena Musical de San Sebastián, Spain)
Bellini: Norma
Norma............Katia Pellegrino, soprano
Clotilde......Gemma Bertagnolli, soprano
Adalgisa.....Lucia Cirillo, mezzo-soprano
Pollione...............Gregory Kunde, tenor
Flavio..........Emanuele d'Aguanno, tenor
Oroveso..............Nikolay Didenko, bass
Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Chorus, Bialystok
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi, conductor
(Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, Warsaw, Poland)
Smetana: From Bohemia's Meadows and Forests from Ma Vlast
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
(Styriarte Festival, Graz, Austria).
THU 17:00 Words and Music (b00kh2cl)
Carnival
Turn the world upside down, break all the rules and let the dead talk to the living and what have you got? Nothing less than the spirit of Carnival. This week Words and Music takes its cue from Rome's Saturnalia and the gris gris of New Orleans.
Carnival may be about laughter and licence but it also acknowledges darkness and unease. It's a kind of whistling in the dark and a kind of exorcism. It gives physical form to our fears and with its clowns, zombies and ritual helps us to reconcile ourselves to the obscene, the terrible and the outrageously wonderful in our lives. Most, if not all of us watch and all of us sometimes wear the mask and join the dance.
Musical intoxication is supplied by the likes of Saint Saens, Constant Lambert, Verdi and Berlioz and the verbal fireworks come courtesy of Edgar Allan Poe, Byron, Elizabeth Bishop, ee cummings, Malcolm Lowry and Goethe with the actors Saskia Reeves and Tom Hiddleston as the Lords of Misrule.
THU 18:15 New Generation Artists (b00wsv16)
Veronika Eberle, Giuliano Sommerhalder, Nicolas Altstaedt, ATOS Trio
The Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme exists to provide support to some of the brightest talents in the world of classical music, and in the ten years of its existence has numbered artists such as the Belcea String Quartet, Paul Lewis, Janine Jansen, Natalie Clein and Alice Coote among its distinguished members.
In the ninth of ten early-evening programmes over the Christmas period, we hear studio performances by some of the scheme's current members, including tonight violinist Veronika Eberle in Prokofiev, trumpeter Giuliano Sommerhalder playing Tomasi, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt in music by Barriere, pianist Francesco Piemontesi in a suite by Handel, and the ATOS Trio in Beethoven's Piano Trio, Op. 11
FULL PROGRAMME
Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 2
Veronika Eberle (violin), Oliver Schnyder (piano)
Tomasi: Triptyque
Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet), Kasia Wieczorek (piano)
Barrière: Sonata in G major for 2 cellos
Nicolas Altstaedt & Jonathan Cohen (cellos)
Handel: Suite in B flat major, HWV434
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
Beethoven: Piano Trio in B flat major, Op. 11
ATOS Trio.
THU 19:30 Performance on 3 (b00wlmyb)
BBC Proms 2010
PSM 1 and 2 - Brandenburg Concertos
From BBC Proms 2010
Presented by John Shea
Another chance to hear the launch of Proms Bach Day at the Cadogan Hall, London, with the complete Brandenburg Concertos in two concerts given by the English Baroque Soloists and conductor John Eliot Gardiner. Written for the small orchestra of fine musicians at the court of Anhalt-Cöthen, where Bach was Kapellmeister for six years from 1717, each concerto uses a different line-up of musicians. "No other set of concertos" maintains Gardiner, "can compare with Bach's for diversity of instrument make-up, for the prominence and variety of wind instruments, or for the myriad textural contrasts this allows."
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major BWV 1049
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major BWV 1050
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047
English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).
THU 21:30 Belief (b00wlmyd)
Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar, a former monk and leading ecologist talks about his Jain beliefs and how they can help us respect all forms of life.
Presenter:Joan Bakewell
Producer:Dawn Bryan.
THU 22:00 BBC Proms (b00t20wx)
2010
Prom 25 - BBC Singers, London Sinfonietta
From the BBC PROMS 2010
Presented by John Shea
Another chance to hear this Late Night Prom which pairs music by Igor Stravinsky with one of the composers he most admired - J S Bach. At the heart of the concert the two composers overlap in Stravinsky's orchestral arrangement of one of the Bach's masterpieces: the great Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel Hoch", in which he subjects a Lutheran Christmas hymn to a staggering array of blindingly clever techniques - but all-the-while producing music so charming and fluent that the unsuspecting listener would never know what was going on below the surface.
The concert ends with a work by Stravinsky which, like Bach's, combines austerity with a deeply-felt spirituality: Threni - setting words from the Biblical Lamentations of Jeremiah.
Bach: Chorale "Ach mein herzliebes Jesulein"
Bach: Canonic Variations on "Von Himmel hoch" BWV769
Bach arr. Stravinsky: Chorale Variations on "Von Himmel hoch" BWV 769
Stravinsky: Threni
Elizabeth Atherton, soprano
Hilary Summers, mezzo-soprano
Alan Oke, tenor
Andrew Kennedy, tenor
David Wilson-Johnson, baritone
Sir John Tomlinson, bass
Daniel Hyde, organ
BBC Singers
London Sinfonietta
David Atherton, conductor.
THU 23:15 Late Junction (b00wlmzf)
Max Reinhardt and Fiona Talkington - 30/12/2010
In the last Late Junction of 2010 Max Reinhardt is joined by Fiona Talkington for a playlist that looks back, forwards, and also sideways with music for a series of implausible events, to include Judgement Day, becoming marooned on an iceberg, and Heathcliff and Cathy's wedding.
FRIDAY 31 DECEMBER 2010
FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b00wln0s)
Join John Shea for Sibelius and Wagner performed by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra plus Purcell's Dioclesian
1:01 AM
Wagner, Richard [1813-1883]
Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Arvid Engegård (conductor)
1:12 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Concerto for piano and orchestra in G major
Håvard Gimse (piano) Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Arvid Engegård (conductor)
1:35 AM
Satie, Erik [1866-1925]
Satie Gnossienne no. 1 for piano
Håvard Gimse (piano)
1:40 AM
Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957]
Symphony no. 2 (Op. 43) in D major
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud(conductor)
2:26 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Prelude and Fugue in C major (Op.109 No.3)
David Drury (T.C. Lewis organ of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne )
2:36 AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
Divertimento for string orchestra (Sz.113)
The Hungarian Radio Orchestra, András Mihaly (conductor)
3:01 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Dioclesian - semi-opera in five acts
Lynne Dawson and Gillian Fisher (sopranos), Rogers Covey-Crump and Paul Elliott (tenors), Michael George and Stephen Varcoe (basses), Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
4:33 AM
Dowland, John (1563-1626), arr. Timothy Kain
Complaint 'Fortune my foe'
Guitar Trek
4:36 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757) (arr. Timothy Kain)
Sonata in D major (K.430)
Guitar Trek
4:40 AM
Melartin, Erkki (1875-1937)
Serenata (Op.121 No.5) from 6 Easy Pieces (1924)
Arto Noras (cello), Tapani Valsta (piano)
4:41 AM
Melartin, Erkki (1875-1937)
Leivo (Skylark) (Op.138 No.2)
Sauli Tiilikainen (baritone), Markus Lehtinen (piano)
4:44 AM
Lindberg, Oskar (1887-1955)
Morgonen (Morning)
Swedish Radio Choir (women's voices only), Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Maria Wieslander (piano), Gustav Sjökvist (conductor)
4:48 AM
Casella, Alfredo (1883-1947)
Sicilienne and Burlesque (1914)
Kathleen Rudolph (flute), Rena Sharon (piano)
4:57 AM
Nordin, Bosse
Schottische
The Young Danish String Quartet
5:01 AM
Mendelssohn Batholdy, Felix (1809-1847)
Three Etudes (Op.104) (1834-1838)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
5:09 AM
Mendelssohn Batholdy, Felix (1809-1847)
4 songs from Im Grünen (Op.59) - No.1 Im Grünen; No.4 Die Nachtigall; No.5 Ruhetal; No.6 Jagdlied
BBC Singers; Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
5:18 AM
Gossec, François-Joseph (1734-1829)
Symphony in D major (Op.5 No.3) 'Pastorella'
Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
5:35 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Quartet for piano and strings (K.478) in G minor
Aronowitz Ensemble
6:01 AM
Hubay, Jenö (1858-1937)
Spinning Room (Op.44 No.3)
Ferenc Szecsódi (violin), István Kassai (piano)
6:06 AM
Byrd, William (c.1543-1623)
Goodnight Ground for keyboard (MB.
27.42) in C major
Aapo Häkkinen (harpsichord)
6:15 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Suite from Platée (Junon jalouse)
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (director)
6:41 AM
Schuyt, Cornelis (1557-1616)
Padovano et Gagliarda del sesto modo a6
Leo van Doeselaar (organ of Pieterskerk, Leiden. Built by Galtus and Germer van Hagerbeer in 1643, using some piepwork from around 1446 and 1518)
6:48 AM
Haydn, Johann Michael (1737-1806)
Ave Regina for double choir (MH.140)
Ex Tempore, Florian Heyerick (director).
FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b00wln0v)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with music to begin the day, plus a specially recorded Christmas Carol from the BBC Singers under Bob Chilcott every day at about 10 to 8.
FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b00wln0x)
Friday - Sarah Walker
Our Friday Virtuoso is the soprano Emma Kirkby in Monteverdi's Exulta filia sion. Georg Solti conducts Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Suite, Peter Wispelwey plays Vivaldi's Concerto in B minor, and Mikhail Pletnev performs CPE Bach's Sonata in G, Wq 62 / 19.
10.00
Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky
Sonata Natalis
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
L'OISEAU LYRE 4101792
10.05
CPE Bach
Sonata in G, Wq 62 / 19
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
DG 4596142
10.14
Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake Suite
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor)
DECCA 4558102
10.41
Bridge
Christmas Dance 'Sir Roger de Coverley'
Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)
PHILIPS 4544442
10.46
Friday Virtuoso
Monteverdi
Exulta filia Sion
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Anthony Rooley (lute)
CARLTON 3036600442
10.51
Schubert
Symphony No.3 in D
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 4778687
11.15
Vivaldi
Concerto in B minor RV424
Peter Wispelwey (violincello piccolo)
Florilegium
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS10097
11.32
Bach
Orchestral Suite No.4, BWV1069
Les Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall (director)
NAIVE ES 9958.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00wln0z)
Russian Opera
Episode 5
Donald Macleod concludes his exploration of a century-and-a-half of Russian opera with works by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke. Shostakovich's first opera, The Nose, is a tartly satirical piece based on a short story by Gogol in which a St Petersburg bureaucrat wakes up one morning to find his nose missing from his face; it turns out that the plucky little organ has taken on a life of its own, and is parading around town in the costume of a State Councillor. Even if it wasn't quite clear precisely who was being satirized, The Nose put the Soviet authorities' noses severely out of joint, and the first production was abruptly dropped after only 16 performances. Shostakovich's next opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, was first of all a huge success - then, in a deft spot of Stalinist revisionism, an abject failure. The failure kicked in when Stalin finally got round to attending a performance of the opera, almost two years after its Leningrad première; the great dictator didn't like what he was seeing and hearing, and a now notorious denunciation of the composer followed in the press: "Muddle instead of music!" Prokofiev spent the last 11 years of his life working on his magnificent operatic presentation of Tolstoy's War and Peace, but by this point in his career the composer was irretrievably out of favour with the authorities and several of those 11 years were spent jumping through hoops to try and create an 'acceptable' version of the score. There's little doubt that Stalin would have found Alfred Schnittke's Life with an Idiot, written in the dying days of the Soviet Union, wholly unacceptable. The 'idiot' of the title is Vova, a heavily satirized representation of Lenin, capable of uttering just one sound: "Ekh!".
FRI 13:00 Afternoon Concert (b00wln13)
Summer Festivals 2010
Episode 5
This week Afternoon on 3 celebrates the riches and diversity of 2010's musical summer, with performances from leading festivals in Europe and beyond, by some of the world's great singers, instrumentalists and ensembles.
You can hear the best concerts from 25 festivals in fifteen countries - as far afield as Finland, Moldova and Canada. At the heart of the week will be concerts from top festivals in Austria and Switzerland, including the Martha Argerich Project in Lugano and Nikolaus Harnoncourt's Styriarte Festival in Graz. The Thursday Opera Matinee is Bellini's Norma, conducted by Fabio Biondi with his period-instrument ensemble Europa Galante at the Chopin and his Europe Festival in Warsaw. Large choral works will be a particular feature throughout the week - from Bach's B minor Mass through Haydn's Creation and Beethoven's Missa solemnis to Rachmaninov's Vespers and a celebration of Arvo Pärt's 75th birthday in his native Estonia.
Presented by Jonathan Swain
Joseph Haydn: Poco adagio from String Quartet in C, Op. 76/3 (Hob. III:77)
Casals Quartet
(Haydn Days Festival, Eisenstadt, Austria)
Smetana: Tabor and Blanik from Ma Vlast
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
(Styriarte Festival, Graz, Austria)
Enescu: Concertstück
Yuri Bashmet, viola
Martha Argerich, piano
(Martha Argerich Project, Lugano, Switzerland)
Michael Haydn: Notturno in G major
Budapest Strings
(Haydn at Eszterháza Festival, Fertöd, Hungary)
Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in G, Hob. XV.25 ('Gipsy Rondo')
Romanian Piano Trio
(Enescu and the Music of the World Festival, Sinaia, Romania)
Saint-Saens: Tarantella for Flute, Clarinet and Piano, Op. 6
The Berlin Philharmonic and West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Soloists:
Gili Schwarzman, flute
Shirley Brill, clarinet
Jonathan Aner, piano
(St Mark's Festival, Zagreb, Croatia)
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1945)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Mariss Jansons, conductor
(Robeco Summer Series, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Bizet: Jeux d'enfants (excerpts)
Jonathan Biss and Oliver Triendl, pianos
(Delft Chamber Music Festival, Netherlands)
Panufnik: Sinfonia elegiaca
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marek Mos, conductor
(Musica Polonica Nova Polish Contemporary Music Festival, Wroclaw, Poland)
Panufnik: Invocation for Peace
Gaudium Chorus of the University of Wroclaw
Cantilena Male Chamber Chorus
Marek Mos, conductor
(Musica Polonica Nova Polish Contemporary Music Festival, Wroclaw, Poland)
John Adams: Relaxed Groove, from Road Movies
(Queen Violin Festival, Chisinau, Moldova)
Beethoven: Missa solemnis
Simone Schneider, soprano
Gerhild Romberger, contralto
Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, tenor
Reinhard Hagen, bass
Collegium Vocale, Ghent
Coro dell'Accademia Chigiana
Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
Conductor Philippe Herreweghe
(Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, Warsaw, Poland).
FRI 17:00 Words and Music (b00sv6tr)
Awake!
A sequence of music, poetry and prose united by the theme of awakenings.
Including readings by Peter Marinker and Hattie Morahan from the work of Mary Shelley, A E Housman, Edward Thomas, Anne Bronte and Percy Bysshe Shelley. With music by Handel, Bach, Stravinsky and Britten.
FRI 18:15 New Generation Artists (b00wsv1z)
Benjamin Grosvenor, Alexandra Soumm, Escher String Quartet, Shabaka Hutchings
The Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme exists to provide support to some of the brightest talents in the world of classical music, and in the ten years of its existence has numbered artists such as the Belcea String Quartet, Paul Lewis, Janine Jansen, Natalie Clein and Alice Coote among its distinguished members.
In the final programme in our Christmas showcase, we hear studio performances by some of the scheme's current members, including tonight violinist Alexandra Soumm in Lutoslawski's Subito, the Escher String Quartet from the USA in Beethoven's F major Quartet, Op. 59 No.1 and Benjamin Grosvenor in the solo piano version of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
FULL PROGRAMME
Sousa arr. Horowitz: The Stars and Stripes forever
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Hutchings/Joseph
At Rest
Shabaka Hutchings (clarinet), Julian Joseph (piano)
Lutoslawski: Subito
Alexandra Soumm (violin), Aimo Pagin (piano)
Beethoven: String Quartet in F major, Op. 59 No. 1
Escher String Quartet
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano).
FRI 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00wln15)
BBC Proms 2010
Prom 55 - Jamie Cullum
From BBC PROMS 2010
Presented by John Shea.
Another chance to hear Jazz singer, songwriter and pianist Jamie Cullum from the Albert Hall in August. He's joined by the Heritage Orchestra to perform a set of classic numbers in this Late Night Prom. Cullum has spent the last 10 years forging his own unique brand of music, influenced by pop, rock and electronica, but always with jazz at its core. He is joined by the Heritage Orchestra - a 40-piece line-up originally formed to play at London's Cargo club, and always found at the cutting edge of boundary-crossing musical projects. Introduced from the stage by Suzy Klein.
FRI 20:30 Belief (b00wln17)
Bonnie Greer
Writer Bonnie Greer recalls how the nuns who educated her taught her to fight for social justice.
Presenter:Joan Bakewell
Producer:Dawn Bryan.
FRI 21:00 BBC Proms (b00wsv2r)
Prom 76
Last Night of the Proms
From the BBC Proms 2010
Presented by Sean Rafferty and Suzy Klein
Another chance to hear the traditional Last Night festivities as Jirí Belohlàvek and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform an evening of great music, vivid colour and occasional noises-off. Adding the solo glamour are American soprano Renée Fleming and Ukrainian born viola player Maxim Rysanov each acknowledged for the excellence of their music making as well as their on-stage elegance.
Known for her roles as great operatic heroines, Fleming sings a series of intimate songs by Richard Strauss and what is perhaps her signature piece - Rusalka's romantic entreaty to the moon. Rysanov, a current Radio 3 New Generation Artist, performs his own arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme and movements from Vaughan Williams rarely-heard Viola Suite.
Other works include the premiere of Jonathan Dove's joyous setting of a poem by Walt Whitman, Tchaikovsky's sun-drenched homage to Italy and there's an opportunity for the combined forces of the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus to shine in Parry's much loved choral ode. All this and the traditional Last Night fare make this one of the musical highlights of the year.
Jonathan Dove: A Song of Joys (BBC Commission - world premiere)
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio italien
Tchaikovsky arr. Rysanov: Variations on a Rococo Theme
Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens
R. Strauss: Verführung, Op. 33. No. 1
R. Strauss: Freundliche Vision, Op. 48 No. 1
R. Strauss: Ständchen, Op. 17 No. 2
R. Strauss: Winterweihe, Op. 48. No. 4
R. Strauss: Zueignung, Op. 10 No. 1
Chabrier: Joyeuse Marche
Smetana: Dalibor - "Dobra! Já mu je dam! ... Jak je mi?"
Dvorak: Rusalka - Song to the Moon
Vaughan Williams: Suite for viola and small orchestra - Prelude; Galop
Wagner: Lohengrin - Bridal Chorus
Rodgers & Hammerstein: Carousel - 'You'll never walk alone'
Trad, arr. Nic Raine: Fisher's Hornpipe
Arne arr. Sargent: Rule, Britannia!
Parry, orch. Elgar: Jerusalem
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major ('Land of Hope and Glory')
The National Anthem
Auld Lang Syne
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Maxim Rysanov (viola)
Jirí Belohlàvek (conductor).