Jonathan Swain presents the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performing Respighi and Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor (Op. 30)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lionel Bringuier (conductor)
Sonata (Op.1 No.5) in F major (HWV.363a) vers. oboe & bc
Louise Pellerin (oboe), Dom André Laberge (organ - 1999 Karl Wilhelm at the abbey church Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, Québec, Canada)
Myslivecek, Josef (1737-1781) (arr. ??)
Symphony No.102 in B flat major (H.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast. Music includes Thomas Tomkins's When David Heard, Malcolm Arnold's Sonatina for clarinet and piano, Benjamin Britten's French Folksongs and one of Alexander Borodin's Symphonic Poems.
Classical Collection with Sarah Walker: this week a selection of music inspired by the warming sun, Handel Oratorios; recordings by Vernon Handley.
Today's highlights include the Dublin version of Handel's Messiah, Tintagel by Arnold Bax, and piano music by Charles Alkan.
Mozart compl. Lowicky
"Some maintain his temper was very even, because he was always angry" - that's what the composer Adolphe Adam said about Luigi Cherubini, the man Beethoven named when asked the question, "who is the greatest composer in Europe - apart from you?" Italian by birth, from a modest background, he was singled out early by his prodigious talent, and by 18 he was completing his studies with Giuseppe Sarti, one of the leading Italian opera composers of the day. Operatic commissions followed, and before long he had won enough recognition to receive an invitation to become house composer at the King's Theatre in London's Haymarket. From here it was a short step to Paris, where Cherubini settled at the age of 25; he would remain there for the rest of his life, during which he came to bestride Parisian music like a colossus.
All week, Donald Macleod investigates the life and work of the man often spoken of as "an Italian composer writing German opera for a French audience". He begins by examining Cherubini's Italian roots, with two early choral pieces written under Sarti's tutelage. Then we follow him to London, where he discovers that the title "house composer" really means "house composer of pasticcios" - operatic patchworks stitched together from well-known arias. His one original opera for London, Il Giulio Sabino, was not a success - "murdered in its birth for want of the necessary support of capital singers", as Dr Burney put it. But his first international success was just five years away; Lodoïska was an instant smash in that most momentous of years, 1791, and went on to play to sell-out houses throughout Europe before eventually crossing the Atlantic to New York in 1826.
Live from London's Wigmore Hall the Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn, with pianist Julius Drake, performs two groups of songs by Tchaikovsky. Between them, the centrepiece of their recital is one of Shostakovich's last works, his settings of Six Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva. Fiona Talkington introduces the concert.
Tchaikovsky: T'was in the early spring; The fearful moment; The stars looked tenderly upon us; Had I only known
Tchaikovsky: Why?; My guardian, my angel, my friend; None but the lonely heart; Can it be day?
When BBC Radio 3 spends most of the summer at the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, its easy to lose sight of other festivals happening across Europe and beyond, and this week in Afternoon on 3 we will try to redress the balance, visiting 27 festivals across 16 countries, including Norway and Sweden, Germany and the USA. This week also has a Brahms focus, with a piece of his each day, starting today with his German Reqiuem, which also introduces another theme of "Choral" works across the week, culminating n Friday with Mendelssohn's Elijah. And there's an opportunity to hear some of the current crop of Early Music specialists across the week too.
Purcell: Welcome to all the pleasures, Ode to St Cecilia's Day Z. 339
Haydn: Symphony No. 44 in E minor 'Trauersinfonie'
Vivaldi: Spring from The Four Seasons, op. 8/1
Haydn: Keyboard Concerto in D, Hob. XVIII/11
With a selection of music and guests from the music world including early music ensemble La Serenissima directed by violinist Adrian Chandler who join Sean Rafferty to talk about their upcoming concert at Cadogan Hall, a programme which features Vivaldi concertos.
Plus celebrated flautists Sir James Galway and Lady Jeanne Galway perform live in the In Tune studio and talk to Sean about their concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields later in the month.
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Period band the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment throw their focus forward to the late 19th Century and works by three of the great late romantic composers. Sarah Connolly is the soloist in Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer, youthful musings on love and nature, some of which he reworked into his First Symphony while the Totenfeier which follows it became the opening movement of his Second Symphony. Surrounding these are two preludes: Wagner's lushly romantic Prelude to his opera Parsifal and Liszt's poetically inspired tone poem.
Followed by the next instalment of the Wigmore Hall's continuing decade by decade exploration of 100 years of German song. This week we reach the 1840s and music by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Loewe
Rarely if ever is it possible to mention Night Waves and Roman Abramovich in the same breath, but this Monday evening is one of those exceptions. The owner of Chelsea Football Club is sponsoring a season of plays in the West End, including Chekhov's Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, and Philip Dodd will be discussing how a contemporary Russian company tackles these masterpieces with Paul Allain and Michael Pennington. There'll also be an interview with the philosopher, John Gray, on our desire and search for immortality, and that inveterate explorer of dreams, memories and the supernatural, the artist Susan Hiller, will be talking about her retrospective at Tate Britain. That's all in Night Waves with Philip Dodd here on BBC Radio 3 at the usual time of nine fifteen.
Five writers were invited to explore the meaning of clothes and accessories in a particular work of art, be it a story, novel, film, painting or song lyric. How does the clothing resonate? What is the tale behind its depiction? Would the writer wear the garment themselves? Suits and dresses, coats and jewels, and even rags, all feature in accounts by a variety of commentators...
1. Novelist Tracy Chevalier considers how a set of sparkling stones tease in Guy de Maupassant's famous story - The Necklace.
Jez Nelson presents the great South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo at a special concert in celebration of his 70th birthday. A founding member of legendary South African jazz groups The Blue Notes and The Brotherhood of Breath, Moholo-Moholo became a influential figure in the British jazz scene when he came to London in exile from apartheid during the mid-sixties. This concert sees him in a rare reunion duo with pianist Keith Tippett and a full ensemble including Jason Yarde, Henry Lowther and John Edwards. He also talks to Jez Nelson looking back over his eventful career.
TUESDAY 25 JANUARY 2011
TUE 01:00 Through the Night (b00xnfpy)
Jonathan Swain presents a concert by the Kungsbacka Trio with music by Haydn, and brother and sister - Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn
1:01 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Trio for piano and strings (H.
15.27) in C major
Kungsbacka Piano Trio
1:19 AM
Mendelssohn, Fanny [1805-1847]
Trio for piano and strings (Op.11) in D minor
Kungsbacka Piano Trio
1:43 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Trio for piano and strings no. 1 (Op.49) in D minor
Kungsbacka Piano Trio
2:11 AM
Rautavaara, Einojuhani (b. 1928)
Cantus Arcticus - 'a concerto for birds and orchestra' (Op.61) (1972)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
2:29 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat (K595)
Steven Osborne (piano), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi (conductor)
3:01 AM
Desprez, Josquin (1440-1521)
Miserere
Camerata Silesia, Anna Szostak (conductor)
3:16 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
A Charm of lullabies for mezzo-soprano and piano (Op.41)
Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
3:29 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
String Quintet in G minor (K.516)
Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Jessica Linnebach (violin), Jethro Marks (viola), Donnie Deacon (viola), Amanda Forsyth (cello)
4:06 AM
Gabrieli, Andrea (c.1533-1586)
Canzon Arioso
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)
4:09 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Overture: Der Fliegende Holländer ('The Flying Dutchman')
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
4:21 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
10 Variations on 'La stessa, la stessissima' for piano, from Salieri's 'Falstaff' (WoO.73)
Theo Bruins (piano)
4:32 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Dances of the Furies - ballet music from 'Orphée et Euridice'
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
4:36 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Ballet music: 'Dances of the Blessed Spirits' - from 'Orphée et Euridice'
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
4:44 AM
Paganini, Niccolo (1782-1840)
Perpetuum Mobile (Op.11 No.2)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Nello Santi (conductor)
4:49 AM
Handel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759)
Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Sion (Messiah)
Marita Kvarving Sølberg (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Kjetil Haugsand (conductor)
4:54 AM
Anonymous (12th century English)
Dance
Margaret Tindermans (fiddle)
4:56 AM
Kroll, William (1901-1980)
Banjo and Fiddle
Moshe Hammer (violin), Valerie Tryon (piano)
5:01 AM
Lauber, Joseph (1864-1952)
Sonata Fantasia in una parte for flute & piano (Op.50)
Marianne Keller Stucki (flute), Agathe Rytz-Jaggi (piano)
5:14 AM
Roussel, Albert (1869-1937)
Coeur en péril, Op.50, No.1
Ola Eliasson (baritone), Mats Jansson (piano)
5:17 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Trio for piano and strings (Op. 50) in A minor
Grieg Trio (Norway)
6:04 AM
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937)
20 Mazurkas for piano (Op. 50); no. 1 in E major; no 2; no. 13
Ashley Wass (piano)
6:12 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Mazurkas (No.1 in G major, Op.50/1; No.2 in C minor, Op.56/3; No.5 in A flat major, Op.17/3; No.4 in A minor, Op.17/4; No.5 in C Major, Op.67/3; No.6 in C major, Op.56/2)
Sana Villerusa (piano)
6:30 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Bastien and Bastienne, K.50: overture
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
6:33 AM
Röntgen, Julius (1855-1932)
Piano Trio in C minor (Op.50 No.4) (1904) for violin, cello and piano
Alexander Kerr (violin), Gregor Horsch (cello), Sepp Grotenhuis (piano)
6:53 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924) transcribed and arranged G. Littera
Pavane (Andante molto moderato) in F minor (Op.50) arr. for harmonica and orchestra
Gianluca Littera (harmonica), I Cameristi Italiani.
TUE 07:00 Breakfast (b00xnfq0)
Tuesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast. Music includes a Rhapsodie for piano by Brahms, an aria from Handel's Giulio Cesare, and music for clarinet and piano by John Novacek.
TUE 10:00 Classical Collection (b00xnfq2)
Tuesday - Sarah Walker
Classical Collection with Sarah Walker: this week a selection of music inspired by the warming sun, Handel Oratorios; recordings by Vernon Handley.
Today's highlights include an Irish Rhapsody by Stanford from Vernon Handley, a Group of 3 fishing-inspired songs from Schubert sung by Christa Ludwig, Edith Mathis and Elly Ameling, Handel's ground-breaking Israel in Egypt from John Eliot Gardiner and Bach from Andrew Manze.
10.00
Bach
Concerto for two violins, BWV1060
Andrew Manze & Rachel Podger (violins)
Academy of Ancient Music
Andrew Manze (director/violin)
Harmonia Mundi HMU 907155
10.13
Tchaikovsky
Romance, Op.5
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
REGIS RRC1354
10.20
Handel
He has his mansion fix'd on high...Hallelujah, your voices raise (The Occasional Oratorio, Act II)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
The Choristers and Choir of the The King's Consort
The King's Consort
Robert King (conductor)
HYPERION CDA66961/2
10.28
Farkas
Antique Hungarian Dances
Frosunda Wind Quintet
BIS-CD-136
10.38
Stanford
Irish Rhapsody No.4 in A minor, Op.141
The Fisherman of Loch Neagh and what he saw
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN7002/3
10.56
Group of 3: Fishing-related songs by Schubert
Schubert
Die Forelle, D550
Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano)
Gerald Moore (piano)
EMI CMS764074-2
Schubert
Liebhaber in allen Gestalten, D558
Edith Mathis (soprano)
Graham Johnson (piano)
HYPERION CDJ33021
Schubert
Fischerweise, D881
Elly Ameling (soprano)
Dalton Baldwin (piano)
PHILIPS 420 870-2
11.05
Albinoni
Concerto a cinque in F
Maurice Andre (trumpet)
Bernard Soustrot (trumpet)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
EMI CES 569140-2
11.18
Nielsen
Helios Overture, Op.17
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
EMI CZS 569758-2
11.20
Handel
Israel in Egypt, HWV54: excerpt
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
PHILIPS 432 110-2
11.48
Saint-Saens
Phaeton, Op.39
Philharmonia Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor)
DECCA 414 460-2.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00xnfq4)
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Episode 2
Donald Macleod continues his exploration of the life and work of Luigi Cherubini with a look at what are probably his two most influential operas - Medée and Les deux journées. Better known in its truncated Italian version, Medée first saw the light of day on 13 March 1797 at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris. With a plot that makes Fatal Attraction look like a lovers' tiff, it proved strong meat for Parisian audiences, who in those Revolutionary times already had a surfeit of gut-wrenching carnage in their day-to-day lives, and didn't need more of it served up in the theatre. It never really took off in Cherubini's day, although it was hugely respected by other composers, including Beethoven, who owned a score of it, and later Brahms, who called it "the work we musicians recognise among ourselves as the highest piece of dramatic art". It languished for the first half of the 20th-century until in 1953, Maria Callas performed it in Florence, under the baton of a young Leonard Bernstein, and it's her demonic performance - albeit of an inauthentic version - that reawakened interest in the work. By contrast, Les deux journées - or The Water-Carrier, as it became known outside France - was immediately successful. With its message of social and political reconciliation, conveyed simply and directly, it was to remain a fixture in the international repertory for most of the 19th century.
TUE 13:00 Afternoon Concert (b00xngxc)
Summer Festivals - Europe and Beyond
Episode 2
Vivaldi: Summer, from The Four Seasons, op. 8/2
Ani Kavafian, violin
Daniel Ching, violin
Sandy Yamamoto, violin
John Largess, viola
Joshua Gindele, cello
Scott Pingel, bass
Inon Barnatan, harpsichord
1.20pm
Brahms: Sonata for Two Pianos in F minor, op. 34b
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Tamara Stefanovich, piano
Ole Bull: Cantabile Doloroso and Rondo Giocoso
Eldbjørg Hemsing, violin
Members of the Oslo and Vertavo String Quartets
2.15pm
Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces
Latvia State Chorus
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra
Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, arranged for harp and orchestra
Xavier de Maistre, harp
Camerata Bern
Antje Weithaas, conductor
3.15pm
Vierne: Piano Quintet, op. 42 ('In memory of my son Jacques')
Philippe Cassard, piano
Danish Quartet
4.00pm
Rachmaninov, arr Respighi: Five Etudes-Tableaux
La Mer et les mouettes in A minor op. 39/2
La Foire op. 33/4
Marche funèbre in C minor op. 39/7
Le Chaperon rouge et le loup in A minor op. 39/6
Marche in D op. 39/9
National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia
Vladimir Spivakov, conductor
Rigel: The Exodus from Egypt (oratorio)
Andreas Wolf, bass-baritone (Moses, Second Israelite Man)
Eugénie Warnier, soprano (An Israelite Woman)
Camille Merckx, contralto (Second Israelite Woman)
Matthias Vidal, tenor (First Israelite Man)
Les Eléments Chorus
Le Cercle de l'Harmonie
Jérémie Rhorer, conductor.
TUE 17:00 In Tune (b00xnfq8)
Sean Rafferty talks to conductor Esa- Pekka Salonen about his upcoming Bartok project with the Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall later this week.
Soprano Emma Kirkby will also join Sean in the studio, to talk about her involvement in a concert to celebrate conductor Roy Goodman's 60th birthday at St John Smith's Square.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
TUE 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00xnfqb)
Live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast
Kodaly, Copland
Live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast
Presented by Martin Handley
Kodály devoted much time to collecting and arranging folk music of his native Hungary and in his Marosszék Dances he uses tunes collected in Szekely region of the country to give the work its colour. The local colour in Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto isn't folk but jazz which infuses the work's second movement.
After the interval the American conductor puts the orchestra through their paces as they perform in the classical contours of Brahms's mighty 2nd Symphony.
Kodály: Marosszék Dances
Copland: Clarinet Concerto
Robert Plane (clarinet)
Ulster Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta (conductor).
TUE 19:35 Twenty Minutes (b00p31x4)
The Imperial Mathematician and the Moon
It's just over 400 years since the publication of the first modern European story of a trip to the moon - astronomer Johannes Kepler's astonishing science fiction novella Somnium (The Dream), written in the summer of 1609 in Prague. Kepler had no rockets in his dream world - he had to call on demons to overcome the immense forces of interplanetary travel, encouraging passengers to arrange their limbs carefully so they weren't ripped apart at lift off! He didn't choose Cape Canaveral but Iceland for his moon base, inspired by stories of volcanoes and lost souls. He imagined a moon world full of huge, fast-growing serpent-like creatures, but he wasn't writing the Renaissance equivalent of a B-Movie!
In 1609 Kepler was at the height of his powers, publishing his laws of planetary motion which would help take us to the moon. But he was also man with dangerous ideas. Just like Galileo, Kepler supported the new astronomy which put the Sun at the centre of the solar system, instead of a static Earth. Kepler's story was a mind-blowing thought experiment, to shift the reader's frame of reference to the Moon, so they could see that Earth never stood still. But unlike Galileo, it wasn't his own life he endangered with his ideas - it was his mother's. Bad tempered old herbalist Katharina Kepler was far too much like the Icelandic demon summoner and space-travel specialist of the story - Fiolxhilde with her astronomer son. When a neighbourhood quarrel left Katharina accused of witchcraft, people turned to manuscript copies of the Somnium and thought 'Aha! See, even her own son says so!' A horrified Kepler rushed to her rescue. Did he get there in time?
TUE 19:55 Performance on 3 (b00y4y6q)
Live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast
Brahms
Live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast
Presented by Martin Handley
Kodály devoted much time to collecting and arranging folk music of his native Hungary and in his Marosszék Dances he uses tunes collected in Szekely region of the country to give the work its colour. The local colour in Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto isn't folk but jazz which infuses the work's second movement.
After the interval the American conductor puts the orchestra through their paces as they perform in the classical contours of Brahms's mighty 2nd Symphony.
Brahms: Symphony no.2
Robert Plane (clarinet)
Ulster Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta (conductor).
TUE 21:15 Night Waves (b00xngmn)
Biutiful, Lizzie Collingham, Jerusalem Biography, Laughter
Javier Bardem is one of the biggest names in contemporary cinema and Matthew Sweet is joined by the criitic Muriel Zagha to assess his performance in Biutiful, the film that's hotly tipped to win the Oscar for a foreign language film this year.
The historian Lizzie Collingham explains how Nazi Germany's desire to be self-sufficient in food production drove both its expansion plan and some of the worst atrocities committed during the conflict.
Author Simon Sebag Montefiore talks to Matthew about his new biography of Jerusalem and the light it casts on the Balfour declaration and British Zionism in the 20th century.
And would politics be healthier if our leaders all laughed a little more? Is there more to laughter than temporary pleasure? Psychoanalyst Chris Hauke and philosopher Giles Fraser join Matthew for a bit of a giggle with Antonia Baehr, whose new show, Laugh, opens in London tomorrow.
Producer: Lisa Davis.
TUE 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00xnfq4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 23:00 The Essay (b00xngmq)
Listener, They Wore It
Justin Cartwright
Five writers were invited to explore the meaning of clothes and accessories in a particular work of art, be it a story, novel, film, painting or song lyric. How does the clothing resonate? What is the tale behind its depiction? Would the writer wear the garment themselves? Suits and dresses, coats and jewels, and even rags, all feature in accounts by a variety of commentators...
2. Novelist Justin Cartwright thinks about corporate America, and how it is vividly caught in the novel, The Man in The Grey Flannel Suit.
Producer Duncan Minshull.
TUE 23:15 World on 3 (b00xwj3q)
World on 3 at Celtic Connections 2011
Episode 1
Mary Ann Kennedy live from Glasgow at the world's biggest winter music festival. The first of four Late Night Sessions, with a top line-up of festival artists and also recorded concert highlights.
Celtic Connections is held in 14 venues over 18 days, with between 7 and 25 concerts and other events each day, involving 1500 artists from over 30 countries. Scots and Irish Celtic music is at the centre of the festival, but it has always embraced the music of the Celtic cultures of the USA, Canada, France and Spain, together with the closely connected cultures of Scandinavia and eastern Europe , and in recent years has also connected with traditions across Africa and Asia. The concerts range from the most traditional to the most experimental, all brought together in the context of one of the world's liveliest folk cultures, with a never-ending stream of young Scottish musicians who are reinventing their own traditions for their own time.
For the past two years, World on 3 has hosted some of the Festival's Late Night Sessions at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall. These start late, and finish early, usually well into the next day. Bands often come straight from a concert in a main venue to play at the Sessions. World on 3 hosts the Late Night Sessions for four nights during the final week of the Festival, from Tuesday 25th until Friday 28th January.
Artist line-up:
Furnace Mountain - Appalachian mountain music from Virginia USA
Rosanne Cash - Grammy Award-winning daughter of the great Johnny Cash
Laura Cantrell - Country singer from Nashville, Tennessee
Lorne MacDougall - brilliant young piper from Argyll, Scotland
With highlights from the main-stage concert by Senegalese star Cheikh Lo.
WEDNESDAY 26 JANUARY 2011
WED 01:00 Through the Night (b00xnh1t)
Jonathan Swain introduces choral music by Arvo Part, Schumann's Piano Concerto and Nielsen's 5th Symphony
1:01 AM
Pärt, Arvo (b.1935)
1. The Deer's Cry; 2. Zwei Beter; 3. Most Holy Mother of God; 4. Da Pacem; 5. Morning Star
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier (director)
1:25 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Concerto for piano and orchestra (Op.54) in A minor (1845)
Olli Mustonen (piano), Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Eivind Aadland (conductor)
1:56 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Sonata in G minor for cello and piano (Op.65)
Claes Gunnarsson (cello), Roland Pöntinen (piano)
2:27 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Symphony no.5 (Op.50)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin (conductor)
3:01 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Quartet in G major (K.387)
Quattuor Mosaïques
3:29 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV.147 (cantata)
The Sixteen, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra (Barockformation), Ton Koopman (conductor)
4:00 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Tzigane - rapsodie de concert for violin and piano
Vineta Sareika (violin), Ventis Zilberts (piano)
4:11 AM
Wassenaer, Unico Wilhelm van (1692-1766)
Concerto No.5 in F minor (from Sei Concerti Armonici 1740)
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor)
4:21 AM
Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643)
Partite cento sopra il Passachagli
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
4:32 AM
Shearing, George (b. 1919)
Music to Hear (Five Shakespeare Songs)
Vancouver Chamber Choir, Peter Berring (piano), David Brown (double bass), Jon Washburn (director)
4:45 AM
Huggett, Andrew (b. 1955)
Suite for accordion and piano - 4 pieces based on East Canadian folksongs
Joseph Petric (accordion), Guy Few (piano)
5:01 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Introduction and waltz from 'Eugene Onegin' - lyric scenes in 3 acts (Op.24)
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
5:09 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)
5:18 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
St. Matthew Passion - Opening Chorus (BWV.244:1)
Hungarian Radio Choir, Hungarian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor)
5:27 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Trio Sonata in D minor (Op.1 No.12) 'La Folia' (1705)
Florilegium
5:37 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Sarcasmes (Op.17)
Roger Woodward (piano)
5:47 AM
Hellendaal, Pieter (1721-1799)
Sonata no.8 in G for cello and continuo (Op.5) from 'Eight solos for the violincello with a thorough bass'
Jaap ter Linden (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Ageet Zweistra (cello continuo)
5:57 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Svarta rosor (Op.36 No.1); Säv, sav, susa (Op.36 No.4); Klickan kom ifran sin äls klings möte (Op.37 No.5); Varen flyktar hastigt (Op.13 No.4)
Jard van Nes (mezzo soprano), Gérard van Blerk (piano)
6:06 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
String Octet (Op.20) in E flat major
Kodály Quartet , Bartók String Quartet
6:35 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Symphony no.8 (D.759) in B minor 'Unfinished'
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Markus Lehtinen (conductor).
WED 07:00 Breakfast (b00xnh1w)
Wednesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch shares her personal choice of music. The Netherlands Chamber Choir perform Poulenc's Salve Regina, Christian Zacharias performs Schumann's Introduction and Allegro appassionato, and Gábor Tarkövi performs Haydn's Trumpet Concerto.
WED 10:00 Classical Collection (b00xnh1y)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker
Classical Collection with Sarah Walker: this week a selection of music inspired by the warming sun, Handel Oratorios; recordings by Vernon Handley.
Today's highlights include Vernon Handley conducting Bantock, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson singing Handel, Brahms' Clarinet Quintet and Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream overture.
10.00
Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op.46
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 474 269-2
10:14
Bach arr. Montero
Two-Part Invention in D minor, BWV775
Gabriela Montero (piano)
EMI 367359-2
10.19
Bantock
The Third Day (The Song of Songs)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67395
10.25
Handel
Ah! Whither should we fly... As with rosy steps the morn (Theodora)
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Harry Bicket (conductor)
AVIE AV0030
10.35
Brahms
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115
Berlin Soloists
WARNER APEX 0927 44350-2
11.10
Anon
Jota (improvisation on a theme from the Saldivar codice) Hesperion XXI
Jordi Savall (director)
Alia Vox AV 9834
11.14
Handel
Theodora: Part 2, scene 2
Susan Gritton (soprano)
Gabrieli Consort and Players
Paul McCreesh (director)
ARCHIV 469 061-2
11.24
Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture Op.21
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 423 104-2
11.37
The Wednesday Award-winner
Faure
Fantaisie, Op.111
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)
DECCA 417 583-2.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00xnh20)
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Episode 3
Donald Macleod continues his exploration of the life and work of Luigi Cherubini with a look at a pair of major international commissions the composer undertook in 1805 and 1815, interspersed by a long period of depression during which he gave up composition completely and devoted himself to botany and painting. But in the summer of 1805, Cherubini packed himself, his wife and their young daughter Zenobie, a babe in arms of three months, into a horse-drawn coach and spent 32 days travelling from Paris to Vienna by way of Chalons, Verdun, Metz, Mannheim, Frankfurt, Cassel, Berlin, Dresden and Prague - all this at a time when Europe was ablaze with Napoleonic conflict. In fact Cherubini reached Vienna just ahead of the Great Dictator, who on his arrival promptly put him in charge of a prestigious series of concerts! Cherubini had been invited to Vienna to compose two new operas. In the event he only completed one, Faniska, but there were other compensations, including meetings with Beethoven - who was reportedly grumpy - and Haydn, who may have been amused to learn that Cherubini had recently penned a major work in commemoration of the Viennese master's death, which had been falsely reported in a London newspaper the previous year. It was London that beckoned Cherubini in 1815, with a commission for three works from the newly formed Philharmonic Society. None of them have gained a firm foothold in the repertoire, but Cherubini's Symphony, which has been championed by Italians of the stature of Arturo Toscanini and Riccardo Muti, deserves to be heard more often.
WED 13:00 Afternoon Concert (b00xnh2j)
Summer Festivals - Europe and Beyond
Episode 3
Emanuel Ax is the piano soloist in Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto, and there's Choral music from Estonian Arvo Pärt - his Berlin Mass - as well as a Bach Solo Cello Suite from an exciting young German cellist, Julian Steckel. As well as Elgar from Aspen, Colorado and Telemann from Portugal.
Presented by Penny Gore
Schumann: Overture to "Scenes from Goethe's Faust"
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Nott, conductor
Elgar: Violin Sonata in E minor op. 82
James Ehnes, violin
Andrew Armstrong, piano
Pärt: Adam's Lament
Latvian Radio Chorus
Stockholm Sinfonietta
Tönu Kaljuste, conductor
2.00pm
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat op. 83
Emanuel Ax, piano
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marek Janowski, conductor
Schumann: Fantasiestück for Cello and Piano op. 73/1
Julian Steckel, cello
Emanuel Ax, piano
J.S. Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV 1009
Julian Steckel, cello
3.20pm
Pärt: Berliner Messe
Latvian Radio Chorus
Stockholm Sinfonietta
Tönu Kaljuste, conductor
Telemann: Overture burlesque in B flat
Atalanta Fugiens Ensemble
Vanni Moretto, conductor.
WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (b00xnh24)
St Paul's Cathedral
From St Paul's Cathedral.
Introit: Behold how good and joyful a thing it is (Vann)
Responses: Moore
Psalms: 21, 29 (Harris, Ley)
First Lesson: Isaiah 61 vv1-7
Canticles: Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense (Leighton)
Second Lesson: Luke 10 vv1-9
Anthem: Te Deum (Elgar)
Hymn: Give me the wings of faith (Song 67)
Organ Voluntary: Allegro risoluto from Organ Symphony No 2 (Vierne)
Andrew Carwood (Director of Music)
Simon Johnson (Organist & Assistant Director of Music).
WED 17:00 In Tune (b00xnh2l)
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With live music from South African double-bassist Leon Bosch and Croatian-born pianist Dejan Lazic, both with upcoming concerts (respectively) in London and Manchester.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
WED 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00xnh4g)
London Philharmonic Orchestra - Franck, Faure
Presented by Martin Handley
Belgian born composer Cesar Franck's reputation largely rests on a small number of compositions, most of them written towards the end of his life of which the Symphony in D minor is perhaps the most famous orchestral work.
Fauré's Requiem is not only his most famous work but among the most popular of all classical pieces Its setting of the Latin Requiem mass contains beautiful music including the famous soprano Pie Jesu and the final tranquil In Paradisum, as Faure himself said the work "does not express the fear of death and someone has called it a lullaby of death".
Franck: Symphony in D minor
Fauré: Requiem
Sally Matthews (soprano)
Gerald Finley (baritone)
London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Seguin (conductor)
Followed by the next instalment of the Wigmore Hall's continuing decade by decade exploration of 100 years of German song. This week we reach the 1840s and music by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Loewe
Roman Trekel (baritone)
Malcolm Martineau (piano).
WED 21:15 Night Waves (b00xnh4j)
Free Thinking 2010
Academics and the Media: Friends or Foes?
Rana Mitter hosts a debate at Radio 3's Free Thinking festival: Academics and the Media: Friends or Foes?
BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) are joining forces to find the next generation of public intellectuals. Together they're launching New Generation Thinkers, a talent scheme for emerging academics with a passion for communicating the excitement of modern scholarship to a wider audience. The selected researchers will benefit from a unique opportunity to develop their own programme for BBC Radio 3 and appear on air in special New Generation Thinkers debates.
To get the New Generation Thinkers search underway, Rana Mitter, Night Waves presenter and Professor of the History of Modern China joins Professor Rick Rylance, head of the AHRC, and a panel that includes former Channel 4 commissioning editor Tim Kirby and the historian of academics on TV Jon Conlin to debate this tricky relationship.
Is the media really the fabled opportunity for academics to reach millions beyond the lecture hall that it is meant to be? Or, in reality, does it involve compromises that reduce scholarship to little more than glorified story-telling? Are academics and the media, friends or foes?
Recorded in front of an audience at the Sage Gateshead as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking festival of ideas.
Producer: Kirsty Pope.
WED 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00xnh20)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 23:00 The Essay (b00xwjc3)
Listener, They Wore It
Laura Cumming
Five writers were invited to explore the meaning of clothes and accessories in a particular work of art, be it a story, novel, film, painting or song lyric. How does the clothing resonate? What is the tale behind its depiction? Would the writer wear the garment themselves? Suits and dresses, coats and jewels, and even rags, all feature in accounts by a variety of commentators...
3 The art critic Laura Cumming ponders a particular black dress,
memorably painted by John Singer Sargent in the 1880's...
Producer Duncan Minshull.
WED 23:15 World on 3 (b00xwj43)
World on 3 at Celtic Connections 2011
Episode 2
Mary Ann Kennedy live from Glasgow at the world's biggest winter music festival.
Celtic Connections is held in 14 venues over 18 days, with between 7 and 25 concerts and other events each day, involving 1500 artists from over 30 countries. Scots and Irish Celtic music is at the centre of the festival, but it has always embraced the music of the Celtic cultures of the USA, Canada, France and Spain, together with the closely connected cultures of Scandinavia and eastern Europe , and in recent years has also connected with traditions across Africa and Asia. The concerts range from the most traditional to the most experimental, all brought together in the context of one of the world's liveliest folk cultures, with a never-ending stream of young Scottish musicians who are reinventing their own traditions for their own time.
For the past two years, World on 3 has hosted some of the Festival's Late Night Sessions at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall. These start late, and finish early, usually well into the next day. Bands often come straight from a concert in a main venue to play at the Sessions. World on 3 hosts the Late Night Sessions for four nights during the final week of the Festival, from Tuesday 25th until Friday 28th January.
Artist line-up:
Sigrid Moldestad - Norwegian singer whose latest album includes songs by Robert Burns
Fisherman's Friends - sea shanties and other songs from Cornwall's ten-man singing sensation
Seth Lakeman - Devon singer who has put English roots music on a new level
Halton Quartet - A coming together of two duos in a mellow jazz-inspired take on Celtic music
With highlights from the main-stage concert by Ladino singer Yasmin Levy.
THURSDAY 27 JANUARY 2011
THU 01:00 Through the Night (b00xnh53)
Jonathan Swain presents a concert of Liszt recorded at the Herne Early Music Festival
1:01 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Legende No.1: St Francois d'Assise prechant aux oiseaux (S.175)
Jos Van Immerseel (piano - instrument is an Erard of 1897)
1:11 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
La Notte (No.2 from 3 odes funebres)
Jos Van Immerseel (piano - instrument is an Erard of 1897)
1:22 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Wiegenlied (Chant du berceau) (1881)
Jos Van Immerseel (piano - instrument is an Erard of 1897)
1:26 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Nuages gris (1881)
Jos Van Immerseel (piano - instrument is an Erard of 1897)
1:28 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Am Grabe Richard Wagners (1883)
Jos Van Immerseel (piano - instrument is an Erard of 1897)
1:32 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
A la Chapelle Sixtine (Miserere de Allegri et Ave verum corpus de Mozart) (1862)
Jos Van Immerseel (piano - instrument is an Erard of 1897)
1:42 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Czárdás obstiné (1884)
Jos Van Immerseel (piano - instrument is an Erard of 1897)
1:45 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Abschied, russisches Volkslied (1885)
Jos Van Immerseel (piano - instrument is an Erard of 1897)
1:49 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Unstern! Sinistre, disastro (1881)
Jos Van Immerseel (piano - instrument is an Erard of 1897)
1:55 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Morgendammerung; Siegfried's Rheinfahrt; Siegfried's Tod und Trauermarsch; Finale from 'Götterdammerung'
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor)
2:25 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Quartet for strings (K.465) in C major 'Dissonance'
Jupiter Quartet
2:52 AM
Buck, Ole (b. 1945)
Two Faery Songs (1997): 'O shed no tear'; 'Ah! Woe is me!'
Danish National Radio Choir, Kaare Hansen (conductor)
3:01 AM
Moyzes, Alexander (1906-1984)
Symphony No.6 (Op.44)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava, Ladislav Slovak (conductor)
3:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata No.15 in C major (D.840)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
3:52 AM
atrributed Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Partita in E flat (K.Anh.C 17'1)
The Festival Winds
4:13 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Where'er you walk' Jupiter's air from Act II, Scene 3 of the opera 'Semele'
Matthew White (counter-tenor), Arte dei Suonatori, Eduardo Lopez (conductor)
4:18 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in E major (Andante comodo) (Kk.380)
Ivetta Irkha
4:22 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Act 2 of Orfeo ed Euridice
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Lovro von Matacic (conductor)
4:31 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Peer Gynt Suite No.1 (Op.46)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
4:48 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), arr. Kempff, Wilhelm (1895-1991)
Siciliano transc. Kempff for piano
Valerie Tryon (piano)
4:52 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Coriolan Overture
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Arvid Engegard (conductor)
5:01 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Overture to the 'King and the Charcoal Burner' (1874)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Robl (conductor)
5:09 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Te Deum in C major (Hob XXIIIc:1)
Netherlands Radio Choir and Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)
5:17 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Prelude - No.7 from Pieces for piano (Op.12)
Roger Woodward (piano)
5:20 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Matthew Rowe (conductor)
5:31 AM
Roussel, Albert (1869-1937)
Piano Trio in E flat major, Op.2 (1902)
Tale Olsson (violin), Johanna Sjunnesson (cello), Mats Jansson (piano)
6:00 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
32 Variations in C minor (WoO.80)
Irena Kobla (piano)
6:12 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
Variations on a Slovak Theme
Peter Jarusek (cello) , Daniela Varinska (piano)
6:23 AM
Förster, Kaspar Jr (1616-1673)
Sonata (ca 1660)
Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble
6:30 AM
Bach, Johann Christoph (1642-1703)
Meine Freundin, du bist schön
Maria Zedelius (soprano), David Cordier (alto), Paul Elliott (tenor), Michael Schopper (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
6:52 AM
Alpaerts, Flor (1876-1954)
Salome's Dans van de zeven sluiers (Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils)
Flemish Radio Orchestra , Bjarte Engeset (conductor).
THU 07:00 Breakfast (b00xnhm7)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with music to begin the day. A Verdi overture, music from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suite performed by the Philadephia Orchestra under Riccardo Muti, and a performance of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 by Apollo's Fire under Jeanette Sorrell are included in the programme.
THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b00xnhm9)
Thursday - Sarah Walker
Classical Collection with Sarah Walker: this week a selection of music inspired by the warming sun, Handel Oratorios; recordings by Vernon Handley.
Today's highlights include Let the bright Seraphim from Handel's Solomon, Delius' Song of Summer and Vaughan Williams' Wasps from Vernon Handley, and some ghostly goings-on in our Group of 3 and Thursday Light Music.
10.00
Handel
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Jaime Laredo (conductor)
IMP PCD 2001
10.03
Delius
A Song of Summer
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)
UNICORN-KANCHANA UKCD2072
10.13
Pacoloni
Pasemezzo, Saltarello, Padoana di Zorzi
I Fagiolini
Robert Hollingworth (director)
CHANDOS CHAN0665
10.16
Schumann
Carnaval, Op.9
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
PHILIPS 442 777-2
10.51
Toye
The Haunted Ballroom
New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp (conductor)
HYPERION CDS44261/4
11.00
Group of 3: The Supernatural
Grieg arr. Achron - Puck, Op.71 No.3
Bolcom - Graceful Ghost
Mendelssohn - Hexenlied, Op.8 No.8
Gil Shaham (violin)
Jonathan Feldman (piano)
DG 463 483-2
11.12
Vaughan Williams
The Wasps - Aristophanic Suite
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)
EMI CD-EMX9508
11.40
Bax
The Happy Forest
BBC Philharmonic
Vernon Handley (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN10446
11.46
Handel
Let the bright Seraphim (Samson)
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet)
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)
Coro COR16062.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00xnh4l)
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Episode 4
Donald Macleod continues his exploration of the music and life of Luigi Cherubini with a look of his extraordinary political flexibility - an essential survival skill in the looking-glass world of post-Revolutionary France. His Marche Funèbre is a case in point. Written in 1820 to commemorate the passing of the Duc du Berry, the second son of the man who four years later would become Charles X of France, this sombre march, so full of grief for its dedicatee, had had a previous incarnation, some 23 years earlier, as part of a funeral cantata on the death of Général Hoche - a French soldier who had risen to be General of the Revolutionary Army. And the composer who wrote his C minor Requiem to mourn the anniversary in 1816 of the execution of Louis XVI doubtless wouldn't have wished his aristocratic friends to be reminded that 20 years earlier he had conducted the choir at an official ceremony to celebrate the third anniversary of the demise of the same monarch. But such considerations didn't prevent Beethoven, Berlioz, Schumann and Brahms from regarding Cherubini's Requiem in C minor as best-in-class; and it even provided the soundtrack to Beethoven's funeral in 1827.
THU 13:00 Afternoon Concert (b00xnhmf)
Summer Festivals - Europe and Beyond
Episode 4
At
2pm today we are off to Wexford in Ireland for Smetana's 2 Act Comic Opera - The Kiss, and before then we are at festivals in Iceland and in Scotland. After the opera however, we cross the globe to South Korea's great Mountains Music Festival, before ending up closer to home in Smetana's home town - Prague at last summer's Early Music Festival there with music by Biber.
Vivaldi: Autumn from The Four Seasons, op. 8/3
Philip Setzer, violin
Daniel Ching, violin
Sandy Yamamoto, violin
John Largess, viola
Joshua Gindele, cello
Scott Pingel, bass
Inon Barnatan, harpsichord
Brahms: String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 51/2
Belcea Quartet
Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde:
Canzon a 2 tenori,
Balletti e Gagliarda a 2
Vestiva i Colli, basso & soprano passeggiato
S. Arnbjörg Stefánsdóttir, piccolo cello
Mathurin Matharel, bass violin
Brice Sailly, harpsichord
2pm
Smetana: The Kiss (folk opera in two acts after a story by Karolina Svetlá)
Paloucky, a peasant.......................Jirí Pribyl, bass-baritone
Vendulka, his daughter............Pumeza Matshikiza, soprano
Lukas, a young widower.........................Peter Berger, tenor
Tomes, brother-in-law of Lukas.......Pavel Baransky, baritone
Martinka, Vendulka's old aunt......Eliska Weissova, contralto
Matous, an old smuggler....................Bradley Smoak, bass
Barce, a servant girl................Ekaterina Bakanova, soprano
Strazník...........................................Robert Gardnier, tenor
Wexford Opera House Chorus and Orchestra,
Jaroslav Kyzlink, conductor
3.55pm
Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata in G minor, op. 19
Myung-Wha Chung, cello
Sunwook Kim, piano
Biber:
Partita No. 1 in D minor for Two Violins and Basso Continuo from 'Harmonia artificiosa-ariosa'
Harmonie Universelle
Shostakovich: Waltz for piano, clarinet & flute
Leto Ensemble.
THU 17:00 In Tune (b00xnhmh)
Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio by director David Poutney with a performance by tenor Paul Nilon ahead of Opera North's British premiere of Weinberg's 'The Portrait'.
Plus Sean will also talk to conductor Paul Daniel, soprano Claire Rutter and tenor Michael Fabiano ahead of their performance in the new English National Opera production of Donizetti's 'Lucrezia Borgia'.
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 (b00xnhn4)
LSO - Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky
Presented by Martin Handley
The LSO's principal conductor's passion for the music of his homeland is in evidence in this all-Russian programme of music written 100 years apart.
Tchaikovsky wrote his 1st Symphony in 1866, it is the composer's earliest notable work and is a piece the composer remained fond of, later claiming it had more substance than many of his more mature works. Shostakovich wrote his 2nd Violin Concerto in the spring of 1967 for the veteran violinist David Oistrakh - a role is taken tonight by the young Armenian Sergei Khachatryan who's performances of the composer's works have gained rave reviews.
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto no.2 in C sharp minor, op.129
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no.1 in G minor 'Winter Daydreams'
Sergei Khachatryan (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)
Followed by the next instalment of the Wigmore Hall's continuing decade by decade exploration of 100 years of German song. This week we reach the 1840s and music by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Loewe
Roman Trekel (baritone)
Malcolm Martineau (piano).
THU 21:00 Music Planet (b00xnhn6)
The Arctic
For this major series to accompany BBC One's 'Human Planet', Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran go in search of music from some of the world's remotest locations.. This week: the Arctic.
Greenland: Lucy greets the New Year with music, and hears the mighty voice of Greenland's greatest singer, Rasmus Lyberth.
Norway: Andy goes reindeer-herding under the midnight sun with Human Planet's May-Torril, who also happens to be an accomplished singer in the Sami tradition of yoiking.
Canada: Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq introduces us to her village in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, and sings the intensely soulful music of the western Inuit.
Siberia: Andy meets musicians from Yakutsk, the coldest city on earth, where long winter nights are whiled away with the help of a Jew's harp.
Producers Roger Short and James Parkin.
THU 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00xnh4l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 23:00 The Essay (b00xwjcd)
Listener, They Wore It
Peter Bradshaw
Five writers were invited to explore the meaning of clothes and accessories in a particular work of art, be it a story, novel, film, painting or song lyric. How does the clothing resonate? What is the tale behind its depiction? Would the writer wear the garment themselves? Suits and dresses, coats and jewels, and even rags, all feature in accounts by a variety of commentators...
4. The critic Peter Bradshaw tells us about two red coats,
worn with sadness and with menace in the classic film, Don't
Look Now.
Producer Duncan Minshull.
THU 23:15 World on 3 (b00xwj4h)
World on 3 at Celtic Connections 2011
Episode 3
Mary Ann Kennedy live from Glasgow at the world's biggest winter music festival. The third of four Late Night Sessions, with a top line-up of festival artists and also recorded concert highlights.
Artist line-up:
Blazin Fiddles - Scottish regional styles in contemporary arrangements
Rachel Sermanni - 19-year-old Scottish singer-songwriter
The Poozies - all-girl band who have lit up the Scots scene for many a year
Red Hot Chilli Pipers - all-boy band, the pioneers of bagrock
With highlights from the main-stage concert by Argentinian-Spanish tango band Otros Aires.
FRIDAY 28 JANUARY 2011
FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b00xnkwh)
Jonathan Swain presents the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in Concert. Till Fellner performs Beethoven's first piano concerto followed by Brahms' second symphony
1:01 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 (Op.15) in C major
Till Fellner (piano) Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano (conductor)
1:34 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Symphony no. 2 (Op.73) in D major
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano (conductor)
2:20 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
String Quartet in F major
Bartók Quartet
2:48 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707)
Ihr lieben Christen, freut euch nun, BuxWV 51
Marieke Steenhoek (soprano) Miriam Meyer (soprano) Bogna Bartosz (contralto) Marco van de Klundert (tenor) Klaus Mertens (bass) Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Chorus, Ton Koopman (conductor)
3:01 AM
Engel, Jan (?-1788)
Symphony in G major
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Straszynski (conductor)
3:18 AM
Reicha, Anton (1770-1836)
Oboe Quintet in F major (Op.107)
Les Adieux
3:47 AM
Kutev, Filip (1903-1982)
Pastoral for flute and orchestra (1943)
Lidia Oshavkova (flute), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dimitar Manolov (conductor)
3:58 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Children's Corner
Roger Woodward (piano)
4:16 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
Hill-Song No.1
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
4:30 AM
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736)
Sonata in G major for violin and piano
Peter Michalica (violin), Elena Michalicova (piano)
4:38 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Love Scene - from the opera 'Feuersnot' (Op.50)
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
4:47 AM
Matteis, Nicola (died c.1707)
L'Amore (Love)
Elizabeth Wallfisch (Baroque violin), Linda Kent (chamber organ)
4:51 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Trio No.6 from Essercizii Musici, for Transverse Flute, Viola da Gamba, and continuo
Camerata Köln
5:01 AM
Bruch, Max (1838-1920) (arr. unknown)
Allegro vivace ma non troppo in C major - No.7 from Pieces for clarinet, viola/cello & piano (harp) (Op.83) arr. for violin, cello & piano
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
5:05 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Mazurka - from the idyll 'Jawnuta' (1850)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Salwarowski (conductor)
5:11 AM
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
La Gitana (after an 18th century Arabo-Spanish Gypsy song) for violin and piano
Tobias Ringborg (violin), Anders Kilström (piano)
5:15 AM
Holst, Gustav (1874-1934)
Ave Maria
Chamber Choir AVE, Andraz Hauptman (conductor)
5:21 AM
Martucci, Giuseppe (1856-1909)
Noveletta (Op.82 No.2)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Nello Santi (conductor)
5:28 AM
Kirnberger, Johann Philipp (1721-1783)
Sonata in C major for flute & basso continuo
Konrad Hünteler (flute), Wouter Möller (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
5:38 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Danse macabre (Op.40) transcribed for 2 pianos by the composer
Ouellet-Murray Duo: Claire Ouellet & Sandra Murray (pianos)
5:45 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Orpheus - Symphonic poem (1853-4)
Hungarian State Orchestra, János Ferencsik (conductor)
5:57 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828);
String Quartet No.6 in D major (D.74)
Quartetto Bernini
6:21 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Gott, wie gross ist deine Güte (BWV.462); Dich bet' ich an, mein höchster Gott (BWV.449); Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen (BWV.452); O liebe Seele, zieh' die Sinnen (BWV.494); Vergiss mein nicht, mein allerliester Gott (BWV.505); Ich halte treulich still und liebe meinen Gott (BWV.466)- 6 Chorales from the Schemelli Collection
Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano) , Marco Fink (bass baritone) , Domen Marincic (gamba), Dalibor Miklavcic (organ)
6:33 AM
Kodály, Zoltán
Dances of Galanta (orig. for orchestra)
Adam Fellegi (piano)
6:49 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
La Gazza Ladra - Overture
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor).
FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b00xnkx4)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast. Music includes overtures by Gershwin, Weber and Wagner, Praeludium and Allegro for violin and piano by Kreisler, and Suite No. 8 in A major for harpsichord by Johann Jakob Froberger.
FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b00xnkx6)
Friday - Sarah Walker
Classical Collection with Sarah Walker: this week a selection of music inspired by the warming sun, Handel Oratorios; recordings by Vernon Handley.
Today's highlights include Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, virtuoso singing from Hermann Prey as Rossini's Barber of Seville, and Nigel Kennedy performing Elgar's Violin Concerto.
10.00
Ravel
Alborada del gracioso
Orchestre de Paris
Jean Martinon (conductor)
EMI 500892-2
10.08
Handel
As steals the morn upon the night (L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)
Susan Gritton (soprano)
Paul Agnew (tenor)
King's Consort
Robert King (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67283/4
10.17
Mendelssohn
Octet, Op.20
Christian Tetzlaff, Isabelle Faust, Lisa Batiashvili, Antje Weithaas (violins) Rachel Roberts, Ori Kam (violas) Tanja Tetzlaff, Quirine Viersen (cellos) AVI Music 8553163
10.47
Wagner
Good Friday Music (Parsifal)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
EMI CZS 575 389-2
Our Friday Virtusoo is Hermann Prey
10.54
Rossini
Largo al factotum (Barber of Seville)
Hermann Prey (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DECCA 457 901-2
11.00
Elgar
Violin Concerto, Op.61
Nigel Kennedy (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)
EMI CD-EMX-2058.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00xnkx8)
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Episode 5
Donald Macleod concludes his week-long exploration of the life and work of Luigi Cherubini with a look at the composer in his last 20 years. In 1822 - by now firmly ensconced as the grand old man of French music - he was appointed Director of the Paris Conservatoire, where he set about introducing a programme of radical reforms, including the recruitment of more female students; by the time of his death, women numbered half the student body. A related reform famously caused ructions with the young Hector Berlioz, who one day in 1822 mistakenly entered the Conservatoire through a door newly designated for the use of women only. Cherubini was informed of this infraction and turned up in person to deliver a reprimand to the young whippersnapper. When Berlioz dared to answer back, Cherubini, by then in his sixties, ended up chasing him furiously around the library, knocking over tables, chairs and piles of books, to the dismay of the other readers. Donald imagines this scene set to the "jingling-jangling, crashing, banging" overture to Cherubini's opera, Ali Baba. This was the most ambitious score he had ever created, given a commensurately extravagant production by the Paris Opera in the summer of 1833 - and a commensurately emphatic thumbs-down by audience, critics and cognoscenti alike. Ali Baba was a gigantic turkey, running for just 11 performances, none of which its composer could bear to attend. He never wrote another opera, turning instead to the medium of the string quartet, which he had briefly essayed some 20 years earlier. And he returned again to sacred music with a second Requiem, composed this time with a very special dedicatee in mind - himself.
FRI 13:00 Afternoon Concert (b00xnlmg)
Summer Festivals - Europe and Beyond
Episode 5
The main work in today's programme is Mendelssohn's oratorio "Elijah" with an all-star cast, including Julia Kleiter, Bernarda Fink, Thomas Quasthoff and Michael Schade, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra all conducted by Daniel Harding at last summer's Baltic Sea Festival. And to round off this week's programmes an irresistable medley of every famous violin concerto in under 10 minutes.
Vivaldi: Winter from The Four Seasons, op. 8/4
Ian Swensen, violin
Daniel Ching, violin
Sandy Yamamoto, violin
John Largess, viola
Joshua Gindele, cello
Scott Pingel, bass
Inon Barnatan, harpsichord
Haydn: Piano Sonata in A flat Hob. XVI:43
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
1.20pm
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor op. 98
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Nott, conductor
Fux: Turcaria
Armonico Tributo
2.15pm
Mendelssohn: Elijah
Julia Kleiter, soprano
Bernarda Fink, contralto
Michael Schade, tenor
Thomas Quasthoff, baritone
Markus Althanns, boy soprano
Swedish Radio Chorus
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Harding, conductor
There and Bach again..
(The Ultimate Violin Concerto Medley!)
Members of the Oslo and Vertavo String Quartets.
FRI 17:00 In Tune (b00xnlmj)
Sean Rafferty is joined by conductor and violinist Thomas Kemp, pianist Andrew West, cellist Adrian Bradbury and mezzo-soprano Wendy Dawn Thompson. They will talk about their involvement in Chamber Domaine's series at Gresham College, which begins next week, and will also perform live in the studio.
Sean then talks to Marshall Marcus, Head of Music at London's South Bank Centre, on the day of the launch of the 2011/12 season.
Finally, there will be live music from jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock, who will also talk to Sean about the upcoming release of his latest album.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 19:00 Performance on 3 (b00xnlml)
Live from the Bridgewater Hall
Dvorak, Brahms
Live from The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Martin Handley
Two works by Czech composers surround a work by a composer often influenced by Slavic music. Dvorak's Slavonic Dances took Brahms's similarly titled set as their inspiration, but whereas Brahms used actual folk melodies Dvořak's pieces took the character of folk dances but the melodies are entirely his own.
Brahms's epic 1st Piano Concerto is performed by the Croatian pianist Dejan Lazic who has Brahms in his blood - he recently made his own piano and orchestra transcription of Brahms's Violin Concerto. Janácek's Taras Bulba is an orchestral fantasy that takes three key moments from a novel by Gogol which recounts the death of the protagonist and his sons.
Dvorak: Slavonic Dances
Brahms: Piano Concerto no.1
Dejan Lazic (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor).
FRI 19:45 Twenty Minutes (b00xwj4z)
Bulba
Anna Reid, author of Borderland: a journey through Ukraine, looks at the Taras Bulba story and the way it plays out in the current uneasy relationship between Ukraine and Russia.
Gogol's longest short story about the Zaparozhian Cossack educated in Kiev and leading the charge against the mighty Polish empire was often seen as a seminal Russian work. The Cossack culture of Zaparozhia is now well and truly Ukrainianised. Indeed it was the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko who was the first to set it to music, writing his opera well before Janacek's version. But since the fall of the Soviet Union the Bulba story has achieved even greater significance. The latest of several film versions of the story was a Russian-funded affair filmed in Ukraine. It caused some controversy at its release last year. Anna looks at all these responses and attitudes to Gogol's story and using readings and musical illustrations she argues that this fictional Cossack tale provides important insights into today's Ukraine.
Producer: Tom Alban.
FRI 20:05 Performance on 3 (b00xwj9f)
Live from the Bridgewater Hall
Janacek
Live from The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Martin Handley
Two works by Czech composers surround a work by a composer often influenced by Slavic music. Dvorak's Slavonic Dances took Brahms's similarly titled set as their inspiration, but whereas Brahms used actual folk melodies Dvořak's pieces took the character of folk dances but the melodies are entirely his own.
Brahms's epic 1st Piano Concerto is performed by the Croatian pianist Dejan Lazic who has Brahms in his blood - he recently made his own piano and orchestra transcription of Brahms's Violin Concerto. Janácek's Taras Bulba is an orchestral fantasy that takes three key moments from a novel by Gogol which recounts the death of the protagonist and his sons.
Janácek: Taras Bulba
Dejan Lazic (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor).
FRI 21:15 The Verb (b00xwjb6)
Steven Isserlis, David Vann, Alison Carr, Rachel Rose Reid
Ian McMillan bursts onto the air with Radio 3's language and literature cabaret. This week the cellist Steven Isserlis performs excerpts from his musical fairy stories for children and characterises the distinctive storytelling voice of the cello. The novelist David Vann sets out his theory that American writers unconsciously turn to Anglo-Saxon words when they're evoking landscape and scale. Storyteller Rachel Rose Reid performs extracts from her show I am Hans Christian Andersen. And writer Alison Carr introduces a new story about a man who has only a million words left to say - as told by his wife, who never stops talking.
Producers: Erin Riley and Dymphna Flynn
FRI 22:00 Composer of the Week (b00xnkx8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 23:00 The Essay (b00xwjcp)
Listener, They Wore It
Alexandra Shulman
Five writers were invited to explore the meaning of clothes and accessories in a particular work of art, be it a story, novel, film, painting or song lyric. How does the clothing resonate? What is the tale behind its depiction? Would the writer wear the garment themselves? Suits and dresses, coats and jewels, and even rags, all feature in accounts by a variety of commentators...
5. Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman recalls the words of Leonard Cohen's song Suzanne, and how they dressed a generation of young women..
Producer Duncan Minshull.
FRI 23:15 World on 3 (b00xwjd6)
World on 3 at Celtic Connections 2011
Episode 4
Mary Ann Kennedy live from Glasgow at the world's biggest winter music festival. The last of four Late Night Sessions, with a top line-up of festival artists and also recorded concert highlights.
Artist line-up:
Daimh - a one-band Celtic Connection, with members from Scotland and North America
Joe Pug - singer-songwiter from Chicago
Transatlantic Sessions - a posse of musicians from the Festival's signature event
Anxo Lorenzo - bagpipes from Galicia
Also with highlights from the main stage concert by the Blind Boys of Alabama.