John Shea introduces a concert from BBC Proms 2010 with Deutsche Kammarphilharmonie Bremen and violinist Hilary Hahn in an all Beethoven programme
Symphony no. 1 (Op.21) in C major;
Hilary Hahn (violin), Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
Symphony no. 5 (Op.67) in C minor;
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe) , Katerina Apekisheva (piano), Boris Andrianov (cello)
Mark Bennett (trumpet), Terje Tönnesen, Cecilia Waahlberg & Bjarte Eike (violins), Frode Thorsen (recorder), Anna-Maija Luolajan-Mikkola (oboe), Andreas Torgersen (viola), Markku Luolajan-Mikkola (cello), Dan Styffe (bass), Hans Knut Sveen (harpsichord)
Simfonieta Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio, Kamen Goleminov (conductor)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Róbert Stankovský (conductor)
Kalle Randalu, Kristjan Randalu (pianos), Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Andres Mustonen (conductor)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Bystrik Re?ucha (conductor).
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast and as part of the Comedy Classics series, talks to author, broadcaster, actor and entertainer Gyles Brandreth about his favourite classical music. Well known to fans of Have I Got News for You (BBC TV) and Just a Minute (Radio 4), former MP Gyles Brandreth has enjoyed a career as a prolific broadcaster and currently reports regularly for BBC TV's The One Show. He has also found success as a writer of children's books and as a novelist and biographer. Best known as a witty raconteur for all occasions, he is currently touring with his One to One Show which won great acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe last summer.
with James Jolly. This week music associated with Venice and recordings by Isaac Stern, plus the Building a Library Choice of Dvorak's String Quartet in G major, Op.106
Tchaikovsky arr. Glazunov
Donald Macleod investigates a little-known 'lost decade' in the middle of Tchaikovsky's life, a period the composer spent aimlessly wandering around Europe writing songs, chamber works and even religious choral music, as he struggled to come to terms with his sexuality - and his calling as a musician.
In 1878, Tchaikovsky was at the pinnacle of the early part of his career. Over the previous few years, masterpiece after masterpiece had flowed from his pen - including the masterful violin concerto, Fourth Symphony and opera "Eugene Onegin".
Yet.just as he seemed poised to capitalise on this tremendous success, his world fell apart. Following a sham marriage to a crazed fan - which he had hastily agreed to in the hope of hiding his own homosexuality - Tchaikovsky fled his home, escaped the life he had so carefully established, and wandered as a lost soul around Europe.
For the next decade he would compose nothing in the genres that had made him famous - no ballets, no symphonies (at least none in the conventional sense) - indeed, almost nothing that's regularly played in the concert hall today. Instead, Tchaikovsky embarked on a little-performed series of songs, piano and chamber works - even dabbling with the genres of oratorio and mass.
He also made a series of bold experiments in form - writing a set of genre-defying orchestral suites, concertante works for soloist and orchestra, and his only programme symphony - 'Manfred' - a work that was to cause him more anguish than any other work. Yet.on the other hand were written two of Tchaikovsky's most popular - yet much-derided - orchestral 'lollipops'- the Overture "1812" and Capriccio Italien.
In 1888, after a decade of wandering, Tchaikovsky was to return to Russia and embark on his late series of great works - "Sleeping Beauty", "The Nutcracker", and the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. This week though, Donald Macleod makes a rare excursion into the rich rarities of this lost decade.
We begin the week with the works that followed in the aftermath of the composer's disastrous marriage, including charming, childlike works for violin and piano solo, and one of Tchaikovsky's least known major works - his choral setting of the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom.
Penny Gore presents 'A Week at the Concertgebouw' - the Amsterdam concert hall with a famously beautiful acoustic, home to one of the world's great orchestras.
You can hear the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday - including a performance of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony with their Conductor Laureate Bernard Haitink and, to start the week, Ivan Fischer conducting Wagner.
- The Berlin Philharmonic Virtuosi playing Italian Baroque music.
- The Venice Baroque Orchestra playing Vivaldi.
- The Berlin Academy of Ancient Music playing Bach.
- The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra directed by clarinettist Paul Meyer in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, one of a trio of concertante works for clarinet across the week.
Afternoon on 3 also focuses on top orchestral and choral performances by the Dutch counterparts to the BBC's own orchestras and choirs - the Netherlands Radio Chorus, Philharmonic and Chamber Philharmonic, who can be heard year-round at the Concertgebouw. Highlights include:
- The Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic conducted by Scottish composer James MacMillan, by Philippe Herreweghe in Brahms, and by their Chief Conductor Michael Schoenwandt in music from his native Scandinavia.
- Their bigger sister orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, conducted by American composer John Adams in the Dutch première of a work they co-commissioned.
The mix of music - from Bach to John Adams - is rounded out with particular features on:
- Italian music - all day on Thursday, including this week's Thursday Opera Matinee, Donizetti's 'Anna Bolena' from the Vienna State Opera, starring Anna Netrebko as Henry VIII's ill-fated second wife Anne Boleyn.
- The music of Russia - every day, including some of Stravinsky's greatest choral works and, on Monday, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture to continue Radio 3's tie-in with Martin Sixsmith's Russian history series on Radio 4 ('Russia: the Wild East').
Camilla Nylund (soprano).... Elsa
Robert Dean Smith (tenor).... Lohengrin
Stenhammar: Serenade in F, Op. 31
Tchaikovsky, arr. Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn: Nutcracker Suite (excerpts)
Presented by Sean Rafferty. With chamber ensemble the Fibonacci Sequence performing Beethoven, Cecilia MacDowall and Herzogenberg live in the studio ahead of their concert at Saint John's Smith Square. Christine Brewer sings Strauss, Arlen and Ernest Charles accompanied by Roger Vignoles on the piano before her concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski later in the week.
Suzy Klein presents an evening of music and conversation devoted to the great British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, who died 50 years ago this spring. Over a career spanning half a century, Beecham was a major influence on British musical life, using family money (his grandfather established the Beechams Pills factory) to finance opera seasons at Covent Garden, Drury Lane and other London theatres, with international stars and a wide repertoire - he gave the British premieres of operas by Richard Strauss and Delius, among other major composers. In the 1930s Beecham and his younger colleague Malcolm Sargent founded the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and after a spell in the USA in the 1940s, he returned to Britain to found another major London-based orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, which he conducted from 1946 until his death in 1961. Never a fan of Bach ("too much counterpoint - and what is worse, Protestant counterpoint"), Beethoven ("a tub-thumper") or Brahms ("that old bore"), he preferred the music of Haydn, Berlioz, Schubert, Delius, Richard Strauss, Wagner and Sibelius, and revered Mozart above all others ("If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart for at least one-quarter of an hour daily for the coming five years"). With the help of contributors including Rob Cowan, Beecham's son, Paul Strang, his biographer John Lucas and musicians who played under him including former violinists Raymond Ovens and John Ludlow, Suzy Klein will explore Beecham's extraordinary legacy both as a musical entrepreneur and a fearless champion of little-known composers and repertoire, who nevertheless described himself as "very, very low-brow" [hence his celebrated collection of orchestral 'lollipops'. Drawing on a wealth of recordings (many recently released), archive material of Beecham himself talking and examples of Beecham's famously coruscating wit (recreated by actor Timothy West who played Beecham on stage), this evening aims to build up a picture of a much-loved pillar of the British musical Establishment.
Jez Nelson presents the first UK performance by the Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet. Brotzmann has been at the forefront of free jazz since the mid 1960s. The Tentet is distinguished by a powerful, multi-reed sound including Mats Gustafsson and Ken Vandermark and a large bass section comprising two trombones, a tuba and a cello. The music explores the sub-groups within the ensemble, emphasising textural variety and huge dynamic contrast as much as the free virtuosity of its players. Recorded at Café Oto in London, this concert also marks Brötzmann's 70th birthday year and Jez speaks with Peter before the Tentet's gig and a performance by Sonore, a trio comprising three members of the ensemble.
The full line-up is Joe McPhee (pocket trumpet/reeds), Peter Brotzmann, Mats Gustafsson and Ken Vandermark (reeds), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums/percussion), Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello), Per Ake Holmlander (tuba), Johannes Andreas Bauer (trombone), Michael Zerang (drums/percussion), Kent Kessler (bass) and Jeb Bishop (trombone).
TUESDAY 03 MAY 2011
TUE 01:00 Through the Night (b010nv8s)
John Shea presents the Oslo Philharmonic in concert
01:01AM
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904)
Serenade for string orchestra (Op.22) in E major
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Gilbert Varga (conductor)
01:30AM
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)
Concerto for percussion and chamber orchestra (Op.109)
Christian Michael Berg (percussion), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Gilbert Varga (conductor)
01:38AM
Nørgård, Per (b. 1932)
Fire over water for percussion, selection from 'I Ching'
Christian Berg (percussion)
01:41AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
The bells of Berhall church (Op.65b)
Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, Eric-Olof Söderström (conductor)
01:43AM
Rung, Henrik (1807-1871)
Kimer, I klokker (Chime, you bells)
Fionian Chamber Choir, Alice Granum (director)
01:46AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli (S.162)
Janina Fialkowska (piano)
01:55AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Quartet for strings (Op.41 No.3) in A major
Vertavo String Quartet
02:24AM
Nordheim, Arne (b. 1931)
Nachruf for string orchestra arr. from Quartet for strings [1956]: finale
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Gilbert Varga (conductor)
02:32AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Symphony no. 4 (Op.90) in A major "Italian"
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Gilbert Varga (conductor)
03:01AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
Symphony No.7 in E major
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Simone Young (conductor)
04:10AM
Vaszy, Viktor (1903-1979)
Comedy Overture
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Viktor Vaszy (conductor)
04:16AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Sonata da Chiesa in A major (Op.1 No.3)
London Baroque
04:23AM
Ligeti, György (1923-2006)
Three Nonsense Madrigals
The King's Singers
04:32AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Scherzo in B (Op.87)
Mårten Landström & Stefan Lindgren (pianos)
04:43AM
Bree, Johannes Bernardus van (1801-1857)
Allegro for 4 string quartets in D minor (1845)
Viotta Ensemble, Viktor Liberman (conductor)
04:55AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) arr. Maarten Bon
Scherzo à la Russe - arranged for piano forty hands by Maarten Bon
Twenty Grand Pianos - Yoko Abe, Alwin Bär, Gérard van Blerk, Jacob Bogaart, Maarten Bon, Lodewijk Collette, Ellen Corver, Ton Demmers, Sepp Grotenhuis, Paul Komen, Jaap Kooi, Else Krijgsman, David Kuyken, Frank van de Laar, Carlos Moerdijk, Antoine Oomen, Nick van Oosterum, Robert Post, Daniel Wayenberg, Mariken Zandvliet (pianos)
05:01AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Overture from The Wasps
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
05:11AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Rondo in C major (K.373)
James Ehnes (violin); Mozart Anniversary Orchestra
05:17AM
Finzi, Gerald (1901-1956)
White-flowering days for chorus (Op.37); [no.8 in 'A Garland for the Queen']
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
05:21AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Prelude in C sharp minor (Op.45)
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
05:28AM
Bacheler, Daniel (c1574-c1610)
Mounsiers almain for lute
Nigel North (lute)
05:34AM
Grossman, Ludwik (1835-1915)
Csárdás from the comic opera Duch wójewody (The Ghost of Voyvode) (1875)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor)
05:44AM
Schubert, Franz (1979-1828)
Quartet for Strings (D.810) in D minor "Death and the Maiden"
Ebène Quartet
06:24AM
Marenzio, Luca (c.1553-1599)
Solo e pensoso
Ensemble Daedalus, Roberto Festa (director)
06:30AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Suite Bergamasque (1890)
Roger Woodward (piano)
06:48AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in C minor for treble recorder (RV.441)
Michael Schneider (recorder), Camerata Köln.
TUE 07:00 Breakfast (b010nv8v)
Tuesday - Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast.
TUE 10:00 Classical Collection (b010nv8x)
Tuesday - James Jolly
with James Jolly. This week music associated with Venice and recordings by Isaac Stern, plus Wilhelm Kempff performs in our Beethoven Piano Sonata cycle.
10.00
Rossini
Semiramide: Overture
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 431 653-2
10.12
Mendelssohn
A selection of his Venetian gondola Songs without Words Daniel Barenboim (piano) DG 453 061-2
10.16
Tarrega
Variations on El Carneval de Venezia
Rafael Aguirre Minarro (guitar)
NAXOS
8.5720674
10.26
Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle
Sonata in E major, Op 14 No 1
Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
DG 447 966-2
10.40
Mahler
Adagietto (Symphony No.5)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 437 789-2
10.50
Sullivan
Take a pair of sparkling eyes (The Gondoliers)
Richard Lewis (tenor)
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Malcolm Sargent (conductor)
EMI CDS 7477758
10.55
Artist of the Week: Isaac Stern
Brahms
Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op.25
Isaac Stern (violin)
Jaime Laredo (viola)
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Emanuel Ax (piano)
Sony Classical S2K45846
11.35
Faure
Melodies de Venise, Op.58
Sophie Koch (soprano)
Sophie Raynaud (piano)
LE CHANT DU MONDE LDC 2781117.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00v4ncg)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Episode 2
Even for this rootless 'lost decade', 1881 was a wretched year in the life of the composer - and Russia. As the nation was riven with domestic turmoil, following the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, Tchaikovsky also lost one of his greatest champions, the critic Nikolai Rubinstein. Last - but very much not least - the composer also had to deal with unwanted and relentless attentions of an obsessive young male fan.
In today's episode Donald Macleod presents perhaps Tchaikovsky's greatest chamber work - the Piano Trio, written in memory of his friend and colleague - as well as an excerpt from his glorious "All-Night Vigil", composed for the Russian Orthodox Church.
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b010nv91)
St George's, Bristol
Brass Soloists of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Afternoon on 3 With Penny Gore
In the first of this week's baroque concerts from St. George's, Bristol, the Brass Soloists of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment take a Grand Tour of Italy, Spain, Germany and England.
Susan Addison (alto and tenor sackbut)
Emily White (alto and tenor sackbut)
Tom Lees (tenor sackbut)
Patrick Jackman (bass sackbut)
Adrian Woodward (trumpet cornett)
Phillip Bainbridge (trumpet)
Richard Thomas (cornett drum)
Adrian Bending (percussion)
Robert Howarth (organ / harpsichord)
Reflections on the Grand Tour
Italy
Cersare Bendinelli: Sonata 333
Andrea Gabrieli: Intonazione settimo tono
Biagio Marini: Sonata a6
Orlando di Lasso: Concupiscendo concupiscit
Giovanni Gabreili: Canzona a 6
Claudio Monteverdi: Christe redemptor omnium
Giuseppe Torelli: Concerto in D
Spain
Francisco de Penalosa: Ave Verum Corpus
Francisco Correa de Arauxo: Tiento de Segundo Tono
Anon: Pavanne Il Bisson
Germany
Samuel Scheidt: Intrada
Johann Hermann Schein: Padouana
Samuel Scheidt: Bergamasca
England
Hugh Aston: A Hornpype
Henry VIII: Bassedance En Vray Amoure
Christopher Tye: Farewell My Good One, For Ever
William Brade: Scottish Dance
William Brade: Cornish Dance
Robert Parsons: Song call trumpets
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b010nv93)
A Week at the Concertgebouw
Episode 2
Penny Gore presents a week of top concerts from the Concertgebouw' - the Amsterdam concert hall with a famously beautiful acoustic, and home to one of the world's great orchestras. Today the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra play Bruckner's Seventh Symphony under the baton of a man who first conducted them 55 years ago and was their Chief Conductor for a quarter of a century - Bernard Haitink, their current Conductor Emeritus. That's the climax of a programme with British and Germanic threads running through it, including a concert conducted at the Concertgebouw by leading Scottish composer James MacMillan.
2:00pm
J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 3
Berlin Academy for Ancient Music (Akademie für alte Musik, Berlin)
2:15pm
Stravinsky: 'Basle Concerto' in D for strings
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic
James MacMillan (conductor)
2:30pm
Milhaud: Scaramouche
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic
James MacMillan (conductor)
2:40pm
Elgar: Larghetto, from Serenade for Strings
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Paul Meyer (conductor)
2:45pm
Mozart: Symphony no. 29 in A, K. 201
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic
James MacMillan (conductor)
3:10pm
Handel: 'Ah, spietato' from Amadigi
Johanette Zomer (soprano)
Bart Schneemann (Baroque oboe)
Musica Amphion
Directed from the harpsichord by Pieter-Jan Belder
3:15pm
Bruckner: Symphony no. 7
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Bernard Haitink (conductor).
TUE 16:30 In Tune (b010nv95)
Composer and saxophonist Tim Garland has composed 'Concerto For Percussion, Saxophone and Orchestra' for performance by the London Symphony Orchestra, percussionist Neil Percy and conductor François-Xavier Roth. He performs live in the In Tune studio with Neil Percy and pianist Gwilym Simcock ahead of the world premiere of this new commission at the Barbican Centre, London.
The fourth Sacconi Chamber Music Festival runs in St Mary and St Eanswythe's Church, Folkestone, Kent over three days and features the musicians from the Sacconi Quartet in its programme along with other guest musicians. They will perform works by Mendelssohn and Mozart live on the show.
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.
TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00v4ncg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b010txx6)
The Sixteen at Sherborne Abbey
Part 1
Live from Sherborne Abbey, Dorset
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
The great Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria died 400 years ago, and to mark the anniversary, The Sixteen, conducted by Harry Christophers, are touring the country with a "Choral Pilgrimage" dedicated to his work. Victoria was one of the most significant composers of the Counter-Reformation, and his music expresses the passion of Spanish religious mysticism.
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548 - 1611)
Salve Regina a 5
Kyrie & Gloria from "Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater" a 8
Alma Redemptoris Mater a 5
Hymn Ave Maris Stella
Gaude Maria Virgo
Magnificat octavi toni
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, director.
TUE 20:10 Twenty Minutes (b010txx8)
Pop Culture Pilgrims
Matthew Sweet examines the purpose of pilgrimage and how deeply rooted it is in the human psyche. As society becomes ever more secular, Matthew explores our continuing need to use places as points of focus for storytelling and connection with the past. Matthew will visit Blackpool Tower, for years a site of social pilgrimage for the working classes, to learn more about its appeal and discover if he can draw parallels with the pilgrims journeying en masse to Lourdes or Mecca.
Visitors to Abbey Road in St John's Wood, London, explain why they are drawn from all over the world to walk the famous zebra crossing, recreating The Beatles' iconic album cover of the same name. As they walk in the footsteps of the Fab Four, stories of teenage dreams, lifelong relationships with music and first experiences of travel emerge.
For centuries, Rosslyn Chapel outside Edinburgh has been entwined in myth, legend and secrecy. When it was featured in the final scenes of Dan Brown's blockbuster The Da Vinci Code hundreds of thousands of visitors descended on the village of Roslin to visit the chapel. Many came to photograph a film set but as visitors explain in their own words, this complicated and compelling building's powerful atmosphere pulls many of them in to form a much deeper relationship.
TUE 20:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b010txxb)
The Sixteen at Sherborne Abbey
Part 2
Live from Sherborne Abbey, Dorset
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
The great Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria died 400 years ago, and to mark the anniversary, The Sixteen, conducted by Harry Christophers, are touring the country with a "Choral Pilgrimage" dedicated to his work. Victoria was one of the most significant composers of the Counter-Reformation, and his music expresses the passion of Spanish religious mysticism.
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548 - 1611)
Alma Redemptoris Mater a 8
Congratulamini mihi a 6
Sancta Maria
Ne timeas Maria
Vidi speciosam a 6
Sanctus from "Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater" a 8
Litaniae Beatae Mariae a 8
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, director.
TUE 22:00 Night Waves (b010nv97)
Osama Bin Laden, Outside the Law, Shah of Iran, Renaissance Art
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss whether Osama Bin Laden is more powerful dead than alive and the importance of martyrs and icons in military and political history.
There's a review of Outside The Law, a movie about the Algerian struggle for independence, that caused a riot at last year's Cannes Film Festival.
Abbas Milani, Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University, has written a biography of the Shah of Iran who was toppled from power in 1979. He discusses the Shah and his legacy with Anne and Professor Ali Ansari, of the Institute of Iranian Studies at St Andrews University.
Anne considers the significance of flowers in Renaissance art with the author of a new book on the subject, Celia Fisher, and Professor Jerry Brotton of Queen Mary University.
TUE 22:45 The Essay (b00szhst)
Home Rule for the Soul
Gandhi Get Your Gun
Professor Sunil Khilnani, author of The Idea of India, sets out on a journey through the ideas of Gandhi's first major work, Hind Swaraj, which argues for freedom but against violence. But does modern India still find a space for such ideas? In the first of his essays, Gandhi Get Your Gun, Khilnani argues that the power of Gandhi's Hind Swaraj still speaks both to India's future and our own.
Autumn 1909. In the middle of the ocean, on a ship bound for South Africa, Mohandas Gandhi is gripped by 'A violent possession' as he furiously writes his first major work, Hind Swaraj. An astonishing critique of modern civilization and a defense of non-violent resistance, it was banned by the British who viewed it as a seditious manifesto.
Gandhi had greater ambitions than mere nationalist uprising. 'The essence of what I have said is that man should rest content with what are his real needs... if he does not have control he cannot save himself.' Written after his encounters with those who advocated revolutionary violence and terrorism in the cause of India's freedom, Hind Swaraj argues for force without violence or hatred as it strives to define what self rule, freedom, actually is.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b010nv99)
Fiona Talkington - 03/05/2011
Fiona Talkington's selection includes Ligeti's organ solo Volumina, some early Pink Floyd, pianist Jean Yves Bavouzet playing Haydn, and harvest festival music from the Sudan.
WEDNESDAY 04 MAY 2011
WED 01:00 Through the Night (b010nxz4)
John Shea presents Rimsky Korsakov's opera The Golden Cockerel.
1:01 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
The Golden Cockerel
Nikolay Stoilov (bass): King Dodon, Lyubomir Bodourov (tenor): Prince Guidon, Emil Ougrinov (baritone): Prince Afron, Konstantin Videv (bass): Commander Polkan, Evgenia Babacheva (contralto): Housekeeper Amelfa, Lubomir Diakovski (tenor): Astrologer >>Elena Stoyanova (soprano) -- Queen of Shemakha, Yavora Stoilova (soprano) -- Golden Cockerel, Sofia National Opera Choir & Orchestra, Lyubomir Karolev & Hristo Kazandjiev (chorus masters), Dimiter Manolov (conductor)
3:03 AM
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736)
Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in B flat
Andrea Keller (violin), Concerto Köln
3:17 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Symphony No.6 in D minor (Op.104)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Bernhard Klee (conductor)
3:47 AM
Novak, Vitezslav (1870-1949)
Trio for piano and strings in D minor (Op.27) 'quasi una ballata'
Suk Trio
4:04 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto No.2 in E major (BWV.1053)
Angela Hewitt (piano), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:24 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), orchestrated. Anton Webern (1883-1945)
6 Deutsche for piano (D.820)
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown (conductor)
4:33 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
Ecco ridente in cielo - from 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia' Act 1 Sc 1
Mark Dubois (tenor), Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
4:39 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Adagio in E flat, WoO.43 No 2
Lajos Mayer (mandolin), Imre Rohmann (piano)
4:45 AM
Pahor, Karol (1896-1974)
Oce ná? hlapca Jerneja (The Bailiff Yerney's Prayer)
Chamber Choir AVE, Andra? Hauptman (conductor)
4:51 AM
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903)
Italian Serenade for string quartet
Ljubljana String Quartet
5:01 AM
Gershwin, George (1898-1937)
3 Preludes (1926) - No.1 in B flat; No.2 in C sharp minor; no.3 in E flat
Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano)
5:07 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Two Lyric Pieces: Evening in the Mountains (Op.68 No.4); At the cradle (Op.68 No.5)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5:16 AM
Obrecht, Jacob (1450-1505)
J'ai pris amours a ma devise
Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet
5:22 AM
Salieri, Antonio (1750-1825)
Sinfonia in D major 'Veneziana'
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi (conductor)
5:32 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Capriccio (Op.81'3) in E minor
Brussels Chamber Orchestra
5:39 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
9 Variations on a minuet by Duport for piano (K.573)
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
5:52 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Trio for violin, cello and piano (Op.11) in B flat major;
Trio Ondine
6:10 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
La Mer - trois esquisses symphoniques
Orchestre National de France, Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
6:40 AM
Hellendaal, Pieter (1721-1799)
Concerto Grosso in D minor (Op.3'2)
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
6:51 AM
Pezel, Johann Christoph (1639-1694)
German Dance Suite
Canadian Brass.
WED 07:00 Breakfast (b010nxz6)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast.
WED 10:00 Classical Collection (b010nxz8)
Wednesday - James Jolly
with James Jolly. This week music associated with Venice and recordings by Isaac Stern, plus our Wednesday Award-winner is a recording of Monteverdi's Vespers by John Eliot Gardiner.
10.00
Verdi
Attila: Prologue
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
EMI CDC7544842
10.02
Chopin
Barcarolle in F sharp minor, Op 60
Martha Argerich (piano)
DG 431 582-2
10.11
Liszt orch. Adams
The Black Gondola
London Sinfonietta
John Adams (conductor)
Nonesuch 7559 79359-2
10.38
Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor)
DECCA 440 606-2
10.57
Vivaldi
Cessate, omai cessate, RV 684
Sara Mingardo (alto)
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)
Opus111 OPS30181
11.09
Artist of the Week: Isaac Stern
Barber
Violin Concerto, Op.14
Isaac Stern (violin)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
Sony Classical SMK64506
11.35
Wednesday Award-winner
Monteverdi
Magnificat a 7 (Vespers)
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner
Archiv 429 565-2.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00v4pg5)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Wayward Niece, Favourite Nephew
Just as he was struggling to cope with his own domestic affairs, in 1883 Tchaikovsky found himself - entirely unwillingly - having to deal with a family crisis, as his wayward, morphine-addled niece Tanya arrived in Paris, heavily pregnant with an illegitimate child. Uncle Pyotr was called upon to sort out the mess - just as he was falling heavily - self-destructively - in love with Tanya's brother, his own nephew Bob.
Meanwhile, the composer was struggling with what was to become perhaps his favourite opera - though one little performed today: the tale of the Cossack warrior Mazeppa.
Donald Macleod presents excerpts from the opera, as well as a complete performance of Tchaikovsky's Second Suite for Orchestra - as the composer ditched his familiar symphonic form for a daring new exploration of dance, melody and colour.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b010nxzd)
St George's, Bristol
Wind Soloists of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
The second in this week's baroque series from St. George's, Bristol, combine baroque oboe with recorders and transverse flute for a programme of music by English and German composers.
Wind Soloists of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Anthony Robson (oboe, recorder)
Rachel Beckett (recorder, tranverse flute)
Catherine Latham (recorder)
Andrew Skidmore (cello)
Steven Devine (harpsichord)
J.C. Schickhardt: Sonata in C minor, op.22 no 3
J.S. Bach: Trio Sonata in B flat BWV 1039
G. F. Handel: Trio Sonata in F
Telemann: Sonata in D minor
William Williams: Sonata in imitation of birds
Purcell: Three Parts upon a Ground.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b010nxzg)
A Week at the Concertgebouw
Episode 3
Penny Gore presents more top performances from the beautiful concert hall in Amsterdam, the Concertgebouw. The backbone of today's programme is a concert conducted by leading American composer John Adams. Plus one of the world's top clarinettists plays Mozart.
2:00pm
Rachmaninov: Ave Maria, Vesper No. 6
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Sigvards Klava (conductor)
Stravinsky: Ave Maria
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Hans Graf (conductor)
Milhaud: La création du monde, Op. 81
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
John Adams (conductor)
2:15pm
Stravinsky: Les noces
Zvetelina Vassileva (soprano)
Elizabeth Sikora (mezzo-soprano)
Marcel Beekman (tenor)
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
John Adams (conductor)
2:40pm
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Paul Meyer (clarinet)
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
3:05pm
John Adams: City Noir
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
John Adams (conductor)
3:45pm
Gershwin: I got rhythm
Roland Brautigam (piano)
Concertgebouw Jazz Orchestra
Henk Meutgeert (conductor).
WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (b010nxzj)
Magdalen College, Oxford
From the Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Introit: O pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Richard Nicholson)
Responses: Smith
Office Hymn: Before the ending of the day (Te lucis ante terminum)
Psalms: 22, 23 (Wesley, Smart, Goss)
First Lesson: Ezekiel 1 vv1-14
Canticles: The First Service (Weelkes)
Second Lesson: John 1 vv1-14
Anthems: Praise the Lord, O my soul (Tomkins), Glory be to God on high (Tomkins)
Hymn: Glory to thee, my God, this night (Tallis's Canon)
Organ Voluntary: Voluntary for Double Organ (Blow)
Daniel Hyde (Informator Choristarum)
Benjamin Giddens (Sub Organist)
David Gerrard (Organ Scholar).
WED 17:00 In Tune (b010nxzl)
John Fulljames talks to Sean Rafferty about the new production of Janacek's 'From the House of the Dead' performed by Opera North in Leeds later this week. Players from the Aurora Orchestra perform live ahead of the 'Seeing is Believing' mini-series at Kings Place. Nico Muhly and Nicholas Collon talk to Sean about the concerts and the upcoming release of Aurora's recording of Muhly's music.
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00v4pg5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b010tz9j)
London Philharmonic - Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Strauss
Live from the Royal Festival Hall
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
The London Philharmonic, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, perform Wagner's Meistersinger Overture, and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. Christine Brewer joins them in the Four last Songs by Strauss.
Tchaikovsky, after a time of great anguish, managed to find some solace in the late 1880s, when his private life became less catastrophic. The Fifth Symphony reflects this newfound optimism: into its troubled orchestral shadows are thrust bright shafts of melodic optimism.
In 1948, Richard Strauss penned his final goodbye, the Four Last Songs, among the most haunting music ever written.
Wagner: Overture, Die Meistersinger
Strauss: Four Last Songs
8.10pm Interval Music
Petroc Trelawny recommends a selection of recordings by tonight's soloist.
Strauss: Zueignung, op 10 no 1; Wiegenlied, op 41 no 1; In der Campagna, op 41 no 2
Christine Brewer, soprano
Roger Vignoles, piano
HYPERION CDA 67488
Bob Merrill: Mira
Christine Brewer, soprano
Philharmonia Orchestra
David Parry, conductor
CHANDOS 3127
Joseph Marx: Piemontesisches Volkslied; Hat dich die Liebe beruhrt
Christine Brewer, soprano
BBC SO
Jiri Belohlavek, conductor
CHANDOS 10505
8.40pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Christine Brewer soprano.
WED 22:00 Night Waves (b010ny09)
The Shadow Line, Molly Dineen, Peter Corning, Deep End
Matthew Sweet is joined by writer Iain Sinclair to review The Shadow Line, BBC 2's new 7 part conspiracy thriller, with an all star cast including Christopher Eccleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Antony Sher.
Molly Dineen is one of Britain's most acclaimed documentary makers. As the first collection of her work is released on DVD, she talks to Matthew about how she films people from a retired colonel returning to the UK from Kenya to Tony Blair on the campaign trail in 1997.
American author Peter Corning has written a book arguing that we can make societies fairer. He discusses his views, based he says on the science of human nature, with Will Hutton, who has recently completed a review of fair pay in the public sector for HM Treasury.
And Kim Newman will be in the studio talking about a cult classic film from the 1970s - Deep End, starring Jane Asher - which has just been reissued.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b00szr22)
Home Rule for the Soul
Episode 2
Professor Sunil Khilnani, author of The Idea of India, continues his journey through the ideas of Gandhi's first major work, Hind Swaraj, which argues for freedom of both self and nation but against violence. Gandhi is often thought of as a nationalist thinker but Khilnani urges us to think again. Most anti-colonial leaders sought the overthrow of white rule and the retention of the modern economy and state. Gandhi's view was precisely the opposite.
'India is being ground down not under the English heel, but under that of modern civilization', Gandhi wrote, arguing that by enslaving themselves to modern civilization, India had enslaved themselves to the British. True freedom, Swaraj, would only come, he believed, when India and individuals found a way to free themselves for the seduction of modern life.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b010nxzn)
Fiona Talkington - 04/05/2011
Fiona Talkington presents a sequence of music from different countries and periods, including a movement from Philip Glass's Music in 12 parts, hardangerfiddler Nils Økland's homage to Ole Bull, the Loop Collective's Splice, music for the Chinese qin and xiao, and the choral polyphony of Victoria's Libera Me.
THURSDAY 05 MAY 2011
THU 01:00 Through the Night (b010p0l6)
John Shea presents troubadour dances and orchestral classics
01:01AM
Guiot de Dijon [fl.1215-1225] & Tobie Miller (estampie)
Chanterai por mon coriage & Estampie
01:11AM
Anonymous & Tobie Miller (estampie)
Amis, quelx est li mieuz vaillanz (jeu parti) and estampie on Chascuns dit que je foloi by Tobie Miller (group instrumental)
La Rota
01:20AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) orch. Brewaeys, Luc (b.1959)
No.12 Minstrels
No.7 Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest - both from Preludes Book I
Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Daniele Callegari (conductor)
01:26AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Variations on "Deandl is arb auf mi'" for string trio
Leopold String Trio
01:33AM
Philippe de Vitry [(1291-1361)] & Anonymous (estampie)
Aman novi/Heu, Fortuna Subdola & retrove (estampie)
01:40AM
Philippe de Vitry [(1291-1361)]
Tribum que/ Quoniam secta/ Merito hec patimur
01:44AM
Anonymous & Jehan de Lescurel fl.1304
2 anonymous pieces and a rondeau by Jehan de Lescurel
La Rota
01:54AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) orch. Brewaeys, Luc (b.1959)
No.8 La fille aux cheveux de lin
No.3 La Puerta del Vino - both from Preludes Book II
Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Daniele Callegari (conductor)
02:00AM
Daniel-Lesur, Jean Yves (1908-2002)
Suite Mediévale for flute, harp and string trio (1946)
Arpea Ensemble
02:14AM
Anonymous
Estampie and Prendes i garde, s'on mi regarde
02:22AM
Blondel de Nesle [fl. 1180-1200]
A l'entrant d'este
02:31AM
Landini, Francesco [1325-2/9/1397]
Adie, adieu
02:33AM
Anonymous & Tobie Miller (saltarello)
Allegro canto; Laudario di Firenze; Saltarello del Grande San Domenico
02:36AM
Anonymous
Non sofre Santa Maria
La Rota
02:40AM
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Ancient airs and dances for lute - suite No.3 for strings [1932]
I Cameristi Italiani
03:01AM
Zemlinsky, Alexander (1871-1942)
The Little mermaid
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
03:43AM
Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Verklärte Nacht (Op.4)
Borromeo String Quartet
04:11AM
Waldsonne (Op.2 No.4)
Arleen Auger (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano)
04:15AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Ich ging mit lust durch einen grünen Wald
Arleen Auger (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano)
04:20AM
Carmichael, John (b.1930) arr. Hurst, Michael
A Country Fair arr. Hurst for orchestra
Jack Harrison (clarinet), West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills (conductor)
04:29AM
Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich (c.1620-1680)
Suite no.2 in D major
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Rosanne Hunt (cello), Linda Kent (harpsichord)
04:36AM
Förster, Kaspar (1616-1673)
Sonata a 3 in B flat major (KBPJ 39)
Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble
04:42AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849) arr. Kocsis, Zoltán (b.1952)
Mazurka (Op.67 No.2) in G minor
Mazurka (Op.63 No.3) in C sharp minor
Zsolt Szatmári (clarinet); Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
04:47AM
Kisielewski, Stefan (1911-1991)
Suite from the ballet 'Fun Fair'
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Michal Nesterowicz (conductor)
05:01AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Symphonic dance no.2 (Allegro grazioso) (Op.64 No.2)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ingar Bergby (conductor)
05:07AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Wellingtons Sieg (Op.91) 'Battle Symphony'
Octophoros (wind group), Paul Dombrecht (conductor)
05:22AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Gestillte Sehnsucht for alto, viola and piano (Op 91 No.1)
Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo), Morten Carlsen (viola), Sergej Osadchuk (piano)
05:29AM
Quantz, Johann Joachim (1697-1773)
Trio Sonata in E flat major
Atrium Musicium Chamber Ensemble
05:37AM
Marais, Marin (1656-1728)
Les Folies d'Espagne
Lise Daoust (flute)
05:47AM
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909)
Córdoba (Op.232 No.4)
Henry-David Varema (cello), Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
05:54AM
Daquin, Louis-Claude (1694-1772)
Rondeau - La mélodieuse
Rondeau - Le Coucou
Colin Tilney (harpsichord)
06:00AM
Dittersdorf, Carl Ditters von (1739-1799)
Concerto for keyboard and strings in A major (1779)
Linda Nicholson (fortepiano) Florilegium Collinda
06:18AM
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903)
Intermezzo for string quartet in E flat major (1886)
Ljubljana String Quartet
06:29AM
Carniolus, Jacobus Gallus (1550-1591)
Virgines prudentes a 8 (OM 4/30) & O beata Trinitas, te invocamus a 8 (OM 3/3)
Musica noster amor a 6 (M 28)
Dulces exuviae (M 43) & Libertas animi cibus est (HM 31)
Ljubljanski madrigalisti, Matjaz Sček (director)
06:40AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Holberg Suite (Op.40)
The Slovenian Philharmonic String Chamber Orchestra, Andrej Petrač (Artistic leader).
THU 07:00 Breakfast (b010p0l8)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast.
THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b010p0lb)
Thursday - James Jolly
with James Jolly. This week music associated with Venice and recordings by Isaac Stern, plus Artur Schnabel performs in our Beethoven Piano Sonata cycle.
10.00
Bellini
Beatrice di Tenda: Preludio
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Bonynge (conductor)
DECCA 433 706-2
10.03
attributed Handel
Sonata for two oboes in B minor, HWV384
Burkhard Glaetzner & Ingo Goritzki (oboes)
Walter Heinz Bernstein (harpsichord)
Siegfried Pank (viola da gamba)
BERLIN CLASSICS 0021792BC
10.26
Artist of the Week: Isaac Stern
Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64
Isaac Stern (violin)
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
Sony Classical SM3K45952
11.10
Offenbach
Entr'acte & Barcarolle (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
Anne Sofie von Otter & Stephanie d'Oustrac (soprano)
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowksi (conductor)
DG 471 501-2
11.14
Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle
Sonata in F sharp major, Op 78
Artur Schnabel (piano)
Naxos
8.110761
11.25
Britten arr. Bedford
Death in Venice Suite, Op.88
English Chamber Orchestra
Steuart Bedford (conductor)
Chandos CHAN8363.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00v4s5f)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Two Curios
Alongside Tchaikovsky's many celebrated compositions, there are a host of rare and obscure works that barely see the concert stage - but surely none as peculiar as the "Moscow Cantata" of 1883, a work composed to order for the coronation of the new Tsar Alexander III.and barely performed since.
Donald Macleod presents the curious tale of one of the strangest works in the great composer's entire output, and introduces another bold experiment from Tchaikovsky's 'lost decade' - his two-movement "Concert Fantasia" for piano and orchestra.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b010p0lg)
St George's, Bristol
String Soloists of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
The baroque series at St. George's Bristol, the String Soloists of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment play Italian 17th and 18th century music for strings including Vivaldi's famous "madness" variations.
Margaret Faultless (violin)
Alison Bury (violin)
Jonathan Manson (cello)
Elizabeth Kenny (arch lute and baroque guitar)
Steven Devine harpsichord)
Marco Ucellini: Aria Quinta "Sopra la Bergamasca"
Dario Castello: Sonata (no 10, from book 2)
Domenico Gabrieli: Sonata for cello and continuo in G
Tarquinio Merula: Chiacona
Arcangelo Corelli: Trio Sonata Op.3 no.1 in F
Giovanni Zamboni: Sonata no 8 in F from Sonate d'Intavolatura de Leuto
Pietro Antonio Locatelli: Trio Sonata op.8 no.7 in A
Vivaldi: Variations on "La Follia" RV63, Op.1 no 12.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b010p0lj)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Donizetti - Anna Bolena
2:00pm
Star soprano Anna Netrebko leads an all-star cast in Donizetti's opera about the tragic downfall of Henry VIII's second wife Anne Boleyn. This was the opera that made Donizetti's name on the international stage: this new production, in which Netrebko sings the role of Anne for the first time, is also the first time the opera has been staged at the Vienna State Opera. Ildebrando D'Arcangelo sings the King, and Elina Garanca sings wife-no.3-to-be, Jane Seymour.
Presented by Penny Gore.
Donizetti: Anna Bolena - Act 1
Anna Netrebko (soprano).... Anne Boleyn
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (bass).... Henry VIII
Elina Garanca (mezzo-soprano).... Jane Seymour
Dan Paul Dumitrescu (bass).... George Boleyn, Anne's brother
Francesco Meli (tenor).... Lord Percy
Elisabeth Kulman (contralto).... Mark Smeaton, Anne's household musician
Peter Jelosits (tenor).... Hervey, court official
Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Evelino Pidò (conductor)
[Act 2 tomorrow at
2pm]
3:30pm A Week at the Concertgebouw
Boccherini: Symphony in D minor, Op. 12 no. 4 (La casa del diavolo)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Candida Thompson (director)
3:50pm
Busoni: Berceuse elegiaque
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Ed Spanjaard (conductor)
4:00pm
Vivaldi: 'Vaga perla, benché sia' from Cantata 'La senna festeggiante', RV 693
Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Kristina Hammarstrom (mezzo-soprano)
Peter Gijsbertsen (tenor)
Luca Tittoto (bass)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Andrea Marcon (conductor)
4:10pm
Berio: Sinfonia (3rd movement)
Synergy Vocals
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Ed Spanjaard (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b010p0ll)
Conductor Edward Gardner and tenor Peter Hoare join Sean Rafferty live in the studio ahead of their performances at the new production of Berlioz's 'Damnation of Faust' at the London Coliseum. Peter Hoare plays the role of Faust in this brand new production for the English National Opera, directed by Monty Python writer Terry Gilliam.
Sean also talks to conductor Andre De Ridder ahead of his appearance at the Barbican Centre, London at 'Reverberations', a weekend-long celebration of Steve Reich's works featuring many new works including the European Premiere of WTC 9/11.
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 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00v4s5f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b010v288)
Mark Elder and the Halle at the Bridgewater Hall
Sibelius, Prokofiev
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Prokofiev's formidable 2nd Piano Concerto forms the heart of this programme, featuring the youngest winner of the Leeds Piano Competition for forty years, Sunwook Kim. He's won high praise for his remarkable technical ability and for the broad range of expression and colour of his playing. Here he focuses his talents on what is widely regarded to be one of the most technically challenging of all concertos. Also in the programme, Sibelius tone poem En Saga - the composer's "expression of a state of mind", and Elgar's perennial favourite, his musical gallery of "my friends pictured within" - the Enigma Variations.
Sibelius: En Saga Op. 9
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 2 Op 16
Sunwook Kim (piano)
Halle Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder (conductor).
THU 20:35 Twenty Minutes (b010v28s)
Tame Cat
In Tame Cat by Daphne du Maurier, a young woman returns from finishing school in Paris anticipating a happy reunion with her mother and an introduction to adult life in London society. Unfortunately, she is oblivious to how attractive she has become and the consequences that will have for her...
Tame Cat is taken from The Doll: Short Stories, the newly published collection by Daphne du Maurier. This includes several pieces recently rediscovered by an enthusastic devotee of the famous writer. Written early in her career these stories reveal the dark themes explored in the novels that made her name.
Three other short stories from this collection are being broadcast on Radio 4 on the afternoons of 3-5th May.
Reader: Morven Christie
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Lucy Collingwood.
THU 20:55 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b010v28v)
Mark Elder and the Halle at the Bridgewater Hall
Elgar
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Prokofiev's formidable 2nd Piano Concerto forms the heart of this programme, featuring the youngest winner of the Leeds Piano Competition for forty years, Sunwook Kim. He's won high praise for his remarkable technical ability and for the broad range of expression and colour of his playing. Here he focuses his talents on what is widely regarded to be one of the most technically challenging of all concertos. Also in the programme, Sibelius tone poem En Saga - the composer's "expression of a state of mind", and Elgar's perennial favourite, his musical gallery of "my friends pictured within" - the Enigma Variations.
Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme for Orchestra (Enigma) Op 36
Sunwook Kim (piano)
Halle Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder (conductor).
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b010p0ln)
The Celluloid Curtain, Brian Christian, Kutlug Ataman
Matthew Sweet steps into the shady and sometimes surreal world of the East European spy-film as a new festival in London and Berlin celebrates the genre cinema of the Cold War. Unlike the James Bond films of fast cars, smooth cocktails and disposable women, filmmakers on the other side of the Iron Curtain showed the good communist spy fighting Western decadence and never being seduced by a stiff Martini.
He meets Brian Christian, author of the book, The Most Human Human, which is based on the experience of being a confederate in the 2009 Loebner Prize, the annual event where computers compete with humans to demonstrate the reaches of artificial intelligence and gain the award of "most human computer". The prize is a version of the British mathematician Alan Turing's Turing Test where a panel of human judges attempt to distinguish between the responses of a machine and a human being: if they cannnot then the machine should be deemed intelligent. The humans also compete to be awarded the status of Most Human Human based on their responses and Brian Christian, the winner of this award in 2009, argues that the tests of artificial intelligence offer us a chance to think hard about what makes us human.
Joining Brian in the studio are Raymond Tallis and Steve Connor to explore the idea of the human self.
Turkish artist and filmmaker Kutlug Ataman who won the Carnegie Prize in 2004 and has been shortlisted for the Turner Prize is going to be at this year's Brighton festival with two pieces about the man-made construction of geography and history. 'Su' is a composition of images of the Bosphorus in all seasons, while 'Mayhem', uses images of Mesopotamia, a waterfall in Argentina. Matthew Sweet will be finding out how the name 'Mesopotamia' found its way from East to West.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b00szrl3)
Home Rule for the Soul
Home Rule for the Soul
Professor Sunil Khilnani continues his exploration of the power of Gandhi's ideas of freedom for self and nation in his first major work, Hind Swaraj. Written in a frenzy in the autumn of 1909 when Gandhi was returning to South Africa, Hind Swaraj is a ferocious critique of modern civilization, revolution and violence.
For Gandhi the self was the well spring of all political possibility. 'Politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries'. His attempts to wrestle with the snake of politics, to reject the process of ends and means redefined the scope of political action.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b010p0nt)
Fiona Talkington - 05/05/2011
Fiona Talkington's musical selection includes George Crumb's Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale), koto playing from Chieko Mori, Steve Reich's Vermont Counterpoint arranged for vibraphone, the Helge Lien Trio, and singer Mariem Hassan from Western Sahara.
FRIDAY 06 MAY 2011
FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b010p0ph)
John Shea presents the Rotterdam Philharmonic recorded at the 2010 Proms. Featuring Simon Keenlyside and Beethoven's Eroica Symphony.
1:01 AM
Wager, Richard (1813-1883)
Tannhäuser - overture
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor
1:16 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
5 Rückert-Lieder vers. For voice and orchestra
Simon Keenlyside (baritone) Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor
1:36 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Symphony no. 3 (Op. 55) In E flat major "Eroica"
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor
2:26 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Le Jardin féerique from Ma mère l'oye (suite for orchestra)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor
2:30 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Sonata for flute and keyboard (BWV.1032) in A major
Sharon Bezaly (flute) , Terence Charlston (harpsichord)
2:44 AM
Alfvèn, Hugo (1872-1960)
Suite for Orchestra from 'King Gustav II Adolf' (Op.49)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Niklas Willén (conductor)
3:01 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Quartet for strings (Op.18'1) in F major
Artemis Quartet
3:30 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat (K595)
Steven Osborne (piano), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi (conductor)
4:00 AM
Farkas, Ferenc (1905-2000)
5 Ancient Hungarian dances for wind quintet
Bulgarian Academic Wind Quintet
4:11 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
4 Folk Songs
Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor)
4:22 AM
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz von (1644-1704)
Sonata Violino Solo Representativa
Elizabeth Wallfisch (Baroque violin), Rosanne Hunt (cello), Linda Kent (harpsichord and organ)
4:33 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
3 pieces for piano
Håvard Gimse (piano)
4:48 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F (BWV.1047)
Ars Barocca
5:01 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance (Op.72 No.2)
James Anagnoson and Leslie Kinton (piano)
5:06 AM
Arnic, Blaz (1901-1970)
Overture to the Comic Opera (Op.11)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Anton Nanut (conductor)
5:14 AM
Mercure, Pierre (1927-1966)
Pantomime for wind and percussion
Edmonton Wind Ensemble, Harry Pinchin (conductor)
5:19 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Serenade for Strings (Op.20)
Royal Academy Soloists, Clio Gould (director)
5:31 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Concerto for 3 oboes and orchestra in B flat major
Peter Westermann, Michael Niesemann, Piet Dhont (oboes), Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
5:40 AM
Leontovych, Mykola [1877-1921]
Hymn to the Cherubim
Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor)
5:45 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Sonata for piano (H.
16.34) in E minor
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)
5:57 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) arranged by Mottl, Felix (1856-1911)
Fantasia in F minor (D.940)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
6:17 AM
Thomas, John (1826-1913)
Grand Duet for two harps in E flat minor
Myong-ja Kwan (female), Hyon-son La (female) (harps)
6:32 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Romeo and Juliet (fantasy overture, 1880 version)
Radio Symphonieorchester Wien, Pinchas Steinberg (conductor)
6:52 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Nocturne in C minor (Op.48 No.1)
Llyr Williams (piano).
FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b010p0vb)
Friday - Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast.
FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b010p0vd)
Friday - James Jolly
with James Jolly. This week music associated with Venice and recordings by Isaac Stern, plus our Friday virtuoso is pianist Arcadi Volodos.
10.00
Wolf-Ferrari
Il segreto di Susanna: Overture
Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields
Sir Nevile Marriner (conductor)
EMI CDC 754585-2
10.02
Artist of the Week: Isaac Stern
Dvorak
Sonatina in G major, Op.100
Isaac Stern (violin)
Robert McDonald (piano)
Sony Classical SK62597
10.23
Liszt arr. Horowitz
Variations on Mendelssohn's Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Arcadi Volodos (piano)
Sony Classical SK60893
10.29
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op.36
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Evgeny Mravinsky (conductor)
DG 419 745-2
11.27
Verdi
Come in quest'ora bruna (Simon Boccanegra)
Mirella Freni (soprano)
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 415 692-2
11.31
Artist of the Week: Isaac Stern
Wieniawski
Violin Concerto No 2
Isaac Stern (violin)
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
SONY SMK66830.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00v4sbk)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
The Manfred Problem
Donald Macleod ends his week exploring Tchaikovsky's 'lost decade' with the black sheep of his orchestral oeuvre - a symphony that's not really a symphony; a work that the great conductor Leonard Bernstein called 'junk' and refused to perform; and yet one that contains some of the most beautiful and lyrical moments in his entire output.
At first, the composer adored his programmatic "Manfred Symphony" of 1885. Inspired by Lord Byron's poem, the process of writing the piece took him several anguished months - and yet, just a few months after he'd basked in satisfaction at its premiere, Tchaikovsky was to reject it forever. "Abominable", he said. "I loathe it deeply".
Since then, the work's been a pariah - included almost apologetically on box sets of complete Tchaikovsky symphonies. Time for a re-evaluation; Donald Macleod presents a rare complete performance by the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Pletnev.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b010p0vj)
St George's, Bristol
Soloists from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
The final concert from St. George's, Bristol, with the Soloists of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment play baroque music for flute, oboe, trumpet, violins and continuo.
David Blackadder (trumpet)
Anthony Robson (oboe)
Lisa Beznosiuk (flute)
Margaret Faultless (violin)
Alison Bury (violin)
Jonathan Manson (cello)
Steven Devine (harpsichord)
Pallavacino: Sinfonia in D major from Il Diocletiano
Handel: Sonata in G minor HWV 404
Vivaldi: Concerto in D major, RV 89
Finger: Sonata in C major
Handel: Trio Sonata in B minor Opus 2, no.1
Corelli: Sonata in D major.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b010p0vl)
A Week at the Concertgebouw
Episode 4
2:00pm
Grieg: Two elegiac melodies
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic
Michael Schoenwandt (conductor)
Penny Gore concludes this week's opera matinee, starring Anna Netrebko as Henry VIII's ill-fated second wife Anne Boleyn. Plus a final visit to the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
Donizetti: Anna Bolena - Act 2
Anna Netrebko (soprano).... Anne Boleyn
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (bass).... Henry VIII
Elina Garanca (mezzo-soprano).... Jane Seymour
Dan Paul Dumitrescu (bass).... George Boleyn, Anne's brother
Francesco Meli (tenor).... Lord Percy
Elisabeth Kulman (contralto).... Mark Smeaton, Anne's household musician
Peter Jelosists (tenor).... Hervey, court official
Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Evelino Pidò (conductor)
Vivaldi: Concerto Ripieno RV163
Berlin Philharmonic Virtuosi
3:30pm A Week at the Concertgebouw
Pergolesi: Sinfonia in F major
Berlin Philharmonic Virtuosi
3:40pm
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Hans Graf (conductor)
Stravinsky: Pater Noster
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Hans Graf (conductor)
4:00pm
Brahms: Schicksalslied
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic
Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
Giora Feidman, arr. Göran Fröst: Let's be Happy!
Martin Fröst (clarinet)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic
Michael Schoenwandt (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b010p1dr)
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Sean speaks with Andrew Comben, director of the Brighton Festival and conductor Adam Fischer who is conducting a Brighton Festival production of Beethoven's Fidelio with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment on Sunday. And Sean is joined in studio by the Maggini String Quartet ahead of their concerts at the Theatre Royal, Bath.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00v4sbk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b010v5gn)
BBC Philharmonic - Dvorak, Haydn, Shostakovich
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
The BBC Philharmonic with its Chief Guest Conductor Vassily Sinaisky, perform works by Dvorak, Haydn and Shostakovich in their final concert at The Bridgewater Hall this season.
Spinning wheels tend to herald trouble in fairy tales - just think of the princess condemned to sleep for 100 years. But that has nothing on the darkness of Erben's take on The Golden Spinning Wheel (imagine Cinderella's wicked stepmother with the morals and surgical skill of Hannibal Lecter), though, errant body parts aside, it does have a happy ending.
Pity the poor 18th-century trumpeter: the limitations of the natural trumpet made it a nightmare for players. So when Anton Weidinger came up with a new keyed instrument, it was enough of a breakthrough to tempt Haydn to write his Trumpet Concerto, a work that revels in the new possibilities of the instrument, and ones that hold no fears for virtuoso Alison Balsom, making a very welcome return to the orchestra.
Shostakovich is one of the greatest symphonists of recent times, and with his Fifth Symphony, it seems that audiences - and even Soviet officials - were in agreement, giving the piece a tumultuous ovation at its 1937 premiere. It marked a distinct new direction, an apparent new straightforwardness after he'd faced the wrath of officialdom for his opera "Lady Macbeth". But nothing is ever quite as it seems; what the authorities regarded as healthy plain-speaking can equally be heard as mockery. Is the grandiose end a great victory or a parody? It's your chance to decide!
Dvorak: The Golden Spinning Wheel
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto for trumpet and orchestra in E flat
8.10 Interval Music
Petroc Trelawny recommends recordings by tonight's soloist, Alison Balsom
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 in D
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky: conductor
Alison Balsom: trumpet.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b010p1dt)
Live from the Radio Theatre - Chris Difford, Jane Harris, Adisa the Verbaliser, Toby Litt
Poet, broadcaster and Bard of Barnsley Ian McMillan presides over another evening of words with verve live from the Radio Theatre in London. Singer-songwriter Chris Difford from Squeeze performs two songs, writer Jane Harris reads a new commissioned work, there's rap from Adisa the Verbaliser - and Toby Litt presents a guide to aphorisms accompanied by tap dancer Simeon Weedall from Stomp.
Producer : Erin Riley.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b00szvfl)
Home Rule for the Soul
Home Rule for the Soul
Professor Sunil Khilnani, author of The Idea of India, concludes his exploration of Gandhi's ideas and beliefs first set down in Hind Swaraj. 'My writings should be cremated with my body", Gandhi said in 1937, " What I have done will endure, not what I have said or written'. It's an intriguing statement, especially coming from someone whose collected writings amount to a hundred volumes: and it underlines Gandhi's belief that his greatest political text is in fact his life.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b010p1ky)
Raghu Dixit Session
Lopa Kothari with tracks from across the globe and a session from Indian singer-songwriter Raghu Dixit.
Recently nominated as best Newcomer in this year's 'Songlines' Awards, Raghu Dixit is becoming known internationally, with songs rooted in traditional Indian words and melodies but still thoroughly 21st century. He trained as an Indian classical dancer, but also studied microbiology, before discovering the guitar and his own strong, distinctive voice quality. A recent appearance on BBC TV's Jools Holland show led to one of his songs becoming an instant download hit, and this year he'll be making several appearances at festivals in the UK and in Europe. He recently gave a concert as part of London South Bank's 'Alchemy' Festival.