Susan Sharpe presents Donizetti's opera La Favorita, recorded at the Teatro Colon
Stanislas Deriemaeker (Schijen organ in the Onze Lieve Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp)
Anne-Marja Korimaa (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
Mario Penzar (on the organ from 1649, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Lepoglava)
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), arr. Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Wandererfantasie transcribed from the piano solo for piano and orchestra (S.366)
Anton Dikov (piano), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alipy Naidenov
Tapiola - symphonic poem, Op. 112 (1926)
Danish National Radio Choir, Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor).
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast, including the famous Adagietto from Mahler's Fifth Symphony performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, Berlioz's March to the Scaffold from his Symphonie Fantastique performed by Anima Eterna Brugge conducted by Jos van Immerseel, and Ronald Corp conducts the New London Orchestra in a performance of Strauss's Tritsch-Tratsch Polka.
With Sarah Walker. This week performances by the Scottish conductor Bryden Thomson.
"The brilliance and melodiousness of these concertos are immediately appealing" said Gramophone magazine when first reviewing this recording back in the 1980's. Johann Nepomuk Hummel is still not widely heard these days, but he forms a crucial link between his teachers Mozart and Beethoven and his youthful admirer Chopin. This recording of the A minor concerto won a number of awards when it was recorded in the 1980's and for many people brought the pianist Stephen Hough to their attention, and he is expertly accompanied here by the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by our Artist of the Week, Bryden Thomson.
Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No.1 - Nos. 3 (Villanella) and 4 (Passa mezzo e Mascherada)
Despite his fame on both sides of the Atlantic, Gershwin wrote only one show specifically for the London stage - the Gilbert and Sullivan-infused comedy "Primrose".
Donald Macleod presents a little-heard excerpt from the original cast recording, as well as a real rarity: the "Dream Sequence" from the Hollywood film Delicious, a vestige of George and Ira Gershwin's unhappy experiences in California. He also showcases the work's sibling from the concert hall: the composer's "Second Rhapsody" for piano and orchestra, also written for the film.
In this series celebrating the music written by Dvorak while living in America, the Navarra Quartet team up with viola player Scott Dickinson to perform the great 'American' Quintet preceded by a poignantly contrasting quartet 'From My Homeland' from his fellow countryman, Smetana.
Jazz is the inspiration for today's exploration of the New World in the spirit of Dvorak. From Gershwin's first steps to bring jazz into the concert hall to Stravinsky's Scenes de Ballet which take their inspiration from Cole Porter songs to Bernstein's masterpiece of steamy multi-cultural passion in West Side Story, this is a world bursting with vitality.
Welsh National Opera's new production of Cosi Fan Tutte opens on May 20th. Director Benjamin Davis and conductor Daniele Rustioni talk to Petroc ahead of it's opening night. Singer Mary Carewe and pianist Dominic Muldowney join Petroc and perform live in studio ahead of "nOSTalgie" a cabaret by Dominic Muldowney and devised for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
The music of 20th century Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (after whom tonight's quartet is named) is suffused not only with a heady romanticism and folk music but also with classical elements - epitomised by the quartets of Haydn - so it's fitting that Szymanowski's 2nd String Quartet is preceeded in tonight's concert by one of Haydn's great quartets. Beethoven wrote his opus 132 quartet after recovering from a serious illness which he had feared was fatal and so he titled the third movement 'A Convalescent's Holy Song of Thanksgiving to the Divinity' it contains some of the composers most sublime and transcendental music.
A personal celebration of the hugely charismatic violin teacher, Frederick Grinke - perhaps the single most influential figure in 20th century British string playing
Before Fiona Sampson became a poet and Editor of Poetry Review, she was a foundation scholar at the Royal Academy of Music and almost became a professional violinist. Like many other top fiddle players of her generation - the leaders of the Alberni, Arditti, Coull, Fairfield and Earle Quartets to name but a few - she was taught by Frederick Grinke, known and loved as a teacher long after ill-health stopped him performing.
A hundred years on from Grinke's birth, Fiona Sampson recalls her own experience of this special teacher-pupil relationship, and explores how one great teacher can produce an artistic genealogy which transmits musical understanding down the generations.
The music of 20th century Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (after whom tonight's quartet is named) is suffused not only with a heady romanticism and folk music but also with classical elements - epitomised by the quartets of Haydn - so it's fitting that Szymanowski's 2nd String Quartet is preceeded in tonight's concert by one of Haydn's great quartets. Beethoven wrote his opus 132 quartet after recovering from a serious illness which he had feared was fatal and so he titled the third movement 'A Convalescent's Holy Song of Thanksgiving to the Divinity' it contains some of the composers most sublime and transcendental music.
Peter Blake, West Bengal Politics, Booker International Prize, History of the Mediterranean Sea
The Holbourne Museum in Bath is holding an exhibtion of Sir Peter Blake's work called A Museum for Myself. Rana Mitter talks to the artist about his choice of work on display.
As the longest serving, democratically elected communist government in West Bengal collapses, Lord Desai and historian Patrick French discuss this landmark moment in politics and culture.
Alex Clark has news on the winner of this year's Man Booker International Prize which was announced earlier today in Sydney, Australia.
And Rana discusses the impact of the Mediterranean Sea on the surrounding countries with Cambridge historian David Abulafia, author of a new book, The Great Sea, and Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek Culture.
In the third programme in our series, The Mystical Turn, Dr Jane Shaw, Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, explores the appeal of Evelyn Underhill's bestselling book, Mysticism, first published one hundred years ago.
Mysticism: A Study of the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness, was a major contribution to the revival of interest in mysticism in the early 20th century, and has been republished many times. For years on the margins of the established Church, Evelyn Underhill was attuned to the spiritual longing of the times. But in contrast to WR Inge - the Oxford don and later Dean of St Paul's Cathedral - whose book, Christian Mysticism, had triggered a revival of interest in mysticism at the end of the 19th century, Underhill took mysticism out of the realm of the purely intellectual and into the practical. Her emphasis was on prayer, meditation and personal ascetism. For her, the mystic way was a largely individual endeavour and it was open to everyone.
Tonight the Tibetan Tashi Lhunpo Monks intone a Fire Puja and Scottish singer Ewan McLennan tells an Old Man's Tale. Plus a Meditation by Zbigniew Preisner, raw flamenco from Rosario La Tremendita and ambience sculpted by Marconi Union. With Verity Sharp.
THURSDAY 19 MAY 2011
THU 01:00 Through the Night (b0112g2m)
Susan Sharpe introduces a concert of the music of Piazzolla with the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra and bandoneon player Richard Galliano
1:01 AM
Piazzolla, Astor [1921-1992]
Tangazo, Variations on "Buenos Aires"
Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Roberto Salvalaio (conductor)
1:15 AM
Piazzolla, Astor [1921-1992]
Aconcagua, concerto for bandoneon and orchestra
Richard Galliano (bandoneon), Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Roberto Salvalaio (conductor)
1:36 AM
Piazzolla, Astor [1921-1992]
Adios Nonino
Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Roberto Salvalaio (conductor)
1:45 AM
Lecuona, Ernesto [(1895-1963)]
Andalucia Suite
Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Roberto Salvalaio (conductor)
1:56 AM
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909)
Suite española (Op.47)
Ilze Graubina (piano)
2:18 AM
Rodrigo, Joaquín (1901-1999)
Three Spanish Compositions
Goran Listes (guitar)
2:32 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937) arr. Fernand Gillet
Pièce en forme de Habanera
Magdalena Karolak (oboe) (b.1984 Poland), Marcela Rodriguez (piano)
2:36 AM
de Falla, Manuel (1876-1946)
Noches en los jardines de España
Filip Pavlov (piano), Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Marinov (conductor)
3:01 AM
Fodor, Carolus Antonius (1768-1846)
Symphony No.4 in C minor (Op.19)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Guido Ajmone Marsan (conductor)
3:23 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)
3:54 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Suite italienne for violin and piano (1925)
Alena Baeva (violin), Giuzai Karieva (piano)
4:11 AM
Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899)
Chanson perpétuelle (1898)
Lena Hoel (soprano), Bengt Åke-Lundin (piano), Yggdrasil String Quartet
4:20 AM
Alpaerts, Flor (1876-1954)
Avondmuziek
I Solisti del Vento, Ivo Hadermann (conductor)
4:30 AM
traditional arr. Gregorc, Janez (b. 1934)
N'mau cez izaro (folksong from Koro?ko region)
The Slovene Brass Quintet
4:31 AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
3 Folksongs from Csik county
Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
4:35 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Serenade for string orchestra (Op.20) in E minor
BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
4:47 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet no.4 in A major (K.298)
Dae-Won Kim (male) (flute),Yong-Woo Chun (male) (violin), Myung-Hee Cho (female) (viola), Jink-Yung Chee (female) (cello)
5:01 AM
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936)
Barcarolle in D flat (Op.22 No.1)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
5:05 AM
Schein, Johann Hermann (1586-1630)
No.26 Canzon for 5 instruments in A minor 'Corollarium' - from Banchetto Musicale, Leipzig (1617)
Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (descant viola da gamba & director)
5:10 AM
Goldmark, Károly (1830-1915)
Scherzo for orchestra in E minor (Op.19)
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Adam Medveczky (conductor)
5:16 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
12 Variations on 'Ein Mädchen Oder Weibchen' for cello and piano (Op.66)
Danjulo Ishizaka (cello), José Gallardo (piano)
5:26 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)
5:37 AM
Doppler, Franz (1821-1883)
L'oiseau des bois (Op.21)
János Balint (flute), Jeno Kevehazi, Peter Fuzes, Sandor Endrodi, Tibor Maruzsa (horns)
5:43 AM
Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992)
Le Loriot (Golden Oriole) (No.2 of Catalogue d'Oiseaux)
David Louie (piano)
5:51 AM
Locatelli, Pietro Antonio (1695-1764)
Concerto in E flat (Op.7 No.6), 'Il pianto d'Ariana'
Amsterdam Bach Soloists
6:07 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
Sonata for strings no.1 in G major
Sofia Soloists, Plamen Djourov (conductor)
6:21 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (composer) (1714-1788);
Trio sonata for flute, violin and continuo (Wq.161'2) in B flat major
Les Coucous Bénévoles
6:39 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907)
Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2 in G major (Op.13)
Marianne Thorsen (violin), Håvard Gimse (piano).
THU 07:00 Breakfast (b0112g2p)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast, including a performance of Glinka's overture to Ruslan and Ludmila given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Fritz Reiner, the Orchestre de Paris perform Ravel's Alborada del Gracioso conducted by Jean Martinon, and soprano Lisa Milne and pianist Iain Burnside perform one of Reynaldo Hahn's songs, Offrande.
THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b0112g2r)
Thursday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. This week performances by the Scottish conductor Bryden Thomson and a tempestuous performance of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.22 in F Op.54 by Nikolai Lugansky.
10:00
Tchaikovsky
Marche Slave Op.31
Halle Orchestra
John Barbirolli (conductor)
EMI CDM7639602
10:09
Artist of the Week
Ireland
Legend for Piano and Orchestra
Eric Parkin (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bryden Thomson (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 8461
10:23
Purcell
The Virtuous Wife Z611 'Good Luck at Last'
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
L'OISEAU LYRE 4258932
10:37
Francaix
Divertissement for Bassoon and String Quintet
Gaudier Ensemble
Hyperion CDA67036
10:47
Ravel
Pavane pour une infante defunte
Jean-Yves Thibadet (piano)
DECCA 4335152
10:54
The work in focus today is perhaps Gerald Finzi's greatest work, his Cello Concerto Op.31 played by Raphael Wallfisch and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by our Artist of the Week Bryden Thomson. At nearly 40 minutes long its a work of breadth and power, yet still contains much of the rhapsodic beauty that Finzi is known for in many of his other works. The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs sums up the recording well saying "Finzi's Cello Concerto is perhaps the most searching of all his works. Wallfisch finds all the dark eloquence of the central movement, and the performance overall has splendid impetus, with Thomson providing the most sympathetic backing.
Finzi
Cello Concerto Op.40
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 9949
11:34
Mundy
Beatus et Sanctus; Adolescentulus sum ego
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)
HELIOS CDH55086
11:43
Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle
Sonata No.22 in F Op.54
Nikolai Lugansky (piano)
WARNER 2564623002.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0112g2t)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Of Thee I Sing
Donald Macleod introduces excerpts from George and Ira Gershwin's Pulitzer Prize-winning satire "Of Thee I Sing" - a runaway hit on Broadway after the political and social fallout of the Wall Street Crash - and discusses the brilliant - and touching -relationship between the two gifted brothers.
In advance of tomorrow's extended excerpt from Act 2 of the composer's masterpiece, "Porgy and Bess", Donald Macleod also tells the story of the opera's genesis, and introduces the rarely-heard orchestral suite "Catfish Row", drawn from its darkest and most profound musical material.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b0112g2w)
Dvorak in America
Ivo Kahanek
In this series of recitals from Perth Concert Hall, Czech pianist Ivo Kahanek performs Dvorak's American Suite in its original version for solo piano, written and performed in New York while the composer was Director of the Conservatoire. In contrast, the Three-Page Sonata by contemporary home-grown composer Charles Ives shows a New World developing its own voice apart from European influences.
Ivo Kahanek, piano
Dvorak - Suite in A Op 98
Ives - Three-Page Sonata
Dvorak - 8 Humoresques Op 101.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b0112g2y)
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform live from the City Halls in Glasgow featuring Radio 3 New Generation Artist Henk Neven and conducted by Lawrence Renes. Dvorak and his countrymen Myslivecek and Janacek provide an operatic theme this Thursday with music from two of the greatest Czech operas, Cunning Little Vixen and Rusalka.
Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 "Classical"
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Lawrence Renes (conductor)
Handel: Ombra mai fu from Serse
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Henk Neven (baritone)
Lawrence Renes (conductor)
Mozart: Hai gia vinta la causa from Le Nozze di Figaro
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Henk Neven (baritone)
Lawrence Renes (conductor)
Mozart: Papageno's air from The Magic Flute
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Henk Neven (baritone)
Lawrence Renes (conductor)
Britten: Look! Through the Port from Billy Budd
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Henk Neven (baritone)
Lawrence Renes (conductor)
Rossini: Sois immobile from William Tell
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Henk Neven (baritone)
Lawrence Renes (conductor)
Britten: 4 Sea Interludes
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martin Andre (conductor)
Beethoven: Symphony No 6
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Lawrence Renes (conductor)
Janacek: Cunning Little Vixen Suite
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Bernhard Klee (conductor)
Myslivecek: Concertante for soprano, horn and orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Elena Semenova (soprano)
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
Dvorak: Necitelna vodni moci from Rusalka
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Elena Semenova (soprano)
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
Dvorak: Slavonic Dance No 1
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b0112g30)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
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 (b0112g2t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b0112g32)
Lang Lang, Repin and Maisky at the Royal Festival Hall
Live from the Royal Festival Hall in London
Presented by Andrew McGregor
A rare chance to hear Chinese virtuoso Lang Lang performing chamber music with two other big stars, violinst Vadim Repin and cellist Mischa Maisky. The concert opens with the single-movement Trio élégiaque No 1 by Rachmaninov, which he wrote when he was only 19. Then, Mendelssohn's Trio No. 1 in D minor, one of the composer's best loved chamber masterworks, and after the break, Tchaikovsky's Trio in A minor, a piece composed 'In memory of a great artist', the composer's mentor and friend Nikolai Rubinstein.
Rachmaninov: Trio élégiaque No.1 in G minor
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op.49
8.20 Interval Music
Andrew McGregor recommends solo recordings by tonight's performers
8.40
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op.50
Lang Lang (piano)
Vadim Repin (violin)
Mischa Maisky (cello).
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b0112g6b)
Adam Hochschild, Immersive Theatre, the Open Secret, Pam Gems Tribute
Anne McElvoy talks to the historian Adam Hochschild about the impact, at home, of the First World War and the fissures it caused in families like the Pankhursts.
She falls, with Susannah Clapp, down the rabbit hole to the curious world of Alice in Wonderland and immersive theatre.
Angie Hobbs, Bronwen Maddox and Andy Martin discuss the idea of the "Open Secret". How do we map the edges of the public sphere?
And we celebrate the life and work of the prolific and pioneering playwright Pam Gems who died last week.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b0112g6d)
The Mystical Turn
Adela Curtis
In the fourth programme in our series, The Mystical Turn, Dr Jane Shaw, Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, explores the life and writings of the little-known, but charismatic, English mystic Adela Curtis.
Mystic, vegetarian, bookseller, sewage expert and much more besides, Adela Curtis was a remarkable woman. Born in 1864, she lived to the age of 96. After running a restaurant and bookshop in Kensington in the early years of the 20th century, she went on to found her own religious order for women - the Order of Silence - in Coldash, near Newbury in Berkshire. Members were celibate, vegetarian and contemplative, but the Order was not aligned with any particular church.
In 1921, aged 57, Adela Curtis then retired to live near Burton Bradstock in Dorset. But her followers visited with such frequency that a new community was formed. Each member of the community lived in a simple hut surrounded by a small piece of land for cultivation. The women wove their own robes from undyed silk or cotton - resulting in their being dubbed the 'White Ladies' - by the locals. Visitors came from far and wide and Aldous Huxley thought Adela Curtis, who died in 1960, one of the greatest living mystics.
Producer: Ian Willox
Executive Producer: Alan Hall
A Chrome Radio production for BBC Radio 3.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b0112g6g)
Late Junction Sessions
Howard Skempton and Robin Williamson
Verity Sharp with a late-night music mix, and, at around midnight, this month's Late Junction session, a collaboration between Celtic bard Robin Williamson, founder member of the Incredible String Band, and experimental composer and master of the melodic understatement Howard Skempton. Plus a motet by Bruckner, the Indian veena playing of Nirmala Rajasekar and a Russian folksong in the key of sadness.
Robin Williamson, Scottish singer, songwriter, Celtic harp player and Honorary Chief Bard of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, is best known for his work in the 1960s with The Incredible String Band. In recent years, he has devoted himself to reviving the traditions of storytelling in music, drawing influences from folk, jazz, early music and eastern music.
Howard Skempton also made an impact in the musical world in the 1960s, as part of Cornelius Cardew's Scratch Orchestra, which pioneered performances of experimental music by John Cage and Terry Riley, as well as compositions by band members. His recent music is characterised by brevity and sharp concentration, and has been acclaimed for its accessibility and focus on sonority. One critic has described his style as 'complex beauty under a veneer of simplicity'.
In this special collaboration for Late Junction, Robin Williamson and Howard Skempton are given six hours in the studio, and free rein to create any music as they wish.
FRIDAY 20 MAY 2011
FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b0112g7x)
1:01 AM
Wagner, Richard [1813-1883]
Parsifal - Prelude Act 1
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
1:16 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
4 Last Songs
Karita Mattila (soprano) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
1:40 AM
Schoenberg, Arnold [1874-1951]
5 Orchestral Pieces (Op. 16)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
1:59 AM
Webern, Anton [1883-1945]
6 Pieces for orchestra (Op. 6)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
2:12 AM
Berg, Alban [1885-1935]
3 Pieces for Orchestra (Op. 6)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
2:34 AM
Attributed Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Partita in E flat (K.Anh.C
17.04) and unnumbered Rondo for wind octet
The Festival Winds
3:01 AM
Melcer, Henryk (1869-1928)
Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor (1895)
Andrzej Stefánski (piano), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Cracow, Antoni Wit (conductor)
3:31 AM
Contant, Alexis (1858-1918) (arr.David Passmore)
Meditation (dedicated by composer to his son Edgar)
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
3:35 AM
Contant, Alexis (1858-1918)
La Charmeuse
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
3:38 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959)
Bachianas Brasileiras No.9 for string orchestra
The "Amadeus" Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan, Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)
3:48 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Sonata No.3 in B minor (Op.58)
Robert Taub (piano)
4:14 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
String Quintet no.2 in Bb major (Op.87)
William Preucil & Philip Setzer (violins), Cynthia Phelps & Nokuthula Ngwenyama (violas), Carter Brey (cello)
4:44 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Overture in D major (D.556)
Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcello Viotti (conductor)
4:52 AM
Anon (16th century)
Suite
Hortus Musicus, Andrew Mustonen
5:01 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Overture from Suite no.1 in C major (BWV.1066)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
5:11 AM
Reger, Max (1873-1916)
Präludium in D minor, op 65/6
Cor Ardesch (organ), on Organ Willem Hendrik Kam 1859, Grote Kerk, Dordrecht, Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk
5:19 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Trio Sonata in D minor (Op.1 No.12) 'La Folia' (1705)
Florilegium
5:29 AM
Albicastro, Henricus (fl.1700-06)
Sonate pour violon et continue (Op.9 No.12), 'La Folia'
Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini (conductor)
5:41 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Variations on a Theme of Corelli (Op.42)
Duncan Gifford (piano)
6:02 AM
Brahms, Johanns (1833-1897)
An die Nachtigall (Op.46 No.4)
Mark Pedrotti (baritone), Stephen Ralls (piano)
6:04 AM
Duparc, Henri (1848-1933)
L'invitation au voyage
Mark Pedrotti (baritone), Stephen Ralls (piano)
6:09 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Nichts (Op.10 No.2) and Die Nacht (Op.10 No.3)
Mark Pedrotti (baritone), Stephen Ralls (piano)
6:13 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.22 in E flat, 'The Philosopher'
Amsterdam Bach Soloists
6:29 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
3 pieces from 'Les Indes Galantes'
Stephen Preston (flute), Robert Woolley (harpsichord)
6:36 AM
Jeune, Claude le (1528-1600)
Doucéte, sucrine, toute de miél
Ensemble Vocal Sagittarius, Christina Pluhar (lute), Michel Laplénie (conductor)
6:39 AM
Jeune, Claude le (1528-1600)
A sa chut' il se va dejetér
Ensemble Vocal Sagittarius, Christina Pluhar (lute), Michel Laplénie (conductor)
6:41 AM
Koehne, Graeme (b. 1956)
Divertissement: Trois pièces bourgeoises (aka String Quartet no 1) (1983)
The Australian String Quartet
Susan Sharpe introduces a concert of Wagner, Strauss, Schoenberg, Webern and Berg with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle from 2010 BBC Proms
6:54 AM
Pettersson, (Gustav) Allan (1911-1980)
Two Elegies (1934) and Romanza (1942)
Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Enrico Pace (piano).
FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b0112g7z)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast, including a performance of the famous Flower Duet by Delibes given by Joan Sutherland and Jane Berbie with the Monte-Carlo Opera Orchestra under Richard Bonynge, Smetana's Polka from The Bartered Bride performed by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan, and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under Neeme Jarvi perform Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italien.
FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b0112g81)
Friday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. This week performances by the Scottish conductor Bryden Thomson.
10:00
Roberto Pansera
Dance of Joy
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Kari Kriikku (clarinet)
ONDINE ODE1140-2 Track 5
10:13
Artist of the Week
Vaughan Williams
Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bryden Thomson (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 9775
10:27
Kodaly
Dances of Marosszek
Philharmonia Hungarica
Antal Dorati (conductor)
DECCA 4250342
10:40
Today our Friday Virtuoso is Finnish clarinettest Kari Kriikku, of whose playing a German reviewer recently wrote "When this instrument begins to sound, it takes off, the flying carpet: Kari Kriikku's clarinet tells stories, creates most dazzling exotic sensations and takes the audience to new colourful worlds." This description could certainly be applied to Kari Kriikku's performance of Weber's Clarinet Quintet in B flat major. The piece features many beautiful melodies and the final movement in particular has to be heard to be believed!
Weber
Clarinet Quintet in B flat major Op.34
Kari Kriikku (clarinet)
New Helsinki Quartet
ONDINE ODE 895-2
11:09
CPE Bach
Sonata in G Minor Wq64/17
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI DHM82876673742
11:21
Artist of the Week
Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No.2 Op.18
Howard Shelley (piano)
Scottish National Orchestra
Bryden Thomson (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 24130.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0112g83)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Porgy and Bess
When George Gershwin died at the age of 38, he was at the height of his compositional powers, and teeming with ideas. In the final programme of the week, Donald Macleod explores the poignant story of his unhappy final months, spent in Hollywood away from his home in New York - and the effect that his tragic premature death had on his beloved brother Ira.
We also hear arguably the two finest works of Gershwin's final years - the dazzling "Variations on 'I Got Rhythm'" for piano and orchestra - performed in an archive recording by the composer's great friend Oscar Levant - and two complete scenes from Gershwin's operatic masterpiece, "Porgy and Bess".
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b0112g85)
Dvorak in America
Roderick Williams
Roderick Williams presents a programme of spiritual songs from many American traditions including hymns, spirituals, revivalist songs and shaker tunes as well as some of Dvorak's song cycle, Ten Biblical Songs, settings of various psalms from the Czech language bible which were written during his American period.
Roderick Williams, bass- baritone
Christopher Glynn, piano
Dvorak- No. 1 Clouds and darkness are round about him
No. 2 Thou art my defence and shield
Arr. Copland - Simple Gifts
Samuel Barber - Three Songs Op. 10
Dvorak - No. 3 Hear my prayer, O God
No. 5 I will sing a new song
Jackson Hill - The Silent Ground(première performance)
Charles Ives - He is there!
In Flanders Fields
Tom Sails Away
Arr. Roderick Williams - Deep River
Arr. Copland - At the River
Dvorak - No. 7 By the waters of Babylon
Arr. Copland - Zion's walls
Arr. Roderick Williams - Joshua fit de battle of Jericho
Dvorak - No.10 O sing unto the Lord a new song.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b0112g87)
Music from the New World
Episode 4
Iconic works of the 20th century feature in this final visit to the New World in the spirit of the Dvorak with a performance of Bernstein's great choral masterpiece, the Chichester Psalms and Britten's Hymn to St Cecilia, penned whilst in the USA during World War II. While Adams's symphonic arrangement of his most recent opera 'Doctor Atomic' brings the themes of contemporary 21st century into the concert hall.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b0112g89)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Royal Opera House Education Director Paul Reeve talks to Petroc Trelawny live in the studio about the Youth Opera Company debut performance at Linbury Studio. Vladimir Jurowski and Gerald Finley are interviewed about the new production of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg at the Glyndebourne Festival which opens this weekend.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
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E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 18:00 Composer of the Week (b0112g83)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:00 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b0112g8c)
Smetana's Bartered Bride at the Barbican
Acts 1 and 2
Live from the Barbican Hall, London
Presented by Louise Fryer
Smetana - The Bartered Bride
Jiri Belohlávek turns to one of the great keystones of Czech opera for his final festive celebration of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's 80th season. Smetana's comic opera, with its potent blend of Bohemian dances, heartfelt melodies and flamboyant Czech spirit, achieved global success in the 1870s and has remained in the international repertoire ever since. It's a typical operatic story - will Jeník win the hand of his love Marenka in spite of parents, marriage brokers, mistaken identities and a drunken bear? Find out as the BBC SO's Chief Conductor conducts a starry all-Czech cast.
7.00 Smetana: The Bartered Bride - Acts 1 & 2
Jiri Belohlávek conductor
Marenka ..... Dana Buresová (soprano)
Jeník ..... Tomás Juhás (tenor)
Kecal ..... Jozef Benci (bass)
Vasek ..... Ales Vorácek (tenor)
Esmeralda ..... Katerina Knezikova (soprano)
Hata ..... Lucie Hilscherová (mezzo-soprano)
Micha ..... Gustav Belacek (bass)
Ringmaster ..... Jaroslav Brezina (tenor)
Krusina ..... Svatopluk Sem (baritone)
Ludmila ..... Stanislava Jirku (soprano)
Indian ..... Ondrej Mraz (bass)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlávek (conductor).
FRI 20:35 Twenty Minutes (b01176z1)
The Bartered Bride and Arranged Marriages
Ambitious parents, thwarted lovers, scheming marriage brokers and surprise revelations - theatre director, Jatinder Verma considers the place of arranged marriages in Bollywood cinema.
FRI 20:55 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01176z3)
Smetana's Bartered Bride at the Barbican
Act 3
Live from the Barbican Hall, London
Presented by Louise Fryer
Smetana - The Bartered Bride
Jiri Belohlávek turns to one of the great keystones of Czech opera for his final festive celebration of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's 80th season. Smetana's comic opera, with its potent blend of Bohemian dances, heartfelt melodies and flamboyant Czech spirit, achieved global success in the 1870s and has remained in the international repertoire ever since. It's a typical operatic story - will Jeník win the hand of his love Marenka in spite of parents, marriage brokers, mistaken identities and a drunken bear? Find out as the BBC SO's Chief Conductor conducts a starry all-Czech cast.
8.55 Smetana: The Bartered Bride - Act 3
Jiri Belohlávek conductor
Marenka ..... Dana Buresová (soprano)
Jeník ..... Tomás Juhás (tenor)
Kecal ..... Jozef Benci (bass)
Vasek ..... Ales Vorácek (tenor)
Esmeralda ..... Katerina Knezikova (soprano)
Hata ..... Lucie Hilscherová (mezzo-soprano)
Micha ..... Gustav Belacek (bass)
Ringmaster ..... Jaroslav Brezina (tenor)
Krusina ..... Svatopluk Sem (baritone)
Ludmila ..... Stanislava Jirku (soprano)
Indian ..... Ondrej Mraz (bass)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlávek (conductor).
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b0112g8f)
Mohsin Hamid, Michael Rosen and Launch of Radio 3 Proms Plus Poetry Competition, Taiye Selasi and Joe Bone
Ian McMillan takes to the airwaves with Radio 3's language cabaret. This week, the poet and former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen and the poet Ruth Padel launch the Proms Poetry Competition. Entrants need to submit poems inspired by music included in this year's Proms and Michael Rosen has had a go himself. He'll read a new poem commissioned by The Verb about a piece in the 2011 Proms programme while Ruth Padel introduces some of her favourite poems about music and offers top tips for aspiring poets. The author of 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' Mohsin Hamid introduces a new short story. The writer Taiye Selasi makes a plea for fictional portrayals of the African middle-class which she says are lacking in contemporary novels and Joe Bone with an excerpt from a new theatrical piece, Bane 3.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b0112g8h)
The Mystical Turn
Kandinsky and Contemporaries
Concluding our series, The Mystical Turn, Dr Jane Shaw, Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, explores the relationship between spirituality and mysticism in the work of Russian artist Kandinsky and his contemporaries.
Artists - as well as devout Christians and seekers on the edge of institutional religion - sought a path to union with the divine. Kandinsky's manifesto on the relationship between spirituality and art - The Art of Spiritual Harmony (later retitled Concerning the Spiritual in Art) - was first published in English in 1914 (it had originally been published in German in 1912). Kandinsky believed that art belonged to the spiritual realm, that form and colour were central, and that there was a link between so-called "primitive art" and the spiritual. He was not alone. His views were echoed in the art of his contemporaries: in the paintings of the Post-impressionists; in Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, which had its premiere in Paris in 1913; and in The New Science of Colour by New York poet, Beatrice Irwin.
Producer: Ian Willox
Executive Producer: Alan Hall
A Chrome Radio production for BBC Radio 3.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b0112g8k)
Eliza Carthy
Presented by Mary Ann Kennedy and featuring a specially recorded studio session by English folk musician Eliza Carthy with a trio that includes Bethany Porter (cello) and Phil Alexander (piano). Plus the latest releases from across the globe.