John Shea presents Trio Ex Aequo performing Haydn & Beethoven alongside Dvorak's "Dumky" Trio.
Trio in C major H.
Trio no. 4 Op.90 (Dumky) for piano and strings
Scherzando from Trio in E flat major D. 929 (Op. 100) for piano and strings
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) arranged for orchestra by Koechlin, Charles (1867-1950)
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 (Op.11) in E minor
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974), arr. Timothy Kain
Elsner, Józef Antoni Franciszek [Joseph Anton Franciskus, Józef Ksawery, Joseph Xaver] (1769-1854)
Maria Zedelius (soprano), David Cordier (alto), Paul Elliott (tenor), Michael Schopper (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including Schubert's song An die Musik sung and played by tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Julius Drake, pianist Maurizio Pollini performs Chopin's 'Military' Polonaise in A major, and a look at this week's Specialist Classical Chart.
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Avison's 12 Concerti Grossi after Scarlatti, performed by the Avison Ensemble: DIVINE ART DDA21213
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the French piano duo - sisters Katia and Marielle Labeque - in Berio (Waltz) and Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue).
The Essential Classics guest is Professor Tom Wright, a leading New Testament Scholar and former Bishop of Durham. Today he introduces music that he finds particularly moving and a work he remembers being performed by a conductor he admires.
By the end of the Great War, Sir Edward Elgar couldn't compose any music to celebrate peace, disillusioned as he was by the whole period, which Donald Macleod explores in conversation with Terry Charman from the Imperial War Museum.
At the beginning of 1915 came the realisation that the Great War was not going to be over in three months. German cruisers had been shelling Whitby and Scarborough, and Zeppelin raids were happening over London. Keen to do his bit, Elgar joined the Hampstead Special Reserve, being called out when needed for air-raid duties. He also started to compose a work genuinely inspired by the pity of war and the inhumanity of warfare, The Spirit of England. But with the sinking of the Lusitania, riots took place in London, and xenophobia was on the rise. At this very same time, Elgar was writing his Polonia, a symphonic prelude in aid of the Polish Relief Fund. However, what the people needed more than anything, was escapism, and Elgar supplied it by returning to fairyland, with his Starlight Express.
The Pavel Haas Quartet are named after a young Czech composer who was interned by the Nazis in the the infamous "Theresienstadt" concentration camp. The Pavel Haas Quartet took part in the BBC's New Generation Artist Scheme and are now based in Prague, from where they are much in demand worldwide, and they have built a reputation for the highest level of quartet playing.
In November 2010 the quartet played four concerts at LSO St. Luke's in London, and this, the first of them pairs two works by their countryman Dvorak - the best known of his quartets - the "American" and the string quintet - also written on that same American trip.
In the String Quintet, the additional viola is Krzystof Chorzelski who is the viola player with the Belcea Quartet.
The quartet members are: violinists Veronika Jaruskova & Eva Karova, viola player Pavel Nikl and cellist Krzystof Jarusek.
Dvorak: Quartet No.12 in F major, Op.96 "American"; String Quintet No.3 in E flat major, Op.97.
Katie Derham continues Radio 3's month of programmes complementing the BBC4 series "Symphony" - including every note of every Symphony featured in the television series. Today's programme begins with the Ulster Orchestra in a live concert from Belfast, featuring great Symphonies by Haydn and Mozart - plus Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor playing Schumann, and a key work from the mid-1700s that helped to establish the standard four-movement form of the classical Symphony. The programme ends with another Mozart Symphony - the first in his final trilogy of masterpieces which you can hear over the next three days.
Stamitz: Symphony in D major, Op. 3 no. 2
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Christian Cannabich: Symphony no. 48 in B flat major, Op. 10 no. 3
C P E Bach: Symphony in D major, Wq. 183 no. 1
Mozart: Symphony no. 31 in D major (Paris)
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Haydn: Symphony no. 100 in G major (Military)
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Mozart: Symphony no. 39 in E flat major
German pianist Sebastian Knauer plays live in the In Tune studio as he continues his tour with violinist Daniel Hope in 'A Celebration of Joseph Joachim'. Sebastian talks to presenter Sean Rafferty about his recent release featuring piano concertos by JS Bach, CPE Bach and JC Bach performed with Sir Roger Norrington and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra.
Soprano Stephanie Corley sings live in the studio with pianist Sergey Rybin ahead of their lunchtime concert at St John Smith Square with a programme of Schumann, Debussy, Tchaikovsky and Berg.
Including "My Essential Symphony" with the actor and comedian Alexander Armstrong.
Exclusive to In Tune, "My Essential Symphony" features a range of advocates sharing their thoughts on a particular symphony, running throughout a month of programmes celebrating the Symphony across Radio 3 and BBC4 television and also featuring Rufus Wainwright, Joan Armatrading, Will Self, Alan Hollinghurst, Lady Antonia Fraser, Penny Smith, Sandi Toksvig, James Naughtie & Brian Blessed.
Email us with your Essential Symphony at in.tune@bbc.co.uk or follow on Twitter @BBCR3InTune
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With a selection of music and guests from the music world.
In a concert celebrating the Liszt bicentenary, Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays some of the composer's most celebrated works alongside those by the great piano composers who followed him.
After a Threnody inspired by trees in the park of the Villa d'Este near Rome, we hear Nenie, one of the Dirges by Bartók, Liszt's successor in the Hungarian piano tradition. The concert continues with a pair of works by Liszt and Ravel which both seek to capture the beauty of the play of fountains. A contemporary work from award-winning Italian composer Marco Stroppa depicts a traditional ceremony from Easter Island, and finally there is Liszt's portrait of St Francis of Assisi and a dazzling evocation of exotic birdsong by Messiaen, with whose music Aimard is strongly associated.
Franz Liszt: St François d'Assise (La prédication aux oiseaux) (Légende, S.175 No.1)
The Foreign Secretary William Hague is interviewed by Anne McElvoy at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011. The central theme for this year's festival is Change, and William Hague discusses the dramatic changes taking throughout the globe and Britain's role in this transforming world order.
At the age of 50 the Rt Hon William Hague MP must be our youngest elder statesman. The MP for Richmond (Yorkshire) has been Welsh Secretary, Leader of the Conservative Party for five years, and since May 2010 the British Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State. Night Waves presenter Anne McElvoy hosts an indepth interview recorded at The Sage Gateshead in front of an audience at the 2011 Free Thinking festival of ideas.
The BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival takes place at The Sage Gateshead 4 - 6 November and is broadcast on Radio 3 from Friday 4 November for three weeks.
Rachel Hewitt, one of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the mapping of the Scottish border, recorded at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011.
The dividing line between Scotland and England has been a source of tension over the centuries, but it wasn't until the 1750s that the border was mapped from scratch, with the most sophisticated instruments and methods the Enlightenment had to offer. Rachel Hewitt, Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and author of an acclaimed history of the Ordnance Survey, tells the story of that mapping, the motives that fuelled it, and the role of maps as icons of national identity.
This essay is recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011, which takes place at The Sage Gateshead 4 - 6 November. The New Generation Thinkers are winners of the inaugural talent scheme run the BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find the brightest academic minds in the arts and humanities with the potential to turn their ideas into fascinating broadcasts.
Max Reinhardt features a selection of music that includes Scottish Baroque, Sweet Baboo, Bjork, Berio, Bert Jansch and cover versions of Bob Dylan.
WEDNESDAY 09 NOVEMBER 2011
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b016vnbp)
John Shea presents Purcell, Corelli and Telemann by The Harmony of Nations Baroque Orchestra
12:31 AM
Purcell, Henry [1659-1695]
Theatre music suite - selection of Ayres from the Theatre
Harmony of Nations Baroque Orchestra, Alfredo Bernardini (oboe/director)
12:47 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo [1653-1713]
Concerto grosso in C minor, Op.6 no.3
Harmony of Nations Baroque Orchestra, Alfredo Bernardini (oboe/director)
12:58 AM
Rebel, Jean-Fery [c.1666-1747]
Les Caracteres de la danse - fantaisie for 2 violins & bc
Harmony of Nations Baroque Orchestra, Alfredo Bernardini (oboe/director)
1:07 AM
Albinoni, Tomaso [1671-1750]
Concerto for oboe and strings in D minor, Op.9 no.2 -
Harmony of Nations Baroque Orchestra, Alfredo Bernardini (oboe/director)
1:20 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Overture (Suite) in C major for 3 oboes, bassoon, strings & continuo TWV.55:C6
Harmony of Nations Baroque Orchestra, Alfredo Bernardini (oboe/director), Molly Marsh (oboe), Luise Haugk (oboe), Katrin Lazar (bassoon)
1:42 AM
Froberger, Johann Jaokob (1616-1667)
Capriccio III (FbWv503)
Pavao Ma?ic (organ)
1:47 AM
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Ancient Airs and Dances - Suite No.2
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
2:06 AM
Reicha, Anton (1770-1836)
Quintet for clarinet and strings in B flat major (Op.89)
Joze Kotar (clarinet), Slovene Philharmonic String Quartet
2:31 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.44 in E minor, 'Trauer'
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)
2:57 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Fantasiestücke (Op.12)
Kevin Kenner (piano)
3:23 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Fantastic scherzo for orchestra (Op.25)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
3:37 AM
Larsen, Tore Björn (b. 1957)
Tre rosetter -
Blomstre som en rosengård ;
En Rose saa jeg skyde ;
The loveliest Rose is found
Fionian Chamber Choir, Alice Granum (director)
3:51 AM
Groneman, Johannes Albertus (1710-1778)
Flute Sonata in G major
Jed Wentz (flute), Balazs Mate (cello), Marcelo Bussi (harpsichord)
4:05 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
6 Variations in F major (Op.34)
Theo Bruins (piano)
4:20 AM
Fasch, Johann Friedrich (1688-1758)
Sonata in D minor
Amsterdam Bach Soloists, Wim ten Have (conductor)
4:31 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Ruy Blas - overture (Op.95)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor)
4:39 AM
Giuliani, Mauro (1781-1829)
6 Variations for guitar and violin (Op.81)
Laura Vadjon (violin), Romana Matanovac (guitar)
4:48 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927)
Vårnatt (Spring Night)
Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Sköld (conductor)
4:57 AM
Gilson, Paul (1865-1942)
Andante and Scherzo for cello and orchestra
Timora Rosler (cello), Flemish Radio Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
5:06 AM
Hartmann, Johan Peter Emilius (1805-1900)
Deux Pièces caracteristiques, Op.25
Nina Gade (piano)
5:19 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Suite for strings and continuo (TWV.55:g1) in G minor 'La Musette'
B'Rock
5:33 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Concerto for clarinet and orchestra No.2 in E flat major (Op.74)
Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
5:56 AM
Fodor, Carolus Antonius (1768-1846)
Sonata in F sharp major (Op.2 No.2) (1793)
Arthur Schoonderwoerd (fortepiano - after Anton Walter, 1795)
6:14 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893)
Capriccio Italien (Op. 45)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrej Boreyko (conductor)
06:30
Radio 3 Breakfast.
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b016vnbr)
Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including Parry's Jerusalem sung by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge conducted by Stephen Cleobury, Enescu's Romanian Rhapsody No.1 is performed by the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski, and the European Brandenburg Ensemble perform Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in G major.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b016vnbt)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Avison's 12 Concerti Grossi after Scarlatti, performed by the Avison Ensemble: DIVINE ART DDA21213
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the French piano duo - sisters Katia and Marielle Labeque - in Brahms (Hungarian Dances) and Debussy (En Blanc et Noir).
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is Professor Tom Wright, a leading New Testament Scholar and former Bishop of Durham. Today he introduces a piece that makes him glad to be alive, one that he can relax to and music that he'd like to be remembered by.
11.00
Tom Wright's favourite Symphony
Sibelius
Symphony No 5
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
DG 477 5454.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b016vpxp)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Elgar and the Gramophone Company
By the end of the Great War, Sir Edward Elgar couldn't compose any music to celebrate peace, disillusioned as he was by the whole period, which Donald Macleod explores in conversation with Terry Charman from the Imperial War Museum.
The Great War dragged on, and by 1916 the government was forced to introduce compulsory national service. Elgar found himself touring the North of England and Scotland, with morale-raising concerts and music including To Women from The Spirit of England. But Elgar was unwell even before the war started, and war events combined with his exhausting work were dragging him down. His wife Alice refused to let Elgar accept the offer of a conducting tour of Russia, due to his ill health. He still managed though to keep working on a theme or two of his, such as his incomplete Piano Concerto, and a jingoistic work Fight for Right.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b016vpxr)
Pavel Haas Quartet 2011
LSO ST LUKES - Pavel Haas series (rpt)
The Pavel Haas Quartet are named after a young Czech composer who was interned by the Nazis in the the infamous "Theresienstadt" concentration camp. The Pavel Haas Quartet took part in the BBC's New Generation Artist Scheme and are now based in Prague, from where they are much in demand worldwide, and they have built a reputation for the highest level of quartet playing.
In November 2010 the quartet played four concerts at LSO St. Luke's in London, and this concert features two works by Beethoven. His C minor Trio and the first of the Op.59 set dedicated to Count Razumovsky, the Russian Ambassador in the Viennese Court in 1806 - a wealthy patron who commissioned these three quartets from Beethoven.
The quartet members are: violinists Veronika Jaruskova and Eva Karova, viola player Pavel Nikl and cellist Krzystof Jarusek
The performances are presented by Katie Derham.
Beethoven: Trio in C minor, Op.9; Quartet in F major, Op.59 No.1 "Razumovsky".
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b016vpxt)
Symphony
Episode 4
Katie Derham continues Radio 3's month of programmes complementing the BBC4 series "Symphony" - including every note of every Symphony featured in the television series. Today she launches Afternoon on 3's complete Beethoven Symphony cycle, running every weekday until Friday 18 November. Plus the second of Mozart's final trilogy of symphonic masterpieces, and one of Haydn's astonishing Symphonies composed for London in the 1790s.
Mozart: Symphony no. 40 in G minor
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
c.
2.25pm
Haydn: Symphony no. 98 in B flat major
BBC Philharmonic
Nicholas Kraemer (conductor)
c.
2.50pm
Beethoven: Symphony no. 1 in C major
Ulster Orchestra
Courtney Lewis (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b016vpxw)
Ely Cathedral
From Ely Cathedral
Introit: Never weather beaten sail (Richard Shephard)
Responses: Sumsion
Psalms: 47, 48, 49 (Beckwith, Elvey, Walmisley)
Hymn: Christ mighty Saviour, light of all creation (Iste confessor)
First Lesson: Leviticus 26 vv3-13
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in C sharp minor (Paul Edwards)
Second Lesson: Titus 2vv1-10
Anthem: They that go down to the sea in ships (Sumsion)
Organ Voluntary: Toccata from Plymouth Suite (Whitlock)
Sarah MacDonald (Director of Music)
Oliver Hancock (Organist).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b016vpxy)
Tabla master Zakir Hussain comes to the In Tune studio to perform live music with dholak player Navin Sharma, mridangam and kanjira player Sridhar Parthasarathy and bansuri flautist player Rakesh Chaurasia. They will all be performing at the Royal Festival Hall in the concert 'Masters of Percussion' on the opening night of the London Jazz Festival 2011.
Sean Rafferty is also joined in the studio by cellist Maximilian Hornung, performing solo cello works live on the show. Maximilian is about to perform with the London Mozart Players at Fairfield Halls, Croydon in a concert of Mozart, Haydn and Britten.
Coverage of "My Essential Symphony" continues with the Today programme presenter James Naughtie. Exclusive to In Tune, "My Essential Symphony" features a range of advocates sharing their thoughts on a particular symphony, running throughout a month of programmes celebrating the Symphony across Radio 3 and BBC4 television.
Email us with your Essential Symphony at in.tune@bbc.co.uk or follow on Twitter @BBCInTune
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music and guests from the music world.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b016vpxp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b016vpy0)
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Vaughan Williams
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
Presented by Christopher Cook.
Written as the storm clouds of war were gathering, Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony is a glorious paean to peace that opens with a gentle horn call and ends in a serene glow. A sweetly expressive lovers' theme, a military band and even a cheeky cockney street urchin feature in Elgar's overture Cockaigne, a beguiling musical picture of our capital city. Alongside these two British masterpieces is Dvorák's lovely and highly lyrical Serenade. Completed in 1878, it gave the Czech composer one of his earliest successes, and will be conducted this evening by the Halle's assistant conductor Andrew Gourlay.
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.5
Halle Orchestra
Conductor Sir Mark Elder
Assistant Conductor Andrew Gourlay*.
WED 20:15 Symphony Question Time (b016vpy2)
Sue Perkins and Tom Service unravel everything you ever wanted to know about the symphony...but were too afraid to ask...
Why are symphonies considered the pinnacle of classical music? Who wrote the first one? Is there really a "Curse Of The Ninth"? And can you be a truly great composer without writing a symphony?
Comedienne Sue Perkins joins Tom Service for the first in a six-part celebration of the most famous - and perhaps scariest - form in classical music.
They're here to blow away the myths and unpick the mysteries surrounding this most venerable form - with a host of musical excerpts from Haydn to Hovhaness, Mozart to Mahler, Beethoven to Berio.
Over the six episodes they'll be looking at questions like how the symphony first originated; whether a symphony should be about logic and form, or be a encapsulation of the whole world; and why people get so darn annoyed when you clap between the movements...
Sue Perkins and Tom Service unravel everything you ever wanted to know about the symphony...but were too afraid to ask...
In today's episode, Sue and Tom examine the thorny issue of to clap or not to clap before a symphony's finished; explore at the roots of the symphony - the idea of a 'sounding together'; and get to grips with the titans of the classical symphonic tradition, Haydn and Mozart .
They'll also be asking you to send in your own questions for their perusal later in the series. You can submit your queries about anything symphonic by email to r3symphonyqt@bbc.co.uk; alternatively, you can pose your questions on the BBC Radio 3's Facebook page (www.facebook.com/bbcradio3), or via Twitter at @BBCRadio3 (hashtag #R3SymphonyQT).
WED 20:35 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b016vpy4)
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Dvorak, Elgar
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
Presented by Christopher Cook.
Written as the storm clouds of war were gathering, Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony is a glorious paean to peace that opens with a gentle horn call and ends in a serene glow. A sweetly expressive lovers' theme, a military band and even a cheeky cockney street urchin feature in Elgar's overture Cockaigne, a beguiling musical picture of our capital city. Alongside these two British masterpieces is Dvorák's lovely and highly lyrical Serenade. Completed in 1878, it gave the Czech composer one of his earliest successes, and will be conducted this evening by the Halle's assistant conductor Andrew Gourlay.
Dvorák: Serenade for wind*
Elgar: Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town)
Halle Orchestra
Conductor Sir Mark Elder
Assistant Conductor Andrew Gourlay*.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b016vpy6)
2011
Kevin Fong
Kevin Fong, who presents BBC2's Horizon and is a leading expert on space medicine, gives a talk at the 2011 Free Thinking Festival: Why we should not retreat from the final frontier.
In the wake of the retirement of the space shuttle, Kevin Fong - who works for NASA - argues that now is no time to pull back from space exploration, calling for a Second Space Age. Co-director of the Centre for Aviation Space and Extreme Environment Medicine, he believes that Britain should be at the forefront of space science.
Night Waves presenter Rana Mitter hosts Kevin Fong's talk, recorded in front of an audience at BBC Radio 3' Free Thinking Festival 2011, which takes place at The Sage Gateshead 4 - 6 November, and which is broadcast on Radio 3 for three weeks from 4 November.
WED 22:45 Free Thinking (b0170944)
The Free Thinking Essay
Corin Throsby
Corin Throsby, one of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the extraordinary fan mail received by the poet Lord Byron, recorded at the 2011 Free Thinking Festival
We think of fan mail as a recent phenomenon, but in the early 19th Century the poet Byron receieved hundreds of letters from love-sick admirers. Cambridge academic Corin Throsby takes us on a journey into Byron's intimate fan mail and shows what those letters reveal about the creation of a celebrity culture that has continued into the globalised present.
This essay is recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011, which takes place at The Sage Gateshead 4 - 6 November. The New Generation Thinkers are winners of the inaugural talent scheme run the BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find the brightest academic minds in the arts and humanities with the potential to turn their ideas into fascinating broadcasts.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b016vpzh)
Max Reinhardt - 09/11/2011
Max Reinhardt's selection includes music by Steve Reich, Anne Briggs, Erik Satie, Italian traditional ensemble Accordone and McCormack & Yarde Duo.
THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2011
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b0170788)
John Shea presents the Seoul Philharmonic performing Debussy and Ravel
12:31 AM
Unsuk Chin (b.1961)
The Mad Hatter's Tea Party from "Alice in Wonderland"
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
12:34 AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 3 (Sz.119)
Sunwook Kim (piano) (male) Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
12:58 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
La mer
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
1:25 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
La Valse
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
1:38 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Le jardin féerique, from "Ma mère l'Oye"
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
1:43 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
1:47 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Serenade in D minor (Op.44)
I Solisti del Vento, Etienne Siebens (conductor)
2:11 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
3 Piano pieces - Valse-Scherzo in A major; Tendres reproches in C sharp minor (Op.72 No.3) ; Valse à cinq temps in D major (Op.72 No.16)
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)
2:16 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Cantata 'Unschuld und ein gut Gewissen' for 4 voices, 2 oboes, strings and continuo - from the 'Französischen Jahrgang zum Sonntag Oculi 1715' (TWV.
1:1440)
Veronika Winter (soprano), Patrick von Goethem (alto), Markus Schäfer (tenor), Ekkehard Abele (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)
2:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Quintet in C major (D.956)
Artemis Quartet
3:22 AM
Andriessen, Jurriaan (1925-1996)
Sonnet No.43
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Uwe Gronostay (conductor)
3:29 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Scherzo for piano No.4 (Op.54) in E major
Simon Trpceski (piano)
3:41 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in D major (RV.208), 'Grosso mogul'
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)
3:56 AM
Scherrer, Carli (b.19??) arranged Corsin Tuor
Zuola roda, zuola
Brassband Bürgermusik Luzern, Corsin Tuor (director)
4:00 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Variations on a theme by Haydn (Op.56a)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)
4:18 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Légende No.1: St. François d'Assise prêchant aux oiseaux (S.175)
Llyr Williams (piano)
4:31 AM
Järnefelt, Armas (1869-1958)
The Sound of Home
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ilpo Mansnerus (conductor)
4:41 AM
Castello, Dario (first half of c.17th)
Sonata IV, for 2 violins and continuo (from Sonate concertarte in stil moderno, per sonare nel organo, overo spineta con diversi instrumenti, a 2 & 3 voci. Libro primo. Venice 1629]
Il Giardino Armonico
4:50 AM
Wikander, David (1884-1955), lyrics by Ragnar Jändel
Förvårskväll (An evening early in spring)
Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson (conductor)
4:55 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata quasi una fantasia for piano (Op.27 No.2) in C sharp minor, 'Moonlight'
Håvard Gimse (piano)
5:09 AM
Gilse, Jan van (1881-1944)
String Quartet
Ebony Quartet
5:19 AM
Rore, Cipriano de (c1515-1565)
Se com'il biondo crin de la mia Filli' (If, like the golden tresses of my Phyllis....)
The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)
5:22 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.64 in A major, 'Tempora mutantur' (Hob: I/64)
Danish Radio Sinfonietta/DR, Rolf Gupta (conductor)
5:42 AM
Falla, Manuel de (1876-1946)
Ritual Fire Dance from El Amor Brujo
Monika Leskovar (cello), Ivana ?varc-Grenda (piano)
5:46 AM
Sermisy, Claudin de (c.1490-1562)
5 Chansons: 'Au joly boys'
Ensemble Clément Janequin
5:56 AM
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787)
Concerto for flute and orchestra (Op.6 No.2) in E minor
Karl Kaiser (transverse flute), La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (director)
6:13 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
Capriccio Espagnol (Op.34)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Frübeck de Burgos (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b016vq3k)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including Walton's Spitfire Prelude & Fugue performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by the composer, the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt perform Schubert's Overture in the Italian Style, and Richard Hickox conducts the BBC Philharmonic's performance of Percy Grainger's Green Bushes.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b016vq3m)
Thursday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Avison's 12 Concerti Grossi after Scarlatti, performed by the Avison Ensemble: DIVINE ART DDA21213
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the French piano duo - sisters Katia and Marielle Labeque - in Ravel (Pavane pour une infante defunte) and Mozart (Concerto for 3 pianos).
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is Professor Tom Wright, a leading New Testament Scholar and former Bishop of Durham. Today he introduces a musical hidden gem, music that makes him laugh and a piece that he can play himself.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Strauss
Alpine Symphony
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 439 017 2.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b016vq3p)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Elgar and The Fringes of the Fleet
By the end of the Great War, Sir Edward Elgar couldn't compose any music to celebrate peace, disillusioned as he was by the whole period, which Donald Macleod explores in conversation with Terry Charman from the Imperial War Museum.
With no end in sight for the war, it continued on into 1917. This is when Elgar heard of the death of his friend and supporter Hans Richter, who had given the premiere of some of Elgar's best known works, including the Enigma Variations. Things however were starting to change in Britain, with a new government, and the introduction of convoys to protect cargo and hospital ships from the German u-boat campaign. But with the continued reports of atrocities on the front line, and increased deprivations at home, Elgar finally found the stimulus to finish his work The Spirit of England, with a setting of The Fourth of August. It wasn't only war music which Elgar concentrated on during this time, as he also composed his only ballet incorporating 18th century French costumes and classical mythology, in The Sanguine Fan.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b016vq3r)
Pavel Haas Quartet 2011
Episode 3
The Pavel Haas Quartet are named after a young Czech composer who was interned by the Nazis in the the infamous "Theresienstadt" concentration camp. The Pavel Haas Quartet took part in the BBC's New Generation Artist Scheme and are now based in Prague, from where they are much in demand worldwide, and they have built a reputation for the highest level of quartet playing.
In the third of the four concerts recorded in November 2010 by the Pavel Haas Quartet at LSO St. Luke's in London, the quartet chose two twentieth-century quartets from France. In the days of LPs these were a natural pairing - not so common on the concert stage - the quartets by Debussy and Ravel.
The quartet members are: violinists Veronika Jaruskova and Eva Karova, viola player Pavel Nikl and cellist Krzystof Jarusek
The performances are presented by Katie Derham.
Debussy: String Quartet in G minor (Op.10)
Ravel: String Quartet in F major.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b016vq40)
Symphony
Episode 5
Katie Derham continues Radio 3's month of programmes complementing the BBC4 series "Symphony" - including every note of every Symphony featured in the television series (which continues tonight). Today Katie presents five different BBC orchestras in a programme juxtaposing the first of Haydn's superb trilogy of early Symphonies named after Morning, Noon and Evening, with the final symphonic masterpieces of both Mozart and Haydn, and Beethoven's second - plus the sunniest Symphony by one of Beethoven's greatest fans, Felix Mendelssohn.
Haydn: Symphony no. 6 in D major (Le matin)
BBC Philharmonic
Nicholas Kraemer (conductor)
c.
2.20pm
Mozart: Symphony no. 41 in C major (Jupiter)
Ulster Orchestra
Jane Glover (conductor)
c.
2.55pm
Beethoven: Symphony no. 2 in D major
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Garry Walker (conductor)
c.
3.25pm
Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4 (Italian)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Krzysztof Urbanski (conductor)
c.
3.55pm
Haydn: Symphony no. 104 in D major (London)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b016vq42)
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Flautist Wissam Boustany has forged a successful international career as a soloist, yet alongside his busy concert schedule is heavily involved with charity initiatives using music to promote peace. He performs live in the studio with his regular collaborator Aleksander Szram ahead of appearances at the Wimbledon Music Festival.
John Harle is best known as a saxophonist and composer, but is also an acclaimed conductor. He talks to Sean from Newcastle about conducting Percy Grainger ahead of his Gateshead concert with the Northern Sinfonia and the Kathryn Tickell Band.
Sean talks to composer Alec Roth and writer Vikram Seth about their fruitful musical collaborations. Since 2006 they have worked together on a project of four major works, and this culminates with the publication of Seth's libretti texts and a premiere concert by Ex Cathedra at Town Hall, Birmingham this month.
Plus "My Essential Symphony" features the legendary singer songwriter Joan Armatrading.
Email us with your Essential Symphony at in.tune@bbc.co.uk or follow on Twitter @BBCR3InTune
Main news headlines are at
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6.00
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THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b016vq3p)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b016vq4s)
BBC Symphony Orchestra - Kaderabek, Dvorak, Martinu, Janacek
Live from the Barbican Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
Jiri Belohlavek conducts an all-Czech programme. Two of these works hark back to ancient myth: one tells of a Golden Spinning Wheel that mysteriously reveals a treacherous deed, the other of a Ukrainian Cossack Knight, Taras Bulba, who fights against oppression. Martinu's Rhapsody Concerto for viola and orchestra has a warm and very Bohemian lyricism, while Jiri Kaderabek's work which opens the concert shows a brand-new face of Czech music, urban and streetwise. This newly commissioned piece has a very simple starting point - the C major scale.
Jiri Kaderabek: C for orchestra (BBC commission: world premiere)
Dvorak: The Golden Spinning Wheel
8.15: Interval
8.35:
Martinu: Rhapsody Concerto
Janacek: Taras Bulba
Maxim Rysanov (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
conductor Jiri Belohlavek.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b016vq4v)
2011
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer delivers a talk questioning the pursuit of freedom at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2011.
One of the most influential intellectual voices of our times, Germaine Greer has caused controversy ever since her book The Female Eunuch became an international best-seller in 1970. Inspired by the Janis Joplin lyric "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose", she argues that the pursuit of freedom has caused havoc throughout the world, and calls for a new version of liberation.
Night Waves presenter Philip Dodd hosts Germaine Greer's talk, which was recorded in front of an audience at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2011.
Free Thinking takes place at The Sage Gateshead 4 - 6 November and is broadcast on Radio 3 for three weeks following Friday 4 November.
THU 22:45 Free Thinking (b017094x)
The Free Thinking Essay
New Generation Thinker: Laurence Scott
Laurence Scott, one of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the fascinating figure of the gothic heroine, recorded at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival.
Swooning maidens crowd early horror stories, but these hunted heroines are also stalked through the pages of 20th Century novels such as Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Iris Murdoch's The Unicorn. Laurence Scott explores the evolution of the gothic heroine.
This essay is recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011, which takes place at The Sage Gateshead 4 - 6 November. The New Generation Thinkers are winners of the inaugural talent scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find the brightest academic minds in the arts and humanties with the potential to turn their ideas into fascinating broadcasts.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b016vq4z)
Max Reinhardt - 10/11/2011
Matthew Herbert's One Pig, Aziz Sahmaoui's Salabati, Deirdre Gribbin's The Broken Piece of the Moon, the Afro-Semitic Experience and music from the films of David Lynch. Presented by Max Reinhardt.
FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2011
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b016vq3h)
John Shea presents an all-Liszt concert including his 2nd Piano Concerto and his first revolutionary tone-poem. Alexander Vedrnikov conducts the Orchestra of Italian Swiss Radio
12:31 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Concerto for piano and orchestra No.2 in A major (S.125)
Vesselin Stanev (piano), Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Alexander vedernikov (conductor)
12:54 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Consolation No.3 in D flat major (Lento placido) for piano (S.172)
Vesselin Stanev (piano)
12:59 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne - symphonic poem after Hugo (S.95)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Alexander vedernikov (conductor)
1:31 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Overture (Suite) (TWV.55:G10) in G major 'Burlesque de Quixotte'
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)
1:51 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata for piano no. 5 (Op.10'1) in C minor
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
2:10 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
String Quartet No.2 in C major (D.32)
Orlando Quartet
2:31 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
L'Italiana in Algeri (Italian Girl in Algiers) - Opera in 2 Acts: Overture
Cappella Coloniensis, Gabriele Ferro (conductor)
2:39 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini for piano and orchestra (Op.43)
Nikolay Evrov (piano), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
3:04 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
String Quartet in F major
Bartók Quartet
3:32 AM
Marin, José (c. 1618-1699)
Si quieres dar Marica en lo çierto'
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Rolf Lislevand (baroque guitar), Arianna Savall (double harp), Pedro Estevan (percussion), Adela González-Campa (castanets)
3:38 AM
Chabrier, Emmanuel (1841-1894)
España - rhapsody for orchestra
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
3:44 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Sonata in B flat for 2 violins & basso continuo Op.2/3, HWV.388
Musica Alta Ripa
3:55 AM
Haczewski, Antoni (C.18th/19th)
Symphony in D major
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Straszynski (conductor)
4:04 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
4 Songs for women's voices, 2 horns and harp (Op.17)
Danish National Radio Choir, Leif Lind and Per McClelland Jacobsen (horns), Catriona Yeats (harp), Stefan Parkman (conductor)
4:19 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Polonaise for piano in F sharp minor (Op.44)
Aldo Ciccolini (piano)
4:31 AM
Sarasate, Pablo de (1844-1908)
Zigeunerweisen (Op.20) vers. for violin and orchestra
Moshe Hammer (violin), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
4:40 AM
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875) transcribed by Vladimir Horowitz (1904-1989)
Virtuoso Fantasy on themes from 'Carmen'
Vladimir Horowitz (1904-1989) (piano)
4:44 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Trio for keyboard and strings in G major (H.
15.25) 'Gypsy rondo'
Grieg Trio
4:59 AM
Kocsár, Miklós (b. 1933)
Scale, tear!
Hungarian Radio Choir, Pèter Erdei (conductor)
5:05 AM
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787)
Symphony (Op.10 No.2)
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)
5:16 AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
Satukavia (Op.19)
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)
5:32 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Quartet for piano and strings (K.478) in G minor
Aronowitz Ensemble
5:58 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Manfred - Overture to the Incidental Music (Op.115)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)
6:11 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph [1732-1809]
Symphony No 39 in G minor
Danish Radio Sinfonietta/DR; Adam Fischer (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b016vq5m)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including Camille Saint-Saëns' Allegro Appassionato played by cellist Alban Gerhardt and pianist Cecile Licad, Andrew Lawrence King performs a Harp Concerto by Handel with the Taverner Players directed by Andrew Parrott, and the Choir of Magdalene College, Oxford conducted by John Harper and accompanied by organist Paul Brough perform John Ireland's Greater Love.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b016vq5p)
Friday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Avison's 12 Concerti Grossi after Scarlatti, performed by the Avison Ensemble: DIVINE ART DDA21213
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the French piano duo - sisters Katia and Marielle Labeque - in Poulenc (Sonata for piano duet) and Milhaud (Scaramouche Suite for 2 pianos).
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is Professor Tom Wright, a leading New Testament Scholar and former Bishop of Durham. Today he introduces a work that reminds him of a particular place and Sarah acts as personal shopper with a piece she hopes Professor Wright will like.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Haydn
Symphony No.94 -Surprise
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor)
PHILIPS 432286 2.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b016vq5y)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Armistice Declared, But No Celebration for Elgar
By the end of the Great War, Sir Edward Elgar couldn't compose any music to celebrate peace, disillusioned as he was by the whole period, which Donald Macleod explores in conversation with Terry Charman from the Imperial War Museum.
By 1918, Elgar had stomach problems and was continually unwell, finally being operated on to remove his tonsils. Compared to what hundreds of thousands were enduring in the trench warfare of the first world war, this was no great thing, but Elgar was 61 and not in great shape. Once installed with his wife in a rustic thatched cottage in West Sussex to recuperate, his creativity started to flow again, in particular sketching out a germ of a theme on his piano entitled "?", which would later become part of his Cello Concerto. There were also more rustic pursuits, including gardening and fishing, but then came an official request from the Ministry of Food for a new war work, Big Steamers. When the Armistice was signed, with his Land of Hope and Glory proving ever popular, Elgar did not feel inclined to compose any work in celebration of peace. Many of his friends had died, and his life was dramatically changed for ever.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b016vq7k)
Pavel Haas Quartet 2011
Episode 4
The Pavel Haas Quartet are named after a young Czech composer who was interned by the Nazis in the the infamous "Theresienstadt" concentration camp. The Pavel Haas Quartet took part in the BBC's New Generation Artist Scheme and are now based in Prague, from where they are much in demand worldwide, and they have built a reputation for the highest level of quartet playing.
In the last concert recorded in November 2010 by the Pavel Haas Quartet at LSO St. Luke's in London, the quartet chose two works by Schubert, his Quartet Movement in C minor (D.703) and his perennial favourite, the Quartet in D minor (D.810) "Death and the Maiden" - so called because the variations movement is based on an earlier song by Schubert of that name - both works of great intensity and played with intensity by the Pavel Haas Quartet
The quartet members are: violinists Veronika Jaruskova and Eva Karova, viola player Pavel Nikl and cellist Krzystof Jarusek
The performances are presented by Katie Derham.
Schubert:Quartettsatz in C minor, D.703; String Quartet in D minor, D.810 "Death and the Maiden".
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b016vq7m)
Symphony
Episode 6
Katie Derham continues Radio 3's month of programmes complementing the BBC4 series "Symphony" - including every note of every Symphony featured in the television series. Today's programme features two Symphonies that changed the world in their different ways: Schubert's 'Unfinished' and Beethoven's mighty 'Eroica' - originally dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte and by far the biggest Symphony ever composed up to then. The BBC Philharmonic launch the programme with a concert live from their new home at MediaCity, Salford, completing Haydn's trilogy of early symphonic masterpieces - Morning, Noon and Evening.
2pm
Live on 3: concert from MediaCity, Salford, including
Haydn: Symphony no. 7 in C major (Le midi); Symphony no. 8 in G major (Le soir)
BBC Philharmonic
Antonello Manacorda (conductor)
c.
3.00pm
Schubert: Symphony no. 8 in B minor (Unfinished)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor)
c.
3.30pm
Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 in E flat major (Eroica)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b016vq7p)
A jazz ensemble hand-picked by Wynton Marsalis play live in the In Tune studio ahead of their London Jazz Festival appearance in 'Louis: A Silent Film'. Director Dan Pritzker talks to presenter Sean Rafferty about the film, described as a homage to 'Louis Armstrong, Charlie Chaplin, beautiful women and the birth of American music'.
On the day of its launch, festival director David Jones joins Sean in the studio to talk about the 2011 London Jazz Festival. Also in the studio, opera director Deborah Warner discusses her new production of Eugene Onegin at English National Opera.
Yet more guests, legendary conductor Raymond Leppard talks about his upcoming concert with the English Chamber Orchestra in a performance of Handel's Acis and Galatea with his own newly edited narration read by Dame Janet Baker.
Plus we hear from Salzburg Festival Artistic Director Alexander Pereira on the day the 2012 programme is released.
Including "My Essential Symphony" with the actor Brian Blessed.
Exclusive to In Tune, "My Essential Symphony" features a range of advocates sharing their thoughts on a particular symphony, running throughout a month of programmes celebrating the Symphony across Radio 3 and BBC4 television and also featuring Rufus Wainwright, James Naughtie, Will Self, Alan Hollinghurst, Lady Antonia Fraser, Alexander Armstrong, Penny Smith, Sandi Toksvig & Joan Armatrading.
Email us with your Essential Symphony at in.tune@bbc.co.uk or follow on Twitter @BBCR3InTune
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b016vq5y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b016vq7r)
Jazz Voice
Live from the Barbican Hall, London
Presented by Suzy Klein
Jazz Voice - Celebrating 100 years of singing with stellar talents performing jazz classics to sumptuous arrangements performed by the 40-piece London Jazz Festival Orchestra.
Scored and conducted by internationally acclaimed trumpeter/composer Guy Barker, the show draws on major anniversaries, birthdays and milestones that link the decades stretching back from 2011 to the beggining of jazz.
Ayanna
Gregory Porter
Ian Shaw
Lucinda Belle
Mary Pearce
Norma Winstone
Shingai Shoniwa (The Noisettes)
London Jazz Festival Orchestra
Guy Barker (conductor).
FRI 22:00 Free Thinking (b016vq7t)
2011
The Verb at Free Thinking: Maximo Park, Jackie Kay, David Almond, Kate Fox
Poet Ian McMillan hosts BBC Radio 3's The Verb, his unique cabaret of the word, recorded at The Sage Gateshead as part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2011.
There's music from the double platinum selling band Maxïmo Park, one of the few bands of recent times to wear their intellectualism on their sleeves. Lead singer Paul Smith talks about the songwriting process.
We feature the first performance of a new poem on the theme of Change, Mutatis Mutandis, written together by Jackie Kay, Sean O'Brien and W.N. Herbert, and commissioned by the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts.
Celebrated children's writer David Almond grew up in the Gateshead area and discusses regionalism in art and what it's like to be labelled a 'northern writer'. He describes how he found his confidence as a writer from the North East by looking to the great writers of the southern states of America, like Flannery O'Connor.
And spoken word artist Kate Fox tells us why she's frightened of the metaphor.
Producer : Dymphna Flynn.
FRI 22:45 Free Thinking (b017095r)
The Free Thinking Essay
New Generation Thinker: David Petts
David Petts, one of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk calling for the physical preservation of the industrial heritage of the North East, recorded at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival
The North-East of England was once one of the industrial heartlands of Britain, yet today the physical traces of entire industries have been swept away. Archaeologist and Durham University Lecturer David Petts argues that this is no way to treat the past, and that the physical remains of our recent history should be preserved now before they are lost forever.
This essay is recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011, which takes place at The Sage Gateshead 4 - 6 November. The New Generation Thinkers are winners of the inaugural talent scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find the brightest academic minds in the arts and humanities with the potential to turn their ideas into fascinating broadcasts.
FRI 23:00 Jazz on 3 (b0170fmj)
London Jazz Festival: Live from Ronnie Scott's
Jez Nelson presents a special edition of Jazz on 3 live from Ronnie Scott's jazz club in Soho on the opening night of the 2011 London Jazz Festival. With exclusive performances from some of the most sought-after acts at the festival, the line-up illustrates the diversity and value of both established and new artists on the current jazz scene. The event features M-Base saxophonist Steve Coleman and his new trio, tuba player Oren Marshall's Charming Transport Band, French rock-influenced band Guillaume Perret and Electric Epic, and up-and-coming vocalist Gregory Porter.
Presenter: Jez Nelson
Producers: Russell Finch, Robert Abel & Rebecca Aitchison.