Susan Sharpe's selection includes a concert by the Orchestra della Svizzera Italia performing Prokofiev, Weill and Richard Strauss
Symphony no. 1 (Op.25) in D major "Classical"
Lilya Zilberstein (piano) Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, John Axelrod (conductor)
Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Elise Baatnes and Karolina Radziej (violins), Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Hjalmer Kvam (cello), Marius Faltby (double bass), Enrico Pace (piano)
Symphony no. 2
Messe Basse - for solo soprano, choir and orchestra (orch. Jon Washburn)
Henriette Schellenberg (soprano), Vancouver Chamber Choir, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Jon Washburn (conductor)
Audun Halvorsen (bassoon), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including music by Hildegard von Bingen performed by the Armonico Consort directed by Christopher Monks , a Vivaldi Concerto for oboe and violin is played by Albrecht Meyer and Nigel Kennedy with members of the Berlin Philharmonic, and trombonist Christian Lindberg performs Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee.
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Placido Domingo, The Verdi Tenor, with contributions from Leontyne Price, Katia Ricciarelli and others: RCA RED SEAL 88697840172.
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, in music by Nielsen (excerpts from Aladdin) and Tchaikovsky (Francesca da Rimini)
The Essential Classics guest is the author Helen Dunmore, winner of the Orange Prize (for her third novel A Spell of Winter). Today she talks about what music she likes to listen to while working, and reveals her favourite performer.
Smetacek Soloists, Prague Philharmonic Choir & Symphony Orchestra Vaclav Smetacek (conductor) SUPRAPHON 11 1821-2 211.
In today's programme, Grainger finds himself in demand as a concert pianist, and with the backing of his old friend Balfour Gardiner has his first taste of success as a composer too. At first, London must have seemed the perfect base for his activities, but when war was declared in August 1914, he and his mother Rose decided to up sticks and head out of harm's way - to the Big Apple - on the not unreasonable grounds that a war casualty could not become Australia's first significant composer. In New York, Grainger quickly established himself as a pianist, becoming known as "the Siegfried of the piano" for his dashing good looks. He found himself a publisher and commissions started to follow - one of the earliest resulted in one of his best-known compositions, the orchestral suite In a Nutshell. A promised ballet commission from the conductor Thomas Beecham failed to materialize, but Grainger wrote the work anyway; it became his "imaginary ballet", The Warriors, one of his most original and inventive scores.
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Rodewald Concert Series at Liverpool's St Georges Hall. In the first of the four recitals, The Elias Quartet plays Beethoven's String Quartet in F minor Op.95 and Smetana's epic String Quartet No.1 "From my life".
Louise Fryer 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's joined live in the Afternoon on 3 studio by conductor Sir Mark Elder to discuss what Wagner's music is doing in a series about the Symphony and to celebrate the diversity of the Symphony itself in the late 1800s - in three very contrasting works from Germany, Bohemia and Russia. The programme begins with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales live at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff playing one of Dvorak's best-loved Symphonies.
Dvorak: Symphony no. 8 in G major
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Brahms: Symphony no. 1 in C minor
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6 in B minor
Soprano Dame Emma Kirkby sings live in the In Tune studio with Swedish lutenist, Jakob Lindberg. Presenter Sean Rafferty talks to them about their extensive musical careers and their upcoming concert 'Music for Stillness' at St Martin in the Fields.
The incredible Dutch violinist Tim Kliphuis performs with guitarist Nigel Clark and bassist Roy Percy. Tim talks to Sean about his new DVD and his UK tour, mixing gypsy jazz, classical and celtic folk.
Including "My Essential Symphony" with broadcaster Sue MacGregor.
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 @BBCInTune
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
As part of Earth Music Bristol, some of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists, current and past, perform a programme entitled "The Tenor of Nature".
From the rapturous and tender settings by Vaughan Williams and Ivor Gurney of poems from A E Housman's A Shropshire Lad to Elgar's poignant Piano Quintet, this is a concert inspired by the natural beauty of the English countryside.
Rana Mitter chairs a debate about the Luddite Movement to mark their 200th anniversary.
Two hundred years ago this November, artisans in the North of England started protesting against new machines that were destroying their way of life. Inspired by the mythic King Ludd, the Luddites have been condemned by history as standing on the wrong side of progress - but their legacy persists. So what did they want and what does it mean to be a Luddite in today's digital age?
Debaters include the historian of the Luddites Katrina Navickas, BBC technology correspondent Bill Thompson and fellow of the New Economics Foundation Andrew Simms.
Recorded at The Sage Gateshead in front of a live audience at the 2011 Free Thinking Festival.
Tim Birkhead explores how birds learn to sing. The second of five essays inspired by the musical content of the first Earth Music Bristol festival.
How do birds acquire their songs? The answer is mainly through learning. He'll discuss how their predisposition to learn, during a very specific time window, allows us to manipulate what they sing and how important that has been for our own culture by talking about an experiment he did looking at what bird song does to our brain. All of this will be illustrated with examples from canaries, nightingales, bullfinches and some others.
Tim Birkhead is a Professor at the University of Sheffield and a fellow of the Royal Society. He is the author of The Wisdom of Birds and, forthcoming, Bird Sense among many books.
Fiona Talkington introduces a track from the Necks' album Mindset, music for Kannels and electric guitar by Estonian duo Tuule Kann and Jaak Sooaar, a Swedish traditional melody played by trombonist Christian Lindberg, and a tribute to St. Cecilia, patron saint of musicians, on her day.
WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2011
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b017cjtd)
Susan Sharpe presents the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra playing Dvořák & Brahms
12:31 AM
Dvořák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Carnival overture (Op.92)
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimír Válek (conductor)
12:41 AM
Dvořák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Othello - concert overture (Op.93)
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimír Válek (conductor)
12:55 AM
Dvořák, Antonín (1841-1904)
In nature's realm - overture (Op.91)
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimír Válek (conductor)
1:09 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra (Op.102) in A minor
Petr Zdvihal (violin), Pavel Ludvík (cello), Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimír Válek (conductor)
1:43 AM
Shearing, George (1919-2011)
Music to Hear (Five Shakespeare Songs)
Vancouver Chamber Choir, Peter Berring (piano), David Brown (double bass), Jon Washburn (director)
1:56 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Octet for strings (Op.20) in E flat major
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Pietari Inkinen (conductor)
2:31 AM
Arriaga, Juan Crisostomo (1806-1826)
Symphony in D major/minor
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)
3:00 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Symphony no 6 "Sinfonia Semplice"
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
3:35 AM
Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805)
Concerto for harpsichord and orchestra in E flat major (G.487)
Eckart Sellheim (fortepiano), Collegium Aureum, Franzjosef Meier (conductor)
3:51 AM
Järnefelt, Armas (1869-1958)
Berceuse (Lullaby)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ilpo Mansnerus (conductor)
3:55 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Capriccio for Two Pianos
Antra Viksne and Normunds Viksne (piano duo)
4:00 AM
Anonymous (16th century)
¡Ay Jesús qué mal fraile!
Montserrat Figueras & Isabel Alvarez (sopranos), Maite Arruabarrena (mezzo-soprano), Laurence Bonnal (contralto), Luiz Alvez da Silva & Paolo Costa (countertenors), Lambert Climent & Francesc Garrigosa (tenors), Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall (director)
4:03 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Overture to Speziale (H.28.3)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marbà (conductor)
4:10 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Love Scene - from the opera 'Feuersnot' (Op.50)
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
4:19 AM
Medins, Janis (1890-1966)
Flower Waltz - from the ballet 'Victory of Love'
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Imants Resnis (conductor)
4:25 AM
Massenet, Jules (1842-1912)
Manon: Prelude to Act 1
Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Simon Streatfield (conductor)
4:31 AM
Gu(g)lielmus [Gu(g)liermo Ebreo de Pesaro] (c1425-c1480)
La bassa castiglia - for vielle, tenor recorder, lute and tambourine
Ensemble Claude-Gervaise, Gilles Plante (director)
4:33 AM
Canteloube, Joseph (1879-1957)
Brezairola - from Songs of the Auvergne
Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kamirski (conductor)
4:37 AM
Gabrieli, Giovanni (c.1553-1612)
Sonata Pian'e forte, for brass
Members of the Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
4:42 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Träumerei am Kamin - from the opera 'Intermezzo'
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
4:50 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Scherzo for piano No.3 (Op.39) in C sharp minor
Simon Trpceski (piano)
4:58 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
Overture - from Sicilian Vespers
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
5:07 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Sonata for violin and keyboard (K.301) in G major
Julie Eskaer (violin) www.copenhagenartists.com; Janjz Zapolsky (piano)
5:20 AM
Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594)
Toutes les nuits
The King's Singers
5:23 AM
Dohnányi, Ernõ (1877-1960)
Symphonic Minutes (Op.36)
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor)
5:38 AM
MacDowell, Edward (1860-1908)
Suite for large orchestra in A minor (Op.42)
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson (conductor)
5:58 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Sonata for transverse flute & basso continuo in D major - from Essercizii Musici
Camerata Köln
6:10 AM
Berwald, Franz (1796-1868)
String Quartet No.2 in A minor (1849)
Bernt Lysell (violin), Per Sandklef (violin), Thomas Sundkvist (viola), Mats Rondin (cello)
06:30 AM
Radio 3 Breakfast.
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b017cjtg)
Wednesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, Walton's Orb and Sceptre performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Hill, cellist Natalie Klein and pianist Julius Drake perform Kodaly's Romance Lyrique and Suppe's Light Cavalry Overture is played by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b017cjtj)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Placido Domingo, The Verdi Tenor, with contributions from Katia Ricciarelli and others: RCA RED SEAL 88697840172.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, in music by Glazunov (Symphony No. 5).
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is the author Helen Dunmore, winner of the Orange Prize (for her third novel A Spell of Winter). Today she talks about a piece she thinks should be more widely known, as well as revealing her favourite piece by her favourite composer.
11.00
Rob's Essential Choice
Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 22, K.482 in E flat
Columbia Symphony Orchestra conductor George Szell with Robert Casadesus (piano).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b017cjtl)
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Episode 3
At the start of today's programme, Grainger - a pacifist - joins the US army, as Bandsman, 2nd Class. Soon after, he was to plant still deeper roots on that side of the pond by becoming an American citizen and buying a house for himself and his mother Rose, about an hour's journey from New York - a faintly Oedipal domestic idyll which would be rudely shattered the following year, when Rose committed suicide by throwing herself from the 14th storey of Grainger's management office. Grainger's reaction was to throw himself into his work - a music festival, a teaching commitment and a protracted European tour. By this time, his arrangement of 'Country Gardens' was flying off the shelves of music shops everywhere at a phenomenal rate, making trips to his native Australia affordable. It was on the return journey from one such trip that he met his "Nordic princess", Ella Viola Ström, who approached him in the ship's music room for a banjulele lesson and ended up with a husband. Their wedding ceremony - and indeed their marriage - was as unconventional as Grainger himself.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b017cjyj)
Rodewald Concert Series 2011
Tasmin Little, John Lenehan
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Rodewald Concert Series at Liverpool's St Georges Hall. In the second of the four recitals, violinist Tasmin Little and pianist John Lenehan play music by Bach, Kreisler, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Bartok.
KREISLER - Praeludium and allegro in the style of Gaetano Pugnani
BACH - Sonata for violin & keyboard No.3 in E, BWV.1016
GRIEG - Sonata for violin & piano No.2 in G, Op.13
BARTOK - Romanian Folk Dances
TCHAIKOVSKY - Melodie for violin & piano, Op.42'3.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b017cjyl)
Symphony
Episode 14
Louise Fryer continues Radio 3's month of programmes complementing the BBC4 series "Symphony" - including every note of every Symphony featured in the television series. Today, a single blockbuster Symphony from the 2011 Edinburgh International Festival, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, their Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles and soloists including mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill. The same team will be back tomorrow with more Mahler - his Third Symphony - as well as Dvorak's "New World" Symphony.
Mahler: Symphony no. 2
Meagan Miller (soprano)
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b017cjyn)
St George's Chapel, Windsor
From St George's Chapel Windsor.
Introit: One thing have I desired of the Lord (Sumsion)
Responses: Francis Grier
Hymn: Te lucis ante terminum (Tallis)
Psalms: 114, 115 (Garrett, South)
First Lesson: Jeremiah 31 vv1-9
Canticles: Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense (Leighton)
Second Lesson: Matthew 15 vv21-31
Anthem: Lord, thou hast been our refuge (Bairstow)
Hymn: We have a gospel to proclaim (Fulda)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in C minor (Willan)
Timothy Byram-Wigfield (Director of Music)
Richard Pinel (Assistant Director of Music).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b017cjyq)
Presented by Sean Rafferty
Jazz singer Ian Shaw, twice winner of the BBC Jazz Awards' Best Jazz Vocalist category, performs live in the studio with trumpeter Miguel Gorodi ahead of a two night residency at the legendary Ronnie Scotts.
Vocal Futures is a new venture aiming to open up classical music to young audiences. Its founder Suzi Digby and opera director Patrick Kinmonth talk to Sean about their upcoming production of Bach's St Matthew Passion, staged in a disused lab in Westminster and featuring and all-star cast and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Young Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin came to prominence in 2010 when he won the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. He is now much in demand on the concert platform and has embarked on an ambitious cycle of the Prokofiev Piano Concertos with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He talks to Sean and performs live ahead of the latest installment of that cycle.
Plus My Essential Symphony featuring mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy.
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WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b017cjtl)
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WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b017cjys)
A Catalogue of Birds
Live from Earth Music Bristol at St George's
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
As part of Earth Music Bristol, pianist Peter Hill in a concert called "A Catalogue of Birds", including works by Ravel Messaien, Sculthorpe, Takemitsu, and Douglas Young.
Pale silver moonlit pools, the interlacing branches of trees, a tapestry of stars and haunting bird calls from the tide-edge of an estuary - just some of the magical sights and sounds that inspire this intimate evening of solo piano music. The pianist is Peter Hill, widely acknowledged as one of the truly great interpreters of Messiaen, whose recording of The Catalogue of Birds was made under the composer's personal supervision.
Messiaen: La Colombe (1928), Le Merle bleu (1958).
Sculthorpe: Night Pieces (Snow, Moon, Flowers, Stars).
Takemitsu: Rain Tree Sketch ll (in memoriam Messiaen).
Messiaen: Le Traquet stapazin.
8.15 - Interval.
8.35 - Part 2:
Messiaen: La Bouscarle.
Douglas Young: River.
Ravel: Oiseaux tristes (from 'Miroirs').
Messiaen: Le Courlis cendre.
Peter Hill (piano).
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b017cjyv)
2011
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Neuro-scientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore gives a talk on changes in the teenage brain.
Teenagers often act on impulse, are lazy, emotional and get into trouble with the police and parents. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London and a leading expert on teenage brains. Using recent research about the radical changes taking place in the adolescent brain, she argues it's time to rethink our attitudes towards youth and the place of teenagers in society.
Recorded in front of a live audience at The Sage Gateshead, at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011. Presented by Juliet Gardiner.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b017cjyx)
Earth Music Bristol
On Lyre Birds and Bell Birds
The third of five essays inspired by the musical content of the first Earth Music Bristol festival.
On his first visit to Australia, the composer (and founder director of Earth Music Bristol) Edward Cowie heard lyre birds singing. He was so impressed that he wrote a piece of choral music inspired by what he heard. Other Australian birds have since found their way into his work. He shares his story and his enthusiasm for these natural masters of song.
Producer: Tim Dee.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b017cjyz)
Fiona Talkington - 23/11/2011
A collaboration between Norwegian trio Tindra and Polish band Kroke, Arild Andersen's 1997 album Hyperborean, and Belgian nyckelharpa player Didier Francois. Presented by Fiona Talkington.
THURSDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2011
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b017cjzp)
Susan Sharpe presents Bach's Art of Fugue in a concert given by the Berlin Academy for Ancient Music.
12:31 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Die Kunst der Fuge (BWV.1080) - with additional opening Chorus from the Cantata BWV 38: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir .
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Michaela Hasselt (organ, harpsichord), Stephan Mai (director)
1:53 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Litaniae Lauretanae (K.195)
Dita Paegle (soprano), Antra Bigaca (mezzo soprano), Martins Klisans (tenor), Janis Markovs (bass), Choir of Latvian Radio and the Riga Chamber Players, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
2:20 AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
Prelude and Fugue for orchestra (Op.10) (1909)
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pertti Pekkanen (conductor)
2:31 AM
Albinoni, Tomasi (1671-1750)
Oboe Concerto in D minor (Op.9 No.2)
Carin van Heerden (oboe), L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg (director)
2:42 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 1 (Op.21) in C Major
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (cond)
3:09 AM
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953) arr. Prokofiev and David Oistrakh
Sonata for violin and piano No.2 (Op.94bis) in D major - arr. from Sonata for flute & piano (Op.94)
Vesko Eschkenazy (violin), Ludmil Angelov (piano)
3:35 AM
Casella, Alfredo (1883-1947)
Barcarola e scherzo
Min Park (flute), Huw Watkins (piano)
3:44 AM
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Il Tramonto
Andrea Trebnik (soprano), Borromeo String Quartet
4:00 AM
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto for strings, No.4 in E minor
Concerto Köln
4:11 AM
Allegri, Gregorio (1582-1652)
Miserere mei Deus for 9 voices
Camerata Silesia, Anna Szostak (conductor)
4:25 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Allegro in G minor (KV.312)
Wout van Andel (organ St. Stephen's Church in Nijmegen built by Ludwig Konig, 1776)
4:31 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857)
Ruslan and Lyudmila: overture
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowsky (conductor)
4:36 AM
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909)
4 Songs
Jadwiga Rappé (contralto), Ewa Poblocka (piano)
4:44 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto da Camera in G minor (RV.107)
Camerata Köln
4:53 AM
Méhul, Etienne-Nicolas (1763-1817)
Sonata in D (Op.1 No.1) (Allegro; Andante; Rondo)
Arthur Schoondewoerd (fortepiano)
5:03 AM
Gossec, François-Joseph (1734-1829)
Symphony in D major (Op.5 No.3) 'Pastorella'
Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
5:19 AM
Roussel, Albert (1869-1937)
Suite from 'Le Festin de l'Araignée (Op.17)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
5:37 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Sonata in B flat (K.333) (1783-84)
Farkas Gábor (piano)
5:56 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Suite in B flat major for 13 wind instruments (Op.4)
Ottawa Winds, Michael Goodwin (conductor)
6:21 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Havanaise
Vilmos Szabadi (violin), Marta Gulyas (piano)
06:30
Radio 3 Breakfast.
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b017ck0b)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including a performance of Monteverdi's Zefiro Torna by The Consort of Musicke directed by Anthony Rooley, Jessel's Parade of the Tin Soldiers is played by the New London Orchestra conducted by Ronald Corp, and Christopher Hogwood conducts The Academy of Ancient Music's performance of Haydn's Symphony No. 30 in C major.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b017ck0d)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Placido Domingo, The Verdi Tenor, with contributions from Katia Ricciarelli and others: RCA RED SEAL 88697840172.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky.
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is the author Helen Dunmore, winner of the Orange Prize (for her third novel A Spell of Winter). Today she introduces a piece she would love to conduct, as well as music she would like played at her funeral.
11am
Helen Dunmore's Symphony Choice
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 7 Leningrad
I. Allegretto
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre St Petersburg Valery Gergiev (conductor) PHILIPS 470 8452.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b017ck0n)
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Episode 4
In today's programme, Grainger turns adversity to advantage in 'The Immovable Do' - a charming short composition built around a stuck key on his harmonium. Around the same time, he came up with the mildly eccentric idea of founding, in effect, a museum of Himself - the Grainger Museum - in his home town of Melbourne, Australia. It's a little as if Elvis had opened Graceland as a visitor attraction while he was still alive! The Grainger Museum may sound like a monstrously self-regarding enterprise, but in fact, with its display of first editions of his music, it came to represent to Grainger "a measure of his artistic defeat" rather than a celebration of his achievements; as he noted in an introduction to the proposed display, most of his music was no longer being played - and, as he put it, "music that isn't heard isn't alive." Another example of Grainger's unusual slant on reality was his concept of 'blue-eyed English' - an attempt to turn back the linguistic clock and expunge all traces of post-Norman-Conquest verbiage from the English language. Accordingly, concerts were 'tone-shows', quartets became 'foursomes' and vegetarians mutated into 'meat-shunners'. Grainger even went so far as to collaborate on a blue-eyed English dictionary, whose Newspeakish goal was to eliminate all alien admixtures from the language. Grainger carried on presenting his own 'tone-shows' - as an internationally celebrated concert pianist. But here too he acquired a reputation for eccentric behaviour - not many performers fulfil their touring commitments by jogging from one engagement to the next, with their concert clothes in a rucksack on their back; but Grainger did, even becoming known as 'the jogging pianist'.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b017ck3r)
Rodewald Concert Series 2011
The Fine Arts Quartet
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Rodewald Concert Series at Liverpool's St George's Hall. In the penultimate recital, the Fine Arts Quartet plays Grieg's String Quartet in G minor Op.27 (his only complete mature quartet) and Philip Glass's lyrical String Quartet No.2 "Company".
GLASS: String Quartet No.2 "Company".
GRIEG: String Quartet in G minor, Op.27.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b017ck3t)
Symphony
Episode 15
Louise Fryer continues Radio 3's month of programmes complementing the BBC4 series "Symphony" - including every note of every Symphony featured in the television series (which concludes tonight). Today Louise presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles in one of the most famous of all Symphonies - Dvorak's "From the New World", and one of the longest - Mahler's Third.
Dvorak: Symphony no. 9 in E minor (From the New World)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)
c.
2.40pm
Mahler: Symphony no. 3
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
Ladies of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus
RSNO Junior Chorus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b017ck3w)
As they prepare to launch their new album, the Blossom Street Singers perform live in the In Tune studio with conductor and composer Hilary Campbell. The 20-piece choir perform works from their new release 'Sleep, Holy Babe - A Collection of Christmas Lullabies', including a new piece written by Hilary.
Recently named 2012 Musicians of the Year by the Musical America newspaper, co-artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Wu Han and David Finckel visit the In Tune studio. Along with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, violinists Ani Kavafian and Arnaud Sussmann, viola player Paul Neubauer and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt, they will perform works by Schumann and Barber live in the studio as they continue their residency at Wigmore Hall.
Also including "My Essential Symphony" with broadcaster Stuart Maconie.
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, Alexander Armstrong, Penny Smith, Sandi Toksvig, James Naughtie & Brian Blessed.
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THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b017ck0n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b017ck3y)
BBC Singers - Cowie, McCabe, Bingham, Stanford, Dutilleux, Messiaen
Live from Earth Music Bristol at St George's.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
The BBC Singers and their Chief Conductor, David Hill, embark on a birdsong-inspired musical adventure that begins with the world premiere of Edward Cowie's 'dawn piece', Bell Bird Motet, and ends with a 'dusk piece', his sumptuous Lyre Bird Motet.
Along the way, they explore pieces that respond to the sounds and habitats of birds, from Stanford's The Blue Bird to Elgar's Owls and Vaughan Williams' s The turtle dove. Peter Hill plays solo piano works by Messiaen and Dutilleux.
Edward Cowie: Bell Bird Motet (BBC commission: world premiere).
John McCabe: Proud Songsters.
Judith Bingham:The Drowned Lovers (based on Stanford's The Blue Bird).
C V Stanford: The Blue Bird.
Dutilleux: D'ombre et de silence.
Messiaen: La Chouette hulotte.
Britten: Five Flower Songs.
8.15pm Interval - Live discussion about birdsong and music.
8.35pm Part 2:
Judith Bingham: Unpredictable but Providential.
Tippett: The Windhover.
Elgar: Owls.
Messiaen: Le Rouge-gorge.
Messiaen: L'Alouette lulu.
Vaughan Williams: The Turtle Dove.
Jonathan Dove: Who Killed Cock Robin.
Edward Cowie: Lyre Bird Motet.
Peter Hill (piano);
BBC Singers,
David Hill (conductor).
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b017ck40)
2011
Charles Jencks
Landscape architect Charles Jencks calls for a new cosmic art, in a talk entitled Reclaiming the Universe, given at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011.
Charles Jencks is the visionary designer, theorist and landscape architect whose work includes gardens at the Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres, founded by his late wife Maggie Jencks. He is creating the world's largest sculpture of a human form, Northumberlandia, near the village of Cramlington in the North East.
Jencks argues that understanding the universe is too important to be left to scientists and theologians, and wants us to connect to pre-historic ideas about the cosmos, present in monuments such as Stonehenge.
This event is recorded in front of a live audience at The Sage Gateshead as part of the 2011 Free Thinking Festival. Presented by Rana Miter.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b017ck42)
Earth Music Bristol
Symphonic Impressions
Geoff Sample
Symphonic Impressions
The fourth of five essays inspired by the musical content of the first Earth Music Bristol festival.
Our understanding of bird song hinges on the idea that males sing to declare their territory and attract a mate. They are effectively in competition with each other and each is a soloist. So how come the sum of the parts so often sounds like a chorus? How can random self interest produce order? This essay explores how evolutionary influences, shaping the structure of birds' songs and singing behaviour, may have resulted in this impression of symphony in our minds.
Geoff Sample is the foremost bird song sound recordist in Britain.
Producer: Tim Dee.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b017ck44)
Fiona Talkington - 24/11/2011
Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile's new album The Goat Rodeo Sessions, Jon Balke's Batagraf, and choral music by the Lithuanian composer Vaclovas Augustinas. Presented by Fiona Talkington.
FRIDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2011
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b017ck5f)
Susan Sharpe presents the BBC Concert Orchestra performing rarely heard music by Bowen, Alwyn, Parry and Vaughan Williams
12:31 AM
Alwyn, William [1905-1985
Men of Gloucester: Overture in the form of a Serenade (1946)
Micaela Haslam (soprano), London Chorus, BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson (conductor)
12:37 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph [1872-1958]
Heroic elegy and triumphal epilogue for orchestra
Roderick Elms (organ), London Chorus, BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson (conductor)
12:58 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Suite for keyboard in G minor - 1733 no.6 (HWV.439)
Jautrite Putnina (piano)
1:14 AM
Bowen, York [1884-1961]
Eventide, symphonic poem (Op. 69)
Roderick Elms (organ), London Chorus, BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson (conductor)
1:27 AM
Alwyn, William [1905-1985
Prelude (1925)
BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson (conductor)
1:30 AM
Alwyn, William [1905-1985
Blackdown - a tone poem from the Surrey Hills (1926)
BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson (conductor)
1:35 AM
Alwyn, William [1905-1985
Peter Pan Suite (1923)
BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson (conductor)
1:42 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
Nocturne for tenor, 7 instruments and string orchestra (Op.60)
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Simon Streatfield (conductor)
2:08 AM
Alwyn, William [1905-1985
Ad infinitum - a satire for orchestra (1929)
BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson (conductor)
2:16 AM
Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings [1848-1918]
Hypatia - incidental music (1892)
BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson (conductor)
2:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Fantasy for piano (D.760) in C major 'Wandererfantasie'
Alfred Brendel (piano)
2:52 AM
Elgar, Edward [1857-1934]
In the south (Alassio) - overture (Op.50)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor)
3:14 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto IX in D major for solo violin, strings and continuo (RV.230), from 'L'Estro Armonico' (Op.3)
Paul Wright (violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
3:21 AM
Kilar, Wojciech (b. 1932)
Piano Concerto
Peter Jablonski (piano), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
3:47 AM
Gershwin, George (1898-1937)
Lullaby - for string quartet
New Stenhammar String Quartet
3:56 AM
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934)
Irmelin: prelude
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
4:01 AM
Brumby, Colin (b. 1933)
Festival Overture on Australian themes
West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills (conductor)
4:11 AM
Dvořák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Romance (Op.11) in F minor vers. for violin and piano
Mincho Minchev (violin), Violinia Stoyanova (piano)
4:23 AM
Goldmark, Károly (1830-1915)
Scherzo for orchestra in E minor (Op.19)
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Adam Medveczky (conductor)
4:31 AM
Groneman, Albertus (1710-1778)
Concerto in G major for solo flute, two flutes, viola & basso continuo
Jed Wentz (solo flute), Marion Moonen, Cordula Breuer (flutes), Musica ad Rhenum
4:39 AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
Andante in A major for violin and piano (1902)
Tamás Major (violin), György Oravecz (piano)
4:43 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975)
Festive Overture (Op.96)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
4:50 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Golliwog's Cake-walk from Children's Corner Suite (1906-8)
Donna Coleman (piano)
4:53 AM
Dārziņ?, Emīls (1875-1910)
Melanholiskais valsis (Melancholy waltz) for orchestra
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Leonids Vigners (conductor)
5:01 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
6 Quartets for chorus and piano (Op.112)
Danish National Radio Choir, Bengt Forsberg (piano), Stefan Parkman (conductor)
5:12 AM
Butterworth, Arthur (b. 1923)
Romanza for horn and strings (1954)
Martin Hackleman (horn), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5:22 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
Hill-Song No.1
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
5:36 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Toccata for keyboard in D major (BWV.912)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
5:48 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Quartet for strings no.50 (Op.64 No.3) (Hob.III:67) in B flat major
Talisker Quartet
6:08 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Concerto for cello and orchestra No.1 in A minor (Op.33)
Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
06:30 AM
Radio 3 Breakfast.
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b017ck5h)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including Beethoven's Egmont overture performed by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, baritone Wolfgang Holzmair and pianist Imogen Cooper perform Schubert's Liebesbotschaft (Schwanengesang) and Strauss' Waltz of the Spheres is played by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Rudolf Kempe.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b017ck5k)
Friday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Placido Domingo, The Verdi Tenor, with contributions from Katia Ricciarelli and others: RCA RED SEAL 88697840172.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, in music by Weber (Turandot) and Prokofiev (Cinderella).
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is the author Helen Dunmore, winner of the Orange Prize (for her third novel A Spell of Winter). Today she remembers a great performer who is no longer with us, and Rob acts as her personal shopper, presenting her with a mystery piece, which he hopes she will like!
11am
Rob's Essential Choice:
Finzi
Dies natalis, Op. 8.
Wilfred Brown (tenor),
English Chamber Orchestra,
Christopher Finzi.
EMI 5 65588 2.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b017ck62)
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Episode 5
The main work in today's programme is Grainger's Jungle Book cycle, which he worked on, on and off, for nearly 50 years. It's the culmination of his boyhood love of Rudyard Kipling, instilled in him in his teens by his father, who wanted to "tickle up the British lion in him" during his years at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Shortly before Grainger completed his Kipling cycle, he had performed the Grieg Piano Concerto at the Hollywood Bowl under the baton of Leopold Stokowksi. The two men enjoyed working together, and a couple of years later, Stokowksi, a master-arranger himself, wrote to Grainger asking if he would make fresh arrangements for a new recording of his 'greatest hits' - Molly on the Shore, Irish Tune from County Derry, Early One Morning, Handel in the Strand, Mock Morris and Country Gardens. Grainger was evidently very pleased with the resultant recordings, but remained deeply ambivalent about his own achievements as a composer: "I am not very fond of my own music. If there is anything I hate it is listening to my own silly music and having to sit there like a fool while I see how much others also dislike it.".
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b017ck6z)
Rodewald Concert Series 2011
Wolfgang Holzmair
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Rodewald Concert Series at Liverpool's St George's Hall. In the last of the four recitals, baritone Wolfgang Holzmair and pianist Russell Ryan perform Schumann's sublime song-cycle "Dichterliebe" alongside settings of the same poems by composers including Liszt, Meyerbeer, Wolf, Grieg, Mendelssohn, von Suppé, Loewe and Ives.
KILLMAYER: Belsazar.
LACHNER: Im Mai.
MEYERBEER: Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube.
WOLF: Wenn ich in deine Augen Seh'.
KINKEL: Der Kuss.
LISZT: Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome.
IVES: Ich grolle nicht.
HENSEL: Verlust.
GRIEG: Hörlich das Liedchen klingen.
HOVEN: Eine alte Geschichte.
FRANZ: Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen.
LOEWE: Ich hab' im Traum geweinet.
MENDELSSOHN: Allnächtlich im Traume seh' ich dich.
VON SUPPE: Aus alten Märchen.
SCHUMANN: Belsazar.
SCHUMANN: Dichterliebe.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b017ck71)
Symphony
Episode 16
Louise Fryer continues Radio 3's month of programmes complementing the BBC4 series "Symphony" - including every note of every Symphony featured in the television series.
Today with Sibelius and Vaughan Williams we cross from the 1800s to the 1900s, in two recent performances from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The concert starting around
2.45pm took place just last Sunday as part of Earth Music Bristol.
Sibelius: Symphony no. 2 in D major
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)
c.
2.45pm
Britten: 4 Sea Interludes
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor)
Elgar: Sea Pictures
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor)
c.
3.30pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony no. 7 (Sinfonia Antartica)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b017ck73)
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
The Fugata Quintet are a young Nuevo Tango ensemble who play the music of the Argentinian tango composer Astor Piazzolla in the style and instrumentation that the composer himself envisaged. They perform with this line-up - accordion, guitar, piano, double bass and violin - live in the In Tune studio.
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter shot to prominence aged only 13 after being spotted by conductor Herbert von Karajan and has since forged a stellar career and made a name for herself as a champion of contemporary music. She talks to Sean ahead of concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra as its featured artist this season.
Plus My Essential Symphony, with BBC Director General Mark Thomson.
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FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b017ck62)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b017ck97)
The Coull String Quartet at Earth Music Bristol
Haydn, Cowie
Live from Earth Music Bristol at St George's
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
The renowned players of the Coull String Quartet perform two great string quartets of the past together with Edward Cowie's 'Birdsong Bagatelles'
Haydn's quartet is nicknamed the 'bird' because of the bird-like calls in the first movement while the scherzo of Dvorak's famous 'American' quartet uses the song of the scarlet tanager, a bird indigenous to the Iowa plains which Dvorak often heard the bird while staying in the mid-west during his time in America. Much of Edward Cowie's music is a response to the natural world and his 5th Quartet 'Birdsong Bagatelles' are sound protraits of 24 common European birds.
Haydn: String Quartet in C op.33 no.3 'The Bird'
Cowie: Birdsong Bagatelles: Quartet no.5.
FRI 20:10 Symphony Question Time (b017ck99)
Sue Perkins and Tom Service unravel everything you ever wanted to know about the symphony, but were too afraid to ask...
What relevance do symphonies have today? In Episode 5 of the series, the pair ask if the social and cultural ideas that gave birth to the symphony are still relevant today - and who's still composing symphonies at the dawn of the 21st century. Can you be considered a truly great composer if - like Chopin, Verdi and Delius - you haven't written one?
Don't forget, you can join in the conversation on Twitter by tweeting with the hashtag #r3symphonyqt, or visit the Radio 3 Facebook page: www.facebook.com/bbcradio3
You can also download the whole series as podcasts - visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/symphony.
FRI 20:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b017ck9c)
The Coull String Quartet at Earth Music Bristol
Cowie, Dvorak
Live from Earth Music Bristol at St George's
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
The renowned players of the Coull String Quartet perform two great string quartets of the past together with Edward Cowie's 'Birdsong Bagatelles'
Haydn's quartet is nicknamed the 'bird' because of the bird-like calls in the first movement while the scherzo of Dvorak's famous 'American' quartet uses the song of the scarlet tanager, a bird indigenous to the Iowa plains which Dvorak often heard the bird while staying in the mid-west during his time in America. Much of Edward Cowie's music is a response to the natural world and his 5th Quartet 'Birdsong Bagatelles' are sound protraits of 24 common European birds.
Cowie: Birdsong Bagatelles, nos 13-24
Dvorak: String Quartet in F op.96 'American'.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b017ck9f)
Darkling Special - Toby Litt, Jo Shapcott, Val McDermid
"So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling."
As the days darken Ian McMillan is joined by Toby Litt to present a Verb special dedicated to the word 'darkling'. With incarnations from its first recorded use in Shakespeare's King Lear to Milton, Keats and Hardy, the word 'darkling' has even appeared in HG Wells and an edition of Star Trek.
Poet Jo Shapcott has won The Forward Prize, The Commonwealth Writers Prize and the National Poetry Competition (twice). The author of 'On Mutability' unveils a brand new darkling poem written specially for The Verb.
Val McDermid, bestselling Scottish crime writer and author of the Tony Hill series has written a specially commissioned darkling story for The Verb.
The actor Ralf Little is in studio to bring to life Val McDermid's story and Thomas Hardy's poem The Darkling Thrush.
Language historian and Oxford professor of English Lynda Mugglestone joins Ian to explain the changing meaning and history of the word, from its earliest recorded appearance to its current use amongst the 'Twilight' generation.
Singer and sound artist You Are Wolf performs a song written for the Verb in response to the famous literary incarnations of the word 'darkling'.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b017ck9h)
Earth Music Bristol
Woof and Tweet
Paul Farley
Woof and Tweet
A personal essay exploring the overlaps and connections between an enthusiasm for reggae and dub music and the song of the bittern and other big bass stars of the bird world.
Paul Farley is a poet and writer; with Michael Symonns Roberts, he recently published Edgelands.
Producer: Tim Dee.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b017ck9k)
Emir Kusturica and the No Smoking Orchestra
Mary Ann Kennedy with new releases from across the globe, and highlights from the London Jazz Festival concert by Emir Kusturica and The No Smoking Orchestra, recorded last weekend at the Royal Festival Hall.
Emir Kusturica is best known as a film director, with classic releases such as 'Underground' and 'Time of the Gypsies'. But he has always been a musician in his spare time, playing bass in the 1980s in the band Zabranjeno Pusenje. From 1998 the band's music started to be featured in his films, and they changed their name to Emir Kusturica and The No Smoking Orchestra. Their style has been described as 'a wild collision of gypsy, punk and rock music from right across the Balkans.'.