SUNDAY 11 MARCH 2012

SUN 00:00 Jazz Library (b01d0vkc)
Paul Motian

From his early recordings with the Bill Evans trio in the 1950s, Paul Motian remained in the very highest echelons of jazz until his death in November 2011. His former colleague, the saxophonist Martin Speake, who worked with Motian on record and in concert, joins Alyn Shipton for a selection of the essential discs by this most innovative and influential of percussionists. As well as work with Evans, the programme includes pieces by Keith Jarrett, the trio with Joe Lovano and Bill Frisell, and Motian's own Electric Bebop Band.


SUN 01:00 Through the Night (b01d0vkf)
Jonathan Swain presents another in our series of piano recitals from Poland - Eduard Kunz plays Scarlatti, Bach, Liszt and Rachmaninov.

1:01 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico [1685-1757]
4 Sonatas for Keyboard: Sonata in D minor, (K. 213); Sonata in B minor, (K. 197); Sonata in B minor, (K. 87); Sonata in B minor, (K. 27)
Eduard Kunz (piano)

1:17 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750] trans. Ferruccio Busoni
Chaconne in D minor, transcribed from Partita No.2 for solo violin (BWV.1004)
Eduard Kunz (piano)

1:33 AM
Albeniz, Isaac [1860-1909]
Evocación from "Iberia"
Eduard Kunz (piano)

1:38 AM
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan [1860-1941]
Nocturne in B flat major, Op. 16 No.4)
Eduard Kunz (piano)

1:43 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey [1873-1943]
Etude-Tableau in C, (Op. 33, No.2)
Lilacs, (Op. 21, No.5)
2 pieces from 6 Moments musicaux (Op.16) - No. 3 in B minor, Andante cantabile & No. 4 in E minor, Presto
Eduard Kunz (piano)

1:59 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 in C sharp minor
Eduard Kunz (piano)

2:09 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich [1840-1893]
Waltz-etude in F minor, (Op. 51)
Eduard Kunz (piano)

2:15 AM
Marais, Marin (1656-1728)
4 works for Viola da gamba & bass continuo. from Pièces de Viole
Ensemble 1700, Dorothee Oberlinger (director)

2:27 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Partita for solo violin no.2 in D minor, BWV.1004
James Ehnes (violin)

3:01 AM
Svendsen, Johan (1840 -1911)
Symphony No. 2 in B flat major (Op.15)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki (conductor)

3:35 AM
Piston, Walter (1894-1976)
Prelude and Allegro
David Schrader (organ), Grant Park Orchestra, Carlos Kalmar (conductor)

3:46 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Variations on a theme by Haydn, Op.56a
Berlin Philharmonic, Simon Rattle (conductor)

4:06 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Variations on "Deandl is harb auf mi'" for string trio
Leopold String Trio

4:13 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Polonaise in A flat major (Op. 53) "Polonaise héroïque"
Jacek Kortus (piano)

4:20 AM
Maldere, Pieter van (1729-1768)
Sinfonia in G minor (Op.4 No.1)
The Academy of Ancient Music, Filip Bral (conductor)

4:38 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Süßer Blumen Ambraflocken (HWV.204) - No.3 from Deutsche Arien
Hélène Plouffe (violin), Louise Pellerin (oboe), Dom André Laberge (organ - 1999 Karl Wilhelm at the abbey church Saint-Benoît-du-Lac)

4:44 AM
Jurjans, Andrejs (1856-1922)
Barcarola
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Imants Resnis (conductor)

4:48 AM
Crusell, Bernhard Henrik (1775-1838)
Introduction et Air Suèdois for clarinet and orchestra, Op.12
Anne-Marja Korimaa (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)

5:01 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Overture - The Ruler of the Spirits, Op.27
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

5:07 AM
Wieniawski, Henryk (1835-1880)
Polonaise No.1 in D major, Op.4
Reka Szilvay (violin), Naoko Ichihashi (piano)

5:13 AM
Norman, Ludwig (1831-1885), arr. Niklas Willen
Andante Sostenuto
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Niklas Willén (conductor)

5:23 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in A minor, K.310
Gunilla Süssmann (piano)

5:41 AM
Allegri, Lorenzo (1567-1648)
Primo Ballo della notte d'amore & Sinfonica (Spirito del ciel) - from Il primo libro delle musiche
Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs (chitaronne/director)

5:51 AM
Kyurkchiyski, Krassimir (b.1936)
Prayer (from Two works after paintings of Vladimir Dimitrov - the Master)
Sinfonietta Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio, Kamen Goleminov (conductor)

5:57 AM
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909)
Violin Concerto in A major, Op.8
Kaja Danczowska (violin), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit (conductor)

6:27 AM
Wassenaer, Unico Wilhelm van (1692-1766)
Concerto No.1 in G major (from 'Sei Concerti Armonici')
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor)

6:38 AM
Lipinski, Karol Józef (1790-1861)
Overture in D major
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Cracow, Szymon Kawalla (conductor)

6:47 AM
Demersseman, Jules August (1833-1866)
Italian Concerto in F major, Op.82 No.6
Kristina Vaculova (flute), Inna Aslamasova (piano).


SUN 07:00 Breakfast (b01d0vkh)
Sunday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast Show.


SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (b01d0vkk)
James Jolly

James Jolly presents three hours of great music, featuring the best recordings from the archive and the present day. Today with music by Haydn, Dvorak and Langgaard.


SUN 12:00 Private Passions (b01d0vkm)
Trevor Peacock

Michael Berkeley welcomes the distinguished stage and TV actor Trevor Peacock, whose most famous TV role is Jim Trott in The Vicar of Dibley. He has appeared in many other TV programmes, from Madame Bovary and The Old Curiosity Shop to EastEnders, Jonathan Creek, Hotel Babylon and Last of the Summer Wine; and has had starring roles in BBC Shakespeare adaptations, including the title-role in Titus Andronicus and Feste in Twelfth Night. During his long stage career he has been particularly asociated with the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester. A noted songwriter, he wrote the 1960s pop classic 'Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter', as well as other hits.

His private musical tastes are wide-ranging, from English classics such as Walton's Belshazzar's Feast and Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis to Dvorak's Symphony No.8, Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin and Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, as well as music by Gershwin and Ernest Tomlinson.


SUN 13:00 The Early Music Show (b01d0vkp)
Bach in Leipzig

After his time working for Prince Leopold of Anhalt in Cöthen, Johann Sebastian Bach took a substantial drop in salary and public standing to work as Cantor in Leipzig. The role primarily involved teaching at St Thomas School, but also meant that Bach was responsible for the music in the German town's four churches. Lucie Skeaping takes a closer look at Bach's time in the German town, where Bach remained from 1723 until his death in 1750.


SUN 14:00 Sunday Concert (b01d0vkr)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic: Music Nation

Recorded last Sunday at Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, as part of the BBC's Music Nation weekend.

Christian Lindberg conducts the RLPO in a concert of Scandanavian classics: including Nielsen's Helios Overture and the Second Symphony by Sibelius. Alessandro Taverna joins them for Grieg's evergreen Piano Concerto.

The Helios Overture is a bracing hymn to the rising sun; while Sibelius' Second Symphony begins in the peace of the Finnish forests, and ends in a mighty flood of patriotic emotion. The Grieg has been a mainstay of the repertoire ever since its premiere in 1869.

Nielsen Helios Overture
Grieg Piano Concerto
Sibelius Symphony No. 2.


SUN 16:00 Choral Evensong (b01cvq1t)
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

From Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Introit: Beati mundo corde (Byrd)
Responses: Francis Pott
Psalm 37 (Russell, Gauntlett)
First Lesson: Job 1 vv.1-22
Canticles: Dyson in D
Second Lesson: Luke 21 v.34 - 22 v.6
Anthem: Prayer for the Church's Banquet (Francis Grier)
Voluntary: Joie et clarté from Les Corps Glorieux (Messiaen)

Stephen Darlington (Director of Music)
Michael Heighway (Organ Scholar).

First broadcast 7 March 2012.


SUN 17:00 Choir and Organ (b01d0w2p)
St Thomas Boys' Choir, Leipzig

Aled Jones marks the 800th anniversary of the renowned St. Thomas Boys' Choir in Leipzig, and catches up with some of the choirs who are participating in Radio 4's forthcoming "The People's Passion" series. Choirs around the UK are currently learning a specially commissioned mass setting and anthem by acclaimed poet Michael Symmons Roberts and Manchester Carols composer Sasha Johnson Manning. Across the same week as this new work is premiered at Manchester Cathedral on Easter Sunday morning, they'll be joining in with a performance of their own. To find out more about the project, visit bbc.co.uk/peoplespassion.


SUN 18:30 Words and Music (b01d0w2r)
The Haunting

Emilia Fox and Jamie Glover read a selection of poetry and prose exploring some of literature's most chilling supernatural hauntings - but also the idea of being haunted by a lover, the past or a place. Berlioz's 'Dies irae' from his 'Symphonie Fantastique' opens the programme - a piece haunted by the composer's vision of female perfection - followed by arguably the most famous haunted character in literary history, Shakespeare's Hamlet, reflecting on the appearance of his father's spirit. Thomas Hardy's 'The Haunter' and D.H Lawrence's 'Silence' capture the melancholy of being haunted by the memory of a loved one, while Shirley Jackson's 'The Haunting of Hill House' and Edgar Allan's Poe's 'The Haunted Palace' provide unsettling examples of haunted house literature. In Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice', his anti-hero Aschenbach wanders the labyrinthine Venetian streets, haunted by an obsessive sexual impulse; we hear Benjamin Britten's otherworldly musical imagining of the tale. And in Tennyson's poem 'A Spirit Haunts the Year's Last Hours' and Sir Arnold Bax's 'Into the Twilight', we glimpse nature in its haunted state: with the fading autumnal moments of the year, the spectral approach of winter and the growing shadows of the evening.

First broadcast in March 2012.


SUN 19:45 Sunday Feature (b01d0w2t)
Swansea's Other Poet

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams presents a portrait of Vernon Watkins, a poet he regards as one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and distinctive - and unjustly neglected voices.

At the time of his death in 1967, it's likely Watkins was in line to succeed John Masefield as Poet Laureate. Kathleen Raine believed Watkins to be "the greatest lyric poet of her generation"; T.S. Eliot and Philip Larkin were also admirers. Dylan Thomas was of the opinion that Watkins was "the only poet whose poetry I really like today". Given such appreciation, the reason why Watkins' poetry slipped quietly into the shadows is something of a mystery.

It may be due, at least in part, to his association with Dylan Thomas. Two Welsh poets, writing in English, they first met in 1935, soon after the publication of Thomas's first collection of poetry. Generous in spirit, Watkins immediately recognised Thomas's genius and he never deviated from that opinion. They quickly became friends, meeting up regularly at Watkins' home on the Gower cliffs, both absorbed in the craft of writing poetry. It was through Thomas that Watkins became associated with the artists, musicians and writers, among them Alfred Janes and Daniel Jones, who socialised at the Kardomah Café in Swansea. The number of poems Watkins wrote about Thomas leaves no doubt as to the presence Thomas had in his life, but aside from a shared Welsh heritage and a passionate love of language, there are relatively few points of comparison between them. Temperamentally dissimilar, Watkins preferred a regular existence, while Thomas lived life far more precariously. Their working methods too were different. Watkins was to say that while Thomas worked with what he called living language and "moulded" his poems, his own poetry was written "from the ear and for the ear" with an innate sense of musicality.

A master craftsman, Watkins devoted a lifetime to poetry, writing in every known form, from free verse to sonnets and ballads. Generally his poems would be the result of long gestation periods, refined and revised frequently over a year or more. At the time of his death he'd already published several volumes of poetry for Faber, the pre-eminent publisher of the period; posthumously that number doubled. He plied his craft daily, working on his poems after a day spent working as a cashier in a bank. In the evening, momentarily leaving behind the demands of a wife and five children, he could be seen walking along the limestone cliffs of South Gower, where he lived, looking for material to ignite his imagination. Despite being a keen observer of the natural world, he never regarded himself as a nature poet, rather he saw himself as a religious and metaphysical poet, always looking behind the surface, towards an inner world, beyond time. As he says in his poem, The Razor Shell, "do not interpret me too soon".


SUN 20:30 Drama on 3 (b01d0w2w)
Chowringhee

Mani Shankar Mukerji's 'Chowringhee' is a gentle comedy of life in a grand Calcutta hotel in the late 1950s adapted for radio by Roger James Elsgood from a translation from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha.

The story tells of the events that befall a bright but naive young Bengali when he is unexpectedly given a job behind the reception counter in 'The Shahjahan', Calcutta's finest hotel. He becomes entangled in the rocky romantic life of the manager, Marco Polo, he is caught in the crossfire of a diva of the silver screen and her possessive husband and witnesses the tragedy that befalls the beautiful but vulnerable resident hostess.

These stories are played out against the backdrop of a newly independent India in a time of austerity and social unrest.

The role of Sankar is played by Bollywood actor Joy Sengupta. The production was recorded entirely on location in Calcutta with a cast of Bengali actors.

The sound recordist was Ross Adams. Chowringhee was directed by Willi Richards. The Producer is Roger James Elsgood.


SUN 22:00 World Routes (b01d0w2y)
2012

London Programme

World Routes Academy 2012: this year's protégé, London-born teenage accordionist José Hernando, introduces the Colombian 'vallenato' style, looking back to great performers of the past, and playing a studio session with his own band. Plus highlights from José's first session with his mentor, celebrated accordionist Egidio Cuadrado, recorded in José's bedroom at his home in Acton. Introduced by Lucy Duran.

Launched in 2010, the BBC Radio 3 World Routes Academy aims to support and inspire UK based young world music artists by bringing them together with an internationally renowned artist in the same field and belonging to the same tradition. The scheme targets forms of music and musical skills that are under threat to help preserve them.

Born in London but of Colombian descent, the talented young José Hernando fell in love with Vallenato, the popular folk style from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, which he learned from watching clips online and on tapes his father brought back from Colombia. José Hernando plays in a number of Vallenato and Cumbia folk bands in London and is the musical director of Revolucion Vallenata, a multi-cultural band celebrating the Vallenato tradition. José Hernando is also currently studying for a degree in Guitar at the Tech Music School in West London.

For the BBC Radio 3 World Routes Academy 2012, José is paired with Egidio Cuadrado, the gifted Colombian accordion player, perhaps best known for his work with Carlos Vives, the Grammy-winning Colombian star and one of the most celebrated performers in Latin America.


SUN 23:00 Jazz Line-Up (b01d0w30)
Kit Downes and Special Guests

Julian Joseph presents concert music from pianist Kit Downes and special guests including cellist Lucy Railton and drummers Seb Rochford & James Maddren.Recorded at Kings Place, London in front of a capacity crowd.The performance features two contrasting sets, the first in duo with Polar Bear drummer Seb Rochford, and the second featuring the quartet playing of Kit Downes (Grand Piano/Hammond Organ), Seb Rochford (Drums), James Maddren (Drums) and Lucy Railton (Cello).