Concerto Copenhagen perform concertos by Vivaldi, Fasch and Pisendel. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Peter Spisskky (violin), Lars Henriksson (oboe), Per Bengtsson (oboe) Concerto Copenhagen, Alfredo Bernardini (conductor)
Gavotte from Orchestral suite no. 4 in D, BWV.1069
Suzanna Klintcharova (harp), Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Dimitar Manolov (conductor)
Igor Ozim and Primoz Novsak (violins), Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)
Trio No.4 from Essercizii Musici, for Transverse Flute, Harpsichord obligato and continuo
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: a disc of Verdi opera choruses, preludes and ballet music conducted by Riccardo Muti: EMI 0980152.
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
This week marks the biennial Sport Relief charity fund-raising effort, organized by Comic Relief in association with BBC Sport. Rob Cowan's Sport Relief guest is Claire Taylor MBE, who was named as the ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year in 2009. Claire introduces her essential pieces of classical music.
Donald Macleod continues the week of exclusive interviews with the composer Philip Glass, first broadcast to mark the composer's 75th birthday in 2012.
Philip Glass's music has captured the popular imagination - and come to soundtrack our lives - in a way almost unthinkable for a contemporary composer. Yet Glass also divides opinion like no other figure in contemporary music. A one-time "enfant terrible" of the New York arts scene of the 60s and 70s - whose simple, seemingly endless repetitions would stretch for hours and enrage critics - Glass has long since swapped hardline minimalism for a comfy, lushly Romantic sound...and alienated many of his former fans. Disarmingly frank, witty and engaging, Philip Glass has always wryly put aside criticism of his commercial success. All this week on Composer Of The Week, Donald Macleod talks to him about his extraordinary life in music, with a playlist that encompasses his entire career.
By the mid-1980s, Philip Glass was among the most famous musicians in the world, having cemented the success of "Einstein On The Beach" with two more acclaimed 'portrait' operas - Satyagraha and Akhnaten - and the breakthrough success of his hypnotic score to Godfrey Reggio's art-film Koyaanisqatsi (1982). Yet unknown to most music fans, he'd also composed a work that delighted millions of children - with incidental music to an animated sequence on the TV show Sesame Street!
Donald Macleod discusses the fruits of Glass's early success with the composer himself - a period when he was famous enough to lend his face to adverts for luxury watches and scotch whisky - and introduces his first foray in orchestral writing since his student days: his Violin Concerto (1987), inspired by his father.
In this series 'Debussy's Last Words' from the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen, the Trio Verlaine perform one of the three instrumental sonatas which Debussy completed in his final year, a trio for flute, viola and harp as well as works by Ravel, Bax and Marais.
Katie Derham presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra with music by Kancheli, Chopin, and Rimsky-Korsakov, and Neil Brand's music for Alfred Hitchcock's silent movie Blackmail.
Composer Neil Brand talks about his recent orchestral score for Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 silent film Blackmail.- premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with the film at the Barbican Hall, London. Set in London, it's a tale of treachery and murder.
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Chopin: Piano Concerto no. 2 in F minor
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From Bristol Cathedral, including the first performance of a new commission for The Choirbook for The Queen - a collection of contemporary anthems, published for the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen.
Anthem: May God shield you on every step (David Bedford) ('Choirbook for the Queen' - first performance)
Suzy Klein presents, with live music from pianist Fuzjko Hemming and the latest arts news.
The Belcea Quartet continue their cycle of Beethoven's Quartets with his first, his ninth and the fifteenth - which Beethoven called his "Holy song of thanks", written as it was amidst the composer's failing health.
In Ted Hughes haunting tale, a young man returns to the landscape of his youth - no longer the green and pleasant land of his memories, but something darker, cruel and unforgiving. As the rain lashes down, he faces nature red in tooth and claw in the form of a ghostly black horse, which appears to be following him....
Infused with Hughes' muscular, poetic language, this is a powerful story both of man against nature, and a man fighting his own hidden demons.
Author: Ted Hughes was one of the greatest English poets of the 20th century, and famously the former husband of Sylvia Plath. His collections include 'Hawk in the Rain' and 'Birthday Letters'. He was Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.
The Belcea Quartet continue their cycle of Beethoven's Quartets with his first, his ninth and the fifteenth - which Beethoven called his "Holy song of thanks", written as it was amidst the composer's failing health.
Two first night reviews in this evening's programme. Birmingham Opera Company will be occupying a large warehouse in the industrial district of the city for the world premier of Jonathan Dove's opera, Life is a Dream. Susan Hitch puts on her sensible shoes for a live review from The Argyle Works.
Also, Simon McBurney and his award winning company Complicite return to The Barbican in London to bring new life to Mikhail Bulgakov's classic, The Master and Margarita. Through a combination of performance theatre, video projection and puppetry, they animate the story of the Devil's visit to atheistic Soviet Russia. Paul Allen has the verdict.
It is almost exactly 80 years since the great Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky was born on April 4th 1932. How did this child of the Soviet Union become one of the greatest directors of all time, the film directors' director in fact, someone who changed the language of film? Writer, Geoff Dyer, historian Jeremy Hicks and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Nariman Skakov, discuss the world out of which Tarkovsky's imagination came.
And are we proud enough of our contemporary engineering achievements? Why do we continue to look back to the Victorian engineering heroes of two centuries ago when looking for inspiration? Or is there a hidden world of professional pride in achievements that have long outstripped the Brunels and Bazalgettes of that earlier era? Perhaps the engineers of the future are all digital and can be found currently designing the great games of today? Philip Dodd discusses the romance of the past and the essentials of the future of engineering.
Scientist Colin Blakemore praises a lesser-known work by Charles Darwin,"The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals".
Fiona Talkington with music by The Caretaker, aka US composer James Kirby, inspired by vintage recordings of Schubert, plus traditional sounds from Uruguay and choral music by Georgy Sviridov.
THURSDAY 22 MARCH 2012
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b01d7gqs)
Jonathan Swain presents a concert given by the Kroger String Quartet with mezzo Andrea Pellegrini featuring works by Respighi, Gade, Schubert and Langgaard.
12:31 AM
Respighi, Ottorino [1879-1936]
Il Tramonto - poemetto lirico vers. for voice and string quartet
Andrea Pellegrini (mezzo-soprano), Kroger Quartet
12:48 AM
Gade, Niels Wilhelm [1817-1890]
Quartet in D major Op.63 for strings
Kroger Quartet
1:12 AM
Langgaard, Rued [1883-1952]
I Blomstringstiden for mezzo-soprano & string quartet, BVN 136
Andrea Pellegrini (mezzo-soprano), Kroger Quartet
1:23 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Quartet in E flat major D.87 for strings
Kroger Quartet
1:46 AM
Langgaard, Rued [1883-1952]
Lenaustemninger, BVN.138 for mezzo-soprano and string quartet
Andrea Pellegrini (mezzo-soprano), Kroger Quartet
1:59 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Armata face et anguibus (from Juditha triumphans devicta Holofernes barbarie)
Andrea Pellegrini (mezzo-soprano), Kroger Quartet
2:03 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich [1840-1893]
Hamlet - fantasy overture Op.67
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
2:21 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
3 Studies Op.104b for piano
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
2:31 AM
Pokorny, Frantisek Xaver [(1729-1794)]
Concerto for Horn, Timpani and Strings in D major
Radek Baborak (horn), Prague Chamber Orchestra, Antonín Hradil (conductor)
2:47 AM
Kolarov, Milko [b1946]
Why is the Spout Dripping?
Bulgarian National Radio Children's Choir, Hristo Nedyalkov (conductor), Iva Vaglenova (piano)
2:51 AM
Khachaturian, Aram Ilyich [1903-1978]
Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from the ballet 'Spartacus' (Act 3)
NRCU Symphony Orchestra, Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)
3:01 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Sonata for piano (H.
16.34) in E minor
Ingrid Fliter (piano)
3:11 AM
Hammerschmidt, Andreas [1611/12-1675]
Suite in D minor for gambas - from the collection "Ester Fleiss"
Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (director)
3:27 AM
Salzedo, Carlos [1885-1961]
Tango from 2 Dances for 2 Harps
Julia Shaw, Nora Bumanis (harps)
3:30 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich [1804-1857]
Overture from Ruslan and Lyudmila
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
3:35 AM
Schutz, Heinrich [1585-1672]
Feritevi, ferite, viperette mordaci SWV.9 for 5 voices
The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (conductor)
3:38 AM
Boieldieu, Francois-Adrien [1775-1834]
Aria: Viens, gentille dame from La Dame blanche
Mark Dubois (tenor), Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
3:46 AM
Kleynjans, Francis [b.1951]
Hommage a Satie
Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
3:49 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Hebrides - overture (Op.26)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Markus Lehtinen (conductor)
4:00 AM
Grunfeld, Alfred [1852-1924]
Soirees de Vienne for piano, Op.56
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
4:06 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Rondo concertante for violin and orchestra (K.269) in B flat major
Benjamin Schmid (violin), Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Adam Fischer (conductor)
4:13 AM
Purcell, Henry [1659-1695]
If music be the food of love (Z.379)
Kari Postma (soprano), Hans Knut Sveen (harpsichord)
4:17 AM
Copland, Aaron [1900-1990]
El Salon Mexico for orchestra
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
4:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Die Geschopfe des Prometheus (Op. 43)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Gunter Pichler (conductor)
4:36 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
My mother bids me bind my hair (H.26a.27) from 6 Original canzonettas
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Mahan Esfahani (fortepiano)
4:41 AM
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario [1895-1968]
Capriccio diabolico for guitar (Op.85)
Goran Listes (guitar)
4:50 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto da Camera in D major (RV.94)
Camerata Köln
5:02 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Piano Quintet No 2 in A, Op 81
Janine Jansen (violin), Anders Nilsson (violin), Julian Rachlin (viola), Torleif Theden (cello), Itamar Golan (piano)
5:42 AM
Suk, Josef [1874-1935]
A Winter's tale, Op.9
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Vasata (conductor)
5:58 AM
La Rue, Pierre de [c.1460-1518]
O salutaris hostia - motet
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Paul van Nevel (conductor)
6:02 AM
Faure, Gabriel [1845-1924]
Nocturne No.1 in E flat minor (Op.33 No.1)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
6:11 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Ma mere l'oye - suite vers. for orchestra
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Michel Plasson (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b01d7gqv)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b01d7gqx)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: a disc of Verdi opera choruses, preludes and ballet music conducted by Riccardo Muti: EMI 0980152.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
10.30am
This week marks the biennial Sport Relief charity fund-raising effort, organized by Comic Relief in association with BBC Sport. Rob Cowan's Sport Relief guest is Claire Taylor MBE, who was named as the ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year in 2009. Claire introduces her essential pieces of classical music.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Stravinsky: Orpheus
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 4596442.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01d7gqz)
Philip Glass (1937-)
Songs And Poems
Donald Macleod continues the week of exclusive interviews with the composer Philip Glass, first broadcast to mark the composer's 75th birthday in 2012.
Philip Glass's music has captured the popular imagination - and come to soundtrack our lives - in a way almost unthinkable for a contemporary composer. Yet Glass also divides opinion like no other figure in contemporary music. A one-time "enfant terrible" of the New York arts scene of the 60s and 70s - whose simple, seemingly endless repetitions would stretch for hours and enrage critics - Glass has long since swapped hardline minimalism for a comfy, lushly Romantic sound...and alienated many of his former fans. Disarmingly frank, witty and engaging, Philip Glass has always wryly put aside criticism of his commercial success. All this week on Composer Of The Week, Donald Macleod talks to him about his extraordinary life in music, with a playlist that encompasses his entire career.
Taking centre stage in today's episode: Philip Glass's remarkable "Songs and Poems for solo cello", written in 2007 for his then partner, cellist Wendy Sutter, and hailed by critics as one of the most original - and remarkable - new works to come from the composer's pen: perhaps the finest work for solo cello since Britten's Cello Suites.
Before that, Donald Macleod talks to the composer about his strong interest - and influence on - contemporary pop and rock music, introducing a pop song written by the composer for Linda Ronstadt, and his first symphony "Low" (1992), directly inspired by the music of David Bowie and Brian Eno. We'll also hear from Glass's controversial opera "The Voyage", composed for the US quincentennial in 1992, and the most expensive commission in the Met's history, and a recent dance music remix of the composer's Piano Etude no.2 by the Brazilian hip-hop DJ Luciano Supervielle.
Philip Glass & Suzanne Vega: Freezing (Songs From Liquid Days)
Linda Ronstadt (solo and backing vocals); Kronos Quartet
I. Subterraneans (Symphony no.1 "Low" (from the music of David Bowie and Brian Eno))
Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra; Dennis Russell Davies (conductor)
The Voyage: Act II, scene I
Karen Robertson (Isabella)
Bruckner Orchester Linz and Chorus of the Landestheater Linz; Dennis Russell Davies (conductor)
Songs and Poems no.1 for solo cello (excerpts)
Wendy Sutter (solo cello)
Etude no.2 [remixed Luciano Supervielle].
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01d7gr1)
Debussy's Last Words
Veronika Eberle and Oliver Schnyder
New Generation Artist Veronika Eberle performs Debussy's Violin Sonata and Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata with pianist Oliver Schnyder as part of the 'Debussy's Last Words' series from the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen
Debussy: Violin Sonata
Beethoven: 'Kreutzer' Sonata for Violin & Piano
Veronika Eberle (violin)
Oliver Schnyder (piano).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01d7gr3)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Statkowski - Maria
Opera Matinee: a rare chance to hear Roman Statkowski's Maria, in a performance from last year's Wexford Festival, the first production outside Statkowski's native Poland. Written in 1906, the opera tells the story of a power-hungry father who orders the murder of his daughter-in-law, Maria as he wants his son, Waclaw, to marry the daughter of the Polish king. Waclaw determines to avenge Maria by killing his father until Maria's ghost appears, and he decides to end his own life instead. Based on a Ukrainian poem, Statkowski puts his stamp on the story by filling his score with traditional Polish hymns and dance tunes. This is followed by music from a better-known Polish composer: Szymanowski's 2nd Violin Concerto, performed by Frank Peter Zimmerman.
Presented by Katie Derham.
Roman Statkowski: Maria.
Maria ..... Daria Mariero (soprano),
Waclaw ..... Rafal Bartminski (tenor),
District Governor ..... Adam Kruszewski
Count Palatine ..... Krzysztof Szumanski,
Count Palatine's Envoy ..... Daniel Joy,
Waif ..... Eleanor Jean Greenwood,
Zmora ..... Byron Jackson,
Cavalry Captain ..... Marcin Gesla,
Drunken Nobleman ..... Jamie Rock,
Rioter ..... Aaron Cawley,
Rioter ..... Leonel P.T. Girling,
Rioter ..... Koji Terada,
Wexford Festival Opera Chorus
Wexford Festival Opera Orchestra
Tomasz Tokarczyk (cond)
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto no.2
Frank Peter Zimmerman (violin)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Christian Vasquez (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b01d7gr5)
Edoardo Catemario, Nightingale String Quartet
Italian guitarist Edoardo Catemario performs live in the In Tune studio ahead of his recital at Wigmore Hall. Also playing live, the Nightingale String Quartet who visit the UK from their native Denmark to take part in the Wigmore International String Quartet Competition and launch their new album featuring the music of Rued Langgaard.
Plus presenter Suzy Klein takes a look at the new Victoria Revealed exhibition, soon to open at Kensington Palace.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter: BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01d7gqz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01d7gr7)
BBC SSO - Detlev Glanert, Brahms, Schumann
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Donald Runnicles perform Brahms's towering Symphony No.1 from the orchestra's home in the City Halls, Glasgow. It is complimented by one of Brahms's most uplifting choral works, the Goethe-inspired Alto Rhapsody, featuring mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and the men of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, and the original incarnation of Schumann's Symphony No. 4, from 1841. The influence of Beethoven can clearly be felt in Brahms's symphonic composition - and for this evening's concert Brahms's influence can be heard in a specially composed fantasy for orchestra by German composer, Detlev Glanert, commissioned as a companion piece to Brahms' Symphony No.1, by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC SSO.
Detlev Glanert: Brahms-Fantasie (world premiere)
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody
Schumann: Symphony No. 4 (original version)
8.30pm Interval
Jamie MacDougall speaks to tonight's soloist, Sarah Connolly, and we hear a selection of her recent recordings of songs by Schumann, Brahms and Kurt Weill.
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Men of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor).
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b01d7gr9)
RSC, Filumena, Brains, Frederick the Great
With Rana Mitter
The new artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company is to be Gregory Doran , currently chief associate director, who has been with the company for 25 years. Susannah Clapp and Michael Billington discuss the appointment and what the RSC needs to achieve in the next phase of its sometimes turbulent history.
A new English version of Filumena by the Italian playwright Eduardo De Filippo, translated by Tanya Ronder, begins at the Almeida Theatre in London tonight.
In the balmy heat of late '40s Naples, Filumena Marturano lies on her deathbed waiting to marry Domenico Soriano, the man who has kept her as his mistress for twenty-five years. But there are a number of big surpises in store for Domenico, and Night Waves reviewer Susannah Clapp reveals all about the performance of Samantha Spiro as Filumena and those of the rest of the cast, while not giving away the plot.
Time to think about the brain. The most inscrutable organ, it has no obvious moving parts, no pumps, valves or tendons. Aristotle thought its function was to mop up the heat generated by the true centre of consciousness - the thinking, feeling heart. But as a new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection reveals, we humans have a long history of poking, cutting, harvesting, collecting and experimenting on the brain, that 'soul in a bowl of curds'. On Night Waves tonight one of the world's foremost neuroscientists, Professor Steven Rose, and the curator of the new Wellcome Collection exhibition, Marius Kwint, discuss our scientific and cultural relationship with the brain.
At a moment when Europe has turned to Germans for leadership and aid, Germany has turned to a long-dead Prussian king to try to better understand itself. The Prussian king Frederick the Great was one of the greatest leaders in modern European history, achieving greatness through the Seven Years War and lauded as a philosopher and cultured 'Prince of the Enlightenment'. A close friend of Voltaire, he was also an accomplished flute player and composer. Yet the reputation of both Frederick and his Prussia was to be tarnished by association with Hitler's Nazi regime. We re-examine the life and achievements of one of Germany's most colourful leaders as it celebrates the 300th anniversary of his birth. With the historian Chris Clark, Kate Clark an 18th century flute historian, and German literature expert Katrin Kohl.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b00zdhsp)
The Book that Changed Me
Pride and Prejudice
Academic Mona Siddiqui explores her affection for Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and explains how it spoke over the centuries directly to her personal experience.Here was a work of fiction which mirrored all the conventions of arranged marriage between two very different cultures, Austen's English Regency values and Siddiqui's Indian Muslim views on love and loyalty to the family.
Producer: Smita Patel.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b01d7grf)
Late Junction Sessions
Rory Simmons and Fyfe Dangerfield
Fiona Talkington introduces this month's Late Junction Session - a collaboration between Rory Simmons, composer and trumpet player with the Loop Collective, and Fyfe Dangerfield, best known as the creative force behind indie rock band Guillemots, but whose music also embraces lyrical love songs and experimental styles.
The monthly Late Junction Sessions bring together musicians who have never played together before in a unique studio collaboration. "Fyfe and Rory were such fun to work with" says presenter Fiona Talkington. "They brought loads of instruments, sound samples and tapes, and we ended up with so much interesting music, it's our longest Late Junction collaboration ever. We're thrilled they enjoyed the experience, and that they want to work together again."
Rory Simmons was born in Bodmin in Cornwall, and made his name touring across the globe playing trumpet with Jamie Cullen's band - his musical interests extend well beyond jazz though, and his latest project is the album 'Glass Dancers', with compositions for string quartet, electronics and percussion. Besides his work as a core member of London's Loop Collective, he also leads the band Fringe Magnetic, which seeks to mix jazz and experimental music with chamber and orchestral colours.
Fyfe Dangerfield's voice became familiar across the UK recently with a TV advert which used his cover of Billy Joel's song 'She's always a woman'. He is an accomplished songwriter in his own right though: 'a great songwriter on top form' is how The Telegraph reviewed his 2010 album 'Fly Yellow Moon'. However, Fyfe Dangerfield has devoted most of his musical energies to his indie rock band Guillemots, Mercury Music Prize nominees in 2006 - their latest album 'Walk the River' was released last year. He has also composed pieces for the City of Brimingham Symphony Orchestra and for the cellist Natalie Clein, and leads an improvising group Gannets.
This Late Junction session will be available as a downloadable podcast.
FRIDAY 23 MARCH 2012
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b01d7gyt)
Jonathan Swain presents the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performing Mozart and Dvorak.
12:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Symphony no. 40 in G minor K.550
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
1:07 AM
Dvorák, Antonín [1841-1904]
Symphony no. 9 in E minor Op.95 (From the New World)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
1:51 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Trio for violin, cello and piano (Op.11) in B flat major
Trio Ondine
2:10 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Concerto for flute and strings in A major (Wq.168)
Robert Aitken (flute), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
2:31 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Petrushka
Ruud van den Brink (piano), Peter Masseurs (trumpet), Jacques Zoon (flute), Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
3:06 AM
Thuille, Ludwig (1861-1907)
Sextet for piano and wind quintet in B flat major (Op.6) (in four movements)
Jae-Eun Ku (piano), Tae-Won Kim (flute), Hyong-Sup Kim (oboe), Hyon-Kon Kim (clarinet), Sang-Won Yoon (bassoon), Kawng-Ku Lee (horn)
3:36 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857)
Memories of a Summer Night in Madrid (Spanish Overture No.2)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)
3:47 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano)
4:02 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Kyrie eleison in G minor for double choir and orchestra (RV.587)
Choir of Latvian Radio, Riga Chamber Players, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
4:13 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943), arr. Lucien Cailliet (1891-1985)
Prelude in G minor (Op.23 No.5)
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Commissiona (conductor)
4:18 AM
Escosa, John B. (1928-1991)
Three Dances for 2 harps
Julia Shaw and Nora Bumanis (harps)
4:24 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Mountain Dances - from the opera 'Halka'
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Szymon Kawalla (conductor)
4:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Quartet for strings in C minor (D.103) 'Satz'
Tilev String Quartet
4:41 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Die Göttin im Putzzimmer
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
4:47 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Little preludes for keyboard (BWV.939-42)
Christophe Bossert (organ, St Martin's Church, Varazdinske Toplice)
4:52 AM
Matteis, Nicola (died c.1707)
L'Amore
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Linda Kent (chamber organ)
4:56 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Symphony for string orchestra in B minor, No.10
Risör Festival Strings
5:06 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), arr. Ralf Gothoni
Der Müller und der Bach' - from 'Die schöne Müllerin' (D.795)
Ralf Gothoni (piano)
5:11 AM
Duruflé, Maurice (1902-1986)
Quatre motets sur des thèmes grégoriens (Op.10)
Talinn Music High School Chamber Choir, Evi Eespere (director)
5:20 AM
Leclair, Jean-Marie (1697-1764)
Violin Concerto in D major (Op.10 No.3)
Simon Standage (violin), Il Tempo Ensemble
5:35 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Pohjola's daughter - symphonic fantasia (Op.49)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)
5:49 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Quintet for clarinet and strings in B flat major (Op.34)
James Campbell (clarinet), Orford String Quartet
6:15 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Symphony No.1 in D major (Op.25), 'Classical'
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Michel Tabachnik (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b01d7gyw)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b01d7gyy)
Friday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: a disc of Verdi opera choruses, preludes and ballet music conducted by Riccardo Muti: EMI 0980152.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
10.30am
This week marks the biennial Sport Relief charity fund-raising effort, organized by Comic Relief in association with BBC Sport. Rob Cowan's Sport Relief guest is Claire Taylor MBE, who was named as the ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year in 2009. Claire introduces her essential pieces of classical music.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No.2
Philharmonia Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
EMI 35627462.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01d7gz0)
Philip Glass (1937-)
From Enfant Terrible To Classicist
Donald Macleod presents the last of this weeks exclusive interviews with the composer Philip Glass, first broadcast to mark the composer's 75th birthday in 2012.
Philip Glass's music has captured the popular imagination - and come to soundtrack our lives - in a way almost unthinkable for a contemporary composer. Yet Glass also divides opinion like no other figure in contemporary music. A one-time "enfant terrible" of the New York arts scene of the 60s and 70s - whose simple, seemingly endless repetitions would stretch for hours and enrage critics - Glass has long since swapped hardline minimalism for a comfy, lushly Romantic sound...and alienated many of his former fans. Disarmingly frank, witty and engaging, Philip Glass has always wryly put aside criticism of his commercial success. All this week on Composer Of The Week, Donald Macleod talks to him about his extraordinary life in music, with a playlist that encompasses his entire career.
Donald Macleod ends this week of interviews with the composer Philip Glass by bringing us right up to date, showcasing two works strongly familiar to British audiences, and two of Glass's most recent concert pieces.
First, the composer discusses his life scoring films, before we hear one of his most acclaimed scores - the darkly sinister music to the 2006 British film "Notes On A Scandal", starring Dame Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett. We round off the week's survey of Glass's operatic works with a brand-new recording of Glass's "From The Penal Colony" (2000), based on Kafka's short story, and performed by Music Theatre Wales, the ensemble that gave the work's UK premiere in 2010.
Finally - two world premiere recordings: Glass's most recent concerto - which doubles as a ballet (!) - and an instrumental work for two pianos. At the age of 75, is there a new 'classical' strain emerging in his music?
Etude no.2 (arr for steel drums)
New York University Steel Drum Ensemble
First Day Of School; The Harts; Sheba and Steven; Someone In Your Garden; Someone Has Died; Betrayal (Notes On A Scandal)
Studio Orchestra
In The Penal Colony: Scenes 12, 13 and 14
Michael Bennett (the Visitor)
Omar Ebrahmin (the Officer)
Music Theatre Wales Ensemble; Michael Rafferty (conductor)
Duet No.1; Part 1 (Double Concerto for Violin and Cello no.1)
Tim Fain (violin); Wendy Sutter (cello)
The Hague Philharmonic; Jurjan Hempel (conductor)
IV. (Four Movements for Two Pianos)
Dennis Russell Davies and Mari Namekawa (pianos).
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01d7gz2)
Debussy's Last Words
Atos Trio
Former BBC New Generation Artists, the Atos Trio perform the final concert in the series 'Debussy's Last Words' from the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen featuring the three instrumental sonatas written in the year Debussy died. Cellist Stefan Heinemeyer and pianist Thomas Hoppe present the composer's whimsically brief masterpiece for cello and piano and are joined by violinist Annette von Hehn for trios by his contemporaries Francaix and Ravel.
Francaix: Piano Trio in C
Debussy: Cello Sonata in D minor
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Atos Trio:
Thomas Hoppe (piano)
Annette von Hehn (violin)
Stefan Heinemeyer (cello).
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01d7gz4)
Afternoon on 3's Polish connection continues with music from last year's Warsaw Chopin and his Europe Festival. Howard Shelley performs the Piano Concerto by 19th century composer and pianist Jozef Krogulski, before turning to more familiar music as a conductor - Schubert's Symphony no.3. Plus a programme of Tchaikovsky from the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev.
Presented by Katie Derham.
Krogulski: Piano Concerto
Howard Shelley (piano)
Sinfonia Varsovia
Howard Shelley (conductor)
c.
2.35pm
Schubert: Symphony no.3 in D major
Sinfonia Varsovia
Howard Shelley (conductor)
c.
3.05pm
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no.1
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
c.
3.45pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no.4 in F minor
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b01d7gz6)
In Tune Schubert Salon
Schubert Salon
Suzy Klein launches The Spirit of Schubert. 200 hours of broadcasting and over a thousand performances. For 8 and a half days Radio 3 presents the biggest ever celebration of Schubert, his music and his life.
With performances of all his completed music and unique broadcasts of his unfinished works, the first of our daily In Tune Schubert Salons through the season comes live from Kings Place in London.
Each day from
4.30pm to
7.30pm the In Tune Schubert Salon includes live performance from leading Schubert interpreters.
Pianist, Graham Johnson is our guest curator and each day introduces listeners to Schubert songs. Today a selection of songs (including An die Musik and Ständchen) will be performed live by Ailish Tynan (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), Robin Tritschler (tenor), and Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), with Graham Johnson at the piano. Plus the Doric Quartet will play movements from the Rosamunde Quartet, an ensemble from the Royal College of Music will perform movements from the Octet, Tom Service will be introducing his Schubert Lab which runs daily through the season and Sean Rafferty will be delivering his first Sonic Postcard from Schubert's home city of Vienna in a daily series giving listeners a vivid picture of Schubert's life and times.
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01d7h0h)
Schubert in Concert
Imogen Cooper
The Spirit of Schubert
Live from Kings Place, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Renowned Schubert interpreter Imogen Cooper performs some of the composer's most popular piano works in this recital live from Kings Place in London.
Cooper has described her love and fascination for Schubert as the most constant thread in her musical life having played his works in concert and on recordings throughout her career. She loves his ability to write "melodies that break your heart, or make you smile ... how can you resist spending years with him?". From the bittersweet opening line of the Allegretto in C minor through the melodies of the everpopular Impromptus and the sequence of minature Scottish style dances to one of his great, late Piano Sonatas, melody permeates this concert, but it's melody that Schubert uses to transport the listener to deeper and more spirtual places.
Allegretto in C minor D.915
Impromptus D.899
20:10 -
20:30 INTERVAL
As part of Radio 3's celebration of The Spirit of Schubert, Tom Service introduces The Schubert Lab - a regular daily feature throughout The Spirit of Schubert exploring the burning issues and questions about the composer's life and music. Including tonight's pianist Imogen Cooper and Schubert expert Brian Newbould.
11 Ecossaises D.781
Piano Sonata in D major D.850
Imogen Cooper (piano).
FRI 22:00 Play Schubert for Me (b01dl9sx)
Sara Mohr-Pietsch
As part of Radio 3's celebration of The Spirit of Schubert, Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents late night Schubert requests and dedications.
Write to her with your Schubert requests and dedications. Email: schubert@bbc.co.uk.