Jonathan Swain presents Orthodox Choral music. The Liturgy of St John Chrysostom by Serbian composer Stevan Mokranjac.
Obilic Chorus (soloists: Radivoje Simic & Darko Manic), Darinka Matic-Marovic (director)
Obilic Chorus (soloists: Radivoje Simic & Darko Manic), Darinka Matic-Marovic (director)
Nelson Goerner (piano), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Matthias Aesbacher (conductor)
Pilgrims Chorus from 'Tannhäuser' (arr. for organ)
String Quartet No. 64 in D major (Op.76 No.5)
Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss - from the film Der blaue Engel (Falling in love again)
Jean Stilwell (mezzo soprano), Robert Kortgaard (piano), Marie Bérard (violin), Joseph Macerollo (accordion), Peter Tiefenbach (conductor)
Albrecht Breuninger (violin), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), orch. Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: this week (9th-13th April) performances from guitarist David Russell from his album The Grandeur of the Baroque: TELARC 33223-02
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Berlin Staatskapelle.
This week marks the centenary of the ill-fated maiden voyage of one of the most famous ships in history, the White Star liner Titanic, which set sail from Southampton on 10 April 1912, and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic five days later with the loss of 1500 lives. Rob Cowan's guest is the historian Richard Davenport-Hines, author of 'Titanic Lives'. Richard introduces his essential pieces of classical music.
Celebrating the 150th year since the composer's birth, Donald Macleod is joined by the violinist Tasmin Little, and cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, to discuss the life and music of Frederick Delius.
Delius had now left Florida, paying his own way as a teacher of music. His father was impressed that his son had been able to support himself through music, so he finally agreed to fund young Fritz in a years study in Leipzig. Delius's experiences in Florida, especially listening to the plantation workers singing, would stay with the composer for the rest of his life. This is reflected in his Florida Suite. Once in Leipzig, Delius met a number of Norwegians studying there, and would often take trips to Norway. He set many songs using Nordic texts, including Summer Eve and Longing.
Through the influence of Grieg, Delius would be allowed to continue his musical activities past one year, and ended up in Paris, associating with the likes of Faure, Ravel, Gauguin and Munch. During this period he composed a song cycle called Maud, heard now in part, in its first ever recording arranged for cello and piano. Also during the early 1890's, Delius composed a symphonic poem, which is the first work a paying public heard by Delius - Paa Vidderne.
Mary Ann Kennedy presents a week of concerts from the East Neuk Festival in this picturesque corner of Fife. Today, the Quatuor Ebène perform early Mozart contrasted with late Beethoven from the village church at Kilrenny.
Mozart: Divertimento in F, KV. 138
Beethoven: String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op. 131
Louise Fryer presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a concert of music from a time of conflict which took place just last week. It includes Martinu's moving tribute to Czechs murdered by the Nazis and Shostakovich's enigmatic symphonic response to Stalin, as well as probably the most intense and demanding of all Prokofiev's piano concertos performed by the young Russian virtuoso Denis Kozhukhin.
Plus the BBC SSO's Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles is joined by Britain's leading mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly in one of Brahms's most heartfelt works.
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 5
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
New Zealand tenor Simon O'Neill joins Sean Rafferty in the studio ahead of his performance in Weber's opera Der Freischutz with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Jazz legends pianist Chick Corea and vibraphone player Gary Burton celebrate 40 years performing together with the release of their latest album 'Hot House'. They will be performing tracks from the album in the In Tune studio throughout the show.
National Youth Orchestra members Jonathan Taylor and Alex Hilton talk to Sean ahead of performing in a series of concerts inspired by folk music involving members of the group Bellowhead and conductor Charles Hazlewood.
Sean Rafferty presents In Tune, with live music and guests from the music world and the latest arts news.
The Lawson Trio frames three premieres by leading UK composers with two of the greatest works in the trio repertoire - Haydn's exuberant, enduringly popular Gypsy Trio and the virtuoso Trio by Ravel. They premiere works written for them by Anthony Powers and Camden Reeves, and are joined by students from the Junior Royal Academy of Music for the London premiere of Cheryl Frances Hoad's Olympic-inspired work for double piano trio.
How should we appreciate the land around us? Tonight's Night Waves is devoted to a discussion on our changing relationship with the British landscape. Juliet Gardiner is joined by theologian and environmentalist Martin Palmer, writer and explorer Tristan Gooley, Fiona Reynolds Director General of the National Trust, and Radio 3 new Generation Thinker Alexandra Harris Together they look at our past and current relationship with landscape, the human need for the pastoral, and how our sense of ourselves is affected by the landscape around us. And, with the announcement of the government's new planning policy framework appreciating the value of ordinariness of the land around us, how should we view our landscape today and how can we best engage with it?
"Scientists inhabit a tilting and inconclusive world; doubt is as natural to us as breathing, even at the moment of seeming break-through".
Doubt in science is tonight's subject in a series of Essays on The Case for Doubt, in which five contributors argue that doubt is a valuable and meaningful strength, and not a crippling and negative weakness.
Baroness Susan Greenfield, a scientist who specialises in the physiology of the brain, argues that doubt among scientists should be 'as natural as breathing', even when breakthroughs occur, and that doubt in science should be integral not so much to what scientists do, as to how they think.
Tonight's programme includes The Satisfaction of Oscillation by Chinese sound artist Dajuin Yao, a track from Finnish bass and diatonic accordion duo Lepistö & Lehti's new album Radio Moskova, the atmospheric Rainy Harbour by jazz trumpeter Neil Yates and his Five Countries Trio plus György Kurtag plays his Perpetuum Mobile, and Robert Jarvis captures memories of horse racing in the village of Lambourn. With Verity Sharp.
WEDNESDAY 11 APRIL 2012
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b01fjwjt)
Jonathan Swain presents a concert from Croatia including Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol and Falla's Ballet suites for The Three-Cornered Hat.
12:31 AM
Papandopulo, Boris [1906-1991]
Marche arabe symphonique
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, David Gimenez Carreras (conductor)
12:42 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay [1844-1908]
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, David Gimenez Carreras (conductor)
12:59 AM
Falla, Manuel de [1876-1946]
El sombrero de tres picos - ballet suites 1 & 2
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, David Gimenez Carreras (conductor)
1:22 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op.46 no.8
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, David Gimenez Carreras (conductor)
1:27 AM
Smetana, Bedrich (1824-1884)
Sonata movement in E minor (B.70)
Else Krijgsman, Mariken Zandliver, David Kuijken, Carlos Moerdijk (pianos)
1:38 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Quartet for strings in F major
Biava Quartet
2:09 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
The Water Goblin (Op.107)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
2:31 AM
Wassenaer; Unico Wilhelm van (1692-1766)
Concerto no.2 in B flat major (from 'Sei Concerti Armonici')
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor)
2:42 AM
Pärt, Arvo (b. 1935)
Magnificat
Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor)
2:50 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Concerto for violin and orchestra No.2 (Op.63) in G minor
Anatoli Bazhenov (violin), NRCU Symphony Orchestra, Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)
3:17 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Piano Quartet No.1 (Op.1)
Harald Aadland (violin), Nora Taksdal (viola), Audun Sandvik (cello), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
3:45 AM
Vladigerov, Pancho (1899-1978)
Divertimento for chamber orchestra
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Vladigerov (conductor)
4:02 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Ungarischer Marsch zur Krönungsfeier in Ofen-Pest (S.523)
Zoltán Kocsis & György Oravecz (pianos)
4:06 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Klid for cello and orchestra (B.182) arr. from no.5 of 'From the Bohemian forest'
Shauna Rolston (cello), Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
4:13 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Flute Sonata in G major (Wq.133/H.564), 'Hamburger Sonata'
Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
4:21 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707)
Toccata in F major (BuxWV 156)
Tong-Soon Kwak (Rieger organ at the Torch Centre for World Missions in Seoul, Korea)
4:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Overture - from Der Schauspieldirektor, singspiel in 1 act (K.486)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivor Bolton (conductor)
4:36 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Polonaise for violin and orchestra in B flat major (D.580)
Peter Zazofsky (violin), Prima La Musica, Dirk Vermeulen (conductor)
4:42 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Serenata in vano for clarinet, horn, bassoon, cello and double bass
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (conductor)
4:50 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Piano Trio in Eb major (HV XV:10)
Niklas Sivelöv (piano), Bernt Lysell (violin), Mikael Sjögren (cello)
5:01 AM
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736)
Salve Regina in F minor
Sara Mingardo (mezzo-soprano) Danish Radio Sinfonietta/DR, Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
5:16 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in C major (Kk.132)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
5:23 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Pelleas et Melisande - suite (Op.80)
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
5:40 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
4 Nachtstücke for piano (Op.23)
Shai Wosner (piano)
5:57 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Sonata for cello and piano No.2 in F (Op.99)
Truls Mørk (cello), Kathryn Stott (piano)
6:24 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Sonata for trumpet, two violins & continuo in D major
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), The King's Consort, Robert King (director).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b01fjwjw)
Wednesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b01fjwjy)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: this week (9th-13th April) performances from guitarist David Russell from his album The Grandeur of the Baroque: TELARC 33223-02
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Berlin Staatskapelle.
10.30am
This week marks the centenary of the ill-fated maiden voyage of one of the most famous ships in history, the White Star liner Titanic, which set sail from Southampton on 10 April 1912, and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic five days later with the loss of 1500 lives. Rob Cowan's guest is the historian Richard Davenport-Hines, author of 'Titanic Lives'. Richard introduces his essential pieces of classical music.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Schumann: Symphony No 3 in E flat, Op 97 (The Rhenish)
Berlin Staatskapelle
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
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WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01fjwk0)
Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
Delius Meets Jelka Rosen
Celebrating the 150th year since the composer's birth, Donald Macleod is joined by the violinist Tasmin Little, and cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, to discuss the life and music of Frederick Delius.
Delius was enjoying life greatly in the 1890s. Whether visiting the odd Parisian brothel, or partaking in the odd séance, his music at this time displays a youth and vitality, such as the Violin Sonata in B. Tasmin Little and Julian Lloyd Webber discuss the importance of remembering what Delius was like as a young and attractive man, and also the mystery surrounding Delius's brief return to Florida to possibly seek out his illegitimate son.
The influence of Paris, the city of lights, can be heard in Delius's music, such as the orchestral work Paris. His songs set to French words by Verlaine, such as Il pleure dans mon Coeur, had even Delius's supporter Grieg complaining that it was too erotic. It was in Paris that Delius would contract syphilis, and in the song, Through Long Long Years arranged for cello and piano, Julain Lloyd Webber argues his belief that Delius knew by this stage that he'd caught the disease. Another significant event for Delius during these years, was meeting the artist Jelka Rosen, who would eventually become his wife.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01fjwk2)
East Neuk Festival 2012
Aleksandar Madzar
Serbian pianist Aleksandar Madzar explores Bach's six partitas for keyboard at this year's East Neuk Festival. Mary Ann Kennedy presents his concert from the seaside village of Crail featuring the third and fourth partitas.
Bach: Keyboard Partita No. 3 in A minor, BWV827
Bach: Keyboard Partita No. 4 in D, BWV828
Aleksandar Madzar - piano.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01fjwk4)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Episode 3
Louise Fryer presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins in a recent concert from Glasgow City Halls. The inspiration for Thomas Wilson - one of Scotland's finest twentieth-century composers - in his St Kentigern Suite was the Glasgow coat of arms which depicts the five miracles of Glasgow's patron saint. Nicolas Altstaedt, currently one of Radio 3's New Generation Artists, performs Shostakovich's gritty and virtuosic cello concerto; and the concert finishes with the First Symphony by his fellow countryman and member of the so-called 'Mighty Handful' in Russia, Alexander Borodin.
Thomas Wilson: St Kentigern suite
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto no. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
2.45pm
Borodin: Symphony no. 1 in E flat major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b01fjwk6)
Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich
From the Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich, with Trinity Laban Chapel Choir and the Athenian Ensemble of Viols.
Introit: Haec Dies (Byrd)
Responses: Byrd
Psalms: 59, 60, 61 (Barnby, Howells, Stainer)
First Lesson: Song of Solomon 3
Office Hymn: Love's redeeming work is done (Savannah)
Canticles: The Second Service (Gibbons)
Second Lesson: Matthew 28 vv16-end
Anthem: My beloved spake (Julian Anderson - Choirbook for the Queen)
Final Hymn: The strife is o'er (Victory)
Voluntary: In Nomine 5 à 5 (Byrd)
Richard Tanner (Director of Music)
James Grainger (Assistant Organist).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b01fjwk8)
Wednesday - Sean Rafferty
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music and guests including conductor Daniel Harding and pianist Nicholas Angelich.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter: BBCInTune.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01fjwk0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01fjwkb)
Live from the Younger Hall, St Andrews
Telemann, Heinichen, Bach
Live from the Younger Hall, St Andrews
Richard Egarr directs the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a concert featuring music from three great German cities: Hamburg, Dresden and Leipzig.
Each had a distinct character and attracted the greatest composers of the age from across Germany and further afield.
Telemann: Water Music Suite in C 'Ebb and Flow'
Heinichen: Concerto in F for two horns and strings
Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV 1052
Alec Frank-gemmill, Horn
Harry Johnstone, Horn
Richard Egarr, Conductor/Harpsichord.
WED 20:20 Discovering Music (b01fjwkd)
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 4
Stephen Johnson explores how Leipzig's thriving coffee society found its perfect counterpart in the music of J.S. Bach, and the orchestral suites which he performed amongst the clinking cups and impassioned conversations. And Bach being Bach, he found ingenious ways of encapsulating this unpromising performing environment in his music.
WED 20:40 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01fjwkg)
Live from the Younger Hall, St Andrews
Bach, Vivaldi
Live from the Younger Hall, St Andrews
Richard Egarr directs the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a concert featuring music from three great German cities: Hamburg, Dresden and Leipzig.
Each had a distinct character and attracted the greatest composers of the age from across Germany and further afield.
Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata 42
Vivaldi: Concerto 'per l'orchestra di Dresda' RV 577
Bach: Suite No 4 in D, BWV1068
Alec Frank-Gemmill, Horn
Harry Johnstone, Horn
Richard Egarr, Conductor/Harpsichord.
WED 22:00 Night Waves (b01fjwlm)
Jonathan Haidt, Mozart's Sister, Hubris, Misterman
Liberals want gentle dogs, and conservatives want obedient ones, argues social and cultural psychologist Jonathan Haidt in his new book The Righteous Mind.
On Night Waves tonight, he'll be talking to Matthew Sweet about how the business of dog-choosing, which may seem frivolous, speaks to our deep moral instincts. And those instincts don't just govern our decision making on dogs, they govern what we eat, how we see our neighbours, how we vote, how we regard people with different political opinions. They'll be discussing why moral instinct is at the heart of human decision making, how it is partly to blame for the current rift between left and right in American politics, and how he hopes to heal that rift.
Music critic Hilary Finch has the verdict on a new film which re-imagines the early years of Mozart's sister, Maria Anna. She was a prodigy in her own right and idolised by her more famous brother, but almost completely forgotten by history with her work being completely destroyed by her tyrannical father.
Also, to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, Night Waves explores the nature of hubris and its relation to engineering innovations and knowledge advancement.
And Enda Walsh, writer and director of Misterman, the one-man play starring Cillian Murphy opening soon, discusses God, sin and the famous Irish murder case which formed the basis of the story.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b01fjwlp)
The Case for Doubt
Madeleine Bunting on Religious Doubt
Madeleine Bunting on religious doubt.
"Doubt is a glorious reminder of our limitations as human beings, of how suspicious we should be of certainty".
Journalist and writer Madeleine Bunting makes the case for doubt in religion - why religious doubt is a 'glorious reminder' of our limitations as human beings, why we should always be suspicious of the certainty that breeds intolerance, and how the doubt she so feared as a child has now become a useful ally.
Madeleine Bunting is the third of five contributors making The Case for Doubt - that it is much more meaningful than certainty and much more valuable than fixed opinions and beliefs.
First broadcast in April 2012.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b01fjwlr)
Wednesday - Verity Sharp
Verity Sharp's selection tonight includes blues from Son House, the dark underwater techno of Porter Ricks, tracks from Sam Sweeney and Hannah James' new album State and Ancientry and the immense polyphonic work Normen mortis by Willem Ceuleers performed by the Huelgas Ensemble. Plus Peewitts, a fragment of a tune by Martin Bennett transformed for string quartet and bass by Mr McFall's Chamber.
THURSDAY 12 APRIL 2012
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b01fjx9t)
Jonathan Swain presents a concert by the Henschel Quartet including Schubert's mighty Death and the Maiden quartet and a quintet for guitar and strings by Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
12:31 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry [1906-1975]
Quartet no. 7 in F sharp minor Op.108 for strings
Henschel Quartet
12:44 AM
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario [1895-1968]
Quintet Op.143 for guitar and string quartet
Jesper Lützhöft (guitar), Henschel Quartet
1:08 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Quartet in D minor D.810 (Death and the maiden) for strings
Henschel Quartet
1:46 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Partita in E flat and Rondo for wind octet
The Festival Winds
2:12 AM
Bruckner, Anton [1824-1896]
Ave Maria
Tallinn Boys Choir, Lydia Rahula (conductor)
2:16 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Country dance no.1 for wind quintet
Yur-Eum Woodwind Quintet
2:19 AM
Strauss (ii), Johann [1825-1899]
An der schonen, blauen Donau - waltz for orchestra (Op.314) 'The Blue Danube'
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
2:31 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Oboe Concerto in D major
Hristo Kasmetski (oboe), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Vladigerov (conductor)
2:58 AM
Rinck, Johann Christian Heinrich [1770-1846]
9 Variations and Finale on 'Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman' (Op.90)
Willem Poot (organ)
3:17 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
3 Lieder
Daniela Lehner (mezzo-soprano), Love Derwinger (piano)
3:26 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor [1887-1959]
Prelude for guitar no.1 in E minor
Norbert Kraft (guitar)
3:31 AM
Auber, Daniel-Francois-Esprit [1782-1871]
Overture to Fra Diavolo - opera
Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenárd (conductor)
3:39 AM
Saint-Saens, Camille [1835-1921]
Havanaise (Op.83) arr. for violin and piano
Vilmos Szabadi (violin), Marta Gulyas (piano)
3:48 AM
Bárdos, Lajos [1899-1986]
Winter is gone (Elmúlt a tel)
Hungarian Radio Choir, Lajos Bárdos (conductor)
3:53 AM
Albinoni, Tomaso [1671-1750]
Oboe Concerto in D minor (Op.9 No.2)
Carin van Heerden (oboe), L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg (director)
4:04 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Impromptu in F sharp major (Op.36)
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)
4:10 AM
Farkas, Ferenc [1905-2000]
5 Ancient Hungarian Dances for wind quintet
Galliard Ensemble
4:20 AM
Casanova, Gion Balzer [194?-]
La sera sper il lag (Evening on the Lake)
Cantus Firmus Surselva, Clau Sherrer (director)
4:23 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Song to the Moon from Rusalka (Op.114)
Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kamirski (conductor)
4:31 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Manfred - incidental music Op.115 (Overture)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)
4:44 AM
Fischer, Johann Caspar Ferdinand [c.1670-1746]
Polymnia - Suite No.8 in D major
Bob van Asperen (harpsichord)
4:51 AM
Petersson, Per Gunnar (b.1954) [b.1954]
Aftonland (Evening Land) for choir, solo horn and solo
Soren Hermansson (horn), Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (director)
5:05 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, cello and orchestra (RV.565) (Op.3, No.11)
Slovenian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Despalj (conductor)
5:16 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
6 Variations in F major (Op.34)
Theo Bruins (piano)
5:31 AM
Boccherini, Luigi [1743-1805]
Quintet for guitar and strings (G.448) in D major
Zagreb Guitar Quartet, Varazdin Chamber Orchestra
5:50 AM
Musorgsky, Modest [1839-1881], orch. Shostakovich
Prelude and Dance of the Persian Slaves from Khovanschina
Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Marinov (conductor)
6:04 AM
Dukas, Paul [1865-1935]
Villanelle for horn and piano
Tamás Zempléni (horn), Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
6:11 AM
Guerrero, Francisco [c.1528-1599]
Prado verde y florido
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Maite Arruabarrena (mezzo-soprano), Lambert Climent (tenor), Francesc Garrigosa (tenor), Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (director)
6:16 AM
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich [1865-1936]
Concerto in E flat major Op.109 for alto saxophone and orchestra
Virgo Veldi (saxophone), Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tarmo Leinatamm (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b01fjx9w)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b01fjx9y)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: this week (9th-13th April) performances from guitarist David Russell from his album The Grandeur of the Baroque: TELARC 33223-02
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Berlin Staatskapelle.
10.30am
This week marks the centenary of the ill-fated maiden voyage of one of the most famous ships in history, the White Star liner Titanic, which set sail from Southampton on 10 April 1912, and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic five days later with the loss of 1500 lives. Rob Cowan's guest is the historian Richard Davenport-Hines, author of 'Titanic Lives'. Richard introduces his essential pieces of classical music.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Dvorak: Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op 70
Berlin Staatskapelle
Otmar Suitner (conductor)
BERLIN CLASSICS 0092962BC.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01fjxb0)
Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
Delius Settles Down at Grez-sur-Loing
Celebrating the 150th year since the composer's birth, Donald Macleod is joined by the violinist Tasmin Little, and cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, to discuss the life and music of Frederick Delius.
By 1903, Delius agreed to marry Jelka Rosen and settle down at Grez-sur-Loing, giving up his Paris flat where he met other women. The garden and landscape at Grez was reflected in many works Delius composed there, such as Summer Night on the River. Julian Lloyd Webber and Tamin Little discuss the rather complicated relationships within the household at Grez, believing that Jelka, contrary to popular belief, really did rule the roost.
About a year after his marriage, Delius began his large scale work for soloists, chorus and orchestra, based on the writings of Nietzsche - A Mass of Life. Performances of Delius's works were gradually taking place more far afield, in Norway, Germany and England, and in 1907 Delius met the conductor Thomas Beecham, who would prove to be one of his biggest advocates. But soon Europe would be plunged into the First World War, and Delius and Jelka would flee Grez for England. During this war period, Delius composed his Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, which Tasmin Little calls a 'Love Concerto'.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01fjxb2)
East Neuk Festival 2012
Elias Quartet
The Elias Quartet return for a second year to the East Neuk Festival to perform Beethoven's short but intensely powerful 'Quartetto serioso' coupled with Mendelssohn's second quartet, which was inspired by one of Beethoven's final quartets, the A minor quartet Op 132.
Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor, Op 95
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A minor, Op 13
Elias Quartet.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01fjxb4)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Smetana - The Bartered Bride
Louise Fryer presents the Thursday Opera Matinee, which this week features an unusual version of Smetana's The Bartered Bride in German translation. Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with an all-star cast at his Styriarte Festival in Graz, Austria in 2011.
Considered a major contribution towards the development of Czech music, The Bartered Bride is a comic opera which was premiered in Prague on 30 May 1866. Set in a country village, it tells the story of how, after a late surprise revelation, true love prevails over the combined efforts of ambitious parents and a scheming marriage broker. Czechs think of the opera as quintessentially Czech in spirit: it features many folk-like dances such as the polka and the furiant. This recording from last year's Styriarte Festival in Graz, Austria is the first production of the opera in the German translation by Emanuel Züngel who was commissioned directly by Smetana to translate the libretto.
After the first two acts of the opera today (you can hear Act 3 tomorrow) there's more from recent concerts by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, including Tchaikovsky's famous Rococo Variations.
Smetana: Die verkaufte Braut (The Bartered Bride), Acts I & II
Krusina ..... Anton Scharinger (baritone)
Ludmila ..... Elisabeth Kulman (mezzo)
Marenka ..... Dorothea Roschmann (soprano)
Micha ..... Yasushi Hirano (bass)
Hata ..... Elisabeth von Magnus (mezzo)
Vasek ..... Markus Schafer (tenor)
Jenik ..... Kurt Streit (tenor)
Kecal ..... Ruben Drole (bass)
Pricnicpal komediantu ..... Heinz Zednik (tenor)
Esmeralda ..... Bibiana Nwobilo (soprano).
Arnold Schoenberg Chorus,
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor).
3.50pm
Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations
Pieter Wispelwey (cello),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Stefan Blunier (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b01fjxb6)
Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Bernarda Fink, BBC Music Magazine Awards
Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen is the artistic director of the Honeymead Ensemble, featuring violist Sarah-Jane Bradley and cellist Bartholomew LaFollette. They will be playing live in the In Tune studio ahead of their concert at the Tricycle Theatre.
Mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink and pianist Roger Vignoles are about to perform a recital at the Wigmore Hall in London as part of Vignoles' 'Perspectives' series. They will be performing works live on the show.
The BBC Music Magazine Awards 2012 are announced today, Sean Rafferty will be joined in the studio by some of the winners.
Sean Rafferty presents In Tune, with live music and guests and the latest arts news.
Main news headlines are at
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Twitter: BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01fjxb0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01fm9b5)
CBSO, Gardner - The Dream of Gerontius
Live from the Symphony Hall in Birmingham.
Presented by Tom Redmond.
Edward Gardner conducts the CBSO and CBSO chorus in a live performance of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, a work that has been associated closely with the orchestra since its premiere in Birmingham 112 years ago. Edward Gardner conducts this performance, with a stellar line up of soloists.
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
Robert Murray, tenor
James Rutherford, baritone
CBSO Chorus
CBSO
Edward Gardner, conductor.
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b01fjxb8)
Feminism
Anne McElvoy and guests with a special programme on feminism: writing, philosophy and the body.
Doris Lessing's radical novel The Golden Notebook was published fifty years ago this month. Extraordinary and shocking in its subject matter: mental breakdown, motherhood, sexual liberation and communism, as well as its unusual, fractured structure, it mixed personal concerns with political intent. The 1960's, 1970's and 1980's saw a flowering of overtly feminist fiction from the likes of Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Drabble and Marge Piercy whilst the early part of the twenty first century has seen the personal memoir and life writing rise in popularity with writers like Lorna Sage, Rachel Cusk and Janice Galloway using their own lives as source material to produce powerful, and often rawly exposing literary works. But does a focus on the personal diminish political impact or are contemporary women writers and readers even interested, any longer, in feminism as a subject?
Anne is joined by Susannah Clapp the author of "A Card from Angela Carter", the writer Janice Galloway and literary critic Suzi Feay.
The American feminist Naomi Wolf recently wrote that there needed to be a re-figuring of the feminist movement. She called for a return to the enlightenment feminism of Mary Wollstonecraft after the blind-alley of Victorian "angel in the house" moral feminism and the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir. What's needed, she says, is a new "global feminism".
Anne discusses whether the philosophical under-pinnings of feminism need adjustment with the philosophers Nancy Bauer and Meena Dhanda the feminst activist and writer Bidisha and Charlotte Vere founder of the think tank Women On.
And as some UK feminists campaign for a ban on the advertising of cosmetic surgery and against what they see as challenges to hard won rights, Anne and her guests consider the question of whether such demands are infantilising or whether in this, and other areas of life, women need greater protection.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01fjxbb)
The Case for Doubt
Jennifer Michael Hecht on Doubt
American poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht on doubt. "If we are interested in truth, and in our own freedom, we ought to celebrate that which convinces us to doubt".
Long Desc
Jennifer Michael Hecht on doubt.
"If we are interested in truth, and in our own freedom, we ought to celebrate that which convinces us to doubt".
The American poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht reflects on doubt as 'a beautiful thing' in a world where knowing is celebrated more than doubting. Hecht, who has written a history of Doubt, argues that if we are truly interested in freedom and truth, our fixed opinions and beliefs will start giving way to doubt.
This is the fourth of five Essays on The Case for Doubt - political, religious, and scientific doubt ... concluding with self-doubt.
First broadcast in April 2012.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b01fjxbg)
Late Junction Sessions
Max de Wardener and Oliver Coates
Tonight's programme includes a track from Tanzania's '80s hit dance band Vijana Jazz, a movement from Gerry Diver's Speech Project featuring the voice of Shane MacGowan, one of the earliest pieces of electronic music written in the 1940s by Halim el-Dabh, and the Smith Quartet play the first dance from White Man Sleeps by Kevin Volans.
This month's Late Junction Session comes courtesy of composer Max de Wardener and cellist Oliver Coates. They collaborated at our Maida Vale studio and created 3 new works featuring modified instruments.
Presented by Verity Sharp.
FRIDAY 13 APRIL 2012
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b01fjxcc)
Jukka Pekka Saraste conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony and Boris Giltburg is the pianist in Rachmaninov's First Concerto. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
Ronde de printemps (from Images)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
12:39 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey [1873-1943]
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 (Op.1) in F sharp minor
Boris Giltburg (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
1:08 AM
Franz Behr [1837-1898], arr. Rachmaninov, Sergey [1873-1943]
Polka de W. R. for piano in A flat major
Boris Giltburg (piano)
1:13 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich [1840-1893]
Symphony No. 6 (Op.74) in B minor "Pathetique"
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
1:58 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Piano Trio in G major 'Premier Trio'
Grumiaux Trio
2:21 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Three Etudes (Op.104)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
2:31 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Concerto for piano and orchestra in G minor (Op.33)
Hans Pette Tangen (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ingar Bergby (conductor)
3:11 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concert aria "Bella mia fiamma...Resta, O cara" (K.528)
Andrea Rost (soprano), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltán Kocsis (conductor)
3:22 AM
Kraus, Joseph Martin (1756-1792)
Symphony in C minor
Concerto Köln
3:43 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Batti, batti, bel Masetto recit and aria from Act I of Don Giovanni (K.527)
Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Freiburg Barockorchester, René Jacobs (conductor)
3:47 AM
Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
Ballet music from Faust Act IV Sc.1 - No.7 Danse de Phryné
Brabant Orchestra, Jan Stulen (conductor)
3:51 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Mephisto Waltz No.1 (S.514)
Yuri Boukoff (piano)
4:02 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Trio No.7 from Essercizii Musici, for Recorder, Viola da Gamba, and continuo
Camerata Köln
4:09 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Capriccio for keyboard (BWV.993) in E major - "In honorem Joh. Christoph. Bachii"
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
4:16 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Prologue: Dawn music & Siegfried's Rhine journey from Götterdämmerung
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
4:31 AM
Smetana, Bedrich [1824-1884]
Overture to The Bartered Bride (1870)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
4:38 AM
Viotti, Giovanni Battista (1755-1824)
Duo concertante in D major
Alexandar Avramov, Ivan Peev (violins)
4:45 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Overture to Paria - an opera in 3 Acts
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit (conductor)
4:55 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Ballade No.2 in F major (Op.38)
Anastasia Vorotnaya (piano)
5:03 AM
Kókai, Rezsö (1906-1962)
Verbunkos (Recruiting) Suite
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, András Kórodi (conductor)
5:21 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Trio Sonata
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists
5:35 AM
Gorczycki, Grzegorz Gerwazy (c.1665-1734)
Illuxit sol (c.1700)
Olga Pasiecznik (soprano), Marta Bobertska (soprano), Piotr Lykowski (countertenor), Wojciech Parchem (tenor), Miroslaw Borzynski (bass), Concerto Polacco, Marek Toporowski (chamber organ/director)
5:42 AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
Piano Concerto no.2 (Sz.95)
Geza Anda (piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
6:09 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Christus - Pastorale and Herald Angels Sing (extract)
Walter Coppola & Frankö Tünde (soloists), Hungarian Radio Choir, Hungarian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Peskó Zoltán (conductor)
6:16 AM
Mysliveček, Josef (1737-1781)
String Quartet No. 1 in C
Zemlinsky Quartet
6:25 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Feu d'artifice (Op. 4)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b01fjxcf)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b01fjxch)
Friday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: this week (9th-13th April) performances from guitarist David Russell from his album The Grandeur of the Baroque: TELARC 33223-02
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Berlin Staatskapelle.
10.30am
This week marks the centenary of the ill-fated maiden voyage of one of the most famous ships in history, the White Star liner Titanic, which set sail from Southampton on 10 April 1912, and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic five days later with the loss of 1500 lives. Rob Cowan's guest is the historian Richard Davenport-Hines, author of 'Titanic Lives'. Richard introduces his essential pieces of classical music.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Incidental Music, Op 61)
Berlin Staatskapelle
Gunther Herbig (conductor)
BERLIN CLASSICS 0013402BC.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01fjyjm)
Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
Delius and Eric Fenby
Celebrating the 150th year since the composer's birth, Donald Macleod is joined by the violinist Tasmin Little, and cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, to discuss the life and music of Frederick Delius.
With the First World War now over, Delius was keen to promote a number of concerts of his music in England. Many of his works were included in these concerts, including the two wordless vocal miniatures for unaccompanied choir, To be sung of a Summer Night on the Water. Delius was now becoming popular, not least of all with 281 performances of his music for the play Hassan.
Delius also turned his attention to another concerto, this time for Cello, which guest Julian Lloyd Webber has recorded using the same instrument which premiered the work. This concerto was one of the last works Delius was able to complete unaided. Guest Tasmin Little also discusses the final violin sonata, a work which was completed with the help of Eric Fenby, and chats about whether this music is true Delius or not?
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01fjyjp)
East Neuk Festival 2012
Leopold String Trio, Christian Zacharias
Pianist Christian Zacharias, now a regular artist-in-residence at the East Neuk Festival teams up with the Leopold String Trio for one of the highlights of the 2011 festival. Brahms's joyous First Piano Quartet reflects the composer's life-long passion for Hungarian gypsy music and is contrasted with a concise, witty and assured piano sonata of Beethoven's early period. The concert is presented by Mary Ann Kennedy.
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in F, Op.10 No. 2
Brahms: Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25
Christian Zacharias - piano
Leopold String Trio.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01fjyjr)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Episode 4
Louise Fryer introduces the third and final act of the great Czech nationalist opera, The Bartered Bride by Smetana performed in German at the 2011 Styriarte Festival in Graz, Austria. Plus Dvorak, Mahler and Bruckner.
Dvorak: Carnival Overture
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Michal Dworzynski (conductor).
2.10pm
Bedrich Smetana: Die verkaufte Braut (The Bartered Bride), Act III
Krusina ..... Anton Scharinger (baritone)
Ludmila ..... Elisabeth Kulman (mezzo)
Marenka ..... Dorothea Roschmann (soprano)
Micha ..... Yasushi Hirano (bass)
Hata ..... Elisabeth von Magnus (mezzo)
Vasek ..... Markus Schafer (tenor)
Jenik ..... Kurt Streit (tenor)
Kecal ..... Ruben Drole (bass)
Principal komediantu ..... Heinz Zednik (tenor)
Esmeralda ..... Bibiana Nwobilo (soprano).
Arnold Schoenberg Chorus,
Chamber Orchestra of Europe,
Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
3.15pm
Mahler: Five Ruckert Songs
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Donald Runnicles conductor).
3.30pm
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 in C minor (Linz version)
Berlin Staatskapelle,
Daniel Barenboim (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b01fjyjt)
Thursday - Sean Rafferty
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from pianist Ivan Ilic and vocal ensemble Voces8. Plus Rex Lawson will be bringing his player-piano into the studio to celebrate the music of Conlon Nancarrow.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter: BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01fjyjm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01fjyjw)
Live from the Barbican in London
Sibelius, Dvarionas
Live from The Barbican Centre, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
The BBC Symphony Orchestra continues its Sibelius Cycle with Symphony No 2 & En Saga. Plus Lithuanian Balys Dvarionas's neo-Romantic Violin Concerto. Thomas Sondergard conducts.
As the BBC Symphony Orchestra reaches the fifth instalment of its acclaimed Sibelius symphony cycle this season, tonight's programme places one of the composer's most popular symphonies, the Second, alongside his shimmering symphonic poem En saga ('A Fairy Tale'). Replacing an indisposed Neeme Jarvi at short notice is Danish conductor Thomas Sondergard, who this autumn takes up a new position as Principal Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Lithuanian Balys Dvarionas's richly neo-Romantic Violin Concerto - of which tonight's soloist Vadim Gluzman is a particular champion - reflects the lyricism and folklike charm of Sibelius - whose Second Symphony was promptly taken up, rightly or wrongly, as an expression of Finnish national pride.
Sibelius: En Saga Op.9
Dvarionas: Violin Concerto UK premiere
Vadim Gluzman (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Sondergard (conductor).
FRI 20:20 Twenty Minutes (b01fjyjy)
The Light in Darkness
In summer the sun barely sets, bringing long nights of partying and heavy drinking. But in Lapland, as winter closes in, the lights go on, not to be extinguished until the sun finally begins to rise again above the horizon nearly three months later. Some find the seemingly endless darkness forbidding, but others find it comforting, enjoying the way the starry blackness allows their minds to play over thoughts of the infinite...
Programme makers Hannu Karisto from Finland and his Swiss colleague Jean-Claude Kuner were shortlisted last year in the prestigious Prix Italia for their contemplative documentary feature exploring the pleasures and profound pessimism that this ineluctable seasonal flux brings on. In this English language version of the programme first broadcast by Finnish radio, the programme makers travel to the far north of the country in both seasons to catch the spirit of those 'endless days and nights'.
FRI 20:40 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01fjyk2)
Live from the Barbican in London
Sibelius
Live from The Barbican Centre, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
The BBC Symphony Orchestra continues its Sibelius Cycle with Symphony No 2 & En Saga. Plus Lithuanian Balys Dvarionas's neo-Romantic Violin Concerto. Thomas Sondergard conducts.
As the BBC Symphony Orchestra reaches the fifth instalment of its acclaimed Sibelius symphony cycle this season, tonight's programme places one of the composer's most popular symphonies, the Second, alongside his shimmering symphonic poem En saga ('A Fairy Tale'). Replacing an indisposed Neeme Jarvi at short notice is Danish conductor Thomas Sondergard, who this autumn takes up a new position as Principal Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Lithuanian Balys Dvarionas's richly neo-Romantic Violin Concerto - of which tonight's soloist Vadim Gluzman is a particular champion - reflects the lyricism and folklike charm of Sibelius - whose Second Symphony was promptly taken up, rightly or wrongly, as an expression of Finnish national pride.
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Vadim Gluzman (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Sondergard (conductor).
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b01fjyk6)
Amanda Dalton, Jennie Erdal, Emeli Sande
Ian McMillan is joined by poet Amanda Dalton whose new collection 'Stray' is a book about 'the lost' and being lost, searching for home, and the extraordinary places we sometimes discover when we're off the beaten track - he'll also be joined by Jennie Erdal, author of the acclaimed memoir 'Ghosting', by singer and song-writer Emeli Sandé who'll be performing in the studio, and he'll present new drama exploring the human stories behind Britain's troubled high streets.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b01fjykb)
The Case for Doubt
Alastair Campbell on Self-Doubt
Alastair Campbell on self-doubt.
"Self-doubt that leads to resolution of the doubts can be a remarkable source of energy and creativity".
In the last of five Essays making The Case for Doubt, journalist and broadcaster Alastair Campbell, acknowledging his reputation as a hard man while Tony Blair's spokesman and strategist, admits that self-doubt has always been an essential part of his make-up. But reflecting on Galileo's assertion that self-doubt is 'the father of all invention', he argues that it should be a creative rather than a crippling experience.
This ends the series The Case for Doubt, in which five contributors have argued that Doubt - though sometimes troubling - is meaningful and valuable, and not negative and weak.
First broadcast in April 2012.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b01fjykd)
Session with Po' Girl
Mary Ann Kennedy with new tracks from across the globe, plus Canadian roots band Po' Girl in a studio session.
Canadian roots music has never had it so good, and Po' Girl are right at the centre of this flourishing scene, based as they are in Montreal and Toronto. They call their style 'urban roots' and it has elements of folk, country and jazz. Po' Girl are Allison Russell and Awna Teixeira, both singers and multi-instrumentalists, joined by Mikey 'Lightning' August on vocals, drums and keys and Chris Merrill on electric bass.