Jonathan Swain presents a programme of Saint-Saens' music recorded at the Romanian Atheneum Bucharest.
Nicolae Licaret (organ), Georges Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Daisuke Soga (conductor)
Geanina Munteanu (mezzo-soprano), Ionut Popescu (tenor), Razvan Georgescu (bass-baritone), George Enescu Philharmonic Chorus, Iosif Ion Prunner (director), George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Daisuke Soga (conductor)
Symphony no. 3 (Op.78) in C minor "Organ symphony"
Nicolae Licaret (organ), Georges Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Daisuke Soga (conductor)
Sinfonia concertante for clarinet, bassoon, horn and orchestra in B flat major (Op.3)
Reijo Koskinen (clarinet), Pekka Katajamäki (bassoon), Esa Tukia (horn), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 20 in D minor (K.466)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Terje Toennesen (conductor)
Sonata for piano (H.
Danish National Radio Choir, Bengt Forsberg (piano), Stefan Parkman (conductor)
Kristina Hammarström (mezzo soprano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
Eckart Sellheim (fortepiano), Collegium Aureum, Franzjosef Meier (conductor).
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Altre Follie 1500 - 1750 - music from Hesperion XXI, and Jordi Savall: ALIA VOX AV9844
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the violinist and conductor Thomas Zehetmair.
Sarah's guest this week is James May, the writer and TV presenter best known as one of the trio of 'Top Gear' presenters alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. But there's more to James than his macho image would suggest - not many people know that he studied music at Lancaster University, and is a keen flautist and keyboard player who loves early music, as Sarah Walker will discover this week.
Donald Macleod continues his exploration of the life and work of Luigi Cherubini with a look at what are probably his two most influential operas - Medée and Les deux journées. Better known in its truncated Italian version, Medée first saw the light of day on 13 March 1797 at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris. With a plot that makes Fatal Attraction look like a lovers' tiff, it proved strong meat for Parisian audiences, who in those Revolutionary times already had a surfeit of gut-wrenching carnage in their day-to-day lives, and didn't need more of it served up in the theatre. It never really took off in Cherubini's day, although it was hugely respected by other composers, including Beethoven, who owned a score of it, and later Brahms, who called it "the work we musicians recognise among ourselves as the highest piece of dramatic art". It languished for the first half of the 20th-century until in 1953, Maria Callas performed it in Florence, under the baton of a young Leonard Bernstein, and it's her demonic performance - albeit of an inauthentic version - that reawakened interest in the work. By contrast, Les deux journées - or The Water-Carrier, as it became known outside France - was immediately successful. With its message of social and political reconciliation, conveyed simply and directly, it was to remain a fixture in the international repertory for most of the 19th century.
The first of four programmes featuring performances from the Fifth String Quartet Biennial, which took place in January at the Cité de la Musique in Paris.
Schumann: String Quartet No 3 in A, Op 41.
Arriaga: String Quartet No 3 in E flat.
with Katie Derham and Penny Gore. The BBC Symphony Orchestra are Live at
with BBC New Generation Artist Clara Mouriz (mezzo soprano) as the soloist in Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne. Alexander Shelley conducts. And the Concert ends with Brahms 2nd Symphony.
Canteloube: Bailero, Malurous qu'o uno fenno, Lo fiolaire, L'Aio de Rotso, La delaissado and Brezairola from Chants d'Auvergne
Brahms: Symphony no. 2 in D major Op.73
Sean Rafferty presents, with live guests including conductor Stephane Deneve and pianist Andreas Haefliger, plus live music from the Lighthouse Trio featuring pianist Gwilym Simcock
The Ebène Quartet - former Radio 3 New Generation Artists - play Mozart's String Quartet in C K465 'Dissonance', Schubert's Quartet in A minor D804 'Rosamunde' and Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11.
Mozart's Quartet No. 19 in C major is the last in a series of six quartets dedicated to Joseph Haydn, and gained its nickname 'Dissonance' on account of its slow, mysterious introduction. Schubert's Quartet No. 13 in A minor, the 'Rosamunde' is another favourite of the string repertoire. Its second movement saw Schubert re-work incidental music originally written for the play 'Rosamunde'. Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No. 1 in D premiered in Moscow in 1871, the famous second movement is said to have moved Leo Tolstoy to tears.
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11
Cardiac surgeon Francis Wells takes a look at a new exhibition of the work of Leonardo da Vinci, which focuses on his studies of the body. Exploring human anatomy, da Vinci planned to publish his work in a treatise which - had it been published - would've transformed European understanding of the subject.
The great new investment opportunities lie not in China as many currently think, but in unexpected places - according to Ruchir Sharma, investment banker for Morgan Stanley. He tries to pinpoint exactly where in his new book Breakout Nation, suggesting that good indicators lie anywhere between the price of hotel minibars and the relationship between Government and business. Together with Robert Guest, Washington Correspondent for The Economist, they investigate what global and political forces are shaping emerging markets.
Award-winning Bola Agbaje returns to the Royal Court Theatre, London with her new play Belong. It tells the story of a British MP who flees to Nigeria following election defeat. She discusses her work.
The UN held an international conference on happiness last month, and governments around the world are becoming interested in measuring the happiness - rather than just the wealth - of their citizens. But Jules Evans explains why we should be suspicious of attempts to measure our happiness levels, and put our faith in ancient philosophy instead.
NEXT WEEK: As part of Radio 3's Portraits Day on Monday 7th May, Night Waves is hosting a special edition from the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Philip Dodd will be joined by writer Ian Rankin, artist Alison Watt whose self portrait now hangs at the gallery, the poet and critic Robert Crawford, and John Leighton Director General of the National Galleries of Scotland to examine the nature of portraiture and the cultural tensions that are created when attempting to capture a likeness through figurative and abstract painting, poetry and literature.
recording in Edinburgh on Monday. Further details from The Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Marking the centenary of Edward Lear's birth in 1812, this series of five essays considers the exuberant play of Edward Lear as a nonsense poet and artist and the influence of 'nonsense' on modern life.
In the second essay in the series, Keble fellow and writer Matthew Bevis explores the story of nonsense. Looking back to a time before nonsense existed, he considers what nonsense is, how it fitted into the Victorian age and the role of Lear in its development.
Songs of May from Lisa Knapp, a Valsa from Joyce, a Stomping Blues from Champion Jack Dupree, a plea from Eska and a Radiohead cover version from the Punch Brothers. Presented by Max Reinhardt.
WEDNESDAY 02 MAY 2012
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b01gvtk1)
Jonathan Swain presents the BBC Concert Orchestra with conductor Martyn Brabbins and soprano Susan Gritton in orchestral works by Finnish composer Toivo Kuula.
12:31 AM
Kuula, Toivo [1883-1918]
Merenkylpijaneidot, op.12 (The Sea Bathing Nymphs)
Susan Gritton (soprano), BBC Concert Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
12:39 AM
Kuula, Toivo [1883-1918]
South Ostrobothnian Suite no.2 op.20
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
1:01 AM
Kuula, Toivo [1883-1918]
Kesäilta (Summer Evening)
Susan Gritton (soprano), BBC Concert Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
1:03 AM
Kuula, Toivo [1883-1918], orch. Merikanto, Aarre [1893-1958]
Tuijotin Tulehen Kauan, Op.2 No.2 (Long I Stared into the Fire)
Susan Gritton (soprano), BBC Concert Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
1:09 AM
Kuula, Toivo [1883-1918]
Karjapihassa, Op.31a No.2 (In the Cattle Yard)
Susan Gritton (soprano), BBC Concert Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
1:11 AM
Kuula, Toivo [1883-1918]
Purjein Kuutamolla Op.31a No.1 (Sailing in the Moonlight)
Susan Gritton (soprano), BBC Concert Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
1:14 AM
Kuula, Toivo [1883-1918]
Orjan Poika (Son of a Slave) - Concert Suite, Op.14b
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
1:26 AM
Kuula, Toivo [1883-1918]
Impi Ja Pajarin Poika (The Maiden and the Son of a Boyar), Op.18
Susan Gritton (soprano), BBC Concert Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
1:38 AM
Kuula, Toivo [1883-1918]
Prelude and Fugue, Op.10
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
1:47 AM
Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957]
13 Pieces for piano (Op.76)
Eero Heinonen (piano)
2:07 AM
Nowowiejski, Felix [1877-1946]
3 Songs (Op.56) from "The Bialowieza Forest folder"
Polish Radio Choir, Marek Kluza (conductor)
2:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1979-1828)
Quartet for Strings (D.810) in D minor "Death and the Maiden"
Ebène Quartet
3:11 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
Ave Maria; Christus factus est; Locus iste (motets)
The Sokkelund Choir, Morten Schuldt Jensen (conductor)
3:25 AM
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936)
Lyric poem for orchestra in D flat major (Op.12)
West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Verbitsky (conductor)
3:35 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in D minor (Kk.9) 'Pastorale'; Sonata in B minor (Kk.27); Sonata in A major (Kk.322)
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
3:43 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concerto for bassoon and orchestra in B flat major, K.191
Ronald Karten (bassoon), Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Lev Markiz (conductor)
4:00 AM
Ibert, Jacques (1890-1962)
Trois Pièces Brèves
Bulgarian Academic Wind Quintet
4:08 AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
Virta Venhetta vie ('Rivers Gentle Flow Carry The Boat') (Op.37 No.1)
Eero Heinonen (piano)
4:13 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), orch. Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Prelude and Fugue in E flat (BWV.552)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor)
4:31 AM
Luzzaschi, Luzzasco (1545-1607)
O primavera for solo soprano and bc & O dolcezze amarissime d'Amore for 3 sopranos & bc
Tragicomedia - Barbara Borden (solo soprano), Suzie Le Blanc & Dorothee Mields (sopranos), Hille Perle (viola da gamba), Alexander Weimann (harpsichord), Stephen Stubbs (chitaronne/baroque guitar/director)
4:39 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Romance and Waltz
The Dutch Pianists' Quartet
4:45 AM
Mosonyi, Mihaly (1814-1870)
Ünnepi zene
The Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Adam Medveczky (conductor)
4:56 AM
Attributed Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Adagio / Allegro in E flat major (K.Anh.C
17.07) for wind octet
The Festival Winds, Joel Quarrington (double bass)
5:06 AM
Gombert, Nicolas (c.1495-c.1560)
Media vita in morte sumus a6
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
5:13 AM
Norman, Ludvig (1831-1885)
2 Charakterstücke for piano (Op.1) (1850)
Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano)
5:23 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Cello Concerto in D major, Hob VIIb No.4
France Springuel (cello), Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)
5:43 AM
Holborne, Anthony (1560-1602)
Muy linda, Pavan, Galliard
The Canadian Brass
5:48 AM
Zemzaris, Imants (b.1951)
The Melancolic valse, from 'Marvel pieces for violin and piano'
Janis Bulavs (violin), Aldis Liepiņs (piano)
5:54 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B flat (J.182) (Op.34)
Lena Jonhäll (clarinet) with the Zetterqvist String Quartet
6:19 AM
Strauss, Johann II (1825-1899)
An der schonen, blauen Donau
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b01gvtk3)
Wednesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b01gvtmm)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Altre Follie 1500 - 1750 - music from Hesperion XXI and Jordi Savall: ALIA VOX AV9844
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the violinist and conductor Thomas Zehetmair.
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is James May, the writer and TV presenter best known as one of the trio of 'Top Gear' presenters alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. But there's more to James than his macho image would suggest - not many people know that he studied music at Lancaster University, and is a keen flautist and keyboard player who loves early music, as Sarah Walker will discover this week.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Mendelssohn
Symphony No. in A Op.90 4 'Italian'
London Symphony Orchestra
Andre Previn (conductor)
EMI 767775.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00xnh20)
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Episode 3
Donald Macleod continues his exploration of the life and work of Luigi Cherubini with a look at a pair of major international commissions the composer undertook in 1805 and 1815, interspersed by a long period of depression during which he gave up composition completely and devoted himself to botany and painting. But in the summer of 1805, Cherubini packed himself, his wife and their young daughter Zenobie, a babe in arms of three months, into a horse-drawn coach and spent 32 days travelling from Paris to Vienna by way of Chalons, Verdun, Metz, Mannheim, Frankfurt, Cassel, Berlin, Dresden and Prague - all this at a time when Europe was ablaze with Napoleonic conflict. In fact Cherubini reached Vienna just ahead of the Great Dictator, who on his arrival promptly put him in charge of a prestigious series of concerts! Cherubini had been invited to Vienna to compose two new operas. In the event he only completed one, Faniska, but there were other compensations, including meetings with Beethoven - who was reportedly grumpy - and Haydn, who may have been amused to learn that Cherubini had recently penned a major work in commemoration of the Viennese master's death, which had been falsely reported in a London newspaper the previous year. It was London that beckoned Cherubini in 1815, with a commission for three works from the newly formed Philharmonic Society. None of them have gained a firm foothold in the repertoire, but Cherubini's Symphony, which has been championed by Italians of the stature of Arturo Toscanini and Riccardo Muti, deserves to be heard more often.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01gvtrf)
Paris String Quartet Biennial
Takacs Quartet, Borodin Quartet
The second of four programmes featuring performances from the Fifth String Quartet Biennial, which took place in January at the Cité de la Musique in Paris.
Britten: String Quartet No 3 in G.
Takacs Quartet.
Beethoven: String Quartet No 9 in C major, Op 59 No 3 'Razumovsky'.
Borodin Quartet.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01gvtrh)
Arvo Part Total Immersion
Episode 2
A BBC Singers concert from the Arvo Part Total Immersion event at St.Giles' church at the Barbican centre held last Saturday. Paul Brough conducts and Iain Farrington plays the organ in a selection of music by contemporary Estonian composer Arvo Part.
Part: Trivium
Iain Farrington (organ)
Part: 7 Advent (Magnificat) antiphons
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor)
Part: The Beatitudes
Iain Farrington (organ)
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor)
Part: Summa for choir
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor)
Part: Missa sillabica
Iain Farrington (organ)
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor)
Part: Which was the son of...
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b01gvv5v)
St John's College, Cambridge
From the chapel of St John's College, Cambridge with the College Choir and St John's Sinfonia.
Unfortunately this programme was curtailed because of an electrical fault at the venue.
Responses: Ayleward
Psalms: 12, 13, 14 (Goss, Hylton Stewart, Stanford)
First Lesson: Deuteronomy 10 vv12-end
Magnificat (Vivaldi)
Second Lesson: Ephesians 5 vv1-14
Nunc Dimittis (plainsong on the first tone)
Anthem: Nun danket alle Gott BWV 192 (Bach)
Final Hymn: Let all the world (Luckington)
Organ Voluntary: Fugue in G major BWV 541 (Bach)
Andrew Nethsingha (Director of Music)
John Challenger and Freddie James (Organ Scholars).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b01gvtrk)
Sitkovetsky Trio, London Octave Wind Soloists, Bob Chilcott, Juan Diego Florez
As they prepare for their upcoming concert as part of Surrey Hills Music Festival, Sitkovetsky Trio play live in the studio. They are joined by co-creator of the festival, Tessa Marchington who has been nominated for an RPS Award for her busines venture 'Music in Offices'.
Also playing live, London Octave Wind Soloists make their debut as a wind ensemble ahead of their inaugural concert at St Martin in the Fields.
Composer Bob Chilcott visits the studio to discuss a new recording of his Requiem by Wells Cathedral Choir and super-star tenor Juan Diego Florez talks to presenter Sean Rafferty about his upcoming Rosenblatt Recital at the Royal Albert Hall.
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 (b00xnh20)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01gvv5x)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic - Brahms, Beethoven
Live from Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Presented by Simon Hoban
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under their Chief Conductor Vasily Petrenko tackle the hammer blows of fate as their Essential Beethoven series reaches Beethoven's iconic 5th Symphony. And they are joined by pianist Andreas Haefliger for another hugely passionate work - Brahms' Piano Concerto no. 1.
Brahms: Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor op.15
8.15 Music Interval
Beethoven: Symphony no.5 in C minor op.67
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Andreas Haefliger (piano)
Vasily Petrenko (conductor).
WED 22:00 Night Waves (b01gvtwj)
Bauhaus
Rana Mitter visits a major new exhibition of Bauhaus art and reassesses its utopian attempt to unite art, technology and change society in the aftermath of the First World War.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b01gvtwl)
How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear
Robert Crawford
Marking the centenary of Edward Lear's birth in 1812, this series of five essays considers the exuberant play of Edward Lear as a nonsense poet and artist and the influence of 'nonsense' on modern life.
In the third essay in the series, Robert Crawford, poet and professor of Modern Literature at the University of St Andrews, speaks about Edward Lear's literary legacy.
He will focus especially on T S Eliot, who often drew on the work of Lear in his writing, even going as far as to write the poem 'How Unpleasant to Meet Mr Eliot'.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b01gvtwn)
Wednesday - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt's selection includes music by Dvorak, Tribraco, an ensemble of Angolan women and a sighting of Doc Watson's Coo-Coo Bird.
THURSDAY 03 MAY 2012
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b01gvtk5)
Jonathan Swain presents the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in concert in Brahms' Second Symphony. Till Fellner is the soloist in Beethoven's First Piano Concerto.
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 (Op.15) in C major
Till Fellner (piano), Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano (conductor)
1:04 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Symphony no. 2 (Op.73) in D major
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano (conductor)
1:50 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
String Quartet in F major
Bartók Quartet
2:18 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707)
Ihr lieben Christen, freut euch nun, BuxWV 51
Marieke Steenhoek (soprano) Miriam Meyer (soprano) Bogna Bartosz (contralto) Marco van de Klundert (tenor) Klaus Mertens (bass) Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Chorus, Ton Koopman (conductor)
2:31 AM
Engel, Jan (?-1788)
Symphony in G major
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Straszynski (conductor)
2:48 AM
Reicha, Anton (1770-1836)
Oboe Quintet in F major (Op.107)
Les Adieux
3:17 AM
Kutev, Filip (1903-1982)
Pastoral for flute and orchestra (1943)
Lidia Oshavkova (flute), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dimitar Manolov (conductor)
3:28 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Children's Corner
Roger Woodward (piano)
3:46 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
Hill-Song No.1
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
4:00 AM
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736)
Sonata in G major for violin and piano
Peter Michalica (violin), Elena Michalicova (piano)
4:08 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Love Scene - from the opera 'Feuersnot' (Op.50)
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
4:17 AM
Matteis, Nicola (died c.1707)
L'Amore (Love)
Elizabeth Wallfisch (Baroque violin), Linda Kent (chamber organ)
4:21 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Trio No.6 from Essercizii Musici, for Transverse Flute, Viola da Gamba, and continuo
Camerata Köln
4:31 AM
Bruch, Max (1838-1920) (arr. unknown)
Allegro vivace ma non troppo in C major (No.7 from Pieces for clarinet, viola/cello & piano (Op.83) arr. for violin, cello & piano)
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
4:35 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Mazurka - from the idyll 'Jawnuta'
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Salwarowski (conductor)
4:41 AM
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
La Gitana (after an 18th century Arabo-Spanish Gypsy song) for violin and piano
Tobias Ringborg (violin), Anders Kilström (piano)
4:45 AM
Holst, Gustav (1874-1934)
Ave Maria
Chamber Choir AVE, Andraz Hauptman (conductor)
4:51 AM
Martucci, Giuseppe (1856-1909)
Noveletta (Op.82 No.2)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Nello Santi (conductor)
4:58 AM
Kirnberger, Johann Philipp (1721-1783)
Sonata in C major for flute & basso continuo
Konrad Hünteler (flute), Wouter Möller (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
5:08 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Danse macabre (Op.40) trans. for 2 pianos by the composer
Ouellet-Murray Duo
5:15 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Orpheus - symphonic poem S.98 for orchestra
Hungarian State Orchestra, János Ferencsik (conductor)
5:27 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828);
Quartet in D major D.74 for strings
Quartetto Bernini
5:51 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
6 Chorales from the Schemelli Collection (Gott, wie gross ist deine Güte (BWV.462); Dich bet' ich an, mein höchster Gott (BWV.449); Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen (BWV.452); O liebe Seele, zieh' die Sinnen (BWV.494); Vergiss mein nicht, mein allerliester Gott (BWV.505); Ich halte treulich still und liebe meinen Gott (BWV.466))
Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Marco Fink (bass baritone) , Domen Marincic (gamba), Dalibor Miklavcic (organ)
6:03 AM
Kodály, Zoltán arr. unknown
Dances of Galanta (orig. for orchestra)
Adam Fellegi (piano)
6:19 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
La Gazza Ladra - Overture
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b01gvtk7)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b01gvtmp)
Thursday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Altre Follie 1500 - 1750 - music from Hesperion XXI, and Jordi Savall: ALIA VOX AV9844
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the violinist and conductor Thomas Zehetmair.
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is James May, the writer and TV presenter best known as one of the trio of 'Top Gear' presenters alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. But there's more to James than his macho image would suggest - not many people know that he studied music at Lancaster University, and is a keen flautist and keyboard player who loves early music, as Sarah Walker will discover this week.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Shostakovich
Symphony No.5 in D minor Op.47
London Symphony Orchestra
Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)
LSO LIVE 550.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00xnh4l)
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Episode 4
Donald Macleod continues his exploration of the music and life of Luigi Cherubini with a look of his extraordinary political flexibility - an essential survival skill in the looking-glass world of post-Revolutionary France. His Marche Funèbre is a case in point. Written in 1820 to commemorate the passing of the Duc du Berry, the second son of the man who four years later would become Charles X of France, this sombre march, so full of grief for its dedicatee, had had a previous incarnation, some 23 years earlier, as part of a funeral cantata on the death of Général Hoche - a French soldier who had risen to be General of the Revolutionary Army. And the composer who wrote his C minor Requiem to mourn the anniversary in 1816 of the execution of Louis XVI doubtless wouldn't have wished his aristocratic friends to be reminded that 20 years earlier he had conducted the choir at an official ceremony to celebrate the third anniversary of the demise of the same monarch. But such considerations didn't prevent Beethoven, Berlioz, Schumann and Brahms from regarding Cherubini's Requiem in C minor as best-in-class; and it even provided the soundtrack to Beethoven's funeral in 1827.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01gvtrp)
Paris String Quartet Biennial
Modigliani Quartet, Borodin Quartet
The third of four programmes featuring performances from the Fifth String Quartet Biennial, which took place in January at the Cité de la Musique in Paris.
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 13.
Modigliani Quartet.
Wolfgang Rihm: Grave - In Memoriam Thomas Kakuska.
Borodin Quartet.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01gvtrr)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Elgar - The Apostles
Katie Derham presents a memorable performance of Elgar's oratorio "The Apostles," recorded at King's College Cambridge at Easter. David Wilson-Johnson is Judas, as Elgar would have it: "An apostle misunderstood."
Elgar: The Apostles
Ailish Tynan (Blessed Virgin / Angel Gabriel)
Susan Bickley (Mary Magdalene)
Timothy Robinson (St John / Narrator)
Mark Stone (St Peter)
Roderick Williams (Jesus)
David Wilson-Johnson (Judas)
Ben Sau Lau (organ)
Philharmonia Chorus
BBC Concert Orchestra
Stephen Cleobury (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b01gvtrt)
Danielle de Niese, Mary King and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Ensemble
Sean Rafferty presents, with guests and live music from the arts world including the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Ensemble: Viviane Hagner, violin; Lawrence Power, viola; Christian Poltera, cello; and Khatia Buniatishvili, piano.
Plus the start of a weekly feature where we challenge Team GB to train to classical music suggested by In Tune listeners.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter: BBCInTune.
THU 18:00 Composer of the Week (b00xnh4l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:00 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01gvv70)
Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Haydn, Mozart
Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Presented by Suzy Klein
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is joined by a trio of celebrated soloists - cellist Steven Isserlis, pianist Robert Levin and violinist Isabelle Faust - who will each direct the orchestra from their instrument in a concert that looks at what happens when the conductor disappears.
The evening opens with Haydn's 'London' Symphony, the composer's response to the bustle and vibrancy of the city when he visited in 1795. Isabelle Faust is then soloist in Mozart's most popular Violin Concerto before all three soloists come together to perform Beethoven's Triple Concerto.
Haydn: Symphony no.104 'London'
Mozart: Violin Concerto no.3 in G K.216
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Steven Isserlis (cello/director)
Isabelle Faust (violin/director)
Robert Levin (piano/director).
THU 19:55 Discovering Music (b01gvv72)
Beethoven: Triple Concerto
Beethoven composed his Triple Concerto, Op. 56, during an intensely creative period when he was also working on his opera Fidelio, the Waldstein piano sonata, and the Eroica symphony. Yet, Beethoven made the point to his publishers that here in the Triple Concerto was something new.
It was composed for Beethoven's young piano pupil Archduke Rudolph to perform, with the violinist Seidler and the celebrated virtuoso cellist Anton Kraft, for whom Haydn had composed a cello concerto two decades earlier. Although the cello takes slightly more prominence in the Triple Concerto, it was a novelty at the time to combine a piano trio with orchestra, and also give the orchestra equal importance.
Stephen Johnson takes a look at this work which broke new ground, yet despite its freshness, after its Viennese premiere in 1808, was never performed again in Beethoven's lifetime.
THU 20:15 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01gvv74)
Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Beethoven
Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Presented by Suzy Klein
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is joined by a trio of celebrated soloists - cellist Steven Isserlis, pianist Robert Levin and violinist Isabelle Faust - who will each direct the orchestra from their instrument in a concert that looks at what happens when the conductor disappears.
The evening opens with Haydn's 'London' Symphony, the composer's response to the bustle and vibrancy of the city when he visited in 1795. Isabelle Faust is then soloist in Mozart's most popular Violin Concerto before all three soloists come together to perform Beethoven's Triple Concerto.
Beethoven: Triple Concerto
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Steven Isserlis (cello/director)
Isabelle Faust (violin/director)
Robert Levin (piano/director).
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b01gvtwq)
Landmarks: The Tempest
Philip Dodd presents a Landmark edition devoted to Shakespeare's The Tempest, a drama reimagined by artists from Purcell to Derek Jarman via TS Eliot, Derek Walcott and Thomas Adès.
The play continues to resonate: its phrases have infected the English language, Radio 3 have commissioned a new production as part of The Shakespeare Unlocked season and Danny Boyle will use the Tempest as a theme for the opening ceremony of this summer's Olympic Games.
The Tempest is the last play Shakespeare wrote alone, and was first performed in 1611. At its heart is the magician Prospero, the former Duke of Milan usurped by his brother now living on an island with his daughter Miranda and in command of two servants: Ariel, a spirit, and Caliban a monstrous man and previous occupant of the island.
In the studio to discuss this strange and compelling play are the writer and director Jonathan Miller who first directed the Tempest in 1970 and again in 1988, David Troughton, the actor who played Caliban in Sam Mendes 1993 production, the Shakespeare scholar Helen Hackett, composer and director Jeremy Sams who created a version of The Tempest story, The Enchanted Island, for the Metropolitan Opera and the writer Kamila Shamsie.
Producer: Natalie Steed.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01gvtws)
How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear
Caroline Arscott
Marking the bicentenary of Edward Lear's birth in 1812, this series of five essays considers the exuberant play of Edward Lear as a nonsense poet and artist and the influence of 'nonsense' on modern life.
In the fourth essay in the series, Art Historian at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Professor Caroline Arscott, considers Lear the artist.
Lear was well known as an artist long before he became famous for his writing, initially as an illustrator of birds and animals. He moved onto landscape painting, producing many thousands of studies as he travelled throughout Europe.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b01gvtwv)
Thursday - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt stirs up a mixture of A Particle of Light by Yoshiro Kanno, The Gap by Steve Lacy and Tiny Feathers by anna-anna, sifts in En Phase/Hors Phase by Bernard Parmegiani and lightly drizzles the delicious confection with Asha Bhosle's Ina Mina Dika.
FRIDAY 04 MAY 2012
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b01gvtk9)
Jonathan Swain presents. The Slovenian Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra and soloist Ols Cinxo perform Mendelssohn's D minor violin concerto and Mozart's Jupiter symphony.
12:31 AM
Rossini, Gioachino [1792-1868]
Overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Günter Pichler (conductor)
12:39 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Concerto in D minor for violin and string orchestra
Ols Cinxo (violin), Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Günter Pichler (conductor)
1:04 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Symphony no. 41 in C major K.551 (Jupiter)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Günter Pichler (conductor)
1:37 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich [1637-1707]
Jubilate Domino, omnis terra for alto, viola da gamba and continuo (BuxWV.64)
Zoltán Gavodi (countertenor), Sándor Sászvárosi (viola da gamba), Zsuzsanna Nagy (harpsichord), Sonora Hungarica Consort
1:47 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Quintet in F minor Op.34 for piano and strings
Aleksandra Juozapenaite-Eesma (piano), M.K. Ciurlionis String Quartet
2:31 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Piano Concerto in A minor (Op.16)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek (conductor)
3:00 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Symphony No. 5 (Op.107) in D major "Reformation"
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Vytautas Lukocius (conductor)
3:30 AM
Groneman, Johannes (c.1710-1778)
Flute Sonata in E minor
Jed Wentz (flute), Balazs Mate (cello), Marcelo Bussi (harpsichord)
3:42 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927)
Ithaka (Op.21)
Peter Mattei (baritone), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
3:52 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat (K.417)
James Sommerville (horn), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:06 AM
Jersild, Jorgen (1913-2004)
3 Danish Romances for Choir
The Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (conductor)
4:18 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Drei Fantasiestucke (Op.73)
Algirdas Budrys (clarinet), Sergejus Okrusko (piano)
4:31 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
The Italian Girl in Algiers - overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
4:39 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Romance in F major (Op.50)
Taik-Ju Lee (violin), Young-Lan Han (piano)
4:49 AM
Moss, Piotr (b. 1949)
Wiosenno
Polish Radio Choir, Wlodzimierz Siedlik (conductor)
4:58 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Rapsodie espagnole
Piano Duo: Aglika Genova, Liuben Dimitrov
5:11 AM
Handel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759)
Incidental music to 'The Alchemist', a play by Ben Johnson
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Monica Huggett (conductor)
5:28 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Trio for keyboard and strings in G major 'Gypsy rondo' (H.
15.25)
Kungsbacka Trio
5:44 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Valse Triste
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
5:50 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Flute Sonata in B minor (BWV.1030)
Bart Kuijken (flute), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)
6:10 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Holberg Suite (Op.40)
Sofia Soloists, Plamen Djourov (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b01gvtkc)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b01gvtmr)
Friday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Altre Follie 1500 - 1750 - music from Hesperion XXI and Jordi Savall: ALIA VOX AV9844
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the violinist and conductor Thomas Zehetmair.
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is James May, the writer and TV presenter best known as one of the trio of 'Top Gear' presenters alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. But there's more to James than his macho image would suggest - not many people know that he studied music at Lancaster University, and is a keen flautist and keyboard player who loves early music, as Sarah Walker will discover this week.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.6 in B minor Op.74 'Pathetique'
Philadelphia Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
ONDINE ODE 11315.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00xnkx8)
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Episode 5
Donald Macleod concludes his week-long exploration of the life and work of Luigi Cherubini with a look at the composer in his last 20 years. In 1822 - by now firmly ensconced as the grand old man of French music - he was appointed Director of the Paris Conservatoire, where he set about introducing a programme of radical reforms, including the recruitment of more female students; by the time of his death, women numbered half the student body. A related reform famously caused ructions with the young Hector Berlioz, who one day in 1822 mistakenly entered the Conservatoire through a door newly designated for the use of women only. Cherubini was informed of this infraction and turned up in person to deliver a reprimand to the young whippersnapper. When Berlioz dared to answer back, Cherubini, by then in his sixties, ended up chasing him furiously around the library, knocking over tables, chairs and piles of books, to the dismay of the other readers. Donald imagines this scene set to the "jingling-jangling, crashing, banging" overture to Cherubini's opera, Ali Baba. This was the most ambitious score he had ever created, given a commensurately extravagant production by the Paris Opera in the summer of 1833 - and a commensurately emphatic thumbs-down by audience, critics and cognoscenti alike. Ali Baba was a gigantic turkey, running for just 11 performances, none of which its composer could bear to attend. He never wrote another opera, turning instead to the medium of the string quartet, which he had briefly essayed some 20 years earlier. And he returned again to sacred music with a second Requiem, composed this time with a very special dedicatee in mind - himself.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01gvts0)
Paris String Quartet Biennial
Ysaye Quartet, Kronos Quartet
The last of four programmes featuring performances from the Fifth String Quartet Biennial, which took place in January at the Cité de la Musique in Paris.
Beethoven: String Quartet No 12 in E flat, Op 127.
Ysaye Quartet
Steve Reich: WTC 9/11, for string quartet and tape.
Kronos Quartet.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01gvts2)
Arvo Part Total Immersion
Episode 3
The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, in the final concert of the Arvo Part Total Immersion event, conducted by fellow Estonian Tonu Kaljuste. Including Part's 1st and 3rd Symphonies, Tabula Rasa with violinists Alina Ibragimova and Barnabas Keleman and the Berliner Mass.
Part: Symphony no. 1 (Polyphonic)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Tonu Kaljuste (conductor)
Part: Tabula rasa
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Barnabas Keleman (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Tonu Kaljuste (conductor)
Part: Silhouette (Hommage a Gustave Eiffel)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Tonu Kaljuste (conductor)
Part: Berliner messe
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Tonu Kaljuste (conductor)
Part: Symphony no. 3
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Tonu Kaljuste (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b01gvts4)
Donald Runnicles, John Wallace, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
In Tune with Sean Rafferty.
A special edition LIVE from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow.
Sean joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor, the pre-eminent Scottish maestro Donald Runnicles. Celebrated for his interpretation of Wagner, Runnicles also leads the orchestra in works by Elgar, Beethoven, Stravinsky and Richard Strauss.
Also joining Sean are RCS Principal John Wallace, and young musicians from the Conservatoire under the direction of trumpeter Mark O'Keefe.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00xnkx8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01gvv7z)
Live from the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Debussy, Barber
Live from Usher Hall, Edinburgh
In this, his penultimate concert as Artistic Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stéphane Denève plays French music that shocked the world. While Debussy's orientalism opened new possibilities of harmonic and melodic colour, Stravinsky music for the Rite of Spring ballet proved a revelation for the eye as well as the ear to Parisian audience and changed the course of musical history. The top Canadian violinist, hailed by some as a modern Heifetz plays Barber's meltingly beautiful concerto for violin by way of contrast.
Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Barber - Violin Concerto
James Ehnes (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Stéphane Denève (conductor).
FRI 20:05 Twenty Minutes (b012llxd)
Stravinsky and the King's Horse
The infamous Paris premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is well known, but its London premiere in July 1913 was both less scandalous and more interesting. News of Stravinsky's radical score and the outrageous production of the Ballets Russes reached London quickly and created a predictable sense of excitement. Yet what made the performance particularly memorable was that just one month earlier, a young suffragette called Emily Davison had taken her own life by throwing herself under the King's Horse at the Derby.
There are intriguing comparisons between Davison's fate and that of the sacrificial heroine in The Rite of Spring, suggesting that radical politics and radical aesthetics had become strangely aligned. With the help of dance expert, Ramsay Burt and voices from the archive, Dr Philip Bullock reviews early British reaction to Stravinsky's ballets to reveal a story far less familiar than the well-documented French scene.
Dr Philip Bullock teaches Russian at the University of Oxford, specialising in Soviet literature, music and culture.
Producer: Marya Burgess.
FRI 20:25 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01gvvbc)
Live from the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Stravinsky
Live from Usher Hall, Edinburgh
In this, his penultimate concert as Artistic Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stéphane Denève plays French music that shocked the world. While Debussy's orientalism opened new possibilities of harmonic and melodic colour, Stravinsky music for the Rite of Spring ballet proved a revelation for the eye as well as the ear to Parisian audience and changed the course of musical history. The top Canadian violinist, hailed by some as a modern Heifetz plays Barber's meltingly beautiful concerto for violin by way of contrast.
Stravinsky - Rite of Spring
James Ehnes (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Stéphane Denève (conductor).
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b01gvtwx)
Daniel Morden, Dave Morris, Katherine Mitchell, Simone Felice
Radio 3's 'Cabaret of the Word' presented by Ian McMillan.
Ian McMillan's guests include story-teller Daniel Morden, on 'The Devil's Violin Company's show 'A Love Like Salt'; Daniel talks about their interpretation of old English folk stories which were an important influence on Shakespeare and Chaucer. They're also joined by Dave Morris, author of an interactive Frankenstein, Writer's Room playwright Katherine Mitchell and singer-songwriter Simone Felice - acclaimed for his 'rare, fiery brilliance'.
First broadcast in May 2012.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b01gvtwz)
How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear
Ralph Steadman
Marking the bicentenary of Edward Lear's birth in 1812, this series of five essays considers the exuberant play of Edward Lear as a nonsense poet and artist and the influence of 'nonsense' on modern life.
In the fifth and final essay in the series, artist and caricaturist Ralph Steadman casts a cartoonist's eye over the work of Lear, considering him as a highly skilled artist who "absorbs what he sees in front of him" and paints "without it going tired". A cartoonist who pricks the bubble of pomposity.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b01gvvly)
Woody Pines in Session
Lopa Kothari with new tracks from across the globe, plus a session with American roots band Woody Pines.
Based in North Carolina but inspired by old New Orleans, Woody Pines embraces a century of American roots music in a style described as "an intoxicating blend of rural and urban stringband, country blues, ragtime and jug band music". Texas country legend Billy Joe Shaver once said of them, "They're the best damn band I've ever heard!".