John Shea presents a performance of Britten's affecting War Requiem recorded in South Korea in 2011.
Youngmi Kim (soprano), Derek Chester (tenor), Locky Chung (baritone), Ansan City Chorus, Suwon Civic Chorale, Uijeongbu Civic Chorale, Goyang Children's Choir, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Shinik Hahm (conductor)
Franck, Cesar [1822-1890], arr. Rampal, Jean Pierre
Sonata for flute and piano (orig. violin and piano)
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)
Joanne Kolomyjec (soprano, Tatyana), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
Traditional, arr. Narcisco Yepes [1927-1997]
Soloists, Chorus and Instrumentalists of Swiss Radio, Lugano, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
Variations on "Casta diva... Ah! Bello" - from Bellini's 'Norma'
Janequin, Clement [c. 1485-1558]
Ragnhild Heiland Sørensen (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Milan Horvat (conductor)
Chantal Santon (soprano - La Nuit), Georg Poplutz (tenor - Hérault), Bonner Kammerchor, L'Arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt (conductor)
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: The World of the Harpsichord featuring George Malcolm.
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, French baritone Gerard Souzay.
This week, on the 4th of July, Americans are celebrating Independence Day, and Rob Cowan's guest is the American sociologist Richard Sennett, who has made his home in the UK. He originally wanted to become a musician, but a hand injury put paid to his chances of a professional playing career, and instead he pursued a PhD in the history of American civilisation.
He's remembered as a fickle lover, but has Paganini's impetuous side masked a more caring and compassionate man within? Donald Macleod searches beyond the rumours for the truth, and also explores more music by the many greats who were inspired to rework the violinist's music in their own compositions.
In a concert from the Guildhall as part of the Bath International MusicFest, La Serenissima perform Great Sonatas from Venice, including works by Vivaldi, Albinoni and Caldara.
Tomaso Albinoni Sonata for 2 violins and continuo in D minor Op. 1/1
Antonio Caldara Chiacona for 2 violins and continuo in B flat major Op. 2/12
Tomaso Albinoni Sonata for 2 violins and continuo in D major Op. 1/9
Katie Derham continues her exploration of Klimt's Vienna with a performance of Mahler's last completed symphony, played by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Simon Rattle.
Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from star harpsichordist and conductor Christophe Rousset ahead of his Wigmore Hall concert with Les Talens Lyrique, the ensemble he founded over 20 years ago. Also playing live in the studio, the Escher String Quartet ahead of their numerous concerts at Cheltenham Music Festival. Violinist Katharine Gowers discusses her series 'Time Capsule: 1914-18' which features as part of the festival and composer Judith Bingham talks to Sean about the world premiere of her new piece 'The Hythe' at the City of London Festival.
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment play Pergolesi, Handel and Bingham at St Bride's, Fleet Street as part of the City of London Festival.
This concert pairs Handel and Pergolesi, two great contemporaries of the early 1700s, with Judith Bingham, a major figure of our time. In Jacob's Ladder, an organ concerto, Bingham uses a small string ensemble to accompany the organ in the way Handel did Handel 300 years earlier.
As part of Bingham's 60th birthday celebrations, she has been commissioned to write a partner piece for Jacob's Ladder, using the same number of strings, though without the organ. Bingham's initial idea for the new piece, The Hythe, was to find a theme that linked the different places of the proposed first performances: Hythe and London. She says, 'My first thought was the sea and harbours, and I discovered that the word Hythe was an old word for haven. The idea of the sailor coming home from sea is a powerful one in British culture and history, and it seems to me that it has a spiritual counterpart in the idea of the soul returning to God.'
The concert concludes by adding two voices - soprano and countertenor - to the organ and strings, in Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. This work, first performed in 1736, is thought to be Pergolesi's last; he died in the same year, aged only 26.
As Germany becomes an ever more powerful economic presence in Europe there are barely disguised fears of the Germans devouring her neighbours. There are ghosts from the past both recent and further away in the recesses of the Austro Hungarian Empire that are stoking these fears, but there is also the Germany of Goethe and Beethoven in that past.
To discuss what Germany is doing and why Philip Dodd is joined by Hans Kundnani of the European Council on Foreign Relations, Imke Henkel the London correspondent for the German magazine Focus and the historian Sir Richard Evans of Wolfson College, Cambridge.
He also talks the award winning playwright Simon Stephens about his new adaptation of Ibsen's A Doll's House for the Young Vic.
The possible discovery of the Higgs Boson particle has today been heralded as of tremendous significance to our understanding of the universe. Does this mean physics is now better placed to answer the questions that matter? And to what extent has science made philosophy irrelevant? The scientist Peter Atkins and philosopher Raymond Tallis debate.
Michigan based Thomas Lynch is an accomplished poet, essayist and funeral director whose dry wit and captivating storytelling have won him a devoted following on both sides of the Atlantic. In this series of essays, The Feast of Language, Lynch looks at five of his most beloved poets and examines how their poems have nourished and sustained him throughout his life; how their work, almost literally, can be read as a 'feast'.
Be it the subtle nuances of meaning in an elegant stanza, or the simple, visceral pleasure in the sound of a particular word, Lynch makes it clear that poetry continues to have a profound and revitalizing role in our lives.
Under the umbrella term of "Feast", Lynch explores sex and death, those "bookends of life", alongside religion, love, anecdote, food, personal history and memory, evoking the power and richness of poetic language and its ability to contain such diverse themes.
For Lynch, "Poetry is as good an axe as a pillow": it can comfort as much as it can cause harm. As such, it is the most important art form he knows. In the first programme he turns to the work of Seamus Heaney, for programme two, the American poet, Michael Heffernan, in programme three, Carol Ann Duffy, in programme four Michael Donaghy and finally the modernist, William Carlos Williams.
Caitrin Finch plays William Mathias' Improvisations for Harp, Mira Calix grapples with The Stockholm Syndrome, Seamus Ennis sings Captain Wedderburn and Geraldo Azevedo & Alceu Valença astound with Virgem Virginia. Max Reinhardt presents.
THURSDAY 05 JULY 2012
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b01k9tjy)
John Shea presents a programme of Martinu, Milhaud, Martin & Debussy with Liège Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Fayçal Karoui.
12:31 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav [1890-1959]
Concerto for string quartet and orchestra [1931]
Ardente Quartet, Liège Philharmonic Orchestra, Fayçal Karoui (conductor)
12:49 AM
Milhaud, Darius [1892-1974]
Concerto for percussion and chamber orchestra (Op.109)
Geert Verschraegen (percussion), Liège Philharmonic Orchestra, Fayçal Karoui (conductor)
12:58 AM
Martin, Frank [1890-1974]
Concerto for 7 wind instruments, strings & percussion
Liège Philharmonic Orchestra, Fayçal Karoui (conductor)
01:18 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]; Büsser, Henri [1872-1973]
Petite suite orch. Büsser [orig. for piano duet]
Liège Philharmonic Orchestra, Fayçal Karoui (conductor)
01:33 AM
Moscheles, Ignaz (1794-1870)
Grosse Sonate for Pianoforte in E major (Op.41)
Tom Beghin (fortepiano)
02:00 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Serenade for string orchestra in E flat major (Op.6)
Budapest Strings, Béla Banfalvi (leader)
02:31 AM
Norman, Ludvig (1831-1885)
Sextet for piano, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass in A minor (Op.29)
Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano), Uppsala Chamber Soloists
03:03 AM
Handel, George Friedrich (1685-1759)
Cantata Delirio amoroso [Love's Delirium] - 'Da quel giorno fatale' (HWV.99)
Monique Zanetti (soprano), Musica Alta Ripa
03:36 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Sonata for oboe, violin and continuo in C major (RV.779)
Camerata Köln
03:50 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Dumka - Russian rustic scene for piano (Op.59)
Duncan Gifford (piano)
04:00 AM
Salieri, Antonio (1750-1825)
Sinfonia in D major 'Veneziana'
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi (conductor)
04:10 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
5 Gedichte der Königen Maria Stuart [5 Poems of Queen Mary Stuart] (Op.135)
Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano), Michael McMahon (piano)
04:20 AM
Heinichen, Johann David (1683-1729)
Concerto for flute, bassoon, cello, double bass and harpsichord
Vladislav Brunner (flute), Jozef Martinkovic (bassoon), Juraj Alexander (cello), Juraj Schoffer (double bass), Milos Starosta (harpsichord)
04:31 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto for 4 keyboards in A minor (BWV.1065)
Ton Koopman, Tini Mathot, Patrizia Marisaldi, Elina Mustonen (harpsichords), Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman (director)
04:41 AM
Wert, Giacches de (1535-1596)
Qual musico gentil [As cunning singers] - from 'L'ottavo libre de madrigali a cinque voci'
5 à Cappella Singers at the Sonesta Koepelzaa, Amsterdam
04:51 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), arr. Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Sonata for piano in C major (K.545)
Julie Adam and Daniel Herscovitch (pianos)
05:01 AM
Kalliwoda, Johann Wenzel [1801-1866]
Morceau de salon for oboe and piano (Op.228)
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
05:11 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893)
Voyevoda - Symphonic Ballad (Op.78)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor)
05:22 AM
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941) arr. Stanislaw Wiechowicz
6 Lieder (Op.18) arranged for choir (excerpts)
Polish Radio Chorus, Wlodzimierz Siedlik (conductor)
05:34 AM
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875)
Selection from L'Arlésienne Suites Nos.1 & 2
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
05:56 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Sonata for piano no. 7 (Op.10 No.3) in D major
Ingrid Fliter (piano)
06:18 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
The Duke of Gloucester's trumpet suite
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), The King's Consort, Robert King (director).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b01k9tlm)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b01k9tlp)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: The World of the Harpsichord featuring George Malcolm.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, French baritone Gerard Souzay.
10.30am
This week, on the 4th of July, Americans are celebrating Independence Day, and Rob Cowan's guest is the American sociologist Richard Sennett, who has made his home in the UK. He originally wanted to become a musician, but a hand injury put paid to his chances of a professional playing career, and instead he pursued a PhD in the history of American civilisation.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F, Op 68 (Pastoral)
SWR Symphony Orchestra
Michael Gielen (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01k9tmv)
Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)
Episode 4
Unrivalled genius or grotesque showman? Donald Macleod and violinist Andrew McGee explore Paganini's reputation as the virtuoso's virtuoso and we hear how today's players rise to the challenge of performing the works tailored so brilliantly to the unique abilities of their creator. Plus more music created in Paganini's wake, this time from a piano virtuoso of the modern era.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01k9tf0)
Bath International MusicFest 2012
Valeriy Sokolov, Evgeny Isotov
In a concert from the 2012 Bath International MusicFest, violinist Valeriy Sokolov and pianist Evgeny Isotov perform sonatas by Beethoven and Prokofiev.
Beethoven - Sonata no.6 in A Major for Violin and Piano, Op.30 no.1
Prokofiev - Sonata no.1 for Violin and Piano, Op.80
Valeriy Sokolov (violin)
Evgeny Isotov (piano).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01kbgql)
Thursday Opera Matinee
J Strauss II - Die Fledermaus
Katie Derham presents Strauss's Johann Strauss II's evergreen operetta where Champagne, waltzes and memorable tunes ceaselessly flow -- and which features everything you'd expect in the way of jealous spouses, mistaken identity and a happy ending.
Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus
Gabriel von Eisenstein....Kurt Streit (tenor)
Rosalinde...Michaela Kaune (soprano)
Adele....Daniela Fally (soprano)
Ida...Lydia Rathkolb (soprano)
Alfred...Rainer Trost (tenor)
Dr Falke....Markus Eiche (baritone)
Dr Blind....Peter Jelosits (tenor)
Frank....Alfred Sramek (baritone)
Prince Orlofsky....Zoryana Kushpler (mezzo-soprano)
Frosch....Peter Simonischek
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b01kbgqn)
Tine Thing Helseth + TTHQ, William Towers and Emma Rivlin, Tze Law Chan
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from charismatic Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth ahead of her upcoming appearance at the 2012 Chester Festival and counter-tenor William Towers on his show "Too Hot to Handel". Plus conductor Tze Law Chan joins us live from BBC Gloucester ahead of his performance at the Cheltenham Festival with the Singaporean Orchestra of the Music Makers.
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 (b01k9tmv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01kbhv5)
Les Talens Lyriques - Monteverdi, Castello, Fontana
Live from the Wigmore Hall
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Les Talens Lyriques, directed by Christophe Rousset, perform madrigals by Monteverdi and his contemporaries at the Wigmore Hall.
Les Talens Lyriques is the Parisian period ensemble that specialises in unearthing treasures of the French baroque but carries its combination of brilliance, vigour and scholarship into other territories.
Chief among them is Monteverdi, who dominates this programme with perhaps the most exquisite of all his madrigal-settings. Written for two tenors and continuo, Zefiro torna is a smilingly exuberant showpiece of baroque musicianship, designed to be a 17th-century smash-hit, as it remains today.
Monteverdi: From Settimo libro de madrigali:
Chiome d'oro; O come sei gentile.
Castello: Second Sonata from Sonate concertate in stilo moderno.
Monteverdi: From Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi:
O sia tranquillo il mare; Ardo e scoprir.
Fontana: Sonata settima.
Monteverdi: Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (excerpts);
Mentre vaga angioletta from Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi;
Zefiro torna from Madrigali e canzonette a due e tre voci;
L'incoronazione di Poppea (excerpts) .
Anders J. Dahlin, tenor
Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, tenor
Christophe Rousset , harpsichord, organ, director.
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b01k9v22)
With Anne McElvoy.
Maajid Nawaz was an active member of the Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, cultivating revolutionary cells in the UK, Pakistan, Denmark and Egypt, until a spell in one of Hosni Mubarak's most notorious prisons made him reconsider his political convictions. Now he is an agitator for democracy in the Islamic world. His autobiography 'Radical' traces his path from political Islam to liberal democracy; he joins Anne to discuss, with Samer Libdeh, Senior Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Foundation.
'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' So begins John Banville's latest novel of adolescent love and middle aged grief, Ancient Light. He talks to Anne McElvoy about the art of writing, about prizes, eroticism and the impossibility of writing sex.
Former British ambassador to the USA, Sir Christopher Meyer explores different networks of power across the world. From wealthy socialites in Mumbai to the secretive operations of the KGB in Russia, he discusses how power manifests itself in different countries in the 21st Century.
Plus, New Generation Thinker Sue Anne Harding on Russian TV's mythologizing of the Beslan Massacre.
Producer Luke Mulhall.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b010xyng)
The Feast of Language
Michael Donaghy
Michigan based Thomas Lynch is an accomplished poet, essayist and funeral director whose dry wit and captivating storytelling have won him a devoted following on both sides of the Atlantic. In this series of essays, The Feast of Language, Lynch looks at five of his most beloved poets and examines how their poems have nourished and sustained him throughout his life; how their work, almost literally, can be read as a 'feast'.
Be it the subtle nuances of meaning in an elegant stanza, or the simple, visceral pleasure in the sound of a particular word, Lynch makes it clear that poetry continues to have a profound and revitalizing role in our lives.
Under the umbrella term of "Feast", Lynch explores sex and death, those "bookends of life", alongside religion, love, anecdote, food, personal history and memory, evoking the power and richness of poetic language and its ability to contain such diverse themes.
For Lynch, "Poetry is as good an axe as a pillow": it can comfort as much as it can cause harm. As such, it is the most important art form he knows. In the first programme he turns to the work of Seamus Heaney, for programme two, the American poet, Michael Heffernan, in programme three, Carol Ann Duffy, in programme four Michael Donaghy and finally the modernist, William Carlos Williams.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b01kbgqq)
Thursday - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt weaves a musical tapestry that contains flute music from Berio and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, a Guaracha by Zespedes, Follow Fashion from Rocket Juice and The Moon and Coco-rojao No 04 by Caapa and an epic piece by Arthur Russell.
FRIDAY 06 JULY 2012
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b01k9tk0)
From the Music in Paradise Festival in Poland, a selection of music by Telemann, Fasch, Mozart, Haydn and JC Bach performed by Les Ambassadeurs.
12:31 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Overture in F for 2 oboes, 2 horns & bassoon (La Chasse) TWV 55:F9
Les Ambassadeurs
12:43 AM
Fasch, Johann Friedrich [1688-1758]
Quartet in F for horn, oboe d'amore, violin and basso continuo FWV N:F3;
Les Ambassadeurs
12:50 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Sonata for violin and keyboard (K.15) in B flat major;
Les Ambassadeurs
12:57 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph [1732-1809]
Divertimento for 2 flutes and cello (H.4.1) in C major "London trio" no.1;
Les Ambassadeurs
1:06 AM
Bach, Johann Christian [1735-1782]
Quintet (Op. 11) no 4 in E flat for flute, oboe, violin, viola and double bass;
Les Ambassadeurs
1:22 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Quartet in D Minor for flutes and basso continuo from 'Musique de Table' TWV 42:d1
Les Ambassadeurs
1:37 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Sonata for piano (Op.7) in E minor
Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
1:55 AM
Sasnauskas, Ceslovas (1867-1916)
Requiem (1912-15)
Inesa Linaburgyte (mezzo-soprano), Algirdas Janutas (tenor), Vladimiras Prudnikovas (bass), Kaunas State Choir, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Petras Bingelis (conductor)
2:31 AM
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881), orch.Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Pictures from an Exhibition (orig for piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
3:03 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Miroirs
Martina Filjak (piano)
3:36 AM
Suriani Germani, Alberta (b.19??)
Partita
Branka Janjanin-Magdalenic (harp)
3:46 AM
Kuffner, Joseph (1776-1856) [previously attrib. Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)]
Quintet (Introduction, theme and variations) for clarinet and strings in B flat major (Op.32)
Joze Kotar (clarinet), Slovene Philharmonic String Quartet
3:57 AM
Förster, Kaspar (1616-1673)
Repleta est malis (KBPJ.35) - sacred concerto for alto, tenor, bass, two violins & basso continuo
Kai Wessel (countertenor), Krzysztof Szmyt (tenor), Grzegorz Zychowicz (bass), Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble
4:08 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1916)
Sonata for cello and piano in D minor
Zara Nelsova (cello), Grant Johannesen (piano)
4:18 AM
Handel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759)
Concerto Grosso in A minor (Op.6 No.4)
The Sixth Floor Ensemble, Anssi Mattila (conductor)
4:31 AM
Franceschini, Petronio (1650-1680)
Sonata for 2 trumpets, strings & basso continuo in D major
Yordan Kojuharov & Petar Ivanov (trumpets), Teodor Moussev (organ), Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Yordan Dafov (conductor)
4:39 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Barcarolle for piano (Op.60) in F sharp major
Ronald Brautigam (piano)
4:48 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Gesang der Geistern über den Wassern, Op.167 ('Spirits' song above the waters', words by Goethe)
Estonian National Male Choir, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Juri Alperten (director)
4:58 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Norfolk Rhapsody No.1 in E minor
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Bernard Heinze (conductor)
5:09 AM
Soler, Antonio (1729-1783)
Fandango for keyboard in D minor (R.146)
Scott Ross (harpsichord)
5:21 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Swan Lake
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
5:43 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Sonata for violin and keyboard (K.301) in G major
Julie Eskaer (violin), Janjz Zapolsky (piano)
5:57 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Scherzo capriccioso (Op.66)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
6:09 AM
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837)
Piano Quintet in E flat major/minor (Op.87)
Tobias Ringborg (violin), Ingegard Kierkegaard (viola), John Ehde (cello), Hakan Ehren (double bass), Stefan Lindgren (piano).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b01k9tlr)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b01k9tlt)
Friday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: The World of the Harpsichord featuring George Malcolm.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, French baritone Gerard Souzay.
10.30am
This week, on the 4th of July, Americans are celebrating Independence Day, and Rob Cowan's guest is the American sociologist Richard Sennett, who has made his home in the UK. He originally wanted to become a musician, but a hand injury put paid to his chances of a professional playing career, and instead he pursued a PhD in the history of American civilisation.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 7 (Sinfonia antartica)
Sheila Armstrong (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01k9tmx)
Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)
Episode 5
Could a rare genetic disorder have contributed to Paganini's extraordinary dexterity? Donald Macleod charts the violinist's complex relationship with his own body, and also his preference for unproven medicines which left him with serious after-effects.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01kbhyl)
Bath International MusicFest 2012
Episode 4
Bath International MusicFest 2012: Emma Kirkby (soprano) and Anthony Rooley (lute) perform songs by Dowland and Coperario.
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Anthony Rooley (lute)
Songs of Joy, Songs of Mourning
John Dowland - Awake sweet love
John Dowland - Come again, sweet love doth now invite
John Dowland - Sweet stay awhile
Anthony Holborne - The Countess of Pembroke's Paradise (Pavan)
John Dowland - Clear or cloudy
John Dowland - Welcome black Night
John Dowland - Mr Dowland's Midnight
John Dowland - Tell me True Love
John Dowland - Come away, come sweet love
John Coperario - O Griefe! How divers are thy shapes: to King James
John Coperario - Tis now dead night: to Queen Anne
John Coperario - Fortune and Glory may be lost and won: to Prince Charles
John Coperario - So parted you: to Lady Elizabeth
Anthony Holborne - The Countess of Pembroke's Funerals (Pavan)
John Coperario - How like a golden dream: to Frederick the Fifth
John Coperario - When pale Famine fed on thee: to Great Britain
John Coperario - O poor distracted World: to the World.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01kbgqv)
Mahler's Vienna
Episode 4
Katie Derham ends her week in Mahler's Vienna with more music Mahler conducted and music by composers he influenced.
Berg: Violin Concerto
Isabelle Faust, violin
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor
2.30
Berg: Altenberg Lieder, op. 4
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor
Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C, op. 61
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor
3.35
Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony, op. 18
Christine Schäfer, soprano
James Johnson, bass-baritone
San Francisco Symphony
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b01kbgqx)
Friday - Sean Rafferty
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from Sengalese sensation Baaba Maal, in the UK for the Africa Utopia festival at London's Southbank Centre; plus acclaimed young Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang, winner of the 2011 Classical BRIT awards, ahead of her recital next week at the 2012 Chester Festival.
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 (b01k9tmx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01kbj5p)
Live from the Wigmore Hall, London
Vivaldi, Faure, Rossini, Schubert
Live from the Wigmore Hall
Presented by Martin Handley
Mezzo-soprano Joyce Didonato celebrates Venice in songs by Vivaldi, Fauré, Rossini and Schubert.
One of the world's great singers, DiDonato, accompanied by pianist David Zobel, begins the programme with masterpieces of the baroque and 19th-century bel canto, and extends it outwards to include songs by Michael Head and Reynaldo Hahn.
Vivaldi: From Ercole sul Termodonte:
Onde chiare che sussurrate
Amato ben
Fauré: Cinq mélodies 'de Venise'
Rossini: La regata veneziana
Schubert: Gondelfahrer.
FRI 20:20 Twenty Minutes (b00nyw61)
Requiem for a Garden of Eden
Scholar and writer Professor Janet Todd stumbled across the abandoned Garden of Eden on the Venetian island of La Giudecca by accident. Curious about this lost and neglected paradise she set about discovering its magical literary past.
Created in 1884 by Sir Anthony Eden's great uncle Frederick Eden and his wife, the garden was a heavily scented romantic haven visited by a host of writers including Proust, Jean Cocteau and Henry James. It was the backdrop to countless love affairs and quarrels, passing from the Edens to Greek royalty and ending up in the hands of the eccentric Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser who preferred nettles and brambles to roses and lilies.
Today the garden is overgrown and locked. Todd's requiem to this little known jewel hidden behind high walls recalls the perfumed years when artists and aesthetes revelled in its beauty.
FRI 20:40 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01kbj5t)
Live from the Wigmore Hall, London
Schumann, Michael Head, Hahn
Live from the Wigmore Hall
Presented by Martin Handley
Mezzo-soprano Joyce Didonato celebrates Venice in songs by Vivaldi, Fauré, Rossini and Schubert.
One of the world's great singers, DiDonato, accompanied by pianist David Zobel, begins the programme with masterpieces of the baroque and 19th-century bel canto, and extends it outwards to include songs by Michael Head and Reynaldo Hahn.
Schumann: From Myrthen: Zwei Venetianische Lieder
Head: Three songs of Venice
Hahn: Venezia - Chansons en dialecte vénetien.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b01k9v24)
Helen Dunmore, Fiona Shaw, Kate Tempest, Jesca Hoop
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's 'Cabaret of the Word' from the Radio Theatre. His guests include Helen Dunmore, Fiona Shaw, Kate Tempest and Jesca Hoop.
Helen Dunmore is astonishingly versatile; she's an award-winning novelist, children's author and a remarkable poet. She'll be sharing work from her new poetry collection 'The Malarkey'. The title poem won the National Poetry Competition.
Fiona Shaw is one of our best-loved actresses, winning multiple Olivier awards for her ground-breaking performances. She'll be inviting people across the UK to nominate and record their favourite love poems for a coastal art installation called 'Peace Camp'. As part of this installation, eight murmuring, glowing encampments (where you'll hear poetry recited) will appear simultaneously at remote coastal locations from County Antrim to the tip of Cornwall.
Kate Tempest writes rhymes, lyrics, poems, prose and plays. She began at 16, rapping in battles across London, and began performing spoken word at 21. She's performed her writing on stages all over the world, from Latvia to New York, as well as playing all the major UK and European music festivals, including Glastonbury.Her first full length poetry book 'Everything Speaks in its Own Way' has just been published.
Jesca Hoop is a singer-songwriter who was born in California, but comes to the Radio Theatre by way of Manchester. Her music's been acclaimed by the likes of Tom Waits, who described it as evoking the experience of 'going swimming in a lake at night'. Her new album is 'The House That Jack Built'.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b010xyt6)
The Feast of Language
William Carlos Williams
Michigan based Thomas Lynch is an accomplished poet, essayist and funeral director whose dry wit and captivating storytelling have won him a devoted following on both sides of the Atlantic. In this series of essays, The Feast of Language, Lynch looks at five of his most beloved poets and examines how their poems have nourished and sustained him throughout his life; how their work, almost literally, can be read as a 'feast'.
Be it the subtle nuances of meaning in an elegant stanza, or the simple, visceral pleasure in the sound of a particular word, Lynch makes it clear that poetry continues to have a profound and revitalizing role in our lives.
Under the umbrella term of "Feast", Lynch explores sex and death, those "bookends of life", alongside religion, love, anecdote, food, personal history and memory, evoking the power and richness of poetic language and its ability to contain such diverse themes.
For Lynch, "Poetry is as good an axe as a pillow": it can comfort as much as it can cause harm. As such, it is the most important art form he knows. In the first programme he turns to the work of Seamus Heaney, for programme two, the American poet, Michael Heffernan, in programme three, Carol Ann Duffy, in programme four Michael Donaghy and finally the modernist, William Carlos Williams.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b01kbgqz)
The Voice Squad in Session
Mary Ann Kennedy presents a session with traditional Irish vocal trio The Voice Squad (Gerry Cullen, Phil Callery and Fran McPhail) recorded in Londonderry, along with the usual mix of tracks from across the globe.