John Shea presents a chamber recital of Russian music recorded in Switzerland, including works by Shostakovich, Schnittke and Stravinsky.
L' Histoire du soldat (the Soldier's Tale) "5 Movements" arr. for clarinet, violin & piano
Auerbach, Lera (b. 1973)
The Return of Maxim - No.3 from 4 Waltzes Op. 45
Giorgia Milanesi (soprano), Ulfried Haselsteiner (tenor), Anne Margrethe Punsvik Gluch (soprano), Thomas Mohr (baritone), Håvard Stendsvold (bass-baritone), Kristiansand Cathedral Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rolf Gupta (conductor)
Sonata for piano (H.
Matusic, Frano (b. 1961)
Two Slavonic Dances (Op.46) - No. 8 In G minor & No.3 In A flat major
Night and festal music - Prelude to Act II from the opera Die Königin von Saba (The Queen of Sheba)
Nocturne for Piano (Op. posth) in C sharp minor
Traditional American arr. Burleigh, Harry T [1866-1949]
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) Sinfonia of London, Rafael Frübeck de Burgos (conductor)
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Russian Overtures And Orchestral Works played by the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Pletnev: NEWTON CLASSICS 8802037
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.
This week Sarahs guest is Stephen Bayley who played a major role in the foundation of the Design Museum. Author, critic, columnist, broadcaster and curator, Stephen is an expert commentator on matters relating to style, taste and contemporary design. His books and journalism, on subjects as diverse as the Albert Memorial, Commerce and Culture, Sex: a cultural history, Cars, and Woman as Design, have changed the way the world thinks about design. As well as talking about music, with the Olympic Games soon to begin, they'll also be discussing a new exhibition opening at the Design Museum: Sports vs Design.
Donald Macleod explores the year 1717 in Handel's life, a year spend happily composing music at the court of James Brydges, the future Duke of Chandos. We also hear two very different the story of Handel's Water Music, in advance of the work's complete performance at tomorrow's late-night Prom by Le Concert Spirituel conducted by Hervé Niquet.
From the church of St Vedast-alias-Foster, the first of eight concerts featuring Radio 3 New Generation Artists at the 2012 City of London Festival.
Today cellist Nicolas Altstaedt is joined by pianist Jose Gallardo in 'A Postcard from the Balkans', including folk-influenced music by Brahms, Dvorak and Martinu, David Wilde's moving tribute to the victims of a bomb attack in Sarajevo, and the world premiere of Four Cities, commissioned for this concert from the Turkish pianist and composer Fazil Say.
Afternoon on 3 with Penny Gore.
Lerner and Loewe's classic Broadway musical 'My Fair Lady' - a second chance to hear last Saturday's Prom performance from the Royal Albert Hall introduced by Petroc Trelawny.
Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, so that she may pass as a well-born lady in Lerner and Loewe's classic Broadway musical 'My Fair Lady' performed complete by the John Wilson Orchestra.
Anthony Andrews as Professor Henry Higgins and Annalene Beechey as Eliza Doolittle lead an all-star cast in the John Wilson Orchestra's first ever recreation of a complete musical. As conductor John Wilson says "this really is the perfect light opera, flawless in its construction, book, lyrics, the way the songs weave in and out of, and develop the narrative - it's a joy." Although a Broadway classic it's also the archetypal London show with its roots in George Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion' and so it fits neatly into the London theme running through this year's Proms. For this semi-staged performance, Wilson has dusted down the orchestrations for the 1964 film version of the work, rather than the original stage orchestration, to let the full-bodied sound of an orchestra of 70 fill the Royal Albert Hall in what promises to be one of the highlights of the season.
Sean Rafferty meets theatre and opera director Peter Sellars and actress Tina Benko to talk about their upcoming production of Desdemona at the Barbican in London.
There is live music from exciting young harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani. A Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Esfahani will be performing live on In Tune ahead of his Proms Saturday Matinee directing the Academy of Ancient Music in his own arrangement of Bach's Art of Fugue.
Also on today's programme, live music from cellist Pavel Gomziakov ahead of his appearance at the 2012 Harrogate Festival,
And Sean meets two Royal Opera House Young Artists - Kai Ruutel and Edgaras Montvidas - who will perform arias from Rossini's Il viaggio al Reims and L'Elisir d'Amore.
Nietzsche once said that "life without music would be a mistake". There is no danger of that as the BBC Philharmonic and their Chief Conductor Juanjo Mena take to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall for the first of their four Proms this season. Music by Richard Strauss is the focus before the interval with his Nietzsche-inspired symphonic poem "Also sprach Zarathustra" and glorious "Four Last Songs" sung by Anne Schwanewilms. The literary influence continues with Kaija Saariaho's "Laterna magica" which alludes to film director Ingmar Bergman's autobiography. The programme ends with Sibelius's remarkable, single-movement final symphony.
Writer and broadcaster Peggy Reynolds visits Finland for an exclusive performance and discussion of remarkable fragments, discovered last year, of what may be Sibelius's infamous lost Eighth Symphony.
Featuring performances by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by John Storgards, and discussion with Sir Mark Elder, Tom Service, Finnish Sibelius scholars Vesa Siren and Timo Virtanen, and historian Tuomas Tepora.
Nietzsche once said that "life without music would be a mistake". There is no danger of that as the BBC Philharmonic and their Chief Conductor Juanjo Mena take to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall for the first of their four Proms this season. Music by Richard Strauss is the focus before the interval with his Nietzsche-inspired symphonic poem "Also sprach Zarathustra" and glorious "Four Last Songs" sung by Anne Schwanewilms. The literary influence continues with Kaija Saariaho's "Laterna magica" which alludes to film director Ingmar Bergman's autobiography. The programme ends with Sibelius's remarkable, single-movement final symphony.
Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho and Tom Service discuss her chamber music, and introduce performances of Serenatas and Tocar given by musicians from the London Sinfonietta Academy Ensemble.
The choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh was born in India, is now based in Britain and makes work seen all over the world. Tonight she reflects on the influence of Indian and Western dance traditions, and the importance, sometimes, of escaping these. She considers, too, how reading freed her, and so how words have been vital to her entirely non-verbal art.
From deep within the woods at this year's Latitude Festival, Max Reinhardt presents highlights from the Late Junction stage in the Lavish Lounge. Returning to the festival for the second year, Late Junction curated 3 nights at the festival bringing its trademark genre-hopping, boundary-crossing musical stylings to the festival goers at Henham Park in Suffolk.
With highlights from Friday night on the Late Junction stage, Max presents the blistering jazz-rock of Bristol four-piece Get the Blessing, invoking the spirit of Ornette Coleman. The virtuosic young Kazakh violinist Aisha Orazbayeva performing pieces for violin and tape, and the high octane hip-hop soukous blend of Belgian-Congolese rapper Baloji.
WEDNESDAY 18 JULY 2012
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b01kpxnv)
John Shea presents the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra in Mahler's First Symphony, the 'Titan', plus they're joined by soloist Renaud Capucon in Beethoven's Violin Concerto.
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Concerto for violin and orchestra (Op.61) in D major
Renaud Capucon (violin) Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Emmanuel Krivine (conductor)
1:11 AM
Mahler, Gustav [1860-1911]
Symphony No.1 in D major, 'Titan'
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Emmanuel Krivine (conductor)
2:03 AM
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang (1897-1957)
Aria: 'Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen' (from 'Die tote Stadt', Act 2)
Brett Polegato (baritone), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
2:08 AM
Roman, Johan Helmich (1694-1758)
13 pieces from 'Drottningholmsmusiquen'
Concerto Köln
2:31 AM
Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963)
Sonata for harp (1939)
Rita Costanzi (harp)
2:44 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
String Quartet No.2 in C major (D.32)
Orlando Quartet
3:03 AM
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837)
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (orig. in E major)
Odin Hagen (trumpet), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Per Kristian Skalstad (conductor)
3:22 AM
Moyzes, Alexander (1906-1984)
Concerto for piano and Orchestra
Ida Cernecká (piano), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Marián Vach (conductor)
3:37 AM
Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967)
Summer evening
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, György Lehel (conductor)
3:56 AM
Mokranjac, Stevan (1856-1914)
Eleventh Song-Wreath (Songs from Old Serbia)
RTV Belgrade Choir, Mladen Jagu?t (conductor)
4:03 AM
Enescu, George (1881-1955)
Konzertstück in F for viola and piano
Gyözö Máté (viola), Balázs Szokolay (piano)
4:12 AM
Lipatti, Dinu [1917-1950]
2 Nocturnes for piano (1939)
Viniciu Moroianu (piano)
4:20 AM
Strauss, Johann II (1825-1899)
Beautiful Blue Danube (Op.314)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
4:31 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Tu es Petrus - motet for 6 voices
Silvia Piccollo & Emmanuela Galli (sopranos), Fabian Schofrin (alto), Marco Beasley (tenor), Daniele Carnovich (bass), Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano, Theatrum Instrumentorum, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
4:37 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in C major (K.545)
Vanda Albota (piano)
4:48 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Serenade No.2 in G minor for violin & orchestra (Op.69b)
Judy Kang (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Jean-François Rivest (conductor)
4:57 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Sonata for bassoon and piano in G (Op.168)
Jens-Christoph Lemke (bassoon), Mårten Landström (piano)
5:10 AM
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)
Segoviana for guitar (Op.366)
Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
5:15 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959)
Bachianas Brasileiras No.9 for string orchestra
The "Amadeus" Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan, Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)
5:25 AM
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Impressioni Brasiliane (1928)
The West Australia Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor)
5:45 AM
Britten, Benjamin [1913-1976]
Early One Morning for voice and piano
Elizabeth Watts (soprano) Paul Turner (piano)
5:49 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Suite for orchestra no.1 in C major (BWV.1066)
La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)
6:12 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Three movements from Petrushka
Alex Slobodyanik (piano).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b01kpxnx)
Wednesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b01kpxnz)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Russian Overtures And Orchestral Works played by the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Pletnev: NEWTON CLASSICS 8802037
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.
10.30am
This week Sarahs guest is Stephen Bayley who played a major role in the foundation of the Design Museum. Author, critic, columnist, broadcaster and curator, Stephen is an expert commentator on matters relating to style, taste and contemporary design. His books and journalism, on subjects as diverse as the Albert Memorial, Commerce and Culture, Sex: a cultural history, Cars, and Woman as Design, have changed the way the world thinks about design. As well as talking about music, with the Olympic Games soon to begin, they'll also be discussing a new exhibition opening at the Design Museum: Sports vs Design.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Sibelius: Lemminkainen Suite
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
EMI 588679.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01kpxp1)
Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
1725
Donald Macleod presents Handel's life in the year 1725, a year of drama at the opera as Handel's two prima donnas vie for centre stage. He also presents a rare performance of a selection of Handel's "German Arias" - ironically, one of the few major examples of the composer setting his native language - as well as excerpts from the composer's great opera, Rodelinda.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01kpxp3)
City of London Festival 2012
Clara Mouriz
From the church of St Lawrence, Jewry, the second of eight concerts featuring Radio 3 New Generation Artists at the 2012 City of London Festival. Mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz is joined by pianist Joseph Middleton in 'A Postcard from Spain', including songs by Rodrigo, Poulenc, Ravel, Pauline Viardot, Ernesto Halffter and Falla.
Presented by Penny Gore.
Rodrigo: 4 madrigales amatorios
Poulenc: A sa guitar; Toreador
Ravel: Vocalise
Viardot: Haï Luli; Canción de la Infanta; Habañera
Halffter: Cançao do berço; Gerinaldo; Ai que linda moça
Falla: 7 canciones populares españolas
Clara Mouriz (mezzo soprano)
Joseph Middleton (piano).
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01kpxp5)
Proms 2012 Repeats
Prom 04 - Juilliard and RAM Orchestras
Afternoon on 3 with Penny Gore.
Another chance to hear Monday night's Prom in which leading West Coast composer-conductor, John Adams launched this year's celebration of young orchestras and choirs as two major music colleges from either side of the Atlantic shared the Royal Albert Hall stage. In a suitably continent-crossing programme Adams conducts them in Respighi's exuberantly cinematic survey of the festivals of Rome, the eternal city, and ends with his own symphonic triptych evoking the mood of 1950s Los Angeles. Ravel's vivacious, blues-tinged concerto elegantly bridges the two worlds.
Presented by Katie Derham.
Respighi: Roman Festivals
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
John Adams: City Noir
Imogen Cooper (piano)
Juilliard Orchestra
Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music
John Adams (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b01kpxp7)
The Chapel of Eton College with the second of this year's Eton Choral Courses
From the chapel of Eton College with the second of this year's Eton Choral Courses
Introit: Cantate Domino (Monteverdi)
Responses: Reading
Psalms: 93, 94 (Ley, Wesley)
First Lesson: Isaiah 33 vv2-10
Magnificat a 12 (Andrea Gabrieli)
Second Lesson: Philippians 1 vv1-11
Nunc Dimittis (Musikalische Exequien - Schütz)
Anthem: Nisi Dominus (Vespers - Monteverdi)
Final Hymn: O thou who camest from above (Hereford)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude in C minor BWV 546 (Bach)
Ralph Allwood, Director of Music
Alexander Mason, Organist.
WED 16:30 In Tune (b01kpxp9)
HJ Lim, Christiane Karg, Malcolm Martineau, Annilese Miskimmon, Daniel Barenboim
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from remarkable Korean pianist H J Lim who, at the age of just 24, has recorded the complete Beethoven Sonatas for a major label, newly issued. There will also be live performance from soprano Christiane Karg with pianist Malcolm Martineau ahead of their recital at London's Wigmore Hall. Opera Holland Park director Annilese Miskimmon and designer Nicky Shaw visit the studio to discuss their new production of Verdi's Falstaff and we hear from the mighty Daniel Barenboim ahead of his performances at this year's BBC Proms.
Main news headlines are at
5:00 and
6:00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter: @BBCInTune.
WED 18:00 Composer of the Week (b01kpxp1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:00 BBC Proms (b01kv740)
Prom 06
Fung Lam, Rachmaninov
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Tonight's Prom opens with a new work which composer Fung Lam describes as "elegant, understated and highly lyrical". An intensely romantic lyricism also characterises Rachmaninov's popular concerto, while Prokofiev takes up a darker theme in his dramatic 6th Symphony, which looks back to the Second World War.
Fung Lam's "Endless Forms" is inspired by the last sentence of Darwin's "The Origin of Species", and "celebrates an insight into the diversity of life", explains the composer. "The title also relates to Buddhism's view of life as endless cycles of forms: birth, death, rebirth. The subject of spiritual enlightenment is a recurring theme in my output." Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto is the triumphant work that crowned his recovery from a period of crippling depression in 1901. Prokofiev's bleak and powerful 6th Symphony is perhaps the most personal and poignant of his symphonies, completed in the exhausted aftermath of the Second World War and with mounting pressures on the Soviet Front.
Fung Lam: Endless Forms (BBC commission: world premiere)
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
This Prom will be repeated on Friday 20th July at
2pm.
WED 19:55 BBC Proms (b01kpxpc)
Proms Plus Literary Passions
Jane Glover
Conductor Jane Glover begins a new four part series in which musicians from this year's Proms season reveal their literary passions and talk about what they're reading this summer. The presenter is Rana Mitter with extracts performed by Simon Callow.
WED 20:15 BBC Proms (b01kwmc6)
Prom 06
Prokofiev
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Tonight's Prom opens with a new work which composer Fung Lam describes as "elegant, understated and highly lyrical". An intensely romantic lyricism also characterises Rachmaninov's popular concerto, while Prokofiev takes up a darker theme in his dramatic 6th Symphony, which looks back to the Second World War.
Fung Lam's "Endless Forms" is inspired by the last sentence of Darwin's "The Origin of Species", and "celebrates an insight into the diversity of life", explains the composer. "The title also relates to Buddhism's view of life as endless cycles of forms: birth, death, rebirth. The subject of spiritual enlightenment is a recurring theme in my output." Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto is the triumphant work that crowned his recovery from a period of crippling depression in 1901. Prokofiev's bleak and powerful 6th Symphony is perhaps the most personal and poignant of his symphonies, completed in the exhausted aftermath of the Second World War and with mounting pressures on the Soviet Front.
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
This Prom will be repeated on Friday 20th July at
2pm.
WED 21:30 Sunday Feature (b00yrhff)
Great British Ideas
Robert Malthus
In this new series for BBC Radio 3, historian Tristram Hunt rediscovers the stories of three ideas that emerged in Britain - and then traces how their impact has spread far beyond our shores.
In the first programme, Tristram explores how the insight of the great British economist, the Reverend Robert Malthus (1766-1834), wreaked havoc in 19th century India - and yet was later adopted by Indians themselves. Malthus argued that the number of people in the world will always tend to increase faster than the supply of food to feed them. The only way to prevent this was to act to lower the birth rate. Or to wait for famine, war and disease to intervene.
Tristram begins in Hertfordshire, among the elegant quadrangles of what was once the home of the East India Company's training college. Here, he discovers, Malthus taught for almost thirty years, shaping the worldview of future colonial governors. But soon he follows the trainees' journey to India. When famines began to strike India in the later 19th century, many administrators responded on Malthusian lines. Famine was inevitable. Spending a fortune to save lives was at best a "necessary evil".
In Delhi, Tristram visits the site of the astonishing 1877 'Durbar', an eye-popping display of Imperial grandeur - which began just as news was emerging of a terrible famine in southern India. And he discovers how, amid a week-long feast for thousands of dignitaries, one senior British administrator was dispatched south. His mission: to stop the regional government spending too much money on famine relief.
From there, Tristram travels to Chennai (formerly Madras) to learn about the apocalyptic horror the region endured, at the cost of millions of lives. He listens to a Tamil folk song which mourns the suffering of people driven to dig up roots and give away their children in their struggle to survive. And then - astonishingly - he discovers how Malthus' ideas were taken up by Indians themselves, from campaigns for contraception in the 1930s to the coercive sterilisation campaigns of the 1970s.
But finally Tristram asks whether the malign uses to which Malthus has been put mean that his basic idea can be safely ignored? Or is the ongoing growth of the world's population a serious issue that urgently needs our attention, for the good of everyone?
With Professor David Arnold, Dr Minoti Chakravatry-Kaul, Dr David Hall-Matthews, Dr Chandrika Kaul, Professor A.R. Venkatachalapathy, Associate Professor S. Anandhi, Professor Mohan Rao, Sir Jonathon Porritt.
PRESENTER: Tristram Hunt MP
PRODUCER: Phil Tinline.
WED 22:15 BBC Proms (b01kv742)
2012
Prom 07: Le Concert Spirituel
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Katie Derham
In this Jubilee year, Handel's music for royal occasions is brought to the Proms by a leading French period instrument ensemble.
Both the Water Music suites and the Music for the Royal Fireworks were originally performed outside, in Green Park and on the river Thames, with a large group of players required. Here, Le Concert Spirituel is expanded to an ensemble of 80 musicians, to recreate the resplendent atmosphere of these festive occasions.
Handel: Water music - suite in F major
Handel: Water music - suite in D major
Handel: Water music - suite in G major
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet (conductor)
This concert will be repeated on Wednesday 25th July at
2pm.
WED 23:45 Late Junction (b01kpxpk)
Wednesday - Max Reinhardt
From deep within the woods at this year's Latitude Festival Max Reinhardt presents highlights from the Late Junction stage in the Lavish Lounge. Returning to the festival for the second year, Late Junction curated 3 nights at the festival bringing its trademark genre-hopping, boundary-crossing musical stylings to the festival goers at Henham Park in Suffolk.
With highlights from Saturday on the Late Junction stage, Max presents the raw new-rebetika of Trio Tekke from Cyprus, the foot-stomping old time string band music of The Black Twig Pickers from Virginia, and the rising star of British folk music, Sam Lee and his band.
THURSDAY 19 JULY 2012
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b01kpygp)
John Shea presents a concert of chamber music by Beethoven, Richard Strauss and Schubert recorded at the Zagreb International Chamber Music Festival.
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Serenade in D major Op.8 for string trio
Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Guy Ben-Ziony (viola), Jing Zhao (cello)
1:02 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders!, arr. Hasenohrl for 5 instruments
Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Alexandra Scott (double bass), Chen Halevi (clarinet), Szabolcs Zempléni (horn), Riccardo Terzo (bassoon)
1:11 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Octet in F major D.803
Chen Halevi (clarinet), Szabolcs Zempléni (horn), Riccardo Terzo (bassoon), Susanna Yoko Henkel (violin), Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Guy Ben-Ziony (viola), Jing Zhao (cello), Alexandra Scott (double bass)
2:13 AM
Strauss (ii), Johann [1825-1899]
Overture; Tik-tak Polka (Op.365); Csardas - from Die Fledermaus
Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
2:31 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup [1843-1907]
Haugtussa - song cycle
Solveig Kringelborn (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
2:59 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Concerto no. 4 in D major K.218 for violin and orchestra
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Guido Ajmone Marsan (conductor)
3:23 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf - motet (BWV.226)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
3:31 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich [1804-1857]
Overture from Ruslan i Lyudmila
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
3:36 AM
Storace, Bernado [fl. 1664]
Chaconne for harpsichord in C major
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
3:42 AM
Bree, Johannes Bernardus van [1801-1857]
Concert Overture in B minor
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (conductor)
3:54 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
Rhapsodie for Saxophone and Orchestra, arr. for saxophone and piano
Miha Rogina (saxophone), Jan Sever (piano)
4:05 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Quartet for flute and strings (K.298) in A major
Joanna G'froerer (flute), Martin Beaver (violin), Pinchas Zukerman (viola), Amanda Forsyth (cello)
4:17 AM
Gregorc, Janez [b.1934]
Sans respirer, sans soupir
Slovene Brass Quintet
4:24 AM
Gounod, Charles [1818-1893]
Waltz from 'Faust'
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Børge Wagner (conductor)
4:31 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Overture Domov muj (Op.62)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Marián Vach (conductor)
4:43 AM
Mokranjac, Stevan [1856-1914]
Third Song-Wreath (From my homeland)
Karolj Kolar (tenor), Nikola Mitic (baritone), Belgrade Radio and Television Chorus, Mladen Jagu?t (conductor)
4:51 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Etude in E major (Op.10 No.3)
Jane Coop (piano)
4:55 AM
Smetana, Bedrich [1824-1884]
Vltava (Moldau) from 'Ma Vlast'
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Québec, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
5:08 AM
Bartok, Bela [1881-1945]
4 Hungarian folk songs for chorus (Sz.93)
The Hungarian Radio Chorus, Péter Erdei (conductor)
5:22 AM
Elgar, Edward [1857-1934]
Pomp and Circumstance: Military March in D, Op.39 no.1
David Drury (organ)
5:29 AM
Geijer, Erik Gustaf [1783-1847]
Sonatina for Violin and Piano in A flat
Klara Hellgren (violin), Anders Kilström (piano)
5:43 AM
Monteclair, Michel Pignolet de [1667-1737]
Le Depit genereux - cantata for voice and continuo
Isabelle Poulenard (soprano), Ricercar Consort, Henri Ledroit (conductor)
5:57 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Sonata for piano (K.576) in D major
Jonathan Biss (piano)
6:12 AM
Bizet, Georges [1838-1875]
Carmen Suite No.2
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b01kpygr)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b01kpygt)
Thursday - Sarah Walker
9am: A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Russian Overtures And Orchestral Works played by the Russian National Orchestra/Mikhail Pletnev.
9:30am: A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.
10.30am: This week Sarah's guest is Stephen Bayley who played a major role in the foundation of the Design Museum. Author, critic, columnist, broadcaster and curator, Stephen is an expert commentator on matters relating to style, taste and contemporary design. His books and journalism, on subjects as diverse as the Albert Memorial, Commerce and Culture, Sex: a cultural history, Cars, and Woman as Design, have changed the way the world thinks about design. As well as talking about music, with the Olympic Games soon to begin, they'll also be discussing a new exhibition opening at the Design Museum: Sports vs Design.
11am: Sarah's Essential Choice. Balakirev: Piano Concerto No.2. Malcolm Binns (piano), English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01kpygw)
Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
1739
Donald Macleod introduces the year 1739 in Handel's life, a year when London froze and played havoc with the music season. Featuring a performance of his most popular organ concerto, "The Cuckoo And The Nightingale"; Handel's setting of Dryden's "A Song For Saint Cecilia's Day"; and a real rarity - the composer's "pasticcio" opera "Jupiter In Argos", recorded for the first time only in 2006.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01kpygy)
City of London Festival 2012
Ben Johnson
From the church of St Giles Cripplegate, the third of eight concerts featuring Radio 3 New Generation Artists at the 2012 City of London Festival. Tenor Ben Johnson is joined by pianist James Baillieu in 'A Postcard from Paris', including songs by Poulenc, Faure, Duparc, Hahn and Lennox Berkeley
Presented by Penny Gore.
Poulenc: Voyage à Paris
Fauré: Rencontre; Toujours; Adieu
Duparc: Le manoir de Rosemonde; La vie antérieure
Hahn: Fêtes galantes; Paysage; L'allée est sans fin; L'heure exquise
Lennox Berkeley: Ode du premier jour de mai; D'un vanneur
de blé aux vents; Automne; Sonnet
Poulenc: La bestiare; Montparnasse; Paganini; Hôtel; Fêtes galantes
Ben Johnson (tenor)
James Baillieu (piano).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01kpyh0)
Proms 2012 Repeats
Prom 05 - Strauss, Saariaho, Sibelius
Afternoon on 3 with Penny Gore.
Another chance to hear Tuesday night's Prom from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Nietzsche once said that "life without music would be a mistake". There is no danger of that as the BBC Philharmonic and their Chief Conductor Juanjo Mena take to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall for the first of their four Proms this season. Music by Richard Strauss is the focus before the interval with his Nietzsche-inspired symphonic poem "Also sprach Zarathustra" and glorious "Four Last Songs" sung by Anne Schwanewilms. The literary influence continues with Kaija Saariaho's "Laterna magica" which alludes to film director Ingmar Bergman's autobiography. The programme ends with Sibelius's remarkable, single-movement final symphony.
Presented by Louise Fryer.
R Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra
R Strauss: Four Last Songs
Kaija Saariaho: Laterna magica (UK premiere)
Sibelius: Symphony no.7 in C major
Anne Schwanewilms (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b01kpyh2)
Rachel Podger, Fitzwilliam Quartet, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Sean Rafferty speaks to Baroque violinist and director Rachel Podger, ahead of her appearance at the Three Choirs Festival. She will perform unaccompanied Bach in the studio.
The Fitzwilliam Quartet are one of the country's foremost ensembles. Formed in the 1960's, the group came to public attention with their recordings of Shostakovich. They will perform quartets by Shostakovich and Delius live.
And players from the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra tell Sean about the preparations they are making for their Beethoven symphony cycle at the Proms, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim.
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 (b01kpygw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 BBC Proms (b01kpyh4)
Prom 08
Judas Maccabaeus - Part 1
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Donald Macleod
Handel's dramatic oratorio, Judas Maccabaeus, tells of the struggle for liberty and peace in Second Century Judea. It was a great success at its first performance in 1747 - proving even more popular than the Messiah. Handel's triumphant score includes the famous Chorus "See, the conqu'ring hero comes!" and is celebratory and direct in its impact. In tonight's performance, distinguished Handelian Laurence Cummings directs the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment alongside the Choir of the Enlightenment and a starry line-up of esteemed soloists.
In his libretto for the oratorio, the Revd Thomas Morrell made use of the first book of Maccabaeus, in the Apocrypha, as his main source, with the backdrop of the Jewish resistance to the Syrian conquest of Judea in 169 BC. Following the death of Mattathias, his son Judas is proclaimed the new leader of the Israelites by his brother Simon. In Act I, Judas promises to fight for and restore his people's liberty, and is acclaimed for heroic defeats of two invading forces at the beginning of Act II. Following further triumph in defeating the Egyptian army outside Jerusalem in Act III, the independence of Judea is recognised and the promised liberty and peace is secured. However, there is indirect contemporary relevance in the sentiment of the oratorio's libretto, as Morell drew a clear parallel between Judas and the Duke of Cumberland who was seen as a heroic figurehead for the English Protestants following the 1745 Jacobite rebellion.
Handel: Judas Maccabaeus (1750 version) - Part I
John Mark Ainsley (Judas Maccabaeus)
Alastair Miles (Simon/Eupolemus)
Rosemary Joshua (Israelitish Woman)
Christine Rice (Israelitish Man)
Tim Mead (Israelitish messenger/priest)
Choir of the Enlightenment
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Laurence Cummings (director)
This Prom will be repeated on Monday 23rd July at
2pm.
THU 20:25 Twenty Minutes (b01kpyh6)
No Conquering Hero
Judas Maccabeus used to be one of Handel's most popular oratorios. But in modern times it's been deplored as tub-thumping, bellicose, militaristic. It lent itself all too readily to an aryanised Nazi version, Der Feldherr. It caused distress when it featured in the 2009 Edinburgh Festival, for it appears to celebrate the wipeout of the Scottish rebels at Culloden. But when it was first performed, that rebellion was long past and Britain was in the eighth year of a draining intercontinental war against stronger, larger, more successful France. The Scottish rebellion was the most frightening of several French invasion attempts, exposing British disunity, threatening annexation to a foreign Catholic power. The oratorio was written and performed in the shadow of continual British losses against the French axis. It is suffused with grief and fear; it is an exhortation to unity and communal effort; it is a prayer for peace; in its own time, its upbeat end was rather poignant wishful thinking. And in its original form, it didn't include 'See the conquering hero comes'.
Pre-eminent Handel revisionist Ruth Smith looks at the autograph score of Judas Maccabeus, which doesn't include See the Conquering hero, and looks at contemporary newspaper accounts of the notorious (and contemporary) trial of the traitor Lord Lovat - the last man to be beheaded in England and the real reason why Handel revised the piece.
THU 20:45 BBC Proms (b01kwn1t)
Prom 08
Judas Maccabaeus - Parts 2 and 3
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Donald Macleod
Handel's dramatic oratorio, Judas Maccabaeus, tells of the struggle for liberty and peace in Second Century Judea. It was a great success at its first performance in 1747 - proving even more popular than the Messiah. Handel's triumphant score includes the famous Chorus "See, the conqu'ring hero comes!" and is celebratory and direct in its impact. In tonight's performance, distinguished Handelian Laurence Cummings directs the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment alongside the Choir of the Enlightenment and a starry line-up of esteemed soloists.
In his libretto for the oratorio, the Revd Thomas Morrell made use of the first book of Maccabaeus, in the Apocrypha, as his main source, with the backdrop of the Jewish resistance to the Syrian conquest of Judea in 169 BC. Following the death of Mattathias, his son Judas is proclaimed the new leader of the Israelites by his brother Simon. In Act I, Judas promises to fight for and restore his people's liberty, and is acclaimed for heroic defeats of two invading forces at the beginning of Act II. Following further triumph in defeating the Egyptian army outside Jerusalem in Act III, the independence of Judea is recognised and the promised liberty and peace is secured. However, there is indirect contemporary relevance in the sentiment of the oratorio's libretto, as Morell drew a clear parallel between Judas and the Duke of Cumberland who was seen as a heroic figurehead for the English Protestants following the 1745 Jacobite rebellion.
Handel: Judas Maccabaeus (1750 version) - Part II
John Mark Ainsley (Judas Maccabaeus)
Alastair Miles (Simon/Eupolemus)
Rosemary Joshua (Israelitish Woman)
Christine Rice (Israelitish Man)
Tim Mead (Israelitish messenger/priest)
Choir of the Enlightenment
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Laurence Cummings (director)
This Prom will be repeated on Monday 23rd July at
2pm.
THU 22:30 Sunday Feature (b00yy94b)
Great British Ideas
Young England and Young Ireland
In Great British Ideas, historian Tristram Hunt explores ideas which have been developed in Britain or by British thinkers and follows their influence abroad. In this programme he charts the intellectual currents between England and Ireland in the 1840's as two nationalist movements emerge onto the political stage.
'Young England', a Tory clique led by future Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, wanted to reach back into history, glorifying models of English medievalism and feudalism to solve the chronic social problems unleashed by the Industrial Revolution. Watching it closely, 'Young Ireland' was born in Dublin. They were a small group of agitating Repealers who also re-imagined Ireland's heroic past as a way of forging a new route for Irish nationalism; breaking from its father figure, Daniel O'Connell. Both groups reacted against mechanistic Utilitarianism, and both groups were trying to create a new politics by looking for inspiration from the past. But this is also the story of a British idea, used to tear apart the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
By following the influences of Thomas Carlyle, Jeremy Bentham, O'Connell, Disraeli and Gladstone, the historian Tristram Hunt MP pieces together the flow of ideas between these two 'Young' movements as the 'Irish question' began to demand an answer.
THU 23:15 Late Junction (b01kpyhb)
Thursday - Max Reinhardt
From deep within the woods at this year's Latitude Festival Max Reinhardt presents highlights from the Late Junction stage in the Lavish Lounge. Returning to the festival for the second year, Late Junction curated 3 nights at the festival bringing its trademark genre-hopping, boundary-crossing musical stylings to the festival goers at Henham Park in Suffolk.
With highlights from Sunday on the Late Junction stage, Max presents the harmony-laden primal-beats of one-woman band Tanya Auclair, heavy roots music from the Atlantic Coast of Colombia from ensemble Cumbé, and a rare solo set from Stereolab lead singer, Laetitia Sadier.
FRIDAY 20 JULY 2012
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b01kq27y)
From St James' Basilica in Prague, organist Olivier Latry plays music by Bach, Franck, Widor, Langlais, Litaize, Dupre and his own improvisations on themes of B A Wiedermann.
12:31 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Olivier Latry (organ)
12:40 AM
Franck, Cesar [1822-1890]
Prelude, Fugue and Variations in B minor (Op. 18)
Olivier Latry (organ)
12:51 AM
Widor, Charles Marie [1844-1937]
Symphony no. 6 in G minor (op. 42/2) - Allegro
Olivier Latry (organ)
1:00 AM
Langlais, Jean [1907-1991]
Cantilene from 'Suite Breve'
Olivier Latry (organ)
1:07 AM
Litaize, Gaston [(1909-1991)]
Scherzo from Douze Pieces
Olivier Latry (organ)
1:11 AM
Dupre, Marcel [1886-1971]
Prelude and Fugue in G minor (Op. 7/3)
Olivier Latry (organ)
1:17 AM
Latry, Olivier [(b. 1962)]
Improvisations on themes of B. A. Wiedermann
Olivier Latry (organ)
1:36 AM
Boellmann, Leon [1862-1897]
Toccata
Olivier Latry (organ)
1:40 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
Te Deum for soloists, chorus and orchestra in C major
Giorgia Milanesi (soprano), Ulfried Haselsteiner (tenor), Anne Margrethe Punsvik Gluch (soprano), Thomas Mohr (baritone), Håvard Stendsvold (bass-baritone), Kristiansand Cathedral Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rolf Gupta (conductor)
2:06 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.73 in D major 'La Chasse', H.
1.73
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ludovít Rajter (conductor)
2:31 AM
Walton, William (1902-1983)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
James Ehnes (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra; Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
3:01 AM
Spohr, Louis (1784-1859)
Notturno for wind and Turkish band in C major, Op.34
Octophoros, Paul Dombrecht (conductor)
3:34 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
Ave Maria; Christus factus est; Locus iste (motets)
The Sokkelund Choir, Morten Schuldt Jensen (conductor)
3:47 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Sonata for flute and keyboard (BWV.1032) in A major
Sharon Bezaly (flute), Terence Charlston (harpsichord)
4:01 AM
Papandopulo, Boris (1906-1991)
Trio Sonata
Zagreb Guitar Trio
4:14 AM
Albright, William Hugh (1944-1998)
Dream rags (1970): Morning reveries
Donna Coleman (piano)
4:21 AM
Bach, Johann Christian (1735-1782)
Quintet for flute, oboe, violin, viola & basso continuo in G major (Op.11 No.2)
Les Adieux
4:31 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto for oboe and orchestra (RV.449) (Op.8'12) in C major
Concerto Copenhagen, Alfredo Bernardini (conductor and oboe)
4:41 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Der Abend (Op.34 No.1) for 16 part choir
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
4:50 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Sonata for violin and keyboard (K.303) in C major
Tai Murray (violin), Shai Wosner (piano)
5:01 AM
Farkas, Ferenc (1905-2000)
5 Ancient Hungarian dances for wind quintet
Bulgarian Academic Wind Quintet
5:11 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Rhapsody for alto, male chorus and orchestra (Op.53)
Mirjam Kalin (alto), Male voices of Slovenicum Chamber Choir and Choir Consortium Classicum, Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
5:24 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Images II
Roger Woodward (piano)
5:38 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.100 (H.
1.100) in G major, 'Military'
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Mark Taddei (conductor)
6:02 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Piano Quartet in E flat major (Op.47)
Alexander Melnikov (piano), Leopold String Trio.
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b01kq280)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b01kq282)
Friday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Russian Overtures And Orchestral Works played by the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Pletnev: NEWTON CLASSICS 8802037
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.
10.30am
This week Sarahs guest is Stephen Bayley who played a major role in the foundation of the Design Museum. Author, critic, columnist, broadcaster and curator, Stephen is an expert commentator on matters relating to style, taste and contemporary design. His books and journalism, on subjects as diverse as the Albert Memorial, Commerce and Culture, Sex: a cultural history, Cars, and Woman as Design, have changed the way the world thinks about design. As well as talking about music, with the Olympic Games soon to begin, they'll also be discussing a new exhibition opening at the Design Museum: Sports vs Design.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Op.61
Arthur Grumiaux (violin)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor)
PHILIPS 442 2872.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01kq284)
Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
1749
By 1749, Handel had assumed the position of supreme impresario on the London stage. In this last exploration of a "year in the life" of the composer, presenter Donald Macleod explores the story behind Handel's Music For The Royal Fireworks - with an extract played in Leopold Stokowski's full orchestral arrangement - and introduces a rarity: Handel's incidental music to Tobias Smollett's play "Alceste".
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01kq286)
City of London Festival 2012
Igor Levit Plays Beethoven
In a concert recorded at the church of St Andrew's Holborn during the City of London Festival 2012, pianist and former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Igor Levit performs two contrasting Beethoven sonatas: the gentle and intimate Op 14 No 2, and the monumental Op 106, known as the 'Hammerklavier'
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in G, Op 14 No 2
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in B flat, Op 106 (Hammerklavier)
Igor Levit (piano).
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01kq288)
Proms 2012 Repeats
Prom 06 - Fung Lam, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev
With Penny Gore
Another chance to hear Wednesday night's Prom from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Fung Lam's "Endless Forms" is inspired by the last sentence of Darwin's "The Origin of Species", and "celebrates an insight into the diversity of life", explains the composer. "The title also relates to Buddhism's view of life as endless cycles of forms: birth, death, rebirth. The subject of spiritual enlightenment is a recurring theme in my output."
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
Fung Lam: Endless Forms (BBC commission: world premiere)
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b01kq28b)
Reiko Fujisawa, IMS Prussia Cove, Steven Isserlis, Aldeburgh World Orchestra
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from Japanese pianist Reiko Fujisawa as she launches her new recording of music by Bach, Beethoven and Schubert. International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove players - Hannah Dawson, Garfield Jackson, William Coleman, Krysia Osostowicz and Christoph Richter - play live in the studio, joined by Steven Isserlis to discuss their upcoming 40th anniversary celebrations at the Wigmore Hall. Plus we talk to players from the Aldeburgh World Orchestra about the remarkable new project and their concerts at both the Snape and BBC Proms.
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 (b01kq284)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 BBC Proms (b01kv9gw)
Prom 09
Beethoven, Boulez
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in the opening concert of their five-part Beethoven symphony cycle, one of the highlights of this year's Proms season. Founded in 1999 with the aim of bringing together Arab and Israeli players, WEDO has gone far beyond the symbolic in its goal of building bridges through music, to become one of the world's most dynamic orchestras. Each of the five concerts also offers the opportunity to hear the music of Pierre Boulez - like Beethoven, one of the great musical revolutionaries.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major
Boulez: Dérive 2
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
This Prom will be repeated on Tuesday 24th July at
2pm.
FRI 20:50 BBC Proms (b01kv9gy)
Proms Plus
Barenboim and Beethoven
Daniel Barenboim and Beethoven. Some sixty years after making his international debut, the great pianist and conductor talks to Proms Director Roger Wright about his abiding passion for the music of Beethoven.
FRI 21:10 BBC Proms (b01kwxsf)
Prom 09
Beethoven
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in the opening concert of their five-part Beethoven symphony cycle, one of the highlights of this year's Proms season. Founded in 1999 with the aim of bringing together Arab and Israeli players, WEDO has gone far beyond the symbolic in its goal of building bridges through music, to become one of the world's most dynamic orchestras. Each of the five concerts also offers the opportunity to hear the music of Pierre Boulez - like Beethoven, one of the great musical revolutionaries.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D major
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
This Prom will be repeated on Tuesday 24th July at
2pm.
FRI 22:00 Sunday Feature (b00z612d)
Great British Ideas
JA Hobson, Lenin and Anti-Imperialism
Historian Tristram Hunt explores the surprising tale of a largely forgotten English journalist and economist, John Atkinson Hobson, and the book he wrote which inspired Lenin.
Hobson was a bourgeois liberal - the sort of writer one might think a communist hardliner like Lenin would despise. But as Tristram discovers, Hobson's attack on the economics of the British Empire caught the exiled Lenin's attention in the first years of the 20th century - and formed a major part of his own attack on Imperialism on the eve of his seizure of power in the Russian Revolution.
Tristram discovers how a visit to South Africa in the descent into the Boer War spurred Hobson into a blistering attack on what he saw as the true motive for Imperial conquest. This was neither glory, nor territorial greed, nor the quest for raw material but a search for new investment opportunities away from an ossified, over-saving British economy. This argument was marred by a strain of anti-Semitism against Jewish city financiers on Hobson's part - despite the fact that his chief target was Cecil Rhodes.
Tristram goes on to explore how a shivering, impoverished Lenin arrived in London in 1902, the same year Hobson's controversial book is published. He takes a ride on an open-topped bus, just as Lenin did, to discover how this militant communist marvelled at the capitalist might of the Empire's capital city.
He traces how Lenin likely came across Hobson's book in London and took it to Switzerland to translate it - even as Hobson's countrymen were busy ignoring or opposing his case.
And he discovers how - with the advent of the First World War - Hobson's notion that imperial rivalry can lead to war seemed to some, Lenin included, like a prescient argument. Tristram hears how this worldview helped to shape Lenin's suspicious attitude to the Western powers once he was in power himself - and how it even helped to shape his domestic economic policy.
From there, Tristram traces how, through Lenin, this anti-imperialist critique found its way to the Indian nationalist leader, Jawaharlal Nehru.
In the 1930s, as many thought capitalism was entering its death-throes, and as communism and fascism seemed to some to offer a solution, the ideas of Hobson found their way back to Britain - via Lenin. The young communist John Strachey's left-wing ardour led him back to the ideas his elderly liberal fellow-countryman - even as he was doing his best to preach the last rites for liberal Britain.
With: Vladimir Buldakov, Professor Peter Cain, Dr Shruti Kapila, Professor Anthony Webster, Professor Christoper Read, Professor Noel Thompson
PRESENTER: Tristram Hunt MP
PRODUCER: Phil Tinline.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b00zt7q6)
Under the Influence
Kei Miller
The poems of Kei Miller are rich and languorous. Their language reflects the speech of his native Jamaica, where he was born in 1978, and has a heightened, sometimes Biblical aspect. It sounds almost as if it were written for performance rather than to be read. Yet this is rigorous and literary work. In this essay, Miller reveals how the poetry of the American W. S. Merwin, who worked to communicate experience rather than express a meaning, has a profound effect on his own approach to composing poetry.
Producer: Julian May.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b01kq28j)
Gaiteros de San Jacinto on location
Lopa Kothari with tracks from across the globe, and a location recording with Colombian band Gaiteros de San Jacinto.
The 2012 World Routes Academy is coming to its climax with a BBC Promenade Concert at the end of the month. BBC Radio 3's very own Colombian producer-presenter Juan Carlos Jaramillo introduces an unheard recording, made in Colombia as part of the Academy project, of one of Colombia's best-known traditional bands, the Gaiteros de San Jacinto. Their tradition combines the gaita flutes develloped by the indigenous people of northern Colombia, with strong percussive beats derived from African culture, and the lyricism of the Spanish immigrants.