John Shea presents Monteverdi's Vespers with Ars Nova and Concerto Copenhagen conducted by Paul Hillier.
Sonata for piano no. 7 (Op.10 No.3) in D major
Odin Hagen (trumpet), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Per Kristian Skalstad (conductor)
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
Elar Kuiv (violin), Olev Ainomae (oboe), Estonian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Paul Mägi (conductor)
Jory Vinikour (harpsichord), Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Anne Queffélec playing Scarlatti Sonatas. WARNER APEX 0927 44353 2
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, violinist, David Oistrakh.
Rob Cowan's guest is Miranda Krestovnikoff. She studied zoology at Bristol University, and from 1998 has appeared in very popular TV programmes on wildlife conservation and the environment, including The One Show, Coast and Countryfile. A keen musician, she spends a lot of her spare time making music. She plays the flute, bassoon, piano and recorders, and also sings. She currently plays with the New Bristol Sinfonia, and in 1994 she formed her own a cappella choir, Partsong, which she directed for eight years.
John Adams's father taught him clarinet and they played together in a local marching band. He mastered the instrument 'almost too quickly', and while studying at Harvard he found work with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Elements of his upbringing were reminiscent of Charles Ives's, who also grew up in New England. Today, Adams talks to Donald Macleod about the influence of Ives on his music, including two works which reference his early life, and a work for choir, orchestra and pre-recorded sounds - On the Transmigration of Souls - written to commemorate the victims of September 11, 2001. Initally uneasy about writing a work in which he was called on to address national mourning, here too he drew inspiration from Ives's work, this time the The Unanswered Question, which Adams describes as a 'quiet spirit behind the piece'.
The first of four programmes this week featuring performances recorded at the 2011 Verbier Festival. Today it's an all-Russian programme, with violinist Valery Sokolov and pianist Nelson Goerner performing Prokofiev's Cinq Melodies and Denis Matsuev playing Tchaikovsky's piano cycle The Seasons
Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in contrasting symphonies by Peter Maxwell Davies and Shostakovich and Tasmin Little performs Delius's rhapsodic Violin Concerto
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Symphony No. 9 (London premiere)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music and guests from the arts world including members of British Youth Opera celebrating its 25th anniversary with a production of Smetana's The Bartered Bride, musicians performing an extract from Fish Music, and the Dunedin Consort's John Butt.
Plus, our week-long celebration of the Grimm Fairy Tales, first published 200 years ago, continues. Leading writers including Sir Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and Michael Morpurgo, discuss the Grimm Fairy Tales with presenter Suzy Klein.
Philip Pullman celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Grimm Fairy Tales with a new edition of the stories, published later this month. In a special preview for In Tune, he reads his version of 'The Three Snake Leaves'.
Former Children's Laureate, and author of War Horse, Michael Morpurgo re-imagined Hansel and Gretel as a dark modern tale for children, and has often returned to the Tales for inspiration. His version of the fairy tale 'Beauty and the Beast' will appear this autumn.
Afro-Guyanese playwright and poet John Agard's anthology Goldilocks on CCTV transformed the romantic German heroines of the Grimm Tales into sassy adventuresses and troublemakers in a contemporary, multi-cultural society.
Sir Terry Pratchett has often returned to the Grimm Tales for inspiration. Parodies of beloved characters, from Cinderella to Little Red Riding Hood, appear in his Discworld novels, treated with his own irreverent, fantastical humour.
In interview with Suzy Klein, the writers will explore the legacy of the Grimm stories, and read extracts from their own re-imaginings of the Fairy Tales.
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The St Louis Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut, under Music Director David Robertson. Brahms's dramatic overture opens the programme, followed by Beethoven's challenging and energetic Violin concerto, with Christian Tetzlaff, a soloist who has made regular appearances at the Proms.
These two composers are at the pinnacle of Western music, and the next composer, Schoenberg, venerated both of them. He argued that his own new way of composing followed logically on from these greats. Gershwin may seem an unlikely pairing with Schoenberg, but both became firm friends when living in Hollywood, sharing an interest painting and tennis.
David King is something of a phenomenon in the world of weather forecasting.
Having spent the last 50 years watching the signs of nature, he believes his cross-referencing system has now reached 90% accuracy rate - up to 9 months ahead of time. His close study of the natural world around his home in Kent has enabled him to trust in sayings, some of which go back hundreds of years, and some of which he has created himself.
"If the first week of August is unusually hot, the winter will be white and long."
To find out about how David King works and walks, David Bramwell, takes to the fields and hedgerows armed with a keen eye, a pair of stout boots and a sheaf of country weather sayings, to find out how we can all learn from the flies, ants, apples and mists to read nature better for ourselves, and which sayings are based in fact.
The St Louis Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut, under Music Director David Robertson. Brahms's dramatic overture opens the programme, followed by Beethoven's challenging and energetic Violin concerto, with Christian Tetzlaff, a soloist who has made regular appearances at the Proms.
These two composers are at the pinnacle of Western music, and the next composer, Schoenberg, venerated both of them. He argued that his own new way of composing followed logically on from these greats. Gershwin may seem an unlikely pairing with Schoenberg, but both became firm friends when living in Hollywood, sharing an interest painting and tennis.
The dance critic Judith Mackrell believes dance is now going through one of the most exciting periods of its history - exploding with possibilities and merging with many other art forms. It's now normal to see choreographers collaborating with film makers, visual artists and playwrights and they come together from all over the world. Audience figures, even in recessionary times, remain impressive and many young and diverse people are flocking to see new and challenging work. Mackrell examines why so many are turning to new forms of dance and considers the dangers of the range and speed of change. She travels to the Venice Contemporary Dance Festival to see the most experimental and diverse work being created today and meets with choreographers, audiences and dance programmers such as Alistair Spalding, artistic director at the Sadler's Wells theatre.
She asks whether with so many art forms merging with dance, with technology playing a more dominant role than ever and so many cultures colliding where does this leave dance now? And she asks whether despite the diversity of the genre, it remains ultimately about the power and beauty of the moving human body?
In the early twentieth century a prominent British movement sprang up under the title 'Music Appreciation', with the aims of introducing to 'ordinary' listeners 'great' or 'serious' music, and teaching them 'the art of listening'. Radio became a chief means by which this misson was to be accomplished, while books, adult education courses and regional 'Music Travellers', also contributed to a new educational field. In this series, musicologist and cultural historian Richard Witts explains the movement's origins, ambitions and idiosyncrasies, and clarifies why it fell out of favour in the second half of the twentieth century as postmodernism cast doubt on what was 'great' and 'serious'. In this second programme he looks at the work of the educationalist and pioneer schools broadcaster Walford Davies, and one of his team of music educators known dismissively by the Bloomsbury set as 'Walford's Holy Women', Imogen Holst.
Late Junction. Max Reinhardt ushers in a season of mists and mellow fruitfulness with music performed by Compagnie El Hashemi Nhass, the Aurora Orchestra, Catherine-Anne MacPhee, Spoek Mathambo and Margaret Leng Tan.
Vol. 4 - Hoppá!
WEDNESDAY 05 SEPTEMBER 2012
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b01mdjg7)
John Shea presents a concert of Mozart chamber works recorded in Stockholm.
12:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Quartet for oboe and strings (K.370) in F major;
Bengt Rosengren (oboe), Malin Broman (violin), Göran Fröst (viola), Eric Williams (cello)
12:46 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Quintet for clarinet and strings (K.581) in A major
Niklas Andersson (clarinet), Malin Broman (violin), Ulf Forsberg (violin), Göran Fröst (viola), Eric Williams (cello)
1:19 AM
Mussorgsky, Modest [1839-1881]
Pictures from an exhibition for piano
Fazil Say (piano)
1:52 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Op.33)
Silvia Marcovici (violin), Orchestre National de France, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
2:31 AM
Chadwick, George Whitefield (1854-1931)
Symphony No.2 in B flat major (Op.21) (1886)
Albany Symphony Orchestra, Julius Hegyi (conductor)
3:08 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Trio for clarinet or viola, cello and piano (Op.114) in A minor
Mina Ivanova (piano), Svilen Simeonov (clarinet), Anatoli Krastev (cello)
3:34 AM
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto for strings no.6 in A major
Concerto Köln
3:45 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Quartet for strings in C minor (D.103) 'Satz'
Tilev String Quartet
3:55 AM
Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672)
Magnificat anima mea Dominum (SWV.468)
Schütz Akademie, Howard Arman (conductor)
4:06 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Keyboard Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI/37
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
4:16 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
Syrinx for flute solo
Ivica Gabrisova-Encingerova (flute)
4:19 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto No.5 in F minor (BWV.1056)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Risør Festival Strings
4:31 AM
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936)
Concert waltz for orchestra No.2 in F major (Op.51)
CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Kazuyoshi Akiyama (conductor)
4:40 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir (BWV.228)
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
4:48 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No.24 in F sharp major (Op.78)
Heinrich Neuhaus (piano)
4:58 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927)
Ithaka (Op.21) (1904)
Peter Mattei (baritone), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
5:09 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (Op.28)
Taik-Ju Lee (violin), Young-Lan Han (piano)
5:18 AM
Fesch, Willem de (1687-1757)
Concerto in B flat major (Op.10 No.2)
Manfred Kraemer and Laura Johnson (violins), Musica ad Rhenum
5:28 AM
Kalliwoda, Johann Wenzel [1801-1866]
Morceau de salon for oboe and piano (Op.228)
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
5:38 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey [1873-1943]
6 Duets for piano 4 hands (Op.11)
Lestari Scholtes (piano), Gwylim Janssens (piano)
6:04 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Concerto for violin and orchestra in E minor (Op.64)
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Paul McCreesh (conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b01mdkr6)
Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b01mdjnt)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Anne Queffélec playing Scarlatti Sonatas. WARNER APEX 0927 44353 2
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, violinist, David Oistrakh.
10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest is Miranda Krestovnikoff. She studied zoology at Bristol University, and from 1998 has appeared in very popular TV programmes on wildlife conservation and the environment, including The One Show, Coast and Countryfile. A keen musician, she spends a lot of her spare time making music. She plays the flute, bassoon, piano and recorders, and also sings. She currently plays with the New Bristol Sinfonia, and in 1994 she formed her own a cappella choir, Partsong, which she directed for eight years.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Sibelius: Symphony no 6
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL SM2K47622.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01mdlfr)
John Adams (1947-)
From Ellington to Schoenberg
Before John Adams conducts his opera Nixon In China this evening at the Proms, today's programme explores his works that were written on a more intimate scale. In conversation with the composer, Donald Macleod looks at a 'virtuoso monstrosity' - the sequel to his Chamber Symphony, one of his earliest pieces for tape and strings, and his recent string quartet. They discuss the traces of Schoenberg, Ives and even Duke Ellington that can be heard in Adams's music.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01mdlh3)
Verbier Festival 2011
Leonidas Kavakos, Bryn Terfel
The second of four programmes this week featuring performances recorded at the 2011 Verbier Festival. Today violinist Leonidas Kavakos and pianist Enrico Pace perform Beethoven's Violin Sonatas Op 23 and 24 (Spring), and bass-baritone Bryn Terfel sings Schubert's Aus dem Wasser zu singen.
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in F, Op 24 (Spring)
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Enrico Pace (piano)
Schubert: Aus em Wasser zu singen, D774
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Llyr Williams (piano)
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A minor, Op 23
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Enrico Pace (piano).
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01mdlh5)
Proms 2012 Repeats
Prom 53 - Viadana, Bassano, Gabrieli, Monteverdi
WIth Jonathan Swain
1612 Italian Vespers: Robert Hollingworth conducts his ensemble I Fagiolini in Italian music from 400 years ago - in up to 28 different parts and perfect for the wide open spaces of the Royal Albert Hall.
Presented by Catherine Bott
Viadana: Salmi a quattro chori (1612) - Deus in adiutorium; Dixit Dominus
Bassano: Divisions on Palestrina Introduxit me Rex
Viadana: Salmi a quattro chori (1612) - Laetatus sum
Viadana: O dulcissima Maria
Viadana: Lauda Ierusalem
Grandi: Plorabo die ac nocte
G.Gabrieli (reconstr. Keyte): Magnificat a 20/28 con il 'sicut locutus' (London premiere)
Monteverdi: Salve Regina
G.Gabrieli (reconstr. Keyte): In ecclesiis (world premiere)
I Fagiolini
Robert Hollingworth (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b01mdlh7)
Choral Evening Prayer from Neresheim Abbey in southern Germany, sung by the Royal Academy of Music Chamber Choir. (Recorded 31 August)
Organ Prelude in E (Johann Fischer)
Introit: God be in my head (Hilary Campbell)
Initium: Deus in adjutorium (Giovanni Croce)
Psalms: Beatus vir, De profundis, Domine non est exaltatum, Laudate Dominum (plainsong)
Reading: Romans 8 vv28-32, 38-39
Responsorium: In nomine Jesu (Jacob Handl)
Homily: The Revd Sub-Prior Fr Gregor Hammes OSB
Office Hymn: Hail, gladdening light (Charles Wood)
Magnificat on the eighth tone (David Bevan)
Prayers and Lord's Prayer (Bernard Rose)
Anthem: Eternal Father (Charles Villiers Stanford)
Chorale: Nun saget Dank und Lob den Herren
Organ Postlude: Cannonade (Claude Balbastre)
Celebrant: The Very Revd Prior Fr Albert Knebel OSB
Director of Music: Patrick Russill
Organists: Alexander Binns, Peter Holder.
WED 16:30 In Tune (b01mdlh9)
Wednesday - Sean Rafferty
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music and guests from the arts world including the 2012 Last Night of the Proms soloist and rising star tenor Joseph Calleja. Live music from internet sensation, pianist Valentina Lisitsa and award-winning klezmer band She'Koyokh.
Plus, our week-long celebration of the Grimm Fairy Tales continues. Writers including Sir Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and Michael Morpurgo discuss the Grimm Fairy Tales with presenter Suzy Klein and read extracts from their own re-imaginings of the Fairy Tales.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
Email: in.tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter: @BBCInTune.
WED 18:00 Composer of the Week (b01mdlfr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:00 BBC Proms (b01mf8bz)
Prom 72
Nixon in China - Act 1
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor
John Adams conducts his stunning opera Nixon in China, with a star-studded cast, the BBC Singers & BBC SO. Alice Goodman's poetic, intensely original libretto is based on Richard and Pat Nixon's historic three-day visit to China in 1972. Protagonists viewed initially as transcendent iconic figures are not so much satirised as seen for what they are.
The score pounds away eclectically with nods to Broadway and rock, Minimalism and Igor Stravinsky, but there's no mistaking the identity of the composer, who conducts tonight, nor the colour and brilliance of one of the iconic works of our time.
The Anglo-American cast includes Robert Orth as Nixon, Jessica Rivera as Mrs. Nixon, Gerald Finley as Chou En-Lai and Kathleen Kim as Madame Mao.
Adams: Nixon in China - Act I
Madame Mao ..... Kathleen Kim (soprano)
Chairman Mao ..... Alan Oke (tenor)
Chou En-lai ..... Gerald Finley (bass-baritone)
President Nixon ..... Robert Orth (baritone)
Pat Nixon ..... Jessica Rivera (soprano)
Kissinger ..... James Rutherford (bass)
First Secretary to Mao ..... Stephanie Marshall (mezzo-soprano)
Second Secretary to Mao ..... Louise Poole (mezzo-soprano)
Third Secretary to Mao ..... Susan Platts (mezzo-soprano)
Mark Grey (sound director)
Paul Curran (stage director)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Singers
John Adams (conductor).
WED 20:05 BBC Proms (b01mf8c3)
Proms Plus
John Adams: Nixon in China
Writer and broadcaster Rana Mitter and journalist Shuyun Sun discuss the political context of John Adams' first opera Nixon in China. Hosted by Louise Fryer.
The opera tells the story of Richard Nixon's historic three day visit to China in 1972. Three years into his presidency the announcement that the anti-communist Republican president would visit Mao Tse-tung's China to improve international relations made world headlines. The visit was closely followed by the international press and scenes of Nixon and his wife Pat were widely televised around the globe. Composer John Adams describes this clash of capitalism and communism as 'an epochal event, one whose magnitude is hard to imagine from our present perspective'.
WED 20:25 BBC Proms (b01mf8c5)
Prom 72
Nixon in China - Act 2
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor
John Adams conducts his stunning opera Nixon in China, with a star-studded cast, the BBC Singers & BBC SO. Alice Goodman's poetic, intensely original libretto is based on Richard and Pat Nixon's historic three-day visit to China in 1972. Protagonists viewed initially as transcendent iconic figures are not so much satirised as seen for what they are.
The score pounds away eclectically with nods to Broadway and rock, Minimalism and Igor Stravinsky, but there's no mistaking the identity of the composer, who conducts tonight, nor the colour and brilliance of one of the iconic works of our time.
The Anglo-American cast includes Robert Orth as Nixon, Jessica Rivera as Mrs. Nixon, Gerald Finley as Chou En-Lai and Kathleen Kim as Madame Mao.
Adams: Nixon in China - Act II
Madame Mao ..... Kathleen Kim (soprano)
Chairman Mao ..... Alan Oke (tenor)
Chou En-lai ..... Gerald Finley (bass-baritone)
President Nixon ..... Robert Orth (baritone)
Pat Nixon ..... Jessica Rivera (soprano)
Kissinger ..... James Rutherford (bass)
First Secretary to Mao ..... Stephanie Marshall (mezzo-soprano)
Second Secretary to Mao ..... Louise Poole (mezzo-soprano)
Third Secretary to Mao ..... Susan Platts (mezzo-soprano)
Mark Grey (sound director)
Paul Curran (stage director)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Singers
John Adams (conductor).
WED 21:20 Twenty Minutes (b01mf8c7)
From Neptune to Nixon
Adrian Mourby examines the history of the operatic plot - from gods and emperors, kings and queens, to lovers, lowlife, terrorists and presidents
With expert commentary from eighteenth century opera specialist Dr Suzanne Aspden, music historian Roderick Swanston and music journalist Shirley Apthorp.
WED 21:40 BBC Proms (b01mf8c9)
Prom 72
Nixon in China - Act 3
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor
John Adams conducts his stunning opera Nixon in China, with a star-studded cast, the BBC Singers & BBC SO. Alice Goodman's poetic, intensely original libretto is based on Richard and Pat Nixon's historic three-day visit to China in 1972. Protagonists viewed initially as transcendent iconic figures are not so much satirised as seen for what they are.
The score pounds away eclectically with nods to Broadway and rock, Minimalism and Igor Stravinsky, but there's no mistaking the identity of the composer, who conducts tonight, nor the colour and brilliance of one of the iconic works of our time.
The Anglo-American cast includes Robert Orth as Nixon, Jessica Rivera as Mrs. Nixon, Gerald Finley as Chou En-Lai and Kathleen Kim as Madame Mao.
Adams: Nixon in China - Act III
Madame Mao ..... Kathleen Kim (soprano)
Chairman Mao ..... Alan Oke (tenor)
Chou En-lai ..... Gerald Finley (bass-baritone)
President Nixon ..... Robert Orth (baritone)
Pat Nixon ..... Jessica Rivera (soprano)
Kissinger ..... James Rutherford (bass)
First Secretary to Mao ..... Stephanie Marshall (mezzo-soprano)
Second Secretary to Mao ..... Louise Poole (mezzo-soprano)
Third Secretary to Mao ..... Susan Platts (mezzo-soprano)
Mark Grey (sound director)
Paul Curran (stage director)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Singers
John Adams (conductor).
WED 22:45 The Essay (b013m6wg)
The Music Appreciation Movement
Episode 3
In the early twentieth century a prominent British movement sprang up under the title 'Music Appreciation', with the aims of introducing to 'ordinary' listeners 'great' or 'serious' music, and teaching them 'the art of listening'. Radio became a chief means by which this misson was to be accomplished, while books, adult education courses and regional 'Music Travellers', also contributed to a new educational field. In this series, musicologist and cultural historian Richard Witts of Edge Hill University explains the movement's origins, ambitions and idiosyncrasies, and clarifies why it fell out of favour in the second half of the twentieth century. In this third programme he explores the significance of programme notes, and looks at how the BBC took on the mission to inform and educate its audience about classical music.
Producer: Sara Davies
First broadcast in August 2011.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b01mf8cy)
Wednesday - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt's varied selection tonight encompasses Mouth Music (Puirt a beul) from the Western Isles, Staff Benda Bilili from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Alabama Song from the Budapest bar and Pat Metheny performing Reich's Electric Counterpoint.
PLAYLIST
(this will be updated after the broadcast)
Something To Think About
Sotho Sounds
Junk Funk
Riverboat Records/ Wold Music Network TUGCD 1066
T11
Puirt-A-Beul
Catherine-Ann MacPhee
Canan Nan Gaidheal (Language of the Gael)
Greentrax CDTRAX 009
T10
Alabama Song
Budapest Bár
Vol. 4 - Hoppá!
Sony Music Entertainment 88697910952
T10
Anonymous: Estampie Royal 'No 4'
Stevie Wishart: Sinfonye
Bella Domna Classical
Helios CDH55207
T13
Calle F
Mala
Mala in Cuba
Brownswood Recordings BW00D090CDP
T13
Robert Fripp: Pie Jesu (Live)
Robert Fripp, Andrew Keeling, David Singleton
…Performed by The Metropole Orkest conducted by Jan Stulen
The Wine of Silence
Discipline Global Mobile DGM 1102
T1
Jauk Masal
Gong Kebyar De Sebatu
The village of Sebatu, Bali
BUDA 925312
T3
John Cage: In The Name Of The Holocaust: A
Margaret Leng Tan
Daughter of the Lonesome Isle
New Albion NA070CD
T19
Sopeka
Staff Benda Bilili
Bouger le monde !
Crammed Discs CRAW 81
T 2
Whiskey Headed Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson
Drunk : CD 2 Wine Women and Song
Properbox 172
T7
One More 'Fore I Die - Featuring The Del McCoury Band
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
St. Peter & 57th St.
Decca/Rounder Records Promo
T5 + T6
Berio: Sequenza #5 For Solo Trombone
Vinko Globokar
Berio: Circles, Sequenzas 1, 3 & 5
WERGO WER 60212
T4
Puirt a beul
Various Artists
Music From The Western Isles
Greentrax records CDTRAX9002
T6
Drawing An Arc
Sidsel Endresen & Stian Westerhus
Didymoi Dreams
Runegrammofon RCD 2131
T3
In The Name Of The Holocaust: B
John Cage
Daughter of the Lonesome Isle
New Albion NA070CD
T20
I'm in a Mood
Marry Waterson & Oliver Knight
Hidden
One Little Indian TPLP1157CDP
T1
Reich: Electric Counterpoint - 1. Fast
Pat Metheny
Reich: Different Trains, Electric CounterpointWEA Elektra/Nonesuch 7559-79176-2
T4
The Old Horned Sheep & Atholl Highlanders
Fiddle & Mouth-Organ Bothy Band
Bothy Ballads
Greentrax CDTRAX9001
T14
Scotchin' With The Soda
Nat king Cole
Drunk: CD 2 Wine Women and Song
Properbox 172
T10
THURSDAY 06 SEPTEMBER 2012
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b01mdjg9)
John Shea presents the Pavel Haas Quartet in two works by Dvorak, including his ever popular 'American' quartet.
12:31 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Quartet No.12 in F major, Op.96 'American'
Pavel Haas Quartet
12:58 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Quintet in E flat major Op.97 for strings
Pavel Haas Quartet, Krzysztof Chorzelski (viola)
1:30 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
Sonatina for clarinet and piano
Valentin Uriupin (clarinet), Yelena Komissarova (piano)
1:42 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975)
Chamber Symphony (Op.110)
Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Bohdan Warchal (director)
2:05 AM
Dohnányi, Ernõ (1877-1960)
Variations on a Nursery Song (Op.25)
Arthur Ozolins (piano), Toronto Symphony, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
2:31 AM
Bortnyansky, Dmitry [1751-1825]
Concerto for chorus No.6 "Glory to God in the Highest"
Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor)
2:36 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Symphony No 1 in G minor 'Winter Daydreams'
Bergen Philharmonic, Alan Buribayev (conductor)
3:18 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto for violin and orchestra in F minor (RV.297) (Op.8 No.4) (Winter)
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)
3:26 AM
Pejacevic, Dora (1885-1923)
Four piano pieces
Ida Gamulin (piano)
3:37 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Il Pastor Fido, ballet music
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
3:48 AM
Goossens, (Aynsley) Eugene (1893-1962)
Fantasy for nine wind instruments (Op.36) (1924)
Janet Webb (flute), Guy Henderson (oboe), Lawrence Dobell & Christopher Tingay (clarinets), John Cran & Fiona McNamara (bassoons), Robert Johnson & Clarence Mellor (horns), Daniel Mendelow (trumpet)
3:58 AM
Goldmark, Károly (1830-1915)
A Winter's Tale - Overture
The Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Ervin Lukács (conductor)
4:08 AM
Fontana, Giovanni Battista (c.1592-1631)
Sonata XVI, for 3 violins & continuo
Il Giardino Armonico
4:13 AM
Spadi, Giovanni Battista (early c.17th)
Anchor che col partire, Diminution des Madrigals von Cipriano de Rore
Il Giardino Armonico
4:16 AM
Castello, Dario (first half of c.17th)
Sonata IV, for 2 violins and continuo (Libro primo. Venice 1629)
Il Giardino Armonico
4:25 AM
Kerle, Jacobus de (1531/2-1591)
Agnus Dei - super ut-re-mi-fa-so-la
Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel (director)
4:31 AM
Schoeck, Othmar (1886-1957)
Zwei Klavierstücke (Op.29)
Desmond Wright (piano)
4:39 AM
Strauss, Johann Jr (1825-1899)
Treasure Waltzes (Op.418) - from Der Zigeunerbaron Act 1 Finale
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
4:48 AM
Huggett, Andrew (b. 1955)
Suite for accordion and piano - 4 pieces based on East Canadian folksongs
Joseph Petric (accordion), Guy Few (piano)
5:02 AM
Haydn, (Johann) Michael (1737-1806)
Cantata - Lauft, ihr Hirten allzugleich (Run ye shepherds, to the light)
Salzburger Hofmusik
5:11 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Overture 'Ruy Blas' (Op.95)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Hiroyuki Iwaki (conductor)
5:20 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry [1906-1975]
Quartet for strings no. 1 (Op.49) in C major
Fine Arts Quartet
5:35 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Holberg Suite (Op.40)
Sofia Soloists, Plamen Djourov (conductor)
5:55 AM
Lotti, Antonio (1666-1740)
Sonata in F major 'Echo-Sonate' for 2 oboes, bassoon and continuo
Ensemble Zefiro
6:05 AM
Bortnyansky, Dmitry [1751-1825]
Choral Concerto No.28 "Blessed is the Man"
Tasia Buchna (soprano), Valentina Slezniova (contralto), Vasyl Kovalenko (tenor), Fedir Brauner (tenor), Evgen Zubko (bass), Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor)
6:13 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Variations on a theme by Haydn (Op.56a) vers. for orchestra "St Antoni Chorale"
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Marek Janowski (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b01mdkr8)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b01mdjp7)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Anne Queffélec playing Scarlatti Sonatas. WARNER APEX 0927 44353 2
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, violinist, David Oistrakh.
10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest is Miranda Krestovnikoff. She studied zoology at Bristol University, and from 1998 has appeared in very popular TV programmes on wildlife conservation and the environment, including The One Show, Coast and Countryfile. A keen musician, she spends a lot of her spare time making music. She plays the flute, bassoon, piano and recorders, and also sings. She currently plays with the New Bristol Sinfonia, and in 1994 she formed her own a cappella choir, Partsong, which she directed for eight years.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Berlioz: Harold in Italy, Op 16
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Rudolph Barshai (viola)
David Oistrakh (conductor)
MELODIYA MEL CD 10 01955.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01mdlj4)
John Adams (1947-)
Wide Open Spaces
Donald Macleod's guest this week, John Adams, has said of his music that 'in a sense, all of my pieces are travel pieces - it's the way I experience musical form'. Today, the composer talks about some of his journeys in sound, about comparisons that have been made between himself and Copland, and about the health of American contemporary music. And we hear a piece named after an actual truck stop high up in the Sierra Nevada in California: Hallelujah Junction.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01mdljd)
Verbier Festival 2011
Valery Sokolov, Bryn Terfel
The third of four programmes this week featuring performances from the 2011 Verbier Festival. Today violinist Valery Sokolov and pianist Nelson Goerner play Prokofiev's First Violin Sonata, and bass-baritone Bryn Terfel is joined by pianist Llyr Williams in Ibert's Chanson de Don Quichotte and Three Shakespeare Songs by Roger Quilter.
Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No 1
Valery Sokolov (violin), Nelson Goerner (piano)
Ibert: Chanson de Don Quichotte
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Llyr Williams (piano)
Quilter: 3 Shakepeare Songs
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Llyr Williams (piano)
Trad Welsh: Ar hyd y nos
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Llyr Williams (piano).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01mdljw)
Proms 2012 Repeats
Prom 56 - Goehr, Knussen, Grime, Debussy
With Jonathan Swain
Oliver Knussen celebrates his 60th birthday with the BBC Symphony Orchestra: his own 3rd Symphony, works by Alexander Goehr, Helen Grime and Debussy's exquisite The Martyrdom of St Sebastian.
Alexander Goehr: Metamorphosis/Dance
Oliver Knussen: Symphony No.3
Helen Grime: Night Songs (BBC commission: world premiere)
Debussy: The Martyrdom of St Sebastian (complete, without narration)
Presented by Louise Fryer
Claire Booth (soprano)
Polly May (mezzo-soprano)
Clare McCaldin (mezzo-soprano)
BBC National Chorus of Wales
New London Chamber Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b01mdljy)
Counterpoise Ensemble, Christopher Purves, Harry Christophers
Sean Rafferty presents, with guests including Eleonor Bron and the Counterpoise ensemble, performing together in an enterprising words and music event at London's National Gallery this week. Plus Harry Christophers, conductor of the Sixteen choir, and baritone Christopher Purves.
Plus, our week-long celebration of the Grimm Fairy Tales, published 200 years ago, continues. Leading writers including Sir Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and Michael Morpurgo, discuss the tales with presenter Suzy Klein and read extracts from their own re-imaginings of the Fairy Tales.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:00 Composer of the Week (b01mdlj4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:00 BBC Proms (b01mf8q4)
Prom 73
Beethoven
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley.
One of the great musical partnerships is celebrated tonight, as the pianist Murray Perahia joins conductor Bernard Haitink and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto, undoubtedly the most personal - and radical - of the five. Bruckner's monumental last symphony also promises to be a highlight of this year's Proms. Bernard Haitink is one of the great interpreters of this profoundly spiritual music, and Bruckner himself described the Vienna Philharmonic as "the most superior" orchestra.
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G
Murray Perahia (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor).
THU 19:45 Twenty Minutes (b01mf8q6)
Incident on Lake Geneva
"On the banks of Lake Geneva, close to the small Swiss resort of Villeneuve, a fisherman who had rowed into the lake one summer night in the year 1918, noticed a strange object in the middle of the water..."
In Stefan Zweig's famous story, translated by Anthea Bell, a man clings to driftwood out on the lake. When he's brought ashore the townsfolk react to his arrival in different ways. Just who is he, this stranger, talking in an odd language?
Reader Dermot Crowley
Producer Duncan Minshull.
THU 20:05 BBC Proms (b01mf8q8)
Prom 73
Bruckner
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley.
One of the great musical partnerships is celebrated tonight, as the pianist Murray Perahia joins conductor Bernard Haitink and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto, undoubtedly the most personal - and radical - of the five. Bruckner's monumental last symphony also promises to be a highlight of this year's Proms. Bernard Haitink is one of the great interpreters of this profoundly spiritual music, and Bruckner himself described the Vienna Philharmonic as "the most superior" orchestra.
8.05pm Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor
Murray Perahia (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor).
THU 21:30 Sunday Feature (b0167s6y)
Hungary's Soul: Liszt and Gypsy Music
Presented by George Szirtes
Hungary has become synonymous with gypsy music. In the 200th Anniversary year of Liszt's birth, the Hungarian-born poet George Szirtes set off to Budapest to follow Liszt's book on gypsy music, to discover what might be meant by gypsy music by other people and what it is about this music that is or is not Hungarian.
Liszt's book (1859) is the starting point of George Szirtes's search that takes in Hungary's turbulent history, through two world wars and communism to now. George Szirtes speaks to prominent gypsy musicians like violinist Roby Lakatos and cimbalom player Kalman Balogh, and also the internationally renowned folk singer Marta Sebestyen.
He also travels to the north-east region of the Great Hungarian Plain, where there are many rural Roma villages and where he speaks to members of the band Parno Graszt to find out about rural gypsy music today. The programme includes original field recordings of Parno Graszt which were recorded in one of the band members' home, as well as a rich mix of recorded music.
In Budapest, George Szirtes speaks to Kodaly's last-living student, Balint Sarosi, Peter Szuhay, who is the curator of an exhibition on Liszt and Gypsy Music, and an expert on Roma life at the Hungarian Academy, Katalin Kovalcsik. He also speaks to Agnes Osztolykan, who is the first female Roma representative in the Hungarian Parliament and a recent winner of the International Women of Courage Award.
Before travelling to Budapest, he speaks to concert pianist and Liszt expert, Leslie Howard and the world-music writer, Simon Broughton.
The programme ends with a newly commissioned poem by George Szirtes that reflects on his personal search for Liszt's gypsy music.
Producer: Elizabeth Arno
First broadcast in October 2011.
THU 22:15 BBC Proms (b01mf9cn)
2012
Prom 74 - Staff Benda Bilili, Baloji
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Live for the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Mary Ann Kennedy
A late night Prom with the Congolese street band Staff Benda Bilili, who perform music from their latest Album Bouger Le Monde (Make the World Move) and are also joined by the brilliant Congolese-Belgo rapper Baloji.
Staff Benda Bilili, a group of paraplegic street musicians and ex-street kids from the Democratic Republic of Congo, are one of the most inspiring success stories in the global music scene. They live around the grounds of the zoo in Kinshasa and make music rooted in Soukous (or African rumba) with elements of old-school rhythm and blues, reggae and funk. In this late night Prom they perform material from their latest release Bouger Le Monde, and also join forces with the Congolese-born and Belgian-educated rapper Baloji, who mixes old and cutting-edge sounds with bitingly modern lyrics.
THU 23:45 Late Junction (b01mf9cq)
Thursday - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt presents a compact edition with a selection that includes Belmondo's Lip (Don Byron), A suite for Toy Piano (John Cage), a Juliette Greco classic (Si tu t'imagines) and An African street Parade (Abdullah Ibrahim).
PLAYLIST
(this will be updated after the broadcast)
Si tu t'imagines
3:18
Juliette Gréco
Collector
Milan 399 402-3
T1
Puirt-A-Beul
3:34
Catherine-Ann MacPhee
Canan Nan Gaidheal (Language of the Gael)
Greentrax CDTRAX 009
T3
The No Testament
3:12
Sam Carter
The No Testament
Captain Records CAP003
T12
Cape Town To Congo Square –
1st Movement African Street Parade
7:36
Abdullah Ibrahim
Cape Town Revisited
Tip Toe/Ekapa TIP-8888362
T3
John Cage
Suite For A Toy Piano
John Cage
Daughter of the Lonesome Isle
New Albion NA070CD
T13 -17
Chase the Devil
3:11
Budapest Bár
Vol. 4 - Hoppá!
Sony Music Entertainment 88697910952
T11
Pink Champagne
3:04
Joe Liggins
Drunk CD3 Juiced
Properbox 172
T 15
Dub-Ya
0:59
Belmondo's Lip
3:07
Don Byron
You Are #6
Blue Note 5322312
T6 + T7
The Legend Of The Swan Brothers
6:34
AnDa Union
The Wind Horse
Hohot
CDR T13
FRIDAY 07 SEPTEMBER 2012
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b01mdjgc)
John Shea presents a concert given by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra featuring two Schubert symphonies and Beethoven's 2nd Piano Concerto with soloist Simone Dinnerstein.
12:31 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Symphony no. 3 in D major D.200
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Mario Venzago (conductor)
12:53 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Concerto no. 2 in B flat major Op.19 for piano and orchestra
Simone Dinnerstein (piano), Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Mario Venzago (conductor)
1:23 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
No.1 from Kinderszenen Op.15 for piano
Simone Dinnerstein (piano)
1:25 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Symphony no. 8 in B minor, compl. Brian Newbould
Simone Dinnerstein (piano), Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Mario Venzago (conductor)
2:07 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Neue Liebeslieder - waltzes for voices & piano duet (Op.65)
Anna-Maria Miranda (soprano), Clara Wirtz (alto), Jean-Claude Orleac (tenor), Udo Reinemann (baritone), Noël Lee & Christian Ivaldi (piano)
2:31 AM
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934)
Violin Concerto
Philippe Djokic (violin), Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
2:59 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Sonata for recorder and continuo (TWV.41:C2) in C major (from Der getrue Music-Meister, 1728-29)
Camerata Köln
3:06 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Piano Sonata in B minor (S.178)
Yuri Boukoff (piano)
3:35 AM
Trad (arr. Michael Hurst)
Ten Thousand Miles Away
West Australian Symphony Orchestra, David Measham (conductor)
3:42 AM
Moszkowski, Moritz (1854-1925)
Romance sans Paroles
David Drury (William Hill and Son organ of Sydney town Hall, Australia)
3:46 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto for 2 trumpets and orchestra in C major (RV.537)
Toni Grcar and Stanko Arnold (trumpets), Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
3:53 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
In Autumn, Overture (Op.11)
Orchestre National de France, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
4:06 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Danse macabre - symphonic poem trans. for piano
Eugen d'Albert (piano)
4:14 AM
Ibert, Jacques [1890-1962]
Trio for violin, cello and harp
András Ligeti (violin), Idilko Radi (cello), Eva Maros (harp)
4:31 AM
Strauss, Johann II (1825-1899)
Wienerblut (waltz) (Op.354)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Borge Wagner (conductor)
4:41 AM
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909)
Cordoba - from Cantos de Espana (Op.232 No.4)
Eolina Quartet
4:47 AM
Anon (15th century Italy)
A Florence la joyose cite - for portative organ, lute, bass recorder and female voice
Ensemble Claude-Gervaise, Gilles Plante (director)
4:50 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor [1887-1959]
Kyrie and Gloria from 'Missa Sao Sebastiao'
Danish National Girls Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor)
5:02 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.104 in D major (H.
1.104) 'London'
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Philippe Entremont (Conductor)
5:30 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927)
Four Stockholmsdikter (4 Stockholm poems) vers. for voice and piano (Op.38)
Karl-Magnus Fredriksson (baritone), Stefan Nilsson (piano)
5:41 AM
Antonello da Caserta
Dame d'onour (ballade, 41v) from the Manuscript of Modena
Mala Punica
5:55 AM
Delibes, Leo [1836-1891]
Les Filles de Cadix
Eir Inderhaug (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marbà (conductor)
6:01 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli (S.162)
Janina Fialkowska (piano)
6:10 AM
Gershwin, George (1898-1937)
An American in Paris
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b01mdkrb)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b01mdjpp)
Friday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Anne Queffélec playing Scarlatti Sonatas. WARNER APEX 0927 44353 2
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, violinist, David Oistrakh.
10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest is Miranda Krestovnikoff. She studied zoology at Bristol University, and from 1998 has appeared in very popular TV programmes on wildlife conservation and the environment, including The One Show, Coast and Countryfile. A keen musician, she spends a lot of her spare time making music. She plays the flute, bassoon, piano and recorders, and also sings. She currently plays with the New Bristol Sinfonia, and in 1994 she formed her own a cappella choir, Partsong, which she directed for eight years.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Schubert orch. Koechlin: Wanderer Fantasy, D760
SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart
Florian Hoelscher (piano)
Heinz Holliger (conductor)
HANSSLER CLASSIC CD 93286.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01mdlkb)
John Adams (1947-)
Stage Works
John Adams is perhaps best known for his operas, which are usually based on topical events and real people, and some of which have sparked controversy. In the last of this week's programmes, Adams talks to Donald Macleod about his stage works. He discusses his feelings about the furore over the first performances of The Death of Klinghoffer more than 20 years ago, the kind of subjects he considers suitable for operatic treatment, and whether he will write another one.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01mdlkx)
Verbier Festival 2011
Leonidas Kavakos, Enrico Pace, Denis Matsuev
In the final programme this week featuring performances recorded at the 2011 Verbier Festival, violinist Leonidas Kavakos and pianist Enrico Pace perform Shostakovich's powerful and searching Violin Sonata, and Denis Matsuev plays Stravinsky's virtuosic piano transcriptions of Three Movements from his ballet Petrushka
Shostakovich: Violin Sonata
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Enrico Pace (piano)
Stravinsky: 3 Movements from Petrushka
Denis Matsuev (piano).
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01mdlkz)
Proms 2012 Repeats
Prom 57 - Wagner, Berg, Strauss, Ravel
With Jonathan Swain
Four works which in different ways reach out beyond the sound-world of late Romanticism.
The Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester is one of the great youth orchestras of the world and they make a welcome return with the Italian conductor Daniele Gatti who brings this programme fresh from a tour of the summer festivals of Salzburg, Lucerne and Edinburgh. They are joined in the Berg Violin Concerto by the German Violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann who plays a Stradivarius once owned by the great Fritz Kreisler.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Wagner: Parsifal - Prelude (Act 3) and Good Friday Music
Berg: Violin Concerto
R Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - suite
Ravel: La valse
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Daniele Gatti (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b01mdll1)
Juan Martin, Mark Simpson, Grimms' Fairy Tales
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music and guests from the arts world including star violinist Nigel Kennedy performing live in the studio. Plus Flamenco guitarist Juan Martin as he embarks on a UK tour and composer Mark Simpson talks about his new piece written for the Last Night of the Proms.
Our week-long celebration of the Grimm Fairy Tales concludes today. Writers including Sir Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and Michael Morpurgo, discuss the tales with presenter Suzy Klein and read extracts from their own re-imaginings.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01mdlkb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 BBC Proms (b01mf9jt)
Prom 75
Haydn
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
In their second Prom, Bernard Haitink and the Vienna Philharmonic perform symphonies by Haydn and Richard Strauss - two composers with whom both he and the orchestra have an unrivalled affinity.
Whilst Haydn's last symphony, written while he was living in London, was an instant critical and commercial success, Strauss's work was initially less enthusiastically received until dedicated interpreters such as Haitink took it up. In this highly programmatic symphony, Strauss mingles childhood memories of schoolboy mountaineering with a deeper, philosophical exploration of the meaning of humanity's place on earth.
Haydn: Symphony No. 104, 'London'.
FRI 20:00 BBC Proms (b01mf9jw)
Proms Plus
Proms Poetry Competition
Poet Wendy Cope and the presenter of The Verb, Ian McMillan, introduce the winning entries in the Proms Poetry Competition. The entries in the competition have all been inspired by a piece of music in this year's Proms.
FRI 20:20 BBC Proms (b01mf9jy)
Prom 75
Strauss
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
In their second Prom, Bernard Haitink and the Vienna Philharmonic perform symphonies by Haydn and Richard Strauss - two composers with whom both he and the orchestra have an unrivalled affinity.
Whilst Haydn's last symphony, written while he was living in London, was an instant critical and commercial success, Strauss's work was initially less enthusiastically received until dedicated interpreters such as Haitink took it up. In this highly programmatic symphony, Strauss mingles childhood memories of schoolboy mountaineering with a deeper, philosophical exploration of the meaning of humanity's place on earth.
R. Strauss: An Alpine Symphony.
FRI 21:45 Sunday Feature (b018h8kv)
St Vitus Dance
The dance plague in Strasbourg in 1518 started with one woman, in July. 400 citizens were infected and by the end many people, perhaps 50, had danced themselves to death. What does this epidemic tell us about bodies, minds and souls under pressure? How did unstoppable dancing make its way into stories such as The Red Shoes? Has it got anything to tell us about modern outbreaks, like Rave and Trance?
Why all this dancing?
... "There's been a strange epidemic lately/Going amongst the folk/So that many in their madness/Began Dancing, Which they kept up day and night, Without interruption/Until they fell unconscious. Many have died of it."
There have been a number of outbreaks of dance mania recorded in history, right back to 1017. Centuries before Sydenham's Chorea, it was called St Vitus Dance. In Strasbourg they believed the martyr had cursed them with this dancing penance.
Can someone really dance inadvertently? And dance to the death?
Frances Byrnes visits Strasbourg, its archives (Sebastian Brant, author of Ship of Fools, chronicled the dancing) and nearby Saverne where, at the shrine to St Vitus, the crazed dancers were led through healing rituals and each given ... a pair of red shoes by the clergy.
Was it really a dream? A nightmare? We have just enough information to set our imaginations loose on it, and not enough evidence to say too much for sure. We can wonder:
Was it an aberration (as nineteenth century writers) describe it? Or might compulsive dance be (still) a creative response to intolerable stress? Was it caused by famine, ergotism, St Vitus, drumming or adrenalin? What's the optimum music to get people dancing? Is dance contagious? Why are the insane depicted as rocking, stereotypically: why are fools always shown hopping and leaping? Why is death shown as dancing: and why on earth did the Council in Strasbourg hire musicians to play drums and pipes to keep the poor compulsive dancers dancing, and even build a stage for them? And aren't those the very instruments cadavers play in the Danse Macabre murals, with their incessant beat?
Frances Byrnes visits Ben Hammond, as he goes into the Guinness Book of Records for dancing longer than anyone else; Ethel Maqeda, who witnessed an outbreak of possession when she was growing up; 9 Waves dancer, Sarah Blagg, and members of Bluemouth Inc., (a theatre group who perform Dance Marathons) for their insights.
She also talks to ... historians, like John Waller (Author, A Time To Dance, A Time To Die); Professor Gordon Turnbull (Author, Trauma), Psychologist, Dr Peter Lovatt, "Dr Dance"; Sophie Oosterwijk (expert on the Danse Macabre), to try to deduce what's going on.
And now: why do we dance when we are troubled? Why can't we stop dancing? Is it still possible to be so troubled our bodies will move despite us? And is dancing a sin?
Is it too fanciful to point out that the British dance booms of the last 80 years have all coincided with recession/depression? Why dance? Why not riot, occupy, scream?
First broadcast in December 2011.
FRI 22:30 BBC Proms (b01mf9q1)
Proms Plus Late
07/09/2012
Informal post-Prom music and poetry from emerging young artists.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b013n0kw)
The Music Appreciation Movement
Episode 4
In the early twentieth century a prominent British movement sprang up under the title 'Music Appreciation', with the aims of introducing to 'ordinary' listeners 'great' or 'serious' music, and teaching them 'the art of listening'. Radio became a chief means by which this misson was to be accomplished, while books, adult education courses and regional 'Music Travellers', also contributed to a new educational field. In this series, musicologist and cultural historian Richard Witts explains the movement's origins, ambitions and idiosyncrasies, and suggests why it fell out of favour in the second half of the twentieth century. In this final programme he explores the movement's excursion into film, and links its demise to a new broadcasting era.
Producer: Sara Davies
First broadcast in August 2011.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b01mf9px)
KonKoma in Session
Mary Ann Kennedy with the latest sounds from around the globe, including a specially recorded studio session from London-based Afro-funk outfit KonKoma.