Antonella Balducci (soprano), Ulrike Clausen (alto), Frieder Lang (tenor), Fulvio Bettini (baritone), Chorus of Swiss-Italian Radio, Ensemble Vanitas Lugano, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
Nikolay Evrov (piano), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
Pärt, Arvo (b. 1935)
Klára Havlíková (piano), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava,Ondrej Lenárd (conductor)
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet), Colm Carey (organ of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London)
Camerata Köln: Michael Schneider (recorder), Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe), Michael McCraw (bassoon), Mary Utiger & Hajo Bäß (violins), Rainer Zipperling (cello), Harald Hoeren (harpsichord)
Martin Michael Koffer (flute), Slovenicum Chamber Orchestra, Uros Lajovic (conductor).
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Virtuoso and Romantic Encores for Violin, RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 63960
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, Frans Brüggen.
This Saturday (10th November) is World Science Day for Peace and Development, and Sarah Walker's guest on Essential Classics is the distinguished British physicist Dame Athene Margaret Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge's Department of Physics.
Dame Athene is director of WiSETI, Cambridge University's Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Initiative, and the University's Gender Equality Champion. She is also chairwoman of the Athena Forum, which aims to advance the career progression and representation of women in the sciences in UK higher education, and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering. In 2011 she was made a Trustee of the National Museum of Science in Industry.
In 2009 Dame Athene was one of the five recipients of the L'Oreal/UNESCO Women in Science award. The following year she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours, and in 2011 she won the UKRC's Women of Outstanding Achievement's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Donald Macleod explores Felix Mendelssohn's last seven years, starting with his appointment in 1841 to the post of Royal Prussian Kapellmeister in his home town of Berlin. For the previous six years Mendelssohn had been based in Leipzig, as director of the Gewandhaus Concerts. He had been spectacularly successful, turning the orchestra there into one of the finest in Europe - and thereby making himself an attractive prospect for neighbouring rulers to poach. The new king of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm IV, wanted to make Berlin a cultural centre to be reckoned with, and had decided that Mendelssohn was the man for the job. After six months of strenuous but largely unsuccessful attempts to hammer out the responsibilities of his post, Mendelssohn was offered a lucrative one-year contract on a pretty much take-it-or-leave-it basis; he took it, but the job remained ill-defined and he grew increasingly frustrated - not least with the lack of any progress whatsoever on the proposed new Berlin Conservatory, the creation of which had been a major carrot during the negotiations. Mendelssohn's incidental music to Sophocles' Antigone is one of the few fruits of this first Berlin post; but at least he had plenty of time to get to grips with the composition of his 'Scottish' Symphony, the seeds of which had been sown during his visit to the ruins of Queen Mary's palace of Holyrood in 1829. On hearing the symphony, one contemporary critic astutely commented, "we may prophesy that it will rouse pure feeling of pleasure everywhere".
Schumann: Sag an, o lieber Vogel mein; Dem roten Röslein gleicht mein Lieb; Was soll ich sagen; Jasminenstrauch; Volksliedchen; Verratene Liebe
Schumann: Mignon Lieder, Op 98: Kennst du das land?; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Heiss mich nicht redden; So lass mich scheinen
Schumann: 'Five heroines': Die Löwenbraut; Die Nonne; Loreley; Die Soldatenbraut; Die Kartenlegerin.
Louise Fryer celebrates Dutch Orchestras and ensembles with a series of concerts given at the Concertgebouw and in Utrecht. The Royal Concertgebouw perform Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, written for the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1930, and America is also the theme for the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in music by Gershwin and Bernstein. Plus Mozart's Kegelstatt Trio from the Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival, and Bernard Haitink conducts the Royal Concertgebouw in Strauss's mighty Alpine Symphony.
Sean Rafferty's guests today include sensation of the early music world, Italian contralto Sonia Prina - in London for an eagerly anticipated recital at Wigmore Hall.
Rapidly rising star pianist Francesco Piemontesi will perform live in the In Tune studio, ahead of his recital at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Plus, students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama perform live music from their upcoming celebration of Catalan composers.
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The Kungsbacka Trio performs live as part of the Sound Festival from the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen featuring a new work by Huw Watkins alongside well-loved works of the trio repertoire; Beethoven's 'Ghost' trio, nicknamed after the eerie-sounding opening of its second movement and Rachmaninov's Trio Elegiaque written in memory of Tchaikovsky.
Beethoven - Trio in D Op. 70/1 'Ghost'
Rachmaninov: Elegiac Trio No. 2
Stephen Johnson looks at how Rachmaninov's second Elegiac Trio pays tribute to Tchaikovsky, and follows that composer's own work of the same name in a long tradition of memorial piano trios in Eastern European classical music.
The Kungsbacka Trio performs live as part of the Sound Festival from the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen featuring a new work by Huw Watkins alongside well-loved works of the trio repertoire; Beethoven's 'Ghost' trio, nicknamed after the eerie-sounding opening of its second movement and Rachmaninov's Trio Elegiaque written in memory of Tchaikovsky.
Rachmaninov - Trio Elegiaque No. 2 in D, Op. 9
On the eve of the US election, Michael Ignatieff gives a talk on Enemies in Politics at the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2012.
After a high-profile career in the UK as a broadcaster, law academic and Booker shortlisted author, Michael Ignatieff returned to Canada to become a politician, leading the Canadian Opposition in the 2011 election and losing dramatically to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Ignatieff's Free Thinking talk is titled "Them and Us: Enemies and Adversaries in Politics". Addressing this year's central festival theme "Them and Us", he blames excessive partisanship for the public's dislike of politics. Why is political competition so vicious when party differences are so small?
Michael Ignatieff reveals what he believes needs to be done to restore faith in politics.
BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival takes place at The Sage Gateshead 2 - 4 November and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 2 November.
Charlotte Blease, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk that questions the relationship between doctors and patients, recorded at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival.
We trust the 36,000 GPs in this country to work out what is wrong with us. But how much of what they do is guesswork?
In her talk titled "The Medicine Game", philosopher of medicine Charlotte Blease of Queen's University Belfast argues that the relationship between doctors and patients is built on a phoney image of medicine, and instead diagnosis involves playing the "medicine game".
The Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival takes place at The Sage Gateshead Friday 2 - Sunday 4 November and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 2 November.
The New Generation Thinkers are winners of a talent scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find the brightest academic minds in the arts and humanities with the potential to turn their ideas into broadcasts.
Jez Nelson presents Jim Hart's Cloudmakers Trio in an exclusive session with guest saxophonist Antonin-Tri Hoang. Hart is a founder member of the London-based Loop Collective and has in the last 5 years become established as one of the UK's most exciting vibraphone players. His latest project, Cloudmakers, features American bassist Michael Janisch and regular bandmate Dave Smith on drums. Their music blends the contemporary European tradition with influences such as Thelonious Monk and the New York downtown scene - the band have just released a live album with avant-garde East-Coast trumpeter Ralph Alessi. Here, they team up for the first time with young French saxophonist Antonin-Tri Hoang - a member of cutting-edge large ensemble the Orchestre National de Jazz.
TUESDAY 06 NOVEMBER 2012
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b01nphrr)
06-Nov-12
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Symphony no. 4 (Op.60) in B flat major
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Boyd (conductor)
1:06 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Symphony no. 6 (Op.68) in F major 'Pastoral'
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Boyd (conductor)
1:50 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]; German libretto by Baron von Swieten (1733-1803) (BvS was early sponsor of Beethoven and dedicatee of 1st Symphony)
Die Schopfung (H.21.2) Part 3 - Nos. 29 & 30
Isa Katharina Gericke (soprano) Eve; Jochen Kupfer (baritone) Adam; Oslo Chamber Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra; Christopher Bell (conductor)
2:03 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
V prirode (Op.91)
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
2:18 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
4 Folk Songs: Mo Nighean Dhu (My dark-haired maiden); O Mistress Mine ; Six Dukes went afishin' ; Mary Thomson
Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor)
2:31 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto for violin and orchestra (RV.234) in D major 'Inquietudine'
Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca
2:37 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Sea Pictures (Op.37)
Kristina Hammarström (mezzo soprano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
3:01 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
String Quartet in C minor (Op.18 No.4)
Pavel Haas Quartet
3:26 AM
Gabrieli, Giovanni (c.1553-1612)
Exaudi me,
Danish National Radio Chorus, Copenhagen Cornetts & Sackbutts, Lars Baunkilde (violone), Soren Christian Vestergaard (organ), Bo Holten (conductor)
3:32 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto no.2 (BWV.1047) in F major
Alexis Kossenko (recorder), Erik Niord Larsen (oboe), Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Elise Båtnes (violin), Risör Festival Strings, Knut Johannessen (harpsichord)
3:44 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Wiegenlied (Chant du berceau) (1881)
Jos Van Immerseel (piano - instrument is an Erard of 1897)
3:48 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Berceuse (Op.57)
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
3:53 AM
Rózycki, Ludomir (1884-1953)
Symphonic Poem: Mona Lisa Gioconda (Op.31)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Czepiel (conductor)
4:04 AM
Farkas, Ferenc (1905-2000)
5 Ancient Hungarian Dances for wind quintet
Tae-Won Kim (male) (flute), Hyong-Sup Kim (male) & Pil-Kwan Sung (male) (oboes), Hyon-Kon Kim (male) (clarinet), Sang-Won Yoon (male) (bassoon)
4:14 AM
Enescu, George (1881-1955)
Concert Piece for viola and piano
Tabea Zimmermann (viola, Germany), Monique Savary (piano)
4:23 AM
Selma y Salaverde, Bartolomé de (~1585-~1638)
Canzona terza
Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (director)
4:31 AM
Leclair, Jean-Marie (1697-1764)
Violin Concerto in D major (Op.10 No.3)
Simon Standage (violin), Il Tempo Ensemble
4:46 AM
Salzedo, Carlos (1885-1961)
Tango - from 2 Dances for 2 Harps
Julia Shaw and Nora Bumanis (harps)
4:49 AM
Falla, Manuel de (1876-1946)
Siete canciones populares españolas (El pano moruno; Seguidilla murciana; Asturiana; Jota; Nana; Cancion; Polo)
Jard van Nes (mezzo soprano), Gérard van Blerk (piano)
5:02 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in B minor (Kk.87)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
5:09 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Overture to "Des Teufels Lustschloss" (The Devil's Castle) opera
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor)
5:19 AM
Albinoni, Tomaso (1671-1751)
Concerto for 2 oboes, strings and basso continuo (Op.9/9)
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (director)
5:30 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Dolly - Suite for piano duet (Op.56)
Erzsébet Tusa, Istvan Lantos (pianos)
5:44 AM
Klami, Uuno (1900-1961)
Symphonie enfantine (Op.17) (1928)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pertti Pekkanen (conductor)
6:00 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Trio for piano, clarinet and viola (K.498) in E flat major "Kegelstatt"
Martin Fröst (clarinet); Antoine Tamestit (viola); Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
6:19 AM
Barber, Samuel (1910-1981)
Adagio for Strings (Op.11)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Richard Dufallo (conductor).
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b01nphzm)
Tuesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b01npj0n)
Tuesday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Virtuoso and Romantic Encores for Violin, RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 63960
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, Frans Brüggen.
10.30am
This Saturday (10th November) is World Science Day for Peace and Development, and Sarah Walker's guest on Essential Classics is the distinguished British physicist Dame Athene Margaret Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge's Department of Physics.
Dame Athene is director of WiSETI, Cambridge University's Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Initiative, and the University's Gender Equality Champion. She is also chairwoman of the Athena Forum, which aims to advance the career progression and representation of women in the sciences in UK higher education, and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering. In 2011 she was made a Trustee of the National Museum of Science in Industry.
In 2009 Dame Athene was one of the five recipients of the L'Oreal/UNESCO Women in Science award. The following year she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours, and in 2011 she won the UKRC's Women of Outstanding Achievement's Lifetime Achievement Award.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Sibelius: King Christian II: Incidental Music, Op. 27
Scottish National Orchestra
Alexander Gibson (conductor)
EMI 85785.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0107459)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Episode 2
Donald Macleod continues his exploration of Mendelssohn's last seven years. Christmas 1842 must have been a bleak one in the Mendelssohn household; on 12 December the composer's mother, Lea, had died. Wealthy, cultured, intelligent and larger than life, Lea Mendelssohn had presided over a salon frequented by some of the greatest minds of the day. Mendelssohn's father, Abraham, had died some years earlier, so as the composer now wrote to his brother Paul: "We are children no longer." Understandably, fresh composition was difficult, and he started the new year by revising an old work - Die Erste Walpurgisnacht. Then there was a series of concerts to conduct in Berlin, along with the none-too-onerous 'duties' of his new, resounding-sounding appointment as Generalmusikdirector für kirchliche und geistliche Musik - although this did result in the incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream. When he had negotiated his new contract with the Prussian king, Friedrich Wilhelm IV, it had been agreed that Mendelssohn could spend part of 1843 in his old stamping-ground, Leipzig. On his arrival there he was promptly offered the job of Director of Music to the Saxon court - he declined, but managed to persuade King Frederick Augustus III to establish a new music conservatory in the city. He also conducted a series of eight subscription concerts, was granted the Freedom of the city of Leipzig, and unveiled a monument to his musical hero, J S Bach. Back in Berlin, he was driven up the wall by the Prussian government's shilly-shallying over the conditions attached to his new post in charge of church music. He worked off some of his frustration in paint - not just a prodigious composer, he was a talented artist as well - and in the composition of his exuberant 2nd Cello Sonata.
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01c9qss)
LSO St Luke's: Nash Ensemble Series
Episode 1
The first of four concerts this week given by the Nash Ensemble at LSO St Luke's in London, each featuring a major chamber work by Brahms. Today they perform two late quartet movements by Mendelssohn and one of Brahms's own late masterpieces, the Clarinet Quintet.
Presented by Louise Fryer
Mendelssohn: Andante and Scherzo for string quartet Op 81, Nos 1-2
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115
Nash Ensemble:
Richard Hosford (clarinet)
Stephanie Gonley (violin)
Laura Samuel (violin)
Philip Dukes (viola)
Paul Watkins (cello)
First broadcast in February 2012.
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01npj44)
Dutch Orchestras and Ensembles
Episode 2
Afternoon on 3 continues its focus on Dutch orchestras and ensembles. Today's programme includes Haydn from the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Faure's Piano Quartet no.1 from the Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival and Holst's Planets performed by Capella Amsterdam and the Royal Concertgebouw.
Presented by Louise Fryer.
2pm
Haydn: Symphony no.82 in C, 'The Bear'
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic
Frans Brüggen (conductor)
Faure: Piano Quartet no.1 in C, Op.15
Roland Pöntinen (piano)
Janine Jansen (violin)
Amihai Grosz (viola)
Daniel Blendulf (cello)
3pm
Schubert: Rondo in A, D.438
Bach: Concerto for Violin and Oboe, BWV.1060
Tjeerd Toop (violin)
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe)
Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra
Marleen Asberg (conductor)
3.35pm
Holst: The Planets
Capella Amsterdam
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
James Judd (conductor).
TUE 16:30 In Tune (b01npj5d)
Gwyneth Herbert, Aoife Miskelly, William Vann
With the 2012 London Jazz Festival fast approaching, Sean Rafferty gets into the mood today with live music from vocal sensation Gwyneth Herbert, appearing in no less than 3 Festival gigs this year.
Also today, live music from young upcoming soprano Aoife Miskelly and pianist William Vann, ahead of their recital for the Belfast Music Society.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b0107459)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01npj9n)
Il Pomo d'Oro in Vivaldi
Live from Wigmore Hall, London.
Presented by Martin Handley.
Violinist Riccardo Minasi directs an international team in cantatas and arias by Vivaldi, with contralto Sonia Prina and recently-formed baroque orchestra Il Pomo d'Oro.
Vivaldi: Cantata - 'Perfidissimo cor!' RV674
Brescianello: Sinfonia in F Op.1 no. 5
Vivaldi: Cantata - 'Cessate, omai cessate' RV684;
8.10: Interval: Vivaldi on kotos - Autumn and Winter from The Four Seasons played by the New Koto Ensemble of Tokyo directed by Yoshikazu Fukumura
8.30: Vivaldi: Concerto in C for violin RV181a
Arias - 'Cosi potessi anch'io' from 'Orlando furioso'; 'Se in ogni guardo' from 'Orlando finto pazzo'
Concerto in E minor for violin 'Il favorito' RV277
Cantata - 'Amor, hai vinto' RV651
The orchestra Il Pomo d'Oro was formed last year, a coming together of some of the foremost specialists in authentic performance on period instruments. As this season's Principal Conductor they chose violinist Riccardo Minasi, who has worked as a soloist and leader with many of Europe's leading period ensembles. The orchestra is named after the opera by Antonio Cesti, and they specalise in performing with singers, especially in opera. Sonia Prina is also a baroque and classical specialist, though she first made her name with performances of Rossini - her distinctive contralto voice has been heard in opera houses and concert halls worldwide.
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (b01npj5g)
2012 Festival
Is Social Mobility Overrated?
Anne McElvoy chairs a debate on Social Mobility at the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival: Is Social Mobility Overrated?
Social Mobility has become the new Holy Grail for politicians, with all three main parties united in their desire to break down social barriers and inequality. It's an emotive topic in Britain, raising issues of class, wealth and education.
But for some people to rise up, do others have to slide down? And does greater openness to talent necessarily make a more equal society?
Tackling the Free Thinking Festival's central theme "Them and Us" is a panel including Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee, Oxford historian Lawrence Goldman, management consultant Jamie Whyte, and Director of SCHOOLS NorthEast Beccy Earnshaw.
The event is chaired by Night Waves presenter Anne McElvoy and recorded as part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2012.
The festival of ideas takes place at The Sage Gateshead Friday 2 - Sunday 4 November and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 2 November.
TUE 22:45 Free Thinking (b01npj7n)
Free Thinking Essay
Part 2
Adriana Sinclair, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the control ex-colonies increasingly exert over their former colonial powers, recorded at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2012.
Lecturer in International Relations at the University of East Anglia, Adriana Sinclair argues that as Asia rises and Europe fades, new patterns and forms of exploitation and domination will emerge that could turn the tables on the old world.
The Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival takes place at The Sage Gateshead Friday 2 - Sunday 4 November and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 2 November.
The New Generation Thinkers are winners of a talent scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find the brightest academic minds in the arts and humanities with the potential to turn their ideas into broadcasts.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b01npj81)
Tuesday - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt presents music from South and North Korea, a Rude Audio piece remixed by Geese, Chapelier Fou's musical sketch of Fritz Lang and Astral Adjustments from Center of the Universe.
WEDNESDAY 07 NOVEMBER 2012
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b01nphs6)
07-Nov-12
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Symphony no. 8 in F major Op.93
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Boyd (conductor)
12:56 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Symphony no. 7 in A major Op.92
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Boyd (conductor)
1:37 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance in C major (Op.46 No.1)
James Anagnoson and Leslie Kinton (piano)
1:42 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance in E minor (Op.46 No.2)
James Anagnoson and Leslie Kinton (piano)
1:47 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance in F major (Op.46 No.4)
James Anagnoson and Leslie Kinton (pianos)
1:54 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Swan Lake (ballet suite)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
2:15 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Il Pastor Fido, ballet music
English Baroque Solists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
2:26 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
Handel in the Strand
Leslie Howard (piano)
2:31 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Symphony No.3 in E flat major (Op.10)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Hiroyuki Iwaki (conductor)
3:03 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Variations on a Theme of Corelli (Op.42)
Duncan Gifford (piano)
3:23 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Concerto grosso (Op.6 No.8) in G minor 'per la notte di Natale'
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
3:38 AM
Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992)
O Sacrum Convivium!
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
3:43 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Impromptu No.3 in B flat major (from 4 Impromptus D.935) (1828)
Ilze Graubina (piano)
3:52 AM
Ranta, Sulho (1901-1960)
Finnish Folk Dances - suite for orchestra (Op.51)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
4:01 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Ballet music: 'Dance of the Blessed Spirits' - from 'Orphée et Euridice'
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
4:08 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich [1804-1857]
Trio pathetique for clarinet, bassoon and piano in D minor
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Ekaterina Apekisheva (piano), Boris Andrianov (cello)
4:23 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918), orchestrated by Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Danse (Tarantelle styrienne)
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
4:31 AM
Auber, Daniel-Francois-Esprit (1782-1871)
Overture to 'Marco Spada'
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
4:41 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Künft'ger Zeiten eitler Kummer (HWV.202) - No.1 from Deutsche Arien (orig for soprano, violin & bc, arranged for oboe, violin and organ)
Hélène Plouffe (violin), Louise Pellerin (oboe), Dom André Laberge (organ - 1999 Karl Wilhelm at the abbey church Saint-Benoît-du-Lac)
4:47 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in C major (K.545)
Vanda Albota (piano)
4:58 AM
Janacek, Leos [1854-1928]
Mladi (Youth) - Suite for wind sextet
Anita Szabó (flute), Béla Horváth (oboe), Zsolt Szatmári (clarinet), György Salamon (bass clarinet), Pál Bokor (bassoon), Tamás Zempléni (horn)
5:15 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Rejoice in the Lord alway 'Bell Anthem' (Z.49)
Robert Lawaty (countertenor), Robert Pozarski (tenor), Miroslaw Borczynski (bass), Sine Nomine Chamber Choir, Concerto Polacco Baroque Orchestra, Marek Toporowski (director)
5:24 AM
Khachaturian, Aram (1903-1978)
Piano concerto in D flat major
Patrik Jablonski (piano), Polish Radio Orchestra of Warsaw, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
6:01 AM
Valentini, Giuseppe (1681-1753)
Un dì soletto, a 7
La Capella Ducale, Musica Fiata Köln
6:07 AM
Rodrigo, Joaquín (1901-1999)
Concierto de Aranjuez
Norbert Kraft (guitar), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b01nphzp)
Wednesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b01npj0q)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Virtuoso and Romantic Encores for Violin, RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 63960
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, Frans Brüggen.
10.30am
This Saturday (10th November) is World Science Day for Peace and Development, and Sarah Walker's guest on Essential Classics is the distinguished British physicist Dame Athene Margaret Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge's Department of Physics.
Dame Athene is director of WiSETI, Cambridge University's Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Initiative, and the University's Gender Equality Champion. She is also chairwoman of the Athena Forum, which aims to advance the career progression and representation of women in the sciences in UK higher education, and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering. In 2011 she was made a Trustee of the National Museum of Science in Industry.
In 2009 Dame Athene was one of the five recipients of the L'Oreal/UNESCO Women in Science award. The following year she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours, and in 2011 she won the UKRC's Women of Outstanding Achievement's Lifetime Achievement Award.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Smetana: Tabor (from Ma Vlast)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
SUPRAPHON 111208.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0107499)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Episode 3
Donald Macleod continues his exploration of Mendelssohn's last seven years with a look at the year 1844. Towards the end of the previous year the composer had finally, after months of wrangling, taken up his new appointment as Director of Sacred Music in Berlin. In the event, he found it impossible to work with the court chaplain, Friedrich Adolf Strauss, and ended up providing music for just four services - Christmas, New Year's Day, Passion Sunday and Good Friday. It doubtless came as a great relief to him to return, in the spring, to a city he had first visited in 1829 - London, or "that smoky nest", as he fondly called it. He had agreed to help out the Philharmonic Society, whose finances were in a bad way, by conducting a few concerts for them. The headache induced by a seven-hour rehearsal meant that he had to turn down an invitation to visit Charles Babbage of Difference Engine fame, but Mendelssohn did get to meet Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, who pronounced his face: "the most beautiful ...I ever saw, like what I imagine our Saviour's to have been..." His stay was crowned by an audience with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. It was also during this visit that he composed one of his best-known works - Hear My Prayer, whose second section opens with the line that has given the piece its popular name: 'O for the wings of a dove'. Another of Mendelssohn's most popular creations dates from autumn of the same year - the Violin Concerto, written for his old friend Ferdinand David. David played the première on his 1742 Guarneri del Gesu violin, which later passed to Jascha Heifetz, who plays it on the recording you'll hear in the programme.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01c9r7v)
LSO St Luke's: Nash Ensemble Series
Episode 2
The second of this week's concerts given by the Nash Ensemble at LSO St Luke's in London, each featuring a major chamber work by Brahms. Today they perform the Prelude for string sextet from Strauss's opera Capriccio, and Brahms's own String Sextet No. 1 in B flat.
Presented by Louise Fryer
Strauss: Prelude from Capriccio
Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 in B flat major, Op 18
Nash Ensemble:
Stephanie Gonley (violin)
Laura Samuel (violin)
Lawrence Power (viola)
Scott Dickinson (viola)
Paul Watkins (cello)
Tim Hugh (cello)
First broadcast in February 2012.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01npj48)
Dutch Orchestras and Ensembles
Episode 3
Today's selection of music by Dutch orchestras and ensembles includes Purcell from Barokopera Amsterdam and Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony performed by the Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Plus Paul Meyer is soloist in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, and the premiere of Hans Abrahamsen's orchestra version of Debussy's Children's Corner.
Presented by Louise Fryer.
2pm
Purcell: Now does the glorious day appear - excerpts
Wendy Roobol (soprano)
Gunter Vandeven (countertenor)
Mattijs Hoogendijk (tenor)
Wiebe Pier Cnossen (bass-baritone)
Barokopera Amsterdam
Frédérique Chauvet (director/harpsichord)
2.10pm
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622
Debussy: Premiere Rhapsodie
Debussy arr Hans Abrahamsen: Children's Corner (premiere of orchestral version)
Paul Meyer (clarinet)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic
Michael Schoenwandt (conductor)
2.55pm
Shostakovich Chamber Symphony in A flat, Op.118a
Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Candida Thompson (director).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b01ns0kb)
Choral Vespers from Westminster Cathedral
Choral Vespers from Westminster Cathedral including the first broadcast of a new composition commissioned for the Choirbook for the Queen, a collection of contemporary anthems, published to celebrate Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee.
Introit: Deus in adiutorium (Plainsong)
Hymn: Lucis Creator (Plainsong)
Psalms 125, 126 (Plainsong)
Canticle: Gratias agamus (Plainsong)
Reading: Ephesians 3vv20-21
Responsory: Redime me Domine (Plainsong)
St Patrick's Magnificat (MacMillan)
Homily: Canon Christopher Tuckwell, Administrator
Motet: O joyful light (Diana Burrell - Choirbook for the Queen - first broadcast)
Organ Voluntary: Evocation II (Escaich)
Master of Music: Martin Baker
Assistant Master of Music: Peter Stevens
Organ Scholar: Edward Symington.
WED 16:30 In Tune (b01npj5j)
Roberto Alagna, Shabaka Hutchings & Jason Singh, Rosamunde Trio
Sean Rafferty presents, with guests including young saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings ahead of his collaboration with the BBC Concert Orchestra at the 2012 London Jazz Festival, live music from the Rosamunde Trio, and Roberto Alagna on his upcoming performance in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at the Royal Opera House.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b0107499)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01npjbg)
Live from Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Sibelius, Arutyunyan
Live from Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Presented by Simon Hoban
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko, performs Sibelius's Karelia Suite, Alexander Arutyunyan's Trumpet Concerto with soloist Tine Thing Helseth and Mahler's 1st Symphony.
Sibelius: Karelia Suite
Arutyunyan: Trumpet Concerto
Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
Conducted by Vasily Petrenko, the RLPO perform a programme which contrasts the nationalistic folk sounds of Sibelius's Karelia Suite with Gustav Mahler's powerful first symphony. The orchestra is also joined by acclaimed trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth for Alexander Arutyunyan's exciting Trumpet Concerto which has its own echoes of Armenian gypsy music.
WED 20:20 Discovering Music (b01npjq8)
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Stephen Johnson gets inside Mahler's first symphony to try and discover its true meaning among the folksongs, military fanfares, and sounds of nature that abound in his score.
WED 20:40 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01npjqb)
Live from Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Mahler
Live from Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Presented by Simon Hoban
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko, performs Sibelius's Karelia Suite, Alexander Arutyunyan's Trumpet Concerto with soloist Tine Thing Helseth and Mahler's 1st Symphony.
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
Conducted by Vasily Petrenko, the RLPO perform a programme which contrasts the nationalistic folk sounds of Sibelius's Karelia Suite with Gustav Mahler's powerful first symphony. The orchestra is also joined by acclaimed trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth for Alexander Arutyunyan's exciting Trumpet Concerto which has its own echoes of Armenian gypsy music.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b01npj5l)
2012 Festival
Islam and Christianity: The Essential Difference
Tom Holland and Mona Siddiqui discuss the essential difference between Islam and Christianity at the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival.
Just how different are the two biggest world religions?
Two leading scholars explore what differentiates Islam from Christianity, and the impact that has on the world today, from their different historical origins to their different versions of God.
With the historian Tom Holland, author of a book on Arabic history In the Shadow of the Sword and presenter of the recent Channel 4 documentary Islam: The Untold Story. And the leading theologian Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
The event is chaired by Night Waves presenter Samira Ahmed and recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2012.
The Free Thinking festival of ideas takes place at The Sage Gateshead Friday 2 - Sunday 4 November and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 2 November.
WED 22:45 Free Thinking (b01npj7q)
Free Thinking Essay
Jonathan Healey
Oxford University historian Jonathan Healey, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk questioning the value of lessons from history.
Healey claims that lessons drawn from the past and applied to our own world are meaningless, despite what we are told by best-selling historians and television documentaries. It is precisely because the past is so foreign that we are able to understand what is so unique about today.
The Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival takes place at The Sage Gateshead Friday 2 - Sunday 4 November and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 2 November.
The New Generation Thinkers are winners of a talent scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find the brightest academic minds in the arts and humanities with the potential to turn their ideas into broadcasts.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b01npj8t)
Wednesday - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt sweeps the leaves up with Part 2 of John Coltrane's Ascension, Jonathan Harvey's Ricercare Una Melodia For Cello, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band's Brown County Bound, Stian Westerhus' Wrong Kind of Flowers and Cooly G's Is It Gone?
THURSDAY 08 NOVEMBER 2012
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b01nphs8)
08-Nov-12
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Symphony no. 9 in D minor Op.125 (Choral)
Anita Watson (soprano), Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo-soprano), Steve Davislim (tenor), Peter Rose (baritone), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Boyd (conductor)
1:37 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Sonata for violin and piano no.2 (Op.100) in A major
Dene Olding (violin), Max Olding (piano)
1:59 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Quartet for strings in F major
Biava Quartet
2:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Quartet for strings in E flat major (Op.74) 'Harp'
Oslo Quartet
3:06 AM
Boeck, August de (1865-1937) arr. by Frits Cells
De kleine Rijnkoning (1906)
Vlaams Radio Orkest , Marc Soustrot (conductor)
3:26 AM
Traditional Armenian/Georgian arr. Alpha
Caucasian Suite
ALPHA
3:35 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto for keyboard and string orchestra No.1 in D minor (BWV.1052)
Kåre Nordstoga (harpsichord), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
3:56 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) (arr. Felix Greissle)
Prélude a l'après-midi d'un faune
Thomas Kay (flute), Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
4:06 AM
Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992)
Theme and Variations
Peter Oundjian (violin), William Tritt (piano)
4:16 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Overture from Tafelmusik
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Frank de Bruine (oboe), The King's Consort, Robert King (director)
4:23 AM
Chabrier, Emmanuel (1841-1894)
España - rhapsody for orchestra
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender (conductor)
4:31 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856), trans. Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Widmung (Op.25 No.1)
Jorge Bolet (piano)
4:35 AM
Alpaerts, Flor (1876-1954)
Romanza for Violin and Orchestra (1928)
Guido De Neve (violin), Vlaams Radio Orkest , Michel Tabachnik (conductor)
4:42 AM
Maurice, Paule (1910-67)
Tableaux de Provence (1954) - 5 pieces for saxophone and orchestra
Julia Nolan (saxophone), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:57 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
To a Nordic Princess
Leslie Howard (piano)
5:04 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in C (Op.8 No.12) (RV.178)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (violin/director)
5:13 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Divertimento in C major (Hob.IV No.1) (London Trio No.1)
Carol Wincenc (flute), Philip Setzer (violin), Carter Brey (cello)
5:23 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Three Marches (K.408)
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
5:36 AM
Berwald, Franz (1796-1868)
String Quartet in Eb Major (1849)
Zetterqvist String Quartet
5:55 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Concerto for violin and orchestra in E minor (Op.64)
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Paul McCreesh (conductor)
6:21 AM
Wieniawski, Henryk (1835-1880)
Légende, for violin & piano (Op.17) (published 1860)
Slawomir Tomasik (violin), Izabela Tomasik (piano).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b01nphzr)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b01npj0x)
Thursday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Virtuoso and Romantic Encores for Violin, RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 63960
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, Frans Brüggen.
10.30am
This Saturday (10th November) is World Science Day for Peace and Development, and Sarah Walker's guest on Essential Classics is the distinguished British physicist Dame Athene Margaret Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge's Department of Physics.
Dame Athene is director of WiSETI, Cambridge University's Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Initiative, and the University's Gender Equality Champion. She is also chairwoman of the Athena Forum, which aims to advance the career progression and representation of women in the sciences in UK higher education, and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering. In 2011 she was made a Trustee of the National Museum of Science in Industry.
In 2009 Dame Athene was one of the five recipients of the L'Oreal/UNESCO Women in Science award. The following year she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours, and in 2011 she won the UKRC's Women of Outstanding Achievement's Lifetime Achievement Award.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Wagner: Tannhäuser: Overture and Venusberg Music
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Bruno Walter (conductor)
SONY 64456.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01074f9)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Episode 4
Donald Macleod continues his exploration of Mendelssohn's last seven years. In October 1844, the composer took the bull by the horns in an audience with his royal employer Friedrich Wilhelm IV, the King of Prussia, and asked to be released from his service to the crown - a grand-sounding, but in practice rather vague position, which had been a source of immense frustration and disappointment to the composer. His request was granted - more or less. Mendelssohn would no longer be required to live in Berlin, and there'd be no fixed duties to perform; just the occasional royal commission. One such commission was to supply incidental music for a performance of Racine's play Athalie (as Donald suggests, the full-blooded choruses give tantalizing glimpses of the opera Mendelssohn might have composed, had he lived long enough). Early in 1845 came a request out of the blue from the other side of the world - the newly-created New York Philharmonic Society was inviting him to go to the United States to conduct a "Grand Musical Festival", with an orchestra of 250 and chorus of 500 at his disposal. Mendelssohn declined - he didn't feel his health would be up to such a long and arduous trip, and he told his brother Paul that undertaking such a venture would be "no more possible than a trip to the moon". Instead, he composed a set of six small but perfectly formed organ sonatas for the British publisher Charles Coventry, and worked on his highly virtuosic 2nd Piano Trio, written in Frankfurt during a freak flood of the River Main; perhaps that's reflected in the stormy opening of the trio's first movement!
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01c9rpd)
LSO St Luke's: Nash Ensemble Series
Episode 3
In the third of this week's concerts from LSO St Luke's, in which the Nash Ensemble perform major chamber works by Brahms, Mozart's G major Piano Trio (K564) is followed by Brahms's majestic Piano Quintet in F minor.
Presented by Louise Fryer
Mozart: Piano Trio in G, K564
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Nash Ensemble:
Ian Brown (piano)
Stephanie Gonley (violin)
Laura Samuel (violin)
Philip Dukes (viola)
Tim Hugh (cello)
First broadcast in March 2012.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01npj4b)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Bizet - The Pearl Fishers
The Pearl Fishers given at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in September with the Netherlands Radio Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Michel Plasson. Charles Castronovo and Jean-François Lapointe sing the fishermen whose vow of eternal friendship is threatened when they fall in love with the same woman, Leila, sung by Annick Massis. And the Dutch ensemble theme continues with a performance of Haydn's Keyboard Concerto no.4 with Denis Kozukhin joining the Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
Presented by Louise Fryer.
2pm
Bizet: The Pearl Fishers
Leila, priest of Brahma ..... Annick Massis (soprano),
Nadir, a fisherman ..... Charles Castronovo (tenor),
Zurga, leader of the fishermen ..... Jean-François Lapointe (baritone),
Nourabad, high priest of Brahma ..... Nicolas Testé (bass),
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Michel Plasson (conductor)
4.05pm
Haydn: Keyboard Concerto no.4 in G, H.XVIII:4
Denis Kozukhin (piano)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Candida Thompson (director).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b01npj5q)
Apollo Saxophone Quartet, Kah-Ming Ng, Puppetry in Opera
Sean Rafferty presents, with an exclusive live set from the Apollo Saxophone Quartet ahead of their gig at the 2012 London Jazz Festival next week.
Plus, harpsichordist Kah-Ming Ng plays music by French Baroque master Rameau live in the studio, looking ahead to a major Rameau exploration day in Oxford.
Other guests include director John Fulljames and puppeteer Mark Down, both involved in an innovative Puppetry in Opera project at London's Barbican Centre.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01074f9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01npjqz)
BBC SSO - Berlioz, Wagner
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
Donald Runnicles and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform excerpts from Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde Act 2.
Berlioz Roméo et Juliette (excerpts)
8.00: Interval
Wagner Tristan und Isolde: Act II
(concert performance, sung in German)
Nina Stemme (soprano) ..... Isolde
Robert Dean Smith (tenor) ..... Tristan
Jane Irwin (mezzo) ..... Brangäne
Peter Rose (bass) ..... King Mark
Andrew Rees (tenor) ..... Melot
Mikhail Pavlov (baritone) ..... Kurvenal
Donald Runnicles, conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Darkness falls, and love finds a way. In Act II of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, the summer night itself seems to shimmer with emotion, as the two lovers consummate their passion beneath a canopy of stars. Yet treachery hides in the shadows, and Wagner follows his greatest love scene with some of the most tragic music he ever wrote. Donald Runnicles and a superb international cast dive deep into the glowing heart of Wagner's epic love story. The concert opens with excerpts from the work that some think gave Wagner his inspiration: Hector Berlioz's scarcely less extraordinary Roméo et Juliette.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b01npj5s)
2012 Festival
Lee Hall
An audience with Lee Hall, writer of Billy Elliot and The Pitmen Painters, recorded at The Sage Gateshead as part of the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival.
The Newcastle born screenwriter and playwright Lee Hall is best known for the hugely successful film and musical Billy Elliot, for which he won a Tony Award and was nominated for an Oscar.
Hall's play The Pitmen Painters, about a group of miners from Ashington in the North East, has been performed throughout the world. He recently updated Alan Plater's 1960s musical drama Close the Coalhouse Door and is now working on a biopic of Elton John.
From a working-class background, much a Hall's work explores the complexities of what class means in the UK. At Free Thinking 2012 Lee Hall discusses class and art, his own life, writing and ideas.
The event is chaired by Night Waves presenter Philip Dodd and recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2012.
The Free Thinking festival of ideas takes place at The Sage Gateshead Friday 2 - Sunday 4 November and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 2 November.
THU 22:45 Free Thinking (b01npj7s)
Free Thinking Essay
Emma Griffin
Emma Griffin, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on what makes a good mother today, recorded at the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2012.
Historian Emma Griffin of the University of East Anglia turns to the poor of Victorian Britain to ask what made a good mother then in families struggling to keep body and soul together.
She finds that our own values and ideas about motherhood may not be as instinctive as we like to believe.
The Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival takes place at The Sage Gateshead Friday 2 - Sunday 4 November and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 2 November.
The New Generation Thinkers are winners of a talent scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find the brightest academic minds in the arts and humanities with the potential to turn their ideas into broadcasts.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b01npj8w)
Thursday - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt's selection includes Rhodri Davies, Kid Koala, the Ayonko Asiwa group, The London Lucumi Choir and Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto.
FRIDAY 09 NOVEMBER 2012
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b01nphsb)
09-Nov-12
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827];
Egmont, incidental music for the tragedy by J.W. Goethe (Op.84) with Narration in German
Anja Kampe (soprano) ; Olgierd Lukaszewicz (narrator); Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Miguel Gomez Martinez (conductor)
1:20 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Recitative and Leonora's aria from 'Fidelio'
Anja Kampe (soprano); Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Miguel Gomez Martinez (conductor)
1:28 AM
Janacek, Leos [1854-1928]
Taras Bulba - rhapsody for orchestra
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Miguel Gomez Martinez (conductor)
1:53 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Op.28)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Miguel Gomez Martinez (conductor)
2:09 AM
Khachaturian, Aram Ilyich [1903-1978]
Spartacus (excerpts)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits (conductor)
2:31 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pytor, Illyich (1840-1893)
Francesca da Rimini - symphonic fantasia after Dante (Op.32)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Róbert Stankovský (conductor)
2:57 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
28 Variations on a theme by Paganini for piano (Op. 35) ]
Anna Vinnitskaya (piano)
3:11 AM
Enescu, George (1881-1955)
Isis - Symphonic Poem
Romanian National Radio Orchestra and Choir, Camil Marinescu (conductor)
3:30 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Prelude and Fugue No.1 in E minor (Op.35)
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
3:40 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Suite for strings and continuo (TWV.55:g1) in G minor 'La Musette'
B'Rock
3:54 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Misera, dove son! (scena) and "Ah! non son'io che parlo" (aria) (K.369)
Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Freiburg Barockorchester, René Jacobs (conductor)
4:01 AM
Maldere, Pierre van (1729-1768)
Sinfonia in A major (viola obligata)
The Academy of Ancient Music , Filip Bral (conductor)
4:14 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm [1871-1927], text by Jacobsen, JP
Three choral songs
Sveriges Radiokören , Gustav Sjökvist (conductor)
4:21 AM
Donizetti, Gaetano (1797-1848)
Overture to La Fille du régiment
Oslo Philharmonic, Nello Santi (conductor)
4:31 AM
Anon. [arr. Memelsdorff, Pedro and Staier, Andreas]
Court Masques under Charles I and II
Pedro Memelsdorff (recorder), Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
4:42 AM
Salieri, Antonio (1750-1825)
Concerto for Organ and Orchestra in C major
Ivan Sarajishvili (organ) Brussels Chamber Orchestra, (members of) Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
4:59 AM
Quantz, Johann Joachim [1697-1773]
Trio (QV 218) in E flat major
Nova Stravaganza
5:08 AM
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme - suite
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Terje Tønnesen (conductor)
5:27 AM
Dowland, John (1563-1626)
The Lady Cliftons spirit for lute (P.45)
Nigel North (lute)
5:28 AM
Dowland, John (1563-1626)
King of Denmark's Galliard
Nigel North (lute)
5:40 AM
Fasch, Johann Friedrich (1688-1758)
Overture à due chori in B flat
Cappella Coloniensis, Hans-Martin Linde (conductor)
6:04 AM
Galuppi, Baldassarre (1706-1785)
Sonata for keyboard No.1 in B flat major
Leo van Doeselaar (organ of S. Candido, Tai di Cadore)
6:09 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony no. 49 (H.
1.49) in F minor "La Passione"
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b01nphzt)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b01npj13)
Friday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Virtuoso and Romantic Encores for Violin, RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 63960
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, Frans Brüggen.
10.30am
This Saturday (10th November) is World Science Day for Peace and Development, and Sarah Walker's guest on Essential Classics is the distinguished British physicist Dame Athene Margaret Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge's Department of Physics.
Dame Athene is director of WiSETI, Cambridge University's Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Initiative, and the University's Gender Equality Champion. She is also chairwoman of the Athena Forum, which aims to advance the career progression and representation of women in the sciences in UK higher education, and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering. In 2011 she was made a Trustee of the National Museum of Science in Industry.
In 2009 Dame Athene was one of the five recipients of the L'Oreal/UNESCO Women in Science award. The following year she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours, and in 2011 she won the UKRC's Women of Outstanding Achievement's Lifetime Achievement Award.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Orff: Carmina Burana
Gundula Janowitz (soprano)
Gerhard Stolze (tenor)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Schöneberg Boys Choir
Deutsche Oper Chorus and Orchestra, Berlin
Eugen Jochum (conductor)
DG 447 437-2.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01074j0)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Episode 5
Donald Macleod concludes his exploration of Mendelssohn's last seven years with a look at the genesis of his oratorio Elijah, whose popularity in Victorian England was second only to that of Handel's Messiah - certainly not a claim that could be made today, when it tends to be regarded as the height of kitsch. In 1846, the city of Birmingham invited Mendelssohn to take charge of its music festival. He turned the job down, but agreed instead to compose an oratorio for the festival. After the earlier success of his oratorio St Paul, Mendelssohn had considered composing an Elijah; the Birmingham commission prompted him to return to this idea, which he'd had on the back burner for the past 10 years. The first performance was a huge success - "Never was there a more complete triumph!", as The Times put it - but Mendelssohn wasn't completely satisfied, and immediately set about overhauling the work for the London première the following year. According to a contemporary report it was met with a "long-continued unanimous volley of plaudits, vociferous and deafening applause." Mendelssohn's elation, however, was short-lived. On his return to Germany he was met by a letter from his brother Paul, telling him that their beloved sister Fanny had suffered a series of strokes and died - while rehearsing one of his pieces. Mendelssohn remained in a state of emotional collapse for some time, but when he was able to compose again he poured his grief out in his anguished 6th String Quartet - the last major work he completed before his own death, just two months later.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01c9s2j)
LSO St Luke's: Nash Ensemble Series
Episode 4
The last of this week's concerts from LSO St Luke's in London, in each of which the Nash Ensemble performs major chamber work by Brahms. Today there is a Hungarian flavour as they play Haydn's Piano Trio in G major (known as the 'Gypsy Rondo') and Brahms's G minor Piano Quartet.
Presented by Louise Fryer
Haydn: Piano Trio in G HXV:25 'Gypsy Rondo'
Brahms: Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25
Nash Ensemble:
Ian Brown (piano)
Stephanie Gonley (violin)
Philip Dukes (viola)
Paul Watkins (cello)
First broadcast in March 2012.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01npj4g)
Dutch Orchestras and Ensembles
Episode 4
In the final programme of this week's focus on Dutch orchestras and ensembles the Royal Concertgebouw under Valery Gergiev perform Prokofiev and Sibelius, for which they are joined by Leonidas Kavakos. Plus Combattimento Consort Amsterdam perform Bach, and Residentie Orchestra, The Hague play Smetana.
Presented by Louise Fryer.
2pm
Schubert: Overture in the Italian Style in C, D.591
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic
Olari Elts (conductor)
2.10pm
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op,47
Prokofiev: Symphony no.5 in B flat, Op.100
Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (condouctor)
3.30pm
Stravinsky: Variations on Von Himmel hoch da komm' ich her' by Bach, BWV.769
Netherlands Radio Choir
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic
Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
Bach: Orchestral Suite no.2 in B minor, BWV.1067
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor)
4pm
Smetana: Ma Vlast; Vysehrad & Vltava
Residentie Orchestra, The Hague
Krzysztof Urbanski (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b01npj5v)
Jack DeJohnette, Mike Westbrook Trio, Mughal India
In a major In Tune exclusive, jazz legend Jack DeJohnette plays piano live in the studio on the opening day of the 2012 London Jazz Festival. The American drummer, pianist, and composer is one of the most important and influential figures of jazz fusion, having worked with greats such as Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett and Sonny Rollins.
Plus, a special live set from the Mike Westbrook Trio - also featured artists of this year's Festival.
Sean Rafferty also pays a visit to a new exhibition at the British Library - Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01074j0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01npjr7)
Jazz Voice
Live from the Barbican
Presented by Andrew McGregor
London's annual autumn jazz jamboree starts with its signature opening-night gala. John Sessions hosts Jazz Voice, a celebration of some of the great songs of the past ten decades, sung by some of the great voices of today. In this year's line-up are Irish jazz star Imelda May, Grammy Award-winning New Yorker Patti Austin, diamond divas of British jazz Juliet Roberts, Claire Martin and Gwyneth Herbert, Basement Jaxx vocalist Brendan Reilly, stunning new voice Natalie Duncan, and R&B veteran Junior Giscombe. Arrangements by Guy Barker, who also conducts the London Jazz Festival Orchestra.
The programme of songs draws on major anniversaries, birthdays and milestones that link the decades stretching back from 2012. Among them, the 70th birthday this year of Aretha Franklin; the 10th anniversary of the death of Peggy Lee; and the centenary of the birth of Gil Evans. There will also be a tribute to Etta James, who died earlier this year, and a celebration of the music of Thelonius Monk (died 1982) and Charles Mingus (born 1922).
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b01npj5x)
Free Thinking 2012
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's 'Cabaret of the word' from the Free Thinking Festival at The Sage Gateshead. His guests include poets Tony Harrison and Don Paterson, musician Martin Longstaff (otherwise known as 'The Lake Poets'), flash fiction supremo Tania Hershman, and Granta Editor Laura Barber.
Tony Harrison's been described as Britain's foremost film and theatre poet. Amongst other poems he performs one of his best-loved works 'Them and [Uz]',first published in the School of Eloquence and Other Poems (1981).
His most recent collection of poetry is Under the Clock (2005), and his Collected Poems, and Collected Film Poetry, were both published in 2007.
Don Paterson has published five collections of poetry, two books of aphorisms, a number of edited anthologies, and a commentary on Shakespeare's Sonnets. He is currently working on a new collection of poetry, a technical manual on ars poetica, and a prose book about music. He's been awarded the T S Eliot Prize twice and has been Poetry Editor for Picador since 1997. His Selected Poems have just been published by Faber
Laura Barber is Editorial director of Granta books and Portobello Books. She has also been the Editorial Director of the Penguin Classics list, covering the 'Black Classics', from Homer to D. H. Lawrence, the 'Modern Classics', and the New Penguin Shakespeare Series.
Tania Hershman has written two pieces of 'Flash Fiction' on the subject of 'editing' especially for The Verb. Her short story collection 'My Mother was an Upright Piano' is published by Tangent Books.
Martin Longstaff from Sunderland is 'The Lake Poets' - he performs 'City by the Sea' and 'Shipyards', both show what has been called his 'honest and hauntingly emotive blend of acoustic music'.
FRI 22:45 Free Thinking (b01npj7v)
Free Thinking Essay
Timothy Secret
Timothy Secret, one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk exploring how we react when looked at by animals, recorded at the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival.
Our world changes when we're on display. When caught in another person's gaze, some of us strut like a peacock whilst others squirm like a fly.
But how do we react when an animal, rather than a human, looks at us? Is there a difference, and what does this say about our relationship with animals?
In a talk titled "Cat's Eyes", University of Essex philosopher Timothy Secret examines the philosophical consequences of the animal gaze.
The Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival takes place at The Sage Gateshead Friday 2 - Sunday 4 November and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 2 November.
The New Generation Thinkers are winners of a talent scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find the brightest academic minds in the arts and humanities with the potential to turn their ideas into broadcasts.
FRI 23:00 Jazz on 3 (b01npj8y)
London Jazz Festival Launch: Live at Ronnie Scott's
Jez Nelson presents a special edition of Jazz on 3 live from Ronnie Scott's jazz club in Soho on the opening night of the 2012 London Jazz Festival. With exclusive performances from some of the most sought-after acts at the festival, the billing illustrates the breadth and quality of both established and new artists on the current jazz scene. Highlights include performances by two top American trumpeters from different generations: Terence Blanchard brings his blend of New Orleans, soul and hard-bop to the party, while one of the biggest names to have emerged in the last couple of years, Ambrose Akinmusire, appears in a one-off duet with drummer and regular bandmate Justin Brown.