John Shea presents. Paavo Jarvi and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Schubert's 9th Symphony
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
Arve Tellefsen (violin), Truls Mørk (cello), Håvard Gimse (piano) Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rolf Gupta (conductor)
Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op. 72 no.2
Päivi Kaerkaes (cor anglais), Radion Sinfoniaorkesteri, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Charlotte Margiono (soprano), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
Susse Lillesøe (soprano), Danish National Radio Choir, Per Salo (piano), Stefan Parkman (conductor)
King's hunt for keyboard (MB.
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano - after Johann Fritz, Vienna c.1815)
Symphony No.73 in D major 'La Chasse' (H.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating the Baroque Spring season. Featuring Breakfast Forty-Eight - a daily morning dose of the 48 Preludes and Fugues of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. As part of Breakfast's Musical Map of Britain, running throughout 2013, Breakfast will be asking listeners to highlight Baroque connections to their area of the UK.
BBC Radio 3's Baroque Spring is a month long season of music, drama and comedy dedicated to shedding new light on the Baroque era.
The fourth and final week of Radio 3's Baroque Spring concludes with Sarah Walker, and her guest, the poet Craig Raine.
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Rossini Overtures by the Academy of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner.
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Baroque Spring Artist of the Week, Jordi Savall, one of the true pioneers of early music performance. Plus another Baroque Bite from Simon Heighes
This week Sarah Walker is joined by British poet Craig Raine who, together with Christopher Reid, is the best-known exponent of the movement known as Martian poetry. A former Fellow of New College, Oxford, he is now Emeritus Professor, and is also founder and editor of the literary magazine Areté. His works include a number of poetry collections, including The Onion, Memory (1978), A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1979), and Clay. Whereabouts Unknown (1996). His reviews and essays are collected in two anthologies: Haydn and the Valve Trumpet (1990) and In Defence of T. S. Eliot (2000). Most recently, he has collaborated with composer Michael Berkelely, writing the libretto for an operatic adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel, Atonement.
Donald Macleod recounts the life and music of J.S. Bach. The ever ambitious Bach takes on his most prestigious position yet, as court conductor to Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen, beginning a period of great happiness and also enormous tragedy in his life.
LSO St Lukes, the converted Hawksmooor church in Old Street just a few hundred north of the Barbican Centre, first opened its doors ten years ago. Serving as an education centre and rehearsal space for the London Symphony Orchestra, as well as a live performance venue, it has also played host to the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert right from the start.
This week, four live broadcasts mark that anniversary, continuing today with the LSO String Ensemble, directed by the orchestra's leader Roman Simovic, in two great masterpieces of the string orchestra repertoire.
Louise Fryer presents a week of programmes featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers in Russian repertoire and music for Holy Week. As part of Radio 3's Baroque Spring, the BBC Singers perform motets by J S Bach and his predecessors and successors in the post of Cantor at St Thomas's Church in Leipzig. The BBC Symphony play pieces by Prokofiev and his Russian forefathers and contemporaries.
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no. 1 in D flat major, Op.10
Scriabin: Symphony no. 2 in C minor, Op. 29
From Portsmouth Cathedral during Holy Week, as part of 'Baroque Spring' - a month long season of baroque music and culture.
Plus, as part of BBC Radio 3's Baroque Spring season celebrating Baroque music and culture, actor Dominic West (The Wire, The Hour) reads poetry from the period at
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Bach's intricate Goldberg Variations are a true landmark of Baroque keyboard music. The harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, one of the most exciting musicians of his generation to emerge from Radio 3's New Generation Artists' scheme, has already established a formidable international reputation for the depth and sensitivity of his playing.
Samira Ahmed talks to international best selling author Mohsin Hamid about the follow-up to his bestselling story The Reluctant Fundamentalist . His latest novel How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a boldly imagined tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon and it takes its shape from the business self-help books that are being devoured by youths all over Asia. The story is both one of building a business empire and of a love affair.
Mohsin Hamid's first novel, Moth Smoke, won the Betty Trask Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Prize. His second, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Ed Hollis, former architect and teacher at Edinburgh University, on twentieth-century architecture's battle with the baroque. Recorded with an audience at St George's Bristol. Producer: Tim Dee.
Fiona Talkington's selection includes music from Japanese singer-songwriter Kan Mikami, jazz trio Troyka; and to mark the approach of Easter, John Tavener's The Repentant Thief and Guerrero's Maria Magdalena.
THURSDAY 28 MARCH 2013
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b01rfxcs)
John Shea presents a performance from the BBC Proms 2012, in which the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Osmo Vänskä play Beethoven, Mozart, Delius and Nielsen.
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Egmont - Overture to Incidental Music Op.84
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
12:40 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concerto in A major K.622 for clarinet and orchestra
Michael Collins (basset clarinet), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
1:07 AM
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934)
Eventyr (Once upon a time) RT.
6.23 for orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Male Voices of the BBC Symphony Chorus (pre-recorded), Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
1:23 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Symphony no. 5 Op.50
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
1:59 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Concerto for 2 chalumeaux and strings in D minor (c.1728)
Eric Hoeprich and Lisa Klewitt (chalumeaux), Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
2:10 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907)
3 Lyric Pieces
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)
2:20 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
In the Seraglio garden, from 5 Songs to poems of Jacobsen, Op.4, No.2 (1891)
Mattias Ermedahl (tenor), Anders Kilström (piano)
2:22 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Out of the Mist Emerges My Native Soil (1917)
Mattias Ermedahl (tenor), Anders Kilström (piano)
2:25 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Irmelin Rose, from 5 Songs to poems of Jacobsen, Op.4, No.4 (1891)
Mattias Ermedahl (tenor), Anders Kilström (piano)
2:28 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Jumping Jack from 6 Humoreske-bagateller for piano (Op.11 No.4) (1894-97)
Anders Kilström (piano)
2:31 AM
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755)
Concerto for harpsichord and string orchestra in B flat major
Gerald Hambitzer (harpsichord), Concerto Köln
2:41 AM
Borodin, Alexander (1833-1887)
In the steppes of central Asia
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
2:48 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Quartet for strings (Op.10) in G minor
Psophos Quartet
3:14 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Cello Concerto in A minor (Op.129)
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Eri Klas (conductor)
3:37 AM
Ockeghem, Johannes (c.1410-1497)
Alma redemptoris mater
The Hilliard Ensemble Paul Hillier (bass/director)
3:43 AM
Maldere, Pierre van (1729-1768)
Sinfonia in A major (viola obligata)
The Academy of Ancient Music , Filip Bral (conductor)
3:56 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
4 Songs for women's voices, 2 horns and harp (Op.17)
Danish National Radio Choir, Leif Lind and Per McClelland Jacobsen (horns), Catriona Yeats (harp), Stefan Parkman (conductor)
4:11 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Keyboard Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI/37
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
4:21 AM
Auric, Georges (1899-1983) arranged by Philip Lane
Suite from 'The Lavender Hill Mob'
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
4:31 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Italian Polka (for piano duet)
Ruta Ibelhauptiene and Zbignevas Ibelhauptas (pianos)
4:33 AM
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903)
Italian serenade for string quartet
Bartók Quartet
4:41 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Als Luise die Briefe (K.520)
Sally Matthews (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
4:42 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Ridente la calma (K.152)
Sally Matthews (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
4:46 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Der Zauberer (K.472)
Sally Matthews (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
4:49 AM
Herbert, Victor (1859-1924), arr. Otto Langey
March of the Toys (from the operetta 'Babes in Toyland', 1903)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
4:53 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Trio for piano and strings in E flat major (D.897), 'Notturno'
Grieg Trio
5:03 AM
Förster, Kaspar Jr (1616-1673)
Congregantes Philistei
Marta Boberska (soprano), Kai Wessel (alto), Krzystof Szmyt (tenor), Dirk Snellings (bass), Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble , Agata Sapiecha (director)
5:17 AM
Smetana, Bedrich (1824-1884)
The Bartered Bride - overture
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
5:24 AM
Wilbye, John (1574-1638)
Draw on, sweet night
Ensemble Daedalus, Roberto Festa (director)
5:29 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Oboe Concerto in D major (1945, rev. 1948)
Hristo Kasmetski (oboe), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Vladigerov (conductor)
5:57 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata for piano No.5 (Op.10 No.1) in C minor
François-Frédéric Guy (piano)
6:15 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
Sonata for strings No.5 in E flat major
Camerata Bern.
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b01rfxjc)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating the Baroque Spring season. Featuring Breakfast Forty-Eight - a daily morning dose of the 48 Preludes and Fugues of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. As part of Breakfast's Musical Map of Britain, running throughout 2013, Breakfast will be asking listeners to highlight Baroque connections to their area of the UK.
BBC Radio 3's Baroque Spring is a month long season of music, drama and comedy dedicated to shedding new light on the Baroque era.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b01rfxjf)
Thursday -Sarah Walker
The fourth and final week of Radio 3's Baroque Spring concludes with Sarah Walker, and her guest, the poet Craig Raine.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Rossini Overtures by the Academy of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner.
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Baroque Spring Artist of the Week, Jordi Savall, one of the true pioneers of early music performance plus another Baroque Bite from Simon Heighes
10.30am
This week Sarah Walker is joined by British poet Craig Raine who, together with Christopher Reid, is the best-known exponent of the movement known as Martian poetry. A former Fellow of New College, Oxford, he is now Emeritus Professor, and is also founder and editor of the literary magazine Areté. His works include a number of poetry collections, including The Onion, Memory (1978), A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1979), and Clay. Whereabouts Unknown (1996). His reviews and essays are collected in two anthologies: Haydn and the Valve Trumpet (1990) and In Defence of T. S. Eliot (2000). Most recently, he has collaborated with composer Michael Berkelely, writing the libretto for an operatic adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel, Atonement.
11am: Sarah's Essential Choice
Britten: Spring Symphony, Op. 44
Alison Hagley (soprano)
Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano)
John-Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Choristers of Salisbury Cathedral
Monteverdi Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
DG 459 509
11.49am
Vivaldi: Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, strings & continuo, RV 514
Viktoria Mullova and Giuliano Carmignola (violins)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Andrea Marcon (conductor)
ARCHIV 477 7466.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01rfxjh)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Leipzig - Part 1 (1723-1730)
Donald Macleod continues his survey of the life and music of J.S. Bach. Bach's final move was to Leipzig where he immediately set about transforming musical life in the city's schools, churches and concert venues. Not everyone appreciated his work, however, and he often found himself at odds with the civic authorities.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01rfxmr)
LSO St Luke's 2013
Nicholas Angelich
Pianist Nicholas Angelich plays Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in a recital recorded at LSO St Luke's in London, as part of their 10th anniversary celebrations last year
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Nicholas Angelich (piano).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01rfxvq)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Verdi 200 - I masnadieri
Giuseppe Verdi only wrote one opera specifically for London: 'I masnadieri' - 'The Bandits'. Based on a play by the great German dramatist Friedrich Schiller, no less, it had a triumphant premiere with the famous soprano Jenny Lind as the heroine before an audience led by Queen Victoria... and it's flopped ever since. Here's your chance to find out whether that fate is deserved, in a production from the Fenice Theatre in Venice.
Presented by Louise Fryer. Plus, after the opera, motets for Holy Week by J S Bach's predecessors in the job of Cantor at St Thomas's church in Leipzig - as part of Radio 3's Baroque Spring.
Thursday Opera Matinee: Verdi 200
Verdi: I masnadieri
Carlo, elder son of Count Massimiliano ..... Andeka Gorrotxategui (tenor),
Amalia, his beloved ..... Maria Agresta (soprano),
Francesco, Carlo's wicked younger brother ..... Artur Rucinski (baritone),
Massimiliano, Count Moor ..... Giacomo Prestia (bass),
Arminio, the Count's servant ..... Cristiano Olivieri (tenor),
Rolla, a bandit ..... Dionigi D'Ostuni (baritone),
Moser, a priest ..... Cristian Saitta (bass),
La Fenice Chorus and Orchestra,
Daniele Rustioni (conductor).
4.05pm
J Schelle: Christus ist des Gesetzes Ende
BBC Singers,
Conductor David Hill,
Stephen Farr (organ).
Johann Kuhnau: Tristis est anima mea
BBC Singers,
Conductor David Hill.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b01rfxvs)
Robin Ticciati, Charlotte Barbour Condini, David Gordon, Matthew Rose, James Gilchrist
Suzy Klein talks to conductor Robin Ticciati who is gaining worldwide plaudits for his work with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, with whom he has just extended his contract. He talks ahead of his latest Berlioz recording with the orchestra.
Recorder player Charlotte Barbour Condini and jazz keyboard player David Gordon. He'll be taking to the harpsichord for an exciting jazz/baroque collaboration with the London Chamber Orchestra at Cadogan Hall, and giving us a special preview of what's in store live on In Tune.
Plus singers Matthew Rose and James Gilchrist are joined by conductor/harpsichordist Richard Egarr to talk about the Academy of Ancient Music's special Good Friday performance of the St John Passion.
Plus, as part of BBC Radio 3's Baroque Spring season celebrating Baroque music and culture, actor Dominic West (The Wire, The Hour) reads poetry from the period at
5.30.
Today: Litany to the Holy Spirit by Robert Herrick
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01rfxjh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Music for Holy Week (b01rz082)
A recent performance from the Netherlands of Frank Martin's oratorio Golgotha.
Soloists - Susan Gritton, Kate Aldrich, Yann Beuron, Laurent Naouri and Vincent le Texier.
The Netherlands Radio Chorus and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra are conducted by Stephane Deneve.
This is followed by James MacMillan's Seven Last Words from the Cross, performed by the BBC Singers, The Irish Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Fergus Sheil.
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b01rfzx0)
Nicholas Hytner, Posthumanism, Penny Woolcock
With Anne McElvoy
Sir Nicholas Robert Hytner, director of the National Theatre in London, looks back at his time as the head of one of the country's most significant cultural institutes which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
In her new book, The Posthuman, Professor Rosi Braidotti explains that the things that make us human - our bodies, our brains, our thoughts, our feelings - have been changed and displaced by technological and medical advancement. She is joined by the historian, Professor Joanna Bourke, to discuss how these changes influence our ideas of self and what impact they will have for the future of the human condition.
How to forge peace between two warring gangs. Award-winning film maker Penny Woolcock reveals her unique involvement in the attempts of two Birmingham inner city gangs to bring peace to their neighbourhoods.
Produced by Ella-mai Robey.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01rfxvv)
A Taste for the Baroque
Chloe Aridjis
Chloe Aridjis, Mexican novelist, on the survival of home-grown baroque - from ecclesiastical architecture to murder - in Mexico. Recorded with an audience at St George's Bristol. Producer: Tim Dee.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b01rfxvx)
Thursday - Fiona Talkington
Fiona Talkington plays an eclectic sequence of music, including jazz from Norwegian super group Grand General, Joni Mitchell and music by Thomas Ades from his recent collaboration with cellist Steven Isserlis.
FRIDAY 29 MARCH 2013
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b01rfxcv)
As part of BBC Radio 3's Baroque Spring, Catriona Young presents a performance of Johann Theile's St Matthew Passion
12:31 AM
Theile, Johann (1646-1724)
Matthäus-Passion (St Matthew Passion) - oratorio in 2 acts
Kurt Equiluz (Evangelist: tenor), Stephen Varcoe (Jesus: bass), Rogers Covey-Crump (Judas: counter tenor), John Potter (Peter: tenor), Mary Beverly (soprano), Eva Nässén (mezzo-soprano), Harry van der Kamp (bass), London Baroque, Charles Medlam (director)
1:33 AM
Mozetich, Marjan (b. 1948) (male)
The Passion of Angels - Concerto for 2 harps and orchestra (1995)
Nora Bumanis & Julia Shaw (harps), Marc Destrubé (violin), Diane Berthelsdorf (cello), Roger Cole (oboe), Christopher Millard (bassoon), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
1:55 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Piano Quintet in A major 'The Trout' (Op.114 (D.667)
John Harding (violin), Ferdinand Erblich (viola), Stefan Metz (cello), Henk Guldemond (double bass), Menahem Pressler (piano)
2:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No.29 in A major (K.201)
The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Terje Tønnesen (conductor)
2:52 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Trio No.1 for piano, violin and cello in F (Op.18)
Ulf Forsberg (violin), Mats Rondin (cello), Stefan Lindgren (piano)
3:23 AM
Kabalevsky, Dmitri (1904-1987)
Concerto for violin and orchestra in C major (Op.48)
Moshe Hammer (violin), Winnepeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
3:39 AM
Groneman, Albertus (c.1710-1778)
Flute Sonata in D major
Jed Wentz (flute), Balazs Mate (cello), Marcelo Bussi (harpsichord)
3:53 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Overture from Béatrice et Bénédict - opera in 2 acts (Op.27)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
4:02 AM
Delius, Frederick [1862-1934]
To be sung of a summer night on the water for chorus (RT.4.5)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier (conductor)
4:08 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Aria with variations from Piano Suite No.5 in E major (HWV.430) "The harmonious blacksmith"
Marián Pivka (piano)
4:13 AM
Firenze, Giovanni da (XIV sec)
Quand 'Amor - canzone
Ensemble Micrologus: Patrizia Bovi (voice, harp), Goffredo Degli Esposti (double flute, shawm), Gabriele Russo (fiddle), Adolfo Broegg (lute), Ulrich Pfeifer (voice), Koram Jablonko (fiddle), Alessandro Quarta (voice), Luigi Germini & Paolo Scatena (buisi
4:19 AM
Strauss, Johann jr. (1825-1899) arranged by Berg, Alban (1885-1935)
Wine, Woman and Song
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
4:31 AM
Gottschalk, Louis Moreau (1829-1869)
Bamboula - danse des Nègres (Op.2)
Donna Coleman (piano)
4:41 AM
Auber, Daniel-Francois-Esprit (1782-1871)
Guoracha - Ballet music no.1 from 'La Muette de Portici'
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra of Bratislava, Viktor Malek (conductor)
4:46 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Concertino for clarinet and orchestra in E flat major, Op.26
Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
4:56 AM
Schmitt, Matthias (b.1958)
Ghanaia for solo percussion
Colin Currie (marimba)
5:04 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Alborada del gracioso - from the suite 'Miroirs' (1905)
Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano)
5:11 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Aria: Un'aura amorosa from Così fan tutte (K.588) Act 1
Michael Schade (tenor), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
5:17 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto No.2 in E major (BWV.1053)
Angela Hewitt (piano), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5:37 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Symphony no.3 in D major (D.200)
Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcello Viotti (conductor)
6:03 AM
Turina, Joaquín (1882-1949)
Danzas Fantasticas (Op.22)
The West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor)
6:19 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Der Sturm - chorus for SATB choir and orchestra (H.24a.8)
Netherlands Radio Choir and Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b01rfxjk)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating the Baroque Spring season. Featuring Breakfast Forty-Eight - a daily morning dose of the 48 Preludes and Fugues of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. As part of Breakfast's Musical Map of Britain, running throughout 2013, Breakfast will be asking listeners to highlight Baroque connections to their area of the UK.
BBC Radio 3's Baroque Spring is a month long season of music, drama and comedy dedicated to shedding new light on the Baroque era.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b01rfxjm)
Friday - Sarah Walker
The fourth and final week of Radio 3's Baroque Spring concludes with Sarah Walker, and her guest, the poet Craig Raine.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Rossini Overtures by the Academy of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner.
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Baroque Spring Artist of the Week, Jordi Savall, one of the true pioneers of early music performance. Plus another Baroque Bite from Simon Heighes.
10.30am
This week Sarah Walker is joined by British poet Craig Raine who, together with Christopher Reid, is the best-known exponent of the movement known as Martian poetry. A former Fellow of New College, Oxford, he is now Emeritus Professor, and is also founder and editor of the literary magazine Areté. His works include a number of poetry collections, including The Onion, Memory (1978), A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1979), and Clay. Whereabouts Unknown (1996). His reviews and essays are collected in two anthologies: Haydn and the Valve Trumpet (1990) and In Defence of T. S. Eliot (2000). Most recently, he has collaborated with composer Michael Berkelely, writing the libretto for an operatic adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel, Atonement.
11am: Sarah's Essential Choice
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 4, BWV 1069
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall (conductor)
ALIA VOX AVSA9890A+B
11.30am
Sibelius: Symphony No.6 in D minor Op.104
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Paavo Berglund (conductor)
EMI 576951.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01rfxjp)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Leipzig - Part 2 (1730-1750)
In his final years, while maintaining an active role in Leipzig's musical life, Bach's attention turned to posterity and his posthumous reputation. He poured his lifetime of musical expertise and experience into a series of remarkable late masterworks that were to be his legacy for future generations. Presented by Donald Macleod.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01rfxmt)
LSO St Luke's 2013
Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble perform Schubert's Octet, D803, in a performance recorded last March at LSO St Luke's in London.
LSO St Lukes, the 18th-century church just a few hundred yards north of the Barbican Centre in Old Street, designed by John James and Nicholas Hawksmoor, re-opened as an education centre, rehearsal space and concert venue for the London Symphony Orchestra in 2003. Right from the start it also played host to the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, and last March four live broadcasts marked that anniversary, ending with a return visit by one of the many groups to have staged mini-residencies at the venue, the Nash Ensemble. This afternoon's broadcast offers a second chance to hear their concert, in which they performed Schubert's great Octet for winds and strings.
Nash Ensemble
Schubert: Octet in F, D803.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01rfxvz)
BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra
Episode 4
Louise Fryer presents a new version of the classic tale of Rat, Mole, Badger and Toad - combining the talents of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a special cast. Plus a selection of Good Friday music by Wagner, Harrer, Hauptmann and Pergolesi.
Neil Brand: The Wind in the Willows
Toad ..... Stephen Mangan
Mole .....Claire Skinner
Badger .....Philip Jackson
Rat .....Carl Prekopp
Otter .....Patrick Brennan
Bargee .....Liza Sadovy
Judge .....Paul Stonehouse
Girl .....Stephanie Racine
Singers: Genevieve Hamilton, Amanda Morrison, Julia Batchelor-Walsh, Jonathan English, Daniel Auchincloss and William Gaunt,
BBC SO,
Conductor Timothy Brock.
3.10pm
Wagner: Good Friday Music (from Parsifal)
BBC SO,
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
3.20pm
J Gottlieb Harrer: Mein Herz ist bereit
Moritz Hauptmann: Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei from Mass in F minor, Op. 18
BBC Singers,
Conductor David Hill.
3.40pm
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Sophie Karthäuser (soprano),
Christophe Dumaux (countertenor),
Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin,
Director René Jacobs.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b01rfxw1)
Joanna MacGregor, Maya Magub
Live music from pianist Joanna Macgregor as she looks forward to Bach Day at the Royal Albert Hall and violinist Maya Magub plays music from her new album of Telemann solo violin works. From Tabernacle Folk 2013, saxophonist Jason Yarde, pan player Samuel Dubois and violinist Darragh Morgan play live in the studio, and are joined by composer Howard Skempton to discuss this years line-up.
Plus, as part of BBC Radio 3's Baroque Spring season celebrating Baroque music and culture, actor Dominic West (The Wire, The Hour) reads poetry from the period at
5.30.
Today: Prayer by George Herbert
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FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01rfxjp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01rfzyl)
Live from St George's, Bristol
Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, Jesu, meine Freude
Live from St George's, Bristol
Presented by Tom Service
The BBC Singers, with St James's Baroque, conducted by David Hill present a concert of sacred music for Good Friday.
J S Bach: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus tragicus) (BWV 106)
J S Bach: Jesu, meine Freude (BWV 227)
St James's Baroque
BBC Singers
David Hill (conductor)
Concluding this week's Bristol Baroque Festival at St George's, the BBC Singers and period-instrument band St James's Baroque present a programme of music by that father-figure of the Baroque period: J S Bach himself. On this most solemn day of the church year, the first half of the concert presents two pieces intended for funerals. The 'Actus Tragicus' is one of Bach's earliest cantatas, with texts, from both the Bible and the works of Luther, which quote two of the final utterances of Christ from the Cross. 'Jesu, meine Freude', one of the most striking of all Bach's choral works, with an extraordinary symmetrical mirror-structure, was composed in 1723 for the funeral of the wife of the Leipzig Postmaster, and explores the idea of Christ freeing mankind from sin and death.
After the interval, one of the most intriguing of all Bach's works - the incomplete torso that is his setting of the Passion according to St Mark. Far less well-known than its mighty companions the St John and St Matthew Passions (after its last performance in 1744 much of the score disappeared, with just the libretto giving a full picture of what has been lost), the surviving music shows this to be a tantalising masterwork by one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.
FRI 20:15 Discovering Music (b01rfzyn)
Bach: St Mark Passion
Stephen Johnson examines the sources of JS Bach's setting of the St. Mark Passion. Although his obituary tells us Bach wrote five Passions, only two of them, St. Matthew and St. John, have survived complete. It's thought the first performance of the St. Mark Passion took place on March 23rd in 1731, but subsequently the score of the music disappeared. Tantalisingly, all that remained was the text. However, after some keen detective work on Bach's music, there was enough evidence to make a reconstruction a possibility.
FRI 20:35 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01rfzyq)
Live from St George's, Bristol
St Mark Passion
Live from St George's, Bristol
Presented by Tom Service
The BBC Singers, with St James's Baroque, conducted by David Hill present a concert of sacred music for Good Friday.
J S Bach: St Mark Passion (BWV 247)
St James's Baroque
BBC Singers
David Hill (conductor)
Concluding Baroque Spring on Radio 3 and this week's Bristol Baroque Festival at St George's, the BBC Singers and period-instrument band St James's Baroque present a programme of music by that father-figure of the Baroque period: J S Bach himself. On this most solemn day of the church year, the first half of the concert presents two pieces intended for funerals. The 'Actus Tragicus' is one of Bach's earliest cantatas, with texts, from both the Bible and the works of Luther, which quote two of the final utterances of Christ from the Cross. 'Jesu, meine Freude', one of the most striking of all Bach's choral works, with an extraordinary symmetrical mirror-structure, was composed in 1723 for the funeral of the wife of the Leipzig Postmaster, and explores the idea of Christ freeing mankind from sin and death.
After the interval, one of the most intriguing of all Bach's works - the incomplete torso that is his setting of the Passion according to St Mark. Far less well-known than its mighty companions the St John and St Matthew Passions (after its last performance in 1744 much of the score disappeared, with just the libretto giving a full picture of what has been lost), the surviving music shows this to be a tantalising masterwork by one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b01rfzys)
Romany and Traveller Writings
Ian McMillan looks at writing from Traveller and Romany communities - with guests David Morley, Dan Allum, Candis Nergaard and Sam Lee
David Morley grew up in the traveller community in Blackpool, and uses Romany language in his poetry. He reads poems from his forthcoming collection, 'The Gypsy and The Poet' (Carcanet), which elaborates on a real encounter between the poet John Clare and a gypsy called Wisdom Smith. David explains how Wisdom Smith came to inspire his work in a rather unusual way.
Dan Allum runs The Romany Theatre Company, which celebrates Romany culture, and helps to challenge misconceptions about that community. He worked with a group of traveller and non-traveller writers to create a play called 'The Yellow Dress'. It takes as its starting point a traveller woman's experience of lost love during Second World War. The actress Candis Nergaard, who was also one of the writers, performs two extracts from the play.
'The Yellow Dress' will be touring shortly, details will be posted on the company's website:
http://www.romanytheatrecompany.com
Sam Lee is a folk song collector and singer who travels the country unearthing hidden gems. His album 'Ground of its Own' (The Nest Collective), features his versions of songs learnt from travellers. As well as discussing the pleasures of birdsong, Sam performs 'My Ausheen', taught to him by his late mentor, Stanley Robertson, and 'Goodbye My Darling'. Sam has been nominated this year both for the Mercury Music Prize and the Songlines music award.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b01rfxw3)
A Taste for the Baroque
Tessa Hadley
Writer Tessa Hadley on Henry James's long and sinuous sentences and jokes. Is there such a thing as baroque prose? Recorded with an audience at St George's Bristol. Producer: Tim Dee.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b01rfzyv)
Session with Meklit Hadero
Lopa Kothari with sounds from around the world and a session by the Ethiopian-born American singer Meklit Hadero. Her music is a rich melting-pot, influenced by jazz, soul and hip-hop as well as the folk traditions of the Americas and East African motherland. Producer James Parkin.
Born in Ethiopia in the early 1980s, Meklit grew up in Iowa, New York, and Florida. After studying political science at Yale, she moved to San Francisco and became immersed in the city's thriving arts scene. Named a TED Global Fellow in 2009, Meklit has served as an artist-in-residence at New York University, the De Young Museum, and the Red Poppy Art House. She has also completed musical commissions for the San Francisco Foundation and for theatrical productions staged by Brava! For Women in the Arts. She is the founder of the Arba Minch Collective, a group of Ethiopian artists in diaspora devoted to nurturing ties to their homeland through collaborating with both traditional and contemporary artists there.