The Atrium String Quartet in a programme of Arensky, Shostakovich & Beethoven recorded in Pully in 2011. Presented by Jonathan Swain
Quartet no. 2 (Op.35) in A minor
Quartet for strings no. 3 (Op.73) in F major
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 2 (Op.21) in F minor
Nelson Goerner (piano), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)
Concertino for oboe and wind ensemble in C major (arr. for trumpet)
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
Constanze's aria: 'Martern aller Arten' - from 'Die Entführung aus dem Serail', Act 2
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Berlioz Overtures - Sir Andrew Davis conducts the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artists of the Week, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Sarah Walker's guest this week is the chef and writer Tamasin Day-Lewis. Tamasin (daughter of the poet Cecil Day-Lewis and actress Jill Balcon, and sister of the actor Daniel Day-Lewis) has a weekly food column for the Daily Telegraph, and also writes for Vanity Fair, Vogue and Food Illustrated. Her cookbooks have covered a range of rural recipes, from the preparation of seasonal dishes and picnics to the art of pie-baking and slow cooking. She is known for her unique writing style, incorporating personal memories and anecdotes as well as background information about ingredients into her cookbooks. Recent titles include Tamasin's Kitchen Bible, Supper for a Song and Food You Can't Say No To. She is currently writing a new cooking book, Smart Tart.
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture; Scherzo; Nocturne & Wedding March
The passage of time has not been kind to Giacomo Meyerbeer. The most successful opera composer of his day, whose transformation of the medium helped to set the stage for Wagner, Verdi, Mussorgsky and a host of others, his work is now seldom performed. All this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and rediscovers the work of this king of Grand Opera, in conversation with one of the composer's leading advocates, Robert Letellier.
Today's programme sees Meyerbeer in Paris, at the invitation of Rossini, who had recently been installed as director of the Théâtre Italien there. Meyerbeer's first two Parisian productions were of operas he had composed during his time in Italy, but before long he was being commissioned to write something brand new for the temple of French music drama - the Opéra. This was Robert le diable, Robert the devil, the tale of a childless woman to whom the devil grants her dearest wish - a son. Robert is a bad boy who eventually repents, but not before he's got up to some mischief, including a graveyard encounter with a pack of zombie nuns, whose ballet shocked and thrilled the Paris of 1831 - and, in due course, cities across the globe. Chopin pronounced the opera a masterpiece, Berlioz praised its orchestration, and Liszt was so taken with it that he composed a fantasy on its themes: Réminiscences de Robert le diable. Meyerbeer's next opera opened to an expectant house on the 29th of February 1836. To say that audiences were not disappointed with Les Huguenots, a tale of political and religious conflict that must have struck a clanging chord in that age of revolutions, would be putting it mildly; it went on to become probably the most successful opera of the 19th century, and its influence can be felt in works as disparate as Die Meistersinger, Don Carlo and Khovanshchina.
The Minguet Quartet performs Fauré and Debussy in the first in the series 'Fauré's Melodies' from Perth Concert Hall.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra begin this afternoon with a live concert from the BBC Maida Vale studios, introduced by Andrew McGregor. Clarinettist, composer and former BBC Young Musician of the Year Mark Simpson joins the orchestra for Magnus Lindberg's stunning Clarinet Concerto. And Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Apollon Musagète Quartet are the orchestra's partners in a Martinu concerto continuing this week's theme of twentieth century music inspired by older music.
The BBC Singers continue that theme with beautiful choral music from the 1920s and 1930s inspired by Renaissance polyphony, and this week's featured orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, play a Stravinsky Concerto with Baroque roots, plus Rachmaninov.
Sean Rafferty's guests include BRIT and Grammy-nominated American-Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright. Currently touring with genre-crossing group Pink Martini, they will be performing live in the In Tune studio.
Plus, live music from British violinist Jennifer Pike, 2002 winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year.
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Violinist Renaud Capuçon is joined by an ensemble including his brother Gautier on cello, in a concert from Wigmore Hall's Fauré Project, a programme of chamber music which spans the composer's long career.
Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor Op. 108
Piano Trio in D minor Op. 120
Over the past decade, the Capuçon brothers have become known for their individual approach to chamber music, a style described by the critic of The Telegraph as an 'unfashionably big luxurious tone'. For Renaud Capuçon, individuality in music is everything: he has said "When you listen to those old recordings of great violinists you hear that they use their right arm a lot as a way of expression, where currently many young violinists are using the left hand instead, which makes their play less personal. Hearing this new generation on for instance the radio you don't recognise them."
The Wigmore Hall's Fauré Project explores a composer whose lifetime saw huge changes in musical language, but whose own musical voice remained constant and distinctive. His innovative approach to harmony and fresh treatment of melody can be heard in his youthful First Piano Quartet, which dates from the 1870s. He composed his sublime Piano Trio in D minor in 1923, the year before he died at the age of 79.
Stephen Johnson explores the deeply emotional yet restrained lyricism of Fauré's First Piano Quartet, a work that draws deeply from Wagnerian influences in the late 19th century, yet confidently and affectingly remains true to a deeply classical - and "French"- ideal.
Violinist Renaud Capuçon is joined by an ensemble including his brother Gautier on cello, in a concert from Wigmore Hall's Fauré Project, a programme of chamber music which spans the composer's long career.
Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 109
Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 15
Over the past decade, the Capuçon brothers have become known for their individual approach to chamber music, a style described by the critic of The Telegraph as an 'unfashionably big luxurious tone'. For Renaud Capuçon, individuality in music is everything: he has said "When you listen to those old recordings of great violinists you hear that they use their right arm a lot as a way of expression, where currently many young violinists are using the left hand instead, which makes their play less personal. Hearing this new generation on for instance the radio you don't recognise them."
The Wigmore Hall's Fauré Project explores a composer whose lifetime saw huge changes in musical language, but whose own musical voice remained constant and distinctive. His innovative approach to harmony and fresh treatment of melody can be heard in his youthful First Piano Quartet, which dates from the 1870s. He composed his sublime Piano Trio in D minor in 1923, the year before he died at the age of 79.
Philip Dodd talks to the film and television producer Tony Garnett. As Seeing Red, a retrospective of his work begins, he discusses his career including his early BBC work with Ken Loach and Jim Allen, the traumatic death of his parents, his time in Hollywood and the exciting challenges of new technology for film makers.
Margaret Mead was, in her day, a famous mass-media anthropologist who fought for a seat at the table of international relations for her discipline. Philip Dodd discusses the legacy of Margaret Mead and the shifting status of anthropology with Peter Mandler, author of a new book about her and the anthropologist Kit Davies.
We're used to reading the Bible as morality, as story, as a source book for the Christian spiritual and intellectual tradition. But how does it fare as a scientific textbook? That's the question posed by geneticist Steve Jones in his latest book The Serpent's Promise. He joins Philip to discuss the science of culture and the culture of science.
"Scientists inhabit a tilting and inconclusive world; doubt is as natural to us as breathing, even at the moment of seeming break-through".
Doubt in science is tonight's subject in a series of Essays on The Case for Doubt, in which five contributors argue that doubt is a valuable and meaningful strength, and not a crippling and negative weakness.
Baroness Susan Greenfield, a scientist who specialises in the physiology of the brain, argues that doubt among scientists should be 'as natural as breathing', even when breakthroughs occur, and that doubt in science should be integral not so much to what scientists do, as to how they think.
WEDNESDAY 01 MAY 2013
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b01s352z)
Jonathan Swain introduces a recital by the Italian pianist Irene Veneziano featuring music by Chopin, Granados and Liszt.
12:31 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Etude no.19 in C sharp minor, Op.25 No.7; Scherzo no. 2 in B flat minor Op.31; Polonaise in F sharp minor Op.44; Ballade in G minor Op.23
Irene Veneziano (piano)
1:10 AM
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916)
El Amor y la muerte (Balada), no.5 from Goyescas - 7 pieces for piano
Irene Veneziano (piano)
1:23 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) arranged by Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
No.7: Standchen (Leise flehen), from Schwanengesang S.560, transc. for piano
Irene Veneziano (piano)
1:29 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Rhapsodie espagnole (Folies d'Espagne et jota aragonesa) S.254
Irene Veneziano (piano)
1:43 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872) arr. Melcer, Henryk (1869-1928)
Przasniczka (The spinning wheel) arr. for piano
Irene Veneziano (piano)
1:47 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
No.6: Toccata d'après le final du 5ième concerto from 6 Studies Op.111
Irene Veneziano (piano)
1:52 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Concerto for cello and orchestra No.1 in A minor (Op.33)
Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
2:14 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
String Quartet No.1 in D minor (1837-1840)
Camerata Quartet - Wlodzimierz Prominski & Andrzej Kordykiewicz (violins), Piotr Reichert (viola), Roman Hoffmann (cello)
2:31 AM
Walpurgis, Maria Antonia (1724-1780)
Sinfonia from 'Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni' - Dramma per musica
Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Tobias Schade (harpsichord/director)
2:38 AM
Raychev, Alexander (1922-2003)
Symphony No.6 'Liturgical'
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milen Nachev (conductor)
3:09 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Trio for piano and strings in C major (K.548)
Kungsbacka Trio
3:28 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Prelude (Fantasia) in A minor (BWV.922)
Wolfgang Glüxam (harpsichord)
3:35 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Peer Gynt Suite No.1 (Op.46)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
3:51 AM
Milano, Francesco Canova da (1497-1543)
Fantasia for guitar
Jurgen De Bruyn (renaissance guitar)
3:53 AM
Bruynèl, Ton (1934-1998)
Serène for flute solo (1979)
Harrie Starreveld (flute, electronics and bird-call)
3:59 AM
Fasch, Johann Friedrich (1688-1758)
Quartet in F for horn, oboe d'amore, violin and basso continuo FWV N:F3;
Les Ambassadeurs
4:06 AM
Horneman, Christian Frederik Emil (1840-1906)
Overture from Aladdin
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)
4:18 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
An die Musik (D.547)
Edith Wiens (soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
4:21 AM
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736)
Sonata for violin and piano in G major
Peter Michalica (violin), Elena Michalicova (piano)
4:31 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Preludio from Partita for solo violin No.3 in E major, BWV.1006
Sigiswald Kuijken (violin)
4:35 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto for 2 violins and string orchestra in D minor (BWV.1043)
Sigiswald Kuijken (violin and conductor), Lucy van Dael (2nd violin solo), La Petite Bande
4:51 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
The Mermaid's song (H.26a.25) from 6 Original canzonettas
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Mahan Esfahani (fortepiano)
4:55 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Overture from Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus (Op.43)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Philippe Entremont (conductor)
5:01 AM
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915)
Nocturne for the Left Hand (Op.9 No.2)
Anatol Ugorski (piano)
5:08 AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
March of the Cudgelmen
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Atso Almila (conductor)
5:11 AM
Monti, Vittorio (1868-1922) arr. unknown
Csardas (orig. for violin and piano) arr. unknown for brass ensemble
Hungarian Brass Ensemble
5:15 AM
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
Praeludium and allegro in the style of Gaetano Pugnani for violin and piano
Tobias Ringborg (violin), Anders Kilström (piano)
5:22 AM
Wassenaer, Unico Wilhelm van (1692-1766)
Concerto No.4 in G major (from Sei Concerti Armonici 1740)
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor)
5:32 AM
Haydn, Johann Michael (1737-1806)
Missa Tempore Quadragesimae (MH.553) for choir and basso continuo
Ex Tempore, Marian Minnen (cello), Elise Christiaens (violone), David Van Bouwel (organ), Florian Heyerick (director)
5:47 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
The tale of Tsar Saltan - suite Op.57
Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Verbitsky (conductor)
6:09 AM
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837)
Sonata for viola and piano (Op.5 No.3) in E flat major
Michael Gieler (viola), Lauretta Bloomer (fortepiano).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b01s354g)
Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b01s358k)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Berlioz Overtures - Sir Andrew Davis conducts the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artists of the Week, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
10.30am
Sarah Walker's guest this week is the chef and writer Tamasin Day-Lewis. Tamasin (daughter of the poet Cecil Day-Lewis and actress Jill Balcon, and sister of the actor Daniel Day-Lewis) has a weekly food column for the Daily Telegraph, and also writes for Vanity Fair, Vogue and Food Illustrated. Her cookbooks have covered a range of rural recipes, from the preparation of seasonal dishes and picnics to the art of pie-baking and slow cooking. She is known for her unique writing style, incorporating personal memories and anecdotes as well as background information about ingredients into her cookbooks. Recent titles include Tamasin's Kitchen Bible, Supper for a Song and Food You Can't Say No To. She is currently writing a new cooking book, Smart Tart.
11am: Sarah's Essential Choice
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 'The Tempest'
Alfred Brendel (piano).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01s358m)
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
Interval
The passage of time has not been kind to Giacomo Meyerbeer. The most successful opera composer of his day, whose transformation of the medium helped to set the stage for Wagner, Verdi, Mussorgsky and a host of others, his work is now seldom performed. All this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and rediscovers the work of this king of Grand Opera, in conversation with one of the composer's leading advocates, Robert Letellier.
Thirteen years separate Meyerbeer's second French opera, Les Huguenots, from his third, Le prophète, whose appearance suffered a protracted delay due to a serious disagreement over casting. Meyerbeer certainly wasn't one to sit around doing nothing, though, and today's programme examines how he occupied himself during this hiatus - with a particular focus on his output of songs, many of which were mini-dramas. In 1842, Meyerbeer was appointed Generalmusikdirektor of Prussia, in which role he wrote a German-language opera, Ein Feldlager in Schlesien (for the opening of the new Berlin Opera, after the old one had burnt down), as well as music for official court occasions, like his sequence of Fackeltänze - torch marches. It was Meyerbeer's advocacy at this time that secured Wagner the Dresden premières of his operas Rienzi and The Flying Dutchman - a favour Wagner was to return a few years later with a series of blisteringly personal anti-Semitic attacks.
Der Garten des Herzens (1839)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Karl Engel (piano)
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Sequence of songs
- Komm, du schönes Fischermädschen (1837)
- La fille de l'air (1837)
- Mina (?1837)
- Sicilienne (?1845)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)
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Fackeltänz (Torch Dance) no.1 in B flat (1844)
North German Radio Symphony Orchestra Hanover
Michail Jurowski (conductor)
CPO 999 168-2 tk 4
Sequence of songs
- Menschenfeindlich (1837)
- Scirocco (1837)
- Ständchen (1840)
- Sie und Ich (1835)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Karl Engel (piano)
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Struensee (1846) - overture
North German Radio Symphony Orchestra Hanover
Michail Jurowski (conductor)
CPO 999 336-2 tk 1
Producer: Chris Barstow.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01s35dl)
Faure's Melodies
Leon McCawley
Leon McCawley plays Fauré's 'Pièces brèves' and Theme and Variations along with Brahms' Waltzes and Chopin's Scherzo No.3 in the second concert in the series 'Fauré's Melodies' from Perth Concert Hall.
Fauré: Pièces Brèves Op.84 (1,2,5,8)
Brahms: 16 Waltzes Op.3
Fauré: Theme and Variations Op.73
Chopin: Scherzo No.3 in C sharp minor.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01s35ft)
BBC SSO and Singers
Wagner 200: BBC SSO in Wagner's Tristan
Louise Fryer launches the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's epic three-day voyage through Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles is at the helm, with Nina Stemme as Isolde and Ian Storey as Tristan in Act 1 today. You can hear Act 2 tomorrow and Act 3 on Friday.
Plus a quick taster from the BBC SSO's new Stravinsky CD, and a beautiful setting of Shelley by 20th century Italian composer Ildebrando Pizzetti.
Stravinsky: Canon on a Russian Popular Tune
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Ilan Volkov.
Ildebrando Pizzetti: A Lament
Tenor Edward Goater
BBC Singers,
Conductor Paul Brough.
2.05pm
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde, Act 1
Isolde ..... Nina Stemme (soprano)
Tristan ..... Ian Storey (tenor)
Brangäne ..... Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (mezzo)
Kurwenal ..... Boaz Daniel (baritone)
Young Seaman ..... Nicky Spence (tenor)
Men of the RSNO Chorus,
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Donald Runnicles.
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b01s367r)
King's College, Cambridge
From the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge with the Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra.
Introit: My beloved spake (Hadley)
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalm 149 (Alcock arr. S.Cleobury)
First Lesson: Job 23 vv1-12
Canticles: Stanford in A
Second Lesson: John 1 vv43-end
Anthem: Ascribe unto the Lord (S.S. Wesley)
Hymn: Thou art the Way (St James - descant: S.Cleobury)
Organ Voluntary: Finale from Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma') (Elgar)
Stephen Cleobury (Director of Music)
Parker Ramsay and Douglas Tang (Organ Scholars).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b01s35j0)
Rachel Nicholls, Musicians from Shakespeare's Globe
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music and guests from the arts and music world.
Soprano Rachel Nicholls has been described in the Times as a 'name to drop in 2013' and she sings live for us and talks to Sean about the challenges of playing Wagner's Brünnhilde.
Plus Shakespeare's Globe have just announced their new season, they bring some of their stage musicians to the studio to talk music and the Bard.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01s358m)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01s367t)
Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Vaughan Williams
Live from the Royal Festival Hall
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
The LPO in a programme of works prefiguring the Second World War by Vaughan Williams and Tippett, conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth
Vaughan Williams: Symphony no.4 in F minor
Claire Booth, soprano
Pamela Helen Stephen, mezzo-soprano
Ben Johnson, tenor
Matthew Rose, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor
As Europe sped towards the horrors of the Second World War, Tippett sought to express the suffering of the ordinary man or woman, taking as his models the great passions of Bach but using spirituals rather than hymns.
Vaughan Williams's Fourth Symphony was written without an explicit programme, but it packs a huge punch from start to finish.
WED 20:15 Twenty Minutes (b01l8t5d)
Herschel Grynszpan, the Forgotten Assassin
Michael Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time was partly inspired by the story of Herschel Grynszpan, a young Polish-German Jew whose assassination of Nazi foreign service officer Ernst vom Rath in Paris on 7 November 1938 provided the excuse for the vicious pogrom that became known as Kristallnacht.
Despite his key role, Grynszpan remains an obscure figure. He was taken into French custody and remained alive throughout much of the war, a prisoner in various Nazi institutions. But his ultimate fate is unknown.
This feature tells the intriguing story of 17 year old Herschel Grynszpan and speculates on his fate, and on why his name has been largely forgotten by history.
Contributors: David Cesarani, Ron Roizen, Gerald Schwab and John Najam.
Readings by Susie Riddell, Joe Sims and Patrick Brennan.
Produced by Emma Harding.
WED 20:35 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01s368r)
Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Tippett
Live from the Royal Festival Hall
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
The LPO in a programme of works prefiguring the Second World War by Vaughan Williams and Tippett, conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth
Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Claire Booth, soprano
Pamela Helen Stephen, mezzo-soprano
Ben Johnson, tenor
Matthew Rose, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor
As Europe sped towards the horrors of the Second World War, Tippett sought to express the suffering of the ordinary man or woman, taking as his models the great passions of Bach but using spirituals rather than hymns.
Vaughan Williams's Fourth Symphony was written without an explicit programme, but it packs a huge punch from start to finish.
WED 22:00 Night Waves (b01s35n0)
Billy Liar, Ellen Gallagher, Introverts & Extroverts, Michael Burleigh
Samira Ahmed will be marking 50 years since John Schlesinger's film 'Billy Liar' was first released. One of the stars of the film, Helen Fraser and the film historian Melanie Williams join Samira to discuss its role in British cinema.
Is society today geared too much in favour of the extrovert? When it comes to success and leadership, are those who are sociable and outgoing being given an unfair advantage? Samira is joined in discussion by Susan Cain, the author of a new book arguing that the power of the introvert is undervalued, by Julia Hobsbawm, the business woman who has been dubbed the "Queen of Networking", and by the cultural historian Henry Hitchings.
The collapse of Western colonial empires after World War Two led to countless vicious power struggles. The historian Michael Burleigh's new book, 'Small Wars, Far Away Places' argues that the consequences of distant wars and the death of colonialism are still with us.
And the art critic Sarah Kent will be in the studio to talk about the American artist Ellen Gallagher whose new exhibition, AxMe, opened at Tate Modern in London today.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b01fjwlp)
The Case for Doubt
Madeleine Bunting on Religious Doubt
Madeleine Bunting on religious doubt.
"Doubt is a glorious reminder of our limitations as human beings, of how suspicious we should be of certainty".
Journalist and writer Madeleine Bunting makes the case for doubt in religion - why religious doubt is a 'glorious reminder' of our limitations as human beings, why we should always be suspicious of the certainty that breeds intolerance, and how the doubt she so feared as a child has now become a useful ally.
Madeleine Bunting is the third of five contributors making The Case for Doubt - that it is much more meaningful than certainty and much more valuable than fixed opinions and beliefs.
First broadcast in April 2012.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b01s35p7)
Wednesday - Fiona Talkington
An eclectic mix of sounds with Fiona Talkington.
THURSDAY 02 MAY 2013
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b01s3531)
Jonathan Swain presents a concert from the 2011 BBC Proms - Sir Colin Davis conducts the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in works by Stravinsky, Ravel and Tchaikovsky.
12:31 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Symphony in three movements
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
12:54 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Sheherazade - 3 poems for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano), Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
1:15 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Symphony no. 4 in F minor Op.36
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
1:57 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Kinderszenen for piano (Op.15)
Håvard Gimse (piano)
2:17 AM
Hutschenruyter, Wouter (1796-1878)
Ouverture voor Groot Orkest
Dutch National Youth Wind Orchestra, Jan Cober (conductor)
2:26 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Golliwog's Cake-walk from Children's Corner Suite (1906-8)
Donna Coleman (piano)
2:31 AM
Gorecki, Henryk Mikolaj (1933-2010)
Miserere (Op.44)
Danish National Radio Choir, Jesper Grove Jorgensen (conductor)
3:05 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.104 in D major "London" (H.
1.104)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor)
3:30 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
12 Variations on 'Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman' for piano (K.265)
Lana Genc (piano)
3:41 AM
Schein, Johann Hermann (1586-1630)
No.26 Canzon for 5 instruments in A minor "Corollarium"
Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall (Director and Descant Viola da Gamba)
3:46 AM
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang (1897-1957)
5 Lieder (Op.38)
Daniela Lehner (mezzo-soprano), Jose Luis Gayo (piano)
3:56 AM
Saint-Saens, Camille (1835-1921)
Danse macabre - symphonic poem (Op.40)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Kjell Seim (conductor)
4:04 AM
Gesualdo, Carlo (c.1561-1613)
Ave dulcissima Maria for 5 voices (1603a) - sacred motet
Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
4:11 AM
Viotti, Giovanni Battista (1755-1824)
Serenade for 2 violins no.1 (Op.23) in A major
Angel Stankov (violin), Yossif Radionov (violin)
4:20 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Csardas obstine
Jenõ Jandó (piano)
4:24 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Trio from Der Rosenkavailer - Act II, final scene "Maria Theres ..."
Adrianna Pieczonka (soprano), Tracey Dahl (soprano), Jean Stilwell (mezzo-soprano), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:31 AM
Strauss (ii), Johann (1825-1899)
Schatz-Walzer ('Treasure Waltz') from Der Zigeunerbaron (Op.418)
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
4:40 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (BWV.225)
Roberta Inverizi (soprano), Annemieke Cantor (alto), Gerhard Nennemann (tenor), Furio Zanasi (bass), Chorus of Swiss-Italian Radio, Ensemble Vanitas Lugano, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
4:53 AM
Moszkowski, Moritz (1854-1924)
Valse for piano in E major (Op.34 No.1)
Dennis Hennig (piano)
5:01 AM
Crusell, Bernhard Henrik (1775-1838)
Concertino for bassoon and orchestra in B flat major
Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon), Radion Sinfoniaorkesteri , Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
5:21 AM
Wikander, David (1884-1955) (text by Jandel, Ragnar)
Forvarskvall (An evening early in spring)
Sveriges Radiokören , Eric Ericson (conductor)
5:26 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Sonata Polonaise in A minor for violin, viola and continuo TWV 42
La Stagione Frankfurt
5:34 AM
Bella, Jan Levoslav (1843-1936)
Fate and the Ideal - symphonic poem
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Oliver Dohnányi (conductor)
5:53 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907)
3 Lyric Pieces
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)
6:02 AM
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto for strings No.5 in A major
Concerto Köln
6:11 AM
Peskin, Vladimir (1906-1988)
Concerto no. 1 in C minor for trumpet and piano
Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet), Roberto Arosio (piano).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b01s354j)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b01s358p)
Thursday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Berlioz Overtures - Sir Andrew Davis conducts the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artists of the Week, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
10.30am
Sarah Walker's guest this week is the chef and writer Tamasin Day-Lewis. Tamasin (daughter of the poet Cecil Day-Lewis and actress Jill Balcon, and sister of the actor Daniel Day-Lewis) has a weekly food column for the Daily Telegraph, and also writes for Vanity Fair, Vogue and Food Illustrated. Her cookbooks have covered a range of rural recipes, from the preparation of seasonal dishes and picnics to the art of pie-baking and slow cooking. She is known for her unique writing style, incorporating personal memories and anecdotes as well as background information about ingredients into her cookbooks. Recent titles include Tamasin's Kitchen Bible, Supper for a Song and Food You Can't Say No To. She is currently writing a new cooking book, Smart Tart.
11am: Sarah's Essential Choice
Elgar: Falstaff
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01s358r)
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
A Change of Tack
The passage of time has not been kind to Giacomo Meyerbeer. The most successful opera composer of his day, whose transformation of the medium helped to set the stage for Wagner, Verdi, Mussorgsky and a host of others, his work is now seldom performed. All this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and rediscovers the work of this king of Grand Opera, in conversation with one of the composer's leading advocates, Robert Letellier.
After the colossal success of his first two French operas, Robert le diable and Les Huguenots, Meyerbeer was keen to produce a third work in the same vein, to ensure that his "system" of music drama was based on "indestructible pillars". This turned out to be Le prophète, first staged in 1849, which itself proved to be a pillar of the operatic repertoire until well into the 20th century. Like Les Huguenots, Le prophète has a basis in historical fact - an Anabaptist revolt that took place in Münster in the 1530s, doubtless given added resonance to first-run audiences by the European-wide unrest of the previous year. Add to this Meyerbeer's most impressively through-composed music to date, the opera's epic scale, and the no-expenses-spared production of the Paris Opéra - including a ballet danced on specially designed roller skates (to simulate the effect of dancing on ice) and the first theatrical use of an electric arc lamp (to simulate a sunrise) - and it's no surprise that audiences didn't know what had hit them. Perhaps the composer realized that he had gone as far as he could in this direction, because for his next operatic project, L'étoile du nord, he turned instead to the gentler medium of comic opera.
Le prophète (1849) - Act 3, scene 1 (extract) - waltz from Skaters' ballet
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Henry Lewis (conductor)
CBS MSK 79400 CD 2 tk 5
Le prophète (1849) - Act 2 (complete)
Marilyn Horne (Fidès)
James McCracken (Jean)
Christian du Plessis (Mathisen)
Jean Dupouy (Jonas)
Jerome Hines (Zacharie)
Nicholas Webb (1st child)
Mark Richardson (2nd child)
Assorted anabaptists and citizens . Vernon Midgley, Leslie Fyson,
Neilson Taylor, Bruce Ogston
Ambrosian Opera Chorus (John McCarthy, dir)
Boys Choir, Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree (Alan Taylor, dir)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Henry Lewis (conductor)
CBS MSK 79400 CD 1 tks 10-18
L'étoile du nord (1854) - Act 3, finale
Elizabeth Futral (Catherine)
Aled Hall (Danilowitz)
Juan Diego Flórez (George)
Darina Takova (Prascovia)
Vladimir Ognev (Peter)
Wexford Festival Opera Chorus (chorus master: Lubomir Matl)
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
MARCO POLO
8.223829-31 CD 3 tk 8
Producer: Chris Barstow.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01s35dn)
Faure's Melodies
Ailish Tynan, Alisdair Hogarth
Soprano Ailish Tynan and pianist Alisdair Hogarth perform songs by Fauré, Duparc and Poulenc in the third in the series of 'Fauré's Melodies' at Perth Concert Hall.
Fauré: Mandoline; Les roses d'Ispahan; Lydia; Après un rêve; En sourdine; Nell
Duparc: L'invation au voyage; Extase; Chanson triste; Elégie
Poulenc: La courte paille; Trois poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01s35fw)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Thursday Opera Matinee - Wagner 200: BBC SSO in Wagner's Tristan
Thursday Opera Matinee
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's epic journey through Wagner's Tristan and Isolde continues this afternoon with Act 2 - including the famous love duet, interrupted at its climax by Isolde's cuckolded husband (and Tristan's friend) King Mark. Their concert at Edinburgh's Usher Hall started with forbidden love, too, in Berlioz's music inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Plus continuing this week's twin themes of Stravinsky from the BBC SSO and twentieth century music influenced by older music in the choral works of Italian composer Ildebrando Pizzetti.
Presented by Louise Fryer.
Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet - Suite from the Dramatic Symphony
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Donald Runnicles.
2.25pm
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde, Act 2
Isolde ..... Nina Stemme (soprano)
Tristan ..... Ian Storey (tenor)
Brangäne ..... Jane Irwin (mezzo)
King Mark ..... Peter Rose (soprano)
Melot ..... Andrew Rees (tenor)
Kurwenal ..... Mikhail Pavlov (baritone)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Donald Runnicles.
3.40pm
Ildebrando Pizzetti: 2 composizioni corali
BBC Singers,
Conductor Paul Brough.
3.50pm
Stravinsky: Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra
Steven Osborne (piano),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Ilan Volkov.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b01s35j2)
Antonio Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann, Michael Rosen, Oxford Early Music Festival
Sean Rafferty presents, with guests including 2013 Opera Award winners conductor Antonio Pappano and tenor Jonas Kaufmann - one of today's hottest opera stars.
Live music from singers and instrumentalists involved in the inaugural Oxford Early Music Festival, plus 2013 Brighton Festival guest director Michael Rosen talks about the this year's line up, and war photographer John Keane and director Neil Bartlett discuss their collaboration on an innovative project at the festival to realise Britten's Canticles.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01s358r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01s3698)
BBC SSO - Wagner, Vaughan Williams, Beethoven
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
Steven Osborne Plays Beethoven's 'Emperor' Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Manze. Also on the programme: Vaughan Williams' Ninth Symphony.
Wagner: Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 9
8.15: Interval
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 'The Emperor'
Steven Osborne piano
Andrew Manze conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Few composers were more aware than Ralph Vaughan Williams of what it meant to write a Ninth Symphony - and few have been less daunted. The composer may have been 85 years old, but 1950s audiences heard a symphony of astonishing power, ambition and imaginative fire: a contemporary prophet looking forward, not back. It's a strikingly equal match for Beethoven's mighty 'Emperor' concerto, as Steven Osborne and Andrew Manze tackle two of the pinnacles of the BBC SSO's Beethoven concerto and Vaughan Williams symphony cycles. And for once, Richard Wagner doesn't quite steal the show, though his visionary Lohengrin prelude burns with the same inner light.
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b01s35n2)
Future Warfare
Anne McElvoy hosts a special edition looking at the state of warfare in the modern world.
The 20th Century saw several different ways in which a war could be fought, from evenly matched armies confronting each other on a battle field, to the aerial mass bombing of cities in order to terrorise citizens and stop industry, to the threat of mutually assured destruction in a nuclear war.
Today, Western nations find themselves in a very different kind of conflict, pitted not against enemy nations, but against disparate networks of 'terrorists' based in remote areas of apparently friendly countries. The technology of war has changed too: unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as drones, allow their owners to fight without putting themselves in danger. And our increasing reliance on the internet raises the spectre cyber warfare.
Do these developments mean we've entered a new era for warfare? What do they mean for the ethics of conflict in the modern world?
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01fjxbb)
The Case for Doubt
Jennifer Michael Hecht on Doubt
American poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht on doubt. "If we are interested in truth, and in our own freedom, we ought to celebrate that which convinces us to doubt".
Long Desc
Jennifer Michael Hecht on doubt.
"If we are interested in truth, and in our own freedom, we ought to celebrate that which convinces us to doubt".
The American poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht reflects on doubt as 'a beautiful thing' in a world where knowing is celebrated more than doubting. Hecht, who has written a history of Doubt, argues that if we are truly interested in freedom and truth, our fixed opinions and beliefs will start giving way to doubt.
This is the fourth of five Essays on The Case for Doubt - political, religious, and scientific doubt ... concluding with self-doubt.
First broadcast in April 2012.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b01s35p9)
Thursday - Fiona Talkington
An eclectic mix of sounds with Fiona Talkington.
FRIDAY 03 MAY 2013
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b01s3533)
Jonathan Swain introduces a concert of choral works by the Bulgarian composer Petar Dinev.
12:31am
Dinev, Petar (1889-1980)
The Angel Cried Out; It is Truly Meet in the 7th mode; A Mercy of Peace No.6; It is Truly Meet in the 5th mode; The Father & the Son; A Mercy of Peace No.7
Holy Trinity Choir, Plovdiv, Vessela Geleva (conductor)
12:51am
Dinev, Petar (1889-1980)
The Trisagion Hymn; The Lord's Prayer; A Mercy of Peace No.5; Troparion of the Nativity; My Whole Trust
Holy Trinity Choir, Plovdiv, Vessela Geleva (conductor)
01:06am
Dinev, Petar (1889-1980)
Praise the Name of the Lord; Two Folk Songs from South-Western Bulgaria
Bulgarian National Radio Mixed Chorus, Mihail Milkov (conductor)
01:14am
Dinev, Petar (1889-1980)
The Judicious Villain
Boris Hristov (bass), St Alexander Nevsky Cathedral Choir, Angel Konstantinov (conductor)
01:17am
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Concerto in modo misolidio for piano and orchestra
Olli Mustonen (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Markus Lehtinen (conductor)
01:54am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Six Pieces (Op.19)
Duncan Gifford (piano)
02:25am
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Waltz from Sleeping Beauty (Op.66)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Arvid Engegard (conductor)
02:31am
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Quartet for strings No. 2 (Op.13) in A minor
Biava Quartet
02:56am
Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail Mikhaylovich (1859-1935)
Caucasian Sketches - orchestral suite (Op.10)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
03:18am
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)
Mein junges Leben hat ein End
Barbara Borden (soprano), Netherlands Chamber Choir, Paul van Nevel (conductor)
03:25am
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Scherzo No.3 in C sharp (Op.39)
Ronald Brautigam (piano)
03:33am
Chedeville (Le Cadet), Nicolas (1705-1782)
Recorder Sonata in G minor Op.13 No.6
Ensemble 1700, Dorothee Oberlinger (director)
03:41am
Kacsoh, Pongrac (1873-1923)
Janos Vitez (The Hero John)
János Berkes (John, tenor), Magda Kalmár (Iluskas, soprano), Lajos Miller (Bagó, baritone), The Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, János Kerekes (conductor)
03:54am
Veracini, Francesco Maria (1690-1768)
Largo for violin and piano
Jela Spitkova (violin), Tatiana Franova (piano)
03:59am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Fugue for lute (BWV.1000) in G minor
Konrad Junghänel (lute)
04:05am
Benjamin, Arthur (1893-1960)
Overture to an Italian Comedy
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Post (conductor)
04:12am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Quartet for oboe and strings (K.370) in F major
Peter Bree (oboe), Amsterdam String Trio
04:31am
Nicolai, Otto (1810-1849)
Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
RTV Slovenian Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
04:40am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Overture from Tafelmusik
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Frank de Bruine (oboe), The King's Consort, Robert King (director)
04:47am
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)
Scaramouche
James Anagnoson (piano), Leslie Kinton (piano)
04:58am
Striggio, Alessandro (c.1540-1592)
Ecce beatam lucem, for 40 voices
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
05:06am
Arnold, Malcolm (1921-2006)
Three Shanties for wind quintet (Op.4)
The Ariart Woodwind Quintet
05:14am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Adagio in E flat (WoO.43 No.2) for mandolin and piano
Lajos Mayer (mandolin), Imre Rohmann (piano)
05:20am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Metamorphosen
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Lovro von Matacic (conductor)
05:51am
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809)
Trio for keyboard and strings (H.XV.19) in G minor
Katharine Gowers (violin), Adrian Brendel (cello), Paul Lewis (piano)
06:07am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Solitudini amate (Beloved solitude)
Sophie Boulin (Roxana, soprano), La Petite Bande, Sigswald Kuijken (director)
06:14am
Baranovic, Kresimir (1894-1975)
Licitarsko srce (Gingerbread Heart) - Suite from the Ballet
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Mladen Tarbuk (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b01s354l)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b01s358t)
Friday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Berlioz Overtures - Sir Andrew Davis conducts the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artists of the Week, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
10.30am
Sarah Walker's guest this week is the chef and writer Tamasin Day-Lewis. Tamasin (daughter of the poet Cecil Day-Lewis and actress Jill Balcon, and sister of the actor Daniel Day-Lewis) has a weekly food column for the Daily Telegraph, and also writes for Vanity Fair, Vogue and Food Illustrated. Her cookbooks have covered a range of rural recipes, from the preparation of seasonal dishes and picnics to the art of pie-baking and slow cooking. She is known for her unique writing style, incorporating personal memories and anecdotes as well as background information about ingredients into her cookbooks. Recent titles include Tamasin's Kitchen Bible, Supper for a Song and Food You Can't Say No To. She is currently writing a new cooking book, Smart Tart.
11am: Sarah's Essential Choice
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01s358w)
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
Swansong
The passage of time has not been kind to Giacomo Meyerbeer. The most successful opera composer of his day, whose transformation of the medium helped to set the stage for Wagner, Verdi, Mussorgsky and a host of others, his work is now seldom performed. All this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and rediscovers the work of this king of Grand Opera, in conversation with one of the composer's leading advocates, Robert Letellier.
The final programme of the week is devoted to Meyerbeer's last two music dramas: Dinorah, a gentle Breton love story intertwined with a yarn about a hunt for cursed treasure; and L'Africaine - The African Woman - an operatic epic conjuring up imagined, even fantastical events in the life of the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama. Meyerbeer died the day after he finished his fair copy of the full score, leaving instructions that the work was to remain unstaged should he not be around to oversee its production; his wishes were ignored, and L'Africaine took to the stage a year later, in a practical performing edition by the Belgian composer and musicologist, François-Joseph Fétis.
Dinorah (1859) - Act 2 scene 1 ('Qu'il est bon')
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra
James Judd (conductor)
OPERA RARA ORC5 CD 2 tk 1
Dinorah (1859) - Act 2 scenes 3-6
Deborah Cook (Dinorah)
Christian du Plessis (Hoël)
Alexander Oliver (Corentin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
James Judd (conductor)
OPERA RARA ORC5 CD 2 tks 3-7
Dinorah (1859) - Act 2 scenes 7 (conclusion)-8
Deborah Cook (Dinorah)
Christian du Plessis (Hoël)
Alexander Oliver (Corentin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
James Judd (conductor)
OPERA RARA ORC5 CD 2 tks 9-11
L'Africaine (1865) - Act 5 final scene
Martina Arroyo (Sélika)
Sherrill Milnes (Nélusko)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Gerd Albrecht (conductor)
MYTO 3 MCD 0
11.235 CD 3 tks 8-9
Producer: Chris Barstow.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01s35dq)
Faure's Melodies
Andrew Kennedy, Navarra Quartet
Alisdair Hogarth and the Navarra Quartet perform Fauré's second Piano Quintet and 'La Bonne Chanson' with Andrew Kennedy in this final concert in the series 'Fauré's Melodies' from Perth Concert Hall.
Fauré: La Bonne Chanson
Fauré: Piano Quintet No 2 in C minor, Op 115.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01s35fy)
BBC SSO and Singers
Wagner 200: BBC SSO in Wagner's Tristan
Louise Fryer concludes this week's focus on BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with the final act of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, with Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles. Plus final instalments of the week's other composer threads - Stravinsky from the BBC SSO and Renaissance-inspired choral music by Pizzetti, performed by the BBC Singers. And to round the week off, Runnicles conducts his orchestra in a virtuoso piece of autobiography by American composer John Adams.
Stravinsky: Song of the Volga Boatmen
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Ilan Volkov.
Ildebrando Pizzetti: 2 canzoni corali
BBC Singers,
Conductor Paul Brough.
2.10pm
Stravinsky: Movements for Piano and Orchestra
Steven Osborne (piano),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Ilan Volkov.
2.20pm
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde, Act 3
Tristan ... Robert Dean Smith (tenor)
Isolde ... Petra Maria Schnitzer (soprano)
Brangäne ... Jane Irwin (soprano)
Kurwenal ... Markus Eiche (baritone)
King Mark ... Matthew Best (bass)
Melot ... Andrew Rees (tenor)
Helmsman ... Benedict Nelson (baritone)
Shepherd ... Ben Johnson (tenor)
Men of the RSNO Chorus,
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Donald Runnicles.
3.40pm
Ildebrando Pizzetti: De Profundis
BBC Singers,
Conductor Paul Brough.
3.45pm
John Adams: My father knew Charles Ives
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Donald Runnicles.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b01s35j4)
Roderick Williams & Joseph Middleton, Emmanuel Vass, London Vocal Project
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from baritone Roderick Williams & pianist Joseph Middleton performing British songs by Britten, Bridge and Quilter. Young rising star pianist Emmanuel Vass will play music from Bach to Bond, and the London Vocal Project will sing a cappella for us ahead of their performance at the South Bank Centre as part of this weekend's Voicelab project. Mary King and Pete Churchill will be on hand to tell us more about that.Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.In.Tune@bbc.co.uk@BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01s358w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01s369q)
Live from the Barbican in London
Walton, York Bowen
John Wilson conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a programme of English music by Walton, York Bowen and Vaughan Williams.
Live from The Barbican Centre, London.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Walton: Overture 'Scapino'
York Bowen: Viola Concerto
Lawrence Power (viola)
Rosie Aldridge (mezzo-soprano)
Neal Davies (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Symphony Chorus
John Wilson (conductor)
John Wilson returns to the BBC Symphony Orchestra to conduct an all-English programme. Lawrence Power has proved a persuasive champion of York Bowen's gloriously romantic Viola Concerto, written for Lionel Tertis in 1908, and this provides the emotional core for a concert lit with ribald humour. Walton's ingenious 'comedy overture' Scapino, an exhilarating orchestral showpiece, finds a spirited echo in Vaughan Williams's earthy Five Tudor Portraits. Setting texts by Henry VIII's one-time tutor John Skelton, Vaughan Williams conjures up fives vivid character sketches, from the drunken Elinor Rumming to the charming Pretty Bess, a scherzo for the tattered Jolly Rutterkin, and Jane Scroop's heartfelt Requiem to her pet sparrow.
FRI 20:20 Discovering Music (b01s369s)
Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits
Stephen Johnson explores Vaughan Williams's Five Tudor Portraits.
It was Edward Elgar who suggested that Vaughan Williams might enjoy the verse of the Tudor poet John Skelton. When he read the poems, it's clear that Vaughan Williams was impressed by them and when he came to set a selection of Skelton's work as Five Tudor Portraits, he responded to the jazz-like qualities in the metre, making inventive use of the poet's colourful language.
FRI 20:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01s36bv)
Live from the Barbican in London
Vaughan Williams
John Wilson conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a programme of English music by Walton, York Bowen and Vaughan Williams.
Live from The Barbican Centre, London.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits
Lawrence Power (viola)
Rosie Aldridge (mezzo-soprano)
Neal Davies (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Symphony Chorus
John Wilson (conductor)
John Wilson returns to the BBC Symphony Orchestra to conduct an all-English programme. Lawrence Power has proved a persuasive champion of York Bowen's gloriously romantic Viola Concerto, written for Lionel Tertis in 1908, and this provides the emotional core for a concert lit with ribald humour. Walton's ingenious 'comedy overture' Scapino, an exhilarating orchestral showpiece, finds a spirited echo in Vaughan Williams's earthy Five Tudor Portraits. Setting texts by Henry VIII's one-time tutor John Skelton, Vaughan Williams conjures up fives vivid character sketches, from the drunken Elinor Rumming to the charming Pretty Bess, a scherzo for the tattered Jolly Rutterkin, and Jane Scroop's heartfelt Requiem to her pet sparrow.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b01s35n4)
Rebecca Solnit, Rozi Plain, Richard J Williams
This week Ian's guests are Rebecca Solnit with her new book 'The Faraway Nearby', SJ Fowler, with a piece connecting Electronic Voice Phenomena and Dada, Richard Williams discusses sex and buildings and Rozi Plain performs from her album 'Joined Sometimes Unjoined
Follow The Verb on Twitter: @R3TheVerb.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b01fjykb)
The Case for Doubt
Alastair Campbell on Self-Doubt
Alastair Campbell on self-doubt.
"Self-doubt that leads to resolution of the doubts can be a remarkable source of energy and creativity".
In the last of five Essays making The Case for Doubt, journalist and broadcaster Alastair Campbell, acknowledging his reputation as a hard man while Tony Blair's spokesman and strategist, admits that self-doubt has always been an essential part of his make-up. But reflecting on Galileo's assertion that self-doubt is 'the father of all invention', he argues that it should be a creative rather than a crippling experience.
This ends the series The Case for Doubt, in which five contributors have argued that Doubt - though sometimes troubling - is meaningful and valuable, and not negative and weak.
First broadcast in April 2012.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b01s35pc)
Moussu T e lei jovents in Session
Lopa Kothari with tracks from across the globe, plus a studio session with Marseilles-based band Moussu T e lei jovents.