Jonathan Swain presents a concert of music by Jose de Nebra and Scarlatti with Maria Espada & Al Ayre Español.
Maria Espada (soprano), Al Ayre Español, Eduardo López Banzo (harpsichord & director)
Maria Espada (soprano), Al Ayre Español, Eduardo López Banzo (harpsichord & director)
Maria Espada (soprano), Al Ayre Español, Eduardo López Banzo (harpsichord & director)
Sonata in D minor Fugue (K.41); Presto (K. 18)
Maria Espada (soprano), Al Ayre Español, Eduardo López Banzo (harpsichord & director)
Maria Espada (soprano), Al Ayre Español, Eduardo López Banzo (harpsichord & director)
Makoto Ueno (m) (piano), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Steven Sloane (conductor)
Miroirs (Noctuelles; Oiseaux tristes; Une barque sur l'Ocean; Alborada del gracioso; La vallée des cloches)
Vladislav Brunner (flute), Jozef Martinkovic (bassoon), Juraj Alexander (cello), Juraj Schoffer (double bass), Milo? Starosta (harpsichord)
3 Rose Gardens Songs (1919): 'Surely I may kiss you'; 'Behind the wall'; 'Tired'
Ars Barocca - Ivona Nedeva (flute), Kalin Panayotov (oboe, oboe d'amore), Zefira Valova (violin), Miroslav Petkov (trumpet), Ivan Iliev (violin), Gergana Deliiska (violin), Valentin Toshev (viola), Vejen Rezashki (bassoon), Miroslav Stoyanov (cello), Tzvetelina Dimcheva (cembalo, organ)
Henriette Schellenberg (soprano), Laverne G'Froerer (mezzo-soprano), Keith Boldt (tenor), George Roberts (baritone), Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jon Washburn (conductor)
Cable, Howard (b. 1920)
Julia Fischer (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)
Jon Parker and James Kimura Parker (pianos), CBC Radio Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernardi
Rob's guest this week is the author David Mitchell, whose first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His two subsequent novels were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: number9dream (2001); and Cloud Atlas (2004), which was made into a film starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, and four years later he was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. As well as novels, David has also written opera libretti: Wake, based on the 2000 Enschede fireworks disaster with music by Klaas de Vries, was performed by the Dutch National Reisopera in 2010. Most recently, he worked with the Dutch composer and video director Michel van der Aa on the opera Sunken Garden, premiered earlier this year by English National Opera.
On Friday this week on Radio 3 we begin a new feature for the 2013 Proms: 'Proms Artist Recommends'. Each day an artist performing in this year's season recommends a musical work, and on Essential Classics across the Proms season we'll play one of those pieces at around
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: The Last Night of the Proms, GUILD.
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, Otto Klemperer.
Rob's guest this week is the author David Mitchell, whose first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His two subsequent novels were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: number9dream (2001); and Cloud Atlas (2004), which was made into a film starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, and four years later he was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. As well as novels, David has also written opera libretti: Wake, based on the 2000 Enschede fireworks disaster with music by Klaas de Vries, was performed by the Dutch National Reisopera in 2010. Most recently, he worked with the Dutch composer and video director Michel van der Aa on the opera Sunken Garden, premiered earlier this year by English National Opera.
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 111
He could number among his patrons the King of Spain, and the heir to the Prussian Throne, and he composed around one hundred string quartets, and at least as many quintets, amongst other works - this week Donald Macleod looks at the life and music of Luigi Boccherini. Although Boccherini was originally born in the Tuscan city of Lucca, he spent the majority of his life as a working musician in Spain, after a brief spell in Paris. His extensive output is largely now forgotten, but one work in particular, the Minuet from his fifth String Quartet opus 11, is one of the most used entry points by film and TV producers today, creating a sense of eighteenth century elegance and period. Boccherini is also credited with forming the first ever string quartet, yet despite his popularity during much of his lifetime, Boccherini lived at the end of his life in virtual poverty, seeing his wife and daughters die one after another, before his own death possibly from tuberculosis.
Luigi Boccherini came from a humble background, with his father performing as a double bassist in their home city of Lucca. Luigi quickly made a name for himself not only as a cellist, but also as a composer for the cello, including works such as his sixth Cello Sonata, in C major. The young Luigi was soon sent off to Rome for further musical training, where he came into contact with much of the sacred choral music taking place there. Boccherini would go on to compose many sacred choral works of his own, such as the Kyrie in B flat, from his own setting of the Mass.
Boccherini junior was now making quite a name for himself as a virtuoso player of the cello, and along with his father, embarked on a tour performing in Venice, Trieste and Vienna. By the time of their second engagement in Vienna, Boccherini was composing and publishing his first significant works, which caused quite a stir. His first set of trios made a huge impression on the older composer Gluck. His published opus 2 quartets also had a huge impact, including the fifth String Quartet in E major.
Two former Radio 3 New Generation Artists, violinist Tai Murray and pianist Ashley Wass join forces for a programme live from Wigmore Hall in London. Szymanowski's colourful and expressive Myths are followed by Schumann's passionate Second Violin Sonata.
Louise Fryer presents a week featuring recent concerts conducted around central Europe by Sir Simon Rattle - mainly (every day) with the orchestra of which he's Chief Conductor, the Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin Philharmonic), but also with the Vienna Philharmonic and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestras. Music from Haydn to Ligeti, via the likes of Beethoven, Schumann, Dvorak, Sibelius and one of this year's centenary composers, Witold Lutoslawski.
On Tuesday you can also hear some Berlin Philharmonic players moonlighting on their summer holiday in the remarkable Lucerne Festival Orchestra, conducted by Rattle's Berlin predecessor, Claudio Abbado.
And our Thursday Opera Matinee continues Radio 3's cycle of all of Verdi's operas, as part of the Verdi 200 bicentenary celebrations: this week it's a rarely-heard early piece, Alzira, a tale of blood, thunder and star-crossed from sixteenth-century Peru under the Spanish Empire.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major (Pastoral)
Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 3
Suzy Klein is joined by the South Korean tenor Jung Soo Yun, hailed by Opera Now as one of its Rising Stars. He is in London for a recital at the Wigmore Hall and is joined by the pianist Joseph Middleton to perform live in the In Tune studio.
Plus Professor Roger Kneebone from Imperial College enlightens Suzy on parallels between the worlds of music and surgery.
Acclaimed British pianist Peter Hill performs live in the studio, ahead of his new recording of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. He talks to Suzy about the enduring appeal Bach holds for pianists.
The BBC Singers conducted by Paul Brough perform 20th century music for choir and organ by English composers including Howells, Walton, Britten and Lennox Berkeley.
Howells - Psalm Prelude Set 2 No. 3 (Sing unto him a new song)
Lennox Berkeley - A Festival anthem Op. 21'2
Martin Handley introduces 20th music for chorus and organ by English composers, in a programme that highlights striking a cappella works from Walton and Howells, interspersed with organ voluntaries performed by Richard Pearce at St Paul's Knightsbridge.
Celebration and commemoration are the themes that run through this concert with pieces written for coronations and festivals, including Howell's intensely moving "Take him, earth, for cherishing" written upon the death of President J.F. Kennedy who was assasinated 50 years ago in 1963.
Matthew Sweet talks to the Academy Award-winning director of The Piano, Jane Campion, about her new TV suspense drama series,Top of the Lake, set amidst the remote landscape of her native New Zealand. She explains why she has returned to television now and what surprised her most about a behind the scenes documentary made on set.
Australian born poet and broadcaster Clive James is best known for his irreverent TV chat shows and autobiographical memoirs. His output has been curtailed in recent years due to serious illness but he has just published a new translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, something he has wanted to accomplish since first reading the epic poem as a student in 1964. He explains why this project was so important and what he's learnt through being forced to stop and reflect on his life.
In the first essay of the series, Roger Michell reflects on the mix of emotion he feels on the first day of any production, and beckons us to follow as he travels to the location of his 2012 film Hyde Park on Hudson.
A James Cameron film. A Rupert Goold production. The director has become an acclaimed and authoritative figure - even a star in his own right - but the job itself remains the subject of speculation: what does a director actually do? And what is the mysterious 'process' that sees them from idea to first night? In this Essay series, five innovative practitioners of stage and screen reveal the daily grind of a craft which, despite books and interviews on the subject, remains opaque.
Roger Michell's career has spanned theatre, television and film. Earlier in his career, he worked at the Royal Court and the RSC, where he eventually became a resident director. He continues to divide his time between theatre and film, and recent stage productions include Rope (The Almeida) and Tribes (Royal Court). For BBC television he directed The Buddha of Suburbia (1993) and Persuasian (1995). Some of his films include Notting Hill (1999), Changing Lanes (2002), The Mother (2003), Enduring Love (2004), Venus (2006) and Morning Glory (2010), as well as Hyde Park on Hudson (2012).
Prolific composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton performs with his Falling River Music quartet, at a 400-year-old former pig barn in Austria!
Braxton - a pioneer of avant-garde and improvised music - is well known for challenging traditional compositional methods with approaches such as graphic scores and instructions left open to the performers' interpretation. Falling River Music is the composer's latest system, and Braxton - performing on alto and soprano saxophones - is joined by three stars from the younger generation of New York's experimental scene: cornettist Taylor Ho Bynum, saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and guitarist Mary Halvorson. Jazz on 3 trekked all the way to the tiny Austrian town of Ulrichsberg to record a stunning gig, in addition to which Braxton and his group explain the visual references and directions they use to create the music.
TUESDAY 09 JULY 2013
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b036j2t7)
Jonathan Swain presents a concert given by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and soprano Carolyn Sampson based on the mythical figure of Ariadne.
12:31 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Overture and arias from Arianna in Crete, HWV.32
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)
12:41 AM
Marcello, Benedetto [1686-1739]
Arias from Arianna (c.1727)
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)
1:02 AM
Locatelli, Pietro Antonio [1695-1764]
Concerto grosso (Op.7 No.6) in E flat major, 'Il pianto d'Arianna'
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)
1:18 AM
Galuppi, Baldassare [1706-1785]
Concerto for 2 Flutes and Orchestra in D minor
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)
1:33 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Turbato il mar si vede (Arianna in Creta, HWV.32)
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)
1:38 AM
Porpora, Nicola [1686-1768]
Arias from Arianna in Nasso
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)
1:48 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Symphony No.38 (K.504) in D major "Prague"
Freiburger Barockorchester; René Jacobs (conductor)
2:18 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Prague Waltzes (Prazske valciky) (B.99)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Stefan Róbl (conductor)
2:26 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
No.3 Allegro appassionato - from 4 Romantic pieces for violin and piano (Op.75)
Young-Zun Kim (violin), Joon-Cha Kim (piano)
2:31 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Cockaigne Overture
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Pinchas Steinberg
2:46 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)
2:55 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
A London Symphony
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
3:41 AM
Purcell, Henry [1659-1695]
Chacony a 4 for strings (Z.730) in G minor
Psophos Quartet (BBC New generation Artists 2005-07)
3:49 AM
Dohnányi, Ernõ (1877-1960)
Variations on a Nursery Song (Op.25)
Arthur Ozolins (piano), Toronto Symphony, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:13 AM
Dolf, Tumasch (1889-1963)
Allas steilas (To the stars)
Cantus Firmus Surselva, Clau Scherrer (conductor)
4:17 AM
Mussorgsky, Modest (1839-1881) [1839-1881]
A Night on the bare mountain, ed. Rimsky-Korsakov
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
4:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Abendempfindung (K.523) for voice and piano
Elly Ameling (soprano), Jörg Demus (piano)
4:37 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Two Lyric Pieces: Evening in the Mountains (Op.68 No.4); At the cradle (Op.68 No.5)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:45 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Der Abend (Op.34 No.1) for 16 part choir
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
4:55 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.8 in G major 'Le Soir' Hob 1:8
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rolf Gupta (conductor)
5:19 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Un Soir de neige - cantata for 6 voices
BBC Singers, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
5:26 AM
Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967)
Summer evening
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, György Lehel (conductor)
5:45 AM
Petersson, Per Gunnar (b.1954) [b.1954]
Aftonland (Evening Land) for choir, solo horn and solo
Soren Hermansson (horn), Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (director)
5:59 AM
Lisinski, Vatroslav (1819-1854)
Vecer (Evening) - Symphonic Idyll
Croatian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Niksha Bareza (conductor)
6:07 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Höstkväll (Op.38 No.1) for voice and orchestra
Soile Isokoski (soprano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
6:12 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Jägers Abendlied (D.368) (Op.3 No.4) (The huntsman's evening song)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
6:15 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Serenade in G major (K.525), 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (Conductor).
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b036j2w1)
Tuesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b036j2zl)
Tuesday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: The Last Night of the Proms, GUILD.
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, Otto Klemperer.
10.30am
Rob?s guest this week is the author David Mitchell, whose first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His two subsequent novels were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: number9dream (2001); and Cloud Atlas (2004), which was made into a film starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, and four years later he was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. As well as novels, David has also written opera libretti: Wake, based on the 2000 Enschede fireworks disaster with music by Klaas de Vries, was performed by the Dutch National Reisopera in 2010. Most recently, he worked with the Dutch composer and video director Michel van der Aa on the opera Sunken Garden, premiered earlier this year by English National Opera.
11am
Essential Choice ? A Great Proms Performance
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Malcolm Sargent (conductor).
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01cvpxh)
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Boccherini is Successful in Paris
He could number among his patrons the King of Spain, and the heir to the Prussian throne, and he composed around one hundred string quartets, and at least as many quintets, amongst other works - this week Donald Macleod looks at the life and music of Luigi Boccherini.
Boccherini on tour with his father in Vienna, was soon longing to return for his native city of Lucca. However upon their return, Luigi was soon disillusioned and wished to leave again, wanting to pursue his musical career elsewhere. Still keeping his contractual ties with Lucca, Boccherini toured Pavia and Cremona with his father. It was around this time that he composed his successful opus two set of quartets, including the second String Quartet in B flat major.
Back in Lucca, Boccherini had certain obligations to the city fathers there, and was commissioned to compose for various civic occasions, along with his contractual arrangements to regularly perform. One work Boccherini composed during this period, which may have been commissioned by his city employers, was his oratorio Gioas, or King of Judah.
Soon afterwards, Boccherini's father died. Young Luigi accompanied by his friend Manfredi, was able to spread his wings without his family in tow, and they made their way to Paris. This was good timing, as some of Boccherini's works had just been published there. It was during this period in Paris when Boccherini relied upon the patronage of Baron de Bagge, that through this aristocrats music library, Boccherini was likely to have come into contact with the ideas of orchestral woodwind writing. We can hear Boccherini's own writing for orchestra, including woodwind instruments in his Symphony opus 7 in C major.
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b036j3s2)
Royal Northern College of Music/Wigmore Hall
Episode 1
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and from London's Wigmore Hall, with performances by pianists François-Frédéric Guy, Imogen Cooper and Paul Lewis, and baritone Christopher Maltman with pianist Joseph Middleton.
Today's broadcast features songs by Haydn and Britten, Beethoven's much loved "Moonlight" Sonata and Schubert's "Allegro" in A minor for two pianos.
Haydn: Sailor's song
Haydn: She never told her love
Haydn: Fidelit
Christopher Maltman (baritone) / Joseph Middleton (piano)
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op.27'2 'Moonlight'
François-Frédéric Guy (piano)
Schubert: Allegro in A minor, D.947 'Lebensstürme'
Paul Lewis and Imogen Cooper (piano)
Britten: The Ploughboy
Britten: The Salley Gardens
Britten: Sweet Polly Oliver
Britten: The Foggy Foggy Dew
Christopher Maltman (baritone) / Joseph Middleton (piano).
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b036j5n7)
Simon Rattle and Friends
Episode 2
Today's performances by the week's featured conductor and orchestra, the top pairing of Simon Rattle and his Berlin Philharmonic, are complemented by a concert conducted at last year's Lucerne Festival by Rattle's equally distinguished predecessor in Berlin, Claudio Abbado. Abbado and his acclaimed Lucerne Festival Orchestra play a Beethovenian hymn to freedom - Egmont - and Mozart's final great masterpiece, his Requiem. Rattle conducts his Berliners in Haydn and Ravel and lets his hair down in Dvorak.
Presented by Louise Fryer.
Beethoven: Egmont - complete incidental music
Juliane Banse (soprano),
Bruno Ganz (narrator),
Lucerne Festival Orchestra,
Conductor Claudio Abbado.
2.30pm
Mozart, ed. Franz Beyer and Robert Levin: Requiem
Anna Prohaska (soprano),
Sara Mingardo (contralto),
Maximilian Schmitt (tenor),
René Pape (bass),
Bavarian Radio Chorus,
Swedish Radio Chorus,
Lucerne Festival Orchestra,
Conductor Claudio Abbado.
3.25pm
Haydn: Symphony no. 95 in C minor
3.45pm
Dvorak: Carnival Overture
3.55pm
Debussy Jeux, poème dansé pour orchestre.
TUE 16:30 In Tune (b036j5n9)
Nelson Goerner, Dame Felicity Lott, Kuniko Kato, the Amaryllis Consort
Suzy Klein presents, with live music and guests and the latest arts news.
Acclaimed British pianist Peter Hill performs live in the studio, ahead of his new recording of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. He talks to Suzy about the enduring appeal Bach holds for pianists.
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TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01cvpxh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b036j5yj)
Louis Schwizgebel - Mozart, Couperin, Ravel, Liszt, Holliger
Live from the Clothworkers' Centenary Concert Hall in Leeds
Presented by Tom Redmond
Pianist Louis Schwizgebel plays music by Mozart, Couperin, Liszt, Holliger and Ravel.
Mozart: Piano Sonata in D major, K.311
Couperin: Les barricades mystérieuses
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
c.
8.20
Music Interval
c.
8.40
Liszt: Vallée d'Obermann
Heinz Holliger: "Elis"
Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit
Louis Schwizgebel (piano)
Young Swiss pianist Louis Schwizgebel returns to the Clothworkers' Centenary Concert Hall in Leeds following his success at last year's Leeds International Piano Competition, to play a recital of music by Mozart, Couperin, Holliger, Liszt and Ravel.
The programme includes one of Mozart's early piano sonatas alongside one of Francois Couperin's 1717 works for harpsichord and Ravel's tribute to the great composer - "Le Tombeau de Couperin".
The second half begins with Liszt's Vallée d'Obermann from his Années de pèlerinage (Years of pilgrimage) 1st year, Switzerland, and one of Heinz Holliger's best-known piano works "Elis". The concert ends with one of the great tours-de-force of 20th century piano music - Ravel's incredible "Gaspard de la nuit".
TUE 22:00 Night Waves (b036s1c0)
Egypt's democracy, Diana Quick, Laura Knight, Technology & Cities
The situation in Egypt is developing quickly. But as the army deposes an elected president, seemingly in support of popular protestors in the streets, it's difficult to see where the sympathies of democrats should lie. Philip is joined by the historian Tom Holland and the political scientist Salwa Ismail to try to make sense of the revolution unfolding in front of us.
Actress Diana Quick reflects on playing Eva, a charming but controlling German-Jewish émigré in Richard Greenberg's play The American Plan, and discusses the way she's perceived and the type of roles she gets offered since coming to fame as Lady Julia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited back in 1981.
Laura Knight was one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century and the first woman to be elected to the Royal Academy. Best known for her work during the Second World War as well as her series of paintings at the ballet and the circus, she resolutely rejected modernism. There's been a revival of interest in her work recently and the National Portrait Gallery is mounting an exhibition of her work. James Malpas joins Philip to review it.
More than half of the world's population now live in cities and the percentage will continue to rise. As architects and planners attempt to cater for ever-growing urban populations, the challenge is to create environments that offer the rich and varied experience of our best loved cities. To discuss how to make our evolving cities more habitable, Philip is joined by Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology at LSE, Amanda Levete, founder of ALA Architects and Gerard Evenden, Senior Partner at Foster and Partners.
Produced by Luke Mulhall.
TUE 22:45 The Essay (b01bw8hv)
On Directing
Emma Rice
In the second of five essays, the theatre director Emma Rice explores the role of the director as storyteller, and elaborates on the undertaking that transforms a text into a fully-fledged production.
Emma Rice is the Joint Artistic Director of Kneehigh Theatre. For Kneehigh, she has directed for The Red Shoes (2002 Theatrical Management Association [TMA] Theatre Award for Best Director); The Wooden Frock (2004 TMA Theatre Award nomination for Best Touring Production); The Bacchae (2005 TMA Theatre Award for Best Touring Production); Tristan & Yseult (2006 TMA Theatre Award nomination for Best Touring Production); Cymbeline (in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company for The Complete Works festival); A Matter of Life and Death (Royal National Theatre production in association with Kneehigh Theatre); Rapunzel (in association with Battersea Arts Centre); Brief Encounter (tour and West End; Studio 54, Broadway); and Don John (in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Bristol Old Vic). She was nominated for the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Director for Brief Encounter.
Emma's latest work includes Oedipussy for Spymonkey; Steptoe & Son; the West End production of Umbrellas of Cherbourg; Wah! Wah! Girls for World Stages in association with Sadler's Wells and Theatre Royal Stratford East; and, in spring 2013, The Empress at the RSC.
The series is produced by Sasha Yevtushenko.
First broadcast in February 2012.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b036j5st)
Tuesday - Nick Luscombe
Nick Luscombe features new music from the Craig Taborn Trio, 70s singer-songwriter Michael Franks, Malian ngoni virtuoso Bassekou Kouyaté (pictured) and a specially recorded track written and performed by Radio 3's New Generation Artist, the clarinettist Mark Simpson.
WEDNESDAY 10 JULY 2013
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b036j2t9)
Yuri Temirkanov conducts the Verbier Festival Orchestra in a programme of Lyadov, Rachmaninov & Tchaikovsky with pianist Yuja Wang. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Lyadov, Anatoly Konstantinovich [1855-1914]
Kikimora - symphonic poem (Op.63)
Verbier Festival Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)
12:39 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey [1873-1943]
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 2 (Op.18) in C minor
Yuja Wang (piano), Verbier Festival Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)
1:12 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich [1840-1893]
Swan lake - ballet (Op.20) - Excerpts ; Act 1, no.2; Waltz ; Act 2, no.13/4; Allegro moderato; Act 2, no.14; Scene ; Act 3, no.20; Hungarian dance (Csardas); Act 3, no.21; Spanish dance; Act 3, no.22; Neapolitan dance ; Act 3, no.23; Mazurka ; Act 4, no.29; Final scene
Verbier Festival Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)
1:47 AM
Franck, Cesar [1822-1890]
Sonata for violin and piano (M.8) in A major
Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
2:14 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, strings and basso continuo (BWV.1043)
Nicolas Mazzoleni and Lidewij van der Voort (violins), European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (director)
2:31 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Variations on an original theme (Enigma) (Op.36)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
3:00 AM
Kodaly, Zoltan [1882-1967]
Missa brevis (... tempore belli)
Alice Komároni (soprano), Ágnes Tumpekné Kuti (soprano), Pécsi Kamarakórus (Soloists: Anikó Kopjár, Éva Nagy, Tímea Tillai, János Szerekován, Jószef Moldvay), István Ella (organ), Aurél Tillai (conductor)
3:34 AM
Bax, Arnold (1883-1953)
Legend for viola and piano
Steven Dann (viola), Bruce Vogt (piano)
3:44 AM
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto for strings no.6 in A major
Concerto Köln
3:54 AM
Gallot, Jacques (1620-ca.1698)
Pièces de Lute in F minor
Konrad Junghänel (lute)
4:05 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Clarinet Concertino in E flat major (Op.26)
Hannes Altrov (clarinet), Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paul Mägi (conductor)
4:16 AM
Anon (arr. Goff Richards)
Bailèro
Phoenix Chamber Choir, Ramona Luengen (conductor)
4:19 AM
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974), arr. Timothy Kain
Scaramouche (Vif; Modéré, Brasileira)
Guitar Trek: Timothy Kain, Carolyn Kidd, Mark Norton, Peter Constant (guitars)
4:31 AM
Rathaus, Karol (1895-1954)
Prelude and Gigue in A major for orchestra (Op.44)
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Joel Stuben (conductor)
4:39 AM
Albeniz, Isaac [1860-1909]
El Corpus en Sevilla from 'Iberia' (Book 1)
Plamena Mangova (piano)
4:48 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Motet: 'Komm, Jesu, komm!' (BWV.229)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
4:57 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) or possibly Pleyel, Ignace (1757-1831) arr. Perry, Harold
Divertimento (Feldpartita) (H.
2.46) in B flat major arr. for wind quintet
Bulgarian Academic Wind Quintet
5:07 AM
Castelnuovo Tedesco, Mario (1895-1968)
Capriccio Diabolico for guitar (Op.85)
Goran Listes (guitar)
5:16 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
3 Songs - Liebesbotschaft, Heidenroslein & Litanei auf das Fest
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
5:26 AM
Tartini, Giuseppe (1692-1770)
Concerto for violin and strings in D minor (D.45)
Carlo Parazzoli (violin), I Cameristi Italiani
5:41 AM
Berwald, Franz (1796-1868)
Piano Trio No.1 in E flat
Terés Löf (piano), Roger Olsson (violin), Hanna Thorell (cello)
6:01 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Quartet for strings (K.421) in D minor
Biava Quartet (USA) - Austin Hartman (violin), Hyunsu Ko (violin), Mary Persin (viola), Jacob Braun (cello).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b036j2w3)
Wednesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b036j2zn)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: The Last Night of the Proms, GUILD.
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, Otto Klemperer.
10.30am
Rob?s guest this week is the author David Mitchell, whose first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His two subsequent novels were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: number9dream (2001); and Cloud Atlas (2004), which was made into a film starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, and four years later he was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. As well as novels, David has also written opera libretti: Wake, based on the 2000 Enschede fireworks disaster with music by Klaas de Vries, was performed by the Dutch National Reisopera in 2010. Most recently, he worked with the Dutch composer and video director Michel van der Aa on the opera Sunken Garden, premiered earlier this year by English National Opera.
11am
Essential Choice ? A Great Proms Performance
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A
John Ogden (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01cvq1m)
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Boccherini Finds a Princely Patron in Spain
He could number among his patrons the King of Spain, and the heir to the Prussian throne, and he composed around one hundred string quartets, and at least as many quintets, amongst other works - this week Donald Macleod looks at the life and music of Luigi Boccherini.
Whilst in Paris, Boccherini was approached by the Spanish Ambassador, who proposed that Boccherini and his friend the violinist Manfredi, might like to visit Madrid, and that the two young men would receive a rapturous welcome from the heir to the Spanish throne. Both Boccherini and Manfredi travelled to Spain, but their welcome was not what they had hoped it would be. In a bid to ingratiate himself with the Spanish Prince, Boccherini dedicated his Opus 6 trios to him, including the fifth Trio in G minor. This didn't get the Prince's attention.
Another Royal patron did however materialise, and this was the King's brother, Don Luis, whom Boccherini would go on to work for, for many years. Boccherini would compose many works dedicated to his royal patron, including sextets, quintets, and a set of symphonies, which included the third Symphony in C major opus 12. These works steadily began to establish Boccherini's reputation in Spain and further afield, in particular his set of quintets opus 11. The sixth of this set, nicknamed The Aviary, depicts Boccherini's patron's passion for exotic birds.
Don Luis would soon fall out of favour with his family and the royal court, over his marriage to a lady of non-royal blood. This soon meant that Don Luis's court would have to move far from Madrid. This isolation would influence the works Boccherini went on to compose, given the limited number of musicians to hand. However, with a visit to Arenas of a famous singer, Boccherini was able compose his first setting of the Stabat Mater.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b036j3s4)
Royal Northern College of Music/Wigmore Hall
Episode 2
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and from London's Wigmore Hall, with performances by pianists François-Frédéric Guy, Imogen Cooper & Paul Lewis, and baritone Christopher Maltman with pianist Joseph Middleton.
Today's broadcast features Vaughan Williams' cycle - "Songs of Travel", alongside Beethoven's much loved "Pastoral" Piano Sonata.
Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel
Christopher Maltman (baritone) / Joseph Middleton (piano)
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in D, Op.28 'Pastoral'
François-Frédéric Guy (piano).
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b036j5nc)
Simon Rattle and Friends
Episode 3
Today Louise Fryer presents Simon Rattle conducting not his own Berlin Philharmonic, but probably Germany's second-best orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Symphonies by Haydn and Schumann frame the concert, and they're joined by the Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan in stunning pieces by Sibelius and Ligeti.
Haydn: Symphony No. 91 in E flat major
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
2.20pm
Sibelius: Luonnotar
Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre
Barbara Hannigan (soprano),
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
2.40pm
Schumann: Symphony no. 2 in C major
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b036j6sh)
From the Parish Church of St Malachy, Hillsborough, Northern Ireland
From the Parish Church of St Malachy, Hillsborough, Northern Ireland with the choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, marking the 400th anniversary of the birth of Bishop Jeremy Taylor.
Introit: God is our hope and strength (Blow)
Responses: Reading
Office Hymn: Teach me, my God and King (Song 20)
Psalm 40 (Turner)
First Lesson: 1 Kings 3 vv5-15
Canticles: Turner in A
Second Lesson: Titus 2 vv7-8, vv11-15
Anthems: O holy and ever-blessed Spirit (Joel Rust) (first performance) & Job's Curse (Purcell)
Final Hymn: Ride on triumphantly (Farley Castle)
Voluntary for Double Organ (Anonymous, 17th century)
Geoffrey Webber (Director of Music)
Nick Lee and Liam Crangle (Organ Scholars).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b036j5nf)
Cordelia Williams, Murray Gold, Bampton Opera
Suzy Klein presents, with live music and guests and the latest arts news.
There's live music from young pianist Cordelia Williams as she marks the release of her new album and singers from Bampton Classical Opera give a sneak preview of their upcoming production of Mozart's La Finta Semplice. Plus composer Murray Gold pops by the studio as he looks ahead to the Doctor Who Prom at the Royal Albert Hall.
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WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01cvq1m)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b036j8d5)
Cheltenham Music Festival 2013 - Tallis Scholars
Live from the Cheltenham Music Festival at Tewkesbury Abbey.
The Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips, perform music by Tallis, Palestrina, Allegri and Eric Whitacre
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (director)
Tallis: Loquebantur variis linguis
Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
8.10 INTERVAL
Allegri: Miserere
Whitacre: Sainte-Chapelle
Part: Nunc Dimittis
Tallis: Miserere
Byrd: Tribue Domine
Continuing their celebrations marking their 40th birthday, the Tallis Scholars perform at the Cheltenham Music Festival. Director Peter Phillips has chosen works that have become favourite landmarks of the early music repertoire for him and his ensemble over the last four decades, along with pieces by two of the most famous and popular composers in contemporary choral music: Arvo Part, and Eric Whitacre.
The programme includes a complete performance of Palestrina's Mass for Pope Marcellus II, Allegri's famous Miserere and music by the ensemble's namesake, Thomas Tallis. They also perform Eric Whitacre's Sainte-Chapelle, premiered earlier this year and composed especially for the Tallis Scholars on their 40th anniversary.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b036j5qp)
Free Thinking in Summer 2013
York Festival of Ideas
BBC Radio 3's annual Free Thinking festival of ideas continues its summer tour as it takes up residency at leading summer events across the country.
Rana Mitter chairs a debate from the York Festival of Ideas on whether we can afford ethical business.
As austerity bites into family finances and public services, cheap goods seem ever more attractive, even vital. But is there a price to pay in fairness, and to the environment? York has a long history of making ethical business ideals a reality, but can those ideas be carried forward into the era of austerity?
The panel includes The Guardian's Lucy Siegle, Adrian Wooldridge of The Economist, founder of Ethical Superstore Andy Redfern and economist Virginie Perotin.
The event is chaired by Night Waves presenter Rana Mitter and was recorded earlier this month at the York Festival of Ideas as part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking in the Summer
Free Thinking is visiting four festivals throughout the summer including HowTheLightGetsIn at Hay, the Institut Français Philosophy Night in London, York Festival of Ideas and the Chalke Valley History Festival in Wiltshire. These events are being broadcast in July and lead the way towards Free Thinking's annual weekend of debate at the Sage, Gateshead in October 2013.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b01bw9zc)
On Directing
Bartlett Sher
Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher explores how a director must search for the play's 'inward sound' when creating theatre.
Bartlett Sher has been nominated four times for the Tony Award, winning it in 2009 for the Broadway revival of South Pacific. Sher was previously the Artistic Director at the Intiman Playhouse in Seattle and is now Resident Director at the Lincoln Centre in New York. His recent work in the UK includes the ENO production of Nico Muhly's opera Two Boys.
The series is produced by Sasha Yevtushenko.
First broadcast in February 2012.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b036j5sw)
Wednesday - Nick Luscombe
The sound of Kenya Luo meets London's club scene with a new track from the Owiny Sigoma Band, 'The World's Foremost Steel Guitarist' Buddy Emmons (pictured), plus a recently reissued collection of training music written over 30 years ago for East German Olympians. With Nick Luscombe.
THURSDAY 11 JULY 2013
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b036j2tc)
Jonathan Swain presents a recital by pianist Yulianna Avdeeva - winner of the 2010 Chopin International Piano Competition - in a programme of Chopin, Liszt, Wagner, Tchaikovsky & Paderewski.
12:31 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
2 Nocturnes for piano (Op.62);
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
12:43 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Scherzo for piano no. 1 (Op.20) in B minor
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
12:54 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
4 Mazurkas for piano (Op.33)
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
1:05 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Polonaise-fantasy for piano (Op.61) in A flat major
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
1:18 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
La Lugubre gondola for piano (S.200)
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
1:27 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Nuages gris for piano (S.199)
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
1:30 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Bagatelle without tonality for piano (S.216a)
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
1:33 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
19 Hungarian rhapsodies for piano (S.244);
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
1:36 AM
Wagner, Richard [1813-1883] (composer); Liszt, Franz [1811-1886] (arranger)
Overture to Tannhauser S.442
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
1:52 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich [1840-1893]
Meditation (Op. 72'5)
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
1:56 AM
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan [1860-1941]
Humoresques de concert - book 2 for piano (Op.14'4-6) "moderne"
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
2:00 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
4 Mazurkas for piano (Op.67)
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
2:04 AM
Zemlinsky, Alexander von (1871-1942)
Trio in D minor for clairinet, cello and piano (Op.3)
Trio Luwigana
2:31 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Serenade in C major for strings (Op.48)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)
3:03 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Missa sancta No.1 in E flat major, (J.224) 'Freischutzmesse' for soli, chorus & orchestra
Norwegian Soloist Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Grete Pedersen Helgerød (conductor)
3:37 AM
Fesch, Willem de (1687-c.1757)
Concerto for violin and orchestra in C minor (Op.5 No.5)
Manfred Kraemer (violin), Musica ad Rhenum
3:47 AM
Nardelli, Mario (1927-1993)
Three pieces for guitar (1979) (Prelude; Meditation; Dance)
Mario Nardelli (guitar)
3:57 AM
Goossens, (Aynsley) Eugene (1893-1962)
Fantasy for nine wind instruments (Op.36) (1924)
Janet Webb (flute), Guy Henderson (oboe), Lawrence Dobell & Christopher Tingay (clarinets), John Cran & Fiona McNamara (bassoons), Robert Johnson & Clarence Mellor (horns), Daniel Mendelow (trumpet)
4:07 AM
Purcell, Henry [1659-1695]
Chacony a 4 for strings (Z.730) in G minor
Psophos Quartet (BBC New generation Artists 2005-07)
4:15 AM
Anon (arr. Goff Richards)
Bailèro
Phoenix Chamber Choir, Ramona Luengen (conductor)
4:18 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto for 2 violins, 2 cellos & orchestra (RV.564) in D major
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (violin/director)
4:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), orchestrated. Anton Webern (1883-1945)
6 Deutsche for piano (D.820)
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown (conductor)
4:40 AM
Handel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759)
Alceste: Gentle Morpheus, son of night
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director)
4:49 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto in F minor (BWV1056)
Angela Hewitt (piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
5:00 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Sonata for violin and keyboard (K.303) in C major
Tai Murray (violin), Shai Wosner (piano)
5:10 AM
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787)
Sonata No.6 in G major for transverse flute and harpsichord (Op.6 No.6)
Karl Kaiser (transverse flute), Susanne Kaiser (harpsichord)
5:21 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Norfolk Rhapsody No.1 in E minor
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Bernard Heinze (conductor)
5:32 AM
Harrison, Lou (1917-2003)
Harp Suite (arr. for guitar) (Serenade for Frank Wigglesworth; Avalokiteshvara; Music for Bill and Me; Jahla; Sonata in Ishartum; Beverly's Troubadour Piece; A Waltz for Evelyn Hinrichsen)
David Tanenbaum (guitar), William Winant (tuned water bowls, finger cymbals and sistra), Scott Evans (tuned water bowls and drums), Joel Davel (drums)
5:47 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (composer) (1714-1788);
Trio sonata for flute, violin and continuo (Wq.161'2) in B flat major
Les Coucous Bénévoles
6:05 AM
Wieniawski, Henryk (1835-1880)
Concerto for violin and orchestra No.2 in D minor (Op.22)
Bartlomiej Niziol (violin), Sinfonia Varsovia, Grzegorz Nowak (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b036j2w5)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b036j2zq)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: The Last Night of the Proms, GUILD.
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, Otto Klemperer.
10.30am
Rob?s guest this week is the author David Mitchell, whose first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His two subsequent novels were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: number9dream (2001); and Cloud Atlas (2004), which was made into a film starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, and four years later he was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. As well as novels, David has also written opera libretti: Wake, based on the 2000 Enschede fireworks disaster with music by Klaas de Vries, was performed by the Dutch National Reisopera in 2010. Most recently, he worked with the Dutch composer and video director Michel van der Aa on the opera Sunken Garden, premiered earlier this year by English National Opera.
11am
Essential Choice ? A Great Proms Performance
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 in E minor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Adrian Boult (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01cwq76)
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Boccherini is Desperate to Find a New Patron
He could number among his patrons the King of Spain, and the heir to the Prussian throne, and he composed around one hundred string quartets, and at least as many quintets, amongst other works - this week Donald Macleod looks at the life and music of Luigi Boccherini.
Around 1773, a talented flute player seems to have joined the staff of the Spanish Infante, Don Luis. This allowed Boccherini greater scope for composing new works, including the first Flute Quintet in E flat major, from Boccherini's opus 19 set. However with Don Luis and his court banished to Arenas, Boccherini was finding opportunities to compose quite limited.
Around a decade later, the Ambassador to Prussia visited the Spanish Court in Madrid, where he was honoured by a performance of six of Boccherini's string quartets. The Ambassador sent a copy of the music to Frederick the Great's nephew, Frederick William, who soon sent the composer a gold box containing a letter saying how much he had enjoyed his music. One of the quartets the Ambassador might have heard, was the sixth String Quartet in A major, from the opus 32 set.
In the 1780's Boccherini suffered a double blow with not only the death of his wife, but also the death of his patron Don Luis. King Carlos III granted Boccherini an annual pension, and also a place in the instrumental Royal Chapel in Madrid, although he was excused from fulfilling his duties due to his frequent spittings of blood. The following year Boccherini received an honorary appointment with the Crown Prince of Prussia, and in return the composer sent a number of works every year, possibly including a set of concert arias, such as Misera, dove son!
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b036j3s6)
Royal Northern College of Music/Wigmore Hall
Episode 3
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and from London's Wigmore Hall, with performances by pianists François-Frédéric Guy, Imogen Copper and Paul Lewis, and baritone Christopher Maltman with pianist Joseph Middleton
Today's broadcast features songs by Mozart and Schubert's tour-de-force "Grand Duo" for two pianos.
Mozart: Das Veilchen, K.476
Mozart: An Chloe, K.524
Mozart: Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge, K.596
Mozart: Abendempfindung an Laura, K.523
Christopher Maltman (baritone) / Joseph Middleton (piano)
Schubert Sonata for Piano Duet in C, D.812 'Grand Duo'
Paul Lewis and Imogen Cooper (pianos).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b036j5nh)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Verdi - Alzira
Thursday Opera Matinee - Verdi 200, with Louise Fryer.
Radio 3's celebrations of Verdi's bicentenary continue with his rarely-heard early opera Alzira, starring Ileana Cotrubas, Francisco Araiza and Renato Bruson. It's a would-be tale of blood and thunder in sixteenth-century Peru, with the Incas fighting against Spanish imperial domination - but surprisingly, both sides keep releasing rather than killing each other. Maybe that's why it's never been popular... The Inca princess Alzira is caught at the centre of the conflict, as the Inca leader Zamoro (whom she loves) fights the Spanish Governor Gusmano (whom she doesn't) for her favours. Who will she end up with? Tune in at 2 o'clock to find out.
Plus, after the opera, Louise Fryer presents a Sibelius Symphony performed by this week's featured performers: Simon Rattle and the orchestra of which he's Chief Conductor, the Berlin Philharmonic.
Verdi: Alzira
Alzira, Inca princess ..... Ileana Cotrubas (soprano)
Zamoro, Inca leader ..... Francisco Araiza (tenor)
Gusmano, Spanish Governor of Peru ... Renato Bruson (baritone)
Alvaro, Gusmano's father ... Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass)
Ovando, Spanish Duke ... Donald George (tenor)
Ataliba, Alzira's father ..... Daniel Bonilla (tenor)
Zuma, her maid ... Sofia Lis (mezzo-soprano)
Otumbo, Inca warrior ... Alexandru Ionita (tenor)
Bavarian Radio Chorus,
Munich Radio Orchestra,
Conductor Lamberto Gardelli.
3.35pm
Sibelius: Symphony no. 4 in A minor
Berlin Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b036j5nk)
Sergei Polunin, Stephen Hough, Alistair McGowan, City of London Festival
Suzy Klein presents with live music and guests and the latest arts news.
Ahead of his performance as soloist at the First Night of the Proms, Suzy talks to the always fascinating pianist Stephen Hough. Despite enjoying invitations from all the world's finest orchestras and boasting a hectic recording schedule, he is also a devoted writer and an exhibited painter - Suzy finds out how he fits it all in.
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in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01cwq76)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 BBC Proms (b036j8fy)
2013
Proms Preview
On the eve of the 2013 BBC Proms Petroc Trelawny previews the season live from the Royal Albert Hall - two months of many of the world's greatest artists, composers, orchestras and ensembles across 92 concerts including four Last Night celebrations around the UK.
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b036j8g0)
Boris Johnson, The Masque of Anarchy, John Gallagher, Happy Holidays?
Boris Johnson
In an interview recorded earlier this month at the Daily Mail Chalke Valley History Festival, the Mayor of London discusses leadership ambitions, what Cicero has to teach us about politics, and why a politician should sometimes dare to be dull.
The Masque of Anarchy
Sarah Frankcom tells Anne why she and Maxine Peake are reviving Shelley's poetic account of the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 for this year's Manchester International Festival.
John Gallagher
New Generation Thinker John Gallagher guides the listener on a romp through 16th century phrasebooks for travellers.
Happy Holidays?
Writer Tim Lott and critic Kate Muir discuss depictions of holidays gone wrong in film, from Rosselini's Voyage to Italy, to Joanna Hogg's Archipelago, to July Delpy's Before Midnight, and ask, just how easy is it to sympathise with the misery of the rich?
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01bwbfp)
On Directing
Josie Rourke
Josie Rourke, the Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse, reminds us that working in theatre isn't always plain sailing. In her essay, she looks at what happens when disaster strikes and things go wrong. It's in these situations that a director is truly tested.
Josie Rourke trained with directors Peter Gill, Michael Grandage, Nicholas Hytner, Phyllida Lloyd and Sam Mendes. Before coming to the Bush she worked for five years as a freelance director and was the Associate Director of Sheffield Theatres and Trainee Associate Director at the Royal Court. At the Royal Court she directed Loyal Women by Gary Mitchell. She was the tour director of The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler. For the Royal Shakespeare Company she directed Believe What You Will and King John.
Rourke was the Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre between 2007 and 2011, where she also directed many of its hits including Nick Payne's If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet. In 2011, Rourke directed a production of Much Ado About Nothing at Wyndham's Theatre, starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate. She became Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse in January 2012 and her first production as director was George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer.
The series is produced by Sasha Yevtushenko.
First broadccast in February 2012.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b036j5sy)
Late Junction Sessions
John Tilbury and Derek Bailey
Late Junction Collaborative Session: Pianist John Tilbury fulfilled a long held ambition to collaborate with his friend, the avant-garde guitarist Derek Bailey who died in 2005. With the permission of Bailey's widow Karen, John Tilbury selected unreleased gems from Derek's archive and brought them along to Maida Vale where he created three tracks for prepared and unprepared piano. Presented by Nick Luscombe.
FRIDAY 12 JULY 2013
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b036j2tf)
Jonathan Swain presents the European Union Baroque Orchestra in Concert. With soprano Maria Keohane performing Handel.
12:31 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Ah! che troppo inequali, Italian cantata no.26 for soprano, 2 violins, viola and continuo HWV 230
Maria Keohane (soprano) European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
12:41 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Concerto Grosso in F major, op. 6 no. 2, HWV 320
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
12:54 AM
attrib Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759] more likely composed by Ferrandini, Giovanni Battista [c.1710-1791]
Il Pianto di Maria, cantata, HWV 234
Maria Keohane (soprano) European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
1:19 AM
Torelli, Giuseppe [1658-1725]
Sonata in D for Trumpet, Strings and Basso Continuo
Sebastien Philpott (trumpet) European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
1:27 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Brandenburg concerto no. 3 in G major BWV.1048
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
1:38 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Cantata no. 51 BWV.51 (Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen)
Maria Keohane (soprano), Sebastien Philpott (trumpet) European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
1:55 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Tu, del ciel ministro eletto (Bellezza's aria) 'Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno', HWV 46a
Maria Keohane (soprano) European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
2:01 AM
Reicha, Anton (1770-1836)
Oboe Quintet in F major (Op.107)
Les Adieux
2:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concerto for piano and orchestra no.17 (K.453) in G major
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Terje Tønnesen (conductor)
3:00 AM
Berio, Luciano (1925-2003)
Folk Songs (1964) for mezzo-soprano and 7 players
3:23 AM
Chausson, Ernest [1855-1899]
Poeme, Op.25 (version for violin, string quartet and piano)
Philippe Graffin (violin), Jorgen Larsen (piano), Skampa Quartet
3:39 AM
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)
Le Globe-trotter, Op.358
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
3:57 AM
Merula, Tarquino [1594/5-1665]
Ciaccona for 2 Violins and basso continuo (Op.12)
Il Giardino Armonico
4:02 AM
Kunzen, Friedrich (1761-1817)
Overture to the play 'Husitterne' (The Hussites)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Peter Marschik (conductor)
4:10 AM
Foulds, John [1880-1939]
An Arabian Night (1936-7)
Cynthia Fleming (violin), Katharine Wood (cello) BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
4:16 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Flute Sonata in G major (Wq.133/H.564), 'Hamburger Sonata'
Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
4:24 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Bacchanalia, No.10 from Poetické nálady (Poetic tone pictures) (Op.85)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava; Róbert Stankovský (conductor)
4:31 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Academic Festival Overture (Op.80)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor)
4:41 AM
Scott, Cyril (1879-1970)
Lotus Land (Op.47 No.1)
Cristina Ortiz (piano)
4:46 AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
Serenade for small orchestra
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
4:56 AM
Gautier d'Espinal (c.1215-c.1272)
Puis que en moi a recouvré seignorie
Ensemble Lucidarium: Annemieke Cantor (voice) (with instrumental introduction played by Francis Biggi)
5:02 AM
Sculthorpe, Peter [1929-]
Beautiful Fresh Flower (Chinese melody)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
5:05 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Quartet for strings in C major, K.465 'Dissonance'
Quatuor Ysaÿe: Guillaume Sutre & Luc-Marie Aguera (violins), Miguel da Silva (viola), Yovan Markovitch (cello)
5:35 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Concerto for cello and orchestra in E minor (Op.85)
Pieter Wispelwey (cello), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gabriel Chmura (conductor)
6:04 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Fantasiestücke (Op.12)
Kevin Kenner (piano).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b036j2w7)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b036j2zs)
Friday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: The Last Night of the Proms, GUILD, and at
9.30 our daily brainteaser.
10am
A new feature for the 2013 Proms Season: 'Proms Artist Recommends'.
An artist performing later today in the BBC Proms recommends three musical works, and on Essential Classics we'll play one of those pieces around
10am.
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the author David Mitchell, whose first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His two subsequent novels were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: number9dream (2001); and Cloud Atlas (2004), which was made into a film starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, and four years later he was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. As well as novels, David has also written opera libretti: Wake, based on the 2000 Enschede fireworks disaster with music by Klaas de Vries, was performed by the Dutch National Reisopera in 2010. Most recently, he worked with the Dutch composer and video director Michel van der Aa on the opera Sunken Garden, premiered earlier this year by English National Opera.
11am
Essential Choice - A Great Proms Performance
Purcell: Abdelazar Suite
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Malcolm Arnold (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01cwq8w)
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Boccherini Falls Into Poverty
He could number among his patrons the King of Spain, and the heir to the Prussian throne, and he composed around one hundred string quartets, and at least as many quintets, amongst other works - this week Donald Macleod looks at the life and music of Luigi Boccherini.
Boccherini towards the end of his life, now found himself in quite a predicament. King Carlos III of Spain had now died, and his son, the new King Carlos IV, was less disposed towards Boccherini due to an earlier disagreement. Boccherini had to look for patronage elsewhere, and was subsequently forced to sell a number of his works to the Parisian publishing house Pleyel, for not much money. However, commissions still did occasionally come in, such as from the Marquis of Benavente, who wanted Boccherini to arrange a number of his already composed works to include guitar. One such work, which also included castanets, was the Guitar Quintet in B flat major.
Towards the end of Boccherini's life, with his Benavente patrons having left for Vienna, and the composer being forced to sell more of his works for little money to his Parisian publisher, Boccherini started to turn more towards choral writing, such as the responsory Domine ad adjuvandum. Other patrons were to come and ago, including Lucien Bonaparte, who commissioned Boccherini to compose a number of works. The opus 57 piano quintets, Boccherini dedicated to the French nation.
In 1805 Boccherini died, probably due to the tuberculosis which had troubled him for most of his life. He was buried in Madrid, but later in 1927 his remains were taken back to his birthplace of Lucca for reburial. Just before he died, he was working on one last String Quartet, in D major, of which only one movement now survives in full.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b036j3s8)
Royal Northern College of Music/Wigmore Hall
Episode 4
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and from London's Wigmore Hall, with performances by pianists François-Frédéric Guy, Imogen Cooper and Paul Lewis, and baritone Christopher Maltman with pianist Joseph Middleton.
Today's broadcast features some of Brahms's Hungarian Dances for 2 pianos alongside Beethoven's much loved "Hammerklavier" Sonata.
Brahms: Three Hungarian Dances for piano duet
Paul Lewis and Imogen Cooper (piano)
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in B flat, Op.106 'Hammerklavier'
François-Frédéric Guy (piano).
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b036j5nm)
Simon Rattle and Friends
Episode 4
Jonathan Swain rounds off his week featuring Simon Rattle and great central European orchestras with him conducting the Vienna Philharmonic as well as his own Berlin Philharmonic. There's Schumann's large-scale cantata 'Paradise and the Peri' from Vienna, and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony to end the week from Berlin.
Ligeti: Atmospheres
Wagner: Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin
Berlin Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
2.15pm
Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri
Annette Dasch (soprano),
Susan Gritton (soprano),
Bernarda Fink (contralto),
Topi Lehtipuu (tenor),
Andrew Staples (tenor),
Florian Boesch (bass),
Arnold Schoenberg Chorus,
Vienna Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
3.45pm
Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 in A major
Berlin Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b036j5np)
Live from the Royal College of Music
Suzy Klein presents a special edition live from the BBC Proms 2013, in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music in London.
With the First Night just hours away, Suzy and guests will be discussing all the big talking points from this year's Proms.
Pianist Kathryn Stott celebrates British light music this season, and the London Community Gospel Choir raise the Royal College roof ahead of the first Gospel Prom.
Email: in.tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter: @BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01cwq8w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 BBC Proms (b036jm00)
Prom 01
Prom 1 (part 1): Julian Anderson, Britten, Rachmaninov, Lutoslawski, Vaughan Williams
The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo live at the First Night of the BBC Proms, including music by Britten, Rachmaninov and Vaughan Williams
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Julian Anderson: Harmony (BBC commission: world premiere)
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes'
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Lutoslawski: Variations on a Theme by Paganini
8.30pm Interval
8.50pm
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Sally Matthews (soprano)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Stephen Hough (piano)
BBC Proms Youth Choir
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
The 2013 Proms begins with a surge of natural energy in sea-inspired works by Britten and Vaughan Williams, the latter combining the 300-strong forces of the Proms Youth Choir and the BBC Symphony Chorus. Julian Anderson's new commission sets some lines concerning nature and time by the 19th-century mystical writer Richard Jefferies. Stephen Hough performs one of the best-loved works in the repertory, kicking off a season in which the piano concerto will loom large. And 100 years after his birth, Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski is celebrated alongside the music of his compatriots, beginning tonight with one of his most popular pieces.
This Prom will be repeated on Monday 15th July at
2pm.
FRI 20:30 Twenty Minutes (b036v857)
The Trials of the Chorus Master
This Prom has five different choruses, which is pretty remarkable even for the Proms.
In this interval feature we gather together three of the chorus masters of tonight's concert to talk about the art of the chorus master.
This is a job which requires going along to many rehearsals on wet Tuesday nights and putting up with some terrible attendances and unmusical politics. Then, after all the hard work, when the choir is drilled to perfection, in comes the star conductor and takes the glory. Is it tricky? We ask them.
Producer Geoff Ballinger.
FRI 20:50 BBC Proms (b036jm02)
Prom 01
Prom 1 (part 2): Julian Anderson, Britten, Rachmaninov, Lutoslawski, Vaughan Williams
The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo live at the First Night of the BBC Proms, including music by Britten, Rachmaninov and Vaughan Williams
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Julian Anderson: Harmony (BBC commission: world premiere)
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes'
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Lutoslawski: Variations on a Theme by Paganini
8.30pm Interval
8.50pm
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Sally Matthews (soprano)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Stephen Hough (piano)
BBC Proms Youth Choir
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
The 2013 Proms begins with a surge of natural energy in sea-inspired works by Britten and Vaughan Williams, the latter combining the 300-strong forces of the Proms Youth Choir and the BBC Symphony Chorus. Julian Anderson's new commission sets some lines concerning nature and time by the 19th-century mystical writer Richard Jefferies. Stephen Hough performs one of the best-loved works in the repertory, kicking off a season in which the piano concerto will loom large. And 100 years after his birth, Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski is celebrated alongside the music of his compatriots, beginning tonight with one of his most popular pieces.
This Prom will be repeated on Monday 15th July at
2pm.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b01bwbkm)
On Directing
Mike Figgis
In the final essay of this series, Mike Figgis reflects on the lessons he learned while working on big studio films in Hollywood and on how those experiences shaped his own approach to directing.
Mike Figgis is an Academy Award nominated film director, writer, and composer. His films include, Suspension of Disbelief (2013), Love Live Long (2008), Cold Creek Manor (2003), Hotel (2001), Miss Julie (1999), One Night Stand (1997), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), The Browning Version (1994), Internal Affairs (1990) and Stormy Monday (1988).
The series is produced by Sasha Yevtushenko.
First broadcast in February 2012.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b036j5t0)
Cedric Watson at the 2013 Shetland Folk Festival
Mary Ann Kennedy with tracks from across the globe, plus Louisiana creole singer Cedric Watson in concert at the Shetland Folk Festival.
Singer, fiddle player and accordionist Cedric Watson warms up the British Legion Hall in Lerwick, Shetland with the warm sunshine of French-American creole culture. His new album 'Le Soleil est Levé' demonstrates his love for traditional styles which he refreshes with his own new songs.