A performance of Handel's oratorio Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno performed by the ensemble Les Ambassadeurs, presented by John Shea
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano, Bellezza), Anna Reinhold (mezzo, Piacere), Mélodie Ruvio (contralto, Disinganno), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor, Tempo), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (flutes and director)
Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Sköld (conductor)
Sonata No.6 for violin and continuo 'La Sabbatina' - from Sonatas per chiesa e camera (Op.3)
Symphony No.104 in D major (H.
Antonello da Caserta (b. late 14th and early 15th centuries)
Eir Inderhaug (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marbà (conductor)
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Gabrieli in Venice, London Brass, WARNER APEX 0927408232; and at
'Proms Artist Recommends'. Each day 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
This week is National Countryside Week, and Sarah's guest is the award-winning nature writer and broadcaster Richard Mabey. Richard is the author of some thirty books, including: Food for Free; Weeds - The Story of Outlaw Plants; Flora Britannica; and Gilbert White, which won the Whitbread Biography Award. His memoir Nature Cure, which describes how reconnecting with the wild helped him conquer depression, was short-listed for three major literary awards. He writes for the Guardian, New Statesman and Granta, and contributes frequently to BBC radio. He has also written a personal column in BBC Wildlife Magazine since 1986.
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Donald Macleod begins a week of programmes exploring the life and work of Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky played a crucial role in the creation of a new, national musical tradition in his homeland; eventually becoming Russia's greatest musical export and one of the most popular composers of the Romantic era.
Despite his obvious musical talents, Tchaikovsky decided to pursue a career in law. In this first programme, Donald Macleod tells how the young government clerk eventually overcame his doubts and became a student at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Donald then follows him to Moscow, where Tchaikovsky took on a new teaching job and his first significant love affair.
Tchaikovsky: Piano Sonata in C# minor Op.80, II. Andante
Tchaikovsky: Voyevoda, Act III: "Get them! Let's go into the house Maryal!" - "Glory, glory to the Russian heart!"
The Huelgas Ensemble and Paul van Nevel perform Renaissance sacred music - including rarely heard works by Polish composers.
One of the most enterprising and accomplished of the specialist vocal ensembles on today's early music scene, the Huelgas Ensemble and founder/conductor Paul van Nevel make their BBC Proms debut with a characteristically imaginative programme centering on the little-known repertoire of choral music from Renaissance Poland - most of it rarely heard these days, and some of it only recently re-discovered in the archives of the University of Warsaw. Alongside the Polish music are works by 16th-century composers from other corners of Europe - including the great Italian Luca Marenzio, the Dutch-born Johannes Wanning, and Christoph Demantius from Bohemia.
with Jonathan Swain - and a second chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Thomas Søndergård at last Thursday night's BBC Proms with three of the most colourful orchestral scores in the repertory
Szymanowski: Symphony No. 3, 'The Song of the Night'
Evocations of Nordic forests, Persian gardens and snow-capped mountains featured in Thomas Søndergård's first Prom as Principal Conductor of the BBC NOW. Stenhammar's joyful Excelsior! is an upbeat to the opulent, exotic sound-world of Szymanowski's Symphony No. 3, 'The Song of the Night'. And Strauss's epic Alpine Symphony is as much a statement of the composer's personal philosophy as a description of the natural world at its most dramatic.
Sean Rafferty's guests include clarinettist Emma Johnson, one of Britain's best-loved classical artists since she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year back in 1984. She's partnered by internationally acclaimed French pianist Pascal Rogé for an upcoming recital at the Music at Paxton Festival, and they will be performing live together in the In Tune studio.
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch begins her inquiry into Wagner's Ring Cycle, with Nicholas Baragwanath and Mike Ashman joining her to discuss the background to Das Rheingold.
Following the success of his Beethoven symphony cycle last year, Daniel Barenboim launches his Proms Ring cycle, the first ever performance of Wagner's four Ring cycle operas in a single Proms Festival.
Wotan ..... Iain Paterson (bass-baritone)
Loge ..... Stephan Rügamer (tenor)
Donner ..... Jan Buchwald (bass-baritone)
Froh ..... Marius Vlad (tenor)
Fricka ..... Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano)
Freia ..... Anna Samuil (soprano)
Erda ..... Anna Larsson (contralto)
Alberich ..... Johannes Martin Kränzle (baritone)
Mime ..... Peter Bronder (tenor)
Fasolt ..... Stephen Milling (bass)
Fafner ..... Eric Halfvarson (bass)
Woglinde ..... Aga Mikolaj (soprano)
Wellgunde ..... Maria Gortsevskaya (mezzo-soprano)
Flosshilde ..... Anna Lapkovskaja (mezzo-soprano)
The first opera in Wagner's Ring cycle, Das Rheingold, introduces us to mythical stories of sword-wielding heroes, castles, magic potions and scheming dwarves, and the central corrupting influence of the all-powerful ring, guarded by the cruel water-sprites, otherwise known as the Rhinemaidens. A lecherous Nibelung dwarf called Alberich seizes the gold and heads to Nibelheim where he builds an empire based on fear and slave labour. We also meet Wotan the chief god in his castle Valhalla, and who when he hears of the all-powerful ring, decides he wants it for himself. Das Rheingold is performed by Staatskapelle Berlin and a stellar cast from both Barenboim's Berlin and Milan ring cycles. This is the first ever performance of Wagner's four Ring cycle operas in a single Proms Festival.
Georgia Mann introduces the first Proms Plus Late of the Season from The Elgar Room at The Royal Albert Hall. Birmingham-based jazz band The Alex Woods Quintet play alongside two-time Foyle Young Poets of the Year winner Martha Sprackland.
BBC New Generation Artist Clara Mouriz performs Mignon songs by Duparc, Tchaikovsky and Wolf.
The poet Wendy Cope presents a personal look at pianos in her life, from piano music she heard her parents playing, including her father's rendition of Chopsticks, to her memories of childhood piano lessons, and the piano in the school hall as a primary school teacher.
Think of 'prog' and lengthy concept albums, zany costumes and fantastical on-stage theatricality may spring to mind. Yet there's also a connection with a very contemporary-sounding strand of British jazz that has emerged in recent years, explored in this programme. Is there something within the bombastic skronk of TrioVD and the explosive eccentricity of sextet Shatner's Bassoon that connects to the British prog tradition? Alongside sets from these two bands and Dutch piano trio Tin Men And The Telephone, journalist Stephen Graham considers the implications of the term 'prog-jazz' in today's music and asks whether it's here to stay.
TUESDAY 23 JULY 2013
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b0375qn0)
John Shea presents a concert given by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande given at Victoria Hall Geneva, including concertos for trumpet and piano by Jolivet and Shostakovich, Bartok Dance Suite and Stravinsky Petrushka.
12:31 AM
Jolivet, André [1905-1974]
Concertino for Trumpet, Piano and String Orchestra
Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), Roland Pontinen (piano), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Kazuki Yamada (conductor)
12:42 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitri [1906-1975]
Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and String Orchestra (Op.35) in C minor
Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), Roland Pontinen (piano), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Kazuki Yamada (conductor)
1:05 AM
Bartok, Bela [1881-1945]
Dance Suite for Orchestra (Sz.77)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Kazuki Yamada (conductor)
1:24 AM
Stravinsky, Igor [1882-1971]
Petrushka (1911 version)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Kazuki Yamada (conductor)
2:00 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)
7 Dances of the Dolls (Op.91c) arr for wind quintet
Bulgarian Academic Wind Quintet
2:12 AM
Leontovitch, Mykola (1877-1921) / Kountz, Richard (b. 19??), arr. Cable, Howard
Carol of the Bells & The Sleigh à la Russe
The Toronto Children's Chorus, Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Judy Loman (harp), Jean Ashworth Bartle (conductor)
2:16 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Russian Overture (Op.72)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
2:31 AM
Darzins, Emils [1875-1910]
Melancholy waltz for orchestra
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Leonids Vigners (conductor)
2:38 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Symphony no.2 (Op.16) 'The Four Temperaments'
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ingar Bergby (conductor)
3:11 AM
Busoni, Ferruccio (1866-1924)
Finnish Folksong arrangements for piano duet (Op.27)
Erik T. Tawaststjerna and Hui-Ying Liu (pianos)
3:22 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Violin Concerto in E major (BWV.1042)
Sigiswald Kuijken (violin and conductor), La Petite Bande
3:40 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Der Musensohn (D.764) (Op.32 No.1) (Son of the Muses)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
3:42 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Meeres Stille (D.216) (Op.3 No.2) (Quiet Sea)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
3:45 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
La Mer - trois esquisses symphoniques
Orchestre National de France, Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
4:14 AM
Couperin, François (1668-1733)
La Françoise, Trio Sonata from 'Les Nations'
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
4:21 AM
Dubois, Pierre Max (1930-1995)
Quartet for flutes
Valentinas Kazlauskas, Lina Baublyte, Albertas Stupakas, Giedrius Gelgoras (flutes)
4:31 AM
Veremans, Renaat (1894-1969)
Nacht en Morgendontwaken aan de Nete - in memoriam Felix Timmermans 31.
7.1957
Vlaams Radio Orkest , Bjarte Engeset (conductor)
4:42 AM
Albright, William Hugh (1944-1998)
Dream rags (1970): Morning reveries
Donna Coleman (piano)
4:49 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Daphnis & Chloe - Suite No.2
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
5:06 AM
Britten, Benjamin [1913-1976]
Early one Morning
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Paul Turner (piano)
5:10 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.6 in D major (H.1.6) 'Le Matin'
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
5:31 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Gesänge der Frühe (Op.133)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
5:46 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Morgen (Op.27 No.4)
Lazar Shuster (violin), Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kamirski (conductor)
5:50 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Peer Gynt, Suite No.1
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
6:05 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Hymne de l'enfant a son reveil for female chorus, harmonium and harp (S.19)
Éva Andor (soprano), Hédi Lubik (harp), Gábor Lehotka (organ), The Girl's Choir of Gyõr, Miklós Szabó (conductor)
6:16 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Prologue: Dawn music & Siegfried's Rhine journey from Götterdämmerung
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor).
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b0375qpv)
Tuesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b0375qrj)
Tuesday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Gabrieli in Venice, London Brass, WARNER APEX 0927408232; and at
9.30 our daily brainteaser.
10am
'Proms Artist Recommends'. Each day 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
This week is National Countryside Week, and Sarah's guest is the award-winning nature writer and broadcaster Richard Mabey. Richard is the author of some thirty books, including: Food for Free; Weeds - The Story of Outlaw Plants; Flora Britannica; and Gilbert White, which won the Whitbread Biography Award. His memoir Nature Cure, which describes how reconnecting with the wild helped him conquer depression, was short-listed for three major literary awards. He writes for the Guardian, New Statesman and Granta, and contributes frequently to BBC radio. He has also written a personal column in BBC Wildlife Magazine since 1986.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence
Borodin Quartet with Yuri Yurov (viola) and Mikhail Milman (cello)
11.35am
Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate
Julia Lezhneva (soprano)
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini (conductor).
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0375qsp)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Early Success
As Tchaikovsky began to seal his reputation as one of Moscow's leading musical personalities, Donald Macleod finds him setting up home on his own, falling out with his mentor, and writing the first Russian string quartet.
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b0375qyk)
Ulster Hall Piano Series 2013
Finghin Collins
Ulster Hall Piano Series
In a recital from the Ulster Hall in Belfast Irish pianist Finghin Collins, who has just released a CD of Mozart concertos, performs a programme of Brahms, Chopin and Schubert. The concert begins with Brahms's Opus 79 which the composer dedicated to his friend Elisabeth von Herzogenberg and concludes with Schubert's Drei Klavierstücke, written just six months before Schubert's early death.
Finghin Collins, piano
Brahms: Two Rhapsodies Op. 79
Chopin: Three Mazurkas Op. 17 nos. 1, 2, 4
Schubert: Drei Klavierstücke D. 946.
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b0375qym)
Proms 2013 Repeats
Episode 8
with Jonathan Swain - and another chance to hear the Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome and Antonio Pappano live at last Friday night's the BBC Proms
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D major, K385 'Haffner'
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor
approx
2.55pm
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E minor
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome
Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Sir Antonio Pappano conducts his Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome, in a programme featuring two major symphonies as bookends. First, Mozart's Symphony 35, 'Haffner', which started life as a serenade, and at the end, Rachmaninov's lyrical Symphony No. 2. In the middle, Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor, a masterpiece of the romantic concerto, with young virtuoso Jan Lisiecki as soloist, making his Proms debut.
Plus highlights from the 2012 Cheltenham Festival.
TUE 17:00 BBC Proms (b0375s03)
Prom 15
Prom 15 (part 1): Wagner - Die Walkure
Wagner 200
Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim live at the BBC Proms with the second part of Wagner's Ring cycle, Die Walküre
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 1 (concert performance, sung in German)
6.00pm Interval
6.30pm
Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 2
8.05pm Interval
8.35pm
Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 3
Wotan ..... Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
Fricka ..... Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano)
Siegmund ..... Simon O'Neill (tenor)
Sieglinde ..... Anja Kampe (soprano)
Hunding ..... Eric Halfvarson (bass)
Brünnhilde ..... Nina Stemme (soprano)
Gerhilde ..... Sonja Mühleck (soprano)
Ortlinde ..... Carola Höhn (soprano)
Waltraute ..... Ivonne Fuchs (mezzo-soprano)
Schwertleite ..... Anaïk Morel (contralto)
Helmwige ..... Susan Foster (soprano)
Siegrune ..... Leann Sandel-Pantaleo (mezzo-soprano)
Grimgerde ..... Anna Lapkovskaja (mezzo-soprano)
Rossweisse ..... Simone Schröder (mezzo-soprano)
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Daniel Barenboim's Ring cycle with the Staatskapelle Berlin continues with part two, Die Walküre, and more mythical and psychological forces at large. The opera opens with a turbulent prologue depicting the terrible storm and devastating events including incest and adultery that are about to shake the characters. Siegmund has been asked by Wotan to help him acquire the ring, but blots his copybook by falling for his long-lost twin sister Sieglinde. This angers Fricka, Wotan's consort, so much that she demands Siegmund's death. Brünnhilde, Wotan's rebel daughter who we meet for the first time, tries to defend him, but in punishment she is put to sleep on a rock surrounded by fire. Die Walküre is considered perhaps the most accessible of the Ring cycle operas, and ends with the powerful Magic Fire Music.
TUE 18:00 BBC Proms (b0375s05)
Proms Plus Intro
Introduction to Die Walkure
Wagner 200
Sara Mohr-Pietsch continues her survey of Wagner's Ring Cycle, with Elaine Padmore and Patrick Carnegie joining her for an introduction to Die Walkure.
Recorded at the Royal College of Music, London.
TUE 18:20 BBC Proms (b037k5kj)
Prom 15
Prom 15 (part 2): Wagner - Die Walkure
Wagner 200
Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim live at the BBC Proms with the second part of Wagner's Ring cycle, Die Walküre
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 1 (concert performance, sung in German)
6.00pm Interval
6.30pm
Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 2
8.05pm Interval
8.35pm
Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 3
Wotan ..... Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
Fricka ..... Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano)
Siegmund ..... Simon O'Neill (tenor)
Sieglinde ..... Anja Kampe (soprano)
Hunding ..... Eric Halfvarson (bass)
Brünnhilde ..... Nina Stemme (soprano)
Gerhilde ..... Sonja Mühleck (soprano)
Ortlinde ..... Carola Höhn (soprano)
Waltraute ..... Ivonne Fuchs (mezzo-soprano)
Schwertleite ..... Anaïk Morel (contralto)
Helmwige ..... Susan Foster (soprano)
Siegrune ..... Leann Sandel-Pantaleo (mezzo-soprano)
Grimgerde ..... Anna Lapkovskaja (mezzo-soprano)
Rossweisse ..... Simone Schröder (mezzo-soprano)
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Daniel Barenboim's Ring cycle with the Staatskapelle Berlin continues with part two, Die Walküre, and more mythical and psychological forces at large. The opera opens with a turbulent prologue depicting the terrible storm and devastating events including incest and adultery that are about to shake the characters. Siegmund has been asked by Wotan to help him acquire the ring, but blots his copybook by falling for his long-lost twin sister Sieglinde. This angers Fricka, Wotan's consort, so much that she demands Siegmund's death. Brünnhilde, Wotan's rebel daughter who we meet for the first time, tries to defend him, but in punishment she is put to sleep on a rock surrounded by fire. Die Walküre is considered perhaps the most accessible of the Ring cycle operas, and ends with the powerful Magic Fire Music.
TUE 20:05 Twenty Minutes (b0375s09)
The Soviet Valkyrie
In 1940, the famed Soviet film director Sergey Eisenstein was suddenly invited to stage a production of Wagner's Die Walküre at the Bolshoi. Wagner was unlikely fare at this time - the Soviet Union was largely hostile to foreign art, especially that of its great political rival in Europe, Germany. Yet the signing of the Soviet-Nazi non-aggression pact in 1939 opened up a brief window for the oddest of reconciliations. The historian Philip Bullock considers Eisenstein's involvement in the production, and explores Russian interest in Wagner more generally, asking what happens when works of art get caught up in politics, propaganda and international diplomacy?
TUE 20:25 BBC Proms (b037k5kl)
Prom 15
Prom 15 (part 3): Wagner - Die Walkure
Wagner 200
Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim live at the BBC Proms with the second part of Wagner's Ring cycle, Die Walküre
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 1 (concert performance, sung in German)
6.00pm Interval
6.30pm
Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 2
8.05pm Interval
8.35pm
Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 3
Wotan ..... Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
Fricka ..... Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano)
Siegmund ..... Simon O'Neill (tenor)
Sieglinde ..... Anja Kampe (soprano)
Hunding ..... Eric Halfvarson (bass)
Brünnhilde ..... Nina Stemme (soprano)
Gerhilde ..... Sonja Mühleck (soprano)
Ortlinde ..... Carola Höhn (soprano)
Waltraute ..... Ivonne Fuchs (mezzo-soprano)
Schwertleite ..... Anaïk Morel (contralto)
Helmwige ..... Susan Foster (soprano)
Siegrune ..... Leann Sandel-Pantaleo (mezzo-soprano)
Grimgerde ..... Anna Lapkovskaja (mezzo-soprano)
Rossweisse ..... Simone Schröder (mezzo-soprano)
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Daniel Barenboim's Ring cycle with the Staatskapelle Berlin continues with part two, Die Walküre, and more mythical and psychological forces at large. The opera opens with a turbulent prologue depicting the terrible storm and devastating events including incest and adultery that are about to shake the characters. Siegmund has been asked by Wotan to help him acquire the ring, but blots his copybook by falling for his long-lost twin sister Sieglinde. This angers Fricka, Wotan's consort, so much that she demands Siegmund's death. Brünnhilde, Wotan's rebel daughter who we meet for the first time, tries to defend him, but in punishment she is put to sleep on a rock surrounded by fire. Die Walküre is considered perhaps the most accessible of the Ring cycle operas, and ends with the powerful Magic Fire Music.
TUE 22:15 Free Thinking (b01nt2d1)
2012 Festival
Rewriting World History
Rana Mitter chairs a debate about World History at the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival, with historian Antony Beevor, broadcaster Andrew Marr and India expert Maria Misra.
Does World History really still mean Western History, or do we need a radical new understanding of the past?
Antony Beevor is our leading military historian and author of the best-selling history books The Second World War and Stalingrad. Andrew Marr's landmark series A New History of the World aired on BBC1 last year, and he has published the book A History of the World. And Maria Misra is Fellow in Modern History at the University of Oxford and author of Vishnu's Corwded Temple, India since the Great Rebellion.
The event is hosted by Chinese History expert and Radio 3's Night Waves presenter Rana Mitter, and was recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2012.
First broadcast in November 2012.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b0375s54)
Late Junction at Latitude 2013
Max Reinhardt presents highlights from the Late Junction stage in the Lavish Lounge at the 2013 Latitude Festival.
On tonight's programme the sounds and dance moves of Moroccan master musician Simo Lagnawi are given a psychedelic space age makeover as Electric Jalaba float traditional Gnawa songs above analogue effects and warped guitars.
Newcastle's skewed troubadour Richard Dawson brings an intense soaring slant to traditional songs of the North East, with a voice that cracks and soars in equal measure.
Melt Yourself Down (pictured) conjure a post-punk jazz future with music hewn from North African deserts and the New York underground, that explodes onstage into a tropical storm.
Max also heads off around the site to meet festival goers and performers from across the artforms that make the festival unique, including sound-artist Nick Franglen and folk legend Richard Thompson.
Yo La Tengo also visited our truck to record a special acoustic session of melodic noise for Late Junction.
WEDNESDAY 24 JULY 2013
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b0375qn2)
John Shea presents a concert of music for flute, harp & viola by Debussy, Bax & Takemitsu
Medium Desc
John Shea presents a concert of music for flute, harp and viola by Debussy, Bax and Takemitsu recorded in Sweden
Long Desc
John Shea presents a concert of music for flute, harp and viola by Debussy, Bax and Takemitsu recorded in Sweden
12:31 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
Sonate en trio for flute, viola and harp
Anders Jonhäll (flute), Lisa Viguier (harp), Eriikka Nylund (viola)
12:49 AM
Bax, Arnold [1883-1953]
Elegiac trio for viola, flute and harp
Anders Jonhäll (flute), Lisa Viguier (harp), Eriikka Nylund (viola)
1:00 AM
Takemitsu, Toru [1930-1996]
And then I knew 'twas wind for flute, viola and harp
Anders Jonhäll (flute), Lisa Viguier (harp), Eriikka Nylund (viola)
1:13 AM
Poulenc, Francis [1899-1963]
Allegro moderato from Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone
Chris Parkes (horn), Tarjei Hannevold (trumpet), Mikael Oskarsson (bassoon)
1:18 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Rondo from Quintet in E flat major Op.16
Chris Parkes (horn), Tarjei Hannevold (trumpet), Mikael Oskarsson (bassoon), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
1:24 AM
Stravinsky, Igor [1882-1971]
Pulcinella - suite (excerpts, arr. for wind trio and piano)
Chris Parkes (horn), Tarjei Hannevold (trumpet), Mikael Oskarsson (bassoon), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
1:37 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey [1891-1953]
Symphony no. 5 in B flat major Op.100
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
2:19 AM
Milhaud, Darius [1892-1974]
Scaramouche
James Anagnoson (piano), Leslie Kinton (piano)
2:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Litaniae Lauretanae (K.195)
Dita Paegle (soprano), Antra Bigaca (mezzo-soprano), Martins Klisans (tenor), Janis Markovs (bass), Choir of Latvian Radio, Riga Chamber Players, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
2:57 AM
Goldmark, Karoly [1830-1915]
Quartet in B flat major Op.8 for strings
Kodály Quartet
3:27 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Mazurka no. 31 (Op.50 No.2) in A flat major
Roland Pontinen (piano)
3:30 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto for lute, 2 violins & continuo (RV.93) in D major
Nigel North (lute), London Baroque, John Toll (organ)
3:41 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich [1804-1857]
Kamarinskaya - fantasy for orchestra
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Ludovít Rajter (conductor)
3:49 AM
Bernat Vivancos [b.1973]
Nigra sum
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
3:58 AM
Albeniz, Isaac [1860-1909]
El Corpus en Sevilla from 'Iberia' (Book 1)
Plamena Mangova (piano)
4:07 AM
Strauss (ii), Johann [1825-1899]
Spanischer Marsch (Op.433)
ORF Symphony Orchestra, Peter Guth (conductor)
4:12 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Sonata for flute, violin and continuo (BWV.1038) in G major
Musica Petropolitana
4:20 AM
Spohr, Louis [1784-1859]
Fantasia for harp no.2 (Op.35) in C minor
Mojca Zlobko Vaigl (harp)
4:31 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay [1844-1908]
May Night - overture
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:39 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Trio Sonata in G major (HWV 399) for 2 violins, viola and continuo (Op.5 No.4)
Musica Antiqua Köln
4:52 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Rhapsody for piano (Op.79 No.1) in B minor
Steven Osborne (piano)
5:02 AM
Festa, Costanzo [1528-1601]
Magnificat octavi toni
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
5:19 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918], arr. Brewaeys, Luc [b.1959]
No.11 La danse de Puck - from Preludes Book One
Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Daniele Callegari (conductor)
5:22 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918], arr. Brewaeys, Luc [b.1959]
No.12 Minstrels - from Preludes Book One
Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Daniele Callegari (conductor)
5:24 AM
Fusz, Janos [1777-1819]
Quartet for flute, viola, cello and guitar
Laima Sulskute (flute), Romualdas Romoslauskas (viola), Ramute Kalnenaite (cello), Algimantas Pauliukevicius (guitar)
5:50 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Hymne de l'enfant a son reveil for female chorus, harmonium and harp (S.19)
Éva Andor (soprano), Hédi Lubik (harp), Gábor Lehotka (organ), The Girl's Choir of Gyõr, Miklós Szabó (conductor)
6:01 AM
Eccles, Henry [?1675-?1745]
Sonata for double bass and piano
Gary Karr (double bass), Harmon Lewis (piano)
6:10 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907), orch. Hans Sitt
4 Norwegian dances (Op.35)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava, Robert Stankovsky (conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b0375qpx)
Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b0375qrl)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Gabrieli in Venice, London Brass, WARNER APEX 0927408232; and at
9.30 our daily brainteaser.
10am
'Proms Artist Recommends'. Each day 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
This week is National Countryside Week, and Sarah's guest is the award-winning nature writer and broadcaster Richard Mabey. Richard is the author of some thirty books, including: Food for Free; Weeds - The Story of Outlaw Plants; Flora Britannica; and Gilbert White, which won the Whitbread Biography Award. His memoir Nature Cure, which describes how reconnecting with the wild helped him conquer depression, was short-listed for three major literary awards. He writes for the Guardian, New Statesman and Granta, and contributes frequently to BBC radio. He has also written a personal column in BBC Wildlife Magazine since 1986.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Walton: Cello Concerto
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bryden Thomson (conductor)
11.33am
Chopin: Piano Sonata in B minor
Martha Argerich (piano).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0375qsr)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Money and Marriage
Two women enter Tchaikovsky's sphere, both of whom would have a profound impact on the direction of his life. The wealthy Nadezhda von Meck became the composer's most important patron, meanwhile Tchaikovsky's disastrous marriage to Antonina Ivanovna Milyukova nearly destroyed him. Presented by Donald Macleod.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b0375qzh)
Ulster Hall Piano Series 2013
Nikolai Demidenko
The Ulster Hall Piano Series continues with a recital by Russian pianist Nikolai Demidenko who is a regular visitor to Belfast.
On the programme are two works by Chopin, and Rachmaninov's Variations on a Theme by Corelli. The variations were written at Rachmaninov's holiday home in Switzerland in 1931 and are dedicated to the violinist Fritz Kreisler. The theme in question was not actually written by Corelli but was used by him in 1700 as the basis for variations in a violin sonata. Franz Liszt also used the same theme in his Rhapsodie espagnole.
Rachmaninov: Variations on a theme by Corelli
Chopin: Berceuse
Chopin: Sonata in B Flat Minor
Nikolai Demidenko, piano.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b0375qzp)
Proms 2013 Repeats
PSM1: Handel in Rome
with Jonathan Swain - and another chance to hear the Academy of Ancient Music and Richard Egarr from the BBC Proms in a concert that celebrated Handel's visit to Rome to hear the music of Arcangelo Corelli
Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill at Cadogan Hall, London
Corelli: Concerto grosso in D major, Op. 6 No. 1
Handel: Cantata 'Pensieri notturni di Filli'
Valentini: Concerto grosso in A minor for four violins, Op. 7 No. 11
Handel: Cantata 'Tra le fiamme'
Corelli: Concerto grosso in F major, Op. 6 No. 12
Sophie Bevan (soprano)
The Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr (conductor)
Before settling in Britain Handel visited to Rome to hear the famous Italian violinist and composer Arcangelo Corelli. Unable to write operas - which were temporarily banned in the Papal states - Handel turned his hand to writing sacred music. In this first of five Proms Saturday Matinees, Richard Egarr, Sophie Bevan and the Academy of Ancient Music examined Handel's vivacious Italian cantatas in the context of virtuosic concerti grossi and harpsichord music by Corelli and his compatriots.
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b0375sf7)
Buckfast Abbey with Exon Singers
Choral Evening Prayer from Buckfast Abbey, Devon, during the 2013 Exon Singers Festival.
Introit: Te lucis ante terminum (Matthew Martin) (first performance)
Responses: Plainsong
Office Hymn: Creator of the earth and sky (Deus Creator)
Psalm: 119 vv1-38 (Plainsong)
First Lesson: Colossians 2 vv12-14
Anthem: A Song of the New Jerusalem (Matthew Martin) (first broadcast)
Second Lesson: Luke 11 vv1-13
Homily: The Rt Revd David Charlesworth, Abbot of Buckfast
Canticle: Magnificat primi toni (Agricola)
Lord's Prayer (Richard Bates) (first performance)
Motet: O nata lux (Richard Wilberforce) (first performance)
Final Hymn: Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go (Song 34 - Angels' Song)
Organ Voluntary: Fugue sur le thème du Carillon des Heures de la Cathédrale de Soissons, Op. 12 (Duruflé)
Richard Wilberforce (conductor)
Jeffrey Makinson (organist)
WED 16:30 In Tune (b0375r8m)
Bella Hardy, Christoph Pregardien, Clara Mouriz, Simon Butteriss
Folk singer and fiddle player Bella Hardy plays live in the studio as she looks forward to appearances at Cambridge Folk Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival and we have more live music from Radio 3 New Generation Artist mezzo Clara Mouriz ahead of her Proms appearance with Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic.
Lyric tenor and renowned Schubert interpreter Christoph Prégardien visits the studio to discuss his upcoming all-Schubert programme at Wigmore Hall and as the annual International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival is set to open, Sean chats to baritone/director Simon Butteriss and author/journalist Susan Elkin about the enduring appeal of G&S.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
WED 19:30 BBC Proms (b0375sjd)
Prom 16
Prom 16 (part 1): Elgar, Bantock, Walton and Tchaikovsky
BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Jac van Steen launch the Proms Tchaikovsky cycle, and cellist Raphael Wallfisch celebrates his 60th birthday with Bantock's Sapphic Poem.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
Elgar: Falstaff
Bantock: Sapphic Poem
8.20pm Interval
8.40pm
Walton: Henry V - Touch Her Soft Lips and Part; Death of Falstaff
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor)
The baleful fanfare of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony heralds the BBC Proms complete cycle of his symphonies. For conductor Jac van Steen, it's a realisation of extreme opposites, and overcoming the contrasts: "The first movement is born out of the chaos that is an inevitable part of this process, it is concerned with darkness and fate, leading to a euphoric finale, where the energy turns to light and joy". Celebrating his 60th birthday this year, Raphael Wallfisch is the soloist in the Proms premiere of Granville Bantock's Sapphic Poem, launching the Proms focus on the composer this summer. Rich, lyrical and lushly orchestrated, it is framed by two very different portraits of Sir John Falstaff by Edward Elgar and William Walton.
WED 20:20 BBC Proms (b0375sjg)
Proms Plus Literary
Playing Falstaff
What makes Falstaff, Prince Hal's fat, boastful and cowardly companion so irresistible to writers and composers? The character appears in several Shakespeare plays and in musical works by Verdi, Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Salieri. Samira Ahmed talks to Timothy West and Desmond Barrit about their experience of playing one of Shakespeare's greatest characters.
Recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music as one of this year's Proms Plus events.
WED 20:40 BBC Proms (b037k95y)
Prom 16
Prom 16 (part 2): Elgar, Bantock, Walton and Tchaikovsky
BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Jac van Steen launch the Proms Tchaikovsky cycle, and cellist Raphael Wallfisch celebrates his 60th birthday with Bantock's Sapphic Poem.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
Elgar: Falstaff
Bantock: Sapphic Poem
8.20pm Interval
8.40pm
Walton: Henry V - Touch Her Soft Lips and Part; Death of Falstaff
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor)
The baleful fanfare of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony heralds the BBC Proms complete cycle of his symphonies. For conductor Jac van Steen, it's a realisation of extreme opposites, and overcoming the contrasts: "The first movement is born out of the chaos that is an inevitable part of this process, it is concerned with darkness and fate, leading to a euphoric finale, where the energy turns to light and joy". Celebrating his 60th birthday this year, Raphael Wallfisch is the soloist in the Proms premiere of Granville Bantock's Sapphic Poem, launching the Proms focus on the composer this summer. Rich, lyrical and lushly orchestrated, it is framed by two very different portraits of Sir John Falstaff by Edward Elgar and William Walton.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b01nt2z0)
2012 Festival
Mark Pagel
Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel gives a talk on Evolution and Humanity - What Next? at the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival.
Why have humans evolved to speak so many incomprehensible languages? Why do we work against our own survival by going to war with one another?
Professor Mark Pagel, Head of the Evolution Laboratory at the University of Reading and author of Wired for Culture, argues that despite today's incredible cultural diversity, humanity has been steadily evolving from small tribes to huge nation states.
Are we moving towards a unified world of one language and one state?
The event is chaired by Night Waves presenter Rana Mitter and was recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2012.
First broadcast in November 2012.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b01mssb9)
The Piano in Five Pieces
Luke Jerram
Artist Luke Jerram has put over 700 pianos across the world, for the public to play as part of his Play Me I'm Yours project. In this essay, he describes how the project has inspired public creativity in cities from London to New York, Budapest and Brazil, as people have rediscovered their love for the humble domestic piano.
First broadcast in September 2012.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b0375sjl)
Late Junction at Latitude 2013
Max Reinhardt presents highlights from the Late Junction stage in the Lavish Lounge at the 2013 Latitude Festival.
On tonight's programme Walls vs. Daphne Oram bring the live incarnation of a project that has seen electronic duo Walls dig deep into the archives and transportative soundworld of the late Daphne Oram - composer, inventor and founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - creating new material from the sounds they found there.
There's an acutely musical collaboration between kinetic DIY drummer Chris Corsano and Mick Flower on shaahi baaja, known as Flower-Corsano Duo (pictured) for a set of free improvisation that encompasses delicacy and noise at one fell swoop.
Acclaimed London based band Troyka bring a new vision of the jazz trio as their guitar, organ and drums swap roles in an ever changing musical landscape.
Plus, Viriginan Matthew E. White stops by our acoustic truck to record a session of swirling gospel-folk, as does Sierra and Bianca Casady aka the mysterious Coco Rosie with a multitude of instruments.
Presenter Nick Luscombe also meets one of his soul heroes in an exclusive interview with the legendary Bobby Womack.
THURSDAY 25 JULY 2013
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b0375qn4)
John Shea presents a recital of Beethoven and Liszt by pianist Mastaka Goto
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Sonata no. 30 in E major Op.109 for piano
Masataka Goto (piano)
12:49 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Rondo in G major Op.51'2 for piano
Masataka Goto (piano)
1:00 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Hungarian Rhapsody no. 13 in A minor S. 244 for piano
Masataka Goto (piano)
1:09 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Polonaise no. 2 (S. 223) in E major for piano
Masataka Goto (piano)
1:19 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Transendental Study S.139 no. 12 Chasse-neige in B flat major
Masataka Goto (piano)
1:25 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Reminiscences de Norma S.394 for piano
Masataka Goto (piano)
1:42 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
La campanella, No. 3 in A flat minor, from 'Etudes d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini, S. 140'
Masataka Goto (piano)
1:47 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Piano Quintet in F minor (Op.34)
Aleksandra Juozapenaite-Eesma (piano), M.K. Ciurlionis String Quartet
2:31 AM
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909), orchestrated by Enrique Arbós
Iberia - suite
The West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor)
3:02 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Andante for flute and orchestra in C major (K.315)
Anita Szabo (flute), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltán Kocsis (conductor)
3:08 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893)
Capriccio Italien (Op. 45)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrej Boreyko (conductor)
3:23 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Sonata for piano in E minor (Op.7) ]
Ilkka Paananen (piano)
3:44 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)
3:59 AM
Bernat Vivancos [b.1973]
Salve d'ecos
Latvian Radio Choir - female voices, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
4:09 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Elegy (Op.23) arr. for piano trio
Trio Lorenz
4:16 AM
Gwilym Simcock [(1981- )]
Improvisation on a 'plain-chant like' melody
Gwilym Simcock (piano)
4:24 AM
Rota, Nino (1911-1979)
Eight and a Half (Otto e mezzo)
Hungarian Brass Ensemble
4:31 AM
Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
Waltz from 'Faust'
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Borge Wagner (conductor)
4:37 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
16 German Dances (D.783)
Ralf Gothoni (piano)
4:48 AM
Power, Leonel (d. 1445)
Salve Regina
The Hilliard Ensemble
4:55 AM
Jurjāns, Andrejs (1856-1922)
Beggar's Dance - from Latvian Dances
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Leonids Vigners (conductor)
4:59 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Dolly - Suite for piano duet (Op.56)
Erzsébet Tusa, Istvan Lantos (pianos)
5:13 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré
James Ehnes (violin), Wendy Chen (piano)
5:16 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
V prirode (Op.91)
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
5:32 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Quartet for strings (K.465) in C major 'Dissonance'
Jupiter Quartet
5:59 AM
Janácek, Leos (1854-1928)
Sumarovo dite - ballad for orchestra
Peter Thomas (guest leader: solo violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)
6:11 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) orch. Henri Büsser
Printemps - suite symphonique
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Jun Märkl (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b0375qpz)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b0375qrn)
Thursday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Gabrieli in Venice, London Brass, WARNER APEX 0927408232; and at
9.30 our daily brainteaser.
10am
'Proms Artist Recommends'. Each day 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
This week is National Countryside Week, and Sarah's guest is the award-winning nature writer and broadcaster Richard Mabey. Richard is the author of some thirty books, including: Food for Free; Weeds - The Story of Outlaw Plants; Flora Britannica; and Gilbert White, which won the Whitbread Biography Award. His memoir Nature Cure, which describes how reconnecting with the wild helped him conquer depression, was short-listed for three major literary awards. He writes for the Guardian, New Statesman and Granta, and contributes frequently to BBC radio. He has also written a personal column in BBC Wildlife Magazine since 1986.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Beethoven: String Quartet, Op. 127
Takacs Quartet
11.40
Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 2
Lynn Harrell (cello)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0375qst)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Escape to the Country
Life in Moscow and St. Petersburg was hectic for the now famous composer. In 1883 he was asked to provide music for the coronation of the new Tsar. Donald Macleod describes how Tchaikovsky made frequent escapes to the countryside, eventually moving out of the city altogether.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b0375r07)
Ulster Hall Piano Series 2013
Christian Ihle Hadland
Christian Ihle Hadland is one of Norway's most exciting young pianists. He continues the Ulster Hall Piano Series with a programme of Bach, Berg and Beethoven. At the heart of the concert is Berg's Opus 1 - a sonata which the composer initially intended to have a traditional three movement structure. After completing the first movement however he struggled to continue and turned to his teacher Arnold Schoenberg for advice. Schoenberg concluded that his pupil had simply said all there was to say.
Bach: French Suite No.6 in E major
Berg: Sonata, Op. 1
Beethoven: Sonata no.18 in E flat major, Op.31 No.3
Christian Ihle Hadland, piano.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b0375r0d)
Proms 2013 Repeats
Prom 13: National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America
with Jonathan Swain - and another chance to hear the National Youth Orchestra of the USA and Valery Gergiev at Sunday night BBC Prom with a programme of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and a new work by Sean Shepherd.
Presented by Penny Gore at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Sean Shepherd: Magiya (BBC co-commission with Carnegie Hall: European premiere)
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Joshua Bell (violin)
Approx
2.45pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor
National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America
Valery Gergiev (conductor)
The UK debut last Sunday night of the newly-formed National Youth Orchestra of the USA under conductor Valery Gergiev. The concert opened with the European premiere of American composer Sean Shepherd's Magiya, inspired by Russian musical traditions. Violinst Joshua Bell is soloist in Tchaikovsky's ever-popular Violin Concerto, and the Prom ended with Shostakovich's mighty 10th Symphony.
Plus highlights from the 2012 Cheltenham Festival.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b0375r96)
Violeta Urmana, Adrian Varela and band, National Children's Orchestra, Peter Frankl
International star soprano Violeta Urmana takes a break from rehearsals to drop in to talk to Sean ahead of her BBC Proms performance as Isolde in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov this weekend.
Live music today from violinist Adrian Varela, who brings his tango band to the In Tune studio for a taste of the late-night delights in store for audiences at the 2013 Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester, which opens tomorrow. Pianist Peter Frankl will also play music by Schumann and Debussy.
The National Children's Orchestra's director, Roger Clarkson, talks to Sean about the enduring success and amazing standard reached by children all over the country involved in the orchestra over the years as they prepare to celebrate their 35th anniversary with a concert at the Barbican. He'll be joined by Philharmonia clarinettist Jennifer McLaren.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 19:30 BBC Proms (b0375sm0)
Prom 17
Prom 17 (part 1): The Apotheosis of the Dance
The BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena, live at the BBC Proms, perform John McCabe's 'Joybox', Beethoven's Symphony No 7, Falla's 'The Three-Cornered Hat' and Ravel's 'Bolero'.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Penny Gore
John McCabe: Joybox (BBC commission: world premiere)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major
8.20pm Interval
8.40pm
Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat (complete)
Ravel: Boléro
Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano)
Compañía Antonio Márquez (dance company)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)
The world premiere of John McCabe's 'Joybox' opens a concert of music inspired by or written for dance, from the Bohemian stamp and whirl of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony to the slow-burn crescendo of Ravel's 'Boléro'. Mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz and the Compañía Antonio Marquéz join conductor Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic in Falla's colourful Ballets Russes commission 'The Three-Cornered Hat', a tale of intrigue and jealousy shot through with the spirit of Spanish folk dances.
THU 20:20 Twenty Minutes (b0375sm2)
Ravel's Bolero
Bolero is probably Ravel's most famous work, noted for its insistent repetition. It has been suggested that this repetition was not a musical device consciously adopted by the composer, but an early sign of the dementia that led to his death. An alternative view is that Bolero is an example of a musical genius simply writing under great pressure to finish a piece of music when another commission fell though at short notice.
Ravel died following neurosurgical treatment in 1937, after a period of gradual decline over a period of five years or more. His condition has fascinated doctors since the first scientific paper was written on Ravel's decline in 1948, and a steady flow of scientific papers has followed since, trying to establish a precise diagnosis and the effect his condition had on his music.
Broadcaster and writer Stephen Johnson looks at the final years of Ravel's life, and the extent to which his creativity may have been affected by the loss of his mental faculties, not just in Bolero but in his two late piano concertos.
Frustratingly, we have no brain scans or autopsy records for Ravel, so any attempt at diagnosis of his condition must be based on an analysis of clinical records and contemporary accounts from Ravel and his friends. So will we ever reach a definitive diagnosis, and be able to establish what effect his illness had on his music? And can psychiatry suggest an alternative diagnosis of Ravel's condition - and the possible effect on his music - which is not available to neuroscience?
With contributions from Ravel biographer Roger Nichols, writer and former consultant psychiatrist Eva Cybulska, and Dr Jason Warren, a neurologist at the Dementia Research Centre, University College London.
THU 20:40 BBC Proms (b037kbbp)
Prom 17
Prom 17 (part 2): The Apotheosis of the Dance
The BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena, live at the BBC Proms, perform John McCabe's 'Joybox', Beethoven's Symphony No 7, Falla's 'The Three-Cornered Hat' and Ravel's 'Bolero'.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Penny Gore
John McCabe: Joybox (BBC commission: world premiere)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major
8.20pm Interval
8.40pm
Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat (complete)
Ravel: Boléro
Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano)
Compañía Antonio Márquez (dance company)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)
The world premiere of John McCabe's 'Joybox' opens a concert of music inspired by or written for dance, from the Bohemian stamp and whirl of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony to the slow-burn crescendo of Ravel's 'Boléro'. Mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz and the Compañía Antonio Marquéz join conductor Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic in Falla's colourful Ballets Russes commission 'The Three-Cornered Hat', a tale of intrigue and jealousy shot through with the spirit of Spanish folk dances.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b01p9hrm)
2012 Festival
Philippa Gregory
Rana Mitter talks to the best-selling novelist Philippa Gregory about writing historical fiction and her fascination with the Tudors, recorded at the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival.
Philippa Gregory's fiction turns the spotlight on the lives of women at significant moments in history. Her Tudor series of novels includes The Other Boleyn Girl, which became a Hollywood film, and her most recent collection is set during the War of the Roses, England's epic power struggle between the Houses of Lancaster and York. BBC1 have now turned these novels into a major drama series The White Queen.
In an event recorded at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival at The Sage Gateshead in November 2012 in front of a live audience, Philippa Gregory reveals why she went from academia to fiction, how her approach to Tudor characters such as Thomas Cromwell differs from other historial novelists such as Hilary Mantel, whose Wolf Hall won the Man Booker prize, and why she can't help interfering with drama scripts of her novels.
First broadcast in December 2012.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01mssbk)
The Piano in Five Pieces
Susan Tomes
Susan Tomes reveals the pianist's experience of constantly playing unfamiliar instruments on the concert platform. Unlike string and woodwind players, who take their beloved instruments with them, pianists face the unknown as they sit down to perform on unknown pianos. How does this impact on the playing and what surprises does it offer?
First broadcast in September 2012.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b0375snf)
Late Junction at Latitude 2013
Max Reinhardt presents highlights from the Late Junction stage in the Lavish Lounge at the 2013 Latitude Festival.
On tonight's programme composer Anna Meredith brings her cello-encrusted live band to perform music of symphonic scale with dancefloor intensity, crossing all boundaries between concert hall and festival stage, acoustic and electronic composition. Multi-instrumentalist Nancy Elizabeth conjures up old English folk traditions alongside the soundworlds of Ennio Morricone and Arthur Lee, and brings it all together with her beautifully unadorned voice. Post-tropical polyphonic populists from Minas Gerais in Brazil, Graveola draw influence from kitsch pop radio and dusty classical vinyls to create a sound they call "carnival-cannibalism", mixing the canon of 20th-century Brazilian music with funk, Latin, baroque and blues.
Max also heads off around the site to meet festival-goers and performers from across the artforms that make the festival unique.
Late Junction, BBC Radio 3's late night celebration of musical curiosities from across time and space returns to Latitude for a third year running. Filling the woods with captivating sounds, previous line-ups have featured music as diverse as Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier, song collector and Mercury Prize nominee Sam Lee and the tape music of minimalist composer Steve Reich. For 2013, Late Junction presenter Max Reinhardt hosts another hand-picked collection of diverse, wild music in the intimate setting of The Lavish Lounge.
FRIDAY 26 JULY 2013
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b0375qn6)
John Shea introduces a concert of Baroque works from the Torroella de Montgrí Music Festival
12:31 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Overture (Suite) in D major TWV.55:D18
Musica Florea, Marek Stryncl (director)
12:53 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Cessate omai cessate - cantata RV.684 for contralto, strings & basso continuo
Anna Alàs i Jové (mezzo-soprano), Musica Florea, Marek Stryncl (director)
1:07 AM
Zelenka, Jan Dismas [1679-1745]
Sinfonia from 'Melodrama of Saint Wenceslas' (ZWV.175)
Musica Florea, Marek Stryncl (director)
1:15 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Un' Alma innamorata - Italian cantata no.23 for soprano, violin and continuo
Anna Alàs i Jové (mezzo-soprano), Musica Florea, Marek ?tryncl (director)
1:31 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto in F major RV.544 for violin, cello and orchestra
Jana Chytilová (violin), Marek Stryncl (cello, director) Musica Florea
1:42 AM
Zelenka, Jan Dismas [1679-1745]
Phoebe, umbras pelle from 'Melodrama of Saint Wenceslas' (ZWV.175)
Anna Alàs i Jové (mezzo-soprano), Musica Florea, Marek Stryncl (director)
1:46 AM
Myslivecek, Josef (1737-1781) arr. unknown
String Quintet no.2 in E flat major arr. for string orchestra
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Werthen (conductor)
1:57 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra in Eb major (KV 364)
Götz Rüstig (violin), Werner Ehrbrecht (viola), Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
2:31 AM
Franck, César (1822-1890)
Psyché orchestra (M.47)
The Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Jean Fournet (conductor)
3:18 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Trois Nocturnes
National Radio of Ukraine National Chorus (director: Lesya Shavlovska), NRCU Symphony Orchestra, Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)
3:41 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Nocturne for piano No.1 in E flat minor (Op.33 No.1)
Livia Rev (piano)
3:49 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Introduction and rondo capriccioso for violin and orchestra (Op.28)
Moshe Hammer (violin), Winnepeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
3:59 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
No.4 Befreit from 5 Lieder (Op.39)
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo soprano), Joseph Breinl (piano)
4:04 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
Ramble on the last Love Duet in Richard Strauss's opera 'Der Rosenkavalier'
Dennis Hennig (piano)
4:12 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953) arr. Vadim Borisovsky
Balcony Scene from the ballet suite Romeo and Juliet
Gyözö Máté (viola), Balázs Szokolay (piano)
4:18 AM
Lyadov, Anatoly Konstantinovich [1855-1914]
The Enchanted Lake (Op.62)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Kitaenko (conductor)
4:26 AM
Morton, Jelly Roll (1890-1941)
Frog-I-More Rag (1908-18)
Donna Coleman (piano)
4:31 AM
Haydn, (Johann) Michael (1737-1806)
Cantata: Lauft, ihr Hirten allzugleich (Run ye shepherds, to the light)
Salzburger Hofmusik
4:40 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Trio for keyboard and strings in G major 'Gypsy rondo' (H.
15.25)
Kungsbacka Trio
4:56 AM
Dussek, Jan Ladislav (1760-1812)
Sonata for piano (Op.35 No.2) in G major
Andreas Staier (Broadwood fortepiano of 1805)
5:11 AM
Field, John (1782-1837)
Rondo in A flat for piano and strings
Eckart Selheim (fortepiano), Collegium Aureum, Franzjosef Maier (director)
5:19 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Prelude and fugue in F major - from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Book.2 No.11 (BWV.880)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
5:25 AM
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941)
Two works - Nocturne in B flat ( Op.16 No.4) & Dans le désert (Op.15)
Kevin Kenner (piano)
5:38 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886) transcribed by Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941)
Hungarian Rhapsody No.10 in E major (Preludio)
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) (piano)
5:44 AM
Doppler, Franz (1821-1883)
Andante and Rondo for two flutes and piano (Op.25)
Karolina Santl-Zupan and Matej Zupan (flutes), Dijana Tanovic (piano)
5:54 AM
Ibert, Jacques (1890-1962)
Flute Concerto
Yuri Shut'ko (flute), Ukrainian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)
6:14 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Exsultate, jubilate - motet for soprano and orchestra (K.165)
Ragnhild Heiland Sørensen (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b0375qq1)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b0375qrq)
Friday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Gabrieli in Venice, London Brass, WARNER APEX 0927408232; and at
9.30 our daily brainteaser.
10am
'Proms Artist Recommends'. Each day 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. Today's artist is Lance Ryan, who has chosen the Finale of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor.
10.30am
This week is National Countryside Week, and Sarah's guest is the award-winning nature writer and broadcaster Richard Mabey. Richard is the author of some thirty books, including: Food for Free; Weeds - The Story of Outlaw Plants; Flora Britannica; and Gilbert White, which won the Whitbread Biography Award. His memoir Nature Cure, which describes how reconnecting with the wild helped him conquer depression, was short-listed for three major literary awards. He writes for the Guardian, New Statesman and Granta, and contributes frequently to BBC radio. He has also written a personal column in BBC Wildlife Magazine since 1986.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer (conductor)
11.24am
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0375qsw)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Final Years
Donald Macleod looks at what occupied Tchaikovsky towards the end of his life: his last operas, one more ballet, and a final symphony, plus a new musical pursuit as the ageing composer took lessons in conducting.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b0375r18)
Ulster Hall Piano Series 2013
John O'Conor
In the conclusion of the Ulster Hall Piano Series, Dublin born pianist John O'Conor returns to Belfast with an all-Beethoven programme. Since winning the Beethoven International Piano Competition in 1973 O'Conor has been critically acclaimed for his interpretation of the composer's repertoire for the piano.
Today's concert begins with the Opus 126 Bagatelles, Beethoven's final work for the instrument (which he dedicated to his younger brother Johann), before moving on to two of his most popular sonatas.
Beethoven: Six Bagatelles, Op.126
Beethoven: Sonata in C minor, Op.13, "Pathétique"
Beethoven: Sonata in A flat, Op.110
John O'Conor, piano.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b0375r1b)
Proms 2013 Repeats
Prom 16: Elgar, Bantock, Walton and Tchaikovsky
Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Jac van Steen launch the Proms Tchaikovsky cycle. Plus works from Elgar, Walton and Bantock.
FRI 17:00 BBC Proms (b0375szn)
Prom 18
Prom 18 (part 1): Wagner - Siegfried
Wagner 200
Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim live at the BBC Proms with the third part of Wagner's Ring cycle, Siegfried
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
Wagner: Siegfried - Act 1 (concert performance; sung in German)
6.20pm Interval
6.50pm
Wagner: Siegfried - Act 2
8.15pm Interval
8.45pm
Wagner: Siegfried - Act 3
Siegfried ..... Lance Ryan (tenor)
Brünnhilde ..... Nina Stemme (soprano)
Wanderer ..... Terje Stensvold (bass-baritone)
Mime ..... Peter Bronder (tenor)
Alberich ..... Johannes Martin Kränzle (baritone)
Fafner ..... Eric Halfvarson (bass)
Woodbird ..... Rinnat Moriah (soprano)
Erda ..... Anna Larsson (contralto)
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Daniel Barenboim's Ring with the Staatskapelle Berlin - the first ever complete cycle at the BBC Proms - continues with the razored strings and yelping brass of a violent storm, the cloudburst of incestuous love, a bitter marital dispute and the first appearance of Wotan's rebel daughter, Brunnhilde, sung by a leading exponent of the role, Nina Stemme. The cunning dwarf, Mime, tries to manipulate Siegfried into stealing the magic ring from the dragon, Fafner, with the sword Nothung. But his plans go awry when Siegfried takes the ring for himself...
FRI 18:20 BBC Proms (b0375szs)
Proms Plus Intro
Introduction to Siegfried
Wagner 200
Sara Mohr-Pietsch is joined by Mark Berry, from Royal Holloway, University of London, and the BBC's Paul Mason, for an introduction to the third opera in Wagner's Ring cycle, Siegfried.
Recorded earlier today at the Royal College of Music.
FRI 18:40 BBC Proms (b037kbn1)
Prom 18
Prom 18 (part 2): Wagner - Siegfried
Wagner 200
Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim live at the BBC Proms with the third part of Wagner's Ring cycle, Siegfried
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
Wagner: Siegfried - Act 1 (concert performance; sung in German)
6.20pm Interval
6.50pm
Wagner: Siegfried - Act 2
8.15pm Interval
8.45pm
Wagner: Siegfried - Act 3
Siegfried ..... Lance Ryan (tenor)
Brünnhilde ..... Nina Stemme (soprano)
Wanderer ..... Terje Stensvold (bass-baritone)
Mime ..... Peter Bronder (tenor)
Alberich ..... Johannes Martin Kränzle (baritone)
Fafner ..... Eric Halfvarson (bass)
Woodbird ..... Rinnat Moriah (soprano)
Erda ..... Anna Larsson (contralto)
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Daniel Barenboim's Ring with the Staatskapelle Berlin - the first ever complete cycle at the BBC Proms - continues with the razored strings and yelping brass of a violent storm, the cloudburst of incestuous love, a bitter marital dispute and the first appearance of Wotan's rebel daughter, Brunnhilde, sung by a leading exponent of the role, Nina Stemme. The cunning dwarf, Mime, tries to manipulate Siegfried into stealing the magic ring from the dragon, Fafner, with the sword Nothung. But his plans go awry when Siegfried takes the ring for himself...
FRI 20:15 Twenty Minutes (b0375szx)
When Tolkien Stole Wagner's Ring
Tolkien always vehemently denied any connection between his Lord of the Rings and Wagner's Ring Cycle. He once said: 'Both rings were round, and there the resemblance ceased'.
But there is almost certainly more to it than that. Tolkien used the same Norse legends as Wagner for inspiration in 'Lord of the Rings', but it also seems likely that he took the original idea of an all-powerful and corrupting ring directly from Wagner. So why did he deny it? Perhaps Tolkien felt the taint of the Nazi associations that surrounded Wagner's music at the time he was writing. Perhaps he simply found Wagner's conclusions distasteful. Was Tolkien's work, in fact, conceived as a kind of antidote to Wagner's take on ultimate power.
Susan Hitch explores the connections between the pair of them.
FRI 20:35 BBC Proms (b037kbn3)
Prom 18
Prom 18 (part 3): Wagner - Siegfried
Wagner 200
Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim live at the BBC Proms with the third part of Wagner's Ring cycle, Siegfried
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
Wagner: Siegfried - Act 1 (concert performance; sung in German)
6.20pm Interval
6.50pm
Wagner: Siegfried - Act 2
8.15pm Interval
8.45pm
Wagner: Siegfried - Act 3
Siegfried ..... Lance Ryan (tenor)
Brünnhilde ..... Nina Stemme (soprano)
Wanderer ..... Terje Stensvold (bass-baritone)
Mime ..... Peter Bronder (tenor)
Alberich ..... Johannes Martin Kränzle (baritone)
Fafner ..... Eric Halfvarson (bass)
Woodbird ..... Rinnat Moriah (soprano)
Erda ..... Anna Larsson (contralto)
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Daniel Barenboim's Ring with the Staatskapelle Berlin - the first ever complete cycle at the BBC Proms - continues with the razored strings and yelping brass of a violent storm, the cloudburst of incestuous love, a bitter marital dispute and the first appearance of Wotan's rebel daughter, Brunnhilde, sung by a leading exponent of the role, Nina Stemme. The cunning dwarf, Mime, tries to manipulate Siegfried into stealing the magic ring from the dragon, Fafner, with the sword Nothung. But his plans go awry when Siegfried takes the ring for himself...
FRI 22:30 New Generation Artists (b0375t2j)
Sean Shibe
Continuing Radio 3's summer series featuring members of the BBC's New Generation Artists scheme. Now in its 14th year, the NGA scheme is a showcase for young artists who are beginning to make a mark on the national and international music scene. The scheme offers them unique opportunities to develop their talents, including concerts in London and around the UK, appearances and recordings with the BBC orchestras, and special studio recordings for Radio 3.
Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill
Tonight the spotlight falls on the young Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe.
Albeniz: Asturias
Mompou: Suite Compostellana
Sean Shibe (guitar).
FRI 23:00 WOMAD (b0375t2l)
WOMAD Live 2013
Seun Kuti and Zykopops
Lopa Kothari is joined by Lucy Duran and Mary Ann Kennedy for the first of a weekend of broadcasts from the globe's leading festival of world music, live from the festival site in Charlton Park in Wiltshire. Afrobeat stars Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 headline on the Open Air stage, and on Radio 3's own stage comes Croatian turbofolk-punk band Zykopops. Plus Greek rembetika songs from Mavrika, Louisiana cajun sounds with Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, tunes from the Isle of Man from Barrule, and Poland meets Mongolia with Urna Chahar and Kroke. Plus interviews and truck sessions, starting off eight hours of live broadcasting from WOMAD.