John Shea presents a programme of Martinu, Kabalevsky and Dvorak with the Prague RSO and Ronald Zollman with cellist Michal Kanka
Concerto for cello and orchestra no. 2 (Op.77) in C major
Michal Kanka (cello) Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ronald Zollman (conductor)
Symphony no. 6 (Op.60) in D major
Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj (b. 1933)
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir , Percussion Ensemble of the National Philharmonic Orchestra, National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Michniewski (conductor)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
Bruno Lukk, Peep Lassmann, Eugen Kelder, Valdur Roots (pianos), Estonian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Paul Mägi (conductor)
Tormis, Veljo (b. 1930)
2 Norwegian Dances (Op.35, nos. 1 & 2)
Quartet No.1 in A minor (Wq.93/H.537 - from 3 quartets for Fortepiano, Flute and Viola (1788))
Les Adieux - Andreas Staier (fortepiano), Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Hajo Bäß (viola)
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Musical Map of Britain and listener requests. Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111.
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Haydn Overtures played by the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien; and at
'Proms Artist Recommends'. Kirill Karabits the conductor of tonight's Prom recommends a great work that deserves to be better known.
Sarah's guest this week is Lavinia Greenlaw, Professor of Poetry at the University of East Anglia. Her poetry collections include Night Photograph; The Casual Perfect; and Minsk, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes. She has written several novels, Mary George of Allnorthover and An Irresponsible Age, as well as two non-fiction works: The Importance of Music to Girls and Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland. In 2011 her sound work, Audio Obscura, won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Lavinia's work for music includes several opera libretti for composers Richard Ayres and Ian Wilson. She has also written and adapted dramas for radio, and has made documentaries on the Arctic, the Baltic, mountains, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, the darkest place in England, and the solstices and equinoxes.
Live from the Edinburgh International Festival, Australian-born Nicola Boud traces the musical development of the clarinet, joined by soprano Sabine Devieilhe and international period players to perform Mozart, Schubert, Glinka, and Brahms.
In the second programme of eight recorded in concert at LSO St Lukes in London, the Belcea Quartet play Bartok's Third Quartet and Beethoven's Quartet in F Op 59 No 1, the first of the so-called 'Razumovsky Quartets'
Bartok: String Quartet No. 3
Jonathan Swain with a second chance to hear trumpeter Alison Balsom, Camerata Ireland, and Barry Douglas play music by Britten and his contemporaries at the BBC proms
Shostakovich: Concerto For Piano, Trumpet And Strings (Piano Concerto No. 1)
Pianist Barry Douglas directs Camerata Ireland at their recent Proms debut with a programme featuring the music of Benjamin Britten and his contemporaries. Withdrawn from performance for 40 years after its 1939 premiere, Britten's Young Apollo opens a sequence of works of brittle, edgy beauty, including the world premiere of Priaulx Rainier's 1951 Movement for strings. Lennox Berkeley's Serenade for strings and Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge frame a performance of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1, whose witty trumpet part is played by Alison Balsom.
Tallis Scholars, Kristine Opolais, Leonard Elschenbroich, Daniel Muller-Schott, James Baillieu
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music and guests from this year's Proms season
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Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Janacek's Sinfonietta, Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto (with Sunwook Kim) and Tchaikovsky's 3rd Symphony.
This summer's Tchaikovsky symphony cycle continues as Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in the dance-infused Third Symphony, written in the summer of 1875 and dubbed the 'Polish' following its 1899 London premiere in the Crystal Palace.
Leeds International Piano Competition-winner Sunwook Kim makes his Proms debut in Beethoven's dramatic Piano Concerto No 3 in a concert that begins with the dazzling brass fanfares and bustling street-life of Brno as translated into music in Janacek's 1926 Sinfonietta.
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3
Ian Skelly talks to Rosamund Bartlett and Marina Frolova-Walker about Tchaikovsky and his world, looking at the influences in his life at the time of writing his Third Symphony. Recorded at the Royal College of Music.
Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Janacek's Sinfonietta, Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto (with Sunwook Kim) and Tchaikovsky's 3rd Symphony.
This summer's Tchaikovsky symphony cycle continues as Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in the dance-infused Third Symphony, written in the summer of 1875 and dubbed the 'Polish' following its 1899 London premiere in the Crystal Palace.
Leeds International Piano Competition-winner Sunwook Kim makes his Proms debut in Beethoven's dramatic Piano Concerto No 3 in a concert that begins with the dazzling brass fanfares and bustling street-life of Brno as translated into music in Janacek's 1926 Sinfonietta.
Inspired by a radio lecture entitled Tynged yr Iaith (The Fate of the Language) by the playwright Saunders Lewis - which predicted the end of Welsh as a living language if radical steps were not taken - in October 1962 a group of people approached the main bridge in Aberystwyth and sat down on it. They refused to move, blocking traffic for several hours. It was the first action by the newly-formed Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (Welsh Language Society) and marked the beginning of a movement of language activism and campaigning in Wales that continues to the present day.
In the 50 years since Saunders Lewis's dire predictions, the status of the language has changed a great deal: Wales is now officially a bilingual nation, with a growing Welsh-language education sector and relatively flourishing Welsh-language publishing, film production, and music industries.
But while the number of Welsh speakers might be increasing, the number of organic Welsh-speaking communities is in decline.
Against this backdrop, bilingual poet Gwyneth Lewis examines this controversial modern revival of Welsh, finds out what living in a bilingual nation really means and assesses where the language project is going.
Featuring Dafydd Elis-Thomas, David Crystal, Geraint Talfan Davies, Deian Hopkin, Joe Dunthorne, Iain Sinclair, Simon Jenkins, Patrick McGuiness and others.
The Tallis Scholars and Peter Phillips perform sacred choral music by two Renaissance masters - the Italian Carlo Gesualdo and the Englishman John Taverner.
The Tallis Scholars are the choral group who, arguably, have done more than any other in this country to bring the sacred Renaissance masterpieces of the Golden Age back to life. In their 40th anniversary season they perform music by a composer who himself has an anniversary - Carlo Gesualdo, born 400 years ago this year. This 16th-century Neapolitan prince, notoriously, murdered his wife and her lover when he caught them in flagrante, and then - the story goes - spent the rest of his life in seclusion, atoning for this act of violence by composing a stream of sacred works whose highly-charged emotional expression shed a light on his own tortured state of mind. Alongside this intense, mannered music, a gloriously radiant setting of the mass by the English Tudor composer John Taverner - founding choirmaster of what is now Christ Church, Oxford, before falling from grace in the wake of his master - Cardinal Wolsey.
Max Reinhardt presents a diverse mix of music live from the Edinburgh Festivals, including Japanese music from Okinawan band Ship of the Ryuku, and folk from closer to home with fiddle and harp duo Chris Stout and Catriona McKay. Plus, Max speaks to the legendary Meredith Monk about her new music-theatre piece, 'On Behalf of Nature.'
THURSDAY 15 AUGUST 2013
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b0385520)
John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805)
Cello Concerto no.6 in D major (G.479)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, James Conlon (conductor)
12:48 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Symphony-concerto for cello and orchestra (Op.125) in E minor
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Konstantin Iliev (conductor)
1:24 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata for piano No.17 in D minor (Op.31 No.2) 'Tempest'
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
1:48 AM
Stoyanov, Vesselin (1902-1969)
String Quartet No.3 'In modo frigio'
Avramov String Quartet
2:09 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Les Biches - suite
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
3:04 AM
Kraus, Joseph Martin (1756-1792)
Sinfonie in D major (VB.143)
Concerto Köln
3:23 AM
Norman, Ludvig (1831-1885)
Contrasts for Piano (Op.61, Nos 3&4)
Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano)
3:28 AM
Crusell, Bernhard Henrik (1775-1838)
The Little Slave Girl - Concert Suite for orchestra
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
3:47 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto IX in D major for solo violin, strings and continuo (RV.230), from 'L'Estro Armonico' (Op.3)
Paul Wright (violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
3:54 AM
Gombert, Nicolas (c.1495-c.1560)
Musae Jovis a6
Ars Nova, Bo Holten (conductor)
4:02 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Serenade to music for 16 soloists (or 4 soloists & chorus) & orchestra
Bette Cosar (soprano), Delia Wallis (mezzo-soprano), Edd Wright (tenor), Gary Dahl (bass), Alexander Skwortsow (violin), Vancouver Bach Choir, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bruce Pullan (conductor)
4:15 AM
Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924)
Intermezzo - from Manon Lescaut
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
4:22 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Rondo concertante for violin and orchestra (K.269) in B flat major
James Ehnes (violin/director), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra
4:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Symphony No.23 in D major (K.181)
RTV Slovenia Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
4:42 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Allegro appassionato in C sharp minor (Op.70)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
4:49 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
Capriccio Espagnol (Op.34)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)
5:06 AM
Buffardin, Pierre-Gabriel (c.1690-1768)
Flute Concerto in E minor
Ernst-Burghard Hilse (flute), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Stephan Mai (director)
5:18 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich [1637-1707]
Jesu, meines Lebens Leben, BuxWV 62
Marieke Steenhoek (Soprano), Miriam Meyer (Soprano), Miriam Meyer (Contralto), Marco Van De Klundert (Tenor), Klaus Mertens (Bass), Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman (Conductor)
5:26 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Der Zwerg (D.891)
Jard van Nes (mezzo-soprano), Gérard van Blerk (piano)
5:32 AM
Škroup, František (1801-1862)
String Quartet in F (Op.24)
Martinu Quartet
5:58 AM
Melartin, Erkki (1875-1937)
Lohdutus (Consolation)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
6:03 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Nocturne No 14 in F sharp minor Op.48 No.2
Nelson Goerner (Erard piano)
6:11 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Orchestral Suite from Dardanus
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (director).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b0385545)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Musical Map of Britain and listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b0385547)
Thursday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Haydn Overtures played by the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien; and at
9.30 our daily brainteaser.
10am
'Proms Artist Recommends'. A chance to hear one of the three musical works recommended by an artist appearing in tonight's Prom.
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is Lavinia Greenlaw, Professor of Poetry at the University of East Anglia. Her poetry collections include Night Photograph; The Casual Perfect; and Minsk, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes. She has written several novels, Mary George of Allnorthover and An Irresponsible Age, as well as two non-fiction works: The Importance of Music to Girls and Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland. In 2011 her sound work, Audio Obscura, won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Lavinia's work for music includes several opera libretti for composers Richard Ayres and Ian Wilson. She has also written and adapted dramas for radio, and has made documentaries on the Arctic, the Baltic, mountains, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, the darkest place in England, and the solstices and equinoxes.
THU 11:00 Edinburgh International Festival (b038556c)
2013 Queen's Hall Series
Queen's Hall Series: Nikolai Lugansky
Recorded live at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2013, Moscow-born pianist Nikolai Lugansky tackles a varied programme from Janacek's impressionist cycle, In the Mists to Rachmaninov's volcanic Etudes-Tableaux.
Janáçek: In the Mists, JW8/22
Schubert: Four Impromptus, D935
Rachmaninov: Etude-tableau in C major, Op.33 No. 2
Rachmaninov: Etude-tableau in D minor, Op.33 No. 5
Rachmaninov: Etude-tableau in B minor, Op.39 No. 4
Rachmaninov: Etude-tableau in E flat minor, Op.39 No. 5
Rachmaninov: Etude-tableau in A minor, Op.39 No. 6
Nikolai Lugansky - piano.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03857gv)
LSO St Luke's Beethoven Plus
Royal String Quartet
The third concert in the series of eight recorded at LSO St Lukes in London sees the Royal String Quartet perform Haydn's Quartet in B flat Op 76 No 4 (known as 'The Sunrise') and Beethoven's Quartet in E flat Op 4 (The Harp)
Haydn: String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 76 No. 4 'Sunrise'
Beethoven: String Quartet in E flat, Op. 74 'Harp'
Royal String Quartet.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03856mm)
Proms 2013 Repeats
Prom 39: Holst, Nishat Khan & Vaughan Williams
Jonathan Swain with another chance to hear Nishat Khan, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and David Atherton at the BBC Proms.
Presented at the Royal Albert Hall by Suzy Klein
Holst: Indra
Nishat Khan: The Gate Of The Moon (Sitar Concerto No. 1)
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
Nishat Khan (sitar)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
David Atherton (conductor)
Plus highlights from last year's City of London Festival.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b03856mp)
Catrine Kirkman and James Longford, Kally Lloyd-Jones and Damian Thantrey, The Spooky Men's Chorale, Ilan Volkov
Suzy Klein presents, with live music from soprano Catrine Kirkman, winner of the John Kerr English Song Prize, and all the way from Down Under, The Spooky Men's Chorale.
Director Kally Lloyd-Jones and baritone Damian Thantrey join us to talk about Scottish Opera and Company Chordelia's co-production of Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins, on for a limited run at Paterson's Land, Edinburgh.
Plus guests from this year's Proms season and all the latest arts news
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 19:30 BBC Proms (b0385g4d)
Prom 44
Prom 44 (part 1): Stravinsky, Penderecki, Debussy & Ravel
Charles Dutoit conducts the RPO live at the Royal Albert Hall from the BBC Proms in music by Stravinsky, Debussy, Penderecki and Ravel.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Stravinsky: Fireworks
Krzysztof Penderecki: Concerto grosso
8:15pm Interval
8:40pm
Debussy: La mer
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe - Suite No. 2
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello)
Arto Noras (cello)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor)
Tonight's Prom opens with Stravinsky's short but brilliant Fireworks, and is followed by the Concerto Grosso by Krzyzstof Penderecki, who is 80 this year, featuring a trio of cellists Leonard Elschenbroich, Daniel Müller-Schott and Arto Noras. The concerto plays with Baroque forms, the cellists playing against choirs of woodwind. The work was written in 2000 and has been championed by Dutoit in Japan, Philadelphia and Chicago. The second half of the concert features 2 French scores: Debussy's sensuous orchestrations in La Mer, and concludes with the second suite from Ravel's stunningly beautiful Daphnis and Chloe.
An edited version of this Prom will be broadcast on Monday 19th August at
2pm.
THU 20:15 BBC Proms (b0385g4g)
Proms Plus Literary
The Life and Legacy of Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev was one of the greatest dancers of the 20th century.
His charisma and electrifying stage presence made him a superstar and he transformed the status and even the expected appearance of the male dancer.
Twenty years after his death the former director of the Royal Ballet, Dame Monica Mason, who partnered him in Hamlet, and his biographer, Julie Kavanagh, celebrate his life and legacy wit h Samira Ahmed.
Recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music as part of this year's Proms Plus events.
THU 20:35 BBC Proms (b0385g4j)
Prom 44
Prom 44 (part 2): Stravinsky, Penderecki, Debussy & Ravel
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Charles Dutoit conducts the RPO live at the Royal Albert Hall from the BBC Proms in music by Stravinsky, Debussy, Penderecki and Ravel.
Stravinsky: Fireworks
Krzysztof Penderecki: Concerto grosso
8:15pm Interval
8:40pm
Debussy: La mer
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe - Suite No. 2
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
Daniel Muller-Schott (cello)
Arto Noras (cello)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor)
Tonight's Prom opens with Stravinsky's short but brilliant Fireworks, and is followed by the Concerto Grosso by Krzyzstof Penderecki, who is 80 this year, featuring a trio of cellists Leonard Elschenbroich, Daniel Muller-Schott and Arto Noras. The concerto plays with Baroque forms, the cellists playing against choirs of woodwind. The work was written in 2000 and has been championed by Dutoit in Japan, Philadelphia and Chicago. The second half of the concert features 2 French scores: Debussy's sensuous orchestrations in La Mer, and concludes with the second suite from Ravel's stunningly beautiful Daphnis and Chloe.
An edited version of this Prom will be broadcast on Monday 19th August at
2pm.
THU 21:45 Sunday Feature (b01nt18n)
Queen's University - Belfast Built
The past fifty years in Northern Ireland have often been turbulent but throughout this time the Queen's University of Belfast has always been at the core, encouraging intellectual thought and spirited discussion. William Crawley considers this period of its history and how the university tried in vain to remove itself from the political difficulties of Northern Ireland.
With contributions from past graduates and current staff William recalls the hey-day of the 1960s when Queen's found itself welcoming its first working class students like Paul Muldoon to a world where intellectual thought was prized and Queen's was the very essence of a British red brick institution. As 1968 took hold, and student radicalism swept the world, Queen's University students like Nick Ross were to take up the role of championing the rights of the individual and their civil liberties, carrying the flame for student activism challenging the society around them. However, in the 1970s as a young David Trimble and Alexander McCall Smith took up their first teaching posts, it was clear that the university could not resist the grip of the' Troubles' as it permeated every aspect of Northern Ireland life.
From the turbulent years of the seventies and the out of control eighties WIlliam Crawley tells the story of a university that became the very reflection of what it tried to stand apart from as staff, students and the university itself became embroiled in the chaos around it. From murders on campus to discrimination and alienation, to a very public row over its own identity he charts how Queen's University Belfast passed through an emotional rollercoaster few institutions would have survived to emerge stronger and leaner in the 21st century.
Producer: Regina Gallen.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01h625h)
Here's Looking at Me
Martin Gayford
Lucian Freud was intense and unwavering in his approach to portraiture. Here Martin Gayford, 'Man with a Blue Scarf', describes the experience of sitting for many hours for Freud over a period of 18 months.
In that time Gayford had ample opportunity to watch the artist in action - while he himself was being scrutinised in the finest detail, 'something between transcendental meditation and a visit to the barber's'.
Gayford explains how the portrait slowly came together, his reactions to the finished work and what he learned about Lucian Freud the man over their 'long dinner party for two' during its painting .
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b0385gg5)
Thursday - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt returns to London after his Edinburgh jaunt featuring an interview with Lindsay Todd, curator of 'The Immeasurable Equation' an exhibition of Sun Ra photos on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, plus electronica from Autechre and Data 70, beautiful melancholy samba by Tiganá Santana, electro-acoustic music by veteran guitarist Mike Cooper, and Taarab music by Seif Salim Saleh and Abdullah Mussa Ahmed.
FRIDAY 16 AUGUST 2013
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b0385524)
John Shea presents, with music from the 2011 Music in Paradise Festival
12:31 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Trio in B flat D.471 - Allegro
Trio AnPaPié
12:39 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Sonata in A minor HWV 362;
Bolette Roed (recorder), Allan Rasmussen (harpsichord)
12:49 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Suite No 2 in F HWV 427;
Allan Rasmussen (harpsichord)
12:58 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Sonata in G minor HWV 360
Bolette Roed (recorder), Allan Rasmussen (harpsichord)
1:06 AM
Jadin, Hyacinthe [1776-1800]
Trio No. 3 in F (1797)
Trio AnPaPié
1:27 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Chaconne in G HWV 435
Allan Rasmussen (harpsichord)
1:38 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Sonata in D minor HWV 367a
Bolette Roed (recorder), Allan Rasmussen (harpsichord)
1:53 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Trio for strings (Op.9'1) in G major
Trio AnPaPié
2:22 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Sonata in B flat HWV 377
Bolette Roed (recorder), Allan Rasmussen (harpsichord)
2:27 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Allegro from Sonata in C HWV 365
Bolette Roed (recorder), Allan Rasmussen (harpsichord)
2:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Rosamunde ? incidental music (D.797)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
3:01 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
String Quartet No.1 in C minor (Op.51 No.1)
Karol Szymanowski Quartet
3:33 AM
Kainz, (Leonhard) Joseph (1738-1813)
Concerto in C major for harpsichord, 2 oboes, 2 violins and bass continuo
Linda Nicholson (harpsichord), Florilegium Collinda
3:47 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Sonata quasi una fantasia for piano (Op.27 No.2) in C sharp minor, 'Moonlight'
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
4:01 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Divertimento in B flat major for wind ensemble, K.186
Bratislavska Komorna Harmonia
4:14 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Concerto for trumpet and orchestra in E flat major
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
4:31 AM
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787)
Symphony in D major (Op.10 No.5)
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)
4:40 AM
Norman, Ludvig (1831-1885)
2 Charakterstücke for piano (Op.1) (1850)
Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano)
4:50 AM
Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Friede auf Erden (Op.13)
Danish National Radio Choir
5:00 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet in G K.285a
Joanna G'froerer (flute), Martin Beaver (violin), Pinchas Zukerman (viola), Amanda Forsyth (cello)
5:10 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
In Autumn ? concert overture (Op.11)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Josep Caballe Domenech (conductor)
5:22 AM
Piazzolla, Ástor Pantaleón (1921-1992)
Le Grand Tango
Musica Camerata Montréal
5:34 AM
Albicastro, Henricus (fl.1700-06)
Sonate pour violon et continue (Op.9 No.12), 'La Folia'
Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini (conductor)
5:46 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Sextet for piano and strings in D major, Op.110
Wu Han (piano), Philip Setzer (violin), Nokuthula Ngwenyama (viola), Cynthia Phelps (viola), Carter Brey (cello), Michael Wais (bass)
6:09 AM
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1788-1831)
Trio for clarinet, cello and piano
Amici Chamber Ensemble.
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b0385549)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Musical Map of Britain and listener requests. Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b038554c)
Friday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Haydn Overtures played by the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien; and at
9.30 our daily brainteaser.
10am
'Proms Artist Recommends'. A chance to hear one of the three musical works recommended by an artist appearing in tonight's Prom.
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is Lavinia Greenlaw, Professor of Poetry at the University of East Anglia. Her poetry collections include Night Photograph; The Casual Perfect; and Minsk, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes. She has written several novels, Mary George of Allnorthover and An Irresponsible Age, as well as two non-fiction works: The Importance of Music to Girls and Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland. In 2011 her sound work, Audio Obscura, won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Lavinia's work for music includes several opera libretti for composers Richard Ayres and Ian Wilson. She has also written and adapted dramas for radio, and has made documentaries on the Arctic, the Baltic, mountains, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, the darkest place in England, and the solstices and equinoxes.
FRI 11:00 Edinburgh International Festival (b038556f)
2013 Queen's Hall Series
Werner Gura and Christoph Berner
German tenor Werner Güra and pianist Christoph Berner perform live at the Edinburgh International Festival. Love and longing, life and loss are explored in this song recital of works by Beethoven and Schubert.
Beethoven: An Die Ferne Geliebte Op 98
Beethoven: An die Hoffnung Op 32
Beethoven: Lied aus der Ferne WoO 137
Beethoven: Resignation WoO 149
Beethoven: Adelaide Op 46
Beethoven: Wonne der Wehmut Op 83
Beethoven: Der Kuss Op 128
11.40 Interval
12.00
Schubert: Heidenröslein D257
Schubert: Schlaflied D527
Schubert: Wiegenlied D867
Schubert: Im Frühling D882
Schubert: Geheimes D719
Schubert: Ganymed D544
Schubert: Auf der Bruck D853
Schubert: Der Fischer D225
Schubert: Daß sie hier gewesen! D775
Schubert: Bei dir allein D866
Schubert: Der Schiffer D536
Schubert: Willkommen und Abschied D767
Werner Güra, tenor
Christoph Berner, piano.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03857gx)
LSO St Luke's Beethoven Plus
Prazak String Quartet
In the fourth concert in this series of eight recorded at LSO St Luke's in London, the Prazak String Quartet perform Haydn's Quartet in D Op 50 No 6 and Beethoven's Quartet in B flat Op 130.
Haydn: String Quartet in D major, Op 50 No 6
Beethoven: String Quartet in B flat major, Op 130
Prazak String Quartet.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03856mr)
Proms 2013 Repeats
Prom 41: Borodin, Glazunov, Gubaidulina & Mussorgsky
Jonathan Swain with a second chance to hear the LSO and Valery Gergiev at the BBC Proms with music by Borodin, Glazunov, Gubaidulina and Musorgsky
Presented at the Royal Albert Hall by Martin Handley
Borodin: Symphony No 2 in minor
Glazunov: Piano Concerto No 2 in B
Sofia Gubaidulina: The Rider on the White Horse
Musorgsky, orch Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Valery Gergiev
Valery Gergiev conducts the LSO in a feast of Russian music, with another chance to hear what was the UK premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina's The Rider on the White Horse, plus Ravel's celebrated orchestration of Musorgsky's great Pictures at an Exhibition. Daniil Trifonov, who hit the headlines when he won the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011 performs Glazunov's rarely heard Piano Concerto No 2, premiered in the first concert in Petrograd (St Petersburg) after the 1917 Revolution.
Plus Spanish music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b03856mt)
Live from the 2013 Edinburgh Festival
Sean Rafferty is live in the BBC tent at the Edinburgh Festival.
Join him at the heart of the city as he introduces a host of exciting performers from this year's International and Fringe Festivals.
Renowned baritone Sir Thomas Allen pops in to talk to Sean about his astonishing career and gives us a sneak preview of his upcoming festival performance.
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe and their conductor Yannick Nezet-Séguin have a concert later the same evening but will also be dropping in to play a little Mozart.
Sean is also joined by one of the world's most in-demand pianists, Andreas Haefliger, who will be putting our festival grand piano through its paces in front of our live audience.
We welcome the brilliant Scottish folk group Breabach as our house band, there's live musical comedy from The Horne Section fresh from the Fringe and Sean meets Mary Queen of Scots at the National Gallery of Scotland. Plus, best-selling Scottish author, Alexander McCall-Smith on the programme straight from the Edinburgh Book Festival.
Tweet us @BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 BBC Proms (b0385gq7)
Prom 45
Prom 45 (part 1): Tippett - The Midsummer Marriage
Tippett's great opera The Midsummer Marriage with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis live at the BBC Proms
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor
Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage: Act 1
19.35 Interval
20:00
Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage: Act 2
20.35 Interval
21:00
Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage: Act 3
Mark ..... Paul Groves (tenor)
Jenifer ..... Erin Wall (soprano)
King Fisher ..... David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Bella ..... Ailish Tynan (soprano)
Jack ..... Allan Clayton (tenor)
Sosotris ..... Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo)
He-Ancient ..... David Soar (bass)
She-Ancient ..... Madeleine Shaw (mezzo)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
Stage Director, Kenneth Richardson
Last heard at the Proms in 1977, The Midsummer Marriage is Tippett's answer to Mozart's The Magic Flute, an opera rich in symbolism and psychology, trials and transformations. Paul Groves and Erin Wall are Mark and Jenifer, Ailish Tynan and Allan Clayton, Bella and Jack, two couples tested by a series of supernatural interventions on the shortest night of the year.
One of today's leading Tippett exponents, Sir Andrew Davis conducts the centrepiece of this summer's Proms focus on Tippett's music alongside Britten's centenary.
An edited version of this Prom will be broadcast on Tuesday 20th August at
2pm.
FRI 19:35 BBC Proms (b038cbpk)
Proms Plus Intro
Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage
Louise Fryer talks to writer Oliver Soden, composer Michael Berkeley and pianist Paul Webster about Tippett's Midsummer Marriage. Oliver Soden is currently writing a book about how Tippett sets words in his music and will discuss the libretto and Tippett's relationship with T. S. Eliot. Michael Berkeley knew Tippett personally and has studied his music closely, as has pianist Paul Webster who has also been repetiteur in rehearsals for tonight's Prom Performance.
FRI 20:00 BBC Proms (b0385gqc)
Prom 45
Prom 45 (part 2): Tippett - The Midsummer Marriage
Tippett's great opera The Midsummer Marriage with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis live at the BBC Proms
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor
Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage: Act 1
19.35 Interval
20:00
Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage: Act 2
20.35 Interval
21:00
Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage: Act 3
Mark ..... Paul Groves (tenor)
Jenifer ..... Erin Wall (soprano)
King Fisher ..... David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Bella ..... Ailish Tynan (soprano)
Jack ..... Allan Clayton (tenor)
Sosotris ..... Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo)
He-Ancient ..... David Soar (bass)
She-Ancient ..... Madeleine Shaw (mezzo)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
Stage Director, Kenneth Richardson
Last heard at the Proms in 1977, The Midsummer Marriage is Tippett's answer to Mozart's The Magic Flute, an opera rich in symbolism and psychology, trials and transformations. Paul Groves and Erin Wall are Mark and Jenifer, Ailish Tynan and Allan Clayton, Bella and Jack, two couples tested by a series of supernatural interventions on the shortest night of the year.
One of today's leading Tippett exponents, Sir Andrew Davis conducts the centrepiece of this summer's Proms focus on Tippett's music alongside Britten's centenary.
An edited version of this Prom will be broadcast on Tuesday 20th August at
2pm.
FRI 20:35 Twenty Minutes (b0385gqf)
What Visions Have I Seen
"What visions I have seen," declares Titania on awaking from her charmed amorous slumber with Bottom in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Michael Tippett?s opera 'The Midsummer Marriage has an ancient, ritual and magical aspect. It features a character called Kingfisher, based on the mythical Fisher King, and another, Sosostris, a name that appears as a ?famous clairvoyante?with a wicked pack of cards? in ?The Waste Land?.
To complement this, in the interval of this evening's Prom performance, Steve Roud, one of the country's foremost authorities on British folklore and song, surveys the summer customs of Britain. He explains what they are and when, who is involved and suggests some meanings. His piece is illustrated with with recordings of events such as Crying the Neck in Cornwall, well-dressing in Derbyshire, and the solstice celebrations at Stonehenge.
FRI 21:00 BBC Proms (b0385gqh)
Prom 45
Prom 45 (part 2): Tippett - The Midsummer Marriage
Tippett's great opera The Midsummer Marriage with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis live at the BBC Proms
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor
Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage: Act 1
19.35 Interval
20:00
Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage: Act 2
20.35 Interval
21:00
Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage: Act 3
Mark ..... Paul Groves (tenor)
Jenifer ..... Erin Wall (soprano)
King Fisher ..... David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Bella ..... Ailish Tynan (soprano)
Jack ..... Allan Clayton (tenor)
Sosotris ..... Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo)
He-Ancient ..... David Soar (bass)
She-Ancient ..... Madeleine Shaw (mezzo)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
Stage Director, Kenneth Richardson
Last heard at the Proms in 1977, The Midsummer Marriage is Tippett's answer to Mozart's The Magic Flute, an opera rich in symbolism and psychology, trials and transformations. Paul Groves and Erin Wall are Mark and Jenifer, Ailish Tynan and Allan Clayton, Bella and Jack, two couples tested by a series of supernatural interventions on the shortest night of the year.
One of today's leading Tippett exponents, Sir Andrew Davis conducts the centrepiece of this summer's Proms focus on Tippett's music alongside Britten's centenary.
An edited version of this Prom will be broadcast on Tuesday 20th August at
2pm.
FRI 22:25 New Generation Artists (b0385gym)
Apollon Musagete Quartet
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, just one work: Gorecki's first String Quartet, Op 62. Subtitled 'Already it is dusk', the work takes as its inspiration a motet by the Polish Renaissance composer Waclaw z Szamotul, intended as a prayer for children going to sleep.
Gorecki: String Quartet No 1, Op 62 'Already it is dusk'
Apollon Musagète Quartet.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b01h625k)
Here's Looking at Me
Germaine Greer
Paula Rego's portrait of Germaine Greer is one of the most popular in the National Portrait Gallery. Greer describes the friendship and respect that made the portrait possible. She wouldn't have sat for a portrait had it NOT been Paula, whose work Greer hugely admires.
Greer explains her misgivings about portraiture which she considers 'a minor art form at best...made by artists working in a self-limiting genre'. Worst of all are portraits of women - which are vapid or flattering or soulless.
What then was the key to the success of this portrait and how did it come about?
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b0385h4j)
Cocos Lovers in Session
Mary Ann Kennedy with new tracks from across the globe, plus a session with English alternative folk band Cocos Lovers, performing Kentish roots music with influences from just about anywhere.