Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Mahler 10 with the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk recorded in Warsaw in 2011
Symphony No 10, compl. Deryck Cooke
Michel Eberth (harpsichord), Wolfgang Brunner (fortepiano), Slovenicum Chamber Orchestra, Uros Lajovic (conductor)
Septet in B flat for 3 oboes, 3 violins and basso continuo (TWV.
Kristian Möller (clarinet), Frederik Ekdahl (bassoon), Ayman Al Fakir (horn), Roger Olsson (violin), Linn Löwengren-Elkvull (viola), Hanna Thorell (cello), Mattias Karlsson (double bass)
Sonata for piano no. 30 (Op. 109) in E major
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Musical Map of Britain and listener requests.
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Petit-Fours: Favourite Things, The Brodsky Quartet CHANDOS CHAN10708; and at
Sarah's guest this week is the writer and philosopher, Roger Scruton. Roger frequently engages in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker. His most recent books include Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England, and Green Philosophy. His books dedicated specifically to music include The Aesthetics of Music and Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation. He has also composed two operas: The Minister, and Violet, based on the life of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse.
Donald Macleod describes himself as "a huge fan" of the music of this week's Composer of the Week, Christoph Willibald Gluck, probably best known today as the composer of Orfeo's lament, 'Che faro senza Euridice?', recorded by generations of singers. Gluck also has the reputation of being the man who 'reformed' opera in the second half of the 18th century, rescuing it from the ludicrous excesses of the high-flown Italian opera seria style that had become a vehicle for overpaid warblers to show off their vocal agility. "I sought to retract music", said Gluck, "to its true function of helping poetry to be expressive and to represent the situations of the plot, without interrupting the action or cooling its impetus with useless and unwanted ornaments." All this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and work of this extraordinary composer, the sheer quality of whose music is often overshadowed by his reputation as an innovator.
Gluck may be known as one of the key reformers of operatic history, but reforms don't spring out of thin air, so in today's programme Donald explores a handful of the 30-odd stage-works Gluck turned out before he was ready to create his game-changing opera Orpheus and Euridice. Four of them - The Duped Judge, The Chinese Women, The Dance and Innocence Justified - were written for Vienna, where in 1755 Gluck secured the first of several court appointments. The fifth, Ezio, was written several years earlier for Pietro Mingotti's travelling opera troupe, an upmarket outfit who put on shows for royal weddings and other such gala events; at this point Gluck was essentially a composer of no fixed abode, though a tolerably successful one.
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from two summer festivals - the Mananan International Festival in Port Erin on the Isle of Man, and the Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival. There are performances from violinist Tasmin Little with pianist Martin Roscoe, and baritone Njabulo Madlala with pianist Julius Drake at the Erin Arts Centre. And violinist Matthew Trusler is joined by cellist Thomas Carroll in a concert from the County Assembly Rooms, Lincoln.
Schubert: Liebesbotschaft D957 No 1; Schäfers Klagelied, D121; Wandrers Nachtlied, D224; Rastlose Liebe, D138
Katie Derham introduces a magical celebration of the foundation of the Kingdom of Granada in 1013. Jordi Savall and some leading musicians from the Arab world bring back to life the sounds of the Kingdom of Granada and Andalucia from its foundation a millennium ago to its incorporation into the Kingdom of Castilla nearly five centuries later. Today there's a chance to hear the venerable middle-European tones of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in a recent performance of Brahms's lyrical Second Symphony.
Geminiani: Concerto grosso No. 12 in D minor ('La Folia')
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
Johann Adolph Scheibe (1708-1776): Sinfonia a 4 No. 2 in B flat
There's live music from the VIDA Guitar Quartet ahead of their performance at this year's Kings Place Festival.
Plus early vocal ensemble The Sixteen and their director Harry Christophers join us mid way through their Choral Pilgrimage to sing live and talk about their tour.
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The Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, delves further into the richly contrasting worlds of Strauss and Beethoven in this second concert from The Usher Hall, Edinburgh.
The concert begins with Strauss's striking combination of clarinet, bassoon and strings in the lyrical 'Duett Concertino' which highlights the talents of the Orchestra's soloists and harks back to the charm of Mozart. It is Mozart's inspirational Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, with its effortless melodic invention which concludes the first part of this Edinburgh International Festival concert.
After the interval, the COE perform Beethoven's optimistic and energetic Seventh Symphony, which Wagner called 'the apotheosis of the dance'.
Beethoven - Symphony No 7 in A Op. 92
Rana Mitter assesses the shortlist for this year's Booker prize with the critic Alex Clark and talking to Jhumpa Lahiri whose novel, The Lowland, is one of the front runners.
The historian, Joanna Bourke and the former weapons inspector, Paul Schulte will be in the studio to examine the history of chemical warfare and our ambivalence to it.
And the travel writer, Colin Thubron and the biographer, Artemis Cooper, will be on hand to celebrate the publication of the long awaited final instalment of Patrick Leigh Fermor's account of his journey from the Hook of Holland to the Bosphorus and beyond - one of the acknowledged prose masterpieces of the 20th century.
Five people select their favourite picture by Robert Capa, the father of photojournalism, and reflect on his life and work.
In the second essay, photographer John D McHugh reflects on the role of empathy and friendship in Robert Capa's work. He talks about an image of two injured soldiers from the Spanish Civil War.
Late Junction looks ahead to the Sound of Cinema celebration across the BBC, featuring soundtrack music including Mohammed Rafi's Chandi Ka Badan and Nino Rota's La Dolce Vita, along with pieces by Laura Veirs, Angele David-Gillou, the K'antu Ensemble, Franco et le Tout Puissant OK Jazz and Jonathan Sage. Presented by Max Reinhardt.
WEDNESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2013
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b039pq0d)
The Australian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Richard Egarr in a programme of Corelli, Castello, Biber, Avison, Handel and Telemann. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo [1653-1713]
Concerto grosso (Op 6 No 1) in D major
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Egarr (conductor)
12:43 AM
Castello, Dario [fl.1621-1629]
Sonatas
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Egarr (conductor)
12:55 AM
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von [1644-1704]
Battalia
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Egarr (conductor)
1:04 AM
Avison, Charles [1709-1770]
Concerto grosso no 3 in D minor (after Scarlatti)
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Egarr (conductor)
1:14 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 12 (K.414) in A major
Richard Egarr (fortepiano), Australian Chamber Orchestra
1:41 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Concerto grosso (Op.6 No.1) in G major
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Egarr (conductor)
1:53 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Overture (Suite) (TWV.55:B5) in B flat major (The Turks)
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Egarr (conductor)
1:56 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Overture (Suite) (TWV.55:B5) in B flat major (The Muscovites)
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Egarr (conductor)
1:58 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Brandenburg concerto no. 3 (BWV.1048) in G major (Mvts 2 and 3)
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Egarr (conductor)
2:03 AM
Mancini, Francesco [1672-1727]
Missa Septimus (Kyrie; Gloria) for 5 part Choir, soloists, strings and continuo
Claire Lefilliâtre (soprano), Marnix De Cat (alto), Han Warmelinck (tenor), Currende, Erik van Nevel (conductor)
2:31 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Concerto for cello and orchestra in E minor (Op.85)
Pieter Wispelwey (cello), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gabriel Chmura (conductor)
3:00 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
6 Moments musicaux for piano (D.780)
Martin Helmchen (piano)
3:29 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Overture to Flis (The Raftsman) (1858)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Salwarowski (conductor)
3:38 AM
Tallis, Thomas (c.1505-1585)
Suscipe, quaeso Domine for 7 voices
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
3:47 AM
Frederick the Great (1712-1786)
Sonata in C minor for flute & basso continuo (Largo; Alla breve; Vivace)
Konrad Hünteler (flute), Wouter Möller (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
3:56 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
Prélude à L'àpres midi d'in faune
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
4:05 AM
Kalliwoda, Johann Wenzel [1801-1866]
Morceau de salon for oboe and piano (Op.228)
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
4:15 AM
Handel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759)
Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion (Messiah)
Marita Kvarving Sølberg (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Kjetil Haugsand (conductor)
4:20 AM
Attributed Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Adagio and Allegro in E flat major (K.Anh.C
17.07) for wind octet
The Festival Winds
4:31 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Violin Concerto in D (Op.3 No.9) (RV.230)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (violin/director)
4:39 AM
Holmboe, Vagn (1909-1996)
Lauda, Anima Mea - from Liber Canticorum II (1952-53) (Op.59c)
The Sokkelund Choir, Morten Schuldt Jensen (conductor) recorded in the Frederiksberg Church, Copenhagen]
4:47 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Variations on a Theme by Clara Wieck
Angela Cheng (piano)
4:55 AM
Wagenaar, Johan (1862-1941)
Concert Overture 'Frühlingsgewalt' (Op.11)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (conductor)
5:03 AM
Anonymous
3 Sephardic Romances
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall (director)
5:13 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Rondo in A minor (K.511)
Jean Muller (piano)
5:23 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Symphony for string orchestra in B minor, No.10
Risör Festival Strings
5:33 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
The Duke of Gloucester's trumpet suite
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), The King's Consort, Robert King (director)
5:45 AM
Vanhal, Johann Baptist (1739-1813)
Concerto in F for 2 bassoons
(bassoons), Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Arvid Engegaard (conductor)
6:07 AM
Rodrigo, Joaquín (1901-1999)
Concierto de Aranjuez
Norbert Kraft (guitar), Winnepeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b039ptjk)
Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Musical Map of Britain and listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b039pv3l)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker: Sound of Cinema
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Petit-Fours: Favourite Things, The Brodsky Quartet CHANDOS CHAN10708; and at
9.30 our daily brainteaser: Back to the Beginning.
10am
Artist of the Week: Julian Bream, who celebrates his 80th birthday this year.
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the writer and philosopher, Roger Scruton. Roger frequently engages in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker. His most recent books include Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England, and Green Philosophy. His books dedicated specifically to music include The Aesthetics of Music and Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation. He has also composed two operas: The Minister, and Violet, based on the life of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse.
11am
Essential Choice
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Also in this hour, Lucky Dip: Sarah dips into her CD collection and shares a piece - it could be a recent discovery, an old favourite, or simply something that just has to be heard. Expect the unexpected!
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b039pvjm)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Alceste
Donald Macleod describes himself as "a huge fan" of the music of this week's Composer of the Week, Christoph Willibald Gluck, probably best known today as the composer of Orfeo's lament, 'Che faro senza Euridice?', recorded by generations of singers. Gluck also has the reputation of being the man who 'reformed' opera in the second half of the 18th century, rescuing it from the ludicrous excesses of the high-flown Italian opera seria style that had become a vehicle for overpaid warblers to show off their vocal agility. "I sought to retract music", said Gluck, "to its true function of helping poetry to be expressive and to represent the situations of the plot, without interrupting the action or cooling its impetus with useless and unwanted ornaments." All this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and work of this extraordinary composer, the sheer quality of whose music is often overshadowed by his reputation as an innovator.
Today's programme focuses on Alceste, premièred in Vienna in 1767 then revised for the Parisian stage eight years later. Writing the opera reduced Gluck to a state of nervous exhaustion: "it seems to me that I have a hive of bees in my head that buzz continually", he said. It's a tale of matrimonial devotion set in legendary times. King Admetus is dying. The God Apollo decrees that only if someone should freely offer their life in his place will Admetus be spared. His wife, Alcestis, does so, but when Admetus finds out, he refuses to acquiesce in her sacrifice and decides to die alongside her. Impressed by the strength of their love for each other, Apollo allows them both to live happily ever after. Gluck wrote Alceste in tribute to the Empress Maria Theresa, recently widowed, but he sensed that the opera would outlive the circumstances that produced it: "Alceste is not a work for a single season. I declare that it will please as much two hundred years hence, for I have grounded it in nature, which does not change with every passing fashion.".
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b039pw1k)
Mananan and Lincolnshire Festivals 2013
Episode 2
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from two summer festivals - the Mananan International Festival in Port Erin on the Isle of Man, and the Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival. There are performances from violinist Tasmin Little with pianist Martin Roscoe, and baritone Njabulo Madlala with pianist Julius Drake at the Erin Arts Centre; and pianist Ashley Wass is joined by violinist Matthew Trusler and cellist Thomas Carroll in a concert from the County Assembly Rooms, Lincoln.
Today's programme features music by Liszt, Mahler, Brahms and Billy Mayerl
Mayerl: Four Aces Suite
Ashley Wass (piano)
Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Njabulo Madlala (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)
Strauss: Allerseelen; Heimliche Aufforderung; Morgen
Njabulo Madlala (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)
Brahms: Violin Sonata No.2 in A major, Op.100
Tasmin Little (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano).
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b039pw4z)
Granada Millennium
Episode 3
Katie Derham continues her exploration of the work of some of Europe's leading Baroque musicians with a solo cantata by JS Bach. And Christian Thielmann conducts the renowned Dresden Staatskapelle in Brahms's Third Symphony.
Bach trans Stokowski: Fugue in C minor, BWV 847, from 'Das wohltemperierte
and
Hindemith Rag Time (wohltemperiert)
MDR Symphony Orchestra, Kristjan Järvi (conductor)
2.05pm
Bach: Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202
Johannette Zomer (soprano), Akademie für alte Musik, Berlin
2.30pm
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
Dresden Staatskapelle, Christian Thielmann (conductor)
3.15pm Fasch: Lamento for Two Oboes, Two Flutes, Clarinet and Strings
Dresden Staatskapelle (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b039q105)
Ely Cathedral
From Ely Cathedral
Introit: The Gateway of Heaven (Paul Trepte)
Responses: Philip Moore
Psalms 59, 60, 61 (Barnby, Havergal, Martin)
First Lesson: Proverbs 2 vv1-15
Office Hymn: Most holy Lord and God of heaven (Mode ii)
Canticles: Windsor Service (Jeremy Filsell)
Second Lesson: Colossians 1 vv9-20
Anthem: Prayer (Ben Parry)
Final Hymn: Saviour, again to thy dear name we raise (Magda)
Organ Voluntary: Sounding heaven and earth (Cecilia McDowall)
With trumpeters from Prime Brass
Paul Trepte (Director of Music)
Edmund Aldhouse (Assistant Organist).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b039pwmh)
Nicola Benedetti, Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake
As she continues her Silver Violin Tour, star violinist Nicola Benedetti plays live in the studio and talks about her extraordinary career to date. More live music from renowned British tenor Ian Bostridge with pianist Julius Drake as they look forward to an all-Schubert programme at Wigmore Hall.
Presented by Suzy Klein
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b039pvjm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Edinburgh International Festival 2013 (b039q107)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Verdi Requiem
BBC SSO, Donald Runnicles and four international soloists perform Verdi's powerful Requiem at the conclusion of the 2013 Edinburgh International Festival. Presented by Jamie MacDougall.
Verdi - Requiem (85 mins - no interval)
Erin Wall (Soprano)
Karen Cargill (Mezzo)
Bryan Hymel (Tenor)
Eric Owens (Bass)
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (Conductor)
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles, with four stella soloists and chorus, bring Edinburgh Festival's Usher hall series to the end with Verdi's powerful Requiem.
Starting with the failed performance of the 1868 composite "Requiem in Honour of Rossini" - written by the most distinguished Italian composers - Verdi, strengthened by the death in May 1873 of Alessandro Manzoni, decided to write an entire Requiem which is very much at home on the dramatic extremes of the opera stage.
WED 21:15 BBC Proms (b03bs63z)
Proms Plus Late
The Porter Quartet, Frances Leviston
Georgia Mann presents a session of jazz and poetry with the Porter Quartet: Robin Porter, tenor saxophone; Jonathan Brown, guitar; Sam Vicary, double-bass, and Tom Hawthorn, drums. Also, the poet Frances Leviston reads some of her critically acclaimed work.
WED 22:00 Night Waves (b039q109)
Richard Dawkins, Tacita Dean, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas
Philip Dodd hears from evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins who has just written a new memoir - An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist. Dawkins recalls how a colonial childhood led to a career in science and discusses how social media is changing the game.
Philip talks to Tacita Dean about her new film 'JG' premiering in a new exhibition of her work at London's Frith Street. The film revisits familiar themes of loss and entropy with time at its core and was inspired by a long-term correspondence Dean held with the writer J G Ballard. They had a mutual fascination with the earthwork on the Utah Salt Flats, created by American sculptor Robert Smithson and known simply as the Spiral Jetty.
And Philip discusses with theatre critic Susannah Clapp 'The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, a new play by Dennis Kelly at London's Royal Court. It also marks the directorial debut of incoming artistic director, Vicky Featherstone.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b039q0gm)
Portraits of Capa
Hilary Roberts
Five people select their favourite picture by Robert Capa, the father of photojournalism, and reflect on his life and work.
In the third essay, historian Hilary Roberts of the Imperial War Museum recalls the famous D-Day portrait of a soldier floating through the waves as he lands on Omaha beach.
Producer: Brian McCluskey
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 3
First broadcast in September 2013.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b039q10c)
Wednesday - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt features more music from the movies as the BBC's Sound of Cinema Season approaches, including music by Anatoly Kroll, Antonio Pinto and Mikhael Tariverdiev. Plus tunes from Reverend Gary Davies; Erol Josue and a track from a new album by Joachim Kühn, Majid Bekkas and Ramon Lopez featuring Archie Shepp.
THURSDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2013
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b039pq38)
Jonathan Swain presents. A concert of French baroque Music by Les Ambassadeurs given in Poland in 2012
12:31 AM
Pieces by Marais, Marin (1656-1728), Forqueray, Antoine (1672-1745), Forqueray, Jean-Baptiste (1699-1782)
Teodoro Baù (viola da gamba), Deniel Perer (harpsichord)
1:12 AM
Campra, André (1660-1744)
Quis ego Domine, motet à la manière italienne
Anders J Dahlin (tenor), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
1:25 AM
Couperin, François (1668-1733)
La Françoise, Suite from 'Les Nations'
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
1:39 AM
Leclair, Jean-Marie (1697-1764)
Overture from Deuxième Récréation de musique d'une exécution facile in G minor
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
1:55 AM
Leclair, Jean-Marie (1697-1764)
Sarabande (lentement) and Menuets I and II from Deuxième Récréation de musique d'une exécution facile
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
1:59 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Dans nos feux prenons pour modèles from Zaïs
Anders J Dahlin (tenor), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
2:03 AM
Leclair, Jean-Marie (1697-1764)
Badinage and Chaconne
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
2:12 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Ces oiseaux from Le Temple de la Gloire
Anders J Dahlin (tenor), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
2:17 AM
Leclair, Jean-Marie (1697-1764)
Tambourins I and II from Deuxième Récréation de musique d'une exécution facile
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
2:21 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) arr. Andrew Manze
Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV.565) - reconstructed for violin solo by Andrew Manze
Andrew Manze (violin)
2:31 AM
Klami, Uuno (1900-1961)
Helsinki March (1930)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, George de Godzinsky (conductor)
2:36 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927) )
4 Stockholm poems (Op.38) (1918)
Karl-Magnus Fredriksson (baritone), Stefan Nilsson (piano)
2:48 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich [1840-1893]
Hamlet - fantasy overture Op.67
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
3:06 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Divertimento in C major (Hob.IV No.1) (London Trio No.1)
Carol Wincenc (flute), Philip Setzer (violin), Carter Brey (cello)
3:16 AM
Weill, Kurt (1900-1950)
Excerpts from Kleine Dreigroschenmusik for wind
Winds of the Flemish Radio Orchestra, Jan Latham Koenig (conductor)
3:24 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Quartet no. 12 in E minor (Paris quartet)
L'Ensemble Arion
3:44 AM
Addinsell, Richard (1904-1977)
Warsaw concerto for piano and orchestra
Patrik Jablonski (piano), Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Wojiech Rajski (conductor)
3:54 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Prague Waltzes (Prazske valciky) (B.99)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Stefan Róbl (conductor)
4:02 AM
Carniolus, Jacobus Gallus (1550-1591)
2 Motets from Opus Musicum
Ljubljanski madrigalisti, Matjaž Scek (director)
4:07 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Fantasia on Beethoven's 'Ruinen von Athen' for piano (S.389)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) (piano)
4:19 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857)
Souvenir d'une nuit d'été a Madrid
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)
4:31 AM
Reznicek, Emil Nikolaus von (1860-1945)
Donna Diana: overture
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
4:38 AM
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916),
4 Tonadillas from 'Colección de tonadillas escritas en estilo antiguo'
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), James Parker (piano)
4:47 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907)
String Quartet No 2 in F (unfinished)
Ensemble Fragaria Vesca
5:07 AM
Fasch, Johann Friedrich (1688-1758)
Sonata in D minor
Amsterdam Bach Soloists, Wim ten Have (conductor)
5:17 AM
Klami, Uuno (1900-1961)
Sérénades joyeuses
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jussi Jalas (conductor)
5:24 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Romance in D flat
Liisa Pohjola (piano)
5:28 AM
Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706) [text Psalm 100]
Jauchzet dem Herrn
Cantus Cölln , Konrad Junghänel (director)
5:34 AM
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881), orch.Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Pictures from an Exhibition (orig for piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
6:07 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata for violin and piano in F major "Spring" (Op.24)
Henning Kraggerud (violin), Håvard Gimse (piano).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b039ptk2)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny 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 (b039pv3n)
Thursday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Petit-Fours: Favourite Things, The Brodsky Quartet CHANDOS CHAN10708; and at
9.30 our daily brainteaser: Who's Dancing?
10am
Artist of the Week: Julian Bream, who celebrates his 80th birthday this year.
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the writer and philosopher, Roger Scruton. Roger frequently engages in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker. His most recent books include Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England, and Green Philosophy. His books dedicated specifically to music include The Aesthetics of Music and Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation. He has also composed two operas: The Minister, and Violet, based on the life of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse.
11am
Essential Choice
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C, Op. 53 'Waldstein'
Maurizio Pollini (piano).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b039pvjp)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Gluck Storms Paris
Donald Macleod describes himself as "a huge fan" of the music of this week's Composer of the Week, Christoph Willibald Gluck, probably best known today as the composer of Orfeo's lament, 'Che faro senza Euridice?', recorded by generations of singers. Gluck also has the reputation of being the man who 'reformed' opera in the second half of the 18th century, rescuing it from the ludicrous excesses of the high-flown Italian opera seria style that had become a vehicle for overpaid warblers to show off their vocal agility. "I sought to retract music", said Gluck, "to its true function of helping poetry to be expressive and to represent the situations of the plot, without interrupting the action or cooling its impetus with useless and unwanted ornaments." All this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and work of this extraordinary composer, the sheer quality of whose music is often overshadowed by his reputation as an innovator.
In today's programme, a courtly entertainment; a close shave; and success in Paris.
The courtly entertainment is Gluck's Philemon and Baucis, part of a suite of operatic one-acters commissioned to spice up the marriage celebrations of Ferdinand, Duke of Parma, a grandson of Louis XV, to Maria Amalia, Archduchess of Austria and daughter of the Empress Maria Theresa in July 1769. The close shave relates to an opera Gluck wrote the following year; Paride ed Elena tells the story of the adulterous love between the Trojan prince, Paris, and Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta. In his anxiety to secure a venue for the production, Gluck gambled most of his savings on an ill-starred joint venture with a conman who went by the name of Count Afflisio. Gluck was duly fleeced, and learnt a costly if not catastrophic lesson. Success in Paris came four years later with Iphigenia in Aulis, his first opera to be conceived from the get-go for a French text. This time there was no difficulty in securing a venue, as Gluck had an influential backer: Marie Antoinette.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b039pw1m)
Mananan and Lincolnshire Festivals 2013
Episode 3
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from two summer festivals - the Mananan International Festival in Port Erin on the Isle of Man, and the Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival.
Liszt: Tristia (Vallée d'Obermann)
Ashley Wass (piano), Matthew Trusler (violin), Thomas Carroll (cello)
Lekeu: Violin Sonata
Tasmin Little (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b039pw52)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Verdi 200 - La Battaglia di Legnano
Verdi 200
Verdi: La Battaglia di Legnano
Katie Derham introduces an acclaimed recording starring the young Jose Carreras. Written in the wake of the euphoric spring of the 1848 Revolutions, Verdi's patriotic opera has as its backdrop the heroic defence of Italy and its Lombard League against the invading northern armies of Frederick Barbarossa. A dual plot sees a drama of individuals and a pageant of military heroism which culminating in the battle of Legnano itself. The heroic Arrigo has killed Barbarossa but is himself mortally wounded. As he lies dying he calls his former lover Lida and Rolando her husband to him and swears that he has done nothing to dishonour him: "He who dies for his country cannot be so guilty in his heart."
Arrigo ..... Jose Carreras (tenor)
Lida ..... Katia Ricciarelli (soprano)
Rolando ..... Matteo Manuguerra (baritone)
Federico ..... Nicola Ghiuselev (bass)
Marcovaldo ..... Jonathan Summers (baritone)
Podestà ..... Franz Handlos (bass)
Primo Console ..... Hannes Lichtenberger (bass)
Secondo Console ..... Dimitri Kavrakos (bass)
Imelda ..... Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano)
Araldo/Scudiere ..... Mieczyslaw Antoniak (tenor)
ORF Chorus and Symphony Orchestra
Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)
followed at
4.00pm by
Telemann Les Nations anciennes et modernes, suite in G for strings TWV 55:G4
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (director).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b039pwmk)
Gianandrea Noseda, Luca Pisaroni, the London Klezmer Quartet
Suzy Klein presents, with guests including acclaimed Italian bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni as he prepares to sing the role of Figaro in David McVicar's acclaimed production of Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal Opera House.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b039pvjp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Three Choirs Festival 2013 (b039q13l)
The Song of Hiawatha
As part of the 2013 Three Choirs Festival at Gloucester Cathedral, Peter Nardone conducts the Festival Chorus and Philharmonia Orchestra, in Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's The Song of Hiawatha. The soloists include Hye-Youn Lee, Robin Tritschler and Benedict Nelson, performing this setting of words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Coleridge-Taylor died in 1912, but The Song of Hiawatha became very popular after his death, during the years between the two world wars. The concerts were lavishly staged at the Royal Albert Hall, with singers in costume performing to a capacity audience.
Catherine Bott presents this concert at the 2013 Three Choirs Festival, with contributions from conductor Peter Nardone and Coleridge-Taylor biographer Charles Elford.
Coleridge-Taylor: The Song of Hiawatha
Hye-Youn Lee, soprano
Robin Tritschler, tenor
Benedict Nelson, baritone
Three Choirs Festival Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
Peter Nardone, conductor.
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b039q13n)
John le Carré
In a special event recorded in front of an audience at London's Royal College of Music Anne McElvoy talks to John le Carré to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his groundbreaking Cold War espionage novel, The Spy who Came in from the Cold. It's the book which brought him international fame and which was described by Graham Greene as 'the best spy story I have ever read'. He discusses his extraordinary childhood as well as the state of Britain today, and the revelations of whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b039q0gw)
Portraits of Capa
Tim Collins
Five essayists select their favourite picture by Robert Capa, the father of photojournalism, and reflect on his life and work.
In the fourth essay, Colonel Tim Collins examines Robert Capa's picture of an American solider in a the end of World War Two, "The Last One To Die", and reflects on the portrayal of death in photography.
Producer: Brian McCluskey
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 3
First broadcast in September 2013.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b039q13q)
Thursday - Max Reinhardt
On the eve of the Sound of Cinema season beginning on Radio 3, Max Reinhardt goes to the movies once again with soundtrack music by Ravi Shankar and John Cale; plus electronic traditional music from Seamus Fogerty and new work by Mali's Sidi Toure, Tedeschi Trucks Band and Brazilian artists Dom La Nena and Simone Sou.
FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2013
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b039pq51)
Jonathan Swain presents. The Romanian Radio National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jin Wang.
12:31 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Carnival overture Op.92
Romanian Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Jin Wang (conductor)
12:41 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Concerto in B minor Op.104 for cello and orchestra
Razvan Suma (cello) Romanian Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Jin Wang (conductor)
1:22 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Minuet from Suite no. 2 in D minor BWV.1008 for cello solo
Razvan Suma (cello)
1:25 AM
Stravinsky, Igor [1882-1971]
Petrushka
Romanian Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Jin Wang (conductor)
1:56 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Slavonic Dance no. 8 in G minor Op 46
Romanian Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Jin Wang (conductor)
2:00 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Quartet for strings (Op.41 No.3) in A major
Vertavo String Quartet
2:31 AM
Kilar, Wojciech (b. 1932)
Piano Concerto
Peter Jablonski (piano), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
2:56 AM
Schumann-Wieck, Clara (1819-1896)
Trio for piano and strings (Op.17) in G minor
Eva Zurbrugg (violin), Angela Schwartz (cello), Erika Radermacher (piano)
3:24 AM
Nin (y Castellanos), Joaquín (1879-1949)
Seguida Espanola (1930) (Vieja castilla; Murciana; Asturiana; Andaluza)
Henry-David Varema (cello), Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
3:33 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Concerto in F minor for 3 violins and orchestra from Musique de table, partagée en trois productions
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (director)
3:48 AM
Vedel, Artemy [1767-1808]
Choral concerto No.5 "I cried unto the Lord with my voice" (Psalm 143)
Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor)
3:57 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Academic Festival Overture (Op.80)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor)
4:08 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Nocturne for piano No.1 in E flat minor (Op.33 No.1)
Livia Rev (piano)
4:16 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Serenade No.1 in D major for violin and orchestra (Op.69a)
Judy Kang (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Jean-François Rivest (conductor)
4:24 AM
Auber, Daniel-Francois-Esprit (1782-1871)
Guoracha - Ballet music no.1 from 'La Muette de Portici'
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra of Bratislava, Viktor Malek (conductor)
4:31 AM
Dukas, Paul (1865-1935)
Villanelle for horn and orchestra
Esa Tukia (horn), Radion Sinfoniaorkesteri , Michael Adelson (conductor)
4:38 AM
Humperdinck, Engelbert (1854-1921)
Dream Pantomime - from Hansel and Gretel
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
4:48 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico [1685-1757]
Sonata for Mandolin in D minor k.90
Avi Avital (mandolin) Shalev Ad-El (harpsichord)
4:57 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
2 Sonatinas for mandonlin: C minor WoO 43/1 and C major WoO 44/1
Avi Avital (mandolin) Shalev Ad-El (harpsichord)
5:04 AM
Sarasate, Pablo de (1844-1908)
Romanza Andaluza (Op.22)
Moshe Hammer (violin), Valerie Tryon (piano)
5:09 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Divertimento (Concerto) (K.113) in E flat major
Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
5:24 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor (Op.22)
Maria Dubravka Tomsic (piano), Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)
5:48 AM
Korngold, Erich (1897-1957)
Violin Concerto in D major (Op.35) (Finale )
Chantal Juillet (violin), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Franz-Paul Decker (conductor)
6:15 AM
Dohnányi, Ernõ (1877-1960)
Symphonic Minutes (Op.36)
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b039ptk4)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating the Sound of Cinema with the A-Z of film music, the Musical Map and listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111.".
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b039pv3q)
Friday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Petit-Fours: Favourite Things, The Brodsky Quartet CHANDOS CHAN10708; and at
9.30 our daily brainteaser.
10am
Artist of the Week: Julian Bream, who celebrates his 80th birthday this year.
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the writer and philosopher, Roger Scruton. Roger frequently engages in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker. His most recent books include Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England, and Green Philosophy. His books dedicated specifically to music include The Aesthetics of Music and Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation. He has also composed two operas: The Minister, and Violet, based on the life of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse.
11am
Essential Choice
Holst: Choral Symphony No 1
Susan Gritton (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Andrew Davis (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b039pvjv)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Gluck's Last Act
Donald Macleod describes himself as "a huge fan" of the music of this week's Composer of the Week, Christoph Willibald Gluck, probably best known today as the composer of Orfeo's lament, 'Che faro senza Euridice?', recorded by generations of singers. Gluck also has the reputation of being the man who 'reformed' opera in the second half of the 18th century, rescuing it from the ludicrous excesses of the high-flown Italian opera seria style that had become a vehicle for overpaid warblers to show off their vocal agility. "I sought to retract music", said Gluck, "to its true function of helping poetry to be expressive and to represent the situations of the plot, without interrupting the action or cooling its impetus with useless and unwanted ornaments." All this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and work of this extraordinary composer, the sheer quality of whose music is often overshadowed by his reputation as an innovator.
In the last of this week's programmes, Gluck bows out with two operatic hits and a miscalculation, all produced for the Parisian stage. Armida initially caused controversy by setting a libretto originally written the previous century for the sainted Lully; like Gluck, Lully was a foreigner, but he had become a French national icon, and his work was not to be tampered with. Two years further on, when the orchestra of the Paris Opera first struck up the opening bars of Iphigenia in Tauris, not with an overture, but hurtling the audience straight into the action, it was to herald the greatest triumph of Gluck's entire career in France. According to one newspaper report, "Some of the audience were seen to weep from beginning to end". If they were weeping at the première of Echo and Narcissus just two months later, it was for a different reason. The opera, which was to be Gluck's last, a pastoral confection a world away from the classical seriousness of Iphigenia, was an unmitigated turkey. Gluck quit the French capital in dismay and returned to Vienna, where he lived out his remaining years.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b039pw1p)
Mananan and Lincolnshire Festivals 2013
Episode 4
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from two summer festivals - the Mananan International Festival in Port Erin on the Isle of Man, and the Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival. There are performances from violinist Tasmin Little with pianist Martin Roscoe, and baritone Njabulo Madlala with pianist Julius Drake at the Erin Arts Centre; and pianist Ashley Wass is joined by violinist Matthew Trusler and cellist Thomas Carroll in a concert from the County Assembly Rooms, Lincoln.
Today's programme includes music by Ravel, Quilter and Shostakovich.
Ravel: Tzigane
Tasmin Little (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano)
Quilter: O mistress mine: Go, lovely rose: Now sleeps the crimson petal
Njabulo Madlala (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 2 in E minor, Op 67
Matthew Trusler (violin), Thomas Carroll (cello), Ashley Wass (piano).
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b039pw54)
Granada Millennium
Episode 4
Katie Derham concludes this week's focus on music from the Baroque and pre-Baroque with Jordi Savall and some leading musicians from the Arab world bringing back to life the sounds of the Kingdom of Granada and Andalucia from its foundation a millennium ago to its incorporation into the Kingdom of Castilla nearly five centuries later. And the week's survey of all four Brahms symphonies finishes with a recent performance conducted by the revered figure of Herbert Blomstedt, now in his eighties.
Handel: Jubilate, HWV 279 ('Utrecht')
La Capella Reial de Catalunya and finalists from the 3rd Academy of Vocal Research and Performance, Le Concert des nations, Jordi Savall (director)
2.20pm Bach: Double Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043
Gottfried von der Goltz (violin), Petra Müllejans (violin), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
2.35pm
Granada Eterna 1013-1526
Part 3
Amel Brahim-Djelloul (singer)
Lior Elmaleh (singer)
Driss El Maloumi (singer and oud)
Hakan Güngör (kanun)
Yurdal Tockan (oud)
Haig Sarikouyoumdjian (duduk)
Erez Shmuel Mounk (percussion)
Manuel Forcano (reciter)
La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall (director)
c.
3.20pm
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
NDR Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
c.
4pm
Bach-Mahler: Suite of orchestral works by Johann Sebastian Bach
MDR Symphony Orchestra, Kristjan Järvi (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b039pwmm)
Sound of Cinema: Live from the BFI
Sean Rafferty presents a special show live from BFI, Southbank in London, to launch Radio 3's Sound of Cinema season, and to tie in with the BFI's focus on the Gothic. His guests include Norma Herrmann, widow of the great film score composer Bernard Herrmann whose celebrated partnership with Alfred Hitchcock gave rise to some of the most disconcerting scores in cinema history; silent film pianist and composer Neil Brand; and the Tippett Quartet playing live and showcasing some of the best music to come out of the movies.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b039pvjv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Three Choirs Festival 2013 (b039q1d1)
Handel's Messiah
Catherine Bott presents a performance of Handel's Messiah from Gloucester Cathedral, performed by The Dunedin Consort and the cathedral choirs of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester, in a concert recorded in July at the 2013 Three Choirs Festival.
Handel: Messiah
Rosemary Joshua (soprano)
Catherine Carby (mezzo-soprano)
Nicholas Mulroy (tenor)
Matthew Brook (bass)
Cathedral Choirs of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester
The Dunedin Consort
John Butt (conductor).
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b039q1d3)
Jonathan Coe, Beccy Owen, Chris Goode, Christian Roe, Matthew Welton
Ian McMillan returns with a new series of The Verb, Radio 3's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performances. With the author Jonathan Coe, musician Beccy Owen,
director Chris Goode, actor Christian Roe and poet Matthew Welton.
Download the podcast to hear an more of Matthew's poetry, and an extra song from Beccy:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/theverb.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b039q0h0)
Portraits of Capa
John Morris
Five people select their favourite picture by Robert Capa, the father of photojournalism, and reflect on his life and work.
In the final essay, John Morris, picture editor of Life Magazine during World War Two, on why an image of a gypsy musician reminds him of his old friend, Robert Capa.
Producer: Brian McCluskey
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 3 (Picture copyright 1947 Robert Capa/Magnum, John G Morris Collection)
First broadcast in September 2013.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b039q1d5)
Session with Man's Ruin
Mary Ann Kennedy with tracks from across the globe, plus a session with Scottish alt-folk band Man's Ruin.