Jonathan Swain presents a concert given by Il Canto di Orfeo of Lassus's Lagrime di San Pietro from Biasca, Switzerland.
Suite in the olden style arr. D.Shafran for cello and piano
Gérard and Lusignan's duet: 'Salut, salut, à cette noble France' - from 'La Reine de Chypre', Act 3
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor - Gérard), Brett Polegato (baritone - Lusignan), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
Moshe Hammer (violin), Winnepeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
Arnold, Malcolm (1921-2006), arr. John P. Paynter
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)
The "Amadeus" Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan, Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)
Continuing Breakfast's A-Z of film music with scores by Vaughan Williams, Villa-Lobos and Francois Lai's title track from the 1966 film Un homme et une femme. And Andrew Hoellering, son of film producer George Hoellering, tells Sara about his father's connections with Bela Bartok, Bertold Brecht and TS Eliot, and picks music by Laszlo Lajtha.
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: The Vagabond: Bryn Terfel/Malcolm Martineau, DG; and at
Rob's guest this week is film, stage and television actress Olivia Williams. Olivia made her film debut in The Postman, and later won the lead role of Rosemary Cross in Wes Anderson's Rushmore. She then starred as Bruce Willis's wife in the blockbuster The Sixth Sense, a film she would later parody during her brief appearance in British sit-com Spaced. Other film credits include Lucky Break, An Education, Hanna, and Roman Polanski's The Ghost, for which she won several major awards. On TV, Olivia portrayed British author Jane Austen in Miss Austen Regrets, and was cast as Adelle DeWitt in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. She writes a monthly column in The Telegraph and is currently starring in Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage at the St James Theatre, London.
Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand, who introduces his personal choice of Music that made the Movies:
Also in this hour, Lucky Dip: Rob dips into his 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!
John Williams talks to Donald Macleod about working with Steven Spielberg on the Holocaust drama, Schindler's List - and how he approached the enormous challenge of writing music to complement such a tragic and harrowing story. We'll hear excerpts from his Oscar-winning score, infused with the inflections of Jewish traditional music.
Before this, a very different - and much loved - Spielberg score: Williams's music to the "Indiana Jones" series of films, and the composer's Olympic Fanfare, written for the Los Angeles Summer Games of 1984, and reprised every games since.
We end with a real rarity, and probably a real surprise to many: John Williams's score to Alfred Hitchcock's last film, Family Plot. Williams is one of the very few people in history to have worked closely with both Hitchcock and Spielberg - and he tells us how these two directorial giants compare.
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from last year's Ryedale Festival in North Yorkshire, with performances from the Szymanowski Quartet, and cellist Steven Isserlis with pianist Sam Haywood.
From the mid 50s to the late 60s Visconti produced several landmark Verdi operas in La Scala, Spoleto and the Royal Opera House. He had been part of the Italian neorealist cinema movement, along with Roberto Rossellini and Federico Fellini. But by the time he made "Death in Venice" in 1971 he was making more personal films in which decadence, decline and "beauty" become key aesthetics. In Thomas Mann's original novella the role of Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) is an author, but Visconti makes him a composer and the Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony appears again and again as Aschenbach watches the "beautiful" youth Tadzio. from afar.
There's live music from Sam Lee and Friends on today's show. Sam's debut album was Mercury Award nominated in 2012 and he has forged a reputation as one of the most exciting folk acts in the UK today. He talks to Sean about his love of collecting songs and his inspirations.
Opera director David Pountney talks about the much anticipated opera The Wasp Factory, opening tonight at the Royal Opera House. Adapted from Iain Banks's cult novel, Pountney has written the libretto.
Sean talks to members of the Orchestra Mozart, enjoying their first tour of the UK and as part of the BBC's Sound of Cinema season, Sean talks to film expert Richard Dyer about the work of Italian composer Nino Rota.
Jac van Steen conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Wagner extracts and in Rachmaninov's Third Concerto, with pianist Valentina Lisitsa.
Marking 200 years since his birth, the concert begins with four of Wagner's most celebrated operatic moments, including the Mastersingers Overture, the March from Tannhäuser, the Entrance of the Gods from Das Rheingold, and the delicate yearning of Tristan and Isolde's doomed love affair. The astonishingly difficult pianistic gymnastics of Rachmaninov's Third Concerto are second nature to the virtuoso pianist Valentina Lisitsa.
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
Stephen Johnson looks beyond the virtuosic in Rachmaninov's third Piano Concerto to get to its reflective, melancholic Russian heart.
Jac van Steen conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Wagner extracts and in Rachmaninov's Third Concerto, with pianist Valentina Lisitsa.
Marking 200 years since his birth, the concert begins with four of Wagner's most celebrated operatic moments, including the Mastersingers Overture, the March from Tannhäuser, the Entrance of the Gods from Das Rheingold, and the delicate yearning of Tristan and Isolde's doomed love affair. The astonishingly difficult pianistic gymnastics of Rachmaninov's Third Concerto are second nature to the virtuoso pianist Valentina Lisitsa.
In Night Waves' second outing to London Zoo, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Angus Wilson's 1961 novel 'The Old Men At The Zoo'.
From institutional in-fighting to our relationship with nature, via nuclear apocalypse, Wilson's novel uses the Zoo as a backdrop to examine some characteristic preoccupations of mid-20th century Britain. Arguably it is the missing link between the grand Victorian tradition of the English novel and the dystopian science fiction of J.G. Ballard. Yet Wilson is rarely read today.
Matthew is joined by Wilson's friend and biographer Margaret Drabble and by the poet and novelist Iain Sinclair to make a case for a Wilson revival.
'The Old Men At The Zoo' was dramatised for TV in 1983, and Matthew is also joined by the series producer Jonathan Powell, who went on to be Controller of BBC1, along with production manager Margot Hayhoe.
The American academic and social critic Camille Paglia on the film scores which have inspired her since childhood including the work of Bernard Herrmann, John Dankworth and Max Steiner.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the Hutton School Choir and Lal Waterson, plus widescreen music for the Sound of Cinema with Fiona Talkington.
THURSDAY 03 OCTOBER 2013
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b03brtsz)
Jonathan Swain presents a piano recital by Peter Donohoe
12:31 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
Estampes for piano
Peter Donohoe (piano)
12:45 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
6 pieces (Op.118)
Peter Donohoe (piano)
1:09 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Années de pèlerinage - 1er année, Suisse S.160
Peter Donohoe (piano)
1:55 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
L'isle joyeuse for piano
Peter Donohoe (piano)
2:01 AM
Gwilym Simcock (b.1981- )
I Love You (improvisation)
Gwilym Simcock (piano)
2:07 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Nocturne in C minor (Op.48 No.1)
Llyr Williams (piano)
2:15 AM
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937)
20 Mazurkas for piano (Op. 50); no. 1 in E major; no 2; no. 13
Ashley Wass (piano)
2:23 AM
Grunfeld, Alfred [1852-1924]
Soirees de Vienne for piano, Op.56
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
2:31 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Quintet for piano and strings (Op.44) in E flat major
Ingrid Fliter (piano); Ebène Quartet
3:01 AM
Nicolai, Carl Otto (1810-1849)
Mass for soloists, chorus and orchestra in D major
Irena Baar (soprano), Mirjam Kalin (alto), Branko Robinsak (tenor), Marko Fink (bass), Slovenian Radio and Television Chamber Choir and Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
3:33 AM
Salieri, Antonio (1750-1825)
Sinfonia in D major 'Veneziana'
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi (conductor)
3:43 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
12 Variations on 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen' for cello and piano (Op.66)
Antonio Meneses (cello), Menahem Pressler (piano)
3:53 AM
Reicha, Anton (1770-1836)
Trio for French horns (Op.82)
Jozef Illes, Jaroslan Snobl, Jan Budzak (French horns)
4:04 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concert aria: Ch'io mi scordi di te...? Non temer, amato bene (K.505)
Tuva Semmingsen (soprano), Jörn Fosheim (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Michel Tabachnik (conductor)
4:14 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
V prirode (Op.91)
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
4:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Overture in the Italian Style (D.590)
Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcello Viotti (conductor)
4:39 AM
Ockeghem, Johannes (c.1410-1497)
Intemerata Dei mater
The Hilliard Ensemble: David James (alto), Rogers Covey-Crump & John Potter (tenors), David Beaven (bass), Paul Hillier (bass/director)
4:48 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Nocturne No.1 in E flat minor (Op.33 No.1)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
4:57 AM
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911)
Romance arr. for violin and choir
Borisas Traubas (violin), Polifonija (Lithuanian State Chamber Choir), Sigitas Vaiciulionis (conductor)
5:06 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Harpsichord Concerto No.5 in F minor (BWV.1056)
Lembit Orgse (harpsichord), Estonian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Paul Mägi (conductor)
5:16 AM
Alpaerts, Flor (1876-1954)
Avondmuziek
I Solisti del Vento, Ivo Hadermann (conductor)
5:26 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Selected Lyric Pieces (Op. 68 and 71)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
5:39 AM
Norman, Ludvig (1831-1885)
Quartet for two violins, viola and violoncello in E major (Op.20)
Berwald Quartet
6:02 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Concerto for violin and orchestra (Op.64) in E minor
Hilary Hahn (violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Hugh Wolff (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b03brvgb)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch: Sound of Cinema
Continuing Breakfast's A-Z of film music with scores by Debbie Wiseman, John Williams and Ron Goodwin. Sara also reads haiku poems sent in by listeners, and there's a mystery impressionist.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b03brvjj)
Thurday - Rob Cowan: Sound of Cinema
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: The Vagabond: Bryn Terfel/Malcolm Martineau, DG; and at
9.30 our brainteaser - What am I?
10am
Artists of the Week: Beaux Arts Trio
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is film, stage and television actress Olivia Williams. Olivia made her film debut in The Postman, and later won the lead role of Rosemary Cross in Wes Anderson's Rushmore. She then starred as Bruce Willis's wife in the blockbuster The Sixth Sense, a film she would later parody during her brief appearance in British sit-com Spaced. Other film credits include Lucky Break, An Education, Hanna, and Roman Polanski's The Ghost, for which she won several major awards. On TV, Olivia portrayed British author Jane Austen in Miss Austen Regrets, and was cast as Adelle DeWitt in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. She writes a monthly column in The Telegraph and is currently starring in Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage at the St James Theatre, London.
11am
Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand, who introduces his personal choice of Music that made the Movies:
Honegger: Pacific 231.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01pmfz7)
John Williams (1932-)
Master of Fantasy
Music of the fantastical and the fabulous today, as John Williams explains to Donald Macleod how he created his scores for Jurassic Park and to the Harry Potter series - with musical highlights from the first three Williams-scored films, in which the composer's love of Viennese waltzes, big band jazz, and Victorian Gothic are given free rein...
After a unique concerto for bassoon and orchestra, inspired by trees and the writings of Robert Graves, John Williams introduces a score unique in his output - his music to Spielberg's A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, in which he draws upon the minimalist style of Philip Glass and John Adams to create one of his finest futuristic scores.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03brx6q)
Ryedale Festival 2013
Episode 3
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from last year's Ryedale Festival in North Yorkshire, with performances from the Romanian pianist Alexandra Silocea, and cellist Steven Isserlis with pianist Sam Haywood.
Presented by Katie Derham.
Mozart: Piano Sonata No 10 in C, K330
Alexandra Silocea (piano)
Bridge: Cello Sonata in D minor
Steven Isserlis (cello), Sam Haywood (piano)
Debussy: Poissons d'or (Images, Book 2, No 3)
Debussy: Reflets dans l'eau (Images, Book 1, No 1)
Alexandra Silocea (piano).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03brw84)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Verdi 200 - Un ballo in maschera
Part of Verdi 200 - Radio 3's celebration of Verdi's bicentenary. Today's Opera Matinee is Verdi's Un ballo in maschera - The Masked Ball.
In 1792 King Gustavus III of Sweden was shot and fatally wounded at a masked ball, and this event was the inspiration behind Verdi's opera.
Depicting regicide, even in opera, in 19th century Europe was pretty much taboo, and Verdi had to struggle with censors in Naples and Rome to get the opera performed.
On 9th January 1858 Verdi wrote that he was on his way to Naples for rehearsals and was finishing the the full score. Unfortunately for Verdi, on 14th January three Italians made an assassination attempt on Emperor Napoleon III in Paris and rehearsals came to a sudden end. After a year of legal claims and counter-claims Verdi presented his opera to the censors in Rome who demanded that events in the opera must be completely removed from anywhere in Europe and Verdi moved everything to Boston in the USA. What we are left with is basically one opera with two sets of characters depending on where the opera is set. Today's version is set in Boston.
Riccardo, governor of Boston, is holding a masked ball and is thrilled to see the name of Amelia on the attendance list. Riccardo loves Amelia, who, unfortunately for Riccardo, is already married to Renato, his friend and right-hand man. Renato warns Riccardo of a conspiracy againt him which Riccardo shrugs off, turning instead to an accusation of witchcraft against Ulrica, a fortune-teller. Riccardo is intrigued and with himself and his attendants in disguise sets off to see Ulrica for himself. Riccardo is watching the fortune-teller in action when Amelia appears and confesses that she is attracted to Riccardo, and needs Ulrica's help to settle the situation. Amelia leaves to find a herb in the woods which Ulrica has told her will help. Riccardo reveals himself to Ulrica and demands she tell his fortune. Chillingly, Ulrica tells Riccardo that he will be killed by the next man to shake his hand. Renato appears and unwittingly shakes Riccardo's hand.
In Act 2 Riccardo has met Amelia in the woods and they declare their love for each other. Renato appears to warn Riccardo once more of the plot against him, and this time Riccardo takes notice, but asks Renato to take care of the now veiled woman (Amelia) Riccardo has been meeting. Renato fails to identify his own wife Amelia until the consprators arrive and struggle with Renato and Amelia's veil falls to the ground. Renato is shocked, and seeing that his own wife has been meeting Riccardo in the woods, alone and late at night, assumes the worst and vows revenge.
In Act 3 Renato has decided to kill Amelia for the shame his wife has brought on him, but then changes his mind and decides to kill Riccardo instead. Meanwhile Riccardo has decided to do the decent thing and renounce his love for Amelia out of respect for her and Renato's marriage.
The masked ball is in full flow and Renato discovers the identity of Riccardo's costume, confronts him and fatally stabs him. As he dies Riccardo tells Renato that Amelia was true to him, Renato, and never broke her marriage vows.
This performance was recorded at the São Carlos National Theatre in Lisbon in July 2000. Denis O'Neill, Aprile Millo and Lado Atanelli take the three principal roles.
Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball), opera in three acts,
Amelia ..... Aprile Millo, soprano
Riccardo ..... Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Renato ..... Lado Ataneli, baritone
Ulrica ..... Elisabetta Fiorillo, mezzo
Oscar, Riccardo's page ..... Mariola Cantarero, soprano
Judge ..... António Silva, tenor
Amelia's Servant ..... João Miguel Queirós, tenor
Silvano ..... Luís Rodrigues, baritone
Samuel ..... Ignasi Gomar, bass
Tom ..... Celestino Varela, bass
São Carlos National Theatre Chorus
Portuguese Symphony Orchestra
Antonio Pirolli.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b03brwn7)
Anoushka Shankar, Nicolas Roeg, English Touring Opera: Sound of Cinema
Sean Rafferty with live music, guests and all the latest arts news
The multi Grammy nominated sitar player Anoushka Shankar is in the studio to play live and talk about her forthcoming album. Anoushka studied under her father, the legendary Ravi Shankar, and is one of the world's foremost stars of World Music.
English Touring Opera also give us a sneak preview of their upcoming productions, performing live in the studio
Plus as part of the BBC's Sound of Cinema season, an interview with renowned director Nicolas Roeg, the man responsible for Don't Look Now and The Man Who Fell To Earth. He talks about his long career and his thoughts on film music.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01pmfz7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03brxk8)
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Halle - Britten, Shostakovich (part 1)
The Hallé Orchestra and Mark Elder with a Britten premiere and Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony.
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Adam Tomlinson
Britten: "Britten in Wartime" (world premiere)
7.55 -
8.15 INTERVAL: Twenty Minutes
Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 in C major Opus 60 "Leningrad"
Samuel West, narrator
Hallé Orchestra
Mark Elder, conductor
Shostakovich's Symphony No 7, the "Leningrad", was composed during the traumatic siege of Leningrad during the Second World War. The piece became a symbol of resistance and triumph over acute adversity and the score was even smuggled out of war-torn Russia on microfilm so that a performance could be given in America.
Benjamin Britten was himself working for the war effort during this time, and "Britten in Wartime", which has been put together from Britten's manuscripts by composer Colin Matthews, offers an insightful look at the composer's work for radio in 1942, consisting as it does of music Britten composed for propaganda documentaries about British life, aimed at American listeners. Selected passages from the original broadcasts are read by Samuel West, alongside the music.
THU 19:55 Twenty Minutes (b03brxkb)
Sound and Fury
How do sound designers use soundscapes and sound effects to manipulate excitement and emotion in the cinema audience?
Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering, visits Pinewood studios to meet Glenn Freemantle, who subsequently won an Oscar for his work on Gravity. Freemantle describes the extraordinary lengths he went to in order to re-create the soundscape of a remote desert canyon in the 2010 film 127 Hours, so that the cinema audience hears exactly what the climber trapped under a rock for 127 hours hears as he tries to escape. And he shows how to build up the sound in a creepy scene to make the audience feel uneasy.
Trevor Cox also learns how the sound of a futuristic motor bike is created in the latest Judge Dredd film - how does a sound designer create a sound that is incredibly powerful but also believable?
And there's a revealing trip to a screening room in central London to experience the very latest technology in the world of cinematic surround sound.
First broadcast in October 2013.
THU 20:15 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03brxkd)
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Halle - Britten, Shostakovich (part 2)
The Hallé Orchestra and Mark Elder with a Britten premiere and Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony.
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Adam Tomlinson
Britten: "Britten in Wartime" (world premiere)
7.55 -
8.15 INTERVAL: Twenty Minutes
Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 in C major Opus 60 "Leningrad"
Samuel West, narrator
Hallé Orchestra
Mark Elder, conductor
Shostakovich's Symphony No 7, the "Leningrad", was composed during the traumatic siege of Leningrad during the Second World War. The piece became a symbol of resistance and triumph over acute adversity and the score was even smuggled out of war-torn Russia on microfilm so that a performance could be given in America.
Benjamin Britten was himself working for the war effort during this time, and "Britten in Wartime", which has been put together from Britten's manuscripts by composer Colin Matthews, offers an insightful look at the composer's work for radio in 1942, consisting as it does of music Britten composed for propaganda documentaries about British life, aimed at American listeners. Selected passages from the original broadcasts are read by Samuel West, alongside the music.
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b03brwn9)
Ghosts, Slavoj Žižek, Miliband, Melissa Benn
Anne McElvoy discusses Ibsen's Ghosts with directors Richard Eyre and Stephen Unwin, whose respective productions of the play have just opened. The drama provoked outrage when it was published in 1881 with its attack on religion, defence of free love, and subject matter of inherited syphilis. But does it speak to us now?
The Labour Party has been dealing with the ghosts of its intellectual past recently. But how would the left wing politics of Ralph Miliband's generation fare in the climate of current political debate? And how do the politics of today's Shadow Cabinet compare to the thinking of the post-war New Left? Managing editor of Prospect magazine Jonathan Derbyshire and Observer columnist Nick Cohen join Anne to discuss the genealogy of left wing politics in Britain
In his new film, The Pervert's guide to Ideology, the thinker and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek takes on the ideology machine of Hollywood and argues that we need to break away from it. He explains that for this to happen we first of all need to change the way we dream.
Melissa Benn asks what messages we are conveying to young women today and considers what advice we should be giving our daughters to empower them for the future.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b03brwnc)
Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet
David Thomson
The writer and film critic David Thomson explores how film composers create mood and how the best music evokes a place beyond reality.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b03brxkg)
Thursday - Fiona Talkington: Sound of Cinema
Harpist Serafina Steer in session at the Latitude Festival, Timo Alakotila and Maria Kalaniemi, Dom La Nena and widescreen music for the Sound of Cinema with Fiona Talkington.
FRIDAY 04 OCTOBER 2013
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b03brtt3)
Jonathan Swain presents the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in a programme of Dvorak and Mozart
12:31 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Serenade in D minor Op.44 for wind instruments
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
12:55 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Concerto in B flat major K.191 for bassoon and orchestra
Martin Kuuskamnn (bassoon) Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
1:13 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Romance in F minor Op.11
Bogdan Zvoristeanu (violin) Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
1:26 AM
Paganini, Nicolo [1782-1840] arranged by Anton Aslemas [1988- ]
Sonata no. 6 for violin and guitar arranged for violin and string quartet
Bogdan Zvoristeanu (violin) unidentified string quartet from Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
1:29 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Serenade in E major Op.22 for string orchestra
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
1:59 AM
Bruch, Max (1838-1920)
Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra with Harp, freely using Scottish Folk Melodies (Op.46)
James Ehnes (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
2:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Quartet for piano and strings in E flat (K.493)
Paul Lewis (piano), Antje Weithaas (violin), Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Patrick Demanga (cello)
2:59 AM
Enescu, George (1881-1955)
Isis
Romanian National Radio Orchestra and Choir, Camil Marinescu (conductor)
3:19 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
La Mort de Cléopâtre
Annett Andriesen (alto), Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson (conductor)
3:41 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Légende No.1: St. François d'Assise prêchant aux oiseaux (S.175)
Llyr Williams (piano)
3:53 AM
Buffardin, Pierre-Gabriel (c.1690-1768)
Concerto à 5 for flute and strings in E minor
Ernst-Burghard Hilse (flute), Musica Antiqua Köln
4:05 AM
Donizetti, Gaetano (1797-1848)
Overture to La Fille du régiment
Oslo Philharmonic, Nello Santi (conductor)
4:14 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Little preludes for keyboard (BWV.939-42)
Christophe Bossert (organ, St Martin's Church, Varazdinske Toplice)
4:18 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance No.10 in E minor (Op.72 No.2)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
4:24 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Flammende Rose, Zierde der Erden (HWV.210), arr oboe, violin and organ (No.9 from Deutsche Arien (orig for soprano, violin and bc))
Louise Pellerin (oboe), Hélène Plouffe (violin), Dom André Laberge (1999 Karl Wilhelm organ at the Abbey Church, Saint-Benoît-du-Lac)
4:31 AM
Ambrosio, Giovanni (fl. after 1450)
Rostiboli Gioioso
Ensemble Claude-Gervaise, Gilles Plante (director)
4:36 AM
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787)
Symphony in E flat major (Op.10 No.3)
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)
4:45 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) transcr Liszt, Franz
Ständchen arr. for piano - from Schwanengesang (D. 957)
Simon Trpceski (piano)
4:52 AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
Serenade for small orchestra
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
5:01 AM
Jiranek, Frantisek [1698-1778]
Sinfonia in D major
Collegium Marinarum, Jana Semerádová (director)
5:09 AM
Nardelli, Mario (1927-1993)
Three pieces for guitar
Mario Nardelli (guitar)
5:19 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
Choral Dances from Gloriana - Coronation opera for Elizabeth II (Op.53)
The King's Singers
5:25 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Concerto a 5
Christian Schneider and Erik Niord Larsen (oboe d'amore), Kjell Arne Jørgensen and Miranda Playfair (violin), Dan Styffe (bass), Hans Knut Sveen (harpsichord)
5:36 AM
Rautavaara, Einojuhani (b. 1928)
Cantus Arcticus - 'a concerto for birds and orchestra' (Op.61)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
5:55 AM
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847)
Double concerto in D minor for violin, piano and string orchestra
Jaroslaw Zolnierczyk (violin), Andrzej Tatarski (piano), The "Amadeus" Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan, Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b03brvgd)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch: Sound of Cinema
Sara Mohr-Pietsch 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 (b03brvjq)
Friday - Rob Cowan: Sound of Cinema
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: The Vagabond: Bryn Terfel/Malcolm Martineau, DG; and at
9.30 our brainteaser - Only Connect.
10am
Artists of the Week: Beaux Arts Trio
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is film, stage and television actress Olivia Williams. Olivia made her film debut in The Postman, and later won the lead role of Rosemary Cross in Wes Anderson's Rushmore. She then starred as Bruce Willis's wife in the blockbuster The Sixth Sense, a film she would later parody during her brief appearance in British sit-com Spaced. Other film credits include Lucky Break, An Education, Hanna, and Roman Polanski's The Ghost, for which she won several major awards. On TV, Olivia portrayed British author Jane Austen in Miss Austen Regrets, and was cast as Adelle DeWitt in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. She writes a monthly column in The Telegraph and is currently starring in Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage at the St James Theatre, London.
11am
Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand, who introduces his personal choice of Music that made the Movies:
Waxman: Suite from Sunset Boulevard.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01pmfz9)
John Williams (1932-)
Star Wars Revisited
John Williams talks exclusively to Donald Macleod for the final time this week, with Star Wars once more taking centre stage.
Williams discusses the challenges of returning to the Star Wars series, nearly two decades on, and the hidden plot clues buried deep in his music. We'll hear highlights from Williams's brand-new music for the three 'prequels' (Eps I-III), including Duel Of The Fates and the climactic Battle Of The Heroes.
The programme opens with two recent works that throw back to his background in big bands and concert halls - the effervescent, jazz-infused Main Title from Tintin - and a spiky, Stravinskyan Horn Concerto. We also showcase one of Williams's most haunting scores of the previous decade - his music to Rob Marshall's Memoirs of a Geisha.
Donald Macleod ends the week with thoughts on John Williams's career and position as "America's composer", a unique musical voice transcending popular and classical music, and arguably the inheritor of a mantle once held by Gershwin, Copland and Bernstein. The week plays out with Williams's music for the inauguration of Barack Obama as US President in 2008 - his Air and Simple Gifts.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03brx6s)
Ryedale Festival 2013
Episode 4
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from last year's Ryedale Festival in North Yorkshire, with performances from the Romanian pianist Alexandra Silocea, The Szymanowski Quartet, and cellist Steven Isserlis with pianist Sam Haywood.
Presented by Katie Derham.
Hahn: Deux airs irlandais
Steven Isserlis (cello), Sam Haywood (piano)
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 21 in C, Op 53 (Waldstein)
Alexandra Silocea (piano)
Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata, D821
Steven Isserlis (cello), Sam Haywood (piano)
Myroslav Skoryk: Melody
Szymanowski Quartet.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03brxp6)
Sound of Cinema
Stanley Kubrick and David Lean
Stanley Kubrick and David Lean
Director Stanley Kubrick has one of the most interesting relationships with music in film and we begin today with a score which Kubrick used to signify the moment "ape" becomes "man" in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Film and music express a similar idea of man being guided by a higher unseen and unknown power.
After 2001's success, Kubrick was able to borrow from NASA special camera lenses which enabled him to film at the lowest light levels and he made "Barry Lyndon" - after Thackeray's tale of an Irish adventurer in the late 18th century. All the internal shots were lit as naturalistically as possible by candle light and filmed using NASA's lenses, which lends the film a unique ambience.
Ryan O'Neal plays the part of Barry Lyndon, and the movie follows his move up the social ladder and his eventual fall. In one scene Barry Lyndon, comfortable country squire, is standing at the balustrade of his luxurious home looking out at the lush parkland beyond. It looks like Barry Lyndon has reached his life's goal, but as the narrator (Michael Hordern) has already told us moments before, Barry Lyndon came from nothing and he will return to nothing ... and at this moment Kubrick uses the slow movement from Schubert's Trio to catch the mood.
British director David Lean took Noel Coward's one-act play Still Life and transformed it into the 1945 film "Brief Encounter". Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson meet at a railway station and dream about leaving their lives behind and running off together. The slow movement from Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto captures this doomed love.
2pm
Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra
North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
2.40pm
Schubert
Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat, D. 929
Vienna Piano Trio
Takemitsu
3 Film Scores for String orchestra
Suisse Romande Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada
3.55pm
Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No.2
Olli Mustonen (piano), Finish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b03brwnf)
Paul Lewis, Stacey Kent, Thomas Trotter, Christopher Frayling: Sound of Cinema
Sean is joined by the highly acclaimed British pianist Paul Lewis, he performs in the studio and talks to Sean about his upcoming projects directing Mozart from the keyboard.
There's live music from the multi platinum selling jazz singer Stacey Kent who brings her band into the studio ahead of dates at Ronnie Scotts. One of the world's most popular jazz stars, Stacey talks about the inspiration behind her new project and what to expect on tour.
Organist Thomas Trotter drops by as he celebrates 30 years as Birmingham's City Organist plus, as part of the BBC's Sound of Cinema season, writer Sir Christopher Frayling, known for his expertise on spaghetti westerns, talks about the world of film.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01pmfz9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03brxp8)
BBC NOW - Poulenc, Shostakovich
Live from St. David's Hall in Cardiff
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Thomas Sondergard opens the Cardiff concert season with the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales with Poulenc's playful Gloria and Shostakovich's powerful Eighth Symphoony, inspired by the Soviet Union's epic struggle during the Second World War.
Poulenc: Gloria
8.00: Music Interval
8.20
Shostakovich: Symphony No 8 in C minor, Op 65
Poulenc's Gloria is one of the most joyous and unihibited settings of this sacred text, so much so that the Catholic establishment frowned on the work for being too frivolous. Poulenc was born into an ardently catholic family, and returned to his faith in 1936 after a period of neglect, following the death of his friend and fellow composer Pierre Octave Ferroud in a tragic motor accident. His faith permeated many of his works after, including motets, a mass and a setting of the Stabat Mater, alongside his opera Dialogues des Carmelites, but his music retained the simplicity and directness of his secular musical style. Poulenc has been described as "part monk, part guttersnipe", but the composer felt no such contradition. After all, he had seen both Benedictine monks enjoying a game of football, and fifteenth-century Italian frescos by Gozzoli, in which angels poke their tongues out in good-natured fun.
Thomas Sondergard conducted Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony at the 2013 BBC Proms to great critical acclaim. He follows it at this concert with the the Eighth, written during the Second World War, during the summer of 1943. The Eighth is a symphony of immense drama and intensity, but it's not just a monument to appalling times, it's also a great work of absolute music, in which the notes look beyond the surroundings, a truly heroic work of art.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b03brwnh)
Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Tom Hodgkinson, Ben Moor, Emily Berry, Michael Buffong, Don Warrington
Radio 3's 'Cabaret of the Word' presented by Ian McMillan. This week guests include Gavin Pretor-Pinney and Tom Hodgkinson, authors of The Ukulele Handbook, Ben Moor, the winner of the Forward Prize Best First Collection, Emily Berry, and Michael Buffong and Don Warrington on a new production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons.
If you'd like to book tickets to the recording of The Verb at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival at the Sage, Gateshead visit the Sage's website.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b03brwnk)
Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet
Matthew Sweet
What happens when cinema shuts up? Matthew Sweet explores those moments when the talkie stops talking and cuts the music dead: the final minutes of William Wyler's Roman Holiday; the heist in Rififi; Oliver Hardy's long despairing look into the camera lens. He also listens hard to those cinematic sounds being silenced by digital technology from the fizz of a reel-change to the wear and tear on a film's soundtrack and asks what we have lost now that cinema is no longer a physical, photochemical medium.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b03brxpb)
Session with Cigdem Aslan
Mary Ann Kennedy with new tracks from across the globe, plus a studio session with young Turkish singer Çigdem Aslan, performing songs from her debut album 'Mortissa'.
'Mortissa' means 'strong, independent woman', and Çigdem Aslan's new album looks back to the musically-rich period of Turkey and Greece in the 1920s, when 'rebetiko' songs flourished in the cafes of Istanbul, Athens and Piraeus. Like the contemporary jazz of the USA, these songs were associated with the disreputable underclass, and spoke against the status quo of the time with powerful and emotional music.