Proms 2012. BBC Symphony Orchestra. Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky. Catriona Young presents.
Concerto for cello and orchestra no. 1 (Op.107) in E flat major
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
Symphony No. 6 (Op.74) in B minor "Pathétique"
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)
Kaunas State Choir, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Petras Bingelis (conductor)
Joanna MacGregor (piano), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki (conductor)
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), orch. Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Lambert Climent and Lluis Claret (tenors), La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (director).
Sara Mohr-Pietsch 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: Autograph by pianist Alexandre Tharaud and at
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the first performance given by the National Theatre. To mark this event Rob's guest is the celebrated director Sir Richard Eyre, who ran the National Theatre between 1987 and 1997. Some of Sir Richard's most noted theatre productions include Hamlet with Jonathan Pryce and Daniel Day-Lewis; Richard III with Ian McKellen; and numerous new plays by David Hare, Tom Stoppard, Trevor Griffiths, Howard Brenton and Alan Bennett. He has also directed operas, making his debut with the 1994 production of La Traviata at the Royal Opera House, starring Angela Gheorghiu and conducted by Sir Georg Solti. More recently, he directed a new production of Bizet's opera Carmen for the Metropolitan Opera's 2009-2010 season. On film, he directed The Ploughman's Lunch (which won the Evening Standard Award for Best Film), Iris, a biopic of Iris Murdoch (starring Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent), and Notes on a Scandal.
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!
Jean-Baptiste Lully is one of those figures who loom large in histories of music; much less so in concert and on disc. In fact he's probably best known as the victim of the worst conducting accident in history, whacking himself on the toe with the weighty staff he used, in those pre-baton days, to beat time. Tragically, time was up for Lully, and he died of a gangrenous infection, at the peak of his powers, a little over two months later. All this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and work of this ambitious, arrogant, difficult, ruthless but remarkable man who came from the backstreets of Florence to be the preeminent composer of the French court in the late 17th century, the founding father of French opera and one of the leading figures in the music of his era.
In today's programme, Lully belatedly goes into the opera business - as both poacher and gamekeeper. Not only does he write the first fully-fledged tragédies lyriques, but in a characteristically brazen move he buys the operatic 'privilege', giving him an absolute monopoly on the production of musical stage-works throughout France. Since he had fallen out with his erstwhile collaborator Molière, he was now in need of a librettist; he chose Philippe Quinault, like Lully, a man of humble origins. By this stage Lully had made a lot of enemies, and his early productions with Quinault faced a formidable cabal. At first they had the support of King Louis XIV, but that changed with their sixth collaboration, Isis - the tale of a beautiful nymph who was lusted over by Jupiter, much to the chagrin of his shrewish wife Juno. The fable was generally taken to be an allegory of court life, with Jupiter representing Louis; Isis corresponding to Marie-Elizabeth de Ludres, the latest young beauty at the court of Versailles to catch the king's eye; and Juno being an deeply unflattering portrait of Louis's chief mistress, Mme de Montespan. When the time of reckoning came, it was Quinault who took the hit; he was temporarily 'disgraced', while Lully continued to go about his business with impunity.
The second in this week's series of Lunchtime Concerts exploring music by Bach, Britten and Shostakovich.
In Shostakovich's powerful Viola sonata, his final composition, the finale paraphrases Beethoven's famous Moonlight Sonata and to highlight this connection, Power and Crawford-Phillps chose to insert a short arrangement of the well known first movement.
The recital opens with Britten's youthful Suite for Violin which ends with an exuberantly distorted version of a waltz.
Beethoven (arr. Bowen): Adagio sostenuto (Piano Sonata No 14 in C sharp minor Op 27 No 2 'Moonlight')
Penny Gore presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concert, featuring five Fifth Symphonies. Today it's Bruckner's turn. Wielding the baton is the BBC SSO's Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov, who was their Chief Conductor for six years until September 2009.
An archive broadcast from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, first transmitted on September 11th, 1981.
British cellist Matthew Barley, known for his brilliant playing, numerous side projects and adventurous musical attitude, is in the studio today to perform live. He is in London as part of his 'Around Britten' tour, taking him all over the country in the composer's anniversary year. Also playing live, top Handel interpreters, The Brook Street Band as they prepare to perfom at Halesworth Arts Festival. Plus saxophonist and composer John Harle on his new recording 'Art Music' - an album of compositions inspired by some of his favourite paintings.
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The London Philharmonic perform Prokofiev's nostalgic last symphony alongside Poulenc's breezy Piano Concerto and his spiritually-charged Stabat Mater, all works written in the early 1950s.
Presented by Martin Handley and Caroline Potter as part of the South Bank Centre's year-long celebration: The Rest is Noise.
Sergey Prokofiev: Symphony No.7 in C sharp minor Op. 131
Poulenc Léocadia - Incidental music for the play by Jean Anouilh given during the German Occupation of Paris and featuring a Waltz written especially for his friend the actress, Yvonne Printemps.
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Poulenc's ebullient Piano Concerto combines the grace and wit of his pre-war scores with the satirical mimicry that was rife in 20th-century Paris. The composer though, claimed that 'the best and most genuine part of myself' was to be found in his sacred music: his Stabat Mater, which ends tonight's concert, is by turns intense, intricate and spiritual. And some of that same spirit of nostalgia and melancholy suffuses Prokofiev's Seventh Symphony of 1952 The emotional restraint of this work made a huge impression on his colleague, Dmitri Shotakovich and marked Prokofiev's farewell to the symphony.
A Landmark edition in which Anne McElvoy and guests look at Alain-Fournier's celebrated and nostalgic tale of adolescent romance, Le Grand Meaulnes.
For a century France's most popular novel in the English speaking world has haunted the edges of fiction. F. Scott Fitzgerald possibly borrowed its title for "The Great Gatsby" Henry Miller venerated its hero;John Fowles claimed it informed everything he wrote.
Anne McElvoy examines its enduring appeal and legacy from the poetry of its language, to the interlocking mysteries of its plot to the intriguing romantic life and early death of its author, and the story of the woman who inspired him.
What is the difference between "personal history" and the "history of your time"? In this series for The Essay, author and broadcaster Michael Goldfarb looks back four decades to the dramatic events of Autumn 1973, a historical turning point, he believes, for him, his generation and much of the world.
40 years on, Michael Goldfarb remembers President Richard M. Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre": the moment when the Watergate scandal became a constitutional crisis - and his fate was sealed.
Fiona Talkington presents a diverse mix of musical styles and traditions, including Kit Downes and Tom Challenger's Wedding Music album, Finnish experimental ensemble Oddarang, and virtuoso mandolinist Chris Thile plays Bach.
THURSDAY 24 OCTOBER 2013
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b03d7wbp)
Catriona Young presents a concert by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra with conductor Mario Kosic, and soloist Kasparas Uinskas in Brahms' 1st Piano Concerto
12:31 AM
Berlioz, Hector [1803-1869]
Le Carnaval romain - overture Op.9
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mário Kosik (Conductor)
12:40 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor Op.15
Kasparas Uinskas (Piano), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mário Kosik (Conductor)
1:29 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Valses nobles et sentimentales, arr. for orchestra
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mário Kosik (Conductor)
1:44 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
La Valse
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mário Kosik (Conductor)
1:57 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Waltz No.11 and No.12? from the Waltzes for two pianos (Op.39)
Camerata Bern, Thomas Furi (conductor and concertmaster)
2:01 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Mephisto Waltz No.1 (S.514)
Yuri Boukoff (piano)
2:13 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Prague Waltzes (B.99)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Stefan Róbl (conductor)
2:21 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Valse Triste
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
2:27 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Waltz for piano (Op.34 No.3) in F major 'Cat'
Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
2:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Die schöne Müllerin (D.795)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano, after Johann Fritz, Vienna ca.1818, Imitation by Christopher Clarke, Paris 1981)
3:31 AM
Dukas, Paul (1865-1935)
Villanelle for horn and orchestra
Esa Tukia (horn), Radion Sinfoniaorkesteri , Michael Adelson (conductor)
3:38 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), completed by Zóltan Kocsis
Rondo for horn in E flat major (K.371)
László Gál (horn), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltán Kocsis (conductor)
3:45 AM
Doppler, Franz (1821-1883)
L'oiseau des bois (Op.21)
János Balint (flute), Jeno Kevehazi, Peter Fuzes, Sandor Endrodi, Tibor Maruzsa (horns)
3:51 AM
Butterworth, Arthur (b. 1923)
Romanza for horn and strings (1954)
Martin Hackleman (horn), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:01 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Rondino in E flat (WoO 25) for two oboes, two clarinets, two horns, two bassoons
The Festival Winds
4:09 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Siegfrieds Trauermarsch ? from Götterdämmerung
Zagreb Philharmonic, Lovro von Mata?i? (conductor)
4:17 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Concerto for 2 horns (TWV 52:D2) in D major
Jozef Illé? and Ján Budzák (horns), Chamber Association of Slovakian Radio, Vlastimil Horák (conductor)
4:31 AM
Strauss (ii), Johann [1825-1899]
Spanischer Marsch (Op.433)
ORF Symphony Orchestra, Peter Guth (conductor)
4:36 AM
Turina, Joaquín (1882-1949)
Rapsodia sinfonica for piano and string orchestra (Op.66)
Angela Cheng (piano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Graf (conductor)
4:45 AM
Sanz, Gaspar (1640-1710)
Folias
Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (director)
4:48 AM
Galán, Cristóbal (~1625-1684)
Mariposa, no corras al fuego
Olga Pitarch (soprano), Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (director)
4:51 AM
Ribayaz, Lucas Ruiz de [c.1640-?]
Xaracas
Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (director)
4:54 AM
Nin (y Castellanos), Joaquín (1879-1949)
Seguida Espanola
Henry-David Varema (cello), Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
5:03 AM
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916)
The Maiden and the Nightingale
Angela Hewitt (piano)
5:10 AM
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909)
Cordoba (Op.232 No.4)
Jin-Ho Kim (male) (piano)
5:15 AM
Sarasate, Pablo de (1844-1908)
Romanza Andaluza (Op.22)
Moshe Hammer (violin), Valerie Tryon (piano)
5:20 AM
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936)
Serenade Espagnol (Op.20 No.2)
Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Heini Kärkkäinen (piano)
5:24 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Rapsodie espagnole
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
5:39 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Rhapsodie espagnole S.254
Irene Veneziano (piano)
5:53 AM
de Falla, Manuel (1876-1946)
Noches en los jardines de España
Filip Pavlov (piano), Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Marinov (conductor)
6:17 AM
Caplet, André (1878-1925)
Divertissement no.2
Mojka Zlobko (harp)
6:23 AM
Chabrier, Emmanuel (1841-1894)
España
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b03d7wgx)
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 (b03d7wlv)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Autograph by pianist Alexandre Tharaud and at
9.30 our brainteaser - 'What am I?'
10am
Artist of the Week: Henryk Szeryng
10.30am
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the first performance given by the National Theatre. To mark this event Rob's guest is the celebrated director Sir Richard Eyre, who ran the National Theatre between 1987 and 1997. Some of Sir Richard's most noted theatre productions include Hamlet with Jonathan Pryce and Daniel Day-Lewis; Richard III with Ian McKellen; and numerous new plays by David Hare, Tom Stoppard, Trevor Griffiths, Howard Brenton and Alan Bennett. He has also directed operas, making his debut with the 1994 production of La Traviata at the Royal Opera House, starring Angela Gheorghiu and conducted by Sir Georg Solti. More recently, he directed a new production of Bizet's opera Carmen for the Metropolitan Opera's 2009-2010 season. On film, he directed The Ploughman's Lunch (which won the Evening Standard Award for Best Film), Iris, a biopic of Iris Murdoch (starring Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent), and Notes on a Scandal.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 3 'Organ Symphony'
Marcel Dupré (organ)
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Paul Paray (conductor)
MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 432719.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03d7wns)
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Sons of the Sun
Today, the Sun's son gets burnt, and the son of the Sun King gets hitched.
Jean-Baptiste Lully is one of those figures who loom large in histories of music; much less so in concert and on disc. In fact he's probably best known as the victim of the worst conducting accident in history, whacking himself on the toe with the weighty staff he used, in those pre-baton days, to beat time. Tragically, time was up for Lully, and he died of a gangrenous infection, at the peak of his powers, a little over two months later. All this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and work of this ambitious, arrogant, difficult, ruthless but remarkable man who came from the backstreets of Florence to be the preeminent composer of the French court in the late 17th century, the founding father of French opera and one of the leading figures in the music of his era.
In today's programme, with his regular librettist Philippe Quinault temporarily out of favour with the king, Lully has to find a new one; he plumps for Thomas Corneille, brother of the famous tragedian. Lully and Corneille collaborated on two operas: Psyché, the story of the mortal woman so beautiful that the god Cupid fell in love with her; and Bellérophon, a yarn about the mythical Corinthian horseman who, with the aid of the winged horse Pegasus, defeated the terrible Chimaera. Bellerophon may have been mythical but his purpose was very real; to flatter Louis XIV, who would easily have seen his own magnificence reflected in the hero's glorious deeds. Louis's son, the Dauphin, was of a less energetic nature; the Duchesse d'Orléans described him as "a man who could spend a whole day lying on a sofa tapping his shoes with a cane". For his wedding to the unfortunate Marie-Anne-Christine-Victoire of Bavaria, Lully, collaborating once again with Quinault, devised an opéra-ballet - Le triomphe de l'Amour. The son of the Sun King's indolence served him well; the son of the Sun, Phaëton, had poorer judgement, insisting that his father let him drive his chariot across the sky. That didn't go well; he lost control of his vehicle and Jupiter struck him down with a thunderbolt - an absolute gift to Lully's talented set designer, Jean Berain, who created an unforgettable spectacle for Parisian audiences.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01shynr)
LSO St Luke's Bach, Britten, Shostakovich
LSO St Luke's (Bach, Britten, Shostakovich): Alban Gerhardt
LSO St Luke's Bach, Britten, Shostakovich.
The third in this week's series of Lunchtime Concerts exploring music by Bach, Britten and Shostakovich.
Continuing the theme of contrasting compositions by these featured composers, the cellist Alban Gerhardt performs Bach and Britten solo suites, juxtaposing the traditional dance movements of the Baroque French style with the more freely composed 20th century version which includes fugues and folk songs.
Alban Gerhardt (cello)
Britten: Suite No 1 for solo cello Op 72
Bach: Suite No 6 in D major for solo cello BWV1012
Presented by Katie Derham.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03d7zkf)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Verdi 200: Ernani
Verdi 200: Ernani
Penny Gore presents a classic recording of the opera which put the thirty year old Verdi on the international operatic map when it was first staged at Venice's La Fenice in 1844.
Based on a Victor Hugo's play Hernani, it's a typically Romantic struggle between Love and Honour played out in sixteenth century Spain.
Ernani has been defeated in war and deprived of his land and his wealth. But when Don Carlo, the king, promises to take Ernani's love, Elvira, as well things become unbearable: Ernani whipers to Elvira that she must prepare to flee.
Ernani, the bandit ..... Carlo Bergonzi (tenor),
Elvira, his niece and fiancée .... Leontyne Price (soprano),
Don Carlo, later Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ..... Mario Sereni (baritone),
Don Ruy Gomez de Silva, a grandee of Spain ..... Ezio Flagello (bass),
Don Riccardo, Don Carlo's equerry ..... Fernando Iacopucci (tenor)
Jago, Don Ruy's equerry ..... Hartje Mueller (bass)
Giovanna, her nurse ..... Julia Hamarai (soprano),
RCA Italiana Operas Chorus and Orchestra
Thomas Schippers (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b03d7zqv)
Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Sebastian Knauer
Sean Rafferty with live music, guests and all the latest arts news
The Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra bring some sunshine to the studio, playing live for us ahead of their London concerts. Led by conductor Marin Alsop they are developing a fearsome reputation as a leading world orchestra. Sean talks to the players about their rise.
Pianist Sebastian Knauer is enjoying all thing Vienna on his new CD, he talks to Sean about music from the great city and performs live.
Plus we look ahead to the British Composer Awards and reveal the nominations for this year's prizes.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03d7wns)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03d81z7)
Live from City Halls in Glasgow
BBC SSO - Schnelzer, Rachmaninov, Nielsen (part 1)
The BBC SSO perform Schnelzer, Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto and Nielsen's 4th Symphony with pianist Denis Kozhukhin and conductor Thomas Dausgaard.
Live From City Halls, Glasgow. Presented by Tom Redmond
Albert Schnelzer: A Freak in Burbank
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2
20.15-
20.35
Twenty Minutes
Nielsen: Symphony No 4 "The Inextinguishable"
Denis Kozhukhin (Piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (Conductor)
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Danish conductor Thomas Dausgaard, perform Carl Nielsen's 4th Symphony. Written against the backdrop to the First World War and completed in 1916, it relates to everything that has the spirit of life - that wants to move ... and is inextinguishable. The orchestra also welcomes back the ever popular and quite brilliant Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin to perform Rachmaninov's best loved piano concerto. The concert starts with a foray into the young Swedish composer Albert Schnelzer's imagination - with images of Haydn and Tim Burton in the mix.
THU 20:10 Discovering Music (b03d81z9)
Nielsen Symphony No. 4
Nielsen declared that in his Fourth Symphony, written during the First World War, he wanted to give expression to 'the elemental will to live'. Stephen Johnson explores the structure of the work, also known as 'The Inextinguishable'.
THU 20:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03d81zc)
Live from City Halls in Glasgow
BBC SSO - Schnelzer, Rachmaninov, Nielsen (part 2)
The BBC SSO perform Schnelzer, Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto and Nielsen's 4th Symphony with pianist Denis Kozhukhin and conductor Thomas Dausgaard.
Live From City Halls, Glasgow. Presented by Tom Redmond
Albert Schnelzer: A Freak in Burbank
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2
20.15-
20.35
Twenty Minutes
Nielsen: Symphony No 4 "The Inextinguishable"
Denis Kozhukhin (Piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (Conductor)
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Danish conductor Thomas Dausgaard, perform Carl Nielsen's 4th Symphony. Written against the backdrop to the First World War and completed in 1916, it relates to everything that has the spirit of life - that wants to move ... and is inextinguishable. The orchestra also welcomes back the ever popular and quite brilliant Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin to perform Rachmaninov's best loved piano concerto. The concert starts with a foray into the young Swedish composer Albert Schnelzer's imagination - with images of Haydn and Tim Burton in the mix.
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b01ryt6t)
The New Common Reader
Matthew Sweet will be following in the distinguished footsteps of Samuel Johnson and Virginia Woolf. He's leading an elite party of literary explorers - Linda Grant, Aminatta Forna, Naomi Alderman and Tim Stanley on an expedition to find "the common reader" -- a being stalked by Woolf in the 20th Century and by Johnson in the 18th. Both believed that the common reader "uncorrupted with literary prejudices" was the final arbiter of "poetical honours" so it's a quest that's clearly still relevant today. The question is what does a common reader look like in our digital age? What are they reading? Where? And how? Pack your e-reader and your thesaurus of course and tune in to Night Waves and join the hunt.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b03d800t)
Autumn 1973
The Opec Oil Embargo
What is the difference between "personal history" and the "history of your time"? In this series for The Essay, author and broadcaster Michael Goldfarb looks back four decades to the dramatic events of Autumn 1973, a historical turning point, he believes, for him, his generation and much of the world.
40 years ago this month the Arab Oil Embargo was put into place and with it came the great inflation that ended the post-war economy. Michael Goldfarb looks back at the personal and political disruption this caused in America and Britain.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b03d81zf)
Thursday - Fiona Talkington
Fiona Talkington presents music of diverse styles and traditions, including a unique session with Appalachian old-time band Black Twig Pickers recording for the first time ever with maverick Newcastle avant-folk singer Richard Dawson.
FRIDAY 25 OCTOBER 2013
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b03d7wbr)
Catriona Young introduces a performance of Schoenberg's epic song cycle / cantata Gurrelieder, featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra, 4 choirs and soloists conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste.
12:31 AM
Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Gurrelieder for soloists, chorus and orchestra
Angela Denoke (soprano: Tove); Katarina Karnéus (mezzo-soprano: Wood Dove); Simon O'Neill (tenor: Waldemar); BBC Symphony Orchestra; Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
1:30 AM
Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Gurrelieder for soloists, chorus and orchestra part 2 (Herrgott, weisst du, was du tatest)
Simon O'Neill (tenor: Waldemar); BBC Symphony Orchestra; Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
1:35 AM
Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Gurrelieder for soloists, chorus and orchestra part 3: The Wild Hunt
Simon O'Neill (tenor: Waldemar); Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (tenor: Klaus the Fool); Neal Davies (bass-baritone: The Peasant); Wolfgang Schöne (bass-baritone: Speaker); BBC Singers; BBC Symphony Chorus; Crouch End Festival Chorus; New London Chamber Choir; BBC Symphony Orchestra
2:20 AM
Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Friede auf Erden for chorus (Op.13)
Erik Westbergs Vocal Ensemble
2:31 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Le Tombeau de Couperin for orchestra
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marbà
2:50 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
25 Variations and fugue on a theme by Handel for piano (Op.24)
Simon Trpceski (piano)
3:15 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
Handel in the Strand
Leslie Howard (piano)
3:18 AM
Dapogny, James (b.1940)
Rag (In memoriam Johannes Brahms)
Donna Coleman (piano)
3:24 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Suite No.4 in G major for orchestra (Op.61), 'Mozartiana'
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
3:48 AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
11 Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Members of Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)
4:01 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Paganini Etude No.5 in E ('La Chasse')
Bernhard Stavenhagen (1862-1914) (piano)
4:05 AM
Lipatti, Dinu (1917-1950)
Sonata no. 1 from 6 sonatas after Domenico Scarlatti
Concordia Wind Quintet
4:06 AM
Lipatti, Dinu (1917-1950)
Sonata no. III from 6 sonatas after Domenico Scarlatti
Concordia Wind Quintet
4:10 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959)
Bachianas Brasileiras No.9 for string orchestra
The "Amadeus" Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan, Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)
4:19 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) / Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
Meditation sur le première prelude de Bach (Ave Maria) arr. for cello and harp
Kyung-Ok Park (cello), Myung-Ja Kwun (harp)
4:25 AM
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
Variations on a Theme of Corelli in the style of Tartini for violin and piano
Jela Spitkova (violin), Tatiana Franova (piano)
4:31 AM
Wieniawski, Henryk (1835-1880)
Polonaise No.1 in D major (Op.4)
Reka Szilvay (violin), Naoko Ichihashi (piano)
4:37 AM
Hoof, Jef van (1886-1959)
Willem de Zwijger ? overture
Belgian Radio and Television National Philharmonic Orchestra, Fernand Terby (conductor)
4:44 AM
Zielenski, Mikolaj (1550-1617)
Video caelos aperto
Olga Pasichnyk (soprano), Marek Toporowski (chamber organ)
4:48 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Piano Trio in Eb major (HV XV:10)
Niklas Sivelöv (piano), Bernt Lysell (violin), Mikael Sjögren (cello)
4:58 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Sea Songs ? Quick March
West Australian Symphony Orchestra, David Measham (conductor)
5:03 AM
Handel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759) [arr. Ralf Gothoni]
Ombra mai fu ? from the opera 'Xerxes' arr. Gothoni for piano
Ralf Gothoni (piano)
5:07 AM
Vladigerov, Pancho (1899-1978)
Vardar (Op.16)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milen Nachev (conductor)
5:17 AM
Ebner, Leopold (1769-1830)
Trio in B flat major
Zagreb Woodwind Trio
5:25 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Magnificat in D major (Wq.215)
Linda Øvrebø (soprano), Anna Einarsson (alto), Anders J.Dahlin (tenor), Johannes Mannov (bass), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Oslo Chamber Choir, Alessandro de Marchi (conductor)
6:00 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Sonata quasi una fantasia for piano (Op.27 No.2) in C sharp minor, 'Moonlight'
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
6:14 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
La revue de cuisine ? suite from the ballet
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound.
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b03d7wh9)
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 (b03d7wlx)
Friday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Autograph by pianist Alexandre Tharaud and at
9.30 our brainteaser - 'Only Connect'
10am
Artist of the Week: Henryk Szeryng
10.30am
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the first performance given by the National Theatre. To mark this event Rob's guest is the celebrated director Sir Richard Eyre, who ran the National Theatre between 1987 and 1997. Some of Sir Richard's most noted theatre productions include Hamlet with Jonathan Pryce and Daniel Day-Lewis; Richard III with Ian McKellen; and numerous new plays by David Hare, Tom Stoppard, Trevor Griffiths, Howard Brenton and Alan Bennett. He has also directed operas, making his debut with the 1994 production of La Traviata at the Royal Opera House, starring Angela Gheorghiu and conducted by Sir Georg Solti. More recently, he directed a new production of Bizet's opera Carmen for the Metropolitan Opera's 2009-2010 season. On film, he directed The Ploughman's Lunch (which won the Evening Standard Award for Best Film), Iris, a biopic of Iris Murdoch (starring Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent), and Notes on a Scandal.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Tchaikovsky
Hamlet Overture and Fantasy Op.67
Stadium Symphony Orchestra of New York
Leopold Stokowski (conductor)
EVEREST EVERCD003.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03d7wnv)
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
The Fatal Blow
Today, Lully falls out of favour with the king and stabs himself in the foot.
Jean-Baptiste Lully is one of those figures who loom large in histories of music; much less so in concert and on disc. All this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and work of this ambitious, arrogant, difficult, ruthless but remarkable man who came from the backstreets of Florence to be the preeminent composer of the French court in the late 17th century, the founding father of French opera and one of the leading figures in the music of his era.
In today's programme, Lully goes too far - with his page-boy, a young lad called Brunet. The composer's rock-solid supporter to date, Louis XIV was scandalized, or at least had to appear so, and Lully was warned to 'amend his conduct' in future. Perhaps as a public sign of the king's disapproval, Lully's opera Armide, considered by many to be his masterpiece, did not, as usual, receive its premiere at Versailles, but in Paris. Lully had another rather more pressing problem to contend with around this time - an anal fistula, which was operated on in January 1686. When a few months later the king suffered the same affliction, the royal surgeon developed a special type of sheathed lancet to treat it. The operation, which was extensively trialled on citizens at the bottom end of the societal food chain, was a success, and celebrations broke out all over France. Lully's contribution to the frenzy of thanksgiving was a special performance of his Te Deum in Paris - during the course of which the famous self-inflicted accident took place.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01shyny)
LSO St Luke's Bach, Britten, Shostakovich
Episode 4
LSO St Luke's Bach, Britten, Shostakovich.
In the last of this week's series of recitals featuring Bach, Britten and Shostakovich, The Brodsky Quartet tackles all three, beginning with selected movements from Bach's extraoridnary masterpiece - The Art of Fugue. Shostakovich's quartet was dedicated to and inspired by members of the Beethoven Quartet which premiered it in 1966. The recital concludes with Britten's 3rd String Quartet, his last major work written the year before his death.
Brodsky Quartet
Bach: The Art of Fugue (Contrapuncti I & VI)
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 11 in F minor Op 122
Britten: String Quartet No 3 Op 94
Presented by Katie Derham.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03d7zkk)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Episode 4
Penny Gore presents recent concerts by the BBC Scottish SO, featuring five Fifth Symphonies. Today she rounds off the week with no fewer than two 'number fives', by composers who - when they met in 1907 - discovered they held diametrically opposed views about what a Symphony should be: Gustav Mahler and Jean Sibelius. And American baritone Thomas Hampson joins the BBC SSO and Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles in a selection of Mahler's greatest songs with orchestra.
Sibelius: Symphony No 5 in E flat major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Stefan Solyom (conductor).
Britten: Overture The Building of the house
Mahler: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor
Thomas Hampson (baritone),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Donald Runnicles (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b03d7zqx)
Live from Free Thinking
Novelist Lionel Shriver, mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, jazz trio Eyes Shut Tight and New Generation Thinker John Gallagher are among Sean Rafferty's guests live at Sage Gateshead for this special edition of the show to launch Radio 3's Free Thinking festival of ideas.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune
BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival takes place at Sage Gateshead 25-27 October and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 25 October.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03d7wnv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03d8400)
Royal Northern Sinfonia - Mozart, Britten (part 1)
The Royal Northern Sinfonia performs an early masterpiece of centennial composer Benjamin Britten, framed by two orchestral masterworks by a composer he much admired - Mozart.
Live from The Sage, Gateshead
Presented by Adam Tomlinson
Werner Güra (tenor)
Peter Francomb (horn)
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Thomas Zehetmair (conductor)
Mozart: Divertimento in B flat 'Salzburg Symphony No. 2', K137
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
8.10pm: Free Thinking Twenty Minutes [see separate billing]
8.30pm
Mozart: Symphony No 40 in G minor, K550.
FRI 20:10 Twenty Minutes (b03gb5tl)
An Interview with Neil Tennant
To accompany BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival in Gateshead, Philip Dodd talk to the singer Neil Tennant who grew up in the fishing port of North Shields and went to a Catholic school in Newcastle. He talks to Philip about the influence of the North East on his career, which began in publishing and magazines. Last year the Pet Shop Boys performed at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics and they have just returned from a tour which has taken them to 29 countries.
Producer: Neil Trevithick.
FRI 20:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03gb4j3)
Royal Northern Sinfonia - Mozart, Britten (part 2)
The Royal Northern Sinfonia performs an early masterpiece of centennial composer Benjamin Britten, framed by two orchestral masterworks by a composer he much admired - Mozart.
Live from The Sage, Gateshead
Presented by Adam Tomlinson
Werner Güra (tenor)
Peter Francomb (horn)
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Thomas Zehetmair (conductor)
Mozart: Divertimento in B flat 'Salzburg Symphony No. 2', K137
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
8.10pm: Free Thinking Twenty Minutes
8.30pm
Mozart: Symphony No 40 in G minor, K550.
FRI 22:00 Free Thinking (b03f2kzr)
2013 Festival
Michael Marmot on Self-Control
Sir Michael Marmot delivers the opening lecture of the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2013, exploring the traits that determine a healthy life span and arguing that we need to rethink the relationship between health, wealth and self-control.
Professor Marmot is one of the global pioneers of research into health inequalities - how stress, status and diet can affect our wellbeing. His ground-breaking Whitehall Studies followed the health and stress levels of British civil servants over a decade and he coined the term "status syndrome" to describe his discovery that being lower down the pecking order leads to a shorter life span.
Sir Michael Marmot's talk about whether self-control is the key to a long life was recorded earlier tonight in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead and presented by Philip Dodd. It marks the start of three weeks of Free Thinking broadcasts on BBC Radio 3.
This year's festival theme is "Who's in Control". A weekend of provocative debate, new ideas, music and performance will hear from Lionel Shriver, Patrick Ness, Dame Sally Davies, Chris Mullin, Professor Barbara Sahakian, Professor Sugata Mitra, Kathryn Tickell, Penny Woolcock, Dame Fiona Reynolds, Kevin Whately.
Now in its eighth year, the Free Thinking Festival of ideas takes place at Sage Gateshead 25-27 October and is produced and broadcast by BBC Radio 3. It's a platform for today's innovative thinkers, who debate the ideas shaping our world.
FRI 23:00 The Essay (b03d800y)
Autumn 1973
The Inflation Crisis
What is the difference between "personal history" and the "history of your time"? In this series for The Essay, author and broadcaster Michael Goldfarb looks back four decades to the dramatic events of Autumn 1973, a historical turning point, he believes, for him, his generation and much of the world.
In his final essay on Autumn 1973, Michael Goldfarb summarizes how the great inflation challenged the progressive ideals of the 1968 generation, and ushered in a new era of politics.
FRI 23:15 World on 3 (b03f2c13)
WOMEX 2013
Lopa Kothari is live at the Wales Millennium Centre for highlights from WOMEX 2013, the annual gathering of the world music industry. WOMEX is a showcase for artists worldwide, and performing in concert are the Indian classical violin duo Ganesh and Kumaresh. Plus an exclusive session from the Wales-Senegal collaboration of Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita.