Dynamic Triptych for piano and orchestra (Op. 88)
Ashley Wass (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
Marie Claire Breen, Natalie Montakhab, Elin Pritchard, Emily Mitchell (sopranos)
Beth Mackay, Lynda-Jane Workman, Jemma Brown, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones (mezzo-sopranos)
Nicola Benedetti (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
Symphony no. 1 (Op.55) in A flat major;
James Ehnes (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
Henriette Schellenberg (soprano), Laverne G'Froerer (mezzo), Keith Boldt (tenor), George Roberts (baritone), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jon Washburn (conductor)
Selected Lyric Pieces - Waltz (Op.12 No.2); Norwegian Melody (Op.12 No.6); Folk song (Op.12 No.5); Canon (Op.38 No.8); Elegy (Op.38 No.6); Waltz (Op.38 No.7); Melody (Op.38 No.3)
Matej Zupan (flute), Slovenian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, David de Villiers (conductor)
Westlake, Nigel (b. 1958)
Maris Villeruss and Leons Veldre (cellos), Peteris Plakidis (harpsichord), Latvian Philharmony Chamber Orchestra, Tovijs Lifsics (conductor)
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872) arranged by Stanislaw Wiechowicz and Piotr Mazynski
Karl Kaiser and Michael Schneider (flutes), Rainer Zipperling (cello), Harald Hoeren (harpsichord)
Anton Kuerti (piano), James Mason (oboe), James Campbell (clarinet), James McKay (bassoon), James Somerville (horn)
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating pianist Bernard Roberts and featuring the Specialist Classical Chart available to download as a podcast. Performances by Yehudi Menuhin, Janine Jansen, Apollo's Fire, Bryn Terfel and Sir Charles Mackerras.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests and Musical Map suggestions.
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Bach: Flute Sonatas - Andrea Oliva and Angela Hewitt
In the week of Guy Fawkes Night, Sarah's guest is the politician and author Michael Dobbs. Michael was an advisor to Margaret Thatcher, a Conservative MP speechwriter, and served as a Government Special Advisor during the 1980s. In the John Major government, he served as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, after which he retired from politics. He is best known as the author of many books, beginning in 1989 with the publication of House of Cards, which became the first in a trilogy of political thrillers, followed by To Play the King and The Final Cut. All three books were adapted by the BBC into a mini series. His novel Winston's War was shortlisted for the Channel 4 Political Book of the Year Award, and is in development to be adapted as a feature film.
Donald Macleod considers the impact of Ethel Smyth's earliest romantic entanglements with music from her String Quartet in E minor and Serenade in D.
Accounts of Dame Ethel Smyth cast her as a doughty figure, unafraid to flout convention. Born into an upper class Victorian family, the fact that Smyth wanted a professional career in music is exceptional in itself. Two major choral works, several orchestral works, six operas and a significant body of chamber music, attest to her seriousness of purpose as a composer. However, the sheer gusto and number of other activities the ebullient Smyth pursued have tended to obscure her artistic reception. A keen traveller, she was a successful author, producing 9 largely autobiographical books. A life-long champion of women's rights, among the causes she supported was Mrs. Pankhurst's "right to vote" campaign. Her competitive nature found a perfect partner in sport; she was often to be found riding to hounds, playing tennis matches or striding over the golf course. As one rather bemused contemporary musician remarked when he met her, she is "the most remarkable and original woman composer in the history of music".
Today, a chance meeting with the American writer and philosopher Henry Brewster leads to the break up of Smyth's close relationship with Brewster's sister-in-law, Lisl von Herzogenberg. Meanwhile, encouraged by Tchaikovsky, Smyth begins to work on larger scale works, and finds success on the concert platform with her Serenade in D.
Following on from Sunday's opener, further highlights from this September's Schwarzenberg Schubertiade. Swedish soprano Miah Persson is joined by clarinettist Daniel Ottensamer and pianist Roger Vignoles in Schubert's ever-popular Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rocks), the Belcea Quartet perform one of Mozart's 'Prussian' Quartets, and Sol Gabetta and Igor Levit play Chopin.
Chopin arr. Franchomme: Grand duo concertant
Recorded at concerts in the Angelika Kaufmann Hall in Schwarzenberg, as part of the 2013 Schwarzenberg Schubertiade.
Afternoon on 3 today features a concert from the BBC Symphony Orchestra's tour to Japan and South Korea last month, with their Conductor Laureate Andrew Davis: they contribute works by Elgar and Vaughan Williams to this week's British music focus.
Then you can hear the BBC Singers in a concert recorded earlier this year, with music appropriate for Remembrance Day, including John Ireland's motet Greater love hath no man and Clement Janequin's sound evocation of the battle of Marignan or Marignano in 1515.
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major, Op. 39
Suzy Klein with live music and guests, including percussionist Colin Currie. He's about to perform music by Steve Reich at the Southbank Centre as part of The Rest is Noise season.
French pianist Emmanuel Despax performs music by Scarlatti and Scriabin live in the studio.
In the Milton Court Alumni Recital series, London's newest concert hall welcomes four distinguished former students of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to perform music by one of their number - composer Thomas Adès - alongside works by Gerald Barry, Benjamin Britten and Igor Stravinsky. At the heart of the programme, the suite which Stravinsky made from his theatre-piece 'The Soldier's Tale' - the story of Joseph, a Russian soldier who sells his fiddle to the devil in return for earthly riches and meets a terrible end.
Professor Sugata Mitra's pioneering experiments gave children in India access to computers to teach themselves and inspired the novel which became the film Slumdog Millionaire. He is now using retired volunteers in the UK to share their knowledge and guide children across the other side of the world. At the Free Thinking Festival he outlines the way he plans to use the $1 million 2013 Ted Prize to further his vision of "schools in the cloud" and how this differs from a UK education system involving league tables and a set curriculum.
Blogs, YouTube, Facebook and phone apps have changed the way we share our lives, leading to an explosion in the telling of life stories. Alice Hall, from the University of York, explores our changing perceptions of what memory and memoir mean and looks at the way the language of modern fiction has tried to reflect this shift.
Nick Luscombe with Sci-Fi sounds from Eduard Artemiev's soundtrack to Solaris, music from Belgian pianist and composer Charles Loos and a new track from Colombia by Quantic and Nidia Góngora.
WEDNESDAY 06 NOVEMBER 2013
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b03g2y0v)
12:31 AM
Torelli, Giuseppe [1658-1725]
Allegro from Sinfonia in C major G.33
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (harpsichord and conductor)
12:34 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741] (libretto by Metastasio, Pietro)
Mentre Dormi (Act 1, scene 8) from L'Olimpiade (RV. 725)
12:42 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741] (libretto by Metastasio, Pietro)
L'Olimpiade RV 725: Gemo in un punto e fremo
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
12:47 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Concerto grosso in B flat major Op.6'7
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
12:56 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi, HWV 19 Act 1 sc 6: Dove Sei
Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi, HWV 19 Act 3 sc 8: Vivi tiranno
1:10 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Ariodante HWV 33, Gavotte; Act 2, sc 3: Scherza infida
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
1:24 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto ripieno in A major RV.158 for string orchestra
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
1:31 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Giustino - Opera in 3 acts RV. 717, act 1: Vedro con mio diletto
1:37 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759] [libretto by Giacomo Rossi (fl 1710-31)]
Rinaldo HWV 7,act 3 scene 11: Battaglia; act 3 scene 9: Or la Tromba
1:43 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759] [libretto by Nicolo Minato]
Serse HWV 40, act 1: Ombra mai fu
1:47 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759] [libretto by Giacomo Rossi (fl 1710-31)]
Rinaldo HWV 7; Act 1 sc 9: Venti, turbini, prestate
1:51 AM
Porpora, Nicola [1686-1768] (libretto by Paolo Antonio Rolli)
Polifemo: Alto Giove
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
1:57 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Symphony no.2 (Op.16) 'The Four temperaments'
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ingar Bergby (conductor)
2:31 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Piano Quartet No.1 (Op.1)
Harald Aadland (violin), Nora Taksdal (viola), Audun Sandvik (cello), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
2:59 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893)
Capriccio Italien (Op. 45)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrej Boreyko (conductor)
3:14 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in A major (K.331)
Young-Lan Han (female) (piano)
3:35 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Suite for Orchestra No.2 in B minor (BWV.1067)
Jan Dewinne (flute), Ensemble 415
3:55 AM
Mussorgsky, Modest (1839-1881) orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai (1844-1908)
Dance of the Persian Slaves - from the Opera Khovanshchina (Act IV, Scene 1)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)
4:02 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809)
Trio for strings in B flat major (Op.53 No.2) arr. from Piano Sonata (H.
16.41)
Leopold String Trio
4:10 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) transcr Liszt, Franz
Ständchen arr. for piano -- from Schwanengesang (D. 957)
Simon Trpceski (piano)
4:17 AM
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934)
Irmelin: prelude
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
4:22 AM
Gershwin, George [1898-1937]
3 Preludes for piano
Nikolay Evrov (piano)
4:31 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Intermezzo (Op.117 No.1) in E flat major "Schlummerlied"
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
4:37 AM
Groneman, Albertus (1710-1778)
Concerto in G major for solo flute, two flutes, viola and basso continuo
Jed Wentz (solo flute), Marion Moonen, Cordula Breuer (flutes), Musica ad Rhenum
4:45 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Pohjola's daughter - symphonic fantasia (Op.49)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)
4:59 AM
Strauss, Johann Jr (1825-1899) arranged by Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Kaiser-Walzer (Op.437) (1888) arr. Schoenberg (1925) for chamber ensemble
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
5:11 AM
Sacchini, Antonio (1735-1786)
Trio sonata in G major
Violetas Visinskas (flute), Algirdas Simenas (violin), Gediminas Derus (cello), Daumantas Slipkus (piano)
5:22 AM
Reger, Max (1873-1916)
Motet: 'Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht' (Op.110 No.2)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
5:40 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Rondo à la Mazur for piano in F major (Op.5)
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
5:48 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Serenade for String Orchestra in E flat (Op.6)
Virtuosi di Kuhmo, Peter Csaba (conductor)
6:16 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Symphony No.1 in D major (Op.25), 'Classical'
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Karel Ancerl (conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b03g2y3q)
Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring works by Michael Nyman, John Ireland, Arvo Part, Scarlatti and Bellini. With performances by Joan Sutherland, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Juanjo Mena and The Sixteen.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests and Musical Map suggestions.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b03g2y52)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Bach: Flute Sonatas - Andrea Oliva and Angela Hewitt
10am
Artist of the Week: Charles Dutoit
10.30am
In the week of Guy Fawkes Night, Sarah's guest is the politician and author Michael Dobbs. Michael was an advisor to Margaret Thatcher, a Conservative MP speechwriter, and served as a Government Special Advisor during the 1980s. In the John Major government, he served as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, after which he retired from politics. He is best known as the author of many books, beginning in 1989 with the publication of House of Cards, which became the first in a trilogy of political thrillers, followed by To Play the King and The Final Cut. All three books were adapted by the BBC into a mini series. His novel Winston's War was shortlisted for the Channel 4 Political Book of the Year Award, and is in development to be adapted as a feature film.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Rachmaninov
Symphony No. 1
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
DECCA
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 (b03g2y69)
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
Troubles with Henry
A reunion with Henry Brewster and London success for Ethel Smyth, with music from the Mass in D, the Serenade in D and Four Songs for voice and chamber ensemble.
Accounts of Dame Ethel Smyth cast her as a doughty figure, unafraid to flout convention. Born into an upper class Victorian family, the fact that Smyth wanted a professional career in music is exceptional in itself. Two major choral works, several orchestral works, six operas and a significant body of chamber music, attest to her seriousness of purpose as a composer. However, the sheer gusto and number of other activities the ebullient Smyth pursued have tended to obscure her artistic reception. A keen traveller, she was a successful author, producing nine largely autobiographical books. A life-long champion of women's rights, among the causes she supported was Mrs. Pankhurst's "right to vote" campaign. Her competitive nature found a perfect partner in sport; she was often to be found riding to hounds, playing tennis matches or striding over the golf course. As one rather bemused contemporary musician remarked when he met her, she is "the most remarkable and original woman composer in the history of music".
Donald Macleod examines the significance of two of Ethel Smyth's most important relationships, with American writer and philosopher Henry Brewster, who wrote several librettos for her operas, and Empress Eugènie, the exiled widow of Napoleon III, who helped launch the Mass in D and her Four Songs for Voice and Chamber Ensemble.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03g2y79)
Schwarzenberg Schubertiade 2013
Episode 2
More highlights from the 2103 Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg. Members of the Belcea Quartet play Schubert's String Trio fragment D471, soprano Miah Persson and pianist Roger Vignoles perform a group of Schubert songs, and Sol Gabetta and Igor Levit perform Brahms' Cello Sonata in E minor, Op. 38
Schubert: String Trio fragment in B flat, D471
Members of Belcea Quartet
Schubert: song selection
Miah Persson (soprano)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38
Sol Gabetta (cello)
Igor Levit (piano)
Recorded at concerts in the Angelika Kaufmann Hall in Schwarzenberg, as part of the 2013 Schwarzenberg Schubertiade.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03g2y8w)
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers
Episode 3
Presented by Penny Gore.
The BBC Singers open the programme with Darius Milhaud's Cantique du Rhone, a choral piece in celebration of the French river, taken from a recent concert given in London (they'll be back with more Milhaud tomorrow). Then we're off to South Korea with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their Conductor Laureate Andrew Davis: a concert of British music they gave in Seoul's Arts Centre last month, including William Walton's Viola Concerto, with the Korean American viola player Richard Yongjae O'Neill as soloist.
Milhaud - Cantique du Rhone for chorus, Op 155
BBC Singers,
David Hill (conductor).
2.05pm
Walton: Viola Concerto
2.30pm
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes', Op 33a
2.45pm
Elgar: Variations on an original theme (Enigma)
Richard Yongjae O'Neill (viola),
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Andrew Davis (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b03g30tk)
Canterbury Cathedral
From Canterbury Cathedral
Introit: There is an old belief (Parry)
Responses: Richard Lloyd
Psalms: 32, 33, 34 (Hurford; Buck; Parry; Vann; Atkins)
First Lesson: Proverbs 3 vv27-end
Canticles: Gray in F minor
Second Lesson: Matthew 18 vv21-end
Anthem: Lord, thou hast been our refuge (Vaughan Williams)
Hymn: Earth's fragile beauties (Kingsfold)
Organ Voluntary: Adagio in E (Bridge)
David Flood (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
David Newsholme (Assistant Organist)
Alex Caldon (Trumpet).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b03g2y9n)
Hugh Masekela, Trevor Pinnock, Tasmin Little
Suzy Klein's guests include South African jazz legend, trumpeter Hugh Masekela with pianist Larry Willis. Currently on a hotly-anticipated UK tour, which takes in the 2013 London Jazz Festival, they'll be performing exclusively live in the studio.
More live music from one of Britain's best-loved violinists, Tasmin Little with pianist Martin Roscoe, as she prepares to play Szymanowski with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Plus, founder of the English Concert, Trevor Pinnock visits the studio to discuss their upcoming concert at Greenwich Early Music Festival as part of their 40th anniversary season.
Twitter: @BBCInTune
Email: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03g2y69)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03g30tn)
CBSO - Wagner, Sibelius, Brahms
Tom Redmond, live from Birmingham's Symphony Hall, introduces music by Wagner, Sibelius and Brahms performed by violinist Valeriy Sokolov and the CBSO conducted by Andris Nelsons.
Programme:
Wagner: Prelude to Act 1 Lohengrin
Sibelius: Violin Concerto (soloist: Valeriy Sokolov)
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interval
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Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b03g2yfr)
2013 Festival
An Interview with John Waters
John Waters' film Hairspray became a hit musical. His "Trash Trilogy" involved negotiations with film censors. In an extended interview recorded in front of an audience, John Waters talks to Samira Ahmed about a career which has moved from film to hosting a show on American Court TV which featured marriages that ended in murder. Their discussion ranges over the influence of Catholicism, his birthplace Baltimore, the films of Douglas Sirk and the perils of hitchhiking.
Producer: Zahid Warley.
WED 22:45 Free Thinking (b03g2yhz)
Free Thinking Essay
Science and Sensibility
Today many scientists are engaged in exploring the interaction between logical and intuitive aspects of the mind. Gregory Tate, from the University of Surrey, argues that novelists have been examining similar psychological questions for centuries. The theme of this year's Free Thinking Festival is "Who's In Control?", and Gregory Tate's talk outlines the way the novels of Jane Austen shed light on the balance of power between thought and emotion.
Producer: Neil Trevithick.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b03g30tr)
Wednesday - Nick Luscombe
Tonight Nick Luscombe features a Velvet Underground cover by French Catalan musician Pascal Comelade, 80s electronic experimentalism from Blancmange, plus the sounds of the panpipes.
THURSDAY 07 NOVEMBER 2013
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b03g2y0y)
12:31 AM
Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957]
Finlandia Op.26 for orchestra
Philadelphia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)
12:40 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich [1840-1893]
Concerto in D major Op.35 for violin and orchestra
Janine Jansen (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)
1:17 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Sarabande (from Partita no. 2 in D minor BWV.1004 for violin solo)
Janine Jansen (violin)
1:20 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey [1873-1943]
3 Symphonic dances Op.45 for orchestra
Philadelphia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)
1:56 AM
Berlioz, Hector [1803-1869]
Marche hongroise (Rakoczy march) - from La Damnation de Faust
Philadelphia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)
2:01 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey [1891-1953]
Sonata for piano no. 7 (Op.83) in B flat major
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
2:21 AM
Bartok, Bela [1881-1945]
Four Old Hungarian Folk Songs
Male Choir of the Hungarian Army, Béla Podor (conductor)
2:25 AM
Stravinsky, Igor [1882-1971]
Fireworks (Op.4)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
2:31 AM
Dobrzynski, Ignacy Feliks [1807-1867]
String Quartet No.1 in E minor, (Op.7)
Camerata Quartet
3:01 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Prelude in C sharp minor (Op.45)
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)
3:06 AM
Nowowiejski, Felix [1877-1946]
3 Songs (Op.56) from "The Bialowieza Forest folder"
Polish Radio Choir, Marek Kluza (conductor)
3:28 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Overture to Don Giovanni, K.527
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi (conductor)
3:35 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel [1714-1788]
12 Variations on "La Folia" (Wq.118/9) (H.263)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
3:44 AM
Goossens, Eugene [1893-1962]
Fantasy for nine wind instruments (Op.36)
Janet Webb (flute), Guy Henderson (oboe), Lawrence Dobell and Christopher Tingay (clarinets), Daniel Mendelow (trumpet), Clarence Mellor (horn), John Cran, Fiona McNamara (bassoons)
3:55 AM
Faure, Gabriel [1845-1924], text by Hugo, Victor
Le Papillon et la fleur (Op.1 No.1)
3:57 AM
Faure, Gabriel [1845-1924]
Rencontre (Op.21 No.1)
3:59 AM
Faure, Gabriel [1845-1924]
Nell (Op.18 No.1) (1878)
Paula Hoffman (mezzo-soprano), Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano)
4:02 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von [1786-1826]
Overture from 'Der Freischutz'
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
4:12 AM
Schutz, Heinrich [1585-1672]
Ich bin eine rufende Stimme, SWV383; O lieber Herre Gott, wecke uns auf, SWV381
Danish National Radio Chorus, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
4:20 AM
Casella, Alfredo [1883-1947]
Barcarola e scherzo
Min Park (flute), Huw Watkins (piano)
4:31 AM
Walton, William [1902-1983]
Johannesburg Festival Overture
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, David Atherton (conductor)
4:39 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Prelude and Fugue in E minor (Op.35 No.1)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
4:49 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Concerto for violin, harpsichord and orchestra in C minor (BWV.1060)
Andrew Manze (violin/director), Richard Egarr (harpsichord), Risør Festival Strings
5:03 AM
Durufle, Maurice [1902-1986]
Quatre motets sur des themes Gregoriens for a capella choir (Op.10)
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
5:11 AM
Respighi, Ottorino [1879-1936]
Trittico Botticelliano
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Peter Sánta (conductor)
5:33 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
12 Variationen uber das Menuet (WoO 68)
Theo Bruins (piano)
5:47 AM
Daniel-Lesur, Daniel Jean Yves [1908-2002]
Suite Medievale for flute, harp and string trio (1908)
Arpae Ensemble
6:01 AM
Kraus, Joseph Martin (1756-1792)
Quatre Intermèdes et Divertissements for Molière's comedy 'Amphitryon' (Paris-Stockholm, 1785-87) - Intermède IV
Chantal Santon (soprano - La Nuit), Georg Poplutz (tenor - Hérault), Bonn Chamber Chorus, L'Arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt (conductor)
6:13 AM
Rota, Nino [1911-1979]
Trio for clarinet, bassoon (orig cello) and piano
Embla.
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b03g2y3s)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring Edward Gardner, Dexter Fletcher, Florilegium, Choir of St.John's College, Cambridge and Till Fellner. With music by Martini, Lully, Schumann, Frank Bridge and Telemann.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests and Musical Map suggestions.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b03g2y54)
Thursday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Bach: Flute Sonatas - Andrea Oliva and Angela Hewitt
10am
Artist of the Week: Charles Dutoit
10.30am
In the week of Guy Fawkes Night, Sarah's guest is the politician and author Michael Dobbs. Michael was an advisor to Margaret Thatcher, a Conservative MP speechwriter, and served as a Government Special Advisor during the 1980s. In the John Major government, he served as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, after which he retired from politics. He is best known as the author of many books, beginning in 1989 with the publication of House of Cards, which became the first in a trilogy of political thrillers, followed by To Play the King and The Final Cut. All three books were adapted by the BBC into a mini series. His novel Winston's War was shortlisted for the Channel 4 Political Book of the Year Award, and is in development to be adapted as a feature film.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Debussy
String Quartet
Quatuor Ébène
VIRGIN.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03g2y6c)
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
Political Alliances
Ethel Smyth and her association with the suffragettes, featuring music from The Boatswain's Mate and The Wreckers.
Accounts of Dame Ethel Smyth cast her as a doughty figure, unafraid to flout convention. Born into an upper class Victorian family, the fact that Smyth wanted a professional career in music is exceptional in itself. Two major choral works, several orchestral works, six operas and a significant body of chamber music, attest to her seriousness of purpose as a composer. However, the sheer gusto and number of other activities the ebullient Smyth pursued have tended to obscure her artistic reception. A keen traveller, she was a successful author, producing nine largely autobiographical books. A life-long champion of women's rights, among the causes she supported was Mrs. Pankhurst's "right to vote" campaign. Her competitive nature found a perfect partner in sport; she was often to be found riding to hounds, playing tennis matches or striding over the golf course. As one rather bemused contemporary musician remarked when he met her, she is "the most remarkable and original woman composer in the history of music".
Donald Macleod charts Ethel Smyth's involvement in women's suffrage. Inspired by meeting Emmeline Pankhurst, head of the Women's Social and Political Union, Smyth decided to take two years off her musical career to help support the fight for women's rights. Her activism famously led to her imprisonment for throwing stones through a suffrage opponent's window. In 1912, having resumed her music career, she began work on what's probably her most feminist influenced work, the comic opera, the Boatswain's Mate.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03g2y7c)
Schwarzenberg Schubertiade 2013
Episode 3
Further highlights from the 2013 Schwarzenberg Schubertiade. Soprano Miah Persson and pianist Roger Vignoles perform a group of Schubert songs, and the Belcea Quartet are joined by pianist Till Fellner for Dvorak's rousing Piano Quintet
Schubert: song selection
Miah Persson (soprano)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
Dvorák: Piano Quintet No 2 in A, Op 81
Belcea Quartet
Till Fellner (piano)
Recorded at concerts in the Angelika Kaufmann Hall in Schwarzenberg, as part of the 2013 Schwarzenberg Schubertiade.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03g2y8y)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Verdi 200: Attila
Presented by Penny Gore.
Thursday Opera Matinee continues Radio 3's series of every opera Giuseppe Verdi ever wrote, as part of the Verdi 200 bicentenary celebrations, with his opera Attila. Riccardo Muti conducts a vintage recording from La Scala Theatre, Milan, with a cast in its prime - including Samuel Ramey in the title role and Cheryl Studer as Odabella, the beautiful female warrior who captures his heart. As you can tell from that, Verdi's tale of the King of the Huns is perhaps not 100% rooted in historical fact.
After the opera, you can hear more from this week's featured performers: the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing British music on tour in South Korea, and the BBC Singers with music by Darius Milhaud.
Verdi 200
Attila - in 3 Acts
Attila ..... Samuel Ramey (bass)
Odabella ..... Cheryl Studer (soprano)
Foresto, her lover ..... Neil Shicoff (tenor)
Ezio, Roman general ..... Giorgio Zancanaro (baritone)
Uldino, Attila's slave ..... Ernesto Gavazzi (tenor)
Leone, an old Roman ..... Giorgio Surian (bass)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
4pm
Britten: The Young person's Guide to the Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)
4.20pm
Milhaud: Naissance de Vénus, Op 292
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b03g2y9q)
Chris Thile, Masaaki Suzuki, Gesualdo Consort
Suzy Klein's guests include the sensational American mandolin player Chris Thile - as adept at folk music as at enterprising arrangements of J S Bach. He'll be treating us to exclusive live performance.
Plus conductor Masaaki Suzuki, whose acclaimed Bach cantata recording series with his Bach Collegium Japan nears its conclusion, pops in as he prepares for his debut with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
And, live music choral music from the Gesualdo Consort
Tweet us @BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03g2y6c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03g31d4)
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
BBC SSO - Tippett, Mozart, Vaughan Williams (part 1)
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Andrew McGregor
Conductor Andrew Manze brings his passion and insight to the work of composers at the heart of his musical personality: continuing his complete cycle of Vaughan Williams Symphonies, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. To perform that composer's evocation of a frozen wilderness, his Symphony No. 7 (Sinfonia Antartica), the orchestra are joined by award-winning soprano Katherine Broderick and the Ladies of the Glasgow Chamber Choir.
Music composed by a fellow Briton from a slightly later generation, Michael Tippett, begins the concert. His Divertimento on 'Sellinger's Round' takes as its starting point a tune from Elizabethan England. And the pianist and former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Shai Wosner takes to the concert platform to perform one of Mozart's most enduring Piano Concertos.
Tippett: Divertimento on 'Sellinger's Round'
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466
Interval
8.20
Discovering Music
8.40
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 7 (Sinfonia Antartica)
Shai Wosner (piano)
Katherine Broderick (soprano)
Ladies of the Glasgow Chamber Choir
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Manze (conductor).
THU 20:20 Discovering Music (b03g31d6)
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 7 'Sinfonia antartica'
Stephen Johnson reveals how Vaughan Williams transformed the music of his most famous film score to create an Antarctic symphony.
THU 20:40 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03ghffx)
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
BBC SSO - Tippett, Mozart, Vaughan Williams (part 2)
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Andrew McGregor
Conductor Andrew Manze brings his passion and insight to the work of composers at the heart of his musical personality: continuing his complete cycle of Vaughan Williams Symphonies, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. To perform that composer's evocation of a frozen wilderness, his Symphony No. 7 (Sinfonia Antartica), the orchestra are joined by award-winning soprano Katherine Broderick and the Ladies of the Glasgow Chamber Choir.
Music composed by a fellow Briton from a slightly later generation, Michael Tippett, begins the concert. His Divertimento on 'Sellinger's Round' takes as its starting point a tune from Elizabethan England. And the pianist and former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Shai Wosner takes to the concert platform to perform one of Mozart's most enduring Piano Concertos.
Tippett: Divertimento on 'Sellinger's Round'
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466
Interval
8.20
Discovering Music
8.40
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 7 (Sinfonia Antartica)
Shai Wosner (piano)
Katherine Broderick (soprano)
Ladies of the Glasgow Chamber Choir
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Manze (conductor).
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b03g2yfv)
2013 Festival
Controlling the Countryside
Are our policy makers too urban in their outlook? Have we lost touch with nature? On stage at Free Thinking to debate the issue are: Dame Fiona Reynolds, former head of the National Trust; Simon Thurley, CEO of English Heritage and author of The Building of England and The Men from the Ministry; Jon Alexander, reformed ad-man and founder of the newcitizenship project; rural sociologist Professor Mark Shucksmith, Director of Newcastle University's Newcastle Institute of Social renewal and Canon Dagmar Winter, Rural Affairs Officer for the Diocese of Newcastle. Samira Ahmed chairs the discussion.
Producer: Jacqueline Smith.
THU 22:45 Free Thinking (b03g2yj1)
Free Thinking Essay
Cutting Tradition
What do recent debates among medical ethicists and lawyers over male infant circumcision reveal about the different ways we view male and female bodies? Rebecca Steinfeld, from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, looks at changing attitudes to religious traditions involving genital cutting.
Producer: Zahid Warley
First broadcast in November 2013.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b03g31d8)
Thursday - Nick Luscombe
Nick Luscombe's selection includes a rare track from dance music pioneers The Orb, folk from Jim Moray's re-issued Sweet England album, brand new music from Japan by Cuushe and Science Fiction soundtracking with Lalo Schifrin.
FRIDAY 08 NOVEMBER 2013
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b03g2y10)
12:31 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey [1891-1953]
Romeo and Juliet - Suite No. 1, Op. 64a (1935-6)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki (conductor)
12:59 AM
Neuwirth, Olga
Remnants of songs... an amphigory for viola and orchestra
Lawrence Power (viola) Philharmonia Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki (conductor)
1:22 AM
Bartok, Bela [1881-1945]
Concerto Sz.116 for orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki (conductor)
2:01 AM
Leclair, Jean-Marie [1697-1764]
Deuxieme Recreation de musique d'une execution facile in G minor Op.8
Concerto Copenhagen, Alfredo Bernardini (director)
2:31 AM
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Poema autunnale for violin and orchestra
Viktor Šimcisko (violin), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Onrej Lenard (conductor)
2:46 AM
Stravinsky, Igor [1882-1971]
Petrushka (1947 version)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
3:17 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto for 2 violins, 2 cellos and orchestra (RV.564) in D major
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (violin/director)
3:28 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Symphony No. 5 (Op.107) in D major "Reformation"
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Vytautas Lukocius (conductor)
3:57 AM
Mozetich, Marjan (b. 1948)
Procession
Moshe Hammer (violin), Douglas Perry (viola), Henry van der Sloot (cello), Joel Quarrington (bass), Raymond Luedeke (clarinet), James McKay (bassoon), Joan Watson (horn)
4:12 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Barcarolle in F sharp major (Op.60)
Anastasia Vorotnaya (piano)
4:21 AM
Jiranek, Frantisek [1698-1778]
Sinfonia in D major
Collegium Marinarum, Jana Semerádová (director)
4:31 AM
Gwilym Simcock [(1981- )]
Spring step for piano
Gwilym Simcock (piano)
4:37 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Havanaise for violin and orchestra (Op.83)
Moshe Hammer (violin), Winnepeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
4:47 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
2 graduals for chorus
Danish National Radio Choir, Jesper Grove Jorgensen (conductor)
4:55 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Valse Triste
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
5:01 AM
Enescu, George (1881-1955)
Romanian Rhapsody No.1 in A major (Op.11, No.1)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
5:14 AM
Fesch, Willem de (1687-c.1757)
Concerto in D major (Op.5 No.1)
Musica ad Rhenum
5:22 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Piano Sonata No.18 in E flat (Op.31, No.3)
Ingrid Fliter (piano)
5:44 AM
Salmenhaara, Erkki (1941-March 2002)
Concerto for 2 violins and orchestra (1980)
Päivyt Rajamäki and Maarit Rajamäki (violins), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Juhani Lamminmäki (conductor)
6:01 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).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b03g2y3v)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring Lang Lang, John Eliot Gardiner, Steven Osborne, Mariss Jansons and The Finzi Singers. Works by Leoncavallo, Chabrier, Bairstow, Beethoven and Stokowski.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests and Musical Map suggestions.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b03g2y56)
Friday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Bach: Flute Sonatas - Andrea Oliva and Angela Hewitt
10am
Artist of the Week: Charles Dutoit
10.30am
In the week of Guy Fawkes Night, Sarah's guest is the politician and author Michael Dobbs. Michael was an advisor to Margaret Thatcher, a Conservative MP speechwriter, and served as a Government Special Advisor during the 1980s. In the John Major government, he served as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, after which he retired from politics. He is best known as the author of many books, beginning in 1989 with the publication of House of Cards, which became the first in a trilogy of political thrillers, followed by To Play the King and The Final Cut. All three books were adapted by the BBC into a mini series. His novel Winston's War was shortlisted for the Channel 4 Political Book of the Year Award, and is in development to be adapted as a feature film.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Schumann
Symphony No. 4
Dresden Staatskapelle
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
EMI.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03g2y6f)
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
Starting Over
Ethel Smyth's career after 1912: with further performances of her operas, and two major new works, the Prison and Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra.
Accounts of Dame Ethel Smyth cast her as a doughty figure, unafraid to flout convention. Born into an upper class Victorian family, the fact that Smyth wanted a professional career in music is exceptional in itself. Two major choral works, several orchestral works, six operas and a significant body of chamber music, attest to her seriousness of purpose as a composer. However, the sheer gusto and number of other activities the ebullient Smyth pursued have tended to obscure her artistic reception. A keen traveller, she was a successful author, producing nine largely autobiographical books. A life-long champion of women's rights, among the causes she supported was Mrs. Pankhurst's "right to vote" campaign. Her competitive nature found a perfect partner in sport; she was often to be found riding to hounds, playing tennis matches or striding over the golf course. As one rather bemused contemporary musician remarked when he met her, she is "the most remarkable and original woman composer in the history of music".
Today, Donald Macleod explores Ethel Smyth's career following her resumption of music in 1912. By this time Smyth's hearing was failing, yet despite this obstacle, an originality shines through the Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra. She also had the joy of seeing many more performances of her operas in Germany and in the UK.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03g2y7l)
Schwarzenberg Schubertiade 2013
Episode 4
In the final programme of highlights from the 2013 Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, cellist Sol Gabetta and pianist Igor Levit perform Beethoven's sparkling variations on Bei Mannern from Mozart's The Magic Flute, and the star trio of Christain Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt play Schubert's Piano Trio in B fla,t, D898
Beethoven: Variations on 'Bein Männern, welche Liebe fühlen from Mozart's 'The Magic Flute', WoO46
Sol Gabetta (cello)
Igor Levit (piano)
Schubert: Piano Trio in B flat, D898
Christian Tetzlaff (vioin)
Tanja Tetzlaff (cello)
Lars Vogt (piano)
Recorded at concerts in the Angelika Kaufmann Hall in Schwarzenberg, as part of the 2013 Schwarzenberg Schubertiade.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03g2y90)
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers
Episode 4
Live from St Paul's Knightsbridge, London, Andrew Griffiths conducts the BBC Singers in a special concert of music appropriate to Remembrance Day. It spans more than five centuries, from Josquin des Pres, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd to Herbert Howells, Stephen Stucky and Atli Heimir Sveinsson.
Then Penny Gore introduces music by Weber, Chopin and Stravinsky from a recent concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Alexander. And we close the week with more British music for Remembrance Day from the BBC Singers.
Live
Tallis: Miserere nostri
Howells: The Summer is Coming
Atli Heimir Sveinsson: The Rose is Sick (Two Elegies in Memoriam Benjamin Britten)
Weelkes: Death hath deprived me (A remembrance of Thomas Morley)
Byrd: Ye Sacred Muses
Stephen Stucky: Three New Motets 'in memoriam Thomas Tallis'
Josquin: Nymphes des bois/Requiem (La deploration de Johan Ockeghem)
Vinders: Lament on the death of Josquin
Howells: Requiem
BBC Singers,
Andrew Griffiths (conductor).
3.15pm
Weber, orch. Berlioz: Invitation to the dance
Chopin, orch. Stravinsky: Waltz in E flat major, Op. 18 (Grande valse brillante)
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Alexei Volodin (piano),
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Alexander Vedernikov (conductor).
4.10pm
Holst: The Evening-watch
Vaughan Williams: O vos omnes
BBC Singers,
Paul Brough (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b03g2y9s)
Lang Lang, Bridie Jackson and the Arbour, Cecilie Ore, Max Reinhardt
Suzy Klein's guests live from Salford include the pianist Lang Lang and Newcastle-based folk group Bridie Jackson and the Arbour - winners of the 2013 Glastonbury Prize.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03g2y6f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03g31dr)
BBC Philharmonic - Verdi, Bruch, Beethoven
Live from The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Martin Handley
The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, performs Verdi's Overture to 'Nabucco', Bruch's Violin Concerto with Renaud Capuçon and Beethoven's Symphony No 3, 'Eroica'.
Verdi: Overture to 'Nabucco'
Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1
8:10 Interval Music
8.30
Beethoven: Symphony No 3, 'Eroica'
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
Renaud Capuçon (violin)
In Verdi's bicentenary year, his overture to 'Nabucco' opens tonight's programme, before the masterly French violinist Renaud Capuçon joins the BBC Philharmonic and Conductor Laureate Gianandrea Noseda in one of the world's favourite violin concertos. In the second part of the concert the full power of Beethoven's heroic, and anti-heroic, Third Symphony is released.
FRI 22:00 Free Thinking (b03gpgmg)
2013 Festival
Who's Got Hold of Children's Imaginations?
In his "Chaos Walking" trilogy, Patrick Ness created a town where secrecy and privacy were impossible. Dr Charles Fernyhough's writing and research examines the development of childhood language and memories. In a discussion recorded in front of an audience at this year's Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead, they discuss, with presenter Matthew Sweet, the way children cope in an unstable world and what stimulates young imaginations.
Producer: Robyn Read.
FRI 22:45 Free Thinking (b03g2yj3)
Free Thinking Essay
Therapy Versus Prayer
Is the idea of counselling as non-judgmental listening flawed? Christopher Harding from Edinburgh University focuses his talk on attitudes in Japan and the UK. He asks whether prayer involves fewer hidden pressures than a session with a shrink.
Producer: Fiona McLean.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b03g31dt)
April Verch in Session
Mary Ann Kennedy with new tracks from across the globe, plus a studio session with Canadian fiddle player April Verch.
April Verch is a fiddle player from Canada's Ottawa Valley, who was the first woman to win both the Canadian Open Old Time Fiddle Championship and the Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling Competition. She has come through this experience relatively unscathed, and has just released her ninth studio album, 'Bright Like Gold'. She is joined by Ohio guitarist Hayes Griffin, and banjo and bass player Cody Walters from Kansas.