BBC Proms 2012. Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra and Sibelius's 7th Symphony from the BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena. With Catriona Young.
String Quartet: Tobias Ringborg and Christian Bergqvist (violins), Ingegerd Kierkegaard (viola), John Ehde (cello)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) arr. Agnieszka Duczmal
Wojciech Mrozek (clarinet), The Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan, Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)
Missa sancta No.1 in E flat major, (J.224) 'Freischutzmesse' for soli, chorus and orchestra
Norwegian Soloist Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Grete Pedersen Helgerød (conductor)
Nocturne in C sharp minor Op. posth for piano
Vladislav Brunner (flute), Jozef Martinkovic (bassoon), Juraj Alexander (cello), Juraj Schoffer (double bass), Miloš Starosta (harpsichord)
The King's Singers -- Jeremy Jackson and Alastair Hume (countertenors), Robert Chilcott (tenor), Colin Mason and Simon Carrington (baritones), Stephen Connolly (bass)
Judy Kang (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Jean-François Rivest (conductor)
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet), Colm Carey (organ of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London)
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring our Advent Calendar of seasonal music as requested by listeners. Also, the Specialist Classical Chart featuring the best-selling new releases including The Tallis Scholars, Stephen Hough, Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and the Dunedin Consort. Available to download as a podcast from our 'Free Downloads' section on this page.
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: Glinka - Overtures and Dances featuring the USSR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov, and at
This week, Sarah's guest is the award-winning playwright and screenwriter Howard Brenton. Known for his state-of-the-nation political comedies and satires, his plays have included #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei, The Churchill Play, Weapons of Happiness, Anne Boleyn, 55 Days (a fictional meeting between Cromwell and Charles I) and, with David Hare, Pravda and Brassneck. He has written a number of screenplays, including episodes for the BBC TV series, Spooks, and has produced translations of plays by Goethe, Brecht and Georg Büchner.
Essential Choice: Maria Callas.
In celebration of the 90th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas, Sarah Walker presents classic recordings from her spectacular operatic career.
Donald Macleod looks at Mascagni's sensational overnight rise to fame with the premiere of his opera Cavalleria Rusticana
Composer of the Week marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Pietro Mascagni, who triumphed in his early twenties with his opera Cavalleria Rusticana and, during his lifetime, was one of the most famous figures in Italy. He came to prominence just as Verdi was entering old age and Italy was searching for a new maestro. Mascagni's good looks and charm ensured that his fame spread worldwide. He continued to write operas although none achieved the success of his early hit. Towards the end of his life, he found himself marginalised from new currents in Italian music and having to associate himself with Mussolini's fascist regime.
Mascagni's one-act masterpiece, Cavalleria Rusticana had an extraordinary reception when it was premiered in Rome, in 1890. Fresh, taut, and naturalistic, it became the iconic work of verismo, and catapulted its composer to glory. But it was a tough act to follow. Donald Macleod looks at the night that Italian operatic history was made and the aftermath for Mascagni.
The Hebrides Ensemble begins this week of lunchtime concerts recorded in Orkney and Aberdeen. From the St Magnus Festival comes the World Premiere of Peter Maxwell Davies's Oboe Quartet, Schubert's unfinished String Trio in B flat, and Mozart's Oboe Quartet in F, alongside Britten's virtuosic work for solo oboe. Performed in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall.
For the first time ever, Afternoon on 3 has a live concert every day of the week - one by each of the five BBC Orchestras, playing at their respective homes in Cardiff, Salford, London and Glasgow. An American thread runs throughout the week, as part of Afternoon on 3's celebration of American music this autumn.
Today the BBC Philharmonic and their Chief Conductor Juanjo Mena take the stage live at their home in MediaCity, Salford, for a favourite overture by Bernstein, a favourite concertante piece by Rachmaninov and a favourite symphony by Mendelssohn.
Following the live concert, Katie Derham presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC National Orchestra of Wales in recent concerts at both ends of the UK - in Ayr and Truro. Richard Watkins is the soloist with the BBC SSO in Richard Strauss's First Horn Concerto, and he'll be playing Strauss's Second Horn Concerto with the BBC SSO in their live concert from Glasgow on Thursday.
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op. 56 (Scottish)
Strauss: Horn Concerto No 1 in E flat major, Op. 11
Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau is one of the world's most respected jazz stars and renowned for his cross-genre collaborations and compositions. Brad comes fresh from the London Jazz Festival to talk about his new record.
La Serenissima have received rave reviews for their new Vivaldi disc, they perform excerpts live in the studio and look forward to bringing it to life at Spitalfields this week. More live performance comes from pianist Rolf Hind, known for his mastery of contemporary music, he joins us in the studio to put the studio Steinway through its paces.
Plus Sean talks to conductor Sir Mark Elder about the obscure Offenbach opera he is in the process of bringing to a wider audience.
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String Quartet No. 1
String Quartet No. 3
A visionary artist who probed deep into the human psyche, Michael Tippett sought to unite apparently conflicting styles and celebrate the vast energy of cultural diversity in his music.
This is the opening concert in the Wigmore Hall's Tippett Series marking the fifteenth anniversary of the composer's death with a retrospective survey of works central to his creative development. It opens with the Beethoven-inspired first string quartet and explores the cantata Boyhood's End, first performed at Morley College in 1943 by Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten.
Jude Law plays Henry V in the West End directed by Michael Grandage. Matthew Sweet has a first night review from Susannah Clapp.
Are we nearing the end of the Grotian Consensus? Turner's maritime paintings are for many the nearest they'll ever get to understanding the sea and the insights they offer are opaque and mysterious. In the 21st century the sea's realities are most often painted as a flat blue space on the map but we turn our faces away from the sea at our peril. Globalisation is encapsulated by the vast freighters which move goods around the world, piracy is on the increase, international maritime boundaries are disputed from the east China Sea to the Arctic, fish stocks are depleted, there is no conservation body exclusively concerned with the health and well being of the oceans and it's predicted that the oceans are ripe for industrialisation. Matthew Sweet talks to maritime geographer Phil Steinberg and expert in international public law , Steve Haines, about what the Freedom of the Seas means now and how maritime governance may develop this century.
Langston Hughes' 1961 retelling of the nativity story has now been the inspiration for a musical film starring Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett and Jennifer Hudson with a solo from Mary J Blige. Hughes biographer Bonnie Greer and the writer Fred D'Aguiar have seen the film and talk to Matthew Sweet about Langston Hughes' enduring legacy.
In a major series for Radio 3, we rediscover some of the key thinkers and achievements from the Islamic Golden Age. The period ranges from 750 to 1258 CE and over twenty episodes, we'll hear about architecture, invention, medicine, mathematics, innovation and philosophy.
In today's essay, Iraqi-born scientist, writer and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili tells us about the legacy of al-Khwarizmi. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer geographer and a scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. The House of Wisdom was a renowned centre of scientific research and teaching in his time - attracting some of the greatest minds of the Islamic Golden Age. Al-Khwarizmi was born in Persia around 780 and was one of the learned men who worked in the House of Wisdom under the leadership of Caliph al-Mamun, the son of the caliph Harun al-Rashid, who was made famous in the Arabian Nights.
Nick Luscombe presents music from Brazilian singer Adriana Calcanhotto, symphonic 70s rock from Deep Purple and Welsh Medieval Harp Music performed by Bill Taylor.
WEDNESDAY 04 DECEMBER 2013
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b03k0p1k)
Handel with Le Concert Spirituel and Herve Niquet
Handel from Le Concert Spirituel and inspirational director Hervé Niquet from the 2012 BBC Proms and the 2012 De Singel Festival in Antwerp. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Concerto grosso in B flat Op.6 no.7
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet (director)
12:40 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Dixit Dominus - Psalm 109 HWV.232
Hendrickje van Kerckhoven and Lies Vandewege (sopranos), Noa Frenkel (contralto), Ivan Goossens (tenor), Jan van der Crabben (bass), Flemish Radio Chorus, Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet (director)
1:13 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Sonata (Op.1 No.5) in F, HWV.363a, vers. oboe and bc
Louise Pellerin (oboe), Dom André Laberge (organ - 1999 Karl Wilhelm at the abbey church Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, Québec, Canada)
1:21 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Flammende Rose, Zierde der Erden (HWV.210), arr oboe, violin and organ (No.9 from Deutsche Arien)
Louise Pellerin (oboe), Hélène Plouffe (violin), Dom André Laberge (1999 Karl Wilhelm organ at the Abbey Church, Saint-Benoît-du-Lac)
1:27 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Water music - suite in F, HWV.348
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet (director)
1:53 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Water music - suite in D, HWV.349
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet (director)
2:03 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Water music - suite in G, HWV.350
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet (director)
2:13 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Music for the royal fireworks
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet (director)
2:31 AM
Moeschinger, Albert (1897-1985)
Quintet on Swiss folksongs for wind (Op.53)
Members of La Strimpellata Chamber Orchestra (Bern)
2:50 AM
Cavalli, Francesco (1602-1676)
Salve Regina
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
2:59 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Concerto for string orchestra in D, 'Basle Concerto'
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Oleg Caetani (conductor)
3:12 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Sonata for piano No.24 (Op.78) in F sharp
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
3:20 AM
Hoffmeister, Franz Anton (1754-1812)
Duo Concertante No.3 for flute and viola in F
Joanna G'froerer (flute), Pinchas Zukerman (viola)
3:34 AM
Kabalevsky, Dimitri (1904-1987)
Comedians - suite
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Oliver Dohnányi (conductor)
3:52 AM
Locatelli, Pietro Antonio (1695-1764)
Concerto grosso (Op.7 No.6) in E flat, 'Il pianto d'Arianna'
Amsterdam Bach Soloists
4:08 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Après un rêve (Op.7 No.1) (1878),
Au bord de l'eau (Op.8 No.1) (1878)
Nell (Op.18 No.1) (1878)
Paula Hoffman (mezzo), Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano)
4:16AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Symphony No.1 in D (Op.25), 'Classical'
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Karel Ancerl (conductor)
4:31 AM
Schumann, Clara (1819-1896)
Prelude and Fugue in B flat (Op.16 No.2)
Angela Cheng (piano)
4:36 AM
Horneman, Christian Frederik Emil (1840-1906)
Ouverture til Helteliv (A Hero's Life - overture)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)
4:50 AM
Williams, John (1932-)
The Imperial March, from the film The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
4:53 AM
Copland, Aaron (1900-1990), arr. Timothy Kain
Hoe Down - from 'Rodeo' arr. for 4 guitars
Guitar Trek
4:57 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Country dance No.1 (Allegro molto moderato) for wind quintet
Yur-Eum Woodwind Quintet
5:00 AM
Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
(3) Folksongs for chorus (Op.49)
Carmina Chamber Choir, Peter Hanke (conductor)
5:15 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809)
Trio for strings in B flat (Op.53 No.2) arr. from Piano Sonata (H.
16.41)
Leopold String Trio
5:23 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707)
Jubilate Domino, omnis terra for alto, viola da gamba and continuo BuxWV 64
Bogna Bartosz (contralto), Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman (conductor)
5:32 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fughetta in G, BWV 902
Leon de Broekert (organ of Hervormde kerk, Gapinge - 1760)
5:37 AM
Haydn, (Johann) Michael [1737-1806]
Sinfonia in E flat (MH.340) (P.17)
Academia Palatina, Florian Heyerick (director)
5:52 AM
Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643), arr. Eberhard Kraus
Madrigale
Heinz della Torre (trumpet), Stefan Schlegel (trombone), Paolo D'Angelo (accordion)
5:53 AM
Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg (1736-1809)
Concerto for trombone and orchestra
Heiki Kalaus (trombone), Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Peeter Lilje (conductor)
6:11 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Trio for piano and strings No.3 in C minor (Op.101)
Tamas Major (violin), Peter Szabo (cello), Zoltán Kocsis (piano).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b03k0q50)
Wednesday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, opening another door on our Advent Calendar with a composition by King Henry VIII. Performances by John Williams, Robin Blaze, Christine Brewer and the Jerusalem Quartet.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b03k0pms)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Howard Brenton
Sarah Walker with her guest, the playwright and screenwriter Howard Brenton.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Glinka - Overtures and Dances featuring the USSR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov, and at
9.30am, our daily brainteaser: First Names
10am
Artist of the Week: Maria Joao Pires
10.30am
This week, Sarah's guest is the award-winning playwright and screenwriter Howard Brenton. Known for his state-of-the-nation political comedies and satires, his plays have included #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei, The Churchill Play, Weapons of Happiness, Anne Boleyn, 55 Days (a fictional meeting between Cromwell and Charles I) and, with David Hare, Pravda and Brassneck. He has written a number of screenplays, including episodes for the BBC TV series, Spooks, and has produced translations of plays by Goethe, Brecht and Georg Büchner.
11am
Essential Choice: Maria Callas.
In celebration of the 90th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas, Sarah Walker presents classic recordings from her spectacular operatic career.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03k0pqh)
Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
The Eternal City
Donald Macleod explores Mascagni's experiences of Rome and looks at some of his works connected with the city.
Composer of the Week marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Pietro Mascagni, who triumphed in his early twenties with his opera Cavalleria Rusticana and, during his lifetime, was one of the most famous figures in Italy. He came to prominence just as Verdi was entering old age and Italy was searching for a new maestro. Mascagni's good looks and charm ensured that his fame spread worldwide. He continued to write operas although none achieved the success of his early hit. Towards the end of his life, he found himself marginalised from new currents in Italian music and having to associate himself with Mussolini's fascist regime.
'I am tied to Rome by great affection. It is to Rome that I owe my artistic baptism, it is in Rome that I have made a home where my dearest memories are kept' said Mascagni towards the end of his life. From the premiere of Cavalleria Rusticana, the opera that made his name, to his final opera, Nerone, the city of Rome played an important part in Mascagni's life, not least because it was where he met the love of his life, Anna Lolli. The former chorus girl would become his mistress for 35 years, until the composer's death. Donald Macleod looks at the composer's links with Rome from 1905.
Cavalleria Rusticana (Intermezzo)
National Philharmonic Orchestra; James Levine (conductor)
Le Maschere (Furlana)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste; Tiziano Severini (conductor)
Parisina (Aria du rossignol)
Denia Mazzola Gavazzeni (soprano); Orchestre National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon; Enrique Diemecke (conductor)
Isabeau (Voi siete il re)
Denia Mazzola Gavazzeni (soprano); Orchestre National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon; Enrique Diemecke (conductor)
Serenade
Luciano Ganci (tenor); Filarmonica '900 Teatro Regio Torino; Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
The Eternal city
Filarmonica '900 Teatro Regio Torino; Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03k0prm)
Music from Scotland
Episode 2
Soprano Christine Brewer is joined by Roger Vignoles on piano for a lunchtime recital from last year's St Magnus Festival in Orkney. They perform Wagner's glowing Wesendonck-Leider, alongside songs and folk ballads of romance, longing and love by Strauss, Dougherty, Quilter and Britten.
Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder (Der Engel; Stehe still!; Im Treibhaus; Schmerzen; Träume)
Richard Strauss: Breit' über mein Haupt
Richard Strauss: Die Georgine
Richard Strauss: Allerseelen
Celius Dougherty: Shenandoah
Celius Dougherty: Waly, waly
John Jacob Niles: Black is the Colour of my True Love's Hair
John Jacob Niles: Go 'way from my Window
Liza Lehmann: There are fairies at the bottom of our garden
Herbert Hughes: She Moved through the Fair
Roger Quilter: Ye Banks and Braes
Benjamin Britten: The Last Rose of Summer
Celius Dougherty: Review
Christine Brewer, soprano
Roger Vignoles, piano.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03k0psg)
BBC Orchestras Live
BBC Concert Orchestra
For the first time ever, Afternoon on 3 has a live concert every day of the week - one by each of the five BBC Orchestras, playing at their respective homes in Cardiff, Salford, London and Glasgow. An American thread runs throughout the week, as part of Afternoon on 3's celebration of American music this autumn.
Today it's the turn of the BBC Concert Orchestra with Aaron Copland's ever-popular ballet suite Appalachian Spring and an all-American symphony alongside music by adopted American Richard Rodney Bennett, and Radio 3 New Generation Artist Kitty Whately joins them for a selection of great songs from the shows.
LIVE from the Mermaid Theatre, London
Richard Rodney Bennett: Lilliburlero Variations
Rodgers and Hammerstein: Mr Snow (from Carousel); Something Wonderful (from The King and I)
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring (Suite for orchestra)
2.45pm
Jerome Kern: Bill (from Show Boat)
Cole Porter: So in Love (from Kiss Me Kate)
George Antheil: Symphony No 3 (American)
Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano),
BBC Concert Orchestra,
Barry Wordsworth (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b03k0q62)
Lichfield Cathedral
From Lichfield Cathedral
Introit: Advent (The Lichfield Antiphons) (Richard Lloyd)
Responses: Disraeli Brown
Office Hymn: Creator of the starry height (Conditor Alme)
Psalms: 22, 23 (Camidge; Walford Davies)
First Lesson: Isaiah 43 vv14-end
Canticles: Statham in E minor
Second Lesson: Revelation 21 vv1-7
Anthem: Prepare ye the way (Wise)
Final Hymn: Hills of the north, rejoice (Little Cornard)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in D (Schmidt)
Catherine Lamb (Director of Music)
Martyn Rawles (Organist).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b03k0ptk)
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Roman Rabinovich
Sean Rafferty's guests include the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge - one of the most high-profile of the celebrated "Oxbridge" choirs. As they gear up for Christmas, the busiest time of year for any choir, they will be performing live in the In Tune studio.
Also today, young Israeli pianist and painter Roman Rabinovich, who rose to worldwide prominence when he won the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition. He'll be performing live in the studio, and showing Sean some of his acclaimed art work.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03k0pqh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03k6yng)
Live from the Barbican
BBC Symphony Orchestra - Schreker, Busoni, Ravel, Schoenberg (part 1)
Live from the Barbican Hall
Presented by Martin Handley
Glittering orchestral masterpieces by Schoenberg and Schreker with the BBCSO conducted by Josep Pons. French soprano Nora Grubisch sings Ravel's ravishing Shéhérazade.
7.30pm
Schreker: Die Gezeichneten - Overture
Busoni: Berceuse élégiaque
Ravel: Shéhérazade
8.15pm
Interval
8.35
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1
French soprano Nora Gubisch can trace her ancestry right back to Ravel's close friend Ricardo Viñes, and her lustrous voice and idiomatic style make her the ideal soloist for his orchestral songs, Shéhérazade. We are treated to Schreker's iridescent overture for large orchestra and two poignant elegies by Busoni and Ravel before being plunged into the seething creative whirl of Schoenberg's masterpiece, the Chamber Symphony No. 1, in the version for large orchestra.
WED 20:15 Discovering Music (b03k6ynj)
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1
Composed in 1906, Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony caused a riot at an early performance in Vienna in 1913: the infamous 'skandalkonzert' in which the audience rebelled against Schoenberg, Berg and Webern's stark musical expressionism.
Stephen Johnson explores a masterpiece on the edge between old and new musical worlds ? a crucial stepping stone towards the new artistic horizons of the 20th century.
WED 20:35 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03k6ynl)
Live from the Barbican
BBC Symphony Orchestra - Schreker, Busoni, Ravel, Schoenberg (part 2)
Live from the Barbican Hall
Presented by Martin Handley
Glittering orchestral masterpieces by Schoenberg and Schreker with the BBCSO conducted by Josep Pons. French soprano Nora Grubisch sings Ravel's ravishing Shéhérazade.
7.30pm
Schreker: Die Gezeichneten - Overture
Busoni: Berceuse élégiaque
Ravel: Shéhérazade
8.15pm
Interval
8.35
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1
French soprano Nora Gubisch can trace her ancestry right back to Ravel's close friend Ricardo Viñes, and her lustrous voice and idiomatic style make her the ideal soloist for his orchestral songs, Shéhérazade. We are treated to Schreker's iridescent overture for large orchestra and two poignant elegies by Busoni and Ravel before being plunged into the seething creative whirl of Schoenberg's masterpiece, the Chamber Symphony No. 1, in the version for large orchestra.
WED 22:00 Night Waves (b03k6yps)
Big Business, Art and the Middle East, Nebraska
Acclaimed children's author Meg Rosoff joins Samira Ahmed to discuss one of the most eagerly awaited films of the year - Alexander Payne's Nebraska. It's a new twist on the American road movie which focuses on the relationship between a son and his elderly father and features a performance by Bruce Dern that won him the best actor's prize at Cannes this year.
Samira will also be discussing art and the Middle East with the British Museum's Venetia Porter, the critic Godfrey Barker, and Saudi Arabia's best known artist, Abdulnasser Gharem.
And has "business become a dirty word?" Stefan Stern of the Cass Business School and Linda Yueh, the Chief Business correspondent for BBC News, look at whether business has separated itself from society and lost the confidence of its customers.
Producer: Zahid Warley.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b03k0q39)
The Islamic Golden Age
Al-Kindi
In a major series for Radio 3, we rediscover some of the key thinkers and achievements from the Islamic Golden Age. The period ranges from 750 to 1258 CE and over twenty episodes, we'll hear about architecture, invention, medicine, innovation and philosophy.
Professor James Montgomery explores the life and work of the Arab philosopher al-Kindi, widely regarded today as one of the greatest scholars of the medieval Islamic world. He was the first significant thinker to argue that philosophy and Islam had much to offer each other and need not be kept apart.
Al-Kindi lived in Iraq during the dynamic ninth century, a period when Baghdad was a hive of cultural and intellectual activity easily rivalling the greatness of Athens and Rome. He was hugely influenced by Greek philosophy and supervised the translation of many works by Aristotle and others into Arabic. The author of more than 250 works, he wrote on many different subjects, from optics to mathematics, music and astrology.
Producer: Mohini Patel.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b03k6yrn)
Wednesday - Nick Luscombe
Nick Luscombe's selection include sonic innovations from early 70s Angola, plus the godmother of Japanese electronica, Coppe.
THURSDAY 05 DECEMBER 2013
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b03k0p1q)
Denis Kozhukhin at the 2013 International Chopin Piano Festival
A recital given at last year's International Chopin Piano Festival by the Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Franck, Cesar (1822-1890)
Prelude, choral et fugue M.21 for piano
12:50 AM
Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963)
Sonata No.3 in B flat major for piano
1:10 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Sonata in F major H.
16.23 for keyboard
1:22 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Sonata No.6 in A major Op.82 for piano
1:51 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787) arr. Sgambati, Giovanni (1841-1914)
Dance of the blessed spirits arr. Sgambati for piano (from Orfeo ed Euridice Act II)
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
1:56 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Andantino from Sonata No.5 in C major Op.38 for piano (2nd movement)
2:00 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Prelude in G sharp minor (Op.32 no.12)
2:04 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pytor, Illyich (1840-1893)
Francesca da Rimini - symphonic fantasia after Dante (Op.32)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Róbert Stankovský (conductor)
2:31 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Symphony No.2 (Op.16) 'The Four Temperaments'
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ingar Bergby (conductor)
3:04 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (from "Solomon", HWV.67 - Act III Sinfonia)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
3:07 AM
Moscheles, Ignaz (1794-1870)
Grandes Variations sur la Marche favorite de l'Empereur Alexandre I for piano in F major (Op.32)
Tom Beghin (fortepiano - built by Gottlieb Hafner, Vienna, ca. 1830)
3:25 AM
Nørgård, Per (b.1932)
Pastorale for string trio (from the film 'Babette's Feast')
Trio Aristos:
3:31 AM
Albright, William Hugh (1944-1998)
Dream rags (1970): Morning reveries
Donna Coleman (piano)
3:38 AM
Zemzaris, Imants (b.1951)
The Melancolic valse, from 'Marvel pieces for violin and piano'
Janis Bulavs (violin), Olafs Stals (viola), Leons Veldre (cello), Aldis Liepinš (piano)
3:44 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Valse Triste (from Kuolema - incidental music Op.44)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
3:50 AM
Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594)
La nuit froide et sombre
The King's Singers
3:53 AM
Alpaerts, Flor (1876-1954)
Zomer-idylle (Summer Idyll) (1928)
Vlaams Radio Orkest; Michel Tabachnik (conductor)
4:01 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Symphony, Duet and Chorus 'Let all mankind the pleasure share and bless this happy day', from 'Dioclesian', Z.627
Gillian Fisher (soprano), Michael George (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
4:04 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Fetes galantes - volume 2 for voice and piano (1904)
Paula Hoffman (mezzo-soprano), Lars-David Nilsson (piano)
4:12 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Alborada del gracioso (The Jester's Aubade) - from the suite 'Miroirs' (1905)
Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano)
4:20 AM
Van Hoof, Jef (1886-1959)
Symphonic Introduction to a Festive Occasion (1942)
Vlaams Radio Orkest , Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor)
4:31 AM
Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich (c1620-1680)
Sonata XII from 'Sacroprofanus concentus musicus'
Gradus ad Parnassum, Concerto Palatino, Konrad Junghänel (director)
4:36 AM
Fesch, Willem de (1687-c.1757)
Concerto for violin and orchestra in C minor (Op.5 No.5)
Manfred Kraemer (violin), Musica ad Rhenum
4:46 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Rondo brillante in E flat 'La gaieté for piano' (J.252) (Op.62)
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)
4:53 AM
Willan, Healey (1880-1968)
Centennial March (1967)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
4:58 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Cantata: Heilig, Heilig (Wq.217/H.778)
The Netherlands Chamber Choir, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman (conductor)
5:05 AM
Sacchini, Antonio (1735-1786)
Trio sonata in G major
Violetas Visinskas (flute), Algirdas Simenas (violin), Gediminas Derus (cello), Daumantas Slipkus (piano)
5:16 AM
Strozzi, Barbara (1619-1677)
Begl'occhi, bel seno for Soprano, 2 violins and continuo
Musica Fiorita , Daniela Dolci (harpsichord/director)
5:21 AM
Busoni, Ferruccio (1866-1924)
Concertino for clarinet and small orchestra (Op.48) in B flat major (BV 276)
Dancho Radevski (clarinet) Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Plamen Djouroff (conductor)
5:34 AM
Dussek, Jan Ladislav (1760-1812)
Sonata for piano (Op.35 No.1) in B flat major
Andreas Staier (Broadwood fortepiano of 1805)
5:55 AM
Novak, Vitezslav (1870-1949)
V Tatrach (In the Tatra mountains) - symphonic poem (Op.26)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
6:12 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Quartet for flute and strings in C major K.285b
Joanna G'froerer (flute), Martin Beaver (violin), Pinchas Zukerman (viola), Amanda Forsyth (cello).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b03ntzmq)
Thursday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring your requests in our Advent Calendar of seasonal music.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests and Musical Map suggestions.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b03kkd80)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with Howard Brenton
Sarah Walker with her guest, the playwright and screenwriter Howard Brenton.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Glinka - Overtures and Dances featuring the USSR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov, and at
9.30am, our daily brainteaser: What am I?
10am
Artist of the Week: Maria Joao Pires
10.30am
This week, Sarah's guest is the award-winning playwright and screenwriter Howard Brenton. Known for his state-of-the-nation political comedies and satires, his plays have included #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei, The Churchill Play, Weapons of Happiness, Anne Boleyn, 55 Days (a fictional meeting between Cromwell and Charles I) and, with David Hare, Pravda and Brassneck. He has written a number of screenplays, including episodes for the BBC TV series, Spooks, and has produced translations of plays by Goethe, Brecht and Georg Büchner.
11am
Essential Choice: Maria Callas.
In celebration of the 90th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas, Sarah Walker presents classic recordings from her spectacular operatic career.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03k0pqk)
Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
Dressed Up Like a Fascist
Donald Macleod examines Mascagni's political attitudes, from his sympathy with the socialist cause in the early 1920s to his relationship with Mussolini as fascism took hold of Italy
Composer of the Week marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Pietro Mascagni, who triumphed in his early twenties with his opera Cavalleria Rusticana and, during his lifetime, was one of the most famous figures in Italy. He came to prominence just as Verdi was entering old age and Italy was searching for a new maestro. Mascagni's good looks and charm ensured that his fame spread worldwide. He continued to write operas although none achieved the success of his early hit. Towards the end of his life, he found himself marginalised from new currents in Italian music and having to associate himself with Mussolini's fascist regime.
Mascagni found himself in an impossible situation in 1920s Italy, struggling to accommodate himself with the opposed political forces battling it out. He had shown solidarity with striking workers in his native Livorno during the years of revolutionary ferment following the First World War, so was initially labelled as a Bolshevik by the Fascist regime in power from 1922. He missed Italy too much to live in exile and, on his return, was forced to express support for Mussolini if he wanted to resume life there. Donald Macleod looks at how Mascagni became associated with the regime and the works he wrote during this turbulent period.
Bimba bionda
Angel Rodriguez (tenor); Fausta Cianti (piano)
Lodoletta (excerpt Act 1)
Jolán Sánta, mezzo-soprano (La Vanard); Maria Spacagna, soprano (Lodoletta); Károly Szilágyi, baritone (Giannotto); Péter Kelen, tenor (Flammen); Hungarian Radio and Television Chorus; Hungarian State Orchestra; Charles Rosekrans (conductor)
Il piccolo Marat (excerpt Act 1)
Frédéric Vassar, bass (President/ Ogre); Susan Neves, soprano (Mariella); Daniel Galvez-Vallejo, tenor (Il Piccolo Marat);
The Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra; The Netherlands Radio Choir; Kees Bakels (conductor)
Canto del lavoro
La Scala Orchestra; Pietro Mascagni (conductor)
Rapsodia satanica (excerpt)
The Londerzeel Youth Symphonic Orchestra; Peter Himpe (conductor).
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03k0prp)
Music from Scotland
Notos Quartet
The young Frankfurt-based Notos Quartet perform chamber music by Brahms and Estonian composer Edward Tubin. Recorded in the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen.
Edward Tubin: Piano Quartet in C sharp minor
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No.3 in C minor
The Notos Quartet.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03k0psj)
BBC Orchestras Live
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
For the first time ever, Afternoon on 3 has a live concert every day of the week - one by each of the five BBC Orchestras, playing at their respective homes in Cardiff, Salford, London and Glasgow. An American thread runs throughout the week, as part of Afternoon on 3's celebration of American music this autumn.
Today it's the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at their home, City Halls in Glasgow, with a programme featuring one of this year's anniversary composers, Richard Wagner, and two of his greatest fans - Richard 'the second' (Strauss), and the Belgian César Franck.
During the interval there's a recording of the BBC SSO and their Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles in American music with a European connection by John Adams. And following the concert Katie Derham presents the orchestra in concert last month celebrating Wagner's 200th birthday with a rarely heard Symphony.
LIVE from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Louise Fryer
Wagner: Overture to Rienzi
Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat major
Richard Watkins (horn),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Pierre-André Valade (conductor).
2.35pm
(Interval)
John Adams: Slonimsky's Earbox
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Donald Runnicles (conductor).
2.50pm
LIVE from City Halls, Glasgow
César Franck: Symphony in D minor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Pierre-André Valade (conductor).
3.30pm
Mozart: The Magic Flute - Overture
Wagner: Symphony in C major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Andrew Grams (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b03k0ptm)
Daniel Barenboim, Steinberg Duo
Sean Rafferty's guests include world renowned maestro Daniel Barenboim - he'll be chatting about his upcoming conductor duties at the world famous waltz-fest that is the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Day Concert.
Plus, live music from violin/piano combo the Steinberg Duo.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03k0pqk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03k6z53)
Halle - Elgar, Ravel, Dvorak
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Adam Tomlinson
Andrew Gourlay conducts The Halle in Elgar, Ravel and Dvorak live from Bridgewater Hall.
7.30pm
Elgar: Overture - In the South (Alassio)
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
8.15pm
Interval
8.35
Dvorák: Symphony No.7 in D minor
Andrew Gourlay is one in a succession of former Hallé Assistant Conductors now forging ahead in the musical world. On his return to Manchester he is joined by the brilliant Hong Xu for Ravel's wonderfully jazz-inspired Piano Concerto in G. The slow movement is one of the most gorgeous in the whole of French music.
The Halle continues to mark the bicentenary of the Royal Philharmonic Society with a masterpiece commissioned by that body in 1884: Dvorák's dark-hued Seventh Symphony. Clearly influenced by the Third Symphony of his friend and mentor Brahms, it's nevertheless a very Czech work with a stirring rallying call of a finale to Dvorák's compatriots in the face of Austro-Hungarian oppression.
The concert springs into life with Elgar's great tribute to Italy, his inspirational In the South Overture.
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b03k6zd3)
Nelson Mandela
With the announcement of Nelson Mandela's death, two of South Africa's cultural giants - the playwright Athol Fugard and the actor and director Dame Janet Suzman - talk to Philip Dodd about the man they knew, his fight against apartheid and his legacy.
And Philip discusses immigration in the UK with David Goodhart, director of the think tank Demos, founder of the magazine Prospect and author of The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Postwar Immigration, and Edward Mortimer, who was Director of Communications in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary General and who writes leaders for the Financial Times.
Producer: Neil Trevithick.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b03k6zd5)
Thursday - Nick Luscombe
Nick Luscombe with the usual mix of the unusual, including Irish electro-acoustic composer Roger Doyle, Detroit Techno from Carl Craig, and new music from the Kronos Quartet. Plus Portuguese fado, sung by Francisco Fialho.
FRIDAY 06 DECEMBER 2013
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b03k0p1t)
The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra pitches into the classical era with Beethoven's 4th Symphony, and the Symphony in C by Chopin's teacher Jozef Elsner. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Elsner, Jozef Antoni Franciszek [1769-1854]
Symphony in C major, Op. 11
Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)
12:54 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von [1786-1826]
Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, Op.74
Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet), Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)
1:18 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op.60
Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)
1:52 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
String Quintet in G minor (K.516)
Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Jessica Linnebach (violin), Jethro Marks (viola), Donnie Deacon (viola), Amanda Forsyth (cello)
2:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
String Quintet in C major (Op.29)
Yggdrasil String Quartet
3:04 AM
Mussorgsky, Modest [1839-1881]
Pictures from an exhibition for piano
Fazil Say (piano)
3:37 AM
Ciurlionis, Mikalojus Konstantinas (1875-1911)
De Profundis (cantata)
Kaunas State Choir, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Petras Bingelis (conductor)
3:46 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
2 pieces for cello and piano, Op.2 (Prélude; Danse Orientale)
Monika Leskovar (cello), Ivana Švarc-Grenda (piano)
3:55 AM
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787)
Symphony in E flat major (Op.10 No.3)
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)
4:04 AM
Castelnuovo Tedesco, Mario (1895-1968)
Capriccio Diabolico for guitar (Op.85)
Goran Listes (guitar)
4:14 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Fantasy on an Irish song 'The Last Rose of Summer' (Op.15)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
4:23 AM
Martucci, Giuseppe (1856-1909)
Noveletta (Op.82 No.2)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Nello Santi (conductor)
4:31 AM
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911)
Norwegian artists' carnival (Op.14)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
4:38 AM
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909)
4 Songs - Z nowa wiosna (1892-5?)
Jadwiga Rappé (contralto), Ewa Poblocka (piano)
4:46 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Rondo à la Mazur for piano in F major (Op.5)
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
4:54 AM
Roman, Johan Helmich [1694-1758]
Symphonia No.20 in E minor
Stockholm Antiqua
5:03 AM
Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594)
Pelli meae consumptis carnibus
The King's Singers
5:11 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
Prelude, Toccata and Variations
Mindaugas Gecevicius (horn), Ala Bendoraitiene (piano)
5:22 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Overture from Suite No.1 in C major (BWV.1066)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
5:32 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in A major (K.331)
Young-Lan Han (piano)
5:53 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph [1732-1809]
Trio for keyboard and strings (H.XV.19) in G minor
Katharine Gowers (violin), Adrian Brendel (cello), Paul Lewis (piano)
6:09 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907)
Holberg Suite (Op.40) vers. for string orchestra
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b03k0q54)
Friday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's Breakfast, featuring music by Brahms, Vivaldi and Gabriel Jackson. Performances by artists including Imogen Cooper, Barry Tuckwell, Njabulo Madlala and Arpeggiata.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests and Musical Map suggestions.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b03k0pmv)
Friday - Sarah Walker with Howard Brenton
Sarah Walker with her guest, the playwright and screenwriter Howard Brenton.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Glinka - Overtures and Dances featuring the USSR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov, and at
9.30am, our daily brainteaser: Only Connect
10am
Artist of the Week: Maria Joao Pires
10.30am
This week, Sarah's guest is the award-winning playwright and screenwriter Howard Brenton. Known for his state-of-the-nation political comedies and satires, his plays have included #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei, The Churchill Play, Weapons of Happiness, Anne Boleyn, 55 Days (a fictional meeting between Cromwell and Charles I) and, with David Hare, Pravda and Brassneck. He has written a number of screenplays, including episodes for the BBC TV series, Spooks, and has produced translations of plays by Goethe, Brecht and Georg Büchner.
11am
Essential Choice: Maria Callas.
In celebration of the 90th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas, Sarah Walker presents classic recordings from her spectacular operatic career.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03k0pqm)
Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
Last Audiences
Donald Macleod looks at Mascagni's last years in Rome, during which he exchanged audiences with Mussolini for meetings with the Pope, and wrote his swan song, the opera Nerone.
Composer of the Week marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Pietro Mascagni, who triumphed in his early twenties with his opera Cavalleria Rusticana and, during his lifetime, was one of the most famous figures in Italy. He came to prominence just as Verdi was entering old age and Italy was searching for a new maestro. Mascagni's good looks and charm ensured that his fame spread worldwide. He continued to write operas although none achieved the success of his early hit. Towards the end of his life, he found himself marginalised from new currents in Italian music and having to associate himself with Mussolini's fascist regime.
During his final years Mascagni wrote little music and the works he did produce were mostly based on earlier musical ideas or subjects. Approaching 70, he simplified his life, selling up his grander properties and moving into a modest hotel suite in Rome. He took pleasure in long card games with friends and seeing his mistress Anna Lolli every day but he was, by this time, largely ignored by the musical world. Donald Macleod looks at this lonely period of Mascagni's life and his final works, including his swan song, the opera Nerone, which was refused a Rome premiere by the regime.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03k0prr)
Music from Scotland
Nicolas Altstaedt, Jose Gallardo
German cellist Nicolas Altstaedt is joined by Argentinian pianist José Gallardo in a programme of chamber music by Schumann, Webern and Rachmaninov. Recorded at the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen.
Schumann: Fantasiestücke Op.73
Webern: 2 Pieces for cello and piano (1899)
Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata in G minor Op.19
Nicolas Altstaedt, cello
José Gallardo, piano.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03k0psl)
BBC Orchestras Live
BBC Symphony Orchestra
For the first time ever, Afternoon on 3 has a live concert every day of the week - one by each of the five BBC Orchestras, playing at their respective homes in Cardiff, Salford, London and Glasgow. An American thread runs throughout the week, as part of Afternoon on 3's celebration of American music this autumn.
Today the BBC Symphony Orchestra round off the series with a concert of American favourites live at their home in London's Maida Vale Studio 1, with American conductor Joshua Weilerstein.
Following the concert, Katie Derham presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in concert in Truro just a couple of weeks ago. They join forces with local choir the Three Spires Festival Singers to perform a major choral-orchestral work by Cornish composer George Lloyd, born in St. Ives 100 years ago this year (he died in 1998).
LIVE from Maida Vale Studio 1, London
Barber: The School for scandal - overture, Op. 5
Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F major
Bernstein, orch. Ramin and Kostal: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Martin Roscoe (piano),
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)
3.25pm
George Lloyd: A Symphonic Mass
Three Spires Festival Singers,
BBC National Orchestra of Wales,
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b03k0ptp)
Candide, Leonard Elschenbroich
Sean Rafferty with live music from the cast of the Menier Chocolate Factory's new production of Bernstein's musical Candide, Angelique Kidjo pays tribute to Nelson Mandela plus cellist Leonard Elschenbroich pops in for a chat.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
FRI 18:00 Composer of the Week (b03k0pqm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:00 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03k6zy5)
Bach - Christmas Oratorio
Live from Trefoldighetskirken, Oslo
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Live from Oslo, a seasonal favourite in new garb: four cantatas from Bach's Christmas Oratorio in a new version with accompaniments arranged for wind orchestra.
J S Bach: Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248)
Jauchzet, frohlocket
Und es waren Hirten
8.00 Music interval
8.20
Herrscher des Himmels
Herr, wenn die Stolzen
Berit Norbakken Solset (soprano)
Rupert Enticknap (countertenor)
Petter Wulfsberg Moen (tenor)
Thomas Tatzl (bass)
BBC Singers
Norwegian Wind Ensemble
Christopher Bucknall (conductor)
The Norwegian Wind Ensemble is one of the country's most distinguished instrumental groups, and its history extends back to the 18th century. Innovative and distinctive programming and a repertoire of music old and new is a notable feature of the ensemble's work; tonight its players turn their attention Bach's Christmas Oratorio - a masterpiece of Baroque choral music given here in a new arrangement for wind orchestra. English conductor Christopher Bucknall directs the performance, joined by the BBC Singers and an international team of young soloists, and broadcast live from the magnificent surroundings of one of Oslo's biggest and most beautiful churches.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b03k701k)
The Surreal Verb
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's 'Cabaret of the word'. This week, The Verb is looking at 'The Surreal' with poet Ira Lightman, artist and writer Charlotte Cory and Michel Remy, editor of 'On The Thirteenth Stroke of Midnight: Surrealist Poetry in Britain'.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b03k0q3f)
The Islamic Golden Age
Al-Farabi
In a major series for Radio 3, we rediscover some of the key thinkers and achievements from the Islamic Golden Age. The period ranges from 750 to 1258 CE and over twenty episodes, we'll hear about architecture, invention, medicine, innovation and philosophy.
In the final essay in this first set of ten essays, Professor Peter Adamson reflects on the magnitude of Al-Farabi's contribution to philosophy in the Islamic Golden Age. Al-Farabi studied and taught amongst the Christians of the Baghdad school, and later went to Syria and Egypt, dying in the middle of the 10th century in Damascus. His writings reflect the agenda of the Baghdad school: he wrote commentaries on Aristotle, concentrating on the logical works so prized by the school founder Matta. But Farabi seems to have had a more ambitious aim than his colleagues did. He wanted not just to elucidate Aristotle, or to press philosophical ideas into the service of religion but to integrate all branches of philosophy into a single, systematic theory.
Producer: Mohini Patel.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b03k706z)
Nelson Mandela tribute, with Lopa Kothari
Lopa Kothari with a musical tribute to Nelson Mandela including tracks by South African artists Miriam Makeba with Harry Belafonte, Hugh Masakela, Vusi Mahlasela, Hugh Masakela and Mandela's favourite band, the Manhattan Brothers.
There are tunes from around the African continent by Angelique Kidjo, Khaled, Oumou Sangare, and the Bhundu Boys, and foreign correspondent and music journalist Robin Denselow joins Lopa to remember some key musical moments in Mandela's life. Plus an exclusive preview of Andy Kershaw's specially made tribute which airs next Friday at
11pm on Radio 3.
And the editor of fRoots Ian Anderson, reveals the results of the magazine's 2013 Critics Poll.
Producer James Parkin.