Two Piano Quartets: Brahms's G minor and, a hundred years after it was written, the first UK broadcast of Catalan composer Juli Garreta's Piano Quartet. With Catriona Young.
Katia Novell (violin), Jennifer Stahl (viola), Nabi Cabestany (cello), Lluis Parés (piano)
Katia Novell (violin), Jennifer Stahl (viola), Nabi Cabestany (cello), Lluis Parés (piano)
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594) arranged by Soriano, Francesco (1548-1621)
Philippe Koch (violin), Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Olaf Henzold (conductor)
Andrew Nicholson (Flute) BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (conductor)
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's Breakfast, featuring works by Wagner, J.S. Bach, Nielsen, Santiago de Murcia and Beethoven. Also, performances by the Brodsky Quartet, Thomas Dausgaard, Kathryn Stott, Bach Collegium Japan and Jonas Kaufman.
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: Choral music from the Renaissance and Baroque with the Cambridge Singers and La Nuova Musica under John Rutter. We also have our daily brainteaser at
Sarah's guest this week is the novelist and biographer, Miranda Seymour. Biographies by Miranda include the lives of Ottoline Morrell, Mary Shelley, Virginia Cherrill (Chaplin's Girl), Hellé Nice (Bugatti Queen), Henry James (A Ring of Conspirators) and Robert Graves (about whom she also wrote a novel, The Telling, and a radio play, Sea Music). In My Father's House won the 2008 Pen Ackerley Memoir of the Year prize and was selected as a New York Times Book of the Year. Miranda's latest book - Noble Endeavours: Stories from England; Stories from Germany - was published earlier this year.
Brahms orch. Schoenberg
Donald Macleod visits the site of the world's oldest parliament - and explores the remarkable, genre-crossing voice of the world's most celebrated Icelandic musician: Bjork.
For more than a millennium, Iceland's composers have drawn upon the sounds of its unique geology: sounds created in a glacial, geothermal landscape like nowhere else on earth. Searing water explodes from fissures; the earth steams spongily underfoot; vast, electric-blue hunks of solid ice crack and collide as they bob down otherwise silent fjords. Yet Iceland's classical music tradition remains barely known. This week, Donald Macleod explores the landscapes and vistas of the world's most northerly island nation - to discover its unique musical culture.
The fleeting flute dreams of Atli Heimir Sveinsson's "21 Sounding Minutes" thread together today's story of Iceland's past both ancient and modern. At Thingvellir, historic site of the world's oldest continuous democratic parliament, Donald Macleod introduces a cantata by Jon Leifs that looks back at his hardy Scandinavian forebears, before bringing us into the 20th century with a charming piano concerto by Iceland's leading female composer Jorunn Vidar. He ends by exploring the remarkable, genre-crossing career - and voice - of unquestionably Iceland's most famous musical export: Bjork.
Atli Heimir Sveinsson: Sounds of Flowers; Sounds of Heaven (21 Sounding Minutes)
Christian Blackshaw's recent recordings of Mozart piano music have won him a repuation as one of the composer's leading interpreters. Today he begins a week of Mozart from LSO St Lukes with two sonatas - K281 in B flat and K533/494 in F, and the Fantasy in C minor, K475
Stuart Flinders presents a live concert by the BBC Philharmonic and their Chief Guest Conductor John Storgards, at MediaCity in Salford. You can hear Carl Nielsen's enigmatic final symphony, an overture by Hindemith - continuing this week's series marking the 50th anniversary of his death - and Shostakovich's well-loved Second Piano Concerto, with Martin Roscoe as soloist.
Wagner's Parsifal, in a new production by Stephen Langridge, live from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. With Simon O'Neill, Rene Pape, Angela Denoke and Gerald Finley conducted by Antonio Pappano. Presented by Martin Handley with guest, Wagner scholar Nicholas Baragwanath. With contributions from cast, conductor and director.
Wagner's final music drama presents a religious community in decay, whose rituals have become empty and meaningless. One of their leaders, Gurnemanz, is searching for "a pure fool made wise through compassion." According to a prophecy the pure fool will redeem the order and give them a new lease of life. Parsifal is the young thug who bursts in on the scene in Act one, goes through trials of sexual temptation and compassion in the middle act only to return as the redeemer of the community at the end. Combining the Christian grail legend with elements of Buddhism and the pessimistic philosophy of Schopenhauer, this artwork about religion is for many people a religious experience in itself and it was the only one of Wagner's operas written for performance in the Festspielhaus at Bayreuth.
Klingsor.....Willard W. White (bass)
Professor Christopher Janaway on Wagner's life-changing encounter with the pessimistic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. In 1854 he read Schopenhauer's masterwork, The World as Will and Representation; and it hit him like a thunderbolt. Wagner discovered a thinker who endorsed his own developing views on the role of music and gave him a new way to think about his perpetual struggles with desire and erotic love. It also convinced him of the futility of political agitation. It can be argued that Wagner bent these ideas to his own purposes; and that Tristan and Isolde, written in the aftermath of this great encounter, is really a Schopenhauerian experiment gone wrong: instead of losing desire and attachment, the two lovers intensify both to the extreme. It was only in his last opera, Parsifal, that Wagner finally produced a music drama that seems in many respects at peace with the ascetic ideal of his philosophical hero, Arthur Schopenhauer.
A musical meeting between Brian Hannerty and Sun Ra, Funky Highlife by C.K Mann and His Carousel, and the beautifully intense organ music of Ligeti. Presented by Nick Luscombe.
THURSDAY 12 DECEMBER 2013
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b03kp7jn)
Catriona Young introduces Catalan baroque music from La Xantria and their director Pere Lluis Biosca from the Torroella de Montgri Festival.
12:31 AM
Pujol, Joan Pau [1570-1626]
Mass on the 2nd Tone ('In Festo Beati Georgii') - excerpts
La Xantria (choir), Carles Vallès (bassoon), Dani Espasa (organ), Pere Lluís Biosca (director)
12:40 AM
Cererols, Joan [1618-1676]
Three Marian Anthems ('To the Monserrat Virgin')
La Xantria (choir), Carles Vallès (bassoon), Dani Espasa (organ), Pere Lluís Biosca (director)
12:48 AM
Valls, Francisco [1672-1747]
Three motets (Hodie Maria Virgo, O vos omnes, O sacrum convivium)
La Xantria (choir), Dani Espasa (organ), Pere Lluís Biosca (director)
12:57 AM
Milans, Tomàs [1672-1742]
Psalms and motets
La Xantria (choir), Carles Vallès (bassoon), Bérengère Sardin (harp), Dani Espasa (organ), Pere Lluís Biosca (director)
1:24 AM
Cererols, Joan [1618-1676]
Et incarnatus est - from Mass on the 4th tone
La Xantria (choir), Bérengère Sardin (harp), Dani Espasa (organ), Pere Lluís Biosca (director)
1:26 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
"Gute Nacht, o Wesen" from Jesu, meine Freude - motet BWV.227
La Xantria (choir), Dani Espasa (organ), Pere Lluís Biosca (director)
1:31 AM
Anon. (17th century)
Paradetas (after Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz)
Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (director)
1:32 AM
Cabanilles, Juan Bautista José (1644-1712)
Tiento de falsas XII
Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (director)
1:35 AM
Murcia, Santiago de (1682-1740)
La Jota
Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (director)
1:38 AM
Soler, Antonio (1729-1783)
Fandango for keyboard in D minor (R.146)
Scott Ross (harpsichord)
1:50 AM
Marin, José (c. 1618-1699)
No piense Menguilla ya'
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Rolf Lislevand (baroque guitar), Arianna Savall (double harp), Pedro Estevan (percussion), Adela González-Campa (castanets)
1:56 AM
Sanz, Gaspar [1640-1710]
Suite espanola for guitar
Tomaz Rajteric (guitar)
2:07 AM
Rodrigo, Joaquín (1901-1999)
Concierto de Aranjuez
Norbert Kraft (guitar), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
2:31 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Le Carnaval Romain - overture
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
2:40 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Sonata in E flat (Hob.XVI:49)
Arthur Schoondewoerd (fortepiano)
2:59 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Symphony for string orchestra no. 9 in C;
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (director)
3:30 AM
Bach, Johann Christoph (1642-1703)
Der Gerechte
Cantus Cölln: Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), Graham Pushee (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk and Wilfred Jochens (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Christoph Anselm Noll (organ), Konrad Junghänel (director)
3:34 AM
Bach, Johann Michael (1648-1694)
Halt, was du hast
Cantus Cölln , Konrad Junghänel (director)
3:39 AM
Bach, Johann Michael (1648-1694)
Fürchtet euch nicht - motet for double chorus and continuo
Cantus Cölln Konrad Junghänel (director)
3:43 AM
Roman, Johan Helmich (1694-1758)
13 pieces from 'Drottningholmsmusiquen' (1744)
Concerto Köln
4:04 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975)
Quartet for Strings No. 7 in F sharp minor (Op.108)
Atrium Quartet
4:17 AM
Copland, Aaron (1900-1990)
El Salón México
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
4:31 AM
Palmgren, Selim (1878-1951)
Exotic March
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, George de Godzinsky (conductor)
4:36 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in A major (K.331)
Young-Lan Han (piano)
4:57 AM
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937)
Penthesilia, for soprano and orchestra
Elzbieta Szmytka (soprano), Orchestre National de France, Hans Graf (conductor)
5:03 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
2 pieces for cello and piano, Op.2
Monika Leskovar (cello), Ivana Švarc-Grenda (piano)
5:12 AM
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936)
Concert waltz for orchestra no.1 (Op.47) in D major
CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Kazuyoshi Akiyama (conductor)
5:21 AM
Verbytsky, Mykhalo (1815-1870)
Choral concerto "The Angel Declared"
Valentina Reshetar (soprano), Irina Horlytska (contralto), Vasyl Kovalenko (tenor), Oleksandr Bojko (bass) Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor)
5:26 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Piano Quintet in A major (D.667) "Trout"
Nicolai Demidenko (piano), Marianne Thorsen (violin), Are Sandbakken (viola), Leonid Gorokhov (cello), Dan Styffe (double bass)
6:10 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Suite for strings and continuo (TWV.55:Es3) in E flat major 'La Lyra'
B'Rock Jurgen Gross (director).
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 (b03kp7v9)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with Miranda Seymour
Sarah Walker with her guest, the novelist and biographer Miranda Seymour.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Choral music from the Renaissance and Baroque with the Cambridge Singers and La Nuova Musica under John Rutter. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30 - today, Who am I?
10am
Artist of the Week: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the novelist and biographer, Miranda Seymour. Biographies by Miranda include the lives of Ottoline Morrell, Mary Shelley, Virginia Cherrill (Chaplin's Girl), Hellé Nice (Bugatti Queen), Henry James (A Ring of Conspirators) and Robert Graves (about whom she also wrote a novel, The Telling, and a radio play, Sea Music). In My Father's House won the 2008 Pen Ackerley Memoir of the Year prize and was selected as a New York Times Book of the Year. Miranda's latest book - Noble Endeavours: Stories from England; Stories from Germany - was published earlier this year.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice:
Hummel
Piano Quintet in E flat minor Op 87
Christophe Gaugué (viola)
Stéphane Logerot (double bass)
Wanderer Trio
HARMONIA MUNDI.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03kp839)
Iceland
Sagas and Requiems
Donald Macleod explores the influence of Iceland's sagas on its music, before exploring the contemporary music scene with Valgeir Sigurðsson, a leading producer and composer.
For more than a millennium, Iceland's composers have drawn upon the sounds of its unique geology: sounds created in a glacial, geothermal landscape like nowhere else on earth. Searing water explodes from fissures; the earth steams spongily underfoot; vast, electric-blue hunks of solid ice crack and collide as they bob down otherwise silent fjords. Yet Iceland's classical music tradition remains barely known. This week, Donald Macleod explores the landscapes and vistas of the world's most northerly island nation - to discover its unique musical culture.
Having survived the traumas of the Second World War, the life of Iceland's leading composer, Jon Leifs was to fall apart in 1947 after his daughter Líf drowned in the sea. Donald Macleod explores the legacy of this tragedy on his music with the musicologist Arni Heimir Ingolfsson before meeting one of Icelandic contemporary music's most important figures: the record producer and composer Valgeir Sigurdsson, whose music seems to transcend genre classifications such 'popular', 'classical', 'ambient' and 'electronica'.
Björk: Eg Veit Ei Hvad Skal Segja (Gling-Glo)
Bjork (vocals); Trio Gudmundar Ingolfssonar
[After "Ricochet" by Larry Coleman, Joe Darion, and Norman Gimbel]
Bjork: Kata Rokkar (Gling-Glo)
Bjork (vocals); Trio Gudmundar Ingolfssonar
Jon Leifs: Thormodr Kolbrunarskald (Saga Symphony)
Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
Jon Leifs: Requiem and Eternity (String Quartet No 2 "Vita et Mors")
The Yggdrasil Quartet
Thorkell Sigurbjornsson - Flute Concerto ("Columbine")
Manuela Wiesler (flute)
Southern Jutland Symphony Orchestra, Tamas Veto (conductor)
Valgeir Sigurdsson: Grylukvaedi (Draumalandid)
[studio composition]
First broadcast December 2012.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03kp85q)
LSO St Luke's Mozart Chamber Music Series
Chiaroscuro Quartet
The all-Mozart series at LSO St Lukes continues with the Chiaroscuro Quartet performing Mozart's Quartets in C, K465 (Dissonance) and in E flat, K428
Mozart: String Quartet in C, K465 (Dissonance)
Mozart: String Quartet in E flat, K428
Chiaroscuro Quartet:
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Pablo Hernán Benedí (violin)
Emilie Hörnlund (viola)
Claire Thirion (cello).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03kp93c)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Thursday Opera Matinee - Verdi 200: La Forza del Destino
Verdi 200: La Forza del Destino (1862 original St Petersburg version)
The Marquis of Calatrava says goodnight to his daughter, Leonora, unaware that she plans that very night to elope with Alvaro, the sole survivor of a noble family condemned to extermination for supporting the Incas in the face of Spanish colonial rule. Alvaro appears on the balcony to flee with Leonora but is interrupted by the Marquis. Alvaro gives himself up and throws his pistol on the floor but it goes off killing the Marquis. Alvaro and Leonora flee and are on the run for nearly a decade before fate finally catches up with them.
This first version of Verdi's drama with its romantically gloomy denouement was a huge success in St Petersburg but Verdi had his doubts, writing to Piave his librettist that they must 'think of a way of avoiding so many deaths.'
Penny Gore presents Valery Gergiev's 1995 account of this seldom heard original version.
The Marquis of Calatrava ..... Askar Abdrazakov (bass),
Leonora, his daugter ..... Galina Gorchakova (soprano),
Don Carlo di Vargas, his son ..... Nikolai Putilin (baritone),
Don Alvaro, Leonora's suitor ..... Gegam Grigorian (tenor),
Curra, Leonora's maid ..... Lia Shevtzova (mezzo-soprano),
Preziosilla a young gypsy girl ..... Olga Borodina (mezzo-soprano),
Padre Guardiano, Fransiscan Father Superior ..... Mikhail Kit (bass),
Fra Melitone, Franciscan ..... Georgy Zastavny (bass),
Alcade, mayor ..... Gennady Bezzubenkov (bass),
Maestro Trabuco, muleteer and peddler ..... Nikolai Gasiev (tenor),
Surgeon ..... Yuri Laptev (bass),
Orchestra and Chorus of the Kirov Theatre, St Petersburg
Valery Gergiev (conductor).
THU 17:00 In Tune (b03kp961)
La Nuova Musica, Mark Bebbington
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from the early music ensemble La Nuova Musica and pianist Mark Bebbington
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03kp839)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03kpdh8)
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
BBC SSO - Beethoven, Shostakovich, Adams (part 1)
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles and violinist James Ehnes bring us three masterworks from three centuries.
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
19.30
Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1
20.45
Interval
21.05
John Adams; City Noir
James Ehnes (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles
Written in 2009, this masterpiece by John Adams was first suggested by reading the "dream" books by Kevin Starr, painting a picture of 1940s Los Angeles as possessing "a certain sassy, savvy energy. It was, among other things, a Front Page kind of town where life was lived by many on the edge, and that made for good copy and good film noir". His piece doesn't refer to the soundtracks of those films - but evokes the mood and feeling of the era. You'll hear Jazz, Symphonic and American music, jumping from high to low energy - and the city can be imagined "as a source of inexhaustible sensual experience".
Paired with Beethoven's dazzlingly bright Fourth Symphony written in 1806, and the ominous twilight of Shostakovich's tormented First Violin Concerto, started in 1947, played by the quite simply brilliant James Ehnes, this is an evening not to miss.
After the concert: Llyr Williams plays Wagner's piano music.
THU 20:40 Discovering Music (b03kpdhg)
John Adams: City Noir
Composed in 2009, John Adams's City Noir is a dark, brooding, jazz-inflected tribute to film noir. The composer's primary inspiration was urban California in the 1950s - from Sunset Boulevard to Macarthur Park - and his score seethes with barely-repressed energy. Stephen Johnson explores its murky musical pages.
THU 21:00 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03kpdhl)
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
BBC SSO - Beethoven, Shostakovich, Adams (part 2)
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles and violinist James Ehnes bring us three masterworks from three centuries.
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
19.30
Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1
20.45
Interval
21.05
John Adams; City Noir
James Ehnes (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles
Written in 2009, this masterpiece by John Adams was first suggested by reading the "dream" books by Kevin Starr, painting a picture of 1940s Los Angeles as possessing "a certain sassy, savvy energy. It was, among other things, a Front Page kind of town where life was lived by many on the edge, and that made for good copy and good film noir". His piece doesn't refer to the soundtracks of those films - but evokes the mood and feeling of the era. You'll hear Jazz, Symphonic and American music, jumping from high to low energy - and the city can be imagined "as a source of inexhaustible sensual experience".
Paired with Beethoven's dazzlingly bright Fourth Symphony written in 1806, and the ominous twilight of Shostakovich's tormented First Violin Concerto, started in 1947, played by the quite simply brilliant James Ehnes, this is an evening not to miss.
After the concert: Llyr Williams plays Wagner's piano music.
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b03kpb6d)
American Pyscho, Roosevelt, Medieval Christmas, British Architects
Anne McElvoy is joined by Susannah Clapp and Cleo Van Velsen with a first night review of a new musical adaptation of "American Psycho", Brett Easton Ellis's 1991 novel, graphically violent in its indictment of consumerism. Matt Smith, who has been seen on TV screens as "Dr Who", stars as Patrick Bateman, the serial killer Manhattan businessman.
Doris Kearns Goodwin's last book Team Of Rivals was praised by Barack Obama and made into a film by Steven Spielberg. Her latest book The Bully Pulpit recreates the turbulent politics of reforming President Theodore Roosevelt. She joins Anne to discuss the birth of Progressive Politics and the lessons of history for US politics today.
Did British architects consolidate the idea of the tropics? The royal institute of British Architecture has launched a season celebrating the Brits who built the world with an exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert Museum of drawings and plans sent to and from the UK by practitioners around the Empire. Anne McElvoy talks to Riba's picture curator Charles Hind, art historian Gavin Stamp and to architect and urbanist, Tania Sengupta, about some surprising links and continuities between the Georgian and Victorian buildings with which British architects festooned large parts of the world and the subsequent global success of British modernism.
All this and Christmas in the medieval period with New Generation Thinker Sarah Peverley.
Image: Matt Smith as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho at the Almeida Theatre. Photographer Manuel Harlan.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01shyvy)
Wagner's Philosophers
Wagner and Nietzsche
Wagner and Nietzsche
Michael Tanner looks at the relationship between two titans of German culture, the 55-year old composer Richard Wagner and the precocious 24-year old philologist, who was destined to become the great philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. Out of their heady late-night chats about Schopenhauer, Euripedes and Socrates came Nietzsche's first book, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music. The relationship was to darken and turn sour in later years when Nietzsche accused Wagner of "slobbering at the foot of the cross" in his final opera, Parsifal. But to the end Nietzsche was to regard his encounter with Wagner as one of the most important events of his life.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b03kpdvg)
Thursday - Nick Luscombe
Nick Luscombe with music for Christmas by Sufjan Stevens, plus a new track from Bosq of Whiskey Barons.
FRIDAY 13 DECEMBER 2013
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b03kp7jq)
Vivaldi wrote four concertos especially for the Dresden Court Orchestra - the IRCAM of the 18th century. Les Ambassadeurs perform all four. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto in F (Rv.574) for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon and cello
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
12:44 AM
Pisendel, Johann Georg [1687-1755]
Sonata in C minor, for strings, 2 oboes and bassoon
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
12:49 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto in F (Rv.571) for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon and cello
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
12:59 AM
Hasse, Johann Adolf (1699-1783)
Son qual misera colomba (from 'Cleofide')
Emma Kirkby (soprano - Cleofide), Capella Coloniensis, William Christie (conductor)
1:05 AM
Zelenka, Jan Dismas (1679-1745)
Magnificat in C, ZWV.107
Barbora Sojková (soprano), Musica Florea, Marek Stryncl (director)
1:16 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto in F (Rv.568) for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon and cello
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
1:30 AM
Quantz, Johann Joachim [1697-1773]
Concerto in G minor, for 2 flutes, 2 oboes and bassoon
Alexis Kossenko and Anne Freitag (flutes), Anna Starr and Markus Müller (oboes), Jane Gower (bassoon), Les Ambassadeurs
1:48 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto in F (Rv.569) for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon and cello
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
2:01 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Grand Motet 'Deus judicium tuum regi da' (Psalm 71) for 5 voices, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo
Veronika Winter (soprano), Andrea Stenzel (soprano), Patrick von Goethem (alto), Markus Schäfer (tenor), Ekkehard Abele (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)
2:22 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Sonata Polonaise in A minor for violin, viola and continuo TWV 42
La Stagione Frankfurt
2:31 AM
Halvorsen, Johan (1864-1935)
Symphony no.2 in D minor 'Fatum'
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Josep Caballé-Domenech (conductor)
3:05 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Rosamunde - Overture (D.644)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Heinz Holliger (conductor)
3:15 AM
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837)
Piano Quintet in E flat major/minor (Op.87) (1825)
Tobias Ringborg (violin), Ingegard Kierkegaard (viola), John Ehde (cello), Håkan Ehrén (double bass), Stefan Lindgren (piano)
3:35 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von [1786-1826]
Aufforderung zum Tanz (Invitation to the Dance)
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)
3:44 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Gloria in Excelsis Deo (BWV.191)
Ann Monoyios (soprano), Colin Ainsworth (tenor), Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
3:59 AM
Bertali, Antonio (1605-1669)
Sonata Prima à 3 for two recorders, bass viol and bass continuo
Le Nouveau Concert: Frederic de Roos and Patrick Denecker (recorders), Sophie Watillon (bass viol), Guy Penson (harpsichord)
4:06 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Quartet for oboe and strings (K.370) in F major
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Psophos Quartet
4:20 AM
Bouwman, Nicolaas Arie (1854-1941)
Thalia-ouverture for wind orchestra
Dutch National Youth Wind Orchestra, Jan Cober (conductor)
4:31 AM
Wagner, Richard [1813-1883]
Prelude to Act 1 - from 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek (conductor)
4:41 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Sonata for violin and piano (K.454) in B flat major
Veronika Eberle (violin), Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
5:03 AM
Boulogne, Joseph - Chevalier de Saint-Georges (c.1748-1799)
Symphony in G major (Op.11, No.1) (1779)
Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
5:18 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
To her beneath whose steadfast star - for chorus
BBC Singers, Stephen Layton (conductor)
5:23 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Rapsodie espagnole
Piano Duo: Aglika Genova, Liuben Dimitrov
5:37 AM
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1788-1831)
Trio for clarinet, cello and piano
Amici Chamber Ensemble: Joaquín Valdepeñas (clarinet), David Hetherington (cello), Patricia Parr (piano)
5:58 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata quasi una fantasia for piano (Op.27 No.2) in C sharp minor, 'Moonlight' (Piano Sonata No.14)
Håvard Gimse (piano)
6:12 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Elegie (Op.23) arr. for piano trio
Aronowitz Ensemble
6:19 AM
Stoyanov, Vesselin (1902-1969)
Rhapsody (1956)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b03lb2r9)
Friday - 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.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b03kp7vc)
Friday - Sarah Walker with Miranda Seymour
Sarah Walker with her guest, the novelist and biographer Miranda Seymour.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Choral music from the Renaissance and Baroque with the Cambridge Singers and La Nuova Musica under John Rutter. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30 - today, Only Connect.
10am
Artist of the Week: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the novelist and biographer, Miranda Seymour. Biographies by Miranda include the lives of Ottoline Morrell, Mary Shelley, Virginia Cherrill (Chaplin's Girl), Hellé Nice (Bugatti Queen), Henry James (A Ring of Conspirators) and Robert Graves (about whom she also wrote a novel, The Telling, and a radio play, Sea Music). In My Father's House won the 2008 Pen Ackerley Memoir of the Year prize and was selected as a New York Times Book of the Year. Miranda's latest book - Noble Endeavours: Stories from England; Stories from Germany - was published earlier this year.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice:
Richard Strauss
Tod und Verklärung
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
DECCA.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03kp83c)
Iceland
Old Poetry, New Sounds
Donald Macleod explores works by two key contemporary figures, Haflidi Halgrimsson and Daniel Bjarnason - ending with an extraordinary musical depiction of a volcanic eruption by Jon Leifs.
For more than a millennium, Iceland's composers have drawn upon the sounds of its unique geology: sounds created in a glacial, geothermal landscape like nowhere else on earth. Searing water explodes from fissures; the earth steams spongily underfoot; vast, electric-blue hunks of solid ice crack and collide as they bob down otherwise silent fjords. Yet Iceland's classical music tradition remains barely known. This week, Donald Macleod explores the landscapes and vistas of the world's most northerly island nation - to discover its unique musical culture.
Donald Macleod ends his visit to Iceland with two utterly different works by Jon Leifs - his quiet, valedictory Fine II for strings and vibraphone, and the colossal orchestral poem "Hekla" - possibly the loudest piece of classical music ever written. He also introduces works by two key contemporary Icelandic voices: Haflidi Halgrimsson and Daníel Bjarnason, and talks to the latter about how his music bridges the worlds of rock, classical and electronic music.
Jón Leifs: Fine II, Op 56
Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor)
Jón Leifs: Ymir (Edda: Part 1. The Creation of the World)
Gunnar Gudbjornsson (tenor), Bjarni Thor Kristinsson (bass-baritone)
Schola Cantorum
Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Hermann Bäumer (conductor)
Haflidi Hallgrimsson: Metamorphoses for Piano Trio, Op 16
Fidelio Trio
Daniel Bjarnason: Bow to String I: "Sorrow Conquers Happiness"
Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir (multitracked cello)
Jon Leifs: Hekla, Op 52
Schola Cantorum
Iceland Symphony Orchestra, En Shao (conductor)
First broadcast December 2012.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03kp85s)
LSO St Luke's Mozart Chamber Music Series
Aronowitz Ensemble
The Aronowitz Ensemble continue the all-Mozart series at LSO St LukeS, showing their versatility in the String Quartet in G, K80 (Mozart's first), the profound and searching Adagio in B minor for solo piano, K540, and the brilliant Piano Quartet in E flat, K493
Mozart: String Quartet in G, K80
Mozart: Adagio in B minor for solo piano, K540
Mozart: Piano Quartet in E flat, K493
Aronowitz Ensemble:
Tom Poster (piano)
Magnus Johnston (violin)
Tom Hankey (violin/viola)
Lily Francis (viola)
Guy Johnston (cello).
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03kp93f)
BBC Philharmonic
Episode 3
Penny Gore ends her week featuring the music of Hindemith (marking the 50th anniversary of his death) and Prokofiev with two of the greatest works by each composer. She completes the brand-new recorded cycle of Prokofiev's Piano Concertos, featuring the BBC Philharmonic and soloist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, with the epic No 2. And there's also music from Prokofiev's enduringly popular ballet score for 'Romeo and Juliet.' The two Hindemith works are a concerto for the instrument he championed most, both as performer and composer, and the powerful symphony he drew from his visionary opera 'Mathis der Maler'.
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (selection)
BBC Philharmonic,
Juanjo Mena (conductor).
2.50
Hindemith:Der Schwanendreher - Viola Concerto
Maxim Rysanov (viola),
BBC National Orchestra of Wales,
Edwin Outwater (conductor).
3.15
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 2
BBC Philharmonic,
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano),
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).
3.50
Hindemith: Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b03kp963)
Roberto Alagna, Jessye Norman, Cafe Society Swing, Oxford Baroque
On the show today, live music from Cafe Society Swing - the new musical show based on the story of the eponymous 1940s New York jazz club, opening this month at the Leicester Square Theatre.
Sean Rafferty's guests include superstar tenor Roberto Alagna, plus a personal Nelson Mandela tribute from soprano Jessye Norman.
Also, live festive Bach performed live in the studio from Oxford Baroque.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03kp83c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03kpfg5)
BBC Singers, Onyx Brass - Seasonal Music
Live from St Paul's Church, Knighstbridge
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Ben Parry conducts the BBC Singers, Onyx Brass and members of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain along with the organist Richard Hills in a concert of seasonal music including works by Poulenc, Gabrieli, Praetorius and Ward Swingle. A mixture of old and new, this Christmas concert is an evening of carols, dances, motets and light music with a touch of tinsel.
James Maynard: Fanfare
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Hodie Christus natus est
Michael Praetorius/Jan Sandström: Lo, how a rose e'er blooming
Giles Swayne: There is no rose
Giovanni Gabrieli: Hodie Christus natus est
Stuart MacRae: Two Cairns (for brass quintet)
Jonathan Rathbone: Cantemos a Maria
Francis Poulenc: 4 Motets pour le temps de Noël
Michael Praetorius: In dulci jubilo
8.10 Interval Music
8.30
Ward Swingle: A Visit from St Nicholas
Jonathan Rathbone: Coventry Carol
Jonathan Dove: Seek him that maketh the seven stars
Anthony Holborne, arr. Dart: Dance Suite
Pierre Villette: Hymne à la Vierge
Alexander LeStrange: Hodie!
Ben Parry: Magi
BBC Singers
Members of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Onyx Brass
Joseph Cooper and Bill Lockhart (percussion)
Richard Hills (organ)
Ben Parry (conductor)
After the concert: Llyr Williams plays Wagner's piano music.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b03kpfg7)
Michael Morpurgo, Alan Connor, Benjamin Zephaniah & Laura J Martin
This week Ian McMillan speaks to Michael Morpurgo and Benjamin Zephaniah about literature for children and young people, Alan Connor gives us a lesson in cryptic crosswords, and there's music from Laura J Martin.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b01shyw0)
Wagner's Philosophers
Wagner and Adorno
Wagner and Adorno
Professor John Deathridge explores the posthumous reputation of Wagner in the 20th Century as seen through the lens of the philosopher Theodor Adorno who had pertinent things to say about Wagner's appropriation by the fascists, his infamous anti-semitism, and the related issues of German culture post-World War 2, the culture industry and mass culture in general.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b03nxlgc)
A Tribute to Nelson Mandela
Mary Ann Kennedy introduces Andy Kershaw's hour-long tribute to Nelson Mandela, told through the music of the time. With archive interviews and music from Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and the praise poet Mzwakhe Mbuli.
In the second hour, a studio session with Malian kora player Ballake Sissoko and his quartet plus a round-up of the latest releases from around the globe.
We know little of Mandela's personal taste in music, but he certainly recognised the value of music in the struggle against apartheid. Whether it was raising awareness in the international community, or raising morale in South Africa itself, music not only reflected but also influenced the events of the time. Andy Kershaw begins in the 1950s with the music of the Manhattan Brothers, and traces the music of the exiles in the 1960s and 70s, the songs of the activists, the many 'Free Mandela' songs of the 1980s, and the music that celebrated the end of apartheid and the birth of the Rainbow Nation. And Andy recalls the time when he once - accidentally - met Nelson Mandela.
Produced by Roger Short with extracts from Andy Kershaw's 1995 Radio 1 documentary produced by Trevor Dann.
Programme consultant: Angela Impey, SOAS, University of London
"It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world."
- Nelson Mandela.