In Massenet's Christmas Opera Jean uses his circus skills to celebrate the Nativity - Juggling for Jesus - much to the dismay of his more learned and pious colleagues. Jean Fournet conducts this 1985 performance from the archives of Netherlands Radio.
Anatoli Krastev (cello); Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra; Vassil Kazandjiev (conductor)
Eir Inderhaug (soprano); Norwegian Radio Orchestra; Antoni Ros-Marbà (conductor)
Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir, Hannaford Street Silver Band , Edward Moroney (organ), John Rutter (conductor)
Stanislas Deriemaeker (Schijen organ in the Onze Lieve Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp)
Kim Walker and Sarah Warner Vik (bassoons), Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Arvid Engegaard (conductor)
Buchbinder, Rudolf (b. 1946)
Paraphrase on J. Strauss
Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp (L. 137)
Anon (arr. Praetorius, Michael c.1571-1621)
En Rose så jeg skyde (I saw a rose spring forth) (text by Laub and U. Hansen)
Paul Høxbro (recorder), Fionian Chamber Choir, Alice Granum (director) (with unidentified triangle player)
Paul Høxbro (recorder) Fionian Chamber Choir, Alice Granum (director) (with unidentified tabor player).
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's Breakfast, with specially recorded carols from the BBC Singers and your requests in our Advent Calendar of seasonal music.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests or Musical Map suggestions.
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Incarnation ? Christmas music ancient and modern, from the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh: SIGNUM, SIGCD346. We also have our daily brainteaser at
Rob's guest this week is the writer, presenter and comedian, Sandi Toksvig. Sandi is a familiar voice for BBC Radio 4 listeners as the chair of The News Quiz and host of the travel programme Excess Baggage. She presents 1001 Things You Should Know for Channel 4, was team captain on Call My Bluff for many years, and has appeared on other panel shows including Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mock the Week, and QI. She has been a columnist for Good Housekeeping magazine for more than twenty years and for seven years wrote every week in The Sunday Telegraph. Her latest book on manners, Peas and Queues, was published earlier this year.
For Beethoven, 1802 marked both an emotional nadir and a peak of creativity. Donald Macleod explores how the composer's acceptance of his deafness spawned a string of masterpieces.
If Bonn had had a child protection unit in the 1770s, its officers would doubtless have been frequent callers at 24 Rheingasse, the Beethoven family home. A neighbour might have heard little Ludwig calling out from the cellar where he had been locked up by his drunkard father Johann, or witnessed one of the regular beatings Johann administered to 'encourage' his son to practice the piano. Yet from this abusive background, Ludwig van Beethoven emerged as the greatest musician of his age - the composer who absorbed the Classical legacy of Haydn and Mozart, then utterly transformed it. This week, Donald Macleod charts the course of this transformation in a series of five snapshots of Beethoven's life and work, from his first attempts at composition to the extraordinary productions of his final years.
Today's programme focuses on six months in 1802, when Beethoven, on doctor's orders, took a rest-cure in the tiny, picturesque spa-town of Heiligenstadt. For some years the composer's hearing had been deteriorating but, by 1801, things had started to reach crisis point. In June of that year Beethoven wrote a despairing letter to his childhood friend Franz Wegeler, now a distinguished medic. Wegeler recommended a change of doctor, and it was the new man - Johann Adam Schmidt - who advised Beethoven to abscond to Heiligenstadt to give his hearing a rest away from the noisy bustle of Vienna. Here Beethoven wrote the document known by posterity as the Heiligenstadt Testament - a letter to his brothers, to be read only after his death, in which he expressed despair at his hearing loss but determination nonetheless to fulfil what he felt to be his artistic destiny. His productivity during the summer of 1802 bears witness to that determination; here he wrote or completed his 2nd Symphony, the three violin sonatas Op 30, two of the piano sonatas Op 31, and more besides.
More highlights from the annual festival: violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and pianist Polina Leschenko play Bartok's Romanian Dances and Enescu's Violin Sonata No 3, and the Pavel Haas Quartet perform Janacek's First String Quartet, inspired by Tolstoy's short novel 'The Kreutzer Sonata'.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts his Concentus Musicus Wien in a Haydn Symphony and Schubert's complete Rosamunde music, Sir Simon Rattle guides the strings of the Berlin Philharmonic through the dark mysteries of Schoenberg's Transfirgured Night and there's more exotic music from Rameau's Les Indes Galantes.
Haydn Symphony No. 26 in D minor, Hob. I:26 ('Lamentatione')
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In an act subtitled 'the Gernerous Turk,' Valère has been roaming the world seeking her love, Emilie who has been captured by Valère's former servant Osman. When he finds them both, a repentant Osman releases his captive so that she may be reunited with her former lover.
Emilie..... Stéphanie Révidat (soprano),
Osman..... Aimery Lefèvre (bass-baritone),
Amour..... Valérie Gabail (soprano),
Valère..... François Geslot (countertenor),
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Schubert Rosamunde D. 797 (complete)
Sean Rafferty visits the home of the Australian-born lyric soprano Danielle de Niese.
The Australian lyric-soprano Danielle de Niese is used to gracing the world's operatic stages where she is as much praised for her acting ability as for her extraordinary voice and glamorous demeanour. But what is she like in her own space? Sean Rafferty visits Danielle de Niese in her home, Glyndebourne, in East Sussex, for a catch-up with one of the most sought-after singers on the planet.
Clemency Burton-Hill introduces recordings by the BBC's starry line-up of New Generation Artists, the young musicians Radio 3 believes will be the stars of the future. Today a chance to hear the Norwegian pianist Christian Ihle Hadland in an rarely-performed suite by Borodin, and with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. And, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth, the Apollon Musagète Quartet perform Lutoslawski's String Quartet of 1964.
Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim with the second part of Wagner's Ring cycle, Die Walküre
Wotan ..... Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
Fricka ..... Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano)
Siegmund ..... Simon O'Neill (tenor)
Sieglinde ..... Anja Kampe (soprano)
Hunding ..... Eric Halfvarson (bass)
Brünnhilde ..... Nina Stemme (soprano)
Gerhilde ..... Sonja Mühleck (soprano)
Ortlinde ..... Carola Höhn (soprano)
Waltraute ..... Ivonne Fuchs (mezzo-soprano)
Schwertleite ..... Anaïk Morel (contralto)
Helmwige ..... Susan Foster (soprano)
Siegrune ..... Leann Sandel-Pantaleo (mezzo-soprano)
Grimgerde ..... Anna Lapkovskaja (mezzo-soprano)
Rossweisse ..... Simone Schröder (mezzo-soprano)
Daniel Barenboim's Ring cycle with the Staatskapelle Berlin continues with part two, Die Walküre, and more mythical and psychological forces at large. The opera opens with a turbulent prologue depicting the terrible storm and devastating events including incest and adultery that are about to shake the characters. Siegmund has been asked by Wotan to help him acquire the ring, but blots his copybook by falling for his long-lost twin sister Sieglinde. This angers Fricka, Wotan's consort, so much that she demands Siegmund's death. Brünnhilde, Wotan's rebel daughter who we meet for the first time, tries to defend him, but in punishment she is put to sleep on a rock surrounded by fire. Die Walküre is considered perhaps the most accessible of the Ring cycle operas, and ends with the powerful Magic Fire Music.
Max Reinhardt helps Santa on his way with classics by Morton Feldman, James Brown and Charles Mingus, plus new music from London hip hop duo Otha Soul, Polish folk collective Jazgot and stocking fillers from Woody Guthrie and Blowzabella.
WEDNESDAY 25 DECEMBER 2013
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b03lzc0g)
Bach's Christmas Oratorio. The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Peter Dijkstra. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Christmas Oratorio - Cantatas I and II
Ditte Andersen (soprano), Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), Jan Kobow (tenor), Lars Johannson Brissman (bass), Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Peter Dijkstra (conductor)
1:24 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Christmas Oratorio - Cantatas III and VI
Ditte Andersen (soprano), Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), Jan Kobow (tenor), Lars Johannson Brissman (bass), Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Peter Dijkstra (conductor)
2:10 AM
Salzedo, Carlos (1885-1961)
Concert Variations on 'O Tannenbaum'
Judy Loman (harp)
2:14 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)
2:31 AM
Anonymous
Lullay, Lullow - carol
Zefiro Torna
2:34 AM
Anonymous
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Christmas carol)
Zefiro Torna
2:38 AM
Traditional
Noel Nouvelet
Zefiro Torna
2:42 AM
Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957]
Symphony No.6 (Op.104) in D minor
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Colin Davis (conductor)
3:08 AM
Enescu, George (1881-1955)
Konzertstück in F for viola and piano
Gyözö Máté (viola), Balázs Szokolay (piano)
3:17 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Septet for trumpet, piano and strings (Op.65) in E flat major
Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Elise Baatnes (violin), Karolina Radziej (violin), Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Hjalmer Kvam (cello), Marius Faltby (double bass), Enrico Pace (piano)
3:35 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Suite for orchestra in A major (Op.98b)
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Stanislaw Macura (conductor)
3:55 AM
Jiranek, Frantisek (1698-1778)
Sinfonia in F major
Collegium Marianum
4:04 AM
Leontovitch, Mykola (1877-1921) / Kountz, Richard (b. 19??), arr. Cable, Howard
Carol of the Bells; The Sleigh à la Russe arranged by Howard Cable in 1992
The Toronto Children's Chorus, Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Judy Loman (harp), Jean Ashworth Bartle (conductor)
4:07 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Lieutenant Kije Suite, Op.60
Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Verbitsky (conductor)
4:31 AM
Britten, Benjamin [1913-1976]
A Ceremony of Carols (Op.28)
Polyphonia, Ivelina Ivancheva (piano), Ivelin Dimitrov (conductor)
4:55 AM
Bridge, Frank (1879-1941)
Miniatures ? No.8, Valse Russe
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
4:59 AM
Bridge, Frank (1879-1941)
Miniatures ? No.2, 'Hornpipe'
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
5:02 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Cello Concerto in D major, Hob VIIb No.4
France Springuel (cello), Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)
5:23 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
La Valse - version for 2 pianos
Dina Yoffe and Daniel Vaiman (pianos)
5:36 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël
Talinn Music High School Chamber Choir, Evi Eespere (director)
5:46 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Symphony in E flat (Wq.179)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
6:00 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Suite in B flat major (Op.4)
I Solisti del Vento, Etienne Siebens (conductor)
6:24 AM
Zelenka, Jan Dismas (1679-1745)
O magnum mysterium (Moteto pro nativitate, ZWV.171)
Markéta Cukrová (contralto), Musica Florea, Marek Stryncl (director).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b03lzc2p)
Wednesday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents a Christmas edition of Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b03lzccj)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Sandi Toksvig
Rob Cowan's guest this week is writer, presenter and comedian, Sandi Toksvig.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Incarnation ? Christmas music ancient and modern, from the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh: SIGNUM, SIGCD346. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski.
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the writer, presenter and comedian, Sandi Toksvig. Sandi is a familiar voice for BBC Radio 4 listeners as the chair of The News Quiz and host of the travel programme Excess Baggage. She presents 1001 Things You Should Know for Channel 4, was team captain on Call My Bluff for many years, and has appeared on other panel shows including Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mock the Week, and QI. She has been a columnist for Good Housekeeping magazine for more than twenty years and for seven years wrote every week in The Sunday Telegraph. Her latest book on manners, Peas and Queues, was published earlier this year.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice:
Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Berlin Philharmonic
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
DG 478 5188.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03lzd2f)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Too Much of a Good Thing
Beethoven unveils his 5th and 6th symphonies, 4th piano concerto and more besides in a four-hour concert in the biting cold of a Viennese December. Donald Macleod asks why.
If Bonn had had a child protection unit in the 1770s, its officers would doubtless have been frequent callers at 24 Rheingasse, the Beethoven family home. A neighbour might have heard little Ludwig calling out from the cellar where he had been locked up by his drunkard father Johann, or witnessed one of the regular beatings Johann administered to 'encourage' his son to practice the piano. Yet from this abusive background, Ludwig van Beethoven emerged as the greatest musician of his age - the composer who absorbed the Classical legacy of Haydn and Mozart, then utterly transformed it. This week, Donald Macleod charts the course of this transformation in a series of five snapshots of Beethoven's life and work, from his first attempts at composition to the extraordinary productions of his final years.
Today's programme homes in on a single day, the 22nd of December 1808, when Beethoven mounted an extraordinary 'benefit' concert - that is, a concert for his own financial benefit, in the Theater an der Wien. He had been petitioning the authorities for months for permission to do this, and eventually he took the only date he could get, despite the fact that it clashed with a major charity event being held on the same evening in another theatre. That, though, turned out to be the least of Beethoven's problems, foremost of which was the temperature inside the auditorium, which he couldn't afford to heat. Then there was the programme; four hours' worth of the most challenging new music - difficult for an audience under the most favourable of conditions, let along listening inside an icebox. To make matters worse, Beethoven had fallen out with the orchestral musicians at a previous concert, and they refused to rehearse with him. The evening concluded with the Choral Fantasia, which the composer had hastily finished off to provide a suitably grand conclusion to the proceedings. In the event, the performance came so badly unstuck that Beethoven had to stop the music halfway through and start again from the top. As one contemporary who shivered his way through the whole evening observed, "one can easily have too much of a good thing".
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03lzd54)
Schwetzingen Festival 2013
Episode 3
The week of highlights continues with Andreas Staier playing Haydn, Michael Nagy and Gerold Huber performing songs by Wolf, and Brahms's Horn Trio from violinist Isabelle Faust, horn-player Teunis van der Zwart and pianist Alexander Melnikov.
Haydn: Piano Sonata in E flat, HobXVI:49
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
Wolf: Der Musikant; Verschwiegene Liebe; Das Ständchen
Michael Nagy (baritone)
Gerold Huber (piano)
Brahms: Trio in E flat for horn, violin and piano, Op 40
Teunis van der Zwart (natural horn)
Isabelle Faust (violin)
Alexander Melnikov (piano).
WED 14:00 A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols (b03lzp97)
Recorded yesterday in the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Hymn: Once in Royal David's City (desc. Cleobury)
Bidding Prayer read by the Dean
Ding, Dong! merrily on high (arr. Williamson)
First lesson: Genesis 3, vv 8-19 read by a Chorister
Jesus Christ the apple tree (Poston)
Hear the voice of the Bard (Musgrave - first performance, commissioned by King's College)
Second lesson: Genesis 22 vv 15-18 read by a Choral Scholar
Love came down at Christmas (Morris, arr. Cleobury)
Joy to the world (Holford, arr. Keyte and Parrott)
Third lesson: Isaiah 9 vv 2, 6-7 read by a Member of the College Staff
Illuminare, Jerusalem (Weir)
Hymn: Unto us is born a Son (arr. Willcocks)
Fourth lesson: Isaiah 11 vv 1-3a, 4a, 6-9 read by a Representative of the City of Cambridge
The Lamb (Tavener)
A New Year Carol (Britten)
Fifth lesson: Luke 1 vv 26-35, 38 read by a representative of the sister College at Eton
Angelus ad Virginem (arr. Cleobury)
Hymn to the Virgin (Britten)
Sixth lesson: Luke 2 vv 1, 3-7 read by the Chaplain
Away in a manger (arr. Willcocks)
A Boy was born (Britten)
Seventh lesson: Luke 2 vv 8-16 read by the Director of Music
The Shepherd's Carol (Chilcott)
Hymn: While shepherds watched (desc. Cleobury)
Eighth lesson: Matthew 2 vv 1-12 read by the Vice-Provost
Susanni (Bennett)
I saw three ships (arr. Preston)
Ninth lesson: John 1 vv 1-14 read by the Provost
Hymn: O come, all ye faithful (arr. Willcocks)
Collect and Blessing
Hymn: Hark, the Herald Angels Sing (desc. Cleobury)
Organ voluntaries:
In dulci jubilo (BWV 729) (Bach)
Dieu parmi nous (Messiaen)
Director of Music: Stephen Cleobury
Organ Scholar: Douglas Tang
Producer: Simon Vivian
Recorded yesterday in the candlelit Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is based around nine Bible readings which tell the story of the loving purposes of God. They are interspersed with carols old and new, sung by the world famous chapel choir who also lead the congregation in traditional Christmas hymns.
WED 15:40 Afternoon Concert (b03lzd65)
Leading Musicians
Episode 3
Rameau's Les Indes Galantes Act II: the Incas of Peru complete with a volcanic eruption and Haydn's depiction of a storm are introduced by Louise Fryer
Haydn The Storm, Hob. XXIVa/8
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
c.
3.50pm
Rameau Les Indes Galantes
Deuxième entrée: Les Incas du Pérou (The Incas of Peru)
The Inca Huascar and the Spaniard Don Carlos both pursue Princess Phani and a volcano erupts
Carlos..... Reinoud van Mechelen (countertenor),
Phani..... Valérie Gabail (soprano),
Emilie..... Stéphanie Révidat (soprano),
Huascar..... Aimery Lefèvre (bass-baritone),
Le Choeur du Marais,
La Simphonie du Marais
Hugo Reyne (director).
WED 16:30 Sean Rafferty at Home (b03lzdcx)
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
For a Christmas Day edition of this series, Sean Rafferty travels to Dorset to visit the conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner at his organic farm.
John Eliot Gardiner is not only one of today's pre-eminent and most sought-after interpreters of Bach's music, but he also works a sizeable organic farm in Dorset, which includes rare Aubrac cattle. His family are rooted in this corner of Dorset and his father was one of the first truly organic farmers, and a founder member of the Soil Association.
Sean Rafferty visits the organic farm that John Eliot Gardiner calls home. This is an extended interview in which Sean talks to John Eliot Gardiner about his career at the top of the international Early Music scene, his life-long passion for Bach, travelling the globe to make music with some of the world's finest orchestras and opera companies, and the music and poetry that influenced him as a child growing up in Dorset. He also talks about the challenges of combining his life in music and farming.
WED 17:45 New Generation Artists (b03lzp0k)
Kitty Whately, Zhang Zuo, Elena Urioste
Clemency Burton-Hill introduces recordings by the BBC's starry line-up of New Generation Artists, the young musicians Radio 3 believes will be the stars of the future. Today a chance to hear from mezzo Kitty Whately, the pianist Zhang Zuo and violinist Elena Urioste.
Howells: Come Sing and Dance
Kitty Whately (mezzo), Gamal Khamis (piano)
Bach: Keyboard Partita No 1 in B flat, BWV825
Zhang Zuo (piano)
Head: Star Candles; Slumbersong of the Madonna
Barber: St Ita's Vision
Poulenc: Nous voulons une petite soeur
Kitty Whately (mezzo), Gamal Khamis (piano)
Schubert: Piano Sonata in A, D664
Zhang Zuo (piano)
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Elena Urioste (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
conductor Alexander Bloch.
WED 19:00 BBC Proms 2013 (b03m709x)
Prom 59: Hollywood Rhapsody Prom
The John Wilson Orchestra at the 2013 BBC Proms in a celebration of the Hollywood film scores.
Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Suzy Klein
Newman: Street Scene
Kaper: Confetti
Raksin: Laura - New Suite
Herrmann: Psycho Suite
Herrmann: Salammbo Aria (Citizen Kane)
Korngold: Robin Hood - Suite
Moross: The Big Country
Part 2
Steiner: Casablanca - Suite
Various: Main Title - Song Medley
Waxman: A Place in the Sun
Rózsa: Ben-Hur - Suite
Venera Gimadieva (soprano)
Matthew Ford (vocalist)
Jane Monheit (vocalist)
John Wilson Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
John Wilson and his orchestra return to the Proms in a celebration of the Hollywood film scores that Wilson describes as 'literally unsung' and a medley of theme songs (featuring distinguished vocalists) from otherwise non-musical movies.
Connecticut-born child prodigy Alfred Newman's 'Street Scene', from How to Marry a Millionaire, contrasts with the music of Jewish émigrés Erich Korngold, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman, with suites from Korngold's swashbuckling score for Robin Hood, Steiner's nostalgic music for Casablanca and Waxman's brooding score for A Place in the Sun - all of them Academy Award-winners - making for a red-carpet event at the Royal Albert Hall.
WED 21:00 Belief (b03lzny8)
Sally Phillips
Joan Bakewell talks to comic actor and writer, Sally Phillips about how her beliefs and philosophy have influenced her personal life and professional career. Sally's approach to comedy and writing changed following her conversion to Christianity. She looks back at a performance she describes as an hour of blasphemy at the Edinburgh Fringe and forward to a more clownish way of reflecting on human weakness.
Producer: Clair Jaquiss.
WED 21:30 BBC Proms 2013 (b03mprw0)
Prom 34: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Nigel Kennedy, Palestine Strings and members of the Orchestra of Life in a unique take on Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Presented by Martin Handley.
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Nigel Kennedy
Palestine Strings
Members of the Orchestra of Life
Following his two Proms appearances in 2008 and his more recent one in 2011 to play solo Bach, Nigel Kennedy returned this year with Vivaldi's Four Seasons - with the Palestine Strings from the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music as well as members of his own Orchestra of Life. Revisiting a work he recorded to great acclaim nearly 25 years ago, Kennedy brings fresh insights to these visionary concertos, including the addition of his own improvised links between them.
WED 23:15 Late Junction (b03lzpc2)
Wednesday - Max Reinhardt
A late-night Christmas buffet from Max Reinhardt featuring electro-acoustic sounds from Cuba by Juan Blanco, the duo of Richard Dawson and Rhodri Evans, a cappella folk from May Bradley, plus music by Miles Davis and Nancy Elizabeth.
THURSDAY 26 DECEMBER 2013
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b03lzc0l)
Joyeux Noel
Episode 2
12:31 AM
Berlioz, Hector [1803-1869]
L'Enfance du Christ, Op.25 - Part 1
Stéphanie D'Oustrac (mezzo) Mary;
Stèphane Degout (baritone) Joseph;
François Lis (bass) Herod;
Jeremy Ovenden (tenor) Centurion and Narrator;
Nahuel Di Pierro (bass) Polydorus, Ishmaelite father.
Radio France Choir
National Orchestra of France
James Conlon (conductor)
1:13 AM
Berlioz, Hector [1803-1869]
L'Enfance du Christ, Op.25 - Part 2
1:30 AM
Berlioz, Hector [1803-1869]
L'Enfance du Christ, Op.25 - Part 3
2:09 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Litanies à la Vierge Noire - arranged for female/children's voices, string orchestra and timpani
Maîtrise de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, George Prêtre (conductor)
2:19 AM
Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672)
Magnificat anima mea Dominum (SWV.468)
Schütz Akademie, Howard Arman (conductor)
2:31 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
String Quartet in F major
Bartók Quartet
2:59 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Sonata in E flat major K.282 for piano
Nelson Goerner (piano)
3:14 AM
Dohnányi, Ernõ (1877-1960)
Konzertstück for cello and orchestra in D major (Op.12)
Dmitri Ferschtmann (cello), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Bernhard Klee (conductor)
3:36 AM
Rosenmuller, Johann (c.1619-1684)
Sinfonia à 4
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists
3:43 AM
Fauré, Gabriel [1845-1924]
Pelleas et Melisande - suite (Op.80);
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
4:00 AM
Duruflé, Maurice (1902-1986)
Quatre motets sur des thèmes grégoriens (Op.10)
Talinn Music High School Chamber Choir, Evi Eespere (director)
4:09 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Polonaise No.2 in C minor (Op.40 No.2)
Aldo Ciccolini (piano)
4:15 AM
Popper, David [1843-1913]
Concert Polonaise (Op.14)
Tomasz Daroch (cello), maria Daroch (piano)
4:22 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe [1683-1764]
Gavotte in A minor
Alexander Romanovsky (piano)
4:31 AM
Goldmark, Karoly [1830-1915]
Ein Wintermarchen (Overture)
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Ervin Lukács (conductor)
4:40 AM
Dinev, Petar [1889-1980]
Tropar za Rozhdestvo (Troparion of the Nativity)
Holy Trinity Choir, Plovdiv, Vessela Geleva (conductor)
4:42 AM
Dinev, Petar [1889-1980]
Ottsa i Sina and Milost mira No.7 (The Father and the Son; A Mercy of Peace No.7)
Holy Trinity Choir , Plovdiv, Vessela Geleva (conductor)
4:48 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Trio Sonata in A major Op.5'1
Concerto Copenhagen, Alfredo Bernardini (director)
4:57 AM
Borodin, Alexander [1833-1887]
Notturno (Andante) - from String Quartet No.2 in D
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Oliver Dohnányi (conductor)
5:06 AM
Haydn, Johann Michael (1737-1806)
Responsoria ad Matutinum in Nativitate Domini (MH.639) - for choir, violins, and organ
Ex Tempore, Judith Steenbrink (violin);
Sara Decorso (violin), David Van Bouwel (organ), Florian Heyerick (director)
5:18 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Pohadka Zimniho Vecera (Op.9)
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Vasata (conductor)
5:34 AM
Kodály, Zoltán arranger unconfirmed
Dances of Galanta (orig. for orchestra)
Adam Fellegi (piano)
5:50 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Christus - Pastorale and Herald Angels Sing (extract)
Walter Coppola and Frankö Tünde (soloists), Hungarian Radio Choir, Hungarian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Peskó Zoltán (conductor)
5:57 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Quartet for strings (Op.77'1) in G major
Royal String Quartet
6:17 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Divertimento in B flat major K.137
Orchestra Libera Classica, Hidemi Suzuki (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b03lzc2r)
Thursday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's Breakfast, featuring seasonal music, the Musical Map of Britain and listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests or Musical Map suggestions.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b03lzccl)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with Sandi Toksvig
Rob Cowan's guest this week is writer, presenter and comedian, Sandi Toksvig.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Incarnation ? Christmas music ancient and modern, from the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh: SIGNUM, SIGCD346. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski.
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the writer, presenter and comedian, Sandi Toksvig. Sandi is a familiar voice for BBC Radio 4 listeners as the chair of The News Quiz and host of the travel programme Excess Baggage. She presents 1001 Things You Should Know for Channel 4, was team captain on Call My Bluff for many years, and has appeared on other panel shows including Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mock the Week, and QI. She has been a columnist for Good Housekeeping magazine for more than twenty years and for seven years wrote every week in The Sunday Telegraph. Her latest book on manners, Peas and Queues, was published earlier this year.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice:
Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker, Op. 71: Act 1
London Symphony Orchestra
Antal Doráti (conductor)
DECCA 442 5622.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03lzd2h)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
From the Ridiculous to the Sublime
Donald Macleod explains how the phenomenal success of Beethoven's trashy potboiler Wellington's Victory had positive repercussions; it led to the revised version of Fidelio.
If Bonn had had a child protection unit in the 1770s, its officers would doubtless have been frequent callers at 24 Rheingasse, the Beethoven family home. A neighbour might have heard little Ludwig calling out from the cellar where he had been locked up by his drunkard father Johann, or witnessed one of the regular beatings Johann administered to 'encourage' his son to practice the piano. Yet from this abusive background, Ludwig van Beethoven emerged as the greatest musician of his age - the composer who absorbed the Classical legacy of Haydn and Mozart, then utterly transformed it. This week, Donald Macleod charts the course of this transformation in a series of five snapshots of Beethoven's life and work, from his first attempts at composition to the extraordinary productions of his final years.
Today's programme charts one of the most extraordinary episodes in Beethoven's life, from late 1813 to the end of the following year. For the previous decade, Europe had been dogged by the Napoleonic Wars. Now Napoleon's fortunes were beginning to unravel, and in June 1813, Austria abandoned its neutrality and joined the alliance against the French. In the same month, the French army, fighting under Napoleon's brother, Joseph I, was defeated by Wellington at the Battle of Vitoria. Vienna was awash with a tide of patriotic fervour, and that's when the imperial court mechanician, Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, came to Beethoven with an unusual proposal - would he compose a patriotic piece celebrating Wellington's victory? The work was originally to be written not for orchestra but for the Panharmonicon, a bellows-powered contraption-in-a-case of Mälzel's invention that could reproduce the sounds of a military band. Beethoven agreed, but in the event he produced an orchestral version instead. Premièred at a public concert in December 1813, this fatuous work became an immediate sensation, and several more performances followed. By the law of unexpected consequences, when the management of the Viennese court opera were looking for a new production, they turned to the most successful composer of the moment: Beethoven. They approached him with a view to staging his opera Fidelio, and he agreed, but only on the basis that he would be able to revise it completely - in the process, creating the version most widely performed to this day.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03lzd56)
Schwetzingen Festival 2013
Episode 4
Further highlights from the annual festival, including Falla's Seven Spanish Popular Songs and Ravel's Five Greek Popular Melodies performed by soprano Christiane Karg and pianist Gerold Huber, and Ravel's Piano Trio played by Viviane Hagner, Daniel Muller-Schott and Jonathan Gilad.
Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas
Christiane Karg (soprano)
Gerold Huber (piano)
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Viviane Hagner (violin)
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello)
Jonathan Gilad (piano)
Ravel: Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
Christiane Karg (soprano)
Gerold Huber (piano).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03lzd69)
Leading Musicians
Episode 4
Claudio Abbado conducts the all-star Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Schubert and Bruckner
A red-letter occasion for all music lovers is the appearance at the Lucerne Festival of the legendary conductor Claudio Abbado and his Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Here the players, who are gathered together from the world's leading orchestras and chamber music groups, join the elusive Italian maestro for Schubert's Unfinished and Bruckner's 9th Symphony, also left incomplete at the composer's death.
With Louise Fryer
2.00pm
Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 ('Unfinished') Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
c.
2.30pm
Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D minor, WAB 109 Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
c.
3.40pm
Rameau Les Indes Galantes Act III: Les Fleurs. Fête asiatique
Prince Tacmas is in love with his favourite, Ali's, slave Zaire. Tacmas's slave Fatime in turn is in love with Ali in this exotic Persian love intrigue from the High Baroque court of Louis XV.
Tacmas..... François Geslot (countertenor),
Ali..... Aimery Lefèvre (bass-baritone),
Zaïre..... Stéphanie Révidat (soprano),
Fatime..... Valérie Gabail (soprano),
Le Choeur du Marais,
La Simphonie du Marais
Hugo Reyne (director).
THU 16:30 Sean Rafferty at Home (b03lzdcz)
Dame Mitsuko Uchida
Pianist Dame Mitsuko Uchida invites Sean Rafferty into her piano studio for an extended interview reflecting on a life in music and culture.
Mitsuko Uchida is one of the world's most celebrated pianists, noted for her interpretations of Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven. Japanese born Uchida has made the UK her home and houses her four pianos in a studio in West London - a deeply personal space, not often opened to visitors. Mitusko Uchida discusses her early musical memories, from her instant connection with the piano to hearing Aida with her father when an Italian opera company made its first visit to Japan. She describes her love of London, how she doesn't feel the need to own great art and her deep love of Mozart, a composer who "always forgives".
Producer: Freya Hellier
First broadcast in December 2013 (Revised repeat).
THU 17:45 New Generation Artists (b03lzp0m)
Leonard Elschenbroich, Olena Tokar, Sitkovetsky Trio
Clemency Burton-Hill introduces recordings by the BBC's starry line-up of New Generation Artists, the young musicians Radio 3 believes will be the stars of the future. Today a chance to hear from NGA newcomer, the Ukrainian soprano Olena Tokar, alongside the cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, and his Sitkovetsky Trio.
Rachmaninov: Lilacs
Olena Tokar (soprano), Igor Gryshyn (piano)
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in A, Op 69
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Alexei Grynyuk (piano)
Rachmaninov: Daisies; I wait for thee
Olena Tokar (soprano, Igor Gryshyn (piano)
Brahms: Piano Trio in B, Op 8
Sitkovetsky Trio
ENDS.
THU 19:00 BBC Proms 2013 (b03lzqc5)
Prom 18: Wagner - Siegfried
Wagner 200
Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim at the 2013 BBC Proms with the third part of Wagner's Ring cycle, Siegfried
Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
Wagner: Siegfried (concert performance; sung in German)
Siegfried ..... Lance Ryan (tenor)
Brünnhilde ..... Nina Stemme (soprano)
Wanderer ..... Terje Stensvold (bass-baritone)
Mime ..... Peter Bronder (tenor)
Alberich ..... Johannes Martin Kränzle (baritone)
Fafner ..... Eric Halfvarson (bass)
Woodbird ..... Rinnat Moriah (soprano)
Erda ..... Anna Larsson (contralto)
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Daniel Barenboim's Ring with the Staatskapelle Berlin - the first ever complete cycle at the BBC Proms - continues with the razored strings and yelping brass of a violent storm, the cloudburst of incestuous love, a bitter marital dispute and the first appearance of Wotan's rebel daughter, Brunnhilde, sung by a leading exponent of the role, Nina Stemme. The cunning dwarf, Mime, tries to manipulate Siegfried into stealing the magic ring from the dragon, Fafner, with the sword Nothung. But his plans go awry when Siegfried takes the ring for himself...
THU 23:30 Late Junction (b03lzqc7)
Late Junction Sessions
Trish Clowes, Donald Grant and Peter Cant in Session
Max Reinhardt presents a specially recorded studio session by saxophonist and Radio 3 New Generation Aritst Trish Clowes in collaboration with violinist Donald Grant and writer Peter Cant. Also featured tonight are Okinawan sanshin player Hajime Nakasone and electronic experimentalists Matmos plus tracks by the Hilliard Ensemble, Keith Jarrett, This Heat and Califone.
FRIDAY 27 DECEMBER 2013
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b03lzc0n)
From the 2012 Stavelot Festival in Belgium, piano trios by Turina, Granados and Schubert. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Turina, Joaquin [1882-1949]
Trio for piano and strings no. 2 (Op.76) in B minor
Philippe Talec (violin), Antoine Landowski (cello), Boris de la Rochelambert (piano)
12:46 AM
Granados, Enrique [1867-1916]
Trio for piano and strings (Op.50)
Philippe Talec (violin), Antoine Landowski (cello), Boris de la Rochelambert (piano)
1:11 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Trio for piano and strings (D.897) in E flat major "Notturno"
Philippe Talec (violin), Antoine Landowski (cello), Boris de la Rochelambert (piano)
1:22 AM
Chausson, Ernest [1855-1899]
Trio for piano and strings (Op.3) in G minor
Philippe Talec (violin), Antoine Landowski (cello), Boris de la Rochelambert (piano)
1:53 AM
Chaminade, Cecile [1857-1944]
Finale from Trio No.2 in A minor
Philippe Talec (violin), Antoine Landowski (cello), Boris de la Rochelambert (piano)
1:59 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Introduction and polonaise brillante (Op.3) arr.for piano trio
Philippe Talec (violin), Antoine Landowski (cello), Boris de la Rochelambert (piano)
2:05 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Spanisches Liederspiel (Op. 74)
Margit László (soprano), József Réti (tenor), Zsolt Bende (bass), István Antal (piano), The Hungarian Radio and Television Choir, Zoltán Vásárhelyi (conductor)
2:31 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Symphony No.2 in D major (Op.43)
Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Peeter Lilje (conductor)
3:15 AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
Virta Venhetta vie ('Rivers Gentle Flow Carry The Boat') (Op.37 No.1)
Eero Heinonen (piano)
3:19 AM
Stainov, Petko (1896-1977)
The Secret of the Struma River
Gusla Men's Choir, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
3:27 AM
Hammerschmidt, Andreas (1611/12-1675)
Suite in C for strings (gambas) and winds ? from the collection 'Erster Fleiß'
Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (director)
3:40 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Sonata in G minor for cello and piano (Op.65)
Claes Gunnarsson (cello), Roland Pöntinen (piano)
4:11 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) orch. Henri Büsser
Printemps ? suite symphonique
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Jun Märkl (conductor)
4:31 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975)
Festive Overture (Op.96)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
4:37 AM
Gratton, Hector (1900-1970) arr. David Passmore
Première danse canadienne (1927) arranged for piano trio
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
4:41 AM
Gratton, Hector [1900-1970] arr. David Passmore
Quatrieme danse canadienne arranged for piano trio
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
4:46 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Chromatic fantasia and Fugue in D minor BWV.903 for keyboard
Evgeni Koroliov (piano)
4:59 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Francesca da Rimini (symphonic fantasia after Dante) (Op.32)
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Québec, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
5:23 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Ah! che troppo inequali HWV 230
Maria Keohane (soprano) European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
5:34 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) arranged by Edmund Rubbra
25 Variations and Fugue on a Theme by G.F.Handel (Op.24)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Johannes Fritzsch (conductor)
6:02 AM
Holst, Gustav (1874-1934)
Wind Quintet in A flat major (Op.14)
Cinque Venti
6:17 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Cello Concerto in E minor, RV.409
Maris Villeruss (cello), Latvian Philharmony Chamber Orchestra, Tovijs Lifsics (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b03lzc30)
Friday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's Breakfast, featuring the Musical Map of Britain and listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests or Musical Map suggestions.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b03lzccn)
Friday - Rob Cowan with Sandi Toksvig
Rob Cowan's guest this week is writer, presenter and comedian, Sandi Toksvig.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Incarnation ? Christmas music ancient and modern, from the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh: SIGNUM, SIGCD346. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski.
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the writer, presenter and comedian, Sandi Toksvig. Sandi is a familiar voice for BBC Radio 4 listeners as the chair of The News Quiz and host of the travel programme Excess Baggage. She presents 1001 Things You Should Know for Channel 4, was team captain on Call My Bluff for many years, and has appeared on other panel shows including Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mock the Week, and QI. She has been a columnist for Good Housekeeping magazine for more than twenty years and for seven years wrote every week in The Sunday Telegraph. Her latest book on manners, Peas and Queues, was published earlier this year.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice:
Bach
Christmas Oratorio; Part 3 (For the 3rd Day of Christmas)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Evangelist - tenor)
Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano)
Olaf Bär (bass)
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
ARCHIV 469 769-2.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03lzd2k)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Three Late Masterpieces
In today's programme, Donald Macleod unpicks the overlapping origins of three late Beethoven masterpieces: the Missa Solemnis, the Diabelli Variations and the 9th Symphony.
If Bonn had had a child protection unit in the 1770s, its officers would doubtless have been frequent callers at 24 Rheingasse, the Beethoven family home. A neighbour might have heard little Ludwig calling out from the cellar where he had been locked up by his drunkard father Johann, or witnessed one of the regular beatings Johann administered to 'encourage' his son to practice the piano. Yet from this abusive background, Ludwig van Beethoven emerged as the greatest musician of his age - the composer who absorbed the Classical legacy of Haydn and Mozart, then utterly transformed it. This week, Donald Macleod charts the course of this transformation in a series of five snapshots of Beethoven's life and work, from his first attempts at composition to the extraordinary productions of his final years.
Today's programme picks up the trail in the early months of 1819, with Beethoven planning to write a High Mass for the installation of his patron and pupil, Archduke Rudolph, as Archbishop of Olmütz the following March. In the event, the scale of the work grew so far beyond his original conception that Beethoven overshot his self-imposed deadline by three years. Meanwhile, another commission had come along. The publisher, Anton Diabelli, wanted to bring out a patriotic collection of piano variations on a light-hearted waltz of his own composition, to be contributed by the 50 most celebrated composers and virtuosi of the Austrian empire. Each composer was to provide a single variation, Beethoven included. Something about the project evidently fascinated him because, instead of one variation, he ultimately came up with 33 - his largest and many would say greatest piano work. So he broke off work on the mass to write the first two-thirds of the Diabellis. He then set those aside for another new commission, to compose three more piano sonatas; they would be his last. Only then, in 1822, did he return to the mass, when he also started work on the 9th Symphony. That too was set aside while he completed the Diabelli Variations, after which he polished off the 9th. Confused? You won't be after today's show.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03lzd58)
Schwetzingen Festival 2013
Episode 5
More highlights from the annual festival: Evgeni Koroliov in a Haydn Piano Sonata, Frank Peter Zimmermann and Emanuel Ax in Brahms's Second Violin Sonata, and Sabine Meyer and the Modigliani Quartet in Weber's Clarinet Quintet
Haydn: Piano Sonata in G minor, HobXVI:44
Evgeni Koroliov (piano)
Brahms: Violin Sonata No 2 in A, Op 100
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Emanuel Ax (piano)
Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op 34
Sabine Meyer (clarinet)
Modigliani Quartet
NB Frank Peter Zimmermann and Emanuel Ax perform more music for violin and piano by Brahms in the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert on Sunday.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03lzd6d)
Leading Musicians
Episode 5
Claudio Abbado conducts the all-star Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Brahms and Beethoven.
One of the hottest tickets in the international music calendar is the chance to catch one of the legendary conductor Claudio Abbado's concerts at the Lucerne Festival. Here they are heard in repertoire rarely played by Abbado. There's a final instalment from Rameau's exotic Les Indes galantes and Nikolaus Harnoncourt relishes the drama in four light hearted dances by Joseph Lanner, once the rival of Johann Strauss I.
Brahms Tragic Overture in D minor, op. 81
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
c.
2.15pm
Schoenberg Orchestral Interlude and Song of the Wood Dove, from Gurrelieder
Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano),
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
c.
2.30pm
Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E flat, op. 55 ('Eroica')
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
c.
3.25pm
Rameau Les Indes Galantes Act IV: Les Sauvages
Don Alvar, a Spaniard, and Damon, a Frenchman, compete for the love of Zima, daughter of a Native American chief, who prefers one of her own people. The scene was inspired by a visit to Paris 1725 of a group of native American chiefs.
Adario..... Aimery Lefèvre (bass-baritone),
Damon..... Reinoud van Mechelen (countertenor),
Alvar..... Sydney Fierro (bass),
Zaïre..... Stéphanie Révidat (soprano),
Le Choeur du Marais,
La Simphonie du Marais
Hugo Reyne (director)
c.
4.00pm
Lanner 4 Dances
Hans Jörgel Polka, op. 194
Sehnsucht Mazurka, op. 89
Die Schönbrunner, waltz, op. 200
Jagd Galopp, op. 82
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor).
FRI 16:30 Sean Rafferty at Home (b03lzdd1)
Sir James Galway
Sean Rafferty visits the London home of Sir James Galway OBE, the great Belfast-born virtuoso flute player, to discuss life and music.
James Galway, "the man with the golden flute" is one of the most iconic musicians of our time. His recordings of the flute repertoire have not only garnered the finest critical acclaim but have also appealed to millions of people across the globe.
FRI 17:45 New Generation Artists (b03lzp0p)
Ruby Hughes, Elena Urioste, Zhang Zuo
Clemency Burton-Hill introduces recordings by the BBC's starry line-up of New Generation Artists, the young musicians Radio 3 believes will be the stars of the future. Today the soprano Ruby Hughes teams up with fellow NGAs the Signum Quartet in music by Chausson and Fauré, the New York-based violinist Elena Urioste plays the Debussy sonata, and there's a chance to hear from a newcomer to the scheme, the Chinese pianist Zhang Zuo.
Chausson: Chanson Perpetuelle
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Signum Quartet, James Baillieu (piano)
Debussy: Violin Sonata
Elena Urioste (violin), Gabriele Carcano (piano)
Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit
Zhang Zuo (piano)
Fauré: La Bonne Chanson
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Signum Quartet, James Baillieu (piano), Lachlan Radford (double bass).
FRI 19:00 BBC Proms 2013 (b03m7ryq)
Prom 20: Wagner - Gotterdammerung
Wagner 200
Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim at the BBC Proms in the final opera of Wagner's epic Ring Cycle: Götterdämmerung - The Twilight of the Gods.
Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
Wagner: Götterdämmerung (concert performance, sung in German)
Brünnhilde .... Nina Stemme (soprano)
Siegfried .... Andreas Schager (tenor)
Hagen .... Mikhail Petrenko (bass)
Gunther .... Gerd Grochowski (bass-baritone)
Gutrune / Third Norn .... Anna Samuil (soprano)
Alberich .... Johannes Martin Kränzle (bass-baritone)
Waltraute / Second Norn .... Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano)
First Norn .... Margarita Nekrasova (contralto)
Woglinde .... Aga Mikolaj (soprano)
Wellgunde .... Maria Gortsevskaya (soprano)
Flosshilde .... Anna Lapkovskaja (mezzo-soprano)
Royal Opera Chorus
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Tom Service presents the final leg of Daniel Barenboim's Ring Cycle with the Staatskapelle Berlin - the first ever complete cycle at the BBC Proms. And it's not a happy ending: Götterdämmerung - The Twilight of the Gods - is the darkest of the four operas. The ecstatic love of Siegfried and Brünnhilde, celebrated at the end of the previous opera, is under threat from the plotting of the cunning Hagen. As the son of Alberich who created the all-powerful golden Ring, Hagen's single purpose is to regain the Ring at all costs. Soon Siegfried's fate is sealed: can Brünnhilde save the world?