Catriona Young presents highlight performances by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from the early 1990s, with music by Wagner, Zemlinsky and Elgar.
Willard White (baritone), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Symphony no. 2 (Op.63) in E flat major
Maria João Pires (piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
Concerto for violin and orchestra in F minor (RV.297) (Op.8 No.4), 'Inverno' (Winter)
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)
Westlake, Nigel (b. 1958)
Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons) - oratorio (H. 21/3): WINTER
Julia Milanova (soprano), Nikolay Yosifov (tenor), Pompey Harashtyanou (bass), Choir "Rodina" Rousse (Bulgaria), Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra, Georgi Dimitrov (conductor)
Dumbarton Oaks, arr. by the composer for two pianos
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with a new Breakfast feature highlighting listener's favourite British music.
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: My Violin Legends - Pavel ?porcl (violin) & Petr Jiríkovský (piano), SUPRAPHON SU41412. We also have our daily brainteaser at
Rob's guest this week is the novelist, screenwriter and playwright, Nigel Williams. Nigel's most successful work has been his script for the 2005 TV drama Elizabeth I (starring Helen Mirren), for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. His novels include the bestselling 'Wimbledon Trilogy' - The Wimbledon Poisoner, They Came from SW19 and East of Wimbledon ? the first of which he adapted into a successful television film. He won a television BAFTA for his screen adaptation of William Horwood's Skallagrigg, and was the primary scriptwriter for the second season of Jim Henson's Storyteller series. As a playwright, Nigel has adapted William Golding's Lord of the Flies for the stage, and his first play, Class Enemy, has been translated into more than thirty languages.
Handel Variations, Op. 24
Donald Macleod continues the week of exclusive interviews with the composer Philip Glass, first broadcast to mark the composer's 75th birthday in 2012.
Philip Glass's music has captured the popular imagination - and come to soundtrack our lives - in a way almost unthinkable for a contemporary composer. Yet Glass also divides opinion like no other figure in contemporary music. A one-time "enfant terrible" of the New York arts scene of the 60s and 70s - whose simple, seemingly endless repetitions would stretch for hours and enrage critics - Glass has long since swapped hardline minimalism for a comfy, lushly Romantic sound...and alienated many of his former fans. Disarmingly frank, witty and engaging, Philip Glass has always wryly put aside criticism of his commercial success. All this week on Composer Of The Week, Donald Macleod talks to him about his extraordinary life in music, with a playlist that encompasses his entire career.
By the mid-1980s, Philip Glass was among the most famous musicians in the world, having cemented the success of "Einstein On The Beach" with two more acclaimed 'portrait' operas - Satyagraha and Akhnaten - and the breakthrough success of his hypnotic score to Godfrey Reggio's art-film Koyaanisqatsi (1982). Yet unknown to most music fans, he'd also composed a work that delighted millions of children - with incidental music to an animated sequence on the TV show Sesame Street!
Donald Macleod discusses the fruits of Glass's early success with the composer himself - a period when he was famous enough to lend his face to adverts for luxury watches and scotch whisky - and introduces his first foray in orchestral writing since his student days: his Violin Concerto (1987), inspired by his father.
Mendelssohn song and one of Schubert's final chamber works performed by soprano Ailish Tynan, pianist Iain Burnside and the young Sitkovetsky piano trio in the Younger Hall, St Andrews.
Penny Gore continues her week featuring recent concerts by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with a performance given last November in Glasgow's City Halls of Benjamin Britten's community opera Noye's Fludde. It's written for soloists and orchestra as usual, but also invites audience participation and parts for amateur performers and tuned tea cups. Can Noah persaude his wife on to the Ark before the rains set in?
Plus a Haydn Symphony and a concertante work by Tchaikovsky as part of the week's Russian concerto theme.
Sean Rafferty's guests include The Swingle Singers, bringing their inimitable brand of boundary-crossing, lively close-harmony singing into the studio ahead of their appearance at the 5th London A Cappella Festival, which the group has curated.
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Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO perform Mahler's Symphony No 6 and give the world premiere of MacMillan's Viola Concerto with Lawrence Power.
: Interval music - Sonata in F sharp minor Op.61 (Elegie harmonique sur la mort du Prince Louis Ferdinand)
Mahler: Symphony No. 6
After the first performance of his Sixth Symphony in 1906, Gustav Mahler could be found sobbing, wringing his hands and pacing frantically in his dressing room. He'd realised that what he'd written offered no escape. This compelling 80-minute orchestral journey ends in resolute tragedy - perhaps the first symphony to paint such a resoundingly dark picture of the human soul with such astonishing purpose and effect. It remains a live music experience like no other, and is preceded in this concert by the world premiere of a new concerto for viola and orchestra by James MacMillan.
Samira Ahmed looks at the appeal of Lena Dunham's US TV series Girls with comedian Yasmeen Khan and TV producer John Yorke; talks to Peruvian born novelist Daniel Alarcón about migration from the countryside to the cities of Peru and across borders from Latin America to the USA. And Professors Conor Gearty, Iain McLean and Linda Colley debate what a new constitution might look like.
Taking Rilke's classic correspondence as inspiration, five leading poets write a personal letter to a young poet. Today, eminent Belfast poet, Michael Longley.
The original Letters to a Young Poet is a compilation of letters by Rainer Maria Rilke, written between 1902 and 1908 to a 19-year-old officer cadet called Franz Kappus. Kappus was trying to choose between a literary career and entering the Austro-Hungarian army. Rilke's letters touch on poetry and criticism, but they range widely in subject matter from atheism and loneliness, to friendship and sexuality:
"If your everyday life seems to lack material, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to summon up its riches; for there is no lack for him who creates and no poor, trivial place."
In their new letters, five poets imagine a young poet protégé to whom they want to pass on life experience and thoughts about the poetic art.
Our poets are: Michael Symmons Roberts, Vicki Feaver, Michael Longley, Moniza Alvi and Don Paterson.
About Michael Longley: Michael Longley was born in Belfast in 1939. His Collected Poems was published in 2006 and in 2007, he was appointed Professor of Poetry for Ireland. His most recent poetry collections are Gorse Fires (2009) and A Hundred Doors (2011), shortlisted for the 2011 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year).
A diverse selection from Max Reinhardt including township jazz from Chris McGregor & South African Exile, John Chowning's electronic music, gospel blues from Blind Willie Johnson, free jazzer Albert Ayler's rare album Lörrach/Paris 1966, plus bossa-tinged song from Baby do Brasil and Peruvian folk-pop from Kanaku y el Tigre.
THURSDAY 16 JANUARY 2014
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b03pdb20)
The Four Seasons by two composers stand side by side- Vivaldi's and the 17th-century English composer Christopher Simpson. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
The Four Seasons, Op.8 - Spring
Malin Broman (violin),Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Simon Crawford-Phillips (conductor)
12:41 AM
Simpson, Christopher [c.1605-1669]
The Four Seasons - Spring
Les Voix Humaines - Susie Napper, Margaret Little (viola da gambas); Arparla - Maria Christina Cleary (double harp), Davide Monti (violin), Joanna Boslak-Górniok (harpsichord)
1:00 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
The Four Seasons, Op.8 - Summer
Malin Broman (violin),Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Simon Crawford-Phillips (conductor)
1:10 AM
Simpson, Christopher [c.1605-1669]
The Four Seasons - Summer
Les Voix Humaines - Susie Napper, Margaret Little (viola da gambas); Arparla - Maria Christina Cleary (double harp), Davide Monti (violin), Joanna Boslak-Górniok (harpsichord)
1:28 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
The Four Seasons, Op.8 - Autumn
Malin Broman (violin),Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Simon Crawford-Phillips (conductor)
1:40 AM
Simpson, Christopher [c.1605-1669]
The Four Seasons - Autumn
Les Voix Humaines - Susie Napper, Margaret Little (viola da gambas); Arparla - Maria Christina Cleary (double harp), Davide Monti (violin), Joanna Boslak-Górniok (harpsichord)
1:54 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
The Four Seasons, Op.8 - Winter
Malin Broman (violin),Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Simon Crawford-Phillips (conductor)
2:04 AM
Simpson, Christopher [c.1605-1669]
The Four Seasons - Winter
Les Voix Humaines - Susie Napper, Margaret Little (viola da gambas); Arparla - Maria Christina Cleary (double harp), Davide Monti (violin), Joanna Boslak-Górniok (harpsichord)
2:19 AM
Lawes, Henry (1596-1662)
Suite à 4 in G minor
Concordia, Mark Levy (conductor)
2:26 AM
Nees, Vic (b.1936)
De profundis clamavi (Psalm 130) (appl )
Polish Radio Choir, W?odzimierz Siedlik (conductor)
2:31 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Quartet for strings (Op.41 No.3) in A major
Vertavo String Quartet
3:00 AM
Engel, Jan (?-1788)
Symphony in G major
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Straszynski (conductor)
3:17 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Symphonic Dance No.1 (Op.45)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor)
3:29 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Sonata for violin and piano in G major
Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
3:47 AM
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
O clarissima Mater (respond)
Rondellus
3:56 AM
Champagne, Claude (1891-1965)
Danse Villageoise
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Québec, Jacques Lacombe (conductor)
4:01 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Trio Sonata in B minor (Wq.143)
Les Coucous Bénévoles
4:11 AM
Couperin, Francois (1668-1733)
Les Moissoneurs from Pieces de clavecin - ordre no.6
Jautrite Putnina (piano)
4:15 AM
Elgar, Edward [1857-1934]
To her beneath whose steadfast star - for chorus
BBC Singers, Stephen Layton (conductor)
4:20 AM
Foulds, John [1880-1939]
Isles of Greece (Op.48, No.2)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
4:25 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856), trans. Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Widmung (Op.25 No.1)
Jorge Bolet (piano)
4:31 AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
Romanian folk dances (Sz.68) orch. from Sz.56 ; Dance with a sash ; Transylvanian stamping dance ; Horn dance ; Romanian polka ; Quick dance
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, James Clark (conductor)
4:38 AM
Rautavaara, Einojuhani (b. 1928)
Och glädjen den dansar
Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, Eric-Olof Söderström (conductor)
4:41 AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
Serenade for small orchestra
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
4:51 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in G major (K.104) (Allegro)
Virginia Black (harpsichord)
4:57 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Scherzo capriccioso (Op.66)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Oliver Dohnányi (conductor)
5:10 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Four Minuets for orchestra (K.601)
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
5:22 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Fantasy for piano in C 'Wandererfantasie' (D.760)
Paul Lewis (piano)
5:44 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Sonata in F for 2 chalumeaux, violins and continuo (TWV 43: F 2)
Il Giardino Armonico
5:57 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Octet for strings in E flat (Op.20)
Leonidas Kavakos, Per Kristian Skalstad, Frode Larsen & Tor Johan Böen (violins), Lars Anders Tomter & Catherine Bullock (violas), Öystein Sonstad & Ernst Simon Glaser (cellos).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b03pdc8l)
Thursday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with a new Breakfast feature highlighting listener's favourite British music.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b03pdc9m)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with Nigel Williams
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: My Violin Legends - Pavel ?porcl (violin) & Petr Jiríkovský (piano), SUPRAPHON SU41412. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Charles Munch
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the novelist, screenwriter and playwright, Nigel Williams. Nigel's most successful work has been his script for the 2005 TV drama Elizabeth I (starring Helen Mirren), for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. His novels include the bestselling 'Wimbledon Trilogy' - The Wimbledon Poisoner, They Came from SW19 and East of Wimbledon ? the first of which he adapted into a successful television film. He won a television BAFTA for his screen adaptation of William Horwood's Skallagrigg, and was the primary scriptwriter for the second season of Jim Henson's Storyteller series. As a playwright, Nigel has adapted William Golding's Lord of the Flies for the stage, and his first play, Class Enemy, has been translated into more than thirty languages.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Janacek
String Quartet No. 1 'The Kreutzer Sonata'
Hagen Quartet.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01d7gqz)
Philip Glass (1937-)
Songs And Poems
Donald Macleod continues the week of exclusive interviews with the composer Philip Glass, first broadcast to mark the composer's 75th birthday in 2012.
Philip Glass's music has captured the popular imagination - and come to soundtrack our lives - in a way almost unthinkable for a contemporary composer. Yet Glass also divides opinion like no other figure in contemporary music. A one-time "enfant terrible" of the New York arts scene of the 60s and 70s - whose simple, seemingly endless repetitions would stretch for hours and enrage critics - Glass has long since swapped hardline minimalism for a comfy, lushly Romantic sound...and alienated many of his former fans. Disarmingly frank, witty and engaging, Philip Glass has always wryly put aside criticism of his commercial success. All this week on Composer Of The Week, Donald Macleod talks to him about his extraordinary life in music, with a playlist that encompasses his entire career.
Taking centre stage in today's episode: Philip Glass's remarkable "Songs and Poems for solo cello", written in 2007 for his then partner, cellist Wendy Sutter, and hailed by critics as one of the most original - and remarkable - new works to come from the composer's pen: perhaps the finest work for solo cello since Britten's Cello Suites.
Before that, Donald Macleod talks to the composer about his strong interest - and influence on - contemporary pop and rock music, introducing a pop song written by the composer for Linda Ronstadt, and his first symphony "Low" (1992), directly inspired by the music of David Bowie and Brian Eno. We'll also hear from Glass's controversial opera "The Voyage", composed for the US quincentennial in 1992, and the most expensive commission in the Met's history, and a recent dance music remix of the composer's Piano Etude no.2 by the Brazilian hip-hop DJ Luciano Supervielle.
Philip Glass & Suzanne Vega: Freezing (Songs From Liquid Days)
Linda Ronstadt (solo and backing vocals); Kronos Quartet
I. Subterraneans (Symphony no.1 "Low" (from the music of David Bowie and Brian Eno))
Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra; Dennis Russell Davies (conductor)
The Voyage: Act II, scene I
Karen Robertson (Isabella)
Bruckner Orchester Linz and Chorus of the Landestheater Linz; Dennis Russell Davies (conductor)
Songs and Poems no.1 for solo cello (excerpts)
Wendy Sutter (solo cello)
Etude no.2 [remixed Luciano Supervielle].
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03pdd04)
Mendelssohn and His Inspirations
Episode 3
Bach and one of his strongest advocates, Felix Mendelssohn are performed by violist Maxim Rysanov and pianist Fabio Bidini in today's lunchtime concert from St Andrews, as part of a week of programmes looking at Mendelssohn and his inspirations.
Mendelssohn: Viola Sonata in C min
Bach: Suite No 6 in D BWV 1012
Maxim Rysanov - viola
Fabio Bidini - piano.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03pddt7)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Rossini - The Italian Girl in Algiers
Thursday Opera Matinee with Penny Gore
Written in just 28 days when he was 21, Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) is one of his most enduring comic creations - free flowing and fast paced.
The Bey of Algiers, Mustafà, wants shot of his loving, but to his mind a bit boring, wife Elvira, and decides to palm her off on his Italian slave Lindoro.
Meanwhile Isabella, in search of her true love (Lindoro) who was captured by Algerian pirates, has been shipwrecked on the Algerian coast and brought to the Bey's Palace.
The Bey is instantly smitten by this feisty Italian girl - and the rest of the opera revolves around the plans to escape by Isabella and Lindoro, and seeing how much of a fool they can make the Bey look, before he admits he's out of his depth with these Italians, and welcomes back Elvira.
This performance was recorded last August at the annual Rossini Festival in Rossini's native town of Pesaro.
Isabella ..... Anna Goryachova (mezzo-soprano)
Lindoro ..... Yijie Shi (tenor)
Mustafà ..... Alex Esposito (bass-baritone)
Elvira ..... Mariangela Sicilia (soprano)
Zulma ..... Raffaella Lupinacci (mezzo-soprano)
Haly ..... Davide Luciano (baritone)
Taddeo ..... Mario Cassi (baritone)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale, Bologna,
José Ramón Encinar (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b03pddvj)
Endellion Quartet, Murray Gold, English Pocket Opera
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music and chat
Longtime Doctor Who composer Murray Gold is in the studio to talk about the World Premiere of his new choral work to be given at the Barbican.
The Endellion String Quartet are celebrating 35 years together with a series of concerts, they perform live in the studio and talk about how to stay together for so many years!
Plus English Pocket Opera perform live excerpts from their latest schools project of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01d7gqz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03pdh5l)
BBC Symphony Orchestra - Shostakovich, Martinu
Live from the Barbican Centre, London
Presented by Katie Derham
Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony and the Labeque sisters join for Martinu's Concerto for Two Pianos.
Martinu: Concerto for Two Pianos
20.00 - Interval: religious choral music from St. Petersburg
20.20
Shostakovich: Symphony No.7 in C major, 'Leningrad'
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)
Katia and Marielle Labèque (pianos)
Semyon Bychkov, who holds the BBC SO's Günter Wand Conducting Chair, presents two utterly contrasting works, both written during the Second World War. Martinu's delicious Concerto for Two Pianos dates from his highly productive spell in America. Katia and Marielle Labèque are the ideal pianists to animate its dancing syncopations, soaring lyricism and crystalline textures. From boom-time America to the Soviet Union in the grip of winter and war, Shostakovich's 'Leningrad' Symphony pays tribute to the defiance and courage of the Russian people in a vast, compelling musical tour de force.
Following the concert, composer Rebecca Dale and members of Music for Everyone reflect on "When Music Sounds": their piece created as part of Making Music's "Adopt a Composer" project.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b03pdf14)
Oscar Nominations, Steve McQueen, Slavery Narratives
On tonight's Freethinking, the opposite of freedom - and how to describe it. We're going to listen to the voices of slaves. We'll hear the recorded testimony of people who were once regarded as property. And we'll examine the slave autobiographies that became a vigorous literary genre in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. How reliable are they - and what are we relying upon them for?
Matthew Sweet talks to director Steve McQueen about his new film '12 Years A Slave' and assesses this year's Oscar nominations, among them Gravity starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, and The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo Di Caprio and directed by Martin Scorsese.
The text from which 12 Years a Slave was created was a narrative of the same name written by Solomon Northup in 1853. There are hundreds of such narratives but who really wrote them, who were they for and what can we tell from the surviving copies? The poet and writer Fred D'Aguiar, the historian Dr Madge Dresser and the anthropologist Dr Kit Davis discuss the ghosts that rise up amongst us when studying such texts.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b03pdg5d)
Letters to a Young Poet
Moniza Alvi
Taking Rilke's classic correspondence as inspiration, five leading poets write a personal letter to a young poet. Today, Pakistan-born Moniza Alvi.
The original Letters to a Young Poet is a compilation of letters by Rainer Maria Rilke, written between 1902 and 1908 to a 19-year-old officer cadet called Franz Kappus. Kappus was trying to choose between a literary career and entering the Austro-Hungarian army. Rilke's letters touch on poetry and criticism, but they range widely in subject matter from atheism and loneliness, to friendship and sexuality:
"If your everyday life seems to lack material, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to summon up its riches; for there is no lack for him who creates and no poor, trivial place."
In their new letters, five poets imagine a young poet protégé to whom they want to pass on life experience and thoughts about the poetic art.
Our poets are: Michael Symmons Roberts, Vicki Feaver, Michael Longley, Moniza Alvi and Don Paterson.
About Moniza Alvi: Moniza Alvi was born in Pakistan and grew up in Hertfordshire. Her latest book are At the Time of Partition (Bloodaxe Books, 2013) which is shortlisted for the 2013 T S Eliot Prize. Other recent books include her book-length poem; Homesick for the Earth, her versions of the French poet Jules Supervielle (Bloodaxe Books, 2011); Europa (Bloodaxe Books, 2008); and Split World: Poems 1990-2005 (Bloodaxe Books, 2008), which includes poems from her five previous collections.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b03pdh5n)
Thursday - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt's playlist tonight includes traditions of South America, with Marlui Miranda singing Amazon indigenous music and Luz Katharine performing traditional Peruvian tunes; also Fires of Love playing early Baroque chamber music, abstract electronic music by Francois Bayle, free jazz from Roscoe Mitchell with Yusuf Lateef, and world fusion from Adam Rudolph. Probably the most eclectic music playlists on national radio...
FRIDAY 17 JANUARY 2014
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b03pdb22)
Proms 2012 Delius's Violin Concerto
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic at the BBC Proms with Vasily Petrenko. Delius's Violin Concerto, Maxwell Davies's 9th and Shostakovich's 10th Symphonies. Catriona Young presents .
12:31 AM
Delius, Frederick [1862-1934]
Violin Concerto
Tasmin Little (violin), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
12:56 AM
Maxwell Davies, Peter [b.1934]
Symphony No. 9
1:19 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitri [1906-1975]
Symphony No. 10 in E minor Op.93
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
2:14 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
2 Marches in E flat major for wind (Hungarian National March (Hob:VIII:4) (1802); Prince of Wales March (Hob:VIII:3))
Bratislavská komorná harmónia (Bratislava chamber harmony), Justus Pavlík (director)
2:21 AM
Willan, Healey (1880-1968)
Centennial March (1967)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
2:26 AM
Williams, John (1932-)
The Imperial March, from the film The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
2:31 AM
Liebermann, Rolf (1910-1999)
Suite on six Swiss folk songs
Swiss Chamber Philharmonic, Patrice Ulrich (conductor)
2:43 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Eine Alpensinfonie (Op.64)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit (conductor)
3:33 AM
Bovet, Abbé Joseph (1879-1951)
Le vieux chalet (The old Swiss cottage)
Zurich Boys' Choir, Alphons von Aarburg (conductor)
3:36 AM
Huber, Ferdinand Fürchtegott (1791-1863) arr. André Scheurer
Lueget vo Bergen und Tal (Look at the Mountains and Valleys)
Zürich Boy's Choir, Mathias Kopfel (horn), Alphons von Aarburg (conductor)
3:40 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
La chapelle de Guillaume Tell
Matti Raekallio (piano)
3:46 AM
Rossini, Gioachino [1792-1868]
William Tell - Overture
BBC Philharmonic, Paul Watkins (conductor)
3:59 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) [text Friedrich Schiller]
Der Alpenjäger (D.588b Op.37 No.2)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano - after Johann Fritz, Vienna c.1815)
4:05 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
6 Variations on a Swiss song, in F major (WoO.64)
Theo Bruins (piano)
4:08 AM
Diethelm, Caspar (1926-1997)
Schönster Tulipan - Suite of Variations on a Swiss Folk Song for 2 violins (Op.294)
Sibylle Tschopp (violin), Mirjam Tschopp (violin)
4:18 AM
Schoeck, Othmar (1886-1957)
Sommernacht (Summer Night): pastoral intermezzo for string orchestra (Op.58)
Camerata Bern (no conductor)
4:31 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
The Gum-Suckers' March (No.4 from In a Nutshell - suite for orchestra)
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
4:36 AM
Allegri, Gregorio (1582-1652) [abellimenti by Stanislaw Krupowicz]
Miserere mei Deus (Psalm 51) for 9 voices
Camerata Silesia, Anna Szostak (conductor)
4:49 AM
Viotti, Giovanni Battista (1755-1824)
Duo concertante in B flat major
Alexandar Avramov, Ivan Peev (violins)
4:57 AM
Mägi, Ester (b.1922)
Duo rahvatoonis for flute and violin
Jaan Õun (flute), Ulrika Kristian (violin)
5:00 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
Overture to Pskovitjanka (The Maid of Pskov)
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
5:08 AM
Bach, Johann Christian (1735-1782)
Quintet (Op. 11) no 4 in E flat major for flute, oboe, violin, viola and double bass;
Les Ambassadeurs
5:24 AM
Byrd, William (c.1543-1623)
O Lord, how vain - for voice and 4 viols
Emma Kirkby (soprano), The Rose Consort of Viols
5:31 AM
Bliss, Sir Arthur (1891-1975)
Concerto for cello and orchestra, T.120
Shauna Rolston (cello), Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
6:00 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
3 Piano pieces
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)
6:06 AM
Reicha, Antoine (1770-1836)
Clarinet Quintet in B flat major (Op.89)
Jože Kotar (clarinet), Slovenian Philharmonic String Quartet.
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b03pdc8n)
Friday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with a new Breakfast feature highlighting listener's favourite British music.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b03pdc9p)
Friday - Rob Cowan with Nigel Williams
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: My Violin Legends - Pavel Šporcl (violin) & Petr Jiríkovský (piano), SUPRAPHON SU41412. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30 - today: Only Connect.
10am
Artist of the Week: Charles Munch
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the novelist, screenwriter and playwright, Nigel Williams. Nigel's most successful work has been his script for the 2005 TV drama Elizabeth I (starring Helen Mirren), for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. His novels include the bestselling 'Wimbledon Trilogy' - The Wimbledon Poisoner, They Came from SW19 and East of Wimbledon - the first of which he adapted into a successful television film. He won a television BAFTA for his screen adaptation of William Horwood's Skallagrigg, and was the primary scriptwriter for the second season of Jim Henson's Storyteller series. As a playwright, Nigel has adapted William Golding's Lord of the Flies for the stage, and his first play, Class Enemy, has been translated into more than thirty languages.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61
Thomas Zehetmair (violin)
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01d7gz0)
Philip Glass (1937-)
From Enfant Terrible To Classicist
Donald Macleod presents the last of this weeks exclusive interviews with the composer Philip Glass, first broadcast to mark the composer's 75th birthday in 2012.
Philip Glass's music has captured the popular imagination - and come to soundtrack our lives - in a way almost unthinkable for a contemporary composer. Yet Glass also divides opinion like no other figure in contemporary music. A one-time "enfant terrible" of the New York arts scene of the 60s and 70s - whose simple, seemingly endless repetitions would stretch for hours and enrage critics - Glass has long since swapped hardline minimalism for a comfy, lushly Romantic sound...and alienated many of his former fans. Disarmingly frank, witty and engaging, Philip Glass has always wryly put aside criticism of his commercial success. All this week on Composer Of The Week, Donald Macleod talks to him about his extraordinary life in music, with a playlist that encompasses his entire career.
Donald Macleod ends this week of interviews with the composer Philip Glass by bringing us right up to date, showcasing two works strongly familiar to British audiences, and two of Glass's most recent concert pieces.
First, the composer discusses his life scoring films, before we hear one of his most acclaimed scores - the darkly sinister music to the 2006 British film "Notes On A Scandal", starring Dame Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett. We round off the week's survey of Glass's operatic works with a brand-new recording of Glass's "From The Penal Colony" (2000), based on Kafka's short story, and performed by Music Theatre Wales, the ensemble that gave the work's UK premiere in 2010.
Finally - two world premiere recordings: Glass's most recent concerto - which doubles as a ballet (!) - and an instrumental work for two pianos. At the age of 75, is there a new 'classical' strain emerging in his music?
Etude no.2 (arr for steel drums)
New York University Steel Drum Ensemble
First Day Of School; The Harts; Sheba and Steven; Someone In Your Garden; Someone Has Died; Betrayal (Notes On A Scandal)
Studio Orchestra
In The Penal Colony: Scenes 12, 13 and 14
Michael Bennett (the Visitor)
Omar Ebrahmin (the Officer)
Music Theatre Wales Ensemble; Michael Rafferty (conductor)
Duet No.1; Part 1 (Double Concerto for Violin and Cello no.1)
Tim Fain (violin); Wendy Sutter (cello)
The Hague Philharmonic; Jurjan Hempel (conductor)
IV. (Four Movements for Two Pianos)
Dennis Russell Davies and Mari Namekawa (pianos).
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03pdd1t)
Mendelssohn and His Inspirations
Episode 4
Chamber music and song cycles by Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms, performed by soprano Ailish Tynan, pianist Iain Burnside and the young Sitkovetsky piano trio. Recorded at the Younger Hall St Andrews as part of this week's series looking at Mendelssohn and his inspirations.
Schumann: Liederkreis op 39
Mendelssohn: There be none of Beauty's daughters
Mendelssohn: Sun of the Sleepless
Brahms: Piano Trio No 3 in C Minor, Op. 101
Ailish Tynan - soprano
Iain Burnside - piano
The Sitkovetsky Trio.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03pddt9)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Episode 4
Penny Gore presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with young Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin and conducted by Thomas Dausgaard in concert in Aberdeen.
The Scotsman credited them with "one of the most awesome and breathtaking orchestral performances heard in Scotland this season".
Plus music by the American composer Aaron Jay Kernis performed in Glasgow just last night, with the BBC SSO's Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles.
Sibelius: Finlandia
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op 18
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
2.45pm
Nielsen: Symphony No 4, Op 29 (The Inextinguishable)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor).
3.20pm
Aaron Jay Kernis: Newly Drawn Sky
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Donald Runnicles (conductor).
3.40pm
Stravinsky: Agon
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Ilan Volkov (conductor).
4pm
Elgar: In the South (Alassio) - Overture, Op 50
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b03pddvl)
Trio Goya, Haffner Wind Ensemble, Joshua Bell
Sean Rafferty's guests include period-instrument chamber ensemble Trio Goya and the Haffner Wind Ensemble playing live. Plus, one of the world's best loved violinists, Joshua Bell, talks about his conducting role as Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01d7gz0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03pdh6l)
BBC SSO - Elgar, Grieg, Shostakovich
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Donald Runnicles with Lars Vogt play Elgar, Grieg and Shostakovich.
Live from the Music Hall in Aberdeen.
Presented by Donald Macleod.
Part 1
Elgar - Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town)
Grieg - Piano Concerto
20:20 - Interval Music
Movements from Bach Partita in E Major, No. 3, BWV 1006 - James Ehnes (violin)
20.40 Part 2
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 1
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Lars Vogt (Piano)
Donald Runnicles (conductor)
In a concert full of fun and youth, Elgar's vision on Edwardian London is slightly unexpected - pomp and circumstance, yes, but also beauty, comedy and sunset hues - dedicated to his many friends, it was an immediate success. Grieg's ever popular Piano Concerto, played by Lars Vogt, was written when he was just 24, it shows not only his playfulness but also the influence of Norwegian folk music. Donald Runnicles explores the teenage Shostakovich's brilliant first symphony in the second half of the concert. With both liveliness and wit on the one hand, and drama and tragedy on the other, his graduation exercise is a young prodigy's masterpiece.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b03pdf16)
David and Hilary Crystal, Iain Sinclair, Roger Davies, Rommi Smith
Ian McMillan presents The Verb with guests David and Hilary Crystal and Iain Sinclair.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b03pdg5g)
Letters to a Young Poet
Don Paterson
Taking Rilke's classic correspondence as inspiration, five leading poets write a personal letter to a young poet. Today, award-winning Scottish poet and editor, Don Paterson.
The original Letters to a Young Poet is a compilation of letters by Rainer Maria Rilke, written between 1902 and 1908 to a 19-year-old officer cadet called Franz Kappus. Kappus was trying to choose between a literary career and entering the Austro-Hungarian army. Rilke's letters touch on poetry and criticism, but they range widely in subject matter from atheism and loneliness, to friendship and sexuality:
"If your everyday life seems to lack material, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to summon up its riches; for there is no lack for him who creates and no poor, trivial place."
In their new letters, five poets imagine a young poet protégé to whom they want to pass on life experience and thoughts about the poetic art.
Our poets are: Michael Symmons Roberts, Vicki Feaver, Michael Longley, Moniza Alvi and Don Paterson.
Don Paterson was born in 1963 in Dundee, Scotland. He moved to London in 1984 to work as a jazz musician, and began writing poetry around the same time. His collections of poetry are Nil Nil (Faber, 1993), God's Gift to Women (Faber, 1997), The Eyes (after Antonio Machado, Faber, 1999), Landing Light (Faber, 2003; Graywolf, 2004), Orpheus (a version of Rilke's Die Sonette an Orpheus, Faber, 2006) and Rain (Faber, 2009; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010).
First broadcast in January 2014.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b03pdh6n)
Celtic Connections 2014
Episode 1
Mary Ann Kennedy live from Glasgow at one of the world's biggest winter music festivals, with special late-night performances from the CCA, the BBC's hub on Sauchiehall Street.
Celtic Connections is held in 20 venues over 18 days with 300 events taking place throughout the whole festival, involving over two thousand musicians from 26 countries. Scots and Irish Celtic music is at the centre of the festival, but it has always embraced the music of the Celtic cultures of the USA, Canada, France and Spain, together with the closely connected cultures of Scandinavia and eastern Europe. In recent years the Festival has also connected with traditions across Africa and Asia. The concerts range from the most traditional to the most experimental, all brought together in the context of one of the world's liveliest folk cultures, with a never-ending stream of young Scottish musicians who are reinventing their own traditions for their own time.
This is the first of two live late-night sessions from Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts, each featuring four of the best acts from the Festival.
Tonight's line-up includes the Yves Lambert Trio, lively party music from one of the veterans of Quebecois music; the gentle Irish sounds of the Friel Sisters; raw American roots from Boston-based band Joy Kills Sorrow; and a set from one of Scotland's newest bands, Salt House.
Tickets available from the BBC Tickets website from Friday 10th January.