6 Epigraphes antiques vers. for piano duet;
James Ehnes (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
Selected Lyric Pieces ? Waltz (Op.12 No.2); Norwegian Melody (Op.12 No.6); Folk song (Op.12 No.5); Canon (Op.38 No.8); Elegy (Op.38 No.6); Waltz (Op.38 No.7); Melody (Op.38 No.3)
Bellini, Vincenzo (1801-1835), arr. unknown
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
Mercé, grido piangendo ? from Madrigali a cinque voci, Libro V...; Napoli, Gian Giacomo Carlino (1611)
Trio Sonata in C minor (Op. 2 no. 1);
Slavonic Dance No. 12 in D flat major (Op.72 No.4)
Albrecht Breuninger (violin), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
Orchestra and Choir of Latvian Radio, Aivars Kalejas (organ), Sigvards Klava (conductor).
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British Music Playlist, compiled from listener requests.
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: 'Inspirales' - Hillel Zori (cello) and Arnon Erez (piano), CELLO CLASSICS CC1030. We also have our daily brainteaser at
Rob's guest this week is the television and radio journalist and broadcaster, John Sergeant. John has worked as a war reporter in Vietnam and Israel, and has presented BBC Radio 4 programmes Today and The World at One. From 1992-2000 he served as the BBC's Chief Political Correspondent, and then became the Political Editor of ITN. One of his most memorable moments was when he waited outside the British embassy in Paris for Mrs Thatcher, in the hope of hearing her reaction to the first ballot in the party leadership contest of 1990, only to be pushed aside by her press secretary when Thatcher emerged from the building. For this broadcast, he won the British Press Guild award for the most memorable broadcast of the year. After retirement from political journalism, John's appearances on programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing and Have I Got News for You have made him a sought-after participant in television comedy and satire shows. He is currently filming a new documentary in which he explores Indian railways.
Maria Stader (soprano), Oralia Dominguez (mezzo), Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Michel Roux (baritone)
Schubert was to face many frustrations before he could gain public recognition for his work. His setting of the Erlkönig was rejected by one major publisher, and dismissed as 'trash' by another Herr Schubert to whom it had been sent in error. When the song finally made its way into print it proved to be a best seller.
Although his ambitions to become a success on the opera stage were still faltering, Schubert found that his songs were beginning to open doors in Biedermeier Vienna. He was in demand as a composer of part songs, popular with drinking and glee clubs. Schubert did his best to rescue that genre from its bibulous associations, the same cannot be said of the composer himself. Frequently hungover, there's no doubt Schubert was partying hard, and would pay a high price for his dissipation and debauchery. He was both drinking and smoking heavily, and there's even a suggestion he may have been an occasional user of opium. Some have suggested this is one of the reasons why his Unfinished Symphony would remain only two movements, rather than three or four.
Schubert's friends recalled that he was a man of 'two natures, foreign to each other...the craving for pleasure dragged his soul down to the slough of moral degradation'. He eventually become infected by syphilis and some have heard his Wanderer Fantasy as an expression of his anger at his condition. Where or not that is true, there's no doubt about his anger on finding that the pianistic showpiece was beyond his own technical abilities: 'Let the devil play the stuff!' he once shouted in disgust at his efforts.
Celebrating festivals in the South West. More songs from the Cotswolds, and The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble bring a Tchaikovsky favourite to Budleigh Salterton on Devon's Jurassic Coast.
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.
Louise Fryer introduces an Ulster Orchestra concert recorded last Friday evening in the Ulster Hall, Belfast, with conductor Ryan Wigglesworth. It features the latest instalment in the Ulster Orchestra's Sibelius cycle, the 'economical' Symphony No 3. The week's British theme continues as Tasmin Little joins the orchestra for William Walton's Violin Concerto - a tour de force commissioned in 1936 by Jascha Heifetz for the sum of £300! (It was worth a lot more in those days.) The concert begins with Berlioz's Overture, Le roi Lear - based on Shakespeare's play, a recent discovery for the composer whose love of Shakespeare was to be lifelong.
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music and guests from the worlds of music and the arts.
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Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers in Beethoven, Boulez and Gerard Grisey, and Nicolas Hodges is the soloist in a concerto by Hugues Dufourt
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 In A major
In his tercentenary year a chance to explore Emanuel Bach's revelatory keyboard music in performances on the clavichord, harpsichord, tangent and fortepianos as well as the modern concert grand piano.
Beethoven's powerful Seventh Symphony is prefaced by a trio of beguiling modern French works in the first of two concerts in the BBC Symphony Orchestra's season pairing Beethoven with recent French music. The BBC Singers have had great success with Boulez's now-classic work Cummings ist der Dichter, which sets the poetry of EE Cummings for vocal ensemble and chamber orchestra. Conductor Ilan Volkov, known for his high-voltage performances and radical programmes, presents the UK premiere of Hugues Dufourt's piano concerto with Nicolas Hodges as soloist. Dufourt's own world of sonorities reflects that of one of France's greatest 20th century composers, Gérard Grisey. In his monumental early work Mégalithes, 15 brass players scattered around the hall hurl sonic clusters of shimmering dissonance into the auditorium.
Zhang Weiwei, one of China's foremost public intellectuals, tells Rana Mitter why China will not and should not become a democracy and why what he calls The China Model has much to teach democracies themselves.
And as rising tensions between China and Japan continue to dominate headlines in East Asia, we hear from two young journalists, one from each country, about what they learned about each other at school and why mutual suspicion is on the rise in their generation. Mariko Oi and Haining Liu's documentary will be broadcast as part of a season about Freedom which runs on the World Service from January to April.
Finally the author of 'Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival' David Pilling and historian Naoko Shimazu reflect on Japan's historic ability to re-invent itself and why it needs that skill more than ever at the present time.
Actor/director Simon McBurney of Theatre de Complicite describes how John Berger's "And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos" plays with ideas of connection, memory, narrative and mortality which are essential to his theatrical work. "Berger digs in the vulnerable earth of human experience, and joins the fragments he uncovers with an eye as sure as an astronomer, a gesture as gentle as a carpenter," McBurney says. This slim work has been a point of reference for his art and his life.
Max Reinhardt presents a diverse range of music, including German calypso from Lord Mouse & The Kalypso Cats, Maori ensemble Whiri Tu Aka, Lithuanian sound-art group the Concrete Bunnies, and new Mexican diva Carla Morrison.
THURSDAY 23 JANUARY 2014
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b03q5cfh)
From Bratislava, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra play Berlioz and Ravel, and pianist Kasparas Uinskas is the soloist in Brahms's 1st Piano Concerto. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Berlioz, Hector [1803-1869]
Le Carnaval romain - overture Op.9
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mário Kosik (conductor)
12:40 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor Op.15
Kasparas Uinskas (piano), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mário Kosik (conductor)
1:29 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Valses nobles et sentimentales, arr. for orchestra
1:44 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
La Valse
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mário Kosik (conductor)
1:57 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) arr. not given
Waltz No.11 in B minor & Waltz No.12 in E major (arranged for chamber orchestra) - from the Waltzes for two pianos (Op.39)
Camerata Bern, Thomas Furi (conductor and concertmaster)
2:01 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Mephisto Waltz No.1 (S.514)
Yuri Boukoff (1923-2006) (piano)
2:13 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Prague Waltzes (Prazske valciky) (B.99)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Stefan Róbl (conductor)
2:21 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Valse Triste
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
2:27 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Waltz for piano (Op.34 No.3) in F major 'Cat'
Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
2:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) Librettist Mueller, Wilhelm (1794-1827)
Die schöne Müllerin - song-cycle (D.795)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
3:31 AM
Dukas, Paul (1865-1935)
Villanelle for horn and orchestra
Esa Tukia (horn), Radion Sinfoniaorkesteri , Michael Adelson (conductor)
3:38 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), completed by Zóltan Kocsis
Rondo (Concert rondo) for horn and orchestra in E flat major (K.371) completed by Zoltán Kocsis.
László Gál (horn), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltán Kocsis (conductor)
3:45 AM
Doppler, Franz (1821-1883)
L'oiseau des bois (Op.21) - idyll for flute and 4 horns
János Balint (flute), Jeno Kevehazi, Peter Fuzes, Sandor Endrodi, Tibor Maruzsa (horns)
3:51 AM
Butterworth, Arthur (b. 1923)
Romanza for horn and strings (1954)
Martin Hackleman (horn), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:01 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Rondino in E flat (WoO 25) for two oboes, two clarinets, two horns, two bassoons
The Festival Winds
4:09 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Siegfrieds Trauermarsch - from Götterdämmerung (1876)
Zagreb Philharmonic, Lovro von Matacic (conductor)
4:17 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Concerto for 2 horns and orchestra (TWV 52:D2) in D major
Jozef Illéš & Ján Budzák (horns), Chamber Association of Slovakian Radio, Vlastimil Horák (conductor)
4:31 AM
Strauss (ii), Johann [1825-1899]
Spanischer Marsch (Op.433)
ORF Symphony Orchestra, Peter Guth (conductor)
4:36 AM
Turina, Joaquín (1882-1949)
Rapsodia sinfonica for piano and string orchestra (Op.66)
Angela Cheng (piano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Graf (conductor)
4:45 AM
Sanz, Gaspar (1640-1710)
Folias (instrumental)
Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (director)
4:48 AM
Galán, Cristóbal (~1625-1684)
Mariposa, no corras al fuego
Olga Pitarch (soprano), Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (director)
4:51 AM
Ribayaz, Lucas Ruiz de [c.1640-?]
Xaracas
Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (director)
4:54 AM
Nin (y Castellanos), Joaquín (1879-1949)
Seguida Espanola (1930)
Henry-David Varema (cello), Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
5:03 AM
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916)
Quejas o la maja y el ruiseñor (The Maiden and the Nightingale) - from Goyescas: 7 pieces for piano (Op.11 No.4)
Angela Hewitt (piano)
5:10 AM
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909)
Cordoba - from Cantos de España for piano (Op.232 No.4)
Jin-Ho Kim (male) (piano)
5:15 AM
Sarasate, Pablo de (1844-1908)
Romanza Andaluza (Op.22)
Moshe Hammer (violin), Valerie Tryon (piano)
5:20 AM
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936)
Serenade Espagnol (Op.20 No.2)
Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Heini Kärkkäinen (piano)
5:24 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Rapsodie espagnole
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
5:39 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Rhapsodie espagnole (Folies d'Espagne et jota aragonesa) S.254 for piano
Irene Veneziano (piano)
5:53 AM
de Falla, Manuel (1876-1946)
Noches en los jardines de España
Filip Pavlov (piano), Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Marinov (conductor)
6:17 AM
Caplet, André (1878-1925)
Divertissement No.2 - A l'Espagnole
Mojka Zlobko (harp)
6:23 AM
Chabrier, Emmanuel (1841-1894)
España - rhapsody for orchestra
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b03q5csx)
Thursday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British Music Playlist, compiled from listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b03q5d4s)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with John Sergeant
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: 'Inspirales' ? Hillel Zori (cello) and Arnon Erez (piano), CELLO CLASSICS CC1030. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Maurizio Pollini
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the television and radio journalist and broadcaster, John Sergeant. John has worked as a war reporter in Vietnam and Israel, and has presented BBC Radio 4 programmes Today and The World at One. From 1992-2000 he served as the BBC's Chief Political Correspondent, and then became the Political Editor of ITN. One of his most memorable moments was when he waited outside the British embassy in Paris for Mrs Thatcher, in the hope of hearing her reaction to the first ballot in the party leadership contest of 1990, only to be pushed aside by her press secretary when Thatcher emerged from the building. For this broadcast, he won the British Press Guild award for the most memorable broadcast of the year. After retirement from political journalism, John's appearances on programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing and Have I Got News for You have made him a sought-after participant in television comedy and satire shows. He is currently filming a new documentary in which he explores Indian railways.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice:
Bach
Wachet auf, ruft und die Stimme, BWV 140
Edith Mathis (soprano)
Peter Schreier (tenor)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Munich Bach Choir
Munich Bach Orchestra
Karl Richter (conductor)
ARCHIV.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03q5f91)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Song Cycles and Symphonies
Franz Schubert hopes to achieve public acclaim as symphonist.
Schubert's health was in rapid decline. Nevertheless, despite his frequent excesses in the tavern, he continued to produce works of enduring greatness. His first song cycle, Die Schöne Müllerin or the Maid of the Mill was produced at a time when he had all but lost his hair, due to the mercury treatment for his syphilis. As Donald Macleod notes in today's programme, the cycle can be interpreted as a lament for lost innocence.
Schubert appears to have been subject to violent mood-swings, sometimes even pointlessly destroying cups, glasses and plates to deliberately create havoc. Despite his occasional antisocial behaviour, Schubert was by no means an outcast; indeed, as an elected member of the committee of Vienna's prestigious musical society, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, he was almost in danger of becoming part of the musical establishment. Holidaying in Upper Austria in May 1825, he was astonished to find that his compositions were everywhere, particularly songs and piano duets for the home musician. During this time, Schubert was sketching and working hard to complete his great C-major symphony, his ninth (although the first that he would present for public performance). This was dedicated to the Gesellschaft but its length and difficulty militated against a performance during his lifetime.
Presented by Donald Macleod.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03q5fwk)
South West Festivals 2013
Episode 3
More from this year's music festivals in the South West. The touring ensemble of the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove visit St. George's Bristol with chamber works featuring French horn.
Mozart: Horn Quintet in E flat major, K407
James Clark, violin; Oscar Perks, viola; Rosalind Ventris, viola; Steven Doane, cello; Alec Frank-Gemmill, French horn
Schubert: Overture for String Quartet in C minor, D8a
James Clark, violin; Krysia Osostowicz, violin; Oscar Perks, viola; Rosalind Ventris, viola; Steven Doane, cello
Brahms: Horn Trio in E flat major, Op.40
James Clark, violin; Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn; Herbert Schuch, piano.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03q5fy0)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Gretry - Guillaume Tell
Thursday Opera Matinee
André-Modeste Grétry: Guillaume Tell (William Tell)
Louise Fryer introduces a performance recorded in June 2013 at Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Liège, Belgium.
There's a very famous operatic setting of the story of William Tell, by Rossini. But today there's a rare chance to hear the much less well-known comic opera Guillaume Tell by André-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813) - who was born in the city where this production was staged, Liège. It tells the same story of Swiss freedom as Rossini's masterpiece.
A dispute has arisen over how best to show respect to a representative of the Emperor, and - as a lesson - Gessler (the Austiran Governor) has demanded that his hat be displayed prominently in the town square, and that respects should be paid to it by everyone who passes. William Tell defies the ruling and is arrested but is given the chance to save himself from execution if he can demonstrate his ability as the greatest archer in Switzerland by shooting an apple set on the head of his son.
Grétry was hugely popular in his time but music associated with the Parisian opéra-comique form went out of fashion as the more serious German and Italian opera styles became the standard. The première took place shortly after the French Revolution and so the themes of revolt against a repressive regime (in this case, the Habsburgs) struck a chord with the Parisian audience. Grétry finds plenty of opportunity to add colourful interludes and songs, and - as would have been expected, as a standard part of the opéra-comique style - he provides all the key dramatic points with plenty of entertainment and colour.
Guillaume Tell ..... Marc Laho (tenor)
Madame Tell ..... Anne-Catherine Gillet (soprano)
Gessler ..... Lionel Lhote (baritone)
Marie ..... Liesbeth Devos (soprano)
Melktal Senior ..... Patrick Delcour (baritone)
Melktal Junior ..... Stefan Cifolelli (tenor)
The Traveller ..... Roger Joakim (baritone)
Orchestra and Chorus of Opéra Royal de Wallonie,
Claudio Scimone (conductor)
3.30pm
Live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast
John Toal introduces the Ulster Orchestra's second live concert this week at the Ulster Hall in Belfast. Belfast pianist Michael McHale joins the Orchestra and conductor Michael Seal for Mozart's beautifully poised A major Piano Concerto, composed at the same time as 'The Marriage of Figaro'. Plus Dvorak's tone poem 'Vodník' - The Water Goblin, telling the story of a mischievous water goblin who traps drowning souls in upturned teacups!
Mozart: Piano Concerto in A major, K488
Michael McHale (piano)
Dvorak: The Water Goblin, Op 107
Ulster Orchestra,
Michael Seal (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b03q5g9r)
23/01/14 Sounds Baroque, Scottish Opera, Kasper Holten, RNCM's world record attempt
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from Sounds Baroque. Tenor Aldo Di Toro and baritone Nicholas Lester talk about Don Pasquale at Scottish Opera, and the Royal Opera House's Kasper Holten discusses directing Don Giovanni. And we talk to composer Tom Harrold about composing for 32 hands, as students at the Royal Northern College of Music get ready to attempt the world record for most hands performing on one piano.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03q5f91)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03q5hc9)
BBC Philharmonic, Halle - Strauss's Voice
The BBC Philharmonic and Hallé orchestras join forces for 'Strauss's Voice', a celebration of the music of Richard Strauss in the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Live from the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.
Presented by Martin Handley.
Richard Strauss: Festival Prelude
Richard Strauss: Notturno
Richard Strauss: Hymnus
Richard Strauss: Pilgers Morgenlied
8.05pm Music Interval
8.25pm
Richard Strauss: Nachtlicher Gang
Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
BBC Philharmonic
Hallé Orchestra
Juanjo Mena (conductor)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
William Dazeley (baritone)
Followed at approx
9.35pm by CPE Bach and his keyboard sonatas
In his tercentenary year a chance to explore Emanuel Bach's revelatory keyboard music in performances on the clavichord, harpsichord, tangent and fortepianos as well as the modern concert grand piano.
The BBC Philharmonic and Hallé orchestras join forces for 'Strauss's Voice', a celebration of the music of Richard Strauss in the 150th anniversary of his birth which focuses on his outstandingly prolific writing of orchestral songs. Tonight, Juanjo Mena conducts both orchestras in four settings including two rarely heard works, his darkly haunting 'Notturno' and 'Nachtlicher Gang.' The full force of his orchestral colours and virtuosity is unleashed in his Festival Prelude and his epic tone poem, 'An Alpine Symphony.'.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b03q5gf2)
Simon Russell Beale; Derek Jarman
The actor Simon Russell Beale talks to Samira Ahmed about his approach to playing King Lear, which opens at the National Theatre tonight.
Derek Jarman is the subject of a season at the BFI and an exhibition Pandemonium - at the Cultural Institute at Kings College London. Composer Simon Fisher Turner worked with him on Blue, a collaboration between BBC Radio 3 and Channel 4. Artist Tacita Dean says he inspired her to take on working in film. Samira Ahmed also discusses Jarman's career with Briony Hanson who is Director of Film at the British Council and writer Jon Savage - whose book Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945 has been turned into a documentary out in UK cinemas on January 24th.
New Generation Thinkers Philip Roscoe and Jonathan Healey reflect on attitudes to the deserving poor, benefits culture and the Channel 4 series Benefits Street. Philip Roscoe's book I Spend Therefore I Am explores measurement and morality in economics.
Producer: Laura Thomas.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b03q5gkj)
The Book that Changed Me
Malorie Blackman on The Color Purple
Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman on how Alice Walker's novel "The Color Purple" legitimised her need to be a writer. She writes how the novel was "about the triumph of the human spirit". Reading it for the first in her early 20s it "blasted open a door which I thought was locked and barred to me. Actually it blasted open a door which I didn't appreciate even existed. A door that could lead to a writing career of my own... this book and its author showed that it was possible for me to not only be an author but to have my own voice."
Producer: Smita Patel.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b03q5hfw)
Thursday - Max Reinhardt
Deep blues from Blind Willie Johnson, Russian monastic chant from the Carducci Quartet, South African jazz from Kheswa and her Martians, Syrian dance from Omar Souleyman, a live recording by Mali's late lamented Lobi Traore, and Americana from Elephant Revival. Presented by Max Reinhardt.
FRIDAY 24 JANUARY 2014
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b03q5cfl)
Cello Sonatas by Mendelssohn, Weinberg and Grieg are performed by David Geringas (cello) and Yasha Nemtsov (piano) in a concert from Traunstein, Bavaria. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Sonata for cello and piano No.1 (Op.45) in B flat major
12:53 AM
Weinberg, Mieczyslaw [1919-1995]
Sonata for cello and piano No.2, Op.63
1:12 AM
Grieg, Edvard [1843-1907]
Sonata for cello and piano (Op.36) in A minor
1:39 AM
Grieg, Edvard [1843-1907]
Solveig's song (from Peer Gynt)
1:44 AM
Grieg, Edvard [1843-1907]
Anitra's dance (from Peer Gynt)
1:48 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai [1844-1908]
The Flight of the Bumblebee (from The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
David Geringas (cello), Yasha Nemtsov (piano)
1:50 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Sextet for strings No.2 in G major, (Op.36)
Hrachya Avanesyan, Johannes Soe Hansen (violins), Ettore Causa, Magda Stevensson (violas), Andreas & Ingemar Brantelid (cellos)
2:31 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Symphony No.9 in E minor (Op.95) 'From the New World'
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Jan Söderblom (conductor)
3:17 AM
Tippett, Michael (1905-1998)
Five Spirituals - from the oratorio 'A Child of our Time'
Vancouver Bach Choir , Bruce Pullan (conductor)
3:29 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Toccata in C minor BWV.911 for keyboard
Evgeni Koroliov (piano)
3:40 AM
Vladigerov, Pancho (1899-1978)
Improvisatsiya i tokata (Improvisation & Toccata) for orchestra (Op.36) (1942)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Vladigerov (conductor)
3:53 AM
Traditional, arr. Dinev, Petar [1889-1980]
Two Folk Songs from South-Western Bulgaria
Bulgarian National Radio Mixed Chorus, Mihail Milkov (conductor)
3:59 AM
Janácek, Leos (1854-1928)
Mládí (Youth)
Dirk de Caluwe (flute), Thomas Indermuehle (oboe), Walter Boeykens (clarinet), Brian Pollard (bassoon), Jacob Slagter (horn), Jan Guns (bass clarinet)
4:19 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Lute Concerto in D major
Nigel North (Lute), London Baroque
4:31 AM
Melartin, Erkki (1875-1937)
Lohdutus (Consolation)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
4:36 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Gaspard de la nuit for piano
Anna Vinnitskaya (piano)
4:59 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Song 'See, even Night herself is here' (Z.62/11) - from The Fairy Queen, Act II Scene 3
Nancy Argenta (soprano), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Monica Huggett (guest conductor)
5:04 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Variations for Brass Band
The Hannaford Street Silver Band, Bramwell Tovey (Conductor)
5:17 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.104 in D major (H.
1.104) 'London'
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Philippe Entremont (Conductor)
5:45 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
2 Sonatinas for mandolin: C minor WoO 43/1 and C major WoW 44/1
Avi Avital (mandolin) Shalev Ad-El (harpsichord)
5:52 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)
Concerto for piano and orchestra no.2 (Op.102) in F major
Dmitri Shostakovich (piano), Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Konstantin Iliev (conductor)
6:09 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich [1804-1857]
Gde nasha roza? (Where is our rose?) - song
Petteri Salomaa (baritone), Ilmo Ranta (piano)
6:10 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857)
Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne (Sing not, thou beauty) (song)
Petteri Salomaa (baritone), Ilmo Ranta (piano)
6:12 AM
Pachulski, Henryk [1859-1921]
Suite in Memory of Tchaikovsky (Op. 13);
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b03q5csz)
Friday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British Music Playlist, compiled from listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b03q5d4v)
Friday - Rob Cowan with John Sergeant
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: 'Inspirales' ? Hillel Zori (cello) and Arnon Erez (piano), CELLO CLASSICS CC1030. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Maurizio Pollini
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the television and radio journalist and broadcaster, John Sergeant. John has worked as a war reporter in Vietnam and Israel, and has presented BBC Radio 4 programmes Today and The World at One. From 1992-2000 he served as the BBC's Chief Political Correspondent, and then became the Political Editor of ITN. One of his most memorable moments was when he waited outside the British embassy in Paris for Mrs Thatcher, in the hope of hearing her reaction to the first ballot in the party leadership contest of 1990, only to be pushed aside by her press secretary when Thatcher emerged from the building. For this broadcast, he won the British Press Guild award for the most memorable broadcast of the year. After retirement from political journalism, John's appearances on programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing and Have I Got News for You have made him a sought-after participant in television comedy and satire shows. He is currently filming a new documentary in which he explores Indian railways.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice:
Schubert
Mass in E flat
Helen Donath (soprano)
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano)
Francisco Araiza (tenor)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
EMI.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03q5f93)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
The Final Years
Donald Macleod looks at the extraordinary fertility of Schubert's mind during his last two years.
One of Schubert's more remarkable creations is the song-cycle Winterreise or Winter Journey, setting the poems of Wilhelm Müller. It's a composition that astounded Schubert's many friends when they first heard the composer singing through this bleak work in its entirety: "We were quite dumfounded by the gloomy mood of these songs' recalled one friend, Josef von Spaun, 'From then on Schubert was a sick man'.
Tempting as it is to see the cycle as a harbinger of Schubert's doom, it seems that the composer was no less convivial than in earlier, happier times - as Donald recounts, he even went down to his local pub on completing the first half of the cycle! And musically, too, Franz Schubert was eager to pursue new genres, with commercial potential. His Impromptus, for example, contain moments of quicksilver brilliance.
Once again, his friends encouraged Schubert to seek out greater public recognition. Planning a concert at the hall of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna's prestigious music society, the composer worked hard to complete a varied programme of new works, including a new string quartet and his magnificent Piano Trio in E flat. The concert was well attended, and brought in much needed receipts to swell Schubert's bank balance. But in the papers there was deafening silence. Vienna's critics were more interested in the pyrotechnics of Paganini. Even Schubert himself would blow a great deal of money for a top-price ticket for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the violinist in action.
One key work from this year is the profound piano duet, the Fantasy in F, which Schubert dedicated to Princess Caroline Esterhazy. There is strong evidence that Schubert was in love with her, and that she was something of a muse to his romantic yearnings. It's not clear if the princess either reciprocated, or was even aware of his feelings for her!
Donald concludes this week's look at the life, loves and friendships of Franz Schubert with what is possibly his last completed work, the show-stopping aria written at the request of the opera singer Anna Milder-Hauptmann. This is The Shepherd on the Rock, a work in which the shepherd expresses his hopes for the spring - a spring which the composer would never live to see.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03q5fwm)
South West Festivals 2013
Episode 4
More from a tour of the south-west chamber festivals, including two major cycles from Schumann's 'year of song' performed at the Tetbury Music Festival in the Cotswolds, and music for strings from Devon's south coast.
Schumann: Liederkreis, Op.24
Jonathan Lemalu, bass-baritone; Joseph Middleton, piano
Borodin: Sextet in D minor
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben, Op.42
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano; Joseph Middleton, piano.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03q5fy2)
Claudio Abbado: the final concerts in Lucerne
Claudio Abbado: the final concerts.
Louise Fryer presents recordings made at the late conductor's final appearances at last summer's Lucerne Festival. Claudio Abbado's work with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra represented the zenith of the great maestro's life in music. Formed ten years ago, and performing a mere handful of concerts a year, the orchestra brought together many leading soloists, chamber musicians and principal players from the world's elite orchestras alongside a hand-picked assembly of young musicans from the many youth projects with which Claudio Abbado has been so intimately involved over the past thirty years. But, even by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra's own exalted standards, these final two concert programmes saw performances which soared to new heights. As one reviewer put it: "Abbado's concerts weren't mere performances of pieces of music, they were searing, transformative existential journeys. That they have come to an end is an unimaginable loss."
Brahms Tragic Overture in D minor, op. 81
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Schoenberg Orchestral Interlude and Song of the Wood Dove, from Gurrelieder
Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano),
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
c.
2.30pm
Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 ('Unfinished')
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
c.
3.00pm
Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D minor, WAB 109
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b03q5hjk)
24/01/14 Jayson Gillham, Jason Rebello, Jennifer Pike and Tom Poster, Mairearad and Anna
Sean Rafferty presents a lively drive-time mix of music and topical chat, with live music and guests.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03q5f93)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03q5jd8)
BBC NOW and Chorus - Honegger, Rachmaninov, Faure
Live from St David's Hall, Cardiff
Thierry Fischer conducts the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales in Fauré's Requiem. Pianist Yevgeny Sudbin is the soloist in Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Honegger: Symphony no. 3 (Liturgique)
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
8.30 Interval: more music from Yevgeny Sudbin, and from La Madeleine, Paris - where Fauré's Requiem was first performed.
Fauré: Requiem
Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
Aelwyd y Waun Ddyfal
Thierry Fischer (conductor)
Followed at approx
9.40pm by CPE Bach and his keyboard sonatas
In his tercentenary year a chance to explore Emanuel Bach's revelatory keyboard music in performances on the clavichord, harpsichord, tangent and fortepianos as well as the modern concert grand piano.
The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales are joined by soloists Elin Manahan Thomas and Roderick Williams to perform one of the most cherished choral masterpieces: Fauré's Requiem. The serenity of Fauré's music is contrasted in the first half with the apocalyptic vision of Honegger's 3rd Symphony and Rachmaninov's brilliant tribute to the spirit of the demon fiddler, Paganini.
The orchestra's former Principal Conductor Thierry Fischer brings the music of his Swiss compatriot Arthur Honegger, whose 'Liturgique' symphony was written immediately after the Second World War and, after an aggressive opening movement, culminates in a desire for peace. Russian pianist Yevgeny Sudbin is the soloist in Rachmaninov's reworking of Paganini's most well-known theme.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b03q5gf4)
Andy McNab, Alex Horne, Bernadine Evaristo, Trevor Cox
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's Cabaret of the Word with guests Andy McNab, Alex Horne, Bernadine Evaristo and Trevor Cox.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b03q5gkl)
The Book that Changed Me
Luke Johnson on The Magic of Thinking Big
Serial entrepreneur Luke Johnson celebrates the simple but powerful messages of the self-help classic, "The Magic of Thinking Big" by David J Schwartz." "His book is not great literature," he admits. "Indeed, it is popular psychology at its most obvious." However, Johnson defends its power as "basic but also profound" - and it has influenced his huge success with a series of household name businesses.
Producer: Smita Patel.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b03q5jdb)
Celtic Connections 2014
Episode 2
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 second 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 Breton veterans Barzaz; the Raghu Dixit Project from India; rising star of Scots folk Fiona Hunter; and South Africa's mighty Mahotella Queens.