From the BBC Proms 2012. Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky. Catriona Young presents.
Concerto for cello and orchestra no. 1 (Op.107) in E flat major
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
Symphony No. 6 (Op.74) in B minor "Pathétique"
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)
Kaunas State Choir, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Petras Bingelis (conductor)
Joanna MacGregor (piano), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki (conductor)
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), orch. Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Lambert Climent & Lluis Claret (tenors), La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (director).
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Fantasy ? A Night at the Opera, Emmanuel Pahud, EMI. We also have our daily brainteaser at
2014 marks the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, and Sarah's guest this week is the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Sir Michael Boyd. Michael trained as a director in Moscow, before joining the Sheffield Crucible as an Associate Director, and becoming the founding Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow. He joined the RSC in 1996, staging the three parts of Henry VI together with Richard III at the Young Vic, as part of the This England: The Histories cycle. He assumed control of the RSC in 2003, burdened with a deficit of £2.8m, with a remit to turn its fortunes around. He ran a year-long Complete Works of Shakespeare Festival and a London season at the Novello Theatre, and in 2007 he launched the long-awaited redevelopment of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Michael was knighted in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36
"In composition and keyboard playing, I never had any other teacher than my father." It could so easily have gone horribly wrong: one of the greatest musical minds the world has ever known, teaching his musical offspring himself. But Johann Sebastian Bach clearly had very special qualities and seems to have remained on good terms with all of his children. In today's programme, Donald Macleod explores the relationship between CPE Bach and his famous father.
The first of three visits this week to last year's Danish festivals and concert series features works by Schubert, Schumann and Haydn. Pianist and former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Alexander Melnikov performs Schubert's groundbreaking 'Wanderer' Fantasy, Armenian duo Narekh Hakhnazaryan and Marianna Shirinyan play Schumann's Fantasy Pieces for cello and piano, and the Tokyo String Quartet perform one of Haydn's last and greatest quartets.
Katie Derham continues a week of programmes featuring performances from the Thea Musgrave 'Total Immersion' weekend at the Barbican with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers. Looking ahead to Ravel Day on Friday, we've pieces by composers whose music influenced him, including Debussy, Wagner and Stravinsky, and another new piece for choir developed in workshops during the last year with the BBC Singers
Six Songs (Romances), Op. 21
Juan Diego Florez, Gabriela Montero, Berkeley Ensemble, Kim Criswell, Louise Dearman, William Burden
Suzy Klein's guests include the star tenor Juan Diego Florez, who returns to Covent Garden to perform alongside Patrizia Ciofi and Kiri Te Kanawa in Donizetti's La fille du Regiment. There's lots of live music on the show too: the Berkeley Ensemble - an enterprising chamber group of young British musicians which takes its name from father and son composers Lennox and Michael Berkeley; Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero will be displaying her renowned improvisational talents; and singers Kim Criswell, Louise Dearman and William Burden will all perform ahead of their Wigmore Hall concert with the Nash Ensemble.
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In 2012, multi award-winning Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes recorded the music of Beethoven for the first time in his career. Tonight he plays the Variations in F along with three of Beethoven's tempestuous, tuneful, beautiful and uplifting piano sonatas.
Matthew Sweet visits the British Museum's Vikings exhibition with the curator Gareth Williams and Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Dr Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough from Durham University.
Lincoln Paine discusses his history of navigation and seafaring 'Sea and Civilization'.
Captain M.K.Barritt, author of An Artist in the Channel Fleet, looks at the Napoleonic War artist J.T. Serres
Five writers examine how an item of clothing or an accessory figures memorably in a work of art, be it in a book or film or painting. In this edition, Booker Prize- winning writer Julian Barnes begins with an unforgettable hat in the classic novel Madame Bovary.
Julian Barnes recalls a cap of 'composite order' worn at the beginning of Madame Bovary by the young Charles, and possibly the most famous school cap in literature ...
Max Reinhardt features Bristol jazz quartet Get The Blessing, left-field electronica from James Holden, contemporary classics from Ligeti and Reich, Swedish indie band Lacrosse and some old time music from the Blue Ridge Mountains by Estil C. Ball and Orna Ball.
WEDNESDAY 05 MARCH 2014
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b03wprws)
Prince Poniatowski was the great-nephew of the last king of Poland, and he wrote this opera in French on an Italian subject based in Pisa. Pierre de Medicis comes to his brother's court in Pisa anxious to marry the legendary beauty (and daughter of the Grand Inquisitor) Laura. but Laura secretly loves Pierre's brother Julien de Medicis. Jealousy, Betrayal, Greed and Convents ensue ...
12:31 AM
Poniatowski, J. M. K. [1816-1873] (Josef Michal)
Pierre de Medicis - Act 1
Pierre de Médicis ..... Xu Chang (tenor)
Laura Salviati ..... Aleksandra Buczek (soprano)
Julien de Médicis ..... Florian Sempey (baritone)
Fra Antonio ..... Yasushi Hirano (bass)
Paolo Monti ..... Juraj Holly (tenor)
Henrietta ..... Jadwiga Postrozna (mezzo-soprano)
Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic Chorus,
Cracow Festival Orchestra,
Massimiliano Caldi (conductor)
1:29 AM
Pierre de Medicis - Act 2
1:53 AM
Pierre de Medicis - Act 3
2:35 AM
Pierre de Medicis - Act 4
3:15 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Scherzo no.4 in E major
Dubravka Tomsic (piano)
03:27 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Romance for string orchestra in C major (Op.42)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)
3:32 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto in F minor (BWV1056)
Angela Hewitt (piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
3:42 AM
Halvorsen, Johan (1864-1935)
Norwegian Rhapsody No.1 in A
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)
3:55 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico [1685-1757]
Sonata in G (Kk.91) (arranged for mandolin and harpsichord)
Avi Avital (mandolin), Shalev Ad-El (harpsichord)
4:02 AM
Califano, Arcangelo (1st half of c.18th)
Sonata a quattro in C major, for 2 oboes, bassoon and continuo
Ensemble Zefiro
4:12 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in B flat major, K.333 (Allegro; Andante cantabile; Allegro grazioso)
Jevgeny Rivkin (piano)
4:31 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
V prirode (Op.91)
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
4:46 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
5 Flower Songs
Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor)
4:57 AM
Guastavino, Carlos (1912-2000)
La rosa y el sauce (The Rose and the Willow)
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), James Parker (piano), Bryan Epperson, Maurizio Baccante, Roman Borys, Simon Fryer, David Hetherington, Roberta Jansen, Paul Widner, Thomas Wiebe, Winona Zelenka (cellos)
5:00 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Rosenkavalier -- Grand Suite
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec, Franz-Paul Decker (conductor)
5:23 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
3 Airs from Vauxhall Gardens, arranged by Steele-Perkins for trumpet and orchestra
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), The King's Consort, Robert King (director)
5:34 AM
Frumerie, Gunnar de (1908-1987)
Pastoral Suite (Op.13b)
Kathleen Rudolph (flute), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5:48 AM
Gossec, François-Joseph (1734-1829)
Symphony in D major (Op.5 No.3) 'Pastorella'
Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
6:04 AM
Alfvén, Hugo (1872-1960)
En båt med blommer (A boat with flowers) (Op.44)
Peter Mattei (baritone), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
6:14 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto for violin and orchestra in E major (RV.269) (Op.8 No.1), ' Primavera'
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)
6:24 AM
Medins, Janis (1890-1966)
Flower Waltz - from the ballet 'Victory of Love'
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Imants Resnis (conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b03wtlks)
Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b03wpsn8)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Michael Boyd
with Sarah Walker and her guest, the theatre director Michael Boyd.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Fantasy ? A Night at the Opera, Emmanuel Pahud, EMI. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Tasmin Little.
10.30am
2014 marks the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, and Sarah's guest this week is the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Sir Michael Boyd. Michael trained as a director in Moscow, before joining the Sheffield Crucible as an Associate Director, and becoming the founding Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow. He joined the RSC in 1996, staging the three parts of Henry VI together with Richard III at the Young Vic, as part of the This England: The Histories cycle. He assumed control of the RSC in 2003, burdened with a deficit of £2.8m, with a remit to turn its fortunes around. He ran a year-long Complete Works of Shakespeare Festival and a London season at the Novello Theatre, and in 2007 he launched the long-awaited redevelopment of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Michael was knighted in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice:
Sibelius
Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Berglund (conductor)
EMI.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b011ckm5)
Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714-1788)
To Stir the Heart
To Stir the Heart
Donald Macleod discovers how the Seven Years War affected life in Berlin during CPE Bach's tenure as harpsichordist at the court of Frederick the Great, and finds insights into Bach's musical philosophy: "I believe that music must, first and foremost, stir the heart ...".
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03wpst7)
Danish Summer
Episode 2
The week of chmaber music performances from last year's Danish festivals and concert series continues with the Eggner Trio performing two short canonic Etudes by Schumann and Brahms's terseley dramatic Third Piano Trio, and pianist Peter Serkin playing Beethoven's quirky late set of Bagatelles.
Schumann: 2 Etudes in Canon Form, Op 56
Eggner Trio
(at Hirtshals Kirke, Hjorring, as part of the Vendsyssel Festival)
Beethoven: 6 Bagatelles, Op 126
Peter Serkin (piano)
(at Oremandsgaard Manor, Praesto, as part of the Oremandsgaard Chamber Music Festival)
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op 101
Eggner Trio
(at Hirtshals Kirke, Hjorring, as part of the Vendsyssel Festival).
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03wpthj)
Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave
Episode 3
Katie Derham continues a week of programmes featuring performances from the Thea Musgrave 'Total Immersion' weekend at the Barbican and curated by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers. Also topday, a choral piece and an organ piece developed in workshops during the last year by the BBC Singers, in partnership with Choir and Organ magazine and music by Copland, Brahms and Glinka
2pm
Thea Musgrave
The Seasons
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
2.15pm
Copland
Old American Songs, Set 1
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Parry (conductor)
2.30pm
Mantas Savickis
All Nature Has a Feeling
BBC Singers
Matthew Hamilton (conductor)
2.35pm
David Loxley-Blount
Sonus repercussus
James McVinnie (organ)
2.40pm
Brahms
Gesang, Op.104 - 1. Im Herbst
BBC Singers
Andrew Griffiths (conductor)
2.50pm
Emily Howard
Solar
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Garry Walker (conductor)
2.55pm
Glinka
A Life for the Tsar - Overture
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Mikhail Agrest (conductor)
3.05pm
Thea Musgrave
Ithaca
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor)
3.20pm
Brahms
Gesang, Op.104 - 3. Letzes Glück; 4. Verlorene Jugend
BBC Singers
Andrew Griffiths (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b03ws998)
Gloucester Cathedral
From Gloucester Cathedral on Ash Wednesday
Introit: Hear my prayer (Purcell)
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalm 51: Miserere mei, Deus (Allegri)
First Lesson: Isaiah 1 vv10-18
Canticles: Short Service (Causton)
Second Lesson: Luke 15 vv11-32
Anthem: Cast me not away from thy presence (S.S. Wesley)
Hymn: Praise to the holiest in the height (Somervell)
Organ Voluntary: Fantasia in four parts (Gibbons)
Adrian Partington (Director of Music)
Stephen Power (Organ Scholar).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b03wpthl)
Christophe Rousset, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Thor Ewing
Suzy Klein's guests include world renowned harpsichord virtuoso Christophe Rousset, performing live in the studio ahead of a performance which he directs at London's Barbican Hall of Rameau's Les Indes Galantes.
Plus, live music from exciting young violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, making waves with her vibrant and individual solo concert appearances.
And we'll hear from historian and writer on Viking-age, Thor Ewing, about the new Viking exhibition at the British Museum.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b011ckm5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03wptzj)
Monteverdi Choir 50th Anniversary Concert
The Monteverdi Choir's 50th Anniversary Concert
Live from King's College, Cambridge
Presented by Martin Handley
Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610
Silvia Frigato, soprano
Emanuela Galli, soprano
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Krystian Adam, tenor
Boy Choristers from King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
On 5th March 1964, the Monteverdi Choir performed its first ever concert - Claudio Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, in the chapel of King's College Cambridge. Exactly 50 years later, the now world-renowned Choir celebrates its golden anniversary with a recreation of this historic performance - same repertoire, same day, same venue, and even some of the original performers.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b03ybpf8)
Julian Schnabel, Michael Goldfarb on pianist Alice Herz-Sommer
Artist and film-maker Julian Schnabel talks to Philip Dodd. In 1980 he took part in the Venice Biennale and then became known for creating a series of paintings on broken ceramic plates before turning to directing films including The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir about living with locked-in syndrome following a stroke, Before Night Falls starring Javier Bardem, and a biopic of the painter Basquiat.
The pianist Alice Herz-Sommer, who gave concerts while she was incarcerated in Terezín, was the oldest known holocaust survivor until her death last week at the age of 110. Michael Goldfarb considers her life.
Michael Goldfarb's new book is called Emancipation, How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance.
Producer: Natalie Steed.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b01qlcck)
Listener, They Wore It
Alec Leamas's coat (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
For a second time, five writers were invited to think about an item of clothing or an accessory that figures memorably in a work of art, be it in a book or film or painting.
Antonia Quirke on a damp yet durable coat that appears in the film The Spy Who Came in From The Cold - which was made more significant when worn by a certain Richard Burton ...
Producer Duncan Minshull.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b03wpv52)
Wednesday - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt's selection includes Javanese gamelan composer Aloysius Suwardi, organist David Goode playing Bach, a song based on the words of Belgian poet Guido Gezelle, and recordings by About Group and Nils Frahm.
THURSDAY 06 MARCH 2014
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b03wprwv)
The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Frans Brüggen perform piano concertos by Mozart and Chopin with soloists Kristian Bezuidenhout and Chopin Competition winner Yulianna Avdeeva
12:31 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750], arr. Wim ten Have
Ricercare a 6, from a Musical Offering BWV. 1079
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen (conductor)
12:40 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major K.595
Kristian Bezuidenhout (piano), Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen (conductor)
1:11 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849], arr. Wim ten Have
Fugue in A minor, arr. for strings
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen (conductor)
1:17 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor Op.21
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano), Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen (conductor)
1:51 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major Op.15 No.2
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
1:55 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Mazurka No. 32 in C sharp minor Op.50 No.3
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
2:01 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus(1756-1791)
Piano Concerto in C major (K. 467)
Mihaela Ursuleasa (piano), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gabriel Chmura (conductor)
2:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Quartet for strings in B flat (K.458), "The Hunt"
Orford String Quartet
3:00 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Symphony No.7 in A major (Op.92)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)
3:37 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir (BWV.228)
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
3:46 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Theme with variations from Sextet in B flat major (Op.18)
Wiener Streichsextet
3:56 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
4 songs
Jard van Nes (mezzo soprano), Gérard van Blerk (piano)
4:08 AM
Alfvén, Hugo (1872-1960)
En båt med blommer (A boat with flowers) (Op.44)
Peter Mattei (baritone), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
4:19 AM
Horovitz, Joseph (b. 1926)
Music Hall Suite
The Slovene Brass Quintet
4:31 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Mountain Dances - from the opera 'Halka' (1846-1857)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Szymon Kawalla (conductor)
4:36 AM
Novak, Vitezslav (1870-1949)
V Tatrach (In the Tatra mountains) - symphonic poem (Op.26)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
4:54 AM
Zulawski, Wawrzyniec [1918-1957]
Suite in the Old Style
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor)
5:05 AM
Kilar, Wojciech (1932-2013)
Koscielec 1909 (1976)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stanislav Macura (conductor)
5:21 AM
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909)
Na sniegu (Op.1 No.3) (Tempo mazurka)
Jadwiga Rappé (alto), Ewa Poblocka (piano)
5:22 AM
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909)
10 Songs (Op.3) (1896)
Jadwiga Rappé (contralto), Ewa Poblocka (piano)
5:37 AM
Noskowski, Zygmunt [1846-1909]
The Highlander's Fantasy (Op.17)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
5:47 AM
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937)
Variations on a Polish Folk theme in B minor (Op.10)
Jerzy Godziszewski (piano)
6:07 AM
Zelenski, Wladyslaw (1837-1921)
W Tatrach (In the Tatras) - overture (Op.27)
Sinfonia Varsovia, Grzegorz Nowak (conductor)
6:21 AM
Kilar, Wojciech (1932-2013)
Orawa for string orchestra (1988)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b03wpryp)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b03wpsnb)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with Michael Boyd
with Sarah Walker and her guest, the theatre director Michael Boyd.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Fantasy ? A Night at the Opera, Emmanuel Pahud, EMI. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Tasmin Little.
10.30am
2014 marks the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, and Sarah's guest this week is the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Sir Michael Boyd. Michael trained as a director in Moscow, before joining the Sheffield Crucible as an Associate Director, and becoming the founding Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow. He joined the RSC in 1996, staging the three parts of Henry VI together with Richard III at the Young Vic, as part of the This England: The Histories cycle. He assumed control of the RSC in 2003, burdened with a deficit of £2.8m, with a remit to turn its fortunes around. He ran a year-long Complete Works of Shakespeare Festival and a London season at the Novello Theatre, and in 2007 he launched the long-awaited redevelopment of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Michael was knighted in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice:
Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor
Yuja Wang (piano)
Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)
DG.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b011ckr5)
Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Ich bin ein Hamburger
Ich bin ein Hamburger
In 1768 CPE Bach left Berlin after 30 years' service at the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia and started a new job in Hamburg, where he took over from his godfather, Telemann, as musical director of the city's five most prominent churches. Life was good - according to one visitor, "Bach has a talkative wife, a rather unattractive but well-mannered daughter, a son who is a lawyer, good wine and good beer". Donald Macleod finds out what life was like for the Bach family in the more commercial atmosphere of Hamburg, the biggest port and trading centre of the German lands.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03wpsty)
Danish Summer
Episode 3
The short series of recordings from last year's Danish festivals and concert series concludes with pianist Peter Serkin playing Nielsen's Theme and Variations, Op 40, Armenian cello-piano duo
Narekh Hakhnazaryan and Marianna Shirinyan in Rachmaninov's Vocalise, and former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Alexander Melnikov in Prokofiev's belligerent Sixth Piano Sonata
Nielsen: Theme with Variations, Op 40
Peter Serkin (piano)
(at Oremandsgaard Manor, Praesto, as part of the Oremandsgaard Chamber Music Festival)
Rakhmaninov: Vocalise, Op 34 No 14
Narekh Hakhnazaryan (cello), Marianna Shirinyan (piano)
(at Gjethuset, Frederiksvaerk, Zealand)
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No 6 in A major, Op 82
Alexander Melnikov (piano)
(at Hindsgavl Manor, Island of Funen).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03wpthn)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Ravel - L'heure espagnole
Katie Derham's Thursday matinee, ahead of Ravel Day tomorrow, is his one-act opera L'heure espagnole in a classic recording with a mainly French cast conducted by Lorin Maazel, after which she brings you the final Afternoon on 3 instalment of Thea Musgrave 'Total Immersion' from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers. Plus Elgar's perennially popular Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 and Ravel's masterful orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
Ravel
L'Heure espagnole: musical comedy in 1 act
Concepcion Torquemada's wife Jane Berbie (mezzo soprano)
Torquemada a watchmaker: Jean Giraudeau (tenor)
Ramiro muleteer: Gabriel Bacquier (baritone)
Don Inigo Gomez banker Jose van Dam (bass-baritone)
Gonzalve student Michel Senechal (tenor)
French National Radio Broadcasting Orchestra
Lorin Maazel (conductor)
2.55pm
Thea Musgrave
Turbulent Landscapes
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
3.25pm
Ben Parker
The Affects of a Butterfly
BBC Singers
Matthew Hamilton (conductor)
3.30pm
Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 in D major
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)
3.40pm
Thea Musgrave
On the Underground, Set 3: A Medieval Summer (1995)
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor)
3.55pm
Mussorgsky orch Ravel
Pictures at an Exhibition
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b03wpthq)
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Doric Quartet, Kathryn Stott, Martin Roscoe, Guy Fletcher
Suzy Klein talks to legendary soprano Dame Kiri te Kanawa about her glittering career.
Plus live music from the Doric String Quartet and pianists Kathryn Stott and Martin Roscoe.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b011ckr5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03wptzl)
BBC SSO - Tsontakis, Barber, Copland
The BBC SSO, David Alan Miller and Sarah Chang with Tsontakis, Barber and Copland all Born in the USA.
Live from the City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
George Tsontakis
Let the River be Unbroken
Barber
Violin Concerto
20.10
Interval - American Songs by Stephen Foster
20.30
Copland
Symphony No 3
Sarah Chang (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
David Allan Miller (conductor)
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's "Born in the USA" season continues with three pages from American history, in a concert conducted by David Alan Miller. Tsontakis's Let the River be Unbroken, takes a look back at the 1860's American Civil War, using the hymns, folk and slave songs of the common man from the Appalachian Mountains. Tunes are taken from both sides of the Potomac River which represented the line between the northern troops and the Southern Confederacy. The Barber Violin Concerto brings European romanticism back home to the East Coast of the USA. The wonderful tunes are brought to life by the American violinist Sarah Chang. The second half the concert comes full circle when the BBC SSO plays one of the greatest of American Symphonies - Copland's Symphony No 3, which ends with variations on his Fanfare for the Common Man, written at the end of another war, the Second World War, and inspired by a famous speech of 1942 where the Vice President of the United States proclaimed the dawning of the "Century of the Common Man".
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b03wpv1w)
Flora Thompson Biography, Ruins at Tate Britain, Ravel
As Radio 3 prepares for Ravel Day tomorrow Anne McElvoy talks to the choreographer Richard Alston whose dance piece, 'Shimmer', explored the music of Ravel's 'Sonatine' and 'Miroirs'.
There's a discussion about the ongoing fascination with ruins; whether a picturesque castle ruin glimpsed through the mist or the eerie photographs of an abandoned Detroit. Why do artists, and audiences, continue to seek out images of decay and destruction? Anne talks to the curator of a new exhibition at Tate Britain and the writer, Amanda Hopkinson.
Lark Rise to Candleford has been reinvented by theatre and television, and even Danny Boyle's Olympic opening extravaganza owed a debt to the idea of rural England that Flora Thompson created and recorded in her books. Anne talks to the nature writer Richard Mabey about his latest book 'The Life of Flora Thompson and the creation of Lark Rise to Candleford.'
Producer: Natalie Steed.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01qlccm)
Listener, They Wore It
Patti Smith's Shirt
For a second time, five writers were invited to think about an item of clothing or an accessory that figures memorably in a work of art, be it in a book or film or painting.
Susannah Frankel liked wearing men's shirts, white and often handed down from her father. She was influenced by that classic record cover for Horses, where Patti Smith made such a garment look beyond cool ...
Producer Duncan Minshull.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b03wpv54)
Thursday - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt's selection includes Californian songwriter Cass McCombs, Swiss saxophonist Michael Jaeger, Mississippi blues from Fred McDowell and 1960s French computer music from Jean-Claude Risset.
FRIDAY 07 MARCH 2014
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b03wprwx)
Henk de Vlieger's condensed version of Wagner's Ring Cycle - one hour and no voices - with the the Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. With Catriona Young
12:31 AM
Wagner, Richard [1813-1883]
The Ring - an orchestral adventure arr. Henk de Vlieger
Liège Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Arming (conductor)
1:25 AM
D'Indy, Vincent [1851-1931]
Concerto for flute, cello, piano and string orchestra (Op.89) in E flat major
Gaby Van Riet (flute), Marie Hallynck (cello), Mahiddin Durruoglu (piano), Liège Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Arming (conductor)
1:47 AM
Franck, César (1822-1890)
Le Chasseur Maudit - symphonic poem (M.44)
Orchestre National de France, Neeme Järvi (conductor)
2:04 AM
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909)
Rapsodia española
Angela Cheng (piano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Graf (conductor)
2:22 AM
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)
Three Rag-Caprices (Op.78)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Daniel Swift (conductor)
2:31 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Tu es Petrus - motet for 6 voices
Silvia Piccollo & Emmanuela Galli (sopranos), Fabian Schofrin (alto), Marco Beasley (tenor), Daniele Carnovich (bass), Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano, Theatrum Instrumentorum, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
2:37 AM
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Vetrate di Chiesa - 4 Symphonic impressions
Orchestra of London, Canada, Uri Mayer (conductor)
3:02 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
La cathédrale engloutie
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) (piano)
3:08 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony no.99 in E flat major (H.
1.99)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Guido Ajmone Marsan (conductor)
3:32 AM
Bach, Georg Christoph (1642-1703)
Siehe, wie fein und lieblich ist es - vocal concerto for 2 tenors, bass and instruments
Paul Elliott and Hein Meens (tenors), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
3:39 AM
Ibert, Jacques [1890-1962]
Concerto for flute and orchestra
Petri Alanko (flute), Radion Sinfoniaorkesteri , Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
3:59 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Rhapsody for piano (Op.79 No.1) in B minor
Steven Osborne (piano)
4:08 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich [1840-1893]
Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
4:31 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Overture: Iphigénie en Aulide
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava, Stefan Robl (conductor)
4:43 AM
Salieri, Antonio (1750-1825)
Concerto for Organ and Orchestra in C major
Ivan Sarajishvili (organ) Brussels Chamber Orchestra, (members of) Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
5:01 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Symphony No. 1 in C (Op.21)
Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, Eduardo Chibás (conductor)
5:27 AM
Czerny, Carl (1791-1857)
Brilliant polonaise for piano six hands (Op.296)
Kestutis Grybauskas, Vilma Rindzeviciute, Irina Venkus (pianos)
5:41 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Les Préludes - symphonic poem after Lamartine (S.97)
Hungarian State Orchestra, János Ferencsik (conductor)
5:58 AM
Wieniawski, Henryk (1835-1880)
Concerto for violin and orchestra No.2 in D minor (Op.22)
Bartlomiej Niziol (violin), Sinfonia Varsovia, Grzegorz Nowak (conductor)
6:22 AM
Ysaÿe, Eugène (1858-1931)
Sonata No.3 in D minor (Ballade)
Ana Savicka (violin).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b03wpryr)
Ravel Day
Petroc Trelawny launches Ravel Day on Radio 3 with a programme devoted to his music and to some of his most popular works.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your Ravel requests.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b03wpsng)
Essential Ravel
Sarah Walker introduces a selection of the essential Ravel including the String Quartet, the song cycle Shéhérazade and some of his "Spanish" works including the Rapsodie espagnole and the Vocalise en forme de habanéra. Her guest is the Ravel authority Barbara Kelly and there'll be one of the Ravel Revealed features available as a free download.
9am
Highlights in this hour include:
A rare recording of songs from the Histoires naturelles (1906) performed by Jane Bathori, the work's dedicatee.
Ravel's gypsy-inspired Tzigane (1924), performed by Chantal Juillet and Pascal Rogé, and featuring the piano luthéal, a recent invention of the time.
10am
Classic performances in this hour include some of Ravel's 'Spanish' works:
Vocalise en forme de habanera
Natalie Dessay (soprano)
Berlin Symphony Orchestra
Michael Schonwandt (conductor)
Rapsodie espagnole
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Jean Martinon (conductor)
11am
In this hour, Sarah introduces her Essential Ravel recommendation:
Ravel
String Quartet
Belcea Quartet.
FRI 12:00 Ravel at Wigmore Hall (b03wsm1n)
In 1909 Maurice Ravel made his first visit to London and played in a concert at the Bechstein Hall, now known as the Wigmore Hall. It seemed appropriate therefore for this Radio 3 Ravel day to record a concert of some of Ravel's best loved chamber works at the venue where he appeared 105 years ago.
The Nash Ensemble have been playing this repertoire for the 50 years of their existence and they have recorded these works at least twice. they are joined by former BBC New Generation Artist Clara Mouriz who will be singing Ravel's Chansons madécasses for the first time.
Ravel: Sonata for Volin and Cello
Ravel: Chansons madécasses
Ravel: Piano Trio
Clara Mouriz, mezzo-soprano
The Nash Ensemble (Marianne Thorsen, violin; Bjorg Lewis, cello; Philippa Davies, Flute; Ian Brown, piano).
FRI 13:10 A Ravel Salon (b03wsm1q)
Maurice Ravel composed around 20 piano works ranging from short tributes to major suites. His piano writing was ambitious and original even though he himself was not a virtuoso. Roy Howat joins Tom Service to talk about Ravel's piano compositions. He plays a couple of Ravel's miniatures and also talks about the five-movement suite Miroirs, which will be played in classic recordings by five different pianists, some of whom knew Ravel, including Jacques Février, Vlado Perlemuter and Robert Casadesus.
FRI 14:15 Afternoon Concert (b03wpths)
Ravel and the Ballet
Ravel collaborated with some of the leading choreographers and impresarios of his day including Fokine, Diaghilev and Nijinsky, though not always in happy circumstances. But the musical results were characteristically immaculate and include some of Ravel's most popular works. Ravel specialist Deborah Mawer joins Katie to introduce Mother Goose, Valses nobles et sentimentales, La Valse and the full-length ballet Daphnis and Chloe, Ravel's longest work.
2.15pm
Ravel
Ma mère l'oye - complete ballet
BBC SO
Marc Minkowski (conductor)
2.45pm
Ravel
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Suisse Romande Orchestra
conducted by Ernest Ansermet
3.10pm
Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé - complete ballet
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)
4.10pm
Ravel
La Valse
Suisse Romande Orchestra
conducted by Ernest Ansermet.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b03wpthv)
Ravel Day
Suzy Klein presents a special edition for Ravel Day with live music from violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen and pianist Huw Watkins who play the Sonata in G, plus Bolero like you've never heard it before from beatboxer Shlomo.
Tweet us @BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Pascal and Ami Roge Play Ravel (b03wsm1s)
Pascal Rogé is one of the leading French pianists and excels in the music of his compatriots, so for this special Ravel day Radio 3 is delighted to broadcast this specially recorded concert from the Maida Vale studios. He plays the ravishing Sonatine and is joined by his wife Ami to play the charming Mother Goose Suite, written for young people, the exuberant La Valse and Ravel's most popular work, Bolero, in a rarely heard version for 2 pianos and side drum (Paul Clarvis).
The concert is presented by Andrew McGregor.
Ravel
Mother Goose Suite for piano duet
Sonatine for piano solo
La Valse for 2 pianos
Bolero for 2 pianos and side drum
Pascal Rogé (piano)
Ami Rogé (piano)
Paul Clarvis (side drum).
FRI 19:30 A Ravel Soiree (b03wsm95)
Tom Service and Sara Mohr-Pietsch present a Ravel evening with live music from Radio 3 New Generation Artist Louis Schwizgebel, guests including Ravel scholar and consultant on the Radio 3 day, Roger Nichols and the composer George Benjamin, and celebrated recordings of some of his last works including Bolero, the Left Hand Piano Concerto, the G major Piano Concerto and the Don Quichotte Songs. There'll also be several Ravel Revealed features including a look at Ravel and literature with Ian McMillan, a programme of readings and music from the actress Kristin Scott Thomas, a visit to Ravel's house just outside Paris and a look at the final debilitating disease. And a rarely heard 1947 recording of his 1-act opera L'Enfant et les Sortilèges.
Ravel
Gaspard de la Nuit
Louis Schwizgebel (piano)
Ravel
Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Ravel
Boléro
Ravel
Menuet antique
Ravel Remembered: Ravel and Jazz
Ravel
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Cleveland Orchestra
conducted by Pierre Boulez
Ravel
Piano Concerto in G
Ravel Remembered: Ravel's Illness
Ravel
Don Quichotte a Dulcinée
Ronsard à son âme
Martial Singher (baritone)
Orchestra conducted by Piero Coppola
Ravel Remembered: Ravel and Literature
22.30*
Ravel
L'Enfant et les Sortilèges
(Fantaisie lyrique in 2 parts. Words by Colette)
A classic recording from 1947 with Nadine Sautereau as the child and the Chorus and Orchestra of Radiodiffusion Française
conducted by Ernest Bour.