Jonathan Swain with a concert of Latin American music and Strauss Oboe Concerto performed by the Croatian Radio-Televison Symphony Orchestra
Buxtehude, Dietrich [1637-1707] arr. Chavez, Carlos [1899-1978]
Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, José Guadalupe Flores (conductor)
Gianfranco Bortolato (oboe), Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, José Guadalupe Flores (conductor)
Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, José Guadalupe Flores (conductor)
Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, José Guadalupe Flores (conductor)
Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, José Guadalupe Flores (conductor)
Kelemen, Milko (b. 1924)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kamirski (conductor)
Marita Kvarving Sølberg (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Kjetil Haugsand (conductor)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor)
Koninklijk Councertgebouworkest (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra), Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
William Tritt (piano), Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Boris Brott (conductor)
Cantata no. 51 BWV.51 (Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen)
Maria Keohane (soprano), Sebastien Philpott (trumpet) European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor).
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.
is Rev. Alice Goodman.
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Carlo Maria Giulini - The London Years, and at
Artist of the Week: Claudio Abbado. One of the greatest conductors of his time, Abbado passed away earlier this year at the age of 80. Rob explores his rich recording legacy featuring the various orchestras he conducted and founded, including: Lucerne Festival, Orchestra Mozart, Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of La Scala Milan.
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the ordination of the first women priests in the Church of England, and Rob's guest is the American poet, librettist and priest, Rev. Alice Goodman. Alice is perhaps best known for writing the libretti for two operas by John Adams: Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer. She was raised as a Reform Jew, but converted to Christianity as an adult (while working on The Death of Klinghoffer). In 2006, she took up the post of chaplain at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 2011 became Rector of a group of parishes in Cambridgeshire. Alice is married to the British poet, Geoffrey Hill.
Donald Macleod marvels over the scale of the Mendelssohn family's music-making.
Felix Mendelssohn had a remarkable, if brief career, cut short at the age of just 38 in 1847. He was born into an exceptional family. His grandfather Moses was a much respected Jewish philosopher, while his father Abraham, a wealthy Jewish banker and his mother Lea, a cultivated, musical woman had the standing and means to provide their four children with every opportunity Berlin society could offer. Only a handful of composers can match Mendelssohn's precocious talent. A child prodigy, famously likened by his friend Robert Schumann to Mozart, Felix's public career began at the age of 9. Between the ages of 11 and 15, he wrote 13 strings symphonies, 5 concertos, 4 operas, chamber music, piano and organ pieces, solo songs and choral pieces. Across the week Donald explores the musical treasures inspired by these formative years.
Today, Donald Macleod examines the rich cultural surroundings in which Felix Mendelssohn grew up. Beginning around 1821, the family mounted "Sunday musicales" in their substantial home. At these concerts, Felix and elder sister Fanny were able to present their latest compositions to the movers and shakers of Berlin society.
Sean Rafferty introduces the first of four programmes from the Belfast Music Society International Festival, which takes place in the Great Hall at Queen's University. Christian Poltera and Christian Ihle Hadland begin this "Northern Lights" series which focuses on music and musicians from northern lands, with a short Intermezzo by Edvard Grieg. Olli Mustonen performs music by Sibelius, his 10 Pieces Op.58 written in 1909. The short pieces reflect a series of moods from the impressionistic opening Reverie through to the solemn final Largo. The Danish pianist, Jens Elvekjaer created the Trio Con Brio Copenhagen in 1999 with two sisters from Korea, Soo-Jin and Soo-Kyung Hong. Soo-Jin had a baby last month and so is replaced by violinist, Johannes Soe Hansen. They will play Haydn's Trio in C major, Hob XV no 27 which requires virtuoso playing, from the pianist in particular.
Johannes Soe Hansen (violin), Soo-Kyung Hong (cello), Jens Elvekjaer (piano).
Katie Derham presents a week of performances from Commonwealth countries - Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius Lemminkainen Suite and young American mezzo, Sasha Cooke, joins the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Pietari Inkinen in Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer. Andrew Davis and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra take on two versions of "Brigg Fair" by friends Percy Grainger and Frederick Delius.
Sibelius The Oceanides, op. 73
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op. 37
Sibelius Lemminkäinen Suite, op. 22
Sean Rafferty's guests include one of the most widely acclaimed and well-loved British pianists, John Lill. He'll be playing live in the studio as he celebrates his 70th birthday this month.
Vocalists Tenebrae Consort (the more compact version of the choir Tenebrae) will perform plainsong, and music by John Sheppard.
Plus conductor Hilary Davan Wetton drops in to the studio to talk to Sean about his upcoming 70th birthday concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - he'll be conducting Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius.
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The BBC Concert Orchestra plays music from Britain and Canada, including the European premiere of Howard Shore's 'Mythic Gardens', and William Walton's Symphony No 1.
Live from the Watford Colosseum, Penny Gore presents a concert of music from Britain and Canada, including the European premiere of Howard Shore's 'Mythic Gardens', played by cellist Sophie Shao, for whom it was written. In the second half Keith Lockhart conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a landmark of British symphonic writing, William Walton's Symphony No 1.
A series of five short stories by leading literary voicesfrom around the Commonwealth. Starting on 10th March, Commonwealth Day, they are being broadcast across this week, with stories from Sri Lanka, Australia, Jamaica and Uganda.
In "Art Work" by Zoe Wicomb, South African Letty, who has lived and worked as a nurse in Glasgow for many years, struggles to come to terms with her nephew's desire to become an artist. She's raised Leo as her own, watched him flourish away from township life in Cape Town and gain excellent grades at school, so his career choice feels to her like a waste of his academic talent.
Acclaimed as "an extraordinary writer" by Toni Morrison, Zoe Wicomb is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Strathclyde University. Her critical work focuses on postcolonial theory and South African writing and culture. Her published works of fiction are "You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town", "David's Story", "Playing in the Light", and "The One That Got Away"; she will publish a new novel in 2014.
The BBC Concert Orchestra plays music from Britain and Canada, including the European premiere of Howard Shore's 'Mythic Gardens', and William Walton's Symphony No 1.
Live from the Watford Colosseum, Penny Gore presents a concert of music from Britain and Canada, including the European premiere of Howard Shore's 'Mythic Gardens', played by cellist Sophie Shao, for whom it was written. In the second half Keith Lockhart conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a landmark of British symphonic writing, William Walton's Symphony No 1.
As this year's Jewish Book Week launches in London - Matthew Sweet is in conversation with the Israeli novelist David Grossman.
David Grossman's latest book Falling Out of Time mixes poetry, drama and fiction to explore the emotion of grief and loss. His own son died in 2006.
He is also the author of non fiction books including Death as a Way of Life: From Oslo to the Geneva Agreement. When he was in London for Jewish Book Week last year, Free Thinking invited him to join Matthew Sweet in the studio to discuss his fiction and the part he hopes it can play in the discourse about Israel today.
A series of five essays from writers around the Commonwealth which start on Commonwealth Day, 10th March, and tackle the past, present and future of this unique international organisation.
Fakir Aijazuddin, author and historian from Lahore, comments on Pakistan's chequered relationship with the Commonwealth. He reflects on his own dealings with what he describes as a typically British invention, the 'gentleman's club'.
Anne Hilde Neset with tracks by Krautrock from Salford and Electric Miles. Plus there's the sound poetry of Bohman Brothers.
WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH 2014
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b03x184m)
BBC Proms 2011 The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder. Andras Schiff is the soloist in Bartok's Piano concerto no.3. With Jonathan Swain
12:31 AM
Bartok, Bela [1881-1945]
Piano concerto no.3, Sz.119
Andras Schiff (piano), Hallé, Mark Elder (conductor)
12:56 AM
Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957]
Scene historiques - Suite no.2, Op.66
Hallé, Mark Elder (conductor)
1:15 AM
Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957]
Symphony no.7 in C
Hallé, Mark Elder (conductor)
1:39 AM
Janacek, Leos [1854-1928]
Sinfonietta
Hallé, Mark Elder (conductor)
2:05 AM
Rachmaninov, Serge (1873-1943)
Suite No.2 (Op.17) for 2 pianos
Ouellet-Murray Duo: Claire Ouellet & Sandra Murray (pianos)
2:31 AM
Goldmark, Károly (1830-1915)
Im Frühling (In the Spring): overture (Op.36)
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Antal Jancsovics (conductor)
2:45 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Piano Quintet in A major (B.155) (Op.81)
Menahem Pressler (piano), Orlando Quartet
3:18 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1916)
Iberia (Images No 2)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Jun Märkl (conductor)
3:40 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Sonata in A minor (Wq.49,1)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
3:55 AM
Tubin, Eduard (1905-1982)
Ave Maria
Estonian National Male Choir, Andres Paas (organ), Ants Soots (director).
3:59 AM
Darzinš, Emils (1875-1910)
Melanholiskais valsis (Melancholy waltz) for orchestra
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Leonids Vigners (conductor)
4:07 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Pensieri notturni di Filli: Italian cantata no.17 (HWV.134) (Nel dolce dell' oblio)
Johanna Koslwosky (soprano), Musica Alta Ripa: Danya Segal (recorder), Anne Röhrig & Ursula Bundies (violins), Guido Larisch (cello), Bernward Lohr (harpsichord)
4:14 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Till Eulenspiegel (Op.28)
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit (conductor)
4:31 AM
Valentini, Giovanni (1582/3-1649)
Tocchin le trombe, a 10
La Capella Ducale - Ulrike Hofbauer (soprano); Constanze Backes (soprano); Henning Voss (countertenor); Hermann Oswald (tenor); Markus Brutscher (tenor),
Musica Fiata Köln - Anette Sichelschmidt (violin/viola); Marie Verweyen (violin); Roland Wilson (cornett); Frithjof Smith (cornett); Detlef Reimers (trombone); Axel Wolf (chitarrone); Johanna Seitz (harp); Christoph Anselm Noll (organ/harpsichord); Hartwig Groth (violone)
4:39 AM
Maldere, Pierre van (1729-1768)
Sinfonia in A major (viola obligata)
The Academy of Ancient Music , Filip Bral (conductor)
4:52 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concerto for bassoon and orchestra in B flat major, K.191
Ronald Karten (bassoon), Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Lev Markiz (conductor)
5:09 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927)
Vårnatt (Spring Night)
Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Sköld (conductor)
5:18 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
String Quartet No.1 in D minor (1837-1840)
Camerata Quartet - Wlodzimierz Prominski & Andrzej Kordykiewicz (violins), Piotr Reichert (viola), Roman Hoffmann (cello)
5:34 AM
Jolivet, André (1905-1974)
Chant de Linos for flute and piano
Aleš Kacjan (flute), Bojan Gorišek (piano)
5:45 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata for Piano and Violin No.6 in A major (Op.30 No.1)
Mats Zetterqvist (violin), Mats Widlund (piano)
6:08 AM
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875) (Suite 2 compiled by Ernest Guiraud)
Selection from L'Arlésienne Suites Nos.1 & 2: Prélude, Minuetto & Adagietto - from Suite No.1; Menuet & Farandole - from Suite No.2
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b03x185l)
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 (b03x1g9v)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Alice Goodman
A selection of music with Rob Cowan, whose guest at
10.30am is Rev. Alice Goodman.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Carlo Maria Giulini - The London Years, and at
9.30: today's brainteaser.
10am
Artist of the Week: Claudio Abbado. One of the greatest conductors of his time, Abbado passed away earlier this year at the age of 80. Rob explores his rich recording legacy featuring the various orchestras he conducted and founded, including: Lucerne Festival, Orchestra Mozart, Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of La Scala Milan.
10.30am
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the ordination of the first women priests in the Church of England, and Rob's guest is the American poet, librettist and priest, Rev. Alice Goodman. Alice is perhaps best known for writing the libretti for two operas by John Adams: Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer. She was raised as a Reform Jew, but converted to Christianity as an adult (while working on The Death of Klinghoffer). In 2006, she took up the post of chaplain at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 2011 became Rector of a group of parishes in Cambridgeshire. Alice is married to the British poet, Geoffrey Hill.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Glazunov
The Seasons
Suisse Romande Orchestra
Ernest Ansermet (conductor).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03x1gmt)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
The Mozart of the 19th Century
Felix Mendelssohn had a remarkable, if brief career, cut short at the age of just 38 in 1847. He was born into an exceptional family. His grandfather Moses was a much respected Jewish philosopher, while his father Abraham, a wealthy Jewish banker and his mother Lea, a cultivated, musical woman had the standing and means to provide their four children with every opportunity Berlin society could offer. Only a handful of composers can match Mendelssohn's precocious talent. A child prodigy, famously likened by his friend Robert Schumann to Mozart, Felix's public career began at the age of 9. Between the ages of 11 and 15, he wrote 13 strings symphonies, 5 concertos, 4 operas, chamber music, piano and organ pieces, solo songs and choral pieces. Across the week Donald explores the musical treasures inspired by these formative years.
Mendelssohn's education was nothing if not thorough. From the age of nine, a long list of tutors arrived at the family home to teach a comprehensive list of subjects ranging from Latin to geography but perhaps the man who was to have the most profound influence over him in his early years was Carl Zelter, the director of Singakademie. Today Donald Macleod looks at Mendelssohn's early training.
"Herr, Der Du Bist Der Gott" (St. Paul, Part 1)
Choruses of the Chapelle Royale and Collegium Vocale
Champs-Élysées Orchestra
Philippe Herreweghe (director)
String Symphony no.12 (1st movement: Fuga. Grave-Allegro)
London Festival Orchestra
Ross Pople (conductor)
Hexenlied, Op.8 no. 8
Margaret Price (soprano)
Graham Johnson (piano)
Rondo Brillant, Op.29
Stephen Hough (piano)
Meerestille und glückliche Fahrt, Op.27
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Gott, sei mir gnädig nach deiner Güte
"Ich Danke Dir, Herr, Mein Gott" (St. Paul, Part 1)
Matthias Goerne (bass)
Choruses of the Chapelle Royale and Collegium Vocale
Champs-Élysées Orchestra
Philippe Herreweghe (director).
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03x1gw9)
Belfast Music Society International Festival 2014
Episode 2
Sean Rafferty inroduces the second of four programmes from the Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music, which takes place in the Great Hall at Queen's University. This year's theme is Music from Northern Lands. Christian Poltera and Christan Ihle Hadland begin with a short work for cello and piano, "Malinconia" (Melancholy) by Sibelius, written shortly after the death of the composer's youngest daughter. Erkki-Sven Tüür wrote his piece for piano trio, Fata Morgana, in 2002. This shimmering and alluring work based on a mirage is performed by Trio Con Brio Copenhagen. Finally, Olli Mustonen is the pianist in the first of Prokofiev's trilogy of war sonatas, No. 6, completed in 1940.
Sibelius: Malinconia, Op 20
Christian Poltera (cello), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
Tuur: Fata Morgana (2002)
Trio Con Brio Copenhagen
Johannes Soe Hansen (violin), Soo-Kyung Hong (cello), Jens Elvekjaer (piano)
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 6 in A minor, Op 82
Olli Mustonen (piano).
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03x1gyp)
Commonwealth Orchestras
Episode 3
Katie Derham presents a concert from Melbourne Town Hall with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra - of which he has recently become Principal Conductor. The concert begins with an arrangement by Davis of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue and ends with Brahms 2nd Symphony. Between the two, Cameron Carpenter is the soloist in Poulenc's Organ Concerto.
The programme ends with a nod towards tomorrow's Strauss 150 Opera Matinee - Feuersnot - Fire Famine. Strauss's one-act comedy upbraiding the residents of Munich for their indifference and hostility towards one of Strauss's heroes - Wagner.
2pm
Bach arranged Andrew Davis
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
2.10
Poulenc
Organ Concerto in G minor
Cameron Carpenter (soloist)
2.30
Brahms
Symphony No. 2 in D, op. 73
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
(conductor)
3.15
Wagner
Overture to Die Meistersinger
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b03x1qbk)
Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford
From the Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford
Introit: Super flumina Babylonis (de Monte)
Responses: Byrd
Office Hymn: O kind Creator, bow thine ear (Audi Benigne)
Psalms: 65, 66, 67 (Plainchant)
First Lesson: Isaiah 49 vv1-10
Canticles: The Second Service (Byrd)
Second Lesson: Matthew 10 vv24-39
Anthems: Quomodo cantabimus (Byrd)
Hymn: Lord Jesus, think on me (St Paul?s)
Organ Voluntary: Voluntary for my Lady Nevell (Byrd)
Daniel Hyde (Informator Choristarum)
Thomas Allery (Assistant Organist).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b03x1gzt)
Andrei Gavrilov, Nadine Mortimer-Smith, Ian Page
Sean Rafferty's guests include acclaimed Russian pianist Andrei Gavrilov, on a rare visit to the UK, performing live in the studio.
Also today, upcoming young British soprano Nadine Mortimer-Smith sings live in the studio numbers from the American Songbook - by composers including Copland and Andre Previn - ahead of her recital at London's Purcell Room.
Plus conductor Ian Page talks about Classical Opera's latest project
Tweet us @BBCInTune.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03x1gmt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03x1jv2)
Live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast
Ulster Orchestra - Volans, Rodrigo, Dvorak (part 1)
Rafael Payare conducts the Ulster Orchestra in music by Kevin Volans and Dvorak. Craig Ogden is soloist in Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez.
Live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast
Presented by John Toal
Mozart Overture: Don Giovanni (K.527)
Volans: Strip-Weave (rev. 2005)
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
8.15 Interval
8.35
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, op. 95 (From the New World)
Craig Ogden, guitar
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare, conductor
Live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast and presented by John Toal, the Ulster Orchestra is joined by Rafael Payare, its recently announced Chief Conductor from Autumn 2014, and guitarist Craig Ogden in a concert of music by Kevin Volans, Rodrigo and Dvorak.
To celebrate the Commonwealth the orchestra perform a sparkling work, filled with rhythmic drive: Strip-weave was commissioned by the Ulster Orchestra in 2002 from the South African composer, Kevin Volans.
Rodrigo's Concierto Aranjuez refers to a famous royal enclave on the road to Andalusia on the Tagus river near Madrid. According to Rodrigo, the music "seems to bring to life the essence of eighteenth-century court life, where aristocratic distinction blends with popular culture."
When Dvorák's symphony "From the New World" received its premiere in New York's Carnegie Hall in 1893, each movement ended with wild cheers from the crowd. Dvorak had spent some years in the US during the 1890s and he developed an interest in Native American music and African-American spirituals, both of which influenced this, his Ninth Symphony.
WED 20:15 Commonwealth Stories (b03xd9jj)
Just Six Souls, by Carrie Tiffany
A series of short stories by leading authors writing in English from around the Commonwealth. Being broadcast across this week, the series features work from Sri Lanka, South Africa, Australia, Jamaica and Uganda.
In "Just Six Souls", Carrie Tiffany explores the warm and supportive friendship of two women living in small town Australia; earth mother Ruth, and Sally, a nurse on maternity leave.
Carrie Tiffany was born in West Yorkshire and grew up in Western Australia. She spent her early twenties working as a park ranger in the Red Centre and now lives in Melbourne, where she works as an agricultural journalist.
Her first novel, "Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living" (2005) was shortlisted for numerous awards including the Orange Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Guardian First Book Award and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize. Her second novel, "Mateship with Birds" (2012) was also short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award and won the inaugural Stella Prize, a major literary award celebrating Australian women's writing.
Reader, Federay Holmes
Writer, Carrie Tiffany
Studio Producer, Allegra McIlroy
Producer, Kirsteen Cameron.
WED 20:35 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03x1qcr)
Live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast
Ulster Orchestra - Volans, Rodrigo, Dvorak (part 2)
Rafael Payare conducts the Ulster Orchestra in music by Kevin Volans and Dvorak. Craig Ogden is soloist in Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez.
Live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast
Presented by John Toal
Volans: Strip-Weave (rev. 2005)
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
8.15 Interval
8.35
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, op. 95 (From the New World)
Craig Ogden, guitar
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare, conductor
Live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast and presented by John Toal, the Ulster Orchestra is joined by Rafael Payare, its recently announced Chief Conductor from Autumn 2014, and guitarist Craig Ogden in a concert of music by Kevin Volans, Rodrigo and Dvorak.
To celebrate the Commonwealth the orchestra perform a sparkling work, filled with rhythmic drive: Strip-weave was commissioned by the Ulster Orchestra in 2002 from the South African composer, Kevin Volans.
Rodrigo's Concierto Aranjuez refers to a famous royal enclave on the road to Andalusia on the Tagus river near Madrid. According to Rodrigo, the music "seems to bring to life the essence of eighteenth-century court life, where aristocratic distinction blends with popular culture."
When Dvorák's symphony "From the New World" received its premiere in New York's Carnegie Hall in 1893, each movement ended with wild cheers from the crowd. Dvorak had spent some years in the US during the 1890s and he developed an interest in Native American music and African-American spirituals, both of which influenced this, his Ninth Symphony.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b03x1p4n)
Riba: The Brits Who Built the Modern World
Philip Dodd chairs a discussion between Terry Farrell, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw, Michael and Patty Hopkins and Richard Rogers recorded at the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Producer: Laura Thomas
Recorded in association with the Open University.
First broadcast 12/03/2014.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b03x1p6d)
Commonwealth Questions
Noah Richler
A series of five essays from writers around the Commonwealth which start on Commonwealth Day, 10th March, and tackle the past, present and future of this unique international organisation.
Author Noah Richler writes from a Canadian perspective. The Queen still appears on the bank notes of Canada as she is the head of state. The role is largely ceremonial, so why the need for ties like the Commonwealth in such an advanced country?
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b03x1p8w)
Wednesday - Anne Hilde Neset
Anne Hilde Neset with music by Laurie Anderson, cello improvisations by Oliver Coates, and the warm soul of The Undisputed Truth.
THURSDAY 13 MARCH 2014
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b03x184p)
An Organ recital from St. James' Basilica in Prague as part of the 2012 Prague International Organ Festival
12:31 AM
Grigny, Nicolas de [1672-1703]
Premier Livre d'orgue: no. 35 Ave Maris Stella
12:41 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Prelude and fugue in A minor BWV.543 for organ
12:52 AM
Vierne, Louis [1870-1937]
Symphony no. 4 in G minor op. 32 for Organ: 4th Mvt Romance in D flat major
1:01 AM
Mernier, Benoît [1964-]
Inventions no II & V
1:13 AM
Messiaen, Olivier [1908-1992]
La Nativite du Seigneur for organ: Les Bergers SEGUE
1:19 AM
Messiaen, Olivier [1908-1992]
La Nativite du Seigneur for organ: Dieu parmi, nous
1:29 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] arranger unknown.
Theme and Variations movement (no.6) from the Serenade in Bb (K.361)
François Epinasse (organ of St James' Basilica, Prague)
1:37 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
The Four Seasons, Concertos Op.8 Nos.1-4
Barbara Jane Gilbey (violin), The Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, Geoffrey Lancaster (conductor)
2:17 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Sonata in B flat major (K.281)
Ingo Dannhorn (piano)
2:31 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Quintet for piano and strings (Op.44) in E flat major
Henschel Quartet & Jens Elvekjaer (piano)
3:01 AM
Infante, Manuel (1883-1958)
Three Andalucian Dances
Aglika Genova & Liuben Dimitrov (pianos)
3:16 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Mass in C major (K.317) 'Coronation'
Linda Øvrebø (soprano), Anna Einarsson (alto), Anders J.Dahlin (tenor), Johannes Mannov (bass), Oslo Chamber Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Alessandro de Marchi (conductor)
3:39 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Sonata a quattro in C major for 2 oboes, bassoon & continuo
Ensemble Zefiro
3:51 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Op.28)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Miguel Gomez Martinez (conductor)
4:07 AM
Turina, Joaquín (1882-1949)
Rapsodia sinfonica for piano and string orchestra (Op.66)
Angela Cheng (piano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Graf (conductor)
4:16 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph [1872-1958]
Silence and music - madrigal for chorus
BBC Singers, Stephen Layton (conductor)
4:21 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Finale from the ballet music to "Prometheus"
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava (orchestra),
Ludovít Rajter (conductor)
4:31 AM
Kaufman, Nikolai (1925-)
Two Humorous Folk Songs
Bulgarian Radio Children's Choir, conductor Hristo Nedyalkov
4:35 AM
Piazzolla, Astor (1921-1992)
Le Grand tango for cello and piano
Duo Rastogi
4:48 AM
Byrd, William [c.1540-1623]
Firste Pavian and Galliarde
Andreas Borregaard (accordion)
4:54 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Rondo in A major for Violin and Strings (D.438)
Pinchas Zuckerman (violin/director), The National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada
5:09 AM
Geminiani, Francesco (1687-1762)
Concerto No.1 in D major, Op.7 No.1 (1746)
Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director/violin)
5:18 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
En Saga (1st version of 1892)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
5:39 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto in the Italian style for keyboard (BWV.971) in F major
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
5:52 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
String Quartet No.12 in F Major 'American' (Op.96)
Keller Quartet
6:17 AM
Enescu, George (1881-1955)
Romanian Rhapsody No.1 in A major (Op.11 no.1)
Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Horia Andreescu (cond).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b03x185n)
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 (b03x1g9x)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with Alice Goodman
A selection of music with Rob Cowan, whose guest at
10.30am is Rev. Alice Goodman.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Carlo Maria Giulini - The London Years, and at
9.30: Who Am I - today's brainteaser.
10am
Artist of the Week: Claudio Abbado. One of the greatest conductors of his time, Abbado passed away earlier this year at the age of 80. Rob explores his rich recording legacy featuring the various orchestras he conducted and founded, including: Lucerne Festival, Orchestra Mozart, Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of La Scala Milan.
10.30am
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the ordination of the first women priests in the Church of England, and Rob's guest is the American poet, librettist and priest, Rev. Alice Goodman. Alice is perhaps best known for writing the libretti for two operas by John Adams: Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer. She was raised as a Reform Jew, but converted to Christianity as an adult (while working on The Death of Klinghoffer). In 2006, she took up the post of chaplain at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 2011 became Rector of a group of parishes in Cambridgeshire. Alice is married to the British poet, Geoffrey Hill.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Rameau
Les Boréades (excerpts)
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Bruggen (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03x1gp0)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
The Land Where the Lemon Trees Grow
Felix Mendelssohn had a remarkable, if brief career, cut short at the age of just 38 in 1847. He was born into an exceptional family. His grandfather Moses was a much respected Jewish philosopher, while his father Abraham, a wealthy Jewish banker and his mother Lea, a cultivated, musical woman had the standing and means to provide their four children with every opportunity Berlin society could offer. Only a handful of composers can match Mendelssohn's precocious talent. A child prodigy, famously likened by his friend Robert Schumann to Mozart, Felix's public career began at the age of 9. Between the ages of 11 and 15, he wrote 13 strings symphonies, 5 concertos, 4 operas, chamber music, piano and organ pieces, solo songs and choral pieces. Across the week Donald explores the musical treasures inspired by these formative years.
Growing up in the nineteenth century, part of a young man's experience was an extensive period of travel. Having won over the great man of letters, Goethe, a few years earlier, armed with a reputation that ensured a warm welcome wherever he went, in 1829 Mendelssohn left his teenage years well and truly behind him. He spread his wings on a trip that would occupy him for the best part of three years. Wherever he went he collected impressions, among them the material for his so-called "Italian" symphony, which he said was going to be, "the jolliest piece I have ever done"! With Donald Macleod.
Erster Verlust, op.99 no 1 (1841) (Goethe)
Margaret Price (soprano)
Graham Johnson (piano)
Piano Concerto no.1 in G minor, op.25: Third movement, Presto-Molto Allegro e vivace
Stephen Hough (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Lawrence Foster (conductor)
Symphony no.4 in A major, op.90
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton (conductor)
Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op.60 (Kommt mit Zacken und mit Gabeln...Die Flamme reinigt sich vom Rauch)
Matthias Hölle, Druid watchman (bass)
Anton Scharinger, Priest (baritone)
Deon van der Walt, Christian watchman (tenor)
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Claus-Peter Flor (conductor).
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03x1gwc)
Belfast Music Society International Festival 2014
Episode 3
Sean Rafferty continues his series of programmes from the Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music which takes place in the Great Hall at Queen's University. Today there are two pieces by Grieg and, in between, piano music by Prokofiev. Trio Con Brio Copenhagen begin with a short piano trio movement by Grieg. It's a beautiful piece, written in 1878 and found among Grieg's manuscripts after his death in 1907. Olli Mustonen plays a set of piano music from a selection written during the summer of 1935, which Prokofiev himself called "Children's Music". Finally, Christian Poltera and Christian Ihle Hadland play Edvard Grieg's Cello Sonata, Op. 36 - one of most popular romantic sonatas written for the instrument. Grieg dedicated it to his cellist brother, John.
Grieg: Andante con moto
Trio Con Brio Copenhagen
Johannes Soe Hansen (violin), Soo-Kyung Hong (cello), Jens Elvekjaer (piano)
Prokofiev: Children's Album
Olli Mustonen piano
Grieg: Cello Sonata, Op 36
Christian Poltera (cello), Christian Ihle Hadland piano.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03x1gyr)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Strauss 150 - Feuersnot
Strauss 150 Opera Matinee: Feuersnot
Richard Strauss's second opera - Feuersnot, or "Fire famine" is a comedy based on an old bawdy Dutch story. A wizard, thwarted in love, casts a spell extinguishing every fire in the town until the object of his desire - a young maiden from the town - becomes his.
Strauss sets the story in a medieval Munich, his own home town, which had reacted so badly to his first operatic effort, Guntram, and had always been cool towards Wagner's operas. Here the young apprentice wizard Kunrad (Strauss), is besotted with Diemut, the Mayor's daughter, and sneaks a kiss without her permission. Diemut plans her revenge and instigates an assignation with Kunrad which involves him climbing into a basket to be winched up to her bedroom. Up goes the basket - but it stops only halfway there. Kunrad is left suspended, surrounded by the townsfolk and feeling humiliated and angry. Kunrad calls on the teachings of his master (Wagner) to help him cast a spell to put out every fire in Munich. In the spell, Kunrad says that in the town of Munich, which he says laughs at Love - no flame will burn till he has kindled love with Diemut. The scared townsfolk begin to plead with Diemut, but she has already taken matters into her own hands and at the end of an extended, typically Straussian, orchestral passage all the fires in Munich sponateously re-ignite...
Since the disappointment of his first opera Guntram, Strauss had written the tone-poem Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), and the spirit of mischief and satire that imbue that creep into Feuersnot - which features a street-children's choir and several direct quotes of leitmotifs from Wagner's operas.
Adding to the sense of place, this performance was given in Munich's Prinzregententheater in January this year.
Richard Strauss
Feuersnot (Fire Famine), op. 50, in one act
Kunrad, alchemist ..... Markus Eiche (baritone)
Ortolf Sentlinger, mayor ..... Lars Woldt (bass)
Diemut, mayor's daughter ..... Simone Schneider (soprano)
Schweiker von Gundelfingen, bailiff ..... Rouwen Huther (tenor)
Elsbeth, Diemut's friend ..... Jean Broekhuizen (mezzo-soprano)
Wigelis, Diemut's friend ..... Sandra Janke (contralto)
Margret, Diemut's friend ..... Olena Tokar (soprano)
Jörg Pöschel, Leitgeb ..... Wilhelm Schwinghammer (bass)
Hämerlein, haberdasher ..... Michael Kupfer (baritone)
Bavarian Radio Chorus,
Children's Chorus of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz
Munich Radio Orchestra
Ulf Schirmer (conductor)
3.40
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat, op. 73 ('Emperor')
Marc-André Hamelin
Les Violons du Roy,Bernard Labadie (cond).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b03x1gzw)
Julie Andrews, Thomas Sondergard, Aaron Weinstein
Iconic star of stage and screen, Dame Julie Andrews discusses her upcoming UK tour; New York jazz violinist Aaron Weinstein plays live in the studio with pianist David Newton as they continue their London residency at Crazy Coqs; Thomas Sondergard joins us from Glasgow as he prepares to conduct the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in performances of Messiaen's Turangalîla-symphonie; and there's live performance from soprano Gillian Keith, narrators Oliver Cotton and Penny Downie, and pianist Stephen Barlow with excerpts from Henrietta Bredin's 'My Dearest Hedgehog - The tempestuous marriage of Richard and Pauline Strauss'.
Presented by Sean Rafferty
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03x1gp0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03x1jv4)
Live from the BBC's Maida Vale Studios
BBC SO - Sculthorpe, Leek, Wallen, Elgar (part 1)
Live from BBC Maida Vale Studios, London.
Presented by Martin Handley.
BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Nicholas Collon celebrate the Commonwealth with Elgar's Symphony No 1 and music by Australian Peter Sculthorpe and Belize-born Errollyn Wallen. The BBC Singers contribute more music from Australia.
Peter Sculthorpe: From Oceania
Stephen Leek: 2 movements from "Great Southern Spirits"*
Errollyn Wallen: Mighty River
8.05 - Interval
8.25
Elgar: Symphony No. 1
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Nicholas Collon (Conductor)
BBC Singers/Tim Murray (Conductor)*
Errollyn Wallen's Mighty River was commissioned to commemorate the Bicentenary of the Abolition of Slave Trade Act of 1807. In From Oceania Peter Sculthorpe treats the orchestra like a giant percussion instrument and the choral works of his countryman Stephen Leek are full of references to indigenous Australian music. Elgar's 1st Symphony was premiered in 1908 when the British Empire was still expanding.
THU 20:15 Commonwealth Stories (b03xd9jl)
Blood on the Door, by Kei Miller
A series of five short stories by leading literary voices writing in English from around the Commonwealth. Starting on 10th March, Commonwealth Day, they are being broadcast across this week, with stories from South Africa, Australia, Sri Lanka and Uganda.
In "Blood on the Door" by Kei Miller, the inhabitants of a Jamaican slum flee in fear of an approaching hurricane. All except Miss Yvonne, who stands her ground, sure that the spirit of her first born son will watch over her and the remaining members of her family.
Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Glasgow. His collection of short stories "The Fear of Stones" was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. He has written two poetry collections and is also editor of Carcanet's New Caribbean Poetry Anthology. His first novel "The Same Earth" was selected for Waterstone's New Voices and short-listed for the Scottish Book of the Year.
Reader, Nadine Marshall
Writer, Kei Miller
Studio Producer, Allegra McIlroy
Producer, Kirsteen Cameron.
THU 20:35 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03x1qry)
Live from the BBC's Maida Vale Studios
BBC SO - Sculthorpe, Leek, Wallen, Elgar (part 2)
Live from BBC Maida Vale Studios, London.
Presented by Martin Handley.
BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Nicholas Collon celebrate the Commonwealth with Elgar's Symphony No 1 and music by Australian Peter Sculthorpe and Belize-born Errollyn Wallen. The BBC Singers contribute more music from Australia.
Peter Sculthorpe: From Oceania
Stephen Leek: 2 movements from "Great Southern Spirits"*
Errollyn Wallen: Mighty River
8.05 - Interval
8.25
Elgar: Symphony No. 1
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Nicholas Collon (Conductor)
BBC Singers/Tim Murray (Conductor)*
Errollyn Wallen's Mighty River was commissioned to commemorate the Bicentenary of the Abolition of Slave Trade Act of 1807. In From Oceania Peter Sculthorpe treats the orchestra like a giant percussion instrument and the choral works of his countryman Stephen Leek are full of references to indigenous Australian music. Elgar's 1st Symphony was premiered in 1908 when the British Empire was still expanding.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b03x1p4q)
Jonathan Lethem, Gary Shteyngart
American authors Jonathan Lethem and Gary Shteyngart discuss radicalism, belonging and why being 'American' is no longer enough.
Gary Shteyngart is the author of Super Sad True Love Story, Absurdistan and The Russian Debutante's Handbook. Born in Leningrad, he moved to America in the '70s. His new memoir is called Little Failure.
Jonathan Lethem's books include The Fortress of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn and Chronic City. His new novel Dissident Gardens draws on his upbringing in hippie New York and explores radicalism from American communism and folk music to the Occupy movement.
Producer: Jacqueline Smith.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b03x1p6g)
Commonwealth Questions
Farah Ghuznavi
A series of five essays from writers around the Commonwealth which start on Commonwealth Day 10th March and tackle the past, present and future of this unique international organisation.
Farah Ghuznavi from Bangladesh has been Writer in Residence for Commonwealth Writers. She saw the Commonwealth as an irrelevance in her early life. Here she explains what changed her mind.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b03x1p8y)
Thursday - Anne Hilde Neset
Anne Hilde Neset with a selection of vocoded songs, Tallin's dreamy songstress Maria Minerva, and new tracks from the 28 strong Fire! Orchestra.
FRIDAY 14 MARCH 2014
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b03x184r)
Nicholas Angelich and François-Frédéric Guy perform a Brahms Piano concerto each with Sinfonia Varsovia and Jacek Kaspszyk.
12:31 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor (Op.15)
Nicholas Angelich (piano), Sinfonia Varsovia, Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)
1:21 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Von fremden Landern und Menschen from Kinderszenen (Op.15)
Nicholas Angelich (piano)
1:24 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) arr. Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Chaconne in D minor, from 'Partita No. 2, BVW 1004'
Hiro Kurosaki (violin), Linda Nicholson (fortepiano)
1:37 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 2 (Op.83) in B flat major
François-Frédéric Guy (piano), Sinfonia Varsovia, Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)
2:25 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Intermezzo in B minor from 4 Pieces for piano (Op.119), no.1
François-Frédéric Guy (piano), Sinfonia Varsovia, Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)
2:31 AM
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von (1644-1704) (with anonymous Introit and propria)
Missa Alleluja a 36
Gradus ad Parnassum, Concerto Palatino, Choral scholars from Wiener Hofburgkapelle, Konrad Junghänel (director)
3:07 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Concerto Grosso in F major (Op.6 No.9)
The King's Consort, Robert King (director)
3:17 AM
Hoffmann, Leopold (1738-1793) (formerly attrib. to Haydn)
Concerto for flute and orchestra in D major
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Bienne Symphony Orchestra, Marc Tardue (conductor)
3:37 AM
Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924)
Intermezzo - from Manon Lescaut
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
3:43 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey [1873-1943]
Prelude no.13 in D flat major
Lukas Geniusas (piano)
3:49 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Andante and Rondo Ungarese in C minor (Op.35)
Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
3:59 AM
Groneman, Johannes Albertus (1710-1778)
Sonata for 2 flutes in G major
Jed Wentz and Marion Moonen (flutes)
4:07 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) - overture (Op.26)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
4:18 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Lascia la spina - from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
Anna Reinhold (mezzo-soprano), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
4:24 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Norwegian Dance No.1 (Allegro marcato) from 4 Norwegian Dances for Piano Duet (Op.35)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)
4:31 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Elegie (Op.23)
Suk Trio
4:37 AM
Wassenaer, Unico Wilhelm van (1692-1766)
Concerto No.1 in G major (from 'Sei Concerti Armonici')
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor)
4:48 AM
Rangström, Ture (1884-1947)
Suite for violin and piano No.2 (in Modo barocco) (1921-2)
Tale Olsson (violin), Mats Jansson (piano)
4:59 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon [1562-1621]
Mein junges Leben hat ein End
Barbara Borden (soprano), Netherlands Chamber Choir, Paul van Nevel (conductor)
5:07 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Peer Gynt Suite No.2 (Op.55)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)
5:26 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Symphony no. 38 (K.504) in D major "Prague"
Prague Chamber orchestra
5:53 AM
Smetana, Bedrich [1824-1884]
2 Dances from "Czech Dances, Book II"
Karel Vrtiska (piano)
6:02 AM
Mokranjac, Stevan (1856-1914)
Twelfth Song-Wreath
RTV Belgrade Choir, Mladen Jagušt (conductor)
6:11 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828], arr.Reger, Max [1873-1916]
Gretchen am Spinnrade D.118, arr. Reger for voice and orchestra
Brigitte Fournier (soprano), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow (conductor)
6:16 AM
Rosenmüller, Johann (c.1619-1684)
Beatus vir qui timet Dominum
Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), David Cordier (countertenor), Wilfried Jochens (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Carsten Lohff (organ), Cantus Köln, Konrad Junghänel (conductor and lute).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b03x185q)
Friday - 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.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b03x1g9z)
Friday - Rob Cowan with Alice Goodman
A selection of music with Rob Cowan, whose guest at
10.30am is Rev. Alice Goodman.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Carlo Maria Giulini - The London Years, and at
9.30: Only Connect - today's brainteaser.
10am
Artist of the Week: Claudio Abbado. One of the greatest conductors of his time, Abbado passed away earlier this year at the age of 80. Rob explores his rich recording legacy featuring the various orchestras he conducted and founded, including: Lucerne Festival, Orchestra Mozart, Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of La Scala Milan.
10.30am
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the ordination of the first women priests in the Church of England, and Rob's guest is the American poet, librettist and priest, Rev. Alice Goodman. Alice is perhaps best known for writing the libretti for two operas by John Adams: Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer. She was raised as a Reform Jew, but converted to Christianity as an adult (while working on The Death of Klinghoffer). In 2006, she took up the post of chaplain at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 2011 became Rector of a group of parishes in Cambridgeshire. Alice is married to the British poet, Geoffrey Hill.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Rodgers
The Carousel Waltz
Orchestra
Alfred Newman (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03x1gp4)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
The Rise, Fall and Rise of Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn had a remarkable, if brief career, cut short at the age of just 38 in 1847. He was born into an exceptional family. His grandfather Moses was a much respected Jewish philosopher, while his father Abraham, a wealthy Jewish banker and his mother Lea, a cultivated, musical woman had the standing and means to provide their four children with every opportunity Berlin society could offer. Only a handful of composers can match Mendelssohn's precocious talent. A child prodigy, famously likened by his friend Robert Schumann to Mozart, Felix's public career began at the age of 9. Between the ages of 11 and 15, he wrote 13 strings symphonies, 5 concertos, 4 operas, chamber music, piano and organ pieces, solo songs and choral pieces. Across the week Donald explores the musical treasures inspired by these formative years.
After spending the week in the company of the young Mendelssohn, in the final chapter of his survey, Donald Macleod looks at the rather bumpier ride Mendelssohn's reputation was given in the years after his death, before the reassessment he's enjoying in our own century.
O for the Wings of a Dove (Hear My Prayer)
Ernest Lough (treble)
Temple Church Choir
Sir George Thalben-Ball (organ and director)
Piano Trio Op.49 In D Minor (1st movement)
Fortepianotrio Florestan
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64
James Ehnes (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
String Quartet no 6 in F minor, Op.80 (1st movement: Allegro vivace assai- Presto)
Elias Quartet
Songs Without Words Book 3, Op. 38/6
Songs Without Words Book 6, Op. 67/4
Murray Perahia (piano).
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03x1gwf)
Belfast Music Society International Festival 2014
Episode 4
Sean Rafferty introduces the final programme from the Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music, which takes place in the Great Hall at Queen's University. Today music by Janacek and Smetana, and in between a piano sonata by the composer and performer, Olli Mustonen. The fairy tale that inspired Janacek's Pohadka was the Story of Czar Berendei, after the epic poem by Vasili Zhukovsky. It is said that the cello represents the prince in the poem, and the piano the princess. Olli Mustonen's Piano Sonata is titled, Jehkin Iivana, and is named after a renowned exponent of the Finnish folk tradition of runo singing. The series of concerts from Belfast ends with a highly personal, almost autobiographical work by Smetana. The Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15 was prompted by the death of composer's elder daughter and was composed in 1855.
Janacek: Pohadka
Christian Poltera (cello), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
Mustonen: Piano Sonata no.1, Jehkin Iivana
Olli Mustonen (piano)
Smetana: Piano Trio in G minor, Op 15
Trio Con Brio Copenhagen
Johannes Soe Hansen (violin), Soo-Kyung Hong (cello), Jens Elvekjaer (piano).
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03x1gz2)
Commonwealth Orchestras
Episode 4
Orchestras from Australia and New Zealand, including the Sydney SO with outgoing Principal Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Melbourne SO and new Principal Sir Andrew Davis.
With Katie Derham.
Gounod Petite Symphonie, for nine wind instruments
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Dene Olding (cond)
2.20
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16
Piers Lane (piano)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra,
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
3.00
Berlioz Rêverie et Caprice, op. 8
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Dene Olding (violin and conductor)
Chausson Poème de l'amour et de la mer
Sasha Cooke (mezzo)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Pietari Inkinen (conductor)
3.40
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b03x1gzy)
Quatuor Danel, Marit and Rona, Christian Lindberg, Andrew Staples
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music and chat with guests from the world of music and arts.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03x1gp4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03x1jv6)
Live from the Grand Theatre, Swansea
BBC NOW - Stravinsky, Carl Vine, Beethoven (part 1)
Live from the Grand Theatre, Swansea
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Jurjen Hempel, perform Stravinsky's Concerto in D, Carl Vine's Flute Concerto (with Emily Beynon) and Beethoven's Eroica Symphony.
Stravinsky: Concerto in D
Carl Vine: Flute Concerto - Pipe Dreams
8.15: Interval
8.35
Beethoven: Symphony No 3, Eroica
Emily Beynon, flute
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jurjen Hempel, conductor
Beethoven's Eroica Symphony changed the face of music. Its elemental power and heroic grandeur took early audiences by storm, and continues to do so to this day. Australian composer Carl Vine's Pipe Dreams , played by Welsh-born Emily Beynon, evokes a meditative, wistful world of gentle contemplation, whilst Stravinsky's Concerto is full of light and grace.
FRI 20:15 Commonwealth Stories (b03xd9jn)
The Exam, by Doreen Baingana
The final story in a series by leading authors writing in English from around the Commonwealth; being broadcast across this week, the series features work from Sri Lanka, South Africa, Australia, Jamaica and Uganda.
In "The Exam", a young girl living with her extended family in a slum in Uganda dreams of escape through academic achievement. The story was originally commissioned as part of Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls' education. Their slogan is: One Girl with Courage is a Revolution. (www.girlrising.com)
Doreen Baingana won the Commonwealth Prize First Book Award in 2006 for her collection of stories "Tropical Fish" and has twice been nominated for the Caine Prize for African Writing. She was recently Chairperson of FEMRITE: the Uganda Women Writers Association and is one of the judges of this year's Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
Reader ..... Amaka Okafor
Writer ..... Doreen Baingana
Producer ..... Kirsteen Cameron.
FRI 20:35 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03x1qzv)
Live from the Grand Theatre, Swansea
BBC NOW - Stravinsky, Carl Vine, Beethoven (part 2)
Live from the Grand Theatre, Swansea
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Jurjen Hempel, perform Stravinsky's Concerto in D, Carl Vine's Flute Concerto (with Emily Beynon) and Beethoven's Eroica Symphony.
Stravinsky: Concerto in D
Carl Vine: Flute Concerto - Pipe Dreams
8.15: Interval
8.35
Beethoven: Symphony No 3, Eroica
Emily Beynon, flute
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jurjen Hempel, conductor
Beethoven's Eroica Symphony changed the face of music. Its elemental power and heroic grandeur took early audiences by storm, and continues to do so to this day. Australian composer Carl Vine's Pipe Dreams , played by Welsh-born Emily Beynon, evokes a meditative, wistful world of gentle contemplation, whilst Stravinsky's Concerto is full of light and grace.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b03x1r05)
Steven Connor, Ron Silliman, Hanna Tuulikki, Will Eaves
Ian's guests include Steven Connor on the language of sobs and stutters, the poet Ron Silliman, composer and performer Hanna Tuulikki and Will Eaves.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b03x1p6j)
Commonwealth Questions
Tolu Ogunlesi
A series of five essays from writers around the Commonwealth which start on Commonwealth Day 10th March and tackle the past, present and future of this unique international organisation.
Tolu Ogunlesi, poet and author from Nigeria looks at whether young people in Lagos can relate to the Commonwealth.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b03x1r18)
Sidi Toure in Session, Commonwealth Connections 6
Mary Ann Kennedy with tracks from across the globe, a studio session with Malian singer Sidi Toure, and Commonwealth Connections 6, with music from Australia and Antigua.
'Commonwealth Connections' is a BBC Radio 3 landmark 26-part weekly series leading up to the Commonwealth Games in July, featuring music from each of the 53 member states, reflecting the range of music and culture across the whole organisation.
MUSIC FEATURE: AUSTRALIA
Mark Atkins is regarded as one of Australia's finest virtuoso didgeridoo players and is recognized internationally for his collaborations with some of the world's leading musicians, including
Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Sinead O'Connor and minimalist classical composer Philip Glass. Atkins is of Irish/Australian heritage, as well as being a descendant of Western Australia's Yamitji people. We get a chance to hear him performing and weaving stories at a didgeridoo workshop- festival held in Woolloongabba, a suburb of Brisbane, alongside contributions from master didgeridoo player Stephen Kent and Aboriginal player Adrian Burragubba, who talks about the concepts of 'Dreamtime' and 'songlines'.
HERITAGE TRACK: ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA- KASHEEM COLBOURNE
Up and coming 200m and 400m sprinter Kasheem Colbourne expresses through his music choice his deep pride in the beauty of his country. 'Antigua' by Rupert Blaize conjures up paradise-like images of this twin island state's stunning natural landscape and the warmth of its people, and for these reasons is a popular song in the country. Glasgow 2014 will be Kasheem's first time competing at Commonwealth level and in his contribution to this series he expresses his resolve to do well, represent Antigua and Barbuda, and put it on the map in the minds of the world-wide audience for the track and field events.
SESSION WITH SIDI TOURE:
Sidi Toure was born in Gao in northern Mali , and he bases his music on the local Songhai styles. His new album 'Alafia' reflects Mali's recent turbulent times. Sidi Toure was on tour in France when Gao was occupied by rebels, and his new songs call on Malians to move forward in a spirit of unity.