Catriona Young presents a concert from the 2013 BBC Proms: pianists Imogen Cooper and Paul Lewis performing Schubert.
Tobias Ringborg (violin), Ingegard Kierkegaard (viola), John Ehde (cello), Håkan Ehrén (double bass), Stefan Lindgren (piano)
Susanne Rydén & Tone M. Wik (sopranos), Marianne Kielland (contralto), Andrew Carwood (tenor), Lars Johansson Brissman (bass), Norwegian Baroque Orchestra, Joshua Rifkin (conductor)
Gesänge der Frühe (Chants de l'Aube) (Op.133) - 5 pieces for piano dedicated to the poet Bettina Brentano
Lysell String Quartet: Bernt Lysell (violin), Per Sandklef (violin), Thomas Sundkvist (viola), Mikael Sjögren (cello)
Treizième concert à deux violes - from 'Les Gouts réunis ou Nouveaux Concerts, Paris 1724'
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen vers. for voice & orch.
Urszula Kryger (Mezzo Soprano), Kwartesencja Ensemble: Marcin Kaminski (flute), Adrian Janda (clarinet), Bartosz Jakubczak (harmonium), Bartlomiej Zajkowski (piano), Tomasz Januchta (double bass), Hubert Zemler (percussion), Monika Wolinska (director)
BBC Singers, David Hill (conductor) - recorded at the BBC Proms, 3 Sept 2007 (Prom 67)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, James Conlon (conductor)
New Stenhammar String Quartet - Peter Olofsson (violin), Laura Park (violin), Tony Bauer (viola), Mats Olofsson (cello).
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: Liszt at the Opera - Louis Lortie, CHANDOS. We also have our daily brainteaser at
Sarah's guest this week is the author Marina Lewycka. Her debut novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, won the 2005 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing at the Hay Literary Festival, and was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. It has been translated into thirty-five languages. Marina's other novels include We Are All Made of Glue, Various Pets Alive and Dead, and Two Caravans, which was shortlisted for the 2008 Orwell Prize for political writing. In 2009, she donated the short story The Importance of Having Warm Feet to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, as well as another short story, Business Philosophy, to the Amnesty International anthology, Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In addition to her fiction, Lewycka has written a number of books giving practical advice for carers of elderly people, published by the charity Age Concern.
Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 'Little Russian'
After his first encounter with Shakespeare's Hamlet, which he recognised as the supreme turning point of his life, Hector Berlioz emerged from the theatre reeling, vowing not to expose himself a second time "to the flame of Shakespeare's genius." But when he saw the playbills advertising Romeo and Juliet a few days later, he simply couldn't stay away. He bought a seat in the stalls. As he said himself: "My fate was doubly sealed." Hector Berlioz remained enraptured by Shakespeare all his life. In this programme, Donald Macleod explores this fascination, including his King Lear overture and the "dramatic symphony" Romeo and Juliet.
This week's lunchtime concerts come from the annual chamber music series at The Frick Collection in New York, including performances by pianist Anna Vinnitskaya, and violinist Augustin Hadelich with pianist Charles Owen. Today's concert includes music by Chopin and Janacek.
Penny Gore presents a week featuring the work of the BBC Philharmonic including today two of the most popular works in the concerto repertoire: Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto, and Bruch's Violin Concerto.
Sean Rafferty's guests include one of the most acclaimed countertenors around today, Iestyn Davies. He'll be performing live in the studio.
Also today, pianist Francesco Piemontesi performs live ahead of his recital at Wigmore Hall this week.
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String Quartets by Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert from the Endellion String Quartet live at Wigmore Hall
Haydn's delightful Op.55 No.3 quartet is surprisingly little known, unlike Schubert's 'Death and the Maiden' - perhaps the most popular of all string quartets. The latter catches the imagination with greater intensity at each hearing. Beethoven's last major piece is a timeless treasure, and perhaps suggests the new directions his work might have taken had he lived longer.
Presenter Rana Mitter, is joined on the BBC stage at the Hay Festival by writer and provocateur, PJ O'Rourke and the Freakonomics authors, the economist Steven D Levitt and journalist Stephen J Dubner to discuss decision-making, how emotional and economic stability leads to self-absorbtion, how difficult it is to stop and think about anything and why there is such a gulf between the economic and political and personal rationales for the nature of health care provision here in the UK, the US and around the world.
You can download this programme by searching in the Arts and Ideas podcasts for the broadcast date.
Sarah Churchwell, writer and Professor of American Literature at UEA examines the tradition of depicting sex in popular fiction. Recent successful publications are only following in the footsteps of earlier generations of female writers reaching back as far as England's Edith Maude Hull who published her bestselling The Sheik in 1919.
In little more than a few decades, perhaps a generation or two, western culture has arguably progressed from a largely repressed and circumspect attitude to portraying the sins and pleasures of the flesh to an altogether more casual and certainly visually more permissive approach. How have writers and readers, adjusted to these changes and what are authors trying to say when they write about sex? Is the written word trailing in the wake of film, tv and video or have these media liberated authors from a more timid, and possibly less authentic way of writing?
These essays offer a chance to step back and reflect on some of the subtler arguments that can get lost amidst a sea of pneumatic imagery. Somewhere between the conventions of shock, titillation and comedy lie a whole range of other ideas that can be explored when writing about sex.
Singer-songwriter and new member of the Late Junction presenter team, Mara Carlyle announces more exclusive details of the Late Junction line-up at the Latitude Festival in July. Mara will be joined by one of the Latitude artists live in the studio, plus there's a chance all week to hear Late Junction recordings made during previous years' festivals.
Mara Carlyle is a British singer, songwriter and arranger whose sound combines an eclectic range of influences, including choral music, jazz, bluegrass, electronica & R&B. Her musical collaborators have included Matthew Herbert, Willy Mason, MF DOOM and the London Contemporary Orchestra. She is known for reworking songs by classical composers from John Dowland to Benjamin Britten.
Late Junction - BBC Radio 3's late night exploration of musical wonders and curiosities from across time and space - returns to Latitude for a fourth consecutive year. Filling the woods with captivating sounds, Late Junction presenter Max Reinhardt will host another hand-picked celebration of eclectic music in the intimate setting of The Lavish Lounge, with highlights to be broadcast during Late Junction on Radio 3 (22nd, 23rd and 24th July at
THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b0449lh5)
Rudolf Buchbinder joins the Szymanowski Quartet in Beethoven and Dvorak's Piano Quintet No.2 in A. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Piano Trio in C Minor Op.1 No.3
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano), Andrej Bielow (violin), Marcin Sienawski (cello)
12:57 AM
Szymanowski, Karol [1882-1937]
String Quartet No.2 Op.56
Szymanowski Quartet: Andrej Bielow & Grzegorz Kotów (violins), Vladimier Mykytka (viola), Marcin Sienawski (cello)
1:14 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Piano Quintet No.2 in A, Op.81
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano), Szymanowski Quartet: Andrej Bielow & Grzegorz Kotów (violins), Vladimier Mykytka (viola), Marcin Sienawski (cello)
1:49 AM
Schreker, Franz (1878-1934)
Prelude to a Drama
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
2:09 AM
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937)
Preludes for piano, Op.1
Jerzy Godziszewski (piano)
2:31 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Dixit Dominus for SSATB soloists and double choir and orchestra in D major (RV.595)
Unidentified soloists, Choir of Latvian Radio and the Riga Chamber Players, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
3:01 AM
Dupré, Marcel (1886-1971)
Concerto in E minor, for organ and orchestra (Op.31)
Simon Preston (organ), Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor)
3:23 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G major for 3 violins, 3 violas, 3 cellos & basso continuo, BWV.1048
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
3:37 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Variations on a Theme by Clara Wieck
Angela Cheng (piano)
3:45 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Bajka - concert overture
Polish National Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazimierz Kord (conductor)
3:58 AM
Kerle, Jacobus de (1531/2-1591)
Agnus Dei - super ut-re-mi-fa-so-la
Huelgas Ensemble; Paul van Nevel (director)
4:03 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Rondo concertante for violin and orchestra (K.269) in B flat major
James Ehnes (violin/director), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra
4:11 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872) [lyrics: Ludwik Syrokomla]
Lirnik wioskowy (Country Lyrist)
Urszula Kryger (mezzo soprano), Katarzyna Jankowska-Borzykowska (piano)
4:17 AM
Nibelle, Henri (1883-1967)
Carillon Orléannais
Tong-Soon Kwak (Rieger organ at the Torch Centre for World Missions in Seoul, Korea)
4:23 AM
Salmenhaara, Erkki (1941-March 2002)
Adagietto for Orchestra (1981)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ralf Sjöblom (conductor)
4:31 AM
Champagne, Claude (1891-1965)
Danse Villageoise
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Québec, Jacques Lacombe (conductor)
4:36 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
Polkas and Études for Piano, Book III
Antonín Kubálek (piano)
4:46 AM
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto for strings No.3 in E flat major
Concerto Köln
4:56 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Bassoon Concerto (K.191) in B flat major
Audun Halvorsen (bassoon), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
5:15 AM
Morley, Thomas [c.1557-1602], Elgar, Edward [1857-1934]
Burial Sentences (Morley); They are at rest (Elgar)
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)
5:28 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Phantasy in C major (D.934) (Op.Posth.159)
Thomas Zehetmair (violin); Kai Ito (piano)
5:55 AM
Gabrieli, Andrea (1532/3-1585)
Aria della battaglia à 8
Theatrum Instrumentorum, Stefano Innocenti (conductor)
6:05 AM
Nielsen, Carl [1865-1931]
Pan og Syrinx (FS.87) (Op.49)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)
6:14 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Concerto in A minor for recorder, viola da gamba, strings and continuo
La Stagione Frankfurt.
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b0449lh7)
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 (b044jtc6)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with Marina Lewycka
with Sarah Walker and her guest, the novelist, Marina Lewycka.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Liszt at the Opera - Louis Lortie, CHANDOS. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artists of the Week: Purcell Quartet
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the author Marina Lewycka. Her debut novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, won the 2005 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing at the Hay Literary Festival, and was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. It has been translated into thirty-five languages. Marina's other novels include We Are All Made of Glue, Various Pets Alive and Dead, and Two Caravans, which was shortlisted for the 2008 Orwell Prize for political writing. In 2009, she donated the short story The Importance of Having Warm Feet to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, as well as another short story, Business Philosophy, to the Amnesty International anthology, Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In addition to her fiction, Lewycka has written a number of books giving practical advice for carers of elderly people, published by the charity Age Concern.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Elgar
Symphony No. 2 in E flat, Op. 63
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0449lhc)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Encounters with England
After a series of commercial failures in his native France, Hector Berlioz resolved, "there is nothing to be done in this ghastly country and I can't leave it quickly enough." He first headed north and east, to St. Petersburg, and not long afterwards made his first trip to Britain. In this programme Donald Macleod explores Berlioz's experiences and achievements in England.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b0449lhf)
Frick Collection
Episode 3
This week's lunchtime concerts come from the annual chamber music series at The Frick Collection in New York, including performances by pianist Anna Vinnitskaya, and the Fauré Quartett. Today's concert includes music by Prokofiev and Brahms.
Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No.2 in D minor, Op.14
Anna Vinnitskaya (piano)
Brahms
Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25
Fauré Quartett.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b0449lhh)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Bellini - La Sonnambula
Penny Gore presents Bellini's bittersweet opera about mistaken identity, romantic love and sleep walking in a production from Barcelona starring Patrizia Ciofi and Juan Diego Flórez.
Bellini La Sonnambula, opera semiseria in two acts
Amina .... Patrizia Ciofi (soprano)
Elvino ..... Juan Diego Flórez (tenor),
Lisa ..... Eleonora Buratto (soprano),
Count Rodolfo ..... Nicola Ulivieri (bass),
Teresa ..... Gemma Coma-Alabert (mezzo-soprano),
Alessio ..... Alex Sanmartí (bass),
Notary ..... Jordi Casanova (tenor),
Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatro del Liceo, Barcelona
Daniel Oren (conductor)
Gran Teatro del Liceo, Barcelona
* Act 1
2pm
* Act 2
3.25pm.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b0449lhk)
Son Yambu, Shadwell Opera, Grange Park Opera
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music and chat. Guests include London-based Cuban band Son Yambu, bringing their exuberant Latin and Salsa sound to the In Tune studio as they gear up for their UK tour.
The youthful Shadwell Opera company talk about their new production of Philip Glass' In the Penal Colony - director Jack Furness and singer Love Ssega talk to Sean about taking opera to new audiences.
Plus composer and opera director Jeremy Sams talks about bringing Britten's Peter Grimes to life for the much loved Grange Park Opera.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:00 Composer of the Week (b0449lhc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:00 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b0449lhm)
2014 St Davids Cathedral Festival
Live from St Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Mahler's Fourth symphony, a child's view of heaven and Messiaen's L'Acension from St. Davids Cathedral Festival with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Jac van Steen
Messiaen: L'Ascension
7.35: During the interval, a vintage recording or Messiaen himself playing Transports de joie, the movement he added to L'Ascension when he rewrote his orchestral piece for organ solo. Nicola Heywood Thomas also talks to tonight's soloist, Ailish Tynan, and listens to her recent recordings of French music by Poulenc and Fauré.
7.55
Mahler: Symphony No.4
Ailish Tynan (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen
followed at approximately
9pm by:
Bach: Ascension Oratorio Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11
Barbara Schlick (soprano), Catherine Patriasz (alto), Christoph Prégardein (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass)
Collegium Vocale, Ghent
Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
[recorded in 1995]
Messiaen's Christian faith was always at the heart of his musical output. L'Ascension is one of his earliest orchestral works (1933), a set of four contrasting meditations each taking a religious text as a starting point. In turn, Messiaen expresses his Catholicism in mystical contemplation and ecstatic praise. Mahler described his Fourth Symphony as "a work for children and those who will become children". This song-like work culminates in a representation of a child's view of heaven for soprano, sung here by Ailish Tynan. The Romanesque nave of St Davids Cathedral in Pembrokeshire provides the perfect setting for this heavenward-soaring programme, part of the 2014 St David's Festival.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b0449lhp)
Arianna Huffington, Stress in Business, Zia Haider Rahman, Maya Angelou Tribute
Arianna Huffington, the founder of the online magazine The Huffington Post, talks to Anne McElvoy about the quality of life beyond money and power. Her book Thrive outlines a new way of defining success which she calls The Third Metric.
Also, looking at stress in business and the nature of leadership, are the Deputy Chairman of Saatchi and Saatchi Worldwide, Richard Hytner, and Kerrie Fleming, Director of The Ashridge Leadership Centre. Richard's book Consiglieri: Leading from the Shadows considers the role of the second in command in an organisation.
Anne talks to author Zia Haider Rahman whose debut novel In the Light of What We Know contains elements of his own Bangladeshi background, a scholarship to Oxford and time spent as an investment banker on Wall Street.
And Anne pays tribute to the late Maya Angelou's influence and humour.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01r5pg4)
Explaining the Explicit
Vicki Feaver
Poet Vicki Feaver is nearly 70. She looks back on her own reading and writing of poetry and reflects on how the poet as the lyric 'I' can be both more exposed and more uninhibited when exploring her own sexuality.
In little more than a few decades, perhaps a generation or two, western culture has arguably progressed from a largely repressed and circumspect attitude to portraying the sins and pleasures of the flesh to an altogether more casual and certainly visually more permissive approach. How have writers and readers, adjusted to these changes and what are authors trying to say when they write about sex? Is the written word trailing in the wake of film, tv and video or have these media liberated authors from a more timid, and possibly less authentic way of writing?
These essays offer a chance to step back and reflect on some of the subtler arguments that can get lost amidst a sea of pneumatic imagery. Somewhere between the conventions of shock, titillation and comedy lie a whole range of other ideas that can be explored when writing about sex.
First broadcast in March 2013.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b0449lhr)
Thursday - Mara Carlyle
Singer-songwriter and new member of the Late Junction presenter team, Mara Carlyle announces more exclusive details of the Late Junction line-up at the Latitude Festival in July. Plus she's joined for a very special live studio performance by one of this year's artists, and there's music on disc from 1960s Cambodia and Indian sarod master Shivkumar Sharma.
Mara Carlyle is a British singer, songwriter and arranger whose sound combines an eclectic range of influences, including choral music, jazz, bluegrass, electronica and R&B. Her musical collaborators have included Matthew Herbert, Willy Mason, MF DOOM and the London Contemporary Orchestra. She is known for reworking songs by classical composers from John Dowland to Benjamin Britten.
Late Junction - BBC Radio 3's late-night exploration of musical wonders and curiosities from across time and space - returns to Latitude for a fourth consecutive year. Filling the woods with captivating sounds, Late Junction presenter Max Reinhardt will host another hand-picked celebration of eclectic music in the intimate setting of The Lavish Lounge, with highlights to be broadcast during Late Junction on Radio 3 (22nd, 23rd and 24th July at
11pm).
Late Junction: Expect the Unexpected.
FRIDAY 30 MAY 2014
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b0449qq6)
The elegiac sounds of Bloch's Schelomo and Bruch's tuneful Symphony No.1 from the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Bruch, Max [1838-1920]
Kol Nidrei Op 47
Adam Krzeszowiec (cello), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
12:44 AM
Bloch, Ernest [1880-1959]
Schelomo - Rhapsody for cello and orchestra
Adam Krzeszowiec (cello), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
1:06 AM
Bruch, Max [1838-1920]
Symphony No.1 in E Flat Op.28
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
1:37 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Overture to 'St Paul', Op 36
Rietze Smits (organ)
1:45 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (BWV.51) - cantata for soprano, trumpet and strings
Susanne Ryden (soprano), Robert Farley (trumpet), European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
2:02 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Piano Concerto No.4 in G minor (Op.40)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
2:31 AM
Berwald, Franz (1796-1868)
Septet in B flat
Niklas Andersson (clarinet), Henrik Blixt (bassoon), Hans Larsson (horn), Jannica Gustafsson (violin), Håkan Olsson (viola), Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Maria Johansson (double bass)
2:54 AM
Borodin, Alexander (1833-1887)
Symphony No.1 in E flat major
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
3:27 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto in C major, RV.444 for recorder, strings & continuo
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (recorder)
3:37 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
My mother bids me bind my hair (H.26a.27) from 6 Original canzonettas
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Mahan Esfahani (fortepiano)
3:41 AM
Purcell, Henry [1659-1695]
Music for a while from Oedipus - incidental music to Act 3 (Z.583)
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
3:45 AM
Wolf, Hugo [1860-1903]
Italian serenade for string quartet
Bartok Quartet
3:53 AM
Crecquillon, Thomas (c.1505/15-1557)
Amour partez
Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel (conductor)
3:57 AM
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837)
Rondo in B minor (Op.109)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
4:06 AM
Goldmark, Károly (1830-1915)
Scherzo for orchestra in E minor (Op.19)
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Adam Medveczky (conductor)
4:13 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Prelude (Fantasia) in A minor (BWV.922)
Wolfgang Glüxam (harpsichord)
4:20 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup [1843-1907]
2 Norwegian Dances (Op.35, nos. 1 & 2)
Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, Rouslan Raychev (conductor)
4:31 AM
Pezel, Johann Christoph (1639-1694)
Sonatina No.69 for 2 trumpets and organ
Ivan Hadliyski & Roman Hajiyski (trumpets), Velin Iliev (organ)
4:34 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich [1637-1707]
Jesu, meines Lebens Leben, BuxWV 62
Marieke Steenhoek (soprano), Miriam Meyer (soprano), Bogna Bartosz (contralto), Marco Van De Klundert (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass), Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman (conductor)
4:42 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Two Slavonic Dances (Op.46) - No. 8 In G Minor: Presto & No.3 In A flat Major: Poco Allegro
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Arvid Engegård (conductor)
4:50 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Fantasie in F minor (Op.49)
Xaver Scharwenka (piano) (1850-1924)
5:03 AM
Schickhardt, Johann Christian (c.1681-c.1762)
Concerto for flute, (2) oboes, strings & basso continuo in G minor (S.Uu (i hs 58:5)) (orig. alto recorder & orch.)
Musica Ad Rhenum
5:20 AM
Roussel, Albert (1869-1937)
Piano Trio in E flat major, Op.2 (1902)
Tale Olsson (violin), Johanna Sjunnesson (cello), Mats Jansson (piano)
5:49 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
Concerto for trombone and military band in B flat major
Tibor Winkler (trombone), Chamber Wind Orchestra, Zdenek Machacek (conductor)
6:00 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose) ballet
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b0449qq8)
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 (b044v4r1)
Friday - Sarah Walker with Marina Lewycka
with Sarah Walker and her guest, the novelist, Marina Lewycka.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Liszt at the Opera - Louis Lortie, CHANDOS. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artists of the Week: Purcell Quartet
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the author Marina Lewycka. Her debut novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, won the 2005 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing at the Hay Literary Festival, and was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. It has been translated into thirty-five languages. Marina's other novels include We Are All Made of Glue, Various Pets Alive and Dead, and Two Caravans, which was shortlisted for the 2008 Orwell Prize for political writing. In 2009, she donated the short story The Importance of Having Warm Feet to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, as well as another short story, Business Philosophy, to the Amnesty International anthology, Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In addition to her fiction, Lewycka has written a number of books giving practical advice for carers of elderly people, published by the charity Age Concern.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Brahms
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0449qqd)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
The Bitter End
Donald Macleod explores the bitter final years of Hector Berlioz, when, troubled by ill health and a continued poor reception for his music in France he was moved to write in his Memoirs: "I am alone. My contempt for the folly and baseness of mankind, my hatred of its atrocious cruelty, have never been so intense. And I say hourly to death: 'When you will.' Why does he delay?".
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b0449qqg)
Frick Collection
Episode 4
This week's lunchtime concerts come from the annual chamber music series at The Frick Collection in New York, including performances by pianist Anna Vinnitskaya, the Fauré Quartett and violinist Augustin Hadelich with pianist Charles Owen. Today's concert includes music by Kurtag, Debussy, Mahler and Schumann.
Kurtag
Tre pezzi, Op.14e
Augustin Hadelich (violin), Charles Owen (piano)
Debussy
Suite Bergamasque
Anna Vinnitskaya (piano)
Mahler
Piano Quartet movement in A minor
Fauré Quartett
Schumann
Violin Sonata No.1 in A minor, Op.105
Augustin Hadelich (violin), Charles Owen (piano.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b0449qqj)
BBC Philharmonic
Episode 4
his week Penny Gore has been introducing programmes showcasing the work of the BBC Philharmonic. Today features works by Brahms, Sibelius and Holst's Planets recorded earlier this month in the Bridgewater Hall.
Brahms
Academic Festival Overture Op.80
BBC Philharmonic
Gunther Herbig (conductor)
2.10 pm
Turina
Rapsodia sinfonica Op.66 for piano and string orchestra
Martin Roscoe (Piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)
2.20 pm
Sibelius
Symphony No.2 in D
BBC Philharmonic
Martyn Brabbins
3.05 pm
Britten
Gloriana - Courtly Dances from the Symphonic Suite
BBC Philharmonic
Paul Daniel (conductor)
3.15 pm
Holst
The Planets
Manchester Chamber Choir
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b0449qql)
Andrew Litton, Joan Rodgers, James Cheung, Paul Chamberlain
Sean Rafferty's guests include renowned soprano Joan Rodgers with pianist James Cheung performing live ahead of their recital at St John's Smith Square; acclaimed classical accordion player Paul Chamberlain who'll be dazzling us with his arrangements ranging from Bach and Rameau to Khachaturian; and American conductor and pianist Andrew Litton drops in to play live on the studio piano with his tribute to jazz legend Oscar Peterson.
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FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b0449qqd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b0449qqn)
The Britten Sinfonia - Birtwistle at 80
The Britten Sinfonia performs music by Vaughan Williams, Holst and Harrison Birtwistle as part of the Barbican's Birtwistle at 80 season.
Live from Milton Court, London
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Holst: If You Love Songs; Lovely Venus; David's Lament for Jonathan; The Fields of Sorrow
Harrison Birtwistle: The Fields of Sorrow
Interval
Harrison Birtwistle: Melencolia I
Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi
Clare Finnimore (viola)
Britten Sinfonia Voices
Britten Sinfonia
Baldur Bronnimann (conductor)
The concert traces three major English composers' responses to landscape and national identity. Vaughan Williams's unique pastoral elegy Flos Campi (Flowers of the Field) explores a landscape of physical and spiritual longing, whilst Holst's Fields of Sorrow is a cold and bleak emotional journey. Using the same Ausonius text as Holst, Harrison Birtwistle demonstrates a highly individual continuation of the English pastoral tradition that has its roots in the rediscovery of landscape as a creative force.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b0449qqq)
Hay Festival: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Philip Ardagh
Ian McMillan presents the 'Cabaret of the Word' from the Hay Festival. He is joined by Karl Ove Knausgaard, who's been called the 'Norwegian Proust' and Philip Ardagh, one of our most celebrated children's authors, with a special commission for The Verb on the 'Language of Beards', as well as singer-songwriter The Gentle Good and Tishani Doshi who is reading from her reworking of the Welsh epic The Mabinogion.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b01r5pg6)
Explaining the Explicit
Rachel Johnson
Journalist and novelist, Rachel Johnson won the Bad Sex Award in 2008, the same year that the judges awarded John Updike a 'lifetime achievement' award. In 2013 she was one of the judges of the Women's Prize for Fiction - are we all a bit too ready to leap to judgement when it comes to writing about sex?
In little more than a few decades, perhaps a generation or two, western culture has arguably progressed from a largely repressed and circumspect attitude to portraying the sins and pleasures of the flesh to an altogether more casual and certainly visually more permissive approach. How have writers and readers, adjusted to these changes and what are authors trying to say when they write about sex? Is the written word trailing in the wake of film, tv and video or have these media liberated authors from a more timid, and possibly less authentic way of writing?
These essays offer a chance to step back and reflect on some of the subtler arguments that can get lost amidst a sea of pneumatic imagery. Somewhere between the conventions of shock, titillation and comedy lie a whole range of other ideas that can be explored when writing about sex.
First broadcast in March 2013.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b0449qqs)
Jaune Toujours in session, plus Commonwealth Connections 17
Lopa Kothari with our Commonwealth Connections series, including a location feature from New Zealand and our Heritage Track from Guyana, also a session with band Jaune Toujours, plus new world music releases from around the globe. Jaune Toujours photo by Alex Vanhee
New Zealand
Whiri Tu Aka are a 5-piece all-female Maori a cappella group founded by producer/vocalist Mina Ripa. Best known for her work in the field of electronica and dance music, this project was inspired by the birth of Mina's son to create music using only 'the power of the voice'. We hear a performance by the band recorded at a special event on Waitangi Day (February 6th) at a waterfront concert in Wellington. On this day in 1840 the country's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi was signed granting Maori people ownership of their lands and properties giving them the same rights as British subjects. The programme also features a unique collaboration with members of Whiri Tu Aka and Horomona Horo a practitioner of 'taonga puoro', the collective term given to a wide array of Maori instruments, recorded on the shores of Titahi Bay, Porirua in the North Island of New Zealand.
Heritage Track - Guyana
Writer and academic David Dabydeen is currently Guyana's ambassador to China. His Heritage Track is the calypso Not a Blade of Grass by Dave Martins and the Tradewinds. For David the song prompts thoughts of Guyana's evolving relationship with Britain since independence in 1966, and of the opportunity for the Guyanese to renew their self-image and own their heritage.
Session - Jaune Toujours
In our studio, this Belgian cult band with its irrepressible sound, a mix of accordion, wind instruments, percussion and voice, exploring contemporary issues with strong social and cultural undertones.