Alex Rudin performs John Casken's Cello Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Garry Walker.
The Triumphs of Oriana, written for Queen Elizabeth I, with the Mezzaluna Recorder Consort directed by Peter van Heyghen and Vox Luminis directed by Lionel Meunier, recorded at the Laus Polyphoniae Festival in Antwerp in August 2013. John Shea presents.
Peter Pears (tenor), SWF Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (conductor) [recorded on 1st December 1956] [MONO]
Two keyboard pieces - 1. La Du Vaucel; 2. La Angrave
Kaiser-Walzer (Op.437) (1888) arr. Schoenberg (1925) for chamber ensemble
Flecha, Mateo (c. 1481-1553)
Ande, pues from the Ensalada La Bomba [from Las Ensaladas de Mateo Flecha, Prague, 1581]
Anita Szabo (flute), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltán Kocsis (conductor)
Sonata for piano no. 7 (Op.10 No.3) in D major
As part of Radio 3's Music in the Great War season, Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical music Breakfast Show and introduces music from countries which were major participants in WW1.
with Sarah Walker and her guest, the music and literature scholar, Kate Kennedy.
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Elgar: Piano Music, Ashley Wass, NAXOS. We also have our daily brainteaser at
Sarah's guest this week is the consultant to the Radio 3 World War One programming, Kate Kennedy. Kate is a Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge, where she teaches in the English and Music Faculties. She has published numerous papers on music and literature around the First World War, and is currently working on a biography of the poet and composer Ivor Gurney, and co-editing The Silent Morning: Cultural Responses to the Armistice, 1918. She has also recently co-edited and contributed to a special edition of the Journal of First World War Studies, entitled The First World War: Music, Literature, Memory. She gives regular lectures in music festivals, pre-concert talks, contributes as a guest to programmes for Radio 3 and is a freelance baroque cellist.
By the end of the Great War, Sir Edward Elgar couldn't compose any music to celebrate peace, disillusioned as he was by the whole period, which Donald Macleod explores in conversation with Terry Charman from the Imperial War Museum. At the outbreak of war, Elgar was noted for being more concerned about his beloved horses, than for any soldiers fighting. Little did anyone know how many horses or people would die in this conflict, which lasted more than the predicted three months. Elgar did do his bit though, joining the Special Reserve, conducting charity concerts to raise much needed funds, and composing the odd bit of jingoistic music to rally the people. It is the Great War period back at home in Great Britain, with Zeppelin raids, German cruisers shelling Whitby and Scarborough, to xenophobic riots in London, which Donald Macleod explores tracing how these events affected the life and music of Sir Edward Elgar.
1914, and in the age of Empire and British supremacy at sea, it was the Edwardian Golden Summer. Few people realised that war was looming, and commissions were coming in for Elgar, such as from the Sons of Clergy Festival at St. Paul's Cathedral, for which he composed his anthem Give unto the Lord. Soon, with motor vehicles requisitioned, and the unmistakable increase of men in khaki, the Great War had begun. Elgar soon received his first war commission in aid of the Belgian Fund, writing a work for narrator and orchestra, Carillon. But many of Elgar's most fierce supporters were German, including Hans Richter, to whom he dedicated his Three Bavarian Dances.
Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Daniel Behle (tenor) and Oliver Schnyder (piano) in songs by Brahms and Strauss. Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
The young German tenor Daniel Behle made his UK debut with Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin at Wigmore Hall a year ago and wowed audiences with his lyrical tone and affinity with German lieder. He returns to the Wigmore with pianist Oliver Schnyder to perform more of this repertoire from a slightly later period in lieder by Brahms and Richard Strauss.
Strauss: 4 Lieder Op 27 (Ruhe meine Seele; Cäcilie; Heimliche Aufforderung; Morgen)
Strauss: Lieder aus Lotosblätter Op 19 (Wozu noch Mädchen; Breit über mein Haupt; Schön, doch kalt sind die Himmelssterne; Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten).
Penny Gore introduces an afternoon of music connected with the UK at war, featuring music by the Irishman Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and two of his composition pupils at the Royal College of Music: Howells and Bliss. Howells' First Piano Concerto was his first major orchestral work, and the 1914 premiere was conducted by Stanford. It is notable for the colour and brilliance of his orchestration as well as the extremely demanding piano writing. The afternoon also includes performances of Strauss and Dvorak from the BBC Philharmonic.
Sean Rafferty's guests include violinist Cecilia Bernardini and director of the Dunedin Consort John Butt. Cecilia will be performing live in the studio ahead of the Consort's evening of Bach at London's Wigmore Hall this week.
Plus, as Radio 3's two-week season Music in the Great War gets under way, we welcome in a host of guests including writer, broadcaster and pianist David Owen Norris as he presents the first in a series of personal musical stories from the war.
Tenor Nicky Spence and pianist Simon Lepper perform a selection of songs from their upcoming show 'The Pity of War' at Tardebigge Church in Worcestershire, while the actor Alex Wyndham talks about the BBC Concert Orchestra's thrilling concert 'A Captive Audience', which you can hear live on BBC Radio 3's Live in Concert on Thursday 26 June.
And we hear from Dr. Rhian Davis of the Gregynog Festival in Wales about the festival's focus on the music of Belgian refugees who settled in Wales in 1914.
Aldeburgh Festival Director Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays a selection of highly virtuosic and pianistic studies by five of the greatest 19th- and 20th-century composers.
Interval - includes études or studies for orchestra by Szymanowski, Stravinsky, Arthur Bliss and Frank Martin.
To hear Aldeburgh Festival Artistic Director Pierre-Laurent Aimard perform Ligeti's dazzling Études is to experience some of the twentieth century's most energising piano music interpreted by one of the composer's closest collaborators. For this concert Aimard takes the audience on a grand kaleidoscopic tour of the Étude ('study') genre, from the great Romantic composer-pianists Chopin and Bartók to the exploration of sounds and colours in pieces by Debussy and Scriabin.
Earlier studies which on paper seem light-years removed turn out to have surprising connections and resonances with Ligeti's, whose 'high virtuosity' the composer explained to be 'a response to my own inadequate piano technique'.
Pianist Dame Mitsuko Uchida invites Sean Rafferty into her piano studio for an extended interview reflecting on a life in music and culture.
Mitsuko Uchida is one of the world's most celebrated pianists, noted for her interpretations of Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven. Japanese born Uchida has made the UK her home and houses her four pianos in a studio in West London - a deeply personal space, not often opened to visitors. Mitusko Uchida discusses her early musical memories, from her instant connection with the piano to hearing Aida with her father when an Italian opera company made its first visit to Japan. She describes her love of London, how she doesn't feel the need to own great art and her deep love of Mozart, a composer who "always forgives".
How great artists and thinkers responded to the First World War in individual works of art
1. BBC Correspondent Allan Little reflects on C.R.W.Nevinson's great 1917 painting, Paths of Glory
C.R.W.Nevinson's painting, Paths of Glory, is a distant cry from the rallying recruitment posters which appeared at the start of the war. It depicts the bloated corpses of two dead soldiers, stretched out in the mud, against a backdrop of tangled barbed wire, somewhere on the Western Front.
Perhaps part of its shock value was in its title. In his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, the 18th century poet, Thomas Gray, had declared "the Paths of Glory lead but to the grave", but in Nevinson's painting, the two fallen soldiers are far from the comfort even of a grave in an English country churchyard, and, indeed, from any decent burial at all.
In his many years as a BBC Special Correspondent, Allan Little has witnessed some shocking scenes of war and has also reflected on the depiction of war in news footage and photography as well as in the works of contemporary war artists.
He considers the continuing power of Nevinson's painting and the role of art both in recruiting soldiers and in denouncing war.
British bassist and composer Barry Guy presents his twelve-piece New Orchestra in concert.
Known for his adventurous and demanding writing, Barry Guy's music is highly scored, yet unpredictable in nature - unusual instrumental techniques, sharp-turning textures and thunderous bursts can unhinge the music at any given moment. In controlled sections of improvisation, the composer exploits the talents of experienced free players within the band, including saxophonist Evan Parker and pianist Agusti Fernandez, whilst the Baroque violin of Maya Homburger adds a contemporary classical flavour to the performance.
Here in concert at London's Cafe Oto, the New Orchestra perform brand new material, including pieces featuring smaller groupings of players from within the ensemble.
TUESDAY 24 JUNE 2014
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b0477tqx)
The Romanian Radio National Symphony Orchestra perform Lalo and Enescu. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Lalo, Edouard [1823-1892]
Symphonie espagnole Op.21 for violin and orchestra
Gabriel Croitoru (violin), Romanian Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Tiberiu Soare (conductor)
1:03 AM
Enescu, George [1881-1955]
Symphony No. 1 in E flat major Op.13
Romanian Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Tiberiu Soare (conductor)
1:37 AM
Lipatti, Dinu [1917-1950]
Concertante Symphony for 2 pianos and string orchestra (Op. 5)
Mihail Horia (piano), Lorry Wallfisch (piano) Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Horia Andreescu (conductor)
1:58 AM
Lipatti, Dinu [1917-1950]
Sonatina for the left hand
Dinu Lipatti (piano)
2:07 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Concert Study no. 2."Gnomenreigen" (S. 145)
Dinu Lipatti (piano)
2:10 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pytor Il'yich (1840-1893)
Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and orchestra, Op.33
Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Alexander Rudin (cello & conductor)
2:31 AM
Rózycki, Ludomir (1884-1953)
Cello Sonata in A minor (Op.10)
Tomasz Strahl (cello), Edward Wolanin (piano)
2:50 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Sextet for strings No.2 in G major (Op.36)
Hrachya Avanesyan, Johannes Soe Hansen (violins), Ettore Causa, Magda Stevensson (violas), Andreas & Ingemar Brantelid (cellos)
3:30 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Concerto Grosso in B flat major (Op.3 No.1)
Elar Kuiv (violin), Olev Ainomae (oboe), Estonian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Paul Mägi (conductor)
3:40 AM
Rore, Cipriano de (c1515-1565)
Fera gentil'
The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)
3:45 AM
Godard, Benjamin (1849-1895)
Berceuse de Jocelyn
David Varema (cello), Cornelia Lootsman (harp)
3:52 AM
Borodin, Alexander (1833-1887), arranged by Sargent, (Sir) Malcolm (1895-1967)
Nocturne (Andante) - 3rd movement from Quartet for strings No.2 in D major arr. Sargent for orchestra
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
4:00 AM
Delibes, Leo (1836-1891), transcribed by Arthur Nikisch (1855-1922)
Valse lente from 'Coppelia'
Arthur Nikisch (1855-1922) (piano)
4:04 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix - from Samson et Dalila
Jouko Harjanne (trumpet), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
4:10 AM
Sehested, Hilda (1858-1936)
Tre Fantasistykker (3 Fantasy pieces)
Nina Reintoft (cello), Malene Thastum (piano)
4:21 AM
Dubois, Pierre Max (1930-1995)
Quartet for flutes
Valentinas Kazlauskas, Lina Baublyte, Albertas Stupakas, Giedrius Gelgoras (flutes)
4:31 AM
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934) arr. Thomas Beecham
The Walk to the Paradise Garden
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
4:42 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Rhapsody for alto, male chorus and orchestra (Op.53)
Mirjam Kalin (alto), Male voices of Slovenicum Chamber Choir and Choir Consortium Classicum, Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
4:54 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata for violin and piano No.8 in G major (Op.30 No.3)
Mats Zetterqvist (violin), Mats Widlund (piano)
5:12 AM
Reicha, Anton (1770-1836)
Trio for French Horns (Op.82)
Jozef Illes, Jaroslan Snobl, Jan Budzak (French horns)
5:23 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869), text: Gautier, Théophile (1811-1872)
Les nuits d'été (Op.7) (Six songs on poems by Théophile Gautier)
Randi Steene (mezzo), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Bernhard Gueller (conductor)
5:53 AM
Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706) [text: Psalm 67/2-5]
Exsurgat Deus - motet for double chorus
Cantus Cölln: Johanna Koslowsky & Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Graham Pushee & Kai Wessel (countertenor), Gerd Türk & Wilfred Jochens & Martin Post (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger & Raimund Nolte (bass), Konrad Junghänel (director)
5:56 AM
Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706) [text: Psalm 108/2-7 (57/8-10)]
Paratum cor meum Deus - motet for double chorus & bc
Cantus Cölln: Johanna Koslowsky & Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Graham Pushee & Kai Wessel (countertenor), Gerd Türk & Wilfred Jochens (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger & Raimund Nolte (bass), Christoph Anselm Noll (organ), Konrad Junghänel (director)
5:58 AM
Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706) [text: Psalm 96/1-2, 98/1-3, 9]
Singet dem Herrn - motet for double chorus & bc
Cantus Cölln , Christoph Anselm Noll (organ), Konrad Junghänel (director)
6:01 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707)
Prelude and Fugue in G minor (BuxWV.149)
Velin Iliev (organ)
6:11 AM
Byrd, William (c.1540-1623)
Pavana lachrimae (after John Dowland) for keyboard (MB.
28.54)
Aapo Häkkinen (harpsichord)
6:19 AM
Britten, Benjamin [1913-1976]
Courtly Dances from Gloriana op 53
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor).
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b047bqv1)
Music in the Great War: Britain at War - At the Front
As part of Radio 3's Music in the Great War season, Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical music Breakfast Show and introduces music from countries which were major participants in WW1.
On each day, Radio 3 focusses on a particularly theme:
Monday: Britain at War: Outbreak
Tuesday: Britain at War: At the Front
Wednesday: Germany at War
Thursday: Britain at War: The Home Front
Friday: Austria-Hungary at War.
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b047bqy6)
Music in the Great War: Britain at War - At the Front
with Sarah Walker and her guest, the music and literature scholar, Kate Kennedy.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Elgar: Piano Music, Ashley Wass, NAXOS. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
9:30 -
10:30 Including a selection of music from the time of World War One.
10:30
Sarah's guest this week is the consultant to the Radio 3 World War One programming, Kate Kennedy. Kate is a Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge, where she teaches in the English and Music Faculties. She has published numerous papers on music and literature around the First World War, and is currently working on a biography of the poet and composer Ivor Gurney, and co-editing The Silent Morning: Cultural Responses to the Armistice, 1918. She has also recently co-edited and contributed to a special edition of the Journal of First World War Studies, entitled The First World War: Music, Literature, Memory. She gives regular lectures in music festivals, pre-concert talks, contributes as a guest to programmes for Radio 3 and is a freelance baroque cellist.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Bliss
Piano Quartet
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Maggini Quartet
NAXOS.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b016vn67)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Elgar and the Zeppelin Raids on London
By the end of the Great War, Sir Edward Elgar couldn't compose any music to celebrate peace, disillusioned as he was by the whole period, which Donald Macleod explores in conversation with Terry Charman from the Imperial War Museum.
At the beginning of 1915 came the realisation that the Great War was not going to be over in three months. German cruisers had been shelling Whitby and Scarborough, and Zeppelin raids were happening over London. Keen to do his bit, Elgar joined the Hampstead Special Reserve, being called out when needed for air-raid duties. He also started to compose a work genuinely inspired by the pity of war and the inhumanity of warfare, The Spirit of England. But with the sinking of the Lusitania, riots took place in London, and xenophobia was on the rise. At this very same time, Elgar was writing his Polonia, a symphonic prelude in aid of the Polish Relief Fund. However, what the people needed more than anything, was escapism, and Elgar supplied it by returning to fairyland, with his Starlight Express.
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b047br1d)
Great Irish Houses
Episode 1
Sean Rafferty crosses the Irish Sea this week to introduce this week's series of Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts recorded at the Great Music in Irish Houses Festival.
This year the festival has spread its wings to include venues that include stately homes, gardens, waterways and a city gallery. Today we visit Dublin City Gallery, the National Botanic Gardens, and Kilruddy House - the 19th-century tudor revival mansion where Arabella Steinbacher and Robert Kulek play Beethoven's First Violin Sonata Op 12, which is dedicated to one of his teachers, Antonio Salieri.
Howard Ferguson was born in Belfast. During World War II, he helped Myra Hess run a morale-boosting series of concerts at the National Gallery in London. Michael Collins and Michael McHale play his romantic Four Short Pieces for clarinet and piano in another gallery, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane.
Today's concert ends with Cuarteto Casals's performance of the Dissonance Quartet by Mozart at Ireland's National Botanic Gardens. The quartet K.465 earned its nickname from the opening bars which provide the only slow introduction of Mozart's string quartets.
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in D major, Op 12 No 1
Arabella Steinbacher (violin), Robert Kulek (piano)
Ferguson: Four Short Pieces for Clarinet
Michael Collins (clarinet), Michael McHale (piano)
Mozart: String Quartet in C major, K 465 'Dissonance'
Cuarteto Casals
First broadcast 24/06/2014.
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b047br5q)
Music in the Great War
Britain at War - At the Front
Part of Radio 3's WWI season, Music in the Great War.
Penny Gore continues this week's exploration of music connected with World War One. Today features composers who were at the front. Vaughan Williams' exposure to prolonged gunfire was the cause of his deafness in old age; Denis Browne was killed in action during the Gallipoli campaign and Moeran spent most of World War I as a despatch rider and was wounded at Bullecourt in 1917. The remainder of the afternoon features music by Sibelius and Schumann from the BBC Philharmonic.
Vaughan Williams
Symphony no.3 'Pastoral'
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)
2.35pm William Denis Browne
Two Dances for small orchestra
BBC Philharmonic
Paul Daniel (conductor)
2.45pm Moeran
Symphony in G minor
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)
3.33pm Sibelius
Finlandia
BBC Philharmonic
Antonello Manacorda (conductor)
3.43pm Schumann
Symphony no.1 in B flat major (Spring)
BBC Philharmonic
Antonello Manacorda (conductor).
TUE 16:30 In Tune (b047brb5)
Nicola Benedetti, Albert Ball's Flying Aces, Joanna MacGregor, David Owen Norris WWI Stories
Live music from star violinist Nicola Benedetti with pianist Alexei Grynyuk ahead of the release of her new recording 'Homecoming - A Scottish Fantasy' and a residency at Cheltenham Festival. More live music from ragtime band Albert Ball's Flying Aces plus Joanna MacGregor brings pianists from the Royal Academy of Music ahead of their new Summer Piano Festival. Nevill Holt Opera founder David Ross discusses this year's productions and as part of Radio 3's two-week season Music in the Great War, writer, broadcaster and pianist David Owen Norris presents another in his series of personal musical stories from the war.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b016vn67)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b047bshv)
City of London Festival - The Fateful Voyage
Recorded at Drapers' Hall, London, for Radio 3's WWI season Music in the Great War.
Presented by Martin Handley
The Fateful Voyage pays homage to composers who enlisted and were killed in the First World War. This concert focuses on the friendship between composers FS Kelly and William Denis Browne and the poet Rupert Brooke, who sailed together to the Dardanelles and died soon after. Their friendship generated poems and music which endure as a poignant reminder of their extraordinary lives.
Programme devised by Dr Kate Kenndy and Mark Seow
Part 1
F S Kelly: When the lamp is shattered (P B Shelley); Eton and Winchester song (R T Warner)
James Gilchrist (tenor); Iain Burnside (piano)
F S Kelly: Idyll
Iain Burnside (piano)
Poem: The Old Vicarage, Grantchester by Rupert Brooke
F S Kelly: The Isle (P B Shelley)
James Gilchrist (tenor); Iain Burnside (piano)
W D Browne: Intermezzo
Iain Burnside (piano)
Poem: The Dead by Rupert Brooke
F S Kelly: Choler
Iain Burnside (piano)
W D Browne: Diaphenia (H Constable)
James Gilchrist (tenor); Iain Burnside (piano)
Poem: Peace by Rupert Brooke
F S Kelly: Harvest Eve
Iain Burnside (piano)
W D Browne: To Gratiana dancing and singing (R Lovelace)
James Gilchrist (tenor); Iain Burnside (piano)
Wagner: Tannhauser - prelude to act I arr. for piano
Iain Burnside (piano)
Poem: Wagner by Rupert Brooke
F S Kelly: Jig from Serenade Op.7
Mark Seow (violin); Iain Burnside (piano)
F S Kelly: Waltz Pageant for piano duet Op.2a no.1
Iain Burnside & Frederick Brown (piano)
L Broadwood & J A Fuller Maitland: The Golden Vanity
James Gilchrist & Matthew Cammelle (tenors); Mark Seow (violin); Frederick Brown (piano)
--INTERVAL--
F S Kelly: Serenade for flute with accompaniment of harp, horn and string orchestra Op.7 in E minor
Rebecca Hall (flute); Jose Garcia Gutierrez (horn); Malta Philharmonic Orchestra; Michael Laus (conductor)
Cameo Classics CC9032CD
Part 2
F S Kelly: Weep you no more sad fountains (Anon.)
James Gilchrist (tenor); Iain Burnside (piano)
W D Browne: Arabia (W de la Mare)
James Gilchrist (tenor); Iain Burnside (piano)
Poem: Safety by Rupert Brooke
W D Browne: Dream-Tryst (F Thompson)
James Gilchrist (tenor); Iain Burnside (piano)
Poem: I strayed about the deck by Rupert Brooke
F S Kelly: Mirrors (L Pearsall Smith); Away! The moor is dark beneath the moon (P B Shelley)
James Gilchrist (tenor); Iain Burnside (piano)
Poem: The Funeral of Youth by Rupert Brooke
W D Browne: To Gratiana dancing and singing
Iain Burnside (piano)
F S Kelly: A Dirge (P B Shelley)
James Gilchrist (tenor); Iain Burnside (piano)
F S Kelly: Lament
Iain Burnside (piano)
Poem: William Denis Browne by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
W D Browne: The Isle of Lost Dreams
James Gilchrist (tenor); Iain Burnside (piano).
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (b047bs5z)
Landmark: The Thirty-Nine Steps and World War I
The Thirty-Nine Steps first appeared in Blackwoods Magazine in August and September 1915 and depicts Europe on the edge of war in May and June 1914. It quickly became popular reading in the trenches and on the home front, and nearly a hundred years and three film adaptations later, its popularity is enduring.
In a special edition of Free Thinking, Matthew Sweet talks to Buchan's biographer Andrew Lownie and Buchan scholars Dr Michael Redley and Dr Kate Macdonald about the connections between Buchan's own war experience and The Thirty-Nine Steps, and to Professors Elleke Boehmer and Terence Ranger about how ideas about empire and adventure play out in the novel.
First broadcast 24/06/2014
You can download this programme by searching in the Arts and Ideas podcasts for the broadcast date.
TUE 22:45 The Essay (b047bs6t)
Minds at War: Series 1
Non-Combatants and Others
How great artists and thinkers responded to the Frst World War in individual works of art
2.Sarah LeFanu reflects on Rose Macaulay's 1916 novel, Non-Combatants and Others
Rose Macaulay is perhaps best remembered for her final novel, The Towers of Trebizond, but her biographer, Sarah LeFanu, has long believed that one of her earlier novels, Non-Combatants and Others, is a work of striking originality. She also argues for its importance to our understanding of the impact of the First World War not only on soldiers at the front but on the entire nation.
The books which have become the foundational texts of our perception and understanding of the war are all by men who had served as soldiers - Edmund Blunden, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves - but all were written more than a decade later, when their authors had had time to shape and mediate their experiences through a process of post-war reflections.
The immediacy of Non-Combatants and Others - written and set in 1915 - is another reason for its claim to be regarded as a key text of the war.
Sarah LeFanu brings the novel alive by interweaving a re-telling of its story with her reflections on how it sheds light on Macaulay's own changing attitude to the war, and her later commitment to the League of Nations Union and the Peace Pledge Union.
Producer : Beaty Rubens.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b047bsh6)
Tuesday - Max Reinhardt
Tonight and tomorrow night this week Brazilian - American sound artist, producer and singer, Arto Lindsay, will be playing in the studio and sharing his musical tastes and revolutionary perspectives with us. From the No Wave of the New York Downtown scene in the late 1970's, to his work with Carnivals and Blocos in Brazil today, Arto's tales, aphorisms and songs are a beguiling and inspirational listen, plus new tunes from Tanya Au Clair, Martin and Eliza Carthy, classics like Cerha's Neun Bagatellen and Fausto Romitelli's Trash TV Trance and Eric Bogleâ€TMs tale of a soldier who fought in the WW1 Gallipolli campaign And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda. Presented by Max Reinhardt.
WEDNESDAY 25 JUNE 2014
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b0477tqz)
A focus on music from Slovenia, to mark Slovenian National Day. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Overture - Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus (Op. 43)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Günter Pichler (conductor)
12:36 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph [1732-1809]
Concerto for cello and orchestra No. 2 (H.7b.2) in D major
Primož Zalaznik (cello), Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Günter Pichler (conductor)
1:02 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Symphony No. 2 (Op.36) in D major
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Günter Pichler (conductor)
1:38 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Sinfonia concertante (K.297b) in E flat major
Maja Kojc (oboe), Jože Kotar (clarinet), Mihajlo Bulajic (horn), Damir Huljev (bassoon), Slovenian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Dešpalj (conductor)
2:09 AM
Bottesini, Giovanni [1821-1889]
Gran Duo Concertante for Violin and Double Bass and orchestra
Benjamin Ziervogel (violin), Zoran Markovic (double bass), Slovenian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Dešpalj (conductor)
2:25 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Ave Verum Corpus (K.618) (motet for chorus and strings)
Slovenian Radio & Television Chamber Choir, Tomaž (choirmaster), Slovenian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Dešpalj (conductor)
2:31 AM
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903)
String Quartet in D minor
Ljubljanski Godalni Quartet
3:17 AM
Škerjanc, Lucijan Marija (1900-1973)
Harp Concerto
Mojca Zlobko Vaigl (harp), Slovenian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra, David de Villiers (conductor)
3:34 AM
Nicolai, Otto [1810-1849]
Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
RTV Slovenian Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
3:43 AM
Jez, Jakob (b.1928)
Ode for General Maister
Cantemus Mixed Choir, Sebastjan Vrhovnik (conductor)
3:47 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Sinfonia in D major (Wq.183 No.1)
Slovenicum Chamber Orchestra, Uros Lajovic (conductor)
3:58 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Fantaisie-impromptu for piano in C sharp minor (Op.66)
Dubravka Tomsic (piano)
4:04 AM
Carniolus, Iacobus Gallus [1550-1591]
2 Easter Motets: Haec est Dies, quam fecit Dominus (OM 1/40); Ecce quomodo moritur iustus (OM 2/13) - from Opus Musicum
Ljubljanski Madrigalisti, Matjaz Scek (director)
4:09 AM
Baermann, Heinrich Joseph (1784-1847)
Adagio in D major from Quintet No.3 (Op.23) in E flat major (previously attributed to Wagner)
Jože Kotar (clarinet), Borut Kantušer (double bass), Slovenian Philharmonic String Quartet
4:14 AM
Ipavec, Benjamin (1839-1908) [text: D Ahasverov]
Ciganka Marija
Ana Pusar Jeric (soprano), Natasa Valant (piano)
4:18 AM
Tartini, Giuseppe (1692-1770)
Trumpet Concerto in D major
Stanko Arnold (trumpet), Slovenian Soloists, Marko Munih (conductor)
4:31 AM
Arnic, Blaz (1901-1970)
Overture to the Comic Opera (Op.11)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Anton Nanut (conductor)
4:38 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Sonata (Sonatina) for violin and piano no.1 in D major (D.384)
Tomaz Lorenz (violin), Alenka Scek-Lorenz (piano)
4:52 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Gott, wie gross ist deine Güte (BWV.462); Dich bet' ich an, mein höchster Gott (BWV.449); Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen (BWV.452); O liebe Seele, zieh' die Sinnen (BWV.494); Vergiss mein nicht, mein allerliester Gott (BWV.505); Ich halte treulich still und liebe meinen Gott (BWV.466)- 6 Chorales from the Schemelli Collection
Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Marco Fink (bass baritone), Domen Marincic (gamba), Dalibor Miklavcic (organ)
5:04 AM
Gregorc, Janez [b.1934]
Sans respirer, sans soupir
Slovene Brass Quintet
5:10 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Schicksalslied for chorus and orchestra (Op.54)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir, Marko Munih (conductor)
5:26 AM
Carniolus, Iacobus Gallus (1550-1591)
Missa super Adesto dolori meo a 5 (SQM III/9) - from the Selectiones quaedam missae (3rd volume)
Madrigal Quintett Brno, Roman Válek (leader)
5:48 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Estampes
Hinko Haas (piano)
6:02 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Wind Quintet (Op.43)
The Ariart Woodwind Quintet.
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b047bqv3)
Music in the Great War: Germany at War
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 Bach Before Seven.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b047bqy8)
Music in the Great War: Germany at War
with Sarah Walker and her guest, the music and literature scholar, Kate Kennedy.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Elgar: Piano Music, Ashley Wass, NAXOS. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
9:30 -
10:30 Including a selection of music from the time of World War One.
10:30
Sarah's guest this week is the consultant to the Radio 3 World War One programming, Kate Kennedy. Kate is a Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge, where she teaches in the English and Music Faculties. She has published numerous papers on music and literature around the First World War, and is currently working on a biography of the poet and composer Ivor Gurney, and co-editing The Silent Morning: Cultural Responses to the Armistice, 1918. She has also recently co-edited and contributed to a special edition of the Journal of First World War Studies, entitled The First World War: Music, Literature, Memory. She gives regular lectures in music festivals, pre-concert talks, contributes as a guest to programmes for Radio 3 and is a freelance baroque cellist.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b016vpxp)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Elgar and the Gramophone Company
By the end of the Great War, Sir Edward Elgar couldn't compose any music to celebrate peace, disillusioned as he was by the whole period, which Donald Macleod explores in conversation with Terry Charman from the Imperial War Museum.
The Great War dragged on, and by 1916 the government was forced to introduce compulsory national service. Elgar found himself touring the North of England and Scotland, with morale-raising concerts and music including To Women from The Spirit of England. But Elgar was unwell even before the war started, and war events combined with his exhausting work were dragging him down. His wife Alice refused to let Elgar accept the offer of a conducting tour of Russia, due to his ill health. He still managed though to keep working on a theme or two of his, such as his incomplete Piano Concerto, and a jingoistic work Fight for Right.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b047br1g)
Great Irish Houses
Episode 2
Sean Rafferty continues this week's series of Lunchtime Concerts recorded at the Great Music in Irish Houses Festival.
Michael Collins, Giovanni Guzzo & Michael McHale play Milhaud's Suite Op.157b for clarinet, violin and piano in a venue which stands in Dublin's Grand Canal - Waterways Ireland Visitor Centre. The music began life as incidental music for Jean Anouilh's play, "Le Voyageur sans Bagage" and after its success, Milhaud arranged this quasi baroque-style dance suite.
Cuarteto Casals then perform Brahms's String Quartet in C minor, Op 51 No.1, at the National Botanic Gardens in Glesnevin, Dublin. Brahms was always painstaking and self-critical. He was 40 before he published a single symphony or string quartet. In the case of the quartets, Brahms had made as many as twenty previous attempts before writing the two Opus 51 quartets in the summer of 1873.
Milhaud: Suite for clarinet, violin and piano Op.157b
Michael Collins (clarinet), Giovanni Guzzo (violin), Michael McHale (piano)
Brahms: String Quartet in C minor, Op 51 No.1
Cuarteto Casals.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b047br5v)
Music in the Great War
Germany at War
Part of Radio 3's WWI season, Music in the Great War.
Penny Gore explores some of the music written by German composers during the First World War. Contrasting works by Reger and Eisler are followed by Stephan's Music for Orchestra and an extract from Braunfels' luxuriously scored Te Deum. The afternoon is rounded off with a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnol.
Reger
Abschiedslied
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor)
2.03pm Eisler
Gegen den Krieg
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor)
2.17pm Stephan
Music for orchestra
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Oleg Caetani (conductor)
2.43pm Braunfels
Te deum (1st part)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gitta-Maria Sjoberg (soprano)
Lars-Erik Jonsson (tenor)
Manfred Honeck (conductor)
3.03pm Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio espagnol
BBC Philharmonic
Richard Farnes (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b047bskz)
Sheffield Cathedral
From Sheffield Cathedral.
Introit: O for a closer walk with God (Grayston Ives)
Responses: Matthew Martin
Psalm: 119 vv.73-104 (Gauntlett, Sidwell)
First Lesson: 2 Chronicles 34 vv.19-end
Canticles: Short Service (Orr)
Second Lesson: Romans 8 vv.1-11
Anthem: Hear my words, ye people (Parry)
Hymn: Holy Spirit, come, confirm us (All for Jesus)
Voluntary: Paean (Leighton)
Neil Taylor (Director of Music)
Joshua Hales (Assistant Director of Music).
First broadcast on 25 June 2014.
WED 16:30 In Tune (b047brb7)
Steuart Bedford, Robin Tritschler, Man Overboard, Douglas Boyd
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and chat, with live music and guests from the arts world. Performing live in the studio are swing band Man Overboard, and Radio 3 New Generation Artist Robin Tritschler, currently preparing for Britten's Turn of the Screw at Opera Holland Park. Sean also talks to the opera's conductor, Steuart Bedford, whose recording of Peter Grimes recently won a BBC Music Magazine award.
Plus, as part of Radio 3's two-week season Music in the Great War, writer, broadcaster and pianist David Owen Norris presents another in his series of personal musical stories from the war.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b016vpxp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b047bt3r)
Live from St Magnus Cathedral
BBC SSO - Ives, Ravel, Shostakovich (part 1)
Live from St Magnus Cathedral as part of the St Magnus International Festival, Orkney. Part of Radio 3's WWI season, Music in the Great War.
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
19.30
Ives - The Unanswered Question
Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin
20.00
Interval
20.20
Shostakovich - Symphony No 14
Joan Rodgers
Sergei Leiferkus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard
Completing its residency at the St Magnus International Festival in Orkney, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard, one of the world's most renowned conductors, directs the BBC SSO in what promises to be an intense and moving event. Ives' iconic and atmospheric work displaces the musicians around the cathedral to pose the "ultimate question of existence" whilst Ravel's dazzling orchestration of his earlier piano work conjures up memories of friends lost in battle in WWI. After the interval in this very apt setting, we hear Shostakovich's powerful, dark and haunting reflections on the subject of death. Soprano Joan Rodgers and Baritone Sergei Leiferkus bring the poetry to life in the music.
WED 20:00 Music in the Great War (b047bt3t)
Stalking the Hun
The Scottish gamekeeper, or ghillie, was obviously an asset to hunting down an elusive prey. They had unique experience of spotting tiny movements in the landscape. Lord Lovat formed his own regiment of Scouts during the Boer War. They wore elaborate camouflage and were described as 'half wolf and half jackrabbit.' But they really came to prominence during WW1.
Stalkers and 'glassmen' were advertised for in Scottish newspapers. Lovat succeeded in extending the age limit so he could recruit one man, Macpherson of Balavil, who was 62. The youngest was 42. They worked in pairs mainly as observers rather than snipers.
By the end of the war photographic reconnaissance replaced much of their scouting duties but their skills and mentality still exists in the SAS.
In 1918 Country Life reported that the war had a disastrous effect on the marksmanship of hunters which they put down to 'jumpiness' caused by the noise of shells. So the deer of Scotland may have been an unintended beneficiary of WW1.
WED 20:20 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b047bt3x)
Live from St Magnus Cathedral
BBC SSO - Ives, Ravel, Shostakovich (part 2)
Live from St Magnus Cathedral as part of the St Magnus International Festival, Orkney. Part of Radio 3's WWI season, Music in the Great War.
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
19.30
Ives - The Unanswered Question
Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin
20.00
Interval
20.20
Shostakovich - Symphony No 14
Joan Rodgers
Sergei Leiferkus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard
Completing its residency at the St Magnus International Festival in Orkney, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard, one of the world's most renowned conductors, directs the BBC SSO in what promises to be an intense and moving event. Ives' iconic and atmospheric work displaces the musicians around the cathedral to pose the "ultimate question of existence" whilst Ravel's dazzling orchestration of his earlier piano work conjures up memories of friends lost in battle in WWI. After the interval in this very apt setting, we hear Shostakovich's powerful, dark and haunting reflections on the subject of death. Soprano Joan Rodgers and Baritone Sergei Leiferkus bring the poetry to life in the music.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b047bs61)
Barbara Kruger, Laurie Penny, The Minds of Molecules
American artist Barbara Kruger is wrapping the upper gallery of Modern Art Oxford in one of her bold juxtapositions of images and captions which explore our attitudes to gender and identity.
Journalist Laurie Penny writes for the New Statesman, Vice, Salon and The Guardian on a range of issues including feminism and activism.
They join Samira Ahmed in the Free Thinking Studio.
Tying in with the commemoration of World War 1 on Radio 3 and Radio 4 we talk to author and cartoonist Posy Simmonds about the role of cartoonists responding to politics and international affairs as she unveils a commission from 14-18 NOW which will go on show at the Cartoon Museum and accompany '1914: Day by Day' on Radio 4.
And we have another column from one of Radio 3 and the AHRC''s 2014 New Generation Thinkers. Will Abberley from the University of Oxford reflects on the minds of molecules.
Laurie Penny's new book is Unspeakable Things: Sex Lies and Revolution
Barbara Kruger's work is on show at Modern Art Oxford June 28th - August 31st.
1914 Day by Day runs at The Cartoon Museum June 26th - October 19th.
Producer: Georgia Catt
Image: Barbara Kruger, (Untitled) Talk is Cheap, 1985
Courtesy Sprüth Magers Berlin London.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b047bs6w)
Minds at War: Series 1
Der Krieg
How great artists and thinkers responded to the First World War in individual works of art
Cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson reflects on Otto Dix's Der Krieg, a harrowing cycle of prints of wartime experience.
In 1924, six years after the end of hostiliies, the painter Otto Dix, who had been a machine-gunner in the German Army, produced his 51 Der Krieg prints. Gruesome, hallucinatory, and terribly frank, these postcards of conflict tell the soldier's ghastly tale.
Cartoonist Martin Rowson, whose own work is similarly direct and uncompromising, tells Dix's story, exposing what the War did to the man and ponders why Der Krieg remains such a powerful statement.
Producer: Benedict Warren.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b047bsh8)
Wednesday - Max Reinhardt
Tonight Max Reinhardt features part 2 of his encounter with Brazilian - American sound artist, producer and singer, Arto Lindsay. He's playing in the studio and sharing his musical tastes and revelationary perspectives with us. From the No Wave of the New York Downtown scene in the late 1970's, to his work with Carnivals and Blocos in Brazil today, Arto's tales, aphorisms and songs are a beguiling and inspirational listen. Plus music from veteran Thai rocker Yenjit Porntawi, new old time singer Willie Watson, a solo piece, Tabakova's Spinning a Yarn, from violin virtuoso Roman Mints , a brand new piece from Lithuanian firebrand, Arturas Bumsteinas and Radiohead's tribute to the late WW1 veteran Harry Patch.
THURSDAY 26 JUNE 2014
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b0477tr1)
Bulgarian National RSO play music by Fauré, Doppler, Sibelius and Debussy. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Fauré, Gabriel [1845-1924]
Pelléas et Mélisande - suite Op.80
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Gallois (conductor)
12:48 AM
Doppler, Franz [1821-1883]
Concerto in D minor for 2 flutes and orchestra
Patrick Gallois (flute), Yavor Zhelev (flute), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Gallois (director)
1:07 AM
Doppler, Franz [1821-1883]
Concerto in D minor for 2 flutes and orchestra - 3rd mvt cadenza
Patrick Gallois (flute), Yavor Zhelev (flute), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Gallois (director)
1:11 AM
Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957]
Pelléas et Mélisande - incidental music Op.46
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Gallois (conductor)
1:36 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
Ibéria
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Gallois (conductor)
1:57 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Quartet for strings No.2 (Op.13) in A minor
Johnston Quartet (UK) - Magnus Johnston (violin), Donald Grant (violin), Martin Saving (viola), Marie Bitlloch (cello)
2:31 AM
Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich (1732-1795)
Ino - solo cantata for soprano and orchestra
Barbara Schlick (soprano), Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)
3:01 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Concerto for piano and orchestra No.9 (K.271) in E flat major ('Jeunehomme')
Plamena Mangova (piano), Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)
3:33 AM
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787)
Symphony in D major (Op.10 No.5)
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)
3:42 AM
Tailleferre, Germaine (1892-1983)
Sonata for harp
Godelieve Schrama (harp)
3:53 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Impromptu in G flat major (Op.51)
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)
3:58 AM
Dekleva, Igor (b.1933)
The Wind is Singing
Ipavska Chamber Choir, Tomaz Pirnat (conductor)
4:05 AM
Albinoni, Tomaso [1671-1750]
Adagio in G minor (arr. for organ and trumpet)
Blagoj Angelovski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ)
4:12 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Two Lyric Pieces: Evening in the Mountains (Op.68 No.4); At the cradle (Op.68 No.5)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:21 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto VII in F major for four violins & basso continuo (RV.567) - from 'L'estro Armonico' (Op.3)
Paul Wright, Natsumi Wakamatsu, Sayuri Yamagata, Staas Swierstra (violins), Hidemi Suzuki (cello), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
4:31 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich [1804-1857]
Ruslan i Lyudmila (overture)
KBS Symphony Orchestra, Hubert Soudant (conductor)
4:37 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Scherzo for piano No.3 (Op.39) in C sharp minor
Simon Trpceski (piano)
4:45 AM
Stainov, Petko (1896-1977)
The Secret of the Struma River
Gusla Men's Choir, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
4:53 AM
Purcell, Henry [1659-1695]
Chacony a 4 for strings (Z.730) in G minor
Psophos Quartet (BBC New generation Artists 2005-07)
5:01 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Adagio and fugue for strings (K.546) in C minor
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
5:09 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
2 graduals for chorus
Danish National Radio Choir, Jesper Grove Jorgensen (conductor)
5:17 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Sonata in G major for flute, violin and continuo (BWV.1038)
Musica Petropolitana
5:24 AM
Matz, Rudolf (1901-1988)
Ballade for violin, cello & piano
Zagreb Piano Trio
5:32 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Fantasy for violin and orchestra (Op.131) in C major
Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
5:49 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
French suite no. 5 in G major BWV.816 for keyboard
Evgeni Koroliov (piano)
6:07 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Collegium Aureum.
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b047bqv5)
Music in the Great War: Britain at War - The Home Front
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 Bach Before Seven.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b047bqyb)
Music in the Great War: Britain at War - The Home Front
with Sarah Walker and her guest, the music and literature scholar, Kate Kennedy.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Elgar: Piano Music, Ashley Wass, NAXOS. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
9:30 -
10:30 Including a selection of music from the time of World War One.
10:30
Sarah's guest this week is the consultant to the Radio 3 World War One programming, Kate Kennedy. Kate is a Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge, where she teaches in the English and Music Faculties. She has published numerous papers on music and literature around the First World War, and is currently working on a biography of the poet and composer Ivor Gurney, and co-editing The Silent Morning: Cultural Responses to the Armistice, 1918. She has also recently co-edited and contributed to a special edition of the Journal of First World War Studies, entitled The First World War: Music, Literature, Memory. She gives regular lectures in music festivals, pre-concert talks, contributes as a guest to programmes for Radio 3 and is a freelance baroque cellist.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Bridge
A Prayer
BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)
CHANDOS.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b016vq3p)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Elgar and The Fringes of the Fleet
By the end of the Great War, Sir Edward Elgar couldn't compose any music to celebrate peace, disillusioned as he was by the whole period, which Donald Macleod explores in conversation with Terry Charman from the Imperial War Museum.
With no end in sight for the war, it continued on into 1917. This is when Elgar heard of the death of his friend and supporter Hans Richter, who had given the premiere of some of Elgar's best known works, including the Enigma Variations. Things however were starting to change in Britain, with a new government, and the introduction of convoys to protect cargo and hospital ships from the German u-boat campaign. But with the continued reports of atrocities on the front line, and increased deprivations at home, Elgar finally found the stimulus to finish his work The Spirit of England, with a setting of The Fourth of August. It wasn't only war music which Elgar concentrated on during this time, as he also composed his only ballet incorporating 18th century French costumes and classical mythology, in The Sanguine Fan.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b047br1j)
Great Irish Houses
Episode 3
Sean Rafferty continues this week's series of Lunchtime Concerts recorded at the Great Music in Irish Houses Festival. Today we visit the Waterways Ireland Visitor Centre on the waters of the Grand Canal Basin in Dublin and Kilruddy House in Co. Wicklow. Michael Collins and Michael McHale play the Debussy Première Rhapsodie, which shows off the clarinet's lyrical qualities. They are joined by violinist, Giovanni Guzzo for Stravinsky's Suite from "A Soldier's Tale" - the story of a soldier who deserts and then sells his soul to the devil in exchange for a book which will answer all his questions. Today's concert ends with Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 1, which he began writing in 1938 and completed after the war in 1946. The work occupies one of the darkest sonorities of all Prokofiev's work. He said that it was inspired by one of Handel's violin sonatas and the four-movement structure, slow-fast-slow-fast, follows the outline of a Baroque church sonata,
Debussy: Première Rhapsodie
Michael Collins (clarinet), Michael McHale, (piano)
Stravinsky: Suite from A Soldier's Tale
Michael Collins (clarinet), Giovanni Guzzo (violin), Michael McHale (piano)
Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op 80
Arabella Steinbacher (violin), Robert Kulek (piano)
First broadcast 26/06/2014.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b047br5x)
Music in the Great War
Britain at War - The Home Front
Part of Radio 3's WWI season, Music in the Great War.
Penny Gore returns to the home front in today's afternoon exploration of music connected with World War One; starting with the recording from English National Opera of Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera The Silver Tassie, based on Sean O'Casey's play about the First World War. It is followed by the first modern performance of Stanford's own orchestration of the 2nd and 3rd movements of his 2nd Organ Sonata, edited by Jeremy Dibble. The programme includes partsongs by Ernest Farrar who was killed after two days on the Western Front.
Turnage
The Silver Tassie
Opera in 4 Acts
Harry Heegan ..... Gerald Finley (baritone)
Sylvester Heegan ..... John Graham-Hall (tenor)
Mrs Heegan ..... Anne Howells (mezzo-soprano)
Susie Monican ..... Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Mrs Foran ..... Vivian Tierney (soprano)
Teddy Foran ..... David Kempster (baritone)
Barney Bagnal ..... Leslie John Flanagan (baritone)
Jessie Taite ..... Mary Hegarty (soprano)
Dr Maxwell ..... Mark Le Brocq (tenor)
The Croucher ..... Gwynne Howell (bass)
Staff officer ..... Bradley Daley (tenor)
Corporal ..... Jozef Koc (baritone)
Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera
Paul Daniel (conductor)
3.54pm Stanford
Verdun: Solemn March and Heroic Epilogue, Op.151
(an orchestration by Stanford of the 2nd and 3rd movements of his 2nd Organ Sonata, edited by Jeremy Dibble)
Ulster Orchestra
Howard Shelley (conductor)
4.10pm Farrar
To daffodils; Care, thou canker of our joys; There was a maid
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b047brb9)
Music in the Great War: Live from Dunham Massey
As part of the Radio 3's two-week season 'Music in the Great War' Sean Rafferty is live at Dunham Massey, Cheshire, in association with the National Trust.
Dunham Massey, near Altrincham in Cheshire, was transformed into the Stamford Military Hospital during WW1 and as part of the anniversary commemorations the National Trust have recreated one of the wartime hospital wards in the property.
In Tune reflects the story of the hospital in wartime through music and conversation. Guests include the pianist David Owen Norris who will perform a selection of music from the time, and Sean and his guests will consider the impact that music played then to boost morale, offer solace, and help recuperation.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b016vq3p)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b047bthm)
BBC Concert Orchestra - A Captive Audience
BBC Concert Orchestra - A Captive Audience.
Live from Watford Colosseum
Presented by Ian Skelly
As part of the BBC's World War One centenary season, the BBC Concert Orchestra looks at life through the lens of prisoners held in two wartime internment camps; one in London at Alexandra Palace and one in Germany at Ruhleben racecourse near Berlin.
Made up of men of fighting age who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, both camps formed orchestras. Together they put on concerts for their fellow captives, maintaining their sense of self and the spirit of their homelands. The orchestra performs a selection of music played and written in the camps whilst actor Alex Wyndham (The Crimson Field, BBC) reads letters and poetry to tell the real-life story of the prisoners.
Music from the Ruhleben Camp
Nicolai: Merry Wives of Windsor - overture
Bainton: Intermezzo & Humoresque for orchestra
Saint-Saens: Danse macabre
Benjamin Dale: Prunella - incidental music
Bryceson Treharne: The Aftermath
Sullivan: 'A Wandering Minstrel I' from The Mikado
Elgar: Serenade for strings
Music from Alexandra Palace Camp
Gounod: Faust - march
Wagner: Tannhäuser - overture
Bizet: 'Blumenlied' from Carmen
R Heuberger: 'Im Chambre séparée' from Der Opernball
J Strauss (son): Tales from the Vienna Woods
Anton Wuest: Alexandra Palace Ragtime Waltz
Joseph Shovelton, tenor
Alex Wyndham, reader
BBC Concert Orchestra
Johannes Wildner, conductor.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b047bs63)
Balancing Power in World War I and Now
Jonathan Powell and historians Margaret MacMillan, Orlando Figes and Adam Tooze explore the Great Powers with Anne McElvoy. The First World War shattered the power balance in Europe. As we confront an uncertain world order, who are the great powers today, how has their role changed and where do they now stand in determining geo-politics?
Professor Margaret MacMillan is the author of The War That Ended Peace.
Jonathan Powell was Chief of Staff for Tony Blair 1997-2007
Professor Adam Tooze is the author of The Deluge: The Great War and The Remaking of the Global Order.
Professor Orlando Figes is the author of numerous books on Russian history.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b047bs6y)
Minds at War: Series 1
The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science
How great artists and thinkers responded to the First World War in individual works of art.
Professor David Edgerton of King's College London reflects on the Memorandum on the Neglect of Science, a 1916 clarion-call from the British scientific establishment.
In a letter to The Times that year, many of the great names of British science declared their belief that both academic and applied science were being treated as Cinderella subjects. The Germans, they surmised, had got their act together and were outflanking the British military effort in chemical warfare, armaments and generally taking science more seriously.
They continued by observing that the entrance examinations for Oxford and Cambridge Universities and the civil service, were weighted towards the Classics rather than sciences. Was this the first stirrings CP Snow's Two Cultures debate?
David Edgerton, the Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology and Professor of Modern British History, at King's College London, finds out what was going on at the time and looks at how the First World War advanced British science.
Producer: Benedict Warren.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b047bshb)
Late Junction Sessions
Maya Youssef, Laura Moody, Ana Silvera
Max Reinhardt's soirée features our ultra intriguing June session featuring Maya Youssef, Laura Moody and Ana Silvera...Qanun, Cello and Voice. Plus a Congolese Likembe treasure, Kuomboka Dance, a track from Trembling Bells featuring Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, blues from Bob Copper, celestial west African saxophone from Dexter Johnson, Henry Jacobs' Sonata for Loud speakers and Song of the Foundling by Alabaster DePlume as produced by Paddy Steer.
FRIDAY 27 JUNE 2014
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b0477tr3)
Arvo Pärt's Lamentate for piano and orchestra and Shostakovich Symphony no 11, presented by John Shea.
12:31 AM
Pärt, Arvo [1935-]
Lamentate for piano and orchestra, Homage to Anish Kapoor and his sculpture 'Marsyas' (2002) (Bulgarian Premiere)
Mario Angelov (piano), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Emil Tabakov (conductor)
1:06 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitri [1906-1975]
Symphony no 11 in G minor, op. 103 ('The Year 1905')
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Emil Tabakov (conductor)
2:05 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Stabat mater for 10 voices, organ & basso continuo in C minor
Danish National Radio Chorus, Søren Christian Vestergaard (organ), Bo Holten (conductor)
2:31 AM
Wirén, Dag (1905-1986)
Serenade for Strings (Op.11)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Niklas Willén (conductor)
2:46 AM
Rachmaninov, Serge (1873-1943)
Suite No.2 (Op.17) for 2 pianos
Ouellet-Murray Duo: Claire Ouellet & Sandra Murray (pianos)
3:11 AM
Mondonville, Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de [1711-1772]
Grand Motet 'Dominus regnavit'
Ann Monoyios (soprano), Matthew White (counter tenor), Colin Ainsworth (tenor), Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
3:36 AM
Nardelli, Mario (1927-1993)
Three pieces for guitar
Mario Nardelli (guitar)
3:46 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Overture (D.590) in D major "In the Italian Style"
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Paul McCreesh (conductor)
3:54 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
3 Songs for chorus (Op.42) (Abendständchen; Vineta; Darthulas Grabesgesang)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
4:05 AM
Wieniawski, Henryk (1835-1880)
Polonaise in A major for violin & piano (Op.21)
Piotr Plawner (violin), Andrzej Guz (piano)
4:14 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Motet: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (BWV.225)
The Sixteen, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra (Barockformation), Ton Koopman (conductor)
4:31 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in D minor (Op.3 No.11) from 'L'Estro Armonico'
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
4:40 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Ballade no.1 in G minor (Op.23)
Valerie Tryon (piano)
4:50 AM
Cavalli, Francesco (1602-1676)
Lauda Jerusalem (Psalm 147) ? for 2 choirs (concert & ripieno) & instruments
Concerto Palatino
5:00 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Four Minuets for orchestra (K.601) ? No.1 in A major; No.2 in C major; No.3 in G major; No.4 in D major
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
5:11 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856] text Ulrich, Titus [1813-1891] text Möricke, Eduard [1804-1875] text Heyse, Paul [1830-1914] M?ller von Königswinter, Wolfgang [1816-1873] text Kinkel, Johann Gottfried [1815-1882]
6 Songs (Op.107)
Jan Van Elsacker (tenor), Claire Chevallier (fortepiano)
5:22 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
Sonata in D minor for cello and piano
Henrik Brendstrup (cello), Tor Espen Aspaas (piano)
5:34 AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
South Ostrobothnian Suite No.2 (Op.20)
Radion Sinfoniaorkesteri (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra); Jorma Panula (Conductor)
5:58 AM
Henderson, Ruth Watson (b. 1932)
Missa Brevis
Elmer Iseler Singers, Elmer Iseler (conductor)
6:11 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emmanuel (1714-1788)
Quartet no.3 in G major (Wq.95/H.539)
Les Adieux.
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b047bqv7)
Music in the Great War: Austria-Hungary at War
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 Bach Before Seven.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b047bqyd)
Music in the Great War: Austria-Hungary at War
with Sarah Walker and her guest, the music and literature scholar, Kate Kennedy.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Elgar: Piano Music, Ashley Wass, NAXOS. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
9:30 -
10:30 Including a selection of music from the time of World War One.
10:30
Sarah's guest this week is the consultant to the Radio 3 World War One programming, Kate Kennedy. Kate is a Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge, where she teaches in the English and Music Faculties. She has published numerous papers on music and literature around the First World War, and is currently working on a biography of the poet and composer Ivor Gurney, and co-editing The Silent Morning: Cultural Responses to the Armistice, 1918. She has also recently co-edited and contributed to a special edition of the Journal of First World War Studies, entitled The First World War: Music, Literature, Memory. She gives regular lectures in music festivals, pre-concert talks, contributes as a guest to programmes for Radio 3 and is a freelance baroque cellist.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Beethoven
Symphony No.3 'Eroica'
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor)
DECCA.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b016vq5y)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Armistice Declared, But No Celebration for Elgar
By the end of the Great War, Sir Edward Elgar couldn't compose any music to celebrate peace, disillusioned as he was by the whole period, which Donald Macleod explores in conversation with Terry Charman from the Imperial War Museum.
By 1918, Elgar had stomach problems and was continually unwell, finally being operated on to remove his tonsils. Compared to what hundreds of thousands were enduring in the trench warfare of the first world war, this was no great thing, but Elgar was 61 and not in great shape. Once installed with his wife in a rustic thatched cottage in West Sussex to recuperate, his creativity started to flow again, in particular sketching out a germ of a theme on his piano entitled "?", which would later become part of his Cello Concerto. There were also more rustic pursuits, including gardening and fishing, but then came an official request from the Ministry of Food for a new war work, Big Steamers. When the Armistice was signed, with his Land of Hope and Glory proving ever popular, Elgar did not feel inclined to compose any work in celebration of peace. Many of his friends had died, and his life was dramatically changed for ever.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b047br1l)
Great Irish Houses
Episode 4
Sean Rafferty brings this week's series of Lunchtime Concerts recorded at the Great Music in Irish Houses Festival to a close with visits to Dublin City Gallery, Ireland's National Botanic Gardens, and Waterways Ireland Visitor Centre which is situated on the waters of the Grand Canal Basin in Dublin. Michael Collins and Michael McHale begin with Arnold Bax's Clarinet Sonata of 1934. Bax dedicated it to Hugh Prew, an amateur clarinettist who was a fellow-cricketer in his brother Clifford Bax's 'Old Broughtonians' cricket team. Cuarteto Casals play Ligeti's First Quartet, subtitled Métamorphoses nocturnes, which is indebted to Bartók for its folk-infused passages. Bartók composed his striking Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano, for the eminent Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti, famed clarinettist Benny Goodman and himself - Bartók was a fine pianist. All three performers must have enjoyed the convergence of musical styles - jazz and classical - and the variety moods and tempos. Today's Lunchtime Concert closes with a performance by Michael Collins (clarinet), Giovanni Guzzo (violin) and Michael McHale (piano).
Bax: Sonata for Clarinet in D major
Michael Collins (clarinet) Michael McHale, piano
Ligeti: String Quartet, (Metamorphoses nocturnes)
Cuarteto Casals
Bartók: Contrasts
Michael Collins (clarinet) Giovanni Guzzo (violin) Michael McHale (piano)
First broadcast 27/06/2014.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b047br5z)
Music in the Great War
Episode 5
Penny Gore finishes this weeks' look at composers associated with World War One with piano music by Schulhoff, an orchestral song by Lehar and a string quartet by Kodaly. The afternoon also features a concert given by the BBC Philharmonic with music by Mozart, Finzi and Mendelssohn.
Schulhoff
5 Grotesques
Margarete Babinsky (piano)
2.21pm Lehar
Fieber
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Robin Tritschler (tenor)
David Parry (conductor)
2.35pm Kodaly
String Quartet no.2
Kodaly Quartet
2.55pm Mozart
Violin Concerto no. 5 in A major K.219
Elena Urioste (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Philippe Bach (conductor)
3.24pm Finzi
Dies natalis Op.8
Robin Tritschler (tenor)
BBC Philharmonic
Philippe Bach (conductor)
3.54pm Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto no. 1 in G minor
Zhang Zuo (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Philippe Bach (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b047brbc)
Steven Osborne, New York Polyphony, Iain Burnside, Stephanie Cole
Sean Rafferty guests include pianist Steven Osborne. He'll be performing live in the studio and talking about his upcoming appearance with the London Symphony Orchestra performing Messian's titanic Turungalila Symphony.
Also, Iain Burnside on his new play on the life of Ivor Gurney. Actor Stephanie Cole reads a Gurney poem.
There's live music from New York Polyphony.
Plus, as part of Radio 3's two-week season Music in the Great War, writer, broadcaster and pianist David Owen Norris presents another in his series of personal stories around music and musicians from the war.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
FRI 18:00 Composer of the Week (b016vq5y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:00 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b047bv1q)
BBC NOW at the Gregynog Festival
Jac van Steen conducts BBC NOW in a commemoration of two world wars, exploring the plight of Belgian refugees in Wales. Part of Radio 3's WWI season, Music in the Great War.
Live from Aberystwyth Arts Centre as part of the Gregynog Festival.
Presented by Sian Pari Huws.
Butterworth: A Shropshire lad - rhapsody for orchestra
David van der Woestijne: Symphony
Jongen: Harp Concerto
8.00 pm Interval music:
Franck: Pièce héroïque
Elgar: Le drapeau belge
Sian Pari Huws talks to the Director of the Gregynog Festival, Rhian Davies, about the links between Belgium and Mid Wales in the First World War.
8.25 pm:
Morfydd Owen: Morfa Rhuddlan
Kelly: Elegy for strings: "in memoriam Rupert Brooke"
Ian Parrott: Luxor
George Butterworth was one of many young composers whose careers were tragically cut short by the Great War. His rhapsody explores the world of A.E Housmann's poem "A Shropshire lad", a reflection on the senselessness of the Boer War. It's regarded as a minature masterpiece, perfectly encapsulating the futility of war filtered through his love of English folksong. When war broke out in 1914, a million Belgians fled their country with some 100,000 coming to Britain. Among them was organist and composer Joseph Jongen, who made a new home in Bournemouth - though he took his summer holidays in North Wales. The Cello Concerto displays his melodic charm whilst embracing the eloquence of Wagner and the delicacy of Debussy. David van der Woestijne was born in 1915, to refugee Belgian parents at the Lion Hotel in Llandinam, Powys, and went on to become a leading Belgian composer. Like Butterworth, Morfydd Owen was also deeply influenced by folk music she found around her. The Welsh tune Morfa Rhuddlan commemmorates a savage battle between the Welsh and the Saxons in the eighth century.
In 1914, the Autralian composer Frederick Kelly joined the Royal Navy alongside the poet Rupert Brooke. Together they sailed for Gallipoli but Brooke died on route, and Kelly was one of the party who buried him on the Greek island of Skyros in 1915. Kelly was moved to write an elegy to his friend as a tender lasting memorial. The following year he was killed in the last days of the Battle of the Somme.
Ian Parrot was Gregynog Professor of Music at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1949-83), and second Artistic Director of the Gregynog Festival (1956-61). His time in the Royal Signals Corps took him to Egypt, and the experience there influenced his early compositions. Whilst in Cairo he even found time to write a complete opera, "The Sergeant-Major's Daughter", but it was his symphonic impression of the temple of Luxor, which earned him greatest success, winning first prize from the Royal Philharmonic Society in 1949.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b047bs65)
Julian Cope, Maggie Gee, Ruth Keggin, The High Wood
Ian McMillan's guests on the 'Cabaret of the word' include the singer Julian Cope on his debut novel, '131', Maggie Gee on Virginia Woolf and singer Ruth Keggin on reinvigorating Manx Gaelic through music. The dramatist Iain Findlay Macleod presents the next in our series of short dramas about WWI, 'The High Wood'.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b047bs70)
Minds at War: Series 1
Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
How great artists and thinkers responded to the First World War in individual works of art, literature and scholarship
5.Michal Shapira on Sigmund Freud's Thoughts for the Times on War and Death, a text written in Vienna in 1915, expressing his dismay as the war progressed.
The declaration of war in 1914 was initially met with jubilation by the people of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and, in Vienna, Sigmund Freud shared the general mood
But, like his fellow-citizens, Freud expected a quick war. By February 1915, with two of his sons fighting and thousands of injured and traumatised soldiers returning from the front, Freud's feelings had changed.
Dr Michal Shapira reflects on his Thoughts for the Times on War and Death and considers how it prefigures some of his later, better-known works on war and the death-drive.
Dr Michal Shapira is a senior lecturer of history and gender studies at Tel Aviv University
Producer : Beaty Rubens.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b047bshd)
Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin, Commonwealth Connections Part 21
Lopa Kothari with our series Commonwealth Connections, exploring the music of Singapore and Tuvalu, plus Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin live in session.
Commonwealth Connections - Feature: Singapore
Singapore is home to a very senior group of 'waijiang' musicians originating from Chaozhou in southern China. Their waijiang style of playing was popular in pre-cultural revolutionary China but is now extinct on the mainland. Yet in their small shop house in the Geylang neighbourhood these senior gentlemen still take pride in performing pieces such as 'Little Peach Red' and 'Pipa verse'. Not far away in Chinatown a group of young students from the Siong Leng Musical Association practice Nanyin or 'southern pipes music' - the traditional wooden flute and voice reminisce wistfully of home.
Commonwealth Connections - Heritage Feature
Formerly known as the Ellice Islands, Tuvalu is a Pacific island nation situated between Hawaii and Australia. Its population of just 11,200 means it the third-least populous sovereign state in the world, and in terms of land mass at ten square miles it's the fourth-smallest country in the world. If you stand in the middle of the main island you can see the Pacific Ocean in every direction. Tuvalu first took part in the Commonwealth Games in 1998 and since then has steadily increased its participation. But Tuvalu weightlifter Lapua Lapua isn't just an Olympian - he's a bit of a singer and guitarist too, and gave us a taste of the Pacific. The song is "Toku nukupele funafuti" by Tamaika Kofe.
Session: Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin
Phillip Henry, one of the UK's top slide guitar player and master of the Dobro, and Hannah Martin, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, join us live in the studio for an exclusive session before they rush off to Glastonbury.