SUNDAY 06 JULY 2014

SUN 00:00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz (b01kjtvy)
Jelly Roll Morton

Geoffrey Smith considers one of the godfathers of jazz, the flamboyant Creole genius, Jelly Roll Morton. Recordings include piano solos, classics by his Red Hot Peppers, and modern tributes from the likes of Gil Evans and Charles Mingus.


SUN 01:00 Through the Night (b048bgt4)
Vasily Petrenko conducts the Radio France Philharmonic and violinist Sergei Krylov, in a programme of Bartok and Sibelius. Catriona Young presents.

1:01 AM
Bartók, Béla [1881-1945]
Violin Concerto no. 2 Sz.112
Sergei Krylov (violin), Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

1:41 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750], arr. Fox-Lefriche, Bruce
Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV.565 for solo violin
Sergei Krylov (violin)

1:50 AM
Paganini, Nicolo [1782-1840]
Caprice no.24 in A minor (Theme and Variations) for solo violin (Op.1 No.24)
Sergei Krylov (violin)

1:55 AM
Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957]
Symphony no. 1 in E minor Op.39
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

2:34 AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
Orjan poika (The Son of the Slave) ? symphonic legend for soprano, baritone, mixed choir and orchestra (Op.14)
Suomen Laula Choir, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jussi Jalas (conductor)

3:01 AM
Marais, Marin (1656-1728)
Suite No.2 for two viols in G major from 'Pièces à une et deux violes, Paris, 1686'
Violes Esgales: Susie Napper and Margaret Little (viols)

3:40 AM
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)
Suite - Le Roi Danse
Ars Barocca

3:59 AM
Field, John [1782-1837]
1. Aria; 2. Nocturne & Chanson
Barry Douglas (piano & director), Camerata Ireland

4:07 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857)
Kamarinskaya (fantasy for orchestra)
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)

4:14 AM
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915)
Sonata No.4 in F sharp minor (Op.30)
Sergei Terentjev (piano)

4:22 AM
Warlock, Peter (1894-1930)
Serenade (to Frederick Delius on his 60th birthday) for string orchestra
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)

4:30 AM
Dowland, John (1563-1626)
King of Denmark's Galliard
Nigel North (lute)

4:32 AM
Dowland, John (1563-1626)
The Lady Cliftons spirit for lute (P.45)
Nigel North (lute)

4:35 AM
Franck, César (1822-1890)
Offertoire in G major
Joris Verdin on the grand orgue Cavaillé-Coll in the Cathédrale de St Brieuc

4:42 AM
Duparc, Henri (1848-1933) [text: François Coppée 1842-1908]
La Vague et la cloche ? for voice and piano
Gerald Finley (baritone), Stephen Ralls (piano)

4:48 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), arr.unknown
Pilgrims Chorus from 'Tannhäuser' (arr. for organ)
David Drury (William Hill and Son organ of Sydney town Hall, Australia)

4:54 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Sérénade d'hiver (Henri Cazalis)
Lamentabile Consort: Jan Stromberg & Gunnar Andersson (tenors), Bertil Marcusson (baritone), Olle Sköld (bass)

5:01 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975)
Festive Overture (Op.96)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)

5:07 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Adagietto from Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Willem Mengelberg (conductor)

5:15 AM
Tippett, Michael (1905-1998)
Five Spirituals from 'A Child of our Time' for chorus
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

5:27 AM
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934) ed. Eric Fenby
La Calinda ? concert version for orchestra from 'Koanga'
BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

5:31 AM
Harrison, Lou (1917-2003)
Harp Suite (1952-1977)
David Tanenbaum (guitar), William Winant (tuned water bowls, finger cymbals and sistra), Scott Evans (tuned water bowls and drums), Joel Davel (drums)

5:47 AM
Raychev, Alexander [1922-2003]
Sonata-Poem for violin and symphony orchestra
Boyan Lechev (violin), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)

6:07 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943)
Sonata No.2 in B flat Minor (Op.36)
Aldo Ciccolini (piano)

6:26 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
Hill-Song No.1
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon (conductor)

6:40 AM
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915)
Le Poème de l'extase for orchestra (Op. 54)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Antál Doráti (conductor).


SUN 07:00 Breakfast (b048bgt6)
Sunday - Music in the Great War

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, including music from World War I and the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers and amateur music-making groups.

Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.


SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (b048bgt8)
James Jolly continues Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance series with March no 2 and plays some favourite operatic arias.


SUN 12:00 Private Passions (b03nc688)
Music in the Great War: Pat Barker

Writer Pat Barker is fascinated by the First World War; for twenty years now, her award-winning novels have returned again and again to the trauma and grief and erotic intensity of wartime. Her novels draw on the experiences of real people: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and in particular the army doctor W.H. Rivers, a pioneering psychiatrist who treated victims of shell shock. As this centenary year opens, with all its commemorations of the First World War, Pat Barker talks about why and how we should remember War - and about the power of fiction to tell historical truth.

She reveals that her fascination with war began as a child; she was brought up by her grandparents, and her grandfather had a bayonet wound which she saw every time he washed at the kitchen sink. 'Through my grandfather and my stepfather, I have a direct link through to the world before the war - for me it's not simply reading history.' Pat Barker herself was a war baby - born in 1943 after her mother, a Wren, had a one-night stand with a man in the RAF. She never traced her father, and that central mystery in her life, 'half my identity missing', was part of what drove her to write. She talks about the stigma her mother faced as an unmarried mother, and in a moving section of the interview she wishes she could speak to her mother now to tell her 'It doesn't matter'.

Pat Barker's music choices include her grandfather's favourite music hall song - his party piece as a boy in the 1890s; Anton Lesser reading two poems by Wilfred Owen, and Benjamin Britten's setting of Wilfred Owen in his 'Nocturne'; Butterworth's 'The Banks of Green Willow'; original cast recordings from Joan Littlewood's 'Oh What a Lovely War'; and Elgar's Cello Concerto, in the famous recording by Jacqueline du Pré.

First broadcast 05/01/2014.


SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b047zkqn)
Wigmore Hall: Kopelman Quartet

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, the Kopelman String Quartet play Shostakovich's intense Fourth Quartet, composed in 1949 but kept back until after Stalin's death four years later, and Prokofiev's Second Quartet of 1941, based on themes from the Karbadin folk tradition

Kopelman String Quartet

Prokofiev: String Quartet No 2 in F, Op 92
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 4 in D, Op 83.


SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (b048bh2r)
CPE Bach in Berlin

Piers Adams continues to celebrate CPE Bach's 300th anniversary year with a visit to Berlin's Charlottenburg Palace, where Emanuel Bach arrived as an optimistic 26 year old to join the court of Prussia's flute-playing King Frederick the Great.

In a guided tour though the palace we hear how Emanuel Bach's adventurous musical style was not to the King's conservative tastes, and so he spent much of the next 28 years trying to leave the court - but not before he had established himself as Europe's most famous keyboard player and teacher. Emanuel also found a valuable friend in Frederick's sister Anna Amalia, herself an accomplished musician and also something of a court outcast, having secretly married and become pregnant against the King's wishes. We hear movements from CPE Bach's String Symphonies and from his Prussian Sonatas, from new recordings issued to celebrate the anniversary.


SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (b047zwwt)
Liverpool Cathedral

From Liverpool Cathedral

Introit: Jubilate Deo (Gabrieli)
Responses: Rose
Psalms: 12, 13, 14 (Wilton; Day; Stanford)
First Lesson: Isaiah 35
Canticles: Howells in G
Second Lesson: Hebrews 10 v35 - 11 v1
Anthem: Coronation Te Deum (Walton)
Organ Voluntary: Fanfare (Whitlock)

David Poulter (Director of Music)
Daniel Bishop (Associate Organist).


SUN 16:00 Choir and Organ (b048bh2t)
WWI Choral Commemorations, Berio's Sinfonia

Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the latest in the choral world, including music by Howard Skempton, Hildegard of Bingen and the Norfolk Jubilee Quartet. Sara is joined by Paul Spicer to talk about some of the choral events commemorating the centenary of WW1, including his own Unfinished Remembering, commissioned by the Birmingham Bach Choir. We'll join composer Torsten Rasch in rehearsal for the premiere of A Foreign Field at the Three Choirs Festival. And today's Choral Interviewee is celebrated Welsh mezzo-soprano Della Jones.

In our regular Meet My Choir feature at 4.30pm we spotlight the Lucy Cavendish Singers, and at 5pm Sara's Choral Classic is Berio's Sinfonia.

To get in touch with the programme, email thechoir@bbc.co.uk or send a tweet to @bbcradio3.


SUN 17:30 Words and Music (b048bh2w)
Aftermath

From shellshock to women's suffrage, homecomings to war memorials, the League of Nations to Spanish flu, a sequence of poems, prose and music reflecting a world changed by war. James Wilby and Helen Baxendale read poems by Sassoon, Whitman and Gurney and excerpts from Pat Barker, Woodrow Wilson and contemporary documents, while the music includes works by Elgar, Ravel and Tippett.


SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (b048rqqb)
World War One: Cradle of Jazz

In 1917, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band made what are generally regarded as the first jazz records. But where did this music come from? What changes were going on during the period of World War One that prompted the musical and social changes that led to the jazz age of the roaring twenties? Alyn Shipton sets out to chart the evolution of jazz from ragtime at a time when few recordings exist to document the emergence of this new musical form.

His journey takes him across America on the TOBA circuit of African-American Theatres, where vaudeville acts and blues singers pioneered musical change, and to Britain and France, where black entertainers offered light relief to those in the grip of the war. We hear from Alyn's historical Radio 3 interviews with big band pioneer Jesse Stone, who formed his first band in 1918, and trumpeter Doc Cheatham, who served his apprenticeship on the wartime theatre circuit, as well as archive interviews with Jelly Roll Morton and Willie "The Lion" Smith.

There's music from Scott Joplin, James P Johnson, James Reese Europe, and Ma Rainey, plus European recordings by Dan Kildare and Gordon Stretton among others. Alyn also talks to music historians Paul Oliver, James Lincoln Collier and Howard Rye to find out whether the war itself was the catalyst for musical change.


SUN 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b048bh30)
Shaw's Corner

Live from St Lawrence's Church, Shaw's Corner

Music from two generations of British composers affected by the First World War, at the church at Shaw's Corner, the former home of George Bernard Shaw, now run by the National Trust. Tenor Benjamin Hulett performs settings of AE Housman poems with the pianist Christopher Glynn, Radio 3 New Generation Artists Elena Urioste and Zhang Zuo perform Elgar's Violin Sonata, and Elena Urioste and Benjamin Hulett join together for two folksongs arranged for voice and violin by Ivor Gurney.

Somervell: Loveliest of Trees; Butterworth: When I was One and Twenty;
Somervell: There Pass the Careless People; Moeran: Oh Fair Enough are Sky and Plain;
Butterworth: Think no more Lads; Ireland: The Encounter (The Street Sounds to the Soldier's tread);
Moeran: The Lads in their Hundreds

FS Kelly: Violin sonata (Finale)
Gurney: 2 Folks songs for voice and violin
Gurney: Salley Gardens; An Epitaph;
Black Stitchel; Severn Meadows

8.10pm: Interval: National Trust curator Lizzie Dunford describes George Bernard Shaw's musical connections and his ambivalence to WW1.

8:30pm: Part Two
Butterworth: On the Idle Hill Of Summer; Gurney: Is my Team Ploughing;
Moeran: Far in a Western Brookland; Somervell: White in the Moon;
Moeran: Say Lad, Have you things to do?; Somervell: Into My heart an air that Kills;
Ireland: Epilogue

Elgar: Violin Sonata

Presented by Ian Skelly.


SUN 22:00 Drama on 3 (b048bh41)
Life in the Tomb

A masterwork of Greek fiction, Life in the Tomb provides a different perspective on the anniversary of the Great War. This new dramatisation from leading playwright April De Angelis in her first radio dramatisation features an original score by award winning composer Errollyn Wallen.

Originally published as extracts in a national Greek newspaper, the book takes the form of a series of letters from a young soldier back to his girlfriend in Lesvos, as his platoon moves deeper into trench warfare. Myrivilis based the book on his own experience of fighting on the Macedonian front. The book is so honest about how appalling conditions were and how badly the army was managed that it was banned on publication.

Stratis Myrivilis's book brilliantly captures a complex Southern European view of World War I. Our narrator meets a wide range of nationalities on his journey to the trenches. The incidents he describes are rich and often unexpected - the Macedonian family who care for him when wounded, the enemy soldier with the voice of an angel and the Chinese cart driver who helps him when lost. The narrator is moving, unwittingly, towards his own death, a tragic accident in the last days of the conflict.

Stratis Myrivilis was a prolific author, nominated by the Greek society of authors for the Nobel Prize in 1960.

April De Angelis is a leading playwright. She has been produced by the Royal Court, the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and Hampstead Theatre. Recent productions include Playhouse Creatures at Chichester and Jumpy at The Duke of Yorks.

Errollyn Wallen is an award-winning composer and singer, whose work has been commissioned by the BBC, Brodsky Quartet and Royal Opera House amongst many others.

Overflow and notes:

Bouzouki and guitar player, Grant McFarlane Dowse
Violinist, Chris Elcombe
With thanks to Miranda Hinkley
Sound design, Eloise Whitmore
BA, Lucy Duffield
Executive producer, Joby Waldman

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 3
First broadcast 06/07/2014.


SUN 23:35 Music in the Great War (b048bh43)
After sustaining an injury on the Eastern Front during the First World War, the Austrian concert pianist Paul Wittgenstein subsequently re-learned to play the piano with his left hand alone. He commissioned a number of new works, including these pieces by Korngold and Hindemith, as well as the more famous concerto by Ravel.

Korngold: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Howard Shelley (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
conductor Matthias Bamert

Hindemith: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand Op.29
Leon Fleisher (piano)
Symphony Orchestra of the Curtis Institute
conductor Christoph Eschenbach.