A rare performance of Mozart's early oratorio La Betulia liberata, presented by Jonathan Swain. Performed by soloists with the Wroclaw Baroque Choir and B'Rock.
Roberta Invernizzi (Amital, soprano), Silvia Frigato (Cabri, soprano), Loriana Castellano (Carmi, mezzo-soprano), Sonia Prina (Giuditta, contralto), Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (Ozia, tenor), Gianluca Buratto (Achior, bass), Wroclaw Philharmonic Chorus, B'Rock (Belgian Baroque Orchestra, Ghent), Corrado Rovaris (conductor)
Arnold, Malcolm (1921-2006) arr. John Wallace
Cappella Artemisia, Maria Christina Cleary (harp), Francesca Torelli (theorbo), Bettini Hoffmann (gamba), Miranda Aureli (organ), Candace Smith (director)
Peter Sivanic (horn), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Mário Kosík (conductor)
Mark Dubois (tenor), Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Rotterdam Philharmonic, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
Catherine Robbin (mezzo soprano); Nora Shulman (flute); André Laplante (piano.
Clemency Burton-Hill 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: Fauré: The Complete Music for Piano - Kathryn Stott, HYPERION. We also have our daily brainteaser at
Sarah's guest this week is the architectural historian and Chief Executive of English Heritage, Simon Thurley. Whilst working on his PhD, Simon took up a post as Inspector of Ancient Monuments for English Heritage, later becoming Curator of Historic Royal Palaces and then director of the Museum of London. He is a prolific history broadcaster, presenting television programmes such as Flying Through Time and Lost Buildings of Britain, as well as appearing on Time Team. Recent publications include Somerset House: The Palace of England's Queens 1551-1692, and Men from the Ministry: How Britain saved its Heritage. Simon's relative youth at taking the post of Chief Executive of English Heritage led him to be dubbed a "boy wonder", and he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to conservation.
He was a favourite of the Austrian Emperor and the King of Prussia, and performed in quartets with Mozart and Haydn, this week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.
Dittersdorf found himself with a new employer, the Director of the Court Theatre in Vienna, Count Durazzo. At the Burgtheater, Dittersdorf would take part in performances of his own violin concertos, and there would be performances of his other concertos, such as his Flute Concerto in E minor. Dittersdorf was now becoming very popular as a violin virtuoso and composer. Durazzo gave him time off so that he could go on a tour of Italy with fellow composer, Gluck. Whilst in Italy, Dittersdorf gave a number of performances, and was presented with gifts, including chocolate and a gold watch.
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Aldeburgh Festival, and include performances by pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Tamara Stefanovich and Nenad Lecic, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe Soloists. Today's selection includes one of Bach's French Suites for harpsichord alongside Mendelssohn's tour-de-force string octet.
Penny Gore presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performing Busoni as both arranger & composer and Tchaikovsky's mighty Pathetique Symphony. Presented by Penny Gore.
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6 in B minor Op.74 (Pathetique)
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music and chat. Guests include music the Symphonic Brass of London directed by Eric Crees, performing live in the studio.
Rising jazz star singer-songwriter Juliet Kelly performs live with accompaniment from piano and bass, and composer Errollyn Wallen joins Sean to talk about her new operas, 'Anon', 'Cautionary Tales' and 'Cakehead'.
Tonight’s Opera on 3 was originally scheduled to feature the soprano Karita Mattila in the planned ROH production in April of Janacek's Jenufa. That production was cancelled with the current closure of the Opera House but this repeat broadcast is an opportunity to hear Karita Mattila in another opera, Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos.
Karita Mattila stars as the prima donna who appears later as Ariadne and Roberto Sacca is the tenor, later Bacchus, in this often funny work which once again sets a libretto by Strauss's greatest collaborator, the librettist Hugo von Hoffmansthal. The work was originally intended as a short divertissement to be performed after Hoffmansthal's version of Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme which itself had incidental music by Strauss. However, it soon became clear that in this version the work wouldn't be performed often due to the expense. So it was revised as an opera in a prologue and one act, albeit with a small orchestra and with another of Strauss's great soprano roles.
Presented by Ivan Hewitt, and was first broadcast in July 2014 as part of the Richard Strauss 150 celebration.
Ariadne / The Prima Donna ..... Karita Mattila (Soprano)
Bacchus / The Tenor ..... Roberto Sacca (Tenor)
Zerbinetta ..... Jane Archibald (Soprano)
The Composer ..... Ruxandra Donose (Mezzo-soprano)
Harlequin ..... Markus Werba (Baritone)
Music Master ..... Thomas Allen (Baritone)
Dancing Master ..... Ed Lyon (Tenor)
Wig Maker ..... Ashley Riches (Baritone)
Lackey ..... Jihoon Kim (Bass Baritone)
Scaramuccio ..... Wynne Evans (Tenor)
Brighella ..... Paul Schweinester (Tenor)
Truffaldino ..... Jeremy White (Bass)
Officer ..... David Butt Philip (Baritone)
Naiad ..... Sofia Fomina (Soprano)
Dryad ..... Karen Cargill (Mezzo-soprano)
Echo ..... Kiandra Howarth (Soprano)
Major Domo ..... Christopher Quest (Speaker)
Billy Kahora is one of the writers nominated for this year's Caine Prize for African writing and has come to London to take part in the festival of literature organised by the Royal African Society. He joins Philip Dodd to reflect on the way artists in Kenya respond to the political and religious unrest in the country and to debate changes in Kenyan writing.
Africa Writes 2014 marks 25 years since the English translation of the novel Matigari by Ngugi wa Thiong'o. He spoke to Philip Dodd when he published his childhood memoir Dreams in a Time of War.
Billy Kahora's story The Gorilla's Apprentice is published and online at Granta Magazine.
With Scotland and all things Scottish very much in the air, acclaimed writer, comedian and now ex-pat, AL Kennedy, reflects on what Scottishness means to her in this series of The Essay. Today: morality and misery - is dourness necessarily such a bad thing?
THURSDAY 17 JULY 2014
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b0495qdx)
Bassoonist Diego Chenna performs works with the Swiss Italian Radio Orchestra. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Honegger, Arthur [1892-1955]
Pastorale d'été
Swiss Italian Radio Orchestra, John Axelrod (conductor)
12:40 AM
Mercadante, Xavier [1795-1870] arr. Joseph Astor
Bassoon Concerto - memories from the "Prodigal Son"
Diego Chenna (bassoon), Swiss Italian Radio Orchestra, John Axelrod (conductor)
12:48 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe [1813-1901] arr. Franco Fusi
Capriccio for Bassoon and Orchestra
Diego Chenna (bassoon), Swiss Italian Radio Orchestra ; John Axelrod (conductor)
1:00 AM
Mignonne, Francisco [1897-1986]
Valse triste
Diego Chenna (bassoon)
1:03 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Symphony No.3 in E flat major (Op.97) "Rhenish"
Swiss Italian Radio Orchestra ; John Axelrod (conductor)
1:37 AM
Flury, Richard (1896-1967)
Three pieces for violin and piano
Sibylle Tschopp (violin), Isabel Tschopp (piano)
1:45 AM
Martin, Frank (1890-1974) (orch. Ernest Ansemet)
Ballade for flute
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Enrique Garcia-Asensio (conductor)
1:54 AM
Schoeck, Othmar (1886-1957)
Violin concerto in B flat major (Op.21) 'Quasi una fantasia'
Bettina Boller (violin), Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra, Andreas Delfs (conductor)
2:31 AM
Tormis, Veljo (b. 1930)
Jaanilaulud (St. John's Day Songs)
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
2:48 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Sonata for piano no. 1 (Op.11) in F sharp minor
Martin Helmchen (piano)
3:17 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto in F (Rv.574) for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon & cello
Zefira Valova (violin), Anna Starr & Markus Müller (oboes), Anneke Scott & Joseph Walters (horns), Moni Fischaleck (bassoon), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
3:30 AM
Walton, William [1902-1983]
Two Pieces for Strings (from Henry V) (The death of Falstaff & Touch her soft lips and part)
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
3:35 AM
Massenet, Jules (1842-1912)
Manon: Prelude to Act 1
Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Simon Streatfield (conductor)
3:39 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)
Psalm 110: Le Toutpuissant a mon Seigneur et maistre
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Peter Phillips (conductor)
3:47 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Overture from Die Zauberflöte (K.620)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Christie (conductor)
3:55 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Ballade for piano no. 4 (Op.52) in F minor
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
4:06 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto for keyboard and string orchestra No.4 in A major (BWV.1055)
Lars-Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord), Ensemble 415
4:20 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) arranged for orchestra by Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Hungarian Dance No.21 in E minor orch. Dvorák (orig. for piano four hands)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
4:24 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Adagio in E flat (WoO.43 No.2) for mandolin and piano
Lajos Mayer (mandolin), Imre Rohmann (piano)
4:31 AM
Aufschnaiter, Benedict Anton (1665-1742)
Menuett, Gavotta and Menuett from Serenade No.3 in G minor
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg (director)
4:34 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Study Op.10'3 in E major
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
4:39 AM
Nielsen, Carl [1865-1931]
Overture to Maskerade (FS.39)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (conductor)
4:44 AM
Larsen, Tore Björn (b. 1957)
Tre rosetter
Fionian Chamber Choir, Alice Granum (director)
4:58 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707)
Passacaglia in D minor (BuxWV.161)
Bernard Lagacé (Beckerath organ of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Montréal)
5:05 AM
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837)
Piano Quintet in E flat major/minor (Op.87) (1825)
Tobias Ringborg (violin), Ingegard Kierkegaard (viola), John Ehde (cello), Håkan Ehrén (double bass), Stefan Lindgren (piano)
5:25 AM
Schreker, Franz (1878-1934)
Ekkehard (Op.12): Symphonic Overture
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
5:26 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Suite no.1 in C major (BWV.1066)
Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
5:35 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
Te Deum for soloists, chorus and orchestra in C major
Giorgia Milanesi (soprano), Ulfried Haselsteiner (tenor), Anne Margrethe Punsvik Gluch (soprano), Thomas Mohr (baritone), Håvard Stendsvold (bass-baritone), Kristiansand Cathedral Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rolf Gupta (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b0495qsf)
Thursday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill 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 (b0495qxn)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with Simon Thurley
Architectural historian Simon Thurley is Sarah Walker's guest this week
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Fauré: The Complete Music for Piano - Kathryn Stott, HYPERION. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Andrew Davis.
10:30
Sarah's guest this week is the architectural historian and Chief Executive of English Heritage, Simon Thurley. Whilst working on his PhD, Simon took up a post as Inspector of Ancient Monuments for English Heritage, later becoming Curator of Historic Royal Palaces and then director of the Museum of London. He is a prolific history broadcaster, presenting television programmes such as Flying Through Time and Lost Buildings of Britain, as well as appearing on Time Team. Recent publications include Somerset House: The Palace of England's Queens 1551-1692, and Men from the Ministry: How Britain saved its Heritage. Simon's relative youth at taking the post of Chief Executive of English Heritage led him to be dubbed a "boy wonder", and he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to conservation.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Berlioz
Harold in Italy
Gérard Caussé (viola)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0495yvr)
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799)
Flying High
He was a favourite of the Austrian Emperor and the King of Prussia, and performed in quartets with Mozart and Haydn, this week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.
The Bishop of Grossvardein took on Dittersdorf as his orchestral conductor. This top-notch ensemble inspired Dittersdorf to compose many symphonies and concertos for performance, including his Concerto in B flat major for harpsichord and orchestra. This golden opportunity was not to last, though, with the Bishop eventually disbanding his orchestra due to scandal and intrigue.
Help was at hand with another cleric, the Prince-Bishop of Breslau, who offered Dittersdorf a new job. At this time there were no musicians at this new court, so Dittersdorf was initially employed as Chief Forrester. The Prince-Bishop also sent off some of Dittersdorf's music to the Pope, possibly the Requiem in C minor, so that like Gluck and Mozart, Dittersdorf was invested with the Papal order of Knight of the Golden Spur. Further triumphs were soon to follow; his oratorio Ester was enjoyed by the Viennese, Emperor Joseph II, and Dittersdorf found himself elevated to the nobility by the Empress.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b0495zck)
Aldeburgh Festival 2014
Episode 3
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Aldeburgh Festival, and include performances by pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Tamara Stefanovich and Nenad Lecic, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe Soloists. Today's programme features just one single work: Messiaen's intense suite of pieces for two pianos, "Visions de L'Amen", recorded at Blythburgh Church.
Messiaen - Visions de L'Amen
Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich (pianos).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b0495zgh)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Monteverdi - L'Incoronazione di Poppea
Penny Gore presents Part I of Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea with Concerto Italiano and Rinaldo Alessandrini plus music by Strauss & Bruch from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Penny Gore.
2pm
Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea Part I
La Fortuna / Drusilla ..... Gaëlle Arquez (mezzo-soprano)
La Virtù / Damigella ..... Jael Azzaretti (soprano)
Amore ..... Amel Brahim-Djelloul (soprano)
Ottone ..... Varduhi Abrahamyan (mezzo-soprano)
Poppea ..... Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano)
Nerone ..... Jeremy Ovenden (tenor)
Arnalta ..... Manuel Nunes Camelino (tenor)
Ottavia ..... Monica Bacelli (mezzo-soprano)
Nutrice ..... Giuseppe de Vittorio (tenor)
Seneca ..... Andrea Concetti (bass)
Valletto ..... Marie-Adeline Henry (soprano)
Mercurio ..... Nahuel Di Piero (bass)
Secondo Tribuno / Famigliare di Seneca ..... Salvo Vitale (bass)
Soldato pretoriano/Lucano/Famigliare di Seneca ..... Valerio Contaldo (tenor)
Soldato pretoriano / Liberto / Primo Tribuno ..... Furio Zanasi (baritone)
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini, conductor
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3.30pm
Strauss: Burleske in D minor AV.85 for piano and orchestra
Martin Roscoe, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Gourlay, conductor
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3.45pm
Bruch: Scottish Fantasy Op.46 for violin and orchestra
Jack Liebeck, violin
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b0495zrz)
Worbey and Farrell, The Brook Street Band
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, interviews and arts news. Featuring a piano duo who combine 'sparky comedy and utterly sensational piano-playing' - Worbey and Farrell play live in the studio. Also performing live, Baroque ensemble The Brook Street Band ahead of their 'Triumph over Tragedy' concert at Wigmore Hall. Plus we catch up with pianist Cathal Breslin and flautist Sabrina Hu - Artistic Directors of the Walled City Music Festival in Derry - to hear about this year's lineup.
Main headlines at
5pm and
6pm
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b0495yvr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 BBC Proms (b04960xx)
2014
Proms Preview
On the eve of the 2014 Proms Petroc Trelawny previews the season live from the Royal Albert Hall - two months of many of the world's greatest artists, composers, orchestras and ensembles including four Last Night celebrations around the UK.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b04960y5)
City of London Festival Debate
Does emotion or reason dictate the financial markets? Anne McElvoy is joined by Frances Hudson, Global Thematic Strategist at Standard Life Investments; Daniel Ben-Ami, financial journalist and author of 'Cowardly Capitalism'; Greg Davies, Head of Behavioural and Quantitative Investment Philosophy at Barclays; and Adrian Wooldridge of the Economist whose book 'The Fourth Revolution - The Global Race to Reinvent the State', is out now.
Recorded at The Bowler Hat at this year's City of London Festival.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b0496066)
Homage to Caledonia
Homage to Caledonia: The Language of the Scots
With Scotland and all things Scottish very much in the air, acclaimed writer, comedian and now ex-pat, AL Kennedy, continues her reflections on what Scottishness means to her in this week's series of The Essay. Today: the language of Scotland.
Written and performed by AL Kennedy
Producer: Justine Willett.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b04960gn)
Late Junction Sessions
Richard Reed Parry, Sarah Neufield, London Contemporary Orchestra
Late Junction with Mara Carlyle, including a collaborative Session with Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry, violinist Sarah Neufield and members of London Contemporary Orchestra.
FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b0495qf1)
Proms 2013 Highlights
BBC Proms 2013: A selection of highlights from BBC orchestras and the Royal Philharmonic and Warsaw Philharmonic orchestras.
12:31 AM
Stravinsky, Igor [1882-1971]
Feux d'artifice
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)
12:35 AM
Holst, Gustav [1874-1934]
Indra, Symphonic Poem (Op.13)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, David Atherton (conductor)
12:50 AM
Arnold, Malcolm [1921-2006]
Concerto (Op.10) (for Phyllis and Cyril) for 2 pianos (3 hands) and orchestra
Noriko Ogawa & Kathryn Stott (pianos), BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
1:04 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
La Mer - 3 symphonic sketches for orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)
1:29 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Symphony No.7 in A major (Op.92)
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
2:05 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitri [1906-1975]
Piano Concerto No.2 in F major (Op.102)
Alexander Melnikov (piano), Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit (conductor)
2:25 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
Preludes, Book II: Feux d'artifice
Alexander Melnikov (piano)
2:31 AM
Griffes, Charles Tomlinson (1884-1920)
Three Tone Pictures (Op.5)
David Allen Wehr (piano)
2:40 AM
Parker, Horatio William (1863-1919)
A Northern Ballad
Albany Symphony Orchestra, Julius Hegyi (conductor)
2:54 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey [1891-1953]
Excerpts from the ballet Romeo and Juliet (Op.64)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
3:36 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Concerto for harp and orchestra in B flat major (Op.4 No.6) (HWV.294)
Sofija Risti? (harp), Slovenian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle De?palj (conductor)
3:49 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Polka of V. R. for piano in A flat major
Ivetta Irkha (piano)
3:54 AM
Pekiel, Bartlomiej (?-c.1670)
I Missa senza le cerimonie
Camerata Silesia, Julian Gembalski (positive organ), Anna Szostak (conductor)
4:04 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Capriccio in E minor (Op.81, No.3)
Casal Quartet: Julia Schröder & Rachel Späth (violins), Markus Fleck (cello), Andreas Fleck (cello)
4:11 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto in F (Rv.574) for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon & cello
Zefira Valova (violin), Anna Starr & Markus Müller (oboes), Anneke Scott & Joseph Walters (horns), Jane Gower (bassoon), Rebecca Rosen (cello) Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
4:24 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk([1810-1849)
Waltz for piano (Op.34 No.1) in A flat major
Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
4:31 AM
Handel, George Frideric [1685-1759] orchestrated Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Overture and prelude to Act II of Acis and Galatea (K. 566)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
4:40 AM
Enescu, George [1881-1955]
Cantabile et presto for flute and piano
Daniela Koch (flute), Oliver Triendl (piano)
4:47 AM
Weiner, Leó (1885-1960)
Divertimento no.2 (Op.24) in A minor (Magyar népi dallamok)
Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra, János Rolla (leader)
5:04 AM
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837)
Rondo in B minor (Op.109)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
5:13 AM
Bella, Jan Levoslav [1843-1936]
Fate and the Ideal - symphonic poem
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Oliver Dohnányi (conductor)
5:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Fantasia in F minor for piano duet (D.940)
Leon Fleischer & Katherine Jacobson Fleischer (piano duet)
5:51 AM
Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings [1848-1918]
Lord, let me know mine end (no.6 from Songs of farewell for mixed voices)
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)
6:02 AM
Bartok, Bela [1881-1945]
Rhapsody No. 1 (Sz.86) for violin and piano
Adám Banda (violin), Orsolya Soós (piano)
6:12 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Trio for keyboard and strings in C major (H.
15.27)
Ondine Trio.
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b0495qsh)
Friday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill 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 (b0495qxq)
Friday - Sarah Walker with Simon Thurley
Architectural historian Simon Thurley is Sarah Walker's guest this week
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Fauré: The Complete Music for Piano - Kathryn Stott, HYPERION. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Andrew Davis.
10:30
Sarah's guest this week is the architectural historian and Chief Executive of English Heritage, Simon Thurley. Whilst working on his PhD, Simon took up a post as Inspector of Ancient Monuments for English Heritage, later becoming Curator of Historic Royal Palaces and then director of the Museum of London. He is a prolific history broadcaster, presenting television programmes such as Flying Through Time and Lost Buildings of Britain, as well as appearing on Time Team. Recent publications include Somerset House: The Palace of England's Queens 1551-1692, and Men from the Ministry: How Britain saved its Heritage. Simon's relative youth at taking the post of Chief Executive of English Heritage led him to be dubbed a "boy wonder", and he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to conservation.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Stravinsky
Petrushka
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0495yvt)
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799)
Emperors and Kings
He was a favourite of the Austrian Emperor and the King of Prussia, and performed in quartets with Mozart and Haydn, this week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.
Dittersdorf was doing very nicely for himself; honoured by the Pope and elevated to the aristocracy. He now composed a set of story-based symphonies which became hugely popular, including his Symphony in F major No 4, 'The Rescuing of Andromeda by Perseus'. His newly published set of six string quartets were also selling well and his opera, the Doctor and the Apothecary, became a box office hit. It was performed in Vienna for the Emperor and also for the new Prussian King in Berlin.
In his final years, Dittersdorf's music fell out of fashion and, following the death of his employer the Prince-Bishop of Breslau, he spent his final few years impoverished, forced to rely on the good will of Baron Ignaz von Stillfreid who housed him. A few days before Dittersdorf died in 1799, he dictated his colourful autobiography to his son.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b0495zcy)
Aldeburgh Festival 2014
Episode 4
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Aldeburgh Festival, and include performances by pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Tamara Stefanovich and Nenad Lecic, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe Soloists. Today's selection includes 20th Century Hungarian harpsichord music by Bartok and Ligeti alongside Janacek's Concertino for piano & sextet and Ravel's 2-piano depiction of the breakdown of European society - La Valse.
Martinu - 2 Impromptus pour clavecin
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
Bartok - 3 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
Ligeti - Passacaglia ungherese; Continuum; Hungarian Rock
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
Janacek - March of the Bluebirds; Concertino
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) / Chamber Orchestra of Europe Soloists
Ravel - La Valse
Tamara Stefanovich & Nenad Lenic (pianos).
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b0495zgk)
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Episode 4
The conclusion of Monteverdi's final masterpiece is followed by music from a concert from this year's Aldeburgh Festival by the BBC Symphony Orchestra including the UK Premiere of the piano concerto "Le désenchantement du monde" by Tristan Murail with Pierre-Laurent Aimard as soloist. Presented by Penny Gore.
2pm
Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea Part II
La Fortuna / Drusilla ..... Gaëlle Arquez (mezzo-soprano)
La Virtù / Damigella ..... Jael Azzaretti (soprano)
Amore ..... Amel Brahim-Djelloul (soprano)
Ottone ..... Varduhi Abrahamyan (mezzo-soprano)
Poppea ..... Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano)
Nerone ..... Jeremy Ovenden (tenor)
Arnalta ..... Manuel Nunes Camelino (tenor)
Ottavia ..... Monica Bacelli (mezzo-soprano)
Nutrice ..... Giuseppe de Vittorio (tenor)
Seneca ..... Andrea Concetti (bass)
Valletto ..... Marie-Adeline Henry (soprano)
Mercurio ..... Nahuel Di Piero (bass)
Secondo Tribuno / Famigliare di Seneca ..... Salvo Vitale (bass)
Soldato pretoriano/Lucano/Famigliare di Seneca ..... Valerio Contaldo (tenor)
Soldato pretoriano / Liberto / Primo Tribuno ..... Furio Zanasi (baritone)
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini, conductor
c.
3.20pm
Murail: Le désenchantement du monde (UK Premiere)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor
c.
3.50pm
Janacek: Pilgrimage of the Soul
Thomas Zehetmair, violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor
c.
4pm
Sibelius: Symphony no.7
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b0495zs1)
Proms Special: Gareth Malone and the Military Wives, Rachel Podger, Roderick Williams, Haochen Zhang
Sean Rafferty presents a special edition of In Tune on the day that this year's BBC Proms season launches, live from the Royal College of Music in London.
There will be an array of guests set to appear at the Proms, including baritone Roderick Williams who is appearing at this year's Last Night of the Proms, and the Proms Military Wives Choir led by the award-winning Gareth Malone, who will be offering a preview of what they'll be performing at the War Horse Prom, a concert which will explore the music and stories of the Great War.
Also performing live will be the violinist Rachel Podger, who leads a programme of C.P.E. Bach at a special Chamber Music Prom at London's Cadogan Hall, and young upcoming pianist Haochen Zhang who will be making his Proms debut this year.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b0495yvt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 BBC Proms (b04cq2xv)
2014
Prom 1: First Night of the Proms
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London The First Night of the 2014 BBC Proms. Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a large chorus and distinguished soloists in Elgar's biblical oratorio The Kingdom.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
Elgar: The Kingdom
Blessed Virgin ..... Erin Wall (soprano)
Mary Magdalene ..... Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)
St John ..... Andrew Staples (tenor)
St Peter ..... Christopher Purves (baritone)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
The largest classical music festival in the world, the BBC Proms also boasts one of the mightiest venues. The Royal Albert Hall is a monument to the same Victorian pomp and splendour that swells through Edward Elgar's music. What better way to open this season than with the composer's biblical oratorio The Kingdom - the beautiful 'slow movement' of a musical triptych that started with The Apostles, but that would remain unfinished at Elgar's death.
Celebrated Elgarian and Proms favourite Sir Andrew Davis, a Conductor Laureate of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, returns in his 70th-birthday year, joined by a distinguished cast of soloists.
Producer Emma Bloxham,Ann McKay
Presenter Petroc Trelawny.
FRI 21:15 New Generation Artists (b049p8dt)
Zhang Zuo, Louis Schwizgebel, Kitty Whately, Lise Berthaud
Clemency Burton-Hill presents the first in a new series showcasing the talents of the BBC's New Generation Artists.
As part of the BBC's commitment to developing and nurturing young talent, BBC Radio 3 launched its New Generation Artists scheme in the autumn of 1999. Now well into its second decade, the scheme has acquired the reputation of being a world leader for young artists. Every autumn six to seven artists or groups who are beginning to make a mark on the national and international music scene are invited to join the scheme, which offers them unique opportunities to develop their considerable talents. These include concerts in London and around the UK, appearances and recordings with the BBC Orchestras, special studio recordings for Radio 3, and, last but not least, appearances at the Proms.
Today the spotlight falls on four artists, all of whom are appearing at the Proms this year: pianists Zhang Zuo and Louis Schwizgebel, mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, and viola player Lise Berthaud.
Kitty Whately, James Baillieu
Fanny Mendelssohn Nach Suden, Op 10 No 1
Zhang Zuo
Liszt Rhapsodie espagnole (Folies d'Espagne et jota aragonesa), S254
Louis Schwizgebel
Beethoven Sonata in E flat, Op 27 No 1
Kitty Whately, James Baillieu
Fanny Mendelssohn Schwanenlied, Op 1
Lise Berthaud, Adam Laloum
Schumann Adagio & Allegro in A flat, Op 70.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b0496120)
DBC Pierre, Jackie Kay, Martin Carthy
Ian McMillan's guests on the 'cabaret of the word' include DBC Pierre, who discusses using language to create fear in his new novella 'Breakfast with the Borgias' (Hammer), Jackie Kay on writing poetry in sand, and folk singer Martin Carthy.
The last in our series of WWI dramas is 'Songs of the Sea' by Kenneth Emson, inspired by the sinking of the ambulance transport ship, the Warilda.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b0496068)
Homage to Caledonia
Homage to Caledonia: Hidden Identities
With Scotland and all things Scottish very much in the air, acclaimed writer, comedian and now ex-pat, AL Kennedy, continues her reflections on what Scottishness means to her in this week's series of The Essay. Today: Scotland's many hidden identities.
Written and performed by AL Kennedy
Producer: Justine Willett.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b04960gq)
Maya Youssef Session, Commonwealth Connections 24
Mary Ann Kennedy with Syrian Kanun player Maya Youssef live in session and Commonwealth Connections from Zambia and Cameroon.
Commonwealth Connections Feature - Zambia
Seven kilometres from the world heritage site of Victoria Falls, in the Southern Province lies the rural Mukuni village, the main village of the Mukuni Chiefdom. It was founded in the 13th century by the Leya Tribal Matriarch and is today presided over by both a male and female leader. The Leya people keep alive their heritage in simple surroundings with dancing, singing and drumming for particular occasions and to communicate certain messages. The women of the village perform for us a traditional brewing dance complete with 12ft long poles for crushing grain while elsewhere in the village, the highly polished senior students at the secondary school in Mukuni village embrace the new modern Zambia with traditional, spiritual and rousingly patriotic songs.
Commonwealth Connections Heritage Track - Cameroon
As well as varied tribal traditions Cameroon was divided in colonial times between Britain and France but the country is united behind the choice of artist in our Heritage track tonight. Saxophonist Manu Dibango brought the sound of Cameroon to the world but also brought a bit of the world back into Cameroon, creating a glorious fusion of African Funk and Jazz. Weightlifter Vanatius Njuh is going for Gold in the 69 kilo class at the Commonwealth Games and through a computer at his training camp in Cameroon he's been talking about his hopes for the competition and how music fits into it.
Live Studio Session: Maya Youssef
London based Kanun virtuoso Maya Youssef joins us in the studio for a live session.
At the age of ten Maya began her musical career with the Kanun at Sulhi Alwadi Music Institute in Damascus from where she graduated with an excellence degree in 2002.
The winner of numerous awards both in Syria and the UK, Maya came to the UK in 2012.