Schutz's Musikalische Exequien performed by Vox Luminis presented by John Shea.
Sonata for Piano in G major (H.
Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Orchestra of the 18th Century; Frans Brüggen (conductor)
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945) arr. Arthur Willner
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director) (Encore)
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet), Colm Carey (organ of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London)
Sonata for piano no. 24 (Op.78) in F sharp major
Two Slavonic Dances (Op.46) - No. 8 In G Minor: Presto & No.3 In A flat Major: Poco Allegro
Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Ian Parker, James Parker & Jon Kimura Parker (pianos), CBC Radio Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor).
Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny, including the Best of British Playlist and your suggestions for our annual musical Advent Calendar.
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... English madrigals.' Throughout the week Sarah makes the case for English madrigals, showcasing music by Thomas Weelkes, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons and William Byrd.
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to a musical story and tell us what happens next.
, is the inspirational social entrepreneur John Bird. Having spent his own childhood and teenage years in an orphanage, on the streets and in prison, in 1991 John launched The Big Issue, a magazine sold by people who are homeless and long-term unemployed. John has been awarded an MBE for services to the homeless.
This week's featured artist is Christopher Hogwood, who died in September. A leading figure of the early music revival and the founder of the Academy of Ancient Music, conductor, keyboard player and musicologist Hogwood worked with leading symphony orchestras and opera houses across the world. He was also passionate about the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, and had a worldwide reputation for his combination of musicianship and scholarship.
Today's Essential Choice is taken from the Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
Donald Macleod investigates the literary catalysts that fired Schumann's musical imagination. Today, early enthusiasms, including Lord Byron and Jean Paul Richter.
"Get your head out of that book!" is probably not a reprimand the young Robert Schumann was used to receiving. He grew up in a household that lived and breathed literature. His father was a novelist, bookseller and publisher who made a small fortune from his pocket editions of foreign-language classics in translation. As a teenager Schumann wrote copiously, trying his hand at fiction, poetry and plays, and it took him several years to satisfy himself that he was a composer rather than a writer. But his literary passion persisted, informing not only the texts he set but his whole conception of musical narrative and structure.
In today's programme he explores some early enthusiasms: Lord Byron; poet and physician Justinus Kerner; early-Romantic poet and indologist Friedrich Schlegel; and above all the novelist Jean Paul Richter - as fashionable in his day as he is obscure in ours - whose literary style the essayist Thomas Carlyle described as "flowing onwards not like a river, but an inundation, circling in complex eddies, chafing and gurgling now this way, now that, until the proper current sinks out of view amid the boundless uproar".
The acclaimed countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and his baroque group Ensemble Artaserse perform an all-Vivaldi programme live at Wigmore Hall in London.
Katie Derham presents an afternoon of music from the BBC Singers and BBC Concert Orchestra, including the UK premiere of Terry Riley's organ concerto 'At the Grand Majestic', with Cameron Carpenter at the refurbished organ of the Royal Festival Hall in London. Afternoon on 3's Nordic and Baltic series continues with choral music from Sweden and Estonia.
Suzy Klein welcomes the young choir Siglo de Oro into the In Tune salon for their maiden appearance; and more live music from young virtuoso clarinettist Julian Bliss.
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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and regular collaborator Martyn Brabbins are joined by soloist Jack Liebeck to explore some of Max Bruch's lesser-known works for violin and orchestra: his Violin Concerto No. 2 and Konzertstück. Both works are as full of passion and melody as the famous First Concerto, and sure to come to life under such dedicated interpreters.
And the evening is framed by two stalwart works of the concert platform which have dramatic geneses: Beethoven's pulsating overture 'Coriolan' written for a German play concerning that Roman leader; and Tchaikovsky's Shakespearean Fantasy-Overture 'Romeo and Juliet'.
Bruch: Violin Concerto no. 2
Bruch: Konzertstück Op. 84
Norman Lebrecht presents the last of three programmes examining the complex relationship between music and Jewish identity.
Spanning thousands of years, from King David and the creation of the Psalms, to composers writing today including Steve Reich and Robert Saxton, Norman uncovers a wealth of fascinating stories about the role music has played at some of the key points in Jewish history.
Taking as his starting point the moment at which the Jews were finally able to enter the Western classical music tradition in a professional capacity, in today's programme Norman investigates the idea of a "Jewish thumbprint" in the music of Mendelssohn and others. Leading Israeli composer Noam Sheriff and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas talk about why Mahler's Jewishness speaks so strongly to them through his symphonies, and Michael Grade explains how the Jewish art of being one step ahead impacted so strongly on the entertainment industry in the twentieth century.
With contributions from the musicologist and founder of the Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen, the writer David Conway, the composers Robert Saxton, Gideon Lewensohn and Noam Sheriff, Professor Susan Wollenberg of Oxford University, the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and former Chairman of the BBC, Michael Grade.
Terry Jones introduces another tasty Renaissance tale, starring Tim McInnerny as a husband with a dissatisfied young wife.
The one hundred stories which make up Giovanni Boccaccio's humane and comic masterpiece, come from all over the world.
They are vividly reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing merchant classes in the cities of Renaissance Italy. But their witty, satirical, bawdy voice sounds utterly modern, and their subjects - love, fate, sex, religion, morality - are universal.
Radio 3 is retelling ten of these choice Florentine Fancies, adapted by Robin Brooks, and introduced by Terry Jones. Like the original, our stories are told over ten days, each of which has its own theme. You can hear them every evening in the Essay, and in omnibus form on Sunday Evenings in Drama on 3.
The music for the series is arranged and performed by Robert Hollingworth, Director of I Fagiolini, and the lutenist Paula Chateauneuf, with translations by Silvia Reseghetti. The script consultant is Guyda Armstrong.
A young bride can't work out why her marriage seems flat. Until she and her husband both meet the sweetest young man in Perugia.
Giovanni Boccaccio was born to a Florentine banking family in 1313. After an unsuccessful start in law, he turned to his true love: poetry. A humanist and a pupil of Petrarch, Boccaccio's Latin poetry was famous across Europe, and provided the sources for his near-contemporary Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and The Knight's Tale. But his real innovation was the vibrant, vernacular prose in which he wrote The Decameron. Beautifully realised in the teeming voices of merchants and prostitutes, knights and nuns, shopkeepers and conmen, these one hundred stories have become a bedrock of our storytelling tradition, mined ever since by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Moliere, Lope de Vega, Christine de Pizan, Swift, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, Caryl Churchill and many more.
Highlights from a special EFG London Jazz Festival edition of Jez Nelson's barrier-busting, monthly Jazz In The Round event.
Joining Jez at Southbank Centre's Clore Ballroom are acts that represent the best in both international and homegrown talent at the festival. British band of the moment Roller Trio perform material from their new album 'Fracture', drawing on rock, electronica and hip-hop, while US clarinettist Oran Etkin is joined in a quartet featuring guitarist Federico Casagrande, bassist Linda Oh and drummer Jeff Ballard - watch out for a set of squelchy grooves and earthy bass clarinet sounds. Also over from the States is violinist Regina Carter performing a rare solo set. And getting things started, a band first discovered by Jazz on 3 via the BBC Introducing Uploader - young British septet Quadraceratops led by altoist Cath Roberts. The band performs music from their recent self-titled debut, embracing lush horn arrangements and clever rhythmic writing.
TUESDAY 09 DECEMBER 2014
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b04t9h3p)
Biber's Rosary Sonatas
Biber's Rosary Sonatas with violinist Daniel Sepec.
12:31 AM
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von [1644-1704]
Six Rosary Sonatas (Nos 1-6)
Daniel Sepec (violin), Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Michael Behringer (harpsichord and organ)
1:11 AM
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von [1644-1704]
Rosary Sonatas (Nos 9, 10, 11, 13, 14)
Daniel Sepec (violin), Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Michael Behringer (harpsichord and organ)
1:54 AM
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von [1644-1704]
Mystery (Rosary) sonata (Passacaglia) in G minor (The Guardian angel) for solo violin
Daniel Sepec (violin)
2:03 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No.35 in D major (K.385), 'Haffner'
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset (conductor)
2:23 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden (BWV.230)
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
2:31 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Symphony No.5 in E flat major, Op.82
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
3:05 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel (Op.24)
Hinko Haas (piano)
3:35 AM
Kerll, Johann Caspar (1627-1693)
Exsulta satis - Offertorium for countertenor, tenor, two violins, viola and basso continuo
Hassler Consort
3:45 AM
Groneman, Johannes Albertus (1710-1778)
Sonata for 2 flutes in G major
Jed Wentz and Marion Moonen (flutes)
3:53 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Overture in the Italian Style (D.590)
Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcello Viotti (conductor)
4:01 AM
Pearson, Leslie (b. 1931)
Dance Suite - after Arbeau
The Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble
4:11 AM
Förster, Kaspar (1616-1673)
Beatus vir (KBPJ.3) for soprano, alto, bass, 2 violins & basso continuo
Marta Boberska (soprano), Kai Wessel (countertenor), Grzegorz Zychowicz (bass), Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble
4:20 AM
Sarasate, Pablo de (1844-1908)
Zigeunerweisen (Op.20)
Frank Peter Zimmerman (violin) Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Guido Ajmone Marsan (conductor)
4:31 AM
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von (1664-1704)
Kyrie from Missa Sancti Henrici, for 5 soloists, 5-part chorus, 5 trumpets, timpani, 2 violins, 3 violas, violone, and organ (1701)
Unknown boy soloists from Regensburger Domspatzen, James Griffett (tenor), Michael Schopper (bass), Regensburger Domspatzen, Collegium Aureum, Herbert Metzger (organ), Georg Ratzinger (conductor)
4:39 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Overture from Suite no.1 in C major (BWV.1066)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
4:50 AM
Jongen, Joseph (1873-1953)
Elégie nocturnale (Très modéré) (Op.95, No.1) from 2 pieces for Piano Trio
Grumiaux Trio: Luc Devos (piano), Philippe Koch (violin), Luc Dewez (cello)
5:01 AM
Kraft, Antonín (1749-1820)
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in C (Op.4)
Michal Kanka (cello), Prague Chamber Orchestra, Pavel Safarik (concert master)
5:25 AM
Smetana, Bedrich [1824-1884]
2 Dances from "Czech Dances, Book II"
Karel Vrtiska (piano)
5:34 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Symphony for string orchestra in B minor, No.10
Risör Festival Strings
5:44 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Introduction and Allegro appassionato (Op.92)
Ivan Palovic (piano), The Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
6:01 AM
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911)
Romeo and Juliet - fantasy (Op.18)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, John Storgårds
6:15 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Scherzo for piano no. 1 (Op.20) in B minor
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
6:25 AM
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von (1664-1704)
Crucifixus and Resurrexit from the Credo from Missa Sancti Henrici, for 5 soloists, 5-part chorus, 5 trumpets, timpani, 2 violins, 3 violas, violone, and organ (1701)
Regensburger Domspatzen, Collegium Aureum, Herbert Metzger (organ), Georg Ratzinger (conductor).
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b04v2224)
Tuesday - Petroc Trelawny
Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny, including the Best of British Playlist and your suggestions for our annual musical Advent Calendar.
email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b04tc8cd)
Tuesday - Sarah Walker with John Bird
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... English madrigals.' Throughout the week Sarah makes the case for English madrigals, showcasing music by Thomas Weelkes, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons and William Byrd.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: spot the theme linking three pieces of music and identify the missing fourth.
10am
Sarah's guest this week, sharing his favourite classical music every day at
10am, is the inspirational social entrepreneur John Bird. Having spent his own childhood and teenage years in an orphanage, on the streets and in prison, in 1991 John launched The Big Issue, a magazine sold by people who are homeless and long-term unemployed. John has been awarded an MBE for services to the homeless.
10.30am
This week's featured artist is Christopher Hogwood, who died in September. A leading figure of the early music revival and the founder of the Academy of Ancient Music, conductor, keyboard player and musicologist Hogwood worked with leading symphony orchestras and opera houses across the world. He was also passionate about the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, and had a worldwide reputation for his combination of musicianship and scholarship.
11am
This week's Essential Choices are all inspired by dance.
Michael Tippett
The Midsummer Marriage: Ritual Dances
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor).
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b04tc9g1)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Fantasy and Romance
Donald Macleod investigates the literary catalysts that fired Schumann's musical imagination. Today, ploughman poet Rabbie Burns and ETA Hoffmann, spinner of fantastic tales.
"Get your head out of that book!" is probably not a reprimand the young Robert Schumann was used to receiving. He grew up in a household that lived and breathed literature. His father was a novelist, bookseller and publisher who made a small fortune from his pocket editions of foreign-language classics in translation. As a teenager Schumann wrote copiously, trying his hand at fiction, poetry and plays, and it took him several years to satisfy himself that he was a composer rather than a writer. But his literary passion persisted, informing not only the texts he set but his whole conception of musical narrative and structure.
Today's programme focuses on the 'ploughman poet' Rabbie Burns and ETA Hoffmann, a spinner of fantastic tales who was himself later transmuted into fiction as the central character in the Offenbach opera that bears his name. Schumann set a number of Burns's poems, but the influence of Hoffmann went deeper; his fictional invention the composer Johannes Kreisler, a crazed genius at odds with conventional society, lies behind one of Schumann's most characteristic piano creations, Kreisleriana, a suite of eight movements that depict Kreisler's fragmented personality. When she heard it for the first time, Schumann's future wife Clara commented: "Sometimes your music actually frightens me, and I wonder, is it really true that the creator of such things is going to be my husband?".
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b04tc9mb)
Bath Mozartfest 2014
Episode 1
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Bath Mozartfest in the glorious surroundings of the city's Guildhall and Assembly Rooms, and feature performances by the Nash Ensemble, the Myrthen Ensemble and the Vertavo Quartet with pianist Paul Lewis. Today's programme, includes chamber music and songs by Mozart, Mussorgsky and Ned Rorem.
Mozart: Horn Quintet in E flat, K.407
Nash Ensemble
Rorem: A night case
Mussorgsky: The Field Marshal
Myrthen Ensemble
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.12 in A, K.414
Vertavo Quartet with Paul Lewis (piano).
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b04tc9qx)
BBC Concert Orchestra and Singers
Episode 2
Katie Derham presents an afternoon of music from the BBC Concert Orchestra in collaboration with the Southbank Sinfonia and on recent CD releases; plus a concert from this Summer's St Magnus Festival given by the BBC Singers and their Principal Conductor David Hill in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney.
2.00pm
John Foulds
Puppet Ballet Suite
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp
2.15pm
Peter Maxwell Davies: Dum complerentur
Palestrina: Magnificat (tone 1, a 8)
Trond Kverno: Ave Maris stella
Judith Weir: Vertue
Cecilie Ore: Toil and Trouble (UK premiere)
Peter Maxwell Davies: Westerlings
BBC Singers
Conductor David Hill
3.15pm
Strauss
Don Juan
Peter Hope Scaramouche
John Williams Cantina Band (from Star Wars)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia, conductor Keith Lockhart
Vytautas Miskinis
Dum medium silentium
BBC Singers, conductor James Morgan
3.50pm
Jean-Michel Damase
Symphonie
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates.
TUE 16:30 In Tune (b04tcb4b)
Adam Golka, London Mozart Players, Nick Sharratt
Live performances today are from pianist Adam Golka, who makes his London debut this week with a special performance at the Steinway Hall to celebrate his new CD of Brahms and Beethoven piano sonatas. Also live in the studio today is tenor Nick Sharratt with the London Mozart Players. Nick is about to perform Britten's cantata St Nicolas at St John's Smith Square with the band.
Main news headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b04tc9g1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b04tcbqq)
Artemis Quartet - Mozart, Smetana, Peteris Vasks
Live from Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
The Artemis Quartet performs two classics of the string quartet repertoire alongside a recent work by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks.
Mozart: String Quartet in G (K387)
Peteris Vasks: String Quartet No. 5
8.10 Interval Music: choral music by Peteris Vasks and other Baltic composers
Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ('From my life')
Artemis Quartet
The Artemis Quartet, this year celebrating its 25th anniversary, was founded in Lübeck but these days is based in Berlin. In tonight's concert the quartet performs two classics of the repertoire alongside a new work by Peteris Vasks.
Mozart's Quartet in G, completed on New Year's Eve 1782, is the first of the set composed in honour of Josef Haydn - the father of the string quartet. Nearly a century later, Smetana's Quartet in E minor has the subtitle 'From my Life' and has an autobiographical sub-text which looks back over the composer's life and loves - including his tinnitus and increasing deafness, events which led to a complete mental collapse a few years later.
The contemporary Latvian composer Peteris Vasks also reflects on the world in his String Quartet no 5 - music influenced by his compassion for 'a world tortured by grief and contradictions'.
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (b04tcc1l)
Mona Siddiqui, Ziauddin Sardar, Navid Kermani
Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic and interreligious studies at Edinbugh University, talks to Philip Dodd about her book called My Way: A Muslim Woman's Journey.
The scholar Ziauddin Sardar is the Chair of the Muslim Institute and Editor of Critical Muslim. He has written Mecca, The Sacred City which explores the history of the birthplace of Muhammad and his own pilgrimages to it.
Navid Kermani, the German Islamic scholar, has written God Is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Quran which considers the manner in which the Quran has been perceived and experienced from the time of the Prophet to the present day.
Producer: Georgia Catt
You can download this programme by searching in the Arts and Ideas podcasts for the broadcast date.
TUE 22:45 The Essay (b04tcd5x)
Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio
The Wager
Terry Jones introduces another tasty Renaissance tale, starring Louise Brealey in a sly tale of about a costly bet.
The one hundred stories which make up Giovanni Boccaccio's humane and comic masterpiece, come from all over the world.
They are vividly reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing merchant classes in the cities of Renaissance Italy. But their witty, satirical, bawdy voice sounds utterly modern, and their subjects - love, fate, sex, religion, morality - are universal.
Radio 3 is retelling ten of these choice Florentine Fancies, adapted from Boccaccio by Robin Brooks, and introduced by Terry Jones. Like the original, our stories are told over ten days, each of which has its own theme. You can hear them every evening in the Essay, and in omnibus form on Sunday Evenings in Drama on 3.
The music for the series is arranged and performed by Robert Hollingworth, Director of I Fagiolini, and the lutenist Paula Chateauneuf, with translations by Silvia Reseghetti. The script consultant is Guyda Armstrong.
Today's theme: "Those who after misadventures, find unexpected happiness."
When Bernabo makes a bet on his wife's chastity, and his friend sets out to prove him wrong, neither man imagines the matter will change their lives forever.
Giovanni Boccaccio was born to a Florentine banking family in 1313. After an unsuccessful start in law, he turned to his true love: poetry. A humanist and a pupil of Petrarch, Boccaccio's Latin poetry was famous across Europe, and provided the sources for his near-contemporary Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and The Knight's Tale. But his real innovation was the vibrant, vernacular prose in which he wrote The Decameron. Beautifully realised in the teeming voices of merchants and prostitutes, knights and nuns, shopkeepers and conmen, these one hundred stories have become a bedrock of our storytelling tradition, mined ever since by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Moliere, Lope de Vega, Christine de Pizan, Swift, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, Caryl Churchill and many more.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b04tccwp)
Tuesday - Mara Carlyle
Presented by Mara Carlyle and including songs by Nick Drake and his mother Molly Drake, a sequence of Jew's harp recordings from around the world, German inventor Hans Reichel's daxophone, a motet by Maurice Durufle, plus an excerpt from Philip Glass's score for the American horror film Candyman.
WEDNESDAY 10 DECEMBER 2014
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b04t9h3r)
Silesian Quartet - Debussy, Panufnik, Franck
John Shea introduces the Silesian Quartet performing Debussy's String Quartet, Panufnik's 2nd Quartet 'Messages' and Franck's Piano Quintet in F minor with Wojciech Switala, piano.
12:31 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
Quartet in G minor Op.10 for strings
Silesian Quartet
12:56 AM
Panufnik, Andrzej [1914-1991]
Quartet no. 2 (Messages) for strings
Silesian Quartet
1:14 AM
Franck, Cesar [1822-1890]
Quintet in F minor M.7 for piano and strings
Silesian Quartet, Wojciech Switala, piano
1:47 AM
Chausson, Ernest [1855-1899]
Symphony in B flat (Op.20)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Michel Plasson (conductor)
2:24 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Soirée dans Grenade (No.2 from Estampes)
Claude Debussy (piano)
2:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Concerto no. 4 in E flat major K.495 for horn and orchestra
David Pyatt (horn) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Robert King (conductor)
2:47 AM
Stravinsky, Igor [1882-1971]
3 Movements from Petrushka transcribed by Stravinsky for solo piano
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
3:04 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
En Saga (1st version of 1892)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
3:26 AM
Pärt, Arvo (b. 1935)
The Woman with the Alabaster box for chorus
Erik Westbergs Vocal Ensemble
3:33 AM
Storace, Bernardo [fl. 1664]
Chaconne for harpsichord in C major
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
3:39 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Die schöne Melusine (The fair Melusine) - overture (Op.32)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa (conductor)
3:50 AM
Farkas, Ferenc [1905-2000]
5 Ancient Hungarian dances for wind quintet
Academic Wind Quintet
4:01 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Schmucke dich, O liebe Seele - chorale-prelude BWV.654 for organ
Tomás Thon (organ)
4:08 AM
Desprez, Josquin (1440-1521)
Ave Maria . . . Virgo serena for 4 voices
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
4:15 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Symphony No.1 in D major (Op.25), 'Classical'
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Michel Tabachnik (conductor)
4:31 AM
Janacek, Leos [1854-1928]
Pohadka (Fairy tale) for cello and piano
Jonathan Slaatto (cello), Martin Qvist Hansen (piano)
4:42 AM
Humperdinck, Engelbert [1854-1921]
Dream Pantomime from Hansel and Gretel
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
4:51 AM
Handel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759)
Perché viva il caro sposo - from Rodrigo (HWV 5) Act 3
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director)
4:58 AM
Hannikainen, Ilmari (1892-1955)
Rural Dances (Op.39a)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor)
5:13 AM
Obrecht, Jacob (1450-1505)
Salve Regina
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Paul van Nevel (conductor)
5:18 AM
Willaert, Adrian (1490-1562)
Pater Noster
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Paul van Nevel (conductor)
5:23 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Rondino in E flat (WoO 25) for two oboes, two clarinets, two horns, two bassoons
The Festival Winds
5:30 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto for 2 violins and string orchestra in D minor (BWV.1043)
Sigiswald Kuijken (violin and conductor), Lucy van Dael (2nd violin solo), La Petite Bande
5:47 AM
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937)
Variations on a Polish Folk theme in B minor (Op.10)
Jerzy Godziszewski (piano)
6:07 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Symphony No.8 in B minor (D.759) "Unfinished"
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy (conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b04tc8cg)
Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including requests for your favourite works and pieces that you would like to hear.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b04tc8cj)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker with John Bird
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... English madrigals.' Throughout the week Sarah makes the case for English madrigals, showcasing music by Thomas Weelkes, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons and William Byrd.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify who is singing.
10am
Sarah's guest this week, sharing his favourite classical music every day at
10am, is the inspirational social entrepreneur John Bird. Having spent his own childhood and teenage years in an orphanage, on the streets and in prison, in 1991 John launched The Big Issue, a magazine sold by people who are homeless and long-term unemployed. John has been awarded an MBE for services to the homeless.
10.30am
This week's featured artist is Christopher Hogwood, who died in September. A leading figure of the early music revival and the founder of the Academy of Ancient Music, conductor, keyboard player and musicologist Hogwood worked with leading symphony orchestras and opera houses across the world. He was also passionate about the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, and had a worldwide reputation for his combination of musicianship and scholarship.
11am
This week's Essential Choices are all inspired by dance.
Sergei Rachmaninov
Suite No. 2 for two pianos, Op. 17
Martha Argerich & Nelson Freire (pianos).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b04tc9g4)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
The Art of Song
Donald Macleod investigates the literary catalysts that fired Schumann's musical imagination. Today, Hans Christian Andersen, Friedrich von Schiller and Heinrich Heine.
"Get your head out of that book!" is probably not a reprimand the young Robert Schumann was used to receiving. He grew up in a household that lived and breathed literature. His father was a novelist, bookseller and publisher who made a small fortune from his pocket editions of foreign-language classics in translation. As a teenager Schumann wrote copiously, trying his hand at fiction, poetry and plays, and it took him several years to satisfy himself that he was a composer rather than a writer. But his literary passion persisted, informing not only the texts he set but his whole conception of musical narrative and structure.
Today's writers are Hans Christian Andersen, whom Schumann's wife Clara unflatteringly described as "still somewhat young, but very ugly, and also frightfully vain and egotistic"; Friedrich von Schiller, of Ode to Joy fame; and Heinrich Heine, a divisive figure to this day, who has the distinction of having been set to music more often than almost any other German-language poet. According to Andersen's autobiography he was delighted by Schumann's settings of his poetry, which he heard at a dinner in 1844 at which the composer was also present. Schumann considered writing an opera based on Schiller's tragedy The Bride of Messina, but got no further than the overture, which condenses the essence of the play into eight searing minutes. Heine is the poet behind Schumann's first Liederkreis cycle. The two men met just once, in 1828; Schumann, then a student on a visit to Munich, paid a house-call to Heine, who showed him the sights of the city. When twelve years later Schumann sent Heine a copy of his new song-cycle, the poet didn't even acknowledge it.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b04tc9md)
Bath Mozartfest 2014
Episode 2
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Bath Mozartfest in the glorious surroundings of the city's Guildhall and Assembly Rooms, and feature performances by the Nash Ensemble, the Vertavo Quartet and the Myrthen Ensemble. Today's programme includes chamber music and songs by Bartok, John Ireland, James MacMillan, Gerald Finzi, Ivor Gurney and Arthur Somervell.
Ireland: Spring will not wait
MacMillan: The Children
Finzi: Channel Firing
Gurney: In Flanders
Myrthen Ensemble
Bartok: String Quartet No.6
Vertavo Quartet
Somervell: When Soft Voices Die
Myrthen Ensemble.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b04tc9qz)
BBC Philharmonic - Sibelius, Vasks, Nielsen
Afternoon on 3's series of Nordic/Baltic music continues with the BBC Philharmonic and conductor John Storgards live in concert from MediaCity, Salford. The orchestra's Principal Cor Anglais player Gillian Callow is the soloist in Peteris Vasks Cor Anglais Concerto, before Nielsen's mighty Symphony no.4.
Presented by Stuart Flinders.
2.00pm
Sibelius: Pan and Echo
Peteris Vasks: Cor anglais Concerto
2.30pm
Nielsen: Symphony No 4 (Inextinguishable)
Gillian Callow (cor anglais)
BBC Philharmonic, conductor John Storgards.
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b04tcdbh)
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
From St Martin-in the-Fields, London with St Martin's Voices
Introit: The truth from above (Michael Cayton)
Responses: Nils Greenhow (1st performance)
Psalm: 72 vv1-7, vv18-19 (Archer)
Office hymn: O heavenly word from God on high (Gonfalon Royal)
Lessons: Isaiah 2 vv2-5, 1 Corinthians 15 vv51-55
Canticles: Ben Parry in G
Homily: The Revd Dr Sam Wells
Anthems: Love divine, all loves excelling (William Lloyd Webber)
In darkness held (Richard Shephard)
Hymn: Longing for light, we wait in darkness (Christ be our light)
People look east (Steel)
Organ voluntary: Toccata on 'Nun freut euch' (Lionel Rogg)
Andrew Earis, Director of Music
Richard Moore, Organist.
WED 16:30 In Tune (b04tcb4d)
Sakari Oramo, Fieri Consort
Suzy Klein talks to conductor Sakari Oramo about his ongoing Nielsen symphonic cycle with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Croatian pianist and composer Dejan Lazic plays live ahead of his recital at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, and singing live is the Fieri Consort as they prepare to perform at Brompton Cemetery Chapel, the wonderful and little-known Grade II listed domed chapel built in the style of the Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome.
Main news headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b04tc9g4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b04tcbqs)
RLPO - Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven
Live from Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Presented by Tom Redmond
After a Mozart curtain-raiser in the form of his overture to The Marriage of Figaro, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra welcomes back violinist James Ehnes (who replaces Vilde Frang at short notice) to Philharmonic Hall to play Brahms' sweet, songful Violin Concerto.
In the second half, guest conductor Andrew Manze guides the orchestra through Beethoven's Symphony No.6. The composer said that his Pastoral Symphony was "more an expression of feelings than a picture", but one can hear the rippling streams, singing birds and shepherd's pipes in this - one of the warmest, happiest and most uplifting symphonies ever written.
Mozart: Overture - The Marriage of Figaro
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77
8.20 Interval, featuring recordings from James Ehnes and Andrew Manze, as violinist
8.40
Beethoven: Symphony No.6
James Ehnes (violin)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze (conductor).
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b04tcc1q)
Rebecca Solnit, Wonder Woman, Submarine Films
American author Rebecca Solnit discusses the impact of "mansplaining" which she explores in her book Men Explain Things To Me.
Matthew Sweet looks at the image of Wonder Woman with comic artist Steve Marchant and Jill Lepore, author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman.
New Generation Thinker Dr Will Abberley discusses the literary traditions followed by submarine films from Jude Law's new cinema release The Black Sea to Das Boot and The Hunt for Red October.
Producer: Zahid Warley
You can download this programme by searching in the Arts and Ideas podcasts for the broadcast date.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b04tcd63)
Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio
A Job for the Boys
Terry Jones introduces another tasty Renaissance tale, starring Neil Pearson and Tameka Empson, in a story about fun with nuns.
The one hundred stories which make up Giovanni Boccaccio's humane and comic masterpiece, come from all over the world.
They are vividly reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing merchant classes in the cities of Renaissance Italy. But their witty, satirical, bawdy voice sounds utterly modern, and their subjects - love, fate, sex, religion, morality - are universal.
Radio 3 is retelling ten of these choice Florentine Fancies, adapted from Boccaccio by Robin Brooks, and introduced by Terry Jones. Like the original, our stories are told over ten days, each of which has its own theme. You can hear them every evening in the Essay, and in omnibus form on Sunday Evenings in Drama on 3.
The music for the series is arranged and performed by Robert Hollingworth, Director of I Fagiolini, and the lutenist Paula Chateauneuf, with translations by Silvia Reseghetti. The script consultant is Guyda Armstrong.
Today's theme: "Those who lose something, and then regain it."
Masetto's having a quiet drink, when the chance of a new job comes his way.
Giovanni Boccaccio was born to a Florentine banking family in 1313. After an unsuccessful start in law, he turned to his true love: poetry. A humanist and a pupil of Petrarch, Boccaccio's Latin poetry was famous across Europe, and provided the sources for his near-contemporary Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and The Knight's Tale. But his real innovation was the vibrant, vernacular prose in which he wrote The Decameron. Beautifully realised in the teeming voices of merchants and prostitutes, knights and nuns, shopkeepers and conmen, these one hundred stories have become a bedrock of our storytelling tradition, mined ever since by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Moliere, Lope de Vega, Christine de Pizan, Swift, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, Caryl Churchill and many more.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b04tccws)
Wednesday - Mara Carlyle
Mara Carlyle presents classic Trinidadian calypso from the 1930s, American experimentalist Henry Cowell's Aeolian Harp, an excerpt from Emily Hall's new opera for voice and electromagnetic harp, Josef Rheinberger's Abendlied, a track from English artrockers 10cc and Gavin Bryars's Sub Rosa, "an extended paraphrase of and comment on" American guitarist Bill Frisell's composition Throughout.
THURSDAY 11 DECEMBER 2014
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b04t9h3t)
Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Jarvi
BBC Proms 2013: Orchestre de Paris and Paavo Jarvi perform Britten's Violin Concerto and Saint-Saëns's 'Organ' Symphony. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Part, Arvo [1935-]
Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
12:38 AM
Britten, Benjamin [1913-1976]
Concerto (Op 15) for violin and orchestra
Janine Jansen (violin), Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
1:11 AM
Berlioz, Hector [1803-1869]
Le Corsaire - overture (Op.21)
Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
1:20 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille [1835-1921]
Symphony No.3 in C minor (Op.78) "Organ Symphony"
Thierry Escaich (organ), Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
1:57 AM
Bizet, Georges [1838-1875]
Le Bal (Galop) from Jeux D'enfants (Petite Suite)
Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
1:59 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)
2:31 AM
Muthel, Johann Gottfried (1728-1788)
Concerto in D minor for harpsichord, 2 bassoons, strings and continuo
Rhoda Patrick and David Mings (bassoons), Gregor Hollman (harpsichord), Musica Alta Ripa
2:55 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata in A minor (Op.42) (D.845)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
3:31 AM
Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich (1732-1795)
Trio in C major, for flute, violin & continuo
Musica Petropolitana
3:44 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Du bist wie eine Blume, Op.25 No.24 (from Myrthen) (You are so like a flower)
Jean Stilwell (mezzo soprano), Robert Kortgaard (piano)
3:46 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856), trans. Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Widmung (Op.25 No.1)
Jorge Bolet (piano)
3:50 AM
Bacewicz, Grazyna (1909-1969)
Serenade for orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
3:55 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance (Op.72 No.2)
James Anagnoson and Leslie Kinton (piano)
4:00 AM
Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594), words by anon
Timor et tremor (prima pars) & Exaudi Deus (secunda pars) - from Thesauri musicae tomus tertius....; Nürnberg J.Montanus & V.Neuber (1564)
Ensemble Daedalus, Roberto Festa (director)
4:05 AM
Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706) [text Psalm 100]
Jauchzet dem Herrn
Cantus Cölln , Konrad Junghänel (director)
4:11 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Sonata in B flat major (K.281)
Ingo Dannhorn (piano)
4:23 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Spirit Music (Nos.1 to 4) - from Alcina
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Monica Huggett (guest conductor)
4:31 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Prelude (Introduction) from Capriccio - opera in 1 act (Op.85)
Henschel Quartet & Soo-Jin Hong (violin) Soo-Kyung Hong (cello)
4:43 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Ballade No.2 in F major (Op.38)
Anastasia Vorotnaya (piano)
4:51 AM
Clemens non Papa (c.1510-c.1556)
Ave Maria
Banchieri Singers, Denes Szabo (conductor)
4:53 AM
Clemens non Papa (c.1510-c.1556)
Chanson Languir Me Fais
Banchieri Singers, Denes Szabo (conductor)
4:56 AM
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909)
10 Songs (Op.3) (1896) [No.1 Mów do mnie jeszcze (Speak to me still); 2.Z erotyków (From the erotics); 3.Idzie na pola (It goes over fields); 4.Na spokojnym, ciemnym morzu (On the calm dark sea); 5.Spi w blaskach nocy (Asleep in the splendours of the night); 6.Przed noca wieczna (Before eternal night); 7.Nie placz nade mna (Weep not over me); 8.W wieczorna cisze (In the calm of the evening); 9.Po szerokim, po szerokim morzu (Over the wide, wide sea); 10.Zaczarowan królewna (The enchanted princess)]
Jadwiga Rappé (contralto), Ewa Poblocka (piano)
5:11 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Serenade No.2 in G minor for violin & orchestra (Op.69b)
Judy Kang (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Jean-François Rivest (conductor)
5:20 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
Pour le piano
Charles Richard-Hamelin
5:34 AM
Leclair, Jean-Marie (1697-1764)
Deuxième Récréation de musique d'une exécution facile in G minor (for 2 flutes/violins and continuo, Op.8)
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
5:59 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
String Quartet in F major
New Helsinki Quartet: Jan Söderblom, Petri Aarmio (violins), Ilari Angervo (viola), Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b04tc8cl)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including requests for your favourite works and pieces that you would like to hear.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b04tc8cn)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with John Bird
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... English madrigals.' Throughout the week Sarah makes the case for English madrigals, showcasing music by Thomas Weelkes, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons and William Byrd.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the personal relationship that connects two pieces of music.
10am
Sarah's guest this week, sharing his favourite classical music every day at
10am, is the inspirational social entrepreneur John Bird. Having spent his own childhood and teenage years in an orphanage, on the streets and in prison, in 1991 John launched The Big Issue, a magazine sold by people who are homeless and long-term unemployed. John has been awarded an MBE for services to the homeless.
10.30am
This week's featured artist is Christopher Hogwood, who died in September. A leading figure of the early music revival and the founder of the Academy of Ancient Music, conductor, keyboard player and musicologist Hogwood worked with leading symphony orchestras and opera houses across the world. He was also passionate about the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, and had a worldwide reputation for his combination of musicianship and scholarship.
11am
This week's Essential Choices are all inspired by dance.
Zoltan Kodaly
Dances of Galanta
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b04tc9gj)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Whatever Happened to Christian Friedrich Hebbel?
Donald Macleod investigates the literary catalysts that fired Schumann's musical imagination. Today, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, the writer behind Schumann's only opera.
"Get your head out of that book!" is probably not a reprimand the young Robert Schumann was used to receiving. He grew up in a household that lived and breathed literature. His father was a novelist, bookseller and publisher who made a small fortune from his pocket editions of foreign-language classics in translation. As a teenager Schumann wrote copiously, trying his hand at fiction, poetry and plays, and it took him several years to satisfy himself that he was a composer rather than a writer. But his literary passion persisted, informing not only the texts he set but his whole conception of musical narrative and structure.
"A great honour has befallen our house - Friedrich Hebbel visited us on his journey through. He is arguably the greatest genius of our day." Well that's as may be, but for us, Hebbel - the focus of today's programme - is certainly one of the less familiar giants in Schumann's literary pantheon. He wrote novellas, poems and essays, but was best known to his contemporaries for his biblical and historical dramas, and it was one of these - Genoveva, a decidedly pre-feminist tale of male weakness and wifely devotion set in the 8th century - that gave Schumann the impetus for his one and only opera.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b04tc9mg)
Bath Mozartfest 2014
Episode 3
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Bath Mozartfest in the glorious surroundings of the city's Guildhall and Assembly Rooms, and feature performances by the Nash Ensemble and the Myrthen Ensemble. Today's programme includes Beethoven's ground-breaking Septet and songs by Schubert, Mahler and Wolf.
Schubert: Grab und Mond D.893
Mahler: Wo die schönen Trompeten Blasen
Wolf: Der Tambour
Schubert: Nun lasst uns den Leib begraben D 168
Myrthen Ensemble
Beethoven: Septet, Op.20
Nash Ensemble.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b04tc9r1)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Strauss 150: Der Liebe der Danae (Acts 1 and 2)
Strauss 150
In celebration of 150 years since Richard Strauss's today's Thursday Opera Matinee is Der Liebe der Danae, in a performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Opera Chorus conducted by Charles Mackerras in 1980. The cast includes Arlene Saunders, Norman Bailey and Rosalind Plowright. Act 3 can be heard tomorrow. Plus music from this week's featured BBC artists: the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers.
Presented by Katie Derham
2.00pm
Richard Strauss: Der Liebe der Danae.
Danae..... Arlene Saunders (Soprano)
Jupiter..... Norman Bailey (Baritone)
Midas, King of Lydia..... Kenneth Woollam (Tenor)
Pollux, King of Eos..... John Dobson (Tenor)
Xanthe, Servant to Danae..... Rosalind Plowright (Soprano)
Mercury..... Emile Belcourt (Tenor)
4 Queens: Semele..... Elizabeth Gale (Soprano)
Europa..... Alison Hargen (Soprano)
Alkmene..... Patricia Price (Mezzo-Soprano)
Leda..... Linda Finnie (Alto)
4 Kings...... Bernard Dickerson, Stuart Kale, Alan Watt, Geoffrey Moses
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Opera Chorus
Sir Charles Mackerras
3.35pm
Damase Concertino
Ashley Wass (piano),
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates
Frédéric d'Erlanger Midnight Rose
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Johannes Wildner
4.05pm
Rautavaara Magnificat
BBC Singers, conductor Justin Doyle.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b04tcb4g)
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Benjamin Nicholas, Ludus Baroque
Suzy Klein catches the European Union Baroque Orchestra and Lars Ulrik Mortensen for a live performance on In Tune before their St John's Smith Square concert in London tonight.
Main news headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b04tc9gj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b04tcbqv)
BBC Singers - French Choral Music
Live in Concert from Milton Court, London.
The BBC Singers led by their chief conductor David Hill perform sacred and secular French choral music with a seasonal flavour.
The 20th century is a truly golden age in French music with a wealth of gloriously sumptuous and seductively perfumed harmony to be discovered. This concert reflects both the spiritual world of Poulenc, Duruflé and Messiaen, and the inspiration of French poetry on composers such as Français, Ravel and Debussy. From the rich, film-score sensuality of Poulenc's "Un soir de neige" to the lyrical, reflective sound world of the chansons of Ravel and Debussy, this is a perfect showcase for the virtuosity of the BBC Singers under their chief conductor David Hill. They are joined in the second half by New Generation Artist Zhang Zuo who performs Ravel's piano masterpiece Gaspard de la nuit.
7.30
Poulenc: Un Soir de neige
Messiaen: O Sacrum Convivium
Poulenc: 4 Christmas Motets
Duruflé: 4 Motets
Poulenc: Mass in G major
8.20 INTERVAL MUSIC
Ravel's orchestrated version of movements from Tombeau de Couperin
8.40
Debussy: 3 Chansons de Charles d'Orléans
Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit
Francaix: 3 poemes de Paul Valery
Ravel: 3 Chansons
Zhang Zuo (piano)
BBC Singers
David Hill (conductor).
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b04tcc1v)
Sarah Waters, TV Drama: Jed Mercurio, Dominic Savage, Caryn Mandabach
TV dramatist Jed Mercurio, director Dominic Savage and producer Caryn Mandabach talk to Anne McElvoy about creating successful dramas including The Line of Duty and Peaky Blinders.
Novelist Sarah Waters has created a play with Christopher Green called The Frozen Scream. It runs at Wales Millennium Centre Cardiff from 11 to 20 December and then Birmingham Hippodrome from 7 to 17 January. Sarah Waters' latest novel is called The Paying Guests.
New Generation Thinker Sarah Peverley looks at Christmas customs in Medieval England. Applications for next year's New Generation Thinker scheme run in conjunction with the AHRC are open until December 15th. Follow the links further down our programme home page.
Producer: Craig Templeton-Smith
You can download this programme by searching in the Arts and Ideas podcasts for the broadcast date.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b04tcd65)
Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio
Love Lies Sleeping
Terry Jones introduces another tasty Renaissance tale.
The one hundred stories which make up Giovanni Boccaccio's humane and comic masterpiece, come from all over the world.
They are vividly reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing merchant classes in the cities of Renaissance Italy. But their witty, satirical, bawdy voice sounds utterly modern, and their subjects - love, fate, sex, religion, morality - are universal.
Radio 3 is retelling ten of these choice Florentine Fancies, adapted from Boccaccio by Robin Brooks, and introduced by Terry Jones. Like the original, our stories are told over ten days, each of which has its own theme. You can hear them every evening in the Essay, and in omnibus form on Sunday Evenings in Drama on 3.
The music for the series is arranged and performed by Robert Hollingworth, Director of I Fagiolini, and the lutenist Paula Chateauneuf, with translations by Silvia Reseghetti. The script consultant is Guyda Armstrong.
Today's theme is: "The loves which lead us to disaster."
In the middle of the night, Beppo's wife wakes him up to tell him a story. And his night has only just begun.
Giovanni Boccaccio was born to a Florentine banking family in 1313. After an unsuccessful start in law, he turned to his true love: poetry. A humanist and a pupil of Petrarch, Boccaccio's Latin poetry was famous across Europe, and provided the sources for his near-contemporary Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and The Knight's Tale. But his real innovation was the vibrant, vernacular prose in which he wrote The Decameron. Beautifully realised in the teeming voices of merchants and prostitutes, knights and nuns, shopkeepers and conmen, these one hundred stories have become a bedrock of our storytelling tradition, mined ever since by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Moliere, Lope de Vega, Christine de Pizan, Swift, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, Caryl Churchill and many more.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b04tccwx)
Thursday - Mara Carlyle
Mara Carlyle presents music for flute, clarinet and piano by English composer Laurence Crane, Nino Rota's score for Fellini's Casanova, Joe Meek's early concept album I Hear a New World, Czech duo Tara Fuki, My Yiddishe Momme in a mashup of historical recordings created for Hohenems Jewish Museum in Austria, and a poignant song from Vic Chesnutt's penultimate album At the Cut.
FRIDAY 12 DECEMBER 2014
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b04t9h3w)
Orchestra of the 18th Century
John Shea presents a concert given by the Orchestra of the 18th Century at the 2012 Chopin and his Europe Festival. It features piano concertos with distinguished soloists Martha Argerich and Maria Joao Pires.
12:31 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 2 (Op.21) in F minor
Janusz Olejniczak (piano), Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen (conductor)
1:03 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Mazurka op. 24 no.2 in C major for piano
Janusz Olejniczak (piano)
1:06 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Aufschwung from 'Phantasiestucke', Op.12
Janusz Olejniczak (piano)
1:10 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 3 (Op.37) in C minor
Maria Joao Pires (piano), Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen (conductor)
1:47 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 (Op.15) in C major
Martha Argerich (piano), Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen (conductor)
2:21 AM
Grieg, Edvard [1843-1907]
Morning from 'Peer Gynt' arr for piano four-hands
Martha Argerich (piano), Maria Joao Pires (piano)
2:25 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Allegro Molto from Piano Sonata in D major, K381
Martha Argerich (piano), Maria Joao Pires (piano)
2:31 AM
Couperin, François (1668-1733)
Bruit de Guerre
Hungarian Brass Ensemble
2:35 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Harold en Italie (Op.16) - symphony for viola and orchestra
Milan Telecky (viola), Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
3:20 AM
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903)
Italian Serenade for string quartet
Ljubljana String Quartet
3:29 AM
Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725)
Ero's aria 'Leandro, anima mia' (from 'Ero e Leandro')
Gerard Lèsne (counter-tenor), Il Seminario Musicale
3:40 AM
Larsson, Lars-Erik (1908-1986)
Pastoral Suite (Op.19) (1938)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
3:54 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Sonata quasi una fantasia for piano (Op.27 No.2) in C sharp minor, 'Moonlight'
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
4:08 AM
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875) (Suite 2 compiled by Ernest Guiraud)
Selection from L'Arlésienne Suites Nos.1 & 2
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
4:31 AM
Pacius, Frederik (1809-1891)
Overture for Large Orchestra
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kari Tikka (conductor)
4:37 AM
Rautavaara, Einojuhani (b. 1928)
Cantus Arcticus - 'a concerto for birds and orchestra' (Op.61) (1972)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
4:56 AM
Doppler, Franz (1821-1883)
L'oiseau des bois (Op.21) - idyll for flute and 4 horns
János Balint (flute), Jeno Kevehazi, Peter Fuzes, Sandor Endrodi, Tibor Maruzsa (horns)
5:02 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Hungarian Rhapsody No.1 (S.244 No.1) in E major
Jenö Jandó (piano)
5:16 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.67 (Hob I:67) in F major
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor)
5:42 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) [text Friedrich Schiller]
Sehnsucht (D.636 Op.39)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano - after Johann Fritz, Vienna c.1815)
5:46 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Auf dem See (D.543) (On the lake)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
5:50 AM
Lyadov, Anatoly Konstantinovich [1855-1914]
The Enchanted Lake (Op.62)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Kitaenko (conductor)
5:58 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Water Music: Suite in G major for 'flauto piccolo', sopranino recorder, 2 oboes, bassoon and strings (HWV.350)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
6:09 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat major
Markus Maskuniitty (horn), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Junichi Hirokami (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b04tc8cq)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including requests for your favourite works and pieces that you would like to hear.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b04tc8ss)
Friday - Sarah Walker with John Bird
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... English madrigals.' Throughout the week Sarah makes the case for English madrigals, showcasing music by Thomas Weelkes, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons and William Byrd.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Sarah's guest this week, sharing his favourite classical music every day at
10am, is the inspirational social entrepreneur John Bird. Having spent his own childhood and teenage years in an orphanage, on the streets and in prison, in 1991 John launched The Big Issue, a magazine sold by people who are homeless and long-term unemployed. John has been awarded an MBE for services to the homeless.
10.30am
This week's featured artist is Christopher Hogwood, who died in September. A leading figure of the early music revival and the founder of the Academy of Ancient Music, conductor, keyboard player and musicologist Hogwood worked with leading symphony orchestras and opera houses across the world. He was also passionate about the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, and had a worldwide reputation for his combination of musicianship and scholarship.
11am
This week's Essential Choices are all inspired by dance.
Aaron Copland
Dance Symphony
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b04tc9gl)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
The Ascent of Mt Goethe
Donald Macleod investigates the literary catalysts that fired Schumann's musical imagination. Today, the high priest of German literature - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
"Get your head out of that book!" is probably not a reprimand the young Robert Schumann was used to receiving. He grew up in a household that lived and breathed literature. His father was a novelist, bookseller and publisher who made a small fortune from his pocket editions of foreign-language classics in translation. As a teenager Schumann wrote copiously, trying his hand at fiction, poetry and plays, and it took him several years to satisfy himself that he was a composer rather than a writer. But his literary passion persisted, informing not only the texts he set but his whole conception of musical narrative and structure.
In today's programme he explores Schumann's creative engagement with the high priest of German literature - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Schumann admired Goethe immensely; he owned the 40-volume edition of his works that was issued in the late 1820s, as well as the 20-volume set of his unpublished works. "Above all he is a poet", he told his wife Clara. Adapting Goethe's words was inconceivable, so Schumann decided to set them straight in his Scenes from Goethe's Faust - a kind of secular oratorio on the theme of redemption.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b04tc9ml)
Bath Mozartfest 2014
Episode 4
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Bath Mozartfest in the glorious surroundings of the city's Guildhall and Assembly Rooms, and feature performances by the the Myrthen Ensemble and the Vertavo Quartet with pianist Paul Lewis. Today's programme includes Dvorak's tour-de-force Piano Quintet in A and songs by Fauré, Duparc, Poulenc and Granados.
Fauré: Les berceaux
Duparc: Au pays où se fait la guerre
Poulenc: Bleuet
Granados: La maja dolorosa I
Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A, Op.81
Vertavo Quartet with Paul Lewis (piano).
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b04tc9r3)
BBC Concert Orchestra and Singers
Strauss 150: Der Liebe der Danae (Act 3)
Penny Gore presents act 3 of Strauss's Der Liebe der Danae, as part of Strauss 150. Plus music from the BBC Concert Orchestra and more in the Afternoon on 3 Nordic - Baltic season.
2.00pm
Richard Strauss: Der Liebe der Danae. - Act 3
Danae..... Arlene Saunders (Soprano)
Jupiter..... Norman Bailey (Baritone)
Midas, King of Lydia..... Kenneth Woollam (Tenor)
Pollux, King of Eos..... John Dobson (Tenor)
Xanthe, Servant to Danae..... Rosalind Plowright (Soprano)
Mercury..... Emile Belcourt (Tenor)
4 Queens: Semele..... Elizabeth Gale (Soprano)
Europa..... Alison Hargen (Soprano)
Alkmene..... Patricia Price (Mezzo-Soprano)
Leda..... Linda Finnie (Alto)
4 Kings...... Bernard Dickerson, Stuart Kale, Alan Watt, Geoffrey Moses
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Opera Chorus
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
c.
3.10pm
Henry Kimball Hadley
Overture: In Bohemia
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Rebecca Miller
c.
3.25pm
Frédéric d'Erlanger
Concerto symphonique
Victor Sangiorgio (piano),
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Johannes Wildner
c.
3.55pm
Foulds
St Joan Suite, Op 82
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b04tcb4j)
Ruth Wall, Temple Church Choir, Vilde Frang, Nicola Benedetti
A Scottish special today as Suzy Klein offers a Ten Pieces Masterclass from violinist Nicola Benedetti, Blue Peter's Barney Harwood, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra giving top tips and musical inspiration to a group of young local musicians on Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King and Beethoven's Fifth. This is an edited version of an online lesson that was streamed from Glasgow to thousands of primary school children across the UK.
And Suzy meets Scottish harpist Ruth Wall who performs live with her Three Harps of Christmas - a Concert Harp, Renaissance Bray Harp and a Gaelic Wire Strung Harp.
We also have live music from Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang, and our choir for today is the wonderful Temple Church Choir who perform at this week's Temple Winter Festival.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b04tc9gl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b04tcbqy)
BBC SO and Chorus - Rachmaninov, Nielsen, Busoni
Live from the Barbican
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus with Sakari Oramo: Rachmaninov's Spring Cantata and Nielsen's 2nd Symphony. Garrick Ohlsson joins them for Busoni's gargantuan Piano Concerto.
Rachmaninov: Spring Cantata
Nielsen: Symphony no.2 'The Four Temperaments' FS29, Op.16
8.25pm Interval: Schoenberg's Friede auf Erden (Peace on Earth) - a setting of a text by Swiss writer Conrad Ferdinand Meyer - is performed here by the BBC Singers and conductor David Hill. Plus the ensemble Diabolicus with Erwin Stein's arrangement of Busoni's Berceuse Elegiaque.
Busoni: Concerto for Piano in C major K247 Op.39
Igor Golovatenko (baritone)
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
In Nielsen's Second Symphony, The Four Temperaments, we feel the full force of the mature composer's vision. Taking the medieval idea of the 'four humours' of the human constitution, Nielsen constructs a drama of vivid contrasts, from impetuous violence of the first 'choleric' movement to the irresistible dancing breeziness of the 'sanguine' finale. In between comes a 'melancholy' Andante of majestic expressive power, worthy of Rachmaninov, whose consoling cantata Spring opens the concert, performed with baritone Igor Golovatenko and BBC Symphony Chorus. The male chorus joins American master-pianist Garrick Ohlsson for Busoni's extraordinary concerto, once called 'a hymn to immoderation'.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b04tcd6c)
Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio
A Quiet Night in Naples
Terry Jones introduces another tasty Renaissance tale.
The one hundred stories which make up Giovanni Boccaccio's humane and comic masterpiece, come from all over the world.
They are vividly reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing merchant classes in the cities of Renaissance Italy. But their witty, satirical, bawdy voice sounds utterly modern, and their subjects - love, fate, sex, religion, morality - are universal.
Radio 3 is retelling ten of these choice Florentine Fancies, adapted from Boccaccio by Robin Brooks, and introduced by Terry Jones. Like the original, our stories are told over ten days, each of which has its own theme. You can hear them every evening in the Essay, and in omnibus form on Sunday Evenings in Drama on 3.
The music for the series is arranged and performed by Robert Hollingworth, Director of I Fagiolini, and the lutenist Paula Chateauneuf, with translations by Silvia Reseghetti. The script consultant is Guyda Armstrong.
Today's theme is: "Adventures which end in triumph."
Country boy Andreuccio comes to Naples to buy a horse. If only life in Naples were so straightforward.
Giovanni Boccaccio was born to a Florentine banking family in 1313. After an unsuccessful start in law, he turned to his true love: poetry. A humanist and a pupil of Petrarch, Boccaccio's Latin poetry was famous across Europe, and provided the sources for his near-contemporary Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and The Knight's Tale. But his real innovation was the vibrant, vernacular prose in which he wrote The Decameron. Beautifully realised in the teeming voices of merchants and prostitutes, knights and nuns, shopkeepers and conmen, these one hundred stories have become a bedrock of our storytelling tradition, mined ever since by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Moliere, Lope de Vega, Christine de Pizan, Swift, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, Caryl Churchill and many more.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b04tccwz)
Lopa Kothari - London Klezmer Quartet Live in Session
Lopa Kothari with sounds from around the globe and London Klezmer Quartet live in session.