John Shea presents a recital of Mozart and Schubert by pianist Federico Colli.
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits (conductor)
Wiener Streichsextet: Erich Hobarth, Peter Matzka (violins), Thomas Riebl, Siegfried Fuhrlinger (violas), Susanne Ehn, Rudolf Leopold (cellos)
Tormis, Veljo (b. 1930)
Marin, José (c. 1618-1699)
No piense Menguilla ya' (from Ms Mu. 727, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Rolf Lislevand (baroque guitar), Arianna Savall (soprano & double harp), Pedro Estevan (percussion), Adela González-Campa (castanets)
The Hilliard Ensemble: David James & Ashley Stafford (altos), Rogers Covey-Crump, John Potter & Mark Padmore (tenors), Gordon Jones (baritone), David Beavan (bass), Paul Hillier (bass/director)
Selection from L'Arlésienne Suites Nos.1 & 2: Prélude, Minuetto & Adagietto - from Suite No.1; Menuet & Farandole - from Suite No.2
Les Adieux: Andreas Staier (fortepiano), Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Hajo Bäss (viola).
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Hildegard von Bingen. A poet, scientist and philosopher, Hildegard of Bingen was one of the first known composers in the history of Western music. Having spent most of her life in a monastery, Hildegard produced a wealth of writings, illuminated manuscripts and devotional songs. As part of a season celebrating women in music, Sarah will be showcasing some of the best recordings of Hildegard's compositions, giving us five reasons to love her work nearly 900 years after it was first written.
Take part in our daily musical challenge. Two pieces of music have been altered. Can you identify them?
In the lead up to International Women's Day, Sarah's guest is the author and teacher Erica Jong whose first novel Fear of Flying has become a feminist classic. Erica will be discussing her musical roots and sharing a selection of her favourite classical music every day at
. To find out more about Radio 3's International Women's Day programming follow @BBCRadio3 and the hashtag #womensday
Sarah's featured artist this week is the conductor Jane Glover. The Music Director of Chicago's Music of the Baroque and Director of Opera at the Royal Academy of Music, Glover blazed a trail as one of the first women to become a professional conductor. She has achieved an international reputation not just for her conducting but also for her academic achievements, and particularly for her work on Mozart. Sarah will be showcasing recordings chosen especially by Glover.
As part of Radio 3's celebration of female composers marking International Women's Day, this week Donald Macleod explores with Mary Cyr, the life and music of Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, hailed by scholars as one of the most successful women in the history of French music.
1684 was the year that Elisabeth Jacquet left the royal court in Versailles, and returned to Paris. She married Marin de La Guerre who was an organist at the Jesuit church of Saint Louis. The following year, at the age of only twenty, she composed a sung ballet, now lost, to be performed at court. A few years later in 1687, aged only twenty-two, she published her first set of Suites for Harpsichord, including the Suite No 4 in F major, which she dedicated to King Louis XIV.
A concert series featuring music by Bach given last month at LSO St Luke's in London.
Chopin: Preludes, Op 28: No 3 in G; No 4 in E minor; No 8 in F sharp minor; No 15 in D flat; No 16 in B flat minor
Natalie Clein places the music of Bach at the heart of this series of Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts at LSO St Luke's, in which she collaborates with a variety of musical friends. Later in the week you can hear her in partnership with violinists Henning Kraggerud and Anthony Marwood, viola player Krzysztof Chorzelski and harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani. To launch the series Natalie is joined by the mercurial South American pianist Sergio Tiempo to explore the links between Bach, Chopin and Shostakovich.
Live from MediaCity, Salford, The BBC Philharmonic showcase the music of the Argentinian, Alberto Ginastera.
Ginastera: Ollantay Op.17; Pampeana No.3 Op.24; Obertura para el "Fausto" criollo Op.9 .
Approx.
Sean Rafferty with guests including vocal ensemble Gothic Voices, Trio Da Kali - hotly anticipated vistors from the Mande culture of Mali - and Netia Jones, director of the upcoming BBC Symphony Orchestra performance of Unsuk Chin's opera Alice in Wonderland.
Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Introduced by Martin Handley.
Sunwook Kim plays Bach, Beethoven and Mussorgsky, part of the London South Bank's International Piano Series.
INTERVAL: Martin Handley introduces some of the many weird and wonderful arrangements of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
When Sunwook Kim won the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2006, he was not only the youngest winner in 40 years (he was then just 18), but he was also the competition's first Asian winner. After a first half of Bach and Beethoven, he gives us his interpretation of Mussorgsky's epic journey around a Russian art gallery.
John Gray talks to Matthew Sweet about why the Aztecs might have had a better understanding of freedom than we do and other human illusions about meaning and progress. His new book is called The Soul of the Marionette : A Short Enquiry Into Human Freedom.
Also we consider how artistic movements become successful as the National Gallery stages an exhibition devoted to Paul Durand-Ruel, the french art dealer who discovered the Impressionists.
National gallery curator Christopher Riopelle tells the story of the man who supported the likes of Pissarro, Degas, Monet and launched a group of anti-establishment artists into the art history pantheon.
Jacky Klein, art historian and newly-appointed head of Tate Publishing and Godfrey Barker, man of letters and art critic discuss the anthropology of the art world through time and how and why art movements and artists gain prominence or fade from memory, who gains and who loses and why.
Inventing Impressionism runs at the National Gallery in London from 4 March - 31 May 2015
In the week leading up to our celebration of International Women's Day, a series of essays celebrating five women who have been unacknowledged movers and shakers in the world of classical music down the ages. Each of these women overcame societal expectations or personal adversity to have real influence on the music of their day, and subsequently ours.
Lady Maud Warrender was a respected performer, and one of the most influential patrons of music in the early twentieth century, all while living with her lesbian lover, the opera singer Marcia Van Dresser. Her life, lived very much in the public gaze, but with whole areas that were kept so discreetly private that it is hard to find any concrete information, was an example of a tightrope successfully and deftly trodden - a perilous path between respectability and scandal.
Dr Kate Kennedy tells the story of this extraordinary woman who wielded more power in the musical world than many male professional concert promoters put together.
To find out more about Radio 3's International Women's Day programming follow @BBCRadio3 and the hashtag #womensday.
Presented by Fiona Talkington and featuring Catalan early music specialist Jordi Savall, accordionist Frode Haltli's recording of Salvatore Sciarrino, a new release from drummer Martin France's electronic project Spin Marvel, and a collaboration between Norwegian singers Susanna and Jenny Hval. Plus each day this week on Late Junction Marcus O'Dair, author of a new biography of Robert Wyatt, introduces a track from the English musician and composer's extensive back catalogue.
WEDNESDAY 04 MARCH 2015
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b05405y0)
Bach and Handel: Parallel Lives
John Shea presents a concert "Parallel Lives" with works by Bach and Handel.
12:31 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV131 (Cantata)
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Sonia Prina (contralto), Christopher Purves (bass), Krystian Adam (tenor), Wroclaw Philharmonic Chorus, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
12:56 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]; Giuvo, Nicola [1680-1758] (librettist)
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo HWV 72, serenata
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Sonia Prina (contralto), Christopher Purves (bass), Krystian Adam (tenor), Wroclaw Philharmonic Chorus, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
2:24 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) / Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
Meditation sur le première prelude de Bach (Ave Maria) arr. for cello & harp
Kyung-Ok Park (cello), Myung-Ja Kwun (harp)
2:31 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Symphony no.6 (FS.116) 'Sinfonia semplice'
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard
3:07 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Piano Quintet in A major (D.667), "Trout"
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano), Alban Berg Quartet
3:46 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Prelude for piano (Op.45) in C sharp minor
Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
3:51 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Overture - from Der Schauspieldirektor, singspiel in 1 act (K.486)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivor Bolton (conductor)
3:57 AM
Förster, Kaspar (1616-1673)
Et cum ingressus esset Jesu (KBPJ 16)
Kai Wessel (counter-tenor), Krzysztof Szmyt (tenor), Grzegorz Zychowicz (bass), Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble
4:03 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Variations on "Deandl is arb auf mi'" for string trio
Leopold String Trio
4:09 AM
Matušic, Frano (b. 1961)
Two Croatian Folksongs
Dubrovnik Guitar Trio
4:16 AM
Messager, André [1853-1929]
Solo de concours (for clarinet and piano)
Marten Altrov (clarinet); Holger Marjamaa (piano)
4:22 AM
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911)
Norwegian artists' carnival (Op.14)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
4:31 AM
Boeck, August de (1865-1937)
Fantasy on two Flemish Folk Songs
Vlaams Radio Orkest, Marc Soustrot (conductor)
4:38 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Sonata for piano (H.
16.34) in E minor
Ingrid Fliter (piano)
4:49 AM
Desprez, Josquin (1440-1521)
Ave Maria . . . Virgo serena for 4 voices
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
4:55 AM
Pandolfi Mealli, Giovanni Antonio (fl.1660-1669)
Sonata No.6 for violin and continuo 'La Sabbatina' - from Sonatas per chiesa e camera (Op.3)
Andrew Manze (violin), Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
5:05 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
Prélude à L'àpres midi d'une faune
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
5:15 AM
Salzedo, Carlos (1885-1961)
Variations sur un thème dans le style ancien (Op.30)
Mojca Zlobko (harp)
5:25 AM
Norman, Ludvig (1831-1885)
2 Charakterstücke for piano (Op.1)
Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano)
5:35 AM
Druschetsky, Georg (1745-1819)
Sextet for 2 clarinets, 2 french horns and 2 bassoons in E flat major
Bratislava Chamber Harmony
5:53 AM
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Ancient airs and dances for lute - suite No.3 for strings
I Cameristi Italiani
6:13 AM
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787)
Concerto for flute and orchestra (Op.6 No.2) in E minor
Karl Kaiser (transverse flute), La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (director).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b053zz7c)
Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b0540157)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Erica Jong
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Hildegard von Bingen. A poet, scientist and philosopher, Hildegard of Bingen was one of the first known composers in the history of Western music. Having spent most of her life in a monastery, Hildegard produced a wealth of writings, illuminated manuscripts and devotional songs. As part of a season celebrating women in music, Sarah will be showcasing some of the best recordings of Hildegard's compositions, giving us five reasons to love her work nearly 900 years after it was first written.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
In the lead up to International Women's Day, Sarah's guest is the author and teacher Erica Jong whose first novel Fear of Flying has become a feminist classic. Erica will be discussing her musical roots and sharing a selection of her favourite classical music every day at
10am. To find out more about Radio 3's International Women's Day programming follow @BBCRadio3 and the hashtag #womensday
10.30am
Sarah's featured artist this week is the conductor Jane Glover. The Music Director of Chicago's Music of the Baroque and Director of Opera at the Royal Academy of Music, Glover blazed a trail as one of the first women to become a professional conductor. She has achieved an international reputation not just for her conducting but also for her academic achievements, and particularly for her work on Mozart. Sarah will be showcasing recordings chosen especially by Glover.
11am
This week Sarah showcases great piano sonatas.
Beethoven
Piano Sonata No.15 in D Op.29
Angela Hewitt (piano).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0540193)
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)
Opera in Paris
As part of Radio 3's celebration of female composers marking International Women's Day, this week Donald Macleod explores with Mary Cyr, the life and music of Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, hailed by scholars as one of the most successful women in the history of French music.
Jacquet de La Guerre had been the first women composer in history to publish a set of Suites for the harpsichord. In 1694 she became the first women to have an opera premiered at the Academy Royale de Musique in Paris. This was a huge undertaking for any composer at the time, and is evidence of her high standing at the time. Unfortunately, Céphale et Procris only had five or six performances, and its reception by the public was lukewarm. In that same year, Jacquet de La Guerre met the composer and critic Sebastien de Brossard. She lent him some of her own music, which was fortunate as it was through his collection that much of her chamber music including the Trio Sonata No 1 in B flat major, has been preserved for us today.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05401gl)
Natalie Clein and Friends
Episode 2
A concert series featuring music by Bach given last month at LSO St Luke's in London.
Henning Kraggerud (violin),
Krzysztof Chorzelski (viola),
Natalie Clein (cello).
Bach, arr. Sitkovetsky: Goldberg Variations
For the second concert in her Bach-centred series, Natalie Clein is partnered by two more string players in an unusual arrangement of the Goldberg Variations, originally composed for keyboard.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05401mn)
BBC Philharmonic
Episode 3
The BBC Philharmonic are conducted by regular guest conductor, Nicholas Kraemer in an early symphony by Haydn and the orchestra's Chief Conductor, Juanjo Mena steers them through the 'heavenly length' of Schubert's late, great, Ninth symphony. Also today, there's a rare chance to hear Gabriel Pierné's 1920 orchestral portrait of Assisi, its saint and the surrounding countryside.
Presented by Penny Gore.
Haydn Symphony No 11 in E flat
BBC Philharmonic, Nicholas Kraemer (conductor)
approx.
2.20pm
Pierné Paysages franciscains
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
approx
2.40pm
Schubert Symphony No 9 (Great)
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b05406wk)
King's College, Cambridge
International Women's Day, celebrating female composers: A service from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.
Organ Prelude: The Gift (Judith Bingham)
Introit: Be still (Sally Beamish) - first performance, new commission
Responses: Leighton
Psalms 22, 23 (S Wesley, Smart, Goss)
First Lesson: Genesis 44 vv 18-34
Canticles: Collegium Regale (Judith Bingham)
Second Lesson: Hebrews 2 vv 10-18
Anthem: Vertue (Judith Weir)
Hymn: Thine for ever! God of love (Newington)
Organ Voluntary: Ettrick Banks (Judith Weir)
Tom Etheridge and Richard Gowers, Organ Scholars
Stephen Cleobury, Director of Music
To find out more about Radio 3's International Women's Day programming follow @BBCRadio3 and the hashtag #womensday.
WED 16:30 In Tune (b05401s5)
Roby Lakatos, Christine Rice and Kurt Streit
Sean Rafferty with a lively drivetime mix of music, arts news and chat with guests from the music world including gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos and his band.
News headlines at
5pm and
6pm
Email: In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter: @BBCInTune.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b0540193)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05406wm)
Gothic Voices - Mary, Star of the Sea
Live from Cadogan Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Gothic Voices present a programme from the 12th century to the present, celebrating Mary, Star of the Sea.
Anon C13: Ave Maria
Joanne Metcalf: Il nome del bel fior
Anon C13: Super te Ierusalem; Sed fulsit virginitas
Anon C14: Stella maris illustrans Omnia
Anon C14: Ab ora summa nuncius
Dunstaple: Ave maris stella; Beata mater
Anon C12: Tronus regis
Shert: Ave, decus seculi
Arvo Pärt: Most Holy Mother of God
Anon C13: Stond wel Moder
Anon C15: Sancta Maria Virgo
Andrew Smith: Stond wel Moder (world premiere)
Anon C14: Jesu fili Dei; Jesu fili virginis; Jesu lumen veritatis
Godric of Finchale: Crist and Sainte Marie
Frye: Ave Regina Caelorum a4
Anon: Gaude Maria virgo
Anon: Sancta mater graciae; Dou way Robin
Anon: Alleluya psallat; Alleuya concinat; Alleluya / Virgo Jesse
Gothic Voices celebrate Mary in her various guises - caring mother, virgin lover, guiding light. Ancient ritualistic texts explore her mythical and human aspects and are set to music by masters of medieval England, while contemporary settings by Joanne Metcalf, Andrew Smith and Arvo Pärt relate the themes to the modern day.
Followed by Ethel Smyth's Concerto for Violin and Horn.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b054024k)
The Arguments Against Democracy
Rana Mitter and guests discuss the arguments against democracy.
Churchill famously commented that 'democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time'. Yet China has grown to be the world's second biggest economy under a non-democratic system, and until just a few decades ago, even the liberal west put heavy restrictions on who could vote. Plato opposed it, and his arguments begin a long tradition of principled objection to the idea of rule by the people, advanced by philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche and Carl Schmitt.
Do thinkers like these make a case that could prompt us to return to first principles and rethink whether democracy really works? And should democracy be able to find space in the public sphere for those who argue against it? We test Free Thinking to its limits by looking at the alternatives to our own political system.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b05402d7)
Classical Music's Unsung Heroines
Leopoldine Wittgenstein
In the week leading up to our celebration of International Women's Day, a series of essays celebrating five women who have been unacknowledged movers and shakers in the world of classical music down the ages. Each of these women overcame societal expectations or personal adversity to have real influence on the music of their day, and subsequently ours.
Leopoldine Wittgenstein is someone it's easy to overlook. Neurotic and shy, she stands in the shadow not just of her extraordinarily talented children, who include that giant of twentieth century philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein, but also of her overwhelming and dominant husband, Karl, who built himself up to become one of the wealthiest and most successful industrialists of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire. But Leopoldine, or Poldy, as she was known in the family, was an exceptionally gifted pianist. And she presided over one of the most important and glittering musical salons in fin de siècle Vienna, attended not just by Hanslick, but by Brahms, Mahler and Richard Strauss.
Bethany Bell, the BBC's Vienna Correspondent, takes to the streets of the modern city on the trail of this most misunderstood woman.
Produced by Simon Richardson
To find out more about Radio 3's International Women's Day programming follow @BBCRadio3 and the hashtag #womensday.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b05403ry)
Wednesday - Fiona Talkington
Fiona Talkington introduces new music from the Norwegian duo of vocalist Sidsel Endresen and guitarist Stian Westerhus, Moondog-inspired sounds from Bologna-based tribute band Hobocombo, wordplay from the late Ivor Cutler and an excerpt from a set by Food - the project of Iain Ballamy and Thomas Stronen - recorded at last year's Emulsion Festival in London. Plus we celebrate the birthday today of saxophone giant Jan Garbarek with a track from his 1973 album Triptykon with bassist Arild Andersen and drummer Edward Vesala.
THURSDAY 05 MARCH 2015
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b05405y2)
BBC Proms 2013 - Oslo Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko with Baiba Skride as soloist in Szymanowski's Violin Concerto. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich [1840-1893]
Symphony No 1 in G minor 'Winter Daydreams'
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
1:14 AM
Szymanowski, Karol [1882-1937]
Violin Concerto No 1 (Op. 35)
Baiba Skride (violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
1:40 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey [1873-1943]
3 Symphonic dances for orchestra (Op.45)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
2:16 AM
Tveitt, Geirr [1908-1981]
Velkomne med aera - 100 Folk tunes from Hardanger - suite no.1 (Op.151, No.1)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
2:22 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Rosamunde - Ballet Music no.2 (D.797)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Heinz Holliger (conductor)
2:31 AM
Kodály, Zoltán arranger unconfirmed
Dances of Galanta
Adam Fellegi (piano)
2:47 AM
Lajtha, László (1892-1963)
Symphony No.4 (Op.52), 'Spring'
Hungarian State Orchestra, János Ferencsik (conductor)
3:12 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Wind Quintet (Op.43)
Galliard Ensemble
3:38 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto in the Italian style for keyboard (BWV.971) in F major
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
3:51 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927). Lyrics by J.P.Jacobsen
Three choral songs
Swedish Radio Choir, Gustaf Sjökvist (conductor)
3:58 AM
Enna, August (1859-1939)
The Match Girl: overture
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)
4:04 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828], arr.Reger, Max [1873-1916]
Nacht und Traume D.827, arr. Reger for voice and orchestra
Brigitte Fournier (soprano), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow (conductor)
4:07 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828], arr.Reger, Max [1873-1916]
Gretchen am Spinnrade D.118
Brigitte Fournier (soprano), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow (conductor)
4:12 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Komm, Jesu, komm (BWV.229)
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
4:21 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Egmont, incidental music: Overture (Op.84)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek (conductor)
4:31 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich [1804-1857]
Overture from Ruslan i Lyudmila
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
4:36 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Lascia la spina, from Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno
Julia Lezhneva (soprano), Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
4:44 AM
Rosetti, Antonio [c.1750-1792]
Concerto for horn and orchestra (C. 38) in D minor
Radek Baborak (horn), Prague Chamber Orchestra, Antonin Hradil (conductor)
5:06 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
String Quartet No.2 in F major
Camerata Quartet: Wlodzimierz Prominski, Andrzej Kordykiewicz (violins), Piotr Reichert (viola), Roman Hoffman (cello)
5:23 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Polonaise-fantasy for piano (Op.61) in A flat major
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
5:37 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Une Barque sur l'océan - from no.3 of 'Miroirs'
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, conductor Eivind Aadland
5:46 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von [1786-1826]
Konzertstuck in F minor for piano and orchestra (Op.79)
Victoria Postnikova (piano), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
6:03 AM
Goldmark, Károly (1830-1915)
Night and festal music - prelude to act II from the opera Die Königin von Saba (The Queen of Sheba)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
6:11 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Partita no. 1 in B flat major BWV.825 for keyboard
Beatrice Rana (piano).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b053zz7f)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b0540159)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with Erica Jong
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Hildegard von Bingen. A poet, scientist and philosopher, Hildegard of Bingen was one of the first known composers in the history of Western music. Having spent most of her life in a monastery, Hildegard produced a wealth of writings, illuminated manuscripts and devotional songs. As part of a season celebrating women in music, Sarah will be showcasing some of the best recordings of Hildegard's compositions, giving us five reasons to love her work nearly 900 years after it was first written.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the story and tell us what happens next.
10am
In the lead up to International Women's Day, Sarah's guest is the author and teacher Erica Jong whose first novel Fear of Flying has become a feminist classic. Erica will be discussing her musical roots and sharing a selection of her favourite classical music every day at
10am. To find out more about Radio 3's International Women's Day programming follow @BBCRadio3 and the hashtag #womensday
10.30am
Sarah's featured artist this week is the conductor Jane Glover. The Music Director of Chicago's Music of the Baroque and Director of Opera at the Royal Academy of Music, Glover blazed a trail as one of the first women to become a professional conductor. She has achieved an international reputation not just for her conducting but also for her academic achievements, and particularly for her work on Mozart. Sarah will be showcasing recordings chosen especially by Glover.
11am
This week Sarah showcases great piano sonatas.
Mozart
Piano Sonata No.13 in B flat major K.333
Lili Kraus (piano).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0540195)
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)
The Elector of Bavaria
As part of Radio 3's celebration of female composers marking International Women's Day, this week Donald Macleod explores with Mary Cyr, the life and music of Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, hailed by scholars as one of the most successful women in the history of French music.
Jacquet de La Guerre had apartments on the Ile Saint Louis, where she would hold regular musical gatherings for discerning patrons. These concerts would also be a testing ground for her own chamber music, such as her Trio Sonata No 4 in G minor. In 1707 she published a set of violin sonatas, which she dedicated to the Sun King, Louis XIV. It was around this period that another patron came into her life; The Elector of Bavaria, Maximilian II, had taken asylum just outside Paris. Jacquet de La Guerre socialised with Maximilian, sometimes performing music together. She dedicated her third book of cantatas to him, which includes Le Sommeil d'Ulisse. This cantata might have been designed to reflect Maximilian's own situation, and includes themes of misfortune and wandering.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05401gn)
Natalie Clein and Friends
Episode 3
A concert series featuring music by Bach given last month at LSO St Luke's in London.
Anthony Marwood (violin), Natalie Clein (cello)
Bach: Two-Part Inventions: No 1 in C, BWV772; No 6 in E, BWV777
Ravel: Sonata for violin and cello
Kodaly: Duo, Op 7
Natalie Clein is joined by Anthony Marwood to explore the links between Bach's two-part inventions and a pair of complementary masterpieces for violin and cello from the early twentieth-century.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05401mq)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Massenet - Cleopatre
Opera matinee - Massenet: Cléopâtre, opera in four acts
Penny Gore presents a rare performance of Massenet's lyrical swansong. The story of the ill-fated love of the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and the Roman Marc-Anthony is the stuff of cinema and operatic legend. We don't get Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton here but we do get to hear some of the most ravishingly exotic music that Massenet, a master of the theatre, ever wrote. In a world miles away from his Manon and Werther, Massenet here conjures up the the contrasting atmospheres of the Egyptian and Roman courts; the Egyptian court of Cleopatra is one of languor and sensuality whilst the Roman world of Mark Anthony is one of marches and fanfares. This 'drame passionnel' is brought to life here by Sophie Koch and Frédéric Goncalves on the stage of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris.
Presented by Penny Gore
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Librettist: Louis Payen
Cléopâtre, opera in four acts
Cléopâtre...... Sophie Koch (mezzo-soprano), Cléopâtre
Marc-Antoine...... Frédéric Goncalves (baritone),
Octavie...... Cassandre Berthon (soprano),
Spakos...... Benjamin Bernheim (tenor),
Sévérus, Amnhès, a Voice...... Jean-Gabriel Saint Martin (baritone),
Charmion...... Olivia Doray (soprano),
Ennius...... Pierre-Yves Binard (baritone),
L'Esclave de la Porte...... Yuri Kissin (baritone)
Paris Opera Chorus, Mulhouse Symphony Orchestra
Michel Plasson (conductor)
rec. November 2014 at The Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris
followed at approx
3.40pm by
Dvorak Symphony No. 9 'New World'
BBC Philharmonic, Nicholas Collon (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b05401s7)
English Touring Opera, Sian Edwards, Kamer
Singers from English Touring Opera perform extracts from their upcoming season, including Puccini's La Boheme and Donizetti's The Wild Man of the West Indies. Conductor Sian Edwards visits the studio to talk about Women of the World Festival at the Southbank Centre in London; and renowned Latvian youth choir Kamer perform live in the studio on a rare visit to the UK.
News headlines at
5pm and
6pm
Email: In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter: @BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b0540195)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05406zy)
BBC SSO - Liszt, MacMillan, Prokofiev
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
The BBC SSO play Liszt's Hamlet, James MacMillan's The Berserking (Piano Concerto No.1) and
Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.
Liszt: Hamlet: Symphonic Poem
James MacMillan: The Berserking (Piano Concerto No.1)
8.15: Interval
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - selection
Peter Donohoe, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor
Music on the edge: James MacMillan got the idea for The Berserking at a football match, and channelled an outburst of reckless, explosive fury into what one critic has called the greatest piece of British music since Benjamin Britten. Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet strips the sentimentality from Shakespeare's tragedy in one of the greatest and most moving of all 20th century ballet scores. And as for Hamlet - well, confronted with Shakespeare's great psychological drama, no composer as extrovert as Franz Liszt was ever likely to hold back. Keyboard heavyweight Peter Donohoe unleashes his full virtuoso powers while Carlos Miguel Prieto lavishes all his trademark fire on a concert of dangerous extremes.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b054024n)
Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro, Antigone Review
Anne McElvoy talks to the Booker prize winner, Kazuo Ishiguro about his new novel, The Buried Giant - a kind of Arthurian quest for the 21st century which explores the boundaries between memory and forgetting. And with two new productions of Sophocles' play Antigone on stage in London, she is joined in studio by the Greek scholar and translator Oliver Taplin and the playwright Roy Williams to assess the reasons for the tragedy's enduring appeal.
Antigone, starring Juliette Binoche, is at the Barbican Theatre from March 4th - 28th.
Roy Williams' version of Antigone, performed by Pilot Theatre and co-commissioned by Derby Theatre, runs at London's Stratford East Theatre from 24th February to March 14th.
If you still have an appetite for tragedy after that, tune in to Radio 3's Sunday Drama on March 8th. Kristin Scott Thomas will be starring as Electra in a version by Frank McGuiness which was first staged at the Old Vic Theatre.
Oliver Taplin's Sophocles: Four Tragedies is published later this March by Oxford University Press.
Producer: Zahid Warley
Photo: Ivo van Hove, Antigone, Juliette Binoche, photocredit Jan Versweyveld.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b05402dr)
Classical Music's Unsung Heroines
Mary Gladstone
In the week leading up to our celebration of International Women's Day, a series of The Essay celebrating five women who have been unacknowledged movers and shakers in the world of classical music down the ages. Each of these women overcame societal expectations or personal adversity to have real influence on the music of their day, and subsequently ours.
We tend to remember William Ewart Gladstone as a reformer who wanted to pacify Ireland. We know that Queen Victoria preferred Disraeli's flattery to Gladstone's earnest lectures. And we've heard that this long-serving Prime Minister relaxed by cutting down trees on the Hawarden estate. What we don't imagine about this Grand Old Man is his sensuality. In fact, W.E. Gladstone was passionately musical and he owed much of the pleasure he gained from exploring his musical tastes, as well as the moral purpose he derived from it, to the influence of his daughter Mary.
As Dr Phyllis Weliver explains, Mary was a pioneering Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, one who advised on ecclesiastical appointments with a strong bias towards those who shared her sense of the moral purpose of music. She was also a subtle master of 'soft diplomacy' in the way she brought music making to Downing Street and the heart of her father's government.
Produced by Simon Richardson
To find out more about Radio 3's International Women's Day programming follow @BBCRadio3 and the hashtag #womensday.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b05403s0)
Thursday - Fiona Talkington
Henry Purcell as interpreted by Norwegian singer Ane Brun, ambient electronica from Simian Mobile Disco, and a song from 1930s London recorded by American bandleader Carroll Gibbons. With Fiona Talkington.
FRIDAY 06 MARCH 2015
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b05405y4)
Great British Symphonies: Tippett's Symphony No 4
Great British Symphonies - Ballet music by Bax and Tippett's 4th Symphony. With John Shea.
12:31 AM
Bax, Arnold [1883-1953-
The truth about Russian Dancers, ballet on a play by JM Barrie
Capella of Russia State Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
1:06 AM
Tippett, Michael [1905-1998]
Symphony No.4 (in one movement)
Capella of Russia State Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
1:42 AM
Bax, Arnold [1883-1953-
Irish Landscape No.2 of 3 pieces for small orchestra (1928)
Alexander Rozhdestvensky (violin) ,Capella of Russia State Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
1:52 AM
Elgar, Edward [1857-1934]
Pomp and circumstance marches (Op.39), no.1 in D major
Capella of Russia State Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
1:58 AM
Stravinsky, Igor [1882-1971]
Petrushka (1947 version)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
2:31 AM
Biber [?], Heinrich Ignaz Franz (1644-1704)
Harmonia Romana (Ms.Kremsier 1669)
Musica Aeterna Bratislava, Peter Zajícek (director)
2:44 AM
Marais, Marin (1656-1725)
Deuxième Suite de Pieces en Trio in G minor (1692)
La Petite Bande
3:07 AM
Roussel, Albert (1869-1937)
Piano Trio in E flat major, Op.2 (1902)
Tale Olsson (violin), Johanna Sjunnesson (cello), Mats Jansson (piano)
3:36 AM
Gounod, Charles [1818-1893]
Waltz from 'Faust'
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Børge Wagner (conductor)
3:42 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
4 Mazurkas for piano (Op.33)
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
3:53 AM
Marie, Gabriel (1852-1928) (arr.C.Arnold)
La Cinquantaine (Golden Wedding)
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
3:56 AM
Bolcom, William Elden [1938-]
The Graceful Ghost - from 3 Ghost Rags (1970)
Donna Coleman (piano)
4:02 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Cantata BWV.118 "O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht"'
Concerto Vocale Ghent (Orchestra and Choir), Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
4:11 AM
Järnefelt, Armas (1869-1958)
Berceuse (Lullaby)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ilpo Mansnerus (conductor)
4:15 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Adagio in E major (K.261)
James Ehnes (violin/director); Mozart Anniversary Orchestra
4:24 AM
Kunzen, Friedrich (1761-1817)
Overture to the opera 'Erik Ejegod'
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Peter Marschik (conductor)
4:31 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Serenade for string orchestra (Op.20) in E minor
BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
4:43 AM
Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924)
Intermezzo - from Manon Lescaut
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
4:49 AM
Gossec, Francois-Joseph [1734-1829]
Quartet in A major (Op.15/6)
Apollon Musagete Quartet
4:59 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) [Text: Peter Pindar]
Der Sturm - chorus for SATB choir and orchestra (H.24a.8)
Netherlands Radio Choir and Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)
5:09 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Sonatine
Aldo Ciccolini (piano)
5:22 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Radamisto - overture; 'Cara sposa' - aria from Rinaldo
Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
5:35 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concerto for piano and orchestra no.17 (K.453) in G major
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Terje Tønnesen (conductor)
6:04 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Ruy Blas - overture (Op.95)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Hiroyuki Iwaki (conductor)
6:12 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Suite for cello solo, No.1 in G major (BWV.1007)
Maxim Rysanov (viola).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b053zz7h)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b054015c)
Friday - Sarah Walker with Erica Jong
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Hildegard von Bingen. A poet, scientist and philosopher, Hildegard of Bingen was one of the first known composers in the history of Western music. Having spent most of her life in a monastery, Hildegard produced a wealth of writings, illuminated manuscripts and devotional songs. As part of a season celebrating women in music, Sarah will be showcasing some of the best recordings of Hildegard's compositions, giving us five reasons to love her work nearly 900 years after it was first written.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: spot the theme linking three pieces of music and identify the missing fourth.
10am
In the lead up to International Women's Day, Sarah's guest is the author and teacher Erica Jong whose first novel Fear of Flying has become a feminist classic. Erica will be discussing her musical roots and sharing a selection of her favourite classical music every day at
10am. To find out more about Radio 3's International Women's Day programming follow @BBCRadio3 and the hashtag #womensday
10.30am
Sarah's featured artist this week is the conductor Jane Glover. The Music Director of Chicago's Music of the Baroque and Director of Opera at the Royal Academy of Music, Glover blazed a trail as one of the first women to become a professional conductor. She has achieved an international reputation not just for her conducting but also for her academic achievements, and particularly for her work on Mozart. Sarah will be showcasing recordings chosen especially by Glover.
11am
This week Sarah showcases great piano sonatas.
Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No,7 in B flat Op.83
Martha Argerich (piano).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0540197)
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)
Death of the Sun King
As part of Radio 3's celebration of female composers marking International Women's Day, this week Donald Macleod explores with Mary Cyr, the life and music of Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, hailed by scholars as one of the most successful women in the history of French music.
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre lost her most significant Patron, when King Louis XIV of France died in 1715. However, her music was also in demand outside of the royal court, including songs, music for seasonal Fairs and works for the theatre. Her final published work was her Cantates françoises and, after that, her career took more of a back seat. Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre died a wealthy woman in 1729.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05401gq)
Natalie Clein and Friends
Episode 4
A concert series featuring music by Bach given last month at LSO St Luke's in London.
Natalie Clein (cello), Mahan Esfahani (harpischord)
Bach: Viola da Gamba Sonata No 1 in G, BWV1027
Ligeti: Sonata for solo cello
Francois Couperin: Les vieux seigneurs; Les jeunes seigneurs; Les vendangeuses; Les ondes (from Pièces de clavecin)
Kurtag Homage to John Cage; Az Hit; Shadows (from Signs, Games and Messages for solo cello)
Bach: Viola da Gamba Sonata No 3 in G minor, BWV1029
For the final concert of her Bach-centred series, Natalie Clein pairs her cello with a harpsichord played by Mahan Esfahani. They complement two of Bach's Sonatas for the cello's cousin, the viola da gamba, with virtuosic twentieth-century pieces for solo cello and the characterful solo keyboard pieces of Francois Couperin.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05401mx)
BBC Philharmonic
Episode 4
The BBC Philharmonic round off their week with another Haydn Symphony, conducted by Nicholas Kraemer and they are joined by Tasmin Little for Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending. Also today, Juanjo Mena conducts Elgar in performances recorded in The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and Lichfield Cathedral.
Haydn Symphony No.74 in E flat
BBC Philharmonic, Nicholas Kraemer (conductor)
Rossini Overture, The Italian Girl in Algiers
BBC Philharmonic, Lorenzo Viotti (conductor)
approx
2.30pm
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Tasmin Little (violin)
BBC Philharmonic, Andrew Davis (conductor)
approx
2.50pm
Elgar Enigma Variations
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
approx
3.20pm
Lutoslawski Symphonic Variations
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
approx
3.30pm
Elgar Symphony No 2
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b05401s9)
Edward Gardner, Jeremy Denk, Madeleine Mitchell
Sean Rafferty with a lively drivetime mix of music, arts news and chat with guests from the music world including conductor Edward Gardner who talks about his recent disc with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and cellist Paul Watkins playing works by William Walton, and another featuring the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra playing Mendelssohn.
Pianist Jeremy Denk plays live in the studio ahead of his concert with the Academy of St Martin in the fields on Monday (9th March) at Cadogan Hall in London, plus violinist Madeleine Mitchell performs before her upcoming recital at Wigmore Hall next week.
News headlines at
5pm and
6pm
Email: In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter: @BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b0540197)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b054071w)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra - Beethoven, Lindberg, Schubert
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Robin Ticciati conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Schubert's 'Great' Symphony, Beethoven's Coriolan Overture and Lindberg's Violin Concerto with Renaud Capuçon as soloist.
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Lindberg: Violin Concerto
8.15: Interval
Schubert: Symphony No 9 in C major, D944 'Great C major'
Renaud Capuçon, violin
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Robin Ticciati, conductor
Considered one of today's finest young violinists, Renaud Capucon is prized for the exceptional strength and poetry of his performances.
Robin Ticciati concludes the evening with the majesty of Schubert's powerful Ninth Symphony, the 'Great', whose boundless heroism is matched only by its effortless melody.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b054024t)
The Role of Gender in Creativity
Ian McMillan's guests include writer and mythographer Marina Warner, Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry, composer Sarah Angliss and singer-songwriter Zara McFarlane. They'll be considering the role of gender in creativity.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b05402f1)
Classical Music's Unsung Heroines
Betty Freeman
In the week leading up to our celebration of International Women's Day, a series of The Essay celebrating five women who have been unacknowledged movers and shakers in the world of classical music down the ages. Each of these women overcame societal expectations or personal adversity to have real influence on the music of their day, and subsequently ours.
Betty Freeman was possibly the most influential patron of twentieth century classical music. From 1964 onwards, she gave a total of 413 grants and commissions for living expenses, compositions, recordings, performances and librettos to 81 artists. These include John Cage, Steve Reich, Robert Wilson and Peter Sellars and also younger composers such as Olga Neuwirth and Hans Peter Kyburz.
An editor of BBC Music Magazine, Helen Wallace looks for the woman behind the list of names and discovers what drove her to play so formative a role in the lives of these great musicians.
Produced by Simon Richardson
To find out more about Radio 3's International Women's Day programming follow @BBCRadio3 and the hashtag #womensday.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b054071y)
Lopa Kothari - The Cadillac Three in Session
Lopa Kothari with new world music from around the globe, also reflecting on female artists ahead of Women's International Day on Sunday. Also our unique World Music Archive track, as well as the Album of the Month with journalist Jo Frost. In session in our studio, directly from Nashville, The Cadillac Three: singer-guitarist Jaren Johnston, lap steel player Kelby Ray and drummer Neil Masony, with their mix of country's anthems, heavy rock and Southern folk.