John Shea presents a concert of music from St Petersburg and Moscow, from the eras of Catherine II to Alexander I.
Attendez-vous dans le monde, Sanchette's aria from 'Le Fils rival ou La Moderne'
Grand Concert in G major op. 50
Linda Ovrebo (soprano), Anna Einarsson (alto), Anders J.Dahlin (tenor), Johannes Mannov (bass), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Oslo Chamber Choir, Alessandro de Marchi (conductor)
Kaja Danczowska (violin), Edgar Moreau (cello), Michel Lethiec (clarinet), Yeol Eum Son (piano);
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924), arr. Casals, Pablo (1876-1973)
Apres un reve (Op.7'1) arr. for cello & piano
Hildebrand'sche Hoboïsten Compagnie - Renate Hildebrand, Nils Ferber, Annkathrin Brüggemann (oboes), George Corall (oboe/taille)
Elar Kuiv (violin), Olev Ainomae (oboe), Estonian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Paul Mägi (conductor)
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) arr. Duncan Craig
Romance in F (Op. 50) arr. Craig for viola and piano
Prelude, Fugue & Allegro in E flat major (BWV. 998)
Dita Paegle (soprano), Antra Bigaca (mezzo-soprano), Martins Klisans (tenor), Janis Markovs (bass), Choir of Latvian Radio, Riga Chamber Players, Sigvards Klava (conductor).
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Chopin's Preludes'. Throughout the week Sarah offers a selection of her favourite preludes, highlighting the variety of expression and sentiment contained in Chopin's famous set with classic recordings by pianists including Martha Argerich, Garrick Ohlsson, Shura Cherkassky and Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the place associated with a well-known work.
Veteran British star of stage and screen Charles Dance shares his favourite classical music with Rob Cowan every morning and talks about roles such as Tywin Lannister in hit TV series Game of Thrones. During his four-decade long career, other credits include the Jewel in the Crown, Gosford Park and The Imitation Game. His new film, Woman in Gold, opens this week.
Sarah's featured artist this week is the conductor and pianist André Previn whose recordings range from the classics of the American repertoire and famous ballet scores to film music and his own compositions. Sarah will be exploring the full range of this very versatile artist throughout the week.
Today's Essential Choice is taken from the Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review
Donald Macleod explores the music and life of Chopin, zooming in on five key places on his lifetime itinerary - starting today in the composer's hometown, Warsaw, where he spent the formative years - 20 out of a total 39 - of his life.
Chopin's exceptional gifts - as both pianist and composer - were apparent very early. His first published piece is a creditable effort for a seven-year-old, and by the age of sixteen he was writing music that bore the hallmarks of his mature style. Trips to Berlin and Vienna - where two impromptu concerts at the Kärntnerthor Theatre caused a sensation - gave him a taste for foreign exploration, and heightened his sense that Warsaw could not give him all that he needed as an artist. So at the end of 1830, the 20-year-old Chopin set off on a coach for Vienna, little realizing that the failure of the Polish Uprising - which would be brutally crushed by Russia - was soon to make him a permanent exile.
Live from Wigmore Hall in London, Haydn's Quartet in C Op 20 No 2 and Schumann's String Quartet in A minor, Op 41 No 1, played by Finnish quartet Meta4.
Haydn's quartet comes from a set of six published in 1772, which with its conversational dialogues between instruments represented a major milestone in the maturing of a still-young genre. Whereas Haydn composed nearly 80 quartets, Schumann wrote only three, all in the same year of 1842, and all showing a more lyrical and Romantic way of approaching the form.
This week we present a feast of orchestral music, mainly from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Mariss Jansons who end today with Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra. But the bulk of today's programme is from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski including the premiere of the Violin Concerto by the Dutch composer Michael van der Aa with Janine Jansen as the soloist
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Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116
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Tod und Verklärung, op. 24
Sean Rafferty hosts live music and chat including classical mandolinist Avi Avital playing solo in the studio.
Tonight's opera recorded at the New York Metropolitan Opera has the one of the implausible plots of all Verdi opera. Ernani is a melodramatic love story set in 16th-century Spain and based on a play by Victor Hugo. Elvira, sung by soprano Angela Meade, is being pursued by three men: her uncle and guardian, Don Ruy Gómez de Silva, an old Spanish grandee sung by the bass Dimitry Belosselskiy; Don Carlo, the King of Spain, is sung by Luca Salsi, replacing Placido Domingo who is ill. Ernani, sung by tenor Francesco Meli, who has lost his title and wealth during a civil war and has become a very suave bandit. The plot is contrived but just at the end, when things seem to be turning out well for Ernani and Elvira, the story takes a turn for the worst and ends in tragedy. James Levine conducts the New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus in his first Met production of Ernani since 1983.
Giovanna..... MaryAnn McCormick (Mezzo-soprano)
Five writers set out on foot to sample the transforming qualities of Spring. They report back with tales that are climatically confused - it could be warm or chilly out there ...
1. Michele Roberts pounds the pavements of Poznan and is reminded of Persephone under scudding clouds.
British bass player and composer Simon Fell premieres The Ragging of Time, a new suite for sextet in concert at the 2014 Marsden Jazz Festival.
When approached to write a new commission for the festival Simon Fell began with a brief to explore sounds from the first part of 20th century, and ended up creating "a kind of bridge (or better still, a time tunnel) which allows the musicians to slip backwards and forwards over the decades within a split second". From twisted ragtime to swing era stomps and bursts of free improv, Fell and his sextet present jazz's lineage as one of the festival director's John Quail describes, making "sounds that are now so antique... to make them new, to make them shocking, to make them the 'Devil's music' as it was once before."
On stage drummer Paul Hession and guitarist Richard Comte join the leader in the rhythm section whilst Percy Pursglove, Alex Ward and Shabaka Hutchings complete the line up on trumpet, clarinet and bass clarinet respectively.
Also on the programme, Simon Thackray of The Shed improv venue samples the festival's street parade, and Ian McMillan interviews poet and improviser Michael Horovitz in celebration of his 80th birthday.
TUESDAY 07 APRIL 2015
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b05pr1r6)
Organ Recital from Moldova
Jan Bokszczanin performs an organ recital in Chisinau, as part of the Martisor International Music Festival. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich (c.1637-1707)
Praeludium in F sharp minor BuxWV.146 for organ
Jan Bokszczanin (organ)
12:39 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich (c.1637-1707)
Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder - chorale-prelude BuxWV.178 for organ
Jan Bokszczanin (organ)
12:42 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Herzlich tut mich verlangen - chorale-prelude BWV.727 for organ
Jan Bokszczanin (organ)
12:45 AM
Clérambault, Louis-Nicolas (1676-1749)
Suite du deuxieme ton for organ
Jan Bokszczanin (organ)
1:02 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
2 chorale-preludes on 'Herzlich tut mich verlangen', Op.122 nos. 9 and 10
Jan Bokszczanin (organ)
1:09 AM
Martinson, Joel (b.1960)
Aria on a Chaconne for organ
Jan Bokszczanin (organ)
1:13 AM
Sawa, Marian (1937-2005)
Dance Pictures
Jan Bokszczanin (organ)
1:20 AM
Borowski, Felix (1872-1956)
Organ Sonata no.1
Jan Bokszczanin (organ)
1:36 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707)
Ihr lieben Christen, freut euch nun, BuxWV 51
Marieke Steenhoek (soprano), Miriam Meyer (soprano), Bogna Bartosz (contralto), Marco van de Klundert (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass), Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Chorus, Ton Koopman (conductor)
1:48 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Quartet for piano and strings No.1 (Op.25) in G minor
Kungsbacka Trio with Lawrence Power (viola)
2:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Concerto for violin and orchestra (Op.61) in D major
Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
3:15 AM
Röntgen, Julius (1855-1932)
Symphony No.8 in C sharp minor
Roberta Alexander (soprano), Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (conductor)
3:34 AM
Bach, Johann Michael (1648-1694)
Es ist ein großer Gewinn - sacred concerto for soprano, 4 violins and continuo
Maria Zedelius (soprano), Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
3:38 AM
Bergh, Gertrude van den (1793-1840)
Rondeau (Op.3)
Frans van Ruth (piano)
3:46 AM
Noskowski, Zygmunt (1846-1909)
Polonaise élégiaque for orchestra (Op.22) (1885)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wokiech Czepiel (conductor)
3:49 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich [1840-1893]
None but the lonely heart, Op.6 No.6
Mikael Axelsson (bass), Niklas Sivelöv (piano)
3:52 AM
Gershwin, George (1898-1937) transc. Percy Grainger
Love Walked In
Dennis Hennig (piano)
3:56 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
4 Folk Songs: Mo Nighean Dhu (My dark-haired maiden); O Mistress Mine; Six Dukes went afishin'; Mary Thomson
Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor)
4:08 AM
Capricornus, Samuel (1628-1665)
Sonata a 3 from Continuation der neuen wohl angestimmten Taffel-Lustmusic (1671)
Musica Aeterna Bratislava, Peter Zají?ek (director)
4:14 AM
Elgar, Edward [1857-1934]
Cockaigne (In London Town)- overture Op. 40
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen (conductor)
4:31 AM
Carissimi, Giacomo (1605-1674)
Dixit Dominus - Psalmkonzert for 5 voices & basso continuo
Capella Regia Musicalis, Robert Hugo (organ/director)
4:45 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Pensées (Op.62)
Roger Woodward (piano)
5:00 AM
Alfvén, Hugo (1872-1960)
En bat med blommor (A boat with flowers) (Op.44)
Peter Mattei (baritone), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
5:10 AM
Rosenmuller, Johann (c.1619-1684)
Sinfonia Quinta
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists
5:20 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
Sonatina for clarinet and piano
Valentin Uriupin (clarinet) (b.1985 Russia), Yelena Komissarova (piano)
5:32 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto VII in F major for four violins & basso continuo (RV.567) - from 'L'estro Armonico' (Op.3)
Paul Wright, Natsumi Wakamatsu, Sayuri Yamagata, Staas Swierstra (violins), Hidemi Suzuki (cello), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
5:41 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Sicut cervus - motet for 4 voices
Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano, Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ), Alberto Rasi (viola da gamba), Diego Fasolis (conductor)
5:46 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Fundamenta ejus - motet for 4 voices
Chorus of Swiss Radio (Lugano), Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ), Diego Fasolis (conductor)
5:51 AM
Holst, Gustav (1874-1934)
St Paul's Suite (arr. Walsh for guitar quartet)
Guitar Trek: Timothy Kain, Fiona Walsh, (treble guitars), Richard Strasser (standard guitar), Peter Constant (baritone guitar)
6:05 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.102 in B flat major (H.
1.102)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor).
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b05pr2yg)
Tuesday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b05pr3g2)
Sarah Walker, Rob Cowan and guest Charles Dance
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Chopin's Preludes'. Throughout the week Sarah offers a selection of her favourite preludes, highlighting the variety of expression and sentiment contained in Chopin's famous set with classic recordings by pianists including Martha Argerich, Garrick Ohlsson, Shura Cherkassky and Vladimir Ashkenazy.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the story and tell us what happens next.
10am
Veteran British star of stage and screen Charles Dance shares his favourite classical music with Rob Cowan every morning and talks about roles such as Tywin Lannister in hit TV series Game of Thrones. During his four-decade long career, other credits include the Jewel in the Crown, Gosford Park and The Imitation Game. His new film, Woman in Gold, opens this week.
10.30am
Sarah's featured artist this week is the conductor and pianist André Previn whose recordings range from the classics of the American repertoire and famous ballet scores to film music and his own compositions. Sarah will be exploring the full range of this very versatile artist throughout the week.
11am
For this week's Essential Choices Sarah shares her love of both well-known and rare Nordic masterpieces.
Svendsen
Symphony No.2 Op.15
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Bjarte Engeset (conductor).
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05pr3p5)
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
The Accidental Parisian
Donald Macleod explores the music and life of Chopin, zooming in on five key places on his lifetime itinerary. Today, after setting out from Warsaw on what was to have been an extended foreign tour, Chopin finds himself a permanent exile in Paris.
Chopin reached Paris via Vienna and Stuttgart, where he had learnt of Russia's brutal suppression of the Polish Uprising. Fearing that if he returned to Poland he might never be allowed to leave again, he decided to stay put - in what was, after all, in those days, the epicentre of the musical universe. An early appearance at the Salle Pleyel - enthusiastically reviewed by Francois Joseph Fétis, a famous musicologist and senior critic of the Revue Musicale - spread Chopin's name like wildfire, and he quickly became a major celebrity on the Parisian cultural scene. Uncomfortable in front of large audiences, he preferred to perform in salons, and made his living teaching piano to the well-heeled. It was at an extremely well-heeled soirée at the Hôtel de France, hosted by Liszt and his mistress, the Countess Marie d'Agoult, that Chopin first encountered the novelist George Sand - snappier pen-name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dudevant. Chopin's initial revulsion with Sand gradually turned first to fascination, then attraction; they were to become one of the most celebrated - or perhaps infamous - artistic couples of the 19th century.
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05pr4vs)
Oxford Lieder 2014
Episode 1
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the 2014 Oxford Lieder Festival: The Schubert Project. This was a mammoth two-week series which included all of Schubert's songs alongside some of his best-loved piano music, curated by pianist Sholto Kynoch.
Today's programme includes highlights from three concerts, including performances by mezzo-soprano Bethan Langford, tenor Robert Murray, violinist Cecilia Zilliacus and pianists Bengt Forsberg and Sholto Kynoch. The tour-de-force Fantasy in C major for violin and piano sits alongside Schubert settings of poems by Matthäus von Collin and Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty.
Schubert: Der Zwerg, D.771; Wehmut, D.772; Nacht und Träume, D.827
Bethan Langford (mezzo-soprano), Sholto Kynoch (piano)
Schubert: Fantasy in C major D.934
Cecilia Zilliacus (violin), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Schubert: Seufzer, D.198; Auf den Tod einer Nachtigall, D.201; Auf den Tod einer Nachtigall, D.399; Der Traum, D.213; An die Apfelbäume, wo ich Julien erblickte, D.197; Der Liebende, D.207; Die Laube, D.214
Robert Murray (tenor), James Baillieu (piano).
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05pr5s0)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Mariss Jansons
Episode 2
We continue the week's concerts of orchestral music with songs by Berio, Copland and Mahler sung by Thomas Hampson; and ending with Mahler's great 3rd Symphony with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Daniele Gatti with the solo mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn.
Presented by Verity Sharp
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Luciano Berio
Black is the Colour ('Folk Songs' No 1)
Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons
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Gustav Mahler
Excerpts from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt
Trost im Unglück
Das irdische Leben
Der Tamboursg'sell
Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons
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Aaron Copland
Excerpts from 'Old American Songs'
The Dodger (set 1, No. 2)
The Little Horses (set 2, No. 1)
The Boatmen's Dance (set 1, No. 1)
Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 3
Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano
Netherlands Radio Choir
National Boys' Choir
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Daniele Gatti.
TUE 16:30 In Tune (b05pr5s2)
Paavo Jarvi, Anthony Strong
Sean Rafferty hosts live music and chat including conductor Paavo Järvi on the great Danish symphonist, Carl Nielsen.
TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05pr3p5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b05pr729)
Easter at King's: Bach's St John Passion
Bach's St John Passion from King's College, Cambridge. Recorded on Saturday
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Ben Johnson, Evangelist
Christopher Purves, Christus
Mary Bevan, soprano
Robin Blaze, countertenor
Ed Lyon, tenor
Ashley Riches, bass
King's College Choir
Academy of Ancient Music
Stephen Cleobury, conductor
While the St Matthew Passion is widely admired for what might be called its epic proportions, the John, in contrast, presents the dramatic narrative with a more concentrated sense of urgency. Many of the arias are, nevertheless, deeply reflective and expressive, none more so than Es ist vollbracht!, in which the countertenor and the viola da gamba weave their melodies together in the most beguiling way.
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (b05pr72c)
Sex and Numbers, Nick Broomfield, The History of the Audiobook
With the publication of the widest survey of sexual behaviour since the Kinsey Report, Matthew Sweet looks at changing statistics and attitudes to our sex lives with its author, David Spiegelhalter, and New Generation Thinker, Fern Riddell, author of The Victorian Guide to Sex.
Nick Broomfield discusses his latest documentary, Tales of the Grim Sleeper, about a serial killer in LA which exposes the deep divide still evident in America today.
Plus, Queen Mary's Matt Rubery on the fascinating history of the audio book.
Sex by Numbers by David Spiegelhalter is published now.
Fern Riddell's The Victorian Guide to Sex is published now
Nick Broomfield's Tales of the Grim Sleeper is available on demand at Sky TV.
Producer: Craig Templeton Smith
Image: Tales of the Grim Sleeper: Gary, one of Lonnie's best friends (L), Nick Broomfield (R)
Photo Credit: Barney Broomfield.
TUE 22:45 The Essay (b03zdbnb)
Springwalks
Ross Raisin in the Yorkshire Wolds
Five writers set out on foot to sample the transforming qualities of Spring. They report back with tales that are climatically confused - it could be warm or chilly out there ...
2. Ross Raisin recalls the Yorkshire Wolds, getting greener all the time, and scene of some famous new paintings by David Hockney.
Producer Duncan Minshull.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b05pr7nl)
Tuesday - Nick Luscombe
Join Nick Luscombe as he navigates through music from all kinds of times, spaces and places - including a rarely heard track from Can, composer Meredith Monk and a Jamaican classic from Illinois Jacquet & His All Stars.
WEDNESDAY 08 APRIL 2015
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b05pr1rd)
Noskowski's Revenge for the Boundary Wall
John Shea presents Noskowski's opera Revenge for the Boundary Wall.
12:32 AM
Noskowski, Zygmunt [1846-1909]; libretto - Fredro, Aleksander [1793-1876]
Zemsta za mur graniczny (Revenge for the Boundary Wall) (concert performance)
Robert Gierlach (Czesnik Raptusiewicz, Cup-Bearer, baritone), Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk (Klara, Czesnik's niece, soprano), Wojtech Gierlach (Rejent Milczek, Notary, bass), Pawel Skaluba (Waclaw, Rejent's son, tenor), Anna Lubanska (Podstolina, mezzo-soprano), Ryszard Minkiewicz (Papkin, tenor), Dariusz Machej (Dyndalski, bass), Polish Radio Chorus, Izabela Polakowska (Chorus Director), Wroclaw Philharmonic Chorus, Agnieszka Franków-Zelazny (Chorus Director), Polish Radio Symphont Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
2:12 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Don Juan (Op.20) (symphonic poem) (1889)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
2:31 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Missa in tempore belli (Hob. XXII. 9) 'Paukenmesse'
Hilde Haraldsen Sveen (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo), Jonas Degerfeldt (tenor), Gabriel Suovanen (baritone), Oslo Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
3:11 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Trio for oboe, cello and piano (Op.11) in B flat major
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe) , Katerina Apekisheva (piano), Boris Andrianov (cello)
3:33 AM
Byrd, William (c.1543-1623)
Content is rich
Emma Kirkby (soprano), The Rose Consort of Viols: John Bryan, Alison Crum, Sarah Groser, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland (viols)
3:38 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)
Beati pauperes spiritu (motet)
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor), Stephan Stubbs (lute)
3:43 AM
Bree, Johannes Bernardus van (1801-1857)
Allegro for 4 string quartets in D minor
Viotta Ensemble, Viktor Liberman (conductor)
3:55 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927). Lyrics by J.P.Jacobsen
Three choral songs
Swedish Radio Choir, Gustaf Sjökvist (conductor)
4:01 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907)
Norwegian Dance No 1 (Op.35)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Andrew Litton (conductor)
4:08 AM
Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957]
Finlandia - hymn tune arr. for chamber choir (from the symphonic poem)
Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
4:10 AM
Wegelius, Martin (1846-1906)
Rondo quasi Fantasia for Piano & Orchestra (1872)
Margit Rahkonen (piano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor)
4:22 AM
Gade, Niels Wilhelm (1817-1890)
Ved solnedgang (At sunset) for choir and orchestra (Op.46)
Danish National Radio Choir, Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
4:31 AM
Noskowski, Zygmunt [1846-1909]
The Highlander's Fantasy (Op.17)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
4:40 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827] arr. Geert Bierling
Marcia Funebre from Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 55 'Eroica'
Geert Bierling (organ)
4:44 AM
Arnold, Malcolm (1921-2006)
Three Shanties (Op.4) Allegretto semplice ;Allegro vivace
The Ariart Woodwind Quintet: Matej Zupan (flute), Maja Kojc (oboe), Joze Kotar (clarinet), Damir Huljev (bassoon), Bostjan Lipovsek (horn)
4:52 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Concerto Grosso in D (Op.6 No.4)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (violin/director)
5:02 AM
Demersseman, Jules August (1833-1866)
Concert Fantasy for 2 flutes and piano (Op.36)
Matej Zupan, Karolina Santl-Zupan (flutes), Dijana Tanovic (piano)
5:14 AM
Méhul, Etienne-Nicolas (1763-1817)
Symphony No.1 in G minor
Cappella Coloniensis, Bruno Weil (director)
5:42 AM
Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847)
Allegro moderato (Op.8 No.1) (1840)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
5:47 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Concerto no. 1 in E flat major Op.11 for horn and orchestra;
Premysl Vojta (horn), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
6:04 AM
Stainov, Petko (1896-1977)
A fir tree is bending
Vassil Arnaudov Sofia Chamber Choir, Theodora Pavlovitch (conductor)
6:07 AM
Couperin, François (1668-1733)
La Françoise, Trio Sonata from 'Les Nations'
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
6:15 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Trio for keyboard and strings (H.
15.18) in A major
ATOS Trio.
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b05pr2yy)
Wednesday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b05pr3gd)
Sarah Walker, Rob Cowan and guest Charles Dance
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Chopin's Preludes'. Throughout the week Sarah offers a selection of her favourite preludes, highlighting the variety of expression and sentiment contained in Chopin's famous set with classic recordings by pianists including Martha Argerich, Garrick Ohlsson, Shura Cherkassky and Vladimir Ashkenazy.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Veteran British star of stage and screen Charles Dance shares his favourite classical music with Rob Cowan every morning and talks about roles such as Tywin Lannister in hit TV series Game of Thrones. During his four-decade long career, other credits include the Jewel in the Crown, Gosford Park and The Imitation Game. His new film, Woman in Gold, opens this week.
10.30am
Sarah's featured artist this week is the conductor and pianist André Previn whose recordings range from the classics of the American repertoire and famous ballet scores to film music and his own compositions. Sarah will be exploring the full range of this very versatile artist throughout the week.
11am
For this week's Essential Choices Sarah shares her love of both well-known and rare Nordic masterpieces.
Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor
Radu Lupu (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
André Previn (conductor).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05pr3p7)
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
The Holiday from Hell
Donald Macleod explores the music and life of Chopin, zooming in on five key places on his lifetime itinerary. Today, the composer visits Majorca, where despite primitive conditions and appalling weather he produces some of his best-known music.
The trip to Majorca wasn't simply a vacation. Chopin and his new lover, the writer George Sand, were, in effect, on the run; they had to get away from Paris for a while. Sand's previous lover, one Félicien Mallefille, had cottoned on to his old mistress's new relationship, and took a potshot at her as she left her apartment building; the bullet, as the story goes, was deflected by a passing wagon. Sand was unscathed, but nonplussed. Majorca was remote enough in those pre-package-holiday days to provide her and Chopin with a bolt-hole until M. Mallefille was able, as they say, to move on, so they decamped there, with Sand's children Maurice and Solange, in November 1838. Initially Palma, where they settled, seemed like a paradise; Chopin wrote to a friend of "sky like turquoise, sea like azure, mountains like emerald, air like in heaven". But then the temperature dropped and the heavens opened. In the cold, damp conditions, Chopin's consumption kicked in, and the local authorities, worried about the risk of a contagion, insisted that the eccentric strangers should move out of town. They upped sticks to an old monastery at Valldemossa, a largely uninhabited area several hours' journey from Palma. Chopin threw himself into his work, but in the rudimentary conditions in which they were now forced to live he eventually became so ill that Sand decided to abandon Majorca and make the journey home to France.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05pr4vv)
Oxford Lieder 2014
Episode 2
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the 2014 Oxford Lieder Festival: The Schubert Project. This was a mammoth two-week series which included all of Schubert's songs alongside some of his best-loved piano music, curated by pianist Sholto Kynoch.
Today's programme includes highlights from two concerts, including performances by baritone Jonathan McGovern and bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu with pianists James Baillieu, Sholto Kynoch and Eugene Asti. Schubert's charming Rondo in A major for piano duet is sandwiched by settings of poems by Friedrich von Schiller and Johann Gabriel Seidl.
Schubert: Totengräberlied, D.44; Sehnsucht, D.52; Das Mädchen aus der Fremde, D.117; An die Freude, D.189; Hoffnung, D.251; Das Mädchen aus der Fremde, D.252; Die vier Weltalter, D.391; Der Alpenjäger, D.588; Hoffnung, D.637; Sehnsucht, D.636; Der Pilgrim, D.794
Jonathan McGovern (baritone), James Baillieu (piano)
Schubert: Rondo in A major, D.951
Sholto Kynoch & Eugene Asti (piano duet)
Schubert: Die Taubenpost, D.965a
Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Sholto Kynoch (piano).
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05pr5s7)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Mariss Jansons
Episode 3
Today we feature the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra mainly under Mariss Jansons in two major works: the Brahms Violin Concerto with soloist Leonidas Kovakos and Richard Strauss's comic tone poem, Till Eulenspiegel.
Presented by Verity Sharp
c.
2pm
W.A. Mozart
Overture to 'Così fan tutte, K. 588'
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Andris Nelsons
c.
2.06pm
Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D, op. 77
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons
c.
2.49pm
J.S. Bach
Gavotte and Rondeau, from 'Partita No. 3'
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
c.
2.53pm
Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op. 28
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons.
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b05pr9y9)
Temple Church, London
A Sequence for Easter from the Temple Church, London
Introit: Since by Man came Death (Handel)
Lesson: Genesis 1 v 26; 2 vv15-17, 19-22
Bidding Prayer
Hymn: Jesus Christ is risen today (Easter Hymn)
Lesson: John 20 vv 1-10
Anthem: Easter (Vaughan Williams)
Lesson: John 20 vv 11-18
Anthem: I got me flowers (Vaughan Williams)
Hymn: Love's redeeming work is done (Savannah)
Anthem: Love bade me welcome (Vaughan Williams)
Lesson: Luke 24 vv 13-35
Anthem: The Call (Vaughan Williams)
Lesson: John 20 vv 19-31
Hymn: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (St Fulbert)
Lesson: Matthew 28 vv 16-20
Anthem: Antiphon (Vaughan Williams)
Easter Collect
Te Deum (Collegium Regale - Howells)
Blessing
Organ Voluntary: Folk Song Suite - first movement (Vaughan Williams arr. Greg Morris)
Andrew Rupp (Baritone), Greg Morris (Organist), Roger Sayer (Director of Music).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b05pr5s9)
Chloe Hanslip, Popup Opera, Ilan Volkov, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Sean Rafferty hosts live music and chat including violinist Chloe Hanslip playing live.
WED 18:45 Composer of the Week (b05pr3p7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:45 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05pr72h)
Ulster Orchestra - Beethoven, Tchaikovsky
John Toal presents this evening's Live in Concert from the Ulster Hall in Belfast. The Ulster Orchestra performs works by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, under the baton of their Chief Conductor, Rafael Payare.
The programme opens with Beethoven's dramatic Egmont Overture, written in 1810 for a Vienna Court Theatre revival of Goethe's drama Egmont. It's followed by Beethoven's earlier Symphony No. 1: a work which, while building on the achievements of Haydn and Mozart, was repeatedly praised for its originality at the premiere in 1800.
During the interval John Toal will talk to Rafael Payare about his career and musical influences.
The second half of the concert begins with Tchaikovsky's Overture to The Queen of Spades: a stirring work encapsulating the drama of Pushkin's text, which tells the tale a young officer Hermann's obsession with winning card games. The Leader of the Ulster Orchestra, Tamás Kocsis, then appears as soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. Written in 1878 it is a demanding work for the violin virtuoso, unwavering in melodic inspiration.
Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Op.84
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op.21
Interval
Tchaikovsky: Overture: The Queen of Spades, Op.68
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b05pr72k)
Landmark: Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now
Free Thinking marks the bicentenary of Anthony Trollope with a programme devoted to his satire, The Way We Live Now. Although savagely reviewed when it first emerged in 1875, the novel has come to be regarded as Trollope's masterpiece - a brilliant and unsettling anatomy of English society with " a vile city ruffian," Melmotte, as its central character.
Philip Dodd is joined by Jerry White, Simon Heffer, Kathryn Hughes and Jonathan Myerson to consider the nature of Trollope's achievement and the novel's place in the literary landscape.
Producer: Zahid Warley.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b03zdbng)
Springwalks
John Walsh
Five writers set out on foot to sample the transforming qualities of Spring. They report back with tales that are climatically confused - it could be warm or chilly out there ...
3. John Walsh reckons that 'below' it feels wintry; yet ascend near a village called Steep and spring beckons. But where is he?
Producer Duncan Minshull.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b05pr7nn)
Wednesday - Nick Luscombe
Tonight Nick Luscombe presents music from jazz drummer Newman Taylor Baker, contemporary chamber music ensemble Rarescale plus Afrobeat from Tony Sarfo & The Funky Afrosibi.
THURSDAY 09 APRIL 2015
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b05pr1sl)
Proms 2014: Jonathan Dove, Mozart and Ravel
John Shea presents a performance from the 2014 BBC Proms with the BBC SO conducted by Josep Pons in a programme of Jonathan Dove, Mozart and Ravel.
12:31 AM
Dove, Jonathan [b.1959]
Gaia theory for orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons (conductor)
12:53 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Concerto no. 23 in A major K.488 for piano and orchestra
Ingrid Fliter (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons (conductor)
1:20 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Daphnis et Chloe - ballet Part I - Introduction et Danse religieuse; Danse générale; Danse grotesque de Dorcon; Danse légère et gracieuse de Daphnis; Danse de Lycéion; Danse lente et mystérieuse des Nymphes; Part II - Introduction; Danse guerrière; Danse suppliante de Chloé; Part III - Lever du jour; Pantomime (Les amours de Pan et Syrinx); Danse générale (Bacchanale)
BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Josep Pons (conductor)
2:23 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Contrapunctus 1 and 2 from 'Die Kunst der Fuge' ('The Art of Fugue')
(Young) Danish String Quartet
2:31 AM
Cherubini, Luigi (1760-1842)
Requiem Mass for chorus and orchestra No.1 in C minor
Radio Belgrad Choir, Slovenian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
3:15 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Fantasiestücke (Op.12)
Kevin Kenner (piano)
3:41 AM
Bjelinski, Bruno [1909-1992]
Concerto da primavera (1978)
Tonko Ninic (violin), Zagreb Soloists
3:51 AM
Butterworth, Arthur [1923-2014](A B died Nov 2014 amend dates)
Romanza for horn and strings
Martin Hackleman (horn), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:01 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Petites voix
Maîtrise de Radio France, Denis Dupays (director)
4:07 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) transcr Liszt, Franz
Ständchen arr. for piano -- from Schwanengesang (D. 957)
Simon Trpceski (piano)
4:14 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Serenata in vano for clarinet, horn, bassoon, cello and double bass (FS.68)
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (conductor)
4:22 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich [1804-1857]
Kamarinskaya - fantasy for orchestra
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Ludovít Rajter (conductor)
4:31 AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
Festive March (Op.13)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, George de Godzinsky (conductor)
4:40 AM
Groneman, Johannes Albertus (1710-1778)
Sonata for 2 flutes in G major
Jed Wentz and Marion Moonen (flutes)
4:48 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Beschränkt, ihr Weisen dieser Welt (BWV.443); Ich liebe Jesum alle Stund' (BWV.468); Jesu, Jesu, du bist mein (BWV.470); Ach daß nicht die letzte Stunde meines Lebens (BWV.439) - 4 Chorales from the Schemelli collection
Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Domen Marincic (gamba), Dalibor Miklavcic (organ)
4:58 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Trio No.2 from Essercizii Musici, for Viola da gamba, Harpsichord obligato and continuo
Camerata Köln: Rainer Zipperling (solo viola da gamba), Ghislaine Wauters (continuo viola da gamba), Harald Hoeren (harpsichord)
5:08 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
8 Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano' (Wo
0.28) arranged for oboe and piano
Hyong-Sup Kim (oboe), Ja-Eun Ku (piano)
5:18 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Sonata for violin and piano No.18 in G major (K.301)
Reka Szilvay (violin), Naoko Ichihashi (piano)
5:32 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Variations on a theme by Haydn (Op.56a)
Berlin Philharmonic, Simon Rattle (conductor)
5:52 AM
Contant, (Joseph Pierre) Alexis (1858-1918)
Trio No.1 for violin, cello and piano
The Hertz Trio
6:11 AM
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Ancient Airs and Dances - Suite No.2
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b05pr301)
Thursdsay - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b05pr3hm)
Sarah Walker, Rob Cowan and guest Charles Dance
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Chopin's Preludes'. Throughout the week Sarah offers a selection of her favourite preludes, highlighting the variety of expression and sentiment contained in Chopin's famous set with classic recordings by pianists including Martha Argerich, Garrick Ohlsson, Shura Cherkassky and Vladimir Ashkenazy.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the personal relationship that connects two pieces of music.
10am
Veteran British star of stage and screen Charles Dance shares his favourite classical music with Rob Cowan every morning and talks about roles such as Tywin Lannister in hit TV series Game of Thrones. During his four-decade long career, other credits include the Jewel in the Crown, Gosford Park and The Imitation Game. His new film, Woman in Gold, opens this week.
10.30am
Sarah's featured artist this week is the conductor and pianist André Previn whose recordings range from the classics of the American repertoire and famous ballet scores to film music and his own compositions. Sarah will be exploring the full range of this very versatile artist throughout the week.
11am
For this week's Essential Choices Sarah shares her love of both well-known and rare Nordic masterpieces.
Wiren
Symphony No.3, Op.20
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05pr3p9)
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Retreat
Donald Macleod explores the music and life of Chopin, zooming in on five key places on his lifetime itinerary. Today, we're at Nohant, a bucolic oasis some 150 miles south of Paris, where Chopin's lover - and, increasingly, carer - the novelist George Sand, had - by aristocratic standards - a modest country château. Here, over seven long summers, the composer produced much of his finest music.
If no-one's made a soap opera about Sand's household at Nohant, they should do. It would be a kind of French Upstairs, Downstairs, with squabbling servants, family tiffs, romantic intrigue and glamorous guests ... all to the soundtrack of Chopin's extraordinary music, caught in the white heat of creation, which in the words of one of those glamorous guests, the painter Eugène Delacroix, "would waft over us from the windows opening onto the garden, while he worked away; the music mingling with the singing of the nightingales and the scent of the roses". Over the years, the cracks began to appear in Chopin's relationship with Sand, and it eventually crumbled - unlike the house at Nohant, which is now preserved as a national monument.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05pr4vx)
Oxford Lieder 2014
Episode 3
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the 2014 Oxford Lieder Festival: The Schubert Project. This was a mammoth two-week series which included all of Schubert's songs alongside some of his best-loved piano music, curated by pianist Sholto Kynoch.
Today's programme includes highlights from three concerts, including performances by sopranos Isa Katharina Gericke and Kate Royal, baritone Håkan Vramsmo, bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu, clarinettist Mark van der Wiel and pianists Sholto Kynoch and Bengt Forsberg.
Schubert's glorious "Shepherd on the Rock" for soprano, clarinet and piano sits alongside excerpts from his "Schwanengesang" and settings of poems by Friedrich Rückert.
Schubert: Schwanengesang, D.957 (excerpts)
Jonathan Lemalu (baritone), Sholto Kynoch (piano)
Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D.965
Kate Royal (soprano), Mark van der Wiel (clarinet), Sholto Kynoch (piano)
Schubert: Sei mir gegrüsst!, D.741; Dass sie hier gewesen!, D.775; Du bist die Ruh, D.776; Lachen und Weinen, D.777; Greisengesang, D.778
Isa Katharina Gericke (soprano), Håkan Vramsmo (baritone), Bengt Forsberg (piano).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05pr5sj)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Gluck: Iphigenie en Tauride
The Thursday opera is Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris - his fifth opera for the French stage. With this opera, Gluck took his operatic reform to a new level, using a drama based on the play by the ancient Greek dramatist Euripides about the family of Agamemnon in the aftermath of the Trojan War. This performance stars the soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci conducted by Hartmut Haenchen
Presented by Verity Sharp
Gluck
Iphigenia in Tauris
Iphigénie (Iphigenia), Priestess of Diana.....Anna Caterina Antonacci (soprano)
Oreste (Orestes), her brother.....Bruno Taddia (baritone)
Pylade (Pylades), his friend.....Steve Davislim (tenor)
Thoas, King of Scythia.....Alexei Tikhomirov (bass)
Diane (Diana).....Julienne Walker (soprano)
A Scythian Man .....Michel de Souza (baritone)
First Priestess..... Mi Young Kim (soprano)
Second Priestess.....Marianne Dellacasagrande (soprano)
A Greek Woman .....Cristiana Presutti (soprano)
A Minister..... Wolfgang Barta (bass)
Grand Théâtre de Genève Chorus (chorus master Alan Woodbridge)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Hartmut Haenchen
c.
2pm
Acts 1-2:
c.
3.06
ActS 3-4:
c.
3.54
Richard Strauss
Oboe Concerto in D
Alexei Ogrintchouk, oboe
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Andris Nelsons.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b05pr5sl)
Benjamin Luxon, Yousuf Ali Khan, Three Tales, Classical Opera
Sean Rafferty hosts, with live music from tabla player Yousuf Ali Khan ahead as he prepares to perform with Grand Union Orchestra as part of 'The Isle is Full of Noises' festival. Also performing live, sopranos Ellie Laugharne and Erica Eloff with conductor Ian Page from Classical Opera ahead of a new production of J.C. Bach's Adriano in Siria. Baritone come actor Benjamin Luxon discusses his new film 'Tin' - a film about love, greed and opera in a Cornish mining town - plus news of the first ever opera to be performed at London Science Museum's IMAX Theatre; Three Tales by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot. Sean talks to artistic director Nick Sutcliffe and pianist Nathan Mercieca.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05pr3p9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05pr72m)
National Youth Orchestra - Grainger, Unsuk Chin, Bartok
Live from Sage Gateshead
Presented by Tom Redmond
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and conductor Ilan Volkov perform music by Percy Grainger and Béla Bartók alongside the world première of a new work by the South Korean composer Unsuk Chin.
Percy Grainger: The Warriors
c.
7.55 - Interval
Bartók piano music
Unsuk Chin: Mannequin (world premiere)
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Orchestral music is the voice of the people! The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain goes on campaign under eclectic international conductor Ilan Volkov.
Bartók's popular 'Concerto for Orchestra' is a cathedral of sound, shape, melody and emotion, each family of instruments taking equal prominence.
Percy Grainger embraced the world's great traditions of communal music making and 'The Warriors' is his most ambitious work, a helter-skelter of swift, bright, tuneful energy, lustful invention and rhythmic drive.
South Korean Unsuk Chin sees no boundaries between musical cultures, prizing communication above all. Commissioned to explore the unique teenage orchestral energy of the National Youth Orchestra, Mannequin is her latest original work, and this performance is its world première!
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Ilan Volkov (conductor).
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b05pr72s)
Developments in Neuroscience, Krzysztof Zanussi, Peaceful Resistance
Rana Mitter discusses a new model for understanding the brain, with researcher and writer Norman Doidge. Polish film director Krzysztof Zanussi talks about his latest film - Foreign Body - and a new touring festival of classic Polish cinema selected by Martin Scorsese. Activist Srdja Popovic is a proponent of non-violent protest and was a founder of the student movement Otpor! which helped to bring about the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic. He and writer Kate Maltby talk about the strengths and weaknesses of peaceful resistance.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b03zdbnn)
Springwalks
Kirsty Gunn in Sutherland
Five writers set out on foot to sample the transforming qualities of Spring. They report back with tales that are climatically confused - it could be warm or chilly out there ...
4. Kirsty Gunn is in Sutherland, debating whether to ford the chilly River Brora on an afternoon hike.
Producer Duncan Minshull.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b05pr7nq)
Thursday - Nick Luscombe
Nick's selections include new music from Ólafur Arnalds and Alice Sara Ott, Bristol electronic music producer LTO and Norwegian jazz performer Tore Brunborg.
FRIDAY 10 APRIL 2015
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b05pr1sn)
Inspired by Turkey
Percussionist Burhan Öçal, the Istanbul Oriental Ensemble and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana join forces for a concert of Turkish-inspired music. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Symphony no. 100 in G major H.
1.100 (Military)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Howard Griffiths (conductor)
12:55 AM
Lully, Jean-Baptiste [1632-1687]
Marche pour la ceremonie des Turcs, from Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Burhan Öçal (percussion), Istanbul Oriental Ensemble, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Howard Griffiths (conductor)
12:58 AM
Fux, Johann Joseph [1660-1741]
Partita K.331 (Turcaria); Improvisation
Burhan Öçal (percussion), Istanbul Oriental Ensemble, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Howard Griffiths (conductor)
1:09 AM
Sultan Selim III [1761-1808]
Suz-i Dilârâ Pe?rev
Burhan Öçal (percussion), Istanbul Oriental Ensemble
1:13 AM
Öçal, Burhan [born 1953]
Cariye
1:26 AM
Dance of Rhythms
1:36 AM
Old Istanbul
1:44 AM
Oriental Istanbul
Burhan Öçal (percussion), Istanbul Oriental Ensemble, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Howard Griffiths (conductor)
1:48 AM
Berlioz, Hector [1803-1869]
Symphonie funèbre et triomphale for military band (original version without string or chorus) (Op.15)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer
2:22 AM
Elgar, Edward [1857-1934]
Pomp and Circumstance: Military March in D, Op.39/1
David Drury (organ)
2:31 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
String Quartet No.2 in C major (Op.36)
Yggdrasil String Quartet
3:01 AM
Walton, William (1902-1983)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
James Ehnes (violin); Vancouver Symphony Orchestra; Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
3:31 AM
Haczewski, Antoni (C.18th/19th)
Symphony in D major
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Straszynski (conductor)
3:40 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849) arr. Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
The Maiden's Wish (from 'Six Polish songs', S.480)
Janina Fialkowska (piano)
3:44 AM
Frescobaldi, Girolamo [1583-1643]
La Romanesca
Maria Cleary (Arpa Doppia)
3:50 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Adagio from Six studies for pedal piano, arr. piano trio (Op.56 no.6)
Altenberg Trio, Vienna
3:54 AM
Zelenka, Jan Dismas (1679-1745)
1st movement from Sinfonia a 8 Concertanti in A minor (ZWV.189)
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (director)
4:03 AM
Vedel, Artemy [1767-1808]
Choral concerto No.5 "I cried unto the Lord with my voice" (Psalm 143)
Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor)
4:13 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
No.4 Befreit from 5 Lieder (Op.39)
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo soprano), Joseph Breinl (piano)
4:18 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Brandenburg concerto no. 3 in G major BWV.1048
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
4:31 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
No.9 in D major from Études-tableaux for piano (Op.39)
Matti Raekallio (piano)
4:35 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Hora est (antiphon and responsorium)
Radio France Chorus, Denis Comtet (organ), Donald Palumbo (conductor)
4:44 AM
Rubinstein, Anton (1829-1894), transcribed by Josef Lhevinne (1874-1944)
Kamennoi Ostrov (Op.10 No.22)
Josef Lhévinne (1874-1944) (piano)
4:52 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918), orchestrated by Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Danse (Tarantelle styrienne)
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
4:58 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey [1891-1953]
Sonata for piano no. 7 (Op.83) in B flat major
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
5:17 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Trost in Tränen (D.120) (Consolation in tears)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
5:21 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Schäfers Klagelied (D.121) (Shepherd's Lament)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
5:24 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) [text Friedrich Schiller]
Der Alpenjäger (D.588b Op.37 No.2)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano - after Johann Fritz, Vienna c.1815)
5:30 AM
Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings [1848-1918]
Songs of farewell for mixed voices: no.6 Lord, let me know mine end
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
5:42 AM
Roussel, Albert (1869-1937)
Le Festin de l'araignee - symphonic fragments Op.17
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
6:00 AM
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915)
Sonata No.9 in F major 'Black Mass' (Op.68)
Tanel Joamets (piano)
6:09 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886), text: Gay, Delphine (1804-1855)
Il m'aimait tant! (S.271)
Katalin Szokefalvi-Nagy (soprano), Magda Freymann (piano)
6:17 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
V Prirode (In Natures Realm) (Op.63)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b05pr30n)
Friday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b05pr3hy)
Sarah Walker, Rob Cowan and guest Charles Dance
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Chopin's Preludes'. Throughout the week Sarah offers a selection of her favourite preludes, highlighting the variety of expression and sentiment contained in Chopin's famous set with classic recordings by pianists including Martha Argerich, Garrick Ohlsson, Shura Cherkassky and Vladimir Ashkenazy.
9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.
10am
Veteran British star of stage and screen Charles Dance shares his favourite classical music with Rob Cowan every morning and talks about roles such as Tywin Lannister in hit TV series Game of Thrones. During his four-decade long career, other credits include the Jewel in the Crown, Gosford Park and The Imitation Game. His new film, Woman in Gold, opens this week
10.30am
Sarah's featured artist this week is the conductor and pianist André Previn whose recordings range from the classics of the American repertoire and famous ballet scores to film music and his own compositions. Sarah will be exploring the full range of this very versatile artist throughout the week.
11am
For this week's Essential Choices Sarah shares her love of both well-known and rare Nordic masterpieces.
Nielsen
Symphony No.2 'The Four Temperaments', Op.16
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05pr3pc)
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
London Calling
Donald Macleod explores the music and life of Chopin, zooming in on five key places on his lifetime itinerary. Today, an invitation to London turns into an extended tour of Britain, with disastrous consequences for the composer's fragile health.
Chopin had visited London once before, in 1837, but on that occasion he went strictly incognito. This time, he was invited to play - and as the invitation coincided with fallout from the 1848 Revolution, he was more than happy to have an excuse to get out of the French capital for a few weeks. The main facilitator of Chopin's British sojourn was a middle-aged Scotswoman, Miss Jane Wilhelmina Stirling, a sugar heiress. She had studied the piano with Chopin in Paris, and clearly held something of a torch for him. After a hectic round of concerts, matinées and soirées in the English capital, Miss Stirling whisked her beloved teacher off to her ancestral home north of the border - then back down south to a concert in Manchester, attended by what must have seemed to Chopin an intimidatingly large audience, of 1,200 people - then up to to Scotland again for a round of aristocratic socializing he could well have done without, followed by concerts in Glasgow and Edinburgh - then down once more to what Chopin was by now calling "this hellish London", whose infernal fogs must have been a nightmare for the consumptive composer. Here Chopin performed one final engagement before returning, a husk of his former self, to Paris. He never recovered his health.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05pr4vz)
Oxford Lieder 2014
Episode 4
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the 2014 Oxford Lieder Festival: The Schubert Project. This was a mammoth two-week series which included all of Schubert's songs alongside some of his best-loved piano music, curated by pianist Sholto Kynoch.
Today's programme includes highlights from two concerts, including performances by mezzo-soprano Sarah Walker, soprano Isa Katharina Gericke, baritone Håkan Vramsmo, the vocal ensemble Schubert's Nightingales, and pianists Bengt Forsberg and Sholto Kynoch. Schubert's beautiful choral setting of Psalm 23 follows some of his settings of poems by Karl Gottfried von Leitner.
Schubert: Drang in die Ferne, D.770; Das Weinen, D.926; Vor meiner Wiege, D.927; Der Wallensteiner Lanzknecht beim Trunk, D.931; Der Kreuzzug, D.932; Des Fischers Liebesglück, D.933; Der Winterabend, D.938
Isa Katharina Gericke (soprano), Håkan Vramsmo (baritone), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Schubert: Der 23. Psalm, D.706; Die Sterne, D.939; Ständchen, D.920
Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Schubert's Nightingales, Sholto Kynoch (piano).
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05pr5sz)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Mariss Jansons
Episode 4
The last of this week's programmes feature performances by Mariss Jansons with both the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - where he performed 3 classical symphonies in one concert - and with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - including the Violin Concerto by Wolfgang Rihm, Lichtes Spiel.
Presented by Verity Sharp
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2pm
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 3 in D, D. 200
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons
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2.26pm
W.A. Mozart
Symphony No. 35 in D, K. 385 ('Haffner')
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons
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2.49pm
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 103 in E flat, Hob. I:103 ('Drumroll')
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons
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3.20pm
Johannes Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Haydn in B flat, op. 56a
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons
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3.41pm
Wolfgang Rihm
Lichtes Spiel: Ein Sommerstück, for violin and orchestra
Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b05pr5t1)
Peter Donohoe, Alligator Gumbo
Sean Rafferty hosts, with live music, conversation and arts news. Guests include pianist Peter Donohoe, in the middle of a Ravel-Rachmaninov series at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, and Leeds-based band Alligator Gumbo, recreating the heyday of the New Orleans swing era live in Salford.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05pr3pc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05pr72v)
BBC Symphony Orchestra - Ravel, Prokofiev, Nielsen
Live from the Barbican
Presented by Martin Handley
Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Nielsen's thrilling 5th Symphony and Ravel's iconic Bolero. Alexander Toradze joins for Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto.
Ravel: La Valse
Prokofiev: Piano concerto No. 3 in C Major
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8.15pm. Interval
8.35
Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
Ravel: Bolero
Alexander Toradze (Piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Two works by Maurice Ravel frame this concert: his dizzying reinvention of the waltz and the hypnotic meditation on the Spanish bolero dance, beaten out by a snare drum over a vast span.That same drum plays a sinister role in Nielsen's magnificent Fifth Symphony, its obsessive battering threatening to break up the orchestra's performance in a thrilling battle. The second movement plunges us into a swinging sea of perpetual motion, where a sense of metric time is lost in the shining surge. The BBC Symphony Orchestra's revelatory and highly-praised cycle of Nielsen's Symphonies with Sakari Oramo reaches its penultimate stage tonight.
Acclaimed Georgian pianist Alexander Toradze performs Prokofiev's most elegant and ethereal piano concerto, the glowing third.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b05pr72x)
Luke Kennard, Bill Wells, Aidan Moffat
Ian's guests on the 'cabaret of the word' include the poet Luke Kennard and Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat with songs from their new album, 'The Most Important Place in the World'.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b03zdbns)
Springwalks
Philip Hoare in Sholing
Five writers set out on foot to sample the transforming qualities of Spring. They report back with tales that are climatically confused - it could be warm or chilly out there ...
5. Philip Hoare is quickly at the water's edge in Sholing, well before the waking hour. Then meetings with many animals are recalled.
Producer Duncan Minshull.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b05pr7nv)
Lopa Kothari - Noura Mint Seymali in Session
Lopa Kothari with new music from across the globe, plus a live session with Noura Mint Seymali, a singer from the deserts of Mauritania.
Noura Mint Seymali was born into Mauritanian music royalty: her father arranged the country's national anthem, and her mother was Dimi Mint Abba, an iconic figure in Mauritanian music. Noura Mint Seymali began her career at the age of thirteen, as a backing singer for her mother. She later teamed up with, and married, Jeiche Ould Chighaly, who is celebrated in Mauritania for transferring the intricate musical lines of the traditional instrument the tidninit onto the electric guitar. They have been first choice to play for the best weddings in Mauritania for years: now with their four-piece band, they are reaching an international audience. Noura Mint Seymali will also be introducing a classic recording by her mother as her Heritage Track.
Plus the latest from BBC Introducing, and another dip into the Radio 3 World Music Archive.
World on 3 sessions are available for download as a podcast via the home page.