John Shea introduces the Silesian Quartet performing Debussy's String Quartet, Panufnik's 2nd Quartet 'Messages' and Franck's Piano Quintet in F minor with pianist Wojciech Switala.
Quartet no. 2 (Messages) for strings
Concerto no. 4 in E flat major K.495 for horn and orchestra
Pärt, Arvo (b. 1935)
Storace, Bernado [fl. 1664]
Ave Maria . . . Virgo serena for 4 voices
Perché viva il caro sposo - from Rodrigo (HWV 5) Act 3 [ Character: Elisena - includes preceeding recitative "Ah, sommi dei, cui la giustizia arruota"
Rondino in E flat (WoO 25) for two oboes, two clarinets, two horns, two bassoons
Sigiswald Kuijken (violin and conductor), Lucy van Dael (2nd violin solo), La Petite Bande
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love...French Melodies'. With performances of songs by composers including Berlioz, Ravel and Duparc from such diverse singers as Rita Streich, Thomas Hampson, Mady Mesplé, Leopold Simoneau and Sandrine Piau, Rob explores the wide range of expression this genre offers.
Take part in our daily music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.
Rob's guest this week is the biographer and novelist Lady Antonia Fraser. The author of many acclaimed historical works including Marie Antoinette and Mary Queen of Scots, Lady Fraser will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Byrd, Mozart and Schubert, every day at
This week Rob features the Belgian violinist Arthur Grumiaux. A fine pianist as well as a violinist, Grumiaux was known for his graceful performances and purity of tone. Rob features classic recordings of him in repertoire for which he is especially celebrated, including the solo violin music of Bach, as well as works by Mozart, Brahms, Debussy and Faure.
Germaine Tailleferre's music is championed by Eric Satie. Calling her his "musical daughter", soon Tailleferre joins the young composers who eventually become known as "Les Six".
There can't be many instances where studying music is likened to being a street-walker on one of the most shady streets in Paris. That was the accusation Germaine Tailleferre's father hurled at her, a child prodigy who wanted to take her music studies more seriously. It fell to Tailleferre's enterprising mother to come up with a solution. After her father left for work, Tailleferre was escorted to her music lessons each day by some obliging local nuns.
This unpromising start turned into a long and largely successful career in which Tailleferre continued to write music up to her death, at the age of 91, in 1983.
Fame found Tailleferre early on, in the 1920s, when she was a member of the group of musicians eventually titled "Les Six". Initially championed by Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau, two of the most influential voices among the Parisian avant-garde, the group, which comprised Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric, Francis Poulenc, Louis Durey and Tailleferre, prospered in a heady environment of artistic expression and friendship. Extending across the Arts, they collaborated with Picasso, Georges Braque and Marie Laurencin and poets like Paul Claudel, Paul Valery, Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob.
Two disastrous marriages and the occupation of France during the second world war curtailed Tailleferre's musical activities and may at least in part explain why her early fame dwindled in later years. Yet, while much of her music remains in manuscript form, including a large body of music for film, television and radio, happily this shadowy figure among "Les Six" is returning to the limelight. Presenting her work for the first time on "Composer of the Week", Tailleferre's published legacy reveals a rich treasure trove of chamber works, solo piano, concertos, ballets, operas and songs.
Today Donald Macleod follows Tailleferre's activities after leaving the prestigious Paris Conservatoire. Identified by Erick Satie and given Jean Cocteau's seal of approval, Tailleferre's reputation grows through concerts of her work and the glowing critical reception to her String Quartet and her lyrical first sonata for violin and piano.
A four-part Schubert series at LSO St Luke's in London opens with a programme of works from a genre in which Schubert was one of the greatest masters, the piano duet. Cédric Tiberghien and Christian Ihle Hadland are the performers in the turbulent 'Lebensstürme' D947, the elegant Grand Rondo in A D951 and the sublime F minor Fantasy, D940
Penny Gore continues her exploration this week of recent concert performances by some of Norway's leading orchestras. Today she hears from the Bergen Philharmonic, one of the world's oldest musical institutions which this year celebrates its 250th anniversary. The orchestra has been directed since 2003 by the American, Andrew Litton, who relinquishes the post in October to the Englishman, Edward Gardner.
Norwegian Artists' Carnival, op. 14 (1874)
c.
Piano Concerto No. 3 in E minor, op. 60 ('Ballade')
c.
Serenade (1954), after Plato's 'Symposium', for violin, strings, harp and percussion
c.
Sean Rafferty with a lively drivetime mix of arts news, chat, live music and the nest CDs.
Guests include American conductor Alan Gilbert, in London for a hotly anticipated visit from the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, of which he has been a dynamic Music Director since 2009.
Plus, live music from veteran French-Venezuelan violinist Maurice Hasson, and acclaimed Spanish pianist Javier Perianes.
Live from the Royal Festival Hall in London. Rising talent Christoph König conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Beethoven's Coriolan Overture and Symphony No 6 (Pastoral), and Elgar's Violin Concerto. with soloist Pinchas Zukerman.
For Beethoven nature was almost a substitute for religion; his Pastoral Symphony is a loving portrayal of the countryside and its people, and a perennial favourite with audiences. It is preceded here by one of his most dramatic concert overtures.
Elgar's Violin Concerto is less well-known than his Cello Concerto, but exceeds it in length and ambition. Written in 1910 for the great Fritz Kreisler, it is played tonight by one of today's most distinguished virtuosos.
As Mexico takes centre stage at London's Book Fair Matthew Sweet talks to two of the country's award-winning writers. Valeria Luiselli's new novel The Story of My Teeth explores the meaning of home through the antics of an auctioneer, told in his own hyperbolic fashion, who has decided views on the meaning of value and worth in life and art. Francisco Goldman's The Interior Circuit takes us on a journey through grieving after the loss of Aura Estrada, his wife, in 2007, and his current fears for Mexico City, the place they made their own.
Playwright Simon Stephens talks to Matthew about transplanting Carmen into a modern urban idiom and whether Carmen Disruption in London will be different to Carmen Disruption in Hamburg. His starting point as ever will be what disturbs and dares an audience to think and feel.
And Christopher Doyle: No Glass Twice as Big as It Needs to Be - the cinematographer and film director has his first solo art show in Europe opening at London Gallery Rossi & Rossi. He talks to Matthew Sweet about the give and take relationship he enjoys with his Chinese alter-ego Du Ke Feng and how creating collage helps his film-making.
Resuming his celebration of mid-20th century British film, the columnist and historian Simon Heffer turns his gaze on five hugely popular comic actors.
Alastair Sim is perhaps best remembered for a definitive interpretation of Scrooge, but Simon Heffer also recalls the run of classic comedies in which he perfected his role as a slightly ambivalent, often incompetent and occasionally threatening presence: The Happiest Days of Your Life, Laughter in Paradise, Captain Boycott and An Inspector Calls.
He concludes by revealing the little-known story of how Sim came to play the main role - or, rather, roles - in a film which has become a landmark of British cinema - The Belles of St Trinian's.
The inestimable Margaret Rutherford had been marked down to play the headmistress, Miss Fritton, but when Rutherford turned out to be unavailable, Alastair Sim offered to take on both his male part and the role of Miss Fritton, granting him the glorious lines: "In other schools, girls are sent out quite unprepared into a merciless world, but when our girls leave here, it is the merciless world that has to be prepared."
Music tonight from Cretan lyra player Kelly Thoma's new album 7Fish and Greek folk songs from Katerina Papadopoulou. Plus haunting impressions of Ireland from woodwind player and composer Seán Mac Erlaine, and the Choir of Temple Church sing the music of Nico Muhly. With Verity Sharp.
WEDNESDAY 15 APRIL 2015
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b05qdxj3)
Proms 2014: Butterworth and Vaughan Williams
BBC Proms 2014: John Shea presents a programme of Butterworth and Vaughan Williams.
12:31 AM
Stephan, Rudi [1887-1915]
Music for orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
12:48 AM
Kelly, Frederick Septimus [1881-1916]
Elegy (in memoriam Rupert Brooke) for strings
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
12:59 AM
Butterworth, George [1885-1916], orch. Phillip Brookes
6 Songs from 'A Shropshire lad', arr. for voice and orchestra
Roderick Williams (baritone), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
1:15 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph [1872-1958]
Pastoral symphony (Symphony no.3)
Allan Clayton (tenor), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
1:55 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Kinderszenen for piano (Op.15)
Havard Gimse (piano)
2:15 AM
Naumann, Johann Gottlieb (1741-1801)
Harpsichord Concerto in B flat major (C.1137)
Gerald Hambitzer (harpsichord), Concerto Köln
2:31 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Piano Trio No.1 in D minor (Op.63)
ATOS Trio
3:05 AM
La Rue, Pierre de (c.1460-1518)
Missa Sancto Job (complete)
Orlando Consort (voices only)
3:40 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Trio No.8 from Essercizii Musici, for Recorder, Harpsichord obligato, and continuo
Camerata Köln
3:49 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Prelude and Fugue No.1 in E minor (Op.35)
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
3:58 AM
Spohr, Louis (1784-1859)
Fantasy, Theme and Variations on a theme of Danzi in B flat (Op.81)
László Horvath (clarinet), New Budapest String Quartet
4:07 AM
Humperdinck, Engelbert (1854-1921)
Dream Pantomime - from Hansel and Gretel
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
4:16 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli (S.162)
Janina Fialkowska (piano)
4:25 AM
Anonymous, attrib. Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) or Bach, Johann Christoph (1642-1703)
Ich lasse dich nicht - motet for double chorus & continuo
Cantus Cölln , Konrad Junghänel (director)
4:31 AM
Moniuszko, Stanis?aw (1819-1872)
Overture to Halka (Original version)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
4:39 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Sonata in A major, HWV 361 (transposed to B flat)
Blagoj Angelovski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ)
4:49 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
Ave Maria; Christus factus est; Locus iste (motets)
The Sokkelund Choir, Morten Schuldt Jensen (conductor)
5:02 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893)
Capriccio Italien (Op. 45)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrej Boreyko (conductor)
5:17 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Romance and Waltz
The Dutch Pianists' Quartet - Niek de Vente, Marian Bolt, Corien van den Berg and Robert Nasveld (2 pianos 8 hands)
5:24 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Nulla in mundo pax sincera for soprano and orchestra (RV.630)
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director) (Encore)
5:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Quintet in E flat major for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (K.452)
Anton Kuerti (piano), James Mason (oboe), James Campbell (clarinet), James McKay (bassoon), James Somerville (horn)
5:55 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Notturno (D.897) for piano and strings in E flat major
Vadim Repin (violin), Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
6:05 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Op.61) - incidental music
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schonwandt (conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b05qdy82)
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 (b05qdyhf)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Antonia Fraser
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love...French Melodies'. With performances of songs by composers including Berlioz, Ravel and Duparc from such diverse singers as Rita Streich, Thomas Hampson, Mady Mesplé, Leopold Simoneau and Sandrine Piau, Rob explores the wide range of expression this genre offers.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Rob's guest this week is the biographer and novelist Lady Antonia Fraser. The author of many acclaimed historical works including Marie Antoinette and Mary Queen of Scots, Lady Fraser will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Byrd, Mozart and Schubert, every day at
10am.
10.30am
This week Rob features the Belgian violinist Arthur Grumiaux. A fine pianist as well as a violinist, Grumiaux was known for his graceful performances and purity of tone. Rob features classic recordings of him in repertoire for which he is especially celebrated, including the solo violin music of Bach, as well as works by Mozart, Brahms, Debussy and Faure.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
This week Rob explores great ballet scores
Delibes
Sylvia: Act III
London Symphony Orchestra
Anatole Fistoulari (conductor)
MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 434 3132.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05qdymw)
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
The Glory Years Continue: 1930s
Germaine Tailleferre finds success on the stage with a hit ballet, a commission from the great Diaghilev and collaborates on a surrealist fantasy by Jean Cocteau.
There can't be many instances where studying music is likened to being a street-walker on one of the most shady streets in Paris. That was the accusation Germaine Tailleferre's father hurled at her, a child prodigy who wanted to take her music studies more seriously. It fell to Tailleferre's enterprising mother to come up with a solution. After her father left for work, Tailleferre was escorted to her music lessons each day by some obliging local nuns.
This unpromising start turned into a long and largely successful career in which Tailleferre continued to write music up to her death, at the age of 91, in 1983.
Fame found Tailleferre early on, in the 1920s, when she was a member of the group of musicians eventually titled "Les Six". Initially championed by Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau, two of the most influential voices among the Parisian avant-garde, the group, which comprised Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric, Francis Poulenc, Louis Durey and Tailleferre, prospered in a heady environment of artistic expression and friendship. Extending across the Arts, they collaborated with Picasso, Georges Braque and Marie Laurencin and poets like Paul Claudel, Paul Valery, Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob.
Two disastrous marriages and the occupation of France during the second world war curtailed Tailleferre's musical activities and may at least in part explain why her early fame dwindled in later years. Yet, while much of her music remains in manuscript form, including a large body of music for film, television and radio, happily this shadowy figure among "Les Six" is returning to the limelight. Presenting her work for the first time on "Composer of the Week", Tailleferre's published legacy reveals a rich treasure trove of chamber works, solo piano, concertos, ballets, operas and songs.
In today's episode Donald Macleod charts Tailleferre's activities during the 1930s. This was an exhilarating period. In addition to a succession of stage works, she came to the attention of the influential conductor Pierre Monteux. It was he who commissioned her critically acclaimed Concerto for two pianos, chorus and orchestra, which she scored for the original combination of two pianos, chorus, saxophones and orchestra.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03y3dw3)
LSO St Luke's Schubert Series
Nicola Benedetti, Leonard Elschenbroich, Alexei Grynyuk
The second programme in this all-Schubert series at LSO St Luke's sees violinist Nicola Benedetti, cellist Leonard Elschenbroich and pianist Alexei Grynyuk performing the Piano Trio in B flat, D898, alongside the work thought to be a discarded movement from it, the 'Notturno' in E flat, D897.
Schubert: Notturno in E flat, D897
Schubert: Piano Trio in B flat, D898
Nicola Benedetti (violin)
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
Alexei Grynyuk (piano).
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05qf003)
Norway's Leading Orchestras
Episode 3
Penny Gore presents a perfomance of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcrcker given recently by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Norway's oldest orchestra has been performing and recording all of Tchaikovsky great ballet's under the Estonian conductor, Neeme Järvi, over the last few years and this performance marks the culmination of the project.
Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker
Bergen Boys' Choir, Bergen Girls' Choir, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b05qg4d2)
Trinity College, Cambridge (archive)
A 1992 archive recording of a service from the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, directed by Richard Marlow
Introit: Erforsche mich, Gott (Krebs)
Responses: Reading
Psalms 142, 143 (Bach arr. Marlow)
First Lesson: Isaiah 25 vv 6-9
Canticles: Greene in C
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15 vv 51-end
Anthem: Jesu meine Freude BWV 227 (Bach)
Hymn: O love how deep (Eisenach)
Organ Voluntary: Erstanden ist der heil'ge Christ BWV 628 (Bach)
Organ Scholars: Silas Standage and Philip Rushforth
Director of Music: Richard Marlow.
WED 16:30 In Tune (b05qf83r)
Alessandro Taverna, Omer Meir Wellber, Octandre Ensemble
Sean Rafferty with a lively drivetime mix of arts news, chat, live music and the best CDs.
Guests include young Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber, a rising star who makes his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra this week.
Plus, live music from acclaimed Italian pianist Alessandro Taverna and the intimate flute-harp-viola trio of The Octandre Ensemble.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05qdymw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05qg2t2)
BBC Symphony Orchestra - Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Live from the Barbican
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Dietrich Henschel performs Mahler's complete Des Knaben Wunderhorn songs, with extra orchestrations by Detlev Glanert. Alexander Vedernikov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Mahler/Glanert - Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (UK premiere of arrangements by Glanert)
1. MAHLER: Das himmlische Leben [The Heavenly Life]
2. MAHLER: Verlor'ne Müh' [Wasted Effort!]
3. MAHLER arr. GLANERT: Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grünen Wald [I walked with joy through a verdant wood]
4. MAHLER arr. GLANERT: Starke Einbildungskraft [Vivid Imagination]
5. MAHLER arr. GLANERT: Aus! Aus! [Over! Over!]
6. MAHLER: Revelge [Reveille]
7. MAHLER: Der Tamboursg'sell [The Drummer-Boy]
8. MAHLER: Rheinlegendchen [A Little Rhine Legend]
9. MAHLER arr. GLANERT: Selbstgefühl [Self-confidence]
10. MAHLER: Wer hat dies Liedel erdacht? [Who was it thought up this song?]
11. MAHLER arr. GLANERT: Scheiden und Meiden [Parting and Absence]
12. MAHLER: Der Schildwache Nachtlied [The Sentry's Night-Song]
INTERVAL
13. MAHLER: Das Irdische Leben [Earthly Life]
14. MAHLER arr. GLANERT: Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen [To Make a Naughty Child Good]
15. MAHLER: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt [Anthony of Padua's Sermon to the Fishes]
16. MAHLER arr. GLANERT: Ablösung im Sommer [Summer's Replacement]
17. MAHLER: Lied des Verfolgten im Turm [Song of the Prisoner in the Tower]
18. MAHLER arr. GLANERT: Nicht Wiedersehen [Never to Meet Again]
19. MAHLER arr. GLANERT: Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang [Three angels sang a sweet song]
20. MAHLER arr. GLANERT: Zu Strassburg auf der Schanz [On the battlements at Strassburg]
21. MAHLER: Trost im Unglück [Consolation in Unhappiness]
22. MAHLER: Wo die schöen Trompetten blasen [Where the fine trumpets sound]
23. MALHER: Lob des hohen Verstandes [In Praise of High Intellect]
24. MAHLER: Urlicht [Primal Light]
Dietrich Henschel (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)
An innovative film and music event, in which distinguished German baritone Dietrich Henschel sings the entire collection of Mahler's 'Wunderhorn' songs, ten of which are orchestrated by Detlev Glanert, in sync with a new film by director Clara Pons. Pons's film, inspired by Mahler's songs, presents a scenario where paradise meets its end in the violence of war. Henschel, hailed for his emotional and dramatic intensity, both sings on stage and takes a leading role in the film.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b05qfqc2)
Violence in Culture
With a raft of new books being published, Philip Dodd considers violence in culture and our relationship with it. His guests are crime writer and former barrister Frances Fyfield, Professor of Twentieth Century History at University of York Richard Bessel, Forensic Psychiatrist Mayura Deshpande, and the writer Peter Stanford.
Producer: Ella-mai Robey
Violence: A Modern Obsession by Richard Bessel is published 23 April 2015
Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle by Peter Stanford is out now
Casting the First Stone by Frances Fyfield is available in paperback.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b05qfqfp)
British Film Comedians
Terry-Thomas
The columnist and historian Simon Heffer resumes his series of Essays celebrating mid-20th century British film with a new focus on five popular comic actors.
In exploring five British comic film actors from the mid-20th century, Simon Heffer's gaze has never strayed far from the British obsession with class. The double-barrelled, single-named actor Terry-Thomas - with his monocle, his cigarette holder and the hallmark gap between his two front teeth - perfected the role of a particular type of British toff. Taking star billing in a series of films such as Private's Progress, I'm All Right, Jack, and Carlton-Browne of the FO in the mid-1950s, his timing was perfect too. Simon Heffer argues that whether playing a cad, a rotten bounder or a charmer, Terry-Thomas came to represent the louche and degenerate side of the upper classes at a time when the class system was coming under full attack. With his trademark mix of celebration and historical analysis, Simon Heffer sheds fresh light on a series of once hugely popular but now often forgotten or overlooked performances.
Producer : Beaty Rubens.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b05qftnp)
Wednesday - Verity Sharp
Verity Sharp's selection tonight includes the work of Scandi-Scottish duo Marit and Rona, contemporary music for percussion played by O Duo, exquisite polyphony from Contrapunctus and the dense electronic mastery of Bérangère Maximin.
THURSDAY 16 APRIL 2015
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b05qdxj5)
Foggy Albion: a Russian concert of British music
Foggy Albion: a Russian concert of British music by William Walton, Cyril Scott and Lord Berners. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915), orch. Knussen, Oliver (b.1952)
5 works for piano; 5 works for piano orch. Oliver Knussen
Victoria Postnikova (piano), Capella of Russia State Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
12:46 AM
Scott, Cyril (1879-1970)
Concerto for violin and orchestra
Alexander Rozhdestvensky (violin), Capella of Russia State Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
1:13 AM
Walton, William (1902-1983), arr. Muir Mathieson
Richard III - A Shakespeare Suite
Capella of Russia State Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
1:26 AM
Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Gerald Hugh [Lord Berners] (1883-1950)
The Triumph of Neptune - suite
Capella of Russia State Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Filin (bass-baritone), Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
1:44 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
A London Symphony (Symphony no.2)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
2:31 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Clarinet Quintet in B minor (Op.115)
Thomas Friedli (clarinet), Quartet Sine Nomine
3:08 AM
Kaiser Leopold I (1640-1705)
Tres Lectiones (1676)
Tragicomedia , Stephen Stubbs (conductor), Concerto Palatino, Bruce Dickey (conductor)
3:32 AM
Bruch, Max (1838-1920) (arr. unknown)
Allegro vivace ma non troppo in C major - No.7 from Pieces for clarinet, viola/cello & piano (harp) (Op.83) arr. for violin, cello & piano
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
3:36 AM
Mokranjac, Stevan (1856-1914)
Eighth Song-Wreath (Songs from Kosovo)
Belgrade Radio & Television Choir, Mladen Jagust (conductor)
3:41 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
La revue de cuisine - suite from the ballet
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound
3:56 AM
Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich (c.1620-1680)
Suite no.2 in D major
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Rosanne Hunt (cello), Linda Kent (harpsichord)
4:03 AM
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934)
Intermezzo (from 'Fennimore and Gerda') arr. Fenby
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
4:09 AM
Enna, August (1859-1939)
Klaverstykker (piano pieces): No.2 Waltz, No.3 Intermezzo
Ida Cernecka (piano)
4:17 AM
Kaufman, Nikolai (1925-)
Melodies from the Shoppe Region
Bulgarian Radio Children's Choir, Hristo Nedyalkov (conductor)
4:21 AM
Ridout, Godfrey (1918-1984)
Fall fair (1961)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
4:31 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Toccata in C major, Op.7
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
4:36 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No.16 in C major (K.128)
The Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan, Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)
4:50 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
Sacred and profane - 8 medieval lyrics (Op.91)
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
5:05 AM
Guillaume IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071-1126)
Companho ferai un vers tot covinen
Eric Mentzel (tenor); Bois de Cologne: Meike Herzig, Dorothee Oberlinger (recorders); Tom Daun (harp)
5:11 AM
Anonymous
La quarte estampie royal
Bois de Cologne: Meike Herzig, Dorothee Oberlinger (recorders); Tom Daun (harp)
5:13 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Jeux - Poème Dansé
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
5:31 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich [1637-1707]
Jesu, meines Lebens Leben, BuxWV 62
Marieke Steenhoek (soprano), Miriam Meyer (soprano), Bogna Bartosz (contralto), Marco van de Klundert (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass), Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman (conductor)
5:39 AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
Suru (Sorrow) (Op.22 No.2)
Arto Noras (cello), Tapani Valsta (piano)
5:46 AM
Kraus, Joseph Martin (1756-1792)
Sinfonie in E flat
Concerto Koln
6:07 AM
Schuncke, Ludwig (1810-1834)
Grande Sonata in G minor (Op.3) (in four movements)
Sylviane Deferne (piano).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b05qdy86)
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 (b05qdyhh)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with Antonia Fraser
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love...French Melodies'. With performances of songs by composers including Berlioz, Ravel and Duparc from such diverse singers as Rita Streich, Thomas Hampson, Mady Mesplé, Leopold Simoneau and Sandrine Piau, Rob explores the wide range of expression this genre offers.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the story and tell us what happens next.
10am
Rob's guest this week is the biographer and novelist Lady Antonia Fraser. The author of many acclaimed historical works including Marie Antoinette and Mary Queen of Scots, Lady Fraser will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Byrd, Mozart and Schubert, every day at
10am.
10.30am
This week Rob features the Belgian violinist Arthur Grumiaux. A fine pianist as well as a violinist, Grumiaux was known for his graceful performances and purity of tone. Rob features classic recordings of him in repertoire for which he is especially celebrated, including the solo violin music of Bach, as well as works by Mozart, Brahms, Debussy and Faure.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
This week Rob explores great ballet scores
Adam
Giselle: Act II
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DECCA 478 0155.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05qdymy)
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
The War Years: 1940s to 1950s
Germaine Tailleferre is forced to leave occupied France and spend the war years in America. Returning to France her unhappy marriage draws to a close.
There can't be many instances where studying music is likened to being a street-walker on one of the most shady streets in Paris. That was the accusation Germaine Tailleferre's father hurled at her, a child prodigy who wanted to take her music studies more seriously. It fell to Tailleferre's enterprising mother to come up with a solution. After her father left for work, Tailleferre was escorted to her music lessons each day by some obliging local nuns.
This unpromising start turned into a long and largely successful career in which Tailleferre continued to write music up to her death, at the age of 91, in 1983.
Fame found Tailleferre early on, in the 1920s, when she was a member of the group of musicians eventually titled "Les Six". Initially championed by Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau, two of the most influential voices among the Parisian avant-garde, the group, which comprised Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric, Francis Poulenc, Louis Durey and Tailleferre, prospered in a heady environment of artistic expression and friendship. Extending across the Arts, they collaborated with Picasso, Georges Braque and Marie Laurencin and poets like Paul Claudel, Paul Valery, Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob.
Two disastrous marriages and the occupation of France during the second world war curtailed Tailleferre's musical activities and may at least in part explain why her early fame dwindled in later years. Yet, while much of her music remains in manuscript form, including a large body of music for film, television and radio, happily this shadowy figure among "Les Six" is returning to the limelight. Presenting her work for the first time on "Composer of the Week", Tailleferre's published legacy reveals a rich treasure trove of chamber works, solo piano, concertos, ballets, operas and songs.
Donald Macleod's survey reaches the war years. Traumatised by her experiences and unable to take her manuscripts with her to America, Tailleferre's prolific capacity for composition grinds almost to a complete halt. Returning to France in 1946, Tailleferre picks up the reins once again, with a burst of creativity, resulting in operas, concertos and chamber music. From the archive of Radio France we hear a rare excerpt from Tailleferre's comic-opera "Il était un petit navire", sung by one of Francis Poulenc's favourite singers, Denise Duval.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03y3dw5)
LSO St Luke's Schubert Series
Doric String Quartet
This series focusing on Schubert's late works at LSO St Luke's continues with the Doric Quartet in the last of his quartets, the powerful and unsettling D887 in G major, plus an earlier off-cut work for string trio, D471.
Doric String Quartet
Schubert: String Trio fragment in E flat, D471
Schubert: String Quartet in G, D887.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05qf006)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Bellini - La Straniera
Bellini La Straniera
A rare chance to hear one of Bellini's first great operatic successes. Premiered at La Scala, Milan in 1829, La Straniera (The Stranger) is a romantic melodrama set in Brittany around the year 1200. Alaide, a mysterious woman roams the countryside. Nobody suspects that this stranger is in fact Agnes, the exiled wife of the King of France. Arturo, a local count falls in love with the stranger - even though he's supposed to be engaged to Isoletta. Valdeburgo (Alaide's brother) visits her and implores Arturo to leave his sister in peace and to marry his fiancee, Isoletta. One of opera's more complicated marriage scenes ensues, culminating in the stranger, Alaide's true identity being revealed and Artuo falling on his sword and dying, to the consternation of Isoletta. Alaide/Agnes, the true Queen of France is left lamenting her ill fortune.
Alaide, the stranger..... Marlis Petersen (soprano),
Arturo, Count of Ravenstel..... Norman Reinhardt (tenor),
Valdeburgo, Baron, secret brother of Alaide..... Franco Vassalo (baritone),
Isoletta, fiancée of Arturo..... Theresa Krollthaler (mezzo-soprano),
Osburgo, confidant of Arturo..... Vladimir Dmitruk (tenor),
Il signore di Montolino, father of Isoletta..... Martin Snell (bass)
Il Priore degli Spedalieri..... Stefan Cerny (bass),
Arnold Schoenberg Chorus
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Paolo Arrivabeni (conductor)
Recorded live at Theater an der Wien, Vienna on 24 Jan 2015.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b05qf849)
La Serenissima, Worbey and Farrell
Sean Rafferty with a lively drivetime mix of arts news, chat, live music and the best CDs.
Guests include dynamic early music ensemble La Serenissima and their director Adrian Chandler. Acclaimed for their many recordings, particularly of Vivaldi, they perform live in the In Tune studio ahead of their concert at London's Cadogan Hall this week.
Plus, live music from comedy piano duo Worbey and Farrell, gearing up for an eagerly awaited return to the Crazy Coqs club in London.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05qdymy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05qg2t4)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Mahler, Bruckner
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
Romance in song and symphony with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and acclaimed British conductor Mark Wigglesworth. This evening's concert opens with a selection of Mahler's songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn sung by mezzo-soprano Alice Coote. These orchestral lieder, inspired by rustic German poetry, are amongst Mahler's most enduring and popular vocal music.
And the concert concludes with Bruckner's colourful Fourth Symphony, an orchestral work nicknamed 'The Romantic' for its epic lyricism and evocation of Austrian folkloristic endeavours.
Mahler - Songs from Des knaben Wunderhorn
Interval
Bruckner Symphony No. 4 (1888 version)
Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Mark Wigglesworth.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b05stw9v)
Landmark: The Tin Drum
Anne McElvoy is joined by the German novelist Eugen Ruge, British author Lawrence Norfolk, the journalist Oliver Kamm; and the literary historians, Karen Leeder and Julian Preece for a programme devoted to Günter Grass and his landmark novel, The Tin Drum.
The Tin Drum was published in 1959 and helped shape the way Germans came to think of the Nazi period and its immediate aftermath. It also presented the world with one of the most memorable characters in 20th century fiction. Oskar Matzerath is a small boy who decides at the age of three that he will stop growing and instead trains his child like eye and his eloquent drum on the grotesque manoeuvrings of the adult world - its affairs; its political affiliations; its betrayals; and the feast of sensations it generates as it revolves on its axis.
Producer: Zahid Warley.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b05qfqfr)
British Film Comedians
Tony Hancock
A further chance to hear the columnist and historian Simon Heffer with his 2015 Essays on much-loved comic actors of mid-20th century British film.
4 of 5: Tony Hancock.
Tragedy and comedy have often shared the billing in Simon Heffer's series on British comic actors in mid-20th century film, but never more so than in the case of Tony Hancock.
Hancock is warmy recalled for his embodiment on radio and television of a self-deluded failure, a man whose life has been an odyssey of constant frustration. His role in film was less succesful and Simon Heffer examines the reasons why.
After critics noted the contributions of both his gifted screenwriters, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, and of his main sidekick, Sid James, Hancock refused to work with them. Then he fired his agent.
Simon Heffer considers the strengths but also the weaknesses of his two largely forgotten films - The Rebel and The Punch and Judy Man - and the sad demise of a brilliant performer whose influences are still apparent today.
Producer : Beaty Rubens.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b05qftnr)
Thursday - Verity Sharp
The slide guitar playing of Hindustani master Debashish Bhattachrya, alongside the songs of Chris Smither and the expressive piano playing of Nils Frahm. Plus the Choir of Jesus College Cambridge sing Sedebit dominus rex by James MacMillan.
FRIDAY 17 APRIL 2015
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b05qskjq)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra play works by Brahms, Faure and Debussy. Paul Lewis is the soloist in Brahms's First Piano Concerto. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Brahms, Johannes
Concerto no. 1 in D minor Op.15 for piano and orchestra
Paul Lewis (piano); Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Harding (conductor)
1:21 AM
Faure, Gabriel
Pelleas et Melisande - suite Op.80
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Robin Ticciati (conductor)
1:39 AM
Debussy, Claude
La Mer - 3 symphonic sketches for orchestra
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Robin Ticciati (conductor)
2:05 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B flat (J.182) (Op.34)
Lena Jonhäll (clarinet) with the Zetterqvist String Quartet: Mats Zetterqvist & Per Sporrong (violins), Mikael Sjögren (viola), Ewa Rydström (cello)
2:31 AM
Schutz, Heinrich [1585-1672]
3 sacred pieces - Anima mea liquefacta est SWV.263 for 2 tenors, 2 instruments and organ (from "Symphoniae sacrae" 1629); Adjuro vos, filiae Jerusalem SWV.264 for 2 tenors, 2 flutes and continuo; Siehe, wie fein und lieblich ist (Psalm 133) SWV.412 for chorus, 5 instruments and continuo
Kölner Kammerchor , Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann (conductor)
2:45 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
Polkas and Études for Piano, Book III
Antonín Kubálek (piano)
2:54 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph [1732-1809]
Symphony no. 73 (H.
1.73) in D major "La Chasse"
Slovenian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Despalj (conductor)
3:16 AM
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937)
String Quartet No.2 (Op.56)
Royal String Quartet
3:34 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Sonata in D major (1844) (Op.65 No.5)
Erwin Wiersinga (organ)
3:43 AM
Satie, Erik (1866-1925), arr. for orchestra by Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
Jack-in-the-box pantomime
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
3:50 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich [1840-1893]
Tatyana's Letter Scene from the opera "Eugene Onegin" (Act I Scene 2)
Joanne Kolomyjec (soprano, Tatyana), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:03 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869), transcribed by Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Danse des sylphes (S.475) transc. for piano from 'La Damnation de Faust'
Wanda Landowska (piano)
4:08 AM
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643); text: Ottavio Rinuccini (1562-1621)
Lamento della ninfa (from libro VIII de madrigali - Venice 1638)
Concerto Italiano; Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord & director)
4:13 AM
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
Praeludium and allegro in the style of Gaetano Pugnani for violin and piano
Tobias Ringborg (violin), Anders Kilström (piano)
4:19 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in C major, RV.444 for recorder, strings & continuo
Il Giardino Armonico: Giovanni Antonini (recorder/director), Enrico Onofri & Marco Bianchi (violins), Duilio Galfetti (violin/viola), Paolo Beschi (cello), Paolo Rizzi (violone), Luca Pianca (theorbo), Gordon Murray (harpsichord)
4:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Divertimento in D major (K.136)
National Arts Centre Orchestra, Pinchas Zuckerman (conductor)
4:45 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey [1873-1943]
Prelude no.13 in D flat major
Lukas Geniusas (piano)
4:51 AM
Cavalli, Francesco (1602-1676)
Dixit Dominus à 8 - from 'Musiche sacre concernenti messa, e salmi concertati con istromenti, imni, antifone et sonate' (Venice 1656)
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)
5:03 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich [1804-1857]
Overture from Ruslan i Lyudmila
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
5:08 AM
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787)
Trio in F major for 2 flutes and continuo
Karl Kaiser and Michael Schneider (flutes), Rainer Zipperling (cello), Harald Hoeren (harpsichord)
5:17 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Petite Suite - for brass septet
Royal Academy of Music Brass Soloists
5:25 AM
Hellendaal, Pieter (1721-1799)
Concerto grosso for strings and continuo in F major, Op.3/3
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
5:36 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata for piano No.17 in D minor (Op.31 No.2) 'Tempest'
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
6:00 AM
Moritz, Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel (1572-1632)
Pavan
Nigel North (lute)
6:05 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra (Op.31)
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), James Sommerville (horn), Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Simon Streatfield (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b05qdy88)
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 (b05qdyhk)
Friday - Rob Cowan with Antonia Fraser
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love...French Melodies'. With performances of songs by composers including Berlioz, Ravel and Duparc from such diverse singers as Rita Streich, Thomas Hampson, Mady Mesplé, Leopold Simoneau and Sandrine Piau, Rob explores the wide range of expression this genre offers.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: two pieces of music are being played at the same time - can you identify them?
10am
Rob's guest this week is the biographer and novelist Lady Antonia Fraser. The author of many acclaimed historical works including Marie Antoinette and Mary Queen of Scots, Lady Fraser will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Byrd, Mozart and Schubert, every day at
10am.
10.30am
This week Rob features the Belgian violinist Arthur Grumiaux. A fine pianist as well as a violinist, Grumiaux was known for his graceful performances and purity of tone. Rob features classic recordings of him in repertoire for which he is especially celebrated, including the solo violin music of Bach, as well as works by Mozart, Brahms, Debussy and Fauré.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
This week Rob explores great ballet scores
Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Prologue
Minneapolis Orchestra
Antal Dorati (conductor)
Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Act III (conclusion)
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05qdyn0)
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Les Six Reunions - 1950s Onwards
Germaine Tailleferre, celebrated as a member of "Les Six" continues to write her trademark inventive music, with several commissions from Radio France and a brief experiment with serialism.
There can't be many instances where studying music is likened to being a street-walker on one of the most shady streets in Paris. That was the accusation Germaine Tailleferre's father hurled at her, a child prodigy who wanted to take her music studies more seriously. It fell to Tailleferre's enterprising mother to come up with a solution. After her father left for work, Tailleferre was escorted to her music lessons each day by some obliging local nuns.
This unpromising start turned into a long and largely successful career in which Tailleferre continued to write music up to her death, at the age of 91, in 1983.
Fame found Tailleferre early on, in the 1920s, when she was a member of the group of musicians eventually titled "Les Six". Initially championed by Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau, two of the most influential voices among the Parisian avant-garde, the group, which comprised Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric, Francis Poulenc, Louis Durey and Tailleferre, prospered in a heady environment of artistic expression and friendship. Extending across the Arts, they collaborated with Picasso, Georges Braque and Marie Laurencin and poets like Paul Claudel, Paul Valery, Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob.
Two disastrous marriages and the occupation of France during the second world war curtailed Tailleferre's musical activities and may at least in part explain why her early fame dwindled in later years. Yet, while much of her music remains in manuscript form, including a large body of music for film, television and radio, happily this shadowy figure among "Les Six" is returning to the limelight. Presenting her work for the first time on "Composer of the Week", Tailleferre's published legacy reveals a rich treasure trove of chamber works, solo piano, concertos, ballets, operas and songs.
Today Donald Macleod explores Tailleferre's life from the 1950s onwards. Punctuated by a series of commemorations marking her association with the artistic group of friends "Les Six", Tailleferre's projects were as varied as ever, including a series of comic operas and a chamber opera, "The Little Mermaid", after the famous story by Hans Christian Andersen.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03yqcp6)
LSO St Luke's Schubert Series
Signum String Quartet with Nicolas Altstaedt
This all-Schubert series focusing on the late works at LSO St Luke's concludes with the Signum Quartet and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt performing one of his very last works, the monumental and achingly beautiful String Quintet in C.
Schubert: String Quintet in C, D956
Signum String Quartet
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello).
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05qf008)
Norway's Leading Orchestras
Episode 4
Penny Gore concludes her survey of recent concert performances by some of Norway's leading orchestras. Today we hear from Norway's Radio Orchestra, founded in 1946, the Oslo Philharmonic, founded in 1919 and the Bergen Philharmonic which traces its routes as far back as 1765. Also today, we hear from the highly regarded Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, founded in 1977 and now resident at the Risor Festival.
Haydn
Symphony No. 104 in D, Hob. I:104 ('London')
NRK Radio Orchestra, Christian Eggen (conductor)
c.
2.30pm
Lars-Erik Larsson
Saxophone Concerto op. 14 (1934)
Soran Lind (saxophone),
Strings of The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Per Kristian Skalstad (conductor)
c.
2.55pm
Prokofiev
Symphony No. 4 in C, op. 47 / op. 112
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor)
c.
3.30pm
Ravel
Shéhérazade, song cycle
Sarah Fox (soprano),
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Fabien Gabel (conductor)
c.
3.50pm
Debussy
Images pour orchestre, L. 122
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Fabien Gabel (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b05qf84k)
Josef Spacek, Jonathan Berman, Members of the Grenadier, Coldstream, Irish, Welsh & Scots Guards Bands
Sean Rafferty with arts news, chat and live music from Czech Philharmonic concertmaster, violinist Josef Spacek plus members of the Grenadier, Coldstream, Irish, Welsh & Scots Guards Bands combine with euphonium player David Childs in the In Tune studio.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05qdyn0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05qg2t6)
BBC Philharmonic - David Matthews, HK Gruber, Weill, Schwertsik
Live from the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester
Presented by Martin Handley
The BBC Philharmonic perform the world premiere of David Matthews' Eighth Symphony.
David Matthews: Symphony No.8 (world premiere: BBC Commission)
HK Gruber: Cello Concerto
8.15 Music Interval
8.35
Weill: Symphony No.1
Kurt Schwertsik: Baumgesänge (Tree Songs)
Matthew Barley (cello)
BBC Philharmonic
HK Gruber (conductor)
Written for the BBC Philharmonic and with tonight's conductor HK Gruber its dedicatee, the programme opens with the world premiere of David Matthews' Eighth Symphony. Matthew Barley is the soloist in Gruber's own Cello Concerto and after the interval there's a chance to hear Weill's emotionally-charged First Symphony and Gruber's compatriot Kurt Schwertsik's extrovert Baumgesänge.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b05qfqcj)
Ian MacMillan's guests on the 'cabaret of the word' include the historian Damien Kempf, whose latest book, Medieval Monsters, celebrates the strange creatures that were used to illustrate medieval manuscripts. He explains why they aroused fear, curiosity and wonder at the time they were drawn, and argues that they have much in common with the monsters we find in contemporary culture.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b05qfqft)
British Film Comedians
Sid James
In the final programme celebrating comic actors from mid-20th century British film, Simon Heffer turns his gaze on a man whose priapic laugh alone merits an entire radio series. Sid James was at the heart of the phenomenally successful Carry On films and one of the best-loved and most easily recognised comic actors of his day.
Throughout the 1950s and '60s, the many roles he played were all, in essence, the same. As Simon Heffer puts it: "To say Sid had range as an actor would be to do him an injustice. Sid not have range. Sid was Sid. And it was as well he was, because the audience expected Sid in the full pomp of his Sidness, and would have been crushed with disappointment by anything else."
But Sid was not, by birth, the wise-cracking Cockney geezer whom he came to embody. He traced his roots back to Johannesburg, where he started life as Solomon Joel Cohen and began his working life as a gentlemen's hairdresser.
Simon Heffer traces his journey from a few years in rep to bit-parts in British comic films, his years of triumph in the Carry On films and his dramatic and unpredictable death on stage in 1976 - a somehow fitting end to a series on comic actors in their lives and on film.
Producer: Beaty Rubens.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b05qftnt)
Lopa Kothari - Julie Fowlis Live in Session
Lopa Kothari with new music from across the globe, plus Scots folk singer Julie Fowlis in a live studio session.
Julie Fowlis grew up in the Gaelic-speaking Outer Hebrides, and has devoted herself to singing the traditional Gaelic song repertoire, and well as new songs in Gaelic. She has also brought her music to a wide audience, through singing at big events such as the opening of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014, and the Disney Pixar film 'Brave'. Her fourth studio album 'Gach Sgeul - Every Story' was widely acclaimed. She has been nominated as Folk Singer of the Year in next week's BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, which she is also co-presenting. She will be joined in the session by her long-time musical partner and husband Eamon Doorly, as well as guitarist Tony Byrne.
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.