Catriona Young presents a concert of piano duets from the 2014 BUNT Belgrade Festival.
Souvenirs - ballet suite, arr. for piano duet
Study no. 7
Jacqueline Fox and Stephen Charlesworth (soloists) BBC Singers, David Goode (organ), Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
Camerata Tallinn: Jan Oun (flute), Mati Karmas (violin), Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
Le Concert Brisé - William Dongois (cornet/director), Christine Moran (violin), Carsten Lohff (harpsichord), Anne-Catherine Bucher (organ/harpsichord), Benjamin Perrot (theorbo)
Sokkelund Choir, Morten Schuldt Jensen (conductor) recorded in the Frederiksberg Church, Copenhagen]
Sonata for cello & piano No. 2 (Op.117) in G minor
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love...tone poems'. Throughout the week Rob showcases composers who use their music to illustrate or evoke a poem, story or landscape, from Liadov's Russian fairytale piece Kikimora to a trip through the wide open spaces of the Fen landscape with Vaughan Williams' In the Fen Country to the battle conjured up by Biber in his Battalia.
Take part in today's challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related place.
Performance poet, musician and songwriter John Hegley shares his favourite classical music with Rob. One of the country's most popular contemporary poets, John is well known for his books including New and Selected Potatoes, My dog is a carrot and Peace, Love & Potatoes.
Rob's artists of the week are the Beaux Arts Trio. One of the finest piano trios of all time, the Beaux Arts Trio played together for over 50 years and received critical and popular acclaim for their highly vital and refined performances. Throughout the week Rob dips into their rich recorded legacy, exploring their interpretations of works by composers including Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Beethoven, Smetana and Fauré.
After last week's exploration of the music from great Romantic ballets, Rob goes back to an earlier era with his Essential Choices for the week as he showcases Baroque ballet scores.
Beethoven unveils his 5th and 6th symphonies, 4th piano concerto and more besides in a four-hour concert in the biting cold of a Viennese December. Donald Macleod asks why.
If Bonn had had a child protection unit in the 1770s, its officers would doubtless have been frequent callers at 24 Rheingasse, the Beethoven family home. A neighbour might have heard little Ludwig calling out from the cellar where he had been locked up by his drunkard father Johann, or witnessed one of the regular beatings Johann administered to 'encourage' his son to practice the piano. Yet from this abusive background, Ludwig van Beethoven emerged as the greatest musician of his age - the composer who absorbed the Classical legacy of Haydn and Mozart, then utterly transformed it. This week, Donald Macleod charts the course of this transformation in a series of five snapshots of Beethoven's life and work, from his first attempts at composition to the extraordinary productions of his final years.
Today's programme homes in on a single day, the 22nd of December 1808, when Beethoven mounted an extraordinary 'benefit' concert - that is, a concert for his own financial benefit, in the Theater an der Wien. He had been petitioning the authorities for months for permission to do this, and eventually he took the only date he could get, despite the fact that it clashed with a major charity event being held on the same evening in another theatre. That, though, turned out to be the least of Beethoven's problems, foremost of which was the temperature inside the auditorium, which he couldn't afford to heat. Then there was the programme; four hours' worth of the most challenging new music - difficult for an audience under the most favourable of conditions, let along listening inside an icebox. To make matters worse, Beethoven had fallen out with the orchestral musicians at a previous concert, and they refused to rehearse with him. The evening concluded with the Choral Fantasia, which the composer had hastily finished off to provide a suitably grand conclusion to the proceedings. In the event, the performance came so badly unstuck that Beethoven had to stop the music halfway through and start again from the top. As one contemporary who shivered his way through the whole evening observed, "one can easily have too much of a good thing".
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Leeds International Chamber Season and Sheffield's Music in the Round. Today, there's piano music by Janacek performed by Norwegian pianist Håvard Gimse, Grieg songs and arrangements of Norwegian folk music played by trumpeter Tine THing Helseth, and one of Mozart's flute quartets performed by Ensemble 360.
Trad (arr. Jarle Storlókken): Norwegian Folk Tune
Katie Derham presents performances from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, today featuring an American themed concert given last month at the William Aston Hall, Wrexham and conducted by Ben Gernon. Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man and Quiet City are followed by Dvorak's impressions of the New World. Plus BBC NOW principal trumpet Philippe Schartz takes centre stage in Hummel's Trumpet Concerto.
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Dvorak Symphony no. 9 in E minor Op.95 (From the New World)
Suzy Klein with the usual lively drivetime mix of arts news, chat, live music and the best recordings.
Guests include one the world's most renowned string quartets, the Brodsky Quartet. They will be performing live in the studio ahead of their concert of quartets by Viennese Mahler contemporary Zemlinsky in London this week.
Also today, acclaimed soprano Carolyn Sampson performs live with pianist Joseph Middleton.
Bernstein's sparkling Overture to Candide sets the scene for a programme of energetic and colourful American music. We visit the Wild West in Copland's suite from Billy the Kid and in his Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo and spend time in a dance hall, the Salon Mexico where energetic Mexican folk dances bring different colours and rhythms to the evening. American violinist, Elena Urioste, graduate of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme joins the orchestra for Barber's lush and lyrical Violin Concerto.
Philip Dodd explores what a world view of Shakespeare means. Guests include Globe Director Dominic Dromgoole, Professor Sonia Massai from Kings College London, Preti Taneja, Global Shakespeare Research Fellow and a Radio 3 New Generation Thinker and Professor David Schalkwyk.
Global Shakespeare is a new catchword at UK institutions at home and abroad. But does it mean good cultural practice or new cultural imperialism? The Globe Theatre is currently touring Hamlet to every country in the world, and £1.5 million has been granted by the DCMS to the RSC to translate Shakespeare's complete works into Chinese. A further £300,000 of public money will be given to tour these translations. According to Culture Secretary Sajid Javid, the move is aimed at 'improving economic links with China and encouraging more tourists to visit the home of Shakespeare.' But at Queen Mary University of London and Warwick University, a new Global Shakespeare department is being launched. To them, Shakespeare belongs to no single lan.
The novelist and academic Ian Sansom explores the literary, philosophical and cultural history of the table.
From dining to designing, drinking and disagreeing; the table is central to our lives; "the departure point and launching pad for a thousand hare-brained schemes and ideas, a drawing board, a battlefield, and also the philosopher's favourite tool". Ian has raised a family round his kitchen table, but his true table as a writer is a solitary one. Bertrand Russell used the table as a symbol to explore the uncertain nature of observed reality; Wordsworth urged readers to rise up from their wooden desk, while Karl Marx used tables to explore the notion of commodities in Das Kapital, but is the table Ian built for O-level woodwork the truest thing he has ever made?'.
Anne Hilde Neset presents an airing of new material by Lighting Bolt, a cassette tape by Susanna, and electronic falling-apart songs by Derek Piotr.
THURSDAY 23 APRIL 2015
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b05qyqwt)
The French contralto Delphine Galou and Les Ambassadeurs perform music by Handel and Zelenka. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Radamisto - overture; 'Cara sposa' - aria from Rinaldo
Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
12:43 AM
Quantz, Johann Joachim [1697-1773]
Flute Concerto No. 290 in G minor
Alexis Kossenko (flute/director), Les Ambassadeurs
1:00 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Agrippina - overture; 'Son contenta di morire' - aria from Radamisto
Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
1:08 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Faramondo - overture
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
1:12 AM
Zelenka, Jan Dismas [1679-1745]
E voi siete d'altri, o labra soavi, ZWV 176
Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
1:22 AM
Zelenka, Jan Dismas [1679-1745]
Suite in F major
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
1:39 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Dall' ondoso periglio (recit); Aure, deh, per pieta ( aria) - scena from Giulio Cesare
Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
1:47 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Già che morir non posso' - aria from Radamisto
Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
1:52 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Sonata for trumpet, strings and basso continuo in D major
Ivan Hadliyski (trumpet), Kammerorchester, Alipi Naydenov (conductor)
1:58 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) arr.Agnieszka Duczmal
Clarinet Quintet in A major (K.581) arranged for clarinet and string orchestra
Wojciech Mrozek (clarinet), The Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan, Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)
2:31 AM
Gilson, Paul (1865-1942)
La Mer (1892) - symphonic Sketches for orchestra, saxhorns and men's choir
Flemish Radio Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
3:07 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
La Mer - trois esquisses symphoniques
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)
3:31 AM
Delius, Frederick [1862-1934]
To be sung of a summer night on the water for chorus (RT.4.5)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier (conductor)
3:36 AM
Rosenmüller, Johann [Giovanni] (c.1619-1684)
Sonata quarta à 3 - from 'Sonate'
Ensemble La Fenice, Jean Tubéry (cornet & conductor)
3:43 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707)
Magnificat, BuxWV Anh. I
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)
3:51 AM
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936)
Barcarolle in D flat (Op.22 No.1)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
3:56 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937] arranged by Zoltán Kocsis
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Zsolt Szatmári (clarinet), Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
4:02 AM
Marin, José (c. 1618-1699)
Si quieres dar Marica en lo çierto'
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Rolf Lislevand (baroque guitar), Arianna Savall (double harp), Pedro Estevan (percussion), Adela González-Campa (castanets)
4:08 AM
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909)
Rapsodia española
Angela Cheng (piano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Graf (conductor)
4:26 AM
Kroll, William (1901-1980)
Banjo and Fiddle
Moshe Hammer (violin), Valerie Tryon (piano)
4:31 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Dolly - Suite for piano duet (Op.56)
Erzsébet Tusa, Istvan Lantos (pianos)
4:45 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Marienlieder (Op.22)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
5:03 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Romance for violin and orchestra in F minor (Op.11)
Jela Spitkova (violin), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
5:15 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Serenade to music for 16 soloists (or 4 soloists & chorus) & orchestra
Bette Cosar (soprano), Delia Wallis (mezzo-soprano), Edd Wright (tenor), Gary Dahl (bass), Alexander Skwortsow (violin), Vancouver Bach Choir, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bruce Pullan (conductor)
5:29 AM
Stanford, (Sir) Charles Villiers (1852-1924)
The Blue Bird - from 8 Partsongs (Op.119 No.3)
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
5:32 AM
Stanford, Charles Villiers (1852-1924)
When Mary thro' the garden went, No.3 of 8 Partsongs (Op.127. No.3)
BBC Singers, Bob Chilcott (conductor)
5:36 AM
Reinecke, Carl (1824-1910)
Sonata for flute and piano (Op.167) in E minor "Undine"
Ivica Gabrisova-Encingerova (flute), Matej Vrabel (piano)
5:58 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Eine Faust Overture
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Bernhard Klee (conductor)
6:11 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Après une lecture de Dante (Fantasia quasi sonata)
Richard Raymond (piano).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b05qyr17)
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 (b05qyrn7)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with John Hegley
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love...tone poems'. Throughout the week Rob showcases composers who use their music to illustrate or evoke a poem, story or landscape, from Liadov's Russian fairytale piece Kikimora to a trip through the wide open spaces of the Fen landscape with Vaughan Williams' In the Fen Country to the battle conjured up by Biber in his Battalia.
9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: two pieces of music are played together - can you work out what they are?
10am
Performance poet, musician and songwriter John Hegley shares his favourite classical music with Rob. One of the country's most popular contemporary poets, John is well known for his books including New and Selected Potatoes, My dog is a carrot and Peace, Love & Potatoes.
10.30am
Rob's artists of the week are the Beaux Arts Trio. One of the finest piano trios of all time, the Beaux Arts Trio played together for over 50 years and received critical and popular acclaim for their highly vital and refined performances. Throughout the week Rob dips into their rich recorded legacy, exploring their interpretations of works by composers including Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Beethoven, Smetana and Fauré.
11am
After last week's exploration of the music from great Romantic ballets, Rob goes back to an earlier era with his Essential Choices for the week as he showcases Baroque ballet scores.
Handel
Alcina - ballet music
English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03lzd2h)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
From the Ridiculous to the Sublime
Donald Macleod explains how the phenomenal success of Beethoven's trashy potboiler Wellington's Victory had positive repercussions; it led to the revised version of Fidelio.
If Bonn had had a child protection unit in the 1770s, its officers would doubtless have been frequent callers at 24 Rheingasse, the Beethoven family home. A neighbour might have heard little Ludwig calling out from the cellar where he had been locked up by his drunkard father Johann, or witnessed one of the regular beatings Johann administered to 'encourage' his son to practice the piano. Yet from this abusive background, Ludwig van Beethoven emerged as the greatest musician of his age - the composer who absorbed the Classical legacy of Haydn and Mozart, then utterly transformed it. This week, Donald Macleod charts the course of this transformation in a series of five snapshots of Beethoven's life and work, from his first attempts at composition to the extraordinary productions of his final years.
Today's programme charts one of the most extraordinary episodes in Beethoven's life, from late 1813 to the end of the following year. For the previous decade, Europe had been dogged by the Napoleonic Wars. Now Napoleon's fortunes were beginning to unravel, and in June 1813, Austria abandoned its neutrality and joined the alliance against the French. In the same month, the French army, fighting under Napoleon's brother, Joseph I, was defeated by Wellington at the Battle of Vitoria. Vienna was awash with a tide of patriotic fervour, and that's when the imperial court mechanician, Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, came to Beethoven with an unusual proposal - would he compose a patriotic piece celebrating Wellington's victory? The work was originally to be written not for orchestra but for the Panharmonicon, a bellows-powered contraption-in-a-case of Mälzel's invention that could reproduce the sounds of a military band. Beethoven agreed, but in the event he produced an orchestral version instead. Premièred at a public concert in December 1813, this fatuous work became an immediate sensation, and several more performances followed. By the law of unexpected consequences, when the management of the Viennese court opera were looking for a new production, they turned to the most successful composer of the moment: Beethoven. They approached him with a view to staging his opera Fidelio, and he agreed, but only on the basis that he would be able to revise it completely - in the process, creating the version most widely performed to this day.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05qyt5x)
Leeds International Chamber Season and Sheffield Music in the Round
Episode 3
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Leeds International Chamber Season and Sheffield's Music in the Round. Today, there's piano music by Debussy and Sibelius performed by Norwegian pianist Håvard Gimse, Saint-Saens' oboe sonata played by members of Ensemble 360, and a new piece by the Norwegian composer Britta Byström, played by trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth, clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer and pianist Julien Quentin.
Debussy: Images Oublièes (1894)
Håvard Gimse (piano)
Britta Byström: Trio: Encounter in Space
Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet) / Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet) / Julien Quentin (piano)
Saint-Saens: Oboe Sonata in D
Ensemble 360
Sibelius: Impromptu Op 5, No 5
Sibelius: The Birch (Piano Pieces, Op.75)
Sibelius: The Spruce (Piano Pieces, Op.75)
Sibelius: Arabesque (Piano Pieces, Op.76)
Håvard Gimse (piano).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05qyxh4)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Purcell - The Fairy Queen
Katie Derham presents today's Thursday Opera Matinee, Purcell's The Fairy Queen. Described as a semi-opera, the Fairy Queen was based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and premiered at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1692. Unlike what we now think of as opera, this was an opulant mixture of spoken dialogue, incidental music and masques. In this performance from Graz recorded last year, Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts a top cast including Dorothea Roschmann, and Florian Boesch. Plus more from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Composer in Association B Tommy Andersson's tribute to Wagner called Death in Venice.
2pm
Purcell: The Fairy Queen
Dorothea Roschmann (soprano)
Martina Jankova (soprano)
Elisabeth von Magnus (mezzo-soprano)
Terry Wey (countertenor)
Joshua Ellicot (tenor)
Florian Boesch (bass)
Arnold Schoenberg Chorus
Concentus Musicus Vienna
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
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4.10pm
Andersson: Death in Venice
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b05qyxh6)
Proms 2015 Launch Special: Danielle de Niese, Evelyn Glennie, Leif Ove Andsnes, Wretch 32, Alina Ibragimova
Suzy Klein with a special In Tune on the day that the 2015 BBC Proms season is launched. Her guests are a starry line-up of artists who will be performing in the season this summer, including soprano Danielle De Niese, percussionist Evelyn Glennie, pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, rapper Wretch 32 and violinist Alina Ibragimova, all performing live in the studio.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03lzd2h)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05qyxvg)
CBSO - Elgar, Bridge, Tippett
The CBSO and Edward Gardner are joined by cellist Alban Gerhardt, live from Symphony Hall Birmingham, for a programme of English music by Elgar, Bridge and Tippett. As well as popular pieces by Elgar, their programme features Frank Bridge's Lament for Strings - written a hundred years ago in memory of the victims of the sinking of the Lusitania - and Michael Tippett's inspired 2nd Symphony of 1957, which was prompted by the music of Vivaldi. Presented by Adam Tomlinson.
Elgar: Overture: Cockaigne
Elgar: Cello Concerto
(Cello soloist: Alban Gerhardt)
Interval
Bridge: Lament for strings
Tippett: Symphony No.2
CBSO conducted by Edward Gardner.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b05qyyst)
English Civil War, Indigenous Australia
As Caryl Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire is revived at The National's Lyttelton Theatre, Anne McElvoy hears how it resonates with current historical research and how a post-English Civil War play which premiered during the political turmoil of the mid-1970s might cast light on today's political landscape with historians Justin Champion and Emma Wilkins.
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire at the National Theatre from April to June.
Anne McElvoy also visits the British Museum's exhibition Indigenous Australia: Enduring Culture in the company of curator Gaye Sculthorpe, herself of Tasmanian aboriginal descent, and hears from australian aboriginal scholar Christine Nicholls about her own experience of living in an aborginal desert community for ten years. Anne McElvoy is then joined in the studio by anthropologist Howard Morphy to discuss the difficulty of translating the concept of Dreamtime into english and the role its related art has played in shaping views of aboriginal history and contemporary frustrations.
Producer: Jacqueline Smith
Image: Nicholas Gleaves (Star) and the company, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, National Theatre
Photo Credit: Marc Brenner.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b0400lrb)
Furniture - A Personal History of Movable Objects
Old Mother Hubbard and the Cabinet of Curiosity: The Story of Storage
Novelist Ian Sansom delves into cupboards and cabinets to explore what they reveal about human nature. Le Corbusier didn't approve of the clutter cupboards encourage, wanting to free our lives of 'junk'; whereas artist Herbert Distel filled a cabinet with trinkets donated by Man Ray, Annette Messager, Andy Warhol, and John Cage - 'a roll-call of twentieth-century conceptualists, creatives, collagists and curators of the curious' in his Museum of Drawers. Rimbaud wrote about an old sideboard crammed with memories, and Duchamp fitted his life's work in a suitcase, but Ian wonders if the contents of our cupboards really do tell our life stories, complete with the all the hopes, dreams and broken promises suggested by unused pasta machines and unfinished jigsaws - or in the end does it all 'amount to nothing, just so much junk?'.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b05qz06c)
Late Junction Sessions
Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Aki Onda, Kidkinevil
Anne Hilde Neset plays the latest Late Junction session, featuring composer, singer and cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson; electronic artist Aki Onda and producer Kidkinevil. Plus epiphanic tracks from Martin Denny to Ligeti, via Run DMC and Henry Cow.
FRIDAY 24 APRIL 2015
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b05qyqww)
The Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra performs Villa-Lobos
The Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Brazilian musicians perform Villa-Lobos. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor [1887-1959]
Uirapuru - ballet
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Isaac Karabtchevsky (conductor)
12:53 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor [1887-1959]
Fantasy for cello and orchestra
Antonio Meneses (cello), São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Isaac Karabtchevsky (conductor)
1:16 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Gigue, from Suite no. 3 in C major BWV.1009 for cello solo
Antonio Meneses (cello)
1:20 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor [1887-1959]
Prelude, from Bachiana brasileira no. 4 (vers. for orchestra)
Strings of the Heliopolis Symphony Orchestra, Isaac Karabtchevsky (conductor)
1:29 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor [1887-1959]
Mandú-Carará - cantata
OSESP Chorus (director: Naomi Munakata), OSESP Children's Chorus (director: Teruo Yoshida), São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Isaac Karabtchevsky (conductor)
1:44 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Lied ohne Worte in D major Op.109 for cello and piano
Antonio Meneses (cello); Maria Joâo Pires (piano)
1:49 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor [1887-1959]
Prelude for guitar no.1 in E minor
Norbert Kraft (guitar)
1:53 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959)
Guitar Prelude No.3 in A minor
Norbert Kraft (guitar)
2:00 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959)
Prelude for guitar no.2 in E major (from 5 preludes for guitar)
Norbert Kraft (guitar)
2:03 AM
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Impressioni Brasiliane (Brazilian Impressions) (1928)
The West Australia Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor)
2:24 AM
Fernandez, Oscar Lorenzo (1897-1948)
Second Suite Brasileira
Cristina Ortiz (piano)
2:31 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Symphony No.6 in B minor 'Pathetique' (Op.74)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
3:18 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
4 Klavierstücke (Op.119)
Robert Silverman (piano)
3:36 AM
Bernhard, Christoph (1628-1692)
Wohl dem, den der Herrn fürchtet. - dialogue for soprano & bass with strings & continuo
Veronika Winter (soprano), Michael Pannes (bass), Musica Alta Ripa, Hermann Max (conductor)
3:42 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico [1685-1757]
Sonata (Kk. 87) in B minor
Eduard Kunz (piano)
3:47 AM
Veracini, Francesco Maria [1690-1768]
Largo for violin and piano
Jela Spitkova (violin), Tatiana Franova (piano)
3:52 AM
Fibich, Zdenek (1850-1900)
Poem for violin and piano
Jela Spitkova (violin), Tatiana Franova (piano)
3:55 AM
Suchon, Eugen (1908-1993)
Nocturne for Cello and Orchestra
Ján Slávik (cello), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Mário Kosík (conductor)
4:10 AM
Weelkes, Thomas (1576-1623)
When David heard (O my son Absalom) - for 6 voices
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (director)
4:15 AM
Weelkes, Thomas (1576-1623)
Thule, the period of cosmographie - for 6 voices
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (director)
4:20 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Divertimento in C major (Hob.IV No.1) (London Trio No.1)
Carol Wincenc (flute), Philip Setzer (violin), Carter Brey (cello)
4:31 AM
Tinel, Edgar (1854-1912)
Overture to Polyeucte
Flemish Radio Orchestra, Lev Markiz (conductor)
4:49 AM
Donizetti, Gaetano (1797-1848)
Sinfonia for wind instruments in G minor
Bratislavska Komorna Harmonia
4:56 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Concerto no. 1 in D major K.412 for horn and orchestra
Premysl Vojta (horn), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
5:04 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
4 Nachtstucke for piano (Op.23)
Shai Wosner (piano)
5:21 AM
Nantermi, Filiberto (d.1605) ] text by Guarini
Cor mio, deh non languire - from Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci di Michelangelo Nantermi
The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)
5:26 AM
Savioli, Alessandro (1544-post 1623) [text by Guarini]
Cor mio, deh non languire - from Madrigali a cinque voci, libro secondo (Venice 1597)
The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director): Emma Kirkby (soprano), Mary Nichols (alto), Paul Agnew (tenor), Andew King (tenor), Alan Ewing (bass)
5:30 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Quartet no. 12 in E minor (Paris quartet) for flute, violin, gamba & continuo no.6
L'Ensemble Arion
5:50 AM
Spohr, Ludwig (1784-1859)
Sechs deutsche lieder for soprano, clarinet and piano (Op.103)
Jean Stilwell (mezzo-soprano), Amici Chamber Ensemble: Joaquín Valdepeñas (clarinet), Patricia Parr (piano)
6:12 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto no.6 in B flat major (BWV.1051)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor), Zoltán Benyacs, Jouke van der Leest (violas).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b05qyr19)
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 (b05qyrnf)
Friday - Rob Cowan with John Hegley
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love...tone poems'. Throughout the week Rob showcases composers who use their music to illustrate or evoke a poem, story or landscape, from Liadov's Russian fairytale piece Kikimora to a trip through the wide open spaces of the Fen landscape with Vaughan Williams' In the Fen Country to the battle conjured up by Biber in his Battalia.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the personal relationship that connects two pieces of music.
10am
Performance poet, musician and songwriter John Hegley shares his favourite classical music with Rob. One of the country's most popular contemporary poets, John is well known for his books including New and Selected Potatoes, My dog is a carrot and Peace, Love & Potatoes.
10.30am
Rob's artists of the week are the Beaux Arts Trio. One of the finest piano trios of all time, the Beaux Arts Trio played together for over 50 years and received critical and popular acclaim for their highly vital and refined performances. Throughout the week Rob dips into their rich recorded legacy, exploring their interpretations of works by composers including Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Beethoven, Smetana and Fauré.
11am
After last week's exploration of the music from great Romantic ballets, Rob goes back to an earlier era with his Essential Choices for the week as he showcases Baroque ballet scores.
Rameau
Les Paladins - Suite
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Gustav Leonhardt (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03lzd2k)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Three Late Masterpieces
In today's programme, Donald Macleod unpicks the overlapping origins of three late Beethoven masterpieces: the Missa Solemnis, the Diabelli Variations and the 9th Symphony.
If Bonn had had a child protection unit in the 1770s, its officers would doubtless have been frequent callers at 24 Rheingasse, the Beethoven family home. A neighbour might have heard little Ludwig calling out from the cellar where he had been locked up by his drunkard father Johann, or witnessed one of the regular beatings Johann administered to 'encourage' his son to practice the piano. Yet from this abusive background, Ludwig van Beethoven emerged as the greatest musician of his age - the composer who absorbed the Classical legacy of Haydn and Mozart, then utterly transformed it. This week, Donald Macleod charts the course of this transformation in a series of five snapshots of Beethoven's life and work, from his first attempts at composition to the extraordinary productions of his final years.
Today's programme picks up the trail in the early months of 1819, with Beethoven planning to write a High Mass for the installation of his patron and pupil, Archduke Rudolph, as Archbishop of Olmütz the following March. In the event, the scale of the work grew so far beyond his original conception that Beethoven overshot his self-imposed deadline by three years. Meanwhile, another commission had come along. The publisher, Anton Diabelli, wanted to bring out a patriotic collection of piano variations on a light-hearted waltz of his own composition, to be contributed by the 50 most celebrated composers and virtuosi of the Austrian empire. Each composer was to provide a single variation, Beethoven included. Something about the project evidently fascinated him because, instead of one variation, he ultimately came up with 33 - his largest and many would say greatest piano work. So he broke off work on the mass to write the first two-thirds of the Diabellis. He then set those aside for another new commission, to compose three more piano sonatas; they would be his last. Only then, in 1822, did he return to the mass, when he also started work on the 9th Symphony. That too was set aside while he completed the Diabelli Variations, after which he polished off the 9th. Confused? You won't be after today's show.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05qyt5z)
Leeds International Chamber Season and Sheffield Music in the Round
Episode 4
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Leeds International Chamber Season and Sheffield's Music in the Round. Today, there's piano music by Geir Tveitt, Christian Sinding and Harald Saeverud, along with the world premiere of a new piece by Lasse Thorese - all played by the Norwegian pianist Håvard Gimse. To end the series, members of Ensemble 360 perform César Franck's tour-de-force Piano Quintet in F minor.
Geirr Tveitt: Arvesylv (Family Silver) [50 Folk Tunes from Hardanger]
Sinding: Rustle of Spring, Op.32'3
Sæverud: Ballad of Revolt Op 22'5
Håvard Gimse (piano)
Lasse Thoresen: Hear Here! (World Premiere)
Håvard Gimse (piano)
Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor
Ensemble 360.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05qyxh8)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Episode 4
Katie Derham presents performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Continuing Afternoon on 3's Nordic and Baltic season, the orchestra perform Sibelius' Symphony no.2. This is followed by a concert the Orchestra gave last month in Bangor featuring two of the most popular trumpet concertos performed by Philippe Schartz, and Tchaikovsky's fate-driven Symphony no.4. Plus more from the BBC NOW's Composer in Association B Tommy Anderson; his orchestration of Bach's C Minor Passacaglia.
2pm
Sibelius: Symphony no. 2 in D major Op.43
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)
c.
2.40pm
Shostakovich: Festive overture Op.96
Arutunyan: Trumpet Concerto
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat major H.7e.1
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4 in F minor Op.36
Philippe Schartz (trumpet)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ben Gernon (conductor)
c.
4.10pm
Andersson: Passacaglia
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b05qyxhb)
Vienna Piano Trio, Gillian Keith, Simon Lepper, Thomas Carroll
Suzy Klein with guests including the Vienna Piano Trio, soprano Gillian Keith with pianist Simon Lepper, and cellist/conductor Thomas Carroll.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03lzd2k)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05qyxvj)
BBC SO - Beethoven, Rouse, Lutoslawski
Live from the Barbican
Presented by Martin Handley.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra and young Polish conductor Michal Nesterowicz in Lutoslawski's thrilling Concerto for Orchestra and the UK premiere of Rouse's Prospero's Rooms. Steven Osborne joins for Beethoven's 'Emperor' Piano Concerto No. 5.
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat, 'Emperor'
Interval: Recorded earlier this evening at St. Giles, Cripplegate in the Barbican Centre, the BBC Singers, conducted by Paul Brough, perform works by the Polish composers Henryk Gorecki and Krzysztof Penderecki.
Rouse: Prospero's Room (UK Premiere)
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
Steven Osborne (Piano)
Michal Nesterowicz (Conductor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
From its calm reflective 2nd movement through the majestic three-part sonata form of the opening Allegro, Beethoven's "Emperor" Piano concerto was the last he wrote for the instrument. Pianist Steven Osborne joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra for tonight's performance alongside Michal Nesterowicz who conducts the UK premiere of Christopher Rouse's "Prosper's Rooms", a work inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'The Masque of the Red Death', and Leonid Andreyev's play 'The Black Maskers'. The BBC Symphony Orchestra whip up a virtuosic feast in a work inspired by the folk music of the Kurpie region of Poland, Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b05qyytg)
Inua Ellams, Will Abberley
Ian's guests on 'the cabaret of the word' include poet and playwright Inua Ellams, whose latest show 'The Spalding Suite' is inspired by UK basketball sub-culture.
The Verb's 'punctuation czar', Will Abberley is back to shed light on the history of the exclamation mark.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b0400lrd)
Furniture - A Personal History of Movable Objects
An Intimate History of the Bed
dNovelist and academic Ian Sansom explores the symbolism of beds in literature, art and film, and asks what beds reveal about human nature. 'Beds are where we are most physical, most elemental, and where we experience the great highs and lows of life. Everything significant that happens to us tends to take place in bed'. Certainly many of history's greatest thinkers and writers are thought to have been inspired in bed; G.K. Chesterton wished he had a pencil long enough to write on the ceiling while lying down, Milton is said to have written Paradise Lost in bed, and Truman Capote started his day in bed with coffee, mint tea, sherry and martinis. Ian thinks the bed is where we are most ourselves 'the place where you cannot hide', and perhaps we try to avoid spending too much time there because we fear what it signifies - 'the never-ending lie-in to come'.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b05qz06f)
Mary Ann Kennedy - Lucia Pulido in a Live Session
Mary Ann Kennedy with new music from across the globe, plus Colombian folk singer Lucia Pulido in a live studio session.
Lucia's velvety voice blends naturally with her ensemble, a mix of traditional and modern instruments, as she experiments with Colombia's rich folk music, including Caribbean rhythms such as cumbia and bullerengue from the Atlantic Coast, but also currulaos from the Pacific Coast as well as joropos of the Colombian Eastern plains. Lucia's written songs for this kind of modern fusion, opening the doors to the influences of jazz and world music, but her repertoire also includes all-time standards as well as material by contemporary composers.
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.