Catriona Young presents a concert from the reborn Danish National Chamber Orchestra and its conductor Adám Fischer.
Symphony No. 25 in G minor (K183)
Henriette Bonde-Hansen (Soprano), Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Adám Fischer (Conductor)
Symphony No. 35 in D major K.385 (Haffner)
Isaac Stern (Violin), Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nikolai Malko (Conductor)
Trio for piano and strings (Op. 1'1) in E flat major
Sonata for piano (H.
Prelude - No. 7 from 10 Pieces for piano (Op.12)
Barnabás Keleman (Violin), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltan Kocsis (Conductor)
Valentin Stefanov (Violin), Orchestra 'Symphonieta' of the Bulgarian National Radio, Stoyan Angelov (Conductor)
Tapiola - symphonic poem, Op. 112 (1926)
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... the film scores of Hollywood's émigré composers'. Hollywood provided a refuge for many European composers from the seismic events that shook Europe in the years leading up to the Second World War, and a handful of them made a living writing film music for the studios there. Throughout the week Sarah explores classic scores by composers including Miklos Rozsa, Max Steiner and Erich Korngold.
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
Sarah's guest this week is the actor Sam Neill. Sam has starred in television series including Reilly, Ace of Spies, The Tudors and Peaky Blinders and in films ranging from The Hunt for Red October and The Piano to Dead Calm and Jurassic Park. Throughout the week Sam shares an eclectic selection of his favourite classical music, with choices including Robert Schumann and Philip Glass. He also discusses the music from his films and tells Sarah why Dvorak's Ninth Symphony reminds him of his father.
Sarah's artist of the week is the Lindsay String Quartet, one of the foremost quartets of the 20th century. Led by the inspirational Peter Cropper, who died earlier this year, The Lindsays became famous for their informal chamber music concerts, which introduced a new generation to the string quartet repertoire.
Donald Macleod views Shostakovich through the prism of his string quartets. Today, music for two pianos; music in praise of Stalin; and a quartet so subversive it had to be banned.
Shostakovich's father died young, so at 16, to help make ends meet, the aspiring composer had to take a job as a cinema pianist. As it turned out, this thankless drudgery stood him in good stead for his later work writing music for film; he was prolific, producing almost 40 scores in as many years. His music for The Fall of Berlin, a lavishly-funded Mosfilm epic, is by turns evocative and highly dramatic. If only the film - a self-styled 'artistic documentary' that rewrites the history of the Second World War with Stalin as the central character - lived up to the quality of the music! The same year he made that musical contribution to Stalin's burgeoning cult of personality, he also composed one of his most intensely beautiful string quartets, the 4th - Haydnesque in its clarity of expression and suffused with the spirit of Jewish folk music. Shostakovich's musical timing was faultless but his political timing was not so good. At that time the régime was engaged in a crackdown on the Jews - or "unpatriotic, rootless cosmopolitans", as Pravda called them - and the head of the Music Division of the Committee for Artistic Affairs determined that the new quartet should be consigned for the time being to the composer's bottom drawer, where it remained till after the Glorious Leader's death. Around the time of the 4th Quartet's eventual première, Shostakovich wrote his Concertino for two pianos, for his 16-year-old son Maxim and a classmate to play. It's a simple but brilliantly effective little piece whose mock-serious opening soon gives way to unbounded levity.
The celebrated Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder with highlights of a nine-concert series in which he performed all of the Beethoven's piano sonatas at last year's Edinburgh International Festival. Today's programme, which is introduced by Jamie MacDougall, features the Sonata in G ,Op 14 No 2, the Sonata in E minor, Op 90, and the Sonata in F minor, Op 57, 'Appassionata'.
Adam Tomlinson presents a live concert from MediaCity, Salford, with the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Juanjo Mena performing orchestral music by Albeniz and Ginastera.
Plus Penny Gore presents recent recordings by the BBC Philharmonic, including Walton's Overture Scapino and the complete ballet music for Ravel's Mother Goose. The internationally renowned Manchester-born pianist Peter Donohoe joins the orchestra in Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Sean Rafferty talks to conductor Bernard Haitink as he embarks on a new season with London Symphony Orchestra, including a tour of Japan. There's live music from oboist and conductor Nicholas Daniel with musicians involved in Leicester International Music Festival where he is artistic director, plus Chinese pianist Sa Chen plays live in the studio as she prepares for a recital at Milton Court in London.
In the first of four specially recorded programmes from the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival, tonight a chance to hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their chief conductor, Donald Runnicles.
In the opening concert of this year's festival, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, celebrating 50 years, is featured in music by Brahms: three lyrical choral works with orchestra - Gesang der Parzen, Liebeslieder Waltzes and Schicksalslied.
And the concert continues with more Romanticism. A work which pushes orchestral performers as far as it does the narrative possibilities of tone-poem writing: Strauss's paean to an idealised hero, Ein Heldenleben.
South African artist William Kentridge discusses making animated films, drawings and directing the opera Lulu. William Boyd's latest novel Sweet Caress traces the life and work of a photographer. Philip Dodd talks to him about viewing 20th century history and news events through the lens of a fictional photo journalist. New Generation Thinker Zoe Norridge, documentary photographer Anna Fox and Eamonn McCabe - portrait photographer and former picture editor of the Guardian newspaper - discuss the impact of digital photography on the way we see the world.
William Kentridge has an exhibition at the Marian Goodman gallery in London 11th Sept - 24 Oct 2015
His production of Alban Berg's Lulu opens at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in November 2015 and then comes to the ENO in 2016. BBC Radio 3 will be broadcasting it live from the Met in February 2016. There are live UK cinema screenings on November 21st
The imperial War Museum opens its exhibition called Lee Miller: A Woman's War on October 15th.
Wim Wenders' documentary about Sebastian Salgado - The Salt of the Earth is released on DVD this week.
Anna Fox organised the 2014 symposium Fast Forward: Women in Photography at Tate Modern and is involved in a two day conference this November 6th and 7th looking at the evolution of the history of women in photography, from early commercial practices, to the impact of World War II on women and their work. She is Professor of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts at Farnham, Surrey.
Anton Corbijn's film Life about James Dean - starring Robert Pattinson as the photographer Dennis Stock - opens at cinemas around the UK on Friday September 25th certificate 15.
Don McCullin has an exhibition of photographs at Hamiltons Gallery, London running until October 3rd and a career survey at Hauser & Wirth Somerset opening on 15 November entitled Conflict - People - Landscape.
Two giant boulders of pink granite near the Bay of Bengal in modern Tamil Nadu are the focus of Dalrymple's second essay in the series 'A Short History of Indian Art'.
It was here, in the 7th century, that master carvers created a giant open-air relief that tells many stories, including the well-known tale of how the sacred River Ganges fell to earth as well as depicting the penance of Arjuna, one of the heroes of Indian mythology. This huge and intricate carving remains one of the most powerful pieces of open-air art anywhere in the world.
Dalrymple describes the importance of South India at this time and the emergence of the Pallava dynasty. He introduces us to the fascinating story surrounding the patron of South Indian sculpture, the great monarch Mahendra. These kings of Tamil Nadu generated incredible wealth, thanks to their control over the spice and silk trade, and powered a period of profound artistic production and temple building. From their great port of Mahabalipuram (now a sleepy tourist resort) the Pallava kings created a vibrant new approach to art that was widely exported.
William tells the remarkable story of Arjuna's Penance / The Descent of the Ganges. He describes its place within the major artistic movements of India and its role in the unfolding history of one of the world's most diverse cultures.
'A Short History of Indian Art' is a Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 3. The producer is Anthony Denselow.
A varied mix of music, ranging from the ancient to the contemporary with Nick Luscombe.
WEDNESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2015
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b069x7jb)
Verdi Gala Concert - Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra
A Verdi Gala concert from the Russian National Orchestra and conductor Mikhail Pletnev, with soprano Lyudmila Monastyrskaya. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
Overture - Nabucco
Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
12:39 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
"Ben'io t'invenni ... Anch'io dischiuso un giorno", Abigail's aria from Nabucco
Lyudmila Monastyrskaya (soprano), Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
12:51 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
"Una macchia è qui tuttora", Lady Macbeth's aria from Macbeth
Lyudmila Monastyrskaya (soprano), Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
1:01 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
Ballet music - Otello
Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
1:08 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
Grand march and ballet music - Aida
Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
1:16 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
"Ritorna vincitor", aria from Aida
Lyudmila Monastyrskaya (soprano), Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
1:24 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
Overture - Luisa Miller
Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
1:31 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
"La Peregrina", ballet music from Don Carlos
Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
1:47 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
"Pace, pace, mio Dio", Leonora's aria from La Forza del destino
Lyudmila Monastyrskaya (soprano), Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
1:54 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
"Si colmi il calice" (Brindisi), Lady Macbeth's aria from Macbeth
Lyudmila Monastyrskaya (soprano), Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
1:56 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Symphony No.1 in B flat major (Op.38), 'Spring'
Orchestre Nationale de France, Heinz Wallberg (conductor)
2:31 AM
Narvaez, Luys de (fl.1526-1549)
Los Seys libros del Delphin de musica - excerpts
Hopkinson Smith (vihuela)
3:04 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Alles redet jetzt und singet - cantata for soprano, bass and instrumental ensemble
Barbara Schlick (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Michael Schneider and Konrad Hunteler (recorders),
Hans-Peter Westermann and Pieter Dhont (oboes), Michael McCraw (bassoon),
Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)
3:33 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Rondo capriccioso for piano in E major/minor (Op.14)
Sook-Hyun Cho (piano)
3:40 AM
Bach, Johann Christian (1735-1782)
Quintet for flute, oboe, violin, viola & basso continuo (Op.11 No.2) in G major
Les Adieux
3:49 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Elegie for cello and orchestra (Op.24)
Shauna Rolston (cello), Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
3:56 AM
Moscheles, Ignaz (1794-1870)
Sonate melancolique for piano in F sharp minor (Op.49)
Tom Beghin (fortepiano - built by Gottlieb Hafner, Vienna, ca. 1830)
4:08 AM
Stanford, Charles Villiers (1852-1924)
O Living Will - motet for unaccompanied chorus
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
4:13 AM
Alain, Jehan [1911-1940]
Le Jardin suspendu
Tomás Thon (organ)
4:21 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Premiere rapsodie arr. for clarinet and orchestra
Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
4:31 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Dances of the Furies - ballet music from 'Orphée et Euridice'
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
4:35 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Suite in A minor (BWV.818a)
Wolfgang Glüxam (harpsichord)
4:49 AM
Stoyanov, Pencho (b. 1931)
Sonata for Piano
Ivan Eftimov (piano)
5:04 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concerto for violin and orchestra no. 2 (K.211) in D major
Director: James Ehnes (violin), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra
5:26 AM
Lukacic, Ivan (1587-1648)
Three motets from 'Sacrae Cantiones' - Quam pulchra es; Quemadmodum desiderat; Panis angelicus
Pro Cantione Antiqua Mark Brown (conductor)
5:40 AM
Pejacevic, Dora (1885-1923)
Piano Quintet in B minor (Op.40) (1915-18)
Ida Gamulin (piano), Zagreb Quartet: Goran Koncar & Goran Bakrak (violins), Ante Zivkovic (viola), Martin Jordan (cello)
6:07 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto for violin, strings and continuo (Op.8 No.12) (RV.178)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director)
6:17 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
2 Nocturnes (Op.62)
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b069x80d)
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 (b069x87n)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Sam Neill
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... the film scores of Hollywood's émigré composers'. Hollywood provided a refuge for many European composers from the seismic events that shook Europe in the years leading up to the Second World War, and a handful of them made a living writing film music for the studios there. Throughout the week Sarah explores classic scores by composers including Miklos Rozsa, Max Steiner and Erich Korngold.
9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related place.
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the actor Sam Neill. Sam has starred in television series including Reilly, Ace of Spies, The Tudors and Peaky Blinders and in films ranging from The Hunt for Red October and The Piano to Dead Calm and Jurassic Park. Throughout the week Sam shares an eclectic selection of his favourite classical music, with choices including Robert Schumann and Philip Glass. He also discusses the music from his films and tells Sarah why Dvorak's Ninth Symphony reminds him of his father.
10.30am
Sarah chooses music that reflects highlights from the 2015 BBC Proms season.
11am
Sarah's artist of the week is the Lindsay String Quartet, one of the foremost quartets of the 20th century. Led by the inspirational Peter Cropper, who died earlier this year, The Lindsays became famous for their informal chamber music concerts, which introduced a new generation to the string quartet repertoire.
Janacek
String Quartet No.1 'Kreutzer Sonata'
Lindsay String Quartet.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b069x95b)
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
The Unwilling Communist
Donald Macleod views Shostakovich through the prism of his string quartets - today, the 7th quartet, in memory of his wife Nina; and the 8th, in memory of himself.
After a long courtship, Dmitri and Nina Shostakovich had married in secret, in the face of opposition from both their mothers. It was a stormy relationship that quickly became an 'open' marriage, but it survived more than 20 years till Nina's sudden and unexpected death from cancer of the colon in December 1954. Shostakovich felt unequal to the task of bringing up two teenage children on his own, so he promptly set about finding a conjugal replacement. His first preference, Galina Ustvolskya, was a former composition student with whom he had become intimately involved; she turned him down. His second choice, a young woman called Margarita Kainova, accepted. Apparently the proposal was made by phone; perhaps nowadays he'd have sent a text. The marriage - which Shostakovich announced to his children after the event - failed within a few years. It probably didn't help that Margarita - who worked for the Soviet Youth Movement - appreciated neither Shostakovich's musical nor biological offspring. The year after the divorce, he wrote his ultra-concise, elliptical 7th String Quartet, to commemorate what would have been Nina's 50th birthday. Later the same year - 1960 - Shostakovich was staying in the spa town of Goerlitz, near Dresden, supposedly working on the score for a film by his friend Lev Arnshtam - Five Days, Five Nights. In the event, he made little headway with the film but was pitched headlong into a new quartet - his 8th - which he completed, in an extraordinarily concentrated burst of creative activity, in just three days. It's an explicitly autobiographical work that seems to have affected Shostakovich deeply. The tart filling in this quartet sandwich is his sardonic Satires, subtitled 'Pictures from the Past', to ensure that no-one could think the composer - who after years of resistance had finally, and with a colossal sense of self-disgust, joined the Communist Party - was intending to satirize the present state of Soviet society.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b069xb48)
Rudolf Buchbinder at the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival
Episode 2
The celebrated Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder plays Beethoven from last year's Edinburgh International Festival - highlights of a nine-concert series in which he performed all of the composer's piano sonatas. Today's programme, which is introduced by Jamie MacDougall, features the Sonata in A flat, Op 26, the Sonata in F, Op 10 No 2, and the Sonata in C minor, Op 13, the 'Pathétique'.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b069xdgd)
Southern Hemisphere
Episode 3
This week marks the start of Afternoon on 3's Southern Hemisphere season, which will run until Easter. From Australia and New Zealand via South Africa to Argentina and Brazil, the BBC performing groups will show off the Southern Hemisphere's music with live and specially recorded concerts.
Penny Gore presents the BBC Philharmonic performing two works by the New Zealand composer Douglas Lilburn, the first of which takes the name Drysdale, an area in which he spent his early years on the family farm. Then to Argentina with Ginastera's Ollantay, three symphony movements, performed by the BBC Philharmonic under Juanjo Mena. Plus Prokofiev's 5th Symphony conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier.
Presented by Penny Gore.
2pm
Lilburn: Drysdale Overture; Forest
BBC Philharmonic
Michael Seal (conductor)
2:30pm
Ginastera: Ollantay
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)
2:45pm
Prokofiev: Symphony No 5
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b069ydvt)
Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich
Live from the Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich sung by the Chapel Choir.
Introit: O, do not move (Tavener)
Responses: Leighton
Psalms 82, 83, 84, 85 (Peasgood, Talbot, Parry, Smart)
First Lesson: 1 Kings 10 vv1-25
Canticles: St Paul's Service (Howells)
Second Lesson: Acts 17 vv1-15
Anthem: Ave Maria (Victoria)
Final Hymn: All my hope on God is founded (Michael)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in C BWV 545 (Bach)
Director of Music: Ralph Allwood
Organist: James Grainger.
WED 16:30 In Tune (b069xdgg)
Tallis Scholars, Ngawang Lodup, Katherine Bryan
One of the world's finest vocal ensembles, The Tallis Scholars, performs live in the studio with director and founder Peter Phillips, ahead of their 2000th concert taking place at St John's Smith Square in London. Plus there'll be live music from the Tibetan former monk Ngawang Lodup who'll be playing at the O2 at a talk given by the Dalai Lama, and flautist Katherine Bryan whose new album 'Silver Bow' features works originally written for violin.
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b069x95b)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b069y87n)
Edinburgh International Festival 2015
Philharmonia Orchestra - Ravel, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky
In the second of four broadcasts from the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival, the pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs Ravel's Piano Concerto in G.
The concert begins with Ravel's Mother Goose Suite and the story-telling theme continues after the interval with Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka, whose piano figures evoke the rogue puppet of the title in one of the twentieth century's most charismatic orchestral scores.
Russian music of the 19th century provides a dramatic conclusion to the concert: Tchaikovsky's Dante-inspired symphonic poem, Francesca da Rimini.
Presented by Donald Macleod
Recorded at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947)
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
The Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor).
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b069y87q)
Frederick Forsyth, Emotion in Art
Frederick Forsyth discusses spy fiction and fact as he publishes his memoirs and Matthew Sweet explores our emotions with New Generation Thinker Dr Tiffany Watt-Smith, Thomas Dixon and Susie Orbach. Also a review of portraits chosen at the National Portrait Gallery by Simon Schama.
Frederick Forsyth's Memoir is The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue
Thomas Dixon is the author of Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation In Tears and presented a Radio 3 Sunday Feature on the subject.
Tiffany Watt Smith's book is called The Book of Human Emotion.
Simon Schama's Face of Britain is a curated exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery which runs from 16 September 2015 - 4 January 2016. He is also presenting a series on BBC 2 which begins on September 30th and has written a book called The Face of Britain: A Nation Through Its Portraits.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b069ydw0)
A Short History of Indian Art
Ibrahim Adil Shah with Castanets
The writer and historian William Dalrymple continues his history of India through five great works of art and sculpture.
The third essay focuses on a miniature full-length portrait from the 17thcCentury. It's of the ruling Sultan of the central Indian kingdom of Bijapur, Ibrahim Adil Shah II, dressed in all his finery. It is an image of a powerful ruler before he came up against the might of the Mughals.
Dalrymple tells the story of this scholar ruler who was also a musician, poet and singer, who commissioned many of the greatest artists of the day who arrived at his court from as far afield as Central Asia and Europe. He was a free thinker who saw himself as both a devout Muslim and a Hindu devotee.
Dalrymple offers a profile of this important yet little-known Sultan and describes the remarkable explosion of artistic activity he oversaw
'A Short History of Indian Art' is a Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 3. The producer is Anthony Denselow.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b069y8jj)
Wednesday - Nick Luscombe
Nick Luscombe with an eclectic mix. There's new music from Nicolas Godin, Stick in the Wheel and mto plus Lloyd Cole and John Renbourn and music by Arvo Part and Max Richter.
THURSDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2015
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b069x7jd)
Beethoven and Chopin from the Orchestra of the 18th Century
Nelson Goerner and Dang Thai Son are the soloists in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5 and Chopin's Piano Concerto No.1. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770-1827]
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major Op.73 (Emperor) for piano and orchestra
Nelson Goerner (piano), Orchestra of the 18th Century, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
1:08 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Prelude in D flat, Op.28 No.15, 'Raindrop'
Nelson Goerner (piano)
1:14 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Op.11
Dang Thai Son (piano), Orchestra of the 18th Century, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor),
1:54 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Nocturne in G minor, Op.37 No.1
Dang Thai Son (piano)
2:01 AM
Crusell, Bernard Henrik (1775-1838)
Sinfonia concertante for clarinet, bassoon, horn and orchestra in B flat major (Op.3)
Reijo Koskinen (clarinet), Pekka Katajamäki (bassoon), Esa Tukia (horn), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
2:31 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich [1840-1893]
Violin Concerto in D major (Op.35)
Anne-Sofie Mutter (violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)
3:06 AM
Ockeghem, Johannes (c.1410-1497)
Missa prolationum
The Hilliard Ensemble
3:40 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Variations on a Theme by Clara Wieck
Angela Cheng (piano)
3:49 AM
Fritsch, Balthasar (1570/80-after 1608)
Paduan and 2 Galliards (from Primitiae musicales, Frankfurt/Main 1606)
Hortus Musicus, Andres Mustonen (Director)
3:57 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
3 Lieder (1. Heidenröslein (D.257); 2. Der König in Thule (D.367); 3. Gretchen am Spinnrade (D.118))
Daniela Lehner (mezzo-soprano), Love Derwinger (piano)
4:06 AM
Nicolai, Otto (1810-1849)
Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
4:16 AM
Byrd, William (c.1543-1623)
Browning à 5
The Rose Consort of Viols
4:20 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) or possibly Pleyel, Ignace (1757-1831) arr. Perry, Harold
Divertimento (Feldpartita) (H.
2.46) in B flat major arr. for wind quintet
Bulgarian Academic Wind Quintet
4:31 AM
Ebner, Leopold (1769-1830)
Trio in B flat major
Zagreb Woodwind Trio
4:38 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Adagio and Allegro in A flat major (Op.70)
Lise Berthaud (viola), Adam Laloum (piano)
4:47 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Hora est (antiphon and responsorium)
Radio France Chorus, Denis Comtet (organ), Donald Palumbo (conductor)
4:56 AM
Faure, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Nocturne No.6 (Op.63) in D flat major
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Piano)
5:06 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No.26 in E flat major (K.184)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Franz-Paul Decker (conductor)
5:16 AM
Weiss, Silvius Leopold (1686-1750)
Prelude, Toccata and Allegro in G major
Hopkinson Smith (Baroque Lute)
5:26 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Flute Concerto in D major RV.90 (Il Gardellino)
Giovanni Antonini (flute/director), Il Giardino Armonico
5:37 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Three movements from Petrushka transcribed for solo piano by the composer
Alex Slobodyanik (piano)
5:54 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Trio for keyboard and strings in C major (H.
15.27)
Ondine Trio
6:11 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Orchestral Suite No.4 (BWV.1069) in D major
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b069x80g)
Thursday - 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 (b069x87q)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with Sam Neill
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... the film scores of Hollywood's émigré composers'. Hollywood provided a refuge for many European composers from the seismic events that shook Europe in the years leading up to the Second World War, and a handful of them made a living writing film music for the studios there. Throughout the week Sarah explores classic scores by composers including Miklos Rozsa, Max Steiner and Erich Korngold.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the actor Sam Neill. Sam has starred in television series including Reilly, Ace of Spies, The Tudors and Peaky Blinders and in films ranging from The Hunt for Red October and The Piano to Dead Calm and Jurassic Park. Throughout the week Sam shares an eclectic selection of his favourite classical music, with choices including Robert Schumann and Philip Glass. He also discusses the music from his films and tells Sarah why Dvorak's Ninth Symphony reminds him of his father.
10.30am
Sarah chooses music that reflects highlights from the 2015 BBC Proms season.
11am
Sarah's artist of the week is the Lindsay String Quartet, one of the foremost quartets of the 20th century. Led by the inspirational Peter Cropper, who died earlier this year, The Lindsays became famous for their informal chamber music concerts, which introduced a new generation to the string quartet repertoire.
Debussy
String Quartet
Lindsay String Quartet.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b069x95g)
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Looking Death in the Face
Donald Macleod views Shostakovich through the prism of his string quartets. Today, the ailing composer's thoughts turn to death - in the 14th Symphony, the music for King Lear, and the 'downright strange' 13th Quartet.
In 1969, the muscular-wasting condition Shostakovich had been suffering from for a number of years was finally given a name: poliomyelitis. A stay in a Siberian clinic brought some relief, but from now till the end of his life, his time was increasingly punctuated by spells in hospital. It was during one of these spells that he composed his 14th Symphony, a song-cycle for soprano, baritone, strings and percussion on the subject of death - to underline the point, a senior party official, Pavel Apostolov, died during the première. The following year, Shostakovich wrote the music for Grigory Kosintsev's film of King Lear, material from which found its way into the 13th String Quartet - also completed during a hospital stay. It's a bleak, melancholy and unsettling work cast in a single, 20-minute arc, or as the composer described it to his colleagues in the Composers' Union, "a short, lyrical quartet with a joke middle" - the "joke middle" being a passage in which Shostakovich directs all but the first violin to strike the bellies of their instruments with the wood of their bows. What do these knocks signify? ... the irregular ticks of a malfunctioning clock? ... death knocking at the door? ... the final nailing-down of the coffin lid?...
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b069xb4b)
Rudolf Buchbinder at the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival
Episode 3
Highlights from a nine-concert series in which the celebrated Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder performed all of Beethoven's piano sonatas at last year's Edinburgh International Festival. Today's programme, which is introduced by Jamie MacDougall, features the Sonata in E flat, Op 27 No 1, the Sonata in G, Op 49 No 2, and the Sonata in B flat, Op 22.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b069xdgj)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Tchaikovsky - Iolanta
Penny Gore presents Tchaikovsky's one-act opera Iolanta, which was performed by Lyon Opera at the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence as part of this Summer's Aix-en-Provence Festival, starring Ekaterina Sherbachenko in the title role.
Iolanta, Tchaikovsky's final opera, is a fairy tale about the young, blind daughter of the King of Provence who is secluded from the world and even the truth about her blindness. It is based on the Danish play Kong Renés Datter (King René's Daughter) by Henrik Hertz.
2pm
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta
Iolanta ..... Ekaterina Sherbachenko (soprano)
René ..... Dmitry Ulianov (bass)
Robert ..... Maxim Aniskin (baritone)
Vaudémont ..... Arnold Rutkowski (tenor)
Ibn-Hakia ..... Willard White (bass-baritone)
Alméric ..... Vasily Efimov (tenor)
Bertrand ..... Pavel Kudinov (bass)
Marta ..... Diana Montague (contralto)
Brigitta ..... Maria Bochmanova (soprano)
Laura ..... Karina Demurova (mezzo-soprano)
Lyon Opera Chorus
Lyon Opera Orchestra
Teodor Currentzis (conductor)
Recorded at Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence on 11 July 2015 as part of the Aix-en-Provence Festival
Plus more recent recordings made by the BBC Philharmonic, including Williamson's Sinfonietta as part of the Southern Hemisphere Season on Afternoon on 3.
3:45pm
Dutilleux: Sur le même accord
Olivier Charlier (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
3:55pm
Ravel: Tzigane
Olivier Charlier (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
4:05pm
Williamson: Sinfonietta
BBC Philharmonic
Tecwyn Evans (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b069xdgl)
Gramophone Awards, Sol3 Mio
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music, chat and arts news, featuring winners of the 2015 Gramophone Awards. And New Zealand opera trio Sol3 Mio perform live in the studio.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b069x95g)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b069y9cn)
Edinburgh International Festival 2015
Budapest Festival Orchestra - Mozart
Another visit to the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival and another choral masterpiece showcasing the Edinburgh Festival Chorus as it celebrates its 50th year. Joining the Budapest Festival Orchestra and a quartet of world-renowned soloists in a performance of Mozart's final work, his Requiem.
The energetic Hungarian conductor Ivan Fischer also directs the orchestra in Mozart's sprightly Symphony No. 38, first performed in 1787 in Prague - that city lending the work its nickname.
Presented by Donald Macleod
Recorded at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Mozart: Symphony No. 38, 'Prague'
Mozart: Requiem
Miah Persson (soprano)
Barbara Kozelj (mezzo-soprano)
Jeremy Ovenden (tenor)
Konstantin Wolff (bass)
Edinburgh Festival Chorus (chorus master Christopher Bell)
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer (conductor).
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b069yb6k)
Everything You Never Knew About Indian History
Rana Mitter is joined by young academics who are exploring Indian history during British rule and looking at India in the Second World War. His guests are Maha Rafi Atal, Anindita Ghosh, Jahnavi Phalkey and Yasmin Khan. Part of the BBC's India Season.
Dr Yasmin Khan has published The Raj at War
Dr Jahnavi Phalkey is the author of Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth Century India
Dr Anindita Ghosh has published Power in Print : Popular Publishing and the Politics of Language and Culture in a Colonial Society, 1778-1905
Maha Rafi Atal writes as a journalist and in her own blog.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b069ydwl)
A Short History of Indian Art
A Leisurely Ride
The writer and historian William Dalrymple continues his history of India through five great works of art and sculpture.
A painting by the renowned Pahari miniature painter Nainsukh inspires Dalrymple's fourth essay. It's from the 18th century. The image is of one of Nainsukh's patrons, Mian Mukund Dev of Jasrota, out riding on horseback with his retinue, all clad in bright clothes, romance in the air. One is playing a drum, another is singing. This is a joyful scene, brimming with the colours of the Punjab hills of northern India.
Dalrymple tells the story of this remarkable painter, working at a time when the Punjab hill-states of the Himalayan foothills were going through a period of astonishing creativity. He describes the life of Nainsukh and the status of the artist of this period. He also chronicles his astonishing and ultimately tragic relationship with the local ruler.
'A Short History of Indian Art' is a Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 3. The producer is Anthony Denselow.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b069yb6m)
Thursday - Nick Luscombe
Nick Luscombe with tracks from Lloyd Cole, Morton Feldman, Oleg Pissarenko Band and more, plus an exclusive first play of a track by trio Applewood Road.
FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2015
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b069x7jg)
Emmanuel Pahud in Recital
Catriona Young presents a recital of music by Poulenc, Martinu, Dutilleux and Prokofiev with flautist Emmanuel Pahud accompanied by Eric Le Sage.
12:31 AM
Poulenc, Francis [1899-1963]
Flute Sonata
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Eric Le Sage (piano)
12:44 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav [1890-1959]
Flute Sonata
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Eric Le Sage (piano)
1:03 AM
Dutilleux, Henri [1916-2013]
Flute Sonatine
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Eric Le Sage (piano)
1:13 AM
Prokofiev, Sergei [1891-1953]
Sonata in D major Op.94
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Eric Le Sage (piano)
1:37 AM
Fauré, Gabriel [1845-1924]
Sicilienne Op.78
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Eric Le Sage (piano)
1:42 AM
Prokofiev, Sergei [1891-1953]
Sonata in D major Op.94
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Eric Le Sage (piano)
1:44 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Frauenliebe und -leben (Op.42)
Daniela Lehner (mezzo soprano), Jose Luis Gayo (piano)
2:07 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major (BWV.1068)
Erik Niord Larsen, Roar Broström (oboe), Ole Edvard Antonsen, Lasse Rossing, Jens Petter Antonsen (trumpet), Rolf Cato Raade (timpani), Risör Festival Strings, Andrew Manze (conductor)
2:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Symphony No.4 in B flat major (Op.60)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)
3:07 AM
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von (1644-1704) (with anonymous Introit and propria)
Missa Alleluja a 36
Gradus ad Parnassum, Concerto Palatino, Choral scholars from Wiener Hofburgkapelle, Konrad Junghänel (director)
3:44 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Impromptu No.4 in A flat major (D.899)
Sook-Hyun Cho (piano)
3:50 AM
Torelli, Giuseppe [1658-1725]
Sonata in D for Trumpet, Strings and Basso Continuo
Sebastian Philpott (trumpet) European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
3:58 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Elegy (Op.23) arr. for piano trio
Trio Lorenz
4:05 AM
Cable, Howard (b. 1920)
The Banks of Newfoundland
Hannaford Street Silver Band, Stephen Chenette (conductor)
4:13 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Variations in E major on a German National Air (op.posth)
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
4:21 AM
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911)
Romance for violin and orchestra in G major (Op.26)
Julia Fischer (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)
4:31 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Prague Waltzes (Prazske valciky) (B.99)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Stefan Róbl (conductor)
4:39 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)
4:48 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Nocturne No.1 in E flat minor (Op.33 No.1)
Livia Rev (piano)
4:57 AM
Gilse, Jan van (1881-1944)
Concert Overture in C minor
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (conductor)
5:07 AM
Gabrieli, Andrea (1532/3-1585)
Aria della battaglia à 8
Theatrum Instrumentorum, Stefano Innocenti (conductor)
5:17 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in G minor RV.104 (La Notte) for flute, 2 violins, bassoon & basso continuo
Giovanni Antonini (flute/director), Il Giardino Armonico
5:27 AM
Suriani Germani, Alberta (1920?-1977?)
Partita
Branka Janjanin-Magdalenic (harp)
5:37 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Variations on a theme by Haydn (Op.56a)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Günther Schuller (conductor)
5:56 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Sonata (Op.7) in E minor
Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
6:14 AM
Arutiunian, Aleksandr Grigori [b.1920]
Trumpet Concerto
Stanslaw Dziewor (trumpet), Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Gabriel Chmura (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b069x80j)
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 (b069x87s)
Friday - Sarah Walker with Sam Neill
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... the film scores of Hollywood's émigré composers'. Hollywood provided a refuge for many European composers from the seismic events that shook Europe in the years leading up to the Second World War, and a handful of them made a living writing film music for the studios there. Throughout the week Sarah explores classic scores by composers including Miklos Rozsa, Max Steiner and Erich Korngold.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the music and see if you can trace the classical inspiration.
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the actor Sam Neill. Sam has starred in television series including Reilly, Ace of Spies, The Tudors and Peaky Blinders and in films ranging from The Hunt for Red October and The Piano to Dead Calm and Jurassic Park. Throughout the week Sam shares an eclectic selection of his favourite classical music, with choices including Robert Schumann and Philip Glass. He also discusses the music from his films and tells Sarah why Dvorak's Ninth Symphony reminds him of his father.
10.30am
Sarah chooses music that reflects highlights from the 2015 BBC Proms season.
11am
Sarah's artist of the week is the Lindsay String Quartet, one of the foremost quartets of the 20th century. Led by the inspirational Peter Cropper, who died earlier this year, The Lindsays became famous for their informal chamber music concerts, which introduced a new generation to the string quartet repertoire.
Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581
Janet Hilton (clarinet)
Lindsay String Quartet.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b069x95j)
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
The Two Shostakoviches
Donald Macleod views Shostakovich through the prism of his string quartets. Donald Macleod views Shostakovich through the prism of his string quartets; his 15th expressed powerfully in music the dissidence he was incapable of expressing in his public life.
Since the official battering he had received for his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Shostakovich had been at pains to toe the party line. During the Stalin era this was understandable enough - it was a matter of sheer survival. But after Stalin's death there was, in relative terms, something of a thaw, and dissident voices began to be heard. Shostakovich's was emphatically not one of them - in fact he became more than ever the party loyalist, accepting all sorts of official posts and duties and even adding his name to an open letter attacking the nuclear physicist and civil-rights activist Andrei Sakharov. The only language in which Shostakovich was prepared to express dissidence was the elusive, ambiguous, indefinable language of music. So there grew up in Russia the notion of "the two Shostakoviches" - one daring and progressive, the other, frankly, a coward. Shostakovich subtitled the first movement of his 15th Symphony 'The Toyshop', but it quickly becomes clear that this creepy, eerie toyshop is no place for children. The profoundly melancholy 15th String Quartet - one of the composer's last major works - is a relentless procession of six Adagios, in which Shostakovich completes the journey to the interior he had begun with his 1st String Quartet nearly four decades earlier.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b069xb4d)
Rudolf Buchbinder at the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival
Episode 4
A week of Beethoven Piano Sonatas performed by the celebrated Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder concludes with the Sonata in B flat, Op 106, the 'Hammerklavier'. It was part of a nine-concert series in which Buchbinder performed all 32 of the composer's piano sonatas at last year's Edinburgh International Festival. Today's programme, which is introduced by Jamie MacDougall, also features the Sonata in G minor, Op 49 No 1.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b069xdgw)
Southern Hemisphere
Episode 4
Nicola Heywood Thomas presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in an Argentinian programme of music, including works by Ginastera, Piazzolla and Castro, plus Penny Gore continues this week's showcase of recordings by the BBC Philharmonic.
LIVE from Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff.
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas.
2pm
Buchardo: Escenas Argentinas
2:20pm
Castro: El Arrabal (Sinfonia Argentina)
2:35pm
Piazzolla: Bandoneon Concerto "Aconcagua"
3pm
Interval
3:25pm
Michael Berkeley: Tango!
3:30pm
Ginastera: Estancia
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Edwin Outwater (conductor)
James Crabb (bandoneon)
Lukas Osterc (baritone)
Penny Gore brings to a close this week's showcase of recent recordings by the BBC Philharmonic.
4pm
Ginastera: Pampeana No.3
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b069xdgy)
Southern Cone Quintet, Laurence Equilbey, Bjarte Eike
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music, chat and arts news, with live performance in the studio from the Southern Cone Quintet playing contemporary arrangements of traditional Latin American forms. French conductor Laurence Equilbey talks about her period instrument group Insula Orchestra ahead of their concert at the Barbican in London, plus Norwegian baroque violinist Bjarte Eike plays live in the studio with a taster of The Image of Melancholy - the programme he is performing with his period band Barokksolistene in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe..
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b069x95j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b069yd0y)
Edinburgh International Festival 2015
Philharmonia Orchestra - Berlioz's Requiem
In the final concert broadcast from the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival, a performance of one of the most sonorous of choral works: Berlioz's Grande Messe des Morts.
Written on a vast scale for a vast orchestra, it is a truly innovative and compelling work with the massed voices of the chorus at its centre. Epic and demanding - suitably grand for the Edinburgh Festival Chorus's 50th-year celebrations - Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts a fortified Philharmonia Orchestra through the score's unique orchestral colours, joined by tenor Lawrence Brownlee for the Requiem's majestic Sanctus.
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
Recorded at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Berlioz: Requiem (Grande Messe des Morts)
Lawrence Brownlee, tenor
Edinburgh Festival Chorus (chorus master Christopher Bell)
The Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b069yd10)
The Verb at the Edinburgh Festivals
The Verb returns from its summer break with a programme recorded at the BBC Tent at the 2015 Edinburgh Festivals. Ian's guests are Mark Doty, Mae Martin, Denise Mina and Will Pickvance.
Mark Doty is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the only American poet to have been awarded the T. S Eliot Prize. He reads from his new collection 'Deep Lane' (Cape).
The stand up Mae Martin was brought up in Canada and now lives in the UK. Mae has an ear for the peculiarities of everyday speech, so we've asked her to keep her very own 'Overheard at the Festival' diary.
Crime Writer Denise Mina has just published the fifth book in her Alex Morrow series, 'Blood, Salt, Water (Orion).
The performer Will Pickvance is a pianist and composer. 'Alchemy of the Piano' is his latest Edinburgh hour, where he combines music and storytelling in a show about what the piano means to him.
Producer: Faith Lawrence.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b069yf28)
A Short History of Indian Art
The Delhi Book
The writer and historian William Dalrymple concludes his short history of India through five great works of art and sculpture.
For this last episode Dalrymple has chosen the Delhi Book, an album containing over 100 paintings of the great Indian city in the 19th century. Many of these topographical works are by the famous artist Mazhar Ali Khan. He worked in Delhi in the late Mughal era, in what became known as the 'Company Style' of painting under Western influence. Sir Thomas Metcalfe, who was working in India as the Governor-General's Agent, commissioned the Delhi Book and had it sent back to England in 1844 as a gift to his daughters.
Dalrymple tells the story of this book of paintings and the often-bizarre British characters who lived and worked in Delhi. He describes the importance of the Delhi Book in recording how this great city looked in the 19th century. He looks at the life of Mazhar Ali Khan and describes how Mughal and British artistic impulses fused during this brief period to create a remarkable final phase to the history of Indian miniature painting.
'A Short History of Indian Art' is a Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 3. The producer is Anthony Denselow.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b069ydm1)
2015 Darbar Festival
Recorded in London earlier this evening at South Bank Centre's Darbar Festival of Indian classical music, Lopa Kothari presents a double bill of musicians from North and South India: the sarod and tabla duo of Abhisek Lahiri and Sukhwinder Singh, alongside the Carnatic vocals of Ranjani and Gayatri. Part of the BBC's India Season.