John Shea presents an archive concert given by pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy in Croatia, with music by Mozart, Prokofiev and Chopin.
Piano Sonata no. 6 in A major Op.82
Recorder Sonata (Op.1 No.1a) (HWV.379) in E minor (2 mvts adapted from Op.1 No.1; 2 transposed from Op.1 No.2)
The Sonora Hungarica Consort: Imre Lachegyi (recorder), Sándor Sászvárosi (viola da gamba), Zsuzsanna Nagy (harpsichord)
Camerata Köln - Mary Utiger (violin), Rainer Zipperling (cello), Sabine Bauer (harpsichord)
Solveig Kringelborn (Soprano), Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Eivind Aadland (Conductor)
Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) [attributed to J.S.Bach, but certainly not by him. Possibly by his son W.F.Bach - manuscript was found in his possession]
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... concert overtures'. Throughout the week Sarah explores how composers have created colourful pieces that might tell a dramatic narrative (Beethoven's Egmont), represent humour (Malcolm Arnold's A Grand, Grand Overture), depict the action or characters from Shakespeare's plays, and celebrate a historical anniversary.
Take part in today's challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related object.
Rob talks to his guest, Nicholas Parsons. Actor, cabaret performer, stand-up comedian, panel show host and quizmaster, Nicholas has had a long and varied career in show business since he first started working in repertory theatre in the 1940s. He became a household name in the 1970s as the host of game show Sale of the Century, but is perhaps best known as the chairman of BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute. Nicholas has chaired the hit comedy panel game since its inception in 1967 and hasn't missed a show in 48 years and over 900 performances. Nicholas will be talking about the seven decades he has spent working in radio, theatre and television, and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music every day at
Sarah places Music in Time as she travels back to the Romantic period. She discovers how Wagner's fascination with the Middle Ages brought his music-drama Lohengrin to life, and plays excerpts from the opera.
Sarah's Artist of the Week is one of the most charismatic conductors of the 20th century, and one of the first American-born conductors to gain worldwide recognition. Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein's prodigious talent as a pianist coupled with lessons from composer Aaron Copland and conductor Fritz Reiner catapulted him into the limelight in the years following the Second World War. His Young People's Concerts for CBS were particularly influential in drawing people to classical music, and his work with the New York Philharmonic and other orchestras led to an international career. He performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in 1989 as part of the celebrations marking the fall of the Berlin Wall. Throughout the week Sarah features a selection of Bernstein's glittering recordings.
Vítezslava Kaprálová, moves to Prague, a vibrant city buzzing with ideas, where the twenty-year-old brilliant young composition student expands her musical horizons with some astonishing results.
Born in 1915 into a musical family, Vítezslava Kaprálová was one of the brightest young composers to emerge in Czech music inbetween the two world wars. A link with her mentor, the composer Bohuslav Martinu, with whom she later became romantically involved, arguably has unfairly impinged on her posthumous reputation; Kaprálová achieved considerable success under her own steam, notching up a series of professional achievements that set her apart from her contemporaries. She was the first woman to graduate as a composer from the Brno Conservatory, the first woman to be given the prestigious Smetana award for composition and the first woman to conduct the Czech Philharmonic. Here in the UK Kaprálová joined the ranks of British composer Dame Ethel Smyth and Nadia Boulanger in conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra before the Second World War.
There's litte doubt that the turbulence of the times in which Kaprálová lived created obstacles in her creative path. She became an exile after the Munich Pact of 1938 and the subsequent onset of the Second World War. Furthermore, like the talented French composer Lili Boulanger some twenty years earlier, Kaprálová's life was cut short; she died in France in 1940, at the age of just twenty-five. Nonetheless she was able to compose quickly and naturally, so a sizeable legacy exists of some fifty works, spread across vocal, chamber, solo piano and orchestral forms. Donald Macleod explores Vítezslava Kaprálová's extraordinary story with Karla Hartl, the founder of The Kaprálová Society.
Vítezslava Kaprálová arrived in Prague with a considerable reputation; she had graduated from Brno Conservatory as a prize-winning student, with a piano concerto that she conducted herself. Now in Prague she furthered her studies and also made good use of the broader cultural activities available in that vibrant city. With Donald Macleod and Karla Hartl, the founder of The Kaprálová Society.
We return to the 2015 Lincoln International Chamber Music Festival today with Artistic Director Ashley Wass and Trio Apaches for performances of Shostakovich's Piano Trio No 1 and Brahms Piano Quartet in C minor featuring New Generation Artist Lise Berthaud.
Plus we look ahead to tomorrow's programme of works performed by the Britten Sinfonia in their At Lunch series: today they play a Suite for wind quartet by American composer Ruth Crawford-Seeger, whose daughter Peggy is one of the leading figures of the British Folk Revival.
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 8
Verity Sharp presents a week of concerts from the Berlin Philharmonic's last season. Today's concert is conducted by Christian Thielemann with a tone poem by Liszt, a nocturnal piece by Henze, and Beethoven's Symphony no.3. Recorded at the Philharmonie, Berlin earlier this year.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Op. 55 ('Eroica')
Sean Rafferty presents, with guests, live music and news from the arts world. Joining Sean is Croatian mezzo soprano Renata Pokupic and pianist Ian Brown of the Nash Ensemble, the conductor Ryan Wigglesworth, and harpist Sivan Magen.
Jac van Steen conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in an overture by Weber and Brahms's Fourth Symphony. Llyr Williams is the soloist in Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto.
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor
Now firmly established as a leading international pianist, Llyr Williams performs Beethoven, a composer for whom he has established a particular affinity. The Fourth Piano Concerto is remarkable for its combination of outer tenderness and underlying intensity, continually shifting in mood from melancholy to heroic, anguished to whimsical. Beethoven's influence is all too evident in Brahms's last and greatest symphony, a work of tremendous power and passion, not to mention immense beauty.
Salman Rushdie talks to Philip Dodd about a sense of belonging, why we are living in strange times and how his new novel mixes 1001 Nights with comic book heroes. Also historian Niall Ferguson on Henry Kissinger and cold war politics.
Salman Rushdie's novel is called Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights.
Niall Ferguson's biography of Henry Kissinger is called Kissinger: Volume I: The Idealist, 1923-1968
Ron Hutchinson is an Emmy award winning screenwriter who recently adapted Arthur Miller's unproduced screenplay The Hook for the stage. Miller wrote The Hook in 1951 but withdrew it from production when the studios demanded politically motivated changes, which he refused to make. Hutchinson writes about the process of working with Arthur Miller's drafts and handwritten notes to 'get inside his writing head word by word' and examines the sheer potency of Miller's technique. 'The Hook' received its world premiere in Northampton in 2015.
Five theatrical practitioners reflect on what Arthur Miller's work means to them and describe their personal connection with the playwright and his work. In modern stage classics such as The Crucible, A View From the Bridge, All My Sons and Death of a Salesman, Miller located life's social, political and even metaphysical issues in the lives of ordinary people. He engaged with his times, and was attuned to the tremors of his culture. He stood up to be counted and was an ardent advocate for writers' freedom of expression. Drawing on examples across a range of Miller's roles and plays.
Max Reinhardt remembers Saharwi singer Mariem Hassan, features World Saxophone Quartet's version of Coltrane's Giant Steps, discovers French rappeur Roce and enjoys the musical warmth of Derby singer-songwriter Lucy Ward.
THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 2015
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b06gsw81)
Rachmaninov and Ravel from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
John Shea presents a programme of Rachmaninov and Ravel with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Juraj Valcuha.
12:31 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
Piano Concerto no. 3 in D minor Op.30
Alexei Volodin (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Juraj Valcuha (conductor)
1:12 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
The Isle of the dead Op.29
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Juraj Valcuha (conductor)
1:36 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)
La Valse - choreographic poem for orchestra
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Juraj Valcuha (conductor)
1:50 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Les Biches - suite (1930-1940) after ballet
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
2:10 AM
Roussel, Albert (1869-1937)
Bacchus et Arianne - Suite No.2 (Op.43)
Orchestre National de France, Charles Dutoit (conductor)
2:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Piano trio No.7 in B flat major, 'Archduke' (Op.97)
Arcadia Trio
3:12 AM
Viotti, Giovanni Battista (1755-1824)
Duo concertante in D major
Alexandar Avramov, Ivan Peev (violins)
3:19 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Dixit Dominus for SSATB soloists and double choir and orchestra in D major (RV.595)
Unidentified soloists, Choir of Latvian Radio and the Riga Chamber Players, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
3:49 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Rondo in D (K.485)
Jean Muller (piano)
3:56 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
Colonial Song
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
4:03 AM
Bernat Vivancos [b.1973]
Salve d'ecos
Latvian Radio Choir - female voices, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
4:13 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Sonata in A major (arr for trumpet)
Blagoj Angelovski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ)
4:22 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Danse macabre (Op.40) transcribed for 2 pianos by the composer
Ouellet-Murray Duo: Claire Ouellet & Sandra Murray (pianos)
4:31 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Recorder Sonata in F minor - from ''Der Getreue Music-Meister'
Camerata Köln: Michael Schneider (recorder), Rainer Zipperling (cello continuo), Harold Hoeren (harpsichord)
4:41 AM
Nardelli, Mario (1927-1993)
Three pieces for guitar
Mario Nardelli (guitar)
4:51 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Litanies à la Vierge Noire, version for women's voices and organ (1936)
La Gioia - Diane Verdoodt, Ilse Schelfhout, Kristien Vercammen & Bernadette De Wilde (sopranos), Lieve Mertens & Els Van Attenhoven (mezzo-sopranos), Peter Thomas (organ)
5:00 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Scherzo No.3 in C sharp minor (Op.39)
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
5:08 AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
Romanian folk dances (Sz.68) orch. from Sz.56
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, James Clark (conductor)
5:15 AM
Wirén, Dag (1905-1986)
Violin Sonatina (1939)
Arve Tellefsen (violin), Lucia Negro (piano)
5:26 AM
Hartmann, Johan Peter Emilius (1805-1900)
4 Caprices (Op.18:1) (1835) (Dedicated to Felix Mendelssohn)
Nina Gade (piano)
5:37 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Sextet for piano and strings in D major, Op.110
Wu Han (piano), Philip Setzer (violin), Nokuthula Ngwenyama (viola), Cynthia Phelps (viola), Carter Brey (cello), Michael Wais (bass)
6:00 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Elegy for cello and piano (Op.24)
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), Emmanuel Strosser (piano)
6:07 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-91)
Piano Concerto No.14 (K.449) in E flat major
Maria João Pires (piano), Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b06grt2z)
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 (b06gvf67)
Thursday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with Nicholas Parsons
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... concert overtures'. Throughout the week Sarah explores how composers have created colourful pieces that might tell a dramatic narrative (Beethoven's Egmont), represent humour (Malcolm Arnold's A Grand, Grand Overture), depict the action or characters from Shakespeare's plays, and celebrate a historical anniversary.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?
10am
Rob talks to his guest, Nicholas Parsons. Actor, cabaret performer, stand-up comedian, panel show host and quizmaster, Nicholas has had a long and varied career in show business since he first started working in repertory theatre in the 1940s. He became a household name in the 1970s as the host of game show Sale of the Century, but is perhaps best known as the chairman of BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute. Nicholas has chaired the hit comedy panel game since its inception in 1967 and hasn't missed a show in 48 years and over 900 performances. Nicholas will be talking about the seven decades he has spent working in radio, theatre and television, and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music every day at
10am.
10.30am NEW: Music in TIme
Sarah places Music in Time as she journeys back to the Medieval period with a song written especially for pilgrims to sing: Polorum regina omnium nostra.
11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is one of the most charismatic conductors of the 20th century, and one of the first American-born conductors to gain worldwide recognition. Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein's prodigious talent as a pianist coupled with lessons from composer Aaron Copland and conductor Fritz Reiner catapulted him into the limelight in the years following the Second World War. His Young People's Concerts for CBS were particularly influential in drawing people to classical music, and his work with the New York Philharmonic and other orchestras led to an international career. He performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in 1989 as part of the celebrations marking the fall of the Berlin Wall. Throughout the week Sarah features a selection of Bernstein's glittering recordings.
Mahler
Adagio (Symphony No.10)
New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b06gscmj)
Vitezslava Kapralova (1915-1940)
Paris
Vítezslava Kaprálová wins an award to study in Paris with Charles Munch, and is mentored by fellow Czech Bohuslav Martinu.
Born in 1915 into a musical family, Vítezslava Kaprálová was one of the brightest young composers to emerge in Czech music inbetween the two world wars. You may have come across her name in association with her mentor, the composer Bohuslav Martinu, with whom she later became romantically involved, but irrespective of that link Kaprálová achieved considerable success under her own steam, notching up a series of professional achievements that set her apart from her contemporaries. She was the first woman to graduate as a composer from the Brno Conservatory, the first woman to be given the prestigious Smetana award for composition and the first woman to conduct the Czech Philharmonic. Here in the UK Kaprálová joined the ranks of British composer Dame Ethel Smyth and Nadia Boulanger in conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra before the Second World War.
There's litte doubt that the turbulence of the times in which Kaprálová lived created obstacles in her creative path. She became an exile after the Munich Agreement of 1938 and the subsequent onset of the Second World War. Furthermore, like the talented French composer, Lili Boulanger some twenty years earlier, Kaprálová's life was cut short; she died in France in 1940, at the age of just twenty-five. Nonetheless she was able to compose quickly and naturally, so a sizeable legacy exists of some fifty works, spread across vocal, chamber, solo piano and orchestral forms. Donald Macleod explores Vítezslava Kaprálová's extraordinary story with Karla Hartl, the founder of The Kaprálová Society.
The opportunity to study in Paris marked a personal turning point in the life of the young Czech composer Vítezslava Kaprálová. She arrived there in 1938, as the terms of the Munich Accord, which gave part of Czechoslovakia to Germany, were being thrashed out. A year later the Germans invaded her homeland. For Kaprálová this had a profound result. She would remain in exile for the rest of her life. Her life became increasingly complicated. Money was hard to come by and her relationship with her composition mentor, Bohuslav Martinu, deepened emotionally. Presented by Donald Macleod, with Karla Hartl, founder of The Kaprálová Society.
Smutny vecer (Sad Evening)
Olena Tokar, soprano
Igor Gryshyn, piano
Waving Farewell
Czech Symphony Orchestra of Brno
Vilém Pribl, tenor
Frantísek Jílek, conductor
String Quartet, Op.8 (3rd movement: Allegro con variazioni)
Škampa Quartet
Martinu: Koleda milostná (Love Carol) for voice & piano
Kaprálová: Koleda milostná (Love Carol) for voice & piano
Lenka Škornicková, soprano
Jítka Drobílková, piano
Variations sur le carillon
Virginia Eskin, piano
Suita rustica
Brno Philharmonic
Jirí Pinkas, conductor.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b06gsw83)
Britten Sinfonia at Lunch
The Britten Sinfonia play works by Shostakovich and Lou Harrison as part of their award winning 'At Lunch' series in Norwich.
Plus 'Lost in a Surreal Trip' by the young Dutch composer Joey Roukens which the Sinfonia premiered in March 2015 at the Wigmore Hall in London. Roukens describes it as 'a rather kaleidoscopic, psychedelic piece that evolves not unlike the experience of a 'trip': the music constantly shifts shapes, with rapidly changing, highly contrasting moods and emotions, ranging from the quietly ethereal to the rhythmically energetic to the darkly ferocious.'
Lou Harrison: Varied Trio for violin, piano & percussion
Britten Sinfonia
Joey Roukens: Lost in a Surreal Trip
Britten Sinfonia
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No.2, Op.67
Britten Sinfonia.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b06gt250)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Berlioz - The Damnation of Faust
Presented by Verity Sharp.
Part opera, part cantata, Berlioz described his 'Damnation of Faust' as a 'Légende dramatique'. He based his version of the Faust legend on Goethe's epic poem, including dramatic orchestral colours and effects.
Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in this performance with Joyce DiDonato, Charles Castronovo, and Ludovic Tezier, recorded in Berlin earlier this year.
Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust, Op.24
Marguerite ..... Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Méphistophélès ..... Ludovic Tézier (bass)
Faust ..... Charles Castronovo, (tenor)
Brander ..... Florian Boesch (bass)
Berlin Radio Chorus
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor Simon Rattle.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b06gt253)
Endellion String Quartet, Thomas Newman, Royal Opera House Jette Parker Young Artists
The Endellion String Quartet perform live in the studio ahead of concerts at Wigmore Hall in London, and West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge. Some of the new intake of members from the Royal Opera House Jette Parker Young Artists Programme talk about the scheme, and to sing live.
Plus Thomas Newman discusses composing the music for the forthcoming Bond film, Spectre.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b06gscmj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b06gt255)
London Symphony Orchestra - Bartok and Stravinsky
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Recorded earlier this week at the Barbican Hall, London
In one of his final concerts as Principal Conductor, Valery Gergiev leads the LSO in Bartok and Stravinsky, including his Rite of Spring. Yefim Bronfman joins them for Bartok's Third Piano Concerto.
Stravinsky: Symphony in C Major
Bartók: Piano Concerto No 3
Interval - An interview with Valery Gergiev, plus more from Yefim Bronfman on CD.
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Yefim Bronfman (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
conductor Valery Gergiev
In one of a series of concerts this October marking the end of his tenure as Principal Conductor of the LSO, Valery Gergiev draws on his theatrical roots, placing the spotlight on Stravinsky's iconic ballet The Rite of Spring.
In exploring Bartók and Stravinsky side-by-side in this concert, Gergiev brings together some of the repertoire he excels in. These three works have diverse inspirations: folk music and chirruping birds in Bartók's Third Piano Concerto, the Classical period in Stravinsky's Symphony in C, and a depiction of a pagan rite in The Rite of Spring.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b06gt257)
Meera Syal and Tanika Gupta in Conversation at Birmingham Rep
The actress and author Meera Syal and playwright Tanika Gupta discuss adapting Syal's novel Anita and Me for the stage. Chosen as a GCSE set text, the novel Anita and Me depicts the friendship of a Punjabi teenager Meena and Anita, a white more rebellious girl living in the same West Midlands village in the 1970s. Filmed in 2002, the autobiographical novel has now been adapted for stage by Tanika Gupta, directed by the Artistic Director of Birmingham Rep Roxana Silbert.
Rana Mitter chairs a discussion about Anita and Me, growing up in 70s Britain, the surrogacy industry in India and having a rebel in the family with questions from an audience at Birmingham Rep Theatre and as part of the Birmingham Literature Festival.
Anita and Me runs at Birmingham Repertory Theatre until October 24th. It's on at Theatre Royal Stratford East from October 29th - November 21st.
Meera Syal's latest novel is called The House of Hidden Mothers.
Producer: Robyn Read.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b06gsmgv)
Staging Arthur Miller
David Thacker
British director David Thacker writes about his close friendship and working relationship with Arthur Miller. He reflects particularly on working with Miller on the script for 'Broken Glass' for its British premiere in 1994.
Playwrights, directors and an actor, reflect on what Arthur Miller's work means to them and describe their personal connection with the playwright and his work.
In modern stage classics such as The Crucible, A View From the Bridge, All My Sons and Death of a Salesman, Miller located life's social, political and even metaphysical issues in the lives of ordinary people. He engaged with his times, and was attuned to the tremors of his culture. He stood up to be counted and was an ardent advocate for writers' freedom of expression. Drawing on examples across a range of Miller's roles and plays.
Producer: Caroline Hughes
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 3.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b06gsmjx)
Asha Puthli, Napoleon's Infinite Loop, Klangforum Wien, The Nightjar Orchestra
Max Reinhardt with the avant rock of Napoleon's Infinite Loop, the 16 voices of Klangforum Wien singing Heidelberg & Nussbaum's Consolation 2, the 2 guitars of Henry Kaiser and Ray Russell embarking on the jazz voyage that is guKTen LIMPo and an encounter with a very special guest: Asha Puthli.
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER 2015
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b06gvhlh)
Signum Saxophone Quartet in Luxembourg
John Shea presents a concert given by European Concert Hall Organisation 'Rising Stars', the Signum Saxophone Quartet in Luxembourg.
12:31 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Andante festivo (originally for string quartet, arr. for saxophone quartet)
Signum Saxophone Quartet: Blaž Kemperle (soprano saxophone), Erik Nestler (alto saxophone), Alan Lužar (tenor saxophone), David Brand (baritone saxophone)
12:35 AM
Glazunov, Alexander (1865-1936)
Saxophone Quartet, Op.109
Signum Saxophone Quartet
1:00 AM
Ligeti, György (1923-2006), arr. Fabio Oehrli
Six Bagatelles (originally for wind quintet, arr. for saxophone quartet)
Signum Saxophone Quartet
1:13 AM
Gershwin, George (1898-1937), arr. Dedenon, Sylvain (b.1962)
Porgy and Bess, suite
Signum Saxophone Quartet
1:31 AM
Curtis, Mike (b.1952)
Klezmer
Signum Saxophone Quartet
1:33 AM
Huggett, Andrew (b. 1955)
Suite for accordion and piano - 4 pieces based on East Canadian folksongs
(She's like the swallow; I'se the b'y (that builds the boat); The Belle Isle bolero; En roulant ma boule roulant)
Joseph Petric (accordion), Guy Few (piano)
1:48 AM
Glick, Srul Irving (1934-2002)
Divertimento for string orchestra
13 Strings of Ottawa, Brian Law (conductor)
2:07 AM
Rautio, Matti (1922-1986)
Piano Concerto No.2 (1971)
Paavo Rautio (piano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Martti Rautio (conductor)
2:31 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Symphony No.4 in G major
Henriette Bonde-Hansen (soprano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Heinz Wallberg (conductor)
3:28 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)
Psalm 23 from 5 Psalms of David (1604)
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
3:37 AM
Fritz, Gaspard (1716-1783)
Violin Sonata (Op.2 No.4)
Sibylle Tschopp (violin), Isabel Tschopp (piano)
3:49 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Preludes No.6 in B minor; No.7 in A major; No.8 in F sharp minor; No.9 in E major; No.10 in C sharp minor - from Preludes (Op.28)
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)
3:55 AM
Kuhlau, Frederik (1786-1832)
Overture to Trylleharpen (The Magic Harp)
The Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
4:07 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-91)
Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen - from 'Die Zauberflöte' (K.620), Act 2
Russell Braun (Papageno, baritone), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
4:12 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Divertimento assai facile for guitar and fortepiano (J.207) (Op.38)
Jakob Lindberg (guitar), Niklas Sivelöv (fortepiano)
4:24 AM
Hartmann, Johann Peter Emilius (1805-1900) arr. Gunther, P & Teuber, U
Blomstre som en rosengård (Blooming like a rose garden)
Fionian Chamber Choir, Alice Granum (director)
4:31 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto in G minor for strings and continuo (RV.157)
Il Giardino Armonico
4:37 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Overture in D major D.590 (in the Italian style)
Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
4:45 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Good Friday Music from 'Parsifal'
Felix Mottl (piano)
4:55 AM
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von (1644-1704)
Scordatura Sonata for two violins & basso continuo
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists
5:10 AM
Petersson, Per Gunnar (b.1954)
Aftonland (Evening Land) for choir, solo horn and solo (1. Everything is so strangely distant today; 2. It is evening when you leave)
Soren Hermansson (horn), Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (director)
5:24 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Lute Partita in C minor (BWV.997)
Konrad Junghänel (lute)
5:47 AM
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Vetrate di chiesa - 4 Symphonic impressions
Orchestra of London, Canada, Uri Mayer (conductor)
6:12 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Violin Sonata in G major
Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b06grt35)
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 (b06gvdcf)
Friday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with Nicholas Parsons
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... concert overtures'. Throughout the week Sarah explores how composers have created colourful pieces that might tell a dramatic narrative (Beethoven's Egmont), represent humour (Malcolm Arnold's A Grand, Grand Overture), depict the action or characters from Shakespeare's plays, and celebrate a historical anniversary.
9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge and identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Rob talks to his guest, Nicholas Parsons. Actor, cabaret performer, stand-up comedian, panel show host and quizmaster, Nicholas has had a long and varied career in show business since he first started working in repertory theatre in the 1940s. He became a household name in the 1970s as the host of game show Sale of the Century, but is perhaps best known as the chairman of BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute. Nicholas has chaired the hit comedy panel game since its inception in 1967 and hasn't missed a show in 48 years and over 900 performances. Nicholas will be talking about the seven decades he has spent working in radio, theatre and television, and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music every day at
10am.
10.30am NEW: Music in Time
Sarah places Music in Time as she showcases the first use of a prepared piano in music from the Modern age - La Piège de Medusa by the French composer Erik Satie.
11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is one of the most charismatic conductors of the 20th century, and one of the first American-born conductors to gain worldwide recognition. Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein's prodigious talent as a pianist coupled with lessons from composer Aaron Copland and conductor Fritz Reiner catapulted him into the limelight in the years following the Second World War. His Young People's Concerts for CBS were particularly influential in drawing people to classical music, and his work with the New York Philharmonic and other orchestras led to an international career. He performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in 1989 as part of the celebrations marking the fall of the Berlin Wall. Throughout the week Sarah features a selection of Bernstein's glittering recordings.
Bernstein
Chichester Psalms
Vienna Boys' Choir
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b06gscml)
Vitezslava Kapralova (1915-1940)
The War Years
Born in 1915 into a musical family, Vítezslava Kaprálová was one of the brightest young composers to emerge in Czech music inbetween the two world wars. You may have come across her name in association with her mentor, the composer Bohuslav Martinu, with whom she later became romantically involved, but irrespective of that link Kaprálová achieved considerable success under her own steam, notching up a series of professional achievements that set her apart from her contemporaries. She was the first woman to graduate as a composer from the Brno Conservatory, the first woman to be given the prestigious Smetana award for composition and the first woman to conduct the Czech Philharmonic. Here in the UK Kaprálová joined the ranks of British composer Dame Ethel Smyth and Nadia Boulanger in conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra before the Second World War.
There's litte doubt that the turbulence of the times in which Kaprálová lived created obstacles in her creative path. She became an exile after the Munich Agreement of 1938 and the subsequent onset of the Second World War. Furthermore, like the talented French composer Lili Boulanger some twenty years earlier, Kaprálová's life was cut short; she died in France in 1940, at the age of just twenty-five. Nonetheless she was able to compose quickly and naturally, so a sizeable legacy exists of some fifty works, spread across vocal, chamber, solo piano and orchestral forms. Donald Macleod explores Vítezslava Kaprálová's extraordinary story with Karla Hartl, the founder of The Kaprálová Society.
Now living in exile in Paris, Vítezslava Kaprálová finds her life increasingly insecure. Encouraged by her mentor Martinu, with whom she's been having an affair, she tries unsuccessfully to secure a place at New York's Juilliard School. After breaking off her relationship with Martinu, she decides to marry the Czech writer Jírí Mucha, although she remains conflicted. On the morning of her wedding, one biographer claims she called on Martinu. On her deathbed, her last words were "That's Julietta", a reference to the three note calling card she and Martinu had taken from his opera.
Presented by Donald Macleod, with Karla Hartl from the Kaprálová Society.
Elegy
Stephanie Chase, violin
Virginia Eskin, piano
Sung into the Distance, Op.22
Dana Burešová, soprano
Timothy Cheek, piano
Concertino for Violin, Clarinet and Orchestra, Op.21 (3 movements)
Brno Philharmonic Orchestra
Lukás Danhel, clarinet
Pavel Wallinger, violin
Olga Machonová Pavlu, conductor
Partita, Op.20
Jírí Skovajsa, piano
Czech Symphony Orchestra of Brno
Frantisek Jilek, conductor
Ritornel, Op.25
Ivan Merka, cello
Jaroslav Smýkal, piano.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b06gvhlk)
Britten Sinfonia at Lunch
The Britten Sinfonia play works by Nielsen, Michael Berkeley, and Patrick John Jones as part of their award-winning 'At Lunch' series in Cambridge.
Michael Berkeley's 'Re-Inventions' are based on the two and three-part inventions of J S Bach, whilst Uncanny Vale by York-based composer Patrick John Jones has pastoral influences. The piece was commissioned for wind quintet following his entry to OPUS2014, Britten Sinfonia's competition for unpublished composers.
Michael Berkeley: Re-Inventions
Britten Sinfonia
Patrick John Jones: Uncanny Vale
Britten Sinfonia
Nielsen: Wind Quintet, Op.43
Britten Sinfonia.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b06gsht4)
The Berlin Philharmonic
Episode 4
Verity Sharp presents this week's final selection from the Berlin Philharmonic's past season. Today's concerts feature conductor Sir Simon Rattle, with music by Debussy and Britten, and Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony, recorded in August 2015.
2pm:
Debussy: Images, for orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic
Conductor Simon Rattle
2.35pm:
Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Berlin Philharmonic
Conductor Simon Rattle
3.05pm:
Shostakovich: Symphony No.4
Berlin Philharmonic
Conductor Simon Rattle.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b06gvhlm)
Nicole Car, Stephen Kovacevich
Sean Rafferty presents, with a lively mix of guests, performers and news from the arts world.
FRI 18:45 Composer of the Week (b06gscml)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:45 Radio 3 in Concert (b06gvk34)
Ulster Orchestra: Belfast Festival 2015 - Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich
John Toal introduces the Ulster Orchestra, conducted by their Chief Conductor Rafael Payare, live from the Ulster Hall as part of the Belfast International Arts Festival. The programme features works by Smetana, Tchaikovsky, Schnittke and Shostakovich.
Smetana: Overture - The Bartered Bride
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
8.25: INTERVAL
8.45
Schnittke: Moz-Art à la Haydn
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op.70
Vikingur Ólafsson Piano
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare Conductor
This evening's programme begins with the Overture to Smetana's most famous opera, The Bartered Bride. It is sparkling, uplifting and quintessentially Czech. Written in 1863, before Smetana had composed the opera, it's one of the most popular of all curtain-raisers. From its opening gesture of a jubilant crowd on carnival day, to its bustling string fugues suggesting the village gossips at work, it perfectly establishes the mood of the high-spirited comedy to follow.
Fast-forward 11 years to Christmas Eve 1874 and Tchaikovsky's play-through of his First Piano Concerto for Nikolai Rubinstein, a colleague at the Moscow Conservatory. Rubinstein pronounced the new work vulgar and, save "two or three pages", worthless. The composer was mortified but refused to change a note, and he was right: since its première in Boston in October 1875, with Hans von Bülow at the piano, the concerto has been one of the most popular in the repertory. Even Rubinstein was eventually won over. The work is now a perennial favourite, an archetype of the great Romantic concerto, with an immediately recognisable opening.
During the interval John Toal talks to this evening's soloist, the Icelandic pianist Vikingur Ólafsson, and features a selection of his chamber music recordings.
We stay with Russian music for the second half of the programme, which opens with Alfred Schnittke's Moz-Art à la Haydn - a witty, tongue-in-cheek commentary on the music of Mozart and Haydn, composed in 1977. It's followed by Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony. Written in 1945, the piece was intended to commemorate the Soviet victory over Germany in the Second World War. The composer himself had said two years earlier that the symphony would be a work for large forces including orchestra, soloists and chorus with the idea of celebrating the Russian people and the Red Army's liberation of their homeland. However, when it finally appeared the Symphony was without parts for either soloists or chorus, and the work's "light" style surprised many. Shortly after its première, the work was censored and banned from performance by the Soviet authorities.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b06gvm25)
The Backwards Verb
Ian McMillan presents a 'backwards' cabaret of the word - and revels in language that goes in the wrong direction. Language enthusiast and podcast host Helen Zaltzman will celebrate the joys of the 'backcronym', sound artist and composer Tim Atack lets us into the fascination of sound played backwards, and novelist Toby Litt changes the reverse gear by considering the literary pleasure involved in making time stand still. Welcome to the Verb, or should we say - the Brev.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b06gsmgx)
Staging Arthur Miller
Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner is a Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and screenwriter who knew Arthur Miller and has recently edited Miller's Collected Plays. He reflects on the importance of Arthur Miller in American theatre.
Five theatrical practitioners reflect on what Arthur Miller's work means to them and describe their personal connection with the playwright and his work. In modern stage classics such as The Crucible, A View From the Bridge, All My Sons and Death of a Salesman, Miller located life's social, political and even metaphysical issues in the lives of ordinary people. He engaged with his times, and was attuned to the tremors of his culture. He stood up to be counted and was an ardent advocate for writers' freedom of expression. Drawing on examples across a range of Miller's roles and plays.
Producer: Caroline Hughes
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 3.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b06gvm27)
Lopa Kothari with Kourelou in Session
Lopa Kothari presents a live session with BBC Introducing band Kourelou, a London-based ensemble drawing on Greek roots as well as music from the South Balkans. The band searches for a contemporary sound based on violin, bouzouki, baglama, tzoura davul, defi, piano and guitar.
Also, new releases from around the globe, plus our World Music Archive track.