Il Tempio Armonico perform Vivaldi's Four Seasons in Poland. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Adagio from Sonata (Sinfonia) a 5 no. 2 in C major Op.2'3
Isabel Bayrakdarian (Pamina, soprano), Russell Braun (Papageno, baritone), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
Sonata for piano (H.
Belgian Radio and Television National Philharmonic Orchestra, Fernand Terby (conductor)
Ann Monoyios (soprano); Colin Ainsworth (tenor); Tafelmusik Chamber Choir; Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra; Ivars Taurins (conductor)
Symphony no. 1 in G minor Op.13 (Winter daydreams)
V národnim tónu op. 73 (In Folk Tone)
Gesualdo, Carlo (c.1560-1613), arr. Maxwell Davies, Peter (b. 1934)
2 Motets arr. Maxwell Davies for brass quintet - Peccantem me quotidiae; O vos omnes
Ich ging mit lust durch einen grünen Wald (I walked with joy through a green forest) (no.7 from Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit)
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Spanish guitar music'. Throughout the week Sarah showcases the vitality, virtuosity and earthy passion of Spanish guitar music in works by composers including Rodrigo, Albéniz and Granados.
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
Sarah's guest this week is the world-famous milliner Philip Treacy. Philip is the designer of choice for celebrities, fashion houses and royalty, and his clients range from Lady Gaga to the Duchess of Cambridge. The first milliner to have his own show during Paris couture week, Philip has collaborated with top designers including Alexander McQueen, Karl Lagerfeld and Valentino. Every day at
Philip shares a selection of his favourite classical music by composers ranging from Mozart to Sondheim, and tells some of the stories behind his creations, including a visit to Elizabeth Taylor's hotel room, designing a hat for Danielle de Niese's trip to Ascot and working on the Harry Potter films.
Sarah places Music in Time as she travels back to the Renaissance to explore the practice of word painting, as used by Palestrina in his Stabat Mater.
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the conductor Georg Solti. A maestro with a remarkably broad repertoire, Solti had his early career in Hungary interrupted when he was forced to flee the Nazis in 1938. Known for his passionate, even aggressive rehearsal style, Solti went on to have a dazzling life on the classical stage, earned a starry reputation in the opera house and left behind a wealth of recordings, including an iconic interpretation of Wagner's Ring Cycle.
Emmanuel Chabrier's 'road to Damascus' encounter with Wagner inspires him to write a grand opera, Gwendoline.
Chabrier must surely be one of the most likeable fellows to have graced this earth. It seems no-one had a bad word to say about him. His wide circle of friends included all the leading musicians, writers, poets and painters of the day. Chabrier owned a remarkable collection of impressionist paintings including several by Manet, who produced the best known portrait of the composer.
Emmanuel Chabrier's life slots into a fascinating point in French musical history. When he was born in 1841, Berlioz was already thirty-eight and famous, Saint-Saëns was six, while the rising stars of the future, Massenet and Fauré, were not yet born. Despite Wagner's dominance, and indeed Chabrier's own reverence for the German composer, Chabrier's music retains a staunchly Gallic individuality, with critics subsequently paying tribute to him as a "direct forerunner of the modern school." The reason for this may well relate, at least in part, to his studies. Chabrier was largely self-taught, and although he was better educated than most musical amateurs, he never followed the accepted route into the Paris Conservatoire or a similar institute. He trained first in law, only taking up full time composition in his thirties.
Today Donald Macleod follows Chabrier to Germany, where hearing Wagner's Tristan und Isolde creates a profound impression. He finally decides to abandon his career as a civil servant in favour of becoming a full-time composer. For the next six years Chabrier toils over creating his own grand opera, Gwendoline.
Pieces pittoresques, Nos 1, 2, 3 & 5 (Paysage; Mélancolie; Tourbillon, Mauresque, Menuet Pompeux)
A week of studio performances by current members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme begins with cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan playing Rachmaninov, soprano Olena Tokar singing Medtner, violist Lise Berthaud performing Frank Bridge and the Armida String Quartet playing Mozart's Quartet in A major, K464
Medtner: From 12 Goethe-Lieder, Op. 15: Glückliche Fahrt; Sie liebt mich; Nahe des Geliebten
The BBC Philharmonic: Stuart Flinders presents a live concert from Salford, with Dvorak's Symphony No.4 preceded by a sensuous work for french horn. Followed by studio recordings of Casella and Beethoven's heroic last piano concerto, presented by Katie Derham.
Suzy Klein presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news, with live music from Leonore Piano Trio as they conclude their cycle of Beethoven piano trios at Kings Place and violinist Marta Kowalczyk as she prepares to perform at the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Musicians recital. Graham Vick talks about directing the world premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas's new opera Morgen und Abend at the Royal Opera House.
As we approach the 150th anniversary of Sibelius's birth, the BBC Philharmonic celebrates with a concert featuring his music. They are joined by Christian Tetzlaff for Magnus Lindberg's Violin Concerto.
Finnish Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, John Storgards, presents richly varied music by two of his compatriots. As we approach the 150th anniversary of Sibelius's birth, his stirring and tuneful Karelia Suite opens the programme. The orchestra are joined by violinist Christian Tetzlaff for a performance of Magnus Lindberg's Violin Concerto from 2006 which weds classical lyricism and virtuosity. The dark and moody Swan of Tuonela is in rich contrast to the optimism and muscular energy of swans in flight in the Finale of Sibelius's Fifth Symphony which ends the concert.
Are the rules of drama increasingly influencing the way the world is presented to us? TV news bulletins now employ chapter headings, dramatisations and music. Hollywood transforms real life stories into dramatized blockbusters at a dizzying rate. As it becomes harder to separate fact from fiction are we overvaluing the 'real'? In this new multimedia environment, do we understand what the new rules of fiction and storytelling are?
John Yorke, a visiting Professor at Newcastle University, is a former Controller of Drama at the BBC and Channel 4, whose CV includes East Enders, Shameless, Life on Mars, George Gently and Wolf Hall. He is the author of Into the Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them.
Journalist Bim Adewunmi is culture editor at Buzz Feed UK and writes often about popular culture and how it intersects with gender and race
Allan Little is a journalist and broadcaster and has been a foreign affairs reporter for the BBC for 25 years, reporting from more than eighty countries. He was recently awarded the Charles Wheeler Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcast Journalism.
Emily Woof is a radio and theatre writer, a performer and novelist. She grew up in Newcastle. Her latest novel is The Lightning Tree.
Recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead.
The colourful life of Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh overturns everything we think we know about disabled people’s lives in the 19th century. Born without hands and feet, he was an adventurous traveller and a Member of Parliament, a tiger-hunting landowner whose attempts to resist the rising tide of Irish nationalism were ultimately defeated, and whose amazing career has been largely forgotten. But how did his first biographer meet the challenge of writing his life?
New Generation Thinker Clare Walker Gore of the University of Cambridge discusses the gaps in his published biography and what attitudes they reflect.
The New Generation Thinkers scheme is ten years old in 2020. Jointly run by BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, each year it offers ten academics at the start of their careers a chance to bring fascinating research to a wider public. This week we hear five essays from this last decade of stimulating ideas.
This Essay was recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead in 2015.
Anne Hilde Neset plays a wise selection of music including vintage Sami joik, Julius Eastman compositions and some rare and low key Sun City Girls.
WEDNESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2015
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b06nrxll)
Polish National Day
Jonathan Swain presents a concert of arranged Chopin and traditional Polish music to celebrate Polish National Day.
12:31 AM
Traditional Polish, Maria Pomianowska (Arranger)
Oberek
LutoSlowianie Orchestra, Maria Pomianowska (Director)
12:36 AM
Traditional Polish, Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849), Maria Pomianowska (Arranger)
4 pieces including Chopin's Mazurka Op.24/1
LutoSlowianie Orchestra, Maria Pomianowska (Director)
12:51 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849), Maria Pomianowska (Arranger)
4 Mazurkas
Janusz Olejniczak (piano), LutoSlowianie Orchestra (Director), Maria Pomianowska (Director)
1:02 AM
Traditional Polish (C.17th), Maria Pomianowska (Arranger)
Sluzylem ja tobie dosy? (I served you for a long time) & Chore Polonica
LutoSlowianie Orchestra, Maria Pomianowska (Director)
1:15 AM
Panufnik, Andrzej (1914-1991), Maria Pomianowska (Arranger)
Homage à Chopin
1:26 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849), Traditional Polish, Maria Pomianowska (Arranger)
3 Mazurkas and Wyrwany
LutoSlowianie Orchestra, Maria Pomianowska (Director)
1:39 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Waltz for piano (Op.34 No.1) in A flat major
Zoltan Kocsis (Piano)
1:45 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Sonata no. 3 in B minor Op.58 for piano
Van Cliburn (Piano)
2:12 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Mazurka
Vladimir Ashkenazy (Piano)
2:16 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
2 Nocturnes for piano (Op.62), no.2 in E major
Sviatoslav Richter (Piano)
2:23 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Polonaise in A flat, Op.53
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (Piano)
2:31 AM
Lutoslawskii, Witold (1913-1994)
Concerto for orchestra
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Liebreich (Conductor)
3:00 AM
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937), Oramo, Sakari (Orchestrator)
Songs of a fairy-tale princess Op.31, arr. composer for voice & orch
Anu Komsi (Soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (Conductor)
3:20 AM
Gorecki, Henryk Mikolaj (1933-2010)
Totus tuus (Op.60)
Jutland Chamber Choir (Choir), Mogens Dahl (Director)
3:30 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
From 2 Nocturnes for piano (Op.48): no.2 in F sharp minor
Wojciech Switala (Piano)
3:38 AM
Noskowski, Zygmunt (1846-1909)
Overture to Sir Zolzikiewicz
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Zygmunt Rychert (Conductor)
3:45 AM
Engel, Jan ((?-1788))
Symphony in G major
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Straszynski (Conductor)
4:03 AM
Lessel, Franciszek (1780-1838)
Variations in A minor, Op.15 No.1
Tobias Koch (Piano)
4:12 AM
Zelenski, Wladyslaw (1837-1921), Maklakiewicz, Jan (Arranger)
2 Choral Songs: Zaczarowana krolewna; Przy rozstaniu
Polish Radio Choir, Marek Kluza (Director)
4:18 AM
Maliszewski, Witold (1873-1939)
Festive Overture in D (op. 11)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (Conductor)
4:31 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Polonaise de concert in A major (1867)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zygmunt Rychert (Conductor)
4:38 AM
Jarzebski, Adam (1590-1649)
Venite Exsultemus - concerto a 2
Bruce Dickey (Cornetto), Alberto Grazzi (Bassoon), Michael Fentross (Theorbo), Jacques Ogg (Organ)
4:44 AM
Lipinski, Karol Jozef (1790-1861)
Adagio from Violin Concerto in F# minor (No.1)
Albrecht Breuninger (Violin), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (Conductor)
4:55 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante (Op.22)
Julia Kociuban (Piano)
5:10 AM
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937)
Quartet for strings no.1 (Op.37) in C major
Silesian Quartet
5:29 AM
Lutoslawski, Witold (1913-1994)
Little Suite (vers. for chamber orchestra)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (Conductor)
5:39 AM
Wieniawski, Henryk (1835-1880)
Kujawiak in A minor for violin and piano (1853)
Krzysztof Jakowicz (Violin), Krystyna Borucinska (Piano)
5:43 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Fantasy for piano (Op.49) in F minor
Szymon Nehring (Piano)
5:57 AM
Bacewicz, Grazyna (1909-1969)
Partita for orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (Conductor)
6:11 AM
Wanski, Jan (c.1762-c.1830)
Symphony in D major (c.1786) on themes from the opera "Pasterz nad Wisla"
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Mysinski (Conductor)
6:25 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Sliczny chlopiec (The Handsome Lad) Op.74/8
Hana Blazíková (Soprano), Wojciech Switala (Piano)
6:27 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849), Maria Pomianowska (Arranger)
Mazurka No. 23 in D, Op. 33/2 (encore)
LutoSlowianie Orchestra, Maria Pomianowska (Director).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b06nwp9j)
Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b06nwvz3)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Philip Treacy
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Spanish guitar music'. Throughout the week Sarah showcases the vitality, virtuosity and earthy passion of Spanish guitar music in works by composers including Rodrigo, Albéniz and Granados.
9.30am
Take part in our daily music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the world-famous milliner Philip Treacy. Philip is the designer of choice for celebrities, fashion houses and royalty, and his clients range from Lady Gaga to the Duchess of Cambridge. The first milliner to have his own show during Paris couture week, Philip has collaborated with top designers including Alexander McQueen, Karl Lagerfeld and Valentino. Every day at
10am Philip shares a selection of his favourite classical music by composers ranging from Mozart to Sondheim, and tells some of the stories behind his creations, including a visit to Elizabeth Taylor's hotel room, designing a hat for Danielle de Niese's trip to Ascot and working on the Harry Potter films.
10.30am
Sarah places Music in Time. She takes a trip to the Classical period to investigate Haydn's use of double variation form in his Piano Sonata in G Hob. XVI:40.
11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the conductor Georg Solti. A maestro with a remarkably broad repertoire, Solti had his early career in Hungary interrupted when he was forced to flee the Nazis in 1938. Known for his passionate, even aggressive rehearsal style, Solti went on to have a dazzling life on the classical stage, earned a starry reputation in the opera house and left behind a wealth of recordings, including an iconic interpretation of Wagner's Ring Cycle.
Brahms
Haydn Variations
Sir Georg Solti (piano)
Murray Perahia (piano).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b04vdswj)
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
The Apprentice
The Chabriers take a trip to Spain where the dances and rhythms fascinate Emmanuel, inspiring him to write his biggest ever hit, Espana.
Chabrier must surely be one of the most likeable fellows to have graced this earth. It seems no-one had a bad word to say about him. His wide circle of friends included all the leading musicians, writers, poets and painters of the day. Chabrier owned a remarkable collection of impressionist paintings including several by Manet, who produced the best known portrait of the composer.
Emmanuel Chabrier's life slots into a fascinating point in French musical history. When he was born in 1841, Berlioz was already thirty-eight and famous, Saint-Saëns was six, while the rising stars of the future, Massenet and Fauré, were not yet born. Despite Wagner's dominance, and indeed Chabrier's own reverence for the German composer, Chabrier's music retains a staunchly Gallic individuality, with critics subsequently paying tribute to him as a "direct forerunner of the modern school." The reason for this may well relate, at least in part, to his studies. Chabrier was largely self-taught, and although he was better educated than most musical amateurs, he never followed the accepted route into the Paris Conservatoire or a similar institute. He trained first in law, only taking up full time composition in his thirties.
The Chabriers' holiday in Spain is vividly documented in Emmanuel Chabrier's delighted correspondence with all his friends back home in Paris. Today Donald Macleod dips into those letters for an insight into the sights and experiences that inspired Chabrier to produce a uniquely Gallic take on Spanish rhythms, much loved everywhere except Spain!
España
Ulster Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
Rondes Champêtre
Allan Schiller, piano
Finale to Fisch-Ton-Kan (orchestration by Roger Delage)
Mireille Delunsch, soprano, Goulgouly
Christian Mehn, tenor, Fisch-Ton-Kan
Ensemble Vocal
Collegium Musicum de Strasbourg
Roger Delage, director
Trois valses romantiques (arr. Cortot)
Kathryn Stott, piano
Elizabeth Burley, piano
La Sulamite
Susan Mentzer, mezzo soprano
Toulouse-Midi-Pyrénées Womens' Chorus
Toulouse Capitole Orchestra
Michel Plasson, conductor.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b06nryqg)
New Generation Artists
Episode 2
More studio performances by members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artist scheme, including Esther Yoo and Zhang Zuo in Beethoven's Violin Sonata Op 30 No 3, and Louis Schwizgebel in Schubert's Piano Sonata in C minor D958.
Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in G major, Op 30 No 3
Esther Yoo (violin), Zhang Zuo (piano)
Schubert: Piano Sonata in C minor, D958
Louis Schwizgebel (piano).
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b06nrywp)
BBC Philharmonic
Episode 3
Katie Derham presents performances from the BBC Philharmonic. Today's piano concerto is Mozart's Concerto No.23 in A, K488, followed by his profound and poignant Requiem.
2pm:
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488
Javier Perianes (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)
2:25pm:
Mozart compl. Süssmayr: Requiem, K626
Ruby Hughes (soprano)
Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano)
Steve Davislim (tenor)
Jochen Kupfer (bass)
Manchester Chamber Choir
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b06ns380)
Winchester Cathedral
Live from Winchester Cathedral
Introit: For the Fallen (Guest)
Responses: Clucas
Psalms 59, 60, 61 (Barnby, Wesley, Tomkins)
First Lesson: Micah 4 vv 1-7
Canticles: Howells in G
Second Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 4 vv 13-18
Anthem: Lord, thou hast been our refuge (Vaughan Williams)
Hymn: Eternal God, before whose throne we stand (Unde et memores)
Organ Voluntary: Fugue in E flat BWV 552 (Bach)
Director of Music: Andrew Lumsden
Assistant Director of Music: George Castle.
WED 16:30 In Tune (b06nrzc3)
Lawson Piano Trio, Emma Kirkby, Julia Lezhneva
Suzy Klein with a lively mix of music, chat and arts news, including live performance from the Lawson Piano Trio as they prepare for a concert celebrating piano trio repertoire by female composers at Omnibus in Clapham, London. Dame Emma Kirkby and members of her group Dowland Works perform live in the studio ahead of their concert at the Greenwich International Early Music Festival.
Plus live performance from soprano Julia Lezhneva.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b04vdswj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b06ns078)
BBC Concert Orchestra and Thomas Trotter - Widor, Berlioz, Saint-Saens
Live from King's College, Cambridge, featuring the organ before it undergoes extensive refurbishment. Thomas Trotter plays Widor's Toccata, then joins conductor Stephen Cleobury and the BBC Concert Orchestra in excerpts from Berlioz's Te Deum and Saint-Saëns's Organ Symphony. Presented by Martin Handley.
Widor arr. Willcocks: Sing! (Toccata from Symphony No.5)
Berlioz: Te Deum, Op 22
8.25 INTERVAL
8.45
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No.3 in C minor, Op.78 (Organ symphony)
Thomas Trotter (organ)
John Daszak (tenor)
King's College Choir, CUMS Chorus
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Stephen Cleobury.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b06ns0qh)
2015 Festival
In Conversation with Richard Dawkins
'We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further'. Richard Dawkins' book "The God Delusion" created waves when it was first published nearly ten years ago. Rebutting religions of all kinds Dawkins became one of 'the New Atheists', a group of thinkers including Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett. He first came to public attention though in 1976 with his iconic book "The Selfish Gene" which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution. In 2013 he was voted the world's top thinker in Prospect magazine's poll of over 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.
Richard Dawkins talks to Philip Dodd about his memoir, "Brief Candle in the Dark" in which he explores his life in the intersection between culture, religion and science.
Recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead and first broadcast in November 2015
Producer: Luke Mulhall.
WED 22:45 Free Thinking (b06ns10j)
The Free Thinking Essay
New Generation Thinkers: Women on Their Own - Widows in Britain, Now and Then
'Widows are exceptions to every rule', Charles Dickens tells us in his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, published in 1837. Eighty years later, in 1917, a tune called 'Widows are Wonderful' rings through the theatres and homes of a war-stricken Britain. 'Widow! That great, vacant estate!' writes poet Sylvia Plath after the Second World War as the country grieves in silence.
Nadine Muller of Liverpool John Moores University uncovers the hidden history of widows in Britain from the 19th century to the present day and explores what has made them so tragically melancholic, exceptional, and wonderful in British culture.
The New Generation Thinkers are the winners of an annual scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find academics at the start of their careers who can turn their research into fascinating broadcasts.
The Essay was recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead. If you want to hear Nadine discussing her research you can download the Essay and conversation as an Arts and Ideas podcast.
Producer: Jacqueline Smith.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b06ns1q7)
Wednesday - Anne Hilde Neset
Anne Hilde Neset plays spiky gems from the Mego label, Steven Osborne's interpretations of Ravel's solo piano pieces and cool vintage jazz guitar.
THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b06nrxm5)
Young Artists at KlaraFestival - The International Brussels Music Festival
Jonathan Swain introduces a concert of chamber music given by young musicians at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels as part of the Brussels International Music Festival.
12:31 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Trio no. 1 in D minor Op.49 for piano and strings
Mosa Trio: Alexandra van Beveren (violin); Paul Stavridis (cello); Bram de Vree (piano)
12:59 AM
Steven Verhelst (1981-)
Promenade
O'Brass: Ester Van Nuffel, Sander Kintaert, Sven Ysewyn, Stijn Ubaghs (trumpets); Quinten De Gelaen, Diechje Minne (horns); Joachim Van Bockstael, Arno Tri pramudia (trombones); Bram Meese (bass trombone); Mathijs Coine (tuba); Stijn Schoofs, Ken Gybels (percussion)
1:06 AM
Susato, Tylman (c1500-1661/64)
Suite from Danserye
O'Brass
1:17 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Trio in E major H.
15.28 for keyboard and strings
Mosa Trio
1:30 AM
Matthias Baeyens
Towards Zero
O'Brass
1:35 AM
Nino Rota (1911-1979)
Otto e mezzo - music for the film
O'Brass
1:38 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Quartet no. 6 in F minor Op.80 for strings
Zerkalo Quartet: Paul Serri, Joris Decolvenaer (violins); Victor Guaita Igual (viola); Aubin Denimal (cello)
2:05 AM
Dumitru Ionel (1915-1997)
Romanian Dance
O'Brass
2:08 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
2:31 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Overture (Suite) (TWV.55:C3) in C major "Hamburger Ebbe und Fluth (Wasser-overture)"
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ketil Haugsand (conductor)
2:55 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Flute Concerto (1926)
Emmanuel Pahud (Flute), Stadtorchester Winterthur, Janos Furst (Conductor)
3:14 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
Te Deum in C
Kelly Nassief (soprano), Sylvie Sulle (mezzo-soprano), Kim Begley (tenor), Jérôme Correas (baritone), Radio France Chorus, Lubomír Mátl (director), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Günther Herbig (conductor)
3:38 AM
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916)
Quejas o la maja y el ruisenor (The Maiden and the Nightingale) - from Goyescas: 7 pieces for piano (Op.11 No.4)
Angela Hewitt (piano)
3:45 AM
Gesualdo, Carlo (c.1561-1613)
Ave, regina caelorum for 5 voices
Banchieri Singers; Dénes Szabó (conductor)
3:49 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
La Gazza Ladra - Overture
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
3:59 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Du bist wie eine Blume, Op.25 No.24 (from Myrthen) (You are so like a flower)
Jean Stilwell (mezzo soprano), Robert Kortgaard (piano)
4:02 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Concerto grosso (HWV. 322) in A minor Op.6'4
Accademia Bizantina, Stefano Montanari (violin and leader)
4:14 AM
Gratton, Hector (1900-1970) arr. David Passmore
Première danse canadienne (1927)
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
4:18 AM
Gratton, Hector [1900-1970] arr. Passmore, David
Quatrieme danse canadienne arranged for piano trio
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
4:23 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
From 'Legends' (Op.59): No.4 (Molto maestoso) in C major
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
4:31 AM
Smetana, Bedrich (1824-1884)
'Vltava' from 'Ma Vlast'
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Matthias Foremny (Conductor)
4:44 AM
Hotteterre, Jacques (1674-1763)
Les Délices ou Le Fargis
Ensemble 1700 , Dorothee Oberlinger (director)
4:49 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
"Basta vincesti" (recit) and "Ah, non lasciarmi" (aria) (K.486a)
Rosemary Joshua (Soprano), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Rene Jacobs (Conductor)
4:55 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
Golliwogg's Cake-walk from Children's Corner Suite (1906-8)
Donna Coleman (piano)
4:58 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Academic festival overture (Op.80)
Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Peeter Lilje (conductor)
5:10 AM
Ferrabosco, Alfonso (c1578-1628)
Pavan and Fantasie
Nigel North (lute)
5:18 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Fundamenta ejus - motet for 4 voices
Chorus of Swiss Radio (Lugano), Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ), Diego Fasolis (conductor)
5:23 AM
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)
Scaramouche
James Anagnoson, Leslie Kinton (pianos)
5:33 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Concerto in D minor for violin and orchestra BWV.1052R
Zefira Valova (violin), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
5:55 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Also sprach Zarathustra Op.30
BBC Philharmonic; Juanjo Mena (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b06nwpjt)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b06nwvz8)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with Philip Treacy
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Spanish guitar music'. Throughout the week Sarah showcases the vitality, virtuosity and earthy passion of Spanish guitar music in works by composers including Rodrigo, Albéniz and Granados.
9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: trace the classical theme behind a well-known song.
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the world-famous milliner Philip Treacy. Philip is the designer of choice for celebrities, fashion houses and royalty, and his clients range from Lady Gaga to the Duchess of Cambridge. The first milliner to have his own show during Paris couture week, Philip has collaborated with top designers including Alexander McQueen, Karl Lagerfeld and Valentino. Every day at
10am Philip shares a selection of his favourite classical music by composers ranging from Mozart to Sondheim, and tells some of the stories behind his creations, including a visit to Elizabeth Taylor's hotel room, designing a hat for Danielle de Niese's trip to Ascot and working on the Harry Potter films.
10.30am
Sarah places Music in Time. The spotlight is on the Baroque and the first use of the harpsichord as a prominent concerto instrument in Bach's Brandenburg No. 5.
11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the conductor Georg Solti. A maestro with a remarkably broad repertoire, Solti had his early career in Hungary interrupted when he was forced to flee the Nazis in 1938. Known for his passionate, even aggressive rehearsal style, Solti went on to have a dazzling life on the classical stage, earned a starry reputation in the opera house and left behind a wealth of recordings, including an iconic interpretation of Wagner's Ring Cycle.
Kodaly
Hary Janos Suite
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b04vdswn)
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
A Bouillabaisse
The demise of Chabrier's brilliant comic opera, Le roi malgré lui, on the Paris stage sees the composer's reputation spread in Germany.
Chabrier must surely be one of the most likeable fellows to have graced this earth. It seems no-one had a bad word to say about him. His wide circle of friends included all the leading musicians, writers, poets and painters of the day. Chabrier owned a remarkable collection of impressionist paintings including several by Manet, who produced the best known portrait of the composer.
Emmanuel Chabrier's life slots into a fascinating point in French musical history. When he was born in 1841, Berlioz was already thirty-eight and famous, Saint-Saëns was six, while the rising stars of the future, Massenet and Fauré, were not yet born. Despite Wagner's dominance, and indeed Chabrier's own reverence for the German composer, Chabrier's music retains a staunchly Gallic individuality, with critics subsequently paying tribute to him as a "direct forerunner of the modern school." The reason for this may well relate, at least in part, to his studies. Chabrier was largely self-taught, and although he was better educated than most musical amateurs, he never followed the accepted route into the Paris Conservatoire or a similar institute. He trained first in law, only taking up full time composition in his thirties.
Today Donald Macleod looks at Chabrier's final comic opera, a work in which the riches and innovation of the music managed to overcome the deficiencies of a confusing plot and weak libretto. Fellow composer, Ravel, declared that its premiere had "changed the direction of French harmony."
Danse slave. Allegro con brio
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Neeme Järvi, conductor
Ode à la musique
Barbara Hendricks, soprano
Toulouse-Midi-Pyrénées Womens' Chorus
Capitole Toulouse Orchestra
Michel Plasson, conductor
Suite pastorale
Orchestra de la Suisse Romande
Neeme Järvi, conductor
Introduction & choeur dansé (Act 2, Le roi malgré lui)
Ah! Hurrah!
Chris de Moor, bass, Laski
Chorus of Radio France
New Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France
Charles Dutoit, conductor
O rêve éteint! Réveils funèbres (Act 3, Le roi malgré lui)
Barbara Hendricks, soprano, Minka
Isabel Garcisanz, soprano, Alexina
New Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France
Charles Dutoit, conductor.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b06nryql)
New Generation Artists
Episode 3
Another selection of studio performances by members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artist scheme. including piano music by Ravel and Liszt played by Zhang Zuo, songs by Purcell sung by Kitty Whately, cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan playing Beethoven, and Alec Frank-Gemmill playing a work for horn and piano by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill
Ravel: Jeux d'eau
Zhang Zuo (piano)
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Sea-Eagle
Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Alasdair Beatson (piano)
Purcell: If music be the food of love; Music for awhile
The fatal hour comes on apace; From silent shades (Bess of Bedlam)
There's not a swain
Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano), James Baillieu (piano)
Beethoven: Variations on 'Bei Männern' from Mozart's The Magic Flute
Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello), Marianna Shirinyan (piano)
Liszt: Les Jeux d'eau a la Villa d'este
Zhang Zuo (piano)
Lachner: Die Seejungfern
Robin Tritschler (tenor), Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Simon Lepper (piano).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b06nrywr)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Milhaud - La mere coupable
Jonathan Swain presents Milhaud's La mere coupable, recorded in Vienna earlier this year at the Theater an der Wien, featuring Mireille Delunsch, Angelika Kirchschlager and Stefan Loges.
This rarely-performed opera by Milhaud is based on the final part of the Beaumarchais Figaro trilogy. While Mozart mines the class tensions with a comedic touch, Milhaud chooses to set Beaumarchais' more serious moral conclusion. In the intervening 20 years both the Count and Countess have had indiscretions resulting in illegitimate children, Leon and Florestine, both of whom are being brought up by the pair as their own. Figaro and Suzanne are still in their service, but their relationship is now in diffculties.
2pm:
Milhaud: La mère coupable - opera in 3 acts
Count Almaviva ..... Markus Butter (baritone)
Countess Rosine ..... Mireille Delunsch (soprano)
Chevalier Léon ..... Andrew Owens (tenor)
Florestine ..... Frederikke Kampmann (soprano)
Figaro ..... Stephan Loges (baritone)
Suzanne ..... Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano)
Begaers ..... Aris Argiris (baritone)
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Leo Hussain (conductor)
Followed by more performances from the BBC Philharmonic.
3.50pm:
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
BBC Philharmonic
Nicholas Collon (conductor)
4.00pm:
Poulenc: Concerto in D minor for two pianos and orchestra
Louis Lortie and Hélène Mercier (pianos)
BBC Philharmonic
Edward Gardner (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b06nrzc5)
Nils Petter Molvaer, Jonathan Morton, Orjan Andersson, James MacMillan, Katherine Broderick
Suzy Klein presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. Her guests include the trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer, violinist/director Jonathan Morton with choreographer Orjan Andersson, and the composer James MacMillan, who has donated a handwritten manuscript to Radio 3's Children in Need auction.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b04vdswn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b06ns07z)
London Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven, Strauss
Live from the Barbican Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
The London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Nikolaj Znaider perform Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and works by Richard Strauss, including the closing scene from Capriccio, with soprano Anne Schwanewilms.
Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor
8.00 Interval
8.20
Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
Strauss: Closing scene from Capriccio
Anne Schwanewilms (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
conductor Nikolaj Znaider
The violinist and conductor Nikolaj Znaider returns to the LSO to continue his exploration of Strauss from last season. The second half opens with Strauss's tone poem Death and Transfiguration, where a dying man sees his life pass before him, ending in his death and redemption. Strauss described Capriccio, his last opera, as his "testament". Anne Schwanewilms sings the closing scene where the Countess Madeleine, unable to choose between two lovers, sings of the inseparability of words and music.
Znaider describes studying the Beethoven symphonies as one of the key moments in his decision to take up conducting, and so he has chosen to begin the concert with one of Beethoven's most frequently performed works, the Fifth Symphony.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b06ns0qk)
2015 Festival
Putting Competition to the Test
From TV talent contests such as The Great British Bake Off and Strictly Come Dancing to the pressures of school exams and job interviews - competition is at the heart of the way we live our lives. What can we learn from sports stars whose lives are geared to cultivating a healthy competitive instinct? Is the desire to be successful bringing out the best in us - or the worst?
Constructively and co-operatively arguing with Free Thinking presenter Anne McElvoy are:
Margaret Heffernan, entrepreneur, CEO and author of A Bigger Prize: Why Competition isn't Everything and Willful Blindness
Matthew Syed, former England Table Tennis number one and Times columnist and author whose books include Bounce: The myth of talent and the power of practice and, most recently, Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth about Success.
Cath Bishop, Olympic medallist and World Champion rower, worked as a British diplomat specialising in conflict issues, working in Bosnia and Iraq and is now a leadership speaker specialising in topics relating to high performance and resilience.
Christopher Frayling, author and broadcaster, former head of Arts Council England
Recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead.
Producer: Luke Mulhall.
THU 22:45 Free Thinking (b06ns10p)
The Free Thinking Essay
New Generation Thinkers: Nancy Cunard - The Rebellious Heiress
For nearly 200 years, the name Cunard has evoked glamorous images of sleek cruise ships and transatlantic sea travel. Yet the legacy of the Cunard family's black sheep, the disinherited granddaughter Nancy Cunard, is less well-known.
Sandeep Parmar of the University of Liverpool explores the tragic life of this scion of a wealthy family who became a revolutionary poet, publisher, modernist muse, anti-fascist and anti-racism activist.
The New Generation Thinkers are the winners of an annual scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find academics at the start of their careers who can turn their research into fascinating broadcasts.
The Essay was recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead. If you want to hear Sandeep Parmar discussing her research you can download The Essay and conversation as an Arts and Ideas podcast.
Producer: Torquil Macleod.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b06ns1q9)
Thursday - Anne Hilde Neset
Anne Hilde Neset plays Ewan MacColl tributes, rare soul music and a hypnagogic classic from the Ghost Box label.
FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2015
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b06nrxmf)
Proms 2014: Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Swain presents a programme of Vaughan Williams and Alwyn from the 2014 BBC Proms with the BBC SO conducted by Sakari Oramo.
12:31 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph [1872-1958]
Overture to The Wasps - Aristophanic suite (from incidental music)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
12:40 AM
Alwyn, William [1905-1985]
Symphony no. 1 in D major
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
1:21 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph [1872-1958]
The Lark ascending for violin and orchestra
Janine Jansen (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
1:36 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph [1872-1958]
Job - a masque for dancing
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
2:25 AM
Holborne, Anthony (1560-1602)
Muy linda, Pavan, Gallliard - from Pavans, Galliards, Almains, and Other Short Aeirs, Both Graue and Light
The Canadian Brass
2:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Trio for piano and strings in B flat major, (D.898)
Beaux Arts Trio
3:08 AM
Pekiel, Bartlomiej (?-c.1670)
Missa Pulcherrima
Camerata Silesia, Juliusz Gembalski (positive organ), Anna Szostak (conductor)
3:39 AM
Grieg, Edvard (Hagerup) [1843-1907]
Norwegian Dance No.1 (Op.35) for piano duet
Leif Ove Andsnes & Håvard Gimse (piano)
3:46 AM
Purcell, Henry [1659-1695]
Chacony a 4 for strings (Z.730) in G minor
Psophos Quartet
3:53 AM
Borodin, Alexander (1833-1887)
In the steppes of central Asia (V sredney Azii) - symphonic poem
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
4:01 AM
Weckmann, Matthias (1616-1674)
Wenn der Herr die Gefangenen zu Zion erlosen wird - Concert for 4 voices, strings & continuo
Soloists from Rheinsche Kantorei, Musica Alta Ripa, Hermann Max (conductor)
4:11 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1916)
Sonata for cello and piano in D minor
Zara Nelsova (cello), Grant Johannesen (piano)
4:21 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), orch. Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Chorale Prelude (BWV.654)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor)
4:31 AM
Piazzolla, Ástor Pantaleón (1921-1992)
Adios Noniño (tango)
Musica Camerata Montréal
4:40 AM
Kalliwoda, Johann Wenzel [1801-1866]
Morceau de salon for oboe and piano (Op.228)
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
4:50 AM
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto for strings no.6 in A major
Concerto Köln
5:00 AM
Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672)
Magnificat anima mea Dominum (SWV.468)
Schütz Akademie, (voices and instruments: violins, cornetts, sackbutts and continuo), Howard Arman (conductor)
5:11 AM
Schumann, Clara (1819-1896)
Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann in F sharp minor (Op.20)
Angela Cheng (piano)
5:20 AM
Berlioz, Hector [1803-1869]
Overture to Les Franc-juges (Op.3)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, John Nelson (conductor)
5:33 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Quartet for strings (Op.20'2) in C major
Quatuor Tercea
5:54 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata in A minor (D.784)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
6:14 AM
Neruda, Johann Baptist Georg [c.1707-1780]
Concerto for horn or trumpet and strings in E flat major
Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet), Oslo Camerata, Stephan Barratt-Due (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b06nwpjw)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b06nwvzc)
Friday - Sarah Walker with Philip Treacy
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Spanish guitar music'. Throughout the week Sarah showcases the vitality, virtuosity and earthy passion of Spanish guitar music in works by composers including Rodrigo, Albéniz and Granados.
9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: two pieces of music are played together - can you work out what they are?
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the world-famous milliner Philip Treacy. Philip is the designer of choice for celebrities, fashion houses and royalty, and his clients range from Lady Gaga to the Duchess of Cambridge. The first milliner to have his own show during Paris couture week, Philip has collaborated with top designers including Alexander McQueen, Karl Lagerfeld and Valentino. Every day at
10am Philip shares a selection of his favourite classical music by composers ranging from Mozart to Sondheim, and tells some of the stories behind his creations, including a visit to Elizabeth Taylor's hotel room, designing a hat for Danielle de Niese's trip to Ascot and working on the Harry Potter films.
10.30am
Sarah places Music in Time. She discovers the mysterious far-off lands conjured up by Romantic composers and plays the Celtic Symphony by Granville Bantock.
11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the conductor Georg Solti. A maestro with a remarkably broad repertoire, Solti had his early career in Hungary interrupted when he was forced to flee the Nazis in 1938. Known for his passionate, even aggressive rehearsal style, Solti went on to have a dazzling life on the classical stage, earned a starry reputation in the opera house and left behind a wealth of recordings, including an iconic interpretation of Wagner's Ring Cycle.
Beethoven
Symphony No.2 in D
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b04vdswl)
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
The Dreamer
The composer's final years were beset with illness and depression but this period saw the creation of several major works, including Chabrier's final opera, Briséïs - a work that he intended should be the last word in modernism. When Chabrier is invited to tea by the widow of his great musical hero, Richard Wagner, his manners and his music are not well received!
Chabrier must surely be one of the most likeable fellows to have graced this earth. It seems no-one had a bad word to say about him. His wide circle of friends included all the leading musicians, writers, poets and painters of the day. Chabrier owned a remarkable collection of impressionist paintings including several by Manet, who produced the best known portrait of the composer.
Emmanuel Chabrier's life slots into a fascinating point in French musical history. When he was born in 1841, Berlioz was already thirty-eight and famous, Saint-Saëns was six, while the rising stars of the future, Massenet and Fauré, were not yet born. Despite Wagner's dominance, and indeed Chabrier's own reverence for the German composer, Chabrier's music retains a staunchly Gallic individuality, with critics subsequently paying tribute to him as a "direct forerunner of the modern school." The reason for this may well relate, at least in part, to his studies. Chabrier was largely self-taught, and although he was better educated than most musical amateurs, he never followed the accepted route into the Paris Conservatoire or a similar institute. He trained first in law, only taking up full time composition in his thirties.
Habanera c. 1885
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Neeme Järvi, conductor
Ballade des gros dindons
Steven Varcoe, baritone
Graham Johnson, piano
Villanelle des petits canards
Les Cigales
Felicity Lott, soprano
Graham Johnson, piano
Gwendoline, Overture to Act 1
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Jean-Paul Penin, conductor
Briséïs: Excerpt from Act 1, Part IV
Simon Keenlyside , baritone (Le Catéchiste)
Michael George, bass (Stratoklès)
Joan Rodgers, soprano (Briséïs)
Kathryn Harries, mezzo soprano (Thanasto)
Chorus of Scottish Opera
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Jean Yves Ossonce, conductor
Air de ballet
Annie d'Arco, piano.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b06nryqq)
New Generation Artists
Episode 4
The week of studio performances by members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme ends with Benjamin Appl singing Beethoven, cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan playing Schumann's Fantasy Pieces, and the Danish String Quartet performing Beethoven's last string quartet.
Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill.
Beethoven: Andenken (Ich denke dein); Gesang der Ferne; Mit einem gemalten Band; Adelaïde
Benjamin Appl (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op 73
Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello), Oxana Shevchenko (piano)
Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op 135
Danish String Quartet.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b06nrywt)
BBC Philharmonic
Episode 4
Penny Gore presents a live concert from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, from Maida Vale Studios, with Berlioz's Le Corsaire overture and his epic symphony which incorporates his Italian experiences and places the viola in the spotlight: Harold in Italy.
2pm:
Berlioz: Le Corsaire overture
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor)
2.10pm:
Berlioz: Harold en Italie
Lise Berthaud (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor)
Followed by more recordings from the BBC Philharmonic, presented by Katie Derham, including Liszt's second Piano Concerto.
2.55pm:
Liszt: Piano Concerto No.2 in A
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
3.15pm:
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, Op.77
James Ehnes (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Nicholas Collon (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b06nrzc7)
Fidelio Trio
Suzy Klein with a lively mix of music, chat and arts news, including live performance from Fidelio Trio as they embark on their French Piano Trios Series at St John's Smith Square.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b04vdswl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b06ns085)
Jazz Voice - London Jazz Festival Opening Night
Sara Mohr Pietsch introduces the EFG London Jazz Festival's opening night gala, live from the Barbican in London. Guy Barker conducts the London Jazz Festival Orchestra in Jazz Voice 2015 - a celebration of some of the great songs of the past ten decades, sung by some of the great voices of today.
Among this year's line-up are Illinois-born R&B singer Liv Warfield; emerging Californian singer-songwriter Jarrod Lawson; New York-based singer and guitarist Becca Stevens; UK veteran Elaine Delmar, who made her broadcast debut in 1952; and younger Brits Joe Stilgoe, Rebecca Ferguson and Nicki Wells with British Indian composer Nitin Sawhney.
The programme of songs, all specially arranged by Guy Barker, draws on major anniversaries, birthdays and milestones that link the decades stretching back from 2015.
In the interval, Ian McMillan presents 'A Jazzy Verb' - reflections on discovering jazz as a young man, and an exploration of the connections between jazz, voice and language (produced by Sharon Sephton).
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b06ns0qm)
Free Thinking: Pat Barker, Jacob Polley, James Yorkston, Carmen Marcus
The Verb this week comes from Radio 3's 'Festival of Ideas', Free Thinking, at Sage Gateshead. The theme of this year's festival was 'Tearing Up The Rule Book' and breaking the rules with Ian McMillan are Pat Barker, Jacob Polley, James Yorkston and Carmen Marcus.
Booker-prize winning novelist Pat Barker discusses her latest novel 'Noonday' (Hamish Hamilton), which is set in London during the Second World War and completes her Life Class Trilogy.
The poet and novelist Jacob Polley won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for his latest book of poetry 'The Havocs' (Picador). Jacob will be collaborating with musician John Alder.
Scottish folk musician James Yorkston released 'The Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society' (Domino), which has been called his most personal record to date.
Carmen Marcus is one of the 2015 'Verb New Voices'. In collaboration with Arts Council England, The Verb has been working with four new spoken work talents to develop their work.
Producer: Faith Lawrence.
FRI 22:45 Free Thinking (b06ns112)
The Free Thinking Essay
New Generation Thinkers: Kilts, Celts and Clearances in World War One
Thousands of soldiers fought in kilted regiments during the First World War. But what kind of cultural identity was adopted with the kilt? How far was it pervaded by a fatalistic sense of the Celt who 'went forth to the war but - always fell', or by the memory of the Highland Clearances?
Peter Mackay of the University of St Andrews explores poetry and first-hand accounts from the war to find out.
The New Generation Thinkers are the winners of an annual scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find academics at the start of their careers who can turn their research into fascinating broadcasts.
The Essay was recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead. If you want to hear Peter Mackay discussing his research you can download The Essay and conversation as an Arts and Ideas podcast.
Producer: Jacqueline Smith.
FRI 23:00 Jazz on 3 (b06nx23j)
2015 London Jazz Festival Live from Ronnie Scott's
Jez Nelson hosts a special edition of Jazz on 3 live from Ronnie Scott's jazz club in Soho on the opening night of the 2015 EFG London Jazz Festival.
As ever the programme features exclusive performances from some of the most sought-after acts at the festival, celebrating the breadth and quality of the jazz scene today. The line-up includes Norwegian trumpeter and jazz-electronica pioneer Nils Petter Molvaer, soul-jazz vocalist Jarrod Lawson, rising British stars Vula Viel with their brand of Ghana-meets-London groove music, and an exclusive duet between West African guitarist Lionel Loueke and bass player Alan Hampton.
Presenter: Jez Nelson
Producer: Chris Elcombe.