John Shea presents a concert of sacred and secular music from the Hover State Chamber Choir of Armenia, recorded in the Grand Hall of the Royal Castle in Warsaw in March this year.
Penderecki, Krzysztof (b. 1933)
Penderecki, Krzysztof (b. 1933)
Komitas, Vardapet (1869-1935), arr. Sollima, Giovanni
Giovanni Sollima (Cello), Gabriele Bellu (Violin), Matteo Amadasi (Viola), Andrea Waccher (Cello), Marco Amico (Guitar), Giovanni Caruso (Keyboard)
Jard van Nes (Mezzo Soprano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (Conductor)
Cologne Chamber Chorus (Choir), Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann (Conductor)
In de Schuur (Op. posth.), compl. Emmanuel Geeurickx
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856), arr. Liszt, Franz
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897), arr. Goethe
Oslo Philharmonic Choir, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (Conductor)
Nacht en Morgendontwaken aan de Nete - in memoriam Felix Timmermans 31.
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano), Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (Conductor).
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... tangos'. Rob explores this fiery and sensual dance form, which originated in South America in the late 19th century. Throughout the week Rob shares works that highlight the wit, passion and full-on Latin temperament of the dance, with featured composers including Niels Gade, Albeniz, Stravinsky, and Carlos Gardel, the great tango writer of the 20th century who did so much to popularise the form.
Take part in today's challenge. Two pieces of music are played together - can you work out what they are?
This week's guest is the crime novelist Ian Rankin. Best known as the creator of the Inspector Rebus series, Ian has written books that have been translated into over twenty languages and are bestsellers around the world. His latest novel in the John Rebus series, 'Even Dogs in the Wild', was released this month. Ian will be talking about his writing career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, every day at
Rob places Music in Time. The spotlight is on the Renaissance and Gesualdo's remarkable treatment of dissonance in his Tenebrae Responsories of 1611.
Rob's Artist of the Week is Manfred Honeck, a maestro with the power to make magic with a musical phrase and summon a colossal range of dynamics, and who, for Rob, is one of the greatest conductors alive today. Throughout the week Rob features Honeck together with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in acclaimed recordings of music by the great Romantics, Mahler, Bruckner and Richard Strauss, as well as Verdi and Johann Strauss II.
Handel takes charge at the Royal Academy of Music and becomes Composer of Music for His Majesty's Chapel Royal.
At the height of his career, Handel is commissioned to compose music for the King's coronation, but there's trouble afoot at the Royal Academy with squabbling singers and exorbitant costs. Presented by Donald Macleod.
London Resounding. In the second of four concerts at LSO St Lukes featuring music from some of the influential composers who lived and worked in London in the 17th and 18th centuries, fortepianist Ronald Brautigam performs sonatas by Haydn, Clementi, Cramer and Field.
The BBC Philharmonic and conductor Alpesh Chauhan are live in concert from MediaCity in Salford, presented by Adam Tomlinson, and featuring BBC New Generation Artist Benjamin Appl. Then back to the studio with Verity Sharp for music performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music, chat and arts news, including live music in the studio from Russian pianist Konstantin Scherbakov ahead of his recital at Wigmore Hall.
Vassily Sinaisky conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Elgar's Second Symphony. Kirill Gerstein joins them in Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto.
With references to the brilliant warmth and light of Italy and the rugged grandeur of the Cornish coast, Elgar's Second Symphony is far more complex and deeply personal than his First. Riddled with doubts, questioning and conflict it reflects not only the true spirit of the age but also the personality of the composer as it meanders from extrovert exuberance to melancholy introversion. Elgar himself stated that "I have written out my soul".
Beethoven imbues his Fourth Piano Concerto with a genuinely romantic voice. It is ardent and melancholy, heroic and ethereal, anguished and whimsical.
Every day we read lurid headlines about alcohol abuse and the consequences of binge drinking for the young at home and abroad. But a deeper look reveals a complicated picture of alcohol use in Britain. Champagne is still linked with celebration, while pubs are closing up and down the country. University freshers' weeks are adjusting to reflect the increasing number of students who are teetotal - but doctors are reporting a rise in patients with liver damage. How should society accommodate people who drink to excess and those who don't want to drink at all?
Dr Sally Marlow from King's College, London is an expert in addiction. In a specially commissioned Free Thinking talk she explores the hypocrisy in society around alcohol.
Professor Barry Smith - philosopher from the University of London's School of Advanced Study and wine columnist for Prospect magazine.
David Yelland - former editor of the Sun and a Trustee of Action on Addiction and Patron of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics.
Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, author of Love in a Headscarf and Muslim women's activist, who blogs at Spirit 21 and who is a lifelong teetotaller.
Recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead.
The eminent design historian Penny Sparke (author of 'The Modern Interior' and 'As Long As It's Pink') cites Roland Barthes as a factor in her decision to work in the field of design. She assesses his influence on her thinking throughout her career.
Barthes was a powerful blast of fresh air in post war cultural thought, his carefully argued, accessible and sometimes mischievous examinations of philosophical, cultural and social ideas continue to influence contemporary writers and thinkers. In this series five authors write about Barthes' significance to them and discuss the effect the maverick cultural philosopher has had upon their own work. They create a picture of a literary figure whose writing was fun, accessible and deeply influential on the way we look at the world. Barthes's literary output was not only prolific, but also eclectic. During the course of his life his thinking influenced the development of theories of structuralism, semiotics, social theory, design, anthropology and post structuralism.
Other essayists over the week include broadcaster and cultural historian Andrew Hussey, film journalist Nick James and historian and broadcaster Michael Wood.
Nick Luscombe presents music from Joanna Newsom's beautiful new record Divers, epic electronica from Bersarin Quartett and a track from Tony Scott's 1965 Music for Zen Meditation.
THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2015
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b06pxjfr)
United Continuo Ensemble and Tenor Jan Kobow at the 2012 Mazovia Goes Baroque Festival
John Shea presents a concert from the 2012 Mazovia Goes Baroque festival, featuring the United Continuo Ensemble and tenor Jan Kobow.
12:31 AM
Rathgeber, Johann Valentin (1682-1750)/Hammerschmidt, Andreas (1611/12-1675)
Aufforderung zur Freude (Rathgeber); Die Kunst des Küssens (Hammerschmidt)
Jan Kobow (tenor), Axel Wolf (lute)
12:34 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Fantasia from Partita in C minor, BWV.997
Axel Wolf (lute)
12:38 AM
Vitali, Giovanni Battista (1632-1692)/Corbetta, Francesco (1615-1681)
Toccata, Ciaccona (Vitali); Caprice de chaccone (Corbetta)
United Continuo Ensemble
12:48 AM
Seyfert, Johann Caspar (1697-1767)/Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Amor vincit omnia (Seyfert); Oh Solitude (Purcell)
Jan Kobow (tenor), Axel Wolf (lute)
12:56 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Chaconne, from King Arthur (Act 5 Scene 2)
Axel Wolf (lute)
12:59 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
If music be the food of love
Jan Kobow (tenor), Axel Wolf (lute)
1:03 AM
Piccinini, Alessandro (1566-c.1638)
Toccata; Mariona alla vera spagnola, chiaccona
United Continuo Ensemble
1:12 AM
Merula, Tarquinio (1594/5-1665)/Caccini, Giulio (~1545-1618)
Folle e ben che si crede (Merula); Odi, Euterpe (Aria ottava) (Caccini)
Jan Kobow (tenor), Axel Wolf (lute)
1:21 AM
Storace, Bernardo (fl.1664)
Ciaconna
United Continuo Ensemble
1:28 AM
Piccinini, Alessandro (1566-c.1638)
Toccata VI
Axel Wolf (lute)
1:31 AM
Luzzaschi, Luzzasco (c.1545-1607)
O Primavera
Jan Kobow (tenor), Axel Wolf (lute)
1:35 AM
Vitali, Giovanni Battista (1632-1692)
Passa galli per la lettera E; Bergamasca per la lettera B
United Continuo Ensemble
1:42 AM
Weckmann, Matthias (1616-1674)/Krieger, Johann Philipp (1651-1735)
Der reinweissen Herzogin hochklare Leibesfarbe (Weckmann); Ihr Freunde fragt Ihr noch (Krieger); Abendandacht (Krieger)
Jan Kobow (tenor), Axel Wolf (lute)
1:50 AM
Pellegrini, Domenico (17th c)/Piccinini, Alessandro (1566-c.1638)
Courante per la X (Pellegrini); Ciaccona in partite variate (Piccinini)
United Continuo Ensemble
1:57 AM
Merula, Tarquinio (1594-1665)
Capriccio cromatico in G
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)
2:01 AM
Storace, Bernardo [fl.1664]
Chaconne in C
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
2:07 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Suite for orchestra 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
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Octet in F major (D.803)
Vilde Frang Bjærke (violin); Elisabeth Dingstad (violin); Bendik Foss (viola); Audun Sandvik (cello); Håkon Thelin (double bass); Andreas Sundén (clarinet); Audun Halvorsen (bassoon); Jukka Harjo (french horn)
3:33 AM
Busoni, Ferruccio (1866-1924)
Kammer Fantasie
Valerie Tryon (piano)
3:41 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Isanmalle (To the Fatherland); Saarela palaa (Fire on the island) (Op.18 no.3); Min rastas raataa (Busy as a thrush) (Op.18 no.4)
Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, Eric-Olof Söderström (conductor)
3:47 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Adagio in E flat (WoO.43 No.2)
Lajos Mayer (mandolin), Imre Rohmann (piano)
3:53 AM
Goldmark, Károly (1830-1915)
Im Frühling (In the Spring): overture
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Antal Jancsovics (conductor)
4:07 AM
Bortnyansky, Dmitri (1751-1825)
Choral concerto No.6 "What God is Greater"
Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor)
4:15 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Fantastic scherzo
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
4:31 AM
Halvorsen, Johan (1864-1935)
Pictures from Norwegian Fairy-Tales
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Vytautas Lukocius (conductor)
4:45 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Lyric pieces: book 5 (Op.54): Nos. 2, 4, 3
Sveinung Bjelland (piano)
4:57 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Gestillte Sehnsucht (Op 91 No.1)
Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo), Morten Carlsen (viola), Sergej Osadchuk (piano)
5:04 AM
Gombert, Nicolas (c.1495-c.1560)
Elegie sur la mort de Josquin Musae Jovis
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal, Christopher Jackson (director)
5:13 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet No.1 in D major, K.285
Dae-Won Kim (flute), Yong-Woo Chun (violin), Myung-Hee Cho (viola), Jink-Yung Chee (cello)
5:28 AM
Lalo, Edouard (1823-1892)
2 Aubades
CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Swift (conductor)
5:37 AM
Scriabin, Alexander [1872-1915]
Sonata no.3 (Op.23) in F sharp minor
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
5:57 AM
Morawetz, Oskar (1917-2007)
Clarinet Sonata
Joaquín Valdepeñas (clarinet), Patricia Parr (piano)
6:07 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Zlaty kolovrat (The Golden Spinning Wheel), symphonic poem (Op.109)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b06pxjr1)
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 (b06qbyzj)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with Ian Rankin
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... tangos'. Rob explores this fiery and sensual dance form, which originated in South America in the late 19th century. Throughout the week Rob shares works that highlight the wit, passion and full-on Latin temperament of the dance, with featured composers including Niels Gade, Albeniz, Stravinsky, and Carlos Gardel, the great tango writer of the 20th century who did so much to popularise the form.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards
10am
This week's guest is the crime novelist Ian Rankin. Best known as the creator of the Inspector Rebus series, Ian has written books that have been translated into over twenty languages and are bestsellers around the world. His latest novel in the John Rebus series, 'Even Dogs in the Wild', was released this month. Ian will be talking about his writing career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, every day at
10am.
10.30am
Rob places Music in Time as he highlights the Modern in Messiaen's use of recurring melodic patterns and birdsong in his Liturgie de cristal.
11am
Rob's Artist of the Week is Manfred Honeck, a maestro with the power to make magic with a musical phrase and summon a colossal range of dynamics, and who, for Rob, is one of the greatest conductors alive today. Throughout the week Rob features Honeck together with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in acclaimed recordings of music by the great Romantics, Mahler, Bruckner and Richard Strauss, as well as Verdi and Johann Strauss II.
Bruckner
Symphony No.4 in E flat major 'Romantic'
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b06pxl62)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Rise of the Oratorio
Donald Macleod recounts how Handels rivalry with the Opera of the Nobility drove the composer to produce his own glorious season of opera and oratorio.
Overture: Deborah:
The King's Consort
Robert King, conductor
Alcina (extract from Act 2)
Joyce DiDonato, soprano (Alcina)
Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis, conductor
Organ Concerto in G major, Op 4 No 1
Paul Nicholson, organ
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor
Sweet bird, that shuns't the noise of folly (L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)
Gillian Webster, soprano
Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh, conductor.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b06pxmhs)
London Resounding
Episode 3
London Resounding. In the third of four concerts at LSO St Lukes featuring music from some of the influential composers who lived and worked in London in the 17th and 18th centuries, viol consort Fretwork perform works by Hume, Lawes, Gibbons and Purcell.
Presented by Katie Derham
Gibbons: Pavan and Galliard in 6 parts
W Lawes: Consort Set in F for 6 viols
Hume: Life and Death
Gibbons: Fantasies in 6 parts Nos 1 and 2
Purcell: Fantasies in 4 parts Nos 7 and 11; In nomine in 6 parts
Gibbons: Go from My Window
Fretwork.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b06pxmhv)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Herold - Le Pre aux Clercs
with Katie Derham. Today's opera matinee is a recording from the National Opera House in Wexford of Hérold's 1832 three-act opera, Le Pré aux Clercs. It was his final triumph - he died a few weeks later, aged 42 - and tells the story of three women and their love intrigues. It had over 1500 performances in Paris alone in the 19th century.
2pm
Ferdinand Hérold Le Pré aux clercs (The Clerks' Meadow)
Marguerite de Valois ..... Marie Lenormand (mezzo-soprano)
Isabelle Montbal ..... Marie-Eve Munger (soprano)
Nicette ..... Magali Simard Galdès (soprano)
Baron de Mergy .... Nico Darmanin (tenor)
Comte de Comminges ..... Dominique Coté (baritone)
Cantarelli ..... Eric Huchet (baritone)
Girot ..... Tomislav Lavoie (bass)
L'exempt du guet ..... Jan Capinski (bass)
Le Brigadier ..... Felix Kemp,
Archer 1 ..... David Howes
Archer 2 ..... Sheldon Baxter
Wexford Festival Chorus
Wexford Festival Orchestra
Jean-Luc Tingaud (conductor)
15.50
Braunfels: Symphonic Variations on a French Children's Song
BBC Concert Orchestra
Johannes Wildner (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b06pxmv8)
Arcadia Quartet, Zuill Bailey, Ermonela Jaho
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. Guests include Arcadia Quartet playing Haydn and Beethoven, soprano Ermonela Jaho discussing Leoncavallo's opera Zaza, and cellist Zuill Bailey playing Rachmaninov.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b06pxl62)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b06pxn6f)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Mozart, Mendelssohn
Live from Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by Julian Rachlin, play Mozart and Mendelssohn.
Mozart: Overture, The Marriage of Figaro
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
8.15: Interval
8.35
Mozart: Symphony No.35 in D 'Haffner'
Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 in A 'Italian'
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Julian Rachlin, violin/director
Mozart's Marriage of Figaro overture opens an evening of celebratory music, including Mendelssohn's sun-drenched Italian Symphony. Julian Rachlin, meanwhile, picks up his violin and stars as both conductor and soloist in Mendelssohn's hugely popular Violin Concerto - bittersweet romance and sparkling fun, all rolled up into one irresistibly tuneful masterpiece.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b06ptgk2)
2015 Festival
Rule-Making and Rule-Breaking for Women and Men
Do men and women have different attitudes to rule breaking? With changing ideas about gender, can we say that our minds are wired differently? Helen Fraser, head of the Girls' Day School Trust said recently that 'being the compliant girl is never going to get you anywhere'. What are the rules today for relationships and getting on in society? Is it time to throw out received ideas and challenge the advice given to young people?
Free Thinking presenter Rana Mitter chairs a debate that takes the shape of a rule-breaking game show. Our panellists are:
Sheila Hancock - actress and author of three non-fiction books and a novel Miss Carter's War
Journalist Bim Adewunmi - culture editor at Buzz Feed UK, who writes often about popular culture and how it intersects with gender and race
Neil Bartlett, theatre director and author whose most recent novel is The Disappearance Boy
Jonny Mitchell, the headmaster in Channel 4's Educating Yorkshire and now the Head of the Co-operative Academy of Leeds
Recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead and first broadcast in November 2015.
Producer: Zahid Warley.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b06pxnjq)
Signs and Mythologies - The Significance of Roland Barthes
Andrew Gallix
An encounter as a teenager with Roland Barthes and an orange moped inspired the magazine editor Andrew Gallix, who now teaches at the Sorbonne, with a fascination for the ideas of the great French theorist. In this week of essays celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth, Andrew reflects on what Barthes meant by 'The Death of the Author'.
Across the week five authors write about Barthes' significance to them and discuss the influence the maverick cultural philosopher has had upon their own work. Over the week they create a picture of a literary figure whose writing was fun, accessible and is still deeply influential on the way we look at the world. Barthes's literary output was not only prolific, but also eclectic. During the course of his life his thinking influenced the development of theories of structuralism, semiotics, social theory, design, anthropology and post structuralism. A powerful blast of fresh air in post war cultural thought, his carefully argued, accessible and sometimes mischievous examinations of philosophical, cultural and social ideas continue to influence contemporary writers and thinkers.
An eclectic group of essayists celebrate the range of influence his writing has had. Andrew Hussey examines Barthes' impact in Europe in the 1960s. Other essayists over the week include design historian Penny Sparke, film journalist Nick James, the editor of 3 A.M. Magazine and teacher at the Sorbonne in Paris, Andrew Gallix, and cultural historian Michael Wood.
Producer: Frank Stirling at Unique.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b06pxp17)
Late Junction Sessions
Matona and Aine O'Dwyer
Nick Luscombe's varied selection tonight includes this month's Late Junction Session: from Zanzibar, Matona plays oud and violin, with Irish harpist Aine O'Dwyer, who also plays organ and guitar for this unique encounter, the first time they had recorded together. Plus, tracks by Welsh composer and performer Huw M, London psychedelic rock band Teeth of the Sea, videogame music from Austin Wintory and an organ piece by J.S. Bach.
FRIDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2015
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b06pxjfw)
The Harmony of the Spheres
John Shea presents a concert of early and contemporary choral music from the Swedish Radio Chorus.
12:31 AM
Bingen, Hildegard von (1098-1179)
O ignis spiritus
Swedish Radio Chorus, Peter Dijkstra (director)
12:39 AM
Rore, Cipriano de (c.1515-1565)
Kyrie and Gloria - from 'Missa Praeter rerum seriem'
Swedish Radio Chorus, Peter Dijkstra (director)
12:50 AM
Glass, Philip (b.1937) arr. Meijer, Lavinia (b.1983)
Metamorphoses Two ('Flowing'), arr. for harp
Lisa Viguier Vallgarda (harp)
12:58 AM
Palmér, Catharina (b. 1963); text: James Joyce (1882-1941)
Strings in the Air Above
Swedish Radio Chorus, Peter Dijkstra (director)
1:07 AM
Sandström, Jan (b.1954) [text from 'The Song of Songs' in the Bible]
Surge aquilo (1998)
Swedish Radio Chorus, Peter Dijkstra (director)
1:14 AM
Rore, Cipriano de (c.1515-1565)
Sanctus and Benedictus - from 'Missa Praeter rerum seriem'
Swedish Radio Chorus, Peter Dijkstra (director)
1:19 AM
Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992)
O sacrum convivium
Swedish Radio Chorus, Peter Dijkstra (director)
1:26 AM
Glass, Philip (b. 1937) arr. Meijer, Lavinia (b. 1983)
Metamorphoses Four ('Flowing'), arr. for harp
Lisa Viguier Vallgarda (harp)
1:33 AM
Rore, Cipriano de (c.1515-1565)
Agnus Dei - from 'Missa Praeter rerum seriem'
Swedish Radio Chorus, Peter Dijkstra (director)
1:41 AM
Jackson, Gabriel (b. 1962)
Ave regina caelorum
Mats Bergström (electric guitar), Lisa Carlioth (soprano), Swedish Radio Chorus, Peter Dijkstra (director)
1:56 AM
Zach, Ján (b. 1967)
....Lie Back (for String Quartet)
Moyzes Quartet: Stanislav Mucha & František Torok (violins), Alexander Lakatoš (viola), Ján Slávik (cello)
2:13 AM
Rota, Nino (1911-1979)
Trio for clarinet, bassoon (orig. cello) and piano
Embla: Bente Stenger Gram (clarinet), Christina Andersen (bassoon), Berit Juul Rasmussen (piano)
2:31 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Symphony No.7 in C sharp minor (Op.131)
Orchestre Métropolitain, Agnes Grossmann (conductor)
3:03 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Concerto for violin and orchestra (Op.64) in E minor
Hilary Hahn (violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Hugh Wolff (conductor)
3:30 AM
Förster, Kaspar (1616-1673)
Beatus vir (KBPJ.3) for soprano, alto, bass, 2 violins & basso continuo
Marta Boberska (soprano), Kai Wessel (countertenor), Grzegorz Zychowicz (bass), Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble
3:39 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Ballade No.1 in G minor (Op.23)
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
3:48 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Premiere rapsodie for clarinet and orchestra
Jozef Luptacik (Clarinet), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Ludovit Rajter (Conductor)
3:57 AM
Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957]
Rakastava (The Lover) (Op.14) arr. for soprano, baritone and chorus
Pirkko Törnqvist-Paakkanen (soprano), Jouni Kuorikoski (baritone), Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, Eric-Olof Söderström (conductor)
4:04 AM
Eller, Heino (1887-1970)
3 Pieces (from 'Five Pieces for Strings')
Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vallo Jarvi (conductor)
4:17 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
3 pieces from 'Morceaux de Salon' (Op.10)
Duncan Gifford (piano)
4:31 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto for four keyboards in A minor (BWV.1065)
Bruno Lukk, Peep Lassmann, Eugen Kelder, Valdur Roots (pianos), Estonian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Paul Mägi (conductor)
4:42 AM
Bertali, Antonio (1605-1669)
Sonata Prima à 3 for two recorders, bass viol and bass continuo
Le Nouveau Concert: Frederic de Roos and Patrick Denecker (recorders), Sophie Watillon (bass viol), Guy Penson (harpsichord)
4:49 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Mentre ti lascio, o figlia - aria for bass and orchestra (K.513)
Robert Holl (bass), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
4:58 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Sonatina, Romance and Menuet - from Six petites pieces faciles (Op.3 Nos.1, 2 and 3)
Antra Viksne (piano) & Normunds Viksne (piano)
5:05 AM
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Ancient Airs and Dances - Suite No.2
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5:23 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph [1732-1809]
String Quartet in D major (Op.64, No.5) (Hob.III.63) "Lark"
Bartók Quartet
5:41 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
5 Rückert-Lieder
Jadwiga Rappe (alto), Ewa Poblocka (piano)
6:00 AM
Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992)
Theme and Variations
Peter Oundjian (violin), William Tritt (piano)
6:09 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No.35 in D major (K.385), "Haffner"
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset (Conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b06pxjrk)
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 (b06qbyqt)
Friday - Rob Cowan with Ian Rankin
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... tangos'. Rob explores this fiery and sensual dance form, which originated in South America in the late 19th century. Throughout the week Rob shares works that highlight the wit, passion and full-on Latin temperament of the dance, with featured composers including Niels Gade, Albeniz, Stravinsky, and Carlos Gardel, the great tango writer of the 20th century who did so much to popularise the form.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge. Listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related place.
10am
This week's guest is the crime novelist Ian Rankin. Best known as the creator of the Inspector Rebus series, Ian has written books that have been translated into over twenty languages and are bestsellers around the world. His latest novel in the John Rebus series, 'Even Dogs in the Wild', was released this month. Ian will be talking about his writing career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, every day at
10am.
10.30am
Rob places Music in Time as he heads back to the Baroque to examine the use of word-painting to illustrate a scene in Bach's St Matthew Passion.
11am
Rob's Artist of the Week is Manfred Honeck, a maestro with the power to make magic with a musical phrase and summon a colossal range of dynamics, and who, for Rob, is one of the greatest conductors alive today. Throughout the week Rob features Honeck together with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in acclaimed recordings of music by the great Romantics, Mahler, Bruckner and Richard Strauss, as well as Verdi and Johann Strauss II.
Braunfels
Benedictus (Grosse Messe, Op.37)
Simone Schneider (soprano)
Stuttgart State Opera Chorus
Stuttgart State Orchestra
Manfred Honeck (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b06pxl64)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
The Charitable Will Be Remembered
Handel's most enduring work, Messiah, debuts in Ireland, and the composer becomes involved with Thomas Coram's Foundling Hospital.
Also featuring Handel's tribute to the last reigning British monarch to lead his troops into battle. Presented by Donald Macleod.
I know that my redeemer liveth (Messiah)
Caroline Sampson, soprano
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor
The Dettingen Anthem
Choir of Westminster Abbey
English Concert
Simon Preston, conductor
Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove (Alceste)
Paul Elliott, tenor
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood, conductor
Anthem for the Foundling Hospital
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Academy of Ancient Music,
Simon Preston, conductor.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b06pxmhx)
London Resounding
Episode 4
London Resounding. In the last of this week's concerts at LSO St Lukes featuring music from some of the influential composers who lived and worked in London in the 17th and 18th centuries, Musica ad Rhenum perform chamber music with flute by Haydn, Clementi, JC Bach and Graf.
Presented by Katie Derham
Haydn: Trio in G, HobXV/15
Clementi: Sonata in C (La chasse)
JC Bach: Sonata in C minor, Op 17 No 2
Graf: Grand Sonata in G
Musica ad Rhenum
Jed Wentz (flute/director).
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b06pxmhz)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales Live in Cardiff
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Eduardo Portal perform live in Cardiff as part of Afternoon on 3's Southern Hemisphere season. Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas. Then back to the studio with Ian Skelly for music performed by the BBC Singers.
14.00 - LIVE
Marquez: Danzon No 2
Luis Cluzeau-Mortet: Llanuras
Lalo Schifrin: Concierto Caribeno
Matthew Featherstone (flute)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Eduardo Portal (conductor)
14.50
Interval music Gershwin American in Paris
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Eric Stern (conductor)
15.15 - LIVE
Revueltas: La Noche de los Mayas
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Eduardo Portal (conductor)
15.50
Penderecki: Agnus Dei
Gorecki: Amen
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b06pxmvb)
Friday - Sean Rafferty
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music, chat and arts news.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b06pxl64)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b06pxn6h)
London Philharmonic Orchestra - Liadov, Prokofiev, Sibelius
Live from the Royal Festival Hall. Susanna Mälkki makes her conducting debut with the London Philharmonic and she's joined by the brilliant 22-year-old pianist Beatrice Rana. A silver medallist in the 2013 Van Cliburn competition, Beatrice Rana already has a major recording contract and is a current BBC New Generation Artist. She tackles Prokofiev's modernistic Second Concerto, one of the most technically demanding concertos in the entire repertoire. The concert opens with a fragment from the composer who famously opened a door for the young Stravinsky when he failed to deliver a score to Diaghilev and his fledgling Ballets russes.
Liadov
From the Apocalypse Op 66
Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op. 16
Beatrice Rana (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki (conductor)
approx.
8.20pm Interval
8.40
Sibelius: Symphony No.1 in E minor, Op. 3
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki (conductor).
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b06pxp3j)
Patti Smith, Grayson Perry, Holly Pester, Anthony Horowitz
Where do you find the permission to be creative? The Verb aims to find out with Patti Smith, Grayson Perry, Anthony Horowitz and Holly Pester.
Patti Smith has just published her second volume of memoir 'M Train' (Bloomsbury), a book that follows Patti around New York as she writes, reads and drinks coffee.
Grayson Perry's recent exhibition at the Turner Contemporary in Margate 'Provincial Punk' examined his interests in contemporary Britain from class and taste to war.
Anthony Horowitz has just published his second James Bond novel 'Trigger Mortis' (Orion). He explains where he gets the permission to take on another writer's most famous character.
The poet and sound artist Holly Pester examines the phenomenon of 'vocal fry' in a special commission for The Verb.
Producer: Faith Lawrence.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b06pxnjs)
Signs and Mythologies - The Significance of Roland Barthes
Michael Wood
The historian and broadcaster Michael Wood concludes this series of essays celebrating the 20th-century French philosopher Roland Barthes by trying to define him. Semiologist, existentialist, writer on art, design, thought, popular culture, photography, film - even Barthes himself was decidedly inconsistent in his attempts to define himself.
Across the week five authors have been writing about Barthes' significance to them and discussing the effect the maverick cultural philosopher has had upon their own work. Over the week they've created a picture of a literary figure whose writing was fun, accessible and deeply influential on the way we look at the world. So how should we think of him? Or does he defy categorisation? Barthes' literary output was eclectic. During the course of his life his thinking influenced the development of theories of structuralism, semiotics, social theory, design, anthropology and post structuralism. A powerful blast of fresh air in post war cultural thought, his carefully argued, accessible and sometimes mischievous examinations of philosophical, cultural and social ideas continue to influence contemporary writers and thinkers.
An eclectic group of essayists celebrate the range and breadth of his writing. Other essayists over the week include broadcaster and design historian Penny Sparke, film journalist Nick James and historian and broadcaster Michael Wood.
Producer: Frank Stirling at Unique.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b06pxp1c)
Lopa Kothari with The East Pointers in Session
Lopa Kothari with new music from across the globe, plus a live studio session with Canadian band The East Pointers.
The East Pointers came together on Prince Edward Island in Canada's Atlantic Maritimes. Cousins Tim Chaisson (fiddle) and Koady Chaisson (banjo), who were born on the island, found themselves joined in regular informal kitchen parties by guitarist Jake Charron - it wasn't long before they decided to make a go of a band. They offer a fresh, youthful take on the area's traditional music.
Plus more from the World Music Archive and BBC Introducing.