Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Handel's oratorio Judas Maccabaeus from the 2012 BBC Proms, featuring tenor John Mark Ainsley in the title role.
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, John Mark Ainsley (Judas Maccabaeus), Christine Rice (Israelitish Man), Rosemary Joshua (Israelitish Woman), Alastair Miles (Simon/Eupolemus), Laurence Cummings (conductor)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, John Mark Ainsley (Judas Maccabaeus), Christine Rice (Israelitish Man), Rosemary Joshua (Israelitish Woman), Alastair Miles (Simon/Eupolemus), Tim Mead (Messenger) Laurence Cummings (conductor)
4 works [1. The Court's Lady; 2. Northern Nancy; 3. Greensleeves; 4. Excuse Me]
3 Songs: Liebesbotschaft ("Rauschendes Bächlein"), song for voice & piano (Schwanengesang) (D.957 No.1); Heidenröslein (D.257 Op.3 No.3); Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen ("Ruh'n in Frieden alle Seelen") (D.343)
Lembit Orgse (harpsichord), Estonian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Paul Mägi (conductor)
Maxim Rysanov (viola), Ekaterina Apekisheva (piano), Kristina Blaumane (cello).
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
My favourite... character dances. Many classical ballets incorporate stylized representations of traditional folk or national dances, and throughout the week Sarah chooses a handful of her favourite character dances from evergreen ballets including Swan Lake, Don Quixote, and Coppelia.
Take part in today's challenge: two pieces of music are played together - can you work out what they are?
Sarah's guest is the broadcaster and former England cricket captain, David Gower. Famed as one of England's greatest batsmen, David was one of the most capped and highest scoring players of his time and led England to victory during the 1985 Ashes. Since retiring from professional cricket he has forged an equally successful career in the commentary box. David will be reminiscing about his time as cricket's golden boy, talking about his commentating career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, including works by Byrd, Bach and Beethoven, every day at
Sarah places Music in Time as she explores Debussy's use of the whole tone scale to push at the limits of tonality in his piano prelude Voiles.
Sarah's artist of the week is the Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst, one of the best wind instrumentalists of his generation. He has performed with some of the finest orchestras from around the world, as well as being a keen recitalist and chamber musician. Throughout the week Sarah shares Fröst's interpretations of classics of the clarinet repertoire including Crusell's Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Saint-Saëns's Sonata in E flat major, Brahms's Quintet in B minor, Debussy's Premiere rapsodie and Mozart's Concerto.
He was called the Michelangelo of music, and was one of the most prolific and charismatic musical figures of the nineteenth century, this week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Anton Rubinstein.
Rubinstein described himself as a Court Jester, referring to his work for the Grand Duchess Yelena Pavlovna. He was employed to entertain at her court, including accompanying singers and chamber musicians. One of the chamber works he composed around this time, 1857, was his second Cello Sonata. It was in discussions held at a villa in Nice belonging to the Grand Duchess, that the Russian Music Society was founded, and it held its first classes in 1860.
In between a busy performing and composing schedule, Rubinstein was also working on another opera at this time, Feramors, although he was keen to do more for music in Russia. Rubinstein came up with the idea of founding the St Petersburg Conservatoire, although to begin with it had to be called a school. He became its first Director and often had to stand up to the Grand Duchess, who as one of the principal funders thought she should have more of a say in how the conservatoire was run. Causing much pleasure for his critics, the Nationalist composers, Rubinstein resigned from the conservatoire in 1867. It was during this busy period of the 1860s, whilst still working hard as Director of the Conservatoire, that not only did Rubinstein get married, but he also composed his most frequently recorded piano concerto, the Fourth, Opus 70.
The Brentano Quartet bring a programme of great contrast to the East Neuk Festival in Fife. Mendelssohn's youthful and sunny first quartet written when he was barely out of his teenage years is paired with Britten's third and final quartet, a work of incredible contrasts and colours considered to be one of his finest masterpieces. Its final movement entitled 'La Serenissima' quotes directly from his opera 'Death in Venice'. It was written while the composer was in Venice and is a meditation on mortality.
Ian Skelly continues a week of Afternoon on 3 showcasing highlights of recent concerts given by the San Francisco Symphony. Today, the renowned Finnish conductor Osmo Vanska conducts the orchestra in Sibelius's 6th Symphony, and the German violinist Christian Tetzlaff joins the orchestra with its Music Director, Michael Tilson Thomas, in Bartok's 2nd Violin Concerto.
Royal Academy of Music Student Piano Trio, Unexpected Opera and Martin James Bartlett
Suzy Klein presents, with live music from Unexpected Opera and Martin James Bartlett.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Alexander Vedernikov with Russian music: Shostakovich's 6th Symphony and Schnittke's Viola Concerto with Lawrence Power. Recorded at the Barbican.
Haydn: Symphony No. 103 in E flat major H.
Interval: Featuring Mahler's Piano Quartet in A minor and celebrated bass singer Boris Christoff with Mussorgsky's Cradle Song.
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 in B minor Op.54
Alexander Vedernikov promises to ignite this Russian programme, featuring virtuoso Lawrence Power in Schnittke's powerful Viola Concerto. Shostakovich's unusual Sixth Symphony (1939) with its vast, brooding Adagio followed by two ferociously fast movements, shows the twin influences of Mahler and Mussorgsky, while Schnittke's epic concerto, mixing popular song with spiritual profundity, reveals him as heir to the same traditions. Continuing this season's Haydn theme, tonight's concert open with the dramatic 'Drumroll' Symphony, with its dark inflections of the Dies Irae.
Philip Dodd interviews John Irving - author of novels including The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany. His new book is called Avenue of Mysteries and imagines the life of a crippled street-child from Mexico, Juan Diego, and his sister Lupe, who can read minds. The action cuts between Diego's present as a globe trotting, best selling writer visiting the Philippines, and his memories of his childhood in Mexico and working at a circus.
Main Image: Philip Dodd (lhs) and John Irving (rhs) in the Free Thinking studio.
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy untangles the fascinating maths hidden beneath the surface of some of our great contemporary and historical works of art. In this edition, he starts with composer Philip Glass.
Maths and music are often coupled together: rhythm, after all, is about counting and harmony is about the numerical relationships between notes. But the mathematical complexity of certain pieces of music, notably by the composer Philip Glass, goes far beyond these basic connections. Glass is the secret mathematician whom Marcus du Sautoy has chosen to focus on in his essay on music. From one of his earliest and simplest compositions 1+1 to his great opera Einstein on the Beach, Glass employs a mathematical method he calls the additive process to compose his work. But Marcus believes that this highly mathematical creative process doesn't produce cold, unemotional music. In fact it appeals to an innate tendency in our brains to seek out and spot patterns.
Glass is not the only secret musical mathematician to feature in Marcus's essay. He also talks about the work of Olivier Messiaen, Arnold Schoenberg and Indian tabla players of the eighth century. Maths pervades the world of music: As Stravinsky once said "the musician should find in mathematics a study as useful to him as the learning of another language is to a poet. Mathematics swims seductively just below the surface.".
Mara Carlyle with songs from Emiliana Torrini and Mariem Hassan, music for four theremins by Percy Grainger, and Django Bates's 1995 recording of New York, New York.
THURSDAY 04 FEBRUARY 2016
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b06yrs01)
Schoenberg's Gurrelieder in Poland
Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Schoenberg's cantata Gurrelieder from the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall in Poland.
12:31 AM
Schoenberg, Arnold [1874-1951]
Gurrelieder for soloists, chorus and orchestra - Part 1
Tove ..... Katarina Dalayman (soprano)
Waldemar ..... Andreas Schager (tenor)
Waldtaube (Wood Dove) ..... Agnieszka Rehlis (mezzo-soprano)
Klaus Narr ..... Mateusz Zajdel (tenor)
Peasant ..... Stephan Klemm (bass)
Narrator ..... Barbara Wysocka
Warsaw Philharmonic Chorus; Henryk Wojnarowski (director);
Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Chorus; Violetta Bielecka (director);
National Forum of Music Chorus, Wroclaw; Agnieszka Franków-Zelazny (director);
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)
1:33 AM
Schoenberg, Arnold [1874-1951]
Gurrelieder for soloists, chorus and orchestra - Parts 2 & 3
Performers as listed above
2:24 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Impromptu in G flat major (Op.51)
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)
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 coelorum 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
Mantzaros, Nicolaos [1795-1872]
Symphony No.1 (di genere Orientale) in A minor
National Symphony Orchestra of Greek Radio, Andreas Pylarinos (conductor)
4:41 AM
Wieniawski, Henryk (1835-1880)
Polonaise in A major for violin & piano (Op.21)
Piotr Plawner (violin), Andrzej Guz (piano)
4:50 AM
Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672)
Ich danke dem Herrn, SWV.34; Ich freu' mich des, das mir geredt ist, SWV.26
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Concerto Copenhagen, Paul Hillier (conductor)
5:00 AM
Bellini, Vincenzo (1801-1835), arr. unknown
Concerto in E flat for oboe (arranged for trumpet)
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
5:08 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
5 Esquisses for piano (Op.114)
Rajja Kerppo (piano)
5:17 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in G minor RV.104 (La Notte) for flute (or violin), 2 vlns, bassoon & bc
Giovanni Antonini (flute/director), Il Giardino Armonico
5:27 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Schicksalslied for chorus and orchestra (Op.54)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir, Marko Munih (conductor)
5:42 AM
Sjögren, Emil (1853-1918)
Sonata for cello and piano (Op.58) in A major
Mats Rondin (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
6:00 AM
Sanz, Gaspar [1640-1710]
4 pieces from "Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española"
Xavier Diaz-Latorre (performing on the Guitarra dels Lleons - The Lion Guitar c.1700)
6:17 AM
Enescu, George (1881-1955)
Romanian Rhapsody No.1 in A major (Op.11 No.1)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b06yry1k)
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 (b06yryjc)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with David Gower
9am
My favourite... character dances. Many classical ballets incorporate stylized representations of traditional folk or national dances, and throughout the week Sarah chooses a handful of her favourite character dances from evergreen ballets including Swan Lake, Don Quixote and Coppelia.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Sarah's guest is the broadcaster and former England cricket captain David Gower. Famed as one of England's greatest batsmen, David was one of the most capped and highest scoring players of his time and led England to victory during the 1985 Ashes. Since retiring from professional cricket he has forged an equally successful career in the commentary box. David will be reminiscing about his time as cricket's golden boy, talking about his commentating career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, including works by Byrd, Bach and Beethoven, every day at
10am.
10:30
Sarah places Music in Time as she turns to the Baroque and the master of the fugue JS Bach, showcasing his Fugue in G minor BWV578.
11am
Sarah's artist of the week is the Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst, one of the best wind instrumentalists of his generation. He has performed with some of the finest orchestras from around the world, as well as being a keen recitalist and chamber musician. Throughout the week Sarah shares Fröst's interpretations of classics of the clarinet repertoire including Crusell's Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Saint-Saëns's Sonata in E flat major, Brahms's Quintet in B minor, Debussy's Premiere rapsodie and Mozart's Concerto.
Debussy
Premiere rapsodie
Martin Fröst (clarinet).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b06yryy0)
Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)
Touring the USA
He was called the Michelangelo of music, and was one of the most prolific and charismatic musical figures of the nineteenth century, this week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Anton Rubinstein.
Rubinstein during the 1870s was busy touring Europe as a concert pianist. Saint-Saëns said of him that he was a lion at the keyboard, who stroked the keyboard in sheathed claws. Back in Russia he was becoming increasingly successful as a composer and performer and was awarded the Order of St Vladimir and then, later, elevated to the hereditary nobility. It was during this period that Rubinstein was working on his orchestral picture of a knight, Don Quixote.
Soon Rubinstein would find himself on tour in the USA, giving over two hundred concerts. Following this he made a tour of the UK, where British audiences shouted their appreciation for him. During his time in London he performed for Queen Victoria, and also met George Eliot, Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde and Sir John Millais. Returning home to his Peterhof villa, with his popularity in Russia at an all-time high Rubinstein set about working on another symphony, his Fourth, Opus 95, titled the 'Dramatic'.
Piano Quartet in C major Op 66 (Allegro vivace)
Leslie Howard, piano
Rita Manning, violin
Morgan Goff, viola
Justin Pearson, cello
Don Quixote Op 87
Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra
George Hanson, conductor
The Demon (Act II, Romance: On the oceans of the air)
René Pape, bass
Staatskapelle Dresden
Sebastian Weigle, conductor
Album de Peterhof Op 75 No 12 (Scherzo in F major)
Joseph Banowetz, piano
Symphony No 4 in D minor Op 95 "Dramatic" (Largo - Allegro con fuoco)
State Symphony Orchestra of Russia
Igor Golovchin, conductor
Producer Luke Whitlock.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b061fvdc)
East Neuk Festival 2015
Alexander Sitkovetsky, Maxim Rysanov
Alexander Sitkovetsky and Maxim Rysanov perform a range of old and new repertoire for violin and viola duo including convivial duos by Mozart, the great folk-based duos of Bartok contrasted with arrangements of Bach's two-part inventions - originally for keyboard - and finishing with the virtuosic arrangement by Johan Halvorsen of Handel's Passacaglia from his Suite in G minor.
Mozart: Duo in G, K423
Bach/Bartok: Duos and inventions
Handel-Halvorsen: Passacaglia
Maxim Rysanov, viola
Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b06yrzcj)
Puccini's Il Trittico
Puccini - Il Tabarro
Presented by Ian Skelly.
Across the next three Thursday Opera matinees, there's another chance to hear Puccini's Il Trittico from the Royal Opera House production in 2011. Puccini's triple bill comprises three contrasting one-act operas encompassing lust, murder, faith, romance and comedy. In Il Tabarro, Eva-Maria Westbroek sings the role of Giorgetta, whose affair with a deckhand provokes her husband to murder. Next week - Suor Angelica.
Puccini: Il Tabarro
Michele ..... Lucio Gallo (Baritone)
Luigi ..... Aleksandrs Antonenko (Tenor)
Tinca ..... Alan Oke (Tenor)
Talpa ..... Jeremy White (Bass)
Giorgetta ..... Eva-Maria Westbroek (Soprano)
Venditore ..... Ji-Min Park (Tenor)
Frugola ..... Irina Mishura (Mezzo-soprano)
Royal Opera House Orchestra
Royal Opera House Chorus
Conductor Antonio Pappano
Followed by more performances by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra:
3pm
Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.63
Gil Shaham (violin)
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
3.30pm
CPE Bach
Symphony No.4 in G, Wq.180
San Francisco Symphony
Ton Koopman (conductor)
3.45pm
Prokofiev
Symphony No.3
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b06ys0yb)
Richard Moore, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, Villiers Quartet, Simon McBurney
Suzy Klein presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. BBC Introducing Classical Artist, bass baritone Richard Moore, performs live in the studio. The Villiers Quartet talk about their Radcliffe Chamber Music Residency at the University of Oxford, and play works from their forthcoming concert at the Holywell Music Room in Oxford. Actor Simon McBurney chats about directing Mozart's The Magic Flute at English National Opera. Plus, conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla on her appointment as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's new Music Director.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b06yryy0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b06ys5pg)
RNCM Brass Band Festival 2016
Tom Redmond presents performances from the Grimethorpe Colliery Band and the Cory Band at this year's Brass Band Festival at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
This year the festival pays tribute to the creativity of John McCabe (1939 - 2015), whose brass band works are among the most highly regarded in the brass band repertoire. A retrospective of the complete brass band music of Joseph Horovitz honours this distinguished composer and teacher in his 90th year. Both composers have works featured in tonight's concerts.
Part 1: Grimethorpe Colliery Band, conducted by Robert Childs with Jamie Smith and Alexis Demailly (cornets)*
John McCabe: Salamander
Joseph Horovitz: Concerto Classico*
Nigel Clarke: Further Adventures of the Same (first performance)
INTERVAL
During the Interval Tom Redmond discusses the role of the brass band in the 21st century with four key figures from the modern brass band world.
Part 2: Cory Band, conducted by Philip Harper
John McCabe: Images
Alexander Comitas: Audita Tremendi (first performance)
Gustav Holst: A Moorside Suite
Photo credit: John Stirzaker ARPS.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b06yshym)
Joseph Crawhall, Madame Bovary, The James Plays
Anne McElvoy profiles the painter Joseph Crawhall (1861-1913). Born in Northumberland, he exhibited alongside Degas and Whistler and has been credited as the leader of the young radical Scottish painters The Glasgow Boys. His father was also an artist who published "A Beuk o' Newcassell Sangs Collected by Joseph Crawhall" in 1888 - a pictorial book illustrating the lyrics and music with woodcuts. Anne will be joined in her quest by the director of the Fleming Collection in London, James Knox, where a new Crawhall show has opened and by the art critic, Bill Feaver.
Anne will also be hearing from the director, Gemma Bodinetz who with Peepolykus is staging a comic version of Madame Bovary at the Liverpool Everyman and from Laurie Sansom, who's directing a revival of Rona Munro's acclaimed trilogy of James plays. And in the week that sees the publication of a life of the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, Matthew Parris discusses the art of political biography.
Joseph Crawhall: Masterworks from The Burrell Collection which runs from 4 February - 12 March 2016 is on at the The Fleming Collection in London and it's the first time in 25 years that an exhibition of his his works is on show in London.
Rona Munro's James Plays are on at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre from February 3rd to 13th and then the UK and international tour stops in Glasgow, Inverness, Newcastle, Salford, Birmingham, Leicester and Plymouth
Madame Bovary performed by Peepolykus is touring. Liverpool Everyman 5th to 27th February and then on to the Nuffield Theatre Southampton, Bristol Old Vic, Royal & Derngate, Northampton.
Producer: Zahid Warley
Image Credit: The Flower Shop, by Joseph Crawhall c.1894-1900. The Burrell Collection (c) CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b06ys60j)
The Secret Mathematician
Literature
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy untangles the fascinating maths hidden beneath the surface of some of our great contemporary and historical works of art. In this edition, he explores literature.
Marcus du Sautoy reveals that writers, just like musicians and visual artists, have found ways to use maths to structure their writing. Not only can you find mathematical ideas discussed in books such as Ian McEwan's Solar or Bonnie Greer's Entropy; but you can also find maths in the structure of many famous literary works, notably the recent Booker winner The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, whose chapters are each half the length of the previous one, causing the pace of the novel to accelerate towards the end.
Marcus's desert island book is The Library of Babel by the secret mathematician Jorge Luis Borges. Marcus will explain why this story is a work of mathematical as well as literary genius.
Closing his essay on literature, Marcus will also give what, in all mathematical probability, is the first broadcast rendition of a Raymond Queneau sonnet - a sonnet constructed by randomly selecting each of the 14 lines from 10 available options. There are one hundred thousand billion different possible sonnets that can emerge from this surreal poetry-making process. This is one of them.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b06ysjmg)
Thursday - Mara Carlyle
Mara Carlyle with Maurizio Pollini's recording of Bach's Well-tempered Clavier, Hermeto Pascoal in collaboration with Miles Davis, and a tribute to film artist James Bidgood from the American electronic duo Matmos.
FRIDAY 05 FEBRUARY 2016
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b06yrs03)
Proms 2015: Vaughan Williams's Sancta Civitas and Elgar's Second Symphony
Jonathan Swain presents a BBC Proms performance of Vaughan Williams's oratorio Sancta civitas and Elgar's Second Symphony by the Hallé with conductor Sir Mark Elder.
12:31 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
The Hallé, Sir Mark Elder (conductor)
12:42 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Sancta civitas - oratorio for tenor, baritone, chorus and orchestra
Robin Tritschler (tenor), Iain Paterson (baritone), Hallé Youth Choir, Trinity Boys Choir, Hallé Choir, London Philharmonic Choir, The Hallé, Sir Mark Elder (conductor)
1:15 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Symphony No.2 in E flat major, Op.63
The Hallé, Sir Mark Elder (conductor)
2:14 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Six Épigraphes antiques
Wyneke Jordans & Leo Van Doeselaar (pianos)
2:31 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Violin Concerto No.2 (Op.63) in G minor
Anatoli Bazhenov (violin), NRCU Symphony Orchestra, Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)
2:59 AM
Zemlinsky, Alexander von (1871-1942)
Trio (Op.3)
Trio Luwigana
3:24 AM
Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Galathea; Mahnung (Galathea; Warning) - from Brettl-Lieder (Cabaret Songs)
Jean Stilwell (mezzo soprano), Robert Kortgaard (piano)
3:33 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
3 Hungarian Dances (originally for piano duet) arr. for string orchestra
I Cameristi Italiani
3:42 AM
Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847)
Allegro moderato (Op.8 No.1) (1840)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
3:47 AM
Jarzebski, Adam (1590-c.1649)
In Deo Speravit from Canzoni e concerti
Lucy van Dael, Marinette Troost (violins), Richte van der Meer, Rainer Zipperling (violas da gamba), Anthony Woodrow (violone), Viola de Hoog (cello), Mike Fentross (theorbo), Jacques Ogg (organ)
3:52 AM
Anonymous (12th century English)
Worldes blis ne last no throwe
Sequentia: Barbara Thornton (voice), Benjamin Bagby (harp)
4:04 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Komm, Jesu, komm (BWV.229)
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
4:13 AM
Pylkkänen, Tauno [1918-1980]
Suite for oboe and strings (Op.32)
Aale Lindgren (oboe), Finnish Radio Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor)
4:22 AM
Auber, Daniel-Francois-Esprit (1782-1871)
Bolero - Ballet music No.2 from La Muette de Portici (Masaniello)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Ondrej Lenard (Conductor)
4:31 AM
Delibes, Léo (1836-1891)
Fantaisie aux divins mensonges - from 'Lakmé', Act 1
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
4:37 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von [1786-1826] (arr. Piatigorsky)
Adagio and Rondo (J.115)
Dominik Plocinski (cello), Paul Arendt (piano)
4:42 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Recorder Concerto in F major (RV.442)
Michael Schneider (recorder), Camerata Köln
4:51 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Sonata in G minor (H.
16.44)
Petras Geniušas (piano)
5:02 AM
Rosetti, Antonio [c.1750-1792]
Horn Concerto (C.38) in D minor
Radek Baborak (horn), Prague Chamber Orchestra, Antonin Hradil (conductor)
5:23 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Flute Sonata in A major (BWV.1032)
Bart Kuijken (flute), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)
5:38 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille [1835-1921]
Cello Concerto No.1 (Op.33) in A minor
Luca Sulic (cello), Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Shuntaro Sato (conductor)
5:58 AM
attrib. Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759], more likely composed by Ferrandini, Giovanni Battista [c.1710-1791]
Il Pianto di Maria, cantata, HWV.234
Maria Keohane (soprano), European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
6:24 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Flammende Rose, Zierde der Erden (HWV.210), arr. oboe, violin and organ (No.9 from Deutsche Arien (orig for soprano, violin & bc)
Louise Pellerin (oboe), Hélène Plouffe (violin), Dom André Laberge (1999 Karl Wilhelm organ at the Abbey Church, Saint-Benoît-du-Lac).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b06yry1m)
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 (b06yryjg)
Friday - Sarah Walker with David Gower
9am
My favourite... character dances. Many classical ballets incorporate stylized representations of traditional folk or national dances, and throughout the week Sarah chooses a handful of her favourite character dances from evergreen ballets including Swan Lake, Don Quixote, and Coppelia.
9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related place.
10am
Sarah's guest is the broadcaster and former England cricket captain, David Gower. Famed as one of England's greatest batsmen, David was one of the most capped and highest scoring players of his time and led England to victory during the 1985 Ashes. Since retiring from professional cricket he has forged an equally successful career in the commentary box. David will be reminiscing about his time as cricket's golden boy, talking about his commentating career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, including works by Byrd, Bach and Beethoven, every day at
10am.
10:30
Sarah places Music in Time. The spotlight is on the Renaissance and Orlande de Lassus's Lagrime di San Pietro, an example of madrigali spirituali - a vocal part song with a sacred rather than secular text.
11am
Sarah's artist of the week is the Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst, one of the best wind instrumentalists of his generation. He has performed with some of the finest orchestras from around the world, as well as being a keen recitalist and chamber musician. Throughout the week Sarah shares Fröst's interpretations of classics of the clarinet repertoire including Crusell's Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Saint-Saëns's Sonata in E flat major, Brahms's Quintet in B minor, Debussy's Premiere rapsodie and Mozart's Concerto.
Mozart
Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622
Martin Fröst (clarinet/conductor)
German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b06yryy2)
Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)
A Return to the St Petersburg Conservatoire
He was called the Michelangelo of music, and was one of the most prolific and charismatic musical figures of the nineteenth century, this week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Anton Rubinstein.
During the 1880s Rubinstein was active not only as a composer and concert pianist, but also as a conductor of his own works around Europe, including the operas Nero and Feramors. His opera The Demon has been credited as the first Russian opera ever heard in Britain, performed around this time at Covent Garden. Never one to sit idle, by 1887 Rubinstein returned to the St Petersburg Conservatoire again as its Director. He didn't give up composing and by 1890 was completing a second book of solo piano works called Akrostichon.
Towards the end of Rubinstein's life there were many celebrations in Russia for his sixtieth birthday, and also for the anniversary of his first public appearance in Moscow fifty years earlier. It was during one banquet in Rubinstein's honour that he publically argued with Tchaikovsky. The Tsar awarded Rubinstein a lifetime pension of three thousand roubles, but all was not harmony in the Rubinstein household, and he eventually separated from his wife and moved to Berlin. Not long after came the death of one of his sons, and not long after that Rubinstein himself died at his house in Peterhof in 1894.The proceeds of his final concerts, performing piano works such as his Serenade Russe, were all given to charity. The Times obituary spoke of a man superb of generosity and unselfishness.
Sérénade russe in B minor
Joseph Banowetz, piano
Symphony No 5 in G minor Op 107 (Moderato assai)
George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra
Horia Andreescu, conductor
Tambourine Op 76 No 6
Olga Borodina, mezzo-soprano
Semyon Skigin, piano
Akrostichon No 2 Op 114 No 1 (Andante con moto)
Akrostichon No 2 Op 114 No 2 (Allegretto)
Akrostichon No 2 Op 114 No 3 (Andante con moto Tempo di mazurka)
Joseph Banowetz, piano
Piano Concerto No 2 in F major Op 35
Alexander Paley, piano
State Symphony Orchestra of Russia
Igor Golovchin, conductor
Producer Luke Whitlock.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b061fvdf)
East Neuk Festival 2015
Calidore Quartet, Maximilian Martin, Mhairi Lawson
Festival favourite Maximilian Martin performs Mozart's glorious Clarinet Quintet with the exciting young Calidore Quartet at this year's East Neuk Festival. The programme also includes a meditative work by Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov written for clarinet, quartet and voice. The composer describes the inspiration for Tenebrae:
I wrote Tenebrae as a consequence of witnessing two contrasting realities in a short period of time in September 2000. I was in Israel at the start of the new wave of violence that is still continuing today, and a week later I took my son to the new planetarium in New York, where we could see the Earth as a beautiful blue dot in space. I wanted to write a piece that could be listened to from different perspectives. That is, if one chooses to listen to it "from afar", the music would probably offer a "beautiful" surface but, from a metaphorically closer distance, one could hear that, beneath that surface, the music is full of pain."
Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D703
Osvaldo Golijov: Tenebrae
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A, K581
Calidore Quartet
Maximilian Martin - clarinet
Mhairi Lawson - soprano.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b06yrzcl)
San Francisco Symphony
Episode 4
Ian Skelly presents concludes a week of recent recordings by the San Francisco Symphony with music that includes Shostakovich's Concerto in C minor for piano trumpet and string orchestra, with the virtuosic French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Ton Koopman conducting Bach's cantata, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen!, with soprano Carolyn Sampson, and Britten's suite from The Prince of the Pagodas. The young pianist Daniil Trifonov finishes the week with Rachmaninov's ever-popular Variations on a Theme by Paganini.
2pm
Beethoven
Leonore Overture No.3 in C, Op.72b
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
2.15pm
Shostakovich
Concerto in C minor Op.35 for piano, trumpet and string orchestra
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
San Francisco Symphony
James Conlon (conductor)
2.40pm
JS Bach
Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen!, cantata, BWV.51
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Mark Inouye (trumpet)
San Francisco Symphony
Ton Koopman (conductor)
3pm
Traditional
Lelambatan Tabuh Pat Jagul
Gamelan Sekar Jaya
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
3.15pm
Benjamin Britten (Arr Donald Mitchell & Mervyn Cooke)
Suite from 'The Prince of the Pagodas, Op. 57'
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
4pm
Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
San Francisco Symphony
Osmo Vänska (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b06ys0yd)
Sunwook Kim, David Titterington, Marin Alsop, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Anu Komsi
Suzy Klein presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. Conductor Marin Alsop, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, and soprano Anu Komsi discuss the Changing Minds weekend at London's Southbank Centre. Pianist Sunwook Kim performs live in the studio, and talks about his forthcoming concerts, and the release of his latest CD. Plus organist David Titterington on working with Sally Beamish, before he gives the world premiere of one of her works at the Royal Festival Hall.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b06yryy2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b06ys5pl)
BBC Symphony Orchestra - Debussy, Anders Hillborg, Ravel
Live from the Barbican. Soprano Renée Fleming joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sakari Oramo. Works by Debussy, Anders Hillborg and Ravel.
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Debussy, Arr. Robin Holloway: C'est l'extase - 10 settings of Paul Verlaine (UK Premiere)
Interval: Germaine Tailleferre's Partita (Hommage a Rameau)
Anders Hillborg: The Strand Settings (UK Premiere)
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé - suite no. 2
Renée Fleming soprano
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
An evening of intoxicating sonorities starring one of the world's most celebrated sopranos, Renée Fleming. Two ballets; Debussy's sensual sylvan evocation and Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, frame two works for soprano and orchestra. Robin Holloway's luminous arrangement of the composer's Verlaine settings, C'est l'extase, was hailed as 'a revelatory exploration of Debussy's musical style' at its premiere. Anders Hillborg's bewitching Strand Settings, expressly composed for Fleming in 2013, delve into the nocturnal world of the sea and secret desire: 'At once atmospheric, elegiac and unsettling' (New York Times).
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b06ysjrp)
Telling Tales
The Verb celebrates National Storytelling week with a programme dedicated to the art of telling tales.
Ian's guests include the singer songwriter Boo Hewerdine and the storyteller Rachel Rose Reid.
Producer: Cecile Wright.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b06ys60l)
The Secret Mathematician
Secret Artist
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy untangles the fascinating maths hidden beneath the surface of some of our great contemporary and historical works of art. In this edition, Marcus relates his own route into maths and his realisation that maths is really a form of art: the creativity of maths is more important than its usefulness.
One of the first maths books that Marcus remembers reading, aged 12, was A Mathematician's Apology by GH Hardy. In it, Hardy argues that "It is not possible to justify the life of any genuine professional mathematician on the ground of the utility of his work." On the contrary, "Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics."
Marcus will talk about his life as a mathematician and the parallels between his work and that of an artist, musician or writer. Just like a novelist, he wants to tell a good story when he's formulating a mathematical proof. He wants to entertain his audience with suspense, surprise and intrigue.
Maths is like art in trying to find explanations and representations for the world we live in; it provides a language for negotiating abstract ideas. Graham Greene described GH Hardy's book as the best description of what it means to be a creative artist after the diaries of Henry James; and it seems unquestionably true that the artist and mathematician are secretly, or not so secretly, linked.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b06ysk23)
BBC Introducing: Amaraterra
Lopa Kothari presents a specially recorded BBC Introducing session from Amaraterra, a London-based group of expatriates from Salento in southern Italy, whose songs in the pizzica dance style speak of love, longing and passion. Plus a round-up of the latest new releases from around the globe.