Catriona Young presents a recital of music by Poulenc, Martinu, Dutilleux and Prokofiev with flautist Emmanuel Pahud accompanied by Eric Le Sage.
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)
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von (1644-1704) (with anonymous Introit and propria)
Gradus ad Parnassum, Concerto Palatino, Choral scholars from Wiener Hofburgkapelle, Konrad Junghänel (director)
Sebastian Philpott (trumpet), European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
Elegy (Op.23) arr. for piano trio
Cable, Howard (b. 1920)
Julia Fischer (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)
Concerto in G minor RV.104 (La Notte) for flute (or violin), 2 vlns, bassoon & bc
Stanslaw Dziewor (trumpet), Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Gabriel Chmura (conductor).
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
My favourite... Mendelssohn choral music. Felix Mendelssohn was probably the keenest promoter of J. S. Bach in the nineteenth century and there can be little doubt that the Cantor of St Thomas's was a significant influence on Mendelssohn's own music, especially the oratorios Elijah, St Paul and the unfinished Christus. Rob's choices include extracts from all three, as well as Hear My Prayer (including 'O for the wings of a dove') and Psalm 98 - elevating works, and a joy to hear.
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
Rob's guest this week is the broadcaster and journalist Kirsty Wark. Best known as the long-standing presenter of the BBC's current affairs show Newsnight, Kirsty has presented programmes including the Late Show and The Review Show, as well as election specials. She has conducted interviews with everyone from Margaret Thatcher and Harold Pinter to Madonna and George Clooney, and has also made cameo appearances in dramas including Doctor Who and Absolutely Fabulous. She recently published her first novel, The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle. Kirsty will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music every day at
Rob places Music in Time, visiting Germany in the Baroque era. In 1705, J. S. Bach walked two hundred and eighty miles to hear the great organist Dietrich Buxtehude. The virtuoso footwork of both organ masters is displayed in the magnificent pedal solos of Buxtehude's Prelude, Fugue and Toccata in C, and Bach's Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C.
To celebrate the centenary of Lord Menuhin's birth, Rob has mined the vast Menuhin recording archive and come up with a dazzling array of great performances, including the 16-year-old's still unrivalled recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto under the conductor's own direction, the Third Sonata by Yehudi's teacher Enescu, with its gypsy music inflections (Hephzibah Menuhin at the piano), Bach's Double Concerto with fellow Enescu-pupil Christian Ferras, and a virtuoso 1934 recording of Paganini's First Concerto that has to be heard to be believed.
Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61
Sterndale Bennett visits Germany and is dubbed an Angel Musician by Robert Schumann, presented by Donald Macleod.
Reckoned by some as the most distinguished English composer of the Romantic School, Sir William Sterndale Bennett first made a significant name for himself in Germany as a composer and concert pianist. He became close friends with Mendelssohn and Schumann, and once his career started to develop back in England, he rose to become one of the country's most eminent musicians teaching at Cambridge, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, and a Director of the Philharmonic Society. Dr Peter Horton discusses the importance of Sterndale Bennett's piano music, whilst the composer's great-great-grandson Barry Sterndale Bennett introduces the listener to scores, letters and diaries held at the Bodleian Library.
Life for Sterndale Bennett in London during the early 1830s was hard. He was busy composing and trying to earn money where he could, such as becoming organist at St Anne's in Wandsworth. It was during this period that he made his first visit to Germany where he kept a diary of his daily activities, including meetings with Mendelssohn and evenings drinking with Schumann. During this visit Bennett took a trip up the Rhine, and it was here that he got the inspiration for his concert overture The Naiades. Bennett during this visit dedicated his first Piano Sonata to Mendelssohn as a wedding present. It was also during this period that Schumann heard the young Englishman perform, and dubbed him an Angel Musician.
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Leeds International Chamber Series, and were recorded at The Venue - part of Leeds College of Music. In today's programme, there are piano sonatas by Alban Berg and Prokofiev performed by the Serbian pianist Aleksandr Madzar and Russian pianist Georgy Tchaidze, and also a cello sonata by George Crumb played by Adrian Brendel.
Prokofiev: Sonata no. 8 in B flat major Op.84 for piano
Chávez: Symphony No. 2 ('Sinfonia India') 0
min.
Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183
Rachmaninov : Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43
Dvorák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, op. 70
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, op. 40, symphonic poem
Suzy Klein presents, with live music from singer Tanita Tikaram as she prepares for a concert at Kings Place in London. Jamie Phillips talks about conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in a musical celebration of its home venue the Symphony Hall, which (like Jamie) is 25 this year. And tenor William Wallace, winner of the 2016 Handel Singing Competition, sings live in the studio.
Bach: Chromatic fantasia and fugue in D minor, BWV.903 transc. Reger
2-Part Invention No.1 in C, BWV.772 transc. Reger
2-Part Invention No.5 in E flat, BWV.776 transc. Reger
2-Part Invention No.6 in E, BWV.777 transc. Reger
2-Part Invention No.8 in F, BWV.779 transc. Reger
Clemency Burton-Hill introduces the second of the finalists in this year's woodwind category.
Saxophonist Jess Gillam plays music by Itturalde. Andy Scott and Phil Woods.
2016 is the centenary of the death of Max Reger, who contributed some of the most impressive and monumental works to the organ repertoire. Isabelle Demers, who took the organ world by storm at the Royal Festival Hall organ's gala concert in 2014, returns to champion Reger's music in a selection of works by this giant of the organ repertoire.
Followed by: Menuhin 100 - classic recordings from Yehudi Menuhin's discography.
Jonathan Coe, author of books including The Rotters' Club, What a Carve Up and his most recent novel Number 11, joins playwright Richard Cameron and presenter Matthew Sweet in a programme recorded in front of an audience at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
Jonathan Coe's 2001 novel, The Rotters' Club, depicts teenage life in Birmingham in the 1970s, against a backdrop of strikes at the local car factories. It's been adapted for the stage by Richard Cameron - whose other plays include The Glee Club and Can't Stand Up For Falling Down. They discuss the difference between page and stage, assess the sexual and racial politics of the time and consider the cultural influence of Britain's second city.
How great artists and thinkers responded to the First World War in individual works of art.
Dr Heather Jones of the LSE explores Elizabeth Bowen's novel "The Last September"
In 1922, 26 counties of Ireland seceded from the UK, becoming independent, a final epilogue to the Great War. It is this story that Bowen chronicles in her great novel, The Last September - an elegy for the death of the Anglo-Irish class for whom the First World War and the violence it triggered in Ireland marked the end.
Heather Jones explores how the novel mirrors Bowen's own contested loyalties between Ireland and England and investigates how the central character mirrors Bowen herself.
Max is joined in the studio by journalist Ruth Barnes who shares music from Female:Pressure, a collective of female DJs and electronic musicians whose latest release looks at the jeopardy facing women in Northern Syria.
We also hear a new track from LA shoegaze band Autolux, a sonic dispatch from Mali from Group Tagout and a home recording from the enigmatic 1950s singer Connie Converse, along with a tribute to drone music pioneer Tony Conrad who died on the 9th of April.
WEDNESDAY 13 APRIL 2016
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b0769rks)
Francesco Piemontesi with the Belcea Quartet in Poland
Catriona Young introduces a recital from Poland, featuring the Belcea Quartet and Francesco Piemontesi playing works by Mozart, Brahms and Schumann.
12:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
String Quartet in D major K.499 (Hoffmeister)
Belcea Quartet
12:56 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Quintet in E flat major Op.44 for piano and strings
Francesco Piemontesi (Piano), Belcea Quartet
1:26 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
String Quartet no. 1 in C minor Op.51'1
Belcea Quartet
2:01 AM
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904)
Scherzo furiant (molto vivace) from Piano Quintet no.2 Op.81
Francesco Piemontesi (Piano), Belcea Quartet
2:06 AM
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904)
V Pirorode (Op.63)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (Conductor)
2:19 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
6 Songs (Op.107)
Jan Van Elsacker (Tenor), Claire Chevallier (Fortepiano)
2:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Triple Concerto for violin, piano and orchestra in C major (Op. 56)
Arve Tellefsen (Violin), Truls Mork (Cello), Havard Gimse (Piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rolf Gupta (Conductor)
3:06 AM
Muffat, Georg (1653-1704)
Toccata Octava in G major (Apparatus musico-organisticus, 1690)
Marcel Verheggen (Organ)
3:15 AM
Roussel, Albert (1869-1937)
Symphony no. 3 (Op.42) in G minor
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Hans Vonk (Conductor)
3:39 AM
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934)
To be sung of a summer night on the water for chorus (RT.4.5)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier (Conductor)
3:45 AM
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von (1644-1704)
Sonata No.1 à 8, from sonatae tam aris, quam aulis servientes (1676)
Collegium Aureum
3:51 AM
Ramovs, Primoz (1921-1999)
Pihalni kvintet (Wind Quintet) in 7 parts
Ariart Woodwind Quintet
4:00 AM
Thomas, Ambroise (1811-1896)
Aria "Adieu! Mignon"" (from "Mignon", Act 2)
Benjamin Butterfield (Tenor), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (Conductor)
4:04 AM
Thomas, Ambroise (1811-1896)
Aria "Elle ne croyait pas" (from "Mignon", Act 3)
Benjamin Butterfield (Tenor), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (Conductor)
4:09 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Chaconne for piano (Op.32)
Anders Kilstrom (Piano)
4:18 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Erster Verlust (First Loss) (Op.99 No.1)
Kaia Urb (Soprano), Heiki Matlik (Guitar)
4:22 AM
Litolff, Henry (1818-1891)
Scherzo - from the Concerto Symphonique No.4 (Op.102)
Arthur Ozolins (Piano), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (Conductor)
4:31 AM
Sammartini, Giuseppe (1695-1750)
Sinfonia in F major
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (Director)
4:39 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Ballade for piano no. 1 (Op.23) in G minor
Zbigniew Raubo (Piano)
4:49 AM
Melartin, Erkki (1875-1937)
Karelian Scenes (Op.146)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Palas (Conductor)
5:00 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Ave Regina Caelorum for 8 voices
Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Ensemble Cantus Figuratus der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Maîtrise de Garçons de Colmar, Dominique Vellard (Director)
5:04 AM
Tartini, Giuseppe (1692-1770)
Sonata for violin and continuo (Brainard F5) (Op.2 No.5) in F major from 'VI Sonate a violon e violoncello o cimbalo opera seconda' (Amsterdam, 1743)
Gottfried von der Goltz (Violin), Torsten Johann (Organ), Lee Santana (Theorbo)
5:19 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)
Symphonic fragment (from 1st version of Symphony No. 9)
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Michal Klauza (Conductor)
5:26 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Music for a while from Oedipus - incidental music to Act 3 (Z.583)
Elizabeth Watts (Soprano), Mahan Esfahani (Harpsichord)
5:30 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Trio in E flat major (H.
15.10) for keyboard and strings
Bernt Lysell (Violin), Mikael Sjogren (Cello), Niklas Sivelov (Piano)
5:41 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Danses Concertantes for chamber orchestra
Polish Radio Orchestra, Krzysztof Slowinski (Conductor)
6:01 AM
Lawes, William (1602-1645)
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
Angharad Gruffydd Jones (Soprano), Concordia, Mark Levy (Conductor)
6:03 AM
Jenkins, John (1592-1678)
Galliard
Concordia, Mark Levy (Conductor)
6:06 AM
Lawes, William (1602-1645)
Up, ladies, up
Angharad Gruffydd Jones (Soprano), Concordia, Mark Levy (Conductor)
6:09 AM
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837)
Rondo brillant for piano and orchestra in A major (Op.56)
Rudolf Macudzinski (Piano), Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ludovit Rajter (Conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b0769v10)
Wednesday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b0769v12)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Kirsty Wark
9am
My favourite... Mendelssohn choral music. Felix Mendelssohn was probably the keenest promoter of J. S. Bach in the nineteenth century and there can be little doubt that the Cantor of St Thomas's was a significant influence on Mendelssohn's own music, especially the oratorios Elijah, St Paul and the unfinished Christus. Rob's choices include extracts from all three, as well as Hear My Prayer (including 'O for the wings of a dove') and Psalm 98 - elevating works, and a joy to hear.
9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related object.
10am
Rob's guest this week is the broadcaster and journalist Kirsty Wark. Best known as the long-standing presenter of the BBC's current affairs show Newsnight, Kirsty has presented programmes including the Late Show and The Review Show, as well as election specials. She has conducted interviews with everyone from Margaret Thatcher and Harold Pinter to Madonna and George Clooney, and has also made cameo appearances in dramas including Doctor Who and Absolutely Fabulous. She recently published her first novel, The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle. Kirsty will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music every day at
10am.
10:30am
Music in Time: Renaissance
Rob places Music in Time. He explores the fashion during the Renaissance period for battle music, from Clement Janequin's popular chanson, La Guerre, depicting the Battle of Marignan, to instrumental works by Claude Gervaise and Andrea Gabrieli.
11am
Menuhin 100
To celebrate the centenary of Lord Menuhin's birth, Rob has mined the vast Menuhin recording archive and come up with a dazzling array of great performances, including the 16-year-old's still unrivalled recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto under the conductor's own direction, the Third Sonata by Yehudi's teacher Enescu, with its gypsy music inflections (Hephzibah Menuhin at the piano), Bach's Double Concerto with fellow Enescu-pupil Christian Ferras, and a virtuoso 1934 recording of Paganini's First Concerto that has to be heard to be believed.
Brahms
String Sextet No. 2 in G, Op. 36
Yehudi Menuhin, Robert Masters (violin)
Cecil Aronowitz, Ernst Wallfisch (viola)
Maurice Gendron, Derek Simpson (cello).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0769z15)
William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875)
Honoured by Mendelssohn
Sterndale Bennett becomes the first person to hear Mendelssohn's just completed Scottish Symphony, presented by Donald Macleod.
Reckoned by some as the most distinguished English composer of the Romantic School, Sir William Sterndale Bennett first made a significant name for himself in Germany as a composer and concert pianist. He became close friends with Mendelssohn and Schumann, and once his career started to develop back in England, he rose to become one of the country's most eminent musicians teaching at Cambridge, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, and a Director of the Philharmonic Society. Dr Peter Horton discusses the importance of Sterndale Bennett's piano music, whilst the composer's great-great-grandson Barry Sterndale Bennett introduces the listener to scores, letters and diaries held at the Bodleian Library.
Sterndale Bennett made a number of visits to Germany during his early career, where his friendship with both Mendelssohn and Schumann flourished. Schumann upon hearing Bennett's Caprice in E major, described it as a lovely flower bouquet, fresh and fragrant, beautifully coloured. He was even more generous upon hearing Bennett's overture The Wood Nymphs, rating it above similar works by Mendelssohn, Spohr, and Weber. Mendelssohn too also greatly honoured Bennett, treating him to a private play through of his Scottish Symphony completed that very day. It was during this period that the young Englishman made his debut with the Gewandhaus Orchestra, performing his own third Piano Concerto, whilst back on these shores he became engaged, and married Miss Mary Wood.
Caprice in E major, Op 22
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Howard Shelley, pianist and conductor
The Wood Nymphs Overture, Op 20
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor
Two Characteristic Studies, Op 29
Hiroaki Takenouchi, piano
Come, live with me, WoO 47
David James, countertenor
Paul Elliott, tenor
Leigh Nixon, tenor
Paul Hillier, bass
Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor, Op 9 (3rd mvt)
Malcolm Binns, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor
Producer Luke Whitlock.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b0769z19)
Leeds International Chamber Series 2016
Episode 2
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Leeds International Chamber Series, and were recorded at The Venue - part of Leeds College of Music. In today's programme, there are piano sonatas by Ravel and Boulez performed by the German violinist Antje Weithaas, cellist Bjorg Lewis and pianist Tim Horton
Ravel: Sonata for violin & cello
Antje Weithaas (violin) / Bjorg Lewis (cello)
Boulez: Piano Sonata No.2
Tim Horton (piano).
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b0769z1c)
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Episode 3
Penny Gore presents a week of concerts from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
2pm:
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, op. 44
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Conductor James Gaffigan
2.30pm:
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19 in F, K. 459
Peter Serkin (piano)
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Conductor James Gaffigan
3pm:
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, op. 34
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Conductor James Gaffigan.
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b076b7td)
Hereford Cathedral
Live from Hereford Cathedral
Introit: God is a Spirit (Sterndale Bennett)
Responses: Tunnard
Psalms 69, 70 (Battishill, Elvey, Day, Bennett)
First Lesson: Deuteronomy 6
Canticles: St Paul's Service (Howells)
Second Lesson: Ephesians 2 vv.1-10
Anthem: Dum transisset Sabbatum (Taverner)
Hymn: Jerusalem the golden (Ewing)
Organ Voluntary: Incantation pour un jour saint (Langlais)
Geraint Bowen (Director of Music)
Peter Dyke (Assistant Director of Music).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b0769z1f)
Proms 2016 Special
Suzy Klein presents a special programme, with interviews and live performances from artists featured in the 2016 Proms.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b0769z15)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b076b04k)
BBC Symphony Orchestra - Bax, Brett Dean, Elgar
Live from the Barbican, Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Elgar's 1st Symphony & music by Bax. Artist in Association Brett Dean performs his own Viola Concerto.
Presented by Martin Handley
Bax: The Garden of Fand
Brett Dean: Viola Concerto
8.15: Interval: BBC Young Musician 2016
Clemency Burton-Hill introduces the third of the finalists in this year's woodwind category.
Flautist Marie Sato plays music by CPE Bach and Sancan.
Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat major
Brett Dean, viola
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo Conductor
Sakari Oramo continues his exploration of great British orchestral music with Elgar's ground-breaking first symphony and Bax's luminous tone-poem The Garden of Fand. While Bax's work evokes the Irish legend of the siren Fand in her watery world, Elgar wrote of his masterful symphony: 'There is no programme beyond a wide experience of human life with a great charity and a massive hope in the future.' We welcome back Australian composer and violist Brett Dean to play his concerto for his 'curiously beautiful, somewhat enigmatic instrument'.
Followed by: Menuhin 100 - classic recordings from Yehudi Menuhin's discography.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b076b15m)
British Conceptual Art, Smart Thinking
Philip Dodd is joined by artist Bruce McLean and critic Sarah Kent to consider the history and politics of British Conceptual Art on show at Tate Britain. Also Richard Nisbett gives his view on how "smart thinking" can help us improve our lives.
Richard Nisbett is Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology and Co-director of the Culture and Cognition programme at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is cited by Malcolm Gladwell as an influence and is the author of a book called "Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking"
Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979 runs at Tate Britain from 12 April - 29 August 2016
The exhibition includes works by Keith Arnatt, Art & Language, Conrad Atkinson, Victor Burgin, Michael Craig-Martin, Hamish Fulton,Margaret Harrison, Susan Hiller, John Hilliard, Mary Kelly, John Latham, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, David Tremlett and Stephen Willats.
(Main Picture: Bruce McLean, Pose Work for Plinths 3, 1971. Tate. Purchased 1981. © Bruce McLean. Courtesy Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin)
WED 22:45 The Essay (b076b5ql)
Minds at War: Series 3
Minds at War: Francis Ledwidge's poem O'Connell Street
How great artists and thinkers responded to the First World War in individual works of art.
To mark the centenary of the Easter Rising, this series of Minds at War explores how Irish artists were influenced by the First World War.
3. Poet and academic Gerald Dawe explores the little known poet Francis Ledwidge and his poem "O'Connell Street".
Francis Ledwidge served as a soldier in the British army and was killed in action in 1917. He wrote poetry constantly throughout his life, drawing on the inspiration of the countryside in which he grew up. But his early death meant that his work was never well known, although there has been a recent resurgence of interest and awareness of his talent.
The poem "O' Connell Street" was written when the poet returned to Dublin after serving abroad. It sums up how he saw the city in the wake of the Easter Rising with the influence of his army service. It also shows how Ledwidge's war poetry differed from the graphic representations of conflict by poets like Wilfred Owen. It was as if the reality of war was something Ledwidge wanted to circumvent or absorb into the pastoral idyll of his vision of a romantic Ireland.
Producer: Emma Kingsley.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b076b5qn)
Max Reinhardt - Vinyl Special
Max Reinhardt takes to the decks to celebrate Record Store Day 2016, rejoicing in the hum and crackle in this all vinyl special. He'll revisit original LPs with Bela & Ditta Bartok performing Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion, a Nigerian Juju classic from Segun Adewale and Jamaican gospel from Glen Francis. We also play recent vinyl reissues by Manchester's answer to Moondog, Paddy Steer, as well as a Record Store Day release from Arizonan desert rockers Giant Sand and an old classic from Can.
THURSDAY 14 APRIL 2016
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b0769rky)
Proms 2015: Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach's solo cello suites
Catriona Young presents a performance of Bach's solo cello suites by Yo-Yo Ma from the 2015 BBC Proms.
12:31 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Suite no.1 in G major, BWV.1007 for solo cello
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
12:49 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Suite no.2 in D minor, BWV.1008 for solo cello
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
1:10 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Suite no.3 in C major, BWV.1009 for solo cello
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
1:32 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Suite no.4 in E flat major, BWV.1010 for solo cello
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
1:59 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Suite no.5 in C minor, BWV.1011 for solo cello
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
2:26 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Suite no.6 in D major, BWV.1012 for solo cello
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
2:58 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Symphony no.3 (D.200) in D major
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Liss (conductor)
3:22 AM
Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich (c.1620-1680)
Sonata XII from 'Sacroprofanus concentus musicus'
Gradus ad Parnassum, Concerto Palatino, Konrad Junghänel (director)
3:27 AM
Josquin des Prez [c.1450/5-1521]
Motet Inviolata, integra et casta es (5 part)
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal, Christopher Jackson (director)
3:33 AM
Strauss, Josef (1827-1880)
Dorfschwalben aus Österreich - waltz (Op.164)
Arthur Schnabel (piano)
3:41 AM
Saint-Saens, Camille (1835-1921)
Mon coeur s'ouvre from Samson et Dalila (arr. for trumpet & orchestra)
Jouko Harjanne (Trumpet), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (Conductor)
3:47 AM
Rossini, Gioacchino (1792-1868)
Lindoro's cavatina 'Languir per una bella' - from L' Italiana in Algeri, Act 1 scene 3
Francisco Araiza (tenor: Lindoro, a young Italian slave), Capella Coloniensis, Gabriele Ferro (conductor)
3:55 AM
Devienne, François (1759-1803)
Trio No.2 in C major
Valentinas Gelgotas (flute), Vitalija Raskeviciute (viola), Gediminas Derus (cello)
4:05 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Nocturne No.1 in E flat minor (Op.33 No.1)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
4:14 AM
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
Rondino on a theme by Beethoven for violin and piano
Taik-Ju Lee (violin), Young-Lan Han (piano)
4:17 AM
Enescu, George (1881-1955)
Romanian Rhapsody No.1 in A major (Op.11 no.1)
Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Horia Andreescu (conductor)
4:31 AM
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941)
Mélodie in G flat from "Miscellanea" (Op.16 No.2)
Zheeyoung Moon (piano)
4:36 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) / Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
Meditation sur le première prelude de Bach (Ave Maria) arr. for cello & harp
Kyung-Ok Park (cello), Myung-Ja Kwun (harp)
4:41 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Magnificat Primi Toni
Elmer Iseler Singers, Elmer Iseler (conductor)
4:50 AM
Anonymous
Greensleeves, to a Ground with Divisions
Elizabeth Wallfisch (Baroque violin), Rosanne Hunt (cello), Linda Kent (harpsichord)
4:55 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Sextet for piano and strings in D major, Op.110
Wu Han (piano), Philip Setzer (violin), Nokuthula Ngwenyama (viola), Cynthia Phelps (viola), Carter Brey (cello), Michael Wais (bass)
5:18 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Lyric suite - arr. for orchestra from Lyric Pieces (Book 5) for piano (Op.54)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)
5:37 AM
Boieldieu, Francois-Adrien [1775-1834]
Aria: "Viens, gentille dame" from "La Dame blanche"
Mark Dubois (tenor), Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
5:44 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
4 Ballades for piano (Op.10)
Paul Lewis (piano)
6:07 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Trois Nocturnes: Nuages, Fêtes, Sirènes
National Radio of Ukraine National Chorus (director: Lesya Shavlovska), NRCU Symphony Orchestra, Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b0769v14)
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 (b0769v16)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with Kirsty Wark
9am
My favourite... Mendelssohn choral music. Felix Mendelssohn was probably the keenest promoter of J. S. Bach in the nineteenth century and there can be little doubt that the Cantor of St Thomas's was a significant influence on Mendelssohn's own music, especially the oratorios Elijah, St Paul and the unfinished Christus. Rob's choices include extracts from all three, as well as Hear My Prayer (including 'O for the wings of a dove') and Psalm 98 - elevating works, and a joy to hear.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you remember the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?
10am
Rob's guest this week is the broadcaster and journalist Kirsty Wark. Best known as the long-standing presenter of the BBC's current affairs show Newsnight, Kirsty has presented programmes including the Late Show and The Review Show, as well as election specials. She has conducted interviews with everyone from Margaret Thatcher and Harold Pinter to Madonna and George Clooney, and has also made cameo appearances in dramas including Doctor Who and Absolutely Fabulous. She recently published her first novel, The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle. Kirsty will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music every day at
10am.
10:30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Rob places Music in Time. Today he focuses on the Romantic period, and the year 1878, when Czech composer Antonin Dvorak conjured up the traditional music of his homeland in his Slavonic Rhapsody Op 45 no 3, and his Slavonic Dances Op 46.
11am
To celebrate the centenary of Lord Menuhin's birth, Rob has mined the vast Menuhin recording archive and come up with a dazzling array of great performances, including the 16-year-old's still unrivalled recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto under the conductor's own direction, the Third Sonata by Yehudi's teacher Enescu, with its gypsy music inflections (Hephzibah Menuhin at the piano), Bach's Double Concerto with fellow Enescu-pupil Christian Ferras, and a virtuoso 1934 recording of Paganini's First Concerto that has to be heard to be believed.
Paganini
Violin Concerto No. 1 in E flat
Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Paris Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Monteux (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0769z1j)
William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875)
Bennett and Moscheles
Sterndale Bennett becomes firmly established as a teacher, performer and composer in London, presented by Donald Macleod.
Reckoned by some as the most distinguished English composer of the Romantic School, Sir William Sterndale Bennett first made a significant name for himself in Germany as a composer and concert pianist. He became close friends with Mendelssohn and Schumann, and once his career started to develop back in England, he rose to become one of the country's most eminent musicians teaching at Cambridge, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, and a Director of the Philharmonic Society. Dr Peter Horton discusses the importance of Sterndale Bennett's piano music, whilst the composer's great-great-grandson Barry Sterndale Bennett introduces the listener to scores, letters and diaries held at the Bodleian Library.
With the departure of Moscheles from the London music scene, and students now looking for a new piano teacher, Sterndale Bennett was able to develop his own career further. He was given the honour of conducting at Moscheles's farewell concert, and dedicated his own Piano Concerto No 4 in F minor to Moscheles. In the late 1840s Bennett received the sad news that his friend Mendelssohn had died. He wrote to a fellow musician, that he'd lost the dearest and kindest friend he'd ever had. Around this same time came a disagreement with the conductor Michael Costa, which was to have ramifications for the rest of Bennett's life. On top of those sad events, combined with the many hours teaching Bennett undertook daily, he did manage to continue composing.
Piano Sextet in F Sharp Minor, Op 8 (3rd mvt)
Ilona Prunyi, piano
András Kiss, violin
Ferenc Balogh, violin
László Bársony, viola
Károly Botvay, cello
Péter Kubina, double bass
Piano Concerto No 4 in F minor, Op 19
BBC Scottish Symphony
Howard Shelley, pianist and conductor
Remember now thy creator, WoO 54
Emma Tring, soprano
Rebecca Lodge, soprano
BBC Singers
Rupert Jeffcoat, organ
Stephen Cleobury, conductor
February, WoO 56
Hiroaki Takenouchi, piano
Producer Luke Whitlock.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b0769z1l)
Leeds International Chamber Series 2016
Episode 3
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Leeds International Chamber Series, and were recorded at The Venue - part of Leeds College of Music. In today's programme, there's Brahms' 2nd Cello Sonata played by Adrian Brendel and Tim Horton, and Shostakovich's 2nd Piano Sonata from the Russian pianist Georgy Tchaidze.
Brahms: Sonata for cello & piano No.2, Op.99
Adrian Brendel (cello) / Tim Horton (piano)
Shostakovich: Sonata for piano No.2, Op.61
Georgy Tchaidze (piano).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b0769z1q)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Bartok - Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Penny Gore presents today's opera matinee: a concert performance of Bartok's one-act opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, recorded in 2014. With soloists Michelle de Young and Matthias Goerne, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jaap van Zweden. Judith arrives at the castle home of her new husband, Duke Bluebeard. He tells her he loves her, and not to ask what is behind the mysterious closed doors, but she will not rest until she knows everything about him.
2pm:
Bartok: Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Judith......Michelle de Young (mezzo-soprano)
Bluebeard......Matthias Goerne (baritone)
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
conductor Jaap van Zweden
Followed by more from the Dallas Symphony in concert.
3pm:
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, op. 61
Augustin Hadelich (violin)
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
conductor Jaap van Zweden
3.45pm:
Bernstein: Serenade (after Plato's 'Symposium')
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
conductor Jaap van Zweden.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b0769z1s)
Neville Marriner, Till Fellner, Juanjo Mena, Ex Cathedra
Suzy Klein presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news, including Sir Neville Marriner and pianist Till Fellner, conductor Juanjo Mena and choral group Ex Cathedra performing live in the studio.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b0769z1j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b076b04t)
London Symphony Orchestra - Bruckner, Messiaen
Live from the Barbican Hall, London.
Presented by Martin Handley
Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner's Symphony No 8 and Messiaen's Couleurs de la cité céleste.
Messiaen: Couleurs de la cité céleste
8.05pm: Interval: BBC Young Musician 2016
Clemency Burton-Hill introduces the fourth of the finalists in this year's woodwind category.
Recorder player Polly Bartlett plays music by Frescobaldi, Barsanti, Ziegenmeyer and Le Thière.
8.25pm: Part 2
Bruckner: Symphony No 8
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
Sir Simon Rattle conducts Messiaen and Bruckner, two composers as united in their devotion to the Catholic faith as they are divergent in their approaches to writing music. Messiaen's Couleurs de la cité céleste is a microcosm of his numerous preoccupations - from birdsong to the book of Revelations - set in a sequence of lively episodes performed by a reduced orchestra centred on the piano. This short piece sets the stage for Bruckner's monumental Eighth Symphony, a complete contrast with its grand scale and dramatic writing. It is performed here in the 1939 edition prepared by Austrian musicologist Robert Haas.
Followed by: Menuhin 100 - classic recordings from Yehudi Menuhin's discography.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b076b15v)
Syrian buildings, Judging Book Prizes, Georgian Literature
Anne McElvoy talks to Syrian architect Marwa Al-Sabouni about the her country's built environment its impact on the behaviour of the people who live there. Also the politics of judging book prizes is debated by Professor Geoffrey Hosking, emeritus professor of Russian history, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College London and Fleur Montanaro, Administrator of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Writers Lasha Bugadze and Aka Morchiladze discuss Georgian literature past and present.
The Battle for Home: The Memoir of a Syrian Architect by Marwa Al-Sabouni is out now.
The winner of the 2016 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize is announced on April 25th. These are the shortlisted books
Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's 1932-43. Gabriel Gorodetsky, editor (Yale University Press)
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator. Oleg Khlevniuk, translated by Nora Seligman Favorov (Yale University Press)
Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia. Dominic Lieven (Penguin)
Russia and the New World Disorder. Bobo Lo (Brookings Institution)
Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia. Alfred Rieber (Cambridge University Press)
The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991. Robert Service (Pan Macmillan)
The winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2016 will be announced at an awards ceremony in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday 26 April, the eve of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. These are the shortlisted books
Mercury by Mohamed Rabie
A Sky Close to our House by Shahla Ujayli
Numedia by Tareq Bakari
Praise for the Women of the Family by Mahmoud Shukair
Guard of the Dead by George Yaraq
Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Nakba by Rabai al-Madhoun.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b076b5qt)
Minds at War: Series 3
Minds at War: Father Browne's Photograph of a Wounded Soldier
How great artists and thinkers responded to the First World War in individual works of art.
To mark the centenary of the Easter Rising, this series of Minds at War explores how Irish artists were influenced by the First World War.
4. Photographer John D McHugh explores one of the war photos of Father Francis Browne.
Father Francis Browne was an Irish Jesuit priest, and Chaplain to the Irish Guards during the First World War. He was also a keen and highly gifted photographer, and took extensive numbers of photos of the soldiers around him. One of these striking images is of a wounded man on a stretcher, surrounded by other members of the Irish Guards.
As a renowned war photographer himself, John D. McHugh is especially moved by this image. In this Essay he assesses the qualities of the photograph and explores what it tells us about the wartime experience of the man who made it.
The programme contains quotations from "Father Browne's First World War" edited by E E O'Donnell and published by Messenger Publications
Producer: Emma Kingsley.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b076b5qw)
Max Reinhardt - Stewart Lee's Mixtape
Max Reinhardt is joined by comedian, columnist and musophile Stewart Lee with the debut edition of the Late Junction Mixtape.
A tribute to the age-old tradition of making a mixtape for a friend, guests are invited to explore the full diversity of their record collections, to dig out those obscure gems and much-loved rarities which they seldom get to share. The aim is to reveal a lesser known side to their musical identity and above all to take the listeners on a journey through a variety of moods, feelings and eras, exploring and celebrating the disjunctions within a record collection. Stewart Lee talks about his lifelong love of the avant garde in music ahead of his ATP festival this weekend.
We also play a track from Bonnie Prince Billy's new album with the Bitchin' Bajas, early Celtic music sung by the Choir of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge and a piece by Palestinian Oud player Adnan Joubran.
FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b0769rl0)
Berg and Martinu from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Catriona Young presents a concert from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, featuring Isabelle Faust as the soloist in Berg's Violin Concerto.
12:31 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Prelude and Isolde's Liebestod - from "Tristan & Isolde"
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (Conductor)
12:49 AM
Berg, Alban (1885-1935)
Violin Concerto (To the Memory of an Angel)
Isabelle Faust (Violin), Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (Conductor)
1:19 AM
Kurtág, György ((b.1926))
Doloroso, from Signs, Games and Messages
Isabelle Faust (Violin)
1:22 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
Symphony No.6 (H.343), "Fantaisies symphoniques"
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (Conductor)
1:51 AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
Concerto for piano and orchestra no.3 (Sz.119)
Jane Coop (Piano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (Conductor)
2:17 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), Bartók, Béla (Transcriber)
Sonata no. 6 in G major BWV.530 for organ (trans. for piano)
Jan Michiels (Piano)
2:31 AM
Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963)
Sonata for harp (1939)
Rita Costanzi (Harp)
2:44 AM
Mielck, Ernst (1877-1899)
Symphony in F minor, "Fairytale" Op.4 (1897)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (Conductor)
3:27 AM
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934)
Irmelin prelude (RT.
6.27) arr. from Preludes to Acts 1 & 3 of the opera
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (Conductor)
3:32 AM
Merula, Tarquino (1594/5-1665)
Ciaccona for 2 Violins and basso continuo (Op.12)
Il Giardino Armonico
3:37 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Trio for keyboard and strings (H.
15.18) in A major
ATOS Trio
3:52 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Romance in D flat - from Pieces for piano (Op.24 No.9)
Liisa Pohjola (Piano)
3:56 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927)
Varnatt (Spring Night)
Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Skold (Conductor)
4:05 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Marche hongroise (Rakoczy march) from La Damnation de Faust - Part 1, Scene 3
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (Conductor)
4:11 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Eine Faust Overture
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernhard Klee (Conductor)
4:23 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Rondo a capriccio in G major Op.129 (Rage over a lost penny) for piano
Pavel Kolesnikov (Piano)
4:31 AM
Kunzen, Friedrich (1761-1817)
Overture to the play 'Husitterne' (The Hussites)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Peter Marschik (Conductor)
4:38 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), arr. unknown
Prelude from Partita no.3 in E major (BWV.1006) arr. for 2 harps
Myong-ja Kwan (Harp), Hyon-son La (Harp)
4:43 AM
Leopold I (Holy Roman Emperor) (1640-1705)
Motet: Doloribus Beatae Mariae Virginis (No.7 in G minor) (Subtitle: "Musik aus den Habsburgerlanden")
Susanne Ryden (Soprano), Mieke van der Sluis (Soprano), Steven Rickards (Counter Tenor), John Elwes (Tenor), Christian Hilz (Bass), Bach Ensemble, Concentus Vocalis, Joshua Rifkin (Conductor)
4:58 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
3 Czech dances for piano
Anastasia Vorotnaya (Piano)
5:07 AM
Janacek, Leos (1854-1928)
"To je mamincina jizba" (Surely this is my mother's room) from Jenufa Act II
Joanne Kolomyjec (Soprano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (Conductor)
5:11 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Symphony no. 8 in B minor D.759
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov (Conductor)
5:39 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Quartet for strings in F major
Vertavo Quartet
5:56 AM
Gorczycki, Grzegorz Gerwazy (1665-1734)
Qui habitat
Olga Pasiecznik (Soprano), Piotr Lykowski (Counter Tenor), Wojciech Parchem (Tenor), Miroslaw Borczynski (Bass)
6:01 AM
Strauss (ii), Johann (1825-1899), arr. Berg, Alban
Waltz: Wein, Weib und Gesang (Wine, Woman and Song)
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (Director)
6:12 AM
Salmenhaara, Erkki (1941-2002)
Concerto for 2 violins and orchestra (1980)
Paivyt Rajamaki (Violin), Maarit Rajamaki (Violin), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Juhani Lamminmaki (Conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b076v68j)
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 (b0769v18)
Friday - Rob Cowan with Kirsty Wark
9am
My favourite... Mendelssohn choral music. Felix Mendelssohn was probably the keenest promoter of J. S. Bach in the nineteenth century and there can be little doubt that the Cantor of St Thomas's was a significant influence on Mendelssohn's own music, especially the oratorios Elijah, St Paul and the unfinished Christus. Rob's choices include extracts from all three, as well as Hear My Prayer (including 'O for the wings of a dove') and Psalm 98 - elevating works, and a joy to hear.
9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: trace the classical theme behind a well-known song.
10am
Rob's guest this week is the broadcaster and journalist Kirsty Wark. Best known as the long-standing presenter of the BBC's current affairs show Newsnight, Kirsty has presented programmes including the Late Show and The Review Show, as well as election specials. She has conducted interviews with everyone from Margaret Thatcher and Harold Pinter to Madonna and George Clooney, and has also made cameo appearances in dramas including Doctor Who and Absolutely Fabulous. She recently published her first novel, The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle. Kirsty will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music every day at
10am.
10:30am
Music in Time: Modern
Rob places Music in Time, with an innovative work from the Modern period. In 1988 Steve Reich created a "new way of composing", using speech recordings as a basis for musical melodies in Different Trains, for string quartet and tape.
11am
Menuhin 100
To celebrate the centenary of Lord Menuhin's birth, Rob has mined the vast Menuhin recording archive and come up with a dazzling array of great performances, including the 16-year-old's still unrivalled recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto under the conductor's own direction, the Third Sonata by Yehudi's teacher Enescu, with its gypsy music inflections (Hephzibah Menuhin at the piano), Bach's Double Concerto with fellow Enescu-pupil Christian Ferras, and a virtuoso 1934 recording of Paganini's First Concerto that has to be heard to be believed.
J.S. Bach
Chaconne, from Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Handel
Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 1:
Yehudi Menuhin (conductor)
Bath Festival Orchestra.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0769z1x)
William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875)
Buried Near Purcell
Sterndale Bennett with appointments in Cambridge and London becomes a national treasure, presented by Donald Macleod.
Reckoned by some as the most distinguished English composer of the Romantic School, Sir William Sterndale Bennett first made a significant name for himself in Germany as a composer and concert pianist. He became close friends with Mendelssohn and Schumann, and once his career started to develop back in England, he rose to become one of the country's most eminent musicians teaching at Cambridge, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, and a Director of the Philharmonic Society. Dr Peter Horton discusses the importance of Sterndale Bennett's piano music, whilst the composer's great-great-grandson Barry Sterndale Bennett introduces the listener to scores, letters and diaries held at the Bodleian Library.
William Sterndale Bennett had made it to the pinnacle of musical society in England. Appointed professor of music in Cambridge, he soon also found himself principal of the Royal Academy of Music. He still continued to compose in the last twenty years of his life, including a commission for his overture The May Queen, to celebrate the opening of Leeds Town Hall by Queen Victoria. Also, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Philharmonic Society Bennett wrote a programmatic work, his fantasy overture Paradise and the Peri. When Sir William Sterndale Bennett died in 1875, his status in the land was such that he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from Purcell.
The May Queen, Op 39 (Overture)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
James Feddeck, conductor
Paradise and the Peri Fantasy Overture, Op 42
BBC Symphony Orchestra
James Feddeck, conductor
God is a Spirit, Op 44 (The Woman of Samaria)
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury, conductor
Lord, to thee our song we raise, WoO 70
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury, conductor
The Maid of Orleans, Sonata in A flat major, Op 46 (1st and 2nd mvt)
Ian Hobson, piano
Symphony in G minor, Op 43 (4th mvt)
Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra
Douglas Bostock, conductor
Producer Luke Whitlock.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b0769z1z)
Leeds International Chamber Series 2016
Episode 4
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Leeds International Chamber Series, and were recorded at The Venue - part of Leeds College of Music. In today's programme, there's Prokofiev's Pastoral Sonatina played by Russian pianist Georgy Tchaidze, Webern's Cello Sonata from Adrian Brendel & Tim Horton, and the series concludes with a performance of Tchaikovksy's mammoth Piano Trio in A minor played by violinist Antje Weithaas, cellist Bjorg Lewis and pianist Aleksandr Madzar.
Prokofiev: Pastoral Sonatina (from 3 Pieces, Op.59)
Georgy Tchaidze (piano)
Webern: Sonata for cello & piano
Adrian Brendel (cello)/Tim Horton (piano)
Tchaikovsky: Trio for piano & strings in A minor, Op.50
Antje Weithaas (violin) / Bjorg Lewis (cello) /Aleksandar Madzar (piano).
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b0769z21)
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Episode 4
Penny Gore presents a week of concerts from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, recorded during the 2014/15 season.
2pm:
Bach/Webern : Fuga (Ricercata), from The Musical Offering, BWV 1079
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Jaap van Zweden
2.05pm:
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in A flat 'Romantic'
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Jaap van Zweden
3.15pm:
Bach (orch. Stokowski): Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Jaap van Zweden
3.30pm:
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, op. 35
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Jaap van Zweden.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b0769z23)
Amanda Forbes, Zubin Mehta, Elias String Quartet
Suzy Klein presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. Soprano Amanda Forbes sings live in the studio accompanied by harpist Lucy Wakeford, and the Elias String Quartet perform ahead of two concerts at London's Wigmore Hall. Plus Suzy talks to conductor Zubin Mehta in Mumbai, India, where he will perform in three concerts to celebrate his 80th birthday.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b0769z1x)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b076b04y)
BBC NOW - Gershwin, Adams, Harris, Bernstein
Live from St. David's Hall, Cardiff
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Harris: Symphony no. 3
Adams: The Dharma at Big Sur
8.20 Interval Music: BBC Young Musician 2016
Clemency Burton-Hill introduces the fifth of the finalists in this year's woodwind category.
Flautist Joanne Lee plays music by:
Telemann: Fantasia no.2 in Am
Schumann: Romance op.94 no.2
Frank Martin: Ballade
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
William Wolfram (piano)
Chloe Hanslip (electric violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Eric Stern (conductor)
The Symphonic Dances from West Side Story contain some of the most memorable tunes ever written, as Bernstein's iconic score created a whole new soundscape for the tale of the ill-fated lovers. Under the baton of celebrated American conductor Eric Stern, the Orchestra perform it, alongside Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, known the world over for its opening phrase, and John Adams' The Dharma at Big Sur for electric violin and orchestra, played here by Chloë Hanslip.
Followed by: Menuhin 100 - classic recordings from Yehudi Menuhin's discography.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b076b15z)
RM Hubbert, Claire Askew
Ian's guests this week include the Scottish guitarist RM Hubbert. His new album, 'Telling The Trees' (Chemikal) was written in collaboration with eleven female songwriters and vocalists.
The poet Claire Askew's debut collection is 'This Changes Things' (Bloodaxe). Her collection examines the lives of often marginalised women. And there's more poetry from Greta Bellamacina & Robert Montgomery who present their poetic collaboration 'Points For Time in the Sky'.
Producer: Cecile Wright.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b076b5qz)
Minds at War: Series 3
Minds at War: Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie
How great artists and thinkers responded to the First World War in individual works of art.
To mark the centenary of the Easter Rising, this series of Minds at War explores how Irish artists were influenced by the First World War.
5. Playwright and academic Elizabeth Kuti explores Sean O'Casey's "The Silver Tassie"
Sean O' Casey's breakthrough came when his play "The Shadow of a Gunman" was accepted by W.B. Yeats at the Abbey, Ireland's national theatre, and received a rapturous response from audiences and critics in 1923. A year later, his subsequent play, "Juno and the Paycock" got an even more enthusiastic reception and in 1926 "The Plough and the Stars" was also highly praised.
But when O'Casey showed "The Silver Tassie" to Yeats, the reaction was furious. Yeats claimed that O''Casey had no direct experience of, or interest in the war. O'Casey hit back, saying that, even though he had not been on the battlefield, he had seen for himself the horrific after-effects of the conflict. In The Silver Tassie, he chose a hero, Harry, who begins the play as a sporting hero and, after serving as a soldier, ends up in a wheelchair, watching his sweetheart betray him with another man.
Elizabeth Kuti explores how O'Casey weaves the themes of war, life, death, heroism and victimhood into the play and also analyses the way in which it acted as a precursor for subsequent war drama.
Producer: Emma Kingsley.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b076b5r1)
Mary Ann Kennedy - Ireland Centenary and tribute to Menuhin
Mary Ann Kennedy with new music from across the globe, plus a double centenary: an Irish sean-nós session to mark a hundred years of Irish culture, and a celebration of the collaboration between Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin, who was born a hundred years ago.