Catriona Young presents the BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena from the 2015 BBC Proms performing music by Schubert and Bruckner.
Luba Orgonášová (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Robert Dean Smith (tenor), Derek Welton (bass-baritone), Orfeón Pamplonés, BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
Daniel Sepec (violin), Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Lee Santana (theorbo), Michael Behringer (harpsichord)
6 Chorales from the Schemelli Collection: Gott, wie gross ist deine Güte (BWV.462); Dich bet' ich an, mein höchster Gott (BWV.449); Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen (BWV.452); O liebe Seele, zieh' die Sinnen (BWV.494); Vergiss mein nicht, mein allerliester Gott (BWV.505); Ich halte treulich still und liebe meinen Gott (BWV.466)
Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano) , Marco Fink (bass baritone) , Domen Marincic (gamba), Dalibor Miklavcic (organ)
Kirchen-Sonate in B flat (K. 212) for 2 violins, double bass and organ
Trio in E flat major H.
Siehe, wie fein und lieblich ist es - vocal concerto for 2 tenors, bass and instruments
Paul Elliott and Hein Meens (tenors), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
My favourite... Handel Concerti Grossi Op. 6. Rob shares his favourite Baroque masterpieces from Handel's Twelve Grand Concertos. The line up features performances of these energetic concertos by the Academy of Ancient Music directed by Andrew Manze, Concentus Musicus Wien and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Il Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini and Thurston Dart conducting the Boyd Neel Orchestra.
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you remember the film or television programme that featured this piece of classical music?
Rob's guest is the author Malorie Blackman. Malorie has written over sixty books for children and young readers and was the Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. Her books include Pig-Heart Boy, which was turned into a BAFTA-winning television series, Cloud Busting, and the critically acclaimed Noughts and Crosses series. Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her contribution to children's books, and has also received an OBE for her services to children's literature. Malorie will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by the 19th century composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor, and Florence Price, the first African-American woman to have a composition performed by a major symphony orchestra.
The focus is on the Medieval period and the great chanson composer Clément Janequin, whose song Le Chant des oiseaux imitates birdsong.
Rob's Artist of the Week is the Suk Trio. Throughout the week Rob delves into the archives of this internationally renowned piano trio, sharing recordings including Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D Minor Op. 49, Dvorak's Piano Trio No.3 in F minor, Op.65 and Brahms's Piano Trio No.1 in B major, Op.8.
This week, Donald Macleod explores the lives and music of Clara Schumann and the extraordinary circle of composers and musicians she moved in. Today, the young Clara meets Fryderyk Chopin.
Clara Schumann was one of the most important and influential musicians of the 19th century. Hot-housed by her pushy and ambitious piano-teacher father, Friedrich Wieck, she made her concert debut at the Leipzig Gewandhaus at the age of nine and published her first opus – a set of four mazurkas – only two years later. Friedrich’s Grand Plan for Clara would ultimately be knocked off course, however, by the arrival on the scene in autumn 1830 of Robert Schumann, who became the Wiecks’ live-in student. In time, a relationship blossomed, leading eventually, a decade later – when Clara had reached the age of majority – to marriage, whereupon her career very much took a back seat to looking after Robert and the eight children they would produce together. After Robert’s death in 1856, Clara resumed her concert career in earnest – it was, after all, her principal source of income – but more or less stopped composing for good. Her oeuvre, some 50 works, mainly piano miniatures and songs, poses one of the most tantalizing what-ifs in music history – what if her family commitments and the social mores of her day had not constrained Clara Schumann’s development as a composer? Her Piano Trio in G minor, one of less than a handful of large-scale works she was able to complete, suggests one possible answer: that she might perhaps have become one of the leading composers of the second half of the 19th century.
Clara first encountered Fryderyk Chopin in the early months of 1832. She was a seasoned virtuoso of 13, on a promotional visit to Paris; he, at 21, had put down roots in the French capital just a few months earlier – an accidental refugee from the failed Polish Uprising. Clara was in the audience for Chopin’s astonishing first public Parisian recital, at the Salle Pleyel. She had already learnt one of his works, and his music would be a mainstay of her concert repertoire for the next six decades. The respect was clearly mutual – when Chopin visited Clara in Leipzig a few years later, he was impressed enough to take several of her pieces away with him.
Soirées musicales, Op 6 (No 4, Ballade in D minor); 4 Pièces caractéristiques, Op 5 (No 4, Scène fantastique (Le Ballet des revenants))
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 7 (3rd mvt, Finale. Allegro non troppo)
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, violinist Pekka Kuusisto and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt perform arrangements of Two-Part Inventions by Bach, Duos by contemporary German composer Jörg Widmann and, a classic for this combination of instruments, Ravel's Sonata
Verity Sharp embarks upon a week of programmes featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales setting sail with British overtures to foreign shores. Walton perfectly sets the scene of a bustling British port and Principal Conductor Thomas Sondergard takes us to Russia with love in a concert recorded on Valentine's Day. Plus an archive performance of the Orchestra performing on tour in Leningrad in 1988.
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet [sel. Sondergard]
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and chat. Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cedric Tiberghien perform live in the studio, and chat about their new CD of Mozart's Violin Sonatas. Guitarist Sean Shibe talks about his forthcoming concert at the Bath International Music Festival. Plus Martin Yates on conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra in the world premiere performance of Vaughan Williams's Fat Knight at the English Music Festival.
Donald Runnicles and the BBC SSO perform Mahler's First Symphony and are joined by Denis Kozhukin for Brahms's Second Piano Concerto.
There's never been a first symphony to match Mahler's, and from the glistening stillness of its visionary opening to its final, epic ascent from the inferno to paradise. It's a suitably joyous ending to the orchestra's 80th anniversary season - and to a concert that begins with the poetry and warmth of Brahms's expansive Second Piano Concerto: a Romantic master at his big-hearted best, and a glowing conclusion to Denis Kozhukhin's BBC SSO Brahms cycle.
Prominent people in a particular line of work read and reflect on the writings of an illustrious forebear of the same trade. The essays are partly about ideas and how they change, but also about the practice and the human experience of being a certain kind of thing; be it a teacher, a soldier a critic or a journalist.
Francis Gilbert was a secondary school teacher for a number of years and is now Lecturer in Education at the University of London. He reads Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile and reflects on whether this template for a perfect education has a place and an influence on today's curriculum. Rousseau was an 18th-century Swiss philosopher and Emile - which charted the imagined education of the books titular young man - can be through of as the educational textbook of the Romantic movement. Rousseau's ideas have influenced Steiner Schools and the Montessori movement but are they desirable (or even feasible) in the age of mass state education.
Soweto Kinch presents the UK premiere of Julian Argüelles' suite of South African inspired music with Steve Argüelles, Django Bates and Frankfurt Radio Big band at Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b07c3rtt)
Bulgarian Culture and Literacy Day
Catriona Young presents a concert from the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra to mark Bulgarian Culture and Cyrillic Day.
12:31 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilych (1840-1893)
Jurists' March in D
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mark Kadin (conductor)
12:37 AM
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915)
Piano Concerto No.1 in F sharp minor, Op.20
Alexey Chernov (piano), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mark Kadin (conductor)
1:05 AM
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915)
Piano Sonata No.4 in F sharp major, Op.30
Alexey Chernov (piano)
1:13 AM
Glazunov, Alexander (1865-1936)
The Seasons - ballet in one act, Op.67
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mark Kadin (conductor)
1:51 AM
Vladigerov, Pancho (1899-1978)
Elegie d'automne - from 3 pieces pour piano (Op.15)
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
1:58 AM
Pipkov, Lubomir (1904-1974)
Nani mi nani, Damiancho
Violeta Sartsanova (soloist), Sofia Chamber Choir, Vassil Arnaudov (conductor)
2:03 AM
Kandov, Alexander (b.1949)
Trio-concerto for Harp, Flute, Cello and String Orchestra
Suzana Klincharova (harp), George Spasov (flute), Dimitar Tenchev (cello), Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, Plamen Djourov (conductor)
2:26 AM
Kutev, Filip (1903-1982)
Dragana and the Nightingale
Sofia Chamber Choir, Vassil Arnaudov (conductor)
2:31 AM
Vladigerov, Pancho (1899-1978)
Divertimento for chamber orchestra
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Vladigerov (conductor)
2:47 AM
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953) arr. Prokofiev & David Oistrakh
Sonata for violin and piano No.2 (Op.94bis) in D major
Vesko Eschkenazy (violin), Ludmil Angelov (piano)
3:13 AM
Delibes, Leo (1836-1891)
Entracte from 'Lakmé'
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
3:17 AM
Delibes, Leo (1836-1891)
Couplets de Nilacantha de l'acte II de l'opera 'Lakmé'
Nicola Ghiuselev (bass), Orchestre de l'Opera National de Sofia, Rouslan Raitchev (conductor)
3:21 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
An einsamer Quelle from Stimmungsbilder (Op.9 No.2); Intermezzo from Stimmungsbilder (Op.9 No.3)
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
3:30 AM
Hristov, Dobri (1875-1941)
Heruvimska pesen no.4 (Cherubic Song)
Polyphonia
3:37 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) & Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
Ave Maria (arr. for trumpet and organ by Blagoj Angelovski)
Blagoj Angelovski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ)
3:40 AM
Kyurkchiyski, Krassimir [1936-]
Bulgarian Madonna from 2 works after paintings of Vladimir Dimitrov - the Master
Simfonieta' Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio, Kamen Goleminov (conductor)
3:46 AM
Busoni, Ferruccio (1866-1924)
Concertino for clarinet and small orchestra (Op.48) in B flat major
Dancho Radevski (clarinet), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Plamen Djouroff (conductor)
3:58 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Romance (Op.11) in F minor vers. for violin and piano
Mincho Minchev (violin), Violinia Stoyanova (piano)
4:10 AM
Dinev, Petar [1889-1980]
Milost mira No.6 (A Mercy of Peace No.6)
Holy Trinity Choir, Plovdiv, Vessela Geleva (conductor)
4:15 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto for oboe d'amore and string orchestra No.4 (BWV.1055) in A major
Kalin Panayotov (oboe d'amore), Ars Barocca: Ivona Nedeva (flute), Zefira Valova (violin), Miroslav Petkov (trumpet), Ivan Iliev (violin), Gergana Deliiska (violin), Valentin Toshev (viola), Vejen Rezashki (bassoon), Miroslav Stoyanov (cello), Tzvetelina Dimcheva (cembalo, organ)
4:31 AM
Infante, Manuel (1883-1958)
Three Andalusian Dances
Aglika Genova & Liuben Dimitrov (pianos)
4:46 AM
Anonymous
Folias de Espana
Komalé Akakpo (hackbrett/dulcimer)
4:53 AM
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916), arr. Chris Paul Harman
La Maja y el Ruiseñor - from Goyescas
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Bryan Epperson, Maurizio Baccante, Roman Borys, Simon Fryer, David Hetherington, Roberta Jansen, Paul Widner, Thomas Wiebe, Winona Zelenka (cellos)
5:00 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Spirit Music (Nos.1 to 4) - from Alcina
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Monica Huggett (conductor)
5:07 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Quartettsatz for strings in C minor (D.703)
Tilev String Quartet
5:17 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Marienlieder (Op.22)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
5:35 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Sonata for violin and harpsichord in B minor (H.512)
Les Adieux: Mary Utiger (violin), Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
5:53 AM
Crusell, Bernard Henrik (1775-1838)
Concertino for bassoon and orchestra in B flat major
Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
6:12 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Liebestraum (S.541) no.3 in A flat major
Richard Raymond (piano)
6:18 AM
Janácek, Leos (1854-1928)
Pohádka for cello and piano
Elizabeth Dolin (cello), Francine Kay (piano).
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b07cb18b)
Tuesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b07cb32r)
Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Malorie Blackman
9am
My favourite... Handel Concerti Grossi Op. 6. Rob shares his favourite Baroque masterpieces from Handel's Twelve Grand Concertos. The line up features performances of these energetic concertos by the Academy of Ancient Music directed by Andrew Manze, Concentus Musicus Wien and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Il Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini and Thurston Dart conducting the Boyd Neel Orchestra.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Rob's guest is the author Malorie Blackman. Malorie has written over sixty books for children and young readers and was the Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. Her books include Pig-Heart Boy, which was turned into a BAFTA-winning television series, Cloud Busting, and the critically acclaimed Noughts and Crosses series. Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her contribution to children's books, and has also received an OBE for her services to children's literature. Malorie will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by the 19th century composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor, and Florence Price, the first African-American woman to have a composition performed by a major symphony orchestra.
10:30am
Music in Time: Modern
Rob explores the Modern period with Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, a score that reignited a fascination with spatially separated musicians.
11am
Rob's Artist of the Week is the Suk Trio. Throughout the week Rob delves into the archives of this internationally renowned piano trio, sharing recordings including Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D Minor Op. 49, Dvorak's Piano Trio No.3 in F minor, Op.65 and Brahms's Piano Trio No.1 in B major, Op.8.
Dvorak
Piano Trio No.3 in F minor, Op.65
Suk Trio.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b07cbkxh)
Clara Schumann and Her Circle
Clara and Robert
This week, Donald Macleod explores the lives and music of Clara Schumann and the extraordinary circle of composers and musicians she moved in. Today, Clara and her husband Robert, the archetypally Romantic genius whose talents she served – to the detriment of her own.
Clara Schumann was one of the most important and influential musicians of the 19th century. Hot-housed by her pushy and ambitious piano-teacher father, Friedrich Wieck, she made her concert debut at the Leipzig Gewandhaus at the age of nine and published her first opus – a set of four mazurkas – only two years later. Friedrich’s Grand Plan for Clara would ultimately be knocked off course, however, by the arrival on the scene in autumn 1830 of Robert Schumann, who became the Wiecks’ live-in student. In time, a relationship blossomed, leading eventually, a decade later – when Clara had reached the age of majority – to marriage, whereupon her career very much took a back seat to looking after Robert and the eight children they would produce together. After Robert’s death in 1856, Clara resumed her concert career in earnest – it was, after all, her principal source of income – but more or less stopped composing for good. Her oeuvre, some 50 works, mainly piano miniatures and songs, poses one of the most tantalizing what-ifs in music history – what if her family commitments and the social mores of her day had not constrained Clara Schumann’s development as a composer? Her Piano Trio in G minor, one of less than a handful of large-scale works she was able to complete, suggests one possible answer: that she might perhaps have become one of the leading composers of the second half of the 19th century.
“Ah, if only he had taken me with him,” Clara confided to her diary after Robert’s death. Indeed, their lives had been so closely intertwined that sometimes she must have felt like the flip side of a single coin. They kept a joint marriage diary. They studied Bach together. They quoted each other’s music in their own. Much of Robert’s music is a love-letter to Clara, translating key events in their relationship into sound – and from the start, Clara became its principal advocate and most authoritative interpreter. She was severed from Robert not by his death but on his committal to the insane asylum at Endenich where he passed his final two years. She would spend the next 40 learning to live without him.
Clara Schumann
Soirées musicales, Op 6 (No 1, Toccatina in A minor)
Jozef de Beenhouwer, piano
Clara Schumann
Soirées musicales, Op 6 (No 2, Notturno)
Konstanze Eickhorst, piano
Robert Schumann
Novelletten, Op 21 (No 8, Sehr lebhaft (Stimme aus der Ferne))
Eric le Sage, piano
Clara Schumann
Am Strande; Warum willst du andre fragen, Op 12 No 11; Liebst du um Schönheit, Op 12 No 4; Er ist gekommen, Op 12 No 2
Christina Högman, soprano
Roland Pöntinen, piano
Robert Schumann
6 Etudes pour le pianoforte d’après les caprices de Paganini, Op 3 (No 1 in A minor; No 2 in E)
Mariya Kim, piano
Clara Schumann
Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann, Op 20
Jozef de Beenhouwer, piano
Producer: Chris Barstow
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b07c3whh)
Frick Collection
Episode 1
This week's Lunchtime Concerts - presented by Hannah French - come from The Frick Collection art museum in New York, where an annual series of chamber music recitals has been held for the past 78 years in its sumptuous music room.
In today's programme, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and pianist Alexander Lonquich perform Beethoven's 7 Variations on "Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen", the Minetti Quartet plays Haydn's "Sunrise" quartet, Op.76 No.4 and there are songs by Purcell and even Kate Bush songs from mezzo-soprano Anne-Sofie von Otter with lutenist Thomas Dunford and keyboard player Jonathan Cohen.
Throughout the week, Hannah is at the Frick Collection, and talks to Chief Curator Xavier Salomon about some of the paintings in the museum, including Vermeer's "Girl Interrupted at her Music".
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b07cbyqv)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Episode 2
Verity Sharp sets sail from Plymouth with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and through the stormy Bristol Channel, past the home of Welsh composer Grace Williams, to land on the sunny shores of the Italian Riviera for a family holiday with Elgar. Baroque expert Rachel Podger directs from the violin in a Vivaldi concerto, and Damian Iorio makes his debut with the orchestra in music inspired by Italy. Recent Radio 3 New Generation Artist Olena Tokar returns to the orchestra with whom she sang at BBC Cardiff SInger of the World in 2013, taking us into the sunset with a setting of a poem by Shelley.
2pm
Ansell: Plymouth Hoe
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
2.10pm
Grace Williams: Sea Sketches
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
2.30pm
Elgar: In the South (Alassio)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)
2.55pm
Vivaldi: Violin Concerto op.9 no.6
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rachel Podger (violin / director)
3.05pm
Liszt: Legends
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Damian Iorio (conductor)
3.25pm
Respighi: Il Tramonto
Olena Tokar (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Damian Iorio (conductor)
4pm
Respighi: Church Windows
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Damian Iorio (conductor).
TUE 16:30 In Tune (b07c3xmb)
BBC Music Get Playing
Suzy Klein presents a special programme to tie in with the launch today of BBC Music Get Playing, which aims to boost amateur music-making around the country. Guests include comedian David Baddiel, who has been learning the piano, pianist James Rhodes, and guitarist Morgan Szymanski, who will be leading an amateur guitar jam at Hay Festival next week as part of the BBC Music Day celebrations.
Plus conductor Marin Alsop chats to Suzy about the initiative down the line from Brussels. And choirmaster Martin Baker joins Suzy to discuss Westminster Cathedral Choir's new CD of music by Alonso Lobo, to be released this Friday on Hyperion.
TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b07cbkxh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b07c430v)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Shostakovich and Prokofiev
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Peter Oundjian perform a powerful Russian programme of Shostakovich's 8th Symphony and Prokofiev's spirited 2nd Piano Concerto.
Recorded at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on 21 May
Introduced by Tom Redmond
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 2
8.05pm
Interval Music
Schubert: Four Impromptus D.935 performed by Nikolai Lugansky
8.25
Shostakovich: Symphony No 8
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Nikolai Lugansky, piano.
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (b07c430x)
Photographers Dorothy Bohm, Wolfgang Suschitzky and Neil Libbert, Carry On Films
Matthew Sweet joins curator Katy Barron and three photographers, Wolfgang Suschitzky, Dorothy Bohm and Neil Libbert, all now over 75, to explore a show that offers an account of the twentieth century seen through their eyes. Still image then gives way to the moving image as Matthew considers what the much heralded new Carry On film may have to offer and what the original films tell us about the historical and social context from which they emerged. To ponder both the old and the new in Carry Ons he's joined by actress Jacki Piper, film historian Graham McCann and screenwriter David McGillivray. And author and former editor of the Catholic Herald Peter Stanford considers the role of relics as a bone fragment believed to come from St Thomas Becket travels from Hungary to be displayed at Canterbury.
Unseen London, Paris, New York 1930s-60s: Photographs by Wolfgang Suschitzky, Dorothy Bohm and Neil Libbert is at the Ben Uri Gallery in London from May 20th to August 27th.
Dorothy Bohm also has work on show at the Jewish Museum in London looking at Sixties London from 28 April - 29 August 2016
Between 1958 and 1992 there were 31 Carry On films made. Plans have been announced at Cannes to make a series of new films.
The fragment of bone is the centrepiece of a week-long pilgrimage in London and Kent.
Peter Stanford is the author of books about Judas, the Devil, Cardinal Hume, Catholics and Sex, Heaven, A Life of Christ.
(Main Image: 'Wall Street' by Neil Libbert).
TUE 22:45 The Essay (b07cgmpt)
Lines of Work
Lines of Work: Theatre Critic Susannah Clapp on Oscar Wilde
Prominent people in a particular line of work read and reflect on the writings of an illustrious forebear of the same trade. The essays are partly about ideas and how they change, but also about the practice and the human experience of being a certain kind of thing; be it a teacher, a soldier a critic or a journalist.
Theatre critic Susannah Clapp has a passionate exchange of views with Oscar Wilde through his essays on criticism. Many of Wilde's pungent epithets and observations â€" his 'silken arrows' as Susannah describes them - still have the power to thrill, inform and entertain. But Susannah finds Wilde was on the wrong side of anonymity arguments and struggles to make sense of the internet age. Susannah ends telling her illustrious forebear of her fears for Wildean criticism in the age of mere opinion.
Producer: James Cook.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b07c43m1)
Nick Luscombe with Rozi Plain and Matthew Bourne
Brighton's Great Escape festival is one of the UK's leading festivals for emerging bands. This year Late Junction joined the throngs at the seaside to present a showcase of artists and DJs who are pushing the boundaries. Nick plays highlights from our stage all this week, kicking off with Rozi Plain's own brand of off-kilter folk pop alongside local band Hamilton Yarns as well as pianist Matthew Bourne who performs a live version of his moogmemory project. A solo exploration of the outer reaches of the 1980s polyphonic synthesiser, the Moog Memorymoog.
We also have new tracks from R&B duo 18+, a collaboration between Japanese composer Makoto Nomura and percussionist Rumiko Yabu, a recent release from Ethiopian keyboardist Hailu Mergia and a spotlight on the greatest outsider musicians in conjunction with the BBC's Get Playing initiative.
WEDNESDAY 25 MAY 2016
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b07c3rtw)
Proms 2015: Alina Ibragimova performing Bach's solo violin sonatas and partitas
Catriona Young presents the first of two concerts given by Alina Ibragimova at the 2015 BBC Proms, performing Bach's violin sonatas and partitas.
12:31 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750)
Sonata for violin solo No.1 in G minor (BWV.1001)
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
12:48 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750)
Partita for solo violin No.1 in B minor (BWV.1002)
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
1:20 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750)
Sonata for violin solo No.2 in A minor (BWV.1003)
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
1:44 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750) version by Busoni
Concerto for keyboard and string orchestra No. 1 in D minor (BWV.1052)
Dinu Lipatti (piano); Concertgebouw orchestra; Eduard van Beinum (conductor)
2:04 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Lute Partita in C minor (BWV.997)
Konrad Junghänel (lute)
2:27 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Prelude (BWV.999) in C minor (orig for lute)
Christophe Bossert (organ, St Martin's Church, Varazdinske Toplice)
2:31 AM
Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957]
Symphony no. 4 in A minor Op.63
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)
3:04 AM
Melartin, Erkki (1875-1937)
Violin Concerto in D minor (Op.60)
Hannu Lintu (violin), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, John Storgårds (conductor)
3:33 AM
Gesualdo, Carlo (c.1561-1613)
Miserere
Camerata Silesia, Anna Szostak (Conductor)
3:44 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Etude no.11 in A minor (Op.25)
Lukas Geniusas (piano)
3:48 AM
Raminsh, Imant [aka Ramins, Imants] [b.1943]
Put vejini (Blow Ye Wind!) for mixed chorus
Kamer Youth Chorus; maris Sirmais (director)
3:53 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Double Concerto in C minor (BWV.1060)
Hans-Peter Westermann (Oboe), Mary Utiger (Violin), Camerata Koln
4:07 AM
Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681)
Folias
Simone Vallerotonda (Spanish guitar, theorbo)
4:14 AM
Crusell, Bernhard Henrik (1775-1838)
Introduction et Air Suèdois (Op.12) for clarinet and Orchestra
Anne-Marja Korimaa (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
4:24 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Overture from "Der Schauspieldirektor" (K.486)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Borge Wagner (Conductor)
4:31 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
The Ruler of the spirits - overture (Op.27)
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
4:37 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Sonata for violin and piano in G major
Alina Ibragimova (Violin), Cedric Tiberghien (Piano)
4:54 AM
Andriessen, Hendrick (1892-1981)
Concertino for cello and orchestra
Michael Müller (cello), Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Thierry Fischer (conductor)
5:05 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Finale from the ballet music to "Prometheus"
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava (orchestra), Ludovít Rajter (conductor)
5:14 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph [1732-1809]
Trio Sonata in E flat major (H.XV.29)
Kungsbacka Trio
5:30 AM
Jiranek, Frantisek (1698-1778)
Sinfonia in D major
Collegium Marianum, Jana Semeradova (Director)
5:39 AM
Fasch, Johann Friedrich (1688-1758)
Overture à due chori in B flat
Cappella Coloniensis, Hans-Martin Linde (conductor)
6:03 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
3 Songs for chorus (Op.42)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
6:13 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Abegg variations Op.1
Annika Treutler (piano)
6:21 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto for Sopranino, Two Violins and Basso Continuo RV.108
Bolette Roed (recorder), Arte dei Suonatori (ensemble).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b07cb18d)
Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b07cb32t)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Malorie Blackman
9am
My favourite... Handel Concerti Grossi Op. 6. Rob shares his favourite Baroque masterpieces from Handel's Twelve Grand Concertos. The line up features performances of these energetic concertos by the Academy of Ancient Music directed by Andrew Manze, Concentus Musicus Wien and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Il Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini and Thurston Dart conducting the Boyd Neel Orchestra.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?
10am
Rob's guest is the author Malorie Blackman. Malorie has written over sixty books for children and young readers and was the Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. Her books include Pig-Heart Boy, which was turned into a BAFTA-winning television series, Cloud Busting, and the critically acclaimed Noughts and Crosses series. Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her contribution to children's books, and has also received an OBE for her services to children's literature. Malorie will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by the 19th century composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor, and Florence Price, the first African-American woman to have a composition performed by a major symphony orchestra.
10:30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Rob heads back to the Romantic period as he explores the use of cyclic forms in Franck's Symphony in D minor.
11.10am
Rob's artist of the week is the Suk Trio. Throughout the week Rob delves into the archives of this internationally renowned piano trio, sharing recordings including Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D Minor Op. 49, Dvorak's Piano Trio No.3 in F minor, Op.65 and Brahms's Piano Trio No.1 in B major, Op.8.
Beethoven
Piano Trio in D major, Op.70 No.1 'Ghost'
Suk Trio.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b07cbr6v)
Clara Schumann and Her Circle
Clara, Felix and Fanny
This week, Donald Macleod explores the lives and music of Clara Schumann and the extraordinary circle of composers and musicians she moved in. Today, Clara and the dazzlingly talented Mendelssohns – Felix and Fanny – whose untimely deaths within a few months of each other shook her deeply.
Clara Schumann was one of the most important and influential musicians of the 19th century. Hot-housed by her pushy and ambitious piano-teacher father, Friedrich Wieck, she made her concert debut at the Leipzig Gewandhaus at the age of nine and published her first opus – a set of four mazurkas – only two years later. Friedrich’s Grand Plan for Clara would ultimately be knocked off course, however, by the arrival on the scene in autumn 1830 of Robert Schumann, who became the Wiecks’ live-in student. In time, a relationship blossomed, leading eventually, a decade later – when Clara had reached the age of majority – to marriage, whereupon her career very much took a back seat to looking after Robert and the eight children they would produce together. After Robert’s death in 1856, Clara resumed her concert career in earnest – it was, after all, her principal source of income – but more or less stopped composing for good. Her oeuvre, some 50 works, mainly piano miniatures and songs, poses one of the most tantalizing what-ifs in music history – what if her family commitments and the social mores of her day had not constrained Clara Schumann’s development as a composer? Her Piano Trio in G minor, one of less than a handful of large-scale works she was able to complete, suggests one possible answer: that she might perhaps have become one of the leading composers of the second half of the 19th century.
Clara first encountered Felix Mendelssohn in 1835, on his arrival in Leipzig to take up the reins of the Gewandhaus Orchestra. Ten years her senior, he held her in high esteem as a musician, and they performed together frequently, both privately and in public – including the première of Clara’s own Piano Concerto. Like Felix, his sister Fanny Hensel was a gifted pianist who had composed profusely from an early age. But she came from a rich Jewish banking family, and for a woman of her social standing a career as a professional musician – or indeed a career of any kind whatsoever – was simply out of the question. Despite her amateur status, though, Clara generously described Fanny as “undoubtedly the most distinguished woman musician of her time”.
Fanny Hensel
Piano Trio in D, Op 11 (3rd mvt, Lied – Allegretto)
The Dartington Piano Trio (Oliver Butterworth, violin; Michael Evans, cello; Frank Wibaut, piano)
Mendelssohn
Capriccio in F sharp minor, Op 5
Howard Shelley, piano
Fanny Hensel
Verlust (Loss); Fichtenbaum und Palme (Fir Tree and Palm); Italien (Italy)
Christina Högman, soprano
Roland Pöntinen, piano
Mendelssohn
Octet in E flat, Op 20 (4th mvt, Presto)
Academy Chamber Ensemble
Clara Schumann
Piano Trio in G minor, Op 17
Boulanger Trio
Producer: Chris Barstow
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b07cbtyb)
Frick Collection
Episode 2
This week's Lunchtime Concerts - presented by Hannah French - come from The Frick Collection art museum in New York, where an annual series of chamber music recitals has been held for the past 78 years in its glorious music room.
In today's programme, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and pianist Alexander Lonquich perform Beethoven's Cello Sonata in D, Op102 No 2, there are songs by John Dowland from mezzo-soprano Anne-Sofie von Otter with lutenist Thomas Dunford and keyboard player Jonathan Cohen, and the Minetti Quartet plays Alban Berg's String Quartet, Op 3.
Throughout the week, Hannah is at the Frick Collection, and talks to Chief Curator Xavier Salomon about some of the paintings currently on display in the gallery, including van Dyck's portrait of Nicholas Lanier - the first ever Master of the King's Musick.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b07c3x86)
BBC Philharmonic Live from Salford
Tom Redmond introduces a live concert of French music with the BBC Philharmonic. Lorenzo Viotti conducts, and Leonard Elschenbroich joins the orchestra for Saint-Saëns's lyrical First Cello Concerto.
2pm
Poulenc: Les Animaux modèles - suite from the ballet
2.25pm
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor
2.55pm
Chausson: Symphony in B flat, Op 20
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
BBC Philharmonic
Lorenzo Viotti (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b07c44fb)
Manchester Cathedral
Live from Manchester Cathedral on the Eve of Corpus Christi
Organ Prelude: Christe qui lux es et dies (Scheidt)
Introit: Ave verum corpus (Byrd)
Responses: Smith
Psalm 119 vv.73-104 (plainsong)
First Lesson: Exodus 3 vv.1-12
Office Hymn: Of the glorious body telling (Mode iii)
Canticles: Third Service (Batten)
Second Lesson: Acts 7 vv.30-38
Anthem: See, see, the Word is incarnate (Gibbons)
Final Hymn: And now, O Father, mindful of the love (Song 1)
Organ Voluntary: Fantasia of four parts (Gibbons)
Christopher Stokes: Organist and Master of the Choristers
Geoffrey Woollatt: Sub-Organist.
WED 16:30 In Tune (b07c3xmg)
Natalie Clein, Roman Mints, Katya Apekisheva
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news, with guests including cellist Natalie Clein on her recent appointment as Director of Musical Performance at Oxford University plus Moscow-born violinist Roman Mints with pianist Katya Apekisheva playing live in the studio ahead of their recital at Kings Place in London.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b07cbr6v)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b07c430z)
BBC Symphony Orchestra - Joseph Phibbs, Bartok, Vaughan Williams
Sakari Oramo conducts BBC Symphony Orchestra. Bartok's 2nd Violin Concerto with Alina Abragimova, and the Symphony Chorus join for Vaughan Williams's cantata Dona Nobis Pacem. Plus a new work by Joseph Phibbs, dedicated to the memory of his former teacher - the US composer Steven Stucky.
Recorded at the Barbican on 21st May.
Presented by Ian Skelly
Joseph Phibbs: Partita for Orchestra (BBC co-commission: World Premiere)
Béla Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2
8.25: Interval: Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by French pianist Robert Casadesus in a 1952 archive recording.
Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem
Alina Ibragimova, violin
Sarah Fox, soprano
Duncan Rock, baritone
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo Conductor
Sakari Oramo conducts two masterpieces from 1936, composed under the looming threat of war: Vaughan Williams's plea for peace features Sarah Fox, Australian baritone Duncan Rock and the BBC Symphony Chorus, while Bartók's fabulous, folk-inflected violin concerto is performed by the eloquent Alina Ibragimova. The concert opens with a premiere from the formidable Joseph Phibbs, dedicated to the memory of his former teacher - the US composer Steven Stucky. 'Phibbs's sheer accomplishment as a composer is unmistakable. Every idea is telling, every phrase beautiful.' Sunday Times.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b07c4311)
Latin America: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Claudia Pineiro, Eric Hobsbawm
Prize winning Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Argentinian playwright, journalist and leading crime writer Claudia Pineiro join Philip Dodd for a programme exploring fiction and fact in Latin America. There's also journalist Alex Cuadros who chronicles his years covering the rise and fall of Brazil's plutocrats. And a consideration of Eric Hobsbawm's Viva La Revolucion from Dr Oscar Guardiola-Rivera from Birkbeck College in London.
Claudia Pineiro's most recent thriller is called Betty Boo, translated by Miranda France.
Vásquez won the 2014 International Dublin Literary Award, for The Sound of Things Falling and his most recent book to be translated by Anne McLean is Reputations.
Brazillionaires is by Alex Cuadros
40 years of writing about Latin America is brought together posthumously in Eric Hobsbawm's Viva La Revolucion
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is the author of What If Latin America Ruled the World?
Producer: Ruth Watts.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b07cgp25)
Lines of Work
Lines of Work: Soldier Harry Parker on Ulysses S Grant
Prominent people in a particular line of work read and reflect on the writings of an illustrious forebear of the same trade. The essays are partly about ideas and how they change, but also about the practice and the human experience of being a certain kind of thing; be it a teacher, a soldier a critic or a journalist.
Soldier and author Harry Parker, relives The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant, through the lens of his own experiences in Helmand province. Grant fought in the US Mexican War and then commanded the Union armies in the American Civil War. Reading Grant's spare prose Harry reflects on the changes in the way war is experienced, consumed and portrayed.
Producer: James Cook.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b07c43m3)
Nick Luscombe with Family Atlantica
Nick has more highlights from the Late Junction stage at Brighton's Great Escape. We feature international trio Family Atlantica in concert and in conversation at the festival. With members from West Africa, Venezuela and East London they combine afro-jazz, funk, and Latin rhythms on everything from flute to conch shells and thumb piano.
We also have brand new electronica from UK producer Space Dimension Controller, leftfield art rock from Arto Lindsay and contemporary Hawaiian pop from Chucky Boy Chock.
THURSDAY 26 MAY 2016
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b07c3rv7)
Proms 2015: Alina Ibragimova performing Bach's solo violin sonatas and partitas
Violinist Alina Ibragimova concludes her performance of Bach's complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin in the second of her two Late Night BBC Proms from 2015. With Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Partita No.2 in D minor for solo violin, BWV.1004
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
1:02 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Sonata No.3 in C major for solo violin, BWV.1005
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
1:26 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Partita No.3 in E major for solo violin, BWV.1006
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
1:46 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Magnificat in D major BWV.243
Lydia Teuscher (soprano), Maria Espada (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo-soprano), Kenneth Tarver (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone), Bavarian Radio Chorus, Peter Dijkstra (director), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
2:14 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Trio Sonata No.3 in D minor (BWV.527)
Juliusz Gembalski (organ of St Anne Church in Warsaw)
2:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No.26 in D major (K.537), 'Coronation'
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano), Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Pietari Inkinen (conductor)
3:02 AM
Jenner, Gustav Uwe (1865-1920)
Trio in E flat for Clarinet, Horn and Piano (1900)
James Campbell (clarinet), Martin Hackleman (horn), Jane Coop (piano)
3:29 AM
Lange-Müller, Peter Erasmus (1850-1926)
Tre Madonnasange (Op.65)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
3:35 AM
Lawes, William (1602-1645)
Suite a 4 in G minor
Concordia, Mark Levy (Conductor)
3:42 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
The Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
3:49 AM
Kats-Chernin, Elena [b.1957]
Russian Rag
Donna Coleman (piano)
3:55 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
"Caro nome" - Gilda's aria from Act I, scene ii of 'Rigoletto'
Inese Galante (soprano), Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Aleksandrs Vilumanis (conductor)
4:00 AM
Casella, Alfredo [1883-1947]
Barcarola e scherzo
Min Park (flute), Huw Watkins (piano)
4:09 AM
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1789)
Concerto Grosso in B flat major (Op.3 No.1)
Elar Kuiv (Violin), Olev Ainomae (Oboe), Estonian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Paul Magi (Conductor)
4:19 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Rondo in A minor K.511
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
4:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Overture to the opera "Des Teufels Lustschloss" (The Devil's Castle)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor)
4:41 AM
Gesualdo, Carlo (c.1560-1613)
Mercé, grido piangendo - from Madrigali a cinque voci, Libro V...; Napoli, Gian Giacomo Carlino (1611)
Ensemble Daedalus, Roberto Festa (director)
4:46 AM
Frescobaldi, Girolamo [1583-1643]
La Romanesca
Maria Cleary (Arpa Doppia)
4:52 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
Lachrymae (Reflections on 'If my complaints could passions move' by Dowland) for viola and piano (Op.48)
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Markus Hadulla (piano)
5:05 AM
Bantock, Granville [1868-1946]
Celtic symphony for strings and 6 harps
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
5:26 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Five Scottish and Irish Folksongs (WoO.152/20): 1. The Wand'ring Minstrel; 2. I dream'd I lay where flowers; 3. The Elfin Fairies; 4. Charlie is my darling; 5. Farewell Bliss, and Farewell Nancy
Stephen Powell (tenor soloist in No.1), Lorraine Reinhardt (soprano soloist in No.3), Linda Lee Thomas (piano), Gwen Thompson (violin), Eugene Osadchy (cello), Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jon Washburn (conductor)
5:40 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Pensees Lyriques (Op.40) - No.1: Valsette; no.2: Chanson sans paroles; no.3: Humoresque; no.4: Minuetto; no.5: Berçeuse; no.6: Pensee melodique; no.7: Rondoletto; no.8: Scherzando; no.9: Petite serenade; no.10: Polonaise
Eero Heinonen (piano)
6:00 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Lute Concerto in D major
Nigel North (Lute), London Baroque
6:10 AM
Haydn, (Johann) Michael [1737-1806]
Sinfonia in E flat major (MH.340) (P.17)
Academia Palatina, Florian Heyerick (director)
6:25 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Auf dem Wasser zu singen (D.774)
Edith Wiens (soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b07cb18j)
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 (b07cb32w)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with Malorie Blackman
9am
My favourite... Handel Concerti Grossi Op. 6. Rob shares his favourite Baroque masterpieces from Handel's Twelve Grand Concertos. The line up features performances of these energetic concertos by the Academy of Ancient Music directed by Andrew Manze, Concentus Musicus Wien and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Il Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini and Thurston Dart conducting the Boyd Neel Orchestra.
9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related object.
10am
Rob's guest is the author Malorie Blackman. Malorie has written over sixty books for children and young readers and was the Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. Her books include Pig-Heart Boy, which was turned into a BAFTA-winning television series, Cloud Busting, and the critically acclaimed Noughts and Crosses series. Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her contribution to children's books, and has also received an OBE for her services to children's literature. Malorie will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by the 19th century composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor, and Florence Price, the first African-American woman to have a composition performed by a major symphony orchestra.
10:30am
Music in Time: Classical
Rob takes a trip to the Classical period with a recording of Clementi's Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 34, a piece with many features in common with Beethoven's 'Pathétique' Sonata, written just three years later.
11am
Rob's artist of the week is the Suk Trio. Throughout the week Rob delves into the archives of this internationally renowned piano trio, sharing recordings including Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D Minor Op. 49, Dvorak's Piano Trio No.3 in F minor, Op.65 and Brahms's Piano Trio No.1 in B major, Op.8.
Brahms
Piano Trio No.1 in B major, Op.8
Suk Trio.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b07cbrpd)
Clara Schumann and Her Circle
Clara and Liszt
This week, Donald Macleod explores the lives and music of Clara Schumann and the extraordinary circle of composers and musicians she moved in. Today, Clara and Franz Liszt – a man and musician she at first idolised but came to loathe.
Clara Schumann was one of the most important and influential musicians of the 19th century. Hot-housed by her pushy and ambitious piano-teacher father, Friedrich Wieck, she made her concert debut at the Leipzig Gewandhaus at the age of nine and published her first opus – a set of four mazurkas – only two years later. Friedrich’s Grand Plan for Clara would ultimately be knocked off course, however, by the arrival on the scene in autumn 1830 of Robert Schumann, who became the Wiecks’ live-in student. In time, a relationship blossomed, leading eventually, a decade later – when Clara had reached the age of majority – to marriage, whereupon her career very much took a back seat to looking after Robert and the eight children they would produce together. After Robert’s death in 1856, Clara resumed her concert career in earnest – it was, after all, her principal source of income – but more or less stopped composing for good. Her oeuvre, some 50 works, mainly piano miniatures and songs, poses one of the most tantalizing what-ifs in music history – what if her family commitments and the social mores of her day had not constrained Clara Schumann’s development as a composer? Her Piano Trio in G minor, one of less than a handful of large-scale works she was able to complete, suggests one possible answer: that she might perhaps have become one of the leading composers of the second half of the 19th century.
“Distintissimo!” – most distinguished! – that’s how the 19th-century piano superstar Franz Liszt described Clara Schumann after seeing her play in Vienna in 1838. And Clara, like most people, was absolutely bowled over by Liszt – “He cannot be compared to any other player – he is absolutely unique”, she wrote in her diary. But as a composer, she gradually came to detest him, and by the time of his death she could write that “his compositions lack those very qualities which he possessed as a virtuoso; they are trivial and tedious and will certainly soon disappear from the world in the wake of his passing.” Liszt, by contrast, paid Clara the compliment, late in life, of transcribing three of her songs for solo piano.
Clara Schumann
Loreley
Barbara Bonney, soprano
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Schubert, transcribed Liszt
Gretchen am Spinnrade (D118), S558 No 8
Yuja Wang, piano
Clara Schumann
Variations de concert pour le pianoforte sur la Cavatine du Pirate de Bellini, Op 8
Suzanne Grutzmann, piano
Clara Schumann
Impromptu in G, Op 9 (Souvenir de Vienne)
Jozef de Beenhouwer, piano
Liszt
Grandes variations de concert (Hexaméron) sur un thème des Puritains, S654
Piano Duo Genova & Dimitrov
Clara Schumann, transcribed Liszt
Warum willst du andere fragen?, Op 12 No 3; Ich hab’ in deinem Auge, Op 13 No 5; Geheimes Flüstern, Op 23 No 3
Leslie Howard, piano
Producer: Chris Barstow
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b07cbtyd)
Frick Collection
Episode 3
This week's Lunchtime Concerts - presented by Hannah French - come from The Frick Collection art museum in New York, where an annual series of chamber music recitals has been held for the past 78 years in its splendid music room.
In today's programme, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and pianist Alexander Lonquich perform Debussy's Cello Sonata and Three Pieces by Nadia Boulanger, there are songs & scenas by Michel Lambert, Francesco Provenzale and Arvo Part from mezzo-soprano Anne-Sofie von Otter with lutenist Thomas Dunford and keyboard player Jonathan Cohen.
Throughout the week, Hannah is at the Frick Collection, and talks to Chief Curator Xavier Salomon about some of the paintings currently on display in the gallery, including Edgar Degas' "The Rehearsal".
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b07c3x88)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Verdi - Stiffelio
In today's opera matinee, Verity Sharp presents Verdi's underrated drama of adultery and forgiveness, Stiffelio, in a recent recording of the 2015 production from Venice's Teatro La Fenice. Verdi's original production met resistance from the Catholic authorities because of the religious content of the opera about a Protestant minister who was a married man of God. Like Verdi's contemporary opera, La Traviata, it deals with issues of social hypocrisy; and it shares a similar musical language. The drama continues with a swasbuckling account from the 1930s which celebrates Henry V's famous victory in France.
Stiffelio, a Protestant minister.... Stefano Secco (tenor)
Lina, his wife.... Julianna Di Giacomo (soprano)
Count Stankar, her father, an elderly colonel .... Dimitri Platanias (baritone)
Raffaele, Lina's lover .... Francesco Marsiglia (tenor)
Jorg, an elderly minister .... Simon Lim (bass)
Dorotea, Lina's cousin .... Sofia Koberidze (mezzo-soprano)
Federico di Frengel, Dorotea's lover .... Cristiano Olivieri (tenor)
Teatro La Fenice Chorus and Orchestra
Daniele Rustioni
2.00pm Act I
3.00pm Act II
3.25pm Act III
4.05pm
Walter Leigh: Agincourt
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b07c3xmp)
Joseph Horovitz, Elin Manahan Thomas and Elizabeth Kenny, Shabaka Hutchings and Kadialy Kouyate
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news, with live performance from soprano Elin Manahan Thomas and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny before they head north to the Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival. Poet Anthony Joseph, saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings and kora player Kadialy Kouyate join us ahead of their concert at the Spitalfields Music Summer Festival, plus composer Joseph Horovitz celebrates his 90th birthday with Sean.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b07cbrpd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b07c4319)
Stravinsky Tales
Stravinsky Tales - Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Renard, Mavra and Les Noces - three short operatic works by Stravinsky.
The Philharmonia is joined by a group of soloists from the Mariinsky Theatre for three tales which in different ways reflect Stravinsky's love of his Russian homeland. Renard, The Fable of the Vixen, the Cock, the Cat and the Ram, is a 'burlesque for the stage with singing and music,' based on Russian folktales whilst Mavra is a one act homage to Russian writers and maybe too a satire of bourgeois manners. Although its premiere in Paris in 1922 was not wholly successful, Stravinsky himself thought very highly of the work, saying once that "Mavra seems to me the best thing I've done". After the interval comes Les noces, a glorious celebration, tinged with sadness, of a Russian peasant wedding. Though not as famous as his earlier works for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Les noces is perhaps the most original and radical of them all.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces these semi-staged performances live from the Royal Festival Hall.
Stravinsky
Renard
Stravinsky
Mavra
-interval-
Stravinsky
Les noces
Soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Tamara Stefanovich, Nenad Lecic and Lorenzo Soulès (pianos)
Philharmonia Voices
Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b07c431c)
The Tale of Genji, Algorithms
Rana Mitter rereads The Tale of Genji. Sometimes called the world's first novel it was written in the early years of the 11th century and has been credited to the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu. This year's Bradford Literature Festival is focusing on the modern translation from Dennis Washburn, Professor at Dartmouth College (USA).
Dennis Washburn joins Rana along with Jennifer Guest and Christopher Harding.
Also in this programme, Brian Christian, co-author of new book 'Algorithms to Live By' on how maths helps us make decisions, and clinical psychologist Rasjid Skinner on Islamic approaches to psychology.
Richard Bowring, Dennis Washburn, Juliet Winters Carpenter discuss The Tale of Genji at the Bradford Literature Festival on Saturday, 28th May 2016 |
2:00 pm -
3:15 pm
Hadj Abdur Rasjid Skinner presents Islamic Approaches to Psychology at the Bradford Literature Festival on Saturday, 28th May 2016 | 1
0:30 am -
1:00 pm
Brian Christian is the author of Algorithms to Live By and of The Most Human Human.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b07cgq1j)
Lines of Work
Lines of Work: Journalist Helen Lewis on John Milton
In Lines of Work prominent people in a particular job read and reflect on the writings of an illustrious forebear of the same trade. The essays are partly about ideas and how they change, but also about the practice and experience of being a certain kind of thing; be it a teacher, a journalist, a soldier or a critic.
Journalist Helen Lewis reads the poet John Milton's defence of a Free Press, Aeropagitica. The question of freedom of the press rarely goes away but it feels particularly of the moment. Helen, deputy editor of the New Statesman, reads Milton for the first time to see whether his 17th century concerns can help us think through the post-Leveson age.
Producer: James Cook.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b07c43m5)
Nick Luscombe with a live mix by Andy Votel from The Great Escape
Nick has more highlights from the Late Junction line-up at The Great Escape in Brighton, the leading festival for emerging bands in the UK. We have an exclusive mix by Andy Votel, owner of notorious Mancunian crate digging label Finders Keepers, recorded live from the Late Junction stage. Expect psychedelic oddities, rare european soundtracks and cult library records.
Also on the programme we have music composed for ceiling fans by Klaas Hübner, electro-acoustic chamber music from San Francisco based composer George Hurd, new sounds from Mego artist Klara Lewis and wonky outsider pop from Gary Wilson.
FRIDAY 27 MAY 2016
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b07c3rv9)
Danish National Chamber Orchestra
Catriona Young presents an all-Mozart concert from the reborn Danish National Chamber Orchestra and its conductor Adám Fischer.
12:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony in G minor No. 25 (K.183)
Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Adám Fischer (Conductor)
12:57 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Exsultate, jubilate- motet for soprano and orchestra (K.165)
Henriette Bonde-Hansen (Soprano), Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Adám Fischer (Conductor)
1:13 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony no. 35 in D major K.385 (Haffner)
Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Adám Fischer (Conductor)
1:32 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Overture from Die Zauberflote (K.620)
Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Adám Fischer (Conductor)
1:37 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Concerto for violin and orchestra in E minor (Op.64)
Isaac Stern (Violin), Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nikolai Malko (Conductor)
2:04 AM
Gombert, Nicolas (c.1495-c.1560)
Musae Jovis a 6
Ars Nova Vocal Group, Bo Holten (Conductor)
2:12 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No 39 in G minor
Danish Radio Sinfonietta/DR, Adám Fischer (Conductor)
2:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Trio for piano and strings (Op.1'1) in E flat major
Grieg Trio
3:02 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Sonata for piano (H.
16.29) in F major
Eduard Kunz (Piano)
3:16 AM
Saint-Georges, Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de (1745-1799)
Violin Concerto in D major (Op.3, No.1) (1774)
Linda Melsted (Violin), Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (Conductor)
3:38 AM
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953)
Prelude - No. 7 from 10 Pieces for piano (Op.12)
Roger Woodward (Piano)
3:41 AM
Rota, Nino (1911-1979)
Otto e mezzo (Eight and a Half) (music for the film)
Hungarian Brass Ensemble
3:46 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
4 Folk Songs: Come thee unto the hills [1. Mo Nighean Dhu (My dark-haired maiden); 2: O Mistress Mine [words. Shakespeare]; 3: six dukes went afishin' [BFMS.11]; 4: Mary Thomson [c.1913]
Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (Conductor)
3:57 AM
Satie, Erik (1866-1925)
Jack-in-the-box pantomime
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (Conductor)
4:04 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Rondo for violin and orchestra in C major (K.373)
Barnabás Keleman (Violin), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltan Kocsis (Conductor)
4:10 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Pavan (Z.752) and Chacony (Z.730) for 4 instruments in G minor
London Baroque
4:19 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
Overture to La Gazza ladra
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Gunter Pichler (Conductor)
4:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Overture from Don Giovanni - Opera in 2 acts (K.527)
Danish Radio Sinfonietta, Adám Fischer (Conductor)
4:37 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Sonatine (1903-05)
Aldo Ciccolini (piano)
4:50 AM
Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924)
Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut (between Acts 2 and 3)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (Conductor)
4:56 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
Concert Fantasia on two Russian themes for violin and orchestra (Op.33)
Valentin Stefanov (Violin), Orchestra 'Symphonieta' of the Bulgarian National Radio, Stoyan Angelov (Conductor)
5:15 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Tapiola - symphonic poem, Op.112
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (Conductor)
5:30 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Finale - Symphony No 45 in F sharp minor
Danish Radio Sinfonietta/DR, Adám Fischer (Conductor)
5:36 AM
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904)
Symphonic variations (Op.78)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (Conductor)
6:02 AM
Morley, Thomas (c.1557-1602), Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Burial Sentences (Morley) & They are at rest (Elgar)
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (Director)
6:15 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis for double string orchestra
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (Conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b07cb18l)
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 (b07cb32y)
Friday - Rob Cowan with Malorie Blackman
9am
My favourite... Handel Concerti Grossi Op. 6. Rob shares his favourite Baroque masterpieces from Handel's Twelve Grand Concertos. The line up features performances of these energetic concertos by the Academy of Ancient Music directed by Andrew Manze, Concentus Musicus Wien and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Il Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini and Thurston Dart conducting the Boyd Neel Orchestra.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the place associated with a well-known work.
10am
Rob's guest is the author Malorie Blackman. Malorie has written over sixty books for children and young readers and was the Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. Her books include Pig-Heart Boy, which was turned into a BAFTA-winning television series, Cloud Busting, and the critically acclaimed Noughts and Crosses series. Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her contribution to children's books, and has also received an OBE for her services to children's literature. Malorie will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by the 19th century composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor, and Florence Price, the first African-American woman to have a composition performed by a major symphony orchestra.
10:30am
Music in Time: Renaissance
The spotlight is on the Renaissance period and The English Madrigal School, with music including William Byrd's This sweet and merry month of May (known as the first English madrigal), Thomas Morley's Arise, awake, you silly shepherds sleeping and Thomas Tomkins's Weep no more thou sorry boy.
11am
Rob's artist of the week is the Suk Trio. Throughout the week Rob delves into the archives of this internationally renowned piano trio, sharing recordings including Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D Minor Op. 49, Dvorak's Piano Trio No.3 in F minor, Op.65 and Brahms's Piano Trio No.1 in B major, Op.8.
Schubert
Piano Trio in B flat major, D898
Suk Trio.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b07cbs99)
Clara Schumann and Her Circle
Clara and Brahms
This week, Donald Macleod explores the lives and music of Clara Schumann and the extraordinary circle of composers and musicians she moved in. Today, Clara and Johannes Brahms, whose friendship – and bickering – lasted over 40 years.
Clara Schumann was one of the most important and influential musicians of the 19th century. Hot-housed by her pushy and ambitious piano-teacher father, Friedrich Wieck, she made her concert debut at the Leipzig Gewandhaus at the age of nine and published her first opus – a set of four mazurkas – only two years later. Friedrich’s Grand Plan for Clara would ultimately be knocked off course, however, by the arrival on the scene in autumn 1830 of Robert Schumann, who became the Wiecks’ live-in student. In time, a relationship blossomed, leading eventually, a decade later – when Clara had reached the age of majority – to marriage, whereupon her career very much took a back seat to looking after Robert and the eight children they would produce together. After Robert’s death in 1856, Clara resumed her concert career in earnest – it was, after all, her principal source of income – but more or less stopped composing for good. Her oeuvre, some 50 works, mainly piano miniatures and songs, poses one of the most tantalizing what-ifs in music history – what if her family commitments and the social mores of her day had not constrained Clara Schumann’s development as a composer? Her Piano Trio in G minor, one of less than a handful of large-scale works she was able to complete, suggests one possible answer: that she might perhaps have become one of the leading composers of the second half of the 19th century.
When Clara Schumann recalled in her diary the day she met Johannes Brahms, she described him as “God-sent”. She was referring to his musical talent, but his arrival on her Düsseldorf doorstep in October 1853 turned out to be providential for entirely different reasons. Robert Schumann had been acting erratically for some time, but Clara couldn’t have imagined how quickly his situation would deteriorate. Just four months later he suffered a complete mental breakdown and was committed at his own request to the insane asylum at Endenich where he would die almost two and a half years later. Brahms, a young man of just 20, stepped into the breach as a sort of surrogate head of the household. He quickly became indispensable to Clara, offering much-needed practical as well as emotional support – helping to look after her seven surviving children, doing the household accounts and liaising with Robert’s doctors about the progress of his illness. After Robert’s funeral, Brahms took Clara and two of the children away for a break in Lucerne. No-one knows what transpired there – perhaps Brahms proposed marriage and Clara declined – but it was a major turning-point in their relationship. Brahms’s residency at the Schumann home was over. He returned home to Hamburg, and for the next 40 years he and Clara remained the closest of platonic friends, periodically falling out but always making up. Brahms never married. Thirteen years Clara’s junior, he survived her by less than 12 months.
Clara Schumann
Sechs Lieder aus Jucunde, Op 23 (No 5, Das ist ein Tag, der klingen mag (This is a day of singing))
Gabriele Fontana, soprano
Konstanze Eickhorst, piano
Brahms
Scherzo in E flat minor, Op 4
Julius Katchen, piano
DECCA 455 247-2 CD 2 tk 6
Clara Schumann
3 Romances, Op 22
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Alice Sara Ott, piano
Clara Schumann
3 Romances, Op 21
Cristina Ortiz, piano
Brahms
Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor, Op 15 (2nd mvt, Adagio)
Radu Lupu, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Edo de Waart, conductor
Clara Schumann
Romance in B minor, Op posth
Konstanze Eickhorst, piano
Producer: Chris Barstow
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b07cbtyg)
Frick Collection
Episode 4
This week's Lunchtime Concerts - presented by Hannah French - come from The Frick Collection art museum in New York, where an annual series of chamber music recitals has been held for the past 78 years in its splendid music room.
In today's programme, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and pianist Alexander Lonquich perform Britten's Cello Sonata in C, the Minetti Quartet plays Beethoven's first string quartet, Op.18 No.1 in F, and there are songs by Michel Lambert from mezzo-soprano Anne-Sofie von Otter with lutenist Thomas Dunford and keyboard player Jonathan Cohen.
Throughout the week, Hannah is at the Frick Collection, and talks to Chief Curator Xavier Salomon about some of the paintings currently on display in the gallery, including Jean-Simeon Chardin's Lady with a Bird Organ.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b07cbyr2)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Episode 3
Verity Sharp embarks upon a week of programmes on a voyage with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with a nautical overture, mixing "Rule Britannia" with a jaunty horpipe. Britten landed in America at the outbreak of the Second World War and captured the spirit of the wide open plains and of jazz in his overture. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales landed in America in 2007 with Thierry Fischer, playing Honegger's impression of a steam locomotive that would have been commonplace on the American railroads in the early twentieth century. Late last year the orchestra visited South America, playing Ginastera's harp concerto in Buenos Aires in the presence of the composer's daughter. American conductor Eric Stern brings his broadway bravura to the orchestra in favourites by Gershwin and Bernstein, plus the seminal all-American Third Symphony by Roy Harris. Soloist Chloe Hanslip braves the challenges of the electric violin for John Adams's haunting impression of the towering mountains that crash into the Pacific Ocean in California.
2pm
Alexander Mackenzie: Britannia - a nautical overture op.52
BBC National Orhcestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
2.10pm
Britten: An American Overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)
2.20pm
Honegger: Pacific 231
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)
2.25pm
Ginastera: Harp Concerto
Catrin Finch (harp)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
2.50pm
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
William Wolfram (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Eric Stern (conductor)
3.10pm
John Adams: The Dharma at Big Sur
Chloe Hanslip (electric violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Eric Stern (conductor)
3.40pm
Roy Harris: Symphony no. 3
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Eric Stern (conductor)
4pm
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Eric Stern (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b07c3xmr)
Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton, Richard Stokes
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news, with live performance from mezzo soprano Sarah Connolly and pianist Joseph Middleton as they prepare for a recital at Wigmore Hall marking the launch of The Penguin Book of English Song written by Richard Stokes.
FRI 18:45 Composer of the Week (b07cbs99)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:45 Radio 3 in Concert (b07c431g)
Ulster Orchestra - Beethoven and Berlioz
Rafael Payare conducts the Ulster Orchestra in Beethoven's Fourth Symphony and the Symphony Fantastique by Berlioz.
Live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast
Presented by John Toal
Beethoven: Symphony No.4 in B flat
8.15: Interval
8.35
Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique
Chief Conductor Rafael Payare brings the season to a thrilling conclusion with a blockbuster programme of music by two of the heavyweights of the Romantic era.
The lively Fourth Symphony is Beethoven at the peak of his powers, whilst Berlioz's epic masterpiece of obsessive desire, Symphonie fantastique, with its five fantastic movements (including the famous March to the Scaffold and Witches' Sabbath), is a unique musical juggernaut of expressive force.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b07c431j)
Dawn Chorus
Early riser Ian McMillan celebrates the Dawn Chorus. his fellow early birds include the sound artist and poet, Caroline Bergvall who presents work inspired by the sonic landscape of the early morning. Specially for The Verb, poet Geraldine Monk has written an Aubade - a poem to celebrate daybreak.
There is also work in progress from the novelist Alex Preston, who is writing a literary ornithology.
Producer: Cecile Wright.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b07cgsr1)
Lines of Work
Lines of Work: Gardener Jackie Bennett on Francis Bacon
In Lines of Work prominent people in a particular job read and reflect on the writings of an illustrious forebear. In this essay the gardener Jackie Bennett responds to the ideas and principles laid out by the Elizabethan thinker Francis Bacon in his Essay 'Of Gardens'.
Producer: James Cook.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b07c43mj)
Lopa Kothari - Zakir Hussain Concert
Lopa Kothari presents a special concert of Zakir Hussain and the BBC Concert Orchestra recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, featuring Hussain's latest work 'Peshkar' an original concerto combining the virtuosity of tabla improvisation with the structure and melodic framework of Western classical music.