Catriona Young presents Verdi's Requiem from the 2015 BBC Proms, performed by soloists and chorus with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Donald Runnicles.
Angela Meade (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Yosep Kang (tenor), Raymond Aceto (bass), Concert Association of the Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
11 Fantasias on 16th-Century songs (Une jeune fillette; Que n'ay-je des ailes mon Dieu; Le Seigneur dès qu'on nous offense, Pange lingua)
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), transcr. Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), transcr. Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Ständchen (from Schwanengesang D.957) arr. for piano
Ritva Autinen (soprano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kari Tikka (conductor)
Erik T. Tawaststjerna and Hui-Ying Liu (pianos)
Aria 'Wie furchtsam' - from Cantata No.33 'Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ' (BWV.33),
Peter Hannan (recorder), Colin Tilney (harpsichord), Christel Thielmann (viola da gamba)
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
My favourite... British string music. We'll hear a mixture of favourites including Elgar's Serenade for Strings and the Fantasia on Greensleeves by Vaughan Williams, along with lesser-known works by Charles Avison and Frederic Delius.
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery place.
Sarah's special guest, especially for the week of BBC Music Day, is the musician, composer and broadcaster Guy Garvey. He's the front man of rock band Elbow, who have released six studio albums, won the Mercury Music Prize, headlined at Glastonbury and performed a specially written song for the closing of the 2012 Olympics in London. Guy also released a solo album last year, which reached the top three of the album charts. He's won Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting and presents his own programme 'The Finest Hour' on BBC 6 Music. Every day at
Guy will be choosing a selection of his favourite classical music including pieces by Puccini, Françaix and Mendelssohn.
Sarah heads back to the Medieval period with a Saltarello by Joan Ambrosio Dalza. Originally from Italy, the saltarello is a dance form played in a fast triple meter and named after the Italian 'saltare' - 'to jump'.
In the week of BBC Music Day, a UK-wide celebration of everything we love about music, Sarah features choral societies from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales including the Huddersfield Choral Society, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus and the Treorchy Male Voice Choir.
This week Donald Macleod explores the colourful life and music of George Gershwin. Today Gershwin brings in the crowds on Broadway and in the concert hall.
A life cut short, George Gershwin died in 1937 of a brain tumour at the age of just 38. Yet this isn't a story of what might have been. Gershwin's musical legacy stands as one of admirable achievement. He wrote a string of twelve Broadway musicals, orchestral music and an opera. He penned some of the most recorded tunes in the popular song catalogue of all time. We'll hear many of them across the week, in classic versions made by some of the twentieth century's legendary voices, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire and Judy Garland. Outside the sphere of popular music, Gershwin's orchestral music won plenty of public support although his critical reception was mixed. Nonetheless among his supporters were significant figures in the classical world such as the New York Philharmonic's Walter Damrosch.
Despite the breadth of his appeal, his professional standing and his wealth, Gershwin remained a man who never felt truly confident in his own musical knowledge, perhaps because his musical education had been limited by circumstance. He was born in 1898 in New York, the second son of Jewish immigrant parents, Morris and Rose Gershowitz. As a child George excelled on roller-skates rather than school-work. Leaving altogether at the age of 14 he was pounding away on a piano in Tin Pan Alley for 10 hours a day. Success came early though when he persuaded Al Jolson to record his song "Swanee". The two million records it sold made George a comfortable pile, and from there on, as they say, "the rest is history".
As a song plugger on Tin Pan Alley Gershwin was introduced to Fred and his sister Adele, going on a few years later to produce a Broadway musical for them, "Lady Be Good" and establishing himself as concert pianist, taking five curtain calls at the premiere of his jazz concerto "Rhapsody in Blue".
From Wigmore Hall, London, pianist Till Fellner explores the idea of fantasy in music, from the light and shade of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 13 to the romanticism of Schumann's Beethoven-inspired Fantasie.
Penny Gore presents a week of concert highlights performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Tuesday's programme includes a live performance by the Ulster Orchestra, and on Friday the BBC Singers perform live as part of BBC Music Day. Today's programme includes performances recorded at the Orchestra's home in City Halls in Glasgow, including Telemann, Mozart and Panufnik.
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Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music, chat, and arts news. His guests include composer Anna Meredith ahead of the world premiere of her latest work, given by the Scottish Ensemble, and pianist Mark Bebbington who performs live in the studio, and chats about his new CD featuring works by Gershwin.
The BBC Singers and St James's Baroque perform Handel's dramatic oratorio Saul, recorded in April at Milton Court in London.
St. James's Baroque
Composed at white-heat in the summer of 1739, and a triumphant comeback for Handel after months of poor health, Saul was the longest, largest, most powerfully theatrical English stage work to date. The story of the Israelites' quest for a king includes the tales of Goliath, the Witch of Endor, and the passionate relationship of David and Jonathan, leavened with murderous jealousy, terrible pathos and tragic greatness - all illuminated by Handel's finest music.
In this series of The Essay, recorded this week in front of an audience at the Hay Festival, five writers explore The Art of Storytelling. The writers include linguist Prof. David Crystal, broadcaster and musician Clemency Burton-Hill, Shakespeare scholar Prof. Emma Smith and novelist Jon Gower.
Today Edmund de Waal, artist and writer of the memoir 'The Hare With Amber Eyes' considers the idea of storytelling through objects, taking as his starting-point a fragment of 12th century porcelain he bought in a Chinese street-market.
Part of Radio 3's week-long residency at the Hay Festival, with programmes In Tune, Lunchtime Concert, Free Thinking and The Verb all broadcasting from the Festival.
In a programme in which the spirit of Miles Davis is never far away, Soweto Kinch presents a concert set from Jazz Baltica by the legendary Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava, recorded with his quintet featuring the brilliant young trombonist Gianluca Petrella, winner of the Django d'or Award. Rava's sound is heavily influenced by Davis, and the programme also focuses on other aspects of Miles, including the recently released collected recordings from his 1960 European tour with John Coltrane.
TUESDAY 31 MAY 2016
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b07cyk6s)
Sinfonia Varsovia in Poland
Catriona Young presents a concert from Sinfonia Varsovia in Poland, performing music by Panufnik, Vivaldi, Mozart and Beethoven.
12:31 AM
Panufnik, Andrzej (1914-1991)
Old Polish Suite for string orchestra
Sinfonia Varsovia, Andres Mustonen (conductor)
12:42 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Sinfonia from L'Incoronazione di Dario - opera RV.719
Sinfonia Varsovia, Andres Mustonen (conductor)
12:48 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Sinfonia in G major RV.146 for string orchestra
Sinfonia Varsovia, Andres Mustonen (conductor)
12:55 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Sinfonia concertante in E flat major K.297b for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon & orchestra
Arkadiusz Krupa (oboe), Aleksander Romanski (clarinet), Zbigniew Pluzek (bassoon), Tomasz Binkowski (horn), Sinfonia Varsovia, Andres Mustonen (conductor)
1:24 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Symphony No.2 in D major Op.36
Sinfonia Varsovia, Andres Mustonen (conductor)
1:56 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto in B flat major, K.595
Ingrid Haebler (piano), Brabant Orchestra, André Vandernoot (conductor)
2:31 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Miroirs
Pedja Muzijevic (piano)
3:01 AM
Kodaly, Zoltan [1882-1967]
Missa brevis (... tempore belli)
Alice Komároni (soprano), Ágnes Tumpekné Kuti (soprano), Pécsi Kamarakórus (Soloists: Anikó Kopjár, Éva Nagy, Tímea Tillai, János Szerekován, Jószef Moldvay), István Ella (organ), Aurél Tillai (conductor)
3:35 AM
Marais, Marin (1656-1728)
La Paraza
Vittorio Ghielmi (Viola da Gamba), Luca Pianca (Lute)
3:37 AM
Marais, Marin (1656-1728)
La Rêveuse (No.28 from Suitte d'un goût étranger)
Vittorio Ghielmi (Viola da Gamba), Luca Pianca (Lute)
3:42 AM
Marais, Marin (1656-1728)
L'Arabesque (No.26 from Suitte d'un goût étranger)
Vittorio Ghielmi (Viola da Gamba), Luca Pianca (Lute)
3:46 AM
Janacek, Leos [1854-1928]
The Madonna of Frydek - from On An Overgrown Path
Ivo Kahánek (piano)
3:50 AM
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936)
Concert Waltz No.1 in D major Op.47
CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Kazuyoshi Akiyama (conductor)
3:59 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Divertimento in G major Hob.IV No.4 (London Trio No.4)
Carol Wincenc (flute), Philip Setzer (violin), Carter Brey (cello)
4:03 AM
Jarzebski, Adam (1590-1649)
Venite Exultemus - concerto a 2
Bruce Dickey (cornetto), Alberto Grazzi (bassoon), Michael Fentross (theorbo), Jacques Ogg (organ)
4:09 AM
Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Friede auf Erden (Op.13)
Danish National Radio Choir
4:19 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Ballade No.3 in A flat major Op.47
Valerie Tryon (piano)
4:26 AM
Weiner, Leó (1885-1960)
Fox Dance - from Divertimento No.1
Concentus Hungaricus; Ildikó Hegyi (concert master)
4:31 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Gypsy Dance - from the idyll 'Jawnuta' (The Gypsies)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Salwarowski (conductor)
4:35 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856] Arr Liszt
Widmung S.566, transc. for piano
Beatrice Rana (piano)
4:39 AM
Converse, Frederick [1871-1940]
Festival of Pan, Op.9
BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockhart (conductor)
4:57 AM
Albicastro, Henricus (fl.1700-06)
Violin Sonata Op.9 No.12 'La Folia'
Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini (conductor)
5:09 AM
Koehne, Graeme (b. 1956)
Capriccio
Clemens Leske (piano), Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Janos Furst (conductor)
5:29 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918), text: Louÿs, Pierre (1870-1925)
Chansons de Bilitis - 3 melodies for voice and piano
Paula Hoffman (mezzo-soprano), Lars-David Nilsson (piano)
5:39 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
On Wings of Song (Op.34 No.2) arr. anon for clarinet & piano
Hyun-Gon Kim (clarinet), Chi-Ho Cho (piano)
5:42 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Spring Song (Frühlingslied) Op.62 No.6
Hyun-Gon Kim (clarinet), Chi-Ho Cho (piano)
5:44 AM
Haydn, (Johann) Michael (1737-1806)
Divertimento in A major for string quartet MH.299 (P.121)
Marcolini Quartett
6:01 AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
6 pieces from Mikrokosmos arr. Bartók for 2 pianos
Claire Ouellet and Sandra Murray (pianos)
6:11 AM
Widor, Charles Marie (1844-1937)
Suite for flute and piano Op.34
Katherine Rudolph (flute), Rena Sharon (piano).
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b07cykml)
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 (b07cykvz)
Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey
9am
My favourite... British string music. We'll hear a mixture of favourites including Elgar's Serenade for Strings and the Fantasia on Greensleeves by Vaughan Williams, along with lesser-known works by Charles Avison and Frederick Delius.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Sarah's special guest, especially for the week of BBC Music Day, is the musician, composer and broadcaster Guy Garvey. He's the front man of rock band Elbow, who have released six studio albums, won the Mercury Music Prize, headlined at Glastonbury and performed a specially written song for the closing of the 2012 Olympics in London. Guy also released a solo album last year, which reached the top three of the album charts. He's won Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting and presents his own programme 'The Finest Hour' on BBC 6 Music. Every day at
10am Guy will be choosing a selection of his favourite classical music including pieces by Puccini, Françaix and Mendelssohn.
10.30am
Music in Time: Renaissance
Sarah examines Renaissance composer Palestrina's Missa Assumpta est Maria, in which strict rules of melodic writing combine with a restricted use of intervals, to create music that was felt at the time to be 'perfect' enough for worship.
11am
In the week of BBC Music Day, a UK-wide celebration of everything we love about music, Sarah features choral societies from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales including the Huddersfield Choral Society, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus and the Treorchy Male Voice Choir.
Mendelssohn
Elijah - "Oh thou, who makest thine angels... Thanks be to God!
Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Paul Daniel (conductor).
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b07cyky8)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Backstage Dramas
This week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of George Gershwin. Today Gershwin enjoys good business on Broadway and in London's West End as well as keeping up his appearances as a pianist on the concert platform.
A life cut short, George Gershwin died in 1937 of a brain tumour at the age of just 38. Yet this isn't a story of what might have been. Gershwin's musical legacy stands as one of admirable achievement. He wrote a string of twelve Broadway musicals, orchestral music and an opera. He penned some of the most recorded tunes in the popular song catalogue of all time. We'll hear many of them across the week, in classic versions made by some of the twentieth century's legendary voices, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire and Judy Garland. Outside the sphere of popular music, Gershwin's orchestral music won plenty of public support although his critical reception was mixed. Nonetheless among his supporters were significant figures in the classical world such as the New York Philharmonic's Walter Damrosch.
Despite the breadth of his appeal, his professional standing and his wealth, Gershwin remained a man who never felt truly confident in his own musical knowledge, perhaps because his musical education had been limited by circumstance. He was born in 1898 in New York, the second son of Jewish immigrant parents, Morris and Rose Gershowitz. As a child George excelled on roller-skates rather than school-work. Leaving altogether at the age of 14 he was pounding away on a piano in Tin Pan Alley for 10 hours a day. Success came early though when he persuaded Al Jolson to record his song "Swanee". The two million records it sold made George a comfortable pile, and from there on, as they say, "the rest is history".
Building on the success garnered with "Lady Be Good" Gershwin and his lyricist partner, brother Ira, had three more shows opening on Broadway and a further three in London. As if that wasn't enough, after a short break in Europe, Gershwin returned with sketches for a new concerto, which naturally enough would feature himself as the pianist for the premiere at Carnegie Hall.
Someone To Watch Over Me (Oh, Kay!)
Dawn Upshaw, Kay
Orchestra of St. Luke's
Eric Stern, conductor
Overture (Tip-Toes)
The New Princess Theater Orchestra
John McGlinn, conductor
Piano Concerto in F
Xiayin Wang, piano
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Peter OUndjian, conductor
Maybe; Clap Yo Hands; Do, Do, Do (Oh, Kay!)
Patrick Cassidy, Larry Potter
Kurt Ollmann, Jimmy Winter
Dawn Upshaw, Kay
Ensemble
Orchestra of St. Luke's
Eric Stern, conductor.
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b07cyl36)
2016 Hay Festival - Sitkovetsky Duo
Clemency Burton-Hill presents a concert of music with a Spanish flavour performed by the Sitkovetsky Duo, broadcast live from St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye, during the 2016 Hay Festival. Included in the concert is de Falla's Suite derived from songs he composed whilst in France, the First Violin Sonata by Prokofiev, and Sarasate's Ziguenerweisen Op 20 - his Gypsy Airs demonstrating at the time that a Spaniard was a match for Brahms and Liszt in the so-called Hungarian style.
Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin
Wu Qian, piano
de Falla: Suite popular española
Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No 1 in F minor, Op 80
Sarasate: Ziguenerweisen, Op 20
Produced by Luke Whitlock
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b07cyn56)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ulster Orchestra Live
Today's programme opens with a live performance by the Ulster Orchestra introduced by John Toal in the Ulster Hall in Ulster, including music by Mozart and Beethoven. Penny Gore then introduces recent performances given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in repertoire by Ginastera and Schumann.
Live from the Ulster Hall, introduced by John Toal
2pm
Beethoven: Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus - Overture
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Spohr: Concerto in A minor for string quartet and orchestra Op.131
Armida Quartet
Ulster Orchestra
Ben Gernon (conductor)
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Mozart: Symphony No.29 in A major K.201
Ulster Orchestra
Ben Gernon (conductor)
Presented by Penny Gore
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3:10
Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes Op.23
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
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3:35
Bach: Concerto in D minor for 2 violins BWV.1043
Laura Samuel (violin)
Kanako Ito (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
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3:50
Schumann: Symphony No.4 in D minor Op.120
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
TUE 16:30 In Tune (b07cynk5)
James Akers, Didier Osindero, Martyn Brabbins
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. His guests include conductor Martyn Brabbins ahead of his concerts with the London Sinfonietta and BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Guitarist James Akers performs live in the studio and talks about his new CD of 19th century guitar music connected with Scotland. Plus live performance from young violinist Didier Osindero, recent winner of Junior Guildhall's Lutine Prize.
TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b07cyky8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b07cyp08)
Michael Collins and Friends - Schubert, Mozart
Michael Collins is joined at London's Wigmore Hall by friends and colleagues in a programme of three indisputable masterworks. The concert opens with 'Der Hirt auf dem Felsen' (The Shepherd on the Rock) for soprano, clarinet and piano, before continuing with Mozart's sublime Clarinet Quintet and Schubert's spacious and richly tuneful Octet for winds and strings.
Introduced by Ian Skelly.
Recorded 28 May 2016
Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A, K581
8.15: Interval
8.35
Schubert: Octet in F, D803
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Lucy Crowe (soprano)
Michael McHale (piano)
Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin)
Laura Samuel (violin)
Krzysztof Chorzelski (viola)
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
Lynda Houghton (double bass
Robin O'Neill (bassoon)
Richard Watkins (horn).
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (b07cypf4)
Hay Festival: New Generation Thinkers 2016
Find out who have been named as the 10 New Generation Thinkers for 2016 as they join Rana Mitter to share interesting facts from their research with the audience at this week's Hay Festival. Topics include the history of the hairdresser to the search for Alexander the Great's missing tomb; why Sigmund Freud detested the telephone to the complex relationship between the USSR and its historic churches.
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find academics who can turn their research into radio programmes. You can hear more from the New Generation Thinkers who will be appearing on Free Thinking throughout June and find out more from our website.
The New Generation Thinkers 2016:
Leah Broad, University of Oxford
Leah Broad's research is on Nordic modernism, exploring the music written for the theatre at the turn of the 20th century, taking her to Finland and Scandinavia to search out scores which have not been heard since the early 1900s. As a journalist Leah won the Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism in 2015. She is the founder of The Oxford Culture Review
Katherine Cooper, University of Newcastle
Katherine Cooper is working on a project exploring the ways in which British writers including H.G. Wells, Graham Greene and Margaret Storm Jameson helped in the escape of fellow writers facing prosecution and imprisonment under fascist governments in the period between WWI and WWII.
Victoria Donovan, University of St Andrews
Victoria Donovan's is a historian of Russia whose research explores the complex and contradictory relationship between the Soviets and their religious heritage. Her new project is looking at the significance of patriotism in contemporary Putin's Russia. She has worked on topics including Soviet and contemporary Russian cinema, socialist architecture and the connections between South Wales and the Eastern Ukraine.
Louisa Uchum Egbunike, Manchester Metropolitan University
Louisa Uchum Egbunike's research centres on African literature in which she specialises in Igbo (Nigerian) fiction and culture. Her latest work explores the child's voice in contemporary fiction on Biafra. She co-convenes an annual Igbo conference at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) and is curating a 'Remembering Biafra' exhibition to open in 2018.
Seb Falk, University of Cambridge
Seb Falk is a medieval historian and historian of science whose research centres on the scientific instruments made and used by monks, scholars and nobles in the later Middle Ages. His research has led him to made wood and brass models of the instruments he studies. His new project will be an investigation of the sciences practised by medieval monks and nuns.
Sarah Jackson, Nottingham Trent University
Sarah Jackson's current research explores the relationship between the telephone and literature from the work of Arthur Conan Doyle to that of Haruki Murakami. The project involves research at the BT Archives which hold the public records of the world's oldest communications company. She is also a poet whose collection Pelt won the prestigious Seamus Heaney Prize in 2012.
Christopher Kissane, London School of Economics
Christopher Kissane is a historian working on the role of food in history exploring what we can learn about societies and cultures through studying their diets. His book, which will be published later this year, examines food's relationship with major issues of early modern society including the Spanish Inquisition and witchcraft.
Anindya Raychaudhuri, University of St Andrews
Anindya Raychaudhuri is working on the way nostalgia is used by diasporic communities to create imaginary and real homes. He has written about the Spanish Civil War and the India/Pakistan partition and the cultural legacies of these wars. He co-hosts a podcast show, State of the Theory, and explores the issues raised by his research in stand up comedy.
Edmund Richardson, University of Durham
Edmund Richardson is working on a book about the lost cities of Alexander the Great and the history of their discovery by adventurers and tricksters rather than scholars. His first book was on Victorian Britain and the 'lowlife' lived by magicians, con-men and deserters. His latest project is on Victorian ghost-hunters and their obsession with the ancient world which led Houdini to fight against the con-artists making a fortune from fake 'spirits'.
Sean Williams, University of Sheffield
Sean Williams is currently writing a cultural history of the hairdresser from the 18th century to the present day exploring their role as 'outsiders' in society. As a lecturer at the University of Berne in Switzerland he taught German and Comparative Literature and wrote articles on flatulence in the 18th century and contemporary satires of Hitler.
TUE 22:45 The Essay (b07cypjd)
The Art of Storytelling
The Art of Storytelling: Jon Gower
In this series of The Essay, recorded this week in front of an audience at Hay Festival, five writers explore The Art of Storytelling. The writers include linguist Professor David Crystal, broadcaster and musician Clemency Burton-Hill, artist and memoirist Edmund de Waal and Shakespeare scholar Professor Emma Smith.
Today novelist and short story writer Jon Gower reflects on lessons learned from a master storyteller - his grandfather - and recalls an encounter with The Lady of the Lake.
Part of Radio 3's week-long residency at Hay Festival, with programmes In Tune, Lunchtime Concert, Free Thinking and The Verb all broadcasting from the Festival.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b07cyppr)
Verity Sharp with Nabihah Iqbal
Adventures in music, ancient to future: Verity Sharp is joined by the ethnomusicologist, producer and broadcaster Nabihah Iqbal. Nabihah shares the enchanting sound of a snake charmer she recorded on Karachi beach in Pakistan plus a raw and insightful demo version of a hit by The Jackson Family.
There's also music from M.A.K.U. Soundsystem who combine Afro-Colombian grooves with punk, hip hop and jazz and Alexis Taylor, lead singer for Hot Chip, with a beautiful and sparse track from his new solo record.
WEDNESDAY 01 JUNE 2016
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b07cyk6v)
Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Catriona Young presents a performance of Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Nathalie Stutzmann, Johan Reuter and the Danish National SO conducted by Vasily Petrenko.
12:31 AM
Mahler, Gustav [1860-1911]
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Johan Reuter (baritone), Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
1:30 AM
Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957]
Symphony No. 2 in D major Op.43
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
2:17 AM
Buffardin, Pierre-Gabriel (c.1690-1768)
Flute Concerto in E minor
Ernst-Burghard Hilse (flute), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Stephan Mai (director)
2:31 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943)
The Bells - poem for soloists, mixed choir and symphony orchestra Op.35
Roumiana Bareva (soprano), Pavel Kourchoumov (tenor), Stoyan Popov (baritone), 'Sons de la mer' Mixed Choir Varna, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
3:09 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor Op.5
Cristina Ortiz (Piano)
3:48 AM
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
Variations on a Theme of Corelli in the style of Tartini for violin and piano
Jela Spitkova (violin), Tatiana Franova (piano)
3:52 AM
Trad. Hungarian
18th Century Dances
Csaba Nagy (solo recorder), Camerata Hungarica, László Czidra (conductor)
3:58 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901), author: Dante
Pater noster for chorus
Radio France Chorus, Donald Palumbo (Conductor)
4:07 AM
Gershwin, George [1898-1937]
Lullaby for string quartet
New Stenhammar String Quartet
4:16 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Sehnsucht (D.123)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
4:20 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Recorder Concerto in C major, RV.444
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (recorder)
4:31 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup [1843-1907]
2 Norwegian Dances (Op.35, nos 1 & 2)
Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, Rouslan Raychev (conductor)
4:41 AM
Bax, Arnold [1883-1953]
Mater ora filium for double choir
BBC Singers, David Hill (conductor)
4:51 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Scherzo No.2 in B flat minor (Op.31)
Valerie Tryon (piano)
5:01 AM
Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992)
Theme and Variations
Peter Oundjian (violin), William Tritt (piano)
5:10 AM
Green, Maurice (1695-1755) & Boyce, William (1711-1779)
Suite for two trumpets and organ
Ivan Hadliyski & Roman Hajiyski (trumpets), Velin Iliev (organ)
5:21 AM
Sor, Fernando (1778-1839)
Introduction, Theme and Variations on Marlborough s'en va-t-en guerre (Op. 28) (For he's a jolly good fellow)
Xavier Díaz-Latorre (Guitar)
5:31 AM
Nielsen, Carl [1865-1931]
Wind Quintet Op.43
Cinque Venti
5:55 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Eight Ländler (German dances) (from D.790)
Leif Ove Andsnes (Piano)
6:03 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Quartet in G minor for piano and strings K.478
Aronowitz Ensemble.
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b07cykmq)
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 (b07cykwb)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey
9am
My favourite... British string music. We'll hear a mixture of favourites including Elgar's Serenade for Strings and the Fantasia on Greensleeves by Vaughan Williams, along with lesser-known works by Charles Avison and Frederick Delius.
9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: trace the classical theme behind a well-known song.
10am
Sarah's special guest, especially for the week of BBC Music Day, is the musician, composer and broadcaster Guy Garvey. He's the front man of rock band Elbow, who have released six studio albums, won the Mercury Music Prize, headlined at Glastonbury and performed a specially written song for the closing of the 2012 Olympics in London. Guy also released a solo album last year, which reached the top three of the album charts. He's won Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting and presents his own programme 'The Finest Hour' on BBC 6 Music. Every day at
10am Guy will be choosing a selection of his favourite classical music including pieces by Puccini, Françaix and Mendelssohn.
10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah features a piece from the BBC4 series Revolution & Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century. She reveals the virtuosity of Paganini's dramatic writing for violin in a selection of his caprices, including the most well known, number 24. This was known for years as the most fiendishly difficult violin piece ever written, and dozens of composers were inspired to use it as the theme for sets of variations - from Liszt and Rachmaninov to Andrew Lloyd Webber.
11am
In the week of BBC Music Day, a UK-wide celebration of everything we love about music, Sarah features choral societies from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales including the Huddersfield Choral Society, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus and the Treorchy Male Voice Choir.
J.S. Bach
St Matthew Passion (excerpt)
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Alfreda Hodgson (contralto)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Bach Choir
Thames Chamber Orchestra
David Willcocks.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b07cykyg)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
War and Warriors
This week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of George Gershwin. Today Gershwin moves in an entirely new direction, creating his own brand of musical satire.
A life cut short, George Gershwin died in 1937 of a brain tumour at the age of just 38. Yet this isn't a story of what might have been. Gershwin's musical legacy stands as one of admirable achievement. He wrote a string of twelve Broadway musicals, orchestral music and an opera. He penned some of the most recorded tunes in the popular song catalogue of all time. We'll hear many of them across the week, in classic versions made by some of the twentieth century's legendary voices, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire and Judy Garland. Outside the sphere of popular music, Gershwin's orchestral music won plenty of public support although his critical reception was mixed. Nonetheless among his supporters were significant figures in the classical world such as the New York Philharmonic's Walter Damrosch.
Despite the breadth of his appeal, his professional standing and his wealth, Gershwin remained a man who never felt truly confident in his own musical knowledge, perhaps because his musical education had been limited by circumstance. He was born in 1898 in New York, the second son of Jewish immigrant parents, Morris and Rose Gershowitz. As a child George excelled on roller-skates rather than school-work. Leaving altogether at the age of 14 he was pounding away on a piano in Tin Pan Alley for 10 hours a day. Success came early though when he persuaded Al Jolson to record his song "Swanee". The two million records it sold made George a comfortable pile, and from there on, as they say, "the rest is history".
Following a meeting in Atlantic City with the producer Edgar Selwyn, Gershwin and his lyricist writing brother Ira, are invited to work on a satire on war written by George S. Kaufman, the man behind the Marx Brothers production of The Cocoanuts. What came out of the collaboration was "Strike Up The Band" a musical unlike anything the Gershwins had ever written before.
Oh This Is Such A Lovely War (Strike up the Band, Act 2)
Chorus and orchestra conducted by John Mauceri
I've Got A Crush on You (Strike Up The Band, rev. 1930)
Ella Fitzgerald
Ellis Larkins, piano
Wintergreen For President ...Of Thee I Sing (Of Thee I Sing, Act 1)
Paige O'Hara, Diana Devereaux
Maureen McGovern, Mary Turner
Louise Eideken, Miss Benson
Larry Kert, John P. Wintergreen
Merwin Goldsmith, Louis Lippmann
George Dvorsky, Sam Jenkins
New York Choral Artists
Orchestra of St. Luke's
Michael Tilson-Thomas, conductor
An American In Paris
New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
The Man I Love
Sarah Vaughan
Hal Mooney and his Orchestra.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b07cyl38)
2016 Hay Festival - Pavel Kolesnikov
Clemency Burton-Hill presents a concert of music with a Spanish flavour performed by the pianist Pavel Kolesnikov, broadcast live from St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye, during the 2016 Hay Festival. Included in the concert is a selection of sonatas by the Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti, music by the highly idiosyncratic composer CPE Bach - a Sonata in E minor and a set of variations on La Folia - and finally Beethoven's intimate and lyrical Sonata No 10 in G major, Op.14 No.2.
Pavel Kolesnikov, piano
Scarlatti: Sonata in C minor, K84
Scarlatti: Sonata in B flat major, K331
Scarlatti: Sonata in E minor, K198
Scarlatti: Sonata in A major, K322
Scarlatti: Sonata in A major, K39
CPE Bach: 12 Variations on La Folie d'Espagne, Wq 118/9
CPE Bach: Sonata in E minor, Wq 59/1
Beethoven: Sonata No 10 in G major, Op.14 No.2
Produced by Luke Whitlock
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b07cyn58)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Episode 3
Penny Gore introduces highlights of concerts given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today violinist Jack Liebeck joins the orchestra as soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, in a performance given at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness.
2pm
Dvorak: Carnival Overture Op.92
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya (conductor)
c.
2:10
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major Op.35
Jack Liebeck (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya (conductor)
c.
2:45
Panufnik Sinfonia rustica (Symphony No.1)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Lukasz Borowicz (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b07cyq2m)
St Davids Cathedral Festival
Live from St Davids Cathedral Festival
Introit: O praise the Lord (Batten)
Responses: Leighton
Psalms 4, 5, 6 (Buck, Wesley, Battishill)
First Lesson: Genesis 42 vv.17-38
Canticles: Howells in B minor
Second Lesson: Matthew 18 vv.1-14
Anthem: To heaven's door (Geraint Lewis) Festival commission, first performance
Hymn: How shall I sing that majesty (Coe Fen)
Organ Voluntary: Postlude de Fête 'Te Deum Laudamus', Op.21 (Léonce de Saint-Martin)
Organist and Master of the Choristers: Oliver Waterer
Assistant Director of Music: Simon Pearce.
WED 16:30 In Tune (b07cynk9)
Florilegium, Roderick Williams, Natalya Romaniw
Sean Rafferty's guests include the early music ensemble Florilegium who perform live in the studio ahead of their 25th anniversary concert at Wigmore Hall. Baritone Roderick Williams and soprano Natalya Romaniw discuss their forthcoming production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at Garsington Opera.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b07cykyg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b07cyp0b)
Hellensmusic Festival 2016
Two favourite quintets, recorded at the Hellensmusic festival, which takes place every spring at Hellens Manor in Herefordshire. Festival director and pianist, Christian Blackshaw is joined by an international line-up of musicians for music by Shostakovich and Schubert.
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 57
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, 'The Trout'
Christian Blackshaw, piano
Maya Iwabuchi, violin
Markus Däunert, violin
Máté Szücs, viola
Bruno Delepelaire, cello
Waldemar Schwiertz, double bass
Hellens manor is one of the oldest residences in the the UK; it has stood in the village of Much Marcle in Herefordshire since at least the 12th century. Today, Hellens welcomes Radio 3 to the intimate surroundings of its Great Barn for a concert from its annual spring music festival. Festival director and pianist Christian Blackshaw leads a starry line-up of performers including: Markus Däunert, Concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Maya Iwabuchi, Leader of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Máté Szücs, Principal Viola of the Berlin Philharmonic; Bruno Delepelaire, first solo cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic and Waldemar Schwiertz, Co-principal double bass of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
Both quintets in today's programme became instantly popular with audiences and performers. Here, the emotional power of Shostakovich's music is balanced with the irresistible good humour of Schubert's most famous chamber work.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b07cypf6)
Hay Festival: Inheritance - Steve Jones, Lionel Shriver, Marlon James
Lionel Shriver, Marlon James and Steve Jones join Rana Mitter for a Free Thinking discussion about inheritance recorded at this week's Hay Festival. The discussion ranges from family relationships to the planet we are leaving for future generations, from money to morality, genius to ideas about goodness and evil.
Lionel Shriver's latest novel called The Mandibles depicts a family living in a near future America where the dollar has crashed and food is scarce. She is also the author of We Need To Talk About Kevin, Big Brother and A Perfectly Good Family.
The biologist and geneticist Steve Jones' latest book No Need For Geniuses looks at Paris at the time of the French Revolution, when it was the world capital of science.
Marlon James won the Booker Prize for his most recent novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. His other books include Crow's Devil and The Book of Night Women.
Main image (left to right): Marlon James, Lionel Shriver, Steve Jones
WED 22:45 The Essay (b07cypjg)
The Art of Storytelling
The Art of Storytelling: Clemency Burton Hill
In this series of The Essay, recorded earlier this week in front of an audience at Hay Festival, five writers explore The Art of Storytelling. The writers include novelist Jon Gower, linguist Professor David Crystal, artist and memoirist Edmund de Waal and Shakespeare scholar Professor Emma Smith.
Today broadcaster Clemency Burton-Hill considers the relationship between storytelling and music.
Part of Radio 3's week-long residency at Hay Festival, with programmes In Tune, Lunchtime Concert, Free Thinking and The Verb all broadcasting from the Festival.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b07cyppw)
Verity Sharp
Adventures in music, ancient to future.
Verity Sharp celebrates avant-garde musical couples ahead of tomorrow night's "wedding session" from Matana Roberts and Seb Rochford. Robert Wyatt explains how lyrics written by his wife Alfie have stretched him as a musician and we take a glimpse into the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono from a hospital bed when Yoko was pregnant.
There's music from the 21-piece Fire! Orchestra who combine garage rock, free improvisation and rich horn arrangements conducted by saxophonist Mats Gustafsson. Plus glitch disco from an elusive artistic moniker, Mikimo Sosumi, and a new electronic piece from Greek composer Thanos Chrysakis that promises to "tickle your ears like glass mosquitos".
THURSDAY 02 JUNE 2016
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b07cyk6x)
Belgium's Musiq'3 Festival
Catriona Young presents two recitals from the Musiq'3 Festival, Belgium, featuring soprano Jodie Devos and violin duo Barnabàs Kelemen and Katalin Kokas.
12:31 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Ganymed D.544
Jodie Devos (soprano), Daniel Thonnard (piano)
12:36 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio - aria K.418
Jodie Devos (soprano), Daniel Thonnard (piano)
12:44 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Excerpts from Five Lieder, Op.48: 1. Freundliche Vision; 2. Ich schwebe; 3. Kling
Jodie Devos (soprano), Daniel Thonnard (piano)
12:51 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
Apparition
Jodie Devos (soprano), Daniel Thonnard (piano)
12:56 AM
Poldowski, Irene [1879-1932]
Three Songs
Jodie Devos (soprano), Daniel Thonnard (piano)
1:06 AM
Fauré, Gabriel [1845-1924]
Notre amour Op.23 No.2
Jodie Davos (soprano), Daniel Thonnard (piano)
1:09 AM
Schwantner, Joseph [b. 1943]
Black Anemones
Jodie Devos (soprano), Daniel Thonnard (piano)
1:15 AM
Bridge, Frank [1879-1941]
Come to Me in My Dreams H.71
Jodie Devos (soprano), Daniel Thonnard (piano)
1:20 AM
Berwald, Franz (1796-1868)
Septet in B flat
Niklas Andersson (clarinet), Henrik Blixt (bassoon), Hans Larsson (horn), Jannica Gustafsson (violin), Håkan Olsson (viola), Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Maria Johansson (double bass)
1:43 AM
Bartok, Bela [1881-1945]
Excerpts from 44 Duos for two violins Sz.98
Barnabàs Kelemen (violin), Katalin Kokas (viola)
1:55 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Duo in B flat for violin and viola, K.424
Barnabàs Kelemen (violin), Katalin Kokas (viola)
2:13 AM
Wieniawski, Henryk [1835-1880
Three Etudes-Caprices, Op.18
Barnabàs Kelemen (violin), Katalin Kokas (violin)
2:23 AM
Handel, George Frideric [1685-1759] arr. Halvorsen, Johan
Passacaille
Barnabàs Kelemen (violin), Katalin Kokas (violin)
2:31 AM
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875)
Symphony in C major
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Othmar Maga (conductor)
3:06 AM
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911)
String Octet in A major Op.3
Atle Sponberg (violin), Joakim Svenheden (violin), Aida-Carmen Soanea (viola), Adrian Brendel (cello), Vertavo String Quartet
3:44 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Prelude in C sharp minor Op.3 No.2
Sergei Terentjev (piano)
3:48 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943) arr. Alan Arnold
Vocalise Op.34 No.14, arr. for viola and piano
Gyozo Máté (viola), Balázs Szokolay (piano)
3:54 AM
Fesch, Willem de (1687-1757)
Concerto grosso in B flat major for 2 violins, strings and continuo Op.10 No.2
Manfred Kraemer and Laura Johnson (violins), Musica ad Rhenum
4:03 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
4 Mazurkas for piano Op.33
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
4:14 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Motet: 'Komm, Jesu, komm!' BWV.229
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
4:24 AM
Kabalevsky, Dmitri (1904-1987)
Overture: Colas Breugnon
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
4:31 AM
Suppé, Franz von (1819-1895)
Overture from Die Leichte Kavallerie (Light cavalry) - operetta
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
4:39 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Toccata in D major BWV.912
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
4:51 AM
Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672)
Ich danke dem Herrn, SWV.34; Ich freu' mich des, das mir geredt ist, SWV.26
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Concerto Copenhagen, Paul Hillier (conductor)
5:00 AM
Kutev, Filip (1903-1982)
Pastoral for flute and orchestra (1943)
Lidia Oshavkova (flute), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dimitar Manolov (conductor)
5:12 AM
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von (1644-1704)
Sonata violino solo representativa in A major
Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin), Rosanne Hunt (cello), Linda Kent (harpsichord)
5:23 AM
Traditional, arr. Petrinjak, Darko
6 Renaissance Dances
Zagreb Guitar Trio
5:34 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Holberg Suite for string orchestra Op.40
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Eivind Aadland (conductor)
5:56 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
32 Variations in C minor WoO.80
Theo Bruins (piano)
6:07 AM
Alkan, Charles-Valentin (1813-1888)
Grand Duo Concertant in F sharp minor for violin and piano Op.21
Semmy Stahlhammer (violin), Johan Ullén (piano).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b07cykms)
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 (b07cykwl)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey
9am
My favourite... British string music. We'll hear a mixture of favourites including Elgar's Serenade for Strings and the Fantasia on Greensleeves by Vaughan Williams, along with lesser-known works by Charles Avison and Frederick Delius.
9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: two pieces of music are played together - can you work out what they are?
10am
Sarah's special guest, especially for the week of BBC Music Day, is the musician, composer and broadcaster Guy Garvey. He's the front man of rock band Elbow, who have released six studio albums, won the Mercury Music Prize, headlined at Glastonbury and performed a specially written song for the closing of the 2012 Olympics in London. Guy also released a solo album last year, which reached the top three of the album charts. He's won Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting and presents his own programme 'The Finest Hour' on BBC 6 Music. Every day at
10am Guy will be choosing a selection of his favourite classical music including pieces by Puccini, Françaix and Mendelssohn.
10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah features a piece from the first of the BBC4 series Revolution and Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century. Today Sarah is on the cusp of the Classical and Romantic periods for a performance of Beethoven's magnificent Third Symphony, 'Eroica', with its unprecedented range of emotion and style within one symphonic work.
11.30am
In the week of BBC Music Day, a UK-wide celebration of everything we love about music, Sarah features choral societies from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales including the Huddersfield Choral Society, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus and the Treorchy Male Voice Choir.
Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé - Parts II & III
Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus
Ulster Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b07cykyl)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Anyone for Tennis?
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of George Gershwin. Today Gershwin discovers writing music for Hollywood films can be a frustrating business.
A life cut short, George Gershwin died in 1937 of a brain tumour at the age of just 38. Yet this isn't a story of what might have been. Gershwin's musical legacy stands as one of admirable achievement. He wrote a string of twelve Broadway musicals, orchestral music and an opera. He penned some of the most recorded tunes in the popular song catalogue of all time. We'll hear many of them across the week, in classic versions made by some of the twentieth century's legendary voices, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire and Judy Garland. Outside the sphere of popular music, Gershwin's orchestral music won plenty of public support although his critical reception was mixed. Nonetheless among his supporters were significant figures in the classical world such as the New York Philharmonic's Walter Damrosch.
Despite the breadth of his appeal, his professional standing and his wealth, Gershwin remained a man who never felt truly confident in his own musical knowledge, perhaps because his musical education had been limited by circumstance. He was born in 1898 in New York, the second son of Jewish immigrant parents, Morris and Rose Gershowitz. As a child George excelled on roller-skates rather than school-work. Leaving altogether at the age of 14 he was pounding away on a piano in Tin Pan Alley for 10 hours a day. Success came early though when he persuaded Al Jolson to record his song "Swanee". The two million records it sold made George a comfortable pile, and from there on, as they say, "the rest is history".
Signed up by RKO pictures, Gershwin moved to the West Coast in 1936. In typical workaholic fashion he immediately set to work, producing simultaneously music for the Astaire vehicle "Shall We Dance?" and another picture with Astaire "A Damsel in Distress". Gershwin was happy to embrace the lifestyle, enjoying a hectic social calendar full of dinners and parties at the homes of producers, stars and songwriters. Arnold Schoenberg was a neighbour, and soon came round on a regular basis to play tennis with him. Even so, Gershwin began to get restless, and there was talk of making a return to Broadway, a string quartet, a symphony or even a ballet.
Promenade (Shall We Dance?) - arr. Sol Berkewitz, adaptation by Paul Rosenbloom and John Fullam
John Fulham, clarinet
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchsetra
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Suite from A Damsel in Distress
The New Princess Theater Orchestra
John McGlinn, conductor
Shall We Dance? (Shall We Dance?) - arr. & orch. Herbert Spense, Fud Livingstone, Robert Russell Bennett
Fred Astaire
The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra
Nathaniel Shilkret, conductor
Second Rhapsody
Howard Shelley, piano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
Arr. & Orch. Sy Oliver, Axel Stordahl
I Got Rhythm (Girl Crazy)
Judy Garland
Mickey Rooney
Six Hits and a Miss
The Music Maids
Hall Hopper
Trudy Erwin
Bobbie Canvin
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
Cuban Overture
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
James Judd, conductor
'S Wonderful (Funny Face)
Audrey Hepburn
Fred Astaire
Orchestra conducted by Adolph Deutsch.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b07cyl3d)
2016 Hay Festival - trombonist Peter Moore and pianist James Baillieu
Clemency Burton-Hill presents a concert of music with a Spanish flavour performed by the trombonist Peter Moore with the pianist James Baillieu, broadcast live from St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye, during the 2016 Hay Festival. Included in the concert is a selection of music including works by Vincent Persichetti and Christian Lindberg, and also songs originally composed by de Falla and Fauré, but performed on the trombone.
Peter Moore, trombone
James Bailliey, piano
Persichetti: Parable XVIII, Op 133
Christian Lindberg: Los Bandidos
De Falla: 7 canciones populares españolas
Dutilleux: Choral, cadence et fugato
Fauré: Après un rêve, Op 7 No 1
Fauré: Sicilienne, Op 78
Guilmant: Morceau Symphonique, Op 88
Arthur Pryor: Bluebells of Scotland
Produced by Luke Whitlock
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b07cyn5c)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Strauss - Ariadne auf Naxos
Penny Gore presents today's opera matinée: a performance given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos.
Karita Mattila stars in one of Strauss's great soprano roles as the Prima Donna who appears later as Ariadne and Roberto Sacca is the Tenor, later Bacchus, in this often funny work, which sets a libretto by Strauss's greatest collaborator, Hugo von Hoffmansthal. The work was originally intended as a short divertissement to be performed after Hoffmansthal's version of Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, but was revised as an opera in a prologue and one act. Antonio Pappano conducts the Royal Opera House Orchestra in Christof Loy's production from 2014.
Ariadne auf Naxos:
The prima donna/Ariadne ..... Karita Mattila (soprano)
The tenor/Bacchus ..... Roberto Saccà (tenor)
Zerbinetta ..... Jane Archibald (soprano)
The composer ..... Ruzandra Donose (mezzo-soprano)
Comedian/Harlequin ...... Markus Werba (baritone)
A music master ..... Thomas Allen (baritone)
A dancing master ..... Ed Lyon (tenor)
A wigmaker ..... Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
A lackey ..... Jihoon Kim (bass)
Comedian/Scaramuccio ..... Wynne Evans (tenor)
Comedian/Brighella ..... Paul Schweinester (tenor)
Comedian/Truffaldino ..... Jeremy White (bass)
An officer ..... David Butt Philip (tenor)
The major domo ..... Christoph Quest (speaker)
Singer/Naiad ..... Sofia Fomina (soprano)
Singer/Dryad ..... Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
Singer/Echo ..... Kiandra Howarth (soprano)
The Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Antonio Pappano (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b07cynkc)
Hay Festival
Sean Rafferty presents live from Hay Festival in the Welsh Borders, the celebration of all things literary.
Sean's guests include Michael Palin; Roger McGough; the Duchess of Rutland; Chris Morgan Jones; James Naughtie and Claire Harman. Live music from Ghazalaw, whose music celebrates the affinity between Indian Ghazal and the Welsh folk tradition, the former Harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales, Hannah Stone, and the male voice choir Only Men Aloud.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b07cykyl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b07cyp0d)
Philharmonia Orchestra: Stravinsky Myths and Rituals
'Music,' said Stravinsky 'is essentially powerless to express anything at all'. But for all his deliberately misleading protestations Stravinsky, long-exiled from his homeland, often tapped a deep and deeply personal vein of nostalgia in his music, never more so than as he entered his old age and lived furthest away from Russia itself.
The third of Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra's all-Stravinsky Series 'Myths & Rituals' is a chance to hear a sequence of rarely performed late, great religious and memorial works whose austere sound-world nevertheless conveys their composer's longings and faith, both of which which he was loath to express in any other medium.
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch from St John's Smith Square, London.
Stravinsky:
Requiem Canticles
Introitus (TS Eliot in Memoriam)
In Memoriam Dylan Thomas
Mass
Elegy for JFK
Cantata
Hélène Hébrard (mezzo soprano)
Allan Clayton (tenor)
David Soar (bass)
Philharmonia Voices
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor).
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b07cypf8)
Bhupen Khakhar, The City State of London?
Philip Dodd is joined by art historian Devika Singh to consider the art of Bhupen Khakhar and the subjects he explored including class difference; desire and homosexuality; and his personal battle with cancer.
Also, Saskia Sassen, Jane Morris, David Anderson and Pat Kane discuss the emergence of London as a global city and what the economic and cultural ramifications might be for the rest of the UK.
Bhupen Khakhar is on show at Tate Modern from June 1st to September 6th.
Main image: Man Leaving (Going Abroad), 1970 by Bhupen Khakhar
Courtesy of Tapi Collection, India
(c) Estate of Bhupen Khakhar.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b07cypjj)
The Art of Storytelling
The Art of Storytelling: David Crystal
In this series of The Essay, recorded this week in front of an audience at Hay Festival, five writers explore The Art of Storytelling. The writers include artist and memoirist Edmund de Waal, broadcaster and musician Clemency Burton-Hill, Shakespeare scholar Professor Emma Smith and novelist Jon Gower.
Today, with so many of the world's languages disappearing, Professor David Crystal asks how we can preserve for the future the many different stories of accent, dialect and language.
Part of Radio 3's week-long residency at Hay Festival, with programmes In Tune, Lunchtime Concert, Free Thinking and The Verb all broadcasting from the Festival.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b07cypq3)
Late Junction Sessions
Verity Sharp with Seb Rochford and Matana Roberts
Verity Sharp celebrates the marriage of drummer Seb Rochford and saxophonist Matana Roberts with a very unusual Late Junction collaboration session.
Seb and Matana - each a leading experimental musician - had previously said they would not have any shared public projects. However, to mark their marriage in March, they have agreed to do a special one-off collaboration especially for Late Junction at BBC's Maida Vale studio.
Over the last 10 years drummer Seb Rochford has forged a new direction in UK jazz combining dub inspired rhythms and off-kilter grooves with his band Polar Bear and in a host of other notable collaborations. Working across the Atlantic, Matana Roberts' visceral saxophone and multimedia work is steeped in the history of American music. Her highly praised Coin Coin project celebrates strong female archetypes in the history of Southern America.
Plus the aptly named new band drøne combine short wave radio and modular synths and a track from Bert Jansch's 1985 LP 'From The Outside' which has been given a limited edition vinyl reissue.
FRIDAY 03 JUNE 2016
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b07cyk6z)
Leonard Slatkin at the 2015 Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw
Catriona Young presents a concert by the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin in a programme of Beethoven, Brahms and Mahler.
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770-1827]
Coriolan - Overture Op.62
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
12:40 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Double Concerto in A minor Op.102
Sayaka Shoji (violin), Danjulo Ishizaka (cello), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
1:14 AM
Mahler, Gustav [1860-1911]
Symphony No.4 in G major
Camilla Tilling (soprano), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
2:10 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Trio Sonata in C minor from 'Musikalisches Opfer' (BWV.1079)
Tom Ottar Andreassen (flute), Frode Larsen (violin), Emery Cardas (cello), Knut Johanssen (harpsichord)
2:31 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927)
String Quartet No.4 in A minor (Op.25)
Yggdrasil String Quartet
3:06 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Symphonic Etudes
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
3:39 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Trio Sonata in D minor Op.1 No.11
London Baroque
3:45 AM
Stainov, Petko (1896-1977)
The Secret of the Struma River
Gusla Men's Choir, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
3:52 AM
Doppler, Franz [1821-1883]
Fantaisie pastorale hongroise Op.26
Ivica Gabrisova-Encingerova (flute), Matej Vrabel (piano)
4:03 AM
Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643)
Partite cento sopra il Passachagli
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
4:14 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Theme and Variations
Manja Smits (harp)
4:20 AM
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787)
Symphony in D major Op.10 No.5
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)
4:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Overture 'Fierrabras' D.796
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Hans Zender (conductor)
4:40 AM
Viotti, Giovanni Battista [1755-1824]
Serenade No.1 in A major for 2 violins Op.23
Angel Stankov (violin), Yossif Radionov (violin)
4:49 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
(Großes) Te Deum in C major Hob XXIIIc:2
Netherlands Radio Choir and Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)
4:58 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Selected Lyric Pieces (Lyriske stykker): Aften på højfjellet (Evening in the mountains) Op.68 No.4; For dine føtter (At your feet) Op.68 No.3; Sommeraften (Summer's evening) Op.71 No.2; Forbi (Gone) Op.71 No.6; Etterklang (Remembrances) Op.71 No.7
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
5:12 AM
Daniel-Lesur, Daniel Jean Yves [1908-2002]
Suite Medievale for flute, harp and string trio
Arpae Ensemble
5:26 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Violin Concerto No.4 in D major K.218
James Ehnes (violin/director), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra
5:51 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Wind Quintet Op.43
Galliard Ensemble
6:17 AM
Halvorsen, Johan (1864-1935)
Norwegian Rhapsody No.1
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ingar Bergby (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b07cykmv)
BBC Music Day
For BBC Music Day Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's Breakfast show from Royal Marines Training Centre, Lympstone, Devon. There will be live music and interviews as Petroc discovers the role of music in the life of the Marines - and maritime music requests from listeners.
Breakfast kicks off a day of live music on Radio 3 for BBC Music Day, from canteens to concert halls. Katie Derham and the BBC Singers are live from workplace canteens at
11.15 and
3.30. At lunchtime, guitarist Morgan Szymanski runs a guitar jam for amateur players at Hay Festival. At
4.30, In Tune presented by Sean Rafferty features disabled musicians and choirs at Colston Hall in Bristol, and Petroc Trelawny returns at
7.30 to present In Concert, live from Hall for Cornwall in Truro, with the BBCCO and the Cornwall Family Orchestra, including the premiere of a new work for BBC Music Day - "A Cornish Solstice".
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b07cykwn)
Friday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey
9am
My favourite... British string music. We'll hear a mixture of favourites including Elgar's Serenade for Strings and the Fantasia on Greensleeves by Vaughan Williams, along with lesser-known works by Charles Avison and Frederick Delius.
9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery object.
10am
Sarah's special guest, especially for BBC Music Day, is the musician, composer and broadcaster Guy Garvey. He's the front man of rock band Elbow, who have released six studio albums, won the Mercury Music Prize, headlined at Glastonbury and performed a specially written song for the closing of the 2012 Olympics in London. Guy also released a solo album last year, which reached the top three of the album charts. He's won Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting and presents his own programme 'The Finest Hour' on BBC 6 Music. Every day at
10am Guy will be choosing a selection of his favourite classical music including pieces by Puccini, Françaix and Mendelssohn.
10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah features a piece from the first of the BBC4 series Revolution and Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century. She showcases the flamboyant musical style of superstar pianist-composer Liszt, as demonstrated in his Hungarian Rhapsody No.3 in B flat, S244.
11am
Especially for BBC Music Day, a UK-wide celebration of everything we love about music, Sarah features choral societies from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales including the Huddersfield Choral Society, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus and the Treorchy Male Voice Choir.
Wagner
Pilgrims' Chorus (Tannhäuser)
John Hughes
Calon Lân
Treorchy Male Voice Choir
John Cynan Jones (organ)
11.20am
Live music for BBC Music Day as Sarah hands over to Katie Derham to introduce a live performance by The BBC Singers from a canteen in Bristol celebrating the 75th anniversary of "Workers' Playtime" on the BBC Home Service.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b07cykyr)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
The Dream Team
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of George Gershwin. Today, as part of BBC Music Day's theme of collaboration, a look at how George worked with his regular lyricist and brother Ira.
A life cut short, George Gershwin died in 1937 of a brain tumour at the age of just 38. Yet this isn't a story of what might have been. Gershwin's musical legacy stands as one of admirable achievement. He wrote a string of twelve Broadway musicals, orchestral music and an opera. He penned some of the most recorded tunes in the popular song catalogue of all time. We'll hear many of them across the week, in classic versions made by some of the twentieth century's legendary voices, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire and Judy Garland. Outside the sphere of popular music, Gershwin's orchestral music won plenty of public support although his critical reception was mixed. Nonetheless among his supporters were significant figures in the classical world such as the New York Philharmonic's Walter Damrosch.
Despite the breadth of his appeal, his professional standing and his wealth, Gershwin remained a man who never felt truly confident in his own musical knowledge, perhaps because his musical education had been limited by circumstance. He was born in 1898 in New York, the second son of Jewish immigrant parents, Morris and Rose Gershowitz. As a child George excelled on roller-skates rather than school-work. Leaving altogether at the age of 14 he was pounding away on a piano in Tin Pan Alley for 10 hours a day. Success came early though when he persuaded Al Jolson to record his song "Swanee". The two million records it sold made George a comfortable pile, and from there on, as they say, "the rest is history".
Together George and Ira Gershwin wrote a string of twelve Broadway musicals, beginning with Lady Be Good in 1924 and culminating in 1933 with Let 'Em Eat Cake. They wrote for Hollywood films and had a string of hits that have all gone on to stand on their own. They worked together right up to the end of George Gershwin's life.
A Foggy Day
Frank Sinatra
Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
Harry Connick, vocal and piano
Benjamin Jonah Wolfe, bass
Jeff "Tain" Watts, drums
I Was Doing Alright
Louis Armstrong
The Lorelei ... Isn't It A Pity (Pardon My English)
William Katt, Golo
John Collum, commissioner Bauer
Arnetia Walker, Gita
Michelle Nicastro, Ilse Bauer
Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Eric Stern
Porgy and Bess (Excerpt from Act 2)
Damon Evans, tenor, Sportin Life
Gregg Baker, baritone, Crown
Cynthia Hamon, soprano, Bess
The Glyndebourne Chorus
The London Philharmonic
Simon Rattle, conductor
Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did
Ella Fitzgerald
Nelson Riddle, conductor and arranger.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b07cyl3h)
2016 Hay Festival - Cremona Quartet and Morgan Szymanski
Clemency Burton-Hill presents a concert of music with a Spanish flavour, performed by the guitarist Morgan Szymanski and the Cremona Quartet, broadcast live from St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye, during the 2016 Hay Festival. As part of BBC Music Day we'll be hearing about the Hay Festival Guitar Jam taking place earlier in the day, when amateur guitarists come together with Morgan Szymanski to create a brand new piece of music. Also included in the concert is one of Haydn's last string quartets, the Variations on a Theme of Mozart by Fernando Sor, and the Guitar Quintet No 4 by Boccherini, complete with castanets.
Cremona Quartet
Morgan Szymanski, guitar
Haydn: String Quartet in G major, Op 77 No 1
Sor: Variations on a Theme of Mozart, Op 9
Boccherini: Guitar Quintet No 4 in D major, G448
Produced by Luke Whitlock
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b07cyn5f)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
BBC Music Day: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Penny Gore presents a day of music to celebrate BBC Music Day. Katie Derham introduces the BBC Singers in a live concert at
3.30 from the cheese-making Ford Farm in Dorchester, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the BBC Home Service's Workers' Playtime.
With ensembles performing on bridges up and down the country, the programme also includes the Severn Bridge Variations, written by six composers to celebrate the bridge being built in 1966. And there are performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by Panufnik, and pianist Denis Kozhukhin stars in Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto recorded in Shanghai during the orchestra's tour of China last year.
2pm
Panufnik - Sinfonia sacra (Symphony No.3)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
c.
2:20
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor Op.18 for piano and orchestra
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
Introduced by Katie Derham, a live performance given by the BBC Singers from Ford Farm in Dorchester.
3:30
Introduced by Penny Gore
c.
4:10
Arnold/Hoddinott/Maw/Jones/Williams/Tippett: Severn Bridge Variations
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jac Van Steen (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b07cynkf)
BBC Music Day: Live from Bristol
A special programme presented by Sean Rafferty from Colston Hall in Bristol as part of BBC Music Day with live music and guests. Including the violinist Jennifer Pike, previous winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, plus the Bristol Youth Choirs and UWE ReVoice - a choir for people with aphasia. There's a special focus on musicians who use assisted technology to make music and the programme opens with the South West Open Youth Orchestra. The One-Handed Musical Instrument Trust will be demonstrating one of the latest winners of their awards to design new instruments and conductor Charles Hazlewood will be talking about his pioneering work with the British Paraorchestra.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b07cykyr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b07cyp0j)
BBC Music Day: BBC Concert Ochestra Live from Truro
Petroc Trelawny continues the BBC Music Day celebrations with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Ben Gernon, the Cornwall Family Orchestra & Chorus and Radio 3 New Generation Artist Annelien Van Wauwe, who join forces for a musical spectacular from the Hall for Cornwall in Truro. There's music inspired by dance, and live performances of some of the BBC Ten Pieces; and the Cornwall Family Orchestra & Chorus give the premiere of A Cornish Solstice, based on themes from Stravinsky's Firebird.
Bizet: Carmen, Selection from Suites 1 & 2: Les Toréadors; Prelude and Aragonaise; Habanera; Chanson du toréador; Danse bohème
Weber: Clarinet Concertino in E flat, Op.26*
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919)
INTERVAL
arr Patrick Bailey: A Cornish Solstice **
Bernstein: Mambo - from Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
L. Bassi: Fantasia da concerto 'Rigoletto' *
Mascagni: Intermezzo - from Cavalleria rusticana
Ginastera: Estancia - Four Dances, Op.8a
Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet)*
Cornwall Family Orchestra & Chorus**
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor Ben Gernon.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b07cypfb)
Hay Festival 2016
The Verb recorded in front of an audience at the 2016 Hay Festival. Ian's guests include singer-songwriter Danielle Lewis. Danielle is a folk-pop singer who performs in both Welsh and English, and is part of the BBC Radio Cymru/Arts Council Wales 'Horizon' scheme to promote emerging musical talent in Wales.
We also hear from the Australian novelist Peter Carey, twice winner of the Booker Prize, who will be reading from his latest novel 'Amnesia' and Tahmima Anam, who was chosen as one of Granta's 'Best of Young British Novelists'. She has just published 'The Bones of Grace', a novel about a young woman searching for love and identity in America and Bangladesh.
Producer: Cecile Wright.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b07cypjl)
The Art of Storytelling
The Art of Storytelling: Emma Smith
In this series of The Essay, recorded this week in front of an audience at the Hay Festival, five writers explore The Art of Storytelling. The writers include linguist Prof. David Crystal, artist and memoirist Edmund de Waal, broadcaster and musician Clemency Burton-Hill and novelist Jon Gower.
Today, Prof. Emma Smith takes a closer look at Shakespeare's skills as a storyteller and how his plots, where the outcome is often signposted from the beginning, still hold audiences enthralled.
Part of Radio 3's week-long residency at the Hay Festival, with programmes In Tune, Lunchtime Concert, Free Thinking and The Verb all broadcasting from the Festival.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b07cypq8)
BBC Music Day - Baaba Maal at the Hay Festival
As BBC Music Day draws to a close, Lopa Kothari presents a concert from Hay Festival, with Senegalese superstar Baaba Maal. Also featuring BBC Introducing artists Olion Byw, a duo with a fresh approach to traditional Welsh music.