SATURDAY 04 JUNE 2016

SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b07cypxh)
Proms 2015: Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Boston Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andris Nelsons perform Haydn's Symphony No.90 and Shostakovich's 10th Symphony from the 2015 BBC Proms. Introduced by Catriona Young.

1:01 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony no. 90 in C major H.1.90
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Andris Nelsons (conductor)

1:27 AM
Barber, Samuel 1910-1981
Essay no. 2 Op.17 for orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Andris Nelsons (conductor)

1:39 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)
Symphony no. 10 in E minor Op.93
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Andris Nelsons (conductor)

2:38 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)
Moscow Cheryomushki - musical comedy Op.105 - Galop
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Andris Nelsons (conductor)

2:41 AM
Grechaninov, Alexandr Tikhonovich (1864-1956)
6 Motets (Op.155) for 4 part chorus and organ
Radio France Chorus, Yves Castagnet (organ), Vladislav Chernuchenko (conductor)

3:01 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Trio for piano and strings in B flat major, (D.898)
Beaux Arts Trio

3:38 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
La Mer - 3 symphonic sketches for orchestra
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

4:02 AM
Josquin des Pres (c.1440-1521)
Coeurs desolez par toute nation; Qui belles amours a
5 à Cappella Singers at the Sonesta Koepelzaa, Amsterdam

4:09 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Legend No.1 in D minor (Op.59)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Robl (conductor)

4:13 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Auf flügeln des Gesanges - from (Mendelssohn) No.1 of Songs (S.547) transc. for piano
Sylviane Deferne (piano)

4:18 AM
Hellendaal, Pieter (1721-1799)
Concerto grosso for strings and continuo in D major (Op.3 No.5)
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

4:36 AM
Jacobi, Frederick [1891-1952]
Fantasy for viola and piano (1941)
Cathy Basrak (viola); William Koehler (piano)

4:46 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
"Dall' ondoso periglio" (recit); "Aure, deh, per pieta" (aria) - scena from 'Giulio Cesare'
Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)

4:54 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Intermezzo in E major (no.4 from 7 Fantasies Op.116 for piano)
Barry Douglas (piano)

5:01 AM
Saint-Saens, Camille [1835-1921]
Saltarelle (Op.74)
Lamentabile Consort

5:07 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Tannhauser - Overture
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

5:22 AM
Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich (c.1620-80)
Lamento sopra la morte Ferdinandi III for 2 violins, viola and continuo
London Baroque

5:29 AM
Pierne, Gabriel (1863-1937)
Etude de concert (Op.13)
Paloma Kouider (Piano)

5:33 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Andante and Rondo Ungarese in C minor (Op.35)
Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

5:43 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
Ecco ridente in cielo - from 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia' Act 1 Sc 1
Mark Dubois (tenor), Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian (conductor)

5:49 AM
Muffat, Georg [1653-1704]; Lully, Jean-Baptiste [1632-1687]
Suite for Orchestra
Armonico Tributo Austria, Lorenz Duftschmid (director)

6:01 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor (Op.21)
Maurizio Pollini (piano), Belgrade Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta (conductor)

6:30 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Suite for solo cello, No.5 in C minor (BWV.1011)
Guy Fouquet (cello).


SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b07dk7kf)
Saturday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.


SAT 09:00 Record Review (b07dk7kk)
Building a Library: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6, Op 74 (Pathetique)

with Andrew McGregor

0930
Building a Library: Marina Frolova-Walker recommends a recording of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, Op. 74, 'Pathétique' from among available versions.

'It was not exactly a failure' Tchaikovsky reported to his publisher after the 1893 premiere of his final completed symphony. But having 'shed many tears' during its composition reflecting on the Pathétique's never-to-be-revealed programme 'saturated with subjective feeling', the neurotic, hypersensitive composer was surprisingly unconcerned with the public's lukewarm reaction. Tchaikovsky knew it was his best work - an opinion which was very soon vindicated (he was dead nine days after he conducted the first performance), as his symphony fast became a concert hall staple and was even adopted as a symphonic model by fellow neurotic Gustav Mahler. And in both the last century and this one, it has become among the most recorded symphonies in the catalogue, prey to young Turks and grizzled maestros alike.

1045
Stephen Johnson assesses Rattle's latest cycle of Beethoven symphonies recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic and sees if it trumps his previous set with the Vienna Philharmonic.

1145
Disc of the Week: Andrew makes a personal choice from among the latest outstanding releases.


SAT 12:15 Music Matters (b07dk7km)
Daniel Kramer, Female Composers, James Rhodes

Tom Service talks to ENO's new Artistic Director, Daniel Kramer; also he interviews Anna Beer on her new book about women composers; and pianist James Rhodes takes to our Soapbox.


SAT 13:00 Saturday Classics (b07dk7kp)
Sue MacGregor: Professional Encounters

In the second of two programmes, broadcaster Sue MacGregor describes her professional encounters with great musicians including Jessye Norman, Sir Thomas Allen and Mitsuko Uchida, with extracts from archive interviews she recorded with them. With music by Beethoven, Berlioz, Schubert, Mahler and Britten.


SAT 15:00 Sound of Cinema (b07dk7kr)
Race

Matthew Sweet looks at music for films that tackle the subject of racial prejudice in the week that has seen the launch of the film "Race" about the life of athlete Jesse Owens, with a score by Rachel Portman. The programme also includes music from Quincy Jones' "The Color Purple" and "In the heat of the night", Herman Stein's score for the 1965 film "The Intruder", Terence Blanchard's music for the 1992 biopic "Malcolm X" and his classic score of the week is Elmer Bernstein's "To kill a mockingbird" from 1962.


SAT 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (b07dk7kt)
Alyn Shipton selects music from listeners' requests in all styles of jazz, including music from the acclaimed singer Gregory Porter.


SAT 17:00 Jazz Line-Up (b07dk7kw)
Roberto Fonseca Trio

Claire Martin presents a performance by Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca and his trio recorded on the Jazz Line-Up stage at the 2016 Gateshead International Jazz Festival. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1975 Roberto initially played percussion but switched to piano at the age of eight and as a teenager began experimenting in creating a fusion of traditional Cuban music with American jazz. He has performed with the legendary Buena Vista Social Club as well as a variety of collaborations including working with the Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade, American guitarist Raul Midón and the Swiss-Cuban violinist Yilian Cañizares. Fonseca's album 'Yo', which explores the music of Cuba, Algeria and Morocco, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album.


SAT 18:30 Night Music (b07dk7ky)
Enescu Violin Sonata No 3

Enescu's Third Violin Sonata (subtitled "dans le caractère populaire roumain") performed by former New Generation Artist Tai Murray with pianist Gilles Vonsattel.


SAT 19:00 Opera on 3 (b07dk7l0)
Enescu's Oedipe

Oedipus, the man who unwittingly murdered his father and married his mother is one of the most resonant mythical archetypes of Western culture; and tonight's live relay from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden is an opportunity to hear a rare performance of Romanian composer Georges Enescu's powerful retelling of the story in his opera, Oedipe. Whereas the great dramatists of Ancient Greece focused on specific events in the life of Oedipus, Enescu's opera covers the whole narrative from birth to death. The highly individual musical style combines a rich harmonic idiom with subtle orchestration. The gorgeous, shimmering sounds of the scene with the Sphinx is one of the highlights of the score. This new production from the iconoclastic Catalan company, La Fura dels Baus, is conducted by Leo Hussain with a cast that includes Johan Reuter, John Tomlinson, Sophie Bevan, Sarah Connolly and Marie-Nicole Lemieux.

Presented by Andrew McGregor who is joined by composer and broadcaster William Mival to discuss the opera; including interviews with members of the cast.

7.15pm: Acts I & II

c.8.35pm: Interval

c.9.05pm: Acts III & IV

Enescu: Oedipe

Oedipe ..... Johan Reuter (tenor)
Tirésias ..... John Tomlinson (bass)
Antigone ..... Sophie Bevan (soprano)
Mérope ..... Claudia Huckle (contralto)
Jocaste ..... Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
The sphinx ..... Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
A shepherd ..... Alan Oke (tenor)
The Theban High Priest ..... Nicolas Courjal (bass)
Laïos ..... Hubert Francis (tenor)
Créon ..... Samuel Youn (bass-baritone)
Phorbas ..... In Sung Sim (bass)
The watcher ..... Stefan Kocan (bass)
Thésée ..... Samuel Dale Johnson (baritone)
Theban woman ..... Lauren Fagan (soprano)

The Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Leo Hussain (conductor)a.


SAT 22:30 Hear and Now (b07dk7l2)
Rise of the Machines

Tom Service presents a concert called Rise Of The Machines, curated by NonClassical. It juxtaposes Soviet-era evocations of industry, and orchestrations of the drum'n'bass music of Aphex Twin, with turntable concertos by Gabriel Prokofiev.

Alexander Mosolov: Iron Foundry
Aphex Twin: Blue Calx (arr. Caleb Burhans)
Gabriel Prokofiev: Concerto for turntable and orchestra (5th mvmt: Snow Time)
Leroy Anderson: The Typewriter
Aphex Twin: Cock ver10 (arr.Stefan Freund)
Larry Goves: 'The clouds flew round with the clouds' for orchestra and electronics
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 (Scherzo)
Leon Michener: Klavikon solo
Gabriel Prokofiev: Concerto for trumpet, percussion, turntables and orchestra (UKP)

Mr Switch (turntables)
Joby Burgess (percussion)
Daniel de Gruchy-Lambert (trumpet)
Southbank Sinfonia conducted by Gerry Cornelius

This concert was recorded in April in the massive post-industrial space of Ambika P3, a former concrete factory in Marylebone, London.

Image (c) Nick Rutter.



SUNDAY 05 JUNE 2016

SUN 00:00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz (b07dk7sg)
Oscar Pettiford

A legendary master of the string bass, Oscar Pettiford (1922-60) starred with Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk before leading his own orchestra, on both bass and cello. Geoffrey Smith salutes a virtuoso renowned for his fluency, musicality and swing.


SUN 01:00 Through the Night (b07dk7sj)
Proms 2015: Nielsen's Violin Concerto and Ives's Symphony No 4

Jonathan Swain presents music by Carl Nielsen and Charles Ives performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the 2015 BBC Proms.

1:01 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Springtime on Funen - lyric humoresque for soloists, chorus and orchestra, Op.42
Malin Christensson (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor), Neal Davies (bass-baritone), Tiffin Boys' Choir, Tiffin Girls' Choir, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor)

1:20 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Violin Concerto, Op.33
Henning Kraggerud (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor)

1:51 AM
Kraggerud, Henning (b.1973)
Postlude No.10 in B flat minor (from Equinox: 24 Postludes in Every Key)
Henning Kraggerud (violin)

1:56 AM
Webster, Joseph Philbrick (1819-1875); Zeuner, Heinrich Christopher (?); Marsh, Simeon Butler (?); Mason, Lowell (1792-1872)
Four Significant American Hymns: In the sweet by and by (Webster); Ye Christian Heralds (Zeuner); Jesus, lover of my soul (Marsh); Nearer, my God, to Thee (Mason)
Crouch End Festival Chorus, Richard Pearce (organ), Andrew Litton (conductor)

2:02 AM
Ives, Charles (1874-1954)
Symphony No.4
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor), Fergus Macleod (sub-conductor), Crouch End Festival Chorus, William Wolfram (piano), Richard Pearce (organ)

2:34 AM
Harrison, Lou (1917-2003)
Harp Suite
David Tanenbaum (guitar), William Winant (tuned water bowls, finger cymbals and sistra), Scott Evans (tuned water bowls and drums), Joel Davel (drums)

2:50 AM
Koshkin, Nikita (b.1956)
The Fall of Birds
Goran Listes (guitar)

3:01 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Excerpts from Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses: 10 pieces for piano (S.173): No.2 Ave Maria, No.3 Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude, No.7 Funérailles, No.5 Pater Noster
Sylviane Deferne (piano)

3:42 AM
Kverno, Trond H. F. (b.1945)
Corpus Christi Carol: Missa Fidei Mysterii
Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Helgerod (conductor)

4:00 AM
Alpaerts, Flor (1876-1954)
Zomer-idylle (Summer Idyll) (1928)
Vlaams Radio Orkest, Michel Tabachnik (conductor)

4:08 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Sonata in G major for flute, violin and continuo (BWV.1038)
Musica Petropolitana

4:16 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Water Music - suite (HWV.350) in G major
Collegium Aureum

4:27 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Waltz for piano (Op.34 No.2) in A minor
Zoltán Kocsis (piano)

4:33 AM
Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
Waltz from 'Faust'
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Børge Wagner (conductor)

4:39 AM
Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
Faust's Aria 'Salut, demeure chaste et pure' - from Act III of the 5-act opera 'Faust'
Peter Dvorsky (tenor), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

4:44 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Concerto for trumpet and orchestra in E flat major (H.7e.1)
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)

5:01 AM
Pilkington, Francis (c.1570-1638)
Rest, Sweet Nymphs (1605)
Cantamus Girls Choir, Pamela Cook (director)

5:04 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Fantasia, from Partita in C minor BWV.997 for lute
Axel Wolf (lute)

5:08 AM
Bodinus, Sebastian (c.1700-1760)
Trio in G major for oboe and 2 bassoons
Hildebrand'sche Hoboïsten Compagnie - Renate Hildebrand, Nils Ferber, Annkathrin Brüggemann (oboes), George Corall (oboe/taille)

5:18 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Keyboard Sonata in E flat major, Hob.XVI/38
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

5:29 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Symphony No.8 in B minor (D.759) "Unfinished"
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

5:51 AM
Diepenbrock, Alphons (1862-1921)
Berceuse
Jard van Nes (mezzo-soprano), Daniël Esser (cello), Rudolf Jansen (piano)

5:57 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Le carnaval des animaux (for flute, clarinet, glockenspiel, xylophone, 2 pianos, string quartet & double bass)
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (director)

6:21 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Quartet No.1 in A minor, Wq.93/H.537
Les Adieux: Andreas Staier (fortepiano), Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Hajo Bäß (viola)

6:38 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Oboe Concerto in C major (K.285d/314a)
Heinz Holliger (oboe), Symphony Orchestra of Austrian Radio, Leif Segerstam (conductor).


SUN 07:00 Breakfast (b07dk7sl)
Sunday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.


SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (b07dk7sn)
James Jolly

Following on from this week's Building A Library work, Tchaikovsky's "Pathétique" 6th Symphony, of which he will play the chosen recording in full, James Jolly plays other composers' last works, including pieces by Strauss and Schumann. His young artist is pianist Kit Armstrong, and the British season continues with Walton's Partita, in a performance by George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra.


SUN 12:00 Private Passions (b07dkbz8)
Tanita Tikaram

Tanita Tikaram became an overnight success when she was only a teenager; her debut album "Ancient Heart" sold four million copies in the late 80s and gave her hit singles like 'Twist in My Sobriety'. Since then she's gone on to release eight more albums, with some rather interesting silences in between - when she almost gave up on music altogether. In 2016 she toured Europe with her ninth album, 'Closer to the People'.

In Private Passions, Tanita Tikaram talks to Michael Berkeley about the effect of that massive early success, and about going to live in Italy to escape the rock music world. It was a wilderness moment, when she wasn't even sure she should be a musician. At this point, in her 30s, she began to discover classical music, through the work of legendary performers like pianists Rosalyn Tureck and Clara Haskil. She talks about how Bach opened up a new musical world to her, and how listening to classical music - and taking classical singing lessons - helps her find her "groove" when she is composing her own songs.

With Bach, Vivaldi, Ravel, Mozart's Piano Concerto No.23, Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne, and Duke Ellington.

Produced by Elizabeth Burke

A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3.


SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b07cyk0n)
Wigmore Hall Mondays: Till Fellner

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.

Presented by Sean Rafferty.

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 13 in E flat, Op 27 No 1 (Quasi una fantasia)
Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op 17

Till Fellner (piano).


SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (b07dkbzb)
The Medici Codex - BBC Singers

Robert Hollingworth introduces specially made recordings of music from the Medici Codex - a music book prepared for Pope Leo X in 1518. Leo was the second son of Lorenzo "The Magnificent" of the Medici family, who was Pope from 1513 to 1521. The codex contains 53 motets and was presented to Leo's nephew, the Duke of Urbino at his wedding to a French princess in 1518. In discussion with Tim Shepherd of Sheffield University.


SUN 15:00 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.


SUN 16:00 Choir and Organ (b07dkbzd)
Karl Jenkins's Adiemus, Blokefest

Sara Mohr-Pietsch looks ahead to 'Blokefest', where men gather together in the Wiltshire countryside to enjoy a long weekend of choral singing and male bonding. She talks to participants about the recent rise of a new breed of male voice choir. Her choral classic is Karl Jenkins's chart topping Adiemus.


SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (b07dkbzg)
How Do You Make a National Anthem?

Tom Service on the music, meaning and occasional madness of the world's national anthems. How are they chosen, what are they for, and is the music any good?

He's joined by writer Alex Marshall, author of the book "Republic or Death, Travels in Search of National Anthems",and by soprano Elin Manahan Thomas who looks at why some of them are easier to sing than others...

Rethink Music, with The Listening Service.

Each week, Tom aims to open our ears to different ways of imagining a musical idea, a work, or a musical conundrum, on the premise that "to listen" is a decidedly active verb.

How does music connect with us, make us feel that gamut of sensations from the fiercely passionate to the rationally intellectual, from the expressively poetic to the overwhelmingly visceral? What's happening in the pieces we love that takes us on that emotional rollercoaster? And what's going on in our brains when we hear them?

When we listen - really listen - we're not just attending to the way that songs, symphonies, and string quartets work as collections of notes and melodies. We're also creating meanings and connections that reverberate powerfully with other worlds of ideas, of history and culture, as well as the widest range of musical genres. We're engaging the world with our ears. The Listening Service aims to help make those connections, to listen actively.


SUN 17:30 Words and Music (b07dkbzj)
Circles, Curves and Contours

Circles, Curves and Contours are explored as Words and Music strays from the straight and narrow. With literary selections from Shakespeare, Tennyson, Emily Dickinson and Tony Harrison and music from Miles Davis and The Beatles to Bach and Bax. The readers are Deborah Findlay and Hugh Fraser.

Producer: Harry Parker.


SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (b07dkbzl)
Literary Pursuits

James Joyce's Dubliners

James Joyce went to extraordinary lengths to publish his first book, Dubliners. He personally rescued the manuscript from fire, lost a major standoff with his publishers over revisions, orchestrated a press campaign, wrote a despairing letter to the king of England and left Ireland for good. Sarah Dillon recounts the story, investigates the manuscripts and sees how Joyce's astonishing literary career nearly fell at the first hurdle.

Reader: Damien Molony
Producer: James Cook.


SUN 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b07dkbzn)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Debussy, Saint-Saens, Ravel, Brahms

Ian Skelly presents Philippe Herreweghe conducting Haydn, and Renaud Capuçon with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Osmo Vänskä, in highlights from recent European concerts:

Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
From the Victoria Hall, Geneva

Saint Saëns: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in A minor, op. 28
Renaud Capuçon, violin
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Osmo Vänskä, conductor

Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, Hob. XX/2
Sarah Wegener, soprano
Maria-Henriette Reinhold, contralto
Robin Tritschler, tenor
David Soar, bass
Collegium Vocale Gent
Orchestre des Champs-Elysées
Philippe Herreweghe
From the KlaraFestival at the Bozar, Brussels

Ravel: Tzigane, concert rhapsody
Renaud Capuçon, violin
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Osmo Vänskä, conductor

Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 20 in E minor
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Osmo Vänskä, conductor.


SUN 21:00 Drama on 3 (b03hk7r5)
Bix: Singing the Blues

The jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) has been described as a genius: how did he manage to create such beautiful and influential music with such a troubled mind?

Apart from their genius, the musicians Bix Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong had little in common. Armstrong was black and Beiderbecke was white and musical segregation was complete in the 1920's. Armstrong would go on to be one of the first musicians to challenge this racial divide, and his life story is well documented. Beiderbecke was an alcoholic who died young â€" but perhaps his greatest tragedy was that he never got to play with the best â€" because in his view the best were black.

Bix and Louis met on several occasions but only ever played together once - in a private, after-hours session. Creating a fictionalised version of that meeting, Robert Forrest's play explores the heart and mind of Bix Beiderbecke and his relationship with Louis Armstrong.

After being close to death in 1959, Louis Armstrong is quoted as saying,
'Bix tried to get me a gig in Gabriel's band last night, but it didn't work out.'.


SUN 22:30 Early Music Late (b07dkbzq)
Concerto Romano

Simon Heighes presents music by Pinto, Vivaldi and Scarlatti performed by Concerto Romano and the soprano Francesca Aspromonte in the Palestrina Hall of the Pamphilj Palace in Rome:

Luis Álvares Pinto: Lições de Solfejo XXII, XXIII, XXIV
Vivaldi: Laudate Pueri, RV 600
Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in A minor, RV 356
Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantata - O di Betlemme altera

Francesca Aspromonte (soprano)
Concerto Romano
Alessandro Quarta (director).


SUN 23:30 Night Music (b07dkbzs)
Kurt Atterberg

On the eve of Swedish National Day and as a prologue to Through the Night's Celebration of all things Swedish, a chance to hear the fourth and sixth symphonies of Kurt Atterberg, both conducted by Ari Rasilainen.



MONDAY 06 JUNE 2016

MON 00:30 Through the Night (b07dkcwx)
Swedish National Day

Jonathan Swain presents a celebration of Swedish music and musicians.

12:31 AM
Atterberg, Kurt (1884-1974)
Suite No. 3 for violin, viola and strings (Op. 19 No. 3)
Tomo Keller (violin and director), Eriikka Nylund, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

12:42 AM
Norman, Ludvig (1831-1885)
Symphony No.3 in D minor (Op.58)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philipp von Steinaecker (conductor)

1:14 AM
Björklund, Staffan (b.1944)
Moonscapes, concerto grosso in C
Mats Wallin (bass clarinet); Lisa Viguier Vallgårda (harp); Women's Chorus; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)

1:34 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 - 1827)
Symphony No. 2 in D major (Op.36)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

2:10 AM
Larsson, Lars-Erik [1908-1986]
9 Songs to Poems by Hjalmar Gullberg (Op.35) (1946)
Carin Zander (soprano); Mårten Landström (piano)

2:27 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927)
Sverige (Sweden)
Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson (conductor)

2:31 AM
Olsson, Otto (1879-1964)
Gregorian melodies for organ (Op.30) (1910)
Anders Bondeman (organ)

2:49 AM
Peterson-Berger, Wilhelm (1867-1942)
Frösöblomster (Flowers from Frösön Island), Book 2 (1900)
Johan Ullén (piano)

3:14 AM
Wiren, Dag (1905-1986)
Serenade for Strings (Op.11)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Niklas Willen (Conductor)

3:29 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927)
Varnatt (Spring Night)
Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Skold (Conductor)

3:38 AM
Berwald, Franz (1796-1868)
Fantasia on 2 Swedish Folksongs for piano (1850-59)
Lucia Negro (piano)

3:47 AM
Kraus, Joseph Martin (1756-1792)
Quatre Intermèdes et Divertissements for Molière's comedy 'Amphitryon' (Paris-Stockholm, 1785-87) - Intermède IV
Chantal Santon (soprano - La Nuit), Georg Poplutz (tenor - Hérault), Bonn Chamber Chorus, L'Arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt (conductor)

3:59 AM
Norman, Ludwig (1831-1885), arr. Niklas Willén
Andante Sostenuto
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Niklas Willén (conductor)

4:09 AM
Rangstöm, Ture (1884-1947)
Partita for Violin and Orchestra
Bernt Lysell (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Niklas Willén (conductor)

4:23 AM
Wikander, David (1884-1955)
Våren är ung och mild (Spring is young and mild)
Swedish Radio Choir, Gustav Sjökvist (conductor)

4:26 AM
Lindberg, Oskar (1887-1955)
Morgonen
Swedish Radio Choir (women's voices only), Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Maria Wieslander (piano), Gustav Sjökvist (conductor)

4:31 AM
Alfvèn, Hugo (1872-1960)
Suite for Orchestra from 'King Gustav II Adolf' (Op.49)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Niklas Willén (conductor)

4:46 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927)
Florez and Blanzeflor (Op.3)
Peter Mattei (baritone), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)

4:55 AM
Sjögren, Emil (1853-1918)
Two Lyrical Pieces
Per Enoksson (violin), Péter Nagy (piano)

5:06 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.88 (H.1.88) in G major
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (Conductor)

5:27 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Two arias: 'E vivo ancore...Scherza infida' (from Act 2 Scene 3) and 'Dopo notte' (from Act 3 scene 8) - from the opera "Ariodante"
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)

5:47 AM
Nystroem, Goesta (1890-1966)
Tre havsvisioner (3 Visions about the sea)
Swedish Radio Choir, Gustaf Sjökvist (conductor)

5:59 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) text: Reinick, Robert (1805-1852)
Sonntags am Rhein (Op.36 No.1)
Olle Persson (baritone), Stefan Bojsten (piano)

6:01 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856), arr. Stefan Bojsten
"Hör' ich das Liedchen klingen" - from Dichterliebe (Op.48 No.10) arranged for baritone, piano, violin & cello
Olle Persson (baritone), Dan Almgren (violin), Torleif Thedén (cello), Stefan Bojsten (piano)

6:06 AM
Larsson, Lars-Erik (1908-1986)
Concertino for Piano and Strings (Op.45 No.12) (1957)
Marten Landstrom (Piano), Uppsala Chamber Soloists

6:21 AM
Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
Roméo et Juliette (extracts from Act 2: "Ah, lève-toi soleil!..."; "Va, repose en paix"]
Nicolai Gedda (tenor); Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Nils Grevillius (conductor).


MON 06:30 Breakfast (b07dkcwz)
Monday - Petroc Trelawny

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.


MON 09:00 Essential Classics (b07dkcx1)
Monday - Sarah Walker with Tamsin Greig

9am
My favourite... clarinettists. Sarah showcases her favourite clarinettists, past and present, including Martin Frost, Sabine Meyer, Michael Collins, Andrew Sparling and Benny Goodman. They'll be performing works such as Poulenc's lyrical Clarinet Sonata, Mendelssohn's virtuosic Konzertstuck No. 1 in F minor and the jazz-infused Prelude, Fugue and Riffs by Leonard Bernstein.

9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.

10am
Sarah's guest is the award-winning actress Tamsin Greig. Familiar to many listeners as Debbie Aldridge on Radio 4's The Archers, Tamsin also currently stars in the sitcom Episodes and in Channel 4's Friday Night Dinner. Tamsin's other screen roles include Dr. Caroline Todd in Green Wing and Fran Katzenjammer in Black Books. Also an acclaimed stage actress, Tamsin won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and received Olivier award nominations for The Little Dog Laughed and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Tamsin will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Charles Stanford, every day at 10am.

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah features a piece from the BBC4 series Revolution & Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century, Schubert's Trio in B flat, D471. A miniature gem comprising just a single complete movement, it has become one of the most treasured works in the string repertoire.

11am
This week Sarah focuses on not just one but five artists, as she celebrates distinguished instrumentalists and singers who have also developed careers as conductors.

Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op.43
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor).


MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00y6hw9)
Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816)

Episode 1

Donald Macleod introduces the life and music of the Italian composer whose comic operas were the toast of some of the greatest world leaders of the day.

Giovanni Paisiello was one of the most popular opera composers of his day, feted all over Europe, not least by the greatest world leaders of the day including Napoleon, Catherine the Great and Emperor Joseph II. And yet, other than a handful of operatic arias, he's virtually unknown today. Donald Macleod looks at the life and times of this prolific composer who produced nearly 100 operas and made a significant contribution to the development of opera.

Paisiello was an ambitious young man - although he was already making a name for himself around Italy, he was determined to win the hearts and minds of the Neapolitan court, one of the most flourishing centres of musical excellence in Europe at that time. In the first programme, Donald Macleod introduces excerpts from two of his comic operas - 'Don Chisciotte della Mancia', one of the first to find favour with the King of Naples, and 'La Frascatana', with which Paisiello launched his international career.


MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b07dkdt8)
Wigmore Hall Mondays: Lars Vogt

From Wigmore Hall, London, Lars Vogt performs Bach's extraordinary Goldberg Variations.

The story of the Goldberg Variations begins in Leipzig when Count Hermann Karl von Keyserlingk, the Russian ambassador to Saxony, brought the young composer and performer, Johann Gottleib Goldberg to Bach for music lessons. Keyserlingk mentioned that he suffered from insomnia and would like some keyboard pieces for Goldberg to play when he was unable to sleep, and so Bach apparently composed the Goldberg variations. Whether the story is true or not, Bach did create a masterpiece of thirty variations based on the opening aria.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV988

Lars Vogt (piano).


MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b07dkdtb)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Episode 1

Katie Derham hosts a week of programmes celebrating Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, beginning today with works by Wagner, Beethoven and Prokofiev. Nikolaj Znaider in the soloist in Beethoven's Violin Concerto, conducted by Valery Gergiev.

2pm
Wagner: Overture - Tannhauser
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Daniele Gatti, conductor

c.2.15pm
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op.61
Nikolaj Znaider, violin
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, conductor

c.2.55pm
Prokofiev: Symphony no.6 in E flat minor, Op.111
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, conductor

c.3.35pm
Julian Anderson: Eden
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
George Benjamin, conductor

c.3.45pm
Janacek: Sinfonietta
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
George Benjamin, conductor.


MON 16:30 In Tune (b07dkdtf)
Imogen Cooper, Tasmin Little, Multi-Story

Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news, with live performances from pianist Imogen Cooper and from violinist Tasmin Little, plus composer Kate Whitley and conductor Christopher Stark discuss their project 'Multi-Story', taking Classical music to unexpected places.


MON 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00y6hw9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]


MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b07dkdtl)
Vox Luminis - Music by the Bach Family

From Salisbury Cathedral (as part of the Salisbury International Arts Festival), award-winning Belgian choir Vox Luminis perform sacred music by members of the Bach dynasty - Johann, Johann Michael, Johann Christoph and Johann Ludwig, culminating in Johann Sebastian's powerful motet Jesu meine Freude.

Introduced by Martin Handley

Johann Bach: Unser Leben ist ein Schatten; Sei nun wieder zufrieden
Johann Michael Bach: Herr ich warte auf dein Heil; Sei, lieber Tag, willkommen; Nun treten wir ins neue Jahr; Halt was du hast
Johann Christoph Bach: Lieber Herr Gott, wecke uns auf; Der Mensch von Weibe geboren; Fürchte dich nicht
Johann Ludwig Bach: Das Blut Jesu Christi

Interval

Johann Ludwig Bach: Das ist meine Freude
Johann Sebastian Bach: Jesu meine Freude

Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier (director).


MON 22:00 Music Matters (b07dk7km)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:15 on Saturday]


MON 22:45 The Essay (b07dkdxp)
Get Playing

Alistair McGowan on playing the Piano

As part of the BBC Music Get Playing, supporting amateur music making around the UK, 5 leading writers and artists contribute an Essay in this series, in which they talk about their little-known passions for playing an instrument.

In the first programme, the impressionist, actor and writer Alistair McGowan describes his attempts to relearn the piano. He started learning as a child but gave it up to play football instead. He tried it again in his 30s but stopped when his TV series "The Big Impression" took over. Then, later on, after a midnight piano lesson on a cruise ship, he began in earnest again and discovered a new world of music-making.

Alistair is fascinated by short pieces in particular. His special favourites are the pieces he heard his mother play and also ones he has discovered on piano courses and through hearing them on the radio. A tiny nugget of Satie, Mompou or John Field carries for him all the weight of human experience and channels a musical history into one small but perfect form.

more info visit bbc.co.uk/getplaying

Producer: Emma Kingsley.


MON 23:00 Jazz Now (b07dkdxr)
Pascal Schumacher Quartet

Soweto Kinch introduces a concert by vibraphonist Pascal Schumacher and his quartet, Franz von Chossy, piano; Pol Belardi, bass and Jens Dueppe, drums. Al Ryan meets the band backstage at Turner Sims Southampton, where the concert was recorded in May.



TUESDAY 07 JUNE 2016

TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b07dkfk5)
Marc-Andre Hamelin at the 2014 International Chopin Piano Festival

Jonathan Swain introduces a solo recital by Marc-André Hamelin at the 2014 International Chopin Piano Festival, Duszniki Zdrój, Poland.

12:31 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Piano Sonata in B flat major H.16.41
Marc-André Hamelin (Piano)

12:42 AM
Field, John (1782-1837)
Andante inédit in E flat major
Marc-André Hamelin (Piano)

12:50 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Images - set 1 for piano
Marc-André Hamelin (Piano)

1:06 AM
Hamelin, Marc-Andre (1961-)
Variations on a Theme by Paganini
Marc-André Hamelin (Piano)

1:16 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Piano Sonata no. 3 in B minor Op.58
Marc-André Hamelin (Piano)

1:47 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)/Marc-André Hamelin (b.1961)
Étude no.1 from 3 nouvelles études
Marc-André Hamelin (Piano)

1:52 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)/Marc-André Hamelin (b.1961)
Waltz in D flat major Op.42 no.1 for piano (Minute) re-tooled by Marc-André Hamelin
Marc-André Hamelin (Piano)

1:54 AM
Schlözer, Paul de (1841/42-1898)
Étude de concert in A flat major Op.1 no.2
Marc-André Hamelin (Piano)

1:58 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in C major K.545: 1st mvt
Marc-André Hamelin (Piano)

2:02 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Dardanus (orchestral suites) - tragédie en musique (1739)
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (Conductor)

2:21 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Premiere rapsodie for clarinet and orchestra
Jozef Luptacik (Clarinet), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Ludovit Rajter (Conductor)

2:31 AM
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904)
Mass in D major (Op.86)
Ludmila Vernerova (Soprano), Olga Kodesova (Alto), Vladimír Okenko (Tenor), Ilja Prokop (Bass), Miluska Kvechova (Organ), Czech Radio Choir, Pilzen Radio Orchestra, Lubomír Matl (Conductor)

3:12 AM
Holst, Gustav (1874-1934)
Wind Quintet (Op.14) in A flat major
Cinque Venti

3:26 AM
Auletta, Domenico (1723-1753)
Concerto for harpsichord and strings in C major
Ebrico Baiano (Harpsichord), Cappella della Pieta de'Turchini, Antonio Florio (Conductor)

3:45 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Prelude from Partita no.3 in E major (BWV.1006) arr. for 2 harps
Myong-ja Kwan (Harp), Hyon-son La (Harp)

3:50 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Des pas sur la neige; No.6 from Preludes Book One
Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Daniele Callegari (Conductor)

3:55 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
Etudes and polkas - book 3
Antonin Kubalek (Piano)

4:05 AM
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von (1644-1704)
Sonata violino solo representativa for violin and continuo in A major
Elizabeth Wallfisch (Baroque Violin), Rosanne Hunt (Cello), Linda Kent (Harpsichord)

4:19 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893)
Slavonic March in B flat minor (Op.31) 'March Slave'
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba (Conductor)

4:31 AM
Auber, Daniel-Francois-Esprit (1782-1871)
Overture to Fra Diavolo - opera
Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (Conductor)

4:40 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in C major Kk.132
Andreas Staier (Harpsichord)

4:46 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in C major (Kk.461) (Allegro)
Andreas Staier (Harpsichord)

4:49 AM
Bacewicz, Grazyna (1909-1969)
Krakowiak for orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (Conductor)

4:54 AM
Tallis, Thomas (c.1505-1585)
Suscipe, quaeso Domine for 7 voices
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (Conductor)

5:03 AM
Viotti, Giovanni Battista (1755-1824)
Duo concertante in B flat major
Alexandar Avramov (Violin), Ivan Peev (Violin)

5:11 AM
Veremans, Renaat (1894-1969)
Nacht en Morgendontwaken aan de Nete - in memoriam Felix Timmermans 31.7.1957
Flemish Radio Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset (Conductor)

5:22 AM
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario (1895-1968)
Tarantella for guitar Op. 87b
Tomaz Rajteric (Guitar)

5:27 AM
Duparc, Henri (1848-1933)
L'invitation au voyage
Gerald Finley (Baritone), Stephen Ralls (Piano)

5:32 AM
Fodor, Carolus Antonius (1768-1846)
Symphony No.2 in G major (Op.13)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Halstead (Conductor)

5:57 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Magnificat (RV.610) in G minor
Choir of Latvian Radio (Choir), Riga Chamber Players, Sigvards Klava (Conductor)

6:12 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Septet for trumpet, piano and strings (Op.65) in E flat major
Ole Edvard Antonsen (Trumpet), Elise Baatnes (Violin), Karolina Radziej (Violin), Lars Anders Tomter (Viola), Hjalmer Kvam (Cello), Marius Faltby (Double Bass), Enrico Pace (Piano).


TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b07dkhsq)
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 (b07dkhxg)
Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Tamsin Greig

9am
My favourite... clarinettists. Sarah showcases her favourite clarinettists, past and present, including Martin Frost, Sabine Meyer, Michael Collins, Andrew Sparling and Benny Goodman. They'll be performing works such as Poulenc's lyrical Clarinet Sonata, Mendelssohn's virtuosic Konzertstuck No. 1 in F minor and the jazz-infused Prelude, Fugue and Riffs by Leonard Bernstein.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.

10am
Sarah's guest is the award-winning actress Tamsin Greig. Familiar to many listeners as Debbie Aldridge on Radio 4's The Archers, Tamsin also currently stars in the sitcom Episodes and in Channel 4's Friday Night Dinner. Tamsin's other screen roles include Dr. Caroline Todd in Green Wing and Fran Katzenjammer in Black Books. Also an acclaimed stage actress, Tamsin won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and received Olivier award nominations for The Little Dog Laughed and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Tamsin will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Charles Stanford, every day at 10am.

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah features a piece from the BBC4 series Revolution & Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century. Today, she looks at Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, whose movements tell a story in music.

11am
This week Sarah focuses on not just one but five artists, as she celebrates distinguished instrumentalists and singers who have also developed careers as conductors.

Shostakovich
Symphony No. 15 in A major
London Symphony Orchestra
Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor).


TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00y6knj)
Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816)

Episode 2

When Catherine the Great invited Paisiello to become musical director of her court in St Petersburg he must have jumped at the chance. It was his first official appointment and with it came both security and prestige. Paisiello quickly became a favourite of the court, thanks to the steady stream of comic operas he produced there. Donald Macleod introduces two of them: 'I filosofi immaginari' - a great favourite of Catherine's, and 'La serva padrona', which recycled the libretto famously set by Pergolesi 50 years earlier.


TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b063dkjs)
The Three Choirs Festival at 300

Episode 1

Radio 3 visits one of the world's oldest music festivals, as it celebrates its Tercentenary in Hereford in 2015.
Roderick Williams performs, at Holy Trinity Church, songs connected with the centenary of World War One, including the world premiere of a festival commission from the Welsh composer Rhian Samuel. A Swift Radiant Morning sets poems by CH Sorley, who was killed in action in 1915.

Vaughan Williams: Four Last Songs
Rhian Samuel: A swift radiant morning
Elgar: Sea Pictures

Roderick Williams, baritone
Susie Allan, piano.


TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b07dkfv8)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Episode 2

Katie Derham hosts a week of programmes celebrating Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. With works today by Liszt, Stravinsky and Bruckner, conducted by Chief Conductor-elect Daniele Gatti, and regular guest conductor Daniel Harding.

2pm
Liszt: Orpheus
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Daniele Gatti, conductor

c.2.15pm
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Daniel Harding, conductor

c.2.50pm
Bruckner: Symphony no.5
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Daniel Harding, conductor.


TUE 16:30 In Tune (b07dkg1b)
Hot Sardines, Carole Strachan

Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news, with live performance from jazz band The Hot Sardines plus author Carole Strachan on her debut novel 'The Truth in Masquerade'.


TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00y6knj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]


TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b07dkj64)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Walton, Elgar, John Pickard

Live from BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Elgar's ever-popular Cello Concerto with soloist Alban Gerhardt, the composer's passionate outpouring of grief and disillusionment in the wake of the First World War. In contrast, Walton's riotous overture celebrates the 70th anniversary of the founding of Johannesburg, complete with African rhythms. John Pickard's new work is, perhaps surprisingly in the 21st century, still a traditional symphony. It features three sets of timpani spatially separated across the stage, not simply used to create a lot of noise, but to explore melodic lines between the three players.

Presented by Nicola Hewyood Thomas

Walton: Johannesburg Festival Overture
Elgar: Cello Concerto

8.15 During the interval, Nicola talks to soloist Alban Gerhardt about his close relationship to BBC NOW since his days as one of the first Radio 3 new Generation Artists, and listens to some of his most recent recordings.

8.35
John Pickard: Symphony No. 5 [world premiere]

Alban Gerhardt (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).


TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (b07dkjsw)
Sjon, Winifred Knights, Katie Roiphe, New Generation Thinker Sarah Jackson

Icelandic writer Sjón talks to Matthew Sweet about fiction, poetry and making music with Björk. Curator Sacha Llewellyn explores the art of Winifred Knights, Katie Roiphe looks at writers dying and in the first of our commissioned columns from 2016 New Generation Thinkers - Sarah Jackson from Nottingham Trent University explores touch and frostbite.

Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjón was named Best Icelandic Novel of 2015. The English translation which is out now is from Victoria Cribb.

Winifred Knights (1899-1947) is the first major retrospective of the award-winning Slade School artist which will display all her completed paintings for the first time since their creation, including the apocalyptic masterpiece The Deluge, 1920. It runs at the Dulwich Picture Gallery from June 8th to September 18th 2016.

Katie Roiphe's new book The Violet Hour considers the deaths of six literary figures Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak and James Salter.
Sarah Jackson from Nottingham Trent University is one of the 2016 New Generation Thinkers and a poet whose collection Pelt was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award.

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. Find out more from our website and hear them introducing their research in the programme which broadcast on May 31st - available as an arts and ideas podcast.

Producer: Fiona McLean.

Main image: Winifred Knights, Edge of Abruzzi; boat with three people on a lake, 1924-30, oil on canvas, (detail)
(private collection, from the book Winifred Knights: 1899-1947, by Sacha Llewellyn, published by Lund Humphries).


TUE 22:45 The Essay (b07dkjsy)
Get Playing

Get Playing: Joanne Harris on playing the flute and bass guitar

As part of BBC Music Get Playing, supporting amateur music making around the UK, 5 leading writers and artists contribute an Essay in this series, in which they talk about their little-known passions for playing an instrument.

In the second programme, the award-winning novelist Joanne Harris (best known for her novel "Chocolat") describes how she learned to play the flute as a child. This was followed by the bass guitar which she began after falling in love with a drummer in a band and wanting to join.

When she heard the story told by her grandfather of how he had refused to hand his double bass over to a Nazi soldier in occupied France, the young Joanne Harris realised that a musical instrument could be a powerful force. She began playing herself, first the flute and then, as a 16 year old, the bass guitar. She's continued to play both instruments and is now developing a way of telling stories in performances which incorporates music.

In this Essay, Joanne tells the story of her performing life and considers the way in which music can be an essential part of storytelling.

for more information visit bbc.co.uk/getplaying

Producer: Emma Kingsley.


TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b07dkk2h)
Max Reinhardt with John Doran

Adventures in music, ancient to future: Max is joined by John Doran, editor of The Quietus, an independent online magazine for new music and pop culture. John shares two of his favourite new records; the vocalist and composer Ian William Craig who uses tape recorders to create a 'cassette choir' and avant-folk from the maverick Scotsman Daniel Patrick Quinn.

Max also has new music from the Bitchin Baja's salty seawater soundtrack to an experimental feature film about the Moken people who live on the Andaman Sea. Plus more non-Western experimental sounds from Lebanese guitarist and crunchy noise-maker Charbel Haber.



WEDNESDAY 08 JUNE 2016

WED 00:30 Through the Night (b07dkfk7)
Baroque guitar music at the 2015 Concentus Moraviae International Music Festival

Jonathan Swain presents a recital from baroque guitarist Pierre Pitzl at the 2015 Concentus Moraviae International Music Festival.

12:31 AM
Corbetta, Francesco [1615-1681] (1 & 2); Valdambrini, Ferdinando [?] (3)
1.Folia; 2.Corrente; 3.Capona
Pierre Pitzl (Baroque Guitar)

12:38 AM
Granata, Giovanni Battista [1620/21-1687]
Excerpts from 'Soavi Concerti di Sonate'
Pierre Pitzl (Baroque Guitar)

12:45 AM
Corbetta, Francesco [1615-1681]
Caprice de Chacone
Pierre Pitzl (Baroque Guitar)

12:49 AM
de Visée, Robert [c.1655-c.1733]
Excerpts from 'Livre de Guittare'
Pierre Pitzl (Baroque Guitar)

12:59 AM
Guerau, Francisco [1649-1722]
Excerpts from 'Poema Harmonico'
Pierre Pitzl (Baroque Guitar)

1:12 AM
Guerau, Francisco [1649-1722]
Cifras selectas de guitarra
Pierre Pitzl (Baroque Guitar)

1:21 AM
Sanz, Gaspar [1640-1710]
Canarios
Pierre Pitzl (Baroque Guitar)

1:25 AM
Sanz, Gaspar [1640-1710]
Paradettas
Pierre Pitzl (Baroque Guitar)

1:36 AM
Franck, César (1822-1890), arr. Jean Pierre Rampal
Flute Sonata
Carlos Bruneel (flute), Levente Kende (piano)

2:02 AM
Weyse, Christoph Ernst Friedrich (1774-1842)
Symphony No.6 in C minor
The Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Adam Fischer (conductor)

2:31 AM
Janácek, Leoš [1854-1928]
Glagolitic Mass
Andrea Danková (soprano); Jana Sýkorová (alto); Tomáš Juhás (tenor); Jozef Benci (bass); Aleš Bárta (organ); Prague Philharmonic Choir, Lukáš Vasilek (director); Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Petr Zdvihal (leader and violin solo),Tomáš Netopil (conductor)

3:10 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
24 Preludes for piano (Op.28)
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)

3:49 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Sonata da Chiesa in E minor (Op.1 No.2)
London Baroque

3:55 AM
Traditional Nordic folk tune arr. Danish String Quartet
Waltz, after Lasse from Lyby
Danish String Quartet

4:00 AM
Massenet, Jules (1842-1912)
Méditation - from the opera 'Thaïs'
Marie Bérard (violin), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)

4:06 AM
Bach, Johann Christian (1735-1782)
Quintet in F major for flute, oboe, violin, viola and continuo (Op.11 No.3)
Les Adieux

4:16 AM
Stainov, Petko (1896-1977)
A fir tree is bending
Vassil Arnaudov Sofia Chamber Choir, Theodora Pavlovitch (conductor)

4:20 AM
Alpaerts, Flor (1876-1954)
Avondmuziek
I Solisti del Vento, Ivo Hadermann (conductor)

4:31 AM
Klami, Uuno (1900-1961)
Nummisuutarit (Suite for Orchestra)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

4:39 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Mephisto waltz no. 1 (S.514)
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)

4:49 AM
Duijck, Johan [b.1954]
Cantiones Sacrae in honorem Thomas Tallis, op.26, Book 1
Flemish Radio Choir, Johan Duijck (conductor)

4:59 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Phantasiestucke Op.73 for clarinet & piano
Marten Altrov (clarinet), Holger Marjamaa (piano)

5:10 AM
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736)
Sonata in G major for violin and piano
Peter Michalica (violin), Elena Michalicova (piano)

5:18 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Rosamunde - Overture (D.644)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Heinz Holliger (conductor)

5:28 AM
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937)
String Quartet No.2 (Op.56)
Karol Szymanowski Quartet

5:45 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata no.32 in C minor (Op.111)
Anton Dikov (piano)

6:11 AM
Kabalevsky, Dimitri (1904-1987)
Comedians - suite
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Oliver Dohnanyi (Conductor).


WED 06:30 Breakfast (b07dkhst)
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 (b07dkhxj)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Tamsin Greig

9am
My favourite... clarinettists. Sarah showcases her favourite clarinettists, past and present, including Martin Frost, Sabine Meyer, Michael Collins, Andrew Sparling and Benny Goodman. They'll be performing works such as Poulenc's lyrical Clarinet Sonata, Mendelssohn's virtuosic Konzertstuck No. 1 in F minor and the jazz-infused Prelude, Fugue and Riffs by Leonard Bernstein.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you remember the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?

10am
Sarah's guest is the award-winning actress Tamsin Greig. Familiar to many listeners as Debbie Aldridge on Radio 4's The Archers, Tamsin also currently stars in the sitcom Episodes and in Channel 4's Friday Night Dinner. Tamsin's other screen roles include Dr. Caroline Todd in Green Wing and Fran Katzenjammer in Black Books. Also an acclaimed stage actress, Tamsin won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and received Olivier award nominations for The Little Dog Laughed and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Tamsin will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Charles Stanford, every day at 10am.

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah features a piece from the BBC4 series Revolution & Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century. This morning, she showcases the very first example of French grand opera, with the Overture to Auber's La Muette de Portici.

11am
This week Sarah focuses on not just one but five artists, as she celebrates distinguished instrumentalists and singers who have also developed careers as conductors.

Mozart
Mass in C major, K.317 'Coronation'
Edith Mathis (soprano)
Jadwiga Rappé (alto)
Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor)
Thomas Quasthoff (bass)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig
Staatskapelle Dresden
Peter Schreier (conductor).


WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00y6krk)
Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816)

Episode 3

Paisiello didn't compose a great deal of instrumental music during his lifetime, but whilst in St Petersburg, he wrote a selection of keyboard music dedicated to two of his most prestigious pupils. Donald Macleod introduces the gracious Harpsichord Concerto in C major and the opera which was destined to become Paisiello's biggest hit, 'Il barbiere di Siviglia'.


WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b063dkjx)
The Three Choirs Festival at 300

Episode 2

Radio 3 visits one of the world's oldest music festivals, as it celebrates its tercentenary in Hereford in 2015
Two performances from Holy Trinity Church, including Roderick Williams in Tim Torry's settings of First World War poems by Charlotte Mew, and Steven Osborne in Schubert's final piano sonata.

Tim Torry: The Face of Grief
Roderick Williams, baritone
Susie Allan, Piano

Schubert: Sonata in B flat, D960
Steven Osborne, piano.


WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b07dkfvb)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Episode 3

Katie Derham presents a concert of Bach and Brahms given by Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Ivan Fischer. Recorded at the orchestra's historic home in April this year.

2pm
Bach: Magnificat, BWV.243
Anna Lucia Richter, soprano
Rosanne van Sandwijk, mezzo
Iestyn Davies, countertenor
Benjamin Hulett, tenor
Peter Harvey, baritone
Netherlands Chamber Chorus
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Ivan Fischer, conductor

c.2.30pm
Brahms: Symphony no.1 in C minor, Op.68
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Ivan Fischer, conductor.


WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b07dwp4w)
Liverpool Cathedral

Live from Liverpool Cathedral

Introit: O Lord make thy servant Elizabeth (Byrd)
Responses: Rose
Psalms 41, 42, 43 (Howells, Wesley, Willcocks)
First Lesson: Proverbs 8 vv.1-17
Canticles: Stanford in A
Second Lesson: Revelation 21 v.22-22 v.4
Anthems: Te Deum in G (Vaughan Williams)
O Lord, support us all the day long (Barry Ferguson)
Hymn: Praise my soul, the King of heaven
Organ Voluntary: Coronation March - Crown Imperial (Walton)

Director of Music: David Poulter
Associate Organist: Daniel Bishop.


WED 16:30 In Tune (b07dkg1d)
Guy Barker, Southbank Sinfonia, Aquinas Piano Trio

Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news, with live performance from Aquinas Piano Trio and from Southbank Sinfonia along with jazz performer, composer and conductor Guy Barker as they prepare for a concert featuring his 2014 work 'A Soho Symphony'.


WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00y6krk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]


WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b07dkj66)
Royal Festival Hall Organ Recital - Margaret Phillips

Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall

Margaret Phillips returns to Royal Festival Hall as part of the Southbank's International Organ Series.

In a mostly French programme she contrasts music from the 20th century with a work by a composer from the French baroque, Nicolas de Grigny, who was organist at Rheims cathedral. Jean Guillou's colourful Variations explore the nethermost regions of the Royal Festival Hall organ's vast tonal resources, and the Duruflé work is one of the most beautiful 20th century additions to the organ's repertoire. Bach's Piece d'Orgue completes the programme - a work in which he pays homage to the French baroque style.

Nicolas de Grigny: Veni creator
Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia in G (Piece d'orgue) BWV.572
Maurice Duruflé: Prelude, adagio et choral varié sur le thème du Veni creator, Op.4

Interval - Interval music

Jean Guillou: 18 Variations, Op.3
Marcel Dupré: Prelude and Fugue in G minor, Op.7 No.3

The glorious sound of the Royal Festival Hall organ was first heard in March 1954. Sixty years later, in 2014, it was restored to its former glory by Harrison & Harrison Ltd. This organ series looks both to the history and the future of this fascinating instrument.


WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b07dkjt2)
Peter Singer

Moral philosopher Peter Singer is in conversation with Philip Dodd. His essay Famine, Affluence and Morality was first printed in 1972 in the journal Philosophy and Public Affairs. It has now been republished with a foreword by Bill and Melinda Gates.


WED 22:45 The Essay (b07dkjt4)
Get Playing

Get Playing: Poet Fiona Sampson on playing the violin

As part of BBC Music Get Playing, supporting amateur music making around the UK, 5 leading writers and artists contribute an Essay in this series, in which they talk about their little-known passions for playing an instrument.

In the third programme of the series, the poet Fiona Sampson explores how playing the violin to professional standard in her youth has informed her life and work today.

She relives her youth spent at summer schools and in orchestras and describes playing the violin in the practice rooms at the Royal Academy of Music.

And she describes how the shape that that her body made around the violin stays with her wherever she goes.

For more information visit bbc.co.uk/getplaying

Producer: Emma Kingsley.


WED 23:00 Late Junction (b07dkk2k)
Max Reinhardt previews the 2016 Yorkshire Festival

Max previews the Yorkshire Festival, an 18-day celebration of the arts across the whole of Yorkshire, with exclusive previews of newly commissioned pieces. They include Gavin Bryars and Blake Morrison's composition to be listened to on the train journey from Goole to Hull, and an installation that asks artists to respond to the incidental and environmental noises that exist in the 21st century, called No Quiet Place.

Plus dark brooding vibes from singer and composer Jessica Sligter's new album featuring Jenny Hval and established electronic duo Plaid and a track from their forthcoming album The Digging Remedy.



THURSDAY 09 JUNE 2016

THU 00:30 Through the Night (b07dkfk9)
The Danish String Quartet performs music by Carl Nielsen

Jonathan Swain presents a concert given by BBC New Generation Artists, the Danish String Quartet, performing music by Carl Nielsen.

12:31 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
String Quartet no.2 in F minor, Op.5
Danish String Quartet

1:00 AM
Trad. arr. the Danish String Quartet
Nordic Folk Music: Easterday, Polsk after Rasmus Storm; Sekstur/Torvedans (dances)
Danish String Quartet

1:09 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
String Quartet no.4 in F major, Op.44
Danish String Quartet

1:38 AM
Trad. arr. the Danish String Quartet
Nordic Folk Music: Vigstamoin; Ribers No.8, polka
Danish String Quartet

1:45 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor (Op.30)
Nelson Goerner (piano), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Matthias Aesbacher (conductor)

2:26 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai [1844-1908]
"Sleep my beauty" (cradle song from "May Night")
Joanne Kolomyjec (soprano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

2:31 AM
Franck, Cesar [1822-1890]
Cello Sonata in A major
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)

3:01 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Cantata: 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben', BWV.147
The Sixteen, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra (Barockformation), Ton Koopman (conductor)

3:31 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich [1637-1707]
Sonate IV for violin, viola da gamba and cembalo in B flat major (BuxWV.255)
Ensemble CordArte

3:40 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Spirit Music (Nos.1 to 4) - from 'Alcina'
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Monica Huggett (guest conductor)

3:46 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in E major (L.23)
Sae-Jung Kim (piano)

3:52 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
Introduction and Theme and Variations
László Horváth (clarinet), Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Géza Oberfrank (conductor)

4:03 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concert aria: "Ch'io mi scordi di te...? Non temer, amato bene" (K.505)
Tuva Semmingsen (soprano), Jörn Fosheim (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Michel Tabachnik (conductor)

4:13 AM
Jarzebski, Adam (1590-1649)
Cantate Domino - Parts 1 and 2 from Canzoni e concerti
Lucy van Dael, Marinette Troost (violins), Richte van der Meer, Reiner Zipperling (violas da gamba), Anthony Woodrow (violone), Viola de Hoog (cello), Michael Fentross, (theorbo), Jacques Ogg (organ)

4:22 AM
Andriessen, Juriaan [1925-1996]
Sonnet No.43
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Uwe Gronostay (conductor)

4:31 AM
Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957]
Andante Festivo for strings and timpani
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)

4:36 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931), arr. by the Danish String Quartet
Mit hjerte altid vanker (My heart always wanders)
Danish String Quartet

4:39 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Sonata for oboe and piano (1962)
Roger Cole (oboe), Linda Lee Thomas (piano)

4:53 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Concerto for violin, harpsichord and orchestra in C minor (BWV.1060)
Andrew Manze (violin/director), Richard Egarr (harpsichord), Risør Festival Strings

5:07 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata in A flat, Op.110
Edwin Fischer (piano)

5:27 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Concerto for horn and orchestra No.1 in E flat major, Op.11
Ferenc Tarjáni (horn), Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Antal Jancsovics (conductor)

5:45 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Sea Pictures (Op.37)
Margreta Elkins (mezzo-soprano), Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Werner Andreas Albert (conductor)

6:07 AM
Madetoja, Leevi [1887-1947]
Symphonic suite (Op.4)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor).


THU 06:30 Breakfast (b07dkhsx)
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 (b07dkhxl)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with Tamsin Greig

9am
My favourite... clarinettists. Sarah showcases her favourite clarinettists, past and present, including Martin Frost, Sabine Meyer, Michael Collins, Andrew Sparling and Benny Goodman. They'll be performing works such as Poulenc's lyrical Clarinet Sonata, Mendelssohn's virtuosic Konzertstuck No. 1 in F minor and the jazz-infused Prelude, Fugue and Riffs by Leonard Bernstein.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?

10am
Sarah's guest is the award-winning actress Tamsin Greig. Familiar to many listeners as Debbie Aldridge on Radio 4's The Archers, Tamsin also currently stars in the sitcom Episodes and in Channel 4's Friday Night Dinner. Tamsin's other screen roles include Dr. Caroline Todd in Green Wing and Fran Katzenjammer in Black Books. Also an acclaimed stage actress, Tamsin won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and received Olivier award nominations for The Little Dog Laughed and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Tamsin will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Charles Stanford, every day at 10am.

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah features a piece from the BBC4 series Revolution & Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century. Today, she explores the sinister 'Wolf's Glen' scene from Weber's opera Der Freischütz, an unearthly portrayal of the supernatural.

11am
This week Sarah focuses on not just one but five artists, as she celebrates distinguished instrumentalists and singers who have also developed careers as conductors.

Haydn
Symphony No. 6 in D major (Le Matin)
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock (conductor).


THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00y6lsf)
Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816)

Episode 4

In 1784, after eight years in Russia, Paisiello was at long last offered an appointment back in Naples, as court composer of dramatic music. On his way back home, Paisiello stopped off in Vienna, where he composed the opera 'Il re Teodoro a Venezia' for another great supporter of his, Emperor Joseph II. Donald introduces the overture from this popular work, an excerpt from 'I giuochi d'Agrigento', written for the inauguration of La Fenice Opera House in Venice, part of an opera to celebrate a major dynastic wedding - 'La Daunia felice', and, by way of stark contrast, the pared-down beauty of Paisiello's sacred work 'Christus', written for Holy Week in 1794.


THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b063dkjz)
The Three Choirs Festival at 300

Episode 3

Radio 3 visits one of the world's oldest music festivals, as it celebrates its tercentenary in Hereford and Leominster in 2015.
The Wihan Quartet present a semi-autobiographical work by their Czech compatriot, Bedrich Smetana. Steven Osborne performs one of the great piano sonatas by Beethoven.

Beethoven: Sonata in A major, Op.101
Steven Osborne, piano

Smetana: Quartet no.1 'From my Life'
Wihan Quarte.


THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b07dkfvd)
Thursday Opera Matinee

Benjamin Godard - Dante

Katie Derham presents today's opera, and it's a rarity: Dante, by the French Romantic composer Benjamin Godard, starring soprano Véronique Gens and conducted by Ulf Schirmer. The score, rich in Mendelssohnian lightness and Schumannesque passion, is matched by a plot which contrasts the public and private sides of Dante Alighieri, and which finds time for a whistle-stop tour of The Divine Comedy itself.

Benjamin Godard: Dante - opera in 4 acts

Béatrice ..... Véronique Gens, soprano
Gemma ..... Rachel Frenkel, mezzo-soprano
Dante ..... Edgaras Montvidas, tenor
Bardi ..... Jean-François Lapointe, baritone
Virgil's shadow ..... Andrew Foster-Williams, bass-baritone
A schoolboy ..... Diana Axentii, soprano
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Munich Radio Orchestra
Ulf Schirmer, conductor.


THU 16:30 In Tune (b07dkg1g)
Zak Ozmo and L'Avventura, Colin Matthews, London Conchord Ensemble

Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from lutenist Zak Ozmo and his baroque ensemble L'Avventura as they prepare for a collaboration with Scottish folk band The Old Blind Dogs at Spitalfields Music Summer Festival. Sean talks to composer Colin Matthews about performances of his music across the country, marking his 70th birthday. And there's live music from the London Conchord Ensemble, who perform some of the highlights of their upcoming Conchord Festival in Twickenham.


THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00y6lsf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]


THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b07dkj68)
Pianist Daniil Trifonov at Wigmore Hall

Live from Wigmore Hall, London

Daniil Trifonov performs Brahms's take on Bach's great Chaconne, alongside his Paganini Variations, and sonatas by Schubert and Rachmaninov. Brahms deliberately wrote his piano transcription for the left hand alone in order to better duplicate the restrictions of the violin.

Bach/Brahms: Chaconne (Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004)
Schubert: Sonata in G major D894 'Fantasie'
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Paganini (Book I) Op. 35

Interval

Rachmaninov: Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 28

The phenomenal young Russian pianist, recently described by the Guardian as 'a marvel', closes his Wigmore Hall Residency with a programme that spans a universe of contrasting emotions and moods.


THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b07dkjt6)
Archaelogy: Alexandra Sofroniew, Damian Robinson, Raimund Karl, Susan Greaney

As two major archaeological exhibitions open in the UK featuring discoveries from underwater excavations off Egypt and Sicily, Rana Mitter hears from historian and archaeologist, Alexandra Sofroniew, exhibition curator of Storms, War and Shipwrecks at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum about a British pioneer of underwater excavations, Honor Frost, and discusses why underwater sites make the difficulties and challenges worthwhile with Damian Robinson, Director of Centre for Maritime Archaeology at Oxford University and contributing archaeologist to the British Museum's Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds.

Joining them to discuss the changing story of archaeology itself in this country and abroad, Raimund Karl, Professor of Archaeology and Heritage at Bangor University who has done two continent-wide surveys on the state of the profession in Europe while continuing to dig, study and develop the ever changing story of the Celts, and Susan Greaney, who works for English Heritage presenting interpretations of sites from Stonehenge to Tintagel to the public when she's not digging in Orkney and pursuing her phd on Neolithic ceremonial complexes.

Storms, War and Shipwrecks: Treasures from the Sicilian Seas is at the Ashmolean Museum 21 June 2016 - 25 September 2016
Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds is at the British Museum from May 19th - November 27th 2016.

Producer: Jacqueline Smith

Guests: Alexandra Sofroniew, exhibition curator Storms, War and Shipwrecks, Ashmolean Museum
Damian Robinson, Director, Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology
Raimund Karl, Professor Archaeology and Heritage, Bangor University
Susan Greaney, English Heritage

Main image: A warship ram raised from the seabed (detail) (c/o the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford - (c) RPM Nautical Foundation).


THU 22:45 The Essay (b07dkjt8)
Get Playing

Get Playing: Peter Bradshaw's electric guitar

As part of BBC Get Music Playing supporting amateur music making around the UK, 5 leading writers and artists contribute an Essay in this series, in which they talk about their little-known passions for playing an instrument.

In the 4th programme of the series, the Guardian's film critic Peter Bradshaw describes how he was reunited with his electric guitar, decades after having given it away.

He explores what playing the instrument meant to him as a youngster and assesses how he approaches it now as an adult. He examines the pleasures and pitfalls of relearning an instrument. And he marvels at the beauty of the electric guitar itself.

For more information visit bbc.co.uk/getplaying

Producer: Emma Kingsley.


THU 23:00 Late Junction (b07dkk2m)
Max Reinhardt

Adventures in music, ancient to future: Max presents Korean band Jambinai who combine the expansiveness of post-rock with the traditional folk instruments of their homeland. British avant-garde industrialists Throbbing Gristle round off the day with their underground classic 'What A Day' and new music from Sarah Nicolls, who re-designed her own piano to make playing the inside as accessible as the keyboard.



FRIDAY 10 JUNE 2016

FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b07f1j38)
Sibelius, Nielsen and Bartok from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Jonathan Swain introduces performances by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra of Sibelius's Karelia Suite, Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto and Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra.

12:31 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Karelia - suite Op.11
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Harding (conductor)

12:48 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Concerto Op.57 for clarinet and orchestra
Andreas Sundén (clarinet); Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Juraj Valcuha (conductor)

1:15 AM
Bartok, Bela (1881-1945)
Concerto Sz.116 for orchestra
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Juraj Valcuha (conductor)

1:55 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Pan and Syrinx Op.49
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; David Afkham (conductor)

2:05 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
String Quartet in C minor (Op.18 No.4)
Pavel Haas Quartet

2:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No.23 (K.488) in A major
Joanna MacGregor (piano), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki (conductor)

2:56 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Three Psalms (Op.78)
Chamber Choir AVE, Andraž Hauptman (conductor)

3:16 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Violin Concerto in E major (BWV.1042)
Sigiswald Kuijken (violin and conductor), La Petite Bande

3:34 AM
Goldmark, Károly (1830-1915)
Scherzo for orchestra in E minor (Op.19)
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Adam Medveczky (conductor)

3:41 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)
Psalm 23 from 5 Psalms of David (1604)
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)

3:49 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico [1685-1757]
Sonata (Kk. 87) in B minor
Eduard Kunz (piano)

3:55 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Overture in F for 2 oboes, 2 horns & bassoon (La Chasse) TWV 55:F9
Les Ambassadeurs

4:06 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
7 Variations on 'Bei Männern, welche Liebe fuhlen' WoO.46 for cello and piano (from Mozart's "Die Zauberflote")
Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

4:16 AM
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1789)
Aria "Cara sposa" - from 'Rinaldo'
Delphine Galou (Contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (Director)

4:21 AM
Wagenaar, Johan (1862-1941)
Concert Overture 'Frühlingsgewalt' (Op.11)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (conductor)

4:31 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
Overture - Nabucco
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Alun Francis (conductor)

4:39 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe [1813-1901]; Wagner, Richard [1813-1883];
Hommage à Liszt. Improvistions on Themes by Verdi and Wagner
Cyprien Katsaris (piano)

4:54 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Serenata in vano for clarinet, horn, bassoon, cello and double bass (FS.68)
Kari Krikku (clarinet), Jonathan Williams (horn), Per Hannisdahl (bassoon), Øystein Sonstad (cello), Katrine Øigaard (double bass)

5:01 AM
Horneman, Christian Frederik Emil (1840-1906)
Overture from Aladdin
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schonwandt (Conductor)

5:13 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata No.12 in F major (K.332)
Annie Fischer (piano)

5:28 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto in F (Rv.574) for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon & cello
Zefira Valova (violin), Anna Starr & Markus Müller (oboes), Anneke Scott & Joseph Walters (horns), Jane Gower (bassoon), Rebecca Rosen (cello), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)

5:38 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Triumphal March from 'Sigurd Jorsalfar'
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)

5:42 AM
Bartók, Bela [1881-1945]
Four Old Hungarian Folk Songs
Male Choir of the Hungarian Army, Béla Podor (conductor)

5:49 AM
Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681)
Prelude - Caprice de chaconne
Simone Vallerotonda (Spanish guitar, theorbo)

5:55 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)
Regina Coeli
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)

6:17 AM
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Trittico Botticelliano
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Peter Sánta (conductor).


FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b07dkht0)
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 (b07dkhxn)
Friday - Sarah Walker with Tamsin Greig

9am
My favourite... clarinettists. Sarah showcases her favourite clarinettists, past and present, including Martin Frost, Sabine Meyer, Michael Collins, Andrew Sparling and Benny Goodman. They'll be performing works such as Poulenc's lyrical Clarinet Sonata, Mendelssohn's virtuosic Konzertstuck No. 1 in F minor and the jazz-infused Prelude, Fugue and Riffs by Leonard Bernstein.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the place associated with a well-known work.

10am
Sarah's guest is the award-winning actress Tamsin Greig. Familiar to many listeners as Debbie Aldridge on Radio 4's The Archers, Tamsin also currently stars in the sitcom Episodes and in Channel 4's Friday Night Dinner. Tamsin's other screen roles include Dr. Caroline Todd in Green Wing and Fran Katzenjammer in Black Books. Also an acclaimed stage actress, Tamsin won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and received Olivier award nominations for The Little Dog Laughed and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Tamsin will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Charles Stanford, every day at 10am.

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah features a piece from the BBC4 series Revolution & Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century: Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1, which the composer premiered in one of his 'farewell' concerts, before leaving Poland.

11am
This week Sarah focuses on not just one but five artists, as she celebrates distinguished instrumentalists and singers who have also developed careers as conductors.

Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F major
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor).


FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00y6lv1)
Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816)

Episode 5

Paisiello's final years took place against a backdrop of political turmoil. Around the turn of the century, his home town of Naples was twice invaded by the French. Paisiello opted to remain behind and work for the new republican state. When the King of Naples was restored to the throne the second time, he turned his back on Paisiello, leaving him in a state of poverty and disgrace for the remaining months of his life. Donald introduces music from Paisiello's final years, including the overture to 'Proserpina', dedicated to his friend and supporter, Napoleon Bonaparte, an excerpt from his penultimate stage work 'Il passaggio de Monte San Bernardo' composed to honour Napoleon's brother Joseph, and part of the Mass for the Dead dedicated to members of the Neapolitan royal family.


FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b063dkk1)
The Three Choirs Festival at 300

Episode 4

Radio 3 visits one of the world's oldest music festivals, as it celebrates its tercentenary in 2015.
Steven Osborne presents another Beethoven piano sonata at Holy Trinity Church in Hereford, while the Wihan Quartet perform Haydn and Beethoven at Leominster Priory.

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 90
Steven Osborne, piano

Haydn: String Quartet in G Op 54 No 1
Beethoven: String Quartet Op 18 No 4
Wihan Quartet.


FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b07dkfvg)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Episode 4

Katie Derham presents a final showcase of Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by the composer George Benjamin, and today introduces the orchestra's bijou cousin, the Camerata Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, with the orchestra's principal oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk in his latest role as conductor. With works by Rossini, Mozart, Bellini, Gershwin, Ligeti and Benjamin.

2pm
Rossini: String Sonata no.1
Camerata Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Alexei Ogrintchouk, conductor

c.2.15pm
Mozart: Andante in C, K.315
Camerata Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Alexei Ogrintchouk, conductor

c.2.20pm
Mozart: Symphony no.24 in B flat, K.182
Camerata Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Alexei Ogrintchouk, conductor

c.2.30pm
Bellini: Oboe Concerto
Camerata Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Alexei Ogrintchouk, oboe/conductor

c.2.40pm
Mozart: Cassation in G, K.63
Camerata Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Alexei Ogrintchouk, conductor

c.3.00pm
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Preceded by Improvisations by Stefano Bollani
Stefano Bollani, piano
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Daniel Harding, conductor

c.3.20
Ligeti: Clocks and Clouds
Women of the Netherlands Chamber Chorus
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
George Benjamin, conductor

c.3.35
George Benjamin: Dream of the Song
Bejum Mehta, countertenor
Women of the Netherlands Chamber Chorus
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
George Benjamin, conductor.


FRI 16:30 In Tune (b07dkg1j)
Emma Kirkby, Nitin Sawhney, Cantoria Hong Kong

Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news, with live performance from soprano Emma Kirkby and musicians from her Dowland Works project and from Cantoria Hong Kong chamber choir as they tour the UK and collaborate with the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. Plus we talk to composer, performer and producer Nitin Sawhney about music he's written for a new show at Sadler's Wells in London, where he is Associate Artist.


FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00y6lv1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]


FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b07f6r09)
Royal Northern Sinfonia - Sibelius, Mozart

Royal Northern Sinfonia, conducted by Lars Vogt, perform Sibelius's Seventh Symphony and Mozart's Requiem.
Live from Sage Gateshead.

Sibelius: Symphony No.7
8.00: Interval
8.20: Mozart: Requiem

Ruby Hughes, soprano
Jennifer Johnston, mezzo
Benjamin Hulett, tenor
Neal Davies, bass
Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Lars Vogt, conductor

The two journeys pursued by the Royal Northern Sinfonia over the past season, Sibelius and the Musical North and Reclaiming Mozart, come to a conclusion as Lars Vogt conducts Sibelius's last and most condensed symphony, and Mozart's final choral masterpiece.


FRI 22:00 The Verb (b07dkjtb)
Persuasion

Ian McMillan's cabaret of the word examines the language of persuasion with guests including the linguist David Crystal, whose new book 'Gift of the Gab' (Yale) examines eloquence from pitch, pace, and prosody to jokes and appropriateness.

We also hear from academic James Garvey on his new book 'The Persuaders'.

Producer: Cecile Wright.


FRI 22:45 The Essay (b07dkjtd)
Get Playing

Get Playing: Alexander McCall Smith on the saxophone and the Really Terrible Orchestra

As part of BBC Music Get Playing, supporting amateur music making around the UK this summer, 5 leading writers and artists contribute an Essay in this series, in which they talk about their little-known passions for playing an instrument.

In the final programme of the series, the writer Alexander McCall Smith, author of "The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" describes how he learned to play saxophone which led to him starting The Really Terrible Orchestra.

His career as an amateur saxophonist began with lessons' from his wife's flute teacher and then, during a stay in the US, he began to assemble a collection of saxophones, including a fine bass instrument.

After returning home to Edinburgh, Alexander decided that he should encourage other amateur musicians to play together, no matter what their standard, and the Really Terrible Orchestra was born. In spite of its name, it has performed in concert halls to packed houses.

Producer: Emma Kingsley.


FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b07dkk2p)
Lopa Kothari - Bombino in Session, Womad News

Lopa Kothari with new music from around the globe, plus a live session with Tuareg singer Bombino, and news about this year's BBC WOMAD artists.

This year's BBC Radio 3 WOMAD artists are announced today, including performances by artists from Tuva, Russia, Niger and Poland.