SATURDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2017

SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b08dnskj)
2014 Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival in Poland

John Shea presents music from the 2014 Awards Gala Concert of the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw.
1:01 AM
Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942)
5 Pieces for String Quartet
Signum Quartet
1:14 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) arr. Carl Tausig (1841-1871)
Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K9, (Pastorale), arr. Tausig in E minor for piano
Joseph Moog (piano)
1:17 AM
Walter Gieseking (1895-1956)
Chaconne on a Theme by Scarlatti (after Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K32)
Joseph Moog (piano)
1:24 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Variation on a Waltz by Diabelli D718
Andreas Staier (piano)
1:27 AM
Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942)
Sonata for Violin Solo
Daniel Hope (violin)
1:40 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Roman Carnival Overture, Op 9
Polish Sinfonia luventus Orchestra; Charles Dutoit (conductor)
1:50 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto No 7 in G minor, BWV 1058
Andrea Bacchetti (piano); Polish Sinfonia luventus Orchestra; José Maria Florêncio (conductor)
2:04 AM
Krzysztof Penderecki (born 1933)
Symphony No 3 (3rd mvt)
Polish Sinfonia luventus Orchestra; Krzysztof Penderecki (conductor)
2:17 AM
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Romance, Op 85, for viola and orchestra
Adrien Boisseau (viola); Polish Sinfonia luventus Orchestra; José Maria Florêncio (conductor)
2:27 AM
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
L' Arlesienne - Suite No 1 (3rd mvt: Adagietto)
Polish Sinfonia luventus Orchestra; Holger Schröter-Seebeck (conductor)
2:31 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Violin Sonata in E flat, Op 18
Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Kai Ito (piano)
3:01 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943)
Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor, Op 40
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
3:28 AM
Hellendaal, Pieter (1721-1799)
Concerto grosso in F major for strings and continuo, Op 3 No 3
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
3:39 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Jordens sang (Song of the Earth), Op 93 - cantata for chorus and orchestra
Academic Choral Society, Helsinki Cathedral Chorus, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ulf Soderblom (conductor)
3:58 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Rondino in E flat, WoO 25, for two oboes, two clarinets, two horns, two bassoons
The Festival Winds
4:05 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 in E minor
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Bernard Heinze (conductor)
4:17 AM
Arensky, Anton Stepanovich (1861-1906)
Suite No 2 for two pianos, Op 23, 'Silhouettes'
James Anagnoson, Leslie Kinton (pianos)
4:34 AM
Gesualdo, Carlo (c1561-1613)
Ave dulcissima Maria for 5 voices
Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
4:41 AM
Janacek, Leos [1854-1928]
Pohadka (Fairy tale), for cello and piano
Jonathan Slaatto (cello), Martin Qvist Hansen (piano)
4:52 AM
Locatelli, Pietro Antonio (1695-1764) arr. Geert Bierling
Introduttione teatrale in F major, Op.4 No.2
Geert Bierling (organ)
5:01 AM
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881), orch. Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
Dance of the Persian Slaves - from the Opera Khovanshchina (Act 4, Scene 1)
Slovenian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)
5:08 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo [1653-1713]
"Ciaccona" from Trio Sonata No 12
Stockholm Antiqua
5:11 AM
Muffat, Georg [1653-1704]
Passacaglia from Sonata No 5
Stockholm Antiqua
5:20 AM
Bortnyansky, Dmitry [1751-1825]
Concerto for Chorus No.6, 'Glory to God in the Highest'
Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor)
5:25 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon [1562-1621]
Ick voer al over Rijn
Glen Wilson (harpsichord)
5:33 AM
Verhulst, Johannes (1816-1891)
Overture in C minor, 'Gijsbrecht van Aemstel', Op 3
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (conductor)
5:42 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Keyboard Sonata in B flat major, H.16.41
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
5:53 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Orchestral Suites from Dardanus (tragédie en musique, 1739)
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra; Jeanne Lamon (director)
6:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No 40 in G minor, K550
Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra, Adám Fischer (conductor).

SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b08f4fzp)
Saturday - Elizabeth Alker

Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

SAT 09:00 Record Review (b08f4fzr)
Andrew McGregor with Tom McKinney, Harriet Smith and David Owen Norris

Andrew McGregor and guests review the best recordings of classical music.

9.00am
Mariss Jansons conducts Richard Strauss
STRAUSS, R: Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64; Tod und Verklarung Op. 24
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons (conductor)
BR KLASSIK 900148 (CD)

Overtures, Preludes & Intermezzi
BELLINI: Norma Overture
BOITO: Prologue from "Mefistofele": Prelude
CATALANI: La Wally: Prelude to Act Three
DONIZETTI: Ugo Conte di Parigi: Sinfonia
GIORDANO, U: Siberia: Preludio
LEONCAVALLO: Die Medici: Prelude to Act 1; I Medici: Prelude to Act III
PONCHIELLI: Dance of the Hours (from La Gioconda)
PUCCINI: Madama Butterfly: Intermezzo Act II, part 2; Edgar: Prelude to Act IV
ROSSINI: La Pietra del paragone Overture
VERDI: Un giorno di regno Overture; Prelude to Act III from I Lombardi alla prima crociata
Filarmonica della Scala, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
DECCA 4831148 (CD)

Philip Glass: Piano Works
GLASS, P: Opening from 'Glassworks'; Etude No. 9; Etude No. 2; Piano Etude No. 6; Piano Etude No. 5; Etude No. 14; Etude No. 2; Etude No. 13; Etude No. 15; Etude No. 3; Piano Etude No. 18; Piano Etude No. 20; Opening from 'Glassworks'
Vikingur Olafsson (piano), Siggi String Quartet
DG 94796918 (CD)

Tuur: Peregrinus Ecstaticus
TUUR: Clarinet Concerto 'Peregrinus Ecstaticus'; Le poids des vies non vecues; Noesis: Concerto for clarinet, violin and orchestra
Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Christoffer Sunqvist (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu (conductor)
ONDINE ODE12872 (CD)

9.30am - Building a Library
Tom McKinney soaks up the sun and recommends a recording of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, one of the most popular works ever written.

10.20am – Choral music
Biber: Missa Alleluja
BIBER: Missa Alleluja a 36; Nisi Dominus; Sonata 'La Pastorella'; Hic est panis
Erich Traxler (organ), Gerd Kenda (bass), Hubert Hoffmann (theorbo), Jan Krigovsky (violone), Gunar Letzbor (violin), St. Florianer Sangerknaben, Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor (conductor)
ACCENT ACC24325 (CD)

Queen Mary's Big Belly
LASSO: Te spectant, Reginalde, Poli
MUNDY, W: Exsurge Christe
NEWMAN, ANTHONY: Fansye
SHEPPARD, J: Christi virgo dilectissima; Deus miseratur nostri; Vaine, all our lyfe we spend in vaine; Martyr Dei qui unicum; Libera nos 1; Vaine, all our lyfe we spend in vaine (II)
TALLIS: Like as the doleful dove; O sacrum convivium; Quod chorus vatum; When shall my sorrowful sighing slake, partsong for 4 voices; Loquebantur variis linguis
TYE: Peccavimus cum patribus nostris
WILDER, P: Pater noster
Gallicantus, Gabriel Crouch
SIGNUM SIGCD464 (CD)

Virgin and Child: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks, Vol. 2
FAYRFAX: Ave Dei patris filia
SHEPPARD, J: Verbum caro factum est
TALLIS: Gaude gloriosa Dei mater; Magnificat for 5 voices; Videte miraculum
TAVERNER: Mater Christi Sanctissima
WHITE, ROBERT: Tota pulchra es; Regina caeli
Contrapunctus, Owen Rees
SIGNUM SIGCD474 (CD)

The Sun Most Radiant: Music from the Eton Choirbook, Vol. 4
BROWNE, J: Salve Regina I; Salve Regina II
HORWOOD, W: Gaude Flore Virginali
STRATFORD: Magnificat
The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Stephen Darlington (conductor)
AVIE AV2359 (CD)

The Sixteen sings Poulenc
POULENC: Mass in G major; Un soir de neige; Litanies a la Vierge noire; Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel; Quatre motets pour un temps de penitence; Salve Regina; Ave verum corpus
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)
CORO COR16149 (CD)

10.45am – Harriet Smith and David Owen Norris on new piano releases
BACH, J S: Goldberg Variations, BWV988
Beatrice Rana (piano)
WARNER CLASSICS 9029588018 (CD)

Discovering The Piano
ALBERTI, D: Sonata in A major
GIUSTINI: Sonate da Cimbalo di Piano e Forte: No. 1
HANDEL: Keyboard Suite, HWV 427 in F major
PARADIES: Sonata No. 10 in D
PLATTI: Sonata in G minor
SCARLATTI, D: Keyboard Sonatas (selection)
SOLER, A: Sonata M(arvin) 23 in C minor
Linda Nicholson (Denzil Wraight copy of the 1730 Cristofori-Ferrini pianoforte)
PASSACAILLE PAS1024 (CD)

Adolf von Henselt: Piano Works
HENSELT: Variations de concert sur le motif de l'opera 'L'elisir d'amore' Op. 1; Petite Valse in F major Op. 28, No. 1; Petite Valse in C major Op. 28, No. 1; Mon chant du cygne ('Mein Schwanengesang'), WoO in A flat major; Tableau musical - Fantaisie sur un air bohemien-russe, WoO (Op. 16) in A flat major; 2 Nocturnes Op. 6; Valse Melancolique Op. 36; Ballade Op. 31 in B flat; Impromptu for piano Op. 7; Impromptu No. 2 Op. 17 in F Minor; Impromptu No. 3 Op. 34 'Illusion perdue" in B flat minor; Impromptu No. 4 Op. 37 in B minor; Etude Op. 2 No. 6 'Si oiseau j`etais'; Berceuse 'Wiegenlied', WoO (Op. 45) in G flat major; Grande Valse 'L'aurore boreale' ('Das Nordlicht') Op. 30 in C sharp minor
Daniel Grimwood (piano)
EDITION PETERS EPS005 (CD)

Bartok: Sonata for two pianos and percussion
BARTOK: Piano Sonata, BB 88, Sz. 80; 3 Hungarian Folksongs from Csik, BB 45b, Sz. 35a; Sonatina, BB 69, Sz. 55; 3 Rondos on Slovak Folk Tunes, BB 92, Sz. 84; 3 Studies, BB 81, Sz. 72 Op. 18; Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion, BB 115, Sz. 110
Francois-Frederic Guy (piano), Colin Currie (percussion), Sam Walton (percussion), Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
HYPERION CDA68153 (CD)

11.45am - Disc of the Week
Visit Venice for some Monteverdi madrigals, in the third and last volume from Les Arts Florissants directed by tenor Paul Agnew. It's from the Monteverdi project they've been presenting in concert - we've praised the previous volumes so we just had to hear these.

Monteverdi Madrigali Volume 3: Venezia
MONTEVERDI: Tempro la cetra (Symphonia); Al lume delle stelle; Con che soavita (Book 7); Chiome d'oro (Book 7); Interrotte speranze; Lettera amorosa; Tirsi e Clori, ballo concertato (Book 7); Altri canti d'Amor (Book 8); Dolcissimo uscignolo; Lamento della Ninfa (Book 8); Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HAF8905278 (CD)

SAT 12:15 Music Matters (b08f4fzt)
Maurizio Pollini, Nicolas Hodges, George Malcolm centenary

Sara Mohr-Pietsch travels to Milan to interview the acclaimed Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini, who's recently turned 75, ahead of a concert in London where he'll perform music by Chopin. Also, Nicolas Hodges talks about performing the UK premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Piano Concerto; and the centenary of the English pianist, organist, composer, harpsichordist, and conductor George Malcolm.

SAT 13:00 Saturday Classics (b06xwcdx)
Kathryn Tickell, Episode 1

Northumbrian piper and fiddler Kathryn Tickell chooses some of her favourite classical pieces inspired by folk music, including works by Schubert, Debussy, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Rachmaninoff, Villa-Lobos, Ligeti, and Judith Weir.

01 00:04 Gustav Holst
A Somerset Rhapsody
Orchestra: Philharmonia Of London
Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult

02 00:12 (Trad)
Rosebud In June
Performer: Steeleye Span

03 00:17 Akira Ifukube
Japanese Rhapsody
Orchestra: Tokyo Metropolitan S O
Conductor: Ryusuke Numajiri

04 00:25 England.Traditional
The Keel Row
Music Arranger: John Rutter
Choir: The Cambridge Singers
Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia
Conductor: John Rutter

05 00:27 Trad.
The Keel Row
Performer: Tom Clough

06 00:30 Claude Debussy
Gigues
Orchestra: Singapore S O
Conductor: Lan Shui

07 00:39 England.Traditional
The Keel Row
Performer: Wayne Marshall
Performer: John Lavender
Performer: Rhondda Gillespie
Performer: Antony Gray
Music Arranger: Percy Grainger

08 00:41 Percy Grainger
Father And Daughter
Choir: Monteverdi Choir
Orchestra: English Country Gardiner Orchestra
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner

09 00:46 György Ligeti
Romanian Concerto
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic
Conductor: Jonathan Nott

10 00:59 Franz Schubert
Der Leiermann (Winterreise, No.24)
Performer: Anna Tilbrook
Singer: James Gilchrist

11 01:02 Jean-Noel Marchand
6 Suites D'Airs En Duo, Op. 1, No.2 - Allegretto

12 01:05 Ralph Vaughan Williams
Bushes And Briars
Ensemble: Baccholian Singers of London

13 01:10 Judith Weir
The Bagpiper's String Trio (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Domus

14 01:13 Traditional Scottish
Strathspeys And Reels
Performer: Dàimh

15 01:17 Judith Weir
The Bagpiper's String Trio (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Domus

16 01:19 Traditional Scottish
McLaughlin's Strathspey
Performer: Alasdair Fraser
Performer: Natalie Haas
Performer: Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas

17 01:23 Judith Weir
The Bagpiper's String Trio (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Domus

18 01:26 Scottish Traditional
Abergeldie Castle Strathspey
Performer: Jordi Savall

19 01:29 Scottish Traditional
Farewell To Red Castle
Performer: Flexible Brass
Conductor: Kerry Turner

20 01:36 Sergei Rachmaninov
My cheeks, so white, so rosy (3 Russian Songs, Op.41’3)
Choir: State Symphony Capella of Russia
Orchestra: Russian State S O
Conductor: Valery Kuzmich Polyansky

21 01:41 Leos Janacek
Lover’s Likeness / Then and Now / Gnat’s Wedding [Moravian Folk Poetry]
Ensemble: Skampa String Quartet
Singer: Iva Bittová

22 01:44 Traditional Irish
Siuil A Run
Choir: Choral Scholars Of University College Dublin
Conductor: Desmond Earley

23 01:48 Heitor Villa‐Lobos
Choro No. 1
Performer: Sérgio Assad

24 01:51 Marlos Nobre
Maracatu Coroado
Choir: University Of The Philippines Madrigal Singers

25 01:56 Chiquinha Gonzaga
Atraente
Performer: Luciana Soares

SAT 15:00 Sound of Cinema (b08f4fzy)
The Moon

Matthew Sweet with film music inspired by the moon in the week of the release of "Hidden Figures", with music by Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams and Benjamin Wallfisch.

The Moon features in a variety of ways in the history of film, from werewolves and romance to the stuff of hard science. It today's programme we hear music from "Road To Morocco"; "An American Werewolf in London"; "The Wolf Man"; "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon"; "The Princess Kaguya"; "Apollo 13"; "A Grand Day Out"; "The First Men In The Moon"; "Woman On The Moon"; "Iron Sky"; "2001 - A Space Odyssey"; "Moon"; "Destination Moon" and "Hidden Figures".

SAT 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (b08f4g00)
Alyn Shipton's selection from listeners' requests in all styles of jazz includes a track remembering the brilliant Swedish pianist Esbjorn Svensson with his trio EST.

Artist Gerry Mulligan
Title Who’s Got Rhythm
Composer Mulligan
Album Meets Ben Webster
Label Masterworks
Number 21349 Track 4
Duration 7.42
Performers: Ben Webster, ts; Gerry Mulligan, bars; Jimmy Rowles, p; Leroy Vinnegar, b; Mel Lewis, d. 3 Nov 1949.

Artist Oscar Peterson
Title Night and Day
Composer Porter
Album Oscar Peterson Plays Cole Porter
Label Avid
Number AMSC814 Track 10
Duration 3.41
Performers Oscar Peterson, p; Barney Kessel, g; Ray Brown, b. 25 Nov 1952.

Artist Don Byas
Title London Donnie (Londonderry Air/Danny Boy)
Composer trad. Arr Byas
Label Savoy
Number 628 Side A
Duration 2.51
Performers: Don Byas (tenor sax), Teddy Brannon (piano), Franklin Skeete (double bass) and Frederick Ratcliffe (drums) in 1946

Artist Duke Ellington
Title Cotton Club Stomp / Misty Morning
Composer Ellington, Mills / Ellington, Whetsol
Album Jungle Nights in Harlem
Label Bluebird
Number 2499-2 RB Track 1
Duration 3.53
Performers: Cootie Williams, Freddie Jenkins, Arhtur Whetsol, t; Joe Nanton, tb; Barney Bigard, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, reeds; Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, bj; Wellman Braud, b; Sonny Greer, d. 12 April 1929.

Artist Clark Terry
Title Swahili
Composer Jones
Album Four Classic albums
Label Avid
Number 1102 CD 1 Track 1
Duration 6.12
Performers Clark Terry, t; Cecil Payne, bars; Jimmy Cleveland, tb; Horace Silver, p; Oscar Pettiford, Wendell Marshall, b; Art Blakey, d. 4 Jan 1955.

Artist Eddie Thompson
Title Body and Soul
Composer Heyman, Green, Sour
Album Piano Moods
Label Polygon
Number JTE 101 Side A
Duration 6.39
Performers: Eddie Thompson, p; Barry Hamilton, b; Benny Goodman, d. 1955.

Artist Esbjörn Svensson
Title Mingle In The Mincing Mchine
Composer Svensson
Album Seven Days of Falling
Label ACT
Number 9012-2 Track 3
Duration 6.53
Performers Esbjörn Svensson, p; Dan Bergland, b; Magnus Östrom, d. 2003.

Artist Neil Ardley
Title Rainbow 3
Composer Ardley
Album A Kaleidoscope of Rainbows
Label AMP
Number 029 Track 4
Duration 3.28
Performers Neil Ardley, director, synthesiser; Bob Bertles, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute; Paul Buckmaster, acoustic and electric cello; Ian Carr, trumpet, flugelhorn; Geoff Castle, electric piano, synthesiser; Tony Coe, tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet; Dave Macrae, electric piano, synthesiser; Roger Sellers, drums; Ken Shaw, guitar; Brian Smith, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, alto flute; Roger Sutton, bass guitar, electric bass; Barbara Thompson, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute; Trevor Tomkins, percussion, vibraphone. March 1976.

Artist Thelonious Monk
Title Just A Gigolo
Composer Caesar / Cacucci
Album Complete Presitge Recordings
Label Prestige
Number 3PRCD 4428-2 CD 2 Track 6
Duration 3.02
Performers Thelonious Monk, p, 22 September 1954

Artist David Newman
Title Ain’t That Good News
Composer Sam Cooke
Album Bigger and Better
Label Atlantic
Number 1505 track 4
Duration 3.46
Performers: David Newman, ts; Melvin Lastie, Jimmy Owens, t; Benny Powell, tb; Seldon Powell, Haywood Henry, reeds; Eric Gale, g; Richard Davis, b; Chuck Rainey, elb; Bernard Purdie, d. March 1968.

Artist Bessie Smith
Title Downhearted Blues
Composer Hunter/Austin
Album Complete Columbia Recordings
Label Columbia
Number 8875403102 CD 1 Track 1
Duration 3.28
Performers Bessie Smith, v; Clarence Williams, p, 1923.

Artist Rod Mason
Title Potato Head Blues
Composer Armstrong
Album BBC Jazz from the 70 and 80s
Label Upbeat
Number 153 Track 5
Duration 2.47
Performers Rod Mason, t; Dick Charlesworth, cl; Roger Marks, tb; Ray Foxley, p; Chris Haskins, b; Tony Allen, d. 3 Feb 1980.

SAT 17:00 Jazz Line-Up (b07bv9h1)
Ian Shaw

Julian Joseph presents a solo performance by singer and pianist Ian Shaw at the 2016 Gateshead Jazz Festival including repertoire by Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell plus a version of 'Life On Mars' by David Bowie, with whom Shaw toured.

01 00:00 David Bowie (artist)
Life On Mars?
Performer: David Bowie

02 00:09 Peter Edwards Trio (artist)
Samba City
Performer: Peter Edwards Trio

03 00:15 Patrick Molard (artist)
Lament For The Little Supper
Performer: Patrick Molard

04 00:20 Christine Tobin trio
Tower of Song
Performer: Christine Tobin

05 00:29 Iain Shaw (artist)
Witchita Lineman (Live)
Performer: Iain Shaw

06 00:34 Gato Barbieri (artist)
La Podrida
Performer: Gato Barbieri

07 00:41 Gato Barbieri (artist)
Milonga Triste
Performer: Gato Barbieri

08 00:50 Gato Barbieri (artist)
Viva Emiliano Zapata
Performer: Gato Barbieri

09 00:57 Iain Shaw (artist)
Dance Me To The End of Love (Live)
Performer: Iain Shaw

10 01:02 Ian Shaw (artist)
Life On Mars? (Live)
Performer: Ian Shaw

11 01:09 Ian Shaw (artist)
My Brother (Live)
Performer: Ian Shaw

12 01:13 Ian Shaw (artist)
Come In From The Cold (Live)
Performer: Ian Shaw

13 01:18 Cory Henry (artist)
He Has Made Me Glad (I Will Enter His Gates)
Performer: Cory Henry

14 01:22 René Marie (artist)
If You Were Mine
Performer: René Marie

SAT 18:00 Opera on 3 (b08f4hdy)
Live from the Met, Bellini's I Puritani

Tonight's Live from the Met is Bellini's I Puritani. A Puritan stronghold is under threat from Royalist troops. Within the fortress, Elvira, daughter of the commander has been promised to Riccardo, but is in love with Arturo, a Royalist. When she mistakenly believes herself betrayed by Arturo, it's enough to drive her mad. In Bellini's final opera, written specifically for four of the best singers of the day Diana Damrau sings Elvira, with Javier Camarena and Alexey Markov as the two men in her life.

Presented by Mary Jo Heath and Ira Siff.

Lord Arturo Talbot.....Javier Camarena (tenor)
Elvira Walton.....Diana Damrau (soprano)
Sir Riccardo Forth.....Alexey Markov (baritone)
Sir Giorgio Walton.....Luca Pisaroni (bass)
Lord Gualtiero Walton.....David Crawford (bass)
Sir Bruno Robertson.....Eduardo Valdes (tenor)
Enrichetta di Francia.....Virginie Verrez (mezzo-soprano)
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus
New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Maurizio Benini (conductor).

SAT 22:00 Hear and Now (b08f4hf0)
Kammer Klang, Cassandra Miller, Ensemble Plus-Minus, Musikfabrik

Tom McKinney presents a rich mix of new music recorded in concert.
From a Kammer Klang concert earlier this month at London's Café Oto, there are two world premieres:
Cassandra Miller: Tracery : Hardanger
Juliet Fraser (soprano)
Cassandra Miller: Traveller Song
Ensemble Plus-Minus

Also new music by Lisa Illean, and a solo by sound artist Christine Sun Kim.
And from last November's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: a virtuosic violin solo, Haare by Enno Poppe; a piece for cello and video called String Jack by Michael Beil; and a major ensemble piece by Marcin Stanczyk, Some Drops, featuring Marco Blaauw (trumpet) with Ensemble Musikfabrik

Image (c) Dimitri Djuric.


SUNDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2017

SUN 00:00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz (b03vd2vc)
Stan Getz

Blending West Coast cool and tender lyricism with a chart-topping bossa nova beat, saxophonist Stan Getz was a major jazz star for almost fifty years. Geoffrey picks highlights from an extraordinary career.

00 00:02 Stan Getz
Pennies From Heaven
Performer: Al Haig Sextet

00 00:07 Stan Getz
Hershey Bar
Performer: Al Haig
Performer: Jimmy Raney
Performer: Teddy Kotick
Performer: Tiny Kahn

00 00:12 Stan Getz
Shine
Performer: Conte Candoli
Performer: Lou Levy
Performer: Leroy Vinnegar
Performer: Shelly Manne

00 00:21 Stan Getz
It Never Entered My Mind
Performer: J. J. Johnson

00 00:26 Stan Getz
So Danco Samba
Performer: João Gilberto
Performer: Antônio Carlos

00 00:30 Stan Getz
Her
Performer: Roy Haynes

00 00:37 Stan Getz
Jive Hoot
Performer: Bob Brookmeyer
Performer: Herbie Hancock
Performer: Gary Burton
Performer: Ron Carter
Performer: Elvin Jones

00 00:43 Stan Getz
Windows
Performer: Ron Carter
Performer: Grady Tate

00 00:53 Stan Getz
People Time
Performer: Kenny Barron

SUN 01:00 Through the Night (b08f4pww)
Eduardo Eguez at the 2014 Poznan Baroque Festival in Poland

Catriona Young presents a programme of music for lute and baroque guitar from France and Spain.
1:01 AM
Visée, Robert de (c.1655-c.1732/3)
Suite in D minor
Eduardo Egüez (lute)
1:16 AM
Santiago de Murcia (1682-1740)
(suite) Obra por 7 tono
Eduardo Egüez (lute)
1:36 AM
Santiago de Murcia (1682-1740)
Mariona por la B
Eduardo Egüez (baroque guitar)
1:41 AM
Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710)
Tarantella
Eduardo Egüez (baroque guitar)
1:49 AM
Santiago de Murcia (1682-1740)
Cumbée
Eduardo Egüez (baroque guitar)
1:53 AM
Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710)
Marizapalos
Eduardo Egüez (baroque guitar)
1:58 AM
Antonio de Santa Cruz (fl.1700)
Fandango
Eduardo Egüez (baroque guitar)
2:02 AM
Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710)
Xácaras and Canarios (Instrucción de música sobre la guitara española")
Eduardo Egüez (baroque guitar)
2:12 AM
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916)
Goyescas, Book 1, Nos. 2-4
Enrique Granados (piano)
2:36 AM
Boccherini, Luigi [1743-1805]
La Musica Notturna delle strade di Madrid - Quintet No.6, Op.30 (G.324)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
2:49 AM
Falla, Manuel de (1876-1946)
El Sombrero de tres picos - Suite no. 2: Dance of the miller (Farruca)
Casals Quartet
2:53 AM
Albeniz, Isaac (1860-1909), arr. Segovia, Andres
Asturias, from Suite española, Op.47 (1887)
Xavier Diaz-Latorre (Guitar)
3:01 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Piano Sonata in A minor D.845
Louis Schwizgebel (piano)
3:37 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Serenade for wind instruments in D minor, Op.44
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
4:03 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Intermezzo, Op.117 No.1 in E flat major "Schlummerlied"
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
4:09 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No.4 in G major, K.41
Mikhail Voskresensky (piano), Pavel Slobodkin Centre Chamber Orchestra, Moscow, Konstantin Maslyuk (conductor)
4:23 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)
Qual Vive Salamandra
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Paul van Nevel (Conductor)
4:26 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)
Tes beaux yeux causent mon amour - chanson for 4 voices
Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet
4:30 AM
Kunzen, Friedrich (1761-1817)
Overture to the play 'Husitterne' (The Hussites)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Peter Marschik (Conductor)
4:38 AM
Kajanus, Robert (1856-1933)
Finnish Rhapsody No.1
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (conductor)
4:48 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Song without Words, Op.109
Miklós Perényi (cello), Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
4:53 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (17-56-1791)
Overture, Don Giovanni, K.527
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Kurt Sanderling (conductor)
5:01 AM
Erkel, Ferenc (1810-1893)
Overture to Névtelen hosök (Unknown Heroes)
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, András Kórodi (Conductor)
5:05 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Symphony No.26 in D minor H.1.26 (Lamentatione)
Orchestra Libera Classica, Hidemi Suzuki (conductor)
5:21 AM
Sor, Fernando (1778-1839)
Introduction and Variations on Mozart's 'O cara armonia' for guitar, Op.9
Xavier Diaz-Latorre (Guitar)
5:30 AM
Janácek, Leos (1854-1928)
Vlci stopa (The wolf's trail) for soprano, female choir & piano
Susse Lillesøe (soprano), Danish National Radio Choir, Per Salo (piano), Stefan Parkman (conductor)
5:38 AM
de Falla, Manuel (1876-1946)
Noches en los jardines de España
Filip Pavlov (piano), Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Marinov (conductor)
6:02 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Rapsodie espagnole
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
6:17 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Estampes
Yannick Van de Velde (piano)
6:32 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Trio sonata in C major, Op.3 No.8
Il Seminario Musicale, Gérard Lesne (director)
6:39 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) version by Busoni
Concerto for keyboard and string orchestra No.1 in D minor BWV.1052
Dinu Lipatti (piano); Concertgebouw Orchestra; Eduard van Beinum (conductor).

SUN 07:00 Breakfast (b08f4pwy)
Sunday - Elizabeth Alker

Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (b08f4px0)
James Jolly

This week James Jolly presents the full version of yesterday's Building a Library choice of the Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo. This leads on to an exploration of music with garden or plant themes, by Chabrier, Janacek, Fauré and Falla, among others. The week's young artist is violinist Nemanja Radulovic in music by J. C. Bach, and the neglected classic is Khachaturian's Violin Concerto in a performance by Leonid Kogan and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, directed by Pierre Monteux.

SUN 12:00 Private Passions (b08f4px2)
Petina Gappah

Petina Gappah grew up in Zimbabwe during segregation, when black girls were not thought worthy of education. Despite this, she became a lawyer and was awarded law degrees from the University of Zimbabwe and then Cambridge, and Graz University in Austria. Moving to Geneva, she fought high-profile international cases. But all the time she had a secret life: she woke at 4am every morning to write. Petina Gappah's first short story was published online when she was 37 - and now, only 8 years later, there are two short-story collections, a novel, "The Book of Memory", several translations, with another novel in the pipeline. From the start there has been a sense of a new voice arriving - Gappah's first book won the Guardian First Book Award. Her stories are set in Zimbabwe, and they're about crime and punishment, love and family, in a deeply corrupt and divided society.

In Private Passions, Petina Gappah talks to Michael Berkeley about her childhood and the experiences which gave her such determination and drive. She discusses her determination to translate George Orwell into her first language, Shona, and what "Animal Farm" says to readers in Zimbabwe. She explores too her ambiguous relationship with her homeland, and what she feels about being called "the voice of Zimbabwe". Music choices include Verdi, Bob Dylan, Mahler's Piano Quartet in A Minor, and the Bhundu Boys.

Produced by Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.

SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b08dnlzv)
Wigmore Hall Mondays: Kathryn Rudge and James Baillieu

From Wigmore Hall in London, mezzo soprano Kathryn Rudge and pianist James Baillieu perform a recital of English song.
English song flourished at the beginning of the 20th-century and was influenced by the wealth of poetry and the trauma of global warfare. Today's concert journeys through a programme of songs by Howells and Quilter and a rarity by Denis Browne, and Kathryn and James are joined by viola player Gary Pomeroy for three songs by Frank Bridge.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Herbert Howells: Come sing and dance
Roger Quilter: Go, lovely rose; Now sleeps the crimson petal; Music, when soft voices die
William Charles Denis Browne: To Gratiana, dancing and singing
Herbert Howells: Peacock Pie - song-cycle Op.33
Ivor Gurney: Sleep; Most holy night; The Fields are full; By a bierside
Frank Bridge*: Far, far from each other; Where is it that our soul doth go?; Music when soft voices die

Kathryn Rudge, mezzo-soprano
James Baillieu, piano
Gary Pomeroy, viola*.

SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (b08f4px4)
William Lyons on David Munrow

Director of The Dufay Collective, William Lyons, celebrates the life and work of one of his musical heroes - early music specialist, historian, multi-instrumentalist, broadcaster and pioneer David Munrow, who took his own life in 1976 during a state of depression at the age of just 33.

Munrow perhaps did more than anyone else in the second half of the 20th century to popularise early music in Great Britain, despite a career lasting barely ten years. This was underscored when the Voyager space probe committee selected one of his recordings to be carried on it as part of the Voyager Golden Record. He left behind him not only his recordings but a large collection of musical instruments. The Munrow Archive at the Royal Academy of Music holds a collection of his letters, papers, TV scripts, scores, musical compositions and books which is accessible to the public.

SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (b08dr2n4)
The Queen's College, Oxford

From the Chapel of The Queen's College, Oxford

Introit: Behold, O God our defender(John Scott)
Response: Humphrey Clucas
Psalm 78 (Howells, Bairstow, Barnby, Walford Davies, Jackson)
First Lesson: Isaiah 58 vv.6-14
Canticles: Noble in B minor
Second Lesson: Matthew 25 vv.31-46
Anthem: Os justi (Bruckner)
Hymn: The duteous day now closeth (Innsbruck)
Organ Voluntary: Sonata No 5 - Finale (Francis Jackson)

Director of Music: Owen Rees
Assistant Organist: David Bednall.

SUN 16:00 The Choir (b08f4px6)
Oz Clarke

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces this week's pick of the choral world. Wine expert, author and occasional professional chorister, Oz Clarke chats with Sara about some of his favourite choral music. Another amateur choir introduce themselves in 'Meet My Choir'.

SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (b08f4px8)
In space no-one can hear you sing...

Space. A place few men or women have gone before ... but plenty of composers have. The universe has inspired musicians for hundreds of years and consequently we all know what space music sounds like. Or do we?

From Holst and David Bowie to John Williams via Ligeti, Thomas Ades and the Beastie Boys, Tom Service dons his spacesuit on a mission to explore why cosmic-inspired music sounds the way it does, and discovers how space science is just as inspired by music as musicians are by space.

En route to the stars, space scientist Lucie Green is on hand to tell Tom the reality of sound in space, while mathematician Elaine Chew helps him uncover the music of the spheres.

SUN 17:30 Words and Music (b08f4pxb)
Life on the Ocean Wave

Poetry, music and readings reflecting on the nautical life, including words by Masefield, Melville, Homer and Hardy, and music by Britten, Mendelssohn, Purcell and Tom Waits. Read by Lesley Sharp and John Shrapnel.

01 00:00 Henry Purcell
They that go down to the sea in ships (excerpt)
Performer: David Thomas (bass), English Concert, directed by Simon Preston

02 00:00
Amy Lowell

03 00:02
Paul Laurence Dunbar

04 00:03 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Sea and Sinbad’s ship (Sheherazade)
Performer: Orchestra of the Kirov Theatre, St Petersburg, conducted by Valery Gergiev

05 00:06
George Gordon, Lord Byron

06 00:07 John Ireland
Sea Fever
Performer: Thomas Allen (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)

07 00:09
John Masefield

08 00:11 Tom Waits
Shore leave (excerpt)
Performer: Tom Waits and band

09 00:15
D.H. Rogers

10 00:17 Trad. English
Blow the man down
Performer: Harry H. Corbett and chorus

11 00:19
Percy Bysshe Shelley

12 00:20 Maurice Ravel
Une barque sur l'ocean (Miroirs)
Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

13 00:27
Homer, translated by George Chapman

14 00:30 Benjamin Britten
Storm (Peter Grimes)
Performer: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conducted by Benjamin Britten

15 00:34
Hermann Melville

16 00:34 Trad. English
Blow the wind southerly
Performer: Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)

17 00:37
George Darley

18 00:37 Charles Dibdin
Tom Bowling
Performer: Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten
Performer: Iain Burnside

19 00:42
Jerome K. Jerome

20 00:44 Sir Arthur Sullivan
When I was a lad (HMS Pinafore)
Performer: Richard Suart (tenor), Orchestra and Chorus of Welsh National Opera, conducted by Charles Mackerras

21 00:47
Edward Lear

22 00:50 Chris Wood
Turtle soup
Performer: Chris Wood and band

23 00:56
Herman Melville

24 00:59 Trad. English
The Greenland Whale Fishery
Performer: The Watersons

25 01:02
Thomas Hardy

26 01:03 Felix Mendelssohn
Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage) (excerpt)
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner

27 01:12
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (b08f4pxd)
King Kong - The Township Jazz Musical

The award-winning alto saxophonist Soweto Kinch uncovers the story of 'King Kong', an extraordinary musical collaboration that took place in apartheid-torn South Africa inspired by the life and tragic death of the heavyweight-boxing champion Ezekiel Dlamini. The show defied the colour bar and lead the way as part of a cultural renaissance; it became Nelson Mandela's favourite musical and proved, beyond doubt, that co-operation and respect make indomitable bedfellows. Its creators consciously intended it to be a model of fruitful co-operation between black and white South Africans in the international entertainment field, and a direct challenge to apartheid.

Lewis Nkosi wrote, 'The resounding welcome accorded to the musical at Wits University Great Hall, in Johannesburg, on Feb 2nd 1959, was not so much for the jazz musical as a finished artistic product as it was applause for an Idea which had been achieved by pooling together resources from both black and white artists in the face of impossible odds.'

Starring Miriam Makeba, 'King Kong' toured South Africa for two years playing to over a quarter of a million people, two thirds of whom were white. It then arrived in London's West End in 1961.

Singer Abigail Kubeka talks about the infamous township of Sophiatown and her memories of Ezekiel, whilst Hugh Masekela recalls the show and its composer Todd Matshikisa. We meet Irene Menel, anti-apartheid activist and philanthropist who, with her husband Clive, put the show together against all the odds. Lyricist Pat Williams talks about the difficulties of writing under the shadow of apartheid. A revival of 'King Kong' is scheduled for 2017; Eric Abraham, its producer, comments on its timelessness and relevance in today's South Africa.

SUN 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08f50q6)
Bach and Beethoven from Mecklenburg and Bach from Pyeongchang

Ian Skelly presents highlights of concerts from around the world. Tonight, Beethoven from the Mecklenburg-Verpommern Festival, and Bach from Pyeongchang.

Beethoven: Ah! Perfido!, Op. 65
Mendelssohn: Infelice, Op. 94
Christiane Karg, soprano
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
David Afkham
Recorded at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, 17/07/2016

Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor, BWV 1060
Alexei Ogrintchouk, oboe
Yura Lee, violin
Pyeongchang Festival Ensemble

Britten: Lachrymae, Reflections on a Song of John Dowland, Op. 48
Maxim Rysanov, viola, Tae-Hyung Kim, piano

Beethoven: Piano Trio in D, Op. 70 No. 1, 'Ghost'
Boris Brovtsyn, violin
Myung-Wha Chung, cello
Norman Krieger, piano
Recorded at the Alpensia Concert Hall, Pyeongchang, 05/08/2016.

SUN 21:00 Drama on 3 (b05tpnkk)
The Process

A new adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic book The Trial - dramatised and updated by Mark Ravenhill as part of Radio 3's series "In the Shadow of Kafka".

Imagine being accused of something you've not only not done, you don't even know what it is. Imagine a series of quasi-authority figures invading your office, bedroom and streets at any time of day or night. Imagine the buildings and city in which you live changing in front of your eyes. Imagine a never-ending, increasingly frightening process in which you are the key player and the least in charge. Welcome to the world of Joseph Kay.

Franz Kafka spawned a whole genre of writing and entered the OED with an adjective that encapsulates his very specific brand of clear, considered prose, nightmarish landscapes of misunderstanding, twisted psyches and utter loss of individual identity. Der Prozess was first published in 1925.

Mark says:
"Kafka's Der Prozess is one of the defining texts of the twentieth century, so it was an exciting challenge to re-imagine it for our times. I found that Kafka's story - of an individual struggling with a system in which responsibility, judgement and meaning are endlessly deferred - sat remarkably and yet uncomfortably well in a contemporary setting. Reading through my script before I delivered it, I couldn't be sure if I'd written a comedy or a tragedy. I would guess that's what Kafka wanted."

Sound design, Eloise Whitmore
BA, Lucy Duffield
Executive producer, Joby Waldman

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 3.

Joseph Kay ........................ Sam Troughton
Caroline/Emma ..................... Caroline Catz
Frank/Terry/John, an actor ........ Joe Armstrong
Will .............................. Lloyd Hutchinson
Martin ............................ Pearce Quigley
Abi/Katy, an actor ................ Hara Yannas
Jason/Bartle ...................... Lloyd Hutchinson
The Facilitator/Block ............. Tony Gardner
Anne/Zoe .......................... Jo Joyner
Leni .............................. Sinead Matthews
Huld .............................. Marion Bailey
O'Reilly .......................... Gaye Brown
Child ............................. Harli Jordean
Writer ............................ Franz Kafka
Adaptor ........................... Mark Ravenhill
Director .......................... Polly Thomas
Producer .......................... Polly Thomas

SUN 22:30 Early Music Late (b08f50v0)
The Tallis Scholars - Palestrina

Simon Heighes presents a concert celebrating that master of Italian Renaissance polyphony Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, performed by The Tallis Scholars directed by Peter Phillips at the Abbey Church of Maria Laach on the southwestern shore of the Laacher See in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, during the RheinVokal Festival in July last year.

Gregorian Chant: Assumpta est Maria
Palestrina: Motet, Assumpta est Maria
Palestrina: Missa Assumpta est Maria
Palestrina: Stabat Mater a 8
Francesco Soriano: Salve Regina a 8
Palestrina: Laudate Pueri

The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (director).

SUN 23:30 BBC Performing Groups (b08f50v2)
BBC Philharmonic

BBC Philharmonic perform Elgar's Cello Concerto with soloist Daniel Müller-Schott and conductor Gianandrea Noseda, and Lutoslawski's Symphony No.4 conducted by Leo Hussain.


MONDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2017

MON 00:30 Through the Night (b08f5g74)
Proms 2014: Britten's War Requiem

Catriona Young presents a performance from the 2014 BBC Proms of Britten's War Requiem with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons.
12:31 AM
Britten, Benjamin [1913-1976]
War Requiem, Op.66
Susan Gritton (soprano), Toby Spence (tenor), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass), BBC Proms Youth Choir, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons (conductor)
2:02 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Piano Trio in A minor (1914)
Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano), Bernt Lysell (violin), Mats Rondin (cello)
2:31 AM
Nielsen, Carl [1865-1931]
Symphony No.4, Op.29, 'The Inextinguishable'
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
3:05 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
24 Preludes, Op.28, for piano
Claire Huangci (piano)
3:39 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in C major for sopranino recorder, RV.444
Michael Schneider (recorder), Camerata Köln
3:48 AM
Enescu, George (1881-1955)
Concert Piece for viola and piano
Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Monique Savary (piano)
3:58 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Der Abend, Op.34 No.1 for 16-part choir
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
4:08 AM
Strauss (ii), Johann (1825-1899)
Spanischer Marsch (Op.433)
ORF Symphony Orchestra, Peter Guth (Conductor)
4:13 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
3 Studies, Op.104b, for piano
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
4:21 AM
Groneman, Albertus (1710-1778)
Concerto in G major for solo flute, two flutes, viola & basso continuo
Jed Wentz (solo flute), Marion Moonen, Cordula Breuer (flutes), Musica ad Rhenum
4:31 AM
Gotovac, Jakov (1895-1982)
Symphonic Dance, "Kolo", Op.12 (1926)
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazushi Ono (conductor)
4:40 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Rondo in A minor, K.511
Jean Muller (piano)
4:51 AM
Nebra, Jose de [1702-1768]
Llegad, llegad, creyentes, cantata
Maria Espada (soprano), Al Ayre Español, Eduardo López Banzo (harpsichord & director)
5:01 AM
Weiss, Silvius Leopold (1686-1750)
Prelude, Toccata and Allegro in G major
Hopkinson Smith (Baroque lute)
5:11 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Love Scene - from the opera 'Feuersnot' (Op.50)
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
5:20 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
12 Variations on 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen', Op.66, for cello and piano
Antonio Meneses (cello), Menahem Pressler (piano)
5:30 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Suite No.4 in G major for orchestra, Op.61, 'Mozartiana'
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
5:55 AM
Larsson, Lars-Erik (1908-1986)
Violin Sonatina (1928)
Arve Tellefsen (violin), Lucia Negro (piano)
6:09 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Keyboard Concerto No.2 in E major, BWV.1053
Angela Hewitt (piano), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor).

MON 06:30 Breakfast (b08f5g76)
Monday - Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

MON 09:00 Essential Classics (b08f5g78)
Monday - Sarah Walker with Maggi Hambling

9am
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify a musical mystery object.

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the artist Maggi Hambling. In a career spanning nearly 50 years Maggi has made her mark in a number of fields, including painting, portraiture and sculpture. Her best-known piece is Scallop, which stands on Aldeburgh beach in Suffolk, and is dedicated to the town's most celebrated son, Benjamin Britten. Another of her sculptures, A Conversation with Oscar Wilde, was the first public monument dedicated to the playwright and novelist. Maggi's portraits include those of fellow artist Francis Bacon and blues singer George Melly and recently, she's produced a number of extremely visceral paintings of waves, the result of daily walks on the Suffolk coast. As well as discussing her life and work, Maggi shares some of her favourite classical music, including Purcell, Britten and the synaesthetic composer Deborah Pritchard.

10.30
Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah places Music in Time, heading back to the Romantic period and a late piano sonata by Beethoven that shows how he pushed the boundaries of both form and the piano itself.

11am
Artist of the Week: London Sinfonietta
Imbued with a mission to perform the best contemporary classical music, develop new work and nurture new talent, the London Sinfonietta are one of the most vibrant and exciting ensembles in the UK, and arguably the world. Since their first concert in 1968 - the world premiere of John Tavener's The Whale - the Sinfonietta have commissioned more than 300 works and premiered hundreds more. This week Sarah explores some of their finest recordings with music by composers including Gorecki, Stravinsky, Takemitsu, Harrison Birtwistle and John Tavener.

Stravinsky
Histoire du Soldat
London Sinfonietta
Riccardo Chailly (conductor).

MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b08f5g7b)
Niels Gade (1817-1890), The Wedding Composer

Donald Macleod's charts Niels Gade's early life, leading up to his breakthrough work, "Echoes of Ossian".

Taken under his wing by Felix Mendelssohn, in his lifetime the Danish composer Niels Gade was a celebrated figure, who performed to great acclaim in Great Britain and across Europe. In his birthland Denmark, his association with Copenhagen's Music Society and his founding directorship of the Conservatory gave him a voice of influence within musical circles. He remains part of the Danish national consciousness, through the Wedding March from his ballet "Et folkesagn". It's one of the most popular picks for weddings. However, since his death, at the age of 73 in 1890, performances of his music have become all too infrequent leaving most of his considerable legacy largely unheard.

The 200th anniversary of Gade's birth provides a good reason to rediscover his music. Weddings aside, Niels Gade is the composer of no less than eight symphonies; a concerto for his own instrument, the violin; a rich variety of choral settings and solo songs; a host of chamber music, including a piano trio, and no less than five string quartets; piano music and a whole series of large-scale works which we might want to categorise as choral cantatas but which he called "concert pieces".

There is little published information about Niels Gade available in English. Donald Macleod is joined by Dr. Colin Roth, a co-director of the Nordic Research Centre at the University of Sheffield. Across the week, Colin shares his own research into Gade's music and information garnered from the most detailed biography of the composer, which was published in Denmark in 2002 by Danish musicologist Inger Sørensen.

Today, Donald Macleod explores the years up to Gade's breakthrough as a composer. Born in 1817, Gade's childhood was marked by the economic hardship endured in Copenhagen after the country declared bankruptcy in 1813. Despite the disadvantages of a lack of money and a limited access to education, aged 23, Gade won a prestigious competition with an astonishingly accomplished orchestral overture, "Echoes of Ossian".

Wedding Waltz (Et Folkesagn)
The Danish Radio Sinfonietta
Harry Damgaard, conductor

Elverskud, Op.30 (Prologue & Part 1)
Kirsten Dolberg, contralto, the mother
Tivoli Concert Choir
Tivoli Symphony Orchestra
Michael Schønwandt, conductor

Acquarellen, Op.19, Vol 1
Christina Bjørkøe, piano

Hymnus
Danish National Radio Choir
Jesper Grove Jørgensen, conductor

Overture: "Echoes of Ossian", Op.1
The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Dmitri Kitajenko, conductor.

MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b08f5g7d)
Wigmore Hall Mondays: Van Kuijk Quartet

Live from Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill

The Van Kuijk Quartet play Schubert and Ravel.

Schubert: String Quartet in E flat D87
Ravel: String Quartet in F major

Van Kuijk Quartet

Winner of the first prize at the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, and a member of the current team of BBC New Generation Artists, the Van Kuijk Quartet continues to boost its reputation as one of the most exciting of young ensembles.

MON 14:00 Afternoon on 3 (b08f5g7g)
Monday - BBC Philharmonic

Catriona Young presents a week of performance by the BBC Philharmonic, incorporating Afternoon on 3's British music theme, along with performances conducted by John Wilson. British music today includes Bax's Tintagel, Haydn's Military Symphony, and the Violin Concerto by Thomas Adès titled Concentric Paths. Plus a performance of Bruckner's mighty Seventh Symphony recorded in the Bridgewater Hall in December.

2pm
Bax: Tintagel
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor)

Haydn: Symphony No 100 in G major (Military)
BBC Philharmonic
Jamie Phillips (conductor)

c.2.40pm
Thomas Adès: Concentric Paths (Violin Concerto)
Daniel Pioro (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

c.3pm
Bruckner: Symphony No 7 in E major
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor).

MON 16:30 In Tune (b08f5g7j)
Pina Napolitano, Matthew Martin, Jeremy Summerly

Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music, chat, and arts news. His guests include conductors Matthew Martin and Jeremy Summerly, plus live performance in the studio from pianist Pina Napolitano.

MON 18:30 Composer of the Week (b08f5g7b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]

MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08f5g7l)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Rachmaninov

The young Hong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan has the distinction of being the first female to win the prestigious Donatella Flick Conducting competition in 2014. She makes her debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra with two staples of the Russian Romantic movement.

Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 2 is a great vehicle for the virtuosic young pianist Louis Schwizgebel, formerly a Radio 3 New Generation Artist.

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat

8.15pm Interval

Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Louis Schwizgebel, piano
Elim Chan, conductor.

MON 22:00 Music Matters (b08f4fzt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:15 on Saturday]

MON 22:45 The Essay (b08f5g7n)
The Other Auld Alliance, Episode 1

Scotland's historical relationship with France is often termed the Auld Alliance. By 1560 the Auld Alliance was more or less over but it has lingered on in the Scottish sentimental memory. Stuart Kelly argues that the real Auld Alliance was between Scotland and the "various principalities, kingdoms, cantons, duchies and electorates that would eventually comprise Germany and its German-speaking neighbours." In these essays he explores the relationship between Scotland and the German world as it has played out in literature, education, philosophy, the visual arts and historiography. In this first essay he explores the role that Prince Albert played in the invention of modern Scotland.

MON 23:00 Jazz Now (b08f5g7q)
Kenny Wheeler's Sweet Sister Suite

Soweto Kinch presents a complete performance of Kenny Wheeler's Sweet Sister Suite, played by Alexandra Ridout in Glasgow, with the Euroradio Jazz Orchestra directed by Tommy Smith. Emma talks to Wheeler's biographer Nick Smart about Kenny's suites, and the newly released album by Duncan Lamont, featuring Kenny in the music from children's TV series Mr Benn.


TUESDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2017

TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b08f5gft)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky, Scriabin and Glazunov

Catriona Young presents a concert from the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
12:31 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilych (1840-1893)
Jurists' March in D major
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mark Kadin (conductor)
12:37 AM
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915)
Piano Concerto No.1 in F sharp minor, Op.20
Alexey Chernov (piano), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mark Kadin (conductor)
1:05 AM
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915)
Piano Sonata No.4 in F sharp major, Op.30
Alexey Chernov (piano)
1:13 AM
Glazunov, Alexander (1865-1936)
The Seasons - ballet in one act, Op.67
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mark Kadin (conductor)
1:51 AM
Vladigerov, Pancho (1899-1978)
Elégie d'automne - from 3 Pièces pour piano, Op.15
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
1:58 AM
Pipkov, Lubomir (1904-1974)
Nani mi nani, Damiancho
Violeta Sartsanova (soloist), Sofia Chamber Choir, Vassil Arnaudov (conductor)
2:03 AM
Kandov, Alexander (b.1949)
Trio-concerto for Harp, Flute, Cello & String Orchestra
Suzana Klincharova (harp), George Spasov (flute), Dimitar Tenchev (cello), Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, Plamen Djourov (conductor)
2:26 AM
Kutev, Filip (1903-1982)
Dragana and the Nightingale
Sofia Chamber Choir, Vassil Arnaudov (conductor)
2:31 AM
Vladigerov, Pancho (1899-1978)
Divertimento for chamber orchestra
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Vladigerov (conductor)
2:47 AM
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953) arr. Prokofiev & David Oistrakh
Sonata for violin and piano No.2 (Op.94bis) in D major
Vesko Eschkenazy (violin), Ludmil Angelov (piano)
3:13 AM
Delibes, Leo (1836-1891)
Entracte from 'Lakmé'
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
3:17 AM
Delibes, Leo (1836-1891)
Couplets de Nilacantha de l'acte II de l'opera 'Lakmé'
Nicola Ghiuselev (bass), Orchestre de l'Opera National de Sofia, Rouslan Raitchev (conductor)
3:21 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
An einsamer Quelle; Intermezzo - from Stimmungsbilder, Op.9 Nos.2 & 3
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
3:30 AM
Hristov, Dobri (1875-1941)
Heruvimska pesen No.4 (Cherubic Song)
Polyphonia
3:37 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) & Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
Ave Maria (arr. for trumpet and organ by Blagoj Angelovski)
Blagoj Angelovski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ)
3:40 AM
Kyurkchiyski, Krassimir [1936-]
Bulgarian Madonna from 2 works after paintings of Vladimir Dimitrov - the Master
Simfonieta' Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio, Kamen Goleminov
3:46 AM
Busoni, Ferruccio (1866-1924)
Concertino for clarinet and small orchestra in B flat major, Op.48 (BV 276)
Dancho Radevski (clarinet), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Plamen Djouroff (conductor)
3:58 AM
Dvořák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Romance, Op.11 in F minor
Mincho Minchev (violin), Violinia Stoyanova (piano)
4:10 AM
Dinev, Petar [1889-1980]
Milost mira No.6 (A Mercy of Peace No.6)
Holy Trinity Choir, Plovdiv, Vessela Geleva (conductor)
4:15 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto for oboe d'amore and string orchestra No.4 (BWV.1055) in A major
Kalin Panayotov (oboe d'amore), Ars Barocca
4:31 AM
Infante, Manuel (1883-1958)
Three Andalucian Dances
Aglika Genova & Liuben Dimitrov (pianos)
4:46 AM
Anonymous
Folias de España
Komalé Akakpo (hackbrett (dulcimer))
4:53 AM
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916), arr. Chris Paul Harman
La Maja y el Ruiseñor (The Maiden and the Nightingale) - from Goyescas
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Bryan Epperson, Maurizio Baccante, Roman Borys, Simon Fryer, David Hetherington, Roberta Jansen, Paul Widner, Thomas Wiebe, Winona Zelenka (cellos)
5:00 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Spirit Music (Nos.1 to 4) - from Alcina
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Monica Huggett (guest conductor)
5:07 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Quartettsatz for strings in C minor, D.703
Tilev String Quartet
5:17 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Marienlieder, Op.22
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
5:35 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Sonata in B minor for violin and harpsichord, H.512
Les Adieux: Mary Utiger (violin), Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
5:53 AM
Crusell, Bernard Henrik (1775-1838)
Concertino in B flat major for bassoon and orchestra
Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
6:12 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Liebestraume No.3 in A flat major, S.541
Richard Raymond (piano)
6:18 AM
Janácek, Leos (1854-1928)
Pohádka for cello and piano
Elizabeth Dolin (cello), Francine Kay (piano).

TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b08f5j75)
Tuesday - Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b08f5k0d)
Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Maggi Hambling

9am
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.

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

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the artist Maggi Hambling. In a career spanning nearly 50 years Maggi has made her mark in a number of fields, including painting, portraiture and sculpture. Her best-known piece is Scallop, which stands on Aldeburgh beach in Suffolk, and is dedicated to the town's most celebrated son, Benjamin Britten. Another of her sculptures, A Conversation with Oscar Wilde, was the first public monument dedicated to the playwright and novelist. Maggi's portraits include those of fellow artist Francis Bacon and blues singer George Melly and recently, she's produced a number of extremely visceral paintings of waves, the result of daily walks on the Suffolk coast. As well as discussing her life and work, Maggi shares some of her favourite classical music, including Purcell, Britten and the synaesthetic composer Deborah Pritchard.

10.30am
Music in Time: Medieval
Today Sarah's heading back to the Medieval period to look at a musical device called a clausula, a way of taking existing plainchant melodies and developing them further.

Double Take
Sarah explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two interpretations of Debussy's Clair de lune, one for piano and the other for orchestra.

11am
Artist of the Week: London Sinfonietta
Imbued with a mission to perform the best contemporary classical music, develop new work and nurture new talent, the London Sinfonietta are one of the most vibrant and exciting ensembles in the UK, and arguably the world. Since their first concert in 1968 - the world premiere of John Tavener's The Whale - the Sinfonietta have commissioned more than 300 works and premiered hundreds more. This week Sarah explores some of their finest recordings with music by composers including Gorecki, Stravinsky, Takemitsu, Harrison Birtwistle and John Tavener.

Takemitsu
Quotation of Dream - Say sea, take me!
Paul Crossley (piano)
Peter Serkin (piano)
London Sinfonietta
Oliver Knussen (conductor).

TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b08f5k0g)
Niels Gade (1817-1890), Ghosts and Trolls

Donald Macleod explores folk-tales in Niels Gade's charming ballet, Et folkesagn, written as a co-production with his father-in-law, the Danish composer J.P.E Hartmann and the literary source of his only Sonata for Piano.

Taken under his wing by Felix Mendelssohn, in his lifetime the Danish composer Niels Gade was a celebrated figure, who performed to great acclaim in Great Britain and across Europe. In his birthland Denmark, his association with Copenhagen's Music Society and his founding directorship of the Conservatory gave him a voice of influence within musical circles. He remains part of the Danish national consciousness, through the Wedding March from his ballet "Et folkesagn". It's one of the most popular picks for weddings. However, since his death, at the age of 73 in 1890, performances of his music have become all too infrequent leaving most of his considerable legacy largely unheard.

The 200th anniversary of Gade's birth provides a good reason to rediscover his music. Weddings aside, Niels Gade is the composer of no less than eight symphonies; a concerto for his own instrument, the violin; a rich variety of choral settings and solo songs; a host of chamber music, including a piano trio, and no less than five string quartets; piano music and a whole series of large-scale works which we might want to categorise as choral cantatas but which he called "concert pieces".

There is little published information about Niels Gade available in English. Donald Macleod is joined by Dr. Colin Roth, a co-director of the Nordic Research Centre at the University of Sheffield. Across the week, Colin shares his own research into Gade's music and information garnered from the most detailed biography of the composer, which was published in Denmark in 2002 by Danish musicologist Inger Sørensen.

Today Donald Macleod and Colin Roth discuss how Gade responded musically to the prevailing artistic currents in Copenhagen.

Pa Sjolunds fagre sletter (excerpt)
Danish National Radio Choir
Stefan Parkman, conductor

Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op. 5 (1st movement)
Collegium Musicum, Copenhagen
Michael Schønwandt, conductor

Piano Sonata in E minor, Op 28
Alexander Vaulin, piano

Et folkesagn (Act 3, Scene 1)
The Danish Radio Sinfonietta
Harry Damgaard, conductor.

TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b08f5kj5)
Chamber Music from Vilabertran, Catalonia, Episode 1

The Schubertiade at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Vilabertran, Catalunya. This week Fiona Talkington presents music by Haydn, Schubert, Brahms and Shostakovich in performances recorded in the Romanesque church of Catalonia's best-preserved medieval monastery. The monastery traces its origins to 1069 and since 1997 its walls have echoed to the sound of chamber music as each year it hosts a prestigious music festival. Among the artists visiting in 2016 were the Casals Quartet, named after Catalonia's famous musical son, the brilliant pianist, Denis Kozhukhin and the rich soprano of Juliana Banse, one of the world's leading lieder singers. And new to the festival was the fresh-voiced young soprano, Anna Lucia Richter who can be heard today in a collection of songs by Schubert.
Presented by Fiona Talkington

Haydn: Keyboard Sonata No. 33 in D, Hob. XVI:24
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)

Schubert: Hoffnung, D.295 (Text: Friedrich von Schiller); Suleika, D.720 (Text: Marianne von Willemer)

Schubert: 3 songs from Wilhelm Meister, D.877 (Texts by Goethe); Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Heiss mich nicht reden; So lasst mich scheinen .
Anna Lucia Richter (soprano), Michael Gees (piano)

Haydn: String Quartet No. 23 in F minor, Hob. III:35 ('Sun')
Casals Quartet.

TUE 14:00 Afternoon on 3 (b08f5lrw)
Ulster Orchestra Live from the Ulster Hall

John Toal presents the Ulster Orchestra in a live concert from Ulster Hall. Annelien Van Wauwe is soloist in Berio's arrangement of Brahms's Sonata in F minor, before the orchestra take centre stage in Schumann's Spring Symphony. Then back to the studio with Catriona Young for more from this week's featured orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic in music by Saariaho and Stravinsky.

2pm - LIVE from Ulster Hall
Brahms: Clarinet Sonata in F minor, Op.120 No. 1 - orch. Berio (1986)
Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op.38 (Spring)
Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet)
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor)

c.3.05pm back to the studio with Catriona Young
Coates: Dancing Nights
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor)

Kaija Saariaho: Notes on light
Jakob Kullberg (cello)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)

c.3.50pm
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor).

TUE 16:30 In Tune (b08f5nv5)
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, David Curtis

Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. His guests include violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja who performs live in the studio, plus conductor David Curtis.

TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b08f5k0g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]

TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08f5qg8)
BBC Singers: Mozart

BBC Singers and their Chief Conductor, David Hill, celebrate one of the greatest of all composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with two choral works from either end of his short life. The Litaniae was composed in Salzburg when he was 20, and the Requiem, a work that seems to look far into the future, was left unfinished. Recorded in Milton Court in London, the BBC Singers are joined by St James' Baroque and soloists Lauren Fagan, Catherine Hopper, Ben Johnson and David Stout.

Mozart: The Magic Flute (Overture); Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento, K.243
8.10 pm Interval
8.30 pm
Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K.626
Lauren Fagan (soprano)
Catherine Hopper (mezzo)
Ben Johnson (tenor)
David Stout (baritone)
BBC Singers
St James's Baroque
conductor David Hill.

TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (b08fj502)
Shakespeare in cartoons, Jess Phillips, Sidney Nolan's Australian legends

MP Jess Phillips on life in the public eye. Plus Ned Kelly, Lady Macbeth, one once flesh and blood, the other imagined into being, yet both have done sterling work as ciphers to the human condition. Anne McElvoy talks to Rebecca Daniels, curator of an exhibition marking the centenary of Australia's great myth-maker, the artist Sidney Nolan and to David Taylor, curator of an exhibition at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre about the way memorable images work and legends are made-they are joined by Lorna Miller and Kevin 'Kal' Kallaugher, who draw on their experience as political cartoonists.

Transferences: Sidney Nolan in Britain runs at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester from 18th February 2017 - 4th June 2017 and part of centenary programming across 2017. You can find out more from http://www.sidneynolantrust.org/centenary-2017/centenary-programme

Draw New Mischief: 250 years of Shakespeare and Political Cartoons is in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre's PACCAR room: 25 February - 15 October 2017
Everywoman: One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth by Jess Phillips is out now.

Producer: Karl Bos
Editor: Robyn Read.

TUE 22:45 The Essay (b08fj5g3)
The Other Auld Alliance, Episode 2

Scotland's historical relationship with France is often termed the Auld Alliance. By 1560 the Auld Alliance was more or less over but it has lingered on in Scottish sentimental memory. Stuart Kelly argues that the real Auld Alliance was between Scotland and the "various principalities, kingdoms, cantons, duchies and electorates that would eventually comprise Germany and its German-speaking neighbours." In these essays he explores the relationship between Scotland and the German world as it has played out in literature, education, philosophy, the visual arts and historiography. In this essay he explores the complementary and competing educational visions of Kurt Hahn, the founder of Gordonstoun, and A.S.Neill, founder of the free school of Summerhill.

TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b08fj5ry)
Verity Sharp

A late night adventure in music presented by Verity Sharp. Tonight's selection includes a collaboration between Cuban pianist Omar Sosa and Senegalese vocalist and kora player Seckou Keita, Ligeti's Pòeme Symphonique (for 100 metronomes) and Fourth World techno-folk from Aisha Devi.

Produced by Rebecca Gaskell for Reduced Listening.


WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2017

WED 00:30 Through the Night (b08f5gg0)
Revenge for the Boundary Wall

Catriona Young presents a concert performance from Warsaw of Zygmunt Noskowski's opera Revenge for the Boundary Wall.
12:32 AM
Noskowski, Zygmunt [1846-1909]
Zemsta za mur graniczny (Revenge for the Boundary Wall)
Robert Gierlach (Cześnik Raptusiewicz /Cup-Bearer, baritone), Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk (Klara/Cześnik's niece, soprano), Wojtech Gierlach (Rejent Milczek /Notary, bass), Pawel Skaluba (Waclaw/Rejent's Son, tenor), Anna Lubanska (Postolina, mezzo-soprano), Ryszard Minkiewicz (Papkin, tenor), Dariusz Machej (Dyndalski, bass), Polish Radio Chorus, Izabela Polakowska (Chorus Director), Wroclaw Philharmonic Chorus, Agnieszka Franków-Zelazny (Chorus Director), Polish Radio Symphont Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
2:12 AM
Ibert, Jacques (1890-1962)
Little Suite in 15 pictures
Adam Fellegi (piano)
2:31 AM
Sullivan, (Sir) Arthur (1842-1900)
Symphony in E major 'Irish'
BBC Philharmonic, Richard Hickox (conductor)
3:07 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25
Rian de Waal (piano), Joan Berkhemer (violin), Michel Samson (viola), Nadia David (cello)
3:47 AM
Gabrieli, Giovanni (c.1553-1612)
Exaudi me
Danish National Radio Chorus, Copenhagen Cornetts & Sackbutts, Lars Baunkilde (violone), Soren Christian Vestergaard (organ), Bo Holten (conductor)
3:53 AM
Ferrabosco, Alfonso (c1578-1628)
Pavan and Fantasie
Nigel North (lute)
4:01 AM
Pezel, Johann Christoph (1639-1694)
Four Intradas
Hungarian Brass Ensemble
4:08 AM
Wirén, Dag (1905-1986)
Sonatina for piano, Op.25
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)
4:15 AM
Willaert, Adrian (c.1490-1562)
A la fontaine du prez
Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet
4:21 AM
Haapalainen, Väinö (1893-1945)
Lemminkainen Overture (1925)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Atso Almila (conductor)
4:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546
Risør Festival Strings
4:38 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Scherzo No.2 in B flat minor, Op.31
Alex Slobodyanik (piano)
4:49 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
From 4 Choral Songs: Kozak ('The Cossack'), Wedrowna ptaszyna ('Little Wandering Bird')
Polish Radio Choir, Marek Kluza (Director)
4:57 AM
Wieniawski, Henryk (1835-1880)
Légende, Op.17, for violin & piano
Slawomir Tomasik (violin), Izabela Tomasik (piano)
5:06 AM
Albicastro, Henricus (fl.1700-06)
Concerto a 4, Op.7 No.2
Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini (violin & director)
5:14 AM
Forqueray, Antoine (1672-1745), arr. Jean Baptiste Forqueray (1699-1782)
Harpsichord suites from 'Pièces de clavecin' 1747: La Forqueray & La Couperin - from Suite No.1 in D minor; La Rameau - from Suite No. 5 in C minor; La Leclair - from Suite No.2 in G major
Kati Hämäläinen (harpsichord)
5:30 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup [1843-1907]
Violin Sonata No.3 in C minor, Op.45
Julian Rachlin (violin), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
5:54 AM
Cardon, Jean-Baptiste (1760-1803)
Sonata in E flat, Op.7 No.4
Branka Janjanin-Magdalenic (harp)
6:07 AM
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909)
Suite española, Op.47
Ilze Graubina (piano).

WED 06:30 Breakfast (b08f5j7f)
Wednesday - Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b08f5k0j)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Maggi Hambling

9am
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.

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

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the artist Maggi Hambling. In a career spanning nearly 50 years Maggi has made her mark in a number of fields, including painting, portraiture and sculpture. Her best-known piece is Scallop, which stands on Aldeburgh beach in Suffolk, and is dedicated to the town's most celebrated son, Benjamin Britten. Another of her sculptures, A Conversation with Oscar Wilde, was the first public monument dedicated to the playwright and novelist. Maggi's portraits include those of fellow artist Francis Bacon and blues singer George Melly and recently, she's produced a number of extremely visceral paintings of waves, the result of daily walks on the Suffolk coast. As well as discussing her life and work, Maggi shares some of her favourite classical music, including Purcell, Britten and the synaesthetic composer Deborah Pritchard.

10.30
Music in Time: Modern
Today Sarah is in the Modern period exploring Bartok's collection of piano pieces, Mikrokosmos, a brilliant example of how twentieth-century composers exploited the percussive capabilities of the instrument.

11am
Artist of the Week: London Sinfonietta
Imbued with a mission to perform the best contemporary classical music, develop new work and nurture new talent, the London Sinfonietta are one of the most vibrant and exciting ensembles in the UK, and arguably the world. Since their first concert in 1968 - the world premiere of John Tavener's The Whale - the Sinfonietta have commissioned more than 300 works and premiered hundreds more. This week Sarah explores some of their finest recordings with music by composers including Gorecki, Stravinsky, Takemitsu, Harrison Birtwistle and John Tavener.

Tavener
The Whale
London Sinfonietta
David Atherton (conductor).

WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b08f5k0l)
Niels Gade (1817-1890), Fame and Glory

Donald Macleod considers Mendelssohn's influence on his protégé, Niels Gade, with a complete performance of Gade's Octet, written some twenty years after Mendelssohn had written his.

Taken under his wing by Felix Mendelssohn, in his lifetime the Danish composer Niels Gade was a celebrated figure, who performed to great acclaim in Great Britain and across Europe. In his birthland Denmark, his association with Copenhagen's Music Society and his founding directorship of the Conservatory gave him a voice of influence within musical circles. He remains part of the Danish national consciousness, through the Wedding March from his ballet "Et folkesagn". It's one of the most popular picks for weddings. However, since his death, at the age of 73 in 1890, performances of his music have become all too infrequent, leaving most of his considerable legacy largely unheard.

The 200th anniversary of Gade's birth provides a good reason to rediscover his music. Weddings aside, Niels Gade is the composer of no less than eight symphonies; a concerto for his own instrument, the violin; a rich variety of choral settings and solo songs; a host of chamber music, including a piano trio, and no less than five string quartets; piano music and a whole series of large-scale works which we might want to categorise as choral cantatas but which he called "concert pieces".

There is little published information about Niels Gade available in English. Donald Macleod is joined by Dr. Colin Roth, a co-director of the Nordic Research Centre at the University of Sheffield. Across the week, Colin shares his knowledge of both Gade's music and the most detailed biography of the composer, which was published in Denmark in 2002 by Danish musicologist Inger Sørensen.

Between 1843 and 1848 Niels Gade was a highly respected musician, living and working in Leipzig. It was a period of diverse musical opportunity, which led to a series of major compositions.

Fantasiestücke, Op. 43 (1st movement)
Rolf Weber, clarinet
Kazue Tsuzuki, piano

The Crusaders (excerpt from Part 2)
Marianne Rørholm, mezzo-soprano (Armida)
Kurt Westi, tenor (Rinaldo)
Canzone-koret
Da Camera
Kor 72
Musikstuderendes Kammerkor
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Frans Rasmusssen, Conductor

Octet in F major, Op. 17
Berlin Philharmonic String Octet.

WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b08f5kj7)
Chamber Music from Vilabertran, Catalonia, Episode 2

The Schubertiade at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Vilabertran, Catalunya. Fiona Talkington presents a second programme of performances made at the Romanesque church of Catalonia's best-preserved medieval monastery. Today there is a focus on the music of Brahms.

Brahms: Three Intermezzi, Op. 117 (No. 1 in E flat; No. 2 in B flat minor; No. 3 in C sharp minor)
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)

Brahms: Bei dir sind meine Gedanken, Op. 95 No. 2; An die Nachtigall, Op. 46 No. 4; Wehe, so willst du mich wieder, Op. 32 No. 5; Die Mainacht, Op. 43 No. 2; Auf dem Kirchhofe, Op. 105 No. 4; Feldeinsamkeit, Op. 86 No. 2; Ständchen, Op. 106 No. 1
Juliane Banse (soprano)
Wolfram Rieger (piano)

Albéniz: Excerpts from 'Iberia' - Corpus Christi en Sevilla (Book I); Triana (Book II)
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)

Schubert: Abendstern, D806
Juliane Banse (soprano)
Wolfram Rieger (piano).

WED 14:00 Afternoon on 3 (b08f5lry)
BBC Philharmonic - Coates, Weill and Mozart

Catriona Young continues her week of performances by the BBC Philharmonic. Today's programme includes Kurt Weill's Violin Concerto directed from the violin by John Storgards, and Mozart's G major Flute Concerto with soloist Adam Walker. Plus Afternoon on 3's British Music Season continues with a performance of Coates's fantasy, Cinderella.

2pm
Coates: Cinderella - fantasy
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor)

Weill: Concerto for violin and wind ensemble, Op.12
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (violin/director)

c.2.45pm
Mozart: Flute Concerto in G major, K313
Adam Walker (flute)
BBC Philharmonic
Jamie Phillips (conductor)

Sibelius: Finlandia, Op.26
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor).

WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b08fj5y4)
Rochester Cathedral

Live from Rochester Cathedral

Introit: Holy is the true light (Peter Futcher)
Responses: Peter Nardone
Psalms 108, 109 (Ferguson, Barnby, Rimbault, Nares, Stainer)
First Lesson: Genesis 31 v.25 - 32 v.2
Canticles: Bairstow in G
Second Lesson: Titus 1
Anthems: Remembrance (Arthur Wills)
Lux Aeterna (John Rutter)
Organ Voluntary: Andante moderato in C minor (Bridge)

Director of Music: Scott Farrell
Assistant Sub Organist: James Norrey.

WED 16:30 In Tune (b08f5nv9)
Susan Bickley, Leigh Melrose, Simon Callow, Tabea Debus

Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music, chat, and arts news. His guests include mezzo Susan Bickley, baritone Leigh Melrose, actor Simon Callow, and recorder player Tabea Debus.

WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b08f5k0l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]

WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08f5qgd)
London Philharmonic Orchestra - Edison Denisov, Berg, Shostakovich

Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley

The London Philharmonic Orchestra perform Berg, Denisov and Shostakovich.

Edison Denisov: Symphony No.2
Berg: Violin Concerto

8.20: Interval

Shostakovich: Symphony No.15

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor

Berg dedicated his Violin Concerto 'to the memory of an angel', and a bottomless depth of personal loss lies beneath its gorgeous colours. Patricia Kopatchinskaja performs it between two final symphonies by two Soviet composers. Shostakovich's Fifteenth Symphony cloaks its sorrows in jokes, enigmas and pitch-black humour; two decades later, his friend Edison Denisov said farewell in a poignant, fantastical Second Symphony of his own. This is a rare British performance of a work that is close to Vladimir Jurowski's heart.

WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b08fj505)
Soil Stories Old and New

Matthew Sweet talks to poet and writer Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, environmental scientist, Jules Pretty and geologist, Andrew Scott, about Soil and Culture and Survival Stories
For some Soil is where they come from, for others it is an object of aesthetic beauty, for most of us it is the means by which we get what we need to live.
Poet and writer Elizabeth-Jane Burnett's forthcoming A Dictionary of Soil explores the lives lived within and through the soil of three fields which constitute the origins of her family's ancestral village.
Agroecology expert, Jules Pretty says Soil We Can Rebuild It and in an environmentally friendly way and it will continue to feed us.
Geologist Andrew Scott examines soils from deep time to discover what they can tell us about how the planet and life on Earth evolved.
They join Matthew Sweet to think through our developing relationship with the life-giving dirt beneath our feet and discuss whether a happy ending just might be possible.

Presenter: Matthew Sweet

Guests: Jules Pretty, Professor of Environment and Society, University of Essex author The Earth Only Endures (2007) and Agri-Culture (2002)
Andrew Scott author of ‘Fire on Earth: An Introduction’
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, writer and poet

Producer: Jacqueline Smith

WED 22:45 The Essay (b08fj5g5)
The Other Auld Alliance, Episode 3

Scotland's historical relationship with France is often termed the Auld Alliance. By 1560 the Auld Alliance was more or less over but it has lingered on in the Scottish sentimental memory. Stuart Kelly argues that the real Auld Alliance was between Scotland and the "various principalities, kingdoms, cantons, duchies and electorates that would eventually comprise Germany and its German-speaking neighbours." In these essays he explores the relationship between Scotland and the German world as it has played out in literature, education, philosophy, the visual arts and historiography. In this essay he explores the career of Willa Muir who translated the work of Kafka, and other key German language writers, into English.

WED 23:00 Late Junction (b08fj5s0)
Late Junction Sessions, Tanya Tagaq and Ash Koosha

Verity Sharp hosts a session between Canadian Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq and Iranian producer and multi-instrumentalist Ash Koosha. Brought together for the first time for a brand new collaboration especially for Late Junction, the outcome combined the traditional music of their home countries alongside electronics, vocal samples and a slice of spontaneous improvisation.

Plus Bérangère Maximin's reimagined track from Véronique Vincent and Aksak Maboul's Ex-Futur Album, a new release by Scottish folk artist Alasdair Roberts and historic field recordings of diaphonic music from the Island of Krk, Yugoslavia.

Produced by Rebecca Gaskell for Reduced Listening.


THURSDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2017

THU 00:30 Through the Night (b08f5gg5)
Mahler's Sixth Symphony

Catriona Young presents songs by Wagner and Mahler with soprano Agata Zubel, and Mahler's 6th Symphony.
12:31 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Träume (Wesendonck-Lieder)
Agata Zubel (soprano); Warsaw Cellonet Group; Andrzej Bauer (director)
12:36 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Im Treibhaus (Wesendonck-Lieder)
Agata Zubel (soprano); Warsaw Cellonet Group; Andrzej Bauer (director)
12:41 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen (Kindertotenlieder)
Agata Zubel (soprano); Warsaw Cellonet Group; Andrzej Bauer (director)
12:45 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Liebst du um Schönheit (Rückert Lieder)
Agata Zubel (soprano); Warsaw Cellonet Group; Andrzej Bauer (director)
12:47 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Nun seh'ich wohl warum so dunkle Flammen (Kindertotenlieder)
Agata Zubel (soprano); Warsaw Cellonet Group; Andrzej Bauer (director)
12:52 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert Lieder)
Agata Zubel (soprano); Warsaw Cellonet Group; Andrzej Bauer (director)
12:59 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Symphony No.6 in A minor, 'Tragic'
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)
2:20 AM
Messiaen, Olivier [1908-1992]
Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus (Quatuor pour la fin du temps)
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Zhang Zuo (piano)
2:31 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: Øyvor Volle (violin), Berit Cardas (violin), Henninge Landaas (viola), Bjørg Værnes Lewis (cello)
3:08 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Sinfonia concertante in E flat major for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon & orchestra, K.297b
Maja Kojc (oboe), Jože Kotar (clarinet), Mihajlo Bulajič (horn), Damir Huljev (bassoon), Slovenian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Dešpalj (conductor)
3:39 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Letzter Frühling (Last Spring)
Camerata Bern, Thomas Furi (director)
3:46 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Toccata in C major, Op.7, for piano
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
3:52 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Sonata No. 2 in B flat major, Z.791, for 2 violins and continuo
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
3:59 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in C sharp, BWV 848
Ivett Gyongyosii (piano)
4:03 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Agrippina - Overture; 'Son contenta di morire' - aria from Radamisto
Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
4:11 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance No.10 in E minor, Op.72 No.2 (Starodávny)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
4:17 AM
Doppler, Franz (1821-1883)
L'oiseau des bois, Op.21 - idyll for flute and 4 horns
János Balint (flute), Jeno Kevehazi, Peter Fuzes, Sandor Endrodi, Tibor Maruzsa (horns)
4:23 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918), arr. Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Tarantelle styrienne (Danse)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor)
4:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Rosamunde, D.797 - Ballet Music No.2
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Heinz Holliger (conductor)
4:38 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in B minor, Kk.87
Eduard Kunz (Piano)
4:44 AM
Rodrigo, Joaquín (1901-1999) arr. Peter Tiefenbach
Cuatro madrigales amatorios: ¿Con qué la lavaré?; Vos me matásteis; ¿De dónde venís, amore?; De los álamos vengo, madre
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Bryan Epperson, Maurizio Baccante, Roman Borys, Simon Fryer, David Hetherington, Roberta Jansen, Paul Widner, Thomas Wiebe, Winona Zelenka (cellos)
4:53 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Cello Concerto in D major, HV VIIb:2
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Heinrich Schiff (cellist & conductor)
5:18 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV.229
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
5:27 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), transcr. Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Ständchen (from Schwanengesang, D.957), arr. for piano
Simon Trpceski (piano)
5:34 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827
Symphony No 8 in F major, Op.93
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor)
6:01 AM
Traditional/Løken, Marius
Skålhalning
Oslo Chamber Chorus, Håkon Nystedt (director)
6:08 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sinfonia in G major
András Keller (violin), Concerto Köln
6:11 AM
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909)
Smutna opowiesc (Preludia do wiecznosci) (Sorrowful Tale (Preludes to Eternity)) - Symphonic Poem, Op.13
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Straszynski (conductor)
6:22 AM
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911)
Norsk kunstnerkarneval (Norwegian artists' carnival), Op.14
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor).

THU 06:30 Breakfast (b08f5j7h)
Thursday - Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b08f5k0n)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with Maggi Hambling

9am
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge. Two pieces of music are played together. Can you identify them?

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the artist Maggi Hambling. In a career spanning nearly 50 years Maggi has made her mark in a number of fields, including painting, portraiture and sculpture. Her best-known piece is Scallop, which stands on Aldeburgh beach in Suffolk, and is dedicated to the town's most celebrated son, Benjamin Britten. Another of her sculptures, A Conversation with Oscar Wilde, was the first public monument dedicated to the playwright and novelist. Maggi's portraits include those of fellow artist Francis Bacon and blues singer George Melly and recently, she's produced a number of extremely visceral paintings of waves, the result of daily walks on the Suffolk coast. As well as discussing her life and work, Maggi shares some of her favourite classical music, including Purcell, Britten and the synaesthetic composer Deborah Pritchard.

10.30am
Music in Time: Classical
Today Sarah is in the classical period discovering how technical developments for the trumpet were brilliantly exploited by Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

Double Take
Sarah explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two recordings of a very famous madrigal, Amarilli mia bella by Giulio Caccini.

11am
Artist of the Week: London Sinfonietta
Imbued with a mission to perform the best contemporary classical music, develop new work and nurture new talent, the London Sinfonietta are one of the most vibrant and exciting ensembles in the UK, and arguably the world. Since their first concert in 1968 - the world premiere of John Tavener's The Whale - the Sinfonietta have commissioned more than 300 works and premiered hundreds more. This week Sarah explores some of their finest recordings with music by composers including Gorecki, Stravinsky, Takemitsu, Harrison Birtwistle and John Tavener.

Weill
Suite for wind orchestra from 'The Threepenny Opera'
London Sinfonietta
David Atherton (conductor).

THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b08f5k0s)
Niels Gade (1817-1890), The Rising Sun

Donald Macleod introduces a complete performance of Gade's joyous Fourth Symphony.

Taken under his wing by Felix Mendelssohn, in his lifetime the Danish composer Niels Gade was a celebrated figure, who performed to great acclaim in Great Britain and across Europe. In his birthland Denmark, his association with Copenhagen's Music Society and his founding directorship of the Conservatory gave him a voice of influence within musical circles. He remains part of the Danish national consciousness, through the Wedding March from his ballet "Et folkesagn". It's one of the most popular picks for weddings. However, since his death, at the age of 73 in 1890, performances of his music have become all too infrequent leaving most of his considerable legacy largely unheard.

The 200th anniversary of Gade's birth provides a good reason to rediscover his music. Weddings aside, Niels Gade is the composer of no less than eight symphonies; a concerto for his own instrument, the violin; a rich variety of choral settings and solo songs; a host of chamber music, including a piano trio, and no less than five string quartets; piano music and a whole series of large-scale works which we might want to categorise as choral cantatas but which he called "concert pieces".

There is little published information about Niels Gade available in English. Donald Macleod is joined by Dr. Colin Roth, a co-director of the Nordic Research Centre at the University of Sheffield. Across the week, Colin shares his knowledge of both Gade's music and the most detailed biography of the composer, which was published in Denmark in 2002 by Danish musicologist Inger Sørensen.

As war was breaking out across Europe, in 1848 Niels Gade decided to return to Denmark. Today, Donald Macleod explores the reasons why Gade made this momentous decision, which, according to Dr. Colin Roth's studies, are quite frequently misrepresented.

O du, der du die Liebe bist
Musica Ficta
Bo Holten, director

String Quartet in D major, Op. 63
The Copenhagen String Quartet

Symphony No 4 in B flat major, Op. 20
Collegium Musicum, Copenhagen
Michael Schønwandt, conductor.

THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b08f5kj9)
Chamber Music from Vilabertran, Catalonia, Episode 3

The Schubertiade at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Vilabertran, Catalunya. Fiona Talkington introduces performances made at the Romanesque church of Catalonia's best-preserved medieval monastery. Today the fresh voice of Anna Lucia Richter is heard in some of Schubert's settings of Walter Scott and Denis Kozhukhin explores the almost orchestral sonorities of Weber's seldom-heard Piano Sonata No. 3.

Schubert: Romanze, D.797/3b; Nachtviolen, D.752
Anna Lucia Richter (soprano), Michael Gees (piano)

Weber: Piano Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 49
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)

Schubert: Ellens Gesang I ('Raste Krieger'), D.837; Ellens Gesang II ('Jäger ruhe von die Jagd'), D.838; Ellens Gesang III ('Ave Maria'), D.839
Anna Lucia Richter (soprano), Michael Gees (piano).

THU 14:00 Afternoon on 3 (b08f5ls0)
Thursday Opera Matinee, Thursday Opera Matinee: Donizetti - Rosmonda d'Inghilterra

Catriona Young presents this week's Thursday Opera Matinee: Donizetti's Rosmonda d'Inghilterra, in a production from the Florence Opera House conducted by Sebastiano Rolli. Set in Woodstock Castle, England, during the 12th century, Donizetti's melodrama concerns Enrico (King Henry II) and his mistress Rosmonda, whom he has hidden in a tower. The page Arturo has been instructed to watch over her, and in doing so, falls in love with her. Meanwhile, Enrico's wife, Queen Leonora is plotting against her hidden rival, and his aged tutor Clifford is determined to lead the mysterious mistress back to a life of virtue.

2pm:
Donizetti: Rosmonda d'Inghilterra

Rosmonda Clifford ..... Jessica Pratt (soprano)
Eleonora di Guienna ..... Eva Mei (mezzo-soprano)
Enrico II ..... Michael Spyres (tenor)
Arturo ..... Raffaella Lupinacci (contralto)
Clifford ..... Nicola Ulivieri (bass)
Maggio Musicale Chorus
Director: Lorenzo Fratini
Maggio Musicale Orchestra
Sebastiano Rolli (conductor).

THU 16:30 In Tune (b08f5nvc)
Alison Balsom, Laura van der Heijden

Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. His guests include trumpeter Alison Balsom, and cellist Laura van der Heijden, who performs live in the studio.

THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b08f5k0s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]

THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08f5qgg)
BBC SSO - Edmund Finnis, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov

Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform a new work by Edmund Finnis, Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto and Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade.

Live from City Halls, Glasgow

Presented by Kate Molleson

Edmund Finnis: The Air, Turning
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2

8.20 Interval

8.40
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade

Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
Ilan Volkov (Conductor)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

From their home at the City Halls in Glasgow the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and their Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov, explore two familiar Russian works of ostentatious virtuosity, and a new work by composer Edmund Finnis. His piece The Air, Turning receives its world premiere performance at this concert.
Then Rachmaninov's oft-quoted Second Piano Concerto. One of the most commonly heard pieces on the concert platform, despite its ferocious technical difficulties. These are tackled this evening by young Russian pianist Yevgeny Sudbin.
And the evening concludes with Rimsky-Korsakov's opulent Sheherazade, a work which in 1888 pushed the very limits of creative orchestration. A tuneful masterclass in orchestral sound-painting and tale-telling, taking as it does inspiration from stories of One Thousand and One Nights.

THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b08fj508)
John Akomfrah, Gillian Allnutt, Jonathan Glancey

Philip Dodd talks to John Akomfrah about his artistic response to historic and current migration. Gillian Allnutt discusses a life in words and winning the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Jonathan Glancey talks architecture.

THU 22:45 The Essay (b08fj5g9)
The Other Auld Alliance, Episode 4

Scotland's historical relationship with France is often termed the Auld Alliance. By 1560 the Auld Alliance was more or less over but it has lingered on in the Scottish sentimental memory. Stuart Kelly argues that the real Auld Alliance was between Scotland and the "various principalities, kingdoms, cantons, duchies and electorates that would eventually comprise Germany and its German-speaking neighbours." In these essays he explores the relationship between Scotland and the German world as it has played out in literature, education, philosophy, the visual arts and historiography. Here he explores the work of the Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka and the German artist Joseph Beuys.

THU 23:00 Exposure (b08fj6y5)
Bradford - Survival Skills, Death Shanties, Family Elan

Verity Sharp hosts another gig showcasing experimental music up and down the UK, this time from Fuse Art Space Bradford, and including sets from guitarist and producer Chris Sharkey aka Survival Skills, free improv from saxophonist Sybren Renema and drummer Alex Neilson of the group Death Shanties, and psychedelic folk from Family Elan.


FRIDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2017

FRI 00:00 Late Junction (b08fj702)
Nigel Kennedy

Violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy picks a half hour of his favourite tracks exclusively for Late Junction. Take a moment from the pressures of the outside world to enjoy a mix of violin-led recordings handpicked by Nigel. Tracks featured include Jean-Luc Ponty's Sunday Walk, John Abercrombie and Jarek Smietana's Water Games (Pt. 1) and Stéphane Grappelli's Menuet pour Menuhin.

Produced by Rebecca Gaskell for Reduced Listening.

FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b08f5ggc)
Fou Ts'ong at the 1968 Dubrovnik Summer Festival

Catriona Young presents a recital of Mozart, Scarlatti and Debussy given by legendary pianist Fou Ts'ong at the 1968 Dubrovnik Summer Festival.
12:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Rondo in A minor, K.511, for piano
Fou Ts'ong (piano)
12:41 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Minuet in D major, K.355
Fou Ts'ong (piano)
12:44 AM
Claude-Benigne Balbastre (1727-1799)
Romance
Fou Ts'ong (piano)
12:47 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in C major, Kk95
Fou Ts'ong (piano)
12:50 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Six Sonatas
Fou Ts'ong (piano)
1:09 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Preludes
Fou Ts'ong (piano)
1:34 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770-1827]
String Quartet in B flat major, Op.130
Juilliard String Quartet
2:19 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
12 Variations on 'Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman' for piano, K.265
Lana Genc (piano)
2:31 AM
Hindemith, Paul [1895-1963]
Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
2:53 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Missa sine nomine
Silvia Piccollo (Soprano), Annemieke Cantor (Alto), Marco Beasley (Tenor), Daniele Carnovich (Bass), Diego Fasolis (Conductor)
3:08 AM
Wieniawski, Henryk (1835-1880)
Violin Concerto No.2 in D minor, Op.22
Bartlomiej Niziol (violin), Sinfonia Varsovia, Grzegorz Nowak (conductor)
3:32 AM
Anon. (14th century)
Saltarello
Ensemble Micrologus
3:38 AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
Serenade for small orchestra
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
3:48 AM
Hellendaal, Pieter (1721-1799)
Sonata Prima in G major, Op.5
Jaap ter Linden (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Ageet Zweistra (cello continuo)
3:57 AM
Suppé, Franz von (1819-1895)
Overture - Poet and Peasant
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (Conductor)
4:08 AM
Luzzaschi, Luzzasco [c.1545-1607]
O primavera for solo soprano and continuo; O dolcezze d'Amore for 3 sopranos and continuo
Tragicomedia
4:16 AM
Saint-Saens, Camille [1835-1921]
Bassoon Sonata in G major, Op.168
Toby Chan Siu-Tung (bassoon), Rachel Cheung Wai-Ching (piano)
4:31 AM
Arnold, Malcolm (1921-2006), arr. John P. Paynter
Little Suite for Brass Band No.1, Op.80
Edmonton Wind Ensemble, Harry Pinchin (conductor)
4:39 AM
Bortnyansky, Dmitry [1751-1825]
Choral Concerto No.28, 'Blessed is the Man'
Tasia Buchna (soprano), Valentina Slezniova (contralto), Vasyl Kovalenko (tenor), Fedir Brauner (tenor), Evgen Zubko (bass), Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor)
4:47 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Serenade for Strings, Op.20
Royal Academy Soloists, Clio Gould (director)
4:59 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Flute Sonata in A minor, Wq.128
Robert Aitken (flute), Colin Tilney (harpsichord), Margaret Gay (cello)
5:09 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
Aria: Non piu mesta ('La Cenerentola' Act 2)
Tuva Semmingsen (soprano: Angelina), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Michel Tabachnik (conductor)
5:13 AM
Lange, Gustav (1830-1889)
Blumenlied for piano, Op.39
Kyung-Sook Lee (piano)
5:18 AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
Dance Suite for orchestra, Sz.77
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
5:36 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
25 Variations and Fugue on a Theme by G.F. Handel for piano, Op.24
Shai Wosner (piano)
6:03 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Symphony No.5 in B flat major, D.485
Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor).

FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b08f5j7k)
Friday - Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b08f5k0v)
Friday - Sarah Walker with Maggi Hambling

9am
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify a mystery musical personality.

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the artist Maggi Hambling. In a career spanning nearly 50 years Maggi has made her mark in a number of fields, including painting, portraiture and sculpture. Her best-known piece is Scallop, which stands on Aldeburgh beach in Suffolk, and is dedicated to the town's most celebrated son, Benjamin Britten. Another of her sculptures, A Conversation with Oscar Wilde, was the first public monument dedicated to the playwright and novelist. Maggi's portraits include those of fellow artist Francis Bacon and blues singer George Melly and recently, she's produced a number of extremely visceral paintings of waves, the result of daily walks on the Suffolk coast. As well as discussing her life and work, Maggi shares some of her favourite classical music, including Purcell, Britten and the synaesthetic composer Deborah Pritchard.

10.30am
Music in Time: Baroque
Sarah chooses one of the cantatas from Dietrich Buxtehude's passiontide work, Membra Jesu Nostri, a great example of how music-making was a religious vocation for many composers of the Baroque period.

11am
Artist of the Week: London Sinfonietta
Imbued with a mission to perform the best contemporary classical music, develop new work and nurture new talent, the London Sinfonietta are one of the most vibrant and exciting ensembles in the UK, and arguably the world. Since their first concert in 1968 - the world premiere of John Tavener's The Whale - the Sinfonietta have commissioned more than 300 works and premiered hundreds more. This week Sarah explores some of their finest recordings with music by composers including Gorecki, Stravinsky, Takemitsu, Harrison Birtwistle and John Tavener.

Gorecki
Symphony No.3
Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
London Sinfonietta
David Zinman (conductor).

FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b08f5k0x)
Niels Gade (1817-1890), Tired of Patriotism

Donald Macleod introduces Danish composer Niels Gade's Violin Concerto, arguably a hidden jewel of the Romantic repertoire.

Taken under his wing by Felix Mendelssohn, in his lifetime the Danish composer Niels Gade was a celebrated figure, who performed to great acclaim in Great Britain and across Europe. In his birthland Denmark, his association with Copenhagen's Music Society and his founding directorship of the Conservatory gave him a voice of influence within musical circles. He remains part of the Danish national consciousness, through the Wedding March from his ballet "Et folkesagn". It's one of the most popular picks for weddings. However, since his death, at the age of 73 in 1890, performances of his music have become all too infrequent leaving most of his considerable legacy largely unheard.

The 200th anniversary of Gade's birth provides a good reason to rediscover his music. Weddings aside, Niels Gade is the composer of no less than eight symphonies; a concerto for his own instrument, the violin; a rich variety of choral settings and solo songs; a host of chamber music, including a piano trio, and no less than five string quartets; piano music and a whole series of large-scale works which we might want to categorise as choral cantatas but which he called "concert pieces".

There is little published information about Niels Gade available in English. Donald Macleod is joined by Dr. Colin Roth, a co-director of the Nordic Research Centre at the University of Sheffield. Colin shares his knowledge of both Gade's music and the most detailed biography of the composer, which was published in Denmark in 2002 by Danish musicologist Inger Sørensen.

Today Donald Macleod and Colin Roth assess Niels Gade's contribution to the musical history of Denmark.

Holbergiana, Op. 61 (excerpt)
Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
Ole Schmidt, conductor

Violin Concerto
Christina Åstrand, violin
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
John Storgårds, conductor

Elverskud (Part 3)
Kirsten Dolberg, contralto, the Mother
Guido Paëvatalu, baritone, Oluf
Tivoli Concert Chorus
Tivoli Symphony Orchestra
Michael Schønwandt, conductor.

FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b08f5kjc)
Chamber Music from Vilabertran, Catalonia, Episode 4

Fiona Talkington presents a final programme this week of performances from the Schubertiade held at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Vilabertran, Catalunya. Today Juliane Banse sings some of Duparc's most famous songs and the Casals Quartet take us on a journey through Shosktakovich's elegiac Eighth String Quartet of 1960, a work which ends with all four instruments on their lowest notes, with the marking 'dying.'

Haydn: Keyboard Sonata No. 47 in B minor, Hob. XVI:32
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)

Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
Casals Quartet

Duparc: Chanson triste; Le manoir de Rosemunde; Extase; L'invitation au voyage
Juliane Banse (soprano), Wolfram Rieger (piano)

Giovanni Sgambati: Melody from 'Orfeo ed Euridice' by Gluck
Denis Kozhukhin (piano).

FRI 14:00 Afternoon on 3 (b08f5ls2)
BBC Philharmonic - Prokofiev, Ravel and Vaughan Williams

Catriona Young rounds off her week of performances by the BBC Philharmonic. Conductor John Wilson has been featuring over this week, and he performs music by Haydn Wood and Vaughan Williams as part of Afternoon on 3's British Music Season. Plus Colin Matthews's orchestration of four Preludes by Debussy, and Prokofiev's Symphony No.7.

2pm
Sibelius: The Bard, Op.64
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)

Prokofiev: Symphony No 7 in C sharp minor
BBC Philharmonic
Jac van Steen (conductor)

c.2.40pm
Debussy orch. Colin Matthews: Four Preludes
BBC Philharmonic
Clark Rundell (conductor)

Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

c.3.20pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 2 (A London Symphony)
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor)

Haydn Wood: London Landmarks
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor).

FRI 16:30 In Tune (b08f5nvf)
Leveret, James MacMillan, Alexander Sitkovetsky

Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music, chat, and arts news. His guests include composer James MacMillan, with live performance from folk trio Leveret, and from violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky.

FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b08f5k0x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]

FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08f5qgn)
Philharmonia: Inspirations - Ligeti and Ravel

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra give the UK premiere of Funeral Song, an orchestral work by the young Igor Stravinsky, assumed lost in the Russian Revolution but recently discovered at the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory. The orchestra is then joined by the pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard for Gyorgy Ligeti's Piano Concerto, a late tour de force by the ever engaging Ligeti and one of the late 20th century's musical masterpieces. In the second half, Esa-Pekka Salonen brings to life Ravel's beautifully orchestrated love story of Daphnis and Chloé set among a magical Grecian world of nymphs, pirates and intervening gods.
Presented by Martin Handley

Stravinsky Funeral Song (UK Premier)

Ligeti Piano Concerto
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

at approx 8pm
Interval music

at approx 8.25pm

Ravel Daphnis et Chloé (complete)
Philharmonia Voices, Rodolfus Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
concert recorded live at RFH 19 February 2017

Igor Stravinsky composed his Pogrebal'naya Pesnya (Funeral Song) in memory of his teacher, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. This 12-minute work was performed only once, in 1909, just before Stravinsky found international success with his Firebird. The score of Funeral Song was presumed to have been destroyed in the 1917 revolutions or the civil war that followed. Although Stravinsky remembered the work as one of his best early works, he could not later recall the music itself. Although searches for the lost score had been made over the years, it was only last year that an alert librarian spotted piles of previously hidden manuscripts in a backroom of the labyrinthine St Petersburg Conservatoire during a major refurbishment of the building. Stravinsky's orchestral parts were saved from the builder's skip and the orchestral score reconstructed.

FRI 22:00 The Verb (b08fj50c)
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 (b08fj5gc)
The Other Auld Alliance, Episode 5

Scotland's historical relationship with France is often termed the Auld Alliance. By 1560 the Auld Alliance was more or less over but it has lingered on in the Scottish sentimental memory. Stuart Kelly argues that the real Auld Alliance was between Scotland and the "various principalities, kingdoms, cantons, duchies and electorates that would eventually comprise Germany and its German-speaking neighbours." In these essays he explores the relationship between Scotland and the German world as it has played out in literature, education, philosophy, the visual arts and historiography. In this essay Kelly addresses the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and his translator, the Scots philosopher John Macquarrie.

FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b08fj5s4)
Kathryn Tickell - Kefaya in Session

Kathryn Tickell with new tracks from across the globe, plus a live session with eclectic collective Kefaya.