SATURDAY 25 MARCH 2017
SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b08jfk4r)
Proms 2014: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Markus Stenz
John Shea presents a BBC Prom from 2014 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra featuring a piano concerto by Bernard Rands and Richard Strauss's tone poem Ein Heldenleben.
1:01 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Les Indes galantes - suite from the opera-ballet
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Markus Stenz (conductor)
1:13 AM
Rands, Bernard (b.1934)
Piano Concerto
Jonathan Biss (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Markus Stenz (conductor)
1:41 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No.1 in E flat major, K.16
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Markus Stenz (conductor)
1:51 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Ein Heldenleben, Op.40
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Markus Stenz (conductor)
2:34 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
4 Gesänge,Op.32
Ruud van der Meer (baritone), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
2:44 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Piano Sonata in D major, K.576
Jonathan Biss (piano)
3:01 AM
Smetana, Bedrich (1824-1884)
String Quartet No.1 in E minor 'From My Life'
Vertavo Quartet
3:30 AM
Martinů, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
Symphony No.6, "Fantaisies symphoniques", H.343
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Válek (conductor)
3:59 AM
Canis, Cornelius (1515-1561)
Tota pulchra es
Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel (conductor)
4:05 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico [1685-1757]
Sonata in C major
Eduardo López Banzo (harpsichord)
4:13 AM
Boulogne, Joseph - Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799)
Ouverture to the opera 'L'amant anonyme' (1780)
Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
4:21 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Bassoon Sonata in G major,Op.168
Jens-Christoph Lemke (bassoon), Mårten Landström (piano)
4:34 AM
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875)
Au fond du temple saint (from 'The Pearl Fishers')
Mark Dubois (tenor), Mark Pedrotti (baritone), Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
4:40 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup [1843-1907]
4 Piano Pieces, Op.1
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
4:52 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
Colonial Song
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
5:01 AM
Lindberg, Nils (b.1933)
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day
Swedish Radio Chorus, Lone Larsen (director)
5:05 AM
Sasnauskas, Ceslovas (1867-1916)
Karvelėli mėlynasai (Little Blue Dove)
Virgilijus Noreika (tenor), Vilnius String Quintet
5:10 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
L'Isle joyeuse
Jurate Karosaite (piano)
5:17 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Il Pastor Fido, ballet music
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
5:28 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809)
String Trio in B flat major, Op.53 No.2, arr. from Piano Sonata (H.
16.41)
Leopold String Trio
5:36 AM
Lipatti, Dinu [1917-1950]
Concertino for piano and chamber orchestra "en style ancien", Op.3
Horia Mihail (piano), Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Horia Andreescu (conductor)
5:53 AM
Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706)
Canon and Gigue in D major
Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, Barbara Jane Gilbey (violin and director), Geoffrey Lancaster (harpsichord)
5:59 AM
Nebra, Jose de [1702-1768]
Entre cándidos
Maria Espada (soprano), Al Ayre Español, Eduardo López Banzo (harpsichord & director)
6:14 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Flute Concerto in B flat major, Wq.167 (1751)
Robert Aitken (flute), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
6:37 AM
Holst, Gustav (1874-1934)
Ave Maria
Chamber Choir AVE, Andraž Hauptman (conductor)
6:43 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Fantasy in C major, Op.131, for violin and orchestra
Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor).
SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b08k4g1y)
Saturday - Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
SAT 09:00 Record Review (b08k4g20)
Andrew McGregor with Sarah Devonald and Stephen Johnson
9.00am
JS Bach: Ouvertures
BACH, J S: Cantata BWV119 'Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn'; Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, BWV1066; Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068; Cantata BWV194 'Hochsterwunschtes Freudenfest'; Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major, BWV1069
Ensemble Zefiro, Alfredo Bernardini (director)
ARCANA A400 (CD)
Bel Canto: Tamestit & Tiberghien
BELLINI: Casta Diva (from Norma)
DONIZETTI: Il faut partir (from La fille du regiment); L'ai-je bien entendu?… O mon Fernand (from La Favorite)
MAZAS: Le Songe - Elegie on La Favorita by Donizetti Op. 92
NEY: XVe Prelude for solo viola
VIEUXTEMPS: Viola Sonata in B flat Op. 36; Elegie for viola and piano Op. 30; Capriccio in C Minor, 'Hommage a Paganini,' Op. 55
Antoine Tamestit (viola, Stradivarius 'Mahler' 1672), Cedric Tiberghien (Steinway piano)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMM902277 (CD)
Preghiera - Rachmaninov: Piano Trios
KREISLER: Preghiera (Prayer) on theme from Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto for violin & piano
RACHMANINOV: Trio elegiaque No. 1 in G minor Op. post.; Trio elegiaque No. 2 in D minor Op. 9
Gidon Kremer (violin), Giedre Dirvanauskaite (cello), Daniil Trifonov (piano)
DG 4796979 (CD)
Haydn: Keyboard Concertos (Performed on Accordion)
HAYDN: Keyboard Concerto No. 11 in D major, HobXVIII:11; Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in G major, Hob.XVIII:4; Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in F major with French horns and strings, Hob.XVIII:3; Keyboard Concerto No. 7 in F major, Hob. XVIII:7
Viviane Chassot (accordion), Kammerorchester Basel
SONY G010003653881O
9.30am - Building a Library
Mozart's final purely instrumental work, his Clarinet Concerto, was written for his friend Anton Stadler. Sarah Devonald compares recordings of what is for many the greatest of clarinet concertos.
10.20am – John Joubert
Joubert: South of the Line
JOUBERT: O Praise God in His Holiness Op. 52; O Lorde, the maker of al thing; There Is No Rose; Incantation; Pilgrimage Song Op. 169; Three Portraits Op. 97; Be not Afeard Op. 179; Sonnet Op. 123; This is the Gate of the Lord Op. 164; Autumn Rain Op. 105; South of the Line Op. 109
Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir, Paul Spicer (conductor)
SOMM SOMM0166 (CD)
Joubert: Organ Music
JOUBERT: Reflections on a Martyrdom Op. 141; Prelude on the Old Hundredth Op. 15; Six Short Preludes on English Hymn Tunes Op. 125; Prelude on ‘Picardy’ Op. 55; Prelude on ‘York’ Op. 152; Recessional Op. 135; Passacaglia and Fugue Op. 35
Tom Winpenny (organ of St Albans Cathedral)
TOCCATA CLASSICS TOCC0398 (CD)
JOUBERT: Jane Eyre
April Fredrick (Jane Eyre), David Stout (Rochester), Mark Milhofer (St John Rivers/Mr Mason), Gwion Thomas (Mr Brocklehurst), Clare McCaldin (Mrs. Fairfax/Hannah), Lesley-Jane Rogers (Diana Rivers), Lorraine Payne (Mary Rivers/Leah), Charles Humphreys (Rector’s Clerk), Alan Fairs (The Rev. Wood), Samuel Oram (John), Felix Kemp (Verger of Thornfield), Andrew Mayor (Briggs, Mason’s Solicitor), English Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Woods
SOMM SOMM2632 (2CD)
10.50am – Stephen Johnson reviews Rostropovich anniversary boxes
Mstislav Rostropovich: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon
DG 94796789 (37 CDs)
More details at deutschegrammophon.com
Rostropovich: Cellist of the Century
WARNER CLASSICS 9029589230 (40 CDs + 3 DVD)
More details at warnerclassics.com
11.45am - Disc of the Week
Lully: Persee 1770
LULLY: Persee
Mathias Vidal, Helene Guilmette, Katherine Watson, Tassis Christoyannis, Jean Teitgen, Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Marie Lenormand, Cyrille Dubois, Marie Kalinine, Thomas Dolie, Zachary Wilder, Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet (conductor)
ALPHA ALPHA967 (2CD)
SAT 12:15 Music Matters (b08k4g22)
Toscanini 150, Richard Tognetti and Nathalie Stutzmann
Tom Service looks at the legacy of Toscanini on the 150th anniversary of his birth, and talks to both the Australian violinist-conductor Richard Tognetti and French contralto-conductor Nathalie Stutzmann. He also discusses the experiences of Black Asian Minority Ethnic composers in getting their music published with composer Daniel Kidane and the Vice-Chair and Performance Music Director at Faber, Sally Cavender.
SAT 13:00 Saturday Classics (b08k4gjv)
Rob Cowan's Gold Standard: Toscanini Special
On the day of his 150th anniversary, Arturo Toscanini conducts works by Sibelius, Ravel, Prokofiev and Respighi and an authoritative, idiomatic performance of Gershwin's 'An American In Paris'.
01 00:06 Jean Sibelius
Pohjola's Daughter - Op. 49
Orchestra: NBC S O
Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
02 00:20 Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis
Orchestra: NBC S O
Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
03 00:37 Maurice Ravel
La Valse
Orchestra: NBC S O
Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
04 00:49 Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 1 Op. 25 (Classical)
Orchestra: NBC S O
Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
05 01:05 Zoltán Kodály
Dances Of Marosszek
Orchestra: NBC S O
Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
06 01:17 Igor Stravinsky
Petrushka - Tableau I - Russian Dance
Orchestra: NBC S O
Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
07 01:20 George Gershwin
An American In Paris
Orchestra: NBC S O
Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
08 01:38 Ottorino Respighi
Pines of Rome
Orchestra: NBC S O
Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
SAT 15:00 Sound of Cinema (b08k4jn5)
The Eye
Matthew Sweet explores the subject of the eye in cinema through an anthology of film music culminating in the music for Nicolas Pesce's new horror film "The Eyes of My Mother".
"The eye is a magical, paradoxical organ. Soft, vulnerable, worryingly penetrable - and yet an instrument of mastery and control." Matthew explores the many ways in which the eye takes a central role in film and features music from Polanski's "Macbeth"; Maurice Jarre's score for "Les Yeux Sans Visage"; Cocteau's "Orphee"; the 1981 and 2010 versions of "Clash Of the Titans"; Les Baxter's music for "The Man With The X-Ray Eyes"; "Clockwork Orange"; "The Parallax View"; "Nineteen Eighty-Four"; "Eye In The Sky"; "Lost Highway"; "Peeping Tom" and "The Eyes Of Laura Mars". The Classic Score of the Week is Bernard Herrmann's "Psycho".
SAT 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (b08k4jqs)
There's a range of music in this week's selection by Alyn Shipton of listeners' requests, ranging from classic tracks by singer Betty Carter to the up-to-the-minute sounds of UK pianist Neil Cowley~.
01 00:01 Lester Young
I Never Knew
Performer: Lester Young
Performer: Buck Clayton
Performer: Benny Goodman
Performer: Count Basie
Performer: Charlie Christian
Performer: Freddie Green
Performer: Walter Page
Performer: Jo Jones
02 00:04 Fats Waller
Honeysuckle Rose
Performer: Fats Waller
Performer: Bunny Berigan
Performer: Tommy Dorsey
Performer: Dick McDonough
Performer: George Wettling
03 00:08 Betty Carter
When It's Sleepy Tine Down South
Performer: Betty Carter
Performer: Mulgrew Miller
Performer: Christian McBride
Performer: Lewis Nash
04 00:16 Dave Frishberg
A Blizzard of Lies
Performer: Dave Frishberg
Performer: Steve Gilmore
Performer: Bill Goodwin
05 00:20 Neil Cowley
Garden of Love
Performer: Neil Cowley
Performer: Rex Horan
Performer: Evan Jenkins
Performer: Leo Abrahams
06 00:23 Jelly Roll Morton
The Pearls
Performer: Jelly Roll Morton
07 00:27 Sidney Bechet
Days Beyond Recall
Performer: Sidney Bechet
Performer: Bunk Johnson
Performer: Cliff Jackson
Performer: Sandy Williams
Performer: George "Pops" Foster
Performer: Manzie Johnson
08 00:32 Jazz Warriors
Abolition Day
Performer: Jazz Warriors
09 00:38 Oliver Nelson
There's a Yearning
Performer: Oliver Nelson
10 00:41 Fred Hunt
Yesterdays
Performer: Fred Hunt
Performer: Roger Nobes
Performer: Brian Mursell
11 00:49 The Jazz Five
There It Is
Performer: Vic Ash
Performer: Harry Klein
Performer: Brian Dee
Performer: Malcolm Cecil
Performer: Bill Eyden
12 00:57 Miles Davis
Walkin'
Performer: Miles Davis
Performer: René Urtreger
Performer: Pierre Michelot
Performer: Christian Garros
SAT 17:00 Jazz Line-Up (b07y9nln)
Neil Cowley
Julian Joseph gets 'Up Close and Personal', featuring an interview with UK pianist Neil Cowley talking about his musical inspirations and sharing insights into his creative process.
01 00:01 Frank Zappa (artist)
Peaches En Regalia
Performer: Frank Zappa
02 00:02 Echoes of Swing (artist)
Happy Feet
Performer: Echoes of Swing
03 00:07 Will Calhoun (artist)
EJ Blues
Performer: Will Calhoun
04 00:14 Neil Cowley Trio (artist)
The Return Of Lincoln
Performer: Neil Cowley Trio
05 00:23 Anton Heiller (artist)
Concerto for organ (BWV.592) in G major
Performer: Anton Heiller
06 00:26 Frank Zappa (artist)
Zoot Allures
Performer: Frank Zappa
07 00:34 Neil Cowley (artist)
Governance
Performer: Neil Cowley
08 00:40 Chet Baker (artist)
With A Song In My Heart
Performer: Chet Baker
09 00:40 Lizz Wright (artist)
River Man
Performer: Lizz Wright
10 00:59 Neil Cowley Trio (artist)
Echo Nebula
Performer: Neil Cowley Trio
11 01:09 Erroll Garner (artist)
Penthouse Serenade
Performer: Erroll Garner
12 01:16 Neil Cowley (artist)
Death of Amygdala
Performer: Neil Cowley
13 01:19 Tigran Hamasyan (artist)
Angel of Girona / Qeler Tsoler
Performer: Tigran Hamasyan
14 01:23 Derrick Hodge (artist)
Going
Performer: Derrick Hodge
SAT 18:30 Opera on 3 (b08k4jyc)
Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande
Carolyn Sampson (Mélisande), Roland Wood (Golaud) and Andrei Bondarenko (Pelléas) star in Scottish Opera's new production of Debussy's masterpiece Pelléas et Mélisande. Prince Golaud finds a young woman, Mélisande, lost in the woods, marries her and takes her home to his castle. Mélisande however becomes increasingly unhappy and finds herself drawn to Golaud's brother Pelléas. As they fall in love, their fate is sealed.
Presented by Donald Macleod with guest Kate Molleson.
Mélisande ..... Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Pelléas ..... Andrei Bondarenko (tenor)
Golaud ..... Roland Wood (baritone)
Arkel ..... Alastair Miles (bass)
Geneviève ..... Anne Mason (mezzo-soprano)
Yviold ..... Cedric Amamoo (treble)
Doctor ..... Jonathan May (bass-baritone)
The Orchestra of Scottish Opera
The Chorus of Pelléas et Mélisande
Stuart Stratford (conductor)
Photo credit: Richard Campbell.
SAT 21:45 Between the Ears (b08k4jyh)
Danu - Dead Flows the Don
'The old pagan gods, when ousted by Christianity, took refuge in the rivers, where they still dwell' - Old English saying
David Bramwell has a fascination and fear of water. He grew up by a water tower, close to the heart of Doncaster: a place of mystery and wonder to him, the highest building in the area, almost a kind of temple.
'We have wandered too far from some vital totem, something central to us that we must find our way back to, following a hair of meaning' - Alan Moore
With deep thought from cult author Alan Moore, the witches of Sheffield, ex-steel workers and the conservationists of Yorkshire, musician David Bramwell plunges into the river Don to celebrate its return to health and the revival of the worship of its goddess, Danu - the river's original name from pre-Roman times.
It's also an underwater musical experience for the listener... blending the sounds of the rivers, canals and streams of the Don, recorded with hydrophones, into new music, new sounds, with Bramwell's compositions.
Bramwell travels up the Don to its source, backwards in time, uncovering the history of its days as an industrial heartland, now a regenerated river - banked by forests of figs and swum through by deer.
He meets John Heaps who, as a teenager in the 1970s at the steel works, was instructed to throw cyanide in the river by the bucket-load; takes a boat with Professor Ian Rotherham, of Sheffield Hallam University, who guides him through the decaying, yet reviving industrial landscape of the city; hunts fresh fish with river expert Chris Firth of the Don Catchment River Trust; stares up at Vulcan on the Town Hall roof, the harsh overlord of industry, with folklorist and lecturer David Clarke; and hears from witches Anwen and Lynne Harling (also an archaeologist, handily), trying to bring back recognition for the goddess of the river.
But this is also a mystical journey - searching out the 'spirit of this dark and lonely water', in an attempt to come to peace with Bramwell's own fear, perhaps to atone for the wrongs committed to Danu by Vulcan, in the name of progress and industrialisation.
Going under, with Between the Ears.
Producer: Sara Jane Hall
Music and words performed, written and presented by David Bramwell.
SAT 22:15 Hear and Now (b08k4k6r)
Cut and Splice 2017, Episode 1
Robert Worby introduces the first of two programmes from Cut & Splice, the two-day festival of experimental music and sound art which this year was curated and performed by the new-music ensemble Distractfold. The event took place earlier this month and was staged at Hallé St Peter's, a Grade II-listed deconsecrated church in the former industrial district of Ancoats, Manchester.
Distractfold's programming aims to reveal the hidden sonorities within instruments and objects through processing, and explore the temporal and spatial dislocation of sound through loudspeakers. Tonight we hear acoustic and spatially diffused electroacoustic works by Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Denis Smalley, Fabrice Fitch, Helena Gough and Mauricio Pauly. And from nearby Hallé at St Michael's we listen in on some of the sound installations that were on offer throughout the weekend including works by Adam Basanta and Christina Kubisch, whose Electrical Walks has also been specially recreated as a binaural online experience for BBC Radio 3 listeners.
Steven Kazuo Takasugi: The Man Who Couldn't Stop Laughing - music theatre for amplified quartet and playback (2012-14, UK Premiere)
Denis Smalley: Empty Vessels - spatially diffused electroacoustic work (1997)
Fabrice Fitch: Agricola IXe - for bass clarinet and string trio (2016)
Helena Gough: Silt - spatially diffused electroacoustic work (2007)
Mauricio Pauly: Charred Edifice Shining - for amplified string trio with performative electronics (2017)
Cut and Splice is a partnership between BBC Radio 3 and Sound and Music, the national charity for new music.
SUNDAY 26 MARCH 2017
SUN 00:15 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz (b08k4ld5)
Ella Fitzgerald
Geoffrey Smith celebrates the centenary of vocal legend Ella Fitzgerald (1917-96) with highlights from her iconic series of Songbooks, including classic tunes by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart and Duke Ellington.
SUN 02:00 Through the Night (b08k4qhl)
Cesar Franck's Redemption
John Shea presents a performance of César Franck's Symphonic Poem, Rédemption, from the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.
2:01 AM BST
Franck, César [1822-1890]
Rédemption - symphonic poem (M.52)
(soprano), Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean Fournet (conductor)
3:01 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Symphony No.1 in E minor, Op.39
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
3:39 AM
Ockeghem, Johannes (c.1410-1497)
Missa prolationum
The Hilliard Ensemble
4:14 AM
Ebner, Leopold (1769-1830)
Trio in B flat major
Zagreb Woodwind Trio
4:21 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Arabesque in C major, Op.18
Angela Cheng (piano)
4:28 AM
Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich (1732-1795)
Sinfonia for strings and continuo in D minor
Das Kleine Konzert
4:38 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico [1685-1757]
Sonata in D minor, K.90 (arr for mandolin)
Avi Avital (mandolin), Shalev Ad-El (harpsichord)
4:47 AM
Diepenbrock, Alphons (1862-1921)
Recueillement
Robert Holl (bass/baritone), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
4:53 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Violin Concerto in D major, RV.234, 'Inquietudine'
Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca
5:01 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), orch. Anton Webern (1883-1945)
6 Deutsche for piano, D.820
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown (conductor)
5:10 AM
Ruzdjak, Vladimir (1922-1987)
5 Folk Tunes for baritone and orchestra
Miroslav Zivkovich (baritone), Croatian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Mladen Tarbuk (conductor)
5:20 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Scherzo No.2 in B flat minor, Op.31
Alex Slobodyanik (piano)
5:30 AM
Enescu, George (1881-1955)
Concert Piece for viola and piano
Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Monique Savary (piano)
5:39 AM
Castelnuovo Tedesco, Mario (1895-1968)
Capriccio Diabolico, Op.85
Goran Listes (guitar)
5:49 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Sonate de Concert in C for trumpet and organ
Blagoj Angelovski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ)
5:59 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Trio for piano and strings No.3 in C minor, Op.101
Tamas Major (violin), Peter Szabo (cello), Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
6:17 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata No.10 in C, K.330
Sergei Terentjev (piano)
6:37 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893) (arr. Ann Kuppens)
Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and string orchestra, Op.33
Gavriel Lipkind (cello), Brussels Chamber Orchestra.
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (b08k4qhn)
Sunday - Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (b08k4qhs)
James Jolly
James Jolly presents this week's Building a Library choice of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, and also explores further clarinet music by Brahms and Schubert. The week's young artists are the Rodolfus Choir, and the neglected classic is Walter Piston's "The Incredible Flutist".
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (b05sxy5j)
Tim Rice
Tim Rice has written the lyrics for some of the most successful musicals of our generation: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ... Jesus Christ Superstar ... Evita ... For 45 years he has been creating hit songs, collaborating first and famously with Andrew Lloyd Webber, then with Abba, Elton John, Freddy Mercury and Madonna. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, thanks to the success of his songs in Disney movies The Lion King, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast. A three-time Oscar winner, he has been knighted for services to music.
In Private Passions, he talks to Michael Berkeley about the process of lyric-writing, about why it's an extraordinary experience to work with Elton John, and about what it is that makes a successful song lyric. He also reveals that his early ambition was to be a pop star, and that he started out as a singer - in fact, he recorded a single.
Music choices include a satirical operetta by Offenbach, Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Vaughan Williams's London Symphony, The Swan of Tuonela by Sibelius, Malcolm Arnold's Peterloo Overture and Britten's arrangement of the folk song The Plough Boy. And Tim Rice ends by revealing which is his favourite musical of all - music his father introduced him to as a boy: My Fair Lady.
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus Production for BBC Radio 3.
01 00:02 Tim Rice
That's My Story
Ensemble: The Nightshift
02 00:06 Jacques Offenbach
Ah, que j'aime les militaires (La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein)
Singer: Felicity Lott
Orchestra: Musiciens du Louvre Orchestra
Conductor: Marc Minkowski
03 00:10 Traditional English
The Plough Boy
Performer: Benjamin Britten
Singer: Peter Pears
Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten
04 00:17 Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture
Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe
Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs‐Élysées
05 00:26 Ralph Vaughan Williams
A London Symphony (3rd mvt: Scherzo)
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Bernard Haitink
06 00:37 Jean Sibelius
The Swan of Tuonela
Orchestra: Sinfonia Lahti
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä
07 00:44 Malcolm Arnold
Peterloo Overture
Orchestra: City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Malcolm Arnold
08 00:56 Frederick Loewe
You Did It (My Fair Lady)
Singer: Audrey Hepburn
Singer: Rex Harrison
SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b08jfdxd)
Wigmore Hall Mondays: Annelien Van Wauwe and Nino Gvetadze
From Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Annelien Van Wauwe plays clarinet music by Debussy, Poulenc, Schumann and Brahms
Debussy: Première rapsodie
Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata
Schumann: Arabeske in C major, Op 18
Brahms: Clarinet Sonata in E flat, Op 120 No 2
Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet)
Nino Gvetadze (piano)
Technical advances in the manufacture of wind instruments in the second half of the nineteenth century led to a rise in virtuoso performers and works written for them. BBC New Generation Artist Annelien Van Wauwe's lunchtime programme spans the virtuosity and lyricism of three landmarks of the clarinet repertoire and is completed by a performance of Schumann's light and tender Arabeske by pianist Nino Gvetadze.
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (b08k4qhv)
European Union Baroque Orchestra
Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of The European Union Baroque Orchestra.
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (b08jfjx7)
York Minster
From York Minster
Introit: Libera nos, salva nos (Sheppard)
Responses: Byrd
Psalms 108, 109 (Hanforth, Goss, Jackson)
First Lesson: Genesis 9 vv.8-17
Canticles: Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense (Howells)
Second Lesson: 1 Peter 3 vv.18-22
Anthem: Vide Domine afflictionem (Byrd)
Hymn: O love divine, how sweet thou art! (Cornwall)
Organ Voluntary: Prélude - Suite Op. 5 (Duruflé)
Robert Sharpe (Director of Music)
Benjamin Morris (Assistant Director of Music).
SUN 16:00 The Choir (b07y9q5z)
Paul Mealor and Gesualdo's O Vos Omnes
Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores vocal masterpieces by composers not usually known for their works for choir, including Grieg, Reich and Duke Ellington. She also interviews composer Paul Mealor about his life in choral music. This week's Choral Classic is the haunting motet "O Vos Omnes" by the infamous Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo, who notoriously murdered his wife and her lover.
01 00:01 Edvard Grieg
Ave Maris Stella
Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players
Director: Paul McCreesh
02 00:05 George Frideric Handel
Messiah pt. 1 no. 3 And the Glory of the Lord
Ensemble: Le Concert d'Astrée
Conductor: Emmanuelle Haïm
03 00:08 Steve Reich
Tehillim
Ensemble: Ossia Ensemble
Orchestra: Alarm Will Sound
Conductor: Alan Pierson
04 00:15 Paul Mealor
Lux Benigna
Performer: Eliott Laun
Conductor: Christopher Finzi
Choir: Wells Cathedral School Choralia
05 00:24 William Mathias
Let The People Praise Thee, O Lord
Performer: Jonathan Vaughn
Choir: Wells Cathedral Choir
Conductor: Matthew Owens
06 00:32 Orlando Gibbons
See, see, the word is incarnate
Performer: Laurence Cummings
Choir: Oxford Camerata
Conductor: Jeremy Summerly
07 00:38 The Same Stream Singers (artist)
The Same Stream
Performer: The Same Stream Singers
08 00:42 National Youth Choir of Wales (artist)
Y March Glas
Performer: National Youth Choir of Wales
09 00:43 National Youth Choir of Wales (artist)
Y March Glas
Performer: National Youth Choir of Wales
10 00:43 National Youth Choir of Wales (artist)
Muse Of Fire
Performer: National Youth Choir of Wales
11 00:44 National Youth Choir of Wales (artist)
Ar Lan Y Mor
Performer: National Youth Choir of Wales
12 00:46 Claude Debussy
Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orleans
Choir: Monteverdi Choir
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner
13 00:49 Carlo Gesualdo
O Vos Omnes
Ensemble: Chapelle Royale European Vocal Ensemble
Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe
14 00:54 Duke Ellington
Ain't But The One
Choir: Hermann Mccoy Choir
Singer: Jimmy Mcphail
Ensemble: The Duke Ellington Orchestra
Director: Duke Ellington
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (b08k4s1g)
Brevity
Tom Service ponders brevity in music - how short you can go? From Beethoven bagatelles to Webern's chamber miniatures, short doesn't need to mean lightweight. Short pieces may be intricate as a netsuke or as simple as a sonic doodle. Or suggest a fragment of something larger. Tom talks to sonic artist JLIAT, who has made a piece lasting 1/44100 of a second. But he's thinking of shorter pieces.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (b05vh1rp)
Clockwise
Clockwise: The award-winning actors Toby Jones and Romola Garai explore our obsession with clocks and timekeeping. The imperious shrilling of the alarm clock; the way ticking sometimes sounds like fate approaching; the moments elongated or abbreviated by emotion: the way the imagination tends to go blank before the notion of eternity: these are all part of a meditation on why and how we measure time - from Handel's pieces for musical clocks to St Augustine's Confessions ... and all in the time it takes your average chronometer to tick from five thirty in the evening to six forty-five.
Producer: Zahid Warley.
01 00:00 Sergei Prokofiev
Clock scene from Cinderella
Performer: Mikhail Pletnev and Russian National Orchestra
02 00:01
Russell Hoban
03 00:03 George Frideric Handel
Allegro moderato from Pieces for a Musical Clock
Performer: Leo van Doeselaar
04 00:04
Sylvia Plath
05 00:05 Unknown
When the Hands of the clock pray at Midnight
Performer: Ella Fitzgerald
06 00:08
ee cummings
07 00:09 Claude Debussy
La Cathedrale Engloutie
Performer: Leopold Stokowski with the New Philharmonia Orchestra
08 00:15
Richard Wilbur
09 00:17 Fryderyk Chopin
Minute Waltz Number 6 Op. 64 number 1
Performer: Maria João Pires
10 00:19
Douglas Dunn
11 00:20 Joseph Haydn
Symphony in D The Clock - Andante
Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra cond. Sir Colin Davis
12 00:27
W H Auden
13 00:30 Richie Havens and Mark Roth
Alarm Clock
Performer: Richie Havens
14 00:37
George Woodcock
15 00:39 Louis Andriessen
De Tijd - extract
Performer: Schönberg Ensemble
16 00:52
St Augustine
17 00:54 Brian Eno
Reverse harmonics bells from Bell Studies for The Clock of The Long Now
Performer: Brian Eno
18 00:57
James Thurber
19 00:59 William Byrd
The Bells
Performer: Sophie Yates
20 01:04
Stephen Edgar
21 01:08 Lennon McCartney
Tomorrow Never Knows from Revolver
Performer: The Beatles
22 01:11
Anonymous
SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (b08k4s1k)
Hitting the High Notes
The story of jazz in the post-war era is one of revolution and rebellion, as musicians like Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie re-invented the genre, giving birth to bebop.
But alongside the music, something else emerged in this period: a mini-epidemic of heroin use among jazz musicians which broke out in the mid-1940s, as the drug became more freely available in cities like New York, Philadelphia and Chicago.
The most notorious musician associated with drugs of addiction, then as of now, was also the greatest exponent of modern jazz - Charlie Parker. Parker's story, with its heady combination of drugs and music, is hard to ignore. But one man's story isn't science, and what's clear is that the use of heroin was much more widespread in the jazz community, involving hundreds of musicians as well as the fans of this new, modern style of music.
In their attempt to understand and tackle the rising problem of drug addiction and the moral panic that ensued, the US Government targeted and arrested many jazz musicians. But instead of sending them to conventional prisons, many ended up at an institution known as the Narcotic Farm, located in Lexington, Kentucky. Part prison, part hospital, it was the first attempt anywhere in the world to simultaneously treat addiction as a health problem, whilst studying the science behind it. Though it practiced an enlightened approach to therapy, it also carried out what today would be considered highly unethical experiments on patients, which even included re-addicting them in order to study the symptoms of withdrawal.
The roll-call of jazz musicians who spent time at Lexington is astonishing: Sonny Rollins, Elvin Jones, Chet Baker, Lee Morgan, Sonny Stitt, Bennie Green, Jackie MacLean, band leader and trumpeter Red Rodney ... the list goes on. What's perhaps even more surprising is that the doctors and the researchers who were at Lexington could have viewed jazz as part of the problem - as part of a number of elements that predisposed people to become heroin-addicted. Instead they chose to look at it as a potentially therapeutic activity. Musicians were given instruments and rooms where they could play for up to six hours a day. Collaboration was actively encouraged. As a result, bands formed - jazz super groups - who performed regularly in the prison's auditorium to enthusiastic audiences of patients, medical staff and guards. The shows became so famous that one band was invited onto the Johnny Carson Show on US television. Sadly the tape was destroyed a few years later - seemingly the only recording ever made.
In this programme, Dr Sally Marlow, an addiction researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London, examines the relationship between heroin and jazz in the post-war period and explores its impact on creativity, therapy and addiction science both then and now. She hears from musicians of that period, travels to Lexington and discovers that a recording of a 'Narco' concert, made by a member of staff in the late 1960s, has survived.
SUN 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08k4s1m)
Concertgebouw - Elgar, Grieg and Szymanowski
Ian Skelly introduces music recorded in concerts at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam by Elgar, Grieg and Szymanowksi
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
Truls Mørk, cello
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor
Grieg: Excerpts from 'Peer Gynt'
Ann-Helen Moen, soprano
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor
Szymanowski: Stabat Mater, Op. 53
Chen Reiss, soprano
Gerhild Romberger, mezzo-soprano
Mark Stone, baritone
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Markus Stenz, conductor.
SUN 21:00 Drama on 3 (b08k4s1p)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Anne Marie Duff leads a stellar cast in a new landmark production of Tennessee Williams's iconic play, telling the story of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski.
Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly on the doorstep of her sister Stella and her explosive brother-in-law Stanley. Over the course of one hot and steamy New Orleans summer, Blanche's fragile façade slowly crumbles, wreaking havoc on Stella and Stanley's already turbulent relationship. Embodying the turmoil and drama of a changing nation, A Streetcar Named Desire strips Williams's tortured characters of their illusions, leaving a wake of destruction in their path.
Tennessee Williams's 1947 play is justifiably one of the most loved and well-known stage plays of the 20th century. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1948, and picked up four Oscars when it transferred to the screen with largely the same cast three years later. When it made its London debut, the Public Morality Council denounced it as "salacious and pornographic". Not coincidentally, the production was booked solid for nine months.
Anne-Marie Duff (Blanche) is an Olivier-winning actress, who will soon be appearing in DC Moore's 'Common' at the National Theatre. Matthew Needham's (Stanley) previous work includes the eponymous role in Mark Ravenhill's 'Candide' at the RSC. Pippa Bennett-Warner (Stella) recently appeared in The Beaux' Stratagem at the National Theatre, and in River on BBC One. John Heffernan's (Mitch) work includes titular roles in 'Macbeth' at the Young Vic Theatre and 'Oppenheimer' with the RSC.
Broadcast by arrangement with the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
Blanche ............ Anne-Marie Duff
Stella ............. Pippa Bennett-Warner
Stanley ............ Matthew Needham
Mitch .............. John Heffernan
Steve .............. David Sturzaker
Eunice ............. Sarah Ridgeway
Pablo .............. John Dougal
Mexican Woman ...... Leila Arias
Collector .......... Tom Forrister
Nurse .............. Georgie Glen
Director ........... Sasha Yevtushenko
SUN 22:55 Early Music Late (b08k4s1r)
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin - Biber, Telemann and Vivaldi
Elin Manahan Thomas introduces music performed by Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin recorded last December in Gdansk, Poland, including music by Biber, Telemann and Vivaldi.
Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonata No. 4 in D minor ('The Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple')
Telemann: Overture in F, TWV 55:F7 ('A la pastorelle')
Vivaldi: Oboe Concerto in C, RV 450
Pezel: Concerto pastorale.
SUN 23:55 Recital (b08k4s1w)
John Metcalf
A work composed by John Metcalf.
MONDAY 27 MARCH 2017
MON 00:30 Through the Night (b08k4s2v)
Proms 2015: Daniel Barenboim with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
John Shea introduces Daniel Barenboim conducting the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra from the 2015 BBC Proms with music by Schoenberg, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven.
12:31 AM
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op.9
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
12:52 AM
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony No.4 in F minor, Op.36
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
1:36 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Concerto in C major, Op.56, for violin, cello, piano and orchestra
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
2:13 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Valse triste
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
2:19 AM
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
Ruslan and Lyudmila - overture
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
2:25 AM
Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672)
Wohl denen, die ohne Wandel leben - Motet for 2 choirs & continuo (SWV.482) (from Königs und Propheten Davids Hundert und Neunzehender Psalm in Eilf Stükken... (Dresden 1671)
Rheinische Kantorei, Musica Alta Ripa, Hermann Max (conductor)
2:31 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
String Quartet in A major, Op.55 No.1
Meta4
2:48 AM
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953)
Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.63
Tomaž Lorenz (violin), Slovenian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)
3:15 AM
Geminiani, Francesco (1687-1762)
Concerto Grosso No.12 in D minor, 'Folia' (after Corelli's Sonata Op.5 No.12)
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
3:27 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934), arr. David Passmore
Salut d'Amour
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
3:30 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Aria: 'Was erblicke ich?' - from the opera 'Daphne' (Op.82)
Ben Heppner (tenor), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
3:40 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Dardanus (orchestral suites) - tragédie en musique (1739)
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
3:58 AM
Neufville, Johann Jacob de (1684-1712)
Aria Prima
Jaco van Leeuwen (organ of Hooglandse Kerk, Leiden)
4:05 AM
Benjamin, Arthur (1893-1960)
North American Square Dance - suite for orchestra
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
4:18 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), arr. Zoltan Kocsis
Rondo (Concert rondo) for horn and orchestra in E flat major, K.371
László Gál (Horn), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltán Kocsis (conductor)
4:25 AM
Satie, Erik (1866-1925), arr. Makoto Goto
Je te Veux (Valse chantée pour piano)
Pianoduo Kolacny
4:31 AM
Albinoni, Tomaso [1671-1750]
Adagio in G minor (arr. for organ and trumpet)
Blagoj Angelovski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ)
4:38 AM
José Carli (b.1931)
El Firulete
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
4:42 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Alborada del gracioso (The Jester's Aubade) - from the suite 'Miroirs' (1905)
Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano)
4:49 AM
Pekiel, Bartlomiej (?-c.1670)
I Missa senza le cerimonie
Camerata Silesia, Julian Gembalski (positive organ), Anna Szostak (conductor)
5:00 AM
Rossini, Gioacchino (1792-1868)
Overture - La Gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
Oslo Philharmonic, Nello Santi (conductor)
5:11 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
Les Illuminations, Op.18, for high voice and string orchestra
Henriette Schellenberg (soprano), Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Simon Streatfield (conductor)
5:34 AM
Philips, Peter (c.1560-1628)
Amarilli mia bella di Julio Romano for keyboard
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
5:38 AM
Josquin des Prez [c.1450/5-1521]
Motet Inviolata, integra et casta es (5 part)
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal, Christopher Jackson (director)
5:44 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
Capriccio Espagnol, Op.34
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Milen Natchev (Conductor)
6:01 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178
Zhang Zuo (piano).
MON 06:30 Breakfast (b08k4v25)
Monday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (b08k4v27)
Monday - Rob Cowan with Ken Hom
9am
Rob 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 music and name the two composers associated with it.
10am
Rob's guest this week is the American chef, author and TV presenter Ken Hom. Whilst studying at Berkeley University, where he undertook studies in History of Art and French History, Ken began to give cooking lessons to fund his education. He soon realised that he wanted to make it his career and started teaching at a school for professional chefs in San Francisco. During his career Ken has published over 35 best-selling books on cookery, presented TV shows including Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery and Take on the Takeaway, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest authorities on Asian cooking. In 2009 he was appointed an honorary OBE for 'services to culinary arts'. As well as discussing his life and work, Ken has chosen a selection of his favourite classical music and across the week we'll hear works by composers including Saint-Saëns, Bizet and Brahms.
10.30am
Music in Time: Baroque
Today Rob's in the Baroque period exploring one of Handel's concertos "a due cori" - music with two distinct 'choirs' or ensembles of wind instruments.
11am
Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider
Rob's Artist of the Week is the violinist and conductor Nikolaj Znaider. Feted in particular for the quality of his tone and his musical sensitivity, Znaider plays a Guarneri del Gesu violin, built in 1741 and previously played by the legendary violinist Fritz Kreisler. Znaider's performances and recordings regularly earn critical acclaim across the globe; they include accounts of violin concertos by Elgar, Korngold, Prokofiev and Nielsen - all of which feature this week on Essential Classics. As well as maintaining a busy career as a violin virtuoso, Znaider is passionate about supporting the next generation of musical talent, and spent ten years as Founder and Artistic Director of the annual Nordic Music Academy summer school.
Korngold
Violin Concerto
Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor).
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b06flh06)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943), Beginnings
This week Donald Macleod explores Rachmaninov the pianist-composer, focusing on his concertante piano works. Today, a student work he revisited nearly three decades later: his First Piano Concerto.
Sergey Rachmaninov's childhood was hardly typical. Born into a wealthy family with significant estates, his comfortable nine-year-old life was disrupted by his feckless father's financial collapse. The estates were sold off and the family moved to St Petersburg, but unsurprisingly his parents' marriage buckled under the strain and they separated. When Rachmaninov, now 12 and already a talented pianist, failed his school exams he was packed off to Moscow to be a live-in piano student of the aristocratic and authoritarian Nikolay Zverev, who had young Sergey and two fellow victims practising from six in the morning. In time Rachmaninov progressed to the Moscow Conservatoire and fell out with Zverev - but luckily in the meantime he had fallen in with his cousins, the Satins, whose country estate at Ivanovka, 18 hours by train from Moscow, became first a haven then a home, and the place where Rachmaninov would compose most of his music. His First Piano Concerto was one of the earliest pieces he wrote there - and it was also one of the last he wrote before leaving Russia for good 26 years later. As he said at the time, "I have rewritten my First Concerto; it is really good now. All the youthful freshness is there, and yet it plays itself so much more easily."
Etude-tableau in A minor, Op 39 No 6
Sergey Rachmaninov, piano
Canon in E minor
Song without Words in D minor
Fugue in D minor (ed V Antipov)
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Trio élégiaque No 1 in G minor
Beaux Arts Trio
Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor, Op 1
Krystian Zimerman, piano
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa, conductor
Producer: Chris Barstow.
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b08k4xjr)
Wigmore Hall Mondays: Gallicantus
Live from Wigmore Hall in London, vocal ensemble Gallicantus perform 'Queen Mary's Big Belly', a programme of music associated with the time of Mary Tudor and hopes for a Catholic heir to the English throne. The composers include Mundy, Tye, Newman, Tallis and Sheppard.
Introduced by Sean Rafferty.
Mundy: Exsurge Christe
Tye: Peccavimus cum patribus
Anon: Ballad of the Marigold
Newman: Fansye
Tallis: Sarum Litany (abridged); O sacrum convivium; Videte miraculum
Sheppard: Christi virgo dilectissima
Tallis: Like as the doleful dove
Sheppard: Vain, vain, all our life we spend in vain
Gallicantus
Elizabeth Kenny (lute)
Gabriel Crouch (director).
MON 14:00 Afternoon on 3 (b08k4xjt)
Monday - BBC Symphony Orchestra on Tour
Katie Derham presents a week of performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers.
2.00pm
Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the Dubai Opera House for a concert of music by Carpenter, Fairouz, Britten and Walton recorded last week during the orchestra's visit to Dubai.
Gary Carpenter: Dadaville
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
2.08pm
Mohammed Fairouz: Pax universalis
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
2.18m
Britten: Piano Concerto
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Edward Gardner (conductor)
2.55pm
Walton: Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
3.40pm
Katie Derham presents the rest of the afternoon: Judith Weir's Forest and Cooke's 1st Clarinet Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Judith Weir: Forest
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
3.54pm
Arnold Cooke Clarinet Concerto No. 1
Michael Collins (clarinet and conductor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra.
MON 16:30 In Tune (b08k4xjw)
Joshua Bell, Graham Ross, His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Sean Rafferty's guests include violinist Joshua Bell, conductor Graham Ross, and His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts.
MON 18:30 Composer of the Week (b06flh06)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08k4xkd)
BBC Symphony Orchestra - Joanna Marsh, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Elgar
The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner at the BBC Proms Dubai, performs Elgar, Joanna Marsh, and Mozart with pianist Ben Grosvenor, at the Dubai Opera House.
Recorded on 23rd March. Presented by Petroc Trelawny
19.30
Joanna Marsh: Flare (World premiere)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K466
20.00 Interval
20.20
Felix Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
The first-ever BBC Proms Dubai sees the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the in-house band of the summer season at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on its first tour to the United Arab Emirates. In a classic Proms mix of traditional repertoire and the new they pair up with two Proms favourites, conductor Edward Gardner and pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. To the desert city's brand-new Opera House they bring Elgar's portrait of his friends in the Enigma Variations, Mendelssohn's concert overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, and Mozart's operatic Piano Concerto in D minor. At the very top of the evening comes the world premiere of Dubai-based British composer Joanna Marsh's Flare.
MON 22:00 Free Thinking (b08jb13h)
Festival 2017, Doing Time/Confinement
In our fast moving, busy world it is hard - if not impossible - to imagine what it would be like to be incarcerated on our own. Captured in Beirut while working as an envoy for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Terry Waite spent five years as a hostage mostly held in solitary confinement. The writer Erwin James served 20 years of a life sentence in prison before his release in 2004. They discuss the experience of isolation with Dr Cleo Van Velsen, a Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy. Chaired by Free Thinking presenter Anne McElvoy.
Terry Waite is a humanitarian campaigner and author. He remains actively involved with hostages and their families, as well as working with those on the margins of society. His latest books are Out of the Silence: Memories, Poems, Reflections and a 25th Anniversary Edition of his memoir Taken on Trust.
Dr Cleo van Velsen is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy with extensive experience in the assessment, management and treatment of those suffering with personality difficulties, violence and trauma.
Erwin James is a Guardian columnist and freelance writer and a trustee of the Prison Reform Trust. He is the author of A Life Inside: a Prisoner's Notebook and his new book, Redeemable: a Memoir of Darkness and Hope.
Recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead.
Producer: Jacqueline Smith.
MON 22:45 The Essay (b08j9xk7)
Free Thinking 2017, Faith, Fire and the Family
From 1941 to 1968 Catherine Fletcher's grandfather Donald Hudson was a missionary in India. Catherine tells his story during those turbulent years and reflects on the way British people with family history in India understand that past - in this the anniversary year of the end of colonial India.
Originally from Yorkshire, Donald Hudson arrived in Dhaka, now in Bangladesh, to find a city in chaos amid communal riots. He stayed for two years and then moved to one of the most significant British missionary institutions in India, the Baptist Missionary College at Serampore, outside Kolkata, where he was based through famine and then Partition in 1948.
Catherine Fletcher is a Radio 3 New Generation Thinker from Swansea University.
Recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead.
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select 10 academics each year who work with us to turn their research into radio.
Producer: Luke Mulhall.
MON 23:00 Jazz Now (b08jdyr4)
Snarky Puppy, ACT at 25
Soweto Kinch presents cult band Snarky Puppy in concert. And Siggi Loch joins Al Ryan to look forward to the ACT record label's 25th anniversary events in Berlin.
TUESDAY 28 MARCH 2017
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b08k4z1b)
Mahler's Sixth Symphony
John Shea introduces the Warsaw Philharmonic performing Mahler's 6th Symphony, conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk, and two choruses by Brahms with the Warsaw Philharmonic Chorus.
12:31 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Nänie, Op.82, for chorus and orchestra
Warsaw Philharmonic Chorus; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)
12:44 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Gesang der Parzen, Op.89, for chorus and orchestra
Warsaw Philharmonic Chorus; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)
12:57 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Symphony No.6 in A minor, 'Tragic'
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)
2:18 AM
Hartmann, Johan Peter Emilius (1805-1900)
4 Caprices, Op.18:1
Nina Gade (piano)
2:31 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47
Judy Kang (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Jean-François Rivest (conductor)
3:06 AM
Bruhns, Nicolaus (1665-1697)
Cantata: "O werter heil'ger Geist"
Greta de Reyghere (Soprano), James Bowman (Counter Tenor), Guy de Mey (Tenor), Max van Egmond (Bass), Ricercar Consort
3:21 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Trio for clarinet, cello and piano in B flat major, Op.11, 'Gassenhauer-Trio'
Teodor Moussev (piano), Roussi Radev (clarinet), Tatyana Deneva (cello)
3:45 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich [1804-1857]
Overture from Ruslan i Lyudmila
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Vladimir Jurowsky (conductor)
3:51 AM
Roman, Johan Helmich (1694-1758)
Suite (sonata) for Clavichord No.11 in F minor (IB.235)
Karin Jonsson-Hazell (harpsichord)
3:59 AM
Dukas, Paul (1865-1935)
Villanelle for horn and orchestra
Esa Tukia (horn), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michel Adelson (conductor)
4:07 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) arr. Stefan Bojsten
Hör' ich das Liedchen klingen - from Dichterliebe (Op.48 No.10), arr. for baritone, piano, violin & cello
Olle Persson (baritone), Dan Almgren (violin), Torleif Thedén (cello), Stefan Bojsten (piano)
4:11 AM
Britten, Benjamin [1913-1976]
Canadian Carnival, Op.19
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
4:25 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849), arr. Paganini, Niccolò (1782-1840)
Nocturne in D major (original in E flat), Op.9 No.2
Vilmos Szabadi (violin), Marta Gulyas (piano)
4:31 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Le Carnaval romain - overture, Op.9
Orchestra di Roma della RAI, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
4:39 AM
Carreño, Teresa (1853-1917)
Valse Petite in D major
Dennis Hennig (Piano)
4:43 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959)
Bachianas Brasileiras No.5
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Bryan Epperson, Maurizio Baccante, Roman Borys, Simon Fryer, David Hetherington, Roberta Jansen, Paul Widner, Thomas Wiebe, Winona Zelenka (cellos)
4:56 AM
Geminiani, Francesco (1687-1762)
Concerto Grosso in G minor
Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director/violin)
5:04 AM
Diepenbrock, Alphons (1862-1921)
Maanlicht (song)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
5:07 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893)
Voyevoda - Symphonic Ballad, Op.78
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tamas Vasary (Conductor)
5:19 AM
Ponce, Manuel Maria [1882-1948]
Preludes Nos. 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 for guitar
Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
5:27 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage - overture, Op.27
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Simone Young (conductor)
5:41 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
String Quartet in G minor, Op.10
Yggdrasil String Quartet
6:05 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Flute Concerto in G major, Wq.169
Tom Ottar Andreassen (flute), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor).
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b08k513h)
Tuesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b08k513k)
Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Ken Hom
9am
Rob 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 in reverse
10am
Rob's guest this week is the American chef, author and TV presenter Ken Hom. Whilst studying at Berkeley University, where he undertook studies in History of Art and French History, Ken began to give cooking lessons to fund his education. He soon realised that he wanted to make it his career and started teaching at a school for professional chefs in San Francisco. During his career Ken has published over 35 best-selling books on cookery, presented TV shows including Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery and Take on the Takeaway, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest authorities on Asian cooking. In 2009 he was appointed an honorary OBE for 'services to culinary arts'. As well as discussing his life and work, Ken has chosen a selection of his favourite classical music.
10.30am
Music in Time: Medieval
Rob ventures back to the Medieval period to look at the role music played in the worship of the Virgin Mary in 13th-century France.
Double Take
Rob explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two performances of Aleksander Zarzycki's virtuosic Mazurka - one by Bronisław Huberman and one by David Oistrakh.
11am
Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider
Rob's Artist of the Week is the violinist and conductor Nikolaj Znaider. Feted in particular for the quality of his tone and his musical sensitivity, Znaider plays a Guarneri del Gesu violin, built in 1741 and previously played by the legendary violinist Fritz Kreisler. Znaider's performances and recordings regularly earn critical acclaim across the globe; they include accounts of violin concertos by Elgar, Korngold, Prokofiev and Nielsen - all of which feature this week on Essential Classics. As well as maintaining a busy career as a violin virtuoso, Znaider is passionate about supporting the next generation of musical talent, and spent ten years as Founder and Artistic Director of the annual Nordic Music Academy summer school.
Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor
Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons (conductor).
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b06flp27)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943), Back from the Brink
This week Donald Macleod explores Rachmaninov the pianist-composer, focusing on his concertante piano works. Today, the work that brought him global fame: his Second Piano Concerto.
In March 1897, what should have been a triumphant occasion for Rachmaninov - the première of his First Symphony - turned into an unmitigated catastrophe. An under-rehearsed orchestra under the baton of a poor and, according to some accounts, inebriated conductor was enough to disadvantage the work so seriously that its composer was plunged into silence for the next three years. An encounter with the novelist Tolstoy was arranged, in the rather surprising hope that the surly old curmudgeon might be able to set the diffident young composer back on track. After that failed, the services of Dr Nikolai Dahl, a music-loving hypnotherapist, were called upon. Whatever Dahl did, it did the trick, and Rachmaninov's writer's block was spectacularly broken with his Second Piano Concerto, which quickly became a major international success.
Morceau de fantaisie in G minor
Fughetta in F
Howard Shelley, piano
Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op 18
Sviatoslav Richter, piano
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Stanislaw Wislocki, conductor
Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19; 3rd mvt, Andante
Leonard Elschenbroich, cello
Alexei Grynyuk, piano
Suite No 2 for two pianos, Op 17; 4th mvt, Tarantella
Martha Argerich, Gabriela Montero, pianos
Producer: Chris Barstow.
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b07tr3xs)
Machynlleth and Gower Festivals 2016, Navarra Quartet, Schubert Ensemble
This week's concerts are from festivals held in the Gower Peninsula and the picturesque mid-Wales market-town of Machynlleth. Every August since 1986, the Tabernacle in Machynlleth has been home to an international music festival. Today the Navarra Quartet perform the second of Haydn's Opus 9 quartets. Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2016, Gower Festival takes place a month earlier, in churches spread across an area that boasts one of Wales' most spectacular landscapes. Recorded at All Saints in Oystermouth, the Schubert Ensemble perform Schubert's Trout Quintet.
Presented by Christopher Cook.
Haydn: String Quartet in E flat, Op 9 No 2
Navarra Quartet:
Magnus Johnston violin
Marije Ploemacher violin
Simone van der Giessen viola
Brian O'Kane cello
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D 887 (Trout)
Schubert Ensemble:
William Howard, piano
Simon Blendis, violin
Douglas Paterson, viola
Jane Salmon, cello
Peter Buckoke, double bass.
TUE 14:00 Afternoon on 3 (b08k523j)
Tuesday - BBC Singers on Tour
Katie Derham continues a week presenting performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers.
2.00pm
Inspiration in Song
Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Singers in the Dubai Opera House for a concert recorded last week during their visit to Dubai. The BBC Singers' programme explores settings of texts dealing with the end of life, the tragedy of war, the imminence of death and the encounter of new love.
Finzi: My spirit sang all day
Judith Bingham: Distant Thunder
Parry: My soul, there is a country; Never weather-beaten sail; There is an old belief (Songs of Farewell)
Mohammed Fairouz: Different Ways to Pray
Judith Bingham: The Drowned Lovers
Stanford: The Blue bird
Delius: To Be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water
BBC Singers
James Burton (conductor)
c.
2.50pm
Tippett: Dance, Clarion Air
Joanna Marsh: Arabesques
Tippett: Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
Gershwin (arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett): By Strauss
Cole Porter (arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett): Every time we say goodbye
BBC Singers
James Burton (conductor)
3.45pm
Katie Derham continues the afternoon with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Benjamin Britten and Judith Weir.
Britten (completed by Colin Matthews): Concerto movement for clarinet and orchestra
Michael Collins (clarinet and conductor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
4.05pm
Judith Weir: Moon and Star
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
TUE 16:30 In Tune (b08k523n)
Alexander Shelley
Sean Rafferty's guests include conductor Alexander Shelley.
TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b06flp27)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08k529f)
James MacMillan Celebration
Harry Christophers and The Sixteen join the Scottish Chamber Orchestra as part of a month-long celebration of recent works by Sir James MacMillan in Scotland, featuring his Stabat Mater - originally commissioned for them by the Genesis Foundation. Sir James MacMillan and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra open the programme with a performance of one of his most popular concert pieces, Tryst, one of the first works he wrote for the SCO, inspired by his folksong Tryst.
James MacMillan: Tryst
Interval at
8.05pm
Kate Molleson introduces a performance of Weber's Horn Concertino played by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and their star French horn player, Alec Frank-Gemmill who was a Radio 3 New Generation Artists from 2014 -2016
James MacMillan: Stabat Mater
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Sir James MacMillan, conductor.
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (b08jb15b)
Festival 2017, The Speed of Revolution
Three leading historians, Bettany Hughes, Sir Richard J Evans and John Hall join Free Thinking presenter Philip Dodd to consider tumultuous times and how we make sense of sweeping change from classical times, through empire building and the industrial revolution to the present day. True revolutions are rare game-changers in the slow unravelling of the human story. Others fizzle out like small showy rockets, all light and no heat. But how obvious is it at the time ?
Dr Bettany Hughes is well known as a TV and radio broadcaster, an award-winning historian and author specialising in ancient and medieval history and culture. Her books include Helen of Troy, The Hemlock Cup and, most recently, Istanbul: a Tale of Three Cities.
Sir Richard J Evans is an academic and historian, best known for his research on the history of Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. President of Wolfson College in Cambridge, his most recent books are The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914, The Third Reich in History and Memory and Altered Pasts: Counterfactual in History.
Professor John Hall is IAS Fellow at University College, Durham University (Jan - March 2017). Normally based at McGill University in Montreal, Professor Hall is currently writing about Nations, States and Empires. His books include The Importance of Being Civil, The World of States, Powers and Liberties:The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West.
Recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
TUE 22:45 The Essay (b08j9x3c)
Free Thinking 2017, The Magic Years
Matthew Smith, a New Generation Thinker, goes deep into the American Psychiatric Association archives, where lies an unpublished historical manuscript entitled The Magic Years. Written during the early 1970s, it eulogised the giant strides of post-war American psychiatry made in this period of hope and promise when even the complete eradication of mental illness was thought possible. As a medical historian Matthew argues that, while psychiatrists today might dismiss The Magic Years - and the science behind it - as misguided or naïve, it actually has much to teach us.
New Generation Thinker Matthew Smith is from the University of Strathclyde.
Recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead.
New Generation Thinkers is scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find academics who can turn their research into radio programmes.
Producer: Zahid Warley.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b08jdyxl)
Nick Luscombe
Nick Luscombe features performances from Malian band Songhoy Blues and Welsh performer Cate Le Bon recorded live at the BBC 6 Music Festival in Glasgow.
Also on the programme a piece by Swiss accordionist Mario Batkovic, improvised piano by Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven, digital soul by Yves Tumor and sleepy urban noir from Berlin electronic artist Andrew Pekler.
Produced by Alannah Chance for Reduced Listening.
WEDNESDAY 29 MARCH 2017
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b08k4z1d)
Proms 2015: Danish National Symphony Orchestra
John Shea introduces the Danish National Symphony Orchestra's 2015 BBC Prom, conducted by Fabio Luisi, celebrating the 150th anniversary of Carl Nielsen.
12:31 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Helios - overture, Op.17
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi (conductor)
12:44 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77
Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi (conductor)
1:24 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sarabande from Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin, BWV.1004
Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
1:28 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Hymnus amoris, Op.12
Anna Lucia Richter (soprano), David Danholt (tenor), Boy and Girl Choristers of Winchester Cathedral, Danish National Concert Choir, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi (conductor)
1:49 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Symphony No. 2, Op.16, (The Four temperaments)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi (conductor)
2:23 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Dance of the Cockerels (Hanedansen) from Maskarade, FS. 39
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi (conductor)
2:31 AM
Caurroy, Eustache du (1549-1609)
11 Fantasias on 16th-century songs
Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall (viol and director)
2:58 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
6 Quartets for chorus and piano, Op.112
Danish National Radio Choir, Bengt Forsberg (piano), Stefan Parkman (conductor)
3:09 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
3:31 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Andante Festivo, for strings and timpani
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (Conductor)
3:36 AM
Francaix, Jean (1912-1997)
11 Variations on a Theme by Haydn, for 9 wind instruments and double bass (1982)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra (members of), Hannu Koivula (Conductor)
3:49 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); transcribed by Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Auf dem Wasser zu singen (D.744) transc. Liszt for piano
Anastasia Vorotnaya (piano)
3:53 AM
Palmgren, Selim (1878-1951)
Exotic March
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, George de Godzinsky (conductor)
3:59 AM
Horneman, Christian Frederik Emil (1840-1906)
Ouverture til Helteliv
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schonwandt (Conductor)
4:13 AM
Jiranek, Frantisek (1698-1778)
Sinfonia in F major
Collegium Marianum
4:22 AM
Stainov, Petko [1896-1977]
Paidoushko Horo (1st movt. from symphonic suite 'Thracian Dances')
Bulgarian Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
4:25 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Der Schauspieldirektor, K.486 - Overture
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (Conductor)
4:31 AM
Kuhlau, Frederik (1786-1832)
Trylleharpen overture
The Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
4:42 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Tu es Petrus - motet for 6 voices
Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano; Diego Fasolis (conductor)
4:49 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Horn Concerto No.4 in E flat major, K.495
David Pyatt (horn), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert King (conductor)
5:05 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
Choral Dances from Gloriana - Coronation opera for Elizabeth II (Op.53)
The King's Singers
5:11 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
To a Nordic Princess
Leslie Howard (piano)
5:18 AM
Traditional (Denmark)
Danish Wedding Song from Sønderho
Danish String Quartet
5:22 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Three Motets, Op. 55
Danish National Concert Choir, Fabio Luisi (conductor)
5:40 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Violin Sonata in A major Op.30 No.1
Ayana Tsuji (violin); Philip Chiu (piano)
6:01 AM
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Ancient Airs and Dances - Suite No.2
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
6:19 AM
Francaix, Jean (1912-1997)
8 Danses exotiques (vers. for 2 pianos)
Laszlo Baranyai (Piano), Jeno Jando (Piano).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b08k513m)
Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b08k513p)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Ken Hom
9am
Rob 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 name the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?
10am
Rob's guest this week is the American chef, author and TV presenter Ken Hom. Whilst studying at Berkeley University, where he undertook studies in History of Art and French History, Ken began to give cooking lessons to fund his education. He soon realised that he wanted to make it his career and started teaching at a school for professional chefs in San Francisco. During his career Ken has published over 35 best-selling books on cookery, presented TV shows including Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery and Take on the Takeaway, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest authorities on Asian cooking. In 2009 he was appointed an honorary OBE for 'services to culinary arts'. As well as discussing his life and work, Ken has chosen a selection of his favourite classical music.
10.30am
Music in Time: Modern
Turning his attention to the Modern era, Rob looks at an early use of the saxophone with music by Glazunov. Although invented in the 1840s, the saxophone was still fairly new and unfamiliar when Glazunov wrote his Saxophone Concerto almost a century later.
11am
Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider
Rob's Artist of the Week is the violinist and conductor Nikolaj Znaider. Feted in particular for the quality of his tone and his musical sensitivity, Znaider plays a Guarneri del Gesu violin, built in 1741 and previously played by the legendary violinist Fritz Kreisler. Znaider's performances and recordings regularly earn critical acclaim across the globe; they include accounts of violin concertos by Elgar, Korngold, Prokofiev and Nielsen - all of which feature this week on Essential Classics. As well as maintaining a busy career as a violin virtuoso, Znaider is passionate about supporting the next generation of musical talent, and spent ten years as Founder and Artistic Director of the annual Nordic Music Academy summer school.
Brahms
Sonata No.1 in G major
Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
Yefim Bronfman (piano).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b06flp29)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943), The New World
This week Donald Macleod explores Rachmaninov the pianist-composer, focusing on his concertante piano works. Today, his epic and fiendishly difficult Third Piano Concerto.
Rachmaninov's songs are probably the least-known part of his output, but they're well worth exploring. The Opus 26 set was written at the behest of Mariya Kerzina, who with her wealthy lawyer husband Arkady founded the 'Circle of Russian Music Lovers in Moscow', which grew into an important and influential sponsor of new music in the first decade of the 20th century. By the time he wrote that set of songs, Rachmaninov was, like everyone else, becoming increasingly disturbed by the political unrest he could see all around him. In 1906 he took his family on an extended break in Italy in the hope that things at home might begin to settle down again. An invitation to tour America offered a further reason to stay away but for the moment, family illness prevented him from accepting. Three years later, when a second invitation came his way, he said yes. He wrote his Third Piano Concerto specially for that tour. The response was respectful rather than ecstatic, although the second performance, under the baton of none other than Gustav Mahler, prompted a warmer response from the critics. Only when Vladimir Horowitz took up the concerto in the 1930s did it begin to achieve its current popularity in the concert hall.
'All was taken from me', Op 26 No 2
Rodion Pogossov, baritone
Iain Burnside, piano
Fifteen Songs, Op 26
- No 1, 'The heart's secret'
- No 3, 'We shall rest'
- No 10, 'At my window'
- No 15, 'Everything passes'
Justina Gringyte, mezzo-soprano (1)
Alexander Vinogradov, bass (3)
Ekaterina Siurina, soprano (10)
Andrei Bondarenko, baritone (15)
Iain Burnside, piano
Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op 30
Van Cliburn, piano
Symphony of the Air
Kirill Kondrashin, conductor
Producer: Chris Barstow.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b07sxq7d)
Machynlleth and Gower Festivals 2016, Anna Stephany, Schubert Ensemble
This week's concerts are from festivals held in the Gower Peninsula and the picturesque mid-Wales market-town of Machynlleth. Today, mezzo-soprano Anna Stéphany explores French song repertoire with pianist Sholto Kynoch and the Schubert Ensemble play a new piece inspired by the landscape from Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Fauré's emotionally charged First Piano Quartet.
Introduced by Christopher Cook.
A selection of French songs
Anna Stéphany, mezzo-soprano
Sholto Kynoch, piano
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: "The Whole Earth Dances"
Schubert Ensemble:
Simon Blendis, violin
Douglas Paterson, viola
Jane Salmon, cello
Peter Buckoke, double bass
Fauré: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 15 No 1
Schubert Ensemble:
William Howard, piano
Simon Blendis, violin
Douglas Paterson, viola
Jane Salmon, cello.
WED 14:00 Afternoon on 3 (b08k523t)
Wednesday - BBC Singers on Tour
2.00pm
Voices from the Isles
Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Singers in the Dubai Opera House for a concert recorded last week during the BBC Singers' visit to Dubai. The programme is a geographical choral exploration of the diverse sounds and influences of music in The British Isles. The music celebrates the inspiration of traditional folk songs and musical settings of the great poets.
Stanford: Three Motets
Tippett: Four Songs from the British Isles
Jonathan Dove: It sounded as if the Streets were running
Warlock: 3 Belloc Songs
BBC Singers
James Burton (conductor)
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2.40pm
Cowie: Lyre Bird Motet
Grainger: Brigg Fair; Irish Tune from County Derry
Jonathan Wikeley: Everything Stops for Tea
BBC Singers
James Burton (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b08k52vr)
Choral Evening Prayer - Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
Choral Evening Prayer live from Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
Introit: Solus ad victimam (Leighton)
Responses (Philip Duffy)
Hymn: O kind Creator, bow thine ear (Audi benigne conditor)
Psalm 139 vv.1-18, 23-24 (Philip Duffy)
Canticle: Colossians 1 vv.12-20 (Colin Mawby)
Reading: Ezekiel 47 vv.1-9, 12
Motet: Ne irascaris Domine (Byrd)
Homily: Canon Anthony O'Brien
Magnificat primi toni (John Duggan)
Hymn: God of mercy and compassion (Trad. French)
The Lamentations - part 1 (Tallis)
Director of Music: Christopher McElroy
Assistant Director of Music: James Luxton.
WED 16:30 In Tune (b08k523w)
Wednesday - Sean Rafferty
Sean Rafferty's guests include pianist Vadym Kholodenko who performs live in the studio ahead of a concert at London's Cadogan Hall.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b06flp29)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08km5t4)
Joshua Bell & Sam Haywood
Joshua Bell and Sam Haywood play music by Beethoven, Brahms and Sarasate. One of the world's leading violinists returns to the Barbican Hall for this recital of some of the greatest music written for the violin.
Recorded Tuesday 28 March at Barbican Hall, London
Introduced by Martin Handley
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.1 in D major, Op.12 No.1
Brahms: Scherzo in C minor from F-A-E Sonata
Brahms: Violin Sonata No.3 in D minor, Op.108
8:20
Interval Music: Joshua Bell plays music by Brahms and Bach with The Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
8:40
Aaron J Kernis: Air
Ysaÿe: Sonata in D minor, Op.27 No.3, (Ballade), for solo violin
Rachmaninov: Vocalise
Sarasate: Concert Fantasy on Carmen, Op.25.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b08jb15d)
Festival 2017, The Never-Ending Workday
Sathnam Sanghera, Judy Wajcman, Griselda Togobo and Robert Colvile join Radio 3 presenter Matthew Sweet to look at the history of the workplace from factory floor to hot desk to the gig economy and debate whether the merging of workplace and home creates more stress.
Bosses have always monitored and changed our working day, clocking staff in and out the factory, analyzing productivity through time and motion studies, using remote monitoring, introducing flexible working and "logging on later."
Sathnam Sanghera is a journalist and award-winning author of Marriage Material: A Novel and The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton. Before becoming a writer he (among other things) worked at a burger chain, a hospital laundry, a market research firm, a sewing factory and a literacy project in New York.
Judy Wajcman is a Professor of Society at LSE and the author of Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism .
Griselda Togobo is an entrepreneur, engineer, chartered accountant and the head of Forward Ladies, an organisation which aims to help companies maximise the potential of their female staff.
Robert Colvile is a journalist and author of The Great Acceleration - a new book about how
technology is speeding up the pace of life.
Recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead.
Producer: Craig Smith.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b08j9x3f)
Free Thinking 2017, England's First European
John Gallagher, New Generation Thinker, marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of what might be the greatest, but littlest-known, book of travels of early modern England. Fynes Moryson was a young fellow of a Cambridge college when he left on a journey to Jerusalem and back. His monumental book 'An Itinerary' is a colourful, funny and touching account of one man's curious journey, meeting bandits in northern Germany, disguising himself as a Catholic Italian in order to see Rome and burying his brother's body by the side of the road on his return.
John Gallagher's Essay brings to life one of the great travel accounts of any period which includes detailed instructions to English travellers on how best to disguise themselves when travelling through Catholic Europe.
Recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead.
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 with the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find academics who can turn their research into radio.
Producer: Fiona McLean.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b08jdyz7)
Late Junction Sessions, PC music meets early music - Danny L Harle and Pawel Siwczak
Find out what happened when PC Music met Early Music, in a Late Junction Collaboration Session recorded by pop producer Danny L Harle and early keyboard specialist Pawel Siwczak.
Harle is the chart-friendly musical mind behind the Caroline Polachek collaboration 'Ashes of Love', and 'Super Natural' with Carly Rae Jepsen. Strongly associated with the influential dance collective and label PC Music, he has also remixed for Christine and the Queens, Panda Bear and Tinashe.
Pawel Siwczak is an award-winning solo harpsichordist, fortepianist and historical keyboard specialist.
For this session Late Junction asked Harle to indulge his secret love of early and baroque music, and write scores for harpsichord and electronics. He and Pawel Siwczak had a day to arrange, develop, improvise around and record these in the legendary Maida Vale studios.
Also on the programme, Nick Luscombe plays hard-hitting electronics from Leeds producer Bambooman, laid-back latin bossa from Chicano Batman and Krautrock noise Czech style from B4.
Produced by Alannah Chance for Reduced Listening.
THURSDAY 30 MARCH 2017
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b08k4z1g)
Andras Schiff with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra
John Shea presents a concert including Beethoven's First Piano Concerto and Haydn's Nelson Mass from Copenhagen, with pianist and conductor András Schiff.
12:31 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern D.714
Danish National Concert Choir, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, András Schiff (conductor)
12:43 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770-1827]
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op.15
András Schiff (piano/conductor), Danish National Concert Choir, Danish National Symphony Orchestra
1:19 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Piano Sonata in C major, K.545 (excerpt)
András Schiff (piano)
1:25 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Mass in D minor H.
22.11 (Nelson Mass)
Anna Lucia Richter (soprano), Britta Schwarz (mezzo-soprano), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Robert Holl (bass), Danish National Concert Choir, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, András Schiff (conductor)
2:07 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Violin Sonata No.3 in D minor, Op.108
Marianne Thorsen (violin), Håvard Gimse (piano)
2:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No.23 in A major, K.488
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Terje Tønnesen (conductor)
2:57 AM
Enescu, George (1881-1955)
Violin Sonata No.3 in A minor, Op.25 (dans le caractère populaire roumain)
Gabriel Croitoru (violin), Valentin Gheorghiu (piano)
3:23 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Flute Sonata in A major, BWV.1032
Bart Kuijken (flute), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)
3:37 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Danse macabre, Op.40, transcribed for 2 pianos by the composer
Ouellet-Murray Duo: Claire Ouellet & Sandra Murray (pianos)
3:45 AM
Nin (y Castellanos), Joaquín (1879-1949)
Seguida Espanola (1930)
Henry-David Varema (cello), Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
3:54 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Nulla in mundo pax sincera, RV.630 - motet
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director)
4:01 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup [1843-1907]
2 Norwegian Dances (Op.35 nos.1 & 2)
Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, Rouslan Raychev (conductor)
4:11 AM
Hellendaal, Pieter (1721-1799)
Sonata in G major, Op.5 No.1 (from 6 solos for the violoncello with a thorough bass)
Jaap ter Linden (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Ageet Zweistra (cello continuo)
4:20 AM
Marcello, Alessandro (1669-1747)
Concerto in D minor
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet), Colm Carey (organ of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London)
4:31 AM
Arnic, Blaz (1901-1970)
Overture to the Comic Opera (Op.11)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Anton Nanut (conductor)
4:38 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op.60
Ronald Brautigam (piano - Erard Grand of 1842)
4:47 AM
Langgaard, Rued (1893-1952)
3 Rose Gardens Songs (1919) ('Surely I may kiss you'; 'Behind the wall'; 'Tired')
Danish National Radio Choir, Kaare Hansen (conductor)
4:58 AM
Manfredini, Francesco (1684-1762)
Symphony No.10 in E minor
Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Bohdan Warchal (leader)
5:07 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Piano Trio in E flat major, H.
15.10
Bernt Lysell (violin), Mikael Sjogren (cello), Niklas Sivelov (piano)
5:18 AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
Le Gai Paris, for wind ensemble
The Wind Ensemble of the Hungarian Radio Orchestra
5:29 AM
Gershwin, George (1898-1937)
An American in Paris (vers. for orchestra)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (Conductor)
5:48 AM
Meulemans, Herman (1893-1965)
Five Piano Pieces: Als de beke zingt (When the brook is chanting); Menuet; Mazurka triste; Wals; Lentewandeling (Vernal wanderings)
Steven Kolacny (piano)
6:07 AM
Rodrigo, Joaquín (1901-1999)
Concierto de Aranjuez
Norbert Kraft (guitar), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b08k513r)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b08k513t)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with Ken Hom
9am
Rob 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 person.
10am
Rob's guest this week is the American chef, author and TV presenter Ken Hom. Whilst studying at Berkeley University, where he undertook studies in History of Art and French History, Ken began to give cooking lessons to fund his education. He soon realised that he wanted to make it his career and started teaching at a school for professional chefs in San Francisco. During his career Ken has published over 35 best-selling books on cookery, presented TV shows including Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery and Take on the Takeaway, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest authorities on Asian cooking. In 2009 he was appointed an honorary OBE for 'services to culinary arts'. As well as discussing his life and work, Ken has chosen a selection of his favourite classical music.
10.30am
Music in Time: Modern
Today Rob's in the Modern period with a work by one of music's most eccentric characters: Erik Satie. Famous for his Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes, much of Satie's work is infused with an anarchic, Bohemian spirit, not least his madcap ballet of 1917, Parade.
Double Take
Rob explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences between two interpretations of "Il mio tesoro", an aria from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni - one by Jussi Björling and one by John McCormack.
11am
Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider
Rob's Artist of the Week is the violinist and conductor Nikolaj Znaider. Feted in particular for the quality of his tone and his musical sensitivity, Znaider plays a Guarneri del Gesu violin, built in 1741 and previously played by the legendary violinist Fritz Kreisler. Znaider's performances and recordings regularly earn critical acclaim across the globe; they include accounts of violin concertos by Elgar, Korngold, Prokofiev and Nielsen - all of which feature this week on Essential Classics. As well as maintaining a busy career as a violin virtuoso, Znaider is passionate about supporting the next generation of musical talent, and spent ten years as Founder and Artistic Director of the annual Nordic Music Academy summer school.
Nielsen
Violin Concerto
Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Lawrence Foster (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b06flp2c)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943), Flight
This week Donald Macleod explores Rachmaninov the pianist-composer, focusing on his concertante piano works. Today, a work that failed to reflect the spirit of its time: his Fourth Piano Concerto.
Sergey Rachmaninov spent the first two-thirds of his life in Russia. In the fateful year of 1917, at the age of 44, he realized that he must now uproot himself and his family and flee abroad. Someone from his landowning background would not have fared well under the new regime - perhaps he wouldn't have survived at all. As luck would have it he received an invitation to play a concert in Stockholm in the new year, and despite the chaos at home he managed to get permission from the authorities to travel.
He made the journey with his family, taking only what could be carried in their luggage. They made the final leg, across the Swedish border, in an open sled during a blizzard, arriving in Stockholm on Christmas Eve. Stockholm, however, was to be only a temporary resting-place. Some years earlier he had undertaken a concert tour of America, and now he decided that America was where he had the best chance of carving out a living as a concert pianist. Before the year was done, the Rachmaninovs were chugging across the Atlantic on a Norwegian steamer, arriving in New York almost a year after they had fled Russia.
Rachmaninov's first American work was the ill-fated Fourth Piano Concerto, which received a critical panning after its première and fared no better in Europe in a hastily revised version. Perhaps it just seemed too old-fashioned for the Roaring Twenties. Rachmaninov made one further revision, in 1941, but the piece still failed to capture the imagination of the concert-going public. In today's programme, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli makes an electrifying case for the work. Rachmaninov's final piece for solo piano, the Variations on a Theme of Corelli, inhabits a totally different world from the concerto. Iit has its moments of passion, but overall it's cooler, more restrained, wistful - subdued even. Rachmaninov related how in performance he would make impromptu cuts in the work, depending on the amount of audience coughing.
Rimsky Korsakov, arr Rachmaninov
Flight of the Bumble Bee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Sergey Rachmaninov, piano
Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor, Op 40
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Ettore Gracis, conductor
3 Russian Songs, Op 41: 2. 'Oh Vanka, what a hothead you are'
Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op 42
Mikhail Pletnev, piano
Producer: Chris Barstow.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b07sxq7n)
Machynlleth and Gower Festivals 2016, Anna Stephany, Trio Isimsiz
This week's concerts are from festivals held in two of Britain's most beautiful areas, the Gower Peninsula and the picturesque mid-Wales market-town of Machynlleth. Today's highlights include songs by Schumann and Welsh composer Rhian Samuel's new work Wildflower Songbook, written specially for and sung by mezzo-soprano Anna Stéphany with pianist Sholto Kynoch, recorded at Machynlleth's Tabernacle, and Trio Isimsiz perform Schumann's restless last Piano Trio - written in 1851, just five years before his death - in the peaceful location of St. John's Gowerton.
Presented by Christopher Cook
Schumann: Die Blume der Ergebung, Op. 83 No. 2
Schumann: Roselein, Roselein, Op. 89 No. 6
Anna Stéphany, mezzo-soprano
Sholto Kynoch, piano
Rhian Samuel: Wildflower Songbook
Anna Stéphany, mezzo-soprano
Sholto Kynoch, piano
Schumann: Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor, Op 110
Trio Isimsiz:
Erdem Misirlioglu, piano
Pablo Hernan Benedi, violin
Michael Petrov, cello.
THU 14:00 Afternoon on 3 (b08k5243)
Thursday Opera Matinee - Massenet's Thais
Katie Derham presents the Thursday Opera Matinee, Thaïs by Massenet - an exotic fin-de-siècle brew of religion and sex in which the two main characters are moving in different spiritual directions. The courtesan Thaïs gradually finds spiritual peace as she leaves her former life of unrestrained sensuality while the religious zealot Athanaël slowly descends into a hell of unbridled lust. It contains the famous "Meditation." This concert performance from Barcelona's opera house, the Liceu, has a cast headed by Placido Domingo and Nino Machaidze
Massenet: Thaïs - opera in 3 acts
Thaïs...... Nino Machaidze (soprano)
Athanaël..... Plácido Domingo (baritone)
Nicias..... Celso Albelo (tenor)
Crobyle..... Sara Blanch (soprano)
Myrtale..... Marifé Nogales (mezzo-soprano)
Palémon..... Damián del Castillo (bass)
Albine..... María José Suárez (mezzo-soprano)
La Charmeuse..... Mercedes Arcuri (soprano)
Gran Teatre del Liceu Chorus and Symphony Orchestra
conductor Patrick Fournillier
2.00pm: Act 1
c.
2.45pm: Act 2
c.
3.30pm: Act 3.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b08k5245)
Thursday - Sean Rafferty
Sean Rafferty's guests include the Tippett Quartet.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b06flp2c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08k529k)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Strauss, Mozart and Beethoven
Live from Cheltenham Town Hall
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Jun Markl returns to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales for a programme of Strauss, Mozart and Beethoven. 'Death and Transfiguration' depicts a great artist's journey from earthly life to everlasting bliss in a powerful and radiant tone poem. Like Jun Markl, Alice Sara Ott is also of joint German and Japanese decent. She's the soloist in Mozart's sublime C-major concerto, No. 21, which has appeared on film alongside James Bond. Beethoven's life-enhancing 6th Symphony, the Pastoral, is just as radical as its more famous sibling No. 5, celebrating nature in its awesome power and beauty.
Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 21 in C major, K467
8.25 During the interval, Nicola Heywood Thomas talks to tonight's soloist, Alice Sara Ott, about fame and fashion, and listens to her new recordings of Grieg - beyond the Piano Concerto.
Beethoven: Symphony No 6 In F major (Pastoral)
Alice Sara Ott (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jun Markl (conductor).
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b08jb15g)
Festival 2017, The Time of Your Life
The former Health Minister, now broadcaster and writer, Edwina Currie; the journalist and broadcaster Miranda Sawyer; and the English teacher and columnist Lola Okolosie discuss the different times of our lives with Free Thinking presenter Anne McElvoy.
Recent scientific research has found that women have the time of their lives at the age of 34. Later though, as they juggle parenthood and work they are at their most stressed. But, by the age of 58 they start to get their life-work balance sorted out. With more time to relax and no babies on the horizon life looks better. And, with an average life expectancy of 82.9 years, perhaps women may have time to enjoy their new lives.
Edwina Currie was a Conservative MP for 14 years before retiring in 1988. Since then she has presented TV and radio programmes, appeared on Strictly Come Dancing and as the Wicked Queen in pantomime. She has been described as 'a brash and energetic life force'. Her books include Diaries 1987-1992 and novels including The Ambassador, Chasing Men, This Honourable House, and A Parliamentary Affair.
Miranda Sawyer began her career writing for Smash Hits and now writes for newspapers and magazines including The Observer. She has interviewed arts figures for BBC Two's Culture Show, and presented programmes on 6 Music, BBC Radio 4 and podcasts. Her new book Out of Time explores her midlife crisis.
Lola Okolosie is an English teacher and regular columnist for The Guardian on race, politics, education and feminism. She is editor-at-large for Media Diversified, an online publishing platform.
Recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead.
Producer: Craig Smith.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b08j9x3h)
Free Thinking 2017, Creating Modern India
New Generation Thinker Preti Taneja, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Warwick University, on the creation of modern India.
How did a modernist style develop in India between the 1900s and the 1950s? Preti Taneja, who grew up in Letchworth Garden City, traces the way the Garden City Movement inspired the work of Edwin Lutyens in his reshaping of her parents' New Delhi. The first generation of post-Independence architects built on this legacy, drawing also from Le Corbusier, who designed India's first post-partition planned city, Chandigarh, with its famous 'open hand' sculpture; and from Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius, to create some of the most iconic public buildings across India today.
In art, something similar was happening: painter MF Hussain and a group of fellow radicals wanting to break away from Indian traditions and make an international statement. They formed The Progressive Artists Group in December 1947, just months after Partition.
Preti Taneja's essay explores this cultural re-imagining of the new nation, when architects and artists tried to come to terms with India's political and aesthetic history, looking forward to a future they could design, build and express themselves: one that was meant to shape human behaviour for the better.
Recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead.
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find academics who can turn their research into radio.
Producer: Fiona McLean.
THU 23:00 Exposure (b08jv8y7)
Gateshead
Verity Sharp presents Exposure Gateshead, a concert of experimental music by local artists as part of the Free Thinking festival at Sage Gateshead. Nathalie Stern brings her unique sound as a singer-songwriter, Swarm Front perform noise-based music composed by Mariam Rezaei, and Midnight Doctors are a seven-piece mutant big band led by Phil Begg.
FRIDAY 31 MARCH 2017
FRI 00:00 Late Junction (b08jv9p4)
Stephin Merritt
Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt has just completed a 50-song concept album, for which he wrote one song about each year of his life so far. Nonetheless, he has found time to put together a Late Junction Mixtape too, following on the heels of recent compilers Genesis P-Orridge, Beatrice Dillon, and Fenriz. Merritt's mix is bookended by atonal, instrumental oddities, but the meat of it comes from his love of unlikely cover versions. Featured artists include Klaus Nomi covering Lou Christie and Mrs. Miller covering Cole Porter.
Produced by Alannah Chance for Reduced Listening.
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b08k4z1p)
The Minnesota Orchestra in Cuba
John Shea presents a concert given by the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä in Havana, Cuba. They perform Beethoven's Egmont Overture, Choral Fantasy and 3rd Symphony.
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Egmont - incidental music, Op.84 (Overture)
Minnesota Orchestra; Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
12:40 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Fantasia in C minor, Op.80, for piano, chorus and orchestra
Frank Fernández (piano); Cuban National Chorus; Coro Vocal Leo; Minnesota Orchestra; Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
1:03 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op.55, (Eroica)
Minnesota Orchestra; Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
1:55 AM
Traditional, arr. Osmo Vänskä (b.1953)
Sakkirjarven Polka
Minnesota Orchestra; Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
1:57 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Pensees Lyriques, Op.40
Eero Heinonen (piano)
2:16 AM
Hammerschmidt, Andreas (1611/12-1675)
Suite in C for strings (gambas) and winds - from the collection 'Ester Fleiß'
Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (director)
2:31 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
String Octet in E flat major, Op. 20
Kodaly Quartet, Bartok Quartet
2:59 AM
Franck, César (1822-1890)
Le Chasseur Maudit, symphonic poem (M.44)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milen Nachev (conductor)
3:14 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Keyboard Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI/37
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
3:24 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Pieces from Les Indes Galantes
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Terje Tønnesen (conductor)
3:37 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich [1840-1893]
Tatyana's Letter Scene from the opera "Eugene Onegin" (Act I Scene 2)
Joanne Kolomyjec (soprano, Tatyana); Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra; Mario Bernardi (conductor)
3:50 AM
Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643)
Canzona decimanova, detta 'La Capriola', Canto e Bass for cornet, sackbut, organ and chitarrone - from Il primo Libro delle Canzoni (Rome 1628)
Musica Fiata, Köln, Roland Wilson (director)
3:54 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Two Slavonic Dances (Op.46 nos 8 & 3)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Arvid Engegård (conductor)
4:02 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Allein Gott in der Hoh' sei Ehr' - chorale-prelude for organ, BWV.664
Bine Katrine Bryndorf (Organ of Hjertling Church, Jutland)
4:08 AM
Britten, Benjamin [1913-1976]
Early One Morning, for voice and piano, from Folksong Arrangements Volume 5 (British Isles)
Elizabeth Watts (soprano); Paul Turner (piano)
4:12 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Dance of the Seven Veils - from Salome, Op.54
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender (conductor)
4:22 AM
Gershwin, George [1898-1937]
3 Preludes for piano
Nikolay Evrov (piano)
4:31 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto da camera in F major, RV.99
Camerata Köln
4:39 AM
Mussorgsky, Modest (1839-1881) [1839-1881]
A Night on the Bare Mountain, ed. Rimsky-Korsakov
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
4:51 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Ave Maria (1846)
Chorus of Swiss-Italian Radio, Stefano Innocenti (organ), Diego Fasolis (conductor)
4:56 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937] arr. Zoltán Kocsis
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Zsolt Szatmári (clarinet), Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
5:03 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Overture - from 'Der Freischütz'
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5:13 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Ganymed, D.544 - from 3 Songs (Op.19 No.3)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
5:18 AM
Sheppard, John [c.1515-1558], Dove, Jonathan [b.1959]
In manus tuas (Sheppard) & Into Thy Hands (Dove)
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)
5:29 AM
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)
Three Rag-Caprices, Op.78
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Daniel Swift (conductor)
5:37 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Rondo in A minor, K.511
Jean Muller (piano)
5:48 AM
Bologne, Joseph - Chevalier de Saint-Georges (c.1748-1799)
Symphony in G major, Op.11, No.1 (1779)
Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
6:02 AM
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953)
Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.63
Tomaž Lorenz (violin), Slovenian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b08k513w)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b08k513y)
Friday - Rob Cowan with Ken Hom
9am
Rob 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: which location is being depicted in this piece of music?
10am
Rob's guest this week is the American chef, author and TV presenter Ken Hom. Whilst studying at Berkeley University, where he undertook studies in History of Art and French History, Ken began to give cooking lessons to fund his education. He soon realised that he wanted to make it his career and started teaching at a school for professional chefs in San Francisco. During his career Ken has published over 35 best-selling books on cookery, presented TV shows including Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery and Take on the Takeaway, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest authorities on Asian cooking. In 2009 he was appointed an honorary OBE for 'services to culinary arts'. As well as discussing his life and work, Ken has chosen a selection of his favourite classical music.
10.30am
Music in Time: Baroque
Rob travels back to Baroque Germany to explore one of the most prevalent features of this time: musical recycling. We hear the Agnus Dei and Dona nobis pacem from Bach's Mass in B minor, both of which were taken from earlier works of his.
11am
Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider
Rob's Artist of the Week is the violinist and conductor Nikolaj Znaider. Feted in particular for the quality of his tone and his musical sensitivity, Znaider plays a Guarneri del Gesu violin, built in 1741 and previously played by the legendary violinist Fritz Kreisler. Znaider's performances and recordings regularly earn critical acclaim across the globe; they include accounts of violin concertos by Elgar, Korngold, Prokofiev and Nielsen - all of which feature this week on Essential Classics. As well as maintaining a busy career as a violin virtuoso, Znaider is passionate about supporting the next generation of musical talent, and spent ten years as Founder and Artistic Director of the annual Nordic Music Academy summer school.
Elgar
Violin Concerto in B minor
Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
Staatskapelle Dresden
Colin Davis (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b06flp2f)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943), Indian Summer
This week Donald Macleod explores Rachmaninov the pianist-composer, focusing on his concertante piano works. Today, a late masterpiece: the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
After his flight to America in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Rachmaninov never again returned to his homeland. He did make a partial return to Europe, though; in 1933 he was able to move into his newly built villa on the shores of Lake Lucerne, where he would spend summers until the outbreak of World War Two. The serenity of the Villa Senar (named after SErgei and NAtalya Rachmaninov), in tandem with the not unwelcome surprise of the Steinway concert grand (a housewarming gift from the company) that was waiting for him when he arrived there, got Rachmaninov's creative juices flowing again, and the following year, on Swiss soil, he wrote one of his finest and most popular pieces - a set of 24 variations on the famous 24th Caprice for solo violin by Paganini. Fast-forward six years and Rachmaninov is back in the USA, recuperating from a small operation in a secluded house he had rented on Long Island. Here, in not much more than a month, he wrote his Symphonic Dances - "My last spark", he called them - a wonderfully affirmative swansong from a composer famous for his lugubrious manner.
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op 43
Earl Wild, piano
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Jascha Horenstein, conductor
Symphonic Dances, Op 45 (2-piano version)
Nikolai Demidenko, Dmitri Alexeev, pianos
Producer: Chris Barstow.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b07sxq7s)
Machynlleth and Gower Festivals 2016, Navarra Quartet
This week's concerts are from two festivals held in the outstanding scenic surroundings of the Gower Peninsula and the picturesque mid-Wales market-town of Machynlleth. Today's highlights include a performance given in Machynlleth's Tabernacle by the Navarra Quartet of the quartet said to be Beethoven's own favourite, his C sharp minor, Op 131.
Introduced by Christopher Cook.
Beethoven: Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131
Navarra Quartet:
Magnus Johnston, violin
Marije Johnston, violin
Simone van der Giessen, viola
Brian O'Kane, cello.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon on 3 (b08k5247)
Friday - BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra on Tour
Katie Derham ends a week of performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers.
Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers in the Dubai Opera House for a concert of music by Shostakovich, Debussy and Saint-Saëns recorded last week during the orchestra's visit to Dubai.
2.00pm
Shostakovich: Festive Overture, Op.96
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
2.09pm
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op.22
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
2.32pm
Debussy: La Mer
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
2.55pm
Handel: Zadok the Priest
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
3.03pm
Joseph Tawadros (arranged by Jules Buckley): Eye of the Beholder; Permission to Evaporate; Constantinople
Joseph Tawadros (ud and percussion)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
3.20pm
Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
3.28pm
Arne (arr. Sargent): Rule, Britannia
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
3.33pm
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 in D major;
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
4.00pm
Katie Derham continues the afternoon with more performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Judith Weir: The Welcome Arrival of Rain
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b08k5249)
Friday - Sean Rafferty
Sean Rafferty's guests include pianist Ivan Ilic performing live in the studio ahead of All About Piano Festival at the Institut français.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b06flp2f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08k529m)
BBC Concert Orchestra at Cecil Sharp House
Live from Cecil Sharp House in London, home to the English Folk Dance and Song Society. Spiro and the BBC Concert Orchestra share this concert celebrating folk music new and old, including the world premiere of a BBC Commission from Spiro's Jane Harbour, which includes members of the BBC Singers. Presented by Verity Sharp
Spiro: Solo set
INTERVAL: As He Roved Out
In the interval of this concert celebrating the relationship between the English Folk Dance and Song Society and the BBC Verity Sharp presents 'As He Roved Out', a profile of Peter Kennedy who worked for both organisations. Kennedy travelled far and wide collecting songs and tunes from traditional musicians, amassing hundreds of recordings that are now in the British Library. He was remarkably industrious and enthusiastic, revitalising local traditions, playing for village dances and working on famous radio programmes such as 'As I Roved Out'. His methods and manner, though, meant he became a controversial figure, too. Verity Sharp assesses Kennedy's achievement and probes the nature of the man, with contributions from those who knew him, including David Attenborough, Shirley Collins, Malcolm Taylor (who for three decades ran the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library) and Janet Topp Fargion - Curator of World and Traditional Music at the British Library. We also hear several of the remarkable recordings Peter Kennedy made.
Producer: Julian May
PART 2:
Jane Harbour: Kynde
Arnold Foster: Piano Concerto on Country Dance Tunes
Francis Collinson: Folk Tune Medley - Ramsey Town; The Lincolnshire Poacher; York For My Money
Vaughan Williams: Overture - The Wasps
Spiro: Jane Harbour (violin), Jon Hunt (guitar), Alex Venn (mandolin), Jason Sparkes (accordion)
Victor Sangiorgio (piano)
BBC Singers: Emma Tring, Helen Neeves, Olivia Robinson, Elizabeth Poole (sopranos); Margaret Cameron, Nancy Cole (altos)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b08k52h5)
Free Thinking - 'Englishnesses'
Ian McMillan presents from the recent Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead. In this edition he explores 'Englishnesses' with this year's T.S. Eliot Prize-winner, the poet Jacob Polley; comedian Rahul Kohli; songwriter Beccy Owen; Dr Chris Jones; and the poet Scott Tyrrell.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b08j9x3k)
Free Thinking 2017, Killing Time in Imperial Japan
Christopher Harding explores the Tokyo of a century ago, the bustling, cosmopolitan capital of a growing empire, where the meaning of 'time' was hotly contested. Critics attacked the relentless 'clock time' of new factories and businesses and the 'leisure time' of youngsters who favoured cafes or poetry rather than exerting themselves in empire-building. Buddhist thinkers and folklorists claimed that Japan must rediscover its natural sense of time as seasonal and cyclical, rather than mechanical.
New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding contemplates the way these attempts at escape became useful fodder for Japan's militarist ideologues - working for the Emperor, his palace tucked away amongst the trees in central Tokyo, whose own sense of time stretched back into myth and from there into divinity.
Recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead.
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find academics who can turn their research into radio.
Producer: Luke Mulhall.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b08kkyhc)
Kathryn Tickell - Cimbaliband in Session
Kathryn Tickell presents the latest sounds from around the globe, including a live studio session from Hungarian folk group Cimbaliband, who mix up Balkan, jazz and classical influences under the direction of Balazs Unger, once referred to as "the Chuck Berry of cimbalom", the traditional hammered dulcimer.