Catriona Young presents a performance of Smetana's cycle of symphonic poems, Má vlast, from Serbia.
1:01 AM
Smetana, Bedrich (1824-1884)
Má vlast - cycle of symphonic poems
RTS Symphony Orchestra, Ronald Zollmann (conductor)
2:22 AM
Berezovsky, Maxim (1745-1777)
Ne otverzhy mene vo vremia starosti ('Do not forsake me in my old age')
Dumka Academic Cappella, Evgeny Savchuk (director)
2:33 AM
Dohnanyi, Erno (1877-1960)
String Quartet No 2 in D flat major, Op 15
Kodály Quartet: Atilla Falvay & Tamás Szabó (violins), Gábor Fias (viola), Éder György (cello)
3:01 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Symphony No. 9 in C major, "Great";
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
3:49 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Sonata in A minor, Wq.49'1
Andreas Staier (harpsichord after Christian Zell, Hamburg 1728, made by Bruce Kennedy, Chateau d'Oex, 1987)
4:03 AM
Dufaut, François (pre.1604-c.1672), D'Ambrys, Honoré (C.17th, second half)
Pièce pour harpe & Air de cour "Le doux silence de nos bois"
Ground Floor, Angélique Mauillon (harp), Marc Mauillon (tenor), Étienne Galletier (theorbo)
4:10 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico [1685-1757], arr. Timothy Kain
Sonata in F major, K.518
Guitar Trek
4:15 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
'Estampes' for piano
Roger Woodward (piano)
4:30 AM
Berlioz, Hector [1803-1869]
Le Carnaval romain - Overture, Op.9
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ladislav Slovák (conductor)
4:39 AM
Agay, Denes (1911-2007)
5 Easy Dances for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon & horn
Tae-Won Kim (flute), Hyong-Sup Kim (oboe), Hyon-Kon Kim (clarinet), Sang-Won Yoon (bassoon), Kawng-Ku Lee (horn)
4:47 AM
Gratton, Hector [1900-1970] arr. Passmore, David
Quatrième danse canadienne arranged for piano trio
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
4:52 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio - aria for soprano and orchestra, K.418
Cyndia Sieden (soprano), Prima La Musica, Dirk Vermeulen (conductor)
5:01 AM
Perugia, Matteo da (fl.1400-1416) / Millenarium
Andrey soulet
Millenarium: Henri Tournier (flute), Baptiste Romain (fidel), Eva Fogelsang (harp), Philippe Malfeyt (lute), Thierry Gomar (percussion), Christophe Deslignes (organetto/director)
5:07 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Sonata No. 2 in B flat major, Z.791, for 2 violins and continuo (1683)
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
5:14 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
3 Studies. Op.104b. for piano
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
5:23 AM
Busoni, Ferruccio (1866-1924)
Concertino in B flat major for clarinet and small orchestra
Dancho Radevski (clarinet), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Plamen Djouroff (conductor)
5:35 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Violin Sonata in B flat major, K.454
Johannes Leertouwer (violin), Derk Pik (piano)
5:58 AM
Zelenski, Wladyslaw (1837-1921) arr. Jan Maklakiewicz
2 Choral Songs: Zaczarowana królewna (The Bewitched Princess) ; Przy rozstaniu (At Leave-taking)
Polish Radio Choir, unnamed pianist, Marek Kluza (director)
6:05 AM
Noskowski, Zygmunt (1846-1909)
The Pearls of Moniuszko - 15 Songs for orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
6:23 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Waldszenen, Op.82 - 9 pieces for piano
Stefan Bojsten (piano)
6:48 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
3 Airs from Vauxhall Gardens, arranged by Steele-Perkins for trumpet and orchestra
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), The King's Consort, Robert King (director).
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
In the last Music Matters of the season, Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces stories of people on the move: how music is affecting, and being affected by, the lives of refugees and migrants, from ancient ritual singing practices to hyper-directional opera, from instruments made out of buckets and string to the latest web technology.
The mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato tells Sara about her recent experience working with children in the Eleonas and Skaramagas refugee camps in Athens for El Sistema Greece, and how it ties in with her ongoing mission to tell stories of war and peace through the music of Handel and Purcell.
Sara also hears from three composers about their responses to today's migrant crisis: Dee Isaacs on a partnership between the universities of Edinburgh and Athens to take musical projects to children in the Athens camps, the Navajo-born artist Raven Chacon on using refugee stories from Greece and the American borderlands for a sound installation in the Greek capital, and Nigel Osborne on his new website and international movement, This Place is Our Place, which brings together communities in Scotland, Syria and Lebanon.
Sara also meets the violinist Mariela Shaker and pianist Riyad Nicolas, who both left their families in their home town of Aleppo to pursue musical careers in the UK and the US, and who now use music to tell stories of the continuing crisis in Syria.
And a new book which explores how ritual singing in Ireland creates a sense of belonging between immigrant and local communities. Sara talks to the book's Limerick-based author, Helen Phelan, and Toner Quinn, editor of the Journal of Music, puts 'Singing the Rite to Belong' in the wider context of Irish music-making.
Music by Brahms, Boccherini, Sibelius and Prokofiev from performers including Sergiu Celibidache, Salvatore Accardo and Fabio Biondi.
"The first thing you're told is listen, listen to the music - the music and the step are as one. As a child you're not always aware of this".
Katie Derham talks to a Darcey Bussell about a dancer's relationship with music. Darcey Bussell, as a Principal at the Royal Ballet for nearly twenty years and now a judge on Strictly Come Dancing, has prepared many roles for the stage, and also has a broad range of tastes in music. She looks back over her career, and to some of her earliest forays in dance, to consider some of the almost alchemical ways in which dancer and music interact. She offers suggestions of where music and dance are wonderfully matched in the work of others, not least in the partnership of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and talks about some of her favourite and inspirational music for the ballet.
The programme features music for some of Darcey's great roles including from Romeo and Juliet; The Prince Of The Pagodas; Sylvia; and The Song Of The Earth.
Amongst this week's selection drawn from listeners' requests by post and email in all styles of jazz, Alyn Shipton looks back at the great British bandleader Ted Heath.
Artist Ted HeathKevin Le Gendre presents saxophonist Tommy Smith and pianist Brian Kellock recorded in concert on the Jazz Line-Up stage as part of the Glasgow Jazz Festival.
Martin Handley introduces Mozart's Mitridate, Re di Ponto, recorded this month at the Royal Opera House in London. Mozart was 14 when he wrote this early opera seria masterpiece telling the tragic story of the King of Ponto, a warrior whose sons Farnace and Sifare are in love with his fiancée Aspasia, which leaves them torn between loyalty to him or betrayal with the enemy. Christophe Rousset conducts the ROH Orchestra and chorus, as well as a stellar cast lead by Michael Spyres in the title role, Albina Shagimuratova as Aspasia, Bejun Mehta as Farnace and Salome Jicia as Sifare.
Mitridate ..... Michael Spyres (tenor)
Aspasia ..... Albina Shagimuratova (soprano)
Sifare ..... Salome Jicia (soprano)
Farnace ..... Bejun Mehta (treble)
Ismene ..... Lucy Crowe (soprano)
Marzio ..... Rupert Charlesworth (tenor)
Abate ..... Jennifer Davis (soprano)
Royal Opera House Chorus
Royal Opera House Orchestra
Christophe Rousset (conductor).
Kate Molleson presents music by three Danish composers. Apartment House perform Anton Lukoszevieze's live realisation of Henning Christiansen's Requiem of Art in a Kammer Klang event at Café Oto in east London, and Jacob Kirkegaard presents the Faust Suite by pioneering electronic composer Else Marie Pade. Plus a new recording from Salford of the First Cello Concerto, 'Between', by Per Norgard, who will be 85 on Thursday; Norgard's family friend Jacob Kullberg is the soloist with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Michael Francis.
Anita O'Day (1919-2006) and June Christy ( 1925-1990) were queens of big band singing in the 1940s and 50s, starring with Gene Krupa and Stan Kenton before going solo. O'Day was hot, Christy was cool, and Geoffrey Smith compares their styles and careers.
LET ME OFF UPTOWNJonathan Swain presents a concert of chamber music from the 2014 "Chopin and his Europe" International Music Festival, including Schubert's Octet D.803
1:01 AM
Panufnik, Andrzej (1914-1991)
Trains of Thought - string sextet
Lena Neudauer (violin), Erzhan Kulibaev (violin), Katarzyna Budnik-Galazka (viola), Artur Rozmyslowicz (viola), Marcin Zdunik (cello), Rafal Kwiatkowski (cello)
1:16 AM
Krogulski, Józef (1815-1842)
Piano Octet in D minor, Op.6
Nelson Goerner (piano), Jan Krzeszowiec (flute), Radoslaw Soroka (clarinet), Lena Neudauer (violin), Erzhan Kulibaev (violin), Artur Rozmyslowicz (viola), Marcin Zdunik (cello), Slawomir Rozlach (double bass)
1:42 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Octet in F major, D.803
Radoslaw Soroka (clarinet), Leszek Wachnik (bassoon), Tomasz Binkowski (horn), Lena Neudauer (violin), Erzhan Kulibaev (violin), Artur Rozmyslowicz (viola), Marcin Zdunik (cello), Slawomir Rozlach (double bass)
2:41 AM
Mahler, Gustav [1860-1911]; arr. Schoenberg, Arnold [1874-1951]
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Urszula Kryger (Mezzo-soprano), Kwartesencja Ensemble: Marcin Kaminski (flute), Adrian Janda (clarinet), Bartosz Jakubczak (harmonium), Bartlomiej Zajkowski (piano), Tomasz Januchta (double bass), Hubert Zemler (percussion), Monika Wolinska (director)
3:01 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Symphony No.2 in C major
Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor)
3:40 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Mass in C major 'Coronation' K.317
Linda Øvrebø (soprano), Anna Einarsson (alto), Anders J.Dahlin (tenor), Johannes Mannov (bass), Oslo Chamber Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Alessandro de Marchi (conductor)
4:03 AM
Merula, Tarquino [1594/5-1665]
Ciaccona for 2 Violins and continuo, Op.12
Il Giardino Armonico
4:07 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Nocturne No.4 in E flat major, Op.36
Stéphane Lemelin (piano)
4:14 AM
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909) [arranger unknown]
'Cuba' from Suite espanola No.1
Tomaz Rajteric (guitar)
4:20 AM
Copland, Aaron (1900-1990)
El Salón México
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
4:32 AM
Pearson, Leslie (b. 1931)
Dance Suite - after Arbeau
The Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble
4:41 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
"Solitudini amate" (Alessandro)
Sophie Boulin (Roxana, soprano), La Petite Bande, Sigswald Kuijken (director)
4:48 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Bassoon Concerto in E minor, RV.484
Aleksander Radosavljevic (bassoon), Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Günter Pichler (conductor)
5:01 AM
Medins, Janis (1890-1966)
Flower Waltz - from the ballet 'Victory of Love'
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Imants Resnis (conductor)
5:06 AM
Satie, Erik [1866-1925]
Poudre d'or - waltz for piano
Ashley Wass (piano)
5:12 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963) (orch. Sir Lennox Berkeley)
Flute Sonata
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Enrique Garcia-Asensio (conductor)
5:25 AM
Berkeley, Lennox [1903-1989] Auden, WH. [1907-1973] Author
Lay your sleeping head, my love, Op.14, No.2b
Robin Tritschler (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
5:32 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) / Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
Meditation sur la première prélude de Bach (Ave Maria)
Kyung-Ok Park (cello), Myung-Ja Kwun (harp)
5:38 AM
Bodinus, Sebastian (c.1700-1760)
Trio in G major for oboe and 2 bassoons
Hildebrand'sche Hoboïsten Compagnie - Renate Hildebrand, Nils Ferber, Annkathrin Brüggemann (oboes), George Corall (oboe/taille)
5:47 AM
Rosenmüller, Johann [c.1619-1684]
De profundis - Psalm 129 (130)
Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), David Cordier (countertenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Cantus Cölln, Konrad Junghänel (director and lute), Carsten Lohff (organ)
5:59 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F major, BWV.1047
Mark Bennett (trumpet), Terje Tönnesen, Cecilia Wahlberg & Bjarte Eike (violins), Frode Thorsen (recorder), Anna-Maija Luolajan-Mikkola (oboe), Andreas Torgersen (violin), Markku Luolajan-Mikkola (cello), Dan Styffe (bass), Hans Knut Sveen (harpsichord)
6:12 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770-1827]
Piano Sonata in C minor, Op.10 No.1
Geoffrey Lancaster (pianoforte)
6:33 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Cello Concerto in C major, H.7b.1
Steven Isserlis (cello), Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Jean Fournet (conductor).
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Jonathan Swain presents this week's Building a Library choice in full of Vaughan Williams's Dona Nobis Pacem. He also explores music connected with the tragedy of war from John Adams, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Honegger. The week's young artists are the Salaputia Brass from Germany and Switzerland, and the neglected classic is Granados's Escenas Romanticas.
Dan Pearson discovered his passion for gardens very young, building landscapes for his toy trolls out of stones. He's now one of our most influential landscape designers, with work ranging from private gardens around the world - including Chatsworth - to the 600-acre Tokachi Forest Garden in northern Japan, and gardens in Manchester and London for the Cancer charity Maggie's. He's written five books, presented several television series, and exhibited at Chelsea six times, winning awards each time - last time, for Best in Show. He's known for his painterly naturalistic planting, or to put it more simply, he likes to create landscapes which look wild, and ancient. He says, "the way I garden is to let things go almost to the brink of being lost".
In Private Passions, Dan Pearson talks to Michael Berkeley about his love of wild plants, and the influence of a very neglected garden of a house he lived in as a child. He reveals how his gardens for cancer patients and his encounters with the people he's met there have changed his sense of what a garden means. He talks too about the way in which music inspires his landscape designs; he loves music which creates a sense of wide open space. Choices include Estonian composer Arvo Pärt; 12th-century polyphony; Spanish guitar music; the Bulgarian Trio Bulgarka and Moondog.
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.
From Wigmore Hall in London, recorder-player Maurice Steger and harpsichordist Jean Rondeau perform works by Fontana, Falconieri, Storace, Corelli, Scarlatti and Sammartini.
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Fontana: Sonata seconda
Falconieri: Il melo; Il spiritillo; La suava melodia
Bernardo Storace: Ciaccona for solo harpsichord
Castrucci: Sonata for recorder and continuo (after Corelli's Violin Sonata Op 5 No 8)
Scarlatti: Harpsichord Sonatas in D minor, Kk213, and in D, Kk119
Giuseppe Sammartini: Sonata in G, Op 2 No 4, for recorder and continuo
Vivaldi: 2nd movement (Cantabile) from Concerto in D major RV.95
Maurice Steger (recorder)
Jean Rondeau (harpsichord).
Lucie Skeaping presents a live programme from the National Centre for Early Music, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the York Early Music Festival.
In addition to its own birthday the Festival is marking the anniversaries of Monteverdi and Telemann this year, as well as the Reformation with music by that great Lutheran JS Bach - today we'll hear some of his works for solo violin played live by Kati Debretzeni. The Ebor Singers who've enjoyed a long association with the festival also join us to sing live and discuss their latest project - exploring music from the English Civil War and Siege of York.
From Durham Cathedral
Introit: The God of love my shepherd is (Richard Lloyd)
Responses: Smith
Office Hymn: Ye that know the Lord is gracious (Hyfrydol)
Psalms 27, 28, 29 (Nares, Goss, Bairstow, Randall)
First Lesson: Isaiah 5 vv.8-24
Canticles: Howells in B minor
Second Lesson: James 1 vv.17-25
Anthem: Faire is the heaven (Harris)
Final Hymn: The King of love my shepherd is (Dominus regit me)
Organ Voluntary: Rhapsody in C sharp minor, Op 17 No 3 (Howells)
James Lancelot - conductor
Francesca Massey - organist.
Sara discovers Pachelbel's C major Magnificat, song from the forests of Cameroon, and a new release of Mendelssohn part songs.
Whether it's an eye-wateringly high soprano or profoundly low bass, lightning quick rappers, the star castrati of the 18th century, the screamers, the growlers, the robots or the singers that can produce two notes at once - there are a lot of extreme voices out there.
Tom Service takes a trip through the many purveyors of vocal pyrotechnics from Mozart and Rachmaninov to Stockhausen, Tom Waits and Daft Punk, has a lesson in throat singing from overtone singer Michael Ormiston, and finds out whether we're all extreme singers at heart.
Let's write a list. From the week's shopping to the Ten Commandments, from the pop charts to the phone directory, life is full of lists. This exploration of our obsession with list-making includes Mozart's Don Giovanni's conquests, Maria's Favourite Things from the Sound of Music, Polonius's advice to Laertes, Bridget Jones's New Year Resolutions and Herman Melville's catalogue of whales. Readings by Jon Strickland and Emma Powell.
MozartForster's gay love story was a forbidden book. Written in 1913, inspired by a touch on the buttocks, 'Maurice' was only published in 1971 after Forster died. Nevertheless, for almost sixty years, it was a secret manuscript, clandestinely circulating among those Forster trusted. They included Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, Siegfried Sassoon and Christopher Isherwood. Isherwood's comments especially prompted Forster to re-write, adding a sex scene and altering the ending. But for years he refused Isherwood's pressure to publish, until finally acquiescing to a posthumous publication, and sending the typescript by trusted couriers from Cambridge to America. Biographer Wendy Moffat talks about how she pieced together the details of this journey, scholar Philip Gardner looks at the manuscript changes and writer Peter Parker discusses Isherwood's influence on the finished novel.
Ian Skelly presents highlights from this year's Schwetzingen Festival, with music performed by the SWR Symphony Orchestra and the SWR Vocal Ensemble.
CPE Bach: Symphony in D minor, Wq.183'1
SWR Symphony Orchestra
Konrad Junghanel (conductor)
Bruckner: Locus iste
SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart
Marcus Creed (director)
Mozart: Symphony No.25 in G minor, K.183
SWR Symphony Orchestra
Konrad Junghanel (conductor)
Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel
SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart
Sabine Czinczel (alto)
Andra Darzins (viola)
Markus Stange (celeste)
Marcus Maier (percussion)
Marcus Creed (director)
Haydn: Symphony No.100 in G major, H.1:10 'Military'
SWR Symphony Orchestra
Konrad Junghänel (conductor).
by Sarah Wooley.
A drama about the making of 'Victim', the first British film to seriously address homosexuality. This programme is part of Gay Britannia, a season across the BBC marking the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act 1967.
The 1961 film, starring matinee idol Dirk Bogarde in the gamble of his career, is often credited with helping to change public attitudes to homosexuality. This fast-moving drama follows the extraordinary mixture of bravery and pragmatism involved in getting this groundbreaking enterprise off the ground, providing a fascinating glimpse of Britain at a tipping point of social change.
THE WRITER
Sarah Wooley has written many plays for the radio including FIFTEEN MINUTES about Andy Warhol, MOVING MUSIC about Philip Glass and Steve Reich, PLANNING PERMISSION about the Brutalist architect Erno Goldfinger and A NICE LITTLE HOLIDAY about playwright John Osborne. Her last play for Radio 4 was 1977, about the scoring of the film 'Watership Down' and the story of trans composer Angela Morley.
Her stage plays are published by Oberon and include the sell-out hit OLD MONEY, which ran at Hampstead Theatre main stage in 2012 and starred Maureen Lipman.
Dirk Bogarde ......................................... Ed StoppardSimon Heighes presents highlights of a concert given by violinist Hélène Schmitt with the Luceram Ensemble as part of this year's Schwetzingen Festival. A programme of Baroque violin sonatas includes music by Matteis, Tartini and Veracini.
Nicola Matteis: Suite in E minor, from 'Ayrs for the Violin' (1685)
Giovanni Carbonelli: Sonata No.12 in B minor
Giuseppe Tartini: Violin Sonata in G minor, Op.1 No.10 'Didone abbandonata'
Francesco Maria Veracini: Violin Sonata in D minor, Op.2 No.12
Traditional, arr Thomas Barlow: Greensleeves
Hélène Schmitt (violin/director)
Luceram Ensemble.
A sequence of choral and orchestral music by the American composer Elliott Carter, including the first broadcast of new recordings of 'Soundings' and 'Interventions' by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) conducted by Oliver Knussen.
Elliott Carter:
Musicians Wrestle Everywhere
SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart
Marcus Creed (conductor)
Soundings (2005)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (conductor)
Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred
Rosalind Rees (soprano)
David Starobin (guitar)
Instances
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (conductor)
Three Poems of Robert Frost
Patrick Mason (baritone)
Ensemble: Speculum Musicae
David Starobin (conductor)
Interventions
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (conductor)
To Music (1937)
SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart
Eva-Maria Schape (soprano)
Marcus Creed (conductor)
The American composer Elliott Carter (1908-2012) lived to the age of 103, completing commissions till the very end of his life. This sequence of works from Carter's salad days (influenced by Charles Ives in the US and Nadia Boulanger in Paris) to his final flowerings displays music by turns tender, uncompromising, and humorous.
Jonathan Swain presents a second selection of recordings from the semi-finals of the 2017 Let The Peoples Sing choral competition, plus a performance of Schoenberg's arrangement of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.
12:31 AM
Nystedt, Knut
Torø liti
Norwegian Girls' Choir, Anne Karin Sundal-Ask (conductor)
12:33 AM
Ødegaard, Henrik
Som den gyldne sol frembryter
Norwegian Girls' Choir, Anne Karin Sundal-Ask (conductor)
12:38 AM
Arnesen, Kim André
Even when he is silent
Norwegian Girls' Choir, Anne Karin Sundal-Ask (conductor)
12:44 AM
Sibelius, Jean
Sortunut ääni, Op. 18 No. 1
Vaskivouri Upper Secondary School Chamber Choir, Jonna Vehmanen (conductor)
12:45 AM
Rautavaara, Einojuhani
Ludus Verbalis, Op.10 (excerpts)
Vaskivouri Upper Secondary School Chamber Choir, Jonna Vehmanen (conductor)
12:46 AM
Kähärä, Anna-Mari
Kuka nukkuu tuutussasi
Vaskivouri Upper Secondary School Chamber Choir, Jonna Vehmanen (conductor)
12:50 AM
Trad. arr. Hogan, Moses
Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel
Vaskivouri Upper Secondary School Chamber Choir, Jonna Vehmanen (conductor)
12:53 AM
Joel, Billy arr. Chilcott, Bob
And so it goes
Vaskivouri Upper Secondary School Chamber Choir, Jonna Vehmanen (conductor)
12:58 AM
Tormis, Veljo
Küla kuuleb
The Girls' Choir of the Children's Music Studio of Estonian Radio, Kadri Hunt (conductor)
1:00 AM
Hunt, Kadri
Sõna vägi
The Girls' Choir of the Children's Music Studio of Estonian Radio, Kadri Hunt (conductor)
1:02 AM
Kreek, Cyrillus
Oh laulgem südamest
The Girls' Choir of the Children's Music Studio of Estonian Radio, Kadri Hunt (conductor)
1:05 AM
Maimets, Riho Esko
Angele Dei
The Girls' Choir of the Children's Music Studio of Estonian Radio, Kadri Hunt (conductor)
1:08 AM
Kaumann, Tõnis
Tiritamm
The Girls' Choir of the Children's Music Studio of Estonian Radio, Kadri Hunt (conductor)
1:12 AM
Argento, Dominick
Orpheus
The Musical Originals Singers, Imogen Nicholls (conductor)
1:18 AM
Trad. arr. Latham, Robert
Bobby Shaftoe
The Musical Originals Singers, Imogen Nicholls (conductor)
1:19 AM
Orbán, György
Pange lingua
The Musical Originals Singers, Imogen Nicholls (conductor)
1:23 AM
Mahler, Gustav arr. Schoenberg, Arnold
Das Lied von der Erde
Miriam Murphy (soprano), Henry Moss (tenor), Royal Academy of Music Chamber Ensemble, Edward Carroll (conductor)
2:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Piano Sonata in F, K332
Martin Helmchen (piano)
2:51 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix
Symphony No.5 in D major, 'Reformation'
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)
3:18 AM
Janácek, Leos
Mladi (Youth) - Suite for wind sextet
Anita Szabó (flute), Béla Horváth (oboe), Zsolt Szatmári (clarinet), Pál Bokor (bassoon), György Salamon (bass clarinet), Tamás Zempléni (horn)
3:36 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio
Concerto for four violins & basso continuo in F, Op.3 No.7, (RV.567)
Paul Wright, Natsumi Wakamatsu, Sayuri Yamagata, Staas Swierstra (violins), Hidemi Suzuki (cello), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
3:45 AM
Haydn, Joseph
Overture to Lo Speziale
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (Conductor)
3:52 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Rondo a capriccio in G major, Op.129 (Rage over a lost penny)
Pavel Kolesnikov (Piano)
3:59 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Ah! Perfido, Op.65
Rosamund Illing (soprano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Esser (conductor)
4:12 AM
Tippett, Michael
Dance, clarion air
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
4:16 AM
Walton, William
3 Pieces for organ from 'Richard III'
Ian Sadler (organ of St.James Cathedral, Toronto)
4:22 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546
Risør Festival Strings
4:31 AM
Sibelius, Jean
Valse Triste
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
4:37 AM
Strauss (ii), Johann
Treasure Waltz from Der Zigeunerbaron
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
4:46 AM
Grainger, Percy
Ramble on the Last Love Duet in 'Der Rosenkavalier'
Dennis Hennig (piano)
4:54 AM
Wagner, Richard
Siegfrieds Trauermarsch - from Götterdämmerung
Zagreb Philharmonic, Lovro von Matačić (conductor)
5:02 AM
Suk, Josef
Meditation on an Old Czech Hymn, 'St Wenceslas'
Signum Quartet
5:09 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Symphony No.1 in C Major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
5:35 AM
Janácek, Leos
In the Mists
David Kadouch (piano)
5:51 AM
Haydn, Joseph
Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major
Primož Zalaznik (cello), Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Günter Pichler (conductor)
6:17 AM
Westlake, Nigel
Winter in the Forgotten Valley
Guitar Trek - Timothy Kain, Fiona Walsh, Richard Strasser, Peter Constant.
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
9am
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.
9.30
Take part in today's musical challenge: can you remember the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the opera impresario Wasfi Kani. Wasfi is one of the UK's leading opera organisers and fundraisers, and the founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera. After studying music at the University of Oxford she worked as a computer programmer in the City, before realising she wanted to return to music. She founded Pimlico Opera with the aim of using music and drama for the public good, and it was one of the first opera companies to specialise in performing in unusual places, such as hospitals, banks and prisons. Grange Park Opera has become one of the UK's most successful summer opera companies and is currently enjoying its first season at a brand-new theatre in Surrey. As a pianist, violinist and conductor, much of the music that Wasfi has chosen for the week is music that she's played herself, including music by Schubert, Richard Strauss and Mozart.
10.30
Music on Location: London
Sarah explores one of London's most conspicuous premieres. Handel's Water Music was first performed on a barge floating up the River Thames in 1717, accompanying King George I and his guests as they journeyed into the night.
11am
Sarah's featured artist is one of Britain's most celebrated living conductors, Edward Gardner. Gardner is currently Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, but has spent much of his career in the opera house. From 2007-2015 he was Music Director at English National Opera and during this time he won the RPS Conductor of the Year Award and an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera. His big breakthrough came when he stood in at short notice for a répétiteur at the Salzburg Festival, and from there he went on to be Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera. He regularly works with the National Youth Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBCSO) with whom he led the Last Night of the Proms in 2011. Sarah's chosen four of Gardner's recordings with the BBCSO: recordings of Walton's Symphony No.1, Szymanowski's Symphony No. 4 'Symphonie Concertante' (with pianist Louis Lortie), Britten's Violin Concerto with Tasmin Little, and Lutosławski's song cycle Chantefleurs et Chantefables with soprano Lucy Crowe. She's also chosen his recording of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder (Part III) with an array of musicians drawn from Norway, Sweden and the UK.
Walton
Symphony No. 1
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor).
Donald Macleod explores Olivier Messiaen's student days in Paris
Olivier Messiaen was the single most important contributor to the organ repertoire in the twentieth century. He took up learning the organ whilst he was a student in Paris, and was fortunate to hear virtuoso organists around the city, including Louis Vierne, Charles Tournemire, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré. Aged just twenty-two, he succeeded Charles Quef as titular organist at the Sainte-Trinité in Paris. Messiaen remained in this post for over sixty years, composing many solo works for the organ that pushed the instrument to its very limits. He rose to become one of the leading composers in France, and also a worldwide musical celebrity. This week Donald Macleod focuses each day on one specific organ work Messiaen composed, whilst exploring the period in which it was written along with those other instrumental works from the same time.
Olivier Messiaen didn't come from a musical background. He taught himself the piano and at the age of eleven started attending classes at the Paris Conservatoire. Amongst his earliest works are his Preludes for solo piano, composed in the aftermath of his mother's death. By 1930 Messiaen had won the conservatoire's First Prize for composition. In that same year he composed his work for solo organ, Diptyque, which he described as an essay on earthly life and eternal happiness in two parts. Messiaen's faith would always be a key part of his life, and integral to his music. In that same year, 1930, he composed a cantata about transcendence, La mort du nombre, exploring the relationship between human time and eternal time, between music and silence.
Offrande au Saint-Sacrement
Olivier Latry, organ
A Reflection in the Wind (Prelude No 8)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Diptyque
Hans-Ola Ericsson, organ
Les Offrandes oubliées
Orchestre National de Lyon
Jun Märkl, conductor
La Mort du nombre
Jaël Azzaretti, soprano
James Oxley, tenor
Christophe Poiget, violin
Alice Ader, piano
Producer Luke Whitlock.
Live from Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Bass-baritone Hanno Müller-Brachmann sings Mahler with Hendrik Heilmann at the piano.
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Mahler: Rückert Lieder
Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass-baritone)
Hendrik Heilmann (piano)
Hanno Müller-Brachmann and Hendrik Heilmann venture into the complex emotional territories of Mahler's song cycles to poems by Friedrich Rückert.
Kindertotenlieder, first performed in 1905, deals with the grief unlocked by the death of two of the poet's children, while the five Rückert Lieder reveal the psychological insight and captivating beauty of Mahler's intensely romantic music.
Fiona Talkington introduces performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, including highlights from a concert at the Kissinger Sommer Festival last month in Bavaria, and a tribute to the BBCSO's former Chief Conductor Jiří Bělohlávek, who died in May.
Detlev Glanert: Weites Land
Fryderyk Chopin: Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, Op.21
Jan Lisecki (piano)
2:50pm
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op.97 (Rhenish)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Recorded last month at the Kissinger Sommer Festival, Bavaria
3:30pm
Frederick Delius: Song of the High Hills
Olivia Robinson (soprano)
Christopher Bowen (tenor)
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
4:00pm
Tribute to Jiří Bělohlávek
Bohuslav Martinů: Symphony No. 2
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor).
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from bass Ashley Riches and tenor Ilker Arcayürek, who appear in concert together in Buxton this week. Plus American pianist Thomas Nickell performs live, and Sally Beamish talks about being Composer in Residence at this year's Ryedale Festival.
BBC New Generation Artists at the 2017 Harrogate Music Festival. Celebrating its 51st season this year with a theme of 'Generations: music passing from one generation to the next', this concert brings together the brilliant Belgian clarintettist Annelien Van Wauwe and the French Van Kuijk Quartet. The programme, which was recorded last night at the magnificent Royal Hall, begins with one of Mozart's most popular quartets and ends with Brahms's autumnal masterpiece for clarinet and string quartet.
Presented by Tom Redmond
Mozart: String Quartet No.19 in C major, K.465 (Dissonance)
Webern: Langsamer Satz
c.8.10pm
Interval Music: NGA Beatrice Rana plays Bach's Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 in a BBC studio recording she made last year.
c. 8.30pm
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115
Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet)
Van Kuijk Quartet
recorded last night at the Royal Hall, Harrogate.
In 1969 while the actor was performing his one man show in Dublin, a young Simon Callow was Micheál MacLiammóir's dresser. Callow pays tribute to the 50 year relationship of Micheál MacLiammóir and his partner Hilton Edward, who were the founders of Dublin's influential Gate Theatre.
Simon Callow is an actor, musician, writer, and theatre director.
Part of Gay Britannia, a season of programming marking the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act 1967, which decriminalised homosexual acts that took place in private between two men over the age of 21.
Writer: Simon Callow
Reader: Simon Callow
Producer: Simon Richardson.
The French saxophonist Emile Parisien was one of the stars of last year's London Jazz Festival and he has been described by Le Monde as "the best new thing that has happened in European jazz for a long time". Tonight, Soweto Kinch presents a full festival set by Parisien's quintet from the Saalfelden Jazz Festival, with special guests pianist Joachim Kühn and clarinettist Michel Portal joining guitarist Manu Codjia, bassist Simon Tailleu and percussionists Mario Costa and Wolfgang Reisinger. They play new music from Parisien's latest album "Sfumato" as well as original compositions by Kühn and Portal. Also in tonight's show, Soweto talks to legendary drummer Peter Erskine about the release of a newly discovered concert by bassist Jaco Pastorius and his "Word of Mouth" big band.
Jonathan Swain presents performances from the 2015 BBC Proms of Delius, Nielsen and Ravel, alongside a new cantata by Hugh Wood.
12:31 AM
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934)
In a Summer Garden
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
12:47 AM
Wood, Hugh (b.1932)
Epithalamium
Rebecca Bottone (soprano), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
1:08 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Clarinet Concerto, Op.57
Mark Simpson (clarinet), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
1:32 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Daphnis et Chloe - Suite No.2
BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
1:49 AM
Franck, Cesar [1822-1890]
Violin Sonata (M.8) in A major
Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
2:16 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Manfred - Overture to the Incidental Music (Op.115)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek (conductor)
2:31 AM
Moscheles, Ignaz (1794-1870)
Grosse Sonate for Pianoforte in E major (Op.41)
Tom Beghin (fortepiano - built by Gottlieb Hafner, Vienna, ca. 1830)
2:59 AM
Peeters, Flor [1903-1986]
Missa Festiva - for mixed choir and organ (Op.62)
Flemish Radio Choir, Vic Nees (director), Peter Pieters (organ)
3:26 AM
Castello, Dario (first half of c.17th)
Sonata IV, for 2 violins and continuo (from Sonate concertarte in stil moderno, per sonare nel organo, overo spineta con diversi instrumenti, a 2 & 3 voci. Libro primo. Venice 1629)
Il Giardino Armonico
3:34 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Sorge nel petto - aria from 'Rinaldo' (Act 3 Sc.4)
Graham Pushee (countertenor), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (artistic director)
3:39 AM
Medins, Janis (1890-1966)
Aria from "Suite No.1"
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Imants Resnis (conductor)
3:45 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
4 Folk Songs: 1. Come thee unto the hills; 2: O Mistress Mine; 3: Six dukes went afishin'; 4: Mary Thomson
Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (Conductor)
3:57 AM
Huggett, Andrew (b.1955)
Suite for accordion and piano - 4 pieces based on East Canadian folksongs
(She's like the swallow; I'se the b'y (that builds the boat); The Belle Isle bolero; En roulant ma boule roulant)
Joseph Petric (accordion), Guy Few (piano)
4:11 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in C major (K.545)
Young-Lan Han (piano)
4:21 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
Overture to 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia'
KBS Symphony Orchestra, Chi-Yong Chung (conductor)
4:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770-1827]
2 Sonatinas for mandolin: C minor WoO.43/1 and C major WoO.44/1
Avi Avital (mandolin), Shalev Ad-El (harpsichord)
4:38 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Violin Concerto in D (Op.3 No.9) (RV.230)
Europa Galante; Fabio Biondi (conductor)
4:46 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Variationen über ein Zigeunerlied for piano (J.219) (Op.55) (1817)
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)
4:52 AM
Reicha, Anton (1770-1836)
Trio for French Horns (Op.82)
Jozef Illes, Jaroslan Snobl, Jan Budzak (French horns)
5:02 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Ariettes oubliées - song cycle for voice & piano
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Gary Matthewman (piano)
5:20 AM
Bizet, Georges [1838-1875]
Carmen Suite No.2
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
5:37 AM
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916)
Goyescas, Book 1, Nos. 2-4
Enrique Granados (piano)
6:01 AM
Jersild, Jorgen (1913-2004)
3 Danish Romances for Choir: 1. The tedious winter went its way; 2. My favourite valley; 3. Night rain
The Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (conductor)
6:13 AM
Dopper, Cornelius (1870-1939)
Ciaconna Gotica (1920)
The Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kees Bakels (conductor).
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
9am
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.
9.30
Take part in today's musical challenge: identify a piece of music played in reverse.
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the opera impresario Wasfi Kani. Wasfi is one of the UK's leading opera organisers and fundraisers, and the founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera. After studying music at the University of Oxford she worked as a computer programmer in the City, before realising she wanted to return to music. She founded Pimlico Opera with the aim of using music and drama for the public good, and it was one of the first opera companies to specialise in performing in unusual places, such as hospitals, banks and prisons. Grange Park Opera has become one of the UK's most successful summer opera companies and is currently enjoying its first season at a brand-new theatre in Surrey. As a pianist, violinist and conductor, much of the music that Wasfi has chosen for the week is music that she's played herself, including music by Schubert, Richard Strauss and Mozart.
10.30
Music on Location: London
Following the popularity of his London Suite, Eric Coates wrote a second, the London Again Suite. Sarah explores this trio of London vignettes, which portrays Oxford Street, Langham Place and Mayfair.
Double Take
Sarah explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two recordings of Mahler's song 'Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang' (There were three angels singing a sweet song) - one in a version for choir and orchestra, part of his Third Symphony, and the other for voice and piano.
11am
Sarah's featured artist is one of Britain's most celebrated living conductors, Edward Gardner. Gardner is currently Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, but has spent much of his career in the opera house. From 2007-2015 he was Music Director at English National Opera and during this time he won the RPS Conductor of the Year Award and an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera. His big breakthrough came when he stood in at short notice for a répétiteur at the Salzburg Festival, and from there he went on to be Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera. He regularly works with the National Youth Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBCSO) with whom he led the Last Night of the Proms in 2011. Sarah's chosen four of Gardner's recordings with the BBCSO: recordings of Walton's Symphony No.1, Szymanowski's Symphony No. 4 'Symphonie Concertante' (with pianist Louis Lortie), Britten's Violin Concerto with Tasmin Little, and Lutosławski's song cycle Chantefleurs et Chantefables with soprano Lucy Crowe. She's also chosen his recording of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder (Part III) with an array of musicians drawn from Norway, Sweden and the UK.
Szymanowski
Symphony No. 4 'Symphonie Concertante'
Louis Lortie (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor).
The devil's voice is heard in Messiaen's music presented by Donald Macleod
Olivier Messiaen was the single most important contributor to the organ repertoire in the twentieth century. He took up learning the organ whilst he was a student in Paris, and was fortunate to hear virtuoso organists around the city including Louis Vierne, Charles Tournemire, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré. Aged just twenty-two, he succeeded Charles Quef as titular organist at the Sainte-Trinité in Paris. Messiaen remained in this post for over sixty years, composing many solo works for the organ that pushed the instrument to its very limits. He rose to become one of the leading composers in France, and also a worldwide musical celebrity. This week Donald Macleod focuses each day on one specific organ work Messiaen composed, whilst exploring the period in which it was written along with those other instrumental works from the same time.
In 1931 Messiaen was appointed the youngest titular organist in Paris, at Sainte-Trinité. Members of the congregation were alarmed by his occasional adventurous and dissonant improvisation at the organ, and some claimed they could hear the devil's voice emerging from the organ pipes. It was in these early years, after leaving his studies at the Paris Conservatoire, that he composed his orchestral work Le tombeau resplendissant. Messiaen said of this work that he wanted to write a kind of Beatitude for those who discover in their faith something more than the illusion of distant youth. The following year, 1932, he married the violinist Claire Delbos, who was the daughter of a professor at the Sorbonne University. His wedding gift to his new bride was a chamber work, a Theme and Variations for them both to play together on the violin and piano. By 1934 Messiaen had completed a new work for solo organ called L'Ascension. Originally for orchestra, he transcribed this piece for organ adding a new third movement. Like so many of his compositions, L'Ascension is deeply rooted within Messiaen's own Christian beliefs.
Livre d'orgue (2nd mvt Première pièce en trio)
Olivier Messiaen, organ
Le Tombeau resplendissant
Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille
Myung-Whun Chung, conductor
Theme and Variations
Maxim Vengerov, violin
Itamar Golan, piano
L'Ascension
Thomas Trotter, organ
Producer Luke Whitlock.
From the East Neuk Festival in Fife, Tom Redmond presents performances from Kilrenny Church and Anstruther town hall. The Castalian Quartet perform Ravel's String Quartet while Mr McFall's Chamber showcase Chrysillis, a new work by Norwegian Henning Sommerro.
Ravel: Quartet in F
Castalian Quartet
Sommerro: Chrysillis
Mr McFall's Chamber, with Nils Okland & Chris Stout (fiddles) and Catriona Mackay (harp).
Presenter: Tom Redmond
Producer: Laura Metcalfe.
Fiona Talkington introduces a concert recorded by the BBC Singers at this year's St. Magnus International Festival and recordings from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Frank Martin: Mass for Double Choir
Anders Hillborg: Muoayiyoum
Paul Crabtree: At ipse dixit (World premiere)
Peter Maxwell Davies: The House of Winter
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin (conductor)
Recorded last month at the St. Magnus International Festival 2017
in St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney
3:00pm
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op.26
Rachel Barton-Pine (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton (conductor)
3:25pm
Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor).
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news.
Adam Tomlinson presents a concert of sacred works by Poulenc and Palestrina, given by The Sixteen and director Harry Christophers in the magnificent York Minster as part of their Choral Pilgrimage and this year's York Early Music Festival. Palestrina and Poulenc: two sacred masters separated by four centuries. Palestrina's Mass L'Homme Armé is based on the popular song of the same name - a 16th-century reminder of the horror of war. Conflict also inspired Poulenc, who was deeply affected by the death of his composer friend Pierre-Octave Ferroud in an horrific car accident. His Salve Regina - one of a pair of motets - quietly expresses conveys reverence, penitence and, ultimately, hope. In contrast, Un soir de neige, composed in December 1944, juxtaposes the brutal beauty of nature with death and coldness - reflecting no doubt another bleak winter of occupation in his native France. The concluding 'Angus Dei' of his Mass in G also lays to rest any accusations of compositional flippancy, with its serene final utterance of "Dona nobis pacem" ("give us peace").
Poulenc: Salve Regina
Palestrina: Surge amica mea; Parce mihi, Domine; Surgam et circuibo civitatem
Poulenc; Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Palestrina: Peccantem me quotidie; Kyrie and Gloria from Missa L'Homme Armé
Poulenc: Un Soir de neige
Palestrina: Credo from Missa L'Homme Armé; Salve Regina
Poulenc: Agnus Dei from Mass in G
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (director).
Shahidha Bari discusses LGBTQ in the history of philosophy. As part of the BBC's Queer Icons series Philosopher Sophie-Grace Chappell discusses Plato's Symposium, and novelist Adam Mars-Jones talks about Bruce Bagemihl's book Biological Exuberance which explored homosexuality in the animal kingdom.
Plus, we hear from the winner of this year's Caine Prize for African Writing.
Queer Icons is a project to mark the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in which 50 leading figures choose an LGBTQ artwork that is special to them. You can find more details on the Front Row website on BBC Radio 4.
You can find the BBC's Gay Britannia season of programmes on radio and tv collected on the website. They include documentaries, Drama on 3 from Joe Orton and exploring Victim the 1961 film starring Dirk Bogarde, episodes of Words and Music and more editions of Free Thinking including Philip Hoare on Cecil Beaton, Jake Arnott on Joe Orton and Peggy Reynolds on Sappho.
Producer: Luke Mulhall.
A heartfelt meditation on the (in)visibilty of gay women.
Writer and theatremaker Stella Duffy describes growing up a lesbian in New Zealand in the 60s and 70s and considers what the 40 year expatriate 'marriage' of novelist, poet and playwright Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas, author of The Alice B Toklas Cookbook, means to her.
Part of Gay Britannia, a season of programming marking the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially decriminalised homosexual acts that took place in private between two men over the age of 21.
Writer: Stella Duffy
Reader: Stella Duffy
Producer: Simon Richardson.
Verity Sharp gets the week's late listening underway by joining Joby Talbot's choral journey along the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route. We'll also move through an electroacoustic cityscape courtesy of turntablist Matt Wright and alto saxophonist Keir Neuringer, and there'll be stops along the way at C Joynes's guitar innovations and Linda Perhacs's brand of American psych-folk.
Produced by Chris Elcombe for Reduced Listening.
Jonathan Swain present a performance from Poland of Gluck's 4-act opera Iphigénie en Tauride.
12:32 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald [1714-1787]
Iphigénie en Tauride
Iphigénie ..... Helena Juntunen (soprano)
Oreste ..... David Pershall (baritone)
Pylade ..... Eric Barry (tenor)
Thoas ..... George Mosley (bass)
Priestess ..... Anna Destraël (soprano)
Priestess/Greek woman ..... Laura Holm (soprano)
A Scythian ..... Benoît Deney (tenor)
Minister ..... Guillaume Durand (bass)
Marek Toporowski, harpsichord
Polish Radio Chorus
Izabela Polakowska (chorus director)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
2:13 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Images - set 1 for piano
Marc-André Hamelin (Piano) Recorded at Chopin Manor, Duszniki Zdrój, Poland on 06 August 2014
2:31 AM
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875)
Symphony in C major
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Othmar Maga (conductor)
3:06 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
24 Preludes, Op.28, for piano
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
3:44 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
Overture - Nabucco
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Alun Francis (conductor)
3:52 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872), Wiechowicz, Stanislaw (Arranger), Mazynski, Piotr (Arranger)
From 4 Choral Songs: Kozak ('The Cossack'), lyrics Maria Konopnicka, arr Stanislaw Wiechowicz; Wedrowna ptaszyna ('Little Wandering Bird'), lyrics Jan Czeczot, arr. Piotr Maszynski
Polish Radio Choir, Marek Kluza (Director)
4:01 AM
Spohr, Louis (1784-1859)
Fantasy, Theme and Variations in B flat on a Theme of Danzi, Op.81
László Horvath (clarinet), New Budapest String Quartet
4:09 AM
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736)
Violin Sonata in G major
Peter Michalica (violin), Elena Michalicova (piano)
4:18 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Novelette in F major, Op.21 No.1
Alfred Grünfeld (1852-1924) (piano)
4:23 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Last Spring (Letzter Frühling), Op 33 No 2
Camerata Bern, Thomas Furi (Leader)
4:31 AM
Zagar, Peter (b. 1961)
Blumenthal Dance No.2, for violin, viola, cello, clarinet and piano (1999)
Opera Aperta Ensemble
4:39 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Rondo in A minor, K.511
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
4:49 AM
Bax, Arnold [1883-1953]
Mater ora filium, for double choir
BBC Singers, David Hill (conductor)
4:59 AM
Bodinus, Sebastian (c.1700-1760)
Trio in G major, for oboe and 2 bassoons
Hildebrand'sche Hoboïsten Compagnie - Renate Hildebrand, Nils Ferber, Annkathrin Brüggemann (oboes), George Corall (oboe/taille)
5:09 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), orchestrated. Anton Webern (1883-1945)
6 Deutsche for piano, D.820
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown (conductor)
5:18 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Tzigane - rapsodie de concert for violin and piano
Vineta Sareika (violin), Ventis Zilberts (piano)
5:29 AM
Pizetti, Ildebrando [1880-1968]
Requiem Mass, for a capella choir
Radio France Chorus, Donald Palumbo (conductor)
5:54 AM
Wirén, Dag (1905-1986)
Sonatina for piano, Op.25
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)
6:01 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Flute and Harp Concerto in C, K.299
Suzana Klincharova (harp), Georgi Spasov (flute), Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, Plamen Djurov (conductor).
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
9am
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.
9.30
Take part in today's musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify a mystery person.
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the opera impresario Wasfi Kani. Wasfi is one of the UK's leading opera organisers and fundraisers, and the founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera. After studying music at the University of Oxford she worked as a computer programmer in the City, before realising she wanted to return to music. She founded Pimlico Opera with the aim of using music and drama for the public good, and it was one of the first opera companies to specialise in performing in unusual places, such as hospitals, banks and prisons. Grange Park Opera has become one of the UK's most successful summer opera companies and is currently enjoying its first season at a brand-new theatre in Surrey. As a pianist, violinist and conductor, much of the music that Wasfi has chosen for the week is music that she's played herself, including music by Schubert, Richard Strauss and Mozart.
10.30
Music on Location: London
Henry Purcell was born and raised no more than 500 metres from Westminster Abbey, where he was later Organist and is now buried. Sarah explores some of the music Purcell wrote for this, one of London's most famous churches.
11am
Sarah's featured artist is one of Britain's most celebrated living conductors, Edward Gardner. Gardner is currently Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, but has spent much of his career in the opera house. From 2007-2015 he was Music Director at English National Opera and during this time he won the RPS Conductor of the Year Award and an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera. His big breakthrough came when he stood in at short notice for a répétiteur at the Salzburg Festival, and from there he went on to be Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera. He regularly works with the National Youth Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBCSO) with whom he led the Last Night of the Proms in 2011. Sarah's chosen four of Gardner's recordings with the BBCSO: recordings of Walton's Symphony No.1, Szymanowski's Symphony No. 4 'Symphonie Concertante' (with pianist Louis Lortie), Britten's Violin Concerto with Tasmin Little, and Lutosławski's song cycle Chantefleurs et Chantefables with soprano Lucy Crowe. She's also chosen his recording of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder (Part III) with an array of musicians drawn from Norway, Sweden and the UK.
Britten
Violin Concerto
Tasmin Little (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor).
Donald Macleod journeys through Olivier Messiaen's Peruvian inspired compositions
Olivier Messiaen was the single most important contributor to the organ repertoire in the twentieth century. He took up learning the organ whilst he was a student in Paris, and was fortunate to hear virtuoso organists around the city including Louis Vierne, Charles Tournemire, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré. Aged just twenty-two, he succeeded Charles Quef as titular organist at the Sainte-Trinité in Paris. Messiaen remained in this post for over sixty years, composing many solo works for the organ that pushed the instrument to its very limits. He rose to become one of the leading composers in France, and also a worldwide musical celebrity. This week Donald Macleod focuses each day on one specific organ work Messiaen composed, whilst exploring the period in which it was written along with those other instrumental works from the same time.
In the years following World War Two, Olivier Messiaen who up until that point was regarded mainly as a parish organist, found himself propelled into the limelight. He was referred to as the Atomic Bomb of Contemporary Music. In the summer of 1945 he turned his attention to a song cycle called Harawi, exploring themes of Love and Death. These songs may have been inspired by his wife Claire who was now seriously ill, or by a new women in his life, the pianist Yvonne Loriod. Similar to his Peruvian folklore-inspired choral work Cinq Rechants from a few years later, Harawi is in part based on the Quechua language of Peru. By 1947, Messiaen returned to the Paris Conservatoire as a teacher. Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, George Benjamin and even Quincy Jones were all taught by him at some point. Just a few years later, after a gap of some ten years, Messiaen returned to writing music for the organ with his Livre d'orgue. It is a pioneering work which pushes the instruments boundaries to the very limits. In this music Messiaen was keen to abolish our perception of time by employing heterophony, where several musical structures proceed alongside each other without perceptible coordination.
Chant des déportés
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis, conductor
L'Amour de Piroutcha (Harawi)
Rachel Yakar, soprano
Yvonne Loriod, piano
Cinq Rechants
RIAS Chamber Choir
Daniel Reuss, director
Livre d'orgue (5th - 7th mvts)
Hans-Ola Ericsson, organ
Producer Luke Whitlock.
Festival artists the Belcea Quartet, Malcolm Martineau (piano) and Thomas Oliemans (baritone) bring a Schubertiade to the East Neuk festival, featuring Schubert's most well-loved 'Death and the Maiden' Quartet and songs written in 1816.
Schubert: String Quartet in D minor, D810 'Death and the Maiden'
Belcea Quartet
Schubert: Der Wanderer
Schubert: An den Mond
Schubert: Wandrers Nachtlied II
Thomas Oliemans, baritone
Malcolm Martineau, piano
Presenter - Tom Redmond
Producer - Laura Metcalfe.
Ian Skelly introduces highlights from the BBC Symphony Orchestra's trip to the Kissinger Sommer Festival in Germany and some music from an award winning CD recording featuring the baritone Matthias Goerne
Mendelsssohn: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) - Overture, Op.26
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Recorded at the Kissinger Sommer Festival
2:10pm
Mahler/Berio: Frühe Lieder
Matthias Goerne (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Josep Pons (conductor)
2:40pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Recorded at the Kissinger Sommer Festival.
Recorded in the Chapel of Royal Holloway, University of London
Introit: Abendlied (Rheinberger)
Responses: Ayleward
Psalms 65, 66, 67 (Walmisley, Attwood, Pike)
First Lesson: Wisdom of Solomon 7 vv.7-10, 15
Deutsches Magnificat (Schütz)
Second Lesson: Luke 18 vv.15-30
Nunc Dimittis (Hammerschmidt)
Anthem: Geistliches Lied (Brahms)
Hymn: The duteous day now closeth (Innsbruck)
Organ Voluntary: Passacaglia in D minor (Buxtehude)
Rupert Gough - Director of Choral Music
James Furniss-Roe - Senior Organ Scholar.
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. His guests include soprano Joyce El-Khoury, who performs live in the studio.
Live from the Barbican Hall, London. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Wagner and Haydn and the pianist Denis Kozhukhin joins them in Bartok.
The LSO's Music Director Designate closes the 2016/17 season with a programme of music which, he says, has always been close to his heart. In the first half of this Barbican Hall concert, Bartok's fiendishly difficult Second Piano Concerto is prefaced by the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan, the work which famously liberated classical music from the shackles of tonality. And in the second half, Simon Rattle brings to London what he calls "An eccentric journey through Haydn ...The idea is to make a musical journey through all that is quirky and extraordinary, humorous and profound in Haydn. Hopefully this pasticcio will give a picture of the composer who most summed up all the ideals of the Enlightenment, of intelligence, respect, humour, wit and profound thought." Radio 3 brings this programme live from the Barbican Hall in a concert which sold out within minutes.
Presented by Martin Handley
Denis Kozhukin (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from 'Tristan and Isolde'
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Sz. 95, BB 101
Interval
Haydn: An imaginary orchestral journey - featuring excerpts from Symphonies Nos 6, 45, 46, 60, 64, 90 and 101, 'The Creation', 'The Seasons', 'The Desert Island' and 'The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross'.
Tate Modern offers a retrospective on the Art of the Black Power Movement in America and explores how 'Black Art' was defined by artists across the United States and its interplay with the civil rights movement. Rana Mitter hears about the exhibition and then talks to the poet Linton Kwesi Johnson and the film director H O Nazareth about the intellectual nature of British Black Panther leadership and also hears from Sandeep Parmar, a prize-winning poet who argues that a new generation of critics and reviewers must be found to highlight the work of poets of colour in the UK.
Also, Rana Mitter talks to intellectual historian Ibram X Kendi as his award-winning account of racist ideas in the United States comes out in the UK.
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power at London's Tate Modern 12/07/2017 - 22/10/2017
Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X Kendi is out now.
Academic and poet Gregory Woods, author of Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World, explores the tumultuous but enduring relationship of poet WH Auden and librettist Chester Kallman, lifelong companions and collaborators.
Part of Gay Britannia, a season of programming marking the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially decriminalised homosexual acts that took place in private between two men over the age of 21.
Writer: Gregory Woods
Reader: Gregory Woods
Producer: Simon Richardson.
Tonight, Anatolian and Iranian sufi and mystic influences come together in Call of the Birds, a new project by The Secret Ensemble with singer Mahsa Vahdat. Verity's picks also include hippie-era folk from Vashti Bunyan and she looks ahead to tomorrow's mixtape with a recent collaboration between Scott Walker and experimental metal band Sunn O))).
Produced by Chris Elcombe for Reduced Listening.
Jonathan Swain presents violin recitals from the Montreal Music Competition 2016.
12:31 AM
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Violin Sonata
Fedor Rudin (violin), Janelle Fung (piano)
12:48 AM
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Romance in B flat major, Op.28
Fedor Rudin (violin), Janelle Fung (piano)
12:54 AM
Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)
I Palpiti - Introduction and Variations on Rossini's 'Di tanti palpiti', Op.13
Fedor Rudin (violin), Janelle Fung (piano)
1:05 AM
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
Recitativo and Scherzo-caprice, Op.6
Minami Yoshida (violin)
1:10 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Violin Sonata in E flat major Op.18
Minami Yoshida (violin), Jean Desmarais (piano)
1:38 AM
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) arr. Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931)
Caprice
Minami Yoshida (violin), Jean Desmarais (piano)
1:47 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Violin Sonata in A major, Op.30 No.1
Ayana Tsuji (violin), Philip Chiu (piano)
2:08 AM
Jean Papineau-Couture (1916-2000)
Violin Sonata in G (1st movement)
Ayana Tsuji (violin), Philip Chiu (piano)
2:13 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Duo concertant
Ayana Tsuji (violin), Philip Chiu (piano)
2:31 AM
Haydn, Johann Michael (1737-1806)
Missa Tempore Quadragesimae
Ex Tempore, Marian Minnen (cello), Elise Christiaens (violone), David Van Bouwel (organ), Florian Heyerick (director)
2:46 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in C, K.330
Sergei Terentjev (piano)
3:05 AM
Stoyanov, Veselin (1902-1969)
Grotesque Suite from 'Bai Ganju'
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Dobrin Petkov (conductor)
3:31 AM
Scriabin, Alexander [1872-1915]
Study in C sharp minor, Op.2 No.1
Alexei Volodin (piano)
3:35 AM
Castello, Dario (fl.1621-1629)
Sonata No. 10, from 'Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Book II'
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (director)
3:44 AM
Holst, Gustav (1874-1934)
Beni Mora - oriental suite
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
4:00 AM
Ramovs, Primoz (1921-1999)
Wind Quintet in 7 parts
Ariart Woodwind Quintet
4:09 AM
Bach, Johann Michael (1648-1694)
Es ist ein großer Gewinn - sacred concerto for soprano, 4 violins and continuo
Maria Zedelius (soprano), Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
4:13 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Impromptu in F minor, D.935 No.4
Eugen d'Albert (1864-1932) (piano)
4:18 AM
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto No.4 in E minor
Concerto Köln
4:31 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
La gazza ladra - Overture
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
4:41 AM
Verdelot, Philippe (c.1485-c.1532)
Dormend Un'Giorno
Banchieri Singers, Denes Szabo (conductor)
4:44 AM
Porta, Costanzo (1528/9-1601)
Sub tuum praesidium
Banchieri Singers, Denes Szabo (conductor)
4:47 AM
Giménez, Gerónimo (1854-1923)
La boda de Luis Alonso
Tornado Guitar Duo: Igor Tulincev (guitar), Sergei Kovtunov (guitar)
4:54 AM
Koehne, Graeme (b. 1956)
Powerhouse - Rhumba for Orchestra
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn (conductor)
5:06 AM
Gabrieli, Giovanni (c.1553-1612)
Canzon II septimi toni a 8
Canadian Brass
5:09 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Bacchanalia - No.10 from Poetické nálady (Poetic tone pictures) Op.85
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava; Róbert Stankovský (conductor)
5:15 AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
3 Folk Songs from Csik County
Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
5:18 AM
Buffardin, Pierre-Gabriel (c.1690-1768)
Concerto à 5 in E minor, for flute and strings
Ernst-Burghard Hilse (flute), Musica Antiqua Köln
5:31 AM
Berg, Alban (1885-1935)
7 Early songs
Barbara Bonney (soprano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
5:47 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Symphony No.2 in D major
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor).
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
9am
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.
9.30
Take part in today's musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the opera impresario Wasfi Kani. Wasfi is one of the UK's leading opera organisers and fundraisers, and the founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera. After studying music at the University of Oxford she worked as a computer programmer in the City, before realising she wanted to return to music. She founded Pimlico Opera with the aim of using music and drama for the public good, and it was one of the first opera companies to specialise in performing in unusual places, such as hospitals, banks and prisons. Grange Park Opera has become one of the UK's most successful summer opera companies and is currently enjoying its first season at a brand-new theatre in Surrey. As a pianist, violinist and conductor, much of the music that Wasfi has chosen for the week is music that she's played herself, including music by Schubert, Richard Strauss and Mozart.
10.30
Music on Location: London
Sarah explores Elgar's Cockaigne Overture, a portrait of the city at the turn of the 20th century. Elgar himself described it as 'stout and steaky'.
Double Take
Sarah explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two recordings of a Scherzo for cello and piano by Debussy, with cellists Jean-Guihen Queyras and Steven Isserlis.
11am
Sarah's featured artist is one of Britain's most celebrated living conductors, Edward Gardner. Gardner is currently Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, but has spent much of his career in the opera house. From 2007-2015 he was Music Director at English National Opera and during this time he won the RPS Conductor of the Year Award and an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera. His big breakthrough came when he stood in at short notice for a répétiteur at the Salzburg Festival, and from there he went on to be Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera. He regularly works with the National Youth Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBCSO) with whom he led the Last Night of the Proms in 2011. Sarah's chosen four of Gardner's recordings with the BBCSO: recordings of Walton's Symphony No.1, Szymanowski's Symphony No. 4 'Symphonie Concertante' (with pianist Louis Lortie), Britten's Violin Concerto with Tasmin Little, and Lutosławski's song cycle Chantefleurs et Chantefables with soprano Lucy Crowe. She's also chosen his recording of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder (Part III) with an array of musicians drawn from Norway, Sweden and the UK.
Lutosławski
Chantefleurs et Chantefables
Lucy Crowe (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor).
Donald Macleod explores Olivier Messiaen's period of fame
Olivier Messiaen was the single most important contributor to the organ repertoire in the twentieth century. He took up learning the organ whilst he was a student in Paris, and was fortunate to hear virtuoso organists around the city including Louis Vierne, Charles Tournemire, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré. Aged just twenty-two, he succeeded Charles Quef as titular organist at the Sainte-Trinité in Paris. Messiaen remained in this post for over sixty years, composing many solo works for the organ that pushed the instrument to its very limits. He rose to become one of the leading composers in France, and also a worldwide musical celebrity. This week Donald Macleod focuses each day on one specific organ work Messiaen composed, whilst exploring the period in which it was written along with those other instrumental works from the same time.
By the 1960s Olivier Messiaen had married his second wife, the pianist Yvonne Loriod. The couple were invited to tour Japan in 1962, where he was enthralled by the landscape and the birds whose songs he recorded. Messiaen was also amazed by the enthusiastic reception they received in Japan, where they were treated like celebrities and constantly filmed. He had now risen to a figure of national and international importance, and soon came a commission from André Malraux, the Minister of Culture under General de Gaulle. For this commission Messiaen composed his orchestral work Et exspecto ressurrectionem mortuorum, which was a memorial to the French dead of the two world wars. He was still very active as an organist at the Sainte-Trinité in Paris, and a few years later in 1969 Messiaen completed his Meditation on the mystery of the Holy Trinity for organ.
Préludes pour piano
Håkon Austbø, piano
Monodie
Gillian Weir, organ
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité (Meditation VIII & IX)
Olivier Messiaen, organ
Producer Luke Whitlock.
East Neuk Festival artists the Castalian Quartet perform Thomas Ades' Four Quarters; an evocation of the cycle of a day - followed by Mozart's great masterwork for clarinet and string quartet with Julian Bliss.
Adès: Four Quarters
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet
Castalian Quartet
Julian Bliss, clarinet
Presenter: Tom Redmond
Producer: Laura Metcalfe.
Fiona Talkington presents Verdi's Falstaff which was recorded at the Vienna State Opera, featuring baritone Ambrogio Maestri and conducted by Zubin Mehta.
Verdi's comic opera Falstaff, written late in the composer's life, includes lots of horsing around, using a libretto by Arrigo Boito and based on Shakespeare's play 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' and scenes from 'Henry IV'.
Sir John Falstaff, a fat knight ..... Ambrogio Maestri (baritone)
Ford, a wealthy man ..... Ludovic Tézier (baritone)
Alice Ford, his wife ..... Carmen Giannattasio (soprano)
Nannetta, their daughter ..... Hila Fahima (soprano)
Meg Page ..... Lilly Jørstad (mezzo-soprano)
Mistress Quickly ..... Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
Fenton, one of Nannetta's suitors ..... Paolo Fanale (tenor)
Dr Caius ..... Thomas Ebenstein (tenor)
Bardolfo, a follower of Falstaff ..... Herwig Pecoraro (tenor)
Pistola, a follower of Falstaff ..... Riccardo Fassi (bass)
Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Zubin Mehta (conductor).
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts new. With live music from former Bellowhead frontman Jon Boden and acclaimed British tenor Mark Padmore with guitarist Morgan Szymanski.
Recorded at St Mary Magdalene Church, Taunton, as part of the town's celebration of The Brewhouse Theatre's 40th anniversary, American composer and conductor Eric Whitacre directs the BBC Singers. The first half of the programme is dedicated to Whitacre's own works for choir, including the UK premiere of 'I Fall', alongside 'Sainte-Chapelle' and 'Lux aurumque'. The second half consists of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's 'Passio'.
Eric Whitacre: Sainte-Chapelle; I Fall (First UK performance); Lux aurumque
INTERVAL
Arvo Pärt: Passio
Helena Wood, violin
Morwenna Del Mar, cello
Lauren Sansom, oboe
Chris Rawley, bassoon
Richard Pearce, organ
BBC Singers
Eric Whitacre, conductor.
Simon Heffer, novelist and co-director of the Fun Palaces campaign Stella Duffy, New Generation Thinker Will Abberley and the writer and sociologist Tiffany Jenkins join Matthew Sweet and an audience at the University of Sussex to debate the ideas explored by Matthew Arnold and their resonance today. The series of periodical essays were first published in Cornhill Magazine, 1867-68, and subsequently published as a book in 1869.
Arnold argued that modern life was producing a society of 'Philistines' who only cared for material possessions and hedonistic pleasure. As a medicine for this moral and spiritual degradation, Arnold prescribed 'culture', which he defined as 'the best which has been thought and said in the world', stored in Europe's great literature, philosophy and history. By engaging with this heritage, he argued, humans could develop towards a higher state of mental and moral 'perfection'.
Simon Heffer is the author of books including High minds: the Victorians and the birth of modern Britain; Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle and Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England.
Tiffany Jenkins is Culture Editor for the journal Sociology Compass. Her books include Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections, Keeping Their Marbles and she is editor of a collection of essays from various writers called Political Culture, Soft Interventions and Nation Building.
Will Abberley is a Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex and the author of English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850-1914
Stella Duffy is a writer and the co-director of the Fun Palaces campaign for wider participation in all forms of arts and culture.;
Producer: Fiona McLean.
Novelist Neel Mukherjee on the abiding reticence that characterises the work and the life of American poet Elizabeth Bishop, particularly in relation to her sexuality. Mukherjee explores the two great loves of Bishop's life: the Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares and American student Alice Methfessel, who was 32 years her junior.
Part of Gay Britannia, a season of programming marking the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially decriminalised homosexual acts that took place in private between two men over the age of 21.
Writer: Neel Mukherjee
Reader: Neel Mukherjee
Producer: Simon Richardson.
The latest in our series of mixtapes looks ahead to the Scott Walker Prom later this month, as Jarvis Cocker, a devotee of the pop-turned-avant-garde singer, curates lesser-known cuts from his catalogue.
Also on the show, Verity Sharp's musical choices include music by Icelandic producer Ólafur Arnalds, thumb-piano orchestra Mbira DzeNharira, and an early Joan Armatrading classic.
Produced by Chris Elcombe for Reduced Listening.
Jonathan Swain presents French chamber and piano music by Saint-Saëns, Fauré and Alexis de Castillon performed by Marie-Catherine Girod with the Ellipse Quartet. Plus Barry Douglas plays and directs Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.1.
12:31 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
String Quartet No 2 in G major, Op 153
Ellipse Quartet: Lyodoh Kaneko (violin), Young-Eun Koo (violin) , Allan Swieton (viola), Florent Carrière (cello)
12:59 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Barcarolle No 1 in E flat major, Op 26
Marie-Catherine Girod (piano)
1:05 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Impromptu No 2 in F minor, Op 31
Marie-Catherine Girod (piano)
1:08 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Nocturne No 3 in A flat major, Op 33
Marie-Catherine Girod (piano)
1:14 AM
Castillon, Alexis de (1838-1873)
Piano Quartet in G minor, Op 7
Marie-Catherine Girod (piano), members of the Ellipse Quartet: Lyodoh Kaneko (violin), Allan Swieton (viola), Florent Carrière (cello)
1:47 AM
Franck, César (1822-1890)
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
Robert Silverman (piano)
2:08 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) arranged for orchestra by Koechlin, Charles (1867-1950)
Khamma - Légende Dansée
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
2:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Piano Concerto No 1 in C major, Op 15
Barry Douglas (piano & director), Camerata Ireland
3:05 AM
Glenn Gould [1932-1982]
Cadenza for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1
Lukas Geniusas (piano)
3:08 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Cantata BWV 35, 'Geist und Seele wird verwirret'
Jadwiga Rappé (alto), Concerto Avenna, Andrzej Mysinski (conductor)
3:33 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918], orch. Brewaeys, Luc [b.1959]
La fille au cheveux de lin
Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Daniele Callegari (conductor)
3:35 AM
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)
Scaramouche
James Anagnoson, Leslie Kinton (pianos)
3:46 AM
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario (1895-1968)
Concert transcription of 'Largo al factotum' from Rossini's 'Il barbiere di Siviglia'
Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
3:52 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Overture - L'isola disabitata
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rolf Gupta (Conductor)
4:00 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Rondo capriccioso in E major/minor, Op 14
Sook-Hyun Cho (piano)
4:07 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Rondo in A major, D438
Pinchas Zuckerman (violin/director), The National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada
4:22 AM
Kunzen, Friedrich (1761-1817)
Overture - Husitterne (The Hussites)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Peter Marschik (Conductor)
4:31 AM
Rossini, Gioachino [1792-1868]
Overture - William Tell
BBC Philharmonic, Paul Watkins (conductor)
4:43 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Dolly Suite, Op 56
Erzsébet Tusa, Istvan Lantos (pianos)
4:58 AM
Bach, Johann Christoph (1642-1703)
Fürchte dich nicht
Cantus Cölln , Konrad Junghänel (director)
5:02 AM
Hasse, Johann Adolf (1699-1783)
Organ Concerto in D major
Wolfgang Brunner (organ), Salzburger Hofmusik, Wolfgang Brunner (director)
5:13 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Hvad est du dog skiøn (How fair thou art), No.1 of Four Pslams, Op 74
Eilert Hasseldal (Baritone), Oslo Chamber Chorus (Choir), Håkon Nystedt (Conductor)
5:19 AM
Berwald, Franz [1796-1868]
Quartet in E flat for clarinet, basson, horn and piano
Andrea Sundén (clarinet), Frederik Ekdahl (bassoon), Hans Larsson (horn), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
5:42 AM
Pachulski, Henryk [1859-1921]
Suite in Memory of Tchaikovsky, Op 13
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
6:00 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto in the Italian Style for keyboard, BWV 971
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
6:13 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No 31 in D major, 'Paris', K297
Danish Radio Sinfonietta/DR, Adám Fischer (conductor).
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
9am
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.
9.30
Take part in today's musical challenge: two pieces of music are played together - can you identify them?
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the opera impresario Wasfi Kani. Wasfi is one of the UK's leading opera organisers and fundraisers, and the founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera. After studying music at the University of Oxford she worked as a computer programmer in the City, before realising she wanted to return to music. She founded Pimlico Opera with the aim of using music and drama for the public good, and it was one of the first opera companies to specialise in performing in unusual places, such as hospitals, banks and prisons. Grange Park Opera has become one of the UK's most successful summer opera companies and is currently enjoying its first season at a brand-new theatre in Surrey. As a pianist, violinist and conductor, much of the music that Wasfi has chosen for the week is music that she's played herself, including music by Schubert, Richard Strauss and Mozart.
10.30
Music on Location: London
Sarah explores the last of Haydn's 'London Symphonies', one of the twelve symphonies written for the composer's celebrated and lucrative visits to the city.
11am
Sarah's featured artist is one of Britain's most celebrated living conductors, Edward Gardner. Gardner is currently Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, but has spent much of his career in the opera house. From 2007-2015 he was Music Director at English National Opera and during this time he won the RPS Conductor of the Year Award and an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera. His big breakthrough came when he stood in at short notice for a répétiteur at the Salzburg Festival, and from there he went on to be Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera. He regularly works with the National Youth Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBCSO) with whom he led the Last Night of the Proms in 2011. Sarah's chosen four of Gardner's recordings with the BBCSO: recordings of Walton's Symphony No.1, Szymanowski's Symphony No. 4 'Symphonie Concertante' (with pianist Louis Lortie), Britten's Violin Concerto with Tasmin Little, and Lutosławski's song cycle Chantefleurs et Chantefables with soprano Lucy Crowe. She's also chosen his recording of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder (Part III) with an array of musicians drawn from Norway, Sweden and the UK.
Schoenberg
Gurrelieder: Part III
Stuart Skelton (tenor)
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (tenor)
James Creswell (bass)
Thomas Allen (speaker)
Bergen Philharmonic Choir
Choir of Collegiûm Mûsicûm
Edvard Grieg Kor
Orphei Drängar
Students from the Royal Northern College of Music
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Musicians from the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor).
Donald Macleod delves into Olivier Messiaen's love for the music of Mozart
Olivier Messiaen was the single most important contributor to the organ repertoire in the twentieth century. He took up learning the organ whilst he was a student in Paris, and was fortunate to hear virtuoso organists around the city including Louis Vierne, Charles Tournemire, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré. Aged just twenty-two, he succeeded Charles Quef as titular organist at the Sainte-Trinité in Paris. Messiaen remained in this post for over sixty years, composing many solo works for the organ that pushed the instrument to its very limits. He rose to become one of the leading composers in France, and also a worldwide musical celebrity. This week Donald Macleod focuses each day on one specific organ work Messiaen composed, whilst exploring the period in which it was written along with those other instrumental works from the same time.
Mozart was one of Messiaen's favourite composers, and he created a number of works inspired by Mozart including The Smile, Chant dans le style de Mozart and Concert à quatre. That final work for full orchestra Messiaen left incomplete, and it was finished by the composer's wife Yvonne Loriod in consultation with the oboist Heinz Holliger, and one of Messiaen's former pupils, the composer George Benjamin. Although in his final years Messiaen had to give up teaching at the Paris Conservatoire, he did remain organist at the Sainte-Trinité in Paris where a hand rail was even put in place to help Messiaen reach the organ loft. In that decade before his death, Messiaen composed another monumental work for the organ, Livre du Saint Sacrement, which was another work very much connected with the composer's deep-rooted Christian faith.
Chant dans le style de Mozart
Guy Deplus, clarinet
Yvonne Loriod, piano
Livre du Saint Sacrement (7th - 10th mvts)
Gillian Weir, organ
Petites esquisses d'oiseaux (1st - 2nd mvts)
Yvonne Loriod, piano
Concert à quatre
Catherine Cantin, flute
Heinz Holliger, oboe
Yvonne Loriod, piano
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille
Myung-Whun Chung, conductor
Producer Luke Whitlock.
Belcea Quartet with bassist Alois Posch are joined by Russian pianist Elizabeth Leonskaya to perform Schubert's Trout Quintet at this year's East Neuk Festival.
Schubert: Quintet in A major, D667 (Trout)
Elizabeth Leonskaya, piano
Belcea Quartet
Alois Posch, double bass.
Catriona Young introduces a concert given by the BBC Singers at Milton Court in London earlier this month, conducted by Eric Whitacre, as well as music from the BBC Symphony Orchestra in tribute to former Chief Conductor Jiri Belohlavek who died last month.
Vitezslav Novak: About the eternal longing Op.33 - tone-poem after Hans Andersen
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
2:20pm
Eric Whitacre: I carry your heart with me
John Mackey: The Rumour of a Secret King
Jonathan Newman: Agnus Dei
Steven Bryant: In Aeternum
Eriks Esenvalds: Stars
Sarah Hopkins: Past Life Melodies
Eric Whitacre: Three Flower Songs
John Powell: Requiem Addendum
Eric Whitacre: Enjoy the Silence
BBC Singers
Eric Whitacre (conductor)
Recorded earlier this month at Milton Court, Barbican, London
3:30pm
Ralph Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
Sean Rafferty and Suzy Klein present a special edition for the First Night of the Proms, live from the Imperial College Union.
Live at BBC Proms: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Proms Youth Choir, conductor Edward Gardner, in John Adams' Harmonium. Plus Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto with Igor Levit.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill and Petroc Trelawny
Tom Coult: St John's Dance (BBC commission: world premiere)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor
c 20:15 INTERVAL: Clemency Burton-Hill and Petroc Trelawny look forward to two months of world-class music-making in the company of guests, and go backstage to chat to some of the performers in tonight's Prom.
c 20:35
John Adams: Harmonium
Igor Levit, piano
BBC Proms Youth Choir
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor
John Adams's Harmonium is an intricate tapestry of sound, with bright vocal threads and driving brass and percussion rhythms. Marking the composer's 70th birthday this year, it features the BBC Proms Youth Choir alongside stalwarts of the First and Last Nights, the BBC Symphony Chorus.
Award-winning pianist Igor Levit is the soloist in Beethoven's groundbreaking Third Piano Concerto, and this year's First Night opens with the world premiere of St John's Dance by rising British composer, Tom Coult.
It is our last programme before we go on our summer holidays, so to celebrate the end of the season Ian McMillan makes his maiden voyage to the Glastonbury Festival, where he investigates the festival as utopia and takes on a poetry challenge to write and perform a poem infused with the spirit of the festival.
Along the way he'll be aided with writing advice from folk singer Kathyrn Williams, Squeeze songwriter Chris Difford and up-and-coming Grime artist Nadia Rose, as well as hearing from a host of Spoken word performers at the Poetry & Words tent, and talking crustaceans with Glastonbury cult favourite 'Lekiddo - Lord of the Lobsters!'.
Novelist Louise Welsh on the life, love, the rise and the fall of Scottish artists Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde. The two Roberts, as they came to be known, met in 1933, as students at Glasgow School of Art. They were together until their early deaths; Colquhoun at the age of forty-seven, MacBryde four years later at the age of fifty-three. Their relationship endured their meteoric rise as fashionable artists and their eventual fall from grace as post-was tastes in art began to change.
Part of Gay Britannia, a season of programming marking the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially decriminalised homosexual acts that took place in private between two men over the age of 21.
Writer: Louise Welsh
Reader: Louise Welsh
Producer: Simon Richardson.
Kathryn Tickell introduces a session with the Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band, and its uplifting, colourful sound, combining trumpet, saxophone, tuba, sousaphone, clarinet and trombone with local percussion. The band feature two unique and contrasting styles: first, music derived from Kalbelia, the nomadic snake charmers in a tradition going back centuries; and second, arrangements from Bollywood soundtracks. Also in the programme, a BBC Introducing band plus new releases of World Music from across the globe.