Jonathan Swain presents a programme of Paganini and Tchaikovsky with violinist Jósef Lendvay and the Romanian Radio National Orchestra.
1:01 AM
Paganini, Niccolò [1782-1840]
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major Op.6
Jósef Lendvay (violin), Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Jósef Horváth (conductor)
1:32 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Violin Sonata No. 3 in C, BWV 1005 (Largo)
Jósef Lendvay (violin)
1:36 AM
Paganini, Niccolò [1782-1840]
Variations on 'Nel cor piu non mi sento'
Jósef Lendvay (violin)
1:39 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich [1840-1893]
Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture
Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Jósef Horváth (conductor)
2:01 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich [1840-1893]
Capriccio Italien, Op.45
Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Jósef Horváth (conductor)
2:18 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25
Kungsbacka Trio with Lawrence Power (viola)
3:01 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor
Nelson Goerner (piano), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Matthias Aesbacher (conductor)
3:42 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
String Quartet in G minor
Psophos Quartet
4:07 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Litanies à la Vierge Noire - arranged for female/children's voices, string orchestra and timpani
Maîtrise de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, George Prêtre (conductor)
4:18 AM
Schumann, Clara (1819-1896)
Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann, Op.20
Angela Cheng (piano)
4:27 AM
Anonymous
Middle Ages Suite
Bolette Roed (recorder), Alpha
4:37 AM
Stainov, Petko (1896-1977)
Horsemen - ballad for men's chorus
Kaval Men's Choir, Mihail Angelov (conductor)
4:45 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Fantasy for flute and piano
Lóránt Kovács (flute), Erika Lux (piano)
4:50 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Concerto for 3 oboes and orchestra in B flat major,TWV44:43
Peter Westermann, Michael Niesemann, Piet Dhont (oboes), Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
5:01 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Love Scene - from the opera 'Feuersnot'
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
5:10 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Four Mazurkas
Ashley Wass (piano)
5:20 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
4 Songs: Oiseaux, si tous les ans, K.307; Dans un bois solitaire (Einsam ging ich jungst), K.308; Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte, K.520; Ridente la calma, K.152 (transcribed from Myslivecek's 'Il caro mio bene')
Malin Christensson (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
5:30 AM
Califano, Arcangelo (fl.1700-1750)
Sonata in C major for 2 oboes, bassoon and keyboard
Ensemble Zefiro
5:40 AM
Ambrosius, Hermann (1907-1983)
Suite
Zagreb Guitar Trio
5:48 AM
Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594)
Pelli meae consumptis carnibus
The King's Singers
5:57 AM
Arutiunian, Aleksandr Grigori [b.1920]
Trumpet Concerto
Stanslaw Dziewor (trumpet), Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Gabriel Chmura (conductor)
6:13 AM
Arensky, Anton Stepanovich (1861-1906)
Suite No.4 for two pianos, Op.62
James Anagnoson & Leslie Kinton (pianos)
6:31 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Piano Quartet No.1 in C minor, Op.1
Harald Aadland (violin), Nora Taksdal (viola), Audun Sandvik (cello), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano).
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Clemency Burton-Hill celebrates the music making of the current BBC New Generation Artists. Over the Proms season, there's a chance to hear a starry line-up of young musicians caught by the BBC microphones as they embark on glittering international careers. In this first of seven Saturday mid-day programmes we hear from three NGAs who will be appearing at the Proms in the next few weeks: the Van Kuijk Quartet from France demonstrate their fresh-minted Mozart, the Italian pianist, Beatrice Rana gives us a taster of the dazzling Bach playing which has won her numerous international plaudits and the British bass-baritone brings his dramatic gifts to songs by Saint-Saens.
Schubert: An die Laute, D.905
Ilker Arcayurek (tenor), Hartmut Holl (piano)
Bach: Capriccio from Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826
Beatrice Rana
Mozart: String Quartet in E flat major, K.428
Van Kuijk Quartet
Saint-Saëns: La Brise, Au cimetière and Le Tournoiement from Mélodies persanes, Op.26
Ashley Riches (bass-baritone), Simon Lepper (piano).
Pianist James Rhodes is back with the first of three consecutive Saturday Classics, choosing the music, recordings and musicians he's most passionate about.
Today's show includes the iconic pianists Martha Argerich, Vladimir Horowitz, and Mikhail Pletnev, plus violinist James Ehnes in Bach and Mendelssohn, and Mariss Jansons conducting Wagner.
Matthew Sweet looks forward to the forthcoming release of Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk with a look at how film and film music portray historic battles. The programme features music from "Sink The Bismarck", "The Battle of Britain", "The Battle of the Bulge", "The Sands of Iwo Jima", "The Battle of Algiers", "Passchendaele", "Waterloo" and "Zulu". Plus a chance to hear part of Hans Zimmer's new score for "Dunkirk".
In this week's selection of music in all styles of jazz, chosen from from listeners' emails and letters, Alyn Shipton plays music by the American singer Maxine Sullivan, accompanied by the John Kirby Sextet.
Artist John Coltrane and Cannonball AdderleyJulian Joseph profiles the music of jazz pioneer Herbie Hancock in the company of pianist Jason Rebello. Hancock is famous for his Grammy-award winning instrumental single "Rockit" and his collaborations with trumpeter Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius, Joni Mitchell and the Headhunters.
BBC New Generation Artists. Leading on from Clemency Burton Hill's lunchtime series over the Proms season, we hear more this evening from some of the current BBC NGAs appearing this summer.
Clementi: Sonata in B minor Op.40 No.2
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B flat major Op.34
Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet), Van Kuijk Quartet
Ravel: La Valse - choreographic poem
Beatrice Rana (piano).
Live at BBC Proms: Daniel Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin joined by violinist Lisa Batiashvili in Sibelius's Violin Concerto, followed by Elgar's First Symphony
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor
8.00pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra
Professor Thomas Dixon, who is the Director of the Centre of the History of Emotions, and musicologist Wiebke Thormählen look at mood and how composers have engaged with themes of sentimentality, happiness, sorrow in their work and how writers have explored these emotions in novels and poetry. Hosted as a Proms Extra event recorded with an audience at Imperial College by presenter Matthew Sweet.
Producer: Fiona McLean
8.20pm
Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat major
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Fresh from two remarkable Elgar recordings with his Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim launches this year's cycle of Elgar symphonies with a performance of the First - a work of thrilling emotional contrasts and a slow movement of Mahlerian richness and beauty.
He pairs it with one of the great Romantic violin concertos, once described by musicologist Donald Francis Tovey as 'more original, more masterly and more exhilarating' than any of its rivals, in which former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Lisa Batiashvili is the soloist.
Staged by the PRS for Music Foundation in association with BBC Radio 3 and to coincide with Hull City of Culture 2017, the New Music Biennial showcases new and recent works from a wide range of composers and commissioners in two special events over consecutive weekends, in venues across Hull and London's Southbank Centre. Tonight's programme, presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch, includes some of the twenty works featured, in recordings made both in Hull and at the Southbank Centre, London, including music by Mark Simpson, Mica Levi and James McVinnie and Darkstar.
Mica Levi
Everlast (commissioned by BBC Concert Orchestra)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Andre de Ridder (conductor)
Eliza Carthy
Rivers and Railways (commissioned by Freedom Festival)
Eliza Carthy (vocals)
The Moulettes
Mark Simpson
After Avedon - Piano Trio (commissioned by Gould Piano Trio)
Gould Piano Trio
Brian Irvine and Jennifer Walshe
13 Vices (commissioned by Moving On Music)
Jennifer Walshe (vocals)
James McVinnie and Darkstar
Dance Unity (commissioned by James McVinnie)
James McVinnie (organ)
Darkstar (electronics)
Philip Venables and David Hoyle
Illusions (commissioned by London Sinfonietta)
David Hoyle (performance artist)
London Sinfonietta.
To mark the 50th anniversary of John Coltrane's death in July, 1967, Geoffrey Smith plays live recordings by the tenor saxophone legend, from an early session with Johnny Hodges to his seething, sixteen-minute epic "Chasin' the Trane".
IN A MELLOTONEJonathan Swain presents a performance of Mahler's First Symphony from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi.
1:01 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Helios - overture
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi (conductor)
1:13 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Wesendonck-Lieder, arr. Mottl for voice & orchestra
Deborah Voigt (soprano), Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi (conductor)
1:34 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Symphony No 1 in D major, 'Titan'
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi (conductor)
2:30 AM
Schoenberg, Arnold [1874-1951]
Verklärte Nacht, Op.4, for string sextet
Aronowitz Ensemble
3:01 AM
Quantz, Johann Joachim [1697-1773]
Flute Concerto No.290 in G minor
Alexis Kossenko (flute/director), Les Ambassadeurs
3:17 AM
Liehmann, Antonin (1808-1878)
Mass for soloists, chorus, organ and orchestra No.1 in D minor
Lenka Skornickova (soprano), Olga Kodesova (alto), Damiano Binetti (tenor), Ilja Prokop (bass), Radek Rejsek (organ), Czech Radio Choir, Pilsen Radio Orchestra, Josef Hercl (conductor)
3:58 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
6 Songs, Op.107
Jan Van Elsacker (tenor), Claire Chevallier (fortepiano)
4:09 AM
Koehne, Graeme (b.1956)
To His servant, Bach, God grants a final glimpse: The Morning Star
Guitar Trek: Timothy Kain, Fiona Walsh (treble guitars), Richard Strasser (standard guitar), Peter Constant (baritone guitar)
4:14 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Serenade No.1 in D major for violin & orchestra
Judy Kang (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Jean-François Rivest (conductor)
4:22 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
Etudes and polkas - book 3 for piano
Antonin Kubalek (piano)
4:31 AM
Hellendaal, Pieter [1721-1799]
Concerto grosso in F, Op.3 No.6
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
4:45 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Agathe's aria 'Und ob die Wolke sie verhulle' - from Act III of "Der Freischütz"
Charlotte Margiono (soprano), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
4:51 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Overture to 'The King and the Charcoal Burner'
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Robl (conductor)
5:01 AM
Buck, Ole (b.1945) [text by Keats]
Two Faery Songs: 'O shed no tear'; 'Ah! Woe is me!'
Danish National Radio Choir, Kaare Hansen (conductor)
5:08 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886), arr. Eduard Lassen
Löse Himmel, meine Seele (S.494), transc. for piano
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
5:14 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Serenade in E minor for string orchestra
BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
5:26 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Divertimento in E flat major, K.166
Bratislavska Komorna Harmonia
5:39 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto No.4 in A major, BWV.1055
Lars-Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord), Ensemble 415
5:53 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959)
Guitar Prelude No.3 in A minor
Norbert Kraft (guitar)
6:00 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Violin Sonata No.8 in G major, Op.30 No.3
Mats Zetterqvist (violin), Mats Widlund (piano)
6:18 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No. 26 in D minor
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Stefan Solyon (conductor)
6:33 AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
Satukuvaa (Fairytale Visions), Op.19
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)
6:49 AM
Hammerschmidt, Andreas (1611/12-1675)
Suite in G minor/G major for gambas - from the collection 'Erster Fleiß'
Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (director).
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
With Daniel Barenboim focusing on Elgar at the Proms this weekend, Jonathan Swain includes Elgar's Cello Concerto today in a recording by Alisa Weilerstein, who herself appears in the 2017 Proms this coming Wednesday. And, picking up on the Proms theme of 'Classical Starters', Jonathan introduces Rachmaninov's Suite for Two Pianos No 2, Opus 17. The week's young artist is mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey and today's neglected classic is E.J. Moeran's Symphony in G minor.
On her 90th birthday, Shirley Hughes, the creator of many of our best-loved and most enduring children's books, talks to Michael Berkeley about her musical passions.
In a career spanning nearly seventy years Shirley has written as many books and has illustrated nearly two hundred. She was the first winner of the Book Trust Lifetime Achievement Award, has twice won the Kate Greenaway Medal, and was recently awarded a CBE for services to literature.
Her picture books have an enduring appeal with their sympathetic but unsentimental depiction of the small dramas and joys of family life. One of her most loved, Dogger, the tale of a beloved toy dog lost and found, has its 40th anniversary this year. The winner of numerous awards, she recently received a CBE for services to literature.
Shirley chooses music by Scriabin, Mozart, Beethoven and the Beatles - who remind her of her roots in Liverpool and share her love of storytelling.
Producer: Jane Greenwood
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.
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.
Hannah French presents a profile of the hugely influential Flemish composer Cipriano de Rore. The programme includes recordings by Bruce Dickey, The Huelgas Ensemble, The Tallis Scholars, the Brabant Ensembleand Cinquecento Renaissance Vokal.
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.
Live at BBC Proms: Bernard Haitink conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in symphonies by Mozart and Schumann. Isabelle Faust joins them for Mozart's Violin Concerto in G, K216.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
Mozart: Symphony No 38 in D major 'Prague', K 504
Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 in G major, K 216
4.30pm INTERVAL: How to Start a World-Class Orchestra
No resident concert hall, no resident conductor, no problem. Take 45 young musicians, fresh out of the European Community Youth Orchestra, together with the renowned conductor Claudio Abbado and his assistant James Judd. Add a horn-playing businessman and his wife on honeymoon in Salzburg. Throw in a bucketful of naive enthusiasm and dogged persistence, and in 1981 the Chamber Orchestra of Europe is born. But how easy was it to bring the right selection of players from across Europe together, with only limited funds, and without mobile phones, budget airlines or the internet? Sarah Walker finds out how founders of the COE overcame the obstacles, and grew up with the orchestra that for some has become the habit of a lifetime.
With Douglas Boyd, James Judd, June Megennis, Peter Readman, Victoria Readman, Enno Senft and Elizabeth Wexler.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
4.55pm Part 2
Schumann: Symphony No.2 in C major
Isabelle Faust (violin)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
conductor Bernard Haitink
The two symphonies that frame this Prom each offer a defiant, optimistic challenge to the status quo. Mozart's pioneering 'Prague' Symphony rewrites the rule book for the genre, while in Schumann's Second Symphony the composer overcomes the demons of his own mental health to produce a work of invigorating, captivating extremes.
Conductor Bernard Haitink - a Proms regular for over half a century - returns with frequent collaborators, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. They are joined by award-winning German violinist Isabelle Faust, the soloist in Mozart's graceful Violin Concerto No. 3.
Fiona Shaw and Jamie Glover with poetry, prose and music exploring the vision of Arcadia and harmony with nature across the centuries from the pastoral visions of the Ancient Greeks Virgil and Theocritus to the anxieties of the American environmentalist Rachel Carson in 'Silent Spring', Stephen Spender's exploration of technology coming to an English landscape largely unchanged in centuries and Robinson Jeffers's 'Carmel Point' in which he imagines a time when nature and man can live in harmony. Arcadia includes work by Vaughan Williams, Aaron Copland, Howard Hanson, Virgil Thomson, Debussy, Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Thoreau, Evelyn Waugh, Willa Cather and John Clare.
Producer: Fiona McLean.
6:00 PMThe sun is setting on the summer solstice, the twilight slipping towards Midsummer's Night - an enchanted evening heavy with possibility, where real life blends into fantasy.
A family of four set off on an adventure to a Norfolk wood. They search for kindling and logs to build a bonfire to mark this special time of year. On their journey they are lured into the hidden magic and mischief of the natural world: the life and death struggle of owls and mice, the glistering swirl of the evening chorus, the flutter of insect wings, all of which power the story of this special night narrated by naturalist and writer Bridget Nicholls.
In the dying light of the day, as the family toast marshmallows over the embers of the fire, the mosquitoes and moths swirl above them, giddy in the sugary air.
As darkness descends and the family head back to the house, we realise the adventures of the natural world are not over yet.
Produced by Sarah Peters, music and sound design by Iain Chambers, mixed by Peregrine Andrews. An Open Audio production for BBC Radio 3.
Live at BBC Proms: Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin perform the UK premiere of Birtwistle's Deep Time, followed by Elgar's Second Symphony.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill
Harrison Birtwistle: Deep Time (BBC co-commission with the Staatskapelle Berlin: UK premiere)
8.10pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra
Geologist Professor Iain Stewart and geographer and broadcaster Nicholas Crane talk to Rana Mitter about Deep Time in geological and scientific terms. Recorded earlier this evening as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College.
Produced by Zahid Warley.
8.30pm
Elgar: Symphony No 2 in E flat major
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin bring the generous scope of their interpretation of Elgar's Second Symphony to their second concert of the season, celebrating a work whose modernity and astonishing textural effects startle even now.
Dedicated to the memory of Peter Maxwell Davies, who died last year, Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Deep Time continues his career-long fascination with time and its manipulation in a sweeping new orchestral work that swaps the relentless tick-tock of the everyday for something more powerful and more alien.
Simon Heighes presents highlights of a concert given by the early music ensemble NeoBarock at this year's Schwetzingen Festival. Music for two violins features, including a trio sonata arrangement of Bach's Double Violin Concerto.
Biber: Partita IV from 'Harmonia Artificiosa-ariosa'
Bach: Trio Sonata in G minor, BWV.1029 (arr Maren Ries from viola da gamba sonata)
attrib Handel: Trio Sonata in E flat
Bach arr Volker Möller: Sonata in D minor for Two Violins, BWV.1043
Biber: Ciacona, from 'Pars III'
NeoBarock.
An original work for radio from globally renowned theatre director and artist Robert Wilson which has been co-produced by the BBC and a group of German radio stations. In this multilingual sound-collage about the doomed proverbial tower of Babel, half a dozen languages are interwoven and juxtaposed. Wilson, originally an architect, has for decades worked worldwide with international ensembles, in various cultures and languages, and at constantly changing locations, all merging into a single whole: the theatre. In a compositional approach which is structural rather than conventionally linear, he uses texts from an ancient description of the city of Babylon and passages from the great works of theatre history: Aeschylus, Euripides, Shakespeare, Racine and Ionesco. Featuring actors and musicians including Fiona Shaw, Alan Cumming, Daniel Hope and architect Daniel Libeskind.
Tower of Babel recently won the 'Deutsches Horspielpreis der ARD', the highest award for a radio play in Germany. It is a co-production between the BBC and German radio stations HR, NDR, RBB and SWR.
Violin, Daniel Hope
Dramaturg, Ursula Ruppel
Co-director, Tilman Hecker
In co-production with HR, NDR, RBB and SWR.
The hugely acclaimed young pianist Beatrice Rana, heard in a BBC studio recording of Chopin's famous 'Funeral' Sonata.
Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op.35, 'Funeral'
Beatrice Rana.
Jonathan Swain presents Machaut's Messe de Notre Dame performed in Wroclaw
12:31 AM
Machaut, Guillaume de [c.1300-1377]
Messe de Notre Dame
Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer (conductor)
1:31 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Symphonies and Dances
Bratislava Wind Quintet
1:48 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata in B flat major, D.960
Naum Grubert (piano)
2:31 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Overture (Suite) in D major 'Darmstadt', TWV.55:D15
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor) Recorded at Grieghallen (Grieg Hall), Bergen, Norway on 21 December 2007
2:52 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Ave Verum Corpus, K.618
Nederlands Kamerkoor, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)
2:56 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto in B flat major, K.595
Ingrid Haebler (piano), Brabant Orchestra, André Vandernoot (conductor)
3:30 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
String Quartet No.2 in C major, D.32
Orlando Quartet: István Párkányí (violin), Heinz Oberdorfer (violin), Ferdinand Erblich (viola), Michael Müller (cello)
3:49 AM
Byrd, William [1543-1623]
Alman
Aapo Häkkinen (harpsichord)
3:52 AM
Byrd, William [1543-1623]
O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
3:54 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Pavan in G minor, Z.752, for four instruments
Simon Standage (violin), Ensemble Il Tempo
3:59 AM
Purcell, Henry [1659-1695]
If music be the food of love, Z.379
Kari Postma (soprano), Hans Knut Sveen (harpsichord)
4:03 AM
Sullivan, Arthur (1842-1900)
Overture in C major (In Memoriam)
BBC Philharmonic, Richard Hickox (conductor)
4:15 AM
Britten, Benjamin [1913-1976]
The Last rose of summer (Groves of Blarney)
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Paul Turner (piano)
4:20 AM
Rózycki, Ludomir (1884-1953)
Stanczyk - Symphonic Scherzo, Op.1
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Janusz Przbylski (conductor)
4:31 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Maskerade - Overture
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)
4:36 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Serenade No.2 in G minor, Op.69b, for violin and orchestra
Judy Kang (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Jean-François Rivest (conductor)
4:45 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (No.6 from Lyric pieces, Op.65)
Valerie Tryon (piano)
4:52 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Marche Slave, Op.31
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
5:03 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
'Song to the Moon' from Rusalka
Yvonne Kenny (soprano); Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Vladimir Kamirski (conductor)
5:10 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance in F major, Op.46 No.4
James Anagnoson and Leslie Kinton (pianos)
5:17 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) [text Friedrich Schiller]
Nänie, Op.82
Oslo Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor)
5:30 AM
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937)
String Quartet No.2, Op.56
Karol Szymanowski Quartet - Marek Dumicz (violin), Grzegorz Kotow (violin), Vladimir Mykytka (viola), Marcin Sieniawski (cello)
5:46 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
3 Nocturnes for piano, Op.15: No.1 in F major; No.2 in F sharp major; No.3 in G minor
Julien Brocal (piano)
5:59 AM
Haydn (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No. 103 in E flat major 'Drum Roll'
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (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 remember the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the architect and broadcaster Maxwell Hutchinson. Maxwell was a practising architect for many years and in 1989 became the youngest-ever President of RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Architects. He's become one of the foremost broadcasters on architecture, presenting series on BBC Two, Channel Four and BBC Radio London. At one point Maxwell considered becoming a musician and has written three musicals and a Requiem Mass. In the last few years Maxwell has been ordained and is currently a curate at a church in Essex. As well discussing his work, his music and his life, throughout the week Maxwell will be sharing some of his favourite classical music by composers including Brahms, Ravel and Elgar.
10.30
Music on Location: Prague
Sarah spends the week exploring the classical music connections found in the city of Prague, beginning with Bedřich Smetana's tone-poem Vyšehrad - a portrait of the city's castle, the seat of the earliest Czech kings which towers over the River Vltava.
11am
Sarah's Proms Artist of the Week is the conductor, Nicholas McGegan. McGegan has been hailed as "one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation" (The Independent) and has been director of the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale for over 30 years. McGegan has also devoted much of his time to opera; he was Artistic Director of the Göttingen Handel Festival for 20 years and Principal Guest Conductor at Scottish Opera in the 1990s. As a guest conductor he's worked with orchestras around the world including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony, Halle, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. During the week Sarah will be featuring McGegan's recordings of Haydn's Symphony No.57, Mozart's Piano Concerto in F major, K459 with Melvyn Tan, and excerpts from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Alessandro Scarlatti's Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia. McGegan is also a flautist and Sarah's chosen his recording of CPE Bach's Flute Quartet in D, Wq.94, with Catherine Mackintosh, Anthony Pleeth and Christopher Hogwood.
Purcell
Dido and Aeneas: excerpt
Dido: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano)
Belinda: Lisa Saffer (soprano)
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan (conductor).
Donald Macleod introduces a week focusing of Haydn's often overlooked - yet utterly beguiling - piano sonatas, which span virtually his entire composing life.
Joseph Haydn's rightly lionised by music history as the "Father of the Symphony" - a man who took a nascent form and turned it into the very apex of musical composition. Repeating the trick with another benchmark musical genre seems almost greedy of him - and yet, with more than eighty masterful examples, Haydn's dubbed the "Father of the String Quartet" too. Which makes the neglect of one area of his musical output rather puzzling. Haydn wrote more than sixty keyboard sonatas, spanning a remarkable half-century in music history. This period saw harpsichords and clavichords replaced by the forerunners of the modern piano, and - more than that - keyboard music go from the light dance suites to the sonata: a form that would shortly be taken by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert into the very highest pinnacle of musical art. None of this could have happened without Haydn. And yet, his array of sonatas lag behind the fame and appreciation of his symphonies and quartets. This week, Donald Macleod puts that right: with no fewer than fourteen examples, in the hands of fourteen virtuoso pianists from the last century, with a supporting cast of musical excerpts from opera, chamber and vocal works.
We begin in the late 1760s, with Haydn engaged at the court of Prince Eszterhazy, deep in the Hungarian countryside - a place the composer gloomily dubbed "my desert". Benchmark sonatas recordings by John McCabe and Carole Cerasi are joined by a thrilling - and rather unusual - virtuoso reading by the Bulgarian-born pianist Alexis Weissenberg.
Haydn
Sonata No 11 in B flat, Hob.XVI:2 (1st mvt)
John McCabe, piano
Haydn
Sonata No 30 in D, Hob.XVI:19
Carole Cerasi, clavichord
Haydn
"Caro Volpino" - Lo Speziale (Act 1, Sc 7)
Magda Kalmar, soprano (Grilletta)
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Budapest
György Lehel, conductor
Haydn
"A' fatti tuoi" - Lo Speziale (Act 2, Sc 6)
Magda Kalmar, soprano (Grilletta)
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Budapest
György Lehel, conductor
Haydn
Sonata No 33 in C minor, Hob.XVI:20
Alexis Weissenberg, piano.
Live at Cadogan Hall: I Fagiolini under Robert Hollingworth with music by Monteverdi and a world premiere by Roderick Williams.
Live from Cadogan Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Monteverdi: Cruda Amarilli; Sfogava con le stelle; Longe da te, cor mio; 'Possente spirto' - from Orfeo; Chiome d'oro; Vorrei baciarti, o Filli
Roderick Williams: Là ci darem la mano (BBC commission: world premiere)
Monteverdi: Laudate pueri Dominum a 5 (concertato); Volgendo il ciel per l'immortal sentiero
I Fagiolini
Robert Hollingworth director
Who better to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi's birth than I Fagiolini, who have spent a career unpicking the knotty conflicts and emotional truths of the composer's music.
The vocal ensemble is joined by strings, cornetts and continuo to explore love, lust, anger, jealousy and despair in a concert that spans the gamut of Monteverdi's music, both sacred and secular.
This season's first Monday-lunchtime Prom at Cadogan Hall also includes the world premiere of a new commission from composer, baritone and Proms regular Roderick Williams, inspired by the text of a well known aria from Mozart's Don Giovanni.
Afternoon on 3 with Fiona Talkington.
Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Edward Gardner in music by Tom Coult, Beethoven and also John Adams, as they celebrate the American composer's 70th birthday with his work Harmonium.
Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill and Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert Hall, London
2.00pm
Tom Coult: St John's Dance
(BBC commission: world premiere)
2.05pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor
2.40pm
John Adams: Harmonium
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Igor Levit, piano
BBC Proms Youth Choir
BBC Symphony Chorus
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.
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.
[First broadcast on Friday 14th July]
Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.
Suzy Klein with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. Suzy's guests include Bojan Cicic with the Illyria Consort before they perform at Paxton House, and Joshua Weilerstein before his debut conducting at the Proms. Singers from Bampton Classical Opera are joined by director Jeremy Gray and conductor Anthony Kraus before their production of The School of Jealousy by Salieri.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, BBC NOW under Thomas Sondergard. Sibelius: Symphony No 7. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 (with Behzod Abduraimov). Shostakovich: Symphony No 10.
The acclaimed conductor and musician Vladimir Ashkenazy travels to the California home of acclaimed photographer Ansel Adams to reveal how classical music inspired and informed his friend's art.
Meeting the photographer's friends, family and former colleagues, Ashkenazy hears how Adams effectively "composed" his images, drawing on his musical background when developing his prints.
One of the most highly regarded photographers of the 20th Century, Adams's iconic black-and-white images of the American West still fetch $60 000 at auction. But his first love was piano, not the camera.
A wayward child, Adams struggled to concentrate and was expelled from several schools but became captivated by his mother's piano, teaching himself to sight-read music at the age of twelve. Classical music became Adams's passion and, until his late twenties, he was an aspiring concert pianist deeply committed to the study of great composers including Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Scriabin.
Adams often likened his negatives to a composer's score and his final print as the resulting musical performance. We gain an insight into Adams's creative processes and the extent to which his photography was driven by music. Instead of using a clock in his darkroom, he employed a metronome to precisely time his processing.
Previously unbroadcast recordings of Adams at the keyboard, playing work by his favourite composers, underscore the way his pictures fused his two creative passions.
In tonight's show, Soweto Kinch presents a concert by the Chicago-Based cellist Tomeka Reid and her quartet of improvising musicians, Mary Halvorson, guitar; Jason Roebke, bass; and Tomas Fujiwara, drums. Reid works in both classical and jazz contexts, but is most well-known for her work as an improvising musician and cutting edge composer. She has been commissioned to write new works in recent years by both the AACM and the Chicago Jazz Festival. The Tomeka Reid Quartet play music from last year's eponymous album on the Thirsty Ear label, including compositions by Reid, such as Billy Bang's Bounce, but also work by the legendary reed player Eric Dolphy.
Jonathan Swain presents a recital of piano duets by Andreas Staier and Tobias Koch played on period pianos.
12:31 AM
Moscheles, Ignaz [1794-1870]
Hommage a Handel, Op.92, for 2 pianos
Andreas Staier (Erard piano, 1838), Tobias Koch (Pleyel piano, 1854)
12:44 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Andante and Variations in B flat major, Op.46, arr. for 2 pianos
Andreas Staier (Erard piano, 1838), Tobias Koch (Pleyel piano, 1854)
12:59 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
4 Fugues, Op.72, for piano (excerpts)
Tobias Koch (Pleyel piano, 1854)
1:06 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750] Andreas Staier/Tobias Koch arrangers
Vom Himmel hoch - Canonic Variations, BWV.769, arr for 2 pianos
Andreas Staier (Erard piano, 1838), Tobias Koch (Pleyel piano, 1854)
1:19 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856], Debussy, Claude [1862-1918] arranger
6 Studies Op.56, arr for 2 pianos
Andreas Staier (Erard piano, 1838), Tobias Koch (Pleyel piano, 1854)
1:38 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
7 Klavierstucke in Fughettenform ,Op.126 (excerpts)
Andreas Staier (Erard piano, 1838), Tobias Koch (Pleyel piano, 1854)
1:47 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Rondo in C major, Op.73, arr for 2 pianos
Andreas Staier (Erard piano, 1838), Tobias Koch (Pleyel piano, 1854)
1:58 AM
Hadjidakis, Manos [1925-1994]
Children of Piraeus
Andreas Staier (Erard piano, 1838), Tobias Koch (Pleyel piano, 1854)
2:01 AM
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934)
Violin Concerto
Philippe Djokic (violin), Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
2:31 AM
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911)
Symphony No.2 in B flat major, Op.15
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Eivind Aadland (conductor)
3:07 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Missa in duplicibus minoribus II, for 5 voices
Maîtrise de Garçons de Colmar, Ensemble Giles Binchois, Ensemble Cantus Figuratus der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Dominique Vellard (director)
3:41 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
L'Isle joyeuse
Jane Coop (piano)
3:47 AM
Purcell, Henry [1659-1695]
Chacony a 4 in G minor, Z.730
Psophos Quartet
3:55 AM
Kalliwoda, Johann Wenzel [1801-1866]
Morceau de salon for oboe and piano, Op.228
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
4:05 AM
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736)
Violin Sonata in G major
Peter Michalica (violin), Elena Michalicova (piano)
4:13 AM
Rovetta, Giovanni (c.1595/7-1668) [text: Torquato Tasso (1554-95)]
La bella Erminia - from Madrigali concertati a 2.3.4 & uno a sei voci (Venice 1629)
The Consort of Musicke - Rufus Müller (tenor), Tom Finucane (lute), Chris Wilson (chitarrone), Frances Kelly (harp), Anthony Rooley (lute & director)
4:21 AM
Klami, Uuno (1900-1961)
Nummisuutarit (Suite for Orchestra)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
4:31 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) (arr. Franz Hasenohrl)
Till Eulenspiegel - Einmal Anders!
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (conductor)
4:40 AM
Gratton, Hector [1900-1970] arr. Passmore, David
Quatrieme danse canadienne, arranged for piano trio
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
4:45 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
4 Songs for women's voices, 2 horns and harp Op.17
Danish National Radio Choir, Leif Lind (horn), Per McClelland Jacobsen (horn), Catriona Yeats (harp), Stefan Parkman (conductor)
5:00 AM
Albicastro, Henricus (fl.1700-06)
Concerto a 4, Op.7 No.2
Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini (violin & director)
5:09 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata in G major, Op.14 No.2
Geoffrey Lancaster (fortepiano - after Anton Walter, Vienna 1795)
5:23 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Bassoon Concerto in F major
Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
5:41 AM
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937)
Variations in B minor on a Polish Folk Theme
Jerzy Godziszewski (piano)
6:02 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
String Quartet No.12 in F major, Op.96, 'American'
Keller Quartet
6:27 AM
Traditional
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
BBC Singers, David Hill (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 architect and broadcaster Maxwell Hutchinson. Maxwell was a practising architect for many years and in 1989 became the youngest-ever President of RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Architects. He's become one of the foremost broadcasters on architecture, presenting series on BBC Two, Channel Four and BBC Radio London. At one point Maxwell considered becoming a musician and has written three musicals and a Requiem Mass. In the last few years Maxwell has been ordained and is currently a curate at a church in Essex. As well discussing his work, his music and his life, throughout the week Maxwell will be sharing some of his favourite classical music.
10.30
Music on Location: Prague
Sarah introduces music by one of Prague's sons, the composer Josef Mysliveček, who was a friend of Mozart's.
Double Take
Sarah explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two interpretations of Grieg's song: A Swan - both orchestral performances, one featuring Solveig Kringelborn and the other Barbara Bonney.
11am
Sarah's Proms Artist of the Week is the conductor Nicholas McGegan. McGegan has been hailed as "one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation" (The Independent) and has been director of the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale for over 30 years. McGegan has also devoted much of his time to opera; he was Artistic Director of the Göttingen Handel Festival for 20 years and Principal Guest Conductor at Scottish Opera in the 1990s. As a guest conductor he's worked with orchestras around the world including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony, Hallé, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. During the week Sarah will be featuring McGegan's recordings of Haydn's Symphony No.57, Mozart's Piano Concerto in F major K459 with Melvyn Tan, and excerpts from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Alessandro Scarlatti's Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia. McGegan is also a flautist and Sarah's chosen his recording of CPE Bach's Flute Quartet in D, Wq.94, with Catherine Mackintosh, Anthony Pleeth and Christopher Hogwood.
Mozart
Piano Concerto in F major, K.459
Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan (conductor).
Donald Macleod explores how Haydn juggled a high-profile visit from Empress Maria Theresa with the demands of composing a set of brilliant new piano sonatas.
Joseph Haydn's rightly lionised by music history as the "Father of the Symphony" - a man who took a nascent form and turned it into the very apex of musical composition. Repeating the trick with another benchmark musical genre seems almost greedy of him - and yet, with more than eighty masterful examples, Haydn's dubbed the "Father of the String Quartet" too. Which makes the neglect of one area of his musical output rather puzzling. Haydn wrote more than sixty keyboard sonatas, spanning a remarkable half-century in music history. This period saw harpsichords and clavichords replaced by the forerunners of the modern piano, and - more than that - keyboard music go from light dance suites to the sonata: a form that would shortly be elevated by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert into the very highest pinnacle of musical art. None of this could have happened without Haydn. And yet, his array of sonatas lag behind the fame and appreciation of his symphonies and quartets. This week, Donald Macleod puts that right: with no fewer than fourteen examples, in the hands of fourteen virtuoso pianists from the last century, with a supporting cast of musical excerpts from opera, chamber and vocal works.
Still ensconced in the Eszterhaza palace, deep in the Hungarian marshes, Haydn buries himself in a new set of piano sonatas - as well as his first mature attempts at opera. Donald Macleod introduces three more highly contrasting - yet equally beguiling - keyboard recordings from the BBC archives, from Monique Haas, Yakov Kasman and Christine Schornsheim.
Haydn
"Che imbroglio e questo!" - L'Infedelta Delusa (Act 1, Sc 6)
Barbara Hendricks, soprano (Sandrina)
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Antal Dorati, conductor
Haydn
Sonata No 38 in F major, Hob.XVI:23
Monique Haas, piano
Haydn
"O piglia questa" - L'Infedelta Delusa (Act 1, Sc 14)
Edith Mathis, soprano (Vespina)
Barbara Hendricks, soprano (Sandrina)
Claes H. Ahnsjö, tenor (Nencio)
Aldo Baldin, tenor (Filippo)
Michael Devlin, baritone (Nanni)
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Antal Dorati, conductor
Haydn
Sonata No 47 in B minor, Hob.XVI:32
Yakov Kasman, piano
Haydn
Sonata No 50 in D major, Hob.XVI:37
Christine Schornsheim, fortepiano.
The French Belle Époque comes to Essex: Penny Gore presents a celebration of French music in four concerts from the Roman River Music summer weekend at St Peter ad Vincula Church in Coggeshall, with an exciting lineup of young artists performing masterpieces by Chausson, Debussy, Fauré, Poulenc, Ravel and Saint-Saëns.
Saint-Saëns: Violons dans le soir
Messiaen: La Mort du nombre
Fauré: Piano Quintet No 1 in D minor, Op 89
Raphaela Papadakis (soprano)
Elena Urioste (violin)
Tom Poster (piano)
Navarra String Quartet.
Afternoon on 3 with Georgia Mann
Another chance to hear Daniel Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin joined by violinist Lisa Batiashvili in Sibelius's Violin Concerto, followed by Elgar's First Symphony
Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill at the Royal Albert Hall, London
2.00pm
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor
c.2.30pm
Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat major
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Fresh from two remarkable Elgar recordings with his Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim launches this year's cycle of Elgar symphonies with a performance of the First - a work of thrilling emotional contrasts and a slow movement of Mahlerian richness and beauty.
He pairs it with one of the great Romantic violin concertos, once described by musicologist Donald Francis Tovey as 'more original, more masterly and more exhilarating' than any of its rivals, in which former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Lisa Batiashvili is the soloist.
[First broadcast on Sat 15th July]
Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.
Suzy Klein with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. Suzy's guests include mezzo-soprano Yvonne Howard, ahead of the Three Choirs Festival. William Youn performs and talks about his new CD release, and we talk to Keith Lockhart before he conducts a Prom celebrating the music of film composer John Williams.
Live at BBC Proms: BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Thomas Sondergard plus Nicola Benedetti. Shostakovich's tone poem October and 1st Violin Concerto with Sibelius's 2nd Symphony.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Shostakovich: October
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
c.8pm
INTERVAL - Proms Extra
Stephen Johnson and Daniel Grimley introduce Sibelius's Second Symphony. Highlights of a discussion hosted by Clemency Burton-Hill and recorded at the Imperial College Union earlier this evening
c.8.25pm
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Nicola Benedetti, violin
Thomas Søndergård
Violinist Nicola Benedetti joins Thomas Søndergård and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales as they continue their exploration of music by Shostakovich and Sibelius. Here they pair the latter's stirring Second Symphony - adopted as a potent symbol of nationalism and resistance by the people of Finland - with Shostakovich's symphonic poem October, a work whose subversive musical message sees the composer at his most pointedly political.
Shostakovich dedicated his First Violin Concerto to the celebrated violinist David Oistrakh, who praised its solo part as 'Shakespearean', and the concerto's demonic Scherzo gives its soloist plenty of opportunity for virtuosity.
BBC New Generation Artists: the Van Kuijk Quartet play Debussy.
Ahead of their appearance at the Proms the acclaimed young French quartet are heard in a BBC recording of Debussy's early masterpiece.
Debussy Quartet in G minor Op.10.
Yehudi Menuhin was one of the most influential and iconic classical musicians of the twentieth century. Menuhin at 100 explores the life and career of this remarkable prodigy through the many interviews he gave, held in the BBC archives. The violinists Tasmin Little and Leland Chen also share some of their thoughts and stories about their former mentor and colleague. This is an opportunity to get to know the man behind the violin, to revisit Menuhin telling us about his relationship with Enescu and Bartok, or recording Elgar's Violin Concerto with the composer conducting. Menuhin discusses his early life in San Francisco where he went to school only for one morning, going on to then travelling with his family as a violinist and how his upbringing impacted upon how he then raised his own family. Menuhin recounts conducting various orchestras, including once conducting the Berlin Philharmonic standing on his head, as they performed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. His life was spent in the public glare. It was a very unique life, shaped very early on by his upbringing and indisputable talents.
As part of the BBC Music Get Playing, supporting amateur music making around the UK, 5 leading writers and artists contribute an Essay in this series, in which they talk about their little-known passions for playing an instrument.
In the first programme, the impressionist, actor and writer Alistair McGowan describes his attempts to relearn the piano. He started learning as a child but gave it up to play football instead. He tried it again in his 30s but stopped when his TV series "The Big Impression" took over. Then, later on, after a midnight piano lesson on a cruise ship, he began in earnest again and discovered a new world of music-making.
Alistair is fascinated by short pieces in particular. His special favourites are the pieces he heard his mother play and also ones he has discovered on piano courses and through hearing them on the radio. A tiny nugget of Satie, Mompou or John Field carries for him all the weight of human experience and channels a musical history into one small but perfect form.
more info visit bbc.co.uk/getplaying
Producer: Emma Kingsley.
Max Reinhardt digs deep into artist back catalogues to explore their early experiments. Demo tapes, samplers and lesser-known debut releases are the audio equivalent of pencil sketches, where artists work through the ideas that will later define them.
Listen out for George Clinton's P-funk band "The Parliaments" in an early doowop incarnation and a 1966 radio session from Joni Mitchell. We'll also share one of Ennio Morricone's more obscure early film scores, for a comedy movie directed by Luciano Salce and starring Vittorio Gassman, set around a family skiing holiday.
Plus live concert recordings from the BBC Introducing stage at Latitude festival, 13th-16th July.
Produced by Joby Waldman for Reduced Listening.
Jonathan Swain presents performances from the archives of the Concertgebouw Orchestra featuring Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
12:31 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Hebrides Overture, Op 26
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)
12:40 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Symphony No 1 in C major, Op 21
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler (conductor)
1:05 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Ch'io mi scordi di te? - recitative and rondo, K505
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Maria Curcio (piano), Concertgebouw Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)
1:16 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Symphony No 4 in G major (1892)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bruno Walter (conductor)
2:10 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Leonore Overture No.3
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler (conductor)
2:25 AM
Puccini, Giacomo [1858-1924]
Un bel di vedremo, from Madama Butterfly
Grace Moore (soprano), Concertgebouw Orchestra, Willem Mengelberg (conductor)
2:31 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Symphony No.3 in A minor, 'Scottish'
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
3:10 AM
Schumann-Wieck, Clara (1819-1896)
Piano Trio in G minor, Op 17
Eva Zurbrugg (violin), Angela Schwartz (cello), Erika Radermacher (piano)
3:38 AM
Bach, Johann Michael (1648-1694)
Halt, was du hast
Cantus Cölln , Konrad Junghänel (director)
3:43 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Concerto Grosso in F major, Op 6 No 2, HWV 320
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
3:56 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Le Nozze di Figaro - overture
Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Adám Fischer (Conductor)
4:01 AM
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
Berceuse romantique, Op 9
Tobias Ringborg (violin), Anders Kilström (piano)
4:06 AM
Gershwin, George [1898-1937]
Lullaby
New Stenhammar String Quartet
4:15 AM
Sanz, Gaspar (1640-1710)
Tarantella
Eduardo Egüez (baroque guitar)
4:23 AM
Walpurgis, Maria Antonia (1724-1780)
Sinfonia ('Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni')
Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Tobias Schade (harpsichord/director)
4:31 AM
Wagner, Richard [1813-1883]
Rienzi Overture
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (conductor)
4:43 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Sonata in G minor, HWV.390a
Musica Alta Ripa: Anne Röhrig & Ursula Bundies (violins), Guido Larisch (cello), Bernward Lohr (harpsichord)
4:54 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey [1873-1943]
Prelude No.13 in D flat major
Lukas Geniusas (piano)
5:00 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Symphony No.1 in D major, 'Classical'
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Karel Ancerl (conductor)
5:13 AM
Alpaerts, Flor (1876-1954)
Pallieter
Vlaams Radio Orkest , Michel Tabachnik (conductor)
5:43 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Polonaise in B flat major, D.580, for violin and orchestra
Peter Zazofsky (violin), Prima La Musica, Dirk Vermeulen (conductor)
5:49 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
3 keyboard sonatas (1. Sonata in D major Kk.443; 2. Sonata in A major Kk.208; 3. Sonata in D major Kk.29)
Claire Huangci (piano)
6:00 AM
Rosenmuller, Johann (c.1619-1684)
Confitebor - Psalm 110
Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), David Cordier (countertenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Carsten Lohff (organ), Cantus Cölln, Konrad Junghänel (director/lute)
6:15 AM
Touchemoulin, Joseph (1727-1801)
Sinfonia in B flat major
Neue Düsseldorfer Hofsmusik.
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 musical object.
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the architect and broadcaster Maxwell Hutchinson. Maxwell was a practising architect for many years and in 1989 became the youngest-ever President of RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Architects. He's become one of the foremost broadcasters on architecture, presenting series on BBC Two, Channel Four and BBC Radio London. At one point Maxwell considered becoming a musician and has written three musicals and a Requiem Mass. In the last few years Maxwell has been ordained and is currently a curate at a church in Essex. As well discussing his work, his music and his life, throughout the week Maxwell will be sharing some of his favourite classical music.
10.30
Music on Location: Prague
Sarah introduces Praga by Josef Suk, which reflects on the history of Prague, conjuring up the city on the banks of the Vltava and the legendary heroine Libuse, who founded the city.
11am
Sarah's Proms Artist of the Week is the conductor, Nicholas McGegan. McGegan has been hailed as "one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation" (The Independent) and has been director of the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale for over 30 years. McGegan has also devoted much of his time to opera; he was Artistic Director of the Göttingen Handel Festival for 20 years and Principal Guest Conductor at Scottish Opera in the 1990s. As a guest conductor he's worked with orchestras around the world including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony, Halle, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. During the week Sarah will be featuring McGegan's recordings of Haydn's Symphony No.57, Mozart's Piano Concerto in F major, K459 with Melvyn Tan, and excerpts from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Alessandro Scarlatti's Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia. McGegan is also a flautist and Sarah's chosen his recording of CPE Bach's Flute Quartet in D, Wq.94, with Catherine Mackintosh, Anthony Pleeth and Christopher Hogwood.
A. Scarlatti
Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia: Deus in adiutorium; Cantantibus organis; Dixit Dominus
Susanne Rydén & Dominique Labelle (sopranos)
Ryland Angel (countertenor)
Michael Slattery (tenor)
Neal Davies (baritone & cantor)
Philharmonia Chorale
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan (conductor).
Donald Macleod tells the story of how - as he plotted his exit from the Eszterhaza Place - Haydn's musical activities were interrupted by a huge fire at the estate's opera house.
Joseph Haydn's rightly lionised by music history as the "Father of the Symphony" - a man who took a nascent form and turned it into the very apex of musical composition. Repeating the trick with another benchmark musical genre seems almost greedy of him - and yet, with more than eighty masterful examples, Haydn's dubbed the "Father of the String Quartet" too. Which makes the neglect of one area of his musical output rather puzzling. Haydn wrote more than sixty keyboard sonatas, spanning a remarkable half-century in music history. This period saw harpsichords and clavichords replaced by the forerunners of the modern piano, and - more than that - keyboard music go from light dance suites to the sonata: a form that would shortly be taken by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert into the very highest pinnacle of musical art. None of this could have happened without Haydn. And yet, his array of sonatas lag behind the fame and appreciation of his symphonies and quartets. This week, Donald Macleod puts that right: with no fewer than fourteen examples, in the hands of fourteen virtuoso pianists from the last century, with a supporting cast of musical excerpts from opera, chamber and vocal works.
As Haydn's operatic activities are briefly quelled by the Eszterhazy fire, he also realises he's been overtaken as a stage composer by the brilliant precocity of his contemporary Mozart. Donald Macleod introduces another trio of the keyboard sonatas Haydn wrote during this period - in the virtuoso hands of Ronald Brautigam, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, and one of the giants of 20th century recorded music: Glenn Gould.
Haydn
Mi dica, il mio signore (La fedelta premiata, Act 1)
Thomas Quasthoff, baritone
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Gottfried von der Goltz, conductor
Haydn
Sonata No 49 in C sharp minor, Hob.XVI:36
Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano
Haydn
Di questo audace ferro; Sappi che la belleza (La fedelta premiata)
Thomas Quasthoff, baritone
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Gottfried von der Goltz, conductor
Haydn
Sonata No 55 in B flat major, Hob.XVI:41
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
Haydn
Sonata No 56 in D major, Hob.XVI:42
Glenn Gould, piano.
The French Belle Époque comes to Essex: Penny Gore presents a celebration of French music in four concerts from the Roman River Music summer weekend at St Peter ad Vincula Church in Coggeshall, with an exciting lineup of young artists performing masterpieces by Chausson, Debussy, Fauré, Poulenc, Ravel and Saint-Saëns.
Fauré: Violin Sonata No 1 in A major, Op 13
Ravel: String Quartet in F major
Elena Urioste (violin)
Tom Poster (piano)
Navarra String Quartet.
Afternoon on 3 with Fiona Talkington.
Another chance to hear Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin perform the UK premiere of Birtwistle's Deep Time, followed by Elgar's Second Symphony.
Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
2.00pm
Sir Harrison Birtwistle: Deep Time
(BBC co-commission with the Staatskapelle Berlin: UK premiere)
2.27pm
Elgar: Symphony No 2 in E flat major
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin bring the generous scope of their interpretation of Elgar's Second Symphony to their second concert of the season, celebrating a work whose modernity and astonishing textural effects startle even now.
Dedicated to the memory of Peter Maxwell Davies, who died last year, Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Deep Time continues his career-long fascination with time and its manipulation in a sweeping new orchestral work that swaps the relentless tick-tock of the everyday for something more powerful and more alien.
[First broadcast on Sunday 16th July]
Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.
Choral Evening Prayer from Buckfast Abbey in Devon, recorded during the 2005 Exon Singers Festival. The service features the music of Francis Jackson and is being broadcast again as the composer approaches his 100th birthday
Introit: A Hymn to God the Father (Francis Jackson)
Responses: Plainsong
Hymn: Creator of the earth and sky (Deus Creator)
Psalm: 103 (Tone viii)
First Reading: Isaiah 35 vv5-10
Anthem: Ubi caritas et amor (Richard Allain)
Second Reading: 2 Corinthians 9 vv6-15
Homily: The Revd Julian Poppleton
Magnificat: The Exon Service (Francis Jackson)
Motet: Ave Maria (Holst)
Hymn: For the fruits of his creation (East Acklam)
Organ Voluntary: Impromptu (Francis Jackson)
Conductor: Matthew Owens
Organist: Jeffrey Makinson.
Suzy Klein with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. Suzy's guests include conductor Nicholas McGegan, talking to us before he conducts Proms At... Stage@TheDock, Hull.
Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Joshua Weilerstein perform Rebel, Berlioz and the UK premiere of Pascal Dusapin's Outscape at this year's BBC Proms.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Jean-Féry Rebel: Le Chaos from "Les Elémens"
Pascal Dusapin: Outscape* (BBC co-commission: UK premiere)
8.00pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra
Richard Davenport-Hines - author of 'The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Social History of Drugs' - considers how opium became a stimulus to creativity in Paris in the 19th century for writers such as Baudelaire, Apollinaire and Mallarmé and in the plot underpinning Symphonie Fantastique. He's joined by historian and Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Dr Daisy Hay, author of 'Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives'. The presenter is Matthew Sweet.
Recorded earlier this evening as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College
Producer: Jacqueline Smith
8.20pm
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14
Alisa Weilerstein (cello)*
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)
Visions of chaos give way to a diabolical scene in a musical thrill-ride that takes us from creation itself to the wild dances of a Witches' Sabbath. Jean-Féry Rebel's suite The Elements is one of Baroque music's most unusual works, opening with a vivid portrait of Chaos. The same audacity surfaces a century later in Berlioz's quasi-autobiographical Symphonie fantastique, whose large orchestral forces and colourful textures make it a perfect fit for the Royal Albert Hall.
Star cellist Alisa Weilerstein is soloist for the UK premiere of Pascal Dusapin's nature-inspired concerto Outscape - a work written for her - while her brother, rising young star Joshua Weilerstein, conducts.
Travelling to both Brazil and Milan, the musician and broadcaster Fabio Zanon tells the remarkable story of the mixed-race Brazilian composer Carlos Gomes, who conquered La Scala in the second half of the 19th century with operas in the Italian style, yet full of the exotic flavours of his homeland, such as Il Guarany and Lo Schiavo (The Slave). The programme explores the nature of his success, which was due to his natural talent, to the connections he was able to make in Italian circles, and also - in no small measure - to his personal physical appearance. Gomes, who lived in Italy for three decades, kept travelling back to Brazil to show his work and to be in touch with the tense political and social situation in the country as a new republic, free of slavery, was emerging. He became an unprecedented national hero in the process, but as the programme examines, his image experienced a dramatic change during the early 20th century, when new nationalistic winds favoured a different kind of music. It's only recently that his image has been restored nearly to his former glory, not least by the efforts of people like Placido Domingo, who has starred in international mega-productions of Il Guarany, on both sides of the Atlantic.
As part of BBC Music Get Playing, supporting amateur music making around the UK, 5 leading writers and artists contribute an Essay in this series, in which they talk about their little-known passions for playing an instrument.
In the second programme, the award-winning novelist Joanne Harris (best known for her novel "Chocolat") describes how she learned to play the flute as a child. This was followed by the bass guitar which she began after falling in love with a drummer in a band and wanting to join.
When she heard the story told by her grandfather of how he had refused to hand his double bass over to a Nazi soldier in occupied France, the young Joanne Harris realised that a musical instrument could be a powerful force. She began playing herself, first the flute and then, as a 16 year old, the bass guitar. She's continued to play both instruments and is now developing a way of telling stories in performances which incorporates music.
In this Essay, Joanne tells the story of her performing life and considers the way in which music can be an essential part of storytelling.
for more information visit bbc.co.uk/getplaying
Producer: Emma Kingsley.
Max Reinhardt presents highlights fresh from the BBC Introducing Stage at Latitude Festival 2017. BBC Introducing is dedicated to discovering fresh talent from all genres across the UK. Max Reinhardt was part of a panel of BBC presenters who chose the most exciting unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar artists, from artist submissions to the BBC Introducing uploader.
Join Max for live performances and stage-side interviews fresh from the heady Suffolk weekender.
Jonathan Swain presents a concert of Spanish-influenced music from the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin.
12:31 AM
Turina, Joaquín (1882-1949)
Danzas fantásticas, Op 22
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons (conductor)
12:46 AM
Lalo, Édouard (1823-1892)
Symphonie espagnole in D minor, Op 21, for violin and orchestra
Leticia Moreno (violin), RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons (conductor)
1:20 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Rapsodie espagnole
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons (conductor)
1:36 AM
De Falla, Manuel (1876-1946)
The Three-Cornered Hat - Ballet Suite No 2
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons (conductor)
1:49 AM
Grieg, Edvard [1843-1907]
Slatter, Op.72, for piano
Ingfrid Breie Nyhus (piano)
2:27 AM
Salzedo, Carlos (1885-1961)
Tango - from 2 Dances for 2 Harps
Julia Shaw and Nora Bumanis (harps)
2:31 AM
Anonymous, 'Faventina' the liturgies of the Codex Faenza 117
Kyrie 'Cunctipotens genitor Deus' and Gloria; Agnus Dei; Benedicamus Domino
Mala Punica
2:49 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Suite in E minor
Douglas Mackie and Jane Dickie (flutes), Barbara Jane Gilby and Imogen Lidgett (solo violins), Sue-Ellen Paulsen (cello), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Lancaster (conductor/harpsichord)
3:22 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Fantasy in C minor, K.396
Juho Pohjonen (piano)
3:31 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Pavane, Op.50, for orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
3:38 AM
Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
L'amour! L'amour ... Ah! lève-toi, soleil - Cavatina & aria from Act II of the opera "Roméo et Juliette"
Richard Margison (tenor), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
3:43 AM
Kalnins, Alfred (1879-1951)
Ballad for cello and piano
Marcis Kuplais (cello), Ventis Zilberts (piano)
3:50 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.4 in D major
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Ondrej Lenárd (conductor)
4:01 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Befreit, Op.39 No.4
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Breinl (piano)
4:07 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Nocturne in C sharp minor; Berceuse in D flat Op.57; Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op.66
Håvard Gimse (piano)
4:22 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Trio Sonata in C major, Op 3 No 8
Il Seminario Musicale, Gérard Lesne (director)
4:31 AM
Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno (1876-1948)
Two Intermezzi from 'I gioielli della Madonna', Op.4
KBS Symphony Orchestra, Othmar Maga (conductor)
4:40 AM
Farnaby, Giles (c.1563-1640) arr. E. Howarth
Fancies, Toyes and Dreames - A Giles Farnaby suite arr. Howarth for brass ensemble
Hungarian Brass Ensemble
4:46 AM
Bacheler, Daniel (c.1574-c.1610)
Pavan
Nigel North (lute)
4:52 AM
Frumerie, Gunnar de (1908-1987)
Pastoral Suite, Op.13b
Kathleen Rudolph (flute), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5:05 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918), arr. Maarten Bon
Jeux, arr for piano 8 hands
Yoko Abe, Gérard van Blerk, Maarten Bon, Sepp Grotenhuis (pianos)
5:22 AM
Andriessen, Hendrik (1892-1981) [Text by Henri Ghéon = Henri Vangeon (1875-1944)]
Miroir de Peine - song-cycle for voice and orchestra
Roberta Alexander (soprano), Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, David Porcelijn (conductor)
5:36 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) [attrib]
Overture in G minor, BWV.1070
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
5:53 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Cello Sonata No.1 in B flat major, Op.45
Diana Ozoliņa (cello), Lelde Paula (piano)
6:15 AM
Holst, Gustav (1874-1934)
St Paul's Suite
Seoul Chamber Orchestra, Yong-Yun Kim (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 architect and broadcaster Maxwell Hutchinson. Maxwell was a practising architect for many years and in 1989 became the youngest-ever President of RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Architects. He's become one of the foremost broadcasters on architecture, presenting series on BBC Two, Channel Four and BBC Radio London. At one point Maxwell considered becoming a musician and has written three musicals and a Requiem Mass. In the last few years Maxwell has been ordained and is currently a curate at a church in Essex. As well discussing his work, his music and his life, throughout the week Maxwell will be sharing some of his favourite classical music.
10.30
Music on Location: Prague
Sarah explores the two Mozart operas that were premiered in the city: Don Giovanni and La clemenza di Tito.
Double Take
Sarah explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two interpretations of Triana from Isaac Albeniz's piano collection Iberia (Book 2) by Spanish pianists - Alicia de Larrocha and Rafael Orozco.
11am
Sarah's Proms Artist of the Week is the conductor, Nicholas McGegan. McGegan has been hailed as "one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation" (The Independent) and has been director of the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale for over 30 years. McGegan has also devoted much of his time to opera; he was Artistic Director of the Göttingen Handel Festival for 20 years and Principal Guest Conductor at Scottish Opera in the 1990s. As a guest conductor he's worked with orchestras around the world including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony, Halle, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. During the week Sarah will be featuring McGegan's recordings of Haydn's Symphony No.57, Mozart's Piano Concerto in F major, K459 with Melvyn Tan, and excerpts from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Alessandro Scarlatti's Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia. McGegan is also a flautist and Sarah's chosen his recording of CPE Bach's Flute Quartet in D, Wq.94, with Catherine Mackintosh, Anthony Pleeth and Christopher Hogwood.
C.P.E. Bach
Flute Quartet in D major, Wq.94
Nicholas McGegan (flute)
Catherine Mackintosh (viola)
Anthony Pleeth (cello)
Christopher Hogwood (fortepiano).
Donald Macleod explores the aftermath of one of the most important moments of Haydn's life: the death of his patron Prince Nikolaus Eszterhazy, leaving the composer free to travel.
Joseph Haydn's rightly lionised by music history as the "Father of the Symphony" - a man who took a nascent form and turned it into the very apex of musical composition. Repeating the trick with another benchmark musical genre seems almost greedy of him - and yet, with more than eighty masterful examples, Haydn's dubbed the "Father of the String Quartet" too. Which makes the neglect of one area of his musical output rather puzzling. Haydn wrote more than sixty keyboard sonatas, spanning a remarkable half-century in music history. This period saw harpsichords and clavichords replaced by the forerunners of the modern piano, and - more than that - keyboard music go from light dance suites to the sonata: a form that would shortly be taken by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert into the very highest pinnacle of musical art. None of this could have happened without Haydn. And yet, his array of sonatas lag behind the fame and appreciation of his symphonies and quartets. This week, Donald Macleod puts that right: with no fewer than fourteen examples, in the hands of fourteen virtuoso pianists from the last century, with a supporting cast of musical excerpts from opera, chamber and vocal works.
In today's episode Donald Macleod explores two key relationships - one professional, one personal - crucial to the development of Haydn's keyboard sonatas. He introduces the composer's business dealings with the publisher Artaria, who would commission a number of new works, as well as Haydn's deep - and unrequited - affection for the pianist Maria Anna von Genzinger. Featuring two more complete sonata recordings performed by Emanuel Ax and Andreas Staier.
Haydn
Sonata No 58 in C major, Hob.XVI:48
Emmanuel Ax, piano
Haydn
Piano Trio No 27 in A flat. Hob. XV:14
Beaux Arts Trio
Haydn
Sonata No 59 in E flat major, Hob.XVI:49
Andreas Staier, fortepiano.
The French Belle Époque comes to Essex: Penny Gore presents a celebration of French music in four concerts from the Roman River Music summer weekend at St Peter ad Vincula Church in Coggeshall, with an exciting lineup of young artists performing masterpieces by Chausson, Debussy, Fauré, Poulenc, Ravel and Saint-Saëns.
Chausson: Chanson perpétuelle, Op 37
Fauré: La bonne chanson, Op 61
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Raphaela Papadakis (soprano)
Karim Sulayman (tenor)
Tom Poster (piano)
Navarra String Quartet.
Afternoon on 3 - with Fiona Talkington
Another chance to hear Bernard Haitink conduct the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in symphonies by Mozart & Schumann. Isabelle Faust joins them for Mozart's Violin Concerto in G K216.
Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London
2pm
Mozart: Symphony No 38 in D major 'Prague', K 504
c.2.30pm
Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 in G major, K 216
c.2.55pm:
Schumann: Symphony no.2 in C major
Isabelle Faust (violin)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
conductor Bernard Haitink
The two symphonies that frame this Prom each offer a defiant, optimistic challenge to the status quo. Mozart's pioneering 'Prague' Symphony rewrites the rule book for the genre, while in Schumann's Second Symphony the composer overcomes the demons of his own mental health to produce a work of invigorating, captivating extremes.
Conductor Bernard Haitink - a Proms regular for over half a century - returns with frequent collaborators, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. They are joined by award-winning German violinist Isabelle Faust, the soloist in Mozart's graceful Violin Concerto No. 3.
[First broadcast on Sunday 16th July]
Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.
Suzy Klein with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. Suzy's guests include Edicson Ruiz and Yu Kosuge, performing live in the studio before a late night concert at Wigmore. Julian Lloyd Webber joins us down the line ahead of his talk at the Three Choirs Festival.
Live at BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart, Jamal Aliyev (cello), Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet), Jess Gillam (alto sax), Haringey Vox and Islington Music Centre celebrate the music of legendary film composer John Williams.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Presented by Katie Derham.
Overture to Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Raider's March from Raiders of the Lost Ark
Main Theme from Jaws
March from Superman
Suite for Cello and Orchestra from Memoirs of a Geisha - Sayuri's Theme
Viktor's Tale from The Terminal
Dartmoor, 1912 from War Horse
Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
A Child's Tale: Suite from The BFG
Flying Theme from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
20.25 INTERVAL - Proms Extra
During the interval, Matthew Sweet and guests discuss John Williams's dazzling career in film music. Highlights of a discussion recorded at the Imperial College Union earlier this evening.
20.45
Theme from J.F.K
Prayer for Peace from Munich
Dry Your Tears, Afrika from Amistad
Devil's Dance, from The Witches of Eastwick
Escapades (No. 3) for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra from Catch Me if You Can
March of the Resistance from Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Rey's Theme from Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Main Title from Star Wars: A New Hope
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Winner of five Academy Awards, 22 Grammy Awards and seven BAFTAs, John Williams is among the greatest of film composers. His scores for Star Wars, Harry Potter, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and the Indiana Jones films have made him a household name.
The BBC Proms celebrates his extraordinary achievements in a concert to mark Williams's 85th birthday. Keith Lockhart - a long-time colleague of Williams at the Boston Pops Orchestra - conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in an evening featuring excerpts from the composer's best-loved scores, as well as some lesser-known gems.
Kate Kennedy explores the Somme history and legacy through the lives of British composers and musicians who fought on the battlefields of Picardie in 1916. She follows in the footsteps of George Butterworth, Ivor Gurney, Arthur Bliss and his clarinettist brother Kennard, and Frederick Septimus Kelly. Some of them returned home, but others lost their lives. Through their own words and their music, Kate traces the human stories and examines some of the wider questions which historians still argue about today, and looks at the role which music plays in this complex narrative.
With contributions from the historians Gary Sheffield and Marjolaine Boutet, the cultural historian Jay Winter and the director of the Historial Museum in Péronne, Hervé François.
Tonight a new album paying tribute to Pauline Oliveros following Pauline's final London concert almost exactly a year ago, a graphic-score collaboration from three of New York's finest jazz guitarists: Elliott Sharp, Mary Halvorson and Marc Ribot. Plus new music from British- born LA- based beats producer Kutmah.
Igor Levit plays Tchaikovsky's The Seasons and Shostakovich's 24 Preludes recorded during his time as a BBC New Generation Artist. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich [1840-1893]
The Seasons, Op 37b
Igor Levit (piano)
1:14 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitri [1906-1975]
24 Preludes, Op 34
Igor Levit (piano)
1:50 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav [1890-1959]
Symphony No 1
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Válek (conductor)
2:31 AM
La Rue, Pierre de (c.1460-1518)
Missa Sancto Job
Orlando Consort
3:07 AM
Lindblad, Adolf Fredrik (1801-1878)
String Quartet No.3 in C major
Yggdrasil String Quartet
3:43 AM
Medtner, Nikolai [1879-1951]
Fairy Tale in A minor, Op.51 No.2; Fairy Tale in E flat major, Op.26 No.2; Fairy Tale in B flat minor Op.20 No.1
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
3:51 AM
Viotti, Giovanni Battista [1755-1824]
Duo concertante in D minor
Alexandar Avramov (violin), Ivan Peev (violin)
4:00 AM
Raitio, Väinö (1891-1945)
Joutsenet (Swans), Op 15
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu (conductor)
4:08 AM
Westlake, Nigel (b.1958)
Winter in the Forgotten Valley
Guitar Trek - Timothy Kain, Fiona Walsh, Richard Strasser, Peter Constant
4:21 AM
Fontana, Giovanni Battista (c.1592-1631)
Sonata undecima for cornet, violin and continuo
Le Concert Brisé - William Dongois (cornet/director), Christine Moran (violin), Carsten Lohff (harpsichord), Anne-Catherine Bucher (organ/harpsichord), Benjamin Perrot (theorbo)
4:31 AM
Stradella, Alessandro (c.1642-c.1682)
Sinfonia in D minor
The Private Music - Mira Glodeanu and Karen Raby (violins), Abby Wall (bass violin), Silas Standage (organ)
4:38 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Variations brillantes in B flat major, on a theme from Hérold's 'Ludovic'
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
4:46 AM
Berezovsky, Maxim Sosontovitch (1745-1777)
Do not reject me (Ps.70)
The Seven Saints Chamber Choir, Dimitar Grigorov (conductor)
4:55 AM
Boeck, August de (1865-1937)
Nocturne (1931)
Vlaams Radio Orkest , Marc Soustrot (conductor)
5:04 AM
Cabezon, Antonio de [1510-1566]
3 Pieces for Double Harp
Margret Köll (arpa doppia)
5:13 AM
Schmitt, Matthias (b.1958)
'Ghanaia' for solo percussion
Colin Currie (marimba)
5:21 AM
Alpaerts, Flor (1876-1954)
Avondmuziek (Serenade)
I Solisti del Vento, Ivo Hadermann (conductor)
5:30 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Divertimento in B major for violin, cello and piano, K254
Trio Orlando: Vladimir Krpan (piano), Tonko Ninic (violin), Andrej Petrac (cello)
5:52 AM
Molique, Bernhard (1802-1869) transcribed by Giulio Regondi, arr for accordion & harp by Joseph Petric & Erica Goodman
Six Songs without Words (1. If o'er the boundless sky; 2. Fair Annie; 3. When the moon is brightly shining; 4. Come all ye glad and free; 5. Come dearest, come (by Prince Albert); 6. O that my woes were distant)
Joseph Petric (accordion), Erica Goodman (harp)
6:05 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Overture (Suite) in C major, 'Hamburger Ebbe und Fluth'
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ketil Haugsand (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 architect and broadcaster Maxwell Hutchinson. Maxwell was a practising architect for many years and in 1989 became the youngest-ever President of RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Architects. He's become one of the foremost broadcasters on architecture, presenting series on BBC Two, Channel Four and BBC Radio London. At one point Maxwell considered becoming a musician and has written three musicals and a Requiem Mass. In the last few years Maxwell has been ordained and is currently a curate at a church in Essex. As well discussing his work, his music and his life, throughout the week Maxwell will be sharing some of his favourite classical music.
10.30
Music on Location
Sarah introduces music from Janacek's opera Jenůfa - its staging in Prague in 1916 led the composer to international success.
11am
Sarah's Proms Artist of the Week is the conductor, Nicholas McGegan. McGegan has been hailed as "one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation" (The Independent) and has been director of the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale for over 30 years. McGegan has also devoted much of his time to opera; he was Artistic Director of the Göttingen Handel Festival for 20 years and Principal Guest Conductor at Scottish Opera in the 1990s. As a guest conductor he's worked with orchestras around the world including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony, Halle, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. During the week Sarah will be featuring McGegan's recordings of Haydn's Symphony No.57, Mozart's Piano Concerto in F major, K459 with Melvyn Tan, and excerpts from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Alessandro Scarlatti's Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia. McGegan is also a flautist and Sarah's chosen his recording of CPE Bach's Flute Quartet in D, Wq.94, with Catherine Mackintosh, Anthony Pleeth and Christopher Hogwood.
Haydn
Symphony No. 57 in D major
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan (conductor).
Donald Macleod explores Haydn's second and final trip to London in the mid 1790s - a trip that would accompany the composition of his last three keyboard sonata masterpieces.
Joseph Haydn's rightly lionised by music history as the "Father of the Symphony" - a man who took a nascent form and turned it into the very apex of musical composition. Repeating the trick with another benchmark musical genre seems almost greedy of him - and yet, with more than eighty masterful examples, Haydn's dubbed the "Father of the String Quartet" too. Which makes the neglect of one area of his musical output rather puzzling. Haydn wrote more than sixty keyboard sonatas, spanning a remarkable half-century in music history. This period saw harpsichords and clavichords replaced by the forerunners of the modern piano, and - more than that - keyboard music go from light dance suites to the sonata: a form that would shortly be taken by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert into the very highest pinnacle of musical art. None of this could have happened without Haydn. And yet, his array of sonatas lag behind the fame and appreciation of his symphonies and quartets. This week, Donald Macleod puts that right: with no fewer than fourteen examples, in the hands of fourteen virtuoso pianists from the last century, with a supporting cast of musical excerpts from opera, chamber and vocal works.
Haydn would write his final three sonatas for keyboard around the time of his second visit to London, for the acclaimed pianist Therese Jansen. Donald Macleod ends the week with a complete performance of all three, in the hands of Alfred Brendel, Malcolm Bilson, and a remarkable recent recording by the young Polish virtuoso Rafal Blechacz.
Haydn
Sonata No 61 in D major, Hob.XVI:51
Alfred Brendel, piano
Haydn
Sonata No 60 in C major, Hob.XVI:50
Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano
Haydn
Nor Can I Think My Suit Is Vain; Thy Great Endeavours (Mare Clausum)
Tölzen Knabenchor
Tafelmusik
Bruno Weil, conductor
Haydn
Sonata No 62 in E flat major, Hob.XVI:52
Rafal Blechacz, piano.
The French Belle Époque comes to Essex: Penny Gore presents a celebration of French music in four concerts from the Roman River Music summer weekend at St Peter ad Vincula Church in Coggeshall, with an exciting lineup of young artists performing masterpieces by Chausson, Debussy, Fauré, Poulenc, Ravel and Saint-Saëns.
Poulenc: Songs (selection)
Chausson: Concert in D major, Op 21
Raphaela Papadakis (soprano)
Karim Sulayman (tenor)
Elena Urioste (violin)
Tom Poster (piano)
Navarra String Quartet.
Afternoon on 3 - with Georgia Mann
Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Thomas Sondergard with Behzod Abduraimov. Symphonies from Sibelius and Shostakovich alongside Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto.
Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
2.00pm:
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
2.25pm:
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
3.00pm:
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Behzod Abduraimov (piano)
Thomas Søndergård (conductor)
Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.
Suzy Klein with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. Suzy's guests include Tai Murray, Elena Urioste, Jennifer Stumm, Laura van der Heijden and Tom Poster, who perform together as a piano quintet at Wigmore Hall at the weekend. Conductor Juanjo Mena joins us down the line from the Royal Albert Hall before tonight's Prom performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall: Juanjo Mena conducts Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio' with a cast led by Stuart Skelton and Ricarda Merbeth.
Presented by Donald Macleod
Beethoven: Fidelio
Act I
8.40 INTERVAL - Proms Extra
Presenter Ian Skelly chairs an introduction to Beethoven's 'Fidelio' with guests, the academic and 19th-century opera expert Flora Willson and critic and broadcaster Fiona Maddocks.
9.00
Act II
Stuart Skelton, tenor (Florestan)
Ricarda Merbeth, soprano (Leonore)
Brindley Sherratt, bass (Rocco)
Louise Alder, soprano (Marzelline)
Benjamin Hulett, tenor (Jaquino)
Detlef Roth, bass-baritone (Don Pizarro)
David Soar, bass (Don Fernando)
Andrew Masterson, tenor (First Prisoner)
Tomothy Bagley, bass-baritone (Second Prisoner)
Orfeón Donostiarra
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)
The first of three politically charged stage works this season is Beethoven's only opera, 'Fidelio' - a passionate musical protest against political oppression, first performed in Vienna in the wake of the French Revolution to an audience mostly consisting of Napoleon's troops. At its heart is the stirring "Prisoners' Chorus", a poignant hymn to freedom and the power of the human spirit. The BBC Philharmonic brings its highly acclaimed performance to the Proms with a cast starring Australian tenor Stuart Skelton as the imprisoned Florestan, and soprano Ricarda Merbeth as his faithful and resourceful wife Leonore.
Broadcaster and journalist, Marie-Louise Muir, examines the role theatre played in radicalising the Irish women who fought in the 1916 Easter Rising.
As she pieces together their largely forgotten stories through archives at Dublin's Abbey Theatre and visits key locations associated with the insurrection, Marie-Louise asks what happened to these women and their radical ideals.
Producer: Conor Garrett.
Lopa Kothari with new tracks from across the globe, plus a session with Portuguese fado artist Luisa Rocha.