Catriona Young presents a concert by the acclaimed Croatian Radio-Television Chorus dedicated to the music of Jakov Gotovac, born in Split in 1895. At his height in the 1930s he wrote Croatia's most popular opera "Ero the Joker", but throughout his life brought his folk sensibilities to all sorts of music, including these choral pieces.
1:01 am
Jakov Gotovac (1895-1982)
Zvonimir's Ship; Our Town; To the Adriatic
Croatian Radio-Television Chorus, Robert Homen (director)
1:16 am
Jakov Gotovac (1895-1982)
Song of the Grain-Bearer, ('Songs of Eternal Sorrow')
Croatian Radio-Television Chorus, Robert Homen (director)
1:21 am
Jakov Gotovac (1895-1982)
Sweetheart's Offer, ('Three Choruses for Male Voices')
Andro Bojanic (tenor), Croatian Radio-Television Chorus, Robert Homen (director)
1:25 am
Jakov Gotovac (1895-1982)
Under the Lilac, ('Two Works for Male Chorus')
Andro Bojanic (tenor), Croatian Radio-Television Chorus, Robert Homen (director)
1:30 am
Jakov Gotovac (1895-1982)
Three Dalmatian Folksongs
Monika Cerovcec (soprano), Andro Bojanic (tenor), Croatian Radio-Television Chorus, Robert Homen (director)
1:44 am
Jakov Gotovac (1895-1982)
Lament for a Calf, ('Two Songs of Miracle and Laughter)'
Croatian Radio-Television Chorus, Robert Homen (director)
1:47 am
Gotovac, Jakov (1895-1982)
Stone Maiden; Good Evening, o Honourable One; Yesterday You Said to Me; The Bet, ('Two Scherzos')
Monika Cerovcec (soprano), Croatian Radio-Television Chorus, Robert Homen (director)
2:05 am
Jakov Gotovac (1895-1982)
Koleda, (folk rite in five parts)
Marcelo Zelencic (clarinet), Domagoj Pavlovic (clarinet), Istvan Matay (bassoon), Aleksandar Colic (bassoon), Hrvoje Sekovanic (timpani), Croatian Radio-Television Chorus, Robert Homen (director)
2:20 am
Ivan Jarnović (1747-1804)
Violin Concerto No 1 in A major
Tonko Ninic (violin), The Zagreb Soloists
2:38 am
Antun Sorkočević (1775-1841)
Adagio
Zagreb Woodwind Trio
2:43 am
Blagoje Bersa (1873-1934)
Suncana Polja
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazushi Ono (conductor)
3:01 am
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet No 2 in A major, Op 26
Julian Rachlin (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola), Torleif Theden (cello), Itamar Golan (piano)
3:49 am
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Harp Fantasia No 2 in C minor, Op 35
Mojca Zlobko Vaigl (harp)
3:59 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Non più, tutto ascoltai...Non temer amato bene, K490
Joan Carden (soprano), Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Richard Bonynge (conductor)
4:08 am
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in F major, BWV 880
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
4:13 am
Josquin des Prez (c1440 - 1521)
La déploration de Johan Okeghem
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Paul van Nevel (conductor)
4:19 am
Claude Debussy (1862-1819)
La cathédrale engloutie
Claude Debussy (piano)
4:24 am
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Phantasiestücke, Op 73
Luka Mitev (bassoon), Helena Kosem Kotar (piano)
4:36 am
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op 20
Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, Plamen Djurov (conductor)
4:47 am
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario (1895-1968)
Tarantella, Op 87b
Tomaz Rajteric (guitar)
4:52 am
Mirko Krajci (b. 1968)
Four Dances from the ballet 'Don Juan' (2007)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mirko Krajci (conductor)
5:01 am
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Italian Serenade
Bartok String Quartet
5:08 am
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Keybaord Sonata in A minor, Wq 57 No 2
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)
5:17 am
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Jeptha excerpt ('Scenes of horror .. While in never-ceasing pain')
Maureen Forrester (contralto), I Soloisti di Zagreb, Antonio Janigro (conductor)
5:23 am
Ivan Lukacic (1587-1648)
Three motets ('Sacrae Cantiones')
Pro Cantione Antiqua, Kevin Smith (countertenor), Timothy Penrose (countertenor), James Griffett (tenor), James Lewington (tenor), Brian Etheridge (bass), Michael George (bass), Alan Cuckston (organ), Alan Cuckston (harpsichord), Mark Brown (conductor)
5:37 am
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig, (48 Organ Chorales, No 9, TWV 31:17)
Peter Westerbrink (organ)
5:41 am
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Kol Nidrei, Op 47
Shauna Rolston (cello), Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
5:52 am
Pejacevic, Dora (1885-1923)
Life of Flowers, Op 19
Ida Gamulin (piano)
6:13 am
Heikki Suolahti (1920-1936)
Sinfonia Piccola (1935)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kari Tikka (conductor)
6:35 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No 23 in A major, K488
Joanna MacGregor (piano), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki (conductor).
Breakfast from Edinburgh. Martin Handley presents an eclectic mix of music reflecting events at the Edinburgh Festival, celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. Part of BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals.
Producer Peter Thresh.
Producer Clive Portbury.
The Dunedin Consort launch the 2017 Queen's Hall series live from Edinburgh with a programme featuring a recently rediscovered work by Monteverdi which was transcribed by Schütz into German. 'Combattimento', known in its original form as 'Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda' is the fateful love story of a Christian soldier and his Saracen lover at the time of the first Crusades. Monteverdi's original work is notable for one of the earliest known inclusions of the string instrument effects of pizzicato and tremolo. The programme begins with a number of instrumental and vocal works by contemporary composers from German and Italy.
Presented by Donald Macleod
Froberger: Toccata in G major
Monteverdi: Armato il cor
Monteverdi: Zefiro torna
Marini: Passacaglio à 4
Schütz: Güldne Haare, gleich Aurore
Buxtehude: Sonata in A major
Schütz: O süsser, o freundlicher
Schütz: Es steh Gott auf
Interval at around 11.50am
As the 2017 Edinburgh International Festival gets under way, Donald Macleod takes a look at the Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado who has the honour of conducting the Opening Concert from the Usher Hall and plays the first movement of his recording of Mendelssohn's Symphony No 3 with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
12.15pm
Rosenmüller: Sonata No. 7 à 4 in D minor
Monteverdi/Schütz: Combattimento
Sophie Bevan, soprano
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Dunedin Consort
director John Butt, harpsichord.
The Edinburgh Festival was founded 70 years ago in the aftermath of World War Two. 1947 was a year of shortages and rationing, and the idea of starting an arts festival in Scotland's capital city must have seemed highly ambitious. Yet with the support of the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Rudolf Bing, the general manager of Glydenbourne Festival Opera, undertook the challenge. It was to prove an international success that has lasted 70 years.
With contributions from those who attended the first festivals in the 1940s and music from early performances, Jim Naughtie reflects on the origins of what has become the world's greatest arts festival.
Producer Mark Rickards.
Percussionist Evelyn Glennie has commissioned many new concertos for percussion and orchestra.
In this programme she explores other concertos for unusual solo instruments. Her selection includes Leopold Mozart's Alphorn Concerto, Malcolm Arnold's Harmonica Concerto, Rautavaara's Concerto for Birds and Orchestra and Piazzolla's Concerto for Bandoneon. She also includes concertos for didjeridoo, glass harmonica, jew's harp and for choir.
The concerto form in classical music is usually associated with a small number of solo instruments - piano, violin, cello, clarinet, perhaps trumpet. But in this programme Evelyn Glennie shows that many other instruments can shine in the soloist's spotlight, from the growling tones of the didjeridoo to the otherworldly flutings of the glass harmonica, for which no less a composer than Mozart wrote a piece. And Finnish composer Rautavaara had the inspiration to make recordings of arctic bird calls, which became the solo part in his Cantus Arcticus (Concerto for Birds and Orchestra).
Producer Philip Tagney.
Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film music inspired by the space opera genre following the release of Luc Besson's "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" with a new score by Alexandre Desplat.
The programme looks at some of the earliest examples of space operas, including "Flash Gordon" and "Buck Rogers", defining the genre, and features music from the likes of "Battlestar Galactica", "Battle Beyond The Stars", "Star Trek - Beyond", "Dune", "The Last Starfighter", "Serenity", "Jupiter Ascending", "The Fifth Element" and of course, "Star Wars" which perhaps did more than any other film to establish the musical sound of space opera.
As Radio 3 celebrates the 70th birthday of the Edinburgh Festival, Alyn Shipton presents listeners' requests with a Scottish tinge, as well as music from Jamaican-born pianist Monty Alexander.
Artist Bobby WellinsKevin Le Gendre presents an intimate duo set featuring American bassist Greg Cohen and pianist Declan Forde recorded on the Jazz Line-Up stage as part of the Glasgow Jazz Festival. Cohen is a much-in-demand bass player and has collaborated with a range of musicians including Ornette Coleman, Tom Waits and Lou Reed. Declan is a Scottish composer, currently based in Berlin, and is a graduate of Leeds College of Music, a previous finalist of the Young Scottish Musician of The Year and regularly performs with the Far East Trio, James Banner's Eleven as well as with his own project Sproggits.
New Generation Artists: The Calidore Quartet play Dvorak and Ligeti at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
Clemency Burton-Hill introduces a concert recorded at the Norwich Playhouse in May where the award-winning Calidore Quartet from America play Ligeti's scintillating early quartet and the quartet that Dvorak wrote during his stay in America.
Dvorak String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op.96 'American.'
Ligeti String Quartet No. 1, 'Metamorphoses nocturnes.'.
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain is conducted by Thomas Adès in works by himself and Francisco Coll, plus Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Redmond
Francisco Coll: Mural
Thomas Adès: Polaris
8.15pm Interval
Tom Redmond and Georgia Mann talk to members of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, past and present
8.40pm
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Thomas Adès (conductor)
Hear some of the UK's finest young musical talent, directed by composer and conductor Thomas Adès, in a bold programme of works that push the orchestra to its technical and sonic limits. Adès's own Polaris, subtitled 'A Voyage for Orchestra', takes inspiration from the North Star, conjuring a vast interstellar landscape that unfolds from a simple piano theme into a massive sonic spiral. Francisco Coll's Mural, tonight receiving its London premiere, is another richly textured, large-scale work - a 'grotesque symphony, in which Dionysus meets Apollo'. The concert's climax is Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring, whose frenzied rhythms and provocative harmonies prompted a legendary riot at its Paris premiere.
Interval: Tom Redmond and Georgia Mann talk to members of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, past and present.
Clemency Burton-Hill introduces a performance by the award-winning American group the Calidore String Quartet, recorded in May at the Norwich Playhouse playing Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11.
Producer Peter Thresh.
Robert Worby introduces highlights from a recent concert promoted by Music We'd Like to Hear, a London-based collective of composer-performers. Recorded last month at St Mary-at-Hill in the City of London, it features ensemble pieces by Sarah Hughes and Nomi Epstein, and American guitarist Seth Josel playing Hauke Harder and Christian Wolff. Also in tonight's programme, a recording of David Bedford's large-scale work for electric guitars, percussion and orchestra, Star's End, marking the 80th anniversary of the composer's birth.
David Bedford: Star's End
Mats Bergstrom (electric guitar)
Pete Wilson (bass guitar)
Steve Barnard (percussion)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Edwin Outwater (conductor)
Producer Philip Tagney.
To John Coltrane, Johnny Hodges was "the world's greatest saxophone player", and his gorgeous alto solos defined the Duke Ellington band for decades. Geoffrey Smith picks some highlights from a unique jazz career.
IT DON’T MEAN A THING IF IT AIN’T GOT THAT SWINGJohn Shea presents a concert of chamber music for Wind ensembles from Catalonia in Spain.
1:01 am
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon
Enrique Bagaría (piano), Lucas Macías (oboe), Guilhaume Santana (bassoon)
1:14 am
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano and Wind Quintet in E flat major, Op.16
Enrique Bagaría (piano), Lucas Macías (oboe), Laura Ruiz (clarinet), Jose Vicente Castelló (horn), Guilhaume Santana (bassoon)
1:41 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano and WInd Quintet in E flat major, K.452
Enrique Bagaría (piano), Lucas Macías (oboe), Laura Ruiz (clarinet), Jose Vicente Castelló (horn), Guilhaume Santana (bassoon)
2:05 am
Johannes Brahms
Double Concerto in A minor for Violin and Cello, Op.102
Solve Sigerland (violin), Ellen Margrete Flesjo (cello), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Peter Szilvay (conductor)
2:38 am
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Lehms, Georg Christian (author)
Cantata No.170, "Vergnugte Ruh', beliebte Seelenlust" (BWV.170)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
3:01 am
Anton Arensky (1861-1906)
Suite No.1 in G for 2 pianos, Op.15
James Anagnason (piano), Leslie Kinton (piano)
3:16 am
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Symphony No.5, Op.50
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thomas Sondergard (conductor)
3:51 am
Bloch, Ernest (1880-1959)
Meditation and Processional
Morten Carlsen (viola), Sergej Osadchuk (piano)
3:58 am
Caldara, Antonio (c.1671-1736)
Stabat mater
Capella Nova Graz, Otto Kargl (director)
4:03 am
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Recorder Concerto in C minor, RV.441
Michael Schneider (treble recorder), Camerata Köln
4:14 am
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
Segoviana, Op.366
Heiki Matlik (guitar)
4:19 am
Carmichael, John (b.1930), Hurst, Michael (arranger)
A Country Fair, arr. Hurst for orchestra
Jack Harrison (clarinet), West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills (conductor)
4:28 am
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Rondo brillante in E flat "La gaieté", Op.62
Niklas Sivelov (piano)
4:35 am
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
La maja y el ruisenor - from Goyescas
Marilyn Richardson (soprano), Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kamisrski (conductor)
4:42 am
François Francoeur (1698-1787), Trowell, Arnold (arranger)
Cello Sonata in E major
Monica Leskhovar (cello), Ivana Schwartz (piano)
4:53 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
4 Kontratänze (K.267)
English Chamber Orchestra, Mitsuko Uchida (conductor)
5:01 am
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Le Cygne (The Swan) - from 'Le Carnaval des animaux'
Henry-David Varema (cello), Cornelia Lootsmann (harp)
5:04 am
Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
Concerto Grosso No.1 in D major (after Corelli's Op.5)
Academy of Ancient Music, director Andrew Manze (violin)
5:13 am
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Three Folksongs for chorus, Op.49
Carmina Chamber Choir, Peter Hanke (conductor)
5:28 am
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Six Pieces for four hands, Op 11
Zbignevas Ibelhauptas, Ruta Ibelhauptiene (piano duet)
5:42 am
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op 36
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
5:58 am
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Flute Sonata in A major, BWV 1032
Sharon Bezaly (flute), Terence Charlston (harpsichord)
6:11 am
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Ciaccona 'Quemadmodum desiderat cervus', BuxWV 92
John Elwes (tenor), Ensemble La Fenice, director Jean Tubéry (cornett)
6:17 am
Van Noordt, Anthoni (1619-1675)
Psalm 6
Leo van Doeselaar (organ)
6:27 am
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58
Alexis Weissenberg (piano), Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Emil Chakarov (conductor).
Breakfast from Edinburgh. Martin Handley presents an eclectic mix of music reflecting events at the Edinburgh Festival, celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. Part of BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals.
Producer Peter Thresh.
James Jolly with music including Graziani's Cello Concerto in C. His young artist is pianist Alexandre Kantorow and the week's focus on a work that ought to be heard more often is Schubert's Symphony No. 4 (the 'Tragic') in a celebrated recording conducted by Karl Münchinger with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Nick Davies is an expert in the art of deception - as practised by the cuckoo. He has spent his career studying that deceiving, murderous bird, and living in woods and wild gardens, even up in a mountain hut in the Pyrenees. He's a hugely influential scientist: since the late 1970s he's really helped define the field in behavioural ecology, and he's Professor of Behavioural Ecology at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Pembroke College. But really, as he tells Michael Berkeley, he's happier not sitting in a library, but roaming the fens.
In Private Passions, Nick Davies reveals what he's learned about bird behaviour, and how birds use song to compete and, sometimes, collaborate to sing duets. He explains how some birds sing in poetry, some in prose; and why the blackbird in your back garden is a better songster than the nightingale. Music choices reflect his passion for the beauty of the natural world: Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, for instance, Vaughan Williams's Lark Ascending, and songs by Herbert Howells and Samuel Barber about the transformative power of nature. We also hear the song of larks, nightingales, blackbirds, pink-footed geese - and the croaking of natterjack toads.
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.
From Cadogan Hall, London, a meeting of Baroque music and Finnish folk, ranging from Corelli and 16th-century spiritual songs to music from the Kaustinen region.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Finnish folk music meets familiar Baroque textures in a programme exploring two genres with a shared love of song and dance.
Anu Komsi (soprano)
Kreeta-Maria Kentala (violin)
Andrew Lawrence-King (harp, kantele, psaltery)
Eero Palviainen (theorbo, guitar)
Milla Viljamaa (harmonium)
Soprano Anu Komsi and violinist Kreeta-Maria Kentala both have family roots in the folk-rich municipality of Kaustinen, western Finland. They are joined by fellow boundary-crossing musicians for a whistle-stop journey through Finnish musical history encompassing the 16th-century Piae cantiones (the earliest printed book of Finnish music) and the 19th-century national folk epic, the Kalevala, which so inspired Sibelius. The concert also features favourites by Corelli and other Baroque composers, as well as folk songs from Kaustinen and music by Kreeta Haapasalo (1813-93), who was born in the region.
Harpsichordist Sophie Yates visits Westwood Manor in Wiltshire to look at a recently restored 1538 ottavino virginals and discusses the history of the instrument, which had cult-like status in Elizabethan and Jacobean society.
Archive recording from 2003 for the Feast of the Transfiguration from the Cathedral of the Transfiguration, St Petersburg, Russia, in the 300th anniversary year of the city's founding. The service is led by the Archpriest, Father Boris Glebov, and the Cathedral Choir directed by Vladimir Lvov sings music by Allemanov, Smolensky, Burmatin, Tretyakov, Zakharov and Tchesnokov. The Gospel for the day is Luke 9: 28-36. Father Vladimir Fyodorov gives the homily and the commentator is Canon Michael Bourdeaux.
Esa‐Pekka Salonen, Philharmonia Orchestra and mezzo Marianne Crebassa with music by Johann Sebastian Bach arranged by Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel and John Adams.
Presented by Andrew McGregor from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Johann Sebastian Bach: Canonic Variations on 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm, ich her', BWV 769 (arr. Stravinsky)
Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade
John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music
Marianne Crebassa, mezzo-soprano
Philharmonia Voices
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa‐Pekka Salonen, conductor
The celebrations of John Adams's 70th birthday continue with his Naive and Sentimental Music, conducted by its dedicatee, Esa-Pekka Salonen. A symphony in all but name, the work glows with multi-layered textures. From meditative Minimalism to intricate counterpoint in Stravinsky's Canonic Variations on 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her' - a colourful 'recomposition' of Bach's own chorale variations on the Lutheran hymn. Rising French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa is the soloist in Ravel's heady song-cycle Shéhérazade, an exotic musical fantasy of distant lands and forbidden love.
Live at BBC Proms: Mussorgsky's opera Khovanshchina. BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Slovak Philharmonic Choir, boys' choirs and an international cast - conductor Semyon Bychkov.
Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly
Mussorgsky
Khovanshchina, Act 1
6.45pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra
Petroc Trelawny discusses Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina with Rosamund Bartlett and Nicholas Baragwanath.
7.05pm
Khovanshchina, Acts 2 & 3
8.10pm INTERVAL: Throwing a Wobbly
Louise Fryer uncovers the ups and downs of vocal vibrato. How and why do singers use it? With guests sopranos Janis Kelly and Peyee Chen, tenor John Potter, scientist Helena Daffern and early music researcher Richard Bethell.
Producer David Gallagher
8.30pm
Khovanshchina, Acts 4 & 5
Ivan Khovansky ..... Ante Jerkunica (bass)
Andrey Khovansky ..... Christopher Ventris (tenor)
Golitsin .....Vsevolod Grivnov (tenor)
Marfa ..... Elena Maximova (mezzo-soprano)
Dosifey ..... Ain Anger (bass)
Shaklovity ..... Georg Gagnidze (bass)
Susanna ..... Jennifer Rhys-Davies (soprano)
Scribe ..... Norbert Ernst (tenor)
Emma ..... Anush Hovhannisyan (soprano)
Kuzka ..... Colin Judson (tenor)
BBC Singers
Slovak Philharmonic Choir
Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School Schola Cantorum
Tiffin Boys' Choir
Paul Weigold (asst.conductor)
Paul Curran (director)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)
Shot through with folk melodies, Mussorgsky's 'national music drama' Khovanshchina weaves a richly coloured operatic tapestry in which Russia herself is the heroine. Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestras and an exciting cast, including Russian mezzo-soprano Elena Maximova.
Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang! is a brazen attempt to lure you into temptation. It's a fast ride to a place where sex and violence collide. People literally dance for their lives or are ordered to stay glued to their seats or risk losing theirs. It's the world of noir - the world of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M Cain, Chester Himes and Elmore Leonard. It's a world populated by "friends of Italian opera" as Billy Wilder famously put it in Some Like it Hot. Rigoletto is a well established gangster favourite but you'll also hear Carreras singing Amapola and Pavarotti's Chi mi frena in tal momento - not to mention John Adams's City Noir, John Zorn's Spillane and Kurt Weill. Tracy-Ann Oberman and Henry Goodman brave the shadows and lead us along the mean streets deep into the poisoned heart of this modern darkness.
Producer: Zahid Warley.
Henry MillerSoprano Anna Reinhold and lutenist Thomas Dunford perform music from 17th-century Italy, including songs by Strozzi, Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Caccini and Merula, and lute solos by Kapsberger.
Presented by Elin Manahan Thomas
Strozzi: L'eraclito amoroso
Kapsberger: Toccatas Nos 3 & 6 from 'Libro I d'intavolatura di lauto'
Monteverdi: La lettera amorosa
Kapsberger: Toccata No 2 from 'Libro I d'intavolatura di lauto'
Frescobaldi: Così mi disprezzate
Kapsberger: Toccata No 5 from 'Libro I d'intavolatura di lauto'
Caccini: Amarilli mia bella
Merula: Canzone spirituale sopra la nina nana
Anna Reinhold (mezzo-soprano)
Thomas Dunford (archlute)
Concert recorded on 17 January 2016 at the Temple, Montagny-près-Yverdon
Producer Lindsay Kemp.
Catriona Young presents a performance from Oslo of Brahms' German Requiem.
12:31 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op.45
Barbara Bonney (soprano), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)
1:38 AM
Elgar, Edward [1857-1934]
Violin Sonata in E minor, Op.82
Elena Urioste (violin), Zhang Zuo (piano)
2:04 AM
Sowande, Fela (1905-87)
African Suite (1944)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
2:31 AM
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904)
Symphony No.5 in F major, Op.76
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, James Conlon (conductor)
3:10 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581
Kimball Sykes (clarinet), Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Donnie Deacon (violin), Jane Logan (viola), Amanda Forsyth (cello)
3:44 AM
Salzedo, Carlos (1885-1961)
Variations sur un thème dans le style ancien, Op.30
Mojca Zlobko (harp)
3:54 AM
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto for strings No.3 in E flat major
Concerto Koln
4:05 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872), arr. Wiechowicz, Stanislaw & Mazynski, Piotr
4 Choral Songs
Polish Radio Choir, Marek Kluza (Director)
4:13 AM
Juon, Paul (1872-1940)
Fairy Tale in A minor, Op/8, for cello and piano
Esther Nyffenegger (cello), Desmond Wright (piano)
4:19 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV1056
Angela Hewitt (piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
4:31 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Two Lyric Pieces: Evening in the Mountains (Op.68 No.4); At the cradle (Op.68 No.5)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:39 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Piano Sonata in E minor, H.16.34
Ingrid Fliter (Piano)
4:50 AM
Bortnyansky, Dmitry [1751-1825]
Choral Concerto No.28 "Blessed is the Man"
Tasia Buchna (soprano), Valentina Slezniova (contralto), Vasyl Kovalenko (tenor), Fedir Brauner (tenor), Evgen Zubko (bass), Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor)
4:58 AM
Albinoni, Tomaso (1671-1750)
Concerto à 5 in D minor, Op.9 No.2, for oboe & strings
Frank de Bruine (oboe), Robert King (director), The King's Consort ensemble
5:11 AM
Hess, Willy (1906-1997)
Suite in B flat major for piano solo (Op.45)
Desmond Wright (piano)
5:21 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Symphony No.10 in B minor for string orchestra
Risör Festival Strings
5:32 AM
Widor, Charles Marie (1844-1937)
Suite for flute et piano, Op.34
Katherine Rudolph (flute), Rena Sharon (piano)
5:50 AM
Boccherini, Luigi [1743-1805]
Quintet in D major for guitar and strings, G.448
Zagreb Guitar Quartet, Varazdin Chamber Orchestra
6:10 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Violin Sonata No.2 in A major
Valdis Zarinš (violin), Ieva Zarina (piano).
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
9am
Rob 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
Rob's guest this week is the BBC News presenter and correspondent Clive Myrie. Clive is one of the regular evening presenters on the BBC News Channel and News at Ten, and has worked in broadcast news and journalism throughout his career, almost exclusively for the BBC. He started out in local news before becoming a foreign correspondent, being posted to Japan, America, France and Africa. Since becoming one of the BBC's main anchors in London, he has continued to make special reports about subjects ranging from Barack Obama to wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan. As well as discussing his life and work, Clive shares some of his favourite classical music throughout the week, including pieces he played as a teenager in his local youth orchestra by Schubert and Mussorgsky.
10.30
Music on Location: Scotland
This week Rob explores music connected with Scotland, focusing today on the many composers who have been attracted to the poetry of Robert Burns, including Beethoven, Robert Schumann and James MacMillan.
Proms Artist of the Week: John Wilson
Rob's Proms Artist of the Week is the British conductor John Wilson. Wilson is celebrated for his on-stage charisma and has been applauded repeatedly for the rich and colourful sounds that he draws from orchestras in repertoire ranging from the core classical through to the twentieth century. Wilson has conducted many of the leading British orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and has made a number of recordings with the BBC Concert Orchestra. This week he brings The John Wilson Orchestra to the BBC Proms, and earlier in the season he conducted his first Prom as Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Rob has chosen to feature Wilson's recordings of music by Edward German, Arnold Bax, Copland and Gershwin, as well as Eric Coates's take on a song by Richard Rodgers.
Coates
Symphonic Rhapsody on Richard Rodgers's 'With a Song in my Heart'
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor).
Live from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh, Donald Macleod presents a musical pairing that has performed together for over twenty years. German violinist Christian Tetzlaff and Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes open their recital with Mozart's elegant Sonata No 27 (written in just one hour), followed by a selection of Sibelius's miniatures. They close with two sonatas: Janacek's, written during great turmoil in 1914, and Shostakovich's sonata, written for his friend, the violin virtuoso David Oistrakh.
Mozart: Violin Sonata No 27 in G, K379
Sibelius: Danses champêtres, Op 106 nos 2, 4 and 5
Janacek: Violin Sonata (1914)
11.50
INTERVAL:
Karen Cargill sings Mahler's Rückert-Lieder
12.10
Shostakovich: Violin Sonata, Op.134
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Presenter: Donald Macleod
Producer: Laura Metcalfe.
Live at Cadogan Hall: Edgar Moreau with Il Pomo d'Oro perform Hasse, Platti, Vivaldi, Telemann and Boccherini.
Live from Cadogan Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Hasse: Adagio and Fugue in G minor
Platti: Cello Concerto in D major
Vivaldi: Cello Concerto in A minor, RV 419
Telemann: Divertimento in B flat major
Boccherini: Cello Concerto in D major, G479
Edgar Moreau, cello
Il Pomo d'Oro
Maxim Emelyanychev, director
Still in his early twenties, French cellist Edgar Moreau is already making his mark with the exuberant virtuosity of his playing. Here he joins the Baroque ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro for a programme focusing on 18th-century concertos.
Charged with all the rhetorical and emotional intensity of opera arias, these wonderfully expressive and colourful works range from the fretful melancholy of Vivaldi's Cello Concerto in A minor to the poised elegance of Boccherini's Concerto in D major and the irrepressible joy of Platti's Concerto in D major.
Afternoon on 3 - with Penny Gore
Another chance to hear the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by William Christie in Handel's Israel in Egypt, one of the composer's most dramatic oratorios.
Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Handel Israel in Egypt (1739 version)
Anna Devin, soprano
Rowan Pierce, soprano
Christopher Lowrey, countertenor
Jeremy Budd, tenor
Dingle Yandell, bass-baritone
Callum Thorpe, bass
Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
William Christie, conductor
Filled with frogs, locusts, hailstones and rivers of blood, Israel in Egypt is one of Handel's most extravagant oratorios and, by placing the chorus in the spotlight, Handel uses the collective voices to tell the story of an entire people.
In this performance of the 1739 version, William Christie conducts the period ensemble the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, joined by the group's own choir, in the launch of a series of Handel oratorios to be performed over the coming seasons at the Proms.
Followed by a selection of recordings from this year's Proms Artists.
Producer Peter Thresh.
Sean Rafferty presents a special edition live from the BBC Tent in Edinburgh. His guests include baritone Christopher Maltman, conductor Iván Fischer, pianist Sergei Babayan, and harpsichordist Peter Whelan with members of Ensemble Marsyas. Plus actors Michael Colgan and Barry McGovern.
During his lifetime, this multi-talented Norwegian composer, pianist and conductor, was a hugely popular figure throughout 19th century Europe, and today is regarded as the foremost Scandinavian composer of his generation, who did more to establish a national identity for Norwegian music than anyone else. Donald Macleod introduces a concert overture with a chequered career, a group of piano pieces based on a collection of folk music transcriptions Grieg would re-visit throughout his career, a violin sonata praised by Liszt and an intriguing collaboration with one of Norway's most important writers, based on tales from the old Norse sagas.
Butterfly, Op.43 No.1 (Lyric Pieces Book 3 )
Edvard Grieg (piano)
In Autumn, Op.11
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Sakari Oramo
25 Norwegian Folk-songs and Dances Op.17 (selection)
Einar Steen-Nøkleberg (piano)
Violin Sonata No.2 in G, Op.13
Baiba Skride (violin)
Lauma Skride (piano)
Before a Southern Convent, Op.20
Barbara Bonney (soprano)
Randi Stene (mezzo-soprano)
Women's voices of the Gothenburg Symphony Chorus
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Neeme Järvi
Producer Deborah Preston.
Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, performed by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and the Bournemouth Symphony orchestra, conducted by Kirill Karabits.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall
Presented by Martin Handley
Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C major
Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten - Symphonic Fantasy
c.8.20
Interval- Proms Extra
Irving Finkel of the British Museum talks about the Babylonian history behind Belshazzar's Feast and the stories he has deciphered from cuneiform tablets. Hosted by New Generation Thinker Shahidha Bari. Producer: Jacqueline Smith
c.8.40pm
Prokofiev: Seven, They Are Seven
Walton: Belshazzar's Feast
David Butt Philip, tenor
James Rutherford, baritone
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits, conductor
Gods, demons and mortals do battle in a concert full of musical legends and fairy tales. Prokofiev's revolution-inspired cantata Seven, They Are Seven is played for the first time at the Proms, alongside Walton's choral spectacular Belshazzar's Feast.
Producer Anthony Sellors.
Damon Hill, Tanni Grey-Thompson and former Colonel Lincoln Jopp consider whether the rush of adrenaline makes us think better? It brings us an increase in our strength, heightened senses, a lack of pain and a burst of energy. How is it connected to our expertise in handling crises and what is the aftermath?
Joining Radio 3 presenter Rana Mitter and an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead are guests who have lived and observed decision-making under pressure, at top speed:
Damon Hill is a former Formula One racing driver, broadcaster and author of Watching the Wheels: the Autobiography.
Tanni Grey-Thompson picked up 16 Paralympic medals during her career (including 11 golds) and won the London Marathon six times.
Colonel Lincoln Jopp MC served in the army for 27 years, commanding in conflict zones around the world including Northern Ireland, Iraq, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
Geologist and climatologist Gina Moseley led a team of cavers into an unknown system of limestone caverns in northern Greenland in the summer of 2015. Her findings will keep her busy for a long time to come. She describes what it was like wriggling into these remote spaces, knowing they were the first people to have ever done so. This in a place where the rest of the world's population of 7.3 billion people lives well south of their northern latitude.
The wonder of being there contrasts with the work that lies ahead of her, to analyse the flowstone in the caves they came to sample, and to find out what it tells us of previous times when the earth's climate warmed up, just as it's doing again now.
Soweto Kinch presents Brooklyn saxophone and drums trio Moon Hooch in concert in Brighton, featuring Mike Wilbur and Wenzel McGowen on reeds and drummer James Muschler. Plus a set from Vels Trio, and Al Ryan with the latest from BBC Introducing.
Catriona Young presents a performance of Mahler's First Symphony and Berg's Seven Early Songs from the Luxembourg Philharmonic with soprano Anja Harteros.
12:31 AM
Ligeti, György (1923-2006)
Concerto Românesc (Romanian concerto)
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno (conductor)
12:44 AM
Berg, Alban (1885-1935)
Seven Early Songs, arr. for voice and orchestra
Anja Harteros (soprano), Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno (conductor)
1:02 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Symphony No.1 in D major ('Titan')
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno (conductor)
1:58 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op.63
Kungsbacka Trio
2:31 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178
Lukas Geniusas (piano)
3:02 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Funeral Sentences: March, Z.860; Man that is born of woman, Z.27; Canzona, Z.860; In the midst of life, Z.17; Canzona, Z.860; Thou knowest, Lord, Z.58c; March, Z.860
Grace Davidson (soprano), Alex Potter (countertenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Collegium Vocale Ghent, Philippe Herreweghe (director)
3:18 AM
Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643)
Partite cento sopra il Passachagli
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
3:28 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Adagio for musical clock, WoO.33 No.1
Stef Tuinstra (organ of Church of Cornelius and St Cyprian, Trivolzio, Lombardy)
3:35 AM
Bellini, Vincenzo (1801-1835)
Overture to Norma
Oslo Philharmonic, Nello Santi (conductor)
3:42 AM
Bellini, Vincenzo [1801-1835]
Vaga luna che inargenti - arietta for voice and piano
Sergejs Jegers (countertenor), Riga Sinfonietta, Andris Veismanis (conductor)
3:46 AM
Von Paradies, Maria Theresia (1759-1824) alias Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
Sicilienne in E flat
Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Marc Neikrug (piano)
3:50 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto No.5 in F minor, BWV.1056
Angela Hewitt (piano), CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:01 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet No.1 in D major, K.285
Carol Wincenc (flute), Chee-Yun (violin), Nokuthula Ngwenyama (viola), David Finckel (cello)
4:15 AM
Humperdinck, Engelbert (1854-1921)
Dream Scene from 'Hänsel und Gretel'
Engelbert Humperdinck (piano)
4:23 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Symphonic Dance No.2 (Allegro grazioso), Op.64 No.2
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ingar Bergby (conductor)
4:31 AM
Lysenko, Mykola (1842-1912)
Cheruvymska (Song of the Cherubim)
Svitych Chorus of the Nizhyn State Pedagogical University, Lyudmyla Shumska (director)
4:34 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Water Music: Suite in G major for 'flauto piccolo', 2 oboes, bassoon and strings, HWV.350
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
4:45 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770-1827]
Adagio in E flat, WoO.43 No.2, for mandolin and piano
Lajos Mayer (mandolin), Imre Rohmann (piano)
4:51 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano), André Laplante (piano)
5:00 AM
Converse, Frederick [1871-1940]
Festival of Pan, Op.9
BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockhart (conductor)
5:18 AM
Navas, Juan de (1650-1719)
Ay, divino amor for soprano and organ
Olga Pitarch (soprano), Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (director)
5:24 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, cello and orchestra, RV.565 (Op.3 No.11)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Dešpalj (conductor)
5:35 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Le Tombeau de Couperin - for piano
Louis Schwizgebel (piano)
6:01 AM
Sjögren, Emil (1853-1918)
Cello Sonata in A major, Op.58
Mats Rondin (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
6:18 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Simone Young (conductor)
Producer Elizabeth Arno.
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
9am
Rob 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 object.
10am
Rob's guest this week is the BBC News presenter and correspondent Clive Myrie. Clive is one of the regular evening presenters on the BBC News Channel and News at Ten, and has worked in broadcast news and journalism throughout his career, almost exclusively for the BBC. He started out in local news before becoming a foreign correspondent, being posted to Japan, America, France and Africa. Since becoming one of the BBC's main anchors in London, he has continued to make special reports about subjects ranging from Barack Obama to wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan. As well as discussing his life and work, Clive shares some of his favourite classical music throughout the week, including pieces he played as a teenager in his local youth orchestra.
10.30
Music on Location: Scotland
This week Rob explores music connected with Scotland, travelling today to Fingal's Cave on the island of Staffa, which was a great source of inspiration to painters and composers in the early 19th century.
Proms Artist of the Week: John Wilson
Rob's Proms Artist of the Week is the British conductor John Wilson. Wilson is celebrated for his on-stage charisma and has been applauded repeatedly for the rich and colourful sounds that he draws from orchestras in repertoire ranging from the core classical through to the twentieth century. Wilson has conducted many of the leading British orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and has made a number of recordings with the BBC Concert Orchestra. This week he brings The John Wilson Orchestra to the BBC Proms, and earlier in the season he conducted his first Prom as Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Rob has chosen to feature Wilson's recordings of music by Edward German, Arnold Bax, Copland and Gershwin, as well as Eric Coates's take on a song by Richard Rodgers.
Bax
The Happy Forest
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
Producer Richard Denison.
Live from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh, Donald Macleod presents a recital by the Polish Apollon Musagète Quartet. Puccini's single slow movement 'Crisantemi', written in memory of the Duke of Aosta, precedes the last and most tonally adventurous of Mozart's 'Haydn' quartets. Following the interval, Grieg's dramatic first string quartet 'aims at breadth, to soar.'
Puccini: Crisantemi
Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K.465, 'Dissonance'
11:45
Interval
Seong-Jin Cho plays Chopin's Second Piano Sonata
12:05
Grieg: String Quartet in G minor, Op 27
Apollon Musagète Quartet
Presenter: Donald Macleod
Producer: Laura Metcalfe.
In the first of twelve lunchtime concerts celebrating the rich history of performance at the Edinburgh International Festival, today's programme begins fittingly with one of the greatest names of the early years, contralto Kathleen Ferrier, with pianist Bruno Walter, who performed at the 1947 and 1949 Festivals, some folk songs from the North of England sung at the Ferrier centenary celebrations in 2012 and a Scots song recital from the very first Festival.
Schubert: Die junge Nonne; Romance (Rosamunde); Du liebst mich nicht; Der Tod und das Mädchen; Suleika; Du bist die Ruh
Kathleen Ferrier, contralto
Bruno Walter, piano
Traditional: Come you not from Newcastle?; Oh I have seen the roses blaw; She moved through the fair; Shew's the way to Wallington
Kitty Whately, mezzo-soprano
Sir Thomas Allen, baritone
Roger Vignoles, piano
Traditional: Johnnie Cope; John Anderson my Jo
Marie Thomson soprano
John Tainsch, tenor
Ian Whyte, piano
Brahms: Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer; Der Tod das ist die kühle Nacht; Botschaft; Von ewiger Liebe
Kathleen Ferrier, contralto
Bruno Walter, piano.
Afternoon on 3 with Penny Gore
Another chance to hear Paavo Järvi conducting the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in Mozart and Brahms, plus the UK premiere of a new work by Erkki-Sven Tüür.
Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Martin Handley
Erkki-Sven Tüür: Flamma (UK premiere)
Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E flat major
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major
Vilde Frang, violin
Lawrence Power, viola
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Paavo Järvi, conductor
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and its Artistic Director Paavo Järvi return to the Proms, joined by British violist Lawrence Power and Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang for Mozart's genial Sinfonia concertante.
Sitting somewhere between a concerto and a symphony, it's a perfect showcase for the virtuosity of this ensemble and its sunny good humour offers a striking contrast to Erkki-Sven Tüür's arresting Flamma - a vivid musical portrait of fire as both purifying force and agent of destruction.
Smoke clears and sunshine returns in Brahms's optimistic Second Symphony, with its free-flowing melodies and irrepressible closing dance.
[First broadcast on Thursday 3rd August]
Followed by a selection of music from this week's Proms artists.
Clemency Burton-Hill presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news.
Life in Christiana reached crisis point for Grieg and in the summer of 1877 he escaped to the inspirational landscape of Norway's Hardanger region. From the happy and productive time Grieg spent there Donald Macleod introduces his only completed string quartet and a colourful group of folk songs arranged for unaccompanied male voice choir.
A Swan, Op. 25 No.2
Anne-Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano)
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Album for Male Voices, Op.30 (selection)
Grex Vocalis
String Quartet in G minor, Op.27
Amphion Quartet
Spring, Op.33 No.2
Anne-Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano)
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Producer Deborah Preston.
Live at BBC Proms: Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Michael Spyres, Ann Hallenberg, Laurent Naouri with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in Berlioz's Damnation of Faust
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly
Berlioz
The Damnation of Faust, Parts 1 & 2
c.20:30 INTERVAL - Proms Extra
Presenter Christopher Cook discusses the devil in music with opera historian Sarah Lenton and Peter Stanford, writer of the book 'The Devil: a biography', a theme inspired by Berlioz's Damnation of Faust.
c.20:50
Berlioz
The Damnation of Faust, Parts 3 & 4
Michael Spyres (tenor), Faust
Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), Marguerite
Laurent Naouri (bass-baritone), Méphistophélès
Ashley Riches (bass-baritone), Brander
Trinity Boys Choir
Monteverdi Choir
National Youth Choir of Scotland
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Sir John Eliot Gardiner returns to the Proms with The Damnation of Faust, continuing his multi-season Berlioz series. Part opera, part cantata, this 'dramatic legend' is an epic retelling of the Faust story that captures the extremes of man's ambition and folly in music by turns exquisite and grotesque. American tenor Michael Spyres returns to the Proms in the title-role, with Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg as the innocent victim, Marguerite.
Sathnam Sanghera, Judy Wajcman, Griselda Togobo and Robert Colvile join Radio 3 presenter Matthew Sweet to look at the history of the workplace from factory floor to hot desk to the gig economy and debate whether the merging of workplace and home creates more stress.
Bosses have always monitored and changed our working day, clocking staff in and out the factory, analysing productivity through time and motion studies, using remote monitoring, introducing flexible working and "logging on later."
Sathnam Sanghera is a journalist and award-winning author of Marriage Material: A Novel and The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton. Before becoming a writer he (among other things) worked at a burger chain, a hospital laundry, a market research firm, a sewing factory and a literacy project in New York.
Judy Wajcman is a Professor of Society at LSE and the author of Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism .
Griselda Togobo is an entrepreneur, engineer, chartered accountant and the head of Forward Ladies, an organisation which aims to help companies maximise the potential of their female staff.
Robert Colvile is a journalist and author of The Great Acceleration - a new book about how
technology is speeding up the pace of life.
Recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead.
Producer: Craig Smith.
BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals: Verity is in the Scottish capital to find the best fringe, art and international festival happenings. Local artist and composer Hanna Tuulikki performs live from the studio, while we also hear from actress and director Josette Bushell-Mingo OBE.
Tuulikki is interested primarily in voice and gesture, creating immersive spaces and playing with the lore of places. She is one of eight composers that has written an original choral work for 'Echoes And Traces' at the Fringe festival, in response to one of Scotland's oldest pieces of music, Nobilis Humilis. Her installation 'spinning-in-stereo' can also currently be seen at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh.
Bushell-Mingo is starring in her own production, 'Nina', at the Traverse Theatre. The play mixes story and song to celebrate the life of Nina Simone, and draws comparisons between the civil rights movement then and today.
Produced by Jack Howson for Reduced Listening.
John Shea presents a programme of Mozart chamber music from the 2016 RheinVokal Festival.
12:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet in D major K285
Tina Vorhofer (flute); Mariya Krasnyuk (violin); Friedemann Jörns (viola); Adriá Cano Rocabayera (cello)
12:45 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Horn Quintet in E flat major K407
Magdalena Ernst (horn); Midori Seiler (violin); Friedemann Jörns (viola); Alba González i Becerra (viola); Isabella Homann (basson)
1:01 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Oboe Quartet in F major K370
Katharina Rosenfelder (oboe); Midori Seiler (violin); Alba González i Becerra (viola); Adriá Cano Rocabayera (cello)
1:15 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Idomeneo, re di Creta, K366 (aria: Se il padre perdei)
Angela Shin (soprano); Scholarship holders of the Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz; Midori Seiler (violin/director)
1:21 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
String Quintet in D major K593
Midori Seiler (violin); Mariya Krasnyuk (violin); Friedemann Jörns (viola); Alba González i Becerra (viola); Adriá Cano Rocabayera (cello)
1:47 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
La finta giardiniera K196 (aria: Geme la tortorella)
Myungjin Lee (soprano - Sandrina); Scholarship holders of the Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz; Midori Seiler (violin/director)
1:52 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Le Nozze di Figaro K492 (two arias: L'ho perduta, me meschina; Deh vieni, non tardar)
1. Myungjin Lee (soprano - Barbarina); 2. Angela Shin (soprano - Susanna); Scholarship holders of the Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz; Midori Seiler (violin/director)
1:58 AM
Stravinsky, Igor [1882-1971]
Petrushka (1947 version)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
2:31 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Aria variata alla maniera italiana for keyboard, BWV 989
Wolfgang Glüxam (harpsichord)
2:46 AM
Veress, Sandor (1907-1992)
Four Transylvanian Dances for String Orchestra
Berne Symphony Orchestra, Dmitri Kitajenko (conductor)
3:03 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Dixit Dominus - Psalm 110, HWV 232
Hana Blaziková (soprano), Alena Hellerová (soprano), Kamila Mazalová (contralto), Vaclav Cízek (tenor), Tomás Král (bass), Jaromír Nosek (bass), Collegium Vocale 1704, Collegium 1704, Václav Luks (conductor)
3:35 AM
Spohr, Louis (1784-1859)
Fantasie and Variations on a Theme of Danzi, Op 81
Joze Kotar (clarinet), Slovene Philharmonic String Quartet
3:42 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857)
Valse-fantasie in B minor for orchestra
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Robl (conductor)
3:50 AM
Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924)
Vissi d'arte (aria from 'Tosca')
Eva Urbanova (soprano), Prague National Theatre Orchestra, Jan Stych (conductor)
3:54 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Suite in G major - from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin, arr. for wind quintet
Yur-Eum Woodwind Quintet
4:09 AM
Copland, Aaron (1900-1990)
El Salón México
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
4:21 AM
Satie, Erik (1866-1925)
La Belle excentrique
Kolacny Piano duo
4:31 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Etude in D flat, Op 52 No 6) (Etude en forme de valse)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
4:38 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Concerto grosso in F major, Op 6 No 9
The King's Consort, Robert King (director)
4:48 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, Op.129 (D965)
Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Martin Fröst (clarinet), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
4:59 AM
Bantock, Granville [1868-1946]
The Pierrot of the Minute - overture
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
5:12 AM
Saint-Georges, Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de (1745-1799)
Ballet music from the opera "L'amant anonyme" (1780)
Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
5:19 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Fantasiestücke, Op 12
Kevin Kenner (piano)
5:45 AM
Visée, Robert de (c.1655-c.1733)
Prelude; Les Sylvains de Mr Couperin; Menuet; Gavotte
Simone Vallerotonda (theorbo)
5:54 AM
Campra, André (1660-1744)
Quis ego Domine, motet à la manière italienne
Anders J Dahlin (tenor), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
6:08 AM
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953)
Violin Concerto No 1 in D major, Op19
David Oistrakh (Violin), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor).
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
9am
Rob 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
Rob's guest this week is the BBC News presenter and correspondent Clive Myrie. Clive is one of the regular evening presenters on the BBC News Channel and News at Ten, and has worked in broadcast news and journalism throughout his career, almost exclusively for the BBC. He started out in local news before becoming a foreign correspondent, being posted to Japan, America, France and Africa. Since becoming one of the BBC's main anchors in London, he has continued to make special reports about subjects ranging from Barack Obama to wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan. As well as discussing his life and work, Clive shares some of his favourite classical music throughout the week, including pieces he played as a teenager in his local youth orchestra by Schubert and Mussorgsky.
10.30
Music on Location: Scotland
This week Rob explores music connected with Scotland. Today, Malcolm Arnold's affectionate suite of Four Scottish Dances inspired by the traditional strathspey, reel, and fling, as well as Hebridean songs.
Proms Artist of the Week: John Wilson
Rob's Proms Artist of the Week is the British conductor John Wilson. Wilson is celebrated for his on-stage charisma and has been applauded repeatedly for the rich and colourful sounds that he draws from orchestras in repertoire ranging from the core classical through to the twentieth century. Wilson has conducted many of the leading British orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and has made a number of recordings with the BBC Concert Orchestra. This week he brings The John Wilson Orchestra to the BBC Proms, and earlier in the season he conducted his first Prom as Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Rob has chosen to feature Wilson's recordings of music by Edward German, Arnold Bax, Copland and Gershwin, as well as Eric Coates's take on a song by Richard Rodgers.
Gershwin
An American in Paris: Main Titles; 'Love is Here to Stay'
Curtis Stigers (singer)
The John Wilson Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
Producer Richard Denison.
More frequently appearing as a conductor during the Festival with the Russian National Orchestra which he founded, the great Russian pianist Mikhail Pletnev makes a welcome return to the Festival this year as recitalist with a feast of Rachmaninov's works for solo piano.
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No 1 in D minor, Op 28
c. 11.40 INTERVAL: Ilya Gringolts and Peter Laul play Schumann: Violin Sonata no. 3 in A minor
c.12.00
Rachmaninov
Morceaux de fantaisie, Op 3 (No 2, Prelude; No 1, Elégie; No 4, Pulcinella)
Morceaux de salon, Op 10 (No 3, Barcarolle in G minor; No 5, Humoresque in G major)
Prelude in B flat major, Op 23 No 2, 'Maestoso'
Prelude in D major, Op 23 No 4, 'Andante Cantabile'
Prelude in C minor, Op 23 No 7, 'Allegro'
Prelude in G minor, Op 23 No 5, 'Alla marcia'
Two preludes to be confirmed from Op 32
Etude-tableau in C minor, Op 39 No 7
Mikhail Pletnev, piano
Producer: Gavin McCollum
Presenter: Donald Macleod.
Two great pianists from the past and present are represented in this programme. The Romanian pianist Clara Haskil, renowned for her interpretations of Mozart, performs Mozart's Piano Sonata KV330, recorded at the 1957 Festival from the Freemason's Hall, Edinburgh. In contrast, Scottish-born pianist Steven Osborne (who won the prestigious Clara Haskil Piano Competition in Vevey, Switzerland, as a young man in 1991) presents an eclectic and imaginative journey from Joplin to Peterson from the 2010 Queen's Hall Series at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Mozart: Piano Sonata in C, KV330
Clara Haskil, piano
Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag
Gershwin: Three Preludes
Ives: Three-page Sonata
Osborne: Improvisation
Kapustin: 24 Preludes in Jazz Style, Nos 3, 7, 18, 23 & 25
Oscar Peterson: Indiana
Young: My Foolish Heart
Steven Osborne, piano.
Afternoon on 3 with Penny Gore
Another chance to hear the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain is conducted by Thomas Adès in works by himself and Francisco Coll, plus Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring.
Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Tom Redmond
Francisco Coll: Mural
Thomas Adès: Polaris
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Thomas Adès (conductor)
Hear some of the UK's finest young musical talent, directed by composer and conductor Thomas Adès, in a bold programme of works that push the orchestra to its technical and sonic limits. Adès's own Polaris, subtitled 'A Voyage for Orchestra', takes inspiration from the North Star, conjuring a vast interstellar landscape that unfolds from a simple piano theme into a massive sonic spiral. Francisco Coll's Mural, tonight receiving its London premiere, is another richly textured, large-scale work - a 'grotesque symphony, in which Dionysus meets Apollo'. The concert's climax is Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring, whose frenzied rhythms and provocative harmonies prompted a legendary riot at its Paris premiere.
[First broadcast on Saturday 5th August]
Followed by a selection of music from this week's Proms artists.
Live from St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh, during the Edinburgh International Festival
Introit: Locus iste (Bruckner)
Responses: Smith
Office Hymn: The duteous day now closeth (Innsbruck)
Psalms 47, 48, 49 (Goss, Russell, Stainer)
First Lesson: 2 Samuel 9, vv.1-13
Canticles: The 'Great' Service (Parry)
Second Lesson: Acts 19, vv.1-10
Anthem: A Song of Wisdom (Stanford)
Final Hymn: Ye that know the Lord is gracious (Rustington)
Anthem: Nachtlied (Reger)
Organ Voluntary: Toccata from Sonata No.14 (Rheinberger)
Duncan Ferguson (Organist and Master of the Music)
Simon Nieminski (Organist).
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news.
Grieg was at a spiritual and physical low ebb at the beginning of the 1880s. His health deteriorated and his marriage reached crisis point. He took up the baton as conductor of the orchestra in his home town of Bergen where he faced an uphill struggle to improve musical standards. Donald Macleod introduces music written during these difficult years including Grieg's cello sonata and the famous suite he composed to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the 18th-century dramatist Ludwig Holberg, in its original version for piano.
Cello Sonata in A minor, Op.36
Danjulo Ishizaka (cello)
Shai Wosner (piano)
Mountain Thrall, Op.32
Monica Groop (mezzo soprano)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
Holberg Suite
Håkon Austbø (piano).
Live at BBC Proms: BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and Ryan Wigglesworth with Leonard Elschenbroich, Toby Spence and Nicholas Perfect perform Britten, Elias, Purcell and Elgar.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Britten: Ballad of Heroes
Brian Elias: Cello Concerto
c. 7.45pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra
Christopher Eccleston and Yolanda Vasquez perform readings and poems by the British volunteers of the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War. Britten's 'Ballad of Heroes' is dedicated to them. Dr Richard Baxell talks to presenter Clemency Burton-Hill about the history. Recorded as a Proms Extra earlier with an audience at Imperial College Union.
Producer, Karen Holden
c. 8.10pm
Purcell, arr Elgar: Jehova, quam multi sunt
Elgar: Enigma Variations
BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
Toby Spence (tenor)
Nicholas Perfect (bass)
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)
Ryan Wigglesworth joins the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales for a programme that spans four centuries, from Purcell's dramatic choral motet 'Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei', to the world premiere of Brian Elias's Cello Concerto, whose intricate, spiral structure creates a dream-like musical narrative.
The concert opens with Britten's most overtly political work - an impassioned musical stand against fascism that anticipates the composer's War Requiem; and reaches its culmination with Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations, which includes the much-loved 'Nimrod'.
Producer Tim Thorne.
Classical music recital.
Poet Simon Armitage and writer Alexandra Harris explore time and place in modern Britain. Presented by Philip Dodd and recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead.
Simon Armitage, Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, has been described as 'the best poet of his generation'. His latest collection The Unaccompanied explores life against a backdrop of economic recession and social division where globalisation has made alienation a common experience. He was born in West Yorkshire and lives near Saddleworth Moor. His work includes his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and books exploring the South west's coast path and the Pennine Way.
Alexandra Harris is Professor of Literature at the University of Liverpool and a New Generation Thinker. She is the author of Weatherland: Writers and Artists under English Skies and Romantic Moderns.
Producer: Fiona McLean.
Daniel Kalder conjures up the vast landscapes east of the Urals, where taiga becomes tundra. Siberia is more a state of mind than a place, given how the term encompasses not only the endless forests of the taiga but also that which lies beyond them, where the trees dwindle, diminish and finally give way to the tundra's ceaseless realms of permafrost. As part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season Kalder, a travel writer who's lived in and travelled around Russia, reflects on how ice and wind vies with geology to shape these memorable tracts. And in that land of ice, not just the cryogenically preserved woolly mammoths, but is it true that former Soviet apparatchiks are buried with their medals, in full state regalia?
Producer: Mark Smalley.
BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals: Verity presents a magnificent line-up of musicians and artists, handpicked from the current festivals and the city's underground scene, for a special Late Junction showcase.
Listen at home or join us in the audience at our broadcast hub in George Heriot's School for live performances from Alasdair Roberts, James Robertson, Aidan O'Rourke, Raymond MacDonald, and Lauren Sarah Hayes.
Prolific singer Alasdair Roberts is as adept writing epic ballads as he is performing centuries-old folksongs. In a 24 year career he has worked with the likes of Isobel Campbell, Jason Molina, and Will Oldham, and released 11 timeless solo albums. His latest, 'Pangs', is one of our favourite records of the year so far on Late Junction. He performs gigs in Edinburgh later this month.
Folk fiddler Aidan O'Rourke was inspired to write a tune a day for a year as a response to author James Robertson's book, '365'. The pair will perform part of this project live at the Book Festival on the 17th of August, and play us a special preview tonight.
Raymond MacDonald is a saxophonist who explores the boundaries between improvisation and composition. He has collaborated with Evan Parker, David Byrne, and Jim O'Rourke, and passed on his knowledge as Professor of Music Psychology and Improvisation at Edinburgh University. He will be playing tonight with a group of 'Friends', including students and academic colleagues.
Lauren Sarah Hayes is a member of the New BBC Radiophonic Workshop who builds her own hybrid instruments to perform a brand of experimental pop, techno, and noise. She completed a PhD in Edinburgh in 2013, researching the relationships between sound and touch, and is still based in the city.
Produced by Jack Howson for Reduced Listening.
Songs by Wagner and Mahler with Agata Zubel and Mahler 6th Symphony. Presented by Catriona Young
12:31 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), Zdunik, Marcin (arranger); Wesendonck, Mathilde (autor)
Träume; Im Treibhaus (Wesendonck-Lieder)
Agata Zubel (soprano), Warsaw Cellonet Group, Andrzej Bauer (director)
12:41 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911), Bauer, Andrzej (arranger) (b.1964); Rückert, Friedrich (1788-1866)
Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen (Kindertotenlieder)
Agata Zubel (soprano), Warsaw Cellonet Group, Andrzej Bauer (director)
12:45 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911), Bauer, Andrzej (arranger) (b.1964); Rückert, Friedrich (1788-1866)
Liebst du um Schönheit (Rückert Lieder); Nun seh'ich wohl warum so dunkle Flammen (Kindertotenlieder); Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert Lieder)
Agata Zubel (soprano), Warsaw Cellonet Group, Andrzej Bauer (director)
12:59 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)
2:20 AM
Messiaen, Olivier [1908-1992]
Louange à l'éternité de Jésus (Quatuor pour la fin du temps)
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Zhang Zuo (piano)
2:31 AM
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911)
String Octet in A major, Op.3
Atle Sponberg (violin), Joakim Svenheden (violin), Aida-Carmen Soanea (viola), Adrian Brendel (cello), Vertavo String Quartet: Øyvor Volle (violin), Berit Cardas (violin), Henninge Landaas (viola), Bjørg Værnes Lewis (cello)
3:08 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Sinfonia concertante in E flat major for oboe, clarinet, hornn, bassoon and orchestra, K.297b
Maja Kojc (oboe), Jože Kotar (clarinet), Mihajlo Bulajič (horn), Damir Huljev (bassoon), Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Dešpalj (conductor)
3:39 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Letzter Frühling (Last Spring)
Camerata Bern, Thomas Furi (leader)
3:46 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Toccata in C major for piano, Op.7
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
3:52 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Sonata in B flat major, Z.791, for 2 violins and continuo
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
3:59 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in C sharp major, BWV 848
Ivett Gyongyosii (piano)
4:03 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Agrippina - overture; 'Son contenta di morire' - aria from Radamisto
Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
4:11 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance No.10 in E minor, Op.72 No.2 (Starodávny)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
4:17 AM
Doppler, Franz (1821-1883)
L'oiseau des bois, Op.21 - idyll for flute and 4 horns
János Balint (flute), Jeno Kevehazi, Peter Fuzes, Sandor Endrodi, Tibor Maruzsa (horns)
4:23 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918), arr. Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Tarantelle styrienne (Danse)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor)
4:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Rosamunde - Ballet Music No.2, D.797
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Heinz Holliger (conductor)
4:38 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in B minor, Kk. 87
Eduard Kunz (piano)
4:44 AM
Rodrigo, Joaquín (1901-1999) arr. Peter Tiefenbach
Cuatro madrigales amatorios: ¿Con qué la lavaré? ; Vos me matásteis ; ¿De dónde venís, amore? ; De los álamos vengo, madre
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Bryan Epperson, Maurizio Baccante, Roman Borys, Simon Fryer, David Hetherington, Roberta Jansen, Paul Widner, Thomas Wiebe, Winona Zelenka (cellos)
4:53 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Cello Concerto in D major, HV VIIb:2
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, director Heinrich Schiff (cello)
5:18 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV.229
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
5:27 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), transcr. Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Ständchen arr. for piano - from Schwanengesang, D. 957
Simon Trpceski (piano)
5:34 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827
Symphony No 8 in F major, Op 93
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor)
6:01 AM
Traditional/Løken, Marius
Skålhalling
Oslo Chamber Chorus, Håkon Nystedt (director)
6:08 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sinfonia in G major
András Keller (violin), Concerto Köln
6:11 AM
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909)
Smutna opowiesc (Preludia do wiecznosci) (Sorrowful Tale (Preludes to Eternity)) - Symphonic Poem, Op.13
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Straszynski (conductor)
6:22 AM
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911)
Norsk kunstnerkarneval (Norwegian artists' carnival), Op.14
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor).
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
9am
Rob 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
Rob's guest this week is the BBC News presenter and correspondent Clive Myrie. Clive is one of the regular evening presenters on the BBC News Channel and News at Ten, and has worked in broadcast news and journalism throughout his career, almost exclusively for the BBC. He started out in local news before becoming a foreign correspondent, being posted to Japan, America, France and Africa. Since becoming one of the BBC's main anchors in London, he has continued to make special reports about subjects ranging from Barack Obama to wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan. As well as discussing his life and work, Clive shares some of his favourite classical music throughout the week, including pieces he played as a teenager in his local youth orchestra by Schubert and Mussorgsky.
10.30
Music on Location: Scotland
This week Rob explores music connected with Scotland, focusing today on Bizet's opera, The Fair Maid of Perth, based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott.
Proms Artist of the Week: John Wilson
Rob's Proms Artist of the Week is the British conductor John Wilson. Wilson is celebrated for his on-stage charisma and has been applauded repeatedly for the rich and colourful sounds that he draws from orchestras in repertoire ranging from the core classical through to the twentieth century. Wilson has conducted many of the leading British orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and has made a number of recordings with the BBC Concert Orchestra. This week he brings The John Wilson Orchestra to the BBC Proms, and earlier in the season he conducted his first Prom as Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Rob has chosen to feature Wilson's recordings of music by Edward German, Arnold Bax, Copland and Gershwin, as well as Eric Coates's take on a song by Richard Rodgers.
Edward German
The Willow Song
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
Producer Richard Denison.
The Internationally renowned Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill makes her EIF Queen's Hall debut appearance. With her regular musical partner Simon Lepper, they perform a sensual and delicate selection of songs of Chassson, Hahn, Duparc and Debussy alongside Wagner's highly-charged and romantic Wesendonck lieder. Wagner based these songs on poems by Mathilde Wesendonck with whom he had fallen in love and the music reflects much to be found later in his opera Tristan and Isolde.
Presented by Donald Macleod
Hahn: A Chloris; Le Rossignol des lilas; L'Enamourée; Infidelité; Les Fontaines
Debussy: Trois Chansons de Bilitis
Chausson: Le Charme; Sérénade italienne; Le Colibri; Les Papillons
INTERVAL at around 11.35am
Donald Macleod takes a look ahead to next week when Swiss pianist Andreas Haefliger will perform at the Festival and introduces his recording of Beethoven Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor, Op 111
Duparc: L'Invitation au voyage; Chanson triste; Extase; Phidylé
Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
Simon Lepper (piano).
Gems from the archives, Erno Dohnanyi plays his own compositions for solo piano and Francis Poulenc and his long time collaborator Pierre Bernac perform his song cycle Le Travail du Peintre inspired by Eluard's poems about painters. And representing living composers, the programme features Steve Reich's quartet written for the Scottish master percussionist Colin Currie, who has championed his work with his ensemble.
Dohnanyi: Variations on a Hungarian Folk Tune; Pastorale (Hungarian Christmas Song); Adagio from Ruralia Hungarica; Capriccio, Op 23 No 3
Poulenc: Le Travail du peintre
Reich: Quartet for two vibraphones and two pianos
Erno Dohnanyi, piano
Pierre Bernac, baritone
Francis Poulenc, piano
Colin Currie, percussion
Sam Walton, percussion
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Philip Moore, piano
Producer Gavin McCollum.
Afternoon on 3 with Penny Gore
Another chance to hear Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, performed by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and the Bournemouth Symphony orchestra, conducted by Kirill Karabits.
Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Martin Handley
Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C major
Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten - Symphonic Fantasy
Prokofiev: Seven, They Are Seven
Walton: Belshazzar's Feast
David Butt Philip, tenor
James Rutherford, baritone
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits, conductor
Gods, demons and mortals do battle in a concert full of musical legends and fairy tales. Prokofiev's revolution-inspired cantata Seven, They Are Seven is played for the first time at the Proms, alongside Walton's choral spectacular Belshazzar's Feast.
[First broadcast on Monday 7th August]
Followed by a selection of music from this week's Proms artists.
Producer Clive Portbury.
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance.
In 1888 Grieg made his debut in Britain, where he had the opportunity of hearing his music performed by some of the finest orchestras of his day. In Norway Grieg and his wife Nina were feted on their silver wedding anniversary with extravagant celebrations at their home in Troldhaugen. Donald Macleod introduces Grieg's song cycle written for Nina - the woman who was both his inspiration and the ideal interpreter of his songs - and one of Grieg's most popular orchestral transcriptions.
Norwegian Dance Op.35 No.2
Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow (piano duet)
Lyric Suite Op.54
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor, Ole Kristian Ruud
Norwegian Folk Song Op.66 No.18
Percy Grainger (piano)
The Mountain Maid, Op.67
Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo)
Nils Anders Mortensen (piano).
Live at BBC Proms: BBC Philharmonic and conductor John Storgards with soprano Lise Davidsen and cellist Alban Gerhardt in Grieg, Sibelius, Schumann and Hindemith.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
Grieg: Peer Gynt (excerpts)
Sibelius: Luonnotar; Karelia Suite
Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.129
Hindemith: Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'
BBC Philharmonic
Lise Davidsen (soprano)
Alban Gerhardt (cello)
John Storgårds (conductor)
Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Proms debut singing Solveig's Song from Grieg's incidental music to Ibsen's dark drama 'Peer Gynt' and in Sibelius's late, great tone-poem Luonnotar. The sophisticated orchestral textures and sensuous melodies of Luonnotar contrast with the rough-hewn folk music of the same composer's struggle for freedom from Russian tyranny in his buoyant Karelia Suite.
Hindemith's opera 'Mathis der Maler', is set at the time of the Protestant Reformation; it was dubbed as "degenerate" by the Nazi regime who then banned all performances of his music. But not before the Symphony drawn from the opera was premiered in March 1934 at one of the early peaks of Hitler's power by one his artistic favourites and persuasive defenders of the artistic credo, Wilhelm Furtwängler. Alban Gerhardt is the soloist in Schumann's Cello Concerto, which rejects overt solo virtuosity, favouring instead dialogue between cello and orchestra.
Three leading historians, Bettany Hughes, Sir Richard J Evans and John Hall join Free Thinking presenter Philip Dodd to consider tumultuous times and how we make sense of sweeping change from classical times, through empire building and the industrial revolution to the present day. True revolutions are rare game-changers in the slow unravelling of the human story. Others fizzle out like small showy rockets, all light and no heat. But how obvious is it at the time ?
Dr Bettany Hughes is well known as a TV and radio broadcaster, an award-winning historian and author specialising in ancient and medieval history and culture. Her books include Helen of Troy, The Hemlock Cup and, most recently, Istanbul: a Tale of Three Cities.
Sir Richard J Evans is an academic and historian, best known for his research on the history of Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. President of Wolfson College in Cambridge, his most recent books are The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914, The Third Reich in History and Memory and Altered Pasts: Counterfactual in History.
Professor John Hall is IAS Fellow at University College, Durham University (Jan - March 2017). Normally based at McGill University in Montreal, Professor Hall is currently writing about Nations, States and Empires. His books include The Importance of Being Civil, The World of States, Powers and Liberties:The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West.
Recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
Environmental journalist Jason Mark visits Alaska's remote northern rim, and on the shores of the Arctic Ocean at a barbecue with Inuits, he reflects on the impact of our lust for hydrocarbons. Whilst the ice melts beneath them, so the search goes on for oil in these northern parts. He tries to grasp what he sees as the bitter ironies of climate change, confirmed by his encounters with Inuit hunters and others who describe how much the weather is warming.
Producer: Mark Smalley.
Concluding a week of Edinburgh Festivals-focused programming, award-winning experimental theatre company Forced Entertainment take over 30 minutes of airtime for an exclusive Late Junction Mixtape.
Led by artist, writer and spoken word performer Tim Etchells, Forced Entertainment is one of Britain's greatest ever theatre groups. Founded in Sheffield in 1984, they tour the world with a repertoire of groundbreaking pieces blending improvisation, durational performance, live art, video and digital media. In 2016 they were awarded the International Ibsen Award. Forced Entertainment's 'Real Magic' is playing at the Edinburgh International Festival between the 22nd and 27th of August.
Verity also features music from musique concrète pioneer Pierre Henry, who passed away last month aged 89, and composer David Behrman, who turns 80 next week.
Produced by Jack Howson for Reduced Listening.
Jonathan Swain presents music by Beethoven with a concert performance from pianist Jonathan Biss and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Coriolan Overture in C minor, Op.62 (1807)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
12:39 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Piano concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op.73 (Emperor)
Jonathan Biss (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
1:17 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op.67
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
1:52 AM
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837)
Clarinet Quartet in E flat major (1808)
Martin Fröst (clarinet), Tobias Ringborg (violin), Ingegerd Kierkegaard (viola), John Ehde (cello)
2:19 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
Courtly Dances from Gloriana, Op.53
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
2:31 AM
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909)
Rapsodia española
Angela Cheng (piano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Graf (conductor)
2:48 AM
Reicha, Antoine (1770-1836)
Oboe Quintet in F major, Op.107
Les Adieux
3:17 AM
Sanz, Gaspar [1640-1710]
4 pieces from "Instrucción de música sobre la guitara española"
Xavier Diaz-Latorre (performing on the Guitarra dels Lleons - The Lion Guitar c.1700)
3:34 AM
Rodrigo, Joaquín (1901-1999) arr. Peter Tiefenbach
Cuatro madrigales amatorios: ¿Con qué la lavaré? ; Vos me matásteis ; ¿De dónde venís, amore? ; De los álamos vengo, madre
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Bryan Epperson, Maurizio Baccante, Roman Borys, Simon Fryer, David Hetherington, Roberta Jansen, Paul Widner, Thomas Wiebe, Winona Zelenka (cellos)
3:43 AM
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916)
Quejas o la Maja y el Ruiseñor (from Goyescas)
Enrique Granados (piano)
3:50 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Missa sine nomine
Silvia Piccollo (soprano), Annemieke Cantor (alto), Marco Beasley (tenor), Daniele Carnovich (bass), Diego Fasolis (conductor)
4:05 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Divertimento in D, K.136
Van Kuijk Quartet
4:18 AM
Antonio de Santa Cruz (fl.1700)
Fandango
Eduardo Egüez (baroque guitar)
4:22 AM
Anon (Neapolitan Renaissance)
Ay luna que reluzes
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (director)
4:26 AM
Brade, William (1560-1630)
Turkische Intrada
Hesperion XX
4:31 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Pohjola's daughter - symphonic fantasia, Op.49
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)
4:45 AM
Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725)
Sonata No. 3 in C minor for flute, 2 violins, cello and continuo
Giovanni Antonini (flute/director), Il Giardino Armonico
4:54 AM
Alfvén, Hugo (1872-1960)
En båt med blommor (A boat with flowers), Op.44
Peter Mattei (baritone), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
5:04 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), transc. Joseph Petric
Adagio and Rondo in C minor, K.617, for glass harmonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello, transcribed for accordion and string quartet
Joseph Petric (accordion), Moshe Hammer & Marie Bérard (violins), Douglas Perry (viola), David Hetherington (cello)
5:15 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Piano Trio in A minor (1914)
Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano), Bernt Lysell (violin), Mats Rondin (cello)
5:43 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.6 in D major (H.1.6) 'Le Matin'
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
6:04 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)
6:18 AM
Satie, Erik [1866-1925]
Gnossienne No.1
Havard Gimse (piano)
6:23 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille [1835-1921]
Saltarelle, Op.74
Lamentabile Consort.
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
9am
Rob 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
Rob's guest this week is the BBC News presenter and correspondent Clive Myrie. Clive is one of the regular evening presenters on the BBC News Channel and News at Ten, and has worked in broadcast news and journalism throughout his career, almost exclusively for the BBC. He started out in local news before becoming a foreign correspondent, being posted to Japan, America, France and Africa. Since becoming one of the BBC's main anchors in London, he has continued to make special reports about subjects ranging from Barack Obama to wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan. As well as discussing his life and work, Clive shares some of his favourite classical music throughout the week, including pieces he played as a teenager in his local youth orchestra.
10.30
Music on Location: Scotland
This week Rob explores music connected with Scotland, focusing today on how Shakespeare's play Macbeth offered Richard Strauss a 'completely new path' in his writing.
Proms Artist of the Week: John Wilson
Rob's Proms Artist of the Week is the British conductor John Wilson. Wilson is celebrated for his on-stage charisma and has been applauded repeatedly for the rich and colourful sounds that he draws from orchestras in repertoire ranging from the core classical through to the twentieth century. Wilson has conducted many of the leading British orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and has made a number of recordings with the BBC Concert Orchestra. This week he brings The John Wilson Orchestra to the BBC Proms, and earlier in the season he conducted his first Prom as Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Rob has chosen to feature Wilson's recordings of music by Edward German, Arnold Bax, Copland and Gershwin, as well as Eric Coates's take on a song by Richard Rodgers.
Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor).
Seong-Jin Cho won first prize at the 2015 International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, and makes his Edinburgh International Festival debut playing Chopin's four Ballades. Seong-Jin opens his recital with two of Beethoven's mighty works for keyboard, his early 'Pathétique' Sonata and the later Sonata No 30 in E Op.109, both ground-breaking in form and content.
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C minor, Op.13, 'Pathétique'
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E, Op.109
11.40
Interval
Francois Leleux plays Mozart's Oboe Concerto in C, K341
12.00
Chopin: Ballade in G minor, Op 23; Ballade in F, Op 38; Ballade in A flat, Op 47; Ballade in F minor, Op 52
Seong-Jin Cho, piano
Presenter: Donald Macleod
Producer: Laura Metcalfe.
In 1974, Russian cellist Rostropovich was exiled from Russia for his outspoken political views against the Soviet government and his support for other high-profile dissidents such as the composer Shostakovich and the writer Solzhenitsyn. This concert at St Cuthbert's Church in Edinburgh marks his appearance the following year at the 1975 Festival with three Suites for solo cello by JS Bach.
JS Bach: Sarabande from Suite No 2 in D minor, BWV 1008
JS Bach: Suite No 3 in C, BWV 1009
JS Bach: Suite No 6 in D, BWV 1012
Mstlislav Rostropovich, cello
Producer Gavin McCollum.
Afternoon on 3 with Penny Gore
Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and Ryan Wigglesworth with Leonard Elschenbroich, Toby Spence and Nicholas Perfect perform Britten, Elias, Purcell and Elgar.
Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London, by Petroc Trelawny
Britten: Ballad of Heroes
Brian Elias: Cello Concerto
Purcell, arr Elgar: Jehova, quam multi sunt
Elgar: Enigma Variations
BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
Toby Spence (tenor)
Nicholas Perfect (bass)
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)
Ryan Wigglesworth joins the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales for a programme that spans four centuries, from Purcell's dramatic choral motet 'Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei', to the world premiere of Brian Elias's Cello Concerto, whose intricate, spiral structure creates a dream-like musical narrative.
The concert opens with Britten's most overtly political work - an impassioned musical stand against fascism that anticipates the composer's War Requiem; and reaches its culmination with Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations, which includes the much-loved 'Nimrod'.
[First broadcast on Wednesday 9th August]
Followed by a selection of music from this week's Proms artists
Producer Clive Portbury.
Clemency Burton-Hill presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news.
Much of Grieg's time was spent away from home, touring and giving concerts across Europe despite his worsening health. Not long before his death he befriended the young pianist and composer Percy Grainger in whom Grieg found the perfect interpreter of his piano music. Donald Macleod introduces a selection from Grieg's penultimate collection of piano works - widely regarded as some of his most innovative writing, Grieg's last great unaccompanied choral work and the moving funeral march he wrote for his friend Rikard Nordraak forty years earlier and which was played at Grieg's own funeral.
Summer's Eve, Op.71 No.2 (Lyric Pieces Book 10)
Håkon Austbø (piano)
Evening in the Mountains, Op.68 No.4; Lullaby, Op.68 No.5 (Lyric Pieces Book 9)
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Elvind Aadland
Norwegian Peasant Dances Op.72 (selection)
Håkon Austbø (piano)
Funeral March for Rikard Nordraak
Gothenberg Symphony Orchestra
Conductor, Neeme Järvi
Four Psalms Op.74
The Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Conductor, Grete Pedersen
Producer Deborah Preston.
Live at the BBC Proms: John Wilson conducts 'Oklahoma!', Roger and Hammerstein's 1943 hit musical
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II: Oklahoma!
Aunt Eller - Belinda Lang
Curly - Nathaniel Hackmann
Laurey - Scarlett Strallen
Will Parker - Robert Fairchild
Jud Fry - David Seadon-Young
Ado Annie - Lizzy Connolly
Ali Hakim - Marcus Brigstocke
Bursting not just with tunes but emotions, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! brought new dramatic depth to the Broadway musical. John Wilson and his orchestra bring their signature energy and swagger to this much-loved classic.
INTERVAL: Proms Extra
Edward Seckerson and Jason Carr discuss Oklahoma!
Lopa Kothari introduces highlights from last month's Womad Festival, as well as from the BBC Introducing stage at Latitude.