From Barcelona, a performance of Brahms' second symphony and a requiem by Spanish-Catalan composer Albert Guinovart. Presented by Catriona Young.
Orfeó Català Youth Chorus, Marta Mathéu (soprano), Josep Ramon Olivé (baritone), Ferran Quiílez (soprano), Balearic Islands City of Palma Symphony Orchestra, Pablo Mielgo (conductor)
Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak (piano), Simfonični orkester RTV Slovenija, Samo Hubad (conductor)
Jeptha excerpt ('Scenes of horror .. While in never-ceasing pain')
Maureen Forrester (contralto), I Soloisti di Zagreb, Antonio Janigro (conductor)
String Quintet No 2 in E flat major arr. orchestra
Pierre Pitzl (viola da gamba), Marcy Jean Bölli (viola da gamba), Augusta Campagne (harpsichord)
Christian Schneider (oboe d'amore), Erik Niord Larsen (oboe d'amore), Kjell Arne Jørgensen (violin), Miranda Playfair (violin), Dan Styffe (bass), Hans Knut Sveen (harpsichord)
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.
Donald Macleod on George Gershwin and jazz. For many, George Gershwin was the foremost composer of the "jazz age" and it's through jazz-inflected interpretations that his music has reached its widest audience. In this programme Donald Macleod explores Gershwin's relationship with the then-nascent and evolving music of jazz.
Sarah Walker presents performances from the Musiq'3 Festival held last summer in Brussels.
Two rarely heard works today. Miaskovsky is a largely overlooked Russian composer, a generation older than Shostakovich, who nonetheless produced a whole string quartet cycle and two cello sonatas of which this one is the first. Friedrich Kuhlau was a Danish contemporary and friend of Beethoven who wrote operas and concertos, but who in chamber music terms had a special affinity for the flute, and this Grande Sonata Concertante is one of his most substantial chamber pieces.
Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand” – given by a stalwart team of soloists, six of Stockholm’s best choirs and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under conductor Daniel Harding. This concert was part of the 2018 Baltic Sea Festival. Presented by Tom McKinney.
St. Jacob’s Chamber Choir
An archive recording from the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge (first broadcast 10 January 1996)
Adrian Dunbar and Jade Anouka with readings which look at escaping life, love, war and family. From the terror of a monstrous battle in Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, to the thrilling Prisoner of War break-out in Paul Brickhill's novel The Great Escape. There's also the more existential desire to escape one's gender or relationship, dealt with by the likes of Christina Rossetti and Sylvia Plath. Then there's the escape we find in sleep and eventually death, explored by Shakespeare and Yeats. Mirroring the mood of our escapees is a soundtrack which features everything from Dowland to Ligeti, Elena Kaats-Chernin to Vaughan Williams.
E. M Forster
Sonata for piano no.32 (Op.111) in C minor, 1st mvt; Maestoso - allegro...
Performer: Guy Johnston (cello), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates (conductor)
Performer: Antje Weithaas (violin), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Gunilla Sussmann (piano)
Aubade: (vii) Conclusion. Adagio
New Generation Artists: first BBC recordings from three of the six newest musicians on the programme.
The Aris Quartet have built quite a following in their native Germany for their interpretations of Beethoven so this recording made last month should be something very special. Meanwhile British tenor, Alessandro Fisher, brings his linguistic skill and a touch of old world charm to Hahn's catching songs in Venetian dialect and Katharina Konradi, born in Kyrgyzstan but long-resident in Germany, combines a touching beauty and poignancy in the music of Mendelssohn and Rachmaninov.
Mendelssohn Auf Flügeln des Gesanges op.34/2, Suleika op.34/4 and Venetianisches Gondellied op.57/5
Beethoven String Quartet No. 8, in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2
Another chance to hear Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Kirill Petrenko in ballet music by Dukas and Franz Schmidt's Symphony no 4, plus Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 3 with Yuja Wang as soloist.
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Interval: Proms Plus Talk: Musicologist and broadcaster Erik Levi introduces Schmidt's Symphony No. 4.
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A landmark concert sees the Berlin Philharmonic perform for the first time in London under its new Chief Conductor Designate, Kirill Petrenko. 'In this work Mahler’s spirit is resurrected,’ said a colleague of Franz Schmidt’s Fourth Symphony, a piece whose Romantic character is charged with the grief of personal loss. Dynamic pianist Yuja Wang is the soloist in Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto, with its explosive closing battle of wills between soloist and orchestra. The concert opens with Dukas’s exotic, Impressionistic ballet score La péri, prefaced by the arresting curtain-raising fanfare the composer later added.
Another chance to hear the London Contemporary Orchestra conducted by Robert Ames, with Shiva Feshareki in turntables/electronics. including Daphne Oram's Still Point.
Plus electronic works by Delia Derbyshire and others, and the world premiere of a new work for orchestra and electronics
Daphne Oram's visionary Still Point fills the cavernous space of the Royal Albert Hall for the first time in the premiere of a revised realisation based on recently discovered archive material.
Composed in 1949 - almost a decade before Oram co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - the piece was possibly the first to combine a live orchestra with live electronic manipulations, here played via turntables.
Still Point forms the centrepiece of a late-night sonic exploration that features work by Delia Derbyshire - another Radiophonic Workshop pioneer who achieved cult status for her electronic arrangement of the Doctor Who TV theme - as well as new works inspired by the Radiophonic legacy.
Max Reinhardt presents. West Mongolian DJ Bodikhuu is the darling of Central Asian bedroom electronica – his chilled-out beats meet the oddball world of Icelandic surrealist Atli Heimir Sveinsson’s “21 Sounding Minutes” for solo flute. Plus, for the last eighteen months Dutch punk musician Arnold de Boer has been collecting the sound of massed voices of women from the Frafra region of Northern Ghana – we hear a joyous example, alongside some traditional Hindustani raga sounds arranged for string orchestra.
Max also looks forward to the Late Junction Festival, taking place from 28th February to 1st March at EarTH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney) in partnership with the Barbican Centre, with music from O Yama O and Chaines. Plus, there's sonic experimentation from the collective Common Objects and new music from the jazz composer-trumpeter Nick Malcolm and his band.
THURSDAY 03 JANUARY 2019
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m0001vc2)
2017 BBC Proms: Beethoven Symphony No 5
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla with violinist Leila Josefowicz. Catriona Young presents.
1
2:31 am
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Leonora Overture No 2
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (conductor)
1
2:45 am
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Violin Concerto in D major
Leila Josefowicz (violin), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (conductor)
1:07 am
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Lachen Verlernt for solo violin
Leila Josefowicz (violin)
1:11 am
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (conductor)
1:40 am
Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite No 3 in D major BWV1068
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (conductor)
1:45 am
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Piano Sonata in B minor Op 5
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
2:09 am
Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986)
Trio in one movement, Op 68
Hertz Trio
2:31 am
Pierre de la Rue
Missa Sancto Job
Orlando Consort
3:07 am
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
24 Preludes, Op.28
David Kadouch (piano)
3:43 am
Matthias Schmitt (b.1958)
Ghanaia for percussion
Colin Currie (percussion)
3:50 am
Francesco Durante (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto for strings No 1 in F minor
Concerto Koln
4:04 am
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Phantasiestucke Op 73 for clarinet & piano
Marten Altrov (clarinet), Holger Marjamaa (piano)
4:14 am
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Klid , B182
Shauna Rolston (cello), Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
4:21 am
Toivo Kuula
South Ostrobothnian Dances, Op 17 (excerpts)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kari Tikka (conductor)
4:31 am
Juliusz Zarebski (1854-1885)
Polonaise triomphale in A major, Op 11
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pawel Przytocki (conductor)
4:40 am
Louis Spohr
Harp Fantasia No 2 in C minor, Op 35
Mojca Zlobko Vaigl (harp)
4:49 am
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Anton Webern (orchestrator)
6 Deutsche for piano (D.820)
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown (conductor)
4:58 am
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
Varnatt (Spring Night)
Swedish Radio Choir, Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester , Stefan Sköld (conductor)
5:07 am
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
Adagio for viola and piano in C major (1905)
Morten Carlsen (viola), Sergej Osadchuk (piano)
5:17 am
Franz Doppler (1821-1883)
Fantaisie pastorale hongroise Op 26 (version for flute & piano)
Ivica Gabrisova-Encingerova (flute), Matej Vrabel (piano)
5:28 am
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Sea Pictures Op 37
Margreta Elkins (mezzo soprano), Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Werner Andreas Albert (conductor)
5:51 am
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857)
Trio pathetique arr. for piano trio
Trio Luwigana
6:06 am
Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999)
Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra
Lukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, José Maria Florêncio (conductor)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m0001vpx)
Thursday - Georgia’s classical commute
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m0001vpz)
Suzy Klein
Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller – a quirky slice of history.
1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, Robert "Judge" Rinder.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0001vq1)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
In the Concert Hall
Donald Macleod tells the story of Gershwin's excursions in the concert hall. George Gershwin never really understood why so many people – then, as now – insist on putting popular and classical music in hermetic compartments. After the immense success of Rhapsody in Blue, Gershwin gave more time to concert music. He may have been the toast of Broadway, but his attempts to move musically out of the theatre district and into the hallowed portals of the city’s concert halls were, despite some successes, constantly frustrated and a source of disappointment to him.
Second Rhapsody
Prague Philharmonia
Andrew Von Oeyen, piano
Emmanuel Villaume, conductor
American in Paris
Cleveland Orchestra
Ricardo Chailly, conductor
Strike Up the Band Overture
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Cuban Overture
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
James Judd, conductor
Produced in Cardiff by Martin Williams
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0001vq3)
Musiq'3 Festival
Debussy and Mustonen
In today's programme, Sarah Walker presents more performances from the Musiq'3 Festival from Brussels last summer, including a piano quintet by Olli Mustonen.
Fauré: Elégie
Bruno Philippe (cello)
Beatrice Berrut (piano)
Debussy: Images (Set 2)
Florian Caroubi (piano)
Olli Mustonen: Piano Quintet
Ollie Mustonen (piano)
Philippe Grafin (violin)
Deborah Nemtanu (violin)
Lili Maijala (viola)
Edgar Moreau (cello)
Sibelius: Finlandia
Joonas Ahonen (piano)
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0001vq5)
Frank Martin's Le Vin herbe
Frank Martin's chamber opera take on the "Tristan and Isolde" story - "Le Vin herbé" is, in every way, a far cry from Wagner, but still in a league of its own; a human oratorio, an intimate and emotional story of love and death.
Frank Martin himself called the piece a chamber opera that is more influenced by Bach than Wagner, even if the background story is the same, a ‘human oratorio’. In spite of the small ensemble and a focus on storytelling rather than dramatization, Martin’s setting of the medieval love story is just as strong and gripping. Here, Peter Dijkstra, who is himself a passionate fan of Frank Martin’s music, and the Swedish Radio Chorus perform "Le Vin herbé" in concert version, the immortal drama and the enchanting music.
2pm
Frank Martin - Le Le Vin herbé
Part I: Le Philtre
Part II : La Forêt du Morois
Part III : La Mort and Epilogue
Tristan…Marcel Reijans, tenor
Iseult…Johanna Winkel, soprano
Love Derwinger, piano
Members of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Peter Dijkstra, conductor
3.45pm
Raminta Serksnyte – Songs of Sunset & Dawn
Lina Dambrauskaite, soprano
Justina Grinyte, mezzo-soprano
Edgaras Montvidas, tenor
Nerijus Masevicius, bass
Swedish Radio Chorus
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
Gledre Slekyte, conductor
Raminta Šerkšnytė’s Songs of Sunset and Dawn is a fusion of thriving neo-romantic sounds and playfully exploratory motifs and techniques. It’s a setting of the writings of the Indian and Bengali poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore.
Presented by Tom McKinney
THU 16:30 Words and Music (b09bwlrk)
Footloose
From bare feet to dancing feet and booted feet, with everything in between, the programme features poetry and prose by writers including Cecil Day Lewis, DH Lawrence, Hans Christian Andersen, Pauline Prior-Pitt and Jung Chang, and music by Prokofiev, Victoria, Fats Waller and Kirsty MacColl. The readers are Hermione Norris and Robert Bathurst, stars of the TV drama series "Cold Feet".
The notion of a programme about feet might at first seem comical, but once you begin to look at how the image of the foot is used in literature, a wide range of symbolism reveals itself. Phrases such as "best foot forward", "the world at your feet", "falling at your feet" all evoke power and achievement. "Treading on eggshells", "a foot in the door", "pussy-footing around", "getting cold feet", all point towards hesitation and a lack of confidence. The symbolism of Jesus Christ washing his disciples' feet, re-enacted every Maundy Thursday, is one of the most powerful symbolic acts in the Christian liturgical calendar. Just as powerful is the image of an army marching to war. Children's literature and fairy tales are peppered with footprints, from Cinderella trying on the glass slipper to The Little Mermaid, who has to endure the sensation of dancing on sharp knives in order to become human.
Producer Helen Garrison.
01 Paul Whiteman
Happy Feet
Performer: Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
02
00:00:03
Edgar Albert Guest
The Baby's Feet read by Hermione Norris
03
00:00:04 Claude Debussy
Suite bergamasque for piano, Passepied
Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
04
00:00:04
DH Lawrence
Baby Running Barefoot read by Robert Bathurst
05
00:00:06
Tennessee Williams
Heavenly Grass read by Hermione Norris
06
00:00:04
Joseph C Lincoln
Little Bare Feet read by Robert Bathurst
07
00:00:09 Henry Mancini
Baby Elephant Walk
Performer: Richard Armstrong Orchestra, Richard Hayman
08
00:00:10
Laurence Binyon
The Little Dancers read by Hermione Norris
09
00:00:11 Peter Warlock
Capriol suite for strings or full orchestra; Pieds en l'air
Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Clio Gould
10
00:00:13
The Gospel according to Mark
Chapter 9: v45 read by Hermione Norris
11
00:00:13
Hans Christian Andersen
The Red Shoes (extract) by Robert Bathurst
12
00:00:13 Brian Easdale
The Red shoes - ballet suite (extract)
Performer: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
13
00:00:15 Traditional Mexican
Tarantella
Performer: Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
14
00:00:17 Dmitri Shostakovich
Football, from Russian river - suite (from the incidental music) Op.66
Performer: Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano)
15
00:00:19
Cecil Day-Lewis
Walking Away read by Hermione Norris
16
00:00:21 Richard Strauss
Lieder, Op. 48, TrV 202; Ich Schwebe
Performer: Camilla Tilling (soprano), Paul Rivinius (piano)
17
00:00:23
John Mole
The Shoes read by Hermione Norris
18
00:00:24 Sergei Prokofiev
Cinderella [Zolushka] - suite no. 1 Op.107: Cinderella's waltz; Midnight
Performer: St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov
19
00:00:29
Dorothy Aldis
Feet read by Hermione Norris
20
00:00:29
Billy Collins
Walking Across the Atlantic by Robert Bathurst
21
00:00:30 Frank Bridge
The Sea - suite for orchestra (H.100), no.3; Moonlight (Adagio ma non troppo)
Performer: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Hickox
22
00:00:31
Hans Christian Andersen
The Little mermaid (extract) read by Hermione Norris
23
00:00:36 Tomás Luis de Victoria
Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui
Performer: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
24
00:00:40
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet (extract) read by Robert Bathurst
25
00:00:40 Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet - Dance of the knights
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, Gergiev
26
00:00:43 Kirsty MacColl (artist)
In These Shoes
Performer: Kirsty MacColl
27
00:00:47 Zhao Jiping
Raise the Red Lantern (music from the film sound track)
28
00:00:47
Jung Chang
Wild Swans (extract) read by Hermione Norris
29
00:00:48
Rudyard Kipling
Infantry Columns read by Robert Bathurst
30
00:00:50 Eric Coates
The Eighth Army March
Performer: Royal Artillery Band, Major Geoffrey Kingston
31
00:00:53 Hugo Wolf
Mörike-Lieder: Fußreise
Performer: Werner Güra (tenor), Jan Schultsz (piano)
32
00:00:55
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken read by Hermione Norris
33
00:00:56 Charles Villiers Stanford
O for a closer walk with God
Performer: Choir of Trinity College - Cambridge, Stephen Layton, Alexander Hamilton (organ)
34
00:00:59
Gospel according to John
Chapter 13: vv5-14 read by Robert Bathurst
35
00:01:00
Anonymous
Footprints in the Sand read by Hermione Norris
36
00:01:00 Johann Sebastian Bach
Johannespassion (BWV.245), Part 1; Ich folge dir gleichfalls (Aria)
Performer: Dunedin Consort, John Butt, Joanne Lunn (soprano)
37
00:01:04 Bob Chilcott
The Runner (from The Modern Man I Sing)
Performer: Tenebrae, Nigel Short
38
00:01:06
Pauline Prior-Pitt
Odd Socks read by Hermione Norris
39
00:01:07 Leroy Anderson
March of the Two Left Feet
Performer: BBC Concert Orchestra, Slatkin
40
00:01:09 Fats Waller
Your Feets Too Big
Performer: Fats Waller and his Rhythm Band
THU 17:45 New Generation Artists (m0001vq8)
Beethoven, Schubert, Bartok and Copland
New Generation Artists: three of the six outgoing members of Radio 3's prestigious programme are heard today in recordings made over the past two years in BBC studios and at the Norfolk and Norwich and Cheltenham Festivals. And the Arod Quartet, who are just beginning their second year as New Generation Artists, play Bartok.
Presented by Kate Molleson.
Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D 965,
Fatma Said (soprano), Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet), Simon Lepper (piano)
Beethoven Cello Sonata in C Op102 no1
Andrei Ionita (cello), Lilit Grigoryan (piano)
Copland The Boatman Dance, The Dodger, Long time ago, By the River and Ching-a-ring
Ashley Riches (bass-baritone), James Baillieu (piano)
Bartok String Quartet no. 1 Cz. 40
Quatuor Arod
Fernando Obradors Del cabello mas sutil (Dos cantares populares)
Fatma Said (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
THU 19:00 Proms 2018 Repeats (m0001vqb)
BBC Proms at Alexandra Palace with the BBC Concert Orchestra
BBC Proms at ... Alexandra Palace. Another chance to hear BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers and conductor Jane Glover perform Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury in the newly restored Victorian Theatre. With Mary Bevan and Neal Davies.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny from Alexandra Palace, London.
Sullivan Prelude to Act IV of ‘The Tempest’
Coleridge-Taylor ‘Onaway, Awake Beloved’ (Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast)
Cellier All alone to my eerie … the Love that is Dead (The Mountebanks)
Ethel Smyth Overture : The Boatswain’s Mate
Sullivan When I went to the Bar (Iolanthe)
Stanford So it’s kisses you’re craving (Shamus O’Brien)
Parry The Birds - Introduction, Intermezzo, Bridal March
– Interval –
Sullivan Trial by Jury
Neal Davies bass (The Learned Judge)
Mary Bevan soprano (The Plaintiff)
Sam Furness tenor (The Defendant)
Ross Ramgobin baritone (Counsel for the Plaintiff)
Keel Watson baritone (Usher)
Edward Price baritone (Foreman)
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
conductor Jane Glover
The magnificent theatre at Alexandra Palace originally opened in 1875 – the same year that Gilbert and Sullivan’s one-act operetta Trial by Jury was premiered. In this special ‘Proms at …’ event, Jane Glover conducts a concert performance of this Victorian comic masterpiece in the Palace’s theatre as its ambitious new refurbishment reaches completion. A first half of music by Sullivan’s contemporaries explores that favourite G&S theme of love and marriage.
Trial By Jury - Synopsis
Scene: A Court of Justice. The curtain rises on the Court of the Exchequer, where a Jury and the public assemble.
The chorus make known the course of events:
“For, today, in this arena,
Summoned by a stern subpoena,
Edwin – sued by Angelina –
Shortly will appear.”
The Usher, having marshalled the Jurymen into the Jury-box, gives them the judicial counsel to heed the plaintiff, "The broken-hearted bride," and not "the ruffianly defendant," for:
“From bias free, of every kind,
This trial must be tried.”
The Defendant (Edwin) arrives, and the jurymen greet him with hostility, even though – as he points out – they have, as yet, no idea of the merits of his case. He tells them, with surprising candour, that he jilted the Plaintiff because she became a "bore intense" to him, and he then quickly took up with another woman. The Jury admit that they were like that once, but they are now respectable gentlemen and have no sympathy for the Defendant.
The Usher orders silence as the Judge approaches. He enters with great pomp, and describes how he rose to his position – by courting a rich attorney's "elderly, ugly daughter". The rich attorney then aided his prospective son-in-law's legal career until "at length I became as rich as the Gurneys" and "threw over" the daughter. The Jury and public are delighted with the Judge, completely ignoring the fact that he has just admitted to the same wrong of which the Defendant is accused.
The Usher swears in the Jury, and the Plaintiff (Angelina) is summoned. She is preceded into the courtroom by her bridesmaids, one of whom catches the eye of the judge. However, when Angelina herself arrives in full wedding-dress finery, she instantly captures the heart of both Judge and Jury.
The Counsel for the Plaintiff makes a moving speech detailing Edwin's betrayal. At this, Angelina feigns distress and staggers first into the arms of the Foreman of the Jury, and then of the Judge himself. The Jury are outraged on her behalf, addressing the Defendant as “Monster”.
Edwin attempts to defend himself, explaining that his change of heart is only natural, and offering to marry both the Plaintiff and his new love, if that would satisfy everyone.
The Judge at first finds this "a reasonable proposition", but the Counsel argues that from the days of James II, it has been "a rather serious crime / To marry two wives at a time" (humorously, he labels the crime in question "burglary" rather than "bigamy"). Perplexed, everyone in court ponders the "nice dilemma" in a parody of Italian opera ensembles.
Angelina desperately embraces Edwin, demonstrating the depth of her love, and bemoans her loss – the extent of her woe serving as evidence of the large amount of damages that the Jury should force Edwin to pay.
Edwin, in turn, says he is a smoker, a drunkard, and a bully (when tipsy), and that the Plaintiff could not have endured him even for a day, so therefore the damages should be small. The Judge suggests making Edwin tipsy to see if his assertions turn out to be true, but everyone else (except Edwin) objects to this proposition.
Impatient at the lack of progress, and in a hurry to get away, the Judge resolves the case by offering to marry Angelina himself. Angelina is delighted by this proposal, which is found by all to be a satisfactory solution, and the opera is concluded with "joy unbounded".
THU 21:00 Proms 2018 Repeats (m0001vqd)
Prom 7 repeat: Jacob Collier and Friends
Another chance to hear Metropole Orkest with Jacob Collier and Friends
Presented by Georgia Mann from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Jacob Collier arr. Evan Jolly: Don't You Know
Jacob Collier arr. Jamshied Sharifi / Jacob Collier: Hideaway
Jacob Collier orch. Buckley: Djesse
Sam Amidon arr. Buckley: Pat Do This Pat Do That
Stevie Wonder arr. Collier, Becca Stevens and Take 6: As
Jacob Collier arr. Sharifi / Collier: Hajanga
Interval: Proms Plus: Musicians from the Metropole Orkest talk about the life and work of the orchestra.
Sting arr. Collier, orch. Stefan Behrisch: Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Jacob Collier orch. Buckley: Ocean wide, canyon deep
Stevie Wonder arr. Collier: You and I
Jacob Collier orch. Behrisch and Vladimir Nikolov: Everlasting Motion
Hamid El Kasri arr. Nikolov: Moulay Ahmed
Jacob Collier, orch. Behrisch: Once You
Lionel Richie arr. Collier, orch. Nikolov: All Night Long
Lennon/McCartney arr. Collier: Blackbird (encore)
Jacob Collier (keyboards, vocals)
Sam Amidon (vocals, guitar, fiddle )
Guembri Hamid El Kasri (vocals)
Take 6
Metropole Orkest
Jules Buckley (conductor)
Since becoming an online sensation with his one-man, multi-tracked arrangements of songs such as 'Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing' and 'Fascinating Rhythm', vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier has been forging a lightning-quick path through the musical world. Last year, aged 22, he picked up two Grammy Awards for his debut album In My Room.
Having made a guest appearance at the Quincy Jones Prom in 2016, Collier once again teams up with conductor Jules Buckley and his Metropole Orkest in a special collaboration for the Proms, featuring a host of new tracks and a smattering of special guests.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (m0001vqg)
Helena Hauff’s mixtape
Max Reinhardt presents a pulsing, genre-splicing mixtape from Hamburg techno legend, the musician and DJ Helena Hauff.
An expert in the art of the mix, Helena became obsessed with DJing in her teens after a particularly life-changing night at a techno club, and soon became a resident at Hamburg’s notorious basement bar the Golden Pudel. Alongside her mixing, she began to make live tracks with vintage synths and drum machines.
It was there that she met Darren Cunningham aka Actress, and through him released her first EP on Ninja Tune in 2013. Two years later, she released her debut full-length album, Discreet Desires, named one of Rolling Stones magazine’s top 20 electronic albums of that year. Her latest release Qualm was unapologetically raw, described by her as the product of “trying to create something powerful without using too many instruments and layers”.
Over the past five years, she’s become one of the most sought after and respected selectors, touring the world with expertly curated DJ sets spanning acid, electro, EBM, techno and post punk and headlining festivals like Sonar and Dekmantel.
Helena’s mixtape reflects her love of crate digging, from ‘70s library music and Yusef Lateef to psychedelic stoner rock and Meredith Monk, and of course a good dose of techno and leftfield electro.
Produced by Katie Callin for Reduced Listening.
FRIDAY 04 JANUARY 2019
FRI 00:00 Slow Radio (m0001vqj)
Burren Cattle Blessing
When Winter comes most hill farmers take their cattle off the high ground and place them in sheds until Spring. Geology allows them to do things a little differently on the Burren. In County Clare on the west coast of Ireland, the Burren is a flower-rich limestone plateau. In Summer the rock absorbs the heat and, like a giant night storage heater, it radiates the warmth out in the Winter. That makes life pretty agreeable for the region’s beef cattle. Each year the season to move the cattle is marked by a festival. The local priest sprinkles holy water on their coats and a chosen farmer walks his pregnant cows up the green road to the mountain grazing, followed by hundreds of locals and tourists eager to see the delighted leaping of the cattle as they reach the fresh grazing of their Winter home.
The sounds of the cattle treading a route travelled for hundreds of years provide a relaxing half hour that will transport you to the beauty and tranquillity of Ireland’s west coast.
Producer: Alasdair Cross
Thanks to farmer, Timmy Linnane and to the Burrenbeo Trust
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m0001vql)
Ein Deutsches Requiem
A performance from Romanian Radio of Brahms A German Requiem. With Catriona Young.
1
2:31 am
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
A German Requiem, Op 45
Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Cristina Grigoras (soprano), Sandor Balla (baritone), Romanian Radio Academic Choir, Cristian Mandeal (conductor), Ciprian Tutu (director)
1:37 am
Franz Liszt
La Lugubre gondola S.200
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
1:46 am
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
String Quartet in G major, D.887
Alban Berg Quartet, Günter Pichler (violin), Gerhard Schultz (violin), Thomas Kakuska (viola), Valentin Erben (cello)
2:31 am
Igor Stravinsky ((1882-1971)_)
Agon - ballet
BBC Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson (conductor)
2:54 am
Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin (b.1932)
Carmen - ballet suite for strings and percussion
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milen Nachev (conductor)
3:35 am
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Maarten Bon (arranger)
Jeux arranged for 8 hands
Yoko Abe (piano), Gérard van Blerk (piano), Maarten Bon (piano), Sepp Grotenhuis (piano)
3:51 am
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
7 chansons, for mixed choir a cappella (1936)
Swedish Radio Choir, Pär Fridberg (conductor)
4:04 am
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Keyboard Sonata in A minor Wq 57 No 2
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)
4:13 am
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Marinov (conductor)
4:25 am
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
No.4 Morgen from 4 Lieder Op 27
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo soprano), Joseph Breinl (piano)
4:31 am
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Sonata for harp
Godelieve Schrama (harp)
4:41 am
Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-)
Magnificat
Kimberley Briggs (soprano), Elmer Iseler Singers, Matthew Larkin (organ), Lydia Adams (conductor)
4:48 am
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sarabande from Suite for solo cello in C (BWV.1009)
Miklós Perényi (cello)
4:53 am
Flor Alpaerts (1876-1954)
Avondmuziek for wind octet (1915)
I Soloisti del Vento, Ivo Hadermann (conductor)
5:03 am
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No 73 in D major 'La Chasse' (H.
1.73)
Romanian National Chamber Orchestra, Horia Andreescu (conductor)
5:24 am
Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Folk Songs for mezzo-soprano and 7 players
Jard van Nes (mezzo soprano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
5:47 am
John Thrower (b.1951)
Improvisation on a Blue Theme
Joaquín Valdepeñas (clarinet), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
6:03 am
Henriëtte Bosmans (1895-1952)
Verses from Maria Lecina
Rachel Ann Morgan (mezzo soprano), Frans van Ruth (piano)
6:17 am
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Wojewode, symphonic ballad, Op 78
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m0001w51)
Friday - Georgia’s classical alternative
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m0001w53)
Suzy Klein
Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller – a quirky slice of history.
1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, Robert "Judge" Rinder.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0001w55)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Final Curtain
Donald Macleod charts George Gershwin's final years. In the summer of 1934, Gershwin settled in for a long stay in Charleston, South Carolina, renting a ramshackle beach cottage on Folly Island, a barrier island off the coast: no running water, no telephone and sand crabs everywhere. He shipped in an upright piano and delighted in his visits to local churches, where he joined in, enthusiastically, with some of the more exuberant moments of congregational participation. It was this period in which he finally formulated his magnum opus, the opera Porgy and Bess.
My Man's Gone Now
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Emanuel Bay, piano
I Got Plenty of Nothin'
Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Bess, You Is My Woman Now
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Andre Previn, piano
It Aint Necessarily So
Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald
I Loves You Porgy
Keith Jarrett, piano
Catfish Row Suite
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Produced in Cardiff by Martin Williams
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0001w57)
Musiq'3 Festival
Rachmaninov and Shostakovich
Sarah Walker presents more performances from last summer's Musiq'3 Festival in Brussels.
Rachmaninov: 2 Pieces for cello and piano
Bruno Philippe (cello)
Beatrice Berrut (piano)
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet
Ollie Musitonen (piano)
Philippe Grafin (violin)
Deborah Nemtanu (violin)
Lili Maijala (viola)
Edgar Moreau (cello)
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0001w59)
Baltic Sea Festival - Verdi Requiem
Domingo Hindoyan conducts Verdi's Requiem at the Berwaldhallen in Stockholm. Plus music by Raminta Serksnyte, Veljo Tormis & Esa-Pekka Salonen.
2.00pm
Verdi - Requiem
Christina Nilsson, soprano
Miriam Treichi, contralto
Daniel Johansson, tenor
Anders Lorentzson, bass
Swedish Royal Opera Orchestra & Chorus
Goteborg Opera Chorus
Domingo Hindoyan, conductor
3.25pm
Raminta Serksnyte – Sakura
Swedish Radio Chorus
Latvian Radio Chamber Singers
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Chorus
Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor
Veljo Tormis – The curse of the iron
Toomas Tohert (tenor)
Olari Viikholm (bass)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Chorus
Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor
Esa-Pekka Salonen – Cello Concerto
Truls Mork (cello)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen
Presented by Tom McKinney.
FRI 16:30 Words and Music (b07z72jd)
Violins
Tara Fitzgerald and Giles Terera explore the art of the violin through the words of Yeats, Amy Lowell and Whitman, with recordings of great violinists like Heifetz and Menuhin.
Producer: Elizabeth Arno
01 WESTHOFF
Sonata for violin and continuo no.3, Imitazione delle campane
Performer: Daniel Hope (violin), Jonathan Cohen (continuo)
02
00:00:46
CONKLING
Summertime (extract VI), read by Tara Fitzgerald
03
00:01:52
WALT WHITMAN
The Tongues of Violins, read by Giles Terera
04
00:02:03 Johann Sebastian Bach
Sarabanda (Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV.1004)
Performer: Alina Ibragimova (violin)
05
00:04:03
GARRISON
Bach in the DC Subway, read by Tara Fitzgerald
06
00:06:20 GRAINGER
Free Music No.1 (for four theremins)
Performer: Lydia Kavina (theremin)
07
00:06:36
SAMUEL WARD
Stradivarius, read by Giles Terera
08
00:08:06 John Taverner
In nomine (Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas)
Performer: Fretwork
09
00:10:02 Trad.
Taksim (Lira) Improvisation
Performer: Hersperion XXI, Jordi Savall (director)
10
00:10:17
HOWARD SCHWARZ
Elijahs Violin (from Elijahs Violin and Other Jewish Fairy Tales), read by Tara Fitzgerald
11
00:12:42 Johan Svendsen
Romance in G major, Op.26 (extract)
Performer: Arthur Grumiaux (violin), New Philharmonia Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor)
12
00:00:15
GEORGE ELIOT
Stradivarius (opening extract), read by Giles Terera
13
00:18:29
AMY LOWELL
From The Cremona Violin, read by Tara Fitzgerald
14
00:19:36 Kay Thompson
I love a violin
Performer: Petula Clark (singer)
15
00:21:34 MATTHEW HINDSON
The Metallic Violins (extract)
Performer: James Cuddeford and Natsuko Yoshimoto (violins)
16
00:26:47
MAURICE FRANCiS EGAN
The Old Violin, read by Tara Fitzgerald
17
00:27:33 Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dance in E minor
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Marcel Gazelle (piano)
18
00:31:26
AGHA SHAHID ALI
Violins (Eleven Stars Over Andalusia 11.), read by Giles Terera
19
00:33:26
FERLINGHETTI
Don't Let That Horse, read by Tara Fitzgerald
20
00:34:00 DINICU arr. MONDVAY
Hora staccato for cimbalom and ensemble
Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Emilia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Victor Kopatchinsky (cimbalon), Martin Gjakonovski (double bass), Mihaela Ursuleasa (piano)
21
00:36:04
EDMONDS
Little Tommy Tiddler, read by Giles Terera and Tara Fitzgerald
22
00:36:24 KREUTZER
Etude No.2 for solo violin
Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin)
23
00:37:21
W. S. MERWIN
The Notes, read by Giles Terera
24
00:38:12
AYKE AGUS
Fanfare (Chapter 1, Heifetz As I Knew Him), read by Tara Fitzgerald
25
00:39:47 Henryk Wieniawski
Romance: Andante non troppo (Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22)
Performer: Jascha Heifetz (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Barbirolli (conductor)
26
00:44:30 JOHNNY BURKE / ERROLL GARNER
Misty
Performer: Ella Fitzgerald (singer)
27
00:47:19
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
My Sweet Brown Gal, read by Giles Terera
28
00:48:42 Klaus Schulze
Milonge
29
00:53:22
MYRA BROOKS WELCH
The Touch of the Master's Hand, read by Tara Fitzgerald
30
00:55:36
JULES FRANCOIS FELIX HUSSON (CHAMPFLEURY), trans. HELEN B. DOLE
The Faience Violin (extract), read by Giles Terera
31
00:58:32 Fritz Kreisler
Tambourin chinois, Op.3
Performer: Fritz Kreisler (violin), Franz Rupp (piano)
32
01:01:59
HAFIZ, trans. DANIEL LADINSKY
When the Violin, read by Tara Fitzgerald
33
01:01:59 LACHENMANN / AISHA ORAZBAYEVA
Toccatina / Russian song
Performer: Aisha Orazbayeva (violin)
34
01:04:45
GEORGE MEREDITH / JOHANN N. VOGL
To an Old Gypsy, read by Giles Terera and Tara Fitzgerald
35
01:06:01 ROBERT PARRETT
Irish Lament (Album: Hearing Voices)
Performer: ROBERT PARRETT
36
01:06:31
YEATS
The Fiddler of Dooney, read by Giles Terera
37
01:07:24 FIRSOVA
Moonlight over the sea (Munch Suite)
Performer: Henning Kraggerud (violin)
38
01:09:13
PATRICK LEIGH-FERMOR
The Violins of Saint-Jacques (extract), read by Tara Fitzgerald
39
01:12:00 Peter Warlock
Pavane (Capriol Suite)
Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Clio Gould (violin / director)
40
01:12:18
HARDY
At Madame Tussaud's in Victorian Years, read by Giles Terera and Tara Fitzgerald
FRI 17:45 New Generation Artists (m0001w5c)
Mozart, Schumann and Berlioz from three outgoing New Generation Artists
New Generation Artists: songs and a quartet by Mozart and a Schumann's Piano Trio are performed by three of the six outgoing artists on Radio 3's prestigious young artists' programme.
Kate Molleson presents the last programme in her winter series with performances recorded at the Edinburgh and Cheltenham International Festivals and in the BBC studios.
Berlioz Zaïde, (Bolero) Op.19 no.1
Fatma Said (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Schumann Trio no. 3 in G minor Op.110
Amatis Piano Trio
Mozart Das Veilchen, K476
Fatma Said (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Mozart String Quartet in D major, K575
Calidore Quartet
Falla Tus ojillos negros
Bizet Adieux de l'hôtesse arabe
Fatma Said (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Established nearly two decades ago, Radio 3's New Generation Artist Scheme is internationally acknowledged as the foremost scheme of its kind. It exists to offer a platform for artists at the beginning of their international careers. Each year six musicians join the scheme for two years, during which time they appear at the UK's major music festivals, enjoy dates with the BBC orchestras and have the opportunity to record in the BBC Studios. The artists are also encouraged to form artistic partnerships with one another and to explore a wide range of repertoire, not least the work of contemporary and women composers. In recent years Radio 3's New Generation Artists have appeared in festivals or concerts in Aldeburgh, Bath, Belfast, Birmingham, Buxton, Cheltenham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hay-on-Wye, Orkney, Ryedale, Southampton and Stratford-upon-Avon as well as at the BBC Proms. Typically, the artists selected will have been prize winners at major international competitions such as the Tchaikovsky, Liszt or Ferrier but the BBC New Generation Artist Scheme is not itself a prize, rather it offers a a unique two year platform on which artists can develop their prodigious talents. Not surprisingly, the list of alumni reads like a Who's Who of the most exciting musicians of the past two decades.
FRI 19:00 Proms 2018 Repeats (m0001w5f)
Prom 67 repeat: Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Another chance to hear Mahler Symphony no 3 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andris Nelsons and the mezzo soprano Susan Graham plus the CBSO Chorus and Youth Chorus.
Presented by Andrew McGregor from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Mahler Symphony No 3 in D minor
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
CBSO Chorus and CBSO Youth Chorus
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons (conductor)
Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and the CBSO Chorus perform Mahler’s Third Symphony. With its post horn calls, children's voices imitating the sound of cowbells and quotations from the Wunderhorn songs, Mahler's Third Symphony teems with the joy of heavenly love and life itself.
FRI 21:00 Proms 2018 Repeats (m0001w5h)
Prom 23 repeat: Havana Meets Kingston
Another chance to hear Havana Meets Kingston: Leading reggae and dancehall producer Mista Savona brings together some of Cuba and Jamaica's most influential musicians.
Presented by Georgia Mann from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Mista Savona, keyboard/samples
Randy Valentine, vocals
Solis, vocals
Brenda Navarrete, percussion/vocals
Julito Padrón, trumpet/vocals
Mathieu Bost, saxophone
Bopee,guitar
Rolando Luna, piano
Valery 'Valess' Assouan, bass
Manuel Garcia, drums
Australia's leading reggae and dancehall producer Mista Savona (aka Jake Savona) has gathered together some of Cuba's and Jamaica's most influential musicians to create a fresh, unifying take on the music of both cultures.
Drawing from the styles of roots reggae, dub and dancehall on the one hand and son, salsa, rumba and Afro-Cuban on the other, Havana Meets Kingston sees a top-flight group of musicians come together in an effortless meeting of genres.
Energetic and passionate vocals in Spanish, English and Jamaican patois twist and turn over distinctly Cuban rhythms and melodies, while the typically deep bass lines of Jamaica pulse beneath.
FRI 23:00 Music Planet (m0001w5k)
Chiranjeeb Chakraborty in session with Lopa Kothari
Hindustani vocalist Chiranjeeb Chakraborty in session with Lopa Kothari, performing three ragas in the studio with tabla player Manjit Singh Rasiya. For our Music Planet Road Trip we’re off on the Santiago de Compostela trail with journalist Betto Arcos to explore the music of the Galicia region in northern Spain, and this week's Mixtape has been put together by Antonis Antoniou from Cypriot band Monsieur Doumani, featuring music from Turkey, Greece and the UK.
Listen to the world - Music Planet, Radio 3's new world music show presented by Lopa Kothari and Kathryn Tickell, brings us the best roots-based music from across the globe - with live sessions from the biggest international names and the freshest emerging talent; classic tracks and new releases, and every week a bespoke Road Trip from a different corner of the globe, taking us to the heart of its music and culture. Plus special guest Mixtapes and gems from the BBC archives. Whether it's traditional Indian ragas, Malian funk, UK folk or Cuban jazz, you'll hear it on Music Planet.