SUNDAY 20 JANUARY 2019

SUN 00:00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz (m00022k8)
Michael Garrick

Pianist, composer and educator, Michael Garrick (1933-2011) blended jazz with poetry, Indian music and the church, adventure and whimsy, in cutting-edge work with the likes of Joe Harriott, Ian Carr and Norma Winstone. Geoffrey Smith picks highlights from a stellar British career.


SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m00022kb)
Haydn's London Symphony

Lausanne Chamber Orchestra perform works by Haydn and Schumann, joined by pianist Christopher Park. John Shea presents.

1:01 am
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No 8 in G, Hob. 1:8 'Le soir'
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)

1:25 am
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54
Christopher Park (piano), Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)

1:56 am
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Introduction and Allegro appassionato in G major Op 92 for piano and orchestra
Christopher Park (piano), Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)

2:12 am
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Nocturne No 20 C sharp minor Op posth. B49
Christopher Park (piano)

2:17 am
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No 104 in D major H.1.104 'London'
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)

2:44 am
Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764)
Concerto for violin and string orchestra Op 10 No 3 in D
Simon Standage (violin), Il Tempo Ensemble

3:01 am
Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
Little Suite in 15 pictures
Adam Fellegi (piano)

3:18 am
Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
Plainsong Antiphon and Magnificat
Concerto Palatino

3:37 am
Franz Berwald (1796-1868)
Piano Quintet No 1 in C minor Op 5 (1853)
Lucia Negro (piano), Zetterqvist String Quartet

4:00 am
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Overture in D major, D590, 'in the Italian style'
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Paul McCreesh (conductor)

4:09 am
Pieter Hellendaal (1721-1799)
Solo (sonata) for cello and continuo Op 5 No 1 in G major (1780)
Jaap ter Linden (cello), Ageet Zweistra (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord)

4:17 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Lucio Silla: Overture (K.135)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

4:26 am
Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
El Corpus en Sevilla from 'Iberia' (Book 1)
Plamena Mangova (piano)

4:35 am
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Pan og Syrinx Op 49 FS.87
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)

4:44 am
Victor Herbert (1859-1924)
March of the Toys (from the operetta "Babes in Toyland", 1903)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)

4:48 am
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade No 4 in F minor Op 52
Seung-Hee Hyun (piano)

5:01 am
George Frideric Handel
Water Music: Suite in G major for 'flauto piccolo' HWV 350
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)

5:11 am
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
Sonata for organ in A major Op 65 No 3
Martti Miettinen (organ)

5:22 am
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
The Four Seasons - Autumn
Davide Monti (violin), Il Tempio Armonico

5:33 am
Carl Ludwig Lithander (1773-1843)
Rondo for flute and keyboard Op 8
Mikael Helasvuo (flute), Tuija Hakkila (pianoforte)

5:41 am
Oskar Morawetz (1917-2007)
Overture on a Fairy Tale
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)

5:52 am
Luka Sorkočević (1734-1789), Frano Matušic (arranger)
Symphony No 3 in D
Dubrovnik Guitar Trio

5:59 am
Joseph Rheinberger (1839-1901)
Sonata in E flat major Op 178 for horn and piano
Martin Van der Merwe (horn), Huib Christiaanse (piano)

6:21 am
Eugen Suchoň (1908-1993)
Symfonietta Rustica (1954-55) - from 'Pictures from Slovakia'
Slovak Philharmonic, Ludovít Rajter (conductor)

6:39 am
Joseph Touchemoulin (1727-1801)
Sinfonia in C major
Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik


SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m00022nl)
Sunday - Elizabeth Alker

Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m00022nn)
Sarah Walker with Gerswhin, Schumann and Revueltas

Sarah Walker’s Sunday morning selection includes American music from Ferdé Grofé and George Gershwin. There’s earlier music from Lassus, Haydn’s Symphony No 78 in C minor, as well as music from Rossini and Schumann. This week’s Sunday Escape is Noche de Yucat by Mexican composer, violinist and conductor Silvestre Revueltas..


SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m00022nq)
Tim Firth

Tim Firth is the man behind the show that captured the nation’s heart: Calendar Girls, the true story about a Women’s Institute who produced a naked calendar. It’s been a film, a play, and is now a musical.

He’s also responsible for the hugely successful film Kinky Boots, as well as multi-award winning TV shows, films and more musicals including Neville’s Island, The Flint Street Nativity, Preston Front, and most recently The Band, a collaboration with his long-time friend Gary Barlow and Take That.

But surprisingly there are no songs from musical theatre in Tim’s choices for Private Passions. Instead he shares with Michael Berkeley his love of Baroque, with music from Bach and from Albinoni (first heard on his honeymoon), and he chooses music by Delius and by Copland that resonates with the folk music he loved as a child.

Tim talks movingly about the emotional impact of music in his life, whether it’s writing the perfect song for a show or being spellbound by hearing Gorecki for the first time in a forest in the Lake District.

Producer: Jane Greenwood
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3


SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m00020rq)
Wigmore Hall Mondays: Juilliard String Quartet

From Wigmore Hall, London. The Juilliard String Quartet from New York give the European premiere of 'One Hundred Years Grows Shorter Over Time' by American composer Lembit Beecher, and Dvořák's F major Quartet, Op. 96, a chamber-music counterpart to his New World Symphony and known as his 'American' Quartet.

Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Lembit Beecher: One Hundred Years Grows Shorter Over Time (European premiere)
Dvořák: String Quartet in F, Op 96 (American)

Juilliard String Quartet


SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m00022ns)
William Hayes's Fall of Jericho

18th-century composer William Hayes' oratorio “The Fall of Jericho” was all but forgotten until it was rediscovered fairly recently and a new performing edition made. Hayes was born and grew up in Gloucester and was a well-respected composer in his day. He helped to set up the Holywell Music Room in Oxford, and his music was often performed there to sell-out crowds. Sadly, he's now virtually unheard of. Lucie Skeaping talks to Hayes fan Simon Heighes about the piece and its composer.


SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m00021kd)
Chelmsford Cathedral

From Chelmsford Cathedral.

Introit: Cana’s Guest (Richard Allain)
Responses: Sanders
Psalms 82, 83, 84, 85 (Howells, Goss, Parry, Gauntlett)
First Lesson: Exodus 15 vv.1-19
Canticles: New College Service (Howells)
Second Lesson: Colossians 2 vv.8-15
Anthems: Lully, Lulla, Lullay (Philip Stopford)
Hymn: Songs of thankfulness and praise (St Edmund)
Voluntary: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BuxWV 223 (Buxtehude)

Laurence Lyndon-Jones (Director of the Girls’ Choir)
James Davy (Organist)


SUN 16:00 Choir and Organ (m00022nv)
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces this week's selection of irresistible music for voices including Dvorak's jubilant setting of Psalm 149, Walton's Belshazzar's Feast and some contrasting reflections on snow.

Produced in Cardiff by Johannah Smith


SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m00027s0)
Classical Icons

As BBC 2's epic history series Icons is underway, Tom Service takes a closer look at four icons of the classical music world: Maria Callas, Nigel Kennedy, Jacqueline du Pré, and Luciano Pavarotti. With the help of opera critic Anna Picard Tom asks whether these icons are born or whether they're made, and what factors (beyond great artistry and talent) are at play in the making of an icon.


SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m00022nz)
The Pre-Raphaelites

“They meant revolt, and produced revolution”: that's how one critic described the group of late 19th-century artists, poets and writers who came to be known as the Pre-Raphaelites. Actors Jamie Glover and Skye Hallam read words by the Pre-Raphaelites themselves, alongside the sources and subject matter that so fascinated them. Our journey through their artistic universe takes us from Malory’s Arthurian legends and the love poetry of Dante Alighieri in the 13th century, to the sometimes coruscating reviews of Victorian contemporaries like Charles Dickens.

Pre-Raphaelite art is full of woeful maidens with flowing hair, and many suggest that the real women who posed for the likes of Rossetti and Millais were exploited. We'll hear the death of Ophelia described by Shakespeare's Gertrude alongside poetry by Elizabeth Siddal, the celebrated muse who posed for Millais' painting Ophelia, spending days on end fully clothed in a bath full of freezing water.

Musically, we start with Gilbert and Sullivan's Overture to Patience, an operetta that included a character satirising the ever-so-slightly pompous Pre-Raphaelites. There’s also the glistening sound of Debussy's cantata La Damoiselle élue (The Blessed Damozel), based on Rossetti's poem of the same name, and a song from modern-day Pre-Raphaelite Florence Welch.

We finish with words by the only female member of the Pre-Raphaelite clan, Christina Rossetti, musing on how a painter's gaze always renders “One face” looking “out from all his canvases”. That's set against Martha Wainwright's heart breaking song Proserpina, bringing to mind Rossetti’s famous painting of Proserpine – a captive goddess looking out of the Pre-Raphaelite canvas.

01 Gilbert and Sullivan
Extract from Patience, Overture
Performer: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra, John Owen Edwards (conductor)
Duration 00:00:01

02
William Michael Rossetti
Extract from Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art read by Jamie Glover
Duration 00:00:01

03
The Times, 1851
Extract from The Times May 7th 1851 read by Skye Hallam
Duration 00:00:01

04 00:00:02
Malory
Extract from Le Morte D'Arthur, King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table read by Jamie Glover
Duration 00:00:01

05 00:00:02 Purcell
King Arthur; or, The British Worthy Z628: Overture
Performer: Parley of Instruments, Roy Goodman (conductor)
Duration 00:00:03

06 00:00:07
Tennyson
Extract from The Lady of Shalott read by Skye Hallam
Duration 00:00:01

07 00:00:08 Bliss
Extract from The Lady of Shalott, The Funeral Cortege and The Entry of Lancelot
Performer: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Arthur Bliss (conductor)
Duration 00:00:01

08 00:00:08 Florence Welch and Isabel Summers
The Dog Days Are Over
Performer: Florence Welch (vocals), Robert Ackroyd (guitar), Tom Monger (harp)
Duration 00:00:03

09 00:00:13
Christina Rossetti
Extract from The Convent Threshold read by Skye Hallam
Duration 00:00:03

10 00:00:14 Felix Mendelssohn
Lift Thine Eyes from Elijah
Performer: Renee Fleming (soprano), Libby Crabtree (soprano), Patricia Bardon (mezzo soprano), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Paul Daniel (conductor)
Duration 00:00:01

11 00:00:16
Keats
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad read by Jamie Glover
Duration 00:00:02

12 00:00:18 Sciarrino
Caprice pour violin, Andante
Performer: Marco Rogliano (violin)
Duration 00:00:02

13 00:00:20 Anon
Italiana for Lute
Performer: Paul O’Dette
Duration 00:00:01

14 00:00:21
Dante Alighieri translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Extract from La Vita Nuova read by Jamie Glover
Duration 00:00:01

15 00:00:22 Claude Debussy
Extract from La Damoiselle Elue
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Duration 00:00:04

16 00:00:26 Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures from an exhibition for piano; Limoges (Le marche)
Performer: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
Duration 00:00:01

17 00:00:26
Charles Dickens
Extract from a review in Household Words of Millais’ Painting ‘Christ in the House of his Parents’ read by Jamie Glover
Duration 00:00:01

18 00:00:28 Igor Stravinsky
Extract from The Rite of Spring, Part 1 (Adoration of the Earth)
Performer: Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)
Duration 00:00:03

19 00:00:28
Sappho translated by Stanley Lombardo
Fragment 16 read by Skye Hallam
Duration 00:00:03

20 00:00:32
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Extract from Sapphics read by Jamie Glover
Duration 00:00:03

21 00:00:32 Claude Debussy
Extract from Nocturnes for orchestra, no.3; Sirenes [with female chorus]
Performer: Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Pierre Boulez (conductor)
Duration 00:00:01

22 00:00:33 Strauss
Extract from Der Rosenkavalier: Act 3 Conclusion
Performer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig (mezzo soprano), Rita Stich-Randall (mezzo soprano), Philharmonia, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
Duration 00:00:04

23 00:00:38
Robert Buchanen
Extract from The Fleshly School of Poetry from The Contemporary Review - October 1871 read by Skye Hallam
Duration 00:00:04

24 00:00:38 Imogen Holst
The Fall Of The Leaf: Poco Adagio
Performer: Oliver Coates (cello)
Duration 00:00:02

25 00:00:39
Christina Rossetti
Extract from Goblin Market read by Jamie Glover
Duration 00:00:02

26 00:00:41 Träd
The Rose and the Lily
Performer: Eliza Carthy and Norma Waterson with The Gift Band
Duration 00:00:06

27 00:00:47
Jeanette Winterson
Extract from Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit read by Skye Hallam
Duration 00:00:01

28 00:00:48 Gracie Fields
Lancashire Blues
Performer: Gracie Fields
Duration 00:00:03

29 00:00:52 Oliver Knussen
Extract from Ophelia’s Last Dance, Op. 32
Performer: Ryan Wigglesworth (piano)
Duration 00:00:02

30 00:00:53
Shakespeare
Extract from Shakespeare’s Hamlet Act 4 Scene 7 read by Skye Hallam
Duration 00:00:01

31 00:00:54 Camille Saint‐Saëns
La mort d'Ophélie
Performer: Isabelle Druet and Anne Le Bozec
Duration 00:00:03

32 00:00:58
John Updike
Extract from Gertrude And Claudius read by Skye Hallam
Duration 00:00:01

33 00:00:59 Brett Dean
String Quartet No.2 "And once I played Ophelia" First movement
Performer: Alison Bell, Doric Quartet
Duration 00:00:02

34 00:01:02
Elizabeth Siddal
The Lust of the Eyes read by Jamie Glover
Duration 00:00:02

35 00:01:03 Felix Mendelssohn
Lieder ohne Worte - book 2 (Op.30), no.1; Andante espressivo in E flat major
Performer: Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Duration 00:00:04

36 00:01:07
Christina Rossetti
In an Artist's Studio read by Skye Hallam
Duration 00:00:04

37 00:01:08 Kate McGarrigle
Prosperpina
Performer: Martha Wainwright (vocals), Kathleen Weldon, Lily Lanken, Sylvan Lanken (Backing Vocals), Erik Friedlander (cello), Tom Mennier (piano), Michael Leonhart (trumpet)
Duration 00:00:04


SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m00022p1)
Afterwords: Susan Sontag

In our new series 'Afterwords', we explore the ideas of great writers in their own words - as archive recordings in which they articulate their approach interweave with the thoughts of contemporary writers, academics and activists.

Through the '60s and '70s up to her death in 2004, Susan Sontag was the embodiment of the fashionable, metropolitan, 'public intellectual'. Her writings on 'camp', on photography, on illness (she survived and then died from cancer at a time when the C word was almost taboo) and the suffering of others, together with her activism and her art, came to be shared with millions through the medium for which she had very little time as a viewer - television. And her radio interviews on the BBC and elsewhere cemented her reputation.

With contributions from her West Coast friend and scholar Terry Castle, the war correspondent Allan Little who got to know her well during the Siege of Sarajevo, the writer and broadcaster Lisa Appignanesi who achieved a rare intimacy in one interview for Night Waves, Andrew Bolton (curator of a forthcoming exhibition called 'Camp: Notes on Fashion' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York), the journalist, critic and Sontag 'fan-boy' Boyd Tonkin and the writer Elif Şafak who continues to work in Sontag's long shadow, we take a close listen to the American writer and examine her legacy.

(Including archive from Studs Terkel Radio Archive, courtesy Chicago History Museum and WFMT Radio Network.)

Produced Alia Cassam and Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3


SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m00022p3)
Arden of Faversham

In 1551 in Tudor England, Alice and her lover Mosby conspire with hired killers to murder Alice's husband Arden. This anonymous play is the first example of a brutal true crime story on the English stage and resonates with our contemporary fascination with all things 'noir'. Based closely on Holinshed's detailed account of the murder, it was first published in 1592.

Arden ..... Ewan Bailey
Alice ..... Amaka Okafor
Mosby ..... Samuel James
Michael ..... Tom Forrister
Greene ..... Simon Ludders
Franklin ..... Philip Fox
Black Will ..... Ben Crowe
Shakebag ..... Sion Pritchard
Clarke ..... Ryan Whittle
Lord Cheiny ..... John Telfer
Bradshaw ..... John Norton
Susan ..... Olivia Marcus

Original music composed by Lucy Rivers
Musicians: James Ifan, Hannah McPake, Dan Messore, Mark O'Connor, Elin Phillips, Lucy Rivers & Aidan Thorne

Adapted and directed by Alison Hindell

BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 3


SUN 21:15 Radio 3 in Concert (m00022p5)
Lully from Merseburg Festival 2018

The best concerts from Europe. Kate Molleson presents a performance by Collegium Vocale Leipzig and the Merserburger Hofmusik with their director Michael Schönheit as part of the 2018 Merseburg Organ Festival.

Lully
Plaude laetare Gallia, LWV 37
Te Deum, LWV 55
Collegium Vocale Leipzig
Merserburger Hofmusik
Michael Schönheit


SUN 22:00 Early Music Late (m00022p7)
London Calling: violin works from the Baroque capital

Beautiful and unusual works spanning two centuries by Byrd, Geminiani, Babell, Matteis, Eccles, given by Ilia Korol (violin) and Jermaine Sprosse (harpsichord). London has always drawn artists and musicians to its cultural heart, and perhaps especially so in the Baroque era. German-born Handel spent most of his career in the English capital, and not only composed his finest works but also influenced notable local musicians such as William Babell. Such successes attracted musicians from other English cities, as well as places as far-flung as Italy. But it wasn't all grand gestures - this concert presents works for smaller ensembles and drawing rooms, by turns florid, intimate and fun.


SUN 23:00 Percussion Century (m00022p9)
Going solo

Crash, bang, wallop?

No! Colin Currie suggests you think again as he embarks on a journey of sonic exploration. In this episode, percussion is truly set free as Colin chooses some of the most innovative, exquisite and powerful music written for percussion over the past century.

When thirteen percussionists lined up on stage in New York in 1933 to play Ionisation by Edgar Varèse, solo percussion music was firmly planted on the musical map. Composers and performers suddenly became aware of the huge expressive potential of a family of instruments that had previously been used primarily for rhythmic accompaniment and occasional sound effects.

In the decades that followed many more composers started writing for percussion ensembles and soloists, allowing musicians like Colin to thrive. He’ll be introducing a piece played on tuned metal pipes, music for huge multi-percussion set-ups, and the sound of one of the most beautiful and versatile of all percussion instruments, the marimba. Plus an entertaining solo from the jazz master Buddy Rich.

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3