San Francisco Symphony at the 2015 BBC Proms perform Schoenberg, Cowell and Mahler. John Shea presents.
Jeremy Denk (piano), San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
Constanze's aria "Martern aller Arten" from 'Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Act 2
Charlotte Margiono (soprano), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
Hana Blazikova (soprano), Kamila Mazalova (contralto), Vaclav Cizek (tenor), Tomáš Král (bass), Jaromír Nosek (bass), Collegium Vocale 1704, Collegium 1704
Concerto for 2 horns and orchestra in E flat (K.
Jozef Illéš (horn), Jan Budzák (horn), Chamber Association of Slovakian Radio, Vlastimil Horák (conductor)
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Tuesday with Suzy Klein - Vaughan Williams's Sinfonia antartica, Anoushka Shankar, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
1010 Our Classical Century - 100 key moments in the last century of classical music.
1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar
Debbie Wiseman has over two hundred credits for her music, ranging from television and film, to the concert hall and music for royal pageantry. Not only is she a multi-award winning composer, but also a pianist and conductor, often performing in and recording her own works. Wiseman also works as a Visiting Professor at a number of academic institutions including the Royal College of Music. As a composer for the concert hall, Wiseman has collaborated with Hayley Westenra, Stephen Fry, Nigel Havers, Vanessa Redgrave and Alan Titchmarsh. She has provided music for two royal anniversaries, including the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrated on the river Thames. Donald Macleod visits Debbie Wiseman at her home in London to discuss her long and varied career.
Today, they discuss Debbie's forays into music education. Wiseman attended Trinity College, Morley College and the Guildhall in London, and each of these institutions left a lasting impression. Today she enjoys giving lectures and masterclasses to students of her own. Wiseman also discusses the commission she received to compose a new version of the Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.
This week we have a chance to hear little-performed chamber music & songs, sung by star Swedish lyric soprano Hillevi Martinpelto, by pioneering 19th-century Swedish women composers including Valborg Aulin, Alice Tegnér, Helena Munktell & Hélène Tham. Alice Tegnér found fame in the great many children’s songs that she composed which were exceedingly popular and many of them are still central to the Swedish children’s song tradition, while Helena Munktell studied in Paris under Émile Durand & Vincent d'Indy and was the first Swedish woman to write an opera. The centrepiece of today's recital is the 1846 Piano Trio by Clara Schumann which sparkles with intensity & virtuosity.
Valborg Aulin - Elegy, op. 8/3, for violin and piano
Clara Schumann - Piano Trio in G minor, op. 17
We welcome the 33-year old Finnish-Ukranian, Dalia Stasevska, principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the opening concert of the afternoon: works by Magnus Lindberg, Dmitry Kabalevsky and Bela Bartok. Soprano, Rachel Nicholls performs, The Crimson Bird, the shocking and consoling work Nicola LeFanu wrote for her to a text by John Fuller. The afternoon ends with Strauss’s glorious Symphony for Wind Instruments "Fröhliche Werkstatt".
Dmitry Kabalevsky: Concerto no. 1 in G minor Op.49 for cello and orchestra
Live music from pianist Nikolai Lugansky who performs with Oslo Philharmonic’s UK tour as part of their 100th anniversary celebrations (6-10 March) and early music ensemble Florilegium as they prepare for their concert at London's Wigmore Hall where they'll present works by composers who were in the employ of Frederick the Great of Prussia in the 18th century. And Sean meets conductor Valery Gergiev ahead of his concert with the Mariinsky Orchestra.
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites, lesser-known gems, and a few surprises. The perfect way to usher in your evening.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sakari Oramo, explores the enigmatic and magical music of the Hungarian composer. Including Atmosphères and the Violin and Piano Concertos.
Recorded at the Barbican, London on Saturday 2nd March.
Some of Ligeti's greatest works come together for the final concert in the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Total Immersion day. Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo and the Orchestra are joined by Grammy Award-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich for the wild, generous invention of the Violin Concerto, while Nicolas Hodges is soloist in the horseplay and dreamy brilliances of the Piano Concerto. The textural, densely patterned experiments of Atmosphères (famously used in Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey), Clocks and Clouds (with upper voices of the BBC Singers), and San Francisco Polyphony complete this wacky programme.
The photographers, David Bailey and Don McCullin, came to prominence in the 1960s but their pictures did more than define a decade. Don McCullin's work in Vietnam, Biafra, Northern Ireland, Cyprus and the Middle East have come to epitomise what we mean by war photography and David Bailey's portraits of Jean Shrimpton, Mick Jagger and Catherine Deneuve established a new idiom for glamour. Yet fame has tended to obscure the full range of both men's work. Bailey, for example, has produced a huge volume of images conjuring up a spectral London as well as his portraits while McCulllin has infused the Somerset levels where he now lives with a haunted beauty. As Philip Dodd discovered when he visited David Bailey in his studio and caught up with Don McCullin on the eve of his Tate show both men have vivid memories of the Blitz and were transformed by their experience of National Service.
Don McCullin is on show at Tate Britain until May 6th 2019.
David Bailey: The Sixties is on show at Gagosian Gallery, Davies Street in London until March 30th.
Comedian and author Viv Groskop explores five forgotten feminist futures.
Episode 2/5: Mizora: A Prophecy, the nineteenth century narrative written by author Mary E Bradley, who didn’t want her husband to find out that she was writing about a world without men.
The first-ever Late Junction Festival came into the world last week - two nights of music from leading lights of the left-field, presented on stage at EartH in East London by our triple-threat: Verity Sharp, Max Reinhardt and Nick Luscombe.
Tonight, highlights from the first night. Electronic artist Gazelle Twin has developed a unique voice in the British musical landscape. Her latest LP Pastoral digs deep into the English psyche, channelling its darkness and lacing it with satire, all performed in a costume which is half court jester, half football hooligan.
Drummer Seb Rochford’s new band Pulled By Magnets perform their first major venue with a set of new songs exploring the margins of composed and improvised music. The group features his long-time collaborator, saxophonist Pete Wareham (Polar Bear, Acoustic Ladyland) and bass-player, Neil Charles.
Produced by Chris Elcombe.
WEDNESDAY 06 MARCH 2019
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m0002zv1)
Mozart and Beethoven at the piano
Kristian Bezuidenhout performs Mozart and Beethoven Piano Sonatas on fortepiano. Presented by John Shea.
12:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Rondo in C, Op 51, No 1
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
12:36 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Rondo in G, Op 51, No 2
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
12:45 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No 7 in D major, Op 10, No 3
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
01:07 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata No 13 in B flat major, K333
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
01:28 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op 13, 'Pathétique'
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
01:44 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony No 6 in C major, D.589
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Peka Saraste (conductor)
02:16 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Lennox Berkeley (orchestrator)
Flute Sonata
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Enrique Garcia-Asensio (conductor)
02:31 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47
Judy Kang (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Jean-François Rivest (conductor)
03:06 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Gentle Morpheus, son of night (Calliope's song) from Alceste
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director)
03:15 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major, BWV 1068
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivor Bolton (conductor)
03:36 AM
Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
Hornpipe (Miniatures, Set 3 No 2)
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
03:39 AM
August de Boeck (1865-1937)
Dahomeyse Rapsodie (1893)
Vlaams Radio Orkest [Flemish Radio Orchestra], Marc Soustrot (conductor)
03:44 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Nocturne in C minor, Op 48, No 1
Llŷr Williams (piano)
03:51 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Abendempfindung K523
Elly Ameling (soprano), Jörg Demus (piano)
03:56 AM
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904), Antonín Dvořák (orchestrator)
Legend in C major, Op 59, No 4
Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Štefan Róbl (conductor)
04:03 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Symphony in E flat, Wq 179
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
04:16 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
La Poule (Nouvelles suites de Clavecin)
Andreas Borregaard (accordion)
04:22 AM
Henry Charles Litolff (1818-1891)
Scherzo - Concerto Symphonique No.4, Op 102
Arthur Ozolins (piano), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
04:31 AM
Johannes Bernardus van Bree (1801-1857)
Le Bandit (Overture)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (conductor)
04:38 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Keyboard Sonata in C major, Hob.
16.48
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
04:50 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Muhseligenm Op 74, part 1
Grex Vocalis, Carl Høgset (director)
04:55 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
In the South 'Alassio', Op 50
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
05:18 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Divertimento in B flat major, K 137
Orchestra Libera Classica, Hidemi Suzuki (conductor)
05:31 AM
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Romance Op 85
Adrien Boisseau (viola), Polish Sinfonia luventus Orchestra, José Maria Florêncio (conductor)
05:41 AM
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90 'Italian'
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
06:09 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Sonata No 7 for 2 violins in E minor, Z796
Simon Standage (violin), Ensemble Il Tempo
06:17 AM
Francesco Durante (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto No 2 in G minor
Concerto Koln
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m0002zvf)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical alternative
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m0002zvh)
Wednesday with Suzy Klein - Anoushka Shankar, Bach's Erbarme dich (St Matthew Passion), Kathleen Ferrier
Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Our Classical Century - 100 key moments in the last century of classical music.
1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0002zvk)
Debbie Wiseman
Music and Pictures
Donald Macleod talks to Debbie Wiseman about composing for the screen.
Debbie Wiseman has over two hundred credits for her music, ranging from television and film, to the concert hall and music for royal pageantry. Not only is she a multi-award winning composer, but also a pianist and conductor, often performing in and recording her own works. Wiseman also works as a Visiting Professor at a number of academic institutions including the Royal College of Music. As a composer for the concert hall, Wiseman has collaborated with Hayley Westenra, Stephen Fry, Nigel Havers, Vanessa Redgrave and Alan Titchmarsh. She has provided music for two royal anniversaries, including the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrated on the river Thames. Donald Macleod visits Debbie Wiseman at her home in London to discuss her long and varied career.
Today, Donald and Debbie discuss her approach to writing music for film and television. They talk about the joys and challenges of collaborating with directors and how music and storytelling work together. They also shine the spotlight on a different kind of musical narrative, in her work for narrator and orchestra, the Ugly Duckling.
Lighthouse (The Easiest Killing)
Studio Orchestra
Debbie Wiseman, conductor
The Promise (excerpts)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Debbie Wiseman, conductor
Warriors (excerpts)
Studio Singers and Orchestra
Debbie Wiseman, conductor
Edie (excerpts)
National Symphony Orchestra
Debbie Wiseman, conductor
The Ugly Duckling
Nigel Havers, narrator
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Debbie Wiseman, conductor
Produced by Luke Whitlock, for BBC Wales
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0002zvm)
Swedish Radio Showcase: Women Composers
Bonis, Musgrave, Netzel, Mendelssohn
Chamber music by Swedish, French and Scottish women composers plus an orchestration of Fanny Mendelssohn's powerful string quartet by the director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Malin Broman, recorded in performances in Stockholm last year.
Presented by Andrew McGregor.
Mel Bonis - Piano Trio, op. 76 ('Soir et matin')
Cecilia Zilliacus, violin
Kati Raitinen, cello
Bengt Forsberg, piano
Thea Musgrave - From Spring to Spring, for marimba
Mika Takehara, percussion
Laura Netzel - Tarantelle, for violin and piano
Iskandar Komilov, violin
Maria Rostotsky, piano
Fanny Mendelssohn - String Quartet in E flat, arranged for string orchestra
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Malin Broman, violin and musical direction
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0002zvp)
Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields
The BBC Singers and Bang on a Can All-Stars, conducted by Tecwyn Evans, perform the oratorio Anthracite Fields by the American composer Julia Wolfe. It was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music. It commemorates the history of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Coal Region and it has been described as "an unforgettably haunting, harrowing evocation of the plight of Pennsylvania's coal miners, incorporating many musical styles and effectively shadowy visuals." Plus Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Bax’s tone poem, The Garden of Fand, inspired by the Irish Celtic sea goddess Fand.
Presented by Kate Molleson
Julia Wolfe: Anthracite Fields
BBC Singers
Bang on a Can All-Stars
Tecwyn Evans (conductor)
3.10pm
Bax: The Garden of Fand
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (m0002zvr)
St John's College, Cambridge
Live from the Chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge, on Ash Wednesday.
Responses: Byrd
Psalm 51: Miserere Mei, Deus (Allegri)
First Lesson: Isaiah 1 vv.10-18
Canticles: The Short Service (Weelkes)
Second Lesson: Luke 15 vv.11-32
Anthem: Ne irascaris, Domine (Byrd)
Voluntary: Prelude in E minor, BWV 548i (Bach)
Andrew Nethsingha (Director of Music)
James Anderson-Besant (Junior Organ Scholar)
WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m0002zvt)
Elisabeth Brauss and Eivid Ringstad
New Generation Artists: Elisabeth Brauss plays Chopin and Eivind Ringstad plays Arthur Benjamin.
Current NGA, Elisabeth Brauss, from Hannover, has quickly made a name for herself among her peers both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. Today we also hear from recent NGA Eivind Ringstad in a rarity by the Australian-born Arthur Benjamin, once famous for his Jamaican Rumba.
Arthur Benjamin: Viola Sonata
Eivind Ringstad (viola), David Meier (piano)
Chopin: Scherzo in B minor, Op 20
Elisabeth Brauss (piano)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m0002zvw)
Jennifer Pike, Nicola Lefanu, Josep Ramon Olive
Live performances from violinist Jennifer Pike who performs with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
in Crawley, Sheffield, Reading and Aylesbury on the 7th-10th March. We also hear from Spanish baritone Josep Ramon Olivé, who showcases a recital at the Barbican Hall on the 8th March as part of the Europe-wide ECHO Rising Stars series. And looking ahead to International Women's Day we are also joined by composer Nicola Lefanu to discuss ‘This woman’s work’ projects and upcoming concert at Stoller Hall on Friday 8th March.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0002zvy)
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites, lesser-known gems, and a few surprises. The perfect way to usher in your evening.
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0002zw0)
Madonna of Silence
The world premiere of John Casken's Trombone concerto, performed by Katy Jones and the Halle conducted by Jamie Phillips. Mark Forrest presents.
Programme:
Mozart: Symphony No.31, ‘Paris’
John Casken: Madonna of Silence (trombone concerto)
Prokofiev: Symphony No.5
Katy Jones (trombone)
Jamie Phillips (conductor)
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b09tml77)
Landmark: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
How self-revealing and frank should a writer be? Lara Feigel, David Aaronovitch, Melissa Benn and Xiaolu Guo join Matthew Sweet to look at the life of Doris Lessing and her 1962 novel in which she explores difficult love, life, war, politics and dreams.
Inspired by her re-reading of Doris Lessing, Lara Feigel has written a revealing book which is part memoir part biography called "Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing". It is out in paperback.
Melissa Benn's books include Mother and Child, One of Us and School Wars
David Aaronovitch is the author of Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists and a former winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Journalism.
Xiaolu Guo has written a memoir Once Upon a Time in the East, and novels including UFO in Her Eyes, and Lovers In the Age of Indifference.
Producer: Fiona McLean
(Photo: Front: Xiaolu Guo, Matthew Sweet, Lara Feigel, standing: Adjoa Andoh, Melissa Benn, David Aaronovitch).
WED 22:45 The Essay (m0002zw4)
Forgotten Feminist Futures
Herland
Comedian and author Viv Groskop explores five forgotten feminist futures; from the book that predicted the internet to the world where men have been wiped out in a gender-specific plague.
Episode 3/5: Herland by Charlotte Gilman Perkins. The story of three gentleman explorers, who get purposefully lost on an expedition in the hope of stumbling across an all-women tribe.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (m0002zw6)
Late Junction Festival - Hen Ogledd and Chaines
The jamboree continues with more live music from the first night of the Late Junction Festival, which took place last week.
Hen Ogledd is a band that features singer Richard Dawson and harpist Rhodri Davies, and they bring a discombobulating mix of psych-pop, medieval lore and improvisation to the party. Joining them on the billing is Manchester-based musician Chaines, performing their fantastical electro-acoustic compositions live on stage at EartH in East London.
Verity Sharp presents, weaving in music from the big, wide world along the way, including a new release from Norwegian vocalist and composer Maja Ratke.
Produced by Chris Elcombe.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
THURSDAY 07 MARCH 2019
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m0002zw8)
Do not adjust your ears
Microtonal chamber music from the 1920s and 30s avant-garde. With John Shea.
12:31 AM
Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893-1979)
24 Preludes dans l'échelle chromatique (excerpts)
Ivan Siller (piano), Frantisek Kiraly (piano)
01:00 AM
Július Kowalski (1912-2003)
Violin Partita in Sixth-tone System (1936)
Milan Pal'a (violin)
01:09 AM
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Three Quarter-Tone Pieces (1923-1924)
Ivan Siller (piano), Frantisek Kiraly (piano)
01:23 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Gloria in D major, RV.589
Ann Monoyios (soprano), Matthew White (counter tenor), Colin Ainsworth (tenor), Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
01:52 AM
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op 70
Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
02:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto No 1 in C major, Op 15
Barry Douglas (piano), Camerata Ireland
03:05 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
String Quartet No 13 in A minor, D804, 'Rosamunde'
Artemis Quartet
03:42 AM
John Foulds (1880-1939)
An Arabian Night (1936-7)
Cynthia Fleming (violin), Katharine Wood (cello), BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
03:48 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Petite Suite
Royal Academy of Music Brass Soloists
03:56 AM
Manuel Maria Ponce (1882-1948)
Guitar Preludes, Nos 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
04:04 AM
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837-1910)
Overture on Russian themes
Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenárd (conductor)
04:13 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Franz Liszt (transcriber)
Standchen, D957
Simon Trpceski (piano)
04:20 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Oboe Concerto in G minor
Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe), Camerata Köln
04:31 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Overture (Agrippina); 'Son contenta di morire' (Radamisto)
Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
04:39 AM
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann for piano in F sharp minor, Op 20
Angela Cheng (piano)
04:49 AM
Stanisław Moniuszko (1819-1872)
Flis ('The Raftsman') (Overture)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Salwarowski (conductor)
04:58 AM
Kaspar Förster (1616-1673)
Beatus vir , KBPJ 3
Marta Boberska (soprano), Kai Wessel (counter tenor), Grzegorz Zychowicz (bass), Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble
05:07 AM
Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889)
Le Carnaval de Venise
Vilém Hofbauer (trumpet), Miroslava Trnková (piano)
05:15 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Violin Sonata in A major (Essercizii Musici)
Camerata Köln
05:25 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Trio in B flat major, Op 11
Thomas Norup Jensen (clarinet), Henrik Brendstrup (cello), Jørgen Larsen (piano)
05:46 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Preludes (excerpts books 1 & 2)
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
06:07 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Pini di Roma - symphonic poem
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m0002zfs)
Thursday - Petroc's classical mix
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m0002zfv)
Thursday with Suzy Klein - Essential Classics Playlist, Walton's Orb and Sceptre, Anoushka Shankar
Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Our Classical Century - 100 key moments in the last century of classical music.
1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0002zfx)
Debbie Wiseman
Music for Public Spaces
Donald Macleod and Debbie Wiseman discuss the challenges of composing for royal events.
Debbie Wiseman has over two hundred credits for her music, ranging from television and film, to the concert hall and music for royal pageantry. Not only is she a multi-award winning composer, but also a pianist and conductor, often performing in and recording her own works. Wiseman also works as a Visiting Professor at a number of academic institutions including the Royal College of Music. As a composer for the concert hall, Wiseman has collaborated with Hayley Westenra, Stephen Fry, Nigel Havers, Vanessa Redgrave and Alan Titchmarsh. She has provided music for two royal anniversaries. Donald Macleod visits Debbie Wiseman at her home in London to discuss her long and varied career.
Today Donald and Debbie talk about her work away from the big screen, including her music for the Queen’s 90th birthday, and the piece she composed to be performed on a barge in the middle of the river Thames, as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Wiseman also discusses her collaboration with gardener, Alan Titchmarsh on her concert work, The Glorious Garden.
Quiet Room
Debbie Wiseman, piano
Gigue
Ensemble H20
Debbie Wiseman, conductor
The 90th Birthday Celebration Suite (excerpts)
National Symphony Orchestra
Debbie Wiseman, conductor
The Glorious Garden (excerpts)
Alan Titchmarsh, narrator
National Symphony Orchestra
Debbie Wiseman, conductor
Tom’s Midnight Garden (excerpts)
Studio Orchestra
Debbie Wiseman, conductor
Produced by Luke Whitlock, for BBC Wales
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0002zg0)
Swedish Radio Showcase: Women Composers
Tarrodi, Bronsart, Peyron, Maier-Rontgen
Chamber music by Swedish women composers from the 18th to the 21st century including Ingeborg von Bronsart, Amanda Maier-Röntgen & the award-winning 37 year old Andrea Tarrodi. In today's varied programme, Hillevi Martinpelto sings Ingeborg von Bronsart's setting of Heinrich Heine in "Die Loreley". Tarrodi's "Empíreo" was inspired by Isaac Grünewald´s ceiling painting in the Stockholm Concert Hall, the venue of the concert. From the Medieval Latin, empyreus is the place in the highest heaven or outermost heavenly sphere of ancient and medieval cosmology, which was often thought to contain or be composed of the element of fire. To close the series, the premiere of Amanda Maier-Röntgen's Piano Trio. Unlike her violin sonata & concerto, the trio seems never to have received a public performance in her lifetime. It wasn't until 2016 that her descendants in Amsterdam found the scores among her surviving papers, so the trio can now be performed publicly for the first time.
Presented by Andrew McGregor
Andrea Tarrodi - Empíreo (2011), for strings, harp and percussion
Håkan Ehrén, double bass
Laura Stephenson, harp
Daniel Kåse, percussion
Ingeborg von Bronsart - Die Loreley
Hillevi Martinpelto, soprano
Michael Engström, piano
Ika Peyron - Böljeslag (Dashing of Waves)
from the suite ‘I det fria’ (In the Open Air)
Michael Engström, piano
Amanda Maier-Röntgen - Piano Trio in E flat (Premiere)
Cecilia Zilliacus, violin
Kati Raitinen, cello
Bengt Forsberg, piano
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0002zg3)
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre's Cephale et Procris
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre was a child prodigy and performed on the harpsichord at a young age before the French king, Louis XIV. She was one of the few well-known female composers of her time, and today we hear her 1694 opera Céphale et Procris, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique. This five-act tragédie lyrique was the first opera written by a woman in France.
The afternoon ends with works by Sally Beamish and Bartok
Presented by Kate Molleson
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Céphale et Procris
Procris.....Raphaele Kennedy (Soprano)
Cephale.....Achim Schultz (Counter-tenor)
Dorine.....Camilla De Falleiro (Soprano)
Arcas.....Lisandro Abadie (Bass)
Boree / La Desespoir.....Emil Rovner (Bass)
Priestess / Iphis.....Anna Jesus Sanchez (Soprano)The
L'Aurore.....Mariana Flores (Soprano)
La Volupte.....Gry Elisabeth Knudsen (Soprano)
A Thracian.....Kazuko Nakano (Alto)
Rage.....Alex Potter (Counter-tenor)
Jealousy.....Daniel Issa Goncalves (Tenor)
The King.....Erich Bieri (Bass)
Musica Fiorita
Daniela Dolci (director)
4.00pm
Sally Beamish: The Singing – Accordion Concerto
James Crabb (accordion)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
4.20pm
Bartok: Divertimento for Strings
BBC Symphony Orchestra Strings
Gergely Madaras (conductor)
THU 17:00 In Tune (m0002zg5)
Joseph Middleton & Fatma Said, The English Concert with Christian Curnyn, Ben Gernon
Joseph Middleton & Fatma Said perform live in the studio and tell us about The Pembroke Festival of Voice taking place from the 8th-10th March. We are also joined by members of The English Concert and Christian Curnyn ahead of their Wigmore Hall concert on the 8th March. Conductor Ben Gernon also joins us in the studio as he prepares to make his ENO debut.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0002zg7)
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites, lesser-known gems, and a few surprises. The perfect way to usher in your evening.
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0002zg9)
Maria, dolce Maria
As part of Kings Place's year-long exploration of the work of women composers, and broadcast ahead of tomorrow's International Women’s Day, Rachel Podger and her ensemble Brecon Baroque perform works by female composers from the 17th century. Both Francesca Caccini and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre enjoyed long careers as professional composers, in the Florentine Medici court and Versailles respectively, while Isabella Leonarda (at the age of sixteen) entered the convent of Collegio di Sant'Orsola, where she spent the rest of her life and composed over a period of sixty years.
Recorded at Kings Place, London
Presented by Natasha Riordan
Francesca Caccini: Selections from Il primo libro delle musiche: ‘Romanesca’ (arr. Luigi Cozzolino); No 4 Madrigal ‘Maria, dolce Maria’; No 34 Canzonatta ‘Fresche aurette’; No 28 Canzonatta ‘Non sò se quel sorriso’
Isabella Leonarda: Sonata duodecima, Op 16
Handel: ‘Flammende Rose, Zierde der Erden’ and 'Künft’ger Zeiten eitler Kummer' (from Neun Deutsche Arien)
Francesca Caccini: Ciaccona from Il primo libro delle musiche (arr. Luigi Cozzolino)
Interval music
Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre: Violin Sonata No 2 in D
JS Bach: Cello Suite No 2 in D minor BWV 1008 (transposed into A minor for violin)
Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre: Les Sommeil d’Ulisse from Cantates françoises, No. 3
Brecon Baroque:
Rachel Podger (violin)
Ciara Hendrick (mezzo soprano)
Reiko Ichise (gamba)
Marcin Świątkiewicz (harpsichord)
Daniele Caminiti (theorbo/guitar)
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m0002zgc)
Women, relationships and the law past and present
Lying about a sexual attack, resisting parental pressures to marry, using the law to fight for inheritance and divorce. Shahidha Bari talks to the fiction writers Ayelet Gundar-Goshen and Layla AlAmmar about their new books which depict girls who feel they need to conceal truths about sexual encounters. Historian Jennifer Aston looks at examples of nineteenth century British women fighting for divorce.
The Pact We Made by Layla AlAmmar is out now
Liar but Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is out now.
Jennifer Aston teaches at the University of Northumbria and she is researching divorce and domestic violence in England and Wales, c.1857-1923.
Jessica Malay teaches at the University of Huddersfield and researches Lady Anne Clifford. She is responsible for the first print edition of Lady Anne Clifford's Great Books of Record. She is also the author of a book on a 17th century woman who wrote of her troubled marriage, which includes harrowing experiences of domestic abuse who went through two court cases pursuing a separation from her husband. The book is the Case of Mistress Mary Hampson
Lakeland Arts is re-uniting a portrait of Lady Anne Clifford loaned by the National Portrait Gallery with an image of her mother Lady Margaret Russell at the Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Cumbria from 22 March - 22 June 2019,
Producer: Robyn Read
THU 22:45 The Essay (m0002zgf)
Forgotten Feminist Futures
The Female Man
Comedian and author Viv Groskop explores five forgotten feminist futures.
Episode 4/5: The Female Man by Joanna Russ, which tells four versions of the same woman, a complex narrative which prefigures many of the sci-fi tropes of 1970s and 1980s cinema.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (m0002zgh)
Late Junction Festival - Carla dal Forno’s mixtape
Verity Sharp presents singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Carla dal Forno’s post-show DJ set from the Late Junction Festival.
Growing up in Melbourne, Carla was influenced by the punk-tinged, DIY approach of the local scene and soon began playing her own live shows, including a stint with cult indie group Mole House. The discovery of the label Blackest Ever Black opened up new musical horizons and projects as part of Fingers and Tarcar. She released her debut solo album You Know What It’s Like in 2016, described as ‘psychedelic folk delivered with (post-)punk economy’.
She has since moved to London, via Berlin, and now has a monthly NTS show, displaying her wide-ranging tastes and influences in post-punk, minimal synths and art rock. Her most recent release is an EP of covers titled ‘Top of the Pops’: versions of some of her favourite tracks by the likes of LiLiPUT, The Kiwi Animal and the B52s.
Produced by Katie Callin.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
FRIDAY 08 MARCH 2019
FRI 00:00 Slow Radio (m0002zgk)
Three Gardens in Trinidad
Radio 3 transports listeners to Trinidad, just off the coast of Venezuela, immersing them in the sounds of the Caribbean island, with writer and actor Elisha Efua Bartels as a guide.
Through the sounds of three Port-of Spain gardens - her home by the river in Diego Martin, a garden in the lush valleys of St Ann’s, to a house up in the hills, Elisha reflects on the rich tropical sounds of the island. Frogs, hummingbirds, parrots and occasional rainfall form a slowly shifting, vivid soundscape. We pass through cycles of warm sunshine, then heavy tropical rain, each change reflected in the types of calls we hear from the birdlife and frogs. These aren’t rarefied idylls though - on a warm evening parrots noisily flock through, disturbing the peace. Sometimes a radio or the sound of a party drifts up from the valley below; dogs bark, cockerels crow.
Elisha describes the extent to which she’s both sustained by, and living at the mercy of, the wildlife around her – the parrots so loud she can’t hear the TV, the frogs soothing her to sleep at night - and how the sounds evoke a strong sense of 'home' for her.
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m0002zgm)
Calliope Dreaming
An all-female line-up of composers to celebrate International Women's Day. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Piano Trio in G minor, op. 17
Yulia Iglinova (violin), Javier Albarés (cello), Daniel del Pino (piano)
12:59 AM
Elena Kats-Chernin (b.1957)
Calliope Dreaming
Yulia Iglinova (violin), Javier Albarés (cello), Daniel del Pino (piano)
01:06 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Piano Trio in D minor, op. 11
Yulia Iglinova (violin), Javier Albarés (cello), Daniel del Pino (piano)
01:32 AM
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Symphony No 3
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
02:03 AM
Valborg Aulin (1860-1928)
From 5 Tone Poems for piano op 7
Johan Ullén (piano)
02:14 AM
Paule Maurice (1910-67)
Tableaux de Provence - 5 pieces for saxophone and orchestra
Julia Nolan (saxophone), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
02:31 AM
Francesca Caccini (1587-1640)
La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina
Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Romain Bockler (baritone), Sarah Breton (mezzo soprano), Lise Viricel (soprano), Axelle Verner (mezzo soprano), Alice Duport-Percier (soprano), Laurent David (tenor), Eric Chopin (bass), Concerto Soave, Jean-Marc Aymes (conductor)
03:49 AM
Teresa Carreño (1853-1917)
Valse Petite in D major
Teresa Carreño (piano)
03:53 AM
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
Che sì puo fare (Arie Op 8)
Operabyrån, Christina Larsson Malmberg (soprano), Catalina Langborn (baroque violin), Eva Maria Thür (baroque violoncello), Mariangiola Martello (harpsichord)
03:57 AM
Dora Pejačević (1885-1923)
Nocturne for orchestra
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra (soloist), Pavle Dešpalj (conductor)
04:02 AM
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Arabesque for clarinet and piano
Shirley Brill (clarinet), Piotr Spoz (piano)
04:07 AM
Elisabeth Kuyper (1877-1953)
Der Pfeil und das Lied; Marien Lied; Ich komme Heim (Op.17 Nos 1, 2 & 3)
Irene Maessen (soprano), Frans van Ruth (piano)
04:14 AM
Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)
Flute Concertino, Op 107
Maria Filippova (flute), Ekaterina Mirzaeva (piano)
04:23 AM
Maria Antonia Walpurgis (Electress of Saxony) (1724-1780)
Sinfonia from "Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni" - Dramma per musica
Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Tobias Schade (director)
04:31 AM
Isabella Leonarda (1620 - 1704)
Sonata Prima a 4 (Opera Decima Sesta)
Maniera
04:41 AM
Elena Kats-Chernin (b.1957)
Russian Rag
Donna Coleman (piano)
04:46 AM
Ester Mägi (b.1922)
Ballad 'Tuule Tuba' (1981)
Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli Akadeemiline Meeskoor [Academic Male Choir of Tallinn T, Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer (conductor), Jüri Rent (conductor)
04:55 AM
Ester Mägi (b.1922)
Bucolic
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer (conductor)
05:04 AM
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990)
Three Gymnopedies
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Myer Fredman (conductor)
05:13 AM
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Nocturne for flute and piano
Valentinas Gelgotas (flute), Audrone Kisieliute (piano)
05:17 AM
Valborg Aulin (1860-1928)
Sonata for violin and piano
Per Sporrong (violin), Johan Ullén (piano)
05:31 AM
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602-c.1678)
Laudate pueri - psalm for 8 voices
Cappella Artemisia, Maria Christina Cleary (harp), Francesca Torelli (theorbo), Bettini Hoffmann (gamba), Miranda Aureli (organ), Candace Smith (director)
05:40 AM
Amanda Maier-Röntgen (1853-1894),Julius Röntgen (1855-1932)
Swedische Weisen und Tanze Op 6
Christian Svarfvar (violin), Henrik Måwe (piano)
06:03 AM
Valborg Aulin (1860-1928)
Quartet for strings in F major (1884)
Talekvartetten
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m0002zy1)
Petroc Trelawny - International Women's Day
Petroc Trelawny presents a special edition of Breakfast for International Women's Day.
Stephanie Childress joins Petroc in the studio as one of the seven conductors on air throughout the day as part of Women In Front. Stephanie will share music by female composers close to her heart and she will play a track she has selected from the BBC Archive. International Women’s Day is marked with music by women for 24 hours.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m0002zy3)
Suzy Klein - International Women's Day
Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 In a special edition for International Women's Day, conductor Rebecca Miller recommends a playlist of women composers.
1010 Our Classical Century - 100 key moments in the last century of classical music.
1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m00034zp)
Debbie Wiseman
Beyond Composing
Donald Macleod talks to Debbie Wiseman about her life outside of the composer's studio.
Debbie Wiseman has over two hundred credits for her music, ranging from television and film, to the concert hall and music for royal pageantry. Not only is she a multi-award winning composer, but also a pianist and conductor, often performing in and recording her own works. Wiseman also works as a Visiting Professor at a number of academic institutions including the Royal College of Music. As a composer for the concert hall, Wiseman has collaborated with Hayley Westenra, Stephen Fry, Nigel Havers, Vanessa Redgrave and Alan Titchmarsh. She has provided music for two royal anniversaries. Donald Macleod visits Debbie Wiseman at her home in London to discuss her long and varied career.
Today, Donald asks Debbie about her ventures into conducting, performing, and presenting.
Flood
Hayley Westenra, voice
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Debbie Wiseman, conductor
Middletown (excerpts)
Studio Orchestra
Debbie Wiseman, conductor
The Upper Hand (Joe & Diana)
Debbie Wiseman, piano
Joanna Lumley’s Nile (Journey of a Lifetime)
Debbie Wiseman, piano
Father Brown
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Debbie Wiseman, conductor
Land Girls (While We’re Away)
The Geoff Pearce Little Big Band
Debbie Wiseman, conductor
The Selfish Giant
Vanessa Redgrave, narrator
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner, conductor
Produced by Luke Whitlock for BBC Wales
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0002zy5)
British Women and Song
Today's live Lunchtime Concert is a celebration of British women in song, curated by Dr Sophie Fuller of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. It includes songs by little known names from the past such as Maude Valerie White and Amy Woodforde-Finden, coming right up to the present with contemporary composers Soosan Lolavar and Errollyn Wallen.
Presented by Sarah Walker
Maude Valerie White (1855-1937)
So we’ll go no more a’roving
Erika Mädi Jones (soprano)
Panaretos Kyriatzidis (piano)
Ici Bas
Theo Perry (baritone)
Paul Chilvers (piano)
Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)
Im Rosenbusch
Erika Mädi Jones (soprano)
Panaretos Kyriatzidis (piano)
'Henry King’ from Four Cautionary Tales
Theo Perry (baritone)
Paul Chilvers (piano)
Ah, Moon of my Delight
William Branston (tenor)
Paul Chilvers (piano)
Amy Woodforde-Finden (1860-1919)
‘Kashmiri Song’ (Hope) from Four Indian Love Lyrics
William Branston (tenor)
Paul Chilvers (piano)
Edith Fortescue [pseudonym of Edwin St. Quentin] (dates not known)
Giver of Life
Arianna Rebecca Firth (soprano)
Paul Chilvers (piano)
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
A Dream
Arianna Rebecca Firth (soprano)
Paul Chilvers (piano)
The Seal Man
Erika Mädi Jones (soprano)
Panaretos Kyriatzidis (piano)
Soosan Lolavar
I’m not exactly who I say I am
Jamie Hall (countertenor)
Paul Chilvers (piano)
Errollyn Wallen
My Feet May Take a Little While’
Jamie Hall (voice)
Aleksander Szram (piano)
Errollyn Wallen
What’s Up Doc?
Jesus on a Train
Beehive
Errollyn Wallen (voice and piano)
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0002zy7)
Music by women composers plus interviews with Marin Alsop and Alice Farnham
We celebrate International Women’s Day with a feast of music by women composers including Thea Musgrave’s Turbulent Landscape.
As part of Radio 3’s ‘Women in front’ we'll hear interviews with conductor Marin Alsop with her mentee Lina Gonzalez-Granados; and with live studio guest the conductor Alice Farnham who will be sharing with us some of her favourite pieces by female composers and a track from the BBC Archive that hasn’t been heard since its first broadcast. The Our Classical Century Piece is Elizabeth Maconchy’s Proud Thames
Presented by Kate Molleson
Dani Howard: Argentum
Florence Price: Sinner Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass
Elizabeth Maconchy: Serenata Concertante
Isidora Žebeljan: The Horses of Saint Mark
Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor)
3.00
Elizabeth Maconchy: Proud Thames
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor)
3.05pm
Alison Willis: Non omnis moriar
Joanna Marsh: Weighing the Earth
Walid Zaido (Syrian drums/percussion)
BBC Singers
James Morgan (conductor)
3.15pm
Thea Musgrave: Turbulent Landscape
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor)
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m0002zy9)
International Women's Day: Di Xiao, Karin Hendrickson, Gabriella di Laccio
International Women's Day programme with live music from pianist Di Xiao, soprano Gabriella di Laccio and conductor Karin Hendrickson.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0002zyc)
Music for International Women’s Day
As part of Radio 3’s day-long celebration of women composers, tonight’s mixtape offers a wealth of women composers dating as far back as the medieval period - with a hauntingly beautiful song by the Comtessa de Dia – right up to current times with Jennifer Higdon’s fiery, Pulitzer-Prize-winning Violin Concerto, written for and performed by Hilary Hahn. With works by Bacewicz, Tailleferre, Farrenc, Cecilia McDowall, Gabriella Montero and Rebecca Clarke also on the menu, sit back and enjoy an uninterrupted sequence from over eight centuries of musical talent.
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0002zyf)
World Premiere of Augusta Holmes's Roland Furieux
To celebrate International Women's Day, Valentina Peleggi conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with a selection of music by women composers. The concert opens with the World Premiere of Augusta Holmes's Roland Furieux, nearly 150 years after it was completed. The work is based on Ludovico Ariosto’s epic poem Orlando Furioso, and has been painstakingly reconstructed from the original manuscript for this performance. Mariam Batsashvili joins the orchestra to perform Clara Schumann's celebrated Piano Concerto, a work which the composer completed before she was 16, yet which demonstrates a remarkable poise and maturity. After the interval, in which conductor Valentina Peleggi selects music from female composers who have inspired her, we will hear Joan Tower's Second Fanfare For the Uncommon Women, inspired by Copland's well-known Fanfare for the Common Man. Finally we hear Florence Price's 3rd Symphony, which is deeply rooted in the Chicago renaissance and in which the dance rhythms of the age brilliantly evoke urban life in 1940s America.
Live from Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Augusta Holmes: Roland Furieux
Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 7
8.15 Interval - Valentina Peleggi selects music by her favourite female composers
Joan Tower: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No 2
Florence B. Price: Symphony No 3 in C minor
Mariam Batsashvili (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Valentina Peleggi (conductor)
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m0002zyh)
International Women's Day
The Verb celebrates International Women's Day with a look at the language of women and activism.
Ian's guests are the writer and sociologist Ann Oakley, Professor and Founder-Director of the Social Science Research Unit at the UCL Institute of Education, the author Siri Hustvedt on her new novel 'Memories of the Future', Salena Godden on 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' and brand new work from sound artist Ingrid Plum.
Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Faith Lawrence
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m0002zyk)
Forgotten Feminist Futures
Woman on the Edge of Time
Comedian and author Viv Groskop explores five forgotten feminist futures; from the book that predicted the internet to the world where men have been wiped out in a plague.
Episode 5/5: Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy; a 1970s counter-culture agrarian utopia with a clear message; utopia does not have to be in the future, it can be now.
FRI 23:00 Music Planet (m0002zym)
Lopa Kothari celebrates women of the world
Lopa Kothari celebrates the greatest female talent from across the globe in this International Women's Day special, with a studio session from Sudanese-Italian singer Amira Kheir, and a selection of some of the best releases from the last year by women. With the recent 40 year anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, this week's Road Trip comes from Mahsa Vardat in Teheran uncovering the music of women before and after the revolution. The ‘Mother of Latin American folk’ Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra is this week's Classic Artist.
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.