Sibelius's first and second symphonies from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the 2015 BBC Proms. Catriona Young presents.
La Gioia, Diane Verdoodt (soprano), Ilse Schelfhout (soprano), Kristien Vercammen (soprano), Bernadette De Wilde (soprano), Lieve Mertens (mezzo soprano), Els Van Attenhoven (mezzo soprano), Lieve Vanden Berghe (alto), Ludwig Van Gijsegem (tenor), Peter Thomas (organ)
Russell Braun (baritone), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
Olle Persson (baritone), Dan Almgren (violin), Torleif Thedéen (cello), Stefan Bojsten (piano)
Danish National Radio Choir, Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
To a Nordic Princess (bridal song) vers. piano
Mojza Zlobko (harp), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Anton Nanut (conductor)
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Tuesday with Ian Skelly - Privy counselling, Marcus du Sautoy, Respighi's Primavera
1050 Cultural inspirations from mathematician, writer and presenter Marcus du Sautoy.
Donald Macleod explores tango legend Astor Piazzolla’s colourful early years playing bandoneon in the tango bands of Buenos Aires
All his life he fought against the tide, and in the end, he was the victor. Born in 1921, Astor Piazzolla was a rebel with a cause. A virtuoso bandoneon player and a composer, he set out to break tango free from its roots, and make it a music with a future far beyond the dance halls and cafes of 1950s Buenos Aires. Hits like “Libertango” and collaborations with jazz giants like Gary Burton and Gerry Mulligan made his name beyond the tango world, while his classical compositions brought his instrument, the bandoneon, and him critical acclaim in the concert hall. The secret of his musical technique came, he said, from his studies with French pedagogue, Nadia Boulanger and Argentinian composer, Alberto Ginastera but there was a third teacher: Buenos Aires, the city which taught him the secrets of tango.
Across the week Donald Macleod traces Astor Piazzolla’s life through five formative locations, New York, Buenos Aires, Paris, Rome and Punta del Este, the coastal resort where he would spend the summer, relaxing and composing.
Piazzolla came to Buenos Aires as a teenager to join one the many tango orchestras, popular in the city during the 1950s. It wasn’t long before he was snapped up by one of the most famous outfits lead by Anibal Troilo and began to see the seamier side of café society.
arr. Piazzolla: A Bardi-M. Battistella: Tiernamente
arr. Piazzolla: A. Junnissi: El recodo
Concert d’aujourd’hui.
The first of our programmes from this year's Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music recorded in the Harty Room at Queen's University. In today's recital pianist Leon McCawley performs Chopin's Polonaise-Fantasie and Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 1 in C, K. 279, the Amatis Trio perform Mozart's Piano Trio in C K. 548, and to complete the programme they return with an arrangement of Faure's Après un rêve.
Anna Clyne’s powerfully evocative “The Midnight Hour” starts off today’s concert from the Ulster Orchestra under Eivind Gullberg Jensen. It draws inspiration from two poems “La musica” by Juan Ramón Jiménez and Harmonie du soir by Charles Baudelaire. Ingrid Fliter joins them for the ever-popular 2nd Piano Concerto by Chopin. Rafael Payare rounds off the afternoon with Shostakovich’s mighty 10th Symphony.
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 21, F minor
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6, Op. 74, B minor 'Pathétique'
Pianist Yu Kosuge joins us before she gives the UK premiere of Dai Fujikura’s 3rd Piano Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony on the 21st March. And violinist Franziska Pietsch performs music from her new disc. We also speak to composer Gabriel Jackson about the launch of a new CD "Gabriel’s Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ" by the Choir of Merton College, Oxford, a mini tour of his new publication Exile Meditations, plus a London premiere of his Stabat Mater later in April.
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.
Sinfonia Cymru match their trademark sparkle to a programme of works that themselves fizz with confidence, drama and vitality. They are joined by young cello star, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, fresh from his Royal Wedding performance and chart-topping debut album, to perform Haydn’s first Cello Concerto. Later in the programme, composer Charles Ives attempts nothing less than solving the riddle of life, the universe, and everything, in his extraordinary six minute piece,The Unanswered Question. Their concert begins with C.P.E. Bach, whose music is daring and brimming with passion, and they finish with Beethoven’s musical announcement to the world that he might just be the greatest symphonist of all time.
C.P.E. Bach: Symphony No. 1 in D major H 663
Valeria Luiselli talks to Laurence Scott about the desert border between Mexico and USA, and capturing the sound, history and contemporary politics in her novel Lost Children Archive. The poet George Szirtes's first prose work brings his mother superbly to life and works backwards through the years to explore the truth of being alive in the world. And Pulitzer-prize-winning short story writer Jhumpa Lahiri on her new anthology of stories from Italy, and why the Italian language releases a part of her unfulfilled by either her Bengali heritage or American upbringing.
Jhumpa Lahiri's has edited The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories which is out now
George Szirtes memoir The Photographer at Sixteen: The Death and Life of a Fighter is out now
From the Red Book of Hergest, these are the tales of the Mabinogi. Second episode of a new fantasy adventure series, based on the iconic work of medieval Welsh mythology.
With Irish warships heading for the Welsh coast, Pryderi, Prince of Dyfed, embarks on a dangerous mission to win the favour of Matholwch, King of Ireland.
The tales of the Mabinogi are tales of romance, tragedy, comedy and fantasy and together they form the earliest prose stories of Britain. Award-winning writer Lucy Catherine (The Master and Margherita, Being Human, Vanity Fair) gives these stories a modern flavour while remaining true to the vivid magic of Celtic mythology.
Pryderi…. Darragh Mortell
Brigid…. Aimee Ffion Edwards
Pwyll /Bran…. Robert Pugh
Branwen…. Rhian Blythe
Matholwch…. Stephen Hogan
Efnysien…. Richard Elfyn
Nysien…. Rhodri Meilir
Late Junction is back for another week of memorable programmes, and the song selections tonight all evoke mysterious, magical memory experiences and sensations: déjà vu, jamais vu, presque vu, and more …
Experience new songs you’ll swear you’ve heard before. Expect intuitive reversions, reworks, and remixes. Explore the famous case of George Harrison’s cryptomnesia. Expose yourself to the power of genetic memory through the music of Timothy Leary and Hand Habits (a.k.a. Meg Duffy).
Produced by Jack Howson.
WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH 2019
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m0003ddx)
Handel's Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
A dramatic cantata from the early 1700s; Il Giardino Armonico, conducted by Giovanni Antonini. Catriona Young presents.
1
2:31 am
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Nicola Giuvo (librettist)
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo HWV 72, serenata
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Sonia Prina (contralto), Christopher Purves (bass), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
1:59 am
Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783-1847)
Piano Quartet in E minor
Klara Hellgren (violin), Ingegerd Kierkegaard (viola), Åsa Åkerberg (cello), Anders Kilström (piano)
2:31 am
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No 4 in B flat major, Op 60
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Eivind Aadland (conductor)
3:05 am
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata: 'Ich hatte viel Bekummernis' BWV.21
Antonella Balducci (soprano), Frieder Lang (tenor), Fulvio Bettini (baritone), Solisti e Chorus of Swiss-Italian Radio, Ensemble Vanitas Lugano, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
3:40 am
Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1630-1670)
Sonata No 6 for violin and continuo 'La Sabbatina'
Andrew Manze (violin), Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
3:50 am
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
The Duke of Gloucester's trumpet suite
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), King's Consort, Robert King (director)
4:01 am
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Anton Webern (orchestrator)
6 Deutsche for piano (D.820)
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown (conductor)
4:10 am
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Suite No 2 in F major HWV.427
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
4:20 am
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Sinfonia for 2 violins and continuo in D major, H.585
Les Adieux
4:31 am
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Symphony in C major, Op 10 No 4
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)
4:40 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Fantasy and fugue for piano K.394 in C major
Wolfgang Brunner (pianoforte)
4:51 am
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Magnificat anima mea Dominum SWV.468
Schütz Akademie, Howard Arman (conductor)
5:01 am
Franz Xaver Sterkel (1750-1817)
Duet No 2 for 2 violas
Milan Telecky (viola), Zuzana Jarabakova (viola)
5:11 am
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
3 Characteristic Pieces
Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, Vassil Kazandjiev (conductor)
5:21 am
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Rhapsody for piano in B minor, Op 79 No 1
Steven Osborne (piano)
5:31 am
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony No 8 in B minor, 'Unfinished' (D.759)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Markus Lehtinen (conductor)
5:55 am
Alfredo Casella (1883-1947)
Sicilienne and Burlesque
Kathleen Rudolph (flute), Rena Sharon (piano)
6:04 am
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Serenade for wind instruments in D minor Op 44
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (director)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m0003cxh)
Wednesday - Georgia’s classical alarm call
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m0003cxk)
Ian Skelly
Ian Skelly 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 mathematician, writer and presenter Marcus du Sautoy.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0003cxm)
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
The great revelation
Donald Macleod’s exploration of the life and music of Astor Piazzolla moves to Paris, where the tango legend finds his true musical voice.
All his life he fought against the tide, and in the end, he was the victor. Born in 1921, Astor Piazzolla was a rebel with a cause. A virtuoso bandoneon player and a composer, he set out to break tango free from its roots, and make it a music with a future far beyond the dance halls and cafes of 1950s Buenos Aires. Hits like “Libertango” and collaborations with jazz giants like Gary Burton and Gerry Mulligan made his name beyond the tango world, while his classical compositions brought his instrument, the bandoneon, and him critical acclaim in the concert hall. The secret of his musical technique came, he said, from his studies with French pedagogue, Nadia Boulanger and Argentinian composer, Alberto Ginastera but there was a third teacher: Buenos Aires, the city which taught him the secrets of tango.
Across the week Donald Macleod traces Astor Piazzolla’s life through five formative locations, New York, Buenos Aires, Paris, Rome and Punta del Este, the coastal resort where he would spend the summer, relaxing and composing.
Piazzolla moved to Paris in 1954 to study with one of the most renowned teachers of the age, Nadia Boulanger. Apart from receiving a through musical training, it was Boulanger’s insight that showed him where his future lay.
Otoño porteño
Richard Galliano, accordion
Jean Marc Phillips-Varjabédian, violin
Lyonel Schmit, second violin
Jean Marc Apap, violin, viola
Raphael Pidoux,, cello
Stéphane Logerot, bass
Hervé Sellin, piano
Two pieces for clarinet and string orchestra, Op.15
Contemplación. Lento-Tranquillo
Danza. Presto
Robert Bianciotto, clarinet
National Chamber Orchestra of Toulouse
Alain Moglia, conductor
Sinfonía Buenos Aires, Op.15
Lento, con anima
Daniel Binelli, bandoneon
Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Triunfal
Prepárense
Astor Piazzolla and his Quintet
Astor Piazzolla, bandoneon
Elvino Vardaro, violin
Jaime Gosis, piano
Kicho Diaz, bass
Oscar López Ruiz, electric guitar
Tangos, El Exilio de Gardel (excerpts from the original soundtrack)
Tanguedia I
Tanguedia II
Tanguedia III
Astor Piazzolla and his Quintet
Astor Piazzolla, bandoneon
Pablo Ziegler, piano
Fernando Suarez Paz, violin
Oscar Lopez Ruiz, electric guitar
Hector Console, double bass
Mumuki
Gary Burton, vibraphone
Fernando Suarez-Paz, violin
Marcelo Nisinman, bandoneon
Pablo Ziegler, piano
Horacio Malvicino, guitar
Hector Console, bass
Producer: Johannah Smith, BBC Wales
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0003cxp)
Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music 2019
Schumann and Shostakovich from Belfast
The second of our programmes from this year's Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music recorded in the Harty Room at Queen's University. In today's recital pianist Leon McCawley performs Schumann's Abegg Variations, a set of theme and variations with a musical motif based on the name "Abegg" - a fictitious friend of the composer. Then the London Haydn Quartet perform Mozart's String Quartet in D K. 575. Pianist Leon McCawley returns with a performance of Three Sketches by Austrian-British composer Hans Gál, and to complete today's recital the Amatis Trio performs Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 1, written when the composer was only 16 years old.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0003cxr)
Ulster Orchestra performs Schoenberg and Brahms
Schoenberg’s ultra-romantic piece for string orchestra, Verklaerte Nacht or Transfigured Night begins todays concert with the Ulster Orchestra under Rafael Payare. To finish, Brahms’s evergreen 4th Symphony in E minor.
Presented by Kate Molleson
Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht
Brahms: Symphony No.4, Op. 98, E minor
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor)
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (m0003cxt)
Westminster Abbey
Live from Westminster Abbey.
Introit: O Lorde, the maker of al thing (Joubert)
Responses: Clucas
Psalms 47, 48 (Goss, Turle)
First Lesson: Job 1 vv.1-22
Canticles: Collegium Regale (Howells)
Second Lesson: Luke 21 v.34 – 22 v.6
Anthem: Suscipe quaeso Domine (Tallis)
Hymn: Lord Jesus, think on me (Southwell)
Voluntary: Psalm-Prelude Set 2 No 2 in F sharp minor (Yea, the darkness is no darkness) (Howells)
James O’Donnell (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
Peter Holder (Sub-Organist)
WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m0003cxw)
Andrei Ionita plays Bach's Cello Suite No 1
New Generation Artists: Andrei Ionita and Catriona Morison.
Romanian cellist Andrei Ionita - hailed as 'probably the leading cellist of his generation'- is heard in a suite by Bach from his long-awaited debut release. Also today, Scottish mezzo soprano, Catriona Morison sings Schumann's melancholic Poems of Mary Stuart in a performance she gave at last year's Edinburgh International Festival.
Bach Suite no. 1 in G major BWV 1007
Andrei Ionita (cello)
Schumann Five Poems of Queen Mary Stuart Op. 135
Catriona Morison (mezzo soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m0003cxy)
Jeremy Denk, Calidore String Quartet and Aeham Ahmad
Live music today comes from pianist Jeremy Denk ahead of recitals at Wigmore Hall and Perth later this week. We also hear from the Calidore String Quartet who take part in the Tetbury Chamber Music Festival which runs from the 22nd to the 24th March. And Syrian-Palestinian pianist Aeham Ahmad became known after he dragged his piano in to the rubble of the bombed out streets of his neighbourhood of Yarmouk near Damascus; he joins us in the studio ahead of the publishing of his memoir: The Pianist of Yarmouk.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0003cy0)
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 (m0003cy2)
'Music for the Soul': Vaughan Williams and Tippett
Live from the Lighthouse, Poole
Presented by Martin Handley
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra with a concert entitled “Music for the Soul”: Vaughan Williams and Tippett.
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
8.15: Interval
Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Lauren Fagan, soprano
Christine Rice. mezzo soprano
Samuel Sakker, tenor
Simon Shibambu, bass
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus
David Hill, conductor
The oratorio A Child of Our Time was Tippett’s artistic and emotional response to the events that led to the ‘Kristallnacht’ pogrom of November 1938. Tippett used as his formal and historical models the Bach Passions and Handel’s Messiah which share with this contemporary morality the subject of the death of an individual set against the universal background of human suffering. His use of the spiritual as a contemporary equivalent for the Lutheran chorale of the Bach settings draws the listener more closely into the drama through the spirituals’ unique verbal and musical metaphor.
The Tallis melody that is the basis for Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia is one of nine he contributed to the Psalter of 1567 for the first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury. It is heard in its complete form three times and serves as the source for a wonderful miasma of variants and developments in this rich orchestral composition written for a large string orchestra divided into three parts. Although it is not specifically religious music, it seems to speak to the spirit.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m0003cy6)
Empathy
Authors Max Porter, Samantha Harvey and Alisdair Benjamin discuss empathy and the role it plays in writing and reading. How does it work? Is it the same in fiction and non-fiction? And how is it faring in a world where data sometimes seems to have replaced feeling. Chris Harding talks to all three about their latest books, Lanny, Let Me Not be Mad and the Western Wind in his search for answers.
Let Me Not Be Mad by the neuropsychologist AK Benjamin is out now.
Max Porter's second novel is called Lanny. His first, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, has now been turned into a stage production featuring Cillian Murphy which runs at the Barbican from 25 Mar—13 Apr 2019
Samantha Harvey's latest novel The Western Wind - set in a C15th Somerset village - is now out in paperback. Her previous books include The Wilderness - which depicts an architect suffering from Alzheimers who is attempting to order his memories.
Producer: Zahid Warley
WED 22:45 Mabinogi (m0003cyb)
Part Three
Adapted by Lucy Catherine
From the Red Book of Hergest, these are the tales of the Mabinogi. Third episode of a new fantasy adventure series, based on the iconic work of medieval Welsh mythology.
Pryderi and Brigid uncover the otherworldly power of the magic cauldron. But will it be enough to placate the Irish?
The tales of the Mabinogi are tales of romance, tragedy, comedy and fantasy and together they form the earliest prose stories of Britain. Award-winning writer Lucy Catherine (The Master and Margherita, Being Human, Vanity Fair) gives these stories a modern flavour while remaining true to the vivid magic of Celtic mythology.
Pryderi…. Darragh Mortell
Brigid…. Aimee Ffion Edwards
Pwyll /Bran…. Robert Pugh
Branwen…. Rhian Blythe
Matholwch…. Stephen Hogan
Arawn…. John Cording
Nysien…. Rhodri Meilir
Directed by James Robinson
A BBC Cymru Wales Production
WED 23:00 Late Junction (m0003cyg)
Benedict Drew’s Mixtape
Presenter Max Reinhardt invites you to enter the intensely brilliant mind of multi-disciplinary artist Benedict Drew.
Based currently in Whitstable and Margate, Benedict Drew has a history in electronic and improvised music, though he primarily works with video, sculpture, and sound to create installations that exists as “alternative realities”. Tonight he has thirty minutes of the programme to create and curate a bespoke audio reality, through his Late Junction Mixtape. Thematically the mix explores notions of the ocean, and the tracks come together to create something simultaneously sublime and frightening. Featured artists include Suzanne Ciani, Delia Derbyshire and Laurie Spiegel, as well as several of Drew’s own collaborators, such as Angharad Davies and Helena Gough.
Produced by Jack Howson.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
THURSDAY 21 MARCH 2019
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m0003cyl)
Beethoven and Schubert from Berlin
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra play Beethoven's 8th Symphony and Schubert's 9th, 'Great'. Presented by Catriona Young.
1
2:31 am
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No 8 in F Op 93
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antonello Manacorda (conductor)
1
2:56 am
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony No 9 in C D944 (Great)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antonello Manacorda (conductor)
1:51 am
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
4 Pieces fugitives for piano Op 15
Angela Cheng (piano)
2:04 am
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op 34
James Campbell (clarinet), Orford String Quartet
2:31 am
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor (Op.posthumous)
Harald Aadland (violin), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, John Storgards (conductor)
3:03 am
Johannes Ockeghem (c.1410-1497)
Missa prolationum
Hilliard Ensemble, Paul Hillier (director)
3:37 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Fantasy in D minor (KV.397)
Bruno Lukk (piano)
3:44 am
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
Overture a 7 in F major ZWV.188
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
3:51 am
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), Eugene Ysaye (arranger)
Caprice d'après l'étude en forme de valse de Saint-Saëns
David Petrlik (violin), Renata Ardasevova (piano)
4:00 am
Veljo Tormis (1930-2017), V.Luik (author)
Sugismaastikud (Autumn landscapes)
Eesti Raadio Segakoor , Toomas Kapten (conductor)
4:09 am
Fredrik Pacius (1809-1891)
Overture from the Hunt of King Charles (1852)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
4:17 am
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)
Ricordati Op 26 No 1
Michael Lewin (piano)
4:20 am
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Trio in F major for 2 flutes and continuo
Karl Kaiser (flute), Michael Schneider (flute), Rainer Zipperling (cello), Harald Hoeren (harpsichord)
4:31 am
Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1750)
Concerto a 5 for 2 oboes and strings Op 9 No 9 in C major
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
4:42 am
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Dumka, Op 59 'Russian rustic scene'
Duncan Gifford (piano)
4:52 am
Johannes Ockeghem (c.1410-1497)
Salve Regina
Hilliard Ensemble
5:02 am
Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
Catalunya; Sevilla, Suite Espanola No1
Sean Shibe (guitar)
5:10 am
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865-1936)
Concert waltz for orchestra No 2 in F major, Op 51
CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Kazuyoshi Akiyama (conductor)
5:19 am
Johann Valentin Meder (1649-1719)
Wie murren denn die Leut (Dialogo a doi voci)
La Capella Ducale, David Corder (counter tenor), Harry van der Kamp (bass), Musica Fiata Köln, Roland Wilson (director)
5:30 am
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Sextet for piano and strings Op 110 in D major
Wu Han (piano), Philip Setzer (violin), Nokuthula Ngwenyama (viola), Cynthia Phelps (viola), Carter Brey (cello), Michael Wais (bass)
5:53 am
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Variations on a theme by Haydn Op 56a
Orkiestra Filharmonii Narodowej w Warszawie, Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)
6:11 am
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major
Odin Hagen (trumpet), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Per Kristian Skalstad (conductor)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m0003c68)
Thursday - Georgia's classical picks
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m0003c6b)
Ian Skelly
Ian Skelly 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 mathematician, writer and presenter Marcus du Sautoy.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0003c6d)
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
The Amelita years
Donald Macleod charts the ups and downs of Astor Piazzolla’s years in Rome, where a fresh new start didn’t quite turn out as he hoped.
All his life he fought against the tide, and in the end, he was the victor. Born in 1921, Astor Piazzolla was a rebel with a cause. A virtuoso bandoneon player and a composer, he set out to break tango free from its roots, and make it a music with a future far beyond the dance halls and cafes of 1950s Buenos Aires. Hits like “Libertango” and collaborations with jazz giants like Gary Burton and Gerry Mulligan made his name beyond the tango world, while his classical compositions brought his instrument, the bandoneon, and him critical acclaim in the concert hall. The secret of his musical technique came, he said, from his studies with French pedagogue, Nadia Boulanger and Argentinian composer, Alberto Ginastera but there was a third teacher: Buenos Aires, the city which taught him the secrets of tango.
Across the week Donald Macleod traces Astor Piazzolla’s life through five formative locations, New York, Buenos Aires, Paris, Rome and Punta del Este, the coastal resort where he would spend the summer, relaxing and composing.
A heart attack and the loss of funding for his band encouraged Piazzolla to seek new pastures. Together with his partner, the tango singer Amelita Baltar, he set up shop in the Eternal City. A new deal with an agent, and some interesting projects beckoned, yet Piazzolla would later describe these years as being full of bad memories.
Michelangelo 70
Astor Piazzolla, bandoneon
Jaime Gosis, piano
Antonio Agri, violin
Hugo Baralis, violin
Victor Pontino, cello
Nestor Panik, viola
Kicho Diaz, double bass
Cacho Tirao, guitar
Arturo Schneider, flute
Josè Correale, percussion
Tito Bisio, vibraharp, xylophone, carillon
Amelitango
Astor Piazzolla, bandoneon
Horacio Malvicino, electric guitar
Juan Carlos Cirigliano, piano
Alberto Cevasco, electric bass
Santiago Giacobbe, organ
Enrique Roizner, percussion
Daniel Piazzolla, synthesiser and percussion
Arturo Schneider, saxophone and flute
Maria de Buenos Aires (excerpt)
Scenes 4 to 6
Valentina Montoya Martínez, Maria
Juanjo Lopez Vidal, the Duende, narrator
Nicholas Mulroy, vocal, sleepy Buenos Aires sparrow
Mr. McFall’s Chamber
Victor Villena, musical director and bandoneón
Summit
Close your eyes and listen
Gerry Mulligan, baritone sax
Astor Piazzolla, bandoneon
Angel “Pocho” Gatti, piano, organ
Tullio de Piscopo, drums
Giuseppe Prestipino, electric bass
Alberto Baldani, Gianni Zilioli, marimba
Filippo Dacco, Bruno de Fillippi, electric guitar
Ennio Miori, first cello
3 Movimientos Tanguisticos Portenos (1963)
Tango No. 1. Allegretto - Meno mosso e pesante
Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen
Gabriel Castagna, conductor
Tristezas de un Doble A
Astor Piazzolla, bandoneon
Fernando Suárez Paz, violin
Pablo Ziegler, piano
Oscar López Ruiz, electric guitar
Héctor Console, bass
Producer: Johannah Smith, BBC Wales
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0003c6h)
Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music 2019
Faure, Brahms and Deirdre Gribbin from Belfast
The third of our programmes from this year's Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music recorded in the Harty Room at Queen's University. Beginning with music by Brahms, and his Klavierstücke Op. 119. Then a new commission from the festival from Northern Irish composer Deirdre Gribbin and her piece written for the Amatis Trio - "After the Eagle." To complete today's programme, the London Haydn Quartet with Beethoven's String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0003c6l)
Verdi's Aida with Liudmyla Monastyrska
Verdi's mighty Egyptian opera, Aida is a tale of jealousy, love, betrayal and patriotic fervour. This highly-strung brew of visceral passions is one of Verdi's greatest and most popular works. Starring Violeta Urmana, Liudmyla Monastyrska and Gregory Kunde this performance from the Teatro Real Madrid is conducted by Nicola Luisotti. The afternoon ends with Mendelssohn's Ruy Blas from the Ulster Orchestra under Andrew Gourlay.
Presented by Kate Molleson
Verdi: Aida
Aida.....Liudmyla Monastyrska (Soprano)
Radames.....Gregory Kunde (Tenor)
Amneris.....Violeta Urmana (Mezzo-soprano)
Ramfis.....Roberto Tagliavini (Bass)
Amonasro.....George Gagnidze (Baritone)
The King of Egypt.....Soloman Howard (Bass)
Voice of High Priestess.....Sandra Pastrana (Soprano)
Messenger.....Fabian Lara (Tenor)
Madrid Teatro Real Chorus
Andres Maspero (Chrous Director)
Madrid Teatro Real Orchestra
Nicola Luisotti (Conductor)
Act 1
2.00pm
Act 2
2.40pm
Act 3
3.25pm
Act 4
4.00pm
4.30pm
Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas
Ulster Orchestra
Andrew Gourlay (conductor)
THU 17:00 In Tune (m0003c6n)
Skampa Quartet, Bernard Haitink, Huw Warren
Pianist Huw Warren and saxophonist Iain Ballamy perform live for us ahead of the Bristol International Blues & Jazz Festival. The Skampa Quartet also join us for a live performance ahead of their concert at Wigmore Hall on the 22nd March; and Sean meets conductor Bernard Haitink as the LSO celebrates his 90th birthday and a career spanning over six decades.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0003c6q)
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 (m0003c6s)
The Schumanns: husband and wife
Recorded at Kings Place, London
Presented by Ian Skelly
The Kungsbacka Trio with music by Robert and Clara Schumann.
Robert Schumann: Six Canonic Studies, Op. 56
Clara Schumann: Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17
8.15: Interval
Natalie Klouda: Fantasy Triptych (2014)
Robert Schumann: Piano Trio No. 2 in F, Op. 80
The fêted Swedish-based Kungsbacka Trio return to Kings Place with two great works by Clara and Robert Schumann. The former penned her masterpiece of poignant poetry during a period of intense emotional upheaval, before her urgent need to earn money as an international concert pianist curtailed her composing career. A year later came Robert’s visionary essay in the form, with its musical references to his beloved Clara, for whom he had fought so long. Prefacing this is Natalie Klouda’s deft exploration of the intense three-way relationship between Robert, Clara and Johannes Brahms, Fantasy Triptych.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m0003c6v)
Childhood faces and fears
Anne McElvoy looks at an exhibition at Compton Verney with New Generation Thinker and historian Emma Butcher who is researching writing from children about the trauma of war.
Painting Childhood: From Holbein to Freud runs at Compton Verney from March 16th to June 16th 2019.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
THU 22:45 Mabinogi (m0003c6x)
Part Four
Adapted by Lucy Catherine
From the Red Book of Hergest, these are the tales of the Mabinogi. Fourth episode of a new fantasy adventure series, based on the iconic work of medieval Welsh mythology.
Pryderi and Brigid head back to the Kingdom of Gwynedd in an attempt to persuade Bran the Blessed to rescue Princess Branwen.
The tales of the Mabinogi are tales of romance, tragedy, comedy and fantasy and together they form the earliest prose stories of Britain. Award-winning writer Lucy Catherine (The Master and Margherita, Being Human, Vanity Fair) gives these stories a modern flavour while remaining true to the vivid magic of Celtic mythology.
Pryderi…. Darragh Mortell
Brigid…. Aimee Ffion Edwards
Pwyll /Bran…. Robert Pugh
Efnysien…. Richard Elfyn
Arawn…. John Cording
Directed by James Robinson
A BBC Cymru Wales Production
THU 23:00 Late Junction (m0003c70)
Max Reinhardt with Salome Voegelin
Max is joined in the studio by Dr. Salomé Voegelin to talk about listening as a socio-political act.
Salomé Voegelin is an artist and writer engaged in questioning and changing the way we hear and process music, sound, and silence. Her practice includes gallery exhibitions, site-specific work and collective activities, as well as radio broadcasts and publications, such as her latest book ‘The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening’.
Elsewhere on the programme featured composers include Ornette Coleman, June Chikuma, and Krzysztof Penderecki.
Produced by Jack Howson.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
FRIDAY 22 MARCH 2019
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m0003c72)
Chamber music at the 2018 Ticino Festival
Works by Pietro Viviani, Debussy, Piazzolla and Schumann performed in Switzerland. Presented by Catriona Young.
1
2:31 am
Pietro Viviani (b.1965)
Attorno al la(r)ghetto, for cello and piano
Claude Hauri (cello), Natascha Majek (piano)
1
2:44 am
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Cello Sonata in D minor
Orfeo Mandozzi (cello), Krisztina Wajsza (piano)
1
2:55 am
Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Le Grand Tango
Orfeo Mandozzi (cello), Krisztina Wajsza (piano)
1:09 am
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op 47
Barbara Clannamea (violin), Lia Previtali (viola), Claude Hauri (cello), Krisztina Wajsza (piano)
1:37 am
Fritz Brun (1878-1959)
Symphony No 2 in B flat
Berne Symphony Orchestra, Dmitri Kitaenjko (conductor)
2:17 am
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Rhapsodie espagnole (Folies d'Espagne et jota aragone) S.254
Zhang Zuo (piano)
2:31 am
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Hail, Bright Cecilia: Ode for St Cecilia's Day, Z.328
Grace Davidson (soprano), Alex Potter (counter tenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Damien Guillon (counter tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Samuel Boden (tenor), Collegium Vocale Ghent, Philippe Herreweghe (director)
3:23 am
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Ricercar a 3 from the Musical Offering (BWV.1079)
Lorenzo Ghielmi (fortepiano)
3:29 am
Jordi Cervelló (b.1935)
To Bach
Atrium Quartet
3:40 am
Jānis Mediņš (1890-1966)
Flower Waltz - from the ballet 'Victory of Love'
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Imants Resnis (conductor)
3:45 am
Andrew York (b.1958)
Sanzen-in
Tornado Guitar Duo (duo)
3:51 am
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in A major (RV.335) "The Cuckoo"
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)
4:01 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Mentre ti lascio, o figlia - aria for bass and orchestra (K.513)
Robert Holl (bass), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
4:09 am
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Mazurka in A minor, Op 17 No 4
Simon Trpceski (piano)
4:15 am
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Harold Perry (arranger)
Divertimento 'Feldpartita' in B flat major H.
2.46 arr. for wind quintet
Galliard Ensemble
4:23 am
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance No 12 in D flat major Op 72 No 4
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
4:31 am
Franciszek de Godzinsky (1878-1954)
Valse orientale
Arto Satukangas (piano)
4:36 am
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Dance of the Blessed Spirits - dance music from 'Orphée et Euridice'
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
4:43 am
Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729-1774)
Stabat Mater
Capella Nova Graz, Unknown (continuo), Otto Kargl (conductor)
4:55 am
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Wurttemberg Sonata No 1 in A minor
Rietze Smits (organ)
5:07 am
Carl Reinecke (1824-1910)
Ballade for flute and orchestra
Matej Zupan (flute), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, David de Villiers (conductor)
5:16 am
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)
In the Mists
David Kadouch (piano)
5:32 am
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Nocturnes for orchestra
Women's Voices of the NFM Chorus, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, José Maria Florêncio (conductor)
5:58 am
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Aria: "Was erblicke ich?" from the opera 'Daphne' Op 82
Ben Heppner (tenor), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
6:07 am
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
4 Mazurkas for piano Op 33
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
6:18 am
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Water Music - suite HWV.350 in G major
Collegium Aureum
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m0003dn6)
Friday - Georgia’s classical commute
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 (m0003dnb)
Ian Skelly
Ian Skelly 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 mathematician, writer and presenter Marcus du Sautoy.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0003dng)
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Paradise at last
Donald Macleod explores the significance of tango legend Astor Piazzolla’s summer retreat, a spot which proved to be both a source of inspiration and a bolthole for a world weary traveller.
All his life he fought against the tide, and in the end, he was the victor. Astor Piazzolla was a rebel with a cause. A virtuoso bandoneon player and a composer, he set out to break tango free from its roots, and make it a music with a future far beyond the dance halls and cafes of 1950s Buenos Aires. Hits like “Libertango” and collaborations with jazz giants like Gary Burton and Gerry Mulligan made his name beyond the tango world, while his classical compositions brought his instrument, the bandoneon critical acclaim in the concert hall. The secrets of musical technique came, he said, from his studies with French pedagogue, Nadia Boulanger and Argentinian composer, Alberto Ginastera but they also came from his teenage experiences in Buenos Aires, the city where had played bandoneon and arranged music for Anibal Troilo’s famous tango band.
Across the week Donald Macleod traces Astor Piazzolla’s life through five formative locations, New York, Buenos Aires, Paris, Rome and Punta del Este, all of which played an important part in shaping his music.
Bringing tango to an ever widening and appreciative audience, the constant touring began to take its toll on Piazzolla. The Uraguayan coastal resort of Punta del Este became the place where, in later years, he discovered he could compose and enjoy the fruits of this hard earned success.
Jeanne y Paul
Astor Piazzolla, bandoneon
Antonio Agri, violin
Hugo Baralis, violin
Néstor Panik, viola
José Bragato, cello
Enrique “Kicho” Díaz, bass
Oscar López Ruiz, electric guitar
Osvaldo Tarantino, piano
José Correale, drums, percussion
Resurreccion del Angel
Isabelle van Keulen Ensemble
Isabelle van Keulen violin
Christian Gerber bandoneon
Ulrike Payer piano
Rüdiger Ludwig double bass
Concerto for Bandoneon, String Orchestra & Percussion
First movement: Allegro marcato
Daniel Binelli, bandoneon
Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Le Grand Tango
Alban Gerhardt, cello
Rina Dokshinsky, piano
La Camorra II
Astor Piazzolla, bandoneon
Fernando Suarez Paz, violin
Pablo Ziegler, piano
Horacio Malvicino, guitar
Hector Console, bass
Five Tango Sensations
Asleep
Kronos Quartet
Astor Piazzolla, bandoneon
Libertango
Astor Piazzolla, bandoneon
Pablo Ziegler, piano
Fernando Suarez Paz, violin
Oscar Lopez Ruiz, guitar
Hector Console, bass
Producer: Johannah Smith, BBC Wales
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0003dnl)
Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music 2019
Mozart and Mendelssohn from Belfast
The final programme in our Lunchtime Concert series from this year's Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music recorded in the Harty Room at Queen's University. In today's recital we begin with Haydn's String Quartet in B minor Op. 64 No. 2, performed by the London Haydn Quartet, and to complete this week's series the Amatis Trio return with a performance of Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 49.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0003dnq)
Ulster Orchestra performs Ives, Bernstein and Dvorak
To finish this week of performances from the Ulster Orchestra, Jac van Steen leads the orchestra in 2 American classics by Ives and Bernstein, finishing with Dvorak’s great symphonic tribute to the New World, his Symphony No 9. For Mozart's great Piano Concerto No.24, the orchestra is joined by pianist Vikingur Olafsson.
Presented by Kate Molleson
Ives: The Unanswered Question
Bernstein: Serenade
Dvorak: Symphony No.9, Op.95, E minor (From the New World)
Baiba Skride (violin)
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)
3.25pm
Mozart's Piano Concerto No.24
Vikingur Olafsson (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Paya (conductor)
4.00pm
Balakirev: Tamara
Ulkster Orchestra
Olari Elts (conductor)
4.25pm
Fogg: Merok
Ulster Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
4.35pm
Debussy: Nuages from Nocturnes
Ulster Orchestra
Baldur Bronniman (conductor)
4.45pm
Norman Hay: Lament for Hugh Reynolds
Nicholas Chalmers (conductor)
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m0003dny)
Anais Gaudemard
Sean Rafferty presents top-class live performances by some of the world's finest musicians. Today, harpist Anais Gaudemard.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0003dp3)
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.
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0003dp9)
The Abandoned Lover
Abandoned heroines are the central figures in this programme, including iconic two characters from ancient Roman and Greek narratives: Dido, queen of Carthage, deserted by Aeneas in Virgil's epic The Aeneid; and the Cretan princess Arianna, left by Theseus on the island of Naxos while sleeping. Taking on these roles is the Croatian mezzo Renata Pokupić, accompanied by La Serenissima, a period-instrument ensemble that specialises in the music of Vivaldi and his contemporaries.
Recorded at Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
Vivaldi: Che giova il sospirar RV679
Marcello: Arianna abbandonata S98
Interval music
Alessandro Scarlatti: Notte ch'in carro d'ombre H480
Vivaldi: Concerto in A for strings and continuo RV158
Ristori: Didone abbandonata
Renata Pokupić (mezzo-soprano)
La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler (director)
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b0b5wk05)
Michael Ondaatje
In an extended interview, the Booker Prize winning poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje sits down with Ian McMillan to discuss the pleasure of naming characters, dark houses as settings, listeners in his fiction, his re-shaping of forms, and the enduring inspiration of music, along with other aspects of his writing process.
Michael is best known for his critically acclaimed novel, 'The English Patient', turned into an Oscar winning film starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, and now on the shortlist for the Golden Man Booker Prize - celebrating the past 50 years of winners.
One of the most important musical ideas that informs Michael's work comes from the jazz musician Ornette Coleman - who said that 'you begin with the territory and what follows is the adventure'. Ian riffs off the 'territory' outlined in Michael's rich and sensuous poem 'Death at Kataragama', and uses its themes to inspire an adventure through his books - starting with his first novel 'Coming Through Slaughter' and including his seventh, 'Warlight' (Cape), set in the aftermath of World War Two.
In this programme, Michael reads 'Death at Kataragama' from his poetry collection 'Handwriting' (Cape), from his novels 'Warlight', 'The English Patient', 'Coming Through Slaughter', and from his memoir 'Running in the Family'. We also hear extracts from 'In the Skin of a Lion' and his afterword to 'The Collected Works of Billy the Kid'.
Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Faith Lawrence
FRI 22:45 Mabinogi (m0003dph)
Part Five
Adapted by Lucy Catherine
From the Red Book of Hergest, these are the tales of the Mabinogi. Final episode of a new fantasy adventure series, based on the iconic work of medieval Welsh mythology.
As war between Wales and Ireland breaks out, Pryderi, Prince of Dyfed, joins the fleet from the Kingdom of Gwynedd to rescue Princess Branwen. The ships are led by the giant King Bran the Blessed, who wades across the Irish Sea.
The tales of the Mabinogi are tales of romance, tragedy, comedy and fantasy and together they form the earliest prose stories of Britain. Award-winning writer Lucy Catherine (The Master and Margherita, Being Human, Vanity Fair) gives these stories a modern flavour while remaining true to the vivid magic of Celtic mythology.
Pryderi…. Darragh Mortell
Brigid…. Aimee Ffion Edwards
Pwyll /Bran…. Robert Pugh
Branwen…. Rhian Blythe
Efnysien…. Richard Elfyn
Matholwch…. Stephen Hogan
Arawn…. John Cording
Directed by James Robinson
A BBC Cymru Wales Production
FRI 23:00 Music Planet (m0003dpp)
Jaune Toujours in session with Lopa Kothari
Lopa Kothari presents a specially recorded studio session by Belgian band Jaune Toujours, whose melting pot approach takes in Latin, reggae, punk and Balkan influences. Our Road Trip this week comes from Uganda where James Isabirye is our guide to the royal music traditions and how they've evolved in recent years. And our classic artist this week is Okinawan folk singer and sanshin player Seijin Noborikawa. Plus a selection of the latest releases from across the globe.
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. Whether it's traditional Indian ragas, Malian funk, UK folk or Cuban jazz, you'll hear it on Music Planet.