SUNDAY 21 APRIL 2019

SUN 00:00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz (m0004dp6)
Red Norvo

Red Norvo (1908-99) was a xylophone virtuoso who led a hit band and became “Mr. and Mrs. Swing” with vocal star Mildred Bailey. A featured soloist with Benny Goodman and Woody Herman, he later formed a ground-breaking trio with bassist Charles Mingus. Geoffrey Smith surveys a remarkable career.


SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m0004dp8)
JS Bach's Mass in B minor on Easter Sunday

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra directed by Ton Koopman performs Bach's B minor Mass. John Shea presents.

01:01 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Martha Bosch (soprano), Maarten Engeltjes (counter tenor), Tilman Lichdi (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass), Amsterdam Baroque Choir & Orchestra, Ton Koopman (conductor)

02:48 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Ferruccio Busoni (transcriber), Ferruccio Busoni (arranger)
Prelude & Fugue in D major (BWV.532) transcribed Busoni
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

03:01 AM
César Franck (1822-1890)
Quintet for piano and strings (M.7) in F minor
Cristina Ortiz (piano), Fine Arts Quartet

03:38 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Dichterliebe (Op.48) (song cycle)
Kevin McMillan (baritone), Michael McMahon (piano)

04:11 AM
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
Praeludium and Allegro in the Style of Pugnani
Barnabás Kelemen (violin), Zóltan Kocsis (piano)

04:17 AM
Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906-1994)
Portuguese Dances, Op 32 (1941)
Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Wolfgang Rennert (conductor)

04:24 AM
Alexander Albrecht (1885-1958)
Quintet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon (Op.6) (1913)
Bratislava Wind Quintet, Pavol Kovac (piano)

04:32 AM
Traditional, Steven Wingfield (arranger)
3 Bulgarian Dances arr. Wingfield for violin and guitar
Moshe Hammer (violin), William Beauvais (guitar)

04:39 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Rondo in C major B.27 (Op.73) arr. for 2 pianos
Andreas Staier (piano), Tobias Koch (piano)

04:50 AM
Willem De Fesch (1687-1761)
Concerto grosso for 2 violins, strings and continuo (Op.10 No.2) in B flat major
Manfred Krämer (violin), Laura Johnson (violin), Musica ad Rhenum

05:01 AM
Johan Svendsen (1840-1911)
Norwegian artists' carnival (Op.14)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)

05:08 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Pavan (Z.752) and Chacony (Z.730) for 4 instruments in G minor
London Baroque

05:16 AM
Carl Czerny (1791-1857)
Fantasie for 2 pianos in F minor (four hands)
Stefan Lindgren (piano), Daniel Propper (piano)

05:26 AM
Sigismondo d'India (c.1582-1629), Torquato Tasso (author)
Sovente, allor - from Le musiche ... da cantar solo (Milan 1609)
Consort of Musicke, Emma Kirkby (soprano), Tom Finucane (lute), Chris Wilson (lute), Frances Kelly (harp), Anthony Rooley (lute), Anthony Rooley (director)

05:36 AM
Veljo Tormis (1930-2017), V.Luik (author)
Sugismaastikud (Autumn landscapes)
Eesti Raadio Segakoor [Estonian Radio Choir], Toomas Kapten (conductor)

05:45 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Sonata for flute and continuo in A minor (Wq.128)
Robert Aitken (flute), Colin Tilney (harpsichord), Margaret Gay (cello)

05:55 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Symphony for String Orchestra No 9 in C minor
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, János Rolla (leader)

06:23 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata in A major D664
Zhang Zuo (piano)

06:41 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Violin Concerto in G, Hob. VIIa:4
Stefano Barneschi (violin), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (director)


SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m0004dpb)
Sunday - Elizabeth Alker

Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show including a Sunday morning Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m0004dpd)
Sarah Walker with Sibelius, Borodin and Gade

Sarah Walker’s Sunday morning selection includes Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No VI in E flat, and the ever popular Finlandia by Sibelius. There’s also Maurizio Pollini playing Prokofiev’s 7th Piano Sonata plus string quartet music by Borodin. The Sunday Escape features music by Niels Gade.


SUN 12:00 Private Passions (b05pqr6p)
Lucy Winkett

Michael Berkeley talks to the Reverend Lucy Winkett, the Rector of St James’s Church, Piccadilly, and formerly Canon Precentor of St Paul’s Cathedral, about her lifelong passion for music.

A classically trained soprano, she won a choral scholarship to Cambridge and subsequently studied at the Royal College of Music but gave up a career as a singer for the priesthood. The first woman to sing the Eucharist at St Paul’s Cathedral, she tells Michael about the opposition she faced from traditionalist members of the church, how she faced up to it, and the joy of being in charge of music at the Cathedral.

Lucy chooses music she’s sung, music that inspires her, and some - rather surprising - music that helps her prepare for Easter Day. Her choices include Gibbons, Messiaen, Rachmaninov, Bach, and a wonderful piece of early jazz from ‘Sister’ Winona Carr.

Producer: Jane Greenwood

A Loftus Production for BBC Radio 3


SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m00047vx)
The allure of flute, viola and harp

From Wigmore Hall, London, viola-player Tabea Zimmermann, flautist Adam Walker and harpist Agnès Clément play works by Debussy, Bax, Stravinsky and Gubaidulina.

Introduced by Fiona Talkington.

Bax: Elegiac Trio for flute, viola and harp
Debussy: Syrinx for solo flute
Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Stravinsky: Elegy for solo viola
Gubaidulina; Garten von Freuden und Traurigkeiten for flute, viola and harp

Tabea Zimmermann (viola)
Adam Walker (flute)
Agnès Clément (harp)

Works for the combination of flute, viola and harp are explored by three exceptional artists, with Debussy’s late Sonata (1915) and Bax’s Elegiac Trio (1916) interspersed with solo miniatures and preceding Sofia Gubaidulina’s haunting Garden of Joys and Sorrows (1980).


SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m0004dpg)
Tenebrae

As part of the BBC’s year-long season of Belief, Lucie Skeaping looks at the way composers have treated the Tenebrae services held during the last three days of Holy Week. With music by Gesualdo, Victoria, Tallis, Byrd, Lobo and Couperin.


SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m0004dpj)
Southwell Minster

Live from Southwell Minster on Easter Day.

Introit: Haec dies (Byrd)
Responses: Philip Moore
Office hymn: The day draws on (Resurrexit)
Psalm 105 (Murrill, Atkins)
First Lesson: Isaiah 43 vv.1-21
Canticles: Evening Service in D (Dyson)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15 vv.1-11
Anthem: Light of the world (Elgar)
Hymn: Love’s redeeming work is done (Savannah)
Voluntary: Choral-Improvisation sur le Victimae Paschali laudes (Tournemire)

Paul Provost (Rector Chori)
Simon Hogan (Assistant Director of Music)


SUN 16:00 Choir and Organ (m0004dpl)
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an irresistible mix of music and singing. This week's selection includes choral gems including both Handel’s Messiah and Bernstein’s West Side Story, and we go all quiet with Hush, no more by Purcell, and ending with a lullaby from Mary Poppins.

Produced by Luke Whitlock for BBC Wales.


SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m0004dpn)
Why are classical audiences so quiet?

Tom looks at how modern audiences are hooked on silence in the concert hall. Citing a recent incident where the rustling of a sweet wrapper by an audience member in Malmo created a ruckus so powerful that it spilled spectacularly into a violent brawl, Tom will examine why silence is considered so important and noise so abhorrent in classical concerts.


SUN 17:30 Words and Music (b07qblwf)
Pilgrimage

Robert Powell and Josette Simon with an anthology of words with music reflecting the spirit and idea of pilgrimage through the ages, from Canterbury to Graceland.

We begin in Kent, encountering some of Chaucer's famous travellers and music by George Dyson, a contemporary of Vaughan-Williams, whose "Canterbury Pilgrims" is his undoubted masterpiece. Music by Handel suggests the crusades matched with a marvellously researched French novel by Zoe Oldenbourg,

The story of Christian pilgrimage changes with the Reformation. Josette Simon reads an anonymous mediæval lament to the shrine at Walsingham, which also inspired recusant and keyboard composer William Byrd. Arguably the greatest of all English pilgrimage texts is that by John Bunyan, which inspired multiple pieces by Ralph Vaughan Williams. We hear his opera, A Pilgrim's Progress but you could say each of his musical settings of this text form a king of pilgrimage.

We also hear Joseph Conrad's powerful account of Muslims crossing terrible seas on the Hajj in Lord Jim and in contrast, the almost calming account of a visit to shrines by the 17th-century poet Matsuo Bashō - Japanese master of the haiku

Not all pilgrimages are religious and for the 19th-century Romantics, a journey to the "land where lemons grow" was de rigueur so I have chosen Lord Byron's Childe Harold, mirrored by the music of Berlioz and Liszt. And then there is the "temple" on the little hill at Bayreuth and Saint Wagner - as Mark Twain described the composer.

Our journey ends beside the grave of Oscar Wilde in Paris, now surrounded by plate glass to protect the Epstein monument from the pilgrims who come to kiss the stone with lipstick.

Producer: Chris Wines.

01 00:00 Sir George Dyson
The Canterbury Pilgrims – 1. Prologue
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard
Hickox

02 00:00
Julia Cartwright
- "(The Pilgrims' Way) First sight of Canterbury" read by
Josette Simon

03 00:01 Anon
Llibre Vermell de Montserrat - I)Procession des Pelerins II)
Cucti Simus Concanentes
Performer: Millenarium, Choeur De Chambre De Namur,
Psallentes & Les Pastoureaux, Christophe Deslignes

04 00:03
Geoffrey Chaucer (translated by Neville Coghill)
The Canterbury Tales - The Knight’s Prologue read by Robert
Powell

05 00:03 George Frideric Handel
Rinaldo - Act 1: "Combatti da forte"
Performer: Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Academy of Ancient Music
directed by Christopher Hogwood

06 00:06
Zoe Oldenbourg (translated by Anne Laurel Carter)
Heirs to the Kingdom read by Josette Simon

07 00:06 Anon
Llibre Vermell de Montserrat - Bal Redon
Performer: Millenarium, Choeur De Chambre De Namur,
Psallentes & Les Pastoureaux, Christophe Deslignes

08 00:12 Sir George Dyson
The Canterbury Pilgrims – 6. Wife of Bath
Performer: Yvonne Kenny (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Richard Hickox

09 00:12
Geoffrey Chaucer (translated by Neville Coghill)
The Canterbury Tales - The Wife of Bath’s Prologue read by
Josette Simon

10 00:15 Guillaume Dufay
O gemma, lux et speculum
Performer: Huelgas Ensemble directed by Paul Van Nevel

11 00:15
Geoffrey Chaucer (translated by Neville Coghill)
The Canterbury Tales - The Summoner’s Prologue read by
Robert Powell

12 00:15
Geoffrey Chaucer (translated by Neville Coghill)
The Canterbury Tales - The Pardoner’s Prologue read by
Robert Powell

13 00:16
Geoffrey Chaucer (translated by Neville Coghill)
The Canterbury Tales - The Pardoner’s Prologue read by
Josette Simon

14 00:16
Geoffrey Chaucer (translated by Neville Coghill)
The Canterbury Tales - The Pardoner’s Prologue read by
Robert Powell

15 00:16 Oliver Knussen
Variations on Sumer Is Icumen In - Theme
Performer: BBCSO conducted by Jac van Steen

16 00:16
Geoffrey Chaucer (translated by Neville Coghill)
The Canterbury Tales - The Parson’s Prologue read by Josette
Simon

17 00:17
Geoffrey Chaucer (translated by Neville Coghill)
The Canterbury Tales - The Plowman’s Prologue read by
Robert Powell

18 00:18
William Langland (translated by JF William Goodridge)
Piers The Plowman read by Robert Powell

19 00:18 Robin Holloway
Variations on Sumer Is Icumen In – Variation 2
Performer: BBCSO conducted by Jac van Steen

20 00:20 Trad
Walsingham
Performer: Emily Van Evera

21 00:20 William Corkine
Walsingham
Performer: Latitude 37

22 00:20
Anon
"A Lament for Our Lady's Shrine at Walsingham" read by
Josette Simon

23 00:22 William Byrd
Walsingham (MB8)
Performer: Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

24 00:26 Ralph Vaughan Williams
Pilgrim's Progress – Prologue
Performer: Peter Colman-Wright (baritone), The Royal Opera
House Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox

25 00:30 Arne Sandström
The Voyage of the Mayflower 1620
Performer: Alex Wennerlund (guitar and vocals)

26 00:34
Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim read by Robert Powell

27 00:35 Harry Gregson-Williams
The Kingdom of Heaven (OST) – “Saladin”
Performer: Studio Orchestra conducted by the composer

28 00:37 James Ashley Franklin
Peace Bell
Performer: James Ashley Franklin (Shakuhachi and bell)

29 00:38
Basho
Narrow Road To The Deep North read by Josette Simon

30 00:41
Basho
Narrow Road To The Deep North read by Robert Powell

31 00:42 André Previn
3 Dickinson Songs - 2. "Will there really be a morning?"
Performer: Rene Fleming (soprano), Andre Previn (piano)

32 00:43 Richard Wagner
Tannhauser – Act 2. Entry of the Guest
Performer: Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden,
Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli

33 00:44
Mark Twain
At The Shrine of St Wagner read by Robert Powell

34 00:54 Hector Berlioz
Harold in Italy – 1. “Harold In The Mountains”
Performer: Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique conducted
by John Eliot Gardiner

35 00:54
Lord Byron
Childe Harold read by Robert Powell

36 00:59 Piotr Tchaikovsky
Souvenir de Florence op70 – 1st mvt
Performer: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Iona
Brown

37 00:59
EM Forster
A Room With A View read by Josette Simon

38 01:02 Francis Poulenc
Improvisation No 15 in C minor - "Homage a Piaf".
Performer: Pascal Roge (piano)

39 01:03
Carol Ann Duffy
Père Lachaise read by Robert Powell

40 01:05 Paul Simon
Graceland
Performer: Paul Simon

41 01:09
Erika Doss
Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World: New Itineraries
Into the Sacred read by Josette Simon

42 01:10 Mickey Newbury
American Trilogy
Performer: Elvis Presley

43 01:12 Trad (arr Martin Simpson)
To Be A Pilgrim
Performer: Martin Simpson (guitar)

44 01:13
Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit read by Robert Powell


SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m0004dpr)
Hotel Genius

It’s been described as one of the most remarkable collections of minds on the planet. It has a brilliant international faculty, but no students. Its researchers have made some of the most significant scientific discoveries of the 20th century, but it has never had a laboratory.

Sally Marlow joins scholars for the start of a new term at The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton New Jersey, conceived as a paradise for curiosity-driven research in mathematics, natural sciences, social science and history.

The Institute has more than once been called an Intellectual Hotel, and that certainly captures its leisurely pace, but appearances can be deceptive. Scholars here have an extraordinary ability to work on what everyone else is looking at, but to see something differently. Since its founding in 1930, it’s been home to a remarkable number of world-class thinkers, the most famous of whom was Albert Einstein who exerted a gravitational pull on attracting many scientists of promise to the Institute.

From John von Neumann, widely credited with inventing the programmable computer, to J. Robert Oppenheimer, lead architect of the atomic bomb, to the surprise arrival of poet and playwright T.S. Eliot - the Institute’s first Artist in Residence, Sally Marlow gets beneath the skin of some of its rich history and its extraordinary ethos, wondering how the weight of the past plays out on those bright minds there today.

As a scholar herself at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, Sally knows that space and time to think is becoming increasingly challenged, So what happens when you turn thinkers loose from the constraints of a traditional academic institution?

And amidst the Institute’s hotbed of string theorists, she seeks answers to Einstein’s biggest, most tantalising question of all - whether there's a grand, all-embracing theory, a unified theory of everything, that will complete our understanding of the laws of the universe.

Featuring interviews with Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the IAS, Myles Jackson, Professor of History of Science, Joan Scott Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science, particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamid, Freeman Dyson, retired theoretical physicist, historian George Dyson , Christina Sormani, Professor of Maths at City University New York, archivist Casey Westerman and composer and former artist in residence Derek Bermel.


SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m0004dpt)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Gentlemen of Verona is considered to be one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays and is paired next week with a production of The Two Noble Kinsmen which was his last play and widely considered to have been written with the up and coming writer John Fletcher. Director Celia De Wolff was keen to present the two plays together as they share common themes of men and women falling for the same lover, cunning disguises and betrayal within friendships. She has recorded both productions entirely on location in the Sussex Countryside with the same band of actors giving a sense that they are being presented by a group of strolling players.

The Plot

Two young men, Valentine and Proteus, make their way from Verona to Milan. Valentine's father is sending him to take a position in the Duke of Milan's court, and Proteus accompanies him reluctantly, not wanting to leave his beloved Julia. While in Milan, Valentine falls for the Duke's daughter, Silvia.. Silvia is betrothed to Thurio, a wealthy courtier, although Silvia prefers Valentine. The two decide to elope, and Valentine confides in Proteus; Proteus, however, has fallen in love himself with Silvia. In order to get Valentine out of the way, Proteus tells the Duke of Valentine’s feelings and he is banished and Silvia is sent to a jail, and Proteus becomes the Duke’s confidante in matters concerning Thurio and Silvia.

Valentine joins a band of outlaws and is elected their leader. Julia disguised as a boy page enters Milan in search of Proteus, who is trying unsuccessfully to woo Silvia on the sly. Silvia, on the other hand, still longs for Valentine, and cares nothing for Proteus or Thurio. Julia, ironically now in service as a page to Proteus, becomes an intermediary between Proteus and Silvia. Silvia finally tires of the situation and escapes Milan in search of Valentine. As fate would have it, Silvia is captured by Valentine's band of outlaws.

The Duke soon learns of Silvia's escape, and he, Proteus, and Thurio all set off to rescue her. Proteus finds Silvia before the outlaws can bring her to Valentine. Valentine encounters them as Proteus makes the case for his love to Silvia; the two confront and eventually make peace with each other. In a gesture of reconciliation, Valentine even offers Silvia to Proteus, which causes Julia (who is still disguised as the page) to faint and Proteus recognizes her, much to his shame. The Duke and Thurio arrive but Thurio backs off his claim to Silvia when challenged by Valentine. As the play ends, Valentine gets Silvia with the Duke's approval, Proteus and Julia are reconciled, and the Duke grants a pardon to the band of outlaws.

JULIA ..... Lyndsey Marshal
SILVIA ..... Kate Phillips
PROTEUS ..... Blake Ritson
VALENTINE ..... Nikesh Patel
SPEED ..... Ray Fearon
LUCETTA ..... Emma Fielding
DUKE ..... Hugh Ross
PANTHINO .....Daniel Ryan
THURIO ..... Oliver Chris
HOST ..... Sara Markland
LAUNCE ..... Sam Dale
EGLAMOUR ..... Carl Prekopp
ANTONIO ..... Pip Donaghy

Written by William Shakespeare
Adapted for Radio by Sara Davies
Sound design by David Thomas
Directed by Celia de Wolff
A Pier Production for BBC Radio 3


SUN 21:20 Early Music Late (m0004dpw)
Avi Avital and Les Violons du Roi

Mandolin player Avi Avital joins Les Violons du Roi for a concert in Montreal including pieces by Handel, Vivaldi, Durante, Paisiello and Avison. Presented by Simon Heighes.


SUN 23:00 Unclassified (m0004dpy)
Fade to Black

As the weekend fades to black join Elizabeth Alker for this hour long sonic exploration.

Tonight's episode features the first ever play of music from Daniel Elms's forthcoming album Islandia, inspired by The North Sea, the post-industrial landscapes of the North of England, the people the ocean brings us and the places it takes us.

We celebrate the work of Adrian Henri with Thurston Moore and the Whitechapel Gallery, Rafiq Bhatia blends avant-garde jazz and electronic composition and we chase the drone from New York to Manchester with William Basinski.

Also in this episode, Erland Cooper transports us to the beautiful and bleak Orkneys and on a musical journey around it's sheltered bays and coves which look out over deadly sea mists. And we look forwards to a tour by American composer and multi-instrumentalist Julia Holter and back to a very special live performance of new music by Bryce Dessner.