SUNDAY 05 MAY 2019

SUN 00:00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz (m0004s6g)
Pat Metheny

A fusion super-star, guitarist Pat Metheny has won huge audiences with a style that blends pulsating rhythm, gorgeous colours and sweeping melodies. Combining the energy of rock with a virtuoso jazz technique, he’s produced a string of hits adored by both fans and fellow musicians. Geoffrey Smith selects highlights from an epic career.


SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m0004s6s)
Mendelssohn's Octet

Two American Quartets, the Jasper and the Jupiter, join forces in Mendelssohn's Octet. With Catriona Young.

01:01 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in F, Op.77, No 2,
Jasper Quartet

01:28 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
String Octet in E flat Op.20
Jasper Quartet, Jupiter Quartet

02:02 AM
George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931)
Symphony No.2 in B flat major (Op.21) (1886)
Albany Symphony Orchestra, Julius Hegyi (conductor)

02:39 AM
Lou Harrison (1917-2003)
Harp Suite (1952-1977)
David Tannenbaum (guitar), William Winant (percussion), Scott Evans (percussion), Joel Davel (drums)

02:55 AM
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)
Pasquinade (c.1863)
Michael Lewin (piano)

03:01 AM
Toivo Kuula (1883-1918)
Orjan poika Op.14 (1910)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Suomen Laula Choir, Jussi Jalas (conductor)

03:26 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Rakastava - suite for string orchestra (Op.14)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)

03:40 AM
Ernst Mielck (1877-1899)
Concert piece for piano and orchestra (Op.9)
Liisa Pohjola (piano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor)

04:07 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in G minor for Strings and continuo (RV.157)
Il Giardino Armonico

04:13 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Allegro moderato (Song without words), Op 8, No 1 (1840)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)

04:18 AM
Jacobus Gallus Carniolus (1550-1591)
2 Motets from Opus Musicum
Ljubljanski madrigalisti, Matjaz Scek (director)

04:23 AM
Petko Stainov (1896-1977)
Paidoushko Horo
Bulgarian Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)

04:26 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto No.5 in F minor (BWV.1056) (Moderato; Largo; Presto)
Angela Hewitt (piano), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

04:37 AM
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
The Three Wonders from The tale of Tsar Saltan - suite (Op.57)
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

04:45 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Rondo a capriccio in G major Op.129 (Rage over a lost penny) for piano
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

04:51 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Lascia la spina, from Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno
Julia Lezhneva (soprano), Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

05:01 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Overture (Der Schauspieldirektor, K486)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivor Bolton (conductor)

05:06 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Introduction and allegro
Tinka Muradori (flute), Josip Nochta (clarinet), Paula Uršic (harp), Zagreb String Quartet

05:17 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Intermezzo (Op.117 No.1) in E flat major "Schlummerlied"
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)

05:24 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op.90 (Italian)
Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

05:52 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op 6, No 4
Sixth Floor Ensemble, Anssi Mattila (conductor)

06:03 AM
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)
Vlci stopa (The wolf's trail) for soprano, female choir & piano
Susse Lillesøe (soprano), Danish National Radio Choir, Per Salo (piano), Stefan Parkman (conductor)

06:11 AM
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
For Children - Book 1 (nos.1-6)
Martá Fábián (cimbalom), Agnes Szakaly (cimbalom)

06:16 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Children's Corner
Roger Woodward (piano)

06:34 AM
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
String Sextet in C, Op 140
Wiener Streichsextett (sextet)


SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m0004s3s)
Sunday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley 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 (m0004s41)
Sarah Walker with Schutz, Stravinsky and Albeniz

Sarah Walker’s Sunday morning selection includes the Aria from Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre’s Violin Sonata No.1 in D Minor and a baroque choral gem from Heinrich Schutz. There’s also more orchestral music from Stravinsky and Brahms. The Sunday Escape features music by Albeniz from Iberia.


SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m0004s49)
Barbara Hosking

Barbara Hosking was born above her father’s dairy in Penzance, back in the 1920s, and ended up in the corridors of power serving two British Prime Ministers. Two years ago, at the age of ninety, she decided to come out as gay, which, she says, is the best thing she’s ever done.

Barbara Hosking talks to Michael Berkeley about moving from Cornwall to a new world in London after the War, meeting Eastern European emigres, and discovering lesbian clubs where women could dance together openly. All sorts of women were there, from the posh to the very poor, from “respectable” women to prostitutes. Despite her early Labour party affiliation, she found herself working for Edward Heath, whom she admired greatly, and who she persuaded not to wear a terrible old cardigan when he was conducting with the London Symphony Orchestra. She talks too about finding happiness late in life with her partner Margaret.

Music choices include Edward Heath conducting Elgar, Strauss’s opera Ariadne Auf Naxos, Schubert’s Winterreise, and Britten’s Billy Budd. And a love song in Yiddish, a language she taught herself and which she loves.

Producer: Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3


SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0004lts)
Two Romantic song cycles

From Wigmore Hall, London, introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

In February 1840, Robert Schumann wrote to his fiancée the virtuoso pianist Clara Wieck that he had just completed a large cycle of song setting poems by Heinrich Heine. This was the Liederkreis Op. 24, and it would be his first published song cycle. 1840 was Schumann’s 'Liederjahr', his year of song, during which he composed over 125 songs and this somewhat lesser-known set is full of pathos. Fauré's Verlaine settings of 1892-4 are dedicated to the singer Emma Bardac, with whom Fauré was in love at the time. (After her affair with Fauré, Emma met Claude Debussy whom she would eventually marry.) These two passionate song-cycles are performed by two exceptional artists: Eric le Sage, the French pianist especially admired for his interpretations of Schumann and Faure; and Julien Prégardien, the German tenor lauded for his versatility of repertoire.

Robert Schumann: Liederkreis Op. 24
Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne No. 6 in D flat Op. 63
La bonne chanson Op. 61

Julian Prégardien (tenor)
Eric Le Sage (piano)


SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (b095q2x6)
Giovanni Carbonelli

Lucie Skeaping talks to violinist Bojan Cicic and musicologist Michael Talbot about the life and music of the Italian violinist and composer Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli who came to London and played in the orchestra for many of Handel's works, and had a second career as a vintner and purveyor of fine wines to the royal court.

01 00:05:36 Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso In D Major Op.6`4
Ensemble: Avison Ensemble
Director: Pavlo Beznosiuk
Duration 00:01:46

02 00:11:29 Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli
Sonata No 3
Performer: Bojan Čičić
Ensemble: The Illyria Consort
Duration 00:09:07

03 00:24:12 George Frideric Handel
Deborah - Oratorio In 3 Acts
Ensemble: Barockorchester Frankfurt
Conductor: Joachim Carlos Martini
Duration 00:02:15

04 00:28:02 Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli
Sonata No. 7
Performer: Helene Schmitt
Performer: Andrea Marchiol
Performer: Gaetano Nasillo
Performer: Karl-Ernst Schröder
Duration 00:09:58

05 00:39:16 Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto In B Flat Major Rv366 'Ii Carbonelli' - 1st Movement (Allegro)
Performer: Alberto Martini
Ensemble: Accademia I Filarmonici
Duration 00:03:45

06 00:45:19 Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli
Sonata No. 4 In G Minor For Violin And Continuo
Performer: Bojan Čičić
Ensemble: The Illyria Consort
Duration 00:09:03

07 00:58:09 William Boyce
Praise The Lord, O Jerusalem - Coronation Anthem For Chorus And Orchestra
Choir: Choir of New College Oxford
Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music
Conductor: Edward Higginbottom
Duration 00:03:15


SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m0004m7f)
RSCM at Hereford Cathedral (1990 Archive)

An archive recording from Hereford Cathedral with the Choir of the 1990 Royal School of Church Music Summer Course (first broadcast 29 August 1990).

Responses: Sanders
Psalms 142, 143 (Battishill, How)
First Lesson: 2 Samuel 18 v.19 – 19 v.8a
Second Lesson: Acts 4 vv.23-31
Canticles: Atkins in G
Anthem: The Lord Is My Shepherd (Stanford)
Voluntary: Toccata in D minor (Buxtehude)

Martin How (Director)
Peter King (Organist)


SUN 16:00 Choir and Organ (m0004s4v)
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a selection of organ favourites and new discoveries, including works by Muhly, Vierne and McCabe.

Produced by Steven Rajam for BBC Wales


SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m0004s54)
What is Sound Art? And why?

Tom Service considers the rise of Sound Art, commonly found in art galleries today, and wonders whether it is a new genre or simply music in an art space? He consults musician and sound artist Mark Fell, finds precedents in Wagner's operas, considers how a 16th century choral work became a contemporary art installation, and celebrates the American performance artist Laurie Anderson who accidentally had a pop hit with her piece O Superman.


SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m0004s5l)
Out of My Head

Out of My Head is a binaural journey about intoxication and inspiration.
Like any good party we begin with an invitation from Kurt Weill as he staggers from bar to bar in Alabama Song. He’s joined by Baudelaire and Rimbaud but age and time are elastic and before long we are battering down Huxley’s Doors of Perception and entering the psychedelic realm of Jefferson Airplane. It will sound like it too, particularly if you put on headphones, as the programme is a binaural transmission. You will hear the sun moving across the stereo picture talking to Frank O’Hara and nightingales jamming with Clive Bell’s shakuhachi flute; you will hear rain and footsteps as you enter the upside down world of Thomas Traherne's great metaphysical poem, Shadows in the Water. Imagination is our vehicle – the imagination that leads Sasha Dugdale to conjure the grieving spirit of William Blake’s wife, Catherine: or allows us to leap with Anne Sexton into the heart and mind of an old woman stricken with Alzheimer’s but still able to recall a favourite tune as writers conjure different images of mental health.

The voices you’ll be hearing in your head are those of the actors Grace Cookey-Gam and Toby Jones.
Producers: Zahid Warley, Christopher Rouse and Georgia Mann Smith

READINGS:
Baudelaire - Be Drunk
Aldous Huxley - Doors of Perception
Rimbaud - Deregulation of the Senses
Lewis Carroll - The Hunting of the Snark
Emily Dickinson - The brain is wider than the sky
James Merrill - Voices from the Other World
Shakespeare - Ophelia's soliloquy from Hamlet
Sasha Dugdale - From Joy
Anne Sexton - Mister Wait
Rumi - The Turn
Clare Shaw - Tree
Frank O'Hara - A True Account of Talking to the Sun on Fire Island
Thomas Traherne - Shadows in the Water

01 Kurt Weill
Alabama Song
Performer: Lotte Lenya
Duration 00:00:53

02 Kurt Weill
Alabama Song
Performer: The Doors
Duration 00:00:53

03 Kurt Weill
Alabama Song
Performer: Ute Lemper
Duration 00:00:53

04 00:00:53
Charles Baudelaire
Be Drunk read by Toby Jones.
Duration 00:01:36

05 00:02:29 Kurt Weill
Alabama Song
Performer: Lotte Lenya
Duration 00:02:03

06 00:02:29 Kurt Weill
Alabama Song
Performer: The Doors
Duration 00:02:03

07 00:02:29 Kurt Weill
Alabama Song
Performer: Ute Lemper
Duration 00:02:03

08 00:04:32
Aldous Huxley
Extract from The Doors of Perception read by Toby Jones.
Duration 00:02:44

09 00:07:16 Grace Slick
White Rabbit
Performer: Jefferson Airplane
Duration 00:02:32

10 00:09:48
Arthur Rimbaud
Extract from letter – deregulation of the senses read by Grace Cookey-Gam.
Duration 00:01:04

11 00:10:52 Cecil Taylor
Jitney No. 2
Performer: Cecil Taylor
Duration 00:03:25

12 00:14:17
Lewis Carroll
From The Hunting of the Snark read by Grace Cookey-Gam.
Duration 00:02:12

13 00:16:29 Oliver Knussen
Fanfare 1-Overture from Higglety Pigglety Pop!
Performer: London Sinfonietta
Duration 00:02:52

14 00:19:21
Emily Dickinson
The Brain is wider than the sky read by Grace Cookey-Gam.
Duration 00:00:35

15 00:19:56 Alvin Lucier
I am Sitting in a Room extract
Performer: Alvin Lucier
Duration 00:05:04

16 00:21:58
James Merrill
Voices from the Other World read by Toby Jones.
Duration 00:03:17

17 00:25:10 Arnold Schoenberg
Verklarte Nacht- Breiter
Performer: Juilliard String Quartet
Duration 00:05:58

18 00:31:08
Shakespeare
Hamlet Act IV scene 5 – Ophelia’s madness read by Grace Cookey-Gam.
Duration 00:02:21

19 00:33:29 Hans Abrahamsen
Let me Tell you How it is
Performer: Barbara Hannigan
Performer: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Duration 00:05:04

20 00:38:47
Sasha Dugdale
From Joy read by Grace Cookey-Gam.
Duration 00:03:08

21 00:41:58 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Nothing without You (Tery Bina)
Performer: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Duration 00:05:01

22 00:46:55
Anne Sexton
Music Swims Back to Me read by Grace Cookey-Gam.
Duration 00:02:05

23 00:47:21 Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster
Secret Love
Performer: Doris Day
Duration 00:03:35

24 00:50:56
Rumi
The Turn read by Grace Cookey-Gam
Duration 00:02:41

25 00:51:01 William Duckworth
Time Curve Prelude 7
Performer: Katia Labèque
Duration 00:02:59

26 00:53:44 Nightingales from Slow Listening on BBC Radio 3
Improvisation with nightingales
Performer: Clive Bell
Duration 00:04:21

27 00:54:12
Clare Shaw
Tree read by Grace Cookey-Gam
Duration 00:01:56

28 00:58:05
Frank O’Hara
A True Account of Talking to the Sun on Fire Island read by Toby Jones.
Duration 00:04:48

29 01:02:53 Hildegard von Bingen
Ignis Spiritus
Performer: Gothic Voices
Duration 00:04:44

30 01:07:37 Arvo Pärt
Spiegel im Spiegel
Performer: Bournemouth Sinfonietta
Duration 00:04:46

31 01:07:42
Thomas Traherne
Shadows in the Water read by Toby Jones.
Duration 00:04:41

32 01:12:23 György Kurtág
fin fond de neant
Performer: György Kurtág
Duration 00:01:24


SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m0000h9m)
John Ashbery - Portrait in a Convex Mirror

John Ashbery is one of the towering figures in American poetry of the last 50 years. Up until his death in September 2017 at the age of 90, he produced a vast and hugely acclaimed body of poetry and prose, often characterised as a surrealist river of ideas and playfulness: the reader tossed around, seldom entirely sure what's going on, yet swept along by the sheer exuberance and mischievous glint of Ashbery’s writing.

The life story is compelling: from an isolated farm in upstate New York, and a childhood family tragedy, a gifted young writer went to Harvard, and found himself in a class of soon-to-be-successful literary talents. There were years in Paris, and then home to the buzzing experimentalism of Warhol’s New York.

In a writing career whose trajectory took him from enfant terrible to national treasure, Ashbery achieved a dazzling string of literary successes including a 1976 Pulitzer; and at a point where alcohol-fuelled self-destruction was ominously close, Ashbery met David Kermani, the man who would become his partner for nearly fifty years.
Together they eloped upstream from Manhattan, and bought a house at Hudson, on the banks of the river. It would become a magical space: gallery, museum, studio, and home. From it, the couple would build on Ashbery’s achievements of the 50s, 60s, and 70s by providing a stable and happy place from which to continue writing, but also to provide lavish and warm welcomes for a constant stream of guests.

Standing squarely in a long and distinguished tradition of American poetics, and making a vivid and distinctive contribution to it, Ashbery was strongly influenced by John Cage, Abstract Expressionism, Warhol’s progressive modernism, surrealism, the daily clashing of high and low culture, and the sheer joy of being alive. His audacious mastery of the English language dances on the page; and one of his greatest qualities, perhaps, was an irrepressible playfulness.

Drawing on the testimony of many who knew him, including Ann Lauterbach, Karin Roffman, Robert Polito, John Yau, and Mark Ford, Colm Toibin draws on his own memories of Ashbery to present an intimate portrait of the brilliant, unpredictable, mischievous, Pulitzer-winning American poet.

Produced in Cardiff by Steven Rajam and Lyndon Jones


SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m0004s60)
Coriolanus

Shakespeare's penetrating portrayal of political turmoil in a society at war with itself. Coriolanus, a great martial hero, is banished by those he despises, the common people of Rome. Disaster must surely follow.

Coriolanus . . . Trystan Gravelle
Volumnia . . . Diana Rigg
Menenius . . . James Fleet
Cominius . . . Paul Hilton
Sicinius . . . Tony Turner
Brutus . . . Joel MacCormack
Lartius . . . David Hounslow
Aufidius . . . Ray Fearon
Virgilia . . . Clare Corbett
Valeria . . . Susan Jameson
Gentlewoman . . . Franchi Webb
with
Michael Bertenshaw, Kenny Blyth, Joseph Ayre and Christopher Harper

Introduction by Natalie Haynes

Directed by Marc Beeby


SUN 22:00 Radio 3 in Concert (m0004s6b)
Stravinsky's Firebird, Beethoven's Quintet in E flat

Fiona Talkington presents the Spanish 'Azahar' Wind Ensemble in a witty and characterful arrangement of one of Beethoven's early chamber works, and that's followed by Stravinsky's Firebird Suite from the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra and Iván Fischer.

Beethoven
arr, Mordechai Rechtman
Quintet in E flat major (Op.4)
Azahar Ensemble

Stravinsky
Firebird Suite (1919)
Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra
Iván Fischer


SUN 23:00 Unclassified (m0004s6p)
Ancient Techniques, Futuristic Sounds

In this episode we'll scour the chalk heaths of Buckinghamshire for strange new sounds with Hannah Peel and poet Will Burns. Daniel Wohl defies time and space; merging ancient techniques with futuristic electronic sounds, and we have a music from a very important album for now by Matthew Herbert.

Also in this programme, a Norfolk folk song as you've never heard it before in an interpretation for double bass, brand new music by Plaid, violinist Galya Bisengalieva reaches for her roots and turns her violin into a winged horse of Kazakh mythology, and we find out what happens when an accordion, a celtic harp, marimba, vibraphone and musical saw walk into a village chapel. Elizabeth Alker presents.

Programme:
Stephen O'Malley: Sometimes
Adrian lan: As Sand With Salt
Hania Rani: Esja
James Joys: A Constellation Of Bargained Parts
Koreless: 4d