SATURDAY 13 JULY 2019
SAT 00:30 Music Planet World Mix (m0006mzf)
Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou, Njava, Caetano Veloso
Global beats and roots music from every corner of the world, including Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou, Blackstone, JPP, Njava, Kalman Balogh, Caetano Veloso, Black Flower, Sevinc Uygur & Semeyda Ensemble
SAT 01:00 Through the Night (m0006mzh)
Croatian Quartets
John Shea presents a concert given in Zagreb by the Sebastian String Quartet, featuring quartets by Boris Papandopulo and Tchaikovsky.
01:01 AM
Georg Karl Wisner von Morgenstern (1783-1855)
Quatuor 'Allegro for String Quartet'
Sebastian String Quartet
01:07 AM
Davorin Kempf (1947-)
Contrapunctus primus
Sebastian String Quartet
01:22 AM
Boris Papandopulo (1906-1991)
Quartet for Guitar and String Trio
Sebastian String Quartet, Kresimir Bedek (guitar)
01:37 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
String Quartet No 1 in D, Op 11
Sebastian String Quartet
02:06 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Piano Concerto no 1 in B flat minor, Op 23
Stephen Hough (piano), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, John Storgards (conductor)
02:38 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Ballade in G minor (Op.24)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
03:01 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Musical Offering in C minor, BWV 1079
Nova Stravaganza, Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Lisa Marie Landgraf (violin), Dimitri Dichtiar (cello), Siegbert Rampe (harpsichord)
03:49 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Belshazzar's feast suite, Op 51
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
04:05 AM
Judith Weir (1954-)
String quartet
Silesian Quartet
04:17 AM
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016)
One star, at last
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
04:21 AM
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Rhapsody No.1 in D flat (Op.17 No.1)
Ian Sadler (organ)
04:27 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (author)
Gesang der Geistern über den Wassern, Op 167
Estonian National Male Choir, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Juri Alperten (director)
04:37 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No.5 in B flat major K.22
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Ernest Bour (conductor)
04:45 AM
Uros Krek (1922-2008)
Sonatina for Strings
Slovenian Philharmonic String Chamber Orchestra, Andrej Petrac (artistic leader)
05:01 AM
Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
Gloria from Mass Puer natus est nobis for 7 voices
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
05:10 AM
Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-)
Gloria for SSAA, brass quintet, timpani & percussion
Elmer Iseler Singers, Robert Venables (trumpet), Robert Devito (trumpet), Linda Broncesky (horn), Ian Cowie (trombone), Marc Bonang (tuba), Graham Hargrove (percussion), Nicolas Coulter (percussion), Lydia Adams (conductor)
05:17 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Danse sacree et danse profane for harp and strings
Eva Maros (harp), Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Unknown (conductor)
05:27 AM
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus (No 5, Quatuor pour la fin du temps)
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Zhang Zuo (piano)
05:36 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), William Shakespeare (author)
3 Shakespeare songs for chorus
Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor)
05:43 AM
Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674)
Vanitas vanitatum
Olga Pasiecznik (soprano), Marta Boberska (soprano), Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble, Agata Sapiecha (director)
05:54 AM
Anonymous
Diferencias sobre las Vacas (instrumental)
Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (director)
05:56 AM
Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915)
Sonata no 9 in F major "Black Mass", Op 68
Tanel Joamets (piano)
06:06 AM
John Thrower (b.1951)
Improvisation on a Blue Theme
Joaquin Valdepenas (clarinet), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
06:23 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F, BWV.1047
Ars Barocca
06:34 AM
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Symphony "Mathis der Maler"
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m0006sbf)
Saturday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
SAT 09:00 Record Review (m0006sbh)
Andrew McGregor with Iain Burnside and Nigel Simeone
9.00am
‘Haydn – Piano Sonatas vol. 8’ – Haydn: Sonata Nos. 5, 51, 6, 7 & 59 + other works for piano
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano
Chandos CHAN 20087
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2020087
Tavener: The Protecting Veil, Mother and Child; Khan: The Song of Separation and Waiting + readings of Yeats poems
Matthew Barley (cello)
Sukhvinder ‘Pinky Sing (tabla)
Sinfonietta Riga (ensemble)
Signum Classics SIGCD585
https://signumrecords.com/product/6863/SIGCD585/
‘Handel’s Queens’ – Arias for Cuzzoni & Bordoni by Pollarolo, Handel, Hasse, Porpora, Orlandini, Vivaldi, Torri, Bononcini, Ariosti, Leo & Greene
Lucy Crowe (soprano / Cuzzoni)
Mary Bevan (soprano / Bordoni)
London Early Opera
Bridget Cunningham (director)
Signum Classics SIGCD579 (2 CDs)
https://signumrecords.com/product/handels-queens/SIGCD579/
‘Gateways’ – Chen: The Five Elements & The Joy of Suffering; Kreisler: Tambourin Chinois, Op. 3; Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Maxim Vengerov (violin)
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
Long Yu (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 483 6606
https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/gb/cat/4836606
9.30am Building a Library: Iain Burnside listens to and compares recordings of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs.
Strauss composed his great swansong for the female voice when he was 84. They are settings of the German poets Hermann Hesse and Joseph von Eichendorff and the themes of death and reconciliation are portrayed in music of the most aching wistfulness and melancholy. They were more or less his final completed works and are among the most popular pieces in the orchestral song repertoire. The list of sopranos who have recorded these songs is a roll call of the most beautiful voices of the last 70 years. Iain Burnside has a very difficult choice to make.
10.20am New Releases
J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I (concert recording)
Keith Jarrett (piano)
ECM 481 8016 (2 CDs)
https://www.ecmrecords.com/catalogue/1552567254
Mysliveček: Adamo ed Eva
Roberta Mameli (soprano)
Alice Rossi (soprano)
Luciana Mancini (mezzo-soprano)
Valerio Contaldo (tenor)
Il Gardellino (ensemble)
Peter van Heyghen (conductor)
Passacaille PAS 1053 (2 CDs)
https://www.passacaille.be/gb/home/271-adamo-eva-josef-myslivecek-il-gardellino-josef-myslivecek-1737-1781-adamo-ed-evaoratorio-for-four-voices-1771-world-premiere-rec.html
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor; Chausson: Piano Trio in G minor
Vienna Piano Trio
MDG 942 2130-6 (Hybrid SACD)
https://www.mdg.de/titel/2130.htm
‘Bach:Reflected – Improvisations on J.S. Bach’
Benjamin Schmid (violin)
Georg Breinschmid (double bass)
Diknu Schneeberger (guitar)
Stian Carstensen (accordion)
Emiko Uchiyama (marimba)
Miklos Skuta (clavier)
Oehms Classics OC 1892
https://oehms.lnk.to/OC1892/FB
10.45am Nigel Simeone on new releases of orchestral music by Sibelius, Saint-Saens, Debussy and Copland.
Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite, Spring Song & Suite from Belshazzar’s Feast
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Chandos CHAN 20136
https://www.chandos.net/products/reviews/CHAN_20136
Sibelius: Kullervo
Helena Juntunen (soprano)
Benjamin Appl (baritone)
Lund Male Chorus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
Hyperion CDA68248
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W19722_68248
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3; Poulenc: Concerto for Organ, Strings & Timpani; Widor: Toccata from the Symphony for Organ No. 5
Christopher Jacobson (organ)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Kazuki Yamada (conductor)
Pentatone PTC5186638 (Hybrid SACD)
https://www.pentatonemusic.com/saint-saens-poulenc-widor-organ-symphony-concerto-toccata-jacobson-osr-yamada
‘Pan-American Reflections’ – Copland: Symphony No. 3 & Chávez: Symphony No. 2 ‘Sinfonía India’
The Orchestra of the Americas
Carlos Miguel Prieto (conductor)
Linn Records CKD 604
https://www.linnrecords.com/recording-copland-chavez-pan-american-reflections
11.25am Record of the Week
Weber: Oberon
Oberon - Clemens Kerschbaumer (tenor)
Huon - Mirko Roschkowski (tenor)
Rezia - Dorothea Maria Marx (soprano)
Meermädchen - Karola Pavone (soprano)
Sherasmin - Grga Peroš (baritone)
Fatima - Marie Seidler (mezzo-soprano)
Roman Kurtz (narrator)
Chor und Extrachor des Stadttheater Giessen
Philharmonisches Orchester Giessen
Michael Hofstetter (conductor)
Oehms OC984 ( 2 CDs)
SAT 11:45 Music Matters (m0006sbk)
Season finale
Tom looks over the past year in music, with special guests composer Tansy Davies, director Adele Thomas and the CBSO's chief executive, Stephen Maddock. From education and social care, to Brexit and the environment, Music Matters re-visits the year's burning issues to see what's changed and what the future looks like.
The pianist Stephen Hough speaks to Tom about his new book 'Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More'.
SAT 12:30 This Classical Life (m0006sbm)
Jess Gillam with... Martin James Bartlett
Jess Gillam is joined by the pianist Martin James Bartlett, a former winner of BBC Young Musician who has just released his debut album 'Love and Death'. They share music from the explosive overture to Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila to contemplative Peter Gabriel, a classic recording of Tchaikovsky's 4th symphony and Max Richter.
From musical beginnings in a carnival band, to being the first ever saxophone finalist in BBC Young Musician, and appearances at the Last Night of the Proms in 2018 and at this year’s BAFTA awards, Jess is one of today’s most engaging and charismatic classical performers. Each week on This Classical Life, Jess will be joined by young musicians to swap tracks and share musical discoveries across a wide range of styles, revealing how music shapes their everyday lives.
This Classical Lilfe is also available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.
SAT 13:00 Inside Music (m0006sbp)
Pianist Mariam Batsashvili discovers music from the cosmic to the intimate
Mariam Batsashvili is a young pianist who’ll be walking on to the Royal Albert Hall stage next month to play Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto at the BBC Proms. Today her Inside Music choices range from love and sorrow expressed by Fritz Kreisler, to the most accessible side of Richard Wagner. Plus she uncovers the charming nature of the harpsichord as conjured up by Handel, and how love and friendship is a powerful ingredient in Verdi’s opera Don Carlos.
Mariam also explains how she imagines Vivaldi’s Winter from his Four Seasons as a very old person who has rediscovered a childlike innocence, and finds the elderly Rossini paying gentle tribute to operetta composer Offenbach.
At 2 o’clock Mariam’s Must Listen work is a piece she recorded as part of Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme. This music, says Mariam, reveals its composer to be profoundly thoughtful, reflective, and above all, kind.
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SAT 15:00 Sound of Cinema (m0006sbr)
Cars
With the release of 'Stuber' this week, Michael Dowse's action comedy about a taxi driver and a terrorist, with music by Joseph Trapanese, Matthew Sweet considers the differing ways in which cars appear in films, and the music that has been created to underscore them.
SAT 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m0006sbt)
13/07/19
Alyn Shipton introduces jazz records from across the genre, as requested by Radio 3 listeners. Music this week from Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, and Ottilie Patterson.
DISC 1
Artist Phineas Newborn Jr
Title All The Things You Are
Composer Kern / Hammerstein
Album Here Is Phineas
Label Atlantic
Number 1235 Track 2
Duration 7.22
Performers: Phineas Newborn, Jr, p; Calvin Newborn, g; Oscar Pettiford, b; Kenny Clarke, d. 1956.
DISC 2
Artist Artie Shaw
Title Blues Parts 1 and 2 (From Lenox Avenue Suite)
Composer William Grant Still
Album n/a
Label Victor
Number 27411 A and B
Duration 3.23 + 3.18
Performers Artie Shaw, cl; George Wendt, J Cathcart, Billy Butterfield, t; Jack Jenney, Vernon Brown, tb; Bus Bassey, Neely Plumb, Les Robinson, Jerry Jerome, reeds; Johnny Guarnieri, p; Al Hendrickson, g; Jud DeNaut, b; Nick Fatool, d, plus strings, 4 Dec 1940.
DISC 3
Artist Archie Semple
Title I’m In The Market for You
Composer Hanley
Album The Clarinet of Archie Semple
Label Lake
Number 290 Track 18
Duration 3.46
Performers: Archie Semple cl; Fred Hunt, p. 9 Oct 1959
DISC 4
Artist Ben Crosland
Title Sittin on My Sofa
Composer Ray Davies
Album Ray Davies Songbook Vol 2
Label Jazz Cat
Number 117 Track 1
Duration 5.04
Performers: Ben Crosland (bass), Dave O’Higgins (saxophones), John Etheridge (guitar), Steve Lodder (keys) and Sebastiaan de Krom (drums). 2019
DISC 5
Artist Ric Colbeck
Title The Sun Is Coming Up
Composer Colbeck
Album The Sun Is Coming Up
Label Fontana
Number 6383001 S 2 T 1
Duration 9.51
Performers Ric Colbeck, t; J-F Jenny-Clark, b; Mike Osborne, as; Selwyn Lissack, d. 1970.
DISC 6
Artist J R Monterose
Title Violets for your Furs
Composer Dennis / Adair
Album The Message
Label Jaro
Number JAM 5004 Track 2
Duration 2.46
Performers J R Monterose, ts; Tommy Flanagan, p; Jimmy Garrison, b; Pete La Roca, d. 24 November 1959.
DISC 7
Artist Dizzy Gillespie
Title On The Alamo
Composer John, Lyons, Kahn
Album The Dizzy Gillespie Story
Label Proper
Number Properbox 30 CD 4 Track 24
Duration 2.17
Performers; Dizzy Gillespie, t; Henry Coker, Richard Kenney, Harold Smith, tb; John Graas, frh; Barbara Whitney, hp; Paul Smith, p; Jack Cascales, b; Charlie Wright, d; Carlos Vidal, perc; Strings, Johnny Richards, cond, arr. 1 Nov 1950.
DISC 8
Artist Stan Getz
Title Now You’ve Gone
Composer Legrand
Album Communications ‘72
Label Verve
Number V6 8807 S 1 T 3
Duration 4.17
Performers: Stan Getz ts, with Michel Legrand and his orchestra. 1972.
DISC 9
Artist Chris Barber
Title Squeeze Me
Composer Waller / Razaf
Album Chris Barber International
Label Lake
Number 210 CD 2 track 9
Duration 4.08
Performers: Ottilie Patterson, v; Chris Barber, tb; Eddie Smith, bj; Dick Smith, b; Graham Burbidge, d. 31 March 1961.
DISC 10
Artist Art Pepper
Title Mambo de la Pinta
Composer Pepper
Album Unreleased Art Vol 3 – The Croydon Concert
Label Widow’s Taste
Number APM 08001 CD 1 Track 8
Duration approx 7.00
Performers Art Pepper, as; Milcho Leviev, p; Bob Magnusson, b; Carl Burnett, d. 14 May 1981
SAT 17:00 J to Z (m0006sbw)
Denys Baptiste in concert
Concert highlights from UK saxophonist Denys Baptiste and his quartet with his own modern reimagining of the music of John Coltrane's groundbreaking late period - a period characterised by visceral emotions and cosmic references.
A former member of the long-running London based Tomorrow's Warriors group, Baptiste has long been a fixture on the London scene and, among other projects, is known for his long association with the double bassist and fellow Warrior, Gary Crosby.
Plus, Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez shares his musical influences.
Produced by Dominic Tyerman for Somethin' Else.
SAT 18:30 Opera on 3 (b099vfgc)
Verdi's Otello: Kaufmann at 50
In celebration of Jonas Kaufmann's 50th, another chance to hear him sing the title role of Verdi's Otello from the Royal Opera House, recorded in 2017
Verdi's great Shakespearean tragedy of revenge, this gripping drama about the human psyche pushed to the limits by jealousy stars Jonas Kaufmann as the great general brought low by the evil schemes of his ensign Iago, sung by Marco Vratogna. Maria Agresta is Otellos's innocent and falsely accused wife, Desdemona, in Keith Warner's new production which emphasises the claustrophobia of this all-too-human tragedy. The Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden are conducted by Antonio Pappano. James Naughtie presents this performance, recorded in July 2017 and his guest in the box is Flora Willson.
Otello ..... Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Desdemona ..... Maria Agresta (soprano)
Iago ..... Marco Vratogna (baritone)
Cassio ..... Frédéric Antoun (tenor)
Roderigo ..... Thomas Atkins (tenor)
Emilia ..... Kai Rüütel (mezzo-soprano)
Montano ..... Simon Shibambu (bass)
Lodovico ..... In Sung Sim (bass)
Herald ..... Thomas Barnard (bass-baritone)
Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra
Antonio Pappano (conductor).
SAT 22:00 New Music Show (m0006sby)
New Music Biennial 2019
Kate Molleson presents highlights from the New Music Biennial 2019, which took place at the South Bank Centre in London last weekend. World premiere performances of newly commissioned music for a diverse range of performing artists and groups.
Sam Eastmond: Brit-Ish Suite; 1. The Pink Shagpile Carpet Song (AKA The King Of Spank)
Spike Orchestra
Dan Jones – Music for 7 Ice Cream Vans [excerpt]
Jessica Curry: She Who
National Youth Choirs of Great Britain
Numb Mob: Where to Build in Stone
Rolf Hind: Tiger's Nest for gamelan, 2 prepared pianos & percussion
Colin Currie (percussion)
Rolf Hind (piano)
Zubin Kanga (piano)
Isabelle Carré (gamelan soloist)
Robert Campion (gamelan soloist)
Southbank Gamelan Players
David Fennessy: Panopticon
Psappha
SUNDAY 14 JULY 2019
SUN 00:00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz (b01qwgnk)
Ahmad Jamal
Besides topping the charts in the 1950s, Ahmad Jamal's piano trio recordings had a profound influence on the music of Miles Davis. Geoffrey Smith explores a relationship that surprised the critics.
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m0006sc1)
The 42nd Spoleto Festival USA
Vivaldi, Kagel and Brahms from South Carolina's festival of the arts. John Shea presents.
01:01 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto for Oboe and Violin in B flat, RV 548
James Austin Smith (oboe), Owen Dalby (violin), Geoff Nuttall (violin), Livia Sohn (violin), Meena Bhasin (viola), Joshua Roman (cello), Doug Balliett (double bass), Pedja Muzljevic (harpsichord)
01:09 AM
Mauricio Kagel (1931-2008)
Aus dem Nachlass
Masumi Per Rostad (viola), Joshua Roman (cello), Doug Balliett (double bass)
01:22 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 25
Inon Barnatan (piano), Livia Sohn (violin), Meena Bhasin (viola), Nina Lee (cello)
02:02 AM
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Nonet for wind quintet, string trio and double bass in F, Op 31
Budapest Chamber Ensemble, Andras Mihaly (conductor)
02:32 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No.99 (H.
1.99) in E flat major
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, James Clark (conductor)
03:01 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967)
Missa brevis (... tempore belli)
Danish Radio Choir, Frederik Hedelin (organ), Stefan Parkman (director)
03:35 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata for Violin and Piano No 9 in A major 'Kreutzer'
Mats Zetterqvist (violin), Mats Widlund (piano)
04:09 AM
Johann Christoph Pezel (1639-1694)
Four Intradas for brass
Hungarian Brass Ensemble
04:16 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli (S.162)
Janina Fialkowska (piano)
04:25 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Eugene Onegin, Op 24 (Introduction & waltz)
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
04:33 AM
Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710)
Xácaras and Canarios (Instrucción de música sobre la guitara española" )
Eduardo Egüez (guitar)
04:43 AM
Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)
Moses fantaisie (after Rossini) for cello and piano
Monika Leskovar (cello), Ivana Schwartz (piano)
04:51 AM
Godfrey Ridout (1918-1984)
Fall fair (1961)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
05:01 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Francesco Squarcia (arranger)
3 Hungarian Dances
I Cameristi Italiani
05:10 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
3 Songs - Liebesbotschaft, Heidenroslein & Litanei auf das Fest
Bryn Terfel (bass baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
05:19 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Suite No 2 in F major HWV.427
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
05:29 AM
Eugen Suchon (1908-1993)
Ballade for Horn and Orchestra
Peter Sivanic (horn), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Mario Kosik (conductor)
05:38 AM
Johan Duijck (b.1954)
Cantiones Sacrae in honorem Thomas Tallis, Op 26, Book 1
Flemish Radio Choir, Johan Duijck (conductor)
05:48 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943), Unknown (arranger)
Vocalise (Op.34 No.14)
Desmond Hoebig (cello), Andreas Tunis (piano)
05:55 AM
Fernando Lopes-Graca (1906-1994)
3 Portuguese Dances, Op 32 (1941)
Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Wolfgang Rennert (conductor)
06:02 AM
Bernhard Molique (1802-1869)
Sonata for concertina and piano, Op 57
Joseph Petric (accordion), Guy Few (piano)
06:24 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Estampes
Hinko Haas (piano)
06:38 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050
Per Flemstrom (flute), Andrew Manze (violin), Andreas Staier (harpsichord), Risor Festival Strings
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m0006sw3)
Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m0006sw5)
Sarah Walker with Josquin Des Prez, Cheryl Frances Hoad and Saint-Saëns
Sarah Walker’s Sunday morning selection includes early sounds from Josquin Des Prez and new music from Cheryl Frances Hoad. There’s also contrasting music from Gustav and Imogen Holst. The Sunday Escape features part of Saint-Saën’s Suite algérienne.
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m0006sw7)
James Burke
As the 50th anniversary of the moon landings approaches, James Burke talks to Michael Berkeley about the music that brings back memories of the heady days when, new to science broadcasting, he was chosen by the BBC to lead the coverage of the Apollo Missions and the moment the first human stepped onto the Moon.
James Burke has the rare gift of making complex ideas comprehensible to a wide audience – and providing a great deal of entertainment along the way. He began his BBC career on Tomorrow’s World, and his series Connections, which offered a new perspective on the history of science and technology, was a television landmark. James is the author of more than a dozen books, and his series about his long-running project The Knowledge Web was broadcast recently on Radio 4.
The surprising thing about James Burke is that he studied Middle English at university and got into science broadcasting quite by accident while working in Italy. He tells Michael how it happened and plays a Neapolitan song which reminds him of the years he spent there as a young man. He chooses music that reminds him of his musical childhood – Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet which he played at school, and a piece by Handel which he sang. His lifelong love of playing the guitar is reflected in music by Albeniz, and James makes some truly startling predictions about how technology is about to utterly transform our lives.
Producer: Jane Greenwood
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0006m12)
Pianist Imogen Cooper performs Liszt and Brahms
From Wigmore Hall, London.
Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
Imogen Cooper plays piano music by Brahms and Liszt.
Brahms: Intermezzo in E flat, Op 117 No 1; Intermezzo in B flat minor, Op 117 No 2
Liszt: Gretchen (2nd movement from A Faust Symphony)
Brahms: 7 Fantasies, Op 116
Imogen Cooper (piano)
Imogen Cooper pianist devotes her recital today to shorter, late pieces by Brahms that encapsulate his individual style at its most concentrated, plus the slow movement from Liszt’s Faust Symphony in the composer’s transcription.
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m0006sw9)
Leonardo: Music and Science
A concert of music from the time of Leonardo da Vinci given by the instrumentalists & vocalists of Ensemble Lucidarium at the York Early Music Festival.
Leonardo da Vinci and his contemporaries considered music to be a mirror in which mathematical concepts could be applied and proven; polyphony in particular was a
field for experimentation where research brought tangible results. Leonardo’s designs for musical instruments – a combination of studied scientific improvements
and impossible dreams – still exercise a fascination over us today, even if they occupied only a fraction of his sketchbooks. He certainly knew how to sing and play an instrument himself, while his professional life brought him into close contact with some of the greatest composers of his day.
Details of the Selections from La Festa del Paradiso (second half of the concert)
Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro - Rostiboli gioioso
Franciscus Bossinensis - Attenti! Udite tutti
Andrea Antico - O specchio, o lume, o lampo
Franciscus Bossinensis - Mercurio dolce mio, prudente e bono
Anonymous - Turco, turco e Isabella
Anonymous - Canzone delle tre Grazie
Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro - Petits riense
Anonymous - Canzone delle sette Virtù
Presented by Hannah French
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m0006mt2)
Southwark Cathedral
From Southwark Cathedral, marking the retirement of Peter Wright as Director of Music.
Introit: Locus iste (Bruckner)
Responses: Philip Moore
Psalm 119 vv.81-104 (Walmisley, Martin, Pye)
First Lesson: Isaiah 5 vv.8-24
Canticles: Dyson in D
Second Lesson: James 1 vv.17-25
Anthem: God is our refuge and strength (Philip Moore)
Hymn: All hail the power of Jesu's name (Miles Lane)
Voluntary: Pièce Héroïque (Franck)
Peter Wright (Director of Music)
Stephen Disley (Assistant Organist)
Nicholas Morris (Organ Scholar)
SUN 16:00 Choir and Organ (m0002gtq)
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces another selection of irresistible music for voices. Today, Victoria and John Dowland wallow in the beauty of deep sorrow, as only Renaissance composers knew how. We hear a joyful psalm of praise from Felix Mendelssohn and J.S. Bach takes us into battle alongside St. Michael.
Produced in Cardiff by Johannah Smith
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (b0b2jhhf)
What does ancient history really sound like?
From Paleolithic caves to Roman arenas, we know that music was made, and even what instruments were played - but what did the music sound like? Tom attempts to find out, with help from flautist Anna Friederike Potengowski, composer Neil Brand, and media historian David Hendy. Journey with them from the prehistoric to ancient Rome, via the "modern stone age" town of Bedrock.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (b09kjncm)
The Moon
What would Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata sound like if it was played by the Moon? Tune in to this evening's edition of Words and Music and you can hear for yourself, thanks to a piece conceived by the sound artist Katie Paterson. Katie's piece, Earth-Moon-Earth, is part of a programme which celebrates the Moon - whether metaphorical green cheese or cruel, silvery goddess.
The Moon has always dazzled and puzzled us. Composers such as Beethoven, Chopin and Schoenberg and writers such as Larkin, Auden and Emily Dickinson have all fallen under her spell, and tonight's programme, featuring the actors Fenella Woolgar and Patrick O'Kane, is an invitation to succumb once more to her enchantment.
Producer: Zahid Warley
Readings:
Nocturne - James Attlee
This Lunar Beauty - W.H. Auden
With how sad steps - Sir Philip Sidney
Sad Steps - Philip Larkin
I watched the Moon around the house - Emily Dickinson
Drinking Alone - Li Po (trans Arthur Waley)
The Moon and the Yew Tree - Sylvia Plath
Preface to Frankenstein -Mary Shelley
Strange fits of Passion - William Wordsworth
Autumn - T.E. Hulme
Moon Landing - W.H. Auden
Icaromenippus - Lucian (trans Thomas Francklin)
SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m0006swg)
Cold War in Full Swing - Louis Armstrong in the GDR
Jazz and communist East Germany seem unlikely bedfellows. Yet in 1965 Louis Armstrong became the first American entertainer to play jazz there at the height of the Cold War. East Germans celebrated Armstrong, and his visit became a propaganda victory for East Germany, helping it to boost its reputation in the wake of its oppressive government building the Berlin Wall in 1961.
On his brief and only tour through East Germany Armstrong played to packed houses. His popularity surprised the authorities very much considering not one record of him was available before 1965 and your passion for the music could land you in prison.
Kevin Le Gendre peeks through the former Iron Curtain to discover the dangers jazz lovers faced to pave the way for these legendary concerts to happen while tracing the tour. He speaks to jazz journalist Karlheinz Drechsel who first risked his career for jazz but then, amazingly, had the privilege to accompany Louis Armstrong on the tour and announce his concerts. He tells Kevin what it was like meeting Louis Armstrong and seeing beyond the smile and laughter that Louis Armstrong was famous for. Armstrong not only had to navigate political sensitivities on the Cold War front between East and West, but also on the home front in the US, when questioned about the Civil Rights Movement, which was at its peak.
The tour left a big impression on both sides. Armstrong was very taken by the enthusiastic welcome he received and East Germany, far from the authorities’ intentions, developed a Free Jazz scene that became an unexpected export hit.
Speakers include the journalists Karlheinz Drechsel, Siegfried Schmidt-Joos and Leslie Colitt; the jazz fan Volker Stiehler; the authors Ricky Riccardi and Stephan Schulz; pianist Ulrich Gumpert; and Roland Trisch, who worked at East Germany’s Artists Agency, which enabled Louis Armstrong’s tour. Archive material of the Selma to Montgomery march in Alabama on 7 March 1965 is courtesy of the Robert H Jackson Center.
Producer: Sabine Schereck
SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m0006swj)
The Masque of Anarchy
Ian McMillan introduces a commemoration of the Peterloo Massacre to mark the two-hundred year anniversary of the events of 16 August 1819.
Maxine Peake performs Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem of protest The Masque of Anarchy. Shelley was compelled to respond to the massacre in which cavalrymen charged campaigners protesting against the restrictive parliamentary representation of the time in St Peters Field Manchester leaving 15 dead and 700 injured. Recorded only a few miles from where it happened, Maxine Peake”s performance makes the poem - a call for political action - resonate for a contemporary audience.
We also hear eyewitness accounts from Samuel Bamford a radical reformer who led the group from Middleton and his wife Jemima Bamford performed by Jason Done and Christine Bottomley. Contemporary ballads written in the aftermath are sung by Jennifer Read.
The Masque of Anarchy, with a specially composed sound design by Peter Rice, was directed by Sarah Frankcom. The eyewitness accounts were directed by Nadia Molinari.
This commemoration of the Peterloo Massacre was a BBC North Production, produced by Susan Roberts.
SUN 20:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0006swl)
Revolution, Destruction and a Nobel Prize
Chopin's Warsaw piano, recreated for the first time in this concert from Polish period ensemble Collegium 1704 and pianist Krzysztof Ksiazek and presented by Fiona Talkington.
Around 1815, a certified organ-maker Fryderyk Buchholtz opened a piano-making workshop in Warsaw, where a student Chopin would drop in to test his new pieces. By 1825 Chopin's family could buy and install a Buchholz instrument in their apartment, where Chopin created many of his early masterpieces including both of his piano concertos. Chopin left Warsaw in 1830, never to return, and his piano was inherited by his sister Izabella, who took it with her to her new apartment near the lavish Zamoyski Palace when she married, and where in 1863 Tsarist soldiers, in retribution for a failed assassination attempt on the Tsarist governor of Poland, ransacked the palace and nearby homes. Chopin's Buchholz piano was thrown through an upper floor window and it shattered on the pavement below.
There are so few surviving Buchholtz pianos that it has taken until now to get sufficient information together to attempt a re-creation, which is by period keyboard specialist Paul McNulty.
And there is Tchaikovksy from the 2018 Nobel Prize Concert in Stockholm. Every year there is a classical concert which happens alongside the awarding of the Nobel Prizes and last year the central work was a symphony by Tchaikovsky. The Fourth Symphony begins with a brass fanfare depicting 'Fate'. As Tchaikovsky wrote to his patron and the symphony's dedicatee Madam Nazheda von Meck: 'the fatal power which prevents one from attaining the goal of happiness ... There is nothing to be done but to submit to it and lament in vain'. In tonight's performance the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Karina Canellakis.
Chopin
Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor, Op 21
Krzysztof Ksiazek (piano)
Ensemble 1705
Václav Luks
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Karina Canellakis
SUN 22:00 Early Music Late (m0006swn)
La nascita dell'opera (The birth of opera)
Soprano Magdalena Kožená and La Cetra perform in a concert that mines the dramatic wealth of early Italian opera. From that great operatic pioneer Monteverdi to Marula, composers revelled in the dramatic potential of the new form to explore the depths of human emotions through the power of the voice. Works by Uccellini and Castello sit alongside a passionate aria from Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea and his opera in all but name, the 'scena' Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda in a concert recorded at 2018's Verbier Festival.
SUN 23:00 Percussion Century (m0002065)
Multicoloured
Brash, visceral, thrilling, terrifying. Ethereal, delicate, exquisite, meditative.
Colin Currie presents a celebration of a musical family that spans the sonic spectrum in a unique and almost limitless fashion: percussion.
Colin has been called “one of the greatest musicians in the world today” by none other than Steve Reich, who knows a thing or two about percussion, and in this, the first of three episodes, Colin introduces a taste of the huge array of colours and sounds that the percussion family can conjure up.
Over the past century the percussion section has been freed from its previous role as rhythmic accompaniment and occasional sound effect, and has taken centre stage in an explosion of music written for solo percussion, percussion ensembles, chamber groups and orchestras.
In this episode, music by Messiaen, Britten and Stravinsky sits alongside tracks by Bjork, John Williams and Manu Delago. And instruments dating back hundreds of years mix with new instruments from the 21st century creating beautiful, surprising and unexpected aural delights.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
MONDAY 15 JULY 2019
MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m0006swq)
Davina McCall
Television presenter Davina McCall talks to Clemmie about music, life and what she thought of her Classical Fix playlist.
Classical Fix is Radio 3's new programme and podcast, designed for music fans who are curious about classical music and want to give it a go, but don't know where to start. Each week Clemency Burton-Hill creates a custom-made playlist for her guest who then joins her to discuss their impressions of their brand new classical music discoveries. Available through BBC Sounds.
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m0006sws)
Razumovsky in the Alps
The Ebene Quartet perform Beethoven and Faure as well as some jazz standards in Verbier. Presented by John Shea.
12:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet in D major, Op 18, No 3
Ebene Quartet
12:56 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
String Quartet in E minor, Op 121
Ebene Quartet
01:19 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet in C major, Op 59, No 3, 'Razumovsky'
Ebene Quartet
01:50 AM
Miles Davis (1926-1991)
Milestones
Ebene Quartet
01:54 AM
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982)
Round Midnight
Ebene Quartet
01:58 AM
Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
Les Fastes de la grande et ancienne Menestrandise
Jautrite Putnina (piano)
02:08 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite for orchestra No 3 in D major,BWV 1068
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ketil Haugsand (conductor)
02:31 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Symphony No 3 in C minor, Op 78, 'Organ Symphony'
Karstein Askeland (organ), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)
03:08 AM
Robert de Visee (c.1655-1733)
Suite in A major
Yasunori Imamura (theorbo)
03:21 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
The Flying Dutchman, Overture
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
03:33 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Ave Maria
Eolina Quartet
03:38 AM
Robert Schumann
Overture, Genoveva, Op 81
Orchestre Nationale de France, Heinz Wallberg (conductor)
03:48 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor, BWV 1056
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Risor Festival Strings
03:59 AM
Hjalmar Borgstrom (1864-1925)
Music to Johan Gabriel Borkman
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Kjell Seim (conductor)
04:10 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Tu del Ciel ministro eletto (excerpt 'Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno')
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
04:17 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Violin Concerto in F minor, RV.297 'L'Inverno'
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)
04:25 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Marriage of Figaro, overture
Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra, Adam Fischer (conductor)
04:31 AM
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795)
Symphony in D minor, WFV I:3
Les Passions de L'Ame, Meret Luthi (conductor)
04:40 AM
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Intermezzo (excerpt Manon Lescaut (between Acts 2 and 3))
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
04:45 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Nocturne No 4 in E flat major, Op 36
Stephane Lemelin (piano)
04:52 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Iberia: Images for Orchestra, No. 2 (1909)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Jun Markl (conductor)
05:15 AM
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Andante molto, 3rd movement from the Symphonic Suite "Roma"
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)
05:22 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Keyboard Partita No 1 in B flat major, BWV 825
Beatrice Rana (piano)
05:40 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56 'Scottish'
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (conductor)
06:18 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Keyboard Sonata in B flat major, Hob.
16.41
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m0006ss2)
Monday - Petroc's classical alternative
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m0006ss4)
Suzy Klein
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 soprano Dame Emma Kirkby.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0006ss6)
James MacMillan (b 1959)
A grandfather, a recorder and a confession
Sir James MacMillan is reflecting on his prolific life in composition as he celebrates his 60th birthday this week.
He was born 16 July 1959 in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, but grew up in the East Ayrshire town of Cumnock. His grandfather introduced him to brass band music and his primary teacher taught him the recorder. The combination of these musical experiences sparked a lifelong passion in James to make and create music of his own.
He studied composition at the University of Edinburgh with Kenneth Leighton and at Durham University with John Casken. A trip to Darmstadt International Summer Course confirmed in him a longing to build on musical traditions of the past rather than abandoning all that has gone before.
He caught the attention of the classical establishment with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's premiere of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie at the BBC Proms in 1990. Isobel Gowdie was one of many women executed for witchcraft in 17th-century Scotland.
The Storm from Into the Ferment
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
James MacMillan, conductor
Berserking (1st movement)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
James MacMillan, conductor
It is Finished, from Seven Last Words from the Cross
Polyphony
Britten Sinfonia
Stephen Layton, conductor
The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
James MacMillan, conductor
Presenter: Donald Macleod
Producer: Rosie Boulton
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0006ss8)
The cello sings and dances
Live from Wigmore Hall, London.
A varied recital of music performed by Hungarian cellist István Várdai, who is enjoying a very busy career travelling around world's concert halls, picking up many prestigious awards along the way. He is joined by Korean pianist Sunwook Kim, who came to public attention when he won the Leeds Piano Competition in 2006 at the age of 18.
The concert includes music by Várdai's compatriot Zoltán Kodály plus Schubert’s sonata (1824) written for a now obsolete instrument.
Introduced by Fiona Talkington.
Manuel de Falla: 7 canciones populares españolas
Franz Schubert : Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D821
Zoltán Kodaly: Hungarian Rondo
István Várdai (cello)
Sunwook Kim (piano)
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0006ssb)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales: de Falla, Ravel, Debussy
Kate Molleson introduces recordings of concerts by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including a Spanish-flavoured programme and a celebration of Harrison Birtwistle’s birthday.
De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Ravel: Piano concerto in D major (for the left hand)
de Falla: Three Cornered Hat: Suite No. 1
Debussy: Images: No. 2 Iberia
Angela Hewitt, piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jun Markl,conductor
(Recorded in the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea on
08/02/19)
Birtwistle: Endless Parade
Phillippe Schartz, trumpet
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen, conductor
(Recorded in the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
02/12/08)
Holst: Egdon Heath
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
James Judd (conductor)
Weir: Welcome Arrival of Rain
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor)
Bloch Cello Concerto
Rafael Wallfisch (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Lukasz Borowicz, conductor
MON 17:00 In Tune (m0006ssd)
Australian Chamber Choir, Karina Canellakis
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news with live performance in the studio from the Australian Chamber Choir, ahead of their concert at St Martin in the Fields tomorrow. We speak to conductor Karina Canellakis ahead of the First Night of the Proms.
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0006ssg)
Nonsense Madrigals in Wonderland
Ligeti's Nonsense Madrigals are the source of inspiration for this mixtape. Several of the movements in Ligeti's collection take texts from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, and this theme continues with the Queen of Hearts' Tango from Joby Talbot's ballet. Next comes a pair of madrigals - one by the madrigal king himself, Monteverdi, and more unusually, a madrigal for flute and piano by Philippe Gaubert - followed by a pair of modern-day Alices (Ott and Coote). Finally, we return to the madcap nature of Ligeti's madrigals with the absurdist humour of Gerald Barry's The Importance of being Earnest and Milhaud’s ballet Le boeuf sur le toit.
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0006ssj)
Double trouble
Leading up to Friday's First Night of the Proms, Georgia Mann presents some of Europe's top orchestras in highlights from this season.
When players from the European Union Youth Orchestra set up the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in 1981 it quickly became established as one of the world's finest chamber orchestras and has consistently performed with top-rank soloists and conductors. This concert, recorded in March in the Bruges Concertgebouw as part of the International Brussels Music Festival, features Vilde Frang and Lawrence Power in Mozart's great double concerto for violin and viola and ends with his final symphony and summing-up of his composing genius, the 'Jupiter'. It begins with diabolical Liszt: a rare chance to hear Two Episodes from Lenau's Faust performed together, as Liszt intended. The solemn 'Procession by Night', by turns bleak and comforting, is followed by one of Liszt's greatest successes, Mephisto's wild 'Dance in the Village Inn'.
Liszt: Two Episodes from Lenau's Faust S.110
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major K.364
8.35pm
Interval Music (from CD)
Hummel: Octet-Partita in E flat
Wind Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
8.50pm
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major K.551 (Jupiter)
Vilde Frang (violin) & Lawrence Power (viola)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
David Afkham (conductor)
MON 22:00 Music Matters (m0006sbk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 The Essay (m0006ssl)
Mise-en-scène
Sidney Lumet and the Crisis of Liberalism
Michael Goldfarb remembers the political and social mise-en-scène of films from the 1960s and 1970s, including work by Sam Peckinpah, Sidney Lumet and Derek Jarman. "Mise-en-scène" means the arrangement of the scenery, props, on the set of a film or, more broadly, the social setting or surroundings of an event.
Sidney Lumet embodied through his work the high tide and long decline of New Deal Liberalism. That may or may not have been his intention.
In films like The Hill and Network, he (and his screenwriters) brilliantly show humane, reasonable people under inhumane, illiberal pressure. After terrible ordeals, liberal order is re-established and progress resumes. The message is that justice in the end triumphs.
MON 23:00 Jazz Now (m0006ssn)
Hermia Ceccaldi Darrifourcq at Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2019
From the Parabola Arts Centre, Soweto Kinch presents the Belgian/French trio Hermia, Ceccaldi, Darrifourcq in concert. Unfortunately for this concert saxophonist and co-leader Manuel Hermia was unable to appear, so his place was taken by the acclaimed French saxophonist Quentin Biardeau, alongside regular members cellist Valentin Ceccaldi and drummer Sylvain Darrifourcq.
TUESDAY 16 JULY 2019
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m0006ssq)
Renaissance Choral Music from Switzerland
Ludwig Senfl Mass performed by Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Ludwig Senfl (c.1486-1543)
Veni Sancte Spiritus
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble
12:34 AM
Ludwig Senfl (c.1486-1543)
Kyrie, Missa dominicalis (L'homme arme)
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble
12:38 AM
Ludwig Senfl (c.1486-1543)
Gloria, Missa dominicalis (L'homme arme)
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble
12:45 AM
Ludwig Senfl (c.1486-1543)
Das Lang
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble
12:49 AM
Ludwig Senfl (c.1486-1543)
Credo, Missa dominicalis (L'homme arme)
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble
12:58 AM
Ludwig Senfl (c.1486-1543)
Aus guetem Grund
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble
01:04 AM
Ludwig Senfl (c.1486-1543)
Martia terque quater
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble
01:07 AM
Ludwig Senfl (c.1486-1543)
Sanctus, Missa dominicalis (L'homme arme)
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble
01:12 AM
Ludwig Senfl (c.1486-1543)
Agnus Dei, Missa dominicalis (L'homme arme)
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble
01:16 AM
Ludwig Senfl (c.1486-1543)
Altera iam teritur bellis civilibus aetas
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble
01:21 AM
Ludwig Senfl (c.1486-1543)
Da pacem Domine
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble
01:24 AM
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony No.4 in E flat major, 'Romantic'
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eugen Jochum (conductor)
02:31 AM
Paul Gilson (1865-1942)
De Zee - symphony
Flemish Radio Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
03:07 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Piano Concerto no.1 in F sharp minor Op 1
Arthur Ozolins (piano), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
03:34 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Waltz in A flat major Op 34 no 1
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
03:40 AM
Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672)
Freuet euch des Herren SWV.367 for 3 voices, 2 violins and continuo
Cologne Chamber Chorus, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann (conductor)
03:45 AM
John Foulds (1880-1939)
Keltic Overture (Op.28)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
03:53 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in E major (Andante comodo), Kk.380
Ivetta Irkha (piano)
03:58 AM
Henry du Mont (1610-1684)
Motet: O Salutaris Hostia
Studio 600, Aldona Szechak (director), Dorota Kozinska (director)
04:03 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Rondo concertante in B flat major, K269
Benjamin Schmid (violin), Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Adam Fischer (conductor)
04:10 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Baron von Swieten (librettist)
Die Schopfung (H.21.2) Part 3 - Nos. 29 & 30
Isa Katharina Gericke (soprano), Jochen Kupfer (baritone), Oslo Chamber Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Christopher Bell (conductor)
04:23 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Norwegian Dance No 1 Op 35 for piano duet
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Havard Gimse (piano)
04:31 AM
August Enna (1859-1939)
The Match Girl: overture
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)
04:37 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Divertimento in B flat major, K 137
Orchestra Libera Classica, Hidemi Suzuki (conductor)
04:50 AM
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
2 graduals for chorus: Locus iste & Christus Factus est
Danish National Radio Choir, Jesper Grove Jorgensen (conductor)
04:58 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Concerto for 2 violins in D minorm, BWV.1043
Nicolas Mazzoleni (violin), Lidewij van der Voort (violin), European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (director)
05:14 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
L'Isle joyeuse
Jane Coop (piano)
05:20 AM
Etienne Mehul (1763-1817)
Symphony No.1 in G minor
Cappella Coloniensis, Bruno Weil (director)
05:48 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates), Op 89
Oslo Philharmonic Choir, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)
05:57 AM
Carlos Salzedo (1885-1961)
Variations sur un theme dans le style ancien, Op 30
Mojca Zlobko (harp)
06:07 AM
Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703)
Meine Freundin, du bist schon - wedding piece
Maria Zedelius (soprano), David Cordier (alto), Paul Elliott (tenor), Michael Schopper (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m0006t89)
Tuesday - Petroc's classical alarm call
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m0006t8c)
Suzy Klein
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 soprano Dame Emma Kirkby.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0006t8f)
James MacMillan (b 1959)
Happy 60th Birthday!
Sir James MacMillan is reflecting on his prolific life in composition as he celebrates his 60th birthday this week.
He discusses his regret at joining the Communist Party at the age of 14 because of the hurt it caused his grandfather. And his early search for some kind of fusion of Christian theology and Marxist philosophy, including the influence on his music of a radical movement that grew up in South America as a response to the widespread poverty and the ill-treatment of ordinary people.
He also remembers his friendship with Mstislav Rostropovich which led to the commissioning of his Cello Concerto, written at the time of the Dunblane shooting. And he describes the creation of his next great musical success: Veni, Veni Emmanuel – the percussion concerto he wrote for his friend Evelyn Glennie
For Ian
John York, piano
Cantos Sagrados (Identity)
The Elysian Singers
Sam Laughton, conductor
The Reproaches, from Cello Concerto
Raphael Wallfisch, cello
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska, conductor
Veni, Veni Emmanuel
Evelyn Glennie, percussion
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Jukka Pekka Saraste, conductor
Presenter: Donald Macleod
Producer: Rosie Boulton
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0006t8h)
Norfolk and Norwich Chamber Series: Schumann and Mozart
Simon Crawford-Philips and Philip Moore perform Mozart's grand Sonata in F major written for piano duet, and Bizet's seldom-heard arrangement of Schumann's Six Studies in Canonic Form, originally for pedal piano.
Complementing this works, the Skampa Quartet bring music from their homeland in Jozef Suk's Meditation on a Bohemian Chorale 'St. Wenceslas'.
Presented by Tom McKinney
JS Bach arr Kurtag: Chorale Prelude 'O Lamm Gottes unschuldig'
Schumann arr. Bizet: Six Studies in Canonic Form, Op 56
Simon Crawford-Philips & Philip Moore (piano)
Suk: Meditation on an Old Bohemian Chorale 'St Wenceslas', Op 35
Skampa Quartet
Mozart: Sonata for Piano Duet in F major, K.497
Simon Crawford-Philips & Philip Moore (piano)
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0006t8k)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Brahms's A German Requiem
Kate Molleson introduces recordings of concerts given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Stravinsky: Funeral Song
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Jacques Ibrailo (baritone)
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)
(Given in the BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
28/06/19)
Grace Williams: Sea Sketches
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
(Given in the Royal Albert Hall,
04/09/08)
Ravel: Sheherazade
Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)
(Given in St. David’s Hall, Cardiff
13/10/16)
Gunning: Symphony No 2
National Orchestra of Wales
Kenneth Woods (conductor)
Korngold Cello Concerto
Rafael Wallfisch (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m0006t8m)
Ensemble la Notte, William Cole
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news with live performances from Ensemble la note, and we speak to conductor William Cole about a production of Purcell's The Fairy Queen at the Waterperry Opera Festival.
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0006t8p)
In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0006t8r)
Postcard from Zurich
Georgia Mann presents the second of four 2018/19 season highlights from around Europe. Tonight we celebrate Zurich's 150-year-old orchestral tradition with a concert from the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. This season American Alan Gilbert was one of the latest in the long list of distinguished international conductors to work with the orchestra, with a wide-ranging programme from Thomas Adès's 21st-century re-imaginings of courtly French 18th-century keyboard music, to Nielsen's life-affirming 1911 third symphony.
Thomas Adès: 3 Studies from Couperin
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major Op.58
8.25pm
Interval Music (from CD)
Nielsen: Wind Quintet, Op. 43 (FS 100): Tema con variazioni
James Galway (flute), Niels Thomsen (clarinet), Jens Tofte-Hansen (bassoon),
Björn Carl Nielsen (oboe), Björn Fosdal (horn)
8.40pm
Nielsen: Symphony No. 3 Op. 27 (Sinfonia espansiva)
Inon Barnatan (piano)
Christina Landshamer (soprano) & Benjamin Appl (baritone)
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
Alan Gilbert (conductor)
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m0006t8t)
Camille Paglia
Writer, feminist and author of such books as Sexual Personae and Provocations, Camille Paglia joins Philip Dodd to talk about feminism, free speech and sexual fluidity in the 21st century, and why she's embroiled in a fight to keep her job at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she has worked for more than 30 years.
Producer: Craig Smith
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m0006t8w)
Mise-en-scène
The Meaning of Sam
Michael Goldfarb remembers the political and social mise-en-scène films from the 1960s and 1970s, including work by Sam Peckinpah, Sidney Lumet and Derek Jarman. "Mise-en-scène" means the arrangement of the scenery, props, on the set of a film or, more broadly, the social setting or surroundings of an event.
Sam Peckinpah films nowadays are almost always discussed in terms of their artistically depicted violence, where they fit in the Western genre, and the director's self-destructive alcoholism. But they are much, much more than that.
They are profound meditations on history. In this essay, Michael talks about his masterpieces, Ride the High Country, The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
Aside from their cinematic virtues, these are films about men who outlive their historical times and how they respond to that displacement.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (m0006t8y)
Unusual Instrumentation
Nick Luscombe presents music made by unconventional line-ups. Oud and guitar meet percussion and electronics in a unique quartet of Oren Ambarchi, Mark Fell, Will Guthrie and Sam Shalabi. A Buddhist choir and Christian Meaas Svendsen’s solo bass investigate the part of Zen philosophy which states that nothing exists as a separate self: everything is inseparable from everything else and always in flux. And there’s early 80s prog from the Japanese trio Wha-ha-ha who combine jazzy rhythms, laid-back dub synths and percussive jiggery-pokery.
Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2019
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m0006t90)
L'enfance du Christ
From Paris, a performance of Berlioz' oratorio telling of the Holy Family's flight into Egypt. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
L'Enfance du Christ, op. 25
Stephanie D'Oustrac (mezzo soprano), Bernard Richter (tenor), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (baritone), Nicholas Teste (bass baritone), Orchestre National de France, Emmanuel Krivine (conductor), Radio France Chorus, Maria Forstrom (director)
02:03 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Cello Concerto in C major (H.7b.1)
Steven Isserlis (cello), Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Jean Fournet (conductor)
02:31 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Symphony No 7 in D minor Op 70
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thomas Søndergård (conductor)
03:07 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
24 Preludes, Op.28
David Kadouch (piano)
03:43 AM
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Fantasie and variations on a theme of Danzi in B flat, Op 81
Joze Kotar (clarinet), Slovene Philharmonic String Quartet
03:50 AM
John B Escosa (1928-1991)
Three Dances for 2 harps
Julia Shaw (harp), Nora Bumanis (harp)
03:57 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Chacony in G minor, Z730
Psophos Quartet
04:04 AM
Jozef Swider (1930-2014)
Piesn & Moja piosnka from 10 Songs to Lyrics by Polish Poets
Polish Radio Choir
04:12 AM
Alfred Kalnins (1879-1951)
Ballad for cello and piano
Marcis Kuplais (cello), Ventis Zilberts (piano)
04:19 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Trio sonata for 2 violins & bc (HWV.388) in B flat major (Op.2 No.3)
Musica Alta Ripa
04:31 AM
Jakov Gotovac (1895-1982)
Symphonic Dance 'Kolo', Op 12
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazushi Ono (conductor)
04:40 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Rhapsody for piano in B minor, Op 79 No 1
Steven Osborne (piano)
04:50 AM
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
De profundis (Psalm 129) in D minor
Czech Chamber Choir, Virtuosi di Praga, Petr Chromcak (conductor)
04:59 AM
Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709)
Sonata in D for Trumpet, Strings and Basso Continuo
Sebastian Philpott (trumpet), European Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
05:07 AM
David Popper (1843-1913)
Hungarian rhapsody, Op 68
Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
05:15 AM
Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750)
Prelude, Toccata and Allegro in G major
Hopkinson Smith (baroque lute)
05:25 AM
Franz Berwald (1796-1868)
String Quartet No 2 in A minor (1849)
Bernt Lysell (violin), Per Sandklef (violin), Thomas Sundkvist (viola), Mats Rondin (cello)
05:44 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Arpeggione Sonata for cello and piano (D.821)
Erling Blondahl Bengtsson (cello), Katherine Jacobson Fleisher (piano)
06:06 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Violin Concerto No 3 in G major, K 216
Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra, Adam Fischer (conductor)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m0006sj7)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical picks
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m0006sj9)
Suzy Klein
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 soprano Dame Emma Kirkby.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0006sjc)
James MacMillan (b 1959)
A zoo, a lament and a protest
Sir James MacMillan is reflecting on his prolific life in composition as he celebrates his 60th birthday this week.
By 1999 James had become the most successful Scottish composer ever and the most often performed. But he remembers that not everything was straightforward. He gave a lecture at the Edinburgh Festival under the title Scotland’s Shame, claiming that Scotland was a country riven with anti-Catholic bigotry. The controversy that followed rumbled on for years and still leaves him confused.
His criticism of Scotland found its way into two of the works in today's programme: A Scotch Bestiary and his Second Piano Concerto, the last movement of which is entitled Shamnation.
A Scotch Bestiary
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Wayne Marshall, piano
James MacMillan, conductor
Tenebrae Responsories
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor
Sarah’s Lament – Months from Now, from Clemency
Christine Abraham, soprano.
Boston Lyric Opera
David Angus, conductor
Shamnation (3rd mvt of Piano Concerto No 2)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Wayne Marshall, piano
James MacMillan, conductor
Presenter: Donald Macleod
Producer: Rosie Boulton
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0006sjg)
Norfolk and Norwich Chamber Series: Schubert's Octet
Schubert was commissioned in 1824 by Count Ferdinand Troyer, a clarinettist and courtier of Archduke Rudolf of Austria-Tuscany to write a large-scale chamber work in the style of Beethoven's popular Septet. Not wanting to imitate Beethoven directly, Schubert added an extra violin, which made unusual instrumentation of String Quartet, Double Bass, French Horn, Bassoon and Clarinet - which Troyer played at the first performance.
Presented by Tom McKinney
Franz Schubert: Octet in F major, D803
Philharmonia Chamber Players
Rebecca Chan (violin)
Annabelle Meare (violin)
Nicholas Bootiman (viola)
Karen Stephenson (cello)
Timothy Gibbs (double bass)
Peter Sparks (clarinet)
Robin O'Neill (bassoon)
Kira Doherty (horn)
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0006sjj)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Gershwin and Elgar
Kate Molleson introduces recordings by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Gershwin: Piano concerto in F major
Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Prokofiev: March in B flat major, Op.99
Joanna MacGregor (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Elim Chan (conductor)
(Recorded in Cheltenham Town Hall,
17/03/19)
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (m0006sjl)
York Minster
Live from York Minster.
Introit: O radiant dawn (James MacMillan)
Responses: Matthew Martin
Psalm 89 (Pring, Goss, Camidge, Battishill)
First Lesson: Isaiah 24 vv.1-15
Canticles: The Short Service (James MacMillan)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 6 vv.1-11
Anthem: Behold, thou hast made my days (Gibbons)
Voluntary: Fantasia in D minor (Byrd)
Robert Sharpe (Director of Music)
Ben Morris (Assistant Director of Music)
WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m0006sjn)
Duparc and Mozart from James Newby and Aleksey Semenenko
New Generation Artists: James Newby and Aleksey Semenenko
Today James Newby sings three French songs at the Hay-on-Wye Festival and Aleksey Semenenko is heard in one of Mozart's sunniest sonatas, recorded recently at the BBC's studios.
Duparc: La vague et la cloche; Extase; Phidylé
James Newby (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Mozart: Violin Sonata in G K.301
Aleksey Semenenko (violin), Inna Firsova (piano)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m0006sjq)
Yaritza Véliz, Patrick Terry, Ronnie Scott's All Stars
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news, with live music in studio by Yaritza Véliz and Patrick Terry ahead of the Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance. We're also joined by the Ronnie Scott's All Stars in advance of their forthcoming concert at Saffron Hall.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0006sjs)
Journey from Seville to London
In Tune’s specially curated mixtape takes a journey beginning in Seville with Bizet's Carmen and ending in London with a symphony from Haydn. Whilst still in Spain we are treated to a dance from de Falla's opera La Vide Breve. Then it's on to Germany for a passacaille by Buxtehude, Russia for a waltz from Prokofiev's Cinderella and an intermezzo from Rimsky Korsakov's opera Pan Voyevoda - next stop Italy for a love song by Barbara Strozzi.
Producer: Ian Wallington
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0006sjv)
Extraordinary experience
Herbert Blomstedt made his conducting debut in 1954 and last week celebrated his ninety-second birthday (he's older by 20 months than even Bernard Haitink). The Swedish-American conductor still enjoys a busy international career, with a long list of honorary posts to his name and guesting with the world's finest orchestras. He's become famous for his benchmark interpretations of the Austro-German classics and championing of Scandinavian repertoire, as here in this concert recorded in Munich in May, with Blomstedt leading one of Germany's premiere orchestras. Georgia Mann presents.
Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 in A minor Op.63
8.10pm
Interval Music (from CD)
Berwald: Piano Quartet in E flat major: First mvt Adagio: Allegro ma non troppo
Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet), Donna Agrell (bassoon), Teunis van der Zwart (horn)
Ronald Brautigam (piano)
8.20pm
Wilhelm Stenhammar: Intermezzo (from Sången, Op. 44)
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor Op.56 (Scottish)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m0006sjx)
New angles on post-war Germany and Austria
Anne McElvoy and new ways of understanding post-war Germany and Austria through history, film and literature with Florian Huber, Sophie Hardach, Adam Scovell and Tom Smith.
Florian Huber Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself explores a little understood wave of suicides across Germany towards the end of the Third Reich
Sophie Hardach's latest novel called Confession with Blue Horses follows a family living in East Berlin who try to escape to the West.
Adam Scovell is a film critic and author whose new novella is called Mothlight and blogs at Celluloid Wicker Man
Tom Smith teaches German at the University of St Andrews and is a 2019 New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select academics who can turn their research into radio. You can hear an Essay about the Stasi persecution of queer soldiers recorded at the York Festival of Idea here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07dgydc
Producer: Jacqueline Smith
WED 22:45 The Essay (m0006sjz)
Mise-en-scène
The Summation
Michael Goldfarb remembers the political and social mise-en-scène films from the 1960s and 1970s, including work by Sam Peckinpah, Sidney Lumet and Derek Jarman. "Mise-en-scène" means the arrangement of the scenery, props, on the set of a film or, more broadly, the social setting or surroundings of an event.
The word transgressive is one of the most overused by critics on BBC arts programmes. Jarman was the real deal - a genuinely transgressive genius.
A considerable amount of his aesthetic had been formed in New York at the time Michael was driving a cab. They had long conversations about the great NYC avant-garde filmmakers who he knew and whose work he summarised in his films.
This is an essay not just about Jarman but also the New York avant-garde scene of the 1970s, when the forms of film-making were multitudinous and the lifestyle of film-makers had more in common with the avant-garde of early 20th century bohemian Paris than Hollywood.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (m0006sk2)
We Have Lift-off
Nick Luscombe takes one giant leap into music inspired by space to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to land on the Moon. Featuring celestial drones from the black metal band Wolves in the Throne Room and samples of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, transformed into new work. Plus the American composer Christopher Biggs’ piece titled A Letter To The Moon, which uses our interdependent relationship with the Moon and its orbit as a compositional tool.
Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
THURSDAY 18 JULY 2019
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m0006sk4)
Lyric Song at the Schubertiade
Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly performs German and English romantic songs at the Vilabertran Schubertiade. Presented by John Shea.
12:31 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
2 Songs Op.91 for alto, viola and piano
Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano), Jonathan Brown (viola), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
12:43 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
5 Lieder:
Ständchen, op. 106/1; Da unten im Tale, WoO 33/6; Feldeinsamkeit, op. 86/2; Die Mainacht, op. 43/2; Von ewiger Liebe, op. 43/1
Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
01:00 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Friedrich Ruckert (author)
Kindertotenlieder
Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
01:24 AM
Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
2 Songs: Thou didst delight my eyes; All night under the moon
Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
01:31 AM
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012)
A History of the Thé Dansant for voice and piano
Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
01:41 AM
Frank Bridge (1879-1941), Matthew Arnold (author)
Come to me in my dreams, H. 71
Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
01:45 AM
Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
Music, when soft voices die
Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano), Jonathan Brown (viola), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
01:48 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Variations on an original theme ('Enigma') Op.36 for orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
02:21 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Pavan (Z.752) and Chacony (Z.730) for 4 instruments in G minor
London Baroque
02:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Sonata in C minor, D.958
Louis Schwizgebel (piano)
03:02 AM
Uuno Klami (1900-1961)
Revontulet - Fantasy for orchestra, Op 38
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
03:22 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)
03:31 AM
Nino Rota (1911-1979)
Concerto for bassoon and orchestra
Christopher Millard (bassoon), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
03:50 AM
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927), Jens Peter Jacobsen (lyricist)
Three choral songs
Swedish Radio Choir, Gustav Sjokvist (conductor)
03:56 AM
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
La Belle Excentrique
Pianoduo Kolacny (piano duo)
04:04 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Concerto Grosso in F major, Op 6, No 9
King's Consort, Robert King (director)
04:14 AM
Petar Dinev (1889-1980)
Ottsa i Sina & Milost mira No.7 (The Father & the Son & A Mercy of Peace No.7)
Holy Trinity Choir, Plovdiv, Vessela Geleva (conductor)
04:20 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Tzigane - rapsodie de concert arr. for violin & orchestra
Moshe Hammer (violin), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
04:31 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Etude in D flat, Op 52, No 6 (Etude en forme de valse)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
04:38 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Rakastava - suite for string orchestra (Op.14)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)
04:52 AM
Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672)
Magnificat anima mea Dominum, SWV468
Cologne Chamber Chorus, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann (conductor)
05:02 AM
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857)
Nocturno for harp
Branka Janjanin-Magdalenic (harp)
05:08 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in C minor for treble recorder (RV.441)
Michael Schneider (recorder), Camerata Koln
05:19 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Scherzo for piano no. 2 (Op.31) in B flat minor
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
05:28 AM
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Symphony in B flat Op.20
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Michel Plasson (conductor)
06:04 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in G major Op 77 No 1
Australian String Quartet, William Hennessy (violin), Douglas Weiland (violin), Keith Crellin (viola), Janis Laurs (cello)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m0006tmx)
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 (m0006tmz)
Suzy Klein
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 soprano Dame Emma Kirkby.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0006tn1)
James MacMillan (b 1959)
A dawn, a community and a ring
Sir James MacMillan is reflecting on his prolific life in composition as he celebrates his 60th birthday this week.
He considers his connection with his listeners and the importance of hearing stories from audiences about their reactions to his music. With this in mind, he’s made a habit of writing music for the communities in which he lives. He also describes the daily habit of composition and the need to sometimes allow the creative process to rest.
James encountered Wagner's Ring Cycle as a child. He was entranced by this music and happily remains under its spell today.
O Radiant Dawn, from Strathclyde Motets
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor
Miserere
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor
Oboe Concerto
Nicholas Daniel, oboe
Britten Sinfonia
James MacMillan, conductor
Mal: I cannot say I haven’t dreamt a 1,000 times of killing him (Act 3 Scene 3 from The Sacrifice)
Orchestra and Chorus of Welsh National Opera
Anthony Negus, conductor
Presenter: Donald Macleod
Producer: Rosie Boulton
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0006tn3)
Norfolk and Norwich Chamber Series: Schubert, Janacek, Stravinsky
The Skampa Quartet and Simon Crawford-Philips with Philip Moore return today to showcase a selection of 20th century masterpieces of chamber music, with a healthy amount of turbulence generated from 19th century Vienna thrown in for good measure!
Written in the final months of Schubert's life, the Allegro, D. 947 - which was lost until 1840 - is now thought to be a part of a larger unfinished sonata. When it was finally published, it was given the subtitle 'Lebensstürme' - The Storms of Life, which certainly feels appropriate given the nature of this turbulent work.
Leos Janacek's Second Quartet was inspired by his relationship - both real and imagined - with Kamila Stosslova a woman 40 years younger than himself who he became infatuated with in the last decade of his life.
We finish today's programme with Philip Moore's own arrangement of three movements from Stravinsky's Firebird, which is very much in keeping with Stravinsky's own arrangements of his other Diaghilev Ballets, Petrushka and the Rite of Spring. Enjoy!
Presented by Tom McKinney
Schubert: Allegro in A minor, D. 947 'Lebensstürme'
Simon Crawford-Philips & Philip Moore (piano)
Janacek: String Quartet No 2 'Intimate Letters'
Skampa Quartet
Stravinsky arr. Moore: Three movements from The Firebird
Simon Crawford-Philips & Philip Moore (piano)
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0006tn5)
Afternoon Opera Matinée: Smetana's The Bartered Bride
Kate Molleson introduces a recording of Smetana's The Bartered Bride, recorded at the Bavarian State Opera, Munich.
Kruschina/Krušina.............Oliver Zwarg (baritone)
Kathinka/Ludmila..............Helena Zubanovich (soprano)
Marie/Mařenka..................Selene Zanetti (soprano)
Micha/Mícha.......................Kristof Klorek (bass)
Agnes/Háta.........................Irmgard Vilsmaier (mezzo-soprano)
Wenzel/Vašek.....................Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (tenor)
Hans/Jeník...........................Pavol Breslik (tenor)
Kezal/Kecal.........................Günther Groissböck (bass)
Springer/Principál............Ulrich Ress (tenor)
Esmeralda, a dancer........Anna El-Khashem (soprano)
Muff, a comedian dressed as an Indian.............Oğulcan Yilmaz (bass-baritone)
Bavarian State Opera Chorus
Sören Eckhoff (chorus master)
Bavarian State Orchestra
Tomáš Hanus (conductor)
4.25p.m.: Janacek Quartet no. 1 (The Kreutzer Sonata) for strings, arr. Richard Tognetti for string orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Lesley Hatfield (director)
THU 17:00 In Tune (m0006tn7)
Jonathan Plowright, Goran Krivokapic, Nigel North
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news with live music from guitarist Goran Krivokapic and the lute player Nigel North. We hear from pianist Jonathan Plowright ahead of his Wigmore Hall concert, and Sean visits a new exhibition at the National Maritime Museum that marks the 50th anniversary of NASA's Apollo 11 Moon landing.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0006tn9)
In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0006tnc)
Berlin's best
Georgia Mann introduces the final concert in a short series of highlights from Europe's 2018/19 season.
Kirill Petrenko, the Berlin Philharmonic's Chief Conductor Designate, doesn't officially take the orchestra's reins until this summer. But already this musical partnership, with its combination of technical brilliance and edge-of-the-seat spontaneity, is the most talked-about in Europe, routinely receiving five-star reviews, critical superlatives and standing ovations. In this concert recorded in March at the Berlin Philharmonie, Petrenko and the orchestra are joined by another musician noted for daring spontaneity, Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Schoenberg's Violin Concerto, written in 1936 during the early years of his US exile from Germany, has the Viennese tradition, and especially Brahms, at its core. The other work is by Tchaikovsky, his Fifth Symphony, a composer particularly close to Petrenko's heart.
Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, Op. 36
8.40pm
Interval Music (from CD)
Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka
Alexander Melnikov (piano)
8.55pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Kirill Petrenko (conductor)
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m0006tnf)
Book parts
Matthew Sweet looks at book frontispieces, dust jackets, footnotes, indexes and marginalia with Dennis Duncan, and New Generation Thinker Jeffrey Howard discusses hate speech.
Jeffrey Howard lectures in political theory at University College London and is a 2019 New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to put academic research on the radio.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
THU 22:45 The Essay (m0006tnh)
Mise-en-scène
The Ghost of the Time
Michael Goldfarb remembers the political and social mise-en-scène films from the 1960s and 1970s, including work by Sam Peckinpah, Sidney Lumet and Derek Jarman. "Mise-en-scène" means the arrangement of the scenery, props, on the set of a film or, more broadly, the social setting or surroundings of an event.
What films give the best idea of what it was like to be an American starting out in adult life as the 1960s bled into the 1970s? No mainstream films ever really got to grips with the Vietnam/Woodstock zeitgeist. Not Apocalypse Now, or The Deer Hunter, or The Big Chill. They were big budget, big studio imaginings.
But the zeitgeist called for films made well outside the studio system. Withnail, Performance, Tracks, Cutter's Way. These four films - two American-based, two English-based - made outside the studio system - or mutilated by it - get at the anarchic heart of the era.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (m0006tnk)
Visible Cloaks' Late Junction mixtape
Nick Luscombe hosts with a mixtape from the Portland-based electronic duo Visible Cloaks. Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlisle a.k.a. Visible Cloaks often use bell tones and ambient synth pads in their music, evoking a strange hinterland between traditional and electronic Japanese music with an exploratory production style. Fact magazine described their sound as a ‘soundtrack to a virtual reality Zen garden’. They take on the challenge of curating a Late Junction mixtape, handcrafting 30 minutes of music that has influenced and inspired their work.
Also in the programme, music from the Lithuanian composer Aiste Noreikaite’s helmet, which reads your thoughts to create an unexpected soundscape, Icelandic jazz from the Mikael Mani Trio and modern British acoustic music from Cunning Folk.
Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
FRIDAY 19 JULY 2019
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m0006tnm)
Mozart and Strauss
A programme of Mozart and Strauss with the WDR Symphony Orchestra. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, Constantinos Carydis (conductor)
12:55 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Oboe Concerto in D, AV 144
Manuel Bilz (oboe), WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Constantinos Carydis (conductor)
01:22 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Pan, from Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, op. 49
Manuel Bilz (oboe)
01:25 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551 'Jupiter'
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, Constantinos Carydis (conductor)
02:02 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897),George Frideric Handel
25 variations and fugue on a theme by G.F. Handel for piano (Op.24)
Shai Wosner (piano)
02:31 AM
Ceslovas Sasnauskas (1867-1916)
Requiem
Inesa Linaburgyte (mezzo soprano), Algirdas Janutas (tenor), Vladimiras Prudnikovas (bass), Kaunas State Choir, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Petras Bingelis (conductor)
03:05 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Quartet for strings no. 1 (Sz.40)
Meta4
03:37 AM
Albertus Groneman (c.1710-1778)
Sonata for 2 flutes in G major
Jed Wentz (flute), Marion Moonen (flute)
03:45 AM
Balthasar Fritsch (1570-1608)
Paduan and 2 Galliards (from Primitiae musicales, Frankfurt/Main 1606)
Hortus Musicus, Andres Mustonen (director)
03:54 AM
Toivo Kuula (1883-1918)
Festive March Op 13
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, George de Godzinsky (conductor)
04:03 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Danse macabre, Op 40
Ouellet-Murray Duo (duo)
04:10 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Pyrmonter Kurwoche No.5 (TWV42:e4)
Albrecht Rau (violin), Heinrich Rau (viola), Clemens Malich (cello), Wolfgang Hochstein (harpsichord)
04:18 AM
Zygmunt Noskowski (1846-1909), Tadeusz Maklakiewicz (arranger), Slawomir Stecki (lyricist)
Biale mgly
Polish Radio Choir, Unknown (piano), Marek Kluza (director)
04:21 AM
John Ansell (1874-1948)
Nautical Overture
West Australian Symphony Orchestra, David Measham (conductor)
04:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach
St. Matthew Passion - Opening Chorus (BWV.244:1)
Hungarian Radio Choir, Hungarian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Tamas Vasary (conductor)
04:39 AM
Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900)
Etudes instructives (Op.53) (1851)
Nina Gade (piano)
04:49 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Adagio and allegro in A flat major, Op 70
Danjulo Ishizaka (cello), Jose Gallardo (piano)
04:59 AM
Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000)
5 Ancient Hungarian Dances for wind quintet
Galliard Ensemble
05:09 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Prelude à l'apres-midi d'un faune
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
05:19 AM
Richard Addinsell (1904-1977)
Warsaw concerto for piano and orchestra
Patrik Jablonski (piano), Polish Radio Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
05:29 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata for violin and piano (Op.24) in F major "Spring"
Mats Zetterqvist (violin), Mats Widlund (piano)
05:53 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Rhapsodie espagnole (Folies d'Espagne et jota aragone) S.254
Zhang Zuo (piano)
06:05 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Quartet no. 12 in F major Op.96 (American) for strings
Escher Quartet
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m0006v4b)
Friday - Petroc's classical commute
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m0006v4d)
Suzy Klein
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 soprano Dame Emma Kirkby.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0006v4g)
James MacMillan (b 1959)
A tryst, a grief and a dream
Sir James MacMillan is reflecting on his prolific life in composition as he celebrates his 60th birthday this week.
The establishment of the Cumnock Tryst is James's way of bringing an inclusive music festival to his community in Ayrshire.
He also describes the composition of his Violin Concerto, which was inspired by a dream he had following the death of his mother. And he talks about the death of his granddaughter and the impact that this has had on his life and music.
Domus Infelix Est - An Unhappy House
The Elysian Singers
Sam Laughton, conductor
One
Britten Sinfonia
James MacMillan, conductor
Prelude (St Luke Passion)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra,
Netherlands Radio Choir, National Youth Choir
Markus Stenz, conductor
Benedicimus Deum coeli (Strathclyde Motets)
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor
Song and Dance (Violin Concerto, 3rd movement)
Vadim Repin, violin
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles, conductor
Fac, ut portem Christi mortem (Stabat Mater)
The Sixteen
Britten Sinfonia
Harry Christophers, conductor
Presenter: Donald Macleod
Producer: Rosie Boulton
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0006v4j)
Norfolk and Norwich Chamber Series: Schubert and Dvorak
In today's programme, Simon Crawford-Philips and Philip Moore conclude what is now regarded as an unfinished sonata with Schubert's last work for a medium he really helped establish - the piano duet. Written in June 1828, only five months before his death, there is none of the angst, anger and sorrow that were present in his solo compositions for the piano of the same year. Instead, Schubert models the Rondo on the lyrical finale of Beethoven's 27th piano sonata, bringing his love of melody to the fore.
Dvorak's G major String Quartet was composed in 1895 - the year he completed his tenure as the first director of the New York Conservatory of Music. During that time, Dvorak had become increasingly homesick and tired of America, so much so that he had barely written a note that year. On his return in April, he took an extended holiday before returning to Prague. It clearly did him some good as he wrote both the G major Quartet and his final A flat major Quartet before the end of the year. Following his excursions in America, this music expresses his contentment to be back in his homeland.
Presented by Tom McKinney
Schubert: Rondo in A major, D951
Simon Crawford-Philips & Philip Moore (piano)
Dvorak: String Quartet in G major, Op 106
Skampa Quartet
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0006v4l)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Rachmaninov and Schubert
Kate Molleson introduces recordings by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major (‘Great’)
Boris Giltburg (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)
(Recorded in the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
12/04/19)
Dvořák: Scherzo Capriccioso
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)
Dvorak Hall, Prague
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (b0b2jhhf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m0006v4n)
In Tune live at the 2019 Proms
Sean Rafferty presents a special episode of In Tune live from Imperial College, London, with artists featuring across the 2019 Proms, including Solomon's Knot and Yeol Eum Son.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0006v4q)
In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
FRI 19:30 BBC Proms (m0006v4s)
2019
Prom 1: First Night of the Proms
Live at BBC Proms: BBC Symphony Orchestra and choral forces, conducted by Karina Canellakis in music by Dvorak, Janacek, and a World Premiere by Zosha Di Castri
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny
Zosha Di Castri: Long Is the Journey – Short Is the Memory
(BBC commission: world premiere)
Dvorak: The Golden Spinning Wheel
c.
8.10pm
Interval: On the opening night of the 2019 BBC Proms, Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny look forward to two months of world-class music-making in the company of guests, and go backstage to chat to some of the performers in tonight's Prom.
Janacek: Glagolitic Mass
Asmik Grigorian, soprano
Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano
Ladislav Elgr, tenor
Jan Martiník, bass
Peter Holder, organ
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Karina Canellakis, conductor
The BBC’s Our Classical Century series concludes with a new work that marks the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s mission to the Moon.
Janáček’s monumental Glagolitic Mass, steeped in Moravian rhythms, is heard alongside Dvořák’s fairy-tale tone-poem The Golden Spinning Wheel.
Karina Canellakis conducts the massed forces of the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and BBC Singers in one of the 20th century’s great choral masterpieces.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m0006v4v)
The Moon Verb
This week, Ian McMillan and the guests shoot for the moon.
Ian is joined by Ocean Vuong, winner of the 2017 TS Eliot prize for 'Night Sky with Exit Wounds', who has just published his first novel 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous' (Cape). Ocean celebrates his favourite recent moon writing by Mojave American poet Natalie Diaz.
As it's our last programme of The Verb season before we take our summer break, we've brought together our Verb regulars from the past year - poets Ira Lightman and Kate Fox and linguist Rob Drummond. Together they be considering how man walking on the moon 50 years ago has changed our language and our relationship with the moon, and there will be brand new poetry from both Kate and Ira.
And we've let Ian McMillan out of the studio to meet Laurie Anderson and find out what the moon means to her. In collaboration with Hsin-Chien Huang, Anderson has produced the VR experience 'To The Moon'. To The Moon is at the Royal Exchange Theatre as part of the 2019 Manchester International Festival.
Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Jessica Treen
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m0006v4x)
Mise-en-scène
The Women in the Cutting Room... and Elsewhere
Michael Goldfarb remembers the political and social mise-en-scène films from the 1960s and 1970s, including work by Sam Peckinpah, Sidney Lumet and Derek Jarman. "Mise-en-scène" means the arrangement of the scenery, props, on the set of a film or, more broadly, the social setting or surroundings of an event.
There were women making films in this decade, but very, very few. And they had to stay in their lanes.
The biggest impact women had on the 70s mise-en-scène was in the cutting room: Thelma Schoonmaker, who cut the Scorsese films, and Dede Allen, who was house editor for Sidney Lumet, Arthur Penn and Warren Beatty.
They brought shape and pace and a second set of directorial eyes to the films the three men made in that decade which is still referred to as Hollywood's Last Golden Age.
FRI 23:00 Music Planet (m0006v4z)
Las Maravillas de Mali with Lopa Kothari
Lopa Kothari introduces a live recording of the Malian-Cuban band Las Maravillas de Mali, some 50 years after their formation. Led by the group's sole surviving member Boncana Maïga, the set also features Guinean musician Mory Kanté. In this week's Road Trip, Betto Arcos explores some of the new music to have come out of Cuba in recent years from artists who are combining traditional and contemporary styles. Plus the latest new releases, and a track from classic artist Daniel Owino Misiani, pioneer of the East African benga genre in the 1960s.