Love, lust and death at the Olympics in Vivaldi's rousing opera performed at Herne Early Music Days festival by Andrea Marcon and La Cetra Baroque Orchestra. Catriona Young presents.
Carlos Mena (counter tenor), Kangmin Justin Kim (counter tenor), Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (mezzo soprano), Federica Carnevale (mezzo soprano), Anna Aglatova (soprano), Jose Coca Loza (bass), Sergio Foresti (bass baritone), La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basle, Andrea Marcon (conductor)
Carlos Mena (counter tenor), Kangmin Justin Kim (counter tenor), Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (mezzo soprano), Federica Carnevale (mezzo soprano), Anna Aglatova (soprano), Jose Coca Loza (bass), Sergio Foresti (bass), La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basle, Andrea Marcon (conductor)
Carlos Mena (counter tenor), Kangmin Justin Kim (counter tenor), Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (mezzo soprano), Federica Carnevale (mezzo soprano), Anna Aglatova (soprano), Jose Coca Loza (bass), Sergio Foresti (bass), La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basle, Andrea Marcon (conductor)
Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
Nicolas Gombert (c.1495 - c. 1560)
Orlando Quartet, Istvan Parkanyí (violin), Heinz Oberdorfer (violin), Ferdinand Erblich (viola), Michael Muller (cello)
Classical music for breakfast time plus found sounds and the odd unclassified track.
Mozart's Symphony No 39 in E flat on Building a Library with Nicholas Kenyon and Andrew McGregor
Escales: French Orchestral Works – music by Chabrier, Duruflé, Saint-Saëns, Ibert, Massenet and Ravel
Mozart: Sonatas for Fortepiano & Violin, Vol. 2
Liszt: The Complete Songs, Vol. 6 - Julia Kleiter
Building a Library: Nicholas Kenyon chooses his favourite recording of Mozart's late, great Symphony No. 39 in E flat major.
Summer 1788. Broke and out of favour with the fickle Viennese public, Mozart completes the remarkable trio of his final three symphonies in just nine weeks. No. 39 is the first of the set, exuberant and full of energy, ending with a characteristically ingenious and playful Mozartian touch: an effervescent moto perpetuo finale whose second theme is the first theme in disguise.
Beethoven: Septet, Op. 20 & Clarinet Trio, Op. 11
The Lyrical Clarinet, Volume 3: music by Debussy, Kreisler, Gaubert and Fauré etc.
New Releases – Katy Hamilton reviews a new 77-CD box of Bruno Walter Columbia recordings
During his lifetime, conductor Bruno Walter's reputation could hardly have been higher. Born in Germany in 1876, assistant and protégé of Mahler, peer of Toscanini, Walter was a key interpreter of the classical and Romantic Austro-German core repertoire but in the decades since his death in 1962 he seems to have been largely forgotten. Katy Hamilton has been listening to the 77-CDs in Sony's new box of Bruno Walter's US recordings for the Columbia label and makes a contemporary assessment.
Various soloists including Rudolf Serkin (piano), Lily Pons (soprano) and Lotte Lehmann (soprano)
Kate meets the Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir, whose big orchestral pieces feature layers of dense sound reflecting her inner world and nature as well - she's composer-in-residence of The Iceland Symphony Orchestra, currently touring the UK.
With the UK having left the European Union, Kate explores the challenges facing music industry, with Thorben Dittes (Director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Classical Music Programme, Sage Gateshead), Tom Kiehl (Acting CEO of UK Music) and Donald Shaw (Artistic Director of the Celtic Connections Festival).
As the Oscars are revealed this weekend, the film composer and conductor Debbie Wiseman takes a look at the nominees for original score, reflecting on today's film industry too.
Plus the hot topics of discussion from the conference of the Association of British Orchestras last week: new environmental business models, embracing diversity and equality, and orchestras relevance in society. Joining Kate to reflect on these issues are John Warner (Orchestra for the Earth), Jenny Jamieson (Scottish Ensemble) and Jessica Schmidt (US organisation Orchestrate Inclusion).
Jess Gillam with... Elisabeth Brauss
Jess Gillam is joined by pianist Elisabeth Brauss to swap tracks and share the music they love. With music from Benjamin Britten to Oscar Peterson.
Johann Strauss II – Die Fledermaus; Overture (Carlos Kleiber, Vienna Philharmonic)
Julia Wolfe - Fire in My mouth: ii. Factory
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz - Violin Concerto in A Major Op. 8; Finale: Vivace assai
As a composer and producer who straddles the ever-merging worlds of classical and contemporary music, Gabriel Prokofiev brings a fresh perspective on composers who have influenced him - from his grandfather, Sergei Prokofiev, to Barbara Strozzi.
Gabriel’s choice of music today includes a piece by Ravel which is decorated by some ‘spicy’ Baroque trills, the mechanical and pulsing soundscape of Xenakis, and a piece by Schnittke which has a fragile sense of beauty.
He also plays a piece by Henry Cowell which you could mistake for modern dance music, with its loops and hypnotic repetition, until you realise it was written in the 1930s.
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
In the weekend of the Academy Awards Matthew Sweet looks at some wonderful film scores over the decades that somehow failed to pick up an Oscar despite their greatness. The programme includes music from Erich von Korngold, Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner, Leonard Bernstein, Henry Mancini, Nino Rota, Richard Rodney Bennett, John Corigliano, John Williams, James Horner, Philip Glass and Mica Levi. The programme also features music from the nominees for the Best Music Score category at this year's Academy Awards.
American roots and bluegrass duo Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn perform live in the studio. Plus the latest releases from across the globe and a track from this week's Classic Artist, the Tashi Lhunpo Monks of Tibet.
Kevin Le Gendre presents further highlights of music recorded on the J to Z stage at last year's London Jazz Festival including the festival's resident artist, drumming great Terri Lyne Carrington. German pianist and ECM recording artist Julia Hülsmann shares a lyrical set and rising star UK guitarist Rob Luft teams up with saxophonist Dave O'Higgins to tackle the music of John Coltrane.
Plus, Canadian trumpeter Ingrid Jensen shares some of the music that has inspired her musical journey including a piece from trumpet icon Kenny Wheeler.
Today's Opera from the Met is a concert presentation of Berlioz’s compelling take on the Faust legend, in which the hero exchanges his soul for unlimited knowledge. Berlioz's imaginative score is, like the masterpiece it's based on, wild and grandiose but also intimately beautiful.
Today's cast is an ideal line-up of stars: Tenor Michael Spyres sings the doomed and besotted Faust, opposite the dazzling mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča as the forsaken Marguerite and bass Ildar Abdrazakov as the malevolent Méphistophélès. Edward Gardner conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York..
Kate Molleson introduces recordings from last December's London Contemporary Music Festival in conversation with the festival's directors Igor Toronyi-Lalic and Jack Sheen. Music by La Monte Young, Heleen van Haegenborgh, Alwynne Pritchard and Cerith Wyn Evans as well as a performance by the Japanese duo O Yama O. Also tonight Robert Worby interviews Swedish composer and sound artist Hanna Hartman, a new release of recordings surveying the career of American cellist Charles Curtis, and to end, the sound of a late-night drive through Khartoum, Sudan.
SUNDAY 09 FEBRUARY 2020
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m000f6l8)
Improvising with the Australian outback
Allis Hamilton is an artist living in a hand-built shack in the Australian outback. She makes improvised music in a trio called Alias Nun who are inspired by the aural soundscapes of the surrounding bush. Even though their home is far away from the wildfires plaguing the country, there are days when the air is thick with smoke. Allis describes how the complex emotions these devastating fires arouse can find an outlet in improvised music.
Also on the show, saxophonist Mette Rasmussen creates some gorgeously gritty vocalisations through her instrument, in a duo with guitarist Julien Desprez, and there’s a meditative piece that improvises with volume for turntables and electronics. Presented by Corey Mwamba.
Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m000f6lb)
Roger Morello cello recital
Music by Ligeti, George Crumb and Brahms performed by the young cellist Roger Morello. Jonathan Swain presents.
01:01 AM
Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006)
Cello Sonata
Roger Morelló (cello)
01:10 AM
Elisenda Fàbregas (1955)
Homenatge a Pau Casals (Homage to Pau Casals)
Roger Morelló (cello)
01:18 AM
George Crumb (b.1929)
Cello Sonata (1955)
Roger Morelló (cello)
01:32 AM
Joan Magrané Figuera (b.1988)
Tombeau
Roger Morelló (cello)
01:40 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Cello Sonata in E minor, Op 38
Roger Morelló (cello), Bernat Català (piano)
02:07 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Valse sentimentale in F minor, Op 51, No 6
Roger Morelló (cello), Bernat Català (piano)
02:10 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Le Cygne (The Swan) (excerpt The Carnival des Animaux)
Roger Morelló (cello), Bernat Català (piano)
02:14 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No 40 in G minor, K550
Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra, Adam Fischer (conductor)
02:42 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Piano Trio in A major, Hob.
15.18
William Preucil (violin), David Finckel (cello), Wu Han (piano)
03:01 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Erich Leinsdorf (arranger)
Die Frau ohne Schatten - Suite
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)
03:22 AM
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Poeme de l'amour et de la mer, Op 19
Iwona Socha (soprano), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (conductor)
03:50 AM
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
Harmonia Romana (Ms.Kremsier 1669)
Musica Aeterna Bratislava, Peter Zajícek (director)
04:03 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Nocturne in D flat major, Op 27, No 2
Jane Coop (piano)
04:10 AM
Charles Avison (1709-1770)
Concerto Grosso No.2 in G major for strings and continuo
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (director)
04:24 AM
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Nocturne for flute and piano
Valentinas Gelgotas (flute), Audrone Kisieliute (piano)
04:27 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Serenade for Strings Op 20
Royal Academy Soloists, Clio Gould (director)
04:39 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899), Alban Berg (arranger)
Wein, Weib und Gesang (Wine, Woman and Song) waltz
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (director)
04:49 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Capriccio (excerpt Finale of 'Bal masque')
Wyneke Jordans (piano), Leo van Doeselaar (piano)
04:55 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Maskerade (FS.39) - overture
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schonwandt (conductor)
05:01 AM
Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872)
Flis ('The Raftsman') (Overture)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Salwarowski (conductor)
05:10 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Rondo concertante in B flat major, K269
Benjamin Schmid (violin), Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Adam Fischer (conductor)
05:17 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Toward the Unknown Region
BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
05:29 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Petite Suite
Royal Academy of Music Brass Soloists
05:37 AM
Ilmari Hannikainen (1892-1955)
Suihkulahteella (At a fountain)
Liisa Pohjola (piano)
05:44 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Luc Brewaeys (orchestrator)
Des pas sur la neige (Preludes Book One, No 6)
Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Daniele Callegari (conductor)
05:49 AM
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620-1680)
Sonate VIII for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo
Ensemble CordArte
05:55 AM
Erno Dohnanyi (1877-1960)
Symphonic Minutes, Op 36
West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor)
06:08 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Jesu meine Freude, BWV 227
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (director)
06:32 AM
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
Clarinet Quartet in E flat major
Martin Frost (clarinet), Tobias Ringborg (violin), Ingegerd Kierkegaard (viola), John Ehde (cello)
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m000f6x0)
Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show including a Sunday morning Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m000f6x2)
Sarah Walker with an intriguing musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, and puts a musical spin on events.
Sarah embraces some thrillingly atmospheric darkness in Cherubini’s Overture to his opera Démophoon, but on the lighter side she peppers the morning with Richard Rodney Bennett’s Four Piece Suite, relaxing and uplifting in equal measure.
She finds energy and sensitivity in Tine Thing Helseth’s performance of Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E flat, and a sense of magic in a Bach Flute Sonata arranged for recorder, harpsichord and cello.
Plus a few film favourites, on the day of the Oscars. Sarah chooses a pair of pieces by Michael Nyman, and music which is the epitome of Hollywood glamour - Everything’s Coming Up Roses by Jule Styne.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m000f6x4)
Ann Wroe
Michael Berkeley talks to the writer Ann Wroe about the inspiration and comfort she finds in music.
Ann spends the first 36 hours of each week wrestling with the challenge of distilling the life of a person into just 1000 words – because, for nearly two decades, she has written the weekly obituary for The Economist.
The rest of Ann’s week is spent wrestling with biography of an altogether different kind - because she finds the subjects for her books in the shadowy territory where history meets myth. She dares to mix intense scholarship with her own imagination to capture the essence of figures as varied as Perkin Warbeck, the pretender to the English throne; Pontius Pilate; and the mythical lyric poet Orpheus. Hilary Mantel has said of her: ‘She is a genius, because she lights up every subject she touches’.
Ann tells Michael why she is attracted to such ambiguous subjects for her biographies and why she often chooses the quirky over the famous for her Economist obituaries – she’s written about the lives of firefighters, woodcarvers and even animals.
Passionate about the natural world, Ann chooses piano music by Schubert that conjures up walks on the South Downs; Jonathan Dove’s Seek Him that Maketh the Seven Stars; and Frank Bridge’s The Sea, which takes her to her beloved Brighton.
She talks movingly about her attitude towards death and what might come after it, and tells Michael why most of her music choices are ‘bittersweet’, including a song by Vaughan Williams to remember her late husband.
Producer: Jane Greenwood
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000dyfp)
Schubert leads the way
From Wigmore Hall, London. BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the Kyrgyzstan-born, German-resident soprano Katharina Konradi has won plaudits both on the opera stage and as a song recitalist. Today, she is joined by Eric Schneider, a leading pianist who has been one of Katharina's teachers. Their programme begins and ends with songs by Schubert, plus songs by Rachmaninov and Strauss.
Presented by Andrew McGregor.
Schubert: Suleika II; An mein Herz; Suleika I
Rachmaninov: Lilacs; Beloved, let us fly; How fair this spot; Vocalise
Strauss: Du meines Herzens Krönelein, Op.21 No2; Das Rosenband, Op.36 No.1; Glückes genug, Op.37 No.1; Morgen!, Op.27 No.4
Schubert: Im Abendrot; Lied des Florio; Lied der Delphine
Katharina Konradi (soprano)
Eric Schneider (piano)
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m000f6x6)
Bach Collegium Japan - 30th Anniversary
Hannah French talks to father and son team Masaaki and Masato Suzuki about period performance ensemble Bach Collegium Japan, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. With music by Bach, Mozart and Beethoven.
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m000f058)
Chapel of Keble College, Oxford
From the Chapel of Keble College, Oxford (recorded 19th November).
Introit: Behold, O God, our defender (Howells)
Responses: Ayleward
Psalms 27, 28, 29 (Plainsong)
First Lesson: 1 Samuel 1 vv.19b-28
Office hymn: Sol, ecce, lenteus occidens (Plainsong)
Canticles: The Second Service (Byrd)
Second Lesson: Luke 2 vv.41-52
Anthem: Lord, when the sense of Thy sweet grace (Berkeley)
Hymn: Lord of beauty, thine the splendour (Wood Green)
Voluntary: Fantasia and Fugue in G (Parry)
Matthew Martin (Director of Music)
Benjamin Mills (Organ Scholar)
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m000f6x8)
09/02/20
Alyn Shipton presents listeners' requests which this week include recordings by John Dankworth, Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins.
DISC 1
Artist John Dankworth
Title Demdest Little Fascinator
Composer Dankworth
Album What The Dickens
Label Fontana
Number MGF 27525 Track 5
Duration 3.09
Performers: Gus Galbraith, Leon Calvert, Kenny Wheeler, Dickie Hawdon, Jimmy Deuchar, t; Tony Russell, Eddie Harvey, tb; Ron Snyder, Alf Reece, tu; John Dankworth, Roy East, Vic Ash, Art Ellefson, Tony Coe, Tubby Hayes, Peter King, Ronnie Scott, Bobby Wellins, Dick Morrissey, Ronnie Ross, reeds; Alan Branscombe, p; Kenny Napper, Spike Heatley, b; Johnny Butts, Ronnie Stephenson, d; Roy Webster, perc. 1964
DISC 2
Artist Peter King
Title My Man’s Gone Now
Composer Gershwin
Album Tamburello
Label Miles Music
Number 083 Track 6
Duration 7.36
Performers: Peter King, ss; Steve Melling, p; Alec Dankworth, b; Stephen Keogh, d. 1995
DISC 3
Artist Chris Ingham
Title When The World Was Young
Composer Philippe-Gerard / Mercer / Vannier
Album Stan
Label Downhome
Number 0005 Track 3
Duration 3.51
Performers: Mark Crooks, ts; Chris Ingham, p; Arnie Somogyi, b; George Double, d. 2019.
DISC 4
Artist Sonny Rollins
Title Solid
Composer Rollins
Album Sax Symbol
Label Proper
Number Properbox 124 CD 1 Track 17
Duration 6.27
Performers: Sonny Rollins ts; Kenny Dorham, t; Elmo Hope, p; Percy Heath, p; Art Blakey, d; Aug 1954.
DISC 5
Artist Tommaso Starace
Title Touch and Go
Composer Starace
Album Narrow Escape
Label Music Center
Number BA409 Track 1
Duration 6.04
Performers Tommaso Starace, as; Dave O’Higgins, ts; Davide Liberti, b; Ruben Bellavia, d. 2018
DISC 6
Artist Echoes of Ellington
Title Blues in Orbit
Composer Strayhorn
Album Jazz Planets
Label Right Track
Number 111 Track 1
Duration 4.25
Performers: George Hogg, James Davidson, Louis Dowdeswell, Nathan Bray, Ryan Quigley, t; Andy Flaxman, Callum Au, Chris Traves, John Stokes, tb; Pete Long. Simon Marsh, Colin Skinner, Mike Hall, Paul Nathaniel, Jay Craig reeds; Colin Good, p; Joe Pettit, b; Richard Pite, d. 2018.
DISC 7
Artist Nat Steele
Title Woody ‘n’ You
Composer Gillespie
Album Portrait of the MJQ
Label Trio
Number 598 Track 1
Duration 5.32
Performers: Nat Steele, vib; Gabriel Latchin, p; Dario Di Lecce, b; Steve Brown, d. 2017.
DISC 8
Artist Miles Davis
Title You’re My Everything
Composer Dixon, Young Warren
Album Relaxin
Label Prestige
Number CDJZD 003 Track 6
Duration 4.50
Performers: Miles Davis, t; John Coltrane, ts; Red Garland, p; Paul Chambers, b; Philly Joe Jones, d. Oct 1956
DISC 9
Artist Sue Rynhart and Huw Warren
Title We Are On Time
Composer Rynhart
Album n/a
Label Mrsuesue
Number 194171426179
Duration 6.00
Performers Sue Rynhart, v; Huw Warren, p. 2019
DISC 10
Artist Echoes of Swing
Title Winter Moon
Composer Carmichael / Adamson
Album Winter Days at Schloss Elmau
Label ACT
Number 9105-2 Track 1
Duration 4.47
Performers: Colin Dawson t; Chris Hopkins, as; Bernd Lhotzky, p; Henning Gailing, b; Oliver Mewes, d; Rebecca Kilgore, v. Dec 2018.
DISC 11
Artist Chris Barber
Title Bagatelle
Composer Bechet
Album 1959-60
Label Lake
Number 324 CD 2 Track 7
Duration 1.55
Performers: Pat Halcox, t; Monty Sunshine, cl; Chris Barber, tb; Eddie Smith, bj; Dick Smith b; Graham Burbidge, d. 20 June 1960.
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m000bmrm)
Sad songs say so much
In 1649, a month after the execution of King Charles I, the distraught composer Thomas Tomkins wrote a piece of music called "A sad pavan for these distracted times".
And in our own confusing times, is sad music what we need - or not? Tom Service looks at music's power to heal, to build community and to redefine historical events. With Associate Professor at University College London, Dr Daisy Fancourt, and author of "Singing in the Age of Anxiety", Laura Tunbridge.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m000f6xb)
Welcome To Heartbreak
There cannot be a phenomenon in all the world that inspires poets and composers more than heartbreak. It is a universal experience, and yet at the same time feels utterly unique.
With Valentine’s Day approaching, why not indulge yourself in expressions of exquisite pain from the likes of Audre Lorde, Alice Meynell, Don Paterson and Derek Walcott, whose words take you through the stages of despair, denial, regret, acceptance and so on. All of it accompanied, of course, by lovelorn, lovesick music courtesy of Leoncavallo, Puccini, Tchaikovsky and Tom Waits.
Living through the operatic emotions of a broken heart alongside you are readers Zubin Varla and Katie West.
Readings:
Derek Walcott - The Fist
Walt Whitman - Sometimes with One I Love
Elizabeth Smart - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Sean Bonney - In Fear of Memory (after Pasolini)
Elizabeth Smart - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Alice Meynell - Renouncement
Percey Bysshe Shelley - When the Lamp is Broken
Anon - Donal Og (translated by Lady Augusta Gregory)
Don Paterson - A Vow
Pablo Neruda - Sonnet LXV (translated by Stephen Tapscott)
Lynn Emanuel - Frying Trout While Drunk from ‘The Nerve Of It: Poems Selected and New’ (2015). Aired by permission of University Of Pittsburgh Press.
Ernest Dowson - Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae
Ovid - Remedia Amoris (translated by Rolfe Humphries)
Kahlil Gibran - On Pain
Edna St. Vincent Millay - Time does not bring relief
Frank Bidart - Catullus: Excrucior
Frank Bidart - Catullus: Odi et Amo
Frank Bidart - Catullus: Id faciam
Kit Wright - My Version
Christina Rossetti - Mirage
Audre Lorde - Movement Song
Derek Walcott - Love After Love
Louis MacNeice - Autumn Journal: Canto XIX
Produced by Jack Howson.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
01
00:00:49 The Carter Family (artist)
Just Another Broken Heart
Performer: The Carter Family
Duration 00:01:00
02
00:01:49
Derek Walcott
The Fist, read by Katie West
Duration 00:00:36
03
00:02:25 Billie Holiday (artist)
Good Morning Heartache
Performer: Billie Holiday
Duration 00:01:59
04
00:04:24
Walt Whitman
Sometimes with One I Love, read by Zubin Varla
Duration 00:00:26
05
00:04:24 Sam Cooke (artist)
Good Morning Heartache
Performer: Sam Cooke
Duration 00:01:09
06
00:05:33
Elizabeth Smart
Extract from By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, read by Katie West
Duration 00:00:06
07
00:05:39 Ruggero Leoncavallo
Pagliacci / Act 1: "Vesti la giubba"
Singer: Luciano Pavarotti
Orchestra: Vienna Volksoper Orchestra
Conductor: Leone Magiera
Duration 00:02:33
08
00:08:12
Sean Bonney
In Fear of Memory (after Pasolini), read by Zubin Varla
Duration 00:00:13
09
00:08:25 Alban Berg
Lyric Suite For String Quartet (1926): VI. Largo desolato
Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet
Duration 00:04:11
10
00:12:34
Elizabeth Smart
Extract from By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, read by Katie West
Duration 00:01:34
11
00:14:08 Rahsaan Roland Kirk (artist)
Ain't No Sunshine
Performer: Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Duration 00:02:22
12
00:16:30
Alice Meynell
Renouncement, read by Katie West
Duration 00:00:56
13
00:17:26 Missy Mazzoli
Heartbreaker
Performer: Michael Mizrahi
Duration 00:04:28
14
00:21:53
Percey Bysshe Shelley
When the Lamp is Broken, read by Zubin Varla
Duration 00:00:37
15
00:22:30 Tom Waits (artist)
Bad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell)
Performer: Tom Waits
Duration 00:03:23
16
00:25:53
Anon, translated by Lady Augusta Gregory
Donal Og, read by Katie West
Duration 00:01:55
17
00:27:48 John Tavener
Prayer Of The Heart
Singer: Björk
Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet
Duration 00:01:13
18
00:29:03
Don Paterson
A Vow, read by Zubin Varla
Duration 00:00:22
19
00:29:25 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
None But the Lonely Heart, Op. 6 No. 6
Performer: Stephen Hough
Duration 00:02:35
20
00:32:02
Pablo Neruda, translated by Stephen Tapscott
Sonnet LXV, read by Zubin Varla
Duration 00:00:58
21
00:32:59 Amy Winehouse (artist)
Like Smoke (DEMO)
Performer: Amy Winehouse
Duration 00:01:08
22
00:34:07
Lynn Emanuel
Frying Trout While Drunk, read by Katie West
Duration 00:01:18
23
00:35:25 Sidney Bechet (artist)
Blues In My Heart
Performer: Sidney Bechet
Duration 00:01:17
24
00:36:38
Ernest Dowson
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae, read by Zubin Varla
Duration 00:01:44
25
00:38:22 Toby Young
I Carry Your Heart (SATB)
Choir: The Oxford Choir
Librettist: E. E. Cummings
Duration 00:03:31
26
00:41:53
Ovid, translated by Rolfe Humphries
Remedia Amoris, read by Zubin Varla
Duration 00:00:29
27
00:41:53 Traditional
"My Heart Was Burnt By Love" - Traditional Egyptian Folk Song
Performer: Michael Levy
Duration 00:01:39
28
00:43:32
Kahlil Gibran
On Pain, read by Zubin Varla
Duration 00:01:21
29
00:44:53 Franz Schubert
Fantasie in F Minor D.940, Op.103: Largo
Performer: Leon Fleisher
Performer: Katherine Jacobson
Duration 00:02:38
30
00:45:39
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Time does not bring relief, read by Katie West
Duration 00:00:50
31
00:46:34
Frank Bidart
Catullus: Excrucior, read by Zubin Varla
Duration 00:00:09
32
00:46:43
Frank Bidart
Catullus: Odi et Amo, read by Katie West
Duration 00:00:08
33
00:46:51
Frank Bidart
Catullus: Id faciam, read by Zubin Varla
Duration 00:00:08
34
00:47:31 Jacobus Gallus
Odi Et Amo
Choir: Niederaltaicher Scholaren
Transcriber: Konrad Ruhland
Duration 00:01:14
35
00:48:45
Kit Wright
My Version, read by Zubin Varla
Duration 00:00:44
36
00:49:29 Giacomo Puccini
Le Villi - Opera in 2 Acts / Act 2: La Tregenda
Orchestra: Deutsches Symphonie‐Orchester Berlin
Duration 00:03:34
37
00:53:03
Christina Rossetti
Mirage, read by Katie West
Duration 00:00:57
38
00:54:00 Joanna Newsom (artist)
Does Not Suffice
Performer: Joanna Newsom
Duration 00:06:34
39
01:00:34
Audre Lorde
Movement Song, read by Zubin Varla
Duration 00:01:26
40
01:02:00 Bill Evans (artist)
Alone Together
Performer: Bill Evans
Performer: Chet Baker
Duration 00:06:49
41
01:04:21
Derek Walcott
Love After Love, read by Katie West
Duration 00:00:51
42
01:08:57
Louis MacNeice
Extract from Autumn Journal: Canto XIX, read by Zubin Varla
Duration 00:02:52
43
01:11:49 Daniel Johnston (artist)
True Love Will Find You In The End
Performer: Daniel Johnston
Duration 00:01:48
SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m000f6xd)
Shades of Black: The Art and Genius of Archibald Motley Jr
Lindsay Johns examines how the artist Archibald Motley Jr captured the politics of skin tone in Jazz Age Chicago, and why his art still resonates today.
From formal portraiture to group compositions, Motley painted African-American men and women. He used his dazzling skills to undermine racial stereotypes, questioning what it was to be 'black'. His paintings chart the development of Chicago's 'Black Metropolis', the birth of gospel music, and black nightlife.
Lindsay has been bewitched by Motley's painting 'Blues' since he first saw it 20 years ago, and now he journeys to Chicago, Motley's home city, to find out more about the artist and the place which made him. Starting at the Chicago Art Institute, Lindsay discusses Motley's skill as a painter; then at the city's History Museum he explores the toxic racial politics of the 1920s and 1930s. And when he speaks to Chicago's contemporary artists, Lindsay discovers that while Motley's work documented the Chicago of nearly a century ago, it also retains a strong resonance today.
Producer: Giles Edwards
Research: Jelena Sofronijevic
SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (b09z5qnq)
Lady Windermere's Fan
A fresh look at Wilde's masterpiece of secrets, lies and betrayal. His subtitle: 'A play about a good woman'.
Produced by award-winning Jarvis & Ayres Productions. Martin Jarvis directs a star cast: Mira Sorvino, Susannah Fielding, Jonathan Cake, James Callis, Ian Ogilvy, Rosalind Ayres, Peter Woodward. Social outsider Mrs Erlynne and respectable Lord Windermere share a secret. Are they having an affair? Confronted by young wife Margaret, her husband denies it. Unconvinced, she decides to leave him. A roller-coaster examination of 'good' and 'bad'. Deceit. Infidelity. Love. The tell-tale fan becomes a vital clue as the truth finally becomes clear. But who actually is the 'good' woman?
Masterly thriller - its timelessness reflected in specially composed music. Drawing-room comedy turned on its head in Wilde's amazingly up-to-date study of hypocrisy.
Mrs Erlynne ..... Mira Sorvino
Lady Windermere ..... Susannah Fielding
Lord Windermere ..... James Callis
Lord Darlington ..... Jonathan Cake
Duchess of Berwick ..... Rosalind Ayres
Lord Lorton ..... Ian Ogilvy
Mr Dumby ..... Peter Woodward
Cecil Graham ...... Matthew Wolf
Mr Hopper ..... Darren Keefe
Parker ..... Darren Richardson
Agatha/Lady Stutfield ..... Elizabeth Knowelden
Lady Plymdale/Rosalie ..... Edita Brychta
Lady Jedburgh ..... Jean Gilpin
Sound Design: Mark Holden
Specially composed music: A-Mnemonic
Director: Martin Jarvis
A Jarvis & Ayres Production.
SUN 21:15 Radio 3 in Concert (m000f6xg)
Rachmaninov, Beethoven and Berlioz
Highlights of classical music concerts from around the world, care of the European Broadcasting Union, introduced by Fiona Talkington.
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) - Le Corsaire, op. 21, overture
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Yoel Levi, conductor
Recorded last year at the Concert Hall, Arts Center, Seoul
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Cello Sonata No. 3 in A, op. 69
Sol Gabetta, cello
Kristian Bezuidenhout, piano
Recorded last year in the Music Hall, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Osvaldo Golijov (1960) - Tenebrae
A Far Cry
Recorded summer 2018 at the Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, USA
Serge Rachmaninov (1873-1943) - Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, op. 30
Sunwook Kim, piano
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Yoel Levi, conductor
Recorded last year at the Concert Hall, Arts Center, Seoul
SUN 23:00 Sean Shibe's Guitar Zone (m0006n8s)
Adaptations and Collaborations
In the final episode of the series Sean thinks about how the guitar doesn’t have to be a solitary instrument. He finds there are situations where it can work perfectly as a collaborator: in a baroque band or with a solo voice, even in unison with a piano (given the right amplification). Sean also discovers the extra emotional range that an arrangement of a piano piece can find on a guitar, proving that as Julian Bream said, it’s an instrument of the senses.
Sean Shibe is a young, award-winning musician who’s changing the way people listen to the guitar. In this six-part series he presents a personal choice of vibrant and varied pieces by composers from Spanish Renaissance masters to Pat Metheny and Benjamin Britten, with performers including Julian Bream, Andrés Segovia, John Williams, Tilman Hoppstock, Eric Bellocq and Massimo Moscardo. Sean discovers the characters of the extended guitar family, from the oud, lute and vihuela to the Brahms guitar, decachord and electric guitar, and expresses straight-talking views on players of the past and present who have helped shape his own unique approach to the art of guitar playing. With his guitar on his knee he'll also be showing us what to listen for and what’s physically possible on the instrument.
We’ll hear Sean’s philosophical, intellectual and above all emotional take on the music he knows so well. He opens a door into a world that’s full of subtlety and contrast in its expression of culture and style. It’s a world that invites us in with all sorts of mesmeric and surprising sounds.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
01
00:00:49 Antonio Vivaldi
Cello Sonata in A minor RV 43 - movement IV
Performer: Isabel Gehweiler
Performer: Aljaz Cvirn
Music Arranger: W. Haben
Duration 00:02:57
02
00:05:13 Enrique Granados
12 Danzas Espanolas Op.37 No.5 - Andaluza
Performer: Alicia de Larrocha
Duration 00:01:03
03
00:06:17 Enrique Granados
12 Danzas Espanolas Op.37 No.5 - Andaluza
Performer: Andrés Segovia
Duration 00:04:28
04
00:12:08 Pat Metheny
Letter from Home
Ensemble: Pat Metheny Group
Duration 00:02:27
05
00:15:55 Franz Schubert
Die Winterreise - No.5 Der Lindenbaum
Performer: Tilman Hoppstock
Music Arranger: Tilman Hoppstock
Singer: Christophe Pregardien
Duration 00:04:30
06
00:21:02 Joaquín Rodrigo
3 Pequenas piezas - No.3 Pequena sevillana
Performer: Jérémy Jouve
Duration 00:04:20
07
00:27:01 Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata
Performer: John Williams
Music Arranger: Sky
Ensemble: Sky
Duration 00:04:41
08
00:33:37 Trad.
The Nightingale
Performer: John Williams
Singer: Wilfred Brown
Duration 00:02:45
09
00:37:31 Enríquez de Valderrábano
Contrapunto sobre el tenor del 'Conde Claros'
Performer: Eric Bellocq
Performer: Massimo Moscardo
Duration 00:03:04
10
00:42:32 Benjamin Britten
Second Lute Song of the Earl of Essex (Gloriana)
Performer: Julian Bream
Singer: Peter Pears
Duration 00:04:44
11
00:48:35 Juan Vásquez
Gentil senora mia
Performer: Matthieu Lusson
Performer: Massimo Moscardo
Performer: Eric Bellocq
Singer: Renaud Delaigue
Conductor: Dominique Visse
Ensemble: Clement Janequin Ensemble
Duration 00:03:02
12
00:52:56 Isaac Albéniz
Suite Espanola No.1 Op.47 No.5 - Asturias
Performer: John Williams
Duration 00:05:58
MONDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2020
MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m0009d7y)
Mim Shaikh
Broadcaster, actor and writer Mim Shaikh tries Clemmie's classical playlist.
Mim's playlist in full:
Florence Beatrice Price: Symphony No. 1 in E Minor: III. Juba Dance
Frédéric Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 15 in D-Flat Major, "Raindrop"
Nico Muhly: A Hudson Cycle
Amy Beach: 4 Sketches, Op. 15: No. 3. Dreaming (arr. for cello and piano)
Eric Whitacre: Lux Aurumque
George Frideric Handel / Arr Pluhar: Sinfonia (The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon HWV 67)
01
00:04:51 Florence Price
Symphony No 1 in E minor - iii Juba Dance
Conductor: John Jeter
Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony
Duration 00:03:15
02
00:08:18 Frédéric Chopin
24 Preludes Op 28: No 15 in D flat major, "Raindrops"
Performer: Nikolai Lugansky
Duration 00:04:23
03
00:12:45 Nico Muhly
A Hudson Cycle
Performer: Lavinia Meijer
Duration 00:03:01
04
00:15:53 Amy Beach
Dreaming
Performer: Judith Herbert
Performer: Diana Ambache
Duration 00:06:15
05
00:20:57 Eric Whitacre
Lux aurumque
Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers
Conductor: Eric Whitacre
Duration 00:04:07
06
00:25:06 George Frideric Handel
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon
Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar
Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata
Conductor: Christina Pluhar
Duration 00:04:10
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m000f6xl)
Previn's Mahler Symphony No 9
A chance to hear Andre Previn conducting the Oslo Philharmonic in Mahler's musical foreshadowing of death, recorded in 2003. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony No 9
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Andre Previn (conductor)
01:50 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite for solo cello no 1 in G major (BWV 1007)
Guy Fouquet (cello)
02:09 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
Danses Concertantes for chamber orchestra
Polish Radio Orchestra, Krzystzof Slowinski (conductor)
02:31 AM
Barbara Strozzi ([1619-1677])
"Hor che Apollo" - Serenade for Soprano, 2 violins & continuo
Musica Fiorita, Daniela Dolci (director)
02:44 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Variations on an original theme (Enigma) Op 36
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Neville Marriner (conductor)
03:12 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Nocturnal after John Dowland Op 70 for guitar
Sean Shibe (guitar)
03:30 AM
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729)
Sonata in D major for 2 violins and continuo
Musica Fiorita, Daniela Dolci (director)
03:39 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Barcarolle in F sharp major Op 60
Anastasia Vorotnaya (piano)
03:48 AM
Henryk Gorecki (1933-2010)
Totus tuus Op 60
Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (director)
03:58 AM
Leevi Madetoja (1887-1947)
Dance Vision (Tanssinaky), Op 11
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Panula (conductor)
04:06 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Crispian Steele-Perkins (arranger)
3 Airs from Vauxhall Gardens
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), King's Consort, Robert King (director)
04:18 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Romance Op 11 in F minor vers. for violin and piano
Mincho Minchev (violin), Violinia Stoyanova (piano)
04:31 AM
Pancho Vladigerov (1899-1978)
Vardar - Rhapsodie bulgare Op 16
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milen Nachev (conductor)
04:41 AM
Michelangelo Faggioli (1666-1733)
Marte, ammore, guerra e pace from the opera 'La Cilla'
Pino de Vittorio (tenor), Cappella della Pietà de Turchini, Antonio Florio (director)
04:50 AM
Walter Piston (1894-1976)
Prelude and Allegro (for organ and orchestra) (1943)
David Schrader (organ), Grant Park Orchestra, Carlos Kalmar (conductor)
05:01 AM
Artemy Vedel (1767-1808)
Gospodi Bozhe moy, na tia upovah (Oh God, my hope is only in you)
Dumka Academic Cappella, Evgeny Savchuk (director)
05:11 AM
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Concerto for trombone and military band in B flat major
Tibor Winkler (trombone), Chamber Wind Orchestra, Zdenek Machacek (conductor)
05:22 AM
Franjo von Lucic (1889-1972)
Elegy for organ
Ljerka Ocic-Turkulin (organ)
05:30 AM
Franz Berwald (1796-1868)
Septet in B flat (1828)
Fredrik Ekdahl (bassoon), Hanna Thorell (cello), Kristian Moller (clarinet), Mattias Karlsson (double bass), Ayman Al Fakir (horn), Linn Lowengren-Elkvull (viola), Roger Olsson (violin)
05:51 AM
Paul Dukas (1865-1935)
La Peri - poeme danse
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean Fournet (conductor)
06:13 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Images - set 1 for piano
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m000f5p2)
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 (m000f5p4)
Suzy Klein
Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music making of the British Isles.
1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential love songs.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000f5p6)
Beethoven Unleashed: Conversations with Friends
From Haydn's shadow
This week cellist Raphael Wallfisch and violinist Sara Bitlloch join Donald Macleod to talk about Beethoven’s early chamber music from 1795 to 1811, including beloved works such as the ‘Razumovsky’ quartets, the ‘Kreutzer’ violin sonata, and the ‘Ghost’ and ‘Archduke’ piano trios.
Today they look at Beethoven’s emergence from the shadow of both Haydn and Mozart, and how the composer forged a distinctive new style of chamber music.
At the age of 16 Beethoven travelled from his native city of Bonn to Vienna to have lessons with Mozart. It didn’t happen because Beethoven’s mother became ill and he had to return home. He later did have lessons with Haydn, but subsequently said that he’d never learned anything from him!
Beethoven was a virtuoso pianist and, though he loathed performing in public, in the early years of his career in Vienna he relied on his instrumental skill to establish himself as a composer. His early compositions are dominated by piano music; his first big orchestral works are piano concertos not symphonies; and nearly all his early chamber music involves the piano.
String Trio No 3 in G major: Op 9, No 1 (3rd movement - excerpt; 4th movement)
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Pinchas Zukerman, viola
Lynn Harrell, cello
Cello Sonata in F major Op 5 No 1 (Allegro)
Gregor Piatigorsky, cello
Solomon, piano
Piano Trio in C minor Op 1 No 3 (4th movement)
Beaux Arts Trio
String quartet in F major Op 18 No 1 (2nd movement)
Takács Quartet
Violin Sonata in D major Op 12 No 1 (1st movement)
Alina Ibragimova, violin
Cédric Tiberghien, piano
Produced by Iain Chambers for BBC Wales
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000f5p8)
Recorder riot
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Dutch recorder player Lucie Horsch along with her regular duo partner, French lutenist Thomas Dunford, performs a diverse and virtuosic programme showing the range and beauty of the recorder in music spanning the 16th to the 20th centuries.
Introduced by Fiona Talkington.
Lucie Horsch, recorder
Thomas Dunford, lute
Dario Castello: Sonata Seconda in stil moderno
John Dowland: Preludium; Flow my tears
Charles Dieupart: Suite No. 5 in F
Claude Debussy: Syrinx
Anne Danican Philidor: Sonata in D minor
Marin Marais: Les Voix Humaines
François Couperin: Le rossignol-en-amour
Jacob van Eyck: Lavolette
Diego Ortiz: Recercadas
Joan Ambrosio Dalza: Calate ala spagnola
Marin Marais: Suite in D minor - Couplets de folies (Les folies d'Espagne)
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000f5pb)
Herbert Blomstedt conducts Bach and Mendelssohn
The Baltic Sea Festival.
Penny Gore this week introduces performances by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir recorded at this summer festival based in Stockholm. Today the nonogenarian, Herbert Blomstedt, conducts a joyous solo cantata by Bach and Mendelssohn's Lobgesang,
Bach wrote most of his cantatas in Leipzig. Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, with its jovial soprano and trumpet parts, really is true to its title: Shout for joy to God in all lands. Over a century later in the same city, Mendelssohn wrote Lobgesang, another work teeming with infectious joy, for the 400th anniversary of the invention of printing. The Herbert Blomstedt, yet another former Leipzig resident, puts all of his experience and skill to realizing this optimistic, life-affirming music. Late in the week, there's music by Zemlinsky, the complete Vespers by Rachmaninov and music by the Swede Hugo Alfven and a hommage to Jenny Linde,'the Swedish Nightingale.'
Bach: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51, cantata
Simona Houda-Šaturová (soprano), Gianluca Calise (piccolo trumpet),
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat, op. 52 ('Lobgesang')
Simona Houda-Šaturová (soprano), Marie Henriette Reinhold (mezzo-soprano), Tilman Lichdi (tenor),
Swedish Radio Choir and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
Arvo Part: L'Abbé Agathon
Maria Listra (soprano), Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor)
Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D, K. 504 ('Prague')
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Bancroft (conductor)
MON 16:30 Early Music Now (m000f5pd)
Music to celebrate a Medici Wedding in 1589
A Medici Wedding in 1589:
On 2 May 1589 in Florence, the wedding of Duke Ferdinando I de Medici and Princess Christina of Lorraine was celebrated with one of the most spectacular stage performances in history. Special effects like advanced stage machinery, enormous backdrops and a fire-breathing dragon entertained the wedding guests. Just as spectacular was the music, written by the most famous composers of the time.
Here Mariangiola Martello directs Camerata La Pellegrina in two of these Intermedi in which the story of Florence's supposedly Greek origin is used as an an allegory to celebrate the wedding couple. These Intermedi became so successful that Duke Ferdinando demanded more performances and published the scores.
Presented by Penny Gore.
Cristofano Malvezzi: Sinfonia
Antonio Archilei: Dalle più alte sfere
Cristofano Malvezzi (1547-1599): Noi che cantando;
Cristofano Malvezzi: Sinfonia
Cristofano Malvezzi: Dolcissime sirene
Cristofano Malvezzi:A voi reali amanti
Cristofano Malvezzi: Coppia gentil
Luca Marenzio (1553/4-1599): Sinfonia
Luca Marenzio: Belle ne fa natura
Luca Marenzio : Chi dal delfino
Luca Marenzio: Se nelle voci nostre
Luca Marenzio: O figlie di Piero
Christina Larsson Malmberg (soprano), Sofia Niklasson (soprano), Anna Zander (contralto), Håkan Ekenäs (baritone)
Camerata La Pellegrina
Vokalharmonin
Mariagiola Martello (organ, virginal and musical direction)
MON 17:00 In Tune (m000f5pg)
Roman Rabinovich, Seth Lakeman, Chiaroscuro Quartet
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news, with live performance in the studio by pianist Roman Rabinovich, folk singer Seth Lakeman and the Chiaroscuro Quartet.
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000f5pj)
Take 30 minutes out with a relaxing classical mix
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000f5pl)
Zlata Chochieva’s Chopin
A diagnosis of acute depression, insomnia, exhaustion, auditory disturbances, bodily tremors and wide-ranging phobias led Schumann’s doctor to prescribe a complete abandonment of music.
However Schumann’s mind appears to have subsequently risen from its nadir in January of 1846 when he began to consider his Symphony in C major. Rather than give-up, a flurry of composition projects -intricate counterpoints, fugues, tuneful part-songs on poems by Robert Burns- must all have fed his artistic curiosity: resulting in the uplifting 2nd Symphony.
Like Schumann’s symphonies, Chopin’s Piano Concertos were written in the wrong order. His first, written second, by a Chopin set to flee the politically turbulent Warsaw. Its robust melodicism will this evening be brought to life by the brilliant young soloist, Zlata Chochieva.
And the concert opens with a short, myth-haunted piece by Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela.
Recorded at City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela
Chopin: Piano Concerto no 1
8.20 Interval
8.40 Part 2
Schumann: Symphony no 2
Zlata Chochieva (piano)
Karl-Heinz Steffens (conductor)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
MON 22:00 Music Matters (m000f5pn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 The Essay (m000f5pq)
Strange Strolls
Jenn Ashworth - The Abiding Mental Riches of Preston
As an injured soldier under house arrest, Xavier de Maistre staved off boredom by imagining every step around his drawing room was a step across a country; Virginia Woolf’s writerly wandering around central London to buy a pencil exposed the city's transformation in darkness. Inspired by these ironic quests and symbolic expeditions, five contemporary writers embark on walks of entertaining eccentricity.
Lancastrian writer Jenn Ashworth begins these imaginative journeys with a trip to Preston's Harris Museum, Gallery and Library, retracing her teenage footsteps and pondering the mental riches promised within.
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m000f5pt)
Immerse yourself
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
TUESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2020
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m000f5py)
Koussevitzky, Hummel and Saint-Saëns
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and conductor Kevin Griffiths with concertos for double bass and cello. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Mathias Steinauer (b.1959)
Schlussstein (tombeau pour G.G.), op. 22/2c (2008/2019)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Kevin Griffiths (conductor)
12:37 AM
Serge Koussevitsky (1874-1951)
Double Bass Concerto in F sharp minor, op. 3
Jonas Villegas (double bass), Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Kevin Griffiths (conductor)
12:54 AM
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
Pot-pourri, for viola and orchestra, op. 94 ('Fantaisie')
Jan Snakowski (viola), Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Kevin Griffiths (conductor)
01:05 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor. op. 33
Alessandra Doninelli (cello), Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Kevin Griffiths (conductor)
01:25 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
12 Studies Op 25 for piano
Lukas Geniusas (piano)
01:57 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony no. 41 in C major K.551 (Jupiter)
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Gunter Pichler (conductor)
02:31 AM
Adolf Fredrik Lindblad (1801-1878)
Quartet for strings no. 3 in C major
Yggdrasil String Quartet
03:07 AM
Johannes Ockeghem (c.1410-1497)
Missa prolationum
Hilliard Ensemble, Paul Hillier (director)
03:42 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Danses champetres Op.106 for violin and piano (nos 1 & 2)
Petteri Iivonen (violin), Philip Chiu (piano)
03:49 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Sonata da Chiesa (Op.1 No.5) in B flat major
London Baroque
03:56 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Overture, Le Corsaire, Op 21
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (conductor)
04:05 AM
Robert Schumann (1810 -1856)
Theme and variations on the Name "Abegg", Op 1
Seung-Hee Hyun (piano)
04:13 AM
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620-1680)
Lamento sopra la morte Ferdinandi III for 2 violins, viola and continuo
London Baroque
04:20 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Anton Webern (orchestrator)
6 Deutsche Tänze, D820
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown (conductor)
04:31 AM
Otto Nicolai (1810-1849)
Overture, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
04:40 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Rhapsody for piano in B minor, Op 79 No 1
Steven Osborne (piano)
04:49 AM
Johann Bach (1604-1673)
Unser Leben ist ein Schatten
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (director)
04:58 AM
Plamen Djourov (b.1949)
Two Ballades, Nos. I & IV
Eolina Quartet
05:08 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
2 pieces for cello & piano, Op.2
Monika Leskovar (cello), Ivana svarc-Grenda (piano)
05:17 AM
Eugen Suchon (1908-1993)
Ballade for Horn and Orchestra
Peter Sivanic (horn), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mario Kosik (conductor)
05:27 AM
Santiago de Murcia (1673-1739)
(suite) Obra por 7 tono
Eduardo Egüez (lute)
05:46 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Fantasie in F minor, D940
Louis Schwizgebel (piano), Zhang Zuo (piano)
06:05 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Flute Concerto in G major (Wq.169)
Tom Ottar Andreassen (flute), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m000f7cn)
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 (m000f7cq)
Suzy Klein
Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music making of the British Isles.
1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential love songs.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000f7cs)
Beethoven Unleashed: Conversations with Friends
Instruments get their voice
This week cellist Raphael Wallfisch and violinist Sara Bitlloch join Donald Macleod to talk about Beethoven’s early chamber music from 1795 to 1811, including beloved works such as the ‘Razumovsky’ quartets, the ‘Kreutzer’ violin sonata, and the ‘Ghost’ and ‘Archduke’ piano trios.
Today they look at Beethoven’s innovation of giving chamber music instruments equal roles, blurring the lines between the lead and the accompaniment.
Beethoven’s quintets show him expanding his sound world. In his Opus 29, the shorter-breathed elements of his early quartets give way to a more spacious lyricism, creating an effect of almost orchestral richness and weight.
We’ll also hear from Beethoven’s first set of string quartets, the Opus 18, as well as his second cello sonata.
Sonatina in C major for mandolin and piano WoO44 No 1
Duilio Galfetti, mandolin
Diego Fasolis, fortepiano
String Quartet in C minor Op 18 No 4 (3rd movement)
Belcea Quartet
Violin Sonata in A major Op 30 No 1 (3rd movement)
Isabelle Faust, violin
Alexander Melnikov, piano
Serenade in D major Op 8 (1st and 2nd movements)
Trio Zimmermann
Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor Op 5 (1st movement)
Adrian Brendel, cello
Alfred Brendel, piano
String Quintet in C major Op 29 (4th movement)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Produced by Iain Chambers for BBC Wales
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000f7cv)
Enescu International Festival 2019: Haydn, Enescu and Brahms
Sarah Walker presents the first of four programmes this week of chamber music recitals from the 2019 George Enescu International Festival.
Held every two years, the festival attracts the finest ensembles and individual musicians from across the globe. Orchestras at last year's festival included the London Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic, and the calibre of the chamber music making was on the same level.
This week's programmes will feature mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, pianists François-Frédéric Guy and Charles Richard Hamelin and cellist Alexander Kniazev.
In this first programme Joyce DiDonato opens proceedings with Haydn's celebrated solo cantata in which Ariadne bemoans her fate abandoned on Naxos. Canadian pianist Charles Richard Hamelin, in the spirit of celebrating Enescu's musical inspiration to this particular festival, brings us his first piano suite steeped in Baroque form, and that's contrasted with Brahms's final published piano works.
Haydn
Arianna a Naxos, Hob. XXVIb:2
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo soprano)
David Zobel (piano)
Enescu
Piano Suite No 1 in G minor, Op 3 'Dans le style ancien'
Charles Richard-Hamelin (piano)
Brahms
Four Piano Pieces, Op 119
François-Frédéric Guy (piano)
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000f7cx)
Zemlinksy and Mendelssohn from the Baltic Sea Festival
The Baltic Sea Festival. Penny Gore introduces more recordings from Stockholm summer music festival including today works inspired by Hans Christian Andersen and Goethe.
H C Andersen’s story The Little Mermaid is imaginatively interpreted by Alexander Zemlinsky in his colourful and atmospheric half hour long fantasy for orchestra. Premiered in 1905, the same year as The Mermaid, Debussy's “Symphonic sketches”, as he called La Mer, is a sonorous abundance of sound gaining inspiration from Javanese music,
Presented by Penny Gore.
Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau 'The Little Mermaid,' fantasy after Andersen
Bloch: Schelomo: Rhapsodie hébraïque, B. 39
Debussy: La Mer
Truls Mørk (cello),
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä (conductor)
at approx
3.35pm
Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden, op. 13
Swedish Radio Choir,Daniel Harding (conductor)
at approx
3.50pm
Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht 'Walpurgis Night'
Ingrid Tobiasson (contralto), Bernard Richter (tenor), Shenyang (baritone), Swedish Radio Choir and Swedish RSO, Daniel Harding (conductor)
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m000f7cz)
Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton, Improviso, Jonathan Nott
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news with live performance in the studio by soprano Carolyn Sampson and pianist Joseph Middleton and Improviso plus conductor Jonathan Nott talks to us from Manchester.
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000f7d1)
Your go-to introduction to classical music
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000f7d3)
Mendelssohn's Elijah
A superb cast of soloists joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for Mendelssohn’s great choral masterpiece of grandeur and soulfulness, his musical telling of the story of the prophet Elijah.
Both Felix Mendelssohn and Sakari Oramo have strong links to the city of Birmingham, which in 1846 saw the premiere of the composer's grand and spectacular musical telling of events from the life, death and ascension of the Old Testament prophet Elijah.
Mendelssohn's work is known for pomp and circumstance, doom and wrath, but this performance is sure to reaffirm Elijah as also a work of great tenderness, a final utterance which the composer considered his greatest achievement.
Presented by Martin Handley
Recorded at the Barbican on 7th February
Mendelssohn: Elijah
1930 Part 1
2035 Part 2
Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Claudia Huckle (contralto)
Allan Clayton (tenor)
Johan Reuter (baritone)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m000f7d5)
The shadow of slavery
From sugar and spice to reparations and memorials: slavery and how we acknowledge it are debated by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and her panel of writers and academics: Katie Donington, Christienna Fryar, Rosanna Amaka, Juliet Gilkes Romero
Dr Katie Donington teaches history at London South Bank University and was an historical advisor for the BAFTA-award winning BBC2 documentary Britain’s Forgotten Slave-owners (2015) & co-curator of ‘Slavery, Culture and Collecting’ at the Museum of London Docklands
Dr Christienna Fryar is leading a new MA in Black British History at Goldsmiths, University of London following her job as Lecturer in the History of Slavery and Unfree Labour at the University of Liverpool.
Rosanna Amaka's novel is called The Book of Echoes.
The Whip by Juliet Gilkes Romero runs at the RSC until March 21st 2020.
In the Free Thinking archives you can hear author Esi Edugyen in Slavery Stories https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001bch
Artist and film director Steve McQueen and a debate about Slavery narratives https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03pdf14
Steve McQueen runs at Tate Modern until May 11th 2020.
Producer: Emma Wallace
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m000f7d7)
Strange Strolls
Michael Donkor - On Wandsworth Bridge
As an injured soldier under house arrest, Xavier de Maistre staved off boredom by imagining every step around his drawing room was a step across a country; Virginia Woolf’s writerly wandering around central London to buy a pencil exposed the city's transformation in darkness. Inspired by these ironic quests and symbolic expeditions, five contemporary writers embark on walks of entertaining eccentricity.
Writer Michael Donkor continues these imaginative journeys by traversing, south to north, across Wandsworth Bridge – perhaps the Thames’ most neglected crossing, but for him a conduit between adult responsibility and childhood memory.
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m000f7d9)
The great escape
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
WEDNESDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2020
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m000f7dc)
Trio of trios
Recorded at Santa Maria Monastery in Vilabertan, Spain, the VibrArt Trio performs music by Dvorak, Schubert and Mompou. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op 90 'Dumky'
VibrArt Trio
01:03 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Trio No 2 in E flat, D 929
VibrArt Trio
01:47 AM
Federico Mompou (1893-1987)
Jeunes filles au jardin (Scènes d'enfants)
VibrArt Trio
01:51 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Symphony No.3 in A minor (Op.56), "Scottish"
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Vytautas Lukocius (conductor)
02:31 AM
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
The Planets Suite (Op.32)
BBC Philharmonic, Vancouver Bach Choir, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
03:21 AM
Evgeni Stefan (1967-)
Rain of Stars (Sternenregen)
Tornado Guitar Duo (duo)
03:24 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Brandenburg concerto No 3 in G major BWV 1048
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
03:36 AM
Bernat Vivancos (b.1973)
Nigra sum
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
03:44 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Two Nocturnes, Op 32
Kevin Kenner (piano)
03:54 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Oh cielo, dove son io... (Stiffelio)
Ana Pusar-Jeric (soprano), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Anton Nanut (conductor)
04:07 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
String Quartet in D major, K 155
Australian String Quartet
04:17 AM
Antiochus Evanghelatos (1903-1981)
Coasts and Mountains of Attica
National Symphony Orchestra of Greek Radio, Andreas Pylarinos (conductor)
04:31 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Water Music - suite (HWV 350) in G major
Collegium Aureum
04:42 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
7 Variations on 'Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen' WoO 46
Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
04:52 AM
Eugene Goossens (1893-1962)
Fantasy for nine wind instruments (Op 36)
Janet Webb (flute), Guy Henderson (oboe), Lawrence Dobell (clarinet), Christopher Tingay (clarinet), John Cran (bassoon), Robert Johnson (horn), Fiona McNamara (bassoon), Clarence Mellor (horn), Daniel Mendelow (trumpet)
05:03 AM
Barbara Strozzi ([1619-1677])
"Lagrime mie" - Lament for Soprano and continuo from "Diporti di Euterpe"
Susanne Ryden (soprano), Musica Fiorita, Daniela Dolci (director)
05:11 AM
Arvo Part (b.1935)
Credo
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Marrit Gerretz-Traksmann (piano), Estonia National Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer (conductor)
05:24 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude & Fugue in B flat minor BWV867 (from Das Wohltemperierte Clavier)
Edwin Fischer (piano)
05:31 AM
Leonel Power (1370-1445)
Missa 'Alma redemptoris mater'
Hilliard Ensemble
05:52 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Partita for orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
06:06 AM
Xavier Montsalvatge (1912-2002)
Concierto Breve
Angela Cheng (piano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Graf (conductor)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m000f5mj)
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 (m000f5ml)
Suzy Klein
Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music making of the British Isles.
1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential love songs.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000f5mn)
Beethoven Unleashed: Conversations with Friends
Chamber music turns pro
This week cellist Raphael Wallfisch and violinist Sara Bitlloch join Donald Macleod to talk about Beethoven’s early chamber music from 1795 to 1811, including beloved works such as the ‘Razumovsky’ quartets, the ‘Kreutzer’ violin sonata, and the ‘Ghost’ and ‘Archduke’ piano trios.
Today they look at how Beethoven’s music, as it developed and became more complex, had the effect of turning chamber music professional: what he was writing was too challenging for amateur players, and often too serious for the salon.
We hear great music from the Razumovsky String Quartets, the Kreutzer Violin Sonata, the Septet and the Kakadu Variations.
The ‘Razumovskys’ were composed between April and November of 1806, at the end of what was an astonishingly productive three years of Beethoven’s life, when he produced a series of radically different masterpieces.
Piano Trio Op 121a, “Kakadu Variations”
Florestan Trio
String Quartet in F major No 7, Op 59 (“Razumovsky”) (4th movement)
Takács Quartet
Violin Sonata in A major No. 9 Op 47 ("Kreutzer") (1st movement)
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Septet in E flat major for clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and double bass Op 20 (2nd movement)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Produced by Iain Chambers for BBC Wales
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000f5mr)
Enescu International Festival 2019: Enescu and Debussy
Sarah Walker presents some more performances from last year's George Enescu International Festival, held in Bucharest.
Today, acclaimed Russian cellist Alexander Kniazev brings us Enescu's opus 26 Cello Sonata and young Canadian pianist Charels Richard Hamelin performs Debussy.
Enescu
Cello Sonata in F minor, Op. 26/1
Alexander Kniazev (cello)
Plamena Mangova, (piano)
Debussy
Images oubliées, L. 87
Charles Richard-Hamelin (piano)
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000f5mt)
Concerts from the BBC by groups and orchestras from across the world
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (m000f5mw)
Liverpool Cathedral (2003 Archive)
An archive recording from Liverpool Cathedral (first broadcast 26 February 2003).
Introit: The Call (Lloyd)
Responses: Lloyd
Psalm 119 vv.145-176 (Garrett, Wilton, Garrett, Atkins)
First Lesson: Ecclesiastes 1 vv.1-11
Office Hymn: King of Glory, King of Peace (Gwalchmai)
Canticles: Kelly in C
Second Lesson: James 2 vv.14-24
Anthem: Insanae et Vanae Curae (Haydn)
Te Deum in C (Holst)
Voluntary: Sept Improvisations, No 7 (Saint-Saens)
Ian Wells (Assistant Organist and Choral Conductor)
Ian Tracey (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m000f5my)
The Van Kuijk Quartet, Olena Tokar and Lisa Batiashvili
The Van Kuijk Quartet play Webern's Langsamer Satz, Olena Tokar sings Ravel 5 Greek Popular Melodies and Lisa Batiashvili plays Clara Schumann's Romances, Op 22.
Webern: Langsamer Satz
Quatuor Van Kuijk
Ravel: 5 Mélodies populaires grecques
Olena Tokar (soprano)
Igor Gryshyn (piano)
Clara Schumann: 3 Romances, Op 22
Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
Alice Sara Ott (piano)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m000f5n0)
Ning Feng, Kodo Drummers, Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Sean Rafferty presents live performance in the studio from the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective and violinist Ning Feng, plus we talk to the Kodo Drummers.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000f5n2)
Classical music for focus and inspiration
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000f5n4)
Mozart's final flourish
Iván Fischer, one of today's most exciting conductors, joins forces with the period-instrument Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Mozart's last three symphonies.
In summer 1788, broke and out of favour with the notoriously fickle Viennese public, Mozart was at a low ebb. Yet in just nine weeks (which included the death of his daughter) he was able to produce a trio of brilliant and brilliantly contrasting symphonies, from the genial and playful No. 39, through the drama and tragedy of No. 40, to the exuberant tour de force of the 'Jupiter's' finale where Mozart seems joyfully to revel in his own genius.
Recorded last week at the Royal Festival Hall and presented by Ian Skelly.
Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, K543
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550
Interval
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Iván Fischer (conductor)
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m000f5n6)
How we talk about sex and women's bodies
Fern Riddell, Kate Lister and Robin Mitchell discuss their research with Matthew Sweet.
Kate Lister started tweeting as Whores of Yore in 2015 to kick off a conversation about how we talk about sex. She has just published A Curious History of Sex, which looks at everything from slang through the ages to medieval impotence tests, the relevance of oysters, bicycling and the tart card.
Robin Mitchell's new book is called Venus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France. In it she traces visual and literary representations of three black women: Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus; Ourika, a young Senegalese girl and Jeanne Duval, long-time lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire.
Fern Riddell's books include The Victorian Guide to Sex and Sex: A Brief History. She hosts the podcast series #NotWhatYouThought and is a historian on the New Generation Thinker scheme which aims to put academic research on the radio. It's a partnership between BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. You can find her talking about depictions of eroticism in a Free Thinking conversation about The Piano and Love https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b6t06b and exploring the life of the singer and suffragette Kitty Marion in a Sunday Feature https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04n2zcp
An exhibition called With Love opens at the National Archives in Kew displaying letters spanning 500 years, which explore intimate expressions of love. You can hear archivist Vicky Iglikowski-Broad talking on a Free Thinking programme called Being Human: Love Stories https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b6hk
Anne McElvoy explores who and why we love with philosopher Laura Mucha, poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw, novelist Elanor Dymott and poet Andrew McMillan.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002hk8
Producer: Luke Mulhall
WED 22:45 The Essay (m000f5n8)
Strange Strolls
Stephanie Victoire - Dark Hollow Falls
As an injured soldier under house arrest, Xavier de Maistre staved off boredom by imagining every step around his drawing room was a step across a country; Virginia Woolf’s writerly wandering around central London to buy a pencil exposed the city's transformation in darkness.
Inspired by these ironic quests and symbolic expeditions, five contemporary writers embark on walks of entertaining eccentricity.
Writer and shamanic faith healer Stephanie Victoire has a haunting hike in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia, meditating on the ancient paths of native American precursors.
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m000f5ng)
Soundtrack for night
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
THURSDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2020
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m000f5nl)
Herne Early Music Days 2018
Vocal music composed in the time of Henry VIII. With Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Robert Fayrfax (1464-1521)
Magnificat regale
Vocalconsort Berlin, James Wood (conductor)
12:45 AM
John Taverner (1490-1545)
Christe Jesu pastor bonus
Vocalconsort Berlin, James Wood (conductor)
12:48 AM
Richard Sampson (?-1554)
Psallite felices
Vocalconsort Berlin, James Wood (conductor)
12:58 AM
Richard Sampson (?-1554)
Salve radix ('Rose Canon')
Vocalconsort Berlin, James Wood (conductor)
01:00 AM
Robert Fayrfax (1464-1521)
Laude vivi alpha et o
Vocalconsort Berlin, James Wood (conductor)
01:15 AM
Richard Sampson (?-1554)
Quam pulchra es
Vocalconsort Berlin, James Wood (conductor)
01:19 AM
Philippe Verdelot (1475-1552)
Nil majus superi vident
Vocalconsort Berlin, James Wood (conductor)
01:23 AM
Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)
See Lord and Behold
Vocalconsort Berlin, James Wood (conductor)
01:39 AM
Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)
If yee love me
Vocalconsort Berlin, James Wood (conductor)
01:41 AM
Eustache du Caurroy (1549-1609)
11 Fantasias on 16th-Century songs
Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (viol), Jordi Savall (director)
02:09 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Harpsichord Concerto no 1 in D minor, BWV 1052
Les Passions de L'Ame, Meret Luthi (conductor)
02:31 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906 -1975)
Symphony no 5 in D minor, Op 47
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
03:21 AM
Hendrik Andriessen (1892-1981)
Premier Choral
Johan van Dommele (organ)
03:29 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Waltz in A minor, Op 34 no 2
Sergei Terentjev (piano)
03:35 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Recitative and Leonora's aria from 'Fidelio
Anja Kampe (soprano), Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Miguel Angel Gomez Martinez (conductor)
03:43 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Concerto for flute and orchestra in C major, Op 6 no 1
Karl Kaiser (transverse flute), La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (director)
03:56 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Rondo in C major (K.373)
James Ehnes (violin), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra
04:03 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Jon Washburn (orchestrator)
Messe Basse
Henriette Schellenberg (soprano), Vancouver Chamber Choir, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Jon Washburn (conductor)
04:12 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Hungarian March - from 'The Damnation of Faust'
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor)
04:18 AM
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Italian serenade
Bartok String Quartet
04:25 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Serenade for orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
04:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Impromptu no 4 in A flat major - from 4 Impromptus (D.899) for piano
Sook-Hyun Cho (piano)
04:37 AM
Marcel Tournier (1879-1951)
Au Matin - etude de concert
Mojca Zlobko (harp)
04:41 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Concerto for 3 oboes in B flat major
Peter Westermann (oboe), Michael Niesemann (oboe), Piet Dhont (oboe), Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
04:51 AM
Wawrzyniec Zulawski (1918-1957)
Suite in the Old Style
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor)
05:02 AM
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
In the Mists
David Kadouch (piano)
05:18 AM
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
L'Arlesienne, Suite No.1
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
05:36 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Song to the Moon from Rusalka, Op 114
Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kamirski (conductor)
05:43 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Fantasy in C minor, K.475
Theodor Leschetizky (piano)
05:56 AM
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
Meditation and processional
Morten Carlsen (viola), Sergej Osadchuk (piano)
06:02 AM
Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880)
Violin Concerto no 1 in F sharp minor, Op 14
Piotr Plawner (violin), Sinfonia Varsovia, Grzegorz Nowak (conductor)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m000f740)
Thursday - Georgia's classical rise and shine
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m000f742)
Suzy Klein
Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music making of the British Isles.
1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential love songs.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000f744)
Beethoven Unleashed: Conversations with Friends
A return to melody
This week cellist Raphael Wallfisch and violinist Sara Bitlloch join Donald Macleod to talk about Beethoven’s early chamber music from 1795 to 1811, including beloved works such as the ‘Razumovsky’ quartets, the ‘Kreutzer’ violin sonata, and the ‘Ghost’ and ‘Archduke’ piano trios.
Beethoven’s composing career is generally divided into three phases: the Early Period, up to 1802; the compositions that make up his Middle Period, the years from 1803 to 1814; and lastly the extraordinary, ambitious works composed between then and his death.
Today we look at Beethoven’s return to lyrical melody in the years around 1800, and hear music including the ‘Harp’ Quartet, the Opus 70 Piano Trio, the third “Razumovsky” String Quartet, and the “Spring” Violin Sonata, containing one of the most famous melodies in Beethoven’s chamber music output.
String Quartet in C major Op 59 No 3 (“Razumovsky”) (1st movement)
Takács Quartet
Piano Trio No 5 in D major Op 70 No 1 ("Ghost") (2nd movement)
Andreas Staier fortepiano
Daniel Sepec, violin
Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello
Violin Sonata No 5 in F major Op 24 ("Spring") (1st and 4th movements)
Isabelle Faust, violin
Alexander Melnikov, piano
String Quartet in E flat Op 74 (“Harp”) (1st movement)
Lindsay Quartet
Produced by Iain Chambers for BBC Wales
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000f746)
Enescu International Festival 2019: Debussy and Clara Schumann
Sarah Walker presents more performances from the 2019 George Enescu International Festival.
Today, the second book of piano Preludes by Debussy, written in 1912, just a few years after the first book, these atmospheric pieces create sound worlds all their own in a typically Debussian style. And the Clara Schumann Romances are similarly definitive of her style, which shares so much with her husband Robert's.
Debussy
Préludes, Book 2
François-Frédéric Guy (piano)
Clara Schumann
Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op 22
Luminița Petre (violin)
Mihai Ungureanu (piano)
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000f748)
Decadence and melodrama: Schreker's The Stigmatized
Schreker's Die Gezeichneten, from Hanover
First performed in 1918 Schreker's Die Gezeichneten, 'The Stigmatized' earned him a reputation as one of Germany's leading composers, on a par with Richard Strauss. The setting may be Renaissance Genoa, but this isn’t the romanticized vision of the past of Wagner or Hans Pfitzner but rather a psychological drama rooted in the writings of Sigmund Freud. The score and the libretto – by Schreker himself – are opulent, melodramatic and decadent and make huge demands on the enormous orchestra.
The bourgeoisie of the city of Genoa is in turmoil: young women have been disappearing and there is something to fear. A clique of eight noblemen have been living out their desires on the island of Elysium. Alviano Salvago has made this island a haven of absolute beauty and harmony - in compensation for his own physical ugliness. When Alviano learns of the machinations of his fellow noblemen he tells them that he intends to transfer the island to the citizens of the city, thereby setting events in motion that he can no longer control.
Presented by Penny Gore introduces this performance recorded last year at the State Opera, Hanover.
Franz Schreker: Die Gezeichneten, opera in three acts
Robert Künzli - Tenor (Alviano Salvago)
Stefan Adam - Bass (Duke Antoniotto Adorno)
Jordan Shanahan - Baritone (Count Vitelozzo Tamare)
Tobias Schabel - Bass (Lodovico Nardi)
Karine Babajanyan - Soprano (Carlotta Nardi)
Edward Mout - Tenor (Guidobald Usodimare)
Frank Schneiders - Baritone (Gonsalvo Fieschi)
Gala El Hadidi - Mezzo-soprano (Martuccia)
Martin Rainer Leipoldt - Tenor (Menaldo Negroni)
Pawel Brozek - Tenor (A cutthroat)
Byung Kweon Jun - Baritone (Michelotto Cibo)
Daniel Eggert - Bass (Julian Pinelli)
Yannick Spanier - Bass (Paolo Calvi)
Alla Doelle - Soprano (Ginevra Scotti)
Franziska Abram - Soprano (A young girl)
Sung-keun Park - Tenor (A youth)
Latchezar Pravtchev - Tenor (Senator 1)
Jonas Böhm - Baritone (Senator 2)
Michael Dries - Bass (Senator 3)
Ula Drescher - Soprano (A maid servant)
Marek Durka - Bass (A servant / A citizen)
Hanover State Opera Chorus
Hanover State Orchestra
Mark Rohde - Conductor
Venue
State Opera, Hanover
06/04/2019
Synopsis
Sixteenth century Genoa
Act 1
The young Genoan nobleman Alviano Salvago, hunchbacked and deformed, does not dare dream of the love of women. He wants to donate to the people of Genoa the island paradise called "Elysium" he has created. His friends, a group of dissolute young noblemen, have been using an underground grotto on the island for orgies with young women abducted from prominent Genoan families, and intervene with Duke Adorno to stop the transfer of ownership. One of them, Count Tamare, has set his sights on Carlotta, daughter of the Podestà. Carlotta rejects him, as she is only interested in Salvago, whose soul she wants to paint.
Act 2
Infuriated by Carlotta's rejection, Tamare swears to Adorno that he will take her by force. He also reveals the secret of the grotto to Adorno. Not wanting Salvago to become more popular than himself as a result of the gift, Adorno decides to use the existence of the secret grotto as an excuse to veto the transfer. While Salvago is sitting for Carlotta, she complains that she can't paint his soul if he keeps avoiding looking at her. To which he responds that ugly as he is, he still has the feelings of a man in the presence of a beautiful woman... Eventually Carlotta confesses that she loves him, but faints in his arms as both are overcome with emotion.
Act 3
The citizens of Genoa go to the island for the first time and are awed by what they see. Salvago asks the Podestà for Carlotta's hand in marriage. She evades him, wanders off alone, and in the grotto finally succumbs to Tamare who's wearing a mask. The Duke accuses Salvago of masterminding the abductions. Salvago, beside himself with worry for Carlotta, leads everyone to the underground grotto. Carlotta lies senseless on a bed, while Tamare prides himself on his conquering abilities. Salvago stabs him. Carlotta awakens, Salvago rushes to her side, but with her dying breath she calls for Tamare. Salvago, completely deranged, stumbles over Tamare's body as he makes his way through the stunned crowd.
THU 17:00 In Tune (m000f74b)
Nicolas Namoradze, Salvador Sobral, Simon Hofele and Frank Dupree
Sean Rafferty presents live performance in the studio from trumpeter Simon Hofele with Frank Dupree on the piano, pianist Nicolas Namoradze and Portuguese singer Salvador Sobral.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000f74d)
The perfect classical half hour
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000f74g)
Berg and Beethoven
Simon Rattle has made the not very difficult prediction that Beethoven will be ‘absolutely inescapable’ this year, the 250th anniversary of his birth. He's made sure of it in this concert which pairs Berg's Violin Concerto with Beethoven's rarely heard oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives. Rarely heard perhaps because when it's judged by the yardstick Beethoven himself set (it comes from the same year, 1803, as the mould-breaking Eroica Symphony), it falls short. But there's much to enjoy here and it's hard to know why it's been so thoroughly neglected. It focuses on Jesus's humanity as it tells the story of His last hours, Calvary looming but not depicted. Be prepared for some striking music, including an atmospheric orchestral introduction, stirring choruses and coloratura arias. And a performance of anything with the LSO and the Simon Halsey-prepared LSO Chorus conducted by Rattle is going to be special.
Berg's 1935 Violin Concerto has long been considered a 20th-century classic. Dedicated by Berg 'To the memory of an angel' (the 18-year-old daughter of Berg's close friends), it manages to walk the tightrope of 12-tone technique and recognisable tonality, movingly including a Bach chorale at the beginning of its final movement. It's played tonight by world-renowned Georgian-born German violinist Lisa Batiashvili.
Presented live from the Barbican Hall by Martin Handley.
Berg: Violin Concerto
8.05pm
Interval
8.25pm
Beethoven: Christ on the Mount of Olives
Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
Elsa Dreisig (soprano)
Pavol Breslik (tenor)
David Soar (bass)
London Symphony Chorus
Simon Halsey (chorus director)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m000f74j)
Queer Histories
Morgan M Page, Jana Funke and Senthorum Raj look at how we apply modern LGBT+ language and identities to historical figures both real and fictional and what it means to have to "prove" your identity today in today's legal world. Shahidha Bari presents.
Morgan M Page is a writer, performance + video artist, and trans historian whose podcast is called One From The Vaults.
Jana Funke teaches Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter.
Senthorum Raj teaches at Keele University School of Law.
In the Free Thinking archives you can find programmes Writing Love: Jonathan Dollimore, Sappho https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wn522
Queer Icons: Plato's Symposium https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08xcx1f
Censorship and Sex Naomi Wolf on John Addington Symonds and Sarah Parker on Michael Field https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057k4
Production team: Caitlin Benedict and Alex Mansfield
THU 22:45 The Essay (m000f74l)
Strange Strolls
Nat Segnit - The Other Ibiza
As an injured soldier under house arrest, Xavier de Maistre staved off boredom by imagining every step around his drawing room was a step across a country; Virginia Woolf’s writerly wandering around central London to buy a pencil exposed the city's transformation in darkness.
Inspired by these ironic quests and symbolic expeditions, five contemporary writers embark on walks of entertaining eccentricity.
In this episode, journalist, writer and keen walker Nat Segnit seeks recovery and retreat in the unseen mountains of Ibiza, a mysticism-inspired path once trodden by Walter Benjamin
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham
THU 23:00 Night Tracks: The Archive Remix (m000f74n)
Music for the darkling hour
A magical sonic journey conjured from the BBC music archives. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m000f74q)
Elizabeth Alker with music that defies classification.
FRIDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2020
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m000f74s)
Two Mendelssohns and Brahms
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in concert in Minnesota. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
String Quartet no 6 in F minor, Op 80
Ruggero Allifranchini (violin), Kayla Moffett (violin), Maiya Papach (viola), Richard Belcher (cello)
12:57 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Piano Trio in D minor, Op 11
Kayla Moffett (violin), Joshua Koestenbaum (cello), Timothy Lovelace (piano)
01:22 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115
Sang-Yoon Kim (clarinet), Ruggero Allifranchini (violin), Kyu-Young Kim (violin), Maiya Papach (viola), Richard Belcher (cello)
02:00 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Variations on a theme of Chopin, Op 22 for piano
Zbigniew Raubo (piano)
02:31 AM
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz (1876-1909)
9 Songs
Jadwiga Rappe (alto), Ewa Poblocka (piano)
02:46 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony no 41 in C major, K 551 (Jupiter)
Camerata Ireland, Barry Douglas (conductor)
03:18 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Overture (Suite) in G minor for oboe & basso continuo, TWV.41:g4
Ensemble of the Eighteenth Century, Susanne Regel (conductor)
03:29 AM
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
Aria: 'Mein Sehnen, mein Wahnen' from Die Tote Stadt, Act 2
Brett Polegato (baritone), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
03:34 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Romance oubliée
Morten Carlsen (viola), Sergej Osadchuk (piano)
03:39 AM
Francesco Soriano (1548-1621)
Dixit Dominus
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor), Unknown (organ)
03:46 AM
Johann Caspar Seyfert (1697-1767),Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Amor vincit omnia (Seyfert); Oh Solitude (Purcell)
Jan Kobow (tenor), Axel Wolf (lute)
03:54 AM
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
Vltava (Moldau) - from 'Ma Vlast'
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
04:07 AM
Robert Schumann (1810 -1856)
Arabeske in C major, Op 18
Angela Cheng (piano)
04:15 AM
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Gregor Piatigorsky (arranger)
El Amor Brujo, Ritual Fire Dance
Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Heini Karkkainen (piano)
04:19 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899), Alban Berg (arranger)
Wein, Weib und Gesang (Wine, Woman and Song) waltz
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (director)
04:31 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
An Imaginary journey to the Faroes, FS 123
Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic, Kristjan Järvi (conductor)
04:36 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
3 Songs for American Schools
Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, Liisa Pohjola (piano), Eric-Olof Soderstrom (conductor)
04:41 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Friedrich Schiller (author)
Der Alpenjager (D.588b) (Op.37 No.2)
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (pianoforte)
04:47 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Flute Sonata in G major (Wq.133/H.564) "Hamburger Sonata"
Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
04:55 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Serenade for string orchestra in E minor, Op 20
Seoul Chamber Orchestra, Yong-Yun Kim (conductor)
05:06 AM
John Thomas (1826-1913)
Grand Duet for two harps in E flat minor
Myong-ja Kwan (harp), Hyon-son La (harp)
05:21 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
4 Ballades for piano, Op 10
Paul Lewis (piano)
05:44 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Oboe Concerto in C major (K.285d/314a)
Heinz Holliger (oboe), ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (conductor)
06:05 AM
Bernardo Storace (1637-1707)
Chaconne for harpsichord in C major
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
06:11 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Siegfried Idyll
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m000f7ny)
Friday - Petroc's classical mix
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 (m000f7p0)
Suzy Klein
Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music making of the British Isles.
1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential love songs.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000f7p2)
Beethoven Unleashed: Conversations with Friends
Striking forwards
This week cellist Raphael Wallfisch and violinist Sara Bitlloch join Donald Macleod to talk about Beethoven’s early chamber music from 1795 to 1811, including beloved works such as the ‘Razumovsky’ quartets, the ‘Kreutzer’ violin sonata, and the ‘Ghost’ and ‘Archduke’ piano trios.
Today they explore the way Beethoven’s chamber music of his Middle Period began to push towards and anticipate his final creative phase.
Beethoven’s composing career is generally divided into three phases: the Early Period, up to 1802; the compositions that make up his Middle Period, the years from 1803 to 1814; and lastly the extraordinary, ambitious works composed between then and his death.
Today we hear significant works from Beethoven’s oeuvre, including the “Serioso” String Quartet, his Third Cello Sonata, and his “Archduke” Piano Trio.
String Trio in C minor Op 9 No 3 (1st mvt)
The Leopold Trio
String Quartet in F minor (“Serioso”) Op 95 (1st and 4th mvts)
Belcea Quartet
Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major Op 69 (1st mvt)
Adrian Brendel, cello
Alfred Brendel, piano
Piano Trio in B flat ("Archduke") Op 97 (1st mvt)
Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch
Produced by Iain Chambers for BBC Wales
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000f7p4)
Enescu International Festival 2019: Rachmaninov and Brahms
For the last visit of the week to the 2019 George Enescu International Festival, Sarah Walker shares more performances by the young Canadian Charles Richard-Hamelin and the Russian cellist Alexander Kniazev, before rounding off the week with Joyce DiDonato.
Rachmaninov
Cinq Morceaux de fantasie, Op 3
Charles Richard-Hamelin (piano)
Brahms
Cello Sonata No. 2 in F, Op 99
Alexander Kniazev (cello)
Plamena Mangova (piano)
Pablo Luna
De España vengo, from 'El Niño Judío'
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo soprano)
David Zobel (piano)
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000f7p6)
The Swedish Nightingale
The Baltic Sea Festival: The Swedish Nightingale, a tribute to Jenny Lind, Sweden's first international superstar
Jenny Lind, born two hundred years ago, was Sweden’s first international superstar, and counted H C Andersen, Felix Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and even England’s Queen Victoria among her admirers. Here, she is celebrated by two of today’s Swedish opera stars: Elin Rombo, who was awarded the Jenny Lind grant in 1999, and Annie Ternström, last year’s winner of Young Artists.
Johanna Maria Lind was born in 1820 and retired early from the opera stage. One of the greatest ever Swedish stars, she was never called anything other than Jenny. It is difficult to really comprehend how idolized this young singer was: she achieved tremendous international fame in the five years since she made her debut in Berlin in 1844. H.C. Andersen said of her that no one else had such a profound influence over him as a poet: “She opened the door to the sacred rooms of art for me.” After retiring from the stage aged just 29, she toured far and wide; on her arrival in New York, she was met by 30,000 cheering people and disembarked to a cascade of flowers. The tour manager, the legendary entrepreneur P.T. Barnum, sold concert tickets by auction and the deeply religious Jenny Lind donated almost all of her unimaginable income to charity after the tour. But what significance does Jenny Lind have for us today? Is she just a glimmering fantasy or a face on a Swedish banknote, or can she open the door to the sacred rooms of art even for us?
Also today, Tchaikovsky's evergreen Sleeping Beauty.
Presented by Penny Gore.
Mendelssohn: Hear ye, Israel, from 'Elijah'
Bellini: Qui la voce sua soave
Bellini: Overture, Casta diva and Cabaletta 'A bello a me riorna,' from Norma
Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Book 3, op. 43/6, "To Spring"
Flotow: Letzte Rose, wie magst du, from 'Martha'
Mozart: Or sai chi l'onore, from 'Don Giovanni'
Mendelssohn: Suite, from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Annie Ternström, (soprano), the young Jenny and Elin Rombo (soprano) Jenny,
Swedish Radio Choir and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Evan Rogister (conductor)
at approx
3.20pm
Tchaikovsky: Suite from Sleeping Beauty Op. 66a
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Bancroft (conductor)
Jenny Lind was Sweden’s first international superstar, and counted H C Andersen, Felix Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and even England’s Queen Victoria among her admirers. Here, she is celebrated by two of today’s Swedish opera stars: Elin Rombo, who was awarded the Jenny Lind grant in 1999, and Annie Ternström, last year’s winner of Young Artists.
Way out west in the United States, on the road between San Francisco and the El Dorado National Forest, is the old mining community, Jenny Lind, near New Lake Hogan. 450 miles north, a herd of musk oxen graze on Jenny Lind Island’s grassy meadows in Nunavut in Canada in the North Arctic Ocean. In another part of the world, smoke and steam billow forth out of a majestic Jenny Lind locomotive on a historic railway in England. But who was Jenny Lind, the Swedish nightingale?
In 1820, Johanna Maria Lind was born, one of the greatest ever Swedish stars. She was never called anything other than Jenny. It is difficult to really comprehend how idolized this young singer was. She was just 29 years old when she retired from the opera stage, having achieved tremendous international fame in the five years since she made her debut in Berlin in 1844. H.C. Andersen said of her that no one else had such a profound influence over him as a poet: “She opened the door to the sacred rooms of art for me.”
Jenny Lind was enrolled as a student at the Royal Opera when she was nine years old, five years younger than the minimum enrolment age. In her own words, she was “a small, ugly, timid, awkward little girl with a broad nose and stunted growth”. But she could sing like no other, and her debut as Agathe in Der Freischütz (The Marksman) at the age of 17 took the audience’s breath away. She had tremendous drive, a unique voice, amazing coloratura and a diminuendo that diminished into nothingness. She had an intense presence on stage as well as in life. But she also experienced stage fright before performances and could be curt and unkind to the people around her.
The year after her final opera performance, she embarked on a tour of America that left its mark on the world to the extent that her name is still recognised almost 200 years later. On her arrival in New York, she was met by 30,000 cheering people and disembarked to a cascade of flowers. The tour manager, the legendary entrepreneur P.T. Barnum, sold concert tickets by auction and the deeply religious Jenny Lind donated almost all of her unimaginable income to charity after the tour.
But what significance does Jenny Lind have for us today? Just a glimmering fantasy or a face on a banknote, or can she open the door to the sacred rooms of art even for us?
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m000bmrm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m000f7p8)
Leonard Elschenbroich, Ramon Ruiz, Michael Collins and Philippa Davies with Michael McHale
Sean Rafferty presents live performance in the studio from cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, flamenco guitarist Ramon Ruiz, plus Michael Collins, Philippa Davies and Michael McHale.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000f7pb)
Classical music for your commute
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000f7pd)
New century, new sounds: 1801, 1901 and 2001 with the London Philharmonic
2001: New century, new sounds. Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday with 2020 VISION, a conversation between the past, the present and the future of music. Tonight the orchestra's charismatic Principal Conductor leads them in works by Beethoven, Scriabin and Péter Eötvös premiered in the first years of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
In his First Symphony, Beethoven announced his arrival in Haydn's Vienna with a work that threw open the doors on a universe of new musical possibilities. A century later, the young Alexander Scriabin wrote a Second Symphony whose surging melodies and ardent spirit stand on the brink of a new revelation: and in 2001, Péter Eötvös premiered a short work for a trumpet with two bells and word fragments.
Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall last Saturday.
Presented by Martin Handley
Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C major Op.21
Péter Eötvös Snatches of a Conversation for trumpet, speaker and ensemble
c.
8.15pm
Interval: Vladimir Jurowski talks about the LPO's 2020 VISION series.
c.
8.30pm
Scriabin Symphony No. 2 in g minor Op. 29
Marco Blaauw (double-bell trumpet)
Omar Ebrahim (narrator)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b0b2m7zt)
Jan Morris
In a special extended conversation with Ian McMillan, the travel writer Jan Morris looks back over a career in writing that has spanned seven decades and explains what it is that keeps her returning to her writing desk every day at the age of 91. Jan Morris has just published 'Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony' (Pallas Athene) - it's the story of a ship that has always fascinated her, but, as she tells Ian, more importantly it is a portrait of the ship as an allegory for war itself. Jan has always been interested in allegory, as she says 'everything turns out to have more than one meaning'.
Jan takes us inside her writing practice, including discussion of her strong musical sense (she even sings sentences aloud), her love of the exclamation mark and why three is the magic number when it comes to writing drafts. Finally, after a life-time of making connections and putting them into words, and considering what she believes is the 'self-centred' nature of her job, Jan is an advocate for 'kindness', which she calls 'the ultimate virtue'.
Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Penny Boreham.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m000f7ph)
Strange Strolls
Sophie Coulombeau - Walking Matilda
As an injured soldier under house arrest, Xavier de Maistre staved off boredom by imagining every step around his drawing room was a step across a country; Virginia Woolf’s writerly wandering around central London to buy a pencil exposed the city's transformation in darkness.
Inspired by these ironic quests and symbolic expeditions, five contemporary writers embark on walks of entertaining eccentricity.
Author and academic Sophie Coulombeau completes these imaginative journeys with a baby buggy in York - a city and self she thought she once knew, but now seem elusive and uncanny.
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m000f7pk)
Modern Love
Does the avant garde fall in love? Can you fall in love with a spoon? As couples across the country finish their Valentines dinner for two, Jennifer Lucy Allan settles in for two hours of the most unconventional takes on love that we can find. Expect odes to inanimate objects, love cassettes from Tony Conrad’s Four Violins, amorous country funk from Jim Ford, songs for the lonesome by one-man outsider band Abner Jay and lover’s rock from Sonya Spence. Luc Ferrari’s steamy Danses Organiques also makes an appearance, centring on a strange meeting between two girls and a tape recorder accompanied with spiralling musique concrete and his observations on ‘organ-ic’ music, possibly the most sexy piece of musique concrete ever put to tape.
Also tonight, Jennifer has democratic post-punk from Ut, a performance by the late cellist Charles Curtis and shimmering chords for the last Glaciation by Richard Skelton.
Produced by Alannah Chance.
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3.