Romanian Radio National Orchestra and Rumon Gamba in Brahms's Violin Concerto with Cristina Anghelescu, and Elgar's Enigma Variations. Catriona Young presents.
Violin Concerto in D, op. 77
Cristina Anghelescu (violin), Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
Andante, from 'Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003'
Enigma Variations, op. 36
Matthew White (counter tenor), Arte dei Suonatori, Eduardo Lopez Banzo (conductor)
Valentinas Kazlauskas (flute), Lina Baublyte (flute), Albertas Stupakas (flute), Giedrius Gelgotas (flute)
Spanisches Liederspiel (Op. 74)
Margit Laszlo (soprano), Jozsef Reti (tenor), Zolte Bende (bass), Hungarian Radio & Television Choir, Zoltan Vasarhelyi (conductor)
Classical music for breakfast time plus found sounds and the odd unclassified track.
Ravel's String Quartet in Building a Library with Jeremy Sams and Andrew McGregor
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 22 & 24
Maurice Ravel finished his String Quartet in F major in 1903 at the age of 28. In some way it's modelled on Debussy's String Quartet of 10 years earlier. But it has been described as being "opposite to Debussy's symbolism, abandoning the vagueness and formlessness of the early French impressionists in favour of a return to classic standards." It quickly established itself as a standard work in the chamber music repertory.
Mayseder: Mass in E-Flat Major, Op. 64 & Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 26
Wiener Sängerknaben, Herrenchor der Wiener Hofmusikkapelle, Ensemble der Wiener Hofmusikkapelle
Rachmaninoff in Lucerne - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Symphony No. 3
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson, whose new CD juxtaposes the music of French composers Rameau and Debussy, author Christina Guillaumier on her new book The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev, as well as Russian music expert Gerard McBurney, and visits English National Opera in London to chat to cast and director Joe Hill-Gibbins of a new production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
Jess Gillam with... Dani Howard
Saxophonist Jess Gillam is joined by composer Dani Howard, and between them they swap music by Thomas Adès, Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Fats Waller.
Thomas Ades - In Seven Days: iv. Stars - Sun - Moon
Toshio Hosokawa - Japanese folksongs: no.2; Itsuki no komori uta (Lullaby of Itsuki)
Steve Reich – Variations for Vibes, Pianos and Strings: I. Fast
Robert Schumann - Fantasiestücke, Op. 73; III. Rasch und mit Feuer
Pianist Keval Shah compares the last movement of Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony to a long distance train journey, finds Martha Argerich and Maurice Ravel painting watery sounds together, and describes how John Adams uses a huge symphony orchestra to conjure up the feeling of being suspended in space.
Keval also shows how two tiny but vivid stories are brought to life by song composer Hugo Wolf and plays a four hundred year old piece that sounds as if it was written yesterday.
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
Matthew Sweet takes his cue from the UK release of Juliano Dornelles's and Kleber Mendonca Filho's award winning film 'Bacurau', with music by Mateus Alves and Tomaz Alves Souza, for an examination of the strange world of the 'Weird Western' and the music written for it. Weird Westerns combine the traditional cowboy film with elements of fantasy, science fiction or horror, and amongst his selection Matthew includes music for 'The Valley of Gwanji', 'Cowboys and Aliens', ''Westworld', 'Wild Wild West', 'High Plains Drifter', 'Rango', 'El Topo', 'Ravenous', 'Bone Tomahawk', and 'Bacarau'.
Kathryn Tickell presents a recording of Baaba Maal performing at AfriCourage Festival in the Gambia. For this week’s Classic artist we celebrate the late Lhasa de Sela with a rare session track she did for Charlie Gillett in 2009. Plus the latest releases from across the globe.
Julian Joseph presents an intimate duo concert from Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan and Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick. Together they explore lyrical folk melodies, atmospheric electronics and propulsive grooves.
Also in the programme saxophonist Tamar Osborn, leader of UK band Collocutor, shares some of the music that inspires her, including a cross-cultural masterpiece by Indo-jazz fusion group Shakti that has guided Collocutor’s own sonic exploration.
Der fliegende Holländer, The Flying Dutchman, has been condemned for eternity to sail his ship, and only once every seven years is allowed to come ashore to seek redemption by a faithful woman. The raging storm has driven the Dutchman to a Norwegian harbour where he moors beside Daland. He's impressed by the Dutchman's wealth and offers him shelter, and is no less impressed by the Dutchman's interest in his daughter, Senta. The Dutchman hopes he has found his redemption in Senta, who is looking for a change to her mundane life, and she eagerly accepts the Dutchman's declaration of love and his proposal. But he wrongly thinks she is unfaithful, so returns to his ship and sets sail without her.
The starry cast at the Met includes Anja Kampe's Met debut as Senta and the bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin as the Dutchman.
Today's performance from the Metropolitan Opera House is presented by Mary-Jo Heath with commentator Ira Siff.
Kate Molleson presents new music for string quartet by Caroline Bordignon and Yfat Soul Zisso, electronic sounds from Annie Mahtani and Curtis Roads, and a recording of Manchester ensemble Distractfold with pieces by founding member Sam Salem and American composer Weston Olencki. Plus this week's Sound of the Week with Kate Carr and a new release from Max de Wardener.
SUNDAY 15 MARCH 2020
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m000gf0n)
Kit Downes
British pianist, composer and organist Kit Downes’ work is widely known on the UK jazz scene - from his groove-based group Troyka to the spectral soundscapes on his most recent release for the ECM label. Kit shares his three favourite, lesser-known examples of great improvisation with tracks by American guitarist Mary Halvorson, vocalist Ingebjørg Loe Bjørnstad and South African pianist Bheki Mseleku.
Also in the show, creative modern arrangements from the Austrian bassist and composer Gina Schwarz, and the Italian cellist Francesco Guerri blurs the line between contemporary classical music and free improvisation.
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m000gf0q)
Beethoven's Missa Solemnis
A performance of Beethoven's mass from Bellinzona in Switzerland. Presented by Catriona Young.
01:01 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Missa Solemnis in D Op 123
Genia Kühmeier (soprano), Bettina Ranch (mezzo soprano), Charles Workman (tenor), Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester (bass), Swiss Radio-Television Chorus, Marco Testori (choirmaster), Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Markus Poschner (conductor)
02:16 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34
Boris Berman (piano), Alexander String Quartet
03:01 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Symphony no 6 in D major
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Juraj Valucha (conductor)
03:44 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Lachrymae (reflections on a song of Dowland) arr. for viola and strings
Rivka Golani (viola), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
03:59 AM
Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682)
Sinfonia in D minor
The Private Music
04:06 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Duet: Fra gli amplessi - from Così fan tutte
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Michael Schade (tenor), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
04:13 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
2 Nocturnes for piano Op 62
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
04:26 AM
Anatol Lyadov (1855-1914)
The Enchanted Lake, Op 62
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Kitaenko (conductor)
04:34 AM
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
The Blue Bird, from 8 Partsongs Op 119 No 3
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
04:38 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Oboe Sonata in D major, Op 166
Roger Cole (oboe), Linda Lee Thomas (piano)
04:50 AM
Christoph Graupner (1683-1760)
Flute Concerto in F, GWV 323
Bolette Roed (recorder), Arte dei Suonatori
05:01 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Capriccio for keyboard (BWV.993) in E major "In honorem Joh. Christoph. Bachii"
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
05:07 AM
Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703)
Fürchte dich nicht (motet)
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (director)
05:13 AM
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Kol Nidrei Op 47
Adam Krzeszowiec (cello), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
05:26 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Ich ging mit lust durch einen grunen Wald
Arleen Auger (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano)
05:30 AM
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
Violin Concerto in D, Op 35
James Ehnes (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
05:56 AM
Federico Mompou (1893-1987)
Impresiones intimas op 1
Marianne Richter-Beijer (piano)
06:14 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Impressioni Brasiliane for orchestra (1928)
West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor)
06:35 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Trio Sonata in D minor Op 1 No 12 'La Folia' (1705)
Florilegium Collinda
06:44 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Sonata in C major for flute and harpsichord (Wq.73)
Konrad Hunteler (flute), Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
06:57 AM
Alma Mahler (1879-1964), Rainer Maria Rilke (lyricist)
Bei dir ist es traut
Franziska Heinzen (soprano), Benjamin Mead (piano)
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m000gdzg)
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 (m000gdzj)
Sarah Walker with an inviting musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
Today, a glorious pas de deux by Tchaikovsky, a rousing double horn concerto by Telemann and variations by Beethoven on a famous melody by Mozart.
Plus Sarah discovers some musical rarities including a farewell to Cuba, an orchestral painting of a distant shore, and a jaunty food-based number from the Nat King Cole Trio.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m000gdzl)
Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende’s first novel, “The House of the Spirits” catapulted her to literary stardom, and was acclaimed as a classic of Latin American magic realism. That was nearly forty years ago and she’s not stopped writing since: with twenty novels and four volumes of memoir, she’s been translated all over the world and has sold some seventy-four million books. They’re vivid family sagas, with eccentric characters, dramatic reversals, discoveries of lost children, violent death, disease and revolution, and sudden consuming love affairs.
But Isabel Allende’s own life is as extraordinary as any of her novels. Abandoned by her father as a small child, she spent her early years travelling across South America with her stepfather, who was a diplomat. He was the cousin of Salvador Allende, Chile’s socialist leader, who became Isabel’s godfather. But when Allende was deposed by the right-wing government of General Pinochet in 1973, Isabel – by then married, with children – became caught up in the violent revolution and had to flee the country. She now lives with her third husband in California.
In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Isabel Allende reflects on her extraordinary life, and reveals how she has found happiness now in her seventies. Music choices include Vivaldi, Mozart’s Flute Concerto No. 1, Albinoni, the Chilean singer Victor Jara, a moving song from the Spanish Civil War, and a Mexican love song from the 1940s, “Kiss Me Lots”.
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000g3vl)
Voice high, instrument low
From Wigmore Hall, London.
Introduced by Fiona Talkington.
A new work by the Master of the Queen’s Music is a highlight of a programme shared by three unusually talented musicians and focusing on works by John Tavener, who died seven years ago.
Kodály: Sonatina for cello and piano
Tavener: Akhmatova Songs (Boris Pasternak; Couplet; Dante)
Deborah Pritchard: Storm Song
Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis
Judith Weir: On palmy beach
Schubert: Auf dem Strom D943
Ruby Hughes, soprano
Natalie Clein, cello
Julius Drake, piano
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m000cyzj)
In the Garden of Muses
Highlights of a concert given last July as part of the Summer Festivities of Early Music at Troja Castle in Prague. The concert features soprano Chantal Santon Jeffrey with flautist Jana Semerádová, violinists Stéphanie Pfister and Vojtěch Semerád, cellist Bruno Cocset and harpsichordist Beatrice Martin in music by Jean-Marie Leclair, Louis-Nicholas Clérambault and Johann Schobert.
Presented by Lucie Skeaping.
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m000g3xk)
Manchester Cathedral
Live from Manchester Cathedral.
Introit: Geistliches Lied (Brahms)
Responses: Christopher Stokes
Office hymn: Be thou my guardian and my guide (Abridge)
Psalms 60, 61 (Hopkins, Hesford)
First Lesson: Job 1 vv.1-22
Canticles: Edington Service (Judith Bingham)
Second Lesson: Luke 21 v.34 – 22 v.6
Anthem: Verleih uns frieden (Mendelssohn)
Hymn: Take up thy cross, the Saviour said (Breslau)
Voluntary: Sonata in A major, Op 65 No 3 (Con moto maestoso) (Mendelssohn)
Christopher Stokes (Organist & Master of the Choristers)
Geoffrey Woollatt (Sub-Organist)
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m000gdzn)
15/03/20
Alyn Shipton presents listeners' requests, which this week include recordings by Art Pepper, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington.
DISC 1
Artist Art Pepper
Title You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To
Composer Porter
Album Four classic albums
Label Avid
Number AMSCD 192 CD 2 Track 2
Duration 5.26
Performers: Art Pepper, as; Red Garland, p; Paul Chambers, b; Philly Joe Jones, d. 19 Jan 1957
DISC 2
Artist Dizzy Gillespie
Title Impromptu
Composer Gillespie
Album 1953-1954
Label Classics
Number 1424 Track 1
Duration 7.46
Performers: Dizzy Gillespie, t; Stan Getz, ts; Oscar Peterson, p; Herb Ellis, g; Ray Brown, b; Max Roach, d. 9 Dec 1953.
DISC 3
Artist Duke Ellington
Title In My Solitude
Composer Ellington
Album Money Jungle
Label Blue Note
Number CDP 7463982 Track 11
Duration 5.34
Performers: Duke Ellington, p; Charles Mingus, b; Max Roach, d. 17 Sep 1962.
DISC 4
Artist Jimmy Rushing
Title River Stay Way From My Door
Composer Dixon / Woods
Album Four Classic Albums
Label Avid
Number AMSC 1057 CD 2 Track 20
Duration 4.26
Performers: Jimmy Rushing, v; Dave Brubeck p; Paul Desmond, as; Eugene Wright, b; Joe Morello, d. 1960.
DISC 5
Artist Darius Brubeck
Title Earthrise
Composer Brubeck
Album Live in Poland
Label Ubuntu Music
Number UBU0033 Track 1
Duration 9.08
Performers: Dave O’Higgins, ts; Darius Brubeck, p; Matt Ridley, b; Wesley Gibbens, d. 17 Nov 2018.
DISC 6
Artist Billie Holiday
Title Now Or Never
Composer Holiday / Lewis
Album Complete Billie Holiday Songbook
Label Essential Jazz Classics
Number 55727 CD 1 Track 10
Duration 3.17
Performers: Billie Holiday, v; Sy Oliver’s Orchestra: Bernie Privin, t; Sid Cooper, Johnny Mince, Art Drellinger, Pat Nizza, reeds; Billy Kyle, p; Everett Barksdale g; Joe Benjamin, b; Jimmy Crawford, d. 30 Sep 1949.
DISC 7
Artist Hiromi
Title Blackbird
Composer Lennon / McCartney
Album Spectrum
Label Telarc
Number 00081 Track 5
Duration 5.21
Performers: Hiromi, p. Feb 2019.
DISC 8
Artist Alina Bzhezhinska
Title Los Caballos
Composer Alice Coltrane
Album Inspiration
Label Ubuntu
Number Track 3
Duration 7.44
Performers Alina Bzhezhinska, hp; Tony Kofi, reeds; Larry Bartley, b; Joel Prime, d. 2018.
DISC 9
Artist Neil Ardley
Title Rainbow 4
Composer Ardley
Album Kaleidoscope of Rainbows
Label Dusk Fire
Number CD101 Track 4
Duration 6.15
Performers: Neil Ardley, dir, synth; Ian Carr, t; Bob Bertles, Brian Smith, Barbara Thompson, Tony Coe, reeds; Geoff Castle, kb; Dave McRae, elp; Roger Sutton, b; Ken Shaw, g; Roger Sellers, d. 1976.
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (b0b1pb09)
The Sea
Join Tom on a Listening Service voyage across our oceans to discover why music has long been inspired by the sea - from Sibelius and Mendelssohn to John Luther Adams and the Beatles - how have composers tried to capture the ocean in their music? Is it even possible?
Meanwhile, Tom discovers music that is literally created by the sea itself from Blackpool to the Arctic, and dives down into the sounds of coral reefs with marine biologist Helen Scales to hear the noisy vibrant reality of life under the waves, from snapping pistol shrimps and angry damselfish to singing whales.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (b060bprw)
A Celebration of Sport
The joy, drama and human folly of the sporting calendar from rugby to the Olympics. The readers are Robert Powell and Pippa Bennett-Warner. As people recover from activities for this year's BBC Sports Relief, Words and Music takes us through the British summer sporting calendar from the optimism of April and the Grand National through the three-jerseyed days of the early cricket season into the warmth of Wimbledon, the heat of the British Open Golf, the elegance of Henley and culminating with competitors leaving for the Olympics in June.
Music from Warlock, Weber, Carl Davis and William Alwyn blends with the sometimes surprising words of Shakespeare, Milton and the many writers on sport from the heyday of Edwardian endeavour to the 20th-century frivolity of PG Wodehouse and John Betjeman and on to the enthusiasms of Alison Uttley and the beautiful reflections of the very best cricket writers like Neville Cardus and all-rounder Simon Barnes, with poetry from Roger McGough and John Arlott.
Producer: Tom Alban
Readings
Simon Barnes -The Times: 28th July 2014
John Milton -from Paradise Lost Book 2
Hugh McIlvanney - The Saga of Red Rum from McIlvanney on Horseracing
Alan Ross - from Stanley Matthews
Anon - from A Gravestone at Llanfair Church, South Wales
Alison Uttley - from Carts and Candlestick
Robin Daniels - Cardus Celebrant of Beauty, a Memoir
CLR James - from Beyond a Boundary
William Shakespeare - Henry V, Act I sc 2
E.M.Forster - from A Room With A View - Chapter 15
John Betjeman - from A Subalterns Love Song
Steve Fairbairn - The Oarsmans Song
John Betjeman - Seaside Golf
Roger McGough - The Railings
John Arlott - On a Great Batsman
Alison Uttley - from Carts and Candlesticks
A E Houseman - To An Athlete Dying Young
01 Vangelis
Chariots of Fire
Duration 00:00:50
02
00:01:04
John Milton
From Paradise Lost Book 2 Line 506 read by Pippa Bennett-Warner
Duration 00:00:01
03
00:01:19 Arthur Honegger
Rugby, Mouvement symphonique
Performer: Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands, Jean Fournet
Duration 00:00:07
04
00:08:22
Simon Barnes
The Times: 28th July 2014 read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:00:01
05
00:09:10 Carl Davis
Champions Theme
Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra
Duration 00:00:03
06
00:10:24
Hugh McIlvanney
The Saga of Red Rum from McIlvanney on Horseracing, read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:00:01
07
00:12:26 W.Monk, H.Lyte
Abide With Me
Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Chorus
Duration 00:00:02
08
00:13:16
Alan Ross
From Stanley Matthews, read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:00:25
09
00:14:58
anon
From a Gravestone at Llanfair church, South Wales read by Robert Powell and Pippa Bennett-Warner
Duration 00:00:10
10
00:15:07 Trad Psalm, W.H.Havergal
The Rules of Cricket - A Psalm Chant
Performer: The London Quartet
Duration 00:00:02
11
00:17:35
Alison Uttley
From Carts and Candlesticks, read by Pippa Bennett-Warner
Duration 00:00:26
12
00:18:01 Peter Warlock
The Cricketers of Hambledon
Performer: The London Quartet
Duration 00:00:02
13
00:20:35
Neville Cardus
Cardus Celebrant of Beauty, a Memoir by Robin Daniels read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:00:55
14
00:21:31 Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons, Summer - Concerto No.2 in G minor
Performer: London Philharmonic, Itzhak Perlman
Duration 00:00:06
15
00:27:40
CLR James
From Beyond a Boundary, read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:00:01
16
00:28:43 Jit Samaroo
Four Lara Four
Performer: BP Renegades Steel Orchestra
Duration 00:00:01
17
00:30:17 Frederick Loewe
Ascot Gavotte
Performer: National Symphony Orchestra, John Owen Edwards
Duration 00:00:03
18
00:33:34 George Ridley
Blaydon Races
Performer: Northern Sinfonia of England, The Sinfonia Chorus, Thomas Allen, Sheila Armstrong
Duration 00:00:03
19
00:37:17
William Shakespeare
Henry V, Act I sc 2, read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:00:57
20
00:38:15 William Alwyn
Derby Day Overture
Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, James Judd
Duration 00:00:06
21
00:44:13
E.M.Forster
from A Room With A View - Chapter 15, read by Pippa Bennett-Warner
Duration 00:00:51
22
00:45:04 Erik Satie
from Sports Et Divertissements, Tennis
Performer: Chantal de Buchy
Duration 00:00:46
23
00:45:47
John Betjeman
from A Subalterns Love Song, read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:00:01
24
00:47:02 Henry Pether
A Game of Tennis
Performer: Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge
Duration 00:00:02
25
00:49:47 Algernon Drummond
Eton Boating Song
Performer: The Band of The Life Guards
Duration 00:00:03
26
00:51:08
Steve Fairbairn
The Oarsmans Song from The Complete Steve Fairbairn read by Pippa Bennett-Warner
Duration 00:00:52
27
00:52:46 Erik Satie
from Sports Et Divertissements, Golf
Performer: Chantal de Buchy
Duration 00:00:39
28
00:53:24
John Betjeman
Seaside Golf, read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:00:01
29
00:54:27 Rachel Portman
The Day of the Match Dawns, from The Legend of Bagger Vance Soundtrack
Performer: Soundtrack Album
Duration 00:00:03
30
00:55:26
Roger McGough
The Railings, read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:00:01
31
00:57:38 Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No7 in F.Op. 59
Performer: Lindsay String Quartet
Duration 00:00:07
32
00:04:01
John Arlott
On a Great Batsman, read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:00:34
33
01:04:36 Adrian Johnston
A Game of Cricket, from the Orginal Soundtrack of Becoming Jane
Performer: Original Soundtrack Album
Duration 00:00:01
34
01:05:41
Alison Uttley
From Carts and Candlesticks read by Pippa Bennett-Warner
Duration 00:00:37
35
01:06:19 Roy Harper
When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease
Performer: Roy Harper
Duration 00:00:05
36
01:11:37
A E Houseman
To An Athlete Dying Young read by Pippa Bennett-Warner and Robert Powell
Duration 00:00:01
37
01:11:43 Vangelis
Chariots of Fire
Duration 00:00:02
SUN 18:45 Between the Ears (m000gdzs)
Almost Gone
An ear floats off to the galaxies, listening in on Earth from a cosmic vantage. An audio-collage written and composed by Heather Phillipson, summoning the listener into a deranged sonic landscape, addressing the Earth as an eruption, on the verge of termination.
Mixing bucolic lyric poem, music-sampling, the cut-up, weather forecasts, psychedelic literature and astronomic travelogue with the tone of a pre-recorded message from the beyond, Heather Phillipson’s feature proposes the ear as an airborne dustbin. Beginning with a toenail and grass blades, then incrementally zooming out to the heavens, her composition probes the relative significance of life-forms and ideas in a quest for strangeness. Throughout, pop references set the agenda, tethering everything to earthly culture, while words and sounds take flight, suggesting listening as a way of becoming alien. Almost Gone is its own kind of space-time travel, sounding out other dimensions, tuning in to climactic vertigo. Listen in the dark.
Heather Phillipson is a British artist who works across video, sculpture, web projects, music, drawing and poetry. THE END, her sculpture for the Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, is unveiled on March 26th 2020. She has also been commissioned for the next Duveen Galleries commission at Tate Britain, launching in June 2020.
Writer: Heather Phillipson
Composer/Sound Design/Editor: Heather Phillipson
Producers: Jack Howson and Joby Waldman
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 19:15 Sunday Feature (m000gdzx)
New Generation Thinkers: The Air that I Breathe
Dr Alun Withey became interested in our attitudes to clean air through his study of the beard. A curious piece of Victorian wisdom caught his eye. In extolling the wisdom of the full beard a particularly keen enthusiast suggested that the beard was 'nature's respirator'. Further research lead him to the inventor of the respirator, one Julius Jeffreys, and the subsequent use of it. Following on from that was a growing understanding of how the Victorians responded to the air that they were forced to breathe in increasingly smog-bound cities.
He talks to experts today about our city air and why our thinking remains somewhat confused when it comes to our attitudes to clean air when the pea souper smogs have gone, and - without any reference to face masks used for Coronavirus protection - he explores the extent to which respirators then and now have proved either popular or effective as a response to the fundamental desire for clean air.
Producer: Tom Alban
SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m0000xfl)
The Shadow of a Doubt
World premiere of a newly discovered play by Edith Wharton from 1901, starring Phoebe Fox, Francesca Annis, Paul Ready, David Horovitch and Don Gilet.
Introduced by Laura Rattray, Reader in American Studies, University of Glasgow
Adapted for radio by Melissa Murray
Directed by Emma Harding
Long before she achieved fame with her novel, 'The Age of Innocence', Edith Wharton wrote a number of plays. But they were all believed lost until two academics, Laura Rattray and Mary Chinery, discovered the complete manuscript of 'The Shadow of a Doubt' in 2017. Wharton's play - which pivots on the issue of assisted suicide - was about to be staged in New York in early 1901, before the production was abandoned for unknown reasons.
Kate, a former nurse, has recently married above her class to John Derwent, whose first wife Kate had nursed following an horrific accident. But others are suspicious of Kate's social ascent. And others have knowledge that could destroy her.
Kate Derwent.....Phoebe Fox
John Derwent.....Paul Ready
Sylvia Derwent.....Rosie Boore
Lord Osterleigh.....David Horovitch
Lady Uske.....Francesca Annis
Dr Carruthers.....Don Gilet
Clodagh Nevil.....Alexandra Constantinidi
Bobby Mazaret.....Cameron Percival
Footman.....Lewis Bray
Mrs Fullerton.....Emma Handy
SUN 21:00 Radio 3 in Concert (m000gf01)
Verdi Requiem and Liszt piano music
Fiona Talkington introduces highlights of concerts from around the world, care of the European Broadcasting Union. Portugal, Austria and New Zealand feature in this edition, including a performance of Verdi's dramatic Requiem in Lisbon, and virtuoso pianist Marc-André Hamelin performing the ecstatic and dreamlike Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude by Liszt at the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade in Austria.
Giuseppe Verdi - Requiem
Erika Grimaldi (soprano)
Elena Zhidkova (mezzo-soprano)
Paulo Ferreira (tenor)
Nikolay Didenko (bass)
Gulbenkian Chorus
Gulbenkian Orchestra
Michel Corboz (conductor)
Recorded in November 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal
Franz Liszt - Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude, S.173’3
(from Harmonies poetiques et religieuses)
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Recorder last summer at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg in Austria
Dmitri Shostakovich - Festive overture Op.96
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Jaime Martín (conductor)
Recorded summer 2018 in Wellington, New Zealand
Producer Helen Garrison
SUN 23:00 Nordic Sounds (m000gf05)
Power and Politics
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough looks at a few of the ways that Nordic political history has influenced the region's music. It's often said that it’s the winners who get to write history, but is this true of music? Political circumstances often create the impulse to record, preserve and promote a culture’s musical heritage. We'll hear music by Marie Boine, Jean Sibelius, Ole Bull, and the words of a dying man preserved on a medieval manuscript.
Produced by Laura Yogasundram.
MONDAY 16 MARCH 2020
MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m0009qz5)
Suzi Ruffell
Comedian and podcaster Suzi Ruffell tries Clemmie's classical playlist.
Suzi's playlist in full:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sheep May Safely Graze (version for 2 pianos)
Marin Marais: Les voix humaines
Ennio Morricone: Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso
Carl Orff: Gassenhauer from Four Studies for Xylophone
Jessie Montgomery: Strum
Benjamin Britten: Sunday Morning from 4 Sea Interludes (from the opera Peter Grimes)
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m000gf09)
Mendelssohn and Mahler from Geneva
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande play Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with soloist Ayana Tsuji and Mahler's 6th Symphony conducted by Jonathan Nott. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64
Ayana Tsuji (violin), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott (conductor)
12:59 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Gavotte en rondeau, from 'Partita No. 3 in E, BWV 1006'
Ayana Tsuji (violin)
01:03 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony no 6 in A minor
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott (conductor)
02:26 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Irmelin Rose, from 5 Songs to poems of Jacobsen, Op 4 no 4 (1891)
Mattias Ermedahl (tenor), Anders Kilstrom (piano)
02:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Quintet in A major 'The Trout', Op 114 (D.667)
John Harding (violin), Ferdinand Erblich (viola), Stefan Metz (cello), Henk Guldemond (double bass), Menahem Pressler (piano)
03:05 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Magnificat in D major (Wq.215)
Linda ovrebo (soprano), Anna Einarsson (alto), Anders J. Dahlin (tenor), Johannes Mannov (bass), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Oslo Chamber Choir, Alessandro de Marchi (conductor)
03:41 AM
Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709)
Sonata in D for Trumpet, Strings and Basso Continuo
Sebastian Philpott (trumpet), European Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
03:49 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and fugue in D minor, BWV 539
Ligita Sneibe (organ)
03:56 AM
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Three Shanties for wind quintet, Op 4
Ariart Woodwind Quintet
04:04 AM
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Polish Dances
Jerzy Godziszewski (piano)
04:13 AM
John Field (1782-1837)
1. Aria; 2. Nocturne & Chanson
Barry Douglas (piano), Camerata Ireland
04:21 AM
William Walton (1902-1983)
'Spitfire' prelude and fugue for orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
04:31 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
The Wasps - Aristophanic suite (from incidental music) (1909)
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
04:40 AM
Adolf Schulz-Evler (1852-1905)
Concert arabesque on themes by Johann Strauss for piano
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
04:50 AM
Ludwig Senfl (c.1486-1543)
Credo, Missa dominicalis (L'homme arme)
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble
05:01 AM
Franz Xaver Sterkel (1750-1817)
Duet no 2 for 2 violas
Milan Telecky (viola), Zuzana Jarabakova (viola)
05:10 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Symphony for string orchestra no 10 in B minor
Risor Festival Strings
05:20 AM
Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944)
Flute Concertino, Op 107
Maria Filippova (flute), Ekaterina Mirzaeva (piano)
05:29 AM
Robert Schumann (1810 -1856)
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129
Daniel Muller-Schott (cello), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Gurer Aykal (conductor)
05:53 AM
Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
Suite espanola , Op 47
Ilze Graubina (piano)
06:16 AM
Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)
Concert fantasy on Carmen for violin and orchestra, Op 25
Julia Fischer (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m000gd5v)
Monday - Petroc's classical commute
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m000gd5z)
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Essential music for spring, Lang's light moving, Red Rob Mackintosh
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 pieces for spring.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b09r40xp)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Janne
Donald Macleod delves into the life and work of the man who is almost universally recognised as Finland's greatest ever composer - Jean Sibelius. Sibelius's music went a long way towards establishing a sense of national musical identity in Finland - a tradition that has flourished there ever since. Sibelius felt a strong connection with his homeland and the nature that flourished there, and the nationalist flavour of his works was highly appealing to a Finnish audience at a time when Finland was fighting for independence from Russia. In this episode, Donald explores Sibelius's youth as a promising violinist, the early impressions that the Finnish natural world had on the budding musician, and his time studying in both Helsinki and Berlin.
Vattendroppar, JS 216
Yoshiko Arai (violin)
Seppo Kimanen (cello)
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47
Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Serenad
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Piano Quintet in G minor, JS159 - 1st movement
Folke Gräsbeck (piano)
Laura Vikman (violin)
Jaakko Kuusisto (violin)
Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic (viola)
Joel Laakso (cello)
Producer: Sam Phillips.
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000gd63)
Nordic tales
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Radio 3 New Generation Artist Alessandro Fisher is joined by world-renowned accompanist Roger Vignoles for a programme of music steeped in Nordic folklore by Schumann, Grieg, Delius and the Swedish composer and pianist Gunnar de Frumerie whose song cycle 'Songs of the Heart' sets the poetry of Nobel Prize winner Pär Lagerkvist.
Introduced by Andrew McGregor.
Robert Schumann:
5 songs on texts by Hans Christian Andersen, Op. 40
Edvard Grieg:
To brune øjne & Jeg elsker dig (The heart's melodies, Op. 5)
En svane, Op. 25 No. 2
Med en vandlilie, Op. 25 No. 4
Prinsessen
Fra Monte Pincio, Op. 39 No. 1
Frederick Delius:
Evening Voices
Sweet Venevil
The Nightingale & Longing (Five Songs from the Norwegian)
Gunnar de Frumerie:
Songs of the heart, Op.27
Alessandro Fisher tenor
Roger Vignoles piano
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000gd65)
Celebrating the BBC Philharmonic
Elgar, Rachmaninov and James MacMillan from the BBC Philharmonic including Elgar's magnificent Violin Concerto with Christian Tetzlaff and the last of Rachmaninov's symphonies.
John Storgards leads the orchestra in Rachmaninov's Symphony no.3 - a late work, lush and romantic, that remains nostalgic for the romanticism in which the composer grew up, yet with experimental touches such as the use of the saxophone in the orchestral texture
Later, Martyn Brabbins conducts the fourth symphony by Scottish composer James MacMillan, who wrote that he was interested "in the interplay of different types of material, following upon a fascination with music as ritual that has stretched from Monteverdi in the early 17th century through to Boulez and Birtwistle in the present day."
Presented by Kate Molleson
2.00pm
Elgar
Violin Concerto
Rachmaninov
Symphony no.3
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor
3.30pm
Coates
Two Symphonic Rhapsodies
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson, conductor
3.40pm
MacMillan
Symphony no.4
BBC Philharmonic
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
MON 16:30 Early Music Now (m000gd67)
Kate Molleson
Cantatas by Buxtehude from the ensemble Vox Luminis conducted by Lionel Meunier.
Recorded live last year at Barcelona's Casals Hall, the award-winning Belgian ensemble explore vocal works by the prolific and fascinating composer German-Danish composer Dietrich Buxtehude, a musician considered so great by his contemporaries that none other than a young Bach made a 400km pilgrimage to hear him play.
Presented by Kate Molleson
4.30pm
Dietrich Buxtehude
Gott hilf mir, BuxWV.34 for chorus, strings and continuo
Jesu, meine Freude, BuxWV.60 for chorus, strings, bassoon and continuo
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, conductor
MON 17:00 In Tune (m000gd69)
Fran & Flora, James Sills
Sean Rafferty is joined by violin and cello duo Fran & Flora who are currently on tour, plus James Sills talks about his new 'Sofa Singers' project.
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000gd6c)
Your daily classical soundtrack
Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Violins contrasts with Max Richter's contemplative Mercy. Romantic vocal music from Wagner and Verdi, and English music from Vaughan Williams and Arnold.
Producer Nick Holmes
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000gd6f)
Intimate fortepiano works by Mozart and Beethoven
From the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra strings join the outstanding fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout for a programme of chamber music. The concert begins with a work from Mozart’s early years in Vienna, his keyboard sonata in C major KV 309. Then follows Beethoven’s trailblazing Piano Trio in C minor, a work written to challenge Vienna’s musical elite, with its explosive contrasts and yearning lyricism. Mozart's enterprising Piano Concerto in A K414, an intimate work for keyboard and either orchestra or string quartet accompaniment closes the recital.
Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 7 in C major KV 309
Beethoven: Trio in C minor, Op 1 No 3
20.20
INTERVAL: Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major BWV 1050, Daniel Hope (violin), Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord)
20.40
Mozart: Piano Concerto in A K414 (String Quintet version)
Kristian Bezuidenhout – Fortepiano
SCO String Ensemble
Presenter – Kate Molleson
Producer - Laura Metcalfe
MON 22:00 Music Matters (m000gd6h)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 The Essay (m000gd6k)
Higher Thoughts and the Meaning of Welsh Mountains
Snowdonia
Jon Gower, writer and keen walker of the Welsh mountains, explores the unique characteristics of each of Wales' five ranges and reflects on what they mean to the people who live among them.
For many people, Wales is synonymous with its mountains. They occupy a unique place in the country's ancient mythology, its history and its culture, defining who rules the country, who lives in it, and how they survive. But each of the mountain ranges of Wales has its own unique character. In this series of The Essay, Jon Gower paints a detailed portrait of the landscape of these higher places, and in doing so, explores how they’ve shaped the country's psyche.
In the first essay Jon considers Snowdonia as a place of refuge, from the Welsh princes that built their castles here to take advantage of the natural defensive system, to the rare plants finding sanctuary on almost unscalable ledges.
In ‘The Black Mountains’, Jon looks at the way these hills, benign and balmy on some occasions, at others beset by fierce weather, have attracted writers and poets to it like a honeypot, from Owen Sheers to Jan Morris: just as Ordnance Survey maps are covered in contour lines, so too is the landscape around here seemingly covered in lines, of poetry.
Jon sees the Brecon Beacons as being all about water - from their formation by gargantuan glaciers, rumbling slowly across the land gouging valleys and shuffling rocks ever onward, to the many waterfalls tumbling into space. The most remarkable of these is Sgwd yr Eira, the ‘fall of snow’, a veritable avalanche of spume and rush where you can actually walk behind the curtain of water.
In his essay on Epynt, Jon reflects on a landscape that offers meagre grazing for animals, dotted with small ponds and peat bogs, and which remains haunted by the eviction of many inhabitants by the War Office in 1939. Given over to military training, the scything of wind through the tough grasses is for most of the year punctuated by the sound of mortar fire, anti-tank weaponry and machine guns.
And in ‘The Preseli Mountains’, Jon explores the most mystical range of mountains, which are barely mountains, though the highest of them, Foel Cwmcerwyn, stands tall and sentinel enough to have guided the sailors of west Wales safely to shore. On a clear day you can see not only the patterned field tapestries of Pembrokeshire – shot through with the gold threads of gorse hedges – but also nine other Welsh counties, and the charcoal edge of Ireland across the sea.
Producer: Megan Jones for BBC Cymru Wales
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m000c4kw)
Adventures in sound
An adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
01
00:00:10 Trad.
God Shall Wipe All Tears Away
Ensemble: Trio Da Kali
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
Duration 00:03:13
02
00:03:35 Brian Eno (artist)
The Big Ship
Performer: Brian Eno
Duration 00:02:38
03
00:06:13 Franz Biebl
Ave Maria
Ensemble: VOCES8
Duration 00:03:01
04
00:09:36 Jonny Greenwood
Alma - from Phantom Thread OST
Performer: Oliver Coates
Performer: Eleanor Turner
Performer: Charlotte Bonneton
Performer: Daniel Pioro
Performer: Jonathan Morton
Duration 00:04:12
05
00:13:48 Raymond Scott (artist)
Sleepy Time - from Soothing Sounds for Babies
Performer: Raymond Scott
Duration 00:03:31
06
00:17:39 Alice Coltrane (artist)
Journey In Satchidananda
Performer: Alice Coltrane
Performer: Pharoah Sanders
Performer: Tulsi
Performer: Majid Shabazz
Performer: Cecil McBee
Performer: Rashied Ali
Duration 00:06:40
07
00:24:20 Julianna Barwick
Labyrinthine
Ensemble: Julianna Barwick
Duration 00:04:22
08
00:28:42 Sergey Rachmaninov
Prelude Op 23 No 4 in D major
Performer: Simon Trpceski
Duration 00:05:25
09
00:34:32 Meredith Monk
Dawn (from "Book of Days")
Ensemble: Lautten Compagney
Duration 00:04:14
10
00:38:46 Gerald Finzi
Dies Natalis, Op.8 - Arr. Sheppard: 5. The Salutation
Performer: Amy Dickson
Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra
Conductor: Nicholas Collon
Duration 00:04:10
11
00:43:21 Benjamin Tassie
Body (Two)
Performer: Liam Byrne
Duration 00:02:06
12
00:45:27 Benjamin Britten
The Salley Gardens
Singer: Mairi Campbell
Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia
Duration 00:02:31
13
00:47:58 Portico Quartet (artist)
Knee-Deep in the North Sea
Performer: Portico Quartet
Duration 00:04:21
14
00:52:20 Field Works (artist)
Kinematic Wave
Performer: Field Works
Duration 00:07:50
15
01:00:30 Philip Glass
Aguas da Amazonia: No. 2, Xingu River
Ensemble: Third Coast Percussion
Duration 00:04:23
16
01:04:53 Visible Cloaks (artist)
Terrazzo
Performer: Visible Cloaks
Performer: Motion Graphics
Duration 00:03:53
17
01:08:46 Nadia Boulanger
3 Pieces for cello and piano: No. 1
Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt
Performer: José Gallardo
Duration 00:02:32
18
01:11:45 Darkstar (artist)
Hold Me Down
Performer: Darkstar
Duration 00:06:21
19
01:18:06 Toru Takemitsu
Sakura (Cherry Blossoms)
Choir: Shinyukai Choir
Director: Shin Sekiya
Duration 00:03:52
20
01:21:59 Anoushka Shankar (artist)
Say Your Prayers
Performer: Anoushka Shankar
Performer: Manu Delago
Performer: Larry Grenadier
Duration 00:04:27
21
01:26:43 Nina Simone (artist)
The last rose of summer
Performer: Nina Simone
Duration 00:03:17
TUESDAY 17 MARCH 2020
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m000gd6p)
Montebello Chamber Music Festival
Terpsycordes Quartet and William Sabatier, bandoneon, perform works by Maurice Ravel and Astor Piazzolla. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
String Quartet in F
Terpsycordes Quartet
01:00 AM
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Five Tango Sensations
Terpsycordes Quartet, William Sabatier (bandoneon)
01:26 AM
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Adiós Nonino
Terpsycordes Quartet, William Sabatier (bandoneon)
01:33 AM
Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921)
Im grossen Schweigen for baritone and orchestra
Hakan Hagegard (baritone), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
01:57 AM
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Maurice Ravel (orchestrator)
Pictures at an Exhibition (orig for piano orch Ravel)
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
02:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata BWV.21 'Ich hatte viel Bekummernis'
Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Hana Blaziková (soprano), Peter Kooij (bass), Collegium Vocale Ghent, Collegium Vocale Ghent Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
03:08 AM
Juliusz Zarebski (1854-1885)
Piano Quintet in G minor (Op.34) (1885)
Pawel Kowalski (piano), Silesian Quartet
03:43 AM
Luka Sorkocevic (1734-1789), Frano Matusic (arranger)
Symphony No 3 in D major
Dubrovnik Guitar Trio
03:50 AM
John Foulds (1880-1939)
An Arabian Night (1936-7)
Cynthia Fleming (violin), Katharine Wood (cello), BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
03:57 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Sarcasmes Op 17
Roger Woodward (piano)
04:07 AM
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)
Quintet for flute, oboe, violin, viola & basso continuo (Op.11 No.2) in G major
Les Adieux
04:15 AM
Marin Marais (1656-1728)
Caprice ou Sonate (from Pieces de Viole, 4e Livre, Paris 1717)
Pierre Pitzl (viola da gamba), Marcy Jean Brenner (viola da gamba), Augusta Campagne (harpsichord)
04:21 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Two Slavonic Dances, op.46 - No. 8 In G Minor and No.3 In A flat major
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Arvid Engegard (conductor)
04:31 AM
Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1696-1763)
Trio in C minor for oboe, bassoon and continuo
Ensemble Zefiro
04:40 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor, Op 31
Alex Slobodyanik (piano)
04:51 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Antoine Ferrand (author), Antoine Houdar de la Motte (author), Gabriele von Baumberg (author), Anonymous (author)
4 Mozart Songs
Malin Christensson (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
05:01 AM
Anonymous
Folias de Espana
Komale Akakpo (cimbalom)
05:08 AM
Camille Saint-Saens, Eugene Ysaye (arranger)
Caprice for violin and piano, arr. Ysaye after Saint-Saens
Minami Yoshida (violin), Jean Desmarais (piano)
05:17 AM
Hanne Orvad (b.1945)
Kornell
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
05:27 AM
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
Piano Trio in G minor (Op.15)
Suk Trio
05:55 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
3 Studies for piano Op 104b
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
06:03 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Quintet in D major for clarinet, horn, violin, cello and piano
Stephan Siegenthaler (clarinet), Thomas Müller (horn), Matthias Enderle (violin), Patrick Demenga (cello), Hiroko Sakagami (piano)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m000gbt4)
Tuesday - Petroc's classical alternative
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m000gbt6)
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Carwithen's love letters, Essential music for spring, Haydn's Philosopher Symphony
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 pieces for spring.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b09r4dlc)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
From Happiness to Despair
Donald Macleod delves into the life and work of the man who is almost universally recognised as Finland's greatest ever composer - Jean Sibelius. Sibelius's music went a long way towards establishing a sense of national musical identity in Finland - a tradition that has flourished there ever since. Sibelius felt a strong connection with his homeland and the nature that flourished there, and the nationalist flavour of his works was highly appealing to a Finnish audience at a time when Finland was fighting for independence from Russia. In today's episode, Donald explores Sibelius's rise to prominence with his first big success, Kullervo, the Lemminkainen Suite and his First Symphony; and the problems - both financial and marital - which followed as a result of Sibelius's heavy drinking.
Kullervo's Death (Kullervo)
Karita Mattila (soprano)
Jorma Hynninen (baritone)
Laulun Ystävät Male Choir
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Impromptu in B minor, Op 5 No 5
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkainen Suite)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Leif Segerstam (conductor)
Symphony No 1 (Finale)
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor)
Malinconia
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Olli Mustonen (piano)
Producer: Sam Phillips
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000gbt8)
Schumann, Liszt and Dvorak from Welsh Festivals in 2019
Nicola Heywood Thomas presents a selection of music recorded at three festivals in Wales in 2019, including the Gower, Machynlleth and Presteigne festivals. The concert begins in a former chapel, the Tabernacle, which is now home of the Machynlleth Festival, and where Camille Thomas and Julius Drake performed the dreamlike romantic Fantasiestücke by Schumann. This is followed by two of Liszt’s often virtuosic Transcendental Studies, with the pianist Llyr Williams performing at the Gower Festival. Dvořák’s lively and joyful String Quartet titled the American ends the programme, with a performance by the Albion Quartet in Presteigne.
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op 73
Camille Thomas, cello
Julius Drake, piano
Liszt: Transcendental Etude S.130 No 11 (Harmonies du soir)
Liszt: Transcendental Etude S.139 No 10 (Allegro agitato molto)
Llŷr Williams, piano
Dvořák: String Quartet in F, Op 96 (American)
Albion Quartet:
Tamsin Waley-Cohen, violin
Emma Parker, violin
Anne Beilby, viola
Nathaniel Boyd, cello
Produced by Luke Whitlock
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000gbtb)
Celebrating the BBC Philharmonic
Works by Rudi Stephan and Steve Elcock, live from MediaCityUK, Salford, plus music by Mendelssohn and Shostakovich.
Composer Rudi Stephan's career was cut brutally short aged 28: a casualty of World War I. Considered the most promising German composer of his generation, today we hear his Music for Orchestra (1912) which searches for new paths in expressionist colours
There's also music by Chesterfield-born Steve Elcock, whose work was first performed by the BBC Philharmonic in 2009. Today, the orchestra give the world premiere of his Fourth Symphony – ‘A golden rose fallen from the flat sea of time’. Of its title, he says: “I will only say that you must make of it what you can”. The one-movement piece explores a move away from serial music to the magnetic pull of tonality
Presented by Kate Molleson
2.00pm
Stephan
Music for Orchestra (1912)
Elcock
Symphony no.4 "A golden rose fallen from the flat sea of time" (world premiere)
Sarah Walker, presenter
BBC Philharmonic
Moritz Gnann, conductor
2.50pm
Vaughan Williams (arr. David Childs & Rodney Newton)
Concerto for Tenor Tuba & Orchestra
David Childs, tenor tuba
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon, conductor
3.00pm
Vivaldi (arr. Jacob Reuven)
Summer (The Four Seasons)
Jacob Reuven (mandolin)
BBC Philharmonic
Omer Meir Welber, conductor/harpsichord
3.10pm
Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto no.1
Denis Kozhukhin, piano
BBC Philharmonic
Joana Carneiro, conductor
3.30pm
Shostakovich
Symphony no.11 "The Year 1905"
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m000gbtd)
Thomas Gould, Albany Trio
Sean Rafferty is joined by violinist Thomas Gould, who is about to go on tour with the Orchestra of the Swan performing violin concertos by Beethoven and Django Bates. He also welcomes the Albany Trio.
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000gbtg)
A blissful 30-minute classical mix
In Tune’s specially curated playlist, an eclectic mix including music by Brahms, Vivaldi and Butterworth.
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000gbtj)
Organ music from the Suffolk coast
Saved from flood and from years in storage, the magnificent organ made by Peter Collins in 1977 has found a new home on the Suffolk Coast. In a varied programme, virtuoso organist Catherine Ennis demonstrates the colours of the newly restored instrument now delighting listeners in St Bartholomew's Church, Orford.
J.S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565
Frescobaldi: Fiori Musicali: Toccata; Toccata per Elevatione; Bergamasca
de Grigny: Hymnus: Veni Creator En taille à 5; Fugue à 5; Duo; Récit de cromorne; Dialogues sur les grands jeux
Handel, arr Dupré: Organ concerto No.13 in F
Felix Mendelssohn: Andante with variations in D
Brahms: Prelude and Fugue in G minor
Parry: Chorale preludes: Martyrdom, Eventide and Hanover
Britten: Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria
Dan Locklair: The Peace may be exchanged
Reger: Toccata in D minor; Fugue in D, Op 59 Nos 5-6
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m000gbtl)
Does Growth Matter?
The rate of social and technological change in the 20th century was unarguably frenetic. A key measure used by politicians, economists and journalists in that time has been GDP growth. But is Growth as a pointer still fit for purpose? And should all countries still aspire to achieve growth? Is the world on a longer-term slowdown? Would that be a bad thing? And as the shock of coronavirus echoes through communities and economies around the world, will our conceptions of value and cost be redefined?
Anne McElvoy discusses economic futures, with Danny Dorling, demographer, writer, professor of Geography at Oxford University, and author of forthcoming "Slowdown:The end of the Great Acceleration - and Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives", which is published in April. http://www.dannydorling.org/ and also www.worldmapper.org
Petr Barton writes and teaches economics in Prague, and is Chief Economist at Natland Investment Group. The webtool discussed in this programme can be found at https://coronavirus.clevermaps.io/
Richard Davies has been senior advisor to the UK Treasury, and the Bank of England and has been Economics Editor at The Economist. He teaches at the LSE and his recent book, "Extreme Economies", is published by Penguin.
Producer Alex Mansfield
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m000gbtn)
Higher Thoughts and the Meaning of Welsh Mountains
The Black Mountains
Jon Gower, writer and keen walker of the Welsh mountains, explores the unique characteristics of each of Wales's five ranges and reflects on what they mean to the people who live among them.
For many people, Wales is synonymous with its mountains. They occupy a unique place in the country's ancient mythology, its history and its culture, defining who rules the country, who lives in it, and how they survive. But each of the mountain ranges of Wales has its own unique character. In this series of The Essay, Jon Gower paints a detailed portrait of the landscape of these higher places, and in doing so, explores how they’ve shaped the country's psyche.
In ‘The Black Mountains’, Jon looks at the way these hills, benign and balmy on some occasions, at others beset by fierce weather, have attracted writers and poets to it like a honeypot, from Owen Sheers to Jan Morris: just as Ordnance Survey maps are covered in contour lines, so too is the landscape around here seemingly covered in lines, of poetry.
Producer: Megan Jones for BBC Cymru Wales
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m000c4mk)
Night music
An adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
01
00:00:10 Jóhann Jóhannsson
Virðulegu Forsetar - Part 1.0
Performer: Matthias M.D. Hemstock
Performer: Hörður Bragason
Performer: Gudmundur Sigurdsson
Performer: Jóhann Jóhannsson
Performer: Jóhann Jóhannsson
Performer: Jóhann Jóhannsson
Performer: Jóhann Jóhannsson
Ensemble: The Caput Ensemble
Conductor: Guðni Franzson
Singer: Skúli Sverrisson
Duration 00:04:10
02
00:04:20 Oswald von Wolkenstein
Es fugt sich, do ich was von zehen jaren alt for 1 voice, Part 6-7
Singer: Andreas Scholl
Ensemble: Shield of Harmony Ensemble
Duration 00:04:21
03
00:08:41 Anna Meredith
Honeyed Words
Performer: Gemma Kost
Performer: Anna Meredith
Duration 00:03:14
04
00:12:24 Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2, 'Tempest' (2nd mvt)
Performer: Daniel Barenboim
Duration 00:09:48
05
00:22:13 Jóhann Jóhannsson
Virðulegu Forsetar - Part 2.4
Performer: Matthias M.D. Hemstock
Performer: Hordur Bragason
Performer: Gudmundur Sigurdsson
Performer: Jóhann Jóhannsson
Ensemble: Caput Ensemble
Conductor: Gudni Franzson
Singer: Skuli Sverrison
Duration 00:03:04
06
00:25:16 The Askew Sisters (artist)
I Wandered by the Brookside
Performer: The Askew Sisters
Duration 00:04:10
07
00:29:26 Cool Maritime (artist)
A Restful Place
Performer: Cool Maritime
Duration 00:06:27
08
00:35:54 Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite no. 3 in C major BWV.1009 - Sarabande
Performer: Andrei Ioniţă
Duration 00:04:09
09
00:40:03 Jóhann Jóhannsson
Virðulegu Forsetar - Part 3.0
Performer: Matthias M.D. Hemstock
Performer: Hörður Bragason
Performer: Gudmundur Sigurdsson
Performer: Jóhann Jóhannsson
Performer: Jóhann Jóhannsson
Performer: Jóhann Jóhannsson
Ensemble: The Caput Ensemble
Conductor: Guðni Franzson
Singer: Skúli Sverrisson
Duration 00:03:44
10
00:43:48 Ballaké Sissoko (artist)
Asa Branca
Performer: Ballaké Sissoko
Performer: Vincent Ségal
Performer: Aboubacar "Badian" Diabaté
Duration 00:03:07
11
00:46:55 Leafcutter John (artist)
Seba
Performer: Leafcutter John
Duration 00:06:53
12
00:53:48 Mason Bates
Stereo is King
Performer: Cynthia Yeh
Performer: Jacob Nissly
Performer: Eric Banks
Performer: Mason Bates
Duration 00:06:18
13
01:00:47 Klaus Paier (artist)
A Moment of Lightness
Performer: Klaus Paier
Performer: Asja Valčić
Duration 00:05:29
14
01:06:17 Alessandro Marcello
Oboe Concerto in D minor (2nd mvt - Adagio)
Performer: Albrecht Mayer
Ensemble: New Seasons Ensemble
Duration 00:03:59
15
01:10:56 Chris Hyson
....And Rest
Performer: Kit Downes
Duration 00:03:20
16
01:14:16 Jóhann Jóhannsson
Virðulegu Forsetar - Part 4.7
Performer: Matthias M.D. Hemstock
Performer: Hörður Bragason
Performer: Gudmundur Sigurdsson
Performer: Jóhann Jóhannsson
Performer: Jóhann Jóhannsson
Ensemble: The Caput Ensemble
Conductor: Guðni Franzson
Singer: Skúli Sverrisson
Duration 00:01:15
17
01:15:31 Group Listening
Snow Canon
Ensemble: Group Listening
Duration 00:04:48
18
01:20:38 John Tavener
Song for Athene
Choir: Gabrieli Consort
Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Duration 00:05:39
19
01:26:32 Leonard Cohen (artist)
Coming Back to You
Performer: Leonard Cohen
Duration 00:03:28
WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH 2020
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m000gbts)
Petrushka from the 2018 BBC Proms
The Suisse Romande Orchestra with music by Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Jeux
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott (conductor)
12:49 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Yan Maresz (arranger)
Violin Sonata in G major (orch. Yan Maresz)
Renaud Capucon (violin), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott (conductor)
01:06 AM
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Méditation (Thaïs)
Renaud Capucon (violin), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott (conductor)
01:12 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
Petrushka (1911 vers)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott (conductor)
01:48 AM
Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006)
Romanian Concerto (4th movement)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott (conductor)
01:54 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Piano Quartet no 2 in E flat major, Op 87
Zhang Zuo (piano), Elena Urioste (violin), Lise Berthaud (viola), Guy Johnston (cello)
02:31 AM
Antoine Dauvergne (1713-1797)
Concert de simphonies à IV parties in F major, Op 3 no 2
Capella Coloniensis, William Christie (director)
02:52 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite for cello solo no 4 in E flat major, BWV1010
Guy Fouquet (cello)
03:17 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
6 Quartets for soprano, alto, tenor, bass and piano, Op 112
Danish National Radio Choir, Bengt Forsberg (piano), Stefan Parkman (conductor)
03:29 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Prelude for piano in C sharp minor, Op 45
Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
03:34 AM
John Thomas (1826-1913)
The minstrel's adieu to his native land for harp
Rita Costanzi (harp)
03:41 AM
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Aria: Sola, perduta, abbandonata - from Act IV of Manon Lescaut
Charlotte Margiono (soprano), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
03:47 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Havanaise for violin and orchestra, Op 83
Moshe Hammer (violin), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
03:58 AM
Christoph Graupner (1683-1760)
Flute Concerto in F, GWV 323
Bolette Roed (recorder), Arte dei Suonatori
04:07 AM
Bernard Piris (b.1951)
Deux Preludes
Heiki Matlik (guitar)
04:11 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Capriccio in E minor, Op.81`3
Brussels Chamber Orchestra
04:18 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Bassoon Concerto in E minor RV 484
Aleksander Radosavljevic (bassoon), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Gunter Pichler (conductor)
04:31 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Clair de lune (No.3 from Suite bergamesque for piano)
Jane Coop (piano)
04:36 AM
Per Norgard (b.1932)
Pastorale for String Trio
Trio Aristos
04:42 AM
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000), Michael Conway Baker (orchestrator)
Four Irish Songs
Linda Maguire (soprano), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
04:52 AM
Frantisek Xaver Pokorny (1729-1794)
Concerto for Horn, Timpani and Strings in D major
Radek Baborák (horn), Prague Chamber Orchestra, Antonín Hradil (conductor)
05:08 AM
Joaquín Turina (1882-1949)
Circulo, Op 91
John Harding (violin), Stefan Metz (cello), Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
05:19 AM
Leonel Power (1370-1445)
Salve Regina
Hilliard Ensemble
05:27 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Louis Schwizgebel (piano)
05:52 AM
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 26
Ion Voicu (violin), Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Emanuel Elenescu (conductor)
06:15 AM
Franciszek Scigalski (1782-1846)
Symphony in D major
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Mysinski (conductor)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m000gcb3)
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 (m000gcb5)
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Debussy's Lindaraja, Robert Louis Stevenson, Essential music for spring
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 pieces for spring.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b09r4gq7)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Drowning Sorrows
Donald Macleod delves into the life and work of the man who is almost universally recognised as Finland's greatest ever composer - Jean Sibelius. Sibelius's music went a long way towards establishing a sense of national musical identity in Finland - a tradition that has flourished there ever since. Sibelius felt a strong connection with his homeland and the nature that flourished there, and the nationalist flavour of his works was highly appealing to a Finnish audience at a time when Finland was fighting for independence from Russia. In today's programme, Donald focuses on the political turmoil in Finland before the outbreak of the First World War, which included an arrest for Sibelius. He also charts a few of the composer's musical triumphs, including his Second Symphony which was adopted as an anthem of national freedom, and increasing personal troubles as his drinking spiralled out of control.
Finlandia Hymn
Dominate Choir
Seppo Murto (director)
Symphony No 2 (Finale)
Hallé
Mark Elder (conductor)
In Memoriam
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
Leif Segerstam (conductor)
Pohjola's Daughter
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor)
The Maiden with the Roses (Swanwhite Suite)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
Producer: Sam Phillips.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000gcb7)
Poulenc and Brahms from Welsh Festivals in 2019
Nicola Heywood Thomas presents a selection of music recorded at three festivals in Wales in 2019, including in this programme, the Gower and Machynlleth festivals. The concert starts with music performed by the celebrated Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams at the Gower Festival, where he delighted the audience with Poulenc’s Les Soirées de Nazelles. Llŷr Williams introduced the music by saying that he felt the music was a set of eight depictions of the composer’s friends, sitting round the piano at Nazelles. This is followed by a classic of the cello repertoire, the Cello Sonata No 1 by Brahms. It was performed by Camille Thomas at the Machynlleth Festival, and is a particular favourite of the pianist Julius Drake.
Poulenc: Les Soirées de Nazelles
Llŷr Williams, piano
Brahms: Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor
Camille Thomas, cello
Julius Drake, piano
Produced by Luke Whitlock
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000gcb9)
Celebrating the BBC Philharmonic
Works by young British composer Anna Clyne, alongside Berlioz and the timeless The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams
Anna Clyne, one of Britain’s most exciting young composers, describes Night Ferry as ‘music of voyages, from stormy darkness to enchanted worlds’. True, but that hardly captures the thrilling turbulence of the ride it takes into uncharted waters
Listen closely and you might hear echoes of the similarly restless Symphonie fantastique – but in truth Berlioz’s utterly wild work, written under the twin influences of opium and unrequited love, is like nothing else
In between, Vaughan Williams’s beloved classic of the English rural springtime injects a welcome note of tranquillity
Presented by Kate Molleson
2.00pm
Clyne
Night Ferry
Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique
Jennifer Pike, violin
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon, conductor
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b0400b0m)
Birmingham Cathedral
An archive recording from Birmingham Cathedral
Introit: Miserere nostri (Tallis)
Responses: Sanders
Psalms 47, 48, 49 (Davy, Lang, Barnby)
First Lesson: Job 36 vv1-12
Office Hymn: Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle (Pange lingua)
Canticles: Blair in B minor
Second Lesson: John 14 vv1-14
Anthem: Lamentations a 5 (Part 2) (White)
Hymn: We sing the praise of him who died (Bow Brickhill)
Organ Voluntary: Fantasy on the tune ‘Babylon’s Streams’ (Harris)
Marcus Huxley (Director of Music)
Tim Harper (Assistant Director of Music)
WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m000gcbf)
Andrei Ionita plays Bach
Showcasing the BBC New Generation Artist Andrei Ionita in Bach's Third Solo Cello Suite.
Bach: Suite No 3 in C major for solo cello, BWV1009
Andrei Ionita (cello)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m000gcbh)
Gareth Malone
Sean Rafferty talks to choirmaster and broadcaster Gareth Malone about his latest project, 'The Great British Home Chorus', which aims to bring people together, singing online.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000gcbk)
Classical music for your journey
In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix including JS Bach's dancing Gigue for solo violin, the lustrous Morgen by Richard Strauss and Ella Fitzgerald's Born to Be Blue. To open, Alma mater redemptoris by medieval abbess Hildegard of Bingen and Steve Martland's slightly unruly Re-Mix - based on La Sonnerie de Ste Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris by Marin Marais. Then a thoughtful arrangement for piano of the Ave Maria by Schubert, the "oh, shall we?" of Ravel's 5 o’clock Foxtrot and a rustic song given by the City Waites. And before the close, a sparkling finale from Haydn's Sonata in G H.
16.27.
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000gcbm)
Mozart and Mendelssohn
Nicola Benedetti joins the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and viola player Lawrence Power in a celebration of Mozart and Mendelssohn; musical geniuses whose lives were cut tragically short and yet whose works remain at the centre of the concert repertoire today.
Mendelssohn: Sinfonia No 10 in B minor
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Interval at
8.15pm approx.
Jamie MacDougall features the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wind Soloists from their 2018 recording of Beethoven's Sextet in Eflat Major
Mozart: Overture, La clemenza di Tito
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, K364
Nicola Benedetti – Violin / Director
Benjamin Marquise Gilmore – Violin / Director
Lawrence Power - Viola
Presenter: Jamie MacDougall
Producer: Lindsay Pell
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m000gcbp)
Shoes
From Roman sandals to trainers and stilettos. Shahidha Bari looks at the shoe trade, with guests including Thomas Turner, who has written about sneakers in his book The Sports Shoe, A History From Field To Fashion; Tansy Hoskins,who examines global commerce in her book Footwork: What Your Shoes Are Doing To The World; Rebecca Shawcross, Shoe Curator at Northampton Museum & Art Gallery; and Roman shoe expert Owen Humphreys from Museum of London Archaeology.
Producer: Emma Wallace
WED 22:45 The Essay (m000gcbr)
Higher Thoughts and the Meaning of Welsh Mountains
The Brecon Beacons
Jon Gower, writer and keen walker of the Welsh mountains, explores the unique characteristics of each of Wales's five ranges and reflects on what they mean to the people who live among them.
For many people, Wales is synonymous with its mountains. They occupy a unique place in the country's ancient mythology, its history and its culture, defining who rules the country, who lives in it, and how they survive. But each of the mountain ranges of Wales has its own unique character. In this series of The Essay, Jon Gower paints a detailed portrait of the landscape of these higher places, and in doing so, explores how they’ve shaped the country's psyche.
Jon sees the Brecon Beacons as being all about water - from their formation by gargantuan glaciers, rumbling slowly across the land gouging valleys and shuffling rocks ever onward, to the many waterfalls tumbling into space. The most remarkable of these is Sgwd yr Eira, the ‘fall of snow’, a veritable avalanche of spume and rush where you can actually walk behind the curtain of water.
Producer: Megan Jones for BBC Cymru Wales
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m000c4lv)
Around midnight
An adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
01
00:00:11 Mica Levi
Pre-Barok
Performer: Mica Levi
Performer: Oliver Coates
Duration 00:02:10
02
00:02:50 Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne No.2 In E Flat, Op.9 No.2
Performer: Angela Hewitt
Duration 00:04:23
03
00:07:13 Christian Wallumrød
Arch Dance With Trumpet
Ensemble: Christian Wallumrød Ensemble
Duration 00:03:36
04
00:11:16 Masayoshi Fujita
Tears of Unicorn
Performer: Masayoshi Fujita
Duration 00:05:44
05
00:17:01 Andrea Falconieri
La Suave Melodia
Performer: Daniel Hope
Performer: Jonathan Cohen
Performer: Stefan Maass
Performer: Stefan Rath
Duration 00:03:02
06
00:20:13 Bernard Parmegiani
Départ Serge
Performer: Bernard Parmegiani
Duration 00:02:13
07
00:22:26 Missy Mazzoli
A Thousand Tongues
Performer: Jennifer Koh
Duration 00:06:50
08
00:29:41 Ahmed Ag Kaedi
Akaline Kidal
Performer: Ahmed Ag Kaedi
Duration 00:04:49
09
00:34:41 Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in D Minor, L. 108
Performer: Belle Chen
Duration 00:04:21
10
00:39:02 Alonso Lobo
Versa est in luctum
Ensemble: Tenebrae
Conductor: Nigel Short
Duration 00:05:16
11
00:44:48 Mort Garson
Music to Soothe the Savage Snake Plant
Performer: Mort Garson
Duration 00:03:18
12
00:48:07 Hatis Noit
Illogical Lullaby
Performer: Hatis Noit
Duration 00:07:49
13
00:56:19 Brian Irvine
Mammogram
Performer: David Holmes
Performer: Brian Irvine
Duration 00:03:46
14
01:00:31 Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto In A Minor, Op.16: 2. Adagio
Performer: Alice Sara Ott
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen
Duration 00:06:19
15
01:07:21 Ted Koehler
Stormy Weather
Performer: Billie Holiday
Performer: Oscar Peterson
Duration 00:03:44
16
01:11:19 Peter Gregson
1.5 Menuetts
Performer: Peter Gregson
Duration 00:04:39
17
01:16:18 Steve Reich
Different Trains: After the War
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
Duration 00:10:29
18
01:27:20 PJ Harvey
The Lonely Wolf
Performer: PJ Harvey
Duration 00:02:39
THURSDAY 19 MARCH 2020
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m000gcbw)
Montreal's Domaine Forget Festival
Pianist André Laplante with a recital of music by Mozart, Liszt and Ravel. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata No 4 in E flat, K 282
Andre Laplante (piano)
12:47 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Petrarch Sonnet No 104 (Années de Pelerinage, année 2, S 161)
Andre Laplante (piano)
12:55 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Miroirs (extracts)
Andre Laplante (piano)
01:06 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Sonatine
Andre Laplante (piano)
01:18 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No 26 in E flat, op. 81a 'Les Adieux'
Andre Laplante (piano)
01:37 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Von fremden Ländern und Menschen (Kinderszenen, op 15)
Andre Laplante (piano)
01:39 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906 -1975)
Symphony No. 9 in E flat major Op. 70
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra Katowice, Michal Klauza (conductor)
02:06 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Le Carnaval des animaux
Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (director)
02:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Musical Offering in C minor, BWV 1079
Nova Stravaganza, Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Lisa Marie Landgraf (violin), Dimitri Dichtiar (cello), Siegbert Rampe (harpsichord)
03:19 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Arnold Schoenberg (arranger)
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Urszula Kryger (mezzo soprano), Kwartesencja Ensemble, Marcin Kaminski (flute), Adrian Janda (clarinet), Bartosz Jakubczak (harmonium), Bartlomiej Zajkowski (piano), Tomasz Januchta (double bass), Hubert Zemler (percussion), Monika Wolinska (director)
03:38 AM
Jehan Alain (1911-1940)
Le Jardin suspendu for organ
Tomas Thon (organ)
03:45 AM
Arvo Part (b.1935)
The Woman with the Alabaster box
Erik Westbergs Vocal Ensemble
03:52 AM
Henryk Gorecki (1933-2010)
String Quartet No 1 Op 62 'Already It Is Dusk'
Royal String Quartet
04:07 AM
Kaspar Forster (1616-1673)
Jesu dulcis memoria
Dirk Snellings (bass), Ensemble Il tempo
04:14 AM
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927), Jens Peter Jacobsen (lyricist)
Three choral songs
Swedish Radio Choir, Gustav Sjokvist (conductor)
04:20 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Concerto Grosso in D Op 6 No 4
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director)
04:31 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Zoltan Kocsis (transcriber)
Arabesque no 1 in E major
Bela Horvath (oboe), Anita Szabo (flute), Zsolt Szatmari (clarinet), Gyorgy Salamon (bass clarinet), Pal Bokor (bassoon), Tamas Zempleni (horn), Peter Kubina (double bass)
04:35 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Suite for chamber orchestra (1946)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
04:43 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Overture from Die Zauberflote (K 620)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Christie (conductor)
04:50 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Te Deum (H.23c.1) in C major (c.1765)
Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)
04:58 AM
Einar Englund (1916-1999)
The White Reindeer (Valkoinen puura) - suite for orchestra (1952)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor)
05:12 AM
Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654)
Christe, der du bist Tag und Licht for organ
Mario Penzar (organ)
05:13 AM
Imants Zemzaris (b.1951)
The Light springs
Juris Gailitis (flute), Indulis Suna (violin)
05:19 AM
Brian Eno (1948-), Julia Wolfe (arranger)
Music for Airports 1/2 (1978)
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Wayne du Maine (trumpet), Tommy Hoyt (trumpet), Julie Josephson (trombone), Christopher Washburne (trombone), Wu Man (lute), Katie Geissinger (alto), Phyllis Jo Kubey (alto), Alexandra Montano (alto)
05:31 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Susser Blumen Ambraflocken (HWV.204) - No. 3 from Deutsche Arien
Helene Plouffe (violin), Louise Pellerin (oboe), Dom Andre Laberge (organ)
05:37 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Francesca da Rimini - symphonic fantasia after Dante (Op 32)
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
06:01 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Quartet for strings (Op.41 No.3) in A major
Vertavo Quartet
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m000gbpr)
Thursday - Petroc's classical rise and shine
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m000gbpt)
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Essential music for spring, Gerard Hoffnung learns the tuba
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 pieces for spring.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b09r7sff)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
A Mountain to be Climbed
Donald Macleod delves into the life and work of the man who is almost universally recognised as Finland's greatest ever composer - Jean Sibelius. Sibelius's music went a long way towards establishing a sense of national musical identity in Finland - a tradition that has flourished there ever since. Sibelius felt a strong connection with his homeland and the nature that flourished there, and the nationalist flavour of his works was highly appealing to a Finnish audience at a time when Finland was fighting for independence from Russia. In today's programme, Donald explores Sibelius's years of enforced sobriety and his attempts to settle his mounting debts as the First World War loomed on the horizon. We'll hear from his next two symphonies - his 4th and 5th - along with one of Sibelius's most performed works - the Valse triste from his incidental music to the play Kuomela.
Valse triste (Kuomela)
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Lorin Maazel (conductor)
Symphony No 4
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)
Bells of Kallio Church
1996 Recording - Kallio Church, Helsinki, Finland
Symphony No 5 (Finale)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
Producer: Sam Phillips.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000gbpw)
Liszt, Messiaen and Walton from Welsh Festivals in 2019
Nicola Heywood Thomas presents a selection of music recorded at three festivals in Wales in 2019, including the Gower, Machynlleth and Presteigne festivals. The concert begins at the Gower Festival, with Liszt’s virtuosic and dramatic Ballade No 2, performed by the pianist Llŷr Williams. This is followed by a work composed in a concentration camp, Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, given in a recital at the Machynlleth Festival by Camille Thomas and Julius Drake. The final piece in the programme is the highly demanding String Quartet in A minor, which William Walton found quite a challenge to compose. It was performed at the Presteigne Festival by the Albion Quartet.
Liszt: Ballade No 2 in B minor, S.171
Llŷr Williams, piano
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time (Louange à l’éternité de Jesus)
Camille Thomas, cello
Julius Drake, piano
Walton: String Quartet in A minor
Albion Quartet:
Tamsin Waley-Cohen, violin
Emma Parker, violin
Anne Beilby, viola
Nathaniel Boyd, cello
Produced by Luke Whitlock
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000gbpy)
Opera Matinee
A rare chance to hear Reynaldo Hahn's exotic opera The Island of Dreams, plus the BBC Philharmonic in Russian and Finnish music
Hahn's compact first opera tells of the love between a young French naval officer and a beautiful Tahitian woman - a love, though, that can only last for as long as he is stationed on the island
To follow, there's an evocative early symphony from Jean Sibelius from the BBC Philharmonic, which is joined by Canadian violinist James Ehnes for the spiky first concerto by Prokofiev
Presented by Kate Molleson
2.00pm
Hahn
L'île du rêve (The Island of Dreams), a Polynesian idyll in three acts
Hélène Guilmette, soprano - Mahénu
Ludivine Gombert, soprano - Téria, a woman from Tahiti / Faïmana, a noblewoman
Anaïk Morel, mezzo-soprano - Oréna, a Tahitian princess
Cyrille Dubois, tenor - Pierre Loti, in fact Georges de Kerven, an officer in the French navy
Le Concert Spirituel Chorus
Munich Radio Orchestra
Hervé Niquet, conductor
3.05pm
Arensky
Suite No 3 ‘Variations’ Op.33
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
3.35pm
Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No.1
James Ehnes (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
4.00pm
Sibelius
Symphony No.2 in D, Op.43
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor
THU 17:00 In Tune (m000gbq0)
Rachel Podger
Sean Rafferty is joined by the violinist Rachel Podger, talking about her role as an ambassador for Early Music Day, celebrated on JS Bach's birthday, 21 March.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000gbq2)
Switch up your listening with classical music
A swan princess, 33 magical knights and a singing squirrel- yes, it's the In Tune Mixtape. Alongside offerings from Vaughan Williams, Prokofiev, Purcell and Pergolesi.
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000gwt9)
The Philharmonia perform Bruckner, Wagner and Schoenberg
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia in Wagner, Schoenberg and Bruckner. Exploring the nature and intensity of love, Wagner brings to life the tragic beauty in the story of Tristan und Isolde, while the lyricism of Schoenberg’s early tone poem Verklärte Nacht reveals his feelings for the woman he would later marry. Bruckner's Seventh Symphony (one of his most popular works) is a musical monument to Wagner. Bruckner began writing it in anticipation of Wagner's death (as he was in poor health), and featured four Wagner tubas - the first time the instrument appeared in a symphony. Far from being mournful, the work is ultimately optimistic in character, with the final brass fanfare rounding off this late-romantic programme in a triumphant orchestral flourish.
Another chance to hear this concert recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London in September 2018 and presented by Ian Skelly
Wagner: Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht
c.
8.20
Interval
Bruckner: Symphony No 7
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m000gbq6)
Contagion & Viruses
Matthew Sweet investigates viruses and how they could disrupt our understanding of the nature of organisms, and looks at what history can teach us about the current pandemic. With philosopher John Dupré, historian Mark Honigsbaum, New Generation Thinker Lisa Mullen and artist Matt Adams who works with Blast Theory.
Mark Honigsbaum is the author of The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris.
Lisa Mullen has written Mid-Century Gothic: The Uncanny Objects of Modernity in British Literature and Culture after the Second World War.
Professor John Dupré is director of the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, and professor of philosophy at the University of Exeter.
You can find about Matt Adams' work at https://www.blasttheory.co.uk/
Producer: Luke Mulhall
Check out our podcast episode New Thinking: Science Fiction Hetta Howes discusses how science fiction extends beyond literature with Caroline Edwards and Amy Butt.
You might also like this Sunday feature looking at the idea of the grid https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08v8qn4 and this Sunday Feature about the idea of Apocalypse How https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088j46v
THU 22:45 The Essay (m000gbq8)
Higher Thoughts and the Meaning of Welsh Mountains
Epynt
Jon Gower, writer and keen walker of the Welsh mountains, explores the unique characteristics of each of Wales's five ranges and reflects on what they mean to the people who live among them.
For many people, Wales is synonymous with its mountains. They occupy a unique place in the country's ancient mythology, its history and its culture, defining who rules the country, who lives in it, and how they survive. But each of the mountain ranges of Wales has its own unique character. In this series of The Essay, Jon Gower paints a detailed portrait of the landscape of these higher places, and in doing so, explores how they’ve shaped the country's psyche.
In his essay on Epynt, Jon reflects on a landscape that offers meagre grazing for animals, dotted with small ponds and peat bogs, and which remains haunted by the eviction of many inhabitants by the War Office in 1939. Given over to military training, the scything of wind through the tough grasses is for most of the year punctuated by the sound of mortar fire, anti-tank weaponry and machine guns.
Producer: Megan Jones for BBC Cymru Wales
THU 23:00 Night Tracks: The Archive Remix (m000c4nb)
The Shipping Forecast
A musical adventure through the BBC archives with the shipping forecast as companion. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m000gbqf)
Shifting Sounds and Seismic Rumbles
Elizabeth Alker with music by Julia Holter, Max Cooper and Nils Frahm. Plus brand new tracks from Max de Wardener with music for detuned piano, producer MJ Cole getting back to his classical roots and Cucina Povera exploring the human voice on her new album, Zoom.
FRIDAY 20 MARCH 2020
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m000gbqh)
Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra
Hasse's serenata Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra in a performance by Accademia Bizantina from Pau Casals Hall, Barcelona. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783)
Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra, IJH 10
Delphine Galou (contralto), Sophie Rennert (mezzo soprano), Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone (director)
01:38 AM
Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783)
Attendi ad amarmi, duetto from 'Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra, IJH 10
Delphine Galou (contralto), Sophie Rennert (mezzo soprano), Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone (director)
01:43 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
La Mort de Cleopatre (The Death of Cleopatra)
Annett Andriesen (alto), Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson (conductor)
02:05 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Symphony No 1 in C, Op 19
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
02:31 AM
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
Viola Sonata in E minor
Lise Berthaud (viola), Xenia Maliarevitch (piano)
02:54 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Der Burger als Edelmann (Le Bourgeois gentilhomme) - suite (Op.60)
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Terje Tonnesen (conductor)
03:31 AM
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Toccata in D minor ( Fuga)
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)
03:37 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Ch'io mi scordi di te...? Non temer, amato bene (K.505) (concert aria)
Joan Carden (soprano), John Winter (piano), Orchestra of Sydney, John Harding (conductor)
03:48 AM
Wawrzyniec Zulawski (1918-1957)
Suite in the Old Style
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor)
03:59 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Unknown (arranger)
Theme and Variations arr for harp
Manja Smits (harp)
04:05 AM
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Carmen Suite
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tamas Vasary (conductor)
04:20 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899), Arnold Schoenberg (arranger)
Rosen aus dem Suden: waltz arr. Schoenberg for harmonium, piano & string quartet
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (director)
04:31 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (No.6 from Lyric pieces, Op.65)
Valerie Tryon (piano)
04:38 AM
Willem De Fesch (1687-1761)
Concerto in E (Op.5 No.6)
Manfred Kramer (violin), Musica ad Rhenum
04:49 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
3 Songs for chorus, Op 42
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
05:00 AM
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (arranger)
A Night on the bare mountain, ed. Rimsky-Korsakov
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
05:12 AM
Franz Doppler (1821-1883)
Andante and Rondo for two flutes and piano, Op 25
Karolina Santl-Zupan (flute), Matej Zupan (flute), Dijana Tanovic (piano)
05:22 AM
Philippe Verdelot (1475-1552)
Italia Mia
Banchieri Singers, Denes Szabo (conductor)
05:27 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Lieutenant Kije - suite for orchestra (Op.60)
Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Verbitsky (conductor)
05:49 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Trio for piano and strings no 3 in F minor, Op 65
Grieg Trio
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m000gcr5)
Friday - Petroc's classical alarm call
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 (m000gcr7)
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Pavarotti's UK debut, Nielsen's Serenata in vano, Essential music for spring
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 pieces for spring.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b09r7v9p)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
A Mystery at the End
Donald Macleod delves into the life and work of the man who is almost universally recognised as Finland's greatest ever composer - Jean Sibelius. Sibelius's music went a long way towards establishing a sense of national musical identity in Finland - a tradition that has flourished there ever since. Sibelius felt a strong connection with his homeland and the nature that flourished there, and the nationalist flavour of his works was highly appealing to a Finnish audience at a time when Finland was fighting for independence from Russia. In the final programme of the week, Donald focuses on Sibelius's final years when his period of abstinence from alcohol and cigars lapsed, he worked on the mysterious Eighth Symphony, and then retreated to the "silence of Järvenpää".
Two Schybergson Songs, JS 224
Sångsällskapet Orphei Drangar
Robert Sund (director)
Symphony No 6
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
Chorus of the Winds; Prospero; Dance Episode (The Tempest Suite No 2)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Andante festivo
Finnish Radio Orchestra
Jean Sibelius (conductor)
Song of My Heart, Op 18 no 6
Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat Male Voice Choir
Matti Hyokki (director).
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000gcr9)
Chopin, Hoad and Franck from Welsh Festivals in 2019
Nicola Heywood Thomas presents a selection of music recorded at three festivals in Wales in 2019, including the Gower, Machynlleth and Presteigne festivals. The programme begins at the Gower Festival, with an opulent Grand Valse Brillante by Chopin, performed by the pianist Llŷr Williams. This is followed by a world premiere by the composer Cheryl Francis Hoad - at the Presteigne Festival the clarinettist Rozenn le Trionnaire joined forces with the Albion Quartet to perform Hoad’s Tales from the Invisible. The final work sees a return to the Machynlleth Festival, with the artistic director Julius Drake and cellist Camille Thomas, performing Franck’s rich and brooding Sonata in A. The sonata was dedicated by Franck to the great Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe.
Chopin: Grand Valse Brillante, Op 34 No 1
Llŷr Williams, piano
Cheryl Frances Hoad: Tales from the Invisible
Rozenn le Trionnaire, clarinet
Albion Quartet:
Tamsin Waley-Cohen, violin
Emma Parker, violin
Anne Beilby, viola
Nathaniel Boyd, cello
Franck: Sonata in A major
Camille Thomas, cello
Julius Drake, piano
Produced by Luke Whitlock
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000gcrc)
Celebrating the BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky conducts Szymanowski’s gripping Second Violin Concerto before taking on another Eastern European masterpiece from between the wars. Nikolay Myaskovsky was a rebel in a time and place when rebellion was a dangerous game – post-revolutionary Russia, where a word out of turn could leave you silenced for good. His epic Sixth Symphony is deeply political and intensely personal, inspired by both the Revolution and the deaths of his father and aunt
Presented by Kate Molleson
2.00pm
Rimsky-Korsakov
Introduction and Wedding Procession (‘The Golden Cockerel’)
Szymanowski
Violin Concerto no.2
Myaskovsky
Symphony no.6
Lisa Fertschman, violin
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
3.30pm
Vaughan Williams
Symphony no.6
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson, conductor
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (b0b1pb09)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m000gcrf)
With Sean Rafferty
Sean Rafferty introduces top class music and looks at the arts news.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000gcrh)
Classical music to inspire you
A sequence of music to take us to tonight's concert, including wind music by Mozart, a chorus from Monteverdi's magnificent Vespers, plus a little Swiss yodelling.
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000gwvd)
Stephen Hough Plays the Egyptian Concerto by Saint-Saëns
The Hallé Orchestra and Sir Mark Elder perform Berlioz and Vaughan Williams from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. They are also joined by Stephen Hough for a performance of Saint-Saëns's Piano Concerto No 5.
Another chance to hear this concert recorded in January last year and presented by Mark Forrest.
Berlioz: Overture: Benvenuto Cellini
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No.5 in F, Op 133, ‘Egyptian’
INTERVAL
Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica
Stephen Hough (piano)
Sophie Bevan (soprano)
Ladies of the Hallé Choir
Hallé Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder (conductor)
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m000gcrm)
Obsolete
When the world changes suddenly - how do we know what to abandon and what to keep? William Gibson, Don Paterson, Caro C, and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún explore the writing of obsolescence with Ian McMillan.
The iconic 1960s television series 'The Twilight Zone' is replete with sudden ruptures to daily life -Don Paterson explains how he used the series to write poems that explore our relationship with obsolescence. Sound artist and composer Caro C shares a new commission for The Verb, the novelist famed for conceiving 'cyberspace', William Gibson, considers the disappearance of the future, and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún explains why he strives to give Nigerian English and the Yoruba language a technological presence.
Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Faith Lawrence
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m000gcrp)
Higher Thoughts and the Meaning of Welsh Mountains
The Preseli Mountains
Jon Gower, writer and keen walker of the Welsh mountains, explores the unique characteristics of each of Wales's five ranges and reflects on what they mean to the people who live among them.
For many people, Wales is synonymous with its mountains. They occupy a unique place in the country's ancient mythology, its history and its culture, defining who rules the country, who lives in it, and how they survive. But each of the mountain ranges of Wales has its own unique character. In this series of The Essay, Jon Gower paints a detailed portrait of the landscape of these higher places, and in doing so, explores how they’ve shaped the country's psyche.
In ‘The Preseli Mountains’, Jon explores the most mystical range of mountains, which are barely mountains, though the highest of them, Foel Cwmcerwyn, stands tall and sentinel enough to have guided the sailors of west Wales safely to shore. On a clear day you can see not only the patterned field tapestries of Pembrokeshire – shot through with the gold threads of gorse hedges – but also nine other Welsh counties, and the charcoal edge of Ireland across the sea.
Producer: Megan Jones for BBC Cymru Wales
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m000bs1x)
A Venezuelan Music Special
Venezuela is buckling under a severe economic crisis and in the capital, once a bohemian mecca riding high on oil prices, the streets are deserted in the evenings due to spiralling crime rates. Despite the gloomy headlines, music continues to thrive. Jennifer Lucy Allan travelled to Caracas recently and returns with pockets full of music, including: cowboy songs from the Southern plains; Changa Tuki, the hard electronic dance music of the barrios; and feverish musique concrète.
We also explore the idea of electro-shamanism with Venezuelan ambient-electronic composer Miguel Noya. He discusses how certain frequencies and binaural sound patterns can have transformative impacts on the brain, rooted in his experiences of ritual music amongst the indigenous people in the north of Venezuela.
Produced by Alannah Chance.
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3.
01
00:00:05 Vytas Brenner (artist)
Araguaney
Performer: Vytas Brenner
Duration 00:02:36
02
00:04:54 Arturo García (artist)
Pajarillo II (Joropo)
Performer: Arturo García
Performer: Panchito Prim
Duration 00:06:19
03
00:11:12 Miguel Noya (artist)
Contemplación
Performer: Miguel Noya
Duration 00:03:05
04
00:15:38 WaqWaq Kingdom (artist)
Gift From God
Performer: WaqWaq Kingdom
Duration 00:02:38
05
00:18:15 Caroline Shaw
Its Motion Keeps
Choir: Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Duration 00:07:30
06
00:27:04 Soledad Bravo (artist)
Qué Dirá El Santo Padre
Performer: Soledad Bravo
Duration 00:02:07
07
00:29:07 Jean C. Roché (artist)
Guanare / Barinas
Performer: Jean C. Roché
Duration 00:06:49
08
00:35:37 Laura Agnusdei (artist)
Epiphyte Blues
Performer: Laura Agnusdei
Duration 00:05:58
09
00:43:05 Oswaldo Lares (artist)
Canto De Pilón
Performer: Oswaldo Lares
Duration 00:02:22
10
00:45:26 El Khat (artist)
Balagh Al Achbaab
Performer: El Khat
Duration 00:04:49
11
01:01:00 Miguel Noya (artist)
Huellas Circulares
Performer: Miguel Noya
Duration 00:06:36
12
01:09:31 Bill Orcutt (artist)
Odds Against Tomorrow
Performer: Bill Orcutt
Duration 00:03:53
13
01:13:18 Andrés Levell (artist)
Décima Revelación. Caída de Lucifer
Performer: Andrés Levell
Duration 00:05:04
14
01:18:17 DJ Yirvin (artist)
Dale culo al waperó
Performer: DJ Yirvin
Duration 00:03:48
15
01:24:07 Psh-Psh (artist)
Oigo voces (Esquizofrenia)
Performer: Psh-Psh
Duration 00:03:08
16
01:28:17 Arca (artist)
Saunter
Performer: Arca
Duration 00:02:09
17
01:32:58 Sophie Cooper (artist)
Greywood Miniatures side a
Performer: Sophie Cooper
Performer: Delphine Dora
Duration 00:12:41
18
01:36:29 Arthur Russell (artist)
Barefoot In New York
Performer: Arthur Russell
Duration 00:05:34
19
01:42:00 Lori Goldston (artist)
Love's Bitter Strings (Bonnie Jean Cameron)
Performer: Lori Goldston
Duration 00:02:14
20
01:44:58 Ben Babbitt (artist)
Dark Rum Noir
Performer: Ben Babbitt
Duration 00:01:59
21
01:54:01 Musikautomatika (artist)
Untitled
Performer: Musikautomatika
Duration 00:07:23
22
01:55:56 Simón Díaz (artist)
Tonada De Luna Llena
Performer: Simón Díaz
Duration 00:03:07