MONDAY 24 AUGUST 2020

MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m000m0nm)
Georgia

Guest presenter Jules Buckley stands in for Clemmie Burton-Hill in a new series of Classical fix, mixing bespoke classical playlists for music-loving guests. This week, Jules is joined by Mercury-nominated singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer, Georgia Barnes.

Georgia's playlist:

Joseph Haydn - Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major (3rd movement)
Anna Clyne - DANCE (1st movement 'When you're broken up')
Thomas Adès - 3 Studies from Couperin: no. 1. Les Amusemens
Robert Schumann - Kreisleriana: no.4 Sehr langsam
Oliver Leith - Honey Siren (3rd movement 'Like slow dancing in honey')
Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune from Suite Bergamasque (arranged by Isao Tomita)

Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Jules Buckley is a Grammy-winning conductor, arranger and composer who pushes the boundaries of almost all musical genres by placing them in an orchestral context, and has earned himself a reputation as a 'pioneering genre alchemist' and' agitator of musical convention'. He leads two of the world’s most versatile and in-demand orchestras - the Heritage Orchestra and the Metropole Orkest - and over the past nine years he has been responsible for some of the most groundbreaking BBC Proms, including the Ibiza Prom, 1Xtra's Grime Symphony, The Songs of Scott Walker, Jacob Collier and Friends, and tributes to Quincy Jones, Nina Simone and Charles Mingus. In 2019, Jules joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra as Creative Artist in Association.


MON 00:30 Through the Night (m000m0np)
You heard them here first

Young Russian pianist Anton Lyakhovsky performs Liszt's Second Piano Concerto with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

12:31 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Piano Concerto No 2 in A major, S125
Anton Lyakhovsky (piano), Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga (conductor)

12:52 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Keyboard Sonata in B minor, Kk 27 (L449)
Anton Lyakhovsky (piano)

12:54 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Etude in G sharp minor, S141/3, 'La campanella'
Anton Lyakhovsky (piano)

12:59 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 44
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga (conductor)

01:38 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Rienzi Overture
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (conductor)

01:51 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Partita for keyboard No 6 in E minor BWV 830
Ilze Graubina (piano)

02:22 AM
Alfred Kalnins (1879-1951)
Ballad for cello and piano
Marcis Kuplais (cello), Ventis Zilberts (piano)

02:31 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Concerto in D minor for violin, piano and string orchestra
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Enrico Pace (piano), Risor Festival Strings

03:09 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Partita in E flat (K.Anh.C 17.04) and unnumbered Rondo for wind octet
Festival Winds

03:34 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Pezzo capriccioso - morceau de concert
Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello), Katya Apekisheva (piano)

03:42 AM
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Psalm 110: Le Toutpuissant a mon Seigneur et maistre
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Peter Phillips (conductor)

03:50 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Jean-Francois Zygel (orchestrator)
Lullaby (Berceuse) on the name of Faure
Ronald Patterson (violin), Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Murry Sidlin (conductor)

03:54 AM
Nicolaes a Kempis (1600-1675)
Symphonia No.1 a 5, Op 2
Concordia, Mark Levy (conductor)

03:59 AM
Petko Stainov (1896-1977), Traditional (lyricist)
A bright sun has risen
Petko Stainov Mixed Choir Kazanlak, Petya Pavlovich (conductor)

04:05 AM
John Foulds (1880-1939)
Keltic Overture, Op 28
BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)

04:12 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Rondo concertante in B flat major, K 269
James Ehnes (violin), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra

04:20 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Leonore Overture No 1, Op 138
Sinfonia Iuventus, Rafael Payare (conductor)

04:31 AM
Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872)
Overture to Verbum Nobile: Opera in 1 act (1860)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Salwarowski (conductor)

04:36 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Elegy, Op 24
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), Emmanuel Strosser (piano)

04:43 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Schicksalslied (Song of destiny), Op 54
Oslo Philharmonic Choir, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)

04:59 AM
Francesco Durante (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto No 2 in G minor
Concerto Koln

05:11 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Divertimento in E flat major, K113
Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

05:25 AM
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
Rondo in B minor Op.109
Stefan Lindgren (piano)

05:34 AM
Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
Trois Pieces Breves for wind quintet
Ariart Woodwind Quintet

05:41 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Froissart, concert overture Op 19
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

05:57 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Toccata in D major, BWV 912
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

06:09 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 117
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)


MON 06:30 Breakfast (m000m06m)
Monday - Petroc's classical alarm call

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m000m06p)
Ian Skelly

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly.

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Well-known musicians reveal their personal favourite performers.


MON 11:00 Edinburgh International Festival (m000m06r)
Queen's Hall Series

The Chiaroscuro Quartet

Every weekday for three weeks, Radio 3 broadcasts one of the stand-out concerts from the Queen’s Hall series over the past decade. Today Donald Macleod introduces the Chiaroscuro Quartet, celebrated for their trailblazing work performing classical chamber music on gut strings. This recording from the 2017 Edinburgh International Festival features a dazzling performance of Schubert’s sorrowful ‘Death and the Maiden’ Quartet, plus one of Haydn’s Op.76 works, his final visionary word on the quartet form. The recital opens with JS Bach’s most enigmatic work, the Art of Fugue.

Bach: The Art of Fugue BWV 1080, Nos 1,4 and 9
Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op.76 No.6

INTERVAL: Joshua Bell plays works by Brahms and Rachmaninov

Schubert: String Quartet No.14 in D minor, D810 'Death and the Maiden'

The Chiaroscuro Quartet


MON 13:00 Composer of the Week (m000m06t)
Beethoven Unleashed: How to Play Beethoven

Beethoven and the Bass

Donald Macleod is joined by Chi-chi Nwanoku to explore Beethoven’s writing for the double bass.

Throughout this week, Donald Macleod meets with different professional musicians to get a performer's eye view of Beethoven’s music and the challenges it presents.

During Beethoven’s life, great technical advances were being made to musical instruments such as the keyboard and the horn. It was also a period when virtuoso musicians of all kinds began to tour Europe and Beethoven was able to meet some of the greatest exponents of different instruments and learn from them. He was inspired to push the limits of his performers as never before, and his works continue to fascinate and challenge musicians today.

Today, Donald Macleod is joined by Chi-chi Nwanoku to explore Beethoven from the perspective of a double bassist. Chi-chi shares her thoughts on what it’s like to perform and record Beethoven on a regular basis, and also her experience of working with conductor, Sir Roger Norrington and following Beethoven precise tempo markings. Donald and Chi-chi also discuss the impact the virtuoso bass player Domenico Dragonetti had on Beethoven's music.

Composer of the Week is returning to the story of Beethoven’s life and music throughout 2020 as part of Radio 3’s Beethoven Unleashed season marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.

Symphony No 6 in F, Op 68 “Pastoral” (Donner. Sturm)
Vienna Philharmonic
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor

Symphony No 7 in A, Op 92 (Allegro con brio)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor

Septet in E flat, Op 20 (Scherzo)
The Nash Ensemble

Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125 “Choral” (Presto)
Rebecca Nash, soprano
Wilke te Brummelstroete, mezzo-soprano
Marcel Beekman, tenor
Michael Tews, bass
Laurens Collegium
Laurens Cantorij
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Bruggen, director

Produced by Luke Whitlock for BBC Wales.


MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000m06x)
Summer Festivals

Tom McKinney introduces a selection of music gathered from some of Europe's foremost summer music festivals including a concert from the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta at the Berlin Festival, with violinist Gil Shaham; and, across the week, music for piano and orchestra by Liszt, recorded at the Martha Argerich Project in Lugano, showcasing some of the world's brightest young pianists.

Including:

Oedeon Partos: Concertino for String Orchestra
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor
(Gil Shaham - violin)
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

Israel Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta (conductor)

Recorded at the Berlin Festival in 2019

Franz Liszt: Totentanz for piano and orchestra
Sergio Tiempo (piano)
Orchestra della Svizzera italiana
Ion Marin (conductor)

Recorded at the Marth Argerich Project in Lugano in 2004.


MON 16:30 Early Music Now (m000m06z)
European Summer Festivals - Valle Baroque Festival

Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Carissimi's sacred masterpiece 'Jephte', recorded by Goteborg Baroque at the Abbey Church in Varnhem, in Sweden, as part of the Valle Baroque Festival.

Giacomo Carissimi: - Jephte, oratorio

Göteborg Baroque:
Anna Jobrant, Ann Kjellson - soprano
Amanda Flodin, Anna Einarsson - contraltos
Leif Aruhn-Solén, Carl Johan Lillierorh - tenors
Karl Peter Eriksson, Arvid Eriksson - basses
Fredrik From, Marie-Louise Marming - violins
Nora Roll - viola da gamba
Anders Ericson - theorbo
Mattias Frostensson - violone/double bass
Directed by Magnus Kjellson from the claviorganum


MON 17:00 In Tune (m000m071)
Music and conversation with some of the world's finest musicians.


MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000m073)
Your relaxing classical playlist

In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises. Today there's music by Mozart, Gershwin, Scarlatti, Bernard Herrmann, and Cole Porter.


MON 19:30 BBC Proms (p08kvlv4)
2020

Daniel Harding and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.

BBC Proms: In 2003 the distinguished Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen made its second visit to the Proms, with its then Music Director Daniel Harding – making his fifth Proms appearance at the age of just 27. A suite of dance music from Rameau’s celebrated first opera and the Beethoven symphony that Wagner declared ‘the apotheosis of dance’ framed Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, whose final movement was once famously described as ‘a polonaise for a polar bear’. The soloist was the acclaimed Russian-born Viktoria Mullova.

Presented by Tom Service.

Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie – suite
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major

Viktoria Mullova (violin)
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Daniel Harding (conductor)


MON 22:00 Sunday Feature (m0001wy1)
Keats Goes North

The poet John Keats is often seen as a sickly individual, dying young due to his frailty. In this walking, talking Sunday Feature, Professor Fiona Stafford’s aims to show that far from being a consumptive weakling who never left Hampstead, he was a strapping, fit young man who resigned as a doctor and undertook an amazing journey on foot, which was to inspire his greatest poetic works.

In July 1818, Keats travelled to Liverpool because his brother George was sailing to America. He would never see him again. Keats and his walking companion, Charles Brown, then walked across Cumbria to visit Wordsworth (who was out), on to Scotland, to Burns’ birthplace (unimpressed by the gaudy mausoleum), to Northern Ireland (shocked by the poverty), Mull (where he got very cold and wet and probably got TB), Iona and Fingal’s Cave (an inspiration), climbed Ben Nevis, then over the Highlands to Inverness before sailing back to London.

Professor Fiona Stafford builds on her five series of Radio 3 essay successes by following in Keats’s footsteps, tramping his route, adding extracts from his letters and poems and of Charles Brown. She reflects on what Keats saw, thought and heard, witnessing them herself and walking parts of Keats’ journey with Keats experts such as Professor Nigel Leask, Dr. Meiko O’Halloran and Keats biographer Professor Nicholas Roe. Fiona Stafford’s windswept, dramatic storytelling recreates this epic journey aiming to transform Keats’ image in the same way the journey transformed Keats from a doctor into a poet.

During this trip he wrote regularly to his brother, Tom, and sister, Fanny, including comic poems. The letters and poems from Keats’s walking tour are full of fascinating detail and entertainment. This was Keats’ first sight of mountains and outside of England, a literary pilgrimage and journey of exploration. The sights and sounds hugely influenced the creative outpouring of the following months, when Keats wrote all his best-known poems. This epic journey was the making of Keats the poet, as this active, rich, location feature shows, recreating his walk by also getting buffeted by the wind and waves just like Keats was on Iona and at Fingal’s Cave, and visiting the significant places that transformed him.

Producer – Turan Ali. A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 3


MON 22:45 The Essay (m000m076)
A Birdsong Garden

The Great Chorus

What is it about the silence of a global crisis that makes us finally take note of the beauty of birdsong readily available upon our doorsteps?

On this episode of The Essay, it’s springtime in the Vale of Whittingham and we’re up early to admire the awakening of nature as the sun rises. But which birds will be present for this year’s dawn chorus - will there be redstarts, blackcaps and garden warblers?

The lockdown through the spring of 2020 gave much space for reflection about life; and for wildlife sound recordist Geoff Sample an opportunity to review the five-year period spent in the remote and quiet Northumbrian home he sought out, to record and study the birdsong of a typical rural garden.

This five-part series, ‘A Birdsong Garden’ is a mix of memoir, natural history, folklore, birdsong and spacious soundscapes. Geoff takes us through the four seasons of the year, considering how living close to and listening intently to nature can enrich our lives.

Presenter and Producer: Geoff Sample
Executive Producer: Clare Freeman
Commissioned for Culture in Quarantine, funded and supported by The Space Arts, BBC Arts and Arts Council England.


MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m000h030)
Around Midnight

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.