Jules Buckley mixes classical playlists for music-loving guests. If you fancy giving classical music a go, start here. This week, Jules is joined by American singer-songwriter Valerie June.
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.
Two concerts from the 2020 Ascona Music Weeks festival in Switzerland, featuring Bach's Violin Partita No 3, Brahms's Piano Quartet No 3 and Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. Presented by Catriona Young.
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Nils Monkemeyer (viola), Daniel Muller-Schott (cello), Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Jorg Widmann (clarinet), Daniel Muller-Schott (cello), Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
Piano Sonata in E minor, H.
Concerto no. 2 in G major Op.126 for cello and orchestra
Lynn Harrell (cello), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Sebastian Philpott (trumpet), European Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
Phantasy vers. flute and piano
Andrea Dankova (soprano), Jana Sykorova (alto), Tomas Juhas (tenor), Jozef Benci (bass), Ales Barta (organ), Prague Philharmonic Chorus, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tomas Netopil (conductor)
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Georgia Mann playing the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises along the way.
1010 Song of the Day – focusing on the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1100 Essential Five - this week we bring you five lilting barcarolles – music to be heard on the water.
Donald Macleod starts his survey of Haydn’s string quartets with the composer's return to the form after some years, and excerpts from op 33/2 and op 51/1 as well as the fourth of his Prussian Quartets, opus 50.
From his opus 0 and opus 1 of the 1750s to his unfinished opus 103 of 1803, Haydn’s 68 string quartets span the major part of his compositional life. While he wasn’t the inventor of the form, he’s fully deserving of the epithet, the “father of the string quartet” as he elevated the form to new heights. It’s his ideas that take the quartet from its 18th century antecedents to the conventions that are rather more familiar to us today. The conversational textures he created redefined the relationship between the four instruments. Always aware of his surroundings, and other musical influences, he used ideas and rhythms from folk music, dance, opera, the instrumental concerto and other genres for larger forces. He established a sequence of movements, and within them, adapted sonata form, as well as making use of the minuet-trio, the variation, the rondo and fugue forms. Original, serious, yet with his trademark, irresistible humour never too far away, Haydn’s quartets make up a unique body of work that justly receive both admiration and appreciation.
Across the week Donald Macleod enjoys a masterclass in string quartet writing from one of the great masters of the form. His survey of Haydn includes complete performances of opus 50 no 4 - a quartet written for a King in the grandest of styles, the brilliant and theatrically inspired op 64, no 2, and the spritely and playful Lark Quartet. The versatile composer produced opus 71 no 2 with the largest of concert spaces in mind, and the series concludes with the second of Haydn’s opus 76 quartets, the last complete set he wrote, and widely regarded as being among the supreme accomplishments of his career.
In 1781 Haydn was about to embark on a series of business deals that would disseminate his music across Europe, and make him one of the most famous and most popular composers. It seemed the moment was right for him to return to writing for string quartets.
The Seven Last Words of Christ Hob XX.2 arr. for string quartet
Acclaimed German baritone and former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Appl is joined by pianist James Baillieu for a programme of settings of the poet Heinrich Heine, culminating in Schumann’s great song cycle of 1840, Dichterliebe. Presented by Andrew McGregor.
Mauricio Kagel: Hebrew - Der Turm zur Babel No. 7
Robert Schumann: Belsazar Op. 57
Music by Elgar, Beethoven and a piece by Michael Gordon inspired by the classic western High Noon.
Opening a week celebrating music-making across Europe, the programme includes two Beethoven symphonies conducted by two specialists in early music, Elgar's autumnal cello concerto and a recent choral work written by Michael Gordon as 'a nod to American cowboy movies where the town marshal meets the bad guys'.
Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67
Symphony No. 3 in E flat, op. 55 ('Eroica')
Music by Monteverdi, Falvetti and Barbara Strozzi from Belgium's Namur Music Festival
Sean Rafferty is joined by mezzo Sarah Connolly ahead of her live performance at Sage Gateshead with Royal Northern Sinfonia. Plus, live music in the studio from saxophonist Trish Clowes and pianist Ross Stanley, who are playing at Wigmore Hall on Tuesday.
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix including Beethoven, Owain Park and reflections on Erik Satie from the Vienna Arts Orchestra. Plus the glorious voice of breakdancing counter-tenor Jakub Józef Orlinski, and the traditional sounds of Sweden. The perfect way to usher in your evening.
Francois Leleux conducts Salzburg Camerata in an all-Mozart concert recorded in January 2020 in the Great Hall of the city's Mozarteum. The programme, includes his two flute concertos with soloist Emmanuel Pahud as well as the Sinfonia Concertante in B flat and the Symphony No.36 in G, named for the city situated northwest of Mozart's birthplace - Linz.
During the interval you can hear a Mozart piano concerto, but not as you might expect it. Pianist Max Barros plays the Concerto No.2 by Brazilian composer Mozart Camargo Guarnieri.
Tom Service commemorates the centenary of the birth of Astor Piazzolla with a portrait of the great Argentine bandoneon player and tango composer, and explores his revolutionary style which changed the genre for ever. He also questions his legacy in today's Argentina.
We hear from Piazzolla himself in rare BBC archive material, as well as his widow Laura Escalada Piazzolla; his grandsons Daniel Villaflor Piazzolla, who runs the 'Fundación Piazzolla' and Daniel 'Pipi' Piazzolla, drummer in jazz band 'Escalandrum'. There are contributions, too, from the critic Fernando González, who translated Piazzolla's Memoirs into English and interviewed him for international publications; the pianist Pablo Ziegler, who performed with Piazzolla for 11 years in one of his Quintets; and amongst others, the singers Amelita Baltar, who premiered many of Piazzolla’s songs, and Elena Roger, who offers a new take of Piazzolla's music.
Also in the programme, the violinist Isabelle Faust describes her recent experience of travelling to Japan where she was able to perform to sold-out concert hall audiences. She shares her thoughts about the future of touring the world as soloist, how things may look in a post-Covid world, and the role of music for her during the pandemic.
Verity Sharp hosts a series of conversations and performances recorded by songwriters at home. For this episode she dials up singer and environmental activist Sam Lee.
After a year of restricted movement, cancelled gigs and binned recording projects, have some of the UK’s most seasoned folk musicians changed their creative lives for good? Has the pandemic brought a whole new sense of artistic conscientiousness that has altered their artistic habits, or will it be business as usual once life’s back on track? Does the idea of jetting around the world to sing for large audiences still appeal, or has performing and sharing work online opened up new, more democratic possibilities? And how have all the events of the year rubbed off on their songwriting and sense of purpose? Verity Sharp calls up musicians who’re rooted in tradition, to find out how they’re currently feeling and to ask them to share a song that’s kept them grounded during this exceptional year.
In this episode, Sam Lee reflects on how his priorities have changed, how touring has lost its appeal and how using the power of music to open hearts to the climate and biodiversity crisis is now his sole focus.
Presented and produced by Verity Sharp.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
TUESDAY 13 APRIL 2021
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m000v213)
Italian Odyssey
Arte Musica explores the music of two composers bridging the Renaissance and Baroque eras: Sigismondo d'India and Girolamo Frescobaldi. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Canzona a Basso solo detta La Tromboncina
Arte Musica, Francesco Cera (director)
12:34 AM
Sigismondo d'India (c.1582-1629)
Occhi della mia Vita, a due voci
Andres Montilla-Acurero (tenor), Riccardo Pisani (tenor), Arte Musica, Francesco Cera (director)
12:38 AM
Sigismondo d'India
La mia filli crudel, a due voci
Lucia Napoli (soprano), Daniela Salvo (soprano), Arte Musica, Francesco Cera (director)
12:43 AM
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Partite sopra Follia
Francesco Cera (harpsichord)
12:48 AM
Sigismondo d'India
Cruda Amarilli for soprano and harpsichord
Daniela Salvo (soprano), Francesco Cera (harpsichord)
12:51 AM
Sigismondo d'India
Occhi, convien morire for soprano
Lucia Napoli (soprano), Arte Musica, Francesco Cera (director)
12:55 AM
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Toccata seconda
Francesco Cera (harpsichord)
01:00 AM
Sigismondo d'India
Vorrei baciarti, o Filli for tenor
Andres Montilla-Acurero (tenor), Arte Musica, Francesco Cera (director)
01:02 AM
Sigismondo d'India
Donna, mentr'io vi miro for tenor
Riccardo Pisani (tenor), Arte Musica, Francesco Cera (director)
01:05 AM
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Toccata nona Non senza fatiga si giunge al fine
Francesco Cera (harpsichord)
01:10 AM
Sigismondo d'India
Dove potrò mai gir for 2 sopranos
Lucia Napoli (soprano), Daniela Salvo (soprano), Arte Musica, Francesco Cera (director)
01:15 AM
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Capriccio sopra L'Aria di Ruggiero
Francesco Cera (harpsichord)
01:23 AM
Sigismondo d'India
La tra 'l sangue e le morti for soprano
Daniela Salvo (soprano), Arte Musica, Francesco Cera (director)
01:25 AM
Sigismondo d'India
Amico hai vinto for soprano and tenor
Lucia Napoli (soprano), Riccardo Pisani (tenor), Arte Musica, Francesco Cera (director)
01:31 AM
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Cappriccio cromatico con ligature al contrario
Francesco Cera (harpsichord)
01:36 AM
Sigismondo d'India
Odi quel rosignolo
Andres Montilla-Acurero (tenor), Arte Musica, Francesco Cera (director)
01:40 AM
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Capriccio sopra la Battaglia
Francesco Cera (harpsichord)
01:43 AM
Sigismondo d'India
Alla Guerra d'Amore, a due voci
Lucia Napoli (soprano), Daniela Salvo (soprano), Andres Montilla-Acurero (tenor), Riccardo Pisani (tenor), Arte Musica, Francesco Cera (director)
01:46 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Quintet in A major (D.667) "Trout"
Nikolai Demidenko (piano), Marianne Thorsen (violin), Are Sandbakken (viola), Leonid Gorokhov (cello), Dan Styffe (double bass)
02:31 AM
Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377)
La Messe de Nostre Dame
Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly (conductor)
03:01 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No 26 in D major. K537 'Coronation'
Dubravka Tomsic-Srebotnjak (piano), Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Milan Horvat (conductor)
03:33 AM
Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013)
Sonatine for flute and piano
Duo Nanashi (duo)
03:42 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
2 Elegiac melodies for string orchestra, Op 34
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
03:51 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata, 'O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht', BWV 118
Collegium Vocale Ghent, Collegium Vocale Ghent Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
04:00 AM
Etienne Mehul (1763-1817)
Piano Sonata in D major Op.1 No.10
Arthur Schoonderwoerd (fortepiano)
04:09 AM
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
Violin Sonata in G major
Peter Michalica (violin), Elena Michalicova (piano)
04:17 AM
Adolph Friedrich Hesse (1809-1863)
Introduction, Theme & Variations in A (Op.47)
Cor van Wageningen (organ)
04:31 AM
Colin Brumby (b.1933)
Festival Overture on Australian themes
West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills (conductor)
04:41 AM
Anonymous
The gentle Lamb
Barbara Thornton (vocalist), Margaret Tindemans (fiddle), Sequentia
04:51 AM
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
4 Pieces fugitives for piano, Op 15
Angela Cheng (piano)
05:05 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Hear my prayer - hymn, arr. for soprano, chorus & orchestra
Jennifer Adams-Barbaro (soprano), BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
05:16 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Havanaise, Op 83
Vilmos Szabadi (violin), Marta Gulyas (piano)
05:25 AM
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
"Begl'occhi, bel seno" Costumo de grandi for soprano, 2 violins and continuo
Susanne Ryden (soprano), Musica Fiorita, Daniela Dolci (director)
05:30 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony No.8 in B minor (D.759) "Unfinished"
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
05:52 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Dardanus (suites)
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m000v1sf)
Tuesday - Petroc's classical rise and shine
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m000v1sk)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann playing the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises along the way.
0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Song of the Day – focusing on the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1100 Essential Five - this week we bring you five lilting barcarolles – music to be heard on the water.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000v1sp)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
The Shakespeare of Music
Donald Macleod's survey of Haydn's string quartets follows the events surrounding the 58-year-old composer's astonishing first visit to London, with op 64/6 and op 71/3.
From his opus 0 and opus 1 of the 1750s to his unfinished opus 103 of 1803, Haydn’s 68 string quartets span the major part of his compositional life. While he wasn’t the inventor of the form, he’s fully deserving of the epithet, the “father of the string quartet” as he elevated the form to new heights. It’s his ideas that take the quartet from its 18th century antecedents to the conventions that are rather more familiar to us today. The conversational textures he created redefined the relationship between the four instruments. Always aware of his surroundings, and other musical influences, he used ideas and rhythms from folk music, dance, opera, the instrumental concerto and other genres for larger forces. He established a sequence of movements, and within them, adapted sonata form, as well as making use of the minuet-trio, the variation, the rondo and fugue forms. Original, serious, yet with his trademark, irresistible humour never too far away, Haydn’s quartets make up a unique body of work that justly receive both admiration and appreciation.
Across the week Donald Macleod enjoys a masterclass in string quartet writing from one of the great masters of the form. His survey of Haydn includes complete performances of opus 50 no 4 - a quartet written for a King in the grandest of styles, the brilliant and theatrically inspired op 64, no 2, and the spritely and playful Lark Quartet. The versatile composer produced opus 71 no 2 with the largest of concert spaces in mind, and the series concludes with the second of Haydn’s opus 76 quartets, the last complete set he wrote, and widely regarded as being among the supreme accomplishments of his career.
Pensioned off by the Esterhazy's, after serving the noble family for almost 30 years, then unexpectedly headhunted by an impresario, Peter Salomon, the timing was ripe for new pastures, and what an abundance of riches were awaiting him.
Symphony in G, Hob 1 no 8 (Le soir)
Presto – La tempesta
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock, director
Piano Trio no 40 in F sharp minor, Hob.XV:26
I: Allegro
Kungsbacka Piano Trio
Symphony no 92 (Oxford)
I: Adagio – Allegro
LSO
Colin Davis, conductor
String Quartet, op 64 no 6 in E flat major
The Amsterdam String Quartet
l’anima del filosofo
Act 1 Sc 1: Filomena abbandonato
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo soprano
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood, director
String Quartet no 56 in E flat major op 71 no 3 Hob III: 71:1
1: Vivace
The Lindsays
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000v1sw)
Gstaad Menuhin Festival (1/4)
Sol Gabetta and Alexander Melnikov play music for cello and fortepiano by Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn.
Presented by Sarah Walker
In his 250th anniversary year, last year's prestigious Gstaad Menuhin Festival focused on the music of Ludwig van Beethoven
Gabetta and Melnikov chose to contrast the first of his cello sonatas, written by the twenty-something composer at the start of his career, with the last, which he wrote nearly two decades later at the height of his powers
Beethoven
Cello Sonata in F, Op.5/1
Mendelssohn
Song without words in D, Op.109
Beethoven
Cello Sonata in D, Op.102/2
Sol Gabetta, cello
Alexander Melnikov, fortepiano
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000v1t0)
European Summer Festivals (2/5)
A feast of Handel, featuring both his first and his best-known oratorio, as well as a beautiful love story from Czech folk mythology.
Presented by Ian Skelly
Handel reinvented the oratorio form and it is fascinating to compare the allegorical "The Triumph of Truth and Disillusion", his first work in the genre, with Messiah, which remains one of the most-loved pieces of classical music.
Love is in the air for Czech composer Josef Suk, whose delightful Fairy Tale draws on mythical passion and magic.
Handel
Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
Emmanuelle de Negri, soprano, Piacere
Monica Piccinini, soprano, Bellezza
Delphine Galou, mezzo-soprano, Disinganno
Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, tenor, Tempo
Accademia Bizantina
Ottavio Dantone, conductor/harpsichord
3.40pm
Josef Suk
Fairy Tale, op. 16
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
James Judd, conductor
4.10pm
Messiah, HWV 56 (excerpts)
Hana Blažíková, soprano
Markéta Cukrová, contralto
Jaroslav Březina, tenor
Roman Hoza, baritone
Collegium Vocale 1704
Collegium 1704
Václav Luks, conductor
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m000v1t4)
Chiaroscuro Quartet, Augustin Hadelich
The Chiaroscuro Quartet perform live in the studio ahead of their recital at London's Wigmore Hall, and Sean Rafferty speaks to violinist Augustin Hadelich about his new recording of JS Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin.
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000v1t8)
Classical music for your journey
In Tune's classical music mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises thrown in for good measure.
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000v1td)
Live from Maida Vale Studios, London, The Northern Chords Ensemble
The Northern Chords Festival taking place on the banks of the River Tyne, in Newcastle and Gateshead - founded in 2009 by Artistic Director and cellist Jonathan Bloxham - brings together some of the most exciting young musicians from across Europe.
In this special session live from London’s Maida Vale studio, the Northern Chords Ensemble - joined by baritone Jonathan McGovern, violinist Benjamin Baker and pianist Daniel Lebhardt - present music by, among others, Copland, Nico Muhly, Florence Price, Vaughan Williams, Barber, Britten, and a world premiere by Matthew Kaner. Jonathan Bloxham conducts.
Presented by Ian Skelly.
Aaron Copland: Hoe-Down, from Rodeo
Nico Muhly: The Last Letter (broadcast premiere)
Florence Price: Adoration
Matthew Kaner: ‘A light dusting’, from Five Highland Scenes (world premiere)
Nico Muhly: A long Line
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Dives & Lazarus
Interval - c.20 minutes
Aaron Copland: Old American Songs, “Long Time Ago”
Nico Muhly: Traditional Songs, “A Brisk Young Lad”
Benjamin Britten: “I wonder as I wander”
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River (solo piano version)
Tonia Ko: The Return (world premiere)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: 3 Songs by Walk Whitman “Nocturne
Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
Benjamin Britten: Young Apollo
Jonathan McGovern, baritone
Benjamin Baker, violin
Daniel Lebhardt, piano
Northern Chords Festival Ensemble
Jonathan Bloxham, conductor
Producer: Juan Carlos Jaramillo
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m000v1tj)
Octavia Butler's Kindred
"A hermit in the middle of Los Angeles" is one way she described herself - born in 1947, Butler became a writer who wanted to "tell stories filled with facts. Make people touch and taste and know." Since her death in 2006, her writing has been widely taken up and praised for its foresight in suggesting developments such as big pharma and for its critique of American history. Shahidha Bari is joined by the author Irenosen Okojie and the scholar Gerry Canavan and Nisi Shawl, writer, editor, journalist – and long time friend of Octavia Butler.
Irenosen Okojie's latest collection of short stories is called Nudibranch and she was winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for Fiction for her story Grace Jones. You can hear her discussing her own writing life alongside Nadifa Mohamed in a previous Free Thinking episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k8sz
Gerry Canavan is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction.
Nisi Shawl writes about books for The Seattle Times, and also contributes frequently to Ms. Magazine, The Cascadia Subduction Zone, The Washington Post.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
You might be interested in the Free Thinking episode Science fiction and ecological thinking https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h6yw
and on Ursula Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b6yb37
and a playlist exploring Landmarks of Culture including Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks and the writing of Audre Lorde, and of Wole Soyinka
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jwn44
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m000v1tn)
Folk at Home
At Home with Stick in the Wheel
Verity Sharp hosts a series of conversations and performances recorded by songwriters at home. For this edition she dials up Nicola Kearey and Ian Carter of Stick in the Wheel.
After a year of restricted movement, cancelled gigs and binned recording projects, have some of the UK’s most seasoned folk musicians changed their creative lives for good? Has the pandemic brought a whole new sense of artistic conscientiousness that has altered their artistic habits, or will it be business as usual once life’s back on track? Does the idea of jetting around the world to sing for large audiences still appeal, or has performing and sharing work online opened up new, more democratic possibilities? And how have all the events of the year rubbed off on their songwriting and sense of purpose? Verity Sharp calls up musicians who’re rooted in tradition, to find out how they’re currently feeling and to ask them to share a song that’s kept them grounded during this exceptional year.
In this episode, Nicola Kearey and Ian Carter of Stick in the Wheel reveal how their DIY attitude and ingrained work ethic has served them well during this year of struggle and hard graft.
Presented and produced by Verity Sharp.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m000v1ts)
Music for the evening
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
WEDNESDAY 14 APRIL 2021
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m000v1tx)
Richard Strauss and Bartok from Lugano in Switzerland
Markus Poschner conducts the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Richard Strauss's Suite in B flat and Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. With Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Suite in B flat, Op 4
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Markus Poschner (conductor)
12:56 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Markus Poschner (conductor)
01:28 AM
Hans Huber (1852-1921)
Cello Sonata no 4 in B flat major, Op 130
Esther Nyffenegger (cello), Desmond Wright (piano)
01:54 AM
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
Concerto for violin and horn in A major
Agata Raatz (violin), Zora Slokar (horn), Bern Chamber Orchestra, Graziella Contratto (conductor)
02:22 AM
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Quejas o la Maja y el Ruiseñor (from Goyescas)
Enrique Granados (piano)
02:31 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967)
Missa brevis (... tempore belli)
Chamber Choir of Pecs, Alice Komaromi (soprano), Aniko Kopjar (soloist), Eva Nagy (soloist), Agnes Tumpekne Kuti (soprano), Timea Tillai (soloist), Janos Szerekovan (soloist), Joszef Moldvay (soloist), Istvan Ella (organ), Aurel Tillai (conductor)
03:05 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Overture (Suite) TWV.55:C3 in C major 'Hamburger Ebbe und Fluth'
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ketil Haugsand (conductor)
03:29 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
L'Isle Joyeuse
Jurate Karosaite (piano)
03:36 AM
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
Espana - rhapsody
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
03:43 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Aria: 'Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo' (from "Cosí fan tutte", Act 1)
Allan Monk (baritone), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
03:48 AM
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Italian serenade
Bartok String Quartet
03:56 AM
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
4 Folk Songs
Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor)
04:07 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Suite No 2 in F major HWV 427
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
04:16 AM
Antonio Soler (1729-1783)
Fandango
Fredrik From (violin), Benjamin Scherer Questa (violin), Teodoro Baù (viola d'arco), Hager Hanana (cello), Joanna Boślak-Górniok (harpsichord), Dagmara Kapczyńska (harpsichord), Gwennaelle Alibert (harpsichord), Bolette Roed (flute), Komale Akakpo (dulcimer)
04:23 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance No 12 in D flat major Op 72 No 4
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
04:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Friedrich Schiller (author)
Der Alpenjager (D.588b) (Op 37 no 2)
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (pianoforte)
04:37 AM
Paul Gilson (1865-1942)
Andante and Scherzo for cello and orchestra
Timora Rosler (cello), Flemish Radio Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
04:46 AM
Albertus Groneman (c.1710-1778)
Flute Sonata in E minor
Jed Wentz (flute), Balazs Mate (cello), Marcelo Bussi (harpsichord)
04:57 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Scherzo No 4 in E major
Dubravka Tomsic (piano)
05:09 AM
Antoni Haczewski ((C.18th/19th))
Symphony in D major
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Straszynski (conductor)
05:18 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Ariettes oubliees - song cycle for voice and piano
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Gary Matthewman (piano)
05:35 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Symphony no 7 in C major, Op 105
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
05:56 AM
Carl Reinecke (1824-1910)
Trio for oboe, horn and piano in A minor, Op.188
Maarten Karres (oboe), Jaap Prinsen (horn), Ariane Veelo-Karres (piano)
06:19 AM
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
E voi siete d'altri, o labra soavi, ZWV 176
Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m000v2z1)
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 (m000v2z3)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann playing the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises along the way.
0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Song of the Day – focusing on the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1100 Essential Five - this week we bring you five lilting barcarolles – music to be heard on the water.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000v2z5)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Tweedledum and Tweedledee Quarrels
Donald Macleod's survey of Haydn's string quartets continues with his famous Lark Quartet, excerpts from op 64/3 and op 54/3, and an assessment of the pros and cons of the composer's enormous popularity in the UK.
From his opus 0 and opus 1 of the 1750s to his unfinished opus 103 of 1803, Haydn’s 68 string quartets span the major part of his compositional life. While he wasn’t the inventor of the form, he’s fully deserving of the epithet, the “father of the string quartet” as he elevated the form to new heights. It’s his ideas that take the quartet from its 18th century antecedents to the conventions that are rather more familiar to us today. The conversational textures he created redefined the relationship between the four instruments. Always aware of his surroundings, and other musical influences, he used ideas and rhythms from folk music, dance, opera, the instrumental concerto and other genres for larger forces. He established a sequence of movements, and within them, adapted sonata form, as well as making use of the minuet-trio, the variation, the rondo and fugue forms. Original, serious, yet with his trademark, irresistible humour never too far away, Haydn’s quartets make up a unique body of work that justly receive both admiration and appreciation.
Across the week Donald Macleod enjoys a masterclass in string quartet writing from one of the great masters of the form. His survey of Haydn includes complete performances of opus 50 no 4 - a quartet written for a King in the grandest of styles, the brilliant and theatrically inspired op 64, no 2, and the spritely and playful Lark Quartet. The versatile composer produced opus 71 no 2 with the largest of concert spaces in mind, and the series concludes with the second of Haydn’s opus 76 quartets, the last complete set he wrote, and widely regarded as being among the supreme accomplishments of his career.
Haydn swept an ecstatic London audience off its feet at his debut concert in 1791, but then a rivalry between two concert promoters left him uncomfortably at odds with a former pupil, Ignaz Pleyel.
String Quartet op 54 no 3
IV: Presto
Quatuor Ysaye
Symphony no 92 in G major, Hoboken I/92, (Oxford symphony)
IV: Menuet
Berlin Philharmonic
Simon Rattle, director
Quartet op 64 no 5 in D major (The Lark)
Doric Quartet
Miseri noi! Misera patria! (Cantata), Hob.XXIVa:7
Christiane Karg, soprano
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen, director
String Quartet no 50 in B flat major, Opus 64 no 3
IV: Finale – Allegro con spirito
The Lindsays
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000v2z7)
Gstaad Menuhin Festival (2/4)
Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Joonas Ahonen play violin sonatas by Beethoven.
Presented by Sarah Walker
In his 250th anniversary year, last year's prestigious Gstaad Menuhin Festival focused on the music of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Joonas Ahonen pair his so-called 'Kreutzer' sonata, written on an epic scale, with a slightly earlier, less well-known sonata notable for a soulful and quirky slow movement.
Beethoven
Violin Sonata in C minor, Op.30/2
Violin Sonata in A, Op.47 Kreutzer
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
Joonas Ahonen, piano
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000v2z9)
European Summer Festivals (3/5)
Sacred music by Danish Baroque composer and organist Dietrich Buxtehude.
Presented by Ian Skelly
Buxtehude was a richly original composer, and a significant influence on J.S. Bach - in fact, the young Bach walked over 250 miles from Arnstadt to Lübeck specifically to hear Buxtehude play and improvise on the organ
2.00pm
Buxtehude
Der Herr ist mit mir, BuxWV 15
Fürwahr, er trug unsere Krankheit, BuxWV 31
Orfeo Orchestra
Purcell Choir
György Vashegyi, conductor
2.30pm
Strauss
Ein Heldenleben, op. 40
Orchestre National d’Île-de-France
Case Scaglione, conductor
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (m000v2zc)
Worcester Cathedral
From Worcester Cathedral.
Introit: Surgens Jesus (Philips)
Responses: Rose
Psalms: 108, 109 (How, Lucas, Lang)
First Lesson: Hosea 5 v.15 - 6 v.6
Canticles: Stanford in B flat
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15 vv.1-11
Anthem: Singet dem Herrn (Bach)
Voluntary: Carillon-Sortie (Mulet)
Adrian Lucas (Master of the Choristers)
Christopher Allsop (Assistant Organist)
First broadcast 22 April 2009.
WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m000v2zf)
The Aris Quartet plays Haydn's Sunrise
The Aris Quartet play Haydn at the 2019 Ryedale Festival, plus two delightful songs from Richard Strauss.
Strauss: Die erwachte Rose, AV 66 (1880)
Strauss: Du meines Herzens Krönelein,Op. 21, No. 2
Katharina Konradi (soprano), Daniel Heide (piano)
Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 76, No. 4, "Sunrise."
Aris Quartet
WED 17:00 In Tune (m000v2zh)
Craig Ogden, John Butt, BBC Music Magazine Awards
Guitarist Craig Ogden brings his new trio to the In Tune studio for a live performance of special arrangements of Bach's Goldberg Variations. Plus and the winners of the 2021 BBC Music Magazine Awards are revealed. Plus John Butt talks to Sean Rafferty about his upcoming recital with Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and we hear from BBC Music Magazine editor Oliver Condy to hear about the winners of this year's Music Magazine Awards.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000v2zk)
Switch up your listening with classical music
In Tune's Classical Mixtape featuring Melanie Bonis' capricious Final for flute and piano, George Walker's jazzy Trombone Concerto and the fiery finale of Mozart's Symphony No.40 in G minor. Along the way there's also music by Massenet, Cecilia McDowall, Purcell and Ravel.
Producer: Ian Wallington
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000v2zm)
Tenebrae in concert
An evening of performances by Tenebrae, during which the choir's conductor, Nigel Short, talks about early lockdown projects, the 'Tenebrae Unlocked' film series, the Canterbury Festival and music recently recorded during Holy Week.
Presented by Ian Skelly.
Purcell: Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts
Lobo: Versa est in luctum
Tallis: If ye love me
Byrd: Ne irascaris Domine
Rachmaninov: Cherubic Hymn
Reger: Nachtlied
Moore: Morning Prayers from Three Prayers of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Holst: Hymns from the Rig Veda
Willan: Rise Up My Love
Rutter: Hymn to the Creator of Light
Stainer: God so loved the world (The Crucifixion)
Bach: Singet dem Herrn
Tenebrae
Nigel Short (conductor)
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m000v2zq)
Jacques Tati's Trafic
Monsieur Hulot is a car designer who takes a chaotic journey to an auto-show in Amsterdam to show off his proto-type in this comic film from 1971. It's the last of Jacques Tati's films to feature Hulot, whose name is said to be inspired in part by the French name for Charlie Chaplin's character in The Tramp - Charlot, and whom Rowan Atkinson has cited as influence on his comic creation Mr Bean. Matthew Sweet discusses Jacques Tati with fellow film historians Adam Scovell, Muriel Zagha and Phuong Le.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
In the Free Thinking archives you can find Matthew discussing other classics such as Charlie Chaplin's City Lights https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vd853
the career of Billy Wilder and his film Fedora https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p1dx
Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001xwd
A long interview with Kevin Brownlow about restoring silent film classics https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z7bn4
WED 22:45 The Essay (m000v2zt)
Folk at Home
At Home with Germa Adan
Verity Sharp hosts a series of conversations and performances recorded by songwriters at home. In this episode she dials up Haitian-born and Birmingham-based musician Germa Adan.
After a year of restricted movement, cancelled gigs and binned recording projects, have some of the UK’s most seasoned folk musicians changed their creative lives for good? Has the pandemic brought a whole new sense of artistic conscientiousness that has altered their artistic habits, or will it be business as usual once life’s back on track? Does the idea of jetting around the world to sing for large audiences still appeal, or has performing and sharing work online opened up new, more democratic possibilities? And how have all the events of the year rubbed off on their songwriting and sense of purpose? Verity Sharp calls up musicians who’re rooted in tradition, to find out how they’re currently feeling and to ask them to share a song that’s kept them grounded during this exceptional year.
In this episode, Haitian-born Germa Adan shares how this year has brought thoughts around identity and belonging into sharp focus, and how old songs have brought comfort.
Presented and produced by Verity Sharp.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m000v2zw)
Dissolve into sound
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
THURSDAY 15 APRIL 2021
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m000v2zy)
New Zealand Trout
Piers Lane joins members of the New Zealand String Quartet for Schubert's Trout Quintet. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F major, D.487
Monique Lapins (violin), Gillian Ansell (viola), Rolf Gjelsten (cello), Piers Lane (piano)
12:44 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Duo for Cello and Double Bass in D Major
Rolf Gjelsten (cello), Hiroshi Ikematsu (double bass)
12:59 AM
Ross Harris (b.1945)
Orowaru (The rippling sound of water)
Piers Lane (piano), Monique Lapins (violin), Gillian Ansell (viola), Rolf Gjelsten (cello)
01:19 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Quintet in A major D.667 (Trout) for piano, violin, viola, cello & db
Piers Lane (piano), Monique Lapins (violin), Gillian Ansell (viola), Rolf Gjelsten (cello), Hiroshi Ikematsu (double bass)
01:52 AM
Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001)
Diversions for Strings
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
02:09 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 10, No 1
Geoffrey Lancaster (pianoforte)
02:31 AM
Johan Svendsen (1840-1911)
Symphony no 2 in B flat major, Op 15
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Eivind Aadland (conductor)
03:06 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Sonata no. 1 in F minor Op.80 for violin and piano
Petterli Iivonen (violin), Philip Chiu (piano)
03:36 AM
Dmytro Bortniansky (1751-1825)
Choral concerto No.6 "What God is Greater"
Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor)
03:44 AM
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (c.1580-1651)
Toccata arpeggiata, Toccata seconda, and Colascione for chittarone
Lee Santana (theorbo)
03:53 AM
Edouard Lalo (1823-1892)
2 Aubades for orchestra (1872)
CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Swift (conductor)
04:02 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
If music be the food of love (Z.379)
Kari Postma (soprano), Hans Knut Sveen (harpsichord)
04:07 AM
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Capriccio espagnol Op.34
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Dmitriev (conductor)
04:22 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Polonaise No 7 in A flat, Op 53
Zheeyoung Moon (piano)
04:31 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Francesco Squarcia (arranger)
3 Hungarian Dances
I Cameristi Italiani
04:39 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967)
4 Italian madrigals for female chorus
Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (director)
04:51 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto for bassoon and orchestra (RV.497) in A minor
Ivan Pristas (bassoon), Camerata Slovacca, Viktor Malek (conductor)
05:04 AM
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
3 pieces for piano (Op.49)
Mats Jansson (piano)
05:13 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Macbeth (Op.23)
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
05:33 AM
Alonso Mudarra (c.1510-1580)
Claros y frescos rios
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (director)
05:38 AM
Jozef Elsner (1769-1854)
Symphony in C major, Op 11
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Janusz Przybylski (conductor)
06:04 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Mass (K.257) in C major "Credo"
Elizabeth Poole (soprano), Sian Menna (mezzo soprano), Christopher Bowen (tenor), Stuart MacIntyre (baritone), BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m000v300)
Thursday - Petroc's classical mix
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m000v302)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann playing the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises along the way.
0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Song of the Day – focusing on the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1100 Essential Five - this week we bring you five lilting barcarolles – music to be heard on the water.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000v304)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Fame and Fortune versus Loyalty
Donald Macleod's survey of Haydn's string quartets finds the composer on a return visit to London. In the 1794 concert season, to a packed Hanover Square Rooms' audience, Haydn presented the premiere of the second of his op 74 quartets.
From his opus 0 and opus 1 of the 1750s to his unfinished opus 103 of 1803, Haydn’s 68 string quartets span the major part of his compositional life. While he wasn’t the inventor of the form, he’s fully deserving of the epithet, the “father of the string quartet” as he elevated the form to new heights. It’s his ideas that take the quartet from its 18th century antecedents to the conventions that are rather more familiar to us today. The conversational textures he created redefined the relationship between the four instruments. Always aware of his surroundings, and other musical influences, he used ideas and rhythms from folk music, dance, opera, the instrumental concerto and other genres for larger forces. He established a sequence of movements, and within them, adapted sonata form, as well as making use of the minuet-trio, the variation, the rondo and fugue forms. Original, serious, yet with his trademark, irresistible humour never too far away, Haydn’s quartets make up a unique body of work that justly receive both admiration and appreciation.
Across the week Donald Macleod enjoys a masterclass in string quartet writing from one of the great masters of the form. His survey of Haydn includes complete performances of opus 50 no 4 - a quartet written for a King in the grandest of styles, the brilliant and theatrically inspired op 64, no 2, and the spritely and playful Lark Quartet. The versatile composer produced opus 71 no 2 with the largest of concert spaces in mind, and the series concludes with the second of Haydn’s opus 76 quartets, the last complete set he wrote, and widely regarded as being among the supreme accomplishments of his career.
He was feted and adored, a free agent earning more money that he had done in his entire life, but when Haydn was asked to return home by his employer, Prince Nikolaus II it seems a difficult decision would need to be made.
3 German dances IX:12 - version for 3 part string orchestra (excerpt)
I musici de Montreal
Yuri Turovsky, conductor
String Quartet in C, no 72, opus 74 no 1
II: Andantino grazioso
Aeolian Quartet
Symphony no 99
I: Adagio – vivace assai
Les musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski, director
String Quartet, Op. 71 No. 2 in D major
Maxwell String Quartet
Piano Sonata in E flat major, Hob XVI:49 (written 1789, pub 1790)
II. Adagio e cantabile
Paul Lewis, piano
String Quartet no 59 in D major op 74 no 3 (Rider)
IV: Finale – Allegro con brio
Kodaly Quartet
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000v306)
Gstaad Menuhin Festival (3/4)
Andras Schiff plays the first two of Beethoven's last three piano sonatas, Op 109 in E and Op 110 in A flat, framed by complementary short pieces by Bach and Schubert.
Presented by Sarah Walker
In his 250th anniversary year, last year's prestigious Gstaad Menuhin Festival focused on the music of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Andras Schiff, arguably the greatest living interpreter of Beethoven's keyboard works, presented the composer's last three sonatas in a single recital. He considers the three works to be a cycle-within-a-cycle, and has presented them as such around the world.
Bach
Prelude & Fugue in E, BWV.878 (Well-Tempered Klavier, Book II)
Beethoven
Sonata in E, Op.109
Sonata in A flat, Op.110
Schubert
Allegretto in C minor, D.915
(Beethoven's final sonata, from the same recital, can be heard in tomorrow's programme.)
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000v308)
European Summer Festivals (4/5)
Opera matinee - German music from the beginning and the end of the 19th century, by Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Strauss.
Presented by Ian Skelly
Weber's Der Freischütz, one of the first German romantic operas, is an evocatively expressive tale of marksmanship and love set in Bohemia just after the Thirty Years War, while Strauss's tone poem from 1898 paints in sound 'A Hero's Life'
2.00pm
Weber
Der Freischütz
Johanni van Oostrum, soprano, Agathe
Tuomas Katajala, tenor, Max
Chiara Skerath, soprano, Ännchen
Vladimìr Baykov, bass, Kaspar
Christian Immler, bass, Eremit and voice of Samiel
Thorsten Grümbel, bass, Kuno
Samuel Hasselhorn, baritone, Ottokar
Anas Seguin, baritone, Kilian
Clément Dazin, Samiel
Accentus
Insula Orchestra
Laurence Equilbey, conductor
4.00pm
Buxtehude
Jesu, meines Lebens Leben, BuxWV 62
Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BuxWV 78
Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr, BuxWV 41
Orfeo Orchestra
Purcell Choir
György Vashegyi, conductor
THU 17:00 In Tune (m000v30b)
Iain Farrington's Art Deco Trio, Julian Lloyd Webber, Claire Huangci
Iain Farrington's Art Deco Trio perform music from their new album 'Gershwinicity' live in the studio. Sean also talks to pianist Claire Huangci about her recent recording with the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, and in the week of his 70th birthday we hear from cellist Julian Lloyd Webber.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0001hzj)
Thirty minutes of classical inspiration
Keeping in touch with the In Tune MixTape. Telephone or letter - any way will do. With music from the Penguin Café Orchestra, Ry Cooder and Schubert's final song. With additional music by Percy Grainger, Grieg, Purcell and Bach.
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000v30g)
The great Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in lockdown performances conducted by Joshua Weilerstein. Music includes, Rossini, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, Ravel and Bartok.
Rossini, Overture La Scala di Seta
Beethoven PIano Concerto No.4
(Boris Giltburg, Piano)
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
(Tasmin Little, violin)
Ravel Tzigane
10.29
(Tasmin Little, Violin)
Bartok Divertimento
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Joshua Weilerstein, conductor
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b04h7n4s)
The Battle of Culloden, Outlander, Peter Watkins
16 April 1746, the Jacobite rising was quelled by the Duke of Cumberland's army at the Battle of Culloden. Marking this anniversary here's a chance to hear Matthew Sweet discussing portrayals of Scotland's Highlands in the Peter Watkins' film Culloden and in the Outlander series of books which have become a successful TV series. His guests in a conversation recorded at the Edinburgh Festival in 2014 are Outlander author Diana Gabaldon, historian Tom Devine and media expert John Cook.
They explore how Watkins's film Culloden was received in 1964 and the way it gave birth to the television form of docudrama and shaped the early development of Dr Who. They also ask why the emotional imagining of Culloden as National Shrine has proved so difficult to break down despite the best efforts of Scotland's historians and heritage industry.
A seventh TV series of Outlander has been commissioned by Starz.
Producer: Jacqueline Smith
THU 22:45 The Essay (m000v30k)
Folk at Home
At Home with Julie Fowlis
Verity Sharp hosts a series of conversations and performances recorded by songwriters at home. For this edition she calls Scottish singer Julie Fowlis at her home in the Highlands.
After a year of restricted movement, cancelled gigs and binned recording projects, have some of the UK’s most seasoned folk musicians changed their creative lives for good? Has the pandemic brought a whole new sense of artistic conscientiousness that has altered their artistic habits, or will it be business as usual once life’s back on track? Does the idea of jetting around the world to sing for large audiences still appeal, or has performing and sharing work online opened up new, more democratic possibilities? And how have all the events of the year rubbed off on their songwriting and sense of purpose? Verity Sharp calls up musicians who’re rooted in tradition, to find out how they’re currently feeling and to ask them to share a song that’s kept them grounded during this exceptional year.
In this episode, Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis shares how music-making has been brought into family life this year, how birds have been inspiring her to learn new songs and how being part of a tradition full of stories of the otherworld has been a source of strength.
Presented and produced by Verity Sharp.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m000v30m)
Music for night owls
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening.
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m000v30p)
Kele Okereke in the Listening Chair
Electronic artist Kele Okereke settles into the Listening Chair to share a piece of transportive music that has accompanied him on many a long-haul flight during his tenure as Bloc Party frontman. His pick comes from Glenn Branca’s Symphony No. 6 – a whirlpool of drones and dread that holds its listener rapt. There’s also music from Kele’s new solo release, a collection of hypnagogic soundscapes assembled from looped guitars.
Elsewhere, things get peculiar with new music from Osaka’s Kentaro Hayashi, who channels the forgotten dancefloors of the UK bass scene on his latest album, and the ambient, psychedelic jazz of Budapest’s Laurine Frost.
Produced by Frank Palmer
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
FRIDAY 16 APRIL 2021
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m000v30r)
Roger Padullés and Rubén Fernández Aguirre
A song recital of female composers, including Amy Beach, both Boulanger sisters and Ilse Weber. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
3 Shakespeare Songs
Roger Padulles (tenor), Ruben Fernandez Aguirre (piano)
12:38 AM
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
4 Songs
Roger Padulles (tenor), Ruben Fernandez Aguirre (piano)
12:49 AM
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
4 Songs from 'Clairières dans le ciel'
Roger Padulles (tenor), Ruben Fernandez Aguirre (piano)
12:58 AM
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
5 Songs
Roger Padulles (tenor), Ruben Fernandez Aguirre (piano), Marta Cardona (violin), Laia Puig (cello)
01:17 AM
Ilse Weber (1903-1944), Francesc Cassu (arranger)
4 Songs for Children
Roger Padulles (tenor), Ruben Fernandez Aguirre (piano), Marta Cardona (violin), Laia Puig (cello)
01:28 AM
Ilse Weber (1903-1944), Francesc Cassu (arranger)
Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt (from 4 Songs for Children)
Roger Padulles (tenor), Ruben Fernandez Aguirre (piano), Marta Cardona (violin), Laia Puig (cello)
01:31 AM
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Pelleas und Melisande, Op 5
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor)
02:14 AM
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Poeme, Op.25 (version for violin, string quartet and piano)
Philippe Graffin (violin), Jorgen Larsen (piano), Skampa Quartet
02:31 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)
03:07 AM
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Las cuatro estaciones portenas
Musica Camerata Montreal
03:30 AM
Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-)
Two Love Songs
Elmer Iseler Singers, Claire Preston (piano), Lydia Adams (director)
03:35 AM
Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755)
Sonata for Orchestra in C minor, J.III.2b
Kore Orchestra, Andrea Buccarella (harpsichord)
03:41 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Maarten Bon (arranger)
Jeux arranged for 8 hands
Yoko Abe (piano), Gerard van Blerk (piano), Maarten Bon (piano), Sepp Grotenhuis (piano)
03:57 AM
Sulho Ranta (1901-1960)
Finnish Folk Dances - suite for orchestra Op 51
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
04:06 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Sonata in C major RV 779 for oboe, violin and continuo
Camerata Koln
04:20 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Rosen aus dem Suden, waltz Op 388
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
04:31 AM
Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960)
Overture to an Italian Comedy
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Post (conductor)
04:37 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Quartet no 1 in F major for flute, clarinet, bassoon and horn
Canberra Wind Soloists
04:49 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Concerto for 3 violins in F major, TWV53:F1 (Tafelmusik)
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
05:03 AM
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Prelude for guitar no 3 in A minor
Norbert Kraft (guitar)
05:10 AM
Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783-1847)
7 Songs Vikingen (The Viking) ; Den lilla kolargossen
Samuel Jarrick (baritone), Stefan Bojsten (piano)
05:25 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Folk sketches for small orchestral ensemble (1948)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
05:29 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
String Quartet no 14 in A flat major, Op 105
Stamic Quartet
06:02 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No.38 in D major (K.504), "Prague"
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m000v3ns)
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 (m000v3nv)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann playing the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises along the way.
0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Song of the Day – focusing on the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1100 Essential Five - this week we bring you five lilting barcarolles – music to be heard on the water.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000v3nx)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
A Generous Farewell
Donald Macleod's survey of Haydn's String Quartets reaches the composer's Opus 76 series, a high point in the final decade of his life.
From his opus 0 and opus 1 of the 1750s to his unfinished opus 103 of 1803, Haydn’s 68 string quartets span the major part of his compositional life. While he wasn’t the inventor of the form, he’s fully deserving of the epithet, the “father of the string quartet” as he elevated the form to new heights. It’s his ideas that take the quartet from its 18th century antecedents to the conventions that are rather more familiar to us today. The conversational textures he created redefined the relationship between the four instruments. Always aware of his surroundings, and other musical influences, he used ideas and rhythms from folk music, dance, opera, the instrumental concerto and other genres for larger forces. He established a sequence of movements, and within them, adapted sonata form, as well as making use of the minuet-trio, the variation, the rondo and fugue forms. Original, serious, yet with his trademark, irresistible humour never too far away, Haydn’s quartets make up a unique body of work that justly receive both admiration and appreciation.
Across the week Donald Macleod enjoys a masterclass in string quartet writing from one of the great masters of the form. His survey of Haydn includes complete performances of opus 50 no 4 - a quartet written for a King in the grandest of styles, the brilliant and theatrically inspired op 64, no 2, and the spritely and playful Lark Quartet. The versatile composer produced opus 71 no 2 with the largest of concert spaces in mind, and the series concludes with the second of Haydn’s opus 76 quartets, the last complete set he wrote, and widely regarded as being among the supreme accomplishments of his career.
On 15th of August 1795, Haydn left England to resume his position of Music Director at the Esterhazy court. New challenges awaited him, but he considered the days he had spent in England to be the happiest of his life.
String Quartet in G major, Op 76 No 1
III. Menuetto: Presto
The London Haydn Quartet
Recollection Hob. XXVIa:26
Elly Ameling, soprano
Jorg Demus, piano
Symphony No. 101 in D major 'The Clock'
II. Andante
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Robin Ticciati, conductor
Berenice che fai?
Sarah Connolly, mezzo soprano
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul McCreesh, director
String Quartet, Op. 76 No. 2 in D minor 'Fifths'
Chiaroscuro
Producer: Johannah Smith for BBC Wales
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000v3nz)
Gstaad Menuhin Festival (4/4)
Andras Schiff plays the last of Beethoven's piano sonatas, Op 111, complemented by Second Viennese School pieces played by violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
Presented by Sarah Walker
In his 250th anniversary year, last year's prestigious Gstaad Menuhin Festival focused on the music of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Andras Schiff, arguably the greatest living interpreter of Beethoven's keyboard works, presented the composer's last three sonatas in a single recital (the preceding two works can be heard in yesterday's programme on BBC Sounds).
Also in the programme, the intense, rhapsodic Phantasy "for Violin with Piano Accompaniment" by Schoenberg and the fleeting, almost pointillistic Four Pieces by Webern, played by maverick virtuoso Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
Schoenberg
Phantasy, Op.47
Webern
Four Pieces, Op.7
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
Joonas Ahonen, piano
Beethoven
Sonata in C minor, Op.111
Mozart
Rondo in A minor, K.511
Andras Schiff, piano
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000v3p1)
European Summer Festivals (5/5)
Works by Mozart, Schubert and unjustly neglected French Revolutionary composer Étienne Nicolas Méhul.
Presented by Ian Skelly
A mixed programme of orchestral and vocal works from the Classical period, featuring acclaimed tenor Julian Prégardien as well as an epic of Romanticism, Reger's violin concerto, a successor to the great concertos of Beethoven and Brahms.
2.00pm
Mozart
Misero, o sogno!, K. 431
Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183
Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön, from 'The Magic Flute'
Schubert
Was belebt die schöne Welt, from 'Die Zauberharfe'
Menuets and Trios, D. 89
Méhul
Symphony No. 1 in G minor
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Lorenza Borrani, conductor
3.30pm
Reger
Violin Concerto in A, op. 101
Kristian Winther, violin
Gruppo Montebello
Henk Guittart, conductor
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (b096smmh)
Why is opera so ridiculous?
Tom Service considers opera - capable of the greatest profundity and beauty, why is it so often also ridiculous? From Mozart to Birtwistle, Tom explores the highs and lows of this dramatic genre, and talks to two expert witnesses - the acclaimed comic writer Armando Iannucci, who is an opera lover who sees the absurd side of it; and international soprano Lore Lixenberg, star of the high-camp Jerry Springer: The Opera, who recently opened a singing café in Berlin called Pret A Chanter where customers must sing rather than speak.
Pret A Chanter is a post-internet real-time opera that seeks to blur the boundaries between art and life. Anyone who steps over the threshold must abide by the rules of the opera. The main rule is: No Speaking. Only Vocalisations other than speaking are allowed.
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m000v3p3)
Chloe Hanslip and Danny Driver, Alexander Sitkovetsky and Wu Qian
Sean Rafferty welcomes violinist Chloe Hanslip and pianist Danny Driver in to the studio for a live performance ahead of their recital at Wigmore Hall in London, and we hear from husband and wife duo Alexander Sitkovetsky and Wu Qian about their live streamed performance at the finale of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music “Overture”.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000v3p5)
Your invigorating classical playlist
An eclectic daily mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises. In today's Mixtape Tchaikovsky visits Florence, Rautavaara transports us to a monastery in Finland, and the lyrics of Norma Winstone conjure A Timeless Place.
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000v3p7)
BBC Philharmonic - Bach, Handel and Purcell
Violinist Rachel Podger directs the BBC Philharmonic in music by Handel, Bach and Purcell. They are joined by soprano Carolyn Sampson and trumpeter Robert Farley for an evening of Baroque masterpieces.
Live from MediaCityUK, Salford
Handel: Eternal Source of Light Divine (from 'Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne')
Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
Purcell: Sonata for trumpet and strings, Z 850
Handel: Silete venti, HWV 242
Bach: Cantata No 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Robert Farley (trumpet)
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
Rachel Podger (director / violin)
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m000v3p9)
Determination in Writing - Experiments in Living
How determined do you have to be to become a writer? How do you return to the page every day when inspiration runs dry, or you receive a rejection? And how do you know when to step away in case your writing becomes over-determined. To answer these questions Ian McMillan is joined by guests including Paula Byrne who has just written a new biography of the British novelist Barbara Pym, who wrote for many years before being published, and was unceremoniously dropped by her publisher when her work become unfashionable.
Monique Roffey's novel 'The Mermaid of Black Conch' won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2020 - but its path to publication wasn't straightforward. Here Monique discusses keeping faith in your work when it doesn't appear to fit in any boxes.
And we have brand new poetry from Marvin Thompson, winner of the National Poetry Competition award for his poem '‘The Fruit of the Spirit is Love (Galatians
5:22)’ and from Iona Lee who has written us a new poem on 'Determination'.
Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Jessica Treen
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m000v3pc)
Folk at Home
At Home with Nancy Kerr
Verity Sharp hosts a series of conversations and performances recorded by songwriters at home. Tonight she calls composer, singer and teacher Nancy Kerr.
After a year of restricted movement, cancelled gigs and binned recording projects, have some of the UK’s most seasoned folk musicians changed their creative lives for good? Has the pandemic brought a whole new sense of artistic conscientiousness that has altered their artistic habits, or will it be business as usual once life’s back on track? Does the idea of jetting around the world to sing for large audiences still appeal, or has performing and sharing work online opened up new, more democratic possibilities? And how have all the events of the year rubbed off on their songwriting and sense of purpose? Verity Sharp calls up musicians who’re rooted in tradition, to find out how they’re currently feeling and to ask them to share a song that’s kept them grounded during this exceptional year.
In this episode, Nancy Kerr laments how the folk session scene has been a causality of pub closures but celebrates how a new university teaching post is giving her renewed feelings of security, self-worth and purpose.
Presented and produced by Verity Sharp.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m000v3pf)
Suhail Yusuf Khan and Yifeat Ziv in session
Verity Sharp shares the fruits of another Late Junction long-distance collaboration session between two artists who have never worked together before. This time, experimental vocalist Yifeat Ziv and Indian sarangi player Suhail Yusuf Khan.
Suhail Yusuf Khan is a vocalist, composer and modern master of the sarangi, a traditional bowed instrument in Indian classical music. An eighth-generation sarangi player, he was taught by his grandfather from the age of seven, touring the world with his family to perform. A prolific musical collaborator across genres and as part of multiple groups, his most recent release was an album with his Indian-folk-jazz trio Yorkston/Thorne/Khan that includes reimagined Punjabi-language praise songs and a Robert Burns poem.
Yifeat Ziv is an experimental vocalist, sound artist and free improviser. One of the winners of the 2020 Oram Awards, her sound works reflect her research into the human voice and listening practices. Her most recent release ‘Amazonian Traces of Self’ explores the intersection of her own vocals with environmental field recordings from the Brazilian rainforest. She is the co-founder of vocal ensembles The Hazelnuts and ABRA Ensemble, and has worked as an improviser with the likes of David Toop and William Parker.
Elsewhere in the show there’ll be brand new releases, from the mythological, experimental musical soundscapes of field recordist Kink Gong to the electroacoustic improvisations of multi-instrumentalist Lea Bertucci. Plus on-location recordings from a new compilation of Changüí party music from Guantánamo in Cuba.
Produced by Katie Callin
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3