Paavo Järvi conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra at the 2020 BBC Proms, with music by Ravel, Shostakovich and Mozart. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Jason Evans (trumpet), Philharmonia Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi (conductor)
La Bonne Chanson (Op.61) arr. for voice, piano & string quartet
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Johann Sebastian Bach (arranger), David Baldwin (arranger)
Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kamirski (conductor)
An hour of thought-provoking music from James Blake, Haim, Little Dragon and Henry Purcell.
Laufey looks to the movies for this playlist of stunning harmonies. With tracks from Romeo and Juliet, Frozen and La La Land.
Classical music for breakfast time, plus found sounds and the odd unclassified track.
Orff's Carmina Burana in Building a Library with Jeremy Summerly and Andrew McGregor
Kodály: Duo for Violin and Violoncello, Op. 7 - Dvořák: Piano Trio, Op. 90 'Dumky'
Shostakovich: Piano Concertos & Piano Trio No. 2
Jeremy Summerly talks to Andrew about the best recordings of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
Carl Orff composed his cantata in 1936, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana. The poems cover a wide range of subjects, which are just as topical today as they were in the 13th century: the fickleness of fortune and wealth, the ephemeral nature of life, the joy of the return of spring, and the pleasures and perils of drinking, gluttony, gambling, and lust. Orff said to his publisher "Everything I have written to date, and which you have, unfortunately, printed, can be destroyed. With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin." It became the most famous piece of music composed in Germany at the time.
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13, Op. 130 & Grosse Fuge, Op. 133
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 & Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 27
Ash Khandekar joins Andrew with new releases of operas by Puccini, Strauss and Weber.
Mahler: Symphony No. 7
Kate Molleson celebrates Coventry as UK City of Culture 2021, exploring the musical life there, its rich musical history, and talking about what the future holds for Coventrians.
She begins at the heart of Coventry in the ruins of the old cathedral, which was destroyed the November night in 1940 when the German Luftwaffe flattened the city centre. It is poignantly connected to the new cathedral by Basil Spence. With its consecration began a distinctive new choral tradition, particularly under music director David Lepine. Kate talks to one of the first choristers, David Sleath, who sang at the premiere of Britten's War Requiem, conductor Paul Daniel who joined the choir in the mid 60s, and organist Rachel Mahon who is the current music director.
Composer Dan Jones talks to Kate about his new work, Coventry Moves Together, which was commissioned by Coventry UK City of Culture for their inaugural day of events on 5th June, and which takes the ideas of the city's most pioneering composer, Delia Derbyshire. Kate talks to Chenine Bhathena, the Creative Director of Coventry UK City of Culture about the promises that she is making to the people of the city.
Birmingham-born conductor, and recently appointed Music Director of Birmingham Opera, Alpesh Chauhan, has made Coventry his home over the last few years and talks to Kate about his impressions of the city and its cultural significance.
Arguably Coventry's biggest musical export is 2-Tone Music, and Kate follows the 2-Tone trail with Neville Staples of The Specials and visits the Coventry Music Museum set up by Pete Chambers, who has devoted his life to finding out about Coventry's music history from Roman Times to the now. Central to his museum is his homage to The Specials' chart-topping song, Ghost Town.
Jess Gillam and opera singer William Thomas share the music that love, from Bach to Billy Joel.
Oscar Peterson – C Jam Blues (Oscar Peterson (Piano), Ray Brown (Double Bass), Ed Thigpen (Drums))
Bach – Ich Habe Genug Bwv 82 No.1 : Aria ‘Ich Habe Genug‘ (Hans Hotter (Bass-Baritone), Geraint Jones (Organ), Sidney Sutcliffe (Oboe), Philharmonia Orchestra, Anthony Bernard)
Elgar – Symphony No. 1 In A Flat Op. 55 3rd Mvt Adagio (Sir George Solti, London Philharmonic Orchestra)
Chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko, chooses a wide selection of music, including Russia’s most played overture, a deeply touching interpretation of Shelley’s ‘The Sunset’ and a technically ambitious piano piece by Franz Liszt, in the hands of Sviatoslav Richter.
Vasily also talks about his early experiences as a singer - in both the Russian Orthodox Church and close harmony groups - and describes how to get Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony off to a good start (without mishaps).
Inspired by the Emma Seligman's new film, 'Shiva Baby' featuring an imaginative and unsettling score by Ariel Marx, Matthew looks at music for films that present ideas about anxiety, from Hitchcock to Mel Brooks, to a some of the screen stories of the present day.
Included in the programme is music from High Anxiety, Adaptation, Now Voyager, Inside Out, Arachnophobia, Vertigo, Marnie, The Aviator, Airport, and Airplane. The Classic Score of the Week is Jerry Goldsmith's score for the 1962 Freud: The Secret Passion.
The programme also features an interview with Ariel Marx talking about her imaginative score for the new film, Shiva Baby.
Lopa Kothari presents music from Korea, Portugal and west Africa, and our intrepid guide Betto Arcos takes us on a Road Trip to the music of the Colombian Andes.
Jumoké Fashola presents an interview with Nnenna Freelon, an American vocalist known for her elegant style and her fresh takes on well-loved songs. Freelon has worked with a long list of greats, including Herbie Hancock, Clark Terry and Ray Charles. Following the release of her latest album, Time Traveler, she reveals some of her inspirations, sharing landmark recordings by Count Basie and Nina Simone.
Elsewhere in the programme Jumoké has live music from German piano star Pablo Held and saxophonist Loren Stillman, a 100th anniversary tribute to piano great Erroll Garner and a roundup of the best new releases.
The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden reopens with Mozart's last opera, La clemenza di Tito: Edgaras Montvidas stars as the Roman Emperor Titus, his legendary clemency sorely tested when his best friend Sextus falls for Vitellia - daughter of the deposed Emperor Vitellius - and conspires against Titus.
Tito (Titus) ..... Edgaras Montvidas (tenor)
Sesto (Sextus) ..... Emily D'Angelo (mezzo-soprano)
Vitellia ..... Nicole Chevalier (soprano)
Annio (Annius), Sesto's friend ..... Angela Brower (mezzo-soprano)
Servilia, Sesto's sister ..... Christina Gansch (soprano)
Publio (Publius), prefect of the praetorian guard ..... Joshua Bloom (bass)
Emperor. Sextus engulfs the Capitol of Rome in flames, but in
the confusion attempts to kill the wrong man.
Act 2: Sextus is arrested and refuses to implicate Vitellia. Titus,
guilt and her motive. Titus forgives her as well, and all join to
(Gordon MacKay and Mira Benjamin (violins), Bridget Carey (viola), Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Kerry Yong (piano), Alan Thomas (e-guitar)
Tom Service presents the latest in new music performance, with music from two festivals, Tectonics 2021 and Musikprotokoll 2020, and new CD releases.
SUNDAY 13 JUNE 2021
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m000wyyp)
Wide-Open Space
Expansive sounds from a duo that employ an electric toothbrush. Chris Williams and Patrick Shiroishi play other instruments too including trumpet, saxophones and glockenspiel in a set recorded in Los Angeles. There’s new music from Chicago reeds player Roscoe Mitchell together with drummer Mike Reed. And breezy grooves from the London-based group Wildflower comprising drummer Tom Skinner, saxophonist Idris Rahman and bassist Leon Brichard.
Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
A Reduced Listening production for Radio 3
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m000wyyr)
Beethoven and Schubert from Switzerland
Martha Argerich plays Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, followed by Schubert's Fifth Symphony. Jonathan Swain presents.
01:01 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, Op. 19
Martha Argerich (piano), Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Ion Marin (conductor)
01:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony No. 5 in B flat, D. 485
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Ion Marin (conductor)
02:01 AM
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)
Quintet in D major, Op.11, No.6 for flute, 2 violins, cello
Musica Petropolitana
02:18 AM
Otto Olsson (1879-1964)
Gregorian melodies for organ (Op.30) (1910)
Anders Bondeman (organ)
02:36 AM
Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)
Gloria from Mass Puer natus est nobis for 7 voices
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
02:46 AM
Pal Jardanyi (1920-1966)
Fantasy and variations on a Hungarian folksong
Hungarian Radio Orchestra
03:01 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115
Algirdas Budrys (clarinet), Vilnius Quartet
03:41 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Jesu meine Freude, BWV 227
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (director)
04:05 AM
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
Praeludium and Allegro
Moshe Hammer (violin), Valerie Tryon (piano)
04:10 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Horn Concerto no 1 in D major, K412
Premysl Vojta (horn), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
04:19 AM
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
The Perfect Fool, Op 39, ballet music
Argovia Philharmonic, Douglas Bostock (conductor)
04:31 AM
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Magnificat Primi Toni
Elmer Iseler Singers, Elmer Iseler Singers (conductor)
04:39 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Prelude à l'apres-midi d'un faune
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
04:50 AM
Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704)
Sonata Prima a 4 (Opera Decima Sesta)
Maniera
05:01 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Overture to The Wasps - Aristophanic suite (from incidental music)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
05:10 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Lied (Lenau): Larghetto; Wanderlied: Presto Op 8 Nos 3 & 4 (1840)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
05:17 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
The Four Seasons - Autumn
Davide Monti (violin), Il Tempio Armonico
05:28 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
3 Lieder - Standchen (Op.17/2); Morgen (Op.27/4); In goldener Fulle (Op.49/2)
Arleen Auger (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano)
05:38 AM
Jean-Baptiste Quinault (1687-1745)
Overture and Dances - from the Comedy 'Le Nouveau Monde' (1723)
L'ensemble Arion
05:46 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Oboe Sonata in D major, Op 166
Roger Cole (oboe), Linda Lee Thomas (piano)
05:58 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Ann Kuppens (arranger)
Variations on a rococo theme for cello and String orchestra, Op 33
Gavriel Lipkind (cello), Brussels Chamber Orchestra
06:20 AM
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020)
Missa Brevis
Hover State Chamber Chorus of Armenia, Sona Hovhannisyan (conductor)
06:40 AM
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Suite on Danish folk songs vers. orchestral
Claire Clements (piano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m000x048)
Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m000x04b)
Sarah Walker with an engrossing musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
Today Sarah starts with a rumba by Florence Price - its title Tropical Noon encouraging thoughts of warmer weather, as does Frederick Delius’s orchestral reflection on a thousand scented flowers and a thrush singing: In a Summer Garden.
She also discovers a deeply felt homage to Italian opera supremo Bellini in the form of a romantic sextet for piano and strings.
Plus, intriguing and mesmeric sounds from Lou Harrison and Meredith Monk.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m0001wxr)
Clarke Peters
Michael Berkeley talks to the actor Clarke Peters about his passion for breaking down barriers between musical traditions.
Best known for his television roles as Detective Lester Freeman in The Wire and Albert Lambreaux in Treme, Clarke has also appeared in films such as Notting Hill, Mona Lisa and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
And he has a rich career in music too – from busking in France in his youth to working as a backing singer for David Essex and for Joan Armatrading – if you listen carefully you can hear him on her iconic song Love and Affection. And he’s appeared in Chicago, Chess, and Porgy and Bess to name but a few musicals. In 1990 he created the award winning revue Five Guys Named Moe, based on the music of Louis Jordan.
Clarke’s choices of music reflect the trans-Atlantic nature of his life: a piece written in France by the New Orleans composer Gottschalk, which he heard when filming Treme; music by Ravel and by Debussy; and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, which always takes him straight back to his birthplace, New York. And his final piece – Nat King Cole playing Rachmaninoff - illustrates perfectly his desire to open people’s ears to the cultural breadth of classical music.
Producer: Jane Greenwood
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3
01
00:02:12 Joan Armatrading (artist)
Love And Affection
Performer: Joan Armatrading
Duration 00:00:31
02
00:05:29 Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Bamboula, Op.2
Performer: Roger Lord
Duration 00:05:34
03
00:14:25 George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Performer: Freddy Kempf
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Andrew Litton
Duration 00:06:07
04
00:24:54 Heitor Villa‐Lobos
Prelude no.1
Performer: Eduardo Fernández
Duration 00:04:50
05
00:33:57 Maurice Ravel
Lever du Jour (Daphnis et Chloe)
Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin
Duration 00:05:50
06
00:46:11 Claude Debussy
La Mer
Orchestra: Hallé
Conductor: Sir Mark Elder
Duration 00:05:58
07
00:56:21 Sergey Rachmaninov
Prelude in C sharp minor
Performer: Nat King Cole
Performer: Oscar Moore
Performer: Johnny Miller
Duration 00:03:03
SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000wsmq)
Sophie Bevan sings Berlioz and Debussy
From Wigmore Hall: Sophie Bevan sings Berlioz and Debussy.
The acclaimed soprano offers a treat for all lovers of French song in a programme that contains two of the cornerstones of the Romantic repertoire. Berlioz's settings of his friend and neighbour, Théophile Gautier tells of love unrequited or lost, whilst Debussy's settings of Baudelaire reveal a composer coming to terms with the notorious complexities of Baudelaire's poetry in music of Wagnerian amplitude.
Presented by Andrew McGregor
Debussy: Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire
Berlioz: Les nuits d'été Op.7
Sophie Bevan (soprano),
Ryan Wigglesworth (piano)
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m000x04d)
The Tallis Scholars
Hannah French presents a recording from London's Cadogan Hall, in which The Tallis Scholars and conductor Peter Phillips perform the two winning entries from the 2020 NCEM Young Composers Award, alongside music by Josquin des Prez including recordings from their recent BBC Music Magazine Award-winning disc.
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m000wss9)
St George's, Windsor
From the Queen's Free Chapel of St George, Windsor Castle.
Introit: Mother of God, here I stand (Tavener)
Responses: Smith
Psalm 113 (Atkins)
First Lesson: Isaiah 61 vv.1-3
Magnificat (Finzi)
Second Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 2 vv.1-12
Nunc dimittis: Stanford in C
Anthem: Give unto the Lord (Elgar)
Prayer anthem: The Call (Vaughan Williams)
Voluntary: Psalm-Prelude Set 2 No 3 ‘Sing unto him a new song’ (Howells)
James Vivian (Director of Music)
Luke Bond (Assistant Director of Music)
Recorded 25 May 2021.
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m000x04g)
Your Sunday jazz soundtrack
Alyn Shipton presents more of your favourite recordings with music from Gerry Mulligan, Junior Mance, Ute Lemper and several requests for the American piano great Erroll Garner, born 100 years ago this week.
DISC 1
Artist Erroll Garner
Title I’ll Remember April
Composer De Paul, Raye, Johnston
Album The Complete Concert By The Sea
Label Columbia
Number 88875120842 CD 3 Track 1
Duration 4.24
Performers Erroll Garner, p; Eddie Calhoun, b; Denzil Best, d. 19 Sept 1955
DISC 2
Artist Nigel Price
Title Cariba!
Composer Wes Montgomery
Album Wes Reimagined
Label Ubuntu
Number 0080 Track 1
Duration 6.41
Performers Nigel Price, g; Tony Kofi, as; Vassilis Xenopoulos, ts; Ross Stanley, org; Joel Barford, d; Kay Stephen, Anna Brigham, vn; Elitsa Bogdanova, vla; Chris Terepin, vc. Arr: Callum Au. 2021.
DISC 3
Artist Stan Tracey
Title Starless and Bible Black
Composer Tracey
Album Under Milk Wood
Label Jazzizit
Number 9815 Track 2
Duration 3.45
Performers Bobby Wellins, ts; Stan Tracey, p; Jeff Clyne, b; Jackie Dougan, d. 8 May 1965.
DISC 4
Artist Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond
Title Blight of the Fumble Bee
Composer Mulligan
Album Two of a Mind
Label RCA
Number 2624 Track 4
Duration 6.59
Performers Gerry Mulligan, bars; Paul Desmond, as; John Beal, b; Connie Kay, d. 26 June 1962.
DISC 5
Artist Barbara Thompson
Title A Touch Of Frost
Composer Barbara Thompson
Album In the Eye of A Storm
Label Intuition
Number 3338 Track 10
Duration 5.03
Performers Barbara Thompson, as; Billy Thompson, vn; Pete Lemer, kb; Clem Clempson, g; Dave Ball, b; Jon Hiseman, d. 2003.
DISC 6
Artist Junior Mance
Title Ralph’s New Blues
Composer Milt Jackson
Album Soulful Piano of Junior Mance
Label Avid
Number 1090 CD 1 Track 12
Duration 4.22
Performers Junior Mance, p; Bobby Thomas, b; Ben Tucker, d; 25 Oct 1960
DISC 7
Artist Junior Mance
Title Jubilation
Composer Mance
Album Junior
Label Avid
Number 1090 CD 1 Track 7
Duration 3.29
Performers Junior Mance, p; Ray Brown, b; Lex Humphries, d. 9 April 1959.
DISC 8
Artist Ute Lemper
Title There’s a Moon Over Bourbon Street Tonight
Composer Sting
Album Blood and Feathers
Label DRG
Number 91490 Track 7
Duration 2.01
Performers Ute Lemper, v; Mark Lambert, g; Vana Gierig, p; Gregory Jones, b; Todd Turkisher, d. 2005.
DISC 9
Artist Erroll Garner
Title Erroll’s Bounce
Composer Garner
Album Erroll’s Bounce
Label Marshall Cavendish
Number CD077 Track 1
Duration 2.57
Performers Erroll Garner, p; 22 April 1947
DISC 10
Artist Erroll Garner
Title Cheek To Cheek
Composer Irving Berlin
Album Up In Erroll’s Room
Label Telarc
Number 83378 Track 19
Duration 5.23
Performers Erroll Garner, p; Bernie Glow, Marvin Stamm, t; Wayne Andre, Jimmy Cleveland, tb; Don Butterfield, tu; Pepper Adams, Jerome Richardson, reeds; Ike Isaacs, b; Jimmie Smith, d; José Mangual, perc. 19 March 1968.
DISC 11
Artist Erroll Garner
Title Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby
Composer Austin / Jordan
Album Afternoon of an Elf
Label Mercury
Number 20090 Track 5
Duration 3.59
Performers Erroll Garner, p; 1955.
DISC 12
Artist Erroll Garner
Title How Could You Do A Thing Like That To Me?
Composer Tyree Glenn
Album The Complete Concert By The Sea
Label Columbia
Number 88875120842 CD 1 Track 14
Duration 4.16
Performers Erroll Garner, p; Eddie Calhoun, b; Denzil Best, d. 19 Sept 1955
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m000x04j)
How to listen to... Gilbert and Sullivan
Tom Service immerses himself in the topsy-turvy world of Gilbert and Sullivan, and finds things are seldom what they seem...
With Derek Clark of Scottish Opera and pianist and composer Richard Sisson.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m000x04l)
Two Tone
As Coventry celebrates being City of Culture, this episode takes its inspiration from the musical fusion in the city in the 1970s that produced the 2 Tone pop sound. But our canvass takes the black and white iconography of that musical moment as a starting point for a programme featuring the sounds of the piano keyboard, with its stark juxtaposition of ebony and ivory, in music from classical to jazz, from the mix of styles that burst out in the writing of the Harlem Renaissance, examples of cross cultural relationships from Othello to novels by Caryl Phillips and Andrea Levy, the reflections of poet Hannah Lowe on her Jamaican father's love of the blues, and an excerpt from musician Pauline Black's memoirs about the birth of 2 Tone band The Selecter in Coventry in the late 1970s.
The readers are Jade Anouka and Rhys Bevan.
Producer: Graham Rogers
SUN 18:45 Between the Ears (m0007r2r)
Madame Bertaux
Michele Wade is a Soho character - one of a fading milieu. She's worked at Maison Bertaux, the Greek Street patisserie founded in the 1870s by former Communards, since she was 15. There's something of Manet's barmaid at the Folies Bergère about her. Hanging behind her on the wall, a photograph of a younger Michele, dressed - not so much décolleté as bare-breasted - in a tableau in homage to Delacroix's Liberté Leading the People that was staged outside the shop one Quatorze Juillet. For props, Michele used pastries.
All sorts come to the shop: immigrants in search of work, locals who find it a home from home, tourists captivated by the shop's film-set quality, artists drawn by the exhibition space upstairs and young women, like Becks and Nancy, who work around the corner and have heard stories of the shop's risqué past. There's something teasing, even transgressive, about the way Michele tempts customers with her varieties of shortcrust, filo, flaky, choux and puff.
With the voice of Sandra Jean Pierre
Produced by Hannah Dean and Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3.
SUN 19:15 Sunday Feature (m000x04q)
The Puppet's Gaze
Puppetry has seen a rise in interest during the pandemic. New Generation Thinker Noreen Masud made her own puppet, Harley, during Lockdown and reflects on what the puppet's gaze can give, that the human gaze cannot.
Featuring Russell Dean, Artistic Director of Strangeface Theatre Company, and Dr Kanta Dihal, Senior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. And Harley and Mikey.
Producer: Neil McCarthy
SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m000x04s)
Inheritors
Madeline, grandchild of a pioneering American family, faces a moral dilemma, when two fellow students are arrested at a college protest against British colonial rule in India and threatened with deportation.
Radio premiere of Susan Glaspell's 1921 play explores nationalism, the erosion of fundamental American rights and freedom of speech. Adapted for radio by Samina Baig and introduced by Dr Laura Rattray, Reader in American Studies, University of Glasgow.
Grandmother.....Lorelei King
Felix Fejevary......Nathan Osgood
Madeline.....Samantha Dakin
Silas and his son Ira.....Clive Hayward
Jozsef Fejevary.....Stephen Critchlow
Senator Lewis.....Colin Stinton
Aunt Isabel.....Jane Slavin
Mr Smith/Emil.....Henry Devas
Young Felix/Horace....Joshua Riley
Doris.....Elinor Coleman
Bakhshish.....Shubham Saraf
Holden.....Tony Turner
Harry.....Stewart Campbell
Directed by Tracey Neale
The play starts in 1879 in the American mid-west. Wealthy landowner Silas Morton is being pressured by a young businessman to sell his land for a good price - land his ancestors stole from the Native Americans - but instead he donates it for the founding of a college, for the good of future generations. He's a progressive and an idealist, who wants his wealth to fund the education of young men and women.
We then jump forward to 1920. When two Indian students at Morton College are arrested and threatened with deportation (a deportation likely to result in their hanging) for speaking out against British rule in India, the college authorities condemn them as foreigners and revolutionaries. These same authorities fail to see the irony in their own sentimentalism about American independence and free speech as offered by their constitution.
Silas' granddaughter Madeleine, a student at the College, faces the same conundrum as her own grandfather once did: should she choose personal profit, or should she stand up for her beliefs, in hopes of creating a better future?
SUN 21:05 Record Review Extra (m000x04v)
Orff's Carmina Burana
Hannah French offers listeners a chance to hear at greater length the recordings reviewed and discussed in yesterday’s Record Review, including the recommended version of the Building a Library work, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.
SUN 23:00 The Art of Simplicity with Stuart Maconie (m000pf0s)
I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It
In art, less is often more. Music in particular can be at its most transcendent, fascinating, beautiful and rewarding when it doesn’t over-adorn or over complicate. Over two episodes, broadcaster Stuart Maconie explores the ways composers have found inspiration in the principles of simplicity. Bearing in mind that simplicity is not the same as simple, simplified or simplistic, Stuart examines how the simplest seeming music is often underpinned by rigorous philosophy, new ideas or conceptual thought.
The first episode focuses on simplicity in its most obvious form, in small and sparse sonic worlds. “I have nothing to say and I am saying it” said John Cage of his music, a little disingenuously. But Cage’s ideas have forged a distinctly modernist aesthetic. There is a powerful mystery and charge that comes from an absence of exposition and explanation. It is the mystery that comes when much is left out. This ethos can be heard in the static, lengthy beauty of Morton Feldman’s string quartets, Eliane Radigue’s suite Occam’s Ocean, which focuses on the simplest and gentlest factors in creating sound, and the chilly beauty of the modern Wandelweiser group of composers.
Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
01 John Cage
Seven Haiku: I.
Performer: Giancarlo Simonacci
Duration 00:00:10
02
00:00:50 John Cage
Dream
Performer: Alexei Lubimov
Duration 00:02:12
03
00:03:29 Morton Feldman
Violin & String Quartet (1985): Part 1
Performer: Peter Rundel
Performer: Pellegrini‐Quartett
Duration 00:04:56
04
00:10:23 Jürg Frey
Memoire, horizon
Performer: Konus Quartett
Duration 00:05:11
05
00:16:22 Laurence Crane
Sparling
Performer: Andrew Sparling
Performer: Alan Thomas
Duration 00:05:20
06
00:22:49 Peter Garland
Even more so...
Performer: Peter Garland
Duration 00:04:24
07
00:28:07 Federico Mompou
Angelico
Performer: Federico Mompou
Duration 00:01:50
08
00:29:57 Erik Satie
Gnossienne No. 1
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud
Duration 00:03:32
09
00:34:22 Poul Ruders
Occam's Razor: No. 8, Occam's Razor
Performer: Liang Wang
Performer: David Starobin
Duration 00:01:01
10
00:35:23 Éliane Radigue
Occam River I (Pour Birbyné Et Alto)
Performer: Carol Robinson
Performer: Julia Eckhardt
Duration 00:05:55
11
00:42:57 Pérotin
Viderunt Omnes
Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble
Duration 00:04:55
12
00:47:51 Antoine Beuger
Vater Unser
Singer: Irene Kurka
Duration 00:05:51
13
00:55:14 Peter Maxwell Davies
Farewell to Stromness
Performer: Richard Casey
Duration 00:04:45
MONDAY 14 JUNE 2021
MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m000x04x)
Jeffrey Boakye
Guest presenter Linton Stephens hosts a new series of Classical Fix, introducing music-loving guests to classical music. This week's guest is author, teacher and journalist Jeffrey Boakye.
Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Each week, Linton mixes a bespoke playlist for his guest, who then joins him to share their impressions of their new classical discoveries. Linton Stephens is a bassoonist with the Chineke! Orchestra and has also performed with the BBC Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra and Opera North, amongst many others.
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m000x04z)
Bach from Poland
Concerto Italiano perform JS Bach's Goldberg Variations orchestrated for Baroque ensemble and harpsichord. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Rinaldo Alessandrini (arranger)
Passacaglia and Fugue in C, BWV 582
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
12:42 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Rinaldo Alessandrini (arranger)
Aria variata alla maniera italiana in A minor BWV989; Canzona in D minor BWV588
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
12:49 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Rinaldo Alessandrini (arranger)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord), Concerto Italiano
01:33 AM
Grazyna Pstrokonska-Nawratil (1947-)
Eternel - for soprano, boys' choir, mixed choir and orchestra (1984)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Izabella Klosinska (soprano), Cracow Philharmonic Boys' Choir, Cracow Polish Radio Choir, Antoni Wit (conductor)
02:05 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129
Daniel Muller-Schott (cello), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Gurer Aykal (conductor)
02:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
String Quartet in B flat major, K458, 'Hunt'
Quatuor Mosaiques
02:53 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Piano Concerto No 2 in A major
Jeno Jando (piano), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltan Kocsis (conductor)
03:14 AM
Grace Williams (1906-1977)
Sea Sketches (1944)
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
03:32 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Quadro in G minor
Bolette Roed (recorder), Arte dei Suonatori
03:41 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Variations Serieuses, Op54
Reitze Smits (organ)
03:54 AM
Pieter Hellendaal (1721-1799)
Sonata for cello and continuo in G major, Op 5 no 8
Jaap ter Linden (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Ageet Zweistra (cello)
04:04 AM
Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
Four pieces for viola and piano
Lise Berthaud (viola), Xenia Maliarevitch (piano)
04:15 AM
Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
Trois Pieces breves for wind quintet
Galliard Ensemble
04:22 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Dalila's aria: 'Mon coeur s'ouvre' (from "Samson et Dalila", Act 2 Scene 3)
Helja Angervo (soprano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ulf Soderblom (conductor)
04:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Overture: Egmont
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Eivind Aadland (conductor)
04:40 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Polonaise No 7 in A flat, Op 53
Zheeyoung Moon (piano)
04:47 AM
Giles Farnaby (c. 1563 - 1640), Elgar Howarth (arranger)
Fancies, Toyes and Dreams
Brass Consort Koln
04:56 AM
Sigismondo d'India (c.1582-1629), Antonio Ongaro (author)
Fiume, ch'a l'onde tue
Consort of Musicke, Evelyn Tubb (soprano), Mary Nichols (alto), Andrew King (tenor), Paul Agnew (tenor), Alan Ewing (bass)
05:02 AM
Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)
Zigeunerweisen Op 20
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Guido Ajmone Marsan (conductor)
05:12 AM
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), Timothy Kain (arranger)
Scaramouche
Guitar Trek
05:22 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Flute Concerto in G major (Wq 169)
Tom Ottar Andreassen (flute), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
05:47 AM
Julius Rontgen (1855-1932)
Piano Trio in C minor, Op 50 no 4
Alexander Kerr (violin), Gregor Horsch (cello), Sepp Grotenhuis (piano)
06:07 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony No.8 in B minor (D.759) "Unfinished"
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m000wz9n)
Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m000wz9q)
Georgia Mann - Monday
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to today's starter.
1100 Essential Five – this week we focus on five percussion masterpieces.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000wz9s)
Pauline Viardot and Her Circle
The Garcia Clan
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the 19th-century French singer, pianist, composer and influential society figure, Pauline Viardot. Today he looks at her early training as a member of the Garcias, a family of singers, originally from Spain.
“When I want to do something, I do it in spite of water, fire, society, the whole world”, an indicator if ever there was one, of the inner steel of this week’s composer.
Born in 1821, Pauline Viardot possessed an array of exceptional qualities. As one of the opera stars of her age, she was admired from Paris to St Petersburg as a sublime interpreter of Rossini, Bellini, Handel and Gluck. Beyond her incomparable voice, her twice-weekly artistic salons were a high point in Parisian cultural life. She knew, and was admired by Chopin, George Sand, Delacroix, Liszt, Fauré, Tchaikovsky, and Saint-Saëns to name but a few. While having, according to Saint-Saëns, an unnecessarily modest view of her talent, she was also an accomplished composer. A talented linguist with five languages at her command, her compositions include a substantial body of songs, one or two instrumental works and a series of highly appealing operettas.
Across the week, Donald Macleod will be exploring different facets of her extraordinary life. We’ll be hearing from a range of Viardot’s compositions as well as some of the operatic roles she made famous. He’ll be examining her role in Parisian cultural circles, and her friendships with leading writers among them Charles Dickens, and in particular Ivan Turgenev, and composers such as Berlioz, Saint-Saens, Meyerbeer and Gounod, all of whom created roles specifically for her incredible voice.
Les filles de Cadix
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo soprano
Myung-Whun Chung, piano
Scène d’Hermione (Andromaque)
Act IV: Je ne t’ai point (pas), Cruel?
Györgyi Dombrádi, mezzo-soprano
Lambert Bumiller, piano
Manuel Garcia Snr: La figlia dell’aria: È non lo vedo…. Son regina
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano
International Chamber Vocalists
Zurich La Scintilla Orchestra
Ádám Fischer, conductor
Liszt: El Contrabandista - Rondo Fantastique sur Un Thème Espagnol, S.252
Valentina Lisitsa, piano
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Act 2)
Don Basilio! Cosa veggo? …… briconi, birbanti
Hermann Prey, baritone, Figaro
Teresa Berganza, mezzo-soprano, Rosina
Luigi Alva, tenor, Count Almaviva
Enzo Dara, bass, Dr Bartolo
Paolo Montarsolo, bass, Don Basilio
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor
Rossini: Otello (Act 3, Sc 1)
Canzone del Salice: Assisa a pie d'un salice
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano, Desdemona
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Edoardo Müller, conductor
Producer: Johannah Smith
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000wz9v)
Sarah Connolly and Mahan Esfahani
Live from Wigmore Hall: mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly is joined by harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani in a programme which spans five centuries of song. The partnership of Dame Sarah with Mahan Esfahani promises to be both stimulating and thought provoking, as the harpsichordist swaps his harpsichord for the modern piano in Britten's lovingly reworked accompaniments to some of Purcell most famous songs.
Presented by Martin Handley.
Louis Andriessen: Overture to Orpheus
Dowland arr. Paul Max Edlin: Come, Heavy Sleep
Purcell arr. Britten: O Solitude, We sing to him, One charming night, I take no pleasure
W.F. Bach: Keyboard Sonata in E-flat, Fk. 5
Martinu: Deux pieces for harpsichord
Tippett: Songs for Ariel
Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord and piano)
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000wz9x)
Monday - BBC Philharmonic
Tom McKinney starts a week of live and recorded performances by the BBC Philharmonic with music by Eric Coates, Aaron Copland, Cécile Chaminade, Johannes Brahms, Paul Bein-Haim, EJ Moeran and Arthur Bliss.
Eric Coates - The Selfish Giant
Aaron Copland - Four Dance Episodes from ‘Rodeo’
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor)
Paul Ben-Haim - Pan
Claudia Barainsky (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
Omer Meir Wellber (conductor)
Johannes Brahms - Serenade No.2 in A major, Op.16
BBC Philharmonic
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
Cécile Chaminade - Callirhoë (suite)
BBC Philharmonic
Moritz Gnann (conductor)
EJ Moeran - Violin Concerto
Tasmin Little (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis (conductor)
Arthur Bliss - Melée fantasque
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
Presented by Tom McKinney
MON 16:30 Early Music Now (m000wz9z)
Leila Schayegh, Stanislav Gres and Johannes Keller at the Resonanzen Festival 2020
Violinist Leila Schayegh and harpsichordists Stanislav Gres and Johannes Keller perform chamber music by Louis Marchand and JG Pisendel in the Vienna Konzerthaus as part of the 2020 Resonanzen Festival.
Louis Marchand - Excerpts from Pièces de clavecin, Book I
Stanislav Gres (harpsichord)
Johann Georg Pisendel - Violin Sonata in E minor
Leila Schayegh (violin)
Johannes Keller (harpsichord)
Presented by Tom McKinney
MON 17:00 In Tune (m000wzb1)
Rachel Nicholls and Toby Spence, Samantha Ege
Sean Rafferty is joined by the singers Rachel Nicholls and Toby Spence, who are currently taking the lead roles in Opera North's touring version of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio. Sean is also joined by the pianist and musicologist Samantha Ege, who has recently released an acclaimed recording of the piano music of Florence Price.
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000wzb3)
Classical music for focus and inspiration
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. Includes music by Bach, Byrd, Scarlatti, Shostakovich, Corelli, Borodin and Brahms.
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000wzb5)
NDR Radio Philharmonic
Andrew Manze conducts the NDR Radio Philharmonic in a concert recorded at their home in Hanover last October, including music by Poul Rouders, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Haydn and Korngold.
During the interval you can hear Andrew Manze in other guises, as the soloist in Biber's Passacaglia for solo violin and as director of The English Concert in Bach's Keyboard Concerto in F.
7.30pm
Poul Ruders - Kafkapriccio
Richard Strauss - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Op.60
Igor Stravinsky - Symphonies of Wind Instruments
NDR Radio Philharmonic
Andrew Manze (conductor)
approx
8.25pm
Heinrich Ignaz Biber - Passacaglia for solo violin
Andrew Manze (violin)
JS Bach - Concerto for harpsichord in F, BWV.1056
Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
The English Concert
Andrew Manze (conductor)
approx
8.45pm
Joseph Haydn - Symphony No.80 in D minor
Erich Korngold - Suite from "Much Ado About Nothing", Op.11
NDR Radio Philharmonic
Andrew Manze (conductor)
Presented by Fiona Talkington
MON 22:00 Music Matters (m000wyy5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 The Essay (m000wzb7)
My Deaf World
Flying Our Own Flag
A five-part series of essays that explores what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain. Each essayist has their own personal experience and take on what being part of the deaf community means to them. Some share the little-known divisions and politics of the deaf community and others share what makes the community so special and unique to the point where some deaf people consider themselves as a linguistic minority rather than disabled.
In the first essay, proud activist Abigail Gorman, takes a personal look at what it means to be deaf when most of society would prefer you not to be. She shares what it was like growing up in a deaf family who were proud of their deaf identity but why she struggled to embrace her deafness for a long time. Abigail tells us of the arguments she had with her mum when she first decided to get a cochlear implant - her mum saw getting a cochlear implant as a rejection of the deaf community - and how she has finally come to terms with her deaf identity while learning more about a concept called audism - the belief that the ability to hear language and use speech makes one superior to those who are deaf and use sign language. Abigail ends the essay on why she is now proud to be deaf and how the deaf community is a linguistic minority. She affirms her new-found belief that deafness is not a disability but a cultural identity.
My Deaf World is produced by Camilla Arnold and Sophie Allen with Mark Rickards as Executive Producer. It is a Flashing Lights Media production for BBC Radio 3.
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m000wzb9)
Around midnight
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
TUESDAY 15 JUNE 2021
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m000wzbc)
Brahms and Dvorak from China
Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra and Daye Lin perform Brahms's First Piano Concerto and Dvorak's Seventh Symphony. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor
Zhang Zuo (piano), Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Daye Lin (conductor)
01:16 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op 70
Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Daye Lin (conductor)
01:52 AM
Josef Suk (1874-1935)
Elegie, Op 23
Suk Trio, Josef Suk (violin), Josef Chuchro (cello), Jan Panenka (piano)
01:58 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Symphony No 1 in B flat major (Op.38) 'Spring'
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tamas Vasary (conductor)
02:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Davidde Penitente, K 469
Krisztina Laki (soprano), Nicole Fallien (soprano), Hans-Peter Blochwitz (tenor), Netherlands Chamber Choir, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)
03:18 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Two Pieces for String Octet, Op 11
Helena Winkelman (violin), Camerata Variabile Basel
03:29 AM
Harrison Birtwistle (b. 1934)
Night's Black Bird for orchestra
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
03:42 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 535
Scott Ross (organ)
03:49 AM
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
E voi siete d'altri, o labra soavi, ZWV 176
Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
03:59 AM
Tore Bjorn Larsen (b.1957)
Tre rosetter
Fionian Chamber Choir, Alice Granum (director)
04:13 AM
Joseph Kuffner (1776-1856)
Clarinet Quintet (Introduction, theme and variations) in B flat Op.32
Joze Kotar (clarinet), Slovene Philharmonic String Quartet
04:24 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Allegro moderato for piano, Op 8 no 1
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
04:31 AM
Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
Trio Sonata 'La Françoise' - from Les Nations, ordre no 1
Nevermind
04:38 AM
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016)
A Sad paven for these distracted tymes for string quartet
Pavel Haas Quartet
04:45 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (author)
Am Flusse (D.160) (By the River)
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (pianoforte)
04:47 AM
Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-)
The Song my Paddle Sings for SATB with piano accompaniment
Elmer Iseler Singers, Claire Preston (piano), Lydia Adams (conductor)
04:51 AM
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837-1910)
Overture on Russian themes
Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
05:00 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fugue from Sonata no 3 in C for solo violin, BWV.1005
Sigiswald Kuijken (violin)
05:11 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Octet for wind instruments
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
05:27 AM
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1788-1831)
Trio for clarinet, cello and piano
Amici Chamber Ensemble
05:47 AM
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Passacaglia, Op 1
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
06:00 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Oiseaux tristes, No 2 from Miroirs
Jurate Karosaite (piano)
06:04 AM
Rudolf Escher (1912-1980)
Le Tombeau de Ravel (1952)
Bart Schneemann (oboe), Jacques Zoon (flute), Ronald Hoogeveen (violin), Zoltan Benyacs (viola), Dmitri Ferschtman (cello), Glen Wilson (harpsichord)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m000x06d)
Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m000x06g)
Georgia Mann - Tuesday
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to today's starter.
1100 Essential Five – this week we focus on five percussion masterpieces.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000x06j)
Pauline Viardot and Her Circle
The New Sensation
Donald Macleod explores how Pauline Viardot's career was assisted by the support of two influential figures, the poet Alfred de Musset and the novelist George Sand.
“When I want to do something, I do it in spite of water, fire, society, the whole world”, an indicator if ever there was one, of the inner steel of this week’s composer, 19th-century French singer, pianist, composer and influential society figure, Pauline Viardot.
Born in 1821, Pauline Viardot possessed an array of exceptional qualities. As one of the opera stars of her age, she was admired from Paris to St Petersburg as a sublime interpreter of Rossini, Bellini, Handel and Gluck. Beyond her incomparable voice, her twice-weekly artistic salons were a high point in Parisian cultural life. She knew, and was admired by Chopin, George Sand, Delacroix, Liszt, Fauré, Tchaikovsky, and Saint-Saëns to name but a few. While having, according to Saint-Saens, an unnecessarily modest view of her talent, she was also an accomplished composer. A talented linguist with five languages at her command, her compositions include a substantial body of songs, one or two instrumental works and a series of highly appealing operettas.
Across the week, Donald Macleod will be exploring different facets of her extraordinary life. We’ll be hearing from a range of Viardot’s compositions as well as some of the operatic roles she made famous. He’ll be examining her role in Parisian cultural circles, and her friendships with leading writers among them Charles Dickens, and in particular Ivan Turgenev, and composers such as Berlioz, Saint-Saens, Meyerbeer and Gounod, all of whom created roles specifically for her incredible voice.
Madrid
György Dombrádi, mezzo-soprano
Lambert Bumiller, piano
Hai luli
Olena Tokar, soprano
Igor Gryshyn, piano
Six Morçeaux
1 Romance
II Bohèmienne
III: Berçeuse
Reto Kuppel, violin
Wolfgang Manz, piano
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Act 2)
Ah! qual colpo inaspettato!
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano, Rosina
Leo Nucci, baritone, Figaro
William Matteuzzi, tenor, Almaviva
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Giuseppe Patanè, conductor
Plainte d’amour (Mazurka in F sharp minor, op 6 no 1)
Urszula Kryger, mezzo-soprano
Charles Spencer, piano
L’Oiselet (Mazurka op 68, no 2)
Sophie Karthäuser, soprano
Eugene Asti, piano
La Séparation (Mazurka no 14 in G minor op 24, no 1)
Ina Kancheva, soprano
Kamelia Kader, mezzo-soprano
Ludmil Angelov, piano
Rossini: La Cenerentola – Overture
South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden
Alberto Zedda, conductor
3 Mörike Songs
no 1. In der Frühe
no 2. Nixe Binsefuss
Catriona Morison, mezzo-soprano
Simon Lepper, piano
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000x06l)
Cardiff Singer of the World - Song Prize Highlights (1/3)
Pianist and broadcaster Iain Burnside and soprano Rebecca Evans, introduce highlights from the first and second concerts in the 2021 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Song Prize, which takes place this week in the Dora Stoutzker Recital Hall, at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Following the preliminaries, just fourteen of the world's finest young singers have been invited to Cardiff to perform their programmes of lieder and art song in front of a distinguished jury, led by Wigmore Hall's Artistic and Executive Director John Gilhooly. The stakes are high, as only five of them will secure a spot in the final of the Song Prize at St. David's Hall on Thursday.
Competitors taking part include Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdottir, soprano (Iceland), Gihoon Kim, baritone (Republic of Korea); Evgenia Asanova, mezzo soprano (Russia); Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, soprano, (South Africa); Reginald Smith, Jnr, baritone, (USA)
Competition Accompanists: Llŷr Williams; Simon Lepper
Producer: Johannah Smith
TUE 14:30 Afternoon Concert (m000x06n)
Tuesday - BBC Philharmonic
Tom McKinney continues his week of live and recorded performances by the BBC Philharmonic with music by Beethoven, Bartók, Stravinsky, George Antheil, York Bowen and Alfredo Casella.
Béla Bartók - Romanian Folk Dances
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds (conductor)
George Antheil - Nocturne in Skyrockets
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds (conductor)
Igor Stravinsky - Danses concertantes
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds (conductor)
Béla Bartók - Divertimento for strings
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds (conductor)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Romance for violin & orchestra No.1 in G, Op.40
John Storgårds (violin /director)
BBC Philharmonic
York Bowen - Symphony No.2 in F major
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis (conductor)
Alfredo Casella - Italia
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (condcutor)
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m000x06q)
Melvyn Tan, James Gilchrist
Sean Rafferty's special guest is pianist Melvyn Tan, playing live in the studio. Tenor James Gilchrist also joins Sean to talk about his new recording of British songs, and his forthcoming appearance at Leeds Lieder Festival.
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0001xjf)
Your daily classical soundtrack
Dig out your top hat and bustle, cover those table legs and get into the In Tune Mixtape. It's 80s night! The tunes that defined a decade, from those soulmates Brahms and Dvorak to Gilbert and Sullivan, Gounod and Debussy, Sousa and Tchaikovsky.
01 Charles‐François Gounod
Funeral March Of A Marionette
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Paul Paray
02
00:02:26 Arthur Sullivan
Love unrequited... When you're lying awake (Iolanthe)
Performer: Richard Suart
Librettist: W. S. Gilbert
Orchestra: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra
Conductor: John Pryce-Jones
Duration 00:03:26
03
00:05:10 John Philip Sousa
The Washington Post - march
Performer: Julian Leaper
Orchestra: New London Orchestra
Conductor: Ronald Corp
Duration 00:02:59
04
00:08:07 Antonín Dvořák
Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major Op.81 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Jonathan Biss
Ensemble: Elias String Quartet
Duration 00:04:15
05
00:09:38 Johannes Brahms
Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 73 (3rd mvt)
Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic
Duration 00:05:45
06
00:13:33 Gustav Mahler
Das irdische Leben (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter
Conductor: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Duration 00:02:40
07
00:16:04 Jacques Offenbach
Belle nuit (Les contes d'Hoffmann)
Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Neville Marriner
Duration 00:03:16
08
00:19:14 Claude Debussy
Arabesque no.1 in E major
Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet
Conductor: Harry Bicket
Duration 00:03:41
09
00:22:53 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture, Op 49
Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra
Ensemble: Royal Dutch Marine Band
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Duration 00:15:48
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000x06s)
Ensemble Marsyas
Martin Handley introduces a concert by Ensemble Marsyas, directed from the harpsichord by Peter Whelan, recorded last month at the Wigmore Hall in London in an all-Handel programme featuring soprano Louise Alder and countertenor Christopher Lowrey. The repertoire features a sinfonia and two sonatas, including one for bassoon performed by Peter Whelan as soloist, as well as two charming duets, culminating with the 1708 cantata Amarilli Vezzosa, the fateful story of shepherds Daliso and Amaryllis.
George Frideric Handel:
Sinfonia in B flat, HWV339
Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi, HWV197
Trio Sonata in G minor, HWV393
Conservate, raddoppiate, HWV185
Bassoon Sonata in F Op. 1 No. 11, HWV369 for bassoon and continuo
Cantata: Amarilli Vezzosa (Il Duello Amoroso), HWV82
Louise Alder, soprano
Christopher Lowrey, countertenor
Ensemble Marsyas
Peter Whelan, bassoon and harpsichord
Sarah Sexton & Michael Gurevich, violins
Sarah McMahon, cello
Sergio Bucheli, lute
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m000x06v)
Nadifa Mohamed, Gentle/Radical, Dylan Thomas
A Somali arrested for murder in 1950s Cardiff inspired the latest novel from Nadifa Mohamed. She talks to Rana Mitter about uncovering this miscarriage of justice in a newspaper cutting with the headline "Woman Weeps as Somali is Hanged". On stage at the National Theatre, Michael Sheen, Karl Johnson and Siân Phillips lead the cast in a production of Under Milk Wood so we look at the craft of Dylan Thomas's writing and talk to Siân Owen about her framing of the story for the National Theatre stage. And we hear about the links between art and community demonstrated by the Cardiff collective called Gentle/Radical who've been nominated for this year's Turner Prize and look at the work on show in Artes Mundi 9 at the National Museum, Cardiff; Chapter, and g39.
Nadifa Mohamed's novel out now is called The Fortunate Men. You can find her discussing the writing life alongside Irenosen Okojie in the Free Thinking playlist called Prose and Poetry https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047v6vh
Under Milk Wood runs at the National Theatre in London from 16 June–24 July 2021
An exhibition of work by Gentle/Radical will be held at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry from 29 September 2021 - 12 January 2022 as part of the UK City of Culture 2021 celebrations. The Turner Prize winners will be announced on 1 December 2021
The Artes Mundi 9 Prize exhibition is now open at the National Museum Cardiff Chapter and g39 until September 5th. The prize winner is announced on 17 June 2021.
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021 is taking place between 12 and 19 June in Cardiff and you can hear broadcasts on BBC Radio 3
Producer: Emma Wallace
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m000x06x)
My Deaf World
The Deaf Club
A five-part series of essays that explores what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain. Each essayist has their own personal experience and take on what being part of the deaf community means to them. Some share the little-known divisions and politics of the deaf community and others share what makes the community so special and unique to the point where some deaf people consider themselves as a linguistic minority rather than disabled.
Australian-born academic Robert Adam takes us on a nostalgic journey through his early childhood and shares what it was like growing up in a family with deaf parents and siblings. He explores the dichotomy of writing an essay for a medium that he’s never had access to - radio. Within this exploration, Robert also considers what his voice might sound like if he could hear and speak. Robert takes us on a trip down memory lane as he shares his childhood memories of realising that not everyone in the world were deaf, the mystery of how telephones work and his fond memories of the ‘Deaf Club’ that was the centre of the deaf community. He ends the essay on the thought that when people think of being deaf as an isolating disability, they are not taking into account the rich, diverse and rounded cultural life that Robert and other members of the deaf community experience.
My Deaf World is produced by Camilla Arnold and Sophie Allen with Mark Rickards as Executive Producer. It is a Flashing Lights Media production for BBC Radio 3.
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m000x06z)
Music for the evening
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
WEDNESDAY 16 JUNE 2021
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m000x071)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Czech conductor Petr Popelka begins his tenure as chief conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra with a programme encompassing classical, neo-classical and hardanger fiddle music. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony no.100 in G major, H.
1:100 (Military)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor)
12:54 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Romance in F minor for violin and orchestra, Op.11
Ragnhild Hemsing (violin), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor)
01:07 AM
Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935)
Fossegrimen - incidental music Op.21 (exceprts)
Ragnhild Hemsing (fiddle), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor)
01:22 AM
Johan Svendsen (1840-1911)
Romance for violin and orchestra in G major, Op.26
Ragnhild Hemsing (violin), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor)
01:31 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Symphony no.1 in D major, Op.25 (Classical)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor)
01:45 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
String Quintet in G minor (K.516)
Pinchas Zuckerman (violin), Jessica Linnebach (violin), Jethro Marks (viola), Donnie Deacon (viola), Amanda Forsyth (cello)
02:22 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Overture to Speziale (H.28.3)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)
02:31 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Symphony No 2 in C major, Op 61
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
03:07 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Etudes: Book 2
Roger Woodward (piano)
03:33 AM
Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-)
Gloria for SSAA, brass quintet, timpani & percussion
Elmer Iseler Singers, Robert Venables (trumpet), Robert Devito (trumpet), Linda Broncesky (horn), Ian Cowie (trombone), Marc Bonang (tuba), Graham Hargrove (percussion), Nicolas Coulter (percussion), Lydia Adams (conductor)
03:39 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Ferruccio Busoni (arranger)
Prelude & Fugue in D major (BWV.532) transcribed Busoni
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
03:50 AM
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Bachiana brasileira No 5
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Bryan Epperson (cello), Maurizio Baccante (cello), Roman Borys (cello), Simon Fryer (cello), David Hetherington (cello), Roberta Jansen (cello), Paul Widner (cello), Thomas Wiebe (cello), Winona Zelenka (cello)
04:03 AM
Denes Agay (1911-2007)
5 Easy Dances for flute, oboe, clarinet in Bb, bassoon, horn
Tae-Won Kim (flute), Sang-Won Yoon (bassoon), Kawng-Ku Lee (horn), Hyon-Kon Kim (clarinet), Hyong-Sup Kim (oboe)
04:11 AM
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Kol Nidrei Op 47
Adam Krzeszowiec (cello), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
04:23 AM
Kaspar Forster (1616-1673)
Sonata a 3 in B flat major (KBPJ 39)
Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble
04:31 AM
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
Concert waltz for orchestra no 2 in F major, Op 51
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Kazuyoshi Akiyama (conductor)
04:40 AM
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Toccata per cembalo, in G minor/major
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)
04:48 AM
Veselin Stoyanov (1902-1969)
Rhapsody (1956)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
04:58 AM
Howard Skempton (b. 1947)
The Lord is my Shepherd
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier (conductor)
05:02 AM
Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944)
Automne, Op 35 No 2
Valerie Tryon (piano)
05:09 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in F (RV.568) for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon & cello
Zefira Valova (violin), Anna Starr (oboe), Markus Muller (oboe), Anneke Scott (horn), Joseph Walters (horn), moni Fischaleck (bassoon), Les Ambassadeurs
05:23 AM
Anonymous
Bassa danza (from Faenza Codex)
Millenarium
05:29 AM
Otto Nicolai (1810-1849)
Mass for soloists, chorus & orchestra in D major
Irena Baar (soprano), Mirjam Kalin (alto), Branko Robinsak (tenor), Marco Fink (bass), RTV Slovenia Chamber Choir, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
06:00 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Quartet for strings No 1 in D major Op 11
Tammel String Quartet
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m000wys6)
Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m000wys8)
Georgia Mann - Wednesday
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to today's starter.
1100 Essential Five – this week we focus on five percussion masterpieces.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000wysb)
Pauline Viardot and Her Circle
A Poet and a Civil Servant
Donald Macleod attempts to unravel the complexities of Pauline Viardot's close friendship with the writer Ivan Turgenev, which lasted, albeit with a few breaks, until his death in 1883.
“When I want to do something, I do it in spite of water, fire, society, the whole world.”, an indicator if ever there was one, of the inner steel of this week’s composer, 19th-century French singer, pianist, composer and influential society figure, Pauline Viardot.
Born in 1821, Pauline Viardot possessed exceptional qualities. As one of the opera stars of her age, she was admired from Paris to St Petersburg as a sublime interpreter of Rossini, Bellini, Handel and Gluck. Beyond her incomparable voice, her twice-weekly artistic salons were a high point in Parisian cultural life. She knew, and was admired by Chopin, George Sand, Delacroix, Liszt, Fauré, Tchaikovsky, and Saint-Saëns to name but a few. While having, according to Saint-Saens, an unnecessarily modest view of her talent, she was also an accomplished composer. A talented linguist with five languages at her command, her compositions include a substantial body of songs, one or two instrumental works and a series of highly appealing operettas.
Across the week, Donald Macleod will be immersing himself in the many facets of her extraordinary life. We’ll be hearing a range of Viardot’s compositions as well as some of the operatic roles she made famous. He’ll be examining her role in Parisian cultural circles, and her friendships with leading writers among them Charles Dickens, and in particular Ivan Turgenev, and composers such as Berlioz, Saint-Saens, Meyerbeer and Gounod, all of whom tailored roles specifically for her incredible voice.
Berçeuse-cosaque
Katherine Eberle, mezzo-soprano
Robin Guy, piano
Golden glow of the mountain peaks
Do not sing, my beauty, to me
Olena Tokar, soprano
Igor Gryshyn, piano
Rossini: Il barbiere di siviglia (Act 1, no 5)
Una voce poco fa
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano
Orchestra of Teatro Comunale di Bologna,
Giuseppe Patanè, conductor
Le dernier sorcier (Act 1)
no 1 Par ici
no 2 Chanson de Lelio “Dans le bois frais et sombre”
no 3 Romance de la Reine “Ramasse cette rose”
Adriana Zabala, mezzo-soprano, Lelio
Eric Owens, bass-baritone, Krakamiche
Sarah Brailey, soprano, Verveine
Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano, the Queen
Liana Pailodze Harron, pianist
Myra Huang, piano
Manhattan Girls’ Chorus
12 songs of Pushkin, Fet and Turgenev
No 1 Tsvetok
5 poems of Lermontov & Turgenev:
No 1 Na zare
10 poems of Pushkin, Lermontov, Koltsov, Tyutchev and Fet
No 3 Ya lyubila yego
12 poems of Pushkin, Fet and Turgenev:
No 4 Polunochnyye obrazy
Ina Kancheva, soprano
Ludmil Angelov, piano
Bellini: La sonnambula, (Act 1)
“..In Elvezia non v’ha rosa, Fresca e cara al par d’Amina…..”
Care compagne, e voi, tenere amici!
Sovra il sen la man mi posa
Nathalie Dessay, soprano, Amina
Paul Gay, bass-baritone, Alessio
Sara Mingardo, contralto, Teresa
Chorus and Orchestra of Lyon Opera
Evelino Pidò, conductor
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000wysf)
Cardiff Singer of the World - Song Prize Highlights (2/3)
Iain Burnside is joined by Rebecca Evans to present highlights from the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021 Song Prize.
Iain Burnside in the company of Rebecca Evans presents a selection of highlights from the competition rounds of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021 Song Prize, featuring the best young singers from across the world. From the Dora Stoutzker Hall at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, where the superstars of the future are competing for a place in the Song Prize final on Thursday evening.
Competitors taking part include mezzo Stephanie Wake-Edwards (England) soprano Sarah Gilford (Wales), baritone Michael Rakotoarivony (Madagascar), soprano Elbenita Kajtazi Halmi (Kosovo), bass-baritone Jusung Park (Republic of Korea).
WED 14:30 Afternoon Concert (m000wysh)
Wednesday - BBC Philharmonic, live at MediaCityUK
Jac van Steen conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Dvorak's Nocturne and Brahms's First Serenade in a live concert from MediaCityUK in Salford.
Dvořák - Nocturne in B major for strings, Op.40
Brahms - Serenade No.1 in D major, Op.11
BBC Philharmonic
Jac van Steen (conductor)
Presented by Tom McKinney
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (m000wysk)
King's College, Cambridge
Live from the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge.
Introit: A prayer of King Henry VI (Ley)
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalms 82, 83, 84, 85 (Trent, Stonex, Parry, Jones)
First Lesson: Judges 6 vv.1-16
Canticles: Wood in E flat No 1
Second Lesson: Matthew 5 vv.13-24
Anthem: Save us, O Lord (Bairstow)
Te Deum: Ireland in F
Voluntary: Chorale Prelude on ‘Dundee’ (Parry)
Daniel Hyde (Director of Music)
Paul Greally (Organ Scholar)
WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m000wysm)
Alexander Gadjiev plays Beethoven
Alexander Gadjiev plays Beethoven's 'Waldstein' Piano Sonata at the BBC's Maida Vale studios.
Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 21 in C major Op.53 (Waldstein)
Alexander Gadjiev (piano)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m000wysp)
The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, Tabita Berglund
Sean Rafferty is joined by the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, playing live in the studio ahead of their appearance at Stour Music, the festival of music in east Kent, this weekend. He also talks to the Norwegian conductor Tabita Berglund, who is in the UK to conduct the Hallé this week.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000wysr)
Classical music for your commute
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.
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000wyst)
Nicola Benedetti and LSO play Mark Simpson and Tchaikovsky
The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gianandrea Noseda perform two powerful works, beginning with a world premiere. The Liverpudlian composer Mark Simpson wrote his Violin Concerto for tonight's soloist, Grammy-winning Nicola Benedetti. At once thrilling and engaging, critics described it as 'electrifying' and as having 'visceral energy'.
The second half of the concert, too, packs an emotional punch: Tchaikovsky’s final symphony, the ‘Pathétique’, whose angst-filled outer movements flank a lopsided waltz and a glittering march (the ‘Pathétique’ impressed Mahler so much he took it as a model for his own ninth symphony).
Recorded at LSO St Luke's in April and presented by Martin Handley.
Mark Simpson: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6, 'Pathétique'
Nicola Benedetti, violin
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m000wysw)
Displacement
Are you coming back? That is what potter Edmund de Waal was asked by readers when he published his best-selling book about his family's refugee history The Hare with Amber Eyes. It's not a question he had easy answers for. In Refugee Week, Anne McElvoy and her guests, Edmund de Waal, Frances Stonor Saunders and Fariha Shaikh look at what it means to have to move your family and belongings - from the Jewish people who fled from central Europe, to the Sikh community who have settled in Gravesend, a port which was the setting off point for Mr. Peggotty and Ham when they emigrated to Australia in Charles Dickens' story David Copperfield.
Edmund de Waal's latest book is called Letters to Camondo. You can find a recent series of Radio 3's The Essay De Waal's Itinerant Pots available on BBC Sounds.
If you want to hear the conversation between him and Nobel prize winning author Orhan Pamuk in the Free Thinking studio - check out our archives all available to download as Arts & Ideas podcasts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033cmt3
Frances Stonor Saunders has published a history of her family's travels from Romania, to Turkey, Egypt and then Britain in The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border
You can hear Frances Stonor Saunders discussing American Abstract Expressionist Art with novelist William Boyd in the Free Thinking archives https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p048m2v5
Dr Fariha Shaikh is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council which choses ten academics each year to turn their research into radio. She researches at the Department of English Literature at the University of Birmingham.
Producer: Ruth Watts
WED 22:45 The Essay (m000wysy)
My Deaf World
Big D versus Little D
A five-part series of essays that explores what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain. Each essayist has their own personal experience and take on what being part of the deaf community means to them. Some share the little-known divisions and politics of the deaf community and others share what makes the community so special and unique to the point where some deaf people consider themselves as a linguistic minority rather than disabled.
Film-maker Teresa Garratty gives us a frank and honest insight into what it was like to lose her hearing at the age of 18 and how she had to learn “how to be deaf”. There was no manual that she could read, no tutorial on You Tube with tips on how to cope with hearing loss. She discusses how her family and friends would express concerns about her getting involved in “that deaf world” as they saw the deaf community and its culture as alien. Teresa decided to learn sign language so that she could join the deaf community. But she reveals how she then realised that sign language can be perceived differently within the deaf community. Sign Language can be like currency - sometimes it’s a case of the more fluency you have the wealthier and more respected you become.
My Deaf World is produced by Camilla Arnold and Sophie Allen with Mark Rickards as Executive Producer. It is a Flashing Lights Media production for BBC Radio 3.
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m000wyt1)
Dissolve into sound
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
THURSDAY 17 JUNE 2021
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m000wyt3)
Longing for Italy
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under exciting young conductor Thomas Guggeis perform Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony and Respighi's Pines of Rome. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Symphony No.4 in A major, Op.90 (Italian)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Guggeis (conductor)
01:01 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1897-1936)
Pines of Rome
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Guggeis (conductor)
01:24 AM
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Messa di Gloria
Boyko Tsvetanov (tenor), Alexander Krunev (baritone), Dimitar Stanchev (bass), Bulgarian National Radio Chorus, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milen Nachev (conductor)
02:08 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1897-1936)
Il Tramonto - poemetto lirico
Andrea Trebnik (soprano), Borromeo String Quartet, Nicholas Kitchen (violin), Ruggero Allifranchini (violin), Hsin-Yun Huang (viola), Yeesun Kim (cello)
02:23 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Sonata da Chiesa in G major, Op 1 No 9
London Baroque
02:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto no.20 in D minor, K.466
Karina Sabac (piano), Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Tiberiu Soare (conductor)
03:02 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 65
Claes Gunnarsson (cello), Roland Pontinen (piano)
03:33 AM
Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-)
In Memoriam Elmer Iseler for SATB a capella choir
Elmer Iseler Singers, Lydia Adams (conductor)
03:40 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Il Pastor Fido - ballet music
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
03:51 AM
Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935),George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Passacaglia after Handel
Byungchan Lee (violin), Cameron Crozman (cello)
03:58 AM
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Romanian Rhapsody no 1 in A major, Op 11 no 1
Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Horia Andreescu (conductor)
04:11 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
3 Pieces from Morceaux de salon for piano, Op 10
Duncan Gifford (piano)
04:23 AM
Johannes Ockeghem (1410-1497)
Gloria from 'Missa Prolationum'
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier (conductor)
04:31 AM
Wojciech Kilar (1931-2013)
Little Overture (1955)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stanislav Macura (conductor)
04:38 AM
Francesco Durante (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto for strings No.4 in E minor
Concerto Koln
04:49 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Laudate Pueri (motet, Op 39 no 2)
Polyphonia, Ivelina Ivancheva (piano), Ivelin Dimitrov (conductor)
04:58 AM
Dobrinka Tabakova (b.1980)
Pirin for viola (2000)
Maxim Rysanov (viola)
05:07 AM
Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (1708-1780)
Concerto for horn or trumpet and strings in E flat major
Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet), Oslo Camerata, Stephan Barratt-Due (conductor)
05:23 AM
Marin Marais (1656-1728)
Tombeau pour Monsr. de Lully
Ricercar Consort, Henri Ledroit (conductor)
05:31 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Concerto for orchestra, Sz116
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)
06:08 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Partita in E flat (K.Anh.C 17`1)
Festival Winds
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m000x0n7)
Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m000x0nf)
Georgia Mann - Thursday
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to today's starter.
1100 Essential Five – this week we focus on five percussion masterpieces.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000x0nm)
Pauline Viardot and Her Circle
A Composer and a Collaborator
Donald Macleod considers Pauline Viardot's role as a muse and a collaborator with Gounod, Saint-Saens and Meyerbeer, and we hear from her fairy-tale chamber opera to a libretto by Ivan Turgenev, Le dernier sorcier.
When I want to do something, I do it in spite of water, fire, society, the whole world”, an indicator if ever there was one, of the inner steel of this week’s composer, 19th-century French singer, pianist, composer and influential society figure, Pauline Viardot.
Born in 1821, Pauline Viardot possessed an array of exceptional qualities. As one of the opera stars of her age, she was admired from Paris to St Petersburg as a sublime interpreter of Rossini, Bellini, Handel and Gluck. Beyond her incomparable voice, her twice-weekly artistic salons were a high point in Parisian cultural life. She knew, and was admired by Chopin, George Sand, Delacroix, Liszt, Fauré, Tchaikovsky, and Saint-Saëns to name but a few. While having, according to Saint-Saens, an unnecessarily modest view of her talent, she was also an accomplished composer. A talented linguist with five languages at her command, her compositions include a substantial body of songs, one or two instrumental works and a series of highly appealing operettas.
Across the week, Donald Macleod will be exploring different facets of her extraordinary life. We’ll be hearing from a range of Viardot’s compositions as well as some of the operatic roles she made famous. He’ll be examining her role in Parisian cultural circles, and her friendships with leading writers among them Charles Dickens, and in particular Ivan Turgenev, and composers such as Berlioz, Saint-Saens, Meyerbeer and Gounod, all of whom created roles specifically for her incredible voice.
Évocation
Györgyí Dombrádi, mezzo-soprano
Lambert Bumiller, piano
Ars Musici AM 1288-2
Le dernier sorcier (Finale to Act 2)
C’est moi, ne craignez rien
Loupprola, Schibbola, Trix
O bienfaisante fée
Salut! Salut! O forêt bien aimée
Adriana Zabala, mezzo-soprano, Lelio
Camille Zamora, soprano Stella
Eric Owens, bass-baritone, Krakamiche
Michael Slattery, tenor, Perlimpinpin
Manhatten Girls’ Chorus
Myra Huang, piano
Gounod: Sapho (Act 3)
O ma lyre immortelle….
Elina Garanča, mezzo-soprano
Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Yves Abel, conductor
Saint-Saens: Samson et Dalila (Act 1)
Printemps qui commence (Dalila, The Old Hebrew)
Waltraud Meier, mezzo-soprano
Samuel Ramey, baritone, the Old Hebrew
Orchestre et choeurs de l’Opéra-Bastille
Myung-Whun Chung, conductor
Meyerbeer: Le prophète (Act V Sc 2, 3 & 4 )
Ô prêtres de Baal, où m’avez-vous conduite ? …… Viens, il en est temps encore !
Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano, Fidès, mother of Jean
James McCracken, tenor, Jean de Leye
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Henry Lewis, conductor
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000x0nt)
Cardiff Singer of the World - Song Prize Highlights (3/3)
Iain Burnside in the company of Rebecca Evans presents a selection of highlights from the competition rounds of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021 Song Prize, featuring the best young singers from across the world. From the Dora Stoutzker Hall at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, where the superstars of the future are competing for a place in the Song Prize final on Thursday evening.
Competitors taking part include soprano Christina Gansch (Austria), tenor Chuan Wang (China), soprano Maria Brea (Venezuela), and baritone Ankhbayar Enkhbold (Mongolia).
THU 14:30 Afternoon Concert (m000x0p0)
Thursday - BBC Philharmonic
Tom McKinney continues the week of live and recorded performances by the BBC Philharmonic with music by Haydn, Dvořák, Ravel, Busoni, John Foulds and Kurt Schwertsik.
John Foulds - April - England
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
Joseph Haydn - Cello Concerto in C major, Hob.VIIb:1
Anastasia Kobekina (cello)
BBC Philharmonic
Anna-Maria Helsing (conductor)
Maurice Ravel - Ma mère l’oye (ballet)
BBC Philharmonic
Moritz Gnann (conductor)
Antonin Dvořák - Serenade for strings in E major, Op.22
BBC Philharmonic
Omer Meir Wellber (conductor)
Kurt Schwertsik - Baumgesang
BBC Philharmonic
H.K. Gruber (conductor)
Ferruccio Busoni - Indian Fantasy
Nelson Goerner (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Presented by Tom McKinney
THU 17:00 In Tune (m000x0p4)
Haffner Wind Ensemble, David Pountney
Sean Rafferty is joined by the Haffner Wind Ensemble, playing live in the studio, before they head off to appear at this year's Northern Aldborough Festival in Yorkshire. He also talks to the opera director David Pountney about a new production of Rimsky-Korsakov's Ivan the Terrible, at Grange Park Opera.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000x0p8)
Thirty minutes of classical inspiration
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.
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000x0pd)
Song Prize Final, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021
Andrew McGregor presents the nail-biting finale of 2021 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Song Prize, with guest contributor, soprano Rebecca Evans.
After a year like no other, five of the world's most exciting young singers are through to the final of the Singer of the World lieder and art song competition. They'll be performing on stage at St. David's Hall in Cardiff, for an expert jury chaired by Wigmore Hall's Artistic and Executive Director John Gilhooly. Expectations are high, there can only be one winner. Whoever secures the prestigious title follows in the footsteps of some of our finest recitalists, among them, bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel, the first recipient of the Song Prize in 1989, baritones Neal Davies and Christopher Maltman, tenor Andrew Kennedy and sopranos Ailish Tynan and Elizabeth Watts.
Producer: Johannah Smith
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m000x0pj)
Masks
Artist Leilah Babirye, classicist Natalie Haynes and BBC correspondent Marianna Spring join Matthew Sweet to explore the role of masks in African traditions, Greek tragedy and Covid conspiracies.
Leilah Babirye's first solo exhibition in the UK is at the Stephen Friedman Gallery, London until 31st July.
Pandora's Jar: Women in Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes is now out in paperback. You can hear Natalie sharing her musical choices with Michael Berkeley on Private Passions on BBC Radio 3. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnv3
And Natalie discusses the legacy of the Trojan War in this episode of Free Thinking https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bg2k
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
THU 22:45 The Essay (m000x0pn)
My Deaf World
Belonging
A five-part series of essays that explores what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain. Each essayist has their own personal experience and take on what being part of the deaf community means to them. Some share the little-known divisions and politics of the deaf community and others share what makes the community so special and unique to the point where some deaf people consider themselves as a linguistic minority rather than disabled.
Sannah Gulamani, a Research Assistant at University College London, shares with us how the existence of deafness can actually be seen as a positive, and not a negative, because of inventions such as subtitles and video calls. Sannah, because of navigating through a world of ‘can’ts’, decided to study music at university. But her love of music is often questioned by those who believe that music is the preserve of those with a ‘good ear’. Sannah delves deeper to discuss how her intersectional identities are often misunderstood, and what identity means in terms of belonging. Within this exploration, she examines her interest in the linguists of British Sign Language and what propelled the career shift from music to sign language linguistics. Finally, Sannah asks whether it can be claimed that the deaf community is a space that is welcoming and safe for all deaf individuals. She looks into how racist and offensive signs are still being used as a result of white fragility and privilege.
My Deaf World is produced by Camilla Arnold and Sophie Allen with Mark Rickards as Executive Producer. It is a Flashing Lights Media production for BBC Radio 3.
THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m000x0ps)
Music for the evening
Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening.
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m000x0px)
At the Mind Altar
Elizabeth Alker drifts to the edges of ambient and electronic music, and explores the spaces in between.
On Jim O’Rourke’s latest record, Too Compliment, his penchant for spiralling, immersive electronics is given free rein on a beguiling modular synthesiser, handcrafted for him by one of the remaining masters of the instrument. Elsewhere, Hania Rani’s mesmerising piano composition for theatre and film is given the retrospective treatment, and the Canadian producer Khotin offers up a weird and watery downtempo groove in the form of his new single, ‘Mind Altar’.
Produced by Frank Palmer
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3
FRIDAY 18 JUNE 2021
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m000x0pz)
Fête de la musique - Festival Strings Lucerne - Back on Stage
Pianist Claire Huangci joins Lucerne Festival Strings in Chopin's Second Piano Concerto. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Franz Schreker (1878-1934)
Scherzo for String Orchestra
Festival Strings Lucerne, Daniel Dodds (conductor)
12:38 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, op. 21
Claire Huangci (piano), Festival Strings Lucerne, Daniel Dodds (conductor)
01:11 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Bilder aus Osten, op. 66
Lucerne Festival Strings, Daniel Dodds (conductor)
01:33 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
String Serenade in E, op. 22
Lucerne Festival Strings, Daniel Dodds (conductor)
02:01 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Johan Svendsen (arranger)
Abendlied, op. 85/12
Lucerne Festival Strings, Daniel Dodds (conductor)
02:05 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Trio in G major, Op 9 no 1
Trio Aristos
02:31 AM
Antonin Liehmann (1808-1878)
Mass for soloists, chorus, organ and orchestra No.1 in D minor
Lenka Skornickova (soprano), Olga Kodesova (alto), Damiano Binetti (tenor), Ilja Prokop (bass), Radek Rejsek (organ), Czech Radio Choir, Pilsen Radio Orchestra, Josef Hercl (conductor)
03:12 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Quartet in G major (K.387)
Orford String Quartet
03:43 AM
Franz Doppler (1821-1883)
Fantaisie pastorale hongroise, Op 26
Ivica Gabrisova-Encingerova (flute), Matej Vrabel (piano)
03:53 AM
Howard Cable (1920-2016)
The Banks of Newfoundland
Hannaford Street Silver Band, Stephen Chenette (conductor)
04:01 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Barcarolle, Op 60
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
04:10 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Egyptischer March Op 335
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
04:14 AM
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Danzon Cubano vers. for 2 pianos
Aglika Genova (piano), Liuben Dimitrov (piano)
04:21 AM
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)
Quintet for flute, oboe, violin, viola & basso continuo (Op.11 No.2) in G major
Les Adieux
04:31 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Overture - Nabucco
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Alun Francis (conductor)
04:39 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in D minor Fugue (K.41); Presto (K. 18)
Eduardo Lopez Banzo (harpsichord)
04:48 AM
Willem Kersters (1929-1998), Paul van Ostaijen (author)
Hulde aan Paul (Op.79)
Flemish Radio Choir, Vic Nees (conductor)
04:58 AM
Johann Rosenmuller (1619-1684)
Sinfonia Quinta
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists
05:08 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
8 Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano'
Hyong-Sup Kim (oboe), Ja-Eun Ku (piano)
05:18 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
3 Characteristic Pieces
Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, Vassil Kazandjiev (conductor)
05:28 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
4 Gesänge, Op 32
Ruud van der Meer (baritone), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
05:38 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Suite no 2 for 2 pianos, Op 17
Ouellet-Murray Duo (piano duo)
06:03 AM
Ludvig Norman (1831-1885)
String Sextet in A major (Op.18) (1850)
Stockholm String Sextet (sextet)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m000x1ct)
Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m000x1cw)
Georgia Mann - Friday
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to today's starter.
1100 Essential Five – this week we focus on five percussion masterpieces.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000x1cy)
Pauline Viardot and Her Circle
The Incomparable Viardot Salon
Donald Macleod considers the significance of Pauline Viardot's famous twice-weekly salons on the cultural life of Paris. and her association with the British writer Charles Dickens.
“When I want to do something, I do it in spite of water, fire, society, the whole world.”, an indicator if ever there was one, of the inner steel of this week’s composer, 19th-century French singer, pianist, composer and influential society figure, Pauline Viardot.
Born in 1821, Pauline Viardot possessed exceptional qualities. As one of the opera stars of her age, she was admired from Paris to St Petersburg as a sublime interpreter of Rossini, Bellini, Handel and Gluck. Beyond her incomparable voice, her twice-weekly artistic salons were a high point in Parisian cultural life. She knew, and was admired by Chopin, George Sand, Delacroix, Liszt, Fauré, Tchaikovsky, and Saint-Saëns to name but a few. While having, according to Saint-Saens, an unnecessarily modest view of her talent, she was also an accomplished composer. A talented linguist with five languages at her command, her compositions include a substantial body of songs, one or two instrumental works and a series of highly appealing operettas.
Across the week, Donald Macleod will be immersing himself in the many facets of her extraordinary life. We’ll be hearing a range of Viardot’s compositions as well as some of the operatic roles she made famous. He’ll be examining her role in Parisian cultural circles, and her friendships with leading writers among them Charles Dickens, and in particular Ivan Turgenev, and composers such as Berlioz, Saint-Saens, Meyerbeer and Gounod, all of whom tailored roles specifically for her incredible voice.
Fauré: Puisqu’ici-bas toutes âme
Janis Kelly, soprano
Lorna Anderson, soprano
Malcolm Martineau, piano
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde love duet (Act 2)
O sink herneider, Nacht der liebe
Vogt, tenor, Tristan
Camilla Nylund, soprano, Isolde
Bamburg Symphony
Jonathan Nott, conductor
Choeur bohemian
BBC Singers
Helen Neeves, solo soprano
Olivia Robinson, solo soprano
Grace Rossiter, Elizabeth Burgess, piano
Stephen Jeffes, triangle
Christopher Bowen, tambourine
Grace Rossiter, conductor
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody
Ann Hallenberg, contralto
Collegium Vocale Gent,
Orchestre des Champs-Élysées
Philip Herreweghe, director
Violin Sonatina in A Minor
Allegro finale
Reto Kuppel, violin
Wolfgang Manz, piano
Cendrillon (Act 1, Act 2 excerpts)
Nous sommes assailis par cette vile engeance
Si je n’y venai pas, donc le balaîrait
Je viens te rendre à l’espérance
C’est lui! Oh! Quel bonheur
Sandrine Piau, soprano, Marie (Cendrillon)
Susannah Waters, soprano, Maguelonne
Jean Rigby, mezzo-soprano, Armelinde
Jean-Luc Viala, tenor, Le Prince Charmant
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Nicholas Kok, conductor and pianist
Gluck, ed Berlioz: Orphée, (Act 1, sc 4)
Amour, viens rendre à mon âme
Anne Sofie Von Otter, mezzo-soprano, Orpheus
Lyon National Opera Orchestra
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
Producer: Johannah Smith
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000x21q)
Highlights from Catriona Morison at Edinburgh Festival 2018
As the Cardiff Singer competition for 2021 draws to a close tomorrow night, Iain Burnside introduces highlights from the 2017 winner Catriona Morison's Edinburgh Festival debut recital. Music includes a selection of songs by Brahms and Mahler’s Rückert Lieder.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000x1d1)
Friday - BBC Philharmonic, live at MediaCityUK, Salford
Jac van Steen conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a live performance of music by Theo Verbey, Copland and Janacek, with soprano Sophie Bevan.
Following the live concert, Tom McKinney introduces more of the orchestra's recent recordings of Hindemith, Tchaikovsky, Britten, Sibelius and a euphonium concerto by Paul Mealor.
Theo Verbey - Notturno (UK premiere)
Aaron Copland - Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson
Leos Janacek - Idyll
Sophie Bevan (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
Jac van Steen (conductor)
Tchaikovsky - Hamlet: Entr’acte, Act III
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon (conductor)
Hindemith - Der Schwanendreher
Timothy Ridout (viola)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds (conductor)
Sibelius - Romance in C , Op.42
BBC Philharmonic
Anna-Maria Helsing (conductor)
Britten - Russian Funeral
BBC Philharmonic brass and percussion
Clark Rundell (conductor)
Sibelius - Scene with cranes, Op.44 No.2
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds (conductor)
Paul Mealor - Euphonium Concerto (first broadcast performance)
David Childs (euphonium)
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon (conductor)
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m000x04j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m000x1d3)
Isata Kanneh-Mason, Kate Kennedy
Sean Rafferty is joined by pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason, playing live in the studio. And broadcaster Kate Kennedy tells Sean about her forthcoming radio feature looking at the turbulent final few years in the life of composer Ivor Gurney.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000x1d5)
The eclectic classical mix
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.
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000x1d7)
Jupiter, Pandora and the Emperor
From MediaCityUK, Salford
Presented by Tom McKinney
"About many things in this world there is simply nothing to be said - Mozart's C major Symphony with the fugue, much of Shakespeare and some of Beethoven" - these words of Robert Schumann show how, even half a century after it was written, Mozart's final symphony continued to challenge and impress audiences. Ben Gernon and the BBC Philharmonic open their concert tonight with the 'Jupiter' Symphony and end their concert with a work bearing another famous nickname, Beethoven's last concerto, the 'Emperor'. Framed by these two late works is a work inspired by Longfellow's epic poem, The Masque of Pandora. According to Greek legend, Pandora was the first women in the world and given a gift by each of the gods, including a jar or a box which she was forbidden to open. She succumbed to temptation releasing all the evils into the world, managing to slam on the lid again before hope escaped. Just one of many large-scale choral and orchestral works by Alice-Mary Smith, her setting of Longfellow's poetry also showcased two purely instrumental and delicate Intermezzos which we hear this evening.
Mozart: Symphony No 41 (K 551) 'Jupiter'
Alice Mary Smith: The Masque of Pandora - two intermezzos
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 'Emperor'
Stephen Hough (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon (conductor)
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m000fhg5)
Hotel
Welcome to Hotel Verb. Checking in with Ian McMillan this week are novelist Eimear McBride. Eimear won the Goldsmiths Prize and the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction for her debut novel 'A Girl is A Half-Formed Thing'. Since then, she's spent a lot of time in hotels, inspiring her new novel 'Strange Hotel' (Faber), in which the hotel becomes a metaphor for middle age.
Joining Eimear is Andy Miller, author of 'The Year of Reading Dangerously' and presenter of the Backlisted Podcast. Andy Miller celebrates his favourite author, Anita Brookner, and her Booker Prize-winning classic novel, 'Hotel du Lac'
And Roger Luckhurst is the author of 'Corridors: Passages of Modernity', on corridors, 'Monster hotels', and the fictional hotel corridors that populate our imaginations.
Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Jessica Treen
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m000x1dc)
My Deaf World
Hearing in a Deaf World
A five-part series of essays that explores what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain. Each essayist has their own personal experience and take on what being part of the deaf community means to them. Some share the little-known divisions and politics of the deaf community and others share what makes the community so special and unique to the point where some deaf people consider themselves as a linguistic minority rather than disabled.
Sign language interpreter Sandy Deo looks back at her cultural heritage and considers the realities, privileges and responsibilities of growing up as a child of a deaf adult. She talks frankly about how she knew council and banking details from a young age because she had to interpret for her Mum but how this was an advantage as it meant that she was reading Matilda at the age of six. Sandy tells funny anecdotes of how she and her siblings would take advantage of having a deaf mum but also talks honestly about the realities of having to interpret for her mum at family events, as other members didn’t know how to sign, and how being her Mum’s ears means she now can’t sleep deeply because of years of training to listen out for any odd noises in the house. But Sandy ends the essay on how being a child of a deaf parent is an identity that she’ll proudly own as the experience has instilled in her a drive to fight for, and to stand up for, those who perhaps need a louder voice.
My Deaf World is produced by Camilla Arnold and Sophie Allen with Mark Rickards as Executive Producer. It is a Flashing Lights Media production for BBC Radio 3.
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m000x1df)
David Toop Dreams the Archive
Jennifer Lucy Allan is joined by composer, musician and author David Toop. A fixture in experimental and improvisational music scenes since 1970, his expansive research embraces sound art, field recordings, and the art of listening itself. Communal dreaming and field recording has always interested him, both as a subject of research and as a key element of his practice. His own recordings have documented shamanism from southern Venezuela and his cassette collection has earned him a reputation as a master archivist. We invited him to dip into the ethnographic collection of the BBC archive to pull out a selection of records around the theme of dreams, from the Temiar dream music from Malaysia to the Aboriginal dream songs of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Throughout June, Late Junction is traversing the world of dreams in collaboration with the artist Sam Potter and his A.I. dream machine. Having been fed the dreams of Late Junction listeners, the machine has created new communal dreams to be turned into music by specially commissioned composers. This week we share the third and final one of these, from future-folk vocalist Lyra Pramuk. Lyra uses her voice as her primary instrument, manipulating it with electronics to explore post-human and non-binary perspectives.
Plus sounds from a broken saxophone played by Chinese artist Ajiao, new piano works from Canadian composer Barbara Monk Feldman, and live recordings of Albanian polyphonic group Grupi Lab from 2019.
Produced by Katie Callin
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3