Celeste presents an hour of wind-down music to help you press pause and reset your mind. With chilled sounds of orchestral, jazz, ambient, and lo-fi beats to power your downtime, including tracks by Sun Ra, Chet Baker and Alexander Glazunov.
Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, B. 163; ii) Adagio
Six Impromptus, Op. 5: Impromptu V
Singer-songwriter Laufey presents music from Billie Eilish, Hope Tala, Wild Rivers and an exclusive track of her own.
Clara Schumann's Piano Trio, Saint-Saens' Septet and Mozart's Piano Quintet in E flat, K452, performed by members of the German Symphony Orchestra. Catriona Young presents.
Piano Trio in G minor, op. 17
Septet in E flat, op. 65
Piano Quintet in E flat, K. 452
Anna Lubanska (mezzo soprano), Stanislaw Kufluk (baritone), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
Classical music for breakfast time, plus found sounds and the odd unclassified track.
Building a Library: Allyson Devenish on Schumann’s Liederkries, Op. 39
Schumann's Liederkreis, Op 39, is considered to be one of the greatest song cycles of the 19th century. Composed in 1840, Liederkreis comprises 12 songs which set poems by the German Romantic poet, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff. Together, the 12 songs explore themes of loss, loneliness, nocturnal mystery, ecstasy and reverie. Schumann himself considered the Liederkreis, Op 39 to be the most romantic music he had ever written, and he wrote to his wife that the cycle had 'music of you in it, dearest Clara'.
Gillian Moore reviews new discs of contemporary music with Kate Molleson.
Matthew Shlomowitz: Explorations in polytonality and other musical wonders, Vol. 1
Pianist Igor Levit talks to Tom Service about music, politics and his new album featuring Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues and Ronald Stevenson’s rarely performed Passacaglia on DSCH.
Jess Gillam with... George Harliono
Jess Gillam and pianist George Harliono share the music they love. George introduces us to the fascinating world of Soviet composer Mikael Tariverdiev as well as Bobby Hebb's joyous dedication to his brother 'Sunny'. Missy Mazzoli writes a chorus inspired by Sardinian folk music and Itzhak Perlman lovingly performs Elgar's Salut d'amour. Plus we'll hear heart-wrenching music from Anthony and the Johnsons and Saint-Saëns PLUS Dvořák's playful piano quintet.
Antonín Dvořák - Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 81 (3rd mvt) (Andreas Haefliger - piano, Takács Quartet)
Mikael Tariverdiev - Prelude from 17 moments of Spring (Mikael Tariverdiev - piano)
Camille Saint-Saëns - Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, Act II: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix (Anita Rachvelishvili - soprano, Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI, Giacomo Sagripanti - conductor)
Titus Underwood is the principal oboe of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in the USA and a member of the UK-based Chineke! He is also a filmmaker, a committed teacher and passionate advocate of black artists in the classical music world. In today’s Inside Music Titus’s choices range from concertos by Samuel Coleridge Taylor and JS Bach to emotional miniatures by Florence Price and a dramatic recreation for piano of the first major battle of the American Civil War.
Titus also explains the power that his first musical love, hip hop, has over him, with tracks by Kanye West and Outkast.
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
Matthew Sweet is joined by director Mike Leigh to talk about his ideas about music for films and to look back on some of the scores for films such as the historical dramas 'Mr Turner', 'Peterloo' and ‘Topsy-Turvy’. He first came to prominence with the Play for Today TV drama ‘Nuts in May’ in 1976, and for many years he was known for his improvised domestic dramas. He tells Matthew about his work with composers Andrew Dickson (‘Naked’, Mean Time’ and ‘High Hopes’) and Gary Yershon (‘Peterloo’, ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’ and ‘Another Year’). There’s jazz from Marianne Jean-Baptiste (‘Career Girls’) and an excerpt from one of Rachel Portman’s earliest scores (‘Four Days in July’). And we hear Carl Davis’s versions of Gilbert and Sullivan (‘Topsy-Turvy’).
Mike Leigh’s work is celebrated by the BFI in October and November on the Southbank in London and at Home in Manchester, with the release of a new print of his 1993 classic ‘Naked’, and with the appearance of a new, revised version of ‘Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh’.
Kathryn Tickell is joined by Scott Baretta of the University of Mississippi to discuss a landmark compilation of early recordings of the blues. Plus new releases from across the globe, including Peruvian diva Susana Baca, Alena Murang from Borneo, and Iranian tar virtuoso Mohammad Miraghazadeh. The Classic Artist is Peter Bellamy, a leading figure in the English folk revival of the 1960s.
Kevin Le Gendre presents live music from clarinettist Arun Ghosh and his latest band, featuring Sarathy Korwar on drums and tabla, Ruth Goller on bass, Idris Rahman on tenor and harmonium and Chris Williams on alto. Ghosh’s trademark sound fuses jazz with traditional Indian music. The set, recorded live at Snape Maltings, features energetic grooves, reimagined standards and some brand new compositions.
Also in the programme, Norma Winstone marks her 80th birthday by sharing some of the music that has influenced and inspired her. Winstone is one of the UK’s finest vocalists, known for her style of wordless improvisation, once described as "state-of-the-art, imaginative, virtually beyond-definition singing."
Andrew McGregor and former Leeds prizewinner, Katya Apekisheva introduce the last two pianists in the concerto finals of 'The Leeds', live from the Leeds Town Hall. The featured orchestra this year is the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic conducted by Andrew Manze.
As well as the two concertos, Andrew and Katya meet the finalists, look back on some of the music making from the qualifying rounds, feature some of their highlights from the chamber music section of the competition, and all importantly, bring you the announcement of the winner of 'The Leeds' 2021.
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A chance to hear part of recorded recital by the 2018 winner of 'The Leeds' - former BBC New Generation Artist, Eric Lu.
Live concerto performances from the fourth and fifth finalists.
c. 2115 The announcement of the prizes, including the First Prize and The Waterman Gold Medal.
Tom Service presents the latest in new music performance and as we look ahead to the United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP26 - in October, the New Music Show presents the next instalment of "Sounding Change" - the feature in which composers, performers and new music artists explore the world and the environment. Tonight's reflections are from the percussionist and composer, Sarah Hennies.
SUNDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2021
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m000zs9c)
Pat Thomas plays Duke Ellington
Corey Mwamba plays tracks by artists performing at Newcastle Jazz and Improvised Music Festival including pianist Pat Thomas’s tribute to the music of Duke Ellington. A visionary and virtuoso pianist, Thomas pulls Ellington’s melodies apart like a thread before knitting them together into a joyful patchwork of familiarity and adventure. Plus free-flowing melodies from the bassist and Newcastle resident Andy Champion with his long-standing collaborator saxophonist Graeme Wilson.
Produced by Tej Adeleye
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m000zs9f)
Thus Spake Zarathustra
The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra perform works by Haydn, Mozart and Richard Strauss. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
01:01 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No 29 in A, K 201
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)
01:23 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Cello Concerto No. 1 in C, Hob. 7b:1
Julian Steckel (cello), Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)
01:47 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude, from 'Cello Suite No. 3 in C, BWV 1009'
Julian Steckel (cello)
01:51 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Also sprach Zarathustra, op. 30, symphonic poem after Nietzsche
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)
02:23 AM
Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006)
Lux Aeterna
Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Helgerod (conductor)
02:33 AM
Padre Davide da Bergamo (1791-1863)
La vera piva montanara (pastorale per organo ad imitazione del Baghetto)
Andrea Marcon (organ)
02:42 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
The Alchymist - incidental music HWV.43
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Monica Huggett (conductor)
03:01 AM
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony no. 3 in D minor
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
03:58 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Wanda Landowska (arranger)
Waltzes from "Die schone Mullerin"
Wanda Landowska (piano)
04:07 AM
Jordi Cervello (b.1935)
To Bach
Atrium Quartet
04:18 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Silence and Music - madrigal for chorus
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
04:24 AM
Theodor Rogalski (1901-1954)
3 Romanian Dances
Romanian Youth Orchestra, Cristian Mandeal (conductor)
04:36 AM
Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944)
Automne, Op 35 No 2
Valerie Tryon (piano)
04:43 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Overture; Tik-tak Polka (Op.365); Csardas – from Die Fledermaus
Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
05:01 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
A New Year Carol
Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir, Judy Loman (harp), John Rutter (conductor)
05:03 AM
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Prologue from Il Ritorno D'Ulisse in Patria
Dominique Visse (counter tenor), Michael Schopper (bass), Martina Bovet (soprano), Lorraine Hunt (soprano), Concerto Vocale, Rene Jacobs (director)
05:12 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Ralf Gothoni (arranger)
Der Muller und der Bach - from Die schone Mullerin (D.795) [orig voice/piano)
Ralf Gothoni (piano)
05:17 AM
Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-), Winston Harrison (author)
The River for SATB and piano (in memory of John Ford)
Elmer Iseler Singers, Claire Preston (piano), Lydia Adams (conductor)
05:21 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Symphonic Dance No.4 (Andante)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Goran W. Nilson (conductor)
05:33 AM
Robert de Visee (c.1655-1733)
Suite in D minor
Eduardo Egüez (lute)
05:48 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Felix Greissle (arranger)
Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune arr. for chamber ensemble
Thomas Kay (flute), Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
05:58 AM
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
Rondo in B minor Op.109
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
06:07 AM
Grazyna Pstrokonska-Nawratil (1947-)
Fresco IV "alla campana" Tadeusz Baird in memoriam
Szabolcs Esztenyi (piano), Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra Katowice, Jacek Rogala (conductor)
06:33 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata no. 134 BWV.134: 'Wir danken und preisen' (duet)
Maria Sanner (contralto), Anders J. Dahlin (tenor), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
06:39 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
The Firebird Suite (version 1919)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m000zss9)
Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show including a Sunday morning Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m000zssc)
Sarah Walker with an exhilarating musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
The revolving harmony of Johann Pachelbel, complicated contrapuntal lines of JS Bach, and captivating melodies of Dora Pejačević all feature today.
Sarah also finds the perfect orchestral suite for a dinner party, while two nocturnes by Charles Koechlin take us first to Venice and then deep into the forest.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m000zssf)
Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Francesca Stavrakopoulou is fascinated by the Bible, and she’s a leading scholar of those ancient texts which have so profoundly shaped how we see the world. She’s Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion at the University of Exeter; she’s also a convinced and passionate atheist. She is the author of several books about the Bible, and her most recent is her most daring: called “God: An Anatomy”, it draws on the Bible to describe the body of God, from head to foot, in a way she herself describes as “very controversial”.
In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Francesca talks about how her early fascination with Greek gods has inspired her to think differently about the God of the Bible. She talks movingly too about her partner, who served as a marine in Afghanistan, and how difficult it is to adjust to life after the army.
Music choices include Tallis, Beethoven, Elgar, and Handel’s portrayal of her favourite Biblical heroine, Athalia.
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000zmdn)
Alisa Weilerstein
Opening an exciting new season of lunchtime concerts from the world’s most renowned musicians, and from London's Wigmore Hall, superstar cellist Alisa Weilerstein performs solo, including music by Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov, alongside some of the most revered music written for the instrument by Bach.
From Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Hannah French
Golijov: Omaramor
Bach: Cello Suite No 2 in D minor BWV 1008
Bach: Cello Suite No 3 in C BWV 1009
Alisa Weilerstein (cello)
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m000zssh)
il Pomo d'Oro from Montpellier
Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński sings Baroque arias with the orchestra il Pomo d'Oro at the 2021 Radio France and Montpellier Festival.
This programme also features exciting news about Radio 3's first ever New Generation Baroque Ensemble, announced this month. Ensemble Molière - a five-piece ensemble will be taking part in the scheme for the next two years, which will help nurture their professionialism and artistry as well as providing opportunities for masterclasses, concerts and studio recordings. This new scheme was launched in September in partnership with The National Centre for Early Music and the Royal College of Music.
Presented by Lucie Skeaping.
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m000zmp0)
Edington Priory
From Edington Priory during the 2021 Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy.
Introit: Litany of the Saints (Plainsong)
Responses: Plainsong
Office hymn: Urbs Jerusalem beata (Plainsong)
Psalm 48 (How)
First Lesson: Ezekiel 11 vv.14-25
Canticles: Harwood in A flat
Second Lesson: Revelation 21 vv.1-7
Anthem: Blessed City, heavenly Salem (Bairstow)
Hymn: Christ is made the sure foundation (Westminster Abbey)
Voluntary: Empyrean (Francis Pott)
Jeremy Summerly, Peter Stevens (Conductors)
Alexander Pott, Charles Maxtone-Smith (Organist)
Recorded 27 August 2021.
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m000zssk)
New discoveries and evergreen classics
Alyn Shipton pays tribute to the late Rolling Stones drummer and jazz fanatic Charlie Watts, who passed away in August, with tracks by Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan and Charlie himself. We'll also hear music by Una Mae Carlisle, Ella Fitzgerald, the Milt Jackson Quartet and a rediscovered recording by John Coltrane.
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m000zssm)
How to listen to... Arvo Pärt
Tom Service lifts the lid on the music of the most popular living composer - Arvo Part. Nominated for 11 Grammy awards and revered by Bjork, P.J Harvey, and Radiohead, as well as classical musicians around the world, his seemingly simple and spiritual music is loved by millions. Born in Estonia in 1935 he did military service in the Soviet Army, worked as a radio producer, and wrote music for films, documentaries and animations, before creating his unique style of composition ‘tintinnabulation’.
But what exactly is tintinnabulation? What do you get when you cross mathematics with love? And how can strict rules and discipline ultimately mean freedom?
Our witnesses are violinist Viktoria Mullova who has recorded many of Part’s seminal works, and theologian Dr Peter Bouteneff who has researched his music’s connections with his Orthodox faith.
Producer: Ruth Thomson
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m000zssp)
Light and Shade
Dammed as depraved, and lauded as a brilliant innovator: the artist Caravaggio was born 450 years ago this month. Michaelangelo Merisi, to give him his birth name, often depicted moments of violence and vanity, using the technique known as tenebrism, an extreme dramatic contrast between areas of light and shade. To mark the anniversary, we hear readings that move between darkness and light, from a hymn in praise of darkness by Caravaggio’s contemporary Edward Herbert, Lord Cherbury, to the 20th century poet Rabindranath Tagore’s evocation of a world suffused with light, taking in all the shades in between courtesy of Milton, Elizabeth Jennings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, HD, and John Donne, amongst others. We also hear John Ruskin’s damning assessment of Caravaggio as an artist of darkness and depravity, and imagine his reply. With music including madrigals directly depicted in Caravaggio’s work, and pieces by Mozart, Ligeti, Offenbach and the Velvet Underground. Readers: Ruby Bentall and Justice Ritchie
This edition also includes original settings of poems referenced in Caravaggio's work: Petrarch's Leave Off Your Veil, and Icarus, as well as Gli Uomini Valenti, taken from a contemporary report of testimony Caravaggio gave at a trial. Original recordings by Electropastiche, Voice and translations by Matteo Augello, Guitars by William Vitali, Produced by Jodi Pedrali.
These are extracts from an upcoming show on Caravaggio which will debut in 2022 (dacaravaggio.com)
Producer: Luke Mulhall
01 Electropastiche
Leave Off Your Veil
Performer: Electropastiche
Duration 00:03:20
02
00:03:10 Pietro Giramo
Festa Riso
Performer: El Mundo, dir. Richard Savino
Duration 00:01:52
03
00:04:56
Johan Huizinga
The Waning of the Middle Ages, read by Justice Ritchie
Duration 00:01:08
04
00:06:04 Jacques Arcadelt
Il bianco e dolce cigno
Performer: The King’s Singers
Duration 00:02:04
05
00:08:05
John Ruskin
Review of Lindsay’s The History of Christian Art, read by Ruby Bentall
Duration 00:01:44
06
00:08:05 Lou Reed/David Lang
I’ll Be Your Mirror
Performer: The Velvet Underground
Duration 00:00:42
07
00:10:27
Elizabeth Jennings
Caravaggio’s ‘Narcissus’ in Rome, read by Ruby Bentall
Duration 00:00:51
08
00:11:17 Franz Schubert
Die Liebe hat gelogen
Performer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Duration 00:03:00
09
00:14:11
John Milton
Paradise Lost, read by Justice Ritchie
Duration 00:00:54
10
00:14:11 Gyorgy Ligeti
L’escalier du diable
Performer: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard
Duration 00:05:16
11
00:19:57
HD
Evening, read by Ruby Bentall
Duration 00:00:32
12
00:20:13 Luna Pearl Woolf
Apres moi le deluge
Performer: Matt Haimovitz
Duration 00:03:49
13
00:24:12
Caleb Femi
Coping, read by Justice Ritchie
Duration 00:00:56
14
00:24:05 Frédéric Chopin
Prelude no 4 in E minor
Performer: Sviatoslav Richter
Duration 00:02:41
15
00:27:44
Sir Henry Wotton
To his Mistress, The Queen of Bohemia, read by Justice Ritchie
Duration 00:00:48
16
00:28:29 W.A. Mozart
Die Zauberflote Act 2: Der Holle Rache
Performer: Natalie Dessay
Duration 00:02:52
17
00:31:20 Dorothy Fields/Jimmy McHugh
The Sunny Side of the Street
Performer: Louis Armstrong
Duration 00:03:03
18
00:34:23
Martyn Crucefix
At The National Gallery, read by Ruby Bentall
Duration 00:02:14
19
00:36:38 Steve Reich
New York Counterpoint
Performer: Andrea Nagy, Holst Sinfonietta
Duration 00:02:29
20
00:39:05
George Bradley
The Sound of the Sun, read by Justice Ritchie
Duration 00:01:01
21
00:39:07 Gyorgy Ligeti
Lux Aeterna
Performer: Vienna Philharmonic
Duration 00:02:56
22
00:42:00
Lord Edward Herbery of Churbury
Black Beauty, read by Ruby Bentall
Duration 00:00:44
23
00:42:43 Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 _Moonlight__ I. Adagio sosten
Performer: Jenő Jandó
Duration 00:15:17
24
00:47:50
Samuel Daniel
Are They Shadows, read by Justice Ritchie
Duration 00:00:42
25
00:48:33 Jacques Offenbach
Les contes d'Hoffmann: Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour "Barcarolle"
Performer: Forest Lake Symphony, Nicole Cabell, Alyson Cambridge
Duration 00:03:43
26
00:52:06
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Candle Indoors, read by Ruby Bentall
Duration 00:00:55
27
00:52:56 John Tavener
The Protecting Veil: II. The Nativity of the Mother of God
Performer: Matthew Barley
Duration 00:04:44
28
00:57:41
John Donne
On The Sun Rising, read by Justice Ritchie
Duration 00:01:31
29
00:59:13 Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt, Act 4, No. 1_ Morning Mood
Performer: Neville Marriner
Duration 00:03:17
30
01:01:32
Rabindrath Tagore
Light, read by Ruby Bentall
Duration 00:00:54
31
01:02:21
Virgil, tran. A.S. Kline
Ecologue X, read by Justice Ritchie
Duration 00:01:17
32
01:03:08 Richard Wagner
Dawn and Siegfried's Journey to the Rhine from Gotterdammerung, WWV 86D
Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt
Duration 00:03:43
33
01:06:46
Elizabeth Jennings
A World of Light, read by Ruby Bentall
Duration 00:01:43
34
01:08:23 Giovanni Gabrieli
Sonata No. 13, for 8 parts_9B902B34
Performer: London SO Brass, Eric Crees
Duration 00:02:25
35
01:10:53 Electropastiche
Icarus
Performer: Electropastiche
Duration 00:02:46
SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m000zssr)
The Many Diagnoses of Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann attempted suicide by casting himself into The Rhine in 1854. He survived, only to be admitted at his own request to a mental asylum in Endenich, near Bonn, where he died two years later in 1856, aged just 46.
It’s one of music’s most tragic stories, and it would go on to have a life of its own. What happened? What was the nature of his illness? Was he suffering from bipolar disorder? Schizophrenia? Syphilis?
In this Sunday Feature, music journalist Phil Hebblethwaite finds that Schumann has been the focus of vast quantities of research conducted by psychiatrists. In tracing these many post-death diagnoses, a bigger story emerges – a history of psychiatry itself since the 1850s, as well as a portrait of political upheaval and changing social values.
The musicologist and physician Yael Braunschweig has plotted these developments and acts as one of many guides through Schumann’s retrospective diagnoses.
With contributions from Yael Braunschweig, Judith Chernaik, Professor David Healey, Professor Kay Redfield Jamison, Professor Erik Levi, Dr Catherine Oppenheimer and Steven Isserlis.
Written and presented by Phil Hebblethwaite
Produced by Tom Woolfenden
Readings by Oliver Soden
A Loftus Media production
SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m000zsst)
Doctor Faustus
Faustus sells his soul to the devil in exchange for twenty-four years of knowledge, power and pleasure. Christopher Marlowe's tragedy about a man who gains control over nature but, in the process, loses control of himself. Starring John Heffernan, Pearl Mackie, Frances Tomelty and Tim McMullan.
Adapted and directed by Emma Harding
CAST
Faustus/Mephistopheles.....John Heffernan
Wagner.....Pearl Mackie
Good Angel.....Frances Tomelty
Evil Angel/Wrath.....Rafferty Railton
Cornelius/Emperor Charles V/Covetousness.....Tim McMullan
Valdes/Belzebub/Knight.....Simon Ludders
First Scholar/Gluttony.....Gerard McDermott
Second Scholar/Ralph/Pride.....Leo Wan
Robin/ Sloth.....Joseph Ayre
Lucifer.....Shaun Mason
Helen.....Debra Baker
Music composed and directed by Joseph Howard, performed by The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments:
William Lyons, Louise Duggan, Emilia Benjamin and Clare Salaman.
Production co-ordinator.....Maggie Olgiati
Sound design.....Peter Ringrose
SUN 21:00 Record Review Extra (m000zssw)
Robert Schumann's Liederkreis
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, Robert Schumann's Op 39 song cycle, Liederkreis.
SUN 23:00 Extraordinary Voices with Nora Fischer (m000qjy0)
Storytelling
In a series of three shows, Nora celebrates what the voice can do with a fabulously diverse playlist of tracks from around the world and across the centuries.
She listens to raw and passionate Bulgarian and Scandinavian singing alongside the profound warmth of Russian basses. She compares the ethereal angst of the voice of the last castrato to the effect of the longest high tenor C in classical music. And she sets the twisting ornamental lines of an 18th-century Handel opera aria next to the runs perfected by Whitney Houston and Beyoncé.
In the final episode of her series, Nora Fischer finds out how a vocalist can tell a tale - not just in the words they’re singing, but in the very character of their voice. She showcases the unique styles of Lotte Lenya, Nina Simone and Frank Sinatra - artists who seem to embody the very meaning of each song they perform. And she finds composers like Gesualdo, Handel and Schoenberg creating emotion and tension through their manipulation of vocal lines as stories unfold before our ears.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
01 Pierre Passereau
Il est bel est bon
Ensemble: Amarcord
Duration 00:01:07
02
00:02:39 Kurt Weill
Pirate Jenny
Performer: Lotte Lenya
Duration 00:01:41
03
00:04:20 Kurt Weill
Pirate Jenny
Performer: Nina Simone
Duration 00:01:55
04
00:07:57 Claudio Monteverdi
Possente spirto from L'Orfeo
Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Duration 00:04:47
05
00:13:37 Sigurjon Sigurdsson
Oceania
Performer: Björk
Duration 00:03:19
06
00:21:36 George Frideric Handel
Curio, Caesar has come from Julius Caesar (Act I)
Singer: Janet Baker
Singer: Sarah Walker
Orchestra: Orchestra of English National Opera
Duration 00:01:16
07
00:23:46 Arnold Schoenberg
Gemeinheit from Pierrot Lunaire (Part 3)
Singer: Christine Schäfer
Ensemble: Ensemble intercontemporain
Conductor: Pierre Boulez
Duration 00:01:05
08
00:25:42 Lene Lovich
Wir leben immer...noch (We are still living)
Performer: Nina Hagen
Duration 00:01:42
09
00:28:38 Jule Styne
Rose's Turn from Gypsy
Performer: Ethel Merman
Ensemble: Original Broadcast Cast
Duration 00:02:15
10
00:31:53 Carlo Gesualdo
Moro lasso
Ensemble: Concerto Italiano
Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini
Duration 00:04:03
11
00:37:25 Modest Mussorgsky
The Field Marshall - No. 4 of Songs and Dances of Death
Orchestrator: Dmitry Shostakovich
Singer: Ferruccio Furlanetto
Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Duration 00:05:34
12
00:43:54 Sam Cooke
A Change is Gonna Come
Performer: Otis Redding
Duration 00:03:05
13
00:48:02 Béla Bartók
Szenagyujteskor (dedinska Sceny BB 87a)
Performer: Nora Fischer
Performer: Daniël Kool
Duration 00:00:58
14
00:49:38 Anton Bruckner
Tota Pulchra Es Maria (Antiphon)
Choir: The Sixteen
Conductor: Harry Christophers
Duration 00:05:26
15
00:55:38 Camille
Tout dit
Performer: Camille
Duration 00:02:57
MONDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2021
MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m000zssy)
Cola Boyy
Guest presenter Linton Stephens mixes a classical playlist for multi-instrumentalist and singer Matthew Urango aka Cola Boyy.
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 (m000zst0)
Brahms's Second and Fourth Symphonies
A performance given in Turin by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra from their complete cycle of Brahms's symphonies. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Symphony no 2 in D, Op 73
RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Daniele Gatti (conductor)
01:17 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Symphony no 4 in E minor, Op 98
RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Daniele Gatti (conductor)
01:58 AM
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
Piano Quintet in E major, Op 15
Daniel Bard (violin), Tim Crawford (violin), Mark Holloway (viola), Chiara Enderle (cello), Paolo Giacometti (piano)
02:31 AM
Vladimir Godar (b.1956)
Lyric Cantata
Eva Suskova (soprano), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mario Kosik (conductor)
02:51 AM
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020)
Concerto Grosso for Three Cellos
Adam Klocek (cello), Ivan Monighetti (cello), Kazimierz Koslacz (cello), Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit (conductor)
03:26 AM
Traditional, Hakon Nystedt (arranger)
Astri mi Astri
Oslo Chamber Chorus, Hakon Nystedt (director)
03:31 AM
Johan Helmich Roman (1694-1758)
Symphonia No 20 in E minor
Stockholm Antiqua
03:39 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Duet: Fra gli amplessi - from "Cosi fan tutte"
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Michael Schade (tenor), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
03:46 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
32 Variations for Piano in C minor (Wo
0.80)
Antii Siirala (piano)
03:57 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkainen suite Op.22
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thomas Sondergard (conductor)
04:08 AM
Jeno Hubay (1858-1937)
Preghiera for violin and piano
Ferenc Szecsodi (violin), Istvan Kassai (piano)
04:12 AM
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Sonata no 3 in C minor for flute, 2 violins, cello and continuo
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (flute), Giovanni Antonini (director)
04:22 AM
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
The Three Wonders from The tale of Tsar Saltan - suite (Op.57)
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
04:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Hungarian Melody in B minor, D 817
Schaghajegh Nosrati (piano)
04:35 AM
William Babell (c.1690-1723)
Violin Sonata No. 1 in B flat
Ilia Korol (violin), Jermaine Sprosse (harpsichord)
04:42 AM
Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667)
Toccata V
Jos Van Immerseel (organ)
04:48 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
4 Choral Songs, Op 53
BBC Symphony Chorus, Stephen Jackson (conductor)
05:03 AM
Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935)
Norwegian Rhapsody No.1 in A minor
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ingar Bergby (conductor)
05:15 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Selected Lyric Pieces – March of the Trolls (Op.54 No.3)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
05:38 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Nisi Dominus (Psalm 127) for voice and orchestra (RV.608)
Matthew White (counter tenor), Arte dei Suonatori, Eduardo Lopez Banzo (conductor)
05:59 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet no 4 in A major, K 298
Dae-Won Kim (flute), Yong-Woo Chun (violin), Myung-Hee Cho (viola), Jink-Yung Chee (cello)
06:11 AM
John Cage (1912-1992)
In a Landscape
Fabian Ziegler (percussion)
06:21 AM
Francesco Durante (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto for strings No 5 in A major
Concerto Koln
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m000ztrp)
Monday - Petroc's classical alternative
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m000ztrr)
Georgia Mann
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 our starter today.
1100 Essential Five – this week we dance the tarantella with five of these spider-inspired dances.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000ztrt)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
A Country to Make
Donald Macleod explores the early musical life of Béla Bartók.
Among the list of elements that feed into the formation of an outstanding musician might be good teaching, a quality instrument, focus, determination, consistency, encouragement.
But there is also the brute fact of physiology.
Béla Bartók may have been of slight build and somewhat sickly, but he had unusually large hands. So while he didn’t show any exceptional compositional talent as a young man, he was expected to have a brilliant career as a pianist.
For Children
Andreas Bach, piano
Piano Concerto No. 3
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fisher, conductor
Andras Schiff, piano
Contrasts
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Hungarian Sketches
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Kossuth
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fisher, conductor
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000ztrw)
Anastasia Kobekina
Two great French sonatas, written 30 years apart, the first by Claude Debussy, originally subtitled "Pierrot is angry at the moon", the second by Debussy's older compatriot César Franck, transcribed for cello by Jules Delsart from his violin sonata. BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the young Russian cellist Anastasia Kobekina, is joined by Swiss pianist Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula for this live recital, which also features a less familiar work dating from 1904 by the Russian-born Swiss late-Romantic Paul Juon.
Live from London's Wigmore Hall
Presented by Andrew McGregor
Debussy: Cello Sonata
Paul Juon: Märchen in A minor Op. 8
Franck: Sonata in A (arranged by Jules Delsart for cello and piano)
Anastasia Kobekina, cello
Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula, piano
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000ztry)
Monday - Beethoven's First Symphony
This week, Afternoon Concert features the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin performing Brandenburg concertos by Bach and symphonies by Beethoven. Today's programme also includes the BBC Singers performing Stravinsky in neoclassical mode, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Bartok.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.
Including:
CPE Bach: Sinfonia No. 4 in G, Wq. 183/4
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck (conductor)
Stravinsky: Mass for chorus and wind instruments
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F, BWV 1046
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
c.
3pm
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C, op. 21
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck (conductor)
Boccherini: Cello Concerto no.3
Milo Ferrazzini (cello)
Orchestra della Svizzera italiana
Alessandro Calcagnile (conductor)
c.
3.45pm
Bartok: Music for strings, percussion and celesta, Sz.106
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor)
MON 16:30 New Generation Artists (m000zts0)
Alexander Gadjiev plays Brahms
Late Brahms from Alexander Gadjiev, who recently took first prize at the the Sydney International Piano Competition
Brahms 6 Pieces Op.118 for piano
Alexander Gadjiev (piano)
Brahms: Die Schwestern, Op 61 No 1
Katharina Konradi (soprano), Catriona Morison (mezzo), Joseph Middleton (piano)
MON 17:00 In Tune (m000zts2)
Kurt Elling, Garry Walker
Sean Rafferty talks to jazz vocalist Kurt Elling and Garry Walker, the new music director at Opera North. There's also news from the weekend's Leeds International Piano Festival.
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000zts4)
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.
01
00:00:30 Fanny Mendelssohn
String quartet in E flat major (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène
Duration 00:03:35
02
00:04:04 Déodat de Séverac
Prison (Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit)
Performer: Jérôme Ducros
Singer: Philippe Jaroussky
Duration 00:02:55
03
00:06:54 Thomas Campion
The peaceful western wind (Second Book of Ayres, 1613)
Ensemble: Dowland Consort
Director: Jakob Lindberg
Duration 00:01:24
04
00:08:16 Wayne Hill
Left Bank Two ('Vision On Gallery' Theme Tune)
Performer: The Noveltones
Duration 00:02:26
05
00:10:40 Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata in A major, Op 2 No 2 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Éric Heidsieck
Duration 00:03:07
06
00:13:43 Roxanna Panufnik
Zen Love Song (Wild Ways)
Ensemble: VOCES8
Performer: Loli Day
Conductor: Barnaby Smith
Duration 00:06:01
07
00:19:40 Henry Purcell
Fantazia à 3 No 3 in G minor
Ensemble: Fretwork
Duration 00:02:18
08
00:21:53 Robert Baksa
Heart! We will forget him
Singer: Sandrine Piau
Performer: Susan Manoff
Duration 00:03:06
09
00:24:54 Johann Sebastian Bach
Invention no. 13 in A minor, BWV 784
Performer: Simone Dinnerstein
Duration 00:01:06
10
00:25:59 Gene Pritsker
Reinventions (2nd Movement) after J S Bach
Performer: Simone Dinnerstein
Ensemble: Absolute Ensemble
Conductor: Kristjan Järvi
Duration 00:04:11
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000zts6)
Cello Concertos from Geneva
The Geneva Chamber Orchestra begin their concert with a work by Henryk Pachulski (1859-1921). Though born in Poland, he spent most of his life in Russia, working as a pianist, composer and teacher. His Suite dedicated to the memory of Tchaikovsky was written in 1897. After this rarity, Gautier Capuçon joins the orchestra in two celebrated cello concertos, and the programme is completed with Haydn’s ‘Hen’ symphony, so called because a clucking second subject in the first movement, reminded listeners of the jerky back-and-forth head motion of a walking hen.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.
Gautier Capuçon, cello
Geneva Chamber Orchestra
Marzena Diakun, conductor
Henryk Pachulski: Suite Op 13, 'In memoriam P Tchaikovsky'
Haydn: Cello Concerto No 1 in C major
Haydn: Symphony No 83 in G minor, 'The Hen'
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 33
Recorded at the Victoria Hall, Geneva, on 21 November 2020.
MON 22:00 Music Matters (m000zs8v)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 The Essay (m000zts8)
The Songs That Shaped Me
Joni Mitchell and Change
Indian author, musician and international public intellectual Amit Chaudhuri presents a set of personal essays on the music and the songwriters that shaped his early life.
In this first episode, a Joni Mitchell lyric, one of whose lines is 'Nothing lasts for long', resonates through Amit Chaudhuri's growing-up.
An Art and Adventure production.
Producer: Roger James Elsgood
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m000ztsb)
Around midnight
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
TUESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2021
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m000ztsd)
Mendelssohn and Schumann from Turin
RAI National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Michele Mariotti in concert. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
A Midsummer Night's Dream, suite, op. 61
RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Michele Mariotti (conductor)
12:51 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Symphony No.1 in B flat, op. 38 'Spring'
RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Michele Mariotti (conductor)
01:24 AM
Gwilym Simcock (1981-)
Improvisation on a 'plain-chant like' melody
Gwilym Simcock (piano)
01:32 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
String Quartet No 12 in F major 'American', Op 96
Prague Quartet
01:55 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Le sacre du printemps
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
02:31 AM
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
The Planets - suite Op 32
NFM Chorus, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Jose Maria Florencio (conductor)
03:29 AM
John Mundy (1555-1630)
Lightly she whipped o'er the dales
King's Singers
03:32 AM
Joby Talbot (b.1971)
The wishing tree (2002)
King's Singers
03:36 AM
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Piano Sonata, Op.1
David Huang (piano)
03:49 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Septet for 3 oboes, 3 violins and continuo (TWV.
44:43) in B flat major
Il Gardellino
03:58 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Prelude in C minor (Op.23 No.7)
Jane Coop (piano)
04:01 AM
Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872)
Mazurka from Halka (original version)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
04:05 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899), Arnold Schoenberg (arranger)
Rosen aus dem Suden: waltz arr. Schoenberg for harmonium, piano & string quartet
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (director)
04:14 AM
Ton Bruynel (1934-1998)
Serene for flute solo (1979)
Harrie Starreveld (flute)
04:21 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
St. Matthew Passion - Opening Chorus (BWV.244:1)
Hungarian Radio Choir, Hungarian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Tamas Vasary (conductor)
04:31 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Hymn to St Cecilia for chorus Op 27
BBC Singers, David Hill (conductor)
04:41 AM
Thomas Baltzar (1630-1663)
Prelude and divisions on 'John come kiss me now'
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Rosanne Hunt (violoncello), Linda Kent (harpsichord)
04:47 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
4 Songs for women's voices, 2 horns and harp, Op 17
Danish National Radio Choir, Leif Lind (horn), Per McClelland Jacobsen (horn), Catriona Yeats (harp), Stefan Parkman (conductor)
05:01 AM
Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006)
Six Bagatelles for wind quintet
Cinque Venti
05:13 AM
William Walton (1902-1983)
Partita for orchestra
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, George Szell (conductor)
05:29 AM
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Scherzo for piano in D minor, Op 10 no 1
Angela Cheng (piano)
05:34 AM
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
"Lagrime mie" - Lament for Soprano and continuo from "Diporti di Euterpe"
Susanne Ryden (soprano), Musica Fiorita, Daniela Dolci (director)
05:43 AM
Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)
Concert fantasy on Carmen for violin and orchestra, Op 25
Julia Fischer (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)
05:56 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in D major (Op. 64 No.5) 'The Lark'
Yggdrasil String Quartet
06:14 AM
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000)
Excursion Ballet Suite
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m000ztnl)
Tuesday - Petroc's classical mix
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m000ztnn)
Georgia Mann
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 our starter today.
1100 Essential Five – our second top tarantella of the week.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000ztnq)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
I Have a New Plan Now
Donald Macleod follows Béla Bartók as he takes his interest in national music in a new direction, with his discovery of folk music.
Bartók’s birthplace, Nagyszentmiklós, was on a geographical border. It’s now Sânnicolau Mare in Romania, close to the borders with Serbia and Hungary and then on the edge of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In a sense, he lived on a border as well. Bartók played an important role in synthesising the old and the new: he had an ear for the deep-rooted music of the Hungarian people – supposedly timeless and authentic – the music of the past – which he put to use in creating music that was international, challenging and new – music for the present and the future.
14 Bagatelles, #4 & #5
Ferenc Bognar, piano
Piros Alma / Red Apple
Andrea Melath, mezzo soprano
Emese Virag, piano
44 Duos for Two Violins
#44: Transylvanian Song
Andras Keller, violin
Janos Pilz, violin
Allegro Barbaro
Zoltan Kocsis, piano
Romanian Folk Dances for Orchestra
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
Transylvanian Dance
Lucian Ban, piano
John Surman, soprano saxophone
Mat Maneri, viola
String Quartet No.2
i. Moderato
ii. Allegro molto capriccioso
Takacs Quartet
Orchestral Suite No. 2
ii Allegro scherzando
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Zoltan Kocsis, conductor
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000ztnt)
Manchester Connections: Ashley Wass
Linton Stephens begins a week of specially recorded concerts given by musicians with a Manchester connection. Today, pianist Ashley Wass, who is an alumnus of Chetham's School of Music, performs works by Bach, Schumann and Shostakovich.
BACH Partita No 1 in B flat, BWV825
SCHUMANN Kinderszenen, Op 15
SHOSTAKOVICH Prelude and Fugue No 24 in D minor, Op 87 No 2
Ashley Wass (piano)
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000ztnw)
Tuesday - Beethoven and His Influencers
This week, Afternoon Concert features the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin performing Brandenburg concertos by Bach and symphonies by Beethoven. Today's programme also includes the BBC Singers performing music by Part and Finzi, and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra with Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.
Including:
Coates: Wood Nymphs – concert valse
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor)
Part: Nunc Dimittis
BBC Singers
Ellie Slorach (conductor)
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
c.
3pm
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D, op. 36
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck (conductor)
Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Liebreich (conductor)
Finzi: Lo, the full final sacrifice
BBC Singers
Thomas Trotter (organ)
David Hill (conductor)
c.
4.15pm
Weinberg: Symphony no.2, Op.30
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla (conductor)
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m000ztny)
Ailish Tynan and Libby Burgess, Spiers & Boden, Chelsea Flower Show
Sean Rafferty introduces live music from soprano Ailish Tynan with pianist Libby Burgess, and folk duo Spiers & Boden. He also visits the 2021 Chelsea Flower Show, taking place in autumn for the first time in its history.
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000ztp0)
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.
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000ztp2)
The RPO at 75
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
Tonight the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates its 75th anniversary with a star-studded concert at the Royal Albert Hall. This very special occasion also welcomes Vasily Petrenko as the RPO’s new Music Director.
The programme will feature masterpieces written by three great English composers, Delius, Elgar and Walton, all of whom closely associated with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and its founder Sir Thomas Beecham.
Joining Vasily Petrenko and the RPO are Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who will play Elgar’s beautiful and introspective Cello Concerto, whilst Sir Bryn Terfel will take the solo role in William Walton’s dramatic cantata, Belshazzar’s Feast, supported by the Philharmonia Chorus.
Delius: Over the Hills and Far Away
Elgar: Cello Concerto
8.15: Interval
Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast
Sir Bryn Terfel, Baritone
Sheku Kanneh-Mason MBE, Cello
Philharmonia Chorus
Vasily Petrenko Conductor
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m000ztp4)
Hannah Arendt's exploration of totalitarianism
Mass propaganda and the differences between fact and fiction were explored by Hannah Arendt in her 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism. What does re-reading it tell us about our own world?
Anne McElvoy is joined by the guests:
Author and journalist Paul Mason, who has just published a book called How to Stop Fascism;
Samantha Rose Hill is a senior research fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities and her latest book is a biography, Hannah Arendt (2021). Her edition of Hannah Arendt's Poems will be published in 2022.
Daniel Johnson is a journalist and the editor of The Article
And, Gavin Delahunty is the curator of On Hannah Arendt: Eight Proposals for Exhibition running at the Richard Saltoun Gallery throughout 2021.
Producer: Ruth Watts
In the Free Thinking archives and available to download as an Arts & Ideas podcast: Anne McElvoy talks to Susan Neimann, Christopher Hampton and Ursula Owen about tolerance, censorship and free speech and lessons from German history
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008hvz
Matthew Sweet looks at What Nietszche Teaches Us with biographer Sue Prideaux and philosophers Hugo Drochon and Katrina Mitcheson
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000d8k
Orwell's 1984: A Landmark of Culture brings together Peter Pomerantsev, Joanna Kavenna, Dorian Lynskey and Lisa Mullen to explore Orwell's ideas about surveillance and propaganda. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005nrl
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m000ztp6)
The Songs That Shaped Me
Bob Dylan as Bhakti Poet
Amit Chaudhuri reflects on Bob Dylan’s song ‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right’ and its relationship to Bhakti poetry.
Indian author, musician and international public intellectual Amit Chaudhuri presents a set of personal essays on the music and the songwriters that shaped his early life.
An Art and Adventure production
Producer: Roger James Elsgood
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m000ztp9)
Music for the evening
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
WEDNESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2021
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m000ztpc)
Ravel and Tchaikovsky
The Orchestre National de France perform a programme of Ravel and Tchaikovsky, including Tchaikovky's Rococo Variations with cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Orchestre National de France, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)
12:49 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op.33
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Orchestre National de France, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)
01:09 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Adagio from Symphony no.13 in D major, Hob. I:13
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Orchestre National de France, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)
01:14 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture
Orchestre National de France, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)
01:35 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
String Quartet in F major
Biava Quartet
02:05 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony no 102 in B flat major (H.
1.102)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schonwandt (conductor)
02:31 AM
Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
The Tempest - incidental music (Op.1)
BBC Philharmonic, Richard Hickox (conductor)
02:59 AM
Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016)
Three sonnets by Shakespeare
Taru Valjakka (soprano), Jari Salmela (piano)
03:06 AM
Jean-Fery Rebel (1666-1747)
Les Elemens: simphonie nouvelle for 2 violins, 2 flutes & b.c.
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
03:30 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), R.Klugescheid (arranger)
My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice, arr. for piano trio
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
03:34 AM
Johan Svendsen (1840-1911)
Festival Polonaise, Op 12
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Philippe Jordan (conductor)
03:44 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
3 Sonatas for keyboard
Arturo Michelangeli (piano)
03:51 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1897-1936)
Ancient Airs and Dances - Suite No 2
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
04:10 AM
Jean Francaix (1912-1997)
Le Gai Paris for wind ensemble
Wind Ensemble of Hungarian Radio Orchestra
04:21 AM
Alfredo Casella (1883-1947)
Barcarola e scherzo
Min Park (flute), Huw Watkins (piano)
04:31 AM
Karl Goldmark (1830-1915)
Scherzo for orchestra in E minor, Op 19
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Adam Medveczky (conductor)
04:37 AM
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Psalm 110: Le Toutpuissant a mon Seigneur et maistre
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Peter Phillips (conductor)
04:45 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
String Quartet in F major
Vertavo Quartet
05:02 AM
Teresa Carreno (1853-1917)
Valse Petite in D major
Teresa Carreno (piano)
05:05 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Premiere rapsodie
Jozef Luptacik (clarinet), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ludovit Rajter (conductor)
05:14 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Piano Sonata in G major, Op 14 no 2
Geoffrey Lancaster (pianoforte)
05:29 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Symphony no.2 in C major, Op.61
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Enrico Dindo (conductor)
06:06 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Wind Serenade in D minor, Op 44
I Soloisti del Vento, Etienne Siebens (conductor)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m000zv26)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical rise and shine
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m000zv28)
Georgia Mann
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 our starter today.
1100 Essential Five – another in our top-draw toe-tapping tarantellas.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000zv2b)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Borders Redrawn
Donald Macleod explores Béla Bartók’s life and work in the years after World War I.
In the early weeks of 1918, a virulent strain of influenza was detected among military personnel. It spread and it’s estimated that some 500 million people, a quarter of the population of the world, contracted what was called Spanish ‘Flu. One of them was Bartók. He was confined to bed for almost a month and at times was unable to speak. When he recovered, Hungary was in turmoil in the first of a series of upheavals which would see the borders of the nation redrawn and Bartók’s own uncomfortable position in the spotlight of political life.
Three Hungarian Folk Tunes
Zoltan Kocsis, piano
The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti, conductor
Village Scenes
i Wedding
ii Lullaby
New York Philharmonic
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Dance Suite
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000zv2d)
Manchester Connections: Adam Walker and Huw Watkins
Linton Stephens continues a week of specially recorded concerts given by musicians with a Manchester connection. Today, former students of Chetham's School of Music, the flautist Adam Walker and composer-pianist Huw Watkins, join forces in a programme of music composed by some of Manchester's best-known luminaries, from Peter Maxwell Davies to Huw Watkins himself.
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Suite de Ballet
ALEXANDER GOEHR Variations for flute and piano
HUW WATKINS Capriccio
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES Solita
YORK BOWEN Sonata
Adam Walker (flute)
Huw Watkins (piano)
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000zv2g)
Wednesday - Beethoven's Eroica
This week, Afternoon Concert features the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin performing Brandenburg concertos by Bach and symphonies by Beethoven; today's his mighty Third Symphony. Plus music by Paul Wranitzky, and the BBC Singers perform Brahms.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.
Including:
Wranitzky: Symphony in C minor, op. 31 ('La Paix')
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck (conductor)
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Brahms: 5 Songs
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin (conductor)
c.
3pm
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, op. 55 ('Eroica')
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck (conductor)
WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (m000zv2j)
Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
Live from the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick.
Introit: O virtus sapientiae (Hildegard von Bingen)
Responses: Shephard
Psalm 59 (Barnby)
First Lesson: 1 Kings 17 vv.1-24
Canticles: Warwick Service (Ives)
Second Lesson: Acts 20 vv.1-16
Anthem: Hear my prayer (Mendelssohn)
Prayer anthem: The Father’s Love (Lole)
Voluntary: Choral Varié (Taneyev)
Oliver Hancock (Director of Music)
Mark Swinton (Assistant Director of Music)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m000zv2l)
Ben Goldscheider and Tom Poster, Christopher Monks
French horn player Ben Goldscheider and pianist Tom Poster join Sean Rafferty, who also talks to Christopher Monks, founder and Artistic Director of Armonico Consort.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000zv2n)
Your daily classical soundtrack
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 (m000zv2q)
A Baroque Feast
Leading countertenor Max Emanuel Cenčić is joined by Polish period instrument ensemble Orkiestra Historyczna for a programme of operatic showstoppers and sparkling instrumental music by Handel and his contemporaries.
Introduced live from Wigmore Hall by Hannah French.
Handel: All'orror delle procelle (Riccardo Primo, re d'Inghilterra, HWV23)
Leonardo Vinci: Sta l'alma pietosa (Gismondo, re di Polonia)
Francesco Geminiani (arr. Charles Avison): Violin Sonata in G, Op. 1, No. 1
Francesco Scarlatti: Concerto grosso No. 4 in E minor; Concerto grosso No. 3 in A minor
Nicola Porpora: Core avezzo al furore (Polifemo)
Handel: Deggio morire, o stelle (Siroe, re di Persia, HWV24)
8.25
Interval
Leonardo Vinci: Bella pace (Gismondo, re di Polonia)
Handel Se dolce m'era già (Floridante, HWV14)
Francesco Scarlatti: Concerto grosso No. 1 in E
Charles Avison: Concerto grosso No. 6 in D (after Domenico Scarlatti)
Handel: La tigre arde di sdegno (Admeto, re di Tessaglia, HWV22)
Johann Adolf Hasse: Non sempre oprar da forte (Cajo Fabricio)
Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor)
Orkiestra Historyczna
Martyna Pastuszka (conductor)
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m000zv2s)
Dirk Bogarde
A soldier liberating Bergen-Belsen, a supporter of voluntary euthanasia, who began his acting career as a matinée idol for Rank, won a BAFTA for his role in The Servant, debuted in the West End in a play by JB Priestley, his1961 film Victim saw him playing a barrister fighting blackmailers, and an ageing composer in the 1961 film version of Thomas Mann's novel Death in Venice: today's Free Thinking explores the life and career of Sir Dirk Bogarde (28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999). Matthew Sweet hosts and his guests are actor Wendy Craig, film critic Phuong Le, BFI curator Josephine Botting and writer Mark Ravenhill.
Bogarde won Best Actor in a Leading Role for the 1963 film The Servant, a kind of upstairs downstairs examination of class and fraught relationships, which Harold Pinter adapted from Robin Maugham's novella and Joseph Losey directed. His co-stars included Wendy Craig, Sarah Miles and James Fox. The film has been restored and shown in cinemas around the UK and is now also available on blu-ray DVD. The BFI are curating a season of Bogarde films to screen in December.
Producer: Fiona McLean
You can find a series of programmes exploring film history in the Free Thinking Landmarks playlist including Glenda Jackson remembering the filming of Sunday Bloody Sunday, episodes focusing on Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Jacques Tati and films by Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa and Satyajit Ray.
WED 22:45 The Essay (m000zv2v)
The Songs That Shaped Me
Freedom Song
Amit Chaudhuri tells of how popular Bengali songs of the 1940s and 1950s brought about political, social and personal change.
Indian author, musician and international public intellectual Amit Chaudhuri presents a set of personal essays on the music and the songwriters that shaped his early life.
An Art and Adventure production
Producer: Roger James Elsgood
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m000zv2x)
Dissolve into sound
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
THURSDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2021
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m000zv2z)
Grieg and Rachmaninov from Riga
Pianist Vestard Shimkus joins the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra in Grieg's Piano Concerto. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
The Storm, op. posth. 76, overture in E minor after Ostrovsky
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Ainars Rubikis (conductor)
12:43 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16
Vestard Shimkus (piano), Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Ainars Rubikis (conductor)
01:13 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Symphony No. 2 in E minor, op. 27
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Ainars Rubikis (conductor)
02:10 AM
Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665)
Ciaccona for 2 Violins and basso continuo, Op 12
Il Giardino Armonico
02:15 AM
Michael Haydn (1737-1806)
Missa Tempore Quadragesimae, MH 553
Ex Tempore, Marian Minnen (cello), Elise Christiaens (violone), David Van Bouwel (organ), Florian Heyerick (director)
02:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Quartet for strings in E flat major (Op.127)
Oslo Quartet
03:15 AM
Gustav Uwe Jenner (1865-1920)
Trio in E flat for Clarinet, Horn and Piano (1900)
James Campbell (clarinet), Martin Hackleman (horn), Jane Coop (piano)
03:41 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Les titans, Op 71 No 2
Lamentabile Consort, Jan Stromberg (tenor), Gunnar Andersson (tenor), Bertil Marcusson (baritone), Olle Skold (bass)
03:49 AM
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
La Belle Excentrique
Pianoduo Kolacny (piano duo)
03:57 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Rondes de Printemps, from 'Images'
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
04:05 AM
Antonio de Cabezon (1510-1566)
3 works for Arpa Doppia
Margret Koll (arpa doppia)
04:14 AM
Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783-1847)
Midnight Fantasy
Stefan Bojsten (piano)
04:20 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Recorder Sonata in D minor
Camerata Koln
04:31 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Cello Concerto in D minor, RV 407
Charles Medlam (cello), London Baroque
04:40 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Rondo in C for Two Pianos, Op 73
Soós-Haag Piano Duo (piano duo)
04:51 AM
Sigismondo d'India (c.1582-1629), Torquato Tasso (author)
Sovente, allor - from Le musiche ... da cantar solo (Milan 1609)
Consort of Musicke, Emma Kirkby (soprano), Tom Finucane (lute), Chris Wilson (lute), Frances Kelly (harp), Anthony Rooley (lute), Anthony Rooley (director)
05:01 AM
Zygmunt Noskowski (1846-1909)
The Highlander's Fantasy, Op 17
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
05:10 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967)
Sonatina for cello & piano
Laszlo Mezo (cello), Lorant Szucs (piano)
05:19 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (author)
Gesang der Geistern über den Wassern, Op 167
Estonian National Male Choir, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Juri Alperten (director)
05:29 AM
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Violin Sonata no 3 in A minor, Op 25 (dans le caractere populaire roumain)
Gabriel Croitoru (violin), Valentin Gheorgiu (piano)
05:55 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845 - 1924)
Nocturne for piano in E flat minor, Op 33 no 1
Livia Rev (piano)
06:04 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Partita in E flat (K.Anh.C
17.04) and unnumbered Rondo for wind octet
Festival Winds
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m000zvc9)
Thursday - Petroc's classical commute
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m000zvcc)
Georgia Mann
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 our starter today.
1100 Essential Five – this week we focus on the best versions of that spider-inspired dance, the tarantella.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000zvcf)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
A Famous Modern Composer
Donald Macleod looks back on Béla Bartók’s heyday as a performer in the late 1920s.
After being granted a sabbatical from his teaching at the Budapest Academy Bartók was able to realise an ambition he had cherished ever since he had graduated, of undertaking a coast-to-coast concert tour of the USA.
This was against the backdrop of rising nationalism in Europe. Bartok’s inclinations had him swimming against that tide. Romania, where he had been born, was anxious to claim him for its own. He objected to being called a “Romanian composer” and wrote to the author of a radio talk about him who described him in that way: “My creative work just because it arises from three sources – Hungarian, Romanian Slovakian - might be regarded as the embodiment of the very concept of integration so much emphasised in Hungary today… my own idea however – of which I have become fully conscious since I found myself as a composer – is the brotherhood of peoples, brotherhood in spite of all wars and conflicts. I try to the best of my ability to serve this idea in music…”
Two Portraits
ii. One grotesque – Presto
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor
Out of Doors
iii Musettes
iv The Night's Music
v The Chase
Denes Varjon, piano
Piano Concerto
i. Allegro moderato
ii Andante
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Ferenc Fricsay, conductor
Geza Anda, piano
Cantata Profana
Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Pierre Boulez, conductor
John Aler, tenor
John Tomlinson, bass
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000zvch)
Manchester Connections: Amy Harman and Tom Poster
Linton Stephens continues a week of specially recorded concerts given by musicians with a Manchester connection. Today, Chetham's School of Music alumnus, the bassoonist Amy Harman, is joined by pianist Tom Poster in a concert that includes Mozart, Clara Schumann, and Henri Dutilleux.
MOZART Sonata in B flat, K.292/196c
CLARA SCHUMANN Nocturne in F, Op.6 No.2
SIMON HOLT Voice of the Fool
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Five Fairy Ballads
HENRI DUTILLEUX Sarabande et Cortège
Amy Harman (bassoon)
Tom Poster (piano)
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000zvck)
Thursday - Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade
This week Afternoon Concert features the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin performing Brandenburg concertos by Bach and symphonies by Beethoven; today's his ever-popular Fifth Symphony. Plus the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra perform Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, and the BBC Singers sing motets by Bruckner.
Presented by Tom McKinney.
2pm
Luigi Cherubini Overture to 'Lodoïska'
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck (conductor)
Vladigerov Bulgarian Rhapsody Vardar, Op.16
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mark Kadin (conductor)
3pm
Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck (conductor)
c.
3.35pm
Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, op. 35, symphonic suite
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra
Varna State Opera Orchestra
Rossen Milanov (conductor)
Bruckner Os Justi
Bruckner Ave Maria
BBC Singers
Nicholas Chalmers (conductor)
c.
4.35pm
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D, BWV 1050
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
THU 17:00 In Tune (m000zvcm)
Fretwork, Iestyn Davies, Ella Taylor
Sean Rafferty's special guests are the members of viol consort Fretwork, playing live in the studio. Iestyn Davies, countertenor, and some time collaborator of Fretwork, also joins Sean. And soprano Ella Taylor looks forward to a production of Gluck's 'Paris and Helen', an opera for 4 sopranos about to start a run at Bampton Classical Opera.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000zvcp)
A blissful 30-minute 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.
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000zvcr)
Joana Carneiro conducts Sibelius
Joana Carneiro conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by Sibelius, Beethoven and Lindberg, and Pekka Kuusisto joins to play Lindberg's First Violin Concerto.
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Kate Molleson
Bach: Es ist genug
Lindberg: Chorale
Lindberg: Violin Concerto No.1
c.
8.05pm Interval
c.
8.20pm Part Two
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No.3, op. 72b
Sibelius: Symphony No.7
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m000zvct)
Punk
Rebellion and causing offence: Shahidha Bari looks at punk and finds that beyond the filth and the fury of the ‘70s music scene, it provided a new vocabulary for artists that’s shaped the cultural scene to the present day, with photographs of the British punk scene on show, a new documentary coming in the autumn and the opening of a play this week drawing on the idea of punk. Shahidha's guests are: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm whose drama, opening in Sheffield, features women in a prison becoming inspired by a punk band; Philip Venables, the classical composer of works including
4:48 Psychosis and Denis and Katya; musician and 6 music broadcaster Tom Robinson, and Radio 3 and AHRC New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester, author of Wrong, A Critical Biography of Denis Cooper. They look at figures ranging from Byron and Rimbaud up to The Slits and Derek Jarman. Plus - as Ru Paul's Drag Show returns to TV, Diarmuid Hester considers an earlier portrayal of queer culture in the paintings of Edward Burra.
Typical Girls - Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's play produced by Sheffield Theatres and Clean Break runs from Sept 24th to October 16th
You can find out more about Philip Venables at https://philipvenables.com/
Diarmuid Hester's website with information about his queer tours of Cambridge and Rye https://www.diarmuidhester.com/
The photographs of Michael Grecco and Kevin Cummins were on show at Photo London.
Rebel Dykes, is a documentary set in 1980s post punk London, directed by Harri Shanahan and Sian A. Williams
Edward Burra's work is on show at the Rye Art Gallery in Burra and Friends (until October 3rd).
Producer: Luke Mulhall
THU 22:45 The Essay (m000zvcw)
The Songs That Shaped Me
Gumboots
How snatches of African rhythms overheard in Fitzrovia led Amit Chaudhuri to Graceland via Paul Simon.
Indian author, musician and international public intellectual Amit Chaudhuri presents a set of personal essays on the music and the songwriters that shaped his early life.
An Art and Adventure production
Producer: Roger James Elsgood
THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m000zvcy)
Music for the night
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m000xmk4)
Open Spaces
Elizabeth Alker surveys the landscape of contemporary ambient recordings, with songs that soothe, spiral, and soar. Featuring music suited to open spaces by Koreless, taken from his long-awaited debut album that’s been five years in the making titled Agor (the Welsh word for open). Plus, two legends of art music, David Toop and Ryuichi Sakamoto, collaborate on a track inspired by the aesthetics of Japanese gardening. Listeners are invited to imagine themselves wandering through a subtly changing environment, chancing on beautiful details and admiring them before moving on.
Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
01
00:00:07 Koreless (artist)
Frozen
Performer: Koreless
Duration 00:03:52
02
00:04:27 Niklas Paschburg (artist)
Winter Born
Performer: Niklas Paschburg
Performer: Hania Rani
Duration 00:03:50
03
00:08:17 Max Richter (artist)
Exiles
Performer: Max Richter
Performer: Kristjan Järvi
Performer: Baltic Sea Philharmonic
Duration 00:03:25
04
00:12:47 MrUnderwood (artist)
Indy
Performer: MrUnderwood
Duration 00:08:20
05
00:21:08 AFRODEUTSCHE (artist)
Make The Call
Performer: AFRODEUTSCHE
Duration 00:05:55
06
00:28:17 Lawrence English (artist)
A Mirror Holds The Sky
Performer: Lawrence English
Duration 00:02:50
07
00:31:07 Polypores (artist)
Calm, But There's Insects
Performer: Polypores
Duration 00:02:22
08
00:33:29 Klein (artist)
saving lala
Performer: Klein
Duration 00:04:49
09
00:39:17 Ryuichi Sakamoto (artist)
Garden of Shadows and Light
Performer: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Performer: David Toop
Duration 00:05:19
10
00:45:30 Dave Okumu (artist)
RTN
Performer: Dave Okumu
Duration 00:05:23
11
00:50:53 Simon Goff (artist)
A Process in the Weather of the Heart
Performer: Simon Goff
Duration 00:04:37
12
00:56:22 Hayden Thorpe (artist)
The Universe Is Always Right
Performer: Hayden Thorpe
Duration 00:03:36
FRIDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2021
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m000zvd1)
A Celebration of Iván Fischer's Seventieth Birthday
András Schiff joins the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer in a programme of Bach, Bartók and Beethoven. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in E, BWV 1053
Andras Schiff (piano), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)
12:50 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Piano Concerto No. 1, Sz. 83
Andras Schiff (piano), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)
01:13 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Symphony No. 7 in A, op. 92
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)
01:50 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite for Solo Cello No 6 in D major, BWV 1012
Guy Fouquet (cello)
02:22 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata for flute, violin and continuo in G major, BWV 1038
Musica Petropolitana
02:31 AM
Fernando Lopes-Graca (1906-1994)
Cancoes regionais portuguesas (Op.39) (1943-88)
Ricercare Chorus, Rodrigo Gomes (piano), Pedro Teixeira (conductor)
03:14 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Piano Sonata no. 3 in B minor Op.58
Charles Richard-Hamelin (piano)
03:39 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Sinfonia in G major, RV.149 'Il coro delle muse'
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director)
03:46 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
2 pieces for cello & piano, Op 2
Monika Leskovar (cello), Ivana svarc-Grenda (piano)
03:55 AM
Ion Dimitrescu (1913-1996)
Symphonic Prelude
Romanian Youth Orchestra, Cristian Mandeal (conductor)
04:04 AM
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
La Belle Excentrique
Pianoduo Kolacny (piano duo)
04:12 AM
Michael Haydn (1737-1806)
Cantata: Lauft, ihr Hirten allzugleich (Run ye shepherds, to the light)
Wolfgang Brunner, Salzburger Hofmusik
04:22 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Suite for chamber orchestra (1946)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
04:31 AM
Sulho Ranta (1901-1960)
Finnish Folk Dances - suite for orchestra Op 51
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
04:40 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Fantasia on an Irish song "The last rose of summer" for piano Op 15
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
04:49 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Litanies à la Vierge Noire version for women's voices and organ (1936)
La Gioia, Diane Verdoodt (soprano), Ilse Schelfhout (soprano), Kristien Vercammen (soprano), Bernadette De Wilde (soprano), Lieve Mertens (mezzo soprano), Els Van Attenhoven (mezzo soprano), Peter Thomas (organ)
04:58 AM
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
Valse-fantasie in B minor
Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Robl (conductor)
05:06 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)
05:14 AM
Giacomo Facco (1676-1753)
Sinfonia no.9 in C minor for cello and basso continuo
La Guirlande
05:24 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
String Serenade in E, op. 22
Lucerne Festival Strings, Daniel Dodds (conductor)
05:52 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Regina coeli for soloists SATB, chorus, orchestra & organ (K.276) in C major
Olivia Robinson (soprano), Sian Menna (mezzo soprano), Christopher Bowen (tenor), Stuart MacIntyre (baritone), BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
05:59 AM
Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783-1847)
Piano Quartet in E minor
Klara Hellgren (violin), Ingegerd Kierkegaard (viola), Asa Akerberg (cello), Anders Kilstrom (piano)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m000zvmy)
Friday - Petroc's classical alarm call
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m000zvn0)
Georgia Mann
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 our starter today.
1100 Essential Five – our final choice of top tarantellas this week.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000zvn2)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Continuity and Defiance
Donald Macleod explores Béla Bartók’s decision to leave Europe. But where will he go and how can he possibly leave his mother behind?
Béla Bartók had already been distressed by what he viewed as Hungary’s capitulation to the wishes of Germany, or as he put it “this regime of thieves and murderers.” He also strongly objected to the fact that his publishers, Universal Edition, and the Austrian Performing Rights Society had been “Nazified.” They sent him a form to fill out in which he was asked whether he was “of German blood, of kindred race, or non-Aryan.” Bartók decided that that question would remain unanswered. Meanwhile he became embroiled in a tortuous struggle to wrest his works form Universal and move them to the British firm of Boosey & Hawkes. He wrote to his friend, the violinist Zoltán Székely: “Neither while I am alive nor after my death do I want any German publisher to have any of my work, even if it means that no work of mine will ever be published again. This is for now what is fixed and final.”
Mikrokosmos
Bulgarian Rhythm No. 1 (Vol 4, no.113)
Study in Chords (Vol 3, no 69)
Perpetuum Mobile (Vol 5, no 135)
Chick Corea, piano
Nicolas Economou, piano
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
Cheng Zhang, piano
Tomoki Kitamura, piano
Juris Azers, percussion
Weiqi Bai, percussion
Sixth String Quartet
iii Mesto – Burletta – moderato
iv Mesto
Emerson String Quartet
Sonata for Solo Violin
i. Tempo di ciaccona
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Concerto for Orchestra
v. Finale
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Zoltan Kocsis, conductor
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000zvn4)
Manchester Connections: Marcus Farnsworth and James Baillieu
Linton Stephens ends a week of specially recorded concerts given by musicians with a Manchester connection. Today, baritone Marcus Farnsworth, who is a former student of Chetham's School of Music and currently Head of Vocal and Choral Studies there, performs songs by Vaughan Williams, Cecilia McDowall and Gerald Finzi, with James Baillieu playing piano.
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 4 Poems by Fredegond Shove
CECILIA McDOWALL If I touched the Earth
GERALD FINZI Earth and Air and Rain
Marcus Farnsworth (baritone)
James Baillieu (piano)
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000zvn6)
Friday - Pastoral Music from Beethoven and Knecht
This week, Afternoon Concert features the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin performing Brandenburg concertos by Bach and symphonies by Beethoven. Today's it's Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, followed by more music of a pastoral nature from Holzbauer and Knecht.
Presented by Tom McKinney.
Including:
Gade: Hamlet Overture
BBC Philharmonic
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
Thomas Ades: Three Studies from Couperin
Bavarian Radio SO
Daniel Harding (conductor)
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat, BWV 1051
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
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3pm
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F, op. 68 ('Pastoral')
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck (conductor)
Holzbauer: Symphony in E flat, op. 4/3 ('La tempesta del mare')
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck (conductor)
Knecht: Pastoral Symphony ('Portrait musical de la nature, ou Grande Simphonie')
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck (conductor)
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m000zssm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m000zvn8)
With Sean Rafferty
Sean Rafferty is joined by pianist James Pearson, artistic director at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, playing live in the studio with bassist Sam Burgess, ahead of their appearance at the Music@Malling Festival next weekend.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000zvnb)
Classical music for your journey
In Tune's classical music mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises thrown in for good measure.
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000zvnd)
Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle launches the London Symphony Orchestra's new season with 'New Music Britain.'
In this concert, which spans 100 years of British music, the LSO and the LSO Chorus range from Purcell's agonised funeral sentences to the premiere of two movements inspired by the poetry of exile by Julian Anderson. And at the heart of the programme comes Vaughan Williams's Pastoral Symphony, first conceived in the trenches of the Western Front.
Recorded at the Barbican Hall, London and presented by Martin Handley.
Purcell: Remember not, Lord, our offences
Tippett: Praeludium
Julian Anderson: Two movements from ‘Exiles’ (world premiere)
Judith Weir Natural History
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8.15pm Interval Music. Vaughan Williams's Six Studies in English Folk Song played by current BBC New Generation Artist, viola player, Timothy Ridout and the pianist, James Baillieu.
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8.25pm
Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No 3)
Maxwell Davies: An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
Lucy Crowe (soprano)
Robert Jordan (bagpipes)
London Symphony Chorus
Simon Halsey (chorus director)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m000zvng)
Live from Contains Strong Language
This year the Contains Strong Language festival of poetry and performance is in the 2021 City of Culture, Coventry. Ian McMillan is broadcasting live from the Belgrade Theatre, joined by some of the festival guests. Loyle Carner is a Mercury Prize-nominated musician who will be performing his poetry. We celebrate the poetic links between Guyana and Britain with the poet John Agard. Former Birmingham Laureate Roy McFarlane on his work specially commissioned for Contains Strong Language as well as poetry about Coventry's musical heritage.
Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Jessica Treen
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m000zvnj)
The Songs That Shaped Me
Kalavati and Abhogi Have Good Vibrations
Amit Chaudhuri explores how two ragas are reflected in the Beach Boys' 'Good Vibrations'.
Indian author, musician and international public intellectual Amit Chaudhuri presents a set of personal essays on the music and the songwriters that shaped his early life.
An Art and Adventure production
Producer: Roger James Elsgood
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m000zvnl)
Sonic Sweets, Shells and Séances
Jennifer Lucy Allan presents your weekly dose of adventurous explorations in sound. There’ll be sweet strings and electronics from Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe’s new Candyman soundtrack, the glowing ghostly sounds of New Zealand songwriter Maxine Funke and ecclesiastical improvisations from Liverpool duo Land Trance. Plus Japanese noise rock from the vaults courtesy of the mysterious Les Rallizes Dénudés, as well as a spiritual collaboration between sound artist Ka Baird and the late Finnish composer Pekka Airaksinen, inspired by a collection of Buddhist parables.
Produced by Katie Callin
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3