Jonathan Swain presents a concert by Baroque specialists Il Giardino Armonico including music by Telemann and Vivaldi.
Stig Nilsson (violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Michel Plasson (conductor)
Vladislav Brunner (flute), Jozef Hanusovsky (oboe), Jozef Martinkovic (bassoon)
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921) transcr. Eugen d'Albert
Sonata no. 3 in D minor for violin and piano (Op. 108)
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe) , Katerina Apekisheva (piano), Boris Andrianov (cello)
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Le Voyage Magnifique - Schubert Impromptus performed by Maria João Pires.
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez with guitarist Göran Söllscher).
The Essential Classics guest is biographer Claire Tomalin, who introduces her essential pieces of classical music. Today she reveals music which brightens her day and a piece which makes her laugh.
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole.
Fritz Reiner (conductor).
Walton's career took a new turn in the wartime era: his music was behind some of the greatest patriotic films ever made. Donald Macleod looks at the composer's increasing national importance- and official recognition.
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from last summer's Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival - the theme of which was "Performer Composers". This programme features music by Bach, Purcell, Mendelssohn, Liszt and Messiaen in performances by violinists Lena Neudauer & Tai Murray, violist Jennifer Stumm, cellists Alexander Chaushian, Richard Harwood & Kristina Blaumane and pianists Ashley Wass & Martin Roscoe.
LISZT - Les preludes (arr. Liszt for 2 pianos).
Mahler's 4th Symphony - the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Bonn, Germany, with conductor Sylvain Cambreling. Plus a grand finale...
Katie Derham presents the third of three concerts from the BBC Symphony Orchestra's recent tours of Germany. Today finds them in Bonn at the 2011 Beethoven Festival - though the music is by Weber and Mahler. And finally... you can hear a quirky little piece by David Fennessy consisting of the last chord or gesture of a work from each year of the 20th century - 100 chronological chords starting in 1900 and finishing in 1999!
Introit: Corpus Christi Carol (Judith Bingham) ('The Choirbook for The Queen' -first performance)
American pianist Simone Dinnerstein performs live in the In Tune studio as she prepares for her concerts with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Simone discusses life, music and her new album featuring the music of Bach and Schubert.
Cellist Jamie Walton and pianist/conductor Adam Johnson play music by Prokofiev and Shostakovich ahead of their concert at St. Sepulchre-without-Newgate with the Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra.
Plus award-winning violinist Jack Liebeck performs live in the studio with pianist Martin Cousin and talks to presenter Suzy Klein about his upcoming concerts with pianist Katya Apekisheva.
Martin Handley presents a concert in which Marin Alsop conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme where Liszt's first two piano concertos are framed by two Czech masterpieces. But whilst Martinu wrote his vibrant Sixth Symphony with the conductor Charles Munch very much in mind, Dvorak wrote his Eighth Symphony to satisfy nobody but himself. As he remarked, it is 'a work singing of the joy of green pastures, of summer evenings, of the melancholy of blue forests, of the defiant merry-making of the Czech peasants'.
Music Interval - a chance to hear some of Bohuslav Martinu's seldom heard choral music
William Boyd's new novel, Waiting For Sunrise, begins in Vienna in 1913 with a young Englishman beginning a course of psychoanalysis, with one of the followers of Dr Freud. But what begins as an inner journey for the novel's protagonist, Lysander Rief, becomes a flight across Europe enmeshed in the politics and trauma of the first world war. William Boyd speaks to Rana Mitter talks about the themes that he returns to in his novels again and again.
A new retrospective of the work of Yayoi Kusama opens at Tate Modern tomorrow. Over 90 years the reclusive Japanese artist has re-created her style spanning painting, drawing, sculpture and film.
As a British warship is despatched once again to the Falkland Islands, and the front pages of the Argentinian newspapers today carry the words of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to David Cameron asking him to 'Give Peace a Chance,' Night Waves asks how different Argentina is today to the country of the 1970s and 80s, and how photography, film and the novel are tracing the changes in Argentinian society since then. Maria Delgado of Queen Mary University, Stephen Hart of University College London and Vicky Bell of Goldsmith's College discuss a society trying still to rise above the trauma of dictatorship.
And playwright Gabriel Gbadamosi reviews a new production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, featuring an all-black cast, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
In this series of five essays, contemporary children's authors and editors each look at a fictional family from children's literature. They use it as a focal point to explore the changing portrayal of the family in children's books, and consider both what it tells us about the society it reflects, and how relevant it is to determining a young generation's attitudes to the future.
In the third programme of the series, children's author Trish Cooke examines the relevance of "self identification" in the books she read as a child and children's books today. With Dominican parents and nine siblings from both the West Indies and the UK, British born Trish asks how the Ladybird reading series Peter and Jane - about white, middle class families - impacted on how she saw herself as a black child growing up on a Bradford council estate in the 1960s. Trish compares the families in her first reading books with the families in her own books and asks how important is it for a child to see their culture reflected in the books they read.
Tonight the words of Thomas Hardy set by composer Ian Venables and sung by Andrew Kennedy, the Japanese bamboo shakuhachi flute played by Tajima Tadashi, and songs from multi-linguist Aldona Nowowiejska. Plus Voreia Monoipatia, 'Northern Footpaths' by Cretan lyra player Stelios Petrakis, and Quatuor Hêlios perform Imaginary Landscape No.1 by John Cage. With Verity Sharp.
THURSDAY 09 FEBRUARY 2012
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b01bmm81)
Jonathan Swain presents the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in concert performing Beethoven
12:31 AM
Koch, Erland von [1910-2009]
Nordic Capriccio (Op.26)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Per Hammarström (conductor)
12:38 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Concerto for piano and orchestra no.5 (Op.73) in E flat major, 'Emperor'
Peter Friis Johansson (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Per Hammarström (conductor)
1:20 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Symphony no. 6 (Op.68) in F major 'Pastoral'
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Robin Ticciati (conductor)
2:01 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Piano Trio in D minor (Op.120) (1923)
Grumiaux Trio
2:23 AM
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909)
Córdoba (Nocturne) from Cantos de Espana, arr. unknown for guitar and cello
Henry-David Varema (cello), Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
2:31 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Magnificat in D major (Wq.215)
Linda Øvrebø (soprano), Anna Einarsson (alto), Anders J.Dahlin (tenor), Johannes Mannov (bass), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Oslo Chamber Choir, Alessandro de Marchi (conductor)
3:07 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707)
Ciacona in E minor (BuxWV160)
Jacques van Oortmerssen playing the 1734 Christian Müller organ of the Oude Walenkerk, Amsterdam
3:13 AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
Concerto (Divertissement) for bassoon and 11 String Instruments (1968)
Laurent Lefèvre (bassoon), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marc Kissóczy (conductor)
3:36 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
9 Variations on a minuet by Duport for piano (K.573)
Bart van Oort (piano)
3:46 AM
Bree, Johannes Bernardus van (1801-1857)
Concert Overture in B minor
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (conductor)
3:57 AM
Hotteterre, Jean (1677-1720) edited by François Lazarevitch
La Noce Champêtre ou l'Himen Pastoral
Ensemble 1700 Dorothee Oberlinger (director/recorder)
4:10 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Concert Paraphrase on 'God save the Queen', S 235
László Baranyay (piano)
4:17 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Bajazet's final aria "Figlia mia, non pianger no!"from "Tamerlano", Act 3
Nigel Robson (tenor): Bajazet, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
4:22 AM
Kraus, Joseph Martin (1756-1792)
Overture from Olympie
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
4:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Overture to the Magic Flute
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi (Conductor)
4:37 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Norfolk Rhapsody No.1 in E minor
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Bernard Heinze (conductor)
4:48 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (Hob.VIIe:1)
Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Nicolae Moldoveanu (conductor)
5:05 AM
Hurlebusch, Conrad Friedrich (1696-1765)
Concerto in A minor for two oboes, solo violin, strings & basso continuo
Paul van de Linden and Kristine Linde (oboes), Manfred Kraemer (violin), Musica ad Rhenum
5:18 AM
Elgar, Edward [1857-1934]
In the south (Alassio) - overture (Op.50)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor)
5:40 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Nulla in mundo pax sincera for soprano and orchestra (RV.630)
Marita Kvarving Sølberg (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ketil Haugsand (conductor)
5:47 AM
Weiss, Silvius Leopold (1686-1750)
Prelude, Toccata and Allegro in G major
Hopkinson Smith (Baroque Lute)
5:57 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Trio in G major (K564)
Ondine Trio
6:12 AM
Kunzen, Friedrich (1761-1817)
Overture to the singspiel 'Vinhoesten'
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Peter Marschik (conductor)
6:17 AM
Grieg, Edvard (Hagerup) (1843-1907)
Lyric pieces - book 5 for piano (Op.54): Nos. 2, 4, 3
Sveinung Bjelland (piano)
06:30 AM
Radio 3 Breakfast.
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b01bmm8m)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast Show, including a Rondo for cello and orchestra by Stanford performed by Gemma Rosenfield with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra perform one of Dvorak's Slavonic Dances conducted by Antal Dorati, and Saint-Saens' Tarantelle for flute, clarinet and piano is performed by William Bennett, James Campbell and Clifford Benson.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b01bmnlb)
Thursday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Le Voyage Magnifique - Schubert Impromptus performed by Maria João Pires.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (Tchaikovsky: Serenade melancholique with violinist Gil Shaham).
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is biographer Claire Tomalin, who introduces her essential pieces of classical music. Today she reveals music which moves her, and a piece she would like to be remembered by.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice.
Stravinsky: The Firebird.
London Symphony Orchestra,
Antal Dorati (conductor).
MERCURY 432 012-2.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00qc0ly)
William Walton (1902-1983)
Ischian Labourer
Critical failure was something Walton had long foreseen: after the war came his most difficult years as a composer, although this was tempered by his blissful self-imposed exile, with his new wife, on the Italian island of Ischia.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01bmnld)
Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival 2011
Episode 3
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from last summer's Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival - the theme of which was "Performer Composers". This programme features music for string ensemble by Boccherini, Ysaye and Dvorak in performances by violinists Lena Neudauer & Tai Murray, violists Jennifer Stumm & Philip Dukes, cellists Alexander Chaushian, Richard Harwood & Kristina Blaumane and The Barbirolli Quartet.
BOCCHERINI - Quintet for strings in E, Op.11'5
YSAYE - Trio for strings "Le Chimay", Op.posth
DVORAK - Terzetto for 2 violins & viola in C, Op.74.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01bmnlg)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Dvorak - The Jacobin
Katie Derham presents a recent concert performance, at The Barbican, of Dvorak's opera The Jacobin, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor Jiri Belohlavek.
Like many of the operas of his fellow countrymen, Dvorak set music to a libretto whose plot revolves around the theme of reconciliation - in this instance that of an exiled son disowned by his father as a revolutionary - a Jacobin. In an attempt to make amends with his father, Bohus returns to his home town, accompanied by his wife, from the fermented unrest of France. There ensues a story of young love and the emotive power of childhood lullabies, served up with a twist of treachery, mockery and the unwanted attention of an insipid romantic suitor. Perfect material, then, for Dvorak to spin a musical yarn that explicitly stresses the role of music in the Czech national psyche.
Dvorak: The Jacobin
Count Vilem of Harasov ..... Jan Martinik (Bass),
Bohus ..... Svatopluk Sem (Baritone),
Bohus' wife ..... Dana Buresova (Soprano),
Benda/the schoolmaster/choirmaster ..... Jaroslav Brezina (Tenor),
Terinka, his daughter ...... Lucie Fiser Silkenova (Soprano),
Jiri, a young gamekeeper ..... Ales Voracek (Tenor),
Filip, the Count's Burgrave (chief-of-staff) ...... Jozef Benci (Bass),
The Count's nephew ..... Jiri Hajek (Baritone),
The keeper of the keys at the castle ..... Lynette Alcantara (Mezzo-Soprano),
BBC Singers
Andrew Griffiths (Chorus master)
Trinity Choir School
David Swinson (chorus-master)
Kenneth Richardson (Director)
Trinity Boys Choir
David Swinson (chorus-master)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (Conductor)
THU 16:30 In Tune (b01bmnlj)
Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Miguel Marin, Angela Hewitt, Charles Hazlewood
Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen and accompanist Huw Watkins join us live in the In Tune studio throughout the show to perform works by Mozart, Schumann and Poulenc ahead of their concert at the Wigmore Hall and the Cadogan Hall, London with the Orchestra of the Swan.
Composer Miguel Marin talks to Suzy Klein ahead of the Flamenco Festival at Sadler's Wells Theatre.
Pianist Angela Hewitt performs works by Debussy live in the studio ahead of a concert from her French Music Series at the Wigmore Hall.
The conductor Charles Hazlewood will pop in to the studio to talk to Suzy Klein about his latest series of children's workshops with the Philharmonia.
In Tune presented by Suzy Klein, with the latest arts and cultural news.
News bulletins at
17:00 and
18:00
Email us: in.tune@bbc.co.uk
Tweet @bbcintune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00qc0ly)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01bmnll)
Halle - Sibelius, Bartok, Beethoven
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Stuart Flinders
A concert given by the Hallé conducted by Sir Mark Elder in which they are joined by Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaider in a performance of Bartok's 2nd Violin Concerto. The concert opens with Sibelius's dark tone poem The Bard, and it concludes with the work Wagner described as 'the apotheosis of the dance', Beethoven's 7th Symphony.
Sibelius: The Bard
Bartók: Violin Concerto No.2
8.20pm Interval music.
8.40pm
Beethoven: Symphony No.7 in A major.
The Hallé,
Nikolaj Znaider (violin),
Sir Mark Elder (conductor).
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b01bmnln)
Lucian Freud, David Gascoyne, African Economic Evolution, Antoni Tapies
Lucian Freud was one of the 20th century's most important artists, a modern master of portrait painting. The Lucian Freud Portraits exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery is the artist's first posthumous exhibit, comprising over 100 works from museums and private collections throughout the world, some of which have never been seen before. Anne McElvoy visits the show with Freud's biographer and friend William Feaver.
Also on the programme, the poet David Gascoyne's biographer talks about the man best known for introducing surrealism to Britain, and why although he counted Andre Breton, Salvador Dali and many other surrealists amongst his friends, he grew disillusioned with the movement and turned to a mystic existentialism that marked his later poetry.
And how is Africa's complex past shaping its economic evolution today? Duncan Clarke's new book 'Africa's Future: Darkness to Destiny' attempts to answer this huge question in a plethora of history and detail. He is joined by Binyavanga Wainaina, director of the Chinua Achebe Center for African Literature and Languages and Business Reporter Matthew Davies of the BBC World Service to discuss.
We also look at the life of the late European artist Antoni Tapies, who found international acclaim with his painting and sculpture. His work often featured cruciform shapes, collages, and numbers and symbols scratched into varnished surfaces through which he explored the themes of emptiness, nature and esoteric philosophy. He was given Spain's most prestigious art award, the Velazquez Prize in 2003. On Tapies' death, aged 88, art historian Richard Cork looks back at his long and successful career.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01bmnlq)
Happily Ever After
Julia Eccleshare
In this series of five essays, contemporary children's authors and editors each look at a fictional family from children's literature. They use it as a focal point to explore the changing portrayal of the family in children's books, and consider both what it tells us about the society it reflects, and how relevant it is to determining a young generation's attitudes to the future.
In the fourth programme of the series, writer, broadcaster and lecturer Julia Eccleshare looks at Jacqueline Wilson's The Illustrated Mum.
Although Wilson was appointed Children's Laureate in 2005 in recognition of her work, for the first twenty years of her career her books were treated with caution by many parents who dismissed them as social realism and unsuitable for children. Julia explores the possibility that, instead of breaking the rules of "happily ever after", Jacqueline Wilson is actually telling thoroughly modern fairy stories which reflect the social/economic upheavals of today, in the same way that our original fairy stories reflected the problems of their times.
Julia goes on to examine our continuing need for such fairy tales, which help to teach children not to be frightened by the world.
First broadcast in February 2012.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b01bmnls)
Thursday - Verity Sharp
An atmospheric track tonight from Lambchop guitarist William Tyler, the gentle piano music of Phamie Gow, a song from Bristol's Mike Scott and the blip hop of Norway's Jan Jelinek. Plus the voice of Montserrat Figueras, and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra play Für Lennart in Memoriam by Arvo Pärt. With Verity Sharp.
FRIDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2012
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b01bmp5l)
James Ehnes is the soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Vivadi's Four Seasons. With Jonathan Swain. .
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Romance in G major (Op. 40) for violin and orchestra
James Ehnes (violin and director), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
12:38 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Romance in F major (Op.50) for violin and orchestra
James Ehnes (violin and director), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
12:47 AM
Elgar, Edward [1857-1934]
Serenade for Strings (Op.20)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, James Ehnes (director)
1:01 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
The Four Seasons, Concertos Op.8 Nos.1-4
James Ehnes (violin and director), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
1:42 AM
Touchemoulin, Joseph (1727-1801)
Sinfonia in C major
Neue Düsseldorfer Hofsmusik
2:02 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
String Quartet No.12 in F major, Op.96 'American'
Prague Quartet
2:25 AM
Gottschalk, Louis Moreau (1829-1869)
Pasquinade (c.1863)
Michael Lewin (piano)
2:31 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Cello Concerto in B minor (Op.104)
Truls Mørk (cello), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor)
3:12 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Sonata for piano no. 30 (Op. 109) in E Major
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
3:31 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
He shall feed his flocks (from the Messiah)
Marita Kvarving Sølberg (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Kjetil Haugsand (conductor)
3:37 AM
Erkel, Ferenc (1810-1893)
Overture to Unknown Heroes
The Hungarian Radio Orchestra, András Kórodi (conductor)
3:42 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico [1685-1757]
Sonata (Kk.417) in D minor
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
3:47 AM
Stoyanov, Vesselin (1902-1969)
Rhapsody (1956)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
3:57 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Quartet in C minor (Op.17 No.4)
Quatuor Mosaïques
4:15 AM
Albright, William Hugh (1944-1998)
Dream rags (1970): Morning reveries
Donna Coleman (piano)
4:22 AM
Hoof, Jef van (1886-1959)
Willem de Zwijger - overture
Belgian Radio and Television National Philharmonic Orchestra, Fernand Terby (conductor)
4:31 AM
Sammartini, Giuseppe [1695-1750]
Sinfonia in F
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (conductor)
4:39 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Prelude and Fugue in C, K. 394, for piano
Christoph Hammer (fortepiano)
4:48 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Valses nobles et sentimentales (1912)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
5:05 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943), arr. unknown
Vocalise (Op.34 No.14)
Desmond Hoebig (cello), Andrew Tunis (piano)
5:12 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Suite for strings and continuo (TWV.55:G2) in G major 'La Bizarre'
B'Rock; Jurgen Gross (conductor)
5:30 AM
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916)
Quejas o la maja y el ruisenor (The Maiden and the Nightingale) - from Goyescas: 7 pieces for piano (Op.11 No.4)
Angela Hewitt (piano)
5:37 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Sonatina, Romance and Menuet - from Six petites pièces faciles for piano duet (Op.3 Nos.1, 2 and 3)
Antra Viksne and Normunds Viksne (piano duet)
5:44 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Quartet for strings (Op.18'6) in B flat major
Psophos Quartet
6:09 AM
Muffat, Georg (1653-1704)
Sonata from Concerto No.XI in E minor 'Delirium amoris'
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg (director)
6:15 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Andante spianato and grande polonaise brillante (Op.22) for piano & orchestra
Nelson Goerner (1849 Erard Piano), Orchestra Of The Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen (Conductor)
06:30 AM
Radio 3 Breakfast.
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b01bmp5n)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast Show, including Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance March No.5 performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Georg Solti, the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer perform Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.2, and pianist Simone Dinnerstein plays a Schubert Impromptu (D899 No.4).
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b01bmp5q)
Friday - Sarah Walker
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Le Voyage Magnifique - Schubert Impromptus performed by Maria João Pires.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (Respighi: The Birds).
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is biographer Claire Tomalin, who introduces her essential pieces of classical music. Today she reveals her favourite performer and Sarah plays Claire a piece which she hopes Claire will enjoy.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice.
Delius: Songs of Sunset.
Sally Burgess (mezzo-soprano),
Bryn Terfel (baritone),
Waynflete Singers,
Southern Voices,
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus & Orchestra,
Richard Hickox (conductor).
CHANDOS CHAN 9214.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00qc2j7)
William Walton (1902-1983)
National Treasure
In his later years, Walton was seen as a pillar of the musical establishment- despite living in Italy- although he continued to think of himself as only a partial success. Donald Macleod surveys his legacy and plays music from the composer's final years.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01bmp5s)
Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival 2011
Episode 4
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from last summer's Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival - the theme of which was "Performer Composers". This programme features music by Arensky and Brahms in performances by violinists Alexander Sitkovetsky & Tai Murray, violist Jennifer Stumm, cellists Alexander Chaushian, Richard Harwood & Kristina Blaumane and pianists Ashley Wass & Martin Roscoe.
BRAHMS - Piano Trio No.3 in E flat, Op.55
ARENSKY - Quartet for violin, viola & 2 cellos in A minor, Op.35.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01bmp5v)
Katie Derham introduces the seldom heard Serenade for Orchestra by Jakub Ryba, plus Manfred Honeck conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Dvorak's Stabat Mater. Written whilst Dvorak mourned the death of his daughter, Josefa, and finished following the tragic passing of his two remaining children, the Latin text to which he set the composition tells of the grief of the Virgin Mary at the death of her son, Jesus, as she stands under his cross.
Baritone Thomas Hampson performs Mahler's deeply moving Kindertotenlider with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, traversing the range of somber emotional responses a parent might pass through at the death of a child - from anguish, through fantasy resuscitation, to resignation and transcendence. The text, written as Ruckert attempted to come to terms with the loss of his children to scarlet fever, was set as a song-cycle between 1901-1904 by Mahler who, poignantly, lost his own daughter, Maria, to scarlet fever sometime later.
Jan Jakub Ryba: Serenade for Orchestra
Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra
Vojtech Spurny (conductor)
c.
2.20pm
Dvorak: Stabat Mater Op. 58
Simona Houda-Saturova (soprano)
Marina Prudenska (alto)
Tomás Cerný (tenor)
Liang Li (bass)
Prague Philharmonic Chorus
Lukas Vasilek (director)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Manfred Honeck (conductor)
c.
3.40pm
Cêsar Franck: Violin Sonata in A (dedicated to Eugène Ysaÿe)
Carolin Widmann (violin)
Konstantin Lifschitz (piano)
c.
4pm
Gustav Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Eliahu Inbal (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b01bmp5x)
RADA Singers, Martin Simpson, Ben Johnson, Carl Davis
Singers from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art perform songs from Stephen Sondheim's Saturday Night live in the studio as they continue a sold out run at RADA's Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre.
More live music from folk star Martin Simpson, who performs songs from his recent album and talks to presenter Suzy Klein about his Purpose & Grace series at Kings Place.
Plus Ferrier Award-winning tenor Ben Johnson performs live in the studio with pianist Tom Primrose ahead of his Wigmore recital with Graham Johnson.
And film composer and conductor Carl Davis visits the In Tune studio to discuss his amazing career in TV and film music and his upcoming concert with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra celebrating John Williams' 80th birthday.
Presented by Suzy Klein
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter: BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00qc2j7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01bmp5z)
Live from the Barbican, London
Dvorak, Rebecca Saunders
Live from the Barbican, London.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Young French conductor Lionel Bringuier conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and violinist Carolin Widmann in the UK Premiere of 'Still' by Rebecca Saunders, after Dvorak's ever-popular Carnival Overture. Tchaikovsky's melodic 5th Symphony completes the programme.
Dvorák's burst of uninhibited joy launches this concert, and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony ends in triumph too, though only after a doleful beginning and many travails as the composer explores the theme of fate. Heard alongside this full-throated affirmation, the exploratory, minutely detailed art of Rebecca Saunders will make a startling and thought-provoking contrast. The BBC Symphony Orchestra is conducted by the 25-year-old hot-shot Lionel Bringuier, who is fast making a reputation as a star of the future.
Dvorák: Carnival Overture
Rebecca Saunders: 'Still' - Violin Concerto (UK Premiere)
Carolin Widmann (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Lionel Bringuier (conductor).
FRI 20:00 Discovering Music (b01bmp61)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony is the middle of a last, great trilogy of symphonies whose musical ideas, the composer admitted, address great issues of Fate, Death, and Providence.
Stephen Johnson explores the connections between Tchaikovsky's last three symphonies, written at a time when the composer was struggling with depression and fears over his homosexuality.
How do these masterpieces intersect with the composer's own troubled psychological state? And how much can we really read into the way that their themes and motifs develop and intersect as emblematic of Tchaikovsky's own inner world?
FRI 20:20 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01bmp63)
Live from the Barbican, London
Tchaikovsky
Live from the Barbican, London.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Young French conductor Lionel Bringuier conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and violinist Carolin Widmann in the UK Premiere of 'Still' by Rebecca Saunders, after Dvorak's ever-popular Carnival Overture. Tchaikovsky's melodic 5th Symphony completes the programme.
Dvorák's burst of uninhibited joy launches this concert, and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony ends in triumph too, though only after a doleful beginning and many travails as the composer explores the theme of fate. Heard alongside this full-throated affirmation, the exploratory, minutely detailed art of Rebecca Saunders will make a startling and thought-provoking contrast. The BBC Symphony Orchestra is conducted by the 25-year-old hot-shot Lionel Bringuier, who is fast making a reputation as a star of the future.
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor
Carolin Widmann (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Lionel Bringuier (conductor).
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b01bmp65)
Adonis, The Gerry Diver Speech Project, Greenlandic Poetry, Will Eaves
This week on The Verb Ian McMillan introduces the work of a superstar of Arabic poetry, Adonis. The 82 year old Syrian poet Ali Ahmad Said Esber writes under the pen name Adonis and has been hugely influential as a writer of modernist Arabic poetry, a publisher of literary magazines, a translator and cultural commentator. Ian is joined by the poet Khaled Mattawa who translates Adonis' work into English, and Chinese poet and fan of Adonis Yang Lian to celebrate his work.
The Gerry Diver Speech Project is part song, music and an unusual oral history told in very personal interviews with Irish folk greats including Christy Moore, Joe Cooley and Shane McGowan. Gerry joins Ian to share some of the astonishing song-stories he's created.
Nancy Campbell tells Ian about her concrete poetry based around words in endangered Greenlandic Inuit, a language with an alphabet of only 18 letters of which only 12 can begin a word. A single word in Greenlandic can express multiple different meanings and the suggestion of whole stories, like the word kingunikortorpoq 'He drinks a second brew from old coffee grounds or tea leaves'.
And The Verb is excited to present an extract from Will Eaves' forthcoming novel This Is Paradise. Telling the story of the Allden family over several decades, from the awkward youth of son Clive to the illness of matriarch Emily, The Verb has periodically featured extracts of This Is Paradise as a work in progress, and now follows it to publication.
Producer: Allegra McIlroy.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b01bmp6r)
Happily Ever After
Michael Rosen
In this series of five essays, contemporary children's authors and editors each look at a fictional family from children's literature.
They use it as a focal point to explore the changing portrayal of the family in children's books, and consider both what it tells us about the society it reflects, and how relevant it is to determining a young generation's attitudes to the future.
In the fifth programme of the series, writer and broadcaster Michael Rosen explores the part that children's literature plays in the ongoing conversation we have about parenting and childcare. Looking at The History of the Fairchild Family by Mrs Sherwood, Michael considers that this story, popular in the early nineteenth century, was renowned at the time for its realistic portrayal of childhood but is now viewed as an example of an out-dated didactic style of parenting. He goes on to explore how the portrayal of the fictional parent has so altered that children's books are increasingly full of moments where the balance of power has shifted in the child's favour. A fact which, he believes, illustrates how differently modern society now sees the parental role.
First broadcast in February 2012.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b01bmp6t)
Punch Brothers
Presented by Lopa Kothari and featuring progressive bluegrass group Punch Brothers live in concert at this year's Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow. Plus a round-up of the latest new releases from around the world.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 MON (b01blr2y)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b01bmlk0)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b01bmlx5)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b01bmnlg)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b01bmp5v)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b019qly1)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b01blm3k)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b01blq0z)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b01bml9l)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b01bmlwz)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b01bmm8m)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b01bmp5n)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b019qly3)
Choir and Organ
17:00 SUN (b01blmcp)
Choral Evensong
16:00 SUN (b019qhpb)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b01bmlx7)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b00qc01x)
Composer of the Week
18:30 MON (b00qc01x)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b00qc08y)
Composer of the Week
18:30 TUE (b00qc08y)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b00qc0c0)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b00qc0c0)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b00qc0ly)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b00qc0ly)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b00qc2j7)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b00qc2j7)
Discovering Music
20:00 FRI (b01bmp61)
Drama on 3
20:30 SUN (b01blmcw)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b01blr2t)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b01bml9n)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b01bmlx1)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b01bmnlb)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b01bmp5q)
Hear and Now
22:30 SAT (b01bllzk)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b01blr30)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b01bmlk2)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b01bmm0t)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b01bmnlj)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b01bmp5x)
Jazz Library
00:00 SUN (b01blm3f)
Jazz Line-Up
23:15 SUN (b01blpxk)
Jazz Record Requests
20:45 SAT (b01bllzc)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b01bmkqn)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b01bmlmp)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b01bmm7l)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b01bmnls)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b01bllz5)
Night Waves
22:00 MON (b01blr34)
Night Waves
22:00 TUE (b01bmlmk)
Night Waves
22:00 WED (b01bmm7g)
Night Waves
22:00 THU (b01bmnln)
Opera on 3
17:00 SAT (b01bllzf)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b01blm3p)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 MON (b01blr32)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 TUE (b01bmlk4)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:30 TUE (b01bmlk8)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b01bmm0w)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b01bmnll)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 FRI (b01bmp5z)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:20 FRI (b01bmp63)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
14:00 SAT (b019pq9h)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b01blr2w)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b01bmljy)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b01bmlx3)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b01bmnld)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b01bmp5s)
Saturday Classics
15:00 SAT (b01bllz9)
Sunday Concert
14:00 SUN (b01blm3t)
Sunday Feature
19:45 SUN (b01blmct)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b01blm3m)
The Early Music Show
13:00 SAT (b01bllz7)
The Early Music Show
13:00 SUN (b01blm3r)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b01bmkql)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b01bmlmm)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b01bmm7j)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b01bmnlq)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b01bmp6r)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (b01bmp65)
The Wire
21:45 SAT (b01bllzh)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b019qlxz)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b01blm3h)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b01blq0v)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b01bml9j)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b01bmlwx)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b01bmm81)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b01bmp5l)
Twenty Minutes
20:10 TUE (b01bmlk6)
Words and Music
18:30 SUN (b01blmcr)
World Routes
22:30 SUN (b01blpxh)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b01bmp6t)