Dennis O'Neill (tenor - Eleazar), Marina Poplavskaya (soprano - Rachel), Alastair Miles (bass - Cardinal Brogni), Dario Schmunck (tenor - Leopold), Nicole Cabell (soprano - Princess Eudoxie), Joachim Seipp (bass - Ruggiero), Matthew Rose (bass - Albert), Charbel Mattar (bass - Town Crier), John Morrissey (bass - First solo citizen), Christopher Lackner (baritone - Second solo citizen), Neil Gillespie (tenor - Officer), Bryan Secombe (bass - Hangman), Royal Opera House Chorus, Royal Opera House Orchestra, Daniel Oren (conductor)
Cast as Act 1, Royal Opera House Chorus, Royal Opera House Orchestra, Daniel Oren (conductor)
Cast as Act 1, Royal Opera House Chorus, Royal Opera House Orchestra, Daniel Oren (conductor)
Cast as Act 1, Royal Opera House Chorus, Royal Opera House Orchestra, Daniel Oren (conductor)
Cast as Act 1, Royal Opera House Chorus, Royal Opera House Orchestra, Daniel Oren (conductor)
Satie, Erik (1866-1925), arr. Jorgen Jersild
Three melodies with texts by J.P. Contamine de La Tour
Hanne Hohwu, Merte Grosbol, Peter Lodahl (soloists), Merete Hoffmann (oboe), The Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (conductor)
Carol Wincenc (flute), Chee-Yun (violin), Nokuthula Ngwenyama (viola), David Finckel (cello)
Jouko Harjanne (trumpet), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show,including the Gloria from Frank Martin's Mass for Double Choir sung by the Bavarian Radio Chorus, the London Symphony Orchestra perform Mendelssohn's Ruy Blas overture, and Hilary Hahn with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields performs Stravinsky's Violin Concerto conducted by Neville Marriner.
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: English Idylls - Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Neville Marriner (conductor) PHILIPS 442 8415.
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, pianist Martha Argerich. Today we hear her in Chopin's Scherzo No. 2 Op. 31 and Schumann's Andante and Variations op. 46.
The Essential Classics guest this week is science writer, broadcaster and professor of genetics Prof. Steve Jones. Today he discusses musical works that make him feel energized.
He was considered the nation's unofficial composer laureate with hits such as Jerusalem, and was knighted by Queen Victoria for his services to music including the revitalisation of British musical life - this week Donald Macleod focuses upon the life and music of Sir Hubert Parry.
Parry in his early thirties was enjoying the support and friendship of the pianist Edward Dannreuther. This friendship would allow Parry the chance to compose and hear many chamber works at his mentor's chamber evenings, including his Violin Sonata in D major, composed at the request of Dannreuther.
Parry's status as a composer would soon be on the up, with a commission from the Gloucestershire Festival. His response was the choral work Prometheus Unbound, which some say heralded the birth of modern English music. This popularity in writing choral music would develop further, allowing Parry the opportunity to write one of best known scores, Blest Pair of Sirens.
Parry was now appointed a teacher at the newly established Royal College of Music, and colleagues would soon be criticising him for his interest in Wagner. Like Wagner, Parry was attracted to the art from of opera. Yet unlike Wagner, Parry's only attempt in the form, Guenever, was a total failure. During this time though Parry did compose one of his most popular orchestral works, his third Symphony, nicknamed The English.
Penny Gore presents a concert given by the Britten-Pears Orchestra winds and percussion, recorded at the 2011 Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk. The festival's Artistic Director Pierre-Laurent Aimard joins them on the piano.
Penny Gore continues this week's series of music for the theatre, including pieces with a religious theme. The BBC Concert Orchestra take centre stage with their specially-recorded performance of Malipiero's musical mystery play, which tells of St Francis and the devotion of his followers. Richard Arnell's ballet The Great Detective is based on the character of the great Sherlock Holmes.
From St Alban's Church, Holborn, London with the Choir of Royal Holloway, University of London
Winner of the 2009 Kathleen Ferrier Competition, soprano Sarah-Jane Brandon sings live in the In Tune studio ahead of her performance in a showcase at the Wigmore Hall of the winners of the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition.
The outstanding early music vocal ensemble Stile Antico are about to head off on a new UK tour after the release of their new CD 'Tune thy musicke to thy hart'. They will be singing live in the In Tune studio.
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With a selection of music and guests from the music world and the latest arts news.
Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas are characterised by their sheer breadth of invention, the cosmopolitan composer picking up influences from all directions in the 18th century. Alexandre Tharaud showcases a selection of his favourites, alongside an elegy by Liszt for the failed Hungarian uprising in 1848. Chopin's epic second sonata completes the programme, its famous Funeral march movement probably also reflecting the nationalistic feeling of his compatriots in Poland.
Interval: Interval Music, inc. works by Karlowicz and Moniuszko
Chopin: Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op.35 'Funeral March'
Liszt: Funérailles, S.173 No. 7
In Night Waves tonight Philip Dodd talks to Julia Lovell and Richard Cork about 'Waste Not', the first solo exhibition in the UK by the Chinese artist Song Dong. The artist has created an installation comprising over 10,000 items collected by his late mother, a personal meditation on family and Song Dong's own childhood during the cultural revolution.
There's a discussion about Universities with Stefan Collini, Dougald Hine. Roey Sweet and Deborah Bowman.
And posthumous pardons: should we alter past verdicts to reflect changes in in the law and public opinon?
Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher explores how a director must search for the play's 'inward sound' when creating theatre.
Bartlett Sher has been nominated four times for the Tony Award, winning it in 2009 for the Broadway revival of South Pacific. Sher was previously the Artistic Director at the Intiman Playhouse in Seattle and is now Resident Director at the Lincoln Centre in New York. His recent work in the UK includes the ENO production of Nico Muhly's opera Two Boys.
Tonight's programme includes Turkish baglama and saz duo Ali Fuat Aydin & Cenk Güray alongside Argentinian legend Mercedes Sosa and a fluid song from medieval France sung by Marc Mauillon with Vivabiancaluna Biffi. Plus the Arditti Quartet play Elliot Carter's Elegy written in 1943, and a gentle track from New York's tUnE-yArDs. With Verity Sharp.
THURSDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2012
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b01bwb4z)
John Shea presents trios for clarinet, violin and piano by Beethoven, Brahms and Faure.
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Trio in B flat major Op.11 for clarinet, cello and piano
Martin Fröst (clarinet), Thorleif Thedén (cello), Roland Pöntinen (piano)
12:53 AM
Faure, Gabriel [1845-1924]
Sonata no. 2 in G minor Op.117 for cello and piano
Thorleif Thedén (cello), Roland Pöntinen (piano)
1:12 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Trio in A minor Op.114 for clarinet or viola, cello and piano
Martin Fröst (clarinet), Thorleif Thedén (cello), Roland Pöntinen (piano)
1:39 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
"Death and the Maiden" - quartet arranged by Mahler for string orchestra
Sofia Soloists, Plamen Djourov (conductor)
2:19 AM
Wassenaer, Unico Wilhelm van (1692-1766)
Concerto No.5 in F minor (from Sei Concerti Armonici 1740)
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor)
2:31 AM
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911)
Symphony No.2 in B flat major (Op.15)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; Christian Eggen (conductor)
3:06 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
String Quartet No.2 in C major (Op.36)
Yggdrasil String Quartet
3:36 AM
Warlock, Peter (1894-1930)
Serenade for Strings (1921-22)
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
3:43 AM
Tallis, Thomas (c.1505-1585)
Gloria - from Mass Puer natus est nobis for 7 voices
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
3:53 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) transcr Liszt, Franz
Ständchen arr. for piano - from Schwanengesang (D. 957)
Simon Trpceski (piano)
3:59 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Violin Sonata in A minor (Op.1 No.4)
Tomaz Lorenz (violin), Jerko Novak (guitar)
4:10 AM
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)
Scaramouche
James Anagnoson, Leslie Kinton (pianos)
4:20 AM
Alpaerts, Flor (1876-1954)
Capriccio - Luim (1953)
Vlaams Radio Orkest , Michel Tabachnik (conductor)
4:25 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Morgen (Op.27 No.4)
Lazar Shuster (violin), Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kamirski (conductor)
4:31 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975)
Festive Overture (Op.96)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
4:37 AM
Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963)
Trauermusik for viola and string orchestra
Rivka Golani (viola), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
4:45 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)
Unter der Linden grüne
Pavao Ma?ic (organ)
4:52 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto in F minor (BWV1056)
Angela Hewitt (piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
5:02 AM
Foulds, John [1880-1939]
Holiday Sketches (Op.16)
Cynthia Fleming (violin), Katharine Wood (cello), BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
5:17 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Serenade in C major for strings (Op.48)
The Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ludovit Rajter (conductor)
5:51 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Op.61) - incidental music
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)
6:16 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Symphony No.1 in D major (Op.25)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Karel Ancerl (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b01bwb51)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including Brahms's Rhapsody in G minor for piano played by Murray Perahia, harpsichordist Andreas Staier performs Soler's Fandango, and Grieg's Symphonic Dance No. 3 is performed by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ole Kristian Ruud.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b01bwb53)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: English Idylls - Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Neville Marriner (conductor) PHILIPS 442 8415.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, pianist Martha Argerich. Today we hear her in a selection from Schumann's Kinderszenen and in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3.
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest this week is science writer, broadcaster and professor of genetics Prof. Steve Jones. Today he shares with Rob the work that first sparked his interest in classical music, and a piece he'd love to play if he were a virtuoso.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice.
R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra Op.30
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA 09026 61494
29am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: English Idylls - Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Neville Marriner (conductor) PHILIPS 442 8415.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, pianist Martha Argerich. Today we hear her in a selection from Schumann's Kinderszenen and in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3.
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest this week is science writer, broadcaster and professor of genetics Prof. Steve Jones. Today he shares with Rob the work that first sparked his interest in classical music, and a piece he'd love to play if he were a virtuoso.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice.
R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra Op.30
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA 09026 614942.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01bwb55)
Hubert Parry (1848-1918)
Parry Becomes Director of the Royal College of Music
He was considered the nation's unofficial composer laureate with hits such as Jerusalem, and was knighted by Queen Victoria for his services to music including the revitalisation of British musical life - this week Donald Macleod focuses upon the life and music of Sir Hubert Parry.
Parry had hit the big time! His Blest Pair of Sirens had proved to be popular, and a number of other choral commissions followed, including the chance to write an oratorio, Judith. Although rarely heard in its entirety today, many will recognise one of the tunes as the hymn Dear Lord and Father of Mankind. Other choral works followed, such as Job, although Parry detested the nation's lust for oratorios, and soon found himself pigeonholed in the category of an oratorio composer.
Other commissions came Parry's way though, such as composing incidental music for the stage. One such play was The Frogs, which caused wild uproar. Then followed another stage work, Hypatia, although the composing of this was at a time when Parry's health was not good. Parry had always suffered from poor health, and now his doctors were advising him regular trips abroad for peace and quiet, and time away from work. This was hard to achieve, as Parry had just been appointed Director of the Royal College of Music.
Along with this appointment at the RCM, and with his commissions increasing, Parry's status was now at an all time high. For the anniversary celebrations of the composer Purcell, Parry would compose one of his best choral works, Invocation to Music. Also at this time he'd write his only orchestral work to become popular abroad, the Symphonic Variations.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01bw8xb)
Aldeburgh Festival 2011
Arcanto Quartet, Jorg Widmann
Penny Gore presents a concert given by the Arcanto Quartet at the 2011 Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk. They are joined in Mozart's Quintet K581 by clarinetist Jörg Widmann.
Berg: Lyric Suite
Mozart: Quintet for clarinet and strings in A major, K581.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01bwbdj)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Walter Braunfels - The Annunciation
Penny Gore continues this week's theme of religious theatre music with a Bavarian Radio recording of Walter Braunfels's musical mystery play The Annunciation, telling of a woman's fatal pity towards a man with leprosy. Braunfels was a leading composer and pianist in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century, until his music was banned by the Nazis in the 1930s.
Walter Braunfels: Die Verkundigung (The Annunciation), mystery play in four acts, Op. 50
Andreas Gradherz ..... Robert Holl (bass),
His wife, the Mother ..... Hanna Schwarz (mezzo-soprano),
Violaine ..... Juliane Banse (soprano),
Mara ..... Janina Baechle (soprano),
Jakobaus ..... Adrian Erod (baritone),
Peter von Ulm ..... Mathias Klink (tenor),
Peter's servant ..... Mauro Peter (tenor),
An angel's voice ..... Vanessa Goikoetxea (high soprano),
First worker ..... Johannes Stermann (bass),
Schulze von Rothenstein ..... Wolfgang Klose (spoken role),
First woman ..... Jutta Bethsold (spoken role),
Second woman ..... Sonja Philippin (spoken role),
Second worker ..... Timo Janzen (spoken role),
Third worker ..... Matthias Ettmayr (spoken role),
Bavarian Radio Chorus,
Munich Radio Orchestra,
Ulf Schirmer (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b01bwbdl)
Breabach, Danny Driver, Jamie Bernstein
Breabach are well-known as one of the most celebrated and successful Scottish folk bands of recent times. Fresh from their performance in the Glasgow Concert Hall as part of the Celtic Connections festival they will be performing live in the In Tune studio, powered by double bagpipes, flute, guitar, double-bass and fiddle.
Daughter of the great Leonard, Jamie Bernstein is in town with the New York Philharmonic, she'll be popping in to tell Sean about her forthcoming family concert at the Barbican.
More live music, this time the In Tune piano will be performed Danny Driver ahead of his Wigmore Hall concert.
Sean Rafferty presents In Tune from
4.30pm with the latest arts and cultural news.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter @BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01bwb55)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01bwbdn)
Live from the Royal Festival Hall
Beethoven
Christoph von Dohnányi conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No 4 and Brahms' German Requiem.
Brahms first considered writing a Requiem Mass after the death of his close friend Robert Schumann, but it was only a decade later, after the death of his mother caused him inconsolable grief , that he began the project in earnest. The contemplation of mortality he produced is unlike any conventional Requiem Mass.
Ein deutsches Requiem sets sections of Luther's translation of the Bible, dwelling more on the hope of the resurrection than on the fear of Judgement Day. The first movement, 'Blessed are they that mourn', consoles those that remain on Earth. The work moves towards the dramatic highlight of the resurrection of the dead, yet ends back on an earthly level, a reminder that we cannot know what awaits us.
Beethoven: Symphony No.4
Susan Gritton soprano
Simon Keenlyside baritone
Philharmonia Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi conductor.
THU 20:00 Discovering Music (b01bwbdq)
Brahms: German Requiem
Brahms' German Requiem is often presumed to be a nationalistic, Teutonic celebration. Yet this couldn't have been further from the truth. "I confess, I should have gladly left out 'German' and substituted 'Human'", the composer once wrote.
Stephen Johnson explores the work's influences - from Bach's cantatas to the tragic death of Brahms' mentor, Robert Schumann - and looks at the universal appeal of this very 'humane' requiem.
THU 20:20 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01bwbds)
Live from the Royal Festival Hall
Brahms
Christoph von Dohnányi conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No 4 and Brahms' German Requiem.
Brahms first considered writing a Requiem Mass after the death of his close friend Robert Schumann, but it was only a decade later, after the death of his mother caused him inconsolable grief , that he began the project in earnest. The contemplation of mortality he produced is unlike any conventional Requiem Mass.
Ein deutsches Requiem sets sections of Luther's translation of the Bible, dwelling more on the hope of the resurrection than on the fear of Judgement Day. The first movement, 'Blessed are they that mourn', consoles those that remain on Earth. The work moves towards the dramatic highlight of the resurrection of the dead, yet ends back on an earthly level, a reminder that we cannot know what awaits us.
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Susan Gritton soprano
Simon Keenlyside baritone
Philharmonia Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi conductor.
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b01bwbfm)
Religion and Politics, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Fawzia Koofi
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the fraught relationship between religion and politics, the Oscar-nominated Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, the friendship of Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson, and politician Fawzia Koofi outlines her one woman fight to lead Afghanistan into the future.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01bwbfp)
On Directing
Josie Rourke
Josie Rourke, the Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse, reminds us that working in theatre isn't always plain sailing. In her essay, she looks at what happens when disaster strikes and things go wrong. It's in these situations that a director is truly tested.
Josie Rourke trained with directors Peter Gill, Michael Grandage, Nicholas Hytner, Phyllida Lloyd and Sam Mendes. Before coming to the Bush she worked for five years as a freelance director and was the Associate Director of Sheffield Theatres and Trainee Associate Director at the Royal Court. At the Royal Court she directed Loyal Women by Gary Mitchell. She was the tour director of The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler. For the Royal Shakespeare Company she directed Believe What You Will and King John.
Rourke was the Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre between 2007 and 2011, where she also directed many of its hits including Nick Payne's If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet. In 2011, Rourke directed a production of Much Ado About Nothing at Wyndham's Theatre, starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate. She became Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse in January 2012 and her first production as director was George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer.
The series is produced by Sasha Yevtushenko.
First broadccast in February 2012.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b01bwbfr)
Thursday - Verity Sharp
Traditional music tonight for the Chinese erhu and pipa played by Lingling Yu and Guo Gan, the Radio String Quartet Vienna rework the music of Radiohead, and Keith Jarrett plays music from Armenian mystic George Gurdjieff's Sacred Books. Plus Congolese rap star Baloji and a classic track from Youssou N'Dour. With Verity Sharp.
FRIDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2012
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b01bwbj2)
John Shea presents the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra performing Bizet, Jolivet and Dvorak's Symphony no. 5.
12:31 AM
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875)
Symphony in C major
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Válek (conductor)
1:02 AM
Jolivet, Andre (1905-1974)
Concerto no. 2 for trumpet and string orchestra
Marek Zvolánek (trumpet) Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Válek (conductor)
1:15 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Symphony no. 5 in F major Op.76
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Válek (conductor)
1:51 AM
Tournier, Marcel (1879-1951)
Images for harp and string quartet (Op.35)
Erica Goodman (harp), Members of the Amadeus Ensemble
2:02 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Carnaval (Op.9)
Annie Fischer (piano)
2:31 AM
Franck, César (1822-1890)
Sonata in A major (M.8)
Janine Jansen (violin), Kathryn Stott (piano)
2:58 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Symphony No.4 in A major (Op.90) 'Italian'
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Heinz Wallberg (conductor)
3:27 AM
Parac, Frano (b. 1948)
Scherzo for Winds
Zagreb Wind Quintet
3:35 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Ballade No.4 in F minor (Op.52)
Seung-Hee Hyun (piano)
3:47 AM
Hotteterre, Jean (1677-1720) ed. François Lazarevitch
La Noce Champêtre ou l'Himen Pastoral - from Pièces pour la Muzette, Paris 1722
Ensemble 1700, Dorothee Oberlinger (director/recorder)
3:59 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), orchestrated. Anton Webern (1883-1945)
6 Deutsche for piano (D.820)
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown (conductor)
4:08 AM
Cavalli, Francesco (1602-1676)
Dixit Dominus à 8
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)
4:20 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Concerto for 3 oboes and orchestra in B flat major
Peter Westermann, Michael Niesemann, Piet Dhont (oboes), Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
4:31 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto da Camera in C major (RV.88)
Camerata Köln
4:39 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
3 Pieces from Slåtter (Op.72)
Haavard Gimse (piano)
4:47 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates) for chorus and orchestra (Op.89)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor)
4:56 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Quartet for strings in C minor (D.103) 'Satz'
Tilev String Quartet
5:07 AM
Tailleferre, Germaine (1892-1983)
Sonata for harp
Godelieve Schrama (harp)
5:17 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet in G K.285a
Joanna G'froerer (flute), Martin Beaver (violin), Pinchas Zukerman (viola), Amanda Forsyth (cello)
5:28 AM
Auletta, Domenico (1723-1753)
Concerto for Harpsichord in C
Enrico Baiano (harpsichord), Cappella della Pietà de'Turchini, Antonio Florio (conductor)
5:47 AM
Paganini, Niccolò (1782-1840)
Concerto for violin and orchestra No.1 in D major (Op.6)
Jaap van Zweden (violin), Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
6:14 AM
Wirén, Dag (1905-1986)
Serenade for Strings (Op.11)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Niklas Willén (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b01bwbj4)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including music from Poulenc's Les Biches performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Georges Pretre, violist Paul Coletti and pianist Lesley Howard perform Rebecca Clarke's Morpheus, and Bizet's Farandole from his L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2 is played by the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux conducted by Igor Markevitch.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b01bwbj6)
Friday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: English Idylls - Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Neville Marriner (conductor) PHILIPS 442 8415.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, pianist Martha Argerich. Today we hear her in a pair of piano duets, including Schubert's Rondo in A D.951 and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, and as soloist in the third of Bartok's three piano concertos.
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest this week is science writer, broadcaster and professor of genetics Prof. Steve Jones. On his final day as this week's guest, he talks about a work that reminds him of a particular place, as well as a piece he enjoys playing himself, and Rob acts as his Personal Shopper with a mystery piece for Steve.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice.
Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 3
Martha Argerich (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Claus Peter Flor (conductor)
RCO 11004.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01bwbj8)
Hubert Parry (1848-1918)
Parry Is Nearly Sunk by a Warship
He was considered the nation's unofficial composer laureate with hits such as Jerusalem, and was knighted by Queen Victoria for his services to music including the revitalisation of British musical life - this week Donald Macleod focuses upon the life and music of Sir Hubert Parry.
During the last twenty years of Parry's life, although he was an important part of the British musical scene, knighted by Queen Victoria, and Director of the Royal College of Music, his own music would soon be forgotten and overshadowed by the works of his friend Elgar. Parry would still compose two scores, which would prove to be his most popular and enduring. Jerusalem, which is considered to be Britain's second national anthem, was composed for a war organisation during WWI. The second, his anthem I was Glad, was composed for the coronation of Edward VII, and has since been used at many royal occasions.
Parry's health was deteriorating greatly, and he had to start giving up various teaching and committee obligations. Throughout his career he had always continued to compose the odd work for organ, or set of songs based on English lyrics. There was an Indian summer for Parry when his works were briefly back in vogue, which saw the composition of his fifth symphony. However, with the outbreak of war, his health soon started to go downhill, as he was required to work more and more on his own estate in the chopping down of trees. This was a period when Parry would hear of the death of many of his students at the front, and suffer himself from depression. Parry died a month before the armistice, and at his funeral was performed one of his last composed works, his a cappella Songs of Farewell.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01bw8hd)
Aldeburgh Festival 2011
Christophe Rousset
Penny Gore presents a concert given by the harpsichordist player Christophe Rousset recorded in Blythburgh Church at the 2011 Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk.
Music includes
Handel: Suite in D minor HWV437; Suite in G minor HWV432
Francois Couperin: Eighth Suite (Ordre) from the Second Book of 'Pieces de Clavecin'.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01bwbjd)
Music for the Theatre
Episode 12
Penny Gore concludes this week's series of theatre music, including pieces with a religious theme: today, Vaughan Williams's 'masque for dancing', Job, and a special new BBC Philharmonic recording of Schubert's music for the play Rosamunde, complete with the original overture played at the first performance. Plus a rare chance to hear Benjamin Britten's incidental music to Auden and Isherwood's play, The Ascent of F6.
Schubert: Rosamunde
Mary Bevan (soprano),
Martha Jones (mezzo-soprano),
Anthony Gregory (tenor),
Henry Waddington (bass),
Manchester Chamber Choir,
BBC Philharmonic,
Paul Daniel (conductor).
Britten: The Ascent of F6
Eleanor Meynell (soprano),
Jacqueline Fox (mezzo-soprano),
Peter Wilman (tenor),
Simon Birchall (bass),
Actors - Alison Smart, Julia Batchelor, Andrew Murgatroyd, Stephen Charlesworth,
BBC Singers,
Stephen Layton (conductor).
Foulds: Henry VIII Suite, Op 87
BBC Concert Orchestra,
Ronald Corp (conductor).
Vaughan Williams: Job: a Masque for Dancing
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b01bwbjg)
Friday - Sean Rafferty
Taking their name from Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music, the Cecilia String Quartet join us live in the studio to perform ahead of their concert at the Wigmore Hall. They are joined by Canadian violinist and violist Barry Shiffman of the Banff International String Quartet Competition, which the Cecilia Quartet won in 2010.
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With a selection of music and guests from the music world.
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 (b01bwbj8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01bwbkh)
New York Philharmonic - Ades, Berlioz, Stravinsky, Ravel
Alan Gilbert conducts the New York Philharmonic at the Barbican in Thomas Adès' Polaris and music by Berlioz, Stravinsky and Ravel.
The New York Philharmonic has been always been a committed advocate of contemporary music - giving premieres of works by Dvorák, Rachmaninov, Gershwin and Copland, amongst others. It also gave the first performance of one of tonight's works, Stravinsky's dramatic Symphony in Three movements, and it's a tradition that continues with a UK premiere by Thomas Adès, whose Polaris was written for the opening of Frank Gehry's new concert hall in Miami. Two great works from the French tradition complete the programme - music from Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, and Berlioz's song Les nuits d'été, featuring the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato.
Thomas Adès: Polaris (UK premiere)
Berlioz: Les nuits d'été
8.15: Interval
Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Suite (No 2)
New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert conductor
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b01bwbkk)
Angela Carter Celebration, Daljit Nagra, Mark Ravenhill and Martin Rowson, Mick Jackson
This week Marina Warner and Christopher Frayling join Ian McMillan to mark the twentieth anniversary of Angela Carter's death with a celebration of her writing. The actress Sian Thomas brings Carter's incredible stories to life.
Poet Daljit Nagra shares a very first look at his new work in progress, a verse retelling of the Hindu epic The Ramayana which recounts Rama's battles with the demon Ravanna and his romance with Sita. Daljit's new version of the story is written in a bolshy, modern, non-standard English with a streak of the lyrical that pulls the ancient tale into the twenty first century.
Dramatist and playwright in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company Mark Ravenhill and political cartoonist Martin Rowson join Ian to celebrate satire and push against the tyranny of good taste as they share their versions of literary classics in Limerick form.
And Booker shortlisted novelist Mick Jackson, author of The Underground Man and The Widow's Tale, has written a new short story for The Verb inspired by his residence at the Science Museum.
Producer: Allegra McIlroy.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b01bwbkm)
On Directing
Mike Figgis
In the final essay of this series, Mike Figgis reflects on the lessons he learned while working on big studio films in Hollywood and on how those experiences shaped his own approach to directing.
Mike Figgis is an Academy Award nominated film director, writer, and composer. His films include, Suspension of Disbelief (2013), Love Live Long (2008), Cold Creek Manor (2003), Hotel (2001), Miss Julie (1999), One Night Stand (1997), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), The Browning Version (1994), Internal Affairs (1990) and Stormy Monday (1988).
The series is produced by Sasha Yevtushenko.
First broadcast in February 2012.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b01bwbkp)
Tim Edey and Brendan Power Session
Mary Ann Kennedy with new tracks from across the globe, and a session with award winning Celtic folk duo Tim Edey and Brendan Power.
Tim Edey and Brendan Power won this year's Radio 2 Folk Awards in the Best Duo category and Tim won the coveted Musician of the Year title. Tim plays acoustic guitar and button accordion - he was brought up in the South East of England, but learned Irish traditional music from his Dublin-born mother from the age of four. Brendan Power is from New Zealand, and is one of the UK's top harmonica players, having performed with the likes of Sting, Van Morrison and Kate Bush. As a duo they have built up a reputation for powerful performances of both traditional and new music, always with a strong element of improvisation.
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 (b01bs9wc)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b01bw8hg)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b01bw8xd)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b01bwbdj)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b01bwbjd)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b01br0v1)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b01br1kj)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b01bs9w3)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b01bw84b)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b01bw8lm)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b01bwb51)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b01bwbj4)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b01br0v3)
Choir and Organ
17:00 SUN (b01bs9dl)
Choral Evensong
16:00 SUN (b01bmlx7)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b01bw8xg)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b01bs9w7)
Composer of the Week
18:30 MON (b01bs9w7)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b01bw84l)
Composer of the Week
18:30 TUE (b01bw84l)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b01bw8lr)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b01bw8lr)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b01bwb55)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b01bwb55)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b01bwbj8)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b01bwbj8)
Discovering Music
20:00 THU (b01bwbdq)
Drama on 3
20:30 SUN (b01bs9dq)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b01bs9w5)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b01bw84d)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b01bw8lp)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b01bwb53)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b01bwbj6)
Hear and Now
23:00 SAT (b01bwc1x)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b01bs9wf)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b01bw8hj)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b01bw8xj)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b01bwbdl)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b01bwbjg)
Jazz Line-Up
23:00 SUN (b01bs9dv)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b01bsbz1)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b01bw8kl)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b01bw9zf)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b01bwbfr)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b01br0v6)
Night Waves
22:00 MON (b01bsbyx)
Night Waves
22:00 TUE (b01bw8hs)
Night Waves
22:00 WED (b01bw9z9)
Night Waves
22:00 THU (b01bwbfm)
Opera on 3
17:00 SAT (b01bs9xx)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b01br1kq)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 MON (b01bsbyv)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 TUE (b01bw8hl)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:35 TUE (b01bw8hq)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b01bw9z7)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b01bwbdn)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:20 THU (b01bwbds)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 FRI (b01bwbkh)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
14:00 SAT (b01blr2w)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b01bs9w9)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b01bwbjb)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b01bwbdg)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b01bw8xb)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b01bw8hd)
Saturday Classics
15:00 SAT (b01br11y)
Sunday Concert
14:00 SUN (b01bs9dj)
Sunday Feature
19:45 SUN (b00y6ggl)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b01br1kl)
The Early Music Show
13:00 SAT (b011cfw3)
The Early Music Show
13:00 SUN (b01bs9dg)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b01bsbyz)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b01bw8hv)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b01bw9zc)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b01bwbfp)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b01bwbkm)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (b01bwbkk)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b01bmp7j)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b01br1kg)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b01bs9w1)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b01bsc2d)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b01bw8lk)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b01bwb4z)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b01bwbj2)
Twenty Minutes
20:15 TUE (b01bw8hn)
Words and Music
18:30 SUN (b01bs9dn)
World Routes
22:00 SUN (b01bs9ds)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b01bwbkp)