John Shea presents Verdi's Requiem from the 2011 BBC Proms. Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and soloists - Marina Poplavskaya and Joseph Calleja.
Marina Poplavskaya (soprano), Mariana Pentcheva (mezzo soprano), Joseph Calleja (tenor), Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC National Chorus of Wales, London Philharmonic Choir, Semyon Bychkov (conductor)
Håvard Gimse (piano), Stig Nilsson (violin), Anders Nilsson (viola), Romain Garioud (cello)
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) (arr. Franz Hasenohrl)
Cantata 'Es wird ein unbarmherzig Gericht' for 4 voices, 2 oboes, strings and continuo
Veronika Winter (soprano), Patrick von Goethem (alto), Markus Schäfer (tenor), Ekkehard Abele (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Zygmunt Rychert (conductor)
Quartet for Strings no. 2 in D minor
Magdalena Lisak (piano), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor).
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including Edward German's Nell Gwyn overture performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by John Wilson, Elin Manahan Thomas sings Vivaldi's Nulla in mundo pax sincera with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Harry Christophers, and a look at this week's Specialist Classical Chart.
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Balalaika Favourites - a classic recording from the Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra: MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 4501352
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, violinist Isaac Stern.
In the first week of Lent, The Essential Classics guest is the Reverend Richard Coles who introduces his essential pieces of classical music.
In the last five years of his life Purcell was to contribute music to around 50 stage productions. The reign of William and Mary brought about a scaling back of court music, so the composer turned to the theatre as a source of income. He became a more public figure in the process, and began to work with playwrights such as John Dryden, chief poet of the Restoration. With Donald Macleod.
Mahan Esfahani and Jennifer Pike collaborate for the first time in the opening concert in a series of four featuring Radio 3 New Generation Artists past and present. Each of this week's concerts comes from Scotland's newest hall, Perth Concert Hall.
JS Bach Partita for keyboard no. 3 (BWV.827) in A minor
JS Bach Sonata for Violin and Keyboard No. 4 in C minor.
Principal Conductor Thierry Fischer is currently enjoying his final season with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. This afternoon Louise Fryer presents a selection of his most recent recordings.
In 2009 Thierry Fischer opened the orchestra's state-of-the-art new home, BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, with the exciting young Latvian violinist Baiba Skride. Two years later they teamed up again to record a new CD for Orfeo. Today we'll hear two concertos from this soon-to-be-released disc. Stravinsky's neo-classical Violin Concerto is a bright kaleidoscope of music, full of daring contrasts - and notoriously difficult to play. In 1951, twenty years after Stravinsky, Thierry Fischer's Swiss compatriot Frank Martin wrote his Violin Concerto, and like Stravinsky, he owed a great debt to Bach and the music of the Baroque. The solo line is consistently lyrical with long soaring lines, yet Martin doesn't relegate the orchestra to a role of mere accompaniment, he scores in bright and bold colours.
Thierry Fischer has a particular enthusiasm for French music from the twentieth century. Today's programme includes his recording of Mystère de l'instant by the Henri Dutilleux, who visited the orchestra four years ago (at the age of 92) for a festival in his honour in Cardiff. Like the Martin Violin Concerto, Mystère de l'instant was commissioned by the Swiss impresario Paul Sacher, and it describes an experience which amazed Dutilleux one evening at his country house by the river Loire. He was suddenly overwhelmed by birdsong, hundreds of different distinct voices, each with its own individual character. In recreating the mystery of that moment, Dutilleux uses an orchestra of 24 solo strings, together with percussion and a cimbalom.
Charles Marie Widor may be best known for his organ music and in particular a famous toccata, but he was also the composer of songs, ballets, symphonies and concertos. Thierry Fischer's recent Hyperion CD of works for piano and orchestra aims to put Widor in a wider context. The Second Piano Concerto, which lanuches today's programme, dates from 1905, when the composer was 60, but sounds remarkably modern. Adventurous harmonies combine with technically demanding solo writing that bears a closer comparison to Rachmaninov than to Saint-Saens.
And the BBC NOW's biggest piece this afternoon is a highlight from last season at the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea, a heartfelt account of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. A powerful and personal statement, this symphony was a "make or break" work for Shostakovich after the authorities denounced his Fourth Symphony as "chaos instead of music". This performance clearly demonstrates Thierry Fischer's natural ability to control the drama of the work and reveal the detail in Shostakovich's blazing score.
The genre-defying band Moishe's Bagel perform live in the studio with their unique combination of Eastern European dance music, Middle Eastern rhythms, Klezmer and folk music. Made up of some of Scotland's finest instrumentalists, Moishe's Bagel pop into In Tune as they continue their UK tour.
Plus Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Robin Ticciati joins us down the line from Edinburgh as he prepares for three Scottish concert dates with SCO and pianist Lars Vogt.
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With a selection of music and guests from the music world and the latest arts news.
Conductor Valery Gergiev leads the London Symphony Orchestra in a concert of Russian classics from the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Tchaikovsky's famous fantasy overture 'Romeo and Juliet' reflects Shakespeare's play by featuring music representing Friar Laurence, the warring Montagues and Capulets and of course the two young lovers themselves. In a full-bloodied romantic score Tchaikovsky captures the passion of the lovers with one of the greatest love themes of all time. Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto was written during the time the composer and pianist spent abroad after the Russian revolution. Interestingly the first recording of the work was made by the composer himself as soloist with tonight's orchestra during a visit to London in 1932. Shostakovich stayed in the Soviet Union throughout the revolution and Stalin's reign of terror and suffered because of it. Criticised by the authorities for his opera 'Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District', the 5th Symphony was supposed to be Shostakovich's apology to his critics. Writing in a newspaper a few days before the premiere he said it was "a Soviet artist's creative response to justified criticism", though many have seen deep ambiguity in the piece: was the ending of the symphony intended as a heroic Stalinist victory hymn or a parody of one?
A new production of the Jacobean tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore opens at the Silk Street Theatre, the Barbican, this evening. Paul Allen hot-foots it from the theatre to the studio to join Anne McElvoy live for a first night review.
'A Small Circus', the literary breakthrough of Hans Fallada is set during the collapse of the Weimar and focuses on a group of farmers demonstrating against tax hikes. First published in 1931, it has been translated for the first time into English by Michael Hofmann who, together with Fallada's biographer, Jenny Williams, discuss the work and legacy of one of Germany's great 20th Century.
Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller reflects on his career as a retrospective of his work opens at the Hayward Gallery this week.
And why the history of the 20th century should be re-written through the medium of Texas tea: Oil. Tim Mitchell's new book Carbon Democracy argues that energy is the way to understand our democratic history.
Where is the male nude in Indian art? Is there such a thing? And if he's there for all to see why has he proved invisible to all but the most discerning of Western eyes? The art historian, Partha Mitter, answers all these questions in the second instalment of Men Only- An Informal History of the Male Nude. He explores both the differences and the similarities between the Classical tradition and the Hindu one pausing to recall his own experiences as a 14 year old life artist in Calcuttta and as a not so accidental tourist cowering beneath a giant, erect Jain statue on the outskirts of Bangalore.
Fiona Talkington presents an eclectic choice of music. Ustad F Wasifuddin Dagar performs the late-night Raga Adana, drummer Max Roach from 1958, a new album by Hanne Hukkelberg and choral music by Ståle Storløkken.
WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2012
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b01bzrj5)
John Shea presents a concert of Solo Cantatas by Scarlatti and Handel with Dorothee Mields & Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder) and Ensemble 1700.
12:31 AM
Scarlatti, Alessandro [1660-1725]
Ardo è ver per te d'amore - Cantata for soprano, recorder and basso continuo
Dorothee Mields (soprano), Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder), Ensemble 1700
12:41 AM
Mancini, Francesco [1672-1737]
Sonata for Recorder and Basso Continuo No.1
Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder), Ensemble 1700
12:50 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Pensieri notturni di Filli: Italian cantata no.17 (HWV.134)
Dorothee Mields (soprano), Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder), Ensemble 1700
12:58 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
La bianca rosa - Cantata for soprano and basso continuo (HWV.160c)
Dorothee Mields (soprano), Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder), Ensemble 1700
1:06 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo [1653-1713]
Sonata for violin and continuo (Op.5'12) in D minor "La Folia"
Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder), Ensemble 1700
1:17 AM
Porsile, Giuseppe [1680-1750]
E già tre volte - cantata for soprano, recorder and continuo
Dorothee Mields (soprano), Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder), Ensemble 1700
1:29 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Rodisettes aria from "Der geduldige Sokrates"
Dorothee Mields (soprano), Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder), Ensemble 1700
1:33 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Sextet for piano and strings in D major, Op.110
Elise Båtnes (violin), Lars Anders Tomter & Johannes Gustavsson (violas), Ernst Simon Glaser (cello), Katrine Öigaard (bass), Enrico Pace (piano)
2:00 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Tod und Verklärung (Op.24)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)
2:24 AM
Wilbye, John (1574-1638)
Madrigal: Draw on sweet night - for 6 voices
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (director)
2:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 1 in C Major (Op. 21)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
2:57 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup [1843-1907]
Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor (Op. 45)
Julian Rachlin (violin), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
3:21 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Partita in B flat (K.Anh.C 17'2)
The Festival Winds
3:36 AM
Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594)
S.U.su.P.E.R.per - motet for 4 voices
Currende (vocal), Erik van Nevel (conductor)
3:40 AM
Borodin, Alexander [1833-1887]
Notturno (Andante) - arr. for orchestra from String Quartet No.2 in D
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Oliver Dohnányi (conductor)
3:49 AM
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936)
Mazurka in F sharp minor (Op.25 No.2)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
3:56 AM
Kyurkchiyski, Krassimir [1936-]
Bulgarian Madonna from 2 works after paintings of Vladimir Dimitrov - the Master
Simfonieta Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio, Kamen Goleminov (conductor)
4:02 AM
Wanski, Jan (1762-1821)
Symphony in D major on themes from the opera "Pasterz nad Wisla"
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Mysinski (conductor)
4:15 AM
Duron, Sebastian [1660-1716]
Ay, que me abraso de amor en la llama
Olga Pitarch (soprano), Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (director)
4:22 AM
Salieri, Antonio [1750-1825]
Overture La grotta di Trofonio
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi (conductor)
4:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Kirchen-Sonate in B flat (K. 212), for 2 violins, double bass and organ
Royal Academy of Music Beckett Ensemble, Patrick Russill (conductor)
4:36 AM
Parry, Hubert (1848-1918)
Songs of farewell for mixed voices: no.6; Lord, let me know mine end
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
4:47 AM
Noskowski, Zygmunt (1846-1909)
Excerpts of Ballet music from 'A Hut out of the Village' - 'Gypsy Dance' & 'Kolomyika' (Ukrainian Dance)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Miroslaw Jacek Blaszczyk (conductor)
5:00 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Fantaisie-impromptu for piano in C sharp minor (Op.66)
Dubravka Tomsic (piano)
5:06 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Quartet for strings (Op.42) in D minor
Pavel Haas Quartet
5:19 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Symphony No.8 in B minor (D.759) "Unfinished"
Concertgebouworkest, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
5:42 AM
Gombert, Nicolas (c.1495-c.1560)
Musae Jovis a6
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
5:49 AM
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837)
Rondo brillant for piano and orchestra in A major (Op.56)
Rudolf Macudzinski (piano), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ludovít Rajter (conductor)
6:10 AM
Kuhlau, Friedrich (1786-1832)
Introduction et Variations Sur la Romance de l'Opera Euryanthe
Duo Nanashi
6:23 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
No.4 Lemminkainen's Return - from Lemminkainen Suite (Op.22)
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b01bzrj7)
Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, ,including Kreisler's Schon Rosmarin performed by violinist Gil Shaham with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris conducted by by Semyon Bychkov perform Mascagni's famous Intermezzo, and Eric Crees' conducts London Brass in his own arrangement of Manuel de Falla's Fire Dance.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b01bzrj9)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Balalaika Favourites - a classic recording from the Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra: MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 4501352
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, violinist Isaac Stern.
10.30am
In the first week of Lent, The Essential Classics guest is the Reverend Richard Coles who introduces his essential pieces of classical music.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Kodaly
Variations on a Hungarian Folksong (The Peacock)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)
RCA 63309.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b010xyhy)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Thou Genius of This Isle
Donald Macleod explores Purcell's major collaboration with John Dryden, King Arthur, and looks at some of the characters populating London's theatrical world in the 1690s. A spoken verse drama 'adorn'd with Scenes, Machines, Songs and Dances', King Arthur features the extraordinary Frost Scene. A military hero and British virtues made it appropriate to the current regime, and there was also room for reflection on the new commercial ethos of the times, with songs in praise of Britain's chief exports, fish and wool...
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01bzrm2)
Perth Concert Hall
Khatia Buniatishvili
Khatia Buniatishvili gives a performance of popular Liszt and Chopin works, from Liszt's evergreen Liebesträume 3 to Chopin's funereal Sonata No. 2. The second concert in a series of 5 from Perth Concert Hall.
Bach/Liszt Prelude and Fugue
Liszt Liebesträume S541
Liszt Lieder von Schubert S558
Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52
Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 'Funeral March'.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01bzrm4)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Episode 3
Elin Manahan Thomas presents the first of a series of concerts, live from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, in which the BBC National Orchestra of Wales play works from the twentieth century commissioned by the Swiss impresario Paul Sacher. Danish conductor Thomas Dausgaard directs the orchestra in Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss, a profound elegy in the form of a symphonic adagio, written in a remarkable burst of creative energy in 1944 when Strauss was 80. Radio 3 New Generation Artist Ben Johnson sings Mahler's settings of texts by Friedrich Rückert. Mahler identified himself strongly with the nineteenth century poet, and although these five songs were never meant to be a cycle, they share an intense emotional language.
After the concert Louise Fryer presents the BBC NOW on tour around Wales. At the Arts Centre in Aberystwyth, Alexander Shelley conducts more music by Strauss, this time his youthful tone poem Don Juan, a re-casting of the story of the thrill-seeking Don Giovanni in a brilliant display of orchestral virtuosity and colour.
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b01bzrm6)
From Hereford Cathedral on Ash Wednesday
From Hereford Cathedral on Ash Wednesday
Introit: Memento homo (Byrd)
Responses: Plainsong
Psalm: 51 Miserere mei (Allegri)
First Lesson: Isaiah 1vv 10-18
Canticles: In Fauxbourdon (Tallis)
Second Lesson: Luke 15vv 11-end
Anthem: Da mihi auxilium (Byrd)
Hymn: Now is the healing time decreed (Jena)
Organ Voluntary: Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist BWV 671 (Bach)
Geraint Bowen (Organist & Director of Music)
Peter Dyke (Assistant organist).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b01bzrm8)
Steven Osborne, Leon McCawley, David Hill, Stephen Threlfall
Pianist Steven Osborne performs works by Ravel live in the studio ahead of his recital at the Wigmore Hall, London.
Sean Rafferty speaks to Bach Choir conductor David Hill and Chetham's School of Music Director Stephen Threlfall ahead of a concert at the Royal Festival Hall. Pianist Leon McCawley, also performing in the concert, performs works by J.S.Bach and Rachmaninov live on In Tune.
Sean Rafferty presents In Tune, 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.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b010xyhy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01bzs71)
Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Part 1
Live from the Royal Festival Hall
Presented by Suzy Klein
The London Philharmonic Orchestra are joined by leading virtuoso, Joshua Bell for the Brahms Violin Concerto and Vladimir Jurowski leads his orchestra, choir and soloists in an intoxicating early twentieth century masterpiece from Karol Szymanowski which evokes the heady mysteries and beauty of a starlit Persian night.
Wracked by personal crises, Alexander Zemlinsky made a heartfelt cry to God in his setting of the 23rd Psalm. The music moves from trepidation to despair to ecstasy, at once sensitive and majestic. In its glistening bid for the heavenly, it makes a perfect companion to Szymanowski's Third Symphony, The Song of the Night (a setting of Jalaluddin Rumi's Sufi poetry). From a vast nocturnal landscape, a human spirit ascends to join with the divine, soaring into the ether. Languorous sensuality radiates through this all-encompassing score, the final statement in a concert that follows two acknowledged masterworks by Mozart and Brahms with two exquisite 20th-century rarities.
Mozart: Symphony No.32 in G major, K. 318
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D
Joshua Bell (violin)
Jeremy Ovenden (tenor)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor).
WED 20:00 Discovering Music (b01bzs73)
Szymanowski: Symphony No. 3
Setting the second Divan, Song of the Night, by the thirteenth-century mystical poet Rumi, Szymanowski's Symphony no.3 marks a high point in the composer's Impressionistic style. Forging a link between western musical language and oriental beliefs in those worlds which lie beyond our physically and emotionally conditioned lives, Szymanowski realised that this work for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra, had surpassed his previous compositions. Once the work was complete, Szymanowski commented that "not even a musician like myself can have any idea of what it will sound like with an orchestra." The work has been described by composer Sorabji, as music that is permeated with the very essence of the choicest and rarest specimens of Iranian art...like a Persian painting or silk rug.
WED 20:20 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01bzs75)
Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Zemlinsky, Szymanowski
Live from the Royal Festival Hall
Presented by Suzy Klein
The London Philharmonic Orchestra are joined by leading virtuoso, Joshua Bell for the Brahms Violin Concerto and Vladimir Jurowski leads his orchestra, choir and soloists in an intoxicating early twentieth century masterpiece from Karol Szymanowski which evokes the heady mysteries and beauty of a starlit Persian night.
Wracked by personal crises, Alexander Zemlinsky made a heartfelt cry to God in his setting of the 23rd Psalm. The music moves from trepidation to despair to ecstasy, at once sensitive and majestic. In its glistening bid for the heavenly, it makes a perfect companion to Szymanowski's Third Symphony, The Song of the Night (a setting of Jalaluddin Rumi's Sufi poetry). From a vast nocturnal landscape, a human spirit ascends to join with the divine, soaring into the ether. Languorous sensuality radiates through this all-encompassing score, the final statement in a concert that follows two acknowledged masterworks by Mozart and Brahms with two exquisite 20th-century rarities.
Zemlinsky: Psalm 23, Op.14
Szymanowski: Symphony No.3 (The Song of the Night)
Joshua Bell (violin)
Jeremy Ovenden (tenor)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor).
WED 22:00 Night Waves (b01bzsdz)
Moby Duck, The Art of Peace, Appointment with the Wicker Man
Rana Mitter tonight presents the strange story of 28,000 yellow plastic ducks lost at sea in 1992. In his book 'Moby Duck' the author Donovan Hohn has tracked their progress during twenty years afloat. Many of them are still travelling the oceans and in pretty good shape which is good news for plastic duck lovers but bad news for the environment. These toys, designed to go no further than your bath, have given oceanographers new information about the way two thirds of our planet works. But the ducks also have a curious appeal to Hohn as echoes of his youthful dreams permeate his journeys.
And as headlines in this week's papers warn of Britain's involvement in a new cold war with Iran, mounting tension with Argentina over the Falklands, and the continued loss of life in Afghanistan - on Night Waves we examine the art of peace. A new book by John Gittings argues that the world needs to spend more time studying and promoting how to make peace, not war. But given we have had war as long as we have had human beings, is it not part of our nature? And in today's increasingly complicated and over-crowded world, is it naïve to hope for peace? Hew Strachan, Professor of the History of War at Oxford joins Gittings to discuss war and peace.
There's a first night review of the National Theatre of Scotland's production 'An Appointment with the Wickerman' in Aberdeen from Susannah Clapp, and the theatre director Nicholas Kent joins Susannah after the review to discuss how the subsidised theatre is responding to the financial strictures of recession. Is it playing safe?
That's Night Waves tonight with Rana Mitter.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b01bzsf1)
An Informal History of the Male Nude
Gabriel Gbadamosi
The male nude in Africa is a vexed, political question. So its perhaps inevitable that the writer and broadcaster, Gabriel Gbadamosi has chosen an olblique, provocative approach to the subject. Drawing on his Yoruba and Irish roots, for the third part of Men Only: An informal History of the Male Nude, he journeys from South London to Nigeria and back again slowly uncovering pleasure as well as paradox. At the beginning and at the end of his exploration he comes face to face with the phallic, trickster god, Eshu - a being at work in traditional sculpture as well as in the photography of the Brixton-based Rotimi Fani-Kayode.
Producer: Zahid Warley
First broadcast in February 2012.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b01bzsf5)
Wednesday - Fiona Talkington
Fiona Talkington introduces music from Matthew Bourne's Montauk Variations, Cape Verdean singer Nha Mita Pereira, a study by Conlon Nancarrow and court music from Bali.
THURSDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2012
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b01bzstr)
John Shea presents Trio Ex Aequo performing Haydn and Beethoven alongside Dvorak's "Dumky" Trio.
12:31 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Trio in C major H.
15.27 for keyboard and strings
Trio Ex Aequo
12:51 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Trio in C minor Op.1 no.3 for piano and strings
Trio Ex Aequo
1:20 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Trio no. 4, Op.90 (Dumky) for piano and strings
Trio Ex Aequo
1:51 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Scherzando from Trio in E flat major D. 929 (Op. 100) for piano and strings
Trio Ex Aequo
1:59 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Le Temple de la Gloire - orchestral suites from the opera-ballet
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
2:31 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918), arr. for orchestra by Koechlin, Charles (1867-1950)
Khamma - Légende Dansée
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
2:52 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 (Op.11) in E minor
Martha Argerich (piano), Sinfonia Varsovia, Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)
3:32 AM
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974), arr. Timothy Kain
Scaramouche
Guitar Trek
3:43 AM
Williams, Grace (1906-1977)
Sea Sketches (1944)
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
4:01 AM
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787)
Sonata in A major, for cello and continuo
La Stagione Frankfurt
4:10 AM
Schreker, Franz (1878-1934)
Valse Lente
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
4:15 AM
Ibert, Jacques (1890-1962)
Trois Pièces Brèves
Galliard Ensemble
4:23 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
3 pieces from 'Les Indes Galantes' (Air pour Zéphire; Musette en Rondeau; Air pour Borée et la Rose); Le Rappel des Oiseaux
Stephen Preston (flute), Robert Woolley (harpsichord)
4:31 AM
Raitio, Väinö (1891-1945)
The Maidens on the Headlands - symphonic poem
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
4:39 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Sonata in D minor (Wq.62/15)
Gonny van der Maten (organ)
4:46 AM
Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847)
Songs Without Words (Op.6)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
4:57 AM
Elsner, Józef Antoni Franciszek (1769-1854)
Overture to the opera "Sultan Vampum"
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Straszynski (conductor)
5:01 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Serenade for string orchestra (Op.20) in E minor
BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
5:14 AM
Gwilym Simcock (1981- )
Improvisation on a 'plain-chant like' melody
Gwilym Simcock (piano)
5:21 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in C minor for treble recorder (RV.441)
Michael Schneider (recorder), Camerata Köln
5:32 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Marchenbilder for viola and piano (Op.113)
Maxim Rysanov (viola), Evgeny Samoyloff (piano)
5:49 AM
Bach, Johann Christoph (1642-1703)
Meine Freundin, du bist schön
Maria Zedelius (soprano), David Cordier (alto), Paul Elliott (tenor), Michael Schopper (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
6:12 AM
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875)
Carmen Suite No.2; Seguedille
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b01bzstt)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including Piazzolla's Fuga y Misterio performed by the 12 cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic, Lehar's overture to The Merry Widow is played by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and tenor Ian Bostridge sings Schubert's An die Musik accompanied by Julius Drake on the piano.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b01bzstw)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Balalaika Favourites - a classic recording from the Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra: MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 4501352
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, violinist Isaac Stern.
10.30am
In the first week of Lent, The Essential Classics guest is the Reverend Richard Coles who introduces his essential pieces of classical music.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Schubert
Piano Quintet in A D.667 -The Trout- Emil Gilels (piano) Amadeus Quartet DG 4496472.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b010xylt)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
We'll Try a Thousand Charming Ways to Win Ye
Donald Macleod explores Purcell's music for a spectacular 1692 adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Fairy Queen. Later that year the London stage faced disasters involving its principal performers - the worst being the murder of the actor William Mountfort, by an army officer, over the star actress Anne Bracegirdle. This was a bad omen for the United Company, which thanks to financial mismanagement was on the brink of collapse.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01bzt21)
Perth Concert Hall
Elias Quartet
The Elias Quartet tackle two giants of the quartet repertoire alongside one of their party pieces: a Scottish traditional lament written by the group's second violinist. This is the third of four concerts from Perth featuring Radio 3 New Generation Artists past and present.
Janacek String Quartet No 1
Beethoven String Quartet Op 135
Grant Lament for Mulroy.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01bzt23)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Opera Matinée: Massenet's Manon
Opera matinée: Massenet's Manon starring Natalie Dessay and recorded live at the Opera Bastille
Louise Fryer presents this tragic tale of a vivacious young girl's descent into a life of crime.
Manon Lescaut ..... Natalie Dessay (soprano),
Le Chevalier des Grieux ..... Giuseppe Filianoti (tenor),
Lescaut, Manon's cousin ..... Franck Ferrari (baritone,
Le Comte des Grieux, the Chevalier's father ..... Paul Gay (bass),
Guillot Morfontaine ..... Luca Lombardo (tenor),
Monsieur de Brétigny ..... André Heyboer (baritone),
Poussette, an actress ..... Olivia Doray (soprano),
Javotte, an actress ..... Carol Garcia (mezzo-soprano),
Rosette, an actress ..... Alisa Kolosova (mezzo-soprano),
Inn keeper ..... Christian Tréguier (bass),
Paris National Opera Chorus and Ochestra, Evelino Pidò (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b01bzt25)
Chilingirian Quartet, Baldur Bronnimann, Sakari Oramo
Live music from the Chilingirian String Quartet as they celebrate their 40th year with a concert at Wigmore Hall, performing Haydn, Ravel and Brahms.
Plus, conductor Baldur Bronnimann and librettist Alice Goodman discuss English National Opera's new production of John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer with presenter Suzy Klein. The BBC Symphony Orchestra's newly appointed Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo joins us down the line from Finland and choreographer Richard Alston visits the In Tune studio to discuss his latest work, Britten's A Ceremony of Carols ahead of the performance at Sadler's Wells.
Presented by Suzy Klein
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
Twitter @BBCInTune
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b010xylt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01bzt27)
Scottish Ensemble - Haydn, Luke Bedford, Alwyn, Mozart
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
The virtuoso Scottish Ensemble and their Artistic Director Jonathan Morton are joined by guest violist Lawrence Power for Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante plus a new commission by Luke Bedford entitled Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale which also features both soloists. Another rural scene is conjured by English composer William Alwyn in his Pastoral Fantasia for strings and the concert begins with all the storm and stress of Haydn's famous 'Trauer' symphony.
Haydn: Symphony No 44 in E minor 'Trauer'
Luke Bedford: Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale
8.10pm Music Interval
Alwyn: Pastoral Fantasia
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in Eb K.364
Lawrence Power (viola)
Jonathan Morton (violin/director)
Scottish Ensemble.
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b01bzt3g)
Western Intervention, Rampart, Moral Compass, Aida
The newspaper journalist Marie Colvin, who died yesterday in the besieged city of Homs, was reporting on the plight of the civilian population right up until her death. She wrote that the people of Homs were desperate - and perplexed - asking, 'why has the world forgotten us'? On Night Waves Philip Dodd asks the question - what does it take to tip Western nations towards intervention? Is there a set of key criteria that must be met - and are we nearly there with Syria - or has there been a profound and irreversible cultural shift away from the humanitarian wars of the 1990s, towards wars of national security only.
The new Woody Harrelson film, Rampart, charts the downward spiral of Officer Dave Brown, Vietnam veteran and Rampart Precinct Los Angeles policeman. The city on show here isn't the sumptuous or nostalgic LA of Chinatown or LA Confidential, but the concrete hell of the LA that a lot of people never see. Film critic David D'Arcy reviews what some are saying is a career best performance of Harrelson.
Recent government figures suggest that Britain has become the 'whiplash capital of Europe' with more spurious motoring injury claims than anywhere else on the continent. What has happened to our moral compass that so many of us dishonestly claim what we can get from insurance companies whether we are injured or not? Is this a change that has been exacerbated by recession, people looking out for themselves in hard times? Is it a malaise that connects the riots that spread across the country last summer with an individual filling out an insurance form, and is there historical precedent for a widespread moral breakdown during an economic downturn?
Andrew Dickson will be live at the Royal Albert Hall in London, to give his verdict on tonight's opening performance of Aida. This new production from Raymond Gubbay sees one of the UK's iconic buildings transformed into Ancient Egypt.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01bzt3j)
An Informal History of the Male Nude
Matthew Sweet
One of the weighty and apparently immovable pieces of our mental furniture is the notion that Queen Victoria was a prude. Another is that the Italian Renaissance was a sunny dream where man was always the unapologetic measure of all things. In the fourth part of Men Only: An informal History of the Male Nude, the author and broadcaster, Matthew Sweet, confounds both of these notions. He focusses on a cultural exchange between Queen Victoria and the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Leopold II as well as examining a sixteen inch fig leaf, penectomies and Crystal Palace. Stay tuned!
Producer: Zahid Warley
First broadcast in February 2012.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b01bzt3l)
Late Junction Sessions
Shabaka Hutchings, Jason Singh
Fiona Talkington instroduces the Geoff Eales Trio, Punch Brothers perform Radiohead, Plinth's Music for Small's Lighthouse and this month's Late Junction Session brings together Shabaka Hutchings (clarinet and saxophone) with Jason Singh (vocals and electronics) for a unique collaboration.
FRIDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2012
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b01bzt5j)
John Shea introduces a concert from the 2010 BBC Proms with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra playing Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and choral music by Ligeti and Langgaard.
12:31 AM
Ligeti, Gyorgy (1923-2006)
Ejszaka for Chorus
Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Danish National Choir
12:33 AM
Ligeti, Gyorgy (1923-2006)
Reggel for Chorus
Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Danish National Choir
12:35 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893)
Concerto for violin and Orchestra (Op. 35) in D major;
Henning Kraggerud (violin), Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
1:09 AM
Bull, Ole (1810-1880), arr. Kraggerud, Henning
Fantasy on a theme of Ole Bull
Henning Kraggerud (violin)
1:14 AM
Ligeti, Gyorgy (1923-2006)
Lux Eterna for Chorus
Inger Dam Jensen (soprano), Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Danish National Choir, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
1:22 AM
Langgaard, Rued (1883-1952)
Music of the spheres for soprano, chorus & orchestra
Inger Dam Jensen (soprano), Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Danish National Choir, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
2:06 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Symphony no. 5 (Op.82) in E flat major
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
2:38 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
24 Preludes for piano (Op.28)
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
3:17 AM
Schubert, Franz (1979-1828)
Quartet for Strings (D.810) in D minor "Death and the Maiden"
Ebène Quartet
3:58 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Elegy (Op.23) arr. for piano trio
Trio Lorenz
4:05 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
O Padre Nostro
Chamber Choir AVE, Andraz Hauptman (conductor)
4:12 AM
Sorkocevic, Luka (1734-1789) arr. by Frano Matusic
Symphony No.3
Dubrovnik Guitar Trio
4:20 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907) orch. Sitt, Hans (1850-1922)
2 Norwegian Dances (Op.35, nos. 1 & 2)
Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, Rouslan Raychev (conductor)
4:31 AM
Franceschini, Petronio (1650-1680)
Sonata for 2 trumpets, strings & basso continuo in D major
Yordan Kojuharov & Petar Ivanov (trumpets), Teodor Moussev (organ), Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Yordan Dafov (conductor)
4:39 AM
Ockeghem, Johannes (c.1410-1497)
Salve Regina
The Hilliard Ensemble
4:50 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Sonata for piano (H.
16.34) in E minor
Ingrid Fliter (piano)
5:01 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893)
Wojewode, symphonic ballad, (Op 78)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
5:13 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto No.7 in G minor (BWV.1058)
Angela Hewitt (piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
5:28 AM
Busoni, Ferruccio [1866-1924]
Concertino for clarinet and small orchestra (Op.48) in B flat major (BV 276)
Dancho Radevski (clarinet) Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Plamen Djouroff (conductor)
5:40 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in A major (K.331)
Young-Lan Han (piano)
6:01 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Trio for piano and strings no.2 (Op.66) in C minor
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Eckard Runge (cello), Enrico Pace (piano).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b01bzt5l)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including Thomas Kelly's Three Pieces for Strings performed by the Irish Chamber Orchestra directed by Fionnuala Hunt, pianist Tamas Vasary performs Chopin's Impromptu No.1, and Waxman's Carmen Fantasy is played by violinist Maxim Vengerov accompanied by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b01bzt5n)
Friday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Balalaika Favourites - a classic recording from the Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra: MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 4501352
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, violinist Isaac Stern.
10.30am
In the first week of Lent, The Essential Classics guest is the Reverend Richard Coles who introduces his essential pieces of classical music.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Beethoven
Diabelli Variations
Rudolf Serkin (piano)
BBC LEGENDS BBCL4211.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b010xyst)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
In His Sickness
Donald Macleod explores the later works Purcell wrote for the stage, including his last song, and the semi-opera The Indian Queen, which he did not live to complete.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01bztwz)
Perth Concert Hall
Henk Neven, Hans Eijsackers
New Generation Artist Henk Neven and pianist Hans Eijsackers in ballads and songs by Carl Loewe and Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis song cycle
CARL LOEWE
Herr Oluf
Der du von dem Himmel bist (Wanderers Nachtlied)
Die Uhr
Hinkende Jamben
CARL LOEWE
Der Selt'ne Beter
Tom der Reimer
Susses Begrabnis
Odins Meeresritt, oder Der Schmied auf Helgoland
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Liederkreis Op.39.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01bztx1)
Liszt's The Legend of Saint Elizabeth
Louise Fryer presents Liszt's oratorio, The Legend of Saint Elizabeth in a performance in the Frauenkirche, Dresden
Inspired by the creation of a series of frescoes by the Austrian painter Moritz von Schwind, Liszt's great oratorio sets to music the significant episodes in the life of Saint Elizabeth. Unknown to Ludwig, her royal husband, she distributes bread to the poor and, in the most famous scene, when asked by her husband what is in her covered basket, opens it and the bread miraculously turns into roses.
Landgrave Hermann, Landgrave of Thuringen ..... Reinhard Hagen (bass),
Countess Sophie, his wife ..... Ulrike Schneider (mezzo-soprano),
Landgrave Ludwig, their son ..... Ralf Lukas (bass),
Elisabeth, his fiancee and later his wife .....Melanie Diener (soprano),
King Frederick II Hehenstaufen ..... Matthew Best (bass),
Hungarian Magnate ..... Sebastian Noack (baritone),
Seneschal ..... Raimund Nolte (bass),
MDR Radio Chorus, Children's Choirs and Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Howard Arman (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b01bztx3)
Suzy Klein - Springtime Special
Suzy Klein presents a special Springtime edition of BBC Radio 3's drivetime programme In Tune, live with an audience from the iconic Radio Theatre in BBC Broadcasting House.
Members of the acclaimed Aurora Orchestra are in residence throughout the programme, ahead of an appearance at the Camden Roundhouse's innovative Reverb Festival. They perform Richard Strauss's late masterpiece Metamorphosen, collaborate in a new arrangement of Scarborough Fair with one of folk music's most influential figures Martin Carthy, and also join up with a rising star of the operatic stage Noah Stewart, described as being "capable of conquering anyone through sheer charisma alone".
The pianist Peter Donohoe also performs live, ahead of his recital at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, and the actor Samuel West reads Shakespeare and Seamus Heaney.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b010xyst)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01bztx5)
Live from the Barbican Hall
Sibelius
Live from the Barbican Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
The BBC Symphony Orchestra's Sibelius cycle continues with Symphony No 4 under the Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits. They are joined by Georgian pianist Katia Buniatishvili for Prokofiev's virtuosic First Piano Concerto. Stravinsky's brightly coloured ballet Petrushka completes the programme.
Sibelius's stark, elemental Fourth Symphony was inspired in part by the landscape of Northern Karelia and composed at a time when the calm of the composer's life at his lakeside home Ainola was threatened by ill-health. Prokofiev described his Piano Concerto No 1 as his "first more or less mature composition" and the composer's own virtuoso performance at the keyboard at the premiere was sufficient to win him the coveted Rubinstein prize at the St Petersburg Conservatory. Stravinsky's puppet ballet, written to a commission from the great ballet impressario Sergei Diaghilev, tells of the life, death and afterlife of the Russian clown Petrushka in spectacular orchestral technicolour. The BBC Symphony Orchestra is conducted by the star Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits, making his debut with the orchestra.
Sibelius: Symphony No 4 in A minor
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits (conductor).
FRI 20:30 Twenty Minutes (b01czc0h)
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
It is 40 years since American composer Steve Reich first performed his Clapping Music; his aim to "create a piece of music that needed no instruments beyond the human body", but his fascinating experiment in phasing and rhythm was by no means the first or the last time clapping has played a part in music.
Musician David Bramwell explores the art of the clap in creating and teaching music - the most widespread forms of rhythm making across the world. He hears from Al Guerra, Miami based creator of the Interactive Metronome, a technique of clapping therapy that helps the brain damaged and uncoordinated.
At Chichester College Jazz Course, saxophonist Simon D'Souza and guitarist Dave Murrell give insight into the way rhythm is taught to the most sophisticated of musical ears - how well you think you can keep time may be challenged, while teacher and performer Lorraine Bowen brings clapping into her pupils lessons with such joy that she makes everyone wish she had been their piano teacher. Finally, world famous composer Steve Reich and Zen guru Bart Simpson aid the revelation of what the sound of one hand clapping is really like.
Producer: Sara Jane Hall.
FRI 20:50 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01czc2r)
Live from the Barbican Hall
Prokofiev, Stravinsky
Live from the Barbican Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
The BBC Symphony Orchestra's Sibelius cycle continues with Symphony No 4 under the Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits. They are joined by Georgian pianist Katia Buniatishvili for Prokofiev's virtuosic First Piano Concerto. Stravinsky's brightly coloured ballet Petrushka completes the programme.
Sibelius's stark, elemental Fourth Symphony was inspired in part by the landscape of Northern Karelia and composed at a time when the calm of the composer's life at his lakeside home Ainola was threatened by ill-health. Prokofiev described his Piano Concerto No 1 as his "first more or less mature composition" and the composer's own virtuoso performance at the keyboard at the premiere was sufficient to win him the coveted Rubinstein prize at the St Petersburg Conservatory. Stravinsky's puppet ballet, written to a commission from the great ballet impressario Sergei Diaghilev, tells of the life, death and afterlife of the Russian clown Petrushka in spectacular orchestral technicolour. The BBC Symphony Orchestra is conducted by the star Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits, making his debut with the orchestra.
Prokofiev: Piano concerto No 1 in D flat major
Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version)
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits (conductor).
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b01bztx7)
Wendy Cope, Shalom Auslander, Ana Silvera, Ira Lightman
Wendy Cope reads new and rediscovered poems, and discusses her changing attitude towards poetic form. Novelist Shalom Auslander discusses the literary merits of anger, and its uses and abuses. The assembled guests consider which writer they would most like to find living in their loft. Ian chooses Malcolm Lowry, and Wendy isn't sure it's a wise choice. Ira Lightman investigates the wilder shores of poetic expression with voice recognition technology, and there's music from the operatically-coloured and cabaret-shaped place that Yeats called The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart and Ted Hughes called a house that had been far out at sea all night from Ana Silvera.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b01bztx9)
An Informal History of the Male Nude
Sarah Kent
In the fifth and final essay in the series, Men Only, the critic Sarah Kent contemplates the place of the male nude in contemporary art. She examines the differing approaches adopted by male and female artists and ranges from the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe to Sam Taylor-Wood's video of David Beckham .
Producer: Zahid Warley
First broadcast in February 2012.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b01bztxc)
Sambasunda Quintet Session
Mary Ann Kennedy with tracks from across the globe, and a studio session with Indonesian band the Sambasunda Quintet. Their ethereal sound is created by three 'kecapi', the Javan boat-shaped zither, and the voice of Rita Tila.
Led by composer and kecapi player Ismet Ruchimat, the Sambasunda Quintet perform pieces rooted in the classical Sundanese tradition, with rhythmic influences from local urban popular music. There are also influences from further afield: one piece brings in elements of Irish folk with the title 'Paddy Pergi Ke Bandung' (Paddy goes to Bandung).
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 (b01bzr2n)
Afternoon Concert
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Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b01bzrm4)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b01bzt23)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b01bztx1)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b01bzp51)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b01bzqpm)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b01bzqxg)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b01bzr5z)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b01bzrj7)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b01bzstt)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b01bzt5l)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b01bzp53)
Choir and Organ
17:00 SUN (b01bzqpy)
Choral Evensong
16:00 SUN (b01bw8xg)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b01bzrm6)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b010xxrl)
Composer of the Week
18:30 MON (b010xxrl)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b010xy7j)
Composer of the Week
18:30 TUE (b010xy7j)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b010xyhy)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b010xyhy)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b010xylt)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b010xylt)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b010xyst)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b010xyst)
Discovering Music
20:00 WED (b01bzs73)
Drama on 3
20:30 SUN (b01bzqq4)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b01bzqxj)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b01bzrc2)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b01bzrj9)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b01bzstw)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b01bzt5n)
Hear and Now
22:30 SAT (b01bzpcm)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b01bzr2q)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b01bzrgk)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b01bzrm8)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b01bzt25)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b01bztx3)
Jazz Library
00:00 SUN (b01bzyq9)
Jazz Line-Up
23:00 SUN (b01bzqq8)
Jazz Record Requests
17:00 SAT (b01bzpcc)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b01bzr2z)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b01bzrgt)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b01bzsf5)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b01bzt3l)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b01bzp55)
Night Waves
22:00 MON (b01bzr2v)
Night Waves
22:00 TUE (b01bzrgp)
Night Waves
22:00 WED (b01bzsdz)
Night Waves
22:00 THU (b01bzt3g)
Opera on 3
18:00 SAT (b01bzpcf)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b01bzqpr)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 MON (b01bzr2s)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 TUE (b01bzrgm)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b01bzs71)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:20 WED (b01bzs75)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b01bzt27)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 FRI (b01bztx5)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:50 FRI (b01czc2r)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
14:00 SAT (b01bs9w9)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b01bzr2l)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b01bzrgf)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b01bzrm2)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b01bzt21)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b01bztwz)
Saturday Classics
15:00 SAT (b01bzp59)
Sunday Concert
14:00 SUN (b01bzqpw)
Sunday Feature
19:45 SUN (b01bzqq2)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b01bzqpp)
The Early Music Show
13:00 SAT (b01bzp57)
The Early Music Show
13:00 SUN (b01bzqpt)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b01bzr2x)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b01bzrgr)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b01bzsf1)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b01bzt3j)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b01bztx9)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (b01bztx7)
The Wire
21:30 SAT (b01c6kjm)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b01bwbm4)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b01bzqpk)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b01bzqxd)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b01bzr5x)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b01bzrj5)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b01bzstr)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b01bzt5j)
Twenty Minutes
20:30 FRI (b01czc0h)
Words and Music
18:30 SUN (b01bzqq0)
World Routes
22:00 SUN (b01bzqq6)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b01bztxc)