Claron McFadden (soprano: Joseph), Roberta Alexander (soprano: Potiphar's Wife), Susanna Moncayo von Hase (alto: Reuben), Nico van der Meel (tenor: Potiphar, Ishmaelite), Henk Vonk (tenor: Simeon), Tom Sol (bass: Jacob, General), Susanna ten Wolde (soprano: Benjamin, stranger), Jasper Schwepper (baritone: Gaoler), Nationaal Kinderkoor, Viri Cantores, Musica ad Rhenum, Jed Wentz (conductor)
Cast as above, Nationaal Kinderkoor, Viri Cantores, Musica ad Rhenum, Jed Wentz (conductor)
Cast as above, Nationaal Kinderkoor, Viri Cantores, Musica ad Rhenum, Jed Wentz (conductor)
Vaghi pensieri' (Joyful thoughts that while the sky was, since Love willed it, kindly and serene.....)
Overture (Sinfonia) from L' Isola disabitata - azione teatrale in 2 acts (H.28.9)
This week marks the traditional celebration of Shakespeare's birthday on St George's Day, and Sarah Walker's guest is Dame Harriet Walter, one of our most renowned Shakespearian actresses. The niece of British actor Sir Christopher Lee, Harriet trained at LAMDA and has since worked extensively in theatre, TV, film and radio. She is an associate artist of the RSC, where she played Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra alongside Patrick Stewart, Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing, Lady Macbeth opposite Anthony Sher, All's Well That Ends Well (with Peggy Ashcroft) and Twelfth Night, among other Shakespearian productions. She won an Olivier Award for her performances in Twelfth Night and Chekhov's Three Sisters, and won the Evening Standard Award for her performance as Elizabeth I in Mary Stuart at the Donmar (opposite Janet McTeer as Mary Stuart). Most recently she appeared as Livia in Women Beware Women at the National Theatre. Her film credits include The Young Victoria, Sense and Sensibility, Atonement and Bright Young Things.
Her music choices include a romance for piano by Clara Schumann and an unusual version of Rossini's Barber of Seville overture played by an all-female trombone quartet, as well as works by Rodrigo, Butterworth and Beethoven.
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: this week (23rd-27th April) a recording by pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano): Debussy Complete Works for Piano, Vol.1 - Preludes Books 1 and 2, CHANDOS CHAN1042.
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, baritone Gerald Finley.
In the week of Shakespeare's birthday, the Essential Classics guest is the actress Dame Harriet Walter. She shares her musical choices with Sarah.
Haydn: Symphony No. 45 in F sharp minor (Farewell),
Skalkottas managed to burn his bridges both with his patron and with potential employers in Greece in the early 1930s, and after Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the composer, now deeply in debt, was put on a train back to Athens and his passport impounded. On his return, he had a complete nervous breakdown. The only thing he lived for was composition, and for the next ten years he would write music at a prolific rate. With Donald Macleod.
More performances from the current line-up of New Generation Artists. The American Escher Quartet perform Webern's intricate 5 Movements. Clarinettist Shabaka Hutchings, usually more associated with jazz, teams up with German cellist Nicolas Altstaedt in a duo called "Charisma", by Iannis Xenakis. French violinist Alexandra Soumm performs Beethoven's 3rd violin sonata, and Ben Johnson finishes with a selection of Italian songs.
Anton Webern: 5 Movements for String Quartet op. 5
Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano op 12 no. 3
This week Afternoon on 3 features French music, centred around the BBC Philharmonic's Reflections on Debussy series celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth. Today's concert, recorded on Saturday, features the orchestra in a sea-themed concert. Debussy's La Mer is heard alongside watery evocations by Britten, Dvorak and Takemitsu - whose Riverrun was inspired by Debussy.
Organ Voluntary: Final from Symphony No 2 Op. 20 (Vierne)
Soprano Carmen Giannattasio talks to Sean about making her debut at the Royal Opera House next month as Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme. She performs accompanied by David Parry, who tells Sean about his new recording of Bellini's Il Pirata.
Emma Johnson and John Lenehan perform music by Brahms and Mendelssohn from their new CD out on 30th April.
Ensemble Bash perform live in the studio shortly before their 20th anniversary celebration concerts.
Cellist Truls Mørk & the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kirill Karabits in Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky.
Stravinsky's Fireworks is strongly influenced by his teacher, Rimsky-Korsakov, full of colourful, folk-flavoured nationalism. Compact, dazzlingly scored for huge orchestra and aptly explosive, it clearly forecasts such later scores as The Firebird and Petrushka.
Through the encouragement of Mstislav Rostropovich, Prokofiev reworked an earlier cello concerto into the Sinfonia Concertante. An undoubted masterpiece, it proved that Prokofiev still had something to say, in spite of those who would have silenced him.
Sleeping Beauty presents a tale of magical spells, a long-delayed romance and a royal wedding full of colourful characters. A soaring waltz, one of the most popular ever written, and the Rose Adagio are among the highlights of this extended suite.
In Dimanche by Irène Némirovsky a mother and daughter confront the vagaries of love, and womanhood. Dimanche is selected from Irène Némirovsky's, Dimanche and Other Stories which is the first collection of her short stories to appear in English.
Irène Némirovsky is best known for her celebrated novel series, Suite Française, which was first published, posthumously, in French in 2004. She was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became an established novelist. When the Germans occupied France during WWII she was prevented from publishing her work. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.
Her novels, Suite Francaise, Dolce and Fire in the Blood have all been serialised on Radio 4.
Reader Emma Fielding.
Translated by Bridget Patterson.
Cellist Truls Mørk & the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kirill Karabits in Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky.
Stravinsky's Fireworks is strongly influenced by his teacher, Rimsky-Korsakov, full of colourful, folk-flavoured nationalism. Compact, dazzlingly scored for huge orchestra and aptly explosive, it clearly forecasts such later scores as The Firebird and Petrushka.
Through the encouragement of Mstislav Rostropovich, Prokofiev reworked an earlier cello concerto into the Sinfonia Concertante. An undoubted masterpiece, it proved that Prokofiev still had something to say, in spite of those who would have silenced him.
Sleeping Beauty presents a tale of magical spells, a long-delayed romance and a royal wedding full of colourful characters. A soaring waltz, one of the most popular ever written, and the Rose Adagio are among the highlights of this extended suite.
Jonah Lehrer, Ripley Scroll, Globe International Shakespeare Project, Koyaanisqatsi
Philip Dodd talks to the writer Jonah Lehrer whose new book sets out to unravel creativity and understand the imagination. Along the way he takes on Miles Davis, Shakespeare and the development of a better kind of kitchen mop whilst dispelling commonly held beliefs that there are creative types of people and that brainstorming is the best way for groups of workers to generate new ideas. But, is the search for what makes us creative part of a larger, global question about how the USA comes to terms with its shifting and declining economic and intellectual influence?
Thirty years ago the film Koyaanisqatsi was released. Without a single spoken word, it is made up of slow motion and time lapse imagery and is perhaps most famous for its Philip Glass score. The film has achieved cult status and is a powerful critique of life in the 20th century society. But Jon Adams, a Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, argues that Koyaanisqatsi's lasting legacy is the effect it has had on the advertising industry.
As part of the World Shakespeare Festival the Globe Theatre is staging all of Shakespeare's 37 plays in 37 different languages: from a South Sudanese Cymbeline to a Maori Troilus & Cressida to an Urdu Taming of the Shrew. Gabriel Gbadamosi and Kamila Shamsie are in the studio with their reviews of Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida and a staging of Venus and Adonis.
And, as the Science Museum puts on display a Ripley Scroll recently discovered in its archives Philip Dodd explores the resurgence of alchemy's reputation with the historians Jennifer Rampling and Peter Forshaw.
In the third of our Shakespeare and Love series of essays, the actor and director Samuel West shares his own passion for the many and varied portrayals of love in Shakespeare's sonnets and plays. For Shakespeare, the opposite of love is not hate but indifference and his understanding of the true nature of love is like no other. The course of true love never does run true for love is neither constant nor predictable or even enjoyable most of the time. For Shakespeare, love's definig character is its compelling strangeness.
Choral music by Bob Chilcott, a wedding song from Yemen, Chris Watson's recording of a nightjar in Mozambique plus accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen's collaboration with Samuli Kosminen and the Kronos Quartet.
THURSDAY 26 APRIL 2012
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b01ghglk)
Jonathan Swain introduces a recital of music by Debussy, Schumann, Chopin & Grieg with cellist Mischa Maisky and pianist Martha Argerich.
12:31 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
Sonata for cello and piano in D minor
Mischa Maisky (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)
12:42 AM
Schumann, Robert [(1810-1856)]
Adagio and allegro for cello and piano (Op.70) in A flat major
Mischa Maisky (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)
12:52 AM
Schumann, Robert [(1810-1856)]
Phantasiestucke for piano and cello (Op.111)
Mischa Maisky (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)
1:03 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Sonata for cello and piano (Op.65) in G minor
Mischa Maisky (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)
1:33 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Introduction and polonaise for cello and piano (Op.3) in C major
Mischa Maisky (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)
1:42 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup [1843-1907]
Sonata for cello and piano (Op.36) in A minor
Mischa Maisky (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)
1:49 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry [1906-1975]
Sonata for cello and piano (Op.40) in D minor 'Allegro'
Mischa Maisky (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)
1:53 AM
Messiaen, Olivier [1908-1992]
Quatuor pour la fin du temps (excerpt)
Mischa Maisky (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)
2:02 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Symphony No.39 in E flat major (K.543)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)
2:31 AM
Bruckner, Anton [1824-1896]
Symphony no. 6 in A major
Councertgebouworkest (Concertgebouw Orchestra), Eugen Jochum (conductor)
3:30 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Rondo à la Mazur for piano in F major (Op.5)
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
3:38 AM
Doppler, Franz (1821-1883)
Andante and Rondo for two flutes and piano (Op.25)
Karolina Santl-Zupan and Matej Zupan (flutes), Dijana Tanovic (piano)
3:48 AM
Manchicourt, Pierre de (1510-1564)
Nunc enim si centum lingue sint
Corona Coloniensis, Peter Seymour (conductor)
3:56 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Air - from Suite for orchestra no.3 in D major (BWV.1068)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares (conductor)
4:01 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Wer ist so würdig als du (Wq.222)
Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Herman Max (conductor)
4:06 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Don Juan (Op.20)
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Québec, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
4:23 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Rondo in C major (K.373)
James Ehnes (violin/director), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra
4:31 AM
Smetana, Bedrich [1824-1884]
Overture to The Bartered Bride
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlávek (conductor)
4:38 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Elegy (Op.23) arr. for piano trio
Trio Lorenz
4:45 AM
Dussek, Jan Ladislav (1760-1812)
Sonata in D major (Op.31 No.2)
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
4:58 AM
Lisinski, Vatroslav (1819-1854)
Vecer (Evening) - Symphonic Idyll
Croatian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Niksha Bareza (conductor)
5:06 AM
Lange, Samuel de sr (1811-1884)
Fantasie-Sonate no.3 in G minor 'Ja, Jesus heerscht! Het ongerloof verstomm'
Geert Bierling (organ of Oude of Pelgrimvadersker, Delfshaven, Rotterdam)
5:23 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
Les Illuminations for voice and string orchestra
Magdaléna Hajóssy (soprano), Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Bohdan Warchal (director)
5:45 AM
Bersa, Blagoje (1873-1934)
Capriccio-Scherzo (Op.25c)
Croatian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mladen Tarbuk (conductor)
5:54 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.88 (H.
1.88) in G major
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
6:15 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)
6:24 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Bacchanalia, No.10 from Poetické nálady (Poetic tone pictures) (Op.85)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava, Róbert Stankovsky (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b01ghglm)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b01ghglp)
Thursday - Sarah Walker
This week marks the traditional celebration of Shakespeare's birthday on St George's Day, and Sarah Walker's guest is Dame Harriet Walter, one of our most renowned Shakespearian actresses. The niece of British actor Sir Christopher Lee, Harriet trained at LAMDA and has since worked extensively in theatre, TV, film and radio. She is an associate artist of the RSC, where she played Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra alongside Patrick Stewart, Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing, Lady Macbeth opposite Anthony Sher, All's Well That Ends Well (with Peggy Ashcroft) and Twelfth Night, among other Shakespearian productions. She won an Olivier Award for her performances in Twelfth Night and Chekhov's Three Sisters, and won the Evening Standard Award for her performance as Elizabeth I in Mary Stuart at the Donmar (opposite Janet McTeer as Mary Stuart). Most recently she appeared as Livia in Women Beware Women at the National Theatre. Her film credits include The Young Victoria, Sense and Sensibility, Atonement and Bright Young Things.
Her music choices include a romance for piano by Clara Schumann and an unusual version of Rossini's Barber of Seville overture played by an all-female trombone quartet, as well as works by Rodrigo, Butterworth and Beethoven.
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: this week (23rd-27th April) a recording by pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano): Debussy Complete Works for Piano, Vol.1 - Preludes Books 1 and 2, CHANDOS CHAN1042.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, baritone Gerald Finley.
10.30am
In the week of Shakespeare's birthday, the Essential Classics guest is the actress Dame Harriet Walter. She shares her musical choices with Sarah.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Stravinsky: Rite of Spring
Junge Deutsche Philharmonie
Peter Eotvos (conductor)
BMC BMC 118.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01ghfcp)
Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949)
The Hidden Man
In Athens Skalkottas had to go back to being a working musician again, joining the orchestra of the Athens Conservatory. The former violin gold-medallist of the Conservatory took his place on the front desk of the first violins, but over the next few years, he found himself humiliatingly demoted, until he was relegated to the back desk, where he stayed for the rest of his life. He felt frustrated, depressed and isolated, and gradually withdrew into an inner exile, playing in the orchestra by day, and composing at night. During the Nazi occupation of Greece Skalkottas didn't engage with the war going on around him, but found himself suspected of being a member of the resistance and imprisoned in Haidari concentration camp by the SS. Donald Macleod explores this, the most difficult period of Skalkottas' life.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01ghglt)
NGA Spring Programmes 2012
Jennifer Johnston, Signum Quartet, Nicolas Altstaedt
More performances from the current line-up of Radio 3's New Generation Artists Scheme. German cellist performs one of Bach's viola da gamba sonatas in G minor, BWV1029. British mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston gives a selection of English songs from Vaughan-Williams, Britten and Quilter, and the German Signum Quartet performs Haydn's Quartet op. 33 no. 3 - "the bird", all recorded in special Radio 3 New Generation Artists studio sessions.
Bach: Sonata no. 3 in G minor BWV.1029 for viola da gamba and keyboard
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Jonathan Cohen (harpsichord)
English song selection
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)
Joseph Middleton (piano)
Haydn: Quartet in C major op. 33/3 "the bird"
Signum String Quartet.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01ghglw)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Weill - The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Today's Opera Matinee is Kurt Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in a performance from the Vienna State Opera. There's money to be made in the Alaskan gold fields, so three fugitives decide to set up a pleasure city to attract bored men from the big cities. Weill's satirical Brecht-based opera stars Angelika Kirchschlager as the prostitute Jenny.
Plus the BBC Philharmonic with operatic music composed at almost exactly the same time (around 1930) by the Italian composer Alfredo Casella, a pupil of Faure.
Presented by Louise Fryer.
2pm
Kurt Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Leocadia Begbick, a fugitive ..... Elisabeth Kulman (mezzo-soprano),
Dreieinigkeitsmoses (Trinity Moses) ..... Tomasz Konieczny (baritone),
Fatty der Prokurist (Fatty, The Bookkeeper) ..... Herwig Pecoraro (tenor),
Jimmy Mahoney ..... Christopher Ventris (tenor),
Sparbuchsen Billy (Bank Account Billy) ..... Clemens Unterreiner (baritone),
Jacob Schmidt, Jimmy's friend ..... Norbert Ernst (tenor),
Alaska Wolf Joe, Jimmy's friend ..... Il Hong (bass),
Jenny Smith, a prostitute ..... Angelika Kirchschlager (soprano),
Toby Higgins ..... Wolfram Igor Derntl (tenor).
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,
Ingo Metzmacher.
4.15pm
Casella: La Donna serpente, Symphonic Fragments 1
BBC Philharmonic,
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b01ghgly)
The Flying Dutchman, Steven Isserlis, Mhairi Lawson
Director Jonathan Kent brings in the two stars of ENO's new Wagner Flying Dutchman, tenor Stuart Skelton and soprano Orla Boylan.
Cellist Steven Isserlis tells Sean Rafferty about his Beethoven project with Robert Levin (fortepiano) and Jonathan del Mar, who has produced new editions of the Beethoven cello variations.
And soprano Mhairi Lawson, violinist Simon Kodurand and harpsichordist David Gordon perform works by Playford, Purcell and Handel.
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5pm and
6pm.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01ghfcp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01ghgm0)
Academy of Ancient Music - Monteverdi and His Contemporaries
Presented by Martin Handley
Live from Wigmore Hall, London
The Academy of Ancient Music at the Wigmore Hall in a programme of cantatas and instrumental music by Monteverdi and his contemporaries.
At the heart of the first Italian cantatas was a new and astonishing emphasis on the voice. Deeply-felt emotions are laid bare in such works as Monteverdi's joyous celebration of spring in 'Zefiro Torna' and Strozzi's lovelorn lament 'Udite, amanti'.
Instrumental music of thrilling inventiveness intersperses the programme, which culminates in Monteverdi's Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. Here, love and war collide to startling dramatic and musical effect, and an age-old tale is brought vividly to life through this freshly-minted form.
Falconieri: Ciaccona in G major
Monteverdi: 'Zefiro Torna' from Madrigali e canzonette a due e tre voci
Monteverdi: 'Se vittore si belle' from Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi
Strozzi: 'Udite, amanti'
Monteverdi: 'Ardo e scoprir' from Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi
Interval
B Marini: Passacaglia in G minor from Sonate da Chiesa e da Camera
Castello: Sonata No.15 à 4 from Sonate Concertate in Stile Moderno Libro Secondo
Monteverdi: Act 1 Scene 2 of Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria
Zanetti: Saltarello della Battaglia
Monteverdi: Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Anna Prohaska, soprano
James Gilchrist, tenor
Benjamin Hulett, tenor
Academy of Ancient Music
Jonathan Cohen, director, keyboards.
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b01ghgm2)
Mormonism, Billy Bragg on Woody Guthrie, David Starkey, The Monk
As the Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States Mitt Romney nears the number of delegates needed to formally secure his party's nomination, Anne McElvoy discusses 21st Century Mormonism and explores what effect it could have on the American Presidential campaign. Anne is joined by the former Editor of the Catholic Herald Damian Thompson, by Tresa Edmunds, a practising Mormon in California and by Douglas Davies, Professor in the Study of Religion at Durham University.
Singer-Songwriter Billy Bragg joins Anne to celebrate Woody Guthrie, the great American songwriter mythologised by Bob Dylan for his pre-war songs like 'This Land is Your Land'. Bragg marks the centenary of Guthrie's birth by releasing a new Mermaid Avenue album recorded with the band Wilco full of previously unheard Guthrie songs.
On 3rd of June over a thousand boats will come down the River Thames for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Pageant. It is a tradition that dates back to the 14th century, for the Lord Mayor's show, royal coronations and other great national events. Now the historian David Starkey has curated a new exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich charting the river's relationship with pageantry and the royal family. Anne McElvoy meets him for a tour of Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames.
And novelist Sarah Dunant reviews a new film adaption of Matthew Gregory Lewis' acclaimed 18th century gothic novel 'The Monk', a violent tale of ambition and incest starring Vincent Cassel.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01g4vrj)
Shakespeare and Love
Helen Hackett
In the fourth in our series of Shakespeare and Love essays, Professor Helen Hackett reflects on the enduring power of Shakespeare's sonnets to express the essence of love. She explains how Shakespeare refashioned this popular fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter with a fixed rhyme into one of his most powerful tools for capturing the spirit of love. Professor Hackett begins by examining the love sonnet spoken by Romeo and Juliet and how, like so many of his poems, it creates a moment of extreme unreality. Time stands still as the protagonists pour out their hearts in a sonnet that takes us beyond poetic convention and beyond realism to tell us the truth about love.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b01ghgm4)
Thursday - Fiona Talkington
Composer Giya Kancheli pays tribute to ragtime, trumpeter Dave Douglas is inspired by James Bond, music from oud player Khyam Allami and the sounds of a Gloucestershire badger. With Fiona Talkington.
FRIDAY 27 APRIL 2012
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b01ghgnp)
Jonathan Swain presents the London Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Jurowski from the 2011 BBC Proms. Jean Efflam Bavouzet is soloist in Bartok's 1st Piano Concerto.
12:31 AM
Bartok, Bela [1881-1945]
Concerto No.1 for piano and orchestra (Sz.83)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
12:53 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Invocation - No.1 from Harmonies poetiques et religieuses (S.173)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
12:57 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
A Faust symphony (S.108)
Marco Jentzsch (tenor), London Philharmonic Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
2:12 AM
Kodály, Zoltán [1882-1967]
To Ferenc Liszt
Hungarian Radio & Television Choir, János Ferencsik (conductor)
2:21 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Jägers Abendlied (D.368) (Op.3 No.4) (The huntsman's evening song)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
2:24 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Meeres Stille (D.216) (Op.3 No.2) (Quiet Sea)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
2:26 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
An die Entfernte (D.765) (To one who is far away)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
2:31 AM
Zemlinsky, Alexander von (1872-1942)
Die Seejungfrau - Fantasie for Orchestra
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
3:13 AM
Kunzen, Friedrich (1761-1817)
Symphony in G minor
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
3:30 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Serenade from 'Don Giovanni' (trans. Wilhelm Backhaus)
Dennis Hennig (piano)
3:34 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Divertimento (K.138) in F major
Brussels Chamber Orchestra
3:46 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Elegy for cello and piano (Op.24)
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), Emmanuel Strosser (piano)
3:53 AM
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von (1644-1704)
Scordatura Sonata for two violins & basso continuo
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists
4:07 AM
Sullivan, (Sir) Arthur (1842-1900)
In memoriam - overture in C major
BBC Philharmonic, Richard Hickox (conductor)
4:19 AM
Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706)
Canon and Gigue in D major
Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, Barbara Jane Gilbey (violin and director), Geoffrey Lancaster (harpsichord)
4:24 AM
Kaap, Artur (1878-1952)
Chorus No.7 'You are Great, Lord' - from the oratorio 'Hiiob'
Oratooriumikoor, Eesti Rahvusmeeskoor, Eesti Poistekoor, ERSO, Neeme Järvi (conductor)
4:31 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Le Carnival Romain, op 9
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
4:40 AM
Reutter, Johann Georg (1708-1772)
Ecce quomodo moritur justus
Capella Nova Graz, Otto Kargl (conductor)
4:48 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph [1732-1809]
Trio Sonata in E flat major (H.XV.29)
Kungsbacka Trio
5:05 AM
Evanghelatos, Antiochos (1903-1981)
Coasts and Mountains of Attica
National Symphony Orchestra of Greek Radio, conductor Andreas Pylarinos
5:18 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) [text Friedrich Schiller]
Hektors Abschied (D.312b, Op.58 No.1)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
5:23 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Overture and music from the Ballet Prometheus, Op.43
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)
5:40 AM
Glinka, Mihail Ivanovic (1804-1857)
Nocturno
Branka Janjanin-Magdalenic (harp)
5:45 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A minor, B.108 (Op.53)
Vilde Frang Bjærke (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, William Eddins (conductor)
6:17 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) trans. Liszt, Franz
Forelle (S.564) trans. for piano
Simon Trpceski (piano)
6:22 AM
Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
Overture to Mireille
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Oliver Dohnányi (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b01ghgnr)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b01ghgnt)
Friday - Sarah Walker
This week marks the traditional celebration of Shakespeare's birthday on St George's Day, and Sarah Walker's guest is Dame Harriet Walter, one of our most renowned Shakespearian actresses. The niece of British actor Sir Christopher Lee, Harriet trained at LAMDA and has since worked extensively in theatre, TV, film and radio. She is an associate artist of the RSC, where she played Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra alongside Patrick Stewart, Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing, Lady Macbeth opposite Anthony Sher, All's Well That Ends Well (with Peggy Ashcroft) and Twelfth Night, among other Shakespearian productions. She won an Olivier Award for her performances in Twelfth Night and Chekhov's Three Sisters, and won the Evening Standard Award for her performance as Elizabeth I in Mary Stuart at the Donmar (opposite Janet McTeer as Mary Stuart). Most recently she appeared as Livia in Women Beware Women at the National Theatre. Her film credits include The Young Victoria, Sense and Sensibility, Atonement and Bright Young Things.
Her music choices include a romance for piano by Clara Schumann and an unusual version of Rossini's Barber of Seville overture played by an all-female trombone quartet, as well as works by Rodrigo, Butterworth and Beethoven.
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: this week (23rd-27th April) a recording by pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano): Debussy Complete Works for Piano, Vol.1 - Preludes Books 1 and 2, CHANDOS CHAN1042.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, baritone Gerald Finley.
10.30am
In the week of Shakespeare's birthday, the Essential Classics guest is the actress Dame Harriet Walter. She shares her musical choices with Sarah.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Gothenberg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
BIS CD 252.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01ghgnw)
Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949)
I'll Go Away to Araby
The last three years of Skalkottas' life were played out against the background of Greece's descent into the brutal chaos of civil war. Despite the conflicts and the disintegration going on around him, things were going quite well for Skalkottas - he got married, and now concentrating on tonal music, he at last began to hear his pieces performed in Athens. But his ill-starred life ended, two days before the birth of his second son, just as he had begun to find happiness and recognition. Given the way he had been marginalised since his return to Greece, there were several overly sentimental tributes to him by members of the establishment after his death. Donald Macleod explores the final tragic chapter of Skalkottas' life.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01ghgxc)
NGA Spring Programmes 2012
Igor Levit, Francesco Piemontesi, Veronika Eberle
The conclusion of this week's showcase of New Generation Artists in Lunchtime Concert. German violinist Veronika Eberle is joined by recent graduate Francesco Piemontesi on piano to perform Bartok's mammoth violin sonata, after Russian/German pianist Igor Levit plays a selection of Debussy Preludes.
Debussy Preludes:
Danseuses de Delphes
Voiles
Des pas sur la neige
La serenade interrompue
Igor Levit (piano)
Bartok: Violin Sonata
Veronika Eberle (violin)
Francesco Piemontesi (piano).
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01ghgxf)
BBC Philharmonic - Reflections on Debussy
Episode 4
This week Afternoon on 3 features French music, centered around the BBC Philharmonic's Reflections on Debussy series celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth. Today the theme is taken up by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with the young French conductor Fabien Gabel. The Orchestra is joined by Radio 3 New Generation Artist Nicolas Altstaedt for Saint-Saens's ever-popular First Cello Concerto. Plus Artur Pizarro plays Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, and more French and French-influenced music from the BBC Philharmonic.
Presented by Louise Fryer.
2pm
Chausson: Viviane
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor
Debussy orch Koechlin: Khamma
Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello),
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Fabien Gabel (conductor).
3.05pm
Ravel: Concerto for piano left hand
Artur Pizarro (piano),
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Susanna Malkki (conductor).
3.25pm
Casella: La Donna serpente, Symphonic Fragments 2
BBC Philharmonic,
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).
3.40pm
Lalo: Symphonie espagnole
Renaud Capucon (violin),
BBC Philharmonic,
Juanjo Mena (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b01ghgxh)
BBC Singers, Royal College of Music Students, Semyon Bychkov
As they prepare for a concert exploring the life and times of the fourth Earl of Sandwich in Kent, baroque soloists from the Royal College of Music perform live in the studio with director Ashley Solomon. Ahead of Total Immersion: Arvo Part at the Barbican, the BBC Singers and their Principal Guest Conductor Paul Brough sing music from Part's Seven Magnificat Antiphons and Summa live in the studio. Plus conductor Semyon Bychkov talks to presenter Sean Rafferty about his new appointment as Klemperer Chair of Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music and his upcoming performances of La Boheme at the Royal Opera House.
Presented by Sean Rafferty
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 (b01ghgnw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01ghgxk)
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Gluck, Vivaldi
Nicola Benedetti plays Vivaldi's Four Seasons with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, live from the Glasgow City Halls. Presented by Donald Macleod.
Although Vivaldi's 500 instrumental concertos include some 37 for bassoon, four for the mandolin and at least one for the 'flautino' or flageolet (a member of the flute family, similar to a recorder), nearly half of the total are for solo violin. Tonight, Nicola Benedetti plays some of the most celebrated.
Rameau's comic opera Les Paladins includes elements of farce and knockabout comedy, and was based on a fable by La Fontaine, blending reality with the surreal as a young knight, Atis, struggles to free a young Italian girl, Argie, from captivity and win her hand.
Gluck: Overture, Ballet and Chaconne from Orfeo ed Eurydice
Vivaldi: Concerto in D 'Il Grosso Mogul' RV 208
Nicola Benedetti, violin
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Christian Curnyn, director.
FRI 20:10 Discovering Music (b01ghgxm)
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Barking dogs, sleeping goatherds, bagpipes, finches and bluebottles - Vivaldi's Four Seasons has them all. But is there more to these exquisite violin concertos than a collection of pictures in sound? Stephen Johnson traces the work's roots to a set of mysterious sonnets and explores what motivated Vivaldi to translate poetry into music.
FRI 20:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01ghgxp)
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Rameau, Vivaldi
Nicola Benedetti plays Vivaldi's Four Seasons with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, live from the Glasgow City Halls. Presented by Donald Macleod.
Although Vivaldi's 500 instrumental concertos include some 37 for bassoon, four for the mandolin and at least one for the 'flautino' or flageolet (a member of the flute family, similar to a recorder), nearly half of the total are for solo violin. Tonight, Nicola Benedetti plays some of the most celebrated.
Rameau's comic opera Les Paladins includes elements of farce and knockabout comedy, and was based on a fable by La Fontaine, blending reality with the surreal as a young knight, Atis, struggles to free a young Italian girl, Argie, from captivity and win her hand.
Gluck: Overture, Ballet and Chaconne from Orfeo ed Eurydice
Vivaldi: Concerto in D 'Il Grosso Mogul' RV 208
Rameau: Suite from Les Paladins
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Nicola Benedetti, violin
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Christian Curnyn, director.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b01ghgxr)
Inua Ellams, Cate Le Bon, Ira Lightman, Carrie Etter
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's Cabaret of the Word, with performances from spoken word artist Inua Ellams -whose show 'Black T-Shirt Collection' is on tour, and singer Cate Le Bon who's described her new album 'Cyrk' as a 'a time travelogue that continually hearkens back to the sea'.
Ian is also joined by Carrie Etter and Ira Lightman to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the death of American poet Hart Crane - and to explore the pleasures of 'difficult' poetry.
Poetry Proms Competition coming soon ... see website for details.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b01g4vrx)
Shakespeare and Love
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
In the final essay in our series Shakespeare and Love, the writer and journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown recalls how her own heart was captured by Shakespeare as a child growing up in Uganda, East Africa, where his plays were performed at her school on a regular basis. Though Shakespeare may never have left England, he had a global outlook on love. Racial pride and prejudice had a strong presence in many of his plays. From Titus Andronicus and the Merchant of Venice to Othello, the plays are full of rebellious lovers; mixed race couplings whose complex lives are portrayed with such moral clarity and moral ambivalence that they resonate today.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b01ghgxt)
Lucas Santtana in Session, Songlines Awards
Lopa Kothari with new tracks from across the globe, plus experimental Brazilian singer-songwriter Lucas Santtana in session.
Plus Simon Broughton from Songlines Magazine joins Lopa in the studio to discuss the Songlines Music Awards winners.
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 (b01ghc2f)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b01ghd0n)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b01ghg8y)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b01ghglw)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b01ghgxf)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b01gd6gv)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b01gd79y)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b01ghbd4)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b01ghcsm)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b01ghfcj)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b01ghglm)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b01ghgnr)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b01gd6h3)
Choir and Organ
17:00 SUN (b01ghb8z)
Choral Evensong
16:00 SUN (b01g5z3q)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b01ghg90)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b01ghbn5)
Composer of the Week
18:30 MON (b01ghbn5)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b01ghcsr)
Composer of the Week
18:30 TUE (b01ghcsr)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b01ghrsn)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b01ghrsn)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b01ghfcp)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b01ghfcp)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b01ghgnw)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b01ghgnw)
Discovering Music
20:10 FRI (b01ghgxm)
Drama on 3
20:30 SUN (b01g4vgj)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b01ghbjj)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b01ghcsp)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b01ghfcl)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b01ghglp)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b01ghgnt)
Hear and Now
22:45 SAT (b01ghh1s)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b01ghc2h)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b01ghd0s)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b01ghg92)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b01ghgly)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b01ghgxh)
Jazz Library
00:00 SUN (b01gd775)
Jazz Line-Up
23:30 SUN (b01ghb97)
Jazz Record Requests
22:00 SAT (b01gd6rd)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b01ghc6p)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b01ghdhb)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b01ghgf6)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b01ghgm4)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b01gd6jx)
Night Waves
22:00 MON (b01ghc6m)
Night Waves
22:00 TUE (b01ghd97)
Night Waves
22:00 WED (b01ghgf4)
Night Waves
22:00 THU (b01ghgm2)
Opera on 3
16:00 SAT (b01gd6qm)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b01ghjcj)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 MON (b01ghc6k)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 TUE (b01ghd95)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b01ghg94)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:35 WED (b01ghgf2)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b01ghgm0)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 FRI (b01ghgxk)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:30 FRI (b01ghgxp)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b01ghc2c)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b01ghd0l)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b01ghfcr)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b01ghglt)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b01ghgxc)
Saturday Classics
14:00 SAT (b01gd6qk)
Sunday Concert
14:00 SUN (b01ghb8x)
Sunday Feature
19:45 SUN (b01ghb93)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b01gd7dg)
The Early Music Show
13:00 SAT (b01gd6k5)
The Early Music Show
13:00 SUN (b01ghb8v)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b01g4vqf)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b01g4vr2)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b01g4vrb)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b01g4vrj)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b01g4vrx)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (b01ghgxr)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b01g5zpq)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b01gd78n)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b01ghbd2)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b01ghcsk)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b01ghfcg)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b01ghglk)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b01ghgnp)
Twenty Minutes
20:15 WED (b0106wzt)
Words and Music
18:30 SUN (b01ghb91)
World Routes
22:30 SUN (b01ghb95)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b01ghgxt)