Jonathan Swain presents a programme of Chamber Music from Maribor Festival in Slovenia.
Bostjan Lipovsek (horn), Janez Podlesek & Irina Kevorkova (violins), Dietmut Poppen (viola), Monika Leskovar (cello)
Bostjan Lipovsek (horn), Janez Podlesek (violins), Dietmut Poppen & Alexandre Razera (violas), Monika Leskovar (cello)
Dubravka Tomsic (piano), Slovenian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Anton Nanut (conductor)
Angela Tomanic (organ of Bazilika obiskanja Device Marije, (Church of the Virgin Mary), Petrovcah constructed by Gaétano Callido of Padua 1727, expanded 1813]
Trio for keyboard and strings (H.
Maja Kojc (oboe), Slovenian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Despalj (conductor)
Symphony no. 38 in D major K.504 (Prague)
Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), Domen Marincic (gamba), Dalibor Miklavcic (organ)
Bostjan Lipovsek (french horn), Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, David de Villiers (conductor)
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating British Music and continuing our Musical Map of Britain.
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: York Bowen Piano Works, performed by Joop Celis.
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, Mikhail Pletnev.
This week, Rob's guest is the Irish award-winning writer Colm Toibin: essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet. His work as a journalist and writer includes 'Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border' (1987) and 'The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe' (1994). His novels include: 'The Blackwater Lightship' (1999, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a film starring Angela Lansbury), 'The Master' (2004, winner of the Dublin IMPAC Prize; the Prix du Meilleur Livre; the LA Times Novel of the Year; and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and 'Brooklyn' (2009, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year). His short story collections are 'Mothers and Sons' (2006, winner of the Edge Hill Prize) and 'The Empty Family (2010). His play 'Beauty in a Broken Place' was performed at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin in 2004. His other books include: 'The Modern Library: the 200 Best Novels Since 1950' (with Carmen Callil) and 'All a Novelist Needs: Essays on Henry James' (2010). He has edited 'The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction'. He is a regular contributor to the Dublin Review, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.
Celebrating British Music: Donald Macleod looks at the effect of Lloyd's traumatic wartime experience, including an incident where his ship torpedoed itself in freezing Arctic waters.
In a recital from St Mary's Church at Hay-on-Wye, clarinettist Michael Collins, cellist Guy Johnston and pianist Leon McCawley come together to perform a varied programme of works. These include an early trio by Beethoven dedicated to one of his first aristocratic patrons, and a trio by Brahms which was inspired by hearing the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld rehearse. Also included is one of Rachmaninov's most famous works, his Vocalise, and an intimate late-romantic miniature by Glière.
Rachmaninov: Vocalise for cello and piano Op.34. No.14
The second of this week's concerts from the BBC Concert Orchestra was given earlier in June as part of The Southbank Centre's The Rest is Noise festival, focusing on the music of the twentieth century. Entitled 'The Home Front', the programme celebrates the part that BBC Radio and British cinema played during World War II to boost morale.
The concert begins with John Ireland's Epic March, followed by music associated with two 1940s BBC Radio favourites - Music While You Work and Sincerely Yours, featuring music sung by Dame Vera Lynn.
Representing British Cinema are: Seascape, from Clifton Parker's score to Western Approaches; Richard Addinsell's famous Warsaw Concerto, written for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight; and William Walton's incidental music to Henry V, which was dedicated to 'Commandos and Airborne Troops of Great Britain'.
To get into the swing of things at the concert, the audience were encouraged to wear their finest 1940s clothes - an invitation that we'd like to extend to our listeners!
Following the concert, two more British works. Firstly, a chance to hear Henry Balfour Gardiner's Delius-inspired Berkshire Idyll performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with conductor David Parry.
And every day this week Afternoon on 3 is featuring a British symphony - today's is Havergal Brian's 5th. Written in 1937, this is a setting of the poem The Wine of Summer by Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's one-time friend and lover.
Walton, arr. Christopher Palmer: Henry V - A Shakespeare Scenario
Brian: Symphony no. 5 (The Wine of Summer)
Trumpeter Matthew Halsall, one of the UK jazz scene's rising stars, is in the studio to play live ahead of several festival performances this summer.
We go live to Glyndebourne to talk to mezzo Sarah Connolly and conductor William Christie as they prepare for the opening night of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie.
There's live opera performance in the studio as baritone Hakan Vramsmo brings the Toreador Song from Bizet's Carmen to life for us, as he will in Focus Opera's performances at Chiswick House.
Plus we hear from the National Portrait Gallery as they announce the first Choir in Residence at any gallery in Britain, and film critic Mark Kermode tells us about his series of 50th birthday concerts as he joins forces with the CBSO to bring his favourite film scores to life on stage.
Celebrating the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten this year, Edward Gardner conducts a performance of one his most powerful works.
In the 2013 City of London Festival, and marking the 100th anniversary of Benjamin Britten's birth, the vast spaces of St Paul's Cathedral echo to the sound of one his most compelling works. Composed to mark the re-opening of Coventry Cathedral in 1962, rebuilt after the catastrophic damage it suffered in the Second World War, this is one of Britten's most powerful and personal works - a pacifist manifesto which links the Latin words of the Mass for the Dead to the First World War poems of Wilfred Owen.
Journalist and broadcaster Melanie Phillips discusses her autobiography Guardian Angel, which reveals details of her unhappy and stifling childhood and her relationship with her fragile mother. Through the prism of this family story, Melanie also explains her dramatic transition from the darling of Britain's liberal left, to the Daily Mail's star columnist and reflects on why she felt it was important to tell this very personal story.
The National Theatre is currently mounting Eugene O'Neill's 1928 play Strange Interlude. It is a naturalistic drama performed in a traditional box set, but the characters interrupt the dialogue to share their thoughts with us and even come forward and address the audience directly. Breaking the imaginary fourth wall is usually a theatrical trick but TV characters like Mrs Brown and Miranda do it and of course Shakespeare is famous for soliloquies. Director Simon Godwin, theatre critic Susannah Clapp and TV writer Philip Martin discuss just how porous the fourth wall can be with contributions from Charles Edwards, who is appearing in Strange Interlude.
Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Jonathan Dee on his new novel A Thousand Pardons.
In this series of five essays, contemporary children's authors and editors each look at a fictional family from children's literature.
They use it as a focal point to explore the changing portrayal of the family in children's books, and consider both what it tells us about the society it reflects, and how relevant it is to determining a young generation's attitudes to the future.
In the second programme of the series, writer Anne Fine examines family life in Judith Kerr's classic The Tiger Who Came to Tea from a feminist perspective. She argues that our nostalgia for the books from our childhood mean that today's children are continually presented with outdated stereotypes of gender roles which no longer reflect today's society - a fact which, she believes, children find it hard to discern themselves.
New music from Terje Rypdal (pictured) in collaboration with The Hilliard Ensemble and Bella Hardy singing The Seeds of Love are on Fiona Talkington's playlist, plus music from keyboardist, composer and key Loop Collective member Dan Nicholls's first album 'Ruins'.
WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE 2013
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b02yjmkb)
Jonathan Swain presents a recital of songs by Chopin and his contemporaries performed by soprano Dorothee Mields interspersed with Chopin Nocturnes by pianist Nelson Goerner recorded in Poland.
12:31 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Nocturne No 8 in D flat Op.27 No.2
Nelson Goerner (piano)
12:37 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Abendempfindung (Abend ist's) K.523
Dorothee Mields (soprano), Nelson Goerner (piano)
12:42 AM
Chopin
Zyczenie (The wish), Op.74 No.1
Mields/Goerner
12:44 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw [1819-1872]
The Little Field Rose
Mields/Goerner
12:46 AM
Moniuszko
Mad Ophelia's Song
Mields/Goerner
12:49 AM
Mozart
Das Veilchen K.476
Mields/Goerner
12:52 AM
Chopin
Lithuanian Song, Op.74 No.16
Mields/Goerner
12:54 AM
Mozart
Als Luise die Briefe K.520
Mields/Goerner
12:56 AM
Chopin
Nocturne No 14 in F sharp minor Op.48 No.2
Nelson Goerner
1:04 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Am Fenster D.878
Mields/Goerner
1:09 AM
Moniuszko
The Goldfish
Mields/Goerner
1:12 AM
Schubert
Schwanengesang (Wie klag ich's aus) D.744
Mields/Goerner
1:14 AM
Chopin
Leaves are Falling, Op.74 No.17
Mields/Goerner
1:19 AM
Schubert
Der Leiermann - from Winterreise D.911
Mields/Goerner
1:23 AM
Zarzycki, Aleksander [1834-1895]
Polish Suite (Op.37)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Straszynski (conductor)
1:49 AM
Chopin
Nocturne No 17 in B Op.62 No.1
Nelson Goerner
1:55 AM
Chopin
Nocturne No 18 in E, Op.62 No.2
Nelson Goerner
2:01 AM
Schubert
Du bist die Ruh D.776
Mields/Goerner
2:06 AM
Chopin
Posel, Op.74 No.7
Mields/Goerner
2:08 AM
Chopin
Nie ma czego trzeba, Op.74 No.13
Mields/Goerner
2:14 AM
Schubert
Die Männer sind mechant - No.3 from D866
Mields/Goerner
2:16 AM
Moniuszko
Piesn Nai
Mields/Goerner
2:21 AM
Schubert
Lachen und Weinen D.777
Mields/Goerner
2:24 AM
Chopin
Sliczny chlopiec Op.74 No.8
Mields/Goerner
2:26 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Resignation WoO.149
Mields/Goerner
2:31 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich [1840-1893]
Violin Concerto in D major (Op.35)
Anne-Sofie Mutter (violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)
3:06 AM
Schutz, Heinrich [1585-1672]
Vater Abraham, erbarme dich mein (SWV.477)
La Capella Ducale, Musica Fiata Köln, Roland Wilson (director)
3:20 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Quartet for strings (Op.20'2) in C major
Quatuor Tercea
3:40 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Polonaise for orchestra in E flat major
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Ludovít Rajter (conductor)
3:47 AM
Byrd, William [c.1540-1623]
Selection from 'The Battle' (MB.
28.94)
Jautrite Putnina (piano)
3:52 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Quartet for flute and strings (K.285) in D major
Joanna G'froerer (flute), Martin Beaver (violin), Pinchas Zukerman (viola), Amanda Forsyth (cello)
4:07 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Vocalise en forme de Habanera
Eir Inderhaug (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marbà (conductor)
4:11 AM
Allegri, Lorenzo [1567-1648]
Primo Ballo della notte d'amore & Sinfonica (Spirito del ciel)
Suzie Le Blanc, Barbara Borden, Dorothee Mields (sopranos), Christian Hilz (baritone), Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs (director)
4:21 AM
Nielsen, Carl [1865-1931]
Pan og Syrinx (FS.87) (Op.49)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)
4:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Romanze (Andante) from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (K.525)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Pitamic (conductor)
4:38 AM
Britten, Benjamin [1913-1976]
Early one morning
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Paul Turner (piano)
4:42 AM
Musorgsky, Modest [1839-1881], arr. Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay [1844-1908]
A Night on Bare Mountain
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Lazarev (conductor)
4:56 AM
Zemzaris, Imants [b.1951]
The Light springs
Juris Gailitis (flute), Indulis Suna (violin)
5:02 AM
Borodin, Alexander [1833-1887]
Notturno (Andante) - from String Quartet No.2 in D
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Oliver Dohnányi (conductor)
5:11 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor 'Quasi una fantasia' (Moonlight)(Op.27 No.2)
Aldo Ciccolini (piano)
5:28 AM
Lipatti, Dinu [1917-1950]
Aubade for wind quartet
Nicolae Maxim (flute), Radu Chisu (oboe), Valeriu Barbuceanu (clarinet), Mihai Tanasila (bassoon)
5:48 AM
Scheidt, Samuel [1587-1654]
Christe, der du bist Tag und Licht for organ
Mario Penzar (organ)
5:50 AM
De Vocht, Lodewijk [1887-1977]
Naar Hoger Licht (Towards a Higher Light) (1933)
Luc Tooten (cello), Vlaams Radio Orkest, Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor)
5:58 AM
Ligeti, Gyorgy [1923-2006]
Lux Aeterna
Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Helgerød (conductor)
6:08 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Gaspard de la nuit
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b02yjmkh)
Wednesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating British Music and continuing our Musical Map of Britain.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b02yjmmh)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: York Bowen Piano Works, performed by Joop Celis.
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, Mikhail Pletnev.
10.30am
This week, Rob's guest is the Irish award-winning writer Colm Toibin: essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet. His work as a journalist and writer includes 'Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border' (1987) and 'The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe' (1994). His novels include: 'The Blackwater Lightship' (1999, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a film starring Angela Lansbury), 'The Master' (2004, winner of the Dublin IMPAC Prize; the Prix du Meilleur Livre; the LA Times Novel of the Year; and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and 'Brooklyn' (2009, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year). His short story collections are 'Mothers and Sons' (2006, winner of the Edge Hill Prize) and 'The Empty Family (2010). His play 'Beauty in a Broken Place' was performed at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin in 2004. His other books include: 'The Modern Library: the 200 Best Novels Since 1950' (with Carmen Callil) and 'All a Novelist Needs: Essays on Henry James' (2010). He has edited 'The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction'. He is a regular contributor to the Dublin Review, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.
11am
20 Great British Works
Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op.61
James Ehnes (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b02yjmxj)
George Lloyd (1913-1998)
Musical Exile
Celebrating British Music: Donald Macleod explains how Lloyd turned from composition to mushroom farming when he was ostracised by the musical establishment.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b02yjnlt)
Concerts from the Hay Festival 2013
Episode 2
In a recital from St Mary's Church at Hay-on-Wye, the Gould Piano Trio perform Mozart's Trio K502, which shows no sign of being written just a few days after the death of the composer's second child. Also performed is the Piano Trio No.1 by Anton Arensky; an eclectic work with hints of Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsy which, despite Rimsky-Korsakov's predictions that Arensky's music would disappear without trace, has remained a favourite in this genre.
Lucy Gould, violin
Alice Neary, cello
Benjamin Frith, piano
Mozart Trio for piano, violin and cello in B flat, K502
Arensky Piano Trio No. 1 In D minor Op.32.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b02yjp4s)
British Symphonies
Episode 3
Louise Fryer continues Afternoon on 3's month-long celebration of British Symphonies and British music in general with piece by Benjamin Britten, Edmund Rubbra and Daniel Jones.
First, one of Edmund Rubbra's finest symphonies - the 8th. Although he gave the symphony the sub-title 'Hommage a Teilhard de Chardin', in reference to the Jesuit priest and philosopher, Rubbra wrote that it was not his intention to translate De Chardin's ideas into music, but rather for the music and ideas to meet "in a like optimism", resulting in a work of intense spirituality. This performance is given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Richard Hickox conducting.
Then, the first part of a concert given earlier this month by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ilan Volkov in Rotterdam, as part of their recent tour of the Netherlands (you can hear the second part on Friday).
Britten wrote his American Overture for the conductor Artur Rodzinski in America but left behind and forgotten when he returned to England in the early 1940s. When told of its existence in 1972 by a cataloguer in the New York Public Library, the composer denied any memory of writing it but, after having seen the score, conceded that it was probably his.
He never, on the other hand, denied composing his Ballad of Heroes in 1939 for the Festival of Music for the People. It was a collaboration between Britten and the writers W. H. Auden and Randall Swingler, in the form of an impassioned outburst against the horrors of war. In many ways it anticipates Britten's War Requiem, written 25 years later.
The second British symphony of the day is another 8th - by the Welsh composer Daniel Jones. Jones was born in Pembrokeshire and brought up in Swansea where he met and befriended Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins. He wrote his 8th Symphony in 1972 and it features prominently the xylophone, marimba and piano. This performance is from 1979 by the BBC NOW in its earlier incarnation as the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bryden Thomson.
Edmund Rubbra: Symphony no. 8
BBC National Orchestra of Wales,
Richard Hickox (conductor).
2.25pm
Britten: An American Overture
Britten: Ballad of Heroes
Andrew Staples (tenor),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Ilan Volkov (conductor).
2.50pm
Daniel Jones: Symphony no. 8
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra,
Bryden Thomson (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b02yjzn3)
York Minster
Live from York Minster
Introit: Os justi meditabitur (Bruckner)
Responses: Gibbons and Barnard
Psalm 119 vv145-176 (Parratt, Cook, Gauntlett, Martin)
First Lesson: Isaiah 24 vv1-15
Canticles: Octavi toni (Tallis)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 6 vv1 - 11
Anthem: Great is the Lord (Elgar)
Hymn: From the beginning, God's most holy Word (Godmanchester)
Organ Voluntary: Dance (Huw Morgan)
Robert Sharpe (Director of Music)
David Pipe (Assistant Director of Music).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b02yjstg)
Live from the National Gallery
Sean Rafferty presents a special edition of In Tune live from The National Gallery in London to coincide with their new exhibition Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure. Sean is joined by art critic Brian Sewell, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier and curator Betsy Wieseman to discover some of the highlights of the exhibition, including Vermeer's masterpiece Guitar Player. There will be specially chosen live music from the Academy of Ancient Music and guitarist Craig Ogden to bring the musical world of Vermeer to life.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b02yjmxj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b02yjzn5)
Live from Stationers' Hall, London
Janacek, Brahms
Live from Stationers' Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Northern Irish pianist Barry Douglas brings two epic works for piano to the City of London Festival - the final sonata Schubert completed and Brahms's 3rd sonata, both written on a grand scale. The programme opens with a selection of Janacek's piano miniatures which contain some of his most personal thoughts.
Janacek: On an Overgrown Path (selection)
Brahms: Sonata no.3 in F minor, Op.5
Barry Douglas (piano)
Connecting with the Festival's ongoing environmental themes, Janáček's nostalgic On an Overgrown Path focuses on the countryside of the composers' homeland and represents the passage of time, the death of his two children and his artistic isolation. The other two works are on a grander scale: Brahms's early Sonata follows a large-scale five movement structure and breathes new life into a form that was so important to his idol, Beethoven. Schubert's Sonata in B flat, his last before his death, explores immensity of a different kind - vast and lyrical, this work traverses a range of moods from desolation to hope and ends with whimsical optimism.
WED 20:20 Twenty Minutes (b01nwntw)
Twenty Ways to Stuff a Cat
In a taxidermist's studio, animals are prepared for immortality: animal heads, fish, birds, mice; in museums, natural history specimens are preserved in the name of conservation and education; in galleries, artists play with notions of life, death and the stopping of time; on a computer screen, contemporary artists create wild menageries of hybrid creatures through the process of 'animangling', or digital taxidermy. From the great bagging and stuffing fever of nineteenth century sportsmen-naturalists, and the related collections of small animals arranged in meticulously detailed scenarios to the current revival of taxidermy as art - both real and virtual - as well as the growing enthusiasm for freeze-drying a dead pet, Ian Sansom explores what the urge to stuff or otherwise preserve an animal suggests about our culture, and finds out about the intricacies of the art in an Edinburgh taxidermy studio.
Ian is a literary critic and the author of The Mobile Library detective series. He has broadcast for Radio 3 on his enthusiasm for concrete, his adopted city of Belfast, bibliophilia, swimming, the cultural history of the suit and of shoes among other subjects. His next novel, the first of a new detective series, is due out in 2013.
WED 20:40 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b02yjzpp)
Live from Stationers' Hall, London
Schubert
Live from Stationers' Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Northern Irish pianist Barry Douglas brings two epic works for piano to the City of London Festival - the final sonata Schubert completed and Brahms's 3rd sonata, both written on a grand scale. The programme opens with a selection of Janacek's piano miniatures which contain some of his most personal thoughts.
Schubert: Sonata no.21 in B flat major, D.960
Barry Douglas (piano)
Connecting with the Festival's ongoing environmental themes, Janáček's nostalgic On an Overgrown Path focuses on the countryside of the composers' homeland and represents the passage of time, the death of his two children and his artistic isolation. The other two works are on a grander scale: Brahms's early Sonata follows a large-scale five movement structure and breathes new life into a form that was so important to his idol, Beethoven. Schubert's Sonata in B flat, his last before his death, explores immensity of a different kind - vast and lyrical, this work traverses a range of moods from desolation to hope and ends with whimsical optimism.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b030mq7v)
Free Thinking in Summer 2013
Philosophy Night
BBC Radio 3's annual Free Thinking festival of ideas continues its summer of activity as it takes up residency at leading summer events across the country.
Rana Mitter chairs a Free Thinking debate from the annual 12-hour My Night With Philosophers festival at the Institut Français on the role of philosophy in public life, and asks what can the tools of philosophy offer the European political mindscape in the current climate?
The guests includes Director of the Forum for European Philosophy Simon Glendinning and Vernon Bogdanor professor of government at Kings College London
The edition is chaired by Night Waves presenter Rana Mitter and was recorded earlier this month at the My Night with Philosophers marathon at the Institut Français as part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking in the Summer
Free Thinking is visiting four festivals throughout the summer including HowTheLightGetsIn at Hay, the Institut Français Philosophy Night in London, York Festival of Ideas and the Chalke Valley History Festival in Wiltshire. These events will be broadcast throughout June and July and lead the way towards Free Thinking's annual weekend of debate at the Sage, Gateshead in October 2013.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b01bmm7j)
Happily Ever After
Trish Cooke
In this series of five essays, contemporary children's authors and editors each look at a fictional family from children's literature. They use it as a focal point to explore the changing portrayal of the family in children's books, and consider both what it tells us about the society it reflects, and how relevant it is to determining a young generation's attitudes to the future.
In the third programme of the series, children's author Trish Cooke examines the relevance of "self identification" in the books she read as a child and children's books today. With Dominican parents and nine siblings from both the West Indies and the UK, British born Trish asks how the Ladybird reading series Peter and Jane - about white, middle class families - impacted on how she saw herself as a black child growing up on a Bradford council estate in the 1960s. Trish compares the families in her first reading books with the families in her own books and asks how important is it for a child to see their culture reflected in the books they read.
First broadcast in February 2012.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b02zmgx4)
Wednesday - Fiona Talkington
Fiona Talkington presents a late night playlist, including Pat Metheny's (pictured) As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls and Arturs Maskats's Prayer to the Night. James Findlay sings a version of Barbara Allen, and the duo of Daniel Formo and Nils Henrik Asheim play Hammond and church organs.
THURSDAY 27 JUNE 2013
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b02yk0ck)
In a tribute to Sir Colin Davis, who died in April this year, Jonathan Swain introduces Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, recorded at Sir Colin's last visit to the BBC Proms in 2011.
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Missa solemnis (Mass in D major), Op.123
Helena Juntunen (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Paul Groves (tenor), Matthew Rose (bass), London Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
1:59 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No.31 (Op.110) in A flat major
2:22 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Flute Sonata in G major (Wq.133/H.564), 'Hamburger Sonata'
Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
2:31 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
String Quintet No.2 in G major (Op.111)
Bartók Quartet with László Barsony (viola)
2:56 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Concerto for 2 harpsichords in F major (Wq.46/H.410)
Alan Curtis & Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichords), Collegium Aureum
3:20 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Bassoon concerto in F major (Op.75)
Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
3:38 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Ballade No.1 in G minor (Op.23)
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
3:47 AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945) arr. Arthur Willner
Romanian folk dances from Sz.56: Dance with a sash; Transylvanian stamping dance; Horn dance; Romanian polka; Quick dance
I Cameristi Italiani
3:55 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Songs from Myrten (Op.25)
Olle Persson (baritone), Stefan Bojsten (piano)
4:07 AM
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von (1644-1704)
Sonata in C minor for violin and bass continuo - from Sonatæ, Violino solo, Salzburg 1681
Salzburger Hofmusik, Wolfgang Brunner (director)
4:19 AM
Schreker, Franz (1878-1934)
Fantastic Overture (Op.15)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
4:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Overture to Die Zauberflöte (K.620)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
4:38 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959)
Song of the Black Swan (orig. for cello and piano)
Henry-David Varema (cello), Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
4:41 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Légende No.1: St. François d'Assise prêchant aux oiseaux (S.175)
Bernhard Stavenhagen (1862-1914) (piano)
4:50 AM
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916)
La Maja y el Ruiseñor - from Goyescas
Marilyn Richardson (soprano), Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kamirski (conductor)
4:57 AM
Doppler, Franz (1821-1883)
L'oiseau des bois (Op.21) - idyll for flute and 4 horns
János Balint (flute), Jeno Kevehazi, Peter Fuzes, Sandor Endrodi, Tibor Maruzsa (horns)
5:03 AM
Strauss, Josef (1827-1880)
Dorfschwalben aus Österreich - waltz (Op.164)
Arthur Schnabel (1882-1951) (piano)
5:11 AM
Rautavaara, Einojuhani (b. 1928)
Cantus Arcticus - 'a concerto for birds and orchestra' (Op.61) (1972)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
5:29 AM
Kyurkchiiski, Krassimir (b.1936) [traditional folk lyrics]
A Little Bird is Singing
Sofia Chamber Choir, Vassil Arnaudov (conductor)
5:33 AM
Koutev, Philip (1903-1982) [traditional folk lyrics]
Dragana and the Nightingale
Sofia Chamber Choir, Vassil Arnaudov (conductor)
5:36 AM
Fitelberg, Grzegorz (1879-1953)
Piesn o sokele (The Song of the Falcon) - symphonic Poem (Op.18)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stanislaw Wislocki (conductor)
5:49 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Quartet for strings in D major (Op.64 No.5) 'Lark'
Tilev String Quartet
6:08 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Swan Lake (ballet suite)
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b02yjm6v)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating British Music and continuing our Musical Map of Britain.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b02yjmml)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: York Bowen Piano Works, performed by Joop Celis.
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, Mikhail Pletnev.
10.30am
This week, Rob's guest is the Irish award-winning writer Colm Toibin: essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet. His work as a journalist and writer includes 'Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border' (1987) and 'The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe' (1994). His novels include: 'The Blackwater Lightship' (1999, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a film starring Angela Lansbury), 'The Master' (2004, winner of the Dublin IMPAC Prize; the Prix du Meilleur Livre; the LA Times Novel of the Year; and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and 'Brooklyn' (2009, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year). His short story collections are 'Mothers and Sons' (2006, winner of the Edge Hill Prize) and 'The Empty Family (2010). His play 'Beauty in a Broken Place' was performed at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin in 2004. His other books include: 'The Modern Library: the 200 Best Novels Since 1950' (with Carmen Callil) and 'All a Novelist Needs: Essays on Henry James' (2010). He has edited 'The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction'. He is a regular contributor to the Dublin Review, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.
11am
20 Great British Works
Howells: Hymnus Paradisi
Joan Rodgers (soprano)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Alan Opie (baritone)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b02yjmxl)
George Lloyd (1913-1998)
Return to Music
Celebrating British Music: Donald Macleod charts Lloyd's return to full-time composition after decades farming carnations and mushrooms in Dorset.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b02yjnm0)
Concerts from the Hay Festival 2013
Episode 3
In a recital from St Mary's Church at Hay-on-Wye, the Lendvai Trio perform Beethoven's String Trio Op.9 No.1, which was dedicated to one of the composer's earliest patrons and intended to challenge the listener with its symphonic approach. Also performed is one of Taneyev's mature works, his String Trio Op.31. It originally included an instrument which never became popular, the tenor viola, and was later replaced by the cello.
Nadia Wijzenbeek, violin
Ylvali Zilliacus, viola
Marie Macleod, cello
Beethoven: String Trio Op.9 No.1
Taneyev: String Trio in E flat Op.31.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b02yjp51)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Handel - Poro, Re dell'Indie (Acts 1 and 2)
This week's Thursday Opera Matinee is Handel's Poro, Rè dell'Indie - Poro, King of the Indians. Louise Fryer presents the first two acts today, and you can hear the final act at
2pm tomorrow.
Written for the Royal Academy of Music and given its first performance in London in 1731, the opera is set around the time of the Indian King Poro's defeat on the banks of the Hydaspes (now known as the Jhelum) by Alexander the Great in 327BC.
This performance was recorded last year in Basel with Franco Fagioli in the title role, Veronica Cangemi as his wife Cleofide, James Gilchrist as Alexander the Great and conductor Enrico Onofri.
Plus we continue Afternoon on 3's season of British symphonies with John Veale's Third Symphony, completed in 2003 and recorded shortly before Veale's death in 2006 by the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Barry Wordsworth.
Handel: Poro, Rè dell'Indie, HWV 28 - Acts I & II
Poro, Indian King ..... Franco Fagioli (countertenor)
Erissena, Poro's sister ..... Sonia Prina (contralto)
Gandarte, Erissena's lover ..... Kristina Hammarström (contralto)
Cleofide, Poro's wife ..... Veronica Cangemi (soprano)
Alessandro, King of Macedonia ..... James Gilchrist (tenor)
Timagene, Alexander's general ..... David Wilson-Johnson (bass)
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Enrico Onofri (conductor)
3.55pm
John Veale: Symphony no. 3
BBC Concert Orchestra,
Barry Wordsworth (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b02yjsyw)
Thomas Søndergård, Katherine Bryan, Nuba Nour and Shubbak Festival, Walton's Facade
Sean Rafferty presents, with guests including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' Chief Conductor Thomas Søndergård ahead of their performance of Mahler's Fifth Symphony at St David's Hall, Cardiff.
News headlines at
5:00 and
6:00pm
Email: in.tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter: @BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b02yjmxl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b02yk0yk)
Live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Beethoven: Symphony No 8
Live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Presented by Adam Tomlinson
Andris Nelsons and the CBSO reach the climax of their Beethoven Symphony cycle with the 8th and 9th Symphonies .
Lucy Crowe, soprano
Mihoko Fujimura, mezzo-soprano
Ben Johnson, tenor
Iain Paterson, bass
CBSO Chorus
CBSO
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
Tonight Andris Nelsons, the CBSO and its Chorus arrive at Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: the summit of any Beethoven cycle. But there's a world of experience to live through before the transcendent Ode To Joy which ends the work, and Beethoven's explosive little Eighth Symphony launches the concert.
THU 20:00 Discovering Music (b02yk14r)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Stephen Johnson explores themes of triumph and doubt in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, reflecting the turbulent times in which he lived.
THU 20:20 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b02yk14t)
Live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Beethoven: Symphony No 9
Live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Presented by Adam Tomlinson
Andris Nelsons and the CBSO reach the climax of their Beethoven Symphony cycle with the 8th and 9th Symphonies .
Lucy Crowe, soprano
Mihoko Fujimura, mezzo-soprano
Ben Johnson, tenor
Iain Paterson, bass
CBSO Chorus
CBSO
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Choral)
Tonight Andris Nelsons, the CBSO and its Chorus arrive at Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: the summit of any Beethoven cycle. But there's a world of experience to live through before the transcendent Ode To Joy which ends the work, and Beethoven's explosive little Eighth Symphony launches the concert.
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b02yjsyy)
Claire Messud, Progress, Phil Spector, Joshua Oppenheimer
With Anne McElvoy, including an interview with the best-selling american novelist Claire Messud about her latest book The Woman Upstairs featuring a narrator consumed with anger.
The idea of progress, that humanity will enjoy a steady march of improved knowledge and conditions, has become a dominant way of thinking about the future. But despite our general acceptance of the concept, it is a relatively recent development in how we think about human history. David Runciman, Professor of Politics at Cambridge University, Michela Massimi, Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science at Edinburgh University and Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA join Anne to examine the genesis of the idea and the extent to which it remains persuasive, despite the setback of the 20th Century.
And Adam Mars Jones reviews a new biopic written and directed by David Mamet in which Al Pacino plays the music producer Phil Spector.
Joshua Oppenheimer reflects on his gripping but chilling documentary The Act Of Killing, which turns the spotlight on an Indonesian genocide that the world forgot. It's retold through the eyes of the killers themselves - who brag about their murderous exploits and even re-enact them.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01bmnlq)
Happily Ever After
Julia Eccleshare
In this series of five essays, contemporary children's authors and editors each look at a fictional family from children's literature. They use it as a focal point to explore the changing portrayal of the family in children's books, and consider both what it tells us about the society it reflects, and how relevant it is to determining a young generation's attitudes to the future.
In the fourth programme of the series, writer, broadcaster and lecturer Julia Eccleshare looks at Jacqueline Wilson's The Illustrated Mum.
Although Wilson was appointed Children's Laureate in 2005 in recognition of her work, for the first twenty years of her career her books were treated with caution by many parents who dismissed them as social realism and unsuitable for children. Julia explores the possibility that, instead of breaking the rules of "happily ever after", Jacqueline Wilson is actually telling thoroughly modern fairy stories which reflect the social/economic upheavals of today, in the same way that our original fairy stories reflected the problems of their times.
Julia goes on to examine our continuing need for such fairy tales, which help to teach children not to be frightened by the world.
First broadcast in February 2012.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b02yk4z1)
Thursday - Fiona Talkington
An eclectic musical mix with Fiona Talkington, including Ligeti's Lux Aeterna, folk singer Lucy Ward singing the English ballad The Cruel Mother and the Norwegian quartet Muringa.
FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2013
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b02yk0dd)
Jonathan Swain presents a piano recital from the 66th International Chopin Festival in Poland: Sara Daneshpour plays Haydn, Schumann, Prokofiev, Scarlatti, Franck and Rachmaninov.
12:31 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph [1732-1809]
Sonata for piano (H.
16.23) in F major
Sara Daneshpour (piano)
12:43 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Abegg variations for piano (Op.1)
Sara Daneshpour (piano)
12:52 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey [1891-1953]
Sonata for piano no. 7 (Op.83) in B flat major
Sara Daneshpour (piano)
1:13 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico [1685-1757]
Sonata (Kk.27) in B minor; Sonata (Kk.212) in A major
Sara Daneshpour (piano)
1:21 AM
Franck, Cesar [1822-1890]
Prelude, choral et fugue for piano (M.21)
Sara Daneshpour (piano)
1:40 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey [1873-1943]
Etudes-tableaux for piano (Op.39)
Sara Daneshpour (piano)
1:54 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
24 Preludes for piano (Op.28) no. 6 in B minor
Sara Daneshpour (piano)
1:56 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich [1840-1893]
The Seasons for piano (Op.37b); December (Christmas)
Sara Daneshpour (piano)
2:02 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Symphony No.5 in D major 'Reformation' (Op.107)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)
2:31 AM
Svendsen, Johan (1840 -1911)
Symphony No. 2 in B flat major (Op.15)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki (conductor)
3:05 AM
Piston, Walter (1894-1976)
Prelude and Allegro (1943)
David Schrader (organ), Grant Park Orchestra, Carlos Kalmar (conductor)
3:16 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Variations on a theme by Haydn (Op.56a)
Berlin Philharmonic, Simon Rattle (conductor)
3:36 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Variations on " 's Deandl is harb auf mi" for string trio
Leopold String Trio
3:43 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Polonaise in A flat major (Op. 53) "Polonaise héroïque"
Jacek Kortus (piano)
3:50 AM
Maldere, Pieter van (1729-1768)
Sinfonia in G minor (Op.4 No.1)
The Academy of Ancient Music, Filip Bral (conductor)
4:08 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Süßer Blumen Ambraflocken (HWV.204) - No.3 from Deutsche Arien (orig for soprano, violin & bc, arranged for oboe, violin and organ)
Hélène Plouffe (violin), Louise Pellerin (oboe), Dom André Laberge (organ - 1999 Karl Wilhelm at the abbey church Saint-Benoît-du-Lac)
4:14 AM
Jurjans, Andrejs (1856-1922)
Barcarola
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Imants Resnis (conductor)
4:18 AM
Crusell, Bernhard Henrik (1775-1838)
Introduction et Air Suèdois (Op.12) for clarinet and Orchestra
Anne-Marja Korimaa (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
4:31 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Overture - The Ruler of the Spirits (Op.27)
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
4:37 AM
Wieniawski, Henryk (1835-1880)
Polonaise No.1 in D major (Op.4)
Reka Szilvay (violin), Naoko Ichihashi (piano)
4:43 AM
Norman, Ludwig (1831-1885), arranged by Niklas Willen
Andante Sostenuto
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Niklas Willén (conductor)
4:53 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in A minor (K.310) (Allegro maestoso; Andante cantabile; Presto)
Gunilla Süssmann (piano) (http://www.gunillasussmann.no/)
5:11 AM
Allegri, Lorenzo (1567-1648)
Primo Ballo della notte d'amore & Sinfonica (Spirito del ciel) - from Il primo libro delle musiche (Venice 1618)
Tragicomedia - Suzie Le Blanc, Barbara Borden & Dorothee Mields (sops), Christian Hilz (baritone), Milos Valent, Peter Spissky & Dagmar Valentova (violins), Hille Perle (viola da gamba), Alexander Weimann (harpsichord), Stephen Stubbs (chitaronne/director)
5:21 AM
Kyurkchiyski, Krassimir (b.1936)
Prayer, from Two works after paintings of Vladimir Dimitrov - the Master
Sinfonieta Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio, Kamen Goleminov (conductor)
5:27 AM
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909)
Violin Concerto in A major (Op.8)
Kaja Danczowska (violin), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit (conductor)
5:57 AM
Wassenaer, Unico Wilhelm van (1692-1766)
Concerto No.1 in G major (from 'Sei Concerti Armonici')
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor)
6:08 AM
Lipinski, Karol Józef (1790-1861)
Overture in D major (1814)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Cracow, Szymon Kawalla (conductor)
6:17 AM
Demersseman, Jules August (1833-1866)
Italian Concerto in F major (Op.82 No.6)
Kristina Vaculova (flute) (b.1984 Czech Rep), Inna Aslamasova (piano).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b02yjml4)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating British Music and continuing our Musical Map of Britain.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b02yjmmn)
Friday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: York Bowen Piano Works, performed by Joop Celis.
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, Mikhail Pletnev.
10.30am
This week, Rob's guest is the Irish award-winning writer Colm Toibin: essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet. His work as a journalist and writer includes 'Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border' (1987) and 'The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe' (1994). His novels include: 'The Blackwater Lightship' (1999, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a film starring Angela Lansbury), 'The Master' (2004, winner of the Dublin IMPAC Prize; the Prix du Meilleur Livre; the LA Times Novel of the Year; and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and 'Brooklyn' (2009, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year). His short story collections are 'Mothers and Sons' (2006, winner of the Edge Hill Prize) and 'The Empty Family (2010). His play 'Beauty in a Broken Place' was performed at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin in 2004. His other books include: 'The Modern Library: the 200 Best Novels Since 1950' (with Carmen Callil) and 'All a Novelist Needs: Essays on Henry James' (2010). He has edited 'The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction'. He is a regular contributor to the Dublin Review, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.
11am
20 Great British Works
Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra
Moscow Chamber Orchestra & Bath Festival Orchestra
Rudolf Barshai (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b02yjmyp)
George Lloyd (1913-1998)
Indian Summer
Celebrating British Music: Donald Macleod looks at Lloyd's remarkably successful final years, when audiences lapped up his tuneful symphonic works.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b02yjnml)
Concerts from the Hay Festival 2013
Episode 4
In a recital from St Mary's Church at Hay-on-Wye, piano duo Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow perform Mozart's Sonata in C KV521; once described by Mozart himself as 'rather difficult'. Also performed is Purgold's arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's Symphony No.2. Antar was an irresistible warrior and poet from Arabian literature, who at Balakirev's and Mussorgsky's suggestion, Rimsky-Korsakov brings to life in this four movement symphonic suite.
Anthony Goldstone, piano
Caroline Clemmow, piano
Mozart Sonata in C KV521 for piano duet
Rimsky-Korsakov arr.Purgold Antar Symphony No.2 Op.9.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b02yjp5c)
British Symphonies
Episode 4
Louise Fryer presents the final act of Handel's Poro, recorded last year in Basel with Franco Fagioli as the eponymous Indian king, Veronica Cangemi as his wife Cleofide, James Gilchrist as Alexander the Great and conductor Enrico Onofri. The first two acts were broadcast in yesterday's programme. At the end of Act II Poro's wife Cleofide was incorrectly told of her husband's death. Act III begins as Poro meets with his sister Eissena and swears revenge on Alexander.
Then you can hear the second part of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's recent concert in Rotterdam (the first half was in Wednesday's programme): two pieces about the transition from Winter to Spring by two British composers, Benjamin Britten and his favourite teacher Frank Bridge.
Bridge's orchestral rhapsody Enter Spring is full of bird-song and the sounds of the coming spring on the blustery Sussex Downs. Britten's Spring Symphony is, according to the composer, 'a symphony not only dealing with the Spring itself but with the progress of Winter to Spring and the reawakening of the earth and life which that means'.
Oliver Knussen met and was encouraged by Britten when he was young. Today we hear his Choral, written in the early '70s and completed when he was 20. The piece is written for a wind band split into various discrete choirs which play slow funeral processions counter to each other before accelerating and finally converging. This performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra was conducted by the composer as part of his Total Immersion Barbican event last November.
Oliver Knussen has conducted and championed works by the composer who rounds off Afternoon on 3's focus on British Symphonies, Julian Anderson. His Symphony was written in 2003 when he was Composer-in-Association to the CBSO. It was influenced, in part, by Finnish artist Axel Gallen's Morning by a Lake, which is set in spring and depicts a lake, half-covered in ice, gradually melting.
Handel: Poro, Rè dell'Indie, HWV 28 - Act III
Poro, Indian King ..... Franco Fagioli (countertenor)
Erissena, Poro's sister ..... Sonia Prina (contralto)
Gandarte, Erissena's lover ..... Kristina Hammarström (contralto)
Cleofide, Poro's wife ..... Veronica Cangemi (soprano)
Alessandro, King of Macedonia ..... James Gilchrist (tenor)
Timagene, Alexander's general ..... David Wilson-Johnson (bass)
Basel Chamber Orchestra,
Enrico Onofri (conductor).
2.50pm
Bridge: Enter Spring
3.10pm
Britten: Spring Symphony, Op. 44
Eleanor Dennis (soprano),
Kelley O'Connor (mezzo-soprano),
Andrew Staples (tenor),
Laurens Collegium Rotterdam,
Laurens Cantoij Rotterdam,
Kinderkoor Musicanti,
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Ilan Volkov (conductor).
3.55pm
Oliver Knussen: Choral, Op. 8
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Oliver Knussen (conductor).
4.05pm
Julian Anderson: Symphony
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Edward Gardner (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b02yjsz0)
Friday - Sean Rafferty
Sean Rafferty presents from Salford, with live music and guests from Manchester International Festival.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b02yjmyp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b02yk56c)
Live from St David's Hall, Cardiff
Huw Watkins
Live from St. David's Hall in Cardiff
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Thomas Sondergard closes his first season as Principal Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Mahler's life-affirming 5th Symphony. Rising international superstar Alina Ibragimova is ths soloist and dedicatee of Welsh composer Huw Watkins's violin concerto, premiered at the 2010 BBC Proms.
Huw Watkins: Violin Concerto
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (Principal Conductor)
Mahler's Fifth Symphony is an all-embracing darkness to light experience, from its sombre opening through struggle, strife, stillness and hectic exhilaration to its tremendous apotheosis. At its still centre is the Adagietto featured in the 1971 Luchino Visconti film 'Death in Venice', starring Dirk Bogarde. Huw Watkins has been described as "the natural heir to the English traditions of Howells, Rubbra, Bax and even Britten" (The Arts Desk). His Violin Concerto was composed for Alina Ibragimova, who is once again the soloist in the concerto's second performance. Since being a Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Alina has gone from strength to strength, a poised, aristocratic performer of breathtaking ability. This concert marks the conclusion of Principal Conductor Thomas Sondergard's first season with the orchestra in Cardiff, through which he "...has proved himself to be a re-energising force" (The Guardian).
FRI 20:00 Discovering Music (b02yk56g)
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Stephen Johnson looks at Mahler's songs and discusses how they shine a light on the character of his Symphony No. 5.
FRI 20:20 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b02yk56m)
Live from St David's Hall, Cardiff
Mahler
Live from St. David's Hall in Cardiff
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Thomas Sondergard closes his first season as Principal Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Mahler's life-affirming 5th Symphony. Rising international superstar Alina Ibragimova is ths soloist and dedicatee of Welsh composer Huw Watkins's violin concerto, premiered at the 2010 BBC Proms.
Mahler: Symphony no.5
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (Principal Conductor)
Mahler's Fifth Symphony is an all-embracing darkness to light experience, from its sombre opening through struggle, strife, stillness and hectic exhilaration to its tremendous apotheosis. At its still centre is the Adagietto featured in the 1971 Luchino Visconti film 'Death in Venice', starring Dirk Bogarde. Huw Watkins has been described as "the natural heir to the English traditions of Howells, Rubbra, Bax and even Britten" (The Arts Desk). His Violin Concerto was composed for Alina Ibragimova, who is once again the soloist in the concerto's second performance. Since being a Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Alina has gone from strength to strength, a poised, aristocratic performer of breathtaking ability. This concert marks the conclusion of Principal Conductor Thomas Sondergard's first season with the orchestra in Cardiff, through which he "...has proved himself to be a re-energising force" (The Guardian).
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b02yjsz2)
David Sedaris, Peter Gregson and Daniel Jones with The Listening Machine, Boo Hewerdine
Radio 3's 'Cabaret of the Word' presented by Ian McMillan. This week Ian's guests are David Sedaris, Peter Gregson and Daniel Jones with The Listening Machine, and Boo Hewerdine.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b01bmp6r)
Happily Ever After
Michael Rosen
In this series of five essays, contemporary children's authors and editors each look at a fictional family from children's literature.
They use it as a focal point to explore the changing portrayal of the family in children's books, and consider both what it tells us about the society it reflects, and how relevant it is to determining a young generation's attitudes to the future.
In the fifth programme of the series, writer and broadcaster Michael Rosen explores the part that children's literature plays in the ongoing conversation we have about parenting and childcare. Looking at The History of the Fairchild Family by Mrs Sherwood, Michael considers that this story, popular in the early nineteenth century, was renowned at the time for its realistic portrayal of childhood but is now viewed as an example of an out-dated didactic style of parenting. He goes on to explore how the portrayal of the fictional parent has so altered that children's books are increasingly full of moments where the balance of power has shifted in the child's favour. A fact which, he believes, illustrates how differently modern society now sees the parental role.
First broadcast in February 2012.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b02yk56s)
Session with Goran Bregovic
Lopa Kothari with sounds from around the world and a session by Goran Bregovic. Born in Sarajevo, Bregovic is one of the Balkan's greatest exponents of modern gypsy music and on tonight's show he and members of his band perform an exclusive set of songs featuring on his latest album "Champagne for Gypsies".
Goran Bregovic; says, "I come from a culture that has been bypassed by opera and symphonic music. In times when Monteverdi wrote his ORFEO we were still labouring fields with oxen-driven ploughs, breeding cattle and fishing. And traditionally music was played to accompany drinking. My album "Alkohol" is a modest attempt to bridge the gap by making music that can be enjoyed and danced to with or without ALKOHOL."
From 1974 until 1989, Bregovic; played lead guitar and was the main creative force behind Bijelo Dugme (White Button). For years they stood as one of the most popular bands in SFR Yugoslavia.
These days Bregovic; performs with a large ensemble of musicians: a brass band, bagpipes, a string ensemble, a tuxedo-clad all-male choir from Belgrade, and traditional Bulgarian and Roma singers make up his 40-piece band and orchestra. Since 1998, Bregovic; has been performing all over the world with his Weddings and Funerals Orchestra which consists of 10 people in the small version or 37 in the large.
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 (b02yjm73)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b02yjp4g)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b02yjp4s)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b02yjp51)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b02yjp5c)
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World
20:00 SAT (b02yjj2p)
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World
19:30 SUN (b02yjkby)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b02yj9gs)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b02yjjwj)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b02yjmhw)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b02yjmjb)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b02yjmkh)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b02yjm6v)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b02yjml4)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b02yj9gv)
Choir and Organ
17:00 SUN (b02yjkbq)
Choral Evensong
16:00 SUN (b02x9b1z)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b02yjzn3)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b02yjm6z)
Composer of the Week
18:30 MON (b02yjm6z)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b02yjmxg)
Composer of the Week
19:00 TUE (b02yjmxg)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b02yjmxj)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b02yjmxj)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b02yjmxl)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b02yjmxl)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b02yjmyp)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b02yjmyp)
Discovering Music
20:00 THU (b02yk14r)
Discovering Music
20:00 FRI (b02yk56g)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b02yjm6x)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b02yjmm9)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b02yjmmh)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b02yjmml)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b02yjmmn)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (b030mq7v)
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
00:00 SUN (b02yjj8d)
Hear and Now
22:30 SAT (b02yjj2r)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b02yjm75)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b02yjstb)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b02yjstg)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b02yjsyw)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b02yjsz0)
Jazz Line-Up
23:00 SUN (b02yjlsh)
Jazz Record Requests
17:00 SAT (b02yjj2k)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b02yjm79)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b02yjzfy)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b02zmgx4)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b02yk4z1)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b02yj9gx)
Night Waves
22:00 MON (b02yjm77)
Night Waves
22:00 TUE (b02yjstd)
Night Waves
22:00 THU (b02yjsyy)
Opera on 3
18:00 SAT (b02yjj2m)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b02yjjwn)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 MON (b02ywzgh)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:00 TUE (b02yjzfw)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b02yjzn5)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:40 WED (b02yjzpp)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b02yk0yk)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:20 THU (b02yk14t)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 FRI (b02yk56c)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:20 FRI (b02yk56m)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
14:00 SAT (b02x94ct)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b02yjm71)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b02yjnlh)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b02yjnlt)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b02yjnm0)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b02yjnml)
Saturday Classics
15:00 SAT (b02yjj2h)
Sunday Concert
14:00 SUN (b02yjjws)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b02yjjwl)
The Early Music Show
13:00 SAT (b02yj9gz)
The Early Music Show
13:00 SUN (b02yjjwq)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b01bmkql)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b01bmlmm)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b01bmm7j)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b01bmnlq)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b01bmp6r)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (b02yjsz2)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b02x9cmz)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b02yjjwg)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b02yjm6s)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b02yjmj8)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b02yjmkb)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b02yk0ck)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b02yk0dd)
Twenty Minutes
20:20 WED (b01nwntw)
Words and Music
18:30 SUN (b02yjkbv)
World Routes
22:00 SUN (b02yjlsf)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b02yk56s)