Rossini's Donna del Lago with Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Florez from the Royal Opera House, London
Stephen Powell (tenor soloist in No.1), Lorraine Reinhardt (soprano soloist in No.3), Linda Lee Thomas (piano), Gwen Thompson (violin), Eugene Osadchy (cello), Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jon Washburn (conductor)
Kirchen-Sonate in B flat (K. 212), for 2 violins, double bass and organ
Ars Barocca - Ivona Nedeva (flute), Kalin Panayotov (oboe, oboe d'amore), Zefira Valova (violin), Miroslav Petkov (trumpet), Ivan Iliev (violin), Gergana Deliiska (violin), Valentin Toshev (viola), Vejen Rezashki (bassoon), Miroslav Stoyanov (cello), Tzvetelina Dimcheva (cembalo, organ)
Jacques van Oortmerssen playing the 1734 Christian Müller organ of the Oude Walenkerk, Amsterdam
Gershwin, George [1898-1937], arr. Lundin, Bengt-Åke [b.1963]
Annika Skoglund (soprano), New Stenhammar String Quartet , Staffan Sjöholm (double bass)
Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Russian Overtures and Orchestral Works ? Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev: NEWTON CLASSICS. We also have our daily brainteaser at
Rob's guest this week is the stage and screen actor Henry Goodman. A graduate of RADA, Henry has twice won the Olivier Award for his stage performances: in 1993 for Assassins, directed by Sam Mendes, and again in 2000 for The Merchant of Venice, directed by Trevor Nunn. His many stage appearances include, for the Royal National Theatre: Angels in America, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Guys and Dolls; for the Royal Shakespeare Company: Richard III (in the title role), Henry V and The Comedy of Errors; and Chicago at the Adelphi Theatre. In 2010 Henry played the role of Sir Humphrey Appleby in the stage version of Yes, Prime Minister at the Chichester Festival. His television work includes guest appearances in a host of series, including Spooks, Dalziel and Pascoe, and Foyle's War, and he has also appeared in films such as Taking Woodstock, The Damned United and Notting Hill.
Donald Macleod in conversation with the pianist Míceál O'Rourke, explores two piano giants, the towering Romantic Fryderyk Chopin, and the Father of the Nocturne John Field.
By around 1830, Chopin was now living in Vienna, and it was during this period that he composed some of his early nocturnes, including his Nocturne in E flat major, opus 9 no.2. Pianist Míceál O'Rourke explores in conversation with Donald Macleod, how this early nocturne by Chopin bears a direct relationship with the nocturnes of John Field.
This relationship extended past the nocturnes to the orchestration of larger works. Again demonstrating from the piano, Míceál O'Rourke explores the relationship between Field's Piano Concerto no.2, and the Piano Concerto no. 2 by Chopin.
Chopin found living in Vienna quite difficult, and decided to up sticks and move to Paris. He soon developed quite a reputation for himself, and was in demand as a teacher for aristocratic pupils. In fact, this enterprise made him so much money that he was able to afford a new flat and even a servant. It was around this early period in Paris that Chopin fell in love with one of his pupils, Maria Wodzinska, but the relationship came to nothing. Chopin did compose a number of romantic songs during this period, including My Darling, and The Ring.
The course of love for both Chopin and Field tended to be a rather bumpy ride. For John Field, he was now married to one of his talented pupils, Percherette. However, men found her coquettish nature very attractive, and Field himself was very flirtatious and fickle. 1815 saw the birth of Field's illegitimate son, Leon, and also the first sketches of Field's challenging Fifth Piano Concerto.
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from last year's Ryedale Festival in North Yorkshire, with performances from the Szymanowski Quartet, and cellist Steven Isserlis with pianist Sam Haywood.
Sol Gabetta was the soloist on the BBC Philharmonic's European tour in 2012 and Innsbruck she performed Schumann's Cello Concerto.
Variations on an original theme ('Enigma') for orchestra (Op. 36)
Suzy Klein welcomes period-instrument violinist Maya Homberger with renowned double bassist and composer Barry Guy to the In Tune studio, performing duets live ahead of a recital on their rare London visit.
Also today, Greek pianist George-Emmanuel Lazaridis plays Schubert live in the studio ahead of a recital at St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford.
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Peter Donohoe gives a recital in tribute to the pianist John Ogdon, who died in 1989. He performs works which were among those championed by the late British pianist, marking the 25th anniversary of his death.
: Interval - music from John Ogdon himself, including Liszt's Variations symphoniques, with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli.
No. 9 in E major
No. 7 in A major
No. 21 in Bb major
No. 12 in G# minor
Following the concert, music from last weekend's French Institute festival 'It's all about piano', featuring top students from the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire.
Geoff Mulgan, champion of social innovation and design and Lionel Bently, barrister and copyright expert on intellectual property, and novelist and game inventor, Naomi Alderman, join Philip Dodd to discuss the ever-changing meaning of Originality. In 1976 Raymond Williams published a list of Keywords and gave his definition of Originality but its social meaning is very different to its meaning in law - why - and is the latter doing harm to the former?
Philip joins Nicholas Penny at the National Gallery to talk about the meaning of greatness in art in front of the new exhibition - Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice.
As Simon Stephens' play Birdland,about a monstrous rock and roller, opens at London's Royal Court, the playwright talks inspirations, death and originality with Philip Dodd.
The novelist and academic Ian Sansom explores the literary, philosophical and cultural history of the table.
From dining to designing, drinking and disagreeing; the table is central to our lives; "the departure point and launching pad for a thousand hare-brained schemes and ideas, a drawing board, a battlefield, and also the philosopher's favourite tool". Ian has raised a family round his kitchen table, but his true table as a writer is a solitary one. Bertrand Russell used the table as a symbol to explore the uncertain nature of observed reality; Wordsworth urged readers to rise up from their wooden desk, while Karl Marx used tables to explore the notion of commodities in Das Kapital, but is the table Ian built for O-level woodwork the truest thing he has ever made?'.
Nick Luscombe presents brand new tracks from Mo Kolours and Chet Faker, back in time with the recently rediscovered William Onyeabor plus music created exclusively for the Royal Academy of Art?s Sensing Spaces exhibition from Joanne Sy.
THURSDAY 10 APRIL 2014
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b04005l1)
12:31 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto in F (Rv.574) for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon & cello
Zefira Valova (violin), Anna Starr & Markus Müller (oboes), Anneke Scott & Joseph Walters (horns), Jane Gower (bassoon), Rebecca Rosen (cello) Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
12:44 AM
Pisendel, Johann Georg [1687-1755]
Sonata in C minor, for strings, 2 oboes and bassoon
Anna Starr & Markus Müller (oboes), Jane Gower (bassoon), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
12:49 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto in F (Rv.571) for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon & cello
Zefira Valova (violin), Anna Starr & Markus Müller (oboes), Anneke Scott & Joseph Walters (horns), Jane Gower (bassoon), Rebecca Rosen (cello) Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
12:59 AM
Hasse, Johann Adolf (1699-1783)
Son qual misera Colomba (from 'Cleofide')
Emma Kirkby (soprano ? Cleofide), Capella Coloniensis, William Christie (conductor)
1:05 AM
Zelenka, Jan Dismas (1679-1745)
Magnificat in C, ZWV.107
Barbora Sojková (soprano), Musica Florea, Marek Stryncl (director)
1:16 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto in F (Rv.568) for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon & cello
Zefira Valova (violin), Anna Starr & Markus Müller (oboes), Anneke Scott & Joseph Walters (horns), Jane Gower (bassoon), Rebecca Rosen (cello) Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
1:30 AM
Quantz, Johann Joachim [1697-1773]
Concerto in G minor, for 2 flutes, 2 oboes & bassoon
Alexis Kossenko & Anne Freitag (flutes), Anna Starr & Markus Müller (oboes), Jane Gower (bassoon), Les Ambassadeurs
1:48 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto in F (Rv.569) for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon & cello
Zefira Valova (violin), Anna Starr & Markus Müller (oboes), Anneke Scott & Joseph Walters (horns), Jane Gower (bassoon), Rebecca Rosen (cello) Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
2:01 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Grand Motet 'Deus judicium tuum regi da' (Psalm 71) for 5 voices, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo
Veronika Winter (soprano), Andrea Stenzel (soprano), Patrick von Goethem (alto), Markus Schäfer (tenor), Ekkehard Abele (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)
2:22 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Sonata Polonaise in A minor for violin, viola and continuo TWV 42
La Stagione Frankfurt
2:31 AM
Halvorsen, Johan (1864-1935)
Symphony no.2 in D minor 'Fatum'
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Josep Caballé-Domenech (conductor)
3:05 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Rosamunde ? Overture (D.644)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Heinz Holliger (conductor)
3:15 AM
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837)
Piano Quintet in E flat major/minor (Op.87) (1825)
Tobias Ringborg (violin), Ingegard Kierkegaard (viola), John Ehde (cello), Håkan Ehrén (double bass), Stefan Lindgren (piano)
3:35 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von [1786-1826]
Aufforderung zum Tanz (Invitation to the Dance)
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)
3:44 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Gloria in Excelsis Deo (BWV.191)
Ann Monoyios (soprano); Colin Ainsworth (tenor); Tafelmusik Chamber Choir; Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra; Ivars Taurins (conductor)
3:59 AM
Bertali, Antonio (1605-1669)
Sonata Prima à 3 for two recorders, bass viol and bass continuo
Le Nouveau Concert: Frederic de Roos and Patrick Denecker (recorders), Sophie Watillon (bass viol), Guy Penson (harpsichord)
4:06 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Quartet for oboe and strings (K.370) in F major
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Psophos Quartet
4:20 AM
Bouwman, Nicolaas Arie (1854-1941)
Thalia-ouverture for wind orchestra
Dutch National Youth Wind Orchestra, Jan Cober (conductor)
4:31 AM
Wagner, Richard [1813-1883]
Prelude to Act 1 ? from 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek (conductor)
4:41 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Sonata for violin and piano (K.454) in B flat major
Veronika Eberle (violin), Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
5:03 AM
Boulogne, Joseph - Chevalier de Saint-Georges (c.1748-1799)
Symphony in G major (Op.11, No.1) (1779)
Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
5:18 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
To her beneath whose steadfast star ? for chorus
BBC Singers, Stephen Layton (conductor)
5:23 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Rapsodie espagnole
Piano Duo: Aglika Genova, Liuben Dimitrov
5:37 AM
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1788-1831)
Trio for clarinet, cello and piano
Amici Chamber Ensemble: Joaquín Valdepeñas (clarinet), David Hetherington (cello), Patricia Parr (piano)
5:58 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata quasi una fantasia for piano (Op.27 No.2) in C sharp minor, 'Moonlight' (Piano sonata no.14)
Håvard Gimse (piano)
6:12 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Elegie (Op.23) arr. for piano trio
Aronowitz Ensemble
6:19 AM
Stoyanov, Vesselin (1902-1969)
Rhapsody (1956)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b040061h)
Thursday - Ian Skelly
18th Century: Majesty, Music & Mischief. Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b040065x)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with Henry Goodman
with Rob Cowan and his guest, the stage and screen actor Henry Goodman.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Russian Overtures and Orchestral Works ? Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev: NEWTON CLASSICS. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artists of the Week: Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the stage and screen actor Henry Goodman. A graduate of RADA, Henry has twice won the Olivier Award for his stage performances: in 1993 for Assassins, directed by Sam Mendes, and again in 2000 for The Merchant of Venice, directed by Trevor Nunn. His many stage appearances include, for the Royal National Theatre: Angels in America, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Guys and Dolls; for the Royal Shakespeare Company: Richard III (in the title role), Henry V and The Comedy of Errors; and Chicago at the Adelphi Theatre. In 2010 Henry played the role of Sir Humphrey Appleby in the stage version of Yes, Prime Minister at the Chichester Festival. His television work includes guest appearances in a host of series, including Spooks, Dalziel and Pascoe, and Foyle's War, and he has also appeared in films such as Taking Woodstock, The Damned United and Notting Hill.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Poulenc
Stabat mater
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Capella Amsterdam
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Reuss (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01mslxk)
Field and Chopin (1782-1837 and 1810-1849)
Field and Chopin at the Height of Their Fame
Donald Macleod in conversation with the pianist Míceál O'Rourke, explores two piano giants, the towering Romantic Fryderyk Chopin, and the Father of the Nocturne John Field.
By around 1819, things were not looking good for John Field's marriage. Field and his wife were not well suited, and were also incredible flirts. It was around this time in St Petersburg that they performed a piano duet in a concert together, which could have been Field's Rondeau in G for four hands. In that same year, Madame Field was pregnant with the couple's first child, yet by the time their son Adrien was eighteen months, the marriage was over.
By 1822, Field was at the height of his fame, and many musicians flocked to see and hear him perform. The pianist and composer Hummel was in Moscow where Field now lived, and was determined to meet Field. Pianist Míceál O'Rourke in conversation with Donald Macleod, discusses how Field was viewed by his contemporaries during this period. This was a time when Field was also enjoying himself playing the viola in amateur string ensembles, and for one of these occasions, he may have composed his Quintet in A flat major.
Frederyk Chopin was also at the height of his career by 1836, and like the older composer John Field, he also had a very complicated relationship, which by the standards of the time, would have been seen as scandalous and socially problematic. Chopin and George Sand decided to get away from it all, and escaped to Majorca. This holiday was not what they expected, with appalling weather, and Chopin's health deteriorating. During this time, he was able to work on a number of pieces for piano, including his set of 24 preludes opus 28.
From 1839, now back in France, Chopin started to complete what would be his second piano sonata. This work confused many musicians at the time. Robert Schumann wrote that the four movements were like "four unruly children".
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03brx6q)
Ryedale Festival 2013
Episode 3
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from last year's Ryedale Festival in North Yorkshire, with performances from the Romanian pianist Alexandra Silocea, and cellist Steven Isserlis with pianist Sam Haywood.
Presented by Katie Derham.
Mozart: Piano Sonata No 10 in C, K330
Alexandra Silocea (piano)
Bridge: Cello Sonata in D minor
Steven Isserlis (cello), Sam Haywood (piano)
Debussy: Poissons d'or (Images, Book 2, No 3)
Debussy: Reflets dans l'eau (Images, Book 1, No 1)
Alexandra Silocea (piano).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b04007gr)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Mozart - La Clemenza di Tito
Opera matinee: Mozart's politically charged La Clemenza di Tito - completed in 1791, the last year of his life - is a tale of passion, intrigue and divided loyalties, set in Ancient Rome. Kurt Streit and Veronique Gens star in this production from La Monnaie in Brussels.
Tito, Roman Emperor ..... Kurt Streit (tenor),
Vitellia, daughter of the deposed Emperor Vitellio ..... Véronique Gens (soprano)
Sesto, a young patrician, friend of Tito, in love with Vitelia ..... Anna Bonitatibus (soprano),
Annio, a young patrician, friend of Sesto, in love with Servilia ..... Anna Grevelius (mezzo-soprano),
Servilia, sister of Sesto, in love with Annio ..... Simona Saturová (soprano),
Publio, Praetorian prefect, commander of the Praetorian Guard ..... Alex Esposito (bass),
Chorus and Orchestra of Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie, Brussels,
Ludovic Morlot (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b04007hp)
18th Century Season: Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn
Eighteenth Century Britain: Majesty, Music and Mischief,
To launch Radio 3's 18th century season, Suzy Klein is live at Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire to celebrate the 18th century way of doing things with guests Christian Curnyn and the Early Opera Company.
Kedleston is one of the National Trust's finest 18th Century homes. Built by Robert Adam in the 1760s, it was designed as a showcase for display and entertainment. It was the home of the Curzon family who set out to make a "temple of the arts" - not least a place in which they could pursue their love of music. In today's In Tune - broadcast to launch the BBC's "Eighteenth Century Britain: Majesty, Music and Mischief" season - Suzy Klein brings something of that period to life. Given before an invited audience, Suzy is joined by the acclaimed Early Opera Company and their director Christian Curnyn. Other guests include the folk singer Nancy Kerr with some music reflecting the subtle fusion of popular and art music styles from the time, and the baroque ensemble Musica Donum Dei; plus there's a chance to find out more about Kedleston itself - its sumptuous rooms and furnishings, neo-classical architecture, and flamboyant setting.
Also in the programme: the start of a series of features in which Sean Rafferty visits the Royal Collection to discover particular delights from their array of Georgian objects.
See also: BBC FOUR "The Music That Made Britain: Patriotism, Pleasure and Perfection"
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01mslxk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b04007jx)
London Handel players at Wigmore Hall
Eighteenth Century Britain: Majesty, Music and Mischief
Live from Wigmore Hall, London
London Handel players perform works by Handel and Leclair, as part of London Handel Festival 2014.
Handel: Overture and arias from Siroe and Tolomeo
Leclair: Deuxième recréation de musique Op. 8
Leclair: Violin Sonata in A Op. 2 no. 4
Handel: Trio Sonata in G minor Op. 5 no. 5, HWV400
Leclair: Flute Concerto in C Op. 7 no. 3
London Handel Players:
Rachel Brown (flute)
Adrian Butterfield (violin)
Oliver Webber (violin)
Peter Collyer (viola)
Katherine Sharman (cello)
Cecelia Bruggemeyer (double bass)
Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)
Following the concert, music from last weekend's French Institute festival 'It's all about piano', featuring top students from the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b04007l5)
Are We Living Through a New 18th Century?
If Mrs Thatcher thought she was living again through Victorian England, we are now living through the eighteenth century. This special edition of Free Thinking explores London as the centre of the world then and now, financial bubbles bursting then and now, and the lust for consumption then and now, whether of bodies or bodices.
Philip Dodd brings together the MP and author Kwasi Kwarteng, historians Helen Berry, Jerry White and AN Wilson and playwright April De Angelis for a discussion which is part of BBC Radio 3's eighteenth century season of programming .
Kwasi Kwarteng's books include Ghosts of Empire and War and Gold
AN Wilson is a newspaper columnist and the author of London A Short History and a series of histories of England including Our Times.
Helen Berry is Professor of British History at Newcastle University and the author of The Castrato and His Wife.
Jerry White has spent 15 years writing a trilogy of books about London including his most recent London In The Eighteenth Century. He is Visiting Professor of London History at Birkbeck, The University of London.
April De Angelis has written plays including Jumpy, Gastronauts, Catch and A Laughing Matter.
Produced by Harry Parker.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b0400lrb)
Furniture - A Personal History of Movable Objects
Old Mother Hubbard and the Cabinet of Curiosity: The Story of Storage
Novelist Ian Sansom delves into cupboards and cabinets to explore what they reveal about human nature. Le Corbusier didn't approve of the clutter cupboards encourage, wanting to free our lives of 'junk'; whereas artist Herbert Distel filled a cabinet with trinkets donated by Man Ray, Annette Messager, Andy Warhol, and John Cage - 'a roll-call of twentieth-century conceptualists, creatives, collagists and curators of the curious' in his Museum of Drawers. Rimbaud wrote about an old sideboard crammed with memories, and Duchamp fitted his life's work in a suitcase, but Ian wonders if the contents of our cupboards really do tell our life stories, complete with the all the hopes, dreams and broken promises suggested by unused pasta machines and unfinished jigsaws - or in the end does it all 'amount to nothing, just so much junk?'.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b040098n)
Thursday - Nick Luscombe
Nick Luscombe digs out a rare dub track from Sheriff Lindo And The Hammer, plus Drexciya?s alien groove and new music from Dengue Fever.
produced by Freya Hellier.
FRIDAY 11 APRIL 2014
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b04005l5)
Catriona Young presents. Rising Stars of Classical Music - The Danish String Quartet
12:31 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
String Quartet in D major (Op.64, No.5) (Hob.III.63) "Lark"
Danish String Quartet
12:49 AM
Janacek, Leos [1854-1928]
Quartet for strings no. 1 "The Kreutzer Sonata"
Danish String Quartet
1:09 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Quartet for strings (Op.132) in A minor;
Danish String Quartet
1:56 AM
Trad
Wedding Song from Sønderho
Danish String Quartet
2:00 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Symphony no. 1 (Op.11) in C minor
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (conductor)
2:31 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Symphony No 4 in D minor (Op.120)
Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor)
3:01 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Piano Trio in B major (Op.8)
Trio Ondine: Martin Qvist Hansen (piano), Erik Heide (violin), Jonathan Slaatto (cello)
3:33 AM
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787)
Sonata No.6 in G major for transverse flute and harpsichord (Op.6 No.6)
Karl Kaiser (transverse flute), Susanne Kaiser (harpsichord)
3:43 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
4 Mazurkas for piano (Op.33)
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
3:54 AM
Langgaard, Rued (1883-1952)
3 Rose Gardens Songs (1919) : 'Surely I may kiss you'; 'Behind the wall'; 'Tired'
Danish National Radio Choir, Kaare Hansen (conductor)
4:05 AM
Muffat, Georg (1653-1704)
Sonata (Grave - allegro), Ballo (Allegro), Grave, Presto & Menuet (Allegro), from Concerto No.XI in E minor 'Delirrium amoris'
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg (director)
4:11 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Romance and Waltz
The Dutch Pianists' Quartet - Niek de Vente, Marian Bolt, Corien van den Berg and Robert Nasveld (2 pianos 8 hands)
4:18 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
In Autumn - concert overture (Op.11)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Josep Caballe Domenach (conductor)
4:31 AM
Hasse, Johann Adolfe (1699-1783)
Overture to the opera Arminio (1745) (for 2 oboes, 2 horns, strings & continuo)
Ekkehard Hering & Wolfgang Kube (oboes), Andrew Joy & Rainer Jurkiewicz (horns), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Stephan Mai (director)
4:37 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
Libera me for choir, three trombones and organ
Radio France Chorus, (trombone players un-named), Denis Comtet (organ), Donald Palumbo (conductor)
4:44 AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
Sorrow for cello and orchestra (Op.2 No.2)
Arto Noras (cello), The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Panula (conductor)
4:50 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Allegro appassionato in C sharp minor (Op.70)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
4:57 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Overture - Peter Schmoll und sein Nachbarn (J.8)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marbà (conductor)
5:07 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concert aria: Ch'io mi scordi di te...? Non temer, amato bene (K.505)
Tuva Semmingsen (soprano), Jörn Fosheim (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Michel Tabachnik (conductor)
5:18 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Sonata for piano (H.
16.34) in E minor
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)
5:30 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Ariettes oubliées - song cycle for voice & piano
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Gary Matthewman (piano)
5:47 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907)
Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2 in G major (Op.13)
Marianne Thorsen (violin), Håvard Gimse (piano)
6:08 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D major (BWV.1050)
Lars-Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) Ensemble 415.
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b040061m)
Friday - Ian Skelly
18th Century: Majesty, Music & Mischief. Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b0400661)
Friday - Rob Cowan with Henry Goodman
with Rob Cowan and his guest, the stage and screen actor Henry Goodman.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Russian Overtures and Orchestral Works ? Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev: NEWTON CLASSICS. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artists of the Week: Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the stage and screen actor Henry Goodman. A graduate of RADA, Henry has twice won the Olivier Award for his stage performances: in 1993 for Assassins, directed by Sam Mendes, and again in 2000 for The Merchant of Venice, directed by Trevor Nunn. His many stage appearances include, for the Royal National Theatre: Angels in America, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Guys and Dolls; for the Royal Shakespeare Company: Richard III (in the title role), Henry V and The Comedy of Errors; and Chicago at the Adelphi Theatre. In 2010 Henry played the role of Sir Humphrey Appleby in the stage version of Yes, Prime Minister at the Chichester Festival. His television work includes guest appearances in a host of series, including Spooks, Dalziel and Pascoe, and Foyle's War, and he has also appeared in films such as Taking Woodstock, The Damned United and Notting Hill.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Rossini
Stabat mater
Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo)
Lawrence Brownlee (tenor)
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (bass)
Choir and Orchestra of the Accademia Santa Cecilia, Rome
Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01mslxt)
Field and Chopin (1782-1837 and 1810-1849)
Field and Chopin and Their Legacy
Donald Macleod in conversation with the pianist Míċeál O'Rourke, explores two piano giants, the towering Romantic Fryderyk Chopin, and the Father of the Nocturne John Field.
By the mid 1840s, Chopin and George Sand's relationship had come to a stormy end. The last time he saw Sand was in 1848, although he always kept a lock of her hair. During this same period, Chopin was trying to finish a sonata for a friend of his, the cellist Auguste Franchomme. Chopin wrote a little, and crossed out a lot, but eventually completed his Sonata in G minor for cello and piano, opus 65.
In 1848, revolution had broken out in Paris, and Chopin's aristocratic friends and pupils had fled. Chopin himself made a trip to London and Scotland, but the heavily-polluted London air did nothing for his consumptive lungs, and Chopin returned to Paris. By October 1849, Chopin had died and was buried in a grave between Bellini and Cherubini. The final nocturne Chopin composed two years before his death, was the Nocturne in C minor no.21.
The composer and pianist John Field was also very ill towards the end of his life, and like Chopin in a bid to drum up more support, left his home and travelled to London and then toured other parts of Europe. Field gave his first Paris concert in 1832, performing his Piano Concert no.7. Míċeál O'Rourke discusses with Donald Macleod how this work was not only very challenging for the ailing composer, but also now out of date, and didn't leave a great impression on Liszt and Chopin who were present in the audience. Field made his way back to Russia, and was by this time very ill. He died in 1837.
Pianist Míceál O'Rourke in discussion with Donald Macleod, concludes the week talking about the legacies of both Chopin and Field. Chopin was a remarkable pianist, but none of his students went on to be great performers. Field on the other hand taught many notable pianists, and can be seen as the Father Figure to the Russian piano tradition.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03brx6s)
Ryedale Festival 2013
Episode 4
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from last year's Ryedale Festival in North Yorkshire, with performances from the Romanian pianist Alexandra Silocea, The Szymanowski Quartet, and cellist Steven Isserlis with pianist Sam Haywood.
Presented by Katie Derham.
Hahn: Deux airs irlandais
Steven Isserlis (cello), Sam Haywood (piano)
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 21 in C, Op 53 (Waldstein)
Alexandra Silocea (piano)
Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata, D821
Steven Isserlis (cello), Sam Haywood (piano)
Myroslav Skoryk: Melody
Szymanowski Quartet.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b04007gt)
BBC Philharmonic on Tour 2014
Episode 4
With Katie Derham
Back on tour with the BBC Philharmonic's tour of Central Europe from last month. Today's concert comes from Vienna.
Plus a recent recording of Barber's Violin Concerto with BBC New Generation Artist, the violinist Elena Urioste. and we finish with Rachmaninov's first symphony as performed by the orchestra in Aachen in 2010.
2pm
Rossini
The Silken Ladder Overture
Bruno Hartl
Percussion Concerto (Op.23)
Mendelssohn
Symphony No.3 in A minor (Op.56) "Scottish"
Martin Grubinger (percussion)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)
recorded at the Konzerthaus, Vienna
3pm
Barber
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Op.14)
Elena Urioste (violin)
BBCPO
Paul Daniel
3.30
Rachmaninov
Symphony No.1 in D minor (Op.13)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b04007hr)
Escher Quartet, Andreas Scholl
Suzy Klein's guests include countertenor superstar Andreas Scholl. He's the main featured artist at this year's Easter at King's Festival in Cambridge, and will be performing live in the In Tune studio accompanied by his wife, the harpsichord player Tamar Halperin.
Hailing from New York, the Escher Quartet have been described as "one of the finest quartets in their generation" - they stop into In Tune to play live as part of their UK tour.
Also in the programme: Sean Rafferty visits the Royal Collection to discover another delight from their array of Georgian objects.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01mslxt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b04007jz)
Ulster Orchestra - Dvorak, Shostakovich, Brahms
Alexander Vedernikov conducts the Ulster Orchestra in music by Dvorák, Shostakovich and Brahms. The Leader of the Ulster Orchestra, Tamás Kocsis is soloist in Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1
19:30
Live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast
Presented by John Toal
19.45
Dvorák: Othello
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
20.40
During the interval, music selected by tonight's soloist and conductor.
21:00
Brahms: Symphony No. 4
Tamás Kocsis, violin
Ulster Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov, conductor
In the second half of 1891-just as he turned 50, Dvorák composed a set of three concert overtures which were to reflect what he referred to as "the nature theme." The sequence would depict the three most intense moments of human existence: the experience of nature, joy in being alive, and the theme love and with it the pangs of jealousy. Tonight's Overture, Othello represents the love theme and it is the last of this set which also included In Natures's Realm and Carnival. Shostakovich composed his Violin Concerto No 1 during 1947/48, he completed on the heels of the Zhdanov Decree, which condemned Shostakovich along with many of his composer colleagues for "formalist perversions and antidemocratic tendencies in music, alien to the Soviet people and its artistic tastes."
Shostakovich might have been concerned about releasing the concerto at that time and it was published in 1956 and dedicated to the great violinist, David Oistrakh who worked with the composer on the work and who gave the first performance in 1955, with the Leningrad Philharmonic under Yevgeny Mravinsky.
Brahms composed the last of his four symphonies during the summers of 1884 and 1885, which he spent at the small town of Mürzzuschlag, in the Austrian mountains. "I wonder if it will ever have an audience," Brahms wrote from Mürzzuschlag to Hans von Bülow, the conductor preparing the first performance. "I rather fear it has been influenced by this climate, where the cherries never ripen." Symphony No. 4 is one of the "classics" of the 19th century symphony and fittingly ends with a mighty passacaglia.
Following the concert, music from last weekend's French Institute festival 'It's all about piano', featuring top students from the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b04007l7)
Donna Leon, Nathan Penlington, Patrick McGuinness, Henry Pryor
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's 'Cabaret of the Word' with guests including award winning crime-writer Donna Leon on the poetry and song of the gondola, novelist Nathan Penlington with a reverie on the choose-your-adventure story, Patrick McGuinness on shaping his new memoir, and Henry Pryor on the language of estate agents.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b0400lrd)
Furniture - A Personal History of Movable Objects
An Intimate History of the Bed
dNovelist and academic Ian Sansom explores the symbolism of beds in literature, art and film, and asks what beds reveal about human nature. 'Beds are where we are most physical, most elemental, and where we experience the great highs and lows of life. Everything significant that happens to us tends to take place in bed'. Certainly many of history's greatest thinkers and writers are thought to have been inspired in bed; G.K. Chesterton wished he had a pencil long enough to write on the ceiling while lying down, Milton is said to have written Paradise Lost in bed, and Truman Capote started his day in bed with coffee, mint tea, sherry and martinis. Ian thinks the bed is where we are most ourselves 'the place where you cannot hide', and perhaps we try to avoid spending too much time there because we fear what it signifies - 'the never-ending lie-in to come'.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b040098q)
Mischa Macpherson Trio in Session, Commonwealth Connections 10
Mary Ann Kennedy with tracks from across the globe, Commonwealth Connections from Tonga and Maldives, plus the Mischa Macpherson Trio in session live from Glasgow.
'Commonwealth Connections' is a BBC Radio 3 landmark 26-part weekly series leading up to the Commonwealth Games in July, featuring music from each of the 53 member states, reflecting the range of music and culture across the whole organisation.
Music feature from Tonga:
A rare performance of music by the Lomipeau Collection, recorded in a church hall in the village of Lapaha, Tonga. Singer Alusa Falefa has been entrusted by Noble Kalaniuvalu Fotofili, the living heir to the Tu'i Tonga dynasty, to preserve this music. He leads a 30 strong vocal ensemble along with his son Soane Ngutukoula Tatuila Pusiaki, a practitioner of Tonga's most famous instrument the noseflute. This deeply moving form of music-making has been preserved since the 1800s, and Alusa's grandfather used to perform for Queen Salote of Tonga.
Heritage Track from Maldives:
Mueena Mohamed is the Number One table tennis player in Maldives. She chooses a song very familiar to her from her childhood, Minivan vayaa, and talks about the place of music in Maldivian culture, the challenge of balancing high-level training with a job, and what it means to her to compete in her fourth Commonwealth Games.
Session with the Mischa Macpherson Trio:
Gaelic singer Mischa Macpherson, with guitarist Innes White and pipes player Conal McDonagh are the winners of this year's BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award. Mischa grew up in Sandwick on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, and the trio's music refects the unique culture of those islands.
PROGRAMME PLAYLIST MAY DIFFER FROM THE LIST BELOW - PLEASE CHECK BACK ON MONDAY 14th APRIL FOR THE FINAL VERSION.
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 (b04004pn)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b04007gm)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b04007gp)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b04007gr)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b04007gt)
BBC Performing Groups
22:00 SAT (b040s50g)
BBC Performing Groups
23:40 SUN (b04003jc)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b040009y)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b04002p3)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b04004gy)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b0400617)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b040061f)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b040061h)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b040061m)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b04000b0)
Choir and Organ
18:30 SUN (b04003kj)
Choral Evensong
17:30 SUN (b03zdc16)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b0400b0m)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b01mslsc)
Composer of the Week
18:30 MON (b01mslsc)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b01mslx1)
Composer of the Week
18:00 TUE (b01mslx1)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b01mslx9)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b01mslx9)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b01mslxk)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b01mslxk)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b01mslxt)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b01mslxt)
Drama on 3
22:00 SUN (b04003j9)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b04004h0)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b040065s)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b040065v)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b040065x)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b0400661)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (b04007l1)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (b04007l3)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (b04007l5)
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
00:00 SUN (b04002kd)
Hear and Now
22:45 SAT (b04002gk)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b04004pq)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b04007hh)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b04007hk)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b04007hp)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b04007hr)
Jazz Line-Up
18:00 SAT (b04002gf)
Jazz Record Requests
17:00 SAT (b04002gc)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b04005gc)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b040098j)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b040098l)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b040098n)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b04000b4)
Opera on 3
19:15 SAT (b04002gh)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b038542t)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
15:00 SUN (b04003cf)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 MON (b04004ps)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:00 TUE (b04007js)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b04007jv)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b04007jx)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 FRI (b04007jz)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SAT (b04000b6)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (b03z9jxh)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b04004pl)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b03brvzz)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b03brx6n)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b03brx6q)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b03brx6s)
Saturday Classics
14:00 SAT (b01gvqsg)
Sean Rafferty at Home
21:45 MON (b03m02dc)
Sound of Cinema
16:00 SAT (b04001vs)
Sunday Feature
21:15 SUN (b04003kn)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b04002p5)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (b04003cc)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b04005g9)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b0400lr6)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b0400lr8)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b0400lrb)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b0400lrd)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (b04007l7)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b03zdc63)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b04002kg)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b04004gw)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b04005kx)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b04005kz)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b04005l1)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b04005l5)
Words and Music
20:00 SUN (b04003kl)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b040098q)