BBC Proms 2012: Jonathan Swain presents the BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gianandrea Noseda performing Mahler Symphony no.7.
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Stanislaw Macura (conductor)
Concerto for cello and orchestra no. 1 (Op.33) in A minor
Anatoli Krastev (cello), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Kazandjiev (conductor)
3 pieces from 'Les Indes Galantes' (Air pour Zéphire; Musette en Rondeau; Air pour Borée et la Rose); Le Rappel des Oiseaux
The Hilliard Ensemble: David James & Ashley Stafford (altos), Rogers Covey-Crump, John Potter & Mark Padmore (tenors), Gordon Jones (baritone), David Beavan (bass), Paul Hillier (bass/director)
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), transc. Busoni
Igor Ozim and Primoz Novsak (violins), Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)
Moss, Piotr (b. 1949)
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: In 27 Pieces - The Hilary Hahn Encores, DG. We also have our daily brainteaser at
Rob's guest this week is Terry Waite CBE. Terry is an English humanitarian and author. He was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie. In 1980, he successfully negotiated the release of several hostages in Iran, and in 1984 he negotiated with Colonel Gaddafi for the release of the four remaining British hostages held in the Libyan Hostage Situation, and was again successful. He travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of several hostages, including the journalist John McCarthy, but was himself kidnapped and held captive from 1987 to 1991. Terry is president of the charity Y Care International (the YMCA's international development and relief agency) and patron of AbleChildAfrica and Habitat for Humanity Great Britain. He is also president of Emmaus UK and the International Musical Eisteddfod, as well as a patron of the Warrington Male Voice Choir.
Over the past seven decades, Composer of the Week has delved into just about every major composer in classical music, and plenty of less well-known ones too. As the programme reached its 70th birthday last year, Donald Macleod challenged listeners to come up with the name of a deserving composer who had never previously been featured. Suggestions flooded in, over four-and-a-half-thousand of them, and of these, more than 20 made the case for an obscure Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin, Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Weinberg's music is well represented on CD, and as Donald heard more and more of it, his astonishment that he hadn't come across it before grew commensurately. So all this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, in the company of writer, broadcaster and champion of unjustly neglected composers, Martin Anderson.
Today, a late-night knock at the door heralds an unwelcome visit from the KGB - the pretext, an allegation that Weinberg was part of a conspiracy to establish a Jewish republic in the Crimea. He was incarcerated "in a solitary cell, where I could only sit, not lie down". But for the death of Stalin a month later, our story might well end here; Weinberg could easily have gone the way of his father-in-law Solomon Mikhoels, whose state-sponsored murder five years earlier had been officially passed off as a car crash. In the event, after a further six weeks in jail Weinberg was released, doubtless in no small part due to the intervention of Shostakovich, who had put his own neck on the line to vouch for his friend. Weinberg's imprisonment seems to have put a considerable dent in his productivity. It took him several years to return to both the symphony and the string quartet, but when he did, the results were remarkable.
The Doric String Quartet return to Hay-on-Wye to perform at St Mary's Church. Haydn was known as the "father of the string quartet", and his "Sunrise" quartet, one of a set of six quartets which became best-sellers during the composer's lifetime, is included in the concert. Also performed in the concert is Janácek's "Intimate Letters" quartet, also known as "Love Letters", and inspired by his feelings for Kamila Stösslová.
Today's Afternoon on 3 features recent concert performances and recordings of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Guy Johnston joins the orchestra as soloist in Tavener's lyrical The Protecting Veil, recorded in Cardiff last month. Plus music for strings from Bartok and a new recording of British overtures.
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Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, interviews and arts news. Featuring live performances in the studio from vocal ensemble The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers, and from clarinettist Arun Ghosh.
Khatia Buniatishvili plays piano music by Brahms, Chopin, Ravel and Stravinsky.
Still in her mid-twenties, the Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili has been enjoying a meteoric rise to fame in the musical world. She was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2009 until 2011 and Martha Argerich has acclaimed her as 'a young pianist of extraordinary talent'.
Her programme provides the opportunity to show many facets of her artistry. Ravel's atmospheric 'Gaspard de la Nuit' forms the centre of the first half, prefaced by Brahms' tender and thoughtful Intermezzi - some of his most beautiful miniatures.
Khatia's astonishing virtuosity is reflected in the latter half of the programme with two whirlwind interpretations - Ravel's 'La Valse' and the piano version of three movements from Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka, in which the music depicts a busy fairground and the unsuspected emotional anguish of a puppet within it.
Rana Mitter remembers what happened in Tiananmen Square on June 4th 1989 with people who were there.
Professor Craig Calhoun Director of the London School of Economics was a Beijing based academic and teacher during the Spring of 1989, the journalist Jonathan Mirsky was in Tiananmen Square itself during the worst of the shooting, ex BBC Beijing Correspondent and now a Shanghai based correspondent for NPR in America Louisa Lim has a new book out 'The People's Republic of Amnesia - Tiananmen Revisited' and has been talking to many people who were in the square too. And Dr Keyu Jin who lectures in Economics was at Elementary School in Beijing in 1989 and is part of the generation who have lived with the aftermath of June 4th.
And on that same day Poland held the first elections in forty years not to be rigged by the Communist Party with the result that it was wiped out at the polls. Timothy Garton Ash was working as a journalist in Warsaw on that day and with newspaper colleagues watched the pictures from Tiananmen Square come up on the newsroom TV screens. To them they seemed to be watching pictures from the Baltic Ports of Poland in 1970 and 1971 when Polish workers were shot - they looked like the same pictures. From then on the spectre of Tiananmen haunted Eastern Europe and was highly influential throughout the subsequent revolutions.
But the ghost of the East European revolution taught the Chinese Communist Party how to survive so that these two seismic events happening on the same day exactly 25 years ago are now inextricably linked politically.
Join Rana and the people who were there this evening for Free Thinking and the chance to discover what the Chinese word 'Poland' means and the Polish word 'Canada.'.
Five people select their favourite picture by Robert Capa, the father of photojournalism, and reflect on his life and work.
In the third essay, historian Hilary Roberts of the Imperial War Museum recalls the famous D-Day portrait of a soldier floating through the waves as he lands on Omaha beach.
In tonight's eclectic mix Nick Luscombe features recently unearthed 70s Thai music, Underwater dub from Sly and Robbie, a cult-country classic from Townes Van Zandt, plus the sound of part-band, part-art-installation Space F!ght.
THURSDAY 05 JUNE 2014
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b045bztb)
Nelson Goerner is the pianist in Schubert's Trout Quintet. With Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Nowakowski, Józef (1800-1865)
Piano Quintet in E flat major (Op. 17)
Nelson Goerner (piano) Lena Neudauer (violin), Katarzyna Budnik-Galazka (violin) Marcin Zdunik (cello), Janusz Widzyk (double bass)
1:11 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849] arrangement by Kevin Kenner & Krzysztof Dombek
Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor (Op.21)
Kevin Kenner (a copy of an 1819 Graf piano), Casal Quartet: Julia Schröder & Rachel Späth (violins), Markus Fleck (cello), Andreas Fleck (cello) & Grzegorz Frankowski (double bass)
1:43 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Piano Quintet in A major (D.667) "Trout"
Nelson Goerner (piano) Lena Neudauer (violin), Katarzyna Budnik-Galazka (violin) Marcin Zdunik (cello), Janusz Widzyk (double bass)
2:25 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) transcr Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Die Forelle (S.564)
Simon Trpceski (piano)
2:31 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Missa in tempore belli (Hob. XXII. 9) 'Paukenmesse'
Hilde Haraldsen Sveen (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo), Jonas Degerfeldt (tenor), Gabriel Suovanen (baritone), Oslo Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
3:11 AM
Wassenaer, Unico Wilhelm van (1692-1766)
Concerto No.6 in E flat major (from Sei Concerti Armonici 1740) (orig. no.5; formerly attrib. Pergolesi & Ricciotti)
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor)
3:20 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis for double string orchestra
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
3:43 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto for 4 keyboards in A minor (BWV.1065) - from Vivaldi's Concerto for 4 violins (Op.3 No.10, RV.580)
Ton Koopman, Tini Mathot, Patrizia Marisaldi, Elina Mustonen (harpsichords), Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman (director)
3:53 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
King Lear Overture (Op.4)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa (conductor)
4:09 AM
Anonymous early C.17th
Hanacpachap cussicuinin
Villancico, Peter Pontvik (conductor)
4:14 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Duet: Fra gli amplessi - from Così fan tutti
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) , Michael Schade (tenor) , Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
4:21 AM
Donizetti, Gaetano (1797-1848)
Overture to La Fille du régiment
Oslo Philharmonic, Nello Santi (conductor)
4:31 AM
Elsner, Józef Antoni Franciszek (1769-1854)
Overture to the opera "Sultan Vampum"
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Straszynski (conductor)
4:35 AM
Barriere, Jean [1705-1747]
Sonata No.10 in G major for 2 cellos
Duo Fouquet
4:45 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Wer ist so würdig als du (Wq.222) (Hamburg 1774)
Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Herman Max (conductor)
4:50 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Tragic Overture (Op.81)
Sinfonia Varsovia, Tomasz Bugaj (conductor)
5:04 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Symphonische Etuden Op.13 for piano
Beatrice Rana (piano)
5:30 AM
Stainov, Petko (1896-1977)
Symphonic Scherzo
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
5:40 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Suite for Cello solo No.1 (BWV.1007) in G major
Claudio Bohórquez (cello)
5:56 AM
Meder, Johann Gabriel (1729-1800)
Sinfonia No.4, from Six Sinfonie (Op.1)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Halstead (conductor)
6:09 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Impromptu No.3 in Gb (from 4 Impromptus D.899) (played in G minor)
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
6:16 AM
Nowakowski, Józef (1800-1865)
Romance (andante) from Piano Quintet in E flat major (Op. 17)
Nelson Goerner (piano) Lena Neudauer (violin), Katarzyna Budnik-Galazka (violin) Marcin Zdunik (cello), Janusz Widzyk (double bass)
6:24 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849), arranged by Krauze, Zygmunt (b.1938)
selected Preludes from the Op.28 set
Wojciech Switala (piano), Netherlands Wind Ensemble.
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b045bztd)
Thursday - Ian Skelly
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 (b045bztg)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with Terry Waite
with Rob Cowan and his guest, the humanitarian and author, Terry Waite.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: In 27 Pieces - The Hilary Hahn Encores, DG. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: John Ogdon
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is Terry Waite CBE. Terry is an English humanitarian and author. He was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie. In 1980, he successfully negotiated the release of several hostages in Iran, and in 1984 he negotiated with Colonel Gaddafi for the release of the four remaining British hostages held in the Libyan Hostage Situation, and was again successful. He travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of several hostages, including the journalist John McCarthy, but was himself kidnapped and held captive from 1987 to 1991. Terry is president of the charity Y Care International (the YMCA's international development and relief agency) and patron of AbleChildAfrica and Habitat for Humanity Great Britain. He is also president of Emmaus UK and the International Musical Eisteddfod, as well as a patron of the Warrington Male Voice Choir.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Strauss
Macbeth
Dresden Staatskapelle
Rudolf Kempe (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b045bztj)
Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Weinberg's 'Starry Years'
Over the past seven decades, Composer of the Week has delved into just about every major composer in classical music, and plenty of less well-known ones too. As the programme reached its 70th birthday last year, Donald Macleod challenged listeners to come up with the name of a deserving composer who had never previously been featured. Suggestions flooded in, over four-and-a-half-thousand of them, and of these, more than 20 made the case for an obscure Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin, Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Weinberg's music is well represented on CD, and as Donald heard more and more of it, his astonishment that he hadn't come across it before grew commensurately. So all this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, in the company of writer, broadcaster and champion of unjustly neglected composers, Martin Anderson.
Today, music from Weinberg's most productive period, the 1960s. He termed them his 'starry years', although in that light he may well have viewed 1966 as something of an aberration. This was the year of his first and, as it would be, only return to Poland after his escape from the country almost three decades earlier. Now he was a respected member of a Soviet cultural delegation, but by all accounts it was a dismal trip for him; his music was seen as old-fashioned, and the limelight was occupied by the Polish avant-garde, who paid little attention to him. He must have had his suspicions for years, but it was around this time that he learnt definitively of the fate of his family. When he had fled from Warsaw in 1939, his parents and younger sister had stayed behind; now he discovered that they had died in the Treblinka extermination camp. This terrible knowledge must have fed into the choice of subject for his first opera, The Passenger, about a woman who survives Auschwitz then, years later, encounters her former gaoler on a cruise-ship. Weinberg never saw this extraordinarily powerful and disturbing work performed; it wasn't premièred till 2010, 14 years after his death.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b045bztl)
Concerts from the Hay Festival 2014
Episode 3
Pianist Tom Poster performs at St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye. Included in his recital is Beethoven's Sonata No 15 in D major, Op 28, which the publisher Cranz nicknamed "Pastorale". Tom Poster also performs Chopin's Polonaise-Fantasy in A flat major, Op 61, in which Chopin's searching development of the polonaise form initially gave him troube in deciding what to call the work.
Tom Poster (piano)
Christoph Willibald Gluck arr. Giovanni Sgambati: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orfeo ed Euridice
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No 15 in D major, Op 28, (Pastorale)
Edvard Grieg: Selection from Slåtter, Op 72
Fryderyk Chopin: Polonaise-Fantasy in A flat, Op 61
George Gershwin: Selection of songs
Producer Luke Whitlock.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b045bztn)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Jacopo Foroni - Cristina, Queen of Sweden
Today's Opera Matinee is a rare chance to hear Jacopo Foroni's Cristina, Queen of Sweden in a performance from Wexford Festival Opera. An Italian composer who settled in Sweden, Foroni perhaps could have been as famous as his fellow bel-canto Italian composers had he not died early from the plague in 1858. The opera tells of the tumultuous life of Queen Christina of Sweden who caused a scandal by abdicating and converting to Catholicism, along with having a secret affair with her cousin.
Presented by Katie Derham.
Jacopo Foroni: Cristina, regina di Svezia, opera in five parts and three acts
Cristina ....Helena Dix (soprano),
Gabriele de la Gardie ....John Bellemer (tenor),
Maria Eufrosina.... Lucia Cirillo (mezzo-soprano),
Axel Oxenstierna ....David Stout (bass),
Erik ....Patrick Hyland (tenor),
Carlo Gustavo.... Igor Golovatenko (baritone),
Johan.... Daniel Szeili (tenor),
Wexford Opera Chorus
Wexford Opera Orchestra
Andrew Greenwood (conductor)
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4.10pm
Mackenzie: The Little Minister - overture from the incidental music
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b045bztq)
Christoph Denoth, Hanover Band, Garsington Opera, Teresa Carreno Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, interviews and arts news. Featuring live music from The Hanover Band with countertenor Tai Oney and soprano Laure Poissonier, guitarist Christoph Denoth and live excerpts from Garsington Opera's new production of Offenbach's Vert-Vert. Plus members of the Teresa Carreno Youth Orchestra of Venezuela visit the studio to discuss their upcoming concert at the Southbank Centre in London.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b045bztj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b045bzts)
Bernard Haitink and COE - Schumann, Berg, Beethoven
Bernard Haitink conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in works by Schumann, Berg and Beethoven live from London's Barbican Hall, with violinist Isabelle Faust
Presented by Martin Handley
Schumann: Overture to Manfred
Berg: Violin Concerto
8.10pm
Interval: Bernard Haitink in conversation. The veteran conductor talks to Martin Handley and reflects on a 60-year career that has led him to direct orchestras and opera companies all over the world.
8.30pm
Beethoven: Symphony no.6 'Pastoral'
Isabelle Faust (violin)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
The vibrant young players of the Chamber Orchestra are joined by veteran conductor Bernard Haitink in a programme of contrasts.
In between the heart-on-sleeve romanticism of Schumann's tribute to Byron and the radiance of Beethoven's 'Pastoral' symphony comes the austere beauty of Berg's violin concerto. Dedicated to the memory of a family friend who died shockingly young, it is both a moving eulogy and a tautly-argued musical masterpiece.
German violinist Isabelle Faust is a regular visitor to concert venues in the UK as soloist and chamber musician and is particularly associated with Berg's concerto, winning a Gramophone Award for her interpretation in 2011.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b045bztv)
Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and the Future of Arts Broadcasting
What is the future of arts broadcasting? What does it mean to explore art through the prism of a landmark series? In an increasingly diverse broadcasting landscape what could a new version of a programme such as Civilization say about the role of the Arts now?
Philip Dodd chairs a debate about arts broadcasting, past and present. His panel is Dr Janina Ramirez and Dr Gus Casely-Hayford, both of whom combine art history with broadcasting careers, Charles Uzzell-Edwards who creates his graffiti artworks and runs the Pure Evil Gallery and Kim Evans, award winning film maker and former head of Music and Arts at the BBC.
Producer: Zahid Warley.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b039q0gw)
Portraits of Capa
Tim Collins
Five essayists select their favourite picture by Robert Capa, the father of photojournalism, and reflect on his life and work.
In the fourth essay, Colonel Tim Collins examines Robert Capa's picture of an American solider in a the end of World War Two, "The Last One To Die", and reflects on the portrayal of death in photography.
Producer: Brian McCluskey
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 3
First broadcast in September 2013.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b045bztx)
Late Junction Sessions
Samaris and Mo Kolours
Nick Luscombe with this month's Late Junction Collaboration Session which pairs Icelandic band Samaris with the Anglo-Mauritian musician and producer Mo Kolours. Plus there's
some Turkish pop-psychedelia, early 90s hip hop from New York's UMCs, original acid folk from COB, and a modern slice of roots reggae from Kalbata and Mixmonster.
FRIDAY 06 JUNE 2014
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b045c178)
2013 performances by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra to mark Swedish National Day, presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Respighi, Ottorino [1879-1936]
Trittico Botticelliano for small orchestra
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Fredrik Burstedt (conductor)
12:51 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Op.37
Maria Joao Pires (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
1:29 AM
Bruch, Max [1838-1920]
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor Op.26
Andrej Power (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Fredrik Burstedt (conductor)
1:54 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (HV VIIb:2) in D major
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Heinrich Schiff (cellist & conductor)
2:19 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927) [text: Oscar Levertin]
Ithaka (Op.21)
Peter Mattei (baritone), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
2:31 AM
Peterson-Berger, Wilhelm (1867-1942)
Frösöblomster for Piano, Book 2 (1900) - Solhälsning ; Jämtland; Långt borta I skogarna ; Vid Lasmess' ; Vågor mot stranden
Johan Ullén (piano)
2:55 AM
Norman, Ludvig (1831-1885)
Sextet for piano, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass in A minor (Op.29) (1869/1873)
Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano), Uppsala Chamber Soloists - Henrik Jon Petersen & Anders Jakobsson (violins), Sten Johan Sunding (viola), Lars Frykholm (cello) & Staffan Sjöholm (double bass)
3:28 AM
Wikander, David [1884-1955] [text by Jandel, Ragnar]
Förvarskväll (An evening early in spring)
Sveriges Radiokören , Eric Ericson (conductor)
3:33 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927)
Excelsior! - symphonic overture (Op.13)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
3:46 AM
Sjögren, Emil (1853-1918)
Eroticon (Op.10): No.2 in D flat; No.3 in A flat
Wilhelm Stenhammar (piano)
3:50 AM
Widéen, Ivar (1871-1951), lyrics by Olof Eneroth
I Husaby (In Husaby)
Gudrun Bruna (soprano), Swedish Radio Choir, Olov Olofsson (piano), Eric Ericson (conductor)
3:56 AM
Roman, Johan Helmich [1694-1758]
Symphonia No.20 in E minor
Stockholm Antiqua (recorded at Kongsberg kirke, Kongsberg, Norway on 26 January 2008
4:05 AM
Norman, Ludvig (1831-1885). Lyrics by Hermanni, Nicolaus
Rosa rorans bonitatem (Op.45) (1876)
Eva Wedin (mezzo-soprano soloist), Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gustaf Sjökvist (conductor)
4:13 AM
Berwald, Franz (1796-1868)
Fantasia on 2 Swedish Folksongs for piano (1850-59)
Lucia Negro (piano)
4:22 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927), lyrics by Verner von Heidenstam
Sverige (Sweden)
Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson (conductor)
4:25 AM
Alfvén, Hugo (1872-1960), lyrics by Herman Sätherberg
Aftonen (evening)
Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson (conductor)
4:31 AM
Alfvén, Hugo (1872-1960)
Midsummer Vigil - Swedish Rhapsody no.1 (Op.19)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)
4:45 AM
Traditional Swedish arr. David Wikander (1884-1955)
Där sitter en fågel på liljorna (There is a bird sitting on the lilies)
Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson (conductor)
4:47 AM
Traditional arranged by Wikander, David (1884-1955). Lyrics by Kleen, Emil
Kristallen den fina (The Fine Crystall)
Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson (conductor)
4:49 AM
Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725)
Concerto Grosso no.1 in F minor
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
4:57 AM
Smetana, Bedrich (1824-1884)
Piano Trio in G minor (Op.15)
Suk Trio: Joseph Suk (violin), Josef Chuchro (cello), Jan Panenka (piano)
5:41 AM
Kraus, Joseph Martin (1756-1792)
Symphony in C minor, 'Symphonie funèbre'
Concerto Köln
6:02 AM
Norman, Ludwig (1831-1885), arranged by Niklas Willen
Andante Sostenuto
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Niklas Willén (conductor)
6:12 AM
Gershwin, George [1898-1937], arr. Lundin, Bengt-Åke [b.1963]
Rhapsody in Blue arr. for piano and string quintet
Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano), New Stenhammar String Quartet , Staffan Sjöholm (double bass).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b045c17b)
Friday - Ian Skelly
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 (b045c17d)
Friday - Rob Cowan with Terry Waite
with Rob Cowan and his guest, the humanitarian and author, Terry Waite.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: In 27 Pieces - The Hilary Hahn Encores, DG. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: John Ogdon
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is Terry Waite CBE. Terry is an English humanitarian and author. He was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie. In 1980, he successfully negotiated the release of several hostages in Iran, and in 1984 he negotiated with Colonel Gaddafi for the release of the four remaining British hostages held in the Libyan Hostage Situation, and was again successful. He travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of several hostages, including the journalist John McCarthy, but was himself kidnapped and held captive from 1987 to 1991. Terry is president of the charity Y Care International (the YMCA's international development and relief agency) and patron of AbleChildAfrica and Habitat for Humanity Great Britain. He is also president of Emmaus UK and the International Musical Eisteddfod, as well as a patron of the Warrington Male Voice Choir.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Bartok
Piano Concerto No.3, Sz119
John Ogdon (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Malcolm Sargent (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b045c17g)
Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Finale
Over the past seven decades, Composer of the Week has delved into just about every major composer in classical music, and plenty of less well-known ones too. As the programme reached its 70th birthday last year, Donald Macleod challenged listeners to come up with the name of a deserving composer who had never previously been featured. Suggestions flooded in, over four-and-a-half-thousand of them, and of these, more than 20 made the case for an obscure Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin, Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Weinberg's music is well represented on CD, and as Donald heard more and more of it, his astonishment that he hadn't come across it before grew commensurately. So all this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, in the company of writer, broadcaster and champion of unjustly neglected composers, Martin Anderson.
Today, in the final installment of this introduction to the life and work of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Donald presents a brief sampling from the music of the composer's last two decades: a pair of concertos, for clarinet and flute; the 12th Symphony, written in memory of his friend and mentor Shostakovich, who died in August 1975; his final violin sonata; and an extraordinary trio for flute, viola and harp, of which Donald remarks, "I don't think I've ever heard the kinds of sonorities that Weinberg extracts from these three instruments".
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b045c17j)
Concerts from the Hay Festival 2014
Episode 4
Music for horn and piano, performed by Richard Watkins and Julius Drake at St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye. Included in the concert is Schumann's Adagio and Allegro in A flat major, Op 70, described by his wife Clara as "a magnificent piece, fresh and passionate; just what I like". Also performed is Poulenc's Elégie, written in 1957 to commemorate the death of the famous English horn-player Dennis Brain
Richard Watkins (horn)
Julius Drake (piano)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Horn Sonata in F, Op 17
Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op 70
Franz Strauss: Nocturne, Op 7
Francis Poulenc: Elégie, H168
Camille Saint-Saëns: Morceau de concert in F minor, Op 94.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b045c17l)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Episode 4
Katie Derham introduces the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Concert Orchestra in concert performances and recordings. Today features a concert given by the BBC Concert Orchestra in the Queen Elizabeth Hall last month, for which they were joined by folk group A Hawk and a Hacksaw to celebrate the folk cultures of Eastern Europe in music by Ligeti and Bartok. Plus music from a concert given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in St David's Hall, Cardiff last month featuring Tavener's Requiem with soloists Elin Manahan Thomas and Nicholas Mulroy.
Presented by Katie Derham
2pm
Bantock: The Frogs - overture Op.102 vers. for orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
c.
2.05pm
Ligeti: Romanian Concerto for orchestra
Bartok Three Village Scenes
c.
2.55pm
Bartok: Music for strings, percussion and celeste
BBC Concert Orchestra
André de Ridder (conductor)
Sullivan: Macbeth - incidental music
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
c.
3.50pm
Tavener: Requiem
Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano)
Nicholas Mulroy (tenor)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
David Atherton (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b045c17n)
Simon Trpceski, Ensemble Deva, Nick Fletcher, Artists from the Aldeburgh Festival
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, interviews and arts news from Salford, including live music from Ensemble Deva, pianist Simon Trpceski and guitarist Nick Fletcher.
FRI 19:00 Composer of the Week (b045c17g)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 20:00 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b045c17q)
OAE - Schutz, Rosenmuller and Praetorius.
Live from Christ Church, Spitalfields
Presented by Penny Gore
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the Spitalfields Festival, with works by Schütz, Rosenmüller and Praetorius.
Rein: Sancta Trinitas
M. Praetorius: Missa à 8 from Musarum Sioniarum
Rosenmüller: Sinfonia Settima in G
8.45: Interval
9.05
M. Praetorius: Ich ruf zu dir; Jubilate Domino; Vater unser in Himmelreich
Rosenmüller: Sonata prima à 2
Schütz: Magnificat SWV468
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Choir of the Enlightenment
Robert Howarth, director
The Orchestra of the Age Enlightenment, an Associate Artist at this year's Spitalfields Festival, open their concert with works by Praetorius and Schütz, two of 17th-century Germany's most significant musical personalities. In this concert music resounds from all corners of Christ Church Spitalfields in expressive, overlapping multi-choir harmonies. The audience will also be part of the music, performing chorales with the musicians as would have happened in the Lutheran church.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b045c17s)
Nicholson Baker, Nathaniel Mann, Lynne Murphy
Ian McMillan's guests on the cabaret of the word include the writer Nicholson Baker, whose new novel 'Traveling Sprinkler' updates us on the story of the poet Paul Chowder from his previous book 'The Anthologist'. Performer and composer Nathaniel Mann plays songs inspired by the secret language of robbers, and Lynne Murphy explains some of the differences between British and American Dictionaries.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b039q0h0)
Portraits of Capa
John Morris
Five people select their favourite picture by Robert Capa, the father of photojournalism, and reflect on his life and work.
In the final essay, John Morris, picture editor of Life Magazine during World War Two, on why an image of a gypsy musician reminds him of his old friend, Robert Capa.
Producer: Brian McCluskey
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 3 (Picture copyright 1947 Robert Capa/Magnum, John G Morris Collection)
First broadcast in September 2013.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b045c17v)
Eddi Reader in session, plus Commonwealth Connections 18
Lopa Kothari with our Commonwealth Connections series featuring music from Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea, also some new releases of World Music, and a session with Scottish singer-songwriter Eddi Reader.
COMMONWEALTH CONNECTIONS FEATURE - Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, Vesak celebrations are underway for the birth and enlightenment of Lord Buddha. The streets are thronged with families and traffic all heading to the town centre, colourful lanterns are lit and the sounds of music and prayer from the Gangaramaya Temple can be heard from nearby Beira Lake. Temple musicians play Thammetama and Davula drums and the Horenava as they call people to prayer. Outside the city centre Mr TS Murugesh is continuing the Tamil tradition of folk songs, he sings a story of rural love and hopes more will be done to promote this Sri Lankan musical style.
HERITAGE TRACK- Papua New Guinea
Jeffry Feeger, Papua New Guinea's leading visual artist, chooses the song West Papua by George Telek to express the deep-rooted Melanesian heritage his people share with those across the border in the west. He explains that Papua New Guineans see the world as both ordinary and extraordinary thanks to their belief in the spirit world, and they also very much enjoy the potential sport has to unite the nation.
SESSION - Eddi Reader
Known for her work with Fairground Attraction as well as her solo career, Scottish singer-songwriter Eddi Reader bring to our studios her unmistakable voice and her blend of traditional folk roots with a contemporary touch, including material from her latest recording Vagabond.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
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Afternoon Concert
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Afternoon Concert
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Afternoon Concert
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Afternoon Concert
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Afternoon Concert
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BBC Performing Groups
23:50 SUN (b0457qkk)
Breakfast
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Breakfast
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Breakfast
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Breakfast
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Breakfast
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Breakfast
06:30 THU (b045bztd)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b045c17b)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b04571zq)
Choir and Organ
16:00 SUN (b0457qk9)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (b0449km4)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b045bzj5)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b045by5n)
Composer of the Week
18:30 MON (b045by5n)
Composer of the Week
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Composer of the Week
18:30 TUE (b045byrf)
Composer of the Week
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Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b045bzhz)
Composer of the Week
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Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b045bztj)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b045c17g)
Composer of the Week
19:00 FRI (b045c17g)
Drama on 3
22:00 SUN (b0457qkh)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b045by5l)
Essential Classics
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Essential Classics
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Essential Classics
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Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b045c17d)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (b045byrr)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (b045bzjf)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (b045bztv)
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
00:00 SUN (b0457qjz)
Hear and Now
22:00 SAT (b045720n)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b045by5v)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b045byrm)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b045bzj7)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b045bztq)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b045c17n)
Jazz Line-Up
18:00 SAT (b045720c)
Jazz Record Requests
17:00 SAT (b0457205)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b03t0bh2)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b045byrt)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b045bzjh)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b045bztx)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b04571zt)
Opera on 3
19:30 MON (b045by5x)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b0457qk5)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 SAT (b045720k)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 SUN (b0457qkf)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
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Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b045bzj9)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b045bzts)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:00 FRI (b045c17q)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SAT (b04571zw)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (b043ws9d)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b045by5q)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b045byrh)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b045bzj1)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b045bztl)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b045c17j)
Saturday Classics
14:00 SAT (b0379msp)
Sound of Cinema
16:00 SAT (b04571zy)
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (b01s5mbb)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b0457qk3)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (b0457qk7)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b039pnzw)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b039q0gk)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b039q0gm)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b039q0gw)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b039q0h0)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (b045c17s)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b0449s1h)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b045by8c)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b045by93)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b045byr7)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b045bzhs)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b045bztb)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b045c178)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (b0457qkc)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b045c17v)